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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1727 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Antarctica non, Ascension, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Germany, Greece, Iraq non, Korea North, Malaysia, North America, Papua New Guinea, Sarawak non, Sweden, Tajikistan, UK non, USA, Vietnam SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1727, June 26-July 2, 2014 Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 1230 WRMI 9955 Thu 2100 WBCQ 7490 [confirmed on webcast] Thu 2100 WTWW 9475 [confirmed] Fri 0326v WWRB 5050 [confirmed at 0327] 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 [still with France via Taiwan QRM?] Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1728 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. Dear Drita, Hello from the USA. Listened to Radio Tirana June 21, 2014 9845 kHz 0129 - 0157 UT. Ident signal, sign-on by female. News with an item on relations between Albania and Israel, "Press Review", "Albanian Music" and "Profile" (featuring Albanian painters). Program Comment: I sincerely appreciate Albania being on shortwave. However, the monotone delivery of the female presenter makes listening extremely difficult and boring. Reception Conditions: SINPO 33543 with something in the upper sideband of 9845 kHz causing a hash type noise. Also, Radio Tirana appears off frequency. I had the center frequency as 9844.968 kHz instead of 9845. Receiving Equipment: WinRadio G33DDC SDR Excalibur Pro receiver with a Wellbrook ALA1530S+ Imperium Loop antenna. 73, (Kraig Krist, Manassas, Virginia, USA, June 21, to R. Tirana, via Drita Çiço, DXLD) Thank you very much indeed, Kraig, for your reception report. The deviation (-32 Hz) of our frequency 9845 kHz (9 MHz 845 kHz) English Program to North America, in fact, is within allowed deviation +,-90 Hz (plus+, minus- 10 Hz per 1 MHz) on Short Waves. Best case would be 'zero' deviation of frequencies. All the best from sunny warm Tirana, (Drita Cico, Head of Monitoring Center, RTSH-Radio Tirana, via DXLD) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476, 16/6 1935, R. Nac. Arcángel San Gabriel - Base Esperanza, Spanish, news, sufficient (Roberto Pavanello, Vercelli / Italia, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** ANTARCTICA [non]. BBCWS have now confirmed the three frequencies for tomorrow's Mid-Winter broadcast (21 June) 2130-2200 UT: "Dear Alan, Thanks again for the query and reminder. Ergo, hot off the press - the frequencies will be: 7350 kHz, Ascension, 207 degrees 5875 kHz, Woofferton, 184 degrees 5985 kHz, Dhabayya, 203 degrees Hope this helps/works. All best, Dejan, BBC World Service" On the basis of Alan's [Roe] monitoring of the test the other evening, then 5875 and 7350 should give best reception here in the UK? 73's (Alan Pennington, June 20, BDXC_UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD Frequencies for the yearly BBC midwinter special to the British Antarctic Survey, June 21 at 2130-2200 have been confirmed via Alan Pennington, BDXC-UK as: 7350 kHz, Ascension, 207 degrees 5875 kHz, Woofferton, 184 degrees 5985 kHz, Dhabayya, 203 degrees And as expected no signals here, far off-target on the summer dayside. Only 7350 Ascension would be remotely possible, but at 2131 I can`t even hear 7490v WBCQ in the daytime absorption/noise level. Good luck to those further east and south. John Figliozzi in Halfmoon NY, tells the DXLD yg: ``7350 being heard well at 2132 here in upstate NY, steady at S8-9. The other two frequencies are completely inaudible`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7350 being heard well at 2132 here in upstate NY, steady at S8-9. The other two frequencies are completely inaudible (John Figliozzi, Halfmoon, NY, Eton E1XM, A/D DX Sloper, Sent from my iPad, June 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) British Antarctic Survey midwinter broadcast started abruptly at 2130, audible here on all three frequencies: 5875 Woofferton excellent 5985 Dhabbaya poor 7530 Ascension good (Dave Kenny, Caversham, AOR7030 + 25m long wire, BDXCUK yg via DXLD) here in southern Germany 5875 S=9+40 -32dBm powerhouse from Woofferton England, 5985 S=9+5 -67dBm as usual bad signal here in Europe, from Al Dhabbaya UAE 7350 S=9+25 -50dBm well signal, not bad more than fair signal from Ascension Isl. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The special BBC broadcast to Antarctica was heard at very good strength via both 5875 and 7350. The latter was a second or two behind the former. 73 (Noel R. Green (NW England), ibid.) And like last year one could note how eastern Germany was already outside the main beam of the Woofferton signal. Still 5875 was strongest, 7350 (with a noticeable delay) considerably weaker and 5985 just a faint carrier. What caught my attention: This appeared to be externally produced, the closure announcement went like "a XYZ production for BBC World Service". Makes one wonder what they still do themselves at all (Kai Ludwig, ibid.) More and more ``BBCWS`` programming is outsourced, just as transmission is. IIRC, years ago even the listeners response show (what was it called?) was not a BBCWS produxion (gh, DXLD) The Winter Solstice broadcast from the BBC was great listening today. Audio clips of the three frequencies used are now up on the Mount Evelyn DX Report. If you missed the transmission, here's a taste of the program for you. http://medxr.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/bbc-antarctic-transmission-great.html Cheers, everyone! (Rob Wagner VK3BVW, ARDXC via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD) viz: BBC ANTARCTIC TRANSMISSION --- Great Listening! Southeastern Australia is not really that far from the Antarctic Territories. So our reception of the special BBC Solstice broadcast to the British Antarctic Survey teams was probably a fair indication of how listeners in that region might have heard the broadcasts. Recording the Midwinter message at BAS, Cambridge, England As usual, there were many warm and heartfelt greetings to family members and colleagues. But, also included were wonderful greetings from English comedian Bill Bailey and a British astronaut who is currently training for duty on the International Space Station next year. Below are some snippets of recordings from all three frequencies used for the transmission, which will give you an indication of reception into Mount Evelyn. MONITORING REPORT - June 21, 2130-2200 UTC 5875 ENGLAND. BBC - Woofferton. Good clear signal, no QRM at 2130. Not quite as strong as 5985 kHz but very readable and consistent throughout the broadcast. [Hotlinx to audio appear in the original only when we view it with Firefox, not IE --- gh] Excerpt #1 includes a message from the British astronaut from the European Space Agency: Excerpt #2 includes the end-of-broadcast closing announcements and best wishes from the broadcast's announcers and producers: 5985.12, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. BBC - Dhabayya. Strong signal but with a little low level hum (strange!) at 2135, no QRM. Maintained good levels throughout the broadcast. Surprised to see it off frequency by so much; not very British!! ;-) Excerpt #3 includes best wishes from British professor Jane Francis, and from special guest well-wisher, comedian Bill Bailey: 7350, ASCENSION IS., BBC - Ascension. Started out as a reasonably good signal at 2138 but, surprisingly, it deteriorated rapidly to a rather weak signal by 2146, light QRM from China on 7345 kHz, but not really a problem there. Excerpt #4 is sample audio at 2138 UT when the signal on 7350 kHz was reasonably strong enough to copy easily: Excerpt #5 is sample audio of how this frequency deteriorated only 8 minutes later: There is a lovely article that appeared from the British Antarctic Survey online that provides some background behind the reasons for this special annual 30 minute broadcast. Here's the link: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=2665 So, if you couldn't hear the broadcast from your part of the world or weren't near your radio when it was transmitted, then I hope that these audio clips have given you a taste of "family" radio at its best. The BBC is to be congratulated for making this broadcast available each year, simultaneously from three different transmitter sites, in an effort to get the signals through to the good researchers and workers at the four British Antarctic stations. Watch out for the next year --- same time (probably!) but definitely on the same date!! 73 and have a great weekend, everyone! Rob Wagner VK3BVW (via DXLD) Last year`s was availablized ondemand in its entirety somewhere on the BBCWS or BAS website, but haven`t searched for it this year (gh, DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. 1670, Radio Rubi, fair, improving signal 0940 29/5 with Spanish talk, accordion music, adverts & ident over presumed KHPY also in Spanish (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai (Northland), North Island, New Zealand, with Drake SPR4, AOR7030+, EWEs to North, Central & South America, 100m BOG to NE and Alpha Delta Sloper antennas, June NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 2368.48, Radio Symban(?), checking 1253 to 1320, June 24. Almost daily have checked for any activity here, but for a long time had nothing at all; no trace of an open carrier, but yesterday Johno Wright (Australia) alerted me to the fact that Symban was being heard, so gave a very close listen and yes, found a definite open carrier below threshold level (no audio). Worthwhile to continue to check here for a day with especially good propagation. Thanks to Johno for the tip! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA [non]. UNIDENTIFIED. 3210, While looking for the Aussie Vintage FM around 0910, found a fairly strong signal here nearly equal to 3385 NBC East New Britain never noted before. Definite wisps of music and M announcer at times. Nowhere near enough audio to ID. Still in after the PNGs had faded. Also noted in the evening. So suspect its a harmonic of 1070. There are a number of possibilities. (23 June) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153' Delta Loop, Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. June 22 & 23 no hint of a Vintage FM open carrier on 3210, while monitoring about 1300. So assume still off the air since Ian's non-report (off the air) back on June 18 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This email just in from Craig (owner and operator of station on 3210 & 5050 kHz), in response to my report to him that I was missing Vintage FM on 3210. What programming will be on 5050 kHz? Different from 3210? Ron, California --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Craig Allen Date: Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 4:48 PM Subject: Re: Vintage FM - 3210 kHz. Hi Ron, We are working on the antenna and putting the 5.05 MHz service on air. Kind Regards, Craig Allen (via Ron Howard, WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also PUBLICATIONS ** AZERBAIJAN. I received e-mail from Mikhail Timofeyev: Ivo, I have one question: one unidentified ME/SoAs station is on 11760 with awful modulation/audio during the evenings at 1700-2000 UT at least, and at other time, maybe even 24 hours. Their transmitter is faulty and their wide signal is between 11750 and 11770 kHz. Do you have any info about it? Looks like as Radio Karabakh on 9677 kHz, or faulty Egyptian tx, etc. Thanks! Frequency change of Ictimai Radio (+Voice of Justice, Voice of Talyshistan) 1600-1700 NF 11757.5vSPK 010 kW / ND to CeAs Azeri, ex 9677.5v. See videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYOAYe434r0&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAIZ3DCfqjU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy8wPXY0mEE&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) June 21: Ictimai Radio in Azeri 1653 on new 11760 Stepanakert, ex 9677,5v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDTQEe5sGPw&feature=youtu.be Ictimai Radio in Azeri 1700 on new 11760 Stepanakert, blocked by Radio Liberty in Russian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY7cDe3CNNc&feature=youtu.be Ictimai Radio in Azeri 1706 on new 11760 Stepanakert, blocked by Radio Liberty in Russian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtX9blZjRkI&feature=youtu.be Ictimai Radio in Azeri 1800 on new 11760 Stepanakert, blocked by Radio Liberty in Russian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ92QDApTBc&feature=youtu.be Ictimai Radio in Azeri 1858 on new 11760 Stepanakert, blocked by Radio Liberty in Russian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFMfOlVl0JE&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Please remember that Stepanakert is about the least likely relayer of Baku programming at all. Looks like this distorted signal of Ictimai Radio originates from elsewhere in Azerbaijan, meant to block the signal from Stepanakert. In other words, it appears to be a jammer. I think this has already been observed on the previous 9.67 MHz frequency range. Probably the frequency change is even an attempt by the Karabakh Armenians to escape the jamming (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. Frequency change of Ictimai Radio. Very awful modulation / audio during the time period 13-19 at least and at other time, maybe even 24 hrs. 1300-1900 NF 11760 secret / hidden site to CeAs Azeri, ex 9677,5v. Between 1700-1900 totally blocked by R. Liberty in Russian. Other stations on 11760: 0000-0500 11760 HAB 100 kW / non-dir CeAm Spanish Radio Habana Cuba 0000-1200 11760 SZG 100 kW / 165 deg CHN Chinese China Nat.Radio 1 0023-0220 11760 KAM 500 kW / 274 deg SoAm Spanish VOIRI/IRIB 0323-0520 11760 SIR 500 kW / 336 deg WeAs Azeri VOIRI/IRIB 1100-1500 11760 HAB 100 kW / non-dir CeAm Spanish Radio Habana Cuba 1200-1257 11760 KUN 500 kW / 135 deg AUS English China Radio Inter 1300-1357 11760 KUN 500 kW / 135 deg AUS English China Radio Inter 1500-1530 11760 HAB 100 kW / non-dir CeAm Esperanto Sun R.Habana Cuba 1700-1900 11760 LAM 100 kW / 055 deg EaEu Russian Radio Liberty 1900-2000 11760 HAB 100 kW / non-dir CeAm English Radio Habana Cuba 2000-2030 11760 HAB 100 kW / non-dir CeAm French Radio Habana Cuba 2100-2400 11760 HAB 100 kW / non-dir CeAm Spanish Radio Habana Cuba Strong QRM in Sofia from other stations adjacent channels 11755/11765: 2030-2100 11755 ISS 250 kW / 165 deg WeAf Yoruba Adventist World Radio 1500-1625 11765 EMR 500 kW / 092 deg WeAs Dari/Pashto/Uzbek VOTurkey 1900-2000 11765 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg NWAf Arabic Radio TV Algerienne 2000-2005 11765 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg NWAf French Radio TV Algerienne 2005-2100 11765 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg NWAf Arabic Radio TV Algerienne Ten videos between 1345 and 1703 UTC on June 23: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/06/frequency-change-of-ictimai-radio.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11761, Not bad FM mode audio tonight, here my receiving figures on Perseus set Tuner set to 11758 kHz lower flank, (though center Ictimai Radio QRG is still 11761 kHz) FM mode, mostly Turkish style music of female singer, selected 50 kHz bandwidth, latter narrowed by mouse click to 26 kHz bandwidth, on 11748 to 11764 kHz wide space portion, cut/deleted Zanzibar Tanzania 11727-11743 kHz space, as well as 11765 kHz RTA Issoudun Arabic too. S=9+10dB -64dBm at 1915 UT June 24. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD) June 23 Ictimai Radio in Azeri 1345 on new 11760 UNID tx site, ex 9677,5v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTshy_MJT8g&feature=youtu.be Ictimai Radio in Azeri 1415 on new 11760 UNID tx site, ex 9677,5v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AvDE1-3sms&feature=youtu.be Ictimai Radio in Azeri 1429 on new 11760 UNID tx site, ex 9677,5v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGvqs7hNS08&feature=youtu.be Ictimai Radio in Azeri 1433 on new 11760 UNID tx site, ex 9677,5v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1CnAzfLio0&feature=youtu.be Ictimai Radio in Azeri 1444 on new 11760 UNID tx site, ex 9677,5v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWr4zTMjaF0&feature=youtu.be Ictimai Radio in Azeri 1448 on new 11760 UNID tx site, ex 9677,5v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVZj1NUIKMc&feature=youtu.be Ictimai Radio in Azeri 1627 on new 11760 UNID tx site, ex 9677,5v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKPBsi5tJmU&feature=youtu.be Ictimai Radio in Azeri 1635 on new 11760 UNID tx site, ex 9677,5v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzwwJaAyHR4&feature=youtu.be Ictimai Radio in Azeri 1646 on new 11760 UNID tx site, ex 9677,5v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut762IIm6o4&feature=youtu.be Ictimai Radio in Azeri 1658 on 11760 UNID tx, from 1702 blocked by R.Liberty in Russian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjcUhU3CgUo&feature=youtu.be Surprisingly daytime reception of Ictimai Radio with FM mode audio on shortwave 0700-1200 on 11761vUNIDentified tx site to CeAs Azeri. Ten videos from June 25: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/06/surprisingly-daytime-reception-of.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD) June 25 Ictimai Radio in Azeri 0700 on new 11761 UNID tx site, ex 9677,5v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UzSvrkGj9E&feature=youtu.be Ictimai Radio in Azeri 0731 on new 11761 UNID tx site, ex 9677,5v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPFllqfta84&feature=youtu.be Ictimai Radio in Azeri 0800 on new 11761 UNID tx site, ex 9677,5v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGJBk4YpVt0&feature=youtu.be Ictimai Radio in Azeri 0829 on new 11761 UNID tx site, ex 9677,5v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuzakzYlBVk&feature=youtu.be Ictimai Radio in Azeri 0900 on new 11761 UNID tx site, ex 9677,5v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlmR3Q1jmHY&feature=youtu.be Ictimai Radio in Azeri 0930 on new 11761 UNID tx site, ex 9677,5v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqAmdXifOYU&feature=youtu.be Ictimai Radio in Azeri 1000 on new 11761 UNID tx site, ex 9677,5v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNpEikFBO00&feature=youtu.be Ictimai Radio in Azeri 1030 on new 11761 UNID tx site, ex 9677,5v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_cAG0Y-0sU&feature=youtu.be Ictimai Radio in Azeri 1100 on new 11761 UNID tx site, ex 9677,5v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PId1vFmXc1s&feature=youtu.be Ictimai Radio in Azeri 1133 on new 11761 UNID tx site, ex 9677,5v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQoap1V8C84&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) ** BANGLADESH. 13580, Bangladesh Betar (tentative), much better than the other two tries this month but still only tentative -- but this time it definitely WAS in English, and at 1815 into an OM with sub- continental accent talking about the "Holy Koran". At 1819 into sub- continental type music, and at 1823 an announcement mentioning a "weekly programme about ..." couldn't quite make out what was said, but much talk about economics in Asia, including MANY mentions of China and investments. At 1827 more sub-continental music and then at BoH what sounded like it might have been an ID but not heard well enough to tell for sure, Then into Western Pop music with no announcements as heard in past weeks. Some issues leading to 'dead air' for several minutes around 1842. 2+5342+ -- lots of static today, but not so bad as it had been earlier in the month. 1810-1850 14/Jun (Ken Zichi, Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet 20 June via DXLD) 15505, June 23 at 1358, JBA tone, 1359 BB IS at imagination level; cannot hear any mistimesignal before 1400 but into talk, presumably opening Urdu. This has just not been propagating for weeks (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. Oblastnoye Radio Mogilev, 7255 kHz --- Anyone has some info about this station? http://youtu.be/0Z5uAYsqbpE From a clip uploaded to Youtube from an polish SWL. Date of this clip is June 19, 2014. 73! -- (Rodolfo Tizzi http://elterrorylavirtud.blogspot.com/ http://cx2abp.blogspot.com/ June 20, dxldyg via DXLD) Non-Cyrillic portions of clip info: http://www.tvr.by/rus/obltvr.asp?pr=mogilev https://www.qth.spb.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=5238&start=0&sid=9e78d21a6f1188519328cb745a5bdaae&view=print On weekdays, on 7255 kHz, 1500 UT broadcast regional station: Brest, Mogilev, Grodno and Vitebsk region-radio. Schedule is: Monday - Gomel, Tuesday - Vitebsk, Wednesday - Brest, Thursday - Mogilev, Friday - Grodno, Saturday - Stalitsa. Sometimes on SW broadcast channel "Kultura"/Culture. ?????: UA1AVA [ ?? 01 ??? 2011 02:17 ] (Autor) (01.11.2011) I do not know if this information is still current. One would have to search further. I better go to bed; 3:05 local time. ;-) (roger, Germany, ibid.) 11930, 0519, Belaruskaye Radio 1 poor in Belarussian with Orthodox liturgy - 11/5 (Jonathon Wood, Mosgiel, New Zealand, Lowe HF-150, 34m & 46m Dipoles, June NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 3310.00, 0115-0125 25.06, R Mosoj Chaski, Cotapachi. Quechua ann, music - best in USB due to digital noise in LSB, 12221 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, a few stations could be heard last night, most with poor reception on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire here in Skovlunde, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 4699.95, R. San Miguel. Noted the OC as early as 0830. Finally kicked on the audio at 0859 in the middle of the usual long canned opening ID by M in Spanish including mentions of Bolivia. Live M DJ was the usual one in the morning. Some decent very short peaks. (25 June). R. San Miguel, R. Logos, both starting up: http://youtu.be/jh8IIBaq1cc 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153' Delta Loop, Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 4716.72, 0120-0130 25.06, R Yatun Aylla Yura, Yura. Spanish ann, Andean music, very weak, occasional aircraft QRM, 14211 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, a few stations could be heard last night, most with poor reception on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire here in Skovlunde, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 5580.26, 2250-2300 24.06, R San José, San José de Chiquitos, (tentative) music, 154321 [sic] (Anker Petersen, Denmark, a few stations could be heard last night, most with poor reception on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire here in Skovlunde, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 6024.97, Jun 18 2356, Red Patria Nueva alone and very strong (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin June 22 via DXLD) 6025.00, 0150-0155 25.06, Red R Patria Nueva, La Paz (presumed), Spanish talk, splashes from RCI [sic] in English on 6020 (S9+30 dB), 22322 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, a few stations could be heard last night, most with poor reception on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire here in Skovlunde, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 6134.82, 0200-0210 25.06, R Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Spanish pop songs, ann, 35333 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, a few stations could be heard last night, most with poor reception on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire here in Skovlunde, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) see also BRAZIL ** BOLIVIA. 6155.14, Jun 21 2356, (non) R Fides absent this night. No trace noted from 2156 to 0404 (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin June 22 via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. Radio Fides, La Paz, on 9624.92 kHz at 2227 UT 24/6 with big carrier, the audio is very poor with music and Spanish talks. RX Perseus and Icom 7410, Antenna Vertical. 73 (Maurits Van Driessche, Belgium, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4864.7, Jun 21, 2156, Tentative R Alvorada de Londrina drifting a bit during two hours, 4864.6-4864.7. Weak signal. 4865.02, Jun 21, 2357, R Verdes Florestas back again after being absent a few days (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin June 22 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4925.22, 0130-0140 25.06, R Educação Rural, Tefé, AM. Portuguese religious talk, 25232 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, a few stations could be heard last night, most with poor reception on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire here in Skovlunde, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4965.01, Jun 10, -2327*, R Alvorada de Parintins (99% sure). This Brazilian station has been noted almost every evening but always too weak for ID. But on June 16 at 2225 the signal was a little stronger and the surrounding noise weaker than normal, I checked the FM webstream of R Alvorada de Parintins until after 2305. At a recheck at 2330 the signal was gone. I am 99% certain that this signal was // to the FM webstream which seems to carry mostly educational, cultural and religious programming. The station has been there every evening for a long time but always weak and disturbed. But it seems June 16 was the last day for a period - not noted after that (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin June 22 via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 5990+, June 20 at 0559, RNA is still here, very poor but music matchable to much stronger // 6180; also June 21 at 0236 check, call-in from Salvador, frequent timechex, such as 23:37 at 0237 UT, much better now and readable, but still no comparison to bigsigs on 6180, 11780. Slightly on the hi side of 5990 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, 5990.062 footprint noted of RNA program (via 4 kW test unit - meant for digital tests daytime? again?) at 0618 UT June 21 in NY-US remote unit post // 6180.005 kHz, which is stronger at S=9+15dB -65dBm level (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) 5990a, RNB, 0204+ 22 June. Fair-OK with RN promo, ID // 6180 (better) & 11780 (thumping). Nice to have something other than US religiousness barking away on the lower end of 49M (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA, PL380/4.5m "avoiding overload" X wire), DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6000, Rádio Nacional da Amazônia, Brasília, 0448-0457*, 22-06, Brazilian songs, at 0457 the signal disappeared abruptly. Parallel with 11780 and 6185 [sic, must be 6180]. 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Were it not for the // observation, I would suspect above log to be RHC instead, as they break transmission on 6000 before 0500; and Dan`s earlier log same date had it on 5990. Here is where it went next: (gh) 5990, June 22 at 0515, RNA is JBA but // 6180 [more below for 25 mb logs] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I've been checking 5990 at around 0630 UT but there has not been any trace of a signal at that time. But both 6180 and 11780 are weak then, so probably this is due to propagation - or lack of any. 73 (Noel R. Green (NW England), dxldyg via DX LISTENIING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Rádio Guaíba, Porto Alegre RS, 6000 kHz às 0110 UT 20/6, SINPO 45444, Nx, YL sobre Tarço genrro, depois falou de outra nxs de alguns presos. Receptor: Tecsun PL 660. Antenas: Telescopica / Antena 4 metros fio fino (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com.br/ Radio escuta PT 9008 SWL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Normally at this time, would be blocked here by RHC English. And RNA`s extra transmitter in Brasília is sometimes on 5999.6, lately mostly on 5990+ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 6105.0, Jun 10, 2105, R Cultura Filadélfia noted exactly on the nominal frequency. But drifting from day to day (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin June 22 via DXLD) In that case, I guess you mean 6105.000 since you report others to three decimal, or rather comma, places (gh, DXLD) ** BRAZIL/BOLIVIA. 6134.98, R. Aparecida/6134.84, R. Santa Cruz: Here's a video of R. Aparecida with an ID and rooster crowing at 0856, then jumping ahead to the sign on of R. Santa Cruz at 0900 and Aparecida notched out at beginning of the R. Santa Cruz theme song. http://youtu.be/tH3tCGiBuaA (20 June) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6159.99, Jun 12, -2208*, Tentative R Boa Vontade as the sign off was exactly synchronised with the signal on 9550. Always very weak without traces of audio. On June 21 noted with sign off at 2205*. 9550, Jun 9, 2155, R Boa Vontade mediocre signal // webstream. Also noted on Jun 10 with sign off at 2159:30. Also noted exactly the same sign off on 6159.99 where a weak carrier has been noted several times on the high side of CKZN (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin June 22 via WORLD OF RADIOI 1727, DXLD) BRAZIL?? 6160.03v R. Boa Vontade (tentative) While watching the 2 Canadians (about 3 Hz apart again) at 0908, another fairly strong signal popped on 6160.05 then suddenly jumped down to 6160.03 and started drifting back up. I tried notching out the Canadians but still couldn't hear any audio. Given the strength of the signal, it should've been easy had it been modulating at 100%. I believe the ZY Boa Vontade was noted here last year. (20 June) Link to the video; http://youtu.be/D8q2cP0et9E 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. June 22 at 0517, // 11780 transmitter to 6180, 5990, has gone out of whack again: huge signal is somewhat distorted on fundamental, and now again putting out extremely distorted FMy spurs at approx. 11750 and 11810, and weaker ones around 11720, 11835-11845. 11750 & 11810, June 23 at 0518, bit dirty extremely distorted strong spurs again from 11780 RNA which is somewhat distorted, overmodulated itself. 11750 & 11810, June 24 at 0120, *no* big (not bit) dirty spurs from RNA 11780; but at 0532 check, now they`re there, extremely distorted, plus much weaker but detectable ones at 2 x 30 kHz above and below: 11720 and 11840. Strangely seems to be a late-night defect (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11815.05, 2235-2245 24.06, R Brazil Central, Goiânia, GO. Portuguese talk and ann, 34333 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, a few stations could be heard last night, most with poor reception on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire here in Skovlunde, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** CANADA. New Google Street View (SV) imagery shows the new-ish CFRX Vertical SW antenna compared to 1st SV image. Antenna bent from an accident with tractor (Ian Baxter, NSW, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** CANADA. Niel Wolfish passes along that Steve Canney (The CFRX QSL Guy) posted the following on FaceBook recently: "I made a visit to the CFRB site yesterday. Much to my surprise, one of the engineers arrived to do his regular transmitter site maintenance visit, so we had a chance to talk about things regarding the AM and SW side, which is not easy to do when trying to communicate via texting or making short phone calls. On the AM side, a new digital transmitter made by Nautel will be ordered to replace the very old Continental Transmitter, which has been there forever. There are no plans to venture into HD Radio at all. The CFRX transmitter still lies on its side, waiting for surgery, but not sure what's going on there. Its repair hasn't been on anyone's radar with the recent move to their studios on Queen St. in Toronto. Seeing it'll be the engineers who will be the people behind any movement to repair it, not management, I've suggested to anyone wanting to send letters of support, to send them at the technical people. "The chief engineer is a long time amateur and would love to get more involved with the repairs but time to focus on this specific problem isn't there. The plan is to send the CFRX transmitter to the Canadian distributor in Peterborough to have them repair it, but that hasn't happened yet. Bell Media could easily buy a whole new transmitter but they don't show any interest in the sw side at all so its up to 'creative engineers' to do it on the side when time permits." Is there ANYTHING in Canada that is not owned by either Bell Media or Rogers? I think the media consolidation is even worse there than in the States -- as bad as it is here! -- kvz (Ken Zichi, MARE Tipsheet June 20 via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD) ** CANADA. Sporadic E trying to propagate analog TV DX, June 19, UT: 1825 on 3, weak signal northish, CCI, partly with local VCR/cable radiation, but this one is fading; yet nothing on 2 or 4. Only thing copied is an audio peak mentioning `canker sores`; geez, what a clue, but a medical talkshow would fit, and that`s what`s scheduled this hour on CTV in Ontario: Dr Oz, so likely one of these, per W9WI.com which does not show any network info for Canadians: Elliot Lake, ON CICI-TV-1 19,000 122 Z H 46-25-47N 082-40-09W OP Timmins, ON CITO-TV 100,000 147 +dH 48-32-50N 080-57-08W OP The channel 3 map at http://www.dxinfocentre.com/TV3.pdf does show both as B stations, which to those who know the key which is not provided, means CTV; and the only other B to the west is in Saskatchewan, far beyond the PTA, nor does its programming match. At 1933, another peak on ch 3 without any readable audio. 2003 on 2, something peaking roughly from northeast [nap time; see Kuwait] 2129 on 2, again/still CCI from NE, letterboxed 2129 on 3, unID DTV is probably from USA, q.v. as opening is moving 2135 on 2, tentative Global bug in LR; CIII-2, Bancroft, Ont? 2145 on 2, Betty White sitcom, i.e. `Hot in Cleveland`, which is what`s now scheduled on CTV in Ontario, so presumably CHBX, Sault Ste Marie (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHILE. 1571/1572 NOID, Chile???, Emisora Evangélica como comentarios ininterrumpidos sin ninguna mención a programas o lugares. En 1570 se escuchaba claramente R. Familia pero al correrse de fq. se escuchaba esta emisora. Se estima que puede ser Chile por el horario (2200 UT en adelante) y porque se escuchaba con señal parecida a R. Familia. El acento era exótico, común en este tipo de emisoras, pero a priori se descarta que pueda ser más lejana por la hora. Otra posibilidad puede ser alguna emisora del conurbano bonaerense. 73's (Miguel Castellino, Argentina, June 23, condiglist yg via DXLD) Hola Miguel: Buenas escuchas aquellas. La evangélica en 1571 es "Cristo llama al Pecador" (ex R. Niebla) desde Rancagua. Y está en 1571.4 (aprox.) para ser precisos y si, nunca se anuncia. Pertenece a un pastor campesino que era conocido por predicar en las calles y en pueblos cercanos a aquella ciudad, con cierto tono particular, al que haces alusión (Claudio Galaz, Chile, ibid.) ** CHILE. RCW transmitirá el partido Holanda vs Chile Me llegó el siguiente mensaje: Este Lunes 23 de Junio a las 12:00, Hora Chilena, 1600 UT, Retransmisión especial en vivo del partido... CHILE vs. HOLANDA, "El Clásico Mundial de la Onda Corta" por 6925 KHz vía San Francisco, Chile y por Internet en la plataforma Listen2myradio. Nuestra emisora es muy pequeña, pero estamos presentes. RCW, Radio Compañía Worldwide. La Emisora Internacional Chilena. Informes de recepción a: cartasrcw@gmail.com (via Claudio Galaz, Chile, 2115 UT June 20, condiglista yg via DXLD) 6925-AM, RCW, 23/06 1620 UT. Vía San Francisco con 50 watts. Transmisión del partido Chile-Holanda con audio de Radio Cooperativa. SINPO: 35232 (Galaz, ibid. WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD) ** CHILE. 12365-USB, 23/06 1710 UT. Audio de Radio Cooperativa con la transmisión del Partido Chile-Holanda. SINPO: 45333 (Claudio Galaz. Rx: Tecsun PL- 660. Ant: hilo 30 mts. Qth: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As expected, inaudible here at such an hour. Better chance if there are any evening games to relay (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** CHINA. CNR1 jamming morning of June 19: 15970, June 19 at 1218, CNR1 jammer, very poor 16100, June 19 at 1219, CNR1 jammer, very poor 14600, June 19 at 1226, CNR1 jammer, poor; no others in 12s, 13s, 17s, 18s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) June 19, 2014 CNR1 jamming 1453 on 17740 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Zea44vjIA&feature=youtu.be CNR1 jamming 1545 on new 9700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNviBpzTQbo&feature=youtu.be CNR1 jamming 1551 on new 9700, co ch Radio New Zealand International in English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_c1-Be1_8Q&feature=youtu.be CNR1 jamming 1559 on 9700, 11580 and CNR1 in Chinese on 9860 Beijing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66rxsaWQ0ow&feature=youtu.be CNR1 jamming 1629 on 9700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSAGvLExtJw&feature=youtu.be CNR1 jamming vs RFA in Tibetan 1206 on 18980 Kuwait https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCX-yFvVsWw&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 18980, June 20 at 1359-1359:55*, CNR1 jammer fair against RFA Tibetan via Kuwait, cuts off just before the timesignal starts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 10960, CHINA, CNR1, 6/21, 1115. Strong up to 1117 and 2 Ms [mans?] in Chinese. Weak // on 12910, 14920. 73 and Good Listening! (Rick Barton, El Mirage, AZ, Hammarlund HQ-200, Drake R8, Grundig Satellit 750, Slinky and random wire, ABDX via DXLD) CNR1 jamming morning of June 21: 16100, June 21 at 1349, CNR1 jammer, fair-good 16300, June 21 at 1349, CNR1 jammer, poor 16360, June 21 at 1350, CNR1 jammer, fair 16920, June 21 at 1351, CNR1 jammer, poor-fair None in the 12s, 13s, 14s, 15s except inband, nor 17s, 18s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) New frequency of China National Radio 1 for Jamming, plus 4 videos: 1500-1700 on 9700 secret/hidden tx site to CHN Chinese, co-ch RNZI from 1551 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/06/new-frequency-of-china-national-radio-1.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 21690, June 23 at 0504, poor, CCI, i.e. CNR1 jammer and RFA Chinese via TINIAN this hour only (but followed by Tibetan via UAE until 07 per Aoki). More CNR1 jamming, morning of June 23: 11430, June 23 at 1227, CNR1 jammer, fair // 11785 but echo apart. A long time since I`ve heard any on 11430; none in the 12s, 13s, 14s 16920, June 23 at 1233, CNR1 jammer, very poor to JBA 18980, June 23 at 1235, CNR1 jammer, very poor to JBA 13970, June 23 at 1350, CNR1 jammer, poor-fair 16360, June 23 at 1353, CNR1 jammer, good 16920, June 23 at 1353, CNR1 jammer, good 17170, June 23 at 1355, CNR1 jammer, fair 18930, June 23 at 1355, CNR1 jammer, very poor with SAH from Kuwait [and non]. 21630, June 24 at 0538, JBA signal, as to be expected, since Tuesdays only at 05-06, RFA Tibetan via Tinang, Philippines is here. Or is it the jammer? MUCH weaker than: 21690, June 24 at 0538, CNR1 jammer with echo and mix, i.e. vs RFA Chinese via TINIAN daily. 15195, June 24 at 1323, Firedrake musical jamming over Chinese and SAH, fair-good; none in the 12s, 13s, 14s; but CNR1 jammer also VG with CCI on 15115, good with het on 15265 15495, June 24 at 1325, CNR1 jammer, fair until 1330*. Not often heard here; one must monitor during this half-hour only on Tuesdays and Thursdays due to BBC Uzbek via Oman, which the ChiCom feel they must jam, but is it despite, or in coöperation with despotic Uzbekistan? 15540, June 24 at 1326, CNR1 jammer, very poor with VOT het on hi side 15590, June 24 at 1327, CNR1 jammer, very poor with VOT het on lo side and none in the 16s, 17s, 18s or 19s. 19000, June 25 at 1235, CNR1 jammer and another poor signal, i.e. RFA Tibetan via Kuwait (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Dear DX-friends. I have been very busy recently with our Annual General Meeting, held in my home in Skovlunde. It is now over and here are a few recent loggings on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire. 4750.00, 2230-2240 19.06, Qinghai PBS-1, Xining. Chinese talk and music, not // 4800. Not heard since February 2013, but now reactivated! 25332 AP-DNK (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD) BAD news for Bangladesh and Indonesia [if ever reactivated], and those who would hear them (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 5050, Beibu Bay Radio (BBR), 1300, June 24. “The time now is 9PM, Beibu Bay Radio,” followed by sound of cuckoo; very distinctive; fair; no hint of AIR Aizawl being here today. If AIR remains silent, then there may be a decent chance to hear Craig's Australian low powered station mixing with only BBR, when he re-activates his station. Only BBR heard today (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 7435 x CHINA RADIO INTER. 1800-1857 Italian 500 314 Jinhua- Youbu 831 CHN CRI a14 Jun 18 - off til 15 July ``Dear friends listeners, hereby inform you that by 8 am on June 18 at 18 on July 15, our broadcasts on the frequency 7435 kHz (not on 7345 kHz as previously announced) will be suspended for technical reasons. Sincerely, Italian Section, China Radio International`` But 9695 kHz CRI Bulgarian is NOT off. 73 wb Jinhua-Youbu #831 tx site at CHN 11780 0000-0057 Chinese 500 59 CRI a14 Jun.18-Jul.15 off 15160 0100-0200 Chinese 500 59 CRI a14 Jun.18-Jul.15 off 15160 0200-0300 Chinese 500 59 CRI a14 Jun.18-Jul.15 off 15160 0300-0400 Chinese 500 59 CRI a14 Jun.18-Jul.15 off 17710 0300-0400 Russian 500 310 CRI a14 Jun.18-off 15160 0400-0457 Cantonese 500 59 CRI a14 Jun.18-Jul.15 off 15170 0500-0600 Cantonese 500 59 CRI a14 Jun.18-Jul.15 off 15170 0600-0653 Chinese 500 59 CRI a14 Jun.18-Jul.15 off 11640 0700-0800 Cantonese 500 59 CRI a14 Jun.18-Jul.15 off 11640 0800-0857 Chinese 500 59 CRI a14 Jun.18-Jul.15 off 7430 0900-0957 Chinese 500 59 CRI a14 Jun.18-Jul.15 off 13790 0900-1100 English 500 150 CRI a14 Jun.18-off 7325 1000-1257 Japanese 500 59 CRI a14 Jun.18-Jul.15 off 7390 1130-1157 Filipino 500 172 CRI a14 Jun.18-off 7215 1300-1357 Japanese 500 59 CRI a14 Jun.18-Jul.15 off 7430 1400-1457 Japanese 500 59 CRI a14 Jun.18-Jul.15 off 11900 1400-1457 Sinhala 500 258 CRI a14 Jun.18-off 7220 1500-1557 Japanese 500 59 CRI a14 Jun.18-Jul.15 off 9800 1500-1557 English 500 264 CRI a14 Jun.18-off 11900 1600-1700 English 500 255 CRI a14 Jun.18-off 11900 1700-1757 English 500 255 CRI a14 Jun.18-off 7435 1800-1857 Italian 500 314 CRI a14 Jun.18-off 9695 1830-1857 Bulgarian 500 310 CRI a14 is NOT off (wb.) 11750 1900-1957 Portuguese500 320 CRI a14 Jun.18-off 7390 2030-2057 Hungarian 500 314 CRI a14 Jun.18-off 7430 2200-2257 Chinese 500 255 CRI a14 Jun.18-off 13640 2200-2300 Japanese 500 59 CRI a14 Jun.18-Jul.15 off 13640 2300-2353 Japanese 500 59 CRI a14 Jun.18-Jul.15 off (via Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD) [above listings evidently extracted from Aoki --- gh] ** CONGO DR. 5066.33, Jun 19, 2000, R Télé Candip, weak with music. A few days earlier noted with very strong signals (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin June 22 via DXLD) ** CUBA. R. Rebelde on 1188 kHz, presumed another frequency shifted station from nominal 1180 kHz in addition to the R. Rebelde on 1179 kHz (Bruce Conti, NH, http://www.bamlog.com June 25, mwdx yg via DXLD) Probably formerly here: CUB_CMBA 1180 50kW R Rebelde, Villa Maria, San Miguel del Padron 2masts 23 06'29.70"N 82 17'05.28"W or CUB_La Palma_R Guamá 710, R Rebelde 1180, R Progreso_1230, triplex 22 44'47.51"N 83 33'04.25"W 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ?? On what basis do you pick those two? There are dozens of 1180 Rebelde transmitters all over Cuba to jam R. Martí (gh, DXLD) ** CUBA. UNIDENTIFIED. 14295 kHz AM sig on 20m ham phone band --- I uploaded a mp3 file of a 14295 AM sig heard at 00445 [sic] Z. It didn't sound like English. Pirate maybe? Can anyone ID this sig for me? (rah1962, 0125 UT June 25, ABDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD) One reply thought it was maybe Portuguese; another a Chinese music frequency (gh) Let me clear up the confusion reigning here: 14295 is not a Chinese music frequency -- meaning Firedrake jamming. Sound of Hope, the main target of Firedrake, originally operated inside the 20m hamband, but was prevailed upon to stay out, and it has, plus consequently the jamming. Firedrake jamming is never with vocal music, only instrumental. Anyhow, this is in Spanish. Says ``El sonido de`` something, and at the end in the song ``Felicidad ---``. This is just the kind of music Radio Progreso plays from Cuba on 4765, and certainly its third harmonic. I`m sure you will find the two match. It`s on the air only 0030-0400 UT approx. BTW, the Tajikistan transmitter on 4765 is also a well-known harmonic producer on 14295, often reported from Europe, but seldom if ever over here. 73, (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1727, ibid.) viz.: Ullmar Qvick: Janne, SM5TJH, ringde mig och berättade om en rundradiostation mitt i amatörernas 20 m-band. Det var tredje övertonen av Tajikistans sändare på 4765 kHz, och den hördes både hos mig och via remote-rx i Twente, NL. Det är naturligtvis inte bra, men samtidigt får DX-.are en god chans att höra Tajikistan på den frekvensen. Sänder nästan dygnet runt enligt WRTVH. Ullmar (via NORDX, SW Bulletin June 22 via DXLD) Ullmar Qvick: Janne, SM5TJH, called me and told me about a broadcasting station in the middle of 20 m amateur bands. It was the third harmonic of Tajikistans transmitter on 4765 kHz, and it was heard both by me and by remote-rx Twente, NL. It is obviously not good, but at the same time get DX .are a good chance to hear Tajikistan on the frequency. Sends almost around the clock according WRTVH. Ullmar (Google translation for same via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD) 14295, June 26 at 0102, R. Progreso, music, harmonic, 3 x // 4765; poor but certain signal, tnx to tip from someone in ABDX inquiring about an unID 24 hours and 18 minutes earlier; at 0111 some digital QRM bursts presumably by angry ham. Much weaker by 0125. On the odd-harmonic theory, could also appear on x 5 = 23825, but would have a harder time propagating after dark on its schedule of 0030-0400v only. Doubt we`ll ever hear it on the even harmonix, x 2 = 9530 or x 4 = 19060, but check just in case. 4765 sufficient but far from a supersignal to cause overload, so 14295 is certainly a real harmonic propagating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 17580, June 19 at 1220, open carrier/dead air from RHC, while weaker signal on 17730 is modulated; finally mod kicks in on 17580 at 1221. These are the SSOB and purt`near the OSOB so far. 11860 et al., June 20 at 1413, RHC Spanish with weekly top-10 song countdown in Cuba, now at #8. Possibly some are non-political. Guess it`s a regular show on Fridays circa 1400 UT. I was expecting to tune across `Voces de la Revolución`, hoary old Fidel etc. speeches, a staple at this hour, and so does the RHC program schedule on website http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/estaticas/programacion which is plenty vague, showing only this and nothing for Sundays, the iberoamericans or tardes, and ¿why are the headers en inglés? And some accents are missing, sic: ``time day program morning 1100 UT lunes-a-sabado Revista Informativa Despertar con Cuba 1400 UT lunes-a-sabado Boletín 1405 UT lunes-a-viernes Voces de la Revolución 1405 UT sabado Cartas a la Redacción 1423 UT lunes-a-sabado Boletín 1430 UT lunes-a-viernes Formalmente Informal 1430 UT sabado Sonido Cubano 1448 UT lunes-a-sabado Noticiero Resumen de la Mañana`` 11840, June 21 at 0243, RHC is JBM here, suppressed modulation emphasizing the peaks. 12140, June 21 at 0244, poor signal vs CODAR from RHC Spanish, an echo apart from 11670, but matching 6070 of which this is the second harmonic (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9790, June 23 at 0511, huge open carrier, as the slopperators at RadioCuba have failed to turn off the CRI relay transmitter at 0500. 6000, June 23 at 0513, Arnie Coro has heavy SAH from an equally strong carrier on slightly different frequency --- and RHC is missing from 6100 --- so the slopperators at RadioCuba have put *two* transmitters (but only one audio heard) on 6000, and *none* on 6100! When DXUL is over at 0524, now 6100 is on but just barely modulated, and only one signal on 6000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CYPRUS. 19097-19122 approx., June 24 at 1329, OTH radar pulsing, poor-fair, but the 19 MHz OSOB, proving propagation presumably from here, altho nothing on 21 MHz and degraded on 17 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DOCECANESE ISLANDS [Twelvish]. See MUSEA ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [non]. 15190, June 19 at 2117, open carrier/dead air, presumably still WRMI transmitter for Radio Africa. It would be nice to know if Bata has been closed down permanently; what happens to that transmitter? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. From FRS Holland: Dear FRS listeners, First of all we'd like to thank each and everyone for sending in reports for our June 8th broadcast and the 4 hour repeat (as a kind of test) last Sunday June 15th. We are very happy with the number of reports we received from all corners of Europe plus a good number from the USA. Reports for our June 15th test will be answered very soon. For June 8th one we have to wait till the new QSL is ready printed; this QSL is part of our current series 'FRS-Holland through the Years'. As always all mail will be handled, that has always been the case. May we pay your attention to the fact that colleague SW station Radio Geronimo will be conducting a 4 hour broadcast next Sunday June 22nd. Start is at 18:00 UTC=19:00 BST=20:00 UTC. Frequency is 9302 kHz/31 metres. Tune in...and have fun. 73s, have a good weekend! Peter V. (on behalf of the FRS-team and Chris from Geronimo) (presumably means 1800 UT = 1900 BST = 2000 CET - Bdxc-uk yg via DXLD) Ciao a tutti. Buono il segnale di Radio Geronimo in Sicilia (Tortorici - ME ) é buona, anche la musica trasmessa. Radio Geronimo, 22 giugno 2014, Ore 1835 UT, 9302 kHz, SINPO 45333. RX: Panasonic RFB-65, Antenna longwire 25 m. Buoni ascolti (Giovanni Lorenzi, ITALIAN AMATEUR RADIO STATION IT9TZZ, ESCLUSIVAMENTE IN TELEGRAFIA bclnews.it yg via DXLD) 9301.1 AM, PIRATE, FRS-Free Radio Service Holland, 2224-0005+, 06-15- 14. SIO: 444. Special anniversary show repeat with pop tunes, greetings to listeners who wrote in last winter, using the slogan "not just a station, it's a tradition". Talk by DJ Roger Davis at 2314, mentioning a booklet for US $7.00. Not sure if transmitter was a pirate one or rented private transmitter (Chris Lobdell, Stoneham, MA, Eton E1, JRC NRD-545; G5RV, 40 Meter Dipole, NASWA Flashsheet June 22 via DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. Some changes of Deutsche Welle from June 25: 0800-0830 on 17800 DHA 250 kW / 050 deg to WeAs Pashto, ex KIGALI 0830-0900 on 17800 DHA 250 kW / 050 deg to WeAs Dari, ex KIG 1330-1400 on 15595 KIG 250 kW / 030 deg to WeAs Dari, cancelled 1400-1430 on 15595 KIG 250 kW / 030 deg to WeAs Pashto, cancelled 1800-1900 on 17860 MDC 250 kW / 305 deg to WeAf Hausa, ex 310 degrees http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/06/some-changes-of-deutsche-welle-from.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GREECE. List of 24h/d MW unofficial stations (email only)[sic] No comments here just a short description of their programming: 792, Studio 1, former on 909 with old Greek songs mostly rebetiko. Athens 828, unID from poss Athens with old western pops. Sparingly heard in Salonica due to QRM from other stations 846, Cannibal Athens, my fav in this band. Various music kinds from old Greeks (during night) old western, alternative, etc., also with live program. Currently inactive due to transmitter problems (unless they ceased transmissions) 1044, Daffy, with programs mostly on nights but possibly irregular. Old western music (60-80), but also Greek sometimes 1287, R322, Athens full 24 h with old Greeks. Regular here 1368, Elines radio, 234 [sic] h, Salonica. All kinds of Greeks. About 400 W 1431, Polytechnic Station Thessaloniki, about 500 W with leftist program and commentaries , alternative music (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, June 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. Elliniki Radiophonia Tileorasi, ERT Open, June 19, videos till 1257 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek till 1257 7475 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek, instead of 11645 till 1257 15630 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek, not on air today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0YwsZeGaXo&feature=youtu.be from 1258 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek from 1258 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek from 1258 15630 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek, R. Free Chosun carrier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiqr1Pk-GDY&feature=youtu.be http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/06/elliniki-radiophonia-tileorasi-ert-open.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I just heard, through cascades of midday electrical noise, *English* news and weather from ERT on 15630. Very poor, but certainly English with weather for various places (Thessalonika and along the Aegean coasts). It was 1518 when the weather report came. That was followed by the ID signal and a switch to what I assume is Greek. Right now (at 1522) they are playing some pop music I do not recognise. I hope this portends more English from the ERT in periods when I can hear them more easily. Does anyone know if they are using English with any regularity? I am in St. John's, Newfoundland, listening on Satellit 750 with its telescoping aerial and a two-metre wire attached to that (Philip Hiscock, 1520 UT June 19, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I`ve tried to hear this a few times, but no signal here (gh, OK, DXLD) More four videos of Elliniki Radiophonia Tileorasi ERT Open: June 19 from 1700 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek from 1700 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek, instead of 7450 from 1700 15650 AVL 100 kW / 105 deg to SoAs Greek, not on air today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IetDKwYWfqs&feature=youtu.be from 1900 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek from 1900 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek, instead of 7450 from 1900 15630 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek, not on air today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkgM6TFz5JM&feature=youtu.be from 1940 7450 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek from 1940 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek from 1940 15630 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek, back on the air https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3bFYO8c3NU&feature=youtu.be June 20: from 0600 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg WeEu Greek, open carrier/dead air from 0600 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg NoAf Greek, open carrier/dead air from 0600 15630 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg WeEu Greek, not on air on June 20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqQcOJkwunA&feature=youtu.be Still 'empty' strong carrier on 9420 and 11645 kHz on air at 1025 UT June 20. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) My reception report for Wednesday and Thursday, June 25-26, 2014 WEDNESDAY 6/25 | THURSDAY 6/26 1900 2000 2100 2200 2300| 0000 0100 0200 kHz Az kW Station 00000 00000 00000 00000 XXXXX|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 7450 323 100 1 00000 00000 00000 00000 XXXXX|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 15630 285 100 2 XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 00000|00000 00000 00000 7475 285 100 1 XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 00000|00000 00000 00000 15650 226 100 2 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000|00000 00000 00000 9420 323 170 3 (John Babbis, Silver Spring MD, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AIR stations with football commentaries in early mornings: The following stations of AIR are relaying live Football world cup commentaries at odd timings when normally the stations are off. E.g.: 2.00 am Indian time (2030 UT) 666 kHz Delhi 774 Shimla 873 Jalandhar 1017 Chennai 1044 Mumbai 1377 Hyderabad Not heard on any SW channels yet. This will continue till the final matches. Also on National channel 1215 kHz, 1566 kHz, 9425, 9470. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, Mobile: +91 94416 96043, http://www.qsl.net/ vu2jos 0946 UT June 22, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. AIR INSTALLATIONS HAVE BEGUN Nautel has almost completed shipments and is now installing 27 MW-AM DRM-enabled transmitters and associated equipment for All India Radio (AIR) as part of the world's largest digital radio deployment to date. The deployment includes eleven NX100 (100 kW transmitter), ten NX200 (200 kW transmitter), and six NX300 (300 kW transmitter) all configured for DRM30 transmission. The first transmitter to ship was an NX200 back in August, 2013 and its installation in Delhi kicked off the deployment with final commissioning completed in May, 2014. http://www.nautel.com/solutions/digital-radio/high-power-drm-mw-am-transmitters-air/ Learn about AIR's High Power DRM-MW-AM deployment > http://links.nautel.mkt5080.com/ctt?kn=85&ms=NDYyOTgwNTMS1&r=OTQ0MTMyMTY0NjMS1&b=0&j=NDYzMTA5OTc5S0&mt=1&rt=0 Learn about NX Series transmitters 100 kW - 2 MW > http://links.nautel.mkt5080.com/ctt?kn=10&ms=NDYyOTgwNTMS1&r=OTQ0MTMyMTY0NjMS1&b=0&j=NDYzMTA5OTc5S0&mt=1&rt=0 (Nautel Waves via Greg Hardison, DXLD) Viz.: First Units Installed On August 7, 2013 we celebrated the signing of the Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) for the first NX300 (see photo). It was shipped to Jammu at the end of August as part of a batch of three NX300’s going to India; the other two went to Jalandhar and Lucknow. AIR is currently installing the NX300 systems at Jammu and Jalandhar. The first transmitter to ship was an NX200 on August 27, 2013. Its installation in Delhi kicked off the deployment in India. This flagship installation was led by Nautel Customer Service Technician, Bachar Dib, with final commissioning completed in May, 2014. Shipments Almost Complete! December, 2013: four NX100's shipped to Vijayawada, Tiruchirapalli, Patna, and Varanasi. January, 2014: four NX200's shipped to Chennai, Bangalore, Dharwad and Ajmer. March, 2014: four NX100's shipped to Mumbai A, Mumbai B, Panaji and Pune. April, 2014: three NX300's shipped to Dibrugarh, Rajkot and Suratgarh. June, 2014: five NX200's shipped to Kolkata A, Ahmedabad, Jabalpur, Siliguri and Itanagar. June, 2014: three NX100's shipping to Kolkata B, Ranchi and Passighat. (Nautel Waves via DXLD) WTFK? ** INDIA. Sudipta Ghose Facebook to DRM - Digital Radio Mondiale 45 mins ago: --- Here is a June 2014 of All India Radio in DRM on Shortwave. Unfortunately, North America seems left out of this schedule, but perhaps some of you can catch one of these broadcasts. All eyes are on India to break-loose DRM worldwide! I know we are all anxiously awaiting the first receivers being made in India too. Stay tuned! LikeLike Share Seen by 4 Jhavendra Dhruw likes this. (via Drita Lekbello Çiço - Good luck! June 24, DXLD) Of course NAm is left out of it, just like AIR in analog. The attached sked is in jpg so can`t copy and paste, but is nothing new. Frequencies involved are: 9950, 11620, 11645, 13605, 11715, 17715, 6100, 17895, 15795, 15050, 15140 (gh, DXLD) Facebook - Angel Smith: India needs to use better settings parrameters, reduce bitrates and more protection mode if it wants listeners, and even move to mode C if necessary. If they do this it will make a lot of differents! Why they keep on using bit rates of around 20 kbps still puzzels me for shortwave! (via Drita, ibid.) ** INDONESIA. 4869.88v, RRI Wamena, 1235, June 19. It's Thursday, so yes, another half hour edition of Kang Guru Indonesia (KGI); about their best reception; #8503 program in both English and Bahasa Indonesia; "Don't count your chickens before they hatch"; several Australian pop hit songs; presented by Ana and Greg; color idioms - "fiances [sic] in the red," "I'm in the black," "I'm feeling in the pink," "He is feeling blue,"; item about February 22 World Scouting Day, as this program was first broadcast back in Feb (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. Internet radio --- At the AGM I reported, that I now enjoy live streaming daily from many internet radio stations on the vtuner website free of charge. It is found at http://vtuner.com/setupapp/guide/asp/BrowseStations/startpage.asp where about 38,000 stations from 173 countries can be heard with perfect audio quality during all their broadcasting hours. One of the 129 stations from Perú is Radio Éxito 1060 AM which plays traditional huaynos most of the time. It is much cheaper for the stations to transmit via the internet, than running a high-powered transmitter on shortwave or mediumwave. But internet listening is NOT DX-ing! (Ed, DSWCI-0099, Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window June 25 via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL WATERS. Radio Waddenzee and Radio Seagull Petris Knapas has posted on Facebook: 21 June 2014 Hi folks, I received a nice message from PanEuropean Radio, the organisation behind Radio Waddenzee and Radio Seagull. They are planning to go offshore again from the 2nd half of August;)... The Jenny (Baynton) shall be anchored 8 miles from the Dutch coast in open sea. This means a much better reception in The Benelux, UK and Scandinavia. The ship can be visited during the offshore event, ticketprice for boattrip plus visit shall be announced later. The event is a special one in memory of the end of the Dutch offshoreradio period and the start of the in Spanish/USA/Mauritian based Radio Caroline, Mi Amigo, Monique, Laser and Delmare. More information at the Facebookprofile of Radio Waddenzee and, in a short time, also at the site of both at 1602 KHZ operating stations. http://www.radiowaddenzee.nl/ and https://www.facebook.com/Waddenzee1602AM/photos/a.259819454096954.64599.121958351216399/652277981517764/?type=1 Peter, Formal RNI2020 CEO (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** IRAN. 17550, June 19 at 1222, Arabic talk which was not there a minute or two before. VIRI must have just faded in or cut on the air in its 11-hour Arabic service 0530-1630, 500 kW, 259 degrees from Kamalabad, per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Special broadcasts of Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran for Ramazan: 1923-0120 7410 SIR 500 kW / 329 deg to WeAs Azeri June 28-July 29 2153-2350 9610 KAM 500 kW / 250 deg to NEAf Arabic June 28-July 29 2223-0050 6090 KAM 500 kW / 073 deg to CeAs Tajik June 28-July 29 2253-2350 5940 SIR 500 kW / 320 deg to N/ME Kurdish June 28-July 29 2353-0050 6000 KAM 500 kW / non-dir to N/ME Kurdish June 28-July 29 0020-0120 9845 SIR 500 kW / 310 deg to N/ME Turkish June 28-July 29 0123-0320 6060 KAM 500 kW / non-dir to N/ME Azeri June 28-July 29 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/06/special-broadcasts-of-voice-of-islamic.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. 15680, June 21 at 0250, poor signal in SW Asian language mentioning Afghanistan, then music. Suspected R. Farda, and confirmed as such in Aoki, 0230-0930, 100 kW, 85 degrees from Biblis, GERMANY. More on 15680: at 0930-1230 via Thailand, 1230-1430 via Lampertheim (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAQ [non]. Hello, DXing by sea side in Alexandria, northern Egypt, I noticed Radio Free Iraq on 17690 kHz around 0630 UT with reports about the current situation in Iraq from their reporters in Amman, Jordan and Sweden, followed by ID and an Iraqi song, then giving FM frequencies in Iraq. Best 73 (Tarek Zeidan, Alexandria, Egypt, Sent from my iPad, June 20, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RFI was ``inactive at time of publication`` on page 495 of WRTH 2014, but was on satellite and internet, no mention of FM. Not clear if they meant totally inactive, or only inactive on SW, but now anyway it`s back; I wonder why? But for only one hour? Could it be a mistake? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Schedule is registered: 17690, R. AZADI (R.Free Afghanistan) 0500-0730 in Dari and Pashto 100 kW, 108 degrees, Lampertheim, Germany, IBB RFAF a14 and also 17670 kHz via Kuwait. But heard ARABIC instead! S=9+15dB or -60dBm at 0700 UT in Eastern Europe. On 17670 heard usual Dari program. 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Very strong signal here in Sofia, instead of Radio Free Afghanistan / Radio Azadi in Dari via Lampertheim. Two videos will be uploaded after several minutes (Ivo Ivanov, 0724 UT June 20, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) GERMANY/KUWAIT, A half minute overlap at 0730 UT, both signals LAM and KWT on air on 17690 kHz, \\ Hotbird 13.0 E 12226 MHz vertical satellite channel SID: 226 AID: 1622 "Radio Free Iraq 226", on SW Radio Free Iraq Lampertheim Arabic and R Azadi Kuwait in Pashto on air. Now 0731 UT R Azadi in the clear on 15090 and 17690 kHz both from Kuwait. Program on shortwave is 3 seconds behind satellite: Hotbird 13.0 E 12226 MHz vertical satellite channel SID: 216 AID: 1422 "Kabul 216" ID. (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 20, dxldyg via DXLD) USA (non), New broadcast of IBB: Radio Free Iraq, instead [of] Radio Azadi in Dari: 0630-0730 17690 LAM 100 kW / 108 deg WeAs Arabic. Two videos June 20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g56S5iIxCiA&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPtzC95Vh80&feature=youtu.be http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/06/new-broadcast-of-ibb-radio-free-iraq.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, ibid.) Has this been established as an intended relay or was it just a one- off, caused by messing up the 216 and 226 service IDs on the Lampertheim satellite receiver? Actually they planned to shut down Radio Free Iraq altogether (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) So had anyone heard this to reconfirm on subsequent days, or anywhen else? (Glenn Hauser, June 23, ibid.) June 23: R. Free Iraq in Arabic 0700 on 17690 Lampertheim, scheduled 0600-0730 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-dCkT4daGM&feature=youtu.be R. Free Iraq in Arabic 0728 on 17690 Lampertheim, scheduled 0600-0730 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZcsT8qYIxc&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) GERMANY/KUWAIT/SRI LANKA, 17690 Always R Azadi (R Free AFG) program this June 24 morning. At 0500:12 UT, TX Iranawila switched off, but no real move to Lampertheim Germany site, latter was not ready on air. Late 0501:25 UT LAM tx came on air, with empty carrier only. Bad switch over procedure from Iranawila to Lampertheim site, as well as R Azadi in Dari audio came real on air late at 0502:49 UT. So, at 0503 UT Radio Azadi Dari on both 17670KWT and 17690LAM on scheduled service. No Radio Free Iraq program heard so far this June 24 morning. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, 0518 UT June 24, dxldyg via DXLD) According to IBB Monitoring June 18-June 23 only: Radio Free Iraq in Arabic, instead of Radio Free Afghanistan/Radio Azadi in Pashto/Dari: 0600-0730 on 17690 LAM 100 kW / 108 deg to WeAs (Ivo Ivanov, June 24, dxldyg via DXLD) R. Free Iraq, instead of R. Free Afghanistan/R. Azadi in Pashto/Dari: 0600-0730 on 17690 LAM 100 kW / 108 deg to WeAs Arabic, only June 18- June 23. Videos: 2 on June 20, 1 on June 21, 2 on June 23 - strong reception in Sofia: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/06/new-broadcast-of-ibb-radio-free-iraq.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD) June 25: 0555 UT RL R Azadi (R Free AFG) program in Pashto on both 17670 and 17690 UT, same at 0611 UT. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** IRELAND. 6295, 2014, Reflections Europe with American religious program with male & female hosts, poor 1/6. Scheduled Sundays only (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai (Northland), North Island, New Zealand, with Drake SPR4, AOR7030+, EWEs to North, Central & South America, 100m BOG to NE and Alpha Delta Sloper antennas, June NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** JAPAN. 13680, June 19 at 2119, rock music in English, poor-fair; aside big open carrier from 13670 Greenville prior to weekday Bambara. Thought 13680 might be R. Farda, but that`s far off: Aoki shows NHK Japanese service direct at 21-23 aimed 235 degrees, off the back to here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. UZBEKISTAN, Frequency change of Voice of Martyrs in Korean from June 17: 1600-1730 NF 7515 TAC 100 kW / 065 deg to KRE, ex 7530. Two videos on June 19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZJGxBltWKU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEr8P1dphyM&feature=youtu.be http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/06/frequency-change-of-voice-of-martyrs.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Seems they change every week; also second harmonix (gh, DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. Next speaking stop: I'm presenting a keynote July 18-20 at the HOPE X conference in New York City. Topic "North Korea – Using Social Engineering and Concealed Electronic Devices to Gather Information in the World’s Most Restrictive Nation". The presentation has plenty to interest DXers! Any DXLD readers in town? If you turn up I will shout you a beer! From the conference program: North Korea – Using Social Engineering and Concealed Electronic Devices to Gather Information in the World’s Most Restrictive Nation Speaker: Mark Fahey North Korea prevents its citizens from accessing any form of independent media or information. Any citizen who attempts to access foreign broadcasts to seek information from the outside world risks being interned in one of the state’s notorious prison camps. The very few visitors allowed into the country are strictly forbidden to bring any radios, GPS receivers, or other communications equipment. As a result, little independent and objective information about the propaganda-based mass media of the country has been gathered and published. Over four successive trips into each province of the DPRK, Mark has smuggled electronic equipment in and out to capture, monitor, record, and analyze hundreds of hours of local and regional domestic radio and television broadcasts used by the North Korean regime as a prime instrument of control over the population. This will be a fast-paced interactive audio/visual presentation of rare video, audio, and still photography together with an explanation of the social engineering techniques he used to successfully travel throughout North Korea and covertly gather information with concealed electronic equipment. http://www.hope.net Cheers, (Mark Fahey, Sydney, Australia, June 20, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, Sat June 21 at 1355, Kevin O`Donovan`s listening tips have just started on KBSWR, quick logs of CRI, Iran, Japan, VOA, Vatican/Madagascar, Japan/Madagascar, DW/BBC Rwanda, BBC Singapore, KCBS 9665 (! Allowed to be mentioned here??), VOA Korean 9490, KTWR; World Cup sked on satellite(?) including S Korea game. Also mentioned he had been on last week, so I suppose he will not be on next week. It`s never clear to me which weeks he`s on and which weeks others. Only fair signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 6135.015, Jun 13, 1930, Voice of Freedom noted for the first time here. Also noted by Mauno Ritola [Finland] at about the same time span a few days earlier. Thanks to Ron Howard for listening and confirming my suspicion. Korean talk and very soft music at this time. (ID according to one source on the web: jayu eui soli bangsong- imnida) (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin June 22 via DXLD) 6135, Voice of Freedom (clandestine), 1300, June 18 & 19. DPRK continues to only use ineffective Shiokaze type jamming (pulsating noise) here instead of the very effective white noise jamming; “Hao Hao English” lesson; "I'll say hello when I come back," etc.; fair June 23 at 1300 lesson "Please send him the news" and the next day with "Please warn him"; both days fair with light pulsating jamming. The start of the Chinese segment begins at 1305 with a brief selection of traditional Chinese music. 6135, Voice of Freedom (clandestine), random checking from 1134 to 1420, June 25 found the first day that the DPRK finally decided to use the effective white noise heavy jamming, instead of the recently heard ineffective Shiokaze type jamming (pulsating noise). At 1300 impossible to make out one word of the "Hao Hao English” lesson for English and Chinese. RE: "So if it`s really for North Korea, why are they doing anything in Chinese? (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1726, DXLD)`` Glenn - "For over a millennium, Korean was written with adapted Chinese characters called hanja, complemented by phonetic systems like hyangchal, gugyeol, and idu." Also "Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters that have been incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation," per Wikipedia (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes --- but on the radio we are dealing with the spoken language only, quite different from Mandarin, etc. (gh) ** KUWAIT. 17550, June 19 at 2015-2058, R. Kuwait Arabic to us is mostly ME music suitable for napping, altho only poor-fair signal today. 15540, June 20 at 2040, R. Kuwait is open carrier/dead air during alleged English broadcast; I keep listening on phones hoping for a trace of something, nothing during the 2050 news, but finally at 2058 some JBA music, 2059 sign-off but unreadable, NA and timesignal more or less correct, and dead carrier is still on past 2116+. Wake up! Meanwhile Arabic to US on 17550 is not audible at all; if it`s on, not propagating today. Often is better than 15540. 15540, June 21 at 1950, no signal from R. Kuwait English; by 2001 it`s a JBA carrier. Meanwhile, 13650, Arabic toward N. America is poor-fair at 1950 until cutoff at 2000:30*. Before I retune to 17550, that successor has already come on by 2001 with very poor signal, but by 2047 it`s fair, while 15540 is still useless (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. 5010.93, Jun 19, 1956, R Madagasikara weak. Unstable carrier (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin June 22 via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. Talata QSLs --- TALATA, MADAGASCAR. Full-data, including program names & languages, usual very nice MGLOB color montage map with applied mat (straw? grass? raffia?) cards in 7 weeks. VOICE OF TIBET 15525 (I also reported 15530 where it moved in mid- broadcast, but this freq wasn’t mentioned on the card). RADIO IMPALA 17540. RADIO TAMAZUJ 15150 & 15550. RADIO DABANGA 15550. I reported 15550 as tentative since while some websites list this as Talata others say Dhabbaya at 0400 & 0430. I felt it was Talata since it was strong when logged in April and still is strong at that time, which is typical of Talata broadcasts to the Horn-of-Africa as well as some other areas. On the other hand, Dhabbaya is in my dead (almost) zone— probably because of my antenna orientation. Regardless of the beam I rarely hear Dhabbaya, and when it is audible, signal strength is usually very poor. Address: MGLOB SA, P.O. Box 404, Antananarivo – 101, Madagascar (Wendel Craighead, Prairie Village KS, June 19, cumbredx yg via DXLD) ** MALAYSIA. 5964.68, Radio Klasik, 1213, June 24. Back on the air again after briefly being gone (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. SARAWAK [non], 9835, Sarawak FM (via RTM-Kajang) 1400+ 18-21 June. Enjoyed the annual "Tilawah al Qur'an" competition with the results read out in Malay/Arabic/English on the 21st. The top 5 contestants came from Senegal, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia among others. In other news: Ramadan begins on 28 June -- maybe some special programs during the month-long observance? (Dan Sheedy, Swami's Beach, CA PL380/4.5m "shorter-is- better" X wire, WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. 5995, 0557, RTVM Bamako, with guitar interval signal, martial anthem, theme music and French ident, “Vous écoutez …Radiodiffusion Télévision Malienne, Bamako” and frequency info. Fair strength but audio subdued, 11/5 (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai (Northland), North Island, New Zealand, with Drake SPR4, AOR7030+, EWEs to North, Central & South America, 100m BOG to NE and Alpha Delta Sloper antennas, June NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** MEXICO. Radio Educación on 6184.98 at 0126 UT last night with very good music, and clear modulation. Comments by female following with jazz music at 0128. RX=Perseus SDR and Icom IC-7410 Vertical antenna (Maurits Van Driessche, Belgium, 0630 UT June 22, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** MEXICO. Re: ``Estimado Sr. Hauser: Le escribo para confirmarle que XHOPME [canal 5] transmite todavía en modo analógico, pero su antena transmisora se encuentra en la ciudad de Kanasín y no en Mérida. Sus coordenadas en googlemaps son (20.932555,-89.578475). Atte.: (Ing. Israel González Ahumada, M.I., June 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` That's on the southeast fringe of the metro area. XHY and XHMEN are in a tower closer to the center of the city. A little tip: If the station is commercial and operates under a concession (i.e. it's not a non-commercial entity, such as the OPMA stations, anything by a state or federal government, etc.), there's a database on the IFT site at http://rpc.ift.org.mx/rpc/ (the Public Registry of Concessions, or RPC) that contains information on every TV and radio concession in the country. To start, click on the "Búsqueda" bar in the upper left, enter the callsign you are seeking under Distintivo (put -TV to avoid searching through extra results, -TDT if the station is digital-only), double click on the result in the list, and you'll see technical and assignment info on the concessionaire (many, but not all, Televisa stations have the concessionaire Televimex, S.A. de C.V.). It gets better. Older stations will have typewritten concessions from the 60s, while extensions (Prórrogas) and modifications to concessions (primarily for DTV reasons) are included. If you're looking for current info, the Modification to Concession will typically have the DTV channel assignment, location of transmitter (sometimes as a street address), etc. Watch out for some concessions that are bundled together with various stations (Televisa got one in the 90s that authorized the construction of 62 new TV stations) where all the info is in tables toward the end of the document (Raymie, AZ, June 9, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) ** MEXICO. Monitored channel A2 for analog signs of sporadic E for about two hours June 22 before something faded in, from the south, all times UT: 1655 on 2, algo fades in 1707 on 2, looks like béisbol; at least the player is standing still unlike fútbol 1708 on 2, yes, it`s baseball, and more from the southwest; Pacífico bug in UR, oval with italic 3 in it. Therefore must be XHQ, Guamuchil, Sinaloa, the full-time relayer of XHQ, channel 3 in Culiacán --- and not one of the same group XHI stations which are on channel 2 in the first place, right? per http://tvdxtips.com/mexlogosch2.html However, W9WI.com has this in the lo-power section, defaulting to 0 kW. Cantú`s TV section, which I rarely consult, does not even list this station. It seems there are a lot of relays in Mexico which are not in the official database. 1557 km = 957 miles to city of Enid 1719 on 2, now it`s fútbol, presumably Copa Mundial, with Azteca-13 bug in UR, and fades out by 1720 1724 on 2, now fades in Azteca-7 per bug in UR with film drama, from the south; out and in and out. This opening is not so frustrating as the big ones with a bunch of stations at once; now they are taking turns 1739 on 2, fade-in CCI from south 1747 on 2, fade-in Azteca 13; it`s Rusia vs someone in football 1753 on 2, TELEACTIVA bug in UR so XEFB-TV Monterrey; football but slo-mo, cheering, so replays rather than live; MUF not up to color burst so B&W only, and not much sound either 1757 on 2, movie with Televisa 5 bug in LR; looks like Mel Gibson is in it; also no color at first, then comes up. Close to south. Ahá, in addition to the net-5 bug in LR there is another bug in the UL, a 2 in a circle! Some 5 relayer is axually adding a local non-ID. At best fade-ins, as I try to photo, the 2 is inside two semi-circles, the top one blue, the bottom one red. It looks vaguely familiar. XEFE, 2, Nuevo Laredo, circle 2 in UL with net-5 in LR, sorry, overexposed automatically, but may get an idea of it, 1757 UT June 22: http://www.w4uvh.net/XEFE.jpg Now it`s alternating with another station: 1801 on 2, start a 30-minute program ``4 por 4`` which is about truck sports 1802 on 4, video only, game? show, from Azteca 13; only time I get anything but 2`s today. Soon gone 1804 on 2, program called `El Potro TV``, with f bug = Televisa 4 1808 on 2, big graphic says ``Viva El Brasil``, with even larger XEFE --- so it`s Nuevo Laredo; then net-5 promo; followed by Televisa 2 promo for Canal de las Estrellas. So in México they are fans of Brasil? Maybe México is already out of the Cup. XEFE goes with the circle 2 bug in UL seen earlier, but it is not same as the ``billiard ball`` design on Oglethorpe`s channel 2 page above, but which does agree that XEFE carries some Televisa-5 programming 1815 on 2, the net-5 bug in LR is covered up briefly by something small and animated, including a clock 1827 on 2, ad for an optician at Guerrero y Gutiérrez, following glimpse of US bunting or flag, so maybe this or preceding ad was for something in Laredo TX 1830 on 2, the 4 by 4 show is back mixing Lunch break, and at next check 1859 algo fades in, but nothing more Another opening morning of June 23, UT: 1452 on 2, I am aimed NE in keeping with likely PTA per 6m Es maps, but as something fades in, it`s in Spanish with a studio talk, so rotate back to SW. Yet again, 6m maps do not do justice to Mexico. Clock in MDT lower-right, 8:53 at 1453 UT also with rotating temps for Chihuahua places: JUA, CUAU, CHIH, PARR; illegible crawler abottom, peaks to very good level 1453 on 3, algo as MUF climbs; 1454 N bug in LL, NOTIVISA on set, and 7:53 clock = PDT, so it has to be XHBC Mexicali, but soon gone, and never seen again in this opening, everything from further east/south. 1663 km = 1033 miles to Enid city 1455 on 2, ad for some event in the Sun Bowl of El Paso, so as above it`s certainly XEPM-TV, Juárez and not Chihuahua city. Juárez is only 947 km = 588 miles from Enid, or 57% of the distance from Mexicali 1456 on 2, same station XEPM with LAS NOTICIAS across the screen but left and right letters cut off, photoed; so originally HD? XEPM, 2, Ciudad Juárez, LAS NOTICIAS, 1456 UT June 23: http://www.w4uvh.net/XEPM.jpg Then the CCI grows on channel 2 as the opening strengthens 1515 on 2, soccer promo, probably Azteca 13; heavy CCI 1526 on 4, Azteca-7 bug UR, soccer interview briefly in English, back to Spanish from southwest. Generally I am refraining from guessing stations from networks, listings, PTAs, but once again W9WI.com has only two 7s-on-4, the more likely one being XHNCI-TV, 19.86 kW from Manzanillo, Colima, rather than XHPSO-TV, 40 kW from Matías de Romero, Oaxaca. I am still wondering if there is really another one further north/west. None shown on the map at http://www.dxinfocentre.com/TV4.pdf database unknown, and these maps unfortunately cut off north of Oaxaca and the rest of extreme southern Mexico. 2025 km = 1258 miles from Manzanillo to Enid cities, certainly a possible path 1527 on 2, English! feel-good `on the road` feature originally from CBS guy about Alzheimers, outro in Spanish ``qué lindo``, so was probably subtitled. Until then I was wondering if I was getting Canada off the back at same time 1530 on 4, Televisa-2 star bug in LR, plug/ad for FUD; 1531 ad to the tune of Hallelujah Chorus for ``Protección Feminina`` with American football gear (unnecessary?), ha ha. Next ad for Six Flags Mexico, featuring a ``roller-coaster`` ahora abierta, necessarily employing English terminology (has anyone attempted to translate that device?). Where is this? Probably México DF. Is Mexico really a 6-flags place in history like so many American states? I imagine that only 5 or too many 7 would not deter the branding; who cares about historical accuracy? 1538 on 4, Azteca-13 bug UR, cooking show about sushi 1541 on 6, algo video shows briefly 1547 on 2, that hearing aid infomercial again, but mixing with soccer audio; 1557 it`s by AUDIOTECH 1600 on 2 and 4, signals continue with CCI, but nothing identifiable thru hourtop 1614 on 4, A-13 studio/game show 1619 on 4, cooking segment, on tortellinas, no bugs but probably same as above; yes, then into `Corte Informativo`, news headlines about flooding in Coahuila, another disaster in another state, from Azteca Noticias 1622 on 4, Televisa Deportes, en vivo, soccer; also on 5 in and out 1629 on 87.75, trace of Spanish on channel 6 audio 1644 on 88.5, Spanish overcomes OKC station, plug some event on 26 de junio; noticias about municipio de Chihuahua, 1647 outro as RadioRama, M-N Noticias, fade out. WTFDA db, back in business since at least June 22, shows XHDI-FM, 10/10 kW, ``La Nueva`` + AM on 1360; and so does Cantú; but beware searching the WTFDA db as there are misspellings such as here, ``Chichahua`` in the city field. 1156 km = 716 miles 1650 on 87.75, out to the porch for FM DXing on DX-398 waving the whip around: again a bit of Spanish, now fútbol 1652 on 92.9, no further Mexican Es signals tuning above 88.5 found (all frequencies blocked or with ACI), until here: 8 para las 11 TC by YL DJ, in $tereo, and RDS already IDs it as: ESTEREO 92.9 FM XHER and also with TEMP 16C! (It can`t be that cold on a Chihuahuan summer day, and weather.com lookup at 1847 UT shows 95F, more like it) 1653, Air conditioner ad somehow associated with El Mundial, yelling goooooaaaal; other ads, 1654 ``Chihuahua vive Seguro`` state government PSA. ``Estéreo Romance`` singing ID, YL timecheck. WTFDA FMDB shows it`s in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, 9.53/9.52 kW H & V, ESTEREO ROMANCE + AM 990. I have logged their AM, XEER 990 several times. Distance 1225 km = 761 miles. Recorded until 1655 fadeout. Audio of XHER, 92.9, Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, sporadic E reception June 23 at 1652-1655 UT: http://www.w4uvh.net/XHER.mp3 With no more FM in a few minutes, back inside to TVs: 1703 on 2 and 4, heavy CCI, including World Cup coverage 1705 on 5, poor signal but animation from Televisa 5 bug in LR: it`s those evil penguins again. Title is really, based on the movie, ``Los Pingüinos de Madagascar``, scheduled on 5, M-F 11:30 am-12:30 pm CDT 1723 on 5, World Cup live; bug in LR has the generic Televisa horizontally-squashed oval, with VIVO above it, and DEPORTES below it. But it`s not live at the moment with a slo-mo replay 1737 on 2 & 4, heavy CCI; 5 with another caricatura show 1739 on 5 & 4, World Cup audio not synchronized, Chile vs somebody. That reminds me of reports that R. Cooperativa relay on 12365-USB has been reactivated for these momentous events, so I go out and try to hear it at 1741, but not. It may well be on but not propagating at this hour. Better luck if there`s an evening match 1808 on 2, Televisa-5 animation; not much on 3 or 4 1821 on 4, Azteca promo, novela, A-13 bug UR, peaks VG snow-free; in and out and still going past 1843 1843 on 2, mostly CCI, not much on 3 today despite signals on 2 and 4 1913 on 2, weak CCI is all that`s left. 1920 on 2, weak Televisa Deportes fade in with fútbol audio. More to come? Only signs of Es since last report, leaving TV set on A2 snow: June 24 at 0234 UT brief fade-in of novela; and algo again at 0249 Sporadic E, analog TV DX June 24, UT: 1830 check, no DX, but: 2055 on 2, 3, 4, now there are some signals, CCI, more or less from the southwest 2103 on 4, novela? with Azteca-13 bug UR; loud audio 2104 on 3, World Cup football 2105 on 5 and weaker 6, algo video As this point FM DX may be in, so switch to that on the porch; see U S A. After some FL stations fade out, back to TV: 2140 on 2, CCI, Spanish from south and algo on 3 2155 on 2, Televisa Espectáculos, from SSW? Clock in UR 2159 on 2, clip of Patrick Stewart guesting on Jimmy Fallon, in squeeze-o-vision 2200 on 2, entertainment magazine, clock in UR says 17:00 = CDT; no bug visible in LR; algo in LL 2202 on 2, tentatively Gala swirl bug in LR 2250 on 2, soccer fades in weakly 2302 on 2, ads, Azteca-7 Mundial promo (which could be on Azteca-13), Cámara de Diputados federal PSA; nothing more. More feeble Es, June 25, UT: 1603 on 2, algo from south CCI 1623 on 2, football made out among the weak CCI; Mundial presumed 1650 on 2, YLs in studio chat show, CCI 1709 on 2, Azteca-7 bug in UR during football weak signals in & out for the next hour or so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO. A piece of official information about the Briech facility had been made available in one of the BBG budget requests, I think about three years ago. Therein an outline of engineering projects mentioned that solid-state modulators from Briech had been transferred to Iranawila. Which makes it sufficiently clear that never any HF will go out from Briech again, no matter what the official paperwork may claim (Kai Ludwig, June 23, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** NEWFOUNDLAND. 6159.98, 0205-0215, CANADA, 25.06, CKZN, St. John's, NewFoundland. English speech about the heritage of St. John's, 45333 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, a few stations could be heard last night, most with poor reception on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire here in Skovlunde, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. 11725-AM, June 23 at 0509, no signal from RNZI nor DRM on 11685-11695. These are supposed to start at 0459. RNZI used to warn of scheduled down time on their website but I can`t find any now; the remote transmitter site is unhumanned, so when something goes wrong it takes a while to send someone out there. Might have been on two wrong frequencies, unsearched for. Something in English on 9700 after 1200, so evidently fixed by then (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 11770-, June 19 at 2121, open carrier/dead air somewhat on the lo side, presumably VON as often the case with them. 15120, June 20 at *1757 I have tuned in VON frequency to hear whether they are DRMing or AMing: there is a weak AM carrier only, presumably thence, but at *1758 DRM noise cuts on while the AM is still running too. That should produce interesting results. But DRM cuts off at 1759*, back on at *1759:40 and now the AM is off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) VoN-Ikorodu on 11770 at 2108 in Hausa. M with news. ID. Surprisingly good signal, despite a little splash from DGS above, June 25. Eton E1 (Mike Bryant, KY, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Maybe simply because it's not Ikorodu, but Abuja! BTW. The signal at this hour is often surprisingly good also in Germany, with much better audio than we are used to from IKO, and fewer days off-air. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, ibid.) ** NORTH AMERICA. Pirates --- UNID: 6770.6, 0110, 15-June; Uncopyable weak sig w/mumbling; presume this is Old Time Radio, the station recently reported running old radio programs, nearly continuously. Old Time Radio: 6770.6/AM, 0054-0101+, 16-June; Amos & Andy episode; Lucky Strike ad. SIO=352+ Only had hints of audio here previously. Still up at 0348 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 9600, R/S YHWH, 0413-0422* 17 June. New program/same creepy closing song. Heard with a fair signal while checking for Nikkei 1-9595 (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA G5/4.5m "lean-mean" X wire, WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9600-AM, June 19 at 0507 in bandscan, there`s the Station YHWH guy! on yet another new frequency, fair signal, voice, modulation quality, and content immediately recognizable, fortunately since chopped off at 0507:45*, and not found thence on any other frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Appearance of YHWH --- Hi: I just saw the latest report of YHWH in the Glenn Hauser logs for June 19th. From the frequencies this guy uses, I suspect this operator (or someone helping him). has a lot of experience with ham or broadcast gear. He shows up on frequencies where there is a ready audience and the greatest chance of being heard. He probably has a field of antennas that are ready-made for the frequencies he wants to use (ham, international broadcast) and he knows the correct modulation to use for each of the bands he is using. He is probably using a modified ham VFO to get his signal where he wants it. This guy is not your usual pirate broadcaster that plays on the weekend. I am beginning to wonder if he has financial support to do all this. At least, he is not sending on the aeronautical or marine channels where safety is at stake. Let's hope it stays that way (Dan Ramos, Joshua Tree CA, June 19, swl at qth.het via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, June 22 at 0500 UT, tuning KGWA Enid to find whether there`s a Fox-hole tonight, instead there is a parody commercial for the ``Oil Slick Adventure Fun Park``, THEN dead air from 0501 to 0505 UT, mainly occupied by ABC News from KMA or KGKL. This is very unusual for KGWA; when there is a hole, it normally starts after the ID right at 0500 UT. No Google hits on that phrase (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1390, June 25 at 0551 UT past 0600, local KCRC is dead air instead of ESPN, a rare chance to hear something else but its 1 kW open carrier is still too strong, unlike 960 KGWA`s. Also possiblizes DX on 1400, but nothing resurrected from that graveyard (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1490, KBIX Muskogee, OK back on the air, noted on yesterday while en-route to work in Tahlequah. 25JUN14 0800 CDT, ads for businesses in NE Oklahoma, TOH multiple station ID, 1470 KGND Vinita, 1490 KBIX Muskogee and 1550 KYAL Sapulpa plus a couple of FM's that I missed. Using "The Sports Animal" slogan. Their signal sounds distorted and is audible for only about 15 miles or so from the transmitter site. They may not even be using their licensed 450 watts. Not audible here in Tulsa during the day at 41 miles distance. 1340 KJMU Sand Springs silent, not heard since mid-April, 2014. 73, (Bruce Winkelman, Tulsa, OK, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. While searching for FM DX from FL as IDed on three channels, I note some OK info, June 24: 93.7, Stillwater, KSPI is still ``Hot 93.7`` 103.5, Anadarko, KVSP RDS shows: POWER / 103.5 / 460-_1035. I guess that`s their phone number. Also speaks call-letter only ID atop music. I believe it`s a rimshooter into OKC 90.5, KGVV Goltry, and 98.5, K253BC Enid are // but 90.5 is 5 seconds behind 98.5. They are both relaying KLVV 88.7 Ponca City, altho WTFDA says 98.5 is relaying KHEV 90.3 Fairview, which is way on the other (west) side of Enid. I don`t think so. 90.3 is now getting blotted by the closer 90.5 signal; and 88.7 by a different Enid translator on 88.9 shifted from 89.1. The 98.5 translator is no longer necessary (if it ever was). (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 10.8 MHz, June 19 at 1235 UT, on the FRG-7 in AM mode, broad heavily distorted FM signal, with continuous talk, discussing an accident or injury. It must be some neighbors`s FM receiver radiating from its IF, nominal 10.7 MHz. (None are on in this household!) On another radio bandscanning FM, I find it matches 101.9 from OKC. Later at 1314 UT I find the same ranging 50 kHz or so above and below 21.6 MHz, i.e. the second harmonic of that receiver`s IF, still straight talk altho KTST is supposedly a music station. Its RDS displays TWISTER / TODAY`S / NEW / COUNTRY. (The WTFDA FM Database http://db.wtfda.org is still down, inaccessible from Dreamhost after a few days!) Same heard again June 24 at 1356 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Area tropo enhancement brings RF21, June 24 at 1412 UT. HSN is decoding with antenna south; what`s this?! NO PSIP ID, just blank for 21-1, but has three more also blank: 21-2 with religious talk by FRANCES on the set, only clue being an email address to JSM.org; 21-3 is black with ``No video input`` and rapid digital clock in the UL including frames zipping by, just like we sometimes see on Enid public access TV, like 16:21:28.25 etc. (not the current time but the number of hours+ accumulating that there has been NVI!) However, there is JBA modulation, can`t make it out, but sounds like the fully modulated 21-4 with an ad for mops & buckets. W9WI.com reveals what this is: KTOU-LD, 4 kW ERP in OKC, but he has only 21.1 with HSN. JSM means Jimmy Swaggart Ministries, but the sinful bawler`s TV channel is called SBN = Sonlife Broadcasting Network. So I enter an OKC zipcode in the Channel Finder, http://jsm.org/channelfinder.html and what do I get? Only cable and satellite providers! They are so incompetent they don`t even know, or want us to know that they are on air 21.2 in OKC. As for HSN, what in the world is the point of putting it on this LPTV, when it is also on RF 50 Ion`s fullpower 62.6 in OKC?? So I still don`t know what programming is supposed to be on 21.3 and 21.4 from KTOU. Who owns this sorry excuse for a TV station, anyway? FCC TV Query shows Mako Communications LLC, in Corpus Christi TX. Had almost forgotten, but previously logged KTOU on 21 with HSN as in DXLDs 10-30, 11-03, 11-06, 11-07, 11-09, 11-23 shortly after their DTV transition. While I have this in from OKC, I also check the other listed LP channels: ``bad `` signals on 19, 36, 45, 46 (Norman) --- of course could be from somewhere else like 45 Tulsa or Wichita; and NO signals on 17, 41, 48 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 26, June 24 at 1413 UT, KTENNBC on PSIP as 10-1, i.e. Ada`s station which is rarely seen here, altho nor far beyond OKC. Also KTEN-CW as 10-2. W9WI.com also has ABC on 10-3, but I didn`t find it. Back in the day on analog 10 only, KTEN was a joint ABC/NBC affiliate which led to all kinds of scheduling problems, especially prime-time. Same market for CBS is KXII-12, originally Ardmore but today listed only under Sherman TX across the river; now only a bad signal from it(?) still on RF-12. Transmitter site is still in OK between Ardmore and Durant north of Lake Texoma (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7324.96, Jun 15, 1730, Wantok Radio Light also audible here in south Sweden after I got an alert from Arne Nilsson that he heard them with a nice signal and ID between the music. Noted several days after that. There is a short time span between 1857-1900 when the station is alone on the frequency. A tentative Chinese station signs off at 1857* and just after 1900 Taiwan signs on with a tremendous signal. Anders Hultqvist says, after performing an IQ analysis on June 16, that those periods are best: 1803-1804z, 1805- 1827z, 1857-1900z. Checked the frequency again on June 21 at 1857- 1900 but the signal was very weak (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin June 22 via DXLD) 7325, Wantok Radio Light, 0715-0850, June 23. Here is a Bruce Churchill log of WRL. He had fair reception via remote at Lamont, Alberta, Canada, via Don Moman's log-periodic on his Perseus network node with a beam to PNG. Listening to Bruce's recorded reception, found he was listening in part to the late Dr. Tayo Adeyemi's (New Wine Church, United Kingdom) program, which I have not heard in a long time. Very nice reception. http://www.newwine.co.uk/church/our-pastor (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Wantok Radio Light?? PNG, 7324.96 Wantok R Light (tentative) heard 6/22 from Perseus site in Edmonton AB from 0906 tune with what sounded like news. High static level and rapid fades made readability difficult, but a solid S3 signal, not typical of a 1 kW xmtr. Did not seem like usual religious programming, but instead had instrumental music from 0913.5 to 0917, man announcer to 0918, then vocals to 0933. Man 0933-34 and then another man ann at 0934. At 0936 sounded like a passionate sermon by man in an ethnic language (or at least not English) - this ran past 1000. No sign of CRI on this freq at nominal *1000. Checking with Perseus sites in Brisbane and Tokyo seemed to confirm Wantok R Light, although signal was easily best from Edmonton. Programming not unlike typical NBC stations. If this was WRL, have not heard this station for several months (Bruce Churchill, Fallbrook CA, DXplorer via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) Bruce, now 7324.957 kHz June 23 at 10 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7324.95, Wantok Radio Light. Motivated by Bruce Churchill's log yesterday of WRL, today (June 24) I checked from 0805 to 0902. Poor reception; not as good as Bruce heard; 0810-0830 religious songs; 0830-0855 with an old program of preaching by Dr. Tayo Adeyemi (New Wine Church, United Kingdom), as he died last year; 0901 PNG bird call and into the NBC news; news being // 3260, NBC Madang // 3385, NBC East New Britain (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3204.96, NBC Sandaun, 1204, June 23. "NBC News in Brief" (news & weather). At 1310 noted // 3365 (NBC Milne Bay) with "NBC National Radio" programming in English till 1312*, with 3365 continuing on. 3260, NBC Madang, 1202*, June 23. Off with an ID for "NBC National Radio"; poor. Normally goes off shortly after 1200. 3365, NBC Milne Bay, 1310-1319, June 23. // 3204.96 (NBC Sandaun) with pop songs. Find this audio to consistently be muffled, compared to all the other NBC stations. 3385, NBC East New Britain, 1145-1200*, June 23. Pop Pacific Island music; off with Kenny G music; fair. 1200 is now their normal sign off time, via a timer. 3905, NBC New Ireland has been off the air for quite a while now; through June 23. June 25: 3260, NBC Madang. June 25 running well past normal sign off; gone by 1301; heard 1201 with "NBC News in Brief"; NBC National Radio programming till about 1250; noted // 3365, NBC Milne Bay which continued on past "NBC News Roundup" at 1301. 3385, NBC East New Britain, 1138-1200*, June 25. Special program covering the "Official launch" of the a youth sports festival; in Tok Pisin/Pidgin, English and vernacular; several welcoming speeches from the opening ceremony (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) NBC news ID on East New Britain [3385], WWCR [3215] going off leaving NBC Sandaun [3205] http://youtu.be/joxaaYh_olY 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153' Delta Loop, Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Another interesting email from Dave Ricquish (PNG Country Editor, WRTH, Radio Heritage Foundation). Here are his insightful comments: "Hello Ron . . . Most of the action in PNG seems to be on FM. It remains darned difficult to extract anything useful out of NBC, but I continue to nibble around the edges. BTW, the population of PNG has now reached 7.4 million, making it the the 2nd largest nation in terms of population in the SW Pacific, after Australia. With increased urbanization, the country now supports some 5 or 6 commercial radio networks as well as NBC AM/FM/SW. Clearly, urban FM and 'nation building' FM is where the growth will be. Particularly as the country lurches from one political crisis to another. Now the PM has an arrest warrant . . . Cheers, Dave" (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4810, R. Logos. OC popped on at 0902, then NA started at 0904. Nice full canned ID at 0910. Had to use LSB to avoid the ute above as always. (25 June). R. San Miguel, R. Logos, both starting up. http://youtu.be/jh8IIBaq1cc 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153' Delta Loop, Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) ** PERU. 5980, June 20 at 0111, JBA carrier from R. Chaski until cutoff at 0114:43*, which is 24 seconds later than last check 4 nights ago. This log is unusual and unexpected: instead of my customary monitoring on the porch with PL-880 and reel-out antenna, I was at Enid`s Chautauqua in the Park under a tent after a downpour, during the Q&A session following John Anderson`s performance as Henry James. I had brought along the PL-880 just in case and was pleased to find I could still get enough Chaski with the whip antenna only. 5980, June 22 until 0114:53.5* JBA carrier from R. Chaski until cutoff, which is 10.5 seconds later than two nights ago (Glenn Hauser, also at Chautauqua, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, June 24 at 0114, R. Chaski carrier and some modulation audible, very poor, until cut off at 0115:05.5* which is 12 seconds later than on June 22; so June 23 was the date it reached the 0115 mark, just as I had predicted/projected (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [and non]. 6173.88, Jun 22, 0256, R Tawantinsuyo with weak signal audible until La Voz de Vietnam [WHRI] starts up at 0258 with Spanish program. Sign off at 0258* (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin June 22 via DXLD) 6173.89, 0210-0220 25.06, R Tawuantinsuyo, Cusco. Spanish talk, very weak, 14311 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, a few stations could be heard last night, most with poor reception on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire here in Skovlunde, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. 15170, June 20 at 2043, RRI is VG as usual, unlike anything else from Europe on any band at this hour, // weaker but sufficient 17510 employing the same digits in a different order; as they are promoting their current quiz competition for a week`s expense paid stay at some tourist destination in Romania. When someone reported this earlier, I remarked that the usual catch is, you have to pay your own way to get there; however, this announcement clearly stated that *one* winner also gets this time ``the cost of an airplane ticket *to* Bucharest``. You still may be on your own to get back home! Also does not cover cost of getting a visa. Let alone any companion you may want to bring. Details are here: http://rri.ro/en_gb/a_contemporary_of_brancusi_milita_petrascu-18562 Looks like a little research should make it easy to answer the questions, so I assume something extra will be needed to become the winner, like the luck of a draw among all the correct entries, but this is NOT STATED. Will they be tempted to favor European entries with cheaper airfare? BTW, proper Romanian spelling of the station name is on above page: RADIO ROMÂNIA INTERNAT,IONAL, except the comma/cedilla goes directly under the T, making it a ts sound, so we should just respell it INTERNATSIONAL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. June 20 Adygeyan Radio in Adygeyan 1728 on 7325 Armavir, Krasnodar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClfSdq-2YyM&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Still on SW! ** RUSSIA. Google translation --- Bashkortostan. Former KGB station fit for digital television and radio broadcasting. FGUP "Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network" ("RTRS") begin to deploy in Bashkiria digital broadcasting infrastructure. Thus, near station "Altai" in the woods behind the Ufa State Circus, "RTRS" build mini telecentre for the formation of so-called "multiplex" - digital package set of radio and television stations. By the end of summer in the forest park on the street will Zaorge building hardware, pre-its construction is estimated at 8.6 million rubles. The building will be built on the border RTPTS "Altai" - one of two former KGB radio BASSR engaged "Jamming" the content of Western radio stations in the Soviet era. In the 80s "Altai" used for network deployment of the first Soviet mobile, now the station is busy broadcasting fm-commercial stations. However, technical premises radio station still filled complexes to create interference "VYAZ". Deployment of digital broadcasting in Bashkortostan was divided into five stages contingent. But the last four years, plans have been adjusted for network components: network eventually dropped from 295 to 216 broadcasting stations. For example, according to the original plans 150-meter antenna mast had to build in Ufa, in the village and Belebey Starogusevo Bakalinski district. But after adjustment, 150-meter tall structure were only Belebey and Ufa. In other settlements Bashkiria height masts will not exceed 50-60 meters. Most powerful transmitters 2 kW install in Ufa Starogusevo, Novonagaevo, Naumovka and Buraeva. Before starting full broadcast "RTRS", in June and October, the poll of viewers and listeners about their knowledge in the digital broadcasting standard and ready to move to the new signal as well as the saturation of households digital set-top boxes "and their readiness to purchase." Previous five years RTRS tried to negotiate with the "Bashinformsvyaz" sharing communications infrastructure remaining from the Soviet times, but did not find understanding enterprise. During one of the turns of forensic legal war perished station RV-1 Comintern, Bashkir signalers demolished it, and the land under it later began to explore the construction of housing and water park "Planet". In January 2012 ode "RTRS" launched an advertising campaign of the federal target program "Development of Broadcasting in Russia in 2009- 2015." On central TV channels spinning rollers, where the famous TV presenters explain the benefits of digital TV and radio. However, in the final frame, the map of the country, representing the territory of the federal program of action, instead of Bashkiria was whitened outline. Those advertisements and posted on Youtube, also decorated with a map on which the republic against the background of the entire country, highlighted by a white spot. Many people pay attention to it and wondered whether the republic is not disabled from digital television programs and radio. Later RTRS explained white spot on the site of the republic "brain pre-installation version of the roller." mkset.ru (OnAir.ru via Google mis-translation, RusDX 22 June via DXLD) ** SARAWAK [non]. TAIWAN(non [sic]). Frequency change of Radio Free Sarawak in Iban from June 23: 1100-1130 15425 TNN 100 kW / 208 deg SEAs Mon-Sat, ex 15430 June 9-21 1130-1200 15425 TNN 100 kW / 208 deg SEAs Mon-Sat, ex 15420 June 9-21 1200-1230 15425 TNN 100 kW / 208 deg SEAs Mon-Sat, ex 15410 June 9-21 Used remote SDR receivers in Novosibirsk, Russia and Tai Po, NT, Hong Kong. http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/06/frequency-change-of-radio-free-sarawak.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So Ivo believes this is via Tainan, Taiwan Thanks Ivo, Indeed, June 23 I also heard RFS on new 15425 at 1229 mentioning "special report"; into the RFS theme music and off at 1230*; almost fair. From 1212 to 1230 heard with no jamming at all. (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD) 15425, June 25 at 1202, JBA carrier, but none on any of the previous Radio Free Sarawak frequencies, 15430, 15420, 15460; better by 1223, poor with talk in presumed Iban, bits of music until 1230 with 3 or 4 tones and off. 15425 is the new frequency that Ivo Ivanov and Ron Howard have been hearing the past couple days, but surely it won`t replace jumparounding to avoid jamming (which is never audible here). Ivo believes the site to be Tainan, Taiwan (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SINGAPORE. BBC Far Eastern Relay station https://www.flickr.com/photos/kwloo/5722285713/ (via James Mills, June 19, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020-, June 25 at 1158-1159:12*, SIBC carrier until autocutoff. Sometimes I awaken just in time to check this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 17850, good Sat June 21 at 2048, surprised to hear the unique voice of Antonio Buitrago, with REE mailbag replies, so it`s got to be `Amigos de la Onda Corta` at a previously unknown time. I assume it`s been plugged in here as filler because there is no silly ballgame available (no REE rights to Copa Mundial?) when they normally have one on `Tablero Deportivo` (and who would play any other game at such a sacred time? Enid`s soccer field is vacant). Then Antonio plays on request two minutes of a zarzuela, ``Preludio a La Revoltosa``, another reply to someone in Naples (pronounced as if it were Spanish) FL, other than Hans Johnson, who sent four reception reports at once; 2053 `AdlOC` sounder, outro, and sounder fills till 2055. Then two other program promos, for `Travesías` and `Música de las Américas`, neither with any info about *when* they can be heard! (Well, if they plug them in like AdlOC, that`s somewhat understandable, but they must also have some regular reliable timings.) European signal second only to Romania 15710 but better than its // 17510 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. Special broadcast to India --- How many of you remember the days of Radio Ceylon? [I do --- gh] PCJ Radio International will present a special two hour music program to India. The program will feature evergreen classics from Hindi, Tamil, Sinhala, Bengali cinema and beyond. And will include popular British, Australian, American, Singaporean, Malay, Thai music as well. This program will be broadcast on medium wave from the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corp. This is not a Happy Station Show, incase you were going to ask. Medium wave frequency, time and date will follow shortly. Regards, (Keith Perron, PCJ Radio International, June 25, DXLD) ** SUDAN [non]. 15550, June 22 at 0527, R. Dabanga singing IDs, poor- fair. Seems about 7 seconds ahead of // 11650, fair with whine jamming, while 15550 has no audible jamming. 15550 is 240 degrees from UAE, which is roughly 90 degrees off-beam to here; 11650 is 145 degrees from VATICAN, roughly opposite from here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. On 6/21/2014, I received a large full data QSL card from Radio Miraya FM-Opposition Radio to Sudan, for a reception report sent on 6/9/2014 to an address in Switzerland where the HQ for the station is located. Station web address is http://www.hirondelle.org (QSL note from John Cooper, NASWA Flashsheet June 22 via DXLD) WTFK? ** SWEDEN. Just received from Lars/SM6NM: SAQ TRANSMISSIONS ON JUNE 29TH, 2014 AND JULY 2ND, 2014 1. ALEXANDERSON DAY, JUNE 29TH, 2014 The annual transmission on "Alexanderson Day" with the Alexanderson alternator on VLF 17.2 kHz will take place Sunday, June 29th, 2014 at 0900 UTC (tuning up from about 0830 UT) and will be repeated at 1200 UTC (tuning up from about 1130 UT). There will be activity on amateur radio frequencies with the call "SK6SAQ" from about 0800 to about 1400 UT, except during SAQ transmissions. Any of following frequencies: - 14035 kHz CW - 14215 kHz SSB - 3535 kHz CW QSL for SK6SAQ via SK6DK or bureau. The station will be open to visitors 0800 to 1400 UT. Welcome! QSL-reports on SAQ are kindly received: - E-mail to: info @ alexander.n.se - or via: SM bureau - or direct by mail to: Alexander - Grimeton Veteranradios Vaenner, Radiostationen, Grimeton 72 SE-432 98 GRIMETON S W E D E N 2. 10 YEARS SINCE GRIMETON RADIO/SAQ BECAME A UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE, JULY 2ND, 2014 There will also be a transmission on, Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014, at 1430 UT (tuning up from about 1400 UT) due to 10 years since SAQ was appointed a World Heritage site (via Mike Terry, June 22, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD) ** SWITZERLAND. SWISS 60 METER BEACON NOW ON THE AIR Although radio amateurs in Switzerland do not yet have access to the 60 meter band, the Sursee Amateur Radio Club has received authorization to operate an experimental beacon in grid square JN47be under the call sign HB9AW. The 5291 kHz beacon, which went live on June 1, is primarily to study 60 meter [sic --- it`s 56.7m] propagation within Switzerland. The new beacon will transmit HB9AW in CW at 10 W, followed by five dashes, with the power lowered with each dash. The first dash will be at 10 W, the second at 5 W, the third at 1 W, the fourth at 100 mW, and the fifth at 10 mW (all power levels in ERP). The beacon will transmit every 5 minutes, starting at the top of the hour. The antenna is a half-wave NVIS-type dipole with its feed point 0.12 ? above ground and its ends slightly lower. A reflector is set beneath the dipole. "We deliberately chose this high-angle radiating antenna to study propagation conditions in Switzerland," the club said on its website, adding, "Conditions for DX contacts are for now only of secondary interest." (via Scott Blixt, A Minnesota MadMan, June 19, MDXC yg via DXLD) ** TAIWAN [non]. Victor Goonetilleke posted in PCJ Media and PCJ Radio June 22 2014: All systems ready for this evening`s broadcast 1229-1330 on 13720 kHz. 59:29 of great broadcasting!! (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) via SRI LANKA HDSDR-csvUserlistbrowser / Eibi-Liste / Interference-Tool: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Possible interference/QRM within +/-3 kHz for 13720.0 kHz; 1230-1330; ______7; english; PCJ Radio; Trincomalee; FE; Org: TWN 13720.0 kHz; 1100-1300; 1234567; spanish/castellano; REE DIGITAL; Noblejas; Eu (Collision!) The list may contain multiple entries for different languages. Please save this file, if needed, before creating a new QRM file. It will be overwritten. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 13720 kHz since 13.00z...... reception. O=2-3 (vertical boomerang-antenna for 11mB) O=3-4 Dipol for 12 MHz ====> East (my QTH ====> Trincomalee ~7800 km/100 : ) [IC-R75/STUDIO1, QTH: southern Saxony-Anhalt / Germany] (roger, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tuned in this morning in Victoria, BC. At 1230, the sign-on was just audible, but gradually improved to fair to fair + level by sign-off at 1330. All on 13720 kHz. Thanks, Keith for continuing the interesting broadcast! (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAJIKISTAN. Ullmar Qvick: Janne, SM5TJH, ringde mig och berättade om en rundradiostation mitt I amatörernas 20 m-band. Det var tredje övertonen av Tajikistans sändare på 4765 kHz, och den hördes både hos mig och via remote-rx i Twente, NL. Det är naturligtvis inte bra, men samtidigt får DX-.are en god chans att höra Tajikistan på den frekvensen.... Sänder nästan dygnet runt enligt WRTVH. Ullmar (via NORDX via SW Bulletin June 22 via DXLD) See CUBA for translation ** TURKEY. 17770, June 20 at 1401, Arabish-accented YL, then Qur`an, but back to talk at 1405. Couldn`t be Iran with obligatory opening Qur`an bit, since that`s been shoved to before the hours/half-hours. Aoki shows VOT listed at 1400-1455 in Arabic, 500 kW, 252 degrees from Emirler. Was not aware that secular Turkey felt obliged to qowtow to the Qur`an before getting on with broadcast business, violating Separation of Mosque and State. It`s too early for vespers. Maybe just on the Fribbath. Would they dare start doing this in English and other languages? What about all the Arabs who are Christians or whatever? 15450, June 25 at 1231, VOT English on poor signal, but already in news about SOS Kerry, not imposing the Qur`an upon listeners in this language, unlike in Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. 9740, June 23 at 1210, BBCWS via SINGAPORE, interesting interview with a scientist who thinks immortality, or much prolonged lifespans are within reach of some alive today. Not 100% copy on this poor signal intended to prevent North Americans from listening to BBCWS. Then comes the hard part: finding the programme title and link to it on the website. From bbcworldservice.com I first have to pretend I am listening from somewhere in their shortwave coverage. How about Tokyo? No, ``Sorry, we are unable to find any broadcasts to Tokyo, Japan``!!! Yet, once I have given up, a programme schedule for Tokyo shows up for 6195, close enough, with Monday 1205 UT as HARDtalk but no direct link to this episode. I have to search again and finally find it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0211msj ``Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation - Aubrey De Grey Availability: 7 days left to listen Duration: 25 minutes First broadcast: Monday 23 June 2014 Imagine life without ageing. You could live for hundreds of years with the mental and physical attributes of your 25-year-old self. Would you be tempted? Hardtalk speaks to a scientist and futurologist who believes it is a proposition that 21st Century biotechnology will soon be able to deliver. Aubrey de Grey's Californian research foundation is spending millions of dollars in a bid to conquer the ageing process. Is his vision inspiring, daft, or downright dangerous?`` What is SENS? Wiki knows: ``Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence``. And ever notice how BBC uses words like ``Californian``, a lot more than Americanians do? How about ``New Yorkian?`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. 11790, 0530 S. AFRICA??? BBC Mystery signal with ID and “Weekend” program, fair in English. Not supposed to be BBC in English at this time! - 11/5 (Jonathon Wood, Mosgiel, New Zealand, Lowe HF- 150, 34m & 46m Dipoles, June NZ DX Times via DXLD) Tx site may have mistakenly switched in BBC feed instead of scheduled RFI (Ed., ibid.) ** U K [non]. 9510, UNKNOWN. BBC, 2246, 6/21/14, in English. World Cup coverage from various matches. Frequency and location not listed in EiBi, Aoki, or DXLD for June. Fair. (Taylor-WI) 11625, UNKNOWN, BBC, 2348, 6/21/14, in English. World Cup coverage with various game selections (including Nigeria vs Bosnia,) remote report from correspondent in Brazil, ID, 0000 off. Frequency and location not listed in EiBi, Aoki, or DXLD for June. Good (Mark Taylor, Madison WI, Perseus, WinRadio g313e, Eton e1, Grundig G5, Tecsun PL 660; EWE, Flextenna. NASWA Flashsheet June 22 via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD) The answers below (gh, ibid.) Additional frequencies of BBC, probably World Cup 2014 Brasil: English World Service: 1530-1600 on 17830 ASC 250 kW / 085 deg to CEAf Wed/Thu 1530-1800 on 17685 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf Wed/Thu 2000-2100 on 3255 MEY 100 kW / 000 deg to SoAf Mon/Tue/Thu/Sat/Sun 2000-2100 on 6170 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg to CEAf Mon/Tue/Thu/Sat/Sun 2000-2100 on 9410 DHA 250 kW / 220 deg to CEAf Mon/Tue/Thu/Sat/Sun 2100-2200 on 3255 MEY 100 kW / 000 deg to SoAf Mon/Tue/Thu 2100-2200 on 6170 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg to CEAf Mon/Tue/Thu 2100-2200 on 9410 DHA 250 kW / 220 deg to CEAf Mon/Tue/Thu 2130-2400 on 5830 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg to CEAf Sat 2130-2400 on 9510 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf Sat 2130-2400 on 11625 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf Sat 2130-2400 on 12025 ASC 250 kW / 027 deg to WeAf Sat Hausa: 2000-2200 on 12060 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf Mon http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/06/additional-frequencies-of-bbc.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 25, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD) Same pattern for the entire month? A later post June 25 moved 17685 from English to Hausa: Additional frequencies of BBC to World Cup 2014 in Brasil: English World Service 1530-1600 on 17830 ASC 250 kW / 085 deg to CEAf Wed/Thu 2000-2100 on 3255 MEY 100 kW / 000 deg to SoAf Mon/Tue/Thu/Sat/Sun 2000-2100 on 6170 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg to CEAf Mon/Tue/Thu/Sat/Sun 2000-2100 on 9410 DHA 250 kW / 220 deg to CEAf Mon/Tue/Thu/Sat/Sun 2100-2200 on 3255 MEY 100 kW / 000 deg to SoAf Mon/Tue/Thu 2100-2200 on 6170 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg to CEAf Mon/Tue/Thu 2100-2200 on 9410 DHA 250 kW / 220 deg to CEAf Mon/Tue/Thu 2130-2400 on 5830 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg to CEAf Sat 2130-2400 on 9510 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf Sat 2130-2400 on 11625 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf Sat 2130-2400 on 12025 ASC 250 kW / 027 deg to WeAf Sat Hausa 1530-1800 on 17685 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf Wed/Thu 2000-2200 on 12060 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf Mon Six videos from June 25 - Nigeria vs Argentina 2:3 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/06/additional-frequencies-of-bbc.html (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. MARE Paul Dobosz passes along that the annual 'CW Night of Nights' will start at 0001 UT 13 July this year. What is a Night of Nights? Check out: for more details and info. This ALWAYS provides a wonderful selection of targets and an opportunity to practice your CW copying skills, at the same time. It is a blast from the past, and a chance to look forward all at once. Check the web page for full details and schedules of which stations will be on and on what frequency (MARE Tipsheet June 20 via DXLD) ** U S A. 6913/USB, U.S. Army MARS net; 1343, 16-June (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 6972.8/USB, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary 8-Charlie-Romeo net; 0104-0112*, 19-June; Control gave call NM81RD. Transmission sent in "MT63" which was only copied 0-20% by net members. Tnx to Paul D for IDing the group (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 20000, June 23 at 1356, WWV with good signal. At less than 500 miles, it takes a sporadic E opening to audiblize this here. I`ve yet to hear it on 25000, including now --- is that still active? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Glenn, Here are my comments on the Greenville site A antenna setup. First off, I think the antenna they are mistaking for a MW antenna was an experimental set of towers that were there for science projects. There are four towers that have a reflecting screen but no dipoles on the front end. Also there is only one TCI antenna at A site: it’s a dual band 9 and 11 MHz curtain that is diplexed. Unlike the antenna at B site, this thing is narrow banded. It is also slowly falling down. The hillbilly meth heads (statement of fact, by the way) have stolen most of the feeders for this antenna. There are no medium wave antennas at either site, by the way. 73 (Glenn Swiderski, VOA Greenville, June 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5745, VoA ‘test’ with open carrier and the first few notes of the VoA Radiogram theme music, and then carrier off. They’ve done this before -- the techs must be ‘warming up’ for the transmission, but I have no idea why they do it on the air! 4+54+54+ lots of static tonight! *0704-0706* 14/Jun --Zichi MI2 5745, VoA Radiogram #63 with usual stuff including science news (which was mostly tech news about the Internet actually) including an item about Chinese Internet service Pao Pao: but they did have an item about Mapping the Salmon Genome: [illustration] and an item about the new VoA futbol Programme “Penalty Box”. 4+54+54+, 0930-1000* 14/Jun (Ken Zichi, Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet 20 June via DXLD) 5745, VoA Radiogram #63 with same show as above. I am happy to report, I recorded, and later decoded the June 15, 0230-0300 VOA Radiogram program 63. All the text decoded perfectly, and the pictures were of decent quality (Gary Vance, Grand Ledge MI, MARE Tipsheet 20 June via DXLD) VOA Radiogram for the weekend of 21-22 June 2014 (program 64) will be in the usual MFSK32 mode, except for two surprise modes at the end of the show… 1:36 Program preview 2:41 Subsurface ocean on Pluto’s moon, with image 9:57 Indonesian smartphone use surges, with image 15:54 Designing buildings to withstand disasters, with image 21:22 Al Jazeera reporter released from Egyptian prison, with image 26:32 Closing announcements Details at VOA Radiogram, 21-22 June 2014, includes news about a Plutonian moon VOA Radiogram, 21-22 June 2014, includes news about... VOA Radiogram for the weekend of 21-22 June 2014 (program 64) will be in the usual MFSK32 mode, except for two surprise modes at the end of the show... View on voaradiogram.net Preview by Yahoo Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com VOA Radiogram transmission schedule (all days and times UT) Sat 0930-1000 5745 kHz Sat 1600-1630 17860 kHz Sun 0230-0300 5745 kHz Sun 1930-2000 15670 kHz All via the Edward R. Murrow transmitting station in North Carolina The Mighty KBC will transmit a minute of MFSK64 Saturday at about 1130 UTC on 6095 kHz, and Sunday at about 0130 UTC (9:30 pm EDT) on 9925 kHz. Both frequencies via Germany. Reports to themightykbc @ gmail.org [sic; not .com??] Decode all of the above with Fldigi from w1hkj.com (Kim Elliott, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Am 20.06.2014 10:49, schrieb VOA Radiogram: Hello friends, VOA Radiogram this weekend will be different in that I recorded it at a sample rate of 8000 Hz rather than the usual 48000 Hz. This is because I have not yet configured the new installation of Fldigi in my new PC. Despite the 8000 Hz sample rate, I was able to decode the MFSK32 and surprise modes from the recording with no difficulty. And it probably should make no difference in your decoding. But, if it does, please let me know. (The audio file I uploaded to North Carolina is only 27 MB, compared to the usual 160+ MB for the shows recorded at the usual 48000 Hz sample rate.) The Mighty KBC will transmit a minute of MFSK64 Saturday at about 1130 UTC on 6095 kHz, and Sunday at about 0130 UTC (9:30 pm EDT) on 9925 kHz. Both frequencies via Germany. Reports to themightykbc@gmail.org I hope to respond to all your emails from program 63 before the last broadcast of program 64 this weekend. Then, I'll work backwards, responding to your very helpful reports sent during my May travels. Please tune in and write in this weekend. Kim Andrew Elliott, Producer and Presenter, VOA Radiogram voaradiogram.net ====================================================================== As usual, a good quality during the decoding. 8000 Hz sampling rate, this means that 4000 Hz AF are possible. That should also be sufficient for Easypal. In this narrow DRM-mode only almost 3 kHz AF are needed. I think: For the transfer of Hamradio-Data-Audio a WAV- file with 8k Sampling is more suitable than a lossy (psychoacoustically) MP3 with 44k sampling in stereo. http://www.rhci-online.de/VoA_Radiogram_2014-06-21.htm (roger, Germany, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A [non]. 7460, June 25 at 1205, ``VOA News Today`` in English, but merely as a liner during Korean service (they do that a lot), fair signal, and out of synch with // 9490 saying same syllables 4 seconds later. At 1245 I find that third frequency 15780 matches 7460, not 9490. That`s because 7460 and 15780 are via Tinang, PHILIPPINES, 21 degrees USward to the NNE, while 9490 is via TINIAN to its NNW. And 7460 replaced 7225 on May 7, no doubt to the relief of 40m hams in the western half of America, but was that why it moved? Doubtful (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1726 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1, 9475, Thursday June 19 from 2100:32; VG signal but still seems noticeably weaker than WTWW-2 on 9930. Also confirmed on WBCQ after 2100 June 19; checking 7490v at 2113 it`s JBA but I believe it`s my voice altho I can`t tell which episode. Then confirmed as new #1726 on webcast. 0330v UT Friday on WWRB 5050: previous preacher keeps going and going and going --- finally stops at 0339 and after respectful pause, WOR starts late, with modulation level again too loud and distorting on 5050, while the webcast level is about normal as it had been earlier but with some hum. 5050 stays on until WOR conclusion at 0408, then immediately off, while the webcast went dead circa 0400 instead of cutting to KJV Bible readings as usually happens. Next: Sat 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB Sat 2330 on WTWW, 9930 UT Sun 0030 on WRMI, 9495 UT Sun 0400 on WTWW, 5830 UT Mon 0300 on WBCQ, 5110-CUSB WORLD OF RADIO 1726 monitoring: not confirmed on WTWW-2, 9930, Saturday June 21 at 2338 when `Amateur Radio Newsline` is running. Possibly WOR played at 2300 instead, as has happened a few times before; did anyone notice? After QSY to 5085 at 0000, another ARNL aired, followed by QSO show from Dayton (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, I was listening from 2315 but they had some Gospel singing on until 2330 when Ham news came on. 73, (Ed McCorry KI4QDE, DX LISTENING DIGEST) New WOR 1726 confirmed UT Sunday 0030 on WRMI-9, 9495. WOR 1726 also confirmed UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW-1, 5830. Next: UT Mon 0300v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5109v-CUSB (last week started two minutes early). WORLD OF RADIO 1726 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 webcast, UT Monday June 23 from 0301, and also JBA in the storm noise level on WBCQ 5110v-CUSB before 0330. Next: Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955 (still with CCI from France via TAIWAN?) Wednesday 0630 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wednesday 1315 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wednesday 2100 on WBCQ 7490v WORLD OF RADIO 1726 monitoring: confirmed on WRMI-10, 9955, Tuesday June 24 at 1109, just as I mention the CCI from France via TAIWAN during this broadcast (and Thursday 1230)! At least we are atop that with SAH and Cuban pulse jamming, tnx a lot, Arnie! Next: Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB Wednesday 1315 on WRMI, 9955 Wednesday 2100 on WBCQ, 7490v WORLD OF RADIO 1726 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday June 25 at 1315 after gh ID on 9955 for WRMI; fair signal and after the Taiwan collision finishes. Also confirmed final airing June 25 at 2100 on webcast of WBCQ 7490v. WORLD OF RADIO 1727 monitoring: confirmed first airing, UT Thursday June 26 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, fair with fading; also on webcast. Next: Thursday 1230 on WRMI 9955 Thursday 2100 on WBCQ 7490v Thursday 2100 on WTWW 9475 UT Friday 0326v on WWRB 5050 (last week from 0338, so stay tuned) Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Saturday 2330 on WTWW 9930 (but not last week) UT Sunday 0030 on WRMI 9495 (may be previous edition) UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW 5830 UT Monday 0300v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5109v-CUSB Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wednesday 1315 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 2100 on WBCQ 7490v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12105, June 19 at 1228, steady open carrier atop KSDA GUAM in some Chinese dialect. Don`t see how it could be anything but WTWW- 3, which used to operate in the morning until latest schedule change to start at 1700. Carrier still on at 1310 after KSDA has finished. Other WTWWs are nominal on 5085 and 5830. At 1446 recheck, still open carrier on 12105. The only other station anywhen on 12105 is R. Dialogue, the clandestine via Madagascar for Zimbabwe at 1600-1658, which WTWW had been conveniently avoiding by waiting until *1700. 12105, June 21 at 0244, big open carrier over CODAR, so WTWW-3 is still on after Bible Worldwide ends nominally at 0200. I`m hoping WORLD OF RADIO will show up again on this frequency, e.g. at 0200 and/or 1630 UT Saturdays. 12105, June 21 at 1300, open carrier from presumed WTWW-3, still at 1346 as I had also noted it at 0244. Appears they are leaving it on all night as Wolfgang Büschel reported: ``Footprint on 12104.987 kHz at 0650 UT June 21, otherwise weak signal at this hour``. 9475, June 21 at 1936, WTWW-1 is off when Ted Randall`s QSO show normally airs; 9930 & 12105 are on with VG signals. Ditto at 2115 check. Look for WOR 1726 at 2330 on 9930, UT Sun 0400 on 5830. 12105, June 22 at 0533, 1252 chex, the WTWW-3 carrier is no longer staying on. 12105, June 22 at 2352 check, WTWW-3 now in tonal African language, presumably Yoruba, where it`s almost 1 am in Nigeria. Now regularly followed by Russian at 00-01 UT, i.e. 3-4 am in Moscow. Such scheduling might seem counterproductive for targets, but convenient for such speakers in North America. FCC A-14 registrations shows this is 40 degrees for CIRAFs 4, 9 and 18, i.e. all of Canada east of Manitoba, and --- Scandinavia (plus Finland, but not Iceland) 12105, June 23 at 2132, WTWW-3 is in open carrier/dead air. I have been randomly checking this to try to build up the correct language schedule, but no luck now. Recheck 2233, still OC/DA but now with fast SAH. What other signal could be on 12105 now? Nothing listed in HFCC, EiBi or Aoki! 0119 UT June 24, *still* dead air during what is normally an English hour from SFAW but not // WTWW-1 9475. 12105, June 24 at 2136, WTWW-3 is in French instead of dead air yesterday during this hour. But next check June 26 at 0101, dead air again, vs weaker CODAR pulsing, and still so at 0107, 0126 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5050, June 24 at 0105, WWRB has Brother Scare on this frequency instead of 3185 or 9370, presumably during breaks in other programming, and/or necessary due to problems with other transmitters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. (15140), June 21 at 0247, Brother Scare is appearing and disappearing, i.e. typically breaking the DX-398 receiver harmonic rejexion threshold originating with the supersig from WRMI on 7570. I.e. this behavior fits for something generated inside the receiver, unlike transmitted harmonics such as the ones I get from Cuba, like 12140 in this report, weak and not fading or with normal propagational fading. However there could also be a genuine transmitted harmonic from WRMI, but the YFR-site harmonic- and mixing product suppression is very good. Such would not necessarily require the fundamental to be overloading or even audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15610, June 19 at 2116, no signal from WEWN English, despite SW neighbors: bigsig on 15825 WWCR with sporadic E help, and bitsig on 15550-USB WJHR, so I conclude 15610 is off; while Spanish 13830 and 12050 are quite good, classical music, presumably relaying Vatican (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re: ``More and more wooden registrations of World Harvest Radio from June 12: 1200-1300 on 9840 HRI 100 kW / 025 deg to ENAm English Fri/Sun `` Heard WHRI on 9840 at 1230 UT today Sunday June 22 (Peter W Hansen, Bethpage, NY, USA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 550, June 24 at 0548 UT, poor but clear signal looping N/S with news about Kansas: kidnapping in Wichita, mosquitoes; KFRM Salina is a bigsig on daytime 5 kW groundwave with OK officially in its coverage area, but night power is only 110 watts; we are still in its pattern to the southwest. Normally swamped at night by St Louis or San Antonio which are somehow almost absent, neither with lobes favoring us anyway (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 550, June 25 at 0533 UT, Jim Bohannon show, had not noticed before here, on first repeat as it ends at 0500 UT; loops about NE/SW; so KTRS St Louis or KCRS Midland TX? Neither on the Jimbotalk station finder, in fact the only 550 being WSVA in Harrisonburg/Staunton VA, but it`s on the live run only until 0500 UT, so what`s it? KCRS website does not include Jimbo among hosts, but does have C2CAM. And KCRS does have a nighttime mull toward us, tho traces of it on daytime groundwave under KFRM. Mixing with Red Eye Radio from N/S, which must be KTSA San Antonio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Later: Jimbo confirmed as new on KTRS ** U S A. 670, June 21 at 0537 UT, we can totally null WSCR, but no escaping sports talk! Another station occupies that position, ad for BCBS of Texas, but there is no Texan on 670 --- must be close to that, Arkansas` 5 kW daytimer, KHGZ Glenwood, which has been caught cheating several times before. It starts out atop Cuba, making about the same ~4 Hz SAH as with WSCR since those two are close to zero-beat. Back to ESPN Radio, which is not the network on WSCR; 0540 UT another ad break with NW AR`s 479- area code {Glenwood is in the SW quadrant in 870 AC, but close to 479 boundary}, ID copied partially as ``670 AM [and something on FM] --- Hog Talk``, before Cuba regains (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 750, June 19 at 0528 UT, dominant signal is not WSB, but also from east/west, in Spanish, PSAs about breast cancer, USDA, and soon IDing at 0529 UT as ``mejorando su vida con Univisión Radio``, 0530 UT news/talk. Then WSB starts to resurge after a fade. Must be KAMA El Paso TX. 2013 NRC AM Log as of last August, showed it with Ua network, 10/1 kW U4. Pattern book shows zero signals to the east day or night, so out of whack? Wikipedia says it`s owned by Univisión; went with Ua network July 4, 2012. Website linked is http://750kama.univision.com/ which however only forwards to national site http://univisionamerica.univision.com and which despite © 2014 at the bottom says its El Paso station is on 920! Also in the drop-down Emisoras link at the top. But that leads to this page named Uforia, where U stations are classified by musical format: http://musica.univision.com/radio/ and where the only one shown for El Paso is 97.5 with Regional Mexicano. Clicking on Radios por Ciudad, for El Paso we find that one plus 920 as Univisión América [pardon my accents; U doesn`t like them], with Noticias y Deportes but link to ``it`` just goes back to the national page. Play link also goes to the national feed, but if you try to choose El Paso - género Noticias y Deportes, there is nothing, just the musical 97.5 station. So what is the 920 station in El Paso? NRC Log says KQBU, and also has it with Univisión America, at the same street address as the 750 station. Is the same programming running on both 920 and 750 in EP? Surely not. But why doesn`t U acknowledge they are on 750, which BTW is a much bigger signal than the one on 920? Perhaps a DXer in El Paso can unravel this situation for us. Neither the by-city page nor the musical page displays any U station on 750 anywhere, which I just heard to ID! Could it have been a real Mexican? Only 750s possibly westish are in Ciudad Camargo, Chihuahua and Culiacán, Sinaloa, neither with any known connexion to Univisión América, which is surely limited to the USA only. BTW, the U bug of Univisión as seen on TV, is made up of four basic colors, not three. 750, June 21 at 0529 UT I am rechecking for KAMA, exactly 48 hours after previous log, and it`s a repeat of just about everything: cáncer del seno PSA, but this time I catch a mention of El Paso within it, from Komen foundation; ``mejorando tu vida, con Univisión Radio``, on to national talk show, toll-free numbers with call-in from Flórida, ``buenas tardes; buenas tardes`` so presumably a replay as it`s too late to be tarde, already madrugada there. See previous report for all the confusion about this network being on this frequency in El Paso rather than 920 as Univisión claims. Once again this signal starts out dominant, then fades as WSB resurges; I expect the same is happening all night with KAMA out of whack instead of protecting the Atlantan (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 920, June 21 at 0533 UT checking just in case whether El Paso is in with Univisión here too (see 750 log), it`s not but there is open carrier/dead air, and the DF fits for the usual night dominator here, KYFR in Shenandoah IA --- sob, no Harold droning to be heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1530: 2257-2300 CLT [June 22 = 0357-0400 UT June 23] Playing classical music then a YL at 2259 saying "Thanks for tuning? or turning to the light, KLBW- then a fade. Finally got this after many tries. The sync detector on the 2010 is what made the weak jumble much clearer. Just weak QRM from WCKY and no QRN (Todd Skaine, Woodbury, MN, Toyota Car Radio, Sony ICF 2010, Grundig S350 & M400, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Congrats! The cheating New Boston TX daytimer I have been reporting for a few weeks (gh, DXLD) See also DX-PEDITIONS ** U S A. Public Reality Radio Schedule http://www.publicrealityradio.org/schedule I'm listening to Explorations with Michio Kaku on WPRR now via my iPhone's tunein app on the front porch and via my Pixel magnetic receiving loop antenna and one of my Sonys tuned to PRR's 20,000 kW 1,680 kHz medium wave signal on the back porch. As I've noted before: Ada, Michigan, near Grand Rapids, is just over a hundred miles to my west northwest. That's 2 hrs 14 mins of 128 miles driving, 1 day 13 hours on foot at 116 miles. Very good programming on this station. Nice secular programming in Sundays. Nice science shows as well. Democracy Now airs weekdays at 8 AM [EDT = 1200 UT]. The station also airs Black Agenda Radio, the Ralph Nader Radio Hour, Ring Of Fire Radio with Michael Papantonio and other good programs. Sent from my iPhone (Des Preston, MI?, June 22, WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Wish I could hear WPRR, but just doesn`t make it to OK; nor does the other 1680 in Louisiana, or just barely. Hard to believe it`s running full power, even 1 kW at night non-direxional (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 28254.5, June 19 at 1843, very weak CW ham beacon K4JEE/B. Had to listen to multiple V marker repeats, as it kept fading during the last part of the call, and not sure of it until recheck at 2011 when it was a big stronger. Then found it on the comprehensive 10m beacon list: http://www.qsl.net/wj5o/bcn.htm as: 28.2545 K4JEE C LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY # 5W, VERTICAL New 6 Nov 11. I didn`t get the frequency measured that closely, but will take their word for it. At first, hardly anything else was making it on 10m above my local noise level, as I was checking to compare with Es TV DX what area was coming in. At the second time there were a lot more beacons and a few 10m SSB signals above 28300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. A New State --- well, kind of, anyway. At 8:30 CDT this morning I left for a bicycle ride with a solid in the red yellow stripe on the Zenith box. I returned about 1300 to find the KJWP PSIP call letters. The first time "seen" here and the first Delaware TV station I've ever received. But then, the transmitter for this Wyoming station located in Delaware is actually in Pennyslvania. I don't know if it decoded while I was gone or if channels 4 and 6 from the same area were in. They did not register on the Zenith box but both have been in on several occasions in past years (Dave Pomeroy, Topeka, Kansas, June 18, WTFDA via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD) Hmm. Maybe if we counted it as Wyoming, I could count it that way. PA or DE are boring ;-} (Russ Edmunds, Blue Bell, PA, (15 mi NW of Philadelphia), ibid.) Now, there's a clever way for you guys in the east to pick up some "distant" signals. But I've never thought of reception from a Pennsylvania or Delaware station as boring. In reality, city of license means nothing and allowing these stations to move from sparsely populated areas of the west to major metropolitan areas is a joke. And being VHF is not a technical advantage like it once was. But the loophole is there, so creative minds have taken advantage of it and I have a couple east coast targets that I may get tired of (Dave Pomeroy, Topeka, Kansas, ibid.) I meant that it was boring to me - routine at best. Too bad nobody's moving any failing facilities from here to Eastern MT, WY, CO (Russ Edmunds, Blue Bell, PA, (15 mi NW of Philadelphia), Grid FN20id, ibid.) KJWP-2 --- Decoded this morning on the LG Tv and the Insignia box around 7:15am [EDT = 1115 UT], 200 miles. Atlantic City on 4 is there also but no decodes. I'll put a pic on the Facebook group. – (Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT USA, June 24, WTFDA via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD) Congrats, Mike! KJWP-2 decoded here too, this morning for the first time. I had solid signal from about 7:35 to 7:50 am [EDT]. This is DTV #244!! Surprised to see MeTV was on the 2.2 channel, with infomercials on 2.1. 2.3 ID'd as "Touch", but was blank (no programming). WAPC-4 was notably stronger, and pretty much in here all early morning, now with two channels of infomercials! (Chris Lucas - Poughkeepsie, NY - FN31bs, Insignia NS-DXA1-APT DTV Converter, Winegard YA-6260 VHF-Lo antenna @ 14', with Chromstar 2000 pre-amp, ibid.) That explains something. I had two different PSIPs on my LG TV and the Insignia box. 1. KJWP-ME 2. Touch I wondered what ME was but ME-TV must be the answer. Also when I saw TOUCH the screen was black and that explains that. So looks like I had 2-2 and 2-3. I have a feeling that KJWP is going to be a regular here during the summer (Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT, WTFDA via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD) I just watched my recording of my KJWP reception. To clarify: On 2.1, there were infomercials, but the PSIP was "KJWP-ME" On 2.2, there was MeTV programming (I Love Lucy), but the PSIP was "KJWP-D2". A MeTV "Wilmington Philaelphia" bug was visible. On 2.3 the PSIP was "TOUCH", but the screen was simply blank. (I guess they were out of touch this morning). I'll post pix on the WTFDA Forum (Chris Lucas - Poughkeepsie, NY - FN31bs, ibid., WORLD OF RADIO 1727) I believe that KJWP, like some other Me affiliates, runs Me on 2.1 during prime time and other hours that it can't otherwise sell for infomercials. That's the feed that goes on cable, too, which of course is KJWP's real purpose for existing. For the benefit of OTA viewers (or, perhaps, until it can find someone wanting to lease an entire subchannel), it also runs a full-time Me feed on 2.2 s (Scott Fybush, NY, ibid.) ** U S A. From Northern Pine, MINNESOTA: FOX 9 (KMSP) and My 29 (WFTC) will consolidate their channels under then channel 9 banner next week, matching a strategy used by two other station groups in town. FOX will air on 9.1 and 9.9, My 29 will air on 9.2, Movies! will air on 9.3, and Bounce will air on 9.4. The change will take place Tuesday (6/24) at 10 a.m. It's not immediately clear which channels will come from which RF frequencies. Currently, 9.1 (FOX) and 29.2 (WFTC SD simulcast) originate on RF channel 9 while 9.2 (KMSP-SD), 29.1 (My), 29.3 (Bounce), and 29.4 (Movies!) originate on RF channel 29. Digital VHF signals have proven to be more difficult to receive with indoor antennas. KTCA/KTCI (channel 2) and KSTP-TV/KSTC- TV (channel 5) already use a similar setup of two stations both remapping to the same primary channel, though all four of those stations broadcast on UHF frequencies. (6/19/2014) (via Todd Skaine, Sent on a Sprint Samsung Galaxy S® III, June 22, MDXC yg via DXLD) ** U S A. 90.1, KILI, Porcupine, SOUTH DAKOTA, June/16/14, 1656 EDT, English, VG, Nice Es Fade Up with RDS Capture (Bogus) as "WXB". Country Music. Male DJ with Time check as "57 Minutes past 2" (MDT). ID as "KEE LEE COUNTRY". Native American Station. RELOG 100 kW --ROSS, ON (Robert Ross, London, Ont., MARE Tipsheet 20 June via DXLD) ** U S A. June 19, weak Es opening from Ontario on channels 2 & 3, [see CANADA] the skip is moving to the south before ON is finished, all times UT: 2129 on 3, DTV set briefly gets a `bad` signal. WBRA-TV, 9 kW in Roanoke VA is the only one likely in the eastern USA at reasonable skip distance. Roanoke to Enid: 1599 km = 993 stmi I`ve been monitoring 88.1 and 88.3 for Es MUF to ascend into FM band, and finally: 2152 on 88.3, music fades in; 2200 on 88.3, ID for 107.3 WERA, I thought, but it must have been WVRA, Enfield NC, since it has a co- station on 88.3, WVRL, 50 kW in Elizabeth City NC, both owned by Liberty University. Immediately fades to another station IDing as originally on 88.3. Thought I was taping this for later recheck, but wrong input, Voice, chosen/defaulted on digital RS unit. City-to-city Elizabeth City-to-Enid: 1935 km = 1202 stmi 2202 on 88.3, fade-in again now with `Focus on the Family`, more peaks at 2212 and 2215, likely same station. 2232 on 88.3, fade-in with relay of NWS robotic storm warning mentioning numerous localities I don`t recognize, another recording failure so no recheck, shux. 2252 on 88.3, `Unshackled` outroduxion, music; 2255 SRN News; 2259 end slanted radio news, promo for churches from GNN, ID for WLPT Jesup GA and ``serving parts of Savannah``. 2300 into `Adventures in Odyssey`, Adventist? kidshow. WLPT is 20 kW with the Good News Network. Jesup to Enid: 1567 km = 974 stmi 2301 on 88.1 NPR news, too strong to be marginal KWOU in OK. Could be WJSP Warm Springs GA or WRJA in Sumter SC; W9WI doesn`t show any NPRs on 88.1 in NC. 2320 on 88.5, WFDD ID in passing on caradio, during one of those third-of-an hour breaks in NPR programming, i.e. 60/60 kW in Winston- Salem NC. 1581 km = 983 miles. After unID Mexican analog TV DX up to channel 6, I am expecting some Mexican FM DX, but instead, June 24 UT: 2112 on 88.3, two stations fading in and out, one plugging Southeastern University, seu.edu and phone -8716. So which SE Univ would that be? Would you believe that nowhere on the homepage http://www.seu.edu does it say WHERE IT IS??? You have to dig deeper. Surely the page VISIT SEU will have to show WHERE IT IS, right? WRONG! How about WHO WE ARE? Nope, just how very very Christian they are. Surely CONTACT US ---, yes a street address on a Google Map, 1000 Longfellow Blvd, and driving instructions from Orlando and Tampa; but WHERE IS IT? Must zoom out the map! It is LAKELAND, thank God, we finally know? So what 88.3 is there? There isn`t any in WTFDA DB. Where is the nearest FL 88.3 to there? So what are the coördinates of Lakeland? Google maps don`t care to show that. Get out my Rand McNally: approx. 28 N/82 W. Of the six 88.3 FL stations, this must be it at 28.3607 N/81.0537 W: WPOZ, 88.3, Union Park FL, 13/13 kW, Z88.3, Adult Hits, ``Always sage for your little ears in the back seat!`` [sic], CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN Unless SEU is reaching out to other 88.3 markets. Is WPOZ owned by SEU? Not exactly: FCC FM Query says Central Florida Educational Foundation; and BTW they have an APP for 100 kW. Lots of gospel huxter licensees masquerade as ``educational``. Recorded. 1785 km = 1109 stmi 2114 on 88.3, weather with hi 87, T-storms, maybe same station 2116 on 92.9, Q-92, Ocala ad, Martin`s Yamaha; 2122, Q-92 non-ID again, Number One. WTFDA shows: WMFQ, 92.9, Ocala FL, 50/50 kW, ``YOUR STATION FOR BIG OLDIES 92.9`` ``92 Q 92.9 FM TODAY'S BEST MUSIC`` HOT AC. Recorded. 1674 km = 1040 stmi city-to-city 2126-2128 on 96.5, overriding KECO Elk City OK: ``Flip this House`` A&E workshop in the Orlando area, 1-800 number, therefore: WDBO-FM, 96.5, Orlando FL, 99/99 kW, News/talk format // 580. Recorded. 1776 km = 1103 stmi Searching FM for 8 more minutes, making only a few OKLAHOMA notes [q.v.], so quit FM and back to TV, see MEXICO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WSCG RADIO ANNOUNCER ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED SEX CRIMES Glenn, It never fails. An evangelical radio host (John Balyo) was arrested at a Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) festival in Michigan. Balyo was employed as a radio host for WSCG 91.3 Grand Rapids MI News story from WZZM-TV (with video). http://www.wzzm13.com/story/news/crime/2014/06/20/wcsg-radio-personality-arrested/11099815/ (Fritze Prentice, AR, June 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. LPFM CORNER BY CHRISTY LYNN WHITE Since the October 2013 filing window, over 1,220 low-power construction permits have been granted from 2,826 applications. While this has been a much faster process than the last window, we can expect to see the process slow down, as the straight-forward, some might even say easy, applications have been processed. 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Weak Spanish talk on 6076.32 LSB to avoid RA 6080 on 21/5. Carrier previously noted at 0402 on 19/5. But no other receptions. Possibly this is Uruguay’s Voz de Artigas, reported by Argentinian DXer 8/5 (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai (Northland), North Island, New Zealand, with Drake SPR4, AOR7030+, EWEs to North, Central & South America, 100m BOG to NE and Alpha Delta Sloper antennas, June NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** VANUATU. 7260, 0338, Radio Vanuatu with apparent relay of France Inter 30/5, fair with surging signal in French ‘France Inter’ mentioned. ‘Au revoir’ at 0356:30 and into English local news at 0400 (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai (Northland), North Island, New Zealand, with Drake SPR4, AOR7030+, EWEs to North, Central & South America, 100m BOG to NE and Alpha Delta Sloper antennas, June NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** VIETNAM. 8294-USB. Vietnam Coastal Station via Ho Chi Minh Radio, *1309-1312*, June 24. For many years this coastal station always presented their programming of marine conditions, navigational warnings and hazards between a starting and ending series of tones, but as early as April they have a different format. Between the tones now they give just the marine conditions in Vietnamese, with no English segment. The navigational warnings segment in English and Vietnamese has now been segregated out into its own segment. 1309 heard the ending of the marine conditions (many mentions of “kilo-mét”), along with the ending series of tones. Some seconds later, without intro tones, they announced the "navigational warnings" in English and Vietnamese which went off the air at 1312 with no tones. Believe there may now be other stations besides Ho Chi Minh Radio that occasionally have "navigational warnings" in English and Vietnamese. Needs more monitoring to determine just what the current schedule is for these coastal stations operated by VISHIPEL (Vietnam Maritime Communication and Electronics LLC) (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DX LISTENING DIGEST) What about the other frequency, 7906-USB? (gh, DXLD) ** VIETNAM. V of Vietnam 12019.11 // 9834.85 both English: http://youtu.be/NBgjVtwErFQ 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153' Delta Loop, Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) ** YEMEN. 6134.997, Jun 13, 1740, R Yemen quite weak this day. Also with strong signal on June 14 with English news and sign off at 1859* (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin June 22 via DXLD)fs ** ZANZIBAR. 6015, 0359, Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation with drumming interval signal, time pips and into news in Swahili 17/5, frequent mentions of Zanzibar and Tanzania, Poor in clear after CRI [Albania] 6020 closes at 0400. On 21/5 “Zed B.C” ident heard at 0400 (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai (Northland), North Island, New Zealand, with Drake SPR4, AOR7030+, EWEs to North, Central & South America, 100m BOG to NE and Alpha Delta Sloper antennas, June NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** ZANZIBAR. TANZANIA: 11735, Spice FM; 2115-2128:14*, 18-June; M in LL (Swahili listed) with Afro pop tunes & talk over music; ID at 2120; off abruptly in mid-tune. SIO=3+53+ (about best heard) (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE. Some quite good news for me these past weeks, from A to Z. AWR’s Dr Adrian M. Peterson sent QSLs for KSDA Agat 9760, and Trincomalee 9830, 11805, 11995, 15360, and 15710 kHz. Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation’s manager signed my prepared verification card and put on it the rubber stamp of ‘The Manager, Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Zimbabwe’. After eight years of patiently writing again and again, I enclosed a 100,000,000,000,000 (one hundred trillion) dollar bank note from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe in one of my registered letters with proof of delivery and a warranty of 100 Euro. Then I had the Harare Central Sorting Office confirm that this letter was delivered. As shortwave transmissions from Gweru stopped a couple of years ago, I am more than happy that I still got this confirmation! (Günter Jacob in Passau, Germany covers the alphabetic bases this month, June NZ DX Times via DXLD) You would have been better off to have saved that as a souvenir! My understanding is that Zimbabwe scrapped all use of a local currency about five years ago, opting for the likes of the US greenback, the rand, and others as legal tender (Theo Donnelly, BC, ed., ibid.) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. Radio Dialogue in English, Shona, Ndebele to SoAf 1642 June 25 on 12105 Talata, open carrier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY5F0gh6E9k&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) On 12105, are you sure the open carrier wasn`t from WTWW? They do that a lot lately (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Log for June 20 2014 circa 2100 UT: 5014 kHz. Very weak with lot of static. Could it be Radio Altura? 73 (Giovanni IZ5PQT Carboni, [presumably really in Italy] IC-756Pro3 - Inverted-L antenna cumbre dx via DXLD) Peru; Unless it was really 5015.0, in which case, could it be WRMI? If you could get any audio you could match it to other WRMI frequencies with Brother Scare (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFED. 6913-USB, June 24 at 0117, probable military net, caught just a few English spoken words, followed by digital transmission a minute later. Never before logged this frequency here. Usually in the area are Spanish, peskies? During bandscan looking for piracy, but none. A couple of UDXF yg logs this year by Jack L. Metcalfe say it`s a US Army MARS net (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Amigos, qual a emissora asiática em 7385 kHz? A ouvi às 1138 horas UT (hoje 19/06/2014) e ela está no ar até agora (1218 horas UT). Seria a Rádio Taiwan Internacional (em mandarim) ou a Xizang PBS (em tibetano). Qual seria a mais provável? Acho que é a Rádio Taiwan Internacional, mas não tenho certeza. Grato pela ajuda. 73! (Rubens Ferraz Pedroso (PY5-007SWL), Bandeirantes - PR, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Rubens, Mais provável --- CNR1 jammer em contra de Taiwan. Achar muitas frequências iguais. 73, (Guilherme Glenn Hauser, Oklahoma, ibid.) Obrigado pela ajuda, amigo. Pareceu-me não ser um jamming. Era mesmo uma emissora transmitindo notícias em mandarim. Tenha um ótimo dia (Rubens Ferraz Pedroso (PY5-007SWL), Bandeirantes - PR, ibid.) Os chineses comunistas utilizam a sua primeira rede de radiodifusão [CNR1] também para jamming! Exactamente para confusão dos ouvintes como se nao fora jamming. Numa multidão de freqùências. 73, (Guilherme Glenn, ibid.) Obrigado, amigo. Talvez tenha ouvido a CNR e não a Rádio Taiwan Internacional. Boas escutas. 73! (Rubens Ferraz Pedroso (PY5-007SWL). Bandeirantes - PR - Brasil, ibid.) O que é jamming? (Paulo Henrique, ibid.) Paulo, É a interferência proposital gerada por um país de forma que sua população não possa ouvir determinados programas. Por exemplo: a Radio Free Asia transmite programas para a China que o governo de tal país considera "nocivos". Ela então transmite continuamente na mesma frequência ruídos ou música de forma que a RFA tenha sua captação prejudicada ou impedida. Há um artigo bem interessante na Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_jamming 73 (Ivan Dias Jr. - Sorocaba/SP, https://www.youtube.com/regionaldx http://ivandias.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/ivandiasjr ibid.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1727: Glenn, still listening to the HF bands, all the while with Brother Scare dominating the scene. "What Has God Wrought" with the shortwave spectrum? Please announce my contribution, Chuck Ermatinger (accent on first syllable, and I prefer a soft G). It'll be an ego-boost for me. :-) (Chuck Ermatinger, MO, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) One may also contribute by check or money order in US funds on a US bank by P-mail to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (WORLD OF RADIO 1727) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ A COMPANION TO THE AUSTRALIAN MEDIA Interested radio historians and other readers of the DX Times may be interested in the forthcoming A Companion to the Australian Media, edited by Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley and to be published by Scholarly Publishing in July. The Companion is the first of its kind and includes over 500 separate references to aspects of radio, television and print in Australia. I should declare an interest by mentioning that I was invited to write the Armed Forces Media contribution which is included in the book. May I also make mention of another piece which might be of interest to radio historians? This is ‘No Propaganda Will be Broadcast’: the Rise and Demise of Australian Military Broadcasting, a peer-reviewed chapter I wrote and which has been published in Media International Australia (No. 150, March, 2014). In this chapter, I used some reference materials I gained from DX magazines and I have clearly cited these in my article. This is just another example of how important it is for DXers to record and share their knowledge, thus assisting authors to further document the extraordinary history of the wonderful medium of sound broadcasting. http://www.uq.edu.au/mia/2014-issues (Martin Hadlow (Australia), June NZ DX Times via DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ BORDER INN, NV/UT I just got back from a fruitful beverage DXpedition at the Border Inn (US 6/50 at NV/UT border). On 1530, KCMN and KQNK appeared to be running day power at least. I'll have to check my Perseus recordings (I think I've reviewed 8 out of 55 so far) to see if I caught any trace of KLBW off the E wire. (Details to follow - it will take me a long time to write everything up - basically I ran an E wire for 3200 ft., and for the first time a NE wire about 3520 feet. The NE wire strongly favored SK/WY/SD/NE stations and the E wire favored NE/KS/OK and a bit of the TX panhandle, specifically Amarillo. I should probably have run the E wire closer to ESE. I planned to put up a 3rd wire in that direction but didn't get around to it. The E wire largely duplicated last year's results, so I spent most of my time on the NE wire this year. Unfortunately or fortunately, both wires broke, before the termination points, each of the 3 nights I was there, adding central CA and southern CA stations to my logbook as well. The good news is that I was able to configure the Perseus properly - proper shielded lead-in wire to avoid laptop noise, good source of battery power, etc. - and it worked GREAT). I'll definitely send them all to ABDX. Right now I'm a little concerned how long it will take to get through these recordings (great problem to have!) and type up all the more interesting logs. I've been at it since last week and I'm still just reviewing recording #9 out of 55. My evening recordings are generally better than the early morning recordings, because the wires were always broken by morning, allowing the California pests to come in. Still, I had as many as 7 or 8 stations on some of the regional channels, and some low-power guys like KNLV-1060 from Nebraska on the clears. Bottom line: This was FUN; and as Kaz pointed out, reminiscent of happier days in our hobby. Hopefully we'll round up some more participants one of these years. I've had 4 solo outings so far (Tim Hall, CA, ABDX via DXLD) I look forward to hearing about your results and expect some new GY records from you and that you may take a couple of my NE/SD/KS/OK records away from me from the other direction here near Chicago. How reduced were CA stations off the back end when the wires were unbroken and terminated? How did you terminate them? Were the wires directly on the ground or were they across some low bushes, etc.? 73 KAZ. PS. Yeah, 1 km of wire is a good antenna and reminds me of what we did 25 years ago (Neil Kazaross, IL/WI, ibid.) It definitely reminded me of our "glory days" of the old San Diego beverage site. We really should meet there sometime. We can easily run any number of wires at least 3000 feet in any direction from NNW to SE (up to 4500 feet or even longer in some directions, before hitting a road or other obstacle. Maybe more, as you'll deduce later). BTW, do you remember that monster spool of wire I bought for $20 at the military surplus store right before you moved away? That's what the E wire was built from. Turns out it has about 9000 feet of wire (I used about 7800 for my two big antennas last year). What a heavy spool of wire for one person to roll out and especially rewind! The brush at this suite is pretty sparse (WAY more easily passable than our SD sites) but quite thorny. The land is almost completely flat. I tried to lay the wire as low as possible but I had to rush the first evening, so I did drape it over the brush in some places, and paid for it. By that I mean some heavy wind gusts rolled in around 10pm the first night and SHREDDED my NE wire. It broke in 12 or 13 places, starting about 1300 feet and about every 100 feet or so after that. In repairing this mess, I was much more careful to remove small amounts of dead brush, allowing the antenna to lie almost entirely on the ground with a lot less potential to snag on thorns and break. This worked much better. I only had one break in the NE wire each of the 2nd and 3rd nights, but of course both were well before the termination points. These were seemingly caused by critters, most likely jackrabbits, tripping over the wires. For the termination I used 560 ohm resistors about 200 feet from the end, like we did in the old days. It seemed to work well. For example, on 1420 with the wires intact I would get KGIM-SD and KULY-KS but when they broke I got KSTN-CA. As for the E wire, I ran it almost parallel to the highway maybe 20-30 feet south of the road. The brush is a bit more sparse in this area, so I didn't have as much trouble with the windstorm the first night. Unfortunately the 2nd and 3rd nights I seemed to have "people problems" - the 2nd night I found a 100 foot gap in the wire, and about 500 feet farther east I found about most of the missing wire (someone had pulled the wire and wadded it up - very time-consuming to repair). The 3rd night I had a similar but smaller problem closer to the termination point. Next year this one will go more ESE. This year I really wanted to try a NE wire after only trying various E, ESE and SE directions on my previous 3 DXpeditions (2002, 2003, 2013). This poses an obvious problem: how to cross the highway? Well I just turned to the tool that any self-respecting man would turn to --- all together now --- DUCT TAPE! I bought the toughest duct tape that Lowe's sells, and it did the job beautifully. I'll try to send a picture in my "formal" write-up later. This means we could potentially make VERY long antennas that would cross the paved north-south road that runs about 3200 ft. east of my DX parking spot on the Utah side. Though I don't really think that's necessary. I may even try some shorter wires next year. From the Perseus' antenna connector I used about 9 feet of shielded coax lead, and simply clipped the antenna of choice to the lead wire with an alligator clip. This was more than enough to keep the antenna from being overwhelmed by laptop noise. I have now logged 99 GY stations from this location, and with about 47 more recordings left to review, I should easily pass 100 soon. More info to follow. Tim, Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile. 73 (Tim Hall, June 23, ABDX via DXLD) LOGS FROM THE US AND CANADA! Hi Glenn! How are you? I finally visited your country! You will find my logs (MW) below. The times are local (East Coast [UT -4]). Sorry I had no time to change them to UT. Hope you find these interesting. Please feel free to edit the material and use it in your programs. Of course, I would welcome any comments/ clarifications. Best, Robertas Pogorelis Recently I travelled to Florida, US, and Toronto, Canada, with my portable radio SONY ICF SW-7600GR, where I listened to local AM radio stations on the inbuilt ferrite antenna. Received in Cooper City, FL, except where noted in Miami Beach, FL. Time is local (US Eastern) 560, 20 June 00:10 WQAM, Miami, with CBS Sports Radio, SINPO 44554. Sports talk, mention of Kevin Dexter, ID as “Q AM”. 570, 16 June 21:33 R. Reloj, Cuba, SINPO 34343. News, beeps, ID, time announcements. 570, 20 June 00:11 R. Reloj, Cuba, SINPO 33543. News, beeps, ID, time announcements. 580, 20 June 00:12 WDBO, Orlando (tentative), with ESPN in English, SINPO 35333. 590, 16 June 21:34 R. Cat (?), SINPO 35343. Pop music, ID: “This is Radio Cat, the greatest hits”. 20 June 00:12 UNID with music, SINPO 45434. WAFC Clewiston FL perhaps?? 600, 16 June 21:35 R. Rebelde, Cuba, SINPO 25433 //620. Not audible at 21:41 recheck! 610, 16 June 21:35 WIOD, Miami, SINPO 45544. Mention of the website shnitshow.com(?), “internal revenue service”, new White House spokesman Josh Earnest. At 21:55 commercial, mention of “fortune flipping”, “Miami area”, advert of “Cobota Commanders Dealer” with website Cobotadealer.southflorida.com. At 21:57 ID as WIOD/WVTJ, then into explanation how to check one’s voter status. 620, 16 June 21:37 R. Rebelde, Cuba, SINPO 23433 //600. Not audible at 21:41 recheck! 620, 20 June 00:16 WDAE Sports Radio, Saint Petersburg, FL, SINPO 32433, under another station in Spanish. Also mentioned 95.3 FM. Talk about World Cup. 640, 16 June 21:40 WMEN, Royal Palm Beach, FL, with NBC Sports Radio, SINPO 44534. Ad of bhpalmbeach.com, Toyota cars dealer in Hollywood, air conditioning systems (allyearAC.com), property damage consultance. 640, 20 June 00:18 WMEN, Royal Palm Beach, FL, with NBC Sports Radio, SINPO 45555. Ads, sports talk. 670, 16 June 21:40 WWFE “La Poderosa”, Miami, in Spanish, SINPO 44544. Talk about Cuba from US exile perspective, “La Poderosa” ID. Also tentatively received on 20 June at 00:27 with talk about Cuba, SINPO 55555 (very good!). 710, 18 June WAQI R. Mambi, Miami, in Spanish, SINPO 55555. Talk about death of Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya, ad of “extracto de malta de goyesca(?)”, mention of “vivir major de su dinero”, mention of Hialeah, “plaza de comidas”, commercial of internet installation, “los Marlin(?) sports”, Subway restaurants, crisis advice line, minicooper, traffic info. Received in Miami Beach, FL. 720, 20 June 00:29 WRZN “News Radio Florida ”, SINPO 22432. Mortgage help ad, ID as „...conservative voice of (south?) central Florida“, website newsradioflorida.com, then into commentary on the situation in Iraq . 740, 20 June 00:30 WSBR “Adam’s World Radio”, Boca Raton, FL, SINPO 43443. Ads, mention of Coral Springs, ID as “Adam’s World Radio”. 740, 16 June 21:42 WSBR Boca Raton, FL (tent.), SINPO 44344. Real estate show: mention of radio advertising watch, law firm ad mentioning “fiftel.com(?)”, phone number 8885957779, mention of website automaticlandlord.com. 740, 18 June 07:07 WSBR Boca Raton, FL (tent.), SINPO 35343. Talk about property investment. Received in Miami Beach, FL. 760, 16 June 21:46 WEFL with ESPN Deportes in Spanish, Tequesta, FL, SINPO 35333. 790, 16 June 21:48 WAXY „The Ticket AM 790“, south Miami, SINPO 54544. Life insurance ad mentioning selectquote.com and an example of Joe, jingle-ID, soccer talk, mention of Miami. 790, 18 June 07:05 WAXY, south Miami, carrying ESPN in English, SINPO 35343. Money talk, mention of Hialeah Park, traffic info. At 07:19 ID as “The Ticket AM 790”, SINPO 45343. Song by Red Hot Chili Peppers. Received in Miami Beach, FL. 790 20 June 00:32, SINPO 55555. Sports talk. 800, 16 June 22:02 UNID religious in Spanish, with sermon being translated from English. SINPO 24333. Can’t find any religious station in Florida on this frequency, so probably from farther away. [like PJB, BONAIRE --- gh] 810, 20 June 00:33 ZNS-3 Bahamas, over R. Progreso, Cuba. Mention of New Providence, Free National Movement, Rotary club of Eleuthera initiative for mammography for women, phone call by listener Berenice on this topic. At 01:28 mention of “Bahamas One”, advertising services helping obtain US visa. SINPO 33333. 810, 20 June 00:33 R. Progreso, Cuba, SINPO 23323. Interference from ZNS-3, Bahamas. Clear ID. 820, 20 June 00:38 R. Reloj, Cuba, SINPO 33433. News, beeps, ID, time announcements. //860//930//1020. 830, 16 June 22:03 WACC, Hialeah, Fl (tent.). Religious program in Spanish, SINPO 45444. Mention of “Union”. 830, 18 June 07:04 UNID in Spanish, SINPO 35333. Received in Miami Beach, FL. 830, 20 June 00:38 WACC, Hialeah, FL (tent.). Religious program in Spanish, SINPO 45544. 850, 16 June 22:04 WFTL, West Palm Beach, FL, SINPO 55555. Rich Stevens speaking about losing weight, mentioned phone number 888-506- TRIM, followed by an ad of United Water Restoration, clear ID, weather forecast, then into “New Herman Kane show”. 850, 18 June 07:02 WFTL, West Palm Beach, FL, overall SINPO 4 (good) Mentioned locations in West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale . Into discussion of a motion supporting same-sex marriages. Received in Miami Beach, FL. 860, 20 June 00:40 R. Reloj, Cuba, SINPO 33433. News, beeps, ID, time announcements. //820//930//1020. 880, 18 June 06:56 WZAB Sweetwater, FL, SINPO 35343. Commercial of securities and investment advisor, traffic info, ID as “WZAB, South Florida ’s only business radio station”, followed by the Edward Wilson show. Received in Miami Beach, FL. 880, 20 June 00:40 WZAB Bloomberg Radio, SINPO 45544. Ads of Quick‘n‘‘ Loans, Orbitz Rewards, Guygo Insurance, Teach.org, ID as “Bloomberg Radio”. 880, 16 June 22:07 UNID, SINPO 44544, political talk. Latino music underneath, which was parallel with 890 (R. Progreso, Cuba?). 890, 16 June 22:08 UNID in Spanish//880, SINPO 24423, Cuban music, interview with Julian Guber(?). R. Progreso, Cuba? 930, 20 June 00:59 WLSS, Sarasota, FL, under R. Reloj, Cuba. Clear ID. 930, 20 June 00:59 R. Reloj, Cuba, mixing with WLSS. News, beeps, ID, time announcements. 940, 16 June WINZ, Miami, with football commentary in English, SINPO 45444. 940, 18 June 06:49 WINZ, Miami, SINPO 45444. Quiz about Max Bear in the movie Cinderella Man, website eyeheartradio.com, water solutions, PASF chemicals, Highly Apart Casino, medical and rehab clinic. ID at 06:55. Received in Miami Beach, FL. 940, 20 June WINZ, Miami, carrying NBC Sports Radio, SINPO 43433. 980, 16 June WHSR, Pompano Beach, FL (tent.) in French Creole, SINPO 44444. 990, 16 June 22:14, 23:19 WDYZ R. Disney, SINPO 45334. Mention of R. Disney insider, freetimer, Taylor, Angelina Jolie and christening, jingles, mention of a trip to Los Angeles, “play firing rescue”(?), sport complex in Disneyland. 990, 18 June 06:47 WDYZ R. Disney, SINPO 45544. Songs, ID, very lively program. Received in Miami Beach, FL 990 20 June early morning WDYZ R. Disney, SINPO 45555 (very good!). 1010, 12 June 07:25 WHFS, Tampa, FL, with CBS Sports Radio, SINPO 34233. Sports talk, ID. 1010, 20 June 00:56 WHFS, Tampa, FL, with CBS Sports Radio, SINPO 34333. Ads related to vehicles, help for visually impaired, water. 1020, 20 June R. Reloj, Cuba, SINPO 22422, mixing with WURN “Actualidad Radio”. //820//860//930. 1020, 18 June 06:45 WURN “Actualidad Radio”, Miami, in Spanish, SINPO 34433. Announcing the frequencies of 1020 and 1040 AM. Ads, football talk. Received in Miami Beach, FL. 1040, 12 June 07:31 WLVJ “Actualidad Radio”, Boynton Beach, in Spanish, SINPO 55555. Mention of Camilla.com, frequencies of 1020 and 1040 AM. 1060, 12 June 07:34 Radio 26, Jovellanos, Cuba (tent.), SINPO 33433. Mention on the city of Matanzas. 1060, 16 June 22:16 Radio 26, Jovellanos, Cuba, with jingle ID “Radio 26 (tent.), la radio de tu corazón”, SINPO 33433. Question competition in Spanish. 1080, 18 June 06:39 WHIM „1080 AM“, Coral Gables, FL, religious in English, SINPO 45544 (good). Explaining that Muslims’ claim to Jerusalem is false. Received in Miami Beach, FL. Also tentatively received on 12 June at 07:36 with SINPO 55455 (very good!). 1080, 20 June 00:50 UNID in French Creole, SINPO 43443. 1110, 00:52 WBT, Charlotte, NC, SINPO 34333. Commercial of recruiting company ziprecruiter.com, business loans, ondeck.com. ID as „WBT Newstalk 1110“, also mentioned 99.3 (FM?). 1110, 16 June 22:19 UNID, SINPO 33433. Ad of Honda cars. Another station in Spanish underneath. 1140, 11 June 01:37 WQBA “Univisión America”, Miami, in Spanish, SINPO 33433. 1140, 12 June 07:38 WQBA “Univisión America”, Miami, in Spanish, SINPO 44444. Sports talk mentioning Costa Rica club, ID. 1170, 12 June 07:38 WAVS, Davie, FL, SINPO 45555. Program of US Association of Jamaicans. Ad of a family law attorney Natasha Maines, a show on Fathers Day weekend “(June 15) mentioning “sunshine presentation”, a new place for dining and entertainment in Ft Lauderdale, song containing words “When I look at the news and listen to views of the masses…”. At 07:45 – program “Did you know?” saying that Jamaica was the first tropical country to enter winter Olympics. At 07:47 song “Sweet Love”. 1170, 11 June UNID in Spanish, SINPO 44544, plus religious A with emotional sermon underneath. 1170, 16 June 22:21 WAVS, Davie, FL, SINPO 35444. Jingle-ID (“Radio yours”), Religious, Harry Jarvis program, song about sharing God’s love, then into interview about singers and music producers. 1170, 18 June 06:32 WAVS, SINPO 34433. Commercials of a perfumes supermarket, lawyer Richard B. Burmin specialising in job injuries, upholstery, Americal Public Adjustance. Clear ID, announcing the frequency of 1130 AM, whereas in fact it’s 1170! Received in Miami Beach, FL. 1180, 16 June UNID in Spanish, SINPO 33433. Football talk. 1180, 11 June 01:40 UNID in Spanish, SINPO 33433”. Talk about “música cubana. Mention of La Negrita, rumba music, “puertoriqueno”. 1180, 18 June UNID two stations in Spanish transmitting the same program, one with some delay! SINPO 23322 for both. Received in Miami Beach, FL [Radio Rebelde jammers against R. Martí more likely to be heard even in FL than Martí itself] 1210, 18 June 06:30 WNMA “ESPN Deportes”, Miami, in Spanish, SINPO 45444. Sports talk. Received in Miami Beach, FL. Also tentatively received on 12 June at around 07:00, with SINPO 55555 (excellent!), and on 16 June at around 22:00, SINPO 33543, with another station underneath. 1230, 16 June 22:34 WBZT Bloomberg Radio, West Palm Beach, FL, SINPO 33433. Interview about capital tax gain, some deal being considered at Congress, ad of hotels.com, Gaga car insurance, “Terminal foundation” with risk-free trial for women, clear ID as WBZT, mentioned websites Cool105.org, Bloombergview.com, then into program “Bloomberg best”. 1240, 11 June 01:47 UNID. ID as “FRN (SRN?) 1240”, SINPO 23422, commercials of Toyota, interview about cars, mentioning harm to the environment. 1260, 18 June 06:27 WSUA Caracol, Miami, with program „La W“, in Spanish, SINPO 45544. Talk about Colombia – mentioned Cali, Medellín, song. Received in Miami Beach, FL. 1280, 12 June WQCA (tent.), Miramar, FL, 07:53 Miramar Radio in English, SINPO 35433. Mentions of the city of Miramar, advert of drugfree.org, miramar602help.com, ID as “Miramar Radio”. 1290, 11 June 01:56 WJNO, West Palm Beach, FL, SINPO 33423. Clear ID, commercial of the computer shop ebell.com(?). Another religious station underneath, talking about “the new radio Bible on demand”. 1300, 16 June 22:38 WMEL, Cocoa Beach, FL, SINPO 24322. Sports talk, at 22:40 advert of cancer tests, with web address given, car insurance ad, ID at 22:41 and again at 22:44, followed by weather forecast. 1300, 18 June 06:20 WFFG Marathon, FL, SINPO 33333. Talk about the Library of Congress for the visually impaired, then ads, including about real estate, website captainsway.com, restaurant. Clear ID, mention of the Keys. Received in Miami Beach, FL. 1320, 16 June 22:45 WLQY, Hollywood, FL (tent.), SINPO 55555. Religious program in French Creole. 1320, 11 June 01:59 WLQY, Hollywood, FL (tent.), in French Creole, SINPO 55555. 1320, 20 June 01:23 WLQY, Hollywood, FL (tent.), in French Creole, SINPO 55555. 1360, 11 June 02:00 WKAT “Radio Luz”, north Miami (tent.) in Spanish, SINPO 33333. 1360, 16 June 22:45 WKAT “Radio Luz”, north Miami (tent.), religious program in Spanish, SINPO 33433. 1360, 18 June morning, WKAT “Radio Luz”, north Miami (tent.), religious program in Spanish, SINPO 45544. Received in Miami Beach, FL. 1380, 16 June 22:45-23:08 three UNID stations mixing: in English, Spanish and French! 1420, 16 June 22:46 WAOC, Saint Augustine, FL, carrying ESPN Radio, SINPO 33433. 1430, 12 June 07:04 WLKF, Lakeland, FL, SINPO 33333. Political talk, mention of Boris Johnson, “critical condition”, “beverage operation”. 1440, 12 June 07:05 WPRD, Orlando (tent.) in Spanish, mention of Orlando, SINPO 24322. 1470, 11 June 02:10 WWNN, Tamarac, FL, with commercial. Announced as “WWNN Pompano Beach/WKIS Miami - Fort Lauderdale”. 1470, 12 June 07:05 WWNN “Adam’s World Radio”, Tamarac, FL, SINPO 44444. ID, ad of Florida insurance, then into Steve Kane Show, saying it is “ Florida ’s longest-running radio show”, “we as conservatives…”. 1470, 16 June 22:48-23:01 WWNN, Tamarac, FL, SINPO 44544, plus another station in English underneath. Discussion of smoking on planes, music, ID at 23:00 (WWNN/WKIS), mention of Steve Kane and cholesterol test. 1470, 20 June 01:10 WWNN, Tamarac, FL, with political talk, criticising Obama, mention of Saudi royal family. At 01:34 ad of deep- cleaning carpets, Service Master by Robinson, ID, into Steve Kane show. [seems like Kane was on WINZ, or WIOD when I lived there --- gh] 1490, 18 June 06:07 WMBM, Miami, SINPO 45555. End of sermon, ID, blessing for the station staff. Christian song “People Get Ready”, followed by one more song. Received in Miami Beach, FL. 1500, 16 June 22:54 WFED, Washington, DC . Website Federalnewsradio.com, SINPO 23322. Interference from another station in English. Talk about violence against women. 1510, 16 June 22:51 WLAC, Nashville, TN, SINPO 33433. Talk about racism and equality, then clear ID as “newsradio 1510, WLAC, Nashville ”, followed by advert of “free computer diagnosis”. 1510, 20 June 01:09 WLAC, Nashville, TN, SINPO 23333. Political talk about the situation in Iraq, clear ID. 1510, 12 June 07:09 UNID with religious program in English, SINPO 45444. Probably WWBC, Cocoa, FL. 1520, 12 June 07:10 WEXY, Wilton Manors, FL (tent.), in Portuguese! SINPO 44444. 1530, 16 June 22:52 WCKY, Cincinnati, OH, carrying ESPN Radio. ID, sports talk. SINPO??? 1540, 11 June 02:15 ZNS-1, Bahamas, SINPO 34433. Phone-in program “People to people” hosted by a man and a woman. Listener (woman) said “We have a wonderful country”, host asked “Am I invited to your house?”, mentioned Ministry of Tourism, the Bahamian people. 1550, 12 June 07:10 WRHC Cadena Azul, Coral Gables, FL (tent.) in Spanish, SINPO 43433, with another station in Spanish underneath. Program “Actualidad mundial” about Palestine and Israel, then Miami weather report, followed by a mention of Venezuela and a song “Venezuela, mi patria querida”. Then a phone report by Juan Carlo Fernández about the current situation in Venezuela . 1580, 11 June 02:17 WSRF, Fort Lauderdale, FL (tent.) in French Creole, SINPO 34233. 1580, 12 June 07:14 WSRF, Fort Lauderdale, FL (tent.) in French Creole, SINPO 55555. 1610, 10 June 23:35 UNID in unrecognized local language(!), SINPO 24322. 1620, 10 June 01:33 UNID talking in Spanish about “(fuerzas?) antiterroristas cubanas”, SINPO 33433. Probably R. Rebelde, Cuba. 1640, 10 June 23:18 TIS Highway Advisory Radio, with mention of Northern Miami Bay, A, SINPO 33433. 1640, 12 June 07:14 TIS Highway Advisory Radio, SINPO 33333, parallel signal underneath! 1640, 16 June 23:04 Highway Advisory Radio, SINPO 23433. 1660, 10 June 23:22 UNID in Spanish, SINPO 34323. Probably WGIT Puerto Rico. 1670, 12 June 07:17 WQFU (tent.), Pembroke Pines, FL, SINPO 35333. Product service announcement by AARP, mention of “Paradise”, information on a gallery containing black American heritage, musical instruments, etc. (repeated), invitation to “choose a designated driver”, ID as “station 1670”, mention of Everglades, talk by the mayor of the city of Pembroke Pines(?). At 07:22 talk about the problem of identity theft, then call for applications for social benefits at socialsecurity.gov. 1670, 16 June 23:04 WQFU (tent.), Pembroke Pines, FL, SINPO 33433. Call for applications for social benefits at www.socialsecurity.gov, then into talk about identity theft. 1680, 10 June 23:31 WOKB “Gospel 1680”, Winter Garden, FL, SINPO 44434. Insurance ad, mention of skyco.com(?), “mixed choice of banana bread”. Then invited to “see what the Bible says”, “here on WOKB”. 1700, 10 June 23:24 WJCC R. Mega, North Miami Beach, FL, SINPO 44444. Religious station in French Creole. 1700, 12 June 07:23 WJCC R. Mega, North Miami Beach, FL, in French Creole, SINPO 55544. 1700, 16 June 23:05 WJCC R. Mega, North Miami Beach, FL, in French Creole, SINPO 45544. Received in Toronto, CANADA. Time is local (US Eastern) [UT -4]::: 920, 15 June 00:58 CKNX, Wingham, ON, SINPO 35333. Clear ID. Talk about energy efficiency, mention of Ontario, clear ID at 01:04, followed by song “Country Road ”. 1000, 15 June 00:52 WMVP, Chicago, carrying ESPN Radio, SINPO 24333. Mention of Michigan. //1050 1010, 15 June 00:53 CFRB “Newstalk 1010”, Toronto, SINPO 44444. Mentioned detox, Baptist Church, province of Ontario, clear ID as “Newstalk 1010, Toronto ”. 1050, 15 June 00:52 WEPN, New York (tent.), carrying ESPN Radio, SINPO 44444. Ad of automotoretailstore. //1000. 1290, 15 June 00:36 UNID, SINPO 33433, interference from another station. Discussion about signal intelligence and cryptoanalysis. 1310, 15 June 00:37 WCCW, Traverse City, Michigan (tent.), carrying CBS Sports Radio, SINPO 34333. Ad related to cars, ipad technology, dolphinlearning.ca. 1410, 15 June 00:43 UNID, SINPO 23333. Football talk, ads, mention of “Radio Metric(?)” Interference from another station playing a song in Spanish. 1690, 15 June 01:02 CHTO (tent.) ”Zion 1690”(?), Toronto, SINPO 35433. Traditional song in a foreign language (Portuguese??), ID (Robertas Pogorelis, June 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ HOPE X conference in New York City, July 18-20. Topic: "North Korea – Using Social Engineering and Concealed Electronic Devices to Gather Information in the World’s Most Restrictive Nation". See KOREA NORTH [non] (WORLD OF RADIO 1727) 21ST ANNUAL MADISON-MILWAUKEE GET-TOGETHER FOR DXERS AND RADIO ENTHUSIASTS It's nearly that time again -- time for the 21st annual Madison- Milwaukee Get-together for DXers and Radio Enthusiasts. It has been our pleasure to have you at previous get-togethers. We trust that you have had a great time then and hope that you will join us again this year. Here are the particulars on this year's event: WHEN: Saturday August 16, 2014 1-11 PM (come when you can and stay as long as you like) WHERE: 3358 Ridgeway Avenue Madison Wisconsin 53704 (Bill and Nina's home) HOSTS: Bill and Nina Dvorak As always, expect an afternoon of good fellowship and lots of DX talk, informal demonstrations, the group photo (bring along your camera), the annual dinner and program complete with door prizes and surprises, and an after dinner session back at Bill and Nina's featuring cake and coffee. There will also be opportunities throughout the day to DX and to swap station promo items, or to show others QSL collections, photos, logbooks and/or other DX memorabilia. It ought to be another great GTG! Please let us know if you will attend. Also, please contact us with any questions that you may have. Besides our e-mail address (note that it has changed and is now dxerak@gmail.com), we may be reached by phone at (608)-244-5497. We hope that you can make this year's event and look forward to hearing from you soon. Here's to greeting you on August 16! 73, Bill Dvorak (via Rich D`Angelo, June 23, NASWA yg via DXLD) MUSEA +++++ EXHIBIT MARKS 50 YEARS SINCE LAST VOA BROADCAST VIA CGC COURIER Exhibit celebrates Coast Guard ship that broadcast Voice of America behind Iron Curtain === At the Coast Guard Academy... http://www.startribune.com/nation/263281961.html (via Kim Elliott, dxldyg via DXLD) An interesting article about the MV Courier that was used by the VOA as a floating radio station in the Mediterranean from September 1952 till May 1964. Initially they used a helium balloon antenna, as Laser 558 later did. "The Courier relayed broadcasts from the United States in more than a dozen languages seven days per week with a signal that was three times more powerful than a land-based signal and the most powerful transmitter ever installed on board a ship." (Mike Terry, ibid.) Mike Barraclough mentions on Facebook: There is a Facebook page about the Courier, some good photos and some memories from people who served on her. https://www.facebook.com/uscgc.courier (Mike Terry, ibid.) WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ RAMADAN FROM JUNE 28 TO JULY 28, EVENINGS Some SW stations run additional broadcasts, all-night, or especially for those who must get up before sunrise in order to avoid starvation. See IRAN, MALAYSIA (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See also MEXICO; OKLAHOMA; USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Jun 25, 10:24 AM EDT JUSTICES RULE FOR BROADCASTERS IN FIGHT WITH AEREO WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a startup Internet company has to pay broadcasters when it takes television programs from the airwaves and allows subscribers to watch them on smartphones and other portable devices. The justices said by a 6-3 vote that Aereo Inc. is violating the broadcasters' copyrights by taking the signals for free. The ruling preserves the ability of the television networks to collect huge fees from cable and satellite systems that transmit their programming. Aereo is available in New York, Boston and Atlanta among 11 metropolitan areas and uses thousands of dime-size antennas to capture television signals and transmit them to subscribers who pay as little as $8 a month for the service. Some justices worried during arguments in April that a ruling for the broadcasters could also harm the burgeoning world of cloud computing, which gives users access to a vast online computer network that stores and processes information. But Justice Stephen Breyer in his majority opinion that the court did not intend to call cloud computing into question. Justices Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented. Broadcasters including ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and PBS sued Aereo for copyright infringement, saying Aereo should pay for redistributing the programming the same way cable and satellite systems must or risk high-profile blackouts of channels that anger their subscribers. (AP via Mike Cooper, June 25, DXLD) Plus many more in mainstream media Bad News for Aereo http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-supreme-court-pulls-plug-aereos-streaming-tv-service-n140486 (Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT USA, June 25, WTFDA via DXLD) Here's the Aereo story from CommLawBlog: http://tinyurl.com/pw7suuq (via Neal McLain, ibid.) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See INDIA; NEW ZEALAND; NIGERIA; U S A ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ GEORGE WOODARD PASSES Radio World June 23, 2014 http://www.radioworld.com/article/george-woodard-passes/271008 A memorial service is planned for George Woodard this Saturday, June 28. Several engineering contacts have told Radio World the service is at 1 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in McKinney, Texas. Woodward died recently after a long illness, according to several who knew him. Woodward began working at Continental Electronics in the 1960s in the midst of the Cold War where he helped to develop several high-power shortwave transmitters. His interest in shortwave led him to become associate director of engineering for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in 1985. He rose to become vice president of RFE/RL engineering in 1987 and eventually became DOE for the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau. Now, the IBB calls its engineering department "Technology, Services and Innovation." The acting director of that department, Terry Balazs, told Radio World: " Over many years, George Woodard played important engineering leadership roles across U.S. international broadcasting. We extend our sympathies to his friends and family as they mourn his death." Woodard returned to Continental as its vice president of engineering in 2000 and retired from the company in 2003, living in McKinney with his wife, Christina (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) obit FM ANTENNA PHASING BASICS Someone sent me an email asking about antenna phasing and I thought I would put my reply here since others might be interested in phasing. This is it in a nutshell. My FM dial is pretty much trashed, so I really need to use phasing. I have local HD stations on 88.5, 90.3, 90.5, 90.7, 92.5, 93.1, 93.7, 95.7, 96.1, 96.5...then 99.1, 99.3, 99.9, 100.5, 101.3, 102.1, 102.9, 104.1, 105.5, 105.9. That's 40 adjacent channels covered with IBOC. And then you add LPFMs and two strong translators on 97.1 and 99.5. If I didn't use phasing I think I'd just give up on FM Dxing since 95% of my IBOC is south or southwest of me and that is, or was, my best direction for DXing. I think it was three years ago when I bought this phaser from Andy and at that time he told me he was not building them himself anymore, but a friend of his was. At that time he did have a few extras there so I got one of those. I don't know his situation now but you could ask him. His email is dxshack@gmail.com. You can use any two antennas you want for phasing. Your main antenna should be the one with the most gain. I use an APS-13 @ 25" agl (with the first two directors removed due to ice damage) for my main antenna. I use a DIY 7 element yagi @ 15' agl from a design by Brian Beezley for my phase antenna. The phase antenna goes into the phaser, comes out again and goes to one side of a two way splitter. The main antenna goes into a variable attenuator, comes out of that and goes into the other side of the two way splitter. The output of the splitter goes to your receiver. The attenuator goes in line with your main antenna, which should be the antenna with the most gain. The idea here is to lower the gain of your main antenna so that it is identical to the gain of your phase antenna. Once those are equal you can phase the signal down and out with the two knobs on the phaser. One thing to notice is that you are lowering the gain of your main DX antenna! So don't use too small a phase antenna or you will be attenuating the main antenna way down. Ideally, both should be the same, or at least, the gain from both should be close. This should be enough to get you started, I hope (Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT USA, June 24, WTFDA via DXLD) DISORGANIZED SHACK? DIOGENES SYNDROME Eis o impressionante shack do jornalista e radioescuta Michael Gordos de Tel Aviv. http://i.imgur.com/2XcEPvw.jpg http://tinyurl.com/nzfe8kg Orignalmente postado em: http://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/28hrnx/this_guy_has_a_cool_ham_shack_truly_an_inspiration/ bom dia! -- (pu3hag Huelbe Garcia, radio escutas yg via DXLD) Pois é --- Não passa de um pobre coitado, portador da Síndrome de Diógenes. É muito comum no nosso, e em outros meios. Acumuladores são doentes, pessoas que tem problemas de relacionamento, de convívio social, e preenchem seus espaços vazios emocionais, juntando coisas e demonstrando quase ou nenhuma auto-estima. Alguém da ARRL chegou postar anos atrás um artigo sobre isso. Um alerta sobre os hobbys que geram estados de infelicidade e que provocam a aceleração de estados depressivos. Vale a curiosidade, chega ser exótico, mas dramático para não ser trágico. No nosso meio temos muita gente assim, apegada demais a seus rádios e bugigangas, mas por dentro, vazios e infelizes. Estes amigos precisam da nossa maior consideração, são atuantes, muito fortes intelectualmente, mas precisam de ajuda. Parece até engraçado, mas é sério. 73, (Denis Zoqbi, ibid.) Caros, Não vejo nada demais discutirmos fatos. Fato é que existe gente assim, e isso é doença. Goste ou não, pouco importa. Com certeza este shack é apenas uma forma de excentricidade, já que reparem que os rádios à esquerda, logo acima, estão todos travados de etiquetas. Logo,não estão sendo usados. Ele trabalha com call-center para ter tantos aparelhos de telefone ao redor? Não, logo, nada que existe aí deve ter função, senão meia dúzia de trecos, e muita bagunça. Embora cônico, para não ser trágico, isso existe no nosso e em outros meios, e é normal. O meu grifo por ser doença e desvio de comportamento, se refere ao cuidado que temos que ter com eles. Quem na capital aqui em SP, não conheceu o saudoso radioamador, Miranda, que frequentava a Labre/SP? Ele tinha este problema e tornou isso público, como válvula de escape interna dele. Eu testemunhei ele ter crises monstruosas de pressão, quando ele se via forçado a vender um rádio ou uma mísera válvula usada. Era de um apego e demasiado sofrimento, que se fazia notório. Um colega nosso, teve sérios problemas de saúde certa ocasião e só após se desprender de um equipamento, teve sua higiene mental reestabelecida. Às vezes existem colegas nossos que sofrem com isso ao ler este e-mail e se conscientizam do seu próprio estado. Moram em cemitérios de rádios que não usam, não desfrutam e não se desfazem por apego. Tem muito juntador de rádios e outros trecos entre nós que passa por isso agora. Vale sim frisar isso com respeito, porque é uma forma de ajuda- los. Dexismo É um hobby solitário, nasceu no norte europeu em meio nevascas e cidades isoladas e marca desta triste cena é a solidão e depressão. Não tem nada de errado em falarmos a verdade, e reconhecer que nosso hobby é de prática isolada. PS: No início dos anos 90, com acesso a tecnologias digitais mais baratas, a Europa passava por um auge de dexismo de satélites. Sim, detecção de sinais de satélites domésticos de outras localidades. Um destes grandes dexistas, Dr.Dish como foi apelidado, testemunhou esta situação. Houve momento onde ele chegou morar em um hangar perto do bairro onde estava sua casa, e depois de meses ele encontrou ossos de um cachorro que morreu no meio da bagunça. Depois de tanto tempo, ele mesmo teve que cair na real e perceber que o isolamento estava esbarrando a demência. Num hangar de 15x20m ele chegou ter quase 1 mil decodificadores, racks, televisores, aparelhos de todos os tipos de eletrônica. 73, (Denis Zoqbi, ibid.) Amigos, Ao ver o shack do colega israelense (e sempre que vejo algo do gênero) não pude deixar de fazer uma correlação com a mesa de trabalho do Barão do Rio Branco, verdadeiro gênio da diplomacia brasileira, da qual também é o patrono. Quem ousaria, ao ver sua sala de trabalho, em dar-lhe de dedos? Aos que nunca viram, uma pequena amostra: http://www.baraoheroiediplomata.com.br/mobile/images/46.jpg Forte 73 (Fabricio, Tubarão SC. Silva, PP5002SWL, ibid.) Boa noite a todos. Não sei se é uma lista de radioescuta ou de fofoqueiros. Deixe o homem em paz, vocês nem sabe que é e qual as circunstâncias da foto. Fazer comentários do que não se conhece é ........ (Bruno Giopatto, Py2sw, ibid.) I TAKE PICTURE OF TRANSMITTER SITES This Facebook group is now approaching an astounding 6,000 members! https://www.facebook.com/groups/transmittersites/ Highly recommended (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) JOHNNY MANN of the Johnny Mann Singers passed away June 18th at the age of 85. The Johnny Mann Singers were the most heard singing group in the world. He also recorded thousands of jingles for radio stations around the world. Keith Perron has posted on Facebook that a couple of his 1960's jingles for CKLW are here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUI8OYxkSDs (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) obit LIGHTNING HITS THE BEVERAGE FIELD Beverage report --- a few hours ago, Jody and I were watching a storm come in from our West deck. Lightning hit in the back field about 200 feet West of the N/S Beverage, and 200-feet South of the East West antenna, and I think landed 200-feet East of the temporary N/S Beverage on Ground. I had just determined to put off removing the BOG (we might get hay cut first time in 5-years, so it needs to be removed before someone tries to cut and hits a ground rod) in favor of better weather. The Beverages have 100 mA (3AG series) fuses between the antenna wire and the matching networks; and the Beverage building has the same fuses to feed phone and control and stuff out there. When the fireworks calmed down, I looked at the fuses in the basement (intact) and turned on the radio that was connected, and then hit the remote control to pull in switching relays. Everything worked as if nothing had happened; really would have thought the EMP would have zworked something. Maybe there is a line or two open. Really cool balls of ionized air hanging in the column for a fraction of a second after the hit (a single hit) and puff of smoke where it hit. Lots of rabbits out there, so who knows (Fred Baumgartner, k0fmb@arrl.net (k"zero"fmb@arrl.net) Forwards to: k0fmbmail@gmail.com 303-325-7988, June 22, IRCA via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ THE LONGEST DX DAY OF THE YEAR --- A CONSUMER DAY TIME BAND SCAN A band scan with a twist for DXLD. I thought you would find it interesting. Kind regards, Brock I have always enjoyed bandscans of long and medium wave made during the daylight hours. Here near Bruff, Ireland, the closest medium wave station that can be detected on a consumer radio is 135 miles away, and is weak at that. On June 21, my local (UTC+1 BST) sunrise was at 5:10 AM with sunset at 10:01 PM. It is still light right up to 11 PM. I have always considered the 10 AM-2 PM local period to be the window for daytime conditions. Of course in winter here, this window is much closer to sunrise (8:30 AM) and sunset (3:45 PM), but as it is midday, it is my definition of daytime DX throughout the year. Normally, I use a communication receiver or SDR with all manner of pre-amps for my daytime long and medium DX. I thought for a change, I would do a daytime band scan on this long day of daylight, using just consumer radios. I imagine there are very few in my neck of the woods who would listen to long or medium wave given the signal strength that is here. RTE is on long wave, but it mostly simulcasts their FM programming. There are a few portable, auto, and clock radios for sale and around here that still include this band. The strongest mediumwave signal is from an evangelistic station in a mostly Catholic country. It too is simulcast on FM outlets. There are several listenable signals from the U.K. and perhaps some are regular listeners to these. Any French visitor with long wave in their rental car can easily keep in touch with home. The radios I used for this consumer band scan were a stock radio in 2012 VW Golf, a Sony clock radio, and a 1960 Dansette transistor radio. The Sony and Dansette were rotated for the strongest signal. My external long wires and loops were not used. I scanned all three radios three times between 10AM-2PM. There are no signal strength indicators on any of these radios, so the signal quality is based on my ears, and 40+ years of DXing. Stations that are regulars this time of year on my DX equipment, such as Spain 585, and 855, France 864, and Holland 747 were not heard at all on the consumer sets. Belgium 621, normally a powerhouse, was off the air during the scan. I should mention that due to the short winter days, several stations that can normally be heard on my DX equipment are totally absent in the summer. The Czech Republic 639 at 1,022 miles that mixes with Spain, and most of the low powered U.K. local stations between 1200-1602 that show up daily during the winter months are gone in the summer. It shows just how much residual winter sky wave there is ins this location. Bruff is inland, just south of Limerick. The biggest surprise it the France-Info outlet in Brest on 1404. They are near the coast, and must have a great ground system, for they only run 20 Kw, and are in year round near the top of the dial. Here is the June 21 day time scan in the order of signal quality on the consumer sets. Modulation had to be heard to be listed. Frequency Quality Program Distance in miles kW Notes 252 Excellent RTE 1 104 300 198 Very Good BBC Radio 4 272 500 My favorite station 882 Good BBC Radio Wales 240 100 Best medium wave signal 549 Good Spirit Radio 144 20 Best Irish medium wave signal-Religious 183 Good Europe 1 698 1,600 DA 162 Fair France Inter 602 2,000 1,000 in my direction from their DA 1089 Fair TalkSport 288 400 1,000 in my direction from their DA 1215 Fair Absolute Radio 288 200 500 in my direction from their DA. Rock music on AM! 1314 Fair BBC Radio Ulster 173 100 N. Ireland 810 Poor BBC Radio Scotland 308 100 1368 Poor Manx Radio 200 20 Enjoyable programming 40 my direction from their DA 909 Poor BBC Radio 5 Live 288 200 500 my direction from their DA 234 Poor RTL 671 1,500 1,200 my direction from their DA 1404 Poor France-Info 349 20 Primarily water path 693 Poor BBC Radio 5 Live 262 50 Bad sync audio. 130 my direction from their DA 693 Poor BBC Radio 5 Live 272 150 Bad sync audio. Echo city on 693. 756 Very Poor BBC Radio 4 212 2 Primarily water path 630 Very Poor BBC Radio Cornwall 212 2 Primarily water path 657 Very poor BBC Radio Cornwall 216 .5 Primarily water path 774 Very Poor BBC Radio 4 135 1 N. Ireland Closest station heard 711 Very Weak France-Info 446 300 (Gives you some idea of what WLW (700) did with 500) 720 Very Weak BBC Radio 4 173 10 N. Ireland 1548 Very Weak BBC Radio Bristol 267 5 10 my direction from their DA. All alone at the top of the dial. (Brock Whaley, Ireland, DX LISTENING DIGEST) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2014 Jun 23 0420 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 16 - 22 June 2014 Solar activity was at low levels this period with only C-class flares observed. Region 2085 (S20, L=257, class/area=Ekc/490 on 12 Jun), which was very active last period, produced a long duration C8 flare from behind the west limb which was the largest event of the period. Among regions that were in transit across the visible disk this period, Regions 2087 (S18, L=155, class/area=Eac/220 on 13 Jun), 2089 (N18, L=197, class/area=Dkc/270 on 16 Jun), and 2093 (S12, L=083, class/area=Dso/70 on 16 Jun) were the most productive. Early in the period Regions 2087 and 2089 were the most active. Region 2087 produced seven C-class flares this period with a C4 flare at 17/0510 UTC being the largest. Region 2089 also produced seven C-class flares, the largest of which was a C2/Sf flare at 16/0734 UTC. Later in the period Region 2093 became the primary solar flare producer, totaling nine C-class flares with a C5/1n flare at 20/1120 UTC being the largest. On 19 Jun a large (~24 degree) and dynamic filament eruption centered near S01E12 lifted off between 1530-1655 UTC, as seen in SDO AIA/304 and 193 imagery. A subsequent partial halo coronal mass ejection (CME) off the east limb became visible in LASCO C2 coronagraph imagery beginning at 19/1924 UTC. Forecaster analysis and WSA-ENLIL model output suggested this CME had an Earth-directed component with an estimated arrival predicted late in the period (UTC) on 22 Jun. Another filament eruption (~28 degree) centered near N26E09 was observed in SDO AIA/193 imagery lifting off between 0330-0600 UTC on 21 Jun. A subsequent CME was observed off the north-northwest limb in LASCO C2 in coronagraph imagery beginning at 21/0536 UTC. Analysis of this event indicated a possible glancing blow midday on 24 Jun. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal levels to begin the period (16-19 Jun) with an increase to normal to moderate levels later in the period (20-22 Jun). The 2 MeV electron flux reached a peak value of 487 pfu at 20/1440 UTC. Geomagnetic field activity was predominately at quiet to unsettled levels throughout the period with the exception of an isolated active period (18/1800-2100 UTC) and an isolated period of G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm conditions (18/2100-2359 UTC) due to a negative polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) and prolonged southward Bz. A G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm watch was issued for 22 Jun for the anticipated arrival of the 19 Jun CME (detailed above), however, the transient did not arrive as predicted and G1 conditions were not observed on the 22nd. This is likely due in part to a minor deviation in one of the many variables that transient features enounter during the 93-million mile journey to the Earth. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 23 JUNE - 19 JULY 2014 Solar activity is expected to increase throughout the outlook period due to the return of a few active regions that were relatively productive last rotation. Solar activity is likely to be low with a slight chance for M-class (R1-R2 (Minor-Moderate)) flare activity for 23-25 Jun. As Regions 2080 (S11, L=263) and 2085 (S20, L=256) return to the visible disk, solar activity is expected to be low with a chance for M-class (R1-R2) flare activity for 26 Jun-05 Jul. Region 2080 produced two M-class flares and Region 2085 produced three M- class flares last rotation. Solar activity is likely to be moderate (R1-R2) with a chance for X-class (R3 or greater) flare activity for 06-11 Jul with the return of Region 2087 (S18, L=155) which produced eight M-class flares and three X-class flares last rotation. Solar activity is expected to be low with a chance for M-class (R1-R2) and a slight chance for X-class (R3 or greater) flare activity for 12-19 Jul as Regions 2080 and 2085 rotate around the west limb and Region 2087 continues its transit across the disk. There is a slight chance for S1 (Minor) solar radiation storm conditions for 06 Jun-19 Jul due to the return of old Region 2087. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal levels with a chance for moderate levels throughout the outlook period. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet levels to G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm conditions on 23 Jun due to the arrival of the 19 Jun coronal mass ejection (CME). Quiet to active levels are expected on 24-25 Jun as CME effects subside in conjunction with the onset of a negative polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). Quiet to active levels are expected on 26 Jun due to continued negative polarity CH HSS influence. Predominately quiet conditions and a nominal solar wind environment are expected for 27 Jun-10 Jul, 12-13 Jul, and 18-19 Jul. Quiet to unsettled conditions are likely on 11 Jul due to weak positive polarity CH HSS effects. Quiet to unsettled conditions are expected on 14 Jul and 16-17 Jul with quiet to active conditions on 15 Jul due to influence from a negative polarity CH HSS. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2014 Jun 23 0420 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 2014-06-23 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2014 Jun 23 95 18 5 2014 Jun 24 95 15 4 2014 Jun 25 100 15 4 2014 Jun 26 105 8 4 2014 Jun 27 105 5 2 2014 Jun 28 110 5 2 2014 Jun 29 115 5 2 2014 Jun 30 115 5 2 2014 Jul 01 120 5 2 2014 Jul 02 125 5 2 2014 Jul 03 135 5 2 2014 Jul 04 130 5 2 2014 Jul 05 130 5 2 2014 Jul 06 135 5 2 2014 Jul 07 140 5 2 2014 Jul 08 135 5 2 2014 Jul 09 130 5 2 2014 Jul 10 130 5 2 2014 Jul 11 125 8 3 2014 Jul 12 120 5 2 2014 Jul 13 120 5 2 2014 Jul 14 115 8 3 2014 Jul 15 110 12 4 2014 Jul 16 105 8 3 2014 Jul 17 105 8 3 2014 Jul 18 105 5 2 2014 Jul 19 105 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1727, DXLD) AUSTRALIA’S IONOSPHERIC PREDICTION SERVICE (IPS) UNDER REVIEW IPS in Australia is currently undergoing a government-initiated review of all services it offers, including aurora and ionospheric predictions/recording. One aspect being looked at is to move it from being freely available information to the public to one of full cost recovery from users, or to discontinue the services. This will probably forecast the end of its use for predicting and reporting auroras for the amateur astronomical community in this part of the world. DX enthusiasts can also find the ionospheric predictions useful in chasing rare DX. Those who remember VNG and its use as a standard time signal service broadcast from Australia for the southern hemisphere might recognise a similar approach being applied, with possibly the same negative outcome. While NOAA from the USA does provide predictions, they are necessarily focused on northern hemisphere local users, and do not have the granularity that IPS provides in our part of the world. Details of the review, which allows feedback until 4 July, are at: http://review.ips.gov.au/ (via PAUL RAWDON reporting to DX Dialog Newsgroup, June NZ DX Times via DXLD) A review is under way into the IPS - Ionospheric Prediction Service - which is now part of BoM. This is a small, but important agency that researches the Earth-Sun environment and produces our own solar count (T-index). It is important to all users of the hf spectrum. Please consider making a submission. More details at http://review.ips.gov.au/ kind regards, (Nigel Holmes, June 26, ARDXC via DXLD) ###