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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1794 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Australia, Bahamas, Bonaire, Brazil, Canada, Canary Islands non, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland non, Italy, Japan, Kiribati, Korea North non, Marshall Islands, México, Netherlands non, Newfoundland and non, Nigeria, Oman, São Tomé, Saudi Arabia, South Carolina, USA SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1794, October 8-14, 2015 Thu 1130 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 2100 WRMI 7570 [confirmed] Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 Fri 2130 WRMI 7570 Fri 2330 WRMI 5850 [confirmed not on] Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 [confirmed] Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS: Tnx to Dr Harald Gabler and the Rhein-Main Radio Club. http://www.rmrc.de/index.php/rmrc-audio-plattform/podcast/glenn-hauser-wor ALTERNATIVE PODCASTS, tnx Stephen Cooper: http://shortwave.am/wor.xml AND ANOTHER PODCAST ALTERNATIVE, tnx to Keith Weston: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GlennHausersWorldOfRadio Also via [but still not back in service]: http://tunein.com/radio/World-of-Radio-p198/ OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser DXLD YAHOOGROUP: Why wait for DXLD? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our yg without delay. When applying, please identify yourself with your real name and location, and say something about why you want to join. Those who do not, unless I recognize them, will be prompted once to do so and no action will be taken otherwise. Here`s where to sign up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/ ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. VOA AFGHANISTAN SERVICE CELEBRATES 35 YEARS ON AIR http://www.insidevoa.com/content/voa-afghanistan-service-celebrates-35-years-on-air/2986101.html WASHINGTON, D.C. —— This week, Voice of America marks 35 years of broadcasts to Afghanistan, with special tributes and programming dedicated to the history of the service. The Afghanistan service began broadcasting just months after the Soviet invasion of the country in 1980, with a daily 15-minute Dari language radio program. Two years later, the service launched a 30- minute Pashto language radio broadcast into the region. Despite Soviet efforts to jam VOA broadcasts, millions of Afghans tuned into the Voice of America for the latest news and information. Following the attacks on September 11, 2001, VOA increased broadcasts into the region to a 24 hour stream and in 2006, launched a daily television newscast, known as Ashna TV. A segment dedicated to the service’s broadcasting history aired on AshnaTV and included reactions from officials and citizens in Afghanistan and in the U.S. on the impact of VOA’s broadcasts over the years. Special guests were live on set, including a former broadcaster of the service, who is now the Afghan Minister of Culture. “We’re extremely proud of what we’re celebrating: 35 years of accurate, objective and comprehensive broadcasts to Afghanistan. We’re grateful to the millions of Afghans who have chosen VOA as their No. 1 source of news and information and are committed to serving them in the years to come” says VOA Afghanistan Service Chief Masood Farivar. In addition to news from Afghanistan and the region, VOA’s Ashna programming reports on U.S. and international developments, current affairs, U.S. policies, health, science, entertainment, sports, and women’s rights. In 2014, the service extensively covered Afghanistan’s historic elections and newly elected Afghan leaders’ visit to Washington. The service has also been known to provide high profile interviews, such as an exclusive with former President Hamid Karzai, which was shared with and aired by major media outlets in Afghanistan. In a special congratulatory message to the service, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, said “As an active media outlet, VOA’s Afghan Service continues to contribute to the culture of democracy, human dignity, and pluralism. VOA Radio Ashna, through its programming, reporting, news, and interviews, helps Afghanistan by spreading the voices of Afghans for peace, justice, freedom and human rights. Congratulations on the 35th anniversary, and wishing further success to its colleagues.” VOA reaches nearly 40% of Afghanistan’s adult population weekly on radio, television and multiple digital platforms, including two web sites, five Facebook pages and three twitter accounts. The service’s Ashna TV program airs on the affiliate station, RTA, Afghanistan’s state broadcaster with the country’s largest television coverage. Radio Ashna broadcasts eight hours of daily programming on AM, FM, and shortwave, and just recently, RTA agreed to air two daily news bulletins in Dari and Pashto. With its popular hosts and reporters in Afghanistan and in the US, VOA is one of the leading sources of daily news and information for the country’s population of nearly 30 million, as well as a large Afghan diaspora around the world (via José Miguel Romero2, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ALASKA. Take a look at all these listings for "LPAM" stations in Alaska - probably Part 15? http://www.lifetalk.net/article/4/stations 73 (Tim Hall, CA, Oct 5, ABDX via DXLD) Viz.: Anchorage LPAM 1610 AM Fairbanks LPAM 1610 AM Glennallen LPAM 1610 AM Homer LPAM 1610 AM Ketchikan LPAM 1700 AM Kodiak LPAM 1610 AM Kotzebue LPAM 1610 AM North Pole LPAM 1610 AM Shungnak LPAM 1610 AM Soldotna LPAM 1610 AM Tok KUDU 91.9 FM (LTR Owned) Valdez LPAM 1610 AM Wrangell KWRG-LP 99.9 FM (via gh, DXLD) ** ALASKA. 7355, Oct 1 at 1250, poor but audible signal from KNLS, Anchor Point, English sermon about an Upper Room (a Protestant thing and devotional booklet too); 1253 mentions www.knls.org, 1254 intro Justin Bieber song! But just in a promo talking over him, plus other pop music on The New Life Station. Nothing audible on 11870, alleged other transmitter frequency; and 7355 is audible only occasionally. BTW, the Aurora Communications SW station in nearby Ninilchik is in the news for EPA violations, still not really on the air since the project started in 2002y. More about this on WORLD OF RADIO 1793, DX Listening Digest 15-39, and already in the DXLD yahoogroup (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. 9849.95, Oct 4 at 0134, R. Tirana is very weak, S6 but clear in English, so I take the opportunity for a precise frequency estimate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 1700 kHz, RADIO IMAGEN puede ser audible en esta nueva frecuencia, luego de abandonar primero la de 1710 kHz, para pasar temporalmente a emitir en 1260 kHz. La estación posee sus estudios en la calle Madrid 3987 del Barrio San Juan, de la localidad de Castelar sur, Provincia de Buenos Aires. Teléfonos: (011) 4692-4412, 4692-2746. E-mail: amradioimagen@hotmail.com. Página Web: http://www.amimagen.com.ar Su director general es el Sr. Gerardo Ramón Pavón (Marcelo A. Cornachioni, Buenos Aires, Argentina, GRA blog Oct 8 via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. 11710.8, RAE at 0202 with IS and ID loop then piano instrumentals at 0205 and a choral anthem at 0206 then a man with brief station info in Spanish at 0209 and a woman with ID in English and finally into a man with the English service at 0210 starting with small talk about Argentina – Fair but noisy Oct 1 (Mark Coady, ON ODXA YRX via DXLD) So English back at 02-03? For quite a while it had swapped with French at 03-04 (gh, DXLD) NO, later reconfirmed as French in 02-03 hour (gh) 11710, 10/2 0037, RAE, B. Aires, Portuguese service; Music; Anns: Invite to Agenda Cultural; 0039 Program dedicated to Argentinian guitarman Angel Cabral - your [sic] life and compositions; Surprise! Very good signal and modulation to my location, 45544 15345, 10/2 2258, RAE, B. Aires, in Spanish; ID in many langs; 2300 YL talks, ID, pgm Conexion en Espanhol; freqs, RAE, La Radio Publica al Exterior; A pop song; 2305 OM talks, ID; OMs: conversation; 2328 A Blues song; 2348 RAE Deportes; 2355 ID in many langs; fair, 45433. 11710, 10/3 0000, RAE, B. Aires, in Portuguese; Bip hour; CNR1 strong jammer, in Chinese lang: YL/OM talks; 0007 Start a RAE pgm in portuguese, with a moderate transmitter buzz (it´s a chronical problem of RAE to my location); 0008 CNR1 returns; 0009 RAE and CNR1 collision; 0010 Only CNR1; 0011 RAE returns: News with interference of CNR1; 0015 Today, impossible to listen RAE (José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo - Brazil, Degen DE1103 receiver, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Per Aoki, the ChiCom *jamming on 11710 is against All India Radio in English at 65 degrees frm Delhi-Khampur at 2245-0045; can`t let those consarned Indians even speak English to the oppressed Chinese masses (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15345, R. NACIONAL. 3/10 2240 UT. Transmisión de futbol entre Rosario Central y San Lorenzo. SINPO: 45454 // 6060 ó 6055 no está al aire, por ello la transmisión del partido se realiza en la otra frecuencia. (Claudio Galaz T., RX: REALISTIC DX-160. ANT: 30 metros de antena de hilo, más antena de tierra y balún de ferrita 4:1, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 11710.535 approx., Oct 6 at 0059, RAE into accurate timesignal to 0100:00, Spanish ID; very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15345.28, 1855-1910 6.10, RAE, General Pacheco. Many ID's in various languages: "RAE Radiodifusion Argentina al Exterior", 1900 Italian announcement, Argentine songs, 35232. Best 73, (Anker Petersen, heard on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire here in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) See also FALKLAND ISLANDS [non] ** AUSTRALIA. 11387-USB, Oct 4 at 1302, a few words of VOLMET in English by YL voice, then stops, lost to Spanish 2-way on or near frequency. EiBi shows the timeshare on this frequency starts on the hour and half hour with Australia, switching every 5 minutes in order to: Kolkata, Bangkok, Karachi, Singapore, Mumbai. Australia, Kolkata and Mumbai run 24 hours, while the others are more or less local daytime only. Australia site is ``n`` = Ningi, Queensland, 27S04'00"- 153E03'20". But it lasted only 2 minutes? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. VL8K is very strong this morning (around 1210 UTC, right around local sunrise) on 2485, peaking at close to an S9 on the Perseus and a NW steered SAL-20. Unfortunately the rest of the Pacific seems to be about average. VL8T and VL8A are much weaker, and I'm not seeing a trace of Radio Symban (Tim, Luther, Iowa, Rahto, Oct 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Obit: Hanh Tran, Radio Australia ex-CEO. Was broadcaster for Radio Australia and BBCWS Vietnamese services, and eventually CEO of Radio Australia: PHOTOGRAPHER, ARTIST, RADIO CHIEF AND TRAILED BY GOOFY RED SPIES http://www.theage.com.au/national/obituaries/photographer-artist-radio-chief-and-trailed-by-goofy-red-spies-20151001-gjzc89 (via Kim Elliott, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DXLD) Viz.: HANH TRAN Radio CEO 26-2-1954 – 3-9-2015 Unlike most Vietnamese-Australians of his generation, Hanh Tran did not come to Australia as a refugee, although the fall of Saigon in 1975 effectively turned him into one. Hanh had arrived three years earlier, aged 18, to study forestry at the Australian National University. While he never became a forester, Australia's investment in Hanh as a Colombo Plan student was of lasting benefit to both his new country and his homeland. Born in Hue in central Vietnam, one of 10 children, Hanh's ambition was to become a doctor but limited options pushed him into forestry. This no doubt influenced his lifelong love of nature but another talent emerged while he was an under-graduate. Hanh was a gifted photographer and began making his own art, talking his way into art school and a postgraduate degree in media. By the early 1980s Hanh was working in the photomedia department at the Canberra School of Art. Later he became education coordinator at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney. Four pieces of his mixed-media artwork were acquired for the permanent collection of Australia's new parliament. Advertisement During these years Hanh could not go back to his family in Hue, maintaining contact through the exchange of letters and occasional photographs. Hanh's father, who had been a judge advocate in the Republic of Vietnam, was held in a re-education camp for almost nine years. When released, his father rode a cycle rickshaw to help provide for the family. The economic reforms implemented after the Sixth National Congress of the Vietnamese Communist Party in 1986 brought a cautious opening up to the West and in 1990 Hanh was able to return to Vietnam. With friend Jim Gerrand, Hanh made a film about his family's lives since the war and the experience of being reunited after an 18-year absence. The moving documentary, Broken Journey, Mending Dreams, screened on the ABC in 1993. Hanh was never one to stand still. When a chance request to act as an ad hoc interpreter for an ABC interview with a visiting AusAID-funded women's delegation resulted in an invitation to apply for a job with the Vietnamese service of Radio Australia in Melbourne, Hanh jumped at the chance. Here was someone who genuinely had a foot in both cultures. Someone who could interpret Australian politics to audiences in Vietnam and Vietnamese news and culture to Australians through the ABC's domestic networks. During his years as a broadcaster, Hanh made regular trips to Vietnam, where his presence was always of great interest to Communist Party's secret service. Typically, Hanh found this amusing and tackled the issue head on. When spooks would trail him about trying to look inconspicuous, Hanh would march up, introduce himself and offer them tips on how to have more success in going undetected. He pointed out that no matter which spy was on duty, they always carried exactly the same bag, invariably pointed in Hanh's direction. Hanh suggested that it would be less obvious that they were filming him if they swapped bags every now and again. Hanh's skills were such that before long he was headhunted by the BBC World Service to head its Vietnamese language section. After his return to Australia a few years later, Hanh moved from Melbourne to Gisborne, and became a full-time parent, an SES volunteer and avid gardener. Five years later, however, Hanh was back at the ABC, this time as the CEO of Radio Australia, a post he held for three years during a time of difficult transition. As audiences for short-wave radio declined Hanh pioneered the shift to online formats and multimedia approaches, making good use of his photography skills. By the time Hanh became CEO in 2007, Radio Australia had been rolled into a larger international broadcasting division together with the Australia Network TV service, but there were few votes and fewer dollars for the public diplomacy these services provided to countries across both Asia and the Pacific. In his "retirement" over the past couple of years, Hanh became the bus-driver for Candlebark School and an active member of the school community, volunteering in the kitchen garden and helping with the catering. In his work as a broadcaster with Radio Australia and the BBC and in his freelance journalism and online activism, Hanh was motivated by a deep desire to improve the lives of people of Vietnam. He believed that information and ideas, the freedom to debate and to create could assist in the development of democracy and a flourishing civil society. In recent years, Hanh was involved in supporting a group dedicated to helping those denied justice, such as villagers forced off their land. His life was one of constant re-invention, sometimes by necessity. To every role in his diverse career Hanh brought endless enthusiasm, inventiveness, wit and determination. He brought the same qualities to every aspect of his private life, as friend, brother, son, husband and devoted father. Hahn is survived by his children, Liam, James and Maya Tran, and by his step-daughter Jenny Xiao. Peter Mares and Sue Slamen are friends and former ABC colleagues of Hanh Tran (The Age, Oct 1, via WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 17840, R. Australia is no longer audible in the nightmiddle circa 05-06 UT chex, as it was all our summer, but it is audible at only S2 yet readable, Oct 2 at 0148, while // 15240 is JBA. What will they be doing for B-15? About the same but with alternates possible: 21-09, 17840 or 13630 at 70 degrees USward; also 15240, 15415 09-21, 9580 at 70 degrees; also 6080 or 6150/12085, 12065 12085, Oct 2 at 1335, no signal from RA, while always weaker 12065 is quite audible as well as bigsig 9580, during ABC Local Radio music show on Fridays which is mostly talk; 1412, still no 12085, the one aimed at Alaska. 12085, Oct 3 at 1300, RA reactivated frequency absent 24 hours earlier, and also on the other two, weaker 12065 and stronger 9580 9580, Wed Oct 7 at 1320, RA long-form interview show with a psychiatrist originally from Ireland; 1356 outro as having been with Richard Fidler. From the advent of DST this Sunday in SE Australia, RA has again shifted many of the ABC programs it carries one UT hour earlier, as if that were anything but an inconvenience for listeners abroad (already updated the ones in DX/SWL/Media Programs). So I inspect the RA program schedule, after once again resetting the timezone it detects on my computer from ``London`` to ``UTC``! Now at 13-14 UT weekdays is `Conversations with Richard Fidler` (with a long I), instead of `Daily Planet` music show, which has been squeezed out of the sked entirely, at least on Wednesdays. It`s preceded by another excellent interview show, `Late Night Live` with Phillip Adams, at 12- 13 UT; on Fridays, a different L&L appears at 12-13, UT `Live and Local`, interviews and performances by musicians around the country. `The World` TV news simulcast, has moved up to 11-12 UT M-F. `Saturday Night Country` and `Sunday Night` religious discussions continue on weekends. I`m dealing here only with prime morning listening time in North America, 11-14 UT. See full schedule via http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/programschedule but first be sure to set timezone to UT or whatever you may prefer. (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AZERBAIJAN. AZERBAIJAN TARGETS ANOTHER RFE/RL REPORTER SEPTEMBER 30, 2015 http://www.bbg.gov/blog/2015/09/30/azerbaijan-targets-another-rferl-reporter/ (Washington – September 29, 2015) Police in Baku have ransacked an apartment and seized equipment belonging to an RFE/RL free-lancer in the latest incident in an unrelenting campaign targeting the country’s independent press. Islam Shikhali, a free-lance video journalist working for RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani service, was not at home during the September 26 raid, when police confiscated his computer, video camera, microphone, and mobile phone. His passport and other personal documents were also taken, but later returned. “The police took Shikhali’s professional equipment, the tools of his trade, leaving us with the impression that they are attacking him for his journalism,” said Nenad Pejic, RFE/RL editor in chief. ”They have no right to seize this equipment. It should be returned immediately, Shikhali should be allowed to work, and this harassment should end,” he said. Shikhali was questioned at the prosecutor’s office on September 28 and released. He told RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service that investigators asked about RFE/RL’s work in Azerbaijan, and some of his Facebook friends who are independent journalists. “They asked me how well I know these people, how often do they come to my apartment and so on,” Shikhali said. “And why I live alone instead of living with my family and how was I getting by.” During the search, police showed Shikhali’s roommate, who was in the apartment, a warrant citing suspicion of tax evasion. Tax evasion charges were used against investigative journalist and RFE/RL contributor Khadija Ismayilova, who was sentenced on September 1 to more than seven years in prison. Identical charges have been brought against other independent journalists, civic activists, and human rights defenders who are currently in jail, and who are regarded as “political prisoners” by a growing number of U.S. legislators, European officials, and international rights groups. RFE/RL’s Baku bureau was raided by Azerbaijani state agents on December 26. The bureau’s documents, corporate stamps, and equipment were confiscated, more than 20 bureau employees were interrogated, and its bank accounts were frozen. Several journalists have fled the country and those that remain fear imprisonment (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, Oct 2, DXLD) ** BAHAMAS. 1540, ZNS1, Radio Bahamas, Nassau, New Providence. 0009 October 2, 2015. Near local level, power full throttle as they typically do only when tropical cyclones are an immediate threat. Continuous and as always excellent live coverage of Cat 4 Hurricane Joaquín, near Long Island. Parallel poor 810 ZNS3, Freeport (just over a second behind). Lots of "1540, hello?" into callers from Exuma, Long Island and other out islands. "1540 AM, 104.5 FM, The National Voice of the Bahamas, 242-300-8255" often. Caller from Long Island around 0545, reporting no power and sustained winds at 107 mph. He said, "Thank God for Zed Nes, nothing like Zed Nes" then said he was going outside with his cell phone, but the announcer convinced him to stay in. Only a few brief Bahamian music breaks (bathroom breaks, no doubt), otherwise all listener calls and hurricane updates from the US National Weather Service. Announcer said a lady announcer was taking over after top of the hour (0600 GMT, 0200 local). I drifted off about that time. Live video stream: http://original.livestream.com/znsbahamas (Terry Krueger, Clearwater FL, 1516 UT Oct 2, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BAHRAIN. 9745, Radio Bahrain-Abu Hayan, at 2346, on 28 Sep. The station is playing a slow song with a male singer. At 2359 the song is still playing. A new song started with a piano introduction at 0000 and a female singer singing a very slow song. I am using USB setting and a notch filter. There is a lot of static coming through also but the station is readable. Thanks to Dave Valko for the tip that they were on. Poor (John Cooper, Lebanon PA, Winradio-G33DDC, CommRadio CR- 1a, RF Space-SDR-IQ, Tecsun PL-660, GAP-Hear It In Line Module, Timewave ANC-4, Wellbrook ALA-1530S+, PARS-EF-SWL HF End Fed Receive Antenna x 2, NASWA Flashsheet Oct 4 via DXLD) 9745, Radio Bahrain – Abu Hyan, 0351, 9/30/15, in Arabic. Program of Mid East music. Periodic ute obliterated signal for brief periods, otherwise weak (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin, Perseus, SDRPlay, Eton e1, Grundig Satellit 800, Sangean 909X w/ clear mod, Tecsun PL 660 and various other portables; 40 meters dipole, RF Systems Mk 2, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet Oct 5 via DXLD) ** BANGLADESH. 15505, Oct 1 at 1400:22.5, 5+1 mis-timesignal ends from Bangladesh Betar, JBA carrier for Urdu service. If anything cuts thru, it`s the mis-time pips, a public disservice. Yesterday it was 1400:09, but there is no predictable variation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No sign of Bangladesh Betar this evening, 4 October, when checked at 1825-1830 on 13580 - it's usually very strong here (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. 11730, Belarus Radio Minsk-Kalodzicy started 11.00:24 UT on Sept 24 into their regular radio programm, low tiny modulated though. No audio - empty carrier visible at 1055-1100 UT, and two spurious SCRATCHY broadband signals accompanied on 11700.5 - 11709.4 and 11751.4 - 11759.4 kHz. (Wolfgang Büschel, Sept 24, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 4 via DXLD) ** BERMUDA. Today, Sept. 30, is supposedly the final day for the VSB stations. There might be some news on their online TV stream at http://www.vsb.bm Also tomorrow there may be some YouTubes of stations shutdowns, although I wouldn't bank on it. cd (Chris Donne, Pembroke Pines FL, Sept 30, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) I am attaching an mp3 sent to me by Ed Kelly in Bermuda. This was on the morning of Sep 30. Per Ed, 1280 & 1450 are still on, and 1280 (BBN Radio) may still be running a while because of another organization keeping it going (despite the VSB callsign); how long 1450 will remain on, no idea. At this time there are no DJs. But listening to this, it is not a happy moment. I have bookmarked this site, so I can read additional comments: http://bernews.com/2015/10/defontes-broadcasting-ceases-operations/ Attached Files File Type: mp3 1450 AM Gold Goodbyes 09-30-2015.mp3 (637.5 KB, 2 views) http://forums.wtfda.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=18050&d=1443845361 (Dunne, Oct 2, ibid.) I have received an e-mail from BBN Radio, who has the AM 1280 in Bermuda. It is still running*, and I was given a Bermuda e-mail address. So, my "death knell" comment was premature. No idea how it will keep running, sans VSB---Divine intervention? *Hurricane Joaquin brushed by Bermuda this weekend, and only by listening online will I know how things are going at this time; however my contact in BDA told me the electricity was restored this morning. cd (Dunne, Oct 5, ibid.) ** BHUTAN. BBS Bhutan? noted with local songs without any IDs on 6035, past 1730 UT yesterday 4 Oct 2015. Usually they are on this frequency till 1300. -- Thanking you, Yours sincerely, Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I was hearing it at about 2100 as well in the UK. Reception was confirmed via http://www.bbs.bt/news/radio-wan.html (Stephen Cooper, ibid.) 6034.952, Extended shortwave relay schedule tonight Oct 4th. Thimpu was widely heard here in all Europe and reported on various newsgroups, on this special ?national holiday? Oct 4 on throughout the UT afternoon. 73 wb df5sx wwdxc Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** BOLIVIA. 5952, R. PIO XII, 5/10 1050 UT. Avisos de la emisora con horarios de atención de las oficinas de la red Pio XII, así como anuncios de una cooperativa de desarrollo agrícola que tiene el patrocinio de la Iglesia Católica. SINPO: 44434 con mucha variación en la frecuencia debido al cambio en la propagación como consecuencia del amanecer, 5952, R. PIO XII, 7/10 2236 UT. Avisos de la ciudad de La Paz con la solicitud de profesores, psicopedagogos y nutricionistas para llenar plazas de trabajo a nivel nacional, publicidad a una sociedad agrícola, un aviso en idioma quechua sobre planes sociales para la familia, horarios y atención de la oficina de la emisora en la localidad de siglo xx y avisos de las parroquias y los cursos catequísticos disponibles. SINPO: 45444 (Claudio Galaz Toledo, RX: REALISTIC DX-160. ANT: 30 metros de antena de hilo, más antena de tierra y balún de ferrita 4:1, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) Measured about 5952.475 Oct 10 (gh, DXLD) ** BONAIRE. 800, Oct 6 at 0130 UT, I am again trying to dig XEROK out of this frequency if it`s still there. KQCV 2.5/1 kW OKC dominates not only day but at night, presumably still groundwave, with a major lobe right at us from site near the southwest corner of Oklahoma county, about 72 miles. But there is something in Spanish religion under it. Possibly XEROK, tho not its main format. Trying to null KQCV English religion on the DX-398 doesn`t help, so I compare signals on the NRD-545 with its two antennas, the ALA-330S oriented east/west, and the NVL wire oriented north/south: the understation is about the same as you would expect from a signal at some ~45 degree angle between them. Copy is tough vs the QRM, but at 0143 I make out an address announced in Spanish: P O Box 380, Miami, Florida, EEUU. (Close but no cigar to PJB`s own P O Box 388 in Kralendijk!) Then some songs/hymns. I`m thinking it could be PJB, if not XEROK, so I check their program schedule, in AST = EDT = UT =4: http://www.twrbonaire.com/files/372/2015-10-02%20AM-FM%20Schedule.pdf At 0130-0145 UT weekdays is `Cruzada con Luis Palau`, the very widely syndicated evangelist, but is that his address? No, own website shows postal contact goes to Guatemala City: http://luispalau.net/v2/contactenos.shtml So I try a new Yahoo search on "P O Box 380, Miami" where, ajá, one of the top hits is! --- http://www.institutoluispalau.com/manuales_pdf/manual_evangelismo.pdf which is a 62-page pdf I will never need to read beyond page 2 where that very address is displayed. PJB is upgrading from 100 to 450 kW, but with XEROK out of the way, this could well still be only 100 kW, and easier to identify directly. WRTH 2015 showed Spanish all evening from 0030 to 0700, and so does its current program grid; preceded by English and followed by Portuguese. Distance: 4007 km = 2390 miles (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4825, Rádio Canção Nova, ON, Cachoeira Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil. MX, ANN de um parque ``Traiga seus filhos``, YL CXS sobre natal na terra santa, 2135 UT Dia 02/10, sinpo 34333. Essa emissora vem trasmitiindo de forma inrregular nas ondas tropicais. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08jE9iegBD4&feature=youtu.be RX: Tecsun S-2000. Antenna: Long wire 3.000 Meters (wire fence steel for cows) (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina, MT Brazil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL, (Surprise!) 4845, 10/2 0123, R. Cultura do Amazonas, Manaus-AM, in Portuguese; Football transmission; 0154 ID; Amazonas Anthem; 0159 s/off; 35332. 4845, 10/2 2208, R. Cultura do Amazonas, Manaus-AM, in Portuguese; OM presents a musical program "Cultura Musical"; Anns; a song in Spanish; songs by Sidney Magal, Beto Barbosa and other Brazilian singers and rhythms; ID; poor broadcast, 35332 (José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo [PB] - Brazil, Degen DE1103 receiver, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Fotos Rádio Roraima, Ondas Tropicais 4875 kHz AM, 590 kHz e Parque das Antenas desde Boa Vista, Roraima, Brasil. Photos Rádio Roraima Tropical Waves 4875 kHz, AM 590 kHz and Park of Antennas from Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com.br/2015/10/fotos-radio-roraima-ondas-tropicais.html 73 (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brazil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4985.02, 0220-0230 3.10, R Brasil Central, Goiânia, GO, Portuguese ann, songs, 23232 CWQRM // 11815 (15221) (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DXLD) 4985, Rádio Brasil Central, Goiânia, 2133-2148, 03-10, Portuguese, comments. //11815. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Sangean ATS-090X, Tecsun PL880, Sony ICF SW 7600G, Degen 31MS active loop antenna, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Had been inactive on 60m? Ute blox in N America (gh, ibid.) ** BRAZIL. Photo transmission park where are the antennas of Radio Shortwave Rio Mar, 6160 kHz, 9695 kHz and 1290 kHz on the AM Foto do parque de transmissão onde ficam as antenas da Rádio Rio Mar Ondas Curtas 6160 kHz, 9695 kHz e no AM 1290 kHz http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com.br/2015/10/foto-da-radio-rio-mar-e-parque-das.html 73s (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT Brazil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. A Rádio Bandeirantes, de São Paulo (SP), está inativa nas suas três frequências de ondas curtas. Conforme Antônio Carvalho do Amaral, o pessoal da emissora não soube responder se ela voltará a emitir em tal modalidade de radiodifusão. Desde Araras (SP), José Roberto Penteado agrega que telefonou para a emissora e, como resposta, disseram que não sabem os motivos do silêncio nas ondas curtas. Também entramos em contato com o apresentador Paulo Galvão e não obtivemos êxito. Portanto, como frisa o José Roberto Penteado, setembro de 2015 marca o fim das emissões da Rádio Bandeirantes nas ondas curtas. É uma lástima! (informação do Celio Romais via "Ivan Evangelista Junior", 3 Out, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Nobody contacted at the station knows why it`s off SW or whether it will be coming back, he says (gh, DXLD) Obrigado pela notícia. Realmente é uma lastima para quem gosta de rádio e da Rádio Bandeirantes. Para nós que gostamos de ouvir rádio, só nos resta os 840 kHz da Band. 73 PY4TW CW ENTHUSIAST http://radioentusiasta.blogspot.com/ ("João Ricardo Bergamini", ibid.) ** BRAZIL. 11934.94, Oct 4 at 0031 music, 0032 Brazuguese announcement, S4, no QahiraRM; is RB2 but mentions Aparecida which itself is absent from 11856.3! Still on and in are ZYs 11815, 11764.65, 11780.1 of course. On 9724.23, RB2 also there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CAMBODIA [non]. TAJIKISTAN, Good reception of Voice of Khmer M'Chas Srok, Oct.4 1130-1200 on 17860 DB 200 kW / 125 deg to SEAs Khmer Thu/Sun, video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTerGI3MU98&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 2749-USB, Oct 2 at 0056, OM in English-accented French with météo, S6 signal. Per http://www.dxinfocentre.com/mb.htm starting at 0040 is VCO in Sydney NS, but implied in English only. Two other stations in the 2749 group are ``EE/FF``, but at later times: VAR-3 Yarmouth from 0140; and VCN Magdalen from 0437. Maybe there have been some schedule changes since this listing was last updated 2014-01-30. These and many other marine weather 2 MHz band stations are also listed in EiBi by frequency, http://eibispace.de/dx/freq-a15.txt (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2749-USB, Oct 6 at 0152 UT, tune in to YL English mention of Sable Island (which is off Nova Scotia, favourite for ham DX-peditions, and used to? have a LW beacon), and immediately into YL (same?) in good French, not the English-accented version we hear sometimes on these stations, appellant ``toutes stations`` thrice or so, probably followed by ID but I can`t copy it; about S8. Best SSB sound by tuning slightly down to 2748.96; nothing on 2598-USB at the moment. Following a previous log of these, former marine radio operator and DXer Jari Savolainin in Finland replied: ``Re: Canada coastal stations: 2015 Canadian Coast Guard facilities information of coastal stations (freqs, locations, times etc) for Canadian Atlantic, St. Lawrence, Lakes and Arctic is at: http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/Marine-Communications/RAMN-2015/Part-2-Atlantic-Facilities-Information 73, Jari`` That`s a huge file covering LF, MF and VHF, but giving a rather different impression of what we`re hearing than from the Dxinfocentre. On 2749-J3E kHz, VCS, MCTS Halifax is shown with two different ``sites`` --- Chebogue and Sambro. This is what it shows for the broadcast starting at 0140 UT from Chebogue: ``RADIOTELEPHONY: (English followed by French) Technical marine forecasts synopsis, forecasts and wave height forecasts for marine areas 201 to 2014. U.S. weather forecasts for Coastal Waters - Eastport to Schoodic Point, Maine and Offshore Waters - Gulf of Maine to the Hague Line. Notices to Shipping in areas Bay of Fundy, South and West Coast Nova Scotia`` Chebogue per Wikipedia: ``a small fishing village located in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia.`` As I previously traced to Yarmouth area based on G.C. Sambro: ``a rural fishing community on the Chebucto Peninsula in the Halifax Regional Municipality, in Nova Scotia, Canada. Located on the Atlantic Ocean at the head of Sambro Harbour, the community is immediately west of the entrance to Halifax Harbour. Sambro is located at the end of Route 306`` Sambro broadcast follows at 0240, with both at several other times thruout the night and day. You can find other originators and sites by searching on each frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also NEWFOUNDLAND ** CANADA. Free Radio Scene now on The International Radio Report --- I am happy to report that the Free Radio Scene can now be heard as part of the International Radio Report every other week on CKUT Montreal 90.3 FM or streaming at http://www.ckut.ca Live Sundays at 10:30 AM, Eastern - 1430 UT (Chris Lobdell, MA, Oct CIDX Messenger via WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DXLD) Much like he used to do on the defunct DXing With Cumbre (gh, ibid.) ** CANADA. JIAN GHOMESHI PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO 5 CHARGES --- Via Canadian Press TORONTO -- Disgraced former broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi pleaded not guilty Thursday to five charges, including four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance by choking. The former host of CBC Radio's cultural affairs show "Q" did not speak with reporters as he walked into the courthouse in downtown Toronto where he was arraigned during a court appearance. Ghomeshi, wearing a dark suit and tie, spoke only two words in court, "not guilty," when asked how he pleaded. He had to repeat that because he wasn't speaking into a microphone. Judge William Horkins then cleared the public and media from the courtroom to deal with a motion. Ghomeshi's trial begins Feb. 1, 2016 and will be by judge only. The 48-year-old was originally charged with seven counts of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance by choking, but the Crown withdrew two sexual assault charges in May because they said there was no reasonable prospect of conviction. A lawyer for "Trailer Park Boys" actress Lucy Decoutere, one of the women involved in the case currently before the courts, said the allegations against Ghomeshi have triggered an important national conversation about intimate violence. "While this case works its way through the justice system, countless assault survivors are privately reclaiming agency over their lives, telling their stories, and finally beginning to trust that people will believe them," said Gillian Hnatiw [sic]. Decoutere, who waived her right to a publication ban, as publicly accused Ghomeshi of choking her "to the point she could not breathe." She also said he slapped her three times "hard" on the side of her head" in 2003. Ghomeshi is also facing one charge of sexual assault that is being tried separately. That trial is scheduled to begin next June. The CBC fired Ghomeshi last October after executives saw what they described as graphic evidence that he had physically injured a woman. The one-time radio star has admitted to engaging in rough sex, but said it was consensual. The alleged assaults for which he was originally charged occurred between 2002 and 2008. Ghomeshi's $100,000 bail conditions require him to remain in Ontario and live with his mother. If convicted, Ghomeshi faces a maximum sentence of life in prison (Oct CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ** CANADA. CFRX, 6070, 10/04/15, a fair signal with fading. Heard a Phantom of the Opera commercial at 1129 UT followed by traffic report and ID, "News Talk 1010 -- In Depth Radio" and then into a Sunday Morning program (Larry Zamora, Garland, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANARY ISLANDS [non]. A few months ago, those in the pirate community received a press release about a new station, calling itself “Magic 6205” which would begin broadcasting later in the year from Europe of 6205 kHz. Well, I’m happy to say that they as of September 29th are indeed on the air. They are currently testing, relaying the audio of Horizon FM in the Canary, Islands. According to information on their web site [magic6205.com] they use a transmitter rated at 1.6 kW on 6205 kHz and a three element yagi on 15700 kHz. They are looking to rent airtime to other stations as well. Magic 6205 plays classic hits from the past 40 years. Reception reports are welcomed and will be verified by email by writing to: studio@magic6205.com Although not mentioned for obvious reasons, the transmitter is believed to be in Ireland. Loggings --- Thanks to John Fisher, Glenn Hauser and Steve Wood for these! PIRATE-Euro. Magic 6205, 6205 AM, 2321-0140+, 09-29/30-15 SIO: 333. Pop and rock tunes, relaying Horizon FM with IDs by them. Info and live streaming is available at their web site magic6205.com (Chris Lobdell, MA, Oct CIDX Messenger via WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DXLD) ** CHILE. 6925-AM. RCW. 5/10 2255 UT. Música e ID de la emisora. SINPO: 35232 con marcado ruido ambiental en la frecuencia. Por otro lado, ha sido monitoreada por Alejandro Paredes desde Calbuco, X Región de Los Lagos con SIO: 232. Por otro lado, decir que andan haciendo test en la frecuencia de 7565 también, que lo más probable es que modifiquen los horarios a aquella frecuencia. Más información de ello, en el log de hoy: RCW 6/10: 0022 UT. 6925-AM. Música. SINPO: 35322 0033 UT. 7550-AM. Música. SINPO: 35222 0128 UT. 7565-AM. Música. SINPO: 35222 Según monitoreo de Jorge Zúñiga, desde Padre Hurtado, Región Metropolitana, Chile; se da la siguiente información: “7550, 0040 UT Emisión de prueba con música en inglés de los 60's, SINPO 44244. *Señal fuerte sin fading con mucho ruido y nivel del audio de la emisora medianamente bajo. -RX: Akita R-9803 con antena hilo largo de 6 metros y balun de fabricación casera. Grabación de audio: http://www33.zippyshare.com/v/Qllt8Bqu/file.html Vía “Radioescucha onda corta desde Chile / Short wave radio listening from Chile”, Facebook Grupos: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ondacortaCHILE/permalink/10156129969660068/ (Claudio Galaz Toledo, RX: REALISTIC DX-160. ANT: 30 metros de antena de hilo, más antena de tierra y balún de ferrita 4:1, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DXLD) ** CHINA [and non]. 15265, Chinese jammer heard at 1333 on 9/28/15. Music, announcements and what seemed to be a young girl speaking in Mandarin covering Radio Taiwan International. This was parallel to 15275 which was covering Radio Free Asia via Tajikistan. Good with shut down at 1400 (Bob Brossell, Pewaukee WI, JRC NRD-545 (Godar DXR- 1000 antenna); Eton E1; Sony ICF SW77, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) 12025, CHINA, “Firedrake” music jamming. 1515-1520 September 29. This was likely an attempt to block Radio Free Asia broadcast in Chinese from Dhabbya UAE on same frequency. I could hear RFA underneath the jamming on this frequency. Very strong signal (Vince Henley, Anacortes, WA, Tecsun PL-380, JRC NRD-525, Drake R8B. Antennas are half-meter whip on PL-380 and Alpha-Delta DX-Ultra installed broadside east-west, NASWA Flashsheet Oct 4 via DXLD) U A E. 9555 RFA-4 6/10 2327 UT. Una mujer habla en idioma tibetano, al parecer. Aparte de existir la presencia del Firedrake Jammer desde las 2330 en adelante (Claudio Galaz, RX: REALISTIC DX-160. ANT: 30 metros de antena de hilo, más antena de tierra y balún de ferrita 4:1, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** CHINA. 6200, Oct 1 at 1246, Chinese songs, V. of Jinling, fair and no CCI here from PBS Xizang, Tibet, which Ron Howard reports has now reactivated co-channel messing up Jinling for him (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9440, Oct 1 at 1301, CRI opening Esperanto, fair with flutter; same theme music as on 9550 with Vietnamese. 9440 is 100 kW, 200 degrees from Nanning 954 site; and listed // 11650 via Beijing unchecked. Why are only the Commies (Cuba too) interested in propagating this erstwhile artificial language? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See LANGUAGE LESSONS ** COLOMBIA. 5910, Alcavarán Radio – Puerto Lleras (Presumed), 0145, 10/1/15, in Spanish. Contemporary Latin American music seguéd. First time I have heard them in quite a while. Fair (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin, Perseus, SDRPlay, Eton e1, Grundig Satellit 800, Sangean 909X w/ clear mod, Tecsun PL 660 and various other portables; 40 meters dipole, RF Systems Mk 2, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet Oct 5 via DXLD) 5910.02, Oct 2 at 0144, Alcaraván Radio is reactivated after missing about 5 months, and its sibling 6010.1 La Voz de tu Conciencia already reactivated a few weeks ago and remains reliable including now. First date back, as definitely absent from 5910 thru last night. S9 signal, EZL music, 0147 break for arpeggio and brief Spanish announcement about El Señor, more music. Overridden a couple times by ``running water`` ute, but no broadcast QRM at this hour. That will be at 03-05 from Japan via France; and 0543-0600 M-F from TWR via Austria. 5910, Oct 2 at 0601, Alcaraván Radio is off again, after hearing it reactivated earlier at 0144-0147. Perhaps just testing so far. [and non]. 5910.05, Oct 3 at 0110, Alcaraván Radio is on again tonite, in Spanish, S9+15 but poor; same rating for 6010.10 music and LVC ID, but that has splatter from 6000 and/or 6020. Not rechecked until 0459, when now (like the past bihour, no doubt) there is huge collision with NHK Japanese via FRANCE. NHK is atop, but suffers severe CCI from tango on HJDH. NHK timesignal at hourtop, dead air until off at 0500.4* leaving 5910 now clear for more HJDH. 5910.05, Oct 4 at 0054, music at S9+5 from Alcaraván Radio, still reactivated. 5910, Oct 5 at 0447, no sign of HJDH QRM to NHK Japanese via FRANCE; nor anything on 6010.1, so both Alcaraván Radio and La Voz de tu Conciencia are off tonight. 5910.05 & 6010.1, Oct 6 at 0115, both HJDHs are on registering S9, but I can`t rate them better than very poor: with music and Spanish talk respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Noted only 6010.065 channel, threshold level at 0600 UT, but NOTHING observed on 5910v (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO. 6115, R Congo, Brazzaville, 1800-1840*, Sep 18 and 21, French news and comments, "Le Congo, Les Congolaises", ID: "Radio Congo". Habitual close at 1830, today ten minutes later, 24322. Also heard at *1800-1859*, Sep 22, tuning music, ID: "Radio Congo, le journal", French, news and comments "La Republique du Congo", at 1834 ID in Spanish: "Esta es Radio Congo", nice program of African songs, "Le [sic] musique du [sic] Radio Congo", 34433. (Koie and Méndez) (Erik Køie, Holte, Denmark, mixed in with Manuel Méndez, Spain reports for DSWCI DX Window Sept 30 via DXLD) Spanish odd, but I guess for benefit of listeners in Equatorial Guinea if not Spain (gh, DXLD) 6115, Radio Congo, Brazzaville, 1815-1826*, 26-09, French, comments. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Sangean ATS-090X, Tecsun PL880, Sony ICF SW 7600G, Degen 31MS active loop antenna, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Updated SW schedule of Radio Congo on October 3: 1700-1828 on 6115 BRZ 010 kW / non-dir to COG French Mon-Fri 1700-1858 on 6115 BRZ 010 kW / non-dir to COG French Sat/Sun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzFXKok1wQQ&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWPmMhFpX2A&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoHhehUvOv0&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 1050, Radio Guamá, Santa Lucía, Pinar del Río. 1041 October 4, 2015. Long, singing ID jingle. Listed 1 kW (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6000, Oct 1 at 0617, RHC English time check for :21 past the hour --- I don`t think so. ``Ed Newman``, when recording the now stale English hour the previous afternoon, no doubt really sound asleep at this hour, was relying on playouts to be accurately synchronized with Real Time. In this case, must have started 4 minutes early. [and non]. 9542 & 9558 approx., Oct 1 at 1258, parasitic spurs from the 9550 RHC fundamental, are each making same hets with legit 9540 and 9560 stations, and all three RHC signals vanish at 1259:45*, clearing 9550 for CRI open carrier, 1300 opening Vietnamese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11880, RHC at 2332 with Professor Arne Coro with a science program – Good signal with phone-line quality audio with a bad audio hum overtop, Oct 3. 11760 in Spanish had perfect audio at this time so why can't they afford the same for our friend Professor Arne Coro? After all, enquiring minds do need to know - ed (Mark Coady, Ont, ODXA YRX via DXLD) Our friend, who allows us to be jammed. Because he works from home rather than troubling himself to go into the studio? If so, he ought to set up an FM-quality home-to-studio link, but when we first brought up the telco-quality, he claimed he was in the studio, but his voice alone was being deliberately processed/degraded that way for `better` readability! (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 11840, 11760, 11670, Oct 4 at 0038, RHC signals on 25m are very poor! Strange propagation, yet longer skips are still in, e.g. Brasil. RHC is better on 9710 now; but by 0111 that too is very weakened as are WRMI 9955, 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6000, R Habana Cuba with lots of Santana music (good stuff!) running past the top of the hour, and then dead air from 0202 to 0210+! A phone ringing instead of programming would have made this a ‘perfect storm’ upscrew! :) // 6165 (also dead air) 3+5444. 5554+4+ (really nice!) 0143-0210 4/Oct (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet Oct 9 via DXLD) 15730, Oct 4 at 1408, RHC about Huracán Joaquín position relative to Bermuda, noticeably undermodulated compared to 15370. Wiggle that patchcord! 9570, Oct 5 at 1340 at tune-in, CRI English relay is distorted with carrier wobbling and modulation breakup, also putting noise out to 9560; but soon clears up, leaving only usual hum and undermodulation to mar 9570 itself. 9550, Oct 6 at 1305, RHC is still on late, totally blocking any Vietnamese from CRI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DENMARK. [Re 15-39, OZNRH:] You wrote: >>>No mention of Denmark, but shall we assume it`s there? (gh) See: http://radiooznrh.webnode.com/ Kind Regards, (Erik Koie, Holte/Copenhagen, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 6050, HCJB at 1101 signing on with Ecuadorian national anthem, then announcements in Spanish, hymn and talk. - Poor, Oct 1 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, listening in my car by the lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ?? Normal sign-on is 0825 in Quechua; perhaps they ``re-sign-on`` for Spanish from 1100 (gh, DXLD) ** EGYPT [and non]. 9315, Oct 2 at 0206, no signal from R. Cairo English, and 9965, no signal from R. Cairo Arabic, either. Yet Greek music is good at S9+5 on 9420. 9315, 9965, 11935, 12070, Oct 3 at 0119 check, all four R. Cairo frequencies are AWOL; propagation OK with Greece in on 9420. I re- inquire: are any/all other R. Cairo transmissions missing? 9315 & 9965, Oct 4 at 0044, JBA carriers from R. Cairo so at least it`s on tonight; no carriers making it on 11935 or 12070, but they could be on too, not propagating. If they were inbooming, we still couldn`t listen to Spanish or English with atrocious modulation or lack of it. 9315, Oct 6 at 0102, no signal from R. Cairo. Can`t be sure if it`s really off or MUF way down. Didn`t get around to checking for the higher three (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. 6110, Fana Broadcasting Corporation, R Fana, Addis Ababa, heard at 2000-2102, Sep 15, ID, “Éthiopie-Ethiopia” Musique de La Garde Républicaine, today was clear for me through to the end for the first time in a long time, 34333 (Tomoaki Wagai, Wakayama, Japan, DSWCI DX Window Sept 30 via DXLD) French, odd language in that area: WRTH mentions only domestic languages. Maybe for ex-French Somaliland? (gh, DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA. Reception of Ethiopian stations in 1807-1837 slot Oct 5: from 1807 6110 ADD 100 kW / non-dir EaAf Amharic Fana Broadcasting Corp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFC4k_nY1PA&feature=youtu.be from 1809 6090 GDR 100 kW / non-dir EaAf Amharic Radio Amhara https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL-ib4XO244&feature=youtu.be from 1811 6030 GDR 100 kW / non-dir EaAf Afar Oromo Radio Oromiya https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1HESZsJH1c&feature=youtu.be from 1813 5950 GDR 100 kW / non-dir EaAf Tigrinya Voice of Tigray Revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqcznoBsiIE&feature=youtu.be from 1835 7236vGDR 100 kW / non-dir EaAf Tigrinya Voice of Peace & Democracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN1E1ghdk64&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FALKLAND ISLANDS [non]. ARGENTINA/MALVINAS Video: RAE und die Falklandinseln --- Hatten wir das hier schon? Ein kleines Video mit Einblick in die RAE-Studios*, in dem es um die Sendungen geht, die RAE fuer die Malwinen / Falkland-Inseln ueber den Lokalsender LRA 24 Rio Grande auf Mittelwelle ausstrahlt: (Daniel Kaehler-D, A-DX Sept 27 via BC-DX 4 Oct via DXLD) Danke fuer den Link zum Video. Hier weitere relevante: VLC-Player Gestreamt wird eine flv, - darin eine MP3 - mit ~78 kbps vbr/44 kHz, Mono, vermutlich XING-Encoder (Roger Thauer-D, A-DX Sept 27, ibid.) ** FINLAND. Scandinavian Weekend Radio, Virrat, on air this weekend since 2100 Friday till 2100 Saturday. Frequencies: 5980, 6170, 11690 y 11720 kHz. Power: 100 watts, Detailed schedule: http://www.swradio.net/schedule.htm (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Oct 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) SWR Finland currently audible on 11689.90 with Chelmsford Calling and an advert for the BDXC at 0625 UT. Some fading but a fair signal at times. Nothing heard on 5980 kHz. SIO 343 (Russ Cummings, AOR7030+, 60ft long wire, North Ferriby, East Yorkshire, UK, Sat Oct 3, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Monthly broadcast of Scandinavian Weekend Radio/SWR/ Oct 3 0930&1232 11720 VIR 0.1 kW / non-dir to Europe Finnish, weak, audible from 1315 11690vVIR 0.1 kW / non-dir to Europe Finnish, QRM BBC 11685 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idNrjQX3tDc&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAfKxgo1ltA&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG722i9X68Q&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-b_TKbQtus&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FINLAND. 25000, Time Signal Stations Mikes, Espoo, 0937-0946, 27- 09, time signals, beep with seconds and silent at second 59. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Sangean ATS-090X, Tecsun PL880, Sony ICF SW 7600G, Degen 31MS active loop antenna, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE [non]. 11580, WRMI with Radio France relay, English silly sport news. Then at 0149 into discussion of the migrant 'crisis' in Europe which offered nothing novel in the way of resolving the issue. I keep waiting [for] someone to suggest the way to solve this is to end the fighting in Syria and other areas where people are killing each other, but apparently this is too obvious a solution to rise to the pundit's attention! :o Too bad they waste the 'prime time' option with so much sport instead of the good stuff they have in the middle of the night direct from France! 4+554+4+ but suddenly MUCH weaker at 0151 (S=2!) 0145-0157 26/Sept (Ken Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet Oct 2 via DXLD) Later: RFI 01-02 relay on 11580 reduced to only UT Fri & Sat! Must have been just a filler (gh) ** GERMANY. Germany: On 28 September, Antenne Saar (Heusweiler 1179 kHz, DAB+) added news in English and Arabic for refugees. The short newscast is broadcast on weekdays at 11.55 h LT (currently CEST, 09.55 h UTC) and jointly produced by WDR Cologne and RBB Berlin. More information on Radio Refugee is available at http://www.funkhauseuropa.de/sendungen/refugeeradio/ The website gives access to the newscasts in audio and text form. For interested Germans all items are also available in German at http://www.funkhauseuropa.de/sendungen/refugeeradio/deutsch/index188.html (Dr. Hansjörg Biener, Oct 4, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Reception of HCJB Voice of The Andes on October 3 1530-1600 on 13800 NAU 100 kW / 100 deg to CeAs Russian Sat 1600-1630 on 13800 NAU 100 kW / 100 deg to CeAs Chechen Sat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlSgpmsskAs&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuXm1p-xq6U&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Weak signal of Hamburger Lokalradio HLR, Sat, October 3: 0600-0630 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CEu English Sat/Wed Deutsche Welle 0630-0700 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CEu English Sat/Wed World of Radio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKP2gwiubxQ&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Wed? Last we heard their Wed repeats had been suspended (gh, DXLD) 7265, Hamburger LokalRadio, Bremen, *0600-0658, 03-10, English, news and comments, identification, at 0630 Glenn Hauser's "World of Radio" program. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Sangean ATS- 090X, Tecsun PL880, Sony ICF SW 7600G, Degen 31MS active loop antenna, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7265, 3/10, 0630-0700, HLR via Göhren, ID, englisch, Glenn Hausers World of Radio, suff, vy´s 73 and good Dxing (Uwe Sennewald, Germany, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DXLD) 7265.00, 1425-1448* Sat 3.10, Hamburger Lokalradio, Göhren, English DX-interview with old recordings: "This is Radio Moscow", "This is Radio Prague", 1439 Glenn Hauser with "World of Radio", but the transmitter suddenly went off at 1448! 45333. What I heard this weekend in Skovlunde on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire AP-DNK (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DXLD) ** GERMANY. R. MiAmigo Int’l on 9560 at 1150 in Dutch?, Oct 3. US pop music, excited M announcer. Listed as German, but doesn’t sound like German. F-G (Online receiver Icom R8500, Rimini, Italy via Mike Bryant, KY, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GOA. INDIA AIR-Panaji on 11740 at *2045 in English, Oct 4. On suddenly with beautiful female vocals that sounded like oriental yodeling, rapid drums the only accompaniment. ID by M “This is the GOS of India”, woman with Indian news, into program about Indian investment rate. Good, co-ch squeal, prob not a het, b/c it seems equally strong in USB and LSB. Targeted at Australia/New Zealand. (Online receiver Icom R8500 in Rimini, Italy via Mike Bryant, KY, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. Vorhin vor 17 UT am 4. Oct ein Griechischer Pirat mit schoener griechischer Musik auf 5795.318 kHz und der Halben auf 2897.659 kHz. Die Fundamentale 1448.8 kHz konnte ich nicht hoeren. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 4 via DXLD) ** GREECE. Transmissions of Voice of Greece from 1330 UT Oct 1 to 0607 Oct 2: 1330-1900 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg WeEu Greek, co-ch CNR-13 and VIRI 0500-0600 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg WeEu Vary^ 0600-0705 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg WeEu Greek 0700-0710 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg WeEu Vary# from 0710 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg WeEu Greek & continues at 0730 ^ Greek, Serbian, Romanian, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Italian. Today missing langs are Albanian and Arabic. # Polish and Italian. Today missing Arabic language service 2nd transmitter on 9935/11645 is off from several days. Transmissions of V of Greece from 1500 Oct 2 to 1300 Oct 3: 1500-1800 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg WeEu Greek, co-ch CNR-13 and VIRI 0500-1300 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg WeEu Greek, no signal at 1400 UT! Second transmitter on 9935/11645 is off from several days due to maintenance. Transmissions of Voice of Greece in 0500-0705 slot Oct 6: 0500-0600 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Vary^ 0600-0705 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek ^ Greek, Serbian, Romanian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Italian, Arabic. Today missing language is Albanian. Transmissions are suddenly cut off at 0705 UT. Second transmitter on 9935/11645 is off from several days due to maintenance (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 9355, Sat Oct 3 at 1342, good signal in Korean, no jamming, at first not obviously Protestant, but an hymn plays thru hourtop 1400, after which there is flutter and fading. HFCC shows it`s KTWR, M-F at 1345-1500, Sat 1345-1415, Sun 1345-1445. After 1500 until 2100, it`s all IBB on 9355 from Tajikistan and Saipan in Tibetan, Uyghur, Mandarin, all subject to CNR1 or Firedragon jamming. 9355, Oct 5 at 1343, KTWR `new` IS is looping every dekasecond: same tune but different instrumentation than before. Ivo Ivanov says the old one still shows up on some transmissions. 1345 Korean ID and programming, as signal declines from fair to poor. This is the beginning of the Korean service, but length varies depending on day of week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUYANA. Radio Guyana, 5 kW on 3290 heard at 904pm central/0204 UT on 10-4-15 [date being local, I think he insists on writing, not UT] in Southwest Arkansas using a Sangean ATS909X and PK's Loop 1.8 to 6 MHz tropical bands tunable shortwave loop. They were playing what I would call "lite" or "light" music. At first it sounded like some kind of operatic or classical tunes, then later on it sounded like very soft adult contemporary music. Signal was OK on my signal level meter on the radio but audio was poor, kinda low with buzzing and static with fading. Something tells me they're running a tube transmitter whose tubes are going soft (Paul B Walker, Jr, Camden, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AIR Mumbai Urdu Service is noted just now (0330 UTC) 2 Oct 2015 on 7400 kHz instead of 7340 [sic] kHz. (Punching error?) The sked is: (UT) 0015-0430 Urdu, 0830-1130 Urdu, 1130-1140 HS, 1230-1500 Sindhi, 1500-1600 Baluchi. AIR Mumbai is noted back on its regular freq 7430 today 3 Oct 2015 (after being on 7400 yesterday) Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. 4895, Oct 2 at 1252, algo with talk, presumably the only 4895 SWBC station on the nightside, AIR Kurseong. Many other JBA carriers on 60 m fitting India or Tibet/China without achieving any modulation, at 1301 Oct 2 scan: 4800, 4810, 4820, 4870, 4880, 4910, 4920, 4970, 5010, 5040, 5050 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also TAJIKISTAN, INDONESIA ** INDONESIA. 4750, RRI Makassar, Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, OM and YL program dedicated to Islam, music with traces of Islamic culture in Indonesian language. I actually expected to hear Bangladesh; after I finished recording was listening to the laughs and Bangadesh Betar website at RRI I was to my surprise and theirs was the same program in the air: http://www.rri.co.id/makassar/home.html below on the site in audio click Makassar, then definitely RRI, then I went well think my QTH is easy to listen to RRI because at the same time I heard the other RRI in 3905 kHz and 3325 kHz. Day 09/01/2015 [sic] 1005 UT, sinpo 25112 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l2du4J2WVk&feature=youtu.be RX: Tecsun S-2000, Antenna: Long wire 3000 Meters (wire fence steel for cows) (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT Brazil, Oct 3, Hard- Core-DX mailing list, via DXLD) Date presumably 10/01, not 09/01. I had to pass over another of his logs because of an even more wrong numerical date I couldn`t guess at. One of the comments to this YT said ``excellent reception`` --- no it wasn`t, it was very poor! Nothing identifiable on it other than by comparing to stream (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4750, Pro 4 RRI Makassar, 1159, Oct 1. Local ID; 5 pips; Jakarta news and // 3324.88, RRI Palangkaraya (better modulation today) // 3905, Pro 1 RRI Merauke // 4869.88, RRI Wamena; switched back now to patriotic song "Bagimu Negeri" to end the news. It will be recalled that for all of August news ended with patriotic song “Dirgahayu Indonesiaku” and for all of Sept news ended with patriotic song "Garuda Pancasila"; after "Bagimu Negeri" another local ID; much better reception than normal; virtually no QRM. My audio (good quality) at https://app.box.com/s/458mlrb1f88vbp81b26iogo2hq966w0w 4869.88, RRI Wamena with "Kang Guru Indonesia," starting at 1239, Oct 1 (Thursday); starts with singing Kang Guru Indonesia jingle; language lesson; segment of spelling many words; pop songs; not very readable; presented by Ana & Greg. 9525.98v, VOI, 1315, Oct 1. "Today in History"; on this date 1917, Gesang Martohartono, was born (an Indonesian singer & songwriter) - in 1965, "30 September Movement" revolt in Indonesia failed - 2005, Bali bombings; very readable even with prominent hum. My last log for a while. Going on vacation (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA [and non]. 4869.94, RRI Wamena noted on Oct 1st from 1250 UT tune with English program by man and woman conversing to 1306.5 UT, then into 2-3 pop vocals. Man in Indonesian at 1314-15 UT. Pop vocals again at 1315 UT. At 1316:11, AIR's carrier came up just a few kHz above Wamena, but Wamena was still audible underneath. Could have neutered this with LSB but wasn't at the controls then. AIR programming started at 1329 UT and Wamena still audible underneath until AIR played music, then it was difficult to track. Site used was Edmonton AB. SINPO 35333 until 1316 UT then SINPO 32332 (Bruce W. Churchill, CA-USA, DXplorer Oct 3 via BC-DX 4 Oct via DXLD) ** INDONESIA [and non]. 4750-, Oct 1 at 1240, RRI Makassar, fair signal with music, some modulation breaks, on FRG-7 at S9+18, as good as it has been so far; no LAH audible until 1255 recheck now with two offset carriers. 4750-, Oct 2 at 1248, RRI Makassar with music, clear with no low audible heterodyne, but at 1259 recheck now there is CCI from a 4750.0 LAH. I keep wondering whether the 4750 station coming on somewhere in the 1245-1300 span is Bangladesh or China? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. Good signal of Voice of Indonesia on Oct.3: from 1325 on 9526&JAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbLdQ_KG6JA&feature=youtu.be from 1525 on 9526 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs Chinese http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDOs-zVbK94&feature=youtu.be from 1625 on 9526 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg to N/ME Arabic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc_rPtmWnmk&feature=youtu.be from 1725 on 9526 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg to WeEu Spanish http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pAbXz4PLCs&feature=youtu.be from 1825 on 9526 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg to WeEu German http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxQGuKy-Jgs&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hard to believe it`s on 10 degree beam during 1300 English, which continues to be inaudible here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. Major Changes for GCR. World of Radio Still Included. --- On Tue, 10/6/15, Geneva Community Radio wrote: From: Geneva Community Radio Subject: Major Changes for GCR. World of Radio Still Included. To: "woradio@yahoo.com" Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2015, 5:26 PM Hello Glenn. I hope you are well. I am writing to tell you about significant changes coming to our internet radio station. Unfortunately, we've been having little success in recruiting community volunteers to host their own radio shows. I think a lot of this has to do with the fact that we were unsuccessful in obtaining an LPFM license. Now, our partner in Geneva Community Radio, The Geneva Community Center, has come up with a new plan. They want Geneva Community Radio to become a podcasting service that focuses strictly on locally produced content. The Development Director of the Community Center feels that more locals will want to participate in something that is purely about the local community. The podcasts will be produced at the center, and then posted for on demand listening. We may even be able to get Geneva's existing LPFM station, run by Hobart and William Smith Colleges (WHWS- LP) to air these podcasts. While I agree with where the Community Center is coming from, I do not wish to take down the internet programming service I have built, and was planning on expanding. So, the 24/7 online stream formerly known as Geneva Community Radio will henceforth be known as Global Community Radio. We are off the air for the moment, but, when we return, we will be offering two separate programming streams. Global Community Radio Channels One and Two, respectively. GCR1 will focus on spoken word content, such as current affairs, informational and educational programming on a variety of issues from a diverse selection of content providers. We are planning to reserve overnights and early mornings for rebroadcasts of various external services in English from around the world. Some of that content coming from WRN, but I would like to also air some broadcasters that are not included as part of the WRN service. I'm looking at several broadcasters which have downloadable podcasts. My hope is that I can obtain the necessary permission from said stations to rebroadcast those audio files. We shall see. GCR2, on the other hand, will be all about music. A wide variety of music presented in a block style format. Genres will include Classical, Jazz, Blues, World Music, Folk, Showtunes, and several other genres. Again, from a variety of different sources. All of the programming formerly on the single Geneva Community Radio stream will remain, but with lots of new content available on the new Global Community Radio. World of Radio will remain on Sunday nights at 9:00 PM Eastern, on the new Global Community Radio Channel One. While this will be an internet radio service primarily, I am interested in possibly making both of our streams available to any non-commercial broadcaster who might be looking for programming to fill open airtime. As you know, a lot of small college and community radio stations simply run a random automated music playlist when no local hosts are available. I would like to see some of these stations pick up Global Community Radio, as I feel that many of the programs we air/will be airing are not getting the radio time they deserve. Do you think perhaps any of the US Shortwave stations might be interested in running Global Community Radio during times when no paid programming is airing? Certainly this would be an ideal replacement for the failed Global 24. Of course, I realize that these stations are in it to make money, but I know WRMI has used WRN to fill airtime on occasion. When we come back, which we are hoping will be later this Fall, our new website will be http://globalcommunityradio.blogspot.com and our new e-mail address will be globalcommunityradio@gmail.com I'll keep you posted. Thanks (Jake Longwell, Oct 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 11730, Oct 1 at 1307, VIRI in presumed Pashto as scheduled due east from Sirjan; good signal but undermodulated with electronic music liners, until chopoff at 1320:45* during music: unlike one biday ago when kept going, misopening Chinese from 1322. This time, I check scheduled 13660 for Japanese from 1322, but it`s too weak, just IS, unID language opening, 1323 NA. By 1405 recheck, however, it`s a bit better, recognizably correct Japanese. 9511.00, Oct 3 at 0121, very poor carrier with music, and frequency wavers slightly. Presumably VIRI Zahedan off-frequency again from 9510, but what`s wrong? It`s usually closer to 9511.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. Radio Farda has been audible from tune in at 0640 UT today Oct 3 - and at various checks until sudden off at 1400, on 7435. This one is listed as KWT at 85 degrees, but seems more likely to have come from a European site. Went off just in time for the start of CRI via Kunming-Anning IS and programme in Nepali. A weak signal compared to Farda (Noel R. Green (NW England), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) KUWAIT [non]. Surprisingly strong signal of R. Farda via Kuwait Oct 6: 1229&1358 7435 KWT 250 kW / 058 deg WeAs Persian, scheduled 0630-1400 from 1500 5865 KWT 250 kW / 058 deg WeAs Persian, scheduled 1500-0630 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK83g-iX9xM&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaZsNkoT86I&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__nfTdFEa48&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, Oct 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) GERMANY, Transmitter change of Radio Farda via Biblis, ex-Kuwait: 0630-1400 on 7435 BIB 100 kW / 108 deg to WeAs Farsi, ex KWT 1500-0630 on 5865 BIB 100 kW / 108 deg to WeAs Farsi, ex KWT (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, Oct 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Farda is still being heard throughout the transmission period of 0630- 1400, and it is strong this Saturday morning - the best I've heard it, and obviously not Kuwait. News and a very clear ID heard at 1030. Neither of the listed parallel channels are audible at this time - that's 17860 and 15690, and both via BIBLIS (Noel Green, NW England, Oct 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY. Re 2600 log: AM or SSB? Dear Glenn, True, not specified, but is USB for it's coastal station. To my knowledge, these don't use AM at all, just USB or digital modes. As to a carrier on 2600. Yes, it's also perceived here too, and I'd also like to know what this is. Despite what I said about coastal stations, the idea of some sort of carrier (AM?) being used as marker did cross my mind. As I write this, at nearly 2155 UT, 2600 has some data signal (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, Oct 5, DX LISTENING DIGSET) ** ITALY. Good signal of Italian/Dutch Pirate Radio Latino on Oct 3 1630-1800 on 7590 unknown tx in Italy to Eu in English/Spanish/Dutch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p819HVAkb80&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7GB-ltv5S8&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIUi0W_Oz7c&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3JG7k4vPt0&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeFNcIbK1DM&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY. Marconi Radio International is now on the air! This message comes to you from Marconi radio International and is just to remind you that we have signed on a few minutes ago and will remain on the air for about two hours. Receptions reports accompanied by audio mp3 recording of our test broadcast are welcome! -- Marconi Radio International (MRI) Short wave test broadcasts from Italy on 11390 kHz (MRI, 1802 UT Oct 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Be advised that the next test broadcast of Marconi Radio International scheduled tomorrow, 3rd October 2015, from approximately 1230 to 1530 UTC has been cancelled and replaced with an unplanned transmission on Sunday 4th October 2015, from 0830 to 1200 UTC There will be a change on the frequency, too: from 11390 to 11530 (variable to 11535) kHz. The power remain the same in the region of 30 watts. Test broadcasts consist of non stop music and station identification announcements in Italian, English, Spanish and Catalan. We are sorry for any inconvenient caused. MRI encourages reception reports from listeners. Audio clips (mp3-file) of our broadcasts are welcome! We QSL 100%. Our E-mail address is: marconiradiointernational@gmail.com We hope that you will share this information with your members. Thank you very much for your cooperation -- Marconi Radio International (MRI) Short wave test broadcasts from Italy (MRI, Oct 2, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [non]. ROMANIA, IRRS Shortwave relay Radio City via Radiocom 0800-0900 on 9510 TIG 150 kW / 290 deg to WeEu German Sat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qnFEg3BTU&feature=youtu.be But no signal from Radio Warra Wangeelaa-ti on October 3: 1500-1530 on 15515 TIG 150 kW / 165 deg to EaAf Oromo Sat (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 774, Oct 1 at 1229, JBA carrier from NHK Akita; and 828 at 1230 even weaker one, from NHK Osaka; no others audible on the lo end. Today`s Enid sunrise: 1227 UT; in one week will be 1232 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. FM SIMULCASTS IN JAPAN --- Japanese FM band 76-90 MHz was expanded to 76-95 MHz in 2014. Expanded 90-95 MHz has been assigned to FM simulcast of commercial AM stations. FM simulcast is allowed only for complementary use of AM broadcast. At present, moving from AM to FM is not allowed. The Following commercial AM stations have begun FM simulcasts. Dec 1, 2014 Kita Nihon Hoso, Toyama (738) 90.2 1kW Nankai Hoso, Matsuyama (1116) 91.7 1kW Jan 1, 2015 Minami Nihon Hoso, Kagoshima (1107) 92.8 1kW Mar 2, 2015 Akita Hoso, Akita (936) 90.1 1kW Jul 28, 2015 Chugoku Hoso, Hiroshima (1350) 94.6 1kW (test) Aug 17, 2015 Ibaraki Hoso, Mito (1197) 94.6 1kW Oct 1, 2015 Nagasaki Hoso, Nagasaki (1233) 91.8 1kW Tokai Radio Hoso, Nagoya (1332) 92.9 7kW Chubu Nihon Hoso, Nagoya (1053) 93.7 7kW Oct.5, 2015 TBS Radio, Tokyo (954) 90.5 7kW (test) Bunka Hoso, Tokyo (1134) 91.6 7kW (test) Nippon Hoso, Tokyo (1242) 93.0 7kW (test) Antennas and transmitters of the 3 stations in Tokyo are located at "Tokyo Sky Tree" (height 634 m) in Sumida district, Tokyo. Inter FM is the only multi-lingual radio station in Tokyo, broadcasting mostly in English, with some French, Portuguese, Spanish, Indonesian, Thai, Tagalog, Chinese and Korean. They have been broadcasting on 76.1 MHz (10 kW), but it has been impossible for foreign tourists to tune with their own radio receivers which cover 88-108 MHz. With recent drastic increase of foreign visitors to Tokyo, the change of the frequency to 89.7 MHz, within both in the Japanese FM band 76-90 MHz and international 88-108 MHz, was planned. They started test broadcast on 89.7 MHz (10 kW) on June 30 this year, the regular broadcast began on October 1. On October 1, they changed their station name to "InterFM 897". In October they broadcast on 76.1 MHz and on 89.7 simultaneously. From November 89.7 MHz only. The transmitter and antenna is located at "Tokyo Tower", the former TV transmitting tower, in Minato-ku, Tokyo (Takahito Akabayashi, Tokyo, Japan, Oct 2-4 WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) To accomplish adding 90-95 MHz to the FM dial, must have moved out all (?) the TV stations on channel J1, 90-96 MHz (gh, DXLD) ** KASHMIR. AIR Leh 4760 with Transmitter problem? For the last few days a rough carrier (without any audio) is noted on 4760 which goes at 1630 UT. It tallies with AIR Leh schedule. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Oct 4, Hyderabad, India, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** KIRIBATI. Well, I just found out something to those of us interested in Pacific radio signals. Radio Kiribati 1440 JUST started a live webstream; JUST, as in, like within the last few days! The audio levels can be a bit loud and overdriven at times, but I am corresponding with their chief engineer and the radio station manager at the Broadcasting & Publications Authority in an effort to get levels set just right. The audio is average and I wouldn't expect much more, quality wise, then what they've got now; as most of these stations have bare basics when it comes to some equipment. The Radio Kiribati stream was just added to the Reciva.com database for internet radios and should be there soon if it isn't already. The stream is at http://202.6.120.13:8000/ The stream itself is of amazing quality at 64k vorbis, which sounds good to my ears via my CC Wifi Radio and CCrane Senta speaker. Radio Kiribati only broadcasts local programming at certain times of day. Sometimes I'll hear Radio new Zealand International outside of local broadcasting, other times I won't. Times are as follows. Most of their programming is in their native language, which is Gilbertese according to Wikipedia. It's a Micronesian language of the Austronesian language family. They do three segments of English broadcasting every day, some 30 minutes long and one is an hour long. Kiribati is UT +12; at 4:16 pm Thursday in Southwest Arkansas, where I am, it's 9:16 am Friday morning in Kiribati. Morning: 0700 to 0830. English at 0800 [20 UT] Lunch: 1200 to 1330. English at 1300 [01 UT] Evening: 1700 to 2130. English at 1800 [06 UT] Enjoy, (Paul Walker, AR, http://www.onairdj.com Oct 1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks for the news Paul. I was wondering if any of your contacts at the station know of the location of the former SW transmission antenna at Radio Kiribati. Been a long time since it was on air though. I know it was a different location to the MW antenna (Ian - AUSTRALIA, ibid.) I can ask when I hear back from them. I`m sure that will never come back up. Would be nice, but not happening (Paul Walker, ibid.) I remember the SW broadcasts from many years ago. Seems they used amateur ham equipment then, with classic audio. Those were the days! (Walt Salmaniw, BC, ibid.) Observed (via webstream) signing off at 1000 UT, signing on at 1855 UT, both on 2 October 2015 (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6020, Oct 1 at 1338, Shiokaze sounders are recognizable, and the usual deferential Japanese-style YL voice, but not enough to be positive she`s in English as normal on Thursdays. Nothing on 5985, so Sea-breeze must have just made another QSY for the 1330-1430 broadcasts from JAPAN. Aoki already agrees on this, but yet to discover whether the 1600-1700 repeat has moved from 5985 too. Anyhow, glad that the 1330 transmission is re-beginning to propagate to here, now starting only one hour after sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) in other words: JAPAN, Frequency change of Shiokaze Sea Breeze from October 1: 1330-1400 NF 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs, ex 5985 Japanese Mon 1330-1400 NF 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs, ex 5985 Chinese Tue 1330-1400 NF 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs, ex 5985 Japanese Wed 1330-1400 NF 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs, ex 5985 English Thu 1330-1400 NF 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs, ex 5985 Korean Fri 1330-1400 NF 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs, ex 5985 Korean Sat 1330-1400 NF 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs, ex 5985 Japanese Sun 1400-1430 NF 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs, ex 5985 Japanese Mon 1400-1430 NF 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs, ex 5985 Korean Tue 1400-1430 NF 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs, ex 5985 Japanese Wed 1400-1430 NF 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs, ex 5985 English Thu 1400-1430 NF 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs, ex 5985 Korean Fri 1400-1430 NF 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs, ex 5985 Japanese Sat 1400-1430 NF 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs, ex 5985 Korean Sun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk6JmHpWQVw&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, Oct 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. PRIDNESTROVIE Denge Kurdistan-Grigoriopol on 11600 at 2055 in (listed) Kurdish, Oct.1. Very strange-sounding music, ME male vocals, marching mx (anthem?), Off at 2100 with no announcement, but immediately followed by digital data signal. Fair. (Online FunCube+, Madrid, Spain via Mike Bryant, KY, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11600, Oct 7 at 1400, Denge Kurdistan YL talking with long pauses, and her intonation sounds a lot like French, but no words recognized. I`ve been trying to catch the handover from PRIDNESTROVYE to BULGARIA relay site; 1402 signal weakens somewhat, but no break or overlap, so not sure if this is it, which has been known to happen several minutes later, when I am usually occupied with breakfast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. Das seit 2005 anhaengige Projekt einer neuen Kurzwellenstation von World Christian Broadcasting, 605 Bradley Court, Franklin, TN 37067, USA. liess 2015 weiter auf sich warten, machte aber einen wesentlichen Fortschritt. Das Projekt hing lange an der Einfuhrgenehmigung fuer die Sender. Diese kam letztlich erst nach einem Gespraech von WCBC- Praesident Charles Caudill mit dem madegassischen Praesidenten bei einem Besuch in Washington. Die Sender sind seit April auf Madagaskar und wurden in Mai aufs Gelaende gebracht. Wie Caudill mitteilte, sind inzwischen USD 12 Mio. in das Projekt geflossen. [this portion appears to be translation of my own summary of what I heard on AWR Wavescan, without such credit --- gh] Inzwischen wurden auch wieder Frequenzen fuer den Sendestart registriert, der von verschiedenen Mitarbeitern mit dem Fruehjahr 2016 avisiert wurde. 0100-0200 9445 (100 kW, 40 degr) Englisch Richtung Ostasien 0200-0300 7400 (100 kW, 250 degr) Programm fuer Suedafrika 0300-0400 7405 (100 kW, 265 degr) Programm fuer Suedafrika 0400-0500 9475 (100 kW, 295 degr) Englisch fuer Afrika 1800-1900 9515 (100 kW, 355 degr) Russisch 1800-1900 17550 (100 kW, 310 degr) Englisch fuer Afrika 1900-2000 11720 (100 kW, 355 degr) Arabisch Richtung Nordafrika 2000-2100 15450 (100 kW, 340 degr) Englisch fuer Afrika 2100-2200 11720 (100 kW, 325 degr) Mandarin-Chinesisch 2200-2300 9570 (100 kW, 55 degr) Mandarin-Chinesisch 2200-2300 11720 (100 kW, 325 degr) Arabisch, Nahen und Mittleren Osten and new MWV / WCB starts in B-15 with 12 broadcasting hours a day from Madagascar, MDG MWV WCB 7400 0200 0300 13,12,14,15 MWV 100 250 0 218 Osp South AM 7405 0300 0400 13,12 MWV 100 265 0 218 Osp South AM 9445 0100 0200 41 MWV 100 40 0 218 Eng English SoAS 9475 0400 0500 47,48,46 MWV 100 295 0 218 Eng all Africa 9515 1800 1900 29 MWV 100 355 0 218 Orv Euro Russia 9570 2200 2300 43,44 MWV 100 55 0 218 Cmn China 11720 1900 2000 39,38 MWV 100 355 0 218 Ara NoWeAF 11720 2100 2200 28,27 MWV 100 325 0 218 Cmn EUR 11720 2200 2300 37,38 MWV 100 325 0 218 Ara NE/ME 15450 2000 2100 38,37 MWV 100 340 0 218 Ara NoWeAF 17550 1800 1900 48,47,37,46 MWV 100 310 0 218 Eng all Africa (Rich Blair 31.8., Dr. Adrian Peterson 17.9.2015 dxld; via Prof. Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, Sept 30, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 4 via DXLD) ** MARSHALL ISLANDS. State broadcaster of the Marshall Islands, Radio Marshalls (V7AB), has a live audio stream available at http://radiov7abmajuro.listen2myradio.com This was observed signing on at 1830 UT then signing off at 1130 UT 2/3 October 2015. Programming noted was mostly in local languages, except for regular relays of BBC news in English. Eagle Christian Radio is another Marshallese broadcaster, offering live streaming at http://eagleradio.radio12345.com The station broadcasts on 99.9 MHz FM (listed as AFN Kwajalein in current WRTH) and mediumwave 1170 kHz (not listed in WRTH). (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DXLD) The president and first lady of the MI recently visited Enid, where there is a considerable colony of migrants from there (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DXLD) ** MEXICO. 700, XEXPUJL, La Voz del Corazón de la Selva, X'pujil, Campeche. 1108-1115 September 26, 2015. Caught at sign on with Mexican national anthem at 1108 (unusual version never heard before), into the Campeche state anthem (choral with baritone-ish male lead singer) as confirmed here, same version in fact. Captured on the cell phone recorder to compare anthems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGF2oFhFH3A Then Spanish female (though presumed Mayan dialect accent) with calls and slogan, into oldie Spanish vocal, same female back at 1113. Per Wiki, it's owned by Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas (CDI): XEXPUJ-AM (La Voz del Corazón de la Selva – "The Voice of the Heart of the Rain Forest") is an indigenous community radio station that broadcasts in Spanish, Yucatec Maya and Ch'ol from Xpujil, municipality of Calakmul, in the Mexican state of Campeche. It is run by the Cultural Indigenist Broadcasting System (SRCI) of the National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples (CDI). (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 720, Oct 2 at 0153, traffic report, mentions Zaragoza, a suburb of Ciudad Juárez, plugging 6 am show here on ``Extremo 7-20``, federal PSAs for CNDH = Derechos Humanos, on its 25th anniversary, and 0155 for the Senado, i.e. XEJCC, Juárez, Chihuahua. Getting this without having to avoid WGN at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 770, XEACH Radio Fórmula, Monterrey, Nuevo León. 1057 October 4, 2015. End of Mexi-tune, ID, truncated version of anthem from 1059, female announcer from 1100. 770, MEXICO unidentified. 1104 October 4, 2015. Anthem by kiddie chorus fading up, marimba-ish bumper music, female announcer but very poor with XEACH dominating (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 770, Oct 4 at 1200, Fórmula Noticias opening morning news on 85 stations across the country, members of its first network, originating at 103.3 and 970 in the DF; also plugs its presence in the USA. This is XEACH, Monterrey NL, 25/1 kW, separable from weaker KKOB or KKOB, NM with CBS News (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 800, Oct 2 at 0632 UT, no sign of XEROK Juárez; I can still hear KQCV OKC with it nulled as much as possible. Nor is XEROK evident around 1245. Now I`m wondering if it`s totally off the air, rather than just during daytime as I observed while in New Mexico last month. It would be quite ironic if one of the historic border-blasters quit AM for FM as the Mexican government encourages. That could open up 800 for some new USA stations in the Southwest, should anyone be interested in Old Technology. 800, Oct 3 at 0510, with KQCV OKC nulled, some weak music, not the bigsig we normally get from 50 kW XEROK Ciudad Juárez, still seemingly off the air or maybe QRP. 800, Oct 5 at 0453, weak Mexican music, fast SAH making low rumble with KQCV OKC nulled. Can it be XEROK, perhaps on much reduced power from 50 kW? I shan`t be satisfied until I can get a Radio Cañón ID or something else. There are really a bunch of other XEs on 800; the only one beyond XEROK being 500/250 watt XESPN in Tijuana (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see BONAIRE! ** MEXICO. 870, Oct 4 at 1204, 10 kW daytimer XETAR, Guachochi, Chihuahua, signing on by YL in native language, then Spanish by same YL; then another(?) native language by OM. In all cases, they must still pronounce sponsoring agency full names in Spanish: CDI [Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas], SRCI [Sistema de Radiodifusoras Culturales Indigenistas]. Location given as Colonia El Santo in Guachochi. BTW, a few years ago the normal spelling of the town had a -c at the end (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 970, Oct 4 at 1219, ranchera music loops WSW; 1220 ID with FM and AM frequencies uncopied, 6:20 TC; 1225, ``tu estación --- ranchera``, another incomplete ID, and a long string of federal PSAs including Conociendo a México; Cámara de Diputados y Diputadas [! At last], Servicio del Emprendedor [enterprise, entrepreneur], 1227 ID for ``970 y 96.1 FM``, automated 6:27 TC, 1228 back to music. It`s XESW, Ciudad Madera, Chihuahua, greatly benefiting by departure from the 970 dial of XEJ Juárez. See my previous log of March 27 making this AM/FM match lacking in the big 3 references, and much more about it. 970, Oct 5 at 1233, report from the Suprema Corte de la Nación about its activities (not a mere PSA), M&W alternating brief items separated by two quick beeps (or Morse code I); 1235 full ID for Radio Madera, XESW and FM XHESW, Ciudad Madera, Chihuahua (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 990, Oct 4 at 1229, Mexican music loops E/W, brief Spanish announcement ``Somos ---``, and English folk music, ``Hey Ladi-Ladi-, Hey Ladi-Ladi Oh`` [sp?], 1234 ID mentions ``música Rockola``, which is the known name of XECL Mexicali BC, more folk music in English. WRTH, IRCA and Cantú strangely list it at 1.4 kW day, 3 kW night. NRC Pattern Book shows it`s all ND, but slightly larger day than night contour. By this time, no XET Monterrey to compete, altho something Spanish on 1050 is audible, maybe XED instead of XEG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1300, Oct 7 at 0551, dominant signal is a Mexican from WSW, ``Penny Lane`` song, version with Spanish lyrix except for the title; 0553 automated TC for 11, 53 minutos; another classic rock song in Spanish; 0559 gobierno federal PSA string including Canal del Congreso, Cambio Climático; promo a Saturday 8-10 am show on Radio México Noticias; 0600 fade down for XEP ID, choral NA, fade up for more music. Modulation is a bit rough. Obviously not 200 watt night power of the Ciudad Juárez station, but as much as 38 kW day power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1570, XERF, La Poderosa, Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila. 1107 October 4, 2015. National anthem in progress followed by the Coahuila state anthem at 1111 (my favorite), then man with brief inspirational words, digital alarm and tooth brushing sound effects (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Fotos de Radio Educación de México, 6185 kHz Onda Corta y AM 1060 kHz y Parque de antenas desde Ciudad de México - Distrito Federal. http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com.br/2015/10/fotos-de-radio-educacion-de-mexico-6185.html (Daniel Wyllyans, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** MEXICO. RF channel 2, 54-60 MHz, Oct 5 at 1744 UT, my peripheral vision catches some video fading in other than cable radiation, on the analog B&W monitor I usually allow to snow much of the time by my computer station. 1746, yes, it`s weak sporadic E in the off-month of October! Video only, but can make out ad grafix definitely in Spanish via my antenna aimed SSE, almost S; 1749 tentative star bug in LR; 1751, Spanish audio fades in briefly during novela, and definitely Televisa-2 net star bug. One more brief video fade-in before 1800. Could be flagship XEW-TV in México DF itself, which AFAIK is still on 2 in analog; will it be the last to go? While more and more relays of this and all other networks around the country are having to switch to DTV on UHF, supposedly all by end of 2015. You never know whether a catch like this will be the last one ever. Zilch activity showing on both 6m ham Es maps (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- Re: As you know, Nightlights were on the air for up to four weeks in the US after the analog shutdown in order to help anyone who may have been lost somehow in the shuffle. My Nightlight page: http://tvdxexpo.com/nightlights/nightlightsth.html (Danny Oglethorpe, Shreveport, Oct 1, via Raymie, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) I've thought about that too. In the case of rural Nuevo León TVNL has served as an inadvertent nightlight because it did not immediately have to convert, nor were any of its outstate (non-Monterrey) transmitters converted. But that's hardly what I'd want as my only TV option. I thought a better switching scheme would have shut off one or two networks (say, C5 and A13) and then the others would be shut off within a couple of weeks. This is similar to what Britain did in its digital switchover with BBC Two. "...Un servicio más de Radio Programas de México." Next analog shutoff: Torreón + Gómez Palacio, San Luís Río Colorado, Cuernavaca, October 29 (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, Oct 1, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) TVNL is better than nothing. The British scheme you mention would have been helpful. Raymie, have you ever watched one of those NAB Nightlight programs? They contained some useful information. Some stations, like WCVB-5 Boston, had good local segments in their loop (Danny, Shreveport, LA, ibid.) I have, and they were pretty good ideas. What rhymes with APAGÓN? Of course...Torreón! The Comarca Lagunera, San Luis Río Colorado Son., and Cuernavaca, Morelos, are next up: October 29. The only exception is for four XELN shadows, at Mapimí, Peñón Blanco, Rodeo and Velardeña Dgo. Velardeña should be near Cuéncame (hint: XHVEL-TV) and I'm not sure why it's not included with that apagón. There is also a shadow XHO-2 at Velardeña, which accounts for one of the reports I read that CE (on channel 2) was available there. Cuernavaca marks the first apagón in central Mexico; the city is also home to the first flash-cut digital state station in Mexico, XHCMO (Raymie, ibid.) This was the first year in a long time that I didn't ID XELN-4. It looks like time is very short (Danny, Oct 1, ibid.) Yeah, there were some technical changes it seems for Televisa Laguna this year. The XHO transmitter http://rpc.ift.org.mx/rpc/pdfs/150415-CAMBIO-FREC-009674.pdf was moved to Cerro Las Noas from a location on Av. Domingo Valdez Llano, 900 feet from the Coahuila-Durango state line. There is likely a matching (but unavailable) authorization for XHTOB; at that time, the digital stations were moved from 46 and 47 to 20 and 26. Cerro Las Noas is the main transmitter site for the area — though the Canal Once station (IPN-operated) is not there, instead on another piece of land in Gómez Palacio. It seems XELN never moved. With digital Televisa seems to be poised to shed some smaller transmitter sites — I think their Durango transmitters may be moving to a location where they have shadows. If you're eagle-eyed, can you spot the mistake in that document? Hint: Televisa did this with another station in another city. —— Line item: More information on those new radio stations. The social use FM at Guasave, Sinaloa will be operated by Sinaloa Arte y Gloria A.C. The group also has attempted to get a cultural radio station in Los Mochis. The Maravatío, Mich. social station will be operated by Voz de Maravatío, A.C. Nothing is known about this social association. The Hidalgo stations are for an expansion of the radio service of the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (XHUAH-FM Pachuca) to Huejutla de Reyes, San Bartolo Tutotepec and Zimapán. The search that dragged up the Guasave information shows that there are quite a few groups that want radio stations. When they finally open up 400 kHz, watch out because there are going to be many, many new radio stations across the country, commercial, public and social. Last edited by Raymie; 10-02-2015 at 02:37 AM. (ibid.) Phantom Hunters: Tamazunchale Deep in the Huasteca potosina, there lies a television city of 25,000, the former capital of the Huastec empire. The city in question is Tamazunchale. On Cerro Xicotla and nearby there are several TV stations: XHTZL-2 (Azteca 7) XHTAT-7 (CE) Shadow XHVSL-9 (Gala TV) XHTAZ-12 (listed as Azteca 7 but far more likely Azteca 13) Now, you can easily see that there could be two more TV stations there, a channel 4 and a channel 6. The fact is, there's a permit channel 6 on the books. I am, of course, talking about XHAZS-6, permit held by the government of San Luis Potosí. And I am here to tell you that it is a phantom. THE HISTORY OF PUBLIC TV IN SLP To discuss XHAZS, we must first talk a bit about how public television in the state came about. Like in many states, the first incarnation of the San Luis Potosí state network was a local opt-out producer for Imevisión, being formed in 1985. In 1990, given the impending privatization of Imevisión, the government opted to build its own station, XHSLS-9. The next year, the government sought to expand into a state network, applying for two repeaters: XHATS-4 in Matehuala on Cerro Cruz de Elorza, and XHAZS-6 in Tamazunchale on Cerro Xicotla. (The link is to the XHAZS permit, issued in 1991.) http://rpc.ift.org.mx/rpc/pdfs/0902526480038719.pdf You might be asking what happened to XHATS. We don't know. I had never heard of it until I saw it on TVDXTips, which should indicate the age of its disappearance from the books. It likely never operated. In any extent, here's the item from 2002 that indicates that XHATS really once existed; it's from the state official newspaper http://sgg.slp.gob.mx/sgg/periodicocorr.nsf/698db1bf32772baa062576ac0068e844/2f9fba611fa5243a06257774006560ba/$FILE/publicacion.pdf (the SLP version of the DOF). But XHAZS is still on the books, more than 24 years later, because prior to the mid-90s all television station permits were issued for indefinite terms. Permits issued after had to be renewed. But many of the Patronato stations, those old hams that are just as unlikely to go digital, are all from the 80s and early 90s, like XHAZS. Now, you might think that a channel 6, of 3.387 kW, in a decent north- central Mexican location, might have a chance of being logged once. But it never has. I've been asking myself the question of "is XHAZS operating" for a while. It's listed with an asterisk in the IFT tables — a station "under construction". This status applies to quite a few of these never-built old permits that remain on the books but will likely be wiped off once the digital transition occurs. Here are two exhibits proving that this station never made it to air: Exhibit 1: Cofetel letter to the government of SLP, dated 2010. http://www.cft.gob.mx/work/models/Cofetel_2008/Resource/9710/1/images/P_030310_132%20Alejandro%20Vazquez%20Bulman%20(1508).pdf It is titled "Accepted are proofs and defenses for not releasing the Legal, Technical and Programming Information corresponding to 2006, 2007 and 2008." Inside, there is a section that reads: "...said station is not currently in operation, but it is projected for the year 2010..." So what happened in 2010? Nothing. You'll see why here. Exhibit 2: Request for information on the SLP state network, 2013 (page 7). http://www.cpte.gob.mx/sege/transparencia/2013/files/18/3/6/2013/febrero.pdf A woman has requested detailed labor information for the television stations XHSLS-TV and XHAZS-TV, from the Secretariat of Education (which operates XHSLS). Here is the pertinent part of the reply: "...and I tell you that currently the frequency XHZS-TV [sic] is not found to be operating. ..." Now, apparently some effort has been made at getting the thing back to work. From 2014, in this document, http://www.cpte.gob.mx/sege/transparencia/2013/files/19/3/16/viaticos14.pdf from the education secretariat, that apparently is some sort of list of needed reimbursements for travel costs: "Trip to Tamazunchale on August 20 and 21 to get the geographic coordinates and check the situation of the repeater antenna on Cerro Xicotle [sic] in the Municipality of Tamazunchale, SLP, and necessary for an expert study and send this to the IFT to prevent the potential loss of this repeater station that belongs to our permit XHAZS-TV" But no digital authorization was ever issued for this station; perhaps the costs of refurbishment were too many, or the state didn't have the funds to do much of anything anyway (Raymie Humbert, Oct 3, ibid.) That is interesting, Raymie. I have great respect for Doug and have always used his TV data. That is where many of my odd listings came from (like XEFB-3). Doug has known for a long time that those listings were not as good as they should be. Doug is not to blame for any of this. But why is the information about Mexico TV so out whack that Doug depended on for years? Let me repeat this: Doug is only the messenger (Danny, Shreveport, LA, ibid.) Oh, I will readily admit my data for Mexico is not very good. Really, I need to wipe it out and start over. I've been procrastinating for a couple of reasons - a large pile of to-dos (which have largely been done) and a major change in the FCC's database for which I really need to recode my US data. Really I think Raymie is on-point with most of the reasons for problems in my data. Stations authorized & never built; shadows that are treated as a different type of station (like translators vs. full- power in the US) and thus not appearing in some listings; add in the language barrier. I'd say I'm not pleased with my Mexican data but not particularly embarrassed by it (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, http://www.w9wi.com ibid.) And it's not your fault. If you started from the IFT tables, you'd still have XHAZS on the books. Not to mention all the stations that were actually put out for bid and even got bidders but went nowhere (XHPON, XHCSV, etc.) You shouldn't have been expected to know that (especially) Redvisión, S.A. de C.V., went bust and never did anything (they won some of the Sonora missing stations and also attempted to bid on the Televisa 1994 Radiotelevisora de México Norte concession). And I still haven't found anything to tell me about why the channels 58 and 64 auction failed. Very few of these stations ended up getting concessions issued, not just "we want this bidder to continue in the process". XHAWL-49 Anáhuac NL is the major exception. It would have been owned by Bernardo José Bichara Kawas (Raymie, Oct 3, ibid.) I'd been trying to figure out what this IFT document http://www.ift.org.mx/sites/default/files/conocenos/pleno/sesiones/acuerdoliga/piftext300915110.pdf passed last week meant. I think I understand it now: 1. In an apagón, the shadow channel of a main station outside the apagón area may be roped in if there are other separate TV stations turning off in the same community. (For example, XEX and XHTM Cuernavaca. All other analog transmitters will remain on for the moment, but because XHCUV, XHCUR etc. are shutting off, the shadows there go with.) 2. Conversely, the shadow channel of a main station outside the apagón area may be allowed to remain in analog if there is no apagón where the shadow is located, though there may be one in the locality where the main station is. This would have avoided a Saltillo-style situation were it in place. The shadows may also be allowed to remain in analog for reasons of continuity of service — i.e. they are not in digital, like the four XELN shadows that were given exemptions (Raymie, Oct 4, ibid.) Doug, you have nothing to be ashamed of concerning any of the information you have provided to DXers. I realize how much work you have put into obtaining, organizing, and presenting that data. It is much appreciated. In addition to shadow transmitters, network information, particularly for Televisa stations, was always troublesome for me. Depending on DX reception for a country that has so many network relayers only shows a small view of the whole picture. Nevertheless, I noted quite a few network switches over the years that I could never find on the Internet. It always seemed so strange to me that reliable TV information for Mexico was so difficult to find. Much of the time, even the Televisa local Websites (like Televisa Monterrey) didn't work at all, didn't work correctly, or contained outdated information (Danny, ibid.) Feast your eyes on the 2016 PABF! http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle_popup.php?codigo=5410550 There will be 123 commercial (the Radio Centro pack) and 27 public concession packages up for bid. These are the areas with the public concessions: Baja California: Ensenada, Mexicali, Tijuana Baja California Sur: Loreto, San José del Cabo Campeche: Ciudad del Carmen Chihuahua: Chihuahua Coahuila: Saltillo Colima: Manzanillo Durango: Durango Jalisco: Puerto Vallarta Michoacán: Huetamo, Zitácuaro Oaxaca: Huajuapan de León, Matías Romero Puebla: Tehuacán San Luis Potosí: Ciudad Valles, Matehuala Sinaloa: Culiacán Sonora: Guaymas Tamaulipas: Nuevo Laredo, Ciudad Victoria Veracruz: Cerro Azul, Orizaba, San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz Zacatecas: Sombrerete Specific channels are not assigned. For what all of these are for, we don't know. Some look like they could be state networks, like in Baja California. Others smell like universities — a trio of public stations were available in Torreón in the last package (one of which will be SPR), and here's Saltillo, and we know that the UAdeC has expressed interest in TV. Ciudad Victoria Tamps. could be a university station too. There are also FM stations for the taking and a few AMs for good measure. A full list of requests for TV station allotments for public use are available at the bottom. An appeal for Juárez had to be thrown out due to coordination concerns, as did requests for stations at Nogales, Sonora, and Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Attempts at several Colima frequencies were thrown out because the applicant did not provide sufficient credentials of being a public entity. Should more requests come in over the next 30 days (after publication in the DOF today), these can be added (Raymie, Oct 5, ibid.) Well, I just put a request via INFOMEX (Federal Government transparency website) for get names about who is interested for the Ciudad del Carmen DTV public concession. I don't know if that info can be given to public, but I hope yes. Personally I bet a SPR repeater or even the Universidad Autónoma del Carmen (UNACAR, they were interested in a TV station since XHUACC-88.9 was on-the-air for first time), because after the TRC 2006 fiasco, I don't think they want to repeat the same mistake (Gargadon, Campeche, ibid.) I actually think UNACAR is the party that requested this one. There are really tantalizing possibilities. There is a frequency for each city in Baja California; it could be a state network, a university (UABC), or even the SPR which has wanted to be in Mexicali for years. The SLP frequencies, plus perhaps a miracle salvaging of the XHAZS permit, would change the dynamic of the state network there (they used to be in Matehuala and have never been in Valles). You know this already, but I'll emphasize that public concessions belong to agencies of the federal and state governments and public institutions of higher education. The SPR and IPN are federal, there are all the state networks, and there are five TV stations owned by public universities in Mexico, one of which is under construction.* Technically, they could also belong to municipalities, but all of Mexico's 2,400 municipalities together directly operate three broadcast stations. (Can you name them? Hint: there's one TV station which is on the endangered list. It's also worth noting that some Patronato stations operate from the municipality, such as the ones in Río Grande Zac. and Aldama Chih.) *Plus two owned by private universities — these would be social concessions (Raymie, Oct 6, ibid.) I love research, especially from the DOF. More lost FMs and TVs, some of which ended up on other frequencies. XHRR-FM 105.1, Mexico City, 1 kW ERP, José Manuel Acosta Castañeda (1964). This name again! XHL-TV 8-, León Gto., Francisco Galindo Romero in name of Compañia Televisora de León, Guanajuato. This is the modern XHL-11, which signed on 10 and moved in the early 90s. Channel 8 is currently shadow XHCCG. The channel assignment is the big story here. (1964) XEFE-TV 11 (to move to 3), Nuevo Laredo, Tamps. The station was to move to channel 3 within a year of signing on its provisional channel 11. (1959) XHM-FM 88.8, Mexico City, Santiago Ontañón Núñez (1961): http://dof.gob.mx/nota_to_imagen_fs.php?codnota=4639979&fecha=04/12/1961&cod_diario=199666 And lastly, a potential answer to many of the split FMs I found. It looks like the government was assigning these for --- STL links? [that was always my impression --- gh, who DXed a lot of them] http://dof.gob.mx/nota_to_imagen_fs.php?codnota=4614427&fecha=07/12/1959&cod_diario=198271 That is "XEPA-FM" 88.2 Puebla at a listed power of 60 watts. XEBH had a similar authorization for 90.2. These are from the late 50s. Here are XEJE 106.0 Guadalajara and XEBA 106.8 Guadalajara http://dof.gob.mx/nota_to_imagen_fs.php?codnota=4608714&fecha=03/11/1959&cod_diario=197968 (the current XEJE is not in GDL, and XEBA-FM exists on 97.1!); also new to me is XEAU-88.2 Tijuana These were also allotted on odd frequencies and were authorized from late 1957 to around 1960-61. There were also some that were not in the FM band: XEQR 173.4 XERC 165.6 XEJP 165.8 Notably the wording of these authorizations is different than those for actually operating FMs. This is what became XEWV-FM 89.6, for instance. http://dof.gob.mx/nota_to_imagen_fs.php?codnota=4587811&fecha=30/05/1959&cod_diario=196777 (Raymie, Oct 7, ibid.) Interesting history, Raymie. TV DXers in this region are familiar with the latest channel 11 from Nuevo Laredo, XHBR-11. In the mid-1990s, when tropo was strong and widespread, it was sometimes difficult to distinquish between XHBR and XHMTA without spending a good amount of time waiting to see promos during commercial breaks. The networks didn't run continuous logo bugs back then. As a DXer, my strategy was always to ID a station as soon as possible and move on to another station. I did see a superimposed ID on XHBR once and failed to record it. It was in lower case letters and simply read "xhbr." I never saw XHL-11 León, but I recall that it was a Televisa independent until XHLGT-2 switched from XEW relayer to "El Canal de Casa" around 2005. Cantu didn't recognize that change for several years in spite of the information on my sites, and he continued showing XHLGT as an XEW relayer all of that time (Danny, Shreveport, LA, ibid.) León is pretty far, and inland (gh) That's correct. This was their ID in the late 90s, several years after moving up from 10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeB-dlELpbo (Raymie, ibid.) ** MONGOLIA. 12015, Voice of Mongolia, Ulaan Baatar, *0900-0910, 27- 09, tuning music, program in English, identification: "Voice of Mongolia", comments. 22322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Sangean ATS-090X, Tecsun PL880, Sony ICF SW 7600G, Degen 31MS active loop antenna, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. How ironic that after yesterday's clear reception on 9590, Thazin R. was off the air Oct 1, during checks at 1312 + 1321. Nothing heard on 9590 (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) QSL Myanmar Radio 6030 kHz --- Logged the regional broadcast of Myanmar Rekhine state radio in Burmese language from 0100 UT and in English from 0130 on 6030 in my tiny Tecsun Pl660 and sent email reception report to nptradio.eng@gmail.com After my email reminder, Mr. Vin Aung, the director of Myanmar Radio and TV sent me an e QSL and friendly acknowledgment letter from the English department. This is my SECOND eQSL from the Radio Myanmar. MYANMAR ~Rakhine state radio broadcast~QSLed Jawahar Shaikh - Saudi Arabia / Dx Brazil Sw http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com.br/2015/10/qsl-myanmar-radio-6030-khz.html (via Daniel Wyllyans, Oct 4, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 7375, UT Sun Oct 4 at 0045, The Mighty KBC, via Nauen, GERMANY, is fair at only S8, while WHRI 7385 is 55 over 9!! Cuban jamming + Radio Martí on 7365 add up to only 35 over 9. So KBC is getting mighty squeezed. This explains the test last week on 7395, as Richard Langley, NB, got a reply from Uncle Eric about it: "The reason that we were testing is that on 7375 we have neighbours on 7365 & 7385, in some parts there is some interference, that's what several listeners are complaining about, if we move to 7395, we only have one station on 7385 and we probably will use 2300-0200 UT[.]" Well, WHRI is much worse here, so 10 kHz on the other side of it will not help with that. In fact, by 0116, KBC is weaker and WHRI is splattering upon 7375. And happened to notice some intermittent utility pulsing on 7395 at 0045. 7400 is open now, but maybe not for a trihour in B-15? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: {dxld} Mighty KBC testing new frequency "I will report back when it is uploaded." Now available here: https://archive.org/details/TheMightyKBC7.395MHz26September20152300UTC and on Thomas Witherspoon's Shortwave Radio Audio Archive site: http://shortwavearchive.com/archive/the-mighty-kbc-september-26-2015 (Richard Langley, NB, Oct 1, dxldyg via DXLD) For our international Mighty KBC listeners: The last transmission on 7375 kHz from 0000-0300 UTC will be on October 11th, 2015. Afterwards we start broadcasting on 7395 kHz from 2300-0200 UTC first effective October 17th (to 18th), 2015. Please spread the word. Best regards, (Eric van Willegen, KBC RADIO 1602 AM / DAB+ http://www.kbcradio.eu http://www.facebook.com/TheMightyKbc http://www.k-po.com/index.php?dir=banner Buy from our sponsors: http://www.worldreceiver.eu http://www.k-po.com Oct 5, via Kraig Krist, dxldyg; via Richard Lemke, DXLD, and gh via WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. GERMANY, Frequency & time changes of Mighty KBC Radio 0000-0300 7375 NAU 125 kW / 300 deg to NoAm English Sun till Oct 11 2300-2400 7395 NAU 125 kW / 300 deg to NoAm English Sat from Oct 17 0000-0200 7395 NAU 125 kW / 300 deg to NoAm English Sun from Oct 18 (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, Oct 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEWFOUNDLAND. 2598-USB, Oct 2 at 0054, YL in English with marine weather including ``visibility less than one mile`` [sic], ``strong wind warning in effect``. Also mentions Grand Banks, Newfoundland, and Newfoundland Daylight Time [UT minus only 2.5 hours]. Per dxinfocentre.com at this hour the station in the N/L group is VCP-4 in Placentia, starting at 0048. Placentia is in the southeast, on the western side of the Avalon Peninsula. About S8 signal. 2598-USB, Oct 2 at 0107 recheck, another marine weather in English just starting mentioning ``Radio`` and ``Newfoundland``, i.e. VCM in St. Anthony on the northern tip (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2598-USB, Oct 6 at 0117 UT, YL with marine weather including wind forecasts in knots; 0119 mentions Strait of Belle Isle. About S9; nothing on 2749-USB at the moment. Following a previous log of these, former marine radio operator and DXer Jari Savolainin in Finland replied: ``Re: Canada coastal stations: 2015 Canadian Coast Guard facilities information of coastal stations (freqs, locations, times etc) for Canadian Atlantic, St. Lawrence, Lakes and Arctic is at: http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/Marine-Communications/RAMN-2015/Part-2-Atlantic-Facilities-Information 73, Jari`` On 2598-J3E kHz, VOK, MCTS Labrador via site Saint Anthony [Newfoundland] starting at 0107 UT: ``RADIOTELEPHONY: Technical marine synopsis, forecasts and wave height forecasts for marine areas 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 235, 237 and 238. Ice conditions and forecast for the East Coast of Newfoundland, and the Labrador Coast, south of 54N. Iceberg Bulletin - Newfoundland Coast and Strait of Belle Isle`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CANADA ** NEW ZEALAND. Updated A-15 schedule of Radio New Zealand International, RAN site, as Oct 3: 0000-0300 15720 050 kW / non-dir All Pacific AM 0000-0200 17675 025 kW / non-dir All Pacific DRM Sun-Fri 0300-0400 15720 050 kW / non-dir All Pacific AM 0300-0400 17675 025 kW / non-dir All Pacific DRM Sun-Fri 0400-0458 15720 050 kW / non-dir All Pacific AM 0459-0650 11725 050 kW / non-dir All Pacific AM 0651-0758 11725 050 kW / non-dir Cooks/Samoa/Niue/Tonga AM 0651-0758 9890 025 kW / non-dir Cooks/Samoa/Niue/Tonga DRM Sun-Fri 0759-1058 9700 050 kW / non-dir All Pacific AM 1059-1258 9700 050 kW / non-dir All Pacific AM, ex NWPacific/325 deg 1259-1550 6170 050 kW / non-dir All Pacific AM 1551-1745 5975 050 kW / non-dir Cooks/Samoa/Niue/Tonga AM 1551-1745 7330 025 kW / non-dir Cooks/Samoa/Niue/Tonga DRM Sun-Fri 1746-1835 9700 050 kW / non-dir Cooks/Samoa/Niue/Tonga AM 1746-1835 7330 025 kW / non-dir Cooks/Samoa/Niue/Tonga DRM Sun-Fri 1836-1850 9700 050 kW / non-dir Cooks/Samoa/Niue/Tonga AM 1836-1850 9890 025 kW / non-dir Cooks/Samoa/Niue/Tonga DRM Sun-Fri 1851-2050 11725 050 kW / non-dir Cooks/Samoa/Niue/Tonga AM 1851-2050 11690 025 kW / non-dir Cooks/Samoa/Niue/Tonga DRM Sun-Fri 2051-2150 11725 050 kW / non-dir Solomon Islands AM 2051-2150 15720 025 kW / non-dir Solomon Islands DRM Sun-Fri 2151-2400 15720 050 kW / non-dir All Pacific AM 2300-2400 17675 025 kW / non-dir All Pacific DRM Sun-Fri (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Where do you get info it`s all non-direxional now? Has been on 35 or 325 degrees, as in HFCC: http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbyfmo.php?seas=A15&fmor=RNZ There is a great difference here between 9700 before 1058 and afterwards when it weakens, still seems to be on unfavorable 325 degree beam (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGST) ** NIGERIA. I got a semi-QSL in the mail from The Voice Of Nigeria for my reception from Redding, California (northern California). Two emails went unanswered so I sent a regular letter via the good ole' fashioned postal service in late June and in mid September, I got a reply back from their Chief engineer. The letter didn't specifically confirm the times, dates or frequencies, but did thank me for listening, monitoring and offering my feedback. I got a Radio Nigeria notepad and 2 lapel pins. 15120, The Voice Of Nigeria with 250 kW from Ikorodu, Lagos State, Nigeria, 0613 UT/11:13pm Pacific, May 20th, 2015. AUDIO LINK: http://www.onairdj.com/VON_15120_05202015_0613UTC_1113pmpacific.mp3 9690, The Voice Of Nigeria with 250 kW from Ikorodu, Lagos State, Nigeria, 0652 UT/11:52pm Pacific, May 20th, 2015. AUDIO LINK: http://www.onairdj.com/VON_9690_05202015_0652UTC_1152pmpacific.mp3 ("Paul B. Walker, Jr.", Oct 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9690-, Oct 1 at 0605 tune-in to Voice of Nigeria, surprised to hear them in English! Some official is speaking about Boko Haram; hard to follow accent, and lo-fi audio, also interrupted a few times by humbuzz such as 0608, 0610, 0610 again. I switch to // 7255- which is somewhat weaker but aproblematic. He addresses ``Fellow Nigerians``, and at 0611.5 ``God bless you all`` (does that include Allah?) and creaky military band, presumably national anthem. 0612 undermodulated but clearer announcer outro that this was a special Independence Day address by President Muhammadu Buhari; 0613 ``returning to normal broadcasts. Thank you for listening, happy Independence Day``, and into percussion as switching to Hausa which normally starts at 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9690 DRM (?) 1545-1630 and Voice of Nigeria --- Yesterday as well as today I heard some DRM-like noise there; trying with DRM remote receiver in southern Europe, I had the impression that it could decode it for at least a few seconds now and then. I got some segment of music at around 1600 and just a kind of high-pitched tone later tonight. BTW, Voice of Nigeria 9690 and 15120-DRM from Abuja untraced this evening Oct 1 from 1800, also nothing heard on 9690 for Lagos daytime transmissions this week, nor the live stream except Saturdays, when it had a 1 kHz test tone before 1000, one hour of regular VON programme then, and after announcing the news for 1100, only a hum and off since. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9690-, Oct 2 at 0602, VON is absent here, but audible in Hausa on 7255-. I leave a BFO on 9689, and at 0627 notice that one is now on too, perhaps from somewhat earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Just now, 1830+, nothing on 9690 or 15120 again. But at 7255 there was an empty carrier leaving just before 1850, which is not usual at that time. However, this was quite exactly on-channel, so likely not the usual Abuja transmitter, but might haven been of course Ikorodu testing, or anything else. Nothing in the afternoon on 9690 from Nigeria, again. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, Oct 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Oct. 5, 1800+, approx. 7254.9 with usual "60 minutes" programmes from Abuja, but not on its usual frequencies 9690 + 15120. This is likely not the same transmitter as reported on Oct 2. Both theoretical livestreams on https://cp4.shoutcheap.com:2199/start/voiceofnigeria/ and http://iframe.dacast.com/b/35454/c/48799 are off, not heard for over a weak despite regular checks, as well, 15120 DRM has been off most evenings recently, 9689.9 was quite irregular. Signal on 7254.9 is relatively weak here, maybe strong western beam? 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Oct 5, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency change of Voice of Nigeria in English on Oct 5: 1800-1930 7255.0 IKO 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf, instead of 9689.9 AJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CINoklfdogo&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6949.7, Oct 2 at 0204, JBA music on AM at S5. Three logs here say Captain Morgan Shortwave was on 6950-AM at 0145-0210*: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,23703.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. Hi Gents: Sub-par conditions and lack of listening time, so just one log this week: PIRATE-NA, BID/Burn It Down Radio, 6960 USB, 0034-0055+, 10-02-15, SIO: 343. Tunes by Don McClean, Eagles, Bob Dylan, Elton John with occasional IDs by OM announcer (Chris Lobdell, Box 80146, Stoneham, MA 02180, Receivers: Eton E1, NRD-525, Aerials: G5RV, 40 Meter Dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6960-USB, 0046 UT Oct 2, S9+5 pirate music cuts to spoken comment about going online to express opinions, cut off and back to music; next check 0058 another spoken rant fragment, then hard rock; 0102 distorted hard rock, canned ID ``B-I-D Radio, Burn It Down``, and ``Thanks for listening, discovering the world, one frequency at a time, good night`` and off just before 0103*. Many other logs here, all from further east, as far as the UK: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,23698.0.html 6955-USB, Oct 6 at 0148, immediately upon tune-in, ``B-I-D Radio, Burn It Down``, and music about S7. Have those who listen more to him found programming from this rather incendiary name truly anarchic? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925.16, Oct 3 at 0109, very poor AM carrier, presumably Liquid Radio as usual, and logged as such by a few here between 0016 and 0137: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,23714.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6955-USB, Oct 3 at 0108, S9 pirate music, yet poor vs noise level, soft rock, basically two notes looping, vamping. Periodic rechex such as 0125 find more music, reggae with lyrix vamping. 0145 now better signal peaking at S9+20; 0154, ``ambient`` music, finally quick ID at 0159, XLR-8, more music. Many more logs: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,23715.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6950-USB, Oct 4 at 0026, gospel singer at S9+35, what a signal for a pirate; 0029 cowboy song; 0034 Wolverine Radio ID, and continues for some time but I have to keep bandscanning. Many more logs here from 0017 to 0145 showing Trains the topic, SSTV captures: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,23737.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 640 KWPN, 930 WKY, 98.1 WWLS, Oct 4 at 1205 UT all carrying `Sunday Morning Magazine` pubaffs chat in English. 640 and 98.1 are almost synchro, 98.1 running one word behind 640; but 930 is way ahead and already back to Spanish at 1217 while the others continue in English. This week, 96.9 KQOB is *not* running same show, but instead a Cal-Max infomercial at 1205. The sibling stations on 98.9 and 100.5 are still not carrying `SMM` either (they could run it at other times?) (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1230, Oct 1 at 1938 UT, oldies WBBZ Ponca City is so strong on daytime groundwave that I never hear any CCI, but on the NRD-545 listening carefully and watching the S-meter, I switch between the N-S LW and the E-W ALA-330S, finding a difference: the S9 signal is fluxuating slightly by about 1 S-unit on the LW, causing me to wonder at first if it`s a clue to other than normal amplitude modulation from that station; but on the Wellbrook, it`s steady, just like many other signals, e.g. KFAQ 1170 Tulsa. So I suspect I`m getting a SAH from remnant of another 1230 station, the most likely being KADA Ada OK, now stupid sports talk, which I think I`ve never IDed from here. Other close 1230s are in Pampa TX, Ft Smith AR, Joplin MO (and none in Kansas!) (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. FORMAT, SLOGAN AND SILENT STATUS CHANGES FREQ CALL CITY OF LICENSE NEW INFORMATION 1270 KTUZ Claremore, OK was regional Mexican, now Westwood One NBC Sports, old slogan: “La Z 1270”, new: “107.7 The Franchise” (IRCA DX Monitor Oct 3 via DXLD) i.e. originating with KRXO OKC (gh) ** OKLAHOMA. 1530, Oct 4 at 0100 UT, Mexican music with some dropouts, so I figure it may be R. Mujer from Austin; but 0101 ID by SHVA is partially readable mentioning Oclajoma, and 103 FM, vs CCI from WCKY with a KY SBG. So it`s KXTD Wagoner (Tulsa market), supposed to be a 5 kW daytimer {OFF the air between 0030 UT and 1145 UT in Oct}. Or it could have been 106 FM, which sounds almost the same in Spanish. A look thru Tulsa and then entire OK listings in the WTFDA Database don`t find any KXTD relays in the 102s, 103s, 105s or 106s, translator or otherwise, but maybe some such station is now doing it. Ajá, here it is on own website: http://www.quebuenatulsa.com/ Not 103, but 100.3 FM (cien punto tres), which is KCXR, licensed to Taft with 3.9 kW per WTFDA which does not make any connexion with KXTD either. Radio-locator still has KCXR as ``Today`s Christian Radio`` en Muskogee. Site is SW of Wagoner, halfway between Bixby and Muskogee, i.e. just about as far outside Tulsa to the SE as Wagoner is to the E. Taft is a very little town west of Muskogee on the other side of the Arkansas River from the transmitter site north of it (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. FORMAT, SLOGAN AND SILENT STATUS CHANGES 1570 KZLI Catoosa, OK was talk, now regional Mexican, old slogan: “Community Talk 890”, new: “La Z 1570” 1600 KUSH Cushing, OK old slogan: “The Source”, new: “The Voice Of Cimarron Valley” (IRCA DX Monitor Oct 3 via DXLD) ** OMAN. A first for me, though perhaps reported first elsewhere. I’m hearing Radio Sultanate of Oman in English with a male DJ playing current western pop music (Beyonce, Justin Bieber) and giving a weather report ("45 degrees Celsius around the Sultanate”) on 15140 kHz. from 1535 UT. A solid S7-S9 signal with some fading (SINPO-43554) on the Eton E1XM linked to the A/D DX sloper. A check of the station’s web site http://www.oman-radio.gov.om/rdeng/freq.asp yields a schedule that hasn’t been updated since 2013; so no help there (John Figliozzi, Halfmoon, NY, Oct 2, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Update: English programming, a relay of 90.4 FM, ended promptly at 1600 UT. Perhaps there was an announcement, but it was in Arabic which I cannot translate. After a few words from a male announcer, programming shifted to what sounds like Mideast Arabic pop vocals (Figliozzi, ODXA yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DXLD) Yes. I heard it at about the same time and on the same frequency listening to it on a Funcube dongle via Madrid, Spain on the Global Tuners website. I was kind of surprised to hear western pop music. (Mike Bryant, KK4TSX, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nice to see you can pick it in NY. Oman broadcasts its local FM 90.4 station, which has an English language pop format. It usually comes in solid at that time in Madrid. 73s (Marty Delfin (Madrid, Spain), Sent from Marty's iPad, ibid.0 John (and others), This is their 'usual' format --- here are my last two logs from them, both heard in Port Hope near the tip of Michigan's thumb with my own radio, and my own ears in real time and with an antenna in my yard ... :) Apparently they've moved it back an hour -- I haven't checked for them in a few months at least, but the last time I heard them was January an hour earlier than you note.. */_Oman:_/* 15140, R Oman with ‘The Sultan of Thump Thump’ music programme with LOTS of modern stuff, most of which I didn’t recognize and all non-stop with no announcements at all. Lyric searching uncovered 1404 Karen Harding “Say Something” and 1420 Hayley Williams “Stay the Night” were two of the thump-thumps. News at BoH with much mention of the Sultan but no really clear “This is Radio Oman” type ID, just many mentions of ‘here in Oman’ etc. Back to the Thumpage at 1440 with female vocals. 3+54+4+4, 1401-1445 5/Oct(2014) -- Zichi MI2 and: 15140, English pop music and an OM “Drop in” English ID at :47 as “Radio Sultanate of Oman” and then right back into non-stop pop music. Into Arabic at ToH. So-so 34+443+ 1440-1510 341/Jan(2015)--Zichi MI2 73 //Ken Zichi (Ken Zichi, <> mailto:radioguy73@gmail.com “What was that? I'm sorry, you can't expect me to pay attention in a world where bacon exists!”, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I think it was Ivo {or Marty} who observed recently that altho the English hour is nominally 14-15 UT, they often don`t switch back to Arabic for the next hour or more. There is a 24h domestic FM service in English (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Went back to Arabic promptly at 1500 with a newscast on Saturday 3/Oct (Zichi, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DXLD) Reception of Radio Sultanate of Oman, October 3: till 1459 on 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu English from 1459 on 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Arabic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcMciA5yD6k&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PARAGUAY. Rick and others, Two things to note. Firstly the exact location within Chaco-í has not yet been finalised. Secondly Adán has promised to photo the process of evacuation of the present site. This will form my first block of Paraguay pictures. I will take many more of my own when I visit him. That visit is now scheduled to straddle late February and March 2016. I hope to make it to observe the national holiday which Paraguayans celebrate each 01 March. 73 and 88 (Dan Goldfarb, Oct 1, mwmasts yg via DXLD) ** PERU. Foto de la Radio Cultural Amauta que trasmite en onda tropical de 4955 kHz y FM 99.9 MHz desde Huanta - Peru Photo de la Radio Cultural Amauta that transmits en tropical wave 4955 kHz y FM 99.9 MHz from Huanta - Peru http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com.br/2015/10/foto-de-la-radio-cultural-amauta-onda.html 73s (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT Brazil, Oct 3, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** PERU. 5980, R. CHASKI, 1/10 2345 UT. Programa “Momento Decisivo” con el tema de la moralidad cristiana basada en 1 de Samuel y otras citas bíblicas. SINPO: 35343 con marcado ruido ambiental que va aumentando en las horas. RX: REALISTIC DX-160. ANT: 30 metros de antena de hilo, más antena de tierra y balún de ferrita 4:1. QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile (Claudio Galaz T., condiglista yg via DXLD) 5980, Oct 2 at 0049, JBA carrier from R. Chaski until autocutoff at 0106:12*, which is 13.5 seconds later than last check Sept 30 until 0105:58.5*, i.e. averaging 6.75 seconds later per 24 hours. 5980, Oct 3 until 0106:18.5*, tuned in just in time to catch R. Chaski carrier cutoff, which is 6.5 seconds later than last night, 0106:12* (could be 6.3; I don`t split seconds into less than halves, unless averaging over several nights) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980. R. CHASKI, 4/10 0004 UT. Aviso de la emisora e ID: “Red Radio Integridad” con hora local y horarios de servicios de templos bautistas fundamentalistas de la ciudad de Lima, junto a un pequeño devocional. SINPO: 45343 con mucho QRN, aunque llega a variar hasta el SINPO: 55343 a las 0014 cuando se inicia el programa “Los grandes temas”, producido por Radio Transmundial de Uruguay. El audio está con un poco de sobremodulación (Claudio Galaz T., RX: REALISTIC DX-160. ANT: 30 metros de antena de hilo, más antena de tierra y balún de ferrita 4:1, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 5980.005 approx., Oct 4 at 0050, JBA carrier from R. Chaski; cutoff at 0106:24* which is 5.5 seconds later than last night until 0106:18.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [non]. VATICAN, Frequency change of Radio Veritas Asia via SM di Galeria 1500-1553 NF 15620 SMG 250 kW / 107 deg to N&ME Filipino, ex 15100 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVpCYfyABpk&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, Oct 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [non]. cf. DXLD 1538: QSL card and detailed information of Radio Studio "Otkrovenie" is shown in my HP http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~BCLSWL/QSL1510.html Radio Studio "Otkrovenie" was founded in 2000, and started to produce Russian Program of HCJB(Reach Beyond) "Golos And" (Voice of Andes) in 2003. They broadcast "Radio Life" on internet, mobile telephone, and satellite to Russia. They also produce the programs of Tartu Family Radio (1035kHz) in Estonia and HCJB-Germany's Russian programs. Address: P. O. Box 585, Voronezh, 394036 Russia E-mail: radio @ radiolife.su URL: http://www.radiolife.org http://www.radiolife.su (Takahito Akabayashi, Tokyo, Japan, Oct 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Krasnodarskiy kray. Radio Centre. Photo. Poselok Oktyabrsky near the item Tbilisskaya. A unique object, with super-power transmitters and antenna systems unique. Broadcasts on half the world. Unique instruments, created by Soviet specialists, mostly conserved and the prospects are not clear. It works only one transmitter pair of hours per day. http://fotkidepo.ru/?id=album:52273&page=3 (Zjuzja Drundulet / "open_dx" via RusDX Oct 5 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. MOSCOW --- SYNTH RADIO. ONLINE MUSIC RADIO STATION. WEB: http://www.synth-radio.ru/ «Synth Radio was founded July 14, 2007 in Moscow. We are actively cooperating with Russia's largest concert agency Russian Synth Community, Russian synth label ScentAir records, musicians, DJ, producer, just nice and helpful people. With us you can always be contacted at info@synth-radio.ru » http://www.radioportal.ru/news/synth-radio-internet-radio-seychas-ne-v-sostoyanii-zarabatyvat-kakie-bolee-menee-priemlemye-dengi (Elena Dyukova, Radioportal.ru via RusDX Oct 5 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. You asked "M-Radio"? Peredaëm! A pleasant surprise for all fans of the 90's - the Earth is still spinning, everything is going well, but in the online ether bursts "M-Radio"! From October 1, the phenomenon of domestic broadcasting, which is connected with a whole epoch and the most beautiful memories, is available 24 hours a day anywhere in the world online http://www.mradio.ru We remember the 90's: a complex, but the best time of his life. We were the best men of his generation, dreamed to change the world, make it beautiful, and believed that it was within our reach. We were free and daring. We had our own values ??and the desire to fight for them. We knew exactly - we are waiting for a bright future. Has entered a new age. A lot has changed. But not all. We have become pragmatic, but have not lost the spirit of adventure. We learned how to make money, but not abandoned their ideals. We became successful only because it remained free and daring. And all that was then in the 90s, has become our invaluable experience and most vivid memories. Forget about it, we're not going to. Especially because we again have "M-Radio". You asked "M-Radio"? Peredayom! Details on http://www.mradio.ru (OnAir.ru via RusDX Oct 4 via DXLD) ** SAO TOME E PRINCIPE. State radio in the former Portuguese colony of Saó Tomé & Principe has gone online with a website at http://www.rnstp.st offering live audio streaming of Rádio Nacional. The site's programme guide only gives details for the morning period, but all programming listed there and observed so far today (since 0830 UT) has been in Portuguese - as is the website itself. The station identifies on air as 'Rádio Nacional de São Tomé e Príncipe' and broadcasts on 945 kHz mediumwave and on FM (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, Oct 5, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 1521.0, Oct 2 at 0110, 1.0 kHz het upon KOKC OKC, i.e. the TA pilot 2-megawatt BSKSA Duba. This led me to survey the entire MW band and find a bunch of others; see UNIDENTIFIED. 1521.0, Oct 4 at 0059, BSKSA Duba 2-megawatt is making a JBA het against Kim Kommando on KOKC OKC 1520.0; het a bit stronger at 0139, but nothing on 1503 and figured not enough to justify a full 9-kHz MW TA bandscan rather than more SW and 10-kHz MW tuning. 1521.0, Oct 6 at 0124, JBA het from 2000 kW BSKSA Duba against 1520.0 KOKC OKC. Distance 11437 km = 7107 statute miles (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020, Oct 2 at 1250, pop music at almost equal fair level to 5025 Cuba! and easily separable from it as Rebelde is weakening into dayside. So SIBC is running late today past usual 1200*, probably relaying Wantok FM; however, cuts off abruptly during music at 1258:15* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA. Brother Stair in storm --- Old RG must be getting washed out. Does he have some backup location to broadcast? Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone (Brian Gilbert, Oct 5, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not that I know of. If you can stand to listen to him and he says anything about flooding there. Let us know (Glenn, ibid.) LOL - I like SW, used to hear him cutting through the QRN years ago. Thanks (Brian Gilbert, ibid.) 7570 & 7490-, i.a., via WRMI & WBCQ, Oct 6 at 0112, Brother Scare almost synchronized on two stations, at the moment mentioning it`s October 2, and informing us that Jesus was *not* Jewish, etc. No obvious disruptions in his SW output due to SC flooding, other than a 3-day-old playback, but that`s not too unusual. I force myself to listen a bit, as the flooding is obviously caused by BS`s apocalypticism --- will he take credit as his LD prophecy fulfilled, and/or blame sinful Americans for bringing it on? I don`t know the topo situation of his Walterboro compound, and website doesn`t say anything about current flooding. If anyone does hear him say something definite about this, please inform us (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, Oct 4 at 0114:47, SLBC music prélude starts on very weak signal, just enough to audiblize the 2+1 mis-timesignal ending at 0115:17.5 before opening Hindi or Bengali. RHC isn`t much stronger, much degraded on its three 25m frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SURINAME. Photos Radio Apintie and Park Antennas 4990 kHz Tropical Wave and FM 97.1 MHz and TV Apintie from Pamaribo - Suriname Many pictures of Radio Apintie, some exclusively http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com.br/2015/10/photos-radio-apintie-and-park-antennas.html 73 (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brazil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list Oct 4 via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. RTI via Tamsui 11665 kHz auch heute katastrophale Modulation. Auch heute wieder katastrophal schlechte extrem verzerrte Modulation von RTI via Tamsui auf 11665 kHz. So wird das nix. SINPO 34432 (Gerald Kallinger-AUT, A-DX Oct 3 via BC-DX Oct 4 via DXLD) Uhr?? ** TIBET [and non]. 3990.00, *2248-2300 5.10, CHINA, Gannan PBS, Tianshui. Opening music, 2250 ID in Tibetan by man and woman, "The East is Red" anthem, Tibetan talk, Chinese music 35333 // 5970 (31441 heavy QRM from CRI. 4920.00, 2305-2400 5.10, Xizang PBS, Lhasa, Tibet. Tibetan talk, 45333 // 4905 Lhasa (42332 CWQRM) and 6025 (45333). The transmitters on 4920 and 6025 have been off (for maintenance?) since May 2015! 5935.00, 2335-2345 5.10, Xizang PBS, Lhasa, Tibet. Chinese talk, 35233 // 4820 (35243), 6050 (45343) and 7240 (45333) Best 73, (Anker Petersen, heard the following on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire here in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** TUNISIA. Schedule of Radio Tunis International via Internet HERE UP TO DATE CORRECT SCHEDULE RADIO TUNIS INTERNATIONAL 963 kHz 20 Sept 2015 0803-0900 UT allemande - German 1303-1400 UT anglais - English 1403-1500 UT italian - Italian 1903-2000 UT espagnol - Spanish (Christian Ghibaudo, Nice-F, in Play-DX #1659 Sept 21 via BC-DX Oct 4 via DXLD) re Radio Tunis Internat schedule - soeben habe ich die Stunde Deutsch geh||rt, eine Phone-in Sendung mit vielen deutschsprachigen Tunesiern, Goethe-Instutut, deutschen Fimen- und Organisationsvertretern im Land. Alles sehr optimistisch und freudig zum heutigen muslimischen Festtag (Wolfgang Büschel, Sept 24, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 4 Oct via DXLD) ** TURKEY. VOT, 9830, 10/2/10; 10/4/15; 10/5/15; 10/6/15. I've been listening for the past few days with varying conditions. Reception fairly good around 2225 UT. Brief programs such as tips for consumers, question of the month, and today in history, are presented in addition to some nice Turkish music. Time pips at 2300 and into another language (Larry Zamora, Garland, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ?? Supposed to go off before 2300. German by mistake as previously caught? (gh, DXLD) ** TURKS & CAICOS. Then there`s the 530 on the north end of South Caicos --- WRTH 2015 said it was lp = low power? and Unconfirmed, relaying WWRV 1330 NYC (Spanish, like KCKN 1020 Roswell). I recently heard from freelance engineer Jerry Kiefer in FL and asked him for an update; he replied Oct 1: ``Glenn, Like they say in the islands, "Soon come". Actually the game plan is to rebuild the 530 tower to about 360' with top loading and use the new Nautel 100 kW box that was shipped down about 8 years ago and never installed. They have the Nautel 50 that will become a standby. It might be after the end of the year but things are falling in place.`` Well, I recently heard WWRV via KCKN give a multi-station ID including Caicos 530, FWIW, probably not much (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE [non]. {title: 'THOMAS - Congressional Record - 114th Congress', link: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r114:E28SE5-0021:/ CONGRATULATING ADRIAN KARMAZYN, VOICE OF AMERICA UKRAINIAN SERVICE CHIEF, ON THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS RETIREMENT – (Extensions of Remarks - September 28, 2015) [Page: E1372] GPO's PDF --- SPEECH OF HON. MARCY KAPTUR OF OHIO IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2015 * Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Ukrainian-American and Northern Ohioan Adrian Karmazyn on the announcement of his retirement as Voice of America's (VOA) Ukrainian Service Chief. Mr. Karmazyn is a native of Parma, Ohio and is respected around the world as a veteran journalist covering Ukraine and Ukrainian-American communities in the United States. * During his career, Mr. Karmazyn has contributed immensely to keeping the flame of freedom alive in Ukraine, even during some of her darkest hours. He is a freedom fighter. His mindful voice has been an essential component on the arduous path to a more open, democratic society following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the harrowing but steady progress of Ukraine to become part of the European community of nations. * Mr. Karmazyn attended Ohio State University, receiving a B.A. in History. He then joined Voice of America in 1988 as an international radio broadcaster in VOA's Ukrainian Service, serving as a writer, producer, reporter, translator, announcer, and eventually as a correspondent in Kyiv. While there, he recruited a team of radio and video journalists in Kyiv and in other regional cities, helping to establish VOA's reporting presence throughout Ukraine. * He continued to distinguish himself and in 1999 was named Program Manager of VOA's Ukrainian Service. Mr. Karmazyn directed the reorganization of the weekly Ukrainian Service TV magazine program Vikno v America, or Window on America. Over the next several years, the Ukrainian Service significantly expanded its network of reporters in Ukraine. * In 2004, Mr. Karmazyn was assigned leadership over VOA's Ukrainian television programming. Later that year, during Ukraine's Orange Revolution, Karmazyn oversaw the launch of the daily Chas-Time television program. He was appointed Chief of VOA's Ukrainian Service in 2006 and served as one of the most reliable and valuable sources of information during the Euromaidan protests and Revolution of Dignity in 2013. This was vital as freedom of the press was under threat in the region. * I have known and worked with Adrian Karmazyn for many years. Please allow me to extend my heartfelt appreciation for his years of exemplary and passionate service and his commitment to telling the stories of Ukraine, from Kyiv to Cleveland. His labor has brought the American people and the people of Ukraine closer for decades, with his regular presence and positive influence at VOA for the cause of liberty. His has been a voice of freedom and he will be missed (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** UNITED KINGDOM. 5450, 10/3 0350, RAF Volmet, YL says time conditions, in English; ID, 35443 (José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo - Brazil, Degen DE1103 receiver, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard- Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) weather, not time. In Portuguese and Spanish the same word applies, tempo/tiempo. Please tell your machine translator that (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 4018-USB, Oct 4 at 0125, Army MARS net, fonetikaly mentioning a bunch of abbr`d calls, 7OV, 7RX, 7OC, 7OX, IAX, 7FD; finally a full call starting with AAR7--- (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9462-USB, Oct 6 at 1308, INTRUDER, WGY911 with brief voice contact, then intermittent bursts of various digital modes including ``running-water``, but no more voice heard past 1317. This UDXF post https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/UDXF/conversations/messages/63544 has a large number of FEMA logs on 9462, from 10 March 2015 around 13 UT, including WGY911 as FEMA Region 1, Maynard, MA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13565, Oct 3 at 1340, K6FRC, HIFER Part 15 beacon repeating callsign only; frequency not pinned on the FRG-7 before it faded/quit, but previous logs were on 13565, such as July 30 also in the morning at 1305. That references the LWCA list, which in the callsign column merely shows FRC; anyhow it is from a real ham in Patterson CA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 15580, Oct 2 after 2000 UT, VOA to Africa (via BOTSWANA) with regular musical programming. Thus the one US SW station you might think had a responsibility to broadcast live one of Pres. Obama`s rare news conferences called on short notice, fails to do so. First I had scanned the entire AM and FM dials and found not a single audible station carrying him --- pop music, anti-American politix or sports talk are *so* much more important. But this *is* Oklahoma, where Obama doesn`t have a chance. Not even KOSU 91.7 --- stix with NPR ATC, tho NPR is probably providing the P.O.P.C. on an alternate live feed. He is, however, on several cable TV channels and the big 3 OKC network TV stations. Radio in general leaves it to TV; why? It`s just talking heads, ideal for an audio-only medium (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also AZERBAIJAN; UKRAINE [non] ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1793 monitoring: confirmed Thursday Oct 1 after 2100 on WRMI 7570, sufficient. Also confirmed UT Friday Oct 2 from 0100 on WBCQ, 9329.97-CUSB at S9+25. Blalock ran a bit late, but squeezed in his phone number, causing only a partial WBCQ ID before WOR started automatically on time. Next: Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Fri 2130.5 WRMI 7570 to NW Fri 2330 WRMI 5850 to NW Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND? Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND? Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1793 monitoring: confirmed Friday Oct 2 after 2130 on WRMI 7570 & 15770; sufficient. Also after 2330 on WRMI 5850. Next: Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND? Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1793 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday Oct 4 at 0325 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Missouri, about 3 minutes into program. Next: Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 to WSW [or 5109.7-CUSB] Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1793 monitoring: confirmed Sunday Oct 4 at 2300 on WRMI 11580, sufficient. Also confirmed on Area 51 webcast, UT Monday Oct 5 at 0300, and presumably WBCQ 5109.7-CUSB; also confirmed UT Monday Oct 5 at 0330 on WRMI 9955 webcast. Next: Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9955, Wed Oct 7 at 1304, WRMI with `FG Radio`, news headlines ending with Trump`s plan to send all Syrian refugees back; 1305 ID in English and French referencing website; song ``Loneliest Boy in the World``; 1308 English plug for website http://famagusta-gazette.com 1309 ``Wednesday`s Child`` song by Matt Monroe; 1312 more ``latest`` news headlines, which could really be a few days old; ID in German expressing ``minus`` for the hyphen in website; 1313 ``Round and Round`` song and no sign-off until 1315 when the GH WRMI ID plays, before WORLD OF RADIO 1793 starts at 1315:32. No jamming audible. Next WOR: Wed 2100 on WBCQ 7490v to the WSW. WORLD OF RADIO 1794 monitoring: confirmed first SW airing Thursday Oct 8 before 1200 on WRMI 9955, but very poor signal with propagation disturbance, K index of 5 after G3 storms. [Yet, nearest neighbor SW site, Habana, with VG signals on 9850, 9825, 9805-jam, 9640, 9570-CRI, 9550, 9530-mix? Australia 9580 also attenuated.] Next: Thu 2100 WRMI 7570 to NW Fri 0100 WBCQ 9330-CUSB to WSW Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Fri 2130.5 WRMI 7570 to NW Fri 2330 WRMI 5850 to NW Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND? Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND? Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7490 & 5109.7-CUSB, UT Sat Oct 3 at 0122, WBCQ with `Allan Weiner Worldwide` live, again running way over one hour from 0000. He`s talking about current bargain deal of $25 per hour for airtime on 9330 or 5110, ``The Radio Effect``. He wants to see 9330 filled up with programming. And some more is already imminent: from next Wednesday at 9-10 pm ET [UT Thursday Oct 8 at 01-02 UT] two programs from ``James in Oklahoma``, half an hour each, `Broad Spectrum Radio` and `Mennonite Radio`. As on website, http://www.wbcq.com/?p=902 ``Free radio fall special --- Now is the time to get on the air and make a difference. For $25 the hour get on our 5110 or 9330 kHz transmitters. Buy as much time as you like at this low rate. Minimum $50 (two shows) monthly. Now is the time to do real radio. Call us today for this great deal. 207-538-9180 or email wbcq@wbcq.com`` Simultaneously on 7490, starting UT Oct 8 at 0100 will see the return of Hal Turner to the air after about 10 years (he was away in prison for threatening federal judges), but he`s welcome back on free-speech WBCQ. Allan says he`s not dressed formally, still in workclothes after patching roof, as one can see via the studiocam webvideo feed available. Keeps going thru e-mail with mostly quick replies and acknowledgments, not always clear what the mailer said; 0153:15 brief benedictive prayer to Jesus but more comments until 0157:15 switch to BS on 7490, and also on 5109.7-CUSB until it cuts off at 0159*. This AWWW has been almost two hours long (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7455, Oct 4 at 0111, WRMI TruNews service is in secular program, two DJs from the 60s and 70s reminiscing about how rock radio used to be in several major US markets. One is named Bob, but never heard full names of either; among many stations mentioned is WOSN (which is 97.1 in Indian River Shores FL, ``The Ocean [Osean?]`` with adult standards, per WTFDA). Before a break at 0130, program ID as ``Your Weekend Show``, then Rick Wiles plugging nonsense. More here: http://www.yourweekendshow.com with Bob Biermann, a primarily shortwave program which I had never run across before, so put off am I by the apocalyptic anti-American politix and gospel huxterism of TruNews. Archive goes back to March 7- 8, 2015. Sked on WRMI is: Sat 06, Sun 01, 06, Mon 01 UT on 5850, 7455, 9395. TruNews is a ``partner`` and Bob is ``in the ministry`` tho you`d never know it from the few minutes I heard, whew. While WRMI 11580, 9955, and 9395 were barely audible in poor propagation, 7455 inbooming to the extent that I could almost ignore the RTTY QRM under. BTW, looking over the WRMI program schedules, I see GLOBAL 24 is back on one of the grids, UT Wednesdays 0100-0200 on 11580, instead of Radio France International! I`ve asked Jeff White what`s up, as G24 petered out in March, nothing on its Facebook since April, and its own website expired in September. I wouldn`t have been able to hear it on 11580 tonight anyway (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re Global 24`s surprise reappearance on the WRMI program grid for 11580, UT Wed at 01-02 --- Hi Jeff, Global 24, UT Wed 01-02 on 11580?? Are they really back? Any other times I haven`t found? What programming? Their website expired, and their facebook is unused since April (Glenn to Jeff White, Oct 3, via DXLD) Glenn: They were back for a week, but have disappeared again. I have no more information, I'm afraid. The program was Rick Steves' travel show (Jeff, Sent from my iPhone, Oct 4, to gh via WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DXLD) {ha, I wonder if it was the same single episode they ran for weeks and weeks earlier this year? -gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, } Jeff, For the record, which date(s)? (Glenn to Jeff, ibid.) I think Sept 22 (Jeff White, Oct 5, ibid.) = UT Wed Sept 23 As of 1506 UT Oct 5, the WRMI program grid for 11580 still shows Global 24 at 01-02 UT Wednesday only. UT Tuesday at 01-02 there is also another new program replacing RFI: `Steve Weeks` --- who or what is that? 11580, UT Tue Oct 6 at 0057, WRMI 11580 is diminished to nothing but a JBA carrier, remaining so at several chex during the following hour; at 0151, I can JB tell someone is talking, at S2. I am checking out a new entry on the WRMI program grid, `Steve Weeks` at 01-02 UT Tuesday only, to discover for myself rather than asking Jeff White who or what that is. But now I do have to ask Jeff; seems like 11580 programming needs to be MUF`d downward by B-15 if not sooner. Pending a reply from Jeff, maybe it`s this guy from a Google search: http://www.steveweeksmusic.com/About.php?flash=Y ``A truly original voice on the Kindie music scene, Steve Weeks performs with both a boisterous sense of humor and a deep sense of purpose. "We’re supposed to be entertaining and educating kids," the Colorado-based singer-songwriter enthuses. "I am sincere about the music I write. If it’s not coming from the heart or isn’t fun, I won’t write it."`` Jeff, I was going to discover for myself what the other new program on 11580 is, tonight (UT Tuesday) 0100-0200, `Steve Weeks`, but signal was a JBA carrier (as often now by that hour; need to go lower for winter if not already), so I must ask you who or what that program is, if still on instead of RFI? It`s not on your 1732 page http://www.wrmi.net/pb/wp_d12a1732/wp_d12a1732.html where I am often disappointed trying to find programs by title. 73, (Glenn to Jeff White, WRMI, via DXLD) So not the namesake I`d found: Glenn: This is a new religious program that comes to us from a third party in Texas (Jeff White, Oct 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9955, Oct 5 during the 1315 UT airing of `AWR Wavescan` on WRMI, Jeff is talking with Ray Robinson at KVOH, presumably during his visit in August. Says the RCA 100 kW transmitter is ``bifurcated`` to 2 x 50 kW each, funxional on 16 and 31m {but never at the same time, evidently}. The `new` Harris originally from KTWR Guam, via [WTWW] Tennessee, had a lot of parts missing, but hope to be ready to air ``in a couple of weeks``; it`s robust and frequency-agile. Then the RCA will become a reserve, maybe run once a month. Later Jeff quoted an item from me in April via DSWCI, about the callsign of the Airbus which had crashed in France. This deleted the point of my original comment which was: crashed planes should forever be known by their unique tail/callsign, not by the mere flight number which also applied to many other aircraft on countless other occasions {if you do insist on denoting it by flight number, you must always specify the date, which I for one don`t remember now} (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9975, KVOH "Saturday Night Jazz" (sic) on Saturday AM/Friday PM with many English IDs and lots of 30s jazz -- nice stuff! So-so reception, but they have fixed the modulation since I last logged them. Looking back, this is the first time I've noticed them since last October (!) and I do occasionally check on Sunday AM (Saturday night in N America) looking for this show, and haven't heard it in a LONG time. Have they been off or have I just been looking at the wrong times? 3+4443+ 0215- 0230 26/Sept (Ken Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet Oct 2 via DXLD) ** U S A. Greg Hardison replies to my log: ``Re KVOH schedule: "...*also Mutual Radio News at 01, 02 and 03..." Huh???? Yes, it appears Mutual Radio has sorta' been dug up from the dead, and propped up on the front porch: http://mutualradionews.com/ Among other things, this website links to a rather entertaining "affiliates list" -- which itself includes some questionably-existent outlets, along with apparent LPFM and Part 15 stations. This one probably is eligible for the Network Most Likely To Disappear medallion. Ah! -- Then we find this on Mutual's FAQ page: "A: The Mutual Radio News service is not affiliated with the defunct Mutual Broadcasting System or Mutual Radio Networks. Mutual Radio News is a trademark of MutualRadioNews.com" So this is more of a reincarnation, than anything else. -- GREG HARDISON`` ``On over 75 radio stations nationwide!`` not listing KVOH. And it`s ``free`` for a month trial. Terms: http://mutualradionews.com/free-news-service-radio-stations/ I don`t find any physical address. Who is really behind it, and where does their news really come from? (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9974.93, Oct 4 at 0110, KVOH is on new frequency, ex-9975.10; could this mean a new transmitter in use? Good signal with drama, i.e. `CBS Radio Mystery Theatre` this hour UT Sundays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9974.932, footprint on Oct 6 at 0010 UT, KVOH according to Aoki list: KVOH International Missions Fellowship, Rancho Simi CA, noted on remote SDR unit at Hanson MA-US east coast, poor S=6 signal -86dBm. wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12105, Oct 1 at 2018, no signal from WTWW-3; 9475 WTWW-1 is blasting in as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15607.79 & 15612.21, Oct 1 at 2021, the parasitic spurs out of 15610 WEWN are approx. here. What we hear when the fundamental is strong enough (often not, here, but it is now at mid-afternoon), is the slightly varying ~2.21-kHz squealing pitch of these beating against the main carrier --- a defect which the WEWN English transmitter has been suffering for years without any sign of concern. There may be more of these at further removes when the signal is even stronger. I used to find them around 9 and 18 kHz away (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGSEST) ** U S A. 7504.67, Oct 2 at 0059, WRNO Fort Worth/New Orleans is already on, VG signal, measured at 0138 as prime gospel huxter is still continuing. Are they again throwing in brief newscasts cribbed from Deutsche Welle? 7504.705, Oct 4 at 0133 check, WRNO with usual gospel huxter, poor at only S8 in `long` propagation beyond mere Metairie. Since the NRD-545 seems to be right-on calibration vs WWV, I am daring to interpolate some more precise frequencies, but caution the final digit may still be approximate. How can I be more accurate with my little old receiver than a station with its big old transmitter? Easily (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRNO transmitter switched-on air at 0057:05 UT on Oct 4. Station ID from New Orleans, S=9+15dB in NJ remote unit at east coast. Footprint on 7504.719 ... x.706 kHz. Wandered down approx. 13-14 Hertz within 8 minutes after signing-on. wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. 9265, Sat Oct 3 at 1402, WINB is on with soul music, but wobbly carrier resulting in rough modulation. We used to hear it like that sometimes on 13570, now abandoned. A warm-up problem? as transmission has just started: online program schedule now dated Sept 6, *still* shows wrong UT with Eastern time as EST, 5 hours behind UT, instead of EDT, 4 hours behind: http://www.winb.com/schedule.htm Now starting Saturdays at ``1500`` = 1400 UT, with `Voice of Wisdom Broadcast`. Largely because of the departure yet again of the peripat[h]etic Brother Scare, the weekday WINB schedule has been reduced to start at ``3:45/2045`` which really means *1945 UT; Sundays only, a day sacred to certain religionists, it starts at ``7:30/1230`` which means really *1130 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Updated summer A-15 of WINB, Red Lion with correct time in UT, contrary to wrong time in UT 1130-1400 on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Sun 1400-1945 on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Sat/Sun 1945-2000 on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm Eng/Spa Mon-Fri 1945-2000 on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Sat/Sun 2000-2230 on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Daily 2230-2300 on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm Spanish Mon 2230-2400 on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Tue-Sun 0000-0200 on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Daily 0200-0230 on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Tue/Wed/Sat 0230-0300 on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Sat/Sun 0300-0330 on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Sun -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, Oct 3-4, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Like I already just explained (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 4840, WWCR with a ‘last radio show’ [sic] (no, not a wacko, but a dude playing some neat old and not so old rare music, and saying hello to listeners in Florida, Texas and Belgium. At ToH PSA for National Parks, and WWCR ID and into a Bible bumper from Jacksonville FL with a talk re “Once I am saved, can I lose my salvation”. GOOD question! In well, 4+4+4+4+4, 0040-0105 3/Oct (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet Oct 9 via DXLD) Last Radio Playing (gh) 6220, Oct 2 at 0104, Mexican music reads S9, but barely readable, enough to hear just before 0105, ``880 AM, La Ranchera, con mil[?] watts``, i.e. WMDB Nashville TN, really 2500/2 watts, relayed by WNQM 1300 Nashville, 50000/5000 watts, mixing with 7520, 100000 watt WWCR-4 aimed 90 degrees on rhombic. Then I check the match, 1300 kHz above 7520, and can also barely hear music at S3 on 8820. The October sked for 7520 remains UT Tue-Sat 0000-0200, i.e. the only times the 6220 and 8820 mixing products can exist. Still alert for others like them displaced from other WWCR frequencies. 6220-, Oct 6 at 0157, ranchera music about S5 from WMDB 880 Nashville via WNQM 1300, via difference mixing product 1300 kHz below WWCR 7520 at same site, 1300 WWCR Avenue. 7520 is not blasting as usual, only about S8, so quite pleased that 6220 is still audible --- until both cut off at 0158:35* (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. FORMAT, SLOGAN AND SILENT STATUS CHANGES FREQ CALL CITY OF LICENSE NEW INFORMATION 620 KMKI Plano, TX was pre-teen (Radio Disney), now new unknown format (IRCA DX Monitor Oct 3 via DXLD) ** U S A. Daytime reception is hundreds of miles on 50 kW clears using an 8 foot loop. Amazing stuff - I think I may be getting 540 from Orlando during the day in Houston - their web stream is delayed compared to what I am hearing - I had a stupid interference source fire up during the ID. I am also after KFI during the day. I have multiple signals on 640 - just trying to hear an ID on the English language station I am hearing with OKC nulled. Doing both coasts daytime would be amazing (Bruce Carter, TX, Oct 5, ABDX via DXLD) ** U S A. FORMAT, SLOGAN AND SILENT STATUS CHANGES FREQ CALL CITY OF LICENSE NEW INFORMATION 830 WFNO Norco, LA was regional Mexican, now Spanish CHR, old slogan: “La Caliente 830 AM”, new: “La Fabulosa 830 AM” (IRCA DX Monitor Oct 3 via DXLD ** U S A. 880, WMDB, Nashville TN: see 6220 entry above in SW sexion ** U S A. 880, KRVN, Lexington NE; 10:20 AM MDT-5:45 PM CDT, 25-Sep; "The Rural Radio Network"; "KRVN is awake around the clock"; "Your only 50,000 watt voice for Husker football"; many KRVN IDs & spots. Mostly crop news/features, but The Hog & Pig Report & cattle futures (T-bones are an excellent cattle future); "Sitting in your combine waiting for a truck can be as frustrating as trying to balance a golf ball on an igloo."' "If you're a goat enthusiast, you might want to attend the Goat Expo at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds." Spots for the KRVN Beef Boosters; KRVN Auction Time by a dude that sounds like he's in severe need to get to the toilet; Territorial Rodeo Update. Morning man Dave Therell (leukemia survivor); Ag spots by Dewey Nelson & new announceress Jessie Harding; Fox News & local news by Dave Shroeder. No manure management, dead stock removal or bull semen ads heard (Harold Frodge, MI, visiting CO/KS, MARE Tipsheet Oct 2 via DXLD) Beef Boosters?! Goat Enthusiasts? What concepts! Ask me about the woman walking her goat in a Williamston Park who looked at ME like *I* was strange because I was listening to a radio! -kvz (Ken Zichi, ed., ibid.) ** U S A. 880, Oct 1 at 1933 UT, I recheck the KRVN/KJOZ situation at the same daytime hour as first log two days ago. I`m not at the quiet caradio spot, but go directly to the NRD545, and switch between the ALA-330S antenna oriented east-west and the not-very-longwire oriented north-south. The two signals are there again, so it wasn`t a propagational fluke. On the N/S, both are audible, but too much KRVN Lexington NE to copy much from KJOZ Conroe TX. On the E/W, however, both are weakened yet more equal in strength so as to produce a very perceptible subaudible heterodyne (SAH), amounting to 244/minute or just over 4.0 Hz. This is close to my interim observation yesterday morning which I thought might be something else. Under KRVN programming is talk mostly by female, which corresponds to the listed KJOZ programming at 17-19 UT. Too bad I don`t have a unidirexional antenna to minimize KRVN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 950, Oct 5 at 0450 UT, immediately upon tune-in, ID as ``Cruisin` 950``, classic rock. Close enough to NRC AM Log-listed name for KRWZ Parker CO, ``Cruisin` Oldies`` with address in Greenwood Village. Parker is SE of Denver beyond Loop 470, while G.V. is closer in to central Denver. Originally KIMN in Denver; wonder why they officially moved to Parker? That`s near the KOA 850 transmitter site. But Radio-Locator shows KRWZ site is nowhere near there, really on the NE side of Denver toward Brighton; 5/5 kW U3. Night pattern has a non- deep null to the southeast, not good for us, but could be worse. Radio-locator shows similar day pattern centered elsewhere, just on the NW edge of Denver, so two different sites? NO, FCC AM Query shows same coördinates for both; so much for Radio-Locator accuracy, of its crosshairs at least (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. KXEN 1010's 125-watt night signal has gotten weaker in recent weeks; I've been able to put a total null on them to pull in either WINS or CFRB. Their six-tower daytime array (which they haven't used since 2013) is still up on Chain of Rocks Road in Mitchell IL, although the three-tower nighttime array has been demolished. Their 375-watt day signal allows me to hear WCIL 1020 during the daytime with little trouble when I'm outside with the Superadio III (Eric Bueneman (N0UIH), 631 Coachway Lane, Hazelwood Missouri 63042-1347, IRCA DX Monitor Oct 3 via DXLD) ** U S A. 1020, Oct 3 at 0520 UT, nulling nearby KOKP Perry OK, I hear something in English, probably KDKA, rather than Spanish, KCKN Roswell NM, so has it finally gone direxional as required? No, Spanish soon fades back up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1130, Oct 3 at 1256 UT, open carrier/dead air again from KLEY Wellington KS, SAH of about 10 Hz presumably with remnant of KWKH LA. By 1300 UT, modulating with CBS News until cutaway at 1303 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1440, Oct 7 at 0602 UT, Spanish from E/W, and not religious, so not KTNO The Metroplex; soon IDing as KTUV 1440, La Mexicana. That`s 5000/240 watts in Little Rock AR, listed by NRC AM Log as ``La Pantera 1440``. I`m not yet sure there has really been a change, as Pantera still listed in radio-locator et al. Wikipedia stub updated as recently as Oct 2 now says it`s ``Potencia Latina`` with website http://www.potencialatina.net/ which turns out to be ``403-FORBIDDEN nginx`` oh, oh (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. El Sembrador, KTYM 1460 AM, Radio católica inicia transmisión en español en Los Ángeles --- Una radiodifusora comenzó a transmitir programación católica en español en el área de Los Ángeles el jueves, luego de que oyentes y simpatizantes donaran más de dos millones de dólares para la compra de la estación. El Sembrador, KTYM 1460 AM, comenzó a transmitir alrededor de la una de la tarde . . . Ver más en: http://www.20minutos.com/noticia/b94044/radio-catolica-inicia-transmision-en-espanol-en-los-angeles/ (via José Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. 1500, Oct 2 at 0114 UT as I am hearing various unID [q.v.] stations other than KSTP, it`s Greek music and then Greek talk! This has to be the ethnic-Greek station in New Port Richey FL, address in Oldsmar, WPSO, which is supposed to be a ND 250-watt daytimer. Tnx for cheating, long after official FCC October sunset of 2300 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1510.00, Oct 3 at 1251 UT, ad for Hep-C survey at St. Luke`s hospital in Kansas City, and ID for ``99.3 and 1510, ESPN Kansas City``. So daytimer KCTE, CoL Independence MO, has not only achieved frequency accuracy (for now?) but has demoted its 10,000-watt AM to an appendage of a mere FM translator, not mentioned in the 2015 NRC AM Log. FCC FM Query shows 99.3 in KC, MO, is K257DZ, 99-watt translator licensed to Alpine Broadcasting. FCC correspondence shows that Entercom objected to Alpine`s application to move K257DZ for a *fourth* time, finally into the Big City, having started out in Butler MO, 93 km away! But FCC granted it anyway, since it would have been ``unduly harsh and unfair`` to stop them after granting the first three stealthy move-ins. Radio-locator confirms that K257DZ = ``ESPN 1510`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1530, Oct 2 at 0130 UT, soft YL songs in Spanish, and ID by YL as ``Radio Mujer, muchas gracias por sintonizarnos, -algo- 5 punto 1``, and another song. That`s KZNX Creedmore (Austin) TX, which I was also getting on my New Mexico trip from Santa Rosa as in DXLD 15-37 (and now I see I typoed the call there, twice, as KZNZ! Never heard it spoken in any language); and the FM was researched as 95.1. Supposed to be 220 watts night rather than 10 kW day, 1 kW critical hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1590, Oct 6 at 1244 UT, ``KVGB Birthday Line``, quick greetings for everybody born on this date, from phone calls to 792- 2479 or e-mails. Bubbly host says this segment appears every weekday morning, can start calling an hour earlier. Also applies to anniversaries. Nice local touch from Great Bend KS station. With a population of 16K, there are potentially 44 birthdays in the city alone every day of the year (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Texas 1610 TIS help needed --- A few days ago at sunrise I received a TIS from Texas on 1610 relaying WXK27 162.400 from Austin. Audio matched what is on You Tube from them. However, a DXer friend from Austin tells me that there's no TIS on the air on 1610 there! Could this be the San Antonio TIS? Anyone know which TIS this is. Hopefully some of you in TX can check 1610. 73 and thx, KAZ, Barrington IL, Perseus SDR and 2 element DKAZ Phased Array with beam steered about 240 deg. (Neil Kazaross, Sept 30, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) I looked at the FCC database of Texas licenses for 1610 and saw one license for the Lower Colorado River Authority. I thought they might rebroadcast NOAA Weather Radio since that area can be flood prone. I found this page on the LCRA web site that says they do broadcast NOAA Weather Radio on 1610 AM around the Highland Lakes upstream from Austin. http://www.lcra.org/water/floods/pages/default.aspx (Doug speg, central Oklahoma, ibid.) Thx, Doug, I think you've nailed it down. I also found this online. http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/EWX/LIDLLA I also found this indicating that they've been on 1610 for 30 years! http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1050785981.html I have a couple DX friends who may be able to check out to the NW of Austin for me. 73 and thx KAZ (Kazaross, ibid.) Here's some audio from this so you all can hear what it sounds like. Texas 1610.mp3 http://forums.wtfda.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=18049&d=1443801760 (Kaz, Oct 2, ibid.) This is probably the one Kaz was asking me about, when I reported that 1610 in Amarillo was off. But one locality I definitely hear mentioned in this clip is Amarillo, quite far from Austin; but inconclusive. I remember hearing some of the 1610 LCRA stations long ago, probably when I was in the area. A former head of ANARC, Terry Colgan, worked for LCRA (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 10 watts and about 975 miles on 1610 --- Using my DKAZ Phased Array with the beam steered about 240 degrees is quite interesting on 1610 since there's basically no CHHA and little QRM from Chicago or Milwaukee area. One of the stations I caught is rebroadcasting weather radio from Austin and has xmtr's located near the dams along the Colorado River NW of Austin. My audio is in this thread if you scroll down to post 4. http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?10357-Texas-1610-TIS-help-needed Audio was best when notching the 1611 het that comes in near sunrise here and is from Australia (had weak DU talk once). 73 KAZ Barrington IL (Neil Kazaross, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** U S A. 1700, Oct 4 at 0148 UT, Tejano music from KKLF Richardson TX, so I stay with it almost until hourtop to confirm someone`s ID of it based on a ``Super Estelar`` slogan. After several segués, I barely make out that slogan at 0157 UT, ``Super Estelar, 1700 AM``. Don`t know if they ever gave legal CL ID. Copy is very tough with two stupid sports stations on 1700 almost collinear with KKLF and me, from south Texas and Iowa, i.e. can`t really null any of them out. But there`s less of them if I employ the E-W oriented ALA-330S, than the N-S not very longwire, even tho that is unfavorable for KKLF too. {Radio-locator still has KKLF as ``Kick 1700``, with an address in York PA! It also doesn`t show that it has been running reduced power on an STA. I think the call was originally supposed to allude to KLIF 570, which it simulcast briefly} (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Heads Up. KOTA Rapid City, SD may go off the air soon Yup was sold for a buck --- The Black Hills' oldest TV station, KOTA- TV/3 (Rapid City), is being sold off for $1 as part of Gray TV's purchase of KOTA-TV owner Schurz Communications. Gray owns FOX affiliate KEVN/7 (Rapid City) and had already announced that it would divest KOTA-TV and move its ABC programming to KEVN, which could carry ABC on a subchannel and/or a new low-power TV station. The company announced Thursday that the KOTA-TV license, along with the rights to its MeTV and This TV channels and some property, will be sold to Legacy Broadcasting for $1. Gray and Legacy have done business in similar situations before, with Legacy taking Gray's divestiture castaways in the Bismarck and Lincoln markets last year. Gray anticipates the transactions will be completed in the fourth quarter of this year or the first quarter of next year (iceberg, The Lake House, Oct 3, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) That`s widely seen DTV on ch 2 ** U S A. TV DX: Analog: 6, WLFM-LP, Cleveland OH. Had two mornings of solid audio reception 9/24 8:02am-8:43am, 9/25 8:27am-10:43am [EDT = UT -4]. Call ID once per hour - is difficult to hear - four letters. Video was weak - is a chart with about 8 horizontal bars. Some of the bars are divided. This might be an audio software chart. Mentions of La Mega, La Mega Uno; "Latino and Proud". Meximusic. Mention of Ohio, Cleveland, and several latino countries. Ads for orthodontics, Nissan, job-training, Savers Thrift Shop. One traffic report per hour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLFM-LP (Larry Russell, Flushing MI, MARE Tipsheet Oct 2 via DXLD) ** U S A. 30 minutes in the office parking lot, Feather Sound (Clearwater), FL on the Hyundai stock car radio. Times GMT. 101.9 MHz, FLORIDA, WPHX-LP, Ruskin. 1718 October 5, 2015. Loggins & Messina "Angry Eyes" then "Lido Shuffle" by Boz Scaggs. Then a promo for a fundraising event at the Firehouse Cultural Center and firehouseculturalcenter.org for more information. Into "September Gurls" by The Bangles, then "Mary's Prayer" by the Scottish band Danny Wilson. Automated, with a gap (no clean segue) between tracks. 100 watts, first time noticed for me. 106.1 MHz, FLORIDA, W291AG, The Joy FM, Highland City. 1710 October 5, 2015. Christian modern pop junk, The Joy promos. 250 watts. 106.9 MHz, FLORIDA, W295BH (translator for WSRQ 1220 kHz), Sarasota. 1658 October 5, 2015. Self-promo for "Sarasota Talk Radio" into CBS News. Listed as a mere 55 watts. 106.9 MHz, FLORIDA, unidentified. 1702 October 5, 2015. Something Spanish talk for a few seconds overtaking W295BH. Suspect it's the "NEW" LPFM entry with no calls and still listed as Application status in Tampa, registered to North Tampa Community Radio which when searched shows several entries on corporationwiki.com linked to people with Hispanic names. File No.: BNPL-20131112AHQ Facility ID number: 194557 at 100 watts per FCC. Florida Low Power Radio Stations: https://sites.google.com/site/floridadxn/florida-low-power-radio-stations (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. RF 18, Oct 1 at 1458 UT, DTV 5-1 KFSM-DT from Fort Smith AR briefly decodes, the only DX signal to do so among several other Bad ones in my morning bandscan for area tropo. It stops before I can look for 5-2 or more. Hepburn`s 1500 UT forecast map shows some enhancement only east of Tulsa (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN STATE. Vatican Radio, 15595, 10/02/15. Heard with a fair signal sign/on at 1600 UT with 15 minutes of French programming followed at 1615 with English consisting of world and Vatican news (Pope's new 11-track CD with various speeches and music mentioned.) Sign/off at 1629 (Larry Zamora, Garland, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZANZIBAR. Music on Radio Zanzibar --- I have to admit that my favorite station to listen to on Global Tuners is Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation on 11735. I love to listen to the beautiful music every afternoon. Though It comes in well on all of the European receivers, it clearly sounds best on the Icom R8500 located in Rimini, Italy. I had almost abandoned SWLing since moving to a location where external antennas are not allowed and where I literally live 25 feet from a busy interstate. Great way to connect with some neighbors from Africa, who can translate the Swahili for me! (Mike Bryant, Louisville, KY, Oct 4, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Wow, they are very strong. Well, comparing their signal today to what they usually are, their signal is usually barely above the noise. But today, on fade ups, I'm getting around a 4 1/2 to 5 out of 10 signal from them. Even on deep fades, the signal is still there (Paul Walker, 3:28 pm Central/2029 UT, Southwest Arkansas on Tecsun PL880 & Magic Wand Antenna! DX LISTENING DIGEST) And a heads up, Zanizbar is listed as running till 4 pm Central (2100 UT) but I've had them sign off anywhere between 2048 and 2057 (Paul Walker, ODXA yg via DXLD) The signal has gotten a tad bit stronger with a bit less fading then my email 5 minutes ago!! (Paul Walker, dxldyg via DXLD) ZBC, 11735 kHz, 1800-1810. At tune-in, female reading the news in English. (Didn't realize they had English language news until I caught this BC, but now I see that it is listed.) ID at 1803 and at 1807 end of newscast; then male in apparent Swahili. Fair at best. 10/7/15 (Art Delibert, Vineyard Haven, Mass., Palstar R30A and AOR AR 7030 Plus, Wellbrook ALA 1530S loop antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE. BABOONS SHUT DOWN RADIO STATION! http://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/Baboons-take-Zimbabwe-radio-station-off-air-20151001?isapp=true (via Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 530, Oct 4 at 0144 UT, surprised to hear some talk in English and it`s not the HAR/NWS from KS, rather than EZL music from the Cuban Encyclopedia, tho a slow SAH develops of 1.6 Hz. I suppose it`s the only licensed 530 broadcaster in North America, CIAO, Brampton, Ont, 1000/250 watts with an ETHnic format, i.e. probably not much English either. Program sked over a Tronno skyline, http://www.am530.ca/programschedule.htm shows the only English on Sat and some other nights is at 8-9 pm [EDT = 00-01 UT Sunday], Polish/English. T-storm noise is affecting bottom end of the band, not top (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also TURKS & CAICOS UNIDENTIFIED. 621, Oct 6 at 0621 UT, from NE/SW, a fair het upon 620 US station, must be TA carrier this late: lots of hi-power Europeans, but often-heard in the east, 100 kW RNE Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, is still pre-sunrise, which is at 0700 UT today. 300-kW RTBF Internationale, Wavre, Belgium saw sun at 0549 already, but not too late for propagation to remain from control point northwestward. This leads me to survey more 9-kHz JBA carriers at 0623-0625, all weaker than 621: 684, 693, 747, 774, 783, 882, 1008, 1125 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 738, Oct 7 at 0541 UT, the only JBA TA carrier I find is here, very likely the 600 kW RNE Barcelona, Spain. Checking a bit earlier than last night when I was getting several others (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1430, Oct 6 at 0125 UT, oldtime radio sitcom I don`t recognize, also later in the hour, dominating frequency with QRM. Suspect it`s KZQZ St Louis, but no program schedule on their website. Same time on 1190 I am getting unreasonably strong kountry? music, suspected Insane sibling station KQQZ, both of which have been suspected of cheating after sunset. http://www.kzqz1430am.com/ http://www.kqqz1190am.com/index.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1500, Oct 2 at 0111 UT, hardly any signal from KSTP even when aimed right at it (yet, Saudi Arabia is in on 1521, but from a lower angle), so what else do I get on 1500? Classic rock roughly E/W; at 0125 UT it`s blues and KSTP starts to fade up a bit at 0128 UT. At 0200 UT I am hearing Cajun/Zydeco music, 0203 English ID amid CCI maybe mentions Louisiana or is it just the power of suggestion? Almost every state in the ``South`` and ``Midwest`` has a 1500 station, most of them low-power daytimers, or with negligible power at night. Several listed as OLDies format, and the one in LA, KCLF New Roads is AC/UC in NRC AM Log 2015. KJIM Sherman TX should be off by now and none of these seem from the south. Meanwhile, I get one 1500 definitely: WPSO New Port Richey FL! see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. After 1521 SAUDI ARABIA QRMing KOKC OKC, and hearing a 3-kHz het from 1503 (200 kW IRAN? or something closer but much weaker) when I am DXing wideband domestic on 1500, I step thru the entire MW band from top to bottom, aiming NE/SW with the DX-398 at 9-kHz intervals, and with its BFO as usual slightly offset, making JBA hets of the same pitch whenever there is a carrier, as I switch between USB and LSB to avoid the 10-kHz stations (but also obscuring any in -9 or -1), I do find these, Oct 2 between 0112 and 0122: 1422, 1413, 1296, 1215 (two?), 882. Trans-Atlantic MW DX has been up lately, reported even from Alberta and BC, where it`s more like trans- polar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Emisora no ID en X-band --- Esta mañana escuchamos con José una emisora en 1655 kHz con música andina y con diferencia horaria UT -5. Alguna idea????? 73's (Miguel Castellino, Argentina? Oct 3, condiglista yg via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 1710, Oct 2 at 0108 UT, JBA carrier, I would like to think is the 35 to 50 watt relay of CHIM-FM in Timmins, Ont., as uncovered a few nights ago by Tim Tromp in west Michigan. Does it remain active with such high power? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. TAJIKISTAN? 4790, Oct 2 at 1300, very poor signal with a bit of talk audible, vs CODAR, presumably the new BBC Uzbek relay via Dushanbe-Yangiyul since Sept 1 at 1300-1330 only. Beware, however, that this service on higher bands is jammed by the ChiCom, interfering in the internal affairs of Uzbekistan, and will presumably also do so on 4790. However, Aoki does not yet show it as *jammed. As Ron Howard also points out, do not assume something on 4790 is a reactivated RRI Fak2. 4790-, Oct 4 at 1245, JBA carrier vs CODAR. As I noted before, new BBC Uzbek relay via Tajikistan is here at 1300-1330 only, likely sucking in ChiCom jamming: so is one of those carriers already on? Or could it really be reactivated RRI Fak2, Indonesia? Atsunori Ishida has nothing new on it, last logged in March 2013: http://rri.jpn.org/dat/html/2013/2013-03.html But currently cryptically warns in red, ``During December 2015 from August 2015, a part of the frequency below 7 MHz will not be monitored``. This one is slightly on the lo side. I have been hoping to recognize some BBCWS theme music around 1300, and there are only traces of modulation by then, maybe some music as early as 1254. 4750 RRI Makassar also in, as now usual with much stronger signal. 4790-, Oct 5 at 1252, JBA carrier with traces of music vs heavy CODAR QRM. 1300 I do perceive a timesignal about 3 seconds late. Slightly on the lo side, implying RRI Fak2 Indonesia possibly reactivated, but the TS implies CNR1 jammer, or maybe BBCWS Uzbek via Tajikistan, but which isn`t supposed to start until 1300. Oz DXers could quickly confirm whether Fak Fak is back, or even whether there is a CNR1 jammer on here now. Tried to compare with 7445, but 4790 is just too weak. 4790-, Oct 6 at 1248, again the JBA carrier is present, maybe traces of modulation. No timesignal audible at 1300 today unlike yesterday. 4750 Makassar and its LAH are also in but weaker than before. Is it Tajikistan with BBC Uzbek relay; CNR1 jammer; and/or RRI Fak2 reactivated? Mum`s the word from those in a better position to tell. 4790-, Oct 7 at 1215, I check earlier for a JBA carrier here, but none. By 1245 it is detectable, much like previous days, maybe a timesignal at 1300 but not sure (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6165, Oct 2 at 1309, music atop pileup with SAHs, CCI; not // 9420 talk which is CNR6 in Chinese (or is it? Aoki also lists CNR13 from Lingshi in Uyghur at same time on 9420!). So maybe the 6165 dominator is Thazin Radio, Myanmar, but Vietnam and India are also on there, a bigger mess surely in Asia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDentified station with Arabic music, Oct 3: 1215-1230 on 9600 unknown tx, good signal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzTjmjPrurI&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6vN5NXnug4&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11250-SSB, Oct 1 at 1303, 2-way lively conversation with musical elements, apparently the Indonesian QSO pirates, not staid aeronautical contacts. So I look for more in their usual band above 11.4 MHz: 11405-SSB, Oct 1 at 1306, pileups of lots of pirate QSOs, quick back- and-forth, talkovers 11455-SSB, Oct 1 at 1311, more pirate QSOs, including a singer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re unidentified Indonesians: Last weekend listening at my summer cabin I noted those Indonesian chatters were in the 10 and 11 MHz band on tens of frequencies with powerful signals. Also on 7 MHz area, even on 7000 up ham CW range (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ This is great Sir Glenn --- Respected Sir, I am Alok from Mumbai (India). Been listening your show from past 3 months. And seriously your voice brings so much concern in me about the news going around the world with facts. I have subbed your podcast through feed burner and I enjoy the weekly dose of world news and info via podcast player installed on my android. In future I will donate to help my bit to keep this station jamming. Much respect and love to you Glenn sir. Warm regards, (Alok, Sent via Outlook, Oct 8) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY, shortwave angle I'm currently reading The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan regarding the Manhattan Project based out of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Very interesting reading and highly recommended! I have reached the part where testing of a prototype nuclear device is about to take place in Los Alamos. Mention was made on page 236 that: "The Project was using the same frequency as radio station KCBA out of Delano, California..." This is obviously an AM station, so I was confused as to the reference two pages earlier as follows: "Elizabeth Graves was with her husband, Al, in Cabin 4 of the less-than-swanky Miller's Tourist Court in Carrizozo, New Mexico. Their instruments were laid out on the bed. Seismograph. Shortwave radio. Generator. Everything was at the ready. The Geiger counter sat in the window, as if it, too, were waiting for a signal from the desert." No further explanation was given as to what frequency they would tune on the shortwave radio, what form of communications would take place (obviously in code, since this was highly secretive and classified information, which made me wonder why a shortwave transmission?) and from what transmitter. I was wondering if you had any thoughts on this and if you had also read this book. Best regards, (Ed Insinger, Summit, NJ, Oct 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I haven`t, but probably meant to refer to KCBR in Delano which was the original call of the VOA SW relay station there, which used a variety of frequencies. I think for a while various similar callsigns were assigned to individual transmitters, KCB# (Glenn to Ed, via DXLD) GLENN HAUSER`S NEW MEXICO TRIP LOG --- FINAL VERSION Some lists truncated or even rejected the original long report as ``looks like spam``. Instead of reposting it or in segments, please go to the final complete edited version here dated October 1: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser A few comments additional to my original posting are in brackets. And a few misspellings corrected such as testosterone WBAP. Vaughn, not Vaughan. If you already read the first version, you can find the additions here by searching on open-bracket { 73, (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Same as in last DXLD LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ PIRATES, SLIMS AND BOOTLEGGERS Recently a newbie ham emailed me asking about radio pirates. We’ve all no doubt heard them on the broadcast and amateur bands, but just who are they? What do they do? Although definitions may vary and sometimes a bit confusing to properly categorize, generally speaking the following are accepted answers. Pirate or Slim - Someone using an existing call sign or made up call sign (or no call at all!) operating on the air claiming to be a certain radio station (aka “pirate”) or ham operator (aka “Slim”). Case in point, by an honest mistake, AL7JR received a bunch of QSL cards addressed as HI3/AL7JR when in fact it was ye ed HI3/KL7JR operating from the Dominican Republic. Another ham had spotted me incorrectly. AL7JR thought his call was being pirated or bootlegged until another ham explained the mix up. Bootlegger - Someone, usually not a Ham but a wannabe, making up a call sign, one usually not in the call book, and getting on the air. Sometimes it is someone who already bought a radio, took the test and flunked, and then gets on the air anyway. I suppose a bootlegger could also have been the airline pilot I worked when I was in the Dominican Republic. He was on 20m phone and flying for the United Arab Emirates at 39,000 feet over Brazil. He said his country allowed him to talk on any band he wanted while he was in the air. He was IDing using his tail number. I just assumed he was using a special event call until he explained things to me. I immediately signed with him since he was not an Amateur Radio operator and I can only legally talk to other licensed hams on the ham bands or to others in an emergency situation. Slim - Someone pretending to be a DX station, usually rare, that is supposed to be on the air. For example, someone in Argentina pretending to be on a remote island or country somewhere else. The origin of the term SLIM is believed to have originated in the 1960s when an operator showed up on 20m CW, identifying himself as 8X8A, claiming he was located on "Cray Island," an island that had just emerged from the ocean floor following a major undersea volcanic event. The operator said his name was "Slim." Huge pileups endured for a few days, then "Slim" was exposed as a pirate and he disappeared from the bands. Ever since, Pirates on the ham bands have been called "Slim". Editor: (John Reisenauer, Jr. KL7JR/K7ICE, Columbia, SC, Arctic & Antarctic DX, Oct CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ESPERANTO [re: CHINA, 9440 log by gh] In addition, Vatican Radio still produces a program in Esperanto but I think it's only on MW. Going back to the early 1990s, besides Cuba and China, Poland, Austria (birthplace of Esperanto), Estonia, Italy and Lithuania had Esperanto on SW. There may have been others earlier on. On Thomas Witherspoon's Shortwave Radio Audio Archive you can find one of my Radio Vilnius recordings that includes a short segment in Esperanto: Radio Vilnius 1990-1991 (2nd Recording): April 9, 1990 http://shortwavearchive.com/archive/radio-vilnius-1990-1991-2nd-recording-april-9-1990?rq=esperanto (Richard Langley, NB, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ PLAIN OLD UT, NOT UTC I take this rare opportunity to reëxplain why I always write ``UT`` rather than ``UTC`` and am constantly chopping off the C`s others cite in their logs I publish, to reduce the clutter. (Indeed when it`s obviously UT from first reference there is no need to repeat the timezone after every time cited! Nor ``kHz`` after every frequency.) C stands for coördinated, properly a lower-case subscript, which is a minuscule difference between other versions of UT such as sub-1 and sub-2, of scientific interest only. For general imprecise time references such as radio logging, ``UT`` alone is quite sufficient (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FIVE REASONS TO KEEP DAYLIGHT SAVINGS [SIC] TIME --- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11188313/5-reasons-to-keep-Daylight-Savings-Time-all-year-round.html Regards, (Tony Ashar, Indonesia, Oct 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) An Equatorial who doesn`t have to cope with DST (gh) US President Nixon tried this during the 70s energy crisis and it didn't go over too well. It turns out it didn't save any energy during the winter and school children went to school in the dark and it hasn't been tried since (Rodney Johnson, NV, ibid.) Too disruptive to keep making changes in the Spring and again in the Fall. Change it by 1/2 hour either ahead or backward and then leave alone (meaning never change again). Just my opinion. 73, (Kraig Krist, VA, dxldyg via DX LISTENNG DIGEST) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See NEW ZEALAND; NIGERIA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See MEXICO; USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See GERMANY; NETHERLANDS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ MUSEA / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++ +++++++++++++++++++++ VOA BETHANY; NDXE Jack Amelar, Lowell MI, 'called' me on a bit of an 'error' that snuck into my description of last week's 'kicker' photo --- (This was taken at the now closed and demolished VoA Bethany Ohio transmitter site in the 1990s ....) Jack adds: "Oh contrar! [sic] The antennas may be gone, strip mall in their place, but the building lives on, including VOA transmitter #6 and the control room. http://www.voamuseum.org/ The open hours are very sparse, "you are welcome to visit from 1 PM – 4 PM the THIRD SATURDAY of every month. Arrangements for private group tours will be accepted based on the availability of volunteer docents and construction activity." However the facility is usually open during the weekend of the Dayton Hamvention. A few years ago, on Sunday afternoon, I left Hara Arena to the VOA site. It was a nice tour with fellow / local hams for guides. The observation tower where guards were on the lookout for Nazi infiltrators is normally closed to tours, but convincing our guides we could handle the stairs, we got to check out the tower. You get a great view of Cincinnati and the WLW tower in the distance. The West Chester Amateur Radio Association WC8VOA holds their meetings which includes Wednesday evening open house, to keep in mind if the 3rd Saturday doesn't work out. The WC8VOA radio shack is located here (Oh, if only the VOA antennas could have remained), as well as the 8th area district QSL bureau. [We did get to tour the ham station when we were there in the 90s -- and alas even then they didn't use the 'big gun' antennae! -kvz] Jack continues --- On the subject of shortwave transmitter sites, how many of us remember the non-site NDXE promoted in the 80s by H Dixon Norman? I found this posted by Andy Sennitt, publisher of the World Radio TV Handbook (WRTH) on group rec.radio.shortwave dated July 1995: It amazes me that this old chestnut keeps surfacing after so many years. It's almost a decade ago. Briefly, NDXE was the brainchild - I use the term loosely - of a young(ish) radio freak called H. Dixon Norman. His ambition was to broadcast in *stereo* and he had very grandiose plans. He bought a one page full color ad plus card insert in WRTH, neither of which he ever paid us a cent for. What he did have was a helluva lot of nerve. He managed to persuade a number of high profile broadcasters that he had the resources and that this project was for real. One even made a demo tape which was sent out to potential advertisers. That gentleman later went on record as saying it was the biggest mistake of his career to get involved. The announced target date came and went. Mr. Norman started a mail order operation, selling mugs, tee shirts and the like. Gullible SWL's fell for it. He then informed the media that the delay was due to being on a waiting list for a transmitter. Unfortunately for him, he was rash enough to mention the company he had "ordered" it from. A phone call to their sales department revealed that they had never even heard of him, far less taken an order - and they had transmitters in stock for immediate purchase! To this day, there are some who say this wasn't a con trick, just a guy whose plans went wrong. I believe he is still lurking somewhere in the fringes of the radio business, but NDXE will go down as probably the best radio station that never existed :-) In the same thread Larry Russell wrote “NDXE now stands for NO DX EVER” Did anybody ever order and receive NDXE merchandise, coffee mugs, etc.? The entire thread found at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.radio.shortwave/8fTOeQyOcL0 Around the same time, Jeff White, now of WRMI, was promoting a Shortwave Listeners convention in Miami in July, not sure what year. My thought as what self respecting Michigander would travel to Florida in July! (A few years later I did end up in Tampa in July helping some people move, loading a truck in those temperatures and humidity, nuts.) Anyway, H. Dixon Norman was supposed to speak at the convention. As the date of the convention grew closer, nobody heard from or could contact Norman. His time slot was reassigned to Glenn Hauser with the emphasis if Norman did show, he would be worked back into the schedule. He never showed. Ahhh -- such a fun story. Andy forgets that there were TWO issues of the WRTH with NDXE ads in them. 1985 and the 'full page color ad' he claims went unpaid in 1986. I assume either they got paid for the smaller black and white ad in '85 or that the business office of the WRTH was REALLY clueless! :o Check out the 'kicker' photo at the bottom of this week's TipSheet! (Ken Zichi, MARE Tipsheet Oct 2 via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ GEOMAGNETIC INDICES – Compiled by: Phil Bytheway E-mail: phil_tekno@yahoo.com Geomagnetic Summary September 1 2015 through September 30 2015 Tabulated from email status daily (K @ 0000 UT) Date Flux A K Space Wx 1 89 6 2 no storms 2 88 7 2 no storms 3 87 9 3 no storms 4 90 20 3 minor, G1 5 85 13 2 no storms 6 86 14 2 no storms 7 84 46 6 moderate, G2 8 84 29 4 moderate, G2 9 82 58 6 moderate, G2 10 84 14 3 no storms 11 93 59 4 strong, G3 12 99 16 2 no storms 13 99 11 3 no storms 14 97 14 3 minor, G1 15 101 18 3 no storms 16 109 12 4 mo storms 17 107 12 3 minor, R1 18 103 13 3 no storms 19 106 16 3 minor, G1 20 110 43 3 strong, G1, R1 21 103 9 2 no storms 22 107 10 2 no storms 23 111 14 2 no storms 24 107 8 2 no storms 25 120 7 1 no storms 26 120 4 1 no storms 27 128 4 2 minor, R1 28 124 4 1 moderate, R2 29 129 6 1 minor, R1 30 131 3 1 minor, R1 Gx – Geomagnetic Storm Level Rx – Radio Blackouts Level Sx – Solar Radiation Storm Level (IRCA DX Monitor Oct 10 via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2015 Oct 05 1821 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 28 Sept - 04 Oct 2015 Solar activity reached high levels as the period was dominated by M-class flare activity from active regions located in the southwest quadrant. In total 20 M-class flares were observed with two reaching the R2 (Moderate) radio blackout threshold. Four R1 (Minor) radio blackouts were observed from Region 2423 (S09, L=154, class/area=Dac/180 on 28 Sep) early in the period as the region transited the southwest limb, but once out of view Region 2422 (S18, L=102, class/area=Fkc/950 on 29 Sep) became the source of the remainder of M-class flare activity. Region 2422 was relatively benign until it reached central meridian and began a rapid growth phase where it increased significantly in magnetic complexity. Region 2422 produced a total of 14 R1 (Minor) radio blackouts and two R2 (Moderate) radio blackouts, the largest of which was an M7 flare observed at 28/1458 UTC. Numerous coronal mass ejections (CMEs) associated with the activity eminating from the southwest quadrant were observed throughout the period, but none were Earth-directed. The greater than 10 MeV proton flux became slightly enhanced late on 30 Sep through midday on 01 Oct due to a pair of M1/1n flares from Region 2422 observed midday on 30 Sep. The greater than 10 MeV proton flux briefly reached a peak of 1.4 pfu at 01/0000 UTC but began a slow return to background levels shortly thereafter. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reached moderate levels on 28 Sep-01 Oct and was at normal levels on 02-04 Oct. Geomagnetic field activity was at quiet levels on 28 and 30 Sep and quiet to unsettled levels on 29 Sep under a nominal solar wind regime. Quiet to active levels were observed on 01-03 Oct due to a combination of weak positive polarity coronal hole high speed stream influence, a period of prolonged southward Bz, and substorming. On 04 Oct active conditions were observed early and late in the period with an isolated period of G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storms were observed between 0600-0900 UTC. The geomagnetic field activity on 04 Oct was attributed to periods of southward Bz and localized substorms. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 05 - 31 OCTOBER 2015 Solar activity is expected to be at low to moderate levels throughout the period with likely C-class flare activity and a chance for M-class (R1-R2 (Minor-Moderate)) flare activity on 06-29 Oct due to the return of multiple active regions which produced event level activity last rotation. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to reach high levels on 08-15 Oct with moderate levels expected on 05-07 and 16-24 Oct. Normal levels are expected for the remainder of the period. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to reach G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm levels on 09 Oct with active levels expected on 05, 08, 10, 17, 20, 29, and 31 Oct due to recurrent coronal hole high speed stream effects. Quiet to unsettled levels are expected throughout the remainder of the period. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2015 Oct 05 1823 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 2015-10-05 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2015 Oct 05 85 12 4 2015 Oct 06 85 8 3 2015 Oct 07 85 8 3 2015 Oct 08 90 15 4 2015 Oct 09 90 20 5 2015 Oct 10 95 18 4 2015 Oct 11 95 12 3 2015 Oct 12 100 8 3 2015 Oct 13 115 8 3 2015 Oct 14 120 8 3 2015 Oct 15 125 8 3 2015 Oct 16 130 10 3 2015 Oct 17 130 12 4 2015 Oct 18 130 8 3 2015 Oct 19 125 10 3 2015 Oct 20 120 12 4 2015 Oct 21 120 8 3 2015 Oct 22 120 8 3 2015 Oct 23 120 8 3 2015 Oct 24 120 8 3 2015 Oct 25 120 8 3 2015 Oct 26 115 8 3 2015 Oct 27 110 8 3 2015 Oct 28 100 10 3 2015 Oct 29 100 12 4 2015 Oct 30 95 10 3 2015 Oct 31 90 12 4 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1794, DXLD) TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING ++++++++++++++++++++++++ . . .The great masses of Americans cling so desperately to their own imagined versions of things like freedom of religion and right to bear arms because those are the only freedoms they can claim without deceiving themselves to have. If those are taken away they would be forced to recognize how truly un-free in any useful sense they are... http://www.ginandtacos.com/2015/09/30/churlish/ (via Gerald T Pollard, DXLD) ###