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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1724 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Antarctica, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Congo DR, Ethiopia non, India, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Malaysia, México, North America, Oklahoma, Russia, Sarawak non, Solomon Islands, South Carolina non, USA, Zambia SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1724, June 5-11, 2014 Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 1230 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 2100 WBCQ 7490 [confirmed on webcast] Thu 2100 WTWW 9475 [confirmed] Fri 0326v WWRB 5050 [confirmed] Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 2330v WTWW 9930 Sun 0030 WRMI 9495 Sun 0401 WTWW 5830 Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v new Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1725 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 http://tunein.com/radio/World-of-Radio-p198/ 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/ ** ALBANIA. Re 14-22:] As a matter of fact, the experienced staff of German Program at Radio Tirana, Astrit & Svjetllana, are perfectly correct with their listeners. I do admire the way of doing their job, too (Drita Çiço, R. Tirana Monitoring, June 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGUILLA. 11775, May 30 at 1330, The Valley station is missing, no PMS or DGS to be heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. Saudações, amigos, hoje recebi um email da Rádio Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel! http://lex-dx.blogspot.com.br/2014/05/email-recebido-radio-nacional-arcangel.html (Alex Robert, May 31, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Viz.: Hoje recebi este email como retorno,após envio de um relatório de recepção á Rádio Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel,da Antártida (May 29) ```Dear Alex, As usual, we are happy to hear from you. We successfully received your report and we will send you a receipt [sic] as soon as possible. Keep in touch via facebook as well. Greetings from Antarctica, Ignacio Roman Labrousse, LRA 36, Radio Nacional ``Arcángel San Gabriel``, CAI 2014, Base Esperanza``` Operador Emisora LRA 36, 28 May (transcribed from image by gh for DX LISTENING DIGEST) LRA36 Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel con audio por web. LRA36 Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel puede ser escuchada también en la web por AM Radio Nacional, ingresando al portal de Radio Nacional, Argentina, en la sección "Emisoras" --- y a la derecha la pestaña de color rojo ("Escuchar emisoras"). En ese submenú http://www.radionacional.com.ar/?page_id=2170 encontrarán el enlace para abrir el Reproductor de audio http://www.radionacional.com.ar/reproductor/reproductor.php?puerto=32 73 (Horacio Nigro Geolkiewsky, Montevideo, June 2, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. 15344.45, RAE, May 26 1304-1315, 33433-34433, Spanish, Talk and music, ID at 1313. 15344.50, RAE, May 28 1401-1411, 34333, Spanish, Repetition of IS and ID and short music, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121, ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 3210, Vintage FM relay. I continue to be pleasantly surprised by my decent reception this past week of this low powered station. Very respectable signal making its way through the summertime noise. May 29 tuned in at 1251 to hear the Beach Boys singing "Good Vibrations" and other songs of that era; frequent IDs; after 1302 changed the musical era back to the 1940s (Perry Como singing "They Say It's Wonderful," etc.). Very nice listening to this one! https://app.box.com/s/kcw6oyvl2vry39h2fn5m contains four minute audio of a musical portion of today's reception (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Ron, I got an e-QSL of this Vintage FM, see my blog: http://jshort.blog.163.com/blog/static/209715289201443035446702/ 73, (J. Short, China, ibid.) Viz.: ``E-QSL of Vintage FM from Australia on May 29, 2014, answer my emailed reception report of the date May 26, 2014 time 1500-1540 UTC on SW 3210 KHz, attached with an audio-clip.`` Hi Jonathan, Fantastic! A great card to add to any QSL collection. Well done (Ron Howard, ibid.) Was it heard with a remote receiver or direct? Aha, just as I thought, the QSL specifies ``Reception via remote receiver in Sydney NSW VK2DAY HADARC`s SDR server`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGESET) 3210, Vintage FM relay, 1254-1310, June 4. Continues to be heard with above threshold level reception around my local sunrise; as usual at 1300 the music era changes to become 1930-40s songs and ballads ("Somewhere Over The Rainbow," etc.) (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Re Perron, 14-22: Thanks for the clarification. My understanding, however, is that RA no longer operates its own news bureau. There is one combine at ABC Sydney (Ultimo, presumably) that now prepares national newscasts for all ABC networks, including Radio Australia, with regional bureaus located in the various major ABC Local Radio centres. Furthermore, RA has dropped former plans to split its service into an Asian-oriented and Pacific-oriented focus and is producing fewer of its own programs than was the case just a short time ago. I did not realize that Triple J (the youth network) supplied any programming to RA, but am aware that many Radio National, ABC Local Radio and ABC Grandstand (sport) programs are broadcast over RA. ABC management, on its own, concluded that RA service to Asia was no longer effective nor viable; but did argue internally and to government that its Pacific Service was both effective and considered vital by opinion formers and various other Pacific island nation constituencies. In that regard, I'd be guardedly optimistic that this service can survive--both on shortwave and through local FM placement- -at least in the short term. However, the radical nature of the sitting government and its apparent lack of fealty to its own expressed commitments prior to the election still leaves one with a sense of unease (John Figliozzi, NY, May 29, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It still has its own news bureau. It's now Radio National (international desk) that produces the newscasts for RA. It just made no sense to have two newsrooms doing the same thing. The difference now is RN and RA jointly produce the international news for domestic and RA. Certain programs like Pacific Beat were expanded to two hours. But it's not just Pacific news, but also East and Southeast Asia and international. Asia Pacific was cut to 30 minutes, but with two different editions daily. The main focus on Asia Pacific is East and Southeast Asia. They did drop shortwave to China. But this was because the vast majority of those who listen to RA's shortwave service in China were listening in English. One of the reasons Radio Australia is so popular in the region, way more than the BBC or VOA, is simple. They know the audience and talk to the regional audience. The most popular program on RA is Grandstand. Two years ago RA had planned to cut it. In a span of three months they got over 3000 letters to keep it. The other most popular shows are Saturday Night Country, Late Night Live, Mornings with Phil Kafcaloudes and the pop shows from Triple J. Something that Radio Australia has been able to do is have a schedule that no matter if you`re 15 or 65, there will be something of interest for you. Also, you need to remember, in East and Southeast Asia, RA's audience tune in to hear English. Also if you hear their pop shows, they always play the un-censored version of songs that include words like *hit, *uck and others so it sounds the same as it does domestically in Australia. [*censored by gh to avoid problems in DXLD disribution] Also, when you compare Radio Australia to other international broadcasters. RA's has always had a hipper sound. If the VOA was on SW 24/7 like Radio Australia and carried programs from NPR and music programs, they also would have a much bigger audience than what they have now (Keith Perron, May 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Double J is now back on air - Digital and Internet - First started off on 1540 AM (Tony VK2IC Magon, ibid.) ** AUSTRALIA. MERGER WITH ABC MEANS DEATH OF SBS, WARNS MALCOLM FRASER Date: May 31 2014 ---- Matthew Knott Putting the SBS and the ABC under one roof would lead to the eventual death of the multicultural broadcaster, says former prime minister Malcolm Fraser, whose government created SBS almost four decades ago. The federal government's efficiency review into public broadcasting has recommended SBS vacate its premises in Sydney and Melbourne and move into ABC headquarters. The report has been handed to Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull and the managing directors of ABC and SBS in draft form. It will be discussed by the boards of both broadcasters in June. "This would be the first step towards the abolition of the SBS," Mr Fraser said. "They are fundamentally different broadcasters with different audiences and different needs. . . http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/merger-with-abc-means-death-of-sbs-warns-malcolm-fraser-20140530-399v2.html?skin=text-only (via Dan Say, BC, DXLD) ** BAHRAIN. 9745, Radio Bahrain (Presumed), at 0154, on 05/18, station was playing music during the whole time I listened in. One song with flutes started a song that was noted at 0206. Songs continued until 0215 when I left the station. I did not see this reported in any North American logs so I wanted to put it in this log report to see if anyone else picked it up. Poor but readable. 9745, Radio Bahrain (Presumed), at 0140, on 31 May, station is barely coming in but I can hear music. I originally picked this (Presumed) station up on 05/18 but was not reporting logs until now. I did not see anyone report it on NASWA Flash Sheet. Very Poor (John Cooper, Lebanon, PA: Winradio G33-DDC, SDR IQ, Wellbrook 1530 +, Pars End Fed Sloper, NASWA Flashsheet June 1 via DXLD) ** BANGLADESH. 9455, Bangladesh Betar, May 26 1318-1335, 35443, Nepali, News and Bangladesh music, Theme music at 1320. 15105, Bangladesh Betar, May 26 *1227-1237, 34443, English, 1227 sign on with IS, Opening music, Opening announce, Theme music, News. 15505, Bangladesh Betar, May 26, 1357-1408 35333, Urdu, IS, ID, Opening music, Opening announce, Theme music, News (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121, ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 3310, Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba, 0005 to 0007 noted with trio music, vocalists good signal. 73 (Bob Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, Florida, UT June 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4716.72, 0035-0045 03.06, R Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura, Spanish ann, Bolivian folksongs, 25232 (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark done on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) 4716.64 approx., June 3 at 0121, R. Yura in better than usual, fair signal with music and YL speaking Spanish, but rough modulation, audio cutting out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.44, May 30 at 0105, Radio Pio XII animated YL talk unseems Spanish, poor but a bit better than usual; always on split frequency, approx. measurement compared to WWV (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5952.489, Emisora Pio XII, 0045-0055 June 3, Have a weak signal here of a male in Spanish language comments. Emisora Pio XII is sharing the frequency with a heavy amount of splatter that makes it difficult to pull out the comments. There's actually two males in comments on the frequency. The Signal was poor (Chuck Bolland, Excalibur, 26N 081W Clewiston FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5952.4, June 3 at 0104, R. Pio XII sounds non-Spanish in W&M conversation, ACI from 5950 WRMI, a new mutual problem. CP signals are above average tonight, and this puts a het upon WRMI in return. Chuck Bolland was also listening a few minutes earlier and complains of splatter; of course, he`s right across Lake Okeechobee from WRMI which is suddenly on 5950, 24 hours a day (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6134.841, Radio Santa Cruz, 0036-0045 June 3, Two persons (male and female) presenting the news or commentary. At the end of some reports, noted a live ID as "Maria ... Radio Santa Cruz...". At 0038 music presented. Signal was good during the period (Chuck Bolland, Excalibur, 26N 081W Clewiston FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. [Re 14-22:] 6135 kHz [sic, must mean 6155, correctly on the video] - Radio Fides reactivation was heard in Moscow region with not so strong, but audible signal: music, 01:50 UTC, and sign off about 01:58 UTC with station ID - OM announcement (youtube video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtbsE0NkOMc ). Nice to hear them over 12500 km again since summer, 2013. QTH: Moscow region, Russia. Equipment: Degen 1103, built-in telescopic antenna (Eduard Korsakov, May 30, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6155.13, 0020-0035 03.06, R Fides, La Paz (presumed), Reactivated! Spanish talk by some persons, 24232, sideband QRM from 6150 and 6160. At 2240 [earlier? later?] only carrier heard, but no audio (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark done on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL, 4775, R. Congonhas, Congonhas MG, 2133-2145, 016/6, anúncios comerciais, IDs da estação e infos. horárias, seguindo-se revista desportiva; 35332. 4805, R. Dif.ª do Amazonas, Manaus AM, 2251-22302, 01/6, relato de jogo de futebol; 35332. 4875, R.Dif.ª de Roraima, Boa Vista RR, 2135-2148, 016/6, canções; 33331, QRM de CODAR. Melhor sinal às 2225, altura em difundia propag. religiosa. 4885, R. Club do Pará, Belém PA, 0907-desvane. total 0925, 01/6, text, aparentemente, missa; 15341. 4925.2, R. Educação Rural, Tefé AM, 2249-2259, 01/6, relato de jogo de futebol, anúncios comerciais; 35332. 5035, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 2142-2154, 01/6, missa; 35332. // 6135.35, 9630 (algo sobremodulada), 11854.9. 5939.8, R. Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, 2108-2121, 01/6, música de banda (metais), infos. horárias, canções relig.; 45433; // 9664.85. 6000.05, R. Guaíba, Pt.º Alegre RS, 2114-2125, 01/6, texto, relatos informativos; 24331, QRM adjacente. 6120, SRDA, São Paulo SP, 2210-2220, 31/5, "espectáculo" ao vivo (propag. relig., entenda-se), tradução de frases p/ castelhano; 34332. 6180, R. Nacional da Amazónia, Parque do Rodeador DF, 0932-desvan. total 1025, 30/5, conversa e chamadas de ouvintes; 25332. 6135.3, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 0935-desvan. total 1010, 01/6, texto, música; 15331. 6135.35, idem, 2143-2155, 01/6, missa; 43431. // 5035, 9630, 11854,9. 9515, R. Marumby, Curitiba PR, 2055-2112, 01/6, noticiário, Programa Musica Evangélico, às 2100; 34433, QRM adj. e na mesma freq. 9565.1, SRDA, Curitiba PR, 2117-2129, 31/5, D. Miranda com propaganda; 24431, QRM adj. e em 9565. 9663.85, R. Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, 2110-2126, 29/5, anúncios da emissora, canções relig.; 45433. 9664.85 idem, 2110-2122, 01/6, cf. // 5939.8 supra; 54433, QRM adjacente. 9818.7, R. 9 de Julho, São Paulo SP, 2058-2114, 01/6, anúncios de programação, ID da estação e anúncio de freqs., recitação do terço, às 2100; 43432, QRM adj. da CHN, em 9820. 11735, R. Transmundial, St.ª M.ª RS, 1233-1255, 01/6, texto, canções, entrevistas; 14431, QRM adjacente. 11764.7, SRDA, Curitiba PR, 1231-2150, 01/6, propag. relig., pregador vociferando, tradução de frases para o castelhano; 14431, QRM adjacente. 11764.7 idem, 1830-1847, 01/6, pregador vociferando propag. relig., música; 35433. 11854.9, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 1036-1110, 02/6, propag. relig. com os progrs. Especial Pentecostes e, às 1038, Caminhando com Maria, ID da estação e anúncio das freqs., ás 1100; 25432, QRM adj. às 1100. 11895, R. Boa Vontade, Pt.º Alegre RS, 2106-2116, 01/6, progr. Momento de Oração; 25342. Pràticamente inaudível em // 9550, mercê de QRM (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 5999.6, May 30 at 0519, RNB is still on here as evidenced by the het upon RHC 6000.0. Not only does it clash with Cuba, but Brazilian DXers have pointed out that there is another ZY already assigned the frequency 6000, 10 kW R. Guaíba, Porto Alegre; but is it active? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11780, RÁDIO NACIONAL DO AMAZÔNIA. 30/05 0027 UT Canción de Roberto Carlos y avisos de la emisora. A las 0031, se vuelve a un programa en donde el locutor habla sobre el rol de la radio pública y de los auditores de Brasília, con SINPO: 45444 // 6180 con SINPO: 45343 // 6000 con heterodino, aunque se escucha una emisora en portugués con programación distinta a RNB que cuando pasa música, en 6000 se encuentra una locutora hablando ¿R. Guaíba con SINPO: 33433? (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo 30 metros, QTH: Ovalle centro, IV región, Chile, Condiglista yg via DXLD) 5999.6, May 31 at 0118, RNB/RNA is gone again since there is no het upon 6000.0 RHC. 11780, May 31 at 0135, RNB/RNA other frequency is out of whack tonight, splattering out to plus/minus 20 kHz, quite different from the spurblobs centered plus and minus 30 kHz earlier this week. The mess gets stronger and worse the closer to the fundamental. Only the bigsig from Cuba on 11760 can combat it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 6135.26 approx., May 31 at 0122, R. Aparecida has varied up to here in order to put a very audible heterodyne upon R. Santa Cruz, BOLIVIA, which has a stronger signal, at 6134.82 approx., which means the het would = 440 Hz but not measured independently. Most of the non-het audio heard is musical, and not // Aparecida talk on 9630v and 11855v. The het and Aparecida disappear about 0158* as my streetlite is *igniting: looks like that will surpass 0200 UT before receding. There is still too much storm noise to get anything out of RSC even tho dehetted, and by next check at 0209 it too is off (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 9586.61, Super R. Deus é Amor, São Paulo. Music and relaxed preaching at 0515, fair to weak at times. Nice to hear this, last year this frequency was not monitored at all in Mount Evelyn. Running // 9565.1 and 11764.76 kHz on 23/5 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Double Bazooka antennas for 80 and 40 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), June Australian DX News via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 9663.9, May 30 at 0525, Voz Missionária sermonizer giving telefones numbers, stronger than 9819v. 9663.74 approx., May 31 at 0216, music from the variable ZY, Voz Missionária, poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 9819v, May 30 at 0522, Brazuguese on weak signal. Don`t usually hear R. Nove de Julho this time of night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 01/06/2014: Twenty-seven special stations (one for each Brazilian State plus the Federal District) with ZX14 and ZY14 prefixes will be active from 1 June to 30 July to celebrate the 2014 FIFA World Cup, which will be held in Brazil from 12 June to 13 July: ZX14AM, ZX14BA, ZX14CE, ZX14DF, ZX14MG, ZX14MT, ZX14PE, ZX14PR, ZX14RJ, ZX14RN, ZX14RS, ZX14SP, ZY14AC, ZY14AL, ZY14AP, ZY14ES, ZY14GO, ZY14MA, ZY14MS, ZY14PA, ZY14PB, ZY14PI, ZY14RO, ZY14RR, ZY14SC, ZY14SE, ZY14TO. All of the QSOs will be confirmed automatically via the bureau; direct cards via PT2AA (LABRE, Caixa Postal 4, Brasília - DF, 70351-970, Brazil). Information on the award "Brazil Land of Football", sponsored by the Liga de Amadores Brasileiros de Rádio Emissão (LABRE, Brazil's IARU society), can be found at: http://www.labre.org.br/ (425 DX News via I.C.P.O. Bulletin (30 May - 06 June 2014) "Islands, Castles & Portable Operations", via editor Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** BULGARIA. Chaos with the broadcasts of Brother Stair via Kostinbrod 0700-1300 11600 SOF 050 kW / 306 deg WeEu Su-Fr, no signal on May 25 0700-1300 11600 SOF 050 kW / 306 deg WeEu Su-Fr, till 1000 on May 26 0700-1300 11600 SOF 050 kW / 306 deg WeEu Su-Fr, from 0900 on May 28 0700-1300 11600 SOF 050 kW / 306 deg WeEu Su-Fr, 0715-1000 on May 29 1300-1700 9400 SOF 050 kW / 306 deg WeEu Daily, no signal on May 25 1300-1700 9400 SOF 050 kW / 306 deg WeEu Daily, from 1340 on May 27 1600-1700 11590 SOF 100 kW / 030 deg EaEu Daily no signal from May 23 (DX RE MIX NEWS #854 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 30, 2014, via DXLD) See also ETHIOPIA [non]; KOREA SOUTH [non] ** BURMA [non]. 11595, Democratic Voice of Burma via Dushanbe. Weak level signal almost totally buried in noise. Just discernible at 2330 sign-on. Speakers in assumed Burmese dialects. Signal lost by 0005. 2330 20/5. Also heard with improved reception on 24/5 (Charles Jones, Castle Hill NSW (JRC NRD535D with 7m. vertical antenna), June Australian DX News via DXLD) ** CANADA. 530 IS SEVERELY RESTRICTED --- by Jon Pearkins (Editor’s note: This is a lengthened version of the story presented in the last issue of DX Monitor. This is included in this DXM at the author’s request.) 530 kHz appeared to be the perfect solution to solve the CBC's issue of coverage in the Canadian North. Unplanned additions of new transmitters and increases in existing power are both strong evidence that the CBC's switch from AM to FM is only making matters worse. Those of us familiar with CBC history, and the importance that CBK-540 played in that history, had been wondering out loud why the CBC didn't exploit the tremendous potential of groundwave coverage on 530 kHz. Any radio built in the last 20 years includes 530 as part of the AM band. The CBC came into being on November 2, 1936. As both regulator and national broadcaster, they immediately limited private stations to 1,000 watts, but grandfathered CFRB and CFCN at their current 10,000 watts, and CKAC and CKLW at 5,000 watts. In less than three years, they had four 50,000 watt stations of their own on the air. As well as Canada's two largest cities, Toronto with CBL and Montreal with CBF, the CBC completed two very ambitious plans for regional stations: CBA to serve the Maritimes (excluding Newfoundland, which was not yet a part of Canada) and CBK to serve the entire Canadian Prairies: Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The "K" in CBK stands for Henry Kelsey, known as "the first explorer of the Canadian Prairies". According to the Canadian Communications Foundation: “The two 460 foot radiators for CBK and CBA were the first guyed radiators designed in Canada, made by the Canadian Bridge Co. of Walkerville, Ontario. Both radators were patented and were of triangular cross-section vertical design, having three sets of guy wires extending from the structure to heavy concrete anchors.” Given the huge size of the region that they were attempting to cover, the CBC went a lot further with CBK. Both Sackville and Watrous were selected for their excellent ground conductivity, but CBC Vancouver engineers that I interviewed for a DX Monitor article in 1968 explained that ground conductivity was further enhanced with the addition of underground radials one quarter mile long extending out in multiple directions from the tower. Then, of course, there was the frequency: 540 kHz. Bottom of the dial gave them the strongest groundwave possible. Coming on the air barely one month before Canada joined World War II, CBK remained the only CBC-owned station in the Canadian Prairies until long after the War ended. That legendary coverage was still evident when I first visited Edmonton in 1967. At high noon in the summer, CBK had the strongest signal on the car radio dial, other than the local Edmonton stations. 580 km (360 miles) from the transmitter. In the past, exceptions to international broadcast agreements have been fairly easy to come by for Northern Canada, Alaska and Hawaii. Graveyarder CFYK-1340 in Yellowknife was 1000 watts at night when I was working there in 1974, long before those agreements changed to increase Graveyard night power from 250 to 1000 watts at night. Alaska and Hawaii were allowed 10,000 watt non-directional stations on U.S. 1-A Clear Channels even in an era when one station owned the frequency at night everywhere else in North America. So, why not a very well-built, high powered transmitter to serve most or all of the Canadian North on 530 kHz with its tremendous groundwave potential? 250,000 watts is within existing international agreements; maybe 1-2 million watts would be considered a reasonable exception for the North. We even talked about synchronized repeaters but wondered how skywave's unpredictability would impact its effectiveness. Reading the CRTC's recent decision on CIAO-530 in Brampton, Ontario, explains why we have not seen even medium power stations on the frequency. In Canada, the CBC's former regulatory powers are today held by the CRTC and Industry Canada. CIAO's application documented broadcast engineering consultation and discussions with Industry Canada: “530 kHz is a unique frequency, because it is adjacent to the NAVTEX maritime weather transmissions on 518 kHz. Due to this adjacency, the International Telecommunications Union ("ITU") restricts the maximum transmitter power to 1 kilowatt day and 250 watts night. Our broadcast consultant approached Industry Canada to ask if it were possible to negotiate higher domestic daytime power by coordination with the FCC, and/or whether a higher night power limit could be broached at the World Administrative Radio Conference (ITU-WARC). In response to that request, Industry Canada indicated that there was no appetite to pursue such a request.” Realizing that they are stuck with 1000 watts day and 250 watts night, CIAO decided to make the best of every watt by building a single 225.6 metre (740 foot) tower on their existing site. A tower 60% taller than the pair used for CBK and CBA. And a site where once sat the 10 towers required to run 5000 watts on 790 jHz when CIAO was CHIC. On March 31, the CRTC approved CIAO's application, which has only become possible after CBEF Windsor recently moved from 540 to 1550 (IRCA DX Monitor May 31 via DXLD) ** CANADA. 2749-USB, May 31 at 0141 UT, very poor signal vs noise level with English broadcast, no doubt VAR-3 again as scheduled from ``Fundy``, Nova Scotia, wherever that really is. I keep tuning in at the time this one is on rather than one of the three other Canadian CG marine weather stations sharing the frequency. Nothing Canadian on the 54-94 MHz band today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. CBC'S POPULAR THE SUNDAY EDITION TO BE CUT DOWN TO TWO HOURS --- Marsha Lederman VANCOUVER -- The Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, May. 28 2014, 6:00 AM EDT Last updated Wednesday, May. 28 2014, 6:00 AM EDT For many Canadians, it is a Sunday morning ritual: Michael Enright's opening essay, followed by a long-form interview or panel discussion, a documentary, some music, and all kinds of radio gold over three hours. Mr. Enright once received a letter from a Saskatchewan minister saying he was planning to move his nine a.m. service into the parking lot because his congregation was in their cars listening to the radio. But come September, the final hour of CBC Radio One's The Sunday Edition will be replaced by a current affairs program from Western Canada. The move - which will be announced at a CBC event on Thursday - was not motivated by budget cuts, according to CBC's executive director, radio and audio, but an opportunity to try something new. "For us, this is about program development and schedule development," Chris Boyce said. "Not about trying to save money." The Sunday Edition, currently airing from nine a.m. until noon, is a ratings hit, with about 1.1 million people listening to some part of the show on an average week this season, according to CBC. But the public broadcaster, looking to introduce new programs and personalities, felt the time slot was a good fit for The 180 - a show it has been developing (currently airing on Friday afternoons with a Sunday evening rebroadcast) with the popular former host of the CBC Calgary morning show, Jim Brown. The show is produced from Calgary and Vancouver. "Senior management said they wanted to reconfigure part of Sunday, which is always a good thing, I think, to shake up the schedule," said Mr. Enright, 71, a veteran journalist who has been named to the Order of Canada. He said he is in favour of a current affairs show from Calgary. "We are, after all, a national network, and we should have production from centres other than Toronto." Mr. Boyce said The Sunday Edition team will spend time between now and September "figuring out how the show is going to be different." Mr. Enright said the three pillars of the program - long-form conversations, documentaries and music - will remain. "The idea of the show will stay the same, but it won't be truncated. We're not actually going to lop off an hour and say, `Here you are, folks.' We're actually going to try new things." After more than a decade as host, Mr. Enright said he is looking forward to getting "a bit of a breather" with more time for other things, such as writing. CBC has been laying off staff to deal with budget cuts. When asked about a report this week that Radio 2 could be moved online, Mr. Boyce said: "We have no plans to move Radio 2 to be an online service. I think inevitably if you look down the road, every broadcaster in this country at some point in the future is going to make the transition from being a broadcast service to being an online service. But that is not something that we're contemplating in the near term." (via Mike Cooper, May 29, DXLD) ** CANADA. CBC RADIO 2 OFF THE AIR: AT LEAST 5-10 YEARS AWAY CBC planning new cuts: watchdog group Possible cuts include making Radio 2 online-only. By: Tony Wong, Staff Reporter, Toronto Star Published on Fri May 30 2014 Be prepared for more cuts at the CBC, says the head of the public broadcaster's English-language services. "Are there more cuts to come? Absolutely. We have to deal with a really significant challenge in front of us. That means there will be more cuts and a smaller CBC," says Heather Conway in an interview with the Star. However, Conway, who is in charge of CBC's television, radio and online properties, said her goal was to protect programming content, while trying to make the public broadcaster more cost-efficient. "How do we privilege the programming and try and do things with less? is the idea. It won't be about cutting the schedule," she says. That's going to be a tricky proposition. How Conway will be able to do more with less while protecting Canadian programs is the most challenging job in television. But she is clear that there will be more pain to come for employees at the broadcaster. The new boss of English services has been on the job for barely six months, but she has already been thrust into one of the most turbulent periods at the broadcaster, with the recent loss of hockey rights to Rogers and a significant downsizing in the workforce. The CBC recently cancelled underperforming shows such as Arctic Air, The Ron James Show and Best Recipes Ever. And Republic of Doyle star Allan Hawco said this week he was signing off after the upcoming season. On the news side, there have been a series of retirements by veterans who say they are leaving to make room for the next generation. This week the broadcaster unveiled its fall programming, including 12 new primetime shows that hold promise. Conway has greenlighted darker and more artistic fare, including the serialized drama Strange Empire, about a western town that has few men, and The Book of Negroes, based on the Giller Prize-winning book by Lawrence Hill. "You have to keep refreshing and do new things. You want to be the place where Canadian creators want to come and do the serialized dramas," said Conway. "And I think we have the better shot because we have more Canadian slots to show Canadian programming." Conway, meanwhile, dismissed recent speculation that the CBC would be placing Radio 2 online. "There are no immediate plans to take Radio 2 off the air tomorrow. I listen to it every morning in my car," said Conway. "On the other hand, I don't know anyone in radio not trying to figure out their online strategy five or 10 years down the road." She also reaffirmed her commitment to CBC news, calling it one of the top five news brands globally. "Who do Canadians turn to? They turn to CBC news. The CBC stands shoulder to shoulder internationally as a news brand," says Conway. "It is a core delivery of public broadcasting. An informed public is what makes a healthy democracy." A poll posted for readers at thestar.com about the current CBC lineup showed that while there was strong public support for news, some of the scripted and lifestyle programming did not fare as well. The poll -- which asked readers to choose two CBC shows to cancel – showed that 27 per cent would axe daytime show Steven and Chris, while 17 per cent would cancel the comedy Mr. D and 16 per cent Dragon's Den. Only 6 percent selected the soon-to-end Republic of Doyle. But Conway says she retains confidence in her lineup. "It tells me with Steven and Chris that 73 per cent love the show," said Conway. "You're not going to get me to say that something that we're putting on the air that we decided to support is not something we support. It's there for a reason. It's working for most of the people who want to watch it." Conway, whose previous job was as an executive at the Art Gallery of Ontario, was not the obvious choice to head the broadcaster. Her previous experience in broadcasting was in marketing and communications at Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. Before that she headed up public relations firm Edelman Canada. And CBC President Hubert Lacroix found himself defending his choice, saying he was not looking for a traditional "programmer" to do the job. But so far Conway's candour, perhaps surprising for someone who spent years in public relations, and approachability seem to have won over employees. "I believe truth is the best spin," she says. (via Dan Say, alt.radio.networks.cbc June 3, via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** CANADA. CBC Radio Summer 2014 and more: Comedy, history and a quiz show on radio http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/cbc-unveils-expanded-2014-15-programming-slate-1.2657905 also http://www.cbc.ca/television/posts/check-out-all-the-cool-stuff-cbc-has-coming-in-2014-2015 CBC's radio news programming continues next season with World Report, World at Six, The World This Hour, The World This Weekend and The House with Evan Solomon. Current affairs shows Q, The Current and As It Happens have also been renewed. Newcomers on the dial that launch in June and end at the start of September include: As It Happened - The Archive Edition, which revisits some of the veteran programs' most memorable interviews. Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids, which tours Canada to invite Canadians to read their childhood writing aloud before an audience. The new quiz show Newshounds. Project Money, featuring the best of The Current's year-long series about money. Live Through This, a spotlight on extraordinary tales of survival. Wachtel on the Arts, featuring CBC host Eleanor Wachtel's in-depth interviews with 10 of the world's most important artists. The Bugle and the Passing Bell, highlighting voices and stories from veterans of the First World War. What a Waste, a scientific exploration of what can be done with our waste, from leftover food to nuclear detritus. Head to Toe, a historical and social look at clothing and what we wear. The Moth Radio Hour, a raconteur series featuring true stories told live, from Public Radio Exchange. In addition, The 180, hosted by Jim Brown, moves to Sundays at 11 a.m. in September (via Dan Say, alt.radio.networks.cbc May 30 via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** CANADA. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/knowlton-nash-longtime-anchor-of-cbc-s-the-national-dead-at-86-1.2653467 (via Gerald T Pollard, NC, May 25, DXLD) ** CANADA. OBITUARY: JOURNALIST KNOWLTON NASH, A TIRELESS ADVOCATE FOR EDUCATIONAL MEDIA --- SIMON HOUPT The Globe and Mail http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/journalist-knowlton-nash-a-tireless-advocate-for-educational-media/article18901872/?service=3Dmobile Last updated Thursday, May. 29 2014, 11:49 AM EDT PHOTO Knowlton Nash anchored CBC news' The National, from 1978 to 1992. (CBC) He was an eyewitness to world history; a globe-trotting pioneer who covered the tumult of the 1950s and 60s on TV, radio and in print; an executive who united a balkanized broadcaster; and a reassuring presence on the evening news: a Canadian Cronkite. In the days since Knowlton Nash's death on May 24, at age 86 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease, generations of Canadians have paid tribute to his unflappable nature, his modesty, his devotion to objectivity, his selflessness, and his almost unparalleled stamina. On Wednesday afternoon, friends, family, former colleagues and members of the public gathered at Toronto's Grace Church On-The-Hill for a funeral service overflowing with memories. Inevitably, some stories went untold. Like the one about Sesame Street. In the early 1970s, after he'd stepped away from reporting to head up CBC's information programming, Mr. Nash's bailiwick included children's television. Sesame Street, a new import, was popular, but he saw room for improvement. "We wanted to insert our own segments ... teaching preschoolers basic French and showing them the lakes and oceans, mountains and prairies and the fishermen, hunters, city dwellers and farmers of Canada," he recalled in his 1987 memoir, Prime Time at Ten: Behind-the-Camera Battles of Canadian TV (via Dan Say, alt.tv.networks.cbc 30 May via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** CANADA. Regarding my channel A2 log of CTV from Ontario, whether there are still two stations or one, Bill Hepburn in Grimsby replies to Saul Chernos` comment that CKCO-2 was apparently off: Hi Glenn, CKCO-2 is still on the air. In here 24/7 (Hepburn) I have no idea why, but I'm getting a very weak Global Bancroft with no CCI whatsoever. Whereas CKCO-2 used to be more dominant than Global. No sign of Soo here, but don't have a TV tower (Saul Chernos, near Toronto ON, 1303 UT May 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Whoa --- I take that back. Watching the end of the CTV National News and waiting for the local news on 2-. I got the Northern Ontario news, not Kitchener's! CHBX is in here at 332 miles. I'm sure I saw a strong CKCO-2 here within the last month. Saul, Did you hear something official about CKCO-2? I haven't heard of any other CTV analogues going off recently. Could they just be temporarily off with transmitter problems? (Bill Hepburn, ibid.) I have no way of separating them by offset frequencies now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. I maintain a list of some Ontario stations. Industry Canada calls the licensed ones "ULP-FM" or ultra-low power. http://dxinfocentre.com/ulp-on.htm Canada no longer licences certain non-commercial LPFMs, so they no longer show up in the database. There's about 25 private CBC stations in the northern territories of Canada that are like this. They are no longer licensed, but still exist. One of them is my old local from Coral Harbour, NU - CJZS-FM 107.1. And then you also have unlicensed CKON-FM 97.3 Akwesasne, ON running 3,000 watts. It's been on the air for over 30 years from "independent territory" along the Canada-US border. I think the Canadian government is afraid to force them to get a licence or shut down (more correctly --- it's not worth the trouble). A case of a full-power station not officially authorized but a skip target nevertheless. But I can understand why someone wouldn't want to count pirates (Bill Hepburn, Ont., amfmtvdx at qth.net via DXLD) I might be wrong but I vaguely recall hearing the CRTC issued CKON a licence a while back; basically gave it one. But I could be wrong (Saul Chernos, ibid.) CKON's not in the IC database, but interestingly it's not in the list of "available callsigns" either (Hepburn, WTFDA via DXLD) ** CHILE. 6925, RCW, 01/06 0045 UT. Música chilena de los 60's. SINPO: 35343 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun Pl-660, Ant: hilo 40 mts, QTH: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) Hola Claudio! Mis felicitaciones por las escuchas de OM. Como puedo hacer para enterarme de las transmisiones que va a hacer Radio RCW en el futuro? Sabes su QTH para enviarle un reporte de recepción que tengo desde enero? Gracias! Enviado desde mi BlackBerry de Personal (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, ibid.) Hola Mr Slaen: El QTH específico es un enigma. Lo único que se sabe de su ubicación, es que su transmisor está en la región metropolitana. Acerca de las nuevas emisiones. En este momento se encuentran en período de pruebas. Sin embargo, desde Octubre en adelante se regularizarían sus emisiones con programas propios. Lo que avisarían, mediante su página en facebook. 73 (Claudio Galaz, ibid.) No servirá un tuit para enviar un reporte pero quizás para pedir una dirección electrónica: https://twitter.com/RCWradio En uno de los tuits se dice que RCW emite desde San Francisco, Chile. (Henrik Klemetz, Suecia, ibid.) El email para los informes de recepcion es cartas.rcw@gmail.com o me lo mandan a mí y yo se los reboto a ellos (Claudio Galaz, ibid.) ** CHINA [and non]. 17740, CNR1, *1400+ 28 May. Thanks to DX REMIX #850 from Ivo Ivanov (in SWN V57N3 via Bob Wilkner), found out this had been in use by VOA Tibetan service until 23 April; CNR1 hanging around in hopes of a return and doing the "echo jam" dance this morning, too. 17485, VOA (Udon Thani)/CNR1 jammer 1401-1408+ 28 May. VOA here M/W/F 14-15, JBA at opening, improving slightly until CNR1 woke up at 1407 (Dan Sheedy, Swami's Beach, CA PL380/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CHINA scratchy sound jamming --- 17600 still at 1545 UT this special CHN jamming (like against BBCWS, VOA, RA etc.) heard here late, 15 minutes after VoA Uzbek ended, according to schedule. Aoki: 17600 * VOICE OF AMERICA 1500-1530 1234567 Uzbek 250 46 Kuwait KWT 2931N04741E IBB/VOA a14 Apr. 22 Jamming noise strings at 17596.5 to 17603.8 kHz visible in remote Perseus screen. 73 wb 1548 UT Same here against BBCWS 15660 * BBC 1300-1400 ..3.5.. English 250 290 Nakhon Sawan THA 1503N10004E BBC a14 May 15 Still jamming heard at 1625 UT May 29, seemingly a 24 hrs operation. 15656.4 to 15663.8 wide band. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, May 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. CNR1 jammers morning of May 30: 15525, May 30 at 1427, CNR1 jammer, heavy QRM vs Voice of Tibet but VOT Madagascar goes off by 1428; must not have jumped to 15530 today 15545, May 30 at 1332, CNR1 jammer, fair-good; het on lo side, VOT. At 1428, this has been replaced by 15570 16360, May 30 at 1333, CNR1 jammer, fair-good 16920, May 30 at 1333, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter 17300, May 30 at 1341, CNR1 jammer, fair-good 17575, Friday May 30 at 1305, CNR1 jamming and second Chinese audio, maybe CNR1 offset, hard to tell. Target is BBC Uzbek via OMAN, which Aoki shows from May 14 during this semihour only, and only on Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday; 17510 the other days. Same 1300-1330 service via Thailand is listed on 17480 for Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday; 17735 other days. However, not noticed anything on 17480 today, but single CNR1 jamming is on 17735 at 1305 even tho it`s Friday. 18980, May 30 at 1341, CNR1 jammer, fair vs. RFA Tibetan via Kuwait, its frequency during this hour on Tuesdays and Fridays. 17790, June 1 at 0607, Chinese with CCI, poor and with fast SAH, i.e. CNR1 jamming vs RFA Chinese via SAIPAN this hour only. 21690, June 1 at 0608, very poor in Chinese, not // 17790. This hour`s target is RFA Tibetan via UAE; ergo the Chinese on 21690 is CNR1 jamming, while the dominant signal on 17790 was really RFA. 19010, June 1 at 1348, CNR1 jammer with children`s choir, Sunday evening serious music show, good signal on the Sunday-only RFA Tibetan via Kuwait frequency at 11-12 & 13-14 16100, June 1 at 1350, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter; no 18s or 17s 15195, June 1 at 1352, FIREDRAKE jammer, fair and dominant; haven`t heard good ol` FD in quite a while; 15115 & 15265 are still with CNR1 jamming and CCI, hets 13850, June 1 at 1353, CNR1 jammer, good but with 13845 WWCR ACI; none in the 14s or 12s. 15540, June 2 at 1336, CNR1 jammer, fair with VOT het on hi side; none in the 16s or 17s. See also TIBET [non] 18930. CNR1 jamming, Tuesday June 3, a big ex-day in China, but jamming seems no worse than usual, which is heavy: 15115, June 3 at 1310, CNR1 jammer, good with CCI, VOA Chinese via Thailand; always a big collision audible here at 13-14 15195, June 3 at 1310, CNR1 jammer, fair; vs RFA Tibetan via Tajikistan, no sign of it here 15265, June 3 at 1310, CNR1 jammer, fair with het, CCI, vs RTI Chinese via Tainan, always off-frequency, I think rather than the jammer 15550, June 3 at 1308, CNR1 jammer, fair, het on lo side = V. of Tibet, 15548 via Tajikistan at 1300-1315 per Aoki 15560, June 3 at 1308, CNR1 jammer, poor, het on lo side = V. of Tibet, 15557 via Tajikistan at 1240-1304 per Aoki, too late? 17480, Tue June 3 at 1305, CNR1 jammer, very good: must be vs BBC Uzbek via Thailand at 1300-1330 but supposedly only Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri 17510, June 3 at 1305, CNR1 jammer, good; none in the 16s, 18s. 17510 is the BBC Uzbek 1300-1330 frequency via Oman on Mon/Tue/Sat per Aoki 17740, June 3 at 1401, CNR1 jammer, good; no target, anything in Aoki 18980, June 3 at 1358, CNR1 jammer, good, none now in the 17s, 16s, 14s, 13s, 12s. Vs RFA Tibetan via Kuwait at 13-14 on Tue & Fri, Aoki CNR1 jamming, Wednesday June 4: 13795, June 4 at 1327, CNR1 jammer, very poor; no target in Aoki 13830, June 4 at 1327, CNR1 jammer, very poor but // 17575; target is R. Free Asia, Tibetan via Tajikistan at 11-14 15535, June 4 at 1354, CNR1 jammer, poor, vs V. of Tibet 15537 15540, June 4 at 1325, CNR1 jammer, poor, vs V. of Tibet 15542 15565, June 4 at 1325, CNR1 jammer, poor, vs V. of Tibet 15563 15570, June 4 at 1354, CNR1 jammer, poor, vs V. of Tibet 15568 17480, June 4 at 1322, CNR1 jammer, fair, a few seconds behind 17575 17575, June 4 at 1320-1330*, CNR1 jammer, good, vs BBC Uzbek via Oman at 1300-1330 Sun/Wed/Thu/Fri; none in the 12s 18990, June 4 at 1325, very poor signal unseems // 17480 or 17575, so maybe RFA Tibetan via Kuwait itself; however at 1347 now it`s CNR1 jammer, very good with flutter, // 13830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. TIANANMEN SQUARE EYEWITNESSES OPEN UP TO VOA AHEAD OF 25TH ANNIVERSARY Washington, D.C., May 30, 2014 -- Two survivors of the Tiananmen Square protests broke their 25-year silence today on an emotional edition of the Voice of America Mandarin Service's weekly Pro & Con TV program. http://www.voachinese.com/media/all/pro-con/latest.html?z=1905 Huaguang Zhao and Zhaohui Rui, both university students in Beijing in 1989, joined Pro and Con host Xin Chen at VOA headquarters in Washington, to discuss for the first time on-air how the June 4th military crackdown on the student movement changed their lives. "Mr. Zhao and Mr. Rui weren't the student leaders, whom we hear from on major news outlets every time an anniversary passes, but their lives were permanently changed by simply being at Tiananmen, and they suffered greatly -- emotionally, physically, financially, in every aspect," said VOA Director David Ensor. "It is important for people like them to be able to tell their stories, too." Mr. Zhao was arrested for writing poetry throughout the Tiananmen Square movement. He was sentenced to 100 days in prison, attempted suicide, and managed to escape after police let him out of jail temporarily to receive medical treatment. He spent years in hiding, drifting in and out of small fishing villages, unable to return to his hometown even for his father's funeral. Zhao eventually escaped the country via Thailand in 2009, and came to the United States in March of 2013 with the help of the U.S. Embassy in Cambodia, leaving behind an 8-year-old son. "If I had a chance to talk to my son, I would ask for his forgiveness for leaving him. I would tell him that everything I do today is so that he and his generation can live what I describe in my poems - with freedom and dignity," Zhao told Chen. Today, Zhao is an activist in New York City with the "League of Roar," which aims to bring attention to the plights of Chinese people whose land and houses have been confiscated illegally by the government. Mr. Rui was only 19 years old in 1989, and told Chen the Tiananmen event was "a life-altering experience that changed all my beliefs and shattered my hopes for the government." On the third anniversary of Tiananmen Square, Rui said he tried to organize a small memorial for those who had lost their lives. The government found out about his efforts, and he was sentenced to three years in jail. He now leads a non-profit organization based in Hong Kong that provides support for activists within China. When asked whether it was difficult to do such work under China's current political climate - Rui still lives in China - he said, "I feel like I have to do it because I don't want these people to feel that they are alone." Along with Rui and Zhao, Gao Wenqian (senior researcher at Human Rights in China) and Xiaonong Cheng (Princeton University) joined the conversation from New York. Both were officials in the Chinese Communist Party in 1989, and left China after Tiananmen. The special episode of Pro & Con is one of several VOA programs dedicated to next Wednesday's anniversary. The Mandarin Service has interviewed dozens of eyewitnesses and survivors to cover all aspects of the events at Tiananmen Square and its aftermath. Starting Monday, June 2, VOA Mandarin will air an original one-hour special on VOA Weishi satellite TV. June 4: Tiananmen Anniversary Special will run for seven days at 8:00 UTC and 15:00 UTC. The special will also air tomorrow (May 31) during VOA Weishi's regular program time (12:00 - 14:00 UTC). For more information about this release, contact the VOA Public Relations office in Washington at (202) 203-4959, or write to publicrelations@voanews.com. For more information about VOA, visit the Public Relations website at http://www.insidevoa.com or the main news site at http://www.voanews.com (VOA PR May 30 via DXLD) HOW CHINA HAS REWRITTEN THE HISTORY OF TIANANMEN SQUARE http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/how-china-has-rewritten-the-history-of-tiananmen-square-1.2657042 (via Gerald T Pollard, NC, DXLD) Has there been any increase in SW jamming for the anniversary? Already plenty heavy (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** CHINA. Latest schedule for CNR8 (Voice of Minorities) Kazakh 0100-0200 15670, 11810, 11630, 9455, 1422, 1143 0200-0300 15670, 11810, 12055, 11630, 1422, 1143 0500-0600 15415, 11780, 12055, 11630, 1422, 1143 (9470, 7340 XJ) 0900-1000 15415, 11780, 12055, 11630, 1422, 1143 1400-1500 9645, 7445, 11630, 9630, 1143 (6015, 7340 XJ) 1500-1600 9645, 7445, 11630, 9630 1600-1705 9645, 7445, 9630, 6140 Korean 2055-2300 5975, 5955, 1143 0400-0500 9610, 9440, 1143 0600-0700 9610=, 9440= 1000-1100 9785, 7360, 1143, 1017 (1206 HL) 1100-1200 6020, 5975 Mongolian 2300-0100 9655, 7445, 1143 0300-0400 11815, 9610, 1143 (9750 7270 6040 NM) 0700-0800 15415=, 11780= 0800-0900 11780=, 5955= 1200-1300 9615, 6020 + not Tue; = not Wed (NDXC via June Australian DX News via DXLD) ** CONGO DR. 5066.33, R. Candip, Bunia. Another rare sighting of this one at 1845 (last time heard was Jan 21 this year) in French with alternating male and female speakers expressing strong views on --- something! Then several lively Afro pop songs from 1858. Extremely weak signal, fading in and out, hard work digging it out. Finally lost reception around 1905, 27/5 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Double Bazooka antennas for 80 and 40 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), June Australian DX News via DXLD) Kinshasa. 5066.3, R. Télé Candip, Bunia, 1835-1910, 30/5, música pop' africana; 35433. Ùltimamente, o sinal tem sido francamente bom, atendendo à potência envolvida (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Re Rebelde FM part of the time on 1620 kHz: Rebelde FM also occasionally heard on 600 kHz (Bruce Conti, NH, NRC IDXD May 30 via DXLD) ** CUBA. 15310, Radio Habana Cuba, La Habana, Cuba, 1331 29-May This program isn't supposed to be on this frequency. Heard the usual sign- on intro for Radio Habana Cuba. YL “Esta es Radio Habana Cuba …” and a Spanish program at 1331 the SINPO was 22222; at 1333 it was 35233. I found this on both my Palstar R30 and Sony 7600G (Gary Vance MI, MARE Tipsheet May 30 via DXLD) Gary notes they are scheduled for 15340 and 15370, and this sure sounds to me like it could be an interaction of those two transmitters creating this spurious emission. Anyone with some technical knowledge care to chime in? --kvz (Ken Zichi, ed., ibid.) Ken, I have reported 15310 several times, as well as countless other leapfrog mixing products from Habana --- simply add or subtract the difference between the two frequencies beyond them one side or the other (or both --- there is another one on 15400, usually stronger). 15370-15340 = 30 so that`s the figure to add to 15370 and subtract from 15340. 73, (Glenn to Ken, MARE, via DXLD) Hi Glenn – No, I got that and noted the two frequencies that supposedly 'create' the mirage signal, but I've never seen a TECHNICAL explanation of how that happens, and that is what I'm getting at. "Harmonics" I've seen -- and when you envision a radio signal oscillating it is easy to see how that happens, same with images in the radio when you understand how a superhet design works, but THESE sorts of interactions, I don't get. They appear independent of receiver design (e.g. double/triple conversion doesn't matter) so it is clearly NOT generated in the receiver, but I haven't seen an explanation of HOW it works at the transmitter either. Clearly there is something happening but I am curious to hear a technical explanation! Has anyone explained this to you? 73 // (Ken to Glenn, via DXLD) Ken, I like the ``leapfrog`` method because it`s easier to visualize and compute, but it seems the proper formula is 2A minus B or 2B minus A. The second harmonic of one transmitter mixes with the fundamental of another producing the difference frequencies. Properly there should be filters installed to prevent (or attenuate) this, but not always employed. Proximity of antennas, i.e. signals bouncing back into the other transmitter, may also have something to do with it. That`s as far as I could go, not being a technical expert. These are clearly transmitted, but I would not completely rule out the possibility of the same type of interaxion inside receivers due to extreme overload, altho nothing to do with IFs. In that case switching in some local attenuation may not just reduce them but eliminate them. 73, (Glenn to Ken, ibid.) ** CUBA [and non]. 5999.6, May 29 at 0638 check, RNBrasília`s extra transmitter is still on here causing lite het to 6000.0, RHC English during ``Wednesday`` mailbag (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6000, RHC, 30/05 0132 UT. Hombre da noticias sobre Cuba en inglés sobre Santiago Álvarez. SINPO: 43343 con leve heterodino de otra emisora que no es posible captar. // 6165 con SINPO: 25232 5040, RHC, 30/05 0205 UT. Informaciones sobre la visita de la diputada cubana Mariela Castro a Uruguay. SINPO: 33333 // 6060 SINPO: 33333 // 6070 SINPO: 32222 // 9550 no se escucha // 9810 con SINPO: 45343 // 11670 SINPO: 53433 // 11840 SINPO: 55555 // 13740 SINPO: 55555 // 15230 SINPO: 55444 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo 30 metros, QTH: Ovalle centro, IV región, Chile, Condiglista yg via DXLD) 9550, May 30 at 1335, RHC Spanish making SAH with CRI Vietnamese and atop it but not a bigsig, // 9820. RHC`s own schedule http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/estaticas/frecuencias claims 9550 is on only from 1100 to 1300, and it hasn`t corrected 9830 to 9820. [and non]. 11760, May 31 at 0206, I notice that RHC Spanish tho VG signal capable of muscling aside the Brazilian splatter from 11780, the modulating now is just barely, softer even than // 11840 which is usually undermodulated. RHC`s own schedule does not show 11760 at all in the evenings now, but Aoki does as 21-05 UT. At 0207 Cuba goes off 11760, uncovering another station in Spanish: see IRAN. See also BRAZIL 15230, May 31 at 2211, RHC just barely modulated, peaks only audible, seems Portuguese as scheduled. 15370, May 31 at 2242, RHC ``ainsi ce termine le journal parlé de Radio Habane-Cuba`` the quaint French terminology for radio news as ``spoken newspaper``. Poor but better than 15230 Portuguese. 15400, June 2 at 1257, nice music from HCJB in Indonesian, I thought, wrapping up with addresses in Bali and Singapore, but Aoki shows Rawang at 1230-1300 after Indonesian until 1230. Then hit at *1258 by carrier, SAH and modulation from the RHC leapfrog of 15340 over 15370 until HCJB off at 1300*. Meanwhile, I found that RHC was modulating on 15340 but not 15370, just a carrier, until both were modulating after 1300. 11760, June 2 at 1348 tuneby, RHC is off tho it was on a few minutes earlier; cuts back on circa 1351. 9820, June 3 at 1402, RHC is just barely modulated, but unusually stronger than // 9550 which both stay on past 1300. 15340, June 3 at 1310 and 1358, RHC absent from here, but going strong on 15370; ditto June 4 at 1327. One major transmitter down? Maybe more frequencies missing at other dayparts. Tsk2, no 15310, 15400 leapfrogs 17580 & 17730, June 4 at 1348, RHC seems absent here too, but JBA carriers. Propagation unfavorable to `close` signals while East Turkestan, Spain are good on this band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Sports program in Spanish --- At 1320 [CDT = 1820 UT] I have a sports program on channel 2 in Spanish which I assume is still Tele Rebelde. There is a large TD in the lower right hand corner. Two male hosts with some sports action shown (Dave Pomeroy, Topeka, Kansas USA, 1828 UT June 1, WTFDA via DXLD) I hope I have my first ID for a Cuban station. At 1300 CDT following a program with music and action videos (sports) there was an ID on channel 2 for Tele Rebelde. Habana was also seen at one point Is this channel 2 from Havana? Some CCI with several audio mentions of Cuba and what appeared to be a promo for a sports program on Wednesday. This is only the second time I have positively seen Cuba here. But no ID the first time. I did see Cuban stations several times when I lived in Lexington, Kentucky back in 1969 and 1970. Earlier I had skip up to channel 5 but no IDs. Must have been from Mexico as there were commercials. Nothing above channel 2 at 1300. Any help about the Cuban station would be appreciated (Dave Pomeroy, Topeka, Kansas USA, davepomeroy @ sbcglobal.net 1811 UT June 1, ibid.) June 1, 2014 [CDT? = UT -5] 1300 CMBA-2 Tele-Rebelde Havana, Cuba 1530 XHGV-4 Las Lajas, VC TVMás 1600 XEZ-3 Querétaro, Querétaro, 5* network Brief signal on channel 5 at times. (Dave Pomeroy, Topeka, Kansas USA, ibid.) Without seeing any video captures or frames of the sports program you were viewing, I would assume you were seeing "LIGA MUNDIAL DE VOLY" (World Volleyball League), which is 4 hours of volleyball news and competition from around the world. Program is carried on Tele Rebelde, Santiago de Cuba, Sunday afternoons from 2 to 6 pm Eastern (Jim Thomas, Springfield, Missouri, ibid.) ** DIEGO GARCIA. 4319-USB, AFN noted with decent signal 0010 to 0019. (Bob Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, Florida, UT June 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 9800, June 1 at 0043, upbeat ME? music, fair signal, at first suspecting R. Farda, but HFCC shows CRI Spanish via Kashgar. A bit surprised that even this 500 kW, 269 degree signal would be making it transpolarly into Briggs Auditorium at NOC, Enid on the G8 portable with whip only. Not that I had to DX instead of paying attention to the dance performance, but had just quick-checked WOR on WRMI 9495, also penetrating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [and non]. BBC CONDEMNS ETHIOPIAN BROADCAST JAMMING Date: 30.05.2014 Liliane Landor, acting Director of the BBC World Service Group, has called on the Ethiopian authorities to stop jamming BBC broadcasts in the Middle East and North Africa. She joined directors from Deutsche Welle, France 24, and the US Broadcasting Board of Directors which oversees the Voice of America, in condemning the flagrant violation of the clearly established international procedures on operating satellite equipment. Liliane Landor said: “The BBC calls upon the Ethiopian authorities to end this interference. They are disrupting international news broadcasts for no apparent reason. This is a deliberate act of vandalism that tarnishes their reputation.” During the past week, BBC television and radio broadcasts on the Arabsat satellites have been affected by intentional uplink interference. Many international television broadcasts, including those from France 24 and Deutsche Welle, have been badly affected. The satellite operator Arabsat has reported that the interference has come from within Ethiopia. The interference is intensive and affects services on all three Arabsat satellites. Unlike previous instances of intentional interference, these events do not appear to be linked to any particular content or channel on these satellites. The interference is contrary to the international regulations that govern the use of radio frequency transmissions and the operation of satellite systems, and inhibits the ability of individuals to freely access media according to Article 19 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights (BBC Press Release via June ADXN via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA. ETIÓPIA, 7237.2, R. Etiópia, Geja Jawe, 1731-1748, 30/5, francês, texto, música; programa em língua local (?), às 1800; 33432, QRM adjacente até às 1800; modulação abafada, durante a emissão em francês (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7237.935, noted again as R Ethiopia variable at 1545 UT June 3, S=8 or -76dBm heard in Italy remote SDR unit. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, ibid.) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. BULGARIA, Frequency change of Dimtse Radio Erena in Oromo from May 23: 1700-1730 NF 11855 SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf, ex 11560. Video on May 23: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLGH-iGuJOM&feature=youtu.be (DX RE MIX NEWS #854 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 30, 2014, via WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. CLANDESTINE, 17850, Oromo Voice, May 28 *1600-1610, 25432-24432, Oromo, 1600 sign on with opening music, ID, Opening announce, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121, ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. 15050, R. Waves Int'l, F, 2130-2136*, 31/5, canções americanas, onde prodominou o chamado "c&w"; 25332 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. Hallo FRS Friends, Next Whit Sunday June 8th FRS-Holland will be on air with a regular Sunday evening broadcast. We start at 1552 UT / 17:52 CEST and 6 hours later close down will be at 2203 UT / 00:03 CEST. Frequencies will be 7700 kHz/39 metres as well as 9301 kHz/31 metres. [whilst 7700 is almost exactly 39 metres, 9301 is 32+ metres --- gh] Programmes will consist of the well known line up including FRS Magazine/PV, the German Show/Jan van Dijk, Dave Scott/Radio Waves, 1980s Show/Paul Graham & FRS Golden Show/Roger Davis. Previous reports will be verified as soon as possible --- don't worry!! On Sunday June 15th we will repeat the broadcast via the Internet: http://nednl.net:8000/frsh.m3u For mobile devices there is a 24 kbps mono stream: http://nednl.net:8000/frsh24.m3u Enjoy next Sunday's broadcast. 73s, the FRS team, a Balance between Music & Information joined to one Format. FRS-Holland POBox 2702 6049 ZG Herten The Netherlands e-mail: (via Rich D`Angelo, June 8, NASWA yg via DXLD) ** GERMANY. HLR Sunday/ Summer break of the MVBR programme HLR Sunday: 11-15 UTC, HLR on 9485 KHz MV Baltic Radio: Dear Listeners, The Programmes of MV Baltic Radio will be taking a Summer break between the period of June to August, and will return to the air on the 7th of September 2014 at there normal time slot. The relays via MV Baltic Radio in Göhren will continue as normal. MV Baltic Radio: Das Programm von MV Baltic Radio macht von Juni bis August 2014 eine Sommerpause. Am 7. September 2014 wird MV Baltic Radio dann wieder zur gewohnten Zeit on air sein. Die Relaysendungen für andere freie Radiostationen werden in dieser Zeit normal über die Sendestelle Göhren abgestrahlt. Good Listening! 73s (Tom Taylor via Mike Terry, May 31, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Presumably does not affect Hamburger Lokalradio (gh, DXLD) ** GERMANY. New transmission via MBR - Echo of Europe in English / French: 1830-1845 on 7315 NAU 125 kW / 230 deg to WeEu Tue/Fri. Video from May 23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiREzZ3IbIE&feature=youtu.be (DX RE MIX NEWS #854 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 30, 2014, via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Frequency change of Athmeeya Yatra He, Radio Gospel For Asia: 1530-1630 NF 15395 NAU 250 kW / 099 deg to SoAs vary Asian langs, ex 15215 to avoid Radio France Internationale in Russian till 1600. Video on May 30: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv1A4Op4N-k&feature=youtu.be (DX RE MIX NEWS #854 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 30, 2014, via DXLD) ** GERMANY [and non]. AUSTRIA/BULGARIA/FRANCE/GERMANY/MADAGASCAR MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH (formerly T-SYSTEMS - DTK) A-14 period (30/03/2014 - 25/10/2014) A-14 operational MBR schedule of May 14th, 2014. Times are in UTC. # changes, marked by wb. frq startstop ciraf loc pow azi day from to broad 5975 0400-0430 28SE ISS 100 95 1234567 200414-200414 AWR # 5975 0400-0430 28SE NAU 100 130 1234567 210414-251014 AWR # 9530 0300-0330 48 NAU 250 142 1234567 300314-251014 AWR 9610 1930-2000 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 300314-251014 AWR 9610 2000-2030 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 300314-251014 AWR 9790 0900-1000 28W NAU 100 180 1 300314-251014 AWR 9830 1600-1630 28SE NAU 100 133 1234567 300314-251014 AWR 11605 1900-2000 38E,39 NAU 250 130 1234567 300314-251014 AWR 11755 2030-2100 46SE,47W ISS 250 165 1234567 300314-251014 AWR 11830 2000-2030 46E,47W ISS 250 180 1234567 300314-251014 AWR 11840 1900-2000 37,38W NAU 100 215 1234567 300314-251014 AWR 11945 1900-1930 46W NAU 250 212 1234567 300314-251014 AWR 15140 0800-0830 37,38W ISS 100 170 1234567 200414-200414 AWR # 15140 0800-0830 37,38W NAU 100 205 1234567 210414-251014 AWR # 15155 1730-1800 48 NAU 250 140 1234567 300314-251014 AWR 15170 1730-1800 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 300314-251014 AWR 15205 1930-2000 46SE,47W NAU 250 180 1234567 300314-251014 AWR 15225 0500-0600 38E,39 NAU 250 130 1234567 300314-251014 AWR 15225 0700-0800 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 300314-251014 AWR 15225 0800-0830 37,38W NAU 250 210 1234567 300314-251014 AWR 15225 0830-0900 37,38W NAU 100 205 1234567 300314-251014 AWR 15265 1500-1530 41N NAU 250 90 1234567 300314-251014 AWR 15265 1530-1600 41N NAU 250 90 1234567 300314-251014 AWR 15670 1530-1600 41N ISS 250 75 12347 300314-251014 AWR 15670 1530-1600 41N ISS 250 75 56 300314-251014 AWR 17575 1630-1700 48 NAU 250 145 1234567 300314-251014 AWR 17810 1300-1330 42,43W NAU 250 70 23456 300314-251014 AWR 17810 1300-1330 42,43W NAU 250 70 17 300314-251014 AWR 17810 1330-1500 42,43W NAU 250 70 1234567 300314-251014 AWR 5930 2000-2015 39N NAU 250 120 1234567 300314-251014 BVB 5945 0700-0730 27,28N NAU 100 270 1 300314-251014 BVB 5945 0700-0745 27,28N NAU 100 270 7 300314-251014 BVB 5945 0730-0800 27,28N NAU 100 270 1 060414-060414 BVB # 6130 1800-1815 28,29 NAU 100 90 56 300314-251014 BVB 6130 1800-1830 28,29 NAU 100 90 3 300314-251014 BVB 6130 1800-1900 28,29 NAU 100 90 1 300314-251014 BVB 6130 1830-1845 28,29 NAU 100 90 7 300314-251014 BVB 7310 0300-0315 39S ISS 250 100 1234567 300314-251014 BVB 9430 1815-1830 39,40 MOS 300 ND 1 300314-251014 BVB 9515 2030-2045 46N,47NW,38W,37NAU 250 180 1234567 300314-251014 BVB 9550 0400-0430 39NE,40 ISS 100 92 127 200414-200414 BVB # 9550 0400-0430 39NE,40 NAU 100 110 127 210414-251014 BVB # 9550 0430-0445 39N ISS 125 98 17 200414-200414 BVB # 9550 0430-0445 39N NAU 125 120 17 210414-251014 BVB # 9550 0430-0450 39N NAU 125 120 23456 300314-251014 BVB 9635 1830-1915 39 SOF 100 126 1 300314-251014 BVB 9735 0500-0515 39,40 NAU 250 120 6 300314-251014 BVB 11655 0600-0615 46N,47NW,38W,37NAU 125 180 1234567 300314-251014 BVB 11855 1800-1830 39,40 NAU 100 105 6 300314-251014 BVB 11855 1800-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 5 300314-251014 BVB 11855 1815-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 1 300314-251014 BVB 11855 1830-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 3 300314-251014 BVB 13580 1700-1715 39,40 NAU 250 130 2356 300314-251014 BVB 13580 1700-1730 39,40 NAU 250 130 4 300314-251014 BVB 13580 1715-1730 39,40 NAU 250 130 7 300314-251014 BVB 13810 1700-1715 38E,39,40W ISS 100 120 5 300314-251014 BVB 13810 1700-1715 38E,39,40W NAU 100 125 17 300314-251014 BVB 13810 1700-1745 38E,39,40W ISS 100 120 3 300314-251014 BVB 13810 1700-1800 38E,39,40W ISS 100 120 246 300314-251014 BVB 15160 1630-1730 47,48 NAU 100 150 1234567 300314-251014 BVB 15215 1700-1715 39 MOS 100 115 6 300314-251014 BVB 15215 1700-1730 39 MOS 100 115 5 300314-251014 BVB 15215 1700-1900 39 MOS 100 115 17 300314-251014 BVB 15640 1500-1515 40,41 SOF 100 90 7 300314-251014 BVB 15640 1515-1545 40,41 SOF 100 90 7 300314-251014 BVB 15640 1515-1600 40,41 SOF 100 90 6 300314-251014 BVB 17495 1400-1430 41 ISS 250 83 7 300314-251014 BVB 17495 1430-1500 41 ISS 250 83 7 300314-251014 BVB 17515 1530-1800 38S,39S,47,48 ISS 100 135 6 020514-251014 BVB # 17515 1600-1630 38S,39S,47,48 ISS 100 135 1 300314-251014 BVB 17515 1600-1730 38S,39S,47,48 ISS 100 135 2 300314-251014 BVB 17515 1630-1700 38S,39S,47,48 ISS 250 135 1 300314-251014 BVB 17515 1630-1730 38S,39S,47,48 ISS 100 135 4 300314-251014 BVB 17515 1630-1830 38S,39S,47,48 ISS 100 135 3 300314-251014 BVB 17515 1630-1830 38S,39S,47,48 ISS 100 135 5 300314-251014 BVB 17515 1700-1730 38S,39S,47,48 ISS 100 135 7 300314-251014 BVB 17515 1700-1800 38S,39S,47,48 ISS 100 135 1 300314-251014 BVB 17515 1730-1830 38S,39S,47,48 ISS 250 135 7 300314-251014 BVB 17535 0830-1000 38,39 NAU 125 145 6 300314-251014 BVB 17535 0900-0915 38,39 NAU 125 145 7 300314-251014 BVB 21480 1100-1115 43S,44S MDC 125 45 345 300314-251014 BVB 21480 1100-1130 43S,44S MDC 125 45 67 300314-251014 BVB 21480 1115-1145 43S,44S MDC 125 45 1 300314-251014 BVB 9585 1800-1900 28E,29 NAU 100 90 7 300314-251014 CHW 6055 1030-1100 27,28 NAU 125 222 17 300314-251014 EMG 7315 1830-1845 27,28W,37N NAU 125 230 36 200514-251014 EOE % # 9520 0030-0130 40E,41NW NAU 250 100 1234567 300314-251014 GFA 9520 2330-0030 41NE,43S,49N NAU 250 85 1234567 300314-251014 GFA 15215 1530-1630 40E,41NW NAU 250 99 1234567 300314-251014 GFA # now on 15395 kHz since May 28 15350 1230-1500 41 NAU 250 89 1234567 300314-251014 GFA 15390 1330-1530 41NE,43S,49N NAU 250 85 1234567 300314-251014 GFA 13800 1530-1630 29S MOS 100 95 7 300314-251014 HCJ 6105 1600-1800 28E,29W NAU 250 75 1234567 300314-251014 IBB 7280 0030-0400 40 NAU 250 105 1234567 300314-251014 IBB 9645 1800-1830 47,48 ISS 250 160 1234567 300314-251014 IBB 9780 1700-1800 40E,41NW NAU 250 95 1234567 300314-251014 IBB 11875 0500-0530 46,47 NAU 250 195 1234567 300314-251014 IBB 11925 1800-1900 48 ISS 250 130 1234567 300314-251014 IBB 11925 1900-1930 48 ISS 250 130 23456 300314-251014 IBB 11995 1630-1700 47,48 NAU 250 150 23456 240414-251014 IBB # ex 11620 kHz since April 24 12005 1730-1800 48 ISS 250 130 23456 300314-251014 IBB 12005 1800-1900 48 ISS 250 130 1234567 300314-251014 IBB 12040 2030-2100 46,47 NAU 250 190 23456 300314-251014 IBB 13870 1630-1700 47,48 ISS 250 140 23456 300314-251014 IBB 13870 1800-1900 48 NAU 250 140 1234567 300314-251014 IBB 13870 1900-1930 48 NAU 250 140 23456 300314-251014 IBB 15255 1400-1500 30S ISS 250 90 1234567 300314-251014 IBB 15360 0400-0900 40E,41NW NAU 250 90 1234567 300314-251014 IBB 15460 1500-1600 30S NAU 250 85 1234567 300314-251014 IBB 15620 1500-1600 29SE NAU 250 90 1234567 300314-251014 IBB 15690 1600-1700 40 NAU 250 105 1234567 300314-251014 IBB 15720 1630-1700 46,47,52,53,57NISS 250 180 6 300314-251014 IBB 15720 1800-1830 52,53,57 ISS 250 180 23456 300314-251014 IBB 7330 1000-1100 27,28 MOS 100 283 1 300314-251014 JOY * 7330 1000-1100 27,28 MOS 100 283 1 200414-200414 JOY 3rd # 6025 0400-0500 27E,28 NAU 125 270 1 200414-200414 KBC & # 6045 0800-0900 27E,28 NAU 125 275 1 200414-200414 KBC & 6095 0800-1500 18SW,27,28W,37NNAU 100 240 17 300314-251014 KBC & 7375 0000-0200 2,3,4,6-10 NAU 125 300 1 010914-251014 KBC & # 9925 0000-0200 2,3,4,6-10 NAU 125 300 1 010514-300814 KBC & 9925 0400-0500 4,8,9 NAU 125 300 1 200414-200414 KBC & # 15315 1830-1900 46S,47SE ISS 500 180 1234567 300314-251014 LWF 6045 0900-1000 27E,28 NAU 100 270 1 300314-251014 MSM 5945 1100-1115 27,28 NAU 250 222 1 300314-251014 MWA 11695 1500-1530 29,30 ISS 250 60 7 300314-251014 MWF 13710 1100-1130 19-26 NAU 250 45 7 300314-251014 MWF 5985 0400-0430 11,12 YFR 100 222 1234567 300314-251014 NHK 11680 0300-0500 38,39,40 NAU 250 140 1234567 300314-251014 NHK 15445 1700-1900 38,39,40 NAU 250 140 1234567 300314-251014 NHK 17630 1600-1630 47E,48 ISS 500 130 37 300314-251014 OGM 9515 1930-2000 37,38 NAU 250 155 1 300314-251014 PAB 15205 1400-1430 41 ISS 100 90 1 300314-251014 PAB 15205 1415-1430 41 ISS 100 90 234567 300314-251014 PAB 15205 1430-1445 41 ISS 250 90 1 300314-251014 PAB 9610 0530-0600 46SE NAU 100 180 23456 300314-251014 RMI 13830 1700-1800 38E,39S,48 ISS 100 125 14 300314-251014 SBO 13810 1400-1600 28,29W,38E,39 NAU 100 130 23456 300314-251014 TOM 13810 1400-1600 28,29W,38E,39 ISS 100 120 17 300314-251014 TOM 6095 0800-1000 18SW,27,28W,37NNAU 100 230 246 300314-251014 TRS & 6105 0700-0720 27 NAU 100 285 1234567 300314-251014 TWR 7215 0830-0900 28 NAU 100 135 1234567 300314-251014 TWR 7320 1400-1428 28,29,30 NAU 100 65 1234567 300314-251014 TWR 9835 2300-2330 12,13,14,15,16 NAU 100 240 1234567 300314-251014 VZM 11920 2300-0045 12,13,14,15,16 NAU 100 240 1234567 300314-251014 VZM 15670 1630-1700 40 ISS 500 91 26 090514-251014 WRN * = 1st Sunday of the month Day 1 = Sunday ... Day 7 = Saturday List of Broadcasters which are using MEDIA BROADCAST technical equipment: AWR Adventist World Radio BVB High Adventure Gospel - Bible Voice Broadcasting CHW Christliche Wissenschaft EMG Evangelische Missionsgemeinden in Deutschland EOE Echo of Europe %) GFA Gospel for Asia HCJ Voice of the Andes, Sats only, 1530 UT Russian, 1600 UT Chechen IBB International Broadcasting Bureau, USA JOY Joystick, * 1st Sun KBC Mighty KBC Radio &) LWF Lutheran World Federation MSM ShortWave Rock 1st Sun, EMR 3rd and 4th Sun (wb.) MWA Missionswerk Arche MWF Missionswerk Friedensstimme, Gummersbach - Germany NHK Nippon Hoso Kyokai OGM NGO [RHU Radio Huriyo Xoriyo Ogaden] PAB Pan Am Broadcasting RMI Radio Miami International 9610 Hamada Radio International in Hausa to WeAF. SBO Sagalee Bilisummaa Oromoo, Voice of Oromo Liberation. TOM The Overcomer Ministry TRS Transport Radio Mon/Wed/Fri; KBC Mighty KBC Radio, Sat/Sun. TWR Trans World Radio VZM [HCJB transmissions, Spanish, German, Kulina, Portuguese] WRN World Radio Network, Radio Mehr Iranian, Mon/Fri only. %) Radio Echo of Europe 09 rue de Sebastopol B.P. 21531 31015 Toulouse Cedex 6 France website e-mail Toulouse - Redaction: +33.5.67.80.44.16 Bruxelles - Ligne directe en salle de presse: +32.2.237.46.25 Mobile: - +33.6.72.57.08.83 &) For reception reports please mail to: or write to: The Mighty KBC Argonstraat 6 6718 WT Ede The Netherlands, Europe Website: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Puetz MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH Order Management & Backoffice Erna-Scheffler-Strasse 1 D-51103 Cologne, Germany Please send your inquiries and reception reports to: E-Mail: Internet: ************************************* WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Postfach 1214 D-61282 Bad Homburg GERMANY Fax: +49 3221 2341432 E-Mail: Internet: http://www.wwdxc.de ************************************* (MBR - 14 May 2014, transformed by Michael Bethge, WWDXC, Germany, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 29 via wb, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GUAM. 9880, June 2 at 1211, piano concerto vs pointless Cuban pulse jamming at roughly equal level, then more classical piano, 1219 vocal music, 1220 announcement in Korean, so it`s KSDA which conveniently inserts a Korean hour between two CRI Burmese broadcasts on 9880 from Kunming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. NEW TELENGANA STATE FORMED IN INDIA ON JUNE 2, 2014 From June 2, 2014 Andhra Pradesh state will be divided into two states, viz. Telengana and Andhra Pradesh. Hyderabad city, capital of newly formed Telengana State of which I am a resident, will be the joint capital of 2 states for some years until new capital is found for Andhra Pradesh. The details of All India Radio stations in both the states with effect from that day is attached. Other useful links on the subject: http://www.rediff.com/news/report/telangana-to-be-indias-29th-state-on-june-2/20140304.htm New map: http://www.rediff.com/news/report/map-what-telangana-state-will-look-like/20130730.htm New logo: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/telangana-to-have-new-logo/1/364228.html Exclusive: Telangana to have unique logo : South, News -... The new state of Telangana is to have a logo that is unique. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, May 30, dx_india yg via DXLD) see KASHMIR ** INDIA. 9690, June 2 at 1349, S Asian vocal music, poor signal, but AIR GOS at 1330-1500 is finally unblocked by WRMI moving BS away (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) All India Radio Delhi (Khampur) Frequency change wef 4th June, 2014: 0130-0230 Nepali towards Nepal on 9800 kHz (ex 9810 kHz) 250 kW --- (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, June 2, dx_india via DXLD) ** INDIA [non]. FEBA Radio India has a number of broadcasts via the Trincomalee [SRI LANKA} relay station which are not listed in the HFCC or in the Aoki database, but they are included in the latest WRTH International schedule update (listed under UK as FEBA has its HQ in the UK). Confirmed on Monday 19 May via Globaltuners in Italy with English at 1330-1345 and Tamil 1345-1400 on 9720 kHz. ID was "Feba India" and a postal address in Bangalore was announced: No. 7 Commisariat Road, Bangalore 560025, India. The full schedule of FEBA-India Is as follows (transmitter sites tr=Trincomalee; ta=Tashkent [UZBEKISTAN]) 1330-1345 Mon English SAs 9720-tr 1330-1345 Tue/Thu/Fri Telugu SAs 9720-tr 1330-1345 Wed Tamil SAs 9720-tr 1330-1345 Sat Kuvi SAs 9720-tr 1330-1345 Sun Kannada SAs 9720-tr 1345-1400 Thu-Sat Malayalam SAs 9720-tr 1345-1400 Sun-Wed Tamil SAs 9720-tr 1400-1415 Sat English SAs 9720-tr 1430-1500 Daily Hindi SAs 9500-ta (Observations by Dave Kenny and Rumen Pankov during May; schedule via WRTH, Tony Rogers) June BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 4869.89v, RRI Wamena, 1217, June 4. Jakarta news, ending at 1225-26 with usual patriotic song “Bagimu Negeri” (For You Our Country). Both RRI Makassar (4749.95) and RRI Palangkaraya (3325) off the air today and 9680 totally blocked with jamming. 9525.88v, VOI. June 4 from 1000 to 1230 heard only open carrier; no audio at all (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA [non]. TRIAL OF DISASTER WARNING AND RELIEF BROADCASTS COINCIDES WITH ABU SUMMIT Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union ABU Weekly News Digest 30 May 2014 Twelve radio networks are taking part in a special trial of emergency warning systems using shortwave, to coincide with an ABU summit on climate change and disaster relief in Jakarta. The DRM consortium is providing special broadcasts for the trial on 5-6 June 2014. Mr Oldrich Cip, Chair of the international High Frequency Coordination Committee (HFCC), said South and East Asia was the largest disaster- prone region of the world, which was why the HFCC had decided to organise a trial of the International Radio for Disaster Relief project of co-ordinated shortwave broadcasting to disaster affected regions in cooperation with the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. Mr Cip said: “With only six per cent of people in low-income countries using the internet in 2011, the digital divide is still stark and access to low cost media technology is really the key.” He said the simplicity and reach of shortwave was important where other platforms such as satellite, FM or the Internet were unavailable because of high cost, geographical location, lack of infrastructure or due to restrictions or disasters. “Receivers are inexpensive and there are no access fees,” he said. “Shortwave radio is important for travellers and isolated people and it reaches across the Digital Divide to the most disadvantaged and marginalised societies.” The Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) consortium said the Emergency Warning Features of the DRM system would be demonstrated to show that shortwave broadcasting had a unique value for affected populations and that the existing framework of global shortwave coordination could be employed for disaster risk purposes. A special DRM radio program will explain the inbuilt emergency functionality of DRM and how alarm signals generated by authorities could override running programs and carry the emergency message instantly to large numbers of people. Consortium Chairman Ms Ruxandra Obreja said DRM was excited to have its first radio broadcast on the in-built emergency disaster functionality of DRM during an important event such as that in Jakarta. “During emergencies and times of crisis, most of the services fail,” she said. “Radio is the last line of communication and the obvious solution for bringing information to the people.” The IRDR trial will coincide with the ABU Media Summit on Climate Change, ICTs and Disaster Risk Reduction from 4-6 June in Jakarta, Indonesia (via Mike Terry, May 30, dxldyg via DXLD) But, but, isn`t DRM also on the ``wrong side of the Digital Divide``?? Apparently most of the special SW broadcasts will be on AM, but with a few half-hours presenting DRM --- in DRM? Perhaps they should also be broadcast in AM so everyone could hear them (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) International Radio for Disaster Relief shortwave trial --> DRM or AM or both? As I have suspected before this might be a DRM broadcast, at least some of the transmissions listed, read the following press release from http://www.abu.org.my/Latest_News-@-Trial_of_disaster_warning_and_relief_broadcasts_coincides_with_ABU_summit.aspx [same as above] 73 (Harald Kuhl, June 1, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) [Later:] Hi there DXers, for getting things right, I have asked the DRM-people regarding "their broadcast" during the Jakarta conference. The answer is: It will all be in AM. 73 (Harald Kuhl, ibid.) Viz.: Gesendet: Dienstag, 03. Juni 2014 um 12:12 Uhr Von: "Hilary Malicka" An: "'Harald Kuhl'" Cc: "projectoffice@drm.org" Betreff: RE: Presentation for Jakarta conference Dear Sir, The DRM programme is to form part of the BBC/Babcock Shortwave transmission (15650 kHz at 0300–0330, 0400–0430 and 0500– 0530 UT on both the 5th and 6th of June) It will *not* be broadcast in DRM. Information from HFCC: The Trial of International Radio for Disaster Relief on June 5th and 6th during the Jakarta ABU Media Summit is approaching quickly. The last updated version of the Trial programme is available in a presentation here: http://hfcc.org/doc/HFCC_RAD_2014-004-IRDR_Jakarta_Presentation.pdf Let me ask all organisations taking part in the Trial to check on the Trial programme schedule and ask for any changes or additions of the technical details that might be still needed. More details about the IRDR and about the Trial and its background are here: http://hfcc.org/humanitarian/irdrtrial.phtml The interest in the Trial created among participants indicates that it is real to set up a world-wide system of a voluntary, disaster relief shortwave radio with tools and services that are already in place. Publicity is needed to raise awareness in the world community about it - since the on-going cuts of shortwave installations might make this increasingly difficult. Kind regards, Hilary Malicka - Project Office Manager Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) C/o BBC Global News, 3rd Floor, Brock House 19 Langham Street, London W1A 1AA, UK +44 (0)20361 42310 Mobile: 07889 393837 e-mail: Hilary.Malicka@bbc.co.uk http://www.drm.org/ (via Harald Kuhl, Germany, June 3, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) The HFCC's International Radio for Disaster Relief project is still on track for a major test of international shortwave broadcasters. Twelve international broadcasters and shortwave transmission providers have accepted the invitation to the Trial. The HFCC states that the test will focus to CIRAF zone 54, Indonesia. The quality of reception of all Jakarta Trial programmes is continuously monitored at IBB Monitoring stations at Jakarta and Singapore. Monitoring checks are at 10 minute intervals and brief sound example is taken. Results will be made available to all participants. Shortwave listeners and DX- hobbyists have been invited to send in reception reports to stations or to the HFCC. Reception reports will be confirmed by special QSL cards. Updated schedule for June 5/6, during the Jakarta Trial: 0200-0230 21840 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg SEAs Radio Australia 0230-0530 15650 NAK 250 kW / 150 deg SEAs BBC World Service DRM mode? 0500-0530 21840 SMG 250 kW / 090 deg SEAs Vatican Radio 0530-0600 15650 TRM 250 kW / 120 deg SEAs Sri Lnka Broadcasting Corp. 0600-0630 15650 BOC 100 kW / 200 deg SEAs First Response Radio 0630-0700 15650 BOC 100 kW / 200 deg SEAs FEBC Manila 0730-0800 21840 MDC 250 kW / 085 deg SEAs Malagasy Global Business 0800-0830 15650 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg SEAs Voice of America, alt.tx UDO 0830-0900 15650 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs Radio Japan NHK World 0900-0930 15650 UDO 250 kW / 280 deg SEAs Voice of America, alt.tx PHT 1000-1030 15650 BGL 500 kW / 120 deg SEAs All India Radio 1030-1100 21840 BEI 250 kW / 215 deg SEAs China Radio International 1100-1130 15650 TWR 100 kW / 248 deg SEAs KTWR Agaña (DX RE MIX NEWS # 855 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov June 04, 2014, via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. John Oliver's cheeky net neutrality plea crashes FCC website The US Federal Communications Commission website reported technical difficulties because of heavy traffic this week hours after comedianJohn Oliver called on viewers to share their thoughts with the agency about what he called “cable company *uckery”... ..."It is embarrassing that Estonia has higher download speeds at lower prices than the USA."... http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/03/john-oliver-fcc-website-net-neutrality Sent from my iPhone (via Des Preston, DXLD) ** IRAN [and non]. 11760, May 31 at 0207, RHC has cut off way early, audiblizing another station in Spanish, good but fluttery signal, music theme and opening ``Entrevistas sobre la actualidad política``. One Sra. Rivera, I think from Spain, with opinions about the Siria conflict, refugees. Recheck at 0224, this one is off too. It`s IRIB, 500 kW, 274 degrees from Kamalabad at 0020-0220, for CIRAF Zones 11-15, which of course is a total collision with RHC on its #1 frequency, which however, is not on its own current schedule at all in the evenings: http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/estaticas/frecuencias Perhaps RHC is undecided whether to confront Iran or not, which often here is severely QRMing RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Mensaje de la Voz Exterior de la República Islámica de Irán: Queridos oyentes: Teniendo en cuentra la recepción de informes sobre las interferencias en la recepción de la frecuencia de 11760, por medio de la presente misiva rogamos a nuestros oyentes latinos, los que residen en América central y del sur que enviándonos grabaciones de nuestras emisiones en la frecuencia de 11760, nos ayuden en resolver las dificultades que se encuentran a la hora de recepción de esta misma señal. De antemano les agradecemos por su colaboración. Muy atentamente, La Voz Exterior de la RII (via Williams López, May 31 at 2:30 pm, CADENA DX FB via WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DXLD) ** IRAN [non]. GERMANY(non), Frequency change of Sedaye Radio-ye Mehr Iran from May 23: 1630-1700 NF 15670 ISS 500 kW / 091 deg to WeAs Farsi Mon/Fri, ex 15680 to avoid China Radio International in French. Video from May 23: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6FPMdelLVE&feature=youtu.be (DX RE MIX NEWS #854 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 30, 2014, via DXLD) ** ISRAEL. IBA EMPLOYEES PROTEST IN FRONT OF KNESSET Jerusalem Post June 2, 2014 Hundreds of Israel Broadcasting Authority employees were protesting in front of the Knesset against a bill that would close the network, Army Radio reported on Monday. Broadcasts over the past few hours have stopped due to the demonstrations. . . http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Israel-Broadcasting-Authority-employees-protest-in-front-of-Knesset-355113 (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ISRAEL RADIO GOES ON STRIKE FOLLOWING IBA WORKERS’ PROTEST DEMONSTRATION Strike called in the aftermath of protests in retaliation to government decision to dismantle the IBA. At the directive of the Engineers Union at the Israel Broadcasting Authority, all radio stations that are part of the Israel Radio network went on strike Monday indefinitely. The strike was called in the aftermath of a protest demonstration, where hundreds of IBA employees blocked access to the Knesset and the Finance Ministry in retaliation to a decision taken by the government and the Knesset to dismantle the IBA, fire close to 2,000 employees and open a pared down new public broadcasting entity in its stead. Source & more info at : http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Israel-Radio-goes-on-strike-following-IBA-workers-protest-demonstration-355149 -- (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, June 3, dx_sasia yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DXLD) ** JAPAN. 17585, May 29 at 0643, lively W&M talk in Japanese, poor signal. This is one of the special NHK frequencies put on the air for 24-hour service to Japanese residents in military Thailand, per schedule from S. Hasegawa, this one at 05-08 UT. For those who haven`t seen them in the DXLD yg, full sked is: 0900-1700 11815 1700-1900 7225 1900-2100 9560 2100-0100 13680 0100-0500 17810 0500-0800 17585 0800-0900 13650 Many of these were already in use, but extended to fill in gaps; presumably all direct from Yamata. I suspect these and other expanded broadcasts for Thailand from BBC and VOA will fade away as the Outside gets used to yet another period of military rule. BBC and VOA also have a lot to lose by pushing the issue, both with SW relay bases in Thailand (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) From May 23 Radio Japan NHK World started urgently special 24 hour transmissions in Japanese for Japanese residents in Thailand: 0800-0900 13650 YAM 300 kW / 240 deg to SEAs as scheduled in NHK A-14 0900-1500 11815 YAM 300 kW / 235 deg to SEAs as scheduled in NHK A-14 1500-1700 11815 YAM 300 kW / 235 deg to SEAs, additional transmissons 1700-1900 7225 YAM 300 kW / 235 deg to SEAs, additional transmissons 1900-2100 9560 YAM 300 kW / 235 deg to SEAs, additional transmissons 2100-2300 13680 YAM 300 kW / 235 deg to SEAs as scheduled in NHK A-14 2300-0100 13680 YAM 300 kW / 235 deg to SEAs, additional transmissons 0100-0200 17810 YAM 300 kW / 235 deg to SEAs, additional transmissons 0200-0500 17810 YAM 300 kW / 235 deg to SEAs as scheduled in NHK A-14 0500-0800 17585 YAM 300 kW / 235 deg to SEAs, additional transmissons (DX RE MIX NEWS #854 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 30, 2014, via DXLD) ** JORDAN [and non]. Esporadico --- Hola, continuano le aperture. Oggi ancora due canali audio 60750 kHz, Ch E3 Jordania e poi 56240 kHz, ch R1 Russia. Peccato non poter vedere il seganle video. Le portanti si vedono nel waterfall. Piccola domanda per i tecnici. Ma avendo un rx come l'Elad come fare a vedere il video?? Buona giornata 73 ("Girolla" Mauro Giroletti, 31 de Mayo, 2014 3:03 pm [MESZ?], playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DXLD) ** JORDAN. COMMUNITY RADIO TARGETS SYRIAN REFUGEES IN JORDAN | Text of report by VOA News.com website on 2 June Amman: The civil war in Syria has displaced more than nine million Syrians of which hundreds of thousands have fled to Jordan. A community radio station in Amman has begun addressing some of the needs of this growing refugee population. Midday at the Balad Community Radio station in Amman. Rose Nasad is hosting a programme called, "Syrians Among Us". The station is part of a non-profit group called Community Media Network. Founder Daoud Kuttab says, as refugee numbers grew, he realized Jordan was facing a major humanitarian crisis. "We wanted to do a programme that didn't deal with the politics of (Syrian President) Bashar al-Asad and the opposition. We just wanted a programme that dealt with the daily needs, humanitarian, social, educational, medical and so on," said Kuttab. The programmes feature reports by Syrians trained by the station. Videos are posted on a sister web site http://ammannet.net Kuttab says these have brought some previously unknown problems to the attention of Jordan's government and humanitarian officials. Balad Radio recently began programmes to counter a rise on local talk shows of angry callers accusing refugees of taking jobs, housing and services away from Jordanians. "We wanted to let the Syrians know that this is not the case of (with) us and that we respect their presence. And we want them to feel that this is a Jordanian-Syrian programme done for the Syrian population, empowering them and helping address their problems as long as they are in this difficult situation," said Kuttab. He says the turmoil across the Middle East has brought some new media freedoms. "Our hope is that things will not go back to the way they were before, that at least on the field of freedom-of-expression, community media, people are empowered, entitled to have a platform that they want to speak, to hear, to hold government accountable," he said. Balad Radio is one of a growing number of non-profit stations in Jordan. Kuttab says they are popular but face two main challenges: government controls and financial sustainability. Source: VOA News.com website, Washington D.C., in English 2 Jun 14 (via BBCM via DXLD) ** KASHMIR [and non]. INDIA. After 4 decades, AIR’s Yuv-Vani to go off air Srinagar, May 28: The Yuv-Vani Service (Voice of Youth) of All India Radio will not be aired from June 1 this year, officials said Wednesday. The Yuv-Vani service was launched in 21 July 1969 on 1017 kHz. The officials informed that the order issued by Director All India Radio noted that all the stations across India should stop its transmission by the beginning of next month. Director Radio Kashmir confirmed that they have received an order in this to stop its transmission. Yuv-Vani service of Radio Kashmir, Srinagar that is being transmitted on short wave particularly targets youth community and highlights its issues and problems. Source, credit & complete story at : http://www.risingkashmir.com/after-4-decades-airs-yuv-vani-to-go-off-air/ --- (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, May 29, dx_india yg via DXLD) WTFK? ** KOREA NORTH [non]. UZBEKISTAN, Frequency change of Voice of Martyrs from May 22: 1600-1730 NF 7525 TAC 100 kW / 065 deg to KRE Korean, ex 7510. Video from May 23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcVUAcJghJ4&feature=youtu.be Frequency change of Voice of Martyrs from May 29: 1600-1730 NF 7505 TAC 100 kW / 065 deg to KRE Korean, ex 7525. Videos on May 29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UImX0iJVag&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb-Zc8RWbOQ&feature=youtu.be (DX RE MIX NEWS #854 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 30, 2014, via DXLD) and second harmonix also change ** KOREA SOUTH. 6015, KBS Hanminjok Bangsong 1, 1142-1156, May 29. Very good reception; chatting in Korean till covered with white noise jamming at 1156. How good? Four minute audio at https://app.box.com/s/lip4hux3objwsfk4elvd 6135, Voice of Freedom (clandestine). May 29 - Frequency in the clear (no white noise jamming) from 1142 to 1158, but VOF was clearly off the air; at 1158 white noise jamming started on this still clear frequency. VOF heard along with white noise jamming cutting in and out at 1325; when VOF was clear of white noise jamming, could faintly make out the pulsating noise jamming for Shiokaze, but VOF much stronger; *1330 Shiokaze sign on with Thursday in English, mixing with VOF. Audio at https://app.box.com/s/qapn3htt9i2cg5sk6ozr (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. BULGARIA, Frequency changes KBS World Radio from May 23 plus video: 1900-2000 NF 5925 SOF 100 kW / 306 deg to WeEu German AM, ex 5885 1900-2000 NF 5940 SOF 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu German DRM, ex 5870 NOTE: In HFCC database frequencies are recorded back 5925 DRM, 5940 AM mode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmSjtZlzm0o&feature=youtu.be (DX RE MIX NEWS #854 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 30, 2014, via DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. CLANDESTINE, 11510, V. of Kurdistan, May 28 1334- 1401, 35333, Kurdish, Music and talk, ID at 1400 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121, ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 17550, May 31 at 2212, R. Kuwait, Arabic to C&W N America, good signal in drama mixed with some music; SSOB, better than 17850 Spain or 17860 Australia; after 2230 mostly music enjoyed past 2315 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LITENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT [and non]. 15540, June 3 at 2010, R. Kuwait with western pop music, even qualifying as the SSOB among stations outside North America. Tuning upward from 15000, 19m is empty! till I get to a very weak signal on 15515, I suppose Australia which starts at 2000. All the single-hop US stations are above 15540 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. RTM Klasik Nasional reactivated on 5964.72 kHz at 1235 tune in to 1358 UT masked in CRI-Korean on May 29. Poor signal and audio (S. Hasegawa, Japan, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) May 29 - Yes indeed, Sei-ichi, was very nice to be hearing Radio Klasik again today. Noted a fair signal at 1236 for their Isha call- to-prayer (the fifth prayer of the day and is the night time prayer), followed by Islamic program. Clearly RTM has replaced the defective “tetrode valve.” At both 1211 and 1224 found Traxx FM (7295) off the air today. All the other RTM stations on 6050 (Asyik FM), 9835 (Sarawak FM) and 11665 (Wai FM) doing well (Ron Howard, CA, ibid. WORLD OF RADIO 1724) 5964.697 kHz - RTM 0950 UT May 30, weak S=5 -96dBm in Australia (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Are in Litohoron again near the wire mesh using the metallic mesh as antenna! Using the PL380: 31/5, Sarawak 9835 has been heard from ca. 1500 to as late as 2320 with fair-good signal Also Wai on 11665 with good signal from 2330+ (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7295, Traxx FM via RTM, 1138, June 4. Exceptionally good reception; DJs with "Evening Buzz"; Father's Day contest; 1149 "You are now listening to Reflection" an Islamic program; pips and news. Audio - https://app.box.com/s/okkhijphvlm1qermskz9 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9835, Sarawak FM (via RTM-Kajang), 1432-1500+ 29 May. Dunno if today was first day back, but happy to have them on again; band interview, ML pop/rock, jingles, 1+1 pips and TC at 1500, "salaam aleikum, satu Malaysia, berita nasional R-T-M". AACI from CNR1-9845 v. VOA 11-15 (Dan Sheedy, Swami's Beach, CA PL380 "barefoot", WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) MALÁSIA, 9835, Sarawak FM via RTM, Kajang, 1014-desvan. total 1145, 02/6, malaio, canções, cânticos corânicos precedendo as 1100 h, seguindo-se-lhes o noticiário; 25433 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, R. EDUCACIÓN [pretendida], 30/05 0217 UT. Música con audio bajo, tal como lo reportó Maurits Van Driessche a la lista HCDX desde Bélgica a las 0145. SINPO: 33333, con heterodino de otra emisora que posiblemente sea R. Vaticana desde Santa María di Galería y que permanece hasta las 0231 con portadora. Desde las 0232 y especialmente desde las 0235, R. Educación con SINPO: 35343, aún con bajo audio (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo 30 metros, QTH: Ovalle centro, IV región, Chile, Condiglista yg via DXLD) ** MEXICO. After an hour of fitful hints of video on channel 2, Es opens up at 1548 UT May 29: 1548 on 2, multiple CCI from different offsets to the southwest, but best signal from WSW: studio talk show, with 14 day countdown to Mundial at the bottom. Azteca-7 bug barely visible in upper right. From direxion and network, expected to be XHENT Ensenada BCN; 1555 ad for Vertigo with circle-V commercial logo briefly in upper right instead. Then I make out the slogan along with the Mundial countdown: AZTECARIOCA ---- get it? Tiny white lettering appears quickly in the upper left along the letterbox black strip, missed ID? Maybe not. 1556 Mexico`s equivalent of Amber Alert, missing child notice [as PSA but not interrupting programming], but around the DF, I think, not BC. Back to program, title behind the anchor something like ALGUIEN RESPONDE. 1558 finally I can make out the XHENT CANAL 2 / ENSENADA BC two-line ID bug in the UR. This signal is never as strong, snow-free as XHBC: 1557 on 3, XHBC Mexicali has faded in, W&W conversation mentions Mexicali right away; heavy ghosting, but peaks snow-free. This is always stronger than XHENT-2. 1600 in studio dancer-sizing segment, guys leading gals. 1602 full-screen grafik: HOLA MEXICALI. 1559 on 5, Azteca-13 bug in UR, so evidence that XHAQ Mexicali is still on analog 5, the MUF reaching it today; peaks snow-free too. 1603 program bug in LL is VENGA ALEGRIA in circle, non-local out of the DF no doubt, but below that is a PDT clock as 09:03. Take some pix at 1605, linx to be added later if worthy. With the TV MUF up to 82 MHz, FM should be possible. Finding that the W9WI.com page for BC FM is empty, I look up in Cantú the FM frequencies for Ensenada: 89.1, 92.1, 92.9, 95.5, 97.9, 100.3, 101.1, 103.3, 106.9 and Mexicali: (88.7 = USA), 89.9, 90.7, 91.5, 92.3, 95.5, 96.9, 98.3, 101.9, 103.3, 104.1, 104.9, 105.5, 105.9, 106.7 Didn`t get Tijuana copied down but notice that some of them duplicate Mexicali! So beware. Anyhow, seems I won`t need them now as the FM DX turns out to be Alta Californian: see U S A. Meanwhile the MUF from XH-land is declining down to channel 2 CCI by 1700. Sporadic E MUF is barely poking above 55 MHz, May 30 from 1430 monitoring: weak video on channel 2 fades up at 1549, enough to see the Televisa net-4 `f` bug in the LR; at 1625 once again, and now there may be a Grupo Pacífico oval circle-italic 2 bug in the UR, but just a glimpse before gone again. If so, that would be Sinaloa or Sonora. [and non]. Sporadic E opening underway at tune-in to channel 2, June 1 at 2139 UT; peaks more to the SSE than SSW, so maybe XHY-TV Mérida, Yucatán is in the CCI mix. Main show is a movie with sombreros and violins. XHY has an easily accessible webcast via SIPSE, but I find no match. I do find, however, that since last summer, XHY has changed from Televisa: local as in W9WI.com, to ``Gala TV Mérida``, i.e. the Televisa-9 network, but presumably with some local programming too. They have another webcast linked for XHCCU in Chetumal QR (which is channel 13, so never mind). By 2150, the dominant show I am seeing on 2 is about OVNIs = UFOs, ``Tercer Milenio``. 2155 an unknown bug in UR; 2157 fade-out, 2202 algo fades back in. 2148 on 2, another fade-in; now it`s a drama on Televisa-7, net bug UR 2252 on 2, now a talk show with Televisa-2 star net bug in LR 2259 on 4, something with loud Spanish audio, video without CCI; discussing theatre, film; show logo is CONTRA CAMPO. Googling that finds it belongs to the Foro network (Televisa-4) and last week was about Cannes 2323 on 2, large font on screen very briefly in two lines: NICA RAGUA, in and out. Of course, I would love this to be Managua on double-hop, but not much to go on, as a Mexican could have done that in connexion with the Mundial or something. Couldn`t get a webcast to work. UT June 2, resuming monitoring: 0106 on 2, f bug in LR = Foro TV, Televisa-4 net; also at 0129 0129 on 4, loud audio again, maybe same station as before, ads; 0131 for BUD LIGHT HOY 0132 on 4, Televisa-5 net bug LR; things are so volatile, can`t be sure the 0129 and 0132 notes are from same station 0152 on 3 and 5, algo on these two channels, mostly vacant earlier 0203 on 2, heavy CCI here 0225 on 2, good video, but audio JBA, defect? Interview; bug in lower left in a circle, probably for program rather than station/network 0227 on 3, action drama, Televisa-5 bug in LR 0318 on 2, f bug in LR = Televisa-4 0400 on 2, still CCI from Es, but lightning storm is approaching here June 2 at 2035 UT tune-in, another Es opening, with CCI on 2 in Spanish southward; 2042 make out Azteca-13 bug in UR, and some video on 3, but nothing further develops (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Mexican TV & FM Information Check out this link on the WTFDA Forums... http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?8881-A-possible-answer-to-how-unofficial-stations-are-treated-by-IFT&p=30304#post30304 There you will also find a link to a forum for Mexican TV and FM Dxers (Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT USA, June 2, WTFDA via DXLD) viz.: A possible answer to how unofficial stations are treated by IFT? Hi! My name's Raymie. I'm not a DXer, though I've always had an interest in reading about DX (for more than a decade). The reason I'm here on WTFDA is because I also have studied Spanish for the last seven years. When it comes to reading, I am basically fluent at this point. Given that so many DXers have turned their antennas south to catch stations in Mexico, Cuba and the rest of Latin America, I have noticed a critical need for more Spanish speakers to help interpret DX material, things like IFT press releases, etc. (So I'm here.) Last night, as I was doing research to write a Wikipedia article, I stumbled across a forum http://www.network54.com/Forum/741612/ on a website that had a lot of northern Mexican DXers on it. (Reading through some of the threads, they got Texas stations at 800+ km out of Monterrey and Reynosa.) In one particular thread from last month, http://www.network54.com/Forum/741612/thread/1398220368/last-1398388010/IFT+Actualiza+la+lista+de+la+Infraestructura+de+televisi%C3%B3n about the IFT updating their list of TV stations, someone commented: "...Hi, Mc.Art [poster], the TV Azteca channels from Cerro de Gorospe are missing, Azteca 7 on physical channel 13 and Azteca 13 on physical channel 5. They're not on the IFT list but they're in the state of Puebla, 30 minutes outside of Puebla toward Xalapa on the old highway." Mc.Art responded: "Surely those channels are mentioned are so-called "complementary" (shadow zone) channels, and those are not included on the list. It could also be an error, because those do happen." In our parlance these stations are probably "unofficial stations". But it seems that they're considered to be "complementary" stations and fill gaps in a station's coverage caused by terrain/mountains. There's another reference to a "shadow channel" There are other really interesting threads in there, talking about such topics as DXing out of Monterrey and Veracruz and one about Profeco (the Mexican consumer watchdog) telling consumers to watch out for DTV equipment that can't handle A/72 (MPEG-4). (Raymie, Arizona, June 1, WTFDA forum via DXLD) Mexico's television landscape is really looking exciting now, and pretty much every important recent/future development has to do in some way with DTV. For instance, there's OPMA, a government agency formed in 2010 that has 16 transmitters on the air plus 10 more going on the air soon and probably others to come (many are digital-only, but two, XHOPOA-2 Oaxaca and XHOPME-5 Mérida, make for interesting E- skip targets for now; I believe they are repeating Canal Once, XEIPN on analog). All the digital transmitters make heavy use of multicasting to extend the reach of the public television stations on 11 (XEIPN), 20 (XHUNAM) and 22 (XEIMT) in Mexico City, as well as their own new public network and an educational service from another branch of the government. (Not so coincidentally all cable companies now must carry said five channels.) In Mexico City itself two new public stations went on the air recently: XHCDM-21, which is owned and operated by the government of Mexico City, and XHHCU-45, which is the first OTA transmitter for Mexico's version of C-SPAN. Then there's the whole "we're licensing out frequencies for two new TV networks" thing, and the winners will be announced on that case in March 2015. 246 new transmitters in 123 locations, all UHF and (of course) digital-only. Not to mention that Televisa and Azteca are finally building out many of their digital facilities across Mexico (Raymie, Arizona, June 2, WTFDA forum via WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DXLD) Raymie, don't take offense; but Mexico TV DX will just about come to an end when the analog TVs go off. As Mexico will not use the low-band (channels 2-6), US DXers will no longer receive Mexico via Es. Mike, Pat, and a few other DXers near Mexico and on the Gulf (where tropo is extraordinary) will receive some tropo from Mexico. DX reception from the interior of Mexico will be impossible for any DXer in the US via tropo. I'm not sure what I will do, but DTV tropo from Mexico will not likely be enough to keep me interested in TV DX from Mexico (Danny Oglethorpe, Shreveport, LA, Mexico/Latin America TV DX ID Tips http://www.tvdxtips.com Submit and read DTV Stats http://www.tvdxexpo.com/dtvdxrecords.html TV and DTV DX Photographs http://www.tvdxexpo.com My Photographs of 100 Mexico TV DX Local IDs http://www.tvdxexpo.com/100mexicotvids.html More than 1,100 TV logs since 1994, ibid.) ** MONGOLIA. MONGÓLIA, 12085, Voz da Mongólia, Khonkhor, 1009-1059*, 02/6, mandarim, canções; programa em japonês, às 1030, texto e música; 35433. Às 1100, a freq. foi ocupada pela R. Austrália (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 5985.00, Myanmar Radio. Still with the newer transmitter and fair reception; has to be one of the longest stretches using the exact frequency tx, as of June 4. So the older off frequency tx must really be down. 9730.0, Myanmar Radio at 1105 on Wednesday, June 4 with the start of the ABC/Radio Australia's "Lesson 22 - Dealing with a Situation"; a repeat of the show I heard two weeks ago (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. GERMANY, Updated summer A-14 schedule of Transport Radio in Dutch 0800-1000 6095 NAU 100 kW / 230 deg to WeEu Mon/Wed/Fri, ex Mon-Fri 0800-1100 6095 NAU 100 kW / 230 deg to WeEu Tue/Thu is not active!! (DX RE MIX NEWS #854 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 30, 2014, via DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, RNZI, Rangitaiki. English on 23/5 Friday, till 2031 Dateline Pacific, from 2031 Spectrum. By the way in different lists of DX px is shown that on alt Fridays there is Mailbox program but I think it is not true (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi 16 meters antenna), June Australian DX News via DXLD) Haven`t confirmed it myself, but the program schedule in NZ time, for Saturday morning shows: ``8:35 AM Mailbox alternates with Spectrum Mailbox is for the short-wave listener enthusiast, featuring DX reviews, solar weather and occasional reports on digital radio. Spectrum is a long-running documentary series which captures the essence of New Zealand through stories, landscape and people.`` So during DST of UT +13 that would be 1935 UT Fridays, when Spectrum should also appear alternately. Now that needs to be confirmed, still on 11725 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. Observations of Voice of Nigeria on Sat May 24 with 13 videos. Low modulation, different languages, instead of scheduled and much more: 0500-0700 on 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf English 0700-0800 on 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf French 1600-1630 on 11770 IKO 250 kW / 248 deg to CeAf Swahili 1630-1700 on 9690 IKO 250 kW / 248 deg to CeAf Yoruba 1700-1730 on 9690 IKO 250 kW / 248 deg to CeAf Igbo 1730-1800 on 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf Arabic Videos from 0700, 1620 and 1645 UTC and other 10 videos may found here http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/05/observations-of-voice-of-nigeria-on-sat.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #854 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 30, 2014, via DXLD) Another sample clip of a Voice of Nigeria DRM broadcast. This clip is the closing of the Voice of Nigeria's ’60 Minutes’ news magazine show followed by a brief sign-off announcement Voice of Nigeria DRM, 1958:30-1959:15 UTC, 2 June 2014, 15,120 kHz http://swldx.us/blog/?p=1028 (Brandon Jordan, Fayette County, TN, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6771.6 approx., June 3 at 0056 checking for nameless pirate (?) playing old time radio shows, per numerous reports from further east. At first nothing, but fade in briefly with some jazz, out again. Chris Smolinski of hfunderground and Ed Insinger in NJ say it seems to be running 24/7 with music in the daytime and ``Feature Story News`` on the hour. Such scheduling is atypical of pirates (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Hi Glenn, I am intrigued by the station operating on 6773 kHz the past week. Last evening, 1 June 2014, I listened to "Feature Story News" at 2200 with a very readable signal. What is interesting is the continuous operation of the station, which doesn't fit the "pirate" station pattern. The HF Underground has mention that it may be a station in the Netherlands broadcasting to Ukraine, but I doubt very much that this would be heard here so well. I will continue to check out the station, since I enjoy the "Golden Age of Radio" format. 73's, (Ed Insinger, Summit, NJ, June 2, WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, 6771 is still running, it seems to be on 24/7. It plays EZ listening (for lack of a better word) music during the daytime, then switches over to old time radio shows in the evening. Today it switched just after 2100z, which seems to be earlier than usual. News is run at every TOH from "Feature Story News", which seems to be this outfit: http://featurestorynews.com/ I have the signal in some form at all hours here, although during the morning the signal often drops to just a carrier, with some brief snippets of audio. It is S8 as I type this at 2118z (Chris Smolinski, HFUnderground, http://www.hfunderground.com 2125 UT June 2, WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, May 31 at 0128, fair signal, hard rock from the only pirate on the band; 0130 ID as ``X L R 8 --- Accelerate!``. But it stays on the same frequency in kilocycles per second. If it were drifting upward it would be accelerating in units of kilocycles per second per second (or kHz/sec). Off at 0151 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6950-AM, June 3 at 0055, music with big wow on it artificially imposed; 0116 talking about designing QSLs with pictures, SINPO 25232; 0118 sweep tone and swing(?) music; 0129 mentions `Grass Cutter Sunshine Show` (?), how he is not into techno-music; 0130 suggests making one or two generic e-QSL cards. ``Let us know if that`s OK`` - MACshortwaveradio@gmail.com ``Nothing personal`` if QSL response is slow (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 7515v-AM, "Radio Station YHWH" (religious pirate), tune in at 0325, June 4. Usual anti- Christian/Catholic/gay/Islam/Mormon/Buddha and pro-Jewish diatribe; fair; at 0356 dropped to 7514.9; today with abbreviated show, as he started his usual ending segment by explaining the 10 commandments, but instead cut to his ending strange theme music/song and ID; 0404*. The way he constantly (daily) changes frequencies, seems he is not interested in establishing a regular SW listening audience! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1520, KOKC, OK, Oklahoma City – Granted STA with U2 20000/20000, transmitter/tower issues (AM Switch, NRC DX News June 9 via WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DXLD) That explains why it has sounded rather weak lately (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** OKLAHOMA. 1640, May 30 from 0538 past 0541 UT, open carrier/hummy dead air from KZLS. 1640, June 2 at 0604 UT, KZLS is in open carrier, dead air except for constant hum; still so at 0631 UT. Maybe STL knocked out by storm. Too much noise to pull anything else thru it, but would likely be WTNI/KBJA. So if you hear nothing on 1640, it could be KZLS (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. After a T-storm wave passed thru Enid, we find three adjacent FM frequencies with open carrier/dead air on the PL- 880: lost power and/or STL somewhere along the line, or is it just a Monday morning pause, as the transmitters are kilowatting: 88.9, K205FW, Enid, the Oasis Network 250-watt translator, its new callsign per WTFDA database while FCC FM Query still shows it as K206CA which could only apply to is former frequency 89.1. 89.1, presumably KMUW Wichita KS, the usual signal audible here with the translator moved, or possibly KYCU Clinton OK 89.3, presumably KIEL Loyal OK. These three still exhibit dead carriers at final check 0625 UT. Meanwhile more much-needed rain to come overnight totalling 3.5 inches here (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 51, May 29 at 1433 UT check, NO signal any more from KSBI-TV OKC, so the transition to RF 23 is complete for ``Channel 52``. I believe it was still on both RF channels yesterday when I checked, or certainly ante-yesterday. One is hard-pressed to find *anything* on their website http://www.ksbitv.com about their true RF channel, now 23; who cares? It does still say at the top, ``Digital Antenna Scan for CH 52``! Internal site search simply on the number 23 gets 3058 hits, presumably totally spurious, but including a lot of videos, perhaps with those numbers embedded anywhere in the URLs (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. Re 14-22: > PBC DIKhan Station > Apart from this, she said, the PBC DIKhan Station is also being further developed and modernized, Probably? To increase the PAK_Dera Ismail Khan 711 kHz 100 kW; ??1404 kHz 10 kW 31 48'56.84"N 70 53'42.10"E station?? or rather Multan area installation? PAK_Multan 1035 kHz 120 kW 30 05'22.04"N 71 29'30.04"E WRTH mentioned item Dera Ismail Khan as true on 711 kHz 100 kW installation in 2013 http://www.radio-asia.org/am/fm.php?itu=Pakistan®ion=kpk in http://www.mwlist.org/news-from-mwlist.php item under Pakistan. New frequency for PBC Radio Pakistan: 711 kHz from Dera Ismail Khan (kpk) (70e51/31n50) with 100 kW. Additional information: new tx installed in 2013. 2014-01-15 15:01 PAK_Dera Ismail Khan 711 kHz 100 kW; ??1404 kHz 10 kW new taller mast erected between May 2011 and Febr 2013 according G.E. images. 31 49'38.04"N 70 50'55.80"E https://www.google.com/maps?q=31%C2%B049'38.04%22N++70%C2%B050'55.80%22E&hl=de&ie=UTF8«=31.827235,70.848835&spn=0.005697,0.010332&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.307813,84.638672&t=h&z=17 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PAKISTAN, 1260, PBC Peshawar, new 400 kW NEC mediumwave transmitter. Radio Pakistan Peshawar is entering into age of digitization on Monday, May 26, 2014, with the inauguration of a 400 kilowatt new MW transmitter at its Chugalpura* transmitter station. More at: (Alokesh Gupta-IND, DX_So_Asia May 29) Older Peshawar Chugalpura transmitter station in downtown city area, - which allows also Digitization mode -, probably DRM modulation mode. PAK_Peshawar Chughalpura former SW site? MW former 729 kHz 100 kW, now 1260 kHz 400 kW NEC Japan unit. 2-MW masts til 2011 year, now a single mast visible in G.E. on 10 March 2013 image, located at/near highway #5 34 00 54.85 N 71 37 07.73 E more most modern MW installation site at PAK_25 km east of Peshawar, 3 kms east Pabbi village, 540 / 1170 /1377 kHz 300 / 100 / 10 kW 34 00 22.86 N 71 50 03.76 E (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 29, via dx_sasia yg via DXLD) ** PERU. 4955, R. Cultural Amauta, Huanta, 2250-2300, 01/6, quíchua, texto; 35332 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4955.023, Radio Cultura[l] Amauta, 0015-0030 June 3, Noted a couple of gentlemen in Spanish conversation until 0018 when a single male starts a long discourse of Spanish. This is followed with a female in long Spanish comments. This morphs into a crowd joining into either a religious or political program of tirades comments. Signal was fair during this period (Chuck Bolland, Excalibur, 26N 081W Clewiston FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4985.5, Perú, Radio Voz Cristiana, Huancayo, 0005 om in Spanish, usb to avoid the rtty on 4985. 73 (Bob Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, Florida, UT June 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, R. CHASKI, 30/05 0042 UT. Programa `El amor que vale` con buena modulación. SINPO: 45343 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo 30 metros, QTH: Ovalle centro, IV región, Chile, Condiglista yg via DXLD) 5980.02 approx., May 30 at 0108, R. Chaski slightly on the hi side (like half a click on the DX-398 40-Hz steps), vs Cuban pulse jamming, until chopoff at 0112:40.5* which is 11 seconds later than 48 hours ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, R. CHASKI, 31/5 0105 UT. ID de la emisora, devocional, música instrumental, avisos de la emisora y música hasta su cierre. SINPO: 55444 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun Pl-660, Ant: hilo 40 mts., Qth: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile, Condiglista yg via dXLD) which was at: 5980, May 31 at 0112, R. Chaski carrier barely audible thru totally uncalled-for pulse jamming by Cuba, until cutoff at 0112:46* which is 5.5 seconds later than yesterday. [and non]. 5980, June 3 at 0058, JBA carrier again vs Cuban pulse jamming surely not intended for R. Chaski but such are the risks of ever using a R. Martí frequency. Cuts off at 0113:04*, which is 18 seconds later than last check two sesquidays ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PORTUGAL. 88.1, Rádio Comercial, Monchique, 10 kW at 1039 miles. E- Skip. Pop music in Portuguese at 1645. Six minutes of commercials (so the name makes sense) at 1648, into an English R&B tune. RDS readout says “COMRCIAL”. Perfect stereo and still going past 1700, 03 June. Indoor rabbit ears and a Fun Cube Dongle Pro + (Brock Whaley, Ireland, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 11945, May 31 at 0205, RRI in Spanish, an echo apart from much stronger // 11955, so must be from the two different sites and azimuths: HFCC shows 11945 is 245 degrees from Galbeni, and 11955 is 307 from Tiganeshti. Also on 9645 at 0218 with RRI ID and lite het from R. Bandeirantes; 9645 is not synchro with 11945, so must also be Tiganeshti: yes, and also 307 degrees. RRI music is great, whatever the language service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. RUSSIA WILL RETURN TO SHORTWAVE IN 2016, MILITARILY [gh translated this on the fly for WORLD OF RADIO 1724] http://radionoticias.com/noticias/rusia-volvera-onda-corta-en-2016-27052014.html#.U4zCh-NXRfc.facebook Rusia volverá a la onda corta en 2016 El Consejo de Seguridad aprueba la formación de un organismo que se encargará de la radio pública, incluida La Voz de Rusia, sometido a control militar y dependiente del Ministerio de Defensa. Martes, 27 Mayo, 2014 10:46, POR PABLO A. MONTES El Consejo de Seguridad de Rusia ha decidido la creación de un nuevo organismo, RAMS, en el que quedarán encuadradas Radio Rusia y La Voz de Rusia. Su objetivo es recuperar la difusión radiofónica en ondas larga, media y corta que hace tan solo unos meses fue suprimida debido a recortes presupuestarios. RAMS estará en funcionamiento en 2016 y será administrado por el Ministerio de Defensa. En los últimos meses las emisiones de radios extranjeras en el país han sido suprimidas, al igual que las propias en determinadas longitudes de onda. Primero fue Radio Mayak: de onda larga, le siguió Radio Rusia en ondas media y larga, y finalmente La Voz de Rusia hacia el exterior en onda corta: cuyos transmisores únicamente emiten programas de radios de otros países en virtud de acuerdos previos. En resumen, la radio pública rusa ha sido prácticamente abandonada por el Gobierno y ha dejado de sintonizarse en la mayor parte del territorio. La falta de medios económicos condenó a RTRS, ente de radio televisión pública, a suprimir los servicios radiofónicos, llegando a cerrar en 2013 40 emisoras. El periodo de inactividad de algunos centros transmisores tendrá otras consecuencias: debido a las características técnicas de algunos equipos, especialmente los que llevan varios inviernos sin funcionar, probablemente deban ?ser sustituidos por otros nuevos ya que podrían haber quedado inoperativos. Los militares quieren controlar la radio Las autoridades rusas han llegado a la conclusión de que una radio de gran alcance, además del servicio civil de difusión de programas por todo el país, podría cumplir otra serie de tareas específicas en grandes áreas, entre las que se citan los avisos de emergencias y «de peligros en tiempos de guerra», al margen de considerarla conveniente para la «guerra electrónica». Los militares siempre han expresado su interés en mantener una radio potente en Rusia, aunque hasta ahora no habían tenido el control de la misma. El Consejo de Seguridad ha establecido que las estaciones de radio públicas del RTRS recibirán una inyección económica de unos 3 billones de rublos en 2016 para la recuperación de la radiodifusión, especialmente de Radio Rusia en transmisiones internas y de La Voz de Rusia hacia el extranjero. La empresa deberá rendir cuentas al Ministerio de Defensa y será financiada con cargo al presupuesto federal. Igor Stepanov, portavoz del RTRS, señaló con optimismo que «cualquier decisión que conlleve una difusión de gran alcance es relevante». Además de la vuelta a las ondas, se llevará a cabo una modernización del sistema de radio y de las infraestructuras y se crearán las condiciones para la «optimización de las comunicaciones por radio y la radiodifusión, los sistemas de alerta y la seguridad de la información». Los especialistas, sin embargo, han advertido de que las fuerzas de seguridad, que pasarán a controlar la radio, deberán ponerse al día en las características de este medio ya que «no tienen experiencia previa con equipos similares» (via Horacio Nigro Geolkiewsky, Montevideo, Uruguay, June 2, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DXLD) ** RWANDA. 17800, June 4 at 0616, DW relay is VG in the summer nightmiddle, English discussion of TB in Africa; // weaker 15700, and an echo apart altho both are Kigali, 295 and 280 degrees respectively, per Aoki, which also shows both are *jammed by China (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RWANDA [non]. QSL Update: Radio Impala via transmitters in Madagascar sent an e-QSL which verified reception on March 17, 2014 on 17540 kHz. Verie sender was Aloys, and the e-mail came from radiyoimpala@gmail.com (Bob Brossell Pewaukee, WI, JRC NRD-545 (Godar DXR-1000 antenna); Eton E1; Sony ICF SW77, NASWA Flashsheet June 1 via DXLD) ** SARAWAK [non]. Hi Glenn, a little more info concerning the migratory habits of RFS. 15410, (Tamsui District, TAIWAN [sic]) 1119- 1130*, 15430 *1130-1200*, 15420 *1200-1206+ 28 May. Bouncing around a bit today; weak/clear on '410, '430 with no jamming until 1159-1200* when RFS moved to 15430 and the jammer followed. Also noted same sked on 29 May, with weak ACI from unID after 1117 (AIR-Panaji 1115-1200 possible), and intermittent jamming on 15430/15420 (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA G5/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TAIWAN [sic] Observations of Radio Free Sarawak by Sei-ichi Hasegawa, Japan: 1100-1130 15410*TNN 100 kW / 208 deg SEAs Iban Mon-Sat May 27-30 1130-1200 15430 TNN 100 kW / 208 deg SEAs Iban Mon-Sat May 27-30 1200-1230 15420 TNN 100 kW / 208 deg SEAs Iban Mon-Sat May 27-30 1100-1145 15420 TNN 100 kW / 208 deg SEAs Iban Mon-Sat May 22-24/26 1145-1230 15430 TNN 100 kW / 208 deg SEAs Iban Mon-Sat May 22-24/26 1100-1145 15430 TNN 100 kW / 208 deg SEAs Iban Mon-Sat May 20 1145-1230 15420 TNN 100 kW / 208 deg SEAs Iban Mon-Sat May 20 1100-1230 15460 TNN 100 kW / 208 deg SEAs Iban Mon-Sat Apr.28-May 19 1100-1200 15430 UNIDentified tx site SEAs Iban May 17 not // on 15460 1100-1230 15420 TNN 100 kW / 208 deg SEAs Iban Mon-Sat Apr.24 1100-1230 15430 TNN 100 kW / 208 deg SEAs Iban Mon-Sat Apr.19 1100-1230 15420 TNN 100 kW / 208 deg SEAs Iban Mon-Sat Apr.18 * co-ch All India Radio in Thai from 1115 (DX RE MIX NEWS #854 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 30, 2014, via WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DXLD) ** SARAWAK [non log]. Radio Free Sarawak not heard at all on June 4, but had an UNID station on 15420 (often used by RFS) with good open carrier at 1210; at *1211 started broadcasting in French with many sound bites in English about human rights and China (regarding anniversary of Tiananmen Square?); 1215*. BBC? Suspect was the BBC, as I heard, also on 15420, at 1312 a brief recorded loop “This is the BBC. There are no programs on this channel at present. Details of all our services are at BBCworldserice.com.” A test or what? (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Suspect error or test by Sentech, RSA, which starts 15420 with BBC Somali at 1400 (gh, DXLD) ** SARAWAK [non]. Nothing heard of Radio Free Sarawak - RVA relay on June 4th, only heard: 15405 seemingly SOH Mandarin or CHN mainland jamming 15409.993 AIR Thai sce 15440 CRI Kashgar Mandarin 15450 RVA Burmese 15480 CRI Beijing Mandarin 15489.981 BSKSA Riyadh Arabic 1st px 15500.011 VoIRIB Kamalabad Dari 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) One week break of transmissions of Radio Free Sarawak. They will be back with fresh interviews next week, June 9 (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) One week break for the transmissions of Radio Free Sarawak. They will be back with fresh interviews next week, on June 9 as follows: 1100-1130 15410 TNN 100 kW / 208 deg to SEAs Iban Mon-Sat as May 27-30 1130-1200 15430 TNN 100 kW / 208 deg to SEAs Iban Mon-Sat as May 27-30 1200-1230 15420 TNN 100 kW / 208 deg to SEAs Iban Mon-Sat as May 27-30 (DX RE MIX NEWS # 855 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov June 04, 2014, via WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DXLD) Or the site could still be RVA Palauig, PHILIPPINES (gh) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020-, June 2 at 1158, JBA carrier can still be pulled thru, despite WRMI on new 5015 which is plenty weak, and so is 5025 Cuba at this late hour; SIBC cutoff at exactly 1159:00*. A few minutes earlier also had carrier on 4755 from presumed Micronesia, but it must have gone off first (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9545, SIBS, Honiara. 0400 fair to good level s/off 0501 16/5 (Johnson [otherwise unID], June Australian DX News via DXLD) same ¦ From 2300 to s/off 0500. fair to good level 13/5 (Paul Thwaites, Waran, Sunshine Coast Qld (Palstar), ibid.) same ¦ tune/in 0130, fair signal with talks in Bislama, re-tune 0355 when had pop music, English announcements 0400. Quite good on 1/6, improving until abruptly off 0501 (Craig Seager, VK2FEAE, Bathurst NSW (Perseus, Icom IC-746, Hustler 5-BV vertical, Horizontal Loop, 1m amplified loop, Dream DRM software, June Australian DX News via WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DXLD) ** SOMALIA [non]. CLANDESTINE, 17870, R. Freedom, May 30 *1600-1601+, 25432-b/out Somali, 1600 sign on with opening music, ID, Opening announce, Jamming from 1601 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD- 525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121, ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. SOMALIA, R. Hargeisa on 7120 kHz, Times of sign off May 01 1901* May 02 1902* May 03 no check May 04 1901* May 05 1902* May 06 1901* May 07 1901* May 08 1902* May 09 1901* May 10 1902* May 11 1901* May 12 no check May 13 1900* May 14 1900* May 15 1902* May 16 1904* May 17 1901* May 19 1903* May 20 1901* May 21 1902* May 22 1903* May 23 1904* May 25 1901* May 26 1901* May 27 1901* May 28 1902* May 29 1903* May 30 1903* May 31 1900* (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD- 345, Satellit 750, DE-1121, ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. A new month, and Brother Scare must have showered some more cash upon Okeechobee, beefing up his hours on WRMI, suddenly on additional frequencies, as monitored early June 1: 11825, June 1 at 0613, VG signal on a frequency WRMI TOM`d before in the daytime. Immediately confirmed WRMI as source since it`s synchronized with 7570, and not synch with 3185 WWRB, 7365 WHRI, 5890 WWCR, nor 5085 WTWW. However, 11825 is slightly out of synch with 9955 WRMI, maybe different program feed routing. I keep bandscanning and find two more new WRMI/TOM frequencies with confirmed synchronization! 5015, June 1 at 0625, poor with BS, not especially strong and with music splash from 5025 Cuba. Jeff White had originally planned to activate WRMI on 60 meters via 5030, which would have been even worse, and we advised him against it, but did NOT suggest 5015. As of June 1, the HFCC Public schedule has not been updated since May 23, and still shows 5030 registered A-14 for ``YFR`` 24 hours in ``Spanish`` at 160 degrees, and nothing on 5015! Ron Howard warns, ``Hi Glenn, Bad news for SIBC (Solomon Islands) on 5019.9 kHz. On June 1 Dave Valko, et al., were hearing WRMI, with Brother Stair programming, on 5015 about 0935 and 1000 UT, totally blocking SIBC. A test or a new schedule? What a terrible frequency for them to pick, especially as SIBC has been silent for a long time now on 9545, leaving 5019.9 as their only active SW frequency. Ron, Vacationing in San Francisco`` 5950, June 1 at 0629, yet another new frequency for BS via WRMI // synchro 5015 and 11825. 5950 is of course an ancient WYFR frequency. This one has also been registered for A-14 as 24 hours at 181 degrees, in ``Spanish`` but not activated until now. 11825 is still going at 1347 and 1604 chex. However, I am no longer hearing WRMI BS on 9690 at 1357 or 1604, good news for INDIA if it`s really gone, unblocking the AIR GOS at 1330-1500. Still on 15770. Nor was I hearing 15190 WRMI BS at 0613 when I discovered the bigsig on 11825; a JBA carrier however on 15190, which was beamed toward Equatorial Guinea, marginal here in the nightmiddle. WRMI`s graphic frequency schedule is inaccessible, claiming I need to log in, but even then blocked by Google claiming I need ``permission`` to view it! So the full extent of TOM via WRMI is yet to be updated [this must have been an anomaly while it was being redone; Jeff later reaccessablized it] 7365, June 1 at 0623, I happen to be checking BS on WHRI, when he is beating his chest that unlike the ``Pope of Rome or major Protestant preachers`` he is on the air 24 hours every single day on ``30 or 40 different transmitters, frequencies``. This however is an old clip, nothing new (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also BULGARIA; USA: WRMI ** SPAIN. RNE-5, 88.0 MHz, presumed Punta Umbria with 13 kW from a directional antenna in my direction at 1058 Miles. E-Skip opening. Two men in Spanish with electronic sounders and a “Radio Nacional” recorded sounder. Full stereo on peaks. 1630-1645- 03 June. Indoor rabbit ears and a Fun Cube Dongle Pro + (Brock Whaley, Ireland, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, May 30 after 0114, SLBC open carrier has come on, poor signal; music starts at 0114:47, but no mistimesignal audible before opening announcement at 0115:43. 11905, June 3 from *0114:15 carrier, 0114:49 music, 0115:18.5 mistimesignal reapplied by SLBC, poor signal opening morning service; if it`s Tuesday, this must be Bangla (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN SOUTH. NGO'S SOUTH SUDAN RADIO TARGETS DISPLACED POPULATION | Text of report by website of US-based media advocacy organization Internews on 27 May Achol Kur had been studying to be a nurse before she fled from fighting in her home town of Bor. Now as Mingkaman 100 FM's breakfast show presenter she says she's rekindled an old interest: "At school I always wanted to be a journalist but the training wasn't available. Now I can keep my community informed about what's going on." Internews set up Mingkaman 100 FM in February as part of its emergency response to the rapidly growing humanitarian crisis in the country, to begin urgently broadcasting news and information for the roughly 50,000 people displaced by fighting. After fighting that had started in Juba last December quickly spread to other areas of the country, the town of Bor became one of the main battlegrounds. Many fled by boat up the river Nile and settled around 20 km upstream in the small town of Mingkaman. The majority of families sleep in the open, or under the shade of trees and bushes. Mingkaman 100 FM is now broadcasting 11 hours a day, seven days a week, and has become a cornerstone of the rapidly growing community. Its studio is set up in a shelter constructed from plastic sheets with a traditional grass roof. Inside there is basic and easily transportable studio equipment, including an audio mixing unit, transmitter, microphones, computers and audio recorders. Within a day of the station being built, more than 70 people applied to work there. None of them had previous experience. Ten hopefuls made it through the recruitment process. They were then given training to become community reporters and presenters, led by an Internews community radio manager. The first show's discussion topic was about Radio Mingkaman itself. Listeners spoke on air and said what they wanted the station to sound like, and what information they wanted broadcast. "We want to listen to music and hygiene and sanitation messages to educate people to keep their environment clean," said a female listener. "We need peace, we ran away from Bor that's why we are here. Among ourselves we should see ourselves as brothers and sisters and the radio will help with this," said a male listener. "We need programmes about education because now we are here we do not know the fate of our children, whether they will be going to school," said another female listener. Internews community radio manager Chris Marol said he was pleased with the new presenters' first show. "At the beginning things didn't go as planned because the presenters were unfamiliar with the equipment but toward the end of the program they sounded very good, especially when they were interviewing me and asking some tough questions." Over the next two weeks the new community reporters practiced their skills gathering stories and broadcasting information. Stories ranged from the dangers of crocodiles when bathing in the river to the damage of water supplies by children playing near distribution points. Its flagship show is "Good Evening Mingkaman", a two-hour programme broadcasting news, events and humanitarian information. This show has already tackled concerns about planting crops in time for the rainy season and community fears about cholera. Throughout the day public announcements and humanitarian messaging from NGOs are scheduled every 15 minutes in the form of advertisement breaks. "Good Evening Mingkaman" also has a segment where community members can ask NGO representatives to explain policies and plans. The first show of this kind was produced in collaboration with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and focused on the right of access to services, value of education during times of conflict and what medical services were available in the area. With an additional 50,000 people in town, members of the host community now have to share resources. The issue of access to water was illustrated with a drama produced by the station and IRC staff. IRC Emergency Protection Manager Stephanie Case said the radio station is playing an important part in spreading important lifesaving information. Source: Internews, in English 27 May 14 (via BBCM via DXLD) ** SWEDEN [non]. Frequency change of IBRA Radio via BABCOCK: 0000-0030 NF 9390 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg to SoAs Bengali IBRA Radio, ex 5905 -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. 18930, June 2 at 1341, JBA signal likely CNR1 jamming against RFA Tibetan via KUWAIT; except I can`t make a match to CNR1 on 15540 or 11785; maybe is that but way out of synch, otherwise Kuwait itself on its Monday-only frequency during this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency changes of Radio Free Asia in Tibetan: 0100-0200 NF 17700 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Mon, ex 17685 0100-0200 NF 17710 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tue, ex 17635 0100-0200 NF 17700 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Wed, ex 17685 0100-0200 NF 17710 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Thu, ex 17635 0100-0200 NF 17700 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Fri, ex 17685 0100-0200 NF 17685 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Sat, ex 17665 0100-0200 NF 17665 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Sun, ex 17700 (DX RE MIX NEWS #854 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 30, 2014, via DXLD) TIN = Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands ** TIBET [non]. Frequency changes of Voice of Tibet: 1200-1215 NF 15542 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15543 1215-1230 NF 15548 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15537 1230-1245 NF 15563 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15557 1245-1300 NF 15557 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15562 1300-1315 NF 15548 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15538 1300-1315 NF 15563 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15568 1315-1330 NF 15542 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15543 1315-1330 NF 15563 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15568 1330-1345 on 15542 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese no change 1330-1345 on 15568 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan no change 1345-1400 on 15537 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese no change 1345-1400 NF 15568 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15562 1400-1415 on 15525 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan no change 1400-1415 NF 15562 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15568 1415-1430 on 15530 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan no change 1415-1430 NF 15562 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15568 1430-1445 NF 15617 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 17612 1445-1500 NF 15617 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15622 (DX RE MIX NEWS #854 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 30, 2014, via DXLD) ** TURKEY. 9770, May 31 at 0117, this is supposed to be the Spanish service of La Voz de Turquía // 9870 --- but stilted Spanish is only on 9870, while 9770 is stronger with mostly music. 0118 brief announcement sounds Turkish or Tukishish, such as a Central Asian Turkic language, so Emirler must have put the wrong program feed into 9770! The only other broadcast scheduled this hour is Turkish at 0000- 0200, eastward on 7260, unchecked since not looked up until later. Retune toward hourend at 0152 finds 9770 still in good music, not // 9870 still in Spanish. 0154, 9870 is playing the TRT IS and off by 0155, by when 9770 is also off. 9770 // 9870, June 3 at 0108, Voz de Turquía manages to transmit stilted Spanish on both scheduled frequencies tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UGANDA. 4750, Radio Dunamis. 21/5 at 1712, ballads, ID in vernacular, no QRM from Bangladesh and China (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi 16 meters antenna), June Australian DX News via DXLD) ** UGANDA. 4975.97, R. Uganda, Kampala. At 2020 with a sort of "township jive" style of Rap music. I'm not a big rap for Rap, but this was quite groovy. Heavily accented and rapid-fire English announcements made it quite difficult to understand the announcer. Lots of shouting and excitement - sounded like one of the old Saturday night party shows that the African stations used to run about 30 years ago, but now with more contemporary dance styles! Fair to poor signal on 24/5 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Double Bazooka antennas for 80 and 40 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), June Australian DX News via DXLD) 4975, R. Uganda, Kampala, 1818-1835, 01/6, dialecto local, texto, incl. Entrevistas, 45333. SINPO de 55343, às 2100 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. CRIMEA --- IN THE CRIMEA WILL BE "POLITE RADIO." In September, in the Crimea will be "polite radio." This is reported by "Izvestia". It is assumed that the new station will be established on the basis of radio "Our Moscow", which in early May began broadcasting in Feodosia and Kerch on the frequency 102.7 FM. Radio station owned by the government of Moscow region and together with the TV channel "360 suburbs" is a holding company of "Television suburbs." "Format suburban station weird for Crimeans. We started looking for a format which, on the one hand, and will be relevant to people in the Crimea, and for holidaymakers from the suburbs," - said Minister Ruben Oganesov Moscow region government, adding that it will be music radio with news of the Crimea and Moscow region. The manual stations do not hide the fact that the name contains an allusion to soldiers in masks and military uniforms without insignia, which appeared in the Crimea in February-March 2014, and which was called "polite people." The first time the radio will broadcast in Kerch and Feodosia, but eventually broadcast area "Polite radio" will cover the entire territory of Crimea. lenta.ru (OnAir.ru via RusDX June 1 via DXLD) I never heard about the invaders being referred to as ``polite`` (gh) ** U K. BBC fails to air Shipping Forecast for first time in more than 90 years http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/may/30/bbc-chipping-forecast-fail-broadcast-radio-4 The Guardian --- By John Reynolds and Mark Sweney 30 May 2014 It was early-morning chaos and warnings of impending Armageddon when BBC Radio 4 failed to broadcast the Shipping Forecast for the first time in more than 90 years. The BBC radio service is something of an institution, metronomically broadcasting four forecasts a day since 1924, a routine which failed for the first time at 5.20am on Friday. A technical glitch meant the BBC's World Service was played in its place, a gaffe that prompted listeners to take to Twitter to voice their bewilderment. Kirsty Connell said: "Eep. The shipping forecast didn't get broadcast on @BBCRadio4 this morning. Isn't that the sign of impending nuclear armageddon?" Jordan Rowland added: "No shipping forecast? If UK submarines don't get shipping forecast, don't they launch nuclear attack?" The BBC was only able to resolve the issue at 5.40 am when it cut back to the Radio 4 programme. Friday morning's Shipping Forecast eventually aired 6.40 am. BBC Radio 4 presenter Kathy Clugson apologised for the mistake, saying: "You're listening to BBC Radio 4. Our apologies. It's 5.40 am and we've been happily broadcasting News Briefing. But unfortunately due to a technical error, you've not been hearing us, so you have been hearing the BBC World Service. "We're sorry about that. We're looking into it and we'll try and broadcast the Shipping Forecast for long-wave listeners during the course of the Today programme." But for some the damage to their established morning routine had already been done. "Confused by Radio 4 failing to start broadcasting at 5.25 this morning," tweeted Graham Patterson. "No shipping forecast, no shipping forecast, no bbcnewsbriefing. Bad start to a Friday." The incident also allowed for a predictable link to headline-grabbing UKIP leader Nigel Farage. Mark Johnston tweeted: "Nation in peril? BBC radio fails to broadcast shipping forecast this morning. Expect Farage to blame Brussels within the hour." Produced by the Met Office, on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, the shipping forecast is aired at 12.48 am, 5.20 am, 12.01 pm and 5.54 pm. Friday's mishap is not the first time the Shipping Forecast has run aground. In 2010, Radio 4 presenter Susan Powell read out a forecast which had already been given out 24 hours earlier. "'Unfortunately our usual switch from BBC World Service, which is broadcast on Radio 4 overnight, didn't go as planned and was delayed by around 20 minutes," said a spokeswoman for BBC Radio 4. "We apologise for the inconvenience." (via Dan Say, BC, DXLD; and Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) Horrors ** U K. BBC RADIO EXPLORER: A NEW WAY TO LISTEN TO RADIO Media UK By James Cridland May 30, 2014 The BBC has quietly released a prototype service called BBC Radio Explorer. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/explorer The service is the result of "10% time", a loose concept that allows the BBC's software engineers time to develop and play about with things. Unusually, this one is visible to the public, if you know where to look. But, with a quiet announcement on Twitter and no press release, you'll be forgiven to not know it exists. That's by design: since it's not finished: every page tells us it's "work-in-progress". BBC Radio Explorer is a relatively simple idea. Type something that you're interested in, and the service plays you clips and programmes that it thinks you'll like: one after the other. It's a different way to listen to the BBC's speech radio output, and it should unearth a lot of interesting programming from the BBC. Full article here: http://www.mediauk.com/article/34502/bbc-radio-explorer-a-new-way-to-listen-to-radio?utm_source=muk&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailyalert (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U K [non]. From Monday, May 26 BBC World Service expanded its shortwave schedule targeted to Thailand by adding 10 hours of broadcasts as follows 0100-0300 on 11600 SNG 250 kW / 340 deg to SEAs English 0300-0500 on 7370 NAK 250 kW / non-dir to SEAs English 0500-1100 on 11700 SNG 250 kW / 340 deg to SEAs English, co-ch RFI till 0800 (DX RE MIX NEWS #854 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 30, 2014, via DXLD) 11600, SINGAPORE. BBC - Kranji. Special WS programming to Thailand at s/on 0100. Weak and fluttery signal with multi-hop echo on May 28. 11700, SINGAPORE. BBC - Kranji. Special WS programming to Thailand with "Newsday", first noted at 0710, ID at 0720. Fair signal but QRM from co-channel RFI-Issoudun in French to WAf. This problem is solved when RFI s/off at 0800, May 27. Cheers (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, May 29, ARDXC via DXLD) ** U K [non]. More and more frequency changes of BBC: 1300-1330 NF 15175 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg CeAs Mon Uzbek, ex 15330 1300-1330 NF 15495 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg CeAs Tue Uzbek, ex 15330 1300-1330 NF 15175 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg CeAs Wed Uzbek, ex 15330 1300-1330 NF 15495 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg CeAs Thu Uzbek, ex 15330 1300-1330 on 15330 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg CeAs Fri Uzbek, ex Daily 1300-1330 NF 15175 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg CeAs Sat Uzbek, ex 15330 1300-1330 on 15330 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg CeAs Sun Uzbek, ex Daily 1300-1330 on 17510 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg CeAs Mon Uzbek, ex Daily 1300-1330 on 17510 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg CeAs Tue Uzbek, ex Daily 1300-1330 NF 17575 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg CeAs Wed Uzbek, ex 17510 1300-1330 NF 17575 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg CeAs Thu Uzbek, ex 17510 1300-1330 NF 17575 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg CeAs Fri Uzbek, ex 17510 1300-1330 on 17510 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg CeAs Sat Uzbek, ex Daily 1300-1330 NF 17575 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg CeAs Sun Uzbek, ex 17510 1300-1330 NF 17480 NAK 250 kW / 325 deg CeAs Mon Uzbek, ex 17735 1300-1330 on 17735 NAK 250 kW / 325 deg CeAs Tue Uzbek, ex Daily 1300-1330 NF 17480 NAK 250 kW / 325 deg CeAs Wed Uzbek, ex 17735 1300-1330 on 17735 NAK 250 kW / 325 deg CeAs Thu Uzbek, ex Daily 1300-1330 NF 17480 NAK 250 kW / 325 deg CeAs Fri Uzbek, ex 17735 1300-1330 on 17735 NAK 250 kW / 325 deg CeAs Sat Uzbek, ex Daily 1300-1330 NF 17480 NAK 250 kW / 325 deg CeAs Sun Uzbek, ex 17735 1400-1500 NF 15420 MDC 250 kW / 032 deg EaAf Sat Somali, ex 17830 1400-1500 on 15420 MDC 250 kW / 032 deg EaAf Daily Somali, ex Sun-Fri 1400-1500 NF 15720 DHA 250 kW / 085 deg SoAs Tue/Sun Bengali ex 9610 (DX RE MIX NEWS #854 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 30, 2014, via DXLD) ** U K [non]. Frequency change of BBC via BaBcoCk: 1400-1500 NF 15720 DHA 250 kW / 085 deg to SoAs Bengali Tue/Sun BBC, ex 9610 -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U K [non]. BBC WORLD SERVICE AND AUDIONOW ANNOUNCE MOBILE RADIO DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT FOR BBC AFRIQUE AND BBC HAUSA [in USA!] 2 June 2014. BBC Afrique and BBC Hausa radio news bulletins are now available to listeners in the United States via the call-to-listen service, AudioNow. The development means further extension of the availability of the multilingual content from BBC World Service on AudioNow’s radio distribution platform, adding to the radio programming from the BBC’s Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Hindi, Indonesian, Persian, Somali, Swahili and Urdu services already hosted. US-based French- and Hausa-speakers can now access BBC Afrique and BBC Hausa broadcasts on any mobile device by dialling a dedicated national number. While the service is free to callers in the US, listeners should check their mobile phone contracts for any additional charges. BBC Head of Business Development for Sub-Saharan Africa, Joachim Harris, comments: “We are delighted that BBC Afrique and BBC Hausa radio programmes are now available to audiences in the US as a result of our agreement with AudioNow. The BBC has large audiences in Africa to its Hausa and French services. Now, thanks to this very welcome extension of our long-standing relationship with AudioNow, audiences in the US get a new flexible and convenient way to enjoy and benefit from the BBC Hausa and BBC Afrique audio news content.” The addition of the BBC’s two more African language services to the AudioNow distribution platform builds on the success of the BBC Somali audio programming which draws over one million calls per month in the United States. BBC Africa Editor, Solomon Mugera, adds: “This is a significant development in our commitment to serving our audiences wherever they are in the world. It’s a clear demonstration that with the right content in terms of relevance and quality, the audience will find you.” Alexandra Moe, Director of AudioNow Strategic Partnerships, says: "We're proud to extend the reach of BBC Afrique and BBC Hausa to diaspora audiences here in the US. High-quality news from across Francophone Africa, Nigeria, and beyond, is now available to anyone at any time through a simple telephone call." For BBC Afrique, listeners can call 712 432 9959 to tune in to the news programmes such as BBC Matin, BBC Midi, and BBC Soir. For BBC Hausa listeners, 712 432 9967 is the number for accessing the daily news bulletin, Takaitattun Labarai. Ends// For more information please contact: BBC World Service Group Communications – Lala Najafova lala.najafova @ bbc.co.uk AudioNow - Alexandra Moe alexandra.moe @ audionow.com Editor’s Notes: BBC World Service is an international multimedia broadcaster, delivering a wide range of language and regional services on radio, TV, online and via wireless handheld devices. It uses multiple platforms to reach its weekly audience of 192 million globally, including shortwave, AM, FM, digital satellite and cable channels. Its news sites include audio and video content and offer opportunities to join the global debate. BBC World Service offers its multilingual radio content to partner FM stations around the world and has numerous partnerships supplying content to news websites, mobile phones and other wireless handheld devices as well as TV channels. For more information, visit http://bbc.com/worldservice The BBC attracts a weekly global audience of 256 million people to its international news services including BBC World Service, BBC World News television channel and http://bbc.com/news AudioNow, based in Washington, DC, is the leading call-to-listen platform in the world. With broadcast partners on every continent, AudioNow extends the reach of radio by connecting mobile listeners to their favourite radio stations through a simple telephone call. The AudioNow platform uses proprietary “HD” voice design and patent- pending technology that serves all mobile platforms. AudioNow has more than 1,800 broadcast partners, including global leaders such as the United Nations, BBC, RFI, Voice of America, Entravision, C-SPAN and IMG College. In 2013 AudioNow delivered 2 billion listening minutes to its broadcast partners and connected users 84 million times to its platform (BBC PR June 2 via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. Am 31.05.2014 09:08, schrieb VOA Radiogram: Hello friends, I have just returned from my travels, including 10 days in Taiwan. This reminder that the "VOA Radiogram Picture Show" is this weekend. It includes MFSK32, 64, and 128 images transmitted in the X1, X2, and X4 speeds... Kim Andrew Elliott Producer and Presenter VOA Radiogram http://voaradiogram.net ====================================================================== Those were the days when there were test pattern on TV. These were always very reassuring. Nowadays, often waste is sent around the clock - and much of it goes into the recycling; no more time for reflection Here are the contemplative pictures of my report: http://www.rhci-online.de/VoA_Radiogram_2014-05-31.htm (roger, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1723 monitoring: confirmed first broadcast Thursday May 29 from 1230 on WRMI, 9955. Good signal, no jamming audible for a change; did not catch today when the switch from WRMI-10 to WRMI-11 was made, but it was not at 1258. Next: Thu 2100 on WTWW 9475, WBCQ 7490; UT Fri 0326v on WWRB 5050. WORLD OF RADIO 1723 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1, 9475, Thursday May 29 from 2100:30. New simulairing on WBCQ inaudible on 7490, but webcast reveals they are again playing last week`s show, 1722. WOR 1723 also confirmed on WWRB, 5050, UT Friday May 30 from 0327:25, after several seconds pause following preacher. WOR audio sounded rather overmodulated and distorted. Next: Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB Saturday 2330 on WTWW-2, 9930 UT Sunday 0030 on WRMI-14, 9495 (may be previous episode) UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW-1, 5830 UT Monday 0300 on Area 51 via WBCQ, 5110v-CUSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ciao a tutti gli amici del gruppo! Ecco una selezione di ascolti in onde corte e medie fatti il primo giugno – 5830, 01/06 0401, WTWW 1, Lebanon TN, Info ID, Px "WOR 1723" E, 35533. 73 da (N. Marabello, QTH Treviso, Italia, RX: SONY ICF SW7600G, Ant.: esterna VHF azimuth 230, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) WORLD OF RADIO 1723 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-2, 9930, just after 2330 UT Saturday May 31. Also confirmed on WTWW-1, 5830, just after 0400 UT Sunday June 1. The WRMI-14 airing, UT Sunday June 1 at 0030 on 9495, also confirmed but as usual with last week`s WOR, 1722: I was checking on the G8 inside Briggs Auditorium, Northern Oklahoma College, Enid, during a dance performance. That venue is no Faraday cage. Now with half the people in the audience fiddling with their bright mobile devices during a performance, I feel less obvious tuning a hand-held radio, with a dim but adequate dial light, altho the whip does stick out. Next WOR 1723: UT Monday 0300 on Area 51 via WBCQ, 5110v-CUSB. Tuesday 1100 & Wednesday 1315 on WRMI, 9955. Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB. Wednesday (& probably Thursday) 2100 on WBCQ, 7490. WORLD OF RADIO 1723 monitoring: brought up the Area 51 webcast at 0300 UT Monday June 2: it`s running, but silently; abruptly at 0308, WOR is joined in progress. Then I check 5110v-CUSB, and can barely hear music, not WOR in the noise level. Wonder what happened. Next: Tuesday 1100 & Wednesday 1315 on WRMI, 9955, q.v. Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB Wednesday 2100 & probably Thursday 2100 on WBCQ, 7490 WORLD OF RADIO 1723 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday June 4 following the Cyprus show, from 1315 on WRMI-10, 9955. Not as strong as it used to be on WRMI-11, but still sufficient. Expect to have #1724 ready for first airing UT Thursday 0330 on same. Then: Thursday 1230 on WRMI 9955 Thursday 2100 on WTWW 9475 Thursday 2100 on WBCQ 7490v [but so far only with previous edition] UT Friday 0326v on WWRB 5050 Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Saturday 2330 on WTWW 9930 UT Sunday 0030 on WRMI 5015 [NEW, maybe also 11730, previous show?] UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW 5830 UT Monday 0300 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB [no-show last week] Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wednesday 1315 on WRMI 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Following WOR 1723 on WRMI 9955, no `Scoreboard` at all at 1259 May 29, just fill music and Zanotti ID. I suspect Bruce Baskin may have given up trying to get any sponsorship for that 1-minute show. Looking thru the program info on the WRMI website, http://www.wrmi.net/pb/wp_d12a1732/wp_d12a1732.html We find he`s now doing something else: ``Rock Radio Revival, CONTACT: Bruce Baskin, wrmi9955@hotmail.com Sunday nights are now a lot louder on shortwave radio. On May 4, 2014, Radio Miami International debuted a new half-hour classic Christian rock program featuring music ranging from Eighties heavy metal bands to Nineties alternative rockers. "Rock Radio Revival" airs every Sunday at 9:30 PM EDT on WRMI, following the popular "Blues Radio International" show. The host of the new program, Bruce Baskin, has been WRMI’s sports director for the past 16 months, producing the WRMI Scoreboard weekdays since January 2013. . .`` Promises not to proselytize. Indeed the program grid now displayed, dated May 3, 2014, but also mislabeled B-13, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AivhtkIEGb3_dENObnZrMkt1YmtUWGxkbkd3TGNzOXc&hl=en#gid=0 has removed all the `Scoreboard` times, but instead of R.R.R. at 9:30 pm Sundays shows `Word for the World`, and no R.R.R. anywhere else (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9955, WRMI, 30/05 0101 UT. Programa `Antena DX` con informaciones tecnológicas generales (sección ultra definición) con espacios de música y mensajes de índole cristiana para Venezuela. Desde las 0110 comienza un espacio diexista con grabaciones, datos de la producción del programa (de La Chispa Estéreo, Panamá), informaciones sobre concursos de emisoras y las señales de intervalos que ocupan las emisoras. A las 0115 en adelante, se recuerda la labor de la radio en la época de la dictadura salvadoreña y el papel de Monseñor Romero, a cargo de `Todo noticias` de Radio Televisión de España. A las 0125 UT, se leen las cartas de auditores y fin a las 0129. SINPO: 55444 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo 30 metros, QTH: Ovalle centro, IV región, Chile, Condiglista yg via DXLD) Analyzing the updated June 1 WRMI graphic frequency schedule, we find significant changes affecting WORLD OF RADIO. WOR airtimes have not changed, but there is no longer a NW beam part of the time on 9955 --- the entire 24 hours are on the 160 degree beam, away from the rest of North America. Previously, one WOR airing was during the 315-degree beam, Wednesdays at 1315. That and other times remain: Thu 0330, 1230, Tue 1100. 9495, that curious extra frequency carrying WRMI programming, mostly DX shows, at 00-01 UT, has been dropped. Officially labeled as a FSI (Family Radio) channel, it`s replaced by 5015, presumably still with WORLD OF RADIO UT Sundays at 0030, but usually the previous edition. [belay that: back to 9495] The major change is more and more WRMI airtime for Brother Scare --- get him while the getting i$ good! I`ve added up all the `C` blox (ugly olive-green color-coded), and guess what, they total exactly 700 hours per week, surely no coincidence = 100 transmitter-hours per day, or on the average 4+ transmitters at once. But this does not include another 112 hours per week of BS on the beautiful blue 9955 RMI frequency itself (84 hours a week = 12 hours per day), and via Radio Africa Network, 28 hpw = 4 hpd for a grand total of 812 hours per week via Okeechobee, or averaging almost 5 transmitters at once. The major additions are 5950 and 11825 which are with BS for 24 hours a day each! Here`s the condensed schedule: kHz UT xmtr-azimuth 5015 05-22 3-160 5950 00-24 14-181 7570 01-11 11-315 7730 22-02 1- 44 9955 05-10 10-160 9955 14-21 10-160 11565 22-06 9-151 11730 00-05 4-160 11825 00-24 12-315 15190 04-08 7- 87 15770 12-21 9- 44 [a further revision June 4 makes the above no longer totally correct] The 5 MHz frequencies are for the Caribbean, where presumably they hold up during the daytime at a certain close range. They are inaudible here, not even a carrier, e.g. at 1946 UT June 2. (Nor is Cuba audible on 5025 or any 6 MHz frequency in the daytime.) BTW, all 14 transmitters are in use at one time or another now except: 5 and 6. IIRC, #6 was the one out of service, permanently? The big sig toward us on 11825 means a major clash with ChiCom CNR1 jamming and VOA Chinese via Philippines at 09-13: we could still hear that underneath WRMI at 1205 June 2. Also bothered is NHK Japanese only 10 kHz away on 11815. We`ll no longer be able to hear the Holy Qur`an music service from Riyadh on 11820 at 18-23 UT, nor probably without QRM the Kazakh service of Iran on 11820 at 0120-0220. Some good news is that WRMI has dropped 9690 for the BS service, reaudiblizing All India Radio GOS in English at 1330-1500. I`m urging Jeff not to resume 9690 in another season (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRMI: see SOUTH CAROLINA [non] Hi Glenn, Bad news for SIBC (Solomon Islands) on 5019.9 kHz. On June 1 Dave Valko, et al., were hearing WRMI, with Brother Stair programming, on 5015 about 0935 and 1000 UT, totally blocking SIBC. A test or a new schedule? What a terrible frequency for them to pick, especially as SIBC has been silent for a long time now on 9545, leaving 5019.9 as their only active SW frequency. The screen shot of the 5015 signal shows it is fairly wide. Now SIBC will have QRM from both Cuba (5025) and WRMI (5015). (Ron Howard, Vacationing in San Francisco, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This sort of thing seems to be a trend with the new WRMI to QRM Cuban broadcasts (5850 at 05 UT + on UT Su, M, W, and F making reception of HM01 on 5855 at that hour quite a challenge, to say the least, given my new cheap Bell & Howell 9 band portable SW radio). It's probably still difficult with a high end radio given the apparent +/- 10 kHz splatter of 5850 during their overnight broadcasts. Not that I'm pro- Cuban politics (far from it), but I do feel that the HM01 broadcasts (often off band, but not always) shouldn't be interfered with by someone relatively new to that neighborhood in the 60 meter band such as WRMI. For some of us (such as the head of this group), WRMI is as much 'Christian propaganda' (at least at 05 UT with 'Revelation Ready') as HM01 is part of 'Cuban propaganda' or 'spy ops', so if I could talk to Jeff White, I'd ask him to move WRMI to 5820 (or lower, but not lower than 5800, avoiding WTWW's 5830) at that hour just to avoid such interference. It may actually improve reception of WRMI, so such a move might be a win for them as well as for HM01. Just a thought (Shawn From Flushing NY (still here -- waiting for the next HM01 transmission to analyze via 14345 kHz) Fahrer, June 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hola colegas, al momento llegando con una excelente señal la programación de Family Radio a través de los 5015 kHz, banda de 60 metros. Señal originada desde WRMI; a travès de la página de Facebook de Radio Miami, señalan el aumento en 72 horas de transmisión y la utilización de esta nueva frecuencia a partir del 1 de Junio (Rafael Rodriguez R., http://dxdesdecolombia.blogspot.com/ 0003 UT June 2, condiglista yg via DXLD) [but by June 4, 5015 converted to a third 24/7 Brother Scare frequency --- gh] Some changes in summer A-14 schedule via Okeechobee effective from June 1: [but later 9495 was un-cancelled, 5015 to BS only --- gh] 0000-0100 9495 100 kW / 181 deg CARR Various WRMI programs, cancelled 1100-2100 9690 100 kW / 285 deg MEXI English Brother Stair, cancelled 1300-1400 9955 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Various WRMI programs, x 315 deg 1400-2100 9955 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair, x 315 deg 2300-2400 9495 100 kW / 181 deg CARR Spanish Family Radio, cancelled 2300-2400 13695 100 kW / 151 deg NSAm Spanish Family Radio, cancelled 0500-2200 5015 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair, new tx#03 2300-0100 5015 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Spanish Family Radio, new tx#03 2200-2400 11730 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Spanish Family Radio, new tx#04 0000-0500 11730 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair, new tx#04 2200-0600 11565 100 kW / 151 deg NSAm English Brother Stair, new tx#09 0000-2400 11825 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair, new tx#12 0000-2400 5950 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English Brother Stair, new tx#14 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/06/some-changes-in-summer-14-schedule-via.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 2, dxldyg via DXLD) 5015, UT Tue June 3 at 0050, WRMI`s new frequency ex-9495, with DX program in Spanish; outro already at 0054, as `La Rosa de Tokio`, which means it started at 0000. Sufficiently fair signal here, AND it`s // much stronger 11730, contrary to frequency schedule which shows TOM there from 0000, but the BS did not really start until 0100 on 11730 as 5015 went off for a few hours. Hope this continue to be the case, including UT Sundays for WORLD OF RADIO at 0030. [WORLD OF RADIO 1724] BUT::: after a few days with WRMI Extra on 5015, this was switched to 24-hour BS, and 9495 resumed for the Extra at 00-01, too late for WORLD OF RADIO 1724 mention!! (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9955, UT Tue June 3 at 0109, checking WRMI`s main channel, surprised to hear Radio Free Grenada, in English, when it was on 15105 --- axually a clip during `Historias de Radio` program, more English clips and rapid narration in Spanish also mentions later move to 15045. After 0115 mostly music fill, maybe some of it Grenadan at first. 0130 on to `Frecuencia al Día`. Not much jamming at this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5015.00, 0040-0050 03.06, Family R, via WRMI, Okeechobee, FL (New frequency!) Spanish religious debate by a woman and some men, musical interlude, 35233. The English programme had not faded in at -2200* (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark done on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) I was listening at same time [see three paragraphs above] and it was `La Rosa de Tokio` from RMI, NOT ``Family Radio Spanish religious debate`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9955, June 3 at 1259 checking WRMI, hear a brief burst of `Radiogram`- like tones. Wonder what that`s about? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Jeff replied that he couldn`t explain it (gh) Note: altho issued June 4, the skeds below still do not take into account the further June 4 changes, e.g. resuming 9495, making 5015 24h BS as I mention above (gh, DXLD) Changes in A14 schedule via Okeechobee effective from June 1 Cancelled transmissions: [CARR = CARIbbean] 0000-0100 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR Various WRMI programs tx#03 1100-2100 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg MEXI English Brother Stair tx#13 1300-1400 9955 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm Various WRMI programs tx#11 1400-2100 9955 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#11 2300-2400 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR Spanish Family Radio tx#03 2300-2400 13695 YFR 100 kW / 151 deg NSAm Spanish Family Radio tx#09 Additional broadcasts: 0000-0100 5015 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Various WRMI programs tx#03 0000-0100 11730 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Various WRMI programs tx#04 0000-0600 11565 YFR 100 kW / 151 deg NSAm English Brother Stair tx#09 0000-2400 5950 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English Brother Stair tx#14 0000-2400 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#12 0100-0500 11730 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#04 0500-2200 5015 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#03 1300-1400 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Various WRMI programs tx#10 1400-2100 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#10 2200-2400 11565 YFR 100 kW / 151 deg NSAm English Brother Stair tx#09 2200-2400 11730 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Spanish Family Radio tx#04 2300-2400 5015 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Spanish Family Radio tx#03 Full updated A-14 schedule via Okeechobee, effective 0000 UT June 1: 0000-0100 5015!YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Various WRMI programs tx#03 0000-0100 5850 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English TruNews+Music tx#08 0000-0100 5950 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English Brother Stair tx#14 0000-0100 7455 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg MEXI English TruNews+Music tx#13 0000-0100 7730 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu English Brother Stair tx#01 0000-0100 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Various WRMI programs tx#10 0000-0100 11565 YFR 100 kW / 151 deg NSAm English Brother Stair tx#09 0000-0100 11730@YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Various WRMI programs tx#04 0000-0100 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#12 0100-0200 5850 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English TruNews+Music tx#08 0100-0200 5950 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English Brother Stair tx#14 0100-0200 7455 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg MEXI English TruNews+Music tx#13 0100-0200 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#11 0100-0200 7730 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu English Brother Stair tx#01 0100-0200 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Various WRMI programs tx#10 0100-0200 11565 YFR 100 kW / 151 deg NSAm English Brother Stair tx#09 0100-0200 11730 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#04 0100-0200 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#12 0200-0300 5850 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English TruNews+Music tx#08 0200-0300 5950 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English Brother Stair tx#14 0200-0300 7455 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg MEXI English TruNews+Music tx#13 0200-0300 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#11 0200-0300 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Various WRMI programs tx#10 0200-0300 11565 YFR 100 kW / 151 deg NSAm English Brother Stair tx#09 0200-0300 11730 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#04 0200-0300 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#12 0300-0400 5850 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English TruNews+Music tx#08 0300-0400 5950 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English Brother Stair tx#14 0300-0400 7455 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg MEXI English TruNews+Music tx#13 0300-0400 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#11 0300-0400 7730 YFR 100 kW / 222 deg MEXI Spanish R.Taiwan Int. tx#01 0300-0400 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Various WRMI programs tx#10 0300-0400 11565 YFR 100 kW / 151 deg NSAm English Brother Stair tx#09 0300-0400 11730 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#04 0300-0400 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#12 0400-0430 5985 YFR 100 kW / 222 deg MEXI Spanish R.Japan (NHK) tx#02 0400-0500 5015&YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#03 0400-0500 5850 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English TruNews+Music tx#08 0400-0500 5950 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English Brother Stair tx#14 0400-0500 7455 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg MEXI English TruNews+Music tx#13 0400-0500 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#11 0400-0500 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Various WRMI programs tx#10 0400-0500 11565$YFR 100 kW / 151 deg NSAm English Brother Stair tx#09 0400-0500 11730 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#04 0400-0500 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#12 0400-0500 15190 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg NCAf English Brother Stair tx#07 0500-0600 5015 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#03 0500-0600 5850 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English TruNews+Music tx#08 0500-0600 5950 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English Brother Stair tx#14 0500-0600 7455 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg MEXI English TruNews+Music tx#13 0500-0600 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#11 0500-0600 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#10 0500-0600 11565$YFR 100 kW / 151 deg NSAm English Brother Stair tx#09 0500-0600 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#12 0500-0600 15190 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg NCAf English Brother Stair tx#07 0600-0800 5015 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#03 0600-0800 5850 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English TruNews+Music tx#08 0600-0800 5950 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English Brother Stair tx#14 0600-0800 7455 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg MEXI English TruNews+Music tx#13 0600-0800 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#11 0600-0800 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#10 0600-0800 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#12 0600-0800 15190 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg NCAf English Brother Stair tx#07 0800-1000 5015 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#03 0800-1000 5850 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English TruNews+Music tx#08 0800-1000 5950 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English Brother Stair tx#14 0800-1000 7455 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg MEXI English TruNews+Music tx#13 0800-1000 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#11 0800-1000 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#10 0800-1000 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#12 1000-1100 5015 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#03 1000-1100 5950 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English Brother Stair tx#14 1000-1100 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#11 1000-1100 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English WRMI programs tx#10 1000-1100 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#12 1100-1300 5015 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#03 1100-1300 5950 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English Brother Stair tx#14 1100-1300 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Various WRMI programs tx#10 1100-1300 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#12 1300-1400 5015 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#03 1300-1400 5950 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English Brother Stair tx#14 1300-1400 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Various WRMI programs tx#10 1300-1400 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#12 1300-1400 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu English Brother Stair tx#09 1400-2000 5015 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#03 1400-2000 5950 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English Brother Stair tx#14 1400-2000 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#10 1400-2000 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu English Brother Stair tx#09 1400-2000 17790 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg NCAf English Radio Africa tx#07 2000-2100 5015 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#03 2000-2100 5950 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English Brother Stair tx#14 2000-2100 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#10 2000-2100 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#12 2000-2100 15190 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg NCAf English Radio Africa tx#07 2000-2100 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu English Brother Stair tx#09 2100-2200 5015 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#03 2100-2200 5950 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English Brother Stair tx#14 2100-2200 9955#YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#10 2100-2200 9955^YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Various WRMI programs tx#10 2100-2200 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#12 2100-2200 15190 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg NCAf English Radio Africa tx#07 2200-2300 5850 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English TruNews+Music tx#08 2200-2300 5950 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English Brother Stair tx#14 2200-2300 7455 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg MEXI English TruNews+Music tx#13 2200-2300 7730 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu English Brother Stair tx#01 2200-2300 9955#YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#10 2200-2300 9955^YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Various WRMI programs tx#10 2200-2300 11565 YFR 100 kW / 151 deg NSAm English Brother Stair tx#09 2200-2300 11730 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Spanish Family Radio tx#04 2200-2300 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#12 2200-2300 15190 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg NCAf English Radio Africa tx#07 2300-2400 5015 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Spanish Family Radio tx#03 2300-2400 5850 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English TruNews+Music tx#08 2300-2400 5950 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English Brother Stair tx#14 2300-2400 7455 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg MEXI English TruNews+Music tx#13 2300-2400 7730 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu English Brother Stair tx#01 2300-2400 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Various WRMI programs tx#10 2300-2400 11565 YFR 100 kW / 151 deg NSAm English Brother Stair tx#09 2300-2400 11730 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Spanish Family Radio tx#04 2300-2400 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#12 Brother Stair /TOM/ is increased to 115 hours Mon-Fri and 113 hours Sat/Sun ! not Family Radio @ ex Brother Stair $ no signal 0400-0600 on June 4 & observed 0400-0500 on June 4 # Mon-Fri ^ Sat/Sun http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/06/dx-re-mix-news-855.html (DX RE MIX NEWS # 855 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov June 04, 2014, via DXLD) ** U S A. 12105, May 30 at 0113, passé Pastor Pete Peters preaching here on WTWW-3, while someone else is speaking on 9475, WTWW-1, the main SFAW channel. This seems to be a regular thing now, but apparently 12105 is still considered part of the ``Bible Worldwide`` ministry, somehow related to SFAW. At 1427 May 30, 12105 is still not on, tho 9475 and 9930 are. 5085, May 31 at 0125, Brother Scare with canned generic contact announcement via WTWW-2, already on nite frequency, while WTWW-1 is still on day frequency 9475 with SFAW, and WTWW-3, 12105 as usual now during this hour presents Pastor Pete Peters separately in English. By 0201, 9475 is off but 12105 open carrier is still on past 0203. 12105, May 31 at 2214, WTWW-3 VG in Arabic now, dramatized Bible reading, presumably. 12105, June 2 at 1945, WTWW-3 is in Spanish. Website schedule has finally been updated to show: ``Transmitter 3, 7 days, The Bible World Wide, 12 PM CDT till 9 PM CDT, Frequency 12.105``, i.e. 17-02 UT, no more in the mornings, but no details of languages replacing long- outdated info. We`ve reported various languages hit-and-miss, but not tried it monitor the entire 9 hours which may not be reliable anyway. 12105, June 3 at 2008, WTWW-3 is in Portu- or rather Brazuguese during this hour; June 4 at 1905 in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5050, May 31 at 0126, WWRB is in open carrier/dead air. Finally at 0130 Dave comes on with an apparently live announcement, saying that ``one of the transmitters is down, so will have to use this one on 3185; please retune your shortwave radio to 3185; thank you``. However 5050 stayed on with Pastor Paul J. something from Texas but now in Philadelphia instructing us about Yahweh, and at 0140 how the name really is pronounceable since Y is a vowel. I keep checking for 3185, but 5050 stays on for the entire semihour, until at 0159 Dave makes another announcement, part of which I miss, something about expecting a call any time now; apparently a live program feed via phoneline. 0200 organ music starts but that may be fill. At 0203 I find that 5050 is finally off, but 3185 does not come on until *0212 joining Brother Scare in progress (how else?). Meanwhile 9370 was not on either, so apparently WWRB is making do with only one operational transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7490.12 approx., May 31 at 0220, WBCQ with BS has varied to here. 5110v-CUSB and 9330-CUSB, June 3 at 0124, WBCQ missing from both, but 7489.95 is still on with BS, only fair signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7505.20 approx., May 31 at 0221, WRNO stays fairly stable on this offset, a little higher up than WBCQ is above 7490; humbuzz and Pastor Ray Bentley of Maranatha Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12050, May 30 at 1328, WEWN Spanish is gone, and along with that, its squealyspurs; still VG on 11550 and English on 15610 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Additional registered frequencies of World Harvest Radio from May 26: WHRI Angel 1 2200-2230 15670 HRI 250 kW / 260 deg MEXI Mon-Fri, external customer? WHRI Angel 2 2100-2200 15530 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg WeEu Mon-Sat, now 21-22 Sun 2200-2230 11775 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg WeEu Sat/Sun, now 22-23 Sat/Sun 2230-2400 11775 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg WeEu Daily, now 23-24 Sat T8WH Angel 4 1000-1100 15660 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs Daily, external customer? WHRI Angel 6 0500-0530 7385 HRI 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm Daily, external customer? Please colleagues from America and Asia to confirm these transmissions (DX RE MIX NEWS #854 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 30, 2014, via DXLD) 7385, Sat May 31 after 0500, no signal from WHRI, which Ivo Ivanov says has been registered effective May 26 for a new daily transmission at 0500-0530, 315 degrees to WNAm, external customer? 15670, also no signal Sat May 31 after 2200, but which Ivo says is supposed to be 2200-2230 M-F only, 260 degrees to Mexico, external customer? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7555, KJES, 30/05 0155 UT. Portadora abierta con una baja modulación. SINPO: 25121 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo 30 metros, QTH: Ovalle centro, IV región, Chile, Condiglista yg via DXLD) ** U S A. 17775, KVOH, 30/05 1303 UT. Música y avisos de oración. SINPO: 35443 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo 30 metros, QTH: Ovalle centro, IV región, Chile, Condiglista yg via DXLD) 17775, June 2 at 1340, KVOH with strong signal but rather distorted musical modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1530, May 29 at 0604 UT, another try for KLBW New Boston TX, cheating daytimer already heard thrice at this hour: instead, like last night, there is oldie music, no ID but 0606 UT segué; 0608 UT DJ mentions The Guess Who, caller on air with him. 0613 UT two Ad Council PSAs, so paid advertising to overlay them is sparse; 0615 UT back to music; 0617 UT, 866- toll free number ``is smokin```, takin` requests, but is it really live in the nightmiddle? Maybe so, altho typically immediate fulfillment of a request means it`s been taped a bit earlier. She gets what she wants, ``We Are the Champions``. 0624 UT next break brings ad for the I-25 Speedway, weather; 0626 UT joint ID first for KWRP 690 Pueblo, and then KCMN 1530 Colorado Springs, which are the two components of the ``I-25 Radio Network`` as heard last night at this time. Thruout this period, and also last night, nothing more heard from KLBW, so it appears they have handed over cheatin` responsibility on 1530 to KCMN, which is supposed to be 15 watts night instead of 15 kW day. Note: no station would really want to run only 15 watts at night: no doubt this was the figure FCC came up with so KCMN would not have to install an expensive direxional antenna system in order to run higher power at night. It might also have required a different transmitter site in order to put a usable signal into CS (or along I- 25), or that might have been impossible considering the other stations which supposedly have to be protected. Meanwhile, we are deprived of Brother Scare on WCKY Cincinnati, SOB! Looking at the NRC Pattern Book, however, WCKY`s pattern puts very little signal to the west, just as KFBK Sacramento puts very little signal to the east, and KGBT Harlingen puts very little signal to the north --- the big three 50 kW stations on 1530 (KGBT cut to 10 at night). From the map, there is such a gap in mid-America that it looks as if KCMN should be allowed to run full power at night, perhaps with a few nulls toward the other three. Checking FCC AM Query in case there has been some change? No, but they do have 1 kW for critical hours, and this signal could well be 1 instead of 15 kW; or somewhere in between (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1530, May 30 at 0505 UT, KLBW New Boston TX is back as the dominant daytimer cheating, clear YL ID as ``KLBW The Light and KLBW.com``. KCMN Colorado Springs unheard now, but fast SAH with something. Also recheck at tune-in 0536 UT, another canned ID from KLBW, but this time by an OM as ``KLBW 1530 The Light``. Note: it`s no doubt like this all night, earlier and later; my previous logs at 0605 UT were just typical of my bedtime chex. Todd Skaine, Woodbury MN, replied to my previous log: ``Glenn, KCMN also cheats a lot. I've also noticed that our semi-local from Shakopee [MN, KQSP 1530] sometimes stays on all night, usually with lower power. However this morning, 0510 CLT [1010 UT] they were at full power. Also another local 690 KFXN have been 24/7 at full power [500 watts, all-Hmong?] for a month!`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, Yes 690 is confirmed to be 500 W at night and in Hmong. Rick Dau reported them in very well in Davenport IA in the overnight hours. The main lobe is to the SSE, with another slightly smaller lobe to the NW (Todd Skaine, Woodbury, MN, ABDX via DXLD) 1530, May 31 at 0145 UT, with a Heat/Pacers game nulled, presumably WCKY still on day pattern since it`s only sunset here, far from Sacramento, gospel music from NW/SE making fast SAH, and presumably from KLBW New Boston TX, the cheater I have been hearing later in the night. 0150 UT ad for solidgospel.com 1530, June 1 at 0604 UT, not much music clearly in the mix, but 0605 UT canned ID by YL really cuts thru the QRM: ``Playing the best southern gospel music, KLBW 1530 The Light and KLBW1530.com`` as this New Boston TX 2.5 kW daytimer continues cheating (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. STATION NEWS: 1550, KDCO, CO, Golden – Came on the air around May 20. Noted with Yahoo Sports around 0600/0700; also noted with “Mile High Sports” local programming. Noted one “The Fan 1550” slogan. Yet another frequency becomes unDXable for metro Denver DXers. (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge CO, NRC DX News June 9 via WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DXLD) 5/29 1415 [EDT] “Mile High Sports 94.1” these are the people that were running 1510 KCKK up to a few months ago. They are now running the same local origination and Yahoo sports feed on this new AM station. Another Denver metro channel gone for good DX possibilities (WH - CO) Look at it this way: one DXer’s local pest is another DXer’s opportunity. Maybe this station will give someone a wanted Colorado station (Jim Tedford, WA, ibid.) ** U S A. CARRIER CURRENT/PART 15: 1670, WKUR, PA, Kutztown – 5/9 1518 [EDT] – “Kutztown University Radio” found on the car radio while taking a break from the Kutztown radio flea market. Strong signal at 3 miles away and covered the city pretty well, audible up to about 10 miles away. Format was album rock with plenty of breaks. Sure didn’t sound like one - tenth of a watt! (Dave Schmidt, Shrewsbury – Ford Focus car radio, NRC DX News June 9 via DXLD) “WKUR” is not an FCC assigned call, as this very low power station is legally operating without a license (Mike Brooker, ed., ibid.) I use http://FCCInfo.com It's not the official FCC.gov website, but it downloads fresh data from the FCC every day and presents it in a more usable fashion (Scott Fybush, WTFDA via DXLD) ** U S A. 88.1, May 29 at 1623 UT, after TVDX from Mexicali and Ensenada BC, MUF up into FM, yet not much on TV now; overriding the 88.1 Okies, promos for ``K-jazz``; 1624, ``K-jazz 88.1, member- supported jazz radio``. At first I assume it`s Phœnix, but wait a minute, the real KJZZ is not on 88.1! Do they have a satellite or translator on 88.1? Not per WTFDA FM database and anyhow this one IDs as on 88.1 originally. Further checking finds it must really be KKJZ, 30 kW in Long Beach CA, a.k.a. ``K-jazz``. HAAT is only 137 meters, so must not be on Mt Wilson. City-to-city distance to Long Beach: 1870/1162/1010 km/sm/nm. 90.7, May 29 at 1635 UT, find one other FM Es signal on a relatively clear frequency here: interview with the late Maya Angelou (who came up with a much classier name than her née), but not // with Tavis Smiley doing the same on OETA OKLA. Then to others reminiscing about her. Not recognizing Amy Goodman voice, but very likely `Democracy Now` as now scheduled to repeat on KPFK, Los Ángeles, which is on Mount Wilson, grandfathered 110 kW ERP up 863 meters AAT (this did not keep not one but two BCN stations from usurping the same frequency, unheard now.) Distance: 1846/1147/997. Fade after 2 or 3 minutes. 88.3, May 29 at 1643 UT, woman with community event about a wilderness adventure, see hillcrest.adventistspace.org (? no good link). ``To submit your event visit kaxl.com``. Fade out and back in, at first thought another station: 1647 ``Life FM`` after music, two M DJ chat about how no great explorers were women since they always stop and ask for direxions, yuk2. Finally another ``Life FM`` non-ID and PDT timecheck for 10 till 10 at 1650 UT. Meanwhile I had searched on that slogan for 88.3 in the WTFDA db and got only one hit anywhere: KAXL in Greenacres (Bakersfield) CA, 21 kW. Distance km/sm/nm: 1915/1190/1034. Recording clips: http://www.w4uvh.net/kaxl1.mp3 http://www.w4uvh.net/kaxl2.mp3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. COLLEGE RADIO IS DYING — AND WE NEED TO SAVE IT http://www.salon.com/2014/06/02/college_radio_is_dying_and_we_need_to_save_it/ Sent from my iPhone (Dennis Gibson, June 3, ABDX via DXLD) Colleges long ago discovered that their radio stations don't need to be a financial burden along with being an educational asset. Administrators have seen that they can churn good money and free publicity if they become 'public' stations with professional staffing. Locally, look at the history of Fordham University's WFUV 90.7 FM. An entire generation of broadcasters came from WFUV and fed the NYC metro area with radio and TV personnel for decades. Fordham students became some of the very top people in our business. It was quite an impressive and influential 'mafia.' Awesome. Fordham pulled the plug on diverse and experimental college radio and became the voice of the aging hippie. Yes, today WFUV is very successful, but they really lost their educational purpose and mission. Not to mention how they dropped their community service to the German and Indian communities and all the other cool stuff you used to hear there. Ironically, some of those same people returned to WFUV decades later as professionals with the college kids being buried way off mic behind the scenes. I feel very sad and bitter about how WFUV evolved, along with hundreds of other college stations. Unless you make the business attractive, the next generation won't be excited about it. Such a shame. In a nutshell: Colleges killed college radio. Let's make money, you capitalist educators! Nothing is sacred (Karl Zuk N2KZ, NY, ibid.) The students need to offer their programming to another broadcaster in the area and make some money for themselves. Or they can just all leave and do an Internet station. Sounds like the professors wanted NPR. We have a couple low power college stations here. UC Irvine has an FM, I think it's 200 watts. Palomar College has KKSM-1320. I used to hear them during the day but for several years their signal doesn't make it here. Don't know what happened. They are audible in the car driving north until you get to San Clemente (Martin Foltz, Mission Viejo CA, ibid.) From what I have seen, a lot of the larger universities in big cities have drifted away from using their radio and television stations as training grounds for broadcasting students. Instead of using students to staff many of the positions in the stations, which would obviously cost them nothing, they have locked the doors to students and hired paid staffers to run the stations. Then they have to beg to the public for operating funds to pay those hired staffers. Meanwhile, the students are denied the hands-on experience that would benefit them in entering the field after graduating. It is a lose-lose situation, but the powers that be in large universities seem to lack the ability to recognize it. Go figure. 73, (Kit W5KAT, CO, ibid.) I'm pleased to tell you that college radio is not dying everywhere. At at least two places I can think of -- KIWR 89.7 in Council Bluffs, IA, and KUOM-770 in Minneapolis -- the colleges ditched the NPR formats and let the students take over with alternative rock and other independent programming. KBCO-1190 in Boulder (owned by the Univ. of Colorado) does the same thing. I think it's great that they're being given the freedom to run things. 73 (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, ibid.) The former KBCO (1190) Boulder has been KVCU for a few years. I listen to them once in a while and their music is very eclectic. It just depends on what time of day you tune in. The one thing they don't do very well is ID. It has been a while since I have listened to their ambient overnights, but they never did a legal ID in the overnight hours when that was on. There was no talk at all, just ambient music. Very relaxing and nice to fall asleep to. 73, (Kit W5KAT, CO, ibid.) Radio K, 770 KUOM, is a huge presence in the Twin Cities. They sign on at 6 am 365 days out of the year and sign off at local sunset. When mandated they sign on with I believe 500 Watts. Otherwise, their 5 kW I believe makes them the most powerful AM radio station in the country. [???? gh] But that's just their AM side. 106.7 is a shared frequency with the St. Louis Park high school. Though a mere 10 Watts, it for years was their on[ly?] outlet to be 24 hours between 770 and 106.7. This relationship is going on to this day. Then came their 10 W (or so) translator on 100.7 around 10? years ago or so on their AM transmitter in Lauderdale, next to the UofM St. Paul campus giving students a much needed 24-hr stereo presence. Within the last 5 years their most powerful FM translator came on the air on 104.5 with 99 Watts. Now the Minneapolis side of the UofM had crystal clear reception coming from the top of the IDS tower in downtown Minneapolis. Shortly, within a year or so, 100.7 amped up to 99w and still from Lauderdale. My guess is that in time they would want to possess a frequency with more power. 89.3, The Current, is a 100 kW alternative to Radio K and is owned by Minnesota Public Radio and has one other outlet in Rochester and two other HD-2 channels in Minnesota with is pure alternative radio owned by MPR. The next station is Macalaster`s 91.7, WMCN in St. Paul. Bob Dylan went to this eclectic college. WMCN tries to have a more college feel by having their DJs interacting and talking more. With only 10 Watts [sic] and a OC blocking WMCN in Minneapolis and transmitter problems, makes them harder to hear. Also just on during the school year. 88.1 Northfield was occasionally heard here in Woodbury before WAJC came on. Also just on during the school year. 88.7 River Falls has just 4-5 hours of college programming during the school year otherwise its WPR. College radio is very alive in Minnesota (Todd Skaine, Woodbury, MN, 2010 or car radio, ibid.) ** U S A. It's a really bad idea to tell the FCC that their rules and regulations don't apply to you. http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014/db0603/DA-14-764A1.pdf Sent from my iPhone (Dennis Gibson, ABDX via DXLD) Viz.: $15K Fine Imposed on Repeat Texas Pirate Radio Operators Details here http://www.fcc.gov/document/15k-fine-imposed-repeat-texas-pirate-radio-operators (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) viz.: Federal Communications Commission DA 14-764 Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of Walter Olenick and M. Rae Nadler-Olenick Austin, Texas File No.: EB-FIELDSCR-13-00010527 NAL/Acct. No.: 201432540001 FRN: 0023366628 FORFEITURE ORDER Adopted: June 3, 2014 Released: June 3, 2014 By the Regional Director, South Central Region, Enforcement Bureau: I. INTRODUCTION 1. We impose a penalty of $15,000 against Walter Olenick and M. Rae Nadler-Olenick for operating an unlicensed FM radio station on 90.1 MHz in Austin, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Olenick do not deny that they operated the unlicensed FM radio station after receipt of a written warning from the Enforcement Bureau that such action was illegal. Instead, Mr. and Mrs. Olenick assert without any support that they are not subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission. We reject these arguments, however, and order Mr. and Mrs. Olenick to pay the monetary penalty. 2. Specifically, in this Forfeiture Order (Order), we issue a monetary forfeiture in the amount of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) to Mr. and Mrs. Olenick for willfully and repeatedly violating Section 301 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (Act).1 The noted violations involved Mr. and Mrs. Olenick’s operation of an unlicensed radio transmitter. II. BACKGROUND 3. On February 19, 2014, the Enforcement Bureau’s Houston Office (Houston Office) issued a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (NAL) to Mr. and Mrs. Olenick for operating an unlicensed radio transmitter in Austin, Texas. As reflected in the NAL, on August 12 and November 19, 2013, agents from the Houston Office determined that an unlicensed radio station was operating on the frequency 90.1 MHz from Mr. and Mrs. Olenick’s apartment building in Austin, Texas. The radio signals were emanating from an antenna mounted atop a large tower attached to the apartment building, and cables ran from that antenna into what appeared to be a non-residential room, such as a utility or maintenance room. On September 6, 2013, the Houston Office issued Mr. and Mrs. Olenick a written warning letter, which advised them that the operation of an unlicensed radio station on the frequency 90.1 MHz from their property violated the Act. 4. In response to the NAL, Mr. and Mrs. Olenick asserted that they had no “commercial nexus” with the Commission and were not subject to the Commission’s rules and regulations. Specifically, Mr. and Mrs. Olenick’s NAL Response stated that they “specifically deny that [they] are fiduciaries to anyone or anything for which any part of Title 47 is now or has ever been part of any trust indenture or agreement.” They also admitted to owning the tower and do not deny operating the unlicensed radio station. III. DISCUSSION 5. The proposed forfeiture amount in this case was assessed in accordance with Section 503(b) of the Act,10 Section 1.80 of the Commission’s rules (Rules),11 and the Forfeiture Policy Statement. In examining Mr. and Mrs. Olenick’s NAL Response, Section 503(b)(2)(E) of the Act requires that the Commission take into account the nature, circumstances, extent, and gravity of the violation and, with respect to the violator, the degree of culpability, any history of prior offenses, ability to pay, and other such matters as justice may require. 6. We affirm the NAL’s finding that Mr. and Mrs. Olenick violated Section 301 of the Act. Section 301 of the Act states that no person shall use or operate any apparatus for the transmission of energy or communications or signals by radio within the United States. Specifically, Section 301 of the Act prohibits communications “from one place in any State, Territory, or possession of the United States or in the District of Columbia to another place in the same State, Territory, possession, or District,” or from one place within a State to another State, except under and in accordance with the Act and with a license granted under the provisions of the Act. Thus, Section 301 of the Act explicitly sets forth the Commission’s jurisdiction over all radio transmissions, both interstate and intrastate. It is undisputed that Mr. and Mrs. Olenick operated an unlicensed radio station on the frequency 90.1 MHz from their apartment building in Austin, Texas. Although Mr. and Mrs. Olenick appear to question the Commission’s jurisdiction over this matter because they claim that they have no “commercial nexus” with the Commission, Section 301 explicitly sets forth the Commission’s jurisdiction over all radio transmissions and does not limit the Commission’s authority to situations where a “commercial nexus,” however defined, is present. Thus, contrary to the Olenicks’ assertion, the Commission does not lack jurisdiction over the use of radio transmitting equipment within the State of Texas. Therefore, based on the evidence before us, we conclude that Mr. and Mrs. Olenick willfully and repeatedly violated Section 301 of the Act by operating radio transmission equipment without the required Commission authorization. We also caution Mr. and Mrs. Olenick that continued unlicensed operations may result in additional sanctions, including higher forfeitures, equipment seizures, and criminal prosecution. Mr. and Mrs. Olenick also allege that agents from the Houston Office trespassed on their property. However, the agents did not enter the Olenicks’ property and were able to determine that radio transmissions were emanating from an antenna mounted on an approximately 50-foot tall tower and observe a coaxial cable running from the antenna into what appeared to be a maintenance room from outside the Olenicks’ property. 9 Mr. and Mrs. Olenick deny any responsibility for any “account” or “FRN” numbers. The Enforcement Bureau generated a NAL Account Number for EB-FIELDSCR-13-00010527 for tracking purposes. Similarly, the Enforcement Bureau obtained a FRN for Mr. and Mrs. Olenick to track any forfeiture payments made by them regarding this matter. IV. ORDERING CLAUSES 7. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that, pursuant to Section 503(b) of the Act, and Sections 0.111, 0.204, 0.311, 0.314, and 1.80(f)(4) of the Rules, Walter Olenick and M. Rae Nadler-Olenick ARE JOINTLY AND SEVERALLY LIABLE FOR A MONETARY FORFEITURE in the amount of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for violations of Section 301 of the Act. 8. Payment of the forfeiture shall be made in the manner provided for in Section 1.80 of the Rules within thirty (30) calendar days after the release date of this Order.19 If the forfeiture is not paid within the period specified, the case may be referred to the U.S. Department of Justice for enforcement of the forfeiture pursuant to Section 504(a) of the Act. Mr. and Mrs. Olenick shall send electronic notification of payment to SCR-Response@fcc.gov on the date said payment is made. 9. The payment must be made by check or similar instrument, wire transfer, or credit card, and must include the NAL/Account Number and FRN referenced above. Regardless of the form of payment, a completed FCC Form 159 (Remittance Advice) must be submitted. When completing the FCC Form 159, enter the Account Number in block number 23A (call sign/other ID) and enter the letters “FORF” in block number 24A (payment type code). Below are additional instructions you should follow based on the form of payment you select: Payment by check or money order must be made payable to the order of the Federal Communications Commission. Such payments (along with the completed Form 159) must be mailed to Federal Communications Commission, P.O. Box 979088, St. Louis, MO 63197-9000, or sent via overnight mail to U.S. Bank – Government Lockbox #979088, SL-MO-C2- GL, 1005 Convention Plaza, St. Louis, MO 63101. Payment by wire transfer must be made to ABA Number 021030004, receiving bank TREAS/NYC, and Account Number 27000001. To complete the wire transfer and ensure appropriate crediting of the wired funds, a completed Form 159 must be faxed to U.S. Bank at (314) 418-4232 on the same business day the wire transfer is initiated. Payment by credit card must be made by providing the required credit card information on FCC Form 159 and signing and dating the Form 159 to authorize the credit card payment. The completed Form 159 must then be mailed to Federal Communications Commission, P.O. Box 979088, St. Louis, MO 63197-9000, or sent via overnight mail to U.S. Bank – Government Lockbox #979088, SL-MO-C2-GL, 1005 Convention Plaza, St. Louis, MO 63101. 10. Any request for full payment over time under an installment plan should be sent to: Chief Financial Officer—Financial Operations, Federal Communications Commission, 445 12th Street, S.W., Room 1-A625, Washington, D.C. 20554.22 If you have questions regarding payment procedures, please contact the Financial Operations Group Help Desk by phone, 1-877-480-3201, or by e-mail, ARINQUIRIES@fcc.gov 11. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this Order shall be sent by both First Class and Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested, to Walter Olenick and M. Rae Nadler-Olenick at their address of record. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Dennis P. Carlton Regional Director, South Central Region Enforcement Bureau (via DXLD) Footnotes deleted for better legibility here. Nowhere is it mentioned what kind of programming this was running. May well be the so-called Genesis Communications Network, http://www1.gcnlive.com/CMS/index.php/affiliates also supplying some programming to far-right extremist SW stations, such as Alex Jones. And/or the Republic Broadcasting Network. And the Austin feed was relayed for a while on FM pirates we heard in Oklahoma City and another briefly in Enid. Using 90.1 illegally in Austin no doubt blox reception of leftist Pacifica`s KPFT from Houston, a tidy bonus (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. TWO HUGE PIRATE FINES IN FLORIDA Radio NK June 2, 2014 The FCC Enforcement Bureau is imposing a fine of $25,000 against Damian Anthony Ojouku Allen for operating a pirate radio station in Fort Lauderdale (at 101.1), and imposing a $20,000 fine against Marc- Nus Charles for operating an unlicensed FM radio station in Pompano Beach (at 92.5). The Commission says Allen has been warned several times and has also been fined once before. "The fact that Mr. Allen would commit the same violation on the same frequency demonstrates a deliberate disregard for the Commission’s authority and its rules, warranting a significant $25,000 penalty." The Commission says the $20,000 fine against Charles is also a result of warnings being ignored. Read the Allen Forfeiture Orders here http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014/db0602/DA-14-741A1.pdf and here http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014/db0602/DA-14-741A1.pdf http://www.radioink.com/Article.asp?id=2798008&spid=24698 (via Mike Terry, UK, June 3, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. Hello, friend of Talk Radio for Normal People! I host a daily, three-hour radio show that airs Monday through Friday on Chicago’s Progressive Talk and on the WCPT [820] web stream. You can also stream the show live at http://www.normangoldman.com Podcasts and a lot more are on my website – more on that below. The show is almost five years old and I am proud to have survived against Republican corporate ownership that controls most of America’s major market radio stations. Monday through Friday, from 3PM to 6PM Pacific (6-9PM Eastern; 5-8PM Central; 4-7PM Mountain [22-01 UT]) my team and I do an original, entertaining, fun, and informative show. 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Norm WCPT-AM & FM 5475 N. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60630 ChicagosProgressiveTalk.com (via Clara Listensprechen, WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DXLD) Wouldn`t it be great to have this show on SW to counter all the nonsense. Wonder if Norman is aware that is possible? (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. NEWS ITEM: Cumulus/Westwood One Consolidate Formats [via radioINSIGHT] Cumulus Media Networks and Westwood One are continuing their integration and merging their overlapping formats to avoid duplication. About ten full-time staffers at Cumulus’ Dallas headquarters (the former ABC Radio Networks) have been let go as their affiliates have been asked to switch over to the Westwood One produced programming beginning the second week of June. Stations that move over will receive new programming clocks and airstaffs. In the markets where both Cumulus Media Networks and Westwood One had affiliates in the same format each station will have separate music schedules and on-air lineups. The formats that will cease duplication out of Dallas include AC, Hot AC, Classic Rock and Mainstream Country (via Bill Hale, June WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) ** VANUATU. 3945, R. Vanuatu, Port Vila. Believed to be this. Poor signal during an early morning with high atmospheric noise making listening almost impossible at 1945. Persevered for 30 min until it faded (past sunrise at 7:15 am in Port Vila). Vastly different listening conditions compared with my last logging of this station on March 21. Tried the // 7260, but there was too much RFA and Firedrake covering that frequency (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Double Bazooka antennas for 80 and 40 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), June Australian DX News via DXLD) But no date on this log, sometime in May? 7260, R. Vanuatu, Port Vila. Very good in Bislama/English with some sort of counting results for a political party at 1037 on 6/5. Slight intermittent QRM from Xinjiang PBS Urumqi (going on and off, transmitter fault?). The Chinaman dominated at 1103 (John Adams, Beech Forest Vic (JRC NRD-535 Ewe), June Australian DX News via DXLD) ** VENEZUELA. Centro de Ondas Cortas Simon Bolivar (COCSB) de Radio Nacional de Venezuela Radio Nacional Venezuela, al parecer se quedó en maqueta y planos en cuanto a su proyectada planta transmisora , que sería construída en el estado Guárico, centro de Venezuela. Según se comenta por parte de DXistas venezolanos en la zona donde sería la planta transmisora, hay árboles y vegetación de sabana. En enero de 2012, en el II ENCUENTRO DIEXISTA COLOMBO-VENEZOLANO celebrado en San Cristóbal, fue invitado el Coordinador de la Onda Corta y no fué mucho lo que se informó del avance de la obra. De tal manera que se desconoce si esta obra fue paralizada o por el contrario está más avanzada de lo que en su debida oportunidad se ha informado. Al parecer "es un secreto de Estado muy bien guardado pues hay mucho hermetismo" Para confirmar el status, las direcciones de correo: canalinternacional@rnv.gov.ve infornv@rnv.gov.ve rnv@rnv.gov.ve resultan todos en destinatario desconocido *"host name unknown"*. Otro correo sugerido es otro correo: infornv@gmail.com En Facebook, Radio Nacional de Venezuela tiene su muro en https://www.facebook.com/RadioNacionaldeVenezuela Una carta solicitando información se ha enviado a la emisora por parte de Santiago San Gil González, CDXA, Barinas, Venezuela, con el siguiente tenor: "Carta publica al Servicio Internacional de Radio Nacional de Venezuela, solicitando información sobre el proyecto de el centro de ondas cortas Simón Bolívar en el Estado Guárico. Lic. Helena Salcedo Directora General Radio Nacional de Venezuela Servicio de Onda Corta Internacional Caracas Estimados amigos de RNV: Reciban un cordial saludo, en nombre de los socios activos del club diexistas de la amistad -C.DX.A -Internacional-, una institución sin fines de lucro que agrupa a nivel nacional e internacional a personas que practican la afición del diexismo, es decir la práctica de sintonizar y reportar estaciones de radios, las cuales por lo general operan en las ondas cortas. Precisamente por esta razón nos dirigimos a ustedes para solicitarles información pública sobre el proyecto de su emisora para emitir en ondas cortas desde su nuevo centro transmisor ubicado en el centro del país. A tal efecto nos preguntamos lo siguiente: 1) ¿que pasó con el proyecto "Centro de Ondas Cortas Simón Bolívar de Radio Nacional de Venezuela" en Las Mercedes, Estado Guárico? 2) ¿cómo van las obras de infraestructura, antenas, instalación de transmisores y equipos técnicos? 3) finalmente, ¿cuando comienzan sus transmisiones? En vista de que hay mucho interés a nivel nacional e internacional de diexistas y radioescuchas de ondas cortas, por el desarrollo de este proyecto y que, ante la falta de información, recurren a nuestro club DX para saber cómo ha evolucionado esta iniciativa. Ésta es la razón por la cual muy respetuosamente acudimos a usted para tener de primera mano dicha información. Además, de ser posible, nos gustaría recibir: fotos, videos, etc, de cómo van adelantados dichos trabajos o en su defecto ponernos en contacto con la persona encargada, quien nos puede suministrar información al respecto para darla a conocer a nuestros socios y otros clubes diexistas alrededor del mundo que sabrán valorar las buenas noticias que nos suministren. Sin más a que hacer referencia y a la espera de una pronta respuesta, reciban nuestro más cordial saludo Atentamente: Ing: Santiago San Gil González C.DX.A - Internacional Coordinación General Apartado Postal 202 Barinas 5201-a, Estado Barinas Venezuela Teléfono celular: 0426-4741300 Correo electronico: americaenantena @ yahoo.com Hasta el momento, esto es lo que se conoce del proyecto: http://venezueladx.blogspot.com/2011/07/centro-de-ondas-cortas-simon-bolivar.html [from almost three years ago] Y esto es lo que sería su programación: http://venezueladx.blogspot.com/2011/07/detalles-de-la-programacion-del-centro.html Compilado de comentarios resumidos y editados a partir del foro Cadena DX de Facebook (all via Horacio Nigro Geolkiewsky, Montevideo, Uruguay, condiglista yg Jun 2 via DXLD) Bottom line is that there is NO information coming out of RNV about how their SW project is progressing, if at all (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** VIETNAM. 6020, VoV, Buon Ma Thuot, Dac Lac. The VoV network 4 programming for minorities with charming Asian flute music at 1045 and announcements in local languages. Weak signal and flattened by China's own Voice of Minorities, a.k.a. Ethnic Minority Radio at s/on 1057 in Korean on 28/5. China also runs // 5975 which is also a good signal (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Double Bazooka antennas for 80 and 40 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), June Australian DX News via DXLD) VIETNAME, 9635, R. Voz do Vietname, Son Tay, 1011-1055, 02/6, vietnamita, texto; 23431, QRM do MALI (ausente, todavia, no espaço 1035-1050, aprox.); 23431 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** YEMEN. Unscheduled broadcast of Radio Sanaa in Arabic was noted on May 24: 1900-1915 on 6135 ALH 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME. Video on May 24 at 1904 UT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv-HYi6THmE&feature=youtu.be http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/05/dx-re-mix-news-854.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, Web: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/ DX RE MIX NEWS #854 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 30, 2014, via DXLD) Forgot to turn off transmitter promptly after English? (gh) ** ZAMBIA. 5915, Zambia Nat. B.C.: May 22 1600-1611, 23432, Vernacular, Fish eagle IS, Announce by man, Drums, Afro pop and talk. May 23 1600-1609, 23432-22432, Vernacular, Fish eagle IS, Drums, Talk and drums music. May 25 1600-1606, 23432, Vernacular, Fish eagle IS, Drums, Talk and local music. May 26 1600-1610, 23432-22432, Vernacular, Fish eagle IS, Drums, Talk and local music. May 29 1600-1609, 23332-22332, Vernacular, Fish eagle IS, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121, ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ZÂMBIA, 5915, ZNBC-Radio 1, Lusaka, 2119-2129, 01/6, dialecto local, canções africanas, texto; 35332 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 960, May 30 at 0501 UT during KGWA Fox-hole, once again, audible amid the QRM is somestation playing instrumental ``Let It Be`` Beatlesong. What is it?!? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4755-USB, May 31 at 0213, 2-way in Spanish as I tune across; an hour earlier, the usual US Navy MARS net was here (in English) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9669-SSB, May 30 at 0524, slurred colloquial Spanish 2- way INTRUDERs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9989-USB, June 1 at 0617, Spanish 2-way (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 12120.5-SSB, June 3 at 1315, 2-way in Spanish discussing some commodity in kilos, with ``engine noise`` in background, and RTTY QRM in foreground (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 14000-SSB, May 30 at 1319, colloquial Spanish 2-way, some whistling, vs carrier bursts with descending pitch; presumed poachers rather than legit hams who would not be on phone at the lower edge of the 20m band. Mentioned Isla Santa Isabel, times of moonrise and moonset. There are islands by that name in Galápagos and Guinea Ecuatorial, but presumably this is the Mexican one off Nayarit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 87.9: Maybe you can help me out with a really oddball reception. In my car I have been hearing a station on 87.9 FM with Caribbean sounding music, often with a jive disc jockey doing announces 'hot potting' his mic over the music. Sometimes it is just a disc jockey talking about whatever. The language is not English or Spanish or French. My best guess is Creole (Karl Zuk, WTFDA via DXLD) Karl -- My last trip to NYC at Thanksgiving netted me the following log which could well be what you are hearing --- Not a pirate, but a legit LP broadcaster using the 'channel 6 analog' loophole to get on the radio. They were in English as I listened then however, Creole, Spanish and French would not be beyond the realm of possibilities given their 'market' --- Channel 6 (88.75 MHz WFM) WNYZ-LP Long Island City NY with "Wee Radio" non-IDs and mention of NYC Caribbean Radio as well as as the station's advertising department's phone number [(718) 705-4454], and other identifying information, and a discussion of a Georgetown Guyana event that they went into great detail to discuss things like the traffic congestion it was causing but they NEVER said what the event was! :) Ads for MGN Funding for Caribbean mortgages with NY Direct number (718 area code) and many "Number 1 Caribbean station" slogans. Heard well 1908-1925 [EST?], but no video seen at all despite the fact their web page mentions that you can 'watch them on Roku' – apparently the requirement that channel 6 actually broadcast something in video is no longer enforced! JFK is within their 'primary service contour' and they came in with full quieting. 1/Dec (Ken Zichi NY, via WTFDA via DXLD) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED on WORLD OF RADIO 1724: I know that you keep quite busy helping us radio people find their way, and we appreciate it. A small token, hope it helps (Jerry KC5YRE Ervine, Mission TX, with an MO to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702) TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: David Cole, Goodwell OK, for a generous hand-delivered check PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ HITLIST, DX PROGRAMS, WORLD OF RADIO SKEDS UPDATED World of Radio schedule: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html DX/SWL/Media programs: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html Alan Roe`s Shortwave Station Hitlist: http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm (Glenn Hauser, June 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FCCINFO.COM I use a ton of FCC data every day. I almost never access it directly through fcc.gov. Instead, I use a different front end to the database. FCCInfo.com is operated by the Cavell & Mertz consulting firm, but it's offered as a free service to the engineering community, and it's hugely valuable. Try it with WOKV, for instance: within just a couple of clicks of the main search page, you get the DA pattern, a "map it" link that provides a variety of choices for mapping the station, links to the ASRN registrations for the station's towers, a link that can bring up everything else licensed to the same licensee name, a link to all the applications filed by WOKV, and on and on. If anyone's interested in a more comprehensive FCCInfo.com tutorial, I'd be happy to offer one. It's a very powerful site, and it's 100% free. As for coverage maps vs. pattern diagrams, there's considerable value to both, as long as you know what you're using them for. Radio- Locator`s documentation is pretty clear about what their maps do and don't show - for instance, they acknowledge that their maps don't show co- and adjacent-channel interference, such as that from 680 Tampa against 690 Jax. At the same time, a coverage map (which is essentially pattern x power, as modified by ground conductivity) can be much more useful than just a pattern diagram to indicate the real- world reach of a signal like WOKV by day, which gets that phenomenal salt-water boost up and down the coast. s (Scott Fybush, Rochester NY, May 31, ABDX via DXLD) PATTERN MAPS vs COVERAGE There's a very important point to understand here, which a lot of us on the DX side tend to gloss over: There is *no such animal* as a "pattern map." The reason AM station patterns are displayed on applications (and on sites such as FCCInfo.com) on a diagram of compass points is because the pattern, as specified in a station's license, defines only the near field radiation coming out of the antenna. That's something plotted only against compass points, not against a map. Take a look at the WOKV night license, here: http://licensing.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/Auth_Files/1132497.pdf There's no map there - just a list of what the antenna current and phase are supposed to be at each of the six towers to achieve the desired pattern. In the specific case of WOKV, there are special operating conditions that outline monitoring points at specific locations within the pattern nulls, at which the measured field strength can't exceed specific levels. The "pattern maps" in the NRC pattern books, for instance, admit that they don't really show what they appear to show. ("Sizes are proportional, but do not reflect the actual coverage areas due to the many factors which enter into the equation of where and how far an AM signal travels and can be heard.") Superimposing a raw pattern diagram on a map is useful only to the extent that it tells you that the signal leaving the antenna is weaker in one direction than it is in another. I suppose it's useful for very coarse purposes - if I'm in Asheville, NC trying to hear WBT at night, it would show me the nulls that exist on 1110 between WBT and KFAB that prevent me from hearing either one. But it's what happens to the signal once it leaves the antenna that really tells the story of what you can hear or not hear. That's why Radio-Locator does what it does with its AM maps: within at least a limited set of factors (mostly ground conductivity), while ignoring others (co- and adjacent-channel interference, terrain obstacles to high-angle skywave, and indeed skywave at all in most circumstances), it shows you what happens to the signal once it leaves the antenna. And thus it shows you that WOKV by day makes Myrtle Beach just fine, while WOKV on night pattern leaves Myrtle Beach thinking it's off the air. (And incidentally, even if WOKV used ND from the night site at lower power, it still wouldn't get to Myrtle Beach very well, because those extra 20 miles or so between Baldwin and salt water would block most of the signal.) I'm a big believer that data display should show what it purports to show, without misleading. There is no way to superimpose a raw pattern diagram on a map that has any real-world meaning. That data has to be modified by the real-world effects of what happens when it leaves the antenna to make any sense when plotted on a map. This is complicated stuff, I know. But AM engineering *is* complicated. My understanding of it only begins to scratch the surface, and I've been at it for more than 25 years now. s (Scott Fybush, ibid.) This was in a long ABDX thread starting with WOKV 690 Jacksonville FL discussing the differences between coverage maps and patterns (gh) FCC PSRA/PSSA INFO [Pre-sunrise/post-sunset authorization] IS INVALID! > As for WAXB 850 Ridgefield, CT, their PSSA authority is complicated. > They operate at 14, 11 or 7 watts non-directional after local > sunset. WAXB is authorized for two hours past local sunset and drops > power in a one hour at a time process. For the detailed schedule, > take a look at this FCC letter: [Karl Zuk] It's actually even more complicated than that. The FCC issued a round of PSSA authority letters in 2007, like the one shown here for WAXB, but they were flawed, apparently because the FCC used an incorrect set of parameters. While those 2007 PSSA letters remain available on the FCC website, they were rescinded by the Commission and are *not* valid authorizations that stations can use! They really should have been deleted from CDBS at that point. Instead, the FCC went back to its previous policy: if a station has the printed letters that the Commission issued when originally granting the PSSA/PSRA powers in the 1980s, it can continue to use the powers specified there (which were generally higher than the 2007 power levels). But that comes with a HUGE catch: the FCC itself lost all the 1980s PSSA/PSRA data somewhere in the conversion to the CDBS database. So it's basically "scout`s honor" - if the station itself has the documentation and can show it to an inspector, it can legally use those power levels. If it doesn't have the paperwork, there is no evidence anywhere else of that authority --- and there is NO centralized database that any of us can use on the outside to say with certainty that a station with PSSA can or can't be operating with a certain power level after sunset! The best compilation (and even it is imperfect) is the data the NRC collected for the AM Log. It is symptomatic of the FCC's general neglect of AM engineering that despite several appeals over the years from consulting engineers and station owners, no serious attempt has been made to clean up that particular mess. S (Scott Fybush, NY, ABDX via DXLD) Interesting comment, Scott. As far as I can tell, in this particular case, WAXB really does lower it's power another step down in the second hour of their PSSA. Exactly what that power actually is may never be known, but it is lower. I agree it may be higher than listed in this letter. 7 watts on 850 kcs using a single stick adjacent to a school bus parking lot is a hard sell. That swatch of real estate is in the minor leagues of swampy at very best. They can't have a big ground mat. There's not enough room. As I recall, this is a Dennis Jackson creation and he can be quite creative to get to the engineering finish line in a good way. I can hear them at (I'm guessing) about 5 miles away at 7 watts with complete regularity using spartan radios (like a bareback Sony ultralight.) (Karl Zuk, ibid.) With reference to what Scott said, It's actually even more complicated than that. The FCC issued a round of PSSA authority letters in 2007, like the one shown here for WAXB, but they were flawed, apparently because the FCC used an incorrect set of parameters. While those 2007 PSSA letters remain available on the FCC website, they were rescinded by the Commission and are *not* valid authorizations that stations can use! They really should have been deleted from CDBS at that point. I believe what sparked those letters was the extension of Daylight Saving Time into March and November. The FCC must have panicked that some of the daytimers might transmit with day power during the dark hours so they spelled out what they wanted. I am unaware how our local station on 790 kHz, which has one of those letters in the database, finally got licensed for 100 watts at night. I have somewhere in my files a photo copy of a telegram from the FCC authorizing the station for the pre-sunrise power of 500 watts beginning at 6:00 A. M. I don't know what the status of that would be after all these years (Bob Smoak, ibid.) SHORTWAVE MUSIC +++++++++++++++ Hello and welcome to Listening Post for June. Firstly this month, many thanks to our regular contributor Rafael Martinez, who sends a link to his own personal LW/MW, SW and FM music programme listings for A14. You'll find it at: http://blocs.mesvilaweb.cat/node/view/id/263371 Rafael also sends links to Aleksandr Egorov's A14 music programmes listings via dxing.ru. The LW / MW listing is at: http://dxing.ru/informatsija/54-muzyka-v-am-efire/1310-muzyka-na-svdvpo-vremeni.html and SW at: http://dxing.ru/informatsija/54-muzyka-v-am-efire/1275-muzyka-nakv-po-vremeni.html Thanks Rafael! (Alan Roe, June BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) MUSEA +++++ SAVING HISTORY FROM THE DUMPSTER This source of broadcast equipment manuals and brochures may be of use to both engineers and equipment enthusiasts. Some are quite old and may be difficult to find elsewhere. It also has many links to broadcasting history websites. http://louise.hallikainen.org/BH/index.php/HomePage (via Dennis Gibson, June 4, Sent from my iPhone, ABDX via DXLD) == From the archives == (Broadcasting Magazine, August 16, 1971:) LID IS CLAMPED ON YONKERS PIRATES Pirate radio stations broadcasting for over 18 months from Yonkers, N.Y., went off air Friday (Aug. 13). Stations' owners, Joseph Ferraro, 23, and Allan H. Weiner, 18, were arraigned in federal district court in New York last week and charged with criminal violation of Communications Act of 1934 in operating radio stations without license. They pleaded not guilty to charges --- Mr. Weiner stating he and his companion were warned to stop broadcasting by FCC last January but were "laughed at" when they attempted to obtain a license. "We didn't do it for the money or politics," he said, "somebody's got to show the FCC that their domination of the airwaves is just not logical." Call letters used were WXMN-FM at 87.9 MHz, WKOV(AM) at 1620 kHz (with WSEX-FM and WFSR-AM alternating daily on some frequencies). All programed talk and music from noon to 4 a.m. daily. Stations' facilities, which cost about $3,000, were open to anyone who had something to say, operators said. No advertising was accepted and costs were covered by donations. Maine Radio (Broadcasting Yearbook, 1979) WXMN(FM) Nov 7, 1977: 89.5 MHz; 10 w. Ant 50 ft. Monticello Community Broadcasting Corp. Box 112, Monticello, Maine (04760). (207) 538-9538. Format: Variety. Allan Weiner, pres; Michael Schaltman, gen mgr. (via Larry Will, Free Radio Weekly May 31 via DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ RADIO AIRWAVES GET BUZZED FROM POT By Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY BOULDER -- A few years ago, retired electrical engineer Tom Thompson noticed it was getting harder and harder to hear his friends across the country talking to him on their ham radio sets. So Thompson built a portable antenna system to track down whatever was interfering with his radio transmission. The culprit? Marijuana grow operations, whose powerful grow lights can emit interference blocking radio broadcasts on the ham and AM spectrums. The first grower he encountered wasn't pleased to know Thompson, now 73, could tell what was going on. "He said, 'What are you going to do, call the cops?'" Thompson said. "And I said, 'Well no, it's a federal matter.'" With 22 states and the District of Columbia allowing medical marijuana, and Colorado and Washington permitting recreational use, there's been an explosion in the number of people growing their own pot, much of it indoors. With that growth has come increasing interference from the grow lights, which suck down huge amounts of electricity to shine upon budding marijuana plants. Growing pot indoors is usually more secure and gives the grower more control over light, water and insects, which results in higher-quality plants commanding a premium price. The interference problems from one type of system have gotten so bad that the amateur radio association, ARRL, filed a formal federal complaint on behalf of the country's 720,000 licensed ham operators. The problems are worst in Colorado and California, said Sean Kutzko, an ARRL spokesman. The interference is caused by what are known as "ballasts," electronic systems controlling the grow lights. Unless they're properly shielded, the ballasts can throw off a wide range of interference. "We're seeing numerous cases ... and that's causing us a problem," Kutzko said. "We just want to make sure the manufacturers are in compliance with FCC laws." The FCC has the power to regulate anything that interferes with licensed radio transmissions, such as ham sets, but also cellphones and AM radios (USA Today via Mike Cooper, DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ [Ips-dsgr] IPS daily solar and geophysical report feedback request Dear Customer, A Review of Bureau of Meteorology Space Weather Services is under way and seeking customer feedback. As the results of this review may affect the products you are subscribed to or have purchased, we feel it important that customers have an opportunity to contribute. Details at http://review.ips.gov.au/ Thanks and regards, (IPS Radio and Space Services email: asfc @ ips.gov.au PO Box 1386 WWW: http://www.ips.gov.au Haymarket NSW 1240 AUSTRALIA FTP: ftp://ftp.ips.gov.au tel: +61 2 9213 8010 fax: +61 2 9213 8060 May 29 via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2014 Jun 02 0321 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 26 May - 01 June 2014 Solar activity was predominately low with very low levels observed on 30 May. Region 2065 (S19, L=150, class/area Dai/180 on 25 May) produced a majority of the activity including the period`s largest event, a C4 X-ray event at 27/1415 UTC. Regions 2071 (S12, L=080, class/area Dac/150 on 21 May), 2076 (S19, L=051, class/area Dao/050 on 28 May) and 2077 (S06, L=300, class/area Dai/110 on 01 Jun) all produced low-level C-class activity through the period. On 01 Jun at 0137 UTC, Region 2079 (N12, L=282, class/area Hsx/120 on 01 Jun) produced a C2/Sf X-ray event near the NE limb with a pair of closely spaced Type II radio sweeps associated with the event. Estimated shock velocities were recorded at 1015 and 892 km/s. No Earth-directed CMEs were observed during the period. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at moderate levels on 26 and 27 May and at normal levels the remainder of the period. Geomagnetic field activity was predominately quiet through the period. Isolated unsettled periods were observed midday on 29 May and isolated active periods late on 30 May, both instances due to prolonged periods of southward Bz. Solar wind speeds, measured at the ACE spacecraft, began the period at about 400 km/s and gradually declined to near 325 km/s by 29 May. Wind speeds remained steady between 325 to 340 km/s through midday on 31 May where a further decline to end-of-period speeds of about 290 km/s were observed. Bt generally ranged from 2 to 5 nT with a period of 6 to 11 nT observed from midday on 30 May to early on 01 Jun. The Bz component followed a similar pattern with weak variability between +/- 3 nT through a majority of the period. However, from about 29/0830 UTC to about 01/0100 UTC, Bz varied between +9 to -10 nT. The phi component was in a mostly positive (away) sector through the summary period. A negative (towards) orientation was observed from 26/0000 UTC - 28/0100 UTC and again from 29/0600 UTC - 30/1300 UTC. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 02 JUNE - 28 JUNE 2014 Solar activity is expected to be at low levels with a slight chance for moderate activity after 08 Jun with the return of old Region 2065 (S19, L=151). No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal levels for most of the period with moderate conditions possible from 08 - 12 Jun and again from 21 - 23 Jun. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels on 03 - 04 Jun, 06 - 08 Jun (with isolated active intervals on 07 Jun), 18 - 19 Jun, 25 - 26 Jun and finally on 28 Jun, all due to recurrent coronal hole high speed streams. Quiet conditions are expected for the remaining days of the forecast period. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2014 Jun 02 0321 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 2014-06-02 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2014 Jun 02 110 5 2 2014 Jun 03 110 8 3 2014 Jun 04 110 8 3 2014 Jun 05 110 5 2 2014 Jun 06 110 8 3 2014 Jun 07 110 10 4 2014 Jun 08 115 8 3 2014 Jun 09 120 5 2 2014 Jun 10 120 5 2 2014 Jun 11 120 5 2 2014 Jun 12 120 5 2 2014 Jun 13 120 5 2 2014 Jun 14 120 5 2 2014 Jun 15 120 5 2 2014 Jun 16 115 5 2 2014 Jun 17 115 5 2 2014 Jun 18 110 8 3 2014 Jun 19 110 8 3 2014 Jun 20 110 5 2 2014 Jun 21 105 5 2 2014 Jun 22 105 5 2 2014 Jun 23 105 5 2 2014 Jun 24 100 5 2 2014 Jun 25 100 8 3 2014 Jun 26 95 8 3 2014 Jun 27 95 5 2 2014 Jun 28 95 8 3 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1724, DXLD) TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING ++++++++++++++++++++++++ FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION We were surprised and pleased to see a TV spot from FFRF presented by Ron Reagan, the best legacy of President Reagan, on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report --- it should have been an unpaid PSA, but it`s a start, apparently only aired there so far. 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