DX LISTENING DIGEST 14-40, October 1, 2014 Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING edited by Glenn Hauser, http://www.worldofradio.com Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. Materials taken from Arctic or originating from Olle Alm and not having a commercial copyright are exempt from all restrictions of noncommercial, noncopyrighted reusage except for full credits For restrixions and searchable 2014 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html [also linx to previous years] NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1740 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Antarctica, Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cuba non, Diego Garcia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Europe, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Myanmar, Nigeria, North America, Papua New Guinea, Perú, Portugal, Russia, Spain and non, Sri Lanka, Taiwan non, UK non, USA SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1741, Oct 2-8, 2014 Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 1230 WRMI 9955 [confirmed, with France via Taiwan QRM] Fri 0327v WWRB 3185 [no show again; internet out at station] Fri 2130 WRMI 7570 & 15770 [confirmed 1739, again!] Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sun 0131 KVOH 9975 [confirmed] Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 [confirmed; NEW] Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 [confirmed] 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 1742 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: 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 or directly via: http://bit.ly/1xD5yyn Also via [but still not back in service]: http://tunein.com/radio/World-of-Radio-p198/ AND ALTERNATIVE, tnx Stephen Cooper, because RMRC was down: http://shortwave.am/wor.xml 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/ NOTE: This edition includes a lot of logs from Dave Valko, yet only a select few from the huge month+ long report he filed in late September, but which was put into the DXLD yg in its complete original form. Altho of generally high quality DX, his logs require a great deal of editing to make them readable to DXLD standards, i.e. expanding all the truncated common words, such as tlk, anmnt, etc., etc. and attaching individual credits to them. If I had processed them all, it would have made this issue another day late! (gh, DXLD) ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. 9695, Sept 27 at 1319, ``VOA Deewa Radio`` mentioning Pakistan a few times, in Pashto, good with flutter. Per Aoki this is 1300-1500, 250 kW, 311 degrees via Udon Thani, THAILAND. I expect this provides ACI in Asia to AIR GOS on 9690 at 1330-1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. ARMENIA, 9590, R. Sadaye Zindagi via Armenia, Sep 23 *1459-1506, 33432, Dari, 1459 sign on with IS, Opening announce, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALGERIA [non]. FRANCE, 11985, R. Algerienne via France, Sep 26 0641-0659*, 35333, Arabic, Talk, The ID of the French in 0652 and 0656, 0659 sign off (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD- 9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGUILLA [and non]. 6090, Sept 30 at 0535, PMS modulation has some distortion at peaks, not the case with otherwise // 5935 WWCR. Why should we refer to this station as ``Caribbean Beacon`` when it never IDs as such, much less broadcasts anything about the Caribbean, just Dead Gene Scott or his widow and heir to the blab business? Also a low audible heterodyne, which could be Kaduna, Nigeria, reported as 6089.85 or 6089.86 lately (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6090, Oct 1 at 0527, DGS modulation is still breaking up like 24 hours earlier. So-called University Network --- what university would that be, anyway? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. 15475.97, R. Nacional Sao Gabriel Arcangel [sic], LRA36. Noticed that the signal was a little stronger today than usual so stuck with it. Finally by 2137 starting to get a little music. Getting stronger and more audible with continuous music with M vocal, then the plug was pulled suddenly at 2142:12. http://youtu.be/tB4KpwWCFqw (19 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) 15475.97, LRA36, R Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, ATA, Base Esperanza, 2100-2114 Sep 22-25, px mx, better USB, 13333-13222. 73! (Mauro Giroletti, IK2GFT-SWL1510, JRC 525 NRD-LOWE HF 150-Elad FDM S2, Antenna LOOP ALA100M-FLAG Antenna West direction, Filter PAR Electronics – BCST-LPF, Lat. 45.25’.00’’ Long. 9.7’.00” -Locator grid. Jn 45 Nk, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) 15475.9, R. Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel/LRA36. Surprised to find some audio coming in at 2102. W announcer at 2105. 2108-2113 music. 2113-2121 long talk by W again, gradually getting stronger. Song from 2121-2125, W returned again with another long talk to 2133, then possible anthem to 2136:05 signal off. Just below readability, but best signal yet. Apparently carrier +USB as nothing heard tuned in LSB. (25 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) 15474.97, LRA36, RN Arcángel, Spanish talks about Argentina following with tango music, good strong signal and clear audio. Time was at 1905 UT, best peak in USB, Sept 29. RX=Icom 7410 + End Fed antenna. 73, (Maurits Van Driessche, Belgium, HCDX via DXLD) R. Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel from Antarctica on 15475.97 is staying on later this evening. It`s 2215 and it`s still on. Give it a shot (then again as soon as I hit "send", they'll go off the air!!) (Dave Valko, 2219 UT Sept 29, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Viz: 15475.973, LRA36/R. Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, 2118 synthetic fanfare, then W announcer in definite Spanish sounding like a newscast. Several soundbites, including one at 2124:30. 2125 into familiar sounding Pop music, possibly "Downtown Train" by Rod Stewart. 2129 into another Pop song that sounded familiar. 2132:35 next Pop song. 2136:50-2141:15 talk by W over instrumental music. 2140 played another soundbite. Soft instrumental music. 2144:50 same instrumental synth again and W announcer. 2146:40 "Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel" ID by the W with mention of "kilohertz", possibly "banda de 19 metros", possibly "Antártida", definitely "Argentina", and another "Radio Nacional" ID!!! Followed by a patriotic-sounding ballad with a Warren Zevon-like voice to 2150:30. Another song much weaker audio. 2153-2155 another instrumental Pop song. 2155 long instrumental Hard Rock song. 2206-2208 "One Way or Another" by Blondie. More nonstop Rock and Alternative music. Finally went off in mid-song at 2242:55. The audio level seems to vary from one song to the next at times. Had best audio in USB with the AGC off. The highlight of the DX season, so far. S.F.=175 A Index=11 K Index=4 No storms C1 background X-ray flux. 20 MHz MUF all the way. I recommend viewing the Antarctica LRA36 video. http://youtu.be/hD55dN6Woc0 (29 Sept.) 73 and best DX (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S, and 153 foot Delta Loop, Hard-Core-DX via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DXLD) 15476, LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza, 1928-2005, 29-09, songs and comments in Spanish, mentioned "Argentina". Good signal for moments today. 14221 to 24222. Also listened 1935-1945, 30-09, Spanish comments and songs. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Tecsun PL-880, antenna: Degen DE 31MS active loop antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15476-, Sept 30 at 2133-2136+, JBA carrier from LRA36 on its unique off-frequency; checking since it was reported on the air yesterday much later than usual past 2200, but still far too little to copy here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 15345, R. Nacional Argentina, Buenos Aires. Good reception of a Spanish discussion at 1058, 22/9, time pips at 1100, and then the discussion continued with a R. Nacional ID at 1104. According to AOKI, this should be the R. Argentina Exterior changeover from Chinese to Japanese at 1100 (Dennis Allen, Milperra NSW (Icom R75, Realistic DX-160, Longwire), Oct Australian DX News via DXLD) That was a Monday: yes, RAE should be back on, starting its weekday- only external services. Maybe a bit hard to get up to speed on Monday mornings (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 11710, RAE, no signal at 0150 (Stephen Wood, Harwich, Mass., UT Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Had been missing most of week; see EGYPT (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. New SV Imagery & Panoramio http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/6200818.jpg Looks like a multiband dipole (above) at the RAE General Pacheco SW TX site. Whilst Argentina is now available with Google SV, unfortunately the imagery around the above site is too far away to be of much interest. Though there is some new Panoramio imagery, like the shot above that should be of interest (Ian, Sept 26, SWSites yg via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 2485, VL8K Katherine NT, 0935 YL chat; OM 0938, followed by conversations between both 0939. Deep fades and out by 1010 26 Sept (XM, Cedar Key, South [sic] Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E5, via Wilkner; and Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, various wire antennas; and DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. [3210] VINTAGE FM QSLs. I am endeavouring to get hold of Mitchell to assist with getting these eQSLs ready. If I am working, he is at home; if I am at home, he is off with the girlfriend. A certain nice bloke outside of the club has assisted greatly with the these QSLs. It`s all now a matter of nailing down Mitchell! Also he has exams next month. Anyway [probably Johno Wright, as the first-person writer of the front page of ADXN never identifies himself; or could it be Richard Jary? -- gh] (Oct Australian DX News via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 9580, Friday Sept 26 at 1305 UT, R. Australia finally matches its broadcast to its schedule: `Keys to Music`, about Monteverdi`s ``Orfeo``, which was the beginning of Opera, extended excerpts with commentary. I just love Monteverdi`s melodies if not his religiously-inspired subject matter, but what else was there in the XVI-XVII centuries? RA had been airing another weekly musical show, `Sound Quality` in this slot, as I dub it, ``the convergence between noise and music``, also interesting. Bringing up the online RA program schedule, it automatically detects ``my`` timezone, which it now displays as ``London``! Previously cookies remembered it was UT, but without resetting, all the times are now UT+1. Please, too `smart` for its own good. And when I click on the link to Keys to Music, I instead get the RA homepage with Top Stories in the news! Hovering over other program titles, this happens with all of them. As previously announced, Australia Network (television) is abolished, so what about `The World` simulcast? This schedule for (next??) Tuesday still shows that program at `1300` BST (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Don't forget the madrigal beginning c. 1520, which was secular (most of the time) and of which Monteverdi was a great master. Of course, Orfeo was not the first opera (credit there to Peri), though it is the earliest that history has viewed as a masterpiece. Regards, (Tim Noonan, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Despite this earlier log of mine: ``15300, Sept 19 at 0532, RA `Pacific Beat` announcement that Australia Network TV will cease Sept 28, but from Sept 29, ABC will provide some kind of limited TV service. We`ll see if that still occupy `The World` 12-13 UT slot Tue- Fri on 9580, 12065 et al.`` Here it is Sept 30 at 1245 on 9580, 12065, et al., and it`s still obviously audio track of a TV newscast, from oblique references to visuals, and annoying audio background which video casts like to include, when pure radio produxion would not. Item in progress is interviewing Uighurs in East Turkistan, rather incomprehensible without visible subtitles; seems ABC reporters in ``China`` are defying Commie authorities in covering unrest there and in Hong Kong, (and may be slapped with travel restrixions if not expulsion?). 1257 still outro as `The World` and nothing to indicate it would not be continuing. R. Australia/ABC must be as confused as we are about what`s happening to them, and when. After 1306, `The Daily Planet` is still on with world music, nice cora from Mali, alternating with Mongolian (but we are assured by ``Lucky Oceans``, no throat-singing this time). (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 12065, Oct 1 at 1317 after listening to ``Apache Tears`` on `The Daily Planet` from RA, I can hear some CCI underneath the talk break, not noticed before. HFCC shows it`s, what else, IRAN in ``PRS``, which really means Dari as in Aoki, 1150-1450, 100 kW, 85 degrees from Kamalabad. (VIRI long ago deleted all SW broadcasts in its own language, Persian/Farsi, having no interest in reaching own diaspora, strange; but Dari is close enough.). RA 12065 USward is strong enough for this not to be a problem; // 12085 aimed toward Asia always weaker and also suffering from heavy flutter unlike 12065 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AZERBAIJAN. 11760, UnID. Heard in range from 11735 to 11760. Distorted speech in Azeri from unID station, clear sound on 11760 at 0500 on 11/9. It seems from Azerbaijan vs. V of Justice on 9677 (of the separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh). (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi Antenna), Oct Australian DX News via DXLD) Logs 20/9: 9677, R Talisyistan [sic], 1113 with songs and bad modulation Fair (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 9455, Bangladesh Betar, Sep 25 *1314-1323, 35443, Nepali, 1314 sign on with IS, ID, Opening music, Opening announce, Theme music, News. 15105, Bangladesh Betar, Sep 25 1229-1238, 35443, English, IS, Time announce by woman, Opening music, ID, Opening announce, Theme music, News (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 15105, Oct 1 at 1250 tune-in, surprised to find Bangladesh Betar one of the few signals on band (OOFSOB), fair with heavy flutter, and certainly among the best, like 15520 Iran in Urdu (skirting the other side of the pole); with even 15825 WWCR not propagating yet. BB YL in English is wrapping up sports (?) segment until next Wednesday and then into typical Bengali music --- ``Allá en el Rancho Grande``, ``Why Should I Be Loving You``, and at 1257 ``I`ll Be There`` in English and Spanish; 1259 sign-off announcement and off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re my Oct 1 log of BB playing ``Allá en el Rancho Grande``, I keep thinking that sounds familiar, and sure `nuff barely over a year ago I logged the SAME music on the same station! So their fill-music library may be limited, or repeats on a yearly basis? From DXLD 13-40 of 2013y: ``15105, Sept 29 at 1244, subcontinental vocal music from BB English service, fair with flutter; 1253 food and water advice for those on Hajj to Saudi Arabia; 1257 non-sequitur music astounded, ``Allá en el Rancho Grande``; or is that what Arabia seems like from the viewpoint of cramped, watery Bangladesh?`` Or it could be that the programmer mistakenly thinx that ``Allá`` refers to God and is thus Islamically pious, rather than just ``over there``. Of course, Allah could also be construed as inhabiting everywhere including big ranches (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. 11930, Belaruskaya Radio 1, Minsk. Very good with easy listening music, Belarusian announcements at 0504, 3/9 (John Adams, Dxpedition to Port Douglas Beach, [state?] Sony ICF-SW7600GR, 7 Metre Reel Antenna, Oct Australian DX News via DXLD) ** BHUTAN. 6035, Bhutan Broadcasting Service. Dominant on the channel, but still weak, so it’s all relative! Music to 1240, then talk in vernacular. Some nights the Chinese station c/c wins the day, 6/9 (Craig Seager, VK2FEAE, Bathurst NSW (Perseus SDR, Icom IC-746, Racal RA-6790/GM, Horizontal Loop), Oct Australian DX News via DXLD) 6034.96, Bhutan BS: Sep 24 1244-1258, 33433, vernacular, Bhutan folk music, // confirming the parallel streaming, Sep 26 1238-1254, 33433-32432, vernacular, Talk, // Confirming the parallel Streaming (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD- 9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6034.95, BBS. Once R. Marti left the air at 1159, could hear what sounded like a C&W Pop song, but much like "Before They Make Me Run" by the Rolling Stones!! I'm sure it wasn't. Same M announcer that's been noted daily at this time on the webstream then at 1200, stringed instrumental music., and presumed news. Heard same type stringed music bridge one or two more times. And again at 1213 and continuous talk to 1216. Into regional music. Fading pretty quickly at this time. http://youtu.be/x40KrfMvayc (26 Sept.) 73 and best DX. (Dave Valko, 26 September 2014 micro- DXpedition near Dunlo PA, RX: Perseus SDR, ANT: 315' Beverages (BOG) at 0 , Cumbre DX via DXLD) 6034.95, BBS. Pop music as soon as R. Martí went off 1159. Instrumental music to ToH, M announcer in apparent Dzongkha for a minute, pleasant instrumental music bridge, then same M with news, all // station`s webstream. 1214 plucked instrumental music bridge, then M announcer, and into more stringed instrumental music at 1217 but fading quickly. This continues to improve. http://youtu.be/FMqsKwAj9m8 (27 Sept.) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) [and non]. 6034.95, BBS, Sept 27. Had positive BBS indigenous music 1217-1219 & 1221-1224, but after 1245 there was only ONE station there and it was positively in Vietnamese; 1300 usual ID in English “This is the Voice of Shangri-La" (PBS Yunnan); and after 1301 was in Chinese. Did BBS sign off early today? (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6035, BBS, Thimpu. Quite exceptional tonight, vocal group 1226, flute music 1230, ID and talks in vernacular. Phone interview 1231. Best using LSB, 29/9. 73 (Craig Seager, ARDXC via DXLD) 6034.95, BBS, Sangaygang, 1223-1227, Sunday Sep 21, chatting on the phone with young children and the kids also singing (no music - just singing); lost reception at 1227 (Howard) Doing very well at 0100, Sep 29, typically Bhutanese music and local language. https://app.box.com/s/0k6vp1cyc0mxo7gb (Victor Goonetilleke, Piliyandala, Sri Lanka, in DXplorer via DSWCI DX Window Oct 1 via DXLD) We already had Ron Howard`s full log report, but repeat it here because there was no different frequency specified for VG`s report. Did he really measure it on 6034.95 as well? (gh, DXLD) 6034.96 at 0114 UT with very poor talks and carrier. 49MB noisy band last night. 73, (Maurits Van Driessche, Belgium, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) This was posted at 0133 UT Oct 2, which would seem to be immediately after the log; yet he calls this and others ``last night``, so really 24+ hours earlier on UT Oct 1? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. Consulta --- Estimados: Hoy a la mañana nos hicimos una panzada de emisoras bolivianas en onda media captadas desde la localidad de Purmamarca. La mayoría pudo ser identificada (otras no) pero tengo la inquietud por una, que transmite en 710 kHz y que llegaba íntegramente en aymara y que por momentos tapó a Radio 10 de Buenos Aires y que NO esta listada en el WRTH2014. Alguien tiene idea de que puede ser? Seguro que no es Perú ya que el idioma, insisto, era aymara y las emisoras peruanas no emiten en ese idioma hasta donde yo sé. Gracias y 73's (Arnaldo Slaen, Sept 27, condiglista yg via DXLD) Arnaldo – it might be R. Pio XII – see enclosed picture. Error in WRTH 2014 (Tore B Vik, ibid.) Which has both Pio XII and La Cruz del Sur on 720! Obviously Pio XII listed on wrong frequency (gh, DXLD) Buen día, José, y amigos de la Lista! No escuchaste nunca desde NQN [Neuquén] la emisora boliviana de 710 kHz? Sé que está Nacional Zapala en la QRG pero tal vez con el phaser consigas anularla. Para mi es nueva. El colega Tore Vik dice que podría ser Pio XII pero chequeando con 5952 descarto la posibilidad. No aparece en el WRTH 2014 (Arnaldo Slaen, condiglista yg via DXLD) Arnaldo, acá tenes: AM 710, BOL, CP50, Radio Pío XII, 0830-0230, Llallagua/Campamento, Siglo XX (José A. Kucher, ibid., from uncited source, via DXLD) Jujuy is the northernmost province of Argentina, next to Chile and Bolivia (gh, DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 3310, Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba, 2335 to 2340 YL in Quechua, 1000 to 1030 YL with good signal, both on 25 September (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, various wire antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4409.8, Radio Eco, Reyes, 2330 to 2340 español, difficult signal, 25 September (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, various wire antennas; and XM, Cedar Key, South [sic] Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4451.1, Radio Santa Ana, Santa Ana de Yacuma, 2330-2355 distorted and under thunder storms, 25 September (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, various wire antennas; and XM, Cedar Key, South [sic] Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4699.9, Radio San Miguel, Riberalta, 0934 to 1000 in Spanish om chat, weak signal 18 September - always there but need a good opening (XM, Cedar Key, South [sic] Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E5, via Wilkner; and Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, various wire antennas; and DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5580.23, Radio San José, San José de Chiquitos presumed 2350 to 2355 with steady signal in Spanish (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, various wire antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6024.98, Red Patria Nueva. 0955 end of news program at t/in, ad block starting with several IDs. Beautiful ID/promo at 0959:40, time ticks, 1000 fanfare and another ID/promo. Great strength and best heard since that one micro-DXpedition about 6 weeks ago. http://youtu.be/ifqivIsPLFU (29 Sept.) 73 and best DX (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S, and 153 foot Delta Loop, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 3375.06, R. Municipal, 0948 canned Portuguese ad by W, then another, M briefly and back to ZY Pop using the bon voyage melody (nice quick peak at 0950:25). 0952-0956 live M DJ over the song starting with TC, mention of Amazonas and bom dia, and Aparecida. More music Canned announcement at 1001 but fading quickly. Voice audio a little distorted. http://youtu.be/myg-b47yLGw (12 Sept.) (Dave Valko, 12 September 2014 micro-DXpedition near Dunlo PA, RX: Perseus SDR, ANT: 315' Beverage (BOG) at 0 , Cumbre DX via DXLD) 3375.1, Brasil, Rádio Municipal São Gabriel da Cachoeira, 0945 om in Portuguese under t-storm static, same man at 0950 on 18 September (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, various wire antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4774.98, R. Sora de Congonhas, 0848 easy ZY Pop-like music, 0850 live M DJ in echo starting with R. Sora ID. Back to music, then 0854 canned W announcer, then live M returned with clear "R. Congonhas" ID 0855:00. 0856 lively song. 0959 canned talk by diff. M over guitar music. 0902 M DJ again with mention of informação and continuous talk. Good strength but noisy. (28 August) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) 4774.97, R. Sora Congonhas. Canned announcement by M over music with mention of Congonhas at 2311 t/in. Nice clear R. Congonhas ID by W at 2312:05. ZY Pop song at 2313. Live M DJ in echo between songs at 2316. Fine signal. (28 August) (Dave Valko, 28-29 August 2014 micro- DXpedition near Dunlo PA, RX: Perseus SDR, ANT: 315' Beverage (BOG) at, I believe, 165 , Cumbre DX via DXLD) ?? I`ll believe the slogan as ``Rádio Sora`` if I can hear a clear recording of it; rather than a misunderstanding perpetuated, leaving off the Difu from Difusora (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4774.97, R. Sora Congonhas. Live music, which seems to be a regular program in the evening, then M announcer with "R. Congonhas" IDs at 2347:30 and 2347:50. Starting to mix with Tarma, but the Delta Loop wasn't getting Tarma as well as the Wellbrook. http://youtu.be/npNMY63jTUg (11 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4885, R. Difusora Acreana, Rio Branco. Presumed this station just audible now and then with lots of Portuguese shouting plus sound effects – sounded like a police-type drama with sirens, etc. at 1010-1012 on 8/9. I think this is the only L.F. Latin I have logged at my QTH at this time all winter! (Dennis Allen, Milperra NSW (Icom R75, Realistic DX-160, Longwire), Oct Australian DX News via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Aí vai algumas escutas em OT, realizadas aqui em Alta Floresta d' Oeste - RONDONIA: 4865, 0134 27/09, R. Verdes Florestas, Cruzeiro do Sul AC, PP, mv 73 para os ouvintes, mx Coração aberto com Eduardo Costa e Mariana nossa terra com Paula Fernandes, ann de mais mx com Luan Santana e Zé Augusto, 45343, JFN 4875, 0134 27/09, R. Roraima, Boa Vista RR, PP, ``Rádio Roraima, o ouvinte em primeiro lugar``, mv, mx brega, 45444, JFN *4885, 0130 27/09, R. Clube do Pará, Belém PA, PP, px esportivo com nx do Clube do Remo e outros times nacionais, 42432, JFN 4915, 0125 27/09, R. Difusora, Macapá AP, PP, adv Política, mx, instrumental (Bossa nova), Aquele abraço com Tim Maia, 34222, JFN 4915, 0125 27/09, R. Educação Rural de Tefé, Tefé AM, PP, primeira noite da 15ª Festa da Castanha, ann da presença de Gustavo Lima na próxima noite da festa, mx regionais do tema da festa, 45333, JFN 5035, 0110 27/09, R. Educação Rural de Coari, Coari AM, PP, ID, início do px de bem com a vida, com Carlos Marques, ``caco de tristeza pra todo lado, vamos juntos até as 2200``, 34232, JFN *Caros colegas, sempre sintonizo a Rádio Clube do Pará, aqui em Alta Floresta d`Oeste RO, com uma propagação considerável; porém, todas às vezes ocorre uma interferência substancial da Rádio Difusora Acreana de Rio Branco AC, chegando a um desvanecimento total da Clube, entrando a Difusora, e também, ambas ficam no ar ao mesmo tempo. Nesta ocasião, ouvia-se claramente o programa Boa Noite Acre da segunda emissora. Este é o segundo log da Clube que estou postando, por esse motivo. Seria importante levar ao conhecimento do fato a Rádio Clube do Pará? 73s (QRA: Joviniano Furtado Neto/PW8001SWL, Rx: Motoglobe, Antena: Dipolo Meia Onda Sete MHz, Headphone: MFJ 392B, Alta Floresta d`Oeste - RO S 11 55 52.4, W 61 59 13.5, 28 Sept, radioescutas yg via DXLD) O Minc ou Anatel deveriam mudar algumas emissoras no 60 Metros que estão na mesma freqüência; já os 60m está vazio. 3 EMISSORAS EM 4915: Macapá, Tefé e Goiânia (Neto Silva, Brasilia DF, ibid.) ** BRAZIL. 4965.02, Sep 27 2250, R Alvorada de Parintins noted here for the first time for several days. This station is always very weak and I think the reason they haven't been heard is that conditions have been too bad lately. See Dave Valko's logs (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin Sept 28 via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DXLD) Viz.: 4965.02, R. Alvorada, 0919 talk by live M DJ in Portuguese, "Bom dia", 0921 into ZY Pop song sounding like a remake of "I Would Do Anything for Love", then M returned with long talk to 0932 ad block including one mentioning website at 0933. Came on sometime between 0900-0915. Modulation a bit low. (23 Sept.) (Dave Valko, 23 September 2014 micro- DXpedition near Dunlo PA, RX: Perseus SDR, ANT: 315' Beverages (BOG) at 0 , Cumbre DX via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6010.05, Sep 27 0001, R Inconfidência back after long absence. Nice to see a reactivation. ID with frequency. Next night at 2255 on 6110.035 (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin Sept 28 via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DXLD) In A-DX: 6010 kHz, 27.9 0430, Inconfidência ist zurück! Es wird in Listen informiert dass jetzt mit 25 kW (vorher, einfach 5 kW). 73’ Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP, BRASILIEN via A-DX via SW Bulletin Sept 28 via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DXLD) [and non]. Inconfidência em 6010 nesse momento no ar em testes. Olá Pessoal, A R Inconfidência em 6010 kHz está no ar nesse momento testando seu novo transmissor. Inconfidência voltou: https://vine.co/v/OZevdMAI7tL 73´ (Renato Uliana, Indaiatuba - SP, Sex, 26 de Set de 2014 5:03 pm [UT -3?], radioescutas yg via DXLD) R. Inconfidência em 6010.1 --- Caro Renato Uliana: Obrigado pela novidade! Aqui, por Lisboa, estão a chegar, agora, já com uns 10 minutos de A Voz do Brasil. Por norma, receber as várias estações em 49 e 60 m, é-me muito difícil, mercê das antenas. Estou a usar um V invertido cortado para os 60 m, logo, funcionando medianamente também nos 31 m. Já na minha outra estação receptor posso fazer uso de uma Beverage de 300 m dirigida à parte leste do Brasil, e nem se compara com este V inv., até por causa da diferença entre os níveis de ruído eléctrico. Em Lisboa, os 90 m são para esquecer; nos 25 e 31 m, bom, nem tanto, não é tão mau, mas, como disse, o panorama é mesmo outro, quando estou no outro QTH junto à costa. Lá, o V inv. quase gémeo deste é raramente usado. Bom, mas é mesmo um tx novo, e que potência tem? Bons DX e melhores 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, ``7:13`` pm [== 2213 UT], ibid.) Carlos, o amigo Célio Romais escreveu hoje - http://romais.jor.br - que a Inconfidência faria um "upgrade" de 5 para 25 kW. -- pu3hag (Huelbe Garcia, ibid.) Caro Huelbe: Obrigado pelo aditamento à notícia! De 5 para 25, já faz diferença, mas uma parte muitíssimo importante também reside na antena, pelo que oxalá tenham melhorado igualmente nesse campo. Muitas vezes, as emissoras descuram essa parte e a respect.ª manutenção, pela despesa que implica. Nas horas a que consigo captar o Brasil em 49 m, e, por norma, não faço DX após as 00h locais, o que restringe imenso as captações, é certo, há, como pode imaginar, muita QRM doutras emissoras, as ditas internacionais e as mais que muitas chinesas, que são uma verdadeira peste. Francamente, estou farto delas, estão por todo o lado e mais algum, é "chinesice`` a mais, em emissoras e não só. Bons DX e 73. (Carlos Gonçalves, ibid.) Used the GREY zone propagation from Brazil / Colombia towards NY and Alberta remote SDR units around 0907 UT on Sept 27: COLOMBIA, 6010.190 Footprint measured, CLM mentioned often and station ID also in Spanisch, CLM La Voz de tu Conciencia Lomalinda, Puerto Lleras, Meta, S=8-9 -72dBm fluttery, - also narrow co-channel 139 Hertz apart away, 6010.051 Brazil ZYE521 Radio Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte MG, S=6 -85dBm strong. and Radio Aparecida also relatively strong on 6134.971 kHz at 0750 UT. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) 6010.04, R. Inconfidência. Got an ID by M during apparent sports event as soon as I started recording at 2239. Nice ID jingle at 2247. Possible IDs at 2250. Fairly strong and clear. Haven't heard this here in a long time. Think it was off the air. http://youtu.be/CJo8Xqzo6pI (27 Sept.) 73 and best DX (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S, and 153 foot Delta Loop, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 6010, 09/27 2216, R. Inconfidência, Contagem-MG, in Portuguese; sports prgr; returns freq, after long time inactive; good signal but poor modulation, 45432 (JRX_Jose Ronaldo Xavier, (Cabedelo-Paraiba-Brazil), Receiver/Antenna: Degen DE1103 /Longwire. Reference Logs: A14 Summer Schedules by Aoki, EiBi, WRTH & Others, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Rádio Inconfidência voltou a transmitir em ondas curtas --- Tenho sintonizado a Rádio Inconfidência em ondas curtas de 49m - 6010 kHz com bom sinal. Apenas um pouco atrapalhada por um espúrio que a Rádio Bandeirantes de SP 6090 kHz, provoca em 5990 kHz espalhando para outras frequências. É o que percebo aqui. Não tenho escutado a QRG 15190 kHz - Ou não está no ar, ou falta propagação nesta área. A Itatiaia, 5970 kHz também é bem sintonizada na região. Forte 73 (Luiz Chaine Neto, Limeira -sp-, 28-9-2014 - domingo, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Bom dia, 5990 kHz não é espúrio; a Bandeirantes transmite nesta frequência com 10 kW. Abraço (Paulo Labastie, ibid.) I don`t think so! (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Paulo, poderia por favor enviar para nos a fonte desta informação? -- pu3hag (Huelbe Garcia, radioescutas yg via DXLD) http://shortwaveschedule.com (Paulo Labastie, ibid.) Yup, there it is: R. Bandeirantes 24 hours with 10 kW on both 5990 and 6090, but that does not make it so. Obviously copied from another inaccurate entry in Aoki (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) A fonte está errada. Por favor, avise o autor. Você poder verificar no site da Anatel ou edições do manual WRTH. (pu3hag Huelbe Garcia, radioescutas yg via DXLD) A Rádio Bandeirantes, SP, transmite em 6090 - 9645 - 11825 [sic: 11925 --- gh] ---- pelo menos é o que a rádio informa em vinhetas entre seus programas diários. Não citam 5990 kHz. Acontece que está vindo espúrio da frequência 6090 kHz, não só na QRG 5990 kHz, mas também em outras frequências acima de 6090 kHz. A QRG 5990 kHz pertence à EBC. 73 (Luiz Chaine Neto, Limeira SP, 30-9-2014, ibid.) 6010+ & 6010++, Oct 1 at 0054, lo audible heterodyne between two stations both on hi side of nominal, and one of them with some music, no doubt HJDH Colombia and ZYE521 Brasil, the latter which South Americans have greeted as reactivated recently. BTW, the 2014 WRTH perpetuates a typo in the callsign of 15190, which we outpointed a year or two ago: ZYE622 instead of ZYE522, i.e. to go with ZYE521 on 6010. Aoki has them neighborly, but http://www.inconfidencia.com.br cannot find ZYE521 or ZYE522! At least the two SW frequencies appear somewhere on the home page, after quizzing us, ``Did you know Inconfidência is AM and FM??`` But OC gets no such promotion. Evidently it`s the AM, not FM programming which appears on 6010 if not 15190, but I think they match (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1741 DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Rádio Marumby, Curitiba, on 6080.04 at 0130. Talks in Portuguese by male, following with music, poor audio. 49MB noisy band last night. 73, (Maurits Van Driessche, Belgium, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) This was posted at 0133 UT Oct 2, which would seem to be immediately after the log; yet he calls this and others ``last night``, so really 24+ hours earlier on UT Oct 1? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL [non]. 6180, Sept 26 at 0053, CRI English, poor signal via EAST TURKISTAN, and no signal at all from RNA, despite 11780 inbooming. 6180, Sept 27 at 0110, still no sign of RNA on what used to be a strong service. 6180, Sept 30 at 0104, still no signal from RNA, nor even EAST TURKISTAN, tho local device and storm noise level is high (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Visit to Rodeador TX Site - DRM work. Hi there people, Past week I visited the Rodeador transmitter site of RNdA. I'm helping EBC engineers to put a DRM signal on air. We are trying to connect the USRP/Spark to excite the the Continental Lensa transmitter, but it's giving us too much headache; I think the better will be to use the 250 kW BBC tube transmitter instead at 6180 kHz (currently off-air). There are some pictures of the txs and antennas (and me!) here: http://www.telemidia.puc-rio.br/~rafaeldiniz/public_files/ebc_drm_trial/ Best regards, Rafael Diniz FROM: DRMNA YG (via Ian, Oct 1, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 9629.96, R. Aparecida, Sep 26 0759-0807, 24432, Portuguese, Cries of chicken and ID at 0800, Music. 11855, R. Aparecida, Sep 26 0850-0902, 24432, Portuguese, Music and talk, // 9629.96 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 9819.92, R. 9 de Julho. After years of being well off- frequency, was surprised to find this close to being right on at 0002. Good signal, and nice canned ID at 0004 between programs. Seems their studio clock is 4 minutes off as they always have the canned ID at 0004. (13 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) 9819.8, Rádio 9 de Julho, São Paulo, 0352-0404, 22-09, religious comments: "Na Rádio Aparecida, Santuário Nacional". 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Tecsun PL-880 and cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11745 & 11815, Oct 1 at 0532, the big 11780 RNA transmitter is out of whack again!! Putting out big terribly distorted but matching spurs, this time about 35 kHz above and below instead of 30 kHz. Watch out, R. Brasil Central on 11815. Also weaker second order spur which I noted first, circa 11710 blocking a weak carrier, presumably CRI English via ALBANIA. Could not make out a match to that on 11850, however. Would our Brazilian DX friends please get on RNA about this ASAP so it doesn`t worsen and last another few weeks like last time? 6180 is still off (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11815+, Sept 26 at 0051, Portuguese on fair signal, no doubt R. Brasil Central, but heavily splattered by 11825 WRMI BS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 20/09/2014 from 0435 to 0500 UT receiving Rádio Brasil Central, Portuguese at the frequency of 11815 kHz. SINPO: 34333. Lots Latin- American music. Receiver: Tecsun PL-660, Antenna: telescopic. Admission to the village 150 km southeast of Ryazan. Received a message from Radio Brasil Central on my report. Reported that QSL-cards will be sent, but not until January 2015. I'll wait. (Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via QSL World via RusDX Sept 28 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 15190.08 approx., Sept 26 at 0046, very poor carrier, presumably R. Inconfidência, always off-frequency. Wolfgang Büschel had it Sept 23 at 2020 on 15190.124. Try before and after WRMI/Radio Africa currently sked 21-23 and 04-08 BS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 950, CFAM, Altona MB; 0440-0506+, 2-Oct; Classical music; "You're listening to great classics on CFAM". Lengthy peaks on top, best of the bunch, mixing with several others. WWJ off; tnx to tip from Larry Russell (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) Certainly a rarity, classical station even on AM. Is it noncommercial? ``Community Service Station`` per NRC AM Log 2014 (gh, DXLD) ** CANADA. 1610, UT Friday Sept 26 at 0057, outro in English mentions ``8-9 pm on Thursday evenings``, snippet of ``Battle Hymn of the Republic``, phone and e-mail contacts for advertising, on CHHA Toronto. Very poor signal but audible most of the time with nothing in between except some QRP TIS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 2749-USB, VCG, Rivière-au-Renard, Québec, 2325-2330 weather, "25% precipitation" 26 Sept (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, various wire antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also NEWFOUNDLAND 2598 ** CANADA. 6070, Sept 27 at 0531, no signal from CFRX, even tho CUBA is finished here by 0400. CFRX return is allegedly imminent: ``Now for some good news for a change! Steve Canney, who is the QSL manager for CFRX, tells us that the transmitter, which had been off the air for quite a while, has been repaired and is running into a dummy load to make sure everything is working properly. The plan is to switch it over to the antenna next week. Hopefully, it will be heard despite RHC having recently taken over its 6070 frequency. Now, wouldn't it be a show of good faith on the part of RHC to move to another frequency? (Mark Coady, Sept 22, ODXA YRX via WORLD OF RADIO 1740, DXLD)`` [still no CFRX by UT Oct 5] [and non]. RHC is scheduled 23-04 UT. Other main 6070 clash is V. of Korear in Japanese, 0900-1250 (maybe with breaks before hourtops). Aoki also shows R. Capital, Rio, Brasil, 24h but I don`t think it`s active. And VOA São Tomé at 2000-2030 only, not a problem over here (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1740, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [non]. I don’t know whether this should be filed under Canada, or under one of the European countries concerned, but the Canadian Forces’ Network Europe ceased broadcasting at 1000 UT on Tuesday 30 September. Reasons for closure include budget cuts, the increasing number of ways of obtaining information and the reduction in numbers of Canadian troops in Europe. Although the decision to close was made in late 2013, I did not find out about it until less than one hour before shutdown. As it happened, it closed at 1000 UT, following a programme consisting of the reading of emails and appropriate records, ending with a brief history of the station and then sign off with the Canadian National Anthem. So it looks like I have no way of hearing the vintage editions of Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 the station carried, as all the other stations known to carry the programme are geoblocked (Paul David, Wembley Park, England, Sept 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See DXLDs 14-36, 14-37 Quite sad. It was among my favourite presets on my wifi radio (Stefano Valianti, Italy, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Their website still is online: http://www.europe.forces.gc.ca/sites/internet-eng.aspx?page=8146 Recording of their last hour: this I just found on https://www.facebook.com/CFNEurope --------------------------------- "Tom Hemingway Heute um 01:35: "Did you miss the last hour of the final CFN broadcast? It's almost 24 hours ago that my radio fell silent. But you can hear the final broadcast again on YouTube. However, since the music CFN played is copyrighted, the video is not available in Germany. Please log in with a Canadian, U.S., or other IP address. You can do so even if you have a German ISP. Anyhow, here you can hear Olaf one more time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOib2rRlcEg&feature=youtu.be Regards 73 (Harald Kuhl, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) A recording of the closure (murky, but still better than nothing): http://www.radio-tv-nederland.nl/CFN%20-%20off-air%2030.09.2014.mp3 The transmitters at Brunssum had been switched off just a few minutes afterwards. So far no word about Brussels 100.5 and Ramstein 101.9, but if still on they would merely broadcast silence now (Kai Ludwig, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ** CHILE. RCW al aire. Hola: RCW se encuentra al aire en 7550-AM y por http://rcwradio.listen2myradio.com/ Informes de recepción a: rcwradio@gmail.com 73! (Claudio Galaz, Chile, 2309 UT Sept 27, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** CHINA [and non]. 11970, CNR1 jammer. Big signal at 1153 and thought it was Sound of Hope. Heard the time ticks at ToH when it went off which confused me. Unfortunately found out shortly after that it was //11785 CNR1 jammer. Haven't heard them here before. (30 August) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) 12370, CNR1 jammer 1035 alternating talk by M and W, // 10960. Both good and jamming Sound of Hope. (5 Sept.) (Dave Valko, 5 September 2014 micro-DXpedition near Dunlo PA, RX: Perseus SDR, ANT: 315' Beverage (BOG) at 10 , Cumbre DX via DXLD) 11555, Firedrake. Surprised to find Firedrake here with the old traditional Chinese music at 1808, undoubtedly jamming R. Free Asia. Fairly strong. (17 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) 11430, CNR1 jammers. Found jammers on SOH frequencies 12500, 12190, 11430, and 10960 at 1150. Tremendous signals from 10960 and 12500. http://youtu.be/nucxZsdcpBM (20 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) 18980, Sept 26 at 1340, CNR1 jammer, very poor with flutter, vs RFA Tibetan via Kuwait. No others found in cursory scan of the 17s, 16s. 18980, Sept 30 at 1319, CNR1 jammer, very poor with flutter, on the Tue/Fri 13-14 UT frequency of RFA Tibetan via Kuwait. No CNR1 jammers heard lower (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6075, Firedrake & CNR1 programming jamming, 1448, Sept 30 against RTI; strong (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9615, TAIWAN. RTI - Kouhu. Mandarin service 2315 with only light jamming. Also monitored via the Hong Kong remote where jamming was extreme, Sept 24 (Rob Wagner, Victoria, Mount Evelyn DX Report blog via DXLD) ?? What kind of jamming (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) CRASHANDBANGISTAN: 7435, 2149, 29-Sep; Crash & bang music just barely under U.S. Navy MARS net. Aoki shows only CRI in Italian at this time. No voice heard. Do Italians like fire-breathing dragon music, or are the Chinese trying to irritate the U.S. Navy? (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) Probably neither ** CHINA. 9685.5, CRI Found a very distorted CRI // 9665 here with W announcer over instrumental music. Mention of CRI, start of the signature melody, then off. No carrier and difficult to tune to get any kind of readable audio. Oddly, when this went off, 9665 continued. (19 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) ** CHINA [non]. China Radio International via Urumqi and via Bamako on Sept. 22/23: 1400-1457 17630 URU 500 kW / 308 deg EaEu English, as scheduled A-14 1400-1457 17630 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg CeAf English, instead of French 1500-1557 17630 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg CeAf English, instead of French http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/09/china-radio-international-via-urumqu.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #873 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Sept. 30, 2014 via DXLD) ** CHINA. Temporarily suspended frequencies of CRI till Oct. 1: 0000-0057 on 11790 XIA 500 kW / 190 deg to SEAs English 0000-0057 on 13655 XIA 500 kW / 073 deg to EaAs Chinese 0000-0057 on 13770 XIA 500 kW / 190 deg to SEAs Vietnamese 0100-0157 on 15425 XIA 500 kW / 190 deg to SEAs Amoy 0200-0257 on 15425 XIA 500 kW / 190 deg to SEAs Amoy 0300-0357 on 15230 XIA 500 kW / 073 deg to EaAs Chinese 0400-0457 on 15230 XIA 500 kW / 073 deg to EaAs Cantonese 0400-0457 on 17740 XIA 500 kW / 190 deg to SEAs Vietnamese 0500-0557 on 15230 XIA 500 kW / 073 deg to EaAs Cantonese 0500-0557 on 17740 XIA 500 kW / 190 deg to SEAs Vietnamese 0600-0657 on 15230 XIA 500 kW / 073 deg to EaAs Chinese 0600-0657 on 17740 XIA 500 kW / 190 deg to SEAs Chinese 0700-0757 on 15230 XIA 500 kW / 073 deg to EaAs Cantonese 0700-0757 on 17740 XIA 500 kW / 190 deg to SEAs Chinese 0800-0857 on 15230 XIA 500 kW / 073 deg to EaAs Chinese 0900-0957 on 11620 XIA 500 kW / 073 deg to EaAs English 0900-0957 on 13620 XIA 500 kW / 073 deg to EaAs Chinese 0900-0957 on 17530 XIA 500 kW / 190 deg to SEAs Chinese 1000-1057 on 11620 XIA 500 kW / 073 deg to EaAs Japanese 1000-1057 on 17530 XIA 500 kW / 190 deg to SEAs Chinese 1100-1157 on 11620 XIA 500 kW / 073 deg to EaAs Japanese 1100-1157 on 17530 XIA 500 kW / 190 deg to SEAs Vietnamese 1200-1227 on 17505 XIA 500 kW / 145 deg to SEAs Filipino 1200-1257 on 11620 XIA 500 kW / 073 deg to EaAs Japanese 1300-1357 on 7325 XIA 500 kW / 073 deg to EaAs Japanese 1400-1457 on 6040 XIA 500 kW / 190 deg to SEAs Chinese 1400-1457 on 7395 XIA 500 kW / 073 deg to EaAs Japanese 1500-1557 on 9585 XIA 500 kW / 073 deg to EaAs Japanese 1700-1757 on 11650 XIA 500 kW / 317 deg to WeEu Esperanto 1700-1757 on 13570 XIA 500 kW / 317 deg to WeEu English 1800-1857 on 11895 XIA 500 kW / 317 deg to WeEu Chaozhou 1900-1927 on 7435 XIA 500 kW / 317 deg to CeEu Hungarian 1930-1957 on 7435 XIA 500 kW / 317 deg to SEEu Romanian 2100-2157 on 7290 XIA 500 kW / 073 deg to EaAs Korean 2200-2257 on 9535 XIA 500 kW / 073 deg to EaAs Japanese 2300-2357 on 7220 XIA 500 kW / 190 deg to SEAs Vietnamese 2300-2357 on 11680 XIA 500 kW / 073 deg to EaAs Japanese 2300-2357 on 11790 XIA 500 kW / 190 deg to SEAs English http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/09/temporarily-suspended-frequencies-of.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgria, Sept 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. 6010.16, Sep 27 0003, La Voz de tu Conciencia drifting up and down. Weak at this time (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin Sept 28 via DXLD) Cf BRAZIL [and non]. La Voz de tu Conciencia, Colombia on 6010.18 at 0120 UT. Also very poor Spanish talks, I see on the Perseus spectrum another big carrier on 6010.05. 49 MB noisy band last night (Maurits Van Driessche, Belgium, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) This was posted at 0133 UT Oct 2, which would seem to be immediately after the log; yet he calls this and others ``last night``, so really 24+ hours earlier on UT Oct 1? The other one would be R. Inconfidência, Brasil, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. Muchas gracias por las felicitaciones. Tengo una nueva información, las emisoras colombianas en FM pueden escucharse por mi QTH, pero de manera poco frecuente. De hecho, se comenta de un fenómeno parecido a fines de los años 80's. La fuente son antiguos radioaficionados y gente conocida por acá. 73! (Claudio Galaz, Chile, Sept 25, [reply to gh` inquiry in English about whether his Sept 20 FM catch was trans-equatorial propagation or multi-hop sporadic E] condiglista yg via DXLD) ** CUBA. One of the powerhouse syncros on 1180 heard with a very good signal at 0550 28 Sept. None of the “flanging” audio noted in the states, just one modulated signal heard with Rebelde programming // SW 5025. Up tempo salsa music, into a sounder and news at 0557, three minutes before the top of the hour. Quite a het on Spain and Germany 1179, but Cuba was stronger, and narrow bandwidth detection of Cuba’s upper sideband gave very listenable reception. Omni 2,500 foot electric fence beverage quad antenna into various receivers (Brock Whaley, Ireland for DXLD) ** CUBA [and non]. 11840, R. Havana. French service to Eu at 1940 but weak under ARW-Nauen's Arabic service to NAf. Then sudden break in transmission at 1947. 14 minutes later, just as suddenly returned for the scheduled Portuguese service at 2001, and later noted in Arabic 2030 with improved signal. Sept 24 (Rob Wagner, Victoria, Mount Evelyn DX Report blog via DXLD) Typical 5040, Sept 25 at 0511 check, this RHC transmitter is still with wobbling carrier, also audible without BFO, now amid English. 18210 // weaker 12140, Sept 26 at 0052, // 6070 as third and second harmonix of that, still without CFRX, but when it come back shortly, we may have to hear Habana on the QRMless harmonix. 6000, Sept 27 at 0532, RHC English AWOL again from this frequency, still on overkill 5040, 6060, 6100, 6165. See also CANADA [and non] 6165, Sept 28 at 0108, still 0122, 0133, RHC in wrong language, Spanish instead of English, leaving the latter to only a paltry unifrequency, 6000. Several others checked were also in proper Spanish instead of English to compensate: 5040, 6060, 6070, 11670, 11760, 11840; probably JBA 9810, 15230. 6165, next check at 0509 Sept 28, it`s *still* in Spanish, but now there is English on usual quadrifrequency overkill of 5040, 6000, 6060, 6100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Also all RHC transmissions in 25mb at 22-23 UT slot heard fair to well in Australian continent. Path seemingly across the Atlantic, Africa and via Indian Ocean from the west into Australia, even French service on 11880 kHz noted with S=9 or -76dBm signal strength. vy73 de wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, Logged in to remote SDR unit at Perseus in Brisbane Australia, 2100-2230 UT Sept 28, dxldyg via DXLD) 6165, Sept 30 at 0105, RHC in correct language! English tonight unlike Spanish all night before last = anteayer. 6000, Sept 30 at 0536, RHC English is absent, again taking a one?-hour break as often but not always from this channel. Still on the other overkill Cuban Four, including 5040 which again has a slight wobble on the carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 7210-LSB, Sept 30 at 0109, N1NR, Nelson Roig safely in Pennsylvania with anti-Castro rant, sounding like a broadcast, as if he is reading a script --- but he`s been doing this for 40? years so hardly needs one. Only interruptions for 2-way comments confirm it`s not SWBC. Maybe also heckler (dentro-Cuban?) with childish voice, all Spanish. 7210-LSB, Oct 1 at 0117, N1NR and comrades denouncing Communism, and then hit by musical snippets of the ``Internationale``, to which he responds with attempt to sing a few words in English from ``The Star- Spangled Banner``; back and forth, but the inimical Cuban ham playing the Intl is stronger. What fun! Nelson Roig replies with ``en Cuba se están muriendo de hambre``. Could be true that some Cubans are starving, but we sure won`t find out from RHC. BTW, there is a little-known Spanish version of the ``SSB``, found by Terry Krueger: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29215415 But N1NR and the unID CO have broken the rules of ham radio by playing any music (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DIEGO GARCIA. [BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY, BIOT] USB 4319 kHz, AFRTS Diego Garcia / 1705 UT / SIO=252+ (A-DX) Grosses Kino mittels der remote Station beim Perseus Netz in Queensland soeben um 1940 UT am 27. Sept aufgenommen: mit meinen 70 Jahre alten Ohren mittels dieser Einstellung nach meinem besten Gustus gehoert: Frequenz 4319.000 USB mode, in der Bandweite 12 kHz, davon 8 kHz mit dem "Gardinenzug" aufgezogen, -2kHz bis +6kHz im Passband getuned [sic], S=7 oder -89dBm Signalstaerke, im Wasserfall ein Signal zu sehen von 4319.000 bis 4322.350 kHz. Kommentare willkommen, macht's nach, - was gefaellt daran nicht? (Wolfgang Büschel, Sept 27, A-DX / wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 28 Sept via DXLD) Hearing AFN now (0110) with pop music on 12759 usb. Weak but decipherable. S5-6 (John Figliozzi, Halfmoon, NY, Eton E1XM, A/D DX Sloper, UT Sept 29, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. Lars Skoglund: HCDW2 Radio Cenit, Portoviejo 4770 svarade med brev efter en follow up på en gammal rapport. V/S var Dr. Dumar Iglesias Mata, Concesionario. Han meddelar att stationen lämnade tillbaka sin AM- licens (1160 KHz) i januari 2014 och att stationen nu endast finns på nätet. HCDW2, Radio Cénit, Portoviejo, 4770 replied by letter after a follow up of an old report. V/S was Dr. Dumar Iglesias Mata, Concesionario. He informs us that the station returned its AM license (1160 kHz) in January 2014 and that the station is now only available online (Lars Skoglund, Sweden? SW Bulletin 28 Sept, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR [non]. 7300, ENGLAND, Akbar Mufriha (HCJB) – Woofferton, 2125-2144*, Sep 24. Arabic program with long talk by a man announcer followed by group vocals. Another long talk from 2130 until brief musical interlude before closedown by a woman announcer. Instrumental music until the carrier was terminated. Fair to good (Rich D'Angelo, 2216 Burkey Drive, Wyomissing, PA 19610, U.S.A., Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R-8B, Eton E1, Eton E5, Alpha Delta DX Sloper, RF Systems Mini-Windom, Datong FL3, JPS ANC-4, NASWA Flashsheet Sept 28 via DXLD) ** EGYPT. 9965, Sept 26 at 0038, R. Cairo, good with flutter, whine and then Qur`an. 12070, Sept 26 at 0038, R. Cairo, fair signal, extremely distorted music 9315, Sept 26 at 0039, R. Cairo, open carrier/dead air, fair signal 11710, Sept 26 at 0040, very poor carrier, dead air? No het from Argentina, which must be off 11711-, as Brazilians are in well (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11710, Sept 27 at 0106, R. Cairo fair signal and extremely distorted Spanish // stronger 12070 with about the same defect plus hum. 11710 had been missing for a few weeks, but when on was barely modulated or not at all. Too bad it`s now back like this, and worse for poor RAE -- - except for the second night, no signal at all from it on 11711-; Argentina must be totally off. 9315, Sept 27 at 0107, third R. Cairo Spanish frequency is best by default tho with some distortion. At least it`s modulating this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) September 27: Radio Cairo in Italian to Eu 1826 on 9490 Abis, distorted audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFNZePmMVfg&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9315, Sept 28 at 0111, R. Cairo Spanish service, almost dead air except for traces at modulation peaks 9965, Sept 28 at 0114, R. Cairo, Arabic, undermodulated and whining 11710, Sept 28 at 0116, R. Cairo Spanish, fair signal but dead air 12070, Sept 28 at 0116, R. Cairo Spanish, dead air except whine. 9315, Sept 30 at 0111, R. Cairo ``Spanish``, open carrier/dead air 9965, Sept 30 at 0114, R. Cairo, Arabic, fair and not distorted but with perpetual whine 11710, Sept 30 at 0116, R. Cairo, ``Spanish``, open carrier/dead air, fair with flutter. Not sure if there is a trace of a het from Argentina on 11711-. If on, should be more of a signal, with Brazil sufficient on other 25mb channels. Is anyone hearing RAE elsewhen or on 15345v? 12070, Sept 30 at 0120, R. Cairo, ``Spanish``, humwhine with maybe a trace of modulation at peaks 13850, Sept 30 at 0543, R. Cairo Arabic, with ME music, poor signal with distortion. 11710, Oct 1 at 0103, R. Cairo Spanish, fair signal with suppressed and distorted modulation, about the same situation as on stronger // 12070 tonight. No het from 11711- Argentina, and Stephen Cooper agrees there was no LRA at 0150 9315, Oct 1 at 0104, R. Cairo Spanish, undermodulated but not so distorted // 12070 & 11710 9965, Oct 1 at 0111, R. Cairo Arabic is just barely modulated, and with whine (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9315, R. Cairo in with Spanish program at 0154. Fair signal with enough modulation to actually hear the announcements, in between the static & muffled audio (Stephen Wood, Harwich, Mass., UT Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13850, Oct 1 at 0536, R. Cairo, Arabic to America, is merely open carrier/dead air, fair signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. 7234v, ETHIOPIA, V. of Peace & Democracy (via R. Ethiopia) Talk by M in presumed Tigrinya at 0403 t/in to 0408:30. HoA music. 0410 short announcement by same M, instrumental music bridge, then long talk by same M 0411-0418, brief music bridge, then M again beginning with what sounded like a mention of "radio" and possibly "democracie". At 0422:05 was up to 7234.15 and suddenly moved down 100 Hz in 20 seconds!! 0419 instrumental HoA percussion music bridge and another long talk to 0429 music heavy on the percussion, then M returned again at 0431. Fading. Strangely, one of the few broadcast signals on the band at this time. http://youtu.be/3XQsH1m7X04 (1 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) See also ETHIOPIA ** ERITREA [non]. September 27: Radio Eritrean Forum EYSC in Arabic to EaAf 1800 on 15245 Issodun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Mv80Xyrv4&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. 15245, FRANCE, Eritrean Forum (via France) *1700 with fanfare and M announcer voice-over opening ID and frequency announcement. Great HoA music. 1705 same fanfare again with same M announcer to 1710. This fanfare is the same that is on the opening announcement in their one Youtube program video. Into more HoA music at 1710. More talks by same M and HoA music. Closing over same fanfare at 1729. http://youtu.be/s1XSOBvOdqc (7 Sept.) 15245, FRANCE, R. EYSE (via France) *1730 usual opening by M with ID and frequencies over funky HoA music. Good signal at this time. Gone at 1757 in mid-song seemingly before closing announcement. Went from Eritrean Forum right into R. EYSE without missing a beat. http://youtu.be/H0igJ3hGzIw (7 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA. 6090, Amhara State Radio, Addis Ababa, reactivated? 0332, Sept 30, presumed the one here playing unmistakable HOA songs, badly mixed co-channel Melissa Scott, had not been reported since Oct 2013 says DBS (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not to be confused with NIGERIA, which would open later (gh, DXLD) 6090, Amhara State Radio, Addis Ababa, 0257, Oct 1, opening here with same IS as on www.intervalsignals.net, therefore leaves no doubt it's them, poor under Gene Scott, cf previous report (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Amhara is back on shortwave. Observed on Sept. 30 1600-1900 on 6090*GEJ 100 kW / non-dir to EaAf Amharic. *co-ch Radio Nigeria Kaduna on 6089,9 and 1700-1800 CRI English Videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/10/radio-amhara-is-back-on-shortwave.html (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DXLD) September 30: Radio Amhara in Amharic to EaAf 1635 on 6090.0 Addis Ababa, Gedja https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLGQQcqMVAA&feature=youtu.be Radio Amhara in Amharic to EaAf 1642 on 6090.0 Addis Ababa, Gedja https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShN6iVmPJds&feature=youtu.be Radio Amhara in Amharic to EaAf 1657 on 6090.0 Addis Ababa, het from Radio Kaduna 6089.9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRjCRKAUym4&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, 6090 is back. Observed on Sept 30 -1900, then lost under very strong CRI, no sign-off observed. Amhara Regional State Radio confirmed by others. Also 5950, 6030, 6110 with Ethiopian stations. R. Ethiopia transmitter was on 7236.4 and closed down around 1800. It seems to sign-off no later than 1800 on Tue, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun - but also observed until after 1900 on certain days (If I remember correctly, Fri 26th was such a day), probably clandestine to ERITREA. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Münster, Germany, http://www.muenster.org/uwz/ms-alt/africalist/ dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks Thorsten, Ethiopia gets better and better during autumn/winter season, at present at 1615 UT on Oct 1st to log: 5950.000 kHz VoTigray Revolution (also IRIB Iran in Tajik via Sirjan site on odd 5949.986 kHz) 6030.000 kHz Radio Oromiya, HoA music, likely ETH too. 6089.983 Radio Amhara (also 2nd station co-channel Nigeria on 6089.856 kHz) [WORLD OF RADIO 1741] 6110.000 kHz Radio Fana and oddly in 41 mb 7235.830 kHz Voice of Democratic Alliance/R Ethiopia 6089.983 and 7235.830 kHz wandered approx. 10 - 15 Hertz up and down continuously [WORLD OF RADIO 1741] ... and at 1945 UT on Oct 1st: 5949.996 to 5950.000 kHz, til 20 UT s- OFF, now after 20 UT powerhouse KBS Seoul French from Issoudun France. 6029.996 to 6030.000 kHz, til 20 UT s-OFF. wandered up and down. 6089.983 - Radio Amhara ETH s-OFF at 19 UT, but Kaduna Nigeria is co- channel also on 6089.855 kHz, when CRI had co-channel QRT at 1957 UT. 6110.000, Radio Fana, when CRI had co-channel QRT at 1957 UT heard ETH again on this channel til 21 UT. S=9+15dB or -61dBm signal here in Stuttgart Germany. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 1, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA. 7236, V of Peace and Democracy, Addis Ababa. Clandestine to Eritrea in vernacular with ID “Edi…Intrasalar…Ertran” with program *0400-0433* and carrier at *0357-0439* on 19/9. It seems these broadcasts are not daily (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi Antenna), Oct Australian DX News via DXLD). ** ETHIOPIA [non]. September 27: Oromo Voice Radio in Oromo to EaAf 1625 on 17850 Issoudun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51tV17uZC1E&feature=youtu.be Radio Hilaac in Somali to EaAf 1704 on 15180 Issoudun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNyLsDMlO1k&feature=youtu.be Radio Assenna in Tigrinya to EaAf 1755 on 15245 Issoudun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jCMW7elG6w&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. 5829.985, PIRATE (EUROPE), Black Bandit R. 2323 recognized the op`s deep voice saying good morning. A little music for 2 minutes, then more announcements. (29 August) (Dave Valko, 28-29 August 2014 micro-DXpedition near Dunlo PA, RX: Perseus SDR, ANT: 315' Beverage (BOG) at , I believe, 165 , Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** EUROPE. 6200 - R. Magic International, Euro-Pirate. English accented announcer with IDs at 0100. Music program of mainly 80's music, Thompson Twins, Bon Jovi along with several unknown artists. Reminds of the dance music popular in the German nightclubs when I was in the military in the mid-eighties. Heavy static but overall a fair signal. Still running past 0125 UT Oct 1 (Stephen Wood, Harwich, Mass. Perseus SDR W/ 25 x 50 N/E terminated superloop antenna, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6200 - R. Magic Intl, Back here at 2225 with fair-good signal playing 80's music, Madonna, Big Country, static not as bad as yesterday. IDs as "This is Magic", announcer with definite UK accent. Could be Ireland or UK location (just my guess) (Stephen Wood, Harwich, Mass., Perseus SDR with 25 x 50 N/E terminated superloop antenna, Oct 1, NASWA yg via DXLD) ** EUROPE. 6075, PIRATE (EUROPE). Laser Hot Hits. Song by Meatloaf, 0622 jingle ID between songs with laser shooting SFX and "...it`s all good, Laser", then "Let`s Groove" by Earth, Wind & Fire. 0631 promo, jingle ID, and back to music. 0649 ID jingle "More hits, back to back. Laser Hot Hits", then "The Boys are Back in Town" by Thin Lizzy. Very fady with a lot of splash QRM from 6080 VOA and ute. Thanks Ralph Perry tip. (21 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) PIRATE, Laser Hot Hits noted on 6075 at 0840 28 Sept. Usual pop hits and Laser liners. Very good signal, better than KBC on 6095 at the same time. Omni 2,500 foot electric fence beverage quad antenna into various receivers (Brock Whaley, Ireland, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. PIRATE-EURO. Radio Eldorado-Portugal, 14497 USB, 2059- 22:01*, 09-25-14, SIO: 333 Pop music, signal varied in intensity for poor to good. ID and and email in English at sign off email: radioeldorado@outlook.com (Chris Lobdell, Box 80146, Stoneham, MA 02180 USA, Receivers: Eton E1, NRD-545, Aerials: G5RV, 40 Meter Dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Or 14477 as per Carlos? A typo or? (gh) ** FRANCE [and non]. RFI via Meyerton is not parallel on RFI via Issoudun 1700-1800 on 9800 MEY 100 kW / 350 deg to WCAf French 1700-1800 on 13740 ISS 500 kW / 185 deg to WeAf French 1700-1800 on 15300 ISS 500 kW / 190 deg to NWAf French 1700-1800 on 17620 ISS 500 kW / 185 deg to WCAf French 1700-1800 on 17850 ISS 500 kW / 153 deg to CeAf French. Video: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/09/rfi-via-meyerton-is-not-parallel-on-rfi.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept 27, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Discover Germany --- Win a trip to Berlin! The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago and to commemorate this anniversary we are giving away a trip for two to Berlin. You could have a chance to win by posting a photo on the theme: “Breaking Barriers”. There are many kinds of walls. Some are made of clay, stone, a hedge or only in our minds. So how can we overcome these obstacles? There are no limitations - use your imagination! Post your photo about breaking barriers at Facebook or Instagram with #breakingbarriers and use the link below to participate in the drawing. With a good idea and a little luck you could win a trip to Germany for two including airfare and a two night hotel stay. Deadline for entries is October 20, 2014. . . http://www.dw.de/win-a-trip-to-berlin/a-17935479?maca=en-KS-Mailing-Contest (DW Newsletter via gh, DXLD) ** GERMANY. It would appear that Europe 24 - 6150 kHz have commenced full programming. UK, US & Euro pop/rock music with talk by OM & YL in German. English comment at 0900 UT, "it's 11 o'clock in Central Europe". Into news in German, and at 0903 "Suspicious Minds`` by Elvis, then Status Quo. SIO 232 (John Hoad, Faversham Kent UK, JRC NRD-525 / 10m longwire / AT-1000 antenna coupler, Sent from my iPad, Oct 1, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DXLD) ** GERMANY. 7315, Echo of Europe via Germany, Sep 26 *1830-1845*, 25322-25332, French, 1830 sign on with opening music, Opening announce, news, closing music and closing announce at 1842, ID at 1842 and 1844 as "European News Radio" (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. Radio Santec sent a letter in which he said that the Christian calendar and sends a brochure, but instead it has sent FIVE absolutely identical and unfilled QSL-cards, and they are numbered (Sergey Izyumov, Moscow, Russia, QSL World via RusDX Sept 28 via DXLD) ** GOA. 9705, INDIA (Goa). AIR - Panaji. Fair signal but with poor audio and transmitter squealing for the English GOS to SEAs at 2320. Sept 24 (Rob Wagner, Victoria, Mount Evelyn DX Report blog via DXLD) ** GREECE. 15650, 1630 on 12/9 with ID in Greek, “Elliniki Radiophonia Ertopen Vefteron Programa” (some like Greek Broadcasting ERT Open 2nd Program) // 9420, 9935, 4 x MWs. On MW 729 // 1314 the ID is with only 2 words “Proton Programa” (1st Program). Whether there is an agreement between authorities and trade unions to have 2 programs of common radio? (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi Antenna), Oct Australian DX News via DXLD). It is bizarre that the ERT-Open rebels have been able to take control of the SW transmitters for over a year without the Greek government doing anything about it. But what I find amazing is this: How do those transmitters continue to be powered? Electricity would have to come off the power grid, or diesel generators. Who is paying for that? Or are the power/fuel providers allowing the rebels to steal electricity? Is the government actually still footing the bill, not realizing where the money is going? I still hear ERT-open on either 9420 or 7475 during the evening here in Texas, but, yes, transmissions are irregular (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, Sept 25, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I haven`t caught them on 7450 or 7475 for many weeks now (gh, DXLD) I think it's just that the government authorities did not take over the Avlida facilities. Also there are still several ex-ERT studios and transmitter facilities in the hands of ERT Open. I think the new entity NERIT considers getting these facilities back a low priority and is re-acquiring them in stages. Also there are still court cases pending on the legality of the ERT closure by the government. The new broadcaster NERIT has also many internal issues, with many top level personnel changes in recent months. Now, who pays for electricity (and other bills) to run ERT Open is a good question. One form of revenue is probably donations from ordinary citizens. Their web site http://www.ertopen.com/ and the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ERTSocial provides a bank account where people can donate money for the cause. Here is the ERT Open Summer shortwave schedule per their web site. Times are Greek time: http://www.ertopen.com/media/k2/items/cache/3ec43cf8b17e2cf0a5931aba3a0c0f89_XL.jpg?t=1405420423 (Christos Rigas, Wood Dale, Illinois, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9420 & 9935, Sept 27 at 0108, another off-night for ERTOpen. 9420 & 9935, Sept 28 at 0111 & 0113, ERTOpen with music, good signals, and JBA on 15630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Greece rebel radio ERT-open from Avlis 07-08 UT noted on air today Sept 28, at 0750 UT: 9420.004, 11645.004, 15630.027 kHz. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9420, Sept 30 at 0112, ERTOpen good signal with Greek music, also on 9935 at 0114 check. 9420 // 9935, Oct 1 at 0105, ERTOpen VG, YL with Greek talk, and JBA carrier on 15630. 9420, Oct 1 at 0530, fair signal but open carrier/dead air, presumed ERTOpen as happens occasionally with them (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ERTOpen on 9420 and 9935, open carrier/dead air at 0815 and 0930 UT -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Oct 1, dxldyg via DXLD) 15650, Oct 1 at 1412, fair signal in Greek, into music, i.e. ERTOpen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 15435.013, Some AWR Guam transmissions heard at this time slot in 19mb. But this KSDA AWR channel suffered audio-wise by annoying metallic scratching/whistle audio, a serious transmitter fault here with a loud high-pitched squealing tone accompanying the audio. Pity, as it was a lovely fair signal but listening was difficult through this noise. English sermon by Indian subcontinent accented prayer, sermon at 2222 UT on Sept 28. vy73 de wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, Logged in to remote SDR unit at Perseus in Brisbane Australia, 2100-2230 UT Sept 28, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GUATEMALA. 4054.996, R. Verdad, 0933 midi IS, then long choral NA, 0939 usual vibraphone and voice-over Spanish ID announcement by M, then English ID, and another that sounded like IT. http://youtu.be/QJ6f3VHw1DY (12 Sept.) (Dave Valko, 12 September 2014 micro-DXpedition near Dunlo PA, Perseus SDR, ANT: 315' Beverage (BOG) at 0 , Cumbre DX via DXLD) 4055, Tuesday Sept 30 at 0537, R. Verdad is missing! Has been quite reliable for months, until 0609*v (except UT Mondays off earlier). Hope not another serious transmitter breakdown. 4055, Oct 1 at 0410 check, R. Verdad is on with music; checking earlier tonight since last night it was off well before 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thank you, Glenn, for monitoring, but there is no trouble, except that we run out of electricity sometimes, because of the rainy season. Everything is alright; transmitter is working fine. We are on the air right now. A few days ago, I had to repair a slight problem over the antenna, and had to change an insulator. I should inform you that I am transmitting televisión now, over YouTube. Open YouTube, and write: radio verdad tv I am also transmitting through Facebook, Twitter and other media. This is the link: http://mixlr.com/radioverdad-Chiquimula May God bless you, and thank you again for your concern (Édgar Madrid, Radio Verdad and Radio Verdad TV, 0553 UT October 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HAITI. Storm TV Ch2 Port-au-Prince Haiti Both Chris Dunne and Fred Nordquist recently logged Haiti via single hop E skip. On September 12th at 1416z Fred had two stations fighting it out on channel two and at one point a “StOrm (large O in the middle) appeared on the screen. Fred took the photo on the left. And on September 7th, Chris Dunne in Florida noticed Es in the morning with Tele Antillas battling a French speaking station on channel 2. Chris took the photo on the right which shows the storm logo on the bottom right corner. At 9:19am Chris noted the Disney show “Good Luck Charlie” dubbed in French and later the start of a drama and a Haitian music video between the two programs. This is the first time anyone has seen Es from Haiti. As it turns out, this may also be the last time anyone logs lowband analog Es from Haiti. WTFDA Forums member Raymie Humbert reports the following: What a catch! It might be one of the last times we see Haiti, as even they are going digital! June 15, 2015 is the day, CONATEL informs us. http://conatel.gouv.ht/pages/13-la-transition-de-la-television-analogique-vers-la-television-numerique.php Even further, I have some information on Haiti's digital transition! http://conatel.gouv.ht/pdf/Transition_Numerique/PLANIFICATION_TECHNIQUE_VERS_LA_TVN.pdf This may be the first time ever details have been published in English. STANDARD: ATSC 2.0, adopted 18 July 2013 BANDS IN USE: High VHF; UHF, 14-30; UHF 31-51 will be used for subscription television broadcast services under a yet-to-be-decided standard. 700 MHz will be cleared. Post-transition the entire High VHF band will have TV stations on it, and eventually the entire low UHF band too. Initially though most TV services will be packed 6 to a channel, with 6 transmitters in Port-au-Prince and two in most other cities. I also found a document listing all broadcast AM, FM and TV stations in Haiti. [link to a complicated google URL which will not copy and paste, and I am not about to try to copy by hand. What a mess: xlsx of over 400 lines, in this order: by city, and then by name of station with AM, FM, TV all mixed in together; no callsigns bothered with. Also shows owner, frequency/channel, phone, date of license, but no powers or other tech info --- gh] I can confirm that Storm TV channel 2 is licensed to Port-au-Prince, with an assignment date of March 18, 2013. The listed name is Steve Halloun. Storm is the only channel 2 in all of Haiti. The DTV document says that the highest-powered analog TV station in Port-au-Prince (of which there are 36) has an ERP of 5 kW. That could very well be Storm TV. On UHF it appears that Haiti has all even channels (with DR being all odd channels). (Oct WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DXLD) ** INDIA. [KASHMIR & ANDAMAN ISLANDS] 4760, Sep 27, -1631*, Tentative AIR Leh signing off. After their sign off a weaker station is audible with music just about 2 Hz above AIR Leh, on 4760.002. At first I thought it was AIR Port Blair but the station was still there at 1704 when my recording ended. AIR Port Blair used to sign off a few seconds after 1700. Maybe extended schedule this day or another station? (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin Sept 28 via DXLD) ** INDIA [and non]. CHINA vs. INDIA, China National Radio 2 vs. All India Radio: 1300-1500 on 9820 XIA 100 kW / 290 deg to CHN Chinese CNR-2 1300-1500 on 9820 DEL 100 kW / 174 deg to SoAs Sinhala AIR. Video: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/09/china-national-radio-2-vs-all-india.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #873 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Sept. 30, 2014 via DXLD) ** INDIA. AIR External Service has made the following frequency change lately: 0215-0300 Pushtu & 0300-0345 Dari to Afghanistan & Pakistan. New frequency: 7355 Old frequency: 7225. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, ational Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, Sept 27, dx_india yg via DXLD) 15410, Sept 28 at 1129, talk in Thai past 1130, poor with flutter, yet one of the better signals on band at this hour. Aoki shows it`s AIR at 1115-1200, 250 kW, 120 degrees from Panaji, GOA site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. DRM LAUNCHES INDIA RECEIVER Radio World September 19, 2014 http://www.radioworld.com/article/drm-launches-india-receiver/272493# AMSTERDAM — At IBC2014 the Digital Radio Mondiale Consortium unveiled the first DRM AM receiver designed to comply with the relevant Indian specifications and to be fit for global use. The Avion AV-DR-1401 from Communications Systems Inc. allows DRM reception in the shortwave and medium-wave bands, as well as analog AM and FM reception. “Interest in India toward DRM keeps growing. Even though we have some issues, such as a few industry stakeholders still trying to turn the attention to FM networks instead of concentrating on DRM, our government’s commitment is strong and clear,” said Ankit Agrawal, director of Communications Systems Inc. According to public service broadcaster All India Radio’s website, they are targeting 2017 as the complete switchover to digital mode date. “About one year ago AIR issued a tender for the supply of DRM receivers,” explained Agrawal. “They definitely raised the bar as to technical specifications by grouping together the most appealing features from the various receivers available on the market at that time. I took those specifications and considered them a challenge and I asked my engineers to design a receiver capable of meeting or possibly exceeding AIR’s requirements.” AIR’s specifications include a four-line text display, ER-AAC+, CELP and HVXC codecs, stereo speakers, a minimum of 40 programmable station presets, USB or SD slot with read/write capability, instant recording and playback capability from external storage, upgradable firmware and at least six hours of battery life. Agrawal showcased the official prototype of the new receiver at the IBC Show and attendees were able to hear its audio quality during a live transmission from an Ampegon transmitter. “We are ready to launch a first production batch of about 1,000 receivers,” he said. “They should be delivered within the end of this year. Then we will be ready to launch a second batch, definitely much larger.” The Avion AV-DR-1401 will be positioned as an high-end product; it features multimedia applications and local interactive text and media (Journaline) as well as automatic tuning by station (not frequency). Agrawal expects a battery life of about 10 hours, pointing out that since the receiver is also capable of delivering emergency warning messages, a long-lasting battery is necessary. “We are very pleased with the exciting announcement on this new Indian receiver. With sufficient orders and support it could do very well and start the receiver ball rolling demonstrating that global, green and extremely cost-effective DRM is not just the future of digital radio but a reality for listeners now.” —Davide Moro (Posted by: Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 4869.92, RRI Wamena. Some sort of live program in a vernacular language at 1033. Audience was audible. At 1038 M host mentioned "OK". End of program with mention of "RRI" and nice site ID at 1040:25. Very brief canned announcement, then into lively island music. Brief deadair at 1045 then announcement by M with what sounded like a mention of "once again". Canned promo/ID with "RRI Wamena" ID over Pop music at 1046:05. Another canned spot by M over March music, and back to Pop music. 1053 into Islam program promo, ID, and more music. Left the frequency at 1056 and found deadair at 1059 to at least 1104, then W with news at 1108 recheck ending with "Radio Republik Indonesia" ID at 1111, then peppy "Garuda Pancasila" patriotic song (tnx Ron Howard). 1124 what sounded like the same W returned after 2 Pop ballads with rapid talk including ID. Came back at 1133 and found "(Everything I Do) I Do it for You" by Bryan Adams. Fading. Seemed to peak around 1108. http://youtu.be/2ZMLyHyOGgA (28 Sept.) 73 and best DX (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S, and 153 foot Delta Loop, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM [and non]. The evening of Sept 29 (UT Sept 30), viewers of cable channels in Enid via Suddenlink (to which our city fathers in their wisdom granted a cable monopoly) were seeing constant crawlers on Viacom channels, that ``Tonight Suddenlink will drop this channel and 23 more. Call Suddenlink immediately at 877-794- 2724 or visit http://KeepViacom.com for more info.`` Viacom makes a pretty good case against Suddenlink, which they say is highly profitable, but refuses even to negotiate; and one sports channel costs them as much as the 24 Viacom channels, even under the great new deal Viacom is offering. Apparently these notices were imposed by Viacom, so I wonder if they have a way of limiting them to Suddenlink systems, or they also are visible via all other cable monopolies? Yet local midnight (0500 UT) comes and goes and nothing happens, as the warnings continue. Now ``tonight`` means 24 hours later? That would make sense, as Sept 30 is the end of month and end of quarter, not Sept 29. As far as I am concerned, 23 Viacom channels are expendable, the exception being Comedy Central. I happen to know that in Canada, `The Daily Show` and `The Colbert Report` (altho in in the middle of the night) air on free-to-air TV, the CTV Network --- lucky for borderites where the signals can bleed over without blockage --- so are they also available streaming or ondemand online? Yes! for 7 days, TDS is, if not TCR: http://www.ctv.ca/DailyShowwithJonStewart.aspx So I try it, but as I also feared, it`s blocked, available only dentro-Canada. If worst comes to worst, must look into the proxy server option. (Of course the huge majority of Canadians even get their FTA broadcast TV via cable, tho they don`t have to.) [Later:] Suddenlink went and did it, at 0500 UT Oct 1 deleting all the Viacom channels as seen here in Enid and presumably everywhere. ``This channel will be right back`` it says on some of the channels, yeah right. I won`t bore you with the channel numbers as applicable here only, but replacing Comedy Central is FXX; replacing NIK is Sprout. We also now get UP, and Pivot, and Blaze and OWN. I think these have been moved in (or duplicated) from higher tiers where hardly anyone watched them. Some of the deleted channels are still not replaced, with multiple copies of QVC filling them! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL WATERS. Voice of Peace photoset up on Flickr Here's another collection of photos: these are from my stint on the Voice of Peace back in 1980/81. Includes some unseen(?) views of the mast in various states of disrepair, and a couple of shots of the Odelia TV ship... https://www.flickr.com/photos/71155570@N00/sets/72157647486650798/ (Martin Peters, Sept 26, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** IRAN. 13630, Sept 29 at 1420, IRIB IS until 1421* while IRIB IS is also on 13800 which continues with poor signal. 13630 is tail of Japanese hour of VIRI, 500 kW, 60 degrees from Sirjan; while 13800 is head of Russian hour, 500 kW, 322 degrees also from Sirjan and USward. 21750, Oct 1 at 1304, algo with talk, VP signal I haven`t noticed before. Aoki shows it`s VIRI in Indonesian at 1220-1320, 500 kW, 107 degrees from Sirjan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also AUSTRALIA [and non], BANGLADESH [and non] ** IRAN [non]. Frequency change of RFE/RL Radio Farda from Sept. 15: 0230-0400 NF 13860 LAM 100 kW / 092 deg to WeAs Farsi, ex 15680 BIB (DX RE MIX NEWS #873 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Sept. 30, 2014 via DXLD) 15680, Sept 29 at 1412, pop music, poor signal, announcement in Farsi? Bet it`s Radio Farda, and so it is per Aoki: 1230-1430, 100 kW, 108 degrees from Lampertheim, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. R. Ranginkaman, R. Rainbow is on the air 1 hour later from Sept. 22: 1700-1730 on 7575 KCH 100 kW / 100 deg to WeAs Persian Mon/Fri, ex 1600-1630 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/09/rranginkaman-rrainbow-is-on-air-1-hour.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria Sept 26, dxldyg via DXLD) See DST Iran end from Sept 22. (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** IRAN [non]. Sedaye Radio ye Mehr Iran in Farsi to WeAs 1652 Sept 26 on 15670 Issoudun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DHTjbC_U-E&list=UUOkdLTbNeM6g6w8oqkXYtsw (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRELAND. Two Catholic church services noted on 27601 at the same time, 1000 28 Sept, in narrowband FM. One is in Bruff, just 3 km south of me. The other is unID, but had a huge full quieting signal when I rotated a simple dipole. I have heard several of these broadcasts between 27-28 MHz, but this is the first time I have noticed an additional one on Bruff’s frequency, and with another local like signal. Homemade dipole and an FCpro+ dongle, and Eddystone EC 10 MK II (Brock Whaley, Ireland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRELAND. RTE'S ALL TOO BLUNT MESSAGE FOR THE IRISH DIASPORA: TO HELL OR THE INTERNET Irish Independent 1 October 2014 By John Waters http://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/rtes-all-too-blunt-message-for-the-irish-diaspora-to-hell-or-the-internet-30628452.html Ireland is saturated with British media, but Britain has never shown much interest in what we are saying or thinking. You can buy an Irish newspaper in any British city, but this is because of the presence in Britain of immigrants from Ireland rather than because British people care to know what is happening in Dail Eireann. If you line up representative samples of Irish and British people, and ask them a range of basic questions about the two countries, you'll find the Irish know more than British people about the UK, whereas Brits know almost nothing about us. We've assimilated everything from the Dandy to Shakespeare, from Kid Jensen to Jeremy Paxman. British people, of course, know Joyce and Yeats and Beckett, but in a different way - as world writers who happened to come from Ireland - when they're not claiming them as British, that is. As a teenager, I listened on a solitary earphone under the bedclothes to John Peel and Whispering Bob Harris on BBC Radio One on Medium Wave. If they played something ambient like Mike Oldfield or Tangerine Dream, it became impossible to tell the difference between the music and the static, and to this day, when I hear pieces from these artists, they always seem less interesting than I remember. Bob Harris's voice on medium wave had the quality of a lonesome breeze whipping itself up in the distant ether and faintly becoming discernible above the other elements. Later on, I fell in love with Radio Four, and nowadays have access to innumerable BBC TV channels via satellite. But we have never sought to woo Britain in a similar way. It's as though our national inferiority complex ordains that nothing about us could be remotely interesting to our neighbours - in spite of our 'shared history'. Even though Irish music is loved globally, it has never occurred to us to make it available, via for example, a satellite radio link. I've been thinking these thoughts since RTE's announcement of the closure, at a month's notice, of its Longwave 252 service, which has been available for the past decade and in that time provided a consistent and reliable link to Ireland for our diaspora living in Britain and continental Europe. The service ceases transmission on Monday, October 27. RTE informs us that the "vast majority" of its listeners will be unaffected by the move - 98pc, which by my calculation leaves 2pc, a proportion more or less equivalent to the number of citizens potentially implicated in a certain referendum coming up in the next year. Two per cent can come to mean everything or nothing - it depends on lobbying power. Tom McGuire, Head of RTE Radio 1, described the change as "an opportunity for the listener to tune in to the varied output of RTE Radio 1 in a new way." The availability of the radio service through new digital platforms provides a "much improved sound quality" and "broader access", he said. "Just as the audience migrated from medium wave to FM in the past, the end of long wave is compensated for by the availability of RTE Radio 1 on various digital platforms through the television in your home, the phone in your pocket, the tablet on your lap or the digital radio in your region. "But for those in foreign parts who depend on 252 for a link to the old country, "digital platform" is about as meaningful as Tom talking about "digiform platters" or '"platonic diggers". For most of those for whom Longwave 252 was a lifeline to home, the kind of "alternatives" Tom spoke about are beyond reach, being both technologically opaque and far more expensive than simply buying a longwave-adapted radio receiver, an investment they'll already have made. Many of these people are elderly, impoverished and IT illiterate. The arguments for the closure of 252 are entirely spurious. The idea that longwave transmission is of an inferior quality to digital relates to a long-outmoded technology. New 'DRM (digital radio mondial)' radios are now available for a modest cost, which enable longwave signals to be received to near-FM quality. Longwave is 15 times as cost-efficient as FM - and 60 times as efficient as DAB. The 252 channel currently covers most of the UK and much of continental Europe in a manner that meets the needs of the diaspora without any additional investment. It can be received in cars, unlike internet-based services, which can be accessed only via high-capacity broadband. DAB reception requires the installation of specialised radios and car aerials, and a massive investment in transmission equipment. After 20 years of agitation by vested interests in the UK, just 1% of UK cars have DAB receivers. DAB is already dead in the water, the equivalent of CB radio, Betamax and the '4-track' cassette tape. It's the horse with the long neck; neither equine nor giraffe but an evolutionary half-thought that was left behind almost from the moment it reared its ugly head. RTE claims, without elaboration, that the longwave service is 'very expensive' and unsustainable. But Longwave 252 requires no further investment from either broadcaster or listeners, whereas replacing it will cost millions of licence payers' euro. The truth is that RTE is engaged in a revenue grab aimed at further 'monitising' its services internationally - at the expense of a core commitment in its role as national broadcaster. The Broadcasting Act, 2009 requires RTE to establish and maintain a sound broadcasting service "in so far as RTE considers reasonably practicable" to Irish communities outside the island of Ireland. It's just six months since RTE spent more than €250,000 covering the UK visit of President Michael D Higgins, an event billed as part of an initiative to reach out to the diaspora. Now our 'national broadcaster' tells the diaspora to tool up or take a running jump. Irish Independent (Posted by: Mike Terry, Oct 1, dxldyg via DXLD) ** IRELAND [non]. 17495, SOUTH AFRICA, RTE (via Meyerton). 1429 announcement just prior to the start of the All Ireland Football Final (Donegal vs Kerry at Croke Park), and game start at 1430. Ad block at halftime including an RTE promo to start. Had a long post game show. Ended the broadcast with weather by W at 1657. Good signal with a bit of echo at times. // much weaker 17820. 11750 not heard at all. http://youtu.be/ZVuSB2e1fgw (21 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) ** IRELAND [non]. RTE GAA Hurling Replay Saturday There is a late change of times and frequencies for the replay of the GAA match on Saturday Sept 27 from RTE. Southern Africa 1500 – 1700 UTC 7300 kHz 1700 – 1900 UTC 6040 kHz East Africa 1500 – 1900 UTC 11980 kHz West Africa 1500 – 1700 UTC 17495 kHz 1700 – 1900 UTC 17490 kHz (WRN via Glenn Hauser, Sept 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) All-Ireland Hurling Championship on Sept.27 1500-1700 on 7300 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg to SoAf English 1500-1700 on 11980 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg to EaAf English 1500-1700 on 17495 WOF 300 kW / 158 deg to WeAf English 1700-1900 on 6040 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg to SoAf English 1700-1900 on 11980 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg to EaAf English 1700-1900 on 17490 WOF 300 kW / 158 deg to WeAf English. Ten videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/09/all-ireland-hurling-championship-final.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #873 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Sept. 30, 2014 via DXLD) 17495, Sept 27 at 1530, fair signal with RTE special broadcast of hurling replay, the Sept 7 match having been a draw. High level of background noise, sounds more like a carace; is that just the crowd? Also JBA on 11980. WRN provided the frequencies for this in advance via the DXLD yg: 15-17 7300, 11980, 17495; 17-19 6040, 11980, 17490 The 17s are presumably Woofferton UK; the 6s & 7s presumably Meyerton, South Africa; not sure about 11980 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RTE is audible here at 1510 UT with a fair to good signal on 17495 kHz parallel longwave 252 kHz. 11980 and 7300 are not audible at this time. 73s (Dave Kenny, Caversham Berks UK, AOR7030+ 25m long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The South African signal, received here in Newfoundland, of the RTE coverage of the hurling game is very good today. While drinking my tea at the kitchen table, I am listening to 17495 kHz on my Eton E10 with just its aerial extended. It has just turned 1600 UT, Sat 27/9/14. Despite SINPO being somewhat out of fashion, I still think in those terms and it is 34333, perhaps even 44434. I have never found any pleasure in listening to sports on radio or watching it on television. Too bad. I wish RTE would enter into an arrangement to broadcast their signals on SW like this regularly. Even with sports if that would allow for other more interesting fare. I wonder if their advertising revenues are inflated because of this international coverage? I should correct the time in my report of RTE on SW. It is just past 1:00 my local time. That is 1530 UT. Right now, at 1540, the signal actually seems to be improving. Posted by: (Just folk, ibid.) "I wonder if their advertising revenues are inflated because of this international coverage...." I doubt it. There is a receiving license fee on top of the ads. They have it both ways. 17495 the only SW frequency received here at 1600 UT. And perhaps the last hurling game to ever be heard on long wave. (Brock Whaley, Ireland, ibid.) RTÉ GAA Hurling Replay Saturday 1st part 27. September 1600-1640 UT RTÉ Raidió Teilifís Éireann. 2nd Hurling final match. IRELAND (only LW 252 kHz heard in Germany) 7300.027 odd frequency from Meyerton Sentec site, Signal on very good propagation UT tonight from South Africa. S=5 or -92dBm here in Stuttgart southern Germany. S=7 or -85dBm in Queensland Australien SDR remote unit. S=8 or -76dBm in Northern Sweden near Sundsvall, but already in Grey propagation zone of MEY. S=9+10dB in Moscow Russia, in the real Grey zone. S=9 -73dBm close to Naples/Sicily southern Italy on Mediterranean beach. 11980 also from Meyerton AFS - signal not as strong like from Woofferton logged here in Sweden, U.K., Germany, Moscow and Italy tonight. S=5-6 very tiny poor -89dBm in Australia. S=9+20dB or -49dBm in Northern Sweden in the Grey zone already. S=8-9 -74dBm in Stuttgart southern Germany. S=8-9 -74dBm in Northern Italy. S=9 -60dBm in Naples/Sicily area southern Italy. S=9+30 -43dBm in Moscow in the Dark zone. 17495 from Woofferton UK. Really NIL signal in Australia. S=9+15dB -57dBm at 1625 UT in Northern Sweden. S=9+10dB -68dBm in Stuttgart southern Germany. typical on 16mb in skip zone of WOF towards Germany at this daytime slot. S=9+15dB -58dBm in Northern Italy. S=9+15dB -53dBm in Naples/Sicily Italy. S=9+5dB - 72dBm in Moscow (on Grey zone from Western Europe). 2nd part 27. Sept 1720-1730 UT RTÉ Raidió Teilifís Éireann very emotional sports reporter live coverage this afternoon / early night! 6040.0 from Sentec Meyerton Southern Africa site. S=8 -80dBm in dark zone in Northern Sweden. S=9 -70dBm fair propagation from AFS into Stuttgart Germany. S=4 to NIL in Oldham Blackpool UK SDR remote site. On the beach of Portsmouth Isle Wight with extreme Ham Radio antenna S=5 -95dBm. S=8 -76dBm signal in Northern Italy. 11980 Meyerton AFS site. S=9+25dB or -48dBm in Northern Sweden, in dark zone. S=9+10 -61dBm very fair signal in Stuttgart Germany. On the beach of Portsmouth Isle Wight with extreme Ham Radio antenna S=5 -95dBm. S=9+25dB -46dBm signal strength in Northern Italy. 17490 Woofferton UK site. S=9 or -70dBm in Northern Sweden, in the Grey zone from western Europe. S=7 -82dBm in the very close Skip zone, on the beach of Portsmouth Isle Wight with extreme Ham Radio antenna. S=9+5dB or -73dBm here in Stuttgart Germany, only SIDELOBE signal. S=5 or -94dBm close to Oldham U.K. in the very close skip zone of WOF. S=6 -92dBm in Northern Italy, to mention the WOF signal skipped also likely across western Europe and Mediterranean, and southern Europa towards Central and West Africa, after 1730 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) What a Disappointment! Hi Thomas: Was listening to the 2014 All- Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final Replay on 17495 kHz (after the VOA Radiogram) this afternoon. Quite exciting -- on a par with an NHL Stanley Cup championship. But what a disappointment: the transmission abruptly ended around 1700 UT with the game still underway. That must have infuriated a lot of people who were following the game on SW. At least I could listen to the rest of it via the Internet stream -- a luxury not afforded to some others. Best regards (Richard B. Langley, Geodetic Research Laboratory, University of New Brunswick,| Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3, to Thomas Witherspoon, cc to DXLD) As reported yesterday in the DXLD yg, 17495 was scheduled to shift to 17490 at 1700 for the remaining two hours. Did you not try that? There might have been a brief break to make the change. // 11980 for the entire period (Glenn to Richard, via DXLD) Thanks, Glenn. No, I didn't know about the frequency switch. Was just going off http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2014/0905/641633-all-ireland-final/ which was clearly not updated. – Richard (Langley, ibid.) 10 videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/09/all-ireland-hurling-championship-final.html September 27: RTÉ Radio One to WeAf 1500 on 17495 Woofferton, no signal on 7300 and 11980 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vclcNm5v4xU&feature=youtu.be RTÉ Radio One to WeAf and EaAf 1532 on 17495 Woofferton and 11980 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99H6aqhwnQM&feature=youtu.be RTÉ Radio One to WeAf and EaAf 1600 on 17495 Woofferton and 11980 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSp7V8ko-xk&feature=youtu.be RTÉ Radio One to WeAf and EaAf 1630 on 17495 Woofferton and 11980 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EXKUDYceqU&feature=youtu.be RTÉ Radio One to WeAf and EaAf 1701 on 17490 Woofferton and 11980 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-B8UzxQczY&feature=youtu.be RTÉ Radio One to WeAf and EaAf 1729 on 17490 Woofferton and 11980 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp_mguouTx4&feature=youtu.be RTÉ Radio One to WeAf and EaAf 1758 on 17490 Woofferton and 11980 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqvFvgBRAKY&feature=youtu.be RTÉ Radio One to WeAf and EaAf 1813 on 17490 Woofferton and 11980 Meyerton, 6040 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixAYHOvZV7I&feature=youtu.be RTÉ Radio One to WeAf and EaAf 1828 on 17490 Woofferton and 11980 Meyerton, 6040 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tu6lzRx7fo&feature=youtu.be RTÉ Radio One to WeAf and EaAf 1857 on 17490 Woofferton and 11980 Meyerton, 6040 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-6lxuNKHyQ&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY. September 29: ItalCable 1504 on 10 MHz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2lsoI85iLc&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAMAICA. Jamaica FM Call Signs! Just found from the ITU database - call signs for Jamaican FM stations issued in June 2014! So Jamaica does in fact have call signs. All repeaters have the same callsign as the master station. They're listed below. In Jamaica, each MHz slot is usually allocated to one network. 88 6YA634 Mello FM 88.5 6YA696 TBC (Coopers Hill) 89 6YA637 KLAS FM 91 6YA638 NCU FM 99 6YA633 Music 99 100 6YA647 Bess 100 101 6YA636 Love FM 102 6YA652 Hot 102 105 6YA646 Fyah FM 106 6YA633 Power 106 The other networks didn't have calls listed. Note: 99 & 106 have the same call sign. Must be because they are co-owned (Bill Hepburn, Ont., Sept 25, WTFDA via DXLD) Bill is obsessive about rooting out callsigns from all over, even if they are not spoken, with a sexion of his website about that http://www.dxinfocentre.ca (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** JAMAICA. I have my NRC 4' box loop in the cellar ready to go, I want to set it up some night to see how it fares nowadays but my radio room is kind of small, hope to be moving it to a bigger one soon. I used to get RJR 720 on a 2' spiral loop, turn it the right way and WGN was gone and RJR boomed in, I think I got another Jamaican down low on AM but don't see it listed now (Bob Young KB1OKL, Millbury, MA, Sept 26, NRC-AM via DXLD) Bob, Jamaica (either RJR or JBC networks) used to be on 550, 580, 700, 720, 750 etc. In 1988-89 when we had a huge sunspot-cycle peak and wall-to-wall auroral conditions for months on end, JBC on 700 was a nightly pest on 700 as far inland as here in southern Missouri, on a barefoot Realistic TRF; and RJR 720 was at least an occasional visitor despite their directional pattern away from the mainland. QSLed RJR- 720 in fact. (Never could seem to get a reception report delivered to JBC—they kept coming back chewed up by USPS machinery, etc. so I gave up on them! RJR had a really nice QSL card and was by that time a rather better verifier anyway.) And I’m afraid Mark’s right — no offense to Gerry Thomas, who builds a really fine product, but my Quantum QX Pro is no more effective than the box loops and Space Magnets Mark mentions in terms of overcoming all of our “in-house electronic gizmos spewing RFI”. It seems that any REAL DX—transoceanic or otherwise -- these days is limited to coastal locations, DXpeditions to electrically quiet areas (such that exist anyway), or people with access to enough real estate to put up REALLY long runs of (outdoor) copper --- and that does NOT include me (Randy Stewart, Arts Producer, KSMU, 901 S. National, Springfield MO 65897, ibid.) There are no AM stations remaining in Jamaica. We were there just a few weeks ago. Lots of FM (Ben Dangerfield, Wallingford, PA, ibid.) Well I guess that explains why I don't receive them anymore, haha! (Bob Young, Millbury, MA, ibid.) I went through my WRTH collection and it seems that the last year they list AM stations as active was 2009! Not sure if that is completely accurate but --- 73 Best of DX (Shawn Axelrod, VE4DX1SMA, VEPC4SWL, Winnipeg MB, ibid.) ** JAPAN. Oklahoma TP DX 10-2-14 --- After more than a fortnight of hearing nothing from across the Pacific, a weak signal finally made it this far inland this morning. 774 kHz JOUB, Akita J, heard with a barely audible signal at 1147 GMT (LSR at 1226). Fair with man talking at 1157 before fading away at 1159. Weak NHK time pips for 2100 JST heard at 1200. No other TP signals were heard after 1200. Receivers: Tecsun PL-606 with 8-inch FSL antenna. Good DX all (Richard Allen, near Perry OK USA, IRCA via DXLD) See UNIDENTIFIED where I have 774 et al. as JBA carriers (gh) ** JAPAN. R. NIKKEI-JOZ4 on 3925 kHz, 10 kW in Nemuro. http://www.hamlife.jp/2014/01/02/joz-tx-stn/2/ (S. Hasegawa, Sept 30, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) Not to be confused with the other 50 kW site also on 3925 (gh, DXLD) ** KAZAKHSTAN. [Re 14-39:] KAZAKHSTAN: Bayserke: SW Antennas Gone From inspection of GE imagery & recent Panaramio images by Anton Yefimov it appears that the majority of the SW antennas/masts were removed between Feb & Oct 2013. Great selection of recent Panoramio images from Anton. Eg. http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/107087213.jpg (Ian, SWSites YG. Sept 28, 2014 via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. UZBEKISTAN vs. GREECE, Radio Free Chosun vs. ERT Open on 15630, Sept. 24 1300-1500 15630 TAC 100 kW / 070 deg to KRE Korean 1300-1500 15630 AVL 100 kW / 105 deg to SoAs Greek, instead of 15650: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/09/radio-free-chosun-vs-ert-open-on-15630.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #873 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Sept. 30, 2014 via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. Reported both English and Russian services KBS World Radio that they do not indicate, and there is not even a line like many (by the way, at the request could be from the hand to finish! hi!) stations - Transmitter Location: ----. In Russian service of one transmission goes through the center of Woofferton, England. Vmesto some letters with their arguments they (the Russian edition!) sent four empty IDENTICAL and generally unfilled QSL-cards. Vidimo believe that the 60th anniversary of Radio Korea (in 2013 g) - they had previously called themselves so - I have a pennant from their 1976 as drawn on the QSL-cards (on the cover) is the most important thing for DX-listeners. Ya seen in DXers from India, Bangladesh and other countries - they (English service!) sent anniversary -60 years! - vympely and even t-shirts shirts with the anniversary logo (Sergey Izyumov, Moscow, Russia, QSL World via RusDX Sept 28 via DXLD) In case you are wondering, RusDX is presented in English by running the original material thru Google translate, apparently without any further repairs (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. CLANDESTINE, 11510, V. of Kurdistan, Sep 26 1259- 1309, 35332, Kurdish, ID at 1300, News (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. IBB Kuwait Video --- If you haven't already seen this before (it appears to have gone up just a few days ago), here's some transmitter and antenna porn from the IBB Kuwait site that you might find interesting. At least I did! It's called "IBB Kuwait - 20 Years of Broadcasting History". http://youtu.be/CNIwjrkY_nM Kind regards, (Rob Wagner VK3BVW, Sept 25, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) Members, As promised here is Kai's post sent in response. "Completion of 1386 kHz plant in May 2010 --- aha, and why is it still not on air almost 4.5 years later? The transmitter is the former 1260 kHz one from Rhodes, by the way. The "crash installed" 1593 kHz transmitter is the one from Holzkirchen, and seeing how this presentation puts things one has to wonder if maybe they even shut down HMWT, as RFE/RL called it, earlier than originally planned. And the 1548 kHz rig is herein revealed as a Marconi. Kai" 73 and 88 (Dan Goldfarb, mwmasts yg via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. Observations of Radio Kuwait in Arabic on Sept. 26: 1600-1800 6050 KBD 250 kW / non-dir to N/ME General Sce, as scheduled 1600-1800 15540 KBD 300 kW / 100 deg to SoAs General Sce, instead Urdu 1700-1800 13650 KBD 500 kW / 350 deg to NoAm Holy Quran, instead General Sce. Videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/09/observations-of-radio-kuwait-in-arabic.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** KYRGYZSTAN. "Birinchi radio" Public Broadcasting switched to the new format. As the producer of the radio Taalaigul Sydykbekova, starting from September 22 to "Birinchi Radio" from 7:00 to 13:00 news started coming out every 15 minutes in two languages ?? (Kyrgyz, Russian), except holidays. That, in the opinion of management, will more quickly transmit the latest news. "Given the fact that" Birinchi Radio "is the information and the only one in the country broadcasting in the country, innovations will improve the awareness of the population of the country," - said the producer. kg.akipress.org (OnAir.ru)(via RusDX Sept 28 via DXLD) ** LIBERIA. Oct. 01, 2014, 2100-2230 UT, 4760 kHz ELWA Returns!!! / 03:51 [into clip], “ELWA Radio”, Beverage north west, 2230 UT s/off http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUI0xS9_aRA&feature=youtu.be (Takeshi Wakiyama, a.k.a. dfs, Shimane Prefecture, JAPAN, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Except for a tentative log in Sept by Bob Wilkner, Florida, ELWA was last reported in February on 4760. ELWA was originally run by Sudan Interior Mission, and now is a `partner` with SIM, which stands for Serving In Mission (``Sudan`` for West Africa being an outdated term, as in French Soudan). Their website has plenty about ebola (but not since July?), and one of the first victims making the news, the American woman, was with SIM. http://www.elwaministries.org/ She credits God with her recovery but doesn`t blame Him at all for infecting her in the first place! There`s nothing specific about radio, let alone SW, let alone 4760, but they were seeking funds for studio etc. construxion as of November 2012, and had had some aid from HCJB. Internal site search funxion unseems to work, and Google search for site gets no hits on 4760. Maybe they keep Facebook more current, unchecked (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** LIBYA. 677.2, Voice of Free Libya / Sawt ul Libya al Hurra, Benghazi, 2140-1950 [sic] Sep 25-26, local program in Arabic, 22333. 73! (Mauro Giroletti, IK2GFT-SWL1510, JRC 525 NRD-LOWE HF 150-Elad FDM S2, Antenna LOOP ALA100M-FLAG Antenna West direction, Filter PAR Electronics – BCST-LPF, Lat. 45.25’.00’’ Long. 9.7’.00” -Locator grid. Jn 45 Nk, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) Last report was on 677.5, DXLD 14-38 ** LUXEMBOURG. Re: [BDXC-UK] 1440 RTL licence to be extended? The licence has been extended until the end of 2015, French article in L'Essential September 19 which translates well into English. L'essentiel Online - «J’ai l’impression que l’on se moque de nous» - Luxembourg MARNACH – Les antennes controversées devaient disparaître en 2014. Or, le Premier ministre Xavier Bettel a indiqué jeudi qu’elles ne seraient pas démonté... http://www.lessentiel.lu/fr/news/luxembourg/story/19611520 And one in German from Luxemburger Wort Petitionen: Marnach: Funkstille ab 2015? http://www.wort.lu/de/politik/petitionen-marnach-funkstille-ab-2015-541ff327b9b398870806967b (via Mike Barraclough, DXLD yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DXLD) Really glad to hear of this. The relays of RTL provide what is probably, at present, my favourite sign-on signals even if I do have to be awake early (UK time) to hear them! Thanks for sharing this (Dave Harries, ibid.) I find this 'interference' (and resultant failure?) of electrical equipment in Marnach village a strange thing - suddenly it seems after decades of use of the transmitter site presumably with few problems - is this simply pc's iphones, etc., as I doubt vacuum cleaners, food mixers, cookers, fridges (devices in use since the 1930s), would be suddenly affected. Music when one opens the 'fridge door - the news emanating from the cooker on the hour? Are the pulses after all these years 'burning out' food mixer motors - could this not be the poor manufacture (made in PRC) of the appliance? Also, there must be other powerful AM transmitters in other parts of Europe, potential 'domestic electrical interference' producers - in the UK (Droitwich etc) but these from personal experience might radiate some strong local impulses and be capable of powering by induction a light bulb held in the hand on the ground in the fields where the masts are sited - but move 1/10 mile off and the radiation fades to nothing - the lamp has no glow. What of the overhead electrical pylons and cables where in some places 'sending the cable underground' is not possible yet these are being used for broadband transmission too and local authorities still give planning permission for houses even schools near or under them! what hypocrisy. On the other hand are we, or is the rather poorly informed EU Assembly being hood-winked by a growing 'green' (or digital biased!) lobby. Is rather ignorant party politics, this time on the continent, replacing what we've known as the logic of AM transmission - disadvantages versus advantages - with an increasing disregard of the great importance of international terrestrial analogue broadcasting? And what of the one time vaunted DRM which it has been demonstrated whilst producing a nice clean signal on the few expensive receivers in yuppy-land splashes over and spoils reception of neighbouring normal AM stations >5 kHz either side of the DRM frequency. I realise normal analogue AM is far from perfect, but after 80 years experience to millions of LW/MW/SW listeners, surely our technicians have the ability (if needed) to modify the 'domestic equipment' with sufficiently sophisticated filters so that what has been a great technical facility as well and a democratic international sociological boon - yes including 'Lord Haw Haw of Essen' --- can continue and even improve. Do we want to depend on satellites and the concomitant dishes or cables or, God forbid, a reliance on easily censored ISP’s (Rog Parsons (BDXC 782), Hinckley. LE10 0NJ, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) It just would be interesting to know whether the houses at 100 metres from the antennas were built BEFORE the antennas were erected, or much time LATER, as around Vatican Radio's S. Maria Galeria and RAI's S. Palomba. 73 to all, (Stefano Valianti, Italy, ibid.) Marnach residents have been concerned since 2002 when the licence for the transmitter increased the power allowed from 250 to 1200 kW. As well as disturbance to electrical equipment, they were also concerned about possible links between strong electromagnetic fields and some cancers, Vatican Radio have had to address concerns about this from nearby residents to the Santa Maria de Galeria site in Italy due to legal action. German report on this from 2009 which translates quite well. http://www.wort.lu/de/lokales/wer-gewinnt-im-strahlenstreit-4f61e931e4b0860580ab9752 (Mike Barraclough, ibid., WORLD OF RADIO 1741) ** MADAGASCAR. 5010.94v, R. Madagascar (presumed). Noticed the signal here again and caught soft music with M vocal on peaks at 2326:35 and 2327:10, 2328:30. Not strong enough to ID though. First time to definitely hear audio. http://youtu.be/okiJJgsjrZA (11 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) 5010.13v, R. Madagasikara - Ambohidrano. Afro music programming at 2025. Fair signal but the carrier was jumping all over the place, varying between 5010.10 and 5010.16 kHz, Sept 25 (Rob Wagner, Victoria, Mount Evelyn DX Report blog via DXLD) ** MALAYSIA. Sept 26 with another instance of the Sarawak satellite audio feed not working, resulting in 9835 (Sarawak FM) being silent today from 1148 to 1312. Whereas 11665, normally Wai FM, was carrying the audio feed of Traxx FM instead, from 1148 to 1312. "Evening Buzz" with DJs playing pop songs; 1153-1200 "You are now listening to Reflections," produced by the "Islamic Society of North America" and "brought to you by the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia, JAKIM”; 1200-1203 and 1300-1310 news in English; fair. The usual frequency of Traxx FM (7295) has been silent for some time now. 5964.7, Radio Klasik. Sept 27. Normally the 1300 national news in vernacular is carried via Radio Klasik // Sarawak FM (9835) // Wai FM (11665), except today RK had special programming; live music show with many IDs. Audio attached with nice IDs. 6050v, Asyik FM, 1205, Sept 28 heard what for me was a new singing station ID, followed by the often heard singing ID. Audio attached (new ID 0:00-0:22). Recently noted with a slight daily shift in frequency (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11665, Traxx FM. Wasn't on before 1100, but found it with English news at 1107. 1109 promo which didn't seem to be English, then Pop music. Promo at 1125. 1128:55 possible mention of Traxx during English chatter by M and W DJs. M was reminiscing about events when he was 5 years old. Back to Pop music at 1133. 1137 short PSA. 1142 W gave their names Kevin and Jenna and mentioned "music power" then talk about their relationships including high school, and ended with Traxx FM ID at 1146:40, the into "Love Fool" by The Cardigans. Not very strong. 9835 didn't seem to be on either until about 1050. http://youtu.be/utdvPxGX77Y (26 Sept.) (Dave Valko, 26 September 2014 micro-DXpedition near Dunlo PA, RX: Perseus SDR, ANT: 315' Beverages (BOG) at 0 , Cumbre DX via DXLD) As Ron Howard has explained, Traxx FM is not supposed to be on this frequency but occasionally substitutes when feed from Wai FM is lost (gh, DXLD) 9835, RTM Kajang, pop music at 2155 UT Sept 28, S=9+5dB -70dBm. 11665, RTM Wai, Sarawak FM, some feed fault at Kajang, seems digital satellite dish field disturbtion "ON-and-OFF signal". At 2210 UT Sept 28, S=9+10dB -67dBm signal strength. vy73 de wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, Logged in to remote SDR unit at Perseus in Brisbane Australia, 2100- 2230 UT Sept 28, dxldyg via DXLD) ** MALI. 5995, Sept 30 at 0545, open carrier with fair signal, no doubt ORTM prior to *0600. Some hope for copy of the always undermodulated signal, but by 0609 recheck, CUBA is back on 6000, blowing it away (and Mali perhaps also fading down) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SEE UNID 9635 ** MEXICO. 540, Sept 27 at 0535-0537, three full IDs within two minutes from ``XETX y XHTX, ¡¡La Ranchera de Paquimé!!``, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua. Listed by IRCA as 5/1 kW, dominant signal altho when nulled, pop music is probably XEWA SLP, allegedly 150 kW ND. IRCA Mexican Log also shows XETX closing at 0400, but not so. Such frequent canned IDs are great for DXers but must be rather tiresome for local listeners (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 650, Sept 25 at 0512 UT, Los Mochis ads, mentioning Grupo Chávez, Radio Viva, but this is Radio 65, XETNT in Sinaloa. Mutually nullable with talk station in English, no doubt KGAB in WY --- and hardly any sign of WSM Nashville, unusual as it`s usually dominant (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Het on 710 out West --- For a while now I've been hearing a quite noticeable het on 710. I'm 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles. KSPN drops to 10 kW at night and has a major null in this direction to protect KIRO but comes in well at times. I'm 200 airline miles from Mexico so that's a possibility. XEMMM on 940 has been way off frequency for years. I've seen the station frequency measurement website but didn't bookmark it. Does anyone have the URL? 73. Sent from my iPhone (Dennis Gibson, IRCA via DXLD) I guess he hasn`t seen my several logs of 710- as being XEDP, Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua? This is the second inquiry lately from someone wondering about the source who doesn`t read my reports (gh, DXLD) A few of the past several "Mostly Mexican Medium Wave DX to Enid OK" postings from Glenn Hauser have mentioned that XEDP-710 in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua is off-frequency and causing a het on 710 (Steve Francis, Alcoa, Tennessee, IRCA via DXLD) Someone who does ** MEXICO. 870, Sept 28 at 1158, Mexican music, presumably not XETAR which is a daytimer starting at 1200. This one loops further south; remnant WWL easily nulled. 1200 SEP federal PSA, then PSAs for the state of Zacatecas! 1203 AM & FM ID for 89.1 and 870, Radio [two syllables]. No 870 Zacs in WRTH 2014 or IRCA 2013, but Cantú shows a newish entry still lacking any power info: 870 XEXM Radio Jerez + FM 89.1 Zacatecas, Zac. (Desde Jerez) IRCA cross-reference shows this call was previously on 1150. WRTH agrees it was 5/1 kW there, so 870 is presumably an upgrade; and full name of place is Jerez de García Salinas. It would have been the very last entry as ZC08 but the state-by-state station info ends with ZC07! Via Cantú the closest thing to a website is FB for the Zer Group, https://www.facebook.com/GrupoRadiofonicoZer but in which I find only a passing reference to Zacatecas in Sept 2013. Apparently the group has been growing, adding new outlets, mostly FM, over the past year. Header mentions these states only: Aguascalientes, Zacatecas. México DF, Jalisco, Colima, Sonora. In the DF, Zer has the 1650 X-bander which still eludes me. By 1203 a SAH is showing, and by 1209 XETAR is taking over 870 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 920, Sept 28 at 1205, choral Mexican anthem, heavy QRM but roughly from SSW, 1207 full ID but unreadable. Two from Coahuila and one from Chihuahua most likely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 980, Sept 28 at 1212, kids choral Mexican anthem at odd hour, maybe overslept, loops WSW, 1213 instead of full ID, right into ``Buenos días`` by live announcer, but no details, into music. Chihuahua or maybe Sonora likely. At 1217, not necessarily same station, 5-letter call which would only be XEDCH in Delicias, Chihuahua; and another call tentatively XENR which is Melchor Múzquiz, Coahuila (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Radio Educación on 6184.97 at 0132. Educación ID by male, also noisy here. Seems the 49MB are very noisy the last days. 73, (Maurits Van Driessche, Belgium, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) This was posted at 0133 UT Oct 2, which would seem to be immediately after the log; yet he calls this and others ``last night``, so really 24+ hours earlier on UT Oct 1? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MICRONESIA. 4755.56, Cross R., Sep 26 0816-0839, 35343-35242, English, Talk and music, ID at 0837 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC- R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONGOLIA [non]. Voice of Mongolia in English is being relayed via Kall, Germany, daily until 5 October at the following times: 1430-1500 on 7310 1730-1800 on 6005 1900-1930 on 3985 All three broadcasts confirmed here, with the transmission at 1900 very well heard. Fair signal on 7310 kHz right now (at 1430 Sunday) 73s (Dave Kenny, UK, Sept 28, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 9730, Myanma R. 1108:30 start of ABC English language program. Same program at the restaurant as heard before. "Would you like to see a menu", "Would you like to order now", "Would you like boiled or cooked rice", "Would you like a single or double brew", "Thanks for the use of the towel", "I apologize for any inconvenience", "Thank you, thank you, I'd like a cup of tea", etc. And program end. (27 August) 9730, Myanma R. Stayed on the air much later than usual this morning. Plug wasn't pulled until 1147. http://youtu.be/eVkATMI06rI (30 August) 9730, Myanma R. 1113 start of ABC English language lesson. "Can I talk to you", "And this one is pure silk", "Would you like to try it on", "Have you got one in Purple", Had a little rhyme at the end; "Have you got, have you got, have you got one in blue. Here you are, here you are, that color suites you"!!! 1228:35 station theme song. (17 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) [and non]. 5985.23, Sep 24 -1556*, Myanmar signed off at this time. From *1558- a strong station on 5985 = CRI with ID at 1600 (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin Sept 28 via DXLD) 9730, Myanmar Radio. Heard regularly in Massachusetts USA the last few weeks around 1100 to 1130 signoff in presumed Burmese. In the clear with some deep fades, stronger closer to 1130. English lessons on Wednesdays, e.g. 9/24. Pop music and ads or promos 1100-1109, then "Lesson 12: Shopping...Can I help you? ... How much is this cotton one? 55 dollars. How will you pay for that? ,,," 1118 W singing and M rapping both in the same song; other pop music to 1129. Sign-off routine mentioning Myanmar, theme music on traditional instrument, 1130* (Steve George, MA USA, Sept 25, cumbredx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DXLD) 7200.10, Myanmar Radio, 1430*, Sept 30. This brief daily schedule (about a half hour?) has good signal strength, but poor audio quality. 9730, Myanmar Radio, 1109 to 1125, Wednesday, Oct 1. Semi-readable through adjacent QRM; usual classical music at the start of the series of ads; 1114 singing station ID ("... town radio") and into the ABC/Radio Australia segment ("Lesson 13 - the tour guide") till 1125. http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/sites/default/files/vn_eft_13_001.pdf (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Just a reminder about the Mighty KBC broadcast 0000-0200 UT 7375 kHz on September 28, 2014. The "Forgotten Song" features a female singer from Georgia and her song from 1998. Also, don't forget about the "Mighty KBC Listener Appreciation Contest" with a chance to win a brand new Tecsun PL-660 receiver. 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, 2326 UT Sept 27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGST) Commemorating KBC Import/Export 25th Anniversary, KBC Import/Export announces The Mighty KBC Listener Appreciation Contest. The contest runs from May 1, 2014 until December 31, 2014. Prize: Brand new Tecsun PL-660 receiver including rechargeable batteries, ear buds, manual and soft case. More Tecsun PL-660 information at the KBC Import/Export website. Contest Rules: Send a valid reception report of a Mighty KBC broadcast. One report/entry per person per broadcast is acceptable. Please include the following items in the reception report. Date of reception. Time of reception. Frequency of reception. Program Details. Program Comments. Reception Conditions. Receiving Equipment. Contact information as we need a way to contact the winner. Program comments are very important. Only a report including program comments are considered as a valid contest entry. Please do not send same comment every time. Also, please send something meaningful other than “I really liked the show”, etc. Tell us what was enjoyed about the show. Tell us what was not liked about the show. Tell us if part of the show is very enjoyable compared to the other parts of the show. Tell us if a part of the show should never be heard again! Good or bad program comments are OK. Please describe/explain comment. Send report indicating The Mighty KBC Listener Appreciation Contest either by email or postal mail. Email address is themightykbc@gmail.com Postal address is The Mighty KBC Argonstraat 6 6718 WT Ede The Netherlands The more valid reports, the better chance a listener has of winning the contest. Winner Selection and Notification: One winner is determined in a random draw by KBC Import/Export. KBC Import/Export decision is final. Winner is responsible for paying any import taxes, duties, etc. Prize is not transferable. Prize is not exchangeable. Winner agrees to allow KBC Import/Export to use winner’s name and country of residence for promotional purposes. Winner provides a valid mailing address as we’ll be sending the prize via the postal mail. If winner does not provide a valid mailing address within a reasonable amount of time the winner is disqualified and KBC Import/Export has the right to draw another random name of valid entries as the winner. The Mighty KBC Listener Appreciation Contest is open to listeners around the world. Employees of KBC Import/Export, The Mighty KBC DJs/personalities and employees of the Nauen, Germany transmission site are not permitted to participate in the contest. The Mighty KBC Listener Appreciation Contest is sponsored by KBC Import/Export and Kraig Krist, KG4LAC. http://www.kbcradio.eu/ Posted by: (Mike Terry bdxc-UK yg via DXLD) Before there was at 1125z the "DX-Headlines" with Peter John http://www.dxhl.nl/ (Roger Thayer, Germany, Sept 27, dxldyg via DXLD) So far I`ve missed that segment, sometime during the first(?) hour on the 7375 service. From above website, no details but he appears to concentrate on ham radio propagational openings, DX-peditions (gh, DXLD) This time I was surprised by the "DX Headlines" by Peter John http://dxhl.nl/ - 5 minutes before the short KBC datacast. I used the broadcast of KBC for the European destination area. http://www.rhci-online.de/VoA_Radiogram_2014-09-27.htm (Roger Thayer, dxldyg via DXLD) Viz.: http://www.rhci-online.de/files/Studio1-2014-09-27_1125z_DX-Headlines_cut.mp3 <3-minute capsule - yes it`s just about nothing but ham DX-peditions (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** NEWFOUNDLAND. 2598-USB, Canada, VCP4 Placentia, 0048 to 0055 weather information 26 Sept (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, various wire antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CANADA 2749 ** NEW ZEALAND. CURRENT NEW ZEALAND SCHEDULE --- Don't go looking for the complete transmission from Radio New Zealand International at their website. It appears to be quite out-of-date. Check out the HFCC registrations instead; these seem to be closer to be the mark! http://www.hfcc.org (Rob Wagner, Victoria, Mount Evelyn DX Report blog via DXLD) Not really: includes overlaps, excessive registrations (gh, DXLD) ** NICARAGUA. 8989-USB, "El Pescador Preacher" 2333 to 2340 in Spanish with mention of Nicaragua 26 September (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, various wire antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 6089.85, R. Nigeria Kaduna. Wiped out by Caribbean Beacon at 2159. http://youtu.be/Cu_5A7r1RMQ (31 August) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) [and non]. 6090, University Network, Anguilla. Pastor M. Scott in English, clear till 0422 on 12/9, when s/on a carrier of Nigeria (on odd frequency & rumbling) and at 0430 with Muslim sermon. No any traces from Ethiopia despite of its strong transmitters on 5950, 6030 & 6110 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi Antenna), Oct Australian DX News via DXLD) But later 6089.86, R. Nigeria Kaduna. Was hearing this at 2105 with talk by M QRMed by 6090 Iran. Iran finally went off at 2121:47 leaving this in the clear and quite nice with native music. Possible mention of Kaduna. 2125:50 talk by M with mention of Nigeria at 2126:45 and occasional choral singing, 2127 canned apparent promo with discussion by M and W with mention of R. Nigeria at 2128:05. Live M announcer with nice "R. Nigeria Kaduna" ID at 2129:55, then brief music, and another canned announcement. with mention of Kaduna. 2131:25 great rolling of 'R's during talk by M. 2132:15 mention of Voice of Nigeria. Beautiful clear ID at 2152:50 when signal was peaking at S9+10!!!! http://youtu.be/cbPWZUtGzxA (16 Sept.) (Dave Valko, 18 September 2014 micro-DXpedition near Dunlo PA, RX: Perseus SDR, ANT: 315' Beverages (BOG) at 80 and 0 , CumbreDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DXLD) ** NIGERIA. Voice of Nigeria, Oct. 1 0555*, 15120: heard just for a few seconds, a very strong AM signal, English talk, loud modulation. Sorry, I could not measure the exact frequency just in that moment. *0618-0700+, DRM-like noise. Sorry I don't have a DRM receiver. M. Grabovski reports music there in A-DX at 0843, but distorted. At 0655+, AM carrier there again too, traces of female yoice, even frequency, probably VON from Ikorodu again. Yesterday, Sept. 30, strong signal on 9690, 1630-1730, with relatively good modulation. Previous days saw only irregular transmissions with very low modulation on the even channels 9690/15120 AM. DRM 15120 is usually on from 1800. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Münster, Germany, http://www.muenster.org/uwz/ms-alt/africalist/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 3394.72, PIRATE (NA) 'Old Time R.' Signal already here at 1940, and music plainly audible during a peak at 1943. (27 August) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DXLD) 90m in the daytime, so can`t be too far from Pennsylvania (gh, ibid.) 6770, PIRATE (NA), 'Old Time R.' Was able to hear this station at mid- day 1649. Usual old radio/TV programs. http://youtu.be/fPSzG8eweZI (1 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) 3194.706, PIRATE (NA) 'Old Time R.' Found here with good signal at 0838 with usual old radio and TV programs. Was sandwiched between 3185 WWRB and 3215 WWCR, neither of which caused any QRM though. http://youtu.be/YkoGk2-Es60 (6 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) 3204.71, PIRATE (NA) 'Old Time R.' 0950 with usual old radio/TV programs. Fair but noisy. (12 Sept.) (Dave Valko, 12 September 2014 micro-DXpedition near Dunlo PA, RX: Perseus SDR, ANT: 315' Beverage (BOG) at 0 , Cumbre DX via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DXLD) Pirates --- Old Radio Program Station: 3229.7/AM, 0141, 0354, 21-Sep; Barely audible at 0141; much better at 0354 with Lustre Creme shampoo ad into music program. SIO=2+52 3229.7/AM; 0004-0015+, 24-Sep; Amos & Andy episode. SIO=352+ (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! WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3229.7, PIRATE, Old Time Radio, at 0142, on 24 Sept. The station is playing a song from the 50’s. At 0146, a comedian came on and commented about the song along with a female character who was talking. An African American sounding character named Roger was on also. Poor (John Cooper, Lebanon, PA, Winradio-G33DDC, Com Radio CR- 1A, RF Space-SDR-IQ, Sangean ATS-909X w/ Clear Mod, Grundig Satellit 750, Wellbrook ALA 1530+, Super Sloper Tuned All Band Antenna, PARS- SWL End Fed, NASWA Flashsheet Sept 28 via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DXLD) Pirates: 6770/AM, 2327-2340+, 27-Sep; Benex ad, American freedom PSA; program promo "Mum deodorant brings you Duffy's Tavern on these radio stations", NBC spot into unfamiliar comedy program -- apparently British. SIO=2+53- Old Radio Program Station: 3229.7/AM, 0007-0018+, 1-Oct; Amos & Andy episode. Fair, best in SSB. They may have come on about 0000 as checking about 2350 there was only a weak carrier (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. A show from The Crystal Ship is expected to be relayed this evening, likely on 6876 kHz AM, starting around 2330-0000 UT. 73s and FIGHT for FREE RADIO! (John Poet, The Crystal Ship / TCS Shortwave Relay Network http://www.tcsshortwave.com Join Our Pirate Radio Forum! Free Radio Cafe Pirate Radio forum http://freeradiocafe.com/forum/ FRC Home http://freeradiocafe.com Free Radio Cafe On Facebook https://www.facebook.com/FreeRadioCafe Follow FRC Loggings on Twitter https://twitter.com/FreeRadioCafe YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/FreeRadioCafe The Free Radio Weekly: A weekly Email publication with the most current pirate loggings and information now being published anywhere! Send your free subscription requests to freeradioweekly@gmail.com and tell 'em that we sent ya! (via gh, 2321 UT Sept 24, dxldyg via DXLD) 6876-AM, Sept 25 at 0030, rock music, fair signal, checked following tip from John Poet that a TCS relay would be on tonight, starting between 2330 and 0000. After, ``Sugar, Sugar``, 0036 ``You`re riding The Crystal Ship Bubblegum Express on the TCS Relay Network``; 0037 ``I`m a Believer``; 0047 weakening a bit, announcement with ID as above, website; 0110 still going with contact info, Tarzan yodel (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. YHWH, 11595 AM, 9-14-14, 0204, poor sig, heard talk then children's/comedy tune, then ID, then off. YHWH, 7340 AM, 9-20-14, 0320, poor/static, barely heard male voice, saw notice on HF underground (William Hassig, IL, Free Radio Weekly Sept 27 via DXLD) 11570, Sept 26 at 1410, here`s the obsessive anti-Christ, pro-Yahweh guy preaching with his usual lo-fi but punchy audio. 1411, ``Thank you so much for tuning in to Station YHWH``, and back to stuff from Ezekiel. Still going past 1425. Eyeballing on the analog dial of FRG-7, I at first assumed it was 11565, one of his announced and preferred frequencies, but not now. It`s slightly lower from 11570 than WRMI is from 7570, but I`m not sure which one is further off nominal, assuming I can rely on matching precision of the Frog`s MHz-tuning. His 11570 signal is stronger than the 11580 combination of WRMI and KTWR, but weaker than the other gospel huxters on 11550, 11590, 11715. KJES, BTW, also invokes the name Yahweh, hardly conventionally Catholic as they pretend to be. I`m guessing Station YHWH is at least 10 kW, and with its frequent and reliable appearances, could easily have been pinpointed by now if anyone, even the FCC, cared to do so (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. PIRATE-NA. Radio Free Whatever, 6925 USB, 2352- 0048*, 09-26/27-14 SIO: 444. Dick Weed and Stavin talking about Stavin's addiction to Mtn Dew. Played request for Dick Pistek along with tunes by Jack White, XTC, U2, Bear Hands, NIN, Two Door Cinema Club, etc. Nice entertaining program as usual (Chris Lobdell, Box 80146, Stoneham, MA 02180 USA, Receivers: Eton E1, NRD-545, Aerials: G5RV, 40 Meter Dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, Oct 1 at 0113, fair signal with pirate music I don`t recognize, XLR8 IDs between, at 0115, 0121; still on past 0132 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1170, Sunday Sept 28 at 1156 UT, rock music from KFAQ + IBOC noise, also after 1200 UT. This is supposed to be a talk station. Schedule at http://www.1170kfaq.com/shows/lineups shows Sunday at 7-7:30 am [CDT], `The Place for Parties`, with no further link, but I suppose that could explain the music, altho who`s partying at 7 am Sunday? (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1430 & 1450, Sept 29 at 1927 UT, exactly same classic rock tunes synchronized on these two weak frequencies, daytime groundwave on caradio from a quiet location in central Enid, Golden Chick parking lot. Each frequency has two OK stations at our periphery: 1430 with KALV Alva and KTBZ Tulsa; 1450 with KSIW Woodward and KGFF Shawnee. By format, we know which pair these have to be: KTBZ and KSIW are sportstalk, so not them, but KALV and KGFF. While comparing synchrony also with the G8 portable held out the window, I am getting a 4 Hz SAH on 1430. (The G8 is normally my companion at restaurant lunches, but Golden Chick is a Faraday Cage so I have to sit outside just to pick up KOSU 91.7; fortunately, plenty of shade and a nice day except for traffic noise, sirens, and occasional fumes) (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. STATIONS GOING DARK: 1560, KKUZ, OK, Sallisaw – License expired June 1, 2005, only now deleted from FCC database (AM Switch, NRC DX News Oct 6 via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. You can search using this: http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/travelers-information-stations-search You can search by state and frequency, etc. (Paul Walker, NRC-AM via DXLD) So I look up the one at Great Salt Plains State Park, I have visited and reported lately, to find that nothing about the Park is mentioned in the FCC info about it: Callsign: WQCL720 Licensee: Alfalfa County - OSU Extension Service Radio Service: Public Safety Pool, Conventional (PW) City: Cherokee, OK Status: Active Grant Date: 04/04/2005 Expiration: 04/04/2015 Site: 1 Address: 9 miles north of Jet, OK on SH38 City: Jet, OK County: ALFALFA Coordinates: 36 44' 33.6" N, 98 7' 56.4" W Frequency: 1.61000000 V FCC search of TIS for OKLAHOMA finds only a few, besides the above: WNWU499 530 & 1610 in OKC [maybe HAR for construxion areas?] WQBX491, 1610 at Turner Falls, Davis OK, at US Hwy 77 and second site on 1670 at 13 mi NW of Ardmore WQUB705, City of Davis, 1610 at Turner Falls, and 1670 at Davis [these would appear to be duplicative if not mutually QRMing] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 31 & RF 32, Sept 29 at 1510 UT, ``TV-OK``, KXOK-LD Enid, has crashed, now nothing but black and silence on its main channel and its intercity relay channel. It could go on like this for days, weeks, or even months with nobody noticing or caring. Anyhow it`s an improvement over the few boring infomercials they were playing over and over and over, no real programming, altho Zap2It and TV Guide still think it`s with RetroTV, abandoned long ago. Meanwhile, 31-2 continues with color bars, PSIP labeled M-FOX, and 31-3 with same labeled Azteca, which has also been the case for many months. Recheck 24 hours later, Sept 30 at 1450 past 1640 UT: still the same. RF 31 & RF 32, by Oct 1, TV-OK = KXOK-LD Enid has resumed ``programming`` of nothing but infomercials instead of black screen, but still no audio over the air except surging hums and buzzes, checked at 1640 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also INTERNATIONAL VACUUM [and non] ** OMAN. 9500, Sept 26 at 0044, no signal from RSO; nor on 15355, but a JBA carrier on 15140 which could be this. [and non]. 15140, Sept 27 at 0105, Qur`an barely audible undermixing with Chinese music and talk, i.e. CRI via Xi`an during this hour only. 15140 is supposed to be used by RSO at 14-22 only, but they keep forgetting(?) to change to 15355 at 2200, and to 9500 at 0000, where nothing is heard tonight. When 9500 is really on, that signal is good (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15355, Radio Sultanate Oman, backlobe signal of Thumrait 315degr outlet, scheduled 22-24 UT S=7 or -84dBm fair signal into Australia remote SDR unit. Phone-in program in Arabic, talk by two women. vy73 de wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, Logged in to remote SDR unit at Perseus in Brisbane Australia, 2100-2230 UT Sept 28, dxldyg via DXLD) 9500, Sept 30 at 0112, RSO, Qur`an, poor-fair with flutter, so on correct frequency tonight. 15355, Oct 1 at 0107, VP signal with algo, presumably RSO, since it`s missing from proper 9500, and other alternate 15140 bears nothing but Chinese from Xi`an (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. 17830, R. Pakistan - Islamabad. Lo-Fi audio quality (heavy distortion) at 0120 with long religious chants and occasional lectures in Urdu. I haven't heard this station in a long time, poor signal on Sept 26 (Rob Wagner, Victoria, Mount Evelyn DX Report blog via DXLD) ** PALESTINE. HAMAS RADIO STATION IN GAZA REPORTS ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF ISLAMIST MOVEMENT'S RULE --- By Terrence McCoy, GAZA CITY -- Outside a darkened radio studio on a Tuesday afternoon, it was five minutes to showtime. And the Hamas media man had just arrived. Ibrahim Daher, director of Hamas-controlled al-Aqsa radio, peered into the studio, where an announcer chattered into a microphone. Images of masked men firing rockets and machine guns flashed on nearby computers and televisions. Everything, Daher said, looked perfect. "This is our new studio, where we now do all of our broadcasts," said Daher, who has steered al-Aqsa's news coverage in the Gaza Strip for more than a decade. "During the war, an Israeli missile destroyed our old station -- the second time Israel has targeted us -- so we had to move here. The Israelis try to destroy al-Aqsa, but they cannot." The al-Aqsa media operation -- which includes a TV station, a production company and a Web site -- has massaged and promulgated the Hamas narrative since the days of the second Palestinian uprising and today represents one of the most resilient aspects of the movement. While budget deficits have devastated other parts of the Hamas-led Gaza government, its media wing has hummed from breezy offices overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. In radio-crazy Gaza, where more than a dozen local stations compete for the ears of 1.8 million residents, the airwaves carry the emotional and political rhythms of life. But no other station has the reach and influence of al-Aqsa, which is essentially Gaza's official state media, analysts said. During Hamas's recent war with Israel, it was the go-to source for news. And now, as Israel and Hamas wage a media war over the conflict's winners and losers, the al-Aqsa team appears to have kicked into overdrive. "Hamas is very good at media," said Gaza political analyst Talal Okal. "People listen to them every day, and every day they speak frankly and fondly about Hamas. Because of the radio and television, many people believe in Hamas." But, he added, al-Aqsa doesn't reflect all the facts -- just those that make Hamas look good. In the eyes of many Palestinians, Hamas looks very good right now. A recent poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research showed a surge in Hamas's popularity after the conflict, which killed more than 2,100 Gazans and more than 70 Israelis. Despite the uneven death toll, 79 percent of Palestinians said Hamas had won the war. Whether al-Aqsa can claim credit for that is unclear. "There's a tremendous emotional component to living in a place like Gaza during a war," said Matthew Levitt of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "Now that it's right after the war, those numbers" may drop. But Daher, behind a broad oak desk on a recent day, predicted Hamas's public approval would last -- thanks in part to al-Aqsa. "We believe we are the leading reason behind Hamas's popularity," he said. "In any Hamas action, we spread the word about it and then stop any rumors about the party. Many people listen to us across the Gaza Strip." Al-Aqsa's strategy for covering news is simple, Daher said. "Our policy has always been to keep silent about certain news." "If there was bad news during the war, or something went wrong, we just kept silent about it," he said. "And now we mostly keep silent about the blockade, and that Hamas wasn't able to lift it during the war," he added, referring to Israel's partial siege of Gaza. And although Daher didn't acknowledge it, al-Aqsa has historically carried more-militant themes as well. In late 2006, months before Hamas violently seized power in Gaza and kicked out Fatah, the Palestinian political faction that governs the West Bank, the strip seethed with unrest. On al-Aqsa radio, Hamas called Fatah members "mercenary death squads" and "coup plotters." And Fatah called Hamas "child killers." Onlookers feared that the rhetoric could incite a civil war. "If we wanted, we could burn down Gaza," Daher told the Associated Press then. "Radios play at incitement. There's no neutral radio in Gaza; it's all factional." Once Hamas -- an Islamist group that Israel and the United States consider a terrorist organization -- seized control of Gaza, al-Aqsa took aim at Israel in a children's television program called "Tomorrow's Pioneers." Critics say the show, which featured a Mickey Mouse-inspired character, was a thinly veiled attempt to incite violence against Israelis. Such programs have given fuel to pro-Israel think tanks, such as the Middle East Media Research Institute, that scour Palestinian media for what they say is terrorism propaganda. Pro-Palestinian groups also scrutinize the Israeli media for bias. During the recent conflict, that long-simmering media clash reached full boil. While Israel compared Hamas to the Islamic State, al-Aqsa TV broadcast a slick music video that rollicked through several frames of rockets, masked fighters and bedraggled Israelis. "Exterminate the cockroach nest," Hamas singers crooned in Hebrew. "Expel all the Zionists. . . . Rain upon them many rockets. Make their world into a horror." In Gaza City, al-Aqsa radio broadcast segments that encouraged Gazans to endure the fighting -- until an Israeli airstrike destroyed its studios. Some Gazans said they derived hope from al-Aqsa's reports, but others doubted their veracity. "We aren't supernatural human beings," local journalist Abeer Ayyoub said. "We're normal, and they put a lot of pressure on us to continue fighting. . . . We were very tired." That sentiment reflects the complexities in Gaza, where several residents expressed pride over Hamas's willingness to fight Israel but were embittered by the war's lack of results. Amna Abu Harbeed said al-Aqsa radio couldn't obfuscate Gaza's harsh realities: high unemployment, widespread destruction and dim prospects for change. "This wasn't a victory at all, like Hamas says," she said on the crowded street below al-Aqsa's studios. "This was a defeat. What did Hamas liberate? Nothing! We lost a lot, and this was a disaster for the Palestinian people." Daher conceded that Gaza has significant problems. But he said that doesn't mean al-Aqsa needs to talk about it. "The main thing we stress is the activity of the resistance, and how much people support it," Daher said. "We aren't interested in showing other things, like any success by the Israelis or how businesses were hurt by the war, or Gazans who have fled the city because of it." He thought for a moment. "We choose what we cover." (c) The Washington Post Company (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) WTFK? ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3274.992, NBC Southern Highlands 1058 M with speech in a deliberate manner. Giving a P.O. Box address at 1104. Finally ending at 1107 with alternating voice-over talk with lively island music, then continuous song. Studio M announcer briefly at 1110, then live speech again. Best heard yet. (15 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3385, NBC East New Britain. Nice to see this back on at 0940. Some ute QRM. 1052 very low modulation sounding like a speech by M. Modulation up the normal at 1058 with "Fields of Gold" by Sting, then into NBC news at 1101 starting with usual percussion/bird call signature. Fair signal and no other PNGs noted. (22 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) 3385, NBC East New Britain, Rabaul heard at 1112 on 9/22/14, a woman speaking in presumed Tok Pisin. Fair-to-poor (Bob Brossell, Pewaukee, WI, JRC NRD-545 (Godar DXR-1000 antenna); Eton E1; Sony ICF SW77, NASWA Flashsheet Sept 28 via DXLD) 3385, Radio East New Britain, Rabaul, 1100 to 1110 threshold signal 26 September (XM, Cedar Key, South [sic] Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E5, via Wilkner; and Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, various wire antennas; and DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3385, NBC East New Britain, Rabaul. Heard daily now; 1125 to 1231* cut off, on Oct 1; decent reception; usual numerous ads (for electrical & construction work, etc.) in English & Pidgin; 1125-1127 daily spot with American preacher. Recent ID attached (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nice recording! This one is almost impossible here in Sweden due to a heavy ute signal on 3385+. Not even 3275, which has been the strongest in the evenings here, can be heard despite a perfectly free frequency (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin Sept 28 via DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7324.96 [non log]. Wantok Radio Light continues to be silent. Recently CRI had been off the air after their 1257*; nothing at all on 7325, through Sept 30, but on Oct 1, CRI was back on 7325 again post-1300 (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4747.61, R. Huanta Dos Mil, OC as early as 0942 t/in. Band NA (not orchestral) start at 1002:16. 1005 music briefly then canned opening ID announcement by M starting with "Buenos días" and ending with electronic shooting SFX, and into campesina music. 1009 live M DJ with mention of the estudios, back to campo music, and M returned at 1014. Played short canned promos by W during songs. Nice ID by live M at 1018:18. Not that good of a signal but readable. They usually start the transmitter in mid-program after 1000 but was on long before s/on this morning. (31 August) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) ** PERU. 4747, Perú, Radio Huanta 2000, Huanta, Ayacucho, 1020 strong signal, vocalist good music, YL DJ at 1035 (XM, Cedar Key, South [sic] Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E5, via Wilkner; and Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, various wire antennas; and DX LISTENING DIGEST) date? From log report covering 16-27 Sept (gh, DXLD) 4747.61, R. Huanta Dos Mil. Signal on at 1000:55 with campesina music in progress. Very good signal strength but modulation a little low. M announcer DJ talk with phone caller, possible station reporter and mentions of R. Huanta Dos Mil. 1005-1013 long ad block with many mentions of Huanta, Peruana, phone numbers, addresses, Inca, politica, and an ID at 1015:30 to end. Into Huayno song, then M DJ returned at 1020 with ID at 1020:35 and another at 1021:10 ending announcement. Back to music. (26 Sept.) (Dave Valko, 26 September 2014 micro- DXpedition near Dunlo PA, RX: Perseus SDR, ANT: 315' Beverages (BOG) at 0 , Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** PERU. 4774.9, R. Tarma. Great harp OA campo music at 1027 t/in with M and W shouting during song mentioning Junín, and Tarma. 1030 usual "Música Folklórica Nacional" program ID. Never noticed before but it ends with "muchas gracias por la sintonía, bon [sic] dia Ecuador". Then nice promo/ID with mention of "FM estereo" and ending with jingle, then ad by W, and voice-over announcement by live DJ. Good signal!! http://youtu.be/RUzFngBtNHU (12 Sept.) (Dave Valko, 12 September 2014 micro-DXpedition near Dunlo PA, RX: Perseus SDR, ANT: 315' Beverage (BOG) at 0 , Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** PERU. 4789.82, R. Visión. Finally getting some usable audio with OA campo music, 0815 full canned ID by M with frequency and mention of Peru between songs. Good. but had the buzzing problem. (12 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) 4789.82, R. Vision. Canned ID by M during song at 0919:05, same as heard at home before I left. Another ID with frequency at 0930. http://youtu.be/z__DzrerMl0 (12 Sept.) (Dave Valko, 12 September 2014 micro-DXpedition near Dunlo PA, RX: Perseus SDR, ANT: 315' Beverage (BOG) at 0 , Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** PERU. 4810, Perú, Radio Logos, Chazuta, Tarapoto, 1010 with enchantic Peruvian flauta, enjoying strong signal 19 September (XM, Cedar Key, South [sic] Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E5, via Wilkner; and Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, various wire antennas; and DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4810, R. Logos. Beautiful OA campo music from 0956 tune/in. Canned ID with frequency by W at 1005:10 between songs. 1029:00 end of song and rooster crowing. Surprised to find there was no ute here this morning until 1030. CODAR was still hammering away, though. http://youtu.be/VFHzmfMF67s (23 Sept.) (Dave Valko, 23 September 2014 micro-DXpedition near Dunlo PA, Perseus SDR, ANT: 315' Beverages (BOG) at 0 , Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** PERU. 4939.7, Sep 26 2356, R San Antonio, Villa Atalaya back again after several weeks absence. Nice quiet music. S4 (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin Sept 28 via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DXLD) 4939.92, Perú, Radio San Antonio de Atalaya, 2325 to 0045, music at tune in, om español 2333. Then new music, om and yl at 2338, music on the hour no ID, fade at 0045 under t-storm static 26/27 September (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, various wire antennas, WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4985.505, R. Voz Cristiana. 2311 found with W announcer talking in Spanish, then music after 2314. No RTTY this evening. W returned at 2316. Went off at 2318:40 in the middle of the W talking. Just when it was starting to get IDable. Tried to parallel the webstream but "connection refused". (19 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) ** PERU. 5024.95, R. Quillabamba, 1006 found Rebelde had just an OC and this was fairly clear listening in LSB. Same M announcer heard last time Rebelde was off. Huayno song, then 1012 M returned with talk including mention of Cusco, Peru, TC, song announcement, and another Huayno. 1015 M DJ, mention of Quillabamba, campesina, amigos oyentes. Rebeldes OC got stronger over the next 10 min. and this got more difficult. http://youtu.be/XUNEtZKFZa8 (29 Sept.) 73 and best DX (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S, and 153 foot Delta Loop, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** PERU. 5980, Sept 26 at 0038, JBA carrier from presumed R. Chaski but recheck at 0105 no carrier, so may have reset timer instead of cutting off after 0112 which it would have reached by now. 5970 Brasil carrier still audible. 5980, R. Chaski having been off by 0105 UT Sept 26, on Sept 27 I am monitoring from 0059, JBA carrier, and it goes off circa 0102* but I am not watching my watch at the moment for an exact timing; to be refined following another reset, as the ~6-second later precession must begin again. 5980, Sept 28 at 0100, JBA carrier from R. Chaski until cutoff at 0101:53*, confirming autotimer reset to some 10 minutes earlier in the last few days. 5980, Oct 1 at 0053, VP carrier and some modulation from R. Chaski until autocutoff at 0102:10.5*, which is 17.5 seconds later than one trinite ago = averaging 5 and 5/6 later per nite (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 9674.85, Pacífico R. 0952-0959 soft religious music with M vocalist in Spanish. Really nice peak at 0958:35. 0959 M announcer with mention of "...América Latina con nueva ??stra en ?? emisore", then OA choral NA 0959 to at least 1001 when my recording ended. This was found on the Perseus recording the next day when John Herkimer`s tip (Alfredo Cañote via Horacio Nigro in DXplorer) came. http://youtu.be/kTZGVPnAD5A (5 Sept.) (Dave Valko, 5 September 2014 micro-DXpedition near Dunlo PA, RX: Perseus SDR, ANT: 315' Beverage (BOG) at 10 , Cumbre DX via DXLD) 9674.847, Pacífico R. Found here at 0916 with respectable carrier and M announcer very briefly, but audio almost at 0. M announcer again at 0918:10 sounded like Spanish with possible mention of oyentes, and shouting at 0918:55. 0920:30 and 0926 M again. The website audio wasn't working so couldn't //. Nice to see this one back on. (6 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) Still there a month later? ** PERU. 9675, UnID LA in Spanish at 0440 on 12/9 with tiny signal (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi Antenna), Oct Australian DX News via DXLD). Radio Del Pacífico said to be reactivated here (ed. Craig Seager, ibid.) ** PHILIPPINES. 15190, R. Pilipinas/PBS. 1727 tone. 1730 W with anthem-like vocal song, 1731:00 English ID/frequency announcement by M over fanfare, Asian Pop music, news by M at 1734-1736, several canned announcements. W host with news 1738-1747, then canned M announcement. Came back at 1925 and found Pop music which went right to 1929 ID/frequency announcement by M and off the air before he finished. Much better on the Wellbrook. // to the Radyo Pilipinas/DZRP webstream which was 23 seconds behind. (17 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) ** PORTUGAL. Antena 1 on 666 now in all day on the new antenna. Two synchros noted. News and mention of futebol in Portuguese at 1100. Two 10 kW stations near their coast at 740-780 miles from me. I am 55 miles from the coast, south of Limerick. Omni 2,500 foot electric fence beverage quad antenna into various receivers (Brock Whaley, Ireland for DXLD) ** PRIDNESTROVYE. MOLDOVA (presumed): 11510, Radio Miraya; 0310-0331+, 29-Sep; Afro pop music; English ID and program promos at 0320; LL [unknown language] ID at 0330. SIO=353+. Aoki lists Radio Denge Kurdistan (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) And Miraya supposed to be from same site at same time on 11560, so swapped feeds? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. Received from Christina Gil 12 of QSL-cards series, 1999 - by painter Nicolae Grigorescu. For the reception from 1 to 12 August 2014. And it's confirmed for September 1, 2014 the new series - Pelisor Castle. Now I try to hope to get cards for the years 2000- 2001, for collection from 1999 to 2014 (Vladimir Pivovarov, Boyarka, Ukraine / "deneb-radio-dx" via QSL World via RusDX Sept 28 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Sept 29: Adygeyan Radio in Adygeyan 1700 on 7325 Armavir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHZOItuJiz4&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Voice of Russia (hfcc reg.) Adyghe 1700-1900 7325 Armavir 100 Arabic 1600-2100 6120 Irkutsk 250 1600-2100 6195 Sanct-Peterburg 200 1700-2000 5975 Sanct-Peterburg 200 Chinese 1000-1400 5900 Khabarovsk 100 1000-1400 6045 Irkutsk 100 1000-1400 6075 Khabarovsk 100 1000-1200 7300 Khabarovsk 100 1000-1400 9450 Khabarovsk 100 1000-1400 9695 Petropavlo Kam. 250 1000-1400 9865 Petropavlo Kam. 200 1000-1400 11925 Petropavlo Kam. 200 1000-1400 13860 Irkutsk 250 1300-1500 11990 Novosibirsk 250 German 0700-0900 9625 Kaliningrad 15 1000-1200 9850 Kaliningrad 15 1500-1900 6140 Moskva 40 1500-1700 11635 Armavir 500 1600-1900 12035 Moskva 40 English 0000-0400 6100 Armavir 100 0000-0200 6120 Armavir 500 0200-0600 12010 Petropavlo Kam. 200 0200-0600 12070 Petropavlo Kam. 250 0300-0500 17530 Khabarovsk 100 0300-0600 17855 Khabarovsk 100 0600-0900 7350 Khabarovsk 100 0600-0900 13800 Moskva 40 0600-1000 15725 Moskva 40 0800-1000 9850 Kaliningrad 15 1000-1200 5935 Irkutsk 100 1000-1200 12030 Irkutsk 250 1000-1200 12035 Irkutsk 15 1000-1200 13805 Irkutsk 250 1000-1200 15270 Armavir 100 1100-1500 15670 Novosibirsk 250 1200-1500 9850 Kaliningrad 15 1300-1400 13805 Irkutsk 250 1400-1500 5935 Irkutsk 100 1400-1800 6010 Moskva 200 1400-2200 9450 Moskva 250 1500-1700 5975 Irkutsk 250 1500-1800 6185 Irkutsk 250 1500-1800 9560 Petropavlo Kam. 250 1500-2200 12070 Moskva 250 1600-1800 6070 Novosibirsk 250 1600-1800 9490 Novosibirsk 250 1700-1900 9820 Moskva 200 1800-2100 9900 Irkutsk 15 2100-2400 11655 Khabarovsk 100 2200-0100 17770 Petropavlo Kam. 200 2300-0300 11965 Irkutsk 250 Persian 1500-1700 5975 Sanct-Peterburg 200 French 1700-2000 9880 Kaliningrad 15 1700-2000 11635 Armavir 500 1800-2000 5960 Kaliningrad 15 1800-2100 6010 Moskva 200 Hindi 1300-1400 7320 Irkutsk 15 Japanese 1200-1400 5935 Irkutsk 100 1200-1400 5965 Irkutsk 100 1200-1400 7340 Petropavlo Kam. 250 Kurdish 1500-1700 7435 Moskva 200 1600-1700 6175 Armavir 100 Portuguese 0000-0600 7240 Por Moskva 500 2200-2400 12060 Por Armavir 500 0000-0500 6195 Sanct-Peterburg 800 0100-0300 17530 Khabarovsk 100 0100-0300 17855 Khabarovsk 100 0200-0600 11935 Irkutsk 100 0200-0400 11990 Moskva 250 0300-0600 11900 Petropavlo Kam. 250 0300-0700 11985 Armavir 100 0600-1400 7280 Irkutsk 100 0700-1500 11975 Armavir 100 0700-1500 13820 Moskva 250 0800-1200 9870 Moskva 200 0900-1400 9625 Kaliningrad 15 0900-1100 15170 Tchita 250 1100-1400 6195 Sanct-Peterburg 200 1100-1400 17830 Moskva 250 1200-1400 7300 Khabarovsk 100 1200-1400 15270 Armavir 100 1200-1600 15495 Moskva 250 1300-1800 12015 Irkutsk 240 1300-1400 15660 Armavir 500 1400-2200 6015 Moskva 200 1400-1700 6035 Irkutsk 100 1400-1600 6145 Moskva 200 1400-1800 7285 Moskva 100 1400-1600 9625 Novosibirsk 250 1500-1900 6045 Moskva 250 1500-1700 6070 Armavir 100 1500-1900 7330 Kaliningrad 120 1500-1800 15640 Moskva 500 1500-1800 15660 Armavir 500 1600-1800 5960 Kaliningrad 15 1600-1900 6110 Novosibirsk 250 1600-1800 7335 Armavir 300 1700-2000 6070 Armavir 100 1700-1900 9800 Moskva 250 1800-1900 7220 Armavir 200 1900-1500 7230 Iakutsk 100 1900-2100 9820 Moskva 200 2000-2130 6045 Moskva 250 2000-2200 9780 Moskva 40 Spanish 0000 0200 12060 Armavir 500 2200 2400 7240 Moskva 500 Turkish 1300 1600 6175 Armavir 100 1400 1500 7435 Moskva 200 1700 1900 7435 Moskva 200 Urdu 1400 1500 7320 Irkutsk 15 1400 1500 15660 Armavir 500 Vietnamese 1200 1300 12030 Irkutsk 250 1200 1300 13805 Irkutsk 250 (via Roberto Scaglione, Sicily, Oct 1, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) So far it`s: IMAGINARY! (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Hi Glenn, I have just checked a couple of the frequencies of Voice of Russia, and their supposed return to shortwave, and nothing, no DRM no analog. Think someone got some outdated data! All the best (Chris Lewis, England, 0809 UT Oct 1, WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: A new schedule has been uploaded to HFCC from GFC for The Voice of Russia from 1st October including English to North America and Europe http://hfcc.org/data/schedbyfmo.php?seas=A14&fmor=GFC Today being the 1st of October I have just completed a scan of the frequencies that have been registered between 1400 and 1500 UTC, but hear nothing from VoR - not even Kaliningrad 9850 DRM. So is it a "paper exercise" or are they waiting until the start of B-14 ? (Noel R. Green (NW England), dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DXLD) None heard 0000 Oct 2 except JBA carrier on 7240, Tibet? English to NAm supposedly at 02-06 on 12010 12070 Pet/Kams (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not heard either Voice of Russia is supposedly reviving SW after reorganization putting it under control of the military; an extensive new schedule was registered with HFCC effective October 1. However, VOR itself could not confirm this start date, and we certainly doubted it, unlike some other editors who assumed it must be true. So we checked out some of the scheduled frequencies before 2400 UT October 1: nothing on 12060, JBA carrier at 2358 on 7240, but probably trace of scheduled Tibet. After 0000 UT October 2: nothing on 17770, 12060, 6195, 6100 (and 6120 blocked by 6115 WWCR). These were supposedly in Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, English. See imaginary schedule at http://hfcc.org/data/schedbyfmo.php?seas=A14&fmor=GFC also with English to North America supposedly at 0200-0600 via Pet/Kam on 12010 & 12070. Did not check these until later, 0534: nothing on 12010, but algo very poor on 12070 --- it so happens two stations are already scheduled there and then: DW in Portuguese via Rwanda and Iran in Dari via Kamalabad! Chris Lewis and Noel Green in England checked some more VOR listed frequencies in the morning and afternoon of October 1 and came up with: nothing (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yelizovo transmitter site now seen in SV: Nice roadside views of the Yelizovo, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky site. Full curtain arrays viewable. The link below is imagery of just one bank of the Curtain Arrays. 53.191022N 158.409775E - Google Maps http://goo.gl/maps/H72ds (Ian, SWSites yg via DXLD) ** RWANDA. 6055, Radio Rwanda, 1507-1531, Sept 30. Via long path; sounded like French and Kinyarwanda; news; Hi-Li music and pop African songs; ads; almost fair. Need to check at 1500 to see if they have a news segment in English, as they did at one time? (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RWANDA [non]. 17540, MADAGASCAR, R. Impala (via Madagascar). Signal on 1758 [sic; must be *1658], long Hi-life Pop song, 1705 R. Mara ID and talk by W, then nice English ID and mission statement for R. Impala at 1706 followed by another ID announcement by W in Kinyarwanda. Good signal and clear with a little QSB. http://youtu.be/QGe3KGdwV0Y (14 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) 17540, R Impala, via Madagascar, 1700, Sep 17, opening announcement, music, songs by male group, too weak signal. From their website http://www.fdu-rwanda.com/ from Mar 25, 2014, can be quoted: ”The editorial and Short Wave broadcast of Radio Impala broadcasting on 16 meter band and KHZ 17,540 since November 2013 has been hijacked by third parties and is no longer under the supervision of the association Radio Impala asbl, neither under the management of the platform Amahoro People’s Congress, FDU-INKINGI and RNC. This regrettable situation has been looming since January 1st 2014 and amicable efforts for redress have been exhausted.” (Tony Ashar, Indonesia, DSWCI DX Window Oct 1 via DXLD) I guess that explains the confusion with alternate name of Radio Mara. But why would transmission provider MGB allow the original contract with R. Impala to be ``hijacked``? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** RWANDA [non]. September 27: Radio Inyabutatu in Kinyarwanda to CeAf 1603 on 17500 Issoudun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWe8dJ0jZLc&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAINT HELENA. Robert Kipp sent me some information on a new RSH web site. He was instrumental in getting Radio St. Helena Day's final SW broadcast on the air in 2009. I have some pictures from my visit there in 2010 which I intend to send to the webmaster. Please pass along to any clubs with which you may be affiliated. ----- Original Message ----- ``Thought I would draw your attention to our Radio St. Helena page at http://sainthelenaisland.info/radiosthelena.htm and ask if you have any photos, stories or anecdotes to contribute? I've already had input from Ralph Peters and Tony Leo, but more is always welcome. Regards, John Turner, http://moonbeamsforall.com The Moon, Napoleon Street, Jamestown, Island of St. Helena STHL 1ZZ`` 73, (Joe Buch N2JB, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SARAWAK [non]. 15430, CLANDESTINE, R. Free Sarawak, 1122 usual phone-in show with mentions of Sarawak. Brief music, sounding like it was played by mistake, at 1125 then continuous talk by same caller and DJ giving his "mm-hmm" and "yeah" acknowledgments. Tuned out at 1138, but when I returned at 1151, found it had moved down to 15420. No hint of any jamming though. ID by W with echo at 1153:15. W continued talk with occasional fanfare, and phone-in at 1159. 1222:45 nice ID announcement over music. 1228 IDs again, 1230 "Superman" theme music and M with IDs, mention of "warta berita" and gone. (5 September) (Dave Valko, 5 September 2014 micro-DXpedition near Dunlo PA, RX: Perseus SDR, ANT: 315' Beverage (BOG) at 10 , Cumbre DX via DXLD) 15420, CLANDESTINE, R. Free Sarawak 1226 closing ID and theme song. http://youtu.be/aXzAyjXf_gA (12 Sept.) (Dave Valko, 12 September 2014 micro-DXpedition near Dunlo PA, RX: Perseus SDR, ANT: 315' Beverage (BOG) at 0 , Cumbre DX via DXLD) 15420, R. Free Sarawak, Palauig [PHILIPPINES]. Talk in listed Iban almost drowned out by constant jamming at 1226, 16/9. Both off at 1230! (Dennis Allen, Milperra NSW (Icom R75, Realistic DX-160, Longwire), Oct Australian DX News via DXLD) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 9545, SIBC, 0845-0857 long list of messages by studio W DJ in Tok Pisin with many mentions of "studio", "transport" and "Thank you for your cooperation and understanding", and a couple mentions of SIBC. So obviously a lot of late shipments. Ended at 0857 with promo, then live W again with program notes including a nice ID with frequencies at 0858 and mention of "Bible reading", sports, and news, then said "Bible Reading". 0902:40 Good signal at t/in but faded by 0938 check. Getting some splash QRM from the 9540 CNR1 jammer at 1015 check. Nothing on usual frequency of 5020. http://youtu.be/M8STZUBpn_A (17 Sept.) SIBC is back on 5020 this morning, on 0915 check. (18 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) Re: `` 5020.000, S=9+15dB -56dBm visible / heard on remote Perseus Net radio in Sydney, at 0955 UT on Sept 20. ID at 10 UT, adverts on Malaysian [sic] flavour show locally (Wolfgang Bueschel, heard on remote Perseus Net radio in Sydney, Australia, BC-DX TopNews Sept 20 via DXLD)`` I remember well, that was a Malaysian tourist propaganda sale event, with interruptions of Malay music played. Many times over and over Malaysia was mentioned. 73 de wolfy (Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5020, SIBC, Sep 26 0839-0849, 45444, Pidgin, News and talk, ID at 0841 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD- 345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. 7120, Oct 1 at 1328, JBA carrier much weaker than several CW QRMs including from an N4 ham. Presumed R. Hargeisa showing by long-path, during what used to be English segment; how is it on the west coast? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non]. "7120, Oct 1 at 1328." RE: Glenn's question today - "How is it on the west coast?" Have checked a number of times recently post-1300, but always below threshold level. Perhaps in another month will have audio here? (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Additional frequencies of Brother Stair /TOM/ via SPL Secretbrod: 1500-1900 9400 SCB 100 kW / 030 deg EaEu English 1800-2100 5900 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg WeEu English. Videos Sept. 20-24: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/09/additional-transmission-of-brother.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #873 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Sept. 30, 2014 via DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 7730, Overcomer Ministry via WRMI Radio Miami Int'l (presumed); 0432, 30-Sep; Ever-so-cheerful Brother Hystairical ragging about all the deadly diseases headed to America; said vaccinations will make the drug companies billions. (I guess he'd feel better if no one got vaccinated.) S10 (Frodge-MI) 11580, Overcomer Ministry via WRMI (presumed); 1611, 28-Sep; Brother Hystairical said that I'm not going to speak well of him. Maybe he IS a prophet! SIO=3+53+; // 15770 SIO=4+54+ also via WRMI (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. Hola amigos radioescuchas, Quisiera informar a Uds, que la nueva parilla de programacion ha sido aplicada a partir del dia 15 de septiembre. El programa Amigos de la onda corta no ha sido transmitido en onda corta domingo 21 a las 1206 UT. 73 desde Treviso, Italia (N. Marabello, Sept 26, playdx yg via DXLD) ** SPAIN. The deathwatch begins --- 6055, REE [all logs to follow:] End of French broadcast, IS and into English with ID and without break into the news read by a YL. There were only 3 items, the first two about the Scottish vote for independence and the implications for Catalan in Spain which also wants independence. The only other item was news of French troops fighting in Lebanon. Then into talks and music from a 19th century Spanish musician and composer Matías de Jorge Rubio, who I've never heard of and they describe as "largely forgotten" (yup ...) and playing of a bandurria composition of his (quite nice actually!) He apparently also played the guitar. Another ID at 0019 by the OM presenting the music show, and then without break into a long item about the "Lavapiés" (literally 'foot washing' or more figuratively 'working class') area of Madrid with lots of music including some afro-beat stuff with drums and whistles all tied into the dialog of this cosmopolitan area of downtown Madrid. This area apparently has quite the checkered history and is rather neglected, leading to low rents and a current high level of immigrant population. An interesting show but presented with an attitude of 'you should understand all these references' rather than catering to a foreign audience. At 0050 they played a rock song from a new Spanish rock group, and s/off with sked and addresses, and IS starting at 0056. They mentioned absolutely NOTHING about shutting down SW as of the end of the month. Zip, zero, nada. 54+4+4+4 with splatter from RHC 6060 the biggest issue keeping this from being perfect (mostly an issue during music on RHC) but wow -- killer signal as always. 2355-0057* 19-20/Sept Just for 'history's sake' I've attached an MP3 the IS from the broadcast. Music by and interview (in English) with YL Spanish folk/blues musician Laia Bastûs. ID with addresses, and then repeat of programme about Matías de Jorge Rubio. ID and s/off announcements with addresses at 0058, and IS at 0059. Super reception as usual, but again no mention of shutdown. 54+4+4+4+ with slight splatter 0004-0059* 21/Sept English programme heavy on the current affairs, including news of a proposed law making abortion more difficult in Spain, and various other options such as requiring parental support for girls under 17 who want an abortion, as well as the allied attacks in Syria to go after ISIS and Israel's attack on a plane that 'accidentally' crossed its borders from Gaza, and items about the NY City protests at the UN over global climate change issues, including a sound bite of Leonardo diCaprio talking about government subsidies of fossil fuel production and the increasing efforts to combat Ebola in West Africa. At 0014 into a more in-depth discussion of the Mid East fighting including Gaza, with a discussion of the Gaza/Palestine/Israel kerfuffle with a YL civil rights lawyer from Beirut, and tying it into things like the situation of minorities in the USA. This lasted until 0044 when there was yet another repeat of the item about Matías de Jorge Rubio. STILL nothing about the SW closedown mentioned on air. Slop from Cuba & QRN a little worse than usual tonight: 54444, 0000-0057* 24/Sept English programme: News; items about murder of Federal Lawmaker in Mexico, Spain's King Philipe [sic] addressing UN asking for support for Spain's entry into the UN Security Council and an interesting tidbit about the expected resignation of the current President of Spain's state owned and run Broadcasting Corporation RTVE of which REE is a part. He's been president since 2012 and he has told parliament that RTVE has a 'structural deficit' of 100 million Euro per year and he has asked the government for more funding. I gather the resignation is a 'if you won't provide the money I need to do the job I won't do the job' sort of move, but they didn't actually say that. And again, they never actually said they would be closing down SW as of the end of the month! At 0006 into a repeat of the "Social Justice Activist" interview of the civil rights lawyer based in Lebanon that aired on the 24th. At - 0037 into bit about an Argentine Rock and Blues singer (Juan) Ciro Fogliatta which I expect will be repeated like the one about Matías de Jorge Rubio was. ID at 0056 including addresses and requests for comments to 'help us improve our broadcasts' but again no mention of axing of SW. Much better reception than yesterday: 54+554+ with a titch [touch?] of splatter from 6060 at times. 0000-0057* 25/Sept English programme: News; items about trade agreements between Spain and China, and the expected resignation of the current President of RTVE is now official. Their mailbox show finally contained mention of axing of SW as of October first. In fact, it was the major point of discussion for the first half of the show. The hosts don't seem happy, but clearly their voices are not the ones being listened to in the halls of REE these days! They mentioned that there are rumours (and just rumours!) that since the President's resignation, the actual SW shut-down may be postponed, but they also made it very clear they didn't think much of that rumour! A bit of music after the end of the mailbox show, and then OM ID and addresses as usual, and IS to ToH and an open carrier continuing to 0103:15. Great reception, even better than yesterday: 54+554+ with less than usual splatter from 6060. 0000-0103* 26/Sept (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet Sept 26 via DXLD) On the REE Listener's Club program just after 0010 Sept 26: It appears the SW shutdown date has been pushed back to October 15, although Justin and Alison were rather vague on the subject -- they mentioned several previous shutdown dates that were later changed. They did talk about the resignation of the RTVE president, and speculated that the vacancy could result in a postponement of a final decision on the SW closure until the president's job is filled. There appears to be a lot of confusion and conflicting information within RTVE. Justin and Alison called the savings from the SW closure "peanuts" but also admit that RTVE overall is running deficits of over 100 million Euros per year, and that the current government does not seem to have any interest in increasing the budget. They did mention that the closure of Noblejas will not result in any layoffs (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, UT Sept 27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Adios a REE --- Lo que muchos diexistas temíamos llegó, finalmente la dirección de RTVE ha tomado la decisión de cerrar el centro de transmisión de Noblejas (Toledo, España) siguiendo los pasos del de Cariari de Pococí (Limón, Costa Rica) por lo que RADIO EXTERIOR DE ESPAÑA deja la onda corta por la razón más absurda, por falta de […] http://aer.org.es/archivos/1554 (Pedro Sedano, Spain, Sept 30, noticias dx yg via DXLD) Viz.: Lo que muchos diexistas temíamos llegó, finalmente la dirección de RTVE ha tomado la decisión de cerrar el centro de transmisión de Noblejas (Toledo, España) siguiendo los pasos del de Cariari de Pococí (Limón, Costa Rica) por lo que RADIO EXTERIOR DE ESPAÑA deja la onda corta por la razón más absurda, por falta de dinero. Recordemos que el centro emisor de Cariari de Pococí, desde el que REE distribuía su señal a toda América, cerró sus transmisiones el 28 de octubre de 2013, 21 años después de su inauguración. Las razones que se adujeron entonces fueron estrictamente económicas, debido al alto coste que suponían las emisiones por onda corta. El centro emisor de onda corta de Noblejas fue inaugurado el año 1971 para superar técnicamente a los existentes, ya obsoletos; como el de Arganda del Rey (Madrid, España), que se puso en servicio en 1945 y dejó de emitir por onda corta; así mismo también se cerró en 1971 el centro emisor de onda corta del Atlántico (en Santa Cruz de Tenerife, islas Canarias, España), inaugurado en 1964. De esta manera, el centro de Noblejas se convirtió en el único en servicio de REE en España, que llegó a tener poderosos transmisores y casi una veintena de antenas directivas distribuidas en una enorme extensión de terreno que hacían posible llevar REE a todo el mundo. El cierre de Cariari de Pococí implicaba que el centro emisor de onda corta de Noblejas asumía las frecuencias y la cobertura que se realizaban desde Costa Rica. Pero, para sorpresa de todos, se nos dijo que no suponía una disminución de las horas de emisión, sino que se ampliaban en 300 horas más las transmisiones mensuales en onda corta desde España. Esas fueron las palabras de Juan Roldán, el entonces director de Radio Exterior de España. Pero esas palabras se las ha llevado el viento, pues la dirección anuncia el cierre del centro de emisiones de Noblejas para ahorrarse 1,2 millones de euros al año, de los que 700.000 euros corresponden a electricidad. Todo ello dentro del plan de ajuste de RTVE aprobado por el consejo de administración de la Corporación. Así pues, las emisiones de onda corta de Radio Exterior de España desaparecerán del aire después de más de 70 años de historia, pues en 2012 celebró su aniversario 70, si bien a día de hoy se desconoce la fecha que, según unos medios era el 1 de octubre, otros el 15 del mismo mes. El hecho es que a fecha de hoy, las emisiones siguen, pero muy mermadas y con una programación de 24 horas, en la que no hay simultaneidad de programas. Los sindicatos han denunciado la desaparición de una entidad que presta un servicio público al ciudadano, debido al despilfarro, la mala praxis, el descontrol y los incumplimientos de las obligaciones en REE. Pero, el hecho es que se cierra el centro emisor, sus trabajadores serán recolocados y que sólo se podrá oír a la emisora internacional en Internet. Al parecer seguirán las emisiones por la TDT, en digital (sea lo que sea eso ¿DRM?) y los satélites. En nuestra memoria está lo que ha pasado con esas emisoras internacionales que abandonan la onda corta por Internet: que es una manera de cerrarlas totalmente. Debemos recordar que ésta no es la primera dificultad por la que atraviesa REE, pues la dirección ya le recortó medios técnicos y económicos, haciéndola depender de los servicios informativos de RNE, suprimiendo programas emblemáticos, etc. Por lo tanto, la agonía de REE viene de largo. Parece mentira que la única emisora de RTVE que mantenía una amplia audiencia en todo el mundo y últimamente en España (dado que está en la TDT), se vea abocada a su desaparición por culpa, dicen, de que no haya dinero. Pero, sí lo hay para contratar a productoras privadas para hacer programas que se podrían hacer con personal propio, o contratar estudios aún teniéndolos en propiedad o contratar a estrellas de la radio o TV por cifras astronómicas, todo ello con el fin de recuperar audiencia; cuando todos sabemos que a menos independencia de los servicios informativos, menos audiencia. Pero, “ellos” a lo suyo a la manipulación más burda, siguiendo el ejemplo de la condenada Telemadrid. Y… ya se sabe que esta emisora autonómica está bajos mínimos de audiencia. Tampoco se cree que la desaparición de REE haga bien a la llamada Marca España, pues es evidente que día a día España y el español pierden influencia en los medios. En definitiva será una gran pérdida que no se suplirá con las emisiones por Internet o ¿a alguien -en su sano juicio- se le ocurre, por ejemplo, que en medio de la selva ecuatoguineana se dispone de conexión Wifi? Es cierto que REE emite para zonas desarrolladas, pero también para países en vías de desarrollo e incluso infradesarrollados, en los que Internet no es una opción. De hecho, la UIT afirma en un informe que 2/3 partes del mundo usan la onda corta para informarse. ¿Quién va a mantener el cordón umbilical con España de los expatriados, los de nuevo cuño y especialmente de los antiguos? A última hora, los recortes han costado el puesto al presidente de la corporación RTVE, de la que forma parte RNE/REE, pero los rumores apuntan a muchos más recortes en todo el ente. En fin, todo esto está muy bien, pero el hecho real y cierto es que nos quedamos sin la onda corta de REE y que más pronto que tarde desaparecerán sus emisiones en eso que llamamos la red de redes. —— Extraído del boletín El Dial (e) de OCTUBRE 2014, de su sección de opinión PÁGINA 4 (via DXLD) [and non]. Only two broadcast services in 16 mb heard at 2230 UT Sept 28. 17850 surprisingly noted REE Noblejas in Spanish literature feature program, in 17-24 UT service. Cuban revolution against Uncle Sam protected criminal Cuban president 60 years ago, Che Guevara and literature... S=8 or -86dBm signal. [and:] AUSTRALIA 17860 RA SHP powerhouse English service, twisted the needle. vy73 de wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, Logged in to remote SDR unit at Perseus in Brisbane Australia, 2100-2230 UT Sept 28, dxldyg via DXLD) 11795, UT Tue Sept 30 at 0117, REE theme music (not the IS per se), guitar music, Sefarad service opening in judeo-español with three times and frequencies, this one correct, very good. Then talk about ``aña nueva – Rosh Hashana``, 0125 about shofar; 0127 brief cantor; 0130 accurate autotimesig. If REE is self-destructing Oct 1, it would be the very last SW broadcast of this weekly service; no one seems quite sure yet, but maybe not until Oct 15, in which case there will be a couple more. 6055, Oct 1 at 0055, REE English canned closing by Justin Coe still says it`s ``daily`` from 0000, so must not be canned yet. Plug pulled at 0057* before the chimes can die out (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 21610 & 21640, it`s now definitely October 1, and REE is still there at 1303 but JBA; much better at 1416 both good but 21640 has an echo and 21610 does not. The only difference is the azimuths out of Noblejas, 21610 at 110 degrees, and 21640 at 272 degrees. 21610 is close to directly off the back, while 21640 is aiming closer toward us but further south. Somehow the latter may be getting thru on long path too producing the echo. 11910, Oct 1 at 1322, REE Spanish song, fair via Beijing, CHINA, // 17715 Noblejas but two seconds behind it. It`s speculated that the relay exchange with China (9690 at 02-04 to Americas) may be holding up the closedown of REE on SW. The next tentative drop-dead date is October 15. 6055, Oct 2 at 0024 check, REE English is still on the air past the original drop-dead date of Oct 1, so maybe it`s now October 15. No one at the station seems to know (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6055, REE, Noblejas, Spain - 0015, 02 Oct. in English with marathon edition of Listeners Club. Previous edition as were announcing that they were not sure when or if they would be shut down, Sept. 28, Oct 1, 15 or never. Missed the news at the start of the broadcast. Usual strong solid signal (Stephen Wood, Harwich, Mass, dxldyg via DXLD) I caught the newscast, nothing in it about REE shortwave. I tuned out when I realized it was the same Listener's Club that aired two days earlier. Still sounds like October 15 is the date. Despite Justin and Alison's hope for a reprieve due to the vacancy in RTVE president's office, the financial issues are still present. The RTVE directors can probably still make the decision, anyway (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, ibid.) Just an observation. If Spain is in such dire need of the $1.2 million it will recover by shutting REE, can it still be called a economically developed country? Sent from my iPad (John Figliozzi, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SPAIN [non]. Radio Mi Amigo non-appearance (as of 1010 UT) The advertised SW airing of Radio Mi Amigo on 7310 kHz did not materialize at 1000 UT, just a continuation of a Radio 700 relay. Their website still "confirms" the broadcast as due at 1200-1600 hours CET today. One minute after my post regarding Mi Amigo's absence, it abruptly popped up on 7310 kHz at 1013 UT! After an opening announcement in English, it went into Rod Stewart's 'Maggie May' (David Kernick, Interval Signals Archive. Sun Sept 28, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Quite good reception this morning of the Radio Mi Amigo test on 7310 kHz (via Radio 700, Germany), audible here with oldies and IDs in English and German since tune-in around 1015. Reception reports requested. 73s (Dave Kennny, Sept 28, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Thanks for the reminder, Dave. Very strong signal from Kall-Krekel here in Goettingen/Germany on 7310 kHz AM at 1145 UT. Nice selection of music from the past and from today. German ID just mentioning test transmission on 6005 kHz. Asking for reports to info@radiomiamigo.es 73 (Harald Kuhl, ibid.) Just received a reply from Radio Mi Amigo: They have plans for an eight hour long program on shortwave to be broadcast each Sunday, starting from November. Radio Mi Amigo relay on 7310 kHz ended at 1400 UT. From 1400, Radio 700 with program "Radio Reise" in German on 7310 kHz. From 1430 UT, Kall-Krekel / Radio 700 relays Voice of Mongolia English service on 7310 kHz (not // on 3985 kHz nor 6005 kHz where Radio 700 at the same time broadcasts its German service) 73 (Harald Kuhl, ibid., WORLD OF RADIO 1741 via DXLD) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, Sept 28 at 0114, SLBC open carrier, poor with flutter; 0114:46 music starts; 2+1 timesignal ends at 0115:18, right on mistime. 11905, Sept 30 at *0114:10, carrier on from SLBC, poor with flutter; 0114:45.5 prélude music starts; -0115:17.0 mistimesignal ends and sign-on. 11905, Oct 1 at 0114 open carrier, fair with flutter, 0114:46.5 music starts; 0115:19 timesignal ends, SLBC sign-on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SURINAME. DX-FM: 96.3 MHz, 2622 km, SRS, Language Neerlandés, Lingua Holandés. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag4XQLzIMqk&list=UUnEatwEHssHMo9VaS7YupkA Tecsun PL 660, Antena Long Wire 10 Meters. http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com/ (Dexista PT 9008 SWL Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brasil, Oct 1, dxldyg via DXLD) No date or time even on the YT, but posted Oct 2. Maybe it`s Dutch, but I can`t make out any ID. Trans-equatorial propagation. Typically, this FM DX mode never achieves full quieting, no matter how strong the signal. WRTH lists SRS with 1 kW on 96.3 in Paramaribo. Used to be on 725 MW, with 50? kW (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** TAIWAN. 12370, Sound of Hope. At 1147 both this frequency and 12560 had talk by W, but they didn't sound //. Both weak and 12370 has pulsing transmission QRM from below. There was also a W talking on 12500. Finally found all 3 were // at 1153 when a music bridge was played. 12370 gone at 1217 check. http://youtu.be/R0_zk-RepEY (12 Sept.) (Dave Valko, 12 September 2014 micro-DXpedition near Dunlo PA, RX: Perseus SDR, ANT: 315' Beverage (BOG) at 0 , Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. 11605.101, Radio Taiwan International in Japanese, ID at 2200:40 UT program start, poor S=6 signal in Australia. 11634.848, Radio Taiwan International in Chinese, S=8-9 downunder in Brisbane. Accompanied by CNR mainland jamming on even 11635 kHz, at 2204 UT on Sept 28. vy73 de wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, Logged in to remote SDR unit at Perseus in Brisbane Australia, 2100-2230 UT Sept 28, dxldyg via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. This week the French service of RTI made an announcement about special broadcasts for the German service of RTI, for the anniversary of this German service. On 11665 at 1600-1700 directly from Tamsui in Taiwan: Oct 03, 04, 05, 10, 11 and 12 in AM mode. Oct 17 and 18 in DRM mode (Christian Ghibaudo, France, DSWCI DX Window Oct 1 via DXLD) ** TAIWAN [non]. INDIA (non), The broadcast dates of Song of India on Medium Wave 1125 kHz to India will be on October 4, 11, 18 and 25 at 1330 to 1530 UT. Song of India will also be relayed to North America via WRMI Okeechobee on Oct. 5: 0000-0200 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm, instead of Brother Stair (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) That`s UT Sunday, Sat in NAm (gh) ** TAJIKISTAN. 4765.05 Tajik R. Sep 25 1335-1352 35343-33343 Tajik, Talk and music, ID at 1343 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD- 525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. Frequency changes for Voice of Tibet: 1230-1245 NF 15582 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15577 1245-1300 NF 15583 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15582 1315-1330 NF 15547 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15542 1330-1345 NF 15547 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15542 1345-1400 NF 15547 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15548 All others remain unchanged: 1200-1215 on 15542 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1215-1230 on 15548 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1300-1315 on 15548 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1300-1330 on 15588 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1330-1400 on 15582 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1400-1415 on 15525 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1400-1430 on 15588 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1415-1430 on 15530 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1430-1445 on 15617 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1445-1500 on 15622 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan All frequencies are jammed by China on xxxx0 / xxxx5 Changes between frequencies vary from 3 to 5 minutes. Videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/09/frequency-changes-for-voice-of-tibet.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #873 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Sept. 30, 2014 via DXLD) As I just reconfirmed, the MDC shift from 15525 to 15530 still occurs at 1407, not 1415 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 15530, Oct 1 at 1411, YL in presumed Tibetan talk, entertained by dog barking in background. This is Voice of Tibet, via MADAGASCAR, 250 kW aimed 45 degrees, close to off the side from here, yet achieving a reliably fair signal. No sign of CNR1 or Firedrake jamming, but Aoki shows until 1407 VOT starts on 15525, then jumps hoping to leave the jammer behind (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. September 28: Radio Dniprovska Hvylya relay HS 1 in Ukrainian 0825 on 11980.1 Zaporizhia in CUSB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cG0OpR46n0&feature=youtu.be Radio Dniprovska Hvylya relay HS 1 in Ukrainian 0827 on 11980.1 Zaporizhia in CUSB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj8urEHhztk&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. Mykolaiv high power test transmissions (Historical) See here: https://www.google.de/maps/@46.8217631,32.2096933,1537m/data=!3m1!1e3 The tower pair is the former radiator. If you look very closely at the aerial image you can just barely see a circle (in fact of course a parabola), these are the traces of the reflecting grid. At Taldom the parabolic antennas are still complete but permanently shut down already for a long time, too: https://www.google.de/maps/@56.7337558,37.6179613,617m/data=!3m1!1e3 (best seen through Streetview) The referenced story has first been published already some time ago. I fear it is to some degree yarn, raised by the usual Soviet secrecy. At least the antennas are known now (they should have been in regular use for North American services), and the 1000 kW transmitters are, too. (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 1, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** UKRAINE [re: 14-39] Re: Voice of Russia in Crimea --- Trans-M-Radio is a partner of Voice of Russia since it has been launched in the mid- nineties. So far they simply relayed the programming from Moscow, now -- and this is the novelty -- programming is also produced at Sevastopol under the Voice of Russia brand. Whatever the details of this extended arrangement may be; the staff of the Rossiya Sevodnya conglomerate apparently do not understand them either (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Sept 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE [non]. 11580, Sept 25 at 2330.5, RUI IS and English half- hour, first edition of new relay via WRMI. After the news, at 2336 `Ukrainian Perspective` mostly about the conflict with Russia; 2347 `Reading Lounge` introducing Uke lit, the Thursday feature. Sounded like titled ``St John`s Eve`` by the author a.k.a. by his Russian name, Nikolai Gogol. Closing cut short at 2359.5 for ID, and back to Brother Scare. Good signal even here tho aimed NE from Okeechobee; replaces WORLD OF RADIO on Thu and a bunch of other place-holders on other days of week. Jeff White probably made this deal at last month`s HFCC in Sofia. Great to have RUI back on SW, tho it was their own fault for abolishing it previously (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good to hear RUI via SW once again. SIO 454 here in Manassas, VA. Thanks WRMI and Jeff White. Bob Zanotti with WRMI ID and contact info at 2330 UT. 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, Sept 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, UKRAINE / USA: Radio Ukraine International on 11580, 2330-2336 UT via WRMI. Good reception to start with (SINO 3533 my rating) but suddenly and unfortunately became barely audible so I tuned out. Welcome back to shortwave, RUI! (Dave Harries, Bristol, England using Roberts R809 without external antenna, Sept 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Well, the first relayed broadcast went ahead as planned and was well heard here at Mount Evelyn. Here's my logbook entry for this new service: 11580 kHz, USA. R. Ukraine International - Okeechobee FL. Good signal at 2330 s/on in English. Targeted to ENAm but they won't get a very large audience there! [why not? --- gh] I also checked in on the Twente remote receiver, and all indications were that the signal appeared to be booming into Europe. Monitored till s/off 0000 on Sept 25. Nice to hear the Ukrainian version of current events in that part of the world! WRMI is calling for listener reports and comments at info@wrmi.net (Rob Wagner, Victoria, Mount Evelyn DX Report blog via DXLD) Radio Ukraine International on shortwave via WRMI Okeechobee 2330-2400 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to ENAm English Daily from Sept. 25: Video: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/09/radio-ukraine-international-on.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) 25/9 23.30 11580 Radio Ukraine International, via WRMI, English, ID, news, commentary, strong signal. The audioclip is available here: http://blog.libero.it/radioascolto/12966572.html 73's de (Francesco Ceccone, QTH: CENTRAL ITALY, RX: ICOM R71, ANT. 100mt LW, condiglista yg et al., via DXLD) ** U K [non]. Re: BBC 9915 Running Past Closedown --- They either read DXLD or found on Friday on their own that the original press release should be completed: "The shortwave frequencies for West Africa at 1950 GMT are 13660 kHz and 15400 kHz. In addition the frequencies 9915 kHz & 12095 kHz which usually run 19:59:30 – 21:59:30 Mon – Fri have been extended to run until 23:59:30." http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2014/ebola-radio-network (Kai Ludwig, Sept 28, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The extended broadcasts on 9915 and 12095 are indeed Monday-Friday only. Nothing heard from BBCWS on either frequency at a 2300 check Saturday September 27. FEBC also uses 12095 at 2300; can be heard underneath Ascension but was in the clear UT Saturday. Presumably long path from The Philippines to my Houston location at that time. (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, Sept 28, ibid. WORLD OF RADIO 1741) I'm not in a position to hear the broadcasts to Africa (downtown high- rise office buildings make lousy DX locations), but the XM/Sirius satt feed of the BBC World Service carries the Ebola bulletins at 1950 UT (Chuck Albertson, Seattle, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [and non]. Full updated summer A-14 shortwave schedule of BBC may be found here http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/09/bbc-changes-effective-from-sept2022.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #873 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Sept. 30, 2014 via DXLD) ** U K. BBC reciva only until end of 2014? Am I reading this right? No more BBC via reciva based internet radios? Thanks ef http://recivarefuge.net/forum/index.php?topic=1746.0 (Eric Flodén, BC?, 27 Sept, internetradio via DXLD) Not in the short term. The BBC has promised the MP3 and AAC streams (not clear what version of AAC) will continue for at least another year or two. After that it might be only AAC. So your Reciva radio will continue to get BBC streams for at least another couple of years, or at least that`s what the general reading of this is. The On Demand programs are probably going away for Reciva users. Some podcasts without music restricted by license will continue as MP3. (Spoken word programs should be fine as podcasts.) Several of us are trying to engage the BBC in a dialog to get further clarification but so far they have not responded (Rob de Santos, ibid.) In the future, what will be interesting is if the AAC formatted files (if that's what they choose) can be "stripped" out of the iPlayer format, which the BBC is trying to herd all of us to... Unfortunately there's a trend towards embedded audio (and video) players that don't use the good ol' .MP3, .ASX, etc.... formats. Helpfully, the Public Radio Fan website http://www.publicradiofan.com/ can lead you to other broadcasters who are streaming BBC WS programming live at the same time the BBC is airing it...and their offerings may still be accessible via Reciva's index, or could be programmed into one of the memories (if they exist) in the radio. Examples would be Norway's NRK All-news channel which relays World Service programming their overnights and weekends; WYPR Baltimore's HD2 stream, which is a 24/7 offering of the APM version of the World Service...hopefully these folks will continue to use URLs and file formats that will be easy for Reciva players to digest (Richard Cuff, ibid.) There's also Vermont Public Radio's HD3 stream that's BBCWS 24/7. Sent from my iPad (John A Figliozzi, ibid.) Indeed, John; and there are other HD2-HD3 public radio stations that carry the BBC 24/7 or at least 50% of the time. Musing on this a bit more, I saw Eric's mention of Reciva and was struck by how this technology has evolved over the past ten years, from a standalone Internet radio to wifi-enabled smartphones and tablets. For example, I was able to pick up a no-contract wifi-capable LG Android phone at Walmart a few months back for $30. Agreed, it doesn't have robust sound, but still, $30, and it's likely that Internet apps for Android and iOS technologies have staying power, considering the companies (Google and Apple) behind these technologies. The worry is that neither Apple nor Google are not-for- profit enterprises, so will this technology that is cheap/free today become costly tomorrow? (Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA, ibid.) Further clarification. Following posts at RecivaRefuge by CSR/Reciva and additional info added by Jim Simmons (of the BBC) on his blog, we know a bit more: MP3 (using Shoutcast) will be made available wherever Windows Media (WM) is now on the streams. Based on earlier comments figure that to last ?1 to 2 yrs?. My personal guess is not too much past Dec. 2015. From there it will be AAC+ only. While I focus on Reciva based devices, these issues will affect devices using other services such as Frontier and vTuner to varying degrees. The BBC is talking with hardware manufacturers and chip makers including CSR/Reciva. The nature of that interaction isn?t fully known but in the case of CSR and BBC, it appears to have been going on for some time. The AAC streams will be LC-AAC or HE-AAC and HE-AACv1 (AAC+). They will be in http wrappers (HLS/HDS). Bottom line is that many newer Reciva based radios such as those from Grace can handle it now or get a firmware upgrade (if the manufacturer and Reciva decide to do that). This remains a bit fuzzy since it involves the firmware in newer radios and can vary from model to model. Older Reciva units (such as C Crane) cannot handle these versions of AAC and cannot be upgraded easily for hardware reasons so it?s MP3 or bust for them. The future support of podcasts and on-demand by CSR/Reciva is undecided. However, safe to assume that many on-demand streams for the BBC programs will go away at the end of the year. Those that remain must by DRM free (probably talk only) and podcasts more likely than on-demand per the BBC. The initial changes are to BBC domestic services like streams for BBC Radio 4 or 5. The World Service implementation seems more uncertain but you shouldn?t assume anything past December 31, 2014. There are 900,000+ Reciva based products registered and CSR/Reciva does not intend to abandon them anytime soon. The implication is that further enhancements are coming but when and for what is not known. Streaming access by devices such as smartphones are not likely to be affected other than the service having to update stream addresses. Most of them can handle any of the other changes. Services such as TuneIn will continue to work but again, may have stream updates. -- (via Rob de Santos, Sept 29, internetradio, ibid.) Geez, why make it all so complicated?? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** U S A. Re: ``6640 [sic] USB, NEW YORK RADIO (ARINC), Stamford CT, 0005 07-Sep. I heard an OM relaying a message from the First Officer explaining why they will be delayed. The YL repeated the message, and gave confirmation she said NY out. Then dead Air. The signal was very good (Gary Vance, Grand Ledge MI, MARE Tipsheet Sept 12 via DXLD) Should be 6604-USB. Your typo or theirs? (gh, DXLD) WSY70`` 6640 is correct. Check the log. This was not the volmet (Harold Frodge, MARE ed., DX LISTENING DIGEST) Oops ** U S A. 13554-CW, Sept 30 at 0121, AZ is the only Hifer beacon audible now; repeats nothing but ID 16 times per minute. Is de Oro Valley AZ, and last logged on Sept 9 at 0231. Some QRM from 13558-LSB 2-way speech, Spanish? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13555, MTI, Stone Mountain GA hifer beacon; 2127, 19-Sep; 8 seconds between clear CW IDs (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) 13556, MTI Stone Mountain GA, hifer beacon; 1724, 30-Sep; 1527, 1-Oct; Slow key; varies from 13555 to 13557 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) Harold classifies this broadly under ``AROs``, also MARS, etc. But you don`t have to be a licensed amateur to run a Hifer beacon, nor to be in MARS? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** U S A. 13564-CW, Sept 29 at 1419, GNK is the only Hifer beacon audible in the Part 15 band, and vs CODAR swishes. It`s the one in Madison WI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7285-LSB, Oct 1 at 1332, Daytime Texas Traffic Net, the NCS considering himself an entertainer. Says also has website by that name as one word. http://www.daytimetexastrafficnet7285.org/ Never caught his call, but some check-ins from beyond Texas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 4740, UNID. Checked this more closely at 1012 and found M talking in what sounded like Spanish and congregation singing. A W was also joining in the talk later at 1023. Even though there's a carrier, the audio in AM mode is so distorted, it sounds better listening in SSB. Faded after 1030. (19 Sept.) 4740, UNID. Choral anthem-like song, but probably religious at 1025, M announcer voice-over in what sounded like French at 1026. Best is SSB. (22 Sept.) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, 153 foot Delta Loop, and Wellbrook ALA1530S, cumbredx yg via DXLD) 4740, WRCB/R. Concorde?? Quite strong at 1000, 1002:50, and 1019 peaks with talk by M in what sounded like it could have been Creole. W announcer also after 1030. This appears to very well be the third harmonic of WRCB as per John Herkimer`s suggestion. Will need it to come in well enough again to // the webstream. http://youtu.be/t7GGcXeoCho (23 Sept.) (Dave Valko, 23 September 2014 micro-DXpedition near Dunlo PA, RX: Perseus SDR, ANT: 315' Beverages (BOG) at 0 , Cumbre DX via DXLD) 4740, WRCB/R. Concorde (3 X 1580 harmonic). This is definitely the one as John Herkimer discovered. Was paralleling the webstream at 0955 but it didn't seem quite right. It took a while upon reviewing the recordings because the webstream was a full 3:00 minutes behind the live audio on 4740, and they played the same canned ad with touch tone telephone SFX and boy shouting twice. http://youtu.be/yCAnPWl9k80 (28 Sept.) 73 and best DX (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S, and 153 foot Delta Loop, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) But, but, there is no WRCB on 1580 or anywhere on AM per last year`s NRC AM Log; where is it? Call change? Pirate? Yes, it is one of many Haitian pirates in the Boston area, axually Mattapan, operating quite blatantly, as on this list: http://www.bamlog.com/bostonlp.htm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 25910/FM, WQGY434, Cedar Hills/Dallas TX; 1455-1517+, 22- Sep; FCC database listed as "broadcast auxiliary remote pickup"; 2 sites listed, Cedar Hills & Dallas TX, "control point" listed as WBAP Arlington TX. Tune in to news--mentioned El Dorado; ToH into nutrition infomercial, then pop music at 1510. Only catching brief snippets. Nothing on reported // 25990. Presume the remote for 104.9 KLDE El Dorado TX as listed in EiBi (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) Harold, El Dorado is a long way from The Metroplex, so I don`t see how there could be any connexion between the KLDE programming and `remote pickup` around Arlington. Think coincidentally on the same frequencies, tho I have not tried to look up KLDE auxes (Glenn to Harold, via DXLD) 25910 still shows up as WQGY434 in Cedar Hills TX, Dallas county (Harold to Glenn, ibid.) 25910/FM, KLDE El Dorado TX studio relay; 1528, 2-Oct; Tune in to Doobie Bros. tune; "You're listening to the greatest hits of all time, KLDE radio" ("KLDE radio" sung); ad for John Metter (sp?); Construction in El Dorado. EZ copy but scratchy (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 25950/FM, Studio relay for KTCL-FM, Wheat Ridge CO; 1948- 2005+, 1-Oct; Non-Top-40 rock; "FM 9-3-3", "area93.com"; ad/promo string 1957-2004 & back to music. area93.com takes you to http://www.area93.com/main.html KTCL is only referenced in their Tweet addy. Station promo per web site is "Denver's Modern Rock". Fair stretches to zilch & very scratchy. Presume this is the same xmtr, KB99696, which carried KOA. Per Radio-Locator, Wheat Ridge is the city of license, the next 'burb west of Denver (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, KTCL-FM and KOA are under same ownership, Citycasters Licenses Inc. A holding company? The ``CL`` of the callsign? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 26110/FM, KMK282, KOVR-TV Sacramento CA studio relay; 1522, 2-Oct; Usual chit-chatty M&W on "Good Day Sacramento" with local features. In very well (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Andrew Lack named CEO of BBG: as in DXLD 14-39 (WORLD OF RADIO 1741) ** U S A [and non]. VOA Radiogram, Sept 27-28: Mars edition VOA Radiogram this weekend includes news about spacecraft: one from India, two from the United States, two orbiting Mars, one orbiting earth. Details, with transmission schedule, here: http://bit.ly/1uuUrKZ The Mighty KBC will transmit a minute of MFSK64 tonight at about 9:30 pm EDT (UTC Sun 0130) on 7375 kHz via Germany (Kim Elliott, Sept 27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) MFSK16 on Radio Martí --- Hello friends, Starting tonight, Radio Martí will transmit a minute of MFSK16 centered on 2500 Hz, daily, according to the following schedule: 0558:40 UT 1180 6030 7405 kHz 0758:40 UT 1180 5980 6030 kHz 0858:40 UT 1180 5980 6030 kHz Each transmission is 57 seconds. The 1180 kHz is medium wave, from the Florida Keys. The shortwave frequencies (5980, 6030, and 7405 kHz) are all via North Carolina. You will probably hear noise on the frequency. Recordings of your reception would be appreciated. The email address for reception reports is included in the text transmission, but if you are not able to decode it, just send the report to radiogram@voanews.com Kim Andrew Elliott Producer and Presenter VOA Radiogram voaradiogram.net Sept 29 (via Bruce Portzer, IRCA via DXLD) ** U S A [non]. 13830, Oct 1 at 0535, no signal from VOA French via BOTSWANA, which had been reliable at 0530-0600 M-F, so no longer a companion to 13840, NHK French via Madagascar daily at same time, still heard. Suspect the transmission deleted or moved as part of IBB October 1 changes, as yet unknown? But it`s still in HFCC as of 30 Sept effective until 25 Oct. So maybe just an outage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Was back 24 hours later ** U S A. 19/09/2014, 2130 UT, 15770.0 kHz, WRMI Radio Miami Int.- Okeechobee, World Radio - Glenn Hauser, Eng, 34333 (QRA: Antonio Madrid, QTH: Serrateix, Barcelona - España/Spain, Coordenadas: 41 57'00.0?N 1 46'56.0?E, RX: WINRADIO G31DDC, ANT: Hilo Largo 120 Mts WWW: http://www.elradioescucha.net playdx yg via DXLD) WORLD OF RADIO 1740 monitoring: confirmed first SW airing UT Thursday Sept 25 at 0330 on WRMI, 9955; fair-good signal, one of best on band; yet pales by comparison to 9790 CRI via CUBA blasting in, even desensitizing 9765-9815 or so on the FRG-7. WOR 1740 also confirmed until 1259 UT Thursday Sept 25 on WRMI, 9955. CCI from France in Chinese via TAIWAN audible underneath. ACI from persistent 9960 RTTY also annoying. The Thursday 2330 on 11580 has been canceled due to the new strip of UKRAINE relays daily, q.v. Next: UT Friday 0330v on WWRB, 3185 Friday 2130 on WRMI, 7570 & 15770 [maybe 1739] Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB UT Sunday 0100 on WRMI, 5950 [may be 1739] UT Sunday 0131 on KVOH, 9975 UT Monday 0259v on Area 51 via WBCQ, 5110v-CUSB Tuesday 1100 on WRMI, 9955 Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB Wednesday 1315 on WRMI, 9955 Wednesday 2100 on WBCQ, 7490v WORLD OF RADIO 1740 monitoring: no-show on WWRB, 3185, Sept 26, scheduled for UT Friday at 0330. Monitoring webcast first, but apparently same a couple dekaseconds earlier on 3185: 0327 previous preacher interrupted, but instead of WOR, switches to Deuteronomy reading, i.e. the overnight fill-service normally on webcast after 0400. This kept switching back and forth the next several minutes, finally staying on the Bibling past 0345. Let us hope for better luck hence: Friday 2130 on WRMI 7570 & 15770, UT Sun 0100 on 5950 --- but one or both of these could be 1739 replay. More likely to air WOR 1740 are: Sat 0630 & 1430, HLR, 7265-CUSB; UT Sun 0131, KVOH, 9975; UT Mon 0300v, Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB. WORLD OF RADIO monitoring: confirmed another replay of last week`s #1739, Friday Sept 26 at 2130.5 on WRMI 15770 and much weaker 7570; instead of a double-ID before, there was fill music at 2130.0-2130.5. Next: UT Sunday 0100 on WRMI, 5950 [could be 1739 or 1740] UT Sunday 0131 on KVOH, 9975 [1740 henceforth:] UT Monday 0259v on Area 51 via WBCQ, 5110v-CUSB; etc. WORLD OF RADIO 1739 monitoring: confirmed another replay of last week`s on WRMI, 5950, UT Sunday Sept 28 after 0100. Only poor signal but no CCI or ACI, Bolivia off? WORLD OF RADIO 1740 monitoring: confirmed on KVOH, 9975, UT Sunday Sept 28 from 0131, good signal, some hum. Next: UT Monday 0259v 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 Friday 2130 on WRMI 7570 & 15770 (probably instead of 1741) WORLD OF RADIO 1740 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 webcast, and presumably WBCQ 5110v-CUSB, UT Monday Sept 29 from 0301.5. Next: Tuesday 1100 on WRMI, 9955 Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB Wednesday 1315 on WRMI, 9955 Wednesday 2100 on WBCQ, 7490v Friday 2130 on WRMI, 7570 & 15770 (presumably instead of 1741) WORLD OF RADIO 1740 monitoring: I was so involved in checking other stuff that I neglected to confirm the Wednesday October 1 at 1315 airing on WRMI 9955, but still on schedule. NOT on schedule any longer is the UT Sun 0100 on 5950, as that hour of transmission has been replaced by 15770 with the new Hindi service of Family Radio --- even tho it`s a different transmitter. The 01-02 block on 5950 was sublet from Family Radio, ``System F``, color-coded red but filled with RMI programming until FR claimed the hour for Hindi. Now, 15770 for that is on the 44-degree azimuth, toward Europe, not India, but close enough? The 355-degree antenna for eastern North America would be closer to India, but probably unreliably transpolar. Furthermore, there is now a replacement time for WORLD OF RADIO on 11580, as it was bumped from Thursdays by the new daily UKRAINE relay at 2330-2400. WOR now scheduled Sundays at 2300-2330. We hope by then it can be the newest show rather than the previous one (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1740 monitoring: confirmed on WBCQ webcast, and presumably on 7490v, Wednesday October 1 before 2130. WORLD OF RADIO 1741 monitoring: confirmed first airing on WRMI, 9955, UT Thursday Oct 2 after 0330, poor signal with pulse jamming, tnx a lot Arnie! Fine on the webcast. Also confirmed at 1230 Thursday Oct 2 on 9955, with CCCCI from France via TAIWAN still underneath. Also some pulse jamming now too. Next: UT Friday 0325v on WWRB, 3185 (we hope: no show last week) Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB UT Sunday 0131 on KVOH, 9975 Sunday 2300 on WRMI, 11580 [NEW] UT Monday 0259v 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. WRMI TO EXPAND FAMILY RADIO BROADCASTS As of UT October 1, WRMI in Okeechobee, Florida will add three hours per day of programming from Family Radio in Asian languages. This is in addition to the two hours per day of Spanish-language programming from Family Radio that WRMI already broadcasts. The new broadcasts will be in Chinese, Japanese and Hindi. "This will be a short-term experiment," explained WRMI General Manager Jeff White. "But if results are good, it could be extended. The idea is to see how well these broadcasts can be received by listeners in China, Japan and India. These are very distant target areas from Okeechobee, but recent listener reports indicate that our signal is audible in much of Asia at certain times and frequencies. If that is confirmed, we may be able to begin broadcasts of other programs to these Asian audiences.¨ The schedule for the Family Radio broadcasts via WRMI as of UT October 1, 2014 will be as follows: 1000-1100 UT daily on 7570 kHz in Japanese 1100-1200 UT daily on 7570 kHz in Chinese 2300-0000 UT daily on 5950 kHz in Spanish 0000-0100 UT daily on 5950 kHz in Spanish 0100-0200 UT daily on 15770 kHz in Hindi The Japanese- and Chinese-language programs are on a beam to western North America, but will also be intended for listeners in Japan and China. The Hindi-language program is on a beam to Europe and the Middle East, but will also be intended for listeners in India. The two Spanish-language hours are two different programs. Radio Miami International acquired the Okeechobee transmission facility from Family Radio in December 2013, when the call letters were changed from WYFR to WRMI. As part of the agreement, WRMI has been broadcasting two hours per day of Family Radio's Spanish programming to the Caribbean, Central and South America. Reports for the new Japanese, Chinese and Hindi programs will be greatly appreciated, especially from listeners in Asia. They may be sent to info@wrmi.net WRMI Radio Miami International 10400 NW 240th Street Okeechobee, Florida 34972 USA Tel +1-305-559-9764 Fax +1-863-467-0185 http://www.wrmi.net (WRMI NEWS RELEASE - September 24, 2014 via DXLD) Now that crazy Harold Camping has been laid to rest, will Family Radio still be telling their new Asian listeners that the world is going to end sometime soon???? (Rob Wagner, Victoria, Mount Evelyn DX Report blog via DXLD) 5950, UT Sat Sept 27, WRMI but `Radio Enlace` from Radio Nederland is opening, feature about Isla de Pascua; must be the scheduled `Antena DX` program with an archival replay. Only poor signal as it`s WRMI-14 aimed 181 degrees. Expect WORLD OF RADIO, 24 hours later. 11825, 11580, 9955, 7730, 7570, 7455, 5850, Sept 27 at 0527 check, I notice that all these WRMI frequencies are off (altho the other two, 15190 and 15770 could have been on and as usual not propagating at this hour). 11 MHz should have been OK with WEWN audible on 11870, 11520. Wonder what happened? This cleared 9955 for pulse jamming only and 7455 for RTTY only. By next check at 1257, 9955 is back on with `Viva Miami`. 9955, Thu Sept 25 at 1300, following WORLD OF RADIO and WRMI ID, fill music, starting with nice Mideast vocal. Instead of scheduled `Sound Doctrine` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UKRAINE 9955, Sunday Sept 28 at 1142, WRMI good signal but LAH from TAIWAN, during S/SW Asian fill music, 1145 into `Tell the World Ministry` as CCI grows. Until 1145 was supposed to be `Sound Doctrine`, the same show which was also missing Thursday at 1300. WRMI has a nice selexion of international fill music we always anticipate. Jeff White explains why all the WRMI frequencies were off Sept 27 at 0527: ``power outage`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Cancelled transmissions of WRMI via tx #14 effective from Oct. 1: 5950 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg to CARR [sic; Caribbean] 0100-0130 Spanish Mon Trova Libre 0130-0200 English Mon Angloparade 0100-0200 Spanish Tue La Rosa de Tokio 0100-0200 Musique Wed RFI Musique 0100-0130 Musique Thu RFI Musique 0130-0145 Spanish Thu Viva Miami 0145-0200 Spanish Thu Acon Venez 0100-0130 Spanish Fri Frecuencia al Dia 0130-0200 Spanish Fri Historias de Radio 0100-0130 Spanish Sat Antena DX 0130-0200 English Sat Blues Radio International 0100-0130 English Sun World of Radio 0130-0200 English Sun Wavescan Updated schedule of WRMI 1000-1030 via tx#08 effective from Oct. 1: 5850 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg to ENAm 1000-1030 English Mon Walking in Power 1000-1015 English Tue Viva Miami 1015-1030 English Tue European News Network 1000-1030 English Wed From Moscow With Love 1000-1030 English Thu Wavescan 1000-1015 French Fri Echo of Europe 1015-1030 French Fri Echo of Europe 1000-1030 English Sat Walking in Power 1000-1030 English Sun Walking in Power http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/10/cancelled-transmissions-of-wrmi-from.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. What does WRMI mean? http://www.allacronyms.com/_technology/WRMI/We_Really_Mean_It (via PlayDX Electronic Sept 28 via DXLD) inter alia ** U S A. 5110v-CUSB, 7490v, and 9330v-CUSB, UT Sat Sept 27 at 0103, WBCQ with `Allan Weiner Worldwide` as he`s discussing challenges facing small businesses such as his, and none of these are in synch with the others, why? 9330 has an especially good signal. Nothing on 15420 in case fourth transmitter were added (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, Oct 1 at 1415, KVOH at VG signal level, but Spanish modulation quite suppressed, worse than usual, and distorted. Was not yet propagating an hour earlier. 17775, Oct 2 at 1335 and 1353 chex, KVOH in Spanish with good modulation, unlike yesterday. Ray Robinson says that may have been due to the program source at the time, not KVOH itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7505+, Sept 27 at 0109, WRNO with music, very distorted, worse than usual. What a sorry excuse for a radio station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7505.284, WRNO New Orleans, flute / orchestra music, female singer at 0050-0055 UT Oct 2nd, S=8-9 or -72dBm signal here in southern Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Occasionally is on the air ahead of nominal *0100 (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 12104.979, WTWW, Arabic language service, S=7 or -83dBm weak tiny signal in downunder Australia. vy73 de wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, Logged in to remote SDR unit at Perseus in Brisbane Australia, 2100- 2230 UT Sept 28, dxldyg via DXLD) 4720, Oct 1 at 0100, weak but clear mix of WTWW Bible Worldwide from 12105, and some other gospel huxter ---- Let`s see, what`s the difference? 7385, i.e. another overload signal from WHRI, so obviously receiver-produced: maybe brought about by messing with a different antenna plug than usual into the DX-398 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 9475 & 5830, Oct 1 at 0106, WTWW-1 missing from day frequency normally still on now, and also from night frequency; while still on 5085 WTWW-2 and now fading down 12105 WTWW-3. 9470, therefore is cleared for audibility of CRI English, fair with flutter, one of countless 308-degree transmissions from Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) English prayer sermon on WTWW at 0109 UT 9474.971 kHz very odd frequency. 12104.981 kHz and also WTWW tiny English ministry program mentioned Bible reading at 0115 UT Oct 2nd, S=7 or -82dBm. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, UT Oct 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Wrong frequency announcement of WWCR 1 on Sept.24 1200-2200 on 15825 WCR 100 kW / 046 deg to WeEu English. Video: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/09/wrong-frequency-announcement-of-wwcr-1.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #873 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Sept. 30, 2014 via DXLD) I wonder what it was? But I would have to listen (gh) ** U S A. 15550, Aber da gibt es noch eine andere Station mit einem seltsamen Signal. WJHR Milton Florida USA mit einem englischen Pastor bei seiner missionarischen Predigt ... um 20-21 UT Sept 25. 15550 kHz im RX Empfang USB-mode bzw. tx J3E mode, ohne Traeger, einige Peaksignalstriche von 140 bis 200 Hertz Breite sind am Perseus Browser sichtbar zwischen 15550.3 und 15553.3 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 28 Sept via DXLD) ** U S A. 620, Sept 30 at 0549 UT, teeny-bopper music, as R. Disney, KMIK Plano/The Metroplex TX continues on the air beyond what had been forecast of closedown by all but one R. Disney AM stations. It`s now been widely reported that they will stay on until each one has been sold off. Hey, 620 should go back to Wichita Falls, as if anyone wanted it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See below for much more on Disney ** U S A. Question for those in the Twin Cities area; is WCCO's IBOC off? (John Sampson, Sept 26, IRCA mailing list, via ABDX via DXLD) It was off for the state fair, stayed off for 2 weeks and came back . On for a week and some days and now off again. Strange. Sincerely, (Todd Skaine, Woodbury, MN, Sept 27, ABDX via DXLD) WCCO has two main transmitters that it alternates. One can do HD, and one can't. They alternate them every few weeks, and that's why the HD comes and goes. s (Scott Fybush, NY, ibid.) For the longest time then they never went to that transmitter until recently. Let's hope they use it more now. The IBOC is back on (Todd Skaine, Woodbury, MN, ibid.) They always turn IBOC off for the State Fair. They run the PA Speakers from an off air feed, and the IBOC delay is unacceptable. They are also seriously understaffed, and IBOC is not a big priority for them, so they are pretty sloppy about it overall. 73, (Mike Gorniak, Braham, MN, ibid.) ** U S A. 880, Sept 30 at 0558 UT, SRN News dominating frequency from E/W, no doubt KHAC NM, which has been cheating with day facilities at night for some time now, soon confirmed by the local weather minute I was expecting at 0559 UT, and legal ID as from ``Tse Bonito-Window Rock-Gallup`` before 0600 UT back to Christian music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 890, Sept 29 at 1219 UT, with KTLR OKC nulled, no problem hearing ``Sportstalk 106.1`` cross-promo, and shortly KDXU ID in passing, from St George UT, again suspected on ND 10 kW day pattern instead of direxional away from WLS at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1050, San Mateo CA: I see another item regarding KTCT. The 50 kW nighttime operation of KTCT is with a radiation pattern that was formerly used for the daytime operation. That was the radiation pattern that was in use daytime when the STA request was first made. The daytime pattern was subsequently modified, but the STA specifies the older former day pattern. Both operations are at 50 kW (Benj. F. Dawson III, P.E., Hatfield & Dawson Consulting Engineers, LLC, 9500 Greenwood Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98103 USA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1070, Sept 25 at 0518 UT, YL says ``KNX News Radio time, 8:18`` --- except it`s 10:18 pm PDT. Maybe she slips, inside a 24-hour studio; or maybe KNX repeats news segment from 2 hours ago (olds?) and fails to clip out the timecheck? KNX is easily heard here at night, close to right angle from annoying KLIO Wichita, always off-frequency producing fast SAH, with sportstalk in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. You ever hear Hindi tunes on 1090 from Okie? Nonstop subcontinental pop vocals 1123-1140 fade here. Hard to believe KULF at 1000 watts D3 but who else is running this format? Found this link but I can't seem to get the stream to want to work. http://youareonair.com/ (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, Sept 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No, I haven`t. Wonder if WILD Boston ETH carries anything but CRI? Probably too late for that anyway (Glenn to Terry, via DXLD) Definitely too late for New England here and that region rarely makes it any time short of the biggest NYC stations. Prop would say Gulf Coast rim to southern central Plains for me at this time. Oh well I will try to check again tomorrow (Terry, ibid.) 1090, TEXAS, KULF, Bellville. 1123 September 27, 2014. Continuous Hindi vocals through 1140 fade out. The next day, from 1001, with male hosting Bollywood vocals, alternating between presumed Hindi and broken English, mentioning, "... 1090 AM... my show... we thank you for listening... under $1000, zero percent financing... in Houston." Later, a couple of clear, "1090 KULF" mentions. At times dominating the channel and strong, over KAAY. This is listed as D3 1000 watts, 30 watts psa. Surely this signal isn't 30 watts. Found this website: http://www.youareonair.com which lists this as "Radio Naya Andaz" ("New Style"), Paki/Indian format. Indeed. 1090 blasting in from 1001 tune in --- And it is KULF. What power are they throttling? This signal is huge. Bollywood vocals, announcer flipping between presumed Hindi and broken English. Houston used car dealer as as live read. Mentions of 1090 AM KULF a couple times now. (Krueger, 1017 UT Sept 28, ibid.) ** U S A. 1090, TEXAS, KVOP, Plainview. 1032 September 28, 2014. Briefly popping up with, "Welcome back to First Day on FOX Sports Radio..." No ID but format, bearings and sunrise propagation would fit KVOP (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. On the drive home from the convention in Billings, Montana I saw that two stations in Wyoming were off the air. The first one is KRAL-1240 in Rawlins and the other is KTHE-1240 in Thermopolis (Bill Block, Prescott Valley, AZ, 27 Sept, IRCA mailing list via DXLD) KRAL has been off a while; the owner has been fined numerous times at his other stations in Casper and near Rapid City for some serious violations. He's a lawyer, or was, for a grocery store chain in Southern California. I don't think KTHE has been off that long but its FM sister KDNO 101.7 was recently sold. Both had some technical issues under the old owner, Carol Carroll (Paul Walker, Redding CA, ibid.) KTHE turned in their license this month. Thermopolis used to be a two- AM station town; KRTR-1490 was deleted 25 or 30 years ago. "Nighttime coverage is not always guaranteed due to the skywave propagation effects of AM and thousands of other stations on the same frequency" - Wikipedia entry for KTHE (Steve Francis, Alcoa, Tennessee, ibid.) STATIONS GOING DARK: 1240, KTHE, WY Thermopolis – License voluntarily surrendered by licensee 9/8 (AM Switch, NRC DX News Oct 6 via DXLD) ** U S A. 1360, Sept 29 at 1925 UT, KAHS El Dorado KS, weak groundwave signal of EWTN station also has a low audible heterodyne when monitoring caradio from a quiet location in central Enid (parking lot of Golden Chick). Possibly a local device, but the band seems clean otherwise, so maybe one of two Texans is off-frequency: KDJW Amarillo or 50 kW KMNY Hurst TX (Metroplex), both of which have extremely unfavorable daytime patterns toward us. KDJW is another EWTN and KMNY is Spanish, but I can`t tell (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. KRKO 1380 Everett WA and KKXA 1520 to test in all digital mode --- see DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC below ** U S A. KBSN Moses Lake 1470 --- I'm getting them quite well, off channel on 1469.704 with Washington State Cougars football play by play. They've been on [sic] frequency for a while, and causing a pretty big het on channel. Lots of PSAs, Bud Lite ad. Equal to the 1470.00 station. All this on 0452 UT 28 Sept 2014. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, IRCA via DXLD) ** U S A. KKXA 1520 and KRKO 1380 Everett WA to test in all digital mode --- see DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC below ** U S A. 1530, Sept 30 at 0129 UT, C&W music, VG & dominant looping NW/SE. No doubt cheater KCMN Colorado Springs, as quickly confirmed by mention of ``Front Range`` and ``I-25 Radio Network``. NO WCKY to be heard; yet propagation is fine from further 1100 WTAM Cleveland. 1530, Oct 1 at 0125 UT, oldies/classic rock from NW/SE is dominating again, so KCMN Colorado Springs, in lieu of WCKY OH. BTW, A Norwegian DXer in the Arctic Radio Club says he has been receiving KCMN every night lately: Odd-Jörgen Sagdahl, in Hundhamaren, Norge. It seems they don`t speculate too much over there about power-cheating, but further evidence KCMN is running 15 kW rather than 15 watts. The Scandinavians are making incredible logs of lots of little North and South American MW stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. RADIO DISNEY PROLONGED roundup; see also USA 620 log above Boston's Radio Disney, WMKI-1260, still going strong as of 0950 EDT Saturday 9/27. I guess the 9/26 shutdown date has been extended (Marc DeLorenzo, South Dennis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, IRCA via DXLD) Local 1440 KDIZ is still R. Disney. Sincerely, (Todd Skaine, Woodbury, MN, ibid.) Cheers, Todd. Anyone hearing 1560 WQEW with Radio Disney in the north east? Best wishes and 73's Barry :-) Davies, Carlisle UK, ibid.) Just checked. R. Disney-1560 NYC still on parallel to 1260 Boston. I have been informed that R. Disney will continue to broadcast live until the individual stations are sold. Info from Scott Fybush via Bruce Conti (Marc DeLorenzo, South Dennis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, ibid.) Scott Fybush is reporting http://www.fybush.com that Disney has changed their mind and will leave them operating until sold (they are still selling them) == (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, NRC- AM via DXLD) It may not have been extended for very long, (end of the month maybe?) KKDZ-1250 hear in Seattle is still on, but I caught the very end of a local public service program, with the host thanking Radio Disney for giving him the chance to be involved in Seattle community affairs. It definitely sounded like a goodbye, then rejoining the network at around 7 AM local today. If KKDZ is still on next Sunday, it may air again (automated) in that time slot. I only caught the last few seconds, but my wife, knowing about the publicized Sept. 26 signoff, had the same impression, saying, “Are they going off the air now?” So I suspect it’s still imminent, just maybe not quite as imminent as first indicated. – (Rick Lewis, WA, Sept 28, NRC-AM via DXLD) THe Radio Disney stations will stay on the air until they are sold to new owners. Radio Disney/ABC lawyers realized it was a bad idea to take them dark (Paul B Walker, Jr., CA, ibid.) The Disney AMs will remain on the air until buyers emerge, however long that process takes. Disney has not gone out of its way to publicize this, which may explain why the hosts of the local show on KKDZ thought this was their last show. Here's my exclusive story from Friday about the change of mind at Disney: http://www.fybush.com/nerw-20140926/ s (Scott Fybush, Sept 28, NRC-AM via DXLD) Full story only subscribing From Scott Fybush’s NERW: No Signoffs for Disney AMs Today (September 26 – WH) was supposed to be the day those stations went dark and their local offices closed – but listeners who tuned into WQEW (1560) in New York, WMKI (1260) in Boston, WWJZ (640 Mt. Holly NJ) in Philadelphia or WDDZ (1250) in Pittsburgh found them still on the air this morning – and NERW can exclusively report that those signals will remain on the air indefinitely until Disney is able to sell them (AM Switch, NRC DX News Oct 6 via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DXLD) KDDZ-1690 Arvada – Denver is also still on the air September 26 (Wayne Heinen, NRC AM Log editor, ibid.) ** U S A. FCC VOWS TO QUICKLY GET FM TRANSLATORS TO AMS It has been a year since FCC commissioner Ajit Pai floated the idea of the agency undertaking an AM revitalization proceeding. And while nothing has formally been proposed, Audio Division chief Peter Doyle said yesterday at the Radio Show his team is making progress on some short- and long-term possibilities. “We have developed several proposals and recommendations internally,” he said. “And we have a number of ideas that could have a real beneficial effect for the AM service.” Doyle thinks some of the long- term fixes could have the most impact such as an idea to rework AM channel parameters. “If adopted that will have the ability to give many stations increased daytime and nighttime power,” Doyle predicted. But broadcast attorney Nancy Ory said most of her clients are focused on FM. “Our clients are only really interested in the AM translator,” she said, explaining, “They aren’t willing to spend money on a failing service.” If the FCC moves forward with an AM-only translator window, Doyle said it’s something they can accomplish very quickly. “We’re very confident we can turn applications into construction permits very quickly,” he said. How rapidly they move will however depend on the parameters set by the Commission, such as whether to only open the window for just daytimers or standalone AMs (Oct WTFDA VHF_UHF Digest via DXLD) FCC DEALS AMS A SETBACK ON TRANSLATOR MOVES. WAIVERS WON’T BRING RELIEF FOR AMS AFTER FCC REJECTS TELL CITY PLAN It may have been the most closely watched waiver request in a generation because of its potential impact on AM radio. But despite popular support among broadcasters, the FCC has rejected the so-called Tell City waiver request that would potentially have given AM operators more flexibility in buying FM translators and moving them into their markets. Pai calls move ‘temporary setback’ for AM revitalization. AM radio’s champion inside the FCC, commissioner Ajit Pai, says he is "disappointed" with the Media Bureau decision denying the Tell City request, which he says would have given some "immediate relief" to AM broadcasters. He calls the outcome a "temporary setback" for radio station owners (Inside Radio via AM Switch, NRC DX News Oct 6 via DXLD) ** U S A. All semi-local FM logs made on the Hyundai car radio parked just east of the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport, Clearwater, FL. 99.9 MHz, FLORIDA, W202CB, Bayonet Point, Pasco County. 1630 September 25, 2014. Noted this one apparently a few days after coming online on this channel with "The New Alt 99-9" imaging after every couple of songs, no top-of-hour ID in the re-check 2150-2110 block. Clear Chann... err, IHeartMedia, nationally available concoction of commercial-free weak alt crap like Mumford & Sons, Muse, Atari and the occasional tolerable 'classic' alternative cut such as one by The Cure, locally originating from WFUS 103.5's HD2. The signal pretty much obliterates WXJB, Homosassa locally now. Read more at: http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/90242/thunder-tampa-expands-alt-launches/ 101.1 MHz, FLORIDA, unidentified LPFM or translator. 1715 September 26, 2014. New Beginning Radio with Old Testament preaching, parallel WKOT-LP on 102.1 but some signal breakup. Presumably not W266AI Spring Hill which simulcasts News/Talk WWJB, Brooksville, Nothing listed on the New Beginning Radio site at 101.1 in Florida, and the next closest in the FCC dB are allegedly not on the air yet as in CP applications for LPFM's in Citrus Park and Lutz, Hispanic Arts of Tampa and Iglesia de Cristo Corp. respectively. 102.1 MHz, FLORIDA, WKOT-LP, Wimauma, Hillsborough County. 1659 September 26, 2014. Olde Tyme Jesus vocals, not quite legal "WKOT Wimauma-Sun City" male canned ID into SRN News, including embedded network commercials, back to Jesus praise singing then preacher from 1707. New Beginning Radio network. So even though no commercials are allowed on LPFM's I suppose if they are within a network news feed it's OK to not have to suppress? Parallel audio to weaker 101.1 MHz unidentified source, 103.9 MHz, FLORIDA, W280DW, (WSMR 89.1, Sarasota simulcast), Tampa, Hillsborough County. 1718 September 26, 2014. Classical music, excellent signal. Tower located on the University of South Florida campus. 107.9, FLORIDA, WNDN, Chiefland, Levy County. 1615 September [26], 2014. Often dominating over normally alone WSRZ-FM, Coral Cove, Sarasota County (Classic Rock Hits/Oldies). "Wind FM" slogan, local commercials, Classic Rock, i.e. Rock You Like A Hurricane by Scorpions. FCC dB says 6000 watts. Florida Low Power Radio Stations: https://sites.google.com/site/floridadxn/florida-low-power-radio-stations (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Pirate, new station or what on 100.1 in Indy? I been hearing a local (primarily) SS music station on 100.1. I live near I-70 and Post Road on the east side of Indianapolis. For about the last week or so I have been hearing a very strong signal that seems to get louder for the North or the city of Lawrence Indiana. And the station fades dramatically as I venture to the south and southwest. In fact in the the Irvington neighborhood about 5 miles away it is almost completely nonexistent. They normally play music but a few times I have heard what sounds like a Religious sermon with what sounds like "en lingue" in just about every sentence. No top of the hour IDs or any other content at all. Per Soundhound the SS songs were by Crystal Lewis and José A. Romero. Anyone else locally hearing this? 73 (Dave in Indy Hascall, Sept 29, WTFDA via DXLD) ** U S A. FCC KILLS SPORTS BLACKOUT RULES By Julian Hattem - 09/30/14 11:09 AM EDT The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday voted to kill off its four-decade-old sports blackout rules over the fierce objections of the National Football League. In a unanimous decision, the five members of the commission said that the rules, which ban cable and satellite companies from showing games blacked out on local broadcast channels, are out of date and hurt consumers. “It’s a simple fact: the federal government should not be party to sports teams keeping their fans from viewing the games, period,” said Chairman Tom Wheeler. The NFL requires local broadcast stations such as CBS and Fox to black out games that don't sell out. The FCC's old rules extended that blackout to cable or satellite companies by banning them from airing any game that is blacked out on local broadcast. The FCC regulations date back to 1975, when sports leagues feared that the rise of televised games would lead to a drop-off in ticket sales. “This FCC rule, whatever sense it made in 1975, is completely obsolete and outdated and simply empowers the NFL to keep fans in the dark and prevent them from watching games they deserve to see,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) told reporters ahead of the vote. Even after the FCC move, the NFL can still make individual deals with cable and satellite providers to black out certain games. But supporters of the FCC’s action said that it was not the government’s place to side with the league against fans. “It takes a public policy finger off the scale of another future blackout,” said Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, a Democrat. The vote is a major defeat for the NFL. The multibillion-dollar league launched a concerted lobbying blitz to save the rules this summer, ahead of Tuesday’s vote. The league encouraged thousands of fans to voice their support for the rules and even brought on Hall of Fame wide receiver Lynn Swann to help with the public push. Without the rules in place, the league had warned that it could be forced to move some games off free broadcast TV and onto channels that can only be picked up with a cable or satellite subscription. Critics said the league was bluffing. “There’s no way this can happen anytime soon,” argued Commissioner Ajit Pai, a Republican. “For one, the league’s major profits these days come from merchandise and TV revenues, not gate sales.” Switching its model so that fewer fans could watch games for free would be “cutting off its nose to spite its face,” Pai said. Tuesday’s vote was just the latest setback for the NFL in recent weeks. The league has come under fire for its treatment of Baltimore Ravens star Ray Rice, who punched his then-fiancé in a video that caused a firestorm when it was published online. Other instances of domestic violence, revelations about the rates of head injuries among professional football players and the ongoing controversy about the name of the Washington Redskins have put the NFL under the microscope. On their face, the other controversies are unrelated to the FCC’s vote to get rid of its blackout rules. But David Goodfriend, a former aide in the Clinton administration and chairman of the Sports Fans Coalition, which lobbed to kill the rule, said it’s all part of the league’s lack of accountability. “When you have an organization that has been publicly subsidized for decades, that enjoyed nearly unchecked market power, that organization starts to behave arrogantly,” Goodfriend told The Hill. The league did not immediately comment on the FCC vote. Critics of the league’s actions hoped that the FCC vote could be just the beginning of changes at the NFL. “The league is feeling some pressure today,” said Rep. Brian Higgins (D-N.Y.), whose hometown Buffalo Bills have been a target of blackouts in recent years. The FCC vote “provides additional leverage to get the league to do something that is fan friendly,” he said, such as committing not to black out games in the future. Last year, Higgins and Blumenthal introduced a bill along with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) that would revoke the league’s exemptions to antitrust laws unless it ended the requirement that local broadcasters black out games. The bill would also make sure that any game that is blacked out would be available for free on the Internet. The path forward for that bill is uncertain, given the narrow window in the lame duck. But Blumenthal indicated that the measure could get tacked on to some “must-pass” bill during this year’s lame-duck session. The issue is “coming to the fore at the right season and it will have tremendous impetus as a result of the FCC decision” he said. “If we can attach it to another bill, a must-pass bill — and there are some — we will see the opportunity.” — This post was updated at 11:43 a.m. (Source? via John Babbis, MD, Sept 30, via DXLD) ** VIETNAM [and non]. 12005, Sept 28 at 0117, VOV in English is very poor, as the MUF is down: it won`t take much of a disturbance to knock out this darker and darker path from UK, yet destined to stay here another month. Time to shift to Ascension or lower band already (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9635.768, Two very extended like National Anthem of Vietnam sounded orchestra performings noted at 2146 to 2148 UT, and 2nd a little shorter at 2148 to 2150:25 UT, S=8 or -76dBm on remote unit in Queensland downunder. At 2151 UT station and country ID like "lop noi ... Vietnaaam....". 12019.091 V of Vietnam from Son Tay site in Japanese, scheduled 2200- 2230 UT, S=7-8, or -83dBm signal. vy73 de wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, Logged in to remote SDR unit at Perseus in Brisbane Australia, 2100- 2230 UT Sept 28, dxldyg via DXLD) 12005, Sept 30 at 0119, VOV English via Woofferton UK, again with VG signal, unlike one binite ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM. Received a medal from the Voice of Vietnam for 3 years listening. Listening to them much longer than the last time sent something glass (picture ... I do not remember exactly), but never received. Over the years, plays were different gifts. They even asked the old confirmation. I listen to them since 1984 (Vladimir Rozhkov, Kansk, Krasnoyarskiy kray, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via QSL World via RusDX Sept 28 via DXLD) Also received a medal last year Voice of Vietnam in the frame with stand on the table (Editor Anatoly Klepov, ibid.) Listen to "Voice of Vietnam" in 1990. First QSL received from them in 1992. Russian edition sent me a diploma in three years and the picture in the glass; the glass had been broken into pieces. From the English edition received a diploma in five years and a glass sculpture, which was broken in the mail, I immediately threw it in the garbage. In a word, a mess with them (Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio- dx via QSL World via RusDX Sept 28 via DXLD) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 1550, Radio Nacional de la R.A.S.D., ALGERIA, Rabouni, 2150-2010 [sic] Sep 25-26, program local, 22222. 73! (Mauro Giroletti, IK2GFT-SWL1510, JRC 525 NRD-LOWE HF 150-Elad FDM S2, Antenna LOOP ALA100M-FLAG Antenna West direction, Filter PAR Electronics – BCST-LPF, Lat. 45.25’.00’’ Long. 9.7’.00” -Locator grid. Jn 45 Nk, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic carrier search, Sept 29 at 0517-0520: JBA carriers on 549, 621, 684, 711, 747, 774, 882 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific carrier search, Sept 28 at 1149-1153: JBA carriers on 774, 594, 693, 1053, not checked higher; likely Japan & Korea. Our sunrise today: 1224 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 740, Sept 30 at 0141 UT, with KRMG Tulsa nulled, I hear some Spanish, and a LAH rumble from an off-frequency station, not necessarily from the same one. Tnx to KTRH Houston, not much of a factor here, most of the 740 Mexicans are in the periphery, except for XEQN Torreón, Coahuila (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1090, Sept 30 at 0133 UT, Spanish talk with caller, IBOC QRM from KRLD, 1093, reduced by tuning to 1088; get a pretty good DF on it as about the same direxion as KRLD, and also with KAAY nulled. 0134 mentions ``Palacio de Bellas Artes`` along with music with a beat. I am hoping that will lead to Cuba or México but it leads to both. Best DF fit would be XEFC Mérida, Yucatán. The only Cuban listed, 1 kW in Las Tunas, seems unlikely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1190, Sept 30 at 0132 UT, amid heavy QRM, something in Spanish which loops roughly NE/SW. Not aware of any SS US stations nearby, so could be Monterrey or Juárez, supposedly 100 watts at night, or XEWK Guadalajara, 10 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1520, Sept 25 at 0522 UT, fast rippling SAH tearing up KOKC OKC, but no modulation audible from the offender. It`s like this most of the time at night here now. Assuming it`s a daytimer leaving its carrier on at night, several possibilities in mid-America, from IL, IA, ND, SD, TX. 1520, Oct 1 at 0127 UT, KOKC OKC again with QRM from rippling SAH several Hz off-frequency, but no audio from it. As best I can loop it, from the NE/SW. Of the Illinois/Indiana stations, the one fitting the bill best is WHOW in Clinton IL, which is a 5 kW ND daytimer. Surely some DXers in that area can confirm whether this or some other is leaving an OC on into the night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 3344.9, 1115 not enough audio for identification of language 18 September (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, various wire antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RRI Ternate? UNIDENTIFIED. 4770, 2115 talk by M sounding like English. About as strong as Djibouti [4780]. Don't know if this is a spur, harmonic, or what. 4770 is a 3rd harmonic of 1590. Didn’t sound // to anything I had on 1590 at one point. (16 Sept.) (Dave Valko, 18 September 2014 micro-DXpedition near Dunlo PA, RX: Perseus SDR, ANT: 315' Beverages (BOG) at 80 and 0 , CumbreDX via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 7245, Sept. 30, fairly strong carrier signing on/off several times between 1835 and 1845+. Enough for the moment, have to work. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Münster, Germany, http://www.muenster.org/uwz/ms-alt/africalist/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Being on-frequency, so not Ethiopia, I guess (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 7777.7-USB, While looking for Star Star R. at 1133, found a USB signal here with OA campo music. Off at 1137. Should have IDed as R. Siete. Found Spanish traffic here later at 1208. http://youtu.be/-ctIgnvUn7w (12 Sept.) (Dave Valko, 12 September 2014 micro-DXpedition near Dunlo PA, RX: Perseus SDR, ANT: 315' Beverage (BOG) at 0 , Cumbre DX via DXLD) UNIDentified. Station playing Egyptian music was observed on Sept. 26 1110-1116 on new 9600, ex 9550, re-ex 9400. Very, very weak signal: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/09/unidentified-station-playing-egyptian.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #873 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Sept. 30, 2014 via DXLD) September 26: UNIDentified station playing Egyptian music 1110 on new 9600, ex 9550, re ex 9400: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGAAZrYgHK4&feature=youtu.be Station playing Egyptian music 1113 on new 9600, ex 9550, re ex 9400: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC9U63g6nKs&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello, Yes sounds like E25 is moving between 9400/9450/9500/9600. I got them on 9600 only once about 3 months ago. 73 (Tarek Zeidan, Cairo, Egypt, Sent from Samsung Mobile, Sept 28, ibid.) Enigmatic UNIDENTIFIED. 9635, 2358, 9/21/14, in unrecognized language. Rustic music – male vocal over apparent flute like instrument and drum accompaniment, 2359 Western brass band (anthem?), one or two words by male, 0000 off. Fair. Could not find anything that would account for this in EiBi, Aoki or DX Listening Digest for past 2 months (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin, Perseus, WinRadio g313e, Eton e1, Grundig Satellit 800, Sangean 909X, Tecsun PL 660; 40 meters dipole, RF Systems Mk 2, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet Sept 28 via DXLD) I bet it`s Mali on their day frequency instead of night channel 5995 (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 11000, Oct 1 at 1320, open carrier with flutter (so it`s not just the FRG-7 Wadley Loop MHz birdie). Smax of a CNR1 jammer rarin` to go, but not on the Aoki or EiBi lists (yet?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Re 14-38: ``EUROPE. NÃO IDENTIFICADAS: 14477.7 BLS, emissora latino-americana semelhante à do Pescador Pregador, 2205-..., 12/9, propag. relig.; 35343. Bons DX e 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1739, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` Glenn, In the latest DXLD you inserted this UNID Latin American station under Europe. From the accent, I would bet on Central America (Carlos Gonçalves, Sept 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Carlos, ?? But you also said you were in contact with the operator of 14477+ and he was quite near you, i.e. Portugal? (Glenn to Carlos, ibid.) Glenn, Yes, I did, while referring to a certain Portuguese pirate station, R. Eldorado, on 14477-USB, which was mentioned in a private message to you. This Central (most probably)/South American UNID on 14477.7 also using USB is another station. I believe you made a confusion around both. 73, (Carlos, ibid.) Well, yes, what a coincidence two pirates should be on almost the same frequency so far out of band (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1471, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 15151-USB, Sept 26 at 0045, colloquial Spanish 2-way, poor at best, with ``engine noise``, poachers or narcotraffickers intruding. I had three previous logs on these on 15151: at 1519 UT October 23, 2006; at 1458 UT Oct 19, 2009; and at 1426 UT Oct 30, 2013 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 17540, Sept 26 at 1342, open carrier, good and steady, like RHC but not CRI East Turkistan nearby; then a bit of music (harp?) and off. Suspect it`s Greenville with transmitter check well prior to the 1930 broadcast in French on 17530 --- but testing on 17540 to avoid QRMing VOA Somali via Vatican now on 17530. Such test- only frequencies are SOP at VOA. Otherwise, scheduled users of 17540 later are WHRI with NHK at 2130; Madagascar with R. Impala at 1700; or even Cuban Spy Numbers at 2300, per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1741: For your wonderful work from Dan Goldfarb, UK (with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) One may also contribute by check or MO in US$ on a US bank to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (gh) Credit where credit’s due. Following your reply to me on Tuesday, I checked the DXLD’s mentioned, and indeed found all the references to the then forthcoming closure of CFN Europe, in amongst all the masses of information contained in DXLD, which I must confess I stopped reading a while ago due to finding it almost overwhelming. But I guess I will have to try to find a quick way of locating any titbits which might be of interest (Paul David, Wembley Park, England, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ Radio Broadcasting and new Net Neutrality rules on Internet Excellent article in October issue of Smithsonian magazine. It compares the early days of Radio Broadcasting with present day internet. Good reading material (Tom Jasinski, Joliet, IL, Sept 27, NRC-AM via DXLD) 2014 IRCA Mexican Log is out!!! ********* JUST RELEASED ****************** IRCA Mexican Log, 19th Edition (Winter2014) ********* The IRCA MEXICAN LOG lists all AM stations in Mexico by frequency, including call letters, state, city, day/night power, slogans, schedule in UTC/GMT, formats, networks and notes. The call letter index gives call, frequency, city and state. The city index (listed by state, then city) includes frequency, call and day/night power. The transmitter site index (listed by state, then city) tabulates the latitude and longitude oftransmitter sites. This is an indispensable reference for anyone who hears Mexican radio stations. Size is 8 1/2" x 11". Prices: IRCA/NRC members $9.50 (US), $11.00 (Canada) $12.50 (México), $14.00 (rest of the world). Non-IRCA/NRC members add $2.00 To order from the IRCA Bookstore, send the correct amount to: IRCA GOODIE FACTORY, 9705 MARY NW, SEATTLE WA 98117-2334 (PayPal [add $1.00] email: phil_tekno@yahoo.com). Please stateclub affiliation when ordering (Phil Bytheway, IRCA President / Goodie Factory, Seattle WA, Drake R-7 / KIWA Loop Sept 30, IRCA via DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ AUGUST 24-26 CAPE PERPETUA DXPEDITION REPORT Hello All, For those interested, a 9-page article describing last month's Cape Perpetua (OR) ocean cliff DXpedition has been uploaded to http://www.mediafire.com/view/6a1h1c34cft9e2m/August_2014_Cape_Perpetua_Ocean_Cliff_DXpedition.doc and will shortly be uploaded to the Ultralightdx Yahoo group file site. The article describes the wild challenge of transoceanic DXing during gale force winds (on two out of three days) at a narrow Highway 101 ocean cliff turnoff on Cape Perpetua, two miles south of Yachats, OR. The article includes MP3 recording links for 47 Asian and South Pacific stations received during the ocean cliff DXpedition on a 7.5" loopstick Tecsun PL-380 Ultralight radio (relatively expendable in the vicious weather) and a 15" FSL antenna (definitely NOT expendable). 73 and Good DX, (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA), Sept 28, IRCA via DXLD) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ SE ACERCA LA 10ª. BIENAL INTERNACIONAL DE RADIO, MÉXICO DF, 6-10 OCT La Secretaría de Educación Pública y el Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, a través de Radio Educación, invitan a la 10ª. Bienal Internacional de Radio, cuyo tema principal es la Agenda digital y las narrativas transmedia, conceptos enfocados en el desarrollo tecnológico y las plataformas contemporáneas en el campo de la radio y la comunicación. Además de la presencia de la Presidencia de la República, la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores y la Secretaría de Educación Pública, el encuentro académico más importante del mundo en su género integra también el apoyo del Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes e instituciones fundamentales de la cultura mexicana contemporánea, como el Centro Nacional de las Artes; Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia; Museo Nacional de las Intervenciones; Cineteca Nacional; Dirección General de Bibliotecas; Biblioteca Vasconcelos; Centro de Cultura Digital; Fonoteca Nacional y Librerías Educal. Encabezados por la Red de Radiodifusoras y Televisoras Educativas y Culturales de México, A.C., esta Bienal de Radio contará con la participación activa de los medios públicos del país, pues como parte de la organización, estarán: ABC Radio, de Mexicali, Tijuana y Ensenada; Radio Voces Campeche; Radio Torreón; UniRadio de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México; Universidad de Guanajuato; Radio y Televisión de Guerrero; Sistema Jalisciense de Radio y Televisión; Instituto Morelense de Radio y Televisión; Corporación Oaxaqueña de Radio y Televisión; Radio Televisión de Veracruz y Radio Zacatecas, así como el Canal del Congreso; Código Radio; Ibero 90.9; Radio Unam; el Instituto Mexicano de la Radio, Tv Unam, UAM Radio, Canal 22, Televisión Educativa y Once Tv México. En el núcleo de la reflexión en torno a la realidad mediática, la generación de conocimiento y el papel de los medios públicos en el mundo contemporáneo, La Bienal contará con el acompañamiento de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana; Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México; Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana; Tecnológico de Monterrey y la Universidad Iberoamericana de la Ciudad de México. De la misma manera, este encuentro también integrará la participación y reflexión de la Asociación Mexicana de Investigadores de la Comunicación A.C. (Amic) y Asociación Mexicana de Derecho a la Información (Amedi). El carácter internacional de esta 10ª. edición de La Bienal se verá fortalecido por el apoyo y la presencia de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (Unesco); la Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura; la Secretaría General Iberoamericana; Radio Francia Internacional (Rfi); el Instituto Francés de América Latina (Ifal) y Rnw Radio Netherlands y la Asociación Mundial de Radios Comunitarias (Amarc). Los resultados del esfuerzo de cooperación que Radio Educación ha mantenido con las radios nacionales de Latinoamérica rendirán frutos en la Bienal Internacional de Radio, pues en el marco de este evento académico, se llevará a cabo en la Ciudad de México, el Segundo Encuentro Internacional de Radios Públicas de Centroamérica y México, lo cual contribuirá de manera importante para el intercambio, fortalecimiento y cooperación en el ámbito radiofónico y los enlaces institucionales entre diversas radios públicas y organismos nacionales e internacionales de cultura, como el Sistema Nacional de Radio y Televisión de Costa Rica; Radio Nacional de El Salvador; Radio Nacional de Guatemala; Radio Nacional de Honduras; Radio Nacional de Nicaragua; Sistema Estatal de Radio y Televisión de Panamá; Red de Radiodifusoras Universitarias de Chile; Radio Nacional de Colombia y la Radio Nacional de Perú, que realizarán un trabajo conjunto con medios e instituciones mexicanas como la Secretaría de Cultura de Campeche; Sistema de Televisión y Radio de Campeche; Sistema Chiapaneco de Radio, Televisión y Cinematografía; Sistema Quintanaorrense [sic] de Comunicación Social; Sistema Tele Yucatán S. A. de C.V., la Secretaría de Cultura de Yucatán y la Radio Universidad de Colima. En 2014, la 10ª. Bienal Internacional de Radio contará con el acompañamiento de más de 60 organismos públicos y sociales que participan convocados por la Radio Educación, en lo que sin duda representa un reconocimiento a la vocación cultural de la radio cultural de México y una muestra de su transición de emisora de radio a institución cultural del Estado Mexicano, a 90 años de su fundación. La Bienal Internacional de Radio se llevará a cabo del 6 al 10 de octubre en el Centro Nacional de las Artes de la Ciudad de México y toda la información se encuentra disponible en: http://www.bienalderadio.gob.mx (via GRA blog via DXLD) MUSEA +++++ GRAVAÇÕES ANTIGAS Salve, dexistas! Como alguns já sabem, estou digitalizando minhas fitas cassete com áudios de ondas curtas das décadas de 1980 e 90. Estou colocando esses arquivos em mp3 em uma pasta pública no 4shared. Quem tiver interesse, pode ir lá buscar no endereço http://www.4shared.com/folder/ixI1X-Ev/Ondas_curtas.html Todos os arquivos sonoros que estão nesta página podem ser usados à vontade, sempre citando a fonte. Já estão lá disponíveis: - um programa Clube dos Ouvintes da Voz da América de 1993, com Luiz Edmundo e Nara Ferreira; - minha entrevista com Sergei Beldinski, correspondente no Brasil da Rádio Central de Moscou, em 1988; - a gravação do dia em que o Big Ben falhou no serviço brasileiro da BBC, de 1997; - a fita de instruções que era enviada para monitores da BBC, ensinando a usar o código SIO; e - um trecho de transmissão de futebol de Portugal pela Antena 1/RDP Internacional de 1987. A cada fim de semana, estou colocando alguma coisa. Peço paciência, pois o tempo é curto e a fila é grande. Mas, aos poucos, todo o meu arquivo de ondas curtas em fita cassete vai para lá. 73s, (Valter Aguiar, Curitiba - PR, Sept 27, radioescutas yg via DXLD) WILKINSBURG CEREMONY TO COMMEMORATE WORLD'S FIRST WIRELESS BROADCAST Pittsburgh Post-Gazette By Dave Zuchowski September 25, 2014 An unassuming, two-story, red brick garage on the border of Pittsburgh and Wilkinsburg was the site of an important contribution to broadcast history — the world’s first wireless voice broadcast on Oct. 17, 1919. Using bare wires, crackling spark coils and homemade vacuum tubes, Frank Conrad sent a two-hour-long concert of jazz, opera, popular and orchestral music over the airwaves to amateur radio buffs who listened in on crystal radio sets. His broadcast proved so popular that he began sending it over the airwaves every Wednesday and Saturday evening, often reaching listeners a couple hundred miles away. Mr. Conrad was assistant chief engineer at Westinghouse’s East Pittsburgh plant. Harry P. Davis, a Westinghouse vice president, was aware of the popularity of the broadcasts but took little interest -- until he saw a newspaper ad for Horne’s department store in September 1920 offering radios for sale to pick up Mr. Conrad’s broadcasts. After that, he persuaded others in the company that Westinghouse should set up its own station. Mr. Conrad was asked to work on the new station, which made its first broadcast on Nov. 2, 1920, from a small wooden shack atop the "K" Building, the tallest at the Westinghouse East Pittsburgh plant, informing listeners of the results of the Harding-Cox presidential election. "Westinghouse had applied for a commercial license but hadn’t yet received it by the time of the broadcast," said Rick Harris, a graphic designer from Forest Hills and secretary-treasurer of the National Museum of Broadcasting. "The company used a temporary amateur call sign 8ZZ for the broadcast." A couple days later, the license was issued with the call sign KDKA. To honor Mr. Conrad’s contributions to the broadcast industry, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission approved a historic marker to be erected on a street adjacent to the Conrad garage. Dedicated on Dec. 1, 1990, the marker was later removed and placed in storage when the property and garage were sold in 2000 to make way for a fast-food restaurant. "The goal of the NMB had been to preserve the garage and make it the centerpiece of a larger museum," Mr. Harris said. "But when the property was sold, we were given a few months to dismantle the garage and tried unsuccessfully to find the necessary funding from Pittsburgh foundations and historical societies." Help came from Ralph Guild, a radio advertising executive from New York City who wanted to give something back to the industry. With his financial backing, the garage was dismantled and the bricks, rafters, joists and windows were placed in storage along with documentation on how to put the garage back together. At 2 p.m. Oct. 17 — 95 years to the day of Mr. Conrad’s historic first broadcast — the marker will be rededicated at its new location at South Trenton and Penn Avenues in Wilkinsburg. Bill Hillgrove, play-by-play announcer for the Steelers and board member of the National Museum of Broadcasting, will lead the rededication ceremony, which will begin inside the Community LIFE Building, 301 Meade St., Wilkinsburg, then move outside to the new site of the marker. Frank Conrad’s great grandsons, Jamie Conrad and actor David Conrad, will attend. David Conrad, an Edgewood native, is best known for his starring role in the “Ghost Whisperer.” Following the marker rededication, patrons will move back inside the building for refreshments. "The NMB is working on a plan to rebuild the garage and is looking at several sites in the Pittsburgh area," Mr. Harris said. "We would like to have it be the centerpiece of a larger museum and have it rebuilt in five years in time for the 100th anniversary of Conrad’s first broadcast." Tracey Evans, executive director of the Wilkinsburg Community Development Corp., said her organization is working on a project to restore the Wilkinsburg train station and would like to make space available to the museum. According to Ms. Evans, the community development corporation has received two grants to start work on the exterior of the building and has raised $225,000 of the $1.6 million needed for the restoration project. "Pittsburgh, more than any other city in the world, has been an innovative center for radio and television broadcasting, Mr. Harris said. "We at the NMB want to see that its historical broadcasting legacy is preserved." http://www.post-gazette.com/local/east/2014/09/25/Wilkinsburg-ceremony-to-commemorate-wireless-broadcast (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) Standard controversy debunking that KDKA was really first (gh, DXLD) THE 1930S REFRIGERATOR-RADIO COMBO THAT NEVER QUITE TOOK OFF By the late 1930s the vast majority of American households had a radio. So how were radio manufacturers supposed to expand their market? By insisting that the ideal American home has a radio in every room. Sometimes that meant putting radios in the latest appliances — like right inside every American’s favourite new gadget, the mechanical refrigerator. Jesse Walker, author of the book Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America, pointed me to this rather novel invention from 1937 — the refrigerator-radio combination unit. This may seem like an odd marriage of tech, but it makes perfect sense when you realise that it in the 1930s it was becoming harder to sell new radios and much easier to sell new fridges. Despite the Great Depression, America saw an explosion of mechanical refrigerator ownership during the 1930s. In 1930, just 8 per cent of American households had a fridge. By the end of the decade, nearly half of American homes had one. But the market for radios was pretty saturated in the late 1930s. Over 80 per cent of American households had a radio by the end of the decade. So radio set manufacturers tried to insert their products into new places that from the vantage point of the future, we can see didn’t pan out (like refrigerators) and others that did (like cars). From the August 1937 issue of Modern Mechanix magazine: ``A refrigerator equipped with a built-in radio has been placed on the market. So popular was the first model that the manufacturer has made available a choice of several models in different sizes equipped with radio. This has been accomplished by having the radio mounted in the top of the refrigerator, and having the refrigerator constructed so that a top equipped with radio may be substituted for one without. It has been said that the housewife spends sixty per cent of her time in the kitchen. Now by having a radio installed in the refrigerator, she may listen to her favourite program while working. Because most radios are placed in the living room, one or two rooms from the kitchen, usually the housewife, when she is in the kitchen, finds it necessary either to miss a program or turn the volume up to a point where it is objectionable to the rest of the family. With this popular combination the housewife may work and listen at the same time.`` Of course, combining a radio and a refrigerator was never a terribly useful idea. Simply placing a radio in the kitchen worked just as well, and presumably was a much cheaper option. For the rest of the 20th century, this radio-refrigerator combo may have seemed quite silly. But with today’s rise of the internet of things and our fridges talking to our toasters talking to our cereal boxes, one has to wonder if the future might have a good chuckle about our desire to mash-up technologies that seem like they perhaps don’t need to be mashed up (Gizmodo via Oct Australian DX News via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See BRAZIL; INDIA; IRELAND; LUXEMBOURG; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ NIGERIA; RUSSIA; SPAIN; TAIWAN; UK DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC See also USA: 830 WCCO +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ KRKO 1380 EVERETT WA AND KKXA 1520 TO TEST IN ALL DIGITAL MODE I don't know if this has been posted, but according to the Northwest Broadcasters site, both KRKO and KKXA will be testing in the all digital mode after the first of October. This should be interesting. I wonder if the QRN will be worse? I kind of knew this was coming, but why? For the stations that will venture into that unknown territory, their days may be numbered. The FCC has oked these tests. It looks like the FCC and NAB are pushing this so we have little choice (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, Sept 30, NRC-AM via DXLD) "It depends" as they always say. The current hybrid IBOC has digital trash in 3 bands: 0 to 5 kHz, 5 to 10 kHz and 10 to 15 kHz. The good news: all digital IBOC has no usage of the 10 to 15 kHz band. The bad news: all digital IBOC increases the power in the 0 to 6 kHz and 5 to 10 kHz bands (Chuck Hutton, IRCA via DXLD) One of the news stories say that the listeners with analog radios will hear only silence, but what is their definition of silence? It sounds like the IBOC hash will be worse on the channel, but not on adjacent channels? Time will tell. I am sure the DXers in the Puget Sound will report on what is heard. Here, KKXA 1520 is buried under KGDD days and mixes at night. KRKO is heard 24/7. However, is poor days next to local KAST 1370, but decent at night. Thanks, Chuck (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, ibid.) At least in theory, the QRN should be *less* in all-digital mode. The digital signal "spills over" because the station has to protect its own analog signal. If there's no longer an analog signal to protect, the digital signal can be placed where the analog used to be, not in the adjacent channels (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, NRC-AM via DXLD) Can existing ``HD`` radios automatically receive these OK, since they are accustomed to finding the IBOC much farther afield on the sidebands? (gh, NRC-AM via DXLD) I would certainly hope so. It is part of the standard, so the designers knew about all-digital mode when they designed the receivers (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, ibid.) Radio World: All-Digital AM Testing Begins Oct. 2 in Seattle http://www.radioworld.com/article/all-digital-am-testing-begins-oct--in-seattle/272609 (via Allan Dunn, K1UCY, Sept 30, NC-AM via DXLD) Viz.: ALL-DIGITAL AM TESTING BEGINS OCT. 2 IN SEATTLE by Leslie Stimson on 09.30.2014 Tests of all-digital AM HD Radio technology begin Oct. 2 on Seattle AM stations KRKO and KKXA. The FCC has approved a request for experimental test authority on the ninth such group selected for testing by NAB Labs. This is the largest market for testing so far; Seattle-Tacoma is Metro Rank #13 based on population, according to Nielsen. The next-largest market so far for all-digital AM testing has been Tucson, Ariz., Metro #62 and home to KTUC(AM). We reported from the Radio Show that station president/GM Andy Skotdal had asked for permission to transmit an all-digital AM signal for the testing. During a discussion of all-digital technology at the show, Skotdal said “I’m a fan of digital sunrise for the FM band,” noting that “we could see” all-digital AM after FM. He adds “AM is going to be harder to bring along” as some owners will have trouble redoing their antenna system.” The 50 kW stations will turn off their analog signal for periods of time for the duration of the NAB Lab tests, which are due to run through Oct. 6. NAB Labs is collecting test data to better understand the performance characteristics of all-digital transmissions via AM radio. Results of all the tests will be processed and submitted to the FCC in 2015. NAB Labs hopes to have a session at the spring show discussing the tests. According to the Seattle Area Radio Association and iBiquity Digital Corp., there are approximately 223,907 HD Radio-equipped vehicles in Seattle. “Listeners in King County with analog radios can receive approximately 26 FM signals, but those who have radios with HD Radio can receive an additional 33 channels, many of them commercial-free,” said Chuck Maylin, executive director of the Seattle Area Radio Association. Related: All-Digital AM Field Tests to Wrap This Fall - See more at: http://www.radioworld.com/article/all-digital-am-testing-begins-oct--in-seattle/272609#sthash.ues1b5Rp.dpuf (via DXLD) Just more malarkey from the iBlock Alliance (Bob Young, KB1OKL, Millbury, MA, NRC-AM via DXLD) I'd rather have this than the overly wide IBOC. Sent from my iPhone (Allan Dunn, K1UCY, ibid.) According to Radio World, KRKO will run the digital test Saturday 9:30 am-4:30 pm PDT, and KKXA will do it Sunday 9:30-4:30. http://www.radioworld.com/article/everett-stations-air-promos-for-all-digital-testing/272612 (Bruce Portzer, IRCA via DXLD) According to the Everett Post, KKXA 1520 will be broadcasting digital- only AM HD Radio on Sunday, Oct 5 from 9:30 am to 4:30pm. Programming is Classic Country. This will be with full transmitter power (50 kW?) instead of low-power IBOC. Sister station KRKO 1380 will be broadcasting digital-only AM HD Radio on Saturday, Oct 4 from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. Programming is Fox Sports. All times are Pacific Daylight Time (-7 hours GMT, I think). There may be other times from Oct 2 thru Oct 6, but I haven't any other information. Check out their KXA Facebook page for announcements. (Damon via Jurgen Bartels Suellwarden, N. Germany, Sept 30, mwdx yg via DXLD) Doug, Thanks. This should be interesting. Maybe we should push for all IBOC stations to go 100% IBOC then? (Patrick Martin, NRC-AM via DXLD) It would certainly make life easier for DXers! (as well as making it easier to DX in HD mode). It dawned on me last night (when it was way too late) that the FCC should consider relaxing multiple-ownership restrictions in order to encourage conversion to all-digital mode. It might work like this: - Right now, in the largest markets, one firm may own as many as eight stations, with no more than five in the same service. Five FM and three AM, for example. - Maybe, you could count HD on the AM dial as a third audio service. And increase the total cap to twelve stations. A hybrid station (with both analog and digital on the same frequency) would count as *two* stations. One AM and one HD. If you owned four FM and four AM with "on-channel" HD, you'd be at the 12-station limit. But: if you turned off the "on-channel" HD on your AM stations, you could run four *more* stations, as long as they were operated in digital-only mode. == (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, ibid.) I've read that all digital signals on the AM band are still 20 kHz wide which will still ruin the two adjoining frequencies. That and all we will get is noise on that frequency and don't let them fool you, what they really want is an all digital AM band. Read what Glynn Walden said in Radio World on 9/10: "Glynn Walden, senior vice president for engineering for CBS Radio and former iBiquity Digital engineering executive, noted that the current hybrid digital system was always meant to be temporary, as stations would make the digital transition when it made economic sense. Going further, Walden says he fears there’s not much indoor listening to AM happening much anymore due to the ever-rising noise floor. “Offering digital service is imperative. Analog’s time is past. It’s time to move on,” Walden declared." (Bob Young KB1OKL, Millbury, MA, ibid.) Even if this technology worked, it would likely take two generations for full market penetration of the digital radios. Broadcasting on AM would cease overnight as advertisers would instantly leave for lack of market penetration. This Walden and iBiquity are either out of touch, have another agenda or both (Bob Galerstein, WB2VGD, Monroe, NY, NRC- AM via DXLD) I think this is a little different than the Radio World article. http://radiomagonline.com/currents/krkoam_kkxaam_will_test_all-digital_hd_radio_0930/ Sent from my iPhone (Dennis Gibson, Oct 2, IRCA via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ UK DIGITAL RADIO SALES FALL TO SIX-YEAR LOW The Guardian 25 September 2014 http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/sep/25/digital-radio-sales-dab Digital radio sales have fallen to a six-year low, with a period of consecutive growth in digital’s share of listening coming to a halt. Despite a cross-industry marketing campaign led by spoof soul man “D Love”, 1.7m digital audio broadcasting (DAB) sets were sold in the year to the end of June this year, down 9.1% on the previous 12 months and the lowest of any year since at least 2009. Digital radio’s share of total radio listening, including DAB, mobile, online and digital TV, was 36.8% in the second quarter of this year – flat on the same quarter in 2013. However, on a 12-monthly basis, the popularity of digital radio continued to grow, with almost half of UK adults (48.5%) claiming to own a DAB set. The figures, published in media regulator Ofcom’s annual digital radio report on Thursday, come a year after the government ended hopes of an early digital radio switchover, suggesting the industry was unlikely to follow television’s lead by switching off their analogue signals until at least 2020. “While in previous years there has been consecutive quarterly growth in digital radio’s share of total listening hours, quarterly figures from Rajar show that between quarter two 2013 and quarter two 2014 it has remained broadly stable,” said the report. “Compared to quarter two 2013, sales of DAB digital radio sets were down by 9.1%, with 1.7 million being sold in the year to quarter two 2014. Total radio sales were down by 11.3% over the same period. DAB sales continue to represent around a third of all radio set sales.” Only 2% of radio listeners without a DAB set at home said they were “certain” to buy one in the next 12 months, with another 13% either likely or very likely to do so. The majority of people said there was “no need” to buy one or they were happy with their existing services. Sales of digital sets peaked at 2.1m in 2009, but have failed to hit those heights again. However, more than half of new cars (54.8%) now have digital radio fitted as standard, some way ahead of previous years. Five digital-only stations now have a weekly reach of more than 1 million listeners, led by BBC 6 Music, with the most popular commercial station Absolute 80s. The BBC accounts for more than half of digital listening, reflecting wider trends in listening across all platforms. It is a sign of the scale of the competition faced by UK broadcasters in the digital age that Ofcom said there were more than 100,000 internationally accessible online stations. But the research also revealed that one fifth of adults with an internet connected computer were not aware they could use it to listen to the radio. A spokeswoman for Digital Radio UK, the body responsible for promoting the technology, said: “The report shows encouraging progress on coverage, cars, sales of digital devices and station availability. “Listeners can look forward to planned national and local coverage improvements by the broadcasters over the next couple of years, further progress on digital radio in cars and the planned new national commercial stations. With analogue listening at an all-time low, digital is the way forward for radio” (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See also HAITI!; USA: KVNV ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ FCC Chair Tom Wheeler issued a statement in early September congratulating Los Angeles noncommercial stations KCET and KLCS for entering a channel sharing partnership. Presumably the stations will merge broadcasts onto a single transmitter (the statement is only two paragraphs and contains no details). Either channel 28 (KCET) or 41 (KLCS) will be surrendered for auction. My bet would be on 41. The Commission is asking for comments on two competing proposals for virtual channel assignments for new station KVNV, RF channel 3 at New York City (city of license Middletown Township, New Jersey). Ordinarily, this station would use its RF channel (3) as its virtual channel. However, KVNV will have some coverage overlap with existing station WFSB Hartford, Connecticut. WFSB's old analog assignment was channel 3 – which of course means WFSB's digital signal is on virtual channel 3. The two stations' coverage areas will meet in Fairfield County, Connecticut. WFSB's owners have asked the FCC to order KVNV to use virtual channel 33. This is WFSB's RF channel (thus, no conflicts are possible as the presence of WFSB would prevent assignment of another station on RF channel 33.) KVNV has presented a counterproposal. They suggest both stations be allowed to use major virtual channel 3 – but that minor virtual channels be split between the two. WFSB would continue to use minor virtual channels 1-4 (channels 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4), and would be allowed to add up to five more virtual channels in the future (3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9). KVNV would start with minor virtual channel 10 and would go up from there (3.10, 3.11, 3.12, etc.) KVNV's interest in using major virtual channel 3 is that it gives them a leg up on getting a desirable low channel on cable. Stations electing must-carry may request to be carried on their major virtual channel on cable. If technically feasible, the cable operator must do so. If KVNV can use major virtual channel 3, it gets to be channel 3 on cable. KVNV has offered to not request cable channel 3 in Fairfield County, Connecticut. WFSB, presumably, would prefer not to have the audience confused by the presence of two channel 3s in an important part of their coverage area (Disclaimer: I work for a different location of the company that owns WFSB.) The Commission notes KVNV will also have a major virtual channel conflict with Philadelphia's KYW-TV. Right at press time, new Delaware station WMDE channel 5 is reported on the air. Right now, they're only running a test pattern. WMDE is using virtual channel 36, by order of the FCC, to avoid conflicts with Washington's WTTG. WTTG is already using virtual channel 5. (Doug Smith, TV News, Oct WTFDA VHF- UHF Digest via DXLD) KVNV-3 on the air --- The new channel 3 DTV transmitting from NYC, KVNV Middletown Township, NJ, is on the air with an ID slide with color bars. The ID shows both "KVNV-TV" and "WJLP-TV" call letters. No audio. No PSIP info. Comes up by default as physical "3.3". Easy decode here in Poughkeepsie (Chris Lucas - Poughkeepsie, NY - FN31bs Insignia NS-DXA1-APT DTV Converter, Winegard YA-6260 VHF-Lo antenna @ 14', w/Chromstar 2000 pre-amp., Sept 29, WTFDA via DXLD) It won't have PSIP right away, because it's embroiled in a big legal fight with WFSB and several cable companies to determine whether it can use 3.x or whether it will have to use a different, higher major channel number. I expect the fight may end up in court before the year is out (Scott Fybush, NY, Sept 29, ibid.) UPDATE: KVNV now showing PSIP info with virtual channel 3.10. Yes. 3.10 (Chris Lucas, Sept 29, ibid.) I am seeing traces of it on my Insignia box but levels are too low to decode (Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT, ibid.) That was one of the proposals KVNV had made - by using 3.10, 3.11 and so on, they can still claim channel 3 on cable without causing a virtual channel conflict to WFSB or KYW. Perhaps they came to a resolution? I have no access to FCC stuff until the power comes back here (But AM is nice and quiet in the neighborhood right now!) (Scott Fybush, ibid.) It hasn't been resolved through FCC process, as reply comments aren't due for another month. I guess either Meredith decided 3.10 was indeed a workable solution -- or PMCM just decided to take their chances. There isn't anything on this on the FCC site since the PSIP proposal announcement on the 12th. With regard to "WJLP", PMCM indeed reserved those call letters last Friday. It doesn't say what station they intend to use them on but KVNV is the obvious choice. I find it amusing that if you pull up their pmcmtv.com website, on the same page it lists the call letters as KVNV in one place and as KJLP (not WJLP) in another... == (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, ibid.) And I find it amusing that if you reverse the last three letters of WJLP, you get WPLJ (95.5). (Rick Cabral, ibid.) THE FORM OF THINGS TO COME: MEDIA BUREAU PREVIEWS RELOCATION FUND REIMBURSEMENT PROCESS By Anne Goodwin Crump, CommLawBlog, September 29, 2014 Comments sought on new Reimbursement Form and related instructions to be used by TV/MVPD's for post-Incentive Auction claims The Media Bureau has given the television industry a sobering glimpse of what life will be like immediately after the close of the Incentive Auction. All full-power and Class A licensees would be smart to take a look now so that they'll be ready when the time comes. And make no mistake: the FCC is confident that the time will come. This opportunity to gaze into the future is afforded by the Bureau’s draft TV Broadcaster Relocation Fund Reimbursement Form (Reimbursement Form), about which the Bureau is soliciting comments. Continued: http://www.commlawblog.com/2014/09/articles/broadcast/the-form-of-things-to-come-media-bureau-previews-relocation-fund-reimbursement-process/index.html -or- http://tinyurl.com/qcexeea (via Neal McLain, Sept 29, WTFDA via DXLD RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ BBC MONITORING - CROWSLEY PARK I've just uploaded a selection of pictures (1984-1990) which some of you may enjoy browsing through: https://www.flickr.com/photos/71155570@N00/sets/72157648015981205/ Enjoy - (Martin Peters, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) INNOVATION: A MASON JAR RADIO WITH ONE STATION ONLY : All Tech Considered The Public Radio can be programmed to one station and one station only. Courtesy of Zach Dunham Mason jars have been riding a huge wave of popularity thanks to hipsters who embrace them for pickling projects, cake containers and all sorts of craft creations. Now, two engineers from Brooklyn are turning Mason jars into simple sound machines, to play your favorite FM radio station. Their creation, called The Public Radio, has no affiliation with NPR or public media in general. But we like it, not just for the name but because it's a remarkably well-designed, simple device with only one function: It's pre-tuned to play one station, and one station only... http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/09/25/351514077/innovation-a-mason-jar-radio-with-one-station-only (via Kevin Redding, Sept 25, ABDX via DXLD) Galcom beware (gh) TUBE RADIO RESTORATION http://www.ppinyot.com/ Paul's Tube Radio Restorations bring life back old vintage radios. Each radio is meticulously restored (not repaired). Enjoy unparalleled classic beauty and --- Hi, Anyone interested in the older type of radios that glow might be interested in this website. The site is due to expire soon so anything of interest, save it to file. 72 [sic] (Brian, GØNSL, BDXC-1262, BDXC- UK yg via DXLD) MOM & POP MOTEL DXING, etc., or in LAS VEGAS, LIMA I know of at least one place -- a hotel! -- in Billings, Montana that is mouse-quiet. I mean NO buzz whatsover. When I was there a week+ ago, I plugged in my Kenwood R-5000 and the Quantum QX Pro loop, and my mouth was agape. I couldn't believe it. Crystal-clear receptions of WBBM and WCCO. Even the longwave frequencies were DXable. When you're on the road these days, it's very difficult to find lodging anymore where DX can be heard, but this rarity was mind- boggling. Maybe some Motel 6s are OK for DXing, but certainly not Super 8s. That's why I made the comment a few weeks ago on one of the listservers that I belong to that the best hotels & motels for DXing are the little mom-and-pop-owned places with wood-paneled walls. 73, (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, NRC-AM via DXLD) On the opposite end of that scale -- is the Stratosphere in Las Vegas. In which, you can't even receive the *locals*. I only heard one copyable AM signal. Don't remember which one but it *wasn't* the one whose antenna I could see out my window (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, ibid.) My wife is Peruvian and I stay there some of our winters (summer there) so I bought a Sony ICF-2010 and brought my twin ferrite antenna to DX. We stay right in downtown Lima on the 9th floor of a high rise apartment building. That's also got to be one of the noisiest places I've ever tried to DX. All I could get were locals (lots) on the BCB and SW was almost useless also. Not sure if it was the building or the whole city. This winter I'll try it at my brother-in-laws house which is a single family dwelling in a less built up area of Lima. I had dropped a 30-40 ft wire out the window which just picked up noise and a few of the stronger SW station (Bob Young KB1OKL, Millbury MA ibid.) RADIO-PORTAL - SDR SPECIAL - SDR-PORTAL Hello all, my page "SDR Special" at http://www.radio-portal.org has been completely redesigned. In the past, a limited selection of SDR related links could be found here, focussed on Perseus, Winradio and the ZS-1. Now, with only one mouse click, a great number of SDR-related websites can be found, grouped by topic: http://www.radio-portal.org/sdr.html The advantage over other search engines: There are no irrelevant search results; currently over 50,000 sites (currently 900 about SDR) are in the database. All entries were manually checked, categorized and provide a brief description in English or German. Moreover, it is not necessary to know a particular company or product name - searches are carried out without entering keywords. To reflect the growing importance of mobile devices, these search functions are now also available on SDR Portal: http://www.sdr-portal.de http://www.sdrportal.de http://www.sdr-portal.org http://www.sdrportal.org The output is here specially prepared for tablets and smartphones, optimized for viewing on small screens. I hope you enjoy these pages. It would be glad if you find new ressources with radio-portal and sdr-portal. Link information, feedback or suggestions are always welcome. vy 73, (Willi, DJ6JZ, Passmann, http://www.radio-portal.org/index.html The Radio Search Engine http://www.sdr-portal.org/index.html Mobile Version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTluWERprsQ&feature=youtu.be sdr-portal on Youtube Oct 2, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ Geomagnetic activity summary: geomagnetic field was quiet from Sep 20 to 22, quiet to unsettled on Sep 18, unsettled on 19, 23 and 24. RWC Prague, Geophysical Institute Prague, Geomagnetic Dept, Czech Republic Geomagnetic activity forecast for the period September 26 - October 22, 2014 Geomagnetic field will be: quiet on October 10 - 12 mostly quiet on October 4 - 7, 13, 16 - 17 quiet to unsettled on September 28 - 30, October 1 - 3, 8 - 9, 18 - 20 quiet to active on September 26 - 27, October 14 - 15, 21 - 22 active to disturbed on September - Amplifications of the solar wind are expected on September 26 - 28, October 3 - 5, 14 - 15 Remark: - Parenthesis means lower probability of activity enhancement. Petr Kolman, OK1MGW, Czech Propagation Interest Group (OK1HH & OK1MGW, weekly forecasts since 1978) e-mail: kolmanp(at)razdva.cz (via Dario Monferini, Sept 30, DXLD) TRANS-EQUATORIAL PROPAGATION, FM DX LOGS, CARIBBEAN TO SOUTHERN BRASIL Caribe chegou --- Enfim esta chegando bem aqui em Garopaba as primeiras escutas caribenhas. A primeira foi 97.7 MHz tocando música de bob marley. Qual sera essa emissora? Enviado por Samsung Mobile (Anderson Torquato, 29 Sept, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Que bom Anderson, que as caribenhas já estão dando o ar da sua graça aí em Garopaba. A caribenha em 97.7 MHz, é a Up Beat, The Valley, Anguilla. Por aqui tenho ouvido caribenhas, mas a TEP não está com força total ainda. Seguem as minhas escutas realizadas nesses últimos dias. Amanhã é feriado municipal (padroeira da cidade) e hoje estarei ouvindo FM até mais tarde. Boas escutas a todos. [following logs from SAINT VINCENT, ANTIGUA, PUERTO RICO, ANGUILLA, DOMINICA] 107.5, 27/09 0050 VCT NBCSVG, Kingstown, OM/OM, talks, EE 45344 RFP 91.1, 28/09 2355 ATG Observer Radio, Saint John's, OM/OM, talks, EE 55444 RFP 91.3, 28/09 0000 PTR WIPR - Allegro FM, San Juan, mx Salsa, SS 35333 RFP 107.5, 29/09 2336 VCT NBCSVG, Kingstown, OM/OM, talks, EE 45344 RFP 106.7, 29/09 2340 ?? Unid, OM, px relg, SS 45333 RFP 91.1, 29/09 2343 ATG Observer Radio, Saint John's, YL/YL, talks, EE 45344 RFP 90.5, 29/09 2352 ATG ABS Radio, Saint John's, YL, nxs, EE 43343 RFP 91.3, 29/09 0004 PTR WIPR - Allegro FM, San Juan, YL, nxs, menção ao Haiti, SS 34343 RFP 92.9, 29/09 0005 AIA Klass FM, The Valley, OM, mx, EE 45344 RFP 93.1, 29/09 0022 DMA Kairi FM Jams, Russeau, YL, nxs, FF 34343 RFP Receptores: Degen DE1103 e Tecsun PL310. Antena: RC3-FM. 73! (Rubens Ferraz Pedroso - PY5-007SWL, Bandeirantes - PR, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Valeu pela a ajuda amigo. Infelizmente durou uns 20 minutos e depois sumiram, mais ja é um grande sinal (Torquato, ibid.) GET READY! THE NEW SPACE WEATHER PREDICTION CENTER WEBSITE IS ALMOST HERE! On Tuesday October 14th, NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center will transition its new website into operational status. From this date forward http://www.spaceweather.gov and http://www.swpc.noaa.gov will link to the new website that is currently in final beta release at http://origin-www.swpc.noaa.gov SWPC’s legacy website will be available to all users for a transition period of at least 60 days. The legacy website will be located at http://legacy-www.swpc.noaa.gov Please note that if you have bookmarks or automatic links to pages on the old website, these links will no longer work. Most of the content will be available on the new site under new links and we will work with customers who bring up specific content issues to ensure that their links are re-established on the new site. Since April 2014, NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SPWC) has sought feedback from stakeholders and customers via a survey on the beta release of the new website. We will continue to respond to feedback from stakeholders and customers regarding issues of content or behavior of the new site as we go through this transition to operational status. For questions or feedback regarding this action, please use our feedback form http://origin-www.swpc.noaa.gov/content/contact-us or contact: Dr. Steven Hill Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, CO 80305 303-497-3283 steven.hill@noaa.gov (SWPC mailing list Sept 27 via DXLD) Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #14-39 2014 September 28 at 10:23 p.m. MDT (2014 September 29 0423 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For September 22-28 Category R1 (Minor) radio blackouts occurred on 23, 27, and 28 Sep due to flare activity from active sunspot Regions 2172, 2173, and 2178. A category R2 (Moderate) radio blackout occurred on 28 Sep due to flare activity from active sunspot Region 2173. Outlook For September 29-October 5 Category R1-R2 (Minor to Moderate) radio blackouts are expected with a slight chance for a Category R3 (Strong) for the forecast period (Sep 29 - Oct 05) due to potential flare activity from active sunspot Regions 2172, 2173, 2175, and the return of old Regions 2157 and 2158. There is a slight chance for an S1 (Minor) solar radiation storm due to potential significant flare activity from active sunspot Regions 2172, 2173, 2175, and the return of old Regions 2157 and 2158. Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Services and other observatories, universities, and institutions. More information is available at SWPC's Web site http://swpc.noaa.gov :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2014 Sep 29 0423 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 22 - 28 September 2014 Solar activity increased to high levels this week with an M5/2b flare at 28/0258 UTC from Region 2173 (S17, L=250, class/area=Dac/160 on 28 Sep). Dimming was evident in SDO/AIA 193 imagery across the disk to the SW in conjunction with the flare. Associated with the event were weak multi-spectral radio emissions including a 10cm Burst (220 sfu), a Type II Sweep (638 km/s shock velocity) and a weak, short-lived Type IV Sweep. Limited LASCO depicted a narrow coronal mass ejection (CME) lifting off the SSW limb, not judged to be Earth-directed. An M1/Sf flare was also observed at 28/1733 UTC from Region 2173, accompanied by weak multi-spectral radio emissions. Region 2173 was part of a large group of complex active regions in the southern hemisphere, including Regions 2172 (S11, L=239, class/area=Ekc/570 on 23 Sep) and 2171 (S10, L=264, class/area=Eai/160 on 21 Sep). Both Region 2173 and 2172 had developed beta-gamma magnetic configurations by the end of the week. Region 2172 produced an M2/2b flare on 23/2316 UTC and several C-class flares throughout the period. The M-flare was associated with 250 sfu Tenflare along with Type II (est. speed 652 km/s) and Type IV radio sweeps. A CME was subsequently observed at 23/2348 UTC on the east limb in Lasco C2 imagery. The next day, the same region produced a C7/1n flare 24/1750 UTC with an associated 190 sfu Tenflare and a Type IV radio sweep. No CME was correlated with this event. Activity from Region 2171 was limited to a single C-class flare on 25 Sep. Complex regions were present in the Northern Hemisphere as well. Region 2175 (N16, L=262, class/area=Dkc/390 on 28 Sep) emerged on the disk on 25 Sep and had developed a beta-gamma-delta magnetic configuration by the 26th. It continued to grow rapidly through the remainder of the week while maintaining its complex magnetic characteristics. The region, however, was only responsible for C-class activity. Region 2177 (N12, L=168, class/area=Eai/120 on 28 Sep) developed a beta-gamma configuration on 28 Sep, but only produced a few C-class flares. The remaining M-class flare (M1) occurred on 27/0837 as Region 2178 (S03, L=151, class/area=Cao/50) rounded the east limb. The remaining regions on the disk were generally stable and no significant filament eruptions were observed. No proton events meeting alert criteria were observed at geosynchronous orbit, however, there was a slight elevation in 10 MeV protons on 22 Sep, reaching a peak flux of 2 pfu at 1300 UTC. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reached moderate levels on 22-25 Sep, and high levels on 26-28 Sep. The geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to active levels, with minor to severe storm periods observed at high latitudes. The week began with a solar sector boundary crossing (negative to positive) early on 22 Sep. This heralded the arrival of a positive polarity coronal hole high speed stream and disturbed geomagnetic conditions. Solar wind speed was predominantly in the 400 km/s to 470 km/s range with total field ranging from 3 nT to 8 nT. From 22-23 September, quiet to unsettled conditions were observed. By 24 September, Bz had become mostly negative and the day was characterized by predominantly active conditions. Minor to major storm periods were observed at high latitudes, and a single severe storm period was recorded. The agitated conditions relented somewhat on 25-26 September, when mostly quiet to unsettled conditions were observed. However, Major storm periods were still being recorded at high latitudes on the 26th. September 27th began with active conditions, but eventually subsided to quiet to unsettled levels by the 28th as the solar wind speed slackened slightly and the magnetic field relaxed. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 29 SEPT - 25 OCT 2014 Solar activity is expected to be at low to moderate levels (R1-R2, Minor-Moderate) with a slight chance for X-class flaring (R3-Strong or greater) for the forecast period (29 Sep-25 Oct) due to potential significant flare activity from Regions 2172, 2173, and 2175 as well as the return of old Regions 2157 (S15, L=099) and 2158 (N16, L=089) on 29 and 30 Sep, respectively. A slight chance for a greater than 10 MeV proton event (S1-Minor and above) exists for the forecast period (29 Sep-25 Oct) due to potential significant flare activity from Regions 2172, 2173, and 2175 as well as the return of old Regions 2157 and 2158. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal to moderate levels with high levels possible from 29 Sep-02 Oct and again on 22-25 Oct due to coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) influence. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels from 29 Sep-02 Oct, 15, 17,19-20 and 25 Oct. Unsettled to active levels are expected on 16 and 21-24 Oct due to CH HSS activity. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2014 Sep 29 0423 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 2014-09-29 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2014 Sep 29 185 10 3 2014 Sep 30 190 10 3 2014 Oct 01 195 8 3 2014 Oct 02 195 10 3 2014 Oct 03 175 5 2 2014 Oct 04 165 5 2 2014 Oct 05 155 5 2 2014 Oct 06 150 5 2 2014 Oct 07 150 5 2 2014 Oct 08 145 5 2 2014 Oct 09 140 5 2 2014 Oct 10 140 5 2 2014 Oct 11 140 5 2 2014 Oct 12 135 5 2 2014 Oct 13 130 5 2 2014 Oct 14 120 5 2 2014 Oct 15 135 8 3 2014 Oct 16 150 15 4 2014 Oct 17 165 8 3 2014 Oct 18 170 5 2 2014 Oct 19 165 8 3 2014 Oct 20 160 10 3 2014 Oct 21 160 20 4 2014 Oct 22 165 15 4 2014 Oct 23 165 15 4 2014 Oct 24 170 15 4 2014 Oct 25 170 10 3 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1741, DXLD) SOLAR FLARE: Weekend fireworks were predicted, and the sun complied. On Sunday, Sept. 28th (0258 UT), the magnetic canopy of sunspot AR2173 erupted, producing an M5-class solar flare. The sun was high overhead Australia when Matt Wastell Brisbane photographed the explosion: Extreme UV radiation from the flare ionized the top of Earth's atmosphere, disturbing the normal propagation of radio transmissions around our planet. In particular, there was a limited blackout of HF radio communications and a probable loss of shortwave radio contact in daylit areas for some tens of minutes. At the moment, we do not know if this explosion hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth. Based on the impulsiveness (brevity) of the flare, we think not. (Spaceweatther.com via Play-DX Electronic via DXLD) John Campbell, K4NFE of Huntsville, Alabama sent in an article and video explaining the difference between solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections. Read it at: http://www.universetoday.com/114729/nasa-explains-the-difference-between-cmes-and-solar-flares/ (QST de W1AW, Propagation Forecast Bulletin 39 ARLP039, From Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, WA September 26, 2014, To all radio amateurs, via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) ###