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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1829 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bougainville, Burundi non, Colombia, Equatorial Guinea, France, Greece, India, International Vacuum/Iran, Italy, Korea North non, Malaysia, Netherlands non, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, Spain, Sudan non, Turkey, Uganda, USA, Yemen non SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1829, June 9-15, 2016 Thu 1130 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 2100 WRMI 13695 [confirmed] Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Fri 0830 Unique Radio NSW 3210 low-power Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 [confirmed] Fri 2130 WRMI 13695 [confirmed] Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 0700 Unique Radio NSW 3210 low-power Sat 1400 Unique Radio NSW 3210 low-power Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sun 0830 Unique Radio NSW 3210 low-power Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Mon 0030 WRMI 7730 [confirmed] Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v-AM Area 51 Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB 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 AND NEW!! NOW tnx to Keith Weston, via: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/glenn-hausers-world-of-radio/id1123369861 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 NOTE: I have *resolved* to make DXLD leaner, more selective, as I seriously need to reduce my workload, much of which has been merely editing gobs of material into presentable form. This makes it even more important to be a member of the DXLD yg for additional material which may not make it into weekly issues (gh) DXLD YAHOOGROUP: Why wait for DXLD? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our yg without delay. When applying, please identify yourself with your real name and location, and say something about why you want to join. Those who do not, unless I recognize them, will be prompted once to do so and no action will be taken otherwise. Here`s where to sign up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/ ** ALBANIA. Friday, 3 June 2016. Good morning, Re-talked yesterday about how we cel, you report in writing Director of Radio Tirana Category 3, Astrit Ibro, yesterday afternoon announced with concern that the program of the German dt. 1 June 2016 7465 KHz R / Taskin station clock 21:31-21:59 is transmitted the sound of gunfire, pistol - announced by German listeners. Astriti asked to identify the source of noise in the studio or R / Shijakut Station. For the above, but yesterday I informed the K / Eng. The studios, George Gjipali & Staff. (Responsibility Control Center, Drita Cico, Sent from my iPad, google translation via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DXLD) A clip of this arrived later, and I told her it was not gunfire at all, but some kind of digital mode utility QRM, mixing with RT IS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reception of Radio Tirana, June 3-4 2000-2030 on 7465 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg to U.K. English Mon-Sat June 3 0700-0900 on 7390 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Albanian Daily June 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqgocBC3wbI&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8urMJ2I4Ko&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9854.945, June 5 at 0128, how will R. Tirana do tonight for English to North America? IS is playing OK at S6 until cut off the air at 0129.4*. I keep listening, hoping for the best. At 0130, I start to hear rapid pulsing carrier cutting on and off, unseeming as strong as before. The number of pulses in a row between pauses varies a lot, sometimes 4, 5, or a lot more. At 0132, some program modulation starts to appear on these pulses, YL with news, but only for a few seconds. At 0134 I count 24 rapid pulses, i.e. carrier attempts to stay on; by 0135 some modulation is appearing again, stays on a bit longer; no, back to more pulsing. Finally at 0141, stays on the air with modulation, carrier wobbling slightly and with continuous hum, but can tell that a story is being told. 0147-0155+ nice folk music with occasional announcements (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9855 - R. Tiranë, Shijak, 2320 June 6 - YL in Albanian Talks. Good signal, S7, slight hum on audio. Moderate static and periodic fades but overall very listenable levels. Lots of good folk music (Stephen Wood, Harwich, Mass., Perseus SDR, 25 x 50 terminated superloop antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENNG DIGEST) Radio Tirana 7465 kHz sent a new QSL-card featuring the Albanian football team taking part in the European Football Championships this year (Christer Brunström, Halmstad, Sweden, SW Bulletin June 5 via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DXLD) I received correspondence at the weekend. A new station for me. Finally came QSL from Radio Tirana for the reception at a frequency of 7465 to 1930-2000 in German. The card antenna Shiyake (Konstantin Aseev, Kursk, Russia / "open_dx" via QSL World via RusDX June 5 via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DXLD) The usual QSL card we see has been in use for many years: drawing of a woman in folk dress. Perhaps the others can be obtained on request; but German service only has a separate listeners` club which may account for this (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Albania transmitter sites on openstreetmap Fllakë http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/41.3642/19.5106 http://www.opentopomap.org/#map=16/41.3642/19.5106 Shijak http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/41.33019/19.55187 http://www.opentopomap.org/#map=16/41.33019/19.55187 73, (Bernhard Weiskopf, June 8, shortwave sites yg The Shortwave Transmitter Site Archive - http://sites.google.com/site/shortwavesites/ via DXLD) ** ANGOLA. 945, RNA-canal N'Gola Yetu, Mulenvos: v. ficheiro OLonga/OMédia. [see also SAO TOME] 4949.7, RNA-Canal "A", Mulenvos, 1900-1931, 03/6, noticiário, até às 1925, seguindo-se-lhe uma rubrica de propaganda do governo intitulada Angola: Caminha Seguro (pelo género da terminação, presumo referirem- se a "país", salvo se o ruído pregou uma partida, e é "segura"); 35342. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, June 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4949.729, R Nac_1, Mulenvos, S=5 or -94dBm at 1618 UT June 5 (Wolfgang Büschel, Thanks Bell at Simonstown, Republic of South Africa for new SDR remote unit access, DSWCI DX Window June 8 via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. 15343.96, May 26, 2045, RAE, Buenos Aires noted with non-stop music and station identifications every 30 minutes. Are they on strike or what? Fair signal but poor audio quality (Christer Brunström, Halmstad, Sweden, SW Bulletin June 5 via DXLD) As in DXLD, allegedly transition period to making daily English broadcasts by June, but not yet (gh, DXLD) 11710.6v, UT Sunday June 5 at 0136, NO signal from RAE, which had been telling English service listeners that from June it would be expanded to 7 days a week instead of 5. If so, it`s not on the same frequency, as usual weekend outlet relaying R. Nacional can be barely detected instead: 15343.91, UT Sun June 5 at 0136, JBA carrier must be LRA as it has dropped below 15344 now per numerous reports; far too weak to tell if it`s in an external service language which would be Japanese during this hour Tue-Sat. (We don`t know if they were also planning to expand other languages to daily, but it would be inconvenient to do it for only one?) Need to check both frequencies after 0300 which has been the English hour --- so, at 0305 UT June 5: neither one is audible. 15345 Spanish would normally be off by 0230 on UT Sundays, per EiBi (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15343.99, June 6 at 0024, R. Nacional is one of very few signals audible on 19m, and good modulation level now, but somewhat distorted. Talking about Uruguay, re fútbol, not a game at the moment, while asserting it`s ``la pasión nacional``. 0026 plug some other R. Nacional program at 19 horas; 0027 timecheck for 9:27. So much for expanding RAE to weekends on 11710.6v instead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15345. June 7, 2016. 2034-2040, RAE, Gral. Pacheco, French service. Total silence! No signal (DXer: José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo- PB, Brazil, Degen 1103 + Tecsun S-2000, Antenna: Portable Telescopic, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 15344, June 8 at 2144, RAE must be on, as its off-frequency carrier is detectable, altho some have reported it missing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARMENIA. Test transmission of Radio Northern Ireland via Yerevan 1000-1030 on 17560 ERV 100 kW / 100 deg to SoAs English on June 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h77R6huZ85w&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvkOso11KqM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTUZmesTyRE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtWDDTGrtrg&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 5, Equipment: Sony ICF- 2001D, 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) V. IRELAND NORTHERN [non] ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 12365-USB, June 5 at 1238-1246+, S2 marine weather forecasts to Wednesday by English robot. Hard to catch localities, except I think I heard Auckland. But this frequency belongs to VMC Charleville, Queensland (neighbored by its WA counterpart, VMW on 12362-USB). I`m checking 12365 as warmup for Chilean activity, since Copa América fútbol games involving Chilean team are expected shortly at a totally different daypart but possibly clashing with VMC on its 24-hour schedule. Via Patrick Robic, A-DX via Rudolf Grimm, radioescutas yg, those games are scheduled: UT Tuesday June 7 at 0200, {oops, that was UT Monday} UT Friday June 10 at 2300 {nothing heard}, and UT Wednesday June 15 at 0000. It`s a relay by a Chilean coastal station presumably for mariners, and EiBi shows the coverage originates from Radio Cooperativa (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1828, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 15240, June 4 at 0022, RA is poor at S4, and rapid pulsing mostly on low side. This always seems to be the case at least on the home rigs, and am not sure if it`s local or ChiCom jamming. Admittedly the same pulses appear at some other spots below 15240 on 19m, and also e.g. around 13760. Anyhow, RA is much better on // 17840 aimed right at us than 15240 aimed at Alaska (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No pulsing at 0235 UT, clean signals RHC 15230 and RA SHP 15240 kHz. (Wolfgang Büschel, June 4, ibid.) ** AUSTRALIA. QSL Electrónica en formato pdf de Reach Beyond Australia, en respuesta a informe de escucha realizada el 20 de Mayo de 2016 en 9625 kHz con archivo de audio incluido, enviado por E-mail a radio@reachbeyond.org.au recibido en 13 días. https://app.box.com/s/xuykz84w5o4i5qwkn0b73vi38d8b439e (José Miguel Romero Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, June 3, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AZERBAIJAN. Ictimai Radio with broadband FM modulation on June 6 from 1000 on 9676.9 unknown tx / unknown to CeAs Azeri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGKN5rNFEtc&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 6, Equipment: Sony ICF- 2001D, 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BERMUDA. I emailed inquiries to some radio contacts in Bermuda regarding the status of 1160 BBC and 1280 BBN relays. Received the following on June 5 from Ed, VP9GE: "I am listening to 1160 right now. It is alive and well. Not sure for how long. 1280 is sponsored, I believe, by a local church group. No sign that it will cease in the near future. Bermuda Broadcasting Company three AM stations have transitioned to FM. Ed VP9GE" Found this news report about Bermuda Broadcasting Company plans to restore BBC broadcasts, but haven't been able to determine if Bermuda Broadcasting has taken over 1160 kHz. The Bermuda Broadcasting website only indicates FM. Bermuda Broadcasting partners with BBC UK (Jan 12, 2016) http://bernews.com/2016/01/bbc-world-service-news-partnership-bbc-uk/ -- (Bruce Conti, B.A.Conti Photography www.baconti.com ¡BAMLog! www.bamlog.com June 5, WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: The Bermuda Broadcasting Company Ltd. has announced a major partnership with the BBC [UK] to offer World Service News and premium BBC Radio news content on the island. Executive Director of Sales and Marketing at The Bermuda Broadcasting Co Ltd Anthony Mocklow said, “This is a very exciting time for the Bermuda Broadcasting Company as we embark on this partnership with one of the world’s most established news and content organizations. “We have spent the past several months negotiating this exclusive partnership, bringing The BBC World Service News back to the ‘free to air radio community.’ “It is a giant leap forward, and we are thrilled with this development.” Ana Bastos, BBC Partner Manager in London, said, “We are excited to appoint The Bermuda Broadcasting Co Ltd as our partner in Bermuda. The island wide coverage that The Bermuda Broadcasting have on island is impressive and we are excited to see this content development project get started.” Mr. Mocklow said, “Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory with a significant volume of international residents with a direct connection with the UK. Bermuda residents will once again have a ‘free to air’ radio service allowing them to stay connected with global events. “The BBC partnership will add to our already comprehensive programming list for radio and television, including international news, business, documentaries, culture, health, science and politics. “We will soon be in a position to announce the schedule of BBC World Service programming for radio, starting first with the news, and then following this up with further programming content additions. “The BBC World Service partnership is a very positive step in the direction of providing a complete and quality radio experience and we are excited to be able to re-launch this very valuable service. “Bermuda Broadcasting will announce additional changes to both radio and television programming in the weeks ahead, as the company brings onboard new technology and new studios through 2016. Bermuda Broadcasting is the island’s is most experienced broadcasting company with a history of bringing innovative content and service to the community. “Local free to air television and radio stations are vital to the well-being of the community and we plan to continually improve our product. We are confident that by providing BBC World Service to both the residential and business community it will attract a great audience and potentially partners and sponsors. “Bermuda has a significant commercial connection to the UK through both the international business community and the residential community making this partnership support an even closer connection with the world news.” A BBC spokesperson said, “The entire team at The BBC are excited about the changes and additions to our radio stations, and we welcome the community’s feedback as we work to bring Bermuda the outstanding information and entertainment that people need in our rapidly evolving world.” (via DXLD) ** BHUTAN [and non]. Hi Glenn, Since my anomaly reception of PBS Yunnan on June 4, they have not had another day with extended sign off of non-stop western classical music, so was only a one day event. June 7, on 6035, at 1204 noted usual format for BBS/Bhutan; announcer with brief indigenous instrumental music breaks at 1217, 1222 & 1224; at 1226 started indigenous singing; still on the air at 1234. As Mauno Ritola today reported in Facebook (WRTH - World Radio Tv Handbook), PBS went off the air at 1200, so BBS/Bhutan had sole possession of the frequency after that (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6024.95, June 6 at 0056, very poor carrier in splash from 6030 jamming and Martí. I often detect this and can`t hear any audio, but think it must be Red Patria Nueva, as others have reported it off- frequency-low, e.g. 6024.96 by Dave Valko in March, in the morning. Wolfgang Büschel had an unID on 6024.981 May 28, despite Pedro F Arrunátegui reporting it on 6025.00, presumably unjustified precision by default (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOUGAINVILLE. 6020, NBC Bougainville, 0634-0642*, June 3. Pop American hit song and Pacific Island pop song; suddenly off; poor (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: Par Electronics EF-SWL, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3325, NBC Bougainville, 1219-1255, June 5. The third consecutive Sunday with a full edition of "Island Praise" syndicated (Florida, USA) show of pop Caribbean gospel music (reggae, soca, calypso, hip hop gospel, etc.); poor; very light QRM from RRI Palangkaraya. My local sunrise at 1249 UT. June 6, at 0930 clear "NBC Bougainville" ID; at 1101 station promo/ID in English with 3 or 4 mentions of "NBC Bougainville" and same promo/ID again at 1121; suddenly off 1202*, which was very different from yesterdays Stacy Rose's "Island Praise" Sunday show that I noted from 1219 to past 1255. June 6 with very decent Bougainville reception! (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: Par Electronics EF-SWL, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) also see PNG ** BRAZIL. 2610 kHz, Rádio Sacramento, Sacramento / MG, Harmonic 3 X 870 kHz = 2610 kHz. OM CX Bom dia, hoje é terça. No 01:58 e no 02:08 do vídeo, OM fala “Rádio Sacramento”. SINPO 34232 em 0929 UT, Dia 31 Maio 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITVFDP5eYh8&feature=youtu.be 2910 kHz, Rádio Alvorada de Londrina, Harmonic 3 X 970 kHz AM = 2910 kHz OT, OM Siqueira Martins “Bom dia, 06:35”. Depois passou o comercial da Imobilaria Nomade, telefone 33189090, depois reporter fala “Bom dia Siqueira” e passou o preço do milho, arroba do boi etc. SINPO 34223 em 0935 UT, Dia 03 Junho 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsYzcjRG_OY&feature=youtu.be RX: Tecsun S-2000, Antenna: Beverage simples NSSEA-21 (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brazil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via dXLD) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL, A situação nos 60 m deixou muito a desejar, com sinais ausentes, ruído q.b. entre o momento em que surge o primeiro sinal (que é, invariàvelmente, o da R. Club do Pará, 4885) até muito perto das 2300 HUC, 2400 h de Verão aqui em Portugal continental, altura em que, por norma, termino as observações. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, June 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Logs of June 4, circa 0611 UT 5939.871 BRA Voz Missionária 6040.779 BRA Radio RB2 in Brazil. 6180.022 BRA RNA / RNB Brasília at 0624 UT on June 4th (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 4 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6135.00, R Aparecida, Aparecida, SP, 0100-0110, Jun 06, Portuguese with several ID's, hymn, religious prayer - back on correct frequency, 34233 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) Had been circa 6135.2 for long time; to stay? (gh, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Programa Amigos do Rádio / Célio Romais via Rádio Transmundial 11735 kHz e 9530 kHz Ondas Curtas. Ele manda um 73 a vários radioescutas Brasileiros e fala uma noticia sobre Rádio Nacional da Amazônia e as Radio Praga e Eslováquia via WRMI e sobre outros DX escutados pelos dexistas na semana que passava. Um SINPO 44334 em 1920 UT, Dia 05 Junho 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNy_U1J63HM&feature=youtu.be RX: Tecsun S-2000, Antenna: Beverage simples NSSEA-21 (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT Brazil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 11780, June 4 at 0529, RNA must be off --- no bigsig altho there is a JBA carrier from something, while 6180 is as usual S9+20. Aoki shows nothing else on 11780 at this hour, altho during the 24- hour day at various other times, 11780 is used by UAE, Germany, Iran, China. So maybe RNA 11780 was on drastically reduced power, or a propagation problem? Nothing dire per WWV at 0600: ``Solar-terrestrial indices for 03 June follow. Solar flux 83 and estimated planetary A-index 3. The estimated planetary K-index at 0600 UTC on 04 June was 1. No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours. Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be moderate. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G2 level are likely.`` 11780, June 5 circa 0140, it`s back to normal, as big as 6180 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11815, R. Brasil Central, Goiânia GO: tx fora do ar. A freq. costuma estar espartilhada entre estações de líng. árabe, com longos e enjoativos períodos dedicados às rezas. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, June 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11820+, BSKSA at 18-23, but none known on 11810 (gh, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 11935.79, June 6 at 0033, R. Bandeirantes has jumped again up to its alternate frequency instead of 11925.236, in Brazilian, sounds like a silly ballgame. Slight het from a 11920.0 carrier, while bleed from 11930 jammer is much more of a problem (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BURUNDI [non]. Radio Publique Africaine, 15480 kHz 1800 UT UNIDENTIFIED. 15480 via Issoudun --- FRANCE, Good signal of station via TDF on June 4: 1800-1900 on 15480 ISS 250 kW / 145 deg to SoAf Rundi/Swahili/French * registered in HFCC from Malagasy Global Business effective June 1. Videos will be added later today - 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FRANCE, Strong signal of UNIDentified station via TDF on June 4: 1800-1858 on 15480 ISS 250 kW / 145 deg to SoAf KiRundi/French/Swahili * registered in HFCC Database from Malagasy Global Business eff. Jun 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onIzWguLpD8&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huAnCVwSbm8&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obBKfmD9wqs&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwML1ztnNdM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSdeFwAoZWo&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FRANCE, Good signal of Radio Publique Africaine via TDF, June 5: 1800-1858 on 15480 ISS 250 kW / 145 deg to SoAf KiRundi/French/Swahili 1800-1825 KiRundi, 1825-1848 French, 1848-1858 Swahili-today dead air! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h-qS_JlIgk&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nooc2n_JLlI&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODVPumfWxcw&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMic6vS6B-w&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yvYdKsnkdU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTv4yZiV0Zk&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 5, Equipment: Sony ICF- 2001D, 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Robic" Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2016 8:28 PM Subject: Re: [A-DX] Log: Radio Publique Africaine 15480 kHz 1800 UT. Hallo! Radio Publique Africaine (RPA) mit dem Programm "Humura Burundi" in Vernakular zu hören um 1800 UT auf 15480 kHz. Web: http://www.rpa.bi seit 1825 UT in Französisch. 73, Patrick (via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2016 8:32 PM 15480 1800-1900 UT to zone 53NW ISS 250kW 145deg 0 217 010616-291016 RunSwaFra F NEW MGB request#16675 [extracted from HFCC, via wb, WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) came too late: when I tuned-in at 1849 UT on June 5, only empty carrier on air, S=9+20dB or -57dBm signal, lasted till switch-OFF at 1858:09 UT, followed after 6 seconds by AWR carrier signal from Talata Volondry MDG. Wb (Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DXLD) FRANCIA, 15480, Radio Publique Africaine, Issoudun, 1800-1830, escuchada el 6 de junio de 2016 en dialecto africano sin identificar, comienza la emisión con segmento musical y posible cuña de identificación, locutora con boletín de noticias con referencias a Burundi y menciona el Congo; a las 1831 la emisión es en francés, segmentos de música étnica, SINPO 45444. 15480, Radio Publique Africaine, Issoudun, 1830-1855, escuchada el 6 de junio de 2016 en francés, sintonía y cuña de identificación "Radio Pública Social,......", boletín de noticias, reportajes con entrevistas y segmento musical, SINPO 45444 E-mail sibo82@gmail.com Audio: https://app.box.com/s/gm0r5tuoiqf77w7wxkc3ggljvk4r056f Posted by: (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) at 4 minutes into 6-minute clip, sounds like slogan ``La Voix de Sang- froid`` ?? (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Using the Twente receiver, recorded Radio Publique Africaine, Burundi, between 1800 and 1900 UT on Tuesday, 7 June, on 15480 kHz, presumably from Issoudun. First half hour or so in a local language and the second half hour in French. Mostly talk. Several IDs, website mentioned http://www.rpa.bi/ and specifically announced the frequency of 15480 kHz. So, a specially packaged shortwave broadcast and not just a relay of the local FM program? Very good signal. Will archive the recording later (Richard Langley, NB, dxldyg via DX LISTENNG DIGEST) 15480, June 8 at 1818, attempting to hear Radio Publique Africaine, new target broadcast which started a week ago, as reported by Ivo Ivanov, but no signal at all in awful daytime propagation from Europe. This appears in HFCC registrations as ``15480 1800 1900 53NW ISS 250 145 0 217 1234567 010616 291016 D 17400 RunSwaFra F NEW MGB 16675`` which means the site is Issoudun, France, but the MGB means the frequency management organization for this entry is the Madagascar station --- the only HFCC entry for it in such a rôle (so why don`t they broadcast it themselves?). In Kirundi, Swahili and French. Reception seems to be good in Europe. Patrick Robic, Austria, A-DX via Wolfgang Büschel reported June 5, `` Web: http://www.rpa.bi --- Radio Publique Africaine (RPA) mit dem Programm "Humura Burundi" in Vn zu hören um 1800 UTC auf 15480 kHz`` José Miguel Romero2, Spain posted a recording from June 6: https://app.box.com/s/gm0r5tuoiqf77w7wxkc3ggljvk4r056f At 4 minutes into 6-minute clip, sounds like slogan ``La Voix de Sang- froid`` ?? From their website I gather that RPA has been around for a while with several FM frequencies inside Burundi; it apparently opposes the efforts of the present regime to stay in power. Who are they? http://www.rpa.bi/index.php/qui-sommes-nous Program grid as of 27 months ago included relays of VOA and DW. http://www.rpa.bi/images/grille.pdf RPA is in WRTH 2016 as one of the Other Stations in Burundi on FM, spelt ``Public`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) But is this the same RPA?? ** CAMEROON [non]. 15315, FRANCE, Sawtu Linjiila via Issoudun, May 23 1832-1900* discussion in Fulfulde, some African music, IDs, address in Cameroon (Sherry Paszkiewicz, Manitowoc WI, NRD-515 with Eavesdropper, via Bob Wilkner, NASWA yg via DXLD) ** CHAD. 6164.957, TCD, 0425-2300 UT scheduled Radio N'Djamena in French and also co-channel 6165even CUB RHC 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, June 4, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) But heard at what time? Next logs in order were at 0624+ (gh, DXLD) ** CHILE. See AUSTRALIA, 12365-USB ** CHINA. 9355. June 2, 2016. 1955-2003, CNR1 Jammer/Firedrake, in Mandarin. Continuous Chinese instrumental music. Good signal and fair modulation, 45433 (DXer: José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo-PB, Brazil, Tecsun S-2000, Antenna: Portable Telescopic, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) If it was Firedrake, then it was not CNR1 (gh) 18980, Friday June 3 at 1337, weak S2-S3 talk, // an echo apart from 11785, so it`s a CNR1 jammer, here against RFA Tibetan via Kuwait, which is not audible, but indeed scheduled on 18980 during the 13-14 hour on Tuesdays and Fridays only. Have been looking for any of these for some weeks with no propagation before 1400. Depending on which hour between 11 and 14, and which day of week, the other possibilities, as in Aoki, are: 18930, 18990, 19000, 19010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15590, CNR1 [jammer] 1413+ 3 June. Loud (v. VOA's Chinese program) and throwing spurs +/- 43-44 kHz (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA, PL380/6m X wire [v.2.0]), DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12190, June 7 at 1326, CNR1 jammer, S9+10, good with flutter and CODAR QRM. No other WOOBs found up to 17 MHz, but: 11100, June 7 at 1332, CNR1 jammer, very poor S2 and // 12190. Both appear in Aoki as Sound of Hope relays of Radio Free Asia, jammed. No sign of SOH itself on precise frequency listed of 12190.228 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6035.0, PBS Yunnan (presumed), tuned in at 1235 till they went off the air close to 1308, June 4. It will be recalled that recently they changed their sign off time from 1500+ to 1200*. I have been monitoring their going off the air about 1200 (either just after or just before their ID in both English and Chinese); at that time they have been turning off the transmitter (often leaving BBS/Bhutan to be heard in the clear). Today PBS had a very different format; strong open carrier for a minute before start of classical western orchestra music; non-stop classical instrumental music, except for occasional one minute breaks of dead air between selections; no announcements of any kind; much stronger signal than usual from PBS. No BBS/Bhutan noted today. It will also be recalled that in the past when PBS Yunnan ended their regular programming at 1500, they normally played classical western orchestra music till closing down about 1505 or so. Today then would seem to be an extension of their former format. This extended sign off, if it continues, will be bad news for BBS/Bhutan, which is also on 6035. In the past I often heard them after PBS 1200*. Certainly this needs more monitoring! (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: Par Electronics EF-SWL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also BHUTAN ** COLOMBIA. 5910, Alcaraván Radio, Puerto Lleras, 0500, 03-06, after weeks without hearing it, Alcaravan Radio now on air again with Latin American songs, identification, female: "5910 kHz, Alcaraván Radio y 6010 kHz, La Voz de tu Conciencia, desde Colombia para el mundo", male: "Alcaraván Radio, 1060 AM". 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Reinante, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DXLD) 1060?? Is that correct? Alcaraván used to be on 1530, and WRTH 2016 does not show any Meta station on 1060. No reports seen yet nor by me, of 6010v being reactivated (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, surely Alcaraván Radio "1060 AM", a misunderstanding when I heard it; 1530 must be the correct announced frequency. Greetings, (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5910, Alcaraván Radio, Puerto Lleras, 2330 to 2345 OM with religious messages “El Señor” repeated, good signal - 3 June. 6010, La Voz de tu Conciencia, Puerto Lleras, presumed 2340 to 2350 en español, OM but very distorted signal, over modulated 3 June (Bob Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, S Florida, Icom 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, Noise reducing antenna, 60 m dipole, NASWA yg via DXLD) 6010, La Voz de tu Conciencia, Puerto Lleras, 2340 to 2350 (presumed) en español, OM but very distorted signal, over modulated. 3 June (Bob Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA; Noise reducing antenna - 60 meter dipole, NASWA Flashsheet June 5 via DXLD) 5910.039, Lovely Latin American songs heard on Alcaraván Radio, S=6-7 into southern Germany at 0610 UT. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, June 4, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5910.039, June 4 at 0542, tropical music, as Alcaraván Radio is back after missing a few weeks. Always off frequency plus. At 0610 Wolfgang Büschel independently measured exactly the same offset. 5910.015, June 5 at 0127, very poor music is audible, no CCI, and then I do make out a JBA canned YL ID mentioning 1,530 --- not 1,060 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO DR. CANDIP Bunia COD same power [as 5005 Bata] on 5066.391 kHz at 2003 UT, off at 2005 UT. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, June 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5066.390, Radio Candip, Bunia, S=5 or -94dBm, 1635 UT June 5 (Wolfgang Büschel, Thanks Bell at Simonstown, Republic of South Africa for new SDR remote unit access, DSWCI DX Window June 8 via DXLD) ** CUBA. 770, Radio Artemisa, Artemisa. 1822 June 2, 2016. Mid- afternoon, good with Cuban vocals, female announcer, parallel weak 1000 and 1020. Confirming bearing to Artemisa, while pointing the loop more eastward brings in Rebelde, maybe Las Tunas, with baseball coverage, paralleled with 1180 and 5025 to confirm it's not WJBX, North Ft. Myers ESPN Deportiva. 1150, Radio Bayamo, Entroque Bueycito, Granma. 0953 June 4, 2016. Traditional Cuban folk vocals, male ID 0956, some WNDB co-channel, with WTMP nulled. No parallels located (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, June 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 1620, June 6 at 0106, R. Rebelde music is // 5025 but slightly out of synch, probably due to a satellite feed delay. 1620 soon fades and cedes to WTAW and/or KOZN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Reception of Cuban Spy Numbers HM01 on May 29 0555-0650 10345 secret/hidden site (Bejucal) Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri 0655-0750 9330 secret/hidden site (Bejucal) Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYlCSSYO6dE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcvFuwSPf7Q&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 5, Equipment: Sony ICF- 2001D, 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 19420, June 2 at 2344, JBA carrier, no doubt from second harmonic of RHC Spanish on 9710 which is very strong, but the important thing is that the MUF is now sufficient to handle the tiny signal on 19+ MHz. 6870, June 3 at 0000, JBA but enough audio to match it to 13740 during an RHC frequency announcement, of which this is a semi-harmonic, but never announced as such on air! No pirates heard active, but a companion to slightly stronger 6855 WRMIBS. 11880, June 3 at 1259 tune-in, RHC Spanish S9+20 on wrong frequency with ID, theme, but cutting to dead air back and forth, during announcement that 9850 is closing, and I hear 15370 already on. Then news of some Venezuelan crisis. So has 11880 been running since *1100? It`s supposed to appear only at 22-24 for the African service. Now it`s off by 1302, while 11760 remains the only active frequency on 25m. Too late to figure out which frequency the 11880 transmitter should have occupied (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15140, RHC Spanish (!), live speech of Raúl Castro to the crowd, about Caribe countries at 1951 June 4. Broadband 19 kHz wide signal. S9+15dB or -65dBm strong in Michigan US remote SDR unit. But scheduled: 1800-1830 15140 BAU 100 kW 340 degr to WeNoAM Arabic HRS 4/4/0.8 A10 1830-1900 15140 BAU 100 kW 340 degr to WeNoAM Creole HRS 4/4/0.8 A10 1900-2000 15140 BAU 100 kW 340 degr to WeNoAM English HRS 4/4/0.8 A10 2000-2030 15140 BAU 100 kW 340 degr to WeNoAM French HRS 4/4/0.8 A10 But on 15370 similar like 15140 or S=9+15dB or -65dBm strong signal at 19 kHz wideband signal, Philatelist program at 1957 UT: 1930-2000 15370 BAU 100 kW 010 degr to WeEUR French HRS 4/4/0.8 A2 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 4 via DXLD) 6165, June 5 at 0121, RHC English is S9+30 with dead air! OK at 0125 on 6000, S9+40 plugging the three domestic FM frequencies, which they do an awful lot (in fact, do they ever give their current English SW frequencies??), 0125.5 starting news bulletin at odd time, and 6165 is still dead. Spanish on 6060 is OK and other RHC frequencies on 5, 9, 11, 13 and 15 MHz were nominal during this hour`s bandscan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Re RHC webcasts, 16-22:] I found that the two RHC links work well, even if the audio is not quite up to par. Thanks! (Tim Hendel, AL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 9470 // 9675, June 5 at 0111, very poor S3 signals match with CRI English, but they don`t match 9570-Albania and 9580 Cuba relays; maybe merely way out of synch? Programmation anyway sounds similar. Both 9470 and 9675 are Kashgar to western Europe, for insomniax who just can`t get enough from Beijing. It`s probably a 24/7 service for that target (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CHINA vs CHINA: China Radio International vs PBS Xinjiang, June 3 1300-1400 13670 KAS 500 kW / 308 deg to WeEu English China Radio Int 1300-1400 13670*URU 050 kW / 230 deg to EaAs Uyghur PBS Xinjiang * scheduled in HFCC Database till 1230UT, but now extended until 1400 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o0gT3PzmiM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk_O-n7byOY&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdr8fOITeLM&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR [non]. QSL Electrónica en formato pdf de Radio Akbar Mufriha, recibida en un día, confirmando escucha realizada el 1 de junio de 2016 en 7300 kHz en dialecto Bereber, Tachelhit. Informe enviado por E-mail con archivo de audio adjunto a email@akhbarmufriha.com Archivo: https://app.box.com/s/7zfq9kq19zv5ohxnwko7i80ea7agkunm Dear José, Thank you for your reception report. It pleases us that our signal was strong in your place. It was good that you attached an audio file. However, it would be preferable to include three brief recordings (from the beginning, the middle and the end). Each clip should be of around 2 minutes. Normally, we require 20 minutes of monitoring. Please bear this in mind if you want to send us another report. I attach our digital QSL card. I'm afraid we do not send out any via snail mail. If you have Arabic- or Berber-speaking friends, please pass on our programme details to them. That would be great! Sincerely, Daniel Berger Secretary E-mail: akhbarmufriha@outlook.com & email@akhbarmufriha.com «Akhbar Mufriha», The Joyful News Station – Broadcasting in Hassaniya and Pulaar – Frequency: 9,530 kHz on SW, 250 kW [As of 27 March: 11,985 kHz] – Start: 2145 GMT – Broadcasting in Arabic and Berber – Frequency: 7300 kHz on SW, 250 kW – Start: 2100 GMT (José Miguel Romero Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, June 3, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9325. June 2, 2016. 1950-1955, Radio Cairo, Abis, in hausa presumed. YL/OM talks. Good signal and extreme distorted modulation, 45431 (DXer: José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo-PB, Brazil, Tecsun S- 2000, Antenna: Portable Telescopic, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 12085, 9965 and 9315, June 5 at 0150 and earlier, all three R. Cairo frequencies exhibit terrible motorboating noises, and awful modulation, even 9965 this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non] Unscheduled broadcast of R Cairo vs Bro. HySTAIRical, June 5 1230-1242 9965 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg ENAm R. Cairo - Music, unscheduled 1200-1300 9965 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg NEAs T8WH Angel 5 Bro. HySTAIRical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-EQhQ42eaI&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 5, Equipment: Sony ICF- 2001D, 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9745.02, June 6 at 0040, R. Cairo with suptorted Arabic and music, S7. 9965.255, June 6 at 0041, R. Cairo, Arabic undermodulated plus whine. 9315.00, June 6 at 0042, R. Cairo, extremely distorted, S8. Neither 12005 or 12085 audible or on, yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9325. June 7, 2016. 1908-1931, Radio Cairo, Abis, in Hausa. OM talks, musicx; 1930 ID. R. Cairo on air, with good signal and distorted sound modulation, 45432 (DXer: José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo-PB, Brazil, Degen 1103 + Tecsun S-2000, Antenna: Portable Telescopic, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 9590, 1915, Radio Cairo, German, unintelligible although strong signal S9+20; 9895, 2042, Radio Cairo in French, unintelligible, S9+30. All Egyptian transmissions checked are unintelligible, a waste of energy and resources. Receiving station: PERSEUS SDR, Inverted V-antenna, beam 145 /325 , antenna tuner: good old YEASU FRT-7700 located near local artifical lake ("Wupper-Talsperre"/Wupper Dam) 73, (Manfred Reiff, Germany, June 7 dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EL SALVADOR. R. YSKL “La Poderosa” ya tiene su propio sello postal http://www.diariocolatino.com/radio-yskl-la-poderosa-celebra-60-anos-al-aire/ Por 60 años, Radio YSKL “La Poderosa”, como cariñosamente es llamada por miles de salvadoreños, ha compartido junto a sus oyentes momentos de alegría y tristeza. La radio fue fundada en 1956, cuando el sueño de un grupo de jóvenes visionarios, liderado por Manuel Antonio Flores Barrera, se convirtió en una realidad que varias generaciones de oyentes han vivido a lo largo de 60 años. “La Poderosa” fue identificada desde el primer instante como una estación diferente al resto, ya que nació para servirle al pueblo salvadoreño, informarle y atenderle con una atractiva programación. Como parte del 60 aniversario de fundación de corporación YSKL, Correos de El Salvador lanzó un matasellos conmemorativo, que por 30 días será colocado en la correspondencia que entra y sale del país y se podrá ver en 192 países alrededor del mundo. Margarita Quintanar, Directora General de Correos de El Salvador, dijo que el matasellos es una forma de rendir tributo a una institución radial que conmemora 60 años de fundación. A lo largo de los años, los matasellos han adquirido otro valor por el impacto en el coleccionismo filatélico, al representar grandes acontecimientos, valores y logros de las sociedades. Según la funcionaria, Correos de El Salvador lanza matasellos a solicitud, por la conmemoración de un evento representado mediante imagen o un texto. “A través de la Filatelia mostramos el apoyo a las diversas instituciones que promueven actividades positivas para el desarrollo de los salvadoreños, tal es el caso del legado que ha dejado Don Manuel Antonio Flores Barrera, fundador de YSKL y que trajo con el una evolución en la radio salvadoreña”, recalcó la Directora General de Correos. Radioescuchas visitan las instalaciones de Radiocadena YSKL, para felicitarlos por su 60 aniversario. Foto Diario Co Latino/ Guillermo Martínez. [caption] El matasello combina el número y texto “60 años” con el icono y tipografía que representa a Corporación Radio YSKL, este diseño es el logotipo conmemorativo que emplea la institución durante todo este año. Manuel Antonio Pineda, presidente de corporación YSKL, dijo que primero fue una estación pequeña que compitió con las grandes radios de aquella época, con un transmisor de fabricación nacional que serviría de cimiento para las 18 repetidoras que en la actualidad la conforman, y que cubre todo el territorio nacional. “Al cubrir 60 años de fructífera labor radiofónica, radio cadena YSKL agradece al gobierno de El Salvador, al dedicar un matasellos conmemorativo alusivo a los 60 años de este medio de comunicación. Este gesto certifica que la memoria de nuestros fundadores sigue vigente en nuestra sociedad bajo la filosofía de servir a todos y cada uno de los salvadoreños, sin importar donde se encuentren, respetando firmemente sus ideas y pensamientos y garantizando la libertad de expresión”, manifestó el presidente de la radio. Pineda enfatizó que “ La Poderosa” es una radio con programación equilibrada, que brinda buena música, espacios para que la gente expongan problemas de su comunidad, se transmiten las noticias nacionales e internacionales, así como las del mundo del deporte, programas variados tanto para la mujer como para el trabajador del campo, sin faltar las dosis apropiadas de humorismo. “Mantenemos nuestro firme compromiso de seguir en la ruta trazada en el horizonte de nuestra nación, sirviendo todos los días a los salvadoreños, con la firme convicción que como hermanos merecemos paz, concordia y el progreso anhelado para que El Salvador sea el país donde perdure la justicia, la inclusión y el bienestar para toda la población”, aseguró Pineda. Para corporación YSKL llegar a estos 60 años es cumplir con la visión y pensamiento del fundador, el desarrollo de la tecnología permite actualmente mantener a todos los salvadoreños, que en busca de un mejor futuro han tenido que emigrar, ya que sintonizan La Poderosa para mantenerse siempre informados con el acontecer del país (via DXLD) Sixtieth anniversary of YSKL, 760-770-780 kHz celebrated, with a special postal cancellation (contrary to the headline, NOT a stamp) for one month --- but which is not illustrated in the story. (I used to collect USPS slogan cancellations but hardly see them any more) (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Radio Nacional, Bata, 1903, 02-06, now on air with clear signal, Spanish, ID "Radio Nacional", African songs. 14321. Radio Bata, 5005 improving signal now, 1923 to 24322. African songs and ID in Spanish. Enviado desde TypeApp (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Reinante, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5005.001 at 1950 UT S=6-7 or -84dBm here in Germany. Music program at 2001 UT. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Radio Bata 5005 kHz at 2218 UT, fair signal here in Romania. African and pop music program (Tudor Vedeanu, (Gura Humorului, Romania), dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DXLD) Radio Bata, Equatorial Guinea audible on 5005 kHz with a fair signal currently with lively African music, "Radio Bata" ID at 2230. Has been reported irregularly on 5005 in recent years, but its been a very long time since I have heard it active this late in the evening. WRTH lists sign off at 2300v. 73s (Dave Kenny, Caversham, England, UK, Lowe HF225 / 25m long wire, bdxc-UK yg via DXLD) Extraordinary event as I write this -- Equatorial Guinea/Bata on 5005, via an initial tip from Méndez in Spain via Bcl News. As I write this, Bata remains on the air near to 0100 UT. There is no explanation of why Bata has been on for hours today (Dan Robinson, Potomac, MD, UT June 3, WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5005, June 3 at 0159, R. Bata is on with talk, 0200 music, about S9 but still under the storm noise level, so no good here. Europeans had been excited about 5005 staying on the air into their evening, apparently unusual, but I didn`t suppose it would remain all night until Dan Robinson reminded me. As of 0315 he says, ``seemingly also mentioning in Spanish that they are broadcasting to or being heard in various places around the world. Quite interesting; it remains to be seen what occasion this was, if any.`` A DX test?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It is amazing -- they are still on the air as I write this near 0300; went from being audible only SDRs to coming in well on my receivers here (Dan Robinson, Potomac MD, WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5005.00, 2035-2050 2.6, R Nacional Guinea Ecuatorial, Bata, fast talk in Spanish, 35233 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, my next loggings in very hot weather from Skovlunde on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) GUINEA ECUATORIAL, 5005, Radio Nacional, Bata, 1903-2010, 02-06, Spanish, comments, identification: "Radio Nacional", African songs, at 1930 Vernacular and Spanish comments, more indentication: "Su Radio Bata", "A todos los oyentes de Radio Bata". 14321 to 24322. Also 0452- 0504, 03-06, Spanish, comments. Very weak. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Tecsun PL-80, Sony ICF SW 7600G, Sangean ATS- 909X, Cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. FRANCE, Reception of Radio Assenna & Eritrean Forum via TDF, June 4 1700-1800 15245*ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Tigrinya Mon/Thu/Sat Assenna 1800-1900 15245*ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Arabic Sat Eritrean Forum * co-ch Voice of Korea in French/Korean KCBS/English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atqkRxkcL-U&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugT98yH5NXM&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [and non]. FRANCE. Radio Voice of Independent Oromia via TDF, May 22 1600-1630 on 17860 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Afar Oromo Sun. Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with white noise digital jamming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKq66MZZr0E&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmcdpGMP7pA&feature=youtu.be Radio Front for Independence via TDF, May 29 1730-1758 on 17765 ISS 150 kW / 125 deg to EaAf Afar Oromo Sun Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with white noise digital jamming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie1VryUErmI&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iHmA0caq9o&feature=youtu.be Reception of Voice of Oromo Liberation via MBR, June 5 1700-1800 on 17630 ISS 100 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Amharic Sun Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with white noise digital jamming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40A-iLvzYhU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeHjWpFxRRE&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 5, Equipment: Sony ICF- 2001D, 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FRANCE, Reception of Oromo Voice Radio via TDF on June 6 1600-1615 on 17850 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Afar Oromo Mon 1615-1630 on 17850 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf English Mon Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with white noise digital jamming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDDNln_vY9I&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfIueeTutK8&feature=youtu.be Reception of Radio Xoriyo via TDF on June 6 1600-1630 on 17870 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Somali Mon/Fri Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with white noise digital jamming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jot4szQkml4&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 6, Equipment: Sony ICF- 2001D, 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. Eighties Radio emailed this evening: ``As most of you probably noticed, we were off air for the last 12 days or so. This is due to the fact we had to install some measures concerning possible transmitter damage. Automatic shut down, e.g. when antenna is lost or to counter an event of lightning. We also added some redundancy in case the BT line is lost. [British Telecom? Does that mean site is in UK? gh] We will resume test broadcast this evening on 6040 kHz. Thank you. Mark Hanson (Chief Engineer - EightiesRadio)`` Heard back on at 2214 June 4, they read out my reception report of May 15. S9 on the Twente receiver, S2-4 on Barney's online receiver in Bedford 15 miles from here, similar here with slightly more local noise, clear channel. Modulation sounded slightly distorted but that may be fading (Mike Barraclougoh, Letchworth Garden City, UK, DXLD yg via DXLD) ** EUROPE. PIRATE-EURO. Mike Radio, 13895 USB, 1421-1430+, 05-28-16, SIO: 131, Mike Radio testing with rock music, IDS, very weak here, but others had better luck (Chris Lobdell, West Tewksbury, MA, Receivers: Eton E1, JRC NRD-525, Aerial G5RV Dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FINLAND. FINLANDIA, Scandinavian Weekend Radio, Virrat, estará en el aire entre las 2100 horas de hoy día 3 y las 2100 del 4 de junio. Las frecuencias por las que transmite son: 5980, 6170, 11690 y 11720 kHz y sólo lo hace por dos a la vez, una de la banda de 49 metros y otra de la de 25 metros. A mayores, y al igual que todos los años, en este mes de junio habrá un programa especial entre las 2100 del día 24 y las 2100 del día 25 de junio, con motivo de la entrada del solsticio de verano, por las mismas frecuencias ya mencionadas. Se pude consultar la programación detallada en esta página web: http://www.swradio.net/schedule.htm http://www.swradio.net/index.htm (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6170 kHz audible here - clear channel but with moderate fading plus static SINPO 24332. with 2 x DJs in Finnish plus rock music at 2129 UTC+ and ID (Alan Pennington, AOR 7030plus, short beverage, Caversham UK, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Just about audible at 0630 UT tune in on 11689.89 kHz underneath the static crashes and deep fading with a soul music show. SIO 232 (Russ Cummings, AOR7030+, 18m long wire, North Ferriby, East Yorkshire, UK, ibid.) ** FRANCE. THE SOUND KITCHEN ON RFI RFI, By Susan Owensby, June 4, 2016 This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about Walpurgis Nacht. There’s On This Day, the listener mailbag, some great music, and of course, the new quiz question. Hello everyone! Welcome to The Sound Kitchen. You can catch the programme on-the-air every Saturday at 6:15, 7:15, 14:45 and 16:45 universal time. You’ll hear the winner’s names announced and the week’s quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you have grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, “On This Day”, quirky facts and news, interviews, and great music … so be sure and tune in every Saturday. For our DX enthusiast friends: Our shortwave frequency is 13725 kHz on the 22m band, from 0600 to 0700 UT every day. We’ve had reception reports from Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Russia, Sierra Leone, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the US, and although the frequency is “aimed” (or however that works) towards the African continent, give it a try. You never know … and be sure and send us your reception reports. Maybe we can get more time, which would be wonderful. You can also hear our programs on WRMI http://www.wrmi.net/ and WRN http://www.wrn.org/listeners/ In Paris, you can hear us on World Radio Paris http://www.worldradioparis.fr/ on DAB+. These broadcasters diffuse our programs out of the goodness of their hearts (and thank you thank you thank you WRMI, WRN, and World Radio Paris!), but unless you tell us how you heard us, we have no way of knowing … so do write and tell us how you listen to us. Great news for the RFI Clubs: Chrystelle Nammour and Sébastien Bonijol in our Listener Relations department are organizing another round of football tournaments for all the official RFI Clubs. The first RFI Club Tournaments were in 2014 to celebrate the FIFA World Cup Football Championship and were so successful they’ve decided to do it again – this time, to coincide with the European Championship games this summer. The RFI Club Tournaments need to be played during the Euro 2016 games, from 10 June through 10 July. You can organize your matches any way you want – you can hold games between RFI Clubs in the same country, or games between members of the same club. Your RFI Club may choose to organize games for teams in your community, or games between your RFI Club and other organizations. In any case, RFI will furnish the team shirts, the footballs, and the trophies, and we’ll send RFI banners for you to use at the matches. I’ll announce match results – and you send us photos and videos for our Facebook pages. So don’t hesitate! Write Chrystelle, Sebastian and The Sound Kitchen today and let us know you want to be a part of the RFI Clubs / European Championship 2016 football tournaments. thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr chrystelle.nammour@rfi.fr sebastien.bonijol@rfi.fr So far there are 19 clubs participating. In Africa, there’s the RFI Fan Club, Kisii, Kenya, Mogire Machuki, president; Kemogemba Club, Tarime, Tanzania, Ras Franz Manko Ngogo, president; The RFI Listeners Club Gambia, Brikama Town, The Gambia, Lamin Ceesay, president; RFI Ducor Sea Breeze Club of Liberia, Monrovia, Liberia, Hyrum Karyea Mennoh, president, and the RFI Club Ain Kechera, Ain Kechera, Algeria, Ferhat Bezazel, president. In Pakistan, there’s the Pak France International Listeners Club, Sahiwal, Shahzad Shabbir, president, and the RFI Fans Web Visitors Club, Khanpur, Amir Manzoor, president. In India, there’s the International DX Radio Listeners Club, Murshidabad, Mr Najimuddin, president; RFI Natun Radio Listeners Club, Murshidabad, Kanchan KR Chatterjee, president; Golden DX Club, Murshidabad, Siddhartha Sarkar, president; RFI Listeners Club, Hyderabad / Miryalguda; Mrs P Sreelatha Reddy, president; Young Stars Radio Club, Sainikpuri / Secunderabad, Hari Madugula, president, and Metali Listeners Club, Murshidabad, Shivendu Paul, president. In Bangladesh, there’s the Kaptai RFI Fan Club, Kaptai, Jahangir Alam Manto, president; RFI Club Dhaka, Dhaka, Wali Ahad, president; RFI Surfer’s Society Bangladesh, Dhaka, Ms Royeka Khatun, president, and the Friends Radio Club, Naogaon, Dewan Rafiqul Islam, president. Both of our Cuban clubs will participate, too – the RFI Club Cuba, Ivan Carralero, president, and Cubans on the Radio, also in Holguín, Rommel Tamayo Gutiérrez, president. To the fields! Be sure you send us match results, photos, and videos! This week’s quiz: On 30 April, my colleague Aidan O’Donnell was in the Sound Kitchen, and he had a question for you about an ancient folk festival called Walpurgis Nacht, or night. Walpurgis Nacht is celebrated in the Netherlands, Germany, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland and Estonia. Aidan asked you to write in and tell us what Walpurgis Nacht is, according to tradition. The answer is: Walpurgis Nacht is the night before Saint Walpurga, an abbess, was canonized (that is, officially recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church) in 870. That is the official version. However, it’s not what is in the imagination of the people! Walpurgis Nacht is the night when witches meet on top of the Brocken mountain (in Germany), with their broomsticks, of course, and all fly together to Hexentanzplatz, the place where witches dance. The winners are: RFI Club members Ralf Urbanczyk from Eisleben, Germany, Arne Timm from Harjumaa, Estonia, and Ferhat Bezazel from West Skikda, Algeria. The other lucky winners are Mohammad Idrees from the Jinnah DX Club in Layyah, Pakistan, and Abheraj Jaswal from Haryana, India. Congratulations winners! This week’s question ... you'll have to listen to the show to participate. You have until 11 July to enter this week's quiz. The winners will be announced on the 16 July program. When you enter, be sure you send your postal address in with your answer, and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number. Send your answers to: english.service@rfi.fr or Susan Owensby RFI – The Sound Kitchen 80, rue Camille Desmoulins 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux France or By text … You can also send your quiz answers to The Sound Kitchen mobile phone. Dial your country’s international access code, or “ + ”, then 33 6 31 12 96 82. Don’t forget to include your mailing address in your text – and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number. To find out how you can win an RFI wireless computer mouse, click here: http://www.english.rfi.fr/culture/20141218-sound-kitchen-essay-contests To find out how you can become a member of the RFI Listeners Club, or to form your own official RFI Club, click here: http://www.english.rfi.fr/culture/20141218-how-form-official-rfi-listeners-club Posted by: (Mike Terry, June 5, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GAMBIA [non]. FRANCE, good signal of R Free Gambia via TDF June 3: 1900-2000 15465 ISS 100 kW / 207 deg to WeAf unknown lang Fri [only] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RJy_2sa-2g&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkyNn0WvVhU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG5SXgZbzXE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtRfkyQaTug&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kjR4fPB7zs&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GAMBIA. WHY YOUTH ARE FLEEING TO EUROPE Christian Putsch, Die Welt (Germany), June 1 http://www.theweek.com/print/774/43838/article How did tiny Gambia become one of the world’s leaders in producing refugees? asked Christian Putsch. There’s no civil war there, yet this sliver of a West African nation, just 2 million people strong, hemorrhages asylum seekers. They are fleeing Gambia’s dictator, Yahya Jammeh, who took power in a coup in 1994 and vowed to rule for a billion years. Jammeh is erratic and brutal even by African standards. He claims to be able to cure HIV, “though only on Thursdays,” and he threatens to personally slit the throats of gays. His regime tortures dissidents, and in April opposition leader Solo Sandeng died in custody. So there’s plenty of reason for those opposed to his rule to want to leave—and Jammeh encourages emigration, figuring that Gambians earning money in Europe “are better than Gambians protesting outside the presidential palace.” His economy relies on remittances from the diaspora. When Jammeh recently hosted an amateur wrestling competition, he announced the prize would be 2,000 euros — “enough,” he said, “for the passage to Europe.” And once they’re gone, Europe can’t send them back: Jammeh won’t sign repatriation agreements, and he won’t allow illegal migrants sent home from other countries to disembark from planes. Gambian emigration has quadrupled since 2012—and it shows no signs of slowing (The Week via DXLD) YET, a year ago, only other recent hit: GAMBIA OFFERS TO TAKE IN ALL ROHINGYA MIGRANTS May 21, 2015 Paula Bronstein/Getty Images [caption, tent city] http://www.theweek.com/speedreads/556272/gambia-offers-take-all-rohingya-migrants Rohingya refugees who are fleeing southeast Asia to escape oppression have been offered a home in Gambia. [original source:] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/21/south-east-asia-migrant-crisis-gambia-offers-to-resettle-all-rohingya-refugees The Muslim-majority country is not wealthy — the UN's 2013 human development report stated that one-third of the population lives off of $1.25 or less a day, and thousands of migrants have left for Europe, with many dying in the process — so it is also asking other nations to send medicine, bedding, tents, and household items so it can set up "habitable camps with decent sanitary conditions." In a statement, the government said it was primarily reaching out to offer aid because Muslims were in peril: "The government of Gambia notes with grave concern the inhumane condition of the Rohingya people of Myanmar — especially those referred to as 'boat people' — currently drifting in the seas off the coast of Malaysia and Indonesia. As human beings, more so fellow Muslims, it is a sacred duty to help alleviate the untold hardships and sufferings fellow human beings are confronted with." Catherine Garcia (The Week, via DXLD) From 2013y: 5 COUNTRIES WHERE FREEDOM IS DYING --- Keith Wagstaff Which countries have seen the biggest declines in political and civil rights over the last several years? Pro-democracy watchdog Freedom House has the answers in its latest Freedom in the World rankings. Freedom House rates each country on a scale of 0 to 100, with 40 points devoted to political rights and 60 to civil liberties. Four of the five biggest declines in that score over the last five years have come from African nations. Here, the five worst performers: http://www.theweek.com/articles/468609/5-countries-where-freedom-dying BAHRAIN, GUINEA-BISSAU, GAMBIA, MADAGASCAR, MALI ``In August, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh executed nine prisoners http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/24/world/africa/gambia-executions/index.html without warning and declared that his government would kill all of the country's remaining death row inmates by September, setting off a firestorm of criticism from the international community. Jammeh, who gained power in a 1994 coup, later halted the executions amid growing pressure. Still, the prisoners (many of whom are reportedly political) aren't completely out of the woods. According to Al Jazeera, Jammeh claimed that he would resume the executions if the country experienced an "increase in violent crime."`` (The Week, via DXLD) ** GERMANY [and non]. 6069.982, CANADA, CFRX Toronto domestic program politics report at 0612 UT. and also co-channel: 6070.006, Now also to make money with US like religious ministry sermons, heard via small low power station in Ingolstadt, Rohrbach, Bavaria. Broad "New Testament Reading" in English language, no control problem at Bavarian ... https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayerische_Landeszentrale_f%C3%BCr_neue_Medien "Sie beaufsichtigt die privaten Rundfunkangebote in Bayern" "She oversees {government control} the private broadcasting deals in Bavaria" 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, June 4, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. Shortwaveservice.com wrote on their Facebook page yesterday: To our listeners in Asia: On Sunday, 05th June 2016 from 1000-1030 UT we will manage a broadcast for Radio Northern Ireland on 17560 kHz via Transmitter Gavar in Armenia at 100 kW, directed at 100 . Posted by: (Mike Terry, 0912 UT June 5, dxldyg WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DXLD) This has just signed on with shortwaveservice.com ID and Lincolnshire poacher interval signal from 1000 UT. Weak but clear here. Thanks to Mike for the reminder. 73s (Dave Kenny, Caversham, England, UK, Lowe HF225/ 25m long wire, 1000 UT June 5, bdxc-uk yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. Frequency change, Deutsche Welle via MBR from June 1 0500-0600 NF 15255 ISS 500 kW / 145 deg to SoAf English, ex 15250 // frequency 11820 MDC 250 kW / 265 deg to SoAf English no change -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 11645, June 4 at 0015, Greek music on poor S4 signal, not usually on air before sunrise, but here instead of 9935, where I tuned first and guessed VOG was off for the weekend. But // 9420 also on and much stronger. In deep summer 11645 might work overnight, and provide more frequency diversity than two 9 MHz channels only 515 kHz apart, albethey on somewhat different azimuths (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, at 0238 UT noted on remote unit in Edmonton Alberta: 11645even kHz S=9 -71dBm; 9420.005 kHz S=8 or -81dBm, little fluttery (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) Reception of Voice of Greece on 9420 & 11645 kHz, June 4: 0600-0731 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 and off 0600-0741 on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek tx#1 and off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovehsoGvpd0&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiQUCDks8hI&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kq0UaCcy6M&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reception of Voice of Greece on 9420/11645 kHz, June 4-5: 2000-0700 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 and off 2000-0700 on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek tx#1 and off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEwEduX79xs&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC2nj7UNef0&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULgFTgv_3VQ&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 5, Equipment: Sony ICF- 2001D, 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11645, June 5 at 0112, VOG for at least the second night is on here instead of 9935, with some great Greek music, S6 // much stronger S9+20 on 9420; and not missing this week on a Saturday night/Sunday morning. QRX for orthodoxy circa 0500 UT Sunday? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Surprisingly broadcast of Voice of Greece, June 6 from 1000 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek*tx#3 from 1000 on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek*tx#1 from 1100 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek#tx#3 no signal on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek tx#1 * incl. 2 minutes news 1006-1012 in Spanish/Albanian/Polish # relay ERT proto prograµµa/First Program. Off air at 1140 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbL_5MlwRzs&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H50jMUQbdwI&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_rFMRWvceE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5O1HoF7BUU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2mborqagrM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB_2BALCxZg&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 6, Equipment: Sony ICF- 2001D, 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reception of Voice of Greece only on 9420, June 7 0600-0700 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek*tx#3 no signal on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek*tx#1 * including 3-6 minutes news in Serbian, Romanian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Albanian, Italian, Arabic. Off at 0700 UT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH6Dyx0QhNE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJz_KO0w4M0&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6RmphesP1A&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUiuj0WChz8&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-Gqd80f0Iw&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cFz9OFvQNs&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdKuxa6uBcQ&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQMdigSuOFs&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zhZa5EZ-UM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDDzyJtlWCA&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 7, Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. Avlida [Avlis] - Hi-Res Imagery: Just noticed this today; the appearance of hi-res aerial imagery dated 18th July 2015 of the Greek Avlida SW TX site. Nice! There's also (finally) a 2013 Panoramio photo here: Panoramio - Untitled photo http://www.panoramio.com/photo/100804589 Add to the list very nice hi-res aerial imagery of the former VOA Dasochori (Kavala) SW TX site dated: Oct 1st, 2014 in Google Earth (GE). (Ian, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, Radio Verdad with chorale music 2350 and OM chat later to 0000, surprisingly weak signal for this semi-local station. 3 June (Bob Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro, Drake R8 NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, Noise reducing antenna, 60 meter dipole, NASWA yg via DXLD) 4055, Radio Verdad: still no sign of anything unusual to boost their signal, despite Dr Madrid`s certainty that a magical new process will do that in various countries without the use of SW relay transmitters. However, Sat June 4 in a reply to a ``very weak`` reception report from Brasil, he says in cc: ``Si Dios permite, probablemente desde el lunes o martes, podríamos tener una señal fuerte en su país. Que Dios le bendiga. Dr. Édgar Amílcar Madrid, Gerente`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. Sanctification of Stanley? Rother, priest with La Voz de Atitlán, ex-2390 kHz, proceeds: see OKLAHOMA: KWTV --- Oklahoma’s Own ** HONDURAS. 550, ABC Radio, Tegucigalpa. 0949 June 2, 2016. Mexi- tune, ABC Radio ID by man, time check, failed attempt to take caller, two more IDs and back to vocals. Slight Rebelde co-channel from 1002 (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, June 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. All India Radio com menos estações, risco ao DRM? Não sei se vocês puderam observar o último boletim DXLD do Guilherme Glen Hauser, há uma indicação de que a All India Radio está desligando gradualmente seus parques transmissores. > [...] the number of SW stations of AIR have now come down to 20 from 30. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS [...] ) Fonte: http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1621.txt A India parecia ser o país onde o DRM estava ou poderia dar certo. Mas com a BBC e a VoA agressivamente migrando para Internet e a All India Radio não mostrando sinais claros de expansão do DRM, mudei de opinião. Considerar o DRM como alternativa no Brasil me parece *extremamente* complicado agora, nenhum grande gerador de conteúdo mundial esta alavancando o uso desta plataforma (Huelbe Garcia, Brasil, 3 June, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Depois da fortuna que gastaram para instalar transmissores DRM? Foi o DRMelão? Não é a toa que é BRICS. Abraços, (Vince, ibid.) Vince, Isso também aconteceu na Europa há alguns anos. De qualquer maneira não vejo futuro para o DRM. É uma plataforma interessante, mas nunca decolou. O iBoc também sofre resistência e sinceramente não creio que qualquer plataforma atingirá abrangência mundial, o que é uma pena. 73 (Ivan Dias Jr. - Sorocaba/SP, ibid.) ** INDIA. 27/05/2016 from 1615 till 1715 UT hosted All India Radio in Russian on three frequencies 9595, 11620 and 15140 kHz. Accordingly, the reception was on the first frequency five points, four at the second and the third three. The program "Mailbox" reported that the radio is developing its website and in soon transmission will be broadcast on the Internet. Further transmission on shortwave will be terminated (Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX June 5 via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DXLD) All India Radio Delhi (In Russian) --- Dear listeners and fans of the "Russian version of All India Radio" page is now available in Russian on radio http://airworldservice.org/russian/ at the official site where you can read in Russian, as well as listen to the program. Work on the improvement and expansion of the Russian- language section of the site is still under way. (from http://vk.com/club35756640 via RusDX, ibid.) ** INDIA. AIR TO LAUNCH BANGLA SERVICE Smriti Kak Ramachandran | Updated: Jun 02, 2016 07:01 IST http://www.hindustantimes.com/nation/air-to-launch-bangla-service/story-VWIiIHiiLYzLcOGBSsPZqJ.html NEW DELHI: India is set to strengthen its relations with Bangladesh using the air waves. To reach out to the people in the neighbouring country, President Pranab Mukherjee will launch All India Radio’s (AIR) special Bangla service, Akashvani Maitree, on June 28. Buoyed by the success of the Land Boundary Agreement and the Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal Motor Vehicle Agreement signed between the two nations during the PM’s visit to Dhaka, the Centre hopes the radio service will take forward its ‘act east’ policy. Akashvani Maitree will be a successor to AIR’s Special Bangla Service that was launched during the 1971 Liberation movement of Bangladesh. It was aired till 2010. Underlining the role of radio in fostering India-Bangladesh ties, President Mukherjee had recalled in 2013 that AIR and Free Bangladesh Radio were the only news sources during Bangladesh’s freedom struggle. “…These bulletins were keenly followed by us in India as the minds and hearts of all Indians were with the people of Bangladesh. The plight of millions of homeless people crossing the border, seeking refuge in the neighbouring states of India stirred the hearts of our people as they felt anguish of that hapless multitude,” he had said. The new service, which will be launched from West Bengal’s Chinsurah, will offer the listeners in Bangladesh programmes of cultural and educational interest. “The channel has the potential to take forward the PM’s vision of ushering in good relations between neighbours. No other broadcaster has initiated such a venture where people from two countries can create content together,” said Fayyaz Shehryar, AIR’s director general. The service is also expected to address concerns shared by the two countries (via Alokesh Gupta, dx_india yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DXLD) WTFK??? Chinsurah presumably refers to the two megawatt MW frequencies 594 and 1134 kHz (gh, DXLD) Akashvani Moitree Channel --- The special Bengali service from AIR Chinsurah has been renamed as Akashvani Moitree Channel and will be inaugurated by Hon'ble President Mr. Pranab Mukherjee on 28th June. The programs can be heard on 594 kHz ONLY (all transmissions) There will be no change to 1134 kHz in the evening. Thanks to Alok Das Gupta, Kolkata (Jose Jacob, June 7, dx_india yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DXLD) ALL INDIA RADIO, THE CELESTIAL VOICE THAT BINDS INDIA TOGETHER By Jawhar Sircar “I quarrel so frightfully with all the secretaries and deputy secretaries”, rued Lionel Fielden, the first Controller of Broadcasting, as he started the operations of All India Radio on this very day, exactly 80 years ago. . . http://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis/all-india-radio-the-celestial-voice-that-binds-india-together/story-RNEm1D1gynLBd3M2Wvgm6H.html --- (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDIA [and non]. 4920even, AIR Chennai, Tamil Nadu, S=9+30dB or - 44dBm powerful signal 4910.003, AIR Jaipur, Rajasthan, low modulated, S=9+5dB 1717 UT 4894.997, AIR Kurseong, Paschim Banga, S=9+20dB or -55dBm 1719 UT drums and string instrument program 4810.009, AIR Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, Hindi, subcontinental singer and Indian string instrument performance. 1724 UT June 5 4800even, CHINA, Voice of China, Golmud, Qinghai, and co-channel 4799.998, AIR Hyderabad, Telengana, S=9+20dB or -53dBm signal 1728 4760.002, Indian station, just when I joined that channel, some two seconds later switched OFF suddenly at 1730:30 UT, seemingly heard AIR Port Blair, Brookshabad, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, according to TBS#18 close-down on Sat/Sun at 1730 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, after 1713 UT June 5 at Piliyandala Sri Lanka remote SDR unit, thanks Victor, DSWCI DX Window June 8 via DXLD) ** INDIA [and non]. 5010.007, INDIA, AIR Thiruvananthapuram, Muttathura, Kerala. Hindi service, and co-channel QRM disturbed of 500 Hertz heterodyne against co-channel signal of: 5010.515, MADAGASCAR, Malagasy R UNSTABLE! as usual hopping ±20 Hertz, S=6 or -92dBm signal strength (Wolfgang Büschel, Thanks Bell at Simonstown, Republic of South Africa for new SDR remote unit access, DSWCI DX Window June 8 via DXLD) ** INDIA. 5050, AIR Aizawl (presumed). It will be recalled that this briefly reactivated back in April, but not heard again till today (June 4). At 1143 could tell there where two stations here, the other being the stronger Beibu Bay Radio (China); AIR very faint underneath BBR; 1220 seemed to go into their usual segment in English. Very nice to have them back. Hope they stay on the air longer than their last reactivation. FYI - Recent AIR Aizawl QSL card - https://goo.gl/I7ogY6 (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: Par Electronics EF- SWL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks, Ron, for your tip; yes, heard both stations on EXACT 5050 kHz at 1506 UT today June 5th - no odd frequency station seen/heard so far. S=9+20dB strength. Listen to the recording; stronger Beibu Bay Radio (China), but also typical subcontinent singer heard underneath. Many thanks also to Piliyandala at Victor's home, for put the P. on the remote P. SDR net today. PS: maybe VO Beibu Bay Radio stops broadcasting at 16 UT? vy73 de wolfy df5sx wwdxc germany (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 7550.00, 2050-2130 1.6, AIR Bengaluru, General Overseas Service to Western Europe, English Press review, Indian songs, 2100 news, commentary, orchestral music, 55555; // 9445 (55544) and 11670 (45444). // 9950 (Delhi) had problems with just a carrier tone until audio was heard from 2130 with poor modulation (45332) Best 73, (Anker Petersen, Denmark, my next loggings in very hot weather from Skovlunde on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 3905, Pro 1 RRI Merauke, June 5 heard reciting from the Qur'an at 1254, but June 6 not heard during checks at 1023 + 1133. Has been on and off the air erratically recently (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: Par Electronics EF-SWL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 7289.93, RRI Nabire, 0736-0812*, June 3. Started with JBA music; after 0800 announcer till suddenly off, by which time the signal had improved a lot; sign off time conforms to Atsunori Ishida's info (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: Par Electronics EF-SWL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) A few random checks of RRI Nabire (7289.91) found audio above threshold level and improving after 0747; still heard at 0847, with them being off the air by 0902. June 8, a decent day for their reception (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. Good signal of Voice of Indonesia on June 6 till 1402 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs English from 1402 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs Indonesian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb9TGbOHqg0&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 6, Equipment: Sony ICF- 2001D, 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. Radio Republik Indonesia will increase transmitter power of its stations located in remote and border areas to (quote) strengthen nationalism (/quote), the RRI director of new technologies and media said to the commission of defense and communication of Indonesian parliament. According to a news report in the German service of V of Indonesia on June 7 RRI will start to increase the power of one station in Entikong region, West-Kalimantan province. The transmitter power will be increased from 5 to 10 kW next year (2017). They didn't mention if the power increase affects MW or FM transmitter. WRTH 2016 lists one transmitter under entry # KB03 on FM 100.2 MHz. The Entikong region is located at the border to Malaysia, west of Serian city. 73, (Manfred Reiff, Germany, June 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hope they start Banda Aceh MW transmitter. Lost in Tsunami. 73 (Sudipta Ghose, VU2UT, ibid.) Hello Sudipta, I think they won't start with Banda Aceh. In the report I heard on June 7 they mentioned "Entikong". Correction: The man who said this was the RRI Director of new media and technology, not new technology and media. 73, (Manfred Reiff, ibid.) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. SATELLITEs — Radio: 12152 MHz, Galaxy 19; 97 deg. W, Satellite 20.000 MSPS with "European Program" of Saudi Arabia Broadcasting. They did MENTION Saudi Arabia, but at no time did they say 'this is' or say anything like 'Broadcasting Service of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia' or even "European Program" (although that phrase was sent in the digital data of the stream). You'd think getting an ID would be EASIER on the birds. Not so much! They had a program about Islamic Etiquette (mostly about eating) into "Story Time" with YL reading a book by a 19th Century American author about the Alaskan wilderness of that era. Interval Signalish music through the ToH into "Family Guide" at :08 with talx re bullying. I tuned away, but there was mention of Saudi Arabia at 0329 re-check. 60% quality and decoding the QPSK/MPEG2 signal flawlessly. 0230-0315 28/May 12184 MHz, Galaxy 19; 97 deg. W 12.184 GHz, 21.992 MSPS, "World Service 7" was the digital data ID, but carrying IRIB English Radio as I tuned in then lots of varying IDs such as "FM 91.5" & "The Familiar Voice of your Heart—IRIB" At 0320 YL said "Greetings to the residents of the Persian Gulf" and "A hearty breakfast from all of us at IRIB”. At 0323 "Here is Tehran English Radio”, into IS. OM ID then "The Voice of Justice" mentioning Hotbird Satellite frequencies (but not this one!) FM 91.5, SHORTWAVE for North America (7325 & 9710. I thought they turned this off? [and those were B-season frequencies, not A- gh]) as well as "on the Internet" into V Justice programming; 56% quality and decoding the QPSK/MPEG2 signal well. 0315-0325 28/May (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet 3 June via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DXLD) ** IRAN. 12025, June 5 at 0148-0156+, open carrier/dead air. Recalling that this is a VIRI frequency, but not what language, I thought it might have been about to open one of the *:53+ broadcasts, but no --- it`s amid scheduled Spanish 0020-0320, via Sirjan as long as Kamalabad be mothballed if not demolished; so is the entire trihour silent? Ramadan is just starting, so more messups to follow? People starving all very long summer days, binging at night, as God wills. 12024.98, June 6 at 0020 check, no signal, but at 0032, dead air at S4, or maybe a trace of modulation, on VIRI`s Spanish service, just like it was last night. Still same at 0103 when measured. Doesn`t anybody at IRIB notice or care? Happy Ramadan! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Some Ramadan specials from 1 June to 5 July 2016, all Sirjan 500 kW: 5930 2200 2330 39 240 -30 218 Arabic IRN IRB 16674 ARBIC-S 7250 2200 2330 39 235 0 146 Arabic IRN IRB 16669 ARBIC-S 7375 1950 2250 29S,40NW 320 0 146 Azeri IRN IRB 16670 TURK-AZ Noted powerhouse 5930 kHz S=9+35dB in Doha Qatar remote unit, at 2230 UT June 6th, \\ 7230 and 7285 kHz, also Azeri sce and Farsi? in between at 2235 UT on 7375 kHz, S=9+20dB. On 7250 kHz heard a second broadcaster underneath of CRI Spanish, likely Dhaka Bangladesh program? Also heard IRIB Malay talk about Palestine state independence at 2240 UT: 2220-2320 7360sir 9720kam 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see Also INTERNATIONAL VACCUM just above ** IRAN [non]. Reception of Radio Ranginkaman/Radio Rainbow via BaBcoCk, June 6 1600-1630 on 7575 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi Mon/Fri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsh-8uV28cc&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 6, Equipment: Sony ICF- 2001D, 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. QSL Electrónia de Radio Sedaye Bahar, recibida en un día en respuesta a informe de escucha con archivo de audio en 7495 kHz a las 1730 UT en idioma farsi, enviado a por E-mail a Sergey Omelchenko, PRTC. prtc@idknet.com Archivo: https://app.box.com/s/qwuwh1v294ib7djt0e1eqyni417y0684 (José Miguel Romero Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, June 3, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRELAND. SAVING RTÉ 252 LONG WAVE, IRELAND’S LONG DISTANCE BROADCAST SERVICE --- Radio Survivor By Paul Bailey June 3, 2016 http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2016/06/03/saving-rte-252-long-wave/ Listeners are campaigning to save a long wave radio station from closure, but the management are adamant it will close. RTÉ Radio 1 is the general information and entertainment service of the Irish Republic’s public service broadcaster. UK listeners can currently hear the station on internet, Freesat (satellite radio) and 252 kHz long wave. The main subject of our story – the long wave station at Clarkstown, Ireland – became the replacement for the much missed medium wave station at Athlone. RTÉ hoped the long wave signal would better reach the Irish diaspora as far as London to help them keep in touch with home. A long wave service can cover distances of over 500 to 1,000 miles in daylight, and even further at night. Many European nations have citizens working and living in other European countries, who want to stay in touch with home. There are extensive seagoing industries — fishing, shipping, oil — and the LW signals warn them of storms coming. These days satellite communications are widely used and the LW broadcasts are less important. The drawbacks of LW are that large antenna systems are needed, which take up a lot of space; high power is needed to produce a very strong ground wave for daytime reception; and only a limited number of stations can be fitted into the band, so they must all share frequencies and take steps to avoid interfering with each other. Over the years radios coming onto the market in Europe frequently do not include the long wave band. The LW station in Ireland was set up in 1989 as a commercial radio station called Atlantic 252, broadcasting rock music to the UK. It established a loyal audience, but could not compete with the UK’s established network of commercial local radio stations, and made a loss. It closed in 2002. RTÉ saw the chance to acquire a long wave station — a long held ambition — and snapped it up. A period of re-engineering followed to improve the facility. The service quickly built up an audience in the UK, appealing to English as well as the diaspora. There were still reception issues. The distance between Dublin and London is around 300 miles. In London, RTÉ began to suffer co-channel interference from the other user of 252 kHz: Tipaza, Algeria, some 1,000 miles from London. Tipaza beams Chaine 1 to the Algerian diaspora in France. The transmitter was quite ancient and began to drift from the nominal frequency. The staff at Tipaza did their best to keep their station operating and on frequency. Listeners in London and eastern England began to hear the morning call to prayer and other items from Chaine 1 clearly under RTÉ. Then Tipaza failed completely and went off the air for months. A German transmitter company was awarded the contract to replace Algeria’s entire public broadcasting system. When Tipaza returned to the air, the signal was stronger and the co-channel interference moved closer to Dublin. The usual methods of reducing co-channel interference were perfected by the FCC for the US’ AM band. They include using directional aerials, and cutting the power at night. Unfortunately those methods are not as effective on LW as they are on MW. Ireland’s economy deteriorated and RTÉ’s finances were affected. In 2014 RTÉ announced they would close the LW station in a few weeks, saying it was obsolete and closure would save 250,000 euros (around US $280,000). The listeners were having none of it. A huge outcry ensued which won them a stay of execution while other methods of reaching the diaspora were investigated. Somewhat miffed at having their plans thwarted, RTÉ reduced the power, badly affecting reception. Then RTÉ joined a consortium to bid for the second UK national DAB digital radio multiplex. That would have given RTÉ national coverage in the UK. Alas, the other bidders won and RTÉ is not included on the implemented multiplex. There is a saying that the opera is not over until the lady sings. The campaign to save RTÉ on 252 continues; the Suits are insisting the switch will be pulled in 2017 — but the lady who sings, Madame Godot, has not yet arrived at the stage door. Hopefully, as usual, she won’t. Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The Tipaza transmitter has according to information online a 355 foot tall guyed single mast so that should be omnidirectional rather than beamed in any particular direction? Algeria is the tenth largest country in the world with the majority of population in the coastal area with the rest of the country being mainly desert with poor ground conductivity so needing high power to cover it. The Irish Times reported yesterday on the survey of longwave listeners, can't find anything more detailed online on a quick search. Seven out of ten listeners to RTÉ longwave services aged over 60 http://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/seven-out-of-ten-listeners-to-rt%C3%A9-longwave-services-aged-over-60-1.2672228 Just remembered that Irish in Britain were involved in this survey. There is a link to the full report of the Middlesex University survey on their website. RTÉ long–wave radio in Britain | Irish in Britain - Irish in Britain | Created by the community, for the community http://www.irishinbritain.org/campaigns/campaign-to-save-rt-longwave-radio-in-britain (Mike Barraclough, England, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) NO COMMITMENT TO KEEP RTÉ LONGWAVE SERVICE AS SURVEY FINDINGS REVEALED Irish Post By Catherine McNally June 6, 2016 http://irishpost.co.uk/no-commitment-keep-rte-longwave-service-survey-findings-revealed/ The long-awaited findings of a Government-funded survey into RTÉ longwave radio listenership in Britain have been revealed – but they come with no commitment to save the service. The survey received a response rate of almost 3,200 people when conducted among the Irish community across Britain last year. Its key findings were released last Friday, June 3, revealing that for the majority of listeners, RTÉ longwave is seen as a ‘lifeline’ to Ireland. In total, 76 per cent of those respondents stated that the service ‘maintains a link with Ireland’ for them, while 79 per cent indicated that it was valuable as it brings them news from Ireland. The survey further showed that just over 70 per cent of listeners to the RTÉ longwave service in Britain are aged over 60; that a similar number of listeners were born in Ireland and that just over 60 per cent are retired. Despite Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan acknowledging this week that the findings “demonstrate the very significant role that RTÉ Longwave Services play in providing a link with home for many within the Irish community in Britain” no commitment has yet been made by RTÉ or the Government regarding safeguarding its future. Instead, the Government has confirmed that “a further meeting of the Consultative Group will take place over the coming months to consider the research findings in detail and to discuss the next steps.” RTÉ Director of Operations JP Coakley also refused to commit to saving the service this week, stating: “This is a strong insight into an important community. These listeners are engaged and technically quite savvy. We look forward to working more closely with the Irish community in Britain and with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to chart a path forward.” The news comes as a devastating blow to the Irish community members across Britain who have been at the forefront of a campaign to save the at-risk service. Myra Butler, a volunteer at the Irish World Heritage Centre is Manchester, told The Irish Post: “We’ve been waiting so long for the results of this survey and we were so hopeful for a positive result. To hear that we don’t even have a firm answer is devastating.” She added: “It feels like the Government doesn’t even care about us. We will keep fighting though, to save the service.” RTÉ first announced plans to close its longwave services in 2014. This plan was postponed until 2017 after a successful campaign was launched in Britain – led in part by The Irish Post – to save it. A survey was then commissioned by the Department of Foreign Affairs into the viability of the longwave service, which took place last year. Funded by the Department of foreign Affairs and Trade, and in partnership with Irish in Britain organisation, the survey was carried out by the Social Policy Research Centre at Middlesex University Commenting on its findings, Foreign Affairs Minister Flanagan said: These findings also offer a strong basis from which to move forward on this issue over the period ahead and I am hopeful that a positive outcome can be achieved.” Minister of State for the Diaspora Joe McHugh added: “While any decision on the future of Longwave Services in Britain is ultimately an operational matter for RTÉ, I hope that it will be informed by awareness of the role that the Service plays in preserving and enhancing links with Ireland.’’ KEY FINDINGS: RTÉ Longwave Audience in Britain* The age profile of the survey respondents shows that participants predominantly belonged to the older age groups: 70-79 years (32%), 60- 69 years (27%) and 40-59 years (24%) 62% of respondents are retired and 27% are employed full time The majority of survey respondents lived in North West England (34%), followed by London and the South East (22%) and the Midlands (18%) Most of the survey respondents are in good health but one in five reported their health as being no better than “fair”, 22% of survey listeners have mobility problems, 33% live alone Participants in this study primarily listened to Longwave to maintain a sense of Irishness and a link with Ireland and to keep up to date with news and current affairs ‘back home’ RTÉ Radio 1 on Longwave was seen as a ‘lifeline’ for the majority of respondents 92% of respondents listen “every day” or “most days”. Listening is strongest during the day and at home, though almost half of the survey respondents (44%) also listen in the car or other vehicle Portable, car or kitchen radios were typically used by Longwave listeners of RTÉ Radio 1, whereas digital devices were much less likely to be used No commitment to keep RTÉ longwave service as survey findings revealed -Irish Post (via Mike Terry, June 6, dxldyg via DXLD) See also ALGERIA ** IRELAND NORTHERN [non]. Saw this on the Shortwave Service Facebook page: To our listeners in Asia: On Sunday, 05th June 2016 from 1000 to 1030 UT we will manage a broadcast for Radio Northern Ireland on 17560 kHz via Transmitter Gavar in Armenia at 100 kW, directed at 100 (Alan Gale, UK, June 3, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Seemingly backlobe of 280 degrees antenna A86 / A87 at 100 degrees, see Gavar image snap wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) http://www.rhci-online.net/files/2016-06-05_RNIreland_17560_kHz_1012z_SSTV.png (roger, dxldyg, 1043 UT June 5, via DXLD) ** ITALY. MRI now on air on 15070 kHz and at 2110-2210 UT on 7700 kHz --- Be advised of these unscheduled broadcasts of MRI (today 2 June 2016): now on the air up to 2040 UT on 15070 kHz and also from 2110 to 2210 on 7700. Please let's have your reception report! ;-) (Marconi Radio International (MRI), 2012 UT June 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Schedule for the next broadcasts of Marconi Radio International on 8, 15, 22 and 30 June 2016 Wednesday, June 8, 2016 5:07 AM --- Here is the schedule for the next broadcasts of Marconi Radio International (MRI) on 8, 15, 22 and 30 June 2016: 1730-1830 UTC on 13960 kHz (USB mode), 1915-2015 UTC on 15070 kHz (USB mode) and 2045-2145 UTC on 7700 kHz (USB Mode). [sic: all are Wednesdays except 30 June: Thursday; correct?] Our broadcasts include some kind of programmes now sadly missing from most shortwave radio stations: an old style DX show in English “Italian Short Wave Panorama” with lot of recent logs as well as a mailbag programme in Italian. Our station identification announcements are not only in English and Italian but also in French, German, Spanish and Catalan. MRI encourages reception reports from listeners. Audio clips (mp3- file) of our broadcasts are welcome! We QSL 100%. Our electronic mail address is: marconiradiointernational@gmail.com - Please don’t forget to include your postal address as some lucky listeners will also receive a printed QSL card. Last but not least, we need your help! If you use social networks, please post an announcement on Facebook or send out a tweet the day before the broadcast. You can also forward this message to a friend. This should help increase our potential audience. We hope to hear from a lot of shortwave listeners about our transmissions. Best 73's (Marconi Radio International (MRI), WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY. 13960-USB, June 8 at 1818, no signal from Marconi Radio International, very low-power station which has scheduled USB broadcasts on Wednesdays in June: 1730-1830 on 13960, 1915-2015 on 15070, 2045-2145 on 7700. Another check during the 15070 hour is unproductive. Publicized dates are June 8, 15, 22 and 30, i.e. the last one being Thursday instead of Wednesday (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY. QSL de Italcable, captación realizada el 5 de mayo de 2016 en 15000 kHz, informe enviado por E-mail con archivo de audio a info@associazioneitalcable.it recibido en 25 días. Archivo: https://app.box.com/s/781v7qc5d29wxx0b5gnruk7939njxlyt Archivo: https://app.box.com/s/q994sfiir1ekalv15oyva0lsp0bdk971 (José Miguel Romero Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, June 3, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 3959.018, KCBS Kanggye, typical SHRILL Korean female singer group. S=6 or -88dBm at 1740 UT. // 9665.003 kHz S=8 -80dBm (Wolfgang Büschel, after 1713 UT June 5 at Piliyandala Sri Lanka remote SDR unit, thanks Victor, DSWCI DX Window June 8 via DXLD) 2850.003, KCBS Pyongyang, S=9+25 -50dBm, 1752 UT on June 5. 3919.981, KCBS Hyesan, S=9+25 -47dBm \\ 9665.003 and 2850.003 kHz (Wolfgang Bueschel, on Kyoto-Japan remote Perseus unit via DSWCI DX Window June 8 via DXLD) 3920, June 8 at 1128, JBA AM carrier, (if not a ham) presumed the KCBS 5 kW transmitter in Hyesan, which was inactive as of WRTH 2016, but reported to the DXLD yg by Eduard Korsakov, Moskva, at 1700 April 7 as presumed to be that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. UZBEKISTAN, Frequency change of Voice of Wilderness via RED Telecom 1330-1530 7615 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg NEAs Korean, ex 7610, re-ex 7615 Frequency change of Voice of Martyrs via RED Telecom 1530-1700 7505 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg NEAs Korean, ex 7510, re-ex 7520 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD_WOsiyUZE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi7_abyXbY0&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH8_s9hDA0w&feature=youtu.be Frequency change of North Korea Reform Radio via RED Telecom 2030-2130 7595 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg NEAs Korean, ex 7505, re-ex 7510 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWNFTD1I56Q&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, circa June 3, WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And by now may well have shifted again, anti-jamming ** KOREA SOUTH. 4885, Echo of Hope - VOH, *1154, June 4. Suddenly on in Korean; news; 1215 the usual clear "V O H" ID. Heard no jamming nor OTH radar; nice clean signal. Occasionally I still see reports of this being jammed, but I think not. Probably what is being heard is the occasional OTH radar causing QRM. The vast majority of days VOH is totally clear here of any QRM, unlike the almost always jammed frequencies of // 3985 // 6003 and // 6348 (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: Par Electronics EF-SWL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KYRGYZSTAN. 4009.94, *0000-0010 2.6, Birinchi R, Krasnaya Rechka. ID in Kyrgyz and Russian, National hymn, 0003 Kyrgyz ann, orchestral music, 35233 // 4819.90 (34232 Xizang fading out) (Anker Petersen, Denmark, my next loggings in very hot weather from Skovlunde on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) 4009.821, Kirgiz Radio Bishkek, from Krasnaya Rechka site, at 1736 UT on June 5. Sounds like an opera singer program of the 1930'ties (Wolfgang Büschel, after 1713 UT June 5 at Piliyandala Sri Lanka remote SDR unit, thanks Victor, DSWCI DX Window June 8 via DXLD) 4819.941, Kirgiz Radio Bishkek, from Krasnaya Rechka bcast site S=7 or -86dBm at 1624 UT on June 5 (Wolfgang Büschel, Thanks Bell at Simonstown, Republic of South Africa for new SDR remote unit access, DSWCI DX Window June 8 via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR [and non]. 5010.007, INDIA, AIR Thiruvananthapuram, Muttathura, Kerala. Hindi service, and co-channel QRM disturbed of 500 Hertz heterodyne against co-channel signal of: 5010.515, MADAGASCAR, Malagasy R UNSTABLE! as usual hopping ±20 Hertz, S=6 or -92dBm signal strength (Wolfgang Büschel, Thanks Bell at Simonstown, Republic of South Africa for new SDR remote unit access, DSWCI DX Window June 8 via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. 17640, June 8 at 1819, MWV is still missing from this originally scheduled African Pathways Radio hour in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. Additional information on the last two remaining short wave frequencies of Radio Television Malaysia. The migration of Sarawak FM and Wai FM from Kuching (Sarawak) to Kajang (Malaya) took place in 2011. There was a six month phase of parallel broadcasting: - Sarawak FM: from late December 2010 to June 2011 Kuching 5030 kHz // Kajang 9835 kHz. - Wai FM: from early January 2011 to June 2011 Kuching 7270 kHz // Kajang 11665 kHz. An official closing ceremony at the Kuching-Stapok transmitter site took place on 30 June 2011. The external service Voice of Malaysia from Kajang closed down at the end of October 2011 (Dr Hansjoerg Biener 6 June in response to items of Ivo Ivanov and Ron Howard of 2 June 2016, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SARAWAK [non], 11665, Limbang FM/Wai FM (via RTM-Kajang) 1334-1400+ 2 June. Correction for the last Limbang log. Sked is 1315-1400 Monday & Thursday per EiBi, & not 13-14 as I mistakenly wrote down. This Thursday's broadcast was heard fairly well with a bit zippier Malay pop than usual, long Malay monologue by DJ with nice "klonky" percussion intro/outro/background, very sparse Limbang FM mentions ["dari Limbang FM.." as example] and change to Wai FM at 1358 with "warta berita dari Wai FM", Wai FM jingle, TC at TOH followed by "berita RTM, berita dari Wai FM" (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA, PL380/6m X wire [v.2.0]), WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) MALAYSIA. Reception of Radio Television Malaysia RTM on June 3 1555-1735 on 9835 KUJ 100 kW / 093 deg to SEAs Malaysian Sarawak FM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pso0oySnXPk&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh8-Mq-ckhs&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU_efKxZbDk&feature=youtu.be 1605-1625 on 11665 KUJ 100 kW / 093 deg to SEAs Iban Wai Sarawak FM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVNPGJipBpY&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VBevU-Igh0&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yCB9IiSlak&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11665, June 8 at 1235, no signal from RTM, probably off, while 9835 at 1238 is audible with music at S6-S9. Next day June 9 at 1148, 11665 is on with pop music, while 9835 is Qur`aning past 1200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. 9635, R. Mali, Kati, 1237-1405, 03/6, dialecto local, canções e música tribais, texto; 25432, modulação débil, em geral, embora variável, entre o quase inaudível e o aproximado do razoável. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, June 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI [and non]. China Radio International via Urumqi and Bamako, June 7 1200-1457 on 17630 URU 500 kW / 308 deg to EaEu English, very strong 1400-1557 on 17630 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAf English, good signal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w6kJp9FJL0&feature=youtu.be 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 7, Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Is there an echo, or synchro? No, a few syllables apart during Chinese lesson about haircuts, toward end of clip (gh, DXLD) ** MEXICO. MEXICAN RADIO STATIONS WILL BE ABLE TO TRANSMIT IN NATIVE LANGUAGES - Escrito por Yadira Olivera Rodríguez, jueves, 02 de junio de 2016, 02 de junio de 2016, 10:49 Estaciones de radio mexicano sera capaz de transmitir en idiomas nativos http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4936221&Itemid=1 Mexico, Jun 2 (Prensa Latina) Mexican radio stations today will be able to broadcast content in any one of the country's national languages, according to a decree issued by the Ministry of Communications. The reform to the Federal Law on Telecommunications and Broadcasting, will allow the broadcast of around thirty native languages that had been set aside by Spanish only radio broadcasts. According to an expert in broadcasting, Gabriel Sosa, this is a historic reform because is about recognizing the cultural diversity of Mexico. Jorge Fernando Negrete, director of the Mexican Association of Right to Information stated that he was happy with the reform, but added that there could be more progress regarding the inclusion of indigenous peoples. sus/ym/yor/lam/ool Modificado el ( jueves, 02 de junio de 2016 ) (via Mike Terry, DXLD) Prensa Latina is the Cuban news agency; We already hear native languages on Mexican stations, so I was not aware there were any such restrixions which needed lifting. Perhaps the Cubans exaggerate, since they expect everything to be restricted by governments (gh, DXLD) ** MEXICO. VENDE GRUPO RADIO CENTRO SU EDIFICIO PRINCIPAL Grupo Radio Centro vendió su edificio principal que contiene sus oficinas y estudios de transmisión, entre otros elementos, por lo que actualmente renta el inmueble, reveló la compañía en su Informe Anual 2015. El anuncio se da luego del intento fallido de Radio Centro por entrar a la televisión abierta. El documento señala que la venta del edificio se llevó a cabo el 17 de diciembre de 2015: “A partir de esta fecha, Radio Centro renta dicho inmueble”. La empresa no reveló el monto de la operación ni tampoco el nombre del comprador. En 1992 Grupo Radio Centro compró el edificio de Constituyentes, en la ciudad de México, conocido como “El Trébol”, una construcción de alrededor de 10 mil metros cuadrados (Crónica.com.mx via GRA blog via DXLD) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- Televisión Terminada --- That's right, more permits got the Terminator treatment in the RPC: -A series of FMs from the Nuevo León state network that dropped years ago, such as XHMYN Mier y Noriega and XHBUS Bustamante -XHINS-FM Saltillo -XHMOT-FM Motul Yuc. (I don't think it was ever built) -UAT relayers outside of Cd. Victoria -Permits that failed to migrate to public use -The Quintana Roo state network, except for XHFCQ in Felipe Carrillo Puerto -The never-built Campeche state network extensions -The SRCI Michoacán 10-watt FMs -XHCRI in San Cristóbal de las Casas The docs are not available but they are all backdated to the expiration of the permits in question while conforming to the RPC naming scheme. XHINS's is dated 2003 (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, June 4, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Armando Cabada has won the municipal presidency of Ciudad Juárez as an independent candidate. If the name rings a bell with you, that's probably because there's a reason that his election victory is worthy of a mention in this space. Cabada is from the family that owns Grupo Intermedia (XHIJ + XHILA), perhaps one of the country's most important independent regional broadcasters. Four months ago, Cabada resigned from his anchor position at XHIJ in order to run for the office. http://netnoticias.mx/2016-01-27-ea4d6e78/se-despide-armando-cabada-de-canal-44-va-por-la-alcaldia-de-juarez-video/ (Raymie, June 6, ibid.) Several of you over the years have nabbed this station, so I feel this look at the 40th anniversary (!) of XHNH Irapuato, Gto. might be worth a look. http://radionotas.com/stereo-95-40-anos-de-ser-radio-contemporanea-de-excelencia-desde-irapuato/ Apparently Adela Micha (Grupo Imagen) did her morning newscast from Irapuato from May 16, the first time the station had originated a national morning newscast. It also (surprisingly) leads the ratings there, highly unusual for a station with an English format. I love RadioNotas (good articles and news of format changes - they're already generating leads that are getting sent to the databases) but they do autoplay music after a few seconds (artists/labels promoting new songs and albums), so be prepared to mute or get one random song (which changes daily) blasting at you (Raymie, June 7, ibid.) FIRST on the Mexico Beat: A yawner of an item from the IFT last month is suddenly much more exciting! A closer read of some stenographic versions of Pleno meetings reveals that the multiprogramming request made by Multimedios Televisión is not for Milenio or Teleritmo: "Mi voto acompañará a los asuntos III.55 a III.59, son solicitudes de autorización de multiprogramación, que presenta Multimedios y Televisión, para brindar el acceso de ante multiplex a la programación del canal 52 MX..." This is big news. 52MX is owned by MVS; its name comes from the channel 52 concession MVS attempted to use back in 2001 (but couldn't apply to non-subscription television due to the nature of the concession, as covered before). The stations that will carry 52MX are XHNAT, XHVTU, XHTAO, XHVTV and XHSAW. ——— Meanwhile, in less surprising news, XERUV is no more --- for now. http://www.uv.mx/prensa/general/radio-uv-finalizo-un-ciclo-e-inicia-otro/ The story was broken by the fact that the XERUV permit was not renewed. XHRUV-FM 90.5 is now the only radio station of the Universidad Veracruzana. In 2005, the permit renewal for XERUV was made 15 days late, and it turns out that the UV is acknowledging this is the reason they are closing the AM. However, the university apparently desires to return to 1550 AM and operate it again within six months. Last edited by Raymie; 06-08-2016 at 10:44 PM. (Raymie, June 8, ibid.) I've been looking a bit at the documents related to IFT-6 (the 148- station auction), and I was struck again by the most poorly defined service area in the country. With more than six million people (making it the second largest after only the Mexico City area) and two stations available, the Celaya- Guanajuato-Irapuato-Salamanca-Cd. Hidalgo-Morelia-Querétaro service area is as big a deal as its name. But it's also actually big. The coverage radius of 100 km is centered on Cerro Culiacán, and you're going to need that mountain, and probably a 1,000 kW digital TV station of a type never built in Mexico (the highest-powered DTV in Mexico is 513 kW), to actually reach all those people. The CE network has transmitters in the 100 km coverage radius at Cerro Culiacán, Cerro del Cementerio Qro., Guanajuato, San Miguel de Allende, Morelia, Puruándiro and Ciudad Hidalgo, with transmitters just outside the radius at Cerro Burro Mich. and Cerro del Zamorano. Goodness gracious (Raymie, June 9, ibid.) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. GERMANY, 9925 kHz, Netherlands, the Mighty KBC Radio, Nauen relay, 0121, Forgotten song heard, 0131 Digital test, Huey Lewis and the News, (farting heard) the heart of rock and roll heard, 0141, DX Peter, (453), May 29 UT (Richard Lemke, AB, CIDX Messenger via DXLD) 9935, UT Sunday June 5 at 0058, tune-in to Nauen, GERMANY, with rock music at S9+20; just before 0100, ID ``We`re the Mighty KBC``, bronx cheer (or should it have been a fart?) noise and immediately off*, perfectly timed, unlike a lot of such transmissions which chopped too early, paying no attention to program content. Yes, TMKBC has cut back to only one hour for North America, ex-2 or 3. Was this hour `The Giant Jukebox` or something else? Does it still contain Kraig Krist`s Forgotten Song, Kim Elliott`s Radiogram, and/or Pete`s ham DX news? Yes, from Kraig: ``On this evening's "Forgotten Song" I feature a group from Newark, New Jersey. I thought of their song based on all the rain we've gotten lately. 73, Kraig, ye "Forgotten Song" host`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, it was referred to as "The Giant Juke Box" during the program. Yes, it did include a "Forgotten Song" and Kim's digital segment featuring an image of one of the excursions during his family's recent Alaska cruise: the White Pass and Yukon Railway. No ham news. The Mighty KBC is back to two hours next weekend as announced during the program and elsewhere. P.S. Could do without the puerile "fart humour." Since most SWLs and DXers are "old farts" these days, aren't we beyond that? (Richard Langley, NB, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. Wishes for best health and a speedy recovery go out to former Chief Editor, David Ricquish, he of Beach Babble fame. David has suffered a stroke and the last I heard he was in Kenepuru Hospital undergoing treatment. The editorial team, and the League as a whole, wish David well. Our thoughts also go out to his wife, Jo. Behind every good man (June NZ DX Times via DXLD 16-22, via WORLD OF RADIO 1829) David Ricquish suffered a stroke in early May. Dene Lynneberg, Pukerua Bay has been able to fill in some of details. He reports that David’s left side has been affected which Dene notes is unfortunate as David is left-handed -- and that he is now in Kenepuru Hospital in Porirua. At the ‘Times’ deadline, Dene advised that David had begun some rehabilitation exercises and that his voice is weak. I’m sure we all wish David and his wife Jo our best thoughts for his full recovery (Theo Donnelly, BC, June NZ DX Times via DXLD 16-22, ibid.) David will be best known to many DX lists as the tireless promoter of the Radio Heritage Foundation. http://www.radioheritage.net seems to be dormant as a result, altho it has a different webmaster. Perhaps there will eventually be news there about his condition (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** NICARAGUA. 600, La Nueva Radio Ya, Managua. 1002 June 2, 2016. "Noticiero Ya" headlines, "La Nueva Radio Ya... Ya, Ya, Ya" into Nicaraguan teams baseball scores, female Spanish soft vocal from 1004 (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, June 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NICARAGUA. NICARÁGUA, 8989-BLS, El Pescador Predicador, QTH?, 2217- ..., 04/6, texto, presumìvelmente, a habitual propaganda religiosa; 15341. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, June 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [and non]. 6089.856, the only [domestic] Nigerian station on shortwave these days noted around 0622 UT on June 4 here in Germany: 6089.856, Radio Nigeria Kaduna equal level, compared to Anguilla 6090even, sermon program of downunder good propagation, even from equator area. And also a 3rd string visible on channel, like Brazilian Radio Bandeirantes on 6089.961 kHz. But now at 0700 UT I heard V of Nigeria Ikorodu on 7254.938 kHz in French, poor signal on threshold S=4 or -95dBm level. Nothing heard on 9 or 11 MHz from Nigeria so far. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, June 4, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7255, VON, 0554, June 3. Fair to good; pop American song in English; 0557-0559 just open carrier, then IS till 0600 "Nigeria" is said and more IS; in vernacular, but "Voice of Nigeria" IDs; within half an hour much weaker reception (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: Par Electronics EF-SWL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. A few pirate logs to report; best conditions seem from 2300-0400 UT these days. PIRATE-NA. Radio Illuminati, 6950 AM, 0125-0140, 05-28-16 SIO: 333 Tunes by U2, Arthur Beatrice, ID by male announcer. [Lobdell-MA] PIRATE-NA. BID/Burn It Down Radio, 6970 USB, 0004-0058+, 05-31-16 SIO: 343 Nice Memorial Day program with music by Coven, Edwin Starr, Peter, Paul and Mary, John Lennon. Talk about Memorial Day and tributes to our troops. [Lobdell-MA] PIRATE-NA. CCC/Cold Country Canada, 6969 LSB, 0030-0045+, 06-01-16, SIO: 343. Tunes by Marshall Tucker Band, The Police, Stones, etc. Shoutouts to those posting on the HFUnderground. [Lobdell-MA] (Chris Lobdell, West Tewksbury, MA USA, Receivers: Eton E1, JRC NRD- 525, Aerial G5RV Dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6930.0-USB, June 5 at 0116, S9+20 pirate with soft YL song, 0119 jazzed up version of `Go Tell It On The Mountain`; 0122:50, ``Wolverine Radio`` ID as I expected. MANY more logs, with playlists, SSTV images: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,28490.0.html Only other possible pirate signal I hear is a JBA AM carrier on 6950. These say it was Radio Illuminati: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,28492.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 91.7, KOSU, Tue June 7, following first Wed of month, at expected time of 1330 UT, preëmpting part of `Morning Edition`, monthly `The Living Room with Gerry Bonds`. You have to know this, since the KOSU online schedule fails to show such a divergence. There are two or three other regular airings preëmpting other shows the first week of each month. Even the LR own website fails to list all the KOSU airtimes, just the initial one, first Wednesday at 6:30 pm CT (currently 2330 UT). Interviews this time about art in downtown OKC: a new 21C museum-cum- hotel in a former Model T factory, which is free, featuring purple penguins; and the big Matisse exhibit, occupying the entire second floor of the OKC Museum of Art, June 18-Sept 18, only one in North America, expected huge draw of visitors from all over the continent, so for first time advance ticket sales will be for specific times. Details and audio linx: http://www.thelivingroomgb.com/ No linx there to the subject museums, but I find: http://www.21cmuseumhotels.com/oklahomacity/ They originate in Louisville, also Cincinnati, Lexington, Durham and Bentonville. If you axually want to stay there, ``Rates for a Deluxe King start at $219`` [later visited the OKC museum: MUST SEE! --- gh] As for Matisse, http://www.okcmoa.com/visit/events/matisse-in-his-time-2/ where tickets cost only $10-$12, not jacking up the price as I expected (tho it may be separate admission from the rest of the museum). The museum director however recommends two visits and in the meantime buy and read the catalogue. The OKCMOA also has an excellent film series which I dearly wish I could patronize without having to commute from Enid (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. OKLAHOMA PRIEST ON ROAD TO BECOMING STATE'S FIRST SAINT Posted: Jun 10, 2016 3:12 AM GST Updated: Jun 10, 2016 5:02 PM GST By Kelly Ogle, News 9 [with video, still photo] http://www.news9.com/story/32190035/oklahoma-priest-on-road-to-becoming-states-first-saint There are more than 10,000 saints in the Catholic Church. None of which have ever been a natural born American. However, an Oklahoma priest could soon hold that honor, as he moves one step closer to sainthood. Reverend Stanley Rother grew up on a farm in Okarche. His younger brother Tom Rother still lives there. "I drove the truck for him when we cut wheat," said Tom Rother. "We did our chores together, taking care of the calves and the hogs just like any normal farm boys." His older sister Marita Rother watched her brother follow a calling to priesthood, serving in Oklahoma for five years. In 1968, he answered another call as a missionary in Guatemala. He immediately felt a connection with the people in the small farming village of Santiago Atitilán. "Once he got there, I think it started to grow on him after he got his languages and began working more with the people, it was a very exciting thing for him," said Sister [sic] Marita. "He loved it and the people loved him." Rev. Rother helped the people of Santiago Atitilán build a small hospital and a school, as well as the first Catholic radio station, as the violence of the Guatemalan Civil War closed in. [caption to:] http://kwtv.images.worldnow.com/images/10747751_G.jpg "He was helping the people, he was giving them a better education and the government didn't want that," Sister Marita said. In early 1981, he learned his name was on a death list. He fled home to Oklahoma to take refuge, but not for long. "He loved those people and he wasn't going to stay home," said Tom. After just a few months, he returned to Guatemala and on the night of July 28, 1981, three gunmen broke into his church and shot him. "My dad called and all he said was, ‘Well they got Stan,'" Sister Marita remembers. "My parents, they really took it hard, my mom especially because that was her pride and joy," said Tom. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City had long suspected his death was more than a senseless murder. "He had known that his life was in danger," said Fr. M. Price Oswalt, with the Archdiocese of OKC. "He wasn't just murdered, he wasn't just assassinated, he died a heroic death." Father Oswalt has spent 10 years working on Rother's cause - to have him declared the first native born American martyr saint. "If you are someone who died, who spilt their blood for the faith then that in itself was a step toward sainthood," he said. Two years ago, Archbishop Coakley presented a formal petition to the congregation in Rome which summarized the facts and testimony concerning the life and death of Rother. A year later, nine theologians gave a majority vote to declare Rother a martyr. "I think from the very beginning there was a sense that his death was not just a senseless murder," said Archbishop Coakley. "His life was unique in that he literally gave his life in a violent way in witness to his faith and it really bears the marks of the classic definition of martyrdom." The area where Rother was killed is now a chapel and a monument stands where his heart and a jar of his blood remain, to keep his spirit alive. "It was kind of very poetic and beautiful that the heart of the man remain behind, he gave his life for them, so they cherish his memory there," Archbishop Coakley said. "He inspired me. He was an ordinary priest, he wasn't a great scholar but he was a real pastor, a real shepherd and he was generous and he faced danger to stay and to care for his people." His body was returned to Oklahoma and buried in his hometown of Okarche. "A saint really is someone who stands out in God's eyes and people's eyes as special and it was pretty obvious that was what he was doing," said Sister Marita. Before Father Rother is declared a saint, two things need to happen in Rome. First, Bishops and Cardinals from around the world need to vote to declare him a martyr. If the Pope agrees, he then sets a Beatification ceremony to make his martyrdome [sic] official -- that's expected within a year. Then they also need proof of a miracle. Once that miracle is discovered and approved by Rome, the Pope declares him to become a Saint. Fact sheet on Rother's road to Sainthood http://www.archokc.org/multimedia/ministries-offices-1/cause-for-beatification-of-father-stanley-rother-1/press-area-1/3-rother-fact-sheet-1/file (KWTV via gh, DXLD) ** OMAN. Radio Sultanate of Oman in Arabic, instead of English June 3: 1400-1417 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg WeEu Arabic, instead of English 1417-1500 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg WeEu English, as scheduled A-16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wExhNtWce3M&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0wnYxDtJDg&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gamws2q3E-4&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gywcf7OnJAI&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Sultanate of Oman Ramadan special on June 7 1400-1500 on 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb1aMxXPN38&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUGflt3D1-k&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K7v9R3Y9TQ&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 7, Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So what was the special content? (gh) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, NBC Madang on June 6 was not heard at 0901 nor 1001, but was noted on the air by 1106; by 1212 was off the air; so Madang had a very abbreviated broadcast today. 3365, NBC Milne Bay on June 6 first noted at 0901, with // NBC Bougainville, with the NBC news in English; still going after NBC Madang (3260) went off the air. Dave Valko was also listening to them today over on the east coast (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: Par Electronics EF-SWL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) also see BOUGAINVILLE ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA [non-log]. 7324.95, Wantok Radio Light has not been heard for a while now. Latest check on June 3 at 0905, with clear frequency (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: Par Electronics EF-SWL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Appreciate receiving the following helpful feedback, confirming Wantok Radio Light is currently off the air. Believe silent for at least one week now. Ron - - - - - Craig Seager (June 4): "Definitely off (checked again 0725 today), Last logged here 30th April, but may have been active beyond that." - - - - - Rob Wagner (June 3): "I checked for Wantok on June 1 and 3 around 1030 but heard nothing under CRI (I can usually hear something from them even though China is there and very strong). I was unsure if it was a propagation issue or they were off air." - - - - - Bryan Clark (June 4): "I don't check them very regularly but Wantok last noted in my logbook on 14 May at 0815 UTC." - - - - - Bruce Churchill (June 3): "They were on the air on May 24 in the 0800 time frame . . . from Don Moman’s Perseus site in Edmonton. . ." (Ron Howard, June 5, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, A lot of news out of PNG just now. Will SW have special news coverage? CLASHES ERUPT AFTER PAPUA NEW GUINEA POLICE OPEN FIRE ON STUDENT PROTESTERS --- Officials said as many as four people were killed and a dozen more were wounded. . . http://goo.gl/kl2VSs (Huffington Post via Ron Howard, California, June 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, June 8, indeed NBC did have some special coverage of the current unrest in PNG. 3325, NBC Bougainville, checking from 0803 to 1103; mostly in Tok Pisin/Pidgin; 0806-0857 impassioned and animated speeches from Parliament; mentioning: "university student unrest," "Mr. Speaker, ...," "Bougainville independence," etc.; 0857 National Anthem; 0901 NBC news in English (// 3260 NBC Madang, with 3365 NBC Milne Bay too weak to confirm); 0912-0930 EZL pop songs; after 0930 taking about events in Port Moresby (also seemed // 3260); 1001 PNG bird call and into the NBC news about "Parliament" (3260 not //); 1011 DJ with pop songs ("Teen Angle," etc.); by 1100 had moderate RRI Palangkaraya QRM. A decent day for Bougainville reception. It will be recalled that with my May 9 log of Bougainville, I reported: "All segments today dealt with education minister Nick Kuman concerns about the University of Papua New Guinea student boycott and planned protest march, that are also disrupting primary and secondary schools which cancelled their classes today in fear of violence." So the current unrest had been brewing for a while now (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [and non]. 4774.946, R. Tarma, Tarma, 2232-2240, 02/6, canções índias; 34433, QRM do Brasil, em 4774.914 (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, June 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So they make a 30 Hz low audible het (gh, DXLD) ** PERU. 5980, June 3 at 0057, JBA carrier from R. Chaski, until auto- cutoff at 0100:24.5*, which is 33 seconds later than last catch one pentaday ago, May 29 until 0059:51.5*, so averaging 6.6 seconds later per, just right. 5980, June 5 at 0100, tune-in just in time after KBC sign-off, to JBA carrier, cutting off about 0100:39* before I am gazing intently at my watch; that makes it 14.5 seconds later than two nights ago, or averaging 7.25 each. This no longer meshes with the RF buzz ignition of my streetlite, still not on by 0155, clear sky after sunset. 5980, June 6 at 0057, JBA carrier from R. Chaski until autocutoff at 0100:43.5* which is only 4.5 seconds later than approx. timing last night. Skipping that and comparing to three nights ago, June 3 until 0100:24.5*, 19 seconds earlier, that averages 6.3 seconds slippage per, more like it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 7410, FEBC, 1151-1205, June 5. IS mixing with CRI, till China went off at 1157*; 1200 "FEBC" ID; assume into listed Cambodian; after 1157 almost fair (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: Par Electronics EF-SWL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. Hi Glenn, Radio Romania June 3 at 0130 GMT, 7335 kHz. Romanian programming with music, very good signal here (S7) (in Arlington Hts, IL, Mike Stone, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 7295 // 7345, Radio Sakha. June 3 with open carrier at tune in of 0855; audio at 0900, but no IS nor time pips; straight into Russian programming; 7345, as usual the best reception when compared to 7295. Have to wonder about item in DXLD 16-21, reporting "presumed" R. Sakha reception "0803+," as I have only observed a *0900 sign on. All the schedules I have seen also indicate *0900, whether weekday or weekend, with 0500* to *0900 being silent (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: Par Electronics EF-SWL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Re: Novosibirsk (NSB) destruction update --- GE imagery reveals that by June 2015 all the felled SW towers have been cleared from the site (Ian, June 7, swsites yg via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Mass media ========== Moscow ---------- The works on the preservation of the Shukhov Tower in Moscow On the Shukhov tower completed emergency response operation, according to the Department of Cultural Heritage of the capital. Inside the tower is built of steel structures, supporting structures and tiers allows to unload them. "Carried emergency response operation - extremely necessary measure to preserve this outstanding engineering structure. Now, the shape of the tower is built inside a special metal structure supporting the tiers of the tower and allows to unload them. Total of unloading points - 24 "- are reported words of the head Mosgornaslediya Alexei Yemelyanov. In addition, the tower was disassembled technical purpose concrete structures located inside and outside the radio tower. Shukhov Tower - teleradiorvyshka the south of Moscow, which is also called Shabolovskaya - object of cultural heritage of regional significance. Radio tower height of 148.3 meters - innovative for the twentieth century hyperboloid design, made in the form of a supporting steel mesh sheath. Built in 1922 under the project of academician Shukhov. Since then, it has never been repaired. The television broadcast from the tower are not conducted since 2002. In 2014, the tower was in disrepair, and it was decided to hold its restoration. infox.ru (OnAir.ru) 73! (RusDX June 5 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [non]. EDITOR'S DESK ================ Continued to decline in Russian broadcasting on short wave. He announced the termination of broadcasting of Radio Liberty. There are reports that All India Radio might stop broadcasting SW. The stations plan to broadcast on the Internet. As practice has shown many stations the transition of broadcasting in the Internet the number of students decreases sharply and, most importantly, the station lost its popularity among the DX-listeners and listeners in general and start to forget about them (Anatoly Klepov, RusDX June 5 via DXLD) ** SAO TOME E PRINCIPE. SÃO TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE, 945, R. Nacional de São Tomé e Príncipe, Pinheira: v. ficheiro OLonga/OMédia. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, June 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Why in the world is this on the same frequency as RN ANGOLA?? (gh, DXLD) ** SARAWAK [non]. 11665, see MALAYSIA ** SAUDI ARABIA. 17895+, June 2 at 1456 I am starting to measure how far off-frequency BSKSA is, but Qur`an chopped off the air at 1457*. 13710.020, June 2 at 1541, I do get this HQS measured, poor signal. On May 21-22, Wolfgang Büschel pinpointed *all* the BSKSA frequencies to three or even four decimal places, as in DXLD 16-21. These two he had on: 17894.999 and 13710.0145 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also INTERNATIONAL VACUUM ** SEYCHELLES [non]. New updated schedule of FEBA Radio via BaBcoCk Trincomalee: 1330-1345 on 9775*TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Kannada Mon/Fri/Sun 1330-1345 on 9775*TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Telugu Tue/Wed 1330-1345 on 9775*TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Malayalam Thu 1330-1345 on 9775*TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Tamil Sat 1345-1400 on 9775*TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs English Mon 1345-1400 on 9775*TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Kuvi Tue 1345-1400 on 9775*TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Malayalam Wed/Fri/Sat * co-ch CNR-2 9775 BEI 150 kW / 270 deg to EaAs Chinese Daily https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aRxbpbwioE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95breoCHj1w&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 6, Equipment: Sony ICF- 2001D, 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 9545.00, June 2 at 0700, I`m up late following completion of World of Radio 1828, so tune around, and very pleased to find an S9 signal fading to S7 with a commercial in English; right on frequency, and into ``national news headlines``, 0701 news in detail about the Solomon Islands, including some clips; police knocking on doors looking for a suspect soon to be charged; tobacco task force. 0708 mid-ID as ``News from the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation, SIBC in Honiara``. 0714 repeating the headlines (seems traditional BBC format), 0715 lengthy weather forecasts for different islands; 0721 music, still songs at 0744, zzz. I`m re-awake at 1131 so turn on the R75 to find SIBC is *still* on its day frequency, nothing on 5020, and still S7-S9 with music, 1134 sounds like same announcer as earlier, 1137 more music before I go back to sleep. Some of it may have been in Pijin; altho always English intonation, some of the words were not understood. Never any CCI to 9545, but now there is ACI from CRI on both sides, Beijing sites: 9540 in Cantonese, 9550 in Vietnamese. I`ve never had any luck hearing SIBC 9545 before its normal 0500* and this was much better than ever on 5020. 9545, June 3 at 0600, no signal from SIBC, like there was 18-23 hours earlier, presumably back to 5020 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9545.000 even, Honiara, ? SIBC ABC ? news at 0500 UT, but sudden TX off at 0500:15 UT! S=8-9 strong signal. But couldn't be traced on 5020 kHz, when checked at 0505 UT (Brisbane, Queensland remote unit via Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) When checked again at 0545 Honiara was on air on 5019.999 kHz now, music program in progress, tiny S=4-5 or -94dBm signal. SUFFERED by a scratching dittering ute signal in 5016.2 to 5021.7 kHz wide range (Brisbane, Queensland remote unit via Wolfgang Büschel, June 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9545, June 8 at 0536, SIBC is on late again after nominal 0500*, talk at S4-S5, still at 0602 but music on this hourtop rather than news as at 0700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA. Re: ``It seems dear Ralph doesn`t take kindly to being mocked. BTW, credit Harold for the ``Brother HyStairical`` monicker (further propagated by Ivo Ivanov), like Allan Weiner for ``Brother Scare``; not me (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` I look forward to hearing my name mentioned on the Overcomer (Harold Frodge, MI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Further to what Brother Stairway was heard saying on air in response to what I said online: altho he denied his supporters are ``suckers``, he did not dare to go on, quote and refute what I said right after that, as in DXLD 16-20: ``Let me clarify that gospel huxters, epitomized by R. G., are totally lunatic --- extreme religionism is really a mental illness. BS spends a huge fraxion of his airtime talking about the ministry, send money, money, money, rather than axually preaching, and when he does, it`s all doom and gloom, a terrible misservice to humanity, appealing with his exaggerated self-assuredness to the irrational among us. It`s nothing but an ego trip from the abyss``. Why not? He`s even put caller-critix on air, hoping that will bolster sympathizers. Another item he said that I meant to mention: says I am correct about WBCQ testing 3250, and he may very well buy up all the time on it if he gets some more money. BTW, lately he`s also been playing very old recordings of self when he was much younger and his voice uncroaky, almost unrecognizable today. If he hadn`t screamed so much since younger, his voice would not be such a ruin. BTW2, if I were a believer, I would never accept BS or any other huxter claiming to have a closer connexion to God than I (Glenn Hauser, OK, June 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Brother Stair Having Problems Tonight --- Tuning through some of the various frequencies used by Brother Stair / Overcomer Ministries for the past hour or so, there is only the continuous looping of the "other angel" announcement, rams horn, and brief song. Walterboro to the broadcast sites communications problems? (Richard Langley, NB, 0229 UT June 4, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7570 RMI TOM? feed break ?, S=9+40powerhouse in Alberta CAN. "angels flying in the midst of ... gospel to preach", over and over again. But BS TOM heard real preaching on WBCQ 7489.954 kHz exact, S=9+20dB -62dBm signal at 0250 UT June 4 (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12160 // 9980, Sun June 5 at 1829, Brother Scare is now on two WWCR frequencies. He`s bought up a bunch of spare time, mostly on weekends. And is // 15440 WRMI but not exactly synchronized. Meanwhile, no carrier on 15825, so the other WWCR must be AWOL, since 15240 WWRB is well audible. 9980, UT Monday June 6 at 0038, this WWCR is also on Overcomer, someone else preaching at the moment, and // 7780 WRMI. 7520, UT Monday June 6 at 0048, BS is an echo apart from WRMI 7570. WWCR 7520 was formerly on air only on weekdays, so that makes 6220 eligible again for the WNQM difference product 1300 kHz lower, but it remains unheard and presumably still filtered out after our numerous logs of it last winter. 7489.915, UT Monday June 6 at 0048, WBCQ is already in BS, instead of not until 0100 on this frequency, pushing his Pentecost promotion get- together. This one is way out of synch with 7520 WWCR and 7570 WRMI; I axually have to pay attention for a sesquiminute to measure the delay at 87 seconds! WBCQ 7490 sked shows BS at 01-03 daily except 00-03 on UT Mondays; also 22-23 UT daily. 5920, UT Monday June 6 at 0058, BS is here too on WHRI and not matching 7570 WRMI. See Ivo Ivanov`s reports for the updated BS skeds, also amplified on WINB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 17855, June 5 at 1825, NO signal from REE, but nominal on 17715, 15500, 15390 (and not on 21620 either). 2131 recheck however, on BST-1 caradio memory, 17855 is on and quite good. 17855, June 7 at 1939, no signal from REE which is supposed to start at 1800 weekdays. This North American beam must be off since // 17715 is weakly detectable, propagable, and also 15500. There is something on 17885, so could it be a mispunch? No, from 1930 that`s BBC Hausa via Ascension. Another try next day: 17855, June 8 at 1820, no signal, while 15500 and 17715 are JBA but no 15390, which is always weak but may also be AWOL. 2144 recheck, same situation (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [non]. PRESENTAN UN LIBRO QUE RECOGE LA HISTORIA DE RADIO EUSKADI EiTB ha presentado en Bilbao el libro “La Historia de Radio Euskadi. Guerra, resistencia, exilio, democracia”, escrito por Leyre Arrieta y que recoge la historia de la radio vasca, desde la Radio Euzkadi nacida en el contexto de la guerra de 1936, hasta la actual EiTB de la era digital. Recoge todas las etapas de su evolución, sus objetivos, estilo y sus historias propias. En la presentación han participado además de la autora Leyre Arrieta, doctora en Historia Contemporanea por la Universidad de Deusto; el director del proyecto y editor del libro, Xabier Irujo, profesor del Centro de Estudios Vascos de la Universidad de Nevada en Reno; Odile Kruzeta, directora de EiTB Irratia, y dos testigos de la etapa de Radio Euskadi en Venezuela, el político Iñaki Anasagasti y la escritora Arantzazu Amezaga. El libro es un recorrido por las cuatro fases que conforman la historia de Radio Euskadi (guerra, resistencia, exilio y era digital), y es a su vez un homenaje a todas aquellas personas que han participado en ella. En sus páginas se analizan los escenarios que provocaron los diversos cierres y reaperturas de la emisora; los objetivos y características internas de cada una de sus fases, asi como los contenidos de los programas de cada etapa. Por otra parte, se desmienten algunas informaciones aceptadas como ciertas y se aportan nuevos datos sobre algunos pasajes desconocidos o silenciados de la historia de nuestra radio. El enfoque, las características de la programación y los contenidos de cada periodo vienen condicionados y marcados por el contexto histórico al que pertenecen y por las estrategias de comunicación y de difusión diseñadas a cada paso por los repectivos directores. Así pues, la historia de esta emisora es reflejo de una parte de la historia del pueblo vasco y en particular del primer Gobierno Vasco y del exilio (tomada de http://www.eitb.eus/ via GRA blog via DXLD) ** SUDAN [non]. Frequency change or wrong frequency of Radio Dabanga, June 7 till 0557 NF 11645 SMG 250 kW / 146 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic, ex 11650 // frequency 13800 NAU 125 kW / 152 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic no change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1t8uN_ZmoU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI0XfJx3Y8Y&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 7, Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Probably to escape jammer 11651+; they did the same 5-kHz shift on 15 MHz and the jammer never caught on --- But this will clash with Greece. I don`t think Dabanga would be in Juba Arabic since it`s not for Sudan South in particular; or can you tell the difference? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN SOUTH. YEI AREA RESIDENTS COMPLAIN OF INFORMATION VACUUM | Radio Tamazuj https://radiotamazuj.org/en/article/yei-area-residents-complain-information-vacuum Residents of the proposed Yei River State, which includes Yei, Morobo, Lainya and Kajo-Keji counties have expressed frustration over the lack of news and programming on FM radio, saying that UN Radio Miraya has been off-air and other stations have weak signals or uninteresting programming. The popular Radio Miraya has been off in the area for the last one month, residents in the area told Radio Tamazuj. Joseph Lotigo, a resident from Yei River County, said, “For the last one month, we are staying like people locked in a prison with no access to timely and quality news and the widely liked programs, for example, the breakfast show and the inside South Sudan, which provide information to the people.” Meanwhile, a resident of Kajo-Keji County, Betty Daku, said they really lacked access to information in the county so much that they have resorted to listening to FMs from the neighbouring Uganda, which broadcast mostly about what is happening in Uganda. “We don’t have access to Radio Miraya for nearly four weeks. In Kajo- Keji today we have low sound information from Eye Radio whose sound coverage is not even clear and for the last many weeks we have resorted to listening to Arua One FM, Radio Pachase, Faida FM and the Nile FM which mostly broadcast Ugandan news and programs with less on South Sudan,” she complained. In Lainya County, Manase Duku said he has resorted to using radio cassettes and recorded songs played on radio cassettes. “We have gone back to those days of using cassette radio players instead of listening to an FM Radio rich in information,” he said. A resident in Morobo County called Moro said they cannot afford to listen and access information through the internet but are listening to off and on local radio stations broadcasting from Yei and Morobo counties. In Yei town, Peter Boboya has called on the management of Radio Miraya to install more transmitters in the counties so that people can access information. “We are now in darkness. We really call on Radio Miraya and other FM stations like Eye Radio to extend their services to the area. Most of the people in Yei don’t have timely information about what is happening around the country,” he concluded. For its part, Radio Miraya has not yet shared a map of its coverage area requested by Radio Tamazuj. But earlier the station had posted notice online that it is undertaking maintenance in Yei. Meanwhile, Radio Tamazuj and Eye Radio are accessible on shortwave in all parts of the proposed Yei River State, but many listeners are unaware of the frequencies of these stations. Posted by: (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO, June 2, dxldyg via DXLD) Miraya SW relays ceased at the end of the A-15 season, as in DXLD 15- 45. Had been on 11560 at 03-06 via France, and on 9940 in B-seasons. Included some English; but evidently continued longer on FM (gh, DXLD) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. Using the Twente receiver, recorded Eye Radio between 1600 and 1700 UT on Tuesday, 7 June, on 17730 kHz from Issoudun. Included English segment. Signal started out a bit weak but improved during the broadcast. Will archive the recording later. On 98.6 FM in Juba . Has anyone checked to see if the SW broadcast is // to the streamed audio at this time? Or is it a special compilation? English-language website: http://www.eyeradio.org/ (-- Richard Langley, NB, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) FRANCE, Powerful signal of Eye Radio in English via TDF, June 7 1600-1700 on 17730 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Arabic/English* *including other languages Dinka/Nuer/Shilluk/Bari/Zande/Lutoho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKSUzs9Odgs&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qBaWjmTzNo&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 7, Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWAZILAND [non]. MOLDOVA, Updated schedule of TWR Africa on 9940 & 15105 kHz via Grigoriopol, KCH: 1630-1645 15105 300 kW / 160 deg EaAf Somali Sun, ex 11635 DHA 1630-1700 15105 300 kW / 160 deg EaAf Somali Mon-Sat, ex 11635 DHA 1800-1815 9940 300 kW / 157 deg EaAf Tigrinya Mon-Thu, ex 5965 DHA 1815-1845 9940 300 kW / 157 deg EaAf Tigrinya Mon-Fri, ex 5965 DHA 1800-1830 9940 300 kW / 157 deg EaAf Tigre Sat, ex 5965 DHA 1800-1830 9940 300 kW / 157 deg EaAf Kunama Sun, ex 5965 DHA 1830-1900 9940 300 kW / 157 deg EaAf Tigrinya Sun, ex 5965 DHA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6APtFYw01w&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qKzi-5ShEg&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 7, Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. 11470.181, June 4 at 1252, very poor S2 signal with music, 1300 unreadable announcement; off-frequency, presumed Sound of Hope and not a Firedragon or CNR1 jammer which would be on-frequency; nor is // the obvious CNR1 jammers on 11785. Aoki does show SOH 20 hours a day on 11470.088 and subject to *jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. Hello Glenn: I received this e-mail this morning. June 6, 2016. Good listening (Richard Lemke, AB, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello listeners! RTI is celebrating its 88th birthday and we are inviting you to send us your creative well-wishes from around the world! Use your cell phone or camera to create a picture that combines the number 88 with an image that represents your country (national flag, map, landmark etc). You can also use words, audio recording or video to wish RTI a happy 88th birthday. RTI will select the three most creative entries for cash prizes. Successful entrants will also be entered for a prize draw. Sign up now to submit your entry! If you have any questions, please contact: rti88th@gmail.com Website: http://events.rti.org.tw/big5/2016Activity/2016rti88/en.aspx Link for entry form: https://goo.gl/KUQW3d Good luck and best wishes, RTI Public Relations Office (via Richard Lemke, AB, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. 15565, TAJIKISTAN, Voice of Tibet relay heard at 1248 on 5/30/16. a man speaking in listed Tibetan. Fair-to-poor (Bob Brossell, Pewaukee, WI, JRC NRD-545 (Godar DXR-1000 antenna); ICOM IC- R75 (Grove Flex antenna); Eton E1; Sony ICF SW77, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) 15565, TAJIKISTAN, Voice of Tibet-Dushanbe, (Presumed), (Opposition to Tibet), at 1300, on 30 May. There were several time pips at the top of the hour followed by a male announcer speaking in (Presumed) Tibetan. There was continued talking until the station went off the air at 1305 as scheduled. Poor (John Cooper, Lebanon, PA, Winradio-G33DDC, CommRadio CR-1a, SDR-IQ, GAP-Hear It-In Line Module, Timewave ANC-4, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, Wellbrook ALA1530LNPro, Pars SWL Sloper, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) VOT is not ``scheduled`` on 15565 from Tajikistan, but always on split frequencies. Likely you were hearing the CNR1 jammers which stay on adjacent -5 or -0 frequencies, which are in Chinese instead of Tibetan. Here`s the Aoki entry for above timespan, the * meaning jammed 2 or 3 kHz away: 15567 1236-1304 TJK * VOICE OF TIBET Tib Dushanbe-Ya 1-7 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 15450, June 5 at 1254, VOT with poor S5-S9 signal but a bit better than usual, with theme recognized for `Question of the Month`, a daily announcement, but can`t copy any details. Seemed to be followed by dead air before some music. Lotsa luck finding what the QotM for June is on their website, since TRT took away the once useful VOT pages. It`s easy multiple-choice, with a bit of research, and if drawn a winner, you get a nice little gift like a decorative coin pouch, and/or a coaster (or maybe something else by now). 9735, June 6 at 0043, very poor S4 with Qur`an vs. heavy splash from 9730 Romania. EiBi shows it`s VOT to the Far East in Turkish at 00-02 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 10110 / 9145 kHz VOT Emirler intermodulation. Mail from IARU / DARC Band Watch, [INTRUDER ALERT]. On 03 June 2016 at 1835 UT on 10110 kHz Voice of Turkey, \\ px 9460 kHz (Wolfgang DK2OM, bandwatch June 3; via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews) Re: 10110 VOT. Hallo, ja die 'uebliche' intermodulation Formel greift hier 9460 1600-2100 27,28 EMR 500 310 0 215 Turkish TUR TRT 16003 und 325 kHz apart, English 1830-1930 UT 9785 1830-1930 27,28 EMR 500 310 0 205 English TUR TRT 16151 Gegencheck, englisches TRT Programm dagegen muss auf 9145 kHz aufscheinen. EMR, TRT: FREQ STRT STOP CIRAF ZONES POWR AZISLW ANT LANG kHz UTC ITU zones kW degr REQUEST# 5960 1600 2100 38E,39,40W 500 150 0 205 Turk 4591 6040 0400 0600 39 500 138 0 215 Turk 4592 6165 0300 0400 38E,39,40W 250 138 0 215 Eng 4593 7210 1100 1130 28S 250 280 -10 210 Bulg 7419 7360 1730 1830 38,47,48 500 180 0 216 Franz 16002 9410 1730 1830 28 500 318 8 205 Deu 7428 9460 1600 2100 27,28 500 310 0 215 Tur 16003 << 9465 0200 0300 42,43 500 72 -10 211 Uigur 16147 9515 0300 0400 3-5,6E,7-11,17,27,28W 500 325 0 219 Eng 4601 9530 1530 1630 29SE,39NE,40,41 500 105 0 215 Azeri 16005 9540 1400 1500 38E,39,40 500 150 30 205 Arabi 16006 9610 1400 1430 27S,28S,37N 500 280 -10 210 Ital 16007 9620 2030 2130 39-41,49,54,55,58-60 500 98 -7 219 Eng 15556 9635 1930 2030 27,28W 500 300 0 205 Franz 16148 9655 1000 1100 29S,30SW 500 72 25 205 Georg 16149 9735 0000 0200 42,43 500 72 -10 211 Turk 16150 9765 1500 1600 30S,40 250 105 0 205 Farsi 16009 9770 0100 0200 8S,10SE,11,12,27S,37N 500 290 0 219 Span 4631 9785 1830 1930 27,28 500 310 0 205 Eng 16151 << 9830 2200 2300 5,8,9,11N,17,18,27,28 500 310 -10 215 Eng 7421 9840 1300 1600 27,28 500 310 -10 215 Turk 16011 9855 1000 1030 19-21,29,30 500 42 10 215 Tatar 16012 9870 0100 0200 12S,13-15,16N,37 500 252 0 219 Span 16013 11615 1930 2030 37,38,46 500 262 10 211 Franz 16014 11730 0700 0800 29SE,39NE,40NW 500 72 0 205 Azeri 16015 11750 0600 0900 29S,30S,40 500 80 0 205 Turk 16016 11750 0900 1000 39N,40W 500 150 30 205 Arab 16037 11765 1500 1630 40,41 500 100 0 205Dari/Pashto/Uzbek 11795 0830 1000 39N,40NW 500 105 0 205 Farsi 16018 11825 1200 1230 29SE,30S,40N 500 72 -10 211 Turkme 15703 11880 1330 1400 30,31 500 72 25 205 Kazakh 16152 11930 1630 1730 27S,28,37 500 280 -10 210 Span 16020 11955 0600 1200 38E,39,40W 500 150 0 205 Turk 4634 11965 1300 1400 19-22,29,30N 500 0 -30 205 Russia 16021 11980 0400 0600 18S,27,28 500 310 25 215 Turk 15704 13635 0600 1300 27,28 500 310 0 215 Turk 4620 13650 1030 1100 30S,40N 500 72 0 211 Uzbek 16153 13710 1200 1300 40,41N 500 105 -10 215 Urdu 16023 13760 1130 1230 28 500 318 8 205 Deutsc 7423 15240 1100 1200 42-44 500 72 20 211 Chines 16024 15410 1230 1330 42,43 500 72 -10 211 Uighur 15696 15450 1230 1330 18S,27,28W 500 318 8 205 Eng 7424 15520 1630 1730 30S,40E,41N,49 500 105 -10 215 Eng 16025 17770 1400 1500 37,38W,46 500 252 0 219 Arabic 16026 same IM happened some 2 years ago, July 31, 2014 [INTRUDER ALERT] (vy73 (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, darc P11 via BCDX 4 June via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DXLD) ** TURKEY. [NonProfit] VOA JOURNALISTS ATTACKED IN TURKEY http://www.insidevoa.com/a/voa-journalists-attacked-in-turkey/3367781.html VOA Turkish's Mahmut Bozarslan (L) and VOA Kurdish's Hatice Kamer (R) after being attacked in Midyat, Turkey on June 8. [caption] WASHINGTON D.C., June 8, 2016 -- Two Voice of America journalists were assaulted in Turkey while on assignment Wednesday, June 8. VOA Turkish contributing reporter Mahmut Bozarslan was shooting video in Midyat, Turkey, the scene of a car bombing Wednesday, when a group of young people demanded that he stop filming. The gang beat and kicked Bozarslan, and broke his camera. He was hospitalized with injuries to his head and body. VOA Kurdish contributing reporter Hatice Kamer also was covering the bombing, when she was approached by a group of men who demanded that she stop shooting video. She refused and identified herself as a VOA reporter. The gang then attacked Kamer with rocks. Kamer also sustained head injuries and was hospitalized. "The attacks on Voice of America journalists are unacceptable," VOA Director Amanda Bennett said. "We condemn the violence against our reporters. We demand that the Turkish government bring these attackers to justice and ensure the safety of all journalists working in Turkey. This intimidation will not deter VOA from its mission to report the truth." "The Broadcasting Board of Governors calls on Turkish authorities to enforce the rule of law with respect to these attacks," BBG CEO and Director John F. Lansing said. "The people of Turkey deserve unfettered access to the reliable news and information. We will not tolerate violence against our journalists." Kamer and Bozarslan were reporting on a car bombing outside a police station in Midyat, near the Syrian border. A police officer and two civilians were killed and at least 30 others were wounded in the blast, according to Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, who blamed Kurdish militants for the attack. ABOUT VOA Turkish is a multimedia Internet and television service, with programming carried nationally on Turkey's TGRT News TV Channel. The service also is affiliated with Mynet, one of the leading online news and entertainment portals in Turkeywith more than 6.5 million registered members and 38 million unique monthly visitors. VOA Turkish also has a substantial audience in Europe, Cyprus and the Middle East. VOA Kurdish reaches its audience on radio, television and the Internet. In addition to shortwave and AM, the service's programs are broadcast by FM affiliates in several cities in Iraq, including Arbil, Sulaimania, Kirkuk, Mosul, Baghdad and Basra. VOA Kurdish also produces video reports that are streamed on its website. VOA programs are intended for the more than 30 million Kurds living in the Middle East and Eurasia, and the approximately one million Kurds in Europe and North America (VOA PR via Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD) ** UGANDA. 4749.992, UNIDentified, ? could it be R Dunamis Uganda ?, at 1620 UT June 5, S=4 threshold -105dBm (Wolfgang Büschel, Thanks Bell at Simonstown, Republic of South Africa for new SDR remote unit access, DSWCI DX Window June 8 via DXLD) 4749.95, Dunamis SW at Mukono (tentative) carrier only from Perseus site in Brisbane from 1855 tune. S-meter at S-5/6. Checked several sites in W. Europe but Australia has the strongest carrier indication. No audio heard so can't verify ID but typically Dunamis has been the only occupant of 4750 in the 1900 time frame. Can usually be heard after CNR is off after 1735. Carrier still on past 1930 - nominal 1920*. This bears watching in the days ahead as Dunamis has been silent for some time ("Bruce Churchill", June 6, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UGANDA [non]. 15240, Sunday June 5 at 1824 check, Radio Munansi is still running on WWRB, presumably in Luganda; speaker, once mentioning Obama, leaves *very* long pauses between thoughts/sentences, so could save a bundle in airtime costs by editing them out to one sesquihour or maybe even one hour instead of two, but maybe not worth the trouble. Good signal here but probably not in East Africa. This has been appearing Sat & Sun only, at 17-19. I did not check on June 4 but others heard it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. La Rassegna stampa QUEL RADAR NELLA FORESTA CONTAMINATA DI CHERNOBYL Tra mistero, bufale e realtà: un articolo, un commento e due video Sul gruppo Yahoo UDXF (ripreso da DXLD e SWB) si riporta il link a un articolo dedicato a un presunto radar segreto nascosto nella foresta di Chernobyl, contaminata dopo il disastro nucleare di 30 anni fa. Si fa riferimento a teorie circa la manipolazione della mente e a esperimenti per influenzare il meteo: by Luke Spencer, in Atlas Obscura, vedi: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-top-secret-military-basehidden-in-chernobyls-irradiated-forest Ed ecco un commento di un certo Token, sempre sulla stessa lista UDXF che mette in evidenza certi errori: "While the article appears better researched than some has been published, it still contains errors and sensationalism. The article says “The purpose of the Russian Woodpecker remained a mystery. Conspiracy theories ranged from Soviet mind control to weather experiments. Then came the collapse of the Soviet Union, which revealed that the Russian Woodpecker was at the forefront of what was known as “over the horizon” radar”. Aside from conspiracy people it was known to be a radar from very early on. The waveform was well understood and its purpose, and potential performance levels, easily understood by anyone in the field. Today some people still believe it was mind control, but then some people believe Elvis is still alive and pumping gas in Montana also. The article further says “The Duga-3 (Eastern) radar broadcasting the Woodpecker signal was located in the forest surrounding Chernobyl.” Two errors in one short sentence. The Duga near Chernobyl was not the “Eastern” radar, it was the Western radar, the Eastern radar was located near Komsomolsk-na-Amure in far eastern Russia. And the large antenna and processing facility near Chernobyl did not broadcast the Woodpecker signal. The Duga radars, like many HF OTHRs, were bistatic radars. This meant that the transmitter and the receiver were physically separated. In the case of these radars by about 60 km. The facility that remains today, and is seen in the pictures in that piece, is the receiver, not the transmitter or source of the signal. The transmitter was located about 60 km to the north east, near the city of Lyubech. By the way, Wikipedia, and several other sources, have the locations of the transmitter and receiver reversed. Ma ci sono anche due video interessanti da vedere sullo stesso tema: Interesting article about OTH HF radar at Chernobyl with audio clip and here is a link to a youtube-video also taking a closer look at the installations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeLjJXvtmxo and there are more videos on youtube like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-UXWh4Rj_E You can even book a holiday trip to the Woodpecker. 73, (Harald [Kuhl?], DL1ABJ via DXPlorer via Radiorama numero 56, AIR Associazione Italiana Radioascolto, Torino, Italy via RusDX June 5 via DXLD) ** U K. “BBC’S FUTURE SET OUT IN GOVERNMENT WHITE PAPER" THE MEDIA SHOW - BBC Radio 4 As the government's long-awaited White Paper on the future of the BBC is published, Steve Hewlett talks to the leading players about what it actually says. Will it mark the end of the BBC as we know it? Or has all the hype been misplaced? Steve speaks to Culture Secretary John Whittingdale, before asking a panel of experts what these plans really mean for the future of the corporation. He's joined by former Culture Secretary Dame Tessa Jowell; Michael Grade, who was chairman of the BBC from 2004 to 2006 and executive chairman of ITV from 2007 to 2009; former BBC Trustee, David Liddiment, who is also founder of All3 Media, and Tim Suter, once of Ofcom and the DCMS - and the BBC, and now a broadcasting consultant. (30") http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b079m0ps (John Figliozzi, NY, Podding Along, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. BBC KYRGYZ MARKS 20 YEARS ON AIR WITH SPECIAL CONTENT - AND 3 MILLION WEEKLY REACH ON TV http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/bbc-kyrgyz-20-years (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 4 June 2016, DXLD) ** U K [and non]. RADIO MI AMIGO SW BROADCASTS IN JULY AND AUGUST The UK version of Radio Mi Amigo broadcasts annually from the former lightship LV18 anchored on Harwich Pier, Harwich, England, to coincide with the Harwich Sea Festival. The broadcasts aim to raise funds to keep the tourist attraction LV18 maintained and afloat; as well as focusing on the days of offshore radio [as] it's a radio museum. All participants are volunteers and include many famous broadcasters both from offshore days and beyond. This year, as well as being on FM locally (106.8 MHz, subject to OFCOM approval) and online at http://radiosix.com:8000/miamigo.mp3 Radio Mi Amigo will also be on shortwave for an hour each day (two hours on the final day) on 6070 kHz from the channel 292 transmitter near Munich. The schedule is as follows (liable to alteration) with times in UT: Saturday 30th July: 0500 - 0600 Tony Currie Show (first broadcast of the 9 day venture) Sunday 31st July: 1600 - 1700: John Ross-Barnard Monday 1st August: 2200 - 2300: Dave Kent Tuesday 2nd August: 2000 - 2100: John Cavanagh Wednesday 3rd August: 1800 - 1900: Garry Lee Thursday 4th August: 0700 - 0800: Enda Caldwell Friday 5th August: 1300 - 1400: Alan Turner Saturday 6th August: 1200 - 1300: Roger Day Sunday 7th August: 1100 - 1200: Dave Rogers Sunday 7th August: 2200 - 2300: Final programme of the 9 day venture featuring all the DJs. -- (*TONY CURRIE*, Programme Director, *radio mi Amigo* http://www.lv18.org/mi-amigo.htm June 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13565-CW, June 6 at 1322, only HIFER beacon audible now, and for a long time before, is K6FRC in California, fading up and down vs CODAR QRM, but at peaks quite weak, JBA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. THE GREAT CLEAN-UP ACT AT THE BBG --- Jun 7, 2016 http://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/blog/great-clean-act-bbg by Dan Robinson, CPD Blog Contributor Former Senior White House Correspondent, Voice of America More drama is playing out involving the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), long recognized as one of the most mismanaged and broken of federal agencies. BBG CEO and former Scripps executive John Lansing successfully appealed to Republican Senate power brokers to allow him more time to clean up the place. In a recent memo, Lansing committed to "establishing a working environment that is free of personal favoritism, coercion, reprisal, and retaliation and other prohibited personnel practices." Every company has issues, but such a description provides just a glimpse of the scope of problems, and repairs necessary. The cleanup also involves VOA's new director, Amanda Bennett, and her deputy Sandy Sugawara, both with recent connections to The Washington Post. Director for only a few months, Bennett has used a carrot and stick approach, praising certain areas of existing reportage while saying performance has to get "way, way, way better." She also appears to have adopted the approach endorsed by her predecessor in which VOA English and language websites are filled daily with dozens of commercial wire service reports. She ordered VOA staff to use wire service reports over "[giving] our readers, viewers, listeners, something inferior or late. If it’s not better than a version on the wire, use the wire." Critics, including myself, say this amounts to turning VOA into another conduit for AP, Reuters, and AFP who have their own websites and distribution methods. It can also be deceptive. VOA stories as they appear via Google and other alerts give readers the impression that VOA itself is reporting from certain datelines and about certain topics when it is not. Indeed, there is also a widespread impression that VOA long ago ceased being a destination of first choice for audiences accessing rapidly- expanding menus of traditional and online media, including superior content from the BBC. VOA's status as a flagship international broadcaster and BBG outlet is no more, thanks in part to the poorly-implemented initiative called "Digital First," which the Bennett/Sugawara team has now doubled down on. Bennett has also hired three journalists as short-term consultants to "assist us in benchmarking our entire operation to the best in the world [so] we can plan a path forward." Before retiring from VOA in 2014, I recommended that a permanent journalistic ombudsman be established. What VOA needs is not a temporary team, but a long-term commitment to honest self-examination. Ombudsmen may not be popular, but they can have an important impact on quality. Bennett would also be well advised to examine the mixing of advocacy with journalism. There have been violations of VOA's own guidelines against conflicts of interest or the appearance of same, by agency journalists. VOA management says this issue is "being addressed internally." Outside critics who raised the issue in 2015 were attacked by current and former agency officials. There are potential rewards of the Bennett-hired consultant team if, that is, it applies a fine tooth comb to VOA reporting processes and content, which like the BBG itself escaped much intense outside scrutiny over the years. The risk, and I think it's significant, is that the initiative is aimed at achieving a whitewash designed to persuade lawmakers to indefinitely postpone sweeping and effective congressionally-mandated structural changes. What VOA needs is not a temporary team, but a long-term commitment to honest self-examination. Lansing and Bennett -- neither of whom are guaranteed to keep their jobs from 2017 onward -- could declare a clean bill of journalistic health, and repeat the claim that VOA and BBG are in a "whirlwind of positive change," as one board member put it. Meanwhile, the Thornberry amendment in the House-passed version of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, had the effect of a nuclear blast going off. It authorized the BBG CEO (Lansing, or whoever follows him) to turn the Voice of America into an "independent grantee...private non-profit organization." The AFGE 1812 union blasted the amendment, saying a change of such magnitude "merits its own separate bill where both houses of Congress can debate and carefully consider the best course of action" and urged employees to write to Congress. The beginning of the amendment, incorporating the Obama administration initiative to create a Global Engagement Center to counter ISIS and other propaganda, deserves a careful read. It directs the secretaries of State and Defense "to develop, plan, and synchronize, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, and the heads of other relevant Federal departments and agencies, whole-of-government initiatives [my emphasis] to expose and counter foreign propaganda and disinformation directed against United States national security interests and proactively advance fact-based narratives that support United States allies and interests." Recall that at one point VOA journalists faced off with management to renounce what they called steps to associate VOA news coverage more closely with CVE (Counter Violent Extremism) efforts. Let's look at the language again . . .a "whole of government approach." Translation: VOA and its well-compensated civil servant journalists do not get a pass to continue parading around as if they are some government-funded version of CNN. From most reports, the amendment will be DOA in the Senate where the entrenched bureaucracy of U.S. international broadcasting has had its Godfathers, including but not limited to Ted Kaufman, the former Delaware senator, as well as Joe Biden. Bob Corker (R-TN) is the key person likely to have provided breathing space for BBG CEO Lansing's cleanup act at 330 Independence Avenue. But in the space of two years, members of Congress have introduced legislation to eliminate VOA entirely https://salmon.house.gov/mediacenter/press-releases/rep-salmon-introduces-ninth-shrink-our-spending-bill-save-362-million and now propose what for decades was unthinkable: de-federalize VOA. It remains to be seen what form the BBG takes in coming years, what it will be called, or whether all outlets it controls will be privatized. The agency has had far more than nine lives. Writing on the BBG Watch site in 2015, I said it would be difficult to identify members of Congress, or the public, who think VOA and other government-sponsored media should exist unless it is expressly, and with vigor, to fight a new information war. That's the bigger picture everybody should keep in mind, whoever wins the White House in 2016 (via Dan Robinson himself, WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DXLD) ** U S A. 15120, June 2 at 2032-2033:45*, steady S9+10 open carrier/dead air. No doubt it`s VOA Greenville tuning up for the Bambara broadcast an hour later. That`s also on 13670, but checked right now, no carrier there; probably would be tested as well, sooner or later. [non]. 12110, June 6 at 1310, US pop music, talk in Korean, smacking of VOA service, which is correct, 333 degrees via Tinian; should have been // much stronger 11990, 21 degrees carrying on USward via Tinang (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Re WOR 1828:] Hi Glenn, There was no resumption of VOA Bangla on shortwave. And the VOA Bangla Service does not know anyone named Anish Lalit. (It's unlikely anyone in VOA Bangla would refer to the service as "VOA Bengali.") VOA Bangla continues on 1575 kHz at 16-17 UT (Kim Elliott, VOA, June 7, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Kim, Very interesting; was rather odd to be coming from an Outlook address, but they did display the VOA logo. What`s the point of such a prank? (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DXLD) 9370, June 6 at 1601, JBA carrier, presumably VOA Burmese as scheduled due west from Tinang at 1430-1630, and no longer blocked by WWRB which has abandoned this frequency. Ivo Ivanov had implied a VOA Burmese schedule expired June 4, but Kim Elliott says there are no changes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. News presenter Susan Yackee has announced via Facebook that she will be retiring at the end of the month. She said "I greatly appreciate all the support and encouragement I have received through the years", and that her personal FB page will be merged with the VoA Now page (Rich Barton, AZ, June 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Susan Yackee wrote on her Facebook page --- June 6, 2016 I began in broadcast news in 1975, but now it is time for me to step away from the mic - I’m retiring at the end of June. I greatly appreciate all the support and encouragement I have received through the years. For your convenience in getting VOA news, this page is being merged with the VOA Now page. I wish you all the best in the future. Thank you and best wishes! (Susan has been a well known voice on VOA's International Edition, News, media and more - Mike) Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A [and on]. WORLD OF RADIO 1828 monitoring: confirmed Thursday June 2 at 2100 on WRMI 13695, loud and clear (but just before it, BS was mixed with BZ --- Brother Scare audio continued during the Bob Zanotti ID). Also confirmed Thu June 2 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330.0-CUSB, yes, close to on-frequency, and good at S9+5. Next: Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Fri 2130.5 WRMI 13695 to NW Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW Sat 0700 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1400 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 0830 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1828 monitoring: confirmed Friday June 3 at 2130 on WRMI 15770, very good! And from 2130.5 on WRMI 13695, excellent. Also confirmed after 2330 on WBCQ 9330-CUSB, JBA on the DX-375 portable in downtown Enid for First Friday activities; couldn`t get the scan to stop on it at all via the BST-1 caradio, which also tends to get a hashblob on this frequency. Next: Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW Sat 0700 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1400 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 0830 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) GERMANY, Weak signal of World of Radio via Hamburger Lokalradio: 0630-0700 on 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sat June 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0amLscnoPhg&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1828 monitoring: confirmed by José Miguel Romero2, Spain: ``6190 USB Hamburguer Lokal Radio, 0628-0658, escuchada el 4 de junio de 2016 en inglés con el programa DX World of Radio, sintonia e ID, SINPO 44454. Audio: https://app.box.com/s/oz07dh3p4xl68x5e6bb1dfwva9zaip8v El programa fue escuchado por web SDR de Holanda; tentava de escucharlo desde Valencia en España con Sangean ATS 909 sin resultado``. Manuel Méndez, also in Spain, says 6190 was JBA at 0625. Confirmed Saturday June 4 at 1430 via Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB: by Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, reporting a weak signal. Also confirmed by me after 2230 UT Saturday June 4 on WBCQ, 9329.9-CUSB, fair. Also confirmed UT Sunday June 5 at 0330 on WA0RCR at 13 minutes into show, so started at 0317; clear reception tonight, not noisy (nearest lightning is 400+ miles away in northern New Mexico). Next: Sun 0830 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1828 monitoring: confirmed Sunday June 5 at 2330 on WBCQ 9329.927-CUSB, slightly wavering, sufficient. Also confirmed UT Monday June 6 after 0030 on WRMI, 7730, S9+35 but with some hum not from my recording. Also confirmed UT Monday June 6 at 0301 on Area 51 webcast but no signal from WBCQ 5109.9-AM when checked at 0328; was it off thruout? (HRI followed at 0330 with a festival interval signals at least on the webcast.) WOR also confirmed UT Monday June 6 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, good. Next: Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1828 monitoring: confirmed Monday June 6 at 2330 on WBCQ 9329.9-CUSB, fair. Next: Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1828 monitoring: confirmed Tuesday June 7 at 2130 on WRMI 15770, good (after outages past two weeks). Also confirmed Tue June 7 at 2330 on WBCQ 9329.915-CUSB. Also confirmed Wed June 8 from 1315.5 on WRMI 9955, good. Also confirmed Wed June 8 at 2100 on WBCQ webcast, and 7489.95-AM is very poor at 2128. Also confirmed Wed June 8 at 2330 on WBCQ 9329.9-CUSB. WORLD OF RADIO 1829 ready for first airings June 9; first broadcast confirmed June 9 at 1130 on WRMI 9955, good with no jamming. Next: Thu 2100 WRMI 13695 to NW Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Fri 2130.5 WRMI 13695 to NW Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW Sat 0700 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1400 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 0830 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WOR late on ACB Radio --- Glenn, for about a year, now, I’ve been listening to WOR via ACB Radio Mainstream. It’s sad that I’m not listening on shortwave, but, for a reason I don’t know, I have terrible SW reception here, and ACB Radio has been reliable. WOR has always started, during DST, Friday 0100 UT, and continued every four hours for the following day. This last week, it did not start until 0200, then repeated every four hours. I don’t know if this was a fluke, or a permanent change. There is a schedule at: http://www.acbradio.org But I’m not very skillful at reading the schedule, and I don’t know if it is up to date or not. So, I’ll check again next week and let you know (Tim Hendel, AL, June 5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tim, The ACB Mainstream schedule now shows repeats every three hours instead of four, starting at 9 pm Eastern Thursday, so 9-midnite-3-6-9 am, noon-3-6 pm Friday. So anyhow it should still equal a start at 0100 UT Fridays. You were still hearing repeats at 4 hour intervals this week? (Glenn to Tim, via DXLD) Glenn, I wasn't checking every 4 hours. I just got the idea at about 2200, when I didn't hear WOR at 2100, thought they might have changed the sked, as, indeed, they did. In other words, I didn't look at the sked itself. Will try to observe better next week. Anyway, definitely did not hear WOR at 0100, i.e. 8:00 Central. I'll keep watch (Tim Hendel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7489.94, UT Sat June 4, WBCQ in `Allan Weiner Worldwide` but Larry Will is substituting, a.k.a. cosmikdebris, along with crazyjane. Taking calls to his own AC 301 number. At 0044 says they are working on expanding programming on 9330 to daytime and more in the night. // 5129.9-AM registers S8, but buried in the noise level, and no signal audible on 3250v. 9330.045-CUSB, June 5 at 0111, this WBCQ is still on after 0100 with something new, YL g.h. who seems very upset about something. And the WBCQ online program schedules have finally been updated to show WOR at the correct times, plus this lineup on Sat/UT Sun: http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=9330 Sa 9330 06:30PM 07:00PM ET 2230 2300 UTC Glenn Hauser's World of Radio Sa 9330 07:00PM 08:00PM ET 2300 0000 UTC Allan Weiner Worldwide Sa 9330 08:00PM 09:00PM ET 0000 0100 UTC The Full Gospel Hour Sa 9330 09:00PM 10:00PM ET 0100 0200 UTC Open Your Eyes People No further info about OYEP (shouldn`t that be OYE,P?), except it has two more airtimes, on 5130 and 7490 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Re 5130 WBCQ Area 51 missing during WOR UT Monday June 6 at 0300:] Last night 5130 started off with Grits Radio. As usual for that frequency, too early in the fake DST day, so it was mostly unlistenable in the noise. Next was John Lightning. Something was wrong with someone's feed as the feed would drop every ten seconds, costing us a couple of words, and then would come back. This straightened out after about fifteen minutes. Signal was getting better as it was closer to dark here by then. Then out of nowhere the Swooper started. Really irritating. Would run for ten or fifteen minutes and then stop for a couple and then start up again. My oldest came up on the porch with my laundry and accused me of playing space invaders on the computer as he said that's what it sounded like to him. I knew that this transmitter had gone down twice last weekend I think so wondered if it were some sort of transmitter artifact. Swooper continued to cycle on and off for awhile longer and then stopped and signal was normal. Then, out of nowhere, the Woodpecker started. That was extremely irritating. Would run for several minutes, stop for a couple, then start up again. Still wasn't sure if this was the transmitter acting up or really happening. At approximately 0240 the transmitter shut down and all I got was normal noise. Turned the volume down and continued to monitor as that is my evening to listen to WOR. By 0310 or 0315, still no attempt to start the transmitter and the woodpecker started again! Around 0330 I shut the radio off and gave up for the evening. As I said, I haven't done any DXing in thirty years so haven't heard swoopers or woodpeckers in a long time but that's what it sounded like to me (John Carver, Mid-North Indiana, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Updated summer A-16 shortwave schedule of WBCQ The Planet, Monticello 1900-2000 7490v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Tue Pirate Joe Extravaganzo 2000-2100 7490v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Mon-Fri Financial Survival 2100-2200 7490v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Sun-Fri WOR at 2100 Wed 2200-2300 7490v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Mon-Fri Brother HySTAIRical 2200-2300 7490v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Sat/Sun various programs 2230-2300 9330v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Sat World of Radio 2300-2400 5130v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Sat/Sun various programs 2345-2400 5130v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Fri The Smart Money Guy 2300-2400 7490v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Daily various programs 2300-2400 9330v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Sat Allan Weiner Worldwide 2330-2400 9330v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Sun-Fri World of Radio 0000-0100 5130v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Sat Allan Weiner Worldwide 0030-0100 5130v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Wed Antena DX 0000-0100 5130v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Mon Radio New York Inter 0000-0100 7490v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Mon Brother HySTAIRical 0000-0100 7490v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Tue From the Isle of Music 0000-0100 7490v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Wed/Sat Allan Weiner Worldwide 0000-0100 7490v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Thu/Fri various programs 0000-0100 7490v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Sun Shortwave Saturday Night 0000-0100 9330v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Daily The Full Gospel Hour 0100-0230 5130v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Wed Amateur Roundtable 0100-0200 5130v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Thu Brother HySTAIRical 0100-0200 5130v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Fri-Mon various programs 0100-0200 7490v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Daily Brother HySTAIRical 0100-0200 9330v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Sun Open Your Eyes People 0200-0300 5130v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Thu Brother HySTAIRical 0200-0300 5130v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Sat Open Your Eyes People 0200-0300 5130v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Sun/Mon various programs 0200-0300 7490v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Daily Brother HySTAIRical 0300-0400 5130v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Sun Eric Dolphy Mystery Hour 0300-0330 5130v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Mon World of Radio 0330-0400 5130v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Mon Hobart Radio Inter 0300-0400 7490v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Tue-Sat Financial Survival 0300-0400 7490v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Sun Open Your Eyes People 0300-0400 7490v 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Mon Herald of Truth 7490v=7489.9 AM mode 5130v=5129.7 in CUSB [no, it isn`t: 5129.9v-AM --- gh] 9330v=9330.2 in CUSB [usually on lo side, not hi side --- gh] -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 5, Equipment: Sony ICF- 2001D, 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11580, 11530, 7780, 7730, June 4 at 0533, at least these four Brother HyStairical frequencies of WRMI are in dead air; while 7570 is playing pop music, not // 9955 World Music. By 0537, as I come to 5015, that one is back to BSing, and at 0539 so are 7730 and 7780, or rather presumed Overcomer Ministry with someone else preaching, sounds African-American, as part of general anti-RCC bigotry, asserting that the Jesuits run the CIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9475, June 2 at 1433, WTWW-1 with horrible modulation breakup, bits of SFAW here and there on wasted S9+20 signal. Is no one at station paying attention? Who could blame them for refusing to listen to racist garbage; if only they would refuse to transmit it. 12105, June 2 at 2357, WTWW-3 is open carrier/S9+35 dead air, ho hum. 12105, 9930, 9475, 5830, 5085, June 5 at 0108, all possible WTWW frequencies are AWOL, and still so later in this hour. 12105, 9930, 9475, 5830, 5085, June 6 at 0020, all possible WTWW frequencies are still/again off, like last check June 5 at 0108. Has it ever been on this weekend? 5830 at least is back on at 0408 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WWRB Morrison with old IS of Radio South Africa on new 15240 kHz, June 4 1600-1700 15240^WRB 115 kW / 045 deg EaAf English Sat/Sun, not 1500- 1700-1900 15240^WRB 115 kW / 045 deg EaAf Ugandan Sat/Sun, R Munansi 1900-2100 15240^WRB 115 kW / 045 deg EaAf English Sat/Sun, no signal ^ strong QRM 15245 VOKorea En/Fr/Ko/En + Radio Assenna Tig & Eritrean Forum Arabic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuUHr9B6XCs&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DndItMvwi_Q&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBVTvMpTdAc&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tk00uM1mds&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gty2PKoyqpg&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgcwqUL2yHQ&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It was the IS of Radio RSA, the external service, not Radio South Africa, the domestic service (gh, DXLD) 5050, UT Monday June 6 at 0104, WWRB is S9+40, but totally unreadable with heavy breakup of audio feed. Seemed to be English but can`t even be positive about that. Why broadcast such stuff at all? Attentive stations used to air an apology and fill with music or something (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UGANDA [non] ** U S A. 15555UC, FLORIDA, WJHR, Milton. 1604 June 5, 2016. Good in passing with sermon (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, June 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UC? If that mean USB plus carrier, it`s not: pure USB only (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 9275, June 8 at 1822, WMLK is still AWOL awaiting repairs, as neighbor 9265 WINB is only JBA itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, June 8 at 1820, KVOH is still active here in weekday Spanish service, during hymn, but is now only poor at S5. Other frequency 9975, English evenings remains silent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re 690, KGGF Coffeyville KS, trying to figure out their new schedule, another look at their obviously incomplete and at least partially outdated ``lineup`` http://kggfradio.com/kggf-am/kggf-am-line-up instead of a true schedule shows `When Radio Was` is already on it, contradictorily along with JimBo at the same hour, 11-midnight (04-05 UT): ``The Jim Bohannon Show (9pm-Midnight) When Radio Was (11pm - Midnight)`` [sic] And further: ``Listen to the KC Chiefs, KC Royals and K-State Wildcats on KGGF!`` Since the sked doesn`t make clear whether it is for weekdays only, or not (but some programs are obviously not on weekends), I figured `WRW` might have been intended for weekends only when there be no JimBo. But not so, heard on a Wednesday night = UT Thursday. So maybe the first two hours of JimBo still show up when there is absolutely no alternative of stupid ballgames. The third hour is normally for open phones rather than with guest. 690, June 6 at 0459 UT, I`m exploring what else is on frequency with KGGF nulled, i.e. favoring N/S. There`s an EWTN mention, and before 0500 UT ``New Orleans``, so it must be WQNO, which is an EWTN outlet. Also mixing with other US stations and at least two Mexicans. WQNO night pattern is tight E/W so not much signal should be reaching here to the NW. It`s 10/5 kW U4, with a CP for 9.1/2.1 U2, which will allow it to be ND daytime rather than circle tangent to the north. Callsign history shows facility 74090 became WQNO on 12/19/2012, after being WIST from 11/07/2005, and before that WTIX. See DXLD 13-35 for my previous log and discussion of its evolution (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 810, FLORIDA, WRSO, Orlovista. 1011 June 2, 2016. Presumably day power/pattern just up, very good with Brazilian Portuguese female, tropical vocal, "Brasil Radio Orlando" slogan, then man and woman bantering in Portu-glish (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, June 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1370, June 4 at 1925 UT, I`m trying to hear KGNO Dodge City KS, since I am much closer to it than usual, visiting Alva OK for the Nescatunga Arts Festival. On caradio, first try just east of Alva finds some C&W music JBA, far weaker than it should be for 5 kW ND at 161 km or 100 miles. Comparative example: 1330 KNSS Wichita, [né KFH] also 5 kW ND in daytime, is easily heard in Enid, at 152 km or 94 miles. A few years ago I could also barely pick up KGNO daytime as far away as just north of Enid, beyond the 1390 KCRC desensitization. Therefore I must conclude that KGNO is operating at much reduced power and/or alternative antenna; if they have an STA allowing this, I`ve yet to spot it. Has anyone? For a long time I suspected it was off the air completely (and maybe it was), until some skywave helped it April 9 and 10 around sunrise and sunset. At 1950 UT, I`m slightly further but at a no-noise location in the Great Salt Plains NWR on the way to Artesian water fill-up and hear a PSA and Johnny Cash tune; very poor level but 1959 UT clear ID as ``1370 KGNO, THE classic country for southwest Kansas`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1590, FLORIDA, WRXB, St. Pete Beach. 1330 May 28, 2016. On, but only this day? Heard while passing close to the transmitter (located on 38th Ave. S.) while heading south on I-275 just before the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Urban Contemporary vocals, strong. Not heard subsequent days back at the house. 1620, FLORIDA, (PIRATE), Radio Keenam, Orlando. Noted mid-morning May 28, 2016 driving north on FL-429 and throughout south and downtown Orlando with Haitian Kréyol. Slightly over-modulated, but unlike the previous Saturday (as reported by Gerry Bishop), not so distorted as to be unlistenable. **************************************** Florida Low Power Radio Stations: https://sites.google.com/site/floridadxn/florida-low-power-radio-stations **************************************** (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, June 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1690, GEORGIA, WMLB, Avondale Estates. 0956 May 30, 2016. Great 1930s-sounding old Blues, back announced by DJ seemingly as "The Olive Baboon" which I can't seem to hit on Google search (song title, or artist?), into CBS News (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, June 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Terry, Responding to your DXLD log of Atlanta/Avondale Estates WMLB 1690 on 5/30. "The Olive Baboon" was not a song back announce, that's station owner Joe Weber. He voices the 15 second Legal ID before the CBS News with a bird/animal call or one liner comedy clip. Others include "The White Breasted Nut Hatch, The Canyon Wren, Alligator Mating, The Human Baby", and various Jackie Mason jokes. It's quite the unusual station! http://1690wmlb.com/ Sorry I can't help with the song, but if you email them from the website, they might be able to tell you (Wally Leisering, Decatur, GA, June 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And thanks, Wally! I can stop my futile searching now (Terry, ibid.) ** U S A. 1700, June 3 at 0622 UT check, no sign of Tejana music from KKLF; just two stupid sports talk stations mixing, one of them Fox, no doubt KVNS TX and KBGG IA. Ward Elliott in Richardson TX has been checking out his local and reported to me May 31 at 2124 UT: ``An update about 1700, no buzz heard last night at 4:40am local time [0940 UT]. However KKLF was off the air and KVNS Brownsville sports was in clear.`` And at 0203 UT June 1: ``1700 Dallas, off air now`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 98.3, June 4 at 1931 UT, strong station with ``Peyote Country``? slogan --- oh no, it`s ``Coyote Country`` as heard clearly later. Wide coverage on an ex-Class A frequency, and still audible near Enid ending CBS News at 2207 UT with another non-ID. In fact, this station bumped an Enid translator from 98.3 to 98.5, which now provides some ACI within Enid. Searching all frequencies for the slogan Coyote Country on the WTFDA FM Database, http://db.wtfda.org/ gets 19 stations (including some translators; and it seems coyote country is rather ill-defined), this one being KQZQ, Kiowa KS, just across the border not far from Alva (site is definitely north of the 37th parallel), 97 kW, 208.9m HAAT. DB erroneously shows same slogan for KRDR 105.7 Alva which is sports talk. And another Coyote Country is listed not too far away southward in OK, KWEY-FM 95.5 Clinton (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 99.1 MHz, FLORIDA, WUJM-LP, St. Petersburg. 2021 May 25, 2016. Checking the FCC LPFM dB filtered for Florida, I note this one is listed as active now. Cross-referencing the station lookup dB, it was granted license March 28, 2016, so it is a recent activation. Poor signal at my Feather Sound office next to the Howard Frankland Bridge. Lots of co-channel from "Thunder" Classic Rock translator W256CT, Bayonet Point. Licensed to the Caribbean Festival Association (CARIFESTA), Inc. But on this listen, live black DJ spinning hard core gangsta rap complete with FCC no-no words and what sounded like full-fledged commercials for local businesses, not 'sponsorship' mentions, another FCC no-no for LPFM. Need to give it a closer listen to confirm that when nearer to the station. Again, on May 26 at 1130 GMT, the audio feed was BBC World Service, several seconds behind my Sirius-XM feed on the car radio, so not the source of the patch. No website, but then when you're only 46 watts... I'd have pegged this as a new ghetto pirate if not for the FCC data. -- **************************************** Florida Low Power Radio Stations: https://sites.google.com/site/floridadxn/florida-low-power-radio-stations **************************************** (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, June 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. VOICE-RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY WILL KILL ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. HERE’S WHAT WILL TAKE ITS PLACE. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2016/06/voice_recognition_technology_will_kill_all_things_considered_here_s_what.html (via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DXLD) This interview is on the future of radio with an interview of Keith Olbermann. Like it or not, this story probably is the future. On the March 31 episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast, Simmons asked Keith Olbermann how he would fix SportsCenter. The show's ratings have been falling ... (Kevin Redding, Crump, TN, ABDX via DXLD) Well, I did get around today to reading the article. My thoughts: Yes, it is true that 99% of anyone under the age of 30 is not getting their information in today's Jetsons-esque age from radio. And it does seem quite likely that voice-recognition will render news magazine shows like "All Things Considered" and "Sportscenter" pointless within the next few years (wow, Star Trek's Mr. Scott saying "Computer!" to command it to do something is closer upon us than ever!), but there are some things that Siri just won't be able to replace. I would say at the top of the list of these are severe weather bulletins. I mean, asking Siri, "Tell me the present location of the tornado in my city" is just NOT going to work, I don't think. When human lives are on the line, tomorrow's generation had DAMN well best be armed with something reliable, and that's a radio where announcers can inform the public where the danger is at any second. The stations here did a masterful job of keeping everyone alert when a tornado (albeit short-lived, but still a potential danger, nonetheless) was bouncing up and down in west Omaha back on April 27. And while I could rely on voice-recognition to give me the score of the Cubs-Diamondbacks game this afternoon, it's no substitute for hearing the excitement in Pat Hughes' voice as he describes a home run. Sports play-by-play on radio is unique. When I was out at my parents' farm east of Council Bluffs, Iowa last July, I took my Sangean portable and a glass of lemonade outside, sat on a back patio, and looked up at the stars on a gorgeous night while listening to Marty Brenneman on WLW and Tom Hamilton on WTAM IN THE CLEAR. It was a wonderful reminder to me of what got me into the hobby at age 16 in the first place (spring of 1981) and I hope that modern technology will never, ever make moments like those obsolete. These days, more than ever, I do have to face up to the fact that I live in a world where everything is demanded instantly and asked to be served a la carte. But I will always be someone who knows how important it is that a society not become de-personalized and de- humanized at the expense of technological advances. Paul Harvey asked this question a lot, and I think it's more applicable now than he was while he was still alive: "Have we outsmarted ourselves?" 73, (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, June 4, ABDX via DXLD) Unfortunately, one of the problems with "All Things Considered" is that the presentation is so mercilessly stale that it's suffocating itself. This is of one the major problems with radio in general. As Rick points out, the sports and the severe weather coverage are still strong points, but the radio broadcasting industry as a whole must find new ways to stay relevant in order to survive (NM7X, ibid.) So you require bells & whistles rather than substance. NPR and associated public radio networx are the best things on American radio, just as they are (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) My feeling is, that many of the syndicated programs that are on the air now, i.e. Limbaugh, Hannity, Coast to Coast will be in fact, winding down over the next few years. I certainly do not see Limbaugh or Hannity on the air 5 years from now. I have doubts are that these slots will be occupied by fellow conservatives and may not even be occupied by talk radio as we know it. Limbaugh, at one time, supposedly had an audience of 20 million. No one on Coast to Coast, to my knowledge, has ever come close to the ratings that Art Bell had from 1996 to 1998. Many AM stations depend on Hannity and Limbaugh to keep their stations above water. The end of right wing conservative talk radio might, in a few years, be the straw that breaks the camel`s back. I would love to see AM radio going back to being LOCAL stations with LOCAL programming (just like back in the day), but sadly, I doubt it would ever happen and many AM stations would rather just go silent than have to broadcast LOCAL programs all day. My 2 cents (Steven Wiseblood, TX, ABDX via DXLD) All I can say is thank goodness for the Perseus. Fast-forward past all the lousy programming and get to the ID. If the stations go bankrupt it's their own fault. They played a big role in the dumbing down (and dysfunctional polarization) of America by allowing a whole generation of poorly-educated folks to fill their heads with propaganda in the form of stilted left-wing revisionist "news"? or right-wing revisionist "talk" for the past 30 years. As for Art Bell/C2C, I guess they appeal to idiots of no particular political persuasion who are simply too lazy to leave their mom's basement and go buy a National Enquirer or Weekly World News. Time to go pull out an album of old veries and remind myself of a time when radio was truly worth listening to. The highlights of last year's beverage outing were the 140 HS FB games I logged on Friday night, and the show on Radio Bahamas where a nighttime DJ was running a live contest on the air. Real programming! 73 Grumpy old man (harumph) Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone (Tim Hall, CA, ABDX via DXLD) ** U S A. RADIO LEGEND GARRISON KEILLOR SUFFERS SECOND SEIZURE Vienna, VA By CNN Wire June 4, 2016 http://kdvr.com/2016/06/04/radio-legend-garrison-keillor-suffers-second-seizure/ Radio legend Garrison Keillor says he’s feeling “fortunate” after the Prairie Home Companion host suffered a seizure over Memorial Day weekend. According to a message posted on his Facebook page, he hosted two back-to-back shows at the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia, on Friday, May 27, after suffering from a medical emergency. Keillor said after the shows he “flew to Mayo to get checked out and saw an MRI image of my skull with a black hole where a previous stroke struck close to the language center of the brain, so I came away feeling vastly fortunate.” When he was discharged from the Mayo Clinic, Keillor said he went home to St. Paul, Minnesota, and then boarded a flight to Atlanta to host a show at the Fox Theater, according to David O’Neill, Prairie Home Companion publicist. This is the second seizure for the radio icon. He suffered another one within the past year, according to O’Neill. “He (the doctor) put me on an anti-convulsant that makes me feel lethargic but I intend to fight this,” he said on Facebook. Keillor has five upcoming live shows left on his tour and says he wants them all to be “terrific.” He insists he has plenty of time for lethargy — in August. Keillor is expected to retire from his radio show after a 40-year run, he said in an interview with CNN’s Poppy Harlow. Posted by (Mike Terry, June 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VANUATU [and non]. Listen to recording of Brisbane SDR remote unit at 0423 UT June 7: 7259.957, R Vanuatu in English, S=7 or -82dBm signal, talk by two female on interview about project activity at 0404 UT, little later after music played, two male voices talk about "Focus on the family", listeners survey, frustrating situation on kids lectures on painting advice. There was also an annoying whistle tone on the channel, at 7261.733 kHz like a NDB ID tone, but could be NOTCHED OUT by the Perseus software on upper flank. Only 3 stations on 41 mb at 0440 UT: also two Europeans, made it via long path downunder, Azores, Colombia, Easter Island, south Pacific northerly to Queensland: RFE RL Biblis Germany 7435 Russian S=7-8, and 7330 kHz strongest RRI Galbeni Romanian S=8 (Brisbane, Queensland remote unit via Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. 11729.965, June 5 at 0139, South-Asian accent in English says Sunday Liturgy is to be followed by news; then into a story, something about Jesus, a putative asst. leader of the RCC sect. Surprised it`s this far off frequency, from SMG direct; English segment is supposedly 0140-0200, following a third-of-an-hour each of Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam from 0040. Last year I tried to sign up for e-mail from VR, hoping to get advance notice of special broadcasts but I somehow got on the S Asian service mailing list, mainly about the stuff the Pope has been doing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. CLANDESTINA, 1550, Frente POLISARIO, Rabouni, Argélia, observada na 6.ª-feira 03/6, entre as 1240 e as 2250, em emissão contínua: v. ficheiro OLonga/OMédia. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, June 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** YEMEN [non]. Conditions here have been fair-to-good the past few days with the Solar Flux hovering in the upper 80s and the geomagnetic activity going from unsettled to quiet. I haven't heard from Rep. Yemen Radio (Sana'a) on 11860 kHz on spot checks ranging from 1300z to 1500z for over a week now. Propagation has been less than optimum, but perhaps this circuit is out of season now(?). (Rodney Johnson, Las Vegas NV, June 2, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I agree; presumably this audible around poorly around 0100 (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) 11860, CLANDESTINE (Yemen). Radio Sana’a – Jeddah (?), male vocals with Middle Eastern instrumental music. Talk in Arabic language by a male announcer at 2343. Possible news at top of the hour but back to music programming at 0006. Poor to fair (Rich D'Angelo, 2216 Burkey Drive, Wyomissing, PA 19610, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R-8B, Eton E1, Eton E5, Alpha Delta DX Sloper, RF Systems Mini-Windom, Datong FL3, JPS ANC-4, NASWA Flashsheet June 5 via DXLD) No dates ** ZAMBIA. 9680, Unid, Voice of Hope, Lusaka, Zambia, suspected, 0550, a weak but steady carrier and occasional traces of a threshold level signal were about all I could get here, but given the absence of any competition for the frequency, I do suspect it is the Zambian. If I had gotten here about 50 minutes sooner it may have been much better, but this was a little late for that far east in Africa (May 24, 2016) (XM, Cedar Key, Florida, NRD525D, R8A, E5, via Bob Wilkner, NASWA yg via DXLD) Originally reported as 0150 UT, causing head-scratching, until Wilkner corrected it from EDT to UT (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 9680, Voice of Hope Africa, 0504, June 3. In English; time given as "7 0 4," which is their local Central Africa Time; "Breakfast Table" program with preaching and songs; after 0530 same segment repeated twice; good number of IDs; almost fair with QRN (static) (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: Par Electronics EF-SWL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9680, UNIDentified, Gospel singer sung "Hallelujah", "Church in the Morning", S=8-9 strong signal noted on SDR unit in Brisbane Queensland Australia One June 7 at 0520 to 0532 UT. Please help (Brisbane, Queensland remote unit via Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) It`s certainly Voice of Hope, Zambia on usual weekday schedule from *0500 (gh, DXLD) ** ZANZIBAR. TANZANIA, Reception of Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation on June 4: 1730&1802 11735 DOL 050 kW / non-dir CeAf Swahili, no Eng news at 1800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OG3fJRc9EA&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4EA5ifCIXI&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TANZANIA, Reception of Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation in English 1800-1809 on 11735 DOL 050 kW / non-dir to CeAf English Tue, June 7. In the past days they broadcast news in swahili at this time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoOOWQHujyg&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttND0MvQ_Hw&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHrICUL8A8A&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 7, Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11735, 1800, TZA, ZBC Radio Zanzibar, news in English, S9~S9+20. Receiving station: PERSEUS SDR, Inverted V-antenna, beam 145 /325 , antenna tuner: good old YEASU FRT-7700 located near local artifical lake ("Wupper-Talsperre"/Wupper Dam) 73, (Manfred Reiff, Germany, Tue June 7 dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello, at present (1800 UT) ZBC Radio Zanzibar is audible with news in English with S9+20, some noise but no interference. In the past days they broadcast news in Swahili at this time. 73, (Manfred Reiff, Germany, Tuesday June 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) AFAIK, no one has determined any pattern to which days English news will appear; you have to just keep checking (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. Alaska SDR stuff --- Interesting tidbits found fishing around the VLF range on an Anchorage SDR unit in the late afternoon of June 7 (approx. 0300 UT). Seemingly UNlisted (on VLF List, anyway) data xmsns, one on 40 kHz-definitely NOT JJY; another on 50.3 kHz, and again on 56.0, 58.7, 67.1, 75.5, 80.0, 83.8, 92.2, and a very weak 96.0 kHz. Also same heard on 100.6 (very close to LORAN-C allocations), 104.0, 109.0 All freqs centered out using the Digital "Raw" accessory on the app; 50.3, 56 & 58.7 seemed to be idling, but steadily so. All signals good, each louder than NLK on 24.8.; 50.3 louder than the others. Something weak heard on 60, possibly two signals, which could have been WWVB and JJY, at that location. NUA heard well on water-path from Hawaii on 21.4, and assumed-NAA was weakly heard on 24 kHz (one helluva haul from Cutler, Maine!) As for the unIDs: Bats in the Belfry? Secret Putin-inspired comms? Or are they Kim Jong-un's toys for playing with his nuke subs?? All speculations are solicited; I can't think of anything local that would produce such signals or spurs (-- GREG HARDISON, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1650, 9HPI beacon. 0950 May 30, 2016. Fair-poor co- channel the westernmost I-275 FDOT HAR (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, June 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 3240, June 5 at 1203, besides JBA carriers of obvious source on 3260, 3325 (PNG/Bougainville), there`s another one here, where no broadcasters are listed anywhere except for half a sesquihour around Swaziland sunrise. So maybe it`s a 2 x 1620 from much closer; or 3 x 1080, 4 x 810, 6 x 540 --- or 5 x 648 --- how about Nepal? bears further checking. Or maybe a ute (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5100, June 4 at 0537, that big dead air carrier is back, S9+30; roughly same level as 5085 WTWW. Sometimes on, sometimes not. Surely others are hearing that, unlike weaker carriers I am now getting at not quite exact multiples of 500 kHz, e.g. close to 10500, 11000, 11500, 12500, 13500, etc., etc. Got to be some device nearby. Did a neighbor just acquire an inaccurate 500-kHz xtal calibrator and leave it on? 5100.00, June 3 at 0007, S9+15 open carrier/dead air, what`s this? Off at 0101 check, but on again at 0202, now S9+30! Certainly strong enough to be a 100+ kW broadcaster. Neither 5085 WTWW nor 5050 WWRB is on. Or maybe just a ute idling without any RTTY? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Could this be a utility/radar transmitter? The radar at Arecibo is known to operate near 5100 kHz. I have a recording of activity on the frequency heard hear in NB from a few days ago I could post (Richard Langley, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6011.6-USB approx., June 5 at 0123, as I am looking for The Voice of Thy Conscience, instead I find a some very weak 2-way INTRUDERS, probably in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6950-LSB, June 2 at 2328, Spanish guy in long monolog, apparently about audio equipment; still at 2340 and reply from a contact. It`s nice of these `peskies` to prefer LSB, while most of the NAm pirates prefer USB (or AM), of which none were heard during this session (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9935, 1211, 6/4/15, in English. Woman with Chinese accent reading a text telling of the spiritual connection between Mary and Jesus. Announcer was making some mistakes in reading. Sounded Catholic. Fair. I could not find anything in EiBi, HFCC, Aoki, or May World of Radio. I wonder if this broadcast was an error since there wasn’t anything when I checked at home on 6/5/16 (Mark Taylor, Lake Farm County Park, Madison, Wisconsin, Equipment: Eton E1; 100’ long wire, NASWA Flashsheet June 5 via DXLD) Nothing except Greece listed, but in Aoki, Mighty KBC also on 9935 erroneously instead of 9925 (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 11415-USB, June 8 at 1237, presumed Indonesian QSO pirate net audible here poorly. 11435-USB, June 9 at 1151, pileup of Indonesian QSO pirates, some musical. Also one on 11410-USB and another on 11460-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Re: [dxld] UNID station on 13560 --- At 0205 UT June 4, digital data signal fast speed hopping some 1 kHz up and down 13543 / 13544, 0000-2359 Digital data station DIG [is this line from a listing?? gh], S=6-7 signal in Moscow Russia. But in Alberta Canada 'seen' and heard 3 signals in this range wideband like CODAR signal, 'shrap shrap' on 13384 - 13607 kHz, data signal strings on 13560.100 {in total covered range 13559.8-13560.3} and 13560.650 kHz. Nothing heard this morning in Doha Qatar and Kyoto Japan. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13560 is the frequency used by NFC in smartphones. If it sounds like pulses, as if someone is turning a rotary dial, it is most certainly NFC. If you have a smartphone nearby, try to turn it off :-) Regards, (Reinhard Weiss, ibid.) What signifies NFC? (gh, DXLD) Hi, Reinhard! I heard the station again this morning from 0935 till past 1010. It is still active (1353 UT). I heard it with my AR- 7030plus and with Twente SDR. The frequency is 13561 kHz. Signal sounds different on LSB and USB. In USB it sounds a bit like -- drums - it reminds me of V of Nigeria's ID signal. At 1353 is weaker than yesterday evening and this morning. In Michael Marten's Special Frequency List 2015/16 on 13561 a station of the Russian security service SVR is listed - XPA2 operating in J2B MFSK-16 20 Baud. I'm unable to decode data. ILGRadio Database lists two stations on that freq.: one is a Russian spy radio but that is listed to operate on Mon and Wed only at 0840- 0842 (Data Codes). Location is given as Moscow-Ledovo (5 kW), target area: West Europe. The second one is a Russian military station but it only operates between 0500 and 1500 in CW, site unknown. It was Friday evening when I heard the station for the first time. It wasn't CW. it must be something else. On 13560 a British TASCOMM station located at Portsmouth with 5 kW operates 24/7 with DATA transmissions. TASCOMM = Terrestrial AirSea Communications. We should remember that these operation schedules may change from one moment to another. Signal at Twente SDR is a bit stronger so it can't be my smartphone... unless there is a high power transmitter built-in... ;) This is the waterfall of Twente SDR this morning at 0952... [jpg attached in the DXLD yg] Parameters: AM 8.05 kHz@-6 dBm, 8.55 kHz@-60 dBm --- There is an audio file with AM, LSB and USB available (mp3 format, 32 sec., 129 kB). 73, (Manfred Reiff, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. RF NTSC Channel A4, 67.25/71.75 MHz plus/minus 10 kHz, June 8 at 1530 UT bits of video joined by a bit of audio, pretty sure it`s Spanish. Most of the time I leave my analog TV on snowy channel 2, and the 6m map is now showing sporadic E up to 106 MHz, centered over Kentucky, but maybe something is attempting to skip in from Cuba or Latin America beyond. Otherwise, nothing analog on any channel 2-6, nor any FM DX here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED on WORLD OF RADIO 1829: Thank you for all you do for our hobby! Best regards (Ron Howard, Monterey CA, with a check to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702) TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: And so we are caught up with acknowledgments; no more pending nor via PayPal to worldofradio at yahoo.com PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ Updated June 7: DX/SWL/Media Programs: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html Alan Roe`s Hitlist of SW stations: http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm World of Radio schedule: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html ANDY ROBINS --- A LIFE ON AND IN RADIO My radio broadcasting career began with a gift: a small, orange, transistor radio given to me by an aunt in the mid 1960’s. At fi it was just one of many toys. But when I was 12 this little radio allowed me to make two life-altering discoveries - rock `n` roll radio and DX. Read the full story in this interesting web site with lots of QSL's and interesting information why Andy Robins became a radio listener and involved in the radio business: http://andyrobinsradio.com/radio-hobby/ (Thomas Nilsson, SW Bulletin June 5 via DXLD) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ XXII ENCUENTRO DIEXISTA DELICIAS, CHIHUAHUA 2016 ¡Saludos Diexistas! Anexo a este correo encontraran dos archivos (uno en formato WORD y otro en formado PDF) que contienen la misma información de una primera lista de hoteles que he localizado en la ciudad de Delicias, Chihuahua, sede del evento. La mayoría de los hoteles de esta lista, cuentan con estacionamiento y se puede hacer reservación por vía web o telefónicamente. Los precios de las habitaciones son los que pude encontrar en sus páginas web o mediante otras referencias. RECOMIENDO QUE SE LLAME DIRECTAMENTE AL HOTEL PARA VERIFICAR PRECIOS O PROMOCIONES. Es indispensable que se haga reservación con suficiente anticipación, MINIMO CON UN MES DE ANTICIPACION, debido a que son fechas de vacaciones y mucha gente viaja. Espero hoy mismo o mañana subir una segunda lista con mas hoteles. ¡Saludos! Cordiales 73's Club Diexista México - Para diexistas y oyentes de las ondas cortas. Grupo Yahoo (CESAR Fernández de Lara García, May 31, Club Diexista México via playDX yg via DXLD) Unfortunately the atts not forwarded, nor dates of convention! MUSEA +++++ MONDAY MARKS THE 72ND ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY INVASION About 160,000 Allied troops parachuted or waded onto the beaches of Normandy in the largest sea assault in military history http://www.voanews.com/content/monday-marks-anniversary-of-d-day-invasion/3363311.html See the original BBC radio news scripts from 1944 and hear them being read by Benedict Cumberbatch, Patrick Stewart and Toby Jones. Also 'D- Day has come' John Snagge reads the special midday bulletin on the BBC's Home Service on 6 June, 1944. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p020f4pg http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01zkdry Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) RADIO LIBERTY "MUNICH PERIOD" RUSSIAN BROADCASTS AVAILABLE Radio World By Paul McLane June 4, 2016 http://www.radioworld.com/article/radio-liberty-munich-period-russian-broadcasts-available/278953 Those interested in the history of U.S. Cold War international broadcasts aimed at the U.S.S.R. have a new resource. The Russian Service of RFE/RL has published an online searchable database of its programs from 1953 to 1995. Radio Svoboda worked with the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (OSA) at Central European University and the Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford. Radio Liberty launched in Munich in 1953 and moved to Prague in 1995. According to the OSA website, the original open-reel tapes containing the live broadcasts of the “Munich period” were preserved, archived and digitized by the Russian Service staff in Prague in the late 1990s. RFE/RL donated the tapes and digitized copies to Hoover Institution Archives, which last year authorized OSA to create metadata for the digitized audio, process the collection and prepare it for publication online. RFE/RL said the archive consists of some 26,000 audio clips aired to the Soviet Union and Russian Federation. The content includes news and political programs about the U.S.S.R. and a collection of clandestinely published materials “about trials, imprisonments and forbidden expressions of life behind the Iron Curtain.” In the announcement, RFE/RL Editor in Chief Nenad Pejic was quoted saying, “Today, when Russians are again relying on RFE/RL and Radio Svoboda for credible news, these archived programs take on a new meaning.” RFE/RL, formerly Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, is funded by Congress through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. Posted by: (Mike Terry, June 6, dxldyg via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See INDIA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See FRANCE; IRELAND ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See MEXICO ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ NEW EAS CODES PLANNED FOR WIND AND STORM SURGES Radio World By Paul McLane June 4, 2016 http://www.radioworld.com/article/new-eas-codes-planned-for-wind-and-storm-surges/278954 It looks like new event codes will soon be added to the Emergency Alert System for extreme wind and storm surge situations in the United States, particularly those caused by Category 3 and higher hurricanes. If the pending rule change passes, which seems likely, EAS equipment manufacturers will have to add three codes into new equipment, and stations would have to update their existing gear, ahead of next year’s Atlantic hurricane season. When it meets later this month, the Federal Communications Commission will consider a report and order taking this step. Chairman Tom Wheeler writes on his blog that he is circulating the rules at the request of the National Weather Service. “The EAS is a proven life-saver, sending alerts to people over radio, television and cable systems to warn about severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, and other weather events,” Wheeler wrote. “But it could be better.” He noted that the heads of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Hurricane Center recently emphasized the danger of storm surges. Wheeler said the new event codes added to EAS would be “Extreme Wind Warning,” “Storm Surge Watch” and “Storm Surge Warning.” Posted by: (Mike Terry, June 6, dxldyg via DXLD) VATICAN RADIO ON OPENSTREETMAP Hello, nice to see on Openstreetmap here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/42.0449/12.3290 All the Radio Vaticana Santa Maria di Galeria Site antenna drawing 73 And IW0HK -- (Andrea Borgnino IW0HK http://www.mediasuk.org/iw0hk http://www.mediasuk.org/archive http://www.biciurbana.org http://iwohk.tumblr.com/ shortwavesites yg via DXLD) Thanks Andrea, I've noticed in the recent past that some of the displayed map features & roads in Openstreetmap can be leaps & bounds ahead of Google Maps & Here Maps in some regions of the planet (Ian, ibid.) And by replaycing „street“ by „topo“ you will see the same area in a topographic map. http://www.opentopomap.org/#map=15/42.0449/12.3290 openstreetmap.org and opentopomap.org are using the same database, opentopomap is some days older, max. zoom level = 16 Further TX sites: Europe 1 (long wave): http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/49.2822/6.6723 http://www.opentopomap.org/#map=15/49.2822/6.6723 Allouis (long wave) http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/47.1714/2.2026 http://www.opentopomap.org/#map=16/47.1714/2.2026 Mainflingen (long wave, DCF77 and disused antennas) http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/50.01528/9.01068 http://www.opentopomap.org/#map=16/50.01528/9.01068 Heusweiler (former medium wave, including highway shielding) http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/49.34618/6.91525 http://www.opentopomap.org/#map=16/49.34618/6.91525 IBB Biblis (short wave) http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/49.68882/8.49084 http://www.opentopomap.org/#map=15/49.68882/8.49084 IBB Lampertheim (short wave) http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/49.6036/8.5411 http://www.opentopomap.org/#map=15/49.6036/8.5411 Wertachtal (former short wave, antennas demolished, solar panels in the northern area) http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/48.08662/10.69622 http://www.opentopomap.org/#map=15/48.08662/10.69622 (Bernhard Weiskopf, ibid.) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ VANISHING SUNSPOTS http://spaceweather.com/ Something interesting is happening on the sun. Yesterday, June 3rd, the sunspot number dropped to 0, and the solar disk is still blank on June 5th. Latest images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory reveal no significant dark cores. What does this mean? The solar cycle is like a pendulum, swinging back and forth between periods of high and low sunspot number every 11 years. Today's blank sun is a sign that the pendulum is swinging toward low sunspot numbers. In other words, Solar Minimum is coming. The spotless state of today's sun is just temporary. Underneath the visible surface of the sun, the solar dynamo is still churning out knots of magnetism that will soon bob to the surface to make new sunspots. The current solar cycle is not finished. It is, however, rapidly waning. Forecasters expect the next Solar Minimum to arrive in 2019-2020. Between now and then, there will be lots of spotless suns. At first, the blank stretches will be measured in days; later in weeks and months. Don't expect space weather to grow quiet, however. Solar Minimum brings many interesting changes. For instance, as the extreme ultraviolet output of the sun decreases, the upper atmosphere of Earth cools and collapses. This allows space junk to accumulate around our planet. Also, the heliosphere shrinks, bringing interstellar space closer to Earth. Galactic cosmic rays penetrate the inner solar system with relative ease. Indeed, a cosmic ray surge is already underway. Goodbye sunspots, hello deep-space radiation! Posted by: (Mike Terry, June 5, DXLDYG via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2016 Jun 06 0156 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 30 May - 05 June 2016 Solar activity ranged from very low to low levels. Low activity was observed on 30 May with a pair of C1/Sf flares observed from Region 2550 (N15, L=114, class/area Cro/020 on 31 May). Very low levels were observed on 31 May and 01-05 Jun. Of note, the first spotless day since 17 Jul 2014 was observed on 03 Jun. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at high levels on 30 May - 04 Jun with moderate levels observed on 05 Jun. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to minor storm (G1-Minor) levels. Quiet to active levels were observed on 30-31 May due to negative polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) influence. During this time frame, wind speeds peaked at about 575 km/s early on 30 May while the Bz component of the interplanetary magnetic field reached a maximum southward of extent of -6 nT late on 31 May. Quiet conditions were observed on 01 Jun through midday on 05 Jun. Active to G1 storm levels were observed through the remainder of 05 Jun due to effects from another negative polarity CH HSS. Late on 05 Jun, wind speeds approached 650 km/s, total field reached 19 nT while the Bz component briefly hit a maximum southward extent of -15 nT. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 06 JUNE - 02 JULY 2016 Solar activity is expected to be at very low levels with C-class activity possible throughout the outlook period. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be reach high levels on 07-09, 12-16, 26-30 Jun and 01 Jul. Normal to moderate levels are expected throughout the remainder of the outlook period. Geomagnetic field activity is likely to reach G1 (Minor) levels on 06 Jun and 02 Jul with unsettled to active levels expected on 12-15, 17-18, 23-24 and 26-27 Jun, all due to the influence of multiple recurrent CH HSSs. Quiet to unsettled conditions are expected throughout the remainder of the outlook period under a nominal solar wind regime. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2016 Jun 06 0156 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 2016-06-06 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2016 Jun 06 78 20 5 2016 Jun 07 78 8 3 2016 Jun 08 82 5 2 2016 Jun 09 82 5 2 2016 Jun 10 82 5 2 2016 Jun 11 85 5 2 2016 Jun 12 85 12 4 2016 Jun 13 85 12 4 2016 Jun 14 85 8 3 2016 Jun 15 90 8 3 2016 Jun 16 90 5 2 2016 Jun 17 90 15 5 2016 Jun 18 90 10 3 2016 Jun 19 90 5 2 2016 Jun 20 90 5 2 2016 Jun 21 85 5 2 2016 Jun 22 85 5 2 2016 Jun 23 85 10 3 2016 Jun 24 85 12 4 2016 Jun 25 80 8 3 2016 Jun 26 80 10 3 2016 Jun 27 80 10 3 2016 Jun 28 80 5 2 2016 Jun 29 78 5 2 2016 Jun 30 78 5 2 2016 Jul 01 78 5 2 2016 Jul 02 78 25 5 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1829, DXLD) GLENN`S PROPAGATION OUTLOOK FOR MEDIA NETWORK PLUS AS OF JUNE 9, 2016 Keith, from IPS in Australia, the global HF propagation forecast thru June 11: normal at all latitudes except normal to fair at high latitudes June 11. From Space Weather South Africa, thru June 11, magnetic conditions quiet to unsettled, shortwave fadeouts unlikely, MUF unstable. From Met Office UK thru June 12: Solar activity expected to remain at very low levels. Geomagnetic activity expecting an enhancement in the solar wind from a high speed stream on the 11th and 12th, bringing some Active spells and just a slight chance of Minor Storm intervals. From Space Weather Canada, a peak of magnetic activity in polar, auroral, and subauroral zones is foreseen for June 18. From F K Janda of the Czech Propagation Interest Group, the Geomagnetic field will be: quiet to unsettled on June 10, 13 - 14, 28 quiet to active on Jun 11 - 12, 19, 24 - 27 mostly quiet on June 15 - 17, 21, 23, 29 active to disturbed on June 18 quiet on June 20, 22. From SWPC in Boulder, Geomagnetic field unsettled to active levels expected on June 12-15, 17-18, 23-24 and 26-27, with A and K indices peaking at 15 and 5 on June 17; 12 and 4 on June 12, 13 and 24. G1 (Minor) storm levels likely on July 2 with A`s and K`s of 25 and 5. Lowest A`s and K`s of 5 and 2 on June 10, 11, 16, 19-22, and 28th to July 1. Solar flux rising slightly from 82 on June 10 to a peak of only 90 on June 15-20, down to 78 by June 29. William Hepburn`s VHF UHF DX maps call for extreme tropospheric ducting between Perú and Chile June 11-13; off the coast of West Africa around Cape Verde until June 12; off the southwest coast of Mexico and the central to eastern Mediterranean starting June 12; all week along the coast of Angola. And extremely extreme all week on all sides of the Arabian peninsula as far as India. RSGB says, ``If you do one thing, check the VHF bands for sporadic-E around teatime, before eating, and you’ll catch most of what develops`` (via DXLD) ###