DX LISTENING DIGEST 15-08, February 25, 2015
Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING
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Equatorial Guinea non, Ethiopia non, Germany, Guatemala, Guyana,
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Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, USA
SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1762, February 26-March 4, 2015
Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [confirmed]
Thu 1330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed]
Fri 0001 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 [confirmed]
Fri 2130 WRMI 7570 & 15770 [confirmed]
Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Sat 1000 WRMI 5850
Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM [NEW]
Sun 0200 WH2XDE-1 1750 Victor NY
Sun 0230 KVOH 9975 [confirmed]
Sun 0415v WA0RCR 1860-AM [NEW: confirmed at 0424]
Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 [confirmed]
Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v Area 51
Mon 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24
Tue 1200 WRMI 9955
Wed 0401 WRMI 9395 via Global 24
Wed 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Wed 1415 WRMI 9955
Wed 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v
Wed 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24
Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [or 1763 if ready in time]
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** ALBANIA. 7425, Feb 25 at 0227, R. Tirana is very poorly audible
with IS, so still on the air. Last time I checked this N American
service in English, it was missing after 0230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALGERIA. Did you already see the new G.E. Tipaza longwave site
images, like of Oct. 2014 and January 9, 2015 viewed?
The single longwave mast is now beautiful newly red and white colour
painted, in October 2014 sees beautiful the entire ground network, as
if new copper wire were placed as laid in the earth. Before, there was
never such a G.E. Image sight in Tipaza area region before.
If I have lost count, it looks like 120 Copper metal strip trench
ditches laid out each 3 degrees direction, of each 360 meters in
length on entire perimeter.
I'm curious when the official inauguration at Tipaza will occur this
spring. Maybe they let the Transradio Berlin and Ampegon Schifferstadt
antenna establishment firm workers to finish work on both Bechar
Knadsa and Ouled Fayet construction sites ... ? [shortwave]
The Harris transmitters were inaugurated in January and in March of
2010. You had discovered at that time the official announcement on the
TDA website (Wolfgang Büschel, Feb 12, BCDX 20 Feb via DXLD)
And much more in this issue about the lethargic Algerian LW, MW and SW
transmitter site projects (gh, DXLD)
** ANGUILLA. 11775, Feb 24 at 1458, University Network is missing from
day frequency; maybe still stuck on night frequency which is inaudible
this late on 6090, but could be detected in Florida, if on (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. 15345.090 kHz, hopping up and down to x.119 kHz, RAE
Buenos Aires in English language. 1845 UT Feb 20 (Wolfgang Büschel,
Germany, Feb 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. "Two powerful storms were on track to smash into
northern Australia, where officials urged residents to flee coastal
areas or take shelter in anticipation of drenching rains, fierce winds
and possible flooding.
The twin storms, dubbed the “cyclone sandwich” by locals, were both
expected to hit remote areas when they make landfall early Friday,
about 2,500 kilometres apart. Cyclone Lam was heading for a sparsely-
populated stretch of the Northern Territory, while the more powerful
Cyclone Marcia was expected to hit the eastern coast of Queensland
state a few hours later with wind gusts up to 295 kilometres an hour."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/destructive-cyclone-sandwich-bear-down-on-australia/article23069167/
(via Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via DXLD)
Seems tomorrow would be a good day to check on Australian stations.
This morning on 4835 (ABC Alice Springs), had many live reports about
evacuations. RA normal programs today (Feb 19), but maybe tomorrow
will relay a local radio station, as they have done in the past? (Ron
Howard, San Francisco, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
AUSTRALIA'S QUEENSLAND HIT BY BAD WEATHER
Southgate February 20, 2015
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2015/february/queensland_hit_by_bad_weather.htm
Major damage has already been caused by Tropical Cyclone Marcia that
came ashore ripping roofs off, downing trees, damaging powerlines and
other infrastructure. It was too early to know the full damage extent
of the Category 5 cyclone with 250 kilometre per hour winds that hit
Yeppoon, and lost intensity as it slowly moved south.
The Central Queensland Amateur Radio Association is on 7098 KHz and
the 2m repeater. Other WICEN groups are ready to help the responding
emergency services. The few left on Queensland tourist coastal islands
are in cyclone shelters.
Good news is that there has been no loss of life. During previous
major Queensland cyclones extensive agricultural crops were lost.
A separate weather system had dumped rain over south-east Queensland
including the capital of Brisbane, causing some localised flooding.
That situation could potentially worsen as Marcia heads further south.
Meantime Cyclone Lam engulfed the north-east of the Northern
Territory. Early evacuation of lightly populated islands and
sheltering from that storm had been effective. --- Jim Linton VK3PC,
Chairman IARU Region 3 Disaster Communications Committee.
(via Mike Terry, Feb 20, dxldyg via DXLD)
** AUSTRALIA. 2325, VL8T (Tennant Creek) ABC / NT Service 2/23, 1050.
M and W with interview program to rock music cut just before the hour.
Fair and with fair // on 2485 (via Katherine). (Rick Barton, (far
north) Peoria AZ, listening from my tent by the lake, Grundig Satellit
750, 20' wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 11590, Feb 20 at 1332, good signal from RBA playing
Garfunkel`s ``Bridge Over Troubled Waters``, which is really about
friendship, but no doubt projected by gospel huxters into something
religious, imaginary friends. 1334 into Hindi talk mixed seamlessly
with heavily Hindi-accented English about children`s welfare (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRIA. 11880, Feb 19 at 0634, choral music, poor-fair, roughly
equal to 11870 WEWN, but have not noticed this before. 0641 Arabic
talk but weakening. HFCC shows it`s AWR via Moosbrunn at 0600-0700,
300 kW at 190 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AZERBAIJAN. Ictimai Radio with FM modulation on SW again on air:
from 1143 9676.7 UNIDentified tx site to CeAs Azeri, video on Feb 19
from 0845 9676.7 UNIDentified tx site to CeAs Azeri, video on Feb 20
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/02/ictimai-radio-again-on-air-on-feb19.html
(DX RE MIX NEWS #897 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov. Feb. 23, 2015
via DXLD)
February 19:
Ictimai Radio in Azeri to CeAs 1143 on 9676.7 UNID tx in FM mode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6g45CvfaQY&feature=youtu.be
February 20: Ictimai Radio in Azeri to CeAs 0845 on 9676,7 UNID tx in
FM mode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMwaPLr9NVQ&feature=youtu.be
(Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Ictimai Radio with FM modulation on shortwave again on air: from 0800
on 9676.7 UNIDentified tx site to CeAs Azeri, video on Feb 20 at 0845
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/02/ictimai-radio-again-on-air-on-feb19.html
73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, ibid.)
This second report does not refer to Azerbaijan. The 5 kW, 9677v
transmitter is listed in WRTH 2015 on page 90 under AZERBAIJAN, sub-
heading Mountainous Karabagh [sic] as in Stepanakert, but under two
other names, nothing about Ictimai:
Adalätin Säsi, in Azeri Wed & Sat 0600-0630 and Tue & Fri 1400-1430
and
Tolisstoni Sädo, c/o R. Impuls, in Yerevan, Armenia, M-F in Talysh,
Azeri: 09-10, 12-13, 15-16, times vary; nothing aboout Ictimai (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BAHRAIN [and non]. Using U Twente online SDR. Works really well
with no required downloads. But, in DX terms, this must be cheating!
Heard Arabic, Ae=r [? sic] music on 9745 late afternoon Feb 18. I
presume this is Bahrain 60 kW. I only get a trace carrier on my own
receiver.
I can also hear AIR national channel in 9.3 MHz region [9380?],
something I have failed to do with my own receiver from the outset.
The UTwente SDR is set up for best MW reception from a North/South
direction, so no good for transatlantic DX (Derek Lynch, Ireland, Feb
19, WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. February 18:
Bangladesh Betar in English to WeEu 1819 on 13580 Dhaka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbrgC87GFkU&feature=youtu.be
Bangladesh Betar in English to WeEu 1830 on 13580 Dhaka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnw7b2yQBME&feature=youtu.be
Bangladesh Betar in English to WeEu 1845 on 13580 Dhaka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EWbnnZacvQ&feature=youtu.be
(Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15505, Feb 25 at 1359:28, 5+1 mistimesignal ends from Bangladesh Betar
before opening Urdu service. JBA signal, but the MTS cuts thru (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BELARUS. 6080, Radio Belarus BR1 program at 127 degrees azimuth
towards Ukraine, Caucasus and eastern Russia, at 16-21 UT registered
from Kalodzicy site, suffered by heavy BUZZ bassy distortion audio, 5
x peaks visible on Perseus screen each sideband exact 100 Hertz apart
distance. Noted at remote SDR unit in Victor's place in Piliyandala in
Sri Lanka island. S=9+25dB or -48dBm strength at 2012 UT (Wolfgang
Büschel, Feb 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6155, Radio Belarus - Minsk/Kalodzicy (Presumed), 2237-2300*. Talk in
what appeared to be Russian by a woman, occasionally joined by a man.
Music at 2250 followed by talk by a man at 2253. Music again at 2257,
possibly national anthem. Announcements at 2259. Gone at 2300. Weak
signal with fading and not the best audio, keeping above the noise
most of the time. Presume this to be Radio Belarus, definitely not
China. Checked 11730 and found the usual weak carrier with no
discernible audio. 2/18/2015 (Jim Evans, Germantown TN, Perseus, IC-
R75, ICF-SW7600G, PL-880, PL-660, PL-380, Random Wire, Wellbrook Loop.
All logs this week from PL-880, PL-660, and random wire, NASWA
Flashsheet Feb 22 via DXLD)
11730, Radio Belarus, at 2125, on 17 Feb. The station is barely coming
through at this time. I am using USB and I can just barely hear a male
voice talking. The program is listed as being in English at this time.
JBA (John Cooper, Lebanon PA, Winradio-G33DDC, CommRadio CR-1A, RF
Space-SDR-IQ, Sangean ATS-909X w/ Clear Mod, Tecsun PL-660, Wellbrook
ALA 1530+, Super Sloper Tuned All Band Antenna, PARS-SWL End Fed x 2,
NASWA Flashsheet Feb 22 via DXLD)
11730, Radio Belarus – Kalodziscy (Presumed), 1417, 2/22/15 in
Russian. Man talking at length. Abruptly off mid sentence at 1418
(Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin, Perseus, WinRadio g313e, Eton e1,
Grundig Satellit 800 & G3, Sangean 909X with clear mod, Tecsun PL 660;
40 meters dipole, RF Systems Mk 2, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet Feb 22
via DXLD)
11730, Belarus Radio from Minsk Kalodzicy, carries once again terrible
audio today. Some scratching spurious signals additionally on both
sidebands on wideband range 11698-11710.4 and 11750-11762 kHz.
Fundamental BR Kalodzicy on 11730 produces a powerful S=9+45dB signal
in southern Germany target (Wolfgang Büschel, Some noon Germany logs
on Feb 20 at 1130-1255 UT slot, [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz
RBW 15.3 Hertz], wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Feb 20 via DXLD)
Kalodzicy on 11730 kHz produces some more spurious products ON the AIR
this afternoon. Also an additional 2nd order spurious too on 11675-
11684 and 11775-11784 kHz, around 1450 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Feb 20,
dxldyg via DXLD)
** BHUTAN. No positive ID but almost certain that I heard Bhutan 19
Feb, after 0115 UTC 6035. Unid Asian language, stringed instrument and
flute. Heard chanting in the same broadcast a few nights ago.
Reasonable signal with only slight splatter from Cuban jammer on 6030.
On my own HF receiver (Derek Lynch, Ireland, Feb 19, WORLD OF RADIO
1762, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNID 6033-
** BOLIVIA. 6025, R. PATRIA NUEVA, 20/2 0302 UT. Transmisión del
partido entre San José y River Plate. SINPO: 54444 con leve siseos de
R. Marti en 6030 (Claudio Galaz, RX: Realistic DX-160; ANT: Hilo de 40
metros + 20 metros de antena de tierra; QTH: Barraza Bajo, IV Región,
Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD)
6025, R. PATRIA NUEVA, 21/2 0328 UT. Música folclórica e IDs. SINPO:
42342 con QRM de R. Martí (Claudio Galaz, RX: Realistic DX-160; ANT:
Beverage [sic], 40 metros; QTH: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile,
condiglista yg via DXLD)
** BOLIVIA. 6105, R. PANAMERICANA, 20/2 0232 UT. ID de Panamericana,
fútbol con todo el alma. San José de Oruro, Bolivia versus River Plate
de Buenos Aires, Argentina (grupo 6, Copa Libertadores). SINPO: 55444
con sobre modulación (Claudio Galaz, RX: Realistic DX-160; ANT: Hilo
de 40 metros + 20 metros de antena de tierra; QTH: Barraza Bajo, IV
Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD)
** BOTSWANA. Some SPURIOUS spike signals noted (seen and VoA French!
heard) on very excellent services from IBB Botswana, and from similar
area of BBC Ascension Isl at 1850 UT too.
BOTSWANA, 15580, VoA English BOT S=9+40dB and 15730 VoA French service
at S=9+40dB, latter accompanied by some spurious spikes on
15654.522
15699.813
15760.179
15805.460
[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]
(Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Feb 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
VOA French on 15730 is via Greenville at 1930-2030, but before and
after then, it`s via Botswana (gh, DXLD)
** BRAZIL. 11747 & 11813, Feb 19 at 0635, very poor but detectable
crackling spurs from 11780.1v, RNB/RNA.
11814 & 11746 approx., Feb 24 at 0103, weakly audible cracking spurs
at modulation spike peaks from 11780.1v, RNA/RNB, while the very
strong fundamental is splashing out to 12 kHz either side.
11747 & 11813, Feb 25 at 0618, crackling spurs audible from 11780.1v,
RNA/RNB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11765v, Feb 25 at 0619, SRDA Curitiba with music, very
poor, but not preaching by Davi[d] Miranda, who died Feb 22, according
to a report by Leonardo Ivo on the radioescutas group. I don`t recall
if he used to be heard at this particular hour, but it would be
typical. He`s the wailing gospel huxter mixing Portuguese and Spanish
into ``Portunhol``, who could be heard on so many Brazilian SW
frequencies (per Aoki & WRTH, SRDA on 6060, 6120, 9565, 9585v, 11765)
and also some Spanish-speaking countries --- what do you bet he lives
on the radiowaves forever like his dead American counterparts? Maybe
not. Leonardo says even before he died, there was a power struggle by
his children for control of the IPDA church; he hopes the SW network
might dissolve and some good stations come back (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. MORRE DAVID MIRANDA --- Prezados, Morreu ontem, às 23:45,
David Martins Miranda, fundador da igreja Pentecostal Deus é Amor. Ele
está sendo velado na sede sua igreja em São Paulo e será sepultado na
mesma cidade.
Para nos dexistas não há como ignorar sua presença no meio
radiofônico, uma vez que comprou ou arrendou diversas emissoras pelo
Brasil a fora, sobretudo emissoras de OM e o OC, o que tem feito com
que emissoras que transmitiam nestas faixas deixassem de existir.
Agora resta saber como ficara as emissoras controladas pela IPDA,
já que seu líder morreu e há uma briga entre os filhos deste pelo
controle da igreja, algo que já ocorria quando ele era vivo. Torco pra
que a rede dele se desfaça e boas emissoras possam resurgir. Gostaria
de saber a opinião de vocês. Abs, (Leonardo Ivo Neves da Silva, Rio de
Janeiro - RJ, Feb 22, radioescutas yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DXLD)
DAVID MIRANDA died on Feb 22. [Some had assured me his name was Davi.]
He`s the wailing gospel huxter mixing Portuguese and Spanish into
``Portunhol``, who could be heard on so many Brazilian SW frequencies
and also some Spanish-speaking countries --- what do you bet he lives
on the radiowaves forever like his dead American counterparts? Maybe
not. This poster says even before he died there was a power struggle
by his children for control of the IPDA church; he hopes the SW
network might dissolve and some good stations come back (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
At their local church here in Montevideo, 2 blocks away from my
workshop their sign on the street reads David, not Davi. 73 (Horacio
Nigro, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Unfortunately I suspect if the Pentecostal Deus é Amor funding dries
up, these SW transmitters will leave the air for good (Brandon Jordan,
TN, ibid.)
It's been said that the elder son, a candidate to follow this church
leadership, is more prone to the Social Networks (Horacio Nigro,
Montevideo, Uruguay, ibid.)
Ah sure, bye bye many Brazilian transmitters :( (Brandon Jordan,
ibid.)
This led to a very long thread on the radioescutas group discussing
the demerits of Miranda and what he has done to radio, SW in Brasil.
Well worth reading; run thru Google translate if necessary. Some of
them skipped accents but I have not tried to fix them all (Glenn
Hauer, DXLD)
Re: Morre David Miranda
Comungo a sua opinião: Que a rede se desfaça! O Espectro agradece!
(João Ricardo Bergamini, py4tw, 23 Feb, radioescutas yg via DXLD)
O berreiro dele se calou pra sempre. O rádio fica mais livre dessa
forma ridícula de pregar religião. Só a morte pôde nos salvar. Xô,
lixo (Luiz Chaine Neto, Limeira SP, ibid.)
Prezados, Sinceramente não acredito que especialmente as emissoras
locais de OC possam sobreviver sem o arrendamento de seus
transmissores a IPDA. Não há tantos ouvintes nas OC que justifiquem os
anunciantes para bancarem os altos custos de energia e manutenção dos
transmissores, alem de que nem todos tem interesse em chegar mais
longe.
Somente Igrejas tem condições de bancar tal empreendimento em estações
comerciais de pequeno ou médio porte. Quando da ocorrência da menor
dificuldade econômica a primeira coisa que fazem é arrendar os
transmissores de OC ou simplesmente desliga-los para cortar custos.
Infelizmente é esa a realidade, o que tem dado uma sobrevida as O C
são justamente as Igrejas, gostemos ou não. 73 a todos (Sergio
Partamian, Enviado pelo meu Windows Phone, ibid.)
Boa noite Leonardo Ivo, Toda morte é triste, apesar de eu ter sido um
eterno discordante do Sr. Davi [sic] Miranda, não é o caso de citar
aqui as incontáveis divergências tinha dele de tudo o que ele
apresentava nos seus "Shows de milagres" e nos seus espetáculos
teatrais onde milhares de demônios eram expulsos por ele
cotidianamente e curiosamente eles sempre retornavam, mesmo assim é
uma pena que uma vida se foi.
O fato dele ter tido uma mega rede de emissoras nas OM e nas OC não
foi culpa dele, ele apenas solicitava isso de alguém, e teria sido
somente a anatel quem lhe cedia os incontáveis canais na faixa de
radio de HF para ele ser o "apóstolo de Deus" como ele se auto
entitulava nessas incontáveis redes de espetáculos tendendo ao
macabro?
O AM como se conhece bem o radio das OM, o não FM está triste,
acabado, eu não gosto de ouvir OM, apenas a CBN e a Radio Bandeirantes
daqui do Rio, as demais não existem mais para mim.
Ele tem um filho que tem o seu nome com Junior e é um pregador que
poderia, ou deverá ser o seu sucessor? mas aquele teatro cênico
incrivel que o Sr. Davi Miranda fazia no radio, só ele conseguia fazer
aquilo com aquela voz cavernosa e eternamente trêmula e chorosa
inconfundível, ele foi um excepcional ator e eu não acredito que o seu
filho Junior, por mais treinado que ele tenha sido, não conseguirá de
forma alguma chegar aos pés de seu pai, o Sr Davi Miranda era único,
mesmo para aqueles que não o admiravam como eu, eu reconheço que ele
foi único e não deverá ter um substituto que tenha o jogo cênico e a
destreza teatral que ele teve no radio, morreu um grande ator, não
importa se ele era de uma religião ou um ateu meramente cenográfico e
de uma destreza teatral incrível? mas ele era inconfundível, sem
dúvida acho que um outro Sr Davi Miranda não teremos nunca mais
(Alfredo Meurer Jr, ibid.)
Alfredo, Faco das suas palavras as minhas. Falou tudo. Posso
compartilhar seu texto? abs, (Leonardo Ivo Neves da Silva, ibid.)
Oi Leonardo, Faz o seguinte; escreve ele como se tivéssemos escrito
juntos, eu ficarei contente com isso. Um abraço (Alfredo, ibid.)
Nao se preocupem que vai ter outro berrando no lugar do davi miranda
todos nesta igreja sabem berrar sao especialistas nisto nao acredito
que vai haver diminuiçao das emissoras de radio da rede super radio
deus é amor devera asumir outro pastor missionario no lugar do davi
miranda podem ser filho filha ou outro parente proximo que vai dar
seguimento ao trabalho do davi miranda muito dificel que acabe as
radios do grupo pelas ondas curtas para cada seguimento da igreja ha
um responsavel e dinheiro é o que menos falta para eles nao esperem
tregua nas ondas curtas. Eles vao continuar berrando nas madrugadas
infelizmente (Paulo Roberto Peres Michelon Michelon, Porto Alegre RS,
ibid.) [sic]
Alfredo, Faço suas, minhas palavras. Não só por convicção mas por
radialista que conheceu e convivi com ele por algum tempo. Ele era um
homem muito esperto, tanto que conseguiu escapar da cadeia dezenas de
vezes, já que sua igreja está envolvida com dezenas de processos de
lavagem de dinheiro, tráfico de drogas e inclusive patrocínio de
escravidão sexual de fiéis. Conhecendo a briga de família que ali
existe há 20 anos, acredito que num primeiro momento vai haver um
ajuste de farpas entre eles, já que seu ex-genro deixou claro que no
ato de sua morte, publicaria um livro contanto detalhes das falcatruas
que ele promovia. Tirando o foiço da Igreja em si, já que ela é uma
empresa como qualquer outra, vai haver um ajuste de locação das
emissoras, que não eram dele, e sim, arrendadas ou sob tutela de uso,
coisa muito comum entre as igrejas evangélicas.
Penso eu que quem curte história, que grave seus indicativos, chamadas
de programas, porque não duvido que no dividir do bolo, a coisa possa
ficar negra e certos canais sejam, devolvidos a seus donos.
Em tempo: Miranda foi sempre um grande ator. Assisti suas pregações ao
vivo dentro de um ambiente ridículo e idolatrado, de vidro. Todo o
processo de exploração da fé das pessoas sempre foi muito bem feito.
Aluno fiel de outros missionários, sabe-se nos bastidores do rádio aí
no Rio, que seu primeiro interlocutor foi o falecido Alziro Zarur,
ortodoxo que já nos anos 50 usava do calor das transmissões para
atingir seus ouvintes. Zarur muito mais culto,fundou a Legião da Boa
Vontade, onde implantou o apelo ecumênico entre igreja e instituições
diversas. Miranda já naquela época transitava nos bastidores do rádio,
e enxergou neste meio um segmento que não era explorado até então.
Curiosamente, ele usava de certos apelos emocionais que são bastante
divergentes, como não assistir televisão, cortar o cabelo, ter vida
desregrada. Mas um de seus endereços num local que não posso comentar,
tem 4 andares e é forrado de luxo, muita sofisticação e televisores de
última geração. #deuseumnegocio Abs (Denis Zoqbi, ibid.)
Sérgio, Acredite você que a questão nesta situação delicada da IPDA
nem sejam os anunciantes, já que as gravadoras, as empresas de
representação, são 80% dos mesmos proprietários das igrejas. Ou seja,
eles promovem e vendem seus próprios produtos. A audiência em OC nós
que somos dexistas sabemos que não existe, mas elas geram cartas,
mensagens, posições de ouvintes que sinalizam a sua existência, e isso
vende, entende?
A encenação demoníaca, naquele portunhol horrível, nasceu daí. Eu
demonstro para uma demanda X que eu falo com um público Y, e eles
jamais terão como contestar, não sabem onde estas pessoas estão.
Existindo ou não, eu exploro essa audiência.
A questão da família Miranda será uma briga de poder que já registra
20 anos. A história é sórdida. De separação a quase incesto. Ex-genro
publicando livros que contam falcatruas da família e até esquemas de
lavagem de dinheiro. Isso sim pode e deve tirar as rádios do ar.
Também penso que independente do foco da emissora ser religioso. O
importante é que se tratava de uma emissora de rádio, seja ela qual
for. Na dúvida, gravem indficativos de chamadas e vinhetas. Nunca
sabemos quando estas emissoras sairão do ar.
O Davi Filho não é bobo, ele não vai deixar a Igreja parar pela morte
do pai, já que isso lucra mais de 1.5 milhão por mês a seu bolso.
73, (Denis Zoqbi, ibid.)
Meu estimado amigo Deniz, Todo esse seu relato abaixo era por demais
conhecido, eu sabia disso tudo, mas por questões, vamos dizer;
diplomáticas e óbvias, eu não citei nem parte disso aqui.
Esse universo chamado petencostal deveria ser sériamente investigado e
já, imediatamente, eu não estou aqui ofendendo a fé, seja ela qual
for? a fé não tem nada à ver com atitudes que são feitas em nome dela,
a fé é uma coisa pessoal de cada pessoa.
Deniz, como você é incrivelmente esclarecido e com um mega
conhecimento geral, você sabe muito bem quem ficou no lugar do Alziro
Zarur morto em 1979 e o que ele tem de bens materiais? o Jornal o
Globo fez uma semana direta há uns anos atrás super reportagens sobre
o Sr José de Paiva Neto, da LBV mostrando os seus bens, ou melhor, as
mansões que ele tem em Brasilia.
Como ele conseguiu comprar aquilo tudo? com os livros que ele escreve?
Com as suas inexpressivas obras musicais completamente desconhecidas
no mercado fonográfico?
Eu sinceraente desejo muito que todos os podres dessa gente toda seja
jogado em giganescos ventiladores, a população miserável que alimenta
essa gente tem que cair na real que; ou eles se aglutinam em lugares
publicos, como praças, ou até mesmo em gramados e rezam, fazem as suas
rezas ou orações sem precisarem e mega templos, orar em qualquer lugar
é uma fé, não é preciso estar dentro de um templo faraônico para quem
acredita? chegar a Deus.
Eu sinceramente quero que tudo isso citado abaixo aconteça para o Sr e
mega empresário da fé e um mega ator Davi Miranda seja desmascarado em
publico e todos os outros que se alimentam da fé de milhões e pessoas
inocentes e tão humildes que neles depositam tudo o que eles têm, ou
em outras palavras; quase nada.
Muitos que entram num desses mega templos só têm a roupa que está no
seu corpo e por pura fé, isso não é tão covarde?
Vamos torcer para que a nossa justiça seja realmente "cega" e faça
justiça verdadeira contra esses indivíduos que destroem a realidade e
criaram mega empresas faraônicas tudo em nome da fé.
Um grande abraço a você Deniz, eu lhe tenho como um grande amigo e sou
seu grande admirador de longa data (Alfredo Meurer, ibid.)
Concordo totalmente. Ontem mesmo, assim que soube dessa informação, na
mesma hora eu disse: --- As ondas curtas respiram aliviadas! Pode
parecer crueldade de minha parte, mas é o que sinto. Espero também que
boas emissoras, com conteúdo de "qualidade`` voltem a operar (Joao
Araujo, São Paulo - SP, ibid.)
Leonardo, Se é que a rede deixará de existir (o que acho absolutamente
improvável que ocorra num passe de mágica), se acaso isso acontecer,
um sem número de outras redes ocuparão o espaço deixado. Nada vai
mudar, a não ser o cenário piorar nos próximos anos. Tome como exemplo
o número crescente de redes em FM...
Apesar de detestar todo e qualquer tipo de rede, acho que simplesmente
demonizá-las é algo muito simplista. Um exemplo disso é a frequência
de 5015 kHz da Rádio Cultura de Cuiabá. Há quantos anos essa
frequência deixou de ser utilizada? Muitos, mas muitos mesmo. Só
retornou por conta do aporte financeiro da IPDA.
O que dizer da RB2, que recentemente retornou às OC? Não é
essencialmente parte de uma rede, mas é mais um exemplo de estação que
sem o aporte financeiro de um grupo religioso talvez jamais voltaria
às ondas curtas.
Como disse acima, acho muito triste ver como o rádio é “organizado” em
nosso país e que as redes dominam o éter, mas uma análise abrangente
também é necessária. 73 (Ivan Dias Jr. - Sorocaba/SP, ibid.)
Salve, dexistas! Sobre a sucessão de David Miranda, dei uma fuçada na
Internet e achei isto aqui:
David Miranda Filho pode ser o novo presidente mundial da Igreja
Pentecostal Deus é Amor
De imediato, a discussão gira em torno do sucessor de David Miranda.
Apesar de possuir grande influência e liderança, o Pr. Lourival de
Almeida dificilmente conseguirá romper o núcleo duro da família
Miranda. Com 53 anos de história, a Igreja Pentecostal Deus é Amor
sempre foi liderada por membros da família Miranda, um dos motivos
pelos os quais a denominação tem enfrentado resistências e deserções.
O mais provável é que David Miranda Filho será o próximo presidente
mundial da IPDA. Com perfil mais liberal, o novo presidente poderá ser
um fator determinante na abertura da denominação.
Diferente de seu pai, David Miranda Filho é um entusiasta das redes
sociais e tem sido visto em reuniões informais, de forma descontraída
e cercado por amigos. Não é o perfil desejável por parte do colegiado
de obreiros, mas tende a assumir a presidência. A primeira eleição
para à presidência poderá ser marcada por uma forte disputa e
possíveis deserções.
Da página
http://colunas.gospelmais.com.br/david-miranda-filho-pode-ser-o-novo-presidente-mundial-da-igreja-pentecostal-deus-e-amor_10696.html
73s, (Valter Aguiar, Curitiba, Brasil, 23 de fev 18h44min, ibid.)
Salve, dexistas! Gostaria de esclarecer que não sou conhecedor das
igrejas evangélicas e pentecostais, nem fui ouvinte dos programas do
missionário David Miranda. Estou recortando e colando o que vejo na
Internet sobre a sucessão e peço aos amigos que conhecem melhor o
assunto que comentem e apontem eventuais bobagens escritas pelas
pessoas e que por acaso eu venha a colar aqui.
O artigo abaixo foi escrito em fevereiro de 2013, tendo em vista a
perspectiva da morte do fundador da IPDA, sobre a sucessão dentro da
igreja. Tirei do endereço
http://ednaldobreves.blogspot.com.br/2013/02/o-dilema-na-sucessao-de-david-miranda.html
Sérgio, sobre o seu comentário anterior, aproveito para dizer que,
aqui em Curitiba, no bairro Boqueirão, existe a Rua O Brasil para
Cristo. 73s, (Valter Aguiar, Curitiba, Brasil, ibid.)
A Igreja Pentecostal Deus é amor, a segunda maior igreja pentecostal
do país, completou em 2012 meio século de existência. A igreja conta
hoje com diversas filiais em vários países do mundo e uma gigantesca
cadeia de rádios no Brasil e na América latina. Todo o êxito que a
IPDA conquistou, se deve em grande parte à figura do Missionário David
Miranda como líder dessa denominação. Sua autoridade impediu que a
IPDA se dividisse em muitos levantes promovidos por obreiros
rebelados. É considerado homem de oração, característica rara entre a
liderança da igreja hoje. É um líder reservado. Não é vaidoso nem
extravagante. Raras vezes tem seu nome exposto na imprensa. Miranda
implantou uma doutrina rígida na IPDA que na visão de muitos, o
favorece como sendo um dos poucos líderes que lutam para manter a
santidade na igreja.
Miranda completou 76 anos em 04 de julho de 2012. Sua idade avançada
já está começando a se tornar um impecilho para exercer plenamente sua
função de liderança. Quando era mais novo realizava grandes
concentrações pelo Brasil e pela América Latina. Isso ajudava muito a
consolidação do nome da igreja no exterior. Diante desse problema,
todos na IPDA já começam a cogitar a possibilidade do afastamento de
David Miranda, seja por idade ou caso o Senhor o recolha. Com a vaga
em aberto quem poderia assumir o lugar de David Miranda? Tem que ser
um pastor muito bem preparado pois a tarefa será dura. O novo pastor
terá que conter a saída de membros para outras denominações e rachas
promovidos por obreiros insatisfeitos. Terá que convencer os membros
que também é um ?especialista? em curas e que tem autoridade
incontestável.
Certamente ninguém fora do circulo familiar assumirá o cargo de líder
da Deus é Amor. Os principais cargos na diretoria da igreja, sempre
foram ocupados por familiares de David Miranda, o que indica que eles
mesmo elegerão o novo líder. Muitos membros especulam os principais
candidados a sucessor, falaremos sobre eles.
Daniel Miranda ? É o filho mais novo de David Miranda e membro da
diretoria ocupando o cargo de diretor administrativo. É principal
candidato a assumir o cargo do pai. Ganhou destaque na igreja
principalmente com a saída de Sérgio Sora, apontado até então como
grande candidato. É semelhante ao pai em diversos aspectos,
principalmente nas pregações. Tem boa proximidade com as IPDAs na
américa latina, realizando com frequencia concentrações nesses países
pregando em espanhol. Possui a simpatia dos membros mais idosos da
igreja. Sua esposa também administra congregações e ministra estudos
bíblicos. Daniel Miranda foi visto recentemente em uma Assembléia de
Deus ao lado do pastor Marco Feliciano. Se assumir a direção da igreja
provavelmente promoverá maior proximidade com outras denominações.
Lourival de Almeida ? É casado com Débora Miranda, filha do
missionário David Miranda. Se o novo líder da IPDA fosse escolhido a
base do voto, certamente Lourival de Almeida ganharia o cargo. Tem
excelente relacionamento com os jovens, um ponto bastante positivo a
favor dele. Possui experiencia missionaria internacional. Fundou a
IPDA nos Estados Unidos e ajudou a expansão da IPDA na América do
Norte. Ao lado de sua esposa promove grandes eventos com os jovens.
Sua pregação é bem elaborada e criativa assim como seu programa de
rádio que é bastante dinâmico e informativo. Claramente possui pontos
de vista diferentes de David Miranda em diversos aspectos relativos a
doutrina da IPDA. O Pastor Lourival de Almeida quase não reforça a
doutrina da IPDA em suas pregações.
Débora Miranda ? Seria uma surpresa enorme que uma mulher fosse
escolhida para liderar a IPDA, mas não é uma possibilidade remota se
Débora Miranda, filha do Missionário ocupasse o cargo. Embora hoje na
IPDA a mulher não possa exercer o cargo de pastor, a igreja tem dado
cada vez mais espaço para mulher. Antes nãopodiam nem subir ao
púlpito, hoje já dirigem até Sedes Regionais. Débora na verdade já tem
todas as funções de uma pastor administrativo: É responsável pelas
reuniões de obreiros e tesoureiras. Tem controle sobre as finanças da
igreja e forte influencia na diretoria. É conhecida em todo o
ministério por ser cantora. Ao lado de seu esposo, participa de várias
concentrações na América Latina. Tem proximidade com os membros nas
redes sociais, por ser apresentadora de rádio.
David Oliveira de Miranda Filho ? É outro filho do missionário David
Miranda, irmão gêmeo de Débora. É conhecido como David Filho. Talvez
seja o que menos tem chances de assumir o cargo do pai pois é
considerado muito ?inconsistente?. Processou o SBT e o apresentador
Ratinho. O motivo foi uma entrevista exibida no Programa do Ratinho,
em 8 de junho de 2000, concedida ao apresentador por Raquel Borges
Miranda, ex-mulher de David Filho. Na ocasião, Raquel teria atingido a
imagem do marido, revelando fatos que corriam em segredo de justiça.
Sua foto foi removida recentemente do link de líderes na página da
Deus é Amor. Não há dados sobre a vida conjugal do pastor, algo que
com certeza compromete muito sua credibilidade.
FONTE:
http://tvpentecostal.com/o-dilema-da-igreja-deus-e-amor-quem-sera-o-sucessor-do-missionario-david-miranda/
(Denis Zoqbi, ibid.)
Valter, Eu pessoalmente não vou discutir os conteúdos de religião,
primeiro porque não nos cabe aqui discutir a fé das pessoas, segundo
porque em nada agrega a discussão. Os pontos abaixo estão no contexto,
de acordo com a realidade. Como radialista, sempre esbarramos com
estas pessoas em nosso meio e claro, sabemos querendo ou não,as
realidades de suas empresas. Igreja é uma associação, mas enquanto
provedora de conteúdo, para nós é uma empresa. Sua programação eu
reconheço que é questionável intelectualmente, eu reconheço, mas é
apenas reflexo de sua audiência. Eu pessoalmente não escuto emissoras
religiosas, eu escuto rádio.
Inicialmente acredito que o Daniel Miranda deva assumir as funções do
pai deforma integral, mas muita água vai rolar com os acordos
comerciais vigentes,já que era o dono dos porcos que engordava os
cofres. Na falta de Davi pai, acho que vai haver muita emissora
querendo discutir valores e renovações de contratos e aí nos interessa
saber quem fica, quem sai do ar. Simples assim. 73, (Denis Zoqbi,
ibid.)
Assunto: [radioescutas] Sucessão na IPDA
Salve, dexistas! Gostaria de esclarecer que não sou conhecedor das
igrejas evangélicas e pentecostais, nem fui ouvinte dos programas do
missionário David Miranda. Estou recortando e colando o que vejo na
Internet sobre a sucessão e peço aos amigos que conhecem melhor o
assunto que comentem e apontem eventuais bobagens escritas pelas
pessoas e que por acaso eu venha a colar aqui.
O artigo abaixo foi escrito em fevereiro de 2013, tendo em vista a
perspectiva da morte do fundador da IPDA, sobre a sucessão dentro da
igreja. Tirei do endereço
http://ednaldobreves.blogspot.com.br/2013/02/o-dilema-na-sucessao-de-david-miranda.html
Sérgio, sobre o seu comentário anterior, aproveito para dizer que,
aqui em Curitiba, no bairro Boqueirão, existe a Rua O Brasil para
Cristo. 73s, (Valter Aguiar, Curitiba, Brasil, ibid.)
Gente, Confesso que adorei o debate sobre este assunto. Está ocorrendo
em altíssimo nível. Parabens! Voltando ao assunto, sobre as
concessões, sou um ferrenho defensor da abertura da radiodifusão para
empresas e entidades estrangeiras. Seja na compra de emissoras de
radio e TV, como na participação nas licitações destes canais. Hoje o
capital estrangeiro na radiodifusão, ou melhor na mídia em geral, é de
no máximo 30%. Sou a favor que aumente para 100%.
Se um dia esse setor for aberto, a exemplo do que Collor fez na
economia com os importados, muita coisa vai mudar. Muitas concessões
que hoje estão nas mãos de politicos e dessas igrejas, logo iriam para
as mãos de entidades estrangeiras que com certeza fariam um trabalho
decente. A ABERT é contra essa medida, pois ao acabar com esta reserva
de mercado, seus associados, muitos politicos e bandidos da fé,
ficariam em situação crítica. Por este motivo defendo a abertura da
radiodifusão para entidades estrangeiras, seja o capital ou não.
Alfredo, vou fazer como você me pediu sim e obrigado por me responder.
E sobre o Radio,vamos continuar lutando para as coisas melhorarem. Eu
também defenderia se pessoas que tivessem boas ideias culturais
tivessem acesso a esses canais, mas como essas pessoas não tem força,
elas perderiam. Ja entidades estrangeiras, seja o capital ou ongs, tem
mais força perante ao governo do que a própria população. Espero que
isso um dia mude, mas enquanto não muda, sou obrigado a defender essa
medida. Abs, (Leonardo Ivo, ibid.)
Denis e demais colegas. Pessoalmente o David Miranda não me agradava,
se bem que eu o achava suas prédicas bastante engraçadas e muitos de
nós brincávamos o imitando (risos). Eu e o amigo Wilson Rodrigues ( um
ateu convicto que o imitava muito bem) tinhamos até planejado fazer
uma brincadeira onde o "David Miranda" imitador estaria fazendo uma
oração pedindo a melhoria da propagação o fim das interferências
eletricas entre outras coisas (risos).
Não me agrada também emitir opiniões sobre ideologias ou religiões por
este canal mas, a pedido, vou pontuar algumas questões relativas a
história, sem emitir Juízo de Valor.
Vamos lá:
A Igreja Católica possui diversas emissoras de rádio no Brasil e
espalhadas por todo mundo todo, proselitismo religioso pelo rádio não
é monopólio exclusivo de pastores protestantes ou lideres
espiritualistas.
Alziro Zarur foi o pioneiro lider religioso não católico a usar o
rádio para este tipo de prédica, só que ele era espiritualista, não um
protestante ou evangélico. A "Legião da Boa Vontade" criada por ele
permanece existindo e possui inúmeras emissoras de rádio e até um
canal de TV na chamada "Rede Boa Nova de Comunicações". A "Religião
de Deus" da Boa Nova, apesar de se autoproclamar "ecumênica" não
congrega 'evangélicos" especialmente os Pentecostais de "demonizam"
kardecistas e outras religiões espiritualistas.
O grande inspirador do David Miranda foi um líder religioso
pentecostal chamado "Missionário" Manoel de Mello (1929-1990) que
desde finais dos anos 50 até 1990 alugava diversos horários em
emissoras comerciais. Suas "Cruzadas Evangelísticas" propagandeadas
pelo rádio chegaram a reunir 200 mil pessoas. Ele foi o fundador da
"Igreja Pentecostal o Brasil Para Cristo" que ainda existe, tem
diversos templos espalhados pelo Brasil e seu templo maior fica no
Bairro da Pompeia em São Paulo; aliás o antigo viaduto Pompeia leva o
seu nome.
O Manoel de Mello foi mais "famoso" que o David Miranda, pregou em
dezenas de outros países, mantinha relações de amizade com diversos
líderes politicos que o procuravam, entre eles Juscelino Kubitschek,
Foi recebido por diversas autoridades, como o Presidente americano
Jimmy Carter. Durante a ditadura militar brasileira (1964-1985) foi
preso 27 vezes por denúncias ao regime militar, e no tempo em que
desbravou o interior brasileiro fortemente católico ainda viu seus
tabernáculos e tendas serem queimados, até construir o templo sede na
Vila Pompéia a que me referi.
A IPDA reconhece essa inspiração, tanto é verdade que voces poderão
encontrar no canal da IPDA no youtube gravações do Manoel de Mello.
Com relação ao futuro da IPDA, acho que a tendencia dela, assim como o
acontecido com "O Brasil Para Cristo" do Manoel de Mello é de
"encolher" seja por disputas internas seja pela perda de seu principal
líder espiritual; com isso muito provavelmente, com o tempo, muitas
emissoras "alugadas" pela Igreja devem fechar principalmente seus
canais de OC
Coloco abaixo alguns links para aqueles que quiserem se informar
sobre o tema.
Alziro Zarur
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alziro_Zarur
Manoel de Mello
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manoel_de_Mello_e_Silva
http://www.obpcmandaqui.com.br/noticias.php?opt=D&artigo_id=435
Manoel de Mello em vídeo da IPDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuydNuQLnqk
73 a todos (Sérgio Partamian, Mairipora - SP Brasil, ibid.)
Prezados, Sinceramente não acredito que especialmente as emissoras
locais de OC possam sobreviver sem o arrendamento de seus
transmissores a IPDA. Não há tantos ouvintes nas OC que justifiquem os
anunciantes para bancarem os altos custos de energia e manutenção dos
transmissores, alem de que nem todos tem interesse em chegar mais
longe.
Somente Igrejas tem condições de bancar tal empreendimento em estações
comerciais de pequeno ou médio porte. Quando da ocorrência da menor
dificuldade econômica a primeira coisa que fazem é arrendar os
transmissores de OC ou simplesmente desliga-los para cortar custos.
Infelizmente é esa a realidade, o que tem dado uma sobrevida as O C
são justamente as Igrejas, gostemos ou não. 73a todos (Sergio, ibid.)
Gente, Conheço Sr. David Miranda e sua igreja desde que me entendo por
gente e de forma involuntária. Desde os 4 anos de idade eu era
obrigado a ouvir na casa de uma amiga e vizinha que morava atrás da
minha casa, pois a mãe dela era seguidora dessa igreja. Depois foi na
explicadora onde estudava, isso foi em 1989, onde ouvia descrição de
pessoas vomitando em função de supostas seções de exorcismo. Quem
ouvia David Miranda era a vizinha dessa explicadora.
Em 1994, eu era membro da Segunda Igreja Batista em Realengo, estava
com 13 anos na época, e na rua onde era a minha igreja, coisa de 40m
de distância, se instalou uma IPDA. Eles faziam um escandalo danado,
um show de exorcismo pavoroso e fazia isso com som na última altura.
Isso atrapalhava o culta da igreja do qual pertencia e o sossego dos
vizinhos. A situação era tão crítica que um vizinho que morava de
frente para essa IPDA, colocava som alto com samba e pagode a toda
altura. Então ficava uma disputa de quem fazia mais barulho mais alto.
Era um terror só. Felizmente a IPDA acabou perdendo e saiu daquela
rua, dando sossego todos naquela rua.
A familia dessa minha vizinha eram todos membros dessa igreja.
Felizmente sairam e hoje levam uma vida melhor do que quando estavam
lá. Essa é a minha experiência com essa radio pavorosa, que por um
tempo arrendou a Radio Manchete AM760 e a Tamoio 900 e graças a Deus,
largou as duas. Entretanto, eles acabaram comprando a antiga Capital
1030, que foi no passado a antiga Radio Continental e os canais de OC
da Globo, tanto os do Rio como os de Sampa. E isso. Abs, (Leonardo
Ivo, ibid.)
David Miranda: da Rádio Universo à virtual Super Deus é Amor
Realmente a morte de alguém carece do nosso respeito e também a
comunidade da Igreja Pentecostal Deus é Amor que o estimava e para os
quais ele representava uma boa segurança. Nossas análises dependem
sempre de que ponto estamos nos focando. Ele não foi unanimidade entre
os evangélicos. Há uma dissertação de mestrado defendida na UNIMEP por
um ex-pastor da Igreja dele e o relato, inclusive, sobre o papel do
rádio na expansão da denominação. É uma leitura agradável.
Fui um ouvinte assíduo da Rádio Universo de Curitiba, em ondas curtas
de 9515 kHz, que possuía uma programação variada, com todo o tipo de
especialidade religiosa. Para mim foi um grande incentivo para
aprofundar conhecimentos, aprender a questionar ensinamentos,
provocação para leitura. Escrevi muitas cartas para aqueles programas
e li muitos dos materiais que me eram enviados pelo correio.
De um dia para outro, todos os programas foram sumindo. Um amigo meu
que tinha programa na emissora me contou que a nova direção havia
solicitado um valor exorbitante e de propósito. Era a Igreja Deus é
Amor comprando a Rádio Universo, de ondas médias 1210 khz e ondas
curtas de 31, 25 e 49 metros, se não me engano. Dali em diante
desapareceriam os programas com conteúdos filosófico-religiosos e
passaria apenas a publicidade de pretensos milagres da Igreja, já em
acirrada concorrência com outras e a pregação de um sistema
doutrinário fechado, autoritário, medieval e legalista.
Deixei então, a saudosa Rádio Universo, cujo prefixo era feito por um
locutor de marcante voz e que ainda se escuta na atual Super Rádio
Deus é Amor.
David Miranda fez uma fortuna extraordinária às custas da Igreja
Pentecostal Deus é Amor, que mais que uma denominação cristã, é uma
das empresas religiosas da família Martins Miranda. Os chamados
obreiros, homens e mulheres, voluntários, trabalham no serviço
material da Igreja sem qualquer pagamento. Os pastores, naqueles anos,
não eram registrados em carteira e não contavam tempo para
aposentadoria nem tinham direitos trabalhistas, férias e tanto.
David Miranda entrou para a classe dos pastores ricos que, diferente
de Cristo Jesus, não mais andava entre o povo, entre os pobres, nem
receberia em sua suntuosa mansão em Mairiporã, sequer os membros da
sua igreja, servida por seguranças armados.
David Miranda não deixa nenhum legado teológico nem no campo da
comunicação. A Igreja Deus é Amor, fechada a tecnologia, nos últimos
anos estampou nas redes sociais, as mesmas que ele chamara de
"instrumentos de Satanás" fotos de Miranda e família sorrindo,
ensinando e dialogando com os internautas, dentro dos devidos limites
intelectuais e de exposição. Um apresentador comum que usou o rádio
apenas para transmitir os cultos e assemelhados de sua denominação, na
qual exerceu a função de Papa até o final da vida.
Empresa de família, ensinamentos baseados numa interpretação
distorcida, equivocada, sem considerar a cultura dos autores bíblicos,
a Igreja Pentecostal Deus é Amor poderá entrar em nova fase de
repressão doutrinária, mas isto é campo para os estudiosos do fenômeno
religioso (Acir da Cruz Camargo, Ponta Grossa - PR, ibid.)
“Os novos postulantes querem a universidade não para se doutorarem, no
sentido pedante e ocioso da expressão, mas para adquirirem
conhecimentos que os qualifiquem para o trabalho futuro, útil, que
terão de produzir. Nisto está o essencial do problema: os estudantes
compreenderam a essência alienada da universidade brasileira, sua
função desambientadora, sua quase nula atuação progressista, sua
inadequação às tarefas exigidas pelo país, e a querem precisamente
como instrumento para revogar e por termo a toda essa alienação. É
neste sentido que se estabelece no presente momento o problema da
reforma da universidade: trata-se de transforma-la não na superfície,
não na superestrutura pedagógica, no cerimonial didático, nas
qualificações jurídicas, no enriquecimento de recursos financeiros, no
aprimoramento das instalações materiais levadas às vezes á
suntuosidade, pois tudo isto, agora se compreende, por mais útil que
seja é secundário. Trata-se de transforma-la na essência, isto é, de
faze-la deixar de ser um centro distribuidor de alienação cultural do
país, para convertê-la no mais eficaz instrumento de criação de nova
consciência estudantil, direta e exclusivamente interessada em
modificar a estrutura social antiga e injusta, substituindo-a por
outra humana e livre”. (Álvaro Vieira Pinto, médico, cancerologista e
professor de Filosofia da UB, ibid.)
** BRAZIL. [UNIDENTIFIED], 15190.077, In background of 15190.0, Radio
Pilipinas Tinang-PHL heard another odd-frequency broadcast station
underneath. Is that the Brazilian station Rádio Inconfidência? Belo
Horizonte MG, poor signal S=5-6 in southern Germany at 1835 UT on Feb
20 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Feb 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CAMBODIA [non]. Changes of clandestine broadcasts:
Frequency change of CMN Cambodia Media Network Radio:
2300-2330 NF 7510 DB 200 kW / 125 deg SEAs Khmer Sun/Tue/Thu, ex 9945
-- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, Feb 20, dxldyg via DXLD)
** CANADA. Further Changes At CBC
Perhaps these items would be of interest to you:
http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/formation-of-cbc-radio-canada-media-solutions-announced/1003483251/?&er=NA
[and] In its heyday, the CBC headquarters on Front St. held about
5,000 staff. Now, it holds just half that.
By: Robin Levinson King Staff Reporter, Published on Fri Feb 20 2015
A shrinking CBC is looking to sell its outsized downtown flagship
headquarters in order to cut costs. But it’s not totally jumping ship
— the public broadcaster hopes to stay on as a tenant.
Fred Mattocks, general manager for media operations and technology at
CBC English services, said the building has outgrown the broadcaster,
whose staff and budget have shrivelled considerably over the years.
In its heyday, the building held about 5,000 staff, Mattocks said.
Now, it holds just half that. . .
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/02/20/cbc-looks-to-sell-downtown-toronto-hq.html
Also, I've noticed that some programs, such as "Ideas" and "Quirks and
Quarks" have been added "encore" presentations to their podcast
schedules. In other words, they are re-running old material. 73s
(Bernhard Jatzeck, VA6BMJ, Feb 24, WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CANADA [and non]. 800, Feb 21 at 0139 UT, with KQCV OKC mostly
nulled, station in English with Leamington ad, i.e. CKLW in nearby
Windsor, Ont., soon IDing as ``AM 800, CKLW, Bell Media``, temp as -12
C expecting to ascend to -8 (tomorrow`s hi?). Then news of a missing
man. Now, nothing from usual occupant of KQCV null, XEROK with 3x(?)
the power and almost twice as close, as sometimes happens; are they
off or QRP or what? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHILE. 6925-AM, 19/2 0150 UT. Música del recuerdo de los años 50 y
60's, en inglés y español e IDs de la emisora. ID de despedida a las
0242, salida de portadora al aire a las 0244. S9+40 con algo de ruido
ambiental. RX: Realistic DX-160. ANT: Hilo de 40 metros + 20 metros de
antena de tierra. QTH: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile. -- Atte,
(Claudio Galaz. Condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DXLD) But what
was the ID? I suppose it was the pirate RCW usually on 7550 (gh, DXLD)
6925-AM, RCW, 20/2 0020 UT. Noticias de RFI de Europa y América
Latina, señal S9+20 con ruido ambiental notable y mejora a las 0153
con S9+40 y baja de ruido. ID las 0202 y comentario político de Tomás
Mosciatti desde Radio Biobio, Chile con S9+30 hasta las 0212, cuando
se emite a Dr File. S9+40. Salida del aire a las 0225.
6925, RCW, 20/2 0905 UT. Comentarios de Ruperto Concha desde Radio
Biobio. S4 a S6. Audio muy bajo (Claudio Galaz, RX: Realistic DX-160;
ANT: Hilo de 40 metros + 20 metros de antena de tierra; QTH: Barraza
Bajo, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD)
7550, RCW, 21/2 0030-0300 UT. Retransmisión Laser Hot Hits, noticias
de RFI y Música en español e inglés. SINPO: 45444.
Información de la emisora: Horarios y frecuencias definitivas: Jueves,
Viernes y Sábado: 7550, 2245-0500 UT. Excepcionalmente: 0515-1000 UT
en 6925 kHz (Claudio Galaz, RX: Realistic DX-160; ANT: Beverage [sic],
40 metros; QTH: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via
WORLD OF RADIO 1762, via DXLD)
7550, RCW, 22/2 03-04 UT. Música en español con comentarios - en vivo
- de Cucho Zavala y los controles de José Novero. SINPO: 55454
(Claudio Galaz, RX: Realistic DX-160, ANT: Beverage, 40 metros, QTH:
Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD)
** CHINA [and non]. 5010.00, 2355-2400* 17.2, Voice of China jamming
Taiwan (not heard), Chinese talk // 4800, time pips at 2400 and off.
On 19.2 this was delayed (due to the Chinese New Year?) till 0002*
with some Chinese chat after the timepips at 2400. 45243. Best 73,
(Anker Petersen, Denmark, WB radio yg via DXLD)
9495, Feb 19 at 1504, very heavy CCCCCCI from more than one CNR1
jammer an echo apart, along with target RFA Chinese via SAIPAN during
this hour only, and just the same situation on 9440. CNR1 jammer has
less QRM on 9680 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
China mainland jamming organization observed with two different sounds
around 1445 UT:
12045 kHz FIREDRAKE music against VoA Mandarin Chinese program. And
also different BROADBAND sound like against SOH Taiwan programs,
WHITE NOISE SCRATCHING type, like usual against SOH, VoA, RFA, BBC,
AIR noted on
9151-9159,
9196-9204,
9276-9284 kHz.
[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 20)
OMAN/CHINA, 5970, Terrible WHITE NOISE digital jamming from China
mainland against BBCWS program from Al Seela in Oman noted at 0003 UT
Feb 21, S=8 or -82dBm, jamming broadband at 5966 to 5974 kHz frequency
range. Heard on Colombo Sri Lanka remote SDR unit at Victor's place in
Piliyandala. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] vy73
de (Wolfgang DF5SX Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 9350, Firedragon station, 2/21, 1130. No //s heard, and no
OOB CNR1 stations heard this session (Rick Barton, El Mirage AZ, Drake
R8 & outdoor Slinky, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
11720, Feb 21 at 1459, Firedragon jammusic mixing with algo, poor and
continues past 1500 hourtop. Vs. IBB Tibetan via Kuwait this 15-16
hour only. Much weaker than VOK IS on 11710 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIEST)
9350, Firedragon, 2/22, 1130. Crash-boom-bang, Good. No //s heard, but
did find OOB CNR 1 on 9320, 9155, both VG.
11100, 2/23, 1030. M and W in Chinese with noted fair/good //s on
10960, 9200, 9280, and (excellent!) on 6970.
7405, Firedragon, 2/23, 1040. No other stations heard on bandsweep
with crashing-booming music.
9155, CNR 1, 2/23, 1137. W in Chinese with //s found on 9280, 9230,
9200, 12500.
7470, Firedragon, 2/23, 1137. Good with good crash and boom // on
9350.
7345, CNR1, 2/23, 1620, F vocal music // with 7365, 7385, 6145, 6125n,
and numerous others, Hanging in relatively late in the morning
7415, Firedragon music station, 2/23, 1640. What else? Crash! Boom!
Bang! Loud and Strong (Rick Barton, (far north) Peoria AZ, listening
from my tent by the lake, Grundig Satellit 750, 20' wire, dxldyg via
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
11640 & 11655, Feb 25 at 1340, CNR1 jammers have some class! Playing
``Blue Danube Waltz``, applause and 1342 on to `Radetzky March`.
Sounds just like the New Year Concert from Vienna encores. Last part
of the latter is talked over in Chinese in typical disrespect. Both
with flutter, 11640 clearer vs RTI, while 11655 has CCI from victim
VOA Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 11600, Two CRI streams – Urumqi & Kunming (Presumed), 1406,
2/22/15, in Mandarin (on top) and Bengali (under). CRI in Mandarin
with OM on top. CRI in Bengali with YL and music under. Why would you
have two broadcasts from the same station on the same frequency at the
same time? (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin, Perseus, WinRadio g313e,
Eton e1, Grundig Satellit 800 & G3, Sangean 909X with clear mod,
Tecsun PL 660; 40 meters dipole, RF Systems Mk 2, Flextenna, NASWA
Flashsheet Feb 22 via DXLD)
Because you can? Because as the #1 SW broadcaster, there just aren`t
enough different China frequencies? Because the target areas are
diverse and theoretically would not QRM each other? But, in current
Aoki I don`t see any CRI listed on 11600 --- just Sound of Hope at
this hour which might require CNR1 jamming; CRI seems never
intentionally used for jamming, bad PR?
O, your description matches instead 11610 in HFCC B-14:
Chinese from Urumqi, 500 kW, 270 degrees to CIRAF 39S, 40N
Bengali from Kunming, 150 kW, 270 degrees to CIRAF 41NE
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 12055, Feb 24 at 0100, heard one(?) pip considerably past
0100:00, very poor with flutter, talk. Aoki shows the CNR17 service in
Kazakh is here at 2355-1200, 100 kW, 298 degrees from Lingshi 725 site
since January 1. Before 0100 it would have had competition from FEBA
per Aoki, FEBC per WRTH, in Wa via Bocaue, Philippines (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. Changes of clandestine broadcasts:
Praise Music Ministries, ex UNIDentified
2100-2130 on 7530 TSH 100 kW / 250 deg to EaAs Chinese/Hakka
-- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, Feb 20, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1762,
DXLD)
** CUBA. Cuban Spy Number HM01, new start/end of transmissions, e.g.:
xx53-xx18 broadcasts 25 minutes; xx18-xx27 open carrier/dead air;
xx28-xx48 broadcasts 20 minutes; xx48-xx54 change of frequencies.
0453-0548 5855 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
0453-0548 12120 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
0453-0548 11462 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Tue/Thu/Sat
0453-0548 14375 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Tue/Thu/Sat
0553-0648 10345 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
0553-0648 9330 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Tue/Thu/Sat
0653-0748 9330 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
0653-0748 10345 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Tue/Thu/Sat
0753-0848 9065 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
0753-0848 11435 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Tue/Thu/Sat
0853-0948 9240 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
0853-0948 11462 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Tue/Thu/Sat
0853-0948 12120 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Tue/Thu/Sat
0953-1048 5855 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
0953-1048 9155 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
0953-1048 11635 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Tue/Thu/Sat, co-ch CRI En
0953-1048 12180 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Tue/Thu/Sat
1553-1648 11435 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Daily
1653-1748 11530 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Daily
1753-1848 11635 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Daily
2053-2148 11635 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
2053-2148 16180 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Tue/Thu/Sat
2153-2248 10715 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
2153-2248 17480 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Tue/Thu/Sat
2253-2348 11530 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
2253-2348 17540 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Tue/Thu/Sat
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/02/radio-habana-cuba-and-spy-number.html
73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISENING DIGEST)
Cuban Spy Number HM01 with new start/end of transmissions, e.g.:
xx54-xx18 broadcasts 24 minutes; xx18-xx28 open carrier/dead air;
xx28-xx48 broadcasts 20 minutes; xx48-xx54 change of frequencies.
plus video from today 0528 UT on 5855 kHz
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/02/radio-habana-cuba-and-spy-number.html
-- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, Feb 20, dxldyg via DXLD)
More videos of Cuban Spy Number HM01 on Feb 21:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/02/radio-habana-cuba-and-spy-number.html
-- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.)
Again wrong frequency of Cuban Spy Number HM01 on Feb 23:
0654-0748 9330 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
0748-0754 9330 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba open carrier / dead air
0754-0804 9330 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Spaniah,instead of 9065
from 0804 9065 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/02/wrong-frequency-of-cuban-spy-number.html
-- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.)
Frequency changes of Cuban Spy Number HM01 in 0554-0748 UT slot:
0554-0648 NF ????? secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Tue/Thu/Sat, ex 9330*
0554-0648 on 10345 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Su/Mo/We/Fr as sched
0654-0748 NF 13435 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Tue/Thu/Sat, ex 10345
0654-0748 on 9330 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Su/Mo/We/Fr as sched
* also no signal on 10345 or 14375, listed in Nagoya shortwave
frequency list.
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/02/frequency-changes-of-cuban-spy-number.html
-- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Feb 25, ibid.)
Frequency changes of Cuban Spy Number HM01:
0554-0648 NF 14375 secret/hidden tx Bauta?-Cuba Tue/Thu/Sat, ex 9330
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/02/frequency-changes-of-cuban-spy-number.html
(Ivo, Feb 26, ibid.)
** CUBA. 4765, Feb 20 at 0341, R. Progreso good signal and modulation
level but distorted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Unscheduled broadcasts of Radio Habana Cuba after 0600 Feb 18
from 0602 9535 HAB 100 kW / 340 deg NCAm English, scheduled Sp-0600
from 0604 11840 HAB 100 kW / 230 deg SoAm Spanish, scheduled Sp-0600
73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISENING DIGEST)
15230 & 9820, Feb 19 at 1527 are the only two RHC frequencies heard,
absent from 17730, 15370, 11760 which are all supposed to be on until
1600. Altho I forgot to check 9640. 15700 CRI relay is not missing.
11845, Feb 22 at 1428, Cuban pulse jamming is audible here as the
frequency is otherwise unoccupied --- despite R. Martí having
abandoned it a few years ago. Way to go, DentroCuban Jamming Command!
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15370, RHC, 22/2 2244 UT. Servicio en esperanto. Una locutora habla
sobre la historia de Cuba y las relaciones con Estados Unidos. Luego
una canción que dura 5 minutos aproximadamente. Y a las 2250 cambia la
propagación de SINPO: 55544 con zumbido de fondo a SINPO: 35433:
https://soundcloud.com/claudio-radioham-dx/15370-rhc-esperanto-22-02-2250
(Claudio Galaz, RX: Realistic DX-160, ANT: Beverage, 40 metros, QTH:
Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD)
** CUBA [non]. RADIO Y TV MARTÍ PODRÍAN SER GESTIONADAS POR UNA
ENTIDAD PRIVADA
La norteamericana Junta de Gobernadores de Radiodifusión (BBG, por sus
siglas en inglés) ha propuesto a Washington la "desfederalización" de
Radio y TV Martí, para que las emisoras sean gestionadas por un nuevo
organismo privado.
La medida también afectaría a la Voz de América, que presta servicios
para América Latina.
Según el blog Along the Malecon, la BBG canalizaría los presupuestos
para la nueva organización sin fines de lucro, pero "no será
considerada como una agencia federal".
La medida, que debería entrar en vigor en dos años, tiene que ser
aprobada antes por el Congreso de Estados Unidos.
La eliminación de las transmisiones de Radio y TV Martí es una de las
condiciones que exige el régimen de La Habana para el "pleno
restablecimiento" de las relaciones con EEUU.-Diario de Cuba- (via GRA
blog via WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DXLD) See also USA: BBG WATCH
US-BACKED CUBA BROADCASTER GETS SATELLITE RADIO OUTLET | Text of press
release issued by US Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) on 24 Feb
Miami, FL: Two popular Radio Martí programmes will now be available on
SiriusXM Satellite Radio, thanks to an agreement between the Office of
Cuba Broadcasting and National Latino Broadcasting. The arrangement
provides another way for audiences in Cuba to receive balanced and
unbiased news.
"We're thrilled to have this new avenue for reaching Cuba," said
director of OCB Carlos García-Pérez. "Information there remains
tightly controlled by the government, and this agreement makes it
possible for more Cubans to get access to the uncensored news they
need."
Martí programmes to air on SiriusXM Satellite Radio include Entre
Nosotros (Between Us), hosted by Cuban author and poet Orlando
Gonzalez Esteva, features a variety of topics to educate and
entertain, mixing the serious with the amusing, reality and fantasy,
Cuban history with folklore, peaking [sic] the imagination and
curiosity of listeners. Entre Nosotros will air from 9.00 p.m. to
10.00 p.m.
The second offering is the fast-paced show 1800 Online, hosted by
Lizandra Díaz Blanco and Juan Juan Almeida, that features irreverent
interviews with bloggers, artists, entrepreneurs, technology
aficionados, sports and entertainment celebrities, all the while
connecting Cubans living on and off the island. Back-to-back episodes
of 1800 Online will air from 10.00 p.m. to 11.00 p.m.
The Radio Martí programming will air on channel 153 on SiriusXM
Satellite Radio, Monday thru Friday 9 p.m.-11 p.m. time slot (EST
[soon to be EDT?]). Channel 153 is operated by National Latino
Broadcasting LLC (NLB). Source: Broadcasting Board of Governors,
Washington D.C., in English 24 Feb 15 (via BBCM via DXLD)
** ECUADOR. 6050, Feb 20 at 0337, slow English talking about Ravi
Shankar, some modulation distortion. So HCJB is still running the
`Spotlight` quarter-hour in specialish English amongst all the Spanish
and Kichwa (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9965, Radio Cairo; 2258-2303+, 13-Feb; at 2258 found an S9
carrier on 9966.0; 2300:17 on with pips and Radio Cairo English ID,
into brief music, then sked & program notes for the English service,
into more music. At 2302, noticed they'd dropped to 9965 (Is someone
actually paying attention?!), SIO=433, no distortion but some hum--
presume transmitter [caused] (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)
12035, Feb 21 at 0117, R. Cairo, fair with flutter, dead air in
``Spanish`` service; didn`t get around to checking the other
frequencies tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
See also UNIDENTIFIED 9600, 9550
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [non]. 15190, Feb 19 at 2228, R. Africa Network
via WRMI is supposedly religious, but filling some airtime with
public-domain secular stuff: `(X-1)` oldtime radio show, outro
dramatization of ``Nightfall`` by Isaac Asimov! who of course was an
Atheist --- way to go!! NBC chimes and 2232 into gospel music, whew.
I`ve never found anything like a program schedule via
http://www.radiopanam.com and still don`t (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF
RADIO 1762, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA [non]. Starting February 20, 2015, a new radio station
will start broadcasting on shortwave, Risala International.
Risala International will broadcast on Fridays from 1830-1900 UT on
15165 kHz in the 19 meter band. For more information, visit Risala
International | Just another WordPress site
http://risalainternational.org/
(BRB via gh, DXLD)
They are having an Islamic conference of some sort in Minneapolis on
Feb 20-21. Main language on the homepage in Roman letters looks
Somali, and Google translate agrees, but fails to translate except for
a few words here and there! Could be the spelling is non-standard?
Header also in another language, Amharic? Their videos of
demonstrations in Minnesota are labeled Oromo. So the homepage text is
probably in Oromo, which is why Google can`t translate it, not one of
their languages, but related to Somali. Google translates Risala (or
Risalah) from Arabic as ``Message``.
Site? Nothing at all in B-14 HFCC on 15165, nor in Aoki.
A station of this name existed log ago, possibly unrelated:
``In 1994, Islamic station Radio Al-Risalah commenced from Moscow,
hiring airtime from Radio Moscow and the Bolshakovo, Kaliningrad
station``
That was from a long article:
via RUSdx Aug 31, 2014 also via BC-DX
I posted the above to the DXLD yg at 1608 UT Feb 20, plus follow-ups.
Then I monitor it myself:
15165, Feb 20 at *1828:50 carrier on, very poor, still open past 1830
until Horn-of-Africa music starts at 1830:13, later some talk audible,
but far too weak to follow any further; confirmed at least that it has
really started up. Weak signals at poor level are better: 15140 Oman,
15190 Philippines (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
According to Ludo Maes` Alyx & Yey
http://www.airtime.org/shortwave/schedule.php
languages are Amharic/Oromo
-- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD)
Rather good signal here in Finland at 1830 on 15165. Segalee Radio
Risala, so at least partly Oromo language programming (Jari
Savolainen, Finland, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DXLD)
Fairly good signal in NJ as well. Typical ID was like Sagalee Radio
Risala, which literally means Risala Radio Voice? (Sakae Obara, Fort
Lee, NJ, 1905 UT Feb 20, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
CLANDESTINE, Poor signal of Risala International transmission Feb 20:
1830-1900 on 15165 secret / hidden site to EaAf Oromo Fri only, 3
videos
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/02/poor-signal-of-risala-international.html
Compared that signal against other Issoudun at same time, powerful
signal Voice of Gospel, Sawtu Linjilia in Fulfule to WCAf 1833 on 9800
Issoudun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DEk1iZPNcw&feature=youtu.be
(Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DXLD)
February 20:
Risala International in Oromo to EaAf, first day on air 1830 on 15165
secret, hidden tx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JDY_jf-iy4&feature=youtu.be
Risala International in Oromo to EaAf, first day on air 1839 on 15165
secret, hidden tx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-qJp84EKTQ&feature=youtu.be
Risala International in Oromo to EaAf, first day on air 1850 on 15165
secret, hidden tx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vng0uZ_H8qA&feature=youtu.be
(Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Radio Risala International: laut der Webseite
http://www.risalainternational.org/
stellt sich das als eine Oromo / muslimischer Ogaden Clan Organisation
nahestehende anti-Äthiopien Organisation dar.
Ogaden - die Somalier in Ost-Äthiopien --- Ludo mietet meist bei
SpaceLine Kostinbrod Bulgarien, Gavar Armenien, oder bei TDF Issoudun
an (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DXLD)
re Oromo / muslim Ogaden Clan Organization, against Government of
Ethiopia, / to Ogaden state of Ogaden-Somalis in eastern Ethiopia
province.
FRANCE [tentatively], 15165, Radio Risala International program
started at exact 1830:17 UT - Fridays only -, played HoA Horn of
Africa music, S=9+10dB or -64dBm signal here in southern Germany.
Compared that signal against other TDF Issoudun bcasts at same time in
same meterband, and - I guess - heard the same audio characteristics
on all that
15165 kHz
15299.874 kHz (seldom odd frequency outlet of TDF Issoudun!) S=9+10dB,
15560 kHz Issoudun DWL Hausa service, also at 1830-1900 UT on Febr 20
slot. vy73 de (Wolfgang DF5SX Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15165, Feb 20, Noted a open carrier at 1827, then opening orchestra
melody of ingenious music to 1831, then a male speaker with open
announcements but the audio was so weak it was barely audible at best.
The signal was quite strong (Issoudun???) but the audio link just
wasn't there. Nothing much noted after 1842.
On additional note, on a QSL response:
EUR. R.F.S.R. (RUSSIA), 6015, Radio Al-Risalah (the Message) via
Kaliningrad (Bolshakovo) on December 21st 1994, from *1500 to 1525 UT.
Power 2 x 80 kW. Nice Full Data (with site & name of program) QSL
reply from the State Enterprise of Broadcasting and Radio
Communications No. 2 (GPR-2), St. Petersburg; The V/S was Mikhail
Timofeyev (Edward Kusalik, Daysland, Alberta, Canada, Feb 20, WORLD OF
RADIO 1762, DX LISTENING DIGEST) But the Risalah of 20 years ago may
be unrelated (gh)
15165, Risala International via Issoudun per Aoki list. Friday, Feb
20, first Friday-only broadcast. In Oromo, which was mentioned many
times. Good signal at my location, just east of the centers of the
U.S. & North America, which is common for broadcasts from France or
Germany to the Horn-of-Africa. On at 1830:15 UT with brief H-of-A
singing, then several IDs. Mostly talk with occasional H-of-A music.
Transmitter off in mid-song at 1858 UT (Wendel Craighead-KS-USA,
DXplorer Feb 21 via Wolfgang DF5SX Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
BRB Broadcast Belgium schedule see
Risala International 1830-1900 15165 -f Amharic/Oromo Africa
Probably in Amharic language, despite the website calls more
Oromo/Sudanese language used widely in eastern Ogaden province in
Ethiopia. some findings:
see also Boonaa Mohammed name on:
Google shows "Zenoradio Risala" request
Links and Apps like
"Risala radio works on Educational, health, cultural, financial and
family programs. This is an online based radio that focus on East
African community."
Private station Radio Risala in Mogadishu Somalia is a separate
station
vy73 de (Wolfgang DF5SX Bueschel, Feb 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA [non]. February 16: Oromo Voice Radio in Oromo to EaAf
1602 on 17850 Issoudun + white noise broadband DRM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWIYdXUETWA&feature=youtu.be
Oromo Voice Radio in English to EaAf 1616 on 17850 Issoudun + white
noise broadband DRM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4fZOGj31q0&feature=youtu.be
Oromo Voice Radio in English to EaAf 1620 on 17850 Issoudun + white
noise broadband DRM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhO51z4x1SQ&feature=youtu.be
Oromo Voice Radio in English to EaAf 1626 on 17850 Issoudun + white
noise broadband DRM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q967vJuEho8&feature=youtu.be
February 21: Oromo Voice Radio in Oromo to EaAf 1613 on 17850 Issoudun
plus white noise broadband DRM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9zkre0bnuI&feature=youtu.be
(Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Radiyo Sagalee Oromoo, Oromo Voice Radio with English broadcast:
1600-1616 on 17850 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Oromo Mon
1616-1630 on 17850 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf English Mon
1600-1630 on 17850 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Oromo Wed/Sat
Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with white noise broadband DRM
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/02/oromo-voice-radio-with-english-broadcast.html
(DX RE MIX NEWS #897 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov. Feb. 23, 2015
via DXLD)
** ETHIOPIA [non]. February 21: IRRS relay Radio Warra Wangeelaa ti in
Oromo to EaAf 1502 on 15515 Tiganeshti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RvlLpmceJo&feature=youtu.be
(Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EUROPE. Dear Listeners, This message is on behalf of the Radio
Geronimo team. Next Sunday February 22nd Radio Geronimo will be
broadcasting on 9335 kHz and in parallel on either 7490 or (most
likely) 7500 kHz. Geronimo will be on air between 09- 13 UTC --> 10-
14 CET. Please remember Geronimo uses the Eisenach based Box 101145 in
Germany. Email address is Geronimoshortwave@hotmail.com.
73s Chris RGSW (FRSH via ARDXC via DXLD)
Radio Geronimo Shortwave is coming in strong this morning (since tune-
in at 0945 UT) on nominal 9335 kHz (nearer 9334.2) - also faintly
heard in parallel on 7490. Dave Simpson on currently with some great
oldies (Billy Joel just a moment ago and now there is Frankie goes to
Hollywood). (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, Sunday Feb 22, dxldyg via DXLD)
February 22:
Radio Geronimo via FRSH 1200 on 9334.2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQTP6hNDQPo&feature=youtu.be
Radio Geronimo via FRSH 1228 on 9334.2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fGmJL98E1I&feature=youtu.be
Radio Geronimo via FRSH 1450 on 9334.2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0fIJYj-pn4&feature=youtu.be
Radio Geronimo via FRSH 1457 on 9334.2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8lO55q_ZmU&feature=youtu.be
(Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EUROPE. SPACESHUTTLE WITH HIGHER POWER ON 9600
Dear listeners, We have plan try to reach more listeners with special
quite high powered and directed transmission on 9600 kHz, 31mb next
Sunday 1st of March 2015 1800-1900 UT.
Our target is to reach areas of entire Europe, Mediterranean Sea area,
Near-East, (Asia) and North-Africa. In any case it will be needed very
good receivers and proper antennas for our listeners to get our
signal. I wish everything will go right with these plans and our
strange music will reach bigger areas and much bigger audience?? Let's
see what's happens...
Please send ideas of programs and music you like to hear from
Spaceshuttle. We would like to fulfill your requests in special
musical shows in future. I wish you will have fun with our programmes
also in future! Please tell you thoughts to us by e-mail:
spaceshuttleradio@yhaoo.com
Your letters/reception reports are very welcome to our address in
Herten:
Radio Spaceshuttle International
P.O.Box 2702
NL: 6049 ZG Herten
The Netherlands
A little fee (2 euros) for return postage (for full info printed QSLs)
is needed! Quick responce and communication is possible By e-mail:
spaceshuttleradio@yahoo.com
Best Regards!, (Dick Spacewalker of Radio Spaceshuttle
http://spaceshuttleradio.freeservers.com
Feb 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
So will be hiring time via major SW site?? Aha, HFCC shows this hour
is registered by SOFia for DRM, 100 kW at 30 degrees, presumably just
a placeholder until March 1 (gh, DXLD)
** EUROPE. Pirate: Cupid Radio: 21460/AM, 1724-1734+, 15-Feb; M in
English with chatter between and over pop/rock; ID before BoH. Fair
peaks (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)
** FALKLAND ISLANDS [and non]. [history] Ouvi em 530 kHz a emissora
das Ilhas Falkland aqui mesmo em São Bernardo. Percebi na ocasião que
a Rádio La voz de Las Madres (Argentina, 530 kHz) estava com sinal
muito fraco, e a estação religiosa de Turks & Caicos (América
Central), desta nem sinal. Depois de meia hora, surgiu nos 530 kHz uma
portadora (confirmada em SSB), e mais alguns minutos (à meia-noite,
nosso horário) ouvi claramente em inglês a identificação da FIRS
(Falklands Islands Radio System) e a identificação do boletim de
notícias ‘BBC World Service’. Foi quase um delírio, enviei o informe
de recepção à estação, que depois de pouco tempo me confirmou a escuta
com o cartão QSL da mesma (Rudolf Grimm, Brasil, Feb 25, radioescutas
yg via DXLD)
** FRANCE. 7390, Feb 19 at 0639, RFI French under stronger carrier
causing fast SAH; recheck 0656, RFI still on but the other carrier is
already off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GEORGIA. [Re 15-07:] Dusheti - Bazaleti Video
Photos from this 2007 exploration are also here, plus current ones
which tell what satellite images do not tell: The former transmission
facility has become a children's holiday camp.
http://www.radioscanner.ru/forum/topic47375.html
However, the accompanying text is an example for what in German is
known as gefährliches Halbwissen. The "15 shtuk 500 kvt
radioperedachikov" could be right after deleting one naught: 15 Sneg
transmitters would be plausible, for operation also in pairs and
double-pairs, of course.
And for mediumwave the available data is insufficient even for mere
speculations about equipment and site usage (Kai Ludwig, Feb 22,
shortwavesites yg via DXLD
** GERMANY. AMATEUR RADIO BASED GROUP RESCUES RELEASED BROADCAST
FREQUENCY --- Southgate February 22, 2015
When the 'Deutsche Welle' decided to close down one of their 500 KW
short wave broadcast transmitters near Munich at the end of 2012, a
group containing some German radio amateurs applied for and were
allocated the then available short wave frequency of 6070 KHz in 2013.
This group now have an operational 10KW station on the frequency,
using the driver stages from the old Deutsche Welle transmitter. The
rest of the transmitter was built by and is run by Rainer DB8QC . The
licence allow transmission 24/7 but at present most transmissions are
on a weekend during daylight hours.
Content is mainly provided by existing Internet Radio stations wanting
to get their material "on-the-air" this includes several soceities
that remember the days of the Pirate Radio pop music stations in the
North sea between England and Holland and a lot of their music content
is from the 60's and 70's.
Additional content is being sought and at only 15 Euros an hour, this
is not a corporate big business rather a facility where smaller groups
can afford to buy time to transmit their content. One such group is
the Deutsche Amateur Radio Club, the National Amateur Radio Soceity in
Germany, who hope to have a weekly 2 hour slot on the station from
mid-March to send a DX orientated program, probably from 6pm local
time on Sundays.
The DARC DX magazine will be in the German language and targeted
towards German speaking listeners. Amateur radio is an international
medium however so there are thoughts of also producing an
international / English hour in addition, to reach out across Europe
not only to radio amateurs but also to short wave listeners and the
general public.
When I talked with another Rainer DF2NU who is one of the group
running the station and the president of the Munich South section of
the DARC, he told me that they hope to be able to broadcast more often
once sufficient content is available however they are already seeing
other broadcasters such as Radio China moving onto the frequency in
the evenings as those stations percieve 6070 KHz as a free frequency.
Rainer told me that currently "Channel 292" has airtime bookings for
20-25 hrs a week, mostly on weekends at which times it runs at 10 kW
output. When the station is idle (as there is no booking), the
transmitter power is reduced to 1kW and transmits an infinite music-
loop with no actual program. Late evenings, after 8pm local, the
transmitter is switched off completely in order to save energy costs.
Rainer stressed that the license is for 24/7 so they can use the
frequency at any time when they have content.
With a current rate of EUR 15,-- per hour airtime you cannot earn any
money. This broadcast station is an extenion of the amateur radio
hobby and the group seek to simply cover their costs.
Thinking back to the very start of amateur radio, Hams were allowed to
transmit music, news and entertainment programs, so it's nice to see
some of this coming back onto the short wave bands thanks to the
efforts of groups like this one.
I wonder as we see more and more broadcasters leaving the short wave
bands in favour of Internet broadcasting, whether we'll see more
licences and surplus transmitters being picked up by amateur radio
groups? This seems to be somewhat of a repeat of the situation when it
was said 200 metres and up is useless for broadcasting - give it to
the amateurs. We all know what then followed.
Perhaps amateur Radio groups around the world can put new life into
released shortwave broadcast frequencies?
For program information about "Channel 292" simply go to their website
at http://www.channel292.de/
Why not give 6070 kHz AM a listen? The Channel292 station covers a lot
of Western Europe but has also been heard in Russia and the US
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2015/february/amateur_radio_based_group_rescues_released_broadcast_frequency.htm#.VOsl0I02bDc
(with aircheck and illustrations) (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD)
This is well and good but such a model falls into the domestic-
orientated trap that a SWBC station must be assigned to one specific
frequency, rather than have the flexibility to move around avoiding
collisions. ``Rescuing`` is hardly the proper terminology.
As we know (but they do not?) CFRX Toronto is also 24h on 6070, and
during darkness could QRM each other. Vatican Radio is yet to catch on
that they should go back to 6075. Japan and Iran are also registered
on 6070 at certain hours. What`s a mere 10 kW to them? (But registered
as 25 kW -- at least it`s in HFCC unlike so many other small SW
stations). 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.)
Channel 292 relays on February 21/22, all 10 kW / non-dir to CeEu:
0700-1100 on 6070 ROB Sat Feb 21 Radio Mi Amigo Int
1100-1200 on 6070 ROB Sat Feb 21 KIM FM Nijmweg.
1200-1300 on 6070 ROB Sat Feb 21 Power Radio Nijmweg
1300-1400 on 6070 ROB Sat Feb 21 Deltracks Radio, NEW
1400-1700 on 6070 ROB Sat Feb 21 Zen FM, NEW
1000-1300 on 6070 ROB Sun Feb 22 Bluestar Radio
1300-1400 on 6070 ROB Sun Feb 22 8Radio Ireland, NEW
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/02/channel-292-relays-on-february-2122.html
-- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD)
Channel 292 relays from February 28 to March 7:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/02/channel-292-relays-from-february-28-to.html
-- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD)
** GERMANY. The annual special broadcast of Radio Öömrang is
presumably imminent at 1600-1659 UT Sat Feb 21 on 15215 via Nauen (or
Issoudun?). AFAIK there has been no specific confirmation of this
year`s broadcast, but since 2009y at least, it has always been on this
date at this time, and 15215 has been the frequency the past few
years. If you don`t hear it there, try elsewhere on the 19m band. HFCC
has a registration, probably wooden, for 500 kW 315 degree Arabic at
1630-1700 from UAE on 15215. While it`s mostly in Frisian (the point
of the event), there have been brief bits in English, and also in high
German.
For a compilation of last year`s reports about it see under GERMANY:
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1409.txt
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1410.txt
Also February issues of previous years.
This also has something to do with an annual event on Amrum island,
involving fire. Search on Amrum for further info, alternate spelling
of the double-umlaut name (Glenn Hauser, OK, 1535 UT Feb 21, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
So among many others I am standing by on 15215 from 1559 Feb 21: with
BFO I can detect a very weak carrier on at *1559:20, and a very big
carrier on from *1600:00 --- but never any modulation! As I leave a
receiver on it for the entire hour until 1700:05*. So, it`s a bust!
Site Issoudun or Nauen forgot to bring up an audio source? What will
they do now? Feb 21 is the significant celebration date, so
rescheduling it for another date less than 365 away would hardly
suffice. Shame. Meanwhile, Roger found this previous item about plans
for this year`s broadcast; the instigator looking for more people to
help with it:
http://www.shz.de/lokales/insel-bote/radio-oeoemrang-sucht-mitwirkende-id8731521.html
What he really needed was competent operation thruout the chain,
eliminating some weakest link (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1762,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Carrier came on at 1600, but there's no audio! Strong carrier S7 to
S9, so should be hearing something!!! 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria,
BC, 1607 UT, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Same here (Rich Ray, Burr Ridge, IL, 1609 UT, ibid.)
Strong carrier, but there's no audio 1600-1700 on 15215 Nauen
-- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, 1712 UT, ibid.)
Radio Oomrang (Assumed), 15215, 2/21/15, tuned to frequency just prior
to top of the hour and heard a transmitter power up at 1600 UT with S-
9 reception, but no audio heard -- just a strong open carrier. I hung
in there until 1619 and did not hear any content (Larry Zamora,
Garland, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15215, Annual Amrum special imminent. Yes, a strong broadcast signal
from ?MBR Nauen? or ?TDF Issoudun? is underway at present 1611 UT on
15215 kHz. BUT heard ONLY A TX CARRIER since 1600 UT in US
Massachusetts remote SDR unit at S=9+20dB or -51dBm signal strength. I
asked MBR Cologne bureau this week by e-mail request, but no reply so
far yet received though.
15215 kHz Radio OeOemrang Amrum isle festivity broadcast
[nil, sic, no QSL this year]
[later] At 1700:07 UT the PC on the transmission center cut the feed
line of the hot air carrier only. The whole hour 16-17 UT noted the
signal in US NorthEastern like Boston / New York as S=9+20dB or -51dBm
signal strength all adjacent channels were totally free. wb df5sx
re 15215? OeOemrang Amrum Inselfest via Nauen oder Issoudun?, nix
audio, nur carrier. Um 1700:07 UT hat der PC automatisch den Stecker
gezogen. Bis zuletzt S=9+20dB or -51dBm Signal im US Nordosten.
Wie beliefert man den Broker dieser Tage, mit oller DVD Mail
Uebersendung, oder per web online Upload nach Cologne? Oder hat die
Aufzeichnung vorgelegen, aber die Uebertragung nach Nauen oder
Issoudun hat nicht ge-funzt?
Die Amrum Community in den USA wird es verschmerzen koennen. Die
brauchen doch keine Kuuuhsels vy73 de (Wolfgang DF5SX Bueschel, Feb
21, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. 15150, Feb 24 at 1500, AWR with multilingual ID spiel,
preceding Punjabi via Nauen. Strange thing: they manage to translate
``AWR`` into Italian, French, but in German they say the name in
English! Why not ``Adventisten Welt-Rundfunk``?? BTW, it seems to me
that in German the word ``Rundfunk`` (colorfully, literally,
``sparkin`-around``) is losing out to ``Radio`` except in established
names like BR, NDR, WDR. Perhaps they have been influenced by R.
Japan, which insists on pronouncing English ``NHK World`` in all other
languages. Before 1500, AWR on 15150 is via Sri Lanka (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. Test broadcasts of Deutsche Welle on March 2-4:
0300-0310 on 11960 ISS 500 kW / 140 deg to EaAf Swahili
0310-0330 on 11960 ERV 500 kW / 192 deg to EaAf Swahili
0400-0410 on 11960 ISS 500 kW / 140 deg to EaAf English
0415-0430 on 13610 ISS 500 kW / 140 deg to EaAf English (DX RE MIX
NEWS #897 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov. Feb. 23, 2015 via DXLD)
Warum?
** GOA. Early this morning from my tune in from around 4 am IST (2230
UT), test transmissions were heard from AIR Panaji on 1287 kHz. Hindi
Films were heard contentiously without any announcements. From around
5:30 am IST (0000 UT) test tones were heard, followed by normal sign
on announcements at 5:55 am (0025 UT). Reception was fair. This may be
the new 100 kW Nautel DRM transmitter being installed here and
reported in
http://airddfamily.blogspot.in/2015/02/training-on-100kw-drm-transmitter.html
Many similar transmitters are being currently installed all over
India. It`s worth checking the MW bands in early mornings (after
normal programs of stations are over)
Prasar Bharati Parivar: Training on 100KW DRM Transmitter (Nautel), at
HPT [high power transmitter] Bambolim(Panaji-Goa)
The Training on 100 KW MW DRM transmitter (Nautel), NABM Kingsway,
Delhi conducted from 16.02.15 to 20.02.15 at HPT, AIR Bambolim
(Panaji-Goa).
Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur
Radio, Hyderabad, Mobile: +91 94416 96043, dx_india yg via DXLD)
Today at 2230 only Iran and Spain here in Finland. Best regards,
(Mauno Ritola, 25 Feb, dx_india yg via DXLD)
** GREECE. February 21:
Greek Mediumwave pirate on 1620v kHz 1330 on 6th hx 9719v
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FKoM3gXEvg&feature=youtu.be
Greek Mediumwave pirate on 1620v kHz 1420 on 6th hx 9719v
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtZs61_DsVM&feature=youtu.be
February 22:
Greek Mediumwave pirate on 1620v kHz 1427 on 6th hx 9719v
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZ4aB4uEYs&feature=youtu.be
(Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREENLAND. Tasiilaq - Now with Google Streetview (SV) --- I was
informed (by one source) some time ago that this is the Kalaalit
Nunaata Radioa - 3815 kHz ?? SW TX site.(see link below)
Several masts, antennas & satellite parabolic dishes. There appears to
be a HF horizontal dipole antenna here, possibly for the 3815 kHz
transmission that was heard some time ago by DXers.
http://goo.gl/maps/Y41EF
I've no idea of what other possible HF transmission infrastructure is
onsite. Comments & feedback welcome as always. No luck with SV for the
remote Nuuk former SW TX site; although Streetview did extend from
Nuuk towards the tx site a little with what I'll creatively term 'Boat
View'. I kid you not ;-) (Ian, Feb 21, shortwavesites yg via DXLD)
** GUAM. DRM Test by KTWR GUAM to South Asia
Date : 23 & 24 Feb 2015
Time : 1445-1515 UT
Freq : 15300 kHz
Power : 90 kW
Azi : 285 deg
Reception reports to info@twr.asia
--- (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, Feb 20, dx_sasia yg via DXLD) Lang?
** GUATEMALA. 4055, Feb 20 at 0343, R. Truth, banjo variations on
favorite theme ``Workin` on the Railroad``, segué some other song,
rough modulation somewhat distorted. Feb 25 will be exactly one
sesquidecade after R. Verdad`s first transmission (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Radio Verdad, 4055, 2/22/15, 0045 UT with weak reception of accordion
and organ music selections; ID at 0056 (Larry Zamora, Garland, TX, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
4055, Feb 24 at 0117, poor-fair signal from R. Truth, sermon in
English being translated into Spanish, phrase by phrase, something
about the end of the world. Really? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Congratulations on fifteenth anniversary of first broadcast, Feb 25
(Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. Autoridades cierran tres radios ilegales en
Chichicastenango --- by gruporadioescuchaargentino
El informe oficial indica que los operativos se llevaron a cabo en
Radio Ixmucané, Radio Tzwan Tinamit o Pueblo Entre Barrancos, en
idioma K'iché, y Radio Tecomat. Todas operaban en el casco urbano de
ese municipio y explotaban de manera ilegal las frecuencias
radiofónicas.
El fiscal del MP Noé Moya informó que fue capturado Óscar Mejía Imul,
quien se encontraba en uno de los inmuebles allanados. Agregó que
también se incautaron aparatos empleados para la explotación ilícita
de las frecuencias radioeléctricas y que tanto el detenido como el
equipo serán puestos a disposición del juzgado que emitió las órdenes
de allanamiento, inspección y registro.
"La investigación y posterior persecución penal las realizó el MP en
Chichicastenango. Las frecuencias radioeléctricas son propiedad del
Estado y cualquier persona que desee operar una frecuencia debe
cumplir con los requisitos estipulados en la ley”, aseguró Moya.
El fiscal añadió que se decomisaron computadoras, consolas,
excitadores, transmisores, cables y otro tipo de equipo que es
utilizado en las estaciones de radio. "En la fiscalía a mi cargo
existen unas trescientas denuncias relacionadas al funcionamiento
ilegal de emisoras radiales" concluyó Moya.
El monto de lo incautado no fue dado a conocer debido a que cada
emisora ilegal poseía equipo distinto. Los fiscales a cargo
explicaron que para que una radioemisora como las que fueron
clausuradas pueda salir al aire, se requiere una inversión de Q50 mil
a Q120 mil (tomada de Prensa Libre)(GRA blog via DXLD) WTFK X 3?
** GUYANA. 3290, Voice of Guyana (presumed), Georgetown, 0845 14-Feb:
I woke up a little after 0835. I heard a faint but certain signal on
3290. It took me a few minutes to find my recorder and get to my
Palstar. I heard several songs and mostly an OM announcer; I also
heard a YL voice but the OM did 99% of the talk. I could ID every song
and I could understand most of the lyrics. Even a song I never heard
before, Queen for Tonight. I have listened to my recording and still
can’t say for certain if the OM or YL was speaking English. The
following is what I heard; the times are within a minute. The YL
interjected slightly after most songs. She took over later but the
signal was virtually gone by then. The battery on my recorder died so
I don’t have her solo.
0845 Hank Locklin Please Help Me I'm Falling;
0847 OM Announcer Tx for 2 minutes. I can't discern what he says;
0849 Helen Shapiro Queen for Tonight;
0851 Skeeter Davis My Last Date (With You);
0854 OM Tx ??;
0854.5 Song, Skeeter Davis He'll Have To Stay;
0857 Skeeter Davis I can't help you I'm falling too;
0859 OM Tx until 0901 ??;
0901 Neil Sedaka You Mean Everything To Me;
0904 Neil Sedaka Breakin' Up Is Hard To Do;
0906 Neil Sedaka The Diary;
0908 OM Tx ???;
0910 Neil Sedaka Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen.
When I checked 3290 at 0945 I couldn’t hear anything (Gary Vance,
Grand Ledge MI, MARE Tipsheet Feb 20 via DXLD)
3290, Voice of Guyana (presumed); 0551-0600+, 15-Feb; English program
to BBCWS promo and program notes at 0559; BBC continued after ToH
pips. Poor with fair peaks (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)
3290, Feb 20 at 0644, zero signal, not even a carrier when we can
normally detect V of Guyana with BBCWS relay; so off again.
3290-, Feb 21 at 0706, JBA carrier from V. of Guyana is detectable
again unlike last night.
3290-, Feb 25 at 0616 check, again no detectable signal from V. of
Guyana; do others find it sporadic or missing again? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Glenn, Hey, I saw that you haven't been hearing the Voice of Guyana
the past view days. Any confirmation? I sent an E-mail to Kenneth
Jones at N.C.N. inquiring, but haven't heard back from them. Yes, they
are waiting for a budget to get more parts. It's a rather complex
process. Still at 1,000 watts. I hope.
I'm home right now, shivering on the mountain in -40 degree wind
chills. Oh, by the way, that was a fantastic write up on the history
of The Voice of Guyana!! IN A POST OFFICE no less!! It brought visions
of wooden panels, with glowing tubes, open frame tank circuits, and
the smell of hot resistors wafting through the air.
How I wish for a simple tube based, 1 or 2.5 kilowatt job, in a little
shack, somewhere in the South Pacific. Tahiti maybe.
Oh, I have a question, I have seen a report of something called a
"mistimesignal". Just recently from Bangladesh. Is this a typo, or
actual nomenclature for some type of signal? Best Regards (Jamie
Labadia, Feb 25, WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
That`s a hauserism, I coined to describe inaccurate timesignals. My
position is that if you can`t transmit TS accurately, don`t transmit
them at all (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Feb 25, had definite open carrier on 3289.97, around 0800; always
below threshold level (no audio). So far my best reception remains
to be Feb 5 with 0729 BBCWS ID and programming; sounded like Guyana
choral National Anthem followed at 0759 with local ID; into nice
selections of Hindi music; followed by eclectic selections of music
(Hindi, C&W, pop [Elvis, etc.]). (Ron Howard, San Francisco, dxldyg
via WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. Early this morning from my tune in from around 4 am IST
(2230 UT), test transmissions were heard from AIR Panaji on 1287 kHz.
Hindi Films were heard contentiously without any announcements. From
around 5.30 am IST (0000 UT) Test Tones were heard, followed by normal
sign on announcements at 5.55 am (0025 UT). Reception was fair.
This may be the new 100 kW Nautel DRM transmitter being installed here
and reported in
http://airddfamily.blogspot.in/2015/02/training-on-100kw-drm-transmitter.html
Many similar transmitters are being currently installed all over
India. It`s worth checking the MW bands in early mornings (after
normal programs of stations are over). Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob,
VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Feb 25, dx_india yg via
DXLD)
** INDIA. 9380, Feb 20 at 1355, AIR National Channel is managing to
modulate today! Fair with S Asian song.
9380, Feb 22 at 1359, AIR Aligarh site has resumed transmitting dead
air instead of National Channel, fair signal with flutter (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 11670, Feb 24 around 2130, AIR GOS with S Asian music, fair
signal. I am getting this on the G8 portable with rod antenna only, in
a stand-alone medical office lobby, incredibly without any noise level
to cope with. Also clear signals from many other stations I would have
a hard time hearing this well afternoons on the home rig (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. V of Indonesia Cimanggis auch noch ganz schoen stark auf
9525.892 kHz um 1935 UT S=9+20dB oder -52dBm, ID um 1940 UT.
Englisches Programm vy73 de (Wolfgang DF5SX Bueschel, Feb 21, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) Probably via Sri Lanka remote receiver
Images of the Cimanggis SW Site 2013. Various images of the Cimanggis
SW Site. Scroll to end of page.
http://daerduopro.blogspot.com.au/
(Ian, Feb 26, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) It`s really of a Japanense
DXer; plus several nice QSLs (gh)
** IRAN. 11675, Feb 25 at 1347, big hum atop suppressed-modulation
talk, also flutter, i.e. VIRI Urdu service via Kamalabad until 1420.
Aoki reminds later it`s supposed to be // 11730, but don`t recall
hearing it there as I tuned on up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** IRAN [non]. February 16:
Radio Ranginkaman, Radio Rainbow in Farsi to WeAs 1700 on 7550
Grigoriopol, 9925 Secretbr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkLkb_9btYU&feature=youtu.be
(Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ITALY [non]. 15190, Feb 22 at 1516, talk in English about ``animal
cannibalism``, how humans ``eat the flesh of animal brothers &
sisters``. Fair signal with deep fading during which a lite long-path
echo is perceptible. This is the Sunday-only broadcast of IRRS at
1500-1530, which HFCC continues to pretend has MILano as transmitter
site while we know it`s really Romania, Galbeni as per Aoki, with
Radio Santec (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 5985, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze at 1401 in English, woman spelling
e-mail address, ID over piano music of “This Shiokaze, Seabreeze, from
Tokyo, Japan.”, 1403 into feature that I think was “Today’s
Newsflash”, sounding like news - Fair, Feb 19 (Harold Sellers, BC,
editor of World English Survey and Target Listening, available at
http://www.odxa.on.ca dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) English on Thu
** KASHMIR. INDIA, 4950, AIR-Srinagar, Feb 16 1305-1320, 33432,
Kashmiri, Talk, ID at 1310 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-
525+RD-9830, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire,
303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 2850, KCBS (via Pyongyang) 2/23, 1045. Monologue of M
in Korean to somber sounding music. Good under t-storm type static
(Rick Barton, (far north) Peoria AZ, listening from my tent by the
lake, Grundig Satellit 750, 20' wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 11635, CUBA, HM-01, ## broadcast, 2/22,
2140. Usual, but in huge collision with soprano vocalist from another
station co-channel. The ID at ToH revealed that to be KCBS via North
Korea (Rick Barton, (far north) Peoria AZ, listening from my tent by
the lake, Grundig Satellit 750, 20' wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH [non]. U.K., 3955, Surprisingly heard also a German
language program on shortwave - seldom these days -. On Victor's place
in Piliyandala in Sri Lanka island heard KBS Seoul German via Babcock
broker site at Woofferton U.K. S=8-9 strength in 3949.8 to 3960.2 kHz
broadband range, listened at 2035-2045 UT Feb 21. [selected SDR
options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. February 17: Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs
1502 on 9400 Secretbrod, ex Grigoriopol + 2nd harmonic 18800
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxmApJ1dTUU&feature=youtu.be
Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 1605 on 9400 Secretbrod, ex
Issoudun + 2nd harmonic 18800
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMolPxr6nGg&feature=youtu.be
Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 1658 on 9400 Secretbrod, ex
Issoudun + 2nd harmonic 18800
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz17E-5EiT0&feature=youtu.be
(Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
February 18:
Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 0615 on 9400 Grigoriopol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCISur81eq0&feature=youtu.be
Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 0800 on 9400 Yerevan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7hqS70ayEM&feature=youtu.be
Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 1202 on 9400 Grigoriopol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzVCj6KQLHM&feature=youtu.be
Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 1302 on 9400 Grigoriopol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErIFjOawiJg&feature=youtu.be
Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 1400 on 9400 Grigoriopol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWs4hSBtu1w&feature=youtu.be
Denge Kurdistan 1453 open carrier on 2nd hx 18800 Secretbrod, parallel
9400 Grigoriopol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iVdelSY2qY&feature=youtu.be
Denge Kurdistan 1457 open carrier on 2nd hx 18800 Secretbrod, parallel
9400 Grigoriopol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kSo8NzRJ1U&feature=youtu.be
Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 1500 on 9400 Secretbrod, ex
Grigoriopol + 2nd harmonic 18800
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxOREinULjU&feature=youtu.be
Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 1600 on 9400 Secretbrod, ex
Grigoriopol + 2nd harmonic 18800
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggK0oSSiGMc&feature=youtu.be
(Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 9400, Feb 19 at 1440, Denge Kurdistane has
regained a fair enough signal to enable enjoyment of the Kurdish music
concert; 1455 adding a recitation.
I`m listening carefully at 1500 for a site switch as Ivo Ivanov has
reported, and yes, about 1500:10 the signal drops dramatically,
otherwise no break in the music. That`s when the `Secretbrod` site in
BULGARIA now takes over from PRIDNESTROVYE. Perhaps in the Turkish
target area the change is even less noticeable. At local range, he
also hears it on 18800 = 2 x 9400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
SECRETLAND, Denge Kurdistan again via Secretbrod:
1500-1700 on 9400*SCB 100 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish, ex KCH & ISS
* plus 2nd & 3rd harmonics on 18800 & 28200. Videos on Feb. 7/18/21:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/02/denge-kurdistan-again-via-secretbrod.html
-- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Feb 21, dxldyg via DXLD)
February 21: Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 1520 on 9400
Secretbrod + 2nd & 3rd harmonix 18800, 28200
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcR4hbsbDJc&feature=youtu.be
Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 1606 on 9400 Secretbrod + 2nd & 3rd
harmonix 18800, 28200
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-jSDncsJwM&feature=youtu.be
(Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. Radio Kuwait in English observed on 2 freqs in // Feb 17:
1800-2000 6050 KBD 250 kW / non-dir N/ME English, instead of Arabic
1800-2000 15540 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg WeEu English, very poor Febr.17
1800-2000 13650 KBD 250 kW / 350 deg NoAm Arabic not // 6050 English
from 2000 6050 KBD 250 kW / non-dir N/ME Arabic GS as scheduled B14
from 2000 15540 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg WeEu English, as scheduled B-14
from 2000 17550 KBD 250 kW / 350 deg NoAm Arabic GS as scheduled B14
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/02/radio-kuwait-in-english-on-2-freqs-in.html
(Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DXLD)
15515, R. Kuwait, Feb 19 0736-0757, 35333, Arabic, Talk and Arabic
music, ID at 0753 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-
9830, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
21540, Feb 20 at 1412, no signal from R. Kuwait, tho 21505 Sa`udi is
propagating. Not on 21580 either.
21540, Feb 21 at 1457, R. Kuwait back on the air today, fair signal
with ME Music (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Wrong frequencies of Radio Kuwait on Feb 23:
1600-1620 9750 KBD 250 kW / 286 deg NEAf Arabic GS, scheduled -1600UT
1600-1620 21540 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg WeEu Arabic GS, scheduled -1600UT
instead of
from 1600 6050 KBD 250 kW / non-dir N/ME Arabic GS, scheduled 16-21UT
from 1600 15540 KBD 250 kW / 100 deg SoAs Urdu, scheduled till 1800 UT
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/02/wrong-frequencies-of-radio-kuwait-on.html
[non]. 21540, Feb 24 at 1414, R. Kuwait is AWOL, certainly not due to
propagation as neighbor Riyadh is still audible on 21505; and also
absent Feb 25 at 1431, when 21505 is in even better than usual (Glenn
Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1762, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
One of the transmitters of Radio Kuwait temporarily was off the air
from around 1400 UT on Feb 24 and continues at present as follows:
0500-0900 on 15515 KBD 250 kW / 059 deg to EaAs Arabic General Service
1000-1200 on 21580 KBD 250 kW / 084 deg to SEAs Filipino
1205-1555 on 21540 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic General Service
1600-1800 on 15540 KBD 250 kW / 100 deg to SoAs Urdu
1800-2100 on 15540 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English
(Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, Feb 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KYRGYZSTAN. Another Christian 15 kW shortwave service heard
irregularly in past years, on 5130v kHz Radio Maranatha/reported as
Sadaye Zindage, in Pashto/Dari, also from Bishkek Krasnaya Rechka
site, n o t heard daily, 1457-1757 UT range. Maybe ceased
transmission now, when the new MW 1467 kHz broadcast came on air?
Maranatha/Sadaye Zindage - last report of Ivo in Bulgaria, July 1,
2014: ``KYRGYZ REP, 5130, Radio Maranatha, Shortwave Relay Service
{with TWR ties} in Pashto or Dari to WeAsia, at 1736 UT on July 1 on
5130 kHz via Krasnaya Rechka, Bishkek site (Ivo Ivanov-BUL, dxld July
1)`` (via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Feb 20 via WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DXLD)
** LAOS. 6129.982, LNR Lao National Radio from Vientiane broadcast
site, phone-in program at 0013 UT on Feb 21, S=8dB or -77dBm signal,
and background lower PBS Xizang Tibetan service on even 6130.0 kHz.
Heard on Colombo Sri Lanka remote SDR unit at Victor's place in
Piliyandala. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]
vy73 de (Wolfgang DF5SX Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6129.977, Lao National Radio from Vientiane, not far from reception
place, S=9+20dB or -53dBm, male news reader like at 2325 UT on Feb 23.
[Thailand location, selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3
Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 24 via DXLD)
** MALI. 5995, Radio Mali, Bamako, *0558-0620, 22-02, tuning music,
identification "Radio Mali, Bamako", French, comments, African music.
14321.
9635, Radio Mali, Bamako, 1631-1655, 21-02, vernacular, comments.
24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun PL-880, Degen
31MS active loop antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 700, Feb 19 at 1259, big hum looping NE/SW on open carrier,
1300 Spanish news starts without any ID. Possibly two different
stations, but I doubt it: hummer would be XEGD, La Poderosa, Hidalgo
del Parral, Chihuahua, 5/1 kW per IRCA & Cantú, 5/0.25 kW per WRTH
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 700, Feb 23 at 1303, indigenous language, then Spanish
mentioning Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos
Indígenas (CDI), its sponsoring agency; at 1304 call-letter IDs at
least twice as XEETCH. Poor signal perhaps about to fade out, but no
significant QRM, loops WSW. This is in Etchojoa, Sonora, or Navojoa, 5
kW daytimer per Cantú, La Voz de los Tres Rios, and per IRCA serving
three linguistic groups. Website with much more about it in Spanish:
http://ecos.cdi.gob.mx/xeetch.html
including
``700 AM / 5000 watts
Dirección: Carretera Navojoa - Huatabampo, Km. 27, C.P. 85280,
Etchojoa, Sonora
Horario de transmisión: Diurno de 6:00 a 18:00 horas [UT -7]
Cobertura: Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua
Lenguas en que transmite: Mayo, yaqui, guarijío y español``
It would be interesting to see what the same text would look like in
those languages, but I see no link to them. Does provide audio
streaming, and gallery of station staff (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Re my several MW logs early UT Feb 24, and lack of northerlish US
stations, in ``auroral conditions``, WWV reported the K-index was 4 at
0000; 5 at 0300 & 0600. And as of 0300 & 0600, `` Geomagnetic storms
reaching the G1 level occurred`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 710, Feb 24 at 0147, IFE PSA from NE/SW, then mentions
Cuauhtémoc (could be an historical or street reference, major figure
in México), but it`s really XEDP, La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc, in the
Chihuahua city named for him, with singing ID jingle at 0147, which
they frequently play. No het and little QRM in auroral conditions
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 740-, Feb 19 at 1245 UT, horrible low audible het to KRMG
Tulsa as often the case on the low side, also in the evenings, but
this time with SSB tuning to help, and nulling KRMG as much as
possible (not a lot), I manage to copy some of the Spanish, mentioning
``noticias Torreón``, and later Coahuila, so that`s it: XEQN, R.
Fórmula, 10/1 kW per IRCA, Cantú and WRTH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 870, Feb 23 at 1306, a bit of the Mexican NA is overtaken
by XETAR IDs, mentioning Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de
Pueblos Indígenas, as I had just heard on sibling station 700 XEETCH.
1307 full ID in Spanish by W & M alternating, as La Voz de la Sierra
Tarahumara, poor signal and soon fading.
CDI page linking to all its emisoras:
http://ecos.cdi.gob.mx/index.html
There are 20 around the country, but only heard XETAR and XEETCH here.
And XETAR page, same format as for XEETCH:
http://ecos.cdi.gob.mx/xetar.html
``870 AM / 10000 watts
Dirección: Felipe Ángeles y Francisco M. Plancarte Col. El Salto
Guachochi, Chihuahua. C.P. 33180
Horario de transmisión: Diurno de 6:00 a 18:00 horas [UT -7 until DST]
Cobertura: Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Durango
Lenguas en que transmite: Tarahumara, tepehuano y español``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 900, Feb 19 at 1302, Chihuahua anthem concludes, full ID by
XEDT 910 and XHDT 98.3 with 25 kW [but 5/1.5 or 1 kW on 900!], street
address in Colonia Centro, Ciudad Chuauhtémoc, ``una estación de
Cadena Hits`` and into ``el programa número uno de Chihuahua``, con
música country en inglés. Earlier around 1230 I was hearing Spanish
newscast on 900, probably XEOK Monterrey. Forget about XEW and its
``250`` kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 950, MEXICO unidentified. 1154 February 14, 2015. LOB puts
it southern Mexico or Central America. Ranchera-type vocal at tune-in,
into another, then brief kiddie singing at 1200 but not the Mexican
anthem, short flute solo fill at 1202, male announcer, but lost with
WTLN, Orlando throttling up full power/pattern.
On February 15: signal popped up from 1143 with ranchera and folk
songs, male at 1200 but again lost in the fade, WTLN and Radio Reloj
co-channel. On February 16: signal briefly up in the co-channel with
the same flute theme, this time at 1204, and what seemed to be XE--
calls by man after, into Mexi-tune. February 17: 1155 MSpanish ballad,
that same kiddie singing at 1200, lost.
Was hoping for the Nicaraguan Radio Rumbos de Rivas, Carretera Hacia
San Jorge, Rivas, but is this one still active? Last listing was in
the 2010 WRTVH, then as YNA44RR 1000-2400 GMT at 2.5 kW. No website
found, just other references that show the calls now as YNCC, such as
Streema with very current listener posts, but it references 105.7 and
"FM - AM" but no AM frequency stated. So, suspect this may be XEMAB,
Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche, previously logged here along with other
more northern Mexicans on 950 (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, Feb 20,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 950, XEMEX, La Mexicana, Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco. 1133
February 21, 2015. This one I've been chasing for a couple of weeks,
always with a kiddie choral and instrumentally unaccompanied version
of the anthem at 1200 and a brief flute theme varying between 1202-
1204. Today, someone with a very low het suddenly up at 1133, then
this (on frequency) at 1134 with nonstop accordion-backed Mexican
vocals, "La Mexicana" atop one song at 1144. Into the kiddie anthem at
1200, the flutes at 1202, then male, "XEMEX, La Mexicana..." and back
to Mexi-tunes, rapidly lost in the sunrise and WTLN, Orlando power up
from 1201. That kiddie anthem seems to be gaining momentum on stations
of late (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, Feb 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1110, Feb 24 at 0136, ID sounds like R. Metropolitana, 11-
10 in promo, with SFX. I was expecting 100/50 kW XERED in the DF, but
this is further southwest, and fits really for R. Guadalupana, XEWR,
Ciudad Juárez, which IRCA lists as a 500-watt, 24-hour daytimer (i.e.
blank for night power). But WRTH says 1000/500 watts. 0137 IFE PSA
(sounded like, outdated one instead of INE?), 0138 regreso a su
programa, `Levántate con ---``, YL-hostessed talk on the tema, ``la
mentira``. A wakeup show? Then it`s an evening playback.
Conditions are auroral, and KFAB 1110 Omaha in the opposite direxion
is absolutely no problem, not needing avoidance by nulling. Other
northerlish clears are blacked out, including WLW 700, WGN 720, WBBM
780, WCCO 830, WHAS 840, KOA 850, WLS 890, KMOX 1120, WLAC 1510, WCKY
1530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1220, Feb 24 at 0134, Spanish news and it`s about one word
ahead of XERF 1570, so sibling station, or rather parent station XEB
in the DF with `Antena Radio` from IMER; despite its 100 kW clear-
channel (ha, ha) status, not always audible at all (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1320, Feb 24 at 0132, Spanish news by YL anchorette, with
quick sounder between items, looping SSW/NNE. She brings up a reporter
on phone. Presumably XECPN, Piedras Negras, Coahuila again, with news
format, La Poderosa with 10000/100 watts. Recheck at 0148, cáncer PSA,
group ID ``Radiorama, la cadena que une a México``, and that chex for
XECPN too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1470, Feb 24 at 0128, Spanish norteña song, slightly
clockwise from N/S, 0130.5 SHVA with XEHI ID, 7-30 timecheck. XEHI is
in Ciudad Miguel Alemán, Tamaulipas, across from Roma TX. Cantú shows
10000/250 watts, slogan La Caponera. IRCA says 3000/250 watts, La
Consentida. WRTH splits the difference with 10000/250 watts, La
Consentida.
What does Caponera mean? My Random House Latin American Spanish
dixionary says: ``coop for fattening capons``; informally, ``gaol``;
or ``place where one lives well free of charge``. But root word capón
also means castrated or gelded, as for roosters. A great name for a
radio station, eh? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1510, Feb 24 at 0127, Spanish talk from N/S is dominant,
presumed XEQI in Monterrey NL; no WLAC needing to be nulled (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1560, XECHZ, Chiapas de Corzo, Chiapas, FEB 24 1100 UT -
rose up over domestic ESPN with vocal music, notes from a pan flute,
"Radio Lagarto" ID by a woman, then into a vocal version of the Himno
de Chiapas. Fell into the noise but heard a few minutes later with the
Mexican national anthem (Brett Saylor, State College, PA, Perseus SDR
with 16' x 36' superloop @ 180 degrees, NRC-AM via DXLD)
Nice catch! Good to know about this one. I presume they are running
proper night power at night, but use day power from 1100. Their sked:
http://www.imer.mx/radiolagarto/programacion/
My only two Mexicans logged on 1560 are from Mexico City and Juárez.
73 KAZ 35 miles NW of Chicago, (Neil Kazaross, ibid.)
** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT --- ON THE AIR: XHCBM-TDT 24 (8.x)
Cerro Burro-Pátzcuaro, Mich. It is unclear if the Zamora and Morelia-
Las Flores shadows are also on in digital but the main station is for
sure. Also, confirmation of what I had thought on XHFX and XHKW, that
they are on (Raymie Humbert, AZ, Feb 20, WTFDA Forum via DXLD)
Apparently the IFT will focus on switching big cities first
http://www.01800consumidor.com/ift-prioriza-el-apagon-analogico-por-zonas/
to help the new networks as they will be digital-only. That news will
make trying to get Monterrey a little more urgent, I'm sure. I'm
awaiting the SCT February report which will trigger phase 2 of the
analog shutoff to see what cities will go (Raymie, Feb 24, ibid.)
Another Azteca is on: Campeche, Camp. [XHCAM-TDT 24, XHGE-TDT 29].
Very, very low ERPs, as can be expected from new-to-air Aztecas and
probably not the full 20 kW each station has authorized; in fact the
same guy who keeps reporting a subdecode on 32 (which may not be
XHOPCC after all — some think it could be regular interference from
XHVIZ) now has subdecodes on 24 and 29 too.
I'm going to roll Campeche over and say these are on the air. They are
either the first commercial stations or the first stations outright
here.
——
If Campeche isn't your speed, Hermosillo might be. Last we checked
Televisa had gone on, and then promptly gone off.
They did the same thing last night, at 2am. That sounds like
simultaneous co-channel operation, but apparently they were on earlier
today too with analog, simultaneously.
Like in many cases the channels are national feeds with no
timeshifting (Sonora is one hour behind; it has no DST, in line with
Arizona) or local content (Raymie, Feb 27, ibid.)
¡APAGÓN ANALOGICO: PARTE DOS! The second city will go on March 26, and
to the relief of certain DXers, it will be Mexicali!
http://www.ift.org.mx/iftweb/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/COMUNICADO-12-IFT.pdf
XHBC-3, XHAQ-5, XHBM-14, XHEXT-20, XHMEE-32 and XHMEX-38 are the
stations to sign off on this occasion. TDT penetration levels are
around 95.6% in the stations' service area. What will NOT be going
away are the analogs in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, channels 44 and
50, which are not yet in digital (one is CE, the other is Telemax).
(Raymie, Feb 26, ibid.)
XHBC-3 was the first Mexican station I saw, (in the Summer, I think)
of 2005. It mixed with (what was prior to June 2009), a regularly
received PBS station, KOET-3, Eufaula, OK.
I guess XHBC-3 going in March is too bad for me, since now, I will not
be able to record a catch of the station on a TV this year, or
anymore. I suppose this means that if I wanted to do that, it has to
be while the opportunity is there.
XHBC seemed to be a regular for me, whether the station was mixing
with another channel 3 station in Mexico, or was by itself.
Sometime this Summer, I think, will be the 10th anniversary of when I
first received XHBC.
Maybe there's a chance I can still receive other Mexican stations,
depending on the timing of the analog turn off dates for the remaining
analog stations in Mexico (Kegan, northwest AR, Feb 26, ibid.)
XHBC-3 is my furthest double hop reception at around 2400 miles. I had
always hoped that I could see it one more time but it is not to be.
Analog TV DXing, for the most part, will be dead by the end of the
year (Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT, -72 30' W/41 59' N, FN31RX, Mike's TV
and FM DX Page Online since 1999 and still going! Feb 26, ibid.)
Is that for Mexico DX? (Kegan, ibid.)
This year is it, Kegan: they want everyone to digital by the end of
the year (Raymie, ibid.)
** MONGOLIA. Mongolia on Long Wave: Paper about reception in Germany &
Austria --- HI - as all five long wave transmitters from Mongolia have
been received at various locations in Europa, I did a paper about the
reception (and offsets), with a little help of some friends:
http://ratzer.at/pdf/Mongolia_LW_DK8OK.pdf
--- 73, (Nils, DK8OK, Schiffhauer, Feb 23, mwcircle yg via DXLD)
That's an interesting report, Nils. Thanks for sharing it with us. Can
you please explain how the four hops vs seven hops conclusion is
reached? (Andrew Brade, ibid.)
Thanks, Andrew - the calculation/simulation of the hops has been made
with the 3D-ray-traycing module of PropLab3.00.1017:
http://www.spacew.com/www/skycom.html
Any other simulation, solution or explanation welcomed! 73 (Nils,
ibid.)
This is quite technical but also contains photographs of staff
members, and station buildings, so a bit of human interest as
well. I miss the Russian longwave transmitters, so should be hunting
for the Mongolian ones. Best wishes, (Nick Hall-Patch, BC, IRCA via
DXLD)
** MONGOLIA [and non]. 12085 kHz – heard Mongolia here, dominant, a
day or two after Radio Australia switched to new 3 transmitter
schedule. But not since. [time??]
RA is as good as ever on 12065 almost through entire daylight period.
12085 fluttery. 9580 only weak trace. Both of these on my own HF
receiver (Derek Lynch, Ireland, Feb 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
The Voice of Mongolia relay at 2000 UT via the Kall transmitter
[GERMANY] has been repeating the same programme (Mailbox) for a number
of days now. The VoM podcasts via The Radio 360 service at
http://www.radio360.eu/podcasts/en/mn/vom/vom.php
shows the last available podcast was for 16 February (and is the same
Mailbox programme that is currently being repeated via Kall). Checking
the website at
http://en.vom.mn/
this has also been unavailable for a number of days (you just get a
message in Mongolian which I presume means "page not found"), and I
guess is the reason for the non-updating of the programme and podcast.
(Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, Feb 23, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO. 9575, R. Medi Un, Feb 16 0736-0745, 45343, French, News,
ID at 0737 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-
345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
9575, Feb 24 at 0617, Médi Un with Arabic music; poor signal, unusual
flutter on this due to auroral conditions, K-index 5, tho not on weak
Sudan 9505 which is a more northerly path over Spain (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MYANMAR. 7345, Thazin Radio – Pyin U Lwin (site listed), 1230,
2/21/15, in Mon (listed.) 3+1 time pips, fanfare into short
announcements including and ID, man announcer, woman with apparent
correspondent reports. Fair – poor (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin,
Perseus, WinRadio g313e, Eton e1, Grundig Satellit 800 & G3, Sangean
909X with clear mod, Tecsun PL 660; 40 meters dipole, RF Systems Mk 2,
Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet Feb 22 via DXLD)
Hi Mark, However, see Aoki, 7345 is also scheduled with CNR1 (not a
jammer) long before and after that time. I believe they do have time
signals on the half-hour. Possibly it was down for maintenance? (Glenn
to Mark, via DXLD)
Hi Glenn, 7345 was not // with other CNR1 jammers or legit outlets and
didn't sound like Mandarin, so I think it was Thazin. I have to admit,
I have no idea what Mon sounds like in and of itself. That frequency
is tricky since it frequently does have the CNR outlet dominating or
both mixing some days, or Myanmar dominating other days. The wonder of
shortwave! (Mark Taylor, WI, ibid.)
** MYANMAR. 6029.992, MR probably Rakhine program from northern bcast
center at Pyin Oo Lwin TX site, in Burmese language noted at 0008 UT
Febr 21, S=9+15dB or -57dBm, powerful and much stronger than 5985 kHz.
5915.0, MR Naypyidaw capital non-directional service, noted at 0011 UT
Feb 21, S=9+5dB or -67dBm strength in Sri Lanka.
6164.994, MR, Thazin radio program scheduled here, from northern
broadcast center at Pyin Oo Lwin TX site. Modern nice sweet pop music
heard at 0016 UT Feb 21, S=9+10dB or -63dBm.
7200.102, MR Burmese female voice program at 0020 UT Feb 21, poor S=5
or -94dBm signal probably from older southern Yangoon Yegu site. No
±14 kHz spurious heard/visible seen this morning.
Heard on Colombo Sri Lanka remote SDR unit at Victor's place in
Piliyandala. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]
vy73 de (Wolfgang DF5SX Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
MR radios on air at 2315 UT, except 6030 kHz which comes on air later.
5915.0, Myanmar Radio Naypyidaw capital non-directional sce, logged at
2315 UT Febr 23, S=9+20dB or -51dBm strength in Thailand SDR post.
Violin music and light SE Asian pop singer sound. In background
underneath CRI Kashgar in English language service.
5985.0, MR Yangoon Yegu, light Burmese pop singer program at 2318 UT
on Febr 23. S=9+15dB -54dBm.
6164.994, Thazin Radio from northern bcast center at Pyin Oo Lwin TX
site. Modern nice sweet pop music heard at 2329 UT Febr 23, S=9+10dB
or -63dBm. Aoki list 'Chin' language of Myanmar/Thai/Laos language
family sounding. Seemingly start morning fade-out now at 2330 UT,
Greyline in Myanmar. Darkline at present in Calcutta - Sri Lanka.
Now at 2330 UT also Myanmar Rakhine Broadcast Station on 6029.992 on
air, also from northern bcast center at Pyin Oo Lwin TX site. Male
reader endless speach. S=9+35dB or -43dBm at 2340 UT, much stronger
than Yangoon 5985 kHz or Pyin Oo Lwin 6165 kHz at same time slot.
Equal level like 5915 kHz Naypyidaw signal.
7200.092, Distorted audio signal from MR Yangoon Yegu bcast center at
2352 UT, wide range outlet 7186 to 7214 kHz, hit even VoVietnam Daclac
domestic program on 7210 kHz even frequency. [Thailand location,
selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel,
wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 24 via DXLD)
** NETHERLANDS. - Campaign group Save the Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Archive. [Attachment(s) from Horacio Nigro included below]
The internet archive of the former Radio Netherlands Worldwide is in
danger!
Hilversum, February 2015 – Anyone searching the internet recently for
a subject from the rich archive of Radio Netherlands Worldwide will be
disappointed. Irrespective of the language department; the RNW
internet archive has been taken offline by the current management. As
a result, an important international source of information paid for by
the tax payer and irreplaceable historic document about the Dutch as
world citizens has been made inaccessible. And nothing is going to
change that, says Director General Robert Zaal.
Read the full document in the enclosed pdf. (via Red het archief van
Radio Nederland Wereldomroep, Facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/redhetarchiefvanradionederlandwereldomroep/
(via Horacio Nigro, CX3BZ, "La Galena del Sur", Montevideo, Uruguay,
Feb 24, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DXLD) Viz.:
PRESS RELEASE - Campaign group Save the Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Archive - PRESS RELEASE
Red het archief van Radio Nederland Wereldomroep >>> For the attention
of the international press and immediate publication
The internet archive of the former Radio Netherlands Worldwide is in
danger!
Hilversum, February 2015 – Anyone searching the internet recently for
a subject from the rich archive of Radio Netherlands Worldwide will be
disappointed. Irrespective of the language department; the RNW
internet archive has been taken offline by the current management. As
a result, an important international source of information paid for by
the tax payer and irreplaceable historic document about the Dutch as
world citizens has been made inaccessible. And nothing is going to
change that, says Director General Robert Zaal. The decision to take
the archive offline has led to concern among former members of staff,
whose work has become untraceable and because the archive pages still
served as a source of information which were frequently viewed and
linked to. Reports on dissidents, disasters, warzones, human rights,
emigration, international politics and economics, world changing
events, Dutch people and culture abroad and the dossiers on sexual
abuse in the Catholic Church; these links now lead nowhere.
Not reversed --- RNW Director General Robert Zaal has responded in
writing that the decision to take the old website pages offline will
not be reversed. In short, keeping the archive online has become too
complicated. Parts of the archive have been secured or placed
elsewhere, but tens of thousands of journalistic texts and blogs could
find themselves in a virtual paper shredder and will possibly be
deleted. Articles in Dutch are least likely to be kept save and freely
available. Mr Zaal:
“These pages are no longer relevant for RNW, as they were made for
Dutch-speakers and we no longer serve this group.“
Meeting rejected --- The RNW management has rejected a meeting on the
matter with a delegation of former members of staff. However, the
management says that any ‘reasonable’ request to view the archive
shall be honoured.
Eradicated --- The reasons given for the decision to take the archive
offline are cuts and a lack of brand recognition. The new organisation
has distanced itself from the previous activities of Radio Netherlands
Worldwide, on the grounds that these no longer match the current
brief. There is apparently regularly confusion between the new RNW and
old Radio Netherlands Worldwide, as a result the current activities
are failing to get sufficiently noticed. By taking the internet
archive offline, the competition it poses (RNW’s own past) has been
eradicated, and with it part of the Netherlands’ broadcasting history.
Save the archive --- The ‘Save the Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Archive’ (‘Red het archief van Radio Nederland Wereldomroep’) campaign
group strongly opposes this extremely regretful decision and demands a
solution. The current course of action demonstrates a total disregard
for the informative value (worldwide) of this archive and for the work
of hundreds of passionate and renowned journalists. In addition, the
archive material is ‘co-owned’ by Dutch tax payers and should be
handled with due care.
The campaign group asks colleagues in the media, politicians and
librarians to draw attention to this matter. When archive images,
recordings and text material can be treated with such disdain, it is
something that all people should care about: it is a threat to our
historic, cultural and journalistic heritage.
>>> Note for the editors: For contact, please e-mail:
save.the.archive.of.rnw@gmail.com. For more information please see the
public Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/redhetarchiefvanradionederlandwereldomroep/
(via DXLD)
It would help if the anonymous editors of this press release had also
set up a presence in the open internet. They can't seriously expect
everyone to have a Facebook account, especially in light of the latest
incarnation of the Facebook terms of service.
It's interesting to read that the bosses of "the new RNW" are
obviously disappointed by its reach. The surprise in fact surprises:
Did they really believe that they could maintain the glory from the
old broadcasting world? Never heard of "lost in cyberspace"?
See also
http://criticaldistance.blogspot.com/2015/01/wereldomroep-already-no-longer-exists.html
(Kai Ludwig, dxldyg via DXLD)
Kai - The problem Radio Netherlands faces now has nothing to do with
being lost in cyberspace. Since 2012 under the new mandate, they don't
serve or target listeners. This is because they are effectively no
longer a radio station. Their new mandate is to promote freedom of
speech, through education of media people in the countries they
target.
Now let's take China, for example. Even if they did continue to
produce programs and use shortwave, no one in China even knows what
Radio Netherlands is. Even people at CRI who I worked with had never
heard of them. But they all know BBCWS, VOA, RFI, DW, Radio Australia,
NHK, etc. But Radio Netherlands --- So even if RNW was to have
programs blasting towards China, no one would listen.
From 2012 onwards, RNW made a few substantial mistakes. The first one
being: If RNW ceased being a radio station, the name Radio Nederland
Wereldomroep (Radio Netherlands Worldwide), should have been dropped.
Because in the rest of the world they have a legacy problem. 60 years
on the air was a problem. Now they thought that the RNW brand was
strong enough that the work they are now mandated to do would be easy.
But if anything, it hurt what they are trying to do. The Radio
Netherlands brand is not strong enough.
The second big error is the person who is heading the Chinese side of
Radio Netherlands has: Cannot speak Chinese, never lived in China and
I can tell you after having a conversation with him, has no idea how
China works. How can you manage a language when you don't speak it?
How can you manage a department that is suppose to promote free speech
in China when you have ever lived there? How does that work?
What Radio Netherlands realized over the last 12 months is that
because of its legacy, the only way they can TRY to move forward is by
erasing anything that they did before 2012.
Now in 2013, I sent to Radio Netherlands a document on what they
should be doing if they want to make any impact in independent
journalism in China. Well, 13 months later they finally contacted me.
We had a conference called that lasted about 2 hours. Also on the call
were the staff from their Chinese department. It was annoying, because
the head of the department could not speak Chinese and I sensed that
some of the things that we discussed went right over his head. During
the meeting I stressed that they need to drop "Radio Netherlands".
Come up with a new name. A name that could easily be branded in China.
Using the "so-called" Radio Netherlands brand in China is like
branding the Shanghai Media Group in Europe. No one`s heard of them.
The other thing I pointed out was the content on their Chinese site
helanonline.cn. There is nothing new and it's content that you can
already find on sites in China like Weibo and others. So why would
anyone check out a Chinese site from Radio Netherlands. Also I should
mention that web traffic for the site is very low.
It should also be pointed out they never intended to, as you put it,
"Did they really believe that they could maintain the glory from the
old broadcasting world?'. This was never the intent after the change
in mandate. They were going into a direction that had no business
model.
Back in 2012 I predicted that Radio Netherlands would vanish in a few
years. The writing is on the wall now. With a budget of 12 million
Euros, they need to show the government that it is money well spent.
It could have been, but no one at Radio Netherlands had the experience
to go off into a different direction (Keith Perron, Taiwan, dxldyg via
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Keith Perron just created a webpage with the info, as he tells in FB.
http://www.pcjmedia.com/home/1-latest-news/269-save-the-radio-netherlands-archive
73 (Horacio Nigro, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DXLD)
** NEW ZEALAND. Start Planning your DXpeditions and Overnight
Listening Sessions --- Changes in Auckland, New Zealand. April will
open up some DX listening opportunities for us on medium wave.
The Mangere (Auckland) site occupied by transmitters/antennas for the
BBC World Service Auckland (810 kHz) and Radio Apna (990 kHz) has been
sold for commercial development, necessitating their relocation. These
stations will shortly be hosted at Radio New Zealand’s Henderson site
in West Auckland, meaning a total of 15 AM stations operating from the
two masts at Henderson.
We can expect shutdowns of all stations at Henderson to complete the
transfer. Addition of new co-hosted stations is a significant
technical project as RNZ’s website
http://www.radionz.co.nz/outage_schedule
advises that *756* AM (Radio NZ National) could have _early morning
outages of 4 hours 50 minutes on 17 nights between Tuesday 7 April and
Friday 1 May_.
Other frequencies carried by the Henderson masts are
*531*,*603*, *702*, *882*, *936*, *1080*, *1179*, *1251*, *1332*,
*1386, 1476 and 1593* – these frequencies will also go silent during
April when work is done on their shared antenna.
So, how are you going to respond to this unusual listening
opportunity? (Bryan Clark, Feb 23, dxdialog [restricted NZDXRL group],
via Paul, mwmasts yg via DXLD)
That`s an awful lot of stations at one site --- how do they avoid
interaction? Are any of them direxional? If not, that would simplify
matters a lot (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. Radio New Zealand International, 9700, 2/23/15, good
listening reception. Enjoyed the Spectrum program about a 70-year old
man sharing his "pioneer days" of stories as a volunteer lifeguard at
New Zealand's Sunset Beach (Larry Zamora, Garland, TX, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, V. of Nigeria:
Feb 16 0705-0736, 35333, English, Talk and drums, ID at 0719 and 0728
Feb 17 0712-0724, 35433, English, Afro pop, ID at 0718
Feb 18 0710-0733, 35433, English, Talk, ID at 0719
Feb 21 0808-0820, 35433-35333, English, Talk and music, ID at 0818
(Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-345,
Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [non]. 11865, GERMANY, Hamada Radio International - Nauen,
1949-1959*. Talk in Hausa by a man. Talk by a woman over music 1957.
Music at 1958. Announcement by man at 1959, then abrupt audio cutoff.
Poor to moderate signal strength with heavy fading. 2/16/2015 (Jim
Evans, Germantown TN, Perseus, IC-R75, ICF-SW7600G, PL-880, PL-660,
PL-380, Random Wire, Wellbrook Loop. All logs this week from PL-880,
PL-660, and random wire, NASWA Flashsheet Feb 22 via DXLD)
** NORTH AMERICA. PIRATE-NA. Channel Z, 6950.7 AM, 2245-0019, 02-
15/16-15, SIO: 444, with its Spring-Summer tunes by Youngbloods, The
Who, Mungo Jerry, into "Before They Were Famous" part #5 at 2318 with
Andrew Walker. Off at 0019* Signal held up well throughout (Chris
Lobdell, Box 80146, Stoneham, MA 02180, Receivers: Eton E1, JRC NRD-
545, Aerials: 40 Meter Dipole, G5RV dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. Old Radio Program Pirate: 6770/AM, 0119, 17-Feb;
Amos & Andy. Fair peaks and best in SSB as usual; best heard in a
couple of weeks.
+++ [same], 0652-0702+, 17-Feb; Big band music from tune-in to Arch
Obler murder mystery at 0700. SIO=3+53 peaks (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)
Old Time Radio. Saturday, February 14, 2015, 2359, 6770 am. Bluesy big
band song with female vocalist. Duffy's Tavern from 1947 started at
0000. Very good sound and signal, s9. (Will-MD)
Old Time Radio. Saturday, February 21, 2015, 2328, 6770 am. World War
II-era big band music with female vocalists. Armed Forces Radio
Service ID at 2330 signing off a variety show, into an Avalon
Cigarettes ad, for Avalon Time, Red Skelton, etc. Good sound and
signal, s9 (Larry Will, MD, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. Channel Z Radio. Sunday, February 15, 2015, 2354,
6951 am. 70s rock music from Dust (1971), ID Andy Walker on Channel Z
at 2356, good signal, s15. (Will-MD)
WMID. Sunday, February 15, 2015, 2350, 6925.6 am. Mellow motown music,
ID "WMID John T Arthur's second favorite radio station" at 2352, into
reggae pop. s15 (Larry Will, MD, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORWAY. 1785.0 kHz, 2323-... 11/2, Rogaland R, Farsund, Norwegian
weather report. 25342 (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, JRC NRD-545DSP &
NRD-93; Quantum Phaser, home made amp.(W7IUV version); raised, 4 loop-
K9AY, 6x19x6 m Ewe 135º, 14 m low noise LF/MF Vertical, via Dario
Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD)
** OKLAHOMA. 1000, Feb 19 at 1323 UT as I am tuning across KTOK OKC,
quick carrier break, presumably late switch from night to day
facility, as official FCC sunrise in Feb is 1315 UT (March: 1245 UT)
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Feb 19 circa 2130 UT, still open carrier/dead air
from KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa, for the 32nd day as audible on caradio
by quietening of channel compared to noisier 1110; and also can hear
KLEY 1130 modulation abutting the -10 carrier. But wait! It`s no
longer KEOR. In NRC DX News Feb 23, David Yocis includes in his AM
Switch column:
``1120 KEOR OK Catoosa – Call change to KETU (changed in database Feb.
2015 where it says the effective date was Nov. 21, 2012)``
How were we supposed to know, when it`s been broadcasting for a month
at least, since January 19 without any modulation, not even IDs?
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1360- & 1420+, Feb 21 at 0130 UT, spurs from strongest
local 1390 KCRC are still barely detectable making low audible hets
against proper stations, and DFing toward KCRC site (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 90.1, Feb 22 at 1757 and still 1827 UT chex, KUCO Edmond,
our classical station, is off the air. Maybe something to do with
snowstorm; fortunately back on later in afternoon for favorite shows
at 21+ UT `Wind & Rhythm`, 22+ UT `Mad About Music` (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. Extended broadcast of Radio Sultanate of Oman English Feb 19:
1400-1500 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg WeEu English, as scheduled B-14
1500-1600 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg WeEu English, instead of Arabic
1600-1700 15140*THU 100 kW / 315 deg WeEu English, instead of Arabic
from 1700 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg WeEu Arabic, as scheduled B-14
* confirmed, but totally blocked by All India Radio in Russian in DRM
mode
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/02/extended-broadcast-of-radio-sultanate.html
(DX RE MIX NEWS #897 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov. Feb. 23, 2015
via WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DXLD)
The domestic service has a 24-hour FM channel in English, so forgot to
switch away from it. Wish they would put more of it on SW (gh, WORLD
OF RADIO 1762, DXLD)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3385, NBC East New Britain. Back in 2010, I often
listened to the American syndicated show "Beyond Today," which was
aired after 1200 on Sunday. In July, 2013, I emailed UCG about their
SW programs, as I had not heard them for quite a while. Their response
was - "At this time we are not airing Beyond Today on shortwave radio.
We apologize, but the time and resources to make it available in that
medium, versus the responses received, did not make it worthwhile."
Sunday, Feb 22, heard the audio feed from the "Beyond Today" TV show
"Overcoming Alcoholism," already in progress at 1220. Clearly an audio
feed, as heard mention by Steve Myers to "write to the address shown
on the screen." Program ended at 1236 with contact info (1-888-886-
8632 and website: beyondtoday dot tv).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCitBZebN60
has the actual TV show (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA,
E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Sent off a report to "UCG Information and asked if
they were on any other SW stations. Below is their response. Guess
that NBC realized, after many years without it, that they could relay
the audio feed without any help from "Beyond Today." (Ron Howard,
ibid.) Viz.:
“Thank you for your message. We were not even aware of us being on
shortwave radio out of Papua New Guinea. Someone must be doing it on
their own – very interesting. So, to answer your question, no - we are
not syndicated on any other short-wave stations. Sorry!
Warm regards, T.E. Media and Communications Services” (Ron Howard, Feb
24, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5025, R. QUILLABAMBA, 20/2 1035 UT. Saludos y música de
cumbias serranas. SINPO: 55444. Audio sobremodulado (Claudio Galaz,
RX: Realistic DX-160; ANT: Hilo de 40 metros + 20 metros de antena de
tierra; QTH: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD)
** PERU [and non]. 5980, Feb 21 at 0102, JBA carrier(s), with wobble
on BFO, hard to tell if two carriers or just propagation, but
listening very intently, at 0102:59.5* signal weakens a bit as one of
them apparently goes off, i.e. R. Chaski, leaving BBCWS via UAE as
usual. Last check of this was 8 days earlier, Feb 13 when the same
happened at 0102:10*, i.e. 49.5 seconds earlier. Divided by 8, that
gives average of 6.2 seconds later per 24 hours, very close and
certainly within margin of error to the 5.83 seconds previously
computed for R. Chaski`s sliding autotimer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
PHOTOS Tnx to
http://rinconondacorta.blogspot.it/2013/02/radio-chaski-de-cusco-peruvuelve.html
(via Playdx Electronic Feb 22 via DXLD)
5980, R. CHASKI, 21/2 2350 UT. Portadora al aire con una modulación
sin ID y con bajo audio (Claudio Galaz, RX: Realistic DX-160; ANT:
Beverage [sic], 40 metros; QTH: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile,
condiglista yg via DXLD)
** PHILIPPINES. Very odd frequency of FEBC in Chinese heard Feb 20:
0900-1400 9400.5 IBA 100 kW / 330 deg EaAs, blocked by Denge Kurdistan
1400-1600 9345.5 IBA 100 kW / 330 deg EaAs, same transmitter is on air
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/02/febc-in-chinese-on-add-93455-and.html
(Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DXLD)
** PHILIPPINES [and non]. 9400, MDA, Radyoya Denge Kurdistane, from
Grigoriopol Maiac-MDA, in Kurdish, around 1202 UT S=9+10dB strength, +
HEAVY interference of FEBC Chinese [or CNR jamming?? on 9400.384 kHz
heterodyne whine yammer, wb.], FEBC Manila Mandarin Chinese also \\
9430.004 kHz, but clean audio signal on latter here in southern
Germany. Ludo, this 9400 a terrible service these days with the
various frequency channel hoppings from MDA, ARM, BUL, and Issoudun
Broadcasting center sites, too (Wolfgang Büschel, Some noon Germany
logs on Feb 20 at 1130-1255 UT slot, [selected SDR options, span 12.5
kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz], wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Feb 20 via DXLD)
Hello, these days heard and visible on SDR Radio screens TERRIBLE
heterodyne outlet always on Radyoya Denge Kurdistane frequency channel
9400 kHz from Gavar Armenia, according to registration data, at 0930
UT exact on 9399.997 kHz - 3 Hertz lower side.
May you can tell the colleagues at FEBC Manila that their IBA
transmitter site outlet of Chinese service at 0900-1400 UT is
O D D FREQUENCY
and annoying also here in Europe, also on Moscow Russia monitoring SDR
unit, and supposedly also in Near East target in Turkey, Iraq and
Iran.
Measured odd frequency at 0930 UT today Febr 24 is exact footprint
9400.382 kHz
also measured in Nagoya and Tokyo Japan remote software defined radios
via remote network. vy73 de (Wolfy df5sx Stuttgart, Germany, to Ludo
Maes, BRB, Feb 24, via DXLD) Later: FEBC back near 9400.0 (gh)
** PRIDNESTROVYE. QSL: 7460, RADIO PAYAM e DOOST - Clandestine Station
to IRAN via Transmitter in Kishniev-Grigioropol, MOLDOVA
(Pridnestrovky Radio-telecentr) FULL DATA - eQSL Sheet Received in 3
HOURS! for an Emailed Report to prtc@idknet.com QSL Signed by Sergey
Olmelchenko, Technical Director. This is for a Dec/14/2014 Reception.
I sent an earlier report direct to the Payam e Doost Organization,
which to date has gone unanswered. Thanks to info supplied by Jean-
Marie Monplot in France. I tried this route, and Voilà! (Rob Ross,
London ON, Drake R8B + 180' LW, MARE Tipsheet Feb 20 via DXLD) Proxy
** PUERTO RICO. QSL En vivo, 1660 kHz, WGIT, Faro de Santidad,
Canóvanas, Puerto Rico. Foi enviado o video da escuta. O locutor que
nao sei o nome me confirmou a escuta ao vivo, no progama matinal.
``O DIOS O BENDIGA HERMANO que escuchas en Brasil AM 1660 kHz``
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vnNela-IVM&feature a
http://farodesantidad.org/envivo
- See more at:
http://www.dexismointernacional.com.br/index.php/entretenimento/item/133-qsl-en-vivo-1660-khz-wgit-faro-de-santidad-canovanas-puerto-rico#sthash.tv4ZeRPp.dpuf
(Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list
via DXLD) They QSLed him with a greeting on the air (gh)
** RUSSIA. [Cf MONGOLIA]. Long Wave: Paper about reception in Germany
& Austria --- I miss them as well, Nick. For whatever reason, the
Mongolians have only been very rarely heard in Masset. I don't
remember whether I ever heard them in Grayland. Now, the Russian MW
channels appear to have all left the air, at least the ones we have
been used to hearing, leaving a few low power outlets only. 73 (Walt
Salmaniw, IRCA via DXLD)
Actually, the Asiatic MW Russians peaked at 78 stations and now half
are still on the air (39). But as you pointed out, the fatality list
includes almost all the big guys. Of the Grayland regulars, only
Rossii 810 remains (Chuck Hutton, WA, ibid.)
Glad to see that 810 is still on, as I was led to believe that it was
going off the air as well, Chuck. PS: Has anyone at Grayland ever
heard any of the various private MW Russian far east stations? PAL
lists a pile of them, but I never see them reported. I did hear
Avtoradio on 531 very well in Masset in March. 73, (Walt, ibid.)
I suppose you speak about any Russian MW stations, not just R.
Rossii's? I have been able to confirm only SIX of them so far. There
may be a couple active in Far East Russia, but no one has reported
them. 810 kHz should be off, or has someone heard it in February?
http://wrth.com/updates_national.html
R. Rossii has closed most of its medium wave transmitters. Only the
following transmitters have been reported on the air after 31 January:
Matveyevka 936 kHz, Ust-Kan/Ulagan 1350/1353 kHz, Buguruslan 1395 kHz
and Turochak/Ust-Koksa 1440 kHz.`` 73, (Mauno Ritola, ibid.)
** RUSSIA. CLONE TWITTER ACCOUNTS TARGET RFE/RL
By RFE/RL February 17, 2015
http://www.rferl.org/content/clone-twitter-accounts-target-rferl/26853959.html
Imitation, they say, is the sincerest form of flattery. But it
can also be an insidious form of disinformation.
On February 9, a clone account appeared on Twitter that mimics
the account of RFE/RL's Russian-language service Radio Svoboda,
using nearly identical graphics and a very similar account name.
The account name misspells the Russian word "svoboda" as
"svoboba."
The profile box of the fake account reads, in Russian, "Free news
on Radio Liberty. We change your motherland into our sneakers."
It then gives two purported "contact numbers" which are actually
the public lines to Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service.
A few days earlier, a similar clone account appeared that mimics
the account of the Russian-language service of Voice of America
(VOA). That account encourages "those who wish to report on the
movements of the armed forces of the Russian Federation" to call
a number that turns out to be the reception line for the Federal
Security Service (FSB). In this case, the account name is "Colos
Ameriki" instead of the Russian for Voice of America, which is
Golos Ameriki.
Few Followers
The fakes are off to a slow start, with the fake VOA account
collecting only 33 followers so far and the fake Radio Liberty
account mustering only three fans. The real VOA Russian Service
account has more than 188,000 followers, while the genuine RFE/RL
Russian Service account has 108,000.
However, both fake accounts are tweeting a deceptive mixture of
plausible tweets (with links back to real material on the sites
of the Russian services of RFE/RL and VOA) and implausible ones
with links to unprofessional pro-Russian propaganda sites
spreading disinformation about the conflict in Ukraine and other
issues.
In at least one case, a tweet from the fake RFE/RL account was
used in a Russian-media story and passed off as information from
RFE/RL's Russian Service.
Such deception is very likely the main purpose of the fake
accounts.
Peter Pomerantsev, a former Russian television producer who has
written a report on "how the Kremlin weaponizes information,"
told The New York Times on February 13 that the tactics the
Kremlin and its supporters have developed are "not so much an
information war, but a war on information."
The management of RFE/RL has complained to Twitter about the
unauthorized use of its intellectual property.
Image: Logos from the fake (left) and real (right) @SvobodaRadio
Twitter accounts (VOA Radiogram Feb 21 via Roger, dxldyg via WORLD OF
RADIO 1762, DXLD)
** RUSSIA [non]. 7570 & 15770, Tue Feb 24 at 2100, R. Spootnik via
WRMI with `From Russia with Love`; at 2123 wrapup, Vasily tries to
give the times on WRMI, not this one, but incorrect 2130 Wednesday?
7570 & 15770 equally good on the G8 portable in medical office lobby
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RWANDA. Adventist World Radio, Box 29235, Indianapolis IN 46229 USA
ADVENTIST WORLD RADIO OFFERS SPECIAL QSL STAMP FOR KIGALI BROADCASTS
At the beginning of this current Transmission Period B14 October 6,
2014, Adventist World Radio began a relay service from the Deutsche
Welle shortwave relay station near Kigali in Rwanda Africa. The AWR
relay via DW Kigali is on the air for a total of 2½ transmitter hours
daily in three languages, French, Amharic & Fulfulde. In one
particular time block, two transmitters carry the programming in
parallel.
However, Deutsche Welle has subsequently announced that they plan to
close their African relay station at the end of this current
Transmission Period B14 March 28, 2015 and then dismantle the station.
The last AWR broadcasts from DW Kigali will therefore also end at the
same time.
For those who would like to receive a QSL card for these now short
term broadcasts, AWR would welcome all reception reports from
listeners in any part of the world. Each reception report will be
verified with a QSL card (not an Email QSL), and the envelope will be
affixed with genuine postage stamps, not postal labels. In addition,
while supplies last, a special QSL stamp showing Kigali will be
attached to the QSL card.
It is not necessary to send an off-air recording of your reception. We
just need your honest reception report on paper. Where possible,
please enclose return postage in the form of currency notes in any
international currency, or mint postage stamps. Please note that IRC
coupons are too expensive for you to buy, and they are no longer valid
in the United States. Also please enclose your address label.
The only address for the special Kigali QSL stamp is the Indianapolis
address at:-
Adventist World Radio, Box 29235, Indianapolis, Indiana 46229, USA.
All reception reports, including all that have already been received,
will be QSLed in due course. However, please be patient with us as we
already hold uncounted hundreds of reception reports still pending,
and it may take us many months to process them all.
The current AWR website shows the following scheduling for the daily
Kigali transmissions:-
0600 - 0630 15700 French
0600 - 0630 17800 French
1700 - 1730 9490 Amharic
1930 - 2000 17800 Fulfulde
2000 - 2030 17800 French
======================================================================
Adventist World Radio - Regular QSL Policy
Adventist World Radio welcomes reception reports from listeners in
all countries. Please note the following items of information:-
* Each reception report should contain the following items of
information
Date
Time, preferably expressed in International Radio Time, equivalent to
UTC
Frequency in kHz
Sufficient program details to verify that you actually heard the AWR
programming
Reports using SINPO Code preferred
* Reception reports by postal mail are preferred, though email is also
acceptable.
* Where possible, please enclose return postage in the form of
currency notes in any international currency, or mint postage stamps.
* Please note that IRC coupons are too expensive for you to buy, and
they are no longer valid in the United States.
* Where possible, please enclose your address label.
* You will receive a full data QSL card, including location, through
the postal system in response to your reception report.
* Several different QSL cards are available.
* The envelope will be affixed with regular postage stamps, not a
postage label.
* AWR does not send out email QSLs.
* It is not necessary for you to send and resend the same reception
report. All reception reports that we receive are verified with a
regular full data QSL card.
* It is not necessary to send an off-air recording of your reception.
We just need your honest reception report on paper.
* At times, there may be a delay before you receive your AWR QSL card.
This is due to the large inflow of reception reports we receive from
listeners in so many different countries.
* The regular postal address for reception reports is:-
Adventist World Radio
Box 29235
Indianapolis
Indiana 46229 USA
(Adrian Peterson, AWR, Feb 25, also via Bill Matthews, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
But will real postage stamps be on mail from real Rwanda? (gh, DXLD)
** SAINT LUCIA. I am acting, again this year, as the PR Director and
QSL Manager for the second annual St. Lucia Independence Special Event
put on by the J6 Portable Group.
We will be using the call: J64SLI / 36
We will commence operations on UT 21 Feb and cease operation on UT 23
Feb, 2015 (although we may be testing a few hours before beginning the
actual event...)
Our QTH will be on the beach in St. Lucia, using numerous Buddipole
arrays and various home-brew dipoles. The plan as present is to have
at least four operating positions active at all times; but we will see
how that goes.
We will be using various modes including CW, SSB, PSK-31 and RTTY and
will operate as many bands as possible, depending as one would expect
on solar conditions. Our St. Lucia Independence Spl Event is to be a
solely QRP (5 Watts or less) event and will be operated using only
solar power!
We will respond to both Amateur contacts and SWL reports. The
requirements for direct confirmation are as follows:
USA: SASE needs to be included.
Europe (or elsewhere): An SAE and 2 US Dollars or 2 Euros are required
or confirmation will be via the Bureau. Just a note here: we prefer no
IRC's as they are difficult to get the Post Office to allow us to use
them.
Address info is on a number of DX sites, like ARRL DX News etc. But,
also on my QRZ page http://www.qrz.com and search for WB5Q. It is at
the top of my page. As far as frequencies, we will use any allowable
band that is open, so a search of the DX Clusters would find us
quickly, I am sure. [such as dxsummit.fi --- just search on J6]
We look forward to many more contacts this year. I sincerely
appreciate your help in getting the word out about our Special Event.
73 de (WB5Q / John Carson, Norman, OK, Feb 14, WORLD OF RADIO 1761, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
The dxsummit.fi site logs these frequencies for it today: 21272,
28495, 7155 (Glenn, 1651 UT Feb 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
21259.9-USB, Feb 21 at 1831, I am hearing J64SLI surprisingly well,
considering it`s 5 watts or less; unfortunately operating simplex so
caller pileups are on the same frequency. Always uses official ICAO
fonetix for call, and do not hear a /36 as some are reporting; that
may be informally added occasionally. In next few minutes copy
contacts with AC7CZ, N8BI, W7BC, KO6E. I would give J64SLI a 5 & 6 on
the PL-880 with random wire under the porch eaves (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 17705 and 17615, Both terrible Radio Riyadh outlets,
even heard phone-in program by female[!] voice listener; seen 10x
distorted audio spikes - each sideband - of exact 2100 Hertz distance
apart each! (Wolfgang Büschel, Some noon Germany logs on Feb 20 at
1130-1255 UT slot, [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3
Hertz], wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Feb 20 via DXLD)
** SINGAPORE. 3915, BBCWS English from Kranji site, S=9+30dB -41dBm at
2250 UT on Feb 23. But surprisingly heard the same BBCWS program on -
probably - spurious 4272 kHz before close-down at 2259 UT. Couldn't
investigate further, whether signal occurs symmetrically also 357 kHz
down on lower side on 3558 kHz. [Thailand location, selected SDR
options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX
TopNews Febr 24 via DXLD)
** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020.00 SIBC:
Feb 17 0759-0810, 35333, Pidgin, Music, IS and ID at 0800, News
Feb 21 0832-0846, 35443-45444, Pidgin, Talk and music, Theme sound at
0840 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-345,
Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SOMALIA [non]. 17844.983, UAE Radio ERGO / IRIN from Al Dhabbaya
relay site, towards Somalia target. Noted at 1253 UT on Feb 20 with
Horn of Africa music. S=9+5dB or -69dBm signal sidelobe into southern
Germany. NOT JAMMED today by Somali digital white noise jammer {due of
Muslim Friday break??}. (Wolfgang Büschel, Some noon Germany logs on
Feb 20 at 1130-1255 UT slot, [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW
15.3 Hertz], wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Feb 20 via DXLD)
I was not aware Somalia did any such jamming. Ethiopia does, and there
is a Somali speaking audience also in Ethiopia (gh, DXLD)
** SOMALIA [non]. February 18: Voice of Khaatumo, Codka Khaatumo in
Somali to EaAf 1725 on 17580 Issoudun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wWPRElPL4Q&feature=youtu.be
(Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOMALILAND. 7120-, Feb 20 at 0327, open carrier with fair signal
from R. Hargeisa, slightly on the lo side and not much QRhaM. 0331
music starts but just barely modulated; then turned up a little,
military band presumably NA, but too late, cut to announcement at
0331.5, still undermodulated; 0333 Qur`an recognizable (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
SOMALIA, 7120, R. Hargeisa:
Feb 17 1850-1900*, 35333, Somali, Talk, ID at 1853 and 1858 and 1859,
Closing music from 1859, 1900 sign off
Feb 21 1850-1901*, 35433-33433, Somali and Arabic?, Talk, ID at 1857
and 1859 and 1900, Closing music from 1900, 1901 sign off (Kouji
Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-345, Satellit 750,
DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA. 15255, Channel Africa:
Feb 17 0557-0610, 25332, English, Music, 0600 Opening music, Opening
announce, 0601 Theme music, News
Feb 18 0600-0615, 35333, English, Opening music, Opening announce,
0601 Theme music, News (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-
525+RD-9830, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire,
303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA. 7285, Feb 20 at 0429, Sonder Grense with good signal
in Afrikaans, apparent adstring, mentions ``50 Shades of Gray`` in
English. Altho on until 07, it`s normally faded down or out before 06.
Now it`s better than Channel Africa on 7230. There are zero SW
broadcasts in Holländisch per
http://www.addx.de/cgi-bin/hfp.cgi
but that doesn`t include pirates or The Mighty KBC which mixes in some
Dutch commercials with English programming. So for widely disseminated
broadcasts, the legacy colonial language Afrikaans will have to do
from SAUK. I wonder if dentro-Netherlanders have any trouble
understanding it. (Then there`s Frisian expected from the annual
Öömrang broadcast, Sat Feb 21 at 16-17 on 15215 via Nauen.) (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also LANGUAGE LESSONS
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 11580, Feb 22 at 1432, Brother Scare via
WRMI, and QRM now is not CNR1 jamming against SOH as recently
monitored, but just some digital noises, notably a series of
descending tones, like a falling bomb or firework. No such problem on
much stronger // 11825.
11580-, Feb 24 at 0106, the WRMI Brother Scare service again has that
strange QRM I previously reported Feb 22 at 1432, a much different
daypart: repeated descending tone. Now they are very regular every 3.5
seconds and lasting 3 seconds each before a pause. With BFO I discover
that they apply to the lower sideband only, inaudible on the upper.
I.e. another carrier repeatedly approaching 11580.0 from below causing
descending het. When I tune to 11578 on USB, I hear the tones going
upward. Nothing like this heard on other WRMI BS frequencies. I really
don`t think it is local; at least nothing like it noted elsewhere on
the SW bands here.
7730, Feb 24 at 0112, Brother Scare is again playing clip of an
extremely critical caller really putting him down, as ``a crazy old
religious zealot, who tells you lies``, and much more. I`ve run across
this before several times. Then BS can come on and play the martyr,
accuse the caller of being blasphemous, etc., etc. // much stronger
7570, both via WRMI.
Further tuning finds BS on two WWRB transmitters at once, 5050 and
3185, at 0118 Feb 24, those running about one sesquisecond behind
WRMIs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 1755.0 kHz, 2337-2340* 14/2, Palma R, Palma de Mallorca.
Weather report, 35342 (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, JRC NRD-545DSP &
NRD-93; Quantum Phaser, home made amp.(W7IUV version); raised, 4 loop-
K9AY, 6x19x6 m Ewe 135º, 14 m low noise LF/MF Vertical, via Dario
Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD)
** SPAIN. REE no se aclara ---
Publicado el 20 febrero 2015 14:26 por EA4-0003
Tras la reunión de la Plataforma en Defensa de la Onda Corta en Radio
Exterior de España, de la que forma parte la AER y de la que ya
informamos, del pasado 3 de febrero, se entendieron dos cosas ---
Sigue leyendo â
http://aer.org.es/archivos/3668
------------------------------
Un saludo cordial (Pedro Sedano, Madrid, COORDINADOR GENERAL,
ASOCIACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE RADIOESCUCHA (AER), noticiasdx yg via DXLD)
REE no se aclara
Publicado el 20 febrero 2015 14:26 por EA4-0003
Tras la reunión de la Plataforma en Defensa de la Onda Corta en Radio
Exterior de España , de la que forma parte la AER y de la que ya
informamos, del pasado 3 de febrero, se entendieron dos cosas
claramente:
Que se desdoblarían en los siguientes días las frecuencias de los
fines de semana, una para cada mitad (4 horas)
Que se ajustarían las frecuencias con el cambio del periodo, el 28
de marzo, en general, pasándolas a las bandas superiores
Pues bien, REE ha explicado porqué todavía no se ha producido el
desdoble de frecuencias en fin de semana que habían prometido.
Informan que tiene dos transmisores averiados y que son los que
necesitan para ese desdoble. Al parecer, los tienen que enviar a EEUU
por barco o avión para su reparación, así que ya veremos cuándo se
hace dicho desdoble; del que, por cierto, siguen sin informar de las
nuevas 4 frecuencias que se usarán de 1500-1900 los sábados y
domingos.
Por otro lado, desde la Plataforma se insiste en que es urgente ese
desdoblamiento para garantizar la estabilidad de las emisiones durante
los fines de semana.
Curiosamente, REE informa que será inminente el cambio de las
frecuencias de entre semana y que no van a esperar al inicio del
periodo A-15, el 28 de marzo. Pero, siguen sin darnos esas nuevas
frecuencias que se usarán de 1900-2300 todos los días de la semana.
En resumen, se esperan las frecuencias de ese nuevo esquema de
emisiones en español de REE que sería así:
1500-1900 Los sábados y domingos, para América del Norte,
América del Sur, África Occidental-Atlántico Sur y Oriente Medio-
Índico
1900-2300 Todos los días, para América del Norte, América del
Sur, África Occidental-Atlántico Sur y Oriente Medio-Índico (via DXLD)
Excuse for delay is that two transmitters are out of order and will
have to be sent to the USA by plane or boat for repairs! Wouldn`t it
be better to import technicians from the USA? Why in the world would
they have to ship the whole transmitters back? (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF
RADIO 1762, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
La flota lleva casi tres semanas sin las nuevas señales en onda corta
prometidas por RTVE
Publicado el 22 febrero 2015 11:18 por EA4-0003febrero 22, 2015
http://aer.org.es/archivos/3682
Radio Exterior alega que tuvo que reparar dos de sus transmisores para
poder desdoblar la emisión los fines de semana -El sector tendrá que
esperar hasta marzo para tener nuevas frecuencias
Faro de Vigo, Adrián Amoedo Vigo 22.02.2015 | 04:55
La Corporación RTVE todavía no ha mejorado las frecuencias para la
onda corta de Radio Exterior de España (REE) durante el fin de semana
como prometió tras la última reunión mantenida el pasado día 3 con la
plataforma que defiende las emisiones. Casi tres semanas lleva la
flota con la misma cobertura irregular que los mantiene desconectados
a ratos y descontentos por su calidad, lo que hizo que llegasen a
exigir una optimización de estas frecuencias que, en un principio, fue
escuchada por la Corporación. Sin embargo, RTVE alega una “razón
tecnológica” a este retraso. Y es que según el propio director de REE,
Antonio Szigriszt, es necesaria una actualización de dos de los
transmisores que se encuentran en el centro de Noblejas (Toledo),
desde donde se emite REE.
Pero por las palabras de Szigriszt, la solución no es precisamente
barata. “Tenemos que enviar los transmisores, que cuestan de por sí
más de un millón de euros, a los Estados Unidos. Allí tendrán que
sufrir un cambio de válvulas y el coste total de la reparación de
ambos es de más de 50.000 dólares”, indicó. El objetivo de esta
operación es “preparar los dispositivos para adaptarse a las nuevas
frecuencias”, con lo que la flota tendrá que esperar con toda
seguridad hasta marzo para poder tener una mejora en las emisiones. El
coste será a cargo del presupuesto de renovación tecnológica de RTVE.
Por otro lado, sobre las quejas por parte del sector pesquero
publicadas por FARO a finales de enero en las que pedían frecuencias
más altas al no recibir correctamente la señal, el director de REE
explica la onda corta “jamás ha tenido una transmisión homogénea”, ya
que “varía con el tiempo”.
Szigriszt apunta que por este motivo se utilizan frecuencias más bajas
para el invierno, como las actuales (situadas entre los 9.620 y
12.030, dependiendo de la zona del globo), y otras más altas para el
verano.
(…)
“La próxima semana habrá novedades”, sentencia Szigriszt, que se
mantiene en todo momento en contacto con la Plataforma en Defensa de
la Onda Corta.
Nuevas quejas
Por otro lado, nuevas quejas han surgido en torno a esta falta de
movimiento. En este caso, provienen de la Asociación Española de
Radioescucha (AER), miembro de la Plataforma, que critica a través de
su página web que la Corporación “no se aclara” y que “sigue sin
informar de las nuevas 4 frecuencias que se usarán de 1500-1900 los
sábados y domingos”.
------------------------------
(Pedro Sedano, Madrid, España, COORDINADOR GENERAL, ASOCIACIÓN
ESPAÑOLA DE RADIOESCUCHA (AER) Feb 22, noticias dx yg via WORLD OF
RADIO 1762, DXLD)
Primeros cambios de frecuencias en REE
Publicado el 25 febrero 2015 13:22 por EA4-0003febrero 25, 2015
La Plataforma en Defensa de la Onda Corta en Radio Exterior de
España,. de la que la AER es cofundadora, anuncia que los dos
transmisores, según REE, “ya están enviados a los fabricantes de los
transmisores en EEUU (…) y que para cambiar las frecuencias, hay que
cambiar postes transmisores y orientar correctamente los emisores”.
Además, añadió “que realmente tienen la voluntad de cambiar las
frecuencias y de emitir con la mejor calidad posible teniendo en
cuenta los recortes”.
Así pues, este viernes 27.02.2015 cambiarán la frecuencia de 11685 a
17755 y la de 11940 a 17715, por lo que el esquema provisional de
transmisiones quedaría como sigue:
1900 a 2300 Lunes a Viernes
a.. 17755 África occidental y Atlántico sur
b.. 17715 América del sur
c.. 9620 América del norte
d.. 12030 Oriente medio e Índico
1500 a 2300 Sábados y domingos:
a.. 17755 África occidental y Atlántico sur
b.. 17715 América del sur
c.. 9620 América del norte
d.. 12030 Oriente medio e Índico
El desdoble del fin de semana no será posible hasta que vuelvan los
transmisores de EEUU así que ahora intentarán hacer una adaptación
subiendo un poco la frecuencia utilizada. En estos momentos están los
técnicos en Noblejas y cuanto vuelvan, podremos informar cómo se dejan
provisionalmente las frecuencias de fin de semana.
Como es lógico, rogamos a todos los radioescuchas, especialmente a los
americanos, que nos informen de cómo llegan estas nuevas frecuencias:
general@aer.org.es (AER, Feb 25, noticiasdx yg via DXLD)
** SPAIN. Re: SPAIN: Arganda del Rey - 3D View --- MW 1359 kHz 600 kW
RNE in DRM mode from Arganda was heard at least til summer/autumn
2011. From 2005 year onwards. SW start 15 March 1942.
http://www.radioworld.com/article/radio-exterior-de-españa-abandona-la-oc/273561
https://lagalenadelsur.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/2012-15-de-marzo-70-anos-de-radio-exterior-de-espana/
see the photo of revolving log-periodic antennas - home of some birds
now - in Arganda del Rey
http://satdigital.mforos.com/132607/7539080-rne-en-1359/?pag=2
http://satdigital.mforos.com/132607/7539080-rne-en-1359/?pag=1
http://ret0019c.eresmas.net/ArgLogCig.jpg
see SW revolving antennas in background
http://ret0019c.eresmas.net/ArgLog2.jpg
Arganda was also TX site for jamming purposes against
- Radio España Independiente
{Spanish Communist Party Komintern stn} from Saftica-ROU Romania.
- and anti-Basque [sic] Radio Euzkadi too {even in 2002 to 2004 year
too}. (Wolfgang Büschel, Feb 19, shortwavesites yg via DXLD)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, Feb 21 at 0114, usual big open carrier from SLBC,
music prélude from 0114:46.5, and timesignal ending at 0115:11.5 with
only 3 pips, the first ones missing.
11905, Feb 24 at 0114:37, musical prélude starts, mistimesignal ends
at 0115:19, and SLBC sign-on. Good level but heavy flutter as usual.
Once again the MTS has only three pips (2+1) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN. 7205, Sudan R., Khartoum at 0325 with M in Arabic, Kor`an
readings, then W in Arabic followed by short instrumental pieces
introducing a popular program of some sort. Good-Excellent with
minimal fading (John Figliozzi, Sarasota, FL, Eton E1-XM, Apex 303WA-2
Antenna, Feb 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7205, Radio Omdurman, 0335-0420*, Feb 19. Man announcer with Arabic
language talks hosting a music program with great vocal selections. ID
at 0359 followed by time pips another ID and news. Quick announcement
at 0420 before carrier was terminated. Good signal (Rich D'Angelo,
Wyomissing, PA 19610, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R-8B, Eton E1, Eton E5,
Alpha Delta DX Sloper, RF Systems Mini-Windom, Datong FL3, JPS ANC-4,
NASWA Flashsheet Feb 22 via DXLD)
7205, Feb 20 at 0332, very poor signal with QRM, presumably R.
Omdurman ex-7200 as reported by Don Hosmer, MI, MARE, on Feb 12. I had
heard it much better when on 7200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Frequency change of Radio Omdurman Sudan:
0215-0430 7205 ALF 100 kW / 210 deg to CeAf Arabic, ex 7200
1430-1530 7205#ALF 100 kW / 210 deg to CeAf Arabic, ex 7200, 1 video
on Feb 23
1930-2100 7205*ALF 100 kW / 210 deg to CeAf Arabic, ex 7200, 3 videos
on Feb 21
# co-ch PBS Xinjiang in Uyghur
* co-ch RFI in French from 2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omBhTsaTCh4&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT9pTqyl6CI&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ywpiLzbOE&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6FIV1_ZVEk&feature=youtu.be
(DX RE MIX NEWS #897 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov. Feb. 23, 2015
via DXLD)
9505, Feb 24 at 0617, very poor signal with music and talk, some pulse
QRM, presumed the sporadic V. of Africa service in Tigrinya, 110
degrees toward Ethiopia. Also scheduled for English at 0800-0900 &
1730-1830 when I don`t hear it any better (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [and non]. 15550, Feb 19 at 1537, Sudanese tone jammer is JBA
here under R. Dabanga via VATICAN and WJHR USB FL. So jammer no longer
way off on 15560 or previous 15555. Time for SMG to jump its frequency
again.
15550, Feb 23 at 1532, tone jammer is JBA under R. Dabanga via
VATICAN, and WJHR-USB via Milton FL making an unholy mess all by
themselves; so time for a Dabanga jump? The Sudanese jammers don`t
bother with R. Tamazuj which precedes it; why? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SURINAME [and non]. CHINA, Checked again this 4990 channel. German
Perseus user checked these three possible radio stn channel past
nights. Footprints so far observed, Hunan CHN is always on even 4990,
Suriname on 4989.988, and AIR Itanagar on 4989.996v kHz (Wolfgang
Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 24 via DXLD)
** SWAZILAND. 4775, Feb 20 at 0340, TWR music-box IS stands out
against the CODAR, even tho at poor signal level; 0342 into talk in
presumed Lomwe as scheduled daily for 16 more minutes, 50 kW at 3
degrees azimuth. (BTW I`m hearing nothing from Djibouti on 4780 --- is
it really active?)(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SWEDEN. Radio Revival Sweden update
Saturday, February 28 2015:
1200-1300 UTC SDXF Sveriges DX-Förbund
1300-1500 UTC Radio Merkurs
http://radiorevivalsweden.blogspot.se/p/schedules.html
73s (via Tom Taylor, Feb 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. New Pilot show from PCJ
http://pcjmedia.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/150-new-pilot-show-from-pcj
Hi Friends, Just the other day when someone from the secret service
was going through my archives they came across a PCJ pilot show that
never aired. A few years back we had the idea to bring together 4
names in international broadcasting for a new series of show. But from
the start there was a problem. First the name of the show. No one
could agree!
SWLMEDIADXERSNETWORKDIGESTWORLDUNLINITEDOFRADIO. The show was produced
and presented by Ian McFarland, Jonathan Marks. With a special open
forum chat about radio between Glenn Hauser and Arnie Coro.
Please note this is only a parody. I have great respect for these men
and the contribute they made to broadcasting
Click here to listen or download
http://www.radio4all.net/files/kperron@gmail.com/3101-1-SW_Parody.mp3
(via gh, DXLD)
** TAIWAN [and non]. 7445, ROC, RTI, 2/22, 1230. Clearly heard under
the CNR1 broadcast used to jam the Chinese service of RTI.
7445, RTI, 2/23, 1130. W with segment on Chinese New Year. Good!(Rick
Barton, (far north) Peoria AZ, listening from my tent by the lake,
Grundig Satellit 750, 20' wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) No
CNR1 jamming at this time? (gh)
** TAIWAN. Changes of clandestine broadcasts:
Praise Music Ministries, ex UNIDentified
2100-2130 on 7530 TSH 100 kW / 250 deg to EaAs Chinese/Hakka
(Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DXLD)
** TAJIKISTAN. 4765.054, Tajik R1 from Dushanbe Yangi Yul site, poet
reading and string instrument at daily morning program opening at 2359
UT Febr 20. S=6 or -85dBm signal strength. Heard on Colombo Sri Lanka
remote SDR unit at Victor's place in Piliyandala. [selected SDR
options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] vy73 de (Wolfgang DF5SX
Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4765.05, Tajik R., Feb 21 1306-1316, 35343, Tajik, Talk, ID at 1310
and 1314 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-
345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** THAILAND. 9390, Feb 20 at 1358, fair signal better than adjacent
9395 Global 24, choral music, probably the national anthem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrcGzLIEsAU
but 1359 cut off for antenna change of HSK9, R. Thailand. Back on by
1400, with more flutter, for English news right away, no bells or
formal sign-on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [and non]. CHINA, The engineer at Lhasa Baiding site #602
checked the 4920 kHz unit already at 2020 UT (usual program start time
is later at 2050 UT).
But the other 4820 kHz unit from same location is scheduled on air 20-
18 UT in Chinese, S=9+25dB or -48dBm, in broadband range 4812.1 to
4827.9 kHz at 2025 UT.
Another CNR1 Chinese station at same time from Geermu-Golmud on 4800
kHz is not so strong though, only S=9+5dB in range 4790.2 to 4809.8
kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. Re: BBC upgrades Radio 3 internet stream following complaints
There are several BBC high quality 320 kbps streams now. BBC Radio 3
on Radioplayer now defaults to the high quality stream, the others are
listed here. Eventually all BBC local radio streams will have stereo
audio.
UK Radio Stations webcasting in AAC+ (HLS), Ogg Vorbis, Opus and
RealPlayer formats
http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/other.asp
UK Radio Stations webcasting in AAC+ (HLS), Ogg Vorbis, ...
The Internet's most up-to-date list of live links for UK radio
stations simultaneously broadcasting on the web. Covering United
Kingdom radio stations
I found VLC which is suggested unstable on Windows 8.1 with the high
quality streams so uninstalled it. Someone on Digital Spy said the
same about VLC on Windows 7. Following a suggestion there I installed
Media Player Classic instead which is so far working fine.
There have been 3 posts about the changes to BBC streaming, and
comments on those posts, on the BBC Internet blog, posts are titled
Audio Factory.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet
Staff from the BBC's online and technology teams talk about BBC
Online, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and the BBC's digital and mobile
services (Mike Barraclough, Feb 20, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD)
** U K. BBC LICENCE FEE 'HARDER TO JUSTIFY'
Press Association Press Association - 1 hour 20 minutes ago
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/bbc-licence-fee-harder-justify-001200889.html
* Committee chair John Whittingdale said the BBC had "suffered from a
succession of disasters of its own making" View Photo [captions]
Press Association - Committee chair John Whittingdale said the BBC
had "suffered from a succession of disasters of its own making"
The BBC licence fee is becoming "harder and harder to justify", a
committee of MPs has said.
The corporations' governing body - the BBC Trust - and its chair Rona
Fairhead also came under fire from parliamentarians.
The Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee called for the trust -
which has "failed to meet expectations" - to be abolished, in its
report on the future of the corporation.
Hours before the publication of the report, the c hair of the Public
Accounts Committee Margaret Hodge used a hearing about the BBC's
buildings to highlight "question marks" about the role of Ms Fairhead
at the corporation after allegations HSBC's Swiss branch helped
wealthy customers dodge tax.
Ms Fairhead - a member of the bank's board since 2004 - took over at
the trust after Lord Patten stood down last year.
Ms Hodge said: " There are clearly question marks arising about her
role", adding that the HSBC allegations "raise issues that somebody
should be looking at" at the BBC.
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee report called for a slimmed-
down BBC, saying it should "reduce" its content in over-served areas
or where its "public service characteristics" were "marginal".
"The BBC must make the most effective use of licence fee payers' money
and should not be trying to do everything itself.
"The BBC needs to be able to make bigger, braver decisions on its
strategy and inevitably must do less in some areas."
The committee recommended an end to "anachronistic" criminal penalties
for non-payment of the licence fee, saying non-payment should be
pursued through civil courts.
It said in the short-term there was no better alternative to the
licence fee, currently set at -L-145.50, but that a German-style levy
on all households, regardless of whether or not people watched live
television, was its "preferred alternative".
As a minimum, it said the licence fee - which was not currently
required to watch iPlayer - must be amended to cover "catch-up
television as soon as possible".
The report said: "We believe that the forthcoming round of charter
review should not rush profound changes such as the abolition of the
licence fee model but the BBC must prepare for the possibility of a
change in the 2020s.
"We recommend that as a minimum the licence fee must be amended to
cover catch-up television as soon as possible."
The report said "public trust in the BBC dipped" as a result of recent
controversies including "excessive severance payments" which saw
George Entwistle receive -L-450,000 despite only 54 days as director
general, the -L-100 million failed Digital Media Initiative, the Jimmy
Savile scandal and a Newsnight investigation that led to the late Lord
McAlpine being wrongly accused of child abuse.
Committee chair John Whittingdale said the BBC had "suffered from a
succession of disasters of its own making" over recent years but it
"remains a widely admired and trusted institution".
He said: "In the short-term, there appears to be no realistic
alternative to the licence fee, but that model is becoming harder and
harder to justify and sustain."
He added: "The BBC has tried for too long to be all things to all
people - with the rapid changes in communication and media technology
and markets and changing audience needs and behaviours, this no longer
works."
He said the trust " has failed to meet expectations and should be
abolished" saying it was "too close" to the BBC and blurred
"accountability".
The committee praised BBC children's output, saying without the
corporation "many younger people would have to rely largely on a diet
of acquired US television programmes".
On BBC3, which the corporation wants to move online, the MPs said it
was "right that the BBC Executive is considering alternative ways to
reach BBC3's target audience".
The committee praised the broadcaster for making savings without
denting audience appreciation of its services, but said it needed to
be "bold and upfront" about further cuts and it "should aim to be a
better, more transparent, self-critic."
It also recommended watchdog Ofcom become the final arbiter of
complaints over BBC content.
A BBC spokesman said: "This report confirms the importance of the BBC
in national life and recommends maintaining and modernising the
licence fee, something we have said is necessary.
"We're grateful to the committee for endorsing our record for
efficiency and maintaining the quality of programmes and services, and
note members overwhelmingly voted against moving to a subscription
funding model."
But Professor Steven Barnett, who gave evidence to the committee,
criticised the report, saying that the recommendations would damage
the BBC.
He criticised the recommendation for an independent Public Service
Broadcasting Commission (PSBC) to replace the BBC Trust, assess BBC
performance, determine the level of public funding allocated to the
BBC and withhold funding as an "ultimate sanction".
"The ultimate aim of this report appears to be a smaller, poorer, less
publicly attuned BBC which will simply be filling in the spaces left
by commercial competitors, rather than a thriving and dynamic
institution which serves its audiences and operates in the public
interest.
"It seems to be aimed more at appeasing the BBC's competitors than
promoting the interests of consumers and citizens," the professor of
communications at the University of Westminster said.
A BBC Trust spokeswoman said: "This report highlights a number of
issues and challenges that the Trust recognises and that we are
seeking to address, and we agree that there must be robust internal
governance and independent regulatory oversight of the BBC.
"Charter Review will be when this and other issues are debated
thoroughly, but we welcome this thoughtful and considered early
contribution.
"In the meantime, the Trust will continue to argue for a BBC that
delivers accurate, independent and high- quality content that provides
something for everyone, underpinned by a universal funding model."
(via Mike Cooper, DXLD)
** U K. BBC BROADCASTERS 'ABUSED POSITION'
Press Association Press Association - 8 hours ago
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/bbc-broadcasters-abused-position-145513661.html
* Malcolm Muggeridge was a groper, it has been claimed - View Photo
Renowned BBC broadcasters Huw Wheldon and Malcolm Muggeridge were both
"gropers", an historian has claimed [captions]
Professor Jean Seaton said powerful men at the corporation in the
1970s and 80s "abused their position" and one unnamed man in a
"position of authority was known to proposition younger women,
especially secretaries, for spanking sessions".
Prof Seaton spoke with women who worked at the BBC during the period
for her book, Pinkoes And Traitors: The BBC And The Nation 1974-1987,
and said even "the great Huw Wheldon and the apparently saintly
Malcolm Muggeridge both groped incontinently".
Wheldon, who died in 1986, was a D-day war hero and founded the first
TV arts programme Monitor in 1958, while Muggeridge, the renowned
author, media personality, and satirist, died in 1990.
Prof Seaton told The Guardian: "Huw Wheldon - a great public service
broadcaster, and Malcolm Muggeridge, the anguished voice of dissent of
the time - were both gropers.
"Of course so were many other men in most other British institutions
then. The term 'sexual harassment' did not even exist to identify the
problem until a bunch of academic feminists coined the term in 1974.
"Of course nothing excuses the behaviour, but the middle class,
aspirant women who were transforming the BBC in the 1970s and 1980s
were not damaged by it. Indeed they were on a crusade to stop it."
Prof Seaton's book comes ahead of the publication of Dame Janet
Smith's review, which is looking at the culture and practices of the
BBC during the years that Jimmy Savile worked there.
Savile, a Radio 1 DJ who also presented the BBC's Top Of The Pops and
Jim'll Fix It, died aged 84 in October 2011 - a year before
allegations that he had sexually abused children were broadcast in ITV
documentary Exposure: The Other Side Of Jimmy Savile.
It is clear in Prof Seaton's book that none of those she mentions were
alleged to be child abusers (via Mike Cooper, DXLD)
** U S A. February 16:
Time Signal station WWV Colorado 1517 on 25 MHz Fort Collins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBp3l8vgReE&feature=youtu.be
Time Signal station WWV Colorado 1526 on 20 MHz Fort Collins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlGq5u0K3vE&feature=youtu.be
(Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 25910/FM, WQGY434, KLDE Eldorado TX, 104.9 FM studio relay;
2119-2130+, 17-Feb; Not-too-oldies; spot for the Sonora Medical
Clinic; relay call ID under music at BoH. VGood peaks with sratchy
QSBs; // 25990/FM with good peaks (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, KB99696, KTCL-FM, Wheat Ridge CO studio relay
(presumed); 1912-1922, 16 Feb; Tunes & ads--nothing definitive heard.
In/out with some fair peaks and nothing after 1922; occasional
whistles and hums during off times, like someone dial twiddling
(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. 26110/FM, KMK282, KOVR-TV Sacramento CA studio relay; 1526-
1534+, 16-Feb; Usual chit-chatty M&W, "Live from across the valley...
Good Day"; 1529 break to DA for about 30 seconds, then off; 1531+ back
into local news. Good peaks with scratchy QSBs. Missing at 1911
recheck; suspect this is only used during the morning Good Day program
(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. BBG WELCOMES NEW CEO, REVIEWS VOA OPERATIONS
Broadcasting Board of Governors press release February 18, 2015
http://www.bbg.gov/blog/2015/02/18/bbg-welcomes-new-ceo-reviews-voa-operations/
WASHINGTON --- The Broadcasting Board of Governors met [Wednesday]
at its Washington, D.C. headquarters and welcomed for the first
time Andrew Lack, who joined as CEO and Director in January 2015.
"I feel really good about where we are headed," said Chairman
Jeff Shell, remarking on the newest board members and the arrival
of Andrew Lack as CEO. "Our new board members each bring their
own expertise, and Andy is an icon in the news business who
understands the essence of what we do the content."
Shell also welcomed Ambassador Karen Kornbluh to her first official
meeting of the BBG. Kornbluh was sworn in after the Board's December
17 meeting and succeeds Governor Michael Meehan. The board today
adopted a resolution honoring his service to the agency.
Along with other threats to BBG journalists, the board discussed
troubling developments in Azerbaijan. On December 26, Azerbaijani
police raided and closed the RFE/RL Bureau in Baku. On February
13, new charges were brought against Khadija Ismayilova, an
investigative journalist and RFE/RL contributor, who remains jailed in
pre-trial detention and if convicted could receive a maximum sentence
of 12 years in prison. RFE/RL's bureau remains closed, its accounts
frozen, and several Baku staff members have left Azerbaijan.
"While Khadija demonstrates fierce resolve, we are deeply concerned
and outraged by the Azerbaijani government's flagrant assaults on
press freedom," Shell said.
Discussing the challenges BBG journalists face in the field, BBG
CEO Andrew Lack shared observations from his trip with BBG Governor
Ken Weinstein to Kiev and Prague. Lack described "the strong work
being done by our people in the field," and praised the "exemplary
collaboration between RFE/RL and VOA in covering Ukraine."
In addition to board business, the Voice of America gave a
presentation on its activities and accomplishments in the past year.
VOA Director David Ensor, along with journalists from the Kurdish,
Persian, Spanish, Ukrainian, and English services as well as digital
media, demonstrated how the network is expanding social media
engagement and mobile distribution, responding to information crises
in West Africa, Ukraine and Russia, and expanding its successful
affiliate model in Latin America and elsewhere.
A recording of the meeting, as well as documents related to board
decisions ia available here:
http://www.bbg.gov/blog/2014/12/19/board-meeting-february-18-2015/
(via VOA Radiogram via Roger, dxldyg via DXLD) See also RUSSIA!
** U S A. BBG Watch Commentary
All views expressed are those of the author.
One Year Later -- Dysfunction, News Failures, Self-Promotion and
Pandering at the Voice of America
PART II: MIXING ADVOCACY WITH NEWS REPORTING
Should VOA reporters inject themselves into a story?
By Dan Robinson
http://bbgwatch.com/bbgwatch/opinion-dan-robinson-mixing-advocacy-news-reporting-voice-america/
Unfortunately, a prodigious level of pandering and self-promotion is
also observed below the level of VOA director, in social media and
other activities of certain reporters.
This raises important questions that would and should be debated
publicly if VOA were not so off the radar from public scrutiny,
questions that should not simply be swept under the carpet by the new
BBG CEO, Andy Lack, who considers himself a journalist, not just a
media management executive.
It's not clear whether VOA officials recognize the dangers, or if they
care. If they did, they would make sure, and fast, that the people
involved in the matters described here understand why they shouldn't
be doing what they're doing.
In 2014, while covering Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Ukraine,
respected VOA Ukrainian Service TV personality, Myroslova Gongadze,
used her Facebook page for what former and some current VOA reporters
called blatant mixing of political activism into reporting.
Among numerous posts, she displayed video of Biden exiting his SUV to
visit a monument to the fallen of the Orange revolution in 2004 and
2005. Gongadze's husband, Georgiy, was an investigative journalist who
was kidnapped and murdered several years before, in 2000.
Observing the video, the impression one gets is that the VOA reporter
was selected well ahead of Biden's stop at the monument. He exits the
SUV, Gongadze quickly joins him, and they walk arm-in-arm to the
monument.
For security reasons alone, her role with Biden would normally would
be coordinated and cleared in advance with the Secret Service, which
had kept Biden away from what news reports described as an "angry
crowd" at another point during the visit.
At other points on the Biden trip, which also included Morocco and
Turkey, Gongadze posted photos of herself posing with a Secret Service
agent and editorialized about Biden being "a good man", lamenting that
he had not had a "good day" because he had to dodge an angry mob near
another memorial site in Kiev.
Other posts promoted the group "Friends of Ukraine" which was lobbying
Congress to approve aid to Ukraine's government. One photo pictured
her draped in a Ukrainian flag.
No journalist -- whether covering a high-level official or an event --
should inject themselves into a story in which they have a vested
interest, or depend on instructions from managers to know that
avoiding such an impression is important.
When I, and two other former VOA correspondents raised the issue, on
the influential BBG Watch site, and on my personal Facebook page, we
were attacked by current and former agency employees, though others
understood the point we made.
A former head of VOA's Public Relations office assailed critics of
this activism-cum-journalism as endorsing "journalistic rape". Another
current employee said: "There is a certain amount of promotion that's
necessary in developing, engaging, and maintaining a popular news
program with a big audience."
Former VOA intelligence and foreign correspondent Gary Thomas observed
that, Gongadze "deserves our sympathy and our admiration [but]. . .
engaging in advocacy . . . taints news coverage, no matter how well-
meaning and noble the cause may be."
Thomas pointed to VOA's Standards and Practices guidance:
"VOA journalists are also reminded they should not use their
professional affiliation with VOA to advocate for political or
social causes and when speaking to outside groups, they should
refrain from taking sides on public issues. . .staff members should
not march or rally in support of public causes or movements or sign
advertisements or petitions taking a position on public issues,
domestic or foreign..."
. . . and the Society of Professional Journalists revised Code of
Ethics:
"Journalists should avoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived.
(They should) disclose unavoidable conflicts (and) refuse gifts,
favors, fees, free travel and special treatment, and avoid political
and other outside activities that may compromise integrity or
impartiality, or may damage credibility."
Another former senior VOA correspondent said "VOA journalists should
not be props in political photo ops by US (or other) politicians, or
accept medals from one side or another in a civil war. I would have
run like hell away from any situation like that."
Our concerns were shared, though half-heartedly it seemed, by BBG
Watch. Ted Lipien had praised Gongadze for taking a leading role in
social media outreach. VOA managers, he insisted, apparently failed to
brief her about what was acceptable, or not, to post on social media.
The BBG (a nine-member bipartisan board created in the 1990's to
oversee all U.S. overseas broadcasting, with the Secretary of State
serving in an ex officio role) lost no time joining in celebrating
Gongadze's status and visibility. During one of its sessions,
Ukraine's ambassador presented Gongadze with an award from the
government in Kiev.
Newly-installed BBG CEO Andy Lack, who has had high praise for
Gongadze's connections and popularity and was with her in Ukraine
during Secretary of State Kerry's January visit, had a smartphone
photo taken with her.
After I contacted a VOA official, who formerly headed VOA's newsroom
and plays a role in overseeing adherence to standards for Internet and
social media, about the propriety of Gongadze's Biden trip posts, all
but one of them disappeared.
Gongadze has not made any on-the-record comment about the controversy.
She continued a level of self-promotion on her Facebook page, posting
a photo of herself with State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki during
Secretary Kerry's visit to Kiev.
There was no discussion of the issue during a BBG session on February
18th, during which board members viewed a video presentation
highlighting VOA reporting on events in Ukraine.
Questions about the mixing of advocacy with journalism also arose
involving other VOA reporters, including one who promoted
participation in a "State Department project."
An October 28th BBG news release identified this as "data journalism
workshops for journalists and journalism students" in Macedonia.
Later, the reporter also used his page to voice support for
journalists who were under pressure in Macedonia.
Another example from 2014 raised questions about the extent to which
officials of BBG, IBB, and VOA are encouraging VOA reporters promote
themselves as activists, or perhaps choosing to exert no oversight.
On August 15th, the NBC program "Press Pass" -- hosted that day by
Kelly O'Donnell -- highlighted a VOA reporter on the plight of the
Yazidi people in Iraq
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/iraq-turmoil/yazidi-activist-people-are-facing-genocide-iraq-n181831
The chyron read: "Voice of America journalist and Yazidi activist
Dakhil Shammo on the situation in Iraq between Yazidi faithful and
ISIS militants."
During the interview with O'Donnell, the VOA reporter spoke about
having been part of a delegation of Yazidi activists that visited the
White House and State Department, advising the Obama administration
regarding the situation in Iraq.
As sympathetic as the world continues to be to the plight of various
segments of Iraq's population, this was another example of VOA
reporters pushing the envelope of activism-cum-journalism.
It's not clear how many of these appearances take place, how the
approval process works and what role senior VOA and other officials
have. For a federal agency (again, which Ensor has called a news
company), and its public relations machine, these are considered home
runs.
Activism-cum-journalism at VOA has generated concerns among some
reporters in the agency who usually seek to avoid the appearance of,
or actual, conflicts of interest.
"Believe me, there has been a slippery slope in this area for a long
time," said one correspondent in VOA's central newsroom after being
contacted about one of the examples above.
One senior VOA editor raised the Yazidi issue with managers, saying:
"I wouldn't be so naive as to think that people from VOA services have
not been lobbying the government in the past for their particular
ethnic specialties, but this trumpeting of his background as a
"journalist" gives a new definition of the word."
Attention was also drawn to the matter of BBG and VOA paying a few
outside part-time writers to provide commentaries on various subjects,
that are then posted on VOA's main English website.
Several years ago, as part of efforts by the VOA English web operation
to gain more online traction, a decision was made to begin posting
articles labeled as a "column."
Initially, these did not contain a full explanation of who the writer
was, or make clear that they did not reflect the views of the U.S.
government, or VOA. Some lacked bylines altogether, containing only a
bio at the end of the article.
I personally began to protest this practice to the management of both
VOA's central newsroom, and to the then editor in charge of the
English web desk, pointing out that use of the term "column" was
unclear, to say the least.
The commentaries continued to run and became more numerous, and have
brought criticism from current and former VOA journalists.
A reporter who files for VOA from overseas said: "I'm noticing, in
addition, that there is more "commentary" being slipped onto the
website in the guise of "news. [including pieces by journalist]
Barbara Slavin. If the management wants to label her "editorials" as
such, that's fine by me, but not without such a caveat."
Indeed, it's still not known what financial arrangements VOA has made
with Slavin, who writes primarily on Mideast/Iran issues, and others
whose opinions appear on VOA's front page.
In a comment posted on BBG Watch, a former VOA correspondent wrote:
"I personally am opposed to editorials and opinion columns such as
Slavin's, on VOA. It may be fine for a privately owned news
organization to have editorials, but I think they make it harder for
VOA to gain the trust of its audience that its reporting is
objective."
Managers of VOA's newsroom and other officials can (and did at times)
dismiss such concerns. But it was apparent that questions raised in
BBG Watch and elsewhere, including reactions by American readers if
VOA's site, to some of the pieces, had some impact. Two such comments
read:
"Alan G. from: North Carolina
January 15, 2015 04:34
How is this column objective? It is embarrassing that VOA published
this. Journalism has gone so downhill.
Thomas Rodrick from: Amherst, NY
January 16, 2015 03:06
This is outrageous. Do American taxpayers pay for this content? It
is anti-American."
Another comment raised a question of bias:
". . .u curiously leave out the reasons why Bibi & most of Israel feel
threatened by Iran. With their daily threats to WIPE Israel OUT, &
Having fomented multiple bands of lethal terrorists @ its borders,
with masses of rockets at their ready; Iran is well advanced into
their clearly articulated diabolical m.o. The US has already failed in
preventing the second worst rough state on the planet namely N. Korea
from going nuclear. Israel will not stand by as the worst one jauntily
tries slipping by as well. Slavenly or not, ducking barbs or absorbing
them, by way of bombs or bombast, BIBI will not be snookered by
imbeciles of VOA's ilk, into submission! "
The VOA website still carries bylined articles by Slavin, and others.
But there is no information immediately at the top of each piece
identifying relationships with VOA.
The reader must wait until the end where it's explained that, in
Slavin's case, she is a "senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's South
Asia Center and a correspondent for Al-Monitor.com, a website
specializing in the Middle East. . ." as well as a "regular
commentator" for VOA, NPR, PBS, and C-SPAN.
However, in a clear indication that criticisms have had an effect,
what were labeled "Columns" are now labeled "Opinions," and at least
some of her newest articles (not all) even started to carry a
disclaimer: "The views and opinions expressed are those of the author
and do not necessarily reflect the position of Voice of America."
PART III: A LOOK ACROSS THE TERRAIN . . . DECEPTIVE PRACTICES
Let's survey the terrain roughly a year after the controversy erupted
over H.R. 4490, the House-passed bill that proponents said is critical
to lasting reform of U.S. international broadcasting/media, but which
opponents assert will destroy journalism at VOA.
The bill had Democratic and Republican support on Capitol Hill, in
large part triggered by a record of mismanagement, and according to
inspector general reports, illegality at BBG.
Keep checking BBG Watch for PART III: A LOOK ACROSS THE TERRAIN . . .
DECEPTIVE PRACTICES by Dan Robinson.
READ: PART I: Looking Back: Lack of Accountability, Continuing Maximum
Hubris, and Facing Realities
(BBG Watch via Mike Cooper, WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DXLD)
ADMINISTRATION FY 2016 BUDGET REQUEST FOR BROADCASTING BOARD OF
GOVERNORS
BBG Watch > Featured News > Administration FY 2016 budget request for
Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG FY 2016 Budget Request
BBGWatcher February 24, 2015
http://bbgwatch.com/bbgwatch/administration-fy-2016-budget-request-broadcasting-board-governors/
Obama Administration FY 2016 budget document for the Broadcasting
Board of Governors (BBG) talks about "supporting current foreign
policy priorities."
Such language from the Obama White House and the State Department is
not likely to please some senior Voice of America (VOA) English
newsroom correspondents who had strongly objected to somewhat similar
wording included in the proposed 2014 bipartisan Royce-Engel H.R. 4490
bill to reform the BBG. The bill was passed unanimously by the House
of
Representatives but died in the U.S. Senate. SEE: "Op-Ed Back off,
Congress, and keep Voice of America real" by Al Pessin, The Los
Angeles Times, June 2, 2014. Other VOA journalists, particularly those
working in foreign language services, were supportive of the bill and
its proposed management reforms.
FY 2016 State Department Budget Request includes the following
justification (see below) for the FY 2016 budget request for the
Broadcasting Board of Governors. FY 2016 Budget Request for the BBG is
on page 57 of the State Department document.
The Administration's FY 2016 budget request for BBG of $751 million
represents a $9.4 million increase over the FY 2015 budget estimate of
$742 million. The actual FY 2014 BBG budget was $733 million.
The Obama Administration seems to be determined to de-federalize the
Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB), currently a federal entity within
the Broadcasting Board of Governors composed of Radio and TV Marti.
The following sentence is found at the end of the State Department's
FY 2016 budget justification document section dealing with the BBG,
although it does not specifically mention the OCB or Radio and TV
Marti.
"Finally, the FY 2016 request proposes the authority for BBG to
establish and supervise grants to an independent grantee
organization to carry out media activities to Haiti and the Latin
American region."
Another section of the Obama Administration document talks about
"supporting current foreign policy priorities [Emphasis added.], such
as countering propaganda from Russia and the violent extremism of the
ISIL." It also refers to "BBG's evolution away from shortwave radio
transmissions [Emphasis added], and invests substantial new funding in
expanding television, digital video, mobile and social platforms, and
growing our global FM radio network [Emphasis added.].
"The FY 2016 request includes reductions and investments that
rebalance BBG resources towards more aggressive use of television
and digital media platforms. The BBG's budget focuses on supporting
current foreign policy priorities, such as countering propaganda
from Russia and the violent extremism of the ISIL. The requested
funding will continue BBG's evolution away from shortwave radio
transmissions, and invests substantial new funding in expanding
television, digital video, mobile and social platforms, and growing
our global FM radio network."
The document also talks about the BBG establishing "new strategic
performance measurements to further evolve away from outputs to
outcomes and impacts with key strategic audiences."
FY2016 State Budget Justification
FY2016 BBG Budget Request
The total BBG FY 2016 request of $751.5 provides $741.5 million for
International Broadcasting Operations and $10.0 million for
Broadcasting Capital Improvements (BCI). Through the IBO funds, the
Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) funds operations of its
broadcasting organizations, as well as related program delivery and
support activities. The $10.0 million in BCI funding will maintain the
worldwide transmission network of the BBG, including the security
requirements of facilities, maintenance, repairs, and improvements to
existing systems.
The BBG is an independent Federal agency responsible for all U.S.
non-military international media programs. BBG media networks include
two Federal entities, the Voice of America (VOA) and the Office of
Cuba Broadcasting (OCB) - Radio and TV Marti. BBG networks also
include three grantee organizations Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
(RFE/RL), Radio Free Asia (RFA), and the Middle East Broadcasting
Networks (MBN) - Radio Sawa and Alhurra Television.
The BBG mission is to inform, engage, and connect people around the
world in support of freedom and democracy. BBG radio, television,
Internet, and mobile programs reach more than 215 million people each
week in 61 languages. By delivering accurate and timely news and
information, the BBG is a leading channel for information about the
United States, our people, society, government and policies. We create
access to news and information and support freedom of expression to
foster the development of democratic values in transitioning and
closed societies. Nurturing democratic values and countering
misinformation that threatens peace, stability and freedom is a
national security imperative, consistent with the President's National
Security Strategy.
The FY 2016 request includes reductions and investments that rebalance
BBG resources towards more aggressive use of television and digital
media platforms. The BBG's budget focuses on supporting current
foreign policy priorities, such as countering propaganda from Russia
and the violent extremism of the ISIL. The requested funding will
continue BBG's evolution away from shortwave radio transmissions, and
invests substantial new funding in expanding television, digital
video, mobile and social platforms, and growing our global FM radio
network.
The BBG will continue to harmonize multiple language services in
strategic markets, increasing efficiency and boosting impact, by
ensuring coordinated complementary operations and content where two
BBG broadcasters co-exist. It has also established new strategic
performance measurements to further evolve away from outputs to
outcomes and impacts with key strategic audiences.
Finally, the FY 2016 request proposes the authority for BBG to
establish and supervise grants to an independent grantee organization
to carry out media activities to Haiti and the Latin American region.
(BBGWatch via Mike Cooper, WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DXLD)
More: BBG proposes privatizing Radio/TV Martí, and VOA? See CUBA [non]
** U S A [and non]. VOA Radiogram for the weekend of Feb 21-22
includes news about clone Twitter accounts targeting RFE/RL and VOA.
All in MFSK32 except for the bonus mode:
2:05 Program preview
3:04 US embassies to monitor air quality
8:11 Philippines looks to geothermal power*
14:14 Clone Twitter accounts target RFE/RL, VOA*
20:36 Broadcasting Board of Governors meeting*
26:45 Closing announcements*
28:27 Olivia 16-500: Bonus mode of the week
* with images
Try reception on your cheapest AM-only portable. Decode using Fldigi
from w1hkj.com or your favorite decoding software. More details:
VOA Radiogram, 21-22 February 2015, improving conditions...
Shortwave reception conditions seem to be improving...
http://voaradiogram.net/post/111584334192/voa-radiogram-21-22-february-2015-improving
VOA Radiogram transmission schedule
(all days and times UT):
Sat 0930-1000 5910 kHz
Sat 1600-1630 17860 kHz
Sun 0230-0300 5745 kHz
Sun 1930-2000 15670 kHz
All via the Edward R. Murrow transmitting station in North Carolina.
The Mighty KBC will transmit a minute of MFSK64 Saturday at about 1230
UTC on 6095 kHz, and Sunday at about 0130 UTC (Saturday 8:30 pm EST)
on 7375 kHz. Both frequencies are via Germany (Kim Elliott, Feb 20,
dxldyg via DXLD)
AM on 17860 kHz at 16.00z in Europe? Good heavens! I'd better not. It
might turn out to be wrong. This time there was in addition (to the
usual Jammer) an OTHR-curtain. Pure USB was there the first choice.
http://www.rhci-online.de/VoA_Radiogram_2015-02-21.htm
(roger, germany, ibid.)
** U S A. 9800, Feb 20 at 1345, VOA Korean via PHILIPPINES, always
good signal here far beyond target, and less hum than usual, during
English lesson. Fun to note the sources they choose, such as today,
going thru the song `Sunglasses at Night`` (by Corey Hart) explaining
the idioms one by one, such as ``Don`t switch the blade on the guy in
shades, oh no``. Hmmm, doesn`t Kim Jung-Un wear shades? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 11840, Feb 22 at 1428-1430+, good signal with M&W
conversation in rapid Russian, about Ukraine, Marksism. Nothing in
Aoki, but latest HFCC shows since Feb 20 at 14-15, 11840 is IBB
Russian via Tinang, PHILIPPINES, 250 kW, 349 degrees to CIRAF 30-33. I
cannot find a previous frequency in Aoki or HFCC with same parameters
which this would have replaced; no doubt R. Liberty (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Radio Liberty in Russian 1400-1500 on new 11840 PHT, ex 9910 SAI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGePC3B613k&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Hw1VJQePY&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz6VpHEeSEI&feature=youtu.be
(Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
O, 9910 SAIPAN used to be quite good here; no parameter match since
site was also replaced (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
** U S A [non]. Frequency changes of RFA, VOA, Radio liberty (+more
videos):
Radio Free Asia from February 2, Cantonese to E Asia:
1400-1500 on 13655 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg Mon, ex Daily
1400-1500 NF 13665 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg Tue, ex 13655
1400-1500 on 13655 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg Wed, ex Daily
1400-1500 NF 13665 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg Thu, ex 13655
1400-1500 on 13655 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg Fri, ex Daily
1400-1500 NF 13695 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg Sat, ex 13655
1400-1500 NF 13640 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg Sun, ex 13635, re-ex 13655
2200-2300 on 9720 SAI 100 kW / 285 deg Mon, ex Daily
2200-2300 NF 9975 SAI 100 kW / 285 deg Tue, ex 9720
2200-2300 on 9720 SAI 100 kW / 285 deg Wed, ex Daily
2200-2300 NF 9975 SAI 100 kW / 285 deg Thu, ex 9720
2200-2300 on 9720 SAI 100 kW / 285 deg Fri, ex Daily
2200-2300 NF 9940 SAI 100 kW / 285 deg Sat, ex 9720
2200-2300 NF 9995 SAI 100 kW / 285 deg Sun, ex 9720
Voice of America from February 16
1600-1700 NF 9760 UDO 250 kW / 319 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 9695 //
7570, 11720
Radio Liberty from February 20
1400-1500 NF 11840 PHT 250 kW / 349 deg to EaEu Russian, ex 9910 SAI
// 15130
Radio Liberty from February 21
1400-1500 NF 13630 IRA 250 kW / 340 deg to CeAs Uzbek, ex 13645 //
15265
Radio Liberty from February 23
1400-1500 NF 12055 LAM 100 kW / 075 deg to CeAs Tajik, ex 11975 //
7475
1500-1700 NF 11985 LAM 100 kW / 075 deg to CeAs Tajik, ex 11975 //
7475
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/02/frequency-changes-of-rfa-and-voa.html
(DX RE MIX NEWS #897 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov. Feb. 23, 2015
via DXLD)
** U S A [non]. 17700, Feb 23 at 1537, very poor talk in unID
language. Aoki shows it`s VOA via BOTSWANA, 1500-1530 daily in Hausa,
and since January 12, adding 1530-1600 M-F (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1761 monitoring: still no show at 2201 Thu
Feb 19 on Global 24 [see separate log]; and I missed checking the 0001
UT Friday on 9395, but probably; did anyone hear it? Next:
Fri 2130 on WRMI 7570 & 15770
Sat 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Sat 1000 on WRMI 5850
Sun 0231 on KVOH 9975
Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580
Mon 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v
Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955
Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Wed 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955
Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v
Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
WORLD OF RADIO 1761 monitoring: confirmed Friday February 20 at 2130.5
on WRMI 7570 & 15770, both sufficient. Next:
Sun 0231 on KVOH 9975
Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580
Mon 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v
Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955
Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Wed 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955
Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v
Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Furthermore! WORLD OF RADIO has been added to the schedule of WA0RCR,
1860 kHz in Wentzville MO, the Gateway 160 Meter Radio Newsletter.
Thanks to Vern Jackson for accepting WOR, and to John Carson, WB5Q for
suggesting this. Vern says:
``Hi Glenn, The afternoon airing will begin somewhere around 2:30 PM
Central [2030 UT]; depending on the lengths of many other segments;
all of which vary from week to week. It will start at 2:37 PM on Sat.
Feb. 21. WOR will air on 1860 again evening around 22:15 CST (0415 UT
Sundays) after ARRL Audio News, which follows The Houston AMSAT Net.
This will give wide area night coverage. 73, Vern Jackson``
Tnx, Vern! More info at http://wa0rcr.mbohnhoffinc.com/
WA0RCR puts a reliable AM signal into Enid Saturday nights/UT Sundays
(Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
WORLD OF RADIO 1761 monitoring: confirmed on KVOH 9975, UT Sunday Feb
22 at 0231.
Saturday night transmission has now been extended an hour from *0130
UT Sun and sked now updated to show: `Shore Up Soccer` with Josh Ault
--- web link is incorrect, as ```/shoreupsports`` but it`s really
https://www.facebook.com/shoreupsoccer
``The Nations First Faith Based Soccer Show``!
[WORLD OF RADIO 1762]
WOR is now carried on WA0RCR, 1860-AM kHz, Wentzville MO, nominally
0415v UT Sundays. Monitoring Feb 22: at 0407, Houston AMSAT is
wrapping up with SSTV(?) tones; 0408 WA0RCR ID, ARRL Audio News next,
dated Fri Feb 20; 0409 pause for ID by Dave Marthouse (remember him
from DX show Spectrum?); WOR does not start until 0424, opening
upcut/truncated, and it turns out to be last week`s #1760 instead of
latest 1761; ends at 0452:15, ID, into RAIN report. Next:
Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580
Mon 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v
Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955
Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Wed 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955
Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v
Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
WORLD OF RADIO 1761 monitoring: confirmed Sunday Feb 22 at 2300 on
WRMI 11580, sufficient; also confirmed UT Monday Feb 23 at 0401 on
Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v. Next:
Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955
Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Wed 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955
Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v
Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
WORLD OF RADIO 1761 monitoring: inquiry from a listener indicates that
at 2200+ UT Monday Feb 23, Global 24 via WRMI 9395 was playing a Two
Bobs episode on `Switzerland in Sound`, supposed to be at 2230 after
WOR. Did anyone else hear WOR at 2200 or 2230? Next:
Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955
Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Wed 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955
Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v
Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
As for whether or not the Mon 2201 airing on 9395 occurred, my
listener says he did hear WOR at first, and did not realize later on
that the programming had changed (to Switzerland in Sound).
WORLD OF RADIO 1761 monitoring: confirmed UT Wed 0401 on Global 24
webcast, also via WRMI 9395. Preceded by Bach fill music at 0359, 0400
ID and a semiminute of FSN news headlines. The Wed 1415 airing on WRMI
9955 also confirmed at 1440 Feb 25 check, good with no jamming. Next:
Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v
Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
WORLD OF RADIO 1761 monitoring: confirmed on webcast of WBCQ 7490v,
Wed Feb 25 at 2200; and on that of Global 24, Wed Feb 25 at 2201.
WORLD OF RADIO 1762 monitoring: confirmed first SW broadcast, also
webcast, of WRMI 9955, UT Thu Feb 26 at 0431. Also good on 9955, Thu
Feb 26 at 1330. Next:
Fri 0001 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Fri 2130 on WRMI 7570 & 15770
Sat 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Sat 1000 on WRMI 5850
Sat 2030v on WA0RCR 1860-AM Gateway 160 Meter Radio Newsletter, MO NEW
Sun 0231 on KVOH 9975
Sun 0415v on WA0RCR 1860-AM Gateway 160 Meter Radio Newsletter, MO NEW
Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580
Mon 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v
Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955
Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Wed 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955
Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v
Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11580, Feb 19 at 1232, WRMI is open carrier/dead air with
hum, while Brother Scare is still modulating on 11825, 15770. At first
I thought it was something else on 11825, ``Amazing Facts`` but that
was just a clip and back to B.S.
9955, Feb 19 at 2209-2215+, WRMI is playing continuous variety of
music, no announcements, presumably filler, tho an unfamiliar
selexion. After daytime break, from *2200 block is supposedly Brother
Scare. At 2234 something new in very slowly spoken Kriyol, now with
lite pulse jamming. WRMI program schedule still dated January 1 now
has carved out 2230-2300 Thursdays merely as ``Kreyol``. I`ve asked
Jeff White what program it really is, exactly? Another mystery now on
the schedule: ``Kloch desperans`` Sunday at 1145-1200: what is that
and in what language? Turns out these are related:
Searching on that title, I find this already mentioned on WRMI FB
January 8: ``WRMI Begins Weekly Creole Service --- As of January 8,
2015, WRMI will begin airing a 30-minute weekly segment of programming
in the Creole language to Haiti at 5:30-6:00 pm Eastern Time on 9955
kHz shortwave. From 5:30-5:45 pm Thursdays, WRMI will air a program
called "Kloch Desperans" ("Bells of Hope") presented by Father André
Weedny. From 5:45-6:00 pm, the station will air a dramatized version
of the Bible in Creole`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See
also EQUATORIAL GUINEA [non], and separate logs of Global 24
** U S A. 9395, Feb 19 at 1229, Global 24 via WRMI playing fill music,
1812 Overture; next check 1331, still/again the same! During what
should have been World Radio Network at 12, and `Democracy Now` at 13.
`Upstate Radio Theater` has succeeded after 14, by 1431 check with
Woodbury ad closing Bing Crosby Show of 9/18/34, then into `Sam Spade`
of 11/28/48. That Bing date seems awfully familiar: Yes, the very same
episode I logged last Nov 29 and Dec 4! Are they replaying the same
Upstate Radio Theater over and over??
1501 as on Thursdays only, `Democracy Now` starts [again?] with
headlines concerning Greece and whistleblowers. But at 1515 cut DN and
back to Bach fill music, still so at 1536.
9395 via WRMI, Global 24 monitoring: after World of Radio disappeared
from the previous Thu 2201 UT airing as `Dialogos Greece` kept running
the last few weeks, this time Feb 19 I am checking at 2100 to confirm
whether D.G. really starts at 2100, or later? Yes, it does. Recheck at
2200 Feb 19, Greek music is still playing when G24 cuts away from it
this week, no ID or ad, right into European News Network with another
replay of the evergreen show interviewing Dame Vera Lynn instead of
any news. And at 2215: REPEAT the very same show again! So instead of
a brand-new WOR we got two plays of a backup show. Previous weeks,
D.G. ran until 2215 and then E.N.N.
More crashes to the same old fill music on 9395: Feb 20 at 0327, 1812
Overture is playing; recheck 0349 it`s about to climax with bells and
cannons, when cut off for a Hobo Hanky ad (new one to me), then back
to Bach. Propagation disturbance plunges the MUF, so by 0427, 9395 is
nothing but a JBA carrier (while WRMI 7570 & 7455 are still very
strong but somewhat diminished). 9395 still JBA at 0646.
BTW, just before 2100 UT Feb 19 on 9395, there was a WRN promo for
`Democracy Now`. I was not aware it`s on WRN, and indeed not found
anywhere on the WRN North American schedule dated January 1. Also, I
had assumed Vatican Radio was on WRN at 0545 UT, since we hear it on
G24 following Israel Radio at 0530, which is on WRN --- but WRN shows
their 0545 program is RNZI; needs updating?
[and non]. 9395, Feb 22 at 1358, Global 24 via WRMI is still lacking
R. Cairo, yet still on the G24 program schedule for Sundays 1300-1430.
Instead I am hearing ``Favorite Son``, by CCR, which I think is part
of their limited fill-music repertoire. 1400, `Global 24 News` by Jeff
D., bringing up Priscilla (stringer?) in Washington DC, about SCOTUS
considering same-sex marriage. Stops at 1401 already for `1812
Overture` fill, but they don`t always play it all the way thru, and
yes, by 1408 recheck it`s the evergreen Dame Vera Lynn interview yet
again from the European News Network, which lasts until 1421
commercials. During this period, 9395 signal is weaker than both
adjacents it`s squeezed between: 9390 R. Thailand news in English, and
9400 V. of Kurdistan music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5110, UT Fri Feb 20 at 0432, WBCQ off, so VORW ex-pirate
http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=show_program&id=287
is apparently a past-thing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7489.914, Odd frequency WBCQ Monticello, discussion on winter weather
and temperature outlook, very slow spoken talk. S=9+30dB -42dBm signal
at 0035 UT on Feb 21.
5109.975, Some brokered program heard like WZGZ WBCQ Monticello at
0030 UT on Feb 21. S=9 signal in Boston-MA. All logged on remote SDR
unit in Boston Massachusetts northeastern USA. vy73 de (Wolfgang DF5SX
Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7490-, Feb 21 at 0105, WBCQ seems stable slightly on the lo side now
that they are using the ex-9330 transmitter, as `Allan Weiner
Worldwide` is underway. It`s the only frequency this week, nothing
heard on 5110, 9330 or 15420; yet, Allan claims at 0118 that he`s on
7490, and 5110 plus webcast on WBCQ.com and studio video via WBCQ.tv.
Also refers us to a countdown clock at the WBCQ website to the
scheduled vote on Net Neutrality, his major topic tonight, in favor
of, of course. Not until 0200 do a couple of callers inform him that
5110 is not really on the air as expected from Monticello. He`s still
in the land of Fla (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. SHOCK JOCK TO RETURN TO THE AIRWAVES AFTER BEING JAILED FOR
EDITORIAL
Monticello, Maine, February 20, 2015 -- International Shortwave Radio
Station WBCQ The Planet is pleased to announce the return to radio of
shock jock Hal Turner. The Hal Turner Show will have its grand re-
launch on Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 9:00 PM EDT and will be heard
throughout the United States as well as 70 [sic] other countries
around the world on WBCQ at 7.490 MHz.
Turner, who previously aired his program on WBCQ, was arrested by the
FBI on June 24, 2009 after publishing an editorial on his talk radio
show web site. In the editorial, Turner criticized three United States
Judges in Chicago for their ruling which upheld Chicagos ban on
handguns. Turner wrote that the three judges were traitors to the
Constitution who deserve to be killed.
Former United States Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald of Chicago claimed
that Turner`s statement was a threat to assault and murder three
United States Judges. Turner argued that saying someone deserves
something, is an opinion protected by the First Amendment.
Turner was put on trial in December 2009 in Brooklyn Federal Court.
The first trial ended in a hung jury, with 9 out of the 12 jurors
voting not guilty. The government tried Turner a second time in March
2010, and again, the jury was hung. At that point, financially wrecked
by legal fees, Turner declared bankruptcy and was appointed a federal
public defender.
The government put Turner on trial for an astonishing third time (a
process usually reserved only for high ranking mafia bosses) and
Turner was convicted on August 13, 2010. Sentenced to thirty-three
months in prison and three years probation, Turner has served his
sentence and will return to the airwaves on October 7. He is the only
living American media personality in the United States ever put in
prison for an editorial.
The show will be a listener call-in talk show format as it was before
and will retain its slogan Free Speech No Matter Who Doesn`t Like It.
The show will likely be simulcast live via Internet, but negotiations
are still in progress as to what web site will carry the show. Other
radio stations in New York City and elsewhere are also negotiating to
broadcast Turners program. More details will be released as they
become available.
For more information, contact:
Allan Weiner
WBCQ The Planet
274 Britton Road
Monticello, Maine 04760 USA
1 (207) 538-9180
Posted by: radio@zappahead.net
(Larry Will, Feb 20, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This show sounds like a candidate for "AM 970-- The Answer"
http://am970theanswer.com/ AKA WNYM, which serves the NYC area. If
you'd ask me. I can't see them cutting off the last hour of Hugh
Hewitt's program (7-10 PM) to carry Hal's show live starting at 9 PM
(but schedules can always be finagled with over the next half a year).
(Shawn From Flushing NY (not just "the HM01 guy") Fahrer, ibid.)
** U S A. 12105, Feb 19 at 2233, WTWW-3 is off instead of Bibling;
this transmission had been fairly reliable. WTWW-2 is also off, of
course, no 9930.
12105, Feb 21 at 0116 check, WTWW-3 is off, and so is WTWW-2, nothing
on 9930 or 5085; just WTWW-1 on 9475 with the whites-only, males-only,
dead-only, Scriptures for America.
9475, Feb 21 at 1504-1507, we are blessed with a few minutes of dead
air before resuming harangues (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[and non]. 9930, Feb 22 at 1425, rock & roll tune, way atop T8WH, so
Ted has chosen the only day of the week to fire a WTWW-2 frequency
back up, when it will collide with PALAU after 1400, on Sundays until
1500. 9475 WTWW is also on (and 5830 before 1400), so two transmitters
are funxional at the moment; yet only 5830 was active early UT Sunday,
no 5085 which would have transmitted Ted`s music show if possible. We
suspected the real #2 transmitter had been taken over for use on the
#1 frequencies.
At 1707 Feb 22 recheck, 9930 is still on with rock music, and notably
stronger than 9475, evidently at reduced power, whatever the
transmitter. Meanwhile, #3 had not been heard lately in the afternoons
on 12105, so that unit is either down, or substituting for one of the
others which is down.
5085, Feb 23 at 0647, WTWW-2 is back on, rock music and Ted reverbing
from the bottle-of-the-barrel, saying he can`t remember something
about the music.
9475, Feb 24 at 2235, PPPP programing has been pre-empted on WTWW for
live(?) coverage from the annual National Religious Broadcasters
convention always in Nashville --- Ted is interviewing some guy in the
movie biz, and for the few minutes I listen, can`t determine who he is
or what it has to do with religion or broadcasting.
9475 // 9930, Wed Feb 25 at 2025, unusually the two operable WTWW
transmitters are duplicating (while 12105 still off), preëmpting dead
gospel-huxtering from Laporte for live(?) coverage of the National
Religious Broadcasters annual convention in Nashville, Ted
interviewing someone. At 2242 recheck, still // but now with
hymnmusic. Con runs from 23 to 26 Feb, so maybe even more the next day
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. February 17:
WWCR 1 in English to WeEu, distorted audio 1400 on 15825 Nashville
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As3emPWSkS8&feature=youtu.be
(Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5930 & 5940, Feb 24 at 0623, the sidebands of WWCR 5935 with DGS are
very noisy with something else, i.e. matching modulation peaks of WWCR
4840, as the spurious garbage cuts on and off. Yet another case of
unsavory interaxion among WWCR transmitters which need to be isolated
one from another, amen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11870, Feb 24 at 0615, R. Católica Mundial during the rote
``Dolorosa Pasión`` show is under big humwhine. This particular defect
I only note on this frequency late at night; not so on // 7555 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9265, WINB, Red Lion PA; 2323-2330+, 15-Feb; Tuned in to Dr.
Wong's sexual function snake oil huxter infomercial -- missed the good
parts heard at the last DXPedition. EZL music interlude 2325+ to 2329+
WINB spot into One God Ministry huxter program. All in English (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. Start of transmission of WJHR Radio International on Feb 24:
from 1403 on 15550 JHR 050 kW / 005 deg to NWAm English USB, video
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/02/reception-of-wjhr-radio-international.html
(Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, Feb 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
?? 5 degrees from Milton in the FL panhandle near Pensacola is hardly
toward northwest America (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
** U S A. ARRL WARNS EXPERIMENTAL LICENSEE TO AVOID INTERFERENCE TO HF
HAM ACTIVITY --- Southgate, February 18, 2015
The ARRL has asked a Massachusetts company that plans to conduct
experimental transmissions over wide portions of the HF spectrum
either to avoid Amateur Radio allocations or to announce the times and
frequencies of their transmissions in advance.
The FCC last fall granted MITRE Corporation of Bedford, Massachusetts,
a 2-year Part 5 Experimental License, WH2XCI, to operate 21
transmitters at 10 fixed New York and Massachusetts sites. MITRE plans
to test wideband HF communication techniques on a variety of bands
between 2.5 MHz and 16 MHz.
"[I]t will not be possible for MITRE to operate these transmitters
within the Amateur Radio Service allocations...without causing harmful
interference to a large number of Amateur Radio operators on an
ongoing basis," ARRL Chief Counsel Chris Imlay, W3KD, said in a
February 12 letter to MITRE.
Imlay said that if MITRE does not agree to avoid ham radio bands or to
announce times and frequencies of transmissions ahead of time, it will
ask the FCC to rescind the company's Experimental License or to impose
a prior notification requirement "in real time for each and every use
of the transmitters authorized at each site."
The WH2XCI Experimental License authorizes maximum bandwidths of 5
kHz, 500 kHz, and 1 MHz at effective radiated power levels of 6 W, 24
W, or 122 W. MITRE has indicated that most bandwidths would be between
100 and 300 kHz.
"At these power levels with the operating parameters proposed, it will
be impossible to conduct your tests at any time within the Amateur
Radio allocations and, at the same time, avoid harmful interference,"
Imlay said. He noted that MITRE already conceded this point in a
technical exhibit submitted to the FCC with respect to its 1 MHz
bandwidth mode.
Imlay said that when interference from MITRE's wide-bandwidth
transmitters "inevitably occurs in the narrow-bandwidth, sensitive
receivers" hams use, amateur licensees will have no way to determine
the source of the interference or know to whom they might complain.
"Thus, your assurance of operation on a 'non-interference basis' is
meaningless under the circumstances, and yet that is both a special
condition of operation" of the WH2XCI license and under FCC Part 5
regulations, Imlay told MITRE.
"It is ARRL's intention to ensure that this experimental
authorization, improvidently granted to the extent that it includes
heavily used Amateur Radio allocations, is not permitted to cause
interference to ongoing Amateur Radio HF communications," Imlay
concluded.
MITRE obtained the Experimental License to investigate high data rate
wideband HF communication systems that exploit polarization diversity
multiple input, multiple output concepts to expand the bandwidth of
the communication channel.
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2015/february/arrl_warns_experimental_licensee_to_avoid_interference_to_hf_ham_activity.htm
Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD)
Hi Jeff, Here`s a job for the Chief Counsel of the NASB --- make the
same demands that the hams are, to keep this out of the SWBC bands.
73, (Glenn to Jeff White, via DXLD)
Interesting Glenn. I'll try to get someone who can understand this
better than me to look at it (Jeff White to Glenn, ibid.)
** U S A. 690, Feb 19 at 1313 UT, KGGF Coffeyville KS with news about
OK and KS, as ``Radio Results Group News``, a mouthful but that`s the
real name of its local group including 3 FM stations:
http://www.radioresultsgroup.com
which says, ``On the air since 1928, KGGF is truly one of America`s
heritage radio stations``. I don`t see a program schedule, but they
are also one of few stations that still signs off when they don`t have
to, at local midnight, with a rotating patriotic song, and always
closing with Taps just after 0600 UT (soon 0500 UT with DST). KGGF
used to leave the carrier on afterwards but I have not reconfirmed
that lately. `Jim Bohannon` runs until midnite weekdays; occasionally
stays on later, like for a west-coast extra-inning silly baseball
game.
Back to the Feb 19 log: quick carrier break at 1314 UT, presumably
switch from night to day facilities as official Feb sunrise is 1315 UT
(March: bumps all the way up to 1230 UT): 10/5 kW U4, but no
difference in groundwave signal here. Night pattern has four lobes,
major one to the SW away from Montreal, and four deep nulls, while day
pattern is tangent broadly almost circular more to the SSW.
RRG News continues at 1314 UT Feb 19 with `Profile America` for Friday
Feb 13! Day in history from US Census Bureau, 1316 ``Color Weather
Radar``, which has to be interpreted by the monochrome, audio-only
announcer; shall we take his word for how colorful it is? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 840, Feb 19 at 0650 UT, with WHAS nulled from a SAH more
like 8 Hz than last night`s 7, a Spanish call-in show again about El
Salvador; 0655 UT break ID as ESPN Deportes; 0658 UT, USG PSAs, still
Spanish, including highway safety and 0659 UT influenza, but fading
down just in time to miss a ToH ID, but already know it`s KVJY Pharr
TX.
The ESPN Deportes schedule via
http://espndeportes.espn.go.com/espndeportesradio/
shows weekdays at 1-2 am (presumably EST), a show merely called `FC`.
On the ESPN Deportes program schedule via SiriusXM, which may not be
the same, there is a 12-1 am ET show called F C | Central American
Soccer. So that`s what I have been hearing. FC = fútbol
centroamericano? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 880-CUSB, Feb 19 at 1305 UT, Christian song somewhat
overmodulated/distorted and not much on the lower sideband, as always
from KHAC Tse Bonito NM; 1307 UT rendition of `Star-Spangled Banner`
in English to a different tune than usual! Wonder if they play that
every morning. 1308 UT on to a hymn in Navajo. KHAC is always running
day facility 10 kW ND, dominating rather than anything from KLRG AR,
which should now be 50 kW ND.
880-CUSB, Feb 21 at 0137 UT, KHAC, (Tse Bonito NM but address in
Window Rock AZ), ``the Voice of Hope`` program promo for something at
5-9 pm M-F, i.e. this very show; constantly cheating with 10 kW ND day
instead of 430 watts night, per NRC AM Log which also shows a
different slogan, now abandoned? ``Voice of Encouragement``. Also
lists schedule as 08-24 EST, tho I also hear it as late as 02 EST; and
all-night? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 980, Feb 24 at 0140 UT, Spanish talk explaining
eligibility for Medicare, so it`s certainly United Statesian, from
N/S, and in next 4 minutes clearly giving phone number 5 times: 832-
701-3647. AC 832 = Houston TX, so this is KQUE, COL Rosenberg-
Richmond, but address in Pasadena. NRC AM Log says it`s Radio Aleluya,
5/4 kW U4. Day and night patterns throw major lobe SE into the Gulf,
minor lobe NW toward me.
At same time I am getting another weaker SS on 980, somewhat separable
further to the SW, likely XENR Nueva Rosita, Coahuila, 0141 UT with
local weather (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 990, Feb 21 at 0135, talk show with prompt ID as ``AM 990,
KWAM`` Memphis TN, phone 800-801-8999 and apparently another similar
number depending on whether you agree with Giuliani or not about Obama
being anti-American. What a crock! Holding its own for a while vs XET
and CBW; night pattern is WNW/ESE with 450 watts, while day pattern is
tight E-W with 10 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1060, Feb 23 at 0658 UT, bigsig, very good dominating from
NW/SE with CRS = Catholic Relief Service rice-bowl ad, 0659 UT ``pro-
life update``, dead air just before 0700 UT during a space reserved
for local ID which was NOT transmitted, then into EWTN Radio, `Women
of Grace, Live` except it isn`t, so please don`t call.
This is obviously KRCN Longmont CO, which as we reported, recently
flipped from Bloomberg BIZ to Catholic EWTN, and was widely reported
earlier this evening across the country as surely on non-direxional
day power 50 kW instead of 111 watts night. Only by nulling it can I
bring up the off-frequency LAHs from KIJN, another cheater, and the
new XERDO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.:
1060, KRCN, Longmont CO very strong --- Blowing the doors off since
before 7 pm MST (02 UT) with EWTN content, clearly not on their 111
watt night power (they are 50 kW NDA daytime). New log for me (Brian
Rachford - Prescott, AZ, http://azswdxing.wordpress.com/ 0235 UT Feb
23, IRCA via DXLD)
Noted under CKMX with man and woman reciting the rosary 2155 EST. ID
2200 "KRCN Longmont-Boulder-Denver" by cheerful woman (Bruce in
Seattle Portzer, ibid., et al.)
** U S A. 1140, Feb 20 at 0652 UT, Coast to Coast, // KFAQ 1170 and
countless others, but never synchronized; loops ENE/WSW and holding
its own against XEMR. Suspect WRVA Richmond VA, and confirmed as such
by several IDs at 0659 UT, ``Newsradio 1140, WRVA`` also with FM and
HD frequencies, Fox `news`. 50 kW WRVA night pattern is NW/SE, so not
much toward us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1220, Feb 20 at 0655 UT, gospel music from the ENE/WSW, and
C&W music from NNW/SSE, the latter soon replaced by caller speaking
accented English, mentions DFW international airport, show host also
with S Asian accent, so surely KZEE Weatherford TX, 200 watts at
night, ``South Asian Radio`` a.k.a. ``Hot Pepper 1220`` per NRC AM
Log. The other station would normally be perpetual cheater WSLM Salem
IN, which is Classic Country, rather than gospel, so maybe this was
really KOMC Branson MO, 1000/44 watts, ``Solid gospel`` (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1290, Feb 23 at 0706 UT, ``on the mighty 12-90, Koil``. Not
often heard here; 5 kW day and night, but night pattern has minor lobe
to SSW, major lobe to NNE, while day pattern is ND (the day contour
circle in the NRC Pattern Book should be dotted). IIRC, KOIL, Omaha NE
was once a major rocker, but now listed as news/talk.
KOIL was on 1180 from 8/24/1993 to 4/22/2003 and again from 01/01/2009
to 06/04/2012 when 1180 became KZOT, per FCC call sign history (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1530, Feb 21 at 0652 UT, romantic music in Spanish, 0655 UT
Univisión América ID, Spanish PSAs including donate-your-car to a
charity for the blind with an 800-number; 0657 UT another one
promoting sex education for 14-19 year-olds, website sounded like
poderdehablar.org but that goes nowhere; credit Texas Health
Department about good diets; 0659 UT, 911 promo for lifesaving, YMCA,
all in Spanish; before 0700 UT, only ID heard is for Univisión
América, and into music.
Thruout, WCKY without Brother Scare has been hard to null, but this
one is from the N/S and has to be KGBT Harlingen, RGV, TX. Its 10 kW
night pattern shows essentially zero signal to the north:
http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1074352-91038.pdf
While day pattern is 50 kW ND; hmmm, could it be? BTW, there is
another SS Texan between us, circa Austin, per NRC AM Log, KZNX, Radio
Mujer, 10000/220 watts U7.
1530, Feb 24 at 0125 UT, `Univisión Radio` ID in passing, and SHVA
ads, 0126 UT Autozone, etc. from N/S, i.e. surely KGBT Harlingen, RGV
TX. Standard remark about how KGBT is not supposed to put out any
signal toward the north, but this was dominating anything else on 1530
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1530, Feb 21 at 0701 UT, after logging KGBT from the south,
I rotate the DX-398 to E/W, finding not WCKY, but church service
announcements mentioning Little Rock, so it`s KVDW, England AR, 2.5 kW
daytimer cheating again.
I was hoping to hear 1530 Colorado Springs CO, which per AM Switch,
NRC DX News post-dated Feb 23, changed call Feb 5 from KCMN to KKHI,
now Oldies 1530, and no longer on the I-25 Radio Network; but Wayne
Heinen noted it was off the air as of Feb 13. Too, cheating would help
get it here as before, 15 kW day power instead of 15 watts night.
KKHI, alluding to hi-fidelity? was once the call of San Francisco`s
premier classical music station on 1550, until June 20, 1994 when it
became KPIX; thence KYCY, KFRC, and currently KZDG (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1550, Sun Feb 22 at 1350 UT, dominant signal on FRG-7 with
E/W longwire is non-commercial-sounding interview about a campus
United Way drive, on `Weekend Edition` --- could it be 50 kW daytimer
KUAZ Tucson AZ already? with a local segment cutaway from NPR Weekend
Edition Sunday? No! Finally at 1353 UT a local reference to Cape
Girardeau, so it`s KAPE in MO, on 5 kW day pattern skewed toward the
west. BTW, Radio-locator shows address is way over in Mt Vernon IL:
Withers corp HQ may be there, but is it also programmed remotely from
there?? Transmitter site anyway is definitely near C.G. in MO.
Meanwhile, no sign of KLFJ Springfield MO halfway between us which
should also be on 5 kW ND day pattern, the Branson station on 1550
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1560, Feb 23 at 0702 UT, I`m checking 1560 for DX, tho the
absence of NYC makes absolutely no difference here in deep North
America, since even when on, the WQEW/ex-WQXR blasted most of its 50
kW signal over New England, the Maritimes and Olde England, never
heard here. The hiatus is until Family Radio remakes it into a total
nonentity, WFME, after having given up their old FM station in market.
But I do get something odd on 1560, ESPN Radio, `Sports Center All-
Night`, looping ENE/WSW, so it can`t be Houston, and besides, that`s
not ESPN, is it? NRC AM Log 2014-2015 shows several sports stations on
upstart networks, but the only ESPN was WSLA, 500-watt daytimer in
Slidell LA. No fit.
So I Google on ESPN 1560 and soon find a nearby candidate, WMBH in
Joplin MO! Yes, a legacy W-call in the West, belonging to a rather
insignificant station, and originally on 1450 until a local
station/format swap. It`s only 192 miles/310 km away, city-to-city.
NRC AM Log 2014-2015 had WMBH as urban contemporary format, ``The
Beat``, 250/9 watts. Altho the signal soon fades into QRM, I strongly
suspect more than 9 watts. If it had stayed on 1450, it could be
running 1000 watts at night, but with slightly more QRM.
Confirming WMBH is now ESPN, see these:
https://www.facebook.com/joplinsportsedge
http://www.koamtv.com/story/28133562/wmbh-1560-espn-radio-to-be-flagship-station-for-joplin-blasters
http://espn.go.com/espnradio/affiliate
and click on the map dot over Joplin if you can find it
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1725-CW, Feb 21 at 0618 UT, I am trying for a licensed 70-
watt beacon in Massachusetts that Warren, K2ORS is reported to be
running tonight. After off-tuning 11725 RNZI with BFO, down 10 MHz to
1725 to see if I can hear it on the FRG-7 with E-W longwire. Yes! A
little better by 0630 UT, but barely in the noise level, such that I
can copy only an occasional character, rarely two or more in a row.
{CW at quite slow rate; it could axually have been better somewhat
faster, as fades often prevented copying one complete letter.} At one
point, 0643 UT, I think I copy three letters in a row, so could that
get me a QSL? We are asked not to publish them. May not be using the
K2ORS ID here. The earlier notification about this I redistributed to
the DXLD yg follows (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Special licensed experimental CW beacon on 1725 kHz Friday night
I'll paste in the message that was sent to NDBLIST. This weekend is
the monthly "coordinated listening event" that ndblist runs one
weekend each month. Experimental beacons around 475 and other places
are encouraged to be on the air. Warren K2ORS in MA put his on the
air, on 1725 kHz. It's good copy here in NE Oregon around 0330 UT.
There are fades but on peaks the whole message has been copied several
times now. If you copy it please do not post it publicly, in order
that others can have a legitimate chance to copy it, if a verification
is desired. The CW is very slow and you could write down the dots and
dashes and decipher them later, if needed. Note he gives an email
address for verification requests. Steve NE Oregon (La Grande)
"Hi All, I am running an experimental beacon on 1725 kHz CW (under an
FCC Experimental license), about 70W into an inverted-L. Likely
tonight only as we are expecting ice storm over the weekend. Will QSL
verifiable reports, send report to k2ors-AT-verizon.net. 73 Warren
K2ORS" (Steve Ratzlaff, IRCA via DXLD)
What radio and antenna are you using to hear it? (Dennis Gibson, CA,
Sent from my iPhone, ibid.)
Icom R75, CW IF filter, narrow audio filter and outside active whip.
73, (Steve, ibid.)
Hi Guys: Lots of Experimental Beacon Stations on the Air last night!!
One New Station heard on 1725 kHz!! WH2XDE/3, Wayland, MASSACHUSETTS,
Feb/22/15, 0020 UT, CW MODE, GOOD. Part 5 Experimental Station
Operated by K2ORS - Warren. 600 Watts of Power. CW Beacon about 5 WPM
with ID Repeated as "WH2XDE/3 FN42SI Wayland MA" RADIO USED: DRAKE
R8B; ANTENNA USED: 180 Foot Longwire. 73 ROB VA3SW (Robert S. Ross,
London, Ontario CANADA, ODXA? yg via DXLD)
Now it can be told since Rob published his log copy anyway: the three
letters I was able to copy were DMA --- as in ``WaylanD MA``. It would
really have been easier to copy at a somewhat faster rate, as there
was fading within single characters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 104.9 FM via webcasts, WCLV Cleveland, ``Sagebrush Bob``
announces on the Feb 21 edition that `Weekend Radio` will start airing
the 12 episodes of `Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy` on Saturday March
21. Probably during the second halves of the one-hour show, which will
be on WCLV at 02-03 UT Sundays once DST is running; and on many other
stations including KUCO 90.1 OK, one hour later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [non]. 15470, Feb 23 at 1531, YL with S Asian accent in
English quoting and commenting on Psalms, fair signal. Aoki shows it`s
VR via IBB Tinang, PHILIPPINES, ergo violating Separation of Church
and State. {And presumably // the DRM noise 15770-15775-15780 from SMG
itself, blowing away the BS from 15770} (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA. 1560, YVLZ, Mérida, 0224-0235, 18-Feb; "...emisora...
Venezuela...La Voz Informativa" and low key SS vocals. YV #20.
Call/QTH per WRTVH (only 1560 listed) WQEW off (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)
** VIETNAM. 6020.0, Voice of Vietnam's 4th domestic program, non-
direction outlet from Daclac site, S=9+25dB or -55dBm signal in
eastern Thailand post. Boring endless female reading at 2321 UT, no
music heard at all. [Thailand location, selected SDR options, span
12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, Feb 24, wwdxc BC-DX
TopNews via DXLD) See UNIDENTIFIED 6033.4 below
UNIDENTIFIED. 774, Feb 23 at 1259-1302, JBA carrier from the NW,
surely 500 kW NHK2, JOUB, Akita, a prime pilot for trans-Pacific
propagation. No full bandscan, but nothing on 828, 747, 702 or 1566
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. [Re 15-07:] Dutch DXer Max Van Arnhem has contacted the
club to ask if we can help track down the source of some strange
interference he is hearing on 1080 and 1134 kHz, which he suspects may
be coming from one of the TalkSport transmitters. If members around
the UK could check these frequencies, especially during the daytime,
and let Max know if you can hear the interference during the daytime,
to try and work out which transmitter it is coming from. Max writes:
I suppose it was in November 2014 that I observed a nasty interference
on 1080 and 1134 kHz. Since that time the interference is audible
daily. The last week I have put a lot of time in investigating these
interferences.
I was also in contact with a group of radio listeners in The
Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, who could also hear the interference
on both frequencies. The signals are also audible in the UK.
Now it is almost 100% sure that the interference is caused by signals
of Talk Sport Radio. It is difficult to say which Talk Sport Radio
transmitter is the origin of the interference. Also the Talk Sport
transmissions were checked on their frequencies 1071 and 1089 kHz, but
no strange signals can be heard.
I made some recordings of the interference which you can hear on the
following link:
https://app.box.com/s/14bw8iwbllfp10iy081d8t66hz4wbxll
Characteristics of the interference:
Frequencies: 1080 kHz (best audible in Lower Side Band) and 1134 kHz
(best audible in Upper Side Band, but also in Lower Side Band)
Direction: In The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany the strongest
signals of the interference can be heard on north / north west
antennas.
Hours of reception of the interference: The interference can be heard
in The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany during the hours of darkness;
remarkably, the signal sometimes disappears but returns after a short
while; maybe that has to do with propagation.
Now the question is which transmitter of Talk Sport is causing the
interference? Nearby frequencies are 1071 (two low power stations) and
1089 (several high power stations and also some lower power stations).
As you may know, Talk Sport carries local advertising so if it was
possible to match the interference to adverts on a particular regional
transmitter it might be possible to work out where it is coming from.
Because of reception conditions here on the mainland [of Europe], it
is not very easy to find the transmitter which gives the trouble; so,
I would like to ask the UK DXers to check their regional frequencies
of Talk Sport and the affected frequencies 1080 and 1134, especially
also daylight and not only at darkness.
I hope you can report your findings mentioning your location, also
when you don’t hear the interference. As mentioned before, the signal
sometimes disappears but returns after a short while, so if you don’t
hear the interference, do listen again somewhat later.
In this way we can probably find the faulty transmitter. 73 (Max van
Arnhem, The Netherlands, via BDXC-UK yg via DXLD)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1320, Feb 21 at 0131 UT, Spanish talk looping SSE/NNW,
mentions Sonora, then fades vs all the CCI. Suspect KXYZ Houston,
which is controlled by the ChiCom front running CRI English on 1520
and 1540 most of the time, while 1320 is supposed to be in Chinese;
yet, NRC AM Log shows it as Ethnic/brokered/SS at least part of the
time. Could a Houstonian confirm whether KXYZ is in Spanish evenings,
or ever? Other possibility would be XECPN, Piedras Negras if my DF was
off a bit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Some Feb 23 2245 UT / Febr 24 0015 UT morning log of
remote eastern Thailand post at Tha Mai location on Uwe's SDR unit
place:
6033.400, Odd Frequency, some Himalayan/Myanmar/Laos/Thailand area -
music sound singer heard. Could that be Thimpu Bhutan so early at 2320
UT, in 2300-2400 UT slot, not heard after 0000 UT anymore. Or is this
an unknown spurious outlet and needs further investigation.
At 2349 UT on Feb 23 some 10 Hertz downwards now on 6033.390 kHz,
little scratchy audio sound, like SE Asian jungle or mountain forest
tribe people radio program, S=5 fade-out. [Thailand location, selected
SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc
BC-DX TopNews Feb 24 via WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DXLD)
VIETNAM So, the 6033.4 kHz UNIDENTIFIED Spurious signal seems in the
clearing now --- Most probably two symmetric spurious audio signals
some ±13.400 ... x.390 kHz away distance of fundamental Daclac / Dak
Lak - Buon Me Thuot' site transmitter installation in Vietnam.
Observed on both domestic Vietnamese 4th service on 6020 and 1st
service on 7210 kHz program outlets these days.
That seems their very special footprint. similar item we published in
June 2014 already:
``7210.000, Voice of Vietnam 1st domestic px from 'Daclac / Dak Lak -
Buon Me Thuot' site scheduled 2145-1700 UT, at 1100 UT June 8, S=9 or
-73dBm heard on remote SDR unit in southern Brisbane Australia. But
also the Dak Lak station produced two wider spurious signals of 4 kHz
wide bandwidth each, on 7196.305 and 7223.685 kHz. vy73 de wolfy``
Uwe sends me this e-mail now: ``Deine Nachricht von Dienstag, 24.
Februar 2015 01:43 Uhr UTC lautete:
Ich habe eine mir unbekannte Station auf 6033 kHz gehört, nicht
einordenbar. Ich tippe auf Ober-/Unterwellen von VoV Daclac auf 6020
kHz. Es ist wie ein Fingerabdruck der installierten Sender in Daclac
zu sein, gleiches Phänomen auch auf 7210 kHz, siehe Hardcopy. Beide
Sender strahlen ein Signal +/- 13,5 kHz aus.`` (Wolfgang Büschel, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Unid on 6660 tonight --- just tuning into a station
playing Latin music on 6660 at 0215 UTC for about 30 minutes before
fading. Limited commentary Seemed to be another very faint station in
the background in English. Any thoughts on what it might be? Nothing
in aoki listings for that frequency. Ralph in NYC (Ralph Sorrentino,
UT Feb 22, ptsw yg via DXLD)
Maybe the strong / weak station was a Hetrodyne from upper end of the
41 Meter band?? Single conversion set?? Probably not if you have a
Dual Conversion set! (Rick Wald, ibid.)
Sounds like a mixing product either in the transmitter or receiver.
You should check the 6 and 7 MHz bands for // in English, Spanish (gh,
DXLD)
UNIDENTIFIED. PPKD Beacon. Friday, February 20, 2015, 0211, 6815 usb.
PPKD in slow CW, on top of a burbly, s7, very good (Larry Will, MD, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
I found several other logs of this but no one says where it is; not in
the LWCA HIFER list. And if it is in CW, how can it also be in USB?
(Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7435, UNKNOWNIA, BBC WS, 2/23, 1630. Discussion of
weather and "You're listening to the BBC in London". Very clear ID,
but I don't have them here at this hour. Good (Rick Barton, (far
north) Peoria AZ, listening from my tent by the lake, Grundig Satellit
750, 20' wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. EGYPT. 9140 Spur?? Hello DXers, Checking 31 MB today I
noticed a strange spur on 9140 playing off beat Egyptian song followed
by Holly Quran at 1130 UT. That pattern of songs and Qur`an is a bit
strange; any ideas which station is this one? 73 (Tarek Zeidan, Cairo,
Egypt, Feb 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9130 - 9140 kHz --- looks like a technical intermodulation at Abis
transmitter site ? MW 500/100 kW Abis 774 kHz at same location.
9905 R Cairo minus 774 kHz at Abis = 9131 kHz.
9655 is a R Cairo frequency registration
9655 1800-1900 UT to 28 from Abis
maybe an engineering TX and antenna check on afternoon ?
73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.)
Hello Wolfie, Thanks for the analysis, but the strange thing is, the
Qur`an is on for the last couple of hours. It's still on as I'm
writing this 1345 UT and the Middle East Radio is having different
programmes. Will upload a video on youtube soon (Tarek Sent from my
iPad ibid.) Hello Again, Same station on 9655 kHz, 1137 UT! (Tarek
Zeidan, Cairo, Feb 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9131 would be close but no cigar for Tarek`s 9140 report. See also
9600/9550 logs below, may or may not be related to this? (gh, DXLD)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9338 approx., Feb 22 at 1358, heavy noise centered
approx. here, jamming? Nothing in Aoki on 9335 or 9340 at any hour,
but HFCC has a registration for PBC, Islamabad, Pakistan at 1330-1530
on 9335 in Urdu and English, 250 kW, 282 degrees. Possibly instead of
wooden, that transmitter is on and malfunxioning (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9355, Feb 20 at 1403, open carrier with hum, 1405 tone
and off. Likely VOA Tinang tuning up for the 1430 Burmese broadcast
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 9395, Monday Feb 23 at 1508 during Global 24`s
`Sounds from the Global Village`, good world music show, interruption
for 2-way calls twice in American accent, mentioning Coast Guard!
Nothing more of that past 1530. If SSB, it must have been zero-beat to
the WRMI carrier, as it sounded just right and no het. I wonder if
9395 is on any roster as a USCG frequency. How about it, NTIA? Of did
what I heard somehow get mixed into the G24/WRMI transmission itself
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. February 17:
UNIDentified station, playing Egyptian music 0911 on 9600
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPZ2u_fc_U8&feature=youtu.be
UNIDentified station, playing Egyptian music 0915 on 9600
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtNWz7lz0Oo&feature=youtu.be
UNIDentified station, playing Egyptian music 1220 on 9550
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvzHlb5MNyw&feature=youtu.be
UNIDentified station, playing Egyptian music 1224 on 9550
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3kYov7ewxU&feature=youtu.be
UNIDentified station, playing Egyptian music 1230 on 9550
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTzYMuLuY6M&feature=youtu.be
UNIDentified station, playing Egyptian music 1233 on 9550
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUQ2VZhXTMs&feature=youtu.be
(Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED station, playing light music was heard on Feb 20 1215-
1231 on 9600. It signed on at approximately 1211 with 1 kHz test tone,
look last 5 videos:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/02/unidentified-station-playing-egyptian.html
-- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD)
9600 Heard nothing from EGYPT here in Germany at same time slot, wb.
February 20:
UNIDentified station, test tone 1000 Hz 1215 on 9600
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x52i-BNbkdE&feature=youtu.be
UNIDentified station, playing light music 1215 on 9600
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e59WHLH0Hqs&feature=youtu.be
UNIDentified station, playing light music 1220 on 9600
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsgfPSSm8MQ&feature=youtu.be
UNIDentified station, playing light music 1225 on 9600
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJxoVZ66eHM&feature=youtu.be
UNIDentified station, playing light music 1228 on 9600
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rTC98yD04Y&feature=youtu.be
(Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. I was eager to fetch this mysterious Egypt signal on
31mb like 9400/9500/9600 kHz, from likely Abis - intelligence service
- antenna farm, close to MW 774 kHz intermodulation suspicious.
Nothing fetched so far on this muslim Friday (Wolfgang Büschel, Some
noon Germany logs on Feb 20 at 1130-1255 UT slot, [selected SDR
options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz], wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Feb 20 via
DXLD)
UNID station, playing Egyptian music on Feb 21, 1059-1116 on 9550,
long Arabic song, 4 videos:
February 21:
UNIDentified station, test tone 1000 Hz 1059 on 9550
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taYDOxEOK6k&feature=youtu.be
UNIDentified station, test tone 1000 Hz 1103 on 9550
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7E7vlQpFjY&feature=youtu.be
UNIDentified station, playing Egyptian music 1110 on 9550
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M67cfswvTI&feature=youtu.be
UNIDentified station, playing Egyptian music, end of transmission 1115
on 9550
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZmJSX4Cjp0&feature=youtu.be
(Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Station playing Egyptian music was heard again, plus
more videos:
0858-0918 on 9600, long Arabic folk song, 2 videos on Feb 17
till 1036 on 9600, long Arabic folk song, 1 video on Feb 23
1216-1236 on 9550* long Arabic folk song, 4 videos on Feb 17
1059-1116 on 9550* long Arabic folk song, 4 videos on Feb 21
* co-ch China Radio International in Vietnamese (DX RE MIX NEWS #897
from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov. Feb. 23, 2015 via DXLD)
UNIDentified station, playing Egyptian music was heard again on Feb 25
0858-0901 on 9550 with 1000 Hz test tone and then
0901-0921 on 9550 long Arabic folk song, 5 videos
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/02/unidentified-station-playing-egyptian_25.html
-- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS
++++++++++++++++++++++++
ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1762:
Note from Joseph Vega: World of Radio site and podcast. Very awesome,
and appreciated (with a contribution via Paypal to woradio at
yahoo.com)
TO BE ACKNOWLEDGEDLY FUTURELY:
Glenn, Love the show, thanks for all the effort and willingness to
share. I am from KY but have been living in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, for
10 years. Are there any signals in particular that you would like a
reception report on from here? (Thomas Hunt with a contribution via
PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com)
One may also contribute by check or MO in US funds on a US bank to
World of Radio, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702
PUBLICATIONS
++++++++++++
GIRARD W'S DXFM STYLE FM DATABASE IN EXCEL - 2015 UPDATE
For those of you who like this, Mike Glass extracted the data from the
FCC DB and I've formatted it into (what I think is) a useful format
for the second year in a row. Links below. Comments welcome.
Excel 2010/2013 format (12.5MB xlsx):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8vw89ye8bwj4aqs/FCC-DXFM%20List%20FM%202-20-15.xlsx?dl=0
Excel 2003/2007 format (25MB xls):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9joaod7q7knkk9g/FCC-DXFM%20List%20FM%202-20-15.xls?dl=0
(Bill Nollman, Farmington, CT, Feb 22, WTFDA gg via DXLD)
And thanks again to Mike for generating the raw AM lists from the FCC
DB. I've separated it into Tabs for US, Canada, Cuba, Mexico and the
rest of what looks like the Western Hemisphere. I'm not sure of the
accuracy of anything except the US Tab so enjoy at your own risk.
Excel 2010/2013 format (5.5MB xlsx):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x2uiqe96owtzhxf/FCC-DXFM%20List%20AM%202-24-15.xlsx?dl=0
Excel 2003/2007 format (13.5MB xls):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hjdhhy9y730cqw8/FCC-DXFM%20List%20AM%202-24-15.xls?dl=0
As with the FM spreadsheets you may want to enter your longitude and
latitude in the upper right corner boxes and then do a Sort. This way
the azimuth and mileage will be accurate. If you don't know how to do
this, just ask (Bill Nollman, ibid.)
LANGUAGE LESSONS
++++++++++++++++
Afrikaans:
Re ``It seems the WRTH 2015 refers to it only as SABC, but then
English is the primary language of the book, not Afrikaans (gh, DXLD)
Who referred to the WRTH? Yes, this book indicates "SABC" only, but
not because the WRTH is in English, otherwise it would mention all
other organisations in the translated form. No, the WRTH prefers not
to use the Afrikaans equivalent even though it's a language of the
country, and nowadays it seems everybody avoids all things Afrikaans.
Surely a paranoia.``
Paranoia? Yes, Afrikaans it's *a* language of the country, but there
are 10 more official languages. Zulu name might be used as the biggest
language (how is SABC in Zulu?), but why Afrikaans, being only 3rd in
most spoken mother language order and geographically restricted mainly
to Capetown area? English is the 4th, but language of commerce and
education and generally seen as neutral 'lingua franca' of South
Africa, understood & spoken by 45% of the population. 73, (Mauno
Ritola, Finland, [WRTH Contributing Editor, and `A` Schedule & Web
Updates Editor], dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
QUITAIO
Dario, I said "Quitaio" on purpose; I was actually referring to
"Cataio", old Portuguese for "China" , just to see how any
Radioescutas yg members would react to it; but nobody commented
(Carlos Gonçalves, playdx yg via DXLD)
Cognate to Cathay, old English name for China. Are these corruptions
of some Chinese language names, or no relation? Chung-kuo would be
far-fetched (gh)
WORLD OF HOROLOGY
+++++++++++++++++
TIMEANDDATE.COM et al.
I noticed you are referring your users to timeanddate.com from this
page on your site: 209.68.55.189/wor2007.html
I thought you might want to know there is actually an ad free
alternative, which can be found here:
online-current-time.en.downloadastro.com/tools/
It also includes tools like online timer, stopwatch and countdown (my
favorite). I'm sure your users will appreciate if you share it with
them on your page. Thanks, (Lurie Austin, Feb 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Is anyone familiar with this, whether it is safe? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
MUSEA
+++++
THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF COMPUTING IN BLETCHLEY, UK
- walking tour of computing history.
http://youtu.be/mi93VhHSLNk
A 15 minute walking tour through our history of computing. All of the
things that we enjoy today -- have roots with all of this gear.
-- (Colin Newell, BC, IRCA via DXLD)
DX-PEDITIONS
++++++++++++
GRAYLAND DX-PEDITION FEB 15-22
Just returned from another great week at the Grayland Motel & Cottages
in Grayland, Washington. Initial sound samples - my usual 'lazy mans'
way of logging - are up at:
http://realmonitor.com/am_logs_grayland11.php
and more are going up daily.
Conditions weren't too bad for 'this time of year' and 'this time of
the sunspot cycle.' Which means there were some good days and some not
so good days. Nothing earthshaking but highlights so far are/were 16
Alaskans and counting [not great but respectable], some decent Asian
conditions on Feb. 17 and 20th and a new Philippine station for me on
1026 kHz - Sonshine Radio.
Antenna used was a 160' DKAZ at about 290 degrees azimuth (Bill
Whitacre, Alexandria, VA, NRC-AM via DXLD)
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See also ETHIOPIA; GOA; GUAM; INDIA;
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ OMAN; SPAIN; VATICAN
“DRM: CLEVER RADIO FOR SMART COUNTRIES”
at ABU Digital Broadcasting Symposium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) Consortium will have a strong
presence once again at the ABU Digital Broadcasting Symposium (DBS)
2015 in Kuala Lumpur LINK, one of the premier digital events in Asia.
DBS is a key event in the DRM calendar. A general update will be
offered on the opening day (Wednesday 4th March) under the title
‘Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) - Delivering to all your needs’.
Focusing on the significant cost and spectrum savings delivered by DRM
(i.e. using Single Frequency Network deployment) the DRM Workshop
“Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) - Clever Radio for Smart Countries” is
to be held on Thursday 5th March 1400-1500 in Safir room 2. The event
will offer participants an opportunity to learn more about digital
radio and to experience the full DRM technology. Attendees will be
invited to ask their own questions about the practical steps needed to
create a healthy digital system involving the key stakeholders:
listeners, regulator, broadcasters and the receiver manufacturing
industry. The new Avion DRM radio has recently been unveiled in India
and participants will be able to see and hear for themselves how the
listener can experience more choice, enhanced sound quality, text and
additional data services.
Ruxandra Obreja, DRM Chairman, is excited about this premier ABU event
which has been supported by the Consortium for quite a number of years
now because: ”We can bring the latest developments to a wide range of
specialists while having DRM championed by some of our best DRM
experts and practitioners.”
(Press Release via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, dxs_asia yg via DXLD
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
IBiquity Launches Private-Label HD Radio Tuner Line
http://www.radioworld.com/article/ibiquity-launches-private-label-hd-radio-tuner-line/274644
Very interesting. The only AM HD radios I know of are Sangean and Sony
component tuners that have to be plugged into a stereo receiver or
amplifier. Are there any AM HD portables? I've never seen one.
If you want a portable FM HD radio and don't need super great sound I
recommend this. It is incredibly sensitive and selective. It has 20
presets, not 10.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/insignia-hd-radio-tabletop-radio-black/4635744.p?id=1218505477073&skuId=4635744
Sent from my iPhone (Dennis Gibson, WB6TNB, Feb 23, ABDX via DXLD)
There is one on the url you sent. It`s the first one I've ever seen
(Kevin Redding, Crump, TN, ibid.)
I saw it. I wish I knew how much signal it needs to switch to AM HD.
I've only seen one AM HD tuner. It was a Sangean inside the conference
room at the KSL Broadcast House in Salt Lake City. The tour guide
tried to get KSL in HD but there was too much manmade noise and it
wouldn't switch. He was really embarrassed.
The Insignia FM HD radio takes a lot of signal to switch to HD but
during intense ducting from San Diego a few stations from there have
done it.
I would not be crazy about buying an IBiquity product but if it's the
only one of its kind for AM I might. Sent from my iPhone (Gibson,
ibid.)
Ibiquity launch: Portable and table top models. Not all have AM
(Allan Dunn, K1UCY, WTFDA gg via DXLD)
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See also MEXICO
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
REVERSE AUCTION, REPACKING, WILL CAUSE LOSS OF STATIONS
http://northpine.com/
WISCONSIN: The National Association of Broadcasters released a study
Wednesday showing that at least half of the UHF stations in the
Milwaukee market would have to be voluntarily relinquished in order
for the FCC to recover 120 MHz of spectrum in next year's reverse
auction.
The NAB's study, based on data from FCC simulations released last
year, found that between 7 and 11 of the Milwaukee market's 13 UHF
full-power and Class A stations would have to go off the air. The
study says Milwaukee is the only Upper Midwest market that would
definitely have to lose a UHF station in order for the auction to
work, though the loss of at least one UHF station may be needed in
some other markets in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa depending on
which stations choose to participate.
Stations that voluntarily relinquish their UHF spectrum could move to
VHF, agree to share a channel with another station, or go off the air
completely. Most digital TV stations broadcast on UHF, which is easier
to receive with an indoor antenna. Many remap to their former VHF
broadcast channel numbers on receivers. (2/18/2015) (VIA Kevin
Redding, TN, Feb 22, ABDX via DXLD)
RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM
+++++++++++++++++++++
DRAKE STILL REPAIRS THE R8'S
as I had mine reconditioned a couple years ago and it works better
than new (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, Feb 23, IRCA via DXLD)
Hi Patrick and all, Drake ceased repair operations of all amateur and
shortwave radios back in July 2012. A former employee, John Kriner,
apparently will work on the R8 series, at least for now, through his
private business. Looks like you got in under the wire (Chris VE6IY
Dorn, ibid.)
Chris, That I did not know. The tech I talked to at the time told me
that Drake would continue to repair the R8s until they could not get
the parts. But at least John Kriner is continuing with the repairs.
Hopefully mine will last many more years. It lasted 19 years before I
got it repaired and that was 2011. I guess it has been 4 years now.
Time flies. The R75 seems like the best choice now, unless a DXer
wants to spend a mint, if they want an analog receiver (Patrick
Martin, Seaside OR, ibid.)
RESUSCITATING THE SPR4
I turned on the SPR4 that lives 'built into' my radio desk in
Williamston last weekend to do a quickie bandscan, and was greeted
with a cacophony of clicks, ticks and static. I tapped the case
thinking maybe the antenna was loose, and it settled down a bit -- for
about 5 seconds and then continued to click away. I grumbled -- I had
just disassembled the desk and the radio to relamp the pilot lights
about a month ago and nothing looked amiss, so I took off the BOTTOM
cover rather than the top one that you need to open up to access the
pilot lights.
It all looked fine EXCEPT one electrolytic capacitor looked like it
had honey smeared over it and the bottom cover had 'drippings' from
it. OK -- I suppose the radio is pushing 40 years old so I can't com-
plain about capacitors going bad, but what a pain. I of course didn't
have a 200 Mike 15 volt capacitor in my stock, but it was on the audio
board in some sort of 'pi' network filter, so I figured the 330/25
volter I DID have would work. Pulled the old one out, put the new one
in and crossed my fingers and now the only static I'm hearing is from
thunderstorms.
It has been so long since a repair went so smoothly, I figured it was
worth mention! Shoot -- time before last, I had issues replacing the
pilot lamps in this radio! :)
Don't let anyone tell you older radios aren't worth it. Some of the
'new' stuff made in China and designed such that it can't be repaired,
yes, you just throw it out when it stops working, but anything made in
the USA before 1980 is gonna be 'fixable' and probably worth fixing
too.
I have often said I don't know exactly why or how it happened, but I
know WHEN society started its downhill slide. I have a 1950s vintage
hi-fi record player that prominently stamped on the back is a state-
ment with arrows pointing to four screws: "Remove these screws to
service". I have a 1970s vintage stereo that is prominently stamped
"Do not remove covers, no user servicable parts inside". THAT is when
we started to degenerate as a society. When people were told "don't
even think of being self sufficient, you are a consumer, not a
customer, and you should just be a good doobie and go buy a new one"
we lost a bit of our souls. NOW I really feel like an olde farte. :)
[That's the drippy cap in front.][caption]
(Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet Feb 20 via DXLD)
Paul Dobosz retorts:
Other than modern VHF and UHF radios from Motorola's professional line
sold primarily to law enforcement types, everything I own is Circa
1980 or before. My Collins KWM-2A (built in 1969 while I was working
for Collins) has some of the nicest audio (TX and RX) of any radio
I've heard. The Collins mechanical filters can't be beat for their
steep shape factor, smooth passband and lack of spurious response more
than 50 kHz away from their 70 dB bandpass.
The DSP processed audio from the new crop of receivers really pulls
signals out of the mud but the audio recovered is not as easy on the
ears due to artifacts from the processing algorithms. I sold a nearly
new $3000 top-of-the-line transceiver a couple of years ago because I
found the receive audio so unpleasant.
My current crop of radios (besides the Collins) includes an early 80's
vintage TS-130 Kenwood transceiver, a late 70's Icom IC-211 2 meter
multi-mode transceiver. A late 70's Icom IC-22U that I found at a swap
in pristine but inop condition for a mere $5. I repaired the radio for
pocket change and use it daily. My JRC NRD-525 is somewhat modern but
serviceable and my latest acquisition, a Yaesu FRG-7 in need of TLC is
currently undergoing restoration. I even use old Microphones for
transmit. The Shure 55S is provides smooth sounding audio and styling
that matches the Collins radio and looks awesome setting on the desk.
One thing I've noticed is that the really classic older equipment is
beginning to go up in price significantly as people discover that the
old stuff is a pleasure to use and built to last. Try to buy a
Collins, Drake, Hallicrafters, Hammarlund, or National radio in decent
condition for less than a king's ransom. If you are prepared to
restore them yourself, you might find a bargain now and then. Even
Heathkits are fetching premium prices as collectors clamor for the
serviceable and solidly designed radios of old. Enough of a trip down
memory lane from another card carrying member of the OFA (Old Farts
Association) (Paul Dobosz, Muskegon MI, MARE Tipsheet Feb 20 via DXLD)
PROPAGATION
+++++++++++
Propagação F em Mato Grosso
E ai pessoal tudo bem? Consegui acompanhar a abertura dessa noite,
Chile chegando forte apesar dos seus 2 mil km segue log:
88.5, 22/02 0050 UT, R. Concierto, Santiago, Chile
88.9, 22/01 0103 UT, R. Futuro, Santiago, Chile
Assim que der posto os videos no meu canal do youtube. Equipamentos
usados Tecsun PL-660 antena PQ1000FM Proeletronic (Adriano Rossoni,
PY9001SWL, Cuiabá-MT-Brasil http://www.youtube.com/adryan0
radioescutas yg via DXLD)
From the distance and frequency, it`s obviously sporadic E, NOT F-
layer propagation. And judging from the timesstamp on the post, the UT
date should have been 23 Feb (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
:Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts
:Issued: 2015 Feb 23 0555 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction
Center
# Product description and SWPC contact on the Web
# http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/weekly.html
#
# Weekly Highlights and Forecasts
#
Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 16 - 22 February 2015
Solar activity began the period with very low levels on 16-17 February
with a few B-class flares observed from Region 2282 (N11, L-187,
class/area Eho/250 on 11 Feb). Activity increased to low levels on 18-
21 February with weak C-class flares observed from Regions 2282 and
2286 (S18, L=193, class/area Cao/030 on 18 Feb). During this time
frame, the largest events were a C3/Sf flare at 18/2207 UTC from
Region 2282 and a long duration C2 x-ray event on 20/1522 UTC from
departed Region 2286. By 22 February, activity declined to very low
levels. During the period, no Earth-directed CMEs were observed.
No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. However, a
greater than 10 MeV proton enhancement was observed beginning midday
on 21 February and remained enhanced through period`s end. Peak flux
reached 1.3 pfu at 21/1925 UTC. The enhancement was due to effects
from a large CME whose origin was a large filament eruption located
backside in the south central portion of the disk.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at
moderate levels on 16, 19-21 February and normal levels on 17-18 and
22 February.
Geomagnetic field activity was generally quiet to unsettled throughout
the week with periods of active to isolated minor storm periods on 17-
18 February. This activity was due to high speed winds from a negative
polarity, trans-equatorial coronal hole. Solar wind speeds were mostly
nominal through the period at 325-350 km/s but reached a peak of about
485 km/s early on 18 February. IMF total field averaged about 5 nT
with a maximum of 16 nT observed early on 17 February. The Bz
component did not vary much beyond +/- 5 nT for a majority of the
period. However, during the coronal hole influence, Bz ranged from +14
to -12 nT. Phi was in a predominately negative (towards) orientation
throughout the period.
FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 23 FEBRUARY - 21 MARCH 2015
Solar activity is expected to be at very low to low levels through
about 04 March. From 05-18 March, a chance for moderate activity
exists due to the return of old Region 2282 (N11, L=191) which was an
M-class flare producer on its last transit. Upon old Region 2282`s
exit, very low to low conditions are expected from 19-21 March.
No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit in the absence
of any significant solar activity.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is
expected to be at normal to moderate levels throughout a majority of
the outlook period. However, moderate to high levels are likely on 01-
09 March and again on 15-19 March due to coronal hole high speed
stream activity.
Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at predominately quiet to
unsettled levels throughout the outlook period with active conditions
likely on 27-28 February, 01-02 March and 16-17 March due to coronal
hole high speed stream activity.
:Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt
:Issued: 2015 Feb 23 0555 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 2015-02-23
#
# UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest
# Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index
2015 Feb 23 120 10 3
2015 Feb 24 120 8 3
2015 Feb 25 130 8 3
2015 Feb 26 130 8 3
2015 Feb 27 130 15 4
2015 Feb 28 130 18 4
2015 Mar 01 130 18 4
2015 Mar 02 125 12 3
2015 Mar 03 125 10 3
2015 Mar 04 125 10 3
2015 Mar 05 125 5 2
2015 Mar 06 130 7 2
2015 Mar 07 135 10 3
2015 Mar 08 135 10 3
2015 Mar 09 135 5 2
2015 Mar 10 130 5 2
2015 Mar 11 125 5 2
2015 Mar 12 125 5 2
2015 Mar 13 120 5 2
2015 Mar 14 120 10 3
2015 Mar 15 120 5 2
2015 Mar 16 120 15 4
2015 Mar 17 120 15 4
2015 Mar 18 115 8 3
2015 Mar 19 115 5 2
2015 Mar 20 115 5 2
2015 Mar 21 115 5 2
(SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DXLD)
SWPC BACKUP SYSTEM TESTING - TO RESUME MARCH 4 & 5
SWPC will again be testing its backup system on Wednesday, March 4th
and/or Thursday, March 5th. We will provide further schedule
information once it has been confirmed. While we were out of service
much longer than expected on February 25th, we were able to make great
progress towards having a fully operational, geographically diverse
backup for all SWPC products and services (SWPC Feb 27 via DXLD)
PROPAGATION OUTLOOK FROM GLENN FOR MEDIA NETWORK PLUS ASOF FEBRUARY 26
Keith, IPS in Australia expects mostly normal HF conditions thru
February 28.
South African spaceweather: Magnetic conditions increasing to active
by Feb 28; shortwave fadeouts unlikely, MUF unstable
Met Office UK forecasts solar activity increasing by March 1:
Geomagnetic activity occasionally active especially February 28 and
March 1.
The outlook from Petr Kolman of the Czech Propagation Interest Group:
Geomagnetic field will be:
quiet to unsettled February 27, March 3, 4, 9, 15
active to disturbed on February 28, March 2
disturbed on March 1
mostly quiet on March 5, 7, 14, 18
quiet on March 6, 11, 12 and 13.
SWPC in Boulder says active geomagnetic conditions are likely February
27 to March 2, and again March 16-17. A and K indices peaking at 18
and 4 on Feb 28 and March 1; 15 and 4 on March 16 and 17. Solar flux
peaking at 135, on March 7 to 9, dipping to 115 by March 18.
Bill Hepburn`s VHF UHF DX maps call for intense tropospheric ducting
off the Texas coast and between Florida and Cuba on March 2 and 3 (via
DXLD)
MEDIA NETWORK PLUS`S PROPAGATION EDITOR:
http://pcjmedia.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/264-media-network-pluss-propagation-editor
(via gh, DXLD)
THE SUN JUST BARFED
http://io9.com/stare-in-awe-at-this-fiery-footage-of-a-solar-eruption-1687310302
(Kevin Redding, 0357 UT Feb 24, ABDX via DXLD) See MEXICO
TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING
++++++++++++++++++++++++
A GUIDE TO A GODLESS MORALITY
February 26, 2015 at 11:00 AM
More Americans are turning away from religion. We’ll look at how to
live a moral life without it.
Religion is a solace and inspiration for millions and millions of
Americans. For millions of others, it’s not. Twenty percent of
Americans now say they have no religious affiliation. For young
people, it’s nearly a third. They don’t all say they are atheist, or
even agnostic. But many millions are now living a secular life. Non-
religious. My guest today has interviewed lots of those Americans and
the people who study them. To look at where they find their morals,
their community, their transcendence, their awe. This hour On Point:
Meaning, morals, and the secular life. – Tom Ashbrook
More discussion, linx and 48-minute audio:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/02/26/atheist-secular-life-god-morality
(via gh, DXLD) ###