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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1879 contents: Argentina non, Azerbaijan, Bougainville, Brasil, Canada and non, China, Iran non, Japan non, Korea South, Laos, México, New Zealand, Nigeria non, Papua New Guinea, Perú, Slovakia non, Tibet, USA SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1879, May 25-31, 2017 Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1431 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [confirmed] Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 [NEW] [confirmed] Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM [confirmed] Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v-AM Area 51 Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 [to be canceled?] Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 9455 Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 9455 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 ANOTHER PODCAST ALTERNATIVE, tnx to Keith Weston: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GlennHausersWorldOfRadio NOW tnx to Keith Weston, also Podcasts via iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/glenn-hausers-world-of-radio/id1123369861 AND via Google Play Music: http://bit.ly/worldofradio 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/ ** AFGHANISTAN [and non]. Random reception of Radio Afghanistan External Service on May 16: from 1533 6100 YAK 100 kW / 125 deg SoAs English and no signal at 1550 Very weak 6100 KNG 250 kW / non-dir NEAs Korean KCBS Pyongyang at 1555 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/radio-afghanistan-external-sce-kcbs.html Weak to fair signal of Radio Afghanistan External Service on May 17: 1530-1705 6100 YAK 100 kW / 125 deg SoAs English/Urdu/Arabic/Russian & off! *frm 1705 6100 KNG 250 kW / non-dir NEAs Korean KCBS Pyongyang, weak http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/weak-to-fair-signal-of-radio.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1008 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 18, 2017 via DXLD) 23.05.2017, Radio Afghanistan Urdu Service, Time: 1600-1630, Frequency: 6100, SIO: 555, Excellent Signal. Posted by: (Abid Hussain Sajid, Mailsi, Pakistan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGOLA. Checked some low power small signals tonight at 1740 and 1910 UT on May 21, on remote SDR units in Belgium, southern Germany, western England near Liverpool, in Hungary, and Doha Qatar locations: 4949.729 kHz, weak signal of R Nacional Mulenvos, poor and tiny. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGUILLA. 6090, May 18 at 0554, Caribbean Beacon is off! Has this terrible transmitter finally joined Dead Gene in the grave? NO, 11775 is still on the air at 1223 check, S9+10 radiating constant unusable suptorted modulation. I`ve heard from listeners who have tried to get thru to PMS that she has a problem, without success (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And 6090 resumed too ** ANTÁRCTICA. 15476, R. Nacional Arcángel S. Gabriel, Base Esperanza, 1904-1932, 11/5, noticiário, canções; 25332. Emissão de portadora com banda lateral suprimida, no caso, a inferior. Good DX and 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA [non]. Good reception for the English broadcast on 9395 kHz at 0100 UT, even indoors in an RFI-infested house with just the receiver's whip antenna. Gave out a new e-mail address: rae@raeargentina.com Weekly "The Conversation" program had a lengthy interview with a listener in Iowa who had submitted an mp3 file last week. On which days do they feature music? There wasn't much in last night's broadcast. On-line schedule says Monday (Tuesday UT) for a tango program. And when is the English-language DX program? Friday (Saturday UT)? I'm back in New Brunswick (-- Richard Langley, May 18, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Expanded relays: see also USA: WRMI Updated schedule of RAE Argentina to the World via WRMI Okeechobee from May 22 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/updated-schedule-of-rae-argentina-to.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I asked Adrián Korol what he meant by ``paulatinamente``, like phasing in gradually? (gh, DXLD) Lo de "paulatinamente" obedece en verdad a que se nos presentó la oportunidad de WRMI en un momento donde gran parte del personal está de vacaciones, por lo que hay idiomas (especialmente el JAPONES) que durante los primeros 10 días saldrán con un programa grabado sin noticias, pero de todos modos con contenidos atemporales. Este lunes 22 comenzamos a difundir en los 8 idiomas de RAE via WRMI con la salvedad de JAPONES (momentáneamente sin boletín informativo). Por otra parte es numerosa la correspondencia postal y via email recibida desde JAPON. Y nos sorprende también la cantidad de reportes de muchos países del mundo. Las autoridades de RNA están realmente impactadas (no conocen a los DXistas) y en mi caso, superó las expectativas; por ello creo que al sumarse los 8 idiomas a la SW será un gran impulso para avanzar la reparación del emisor en Pacheco, y considerar sostener un esquema de relay en forma paralela via WRMI. Ya está despachando tu QSL CARD #001; fue muy especial sellar y firmarla. Además de mi tarea en RAE, produzco y presento en Radio Nacional un ciclo llamado BICHOS DE RADIO, el cual hoy estuvo dedicado al DIEXISMO, con entrevistas a colegas argentinos como Arnaldo Slaen y Rubén Margenet. Todavía hay un terreno y oportunidad para nuestra pasion, y hoy puedo decir que muchas emisoras se apresuraron a la hora de terminar sus servicios, o pensar que una simple migración a internet era suficiente. 73 y Hasta pronto (Adrian Korol, Director de RAE, May 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The expanded relays of RAE ATTW via WRMI {as explained already in 17- 20} did not start Monday May 22, but they did start Tuesday May 23. 11580, May 22 at 2025, RAE multilingual ID loop --- but it`s merely a clip within the Russian-language DX program `Padio Pinorama` which is now scheduled Mondays at 2000. The 20-21 block remains with variety of programming. 11580, May 22 at 2100, R. Slovakia International English is still here, for the last time (except will continue on weekends only). Intro mentions the current date May 22, which is something all relayed stations should do. This is to be replaced by RAE in German for the full hour. 11580, May 22 at 2200, RAE relay in Spanish, about Argentina with Argentine accent, as has already started a few weeks ago, presumably // 5950 --- yes, by 2247, 5950 is very poorly audible. New sked will split off 11580 for Italian instead. 7730, May 23 at 0030, WORLD OF RADIO is still airing instead of RAE in Spanish 9395, May 23 at 0100, the RAE English hour unrechecked tonight, and presumably still not duplicated on 11580 as originally planned. 5850 // 7730, May 23 at 0626, tango, and Japanese announcement, so the expanded RAE relay sked has now started: 06-07 Tue-Sat in Japanese; later hours not checked, but scheduled to be: 07-08 English on both; 08-09 Chinese & 09-10 Japanese on 5850 only. Adrián Korol tells me that the Japanese staff happen to be on vacation, so initially that service will play evergreen shows with no news. RAE has already had good response from Japan. 9955, May 23 at 1100, RAE poor in Portuguese, and also // slightly better 9455, which was not publicized, but maintaining the // hour as previously scheduled with variety of programming, ex WOR at 1100 Tuesdays. 11580, May 23 at 1300, RAE in French, fair, replacing WORLD OF RADIO on Tuesdays; recheck 1344, after Spanish song, more French about le football. RAE`s French program is only half an hour, so apparently running it twice (perhaps playing previous and current day`s show would seem less repetitive during a single consecutive hour?) The transmission schedule at http://tinyurl.com/WRMIfqs has not been updated, but the programming grid below it has been, to show most of the RAE languages, not including 00-01 UT on 7730 which still has the old sked instead of expected RAE Spanish. The separate 9955 sked has also changed 1100 Mon-Fri to RAE in Portuguese. Further chex for expanded RAE relays on WRMI, May 23-24: 11580, May 23 at 2119, now RAE German has replaced R. Slovakia in English during this hour, including some tango. {Slovakia in English is still here on Sat/Sun, and daily 0030-0100 on 5850, 11580} 11580, May 23 at 2225, this hour is still in Spanish // 5950, not Italian. RAE did upload an Italian hour to WRMI as early as May 22 along with all the other languages. (One has to be careful monitoring, as the Argentine accent in Spanish is Italian-influenced, and Italian service might include clips in real Spanish.) 7730, May 24 at 0015, still `Jazz from the Left` on WRMI, instead of RAE in Spanish, so perhaps other variety programs during this hour will also continue for a while longer. 11580, May 24 at 0146, PCJ Radio International is still running during this hour on UT Wednesday, as an additional frequency for the RAE English hour has not been implemented; remains on 9395 only. 7730, May 24 at 0610, Japanese RAE again, but 5850 is now in BS // 5890 WWCR not synched. 5850 had been running World Music mostly during this hour. The WRMI grid shows the 06-07 Japanese and 07-08 English on BOTH frequencies. With 08-09 Chinese and 09-10 Japanese on 5850 only. Really, 15-16 JST in the summer is too early to expect much propagation to Japan on 5850; and even 7730 may not be making it much that soon. 11580, May 24 at 1316 and 1351 chex, during RAE French hour as heard yesterday, off the air! Or JBA carrier possibly exciter from WRMI, as 11825 WRMIBS is S9. Or Sound of Hope 0.1 kW in Taiwan as in Aoki and/or provoking ChiComjam (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) On reviewing my recording of RAE Argentina to the World in English via WRMI on 9395 kHz at 0100 on 23 May 2017 UT (Monday evening here), the program was a repeat of last Monday's program (for 15 May)! Perhaps RAE didn't upload the program for 22 May in time or there was some other screw-up. – (Richard Langley, NB, May 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARMENIA. See RADIO PHILATELY ** AUSTRALIA. Reach Beyond Australia adds new language broadcasts Dimapur, May 18 (EMN): Highland Dawn Media Nagaland (HDM) and Reach Beyond Australia (RBA) have announced broadcasting a new weekly Nagamese Christian Radio programme. This is among one of the first Nagamese Radio broadcasts specifically covering Northeast India and Myanmar to bless all Nagamese speaking people in the regions. The programme called ‘From darkness to Light’ will feature well known Naga pastors and preachers like Rev. Vizotuo Kiewhuo and Rev. Shan Kikon from Nagaland, including Rev. Luoliehu Yimsung from Australia. Evangelism, family and relationships, health, youth programmes and Nagamese Christian music from Nagaland and beyond will be featured in the programme. In this regard, HDM has invited singers and musicians, who have recorded Nagamese Christian music, to contact them for Radio broadcast or recording of their songs and albums. Pastors and listeners from remote places and villages in Eastern Nagaland and beyond can mark the times and frequency of the broadcast. The Radio programme will be broadcast every Sunday, Wednesday and Saturday at 5:45 pm IST, which will be 6:45 p.m. according to Myanmar Standard Time (MMT) [= 1215-1245 UT]. The programme can be heard on Short Wave Band Frequency: 9685 kHz (31 metres). The broadcast will started on May 13 and will continue every week on the above mentioned days and time. The same programme will also be posted and heard online soon at HDM’s online Radio website at http://www.NagalandChristianRadio.com http://www.easternmirrornagaland.com/nagamese-radio-broadcast-for-ne-myanmar/ May 16 Reach Beyond Australia have also added a broadcast in Matu to Myanmar also on 9685 kHz 1145-1215 UT (Wed and Sat) and 1215-1245 UT (Thu), all from their Kununurra transmitter site near the northern tip of Western Australia. But their A17 schedule has dropped programmes in Chinese (and Fujian). This from their website: New Languages added to Broadcast Schedule (Friday, 24 March 2017) Reach Beyond Australia is constantly seeking ways to better serve listeners who have no or little access to the gospel in the South East Asia region. Our programming features a handful of languages spoken by people groups notably hungry for the message of salvation. Our new schedule of programs – also known as A17 – is now out. And it marks the beginning of an extended outreach to India and Myanmar with the addition of programs in the Nagamese and Matu languages. Nagamese is widely spoken in Nagaland, a state in India’s North East, and among some remote villages of Myanmar, just across the border. Matu, in turn, is one of the languages of the Chin state of Myanmar. Two independent media ministries are coming alongside Reach Beyond in the task to make the gospel more available to those audiences. We strongly believe that the new broadcast services into India and Myanmar will impact many. While expanding broadcast hours into South East Asia’s audiences, the A17 Schedule will also mark the end of our services for China. We praise God for the extensive shortwave Christian programming into that country being delivered daily by our friends in ministry TWR and FEBC. That will allow us to strengthen our focus on new audiences such as those within India and Myanmar. We are looking forward to this new broadcasting season and the fruit the programs will bear. As we all know, the word of God, when sent out, “never returns empty”. You can find our new program schedule here: http://www.reachbeyond.org.au/site/DefaultSite/filesystem/documents/publications/A17%20Schedule_by%20Language%20Edition.pdf Posted by: ("Alan Pennington", May 18, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** AZERBAIJAN. Reception of Ictimai Radio, broadband FM mode May 20: 0815-1415 9676.9 unknown tx / unknown to CeAs Azeri, plus strong QRM 1100-1400 9680.0 TSH 100 kW / 352 deg to EaAs Chinese RTI&CNR Jammer http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/azerbaijan-reception-of-ictimai-radio.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. Had a nice greyline opening early the morning of May 23 between here and Central / South America. 3310, Radio Mosoj Chaski at 0956 UT May 23 in Spanish with religious type programming. Very Good with lightning static; ah, summer. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, AB, Rx Perseus SDR, Ant Wellbrook ALA100 loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.42, Radio Pio Doce, 0228, May 24. Start of whistling “Colonel Bogey March”; full ID and gave http://www.radiopio12.com.bo (where frequencies are shown as 710, 5955 and 90.7); chimes; end of audio at 0230; open carrier (dead air) continued on past 0305+ (Ron Howard, oceanside at Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6025, RED PATRIA NUEVA. 0035-0050 UT. Mayo 18. Comentarios sobre el partido del equipo Santos de Brasil y The Strongest de Bolivia con avisos comerciales de Diario “La Razón” y retransmisión de parte del partido. SINPO: 54454 con leve QRM de otra emisora. 2337-2347 UT. Mayo 18. Noticiero sobre la negación de visados de autoridades bolivianas, por parte de Chile. Luego informaciones en idioma quechua y sobre el departamento de Cochabamba. SINPO: 45343 (Claudio Galaz, RX: TECSUN PL 660; ANT: Hilo de 40 metros de largo, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BONAIRE. no activity on 800 --- Glenn, I have been periodically checking 800 kHz for what I am nicknaming the Boomer of Bonaire. I check in mid evening, and in early morning, when skip can be expected to be in. Though I do not check every day, I have so far not heard a sign of Bonaire, or any Spanish. Of course, there is no guarantee that this signal would reach north Alabama, but, with 400 kilowatts, I ought to hear something during darkness hours. I’ll keep checking (Tim Hendel, Huntsville AL, May 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOUGAINVILLE. 3325, NBC Bougainville, 1146*, May 18. Second consecutive day on the air; as noted yesterday, this NBC station does not carry the 1100 news; 1053 DJ in Pidgin/Tok Pisin playing pop songs; local time checks ("5 to 10"); no break at ToH; a number of clear IDs heard. [non-log]. 3325, NBC Bougainville. Was back on the air only on May 17 (1200*) & 18 (1146*); clearly off the air May 19, 20 & 21 (Ron Howard, oceanside at Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4885.021, ZYG362 Rádio Clube do Pará, Belém, PA, S=7 or - 83dBm 0645 UT 6159.991, Probably ZYE854 R. Legiao da Boa Vontade RS, weaker than CKZN St. Johns Canada 6159.964 kHz S=7 or -83dBm at 0658-0702 UT 6079.996, ZYE726 "Radio Marumby onda media e onda curta", Curitiba PR S=6 or -87dBm fluttery signal at 0706 UT. Male BrasPort prayer. 6059.841, ZYE726 Super Rádio Deus é Amor, Curitiba, PR, at 0712 UT SRDA very poor and tiny S=4-5, compare Marti 6030 S=9+60dB power 9630.009, ZYE954 Rádio Aparecida, Aparecida SP, poor S=4-5, Brazilian music program at 0735 UT, May 21. 9819.031, ZYR96 Rádio Nove de Julho, Sao Paulo SP, very poor threshold signal at 0742 UT May 21. 73 wb [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] log of May 21, 0645-0745 UT, noted in remote SDR post in central Florida state USA (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 5969.264, ZYE523, Rádio Itatiaia "A Rádio das Minas" Belo Horizonte MG, very poor threshold level S=4-5 signal noted at 0517 UT. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, Morning log of May 22 at 0430 til 0550 UT, checked on remote SDR unit in central Florida-USA state, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 22, dxldyg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 9674.923, Rádio Canção Nova, Cachoeira Paulista, SP, weak and very tiny S=4 signal, BrasPort just above threshold. 0541 UT. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, Morning log of May 22 at 0430 til 0550 UT, checked on remote SDR unit in central Florida-USA state, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 22, dxldyg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL, 4775, R. Congonhas, Congonhas MG, 2205-2214, 14/5, texto; 25331. 4805, R.Dif.ª do Amazonas, Manaus AM, 2122-2131, 12/5, texto; 24331, QRM da CHINA, em 4800. 4845, R. Cultura do Amazonas, Manaus AM, 2139-2150, 11/5, noticiário regional; 35343, modulação fraca. 4862.7, R. Alvorada (p), Londrina PR, 2201-2213, 13/5, texto; 15331. Não se tratou da R. Verdes Florestas, no Acre. 4875,2 R.Roraima, Boa Vista RR, 2205-2220, 13/5, canções; 45433. 4875.3, idem, 2114-2125, 12/5, noticiário regional; 35322. 4925.2, R. Educação Rural, Tefé AM, 2207-2217, 13/5, música pop'; 34332, QRM da CHINA, em 4920. 4965, R. Alvorada, Parintins AM, 2209-2219, 13/5, texto, canções; 25331. 4985, R. Brasil Central, Goiânia GO, 2137-2148, 11/5, programa de canções; 35343. 5035, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 2136-..., 11/5, texto, canções; 25321. 5939.6, R. Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, 2135-2146, 12/5, noticiário, info. meteorológica; 45343. 6040.7, R. B2 [sic], Curitiba PR, 2141-2150, 12/5, noticiário; 34342, QRM adjacente. WORLD OF RADIO 1879, 6080, R. Marumby, Curitiba PR, 2142-2152, 12/5, canções; 33341, QRM da CHINA // 9515 com SINPO 45433. 6135.2, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 2211-2222, 15/5, noticiário nacional A Voz do Brasil; 34432, QRM adjacente. 9515, R. Marumby, Curitiba PR, 2126-2141, 11/5, canções no âmbito de prgr. de propag. relig.; 35343. 9630, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 1901-1916, 13/5, anúncios comerciais, propaganda religiosa, rubrica sobre Fátima e a visita do Papa, em 12-13/5; 35332. 9630, idem, 0927-desvanecimento total 1045, 17/5, canções, conversa, noticiário das 1000, texto; 15341. 9665.8, R. Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, 1859-1912, 11/5, noticiário; 35343. 9674.9, R. Canção Nova, Cachoeira Paulista SP, 2128-2142, 11/5, propaganda religiosa; 33342, QRM adjacente. 9675, idem, 1015-desvan. total 1140, 12/5, texto, aparentemente, tema de cariz relig.; 15341. 9819, R. 9 de Julho, São Paulo SP, 1855-1900, 11/5, propag. relig.; 35343. Forte QRM adj., às 1900. 9819, idem, 0925-desvan. total 1055, 17/5, texto; 15341. 11735, R.Transmundial, St.ª M.ª RS, 1840-1851, 14/5, propag. relig.; 34432, QRM da TZA. 11735, idem, 1421-..., 15/5, propag. relig., canções; 25442. 11764.6, SRDA, Curitiba PR, 1239-1300, 12/5, canções e propag. relig.; 35443, sobremodulado. 11764.7, idem, 1853-1911, 11/5, testemunhos de curas...; 45444. 11815, R. Brasil Central, Goiânia GO, 2123-2140, 11/5, prgr. de canções; 33442. Sinal bom em // 4985. 11815, idem, 1235-1305, 12/5, informações, música, comentários acerca de futebol; 25342. 11856.1, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 1852-1914, 11/5, prgr. Plantão RCR; 35343. 11856.1, idem, 1425-..., 15/5, conversa, música; 24431, QRM adjacente. 11934.8, R. B2, Curitiba PR, 1431-..., 15/5, canções, texto; 14441, QRM adjacente. 11934.9, idem, 2120-2130, 11/5, noticiário, informações várias; 33442, QRM adjacente. Good DX and 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Rádio RB2 e Rádio Evangelizar ondas curtas --- Desde 19 de maio último a Rádio Evangelizar transmite em ondas curtas de 49m em 6040 kHz, a mesma frequência da RB2. Ambas estão em Curitiba e fazem parte da Rede Católica de Rádio. As ondas curtas de 9725 kHz da RB2 ou estão inativas, ou não há propagação para escutá-las. Forte 73 (Luiz Chaine Neto, Limeira SP, 23-5-2017 - terça-feira, radioescutas yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DXLD) Of course, R. Evangelizar must be on the same transmitter as RB2. I have not been hearing any 9724.9v carrier for quite a while now. Also not among the extensive logs above, but active on 11934.8 (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. English on Super Rádio Deus é Amor, 11765 kHz --- At 0235 UT on 20 May, there was simultaneous English translation of an impassioned fire and brimstone sermon in Portuguese. Reception on 11765 kHz fair here in NB indoors with Field BT and its whip antenna. Nothing on 9565 kHz and, of course, Cuba is on 6060 kHz (-- Richard Langley, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) By simultaneous do you mean voice-over, rather than alternating as in consecutive? (gh, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 11934.851, May 19 at 0550, JBA carrier, so Rádio RB2 is back; had been missing for a week or two in random bandscans. Still no 11925.2v Bandeirantes, gone for good? Elsewhere on 25m: 11856.055, May 19 at 0553, JBA carrier from presumed R. Aparecida. 11764.586, May 19 at 0556, SRDA is S7-S3, much stronger than the other two and the only one with audible Brazuguese modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. 9400, May 22 at 0234, lo-fi phone caller? about J. C., not // Overcomer 7730 etc., poor, and sounds like some other audio mixing. `End Times Coming` to the Mideast via Secretbrod is now scheduled at 0230-0300; much weaker than 9395 WRMI. ETC is treated as if it were a ``station`` on a par with BBCWS in the UK, on page 497 of the 2017 WRTH, altho inactive at the time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CAMBODIA [non]. UZBEKISTAN, Voice of Khmer M'Chas Srok via RED Telecom Tashkent on May 21 1130-1200 17860 TAC 100 kW / 122 deg SEAs Khmer Thu/Sun, fair & weak http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/voice-of-khmer-mchas-srok-via-red.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. CHU 3330 kHz Problem Update --- Just received this message from the CHU technician: "We just put a new cable in the ground yesterday. The ground has been too wet to get any equipment into the field. We will hopefully finish connecting it this week (maybe Friday)." – (Richard Langley, Wed May 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 6069.984, CFRX Toronto, S=9 in FL-US remote unit, phone in talk discussion about female relationship ... 0510 UT on May 22. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, Morning log of May 22 at 0430 til 0550 UT, checked on remote SDR unit in central Florida-USA state, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 22, dxldyg via DXLD) ** CANADA. 6754-USB & 15034-USB, May 21 & 22, various chex for ``Trenton Military``, CHR VOLMET find nothing on night or day frequencies. In fact I think I have not noticed them for several days before. Normally off the air from :00 to :10 past the hours, so make sure to check at othertimes. http://www.dxinfocentre.com/volmet.htm 6.754 10 , CHR CAN QUINTE WEST TRENTON MILITARY 44 01 56 -77 31 01 2310-1100 Z 15.034 10 , CHR CAN QUINTE WEST TRENTON MILITARY 44 01 56 -77 31 01 1010-2400 Z BTW, 15034 is the highest frequency on this list for any SW VOLMET. For example, NOTHING: May 21 at 1311, 1343; (NY Radio is only poorly audible on 10051-USB at 1343 May 21). More nothing from CHR: May 22 at 0225; May 22 at 1148, 1325. Of course, propagation especially on 15 MHz has been pitiful, but at the latter logtime, there was sporadic E boosting 15825 WWCR, and by 1420 MUF has reached 103 MHz. Still no 15034 at 1646. So what has become of CHR? No more can one hear ``no report received`` over & over? Still nothing heard by May 24 on more random chex (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [non]. Requiem for Radio on the air next days From: https://www.facebook.com/RequiemForRadio "Wondering what this Requiem for Radio thing is? It's a 1 hour performance involving a scale model of the RCI towers that make sound when touched... essentially a 12 foot tall, 50 foot wide organ with 3 octaves, played by 3 musicians... 18 speakers... 28 microphones, theremin, saxophone, cello, cow bone, and 5 international shortwave broadcasts composed specifically to come into the space (a 5 track work where each track is transmitted from somewhere else in the world)..." A classical piece for 5 voices will be also sung where bass comes e.g. from Nauen, alto from Moosbrunn, tenor from WRMI etc... The European transmitter antennas are directed towards Canada / NAm. Airtimes 25th May 2017 2300-2400 UTC 26th May 2017 2300-2400 UTC 27th May 2017 2300-2400 UTC Schedule: WRMI : Radio Miami International 11580 kHz WBCQ : Free Speech Radio 5130 kHz Nauen: Shortwaveservice 9690 kHz Moosbrunn: Shortwaveservice 9620 kHz Boston Pirate Radio 6850 kHz The content is identical on all three days. A QSL is planned. Posted by: (christian.milling, May 24, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DXLD) ** CANADA [non]. Updated summer A-17 schedule of Bible V. Broadcasting http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/updated-summer-17-schedule-of-bible.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1008 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 18, 2017 via DXLD) GERMANY, BVBroadcasting via 2 different transmitters in MBR Nauen, May 21 1815-1830 on 9635 NAU 250 kW / 125 deg to WeAs English Sun, powerful 1830-1915 on 9635 NAU 100 kW / 129 deg to N/ME English Sun, powerful http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/bvbroadcasting-via-2-different-txs-in.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Bell Media licence renew means 40 less OTA stations Bell licence was renewed by the CRTC on May 15. http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2017/2017-149.htm Built into this approval is the permission to close 40 repeaters throughout Canada: Prov. Transmitter call sign and location Ch. kW NS CJCB-TV-5 Bay St. Lawrence 7 9.4 CJCH-TV-2 Truro 12 0.008 CJCH-TV-8 Marinette 23 0.01 NB CKAM-TV-1 Newcastle 10 0.009 CKAM-TV-2 Chatham 10 0.009 CKCD-TV Campbellton 7 1.8 PEI CKCW-TV-2 St. Edward/St. Louis 5 1.1 ON CKNX-TV Wingham 8 260 CHBX-TV-1 Wawa 7 66.4 CJOH-TV-8 Cornwall 8 260 CICI-TV-1 Elliot Lake 3 19 CITO-TV-3 Hearst 4 7.11 CITO-TV-4 Chapleau 9 1.55 CKVR-TV-1 Parry Sound 12 0.007 MB CKYS-TV Snow Lake 11 0.008 SK CICC-TV-2 Norquay 7 69 CICC-TV-3 Hudson Bay 11 0.68 CIEW-TV Warmley 7 170 CIWH-TV Wynyard 12 140 CIPA-TV-1 Spiritwood 10 46.9 CIPA-TV-2 Big River 7 0.205 CKBQ-TV Melfort 2 15.5 CKBQ-TV-1 Nipawin 12 100 CKCK-TV-1 Colgate 12 84.8 CKCK-TV-2 Willow Bunch 6 52.7 CKCK-TV-7 Fort Qu’Appelle 7 0.241 CKMC-TV-1 Golden Prairie 10 229 AB CFCN-TV-1 Drumheller 12 80 CFCN-TV-6 Drumheller 10 0.009 CFCN-TV-16 Oyen 2 0.71 CFCN-TV-3 Brooks 9 0.008 CFCN-TV-4 Burmis 5 0.382 CFCN-TV-17 Waterton Park 6 0.001 CFCN-TV-18 Coleman 8 0.009 CFRN-TV-2 Peace River 3 4.3 CFRN-TV- 8 Grouard Mission 18 10 CFRN-TV-10 Rocky Mountain House 12 1.6 BC CFWL-TV-1 Invermere 8 0.01 CFCN-TV-12 Moyie 8 0.005 CFCN-TV-11 Sparwood 6 0.008 Odd though as Deseronto ON [ch. 6 100 kW] has been removed from the list. This technically out-of-band repeater is on an old tower. They are allocated to move CJOH to ch. 16 under the new TV alignment plan but will they? (Andy Reid, Ont., May 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. CANADA’S DTV MORATORIUM HAS BEEN LIFTED https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/sf11274.html The next link has the new DTV plan which includes the new channel alignment. All stations above ch. 35 must relocate to a new channel. This page also lists the power of each station. https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/sf11281.html The following link is the proposed schedule for the realignment of the TV band. There are 14 phases! https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/sf11282.html Note that these lists include the 40 CTV repeaters that Bell recently got approval to close (Andy Reid, Ont., May 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So what will be left to DX by sporadic E on low-band ch 2-6? VERY little. A quick look thru the listings: almost half of the 32 pages concern BC where there are hundreds of low-power relays. Among `RP` stations there will remain a couple of ch 5s in BC. In Alberta, Ch 2 and 4 Lloydminster remain. In Manitoba there will be absolutely NO lowbanders of any power. In Ontario, Thunder Bay retains ch 2 and 4, but they are really low-powered, a far cry from the original analog stations. Saskatchewan retains a couple on ch 6. A scattering of low- banders in the other provinces, mostly very low power, under 1000, 100, or even under 10 watts. Note that ch 36 is a `guard band`, adjacent to ch 37 off-limits for radio astronomy. I haven`t searched the entire list whether there are really any on ch 36. AFAIK there is no such proviso in the USA (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks for this. It looks like none of my locals in the 38-51 spectrum are marked with a * in the transition plan which would've allowed them to remain up there beyond the planned phase date. The only notable * is analog 6 Deseronto ON, which looks like it's been given the OK to take its sweet time to transition (Bill Hepbrun, WTFDA gg via DXLD) [and non]. There are CURRENT assignments on 36 in the US (one is my local WLNS in Lansing, which 'sold' their license and will be either shutting down or [more likely] consolidating with co-owned WLAJ on channel 25) and indeed there will be NEW ones as well (WAQP Saginaw MI among many others will be on that channel). If I had to speculate, I'd suggest Bell Canada and Rogers are even MORE hot to trot to gather spectrum there. Every time I see an ad on Canadian TV for one of those two companies, they are pushing the 'wireless' service with pay per mini-byte fees and each is anxious to shut down as many OTA TV stations as possible so they can charge by the second instead of 'giving' it away! 73 (//Ken Zichi -- One can never be too rich, too thin or have too many radios. D<-- and I'm still not with stupid! --> R dxldyg via DXLD) Is the different spacing next to D and R significant in you tagline? (gh, DXLD) ** CHINA. 7500, May 19 at 1305, poor signal from algo. Presumably CNR1 jamming vs VOA Chinese via Thailand, this hour only per Aoki, as also logged at 1315 May 5 by Dan Sheedy, CA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. UNIDENTIFIED. 9700, May 18 at 1237, something here in Chinese, weak. Nothing listed in latest Aoki of May 18, nor any excuse for ChiCom jamming. Nor EiBi nor HFCC of May 4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks for the tip. Attached the ID, but I can't quite catch it: (Mauno Ritola, with a clip, May 19 at 1400, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Mauno, Listened again today at 1257-1300+. I think it is just CNR1. Timesignal at 1300 almost synch with 9680. But question remains, why are they here? (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Glenn, the time signal and Beijing time yes, but otherwise I can't get it fit with CNR1, for example on adjacent 9710 kHz. Just recorded 100 kHz span and tried to find the short 9700 kHz music at 1509 UT on 9710 kHz audio going back and forth about 1 minute, but no luck. It is talk programming, too. Seems there are lots of changes for Chinese domestic SW: Voice of the Elderly heard on 17875/9620 kHz by Amano (Mauno Ritola, ibid.) Hi Glenn & Mauno, Was 9700 kHz. a former Radio Free Asia frequency? (Ron Howard, ibid.) Yes, in B16 but only at 01-02 in Uighur via Kuwait or UAE (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) re 9700 kHz CHINA program: checked late at 1555 UT at Akitakata Japan remote unit post, and supposedly \\ CNR 2nd program, like 9820 kHz, (was NOT CNR1 program!) TX O F F switch at 1604:59 UT when '16.05 UT final daytime hour end', like 9820 kHz Xianyang #594 site but crash started 9700 kHz TX again on air check, 4 ... 5 times on-and-off 1605:30 til 1606:45 UT. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, May 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Here BOTH IDs at 1600: UNID on 9700 kHz and CNR1 on 9710 kHz: (with clip) (Mauno Ritola, ibid.) Clear ID's for CNR-16 in Mauno's first clip. Excuse spelling - zhongguo xiangcun zhi sheng. 73, (Jari Savolainen, Finland, ibid.) Today`s Aoki has the answer, CNR 16, which WRTH calls Voice of China Country, shown as on 720 kHz Beijing only. Glenn 9700 CNR 16 1100-1605 1234567 Chinese 100 163 Beijing 491 CHN 3955N11625E CNR5 a17 May 17 9700 CNR 16 2055-2400 1234567 Chinese 100 163 Beijing 491 CHN 3955N11625E CNR5 a17=17780 (Glenn Hauser, 1744 UT May 19, ibid.) And apparently on a number of FM outlets as well. http://country.cnr.cn If clicking on the play symbol there does not yield the stream: It's at http://ngcdn017.cnr.cn/live/xczs/index.m3u8 (can be directly played with at least the latest Microsoft Edge browser, otherwise with an external M3U8 player). (Kai Ludwig, ibid.) Checked the 16 mb in 23-01 UT May 19/20 night, on remote units in Alberta, Japan and Brisbane Australia. 17780, CNR16 Beijing #491 was already on air at 2330 UT. S=4-5 in Alberta, S=8 in Japan and Australia. listen to recording taken at 0000 UT May 20 in Tokyo Japan remote. CNR1 was on air: 17580 Lingshi #725, 17595 Shijiazhuang #723, 17890 Beijing #572. and 17875 CNR10 probably via Beijing #491 site. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9700, May 19 at 1257, very poor signal in Chinese, as I try to compare with CNR1 jammer on 11785, 9680. 1300 timesignal almost in synch, so apparently CNR1, but why are they here? Nothing listed needing jamming. Mauno Ritola listened further and despite Beijing timesignal, found programming not matching CNR1 on e.g. 9710. Wolfgang Büschel also heard a non-match at 1600, and thought 9700 was // 9820, CNR2 at 1555- 1606. Today`s Aoki has the answer for 9700, CNR 16, which WRTH calls Voice of China Country, shown as on 720 kHz Beijing only. 9700 CNR 16 1100-1605 1234567 Chinese 100 163 Beijing 491 3955N 11625E CNR5 a17 May 17 9700 CNR 16 2055-2400 1234567 Chinese 100 163 Beijing 491 3955N 11625E CNR5 a17=17780 Not clear why this also refers to CNR5, which is Zhonghua News Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, You might be interested in the following posting, regarding your 9700 station: RE: CNR-10 and CNR-16 Extraordinary broadcast: http://radio.chobi.net/DX/bbs/?res:731#2280 (Ron Howard, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Re: CHINA : CNR-16 Voice of China Country 9700kHz - XXX May 19, 2017 17:03 UTC No.2267 *????-1230-1605* CNR-16, Voice of China Country 9700kHz Chinese program, //720kHz Live: http://www.cnr.cn/ or http://www.radio.cn/pc-portal/erji/radioStation.html Website: http://country.cnr.cn/ SA in Chinese: "Zhongyang renmin guengbo diantai zhangguo xiongcun zhi sheng" Thanks very much to MAUNO(Finland), Glenn Hauser(USA) and AMANO(Japan) !! http://radio.chobi.net/bbsasia/?res:3836 Re: CHINA : temporary schedule of CNR-10 and CNR-16 - XXX May 19, 2017 17:22 UTC No.2268 Thanks very much to Cah (Chinese DXer) !! http://radio.chobi.net/bbs/?res:7990#8008 Temporary schedule of CNR-10 and CNR-16 CNR-10 May 17-Jun 30 9620 kHz 2025-2300, 1300-1805 17875 kHz 2300-1300 CNR-16 May 17-Jun 10 9700 kHz 2055-2230, 1100-1605 17780 kHz 2230-1100 http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_7ae04bef0102xg57.html Information - Cah May 19, 2017 17:38 UTC No.2269 CNR-10 9620/17875 100 kW, Azi: 15, Location: Unknown, Hainan CNR-16 9700/17780 10 kW, Azi: 16, Location: Dongfang 871, Hainan Re: CHINA: CNR China National Radio - XXX May 19, 2017 17:43 UTC No. 2270 Cah-san, ARIGATOUGOZAIMASU !! CHINA: CNR-16 Village Voice on 9700 kHz. - Amano May 19, 2017 17:44 UTC No. 2271 Hallo! Everyone. 9700, CNR-16 Village Voice, 1601, May 19. SA/ID Male says "Zhongyang renmin guangbo diantai, Zhongguo xiangcun zhi sheng" in Chinese; 1605* Sign off. *Village Voice : "Zhongguo xiangcun zhi sheng" (Chinese language) Re: CHINA : CNR-10 and CNR-16 Extraordinary broadcast - XXX May 20, 2017 00:22 UTC No.2273 Thanks to HIROSHI ! : https://goo.gl/BO0wQh ** Google translation This is a limited time transmission accompanied by medium wave 1053 and 720 kHz stop. http://hiroshi.mediacat-blog.jp/e122346.html Google translation : Chinese to English http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_7ae04bef0102xg57.html Central People's Broadcasting Station Voice of the Elderly, China's rural voice temporarily opened short-wave frequency broadcast. Due to the launch pad for technical renovation, the Central People's Broadcasting Station Voice of the elderly in the wave AM1053 from May 17, 2017 02:05 to June 30 02:05 during the temporary shutdown, June 30 02:05 after the recovery Wave AM1053 broadcast. Technical renovation overhaul period, the old voice of the program by the two short-wave frequency on behalf of the broadcast, the specific broadcast time: (Beijing time) 04:25-07:00 9620 kHz 07:00-21:00 17875 kHz 21:00-02:05 9620 kHz Due to the launch pad for technical renovation, the Central People's Broadcasting Station China Rural Voice in the wave AM720 in May 17, 2017 02:05 to June 10 02:05 during the temporary shutdown, after the resumption of 10:05 on June 10 In the wave AM720 broadcast. Technical renovation overhaul period, the Chinese village voice program by the two short-wave frequency on behalf of the broadcast, the specific broadcast time: (Beijing time) 04:55-06:30 9700 kHz 06:30-19:00 17780 kHz 19:00-00:05 9700 kHz ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [WORLD OF RADIO 1879] Re: CHINA : CNR-17 New schedule/Frequency - XXX May 20, 2017 11:12 UTC No.2280 CNR-17 Kazakh program 2355-1200 12055kHz 0300-0900 15190kHz 1200-1805 9630kHz Thanks to Ron Howard(USA) and AOKI(@Aoki list) (all via DXLD) ** CHINA. new frequency 15190, CNR17, 0445-0501+, on May 19. Tuned into an UNID station; sent my audio off to Mauno Ritola for his expert analyzes; he provides the following: "IDed as 'Ortalyk khalyk stansiasu' and still heard now at 0850, confirmed // 12055 kHz, so CNR17 Kazakh has added a frequency." As always, I am very grateful to Mauno for his kind assistance. My audio at http://goo.gl/daPyPa (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) re 15190 CNR ? Maybe CNR17 from Lingshi site #725, replace ? ex 11630 kHz ? 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) Yes, probably ex 11630, but 11630 was till 1805UT May 19 no signal on new 15190 at 14/15/16/17 UT, probably 15190 is 0000-1200 and 1200-1800 another new freq -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire 1845 UT May 19, ibid.) ** CHINA. Continuing with their actively making many changes now, noted on May 20, at 1241: 6030 & 6125 CNR1 off the air. Now hearing Laos on 6130, with the best reception in years! Now would be a good time to check 6030 for reception of India and later Ethiopia reception, both of which are normally totally covered by strong CNR1 6065 & 6155 CNR2 off the air 7230 & 7275 CNR1 good signal 7265 & 7315 CNR2 good signal (comedy show "Haiyang Live," in Chinese). 6035, PBS Yunnan, 1120-1203*, May 20. In Chinese; EZL pop songs; 1134 usual ID normally given about this time - "S W liu(6) ling(0) san(3) wu(5). Yunnan Radio and Television International, the Voice Shangri- la"; suddenly off. BTW - surprised today to hear monologue immediately post-Yunnan, which audio ended at 1218; would like to think this was the return of BBS/Bhutan, which has not been heard post-1200 in a long time now, but unable to confirm due to lack of specific details; was intensely listening for their unique indigenous music, but there was none, just the OM with monologue. Needs more monitoring now that it might be BBS (Ron Howard, oceanside at Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Major changes of China Domestic Services, more videos on 17780/17875/9620/9700 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/major-changes-of-china-domestic-services.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via DXLD) Additional frequency of CNR-17 eff. from May 17 0300-0900 on 15190 DOF 100 kW / 015 deg to EaAs Kazakh Additional on shortwave are China Domestic Service CNR-10 and CNR-16: CNR-10 Laonian zhi sheng 2230-1300 on 17875 BEI 150 kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese, and respectively: 2300-1300 on 9620 BEI 150 kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese CNR-2 is cancelled 1300-1805 on 9620 BEI 150 kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese and co- channels* 2025-2300 on 9620 BEI 150 kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese and co- channels# 1230-1500 on 9620*ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Sindhi All India Radio, inactive 1500-1600 on 9620*ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Baluchi All India Radio, inactive 1615-1730 on 9620*ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Farsi All India Radio, inactive 1730-1945 on 9620*ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to N/ME Arabic All India Radio, inactive 2030-2125 on 9620#EMR 500 kW / 105 deg to SEAs English Voice of Turkey CNR-16 Voice of China Country 1100-1605 on 9700 BEI 100 kW / 163 deg to EaAs Chinese 2055-2230 on 9700 BEI 100 kW / 163 deg to EaAs Chinese and co- channels* 2230-1100 on 17780 BEI 100 kW / 163 deg to EaAs Chinese and co- channels# 2040-2100 on 9700*SMG 250 kW / 114 deg to N/ME Arabic Vatican Radio 2100-2200 on 9700*TIN 250 kW / 329 deg to EaAs Korean Radio Free Asia 0130-0230 on 17780#PHT 250 kW / 283 deg to SEAs Burmese Voice of America 0400-0426 on 17780#TIG 300 kW / 067 deg to EaAs Chinese Radio Romania Int 0500-0600 on 17780#TRM 250 kW / 300 deg to CEAf Arabic Adventist World Radio Updated summer A-17 of China Domestic Services CNR and PBS may be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXfkDiaxaIc&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRvzvwPqTiw&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSKt1H5ejdk&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBBR62_66sY&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEBYMtqtZM4&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRUyODctX18&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QplKDuwvWs&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KWAqcKGrgw&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ1H7StqMYU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEwEOt5SIsQ&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G5Ul76fpgU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h79YQlfWPao&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1KlXUhomTg&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go2ubtjP37M&feature=youtu.be (??????????? ?? Observer ? 12:27 PM via DXLD) ** CHINA. 5970, Gannan PBS, 1144, May 21. Traditional Chinese music; ex: 5979. So are they really back to stay on their former frequency? Unable to hear // 3990. Now ex: 5979 remains silent. 6035, PBS Yunnan, 1132, May 21. Usual ID ("S W liu(6) ling(0) san(3) wu(5). Yunnan Radio and Television International, the Voice Shangri- la"); weak, but fairly readable ID. 15190, CNR17, 0840-0900*, May 21. Good signal with nice music; 0857 sign off ID and filler jazz music till off after time pips. Schedule 0300-0900. Thanks again to Mauno for his ID of "Ortalyk khalyk stansiasu." My audio at http://goo.gl/G0FUfn (Ron Howard, oceanside at Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9700, May 21 at 1253, S6 talk in Chinese, not // much stronger 9680 CNR1 jammer; also a JBA carrier on 9700 at 1356 May 22; this turned out to be CNR16 on new SW frequency. Altho WRTH translates it as Voice of China Country, it`s not about music: ``Rural Voice`` is another version for this station originally on MW 720. Ron Howard forwards this info: Google translation: Chinese to English http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_7ae04bef0102xg57.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- China's rural voice temporarily opened short-wave frequency broadcast. Due to the launch pad for technical renovation, the Central People's Broadcasting Station China Rural Voice in the wave AM720 in May 17, 2017 02:05 to June 10 02:05 during the temporary shutdown, after the resumption of 10:05 on June 10 In the wave AM720 broadcast. Technical renovation overhaul period, the Chinese village voice program by the two short-wave frequency on behalf of the broadcast, the specific broadcast time: (Beijing time) [UT] 04:55-06:30 9700 kHz 2055-2230 06:30-19:00 17780 kHz 2230-1100 19:00-00:05 9700 kHz 1100-1605 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A similar situation concerns the 1053 kHz station, Central People's Broadcasting Station Voice of the Elderly, until June 30 on 9620 at night, 17875 daytime. There have been a number of other changes concerning China domestic SW usage (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Major changes of China Domestic Services from May 19: Major changes of China Domestic Services, more videos on 17780/17875/9620/9700 Major changes of China Domestic Services from May 19, updated by time: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/major-changes-of-china-domestic-services.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. Reception of FEBA Radio via BaBcoCk Trincomalee on May 22: 1400-1415 on 9775 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Kannada Mon, fair/good 1415-1428 on 9775*TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs English Mon, fair/good *CNR2 on same 9775 BEI 150 kW / 270 deg to EaAs Chinese is off the air Other inactive frequencies of CNR&PBS due to maintenance of transmitters are 4820, 4905, 4920, 5925, 5935, 5975, 6000, 6025, 6030, 6040, 6050, 6065, 6110, 6130, 6155, 6165, 6175, 6200, 7240, 7255, 7370, 7375, 7385, 7450, 9410, 9490, 9490, 9515, 9645, 9665, 9675, 9685, 9730, 9830, 11610, 11620, 11670, 11800, 11860, 11905, 11935, 11950, 11960, 15270, 15500, 15550, 15710, 17565, 17625. http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/reception-of-feba-radio-via-babcock_22.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tuesday, May 23, 2017 Inactive frequencies of CNR and PBS due to maintenance of transmitters 0000-0900 on 11960 BEI 100 kW / 037 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-1 0900-1805 on 6175 BEI 100 kW / 037 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-1 2025-2400 on 6175 BEI 100 kW / 037 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-1 2300-1000 on 9675 BEI 100 kW / 037 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-1 0000-1100 on 15550 BEI 100 kW / 175 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-1 0100-0730 on 17565 BEI 100 kW / 175 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-1 0730-1805 on 9830 BEI 100 kW / 175 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-1 2025-0100 on 9830 BEI 100 kW / 175 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-1 1100-1805 on 6000 BEI 100 kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese CNR-1 2025-2330 on 6000 BEI 100 kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese CNR-1 2330-1100 on 9645 BEI 100 kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese CNR-1 0600-1805 on 6030 BEI 100 kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese CNR-1 2055-2300 on 6030 BEI 100 kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese CNR-1 2055-2230 on 6065 BEI 150 kW / 220 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-2 2230-1200 on 11670 BEI 100 kW / 220 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-2 1200-1605 on 6065 BEI 150 kW / 220 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-2 1000-1605 on 6155 BEI 150 kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese CNR-2 2055-2300 on 6155 BEI 150 kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese CNR-2 0100-0900 on 15270 BEI 150 kW / 270 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-2 2300-1300 on 11610 BEI 150 kW / 270 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-2 1300-1605 on 7370 BEI 150 kW / 270 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-2 2055-2300 on 7370 BEI 150 kW / 270 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-2 2300-1200 on 11800 BEI 150 kW / 180 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-2 1200-1605 on 7375 BEI 150 kW / 180 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-2 2055-2300 on 6040 BEI 100 kW / 180 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-2 2300-1000 on 15500 BEI 150 kW / 180 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-2 0600-0900 on 17625 BEI 150 kW / 163 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-2 0900-1605 on 9515 BEI 100 kW / 163 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-2 2055-2400 on 9515 BEI 100 kW / 163 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-2 0000-0900 on 11935 BEI 100 kW / 163 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-5 0900-1705 on 7385 BEI 100 kW / 163 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-5 0000-1000 on 9685 BEI 100 kW / 163 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-5 1000-1705 on 5925 BEI 100 kW / 163 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-5 0000-1000 on 11620 BEI 100 kW / 163 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-5 1000-1705 on 9410 BEI 100 kW / 163 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-5 2055-2400 on 7385 BEI 100 kW / 163 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-5 2055-2400 on 5925 BEI 100 kW / 163 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-5 2055-2400 on 9665 BEI 100 kW / 163 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-5 2200-0100 on 9420 BEI 100 kW / 163 deg to EaAs Ch/Am/Ha CNR-6 0100-0900 on 15710 BEI 100 kW / 163 deg to EaAs Ch/Am/Ha CNR-6 2200-0100 on 6165 BEI 100 kW / 163 deg to EaAs Ch/Am/Ha CNR-6 0100-0900 on 11905 BEI 100 kW / 163 deg to EaAs Ch/Am/Ha CNR-6 0900-1605 on 6165 BEI 100 kW / 163 deg to EaAs Ch/Am/Ha CNR-6 0600-1505 on 5975 BEI 100 kW / 063 deg to EaAs Korean CNR-8 2000-1800 on 4820 LHA 100 kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese PBS Xizang 2000-1800 on 5935 LHA 100 kW / 085 deg to EaAs Chinese PBS Xizang 2000-1800 on 6050 LHA 100 kW / 290 deg to EaAs Chinese PBS Xizang 2000-1800 on 7240 LHA 100 kW / 290 deg to EaAs Chinese PBS Xizang 2000-1800 on 7450 LHA 100 kW / 085 deg to EaAs Chinese PBS Xizang 0300-0900 on 11950 LHA 100 kW / 290 deg to EaAs Chinese PBS Xizang 0300-0900 on 11860 LHA 100 kW / 085 deg to EaAs Chinese PBS Xizang 2050-1805 on 4905 LHA 100 kW / non-dir to EaAs Tib/Eng PBS Xizang 2050-1805 on 4920 LHA 100 kW / non-dir to EaAs Tib/Eng PBS Xizang 2050-1805 on 6025 LHA 100 kW / 268 deg to EaAs Tib/Eng PBS Xizang 2050-1805 on 6110 LHA 100 kW / 220 deg to EaAs Tib/Eng PBS Xizang 2050-1805 on 6130 LHA 100 kW / 220 deg to EaAs Tib/Eng PBS Xizang 2050-1805 on 6200 LHA 100 kW / 085 deg to EaAs Tib/Eng PBS Xizang 2050-0200 on 7385 LHA 100 kW / 290 deg to EaAs Tib/Eng PBS Xizang 0200-0930 on 9580 LHA 100 kW / 290 deg to EaAs Tib/Eng PBS Xizang 0930-1805 on 7385 LHA 100 kW / 290 deg to EaAs Tib/Eng PBS Xizang 2050-0200 on 7255 LHA 100 kW / 085 deg to EaAs Tib/Eng PBS Xizang 0200-1000 on 9490 LHA 100 kW / 085 deg to EaAs Tib/Eng PBS Xizang 1000-1805 on 7255 LHA 100 kW / 085 deg to EaAs Tib/Eng PBS Xizang Observer ? 3:07 PM (Bulgarian DX blog via May 23 via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DXLD) ** CHINA. 15190, CNR17, *0257, May 24. Started with indigenous music IS; time pips at 0300; fair (Ron Howard, oceanside at Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Lots of CNR1 transmissions used as jamming fodder today. One can only hope that their signals miss the skip zone and AIR, RFA, VOA transmissions make it through proving that jamming is a total waste of resources. All loggings are in English unless otherwise stated. 11785, CHINA CNR1 at 1227 // 11985 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin via Thailand with a man and woman with excited talk followed by high pitched female vocals to 1+1 time pips at 1230 Poor to Fair May 24 Coady-ON 11845, CHINA CNR1 at 1231 //11785 in Mandarin jamming AIR in Mandarin with a man and woman with excited talk, Poor to Fair May 24 Coady-ON 11985, CHINA CNR1 at 1225 // 11785 in Mandarin jamming RTI in Mandarin with a woman with excited talk, Poor to Fair May 24 Coady-ON 13830, CHINA CNR1 at 1235 // 11785 and 11845 in Mandarin jamming RFA in Tibetan via Tajikistan with a man and woman with excited talk, Fair May 24 Coady-ON 15110, CHINA CNR1 at 1346 // 15275 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin via Thailand with promos and a man and woman with excited talk, Good May 24 Coady-ON 15265, CHINA CNR1 at 1241 // 13830 in Mandarin jamming RFA in Tibetan via Tajikistan with a man conducting a telephone interview, Poor to Fair May 24 Coady-ON 15275, CHINA CNR1 at 1340 // 15110 in Mandarin jamming RFA in Tibetan via Tajikistan with a woman interviewing a man then the woman with excited talk at 1344, Poor to Fair May 24 Coady-ON (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles or 40/80 meter NVIS antenna, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. 5910.172, Alcaraván Radio, Puerto Lleras, Meta, Colombia, noted in Florida remote SDR at 0452 UT. VERY NICE Latin American music, S=9 strong, but little fluttery on night path. Also 2 x 50 Hertz either side two strong peaks visible accompanied. Nothing on air on other 6010v kHz channel. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, Morning log of May 22 at 0430 til 0550 UT, checked on remote SDR unit in central Florida-USA state, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 22, dxldyg via DXLD) ** CUBA. NUMBERS STATION, Very poor signal of Cuban Spy Numbers HM01, May 18 0455-0550 on 11462 secret tx probably BEJ 50 kW Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/very-poor-signal-of-cuban-spy-numbers.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5010.001, The two symmetrical distance intermodulation of 5025 Radio Rebelde / 5040 kHz RHC spurious signals from Bauta transmission center S=9+25dB in FL-US remote installation, again heard at S=6-7 signal level on both spurs, also 5054.999 CUB heard Cuban Rumba music. 0442 UT on May 22 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, Morning log of May 22 at 0430 til 0550 UT, checked on remote SDR unit in central Florida-USA state, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 22, dxldyg via DXLD) ** CUBA. 6145, May 19 at 0543, RHC English is just barely modulated on S9+10 signal; 6100 is VG at S9+20/30; 6060 is S9 to S9+10, but sounds much weaker during storm noise, somewhat undermodulated; 6000 is S9+20 with sufficient mod (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15730, RHC. Mayo 21. 2231- UT. Servicio en esperanto. Identificación de la emisora y presentación del servicio, luego noticias sobre la asociación de Esperanto de Cuba. SINPO: 45343 con audio bajo (Claudio Galaz, RX: TECSUN PL 660; ANT: Hilo de 40 metros de largo, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** ECUADOR [and non]. WWRV 1330 --- Recently while WRCA was off, RVCI was heard often on 1330, including the list of US and BVI callsigns. The two transmitters in Ecuador are not mentioned. Do the Ecuador stations have their own programming? In other words, can one be sure that RVCI on 1330 comes from NY? 73 (Andrew Brade, UK, May 21, MWCircle yg via DXLD) BVI? Which station is that, not named in WRTH. Website http://radiovision.net/about-us/ lists 10 AM stations elsewhere. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Replied that he meant Turx & Caicos (gh) See USA ** EGYPT. 9799.6, May 20 at 2216, dead air at S8, or maybe JBM, no doubt R. Cairo in ``English`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9799.6, Radio Cairo, Abis, 2236-2240. Horrible band conditions today, so decided to check out Cairo's English program on 9800. Strong signal found with possibly the worst audio in months. Mostly an echoing multiple hum and tone mess with what appeared to be English talk by a man. Switched to music at 2239 which added whines to the hum. Disappeared abruptly at 2240 5/20/2017 (Jim Evans, Germantown, TN, IC- R75, Perseus, Various Portables, Random Wire, Eavesdropper Dipole, Wellbrook Loops, W6LVP Loop, NASWA Flashsheet May 21 via DXLD) ** EL SALVADOR. Focus on the Middle Americas: THE FIRST RADIO BROADCASTING STATION IN CENTRAL AMERICA --- THE EARLY RADIO SCENE IN EL SALVADOR The Central American isthmus joins South America to North America, and these days there are seven countries in Central America, with El Salvador as the smallest. (However it should also be stated that the Panama Canal Zone held that honor for almost a century, during its American occupation from 1904 to 1999.) In the pre-colonial eras, Amerindians inhabited Central America, and when the Spanish arrived nearly five hundred years ago, the Nahua speaking Pipil people from southern Mexico occupied what is today the independent country of El Salvador. These tribal peoples knew the area as Kuskatan, meaning the Land of Precious Jewels. The first European visitor to the area was the Spanish Admiral Andrés Nino who led an expedition that landed on Meanguera island, which they named Petronila. That was on May 31 in the year 1522. Three years later, Spanish colonists established a settlement, though there was considerable turmoil with the local tribal people during that era. Fifteen years later, El Salvador was recognized as a Spanish colony; in 1821 El Salvador gained independence from Spain; and in 1840, El Salvador achieved its own independence as a separate country in Central America. However, it seems that El Salvador has subsequently experienced more than its share of political and internal unrest and turmoil. This smallest of countries in Central America is considerably less than 200 miles long and considerably less than 100 miles wide. It is the most densely populated country in Central America with a population of six million. The country has 25 volcanoes (together with many associated earthquakes), 14 lakes, a thousand species of butterfly, and just three major cities: San Salvador, Santa Ana and San Miguel. Tourism is one of the main sources of income for El Salvador, with over a million visitors each year. In 2001 the country adopted the American dollar as its official currency, replacing the Colón; and El Salvador is sometimes described as: The country with a smile. The first wireless station in El Salvador was installed in Las Lomas de Candelaria, on the southern edge of the capital city San Salvador, and it was already in operation in 1921. Four years later, the location was shown as Venustiano Carranza, and the official callsign was given as SDA. [I think Carranza was Mexican, historical figure – gh] However, the geographic co-ordinates for the 1921 listing are impossible, way out to sea; and the 1924 co-ordinates are listed as only approximate. Nevertheless, the available information would show that this first wireless communication station in El Salvador was indeed located in a forested area on the southern edge of suburban San Salvador. It was on Monday March 1, 1926 that El Salvador’s first radio broadcasting station was inaugurated by President Alfonso Quiñonez Molina under the callsign AQM, the initials of the president himself. El Salvador lays claim that this was the first radio broadcasting station in Central America. This new radio broadcasting station, with studio and transmitter, was installed on the second floor level of the National Theater Building in San Salvador. The original transmitter was an imported 500 watt unit from Western Electrical in England. The Teatro Nacional de El Salvador, completed and officially inaugurated in 1917, is itself the oldest National Theater in Central America. A subsequent callsign for this original radio broadcasting station was RDN, standing for Radio Nacionales, and when internationally approved callsigns were enjoined, RDN was allocated the three now well known call letters YSS. In 1933, the mediumwave channel was listed as 864 kHz. [thruout, AMP writes ``Radio Nacionales`` for the early station, which doesn`t make sense to me, edited to Radio Nacional --- gh] On September 14, 1977, El Salvador issued four postage stamps, each with the same design, though in different colors and values, commemorating the 50th anniversary of radio broadcasting in their country. Fifty years earlier from September 14, 1977, would bring us back to September 14, 1927, which is one and a half years after the recognized date for the first broadcast over the original station AQM. So perhaps the four postage stamps honored the occasion when the early experimental station AQM-RDN metamorphosed into YSS, an officially recognized government radio broadcasting service. As the years went by, station YSS Radio Nacional grew into a nationwide network; at first on mediumwave only, and subsequently with a transfer to the standard FM Band 2 that is still on the air to this day. The earliest mediumwave frequency listing was on 864 kHz, and subsequent mediumwave channels have been 638 kHz, 640 kHz and then their familiar split channel listing 655 kHz. During the 1980s, additional mediumwave relay stations were installed in regional city locations, and ten years later, there was a total of 6 stations in the network. During that era, their international callsign YSS was modified to YSSS, in conformity with the national system of station identification with four letters, each beginning with the two letters YS. The largest number of mediumwave stations in El Salvador was around the mid 1990s, with by that time almost 100 nationwide. These days there are somewhere around 60 mediumwave stations on the air throughout El Salvador, together with a full band of FM stations throughout the country. Radio Nacional in San Salvador is heard these days on 96.9 FM, and their national program is heard throughout the country on a network of FM relay stations. More about the radio scene in El Salvador in a coming edition of our DX program Wavescan (Adrian Peterson, IN, script for AWR Wavescan March 19, 2017 via DXLD) FOCUS ON THE MIDDLE AMERICAS: EL SALVADOR ON SHORTWAVE An unidentified amateur radio operator in San Salvador, the capital city of the small Central American country of El Salvador, was the first to enter into experimentation with shortwave radio. He sent a written report of his early activities to the American amateur radio magazine QST, and they printed his remarks in their issue dated December 1922. He said that he had recently made some successful shortwave tests from his own radio transmitter, and that he planned on making further test transmissions on shortwave some time soon. Back in the year 1922, the emphasis in the radio world was the usage of high power on longwave rather than low power on shortwave, and at that time shortwave experimentation was quite rare. The amateur radio experimenter in San Salvador identified himself simply as Sparks, seeming to indicate that he was an unlicensed amateur radio operator, which was rather common in many countries back in that era. Many international radio monitors in the United States and the South Pacific made frequent comment in the mid and late 1930s regarding shortwave transmissions from El Salvador. It would appear that new shortwave equipment was installed in San Salvador around the year 1935, apparently at an already established radio communication station somewhere in the capital city area. Mention of new low powered shortwave transmissions from El Salvador soon began to appear in radio magazines in the United States and Australia, and the first known reference (Australasian Radio World, August 1936) listed the station as the new YSJ which was heard in Australia on 13410 kHz. Apparently this entry was for the logging of a communication transmission, rather than for the broadcast of entertainment radio programming. However, during the following year (1937), monitoring reports in radio magazines referred to the fact that the new 500 watt transmitter in San Salvador was now in use at various times of the day with the relay of programming from mediumwave Radio Nacional YSS (864 kHz). The Listener In radio magazine in Australia referred to the new shortwave broadcasts as a new shortwave station in a new shortwave country. According to propagation conditions, three channels and three callsigns were employed for the relay of entertainment and informational radio programming: YSD 7894 kHz, YSH 9520 kHz, YSM 11710 kHz. However, it should be noted that only one channel was on the air at any one time, seeming to indicate the usage of just the one transmitter. Somewhere around the middle of last century, a new 1 kW transmitter was installed for the shortwave service of Radio Nacional. Then some ten years later again, another 5 kW transmitter was in use for the program relays; and in the mid 1980s, YSS shortwave was noted with a power of 10 kW. However, soon after this increase in power, the government shortwave service came to an end. [9555 kHz, IIRC, -- gh] It should be noted also that there were many other double combination mediumwave/shortwave stations on the air in El Salvador, with a maximum number of 18 around the mid 1950s, all commercial. The final listing for a shortwave broadcasting station in El Salvador was for Radio Imperial with 1½ kW under the callsign YSDA about a dozen years ago. El Salvador is geographically a small country, and shortwave transmissions were not really necessary to ensure nationwide coverage. Then too, the introduction of FM broadcasting began to supersede the usage of both shortwave and mediumwave for nationwide coverage. In a rather strange situation, two major clandestine shortwave stations in El Salvador were on the air surreptitiously for many years, though more recently the government has granted a license to each, and both are on the air in the capital city, though on FM only. Those clandestine shortwave events transpired during the disastrous and tragic civil war in El Salvador that extended over a period of eleven years, stretching from 1981 to 1992. On January 10, 1981, Radio Venceremos made its first broadcast in El Salvador from a damp cave in an isolated hidden mountainous area of the country, though it is claimed that they were previously on the air from a clandestine location in Nicaragua. Much of the programming from Radio Venceremos was pre-recorded on cassette tapes and then broadcast over whatever shortwave equipment was available. Daily one hour programming began at 6:00 pm local, and the contents featured news and information about the civil war that was not readily available from any other source. The daily news and wartime features from this forbidden radio station were listened to avidly not only by the citizens of this war torn country, but also by the news media and high level politicians in other countries. The original old transmitter, identified in some circles as a Viking, together with a 700 watt amplifier, carried the broadcasts of Radio Venceremos during its first era. Other electronic equipment was pressed into service whenever and wherever it could be obtained, and of course, frequent moves were necessary to obviate capture or destruction. When the operation became more professional, two transmitters were employed with simultaneous programming on nearby channels. Radio Venceremos usually transmitted somewhere around the 40 metre amateur band, and the actual frequency hopping varied in order to avoid jamming. There were times also when the jamming transmitter would come on the air with its own programming immediately Radio Venceremos closed, on the same channel. Audio Insert --- Radio Venceremos: 1981 Identification announcement In an endeavor to counter the broadcasts from Radio Venceremos, the United States stationed two navy ships in the Caribbean off the coast of Central America. These two navy vessels were Spruance class destroyers, and they were located in the Gulf of Fonseca. Programming from the shortwave communication transmitters on these two vessels, first the "Caron" and later the "Diego," consisted entirely of jamming noises. The signal from these two ships was also heard widely throughout North America and into Europe and the South Pacific. It could be conjectured that no QSLs were ever issued for these jamming broadcasts. After peace talks produced some sort of a peacekeeping truce, Radio Venceremos was granted an FM license, and some of its early equipment can be seen these days as a rebuilt display in the city museum. The story of the other clandestine radio station in El Salvador, Radio Farabundo Martí, is quite similar to that of Radio Vinceremos. Radio Farabundo Martí made its first broadcast on January 22, 1982; and this station is now also licensed as an FM station in San Salvador. Just a few QSLs are known for Venceremos and Farabundo Martí and these are informal cards and notes. However, in earlier days, QSL cards were issued by Radio Nacional YSS for the reception of their shortwave broadcasts (Adrian Peterson, IN, script for AWR Wavescan April 19, 2017 via DXLD) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Radio Nacional, Bata, 0505-0515, 14-05, only carrier detected at first, but minutes later, some songs can be heard on LSB. Barely audible. Extremely weak. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Sony ICF SW-7600G, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5005, May 19 at 0548, very poor signal, S6 between lightning crashes with some music, presumed only known broadcaster on frequency at a prime hour to hear it, RNGE Bata. And I`m even on the `inside longwire` due to storms (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5005, Radio Nacional Guinea Ecuatorial, Bata, *0509-0518, 21-05, Spanish, comments, songs. Very weak, best on LSB. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo and Reinante, Sony ICF SW-7600G, Tecsun PL-880, Sangean ATS-909X, Cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. New schedule of Radio Voice of Adal via MBR Issoudun, May 24 1500-1539 15205 ISS 100 kW / 125 deg to EaAf Arabic Wed, x 1500-1530 1539-1558 15205 ISS 100 kW / 125 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Wed, x 1530-1558 1500-1530 15205 ISS 100 kW / 125 deg to EaAf Arabic Sat as scheduled 1530-1558 15205 ISS 100 kW / 125 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Sat as scheduled http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/new-schedule-of-radio-voice-of-adal-via.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So they were 9 minutes late making the language change on Wed. How can you know yet that this was not merely an anomaly? (gh, DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Radio Voice of Independent Oromiya via TDF Issoudun on May 14: 1600-1630 17850 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Oromo Sun via BRB Alyx&Yeyi Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with strong white noise digital jamming: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/radio-voice-of-independent-oromiya-via.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1008 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 18, 2017 via DXLD) BELGIUM(non), Radio Voice of Independent Oromiya via TDF Issoudun on May 21: 1600-1630 17850 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Oromo Sun via BRB Alyx&Yeyi Transmissions jammed by Ethiopia, strong white noise digital jamming: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/radio-voice-of-independent-oromiya-via_22.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. GERMANY, Reception of Voice of Oromo Liberation via MBR Nauen, May 19: 1700-1730 15420 NAU 100 kW / 139 deg EaAf Afan Oromo Wed/Fri/Sun, weak Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with strong white noise digital jamming http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/reception-of-voice-of-oromo-liberation_19.html Reception of Voice of Oromo Liberation via MBR Nauen on May 21: 1700-1730 15420 NAU 100 kW / 139 deg EAf Afan Oromo Wed/Fri/Sun strong Transmission jammed by Ethiopia, very weak white noise digital jamming http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/reception-of-voice-of-oromo-liberation_22.html Reception of Voice of Oromo Liberation via MBR Nauen on May 24: 1700-1730 on 15420 NAU 100 kW / 139 deg to EaAf Afan Oromo Wed 1730-1800 on 15420 NAU 100 kW / 139 deg to EaAf Amharic Wed Jammed by Ethiopia with very weak white noise digital jamming http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/reception-of-voice-of-oromo-liberation_24.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. SECRETLAND, Reception of IRRS Radio Warra Wangeelaa-ti via SPL on May 20: 1500-1530 on 15515 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Oromo Sat, good & strong signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/reception-of-irrs-radio-warra-wangeelaa_20.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. ShortwaveService on 3985 kHz --- Decent signal here in NB using Tecsun PL-880 with 7-m reel antenna around 0200 UT. A bit of ham QRM. Not bad for 1 kW (-- Richard Langley, UT May 22, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) What kind of programming? (gh) ** GERMANY. 5980.005, DEUTSCHLAND, BVB Nauen relay outlet also on Mondays! BVB scheduled only Sundays 0500-0515 UT ? BVB English at 0513 UT S=7-8 logged on Florida-US remote SDR. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, Morning log of May 22 at 0430 til 0550 UT, checked on remote SDR unit in central Florida-USA state, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 22, dxldyg via DXLD) Are you sure this 5980 was not the usual leapfrog mixing product of WWCR 5890 over 5935, another 45 kHz higher? Audio is usually mix of Brother Scare and DGS/PMS (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Channel 292 relay Goldrausch 6070 on May 20 1100-1200 on 6070 ROB 025 kW / non-dir to CeEu German Sat http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/channel-292-relay-goldrausch-6070-on.html Channel 292 relay From the Isle of Music on May 20 1200-1300 on 6070 ROB 025 kW / non-dir to CeEu English/Spanish Sat http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/channel-292-relay-from-isle-of-music-on.html Channel 292 relay IBC Radio (incl. DX px) on May 20: 1300-1400 on 6070 ROB 025 kW / non-dir to CeEu Italian/English Sat http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/channel-292-relay-ibc-radio-incl-dx-px.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Channel 292 relay Superclan Radio on May 21: 0700-0800 on 6070 ROB 025 kW / non-dir to CeEu English Sun http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/channel-292-relay-superclan-radio-on.html Channel 292 relay Goldrausch 6070 on May 21 0800-0900 on 6070 ROB 025 kW / non-dir to CeEu German Sun http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/channel-292-relay-goldrausch-6070-on_21.html Channel 292 relay Radio 1593, instead of BCL News & IBC, May 21 1000-1100 on 6070 ROB 025 kW / non-dir to CeEu Italian Sun http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/channel-292-relay-radio-1593-instead-of.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Reception of HLR relays on 9485CUSB on May 21 Hamburger Lokalradio 0900-1000 on 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu German Sun PCJ Media Network Plus 1000-1030 on 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sun World of Radio#1878 1030-1100 on 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sun Radio Tropicana 1100-1200 on 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu Spanish Sun http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/reception-of-hlr-relays-on-9485-cusb.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [and non]. Deutsche Welle Bundesliga on SW via MBR Issoudun on May 20: 1325-1530 15195 ISS 500 kW / 165 deg WeAf Hausa Sat, last day on air 1325-1530 15355 ISS 500 kW / 165 deg WeAf Hausa Sat, last day on air strong QRM 15350 NAU 250 kW / 089 deg SoAs MBR's GFA Gospel For Asia: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/deutsche-welle-bundesliga-on-sw-via-mbr.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Reception of DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst on May 16: 0602-0630 on 6180 PIN 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German, fair http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/reception-of-dwd-deutscher-wetterdienst_19.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Schedule of DPØ7 Seefunk, former DPØ7 Seewetter via Kall 0730-0800 on 7310 KLL 001 kW / 040&220 to CeEu German Daily 1200-1230 on 7310 KLL 001 kW / 040&220 to CeEu German Mon-Fri http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/schedule-of-dp7-seefunk-former-dp7.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. Voice of Greece on 9420 kHz & 9935 kHz, May 20-21 1825&2100 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 1835&2100 on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek tx#1 0500-0730 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 0500-0730 on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek tx#1 * relay Sunday liturgy 0500-0700 and off around 0730 UT http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2017/05/voice-of-greece-on-9420-khz-9935-khz_21.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUINEA [and non]. Three peaks terrible mixture at 0738 UT May 21: 9650.003, GUI Strongest in Florida, but also S=6-7 in southern Germany: French language signal from Radio Guinea, Conakry but also weak and tiny on 9650even, KRE V of Korea Kujang in Japanese on threshold level, and 9649.989, AFS Probably odd frequency daytime program of Radio Sonder Grense from SenTec Meyerton South Africa site. 73 wb [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] log of May 21, 0645-0745 UT, noted in remote SDR post in central Florida state USA (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HAWAII. 6501-USB, May 20 at 0625, robotic marine weather with Pacific coordinates, distorted modulation. No self-respecting ham would allow his transmission to be so out of whack, but the USCG would: EiBi lists as NMO Honolulu at 0600-0635, time-shared with other USCG in Kodiak, Guam, Chesapeake (and not so shared with XSL Fuzhou Radio) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AIR Jeypore new sked 5040 --- The day frequency of AIR Jeypore in Odisha 6040 khz has been off air for many months while they are regularly operating on 5040 in mornings/evenings/ nights. During the last few days they are noted using 5040 kHz for the day time schedule also (instead of 6040 kHz). So the new full SW sked of AIR Jeypore is: 5040: 0025-0915, 1130-1741 UT Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, May 19, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. AIR Urdu Service noted today (from my tune in at 0020 UT) on 7500 instead of 7520. Sked of 7520 is 0015-0430 Urdu (Pakistan), 0700- 0800 Nepali (Nepal), 0830-1930 Urdu (Pakistan). On 13th May also same case was observed. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India Mobile: +91 94416 96043 http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos May 23, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. AIR likely to launch new Dzongkha service for Bhutan http://www.ptinews.com/news/8730077_AIR-likely-to-launch-new-Dzongkha-service-for-Bhutan.html New Delhi, May 23 (PTI) National broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) is likely to launch a new language service -- Dzongkha -- for Bhutan, a move seen to strengthen ties with the neighbouring country. Dzongkha will take the total foreign language offering of AIR's External Services Division (ESD) to 16 which includes French, Russian, Chinese, Indonesian, Thai, English, Pashto, Nepali, Tibetan, Urdu and Baluchi. It will also broadcast programmes for Indian diaspora in 12 languages, including Gujarati, Malayalam, Punjabi, Hindi, Tamil, Bangla, Telugu and Kannada. "The plan has been approved for Dzongkha service. It will be launched soon. It is part of soft diplomacy," an official source said. Bhutan, the first foreign country which Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited after assuming office in 2014, shares cordial relations with India and is a model for good neighbourly relations, he added. Initially, the ESD will broadcast cultural programmes in Dzongkha language. India and Bhutan have joint ventures in various areas, including hydro-electric power generation, education, trade, health and culture. A one hour daily Dzongkha language service is proposed *between 6.00 am and 7.00 am IST. [0030-0130 UT] Either a transmitter in Kurseong, a hill station some 32 kms from Darjeeling in West Bengal, or in Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim, will be used to broadcast the new service.* [possibly on AM/FM, not SW? - gh] The Ministry of External Affairs will help in hiring language professionals from Bhutan to run this service (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, May 23, dx_sasia yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. THE SHORTWAVE SCENE IN THE INDIAN CITY WITH THE LONGEST NAME On the previous occasion when we looked at the radio scene in the city of Trivandrum in South India, we presented the story of their local radio stations, AM mediumwave and FM. In our program today, we present the story of their shortwave station which is often heard in continents afar, such as Australia, North America and Europe, The name of the city, Trivandrum, is an English abbreviation of the very long name in Malayalam, the official language of the Indian state of Kerala. The Malayalam language is a Dravidian language that was derived from ancient Tamil with an admixture of the ancient classical Sanskrit language. The Malayalam language contains 52 letters, consisting of 16 vowels and 36 consonants, which when combined in various pronunciations produce a total of 576 syllabic characters, making a total of more than 900 separate glyphs. The Malayalam language contains the most written characters of any of the many languages in India. In 1981, the writing system in the Malayalam language was officially reduced down to 90 characters, thus simplifying typesetting and the usage of computers. The name of the southern city in the Malayalam language is Thiruvananthapuram which when translated into English, means the City of the Eternal Lord. It was back in the early 1960s that the first attempt was made to establish a shortwave transmitter in conjunction with the already existing mediumwave facility in Trivandrum. However, due to rising tensions with China which developed into a month long border conflict, the shortwave transmitter intended for Trivandrum was quickly diverted to Kurseong in West Bengal. This new 20 kW transmitter was installed out among the tea estates in the high hill countryside out from Kurseong and it was officially inaugurated on June 2, 1962. At the time, there was no mediumwave station in Kurseong, and programming was produced locally and taken on relay from Delhi and Calcutta. This station operated on 3355 kHz early morning and evening, and on 6100 kHz during the day. Two years later, All India Radio announced that a 250 watt transmitter would be installed in Trivandrum and it would operate on 7280 kHz. However, this intended plan was never implemented either. Then twenty years later again, All India Radio announced that Trivandrum was again under consideration for the installation of a shortwave transmitter, a project that would be implemented under the next Five Year Plan. However, once again, and for the third time, Trivandrum missed out. However, comes the year 1992, and a 50 W [sic] transmitter manufactured by BEL Bangalore Electronics Limited Model HHB144 was actually installed at a coastal location at Muttathura in suburban Trivandrum, some eight miles from the studios of All India Radio mediumwave. The transmitter site also includes an emergency on air studio. The shortwave antenna system is readily visible on Google Earth and the three towers can be seen in close walking distance to the beach, a little south of the sewage farm which itself is a little south of the jetty. The three self supporting towers are in a straight line, at an angle of approximately 750 [75 degrees?] and they are supporting two simple curtain antennas. The main coverage area for AIR Trivandrum shortwave is towards the north from Trivandrum and across to the neighboring island of Sri Lanka. Test transmissions consisting of mainly test tones began in October 1992, and two years later on November 6 (1994), the station was taken into a regular schedule of on air service. Currently, shortwave AIR Trivandrum is on the air morning and evening on 5010 kHz and during the day on 7290 kHz. QSL cards for this shortwave station are usually processed at the AIR head office in New Delhi (Adrian Peterson, IN, script for AWR Wavescan April 16, 2017 via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 3325, Pro 1 RRI Palangkaraya, 1025, May 22. Reciting from the Qur'an. NBC Bougainville last heard here on May 17 & 18 and still silent through the 24th. 9524.95, VOI, 1000, May 23; in English; news; promo for this years quiz; "commentary"; another quiz promo; "Indonesian Wonders" (Ron Howard, oceanside at Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 15520, May 24 at 1400, JBA carrier; could Spain be there on Wednesday? Aoki shows VIRI in Urdu until 1420 daily, so that overlaps with Spain on weekends (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. Radio Ranginkaman/Radio Rainbow via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol, May 19: 1600-1630 7575 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg WeAs Farsi/English* Mon/Fri, good * including English teaching program of BBC "Beta Speaking" Again no signal of Sedoye Mardom/Voice of Men via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol, May 19 1700-1730 7530 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg WeAs Farsi Thu/Fri, cancelled!! http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/uknon-radio-ranginkamanradio-rainbow.html No signal of Sedoye Mardom/Voice of Men via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol May 18 1700-1730 7530 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg WeAs Farsi Thu/Fri, probably is cancelled! Last week on May 11/12 also no broadcast, only open carrier/dead air or BaBcoCk Music http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/no-signal-of-sedoye-mardomvoice-of-men.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1009 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 24, 2017 via DXLD) ** IRAN [non]. No signal of Sedoye Mardom/Voice of Men via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol on May 18 1700-1730 on 7530 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi Thu/Fri, probably is cancelled! Last week on May 11/12 also no broadcast, only open carrier/dead air or BaBcoCk Music http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/no-signal-of-sedoye-mardomvoice-of-men.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. Radio Ranginkaman/Radio Rainbow via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol, May 19: 1600-1630 7575 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg WeAs Farsi/English* Mon/Fri, good * including English teaching program of BBC "Beta Speaking" Again no signal of Sedoye Mardom/Voice of Men via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol, May 19 1700-1730 7530 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg WeAs Farsi Thu/Fri, cancelled!! http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/uknon-radio-ranginkamanradio-rainbow.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Obviously already so last week. Only the Babcock booking on this RTRS facility was not cancelled yet, and so they brought up two more times the announced feed channel that contained nothing anymore, which in the case of Babcock means that looped fragment of some production music (Kai Ludwig, ibid.) ** IRAN [non]. Additional unregistered frequency of Radio Farda May 22 0700&0800 on 11635 unknown tx / unknown to WeAs and parallel freqs: 0700&0800 on 11530 KWT 250 kW / 058 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda 0700&0800 on 11925 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda 0700&0800 on 13845 LAM 100 kW / 092 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda 0700&0800 on 13860 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda 0700&0800 on 15410 LAM 100 kW / 092 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda 0700&0800 on 15690 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/additional-unregistered-frequency-of.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY. Hello, I have just put this nice video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0jrax5RDyY a nice view of Rai Prato Smeraldo Site from helicopter 73 And IW0HK Roma -- (Andrea Borgnino IW0HK http://www.mediasuk.org/iw0hk http://www.mediasuk.org/archive http://www.biciurbana.org http://iwohk.tumblr.com/ May 22, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** ITALY [non]. SECRETLAND/ROMANIA, IRRS EGR, UN Radio and other via SPL or ROU, May 21 0930-1200 9510 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English Sun via SPL/SCB, or move ROU 9510 SAF 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu English Sun via Radiocom http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/irrs-egr-un-radio-and-other-via-spl-or.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So you`re not sure which site from week to week? (gh, DXLD) ** JAPAN [non]. NHK vs Zanzibar on 6015 kHz. Hi Glenn, In all my years of monitoring Zanzibar, they have had exclusive domain to 6015, after 0300+, but tonight tuned in at 0406 to hear strong NHK signal, in Japanese, completely blocking any chance to hear Zanzibar. Do not see this listed yet? (Ron Howard, California, May 19, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Did not see this until later, but I would have answered: surely a mistake for 6105 via France at 03-05 where NHK normally is (and had resumed by May 21) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Maybe a keyboard slip glitch of 6105 kHz TDF Issoudun technician ? 6105 0300-0500 10,11 ISS 500 290 0 216 Jpn F NHK 5621 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thank you, Wolfie! Believe your idea is the most logical one to explain the anomaly I heard, as I do not recall it ever happening before. Sorry I am unfamiliar with the NHK schedule, so I had no idea as to what was going on. Yes, was off the air after 0500. Thanks again! (Ron Howard, ibid.) FRANCE, 6105, Today May 22 NHK Radio Japan in Japanese towards Central America was again back on A-17 scheduled TDF Issoudun 6105 kHz channel, formerly on keyboard slip glitch wrong 6015 kHz on May 19&20. Usual 500 kW S=9+35dB powerhouse signal noted on remote Central Florida SDR unit at 0430 UT on May 22nd. 11.4 kHz wideband proper signal. On Saturday May 20th I informed the "nhk.or.jp" technical gang direct in Tokyo Japan. vy73 wolfie df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) 6015 NHK (Issoudun), 0435-0500* 19 May, *0305+ 20 May. NHK's 03-05 Japanese program sked for 6105 has been on 6015 the past 2 days (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA PL380/6m X wire, WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FRANCE, 6105, Today May 22 NHK Radio Japan in Japanese towards Central America was again back on A-17 scheduled TDF Issoudun 6105 kHz channel, formerly on 'keyboard slip glitch' wrong 6015 kHz on May 19 & 20. Usual 500 kW S=9+35dB powerhouse signal noted on remote Central Florida SDR unit at 0430 UT on May 22nd. 11.4 kHz wideband proper signal. On Saturday May 20th I informed the "nhk.or.jp" technical gang direct in Tokyo Japan. vy73 wolfie [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, Morning log of May 22 at 0430 til 0550 UT, checked on remote SDR unit in central Florida-USA state, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 22, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DXLD) Wrong frequency of Radio Japan NHK World via MBR Issoudun, May 20: 0300-0500 6015 ISS 500 kW / 290 deg CeAm Japanese, instead of 6105 A17 parallel 9490 NAU 250 kW / 140 deg WeAs Japanese, as scheduled RJNHK http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/wrong-frequency-of-radio-japan-nhk.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 3277 (AM), V28 ("The Parrot"), 1035-1039*, May 21; very weak, with Korean numbers (Ron Howard, oceanside at Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. Apologies if this article from last December has passed me by but it`s doing the rounds today and is very interesting so I thought I would share it. DPRK propaganda station drops AM broadcasts TOPICS: Echo of Unification???????? Posted By: Martyn Williams December 24, 2016 http://www.northkoreatech.org/2016/12/24/dprk-propaganda-station-drops-broadcasts/ Echo of Unification (????????), a North Korean radio station that broadcasts propaganda towards South Korea, dropped all mediumwave (AM band) broadcasting on December 21. The move seemingly confirms the futility of the broadcasts, which consumed large amounts of electricity but were blocked by powerful South Korean government jamming transmitters, but the station isn’t giving up. In their place, it has brought on air additional shortwave and FM transmitters. It’s all part of a game that’s been going on for decades. North and South Korea both broadcast propaganda at each other while trying to stop their own citizens from hearing the other’s broadcast. Similar battles used to be played out across borders around the world but have largely moved to the internet and social media. The lack of internet in North Korea and South Korean censorship mean radio still plays a part on the Korean peninsula. Echo of Unification launched in December 2012 with three blocks of programming each day: from 7am to 9am; from 1pm to 3pm; and from 9pm to 11pm (Pyongyang time). The programs were broadcast on shortwave 3970 and 6250, mediumwave 684 and 1080 kHz and FM 97.8 MHz. The mediumwave broadcasts were strong and could be heard across a large part of East Asia at nighttime, but suffered severe interference in the Seoul area where the South Korean government broadcast noise on the same frequency to drown them out. FM was also blocked in Seoul but could be heard very close to the border and shortwave was completely clear, perhaps a recognition that few homes have shortwave radios these days. Here’s a clip of Echo of Unification starting transmission in May 2013. I recorded it on 97.8MHz from the Odusan Unification Observatory, which overlooks the Han River and North Korea. Audio Player Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. And a slightly more lively clip also recorded in May 2013 on 97.8MHz from Osan, south of Seoul. It should be noted that the clear reception on these clips was only possible with careful placement of the radio. The signal was weak and the South Korean jammers quite effective. Audio Player Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. With the end of mediumwave broadcasts, Echo of Unification has added shortwave 5905 kHz and FM 97 and 89.4 MHz. Here’s the announcement from the radio station’s website: The additional shortwave frequency gives listens in South Korea an extra spot on the dial to tune into the station, although because shortwave radio ownership is so low and there’s terrible electrical interference in most Korean cities, this is really only reaches people who are already sold on the propaganda message. No South Korean is going to stumble across the station on shortwave like they might while tuning a car or kitchen radio on mediumwave. South Korea has already started jamming the FM broadcasts giving them limited reach into the country, but perhaps the target here is bored soldiers stationed along the border. The FM signal can be clearly heard in the border region and North Korea might be hoping to reach a few people here (via Mike Terry, May 18, BDXC_UK yg via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. 6135, May 18 at 1224, noise and rapid tone jamming, trace of program under, from Voice of Freedom. Ivo Ivanov and Ron Howard report that VOF has registered two alternate frequencies, 6020 and 5920, where it has been testing sporadically, but neither heard at this moment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, On May 19, Hiroyuki Komatsubara, in Japan, was already hearing Voice of Freedom testing on their new 5920 frequency, at 0935. Here in California, noted them 1100-1219*, with fair to good reception; in the clear with no North Korea jamming, which was still up on the usual 6135, without VOF being there. Reception in Japan today: http://goo.gl/yJfiao (Ron Howard, DX LISTENING DIGEST) New frequencies 5995 (ex 6003) // 6350 (ex 6348), Echo of Hope - VOH, 1000 UTC, May 18. In Korean; fairly clear; usual "V O H" ID; news (item about "Tokyo," etc.). Thanks go to Hiroyuki Komatsubara and Aoki for the alert. My audio at http://goo.gl/KkvWku (Ron Howard, oceanside at Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5995.029, May 18 at 1219, what`s this before RNZI comes up at 1259? Slightly off frequency, poor signal in non-English talk. The answer is already in from Ron Howard: ``new frequencies 5995 (ex 6003) // 6350 (ex 6348), Echo of Hope - VOH, 1000 UTC, May 18. In Korean; fairly clear; usual "V O H" ID; news (item about "Tokyo," etc.). Thanks go to Hiroyuki Komatsubara and Aoki for the alert. My audio at http://goo.gl/KkvWku (Ron Howard, oceanside at Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` Latest Aoki of May 18 already has it on 5995 effective today. They`d better be done in time for NZ --- hardly: previous Aoki showed the 6003 hours as 0555-2400, plus NK jamming during all of it, even starting at 0255. The jamming, mainly, had been a fixture on 6003 for many years. RNZI won`t hesitate to change frequency without notice if necessary, and it probably will be, altho later after 1300 today it is dominant here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Confirmed on new 5995 and 6350 at 1705 UT, May 18 Videos will be added tomorrow (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) 18.05.17, 3930 kHz, 1634–1706 UT, tentative Korean. (Degen 1103, built-in whip antenna, Moscow region). Does anybody have more information or correction? https://youtu.be/ST6l4F4AJYs Best regards, (Eduard Korsakov, Moskva, May 18, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Eduard, Starting May 18, new for the Voice of the People: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0528-2332 3480, 3910 (ex: 3912), 3930, 4450, (X 4557), 6520 (ex: 6518), 6600 kHz ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks very much to Hiroyuki Komatsubara and Aoki for this info! (Ron Howard, ibid.) Thank you very much for the information. Indeed, it's in new Aoki db release from 19.05.2017. 73! (Eduard, ibid.) Checked 0945 to 1030 UT via remote SDR units in Tokyo, Nagoya Japan, and Brisbane Queensland Australia on Friday May 19, measured 3480 - whistle signal of four(4) peaks in Japan target, main signal 3479.986 kHz, and accompanied by 3479.552, 3479.905, and 3480.101 kHz whistle interferes, at 1010 UT. But at 1100 UT also a bubble jumming ditter appeared on air on center 3478 and 3482 kHz, but visible 9 x 200 Hertz bubble signals apart distance peaks either sideband seen. 3910 - rather on exact 3909.963 kHz, VoP, S=9+15dB in Japan, North KRE jamming still centered on 3912 kHz. 3930 - rather 1 Hz down on 3929.999 kHz, frequency compared to CHU, WWVH, R Nikkei 3925 kHz, S=9+20dB in Tokyo Japan. 4449.989 S=9+20dB signal in Tokyo at 1014 UT. Heavy noise jamming. 5920.010 S=8-9 fluttery signal in Tokyo at 0945 UT. 5995.029 S=9+20dB strong at 0950 UT. 15.6 kHz wideband signal. But noise jamming still on 6003 and 6015 kHz. 6520 - rather on 6519.973 kHz, but jammer still centered on 6518 kHz, signal S=9+15dB. 6600even signal kHz, noted at 1027 UT, signal S=9+15dB. 73 wb df5sx (Büschel, ibid.) 5995, Echo of Hope/VOH 1323-1400+ 18, 19, 20 May. Ex-6003 [& thanks to Ron Howard's ID via Glenn's ABDX logs] & giving fits to RNZI (see NEW ZEALAND for RNZI's reaction). EoH // 4885 (clear), 3985 (NK jamming), 6350 (clear on NF ex-6348 & thanks again to Ron's ID). (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA PL380/6m X wire) 5995. UNID. Mayo 21. 1050-1125 UT. Música en coreano, luego a las 1100, suena la cortina musical de las noticias de KBS hasta las 1115, cuando se emite música interpretada por un niño y luego habla un locutor. Sin embargo, en ninguna lista existe confirmación de alguna emisora, en esta frecuencia y horario, excepto el corto mensaje de Ivo Observer sobre un cambio de frecuencia de Echo of Hope de 6003 a esta frecuencia: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.cl/2017/05/frequency-changes-of-echo-of-hope.html SINPO: 44433, aunque desde las 1111 con SINPO: 54444 (Claudio Galaz, RX: TECSUN PL 660; ANT: Hilo de 40 metros de largo, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) Axually we had this news in DXLD yg before Ivo picked it up (gh) 5995 (ex 6003) // 6350 (ex 6348), Echo of Hope - VOH, 1115, May 21. New(?) station singing jingle; "V O H" ID; both fair, with strong signals; not jammed. My audio http://goo.gl/5MEKjK Thanks again to Hiroyuki-san and Aoki-san for their timely alert (Ron Howard, oceanside at Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Echo of Hope - VOH. What is happening? Were the new frequencies 5995 and 6350 just tests? May 22, at 1039, noted them back on former 6003 (ex 5995) // 6348 (ex 6350), as well as the usual // 3985 // 6250; all were jammed. At 1121 found all four frequencies in the clear, with no white noise jamming; 3985 fair reception; 6003 good; 6250 fair (the best I have ever heard then here!) and 6348 fair. Jamming resumed within a minute or two. 5920, Voice of Freedom (clandestine) (presumed). Still testing? Tuned in at 0913 (poor reception) and still on the air when tuned out at 1125 (good reception), on May 22; of course nice clear signal, as white noise jamming was still up on former 6135 (Ron Howard, oceanside at Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5995, May 22 at 1144, no signal from the Korean radio war, but noise jamming resumed on 6003, presumably also target Echo of Hope. So moved to 5995 for only a few days, meanwhile impulsing NZ to shift to 6170, where it might as well stay as who knows what the Koreans will do next (tho VOK could also reactivate 6170). At 1149 I check 75m for carriers besides Japan on 3925 & 3945: they are on 3910, 3930, 3985, 3990 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Echo of Hope back on 5995 at 1045 (May 23) with nice copy (23322), 6003 still being jammed. Announcers talking and laughing. RHC crowds it a little at 1100 but still armchair copy (Chris KC5IIE Krug, Tulsa, OK, SDRplay - 40m loop, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5995, May 23 at 1258, JBA carrier, and nothing, not even jamming on 6003, so Echo of Hope has apparently returned to new 5995, after a brief resumption of old 6003. And another carrier on new 6350 instead of old 6348. RNZI remains safely on 6170, with bell-bird IS from 1258 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency changes of Echo of Hope effective May 18 0600-2400 NF 5995#HWA 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean, ex 6003 0600-2400 NF 6350*HWA 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean, ex 6348 parallel freq 3985 HWA 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean no change parallel freq 6250 SEO 010 kW / 010 deg to NEAs Korean no change # no jamming, but other two traditional 3985 and 6250 are jammed * no jamming, best reception in USB, due to strong QRM RTTY 6245 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/frequency-changes-of-echo-of-hope.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency changes of Voice of the People from May 18 0530-2330 NF 3910 K-S 050 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean, ex 3912 0530-2330 NF 3930 K-S 050 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean, ex 4557 0530-2330 NF 6520 K-S 050 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean, ex 6518 parallel freq 3480 K-S 050 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean no change parallel freq 4450 K-S 050 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean no change parallel freq 6600 K-S 050 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean no change http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/frequency-changes-of-voice-of-people.html (via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DXLD) Echo of Hope - 6003 (Again...) More frequency weirdness. Nothing on 5995 this morning (1041), EOH back to 6003 with jamming, om annoouncer with music, RHC carrier fires up at 1057 but can still copy in usb. Chris KC5IIE, Anan10e - sdr, 40m loop. Posted by: (Chris Krug May 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) May 24, at 1057 UT: Echo of Hope - VOH: 3985 // 6003 // 6250 // 6348; all were jammed. Voice of the People: 3480 // 3912 // 4450 // 4557 // 6518 // 6600; all were jammed. (Ron Howard, dxldyg via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. BROADCASTING IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE --- Message from the World Radio KBS about test transmissions at 12065 kHz. "At the suggestion of our colleagues from the radio center in Wufferton [sic], which Many of our listeners agreed, we decided to conduct trial broadcasts hour transmission at a frequency of 12065 kHz instead of the current 15360 kHz. We plan to conduct trial broadcasts within a week, specific dates we will inform you after we have agreed them. Most likely, it will be at the end of May." (From the "Sunday Journal" of May 14, 2017 via Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan,Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX May 21 via DXLD) Trial broadcast at 12065 kHz --- 2017-05-19 KBS World Radio Dear listeners! Within three days, from 26 to 28 May, we will test the broadcasts of our hourly transmission at a frequency of 12065 kHz from 18 to 19 hours GMT along with the broadcast at an operating frequency of 15360 kHz. We earnestly ask you to listen to test broadcasts and promptly send us reports on the reception. http://world.kbs.co.kr/russian/about/about_notice_view.htm?No=11892 (Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia, RusDX May 21 via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. 15540, Radio Kuwait at 1950 with a woman talking about Middle Eastern cuisine and offering tips for cooking meat and vegetables with appropriate spices – Very Good May 22 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** LAOS. 6130, Lao National Radio, 1158, May 18. Better than normal reception; indigenous music; slightly late with gong that was slowly rung seven times; choral anthem; indigenous music; news in assume Laotian. My audio at http://goo.gl/G2DBZC (Ron Howard, oceanside at Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Now I know why I was hearing Laos clearer than normal. This per Mauno Ritola, on his WRTH Facebook page, on May 19: "Laos 6130 kHz heard without China QRM - all Xizang fq's off the air." Thanks to Hiroyuki Komatsubara for the following list of Xizang PBS stations off the air now: Chinese: 4820, 5935, 6050, 7240, 7450 kHz Tibetan: 4905, 4920, 6025, 6110, 6130, 6200, 7255, 7385 kHz China actively making many changes now, what with your UNID on 9700 kHz. being now IDed as CNR16 (// MW 720 kHz - per Amano and Mauno) and my hearing the new frequency for CNR17, on 15190 kHz (Ron Howard, May 19, WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi all, Nice surprise with my first reception of Lao National Radio on 6130 kHz: 1625 UT Lao National Radio, Vientiane, local song, Vietnamese program, sign off at 1630, very weak signal - SIO: 252 (just audible after 1620 UT) Xizang PBS is off for maintenance. A good chance to hear this station in Europe. Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant: Dipole 2 X 10m. 73 (Franck Baste, France dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DXLD) LNR Vientiane, Laotian language program, weak and tiny S=4-5 at 2255 UT on UT May 23, on 6129.976 kHz, heard on lousy signal here in southern Germany. At 2320 UT used remote SDR in Delhi India, also weak S=7 signal, but suffered in 23-24 UT hour by a nearby RTTY ute station, heard also annoying in Germany, India and Qatar, latter S=7-8 strength, measured 850 Hertz apart fq distance, on peaks measured 6130.975 and 6131.825 kHz. 2330 UT female voice presenter, 'kap kun ...', endless spoken part, heard in remote SDR Doha Qatar unit, in peaks S=9 signal, used small bandwidth on lower signal flank in Perseus SDR unit. At 2346 UT some talk by two female, at 2347 UT local music female singer and SoEastAsia folk music orchestra piece heard on S=8 NOISY floor level on Qatar remote SDR installation. Female voices back on 2353 UT. Rather fade - out signal now. Grayline to read on Google Map about on Islamabad, Delhi, Nagpur, Chennai, and Sri Lanka path line. At 2358 UT some more piece of local folk music, much violine and flute performer. 73 (wolfie df5sx, May 23, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. Checked some low power small signals tonight at 1740 and 1910 UT on May 21, on remote SDR units in Belgium, southern Germany, western England near Liverpool, in Hungary, and Doha Qatar locations: 5009.937, tentatively R. Madagasikara Antananarivo, at 1735 and 1905 UT May 21. S=3-4 under threshold level. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. 6190, Madagascar ??? MWV La Voz Alegre??? Mahajanga ??? (EiBi) May 24, 2017 Wednesday. 0331-0333. Religious talk in Spanish. Fair. Jo'burg sunrise 0444 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA. Drake R8E, Sony ICF2001D. dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Abundance of caution, but I see no way it`s anything else (gh, DXLD) 17640, May 24 at 1815, if still on the air, no signal from MWV APR in English. Had been reliable until this month. Perhaps in darker southern autumn it is no longer propagating at the first hop. Nor the repeat at 2000 which is even further into the darkside. Or just the pitiful low-solar activity MUFs we must endure (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. 11665, RTM with usual FM relay at 1640 UT May 18 with many power ballads in Malay. Sudden off at 1657. Very Good. Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook loop. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. [Re 17-20] Members, It wasn't immediately obvious to me that the Grupo Radioescucha Argentino Wordpress article related to stations in Ciudad de México. I eventually pieced the clues together! Today a shake up of stations in that city (owned by Radio Centro) takes place. 690 kHz - Previously La 69, now a combination of Radio Centro AM and El Fonógrafo. 790 kHz - Previously Formato 21 - as far as I can tell the 50 kW transmitter will be switched off today. 1030 kHz - Previously Radio Centro - as far as I can tell now the 50 kW transmitter will be switched off today. 1110 kHz - Previously Radio Red - now a combination of a new News service and Formato 21. 1150 kHz - Previously El Fonógrafo - as far as I can tell the 50 kW transmitter will be switched off today. The Mexican source was SDP Noticias. I hope that other DXers - possibly Raymie - could confirm this. 73 and 88 (Dan Goldfarb, May 21, mwmasts yg via DXLD) I then forwarded Raymie`s reports on this already in DXLD 17-20 (gh) RADIO CENTRO CAMBIA TRES FRECUENCIAS DE AMPLITUD MODULADA 21/05/2017 https://gruporadioescuchaargentino.wordpress.com/2017/05/21/radio-centro-cambia-tres-frecuencias-de-amplitud-modulada/ La empresa Radio Centro anunció el cese de sus transmisiones en las frecuencias 790, 1150 y 1030 de Amplitud Modulada (AM), debido a cambios en la infraestructura. De acuerdo con un aviso firmado por el Ingeniero Gonzalo Yáñez, quien forma parte de la firma, los cambios iniciaron desde este domingo 14 de mayo, con ello, la programación de Radio Centro AM y de El Fonógrafo se transmite ahora en la frecuencia 690 de AM. Resultado de imagen para radio centro am [includes logos for stations] Resultado de imagen para radio el fonografo El texto advierte que ahora la frecuencia 1110 de AM será una estación destinada al ámbito noticioso y desde ahí se transmitirá la señal de la extinta Formato 21. Resultado de imagen para formato 21 SDPnoticias intentó confirmar la veracidad del texto, firmado por el Ingeniero Gonzalo Yáñez y marcó al número incluido en el escrito. Al recibir la llamada, una recepcionista corroboró, las labores del empleado y afirmó que se encontraba reunido con altos ejecutivos de la firma. Fuentes confirmaron que los empleados no fueron notificados con anticipación de estos cambios y se enteraron por medio del comunicado emitido este día. Hasta el momento, no existe una postura oficial de la empresa entorno a estos cierres (SDP Noticias.com via GRA blog via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DXLD) ** MEXICO. 90.1, May 19 at 1803 UT as I am checking out KUCO which has been off the air, both it and KHCC are suddenly overridden by Spanish! Ad in pesos, plug for ``Telemundo regresa a Megacable``. Too long for MS, but soon fadeaway by sporadic E. 6m map shows there is an opening across central North America including into Mexico, estimated MUF 91 MHz. Anyhow my first FM Es of the season, brief tho it may be. I hasten to bandscan FM but nothing further heard by Es. There are far too many 90.1s in Mexico, many of them at good Es range, and Megacable operates all over per this story about it and Telemundo dated May 15, accents into apostrophes sic: https://enfoquenayarit.com/megacable-anuncia-el-regreso-de-telemundo-a-su-programacion/ ``Acerca de Megacable: Megacable Comunicaciones es una empresa de servicios de cobertura nacional a la vanguardia en el a´mbito de las telecomunicaciones. Megacable proporciona servicios de Televisio´n por Cable para ma´s de tres millones de suscriptores, ma´s de dos millones de suscriptores de Internet y ma´s de un millo´n de suscriptores de Telefoni´a Digital en ma´s de 350 municipios del pai´s. Adema´s ofrece servicios corporativos, Publicidad y tambie´n produce contenidos como el canal Video Rola, y la red Megacanal, que ofrece programacio´n local en 29 de los principales mercados a nivel nacional. En Megacable tenemos como misio´n contribuir a una mejor calidad de vida proporcionando.`` [sic, that`s how it terminates] (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- [including DTV] [Re 17-21:] The CDI in Oaxaca coincidentally has something to do with today's broadcasting news, Glenn! The IFT press release mentions that in a meeting on May 11, the CDI picked up two AM concessions in Michoacán and Quintana Roo and an FM somewhere in Oaxaca. The first two are probably [edit: confirmed] AM returns for the former XETUMI and XENKA, which migrated. (The CDI is definitely on a combo kick in both directions.) The third FM will probably slot into a combo with either XEOJN in Ojitlán or XEJAM Santiago Jamiltepec. [Edit: It's in San Diego, Oaxaca. I forgot about XETLA - this is for them! XETLA is in Barrio San Diego in Tlaxiaco. Calls are XHPBSD-FM on 95.9 MHz.) Most of today's news has been in the form of more words being written about the Tecnoradio Saga after this week's revelation of Radiorama involvement through the Pérez Toscano family. El Universal http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/cartera/telecom/2017/05/18/amano-de-tecnoradio-pega-ift-expertos has an article today saying that the scandal hits the IFT hard and could have repercussions for everything from the income generated to the reputation of the agency. Another column in the paper http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/entrada-de-opinion/columna/bajo-reserva-periodistas-el-universal/nacion/2017/05/18/engano-de notes that this case is generating friction between the IFT and the SCT. For La Crónica de Hoy, http://www.cronica.com.mx/notas/2017/1024139.html Julio Brito writes that "Radiorama illegally bought Tecnoradio" and that the action went against the spirit and the letter of the auction's rules. Thursday also means it's time for Fernando Mejía Barquera's weekly column at Milenio, http://www.milenio.com/firmas/fernando_mejia_barquera/tecnoradio-escandalo-radiorama-ifetel-frecuencia-fm-am-milenio_18_958884133.html and he emphasizes the unusual nature of the fracture within Radiorama and the fact that it could have potential impacts. There's also this intriguing idea that has been floated in the State of Mexico. The SITATYR union proposed to Edomex gubernatorial candidate Alfredo del Mazo (PRI) (elections are June 4, and as they happen one year before the presidential elections and in such a populous state, they have national importance) the creation of a "University of Television and Social Media" http://www.radioformula.com.mx/notas.asp?Idn=684367&idFC=2017 near the new Mexico City airport. Last edited by Raymie; 05-19-2017 at 02:58 AM. Reason: CDI update (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, originally May 18, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) An update to a story featured here in recent weeks. Gina Domínguez, owner of the for-profit company that is behind the stations in the Veracruz Social Wolfpack, was arrested tonight, http://www.animalpolitico.com/2017/05/detienen-la-exvocera-javier-duarte/ and she has been taken to a jail in Coatepec, Veracruz (Raymie, May 21, ibid.) It's Tec-NO-Radio! Tecnoradio and these bidders did not pony up: http://www.ift.org.mx/sites/default/files/lista_preliminar_de_pagos_de_contraprestaciones_registrados_al_22_de_mayo_de_2017_a_las_18.30_horas.pdf -Torres Corporativa Radio (610 AM Fresnillo) -Centrado Corporativo (only Zacatlán-Chignahuapan Pue. They have paid for the 7 other stations) -Detochomorocho Producciones (Zacatlán-Chignahuapan Pue.) -Edilberto Huesca Perrotín (only San Francisco de Campeche where they had two. He is paying for the Carmen stations) -Garro Radiodifusora (La Paz and Puerto Vallarta) -Información y Cultura Ascendente (La Paz and San Miguel el Alto, Jal.) -Integración Radiofónica Quantum (Cadereyta de Montes, Qro.) -Irradia Publicidad (Chetumal) -La Mera en Playa (Puerto Morelos and Tulúm, Q. Roo) -Media FM (only Zamora, Mich.) -Promotora de Éxitos, S.A. de C.V. - Grupo Radio Centro (only in Acapulco x2 and Chetumal —*they will remain in Cancún and Campeche) -Zacatecas Radio FM (Pinos, Zac.) -Radiodifusora de Turismo (San José del Cabo BCS) 85% of the 67 winning bidders held on for at least one station. 122 of 178 stations were paid for. For the 56 stations that were not paid for, at least one bidder will hang on in 25 of them. I suspect much of this decrease is from Tecnoradio which bid for lots of nooks-and-crannies stations that had little interest. 31 stations will roll over for eligibility in the next radio auction, IFT-8, whose rules will be released for public opinion in December starting a year-long process. ——— The new TV station of the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro will shack up with the SPR, http://www.ift.org.mx/sites/default/files/conocenos/pleno/sesiones/acuerdoliga/pift080317136.pdf according to the document approving its concession. (Raymie, May 22, ibid.) It looks like GRC's decision to not pony up in Acapulco or Chetumal is due to Tecnoradio-induced uncertainty, https://elporvenir.mx/?content=noticia&id=35430 with the company saying the IFT needs to look into the behavior of companies in those lots of the auction (or in other words, Tecnoradio activity inflated the price). (Raymie, May 23, ibid.) Analysis: What Now for 56 Lost Stations? With Tecnoradio and others not ponying up, 56 of the 178 stations that were awarded in IFT-4 will roll over to either other bidders, of which there are 25 stations, and in 31 cases, to the next radio auction. Tecnoradio accounts for 37 of the lost stations. On the AM band, Tecnoradio did not pay for three stations, and Torres Corporativo Radio decided against reclaiming 610 AM in Fresnillo. This means that there are 18 lost stations that are not Tecnoradio, and many of them carry high price tags. The stations that are not Tecnoradio and were not paid for had winning bids of 20, 11, 25, 25, 25, 46.3, 25, 11, 15, 30.7, 42, 25.4, 19.1, 52, 48.7, 38.2, 35.9, and 2.85 million pesos. That last station, a comparative bargain, was for Pinos, Zacatecas. But in each other case, the value of the station reached eight figures. Excluding Pinos, the average price of the stations that were not paid for was 29.135 million pesos. This backs up the idea that Tecnoradio activity inflated prices in a number of lots in the auction that were not actually won by TR. In US dollars, that's an average of $1.575 million per lost non- Tecnoradio FM station, and in total, the non-payment of these stations, not factoring in security deposits, represents a loss of $26.9 million to the IFT. This doesn't even include the massive hole left by TR. 25 of the 56 lost stations will find other bidders in this auction, but that's nowhere near all of them. I suspect Tecnoradio is responsible for a number of the stations that didn't find other bidders (Raymie, May 24, ibid.) Another hearty helping of broadcasting matters from the IFT's May 17 meeting: -Lots of multiprogramming: XHCGA in Aguascalientes will be multiplexed with something called "AGSTV", as will another 28 Azteca transmitters which will receive ADN 40. -Various boring concession renewals for a total of 51 stations. (Raymie, May 24, ibid.) Mexico's largest radio broadcaster continues to be on the hot seat after the Tecnoradio Saga. http://mediatelecom.com.mx/index.php/radiodifusion/radio/item/138145-tecnoradio,-radiorama-y-ahora-nrm Darío Celis of Excélsior writes that Radiorama could also be hooked into yet another broadcaster, this one operating stations in Mexico City and Monterrey: NRM. How does the connection go? Lorena Pérez Toscano — daughter of Javier Pérez de Anda (another daughter runs Audiorama, and his niece was the link in the Tecnoradio case) — is married to Mauricio Huesca. If the name Huesca sounds familiar, that's because his father is Edilberto Huesca Perrotín — who not only has been around the block in the radio business but won several stations in IFT-4 and opted to keep the two in Ciudad del Carmen. At one point, the Pérez de Anda family owned a third of NRM (RR also bought two stations from NRM in the mid-90s), and sources say they have full control now. They even share a lawyer. Celis reports that a potential investigation of economic ties and irregular acquisitions is taking shape, which could include a case before the Money Laundering Unit of the Attorney General's Office (PGR). NRM owns six total stations in Mexico City, including a trio of FMs (which RR does not have); there also is an NRM cluster in Monterrey, a large market in which Radiorama has no presence at all. A report from El Universal columnist Salvador García Soto http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/entrada-de-opinion/columna/salvador-garcia-soto/nacion/2017/05/25/tecnoradio-burla-la-reforma adds an additional name: a nephew of Pérez de Anda, José Noel Pérez de Alba. Pérez de Alba was a deputy in the 62nd Legislature who was a secretary of the Communications Commission in the Chamber of Deputies for almost all of his three-year term; he had been elected from a district including Lagos de Moreno and San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco. Between this, Tecnoradio and the fact that the IFT is still trying to figure out the unusual sale of ACIR stations to RR, Radiorama is looking dirtier than ever. So too is the IFT, which has now had two auctions end in cloudy circumstances. IFT-1 could only award one new TV network because Radio Centro pulled out. We're looking at IFT-4 here. So what can be done to avoid these problems in IFT-6? Analysts have warned that the IFT needs to be more exhaustive in its investigations of potential bidders. Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa [tagline] (Raymie, May 25, ibid.) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Mighty KBC, May 21, 2017, 0000-0200 UT, 9925 kHz via Nauen, Germany. Not good! Signal and audio missing until abruptly on 0014:25, Signal poor to fair. "Dave Mason Show" in progress. 0100 "Bureau of Standards" message. 0130 digital text. Signal now barely heard to poor. 0138 song being played on the Mighty KBC, but I hear someone other than the Mighty KBC briefly saying something. 0142 my "Forgotten Song". 0155 "Hello to Loyal Listeners". There is also someone/something on 9925.153 kHz causing a het to 9925 kHz. 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes indeed. Also here in the skip zone of Nauen one of the weakest signals of the last 6 months. There was no back-scattering at normal layers, probably only some meteorite dust was helpful. Currently, there are no significant meteorite streams. So there were only a few pings and bursts. Best decoder results in this particular case in DSB. In AM and S-AM, the text trigger for the "ghost image" could not be decoded. In any case, MFSK-32 is more robust than the digital mode for the non-decoded RSID. Here is the sonogram with the signal history from 01.30z of 7 minutes duration: http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2017-05-20.htm#9925 (roger (90 miles away from Nauen), ibid.) LOUSY reception here in Michigan this week too -- propagation conditions were apparently horrible! Ap index was over 50 this AM; NOT good. But things are calming down, and by the 25th or 26th things should be more normal! The digital text sent at 0130 came in 100% but the photo (of the Bulgarian transmitter site?) was REALLY fuzzy -- 73 (//Ken Zichi, ibid.) Yes, it is the transmitter site in ??????????, ????????. Kosstinbrod, B`lgariya. I found the original image which was used. http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2017-05-20.htm#9400 (roger, ibid.) GERMANY, Updated schedule of The Mighty KBC Radio via MBR Nauen: 0000-0200 9925 NAU 125 kW / 300 deg NoAm English Sun till Aug 27 from Sept 2/3 2300-0000 6145 NAU 125 kW / 300 deg NoAm English Sat ex 0000-0100 Sun 0000-0100 6145 NAU 125 kW / 300 deg NoAm English Sun ex 0100-0200 Sun* *to avoid 6145 BAU 100 kW / 340 deg WNAm English Dly Radio Habana Cuba http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/updated-schedule-of-mighty-kbc-radio.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Moving one hour earlier was done one week in April; would not assume the same tactic necessarily resume in September (gh, DXLD) SECRETLAND, Powerful signal of Mighty KBC Radio via SPL Secretbrod, May 20 1500-1600 9400 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg WeEu The Giant Jukebox + 2nd harmonic 18800 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/powerful-signal-of-mighty-kbc-radio-via_20.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEWFOUNDLAND. 6159.960, May 18 at 0548, CKZN almost readable at S8 vs storm crashes, story about Hollywood, which a few minutes later in outro turns out to be within `The World` from WGBH and PRI, which we hear in the afternoons on KOSU. Tnx to CBC for putting this on SW unlike any American station! Now how about raising power to 100 kW? CKZN is always off-frequency to the lo side, obvious in 1 kHz step tuning with BFO on the R75. I keep seeing reports from others as ``6160.00`` which is NOT correct. Such accuracy should not be claimed unless really measured. No one would object if reported merely as ``6160`` without the decimals. My own measurements may be plus/minus 2 Hz, so ``6159.96`` would bypass even that uncertainty (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 6159.965, CANADA, CKZN St. John`s Canada S=8 or -77dBm at 0504 UT, English '... this is CBC Radio One ...'. 6159.991, BRAZIL, Probably ZYE854, R. Legião da Boa Vontade RS, weaker than CKZN CBC. 0506 UT. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, Morning log of May 22 at 0430 til 0550 UT, checked on remote SDR unit in central Florida-USA state, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 22, dxldyg via DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. 7425, May 18 at 1220, RNZI is obliterated by a blob from a local device, as it is self-weakened on NNW antenna during this bihour; checked here after hearing something else on 5995: this entry serving as a cross-reference to KOREA SOUTH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 5995+, May 19 circa 1256, JBA carrier presumably again S Korean clandestine and/or N Korean jamming; at 1310 poor station in English so RNZI still here. I had warned Adrian Sainsbury that ``Korean Radio War Usurps 5995`` with a copy of my previous report (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGESET) RE: 5995 usurped by Korean radio war Hi Glen[n], Thank you for the info, it is not good news for us. I have had a listen to reception in Cairns and Guam and the co-channel is serious. Keep a look out for us we may move to 6170 1300-1650 UT. Regards (Adrian Sainsbury, RNZI, 0056 UT May 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As I noted later May 19 at 1310, RNZI was still on 5995, but May 20 at 1340 check, it has indeed moved to 6170, in the clear. Aoki shows no problem there, only Romania at other times, and imaginary Philippines station, altho first Sat of month might appear minuscule Scandinavian Weekend Radio from Finland in the daytime. RNZI sked now includes: 12:59 - 18:58 6170 AM from 20 May Pacific Sat 12:59 - 16:50 6170 AM from 20 May Pacific Sun - Fri (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I replied: ``Adrian, Good and clear on 6170 today at 1340 check. A few days ago your schedule implied two transmitters, one in DRM, one for cyclone warnings at certain hours. Was this correct, second transmitter temporarily reactivated? Carrying different programming?? Glenn`` And he replies May 20 at 2017 UT: ``Hello Glen[n], Yes indeed 6170 sounded fine today. We still have the original Thomson transmitter which was retired last year. However it is useful to use it to cover maintenance down time on the newer main transmitter. It was also used recently to provide an AM service to the Cyclone hit Islands during the period we need the main TX for our DRM service. Regards, Adrian, RNZI Wellington`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6170, RNZI, 1339+ 20 May. Moved from 5995 today to avoid Echo of Hope/VOH [who moved to 5995 from 6003 to avoid NK jamming]. (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA PL380/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency changes of Radio New Zealand International, May 20: 1259-1650 6170#RAN 050 kW / 035 deg English All Pacific Dly, ex 5995* 1651-1858 6170#RAN 050 kW / 035 deg English All Pacific Sat, ex 5995* #QRM 16-17 6165 URU 500 kW / 270 deg to N/ME Turkish China Radio Int #QRM 17-18 6165 BEI 500 kW / 288 deg to WeAs English China Radio Int * to avoid on 5995 HWA 100 kW / non-dir NEAs Korean Echo of Hope VOH http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/frequency-changes-of-radio-new-zealand.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 7254.942, May 23 at 0548, VON is already on, S9+20 with rappish Afromusic, dead air, and resumes. Warming up for the 0600 Hausa, presumably preceded by a few minutes of official drumming IS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. HOW A SHORTWAVE RADIO NETWORK IS HELPING TO COUNTER BOKO HARAM https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-05-19/how-shortwave-radio-network-helping-counter-boko-haram This story is a part of Seeking Security === Whose Century Is It? May 19, 2017 6:15 PM EDT By Mary Kay Magistad Arts, Culture & Media boko-haram-nigeria-girl.jpg A picture taken on April 3, 2014 in Maine-Soroa, eastern Niger, shows Nigerian people gathered at a camp for refugees who fled the fighting between the Nigerian army and Boko Haram. [caption] It’s easy to overlook the power of radio, when being hit by a firehose of apps, websites, video and social media. But when you’re out in the sticks, especially if there’s crisis or unrest, radio saves lives. Listen to the Story. [link, 43:57; including other items?] “In crisis situations, information is very, very important. Sometimes more than food, you need information," says Faruk Dalhatu, managing director of Dandal Kura Radio International in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a former Boko Haram stronghold. “Because, if you’re on the run, you need to know which direction is safe, before you even think of close family members that have been separated from you.” What’s more, you don’t need to know how to read to listen to radio. You don’t even need to own a radio; you can just listen to someone else’s. And if you’ve got a cellphone — and many people even in remote parts of Africa do — you can call in and have a voice. All this informed why the relatively new Dandal Kura radio network, which started broadcasting in early 2016, was set up, with help from the United Nations and other funders, as it was — a regional, interactive, international radio network, reaching across borders, the way Boko Haram does, in the language Boko Haram and some 10 million people in the region speak, Kanuri. The region includes northeastern Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon. “This is the first Kanuri-language radio network in the world,” says David Smith, the founder of Dandal Kura Radio International, and previously founder of Radio Okapi in the Republic of Congo — credited by one senior UN peacekeeping official as electronically destroying the frontline in the war in the Congo — and other post-conflict radio efforts in Somalia, Equatorial Guinea and the former Yugoslavia. David Smith, founder of Radio Dandal Kura International Credit: Mary Kay Magistad [caption] The idea behind Dandal Kura, which means "meeting place" in Kanuri, is to provide a region battered for almost eight years by Boko Haram, with a source of reliable information, interesting programming, and dialogue with each other and with regional peacekeeping forces now trying to keep Boko Haram at bay. “Radio is king on this continent,” says Smith. “To reach the people of the Lake Chad area, using anything other than radio, would be a failure.” Boko Haram, with its extreme Islamist views, wasn’t a big fan of radio when it controlled most of northeastern Nigeria’s Borno State, nor when it kidnapped 270 schoolgirls in 2014. Radios were among the many things its members destroyed in their rampage across the region. Nigerians look at the wreckage of a car following a bomb blast at St Theresa Catholic Church outside the Nigerian capital Abuja on December 25, 2011. Two explosions near churches during Christmas Day services in Nigeria, including one outside the country's capital, killed at least 28 people amid spiralling violence blamed on an Islamist group. The suspected attacks stoked fear and anger in Africa's most populous nation, which has been hit by scores of bombings and shootings attributed to Islamist group Boko Haram, with authorities seemingly unable to stop them. Credit: Sunday Aghaeze [caption] Since early 2016, the Nigerian military has succeeded in pushing Boko Haram back, though not vanquishing them entirely. They still hit and run, and have killed more than 200 people over the past year. Many farmers are still reluctant to go back and live on their farms, resulting in the region known as Africa’s breadbasket now having almost 50,000 people who face famine, and 5 million who are living with acute food shortages. All that said, Faruk Dalhatu says things are definitely better than they were. The release in early May of 81 of the kidnapped schoolgirls, in a prisoner exchange, is just one sign of that. “The tide has turned,” Dalhatu says. “People can now travel from one village to another with minimal risk. Don’t get me wrong; some people still need military escorts to cross the forest (where Boko Haram is active),” but it’s better than it was, he says. People hold signs reading "Don't touch to my peaceful country" during a protest against deadly raids by Boko Haram on Feb. 17, 2015 in Niamey. The radical sect struck across the border into Niger for the first time on Feb. 6, launching attacks on Bosso and the provincial capital of Diffa, both southeastern towns near Nigeria. Credit: BOUREIMA HAMA [caption] In this time of transition, Dandal Kura keeps its audience up to date with news and current affairs and entertained with music and talk shows. Families that were separated by years of violence can put out a call for their relatives to get in touch. Counselors, including Muslim and Christian clergy and traditional leaders, are invited to talk people through their trauma, and urge reconciliation with those who might once have been involved with Boko Haram and have now cut their ties. And there are popular radio dramas, written and acted out by local people, sometimes featuring former members of Boko Haram and their relatives. “The writers know the people they’re writing about,” Smith says. “So it’s not a stretch for them to make up radio fiction drama based on things that have happened to people in their own family. And horrible things happen in this radio drama. People die. People get blown up. People get killed. People get knifed. But it's real life.” Hearing these real life stories, including stories of reconciliation, and nonviolent ways to resolve disputes, has had an impact. Smith says a recent survey in the region found that 90 percent of people surveyed knew what Dandal Kura was, and thought favorably of it. Soldiers wait at the airport near Kano on Sunday for the arrival of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan who was on a one-day visit to the northern Nigerian city where nearly 200 people were killed in explosions and shootings on January 20. Credit: AMINU ABUABAKAR [caption] “Perhaps even more importantly, people who listen to Dandal Kura tend to be less likely to believe that violence is a means to an end in northeastern Nigeria, than those who don't listen to Dandal Kura,” Smith says. “ Still, Boko Haram gained ground, in part, because many people in the region had few prospects, felt ignored by the government and disgusted by its culture of impunity, Smith says. “Until people have jobs, until people believe that they have some kind of link with influencing elected officials, until people believe that security forces are there to protect them rather than to at best harass them, at worst threaten their lives, until they have access to education, until they have access to adequate health care, the conditions that allowed an extremist group to exist will remain,” Smith says. “And Boko Haram will come back in another form, as it has in many other countries on the continent and elsewhere on the planet." “So part of the reason that for Dandal Kura is to allow experts and simple farmers and students and goat herders to have a place to talk about what bothers them and how they see — I don't want to sound like a greeting card, but how they see a brighter future.” (via Steven Clift, http://1radionews.com, Swprograms mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DXLD) WTFK?? Reception of Radio Dandal Kura Inter via BaBcoCk Woofferton, May 18 0630-0700 on 13810 NAU 500 kW / 185 deg to WeAf Hausa Deutsche Welle, fair/good 0700-0800 on 13810 WOF 250 kW / 165 deg to WeAf Kanuri, very poor signal today: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/reception-of-radio-dandal-kura-inter.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Here is the full schedule from Aoki. 5960 and 7415 can be heard here, while 12050 is of course blocked by WEWN (gh, DXLD) 5960 Dandal Kura Radio 0500-0600 1234567 Kanuri 250 55 Ascension ASC 7415 Dandal Kura Radio 0600-0700 1234567 Kanuri 250 55 Ascension ASC 0754S 01423W AID a17 BAB 13810 Dandal Kura Radio 0700-0800 1234567 Kanuri 300 165 Woofferton G 5219N 00243W AID a17 BAB 12050 Dandal Kura Radio 1800-1900 1234567 Kanuri 250 270 Dhabbaya UAE 2410N 05415E AID a17 BAB Apr 24 12050 Dandal Kura Radio 1900-2100 1234567 Kanuri 250 152 Woofferton G 5219N 00243W AID a17 BAB Apr 24 (Aoki via gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6935-USB, May 15 at 0026, C&W vocal song at S5 in noise. Several other logs, all unID, enumerate tunes on a Mothers` Day theme: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,34883.0.html At 0026 it was ``Mother Rose`` by Patty Smith (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Joe Filipkowski IDs this as Mother's Day Radio/WREC Radio East Coast (Ed. Larry Will, Free Radio Weekly via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. 7585, YHWH [religious pirate] 0430+ 16-20 May. Joshua has settled here for the past week, mentioning an 8P Pacific Time/03 UT sign-on (heard 20 May *0300 popping on almost mid- sentence), also heard 17 May 0525* after "Days of Hard Life" by Lace & what sounded like a live close-down announcement (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA PL380/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) YHWH for May 18 --- YHWH back on air, this evening on 7585. Fair signal with chop here in Arizona. 73 and Good Listening...! (~ Rick Barton, 0308 UT, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7585-AM, YHWH (religious pirate), 0513*, May 19. Off after strange sounding song ("Days of Hard Life"); station ID, ID of announcer; info about audio on Youtube and SoundCloud.com; he will be back on tomorrow night at 6PM, on 7585. My closing one minute audio at http://goo.gl/ApoHqe (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) YHWH still using 7585! USA [sic] (Pirate), YHWH. 0315. At tune-in, usual Yahweh lecture. Fair with choppiness. 0444, creepy music and ID by the usual host. F/G signal. After 0500, lighting up the little tuning eye (VG) on my SW-2000629 with window frame antenna (Rick Barton, AZ, May 21, ibid.) 7585, Awful modulation tonight, UT May 22, with lots of static crashes. I tuned in before 0300 to see a weak carrier. I couldn't be certain of any audio until a few minutes past the TOH. S8 to S9 signal from Don Moman's antenna farm, and identical to my own here in Victoria. Audio sounds more distorted than usual. Something's wrong with his transmitter, I believe. The opposite of rich, wide frequency range that would have made it more enjoyable to follow. I'll listen later tonight to see if things improve. Perhaps it's simply too early in the evening to propagate well this way. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, BC, ibid.) 7585, May 22 at 0330, JBA carrier where there is no legal broadcasting. Walt Salmaniw confirms Station YHWH was on here again tonight, his latest favorite frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tonight, UT 23 May, 2017 at 0405 tune-in, there's Joshua again. Signal is even worse (weaker) than last night. Short deep fades noted. Less atmospheric crashes, compared to last night. Best Perseus SDR is from VA6SW from Dunmore, southern Alberta. Propagation is poor, I suppose, as it's already dark here in Victoria, BC. PS: Yes, the frequency remains 7585 (Walt, ibid.) YHWH: no show tonight? As of 0328, no sign of YHWH. I checked the 41 meter band (and even went down below 49 meters) and no sign of them thus far. A week or two ago, Joshua signed on at 7:30 PM local time/0230 UT, and more recently at 0300. A transmitter malfunction? FCC bust? It's now 0331 and still nothing, in case he decided on an 0330 sign on. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, UT May 24, ibid.) Hi Walt, Tune to 7425 AM kHz. Noted YHWH there at 0319 with decent signal and was semi-readable tonight (Ron Howard, California, 0345 UT, ibid.) Ron, thanks! I wonder when he came on. He's only barely there, and totally unreadable so far tonight, so not a good night at all for us here. VA6SW's remote Perseus SDR in southern Alberta is coming in at a decent level, and the same for Don Moman's receivers further north. Wonder why my propagation is so poor into Victoria, by comparison. (Walt (listening at 0350 UT), ibid.) Walt - My local sunset was at 0314 UT (Ron Howard, CA, ibid.) Well, he signed off really early tonight. Only at 0433 UT after the usual song he plays. Still was only fair at best. I measured him on 7424.994 kHz. 73, (Walt, May 24, ibid.) ** OKLAHOMA. 1020, May 20 at 1817 UT, KOKP Perry, semi-local ``Triple Play Sports Radio`` is off, while its usually // sibling 1580 KOKB Blackwell is fine. If it keeps off, that will clear the way for KCKN Roswell at night with WWRV 1330 NYC relay. During my bandscan at the kite field, rest filed under USA. 1020, May 21 at 2201 UT check, KOKP Perry is off the air for at least the second day in a row; and at 1646 UT check May 22, at least third day in a row. 1020, May 24 at 1403 UT check, KOKP Perry is still off the air, as it has been since at least May 20. Is there any explanation at http://tripleplaysportsradio.com/ Of course not! But soon to be redubbed Double Play Sports Radio 1020, May 24 at 1849 UT, KOKP Perry is finally back on the air with sports talk; it was still missing earlier today at 1403 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1260, May 22 at 0242 UT tune-by, ``KWSH, Today`s Best Country``, from 1/1 kW U2 Wewoka station, better than I can hear it on daytime groundwave, and likely on ND day pattern instead of night with a notch toward Enid. NRC AM Log had slogan as `The station you grew up with`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 27185, May 20 at 1839 UT, some lofi CBer is relaying ``KJ103`` with Rianna, and // hifi 102.7 KJYO OKC. It`s strong and steady, likely local. On the BST-1 caradio which has a few major CB frequencies programmed in (which have also been stopping on short-skip openings full of hets and nonsense). 27184.65-AM, May 20 at 2233 on the home NRD-545, extremely strong S9+70? pinning the meter open carrier. Likely from a nearby neighbor, maybe the same one relaying KJYO earlier (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 88.3, May 20 at 1810 UT, KOSR Stillwater fill-in for // 91.7 KOSU, is audible with the BST-1 caradio turned off its feeder frequency, as Family Radio satellator in Enid is off again, K202BY. It has a lot of outages (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 90.1, May 19 circa 0530 UT, KUCO is off the air, no WCME classical music overnight. Probably resulting from heavy storm which blew threw earlier in evening with lightning and hail. Still no signal at 1250 UT. At 1440 UT I bring up the webcast, as DJ Kimberly Powell is making an announcement including weather forecasts, but she says nothing about 90.1 being off the air (of course, the two satellites 95.9 KCSC in Woodward and 91.9 KBCW in McAlester are presumably still funxional). At 1457 UT via the PL-880, I`m straining to hear KUCO on 90.1 in case it`s on the air but QRP. During the next biminute I`m getting lightning scatter of bits of classical music, presumably competitor KHCC in Hutchinson KS, but no syllables of Sandy Wood on `Stardate` which always airs M-F at 1458 UT on KUCO. KUCO website http://www.kucofm.com does not say 90.1 is off, but it`s never good for real-time outages. Here is the GM`s message which has been up for some months: ``Dear Friends, KUCO is proud to enter its 51st year of broadcasting. Our small staff continues to work hard to bring you good programming all year long. This spring we especially welcome our new listeners in Woodward and northwestern Oklahoma. We completed the Woodward Upgrade Project (funded by the Rapp Foundation) in early December just in time for the holiday programming. Our next project is to replace our main antenna in Oklahoma City which is now 35 years old. A backup antenna was placed in service over a year ago to keep us reliable. Down the road we need to replace our transmitters which are 30 and 20 years old, respectively. We are also still anxious about future funding from our licensee, UCO, which continues to suffer declining support from the state. Many of you know Higher Ed was cut 16% during the last legislative session. We are told the 2017-2018 year may see some drastic reductions here on campus. KUCO is responsible for two thirds of its operating budget and our listeners provide nearly half of that amount, mostly raised during our twice-yearly fund drives. It's that time again and we hope you will continue your membership in the Better Music Club. Sincerely, Bradford Ferguson, General Manager`` 90.1, at 1801 UT May 19, another check whether KUCO is back on --- yes, it is, but much weaker than usual, with Beethoven`s Seventh, mixing with other classical from KHCC (and also interrupted by Es: see MEXICO). Beet7 matches website current playlist, except it was supposed to be over at 1802 UT, but does not really end until 1821 UT. 90.1, KUCO, Edmond transmission back to normal signal levels later May 19 and 20. Saturday May 20 at 1345 UT during `Performance Oklahoma`, the OKC Philharmonic, Joel Levine conducting, is performing Chaikofsky`s Symphony No. 5 in e, Op. 64, recorded at the Civic Center Music Hall on April 15. I have heard countless recorded performances of that opus by major world orchestras, and this performance is also world-class. Non-Okies might never know how good the OKC Phil is, if it has no recording contract nor any regular radio broadcasts beyond KUCO, its satellites and Public Radio Tulsa (KWTU 88.7 playing PerfOkla UT Sunday 01-03; however at 0145 May 21, a playback mixup restarts the opening Roman Carnival Overture instead of Chai-5) (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 91.1, May 18 circa 1900 UT, KKRD Enid is finally back on air after missing a few weeks, Air 1 gospel rock // 90.9 OKC. 105.5, May 18 circa 1900 UT, K288FX, ``North Enid`` translator for 88.9 KYLV K-Love OKC, is also back on the air after similar absence since previous storms. Both may have been on for a day or two before I noticed (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 92.1, May 19 at 1808 UT, horribly distorted signal with Spanish gospel rock, from KAMG-LP Enid, back to its old situation after reactivation. What a useless POS station. 92.1, May 20 at 1842 UT, KAMG-LP, Enid, remains totally overmodulated / distorted, and furthermore is splattering at least out to 91.8 and 92.4 on the PL-880 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. All four major OKC TV stations went to wall-to-wall storm coverage the afternoon of May 18, pre-empting regular programming and for the most part, commercials. At least three of them also get on various radio stations for those away from their TVs. KFOR-27 (channel ``4``) promoted radio stations of the iHeart group also relaying KFOR audio: the ones on 102.7, 94.7, 1000, 1340, 101.9, 98.5, 96.1. With logos, and 98.5 is ``El Patrón``, what?? WTFDA FM DB shows it`s really a 130-watt, 204-meter translator, K253BV, // HD2 of KBRU 94.7 (98.5 totally blocked in Enid by local translator). So do they voice over KFOR into Spanish? Searched the DB on Patron and found it a rather rare slogan, known on only 5 other US stations, two of which are also Okies: 99.5 in Guymon, 100 kW; and 101.5 in Collinsville, 6.2 kW. Are these related to the OKC one? The others are in CA, IA and GA. Only 3 Mexicans employ that name, and one Guatemalan. Getting back to TV, what happens at 2230 UT when it`s time for network news to be demoted off the main channels? KSBI-23 (``52``), the substation of KWTV-39 (``9``), suddenly switches from its regular syndie program Access Hollywood interviewing of all people, Rachel Maddow, to CBS News. KFOR puts NBC News on its substation KAUT-40 (``43``), pre-empting some other disposable rerun. But KOCO-7 (``5``) has only one alternative, its 5.2 normally with MeTV, but --- no ABC news, instead duplicating weather of 5.1! That`s OK; we`ve always found David Muir`s tabloid show a distant third; replete with teasers which turn out to be 10 seconds of nothing when they finally appear. KOCO already puts some of its own alternative programming on 5.2, such as early news at 9 pm to get a jump on 10 pm like ``Fox 25``, and KFOR via ``Freedom 43`` have already been doing. Similar behaviour is likely May 19 and next week during the tornado season (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DTV ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, NBC Madang, 1150-1208*, May 21, with the usual Sunday show in Pidgin; religious (Christian) songs. Was impatiently waiting for the Sunday only syndicated show "Island Praise" with DJ Stacy Rose, but her show was perhaps late starting and was not heard; suddenly cut off (Ron Howard, oceanside at Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. NBC Milne Bay 3365 kHz returns tonight. Speeches heard at 1149 UT 22nd May 2017 (Ian, Australia, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. [Re 17-20] on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire and heard the following. 73, Anker Petersen: 4810.00, 0245-0250 18.5, R Logos, Chazuta (presumed), reactivated Spanish talk, 15221, AP-DNK (via giampiero Bernardini, playdx blog via DXLD) 4810, Radio Logos. Responding to my recent signal report of good reception at 0920 UT here in New Zealand, Engineer Wayne Borthwick advised "...there were tech problems which we did not know about till recently. Turned out to be a shorted BALUN on one of the 4 phased dipoles. Disconnecting that feed cable allowed the transmitter a more reasonable SWR using just the other 3, although no doubt the directional pattern is different, maybe favouring N. Z. A new BALUN is on the way." Regarding their proposed Pucallpa shortwave operation, Wayne said that "license granting time is hard to predict, so don't have a date for that one yet, hopefully ASAP." (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, New Zealand, May 24, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, R. Chaski, Cuzco, 2209-2218, 15/5, castelhano, canções, propag. relig.; 24331, QRM adjacente. Good DX and 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, R. CHASKI. Mayo 19. 2300-2335 UT. Identificación como: “Red Radio Integridad” con hora local, reflexión corta e identificación larga, lectura de parte del Salmo 106 como parte de un devocional. Después el micro segmento: “Alimento para el Alma” con datos de Radio Transmundial. A las 2307, se pasa a un espacio de música. A las 2311, se emite el programa: “Camino de la vida” con el tema del camino de los justos y aspectos acerca de la salvación. A las 2325, espacio musical, luego reflexión. Salida del aire a las 2335. SINPO: 44343 con leve QRM (Claudio Galaz, RX: TECSUN PL660; ANT: Hilo de 40 metros de largo, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 5980, May 20 at 2329, I`m having my first go at trying to hear R. Chaski at its sesquihour-earlier closedown time, and yes, there it is, a JBA carrier in the noise level, even more JBA than it usually was circa 0100. I stay with it, until it finally autocuts off at 2335:22* or so (with fading the timing is not so sharp). Next project is whether it recess ~6.7 seconds per noctem in a proximate recheck. 5980, May 22 at 2333, no signal from R. Chaski, despite not cutting off until 2335:22* at previous catch May 20. Therefore it`s just off, or has already reset the autotimer closer to 2330.0. Further chex required (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 12010 // 15640 // 17820, R. Pilipinas, 0224, May 23. PBS news (telecommuting law approved by parliament, to improve traffic in Manila, etc.); "business news"; "regional news"; "DFA Online." It was back on March 21, that I last reported 17700 at this time period, instead of the current 12010 (Ron Howard, oceanside at Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [non]. 9900, Thu May 18 at 1233, English ID as ``TWR Philippines``, twrphilippines.com, S6 signal and hymn. Of course, it`s really KTWR GUAM transmitter. Aoki shows strange schedule as M-F 1219- 1240 in English at 285 degrees. (On Sundays only at 1216-1245, Japanese Friendship Radio hour at 345 degrees). Cited website asserts `` With almost 14 years in existence, TWR Philippines has become competent in programming. We boast in this in Christ. . .`` But Program page is only in Tagalog (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 7345, Radio Sakha, via Yakutsk, 0921-0940, May 22. Cute program of children calling in to the station and singing over the phone; am still not hearing 7295, as Wolfie, et al., have reported recently (Ron Howard, oceanside at Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Re ``WW II - Radio during the Great Patriotic War was one of the main sources of news from the front. RIA Novosti provides a unique opportunity - to hear the broadcasts of 1945 from the archives of the radio Sputnik:`` If someone expects anything in foreign languages: No chance I fear. At least the archive of German broadcasts goes back to the 60s only. All earlier material has been destroyed, long before 1991 of course. (Kai Ludwig, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. WEB RADIO AND TV IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE --------- Moscow. Nikolai Fomenko launched the Internet radio station Fomenko Fake Radio on the site http://fomenkofm.ru Fomenko himself told Vedomosti. According to him, this is a talk radio with the motto: "Not a word for Gopnik". Radio has been running since mid-April in test mode: it broadcasts humorous programs and "fake but funny" news ... http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__65609/ via RusDX May 21 via DXLD) ** RWANDA [non]. Radio Africa Net - New Program --- Hello, I received an email today from Jeff Bernald & the Pan American Broadcasting Team, regarding a recent SWL report that I sent. Mr. Bernald mentioned in his email that the Radio Africa Network is asking listeners to "tune in this Friday, Saturday, or Sunday at 1300 UT for an exciting broadcast call 'Rwandan Youth For Change'. We are so very excited about this program, as it is program that is being recorded in Rwanda to be heard throughout Rwanda. Kindly tune in and send us your report. We will send you a special QSL card for the reception.". In case you forgot, 'Radio Africa Network' uses the facilities of WRMI in FL and operates on 21525 kHz normally from 1400 to 2300 UT. This may be a special broadcast as it is scheduled an hour earlier than scheduled (Chuck W3ON, May 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SLOVAKIA [non]. GERMANY, Additional transmissions of Radio Slovakia Int via Kall 0500-0530 on 3985 KLL 001 kW / non-dir to CeEu French Daily 0530-0600 on 3985 KLL 001 kW / non-dir to CeEu English Daily http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/additional-transmissions-of-radio.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) These transmissions are NOT additional. Regularly heard since the beginning af the a17 season. Regards (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, ibid.) OK, thanks, but it wasn't mentioned in the original schedule. Now it is. Best regards, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, ibid.) Remaining times of RSI on WRMI: see Argentina non (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020, SIBC at 1130 UT May 23 with phone in requests and greetings to listeners in and around Honiara, show between country / pop music. Devotional message at 1154 then sign off announcement for SIBC at 1159 followed by National Anthem. Programs relayed from Wantok FM followed. Good. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, AB, Rx Perseus SDR, Ant Wellbrook ALA100 loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AMERICA. Low power broadcasts from South America Friday, May 19, 2017 2:04 PM From: "Radio Piraña Int. rpi@radiopirana.com Dear friends! This weekend our transmitter in South America will be active again with relay of Radio Enterhaken. This will be the sched.: 6930 kHz 10 watts carrier. A true challenge. In March we got reports for this transmitter from Finland, Norway, Germany, New Zealand, the USA amongst other. Incredible for 10 watts! Friday May 19th from 2100 - 1300 UTC (Saturday) Saturday May 20th from 2100 - 1300 UTC (Sunday) Sunday May 21st from 2100 - 1300 UTC (Monday) Reports to: Enterhaken@gmx.net 73' (Jorge R. García, May 19, cumbredx yg via DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non non]. 17815, Sunday May 21 at 1338, Brother Scare is S9 on new frequency of WHRI, ex-21610. Exact hours vary and maybe other gospel huxters here at certain times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. Open carrier, dead air, probably of Radio Exterior de España on May 18: 1102&1257 on 15520 NOB 200 kW / 110 deg to N/ME, strong with fading & continues http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/open-carrierdead-air-probably-of-radio.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reception of Radio Exterior de España, 3 frequencies May 20 1400-1800 15520 NOB 200 kW / 110 deg N/ME Spanish Sat/Sun, weak/fair 1400-1800 17715 NOB 200 kW / 230 deg SoAm Spanish Sat/Sun, fair/good 1400-1800 17855 NOB 200 kW / 290 deg ENAm Spanish Sat/Sun, very good 1400-1800 21620 NOB 200 kW / 161 deg WCAf Spanish Sat/Sun, no signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/reception-of-radio-exterior-de-espana.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Exterior de España, 17715 + 15530 kHz monitored 1823 to 1930 UT in Spanish with strong signals broadcasting a sporting event (football/soccer) game. 73 de (Chuck W3ON, May 21, dxldyg via DXLD) Rather Spain on 15520, not 15530 // 15390 & 17715, nothing on 17855 -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, ibid.) 17855, Sunday May 21 at 1948, no signal from REE`s North American frequency, but JBA carrier on 17715 to elsewhere, and more than that on 15520, 15390 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ESPAÑA, Radio Exterior de España, la frecuencia de 17855, dirigida a Norteamérica, parece que está fuera del aire desde hace varios días. Muy buena señal en 15520, 15390 y 17715, pero nada en 17855. May 24 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, noticiasdx via DXLD) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. Reception of Eye Radio via Alyx & Yeyi TDF Issoudun, May 19 1600-1900 on 17730 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Arabic/English, good signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/reception-of-eye-radio-via-alyx-yeyi_19.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [non]. RTI via BaBcoCk & TDF, two different programs May 21: 1900-2000 3955 WOF 250 kW / 114 deg to WeEu French Dly, not // 15275 1900-2000 15275 ISS 500 kW / 165 deg to NCAf French Sun, not // 3955 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/rado-taiwan-int-via-babcock-tdf-with-2.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND [and non]. THE END OF ANOTHER ERA: THE BBC THAILAND IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED Soon after the BBC began work on the construction of their new East Asia Relay Station in the isolated jungle area of the New Territories of Hong Kong, they also began planning for another new relay station somewhere else in the Asian arena. The BBC East Asia Relay Station at Tsang Tsui in the far west of the New Territories with its two shortwave transmitters at 250 kW was taken into full service on September 27, 1987. At that time, active planning for this another shortwave station was underway, and serious consideration was given to several different sites in the country areas of the Asian Kingdom of Thailand. In the original planning, the projected new shortwave station in Thailand was intended to be a joint project between the BBC in London and Radio Netherlands in Hilversum Holland for major coverage into the Indian sub-continent. Interestingly, the ABC and Radio Australia in Melbourne Australia also demonstrated an interest in a shortwave relay station in Thailand during that same era. However, in October 1990, Radio Netherlands announced that it was withdrawing from the shortwave project in Thailand, due to what it considered to be exorbitant costs for installation and operation. Initially, the BBC estimated that the station would cost $17 million to build, with an additional $3½ million as an annual budget for operation, though subsequent reality demonstrated that the final cost for construction together with grants to the Thai government was more than double the original estimate. It would be presumed that Radio Australia faced the same financial problem, as they made no progress in this direction. Three years later (1993), the BBC enlarged their planning for the Thailand project when it became evident that their new station in Hong Kong would indeed need to be closed and demolished before the British territory of Hong Kong was officially handed over to China. Thus the planned target coverage for the new Thai station was considerably increased, from coverage into the countries surrounding the Indian sub-continent, to now include all of the countries of Asia and the Far East. Interestingly at that stage (1993), Radio Australia again evinced an interest in a shortwave relay station in Thailand. In the second quarter of the year 1994, the Thai government offered the BBC the choice of any of five different country locations, all of which were thoroughly investigated prior to the final decision. Ultimately, the final choice rested upon a compact site in the shape of a large capital letter T in central Thailand 150 miles north of Bangkok. The transmitter site is located in a wetland area next to a small lake, some eight miles north of the small provincial town Nakhon Sawan. Work at this new BBC shortwave station, with its four transmitters at 250 kW and thirteen antenna systems, began in August 1994. On May 8 of the following year (1995), a special ground breaking ceremony was conducted on the site, with participation by representatives from BBC management and from the Thai government. A crowd of people from the surrounding villages also attended this grand local event. Test transmissions began during the following year (1996), followed by the gradual transfer of programming from the BBC East Asia Relay Station in Hong Kong to the new BBC Asia Relay Station in Thailand. At that stage, two new Thomcast transmitters from France, Model TSW2250, had already been installed, together with many of the antenna systems. On November 18 (1996), the new station in Thailand assumed the full load of programming from the station in Hong Kong, though Hong Kong remained in standby mode for nearly three weeks, until December 6. Then it was that the two transmitters at 250 kW in Hong Kong, Marconi Model B131, were removed and prepared for shipment to Thailand, where they were installed and activated very early in the new year 1997. Later in that same year (1997), on October 29 to be exact, this new BBC Asia Relay Station in Thailand was officially opened by His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, during a royal tour of several Asian countries with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. During the year 2001, an additional 250 kW shortwave transmitter was installed together with an additional antenna system. This new electronic equipment passed acceptance tests in October, after which it was all taken into regular service. In April 2009, the BBC Asia Relay Station was off the air for a few days due to a local flooding emergency. Then it was, at the end of the broadcast day on December 31, 2016, that this important and very successful BBC relay station was switched off, quietly and without any fanfare or advance notice, for what has now become the last time. Due to the failure of negotiations between the BBC and the Thai government, the broadcast license was not renewed, and the BBC subsequently announced the permanent closure of the station anyway, due to the very high financial costs. At the time of closure, this BBC Asia Relay Station at Nakhon Sawan in central Thailand was operated under contract with Babcock Media Services, and it contained five shortwave transmitters at 250 kW, thirteen curtain antennas, and four shorter antenna masts. We ask the question: What will ultimately happen to this station, and what will happen to all of this expensive electronic equipment? Will it be removed and re-installed elsewhere? Who knows! What we do know, is that those international radio monitors who successfully received one of the readily available QSL cards from this BBC Asia Relay Station in Nakhon Thailand, are holding a nice piece of radio history that is no longer available (Adrian Peterson, IN, script for AWR Wavescan May 21 via DXLD) ** TIBET. Hi Glenn, Now I know why I was hearing Laos clearer than normal. This per Mauno Ritola, on his WRTH Facebook page, on May 19: "Laos 6130 kHz heard without China QRM - all Xizang fq's off the air." Thanks to Hiroyuki Komatsubara for the following list of Xizang PBS stations off the air now: Chinese: 4820, 5935, 6050, 7240, 7450 kHz Tibetan: 4905, 4920, 6025, 6110, 6130, 6200, 7255, 7385 kHz China actively making many changes now, what with your UNID on 9700 kHz. being now IDed as CNR16 (// MW 720 kHz - per Amano and Mauno) and my hearing the new frequency for CNR17, on 15190 kHz (Ron Howard, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. VOT uses this frequency 9830 solely for their 2200 to 2300 UT broadcast in English to Eastern North America. Well, at least 3 times in the last 2 weeks, I've heard the broadcast continue after 2300. The interval tune without speech will play out after the English language transmission ends, and about 2256, it will hiccup and restart with speech in German saying "This is the Voice of Turkey". and then a broadcast in German will commence. German isn't scheduled at this time of day, it happens much earlier. The transmission in German will continue anywhere between 15 and 45 minutes before being abruptly shut off in mid sentence. I suspect that the Turksat 3A or Turksat 4A satelitte feed from Ankara is what feeds the Emirler Shortwave transmitter site. And, when the English broadcast ends on the satellite, next up is German and since the 9830 transmitter doesn't shut off, that's what we hear (Paul Walker, AK, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) I have reported extra German SW 9830 (or 5960 in B season) following English a few times already (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Re: ``I suspect that the Turksat 3A or Turksat 4A satellite feed from Ankara is what feeds the Emirler Shortwave transmitter site`` That's jumping to conclusions. It's quite possible that the terrestrial audio circuits are still in operation (Kai Ludwig, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Paul, German isn't scheduled at this time of day ... TRT Livestream, see the enclosed B-16 file of mid January 2017, when 0000 UT started German language TRT service on livestream "TRT VOT World" (i.e. 2300 UT in A-17 season) In Winter B-16 season, TRT website livestream outlets: [See DXLD 17-03, winter timings one UT hour later than summer] (via Wolfgang Büschel, HCDX via DXLD) German isn`t scheduled on Shortwave at this time of day, is what I meant. I doubled checked eibi just now and the only 9830 entry for Turkey is the 2200-2300 UT English broadcast (Paul Walker, ibid.) [and non]. 9830, May 20 at 2215, VOT English opening a talk about culture, ruined by the exactly co-channel RTTY station. Sometimes it quits circa 2200, but not today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. UKRAINE BANS DOZENS OF RUSSIAN WEBSITES VOA News May 16, 2017 http://www.voanews.com/a/ukraine-bans-dozens-of-russian-websites/3852930.html Ukraine ordered the blocking of access to a number of Russian websites Tuesday in the latest round of sanctions since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. President Petro Poroshenko's office announced the decree, which he signed a day earlier, banning operations of popular Russian websites, such as search engine Yandex, for three years. The listed websites were still functioning in Ukraine Tuesday, and it is unclear how and when the government plans to block them. The Ukrainian government cited security concerns, saying the ban was imposed partly to protect against companies "whose activities threaten the information and cyber security of Ukraine," according to a statement released by the Security and Defense Council. The latest round of sanctions adds Yandex and social media sites Odnoklassniki and Vkontakte to the list of over 400 Russian firms blacklisted by Kyiv since Moscow's annexation of Crimea and consequent pro-Russian separatist uprising in 2014. According to the Reuters news agency, the Kremlin has threatened retaliation. (via VOA Radiogram May 20 via roger, dxldyg via DXLD) UKRAINIANS WERE DENIED ACCESS TO YANDEX, VKONTAKTE AND ODNOKLASSNIKAM http://www.radioportal.ru/news/radio/nashe-radio-i-pravoslavnoe-radio-vera-popali-pod-sankcii-ukrainy Ukrainian providers were banned from providing services for access to these services. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a decree that introduces sanctions for a period of three years against Russian companies in the Internet and media industries. Among them are Yandex and Mail.ru Group, social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, Kaspersky Lab and Doctor Web. In addition, sanctions have been imposed against RBC, TV Center, VGTRK, NTV Plus and Zvezda. The decree also prohibits Ukrainian users from accessing the resources and services of Russian companies. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3298020 "Nashe Radio" and Orthodox Radio "Vera" came under sanctions Ukraine. Under the sanctions imposed by Ukraine on Russian companies, the radio station Nashe Radio, which broadcasts songs of Russian rock performers, as well as the Orthodox radio Vera, follows from the order of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko published on Tuesday. Sanctions were adopted for a period of three years. Among the restrictions - the termination of the provision of telecommunications services and the use of public telecommunications networks, follows from the document. Also under Ukrainian sanctions - the state television and radio company VGTRK (including the department for the development of non- terrestrial TV channels), the National Media Group, the First Channel, the Life portal, the television channel Zvezda, and the Public Television of Russia. The media holding of RBC also fell under the sanctions. Rns.online (via RusDX 21 Mayvia DXLD) Re: ``Also under Ukrainian sanctions [...] The media holding of RBC also fell under the sanctions`` --- Cute. Has RBC been turned around completely? I have not heard about such a development. So it's presumably still what it used to be: A media outlet from the liberal side. Kremlin critics, etc. (Kai Ludwig, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. Test transmission via BaBcoCk Woofferton on May 24: 1445-1515 on 9650*WOF 250 kW / unknown azimuth BaBcoCk Music and announcements *strong co-ch 9650 ZAH 500 kW / 289 deg to NEAf Arabic VoIRoI IRIB / PARS TODAY *from 1500 on 9650 PUG 250 kW / 000 deg to NEAs Korean Living Water Ministry BC http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/uk-test-transmission-via-babcock.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. Former pirate Radio Caroline awarded broadcast licence To go back on AM full-time http://radiotoday.co.uk/2017/05/radio-caroline-to-go-back-on-am-full-time/ (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) Caroline on 5 Live --- The two interiews are here https://www.mixcloud.com/ianren/radio-caroline-awarded-broadcast-licence-bbc-5-live-21-may-2017/ Posted by: (Mike Barraclough, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** U S A. 28289.90, May 20 at 2227, a CW propagation beacon by sporadic E repeating IDs as WJ5O/B AL. Searching out a beacon list, guess what, he`s the guy providing a huge roster by frequency updated 19 May 2017: http://www.qsl.net/wj5o/bcn.htm including himself, a.k.a. William H. Hays, SMSgt, USAF, Ret.: 28.2893 WJ5O C TROY ALABAMA # 2W, VERTICAL New Frequency 25 Jan 14 The C means continuous. The # means confirmed active. But I am not hearing much else on 10m, just a weak and Es-deep-fading unID USB on 28409.90 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. BBG FY 2018 BUDGET REQUEST REFLECTS KEY PRIORITIES AMID SPENDING CONSTRAINTS May 23, 2017 Hanoi_ Vietnam - Aug 12_ 2016_ Teenagers busy using smartphone in park in Hanoi [caption] WASHINGTON - The Broadcasting Board of Governors today released the FY 2018 budget request to support key U.S. foreign policy goals by providing news and information around the world while accommodating the current tight fiscal climate. "As is true throughout the federal government, the budgetary environment requires that we prioritize our resources, while emphasizing impact and maintaining the level of excellence our audiences have come to expect," said CEO John F. Lansing. "Despite reductions in spending, we are committed to our mission, impacting the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world by providing accurate, unbiased, and uncensored news and information." The tight fiscal environment necessitates BBG to improve operational efficiencies and make difficult resource trade-offs to effectively meet performance goals and support U.S. foreign policy priorities. The $685.1 million budget request includes transmission, program and staffing reductions across all BBG networks-the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, Radio Free Asia, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks-and the International Broadcasting Bureau, including the Office of Technology, Services and Innovation. This includes reducing, and in some cases, eliminating certain language service capacities; shifting away from shortwave transmissions where they have the least impact; and optimizing information technology. WORLD OF RADIO 1879, Although the funding request represents a 12.9 percent reduction from the FY 2017 enacted budget, it prioritizes funding for U.S. foreign policy goals, including combatting violent extremism, countering Russian disinformation, and enhancing programming for North Korean audiences. It also capitalizes on the momentum gained from the streamlining of operations in 2016 and the aggressive shift to digital already underway at each of the five networks. The request includes $680.4 million for International Broadcasting Operations, including Federal and non-Federal networks, as well as $4.7 million for Broadcasting Capital Improvements. The FY 2018 budget request contains proposals to continue the agency's responsive shift to the most effective media platforms, respond readily to crises, keep pace with shifts in audience demographics and interests, and sharpen strategy and results measurement to drive performance. BBG's extensive network of seasoned, professional and well-connected journalists is particularly strong in regions where ISIS, Russia, Iran, China and other global actors that do not share American values are attempting to make further inroads. "Should Congress enact this budget, there is no doubt that staff reductions would be difficult," Lansing said. "We will do everything possible to minimize the effect on our employees by emphasizing attrition, early retirement opportunities, and agency buyouts for federal employees wherever possible. Our staff and journalists are the core of what drives our impact around the world. We will do everything we can to safeguard our greatest asset." The full FY 2018 Congressional Budget Request and the Executive Summary are available on the BBG website. https://www.bbg.gov/strategy-and-performance/budget-submissions/ (BBG PR via Hansjoerg Biener, May 23, DXLD) Details next week ** U S A [non]. "VOICE OF AMERICA" AND "RADIO LIBERTY" INTEND TO EXPAND BROADCASTING IN IRAN AND THE FORMER USSR http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__65620/ The American Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has published a number of tenders aimed at finding new specialists and expanding the technical base of its news agencies in Russia, Tajikistan, Iran and Ukraine. As it became known to RT, in 2017 fiscal year the organization intends to spend about $778 million on projects, including in the countries of the former USSR and Asia. The priority is the projects "Voice of America" and "Radio Liberty", aimed at disseminating information on the territory of Eurasia. It is noted that the US authorities are going to allocate money for the creation of a separate television channel "Voice of America" for the Russian-speaking population. It will start broadcasting on July 1, 2017. BBG also plans to expand the broadcasting of Radio Liberty in Tajikistan, and the Hour Hour program will be launched in Ukraine. In addition, the tasks of radio journalists include "development, support for existing contacts and expansion of the Voice of America database on Iran." Rt.com (via Rus-DX May 21 via DXLD) ** U S A. HOW CHINA MANAGED TO MUFFLE THE VOICE OF AMERICA The Foreign Ministry warned VOA’s Beijing correspondent against ‘interference.’ Guo Wengui during his April 19 Voice of America interview. Photo: Voice of America/YouTube By Sasha Gong May 23, 2017 6:56 p.m. ET 15 COMMENTS https://www.wsj.com/article_email/how-china-managed-to-muffle-the-voice-of-america-1495580183-lMyQjAxMTE3NTIwNDAyMjQyWj/ Last month I was scheduled to interview the Chinese real estate and investment tycoon Guo Wengui about his claims of extensive corruption in the Chinese Communist Party. Mr. Guo — who sometimes calls himself Miles Kwok — worked closely for years with Chinese intelligence services and says he even financed their operations. He has lived abroad since 2015 and granted me a live interview in his New York apartment. In preparation for the April 19 segment, I did a 10-hour preinterview with Mr. Guo. My questions focused on his relationship with the Ministry of National Security, or Guo An. Like its Soviet counterpart, the KGB, Guo An has a fearsome reputation. Chinese citizens say it suppresses protests, harasses dissidents and monitors intellectuals. Using its vast fortune, Guo An has allegedly infiltrated overseas corporations, universities, civil groups and even foreign governments. In Washington, it’s an open secret among the ethnic Chinese community that the Chinese Embassy is an operational base of Guo An, which organizes events to spread its influence. The money spent by Guo An is astronomical. Chen Guangcheng, the blind lawyer and human-rights activist who escaped to the U.S. a few years ago, estimates that the Chinese government spent $10.5 million spying on him alone. Mr. Guo says that a great deal of what the spy agency spends is bankrolled by private Chinese businessmen. In the preinterview, Mr. Guo explained that he paid for office rentals, private jets, surveillance systems, personnel and many other expenses. In exchange, Guo An officials would assist him in dealing with his business rivals. He also said he was ordered by high-ranking Guo An officials to hire private investigators to dig up information on overseas properties owned by relatives of top Communist Party leaders. Mr. Guo said he believed that the majority, if not all, business tycoons in China had similar arrangement with Guo An. Many of Guo An’s activities have been exposed and reported by the international media. But before Mr. Guo stepped forward, no businessman had dared utter a word on the subject of the private funding behind the spy agency. Mr. Guo agreed to be interviewed by me and my colleagues in the Mandarin Service of the Voice of America, the international public broadcaster entirely funded by American taxpayers. On April 13, six days in advance, VOA began promoting the interview to audiences on all of its platforms. On April 17 the Chinese government issued an arrest warrant for Mr. Guo without making public any details of his alleged crimes. That same day, the Chinese Foreign Ministry summoned VOA’s Beijing correspondent and complained that the interview constituted interference in China’s internal affairs. Specifically, the Chinese said the interview would disturb the 19th Communist Party Congress, which is scheduled to be held later this year. The Chinese threatened to “respond seriously” if the interview went forward. A few hours later, the VOA’s top management in Washington asked me to cancel the live interview. The next day, the Chinese government issued a “red notice” via Interpol seeking Mr. Guo’s arrest and extradition. Although he lives in New York, Mr. Guo holds a diplomatic passport issued by the United Arab Emirates. The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson called him a criminal in several press conferences. I’m not aware of another instance in the 75-year history of Voice of America in which a foreign government has attempted to intervene with such force in the network’s broadcast decisions. My colleagues and I argued our case in an hourlong meeting with VOA’s upper management, but no agreement was reached. After much back and forth, they allowed us to do the interview but ordered our producer to let it run no longer than 15 minutes. Ultimately, we broadcast live with Mr. Guo for one hour and 19 minutes before Washington pulled the plug. This was not enough time to paint the elaborate picture he can provide of the most powerful police state in human history. Four colleagues and I were placed on administrative leave—suspended with pay. Mr. Guo’s full story remains to be told. Reputable news organizations should not shrink from it for fear of reprisal by the Chinese secret police. Ms. Gong is Voice of America’s Mandarin Service Chief (via David Cole, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DXLD) + 15 comments! ** U S A [and non]. VOA Radiogram, May 20-21 --- VOA Radiogram this weekend is mostly MFSK32, with some MFSK16, and includes news about a doomed (eventually) planet (earth). This preview includes news about a doomed radio show (VOA Radiogram) ... http://voaradiogram.net/post/160839098787/voa-radiogram-20-21-may-2017-special-doomed (Kim Elliott, May 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Kim wasn't explicit in his DXLD posting, so I will note that he has announced on his VOA Radiogram web page that he is to retire from the VOA next month after 32 years of service. As a result, the VOA Radiogram transmissions will end, but they will continue via WRMI. (Chris Greenway, dxldyg via DXLD) Viz.: VOA Radiogram is a Voice of America program experimenting with digital text and images via shortwave broadcasting. It is produced and presented by Dr. Kim Andrew Elliott. VOA Radiogram, 20-21 May 2017: Special doomed edition Zdenek in the Czech Republic received these images Sunday, May 14, 1930-2000 UTC, 15670 kHz I will retire from the Voice of America on June 23, after 32 years as audience research analyst and broadcaster. I was hoping to continue to produce VOA Radiogram as a contractor. I approached various BBG and VOA offices. They all declined. And, therefore, the last VOA Radiogram will be the weekend on June 17-18 Money is not the issue. I am willing to work cheap. My main interest is to be authorized to continue the show and maintain a VOA email address, so that I can keep in contact with the audience. The irony is that, after retirement, I will finally have time to answer your emails – but I will no longer have access to the VOA email system to do that. But, the show must go on. In addition to the four weekly transmissions via the BBG North Carolina transmitting site, VOA Radiogram is also broadcast on WRMI in Florida twice on Sundays. I can hardly allow those half-hour slots to be filled by light recorded music. So, beginning the weekend of June 24-25, a program similar to VOA Radiogram, but with a new name and email address, will be broadcast by WRMI. [WORLD OF RADIO 1879] More about the demise of VOA Radiogram, and the emergence of its replacement, in the weeks to come. VOA Radiogram this weekend includes some text in Russian. You will need to use the UTF-8 character set. IF you use Fldigi, it probably is already set for UTF-8, but you might want to check under the Colors & Fonts menu. All of the show is in MFSK32 except for one item in MFSK16, in case reception is challenging. Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, program 216, May 20-21, 2017, all in MFSK32 except where noted: 1:46 Program preview 3:00 Distance supernova can doom earth has doubled* 10:16 Plan to clean plastic patch in the Pacific* 15:55 Plastic-eating moths (Russian) * ** 22:01 MFSK16: Ukraine blocks Russian websites 26:10 MFSK32: Closing announcements* * with image ** Mostly Cyrillic text: use UTF-8 character set Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com The Mighty KBC transmits to Europe Saturdays at 1500-1530 UTC on 9400 kHz (via Bulgaria), with a minute of MFSK32 at about 1530 UTC. And to North America Sundays at 0000-0200 UTC (Saturday 8-10 pm EDT) on 9925 kHz, via Germany. A minute of MFSK32 is at about 0130 UTC. Reports to Eric: themightykbc@gmail.com . See also http://www.kbcradio.eu/ and https://www.facebook.com/TheMightyKbc/ DigiDX has not resumed, hence the VOA Radiogram transmissions via WRMI. See http://www.digidx.uk/ and https://www.facebook.com/digidx/ Italian Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) For the complete IBC transmission schedule visit http://ibcradio.webs.com/ Five minutes of MFSK32 is at the end of the 30-minute English-language “Shortwave Panorama,” per the schedule below: WEDNESDAY 18.55 UTC 6070 KHZ TO EUROPE 19.55 UTC 1584 KHZ TO EUROPE THURSDAY 02.55 UTC 1584 KHZ TO EUROPE FRIDAY 01.25 UTC 9955 KHZ TO CENTRAL/SOUTH AMERICA SATURDAY 01.55 UTC 11580 KHZ TO NORTH AMERICA 20.25 UTC 1584 KHZ TO SOUTH EUROPE SUNDAY 00.55 UTC 7730 KHZ TO NORTH AMERICA 10.55 UTC 6070 KHZ TO EUROPE May 19, 2017 (10:22 am) (via DXLD) Ich hatte einmal nachgeschaut. Hier hatte Kim seinen Geburtstag verraten: http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2015-01-31.htm D.h. *03.02.1952, und damit tatsächlich (schon) im Pensionsalter (roger, A-DX via Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. Re: [A-DX} decoding-mfsk-images-from-audio- harmonics --- Am 19.05.2017 um 21:42 schrieb Roger: http://voaradiogram.net/post/160838081557/decoding-mfsk-images-from-audio-harmonics-just However, nothing really new from Greece ..... With pure text I had already tried this one year ago: http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2016-03-26.htm#decoding_2nd_harmonic Today now the similar story with additional decoding of the third audio harmonics of KBC-9400 kHz via Kostinbrod. Amazing 6 db SNR after restoring the original bandwidth. http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2017-05-20.htm#KBC (roger, dxldyg via DXLD) Nice comparison tonight: Greenville signal on 15670 about 15 dB stronger than Okeechobee signal on 15770, even with the transmitter cranked down as much as feasible. And the latter had program audio more off than on. Could of course have been the feed from Walterboro, South Carolina. Still the Greenville transmission is not clean, with quite a lot of mains hum. Which probably was not there before 1924, so perhaps it's rather the input (I understand some local playout, perhaps related to bypassing the Optimod). Speech modulation is a bit soft, as if music and talk (nice to see how asymmetrical it is) have been run at the same peak levels. Thus it was a bit difficult to read, but I think the announcement went: How close must BBG Watch be to White House to doom VOA? (Kai Ludwig, 2013 UT May 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good signal from Greenville here in BUL 1930-2000 on 15670, videos after few minutes -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) The last VOARadiogram via Greenville will be on June 17-18 0230-0300 on 5745 GB 62.5 kW / 190 deg to Cuba English Sun tx#B 0930-1000 on 5745 GB 62.5 kW / 190 deg to Cuba English Sat tx#B 1600-1630 on 17580 GB 62.5 kW / 045 deg to WeEu English Sat tx#B 1930-2000 on 15670 GB 62.5 kW / 045 deg to WeEu English Sun tx#B From June 25 a program similar to VOARadiogram will be broadcast only via WRMI Okeechobee, but with a new name and e-mail address 2030-2100 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English Sun tx#9 2330-2400 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English Sun tx#9 VOARadiogram via WRMI Okeechobee are also on the air at present. http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/the-last-voa-radiogram-via-greenville.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. VOA Silicon Valley Bureau opening THE TECH INDUSTRY - FACING CHANGE IN US IMMIGRATION LAWS AND VISAS Silicon Valley, and its foreign born workforce, is closely watching Washington for the coming reform in immigration laws and visas. How will Congress and the administration affect the U.S. tech industry's global position and the lives of those driving tech's start-up creativity? Voice of America Director, Amanda Bennett, Deputy Director, Sandy Sugawara and Silicon Valley Bureau Chief, Michelle Quinn will lead a lively discussion of these issues. You're invited to attend as VOA celebrates the opening of its Silicon Valley Bureau. When: Thursday, June 1, 2017 5:00 - 7:00 pm Light refreshments 5:00 -5:30 pm. Where: 500 Startups 814 Mission Street, 6th Floor San Francisco, CA, 94103 Panelists: U.S. Representative, Ro Khanna (D-CA) Norman Matloff, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Davis Kamran Elahian, Iranian born Investor, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist, now chairman and founder of Global Innovation Catalyst LLC Please watch for updates and additions to the program. To RSVP, please click here [it`s free but register button] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/voa-silicon-valley-bureau-opening-tickets-34483137994 For questions or further information, contact the Public Relations Office of the Voice of America at publicrelations@voanews.com Broadcasting Board of Governors, 330 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20237 (via Kim Elliott, May 23, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. GERMANY, 9485, Hamburger LokalRadio, Goehren, 1000-1100, 14-05, English, ID “Hamburger LokalRadio”, comments, at 1030 Glenn Hauser’s program “World of Radio”. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Sony ICF SW-7600G, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1878 monitoring: confirmed first SW broadcast Thursday May 18 at 2130 on WRMI 11580, fair vs local storm noise (probably the last time at this hour due to pending RAE Argentina relay in German to start next week). Also confirmed Thu May 18 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330.219v- CUSB, fair-poor (by next check at 0123 May 19, with Brother Hystairical, had drifted to 9330.121). Next: Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW Sat 1431 HLR 7265-CUSB to WSW Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 to NE [NEW] Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW [to be canceled] Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE, 9455 to WNW [to be canceled] Tue 1300 WRMI 11580 to NE [NEW; to be canceled] Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE, 9455 to WNW Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1878 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Argentina non, Australia, Bougainville, Burundi non, China, Cuba, Fiji, Kashmir non, Korea North, Korea South, Kosovo, Morocco, North America, Perú, Russia, Slovakia non, Taiwan, USA WORLD OF RADIO 1878 monitoring: confirmed Friday May 19 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.20v-CUSB, fair. Also confirmed Saturday May 20 at 0630-0700 on HLR 6190-CUSB, fair in Bulgaria, says Ivo Ivanov. Also confirmed Saturday May 20 at 1445 the 1431 broadcast on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB, via UTwente SDR, good vs noise level and no CCI; ends at 1500 sharp when the ChiCom timesignal is JBA. Also confirmed Saturday May 20 at 2230 on WBCQ 9330.34v-CUSB, fair. Also confirmed UT Sunday May 21 after 0200 on WRMI 11580, fair. Next: Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW [to be canceled] Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE, 9455 to WNW [to be canceled] Tue 1300 WRMI 11580 to NE [NEW; to be canceled] Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE, 9455 to WNW Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) GERMANY, Fair signal of HLR relays on 6190 CUSB, May 20 World of Radio #1878: 0630-0700 on 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu Sat English http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/fair-signal-of-hlr-relays-on-6190-cusb.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9330.34, 20/5 2243, World of Radio via WBCQ, Monticello (ME) USA English DX program, weak. Pubblicato da )Giampiero Bernardini a maggio 23, 2017, playdx blog via DXLD) WORLD OF RADIO 1878 monitoring: confirmed Sunday May 21 at 2340 the 2330 airing on WBCQ 9330.35v-CUSB, good. Also confirmed UT Monday May 22 at 0300:10 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5129.80-AM, immediately after JL`s ``The show is over, gotta go`` shtick, and no ID. Also confirmed UT Monday May 22 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, good but choppy. Expanded RAE relays on WRMI will displace some following airings, but they had not started morning of May 22, so just in case: Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW [to be canceled] Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE, 9455 to WNW [to be canceled] Tue 1300 WRMI 11580 to NE [NEW; to be canceled] Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE, 9455 to WNW Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1878 monitoring: confirmed Monday May 22 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330.30v-CUSB, fair S7-S9. Also confirmed UT Tuesday May 23 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, S9+20, which is expected to be replaced by Spanish hour from RAE, maybe from May 24? NOT confirmed Tue May 23 at 1100 on WRMI 9455 & 9955, which has now been replaced by RAE in Portuguese; nor Tue May 23 at 1300 on WRMI 11580, now replaced by RAE in French. Next WORs, including those still showing on WRMI sked: Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE, 9455 to WNW Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW 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) Glenn: The 2130 UT broadcast on 15770 kHz not heard on 5-23-2017 in Central NJ. Best (Charlie Harlich Sent from my iPhone, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Barely audible here; try better // 9455 (gh, DXLD) WORLD OF RADIO 1878 monitoring: confirmed Tuesday May 23 at 2130 on WRMI 9455, fair, much better than very poor // 15770. Also confirmed Tue May 23 at 2348 the 2330 airing on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB, very poor. Also confirmed Wed May 24 at 1315.5 on WRMI 9955, S9+10. Next: Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1878 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday May 24 at 2100 on WBCQ 7490 webcast. Also confirmed Wed May 24 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330v- CUSB, poor. WORLD OF RADIO 1879 contents: Argentina non, Azerbaijan, Bougainville, Brasil, Canada and non, China, Iran non, Japan non, Korea South, Laos, México, New Zealand, Nigeria non, Papua New Guinea, Perú, Slovakia non, Tibet, USA WORLD OF RADIO 1879 ready for first SW broadcasts May 25. Now with further attrition of WRMI airtimes, the début is 2330 Thu on WBCQ, and not on WRMI until Saturday night! While I always give priority to SW airings, I remind everyone that WOR episodes are available ASAP from our website, five different podcast routes, several webcasting stations, notably early UT Thursdays on World FM in New Zealand. Full schedule with linx at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Even our first SW broadcast is almost too late for some very perishable news, a special May 25 at 2300. Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW Sat 1431 HLR 7265-CUSB to WSW Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 to NE Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW [to be canceled?] Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE, 9455 to WNW Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW 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) ** U S A. [Re 17-20:] Glenn, Yes, Fred Flintstone's web show on Saturday nights is different than his WBCQ show. He is also now streaming music 24/7 on the web. Below is a link to his site: Good news about my website for the online show. It's been fixed and is online now. http://hardimplosion.co NOT COM, dot CO They preserved the 3 hours of work making it, and the listen buttons. I can move on with other things, this morning (via John Carver, IN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7490, UT Sat from 0000 on 7490 WBCQ, Allan Weiner Worldwide: Show started on time after the usual voice-overs during Fred Flintstone's show on before AWWW. No interruptions or dropouts during tonight's program. The "Maine tale" of tonight's program was the burial on Michael Shiteman? earlier this week as when he died in December the "ground was frozen and under five feet of snow". Phone call from Ramsey three minutes into the story and things morphed into tales of Michael's exploits which morphed into tales of the first pirate stations and Michael's tenure at Allan's house. Only a couple of phone calls this evening. Into emails by 0110 and off the air at 0128. As usual the original story of the evening wasn't actually resolved. Second caller made statements about ham radio operators, radios (John Carver, Mid-North Indiana, May 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7490.066, WBCQ sermon prayer heard at 0521 UT on May 22, S=9+15dB, but much bad audio mix-up underneath TOM BS voice too ...?! [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, Morning log of May 22 at 0430 til 0550 UT, checked on remote SDR unit in central Florida-USA state, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 22, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. 9955 // stronger 9455, Monday May 22 at 1138, WRMI with `Antena DX`, greeted by Antonio Buitrago of REE`s media program. So not yet replaced by RAE Argentina ao Mundo in Portuguese. Adrian Korol tells me May 22 is the start date for all the languages via WRMI, so maybe from tomorrow, when WORLD OF RADIO would have aired at 1100 Tuesday. Also RAE French at 1300 on 11580 has not yet started, at 1317 with `Wavescan`, while 9955 also has another WS playback just started at 1315, 15 minutes out of synch. Furthermore, Ukraine relay still after 1330 on 11580. 9455, May 22 at 1322, ``Be My Baby`` on WRMI Oldies, ID by Bob Biermann only for ``9395`` (Glenn Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi All, Don't know if there is some switching issue at WRMI, but since 2300 GMT (possibly earlier) they have been carrying the usual 11580 kHz programmes on the live stream. Radio Ukraine International is on there right now (2335 GMT). (Alan Gale, UK, May 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRMI Anomaly --- While listening to "Your Weekend Show" on WRMI at about 20:45 UTC on 11580 kHz this afternoon, the program feed switched to Radio Africa Network, normally carried on 21525 kHz. Didn't check to see if RAN was still on 21525 kHz (Richard Langley, May 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also RWANDA [non] ** U S A. According to Mauno Ritola on the WRTH Facebook group, he has just got a reply from KIMF advising that the new on-air target date is mid-July. Posted by: (Mike Terry, May 23, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) NEW SHORTWAVE STATION UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES The April edition of the New Zealand DX Times contains the almost startling information that a new shortwave station is under construction in the United States. This new station is owned by the International Fellowship of Churches, it is located near the town of Beowawe in the state of Nevada, and it is licensed under the callsign KIMF. Interestingly, a dozen years ago, there was another projected shortwave station with the same callsign, though it was planned for a different location. We pick up this interesting information in our program today; so, let’s go back to the beginning. The authoritative World Radio Handbook for the year 2003 contains a brief entry for a projected new shortwave station, with the callsign KIMF. This new station would be located near Piñón in the American state of New Mexico, and it would contain one shortwave transmitter at 50 kW with two registered frequencies, 5835 kHz and 11885 kHz. The original plan showed that the new station would be launched in late 2003 or early 2004. The small town of Piñón with a population of considerably less than 100 people, is located in the south of the state of New Mexico approximately halfway between the Arizona (west) and Texas (east) state lines. The owner and president for this new station was James Planck, and the postal address at that time was in Rancho Cucamonga in suburban Los Angeles in California. This brief information about the new KIMF was contained in the World Radio TV Handbook for four consecutive years, running from 2003 to 2006. Neither of the volumes of the WRTVHB for 2002 (before) nor 2007 (after) made any mention of shortwave station KIMF. Thus, no further information anywhere would seem to indicate that the projected new shortwave station KIMF had quietly come to an end. However, with the very recent surprising information from New Zealand in April, the story of the American shortwave station KIMF is re- opened. Subsequent reports on the internet affirm the accuracy of the current information about this new shortwave station. Interestingly, during the year 2015, James Planck began a four hour daily program relay with KVOH that was on the air each evening. Then, last year, he ended his broadcasts over KVOH with the intent of establishing his own shortwave station. The new location for KIMF is just half a dozen miles due west of another small town, Beowawe in Nevada. This town, with its hot springs geo-thermal electricity generating plant, has a population of also considerably less than 100 people. The generally flat station property is located on the north side of the winding country road, six miles west of Beowawe town. Photos of the general area show that it is rather hilly with very little natural growth. The wooden transmitter building is already constructed and some of the electronic equipment is already installed. At least one antenna system has already been erected. The intended coverage for this new shortwave station is said to be Latin America and Asia. When this new shortwave station is fully operational, it will contain two shortwave transmitters; a Harris 50 kW and another that is listed as a PTS transmitter at 100 kW. Plans are in hand for the erection of a total of four diamond shaped three-wire rhombics. Registered shortwave channels for this station are given as 6065, 9300 and 13570 kHz. The International Fellowship of Churches, under the same president James Planck, states on their website that they plan to erect additional mediumwave and shortwave stations at strategic locations in order to obtain worldwide coverage. They already operate a mediumwave station in the Central American country of Honduras, station HREZ in the twin city Comayagüela, with 1 kW on 1490 kHz. The operating organization in Honduras is listed as International Missionary Fellowship, with the initial letters IMF, hence their American callsign KIMF. Their website also states that a shortwave station that is co-sited with their mediumwave facility in Honduras is already on the air. Several years ago, that was true and it operated on 3340 and 5010 kHz. However, more recently their shortwave counterpart fell silent, so it would seem that they are planning to reactivate their shortwave transmitters in Honduras some time soon. Programming for the new American shortwave station will be produced in a studio in Los Angeles with a program feed by satellite to the transmitter facility. Their current postal address is 9102 Reserve Drive, Corona CA 92883. Apparently, their new shortwave station KIMF near Beowawe in Nevada will be activated some time quite soon. Our question then would be: Who will be the first international radio monitor to hear this new shortwave station on his own radio receiver? (Adrian Peterson, IN, script for AWR Wavescan May 7 via DXLD) Much more about this was in DXLDs 17-13 and 17-01, also referring to all previous issues mentioning KIMF back to 2002y (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 17775, May 19 at 1409, KVOH is propagating already at S9+10, but it`s dead air, and not wobbling. 17775, May 22 at 1357, KVOH is already on at S9+20 and modulating English to boot with ID and IS? loop, ``This is Strategic Communications Group, Voice of Hope, KVOH, Los Angeles``. Who would guess that a name like S.C.G. is not secular? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. My ham radio club -- the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Amateur Radio Club -- is gearing up for its annual W9IMS special event triad commemorating the major auto races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway: The Grand Prix of Indianapolis (on the air May 7-13), the Indianapolis 500 (May 22-28) and the Brickyard 400 (July 17-23). As always, there'll be a brand-new array of 3 colorful QSL cards and a certificate for those who work all 3 special event operations in 2017. SWLs are welcome to submit reception reports toward the same cards and certificate. For more information: http://www.w9ims.org And to find our current frequencies during those special event weeks, check DX Summit for constantly updated DX spots: http://www.dxsummit.fi TNX, Glenn. Hope you and your readers find this info useful. Please let me know if there's anything else I can provide. 73, (Brian, W9IND, D. Smith, May 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST 17-18 via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DXLD 17-21) The Indy races, not just the 500, are usually broadcast by WHRI on SW, frequencies and exact times as yet unknown. A newish frequency scheduled on Sundays only at 20-22 is 15530, ex-11750? (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DXLD) ** U S A. 5935, WWCR, May 20, 2017 0135–0145 in English. University Network religious programming, with “Pastor Melissa Scott.” This female preacher always sounds amateurish, with no polish or convincing enthusiasm (Vince Henley, Anacortes, WA, Equipment currently in use: Tecsun PL-380, JRC NRD-525, Drake R8B, Sony ICF-2010, Ten-Tec RX-340. Antennas are half-meter whip on PL-380, 1.2 meter whip on ICF-2010, and Alpha-Delta DX-Ultra installed broadside east-west, NASWA Flashsheet May 21 via DXLD) 15825, May 20 at 1841, WWCR is VG tnx to a sporadic E opening, rather than usual barely audible signal in the longer skip zone. 13845 WWCR also much better than usual here. A pilot for possible opening into VHF (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9930, May 20 at 1848, WTWW-2 is OFF, instead of Amateur Radio Newsline, so was presumably also off for `Theater Organ from the Ozarx` preceding it (however, 5085 on with organ at 0132 check May 21). 12105, WTWW-3 is also off at 1848. But 9475, WTWW-1 is on, ham talk presumably live(?) from Dayton Hamvention. 9475 & 9930 & 12105, May 24 at 1820, all WTWW transmitters are missing. I should have checked 5085 & 5830 whether they were on night frequencies by negligence, which has happened before. Propagation is certainly OK, with neighbors WWCR very good on 9980 & 12160, fair on 13845 & 15825. Next check at 0147 UT May 25, 9475 is nominal, 12105 is missing, and 5085 is open carrier/dead air. It`s always something at this slipshod operation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. At the kite field of northern Enid, far from powerlines, a quick midday bandscan May 20 on the caradio finds: 560, May 20 at 1814 UT, fast SAH, One is certainly KWTO Springfield MO on its groundwave periphery, and only two possibilities for the other, KLVI Beaumont TX and KLZ Denver CO. More likely KLZ, slightly closer despite its tight N-S pattern. KLTT 670 Denver is weakly audible as always on daytime groundwave, with 10x the power of 560, but not KHOW 630, at least not with 640 OK splatter, but not IBOC. 760, May 20 at 1815 UT, KCCV Kansas City has a SAH from a second station. Here we have three possibilities by proximity: 50 kW KDSP Denver, 50 kW KTKR San Antonio, both with patterns bad for us, and 10 kW KMTL Sherwood AR, non-direxional and closer, but poor conductivity from AR, so I again have to prefer Denver. (KOA 850 BTW is not making it now, but maybe would if there were something to SAH). Axually there is, KJON The Metroplex TX, but all very weak signals seem to be weaker than usual. I suspect there is some desensitization across the dial due to proximity of my two locals 960 KGWA and 1390 KCRC, whose splatter and spurs are also worse: 1040, May 20 at 1817 UT, KGWA talk audible here // fundamental 960. 1130, May 20 at 1818 UT, KLEY Wellington KS is OFF, audiblizing a very weak trace of something, maybe remnant of KWKH Shreveport. 1190, May 20 at 1819 UT, fast SAH between two very weak stations, probably KFXR The Metroplex TX and KDMR Kansas City MO, tho there are also stations in KS and AR. 1610+, some lite line noise is still detectable on the vacant part of the X-band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Travel Logs: 660, KTNN, Window Rock AZ; 8:10AM ... 5:30PM MDT, 5/16; "KTNN The Voice of the Navajo Nation, AM 6-60 & FM 101.5"; ads & announcements in Navajo & English; 2-4 Navajo chants per hour, one usually just after ToH CNN News; the one at 4PM lasted 9 minutes. Sometimes the chants include oldies lyrics, but none heard this time. Mostly C&W with a sprinkling of gospel & oldies. I've heard this once in Midland and once on DXPedition. They QSL & have T-shirts! (Harold Frodge, NM, MARE Tipsheet 19 May via DXLD) Interestingly, Radio Magazine has a feature about this station in its most recent issue: http://tinyurl.com/k2kfl89 (--kvz, MARE Tipsheet 19 May via DXLD) ** U S A. 720, UT Monday May 22 at 0255, somestation here is playing music of somesort --- could it possibly be WGN? Yes, per sked at 9-11 pm CDT Sundays: ``After Hours with Rick Kogan: Chicago photographs, music, clocks and the making of Teddy Roosevelt --- Tonight on the program, Rick Kogan delved into the worlds of music, photography, clocks and history. To begin, publishers Richard Cahan and Michael Williams joined Rick in studio to talk about their new book, "Chicago: Classic Photographs." Then, Ben Montalbano from local band Matthäus joined Rick and producer Lise to debut his band’s brand new song, "To the Years," and talk about his upcoming EP. Jason Matthiesen from the Chicago Clock Company called in to talk about the business’ 100th… Read more`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 780-CUSB, May 22 at 0253 UT, C&W music with no LSB, which is how KCEG Fountain CO transmits, why? Tuning LSB I hear only WBBM, while on USB they are mixing. As I said concerning KHAC 880, Sept 11, 2014, `` We are wondering if lacking LSB is a defect or deliberate employment of the Kahn Powerside System``. Here`s one thread about it: http://www.broadcastengineering.info/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3124 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1020, UT Monday May 22 at 0249 UT, Spanish sermon dominant from KCKN Roswell NM, obviously high power, 50 kW, and not protecting Pittsburgh, also in the continuing absence of my nearby KOKP Perry OK. Understation has religion in English which fits for KDKA on Sunday night, EDT: ``9p-11p Amplify with Father Ron Lengwin`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1130, May 21 at 2201 UT check, KLEY Wellington KS is off the air for at least the second day in a row; and May 22 at 1646 UT, at least the third day in a row. 1130, May 24 at 1403 UT check, KLEY Wellington KS is still off the air, since at least May 20. Is there any explanation at http://rockingmradio.com/kley-100-31130/ Of course not! Don`t know about 100.3 FM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1130, KLEY KS is still off, May 24 at 1849 UT and also circa 1315 UT May 25 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non. Recently while WRCA was off, RVCI was heard often on 1330, including the list of US and BVI callsigns. The two transmitters in Ecuador are not mentioned. Do the Ecuador stations have their own programming? In other words, can one be sure that RVCI on 1330 comes from NY? 73 (/Andrew Brade, UK, May 21, MWCircle yg via DXLD) BVI? Which station is that, not named in WRTH. Website http://radiovision.net/about-us/ lists 10 AM stations elsewhere. 73, (Glenn Hauser, May 21, ibid.) Well spotted, Glenn. I meant Turks and Caicos (530) rather than that other British dependency, British Virgin Islands. I’d also forgotten (due to the omission from WRTH listings) that Dominican Republic is also a possibility on 1330. In a private reply OJS told me that 530 and the US stations share a common ID but the other stations, including Dominican Republic and Ecuador, have local IDs, so hearing RVCI on 1330 must be WWRV. 73 (/Andrew Brade, ibid.) ** U S A. 1480, May 18 at 1200 UT, my DX-398 AM sexion is still tuned to 1480 from yesterday morning, so I turn on KBXD again; in Spanish with slogan ``Estás en sintonía de [algo] Esperanza``, then English almost-legal canned ID thrice, ``KBXD 1480 Dallas``. Then ad mentioning ``Radio Setecientos A-M`` for KHSE 700 which is now being duplicated on 1480. Then Esperanza slogan or program name again, later preaching. (Both Wikipedia and Radio-Locator have way outdated info on KHSE as ``FunAsia``). KHSE is attributed to Hammond Broadcasting, but not KBXD, yet John Hammond was the one calling for ``renters`` of 1480 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Re 17-20, Comments on KBXD 1480 Dallas?] Hi Glenn, Sorry for the delay. Waiting to hear from my guy in Dallas. A John Hammond is buying or leasing the station but nothing has been accepted for filing by the FCC yet. I will find out the story on the Chris Muse. The audio from 700 is just a placeholder to have something on the air. Maybe Jorgenson had to break the lease with Salem to go forward with a deal. I know he's been badly wanting to get rid of the station. With seven towers, no way in the world would they want to move the site and do two complete engineering studies and rebuilds. Regards, (Jerry Kiefer, FL, ex-KBXD, May 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, The Muse deal didn't fly. "That was a year ago, that fell through" --- Mike Van Hooser quote (Kiefer, May 22, ibid.) ** U S A. 1500, May 18 at 1208 UT, KJIM Sherman TX is dominant over KSTP and/or OK`s KPGM, with `Osgood File` after CBS News. Charles` aging voice is evident, but he`s still ``seeing us`` on the radio, no longer on TV`s Sunday Morning, outro referring to his social media activity. 1211 UT local announcer ID as K-Jim, and also K267CB on 103.1, I wrote and thought he said, but really on 101.3; Then plays NWS robot with some hum, forecasts for several days ahead, mostly showers and T-storms (like Enid, high risk of tornados May 18). ``America`s best music, the memory-maker, AM 1500, K-jim``. Still a small local station with a distinctive format (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1700, May 22 at 0241 UT, KKLF Richardson TX with ``My Heart Is a Ghost Town`` rock song in English, 0243 UT ``al ritmo con – música, Banda 13``, into rock song in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. PIRATE FM OPERATOR LOSES APPEAL OF FCC FINE AllAccess.com May 17, 2017 https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/165807/pirate-fm-operator-loses-appeal-of-fcc-fine The FCC has denied the Petition for Reconsideration by Nelson Quintanilla of its $25,000 fine against him for operating an unlicensed FM station on 95.1 FM in Panorama City, CA. The "petition," actually an affidavit that the Commission is treating as a petition for reconsideration, did not contest the Enforcement Bureau’s determination but raised issues of Quintanilla's limited income and an assertion that the equipment is owned by someone else no longer in the U.S. The Commission noted that Quintanilla should have raised the income issue in a timely response to the initial Forfeiture Order (to which he did not respond) and that ownership of the equipment is "irrelevant" to the operation of the equipment for a pirate station. Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** UZBEKISTAN. Voice of The Report of The Week VORW Radio International, May 18 1200-1300 on 9875 TAC 100 kW / 070 deg to EaAs English Thu via RED Telecom, poor: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/voice-of-report-of-week-vorw-radio_18.html Weak signal of Radio Free North Korea via RED Telecom on May 18 1200-1300 on 15630 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean from 1250UT carrier of EGY 1300-1400 on 15630 ABS 250 kW / 061 deg to WeAs Dari Radio Cairo, distorted audio http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/weak-signal-of-radio-free-north-korea.html Voice of Wilderness via RED Telecom, May 18 1330-1530 on 7615 TAC 100 kW / 070 deg to NEAs Korean, weak: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/voice-of-wilderness-via-red-telecom-may.html North Korea Reform Radio via RED Telecom on May 18 1430-1530 on 11570 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean, fair to good http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/north-korea-reform-radio-via-red.html Voice of Martyrs, including in English via RED Telecom, May 18 1530-1700 on 7510 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean/English, weak signal : [so what part is in English? gh] http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/voice-of-martyrs-incl-in-english-via.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. THE ORIGINAL VATICAN RADIO A surprising move in the international radio world is reported in the March issue of the Australian DX News. The Japanese shortwave service NHK in Tokyo has made an enquiry regarding the possibility of buying the shortwave station at Santa Maria di Galeria that is owned and operated by Vatican Radio. This unusual report is contained in a news release from the Catholic World News service, as copied into the latest issue of the Australian DX News. In recent years, it has been reported that Vatican Radio has been attempting to cut its operating costs by a reduction in some of its transmission services, and also by operating its complement of shortwave transmitters at a lower power level. In addition, Vatican Radio has also co-operated in exchanging reciprocal relay services with other international broadcasting stations, such as Radio Canada International, Radio Netherlands and NHK Tokyo. The Catholic World News Report states that the newly appointed prefect of the Secretariat for Communications in the Vatican, Msgr Dario Vigano, will cut off all shortwave broadcasts as a move to cut costs. One of the first moves in this regard occurred on March 24 when all [sic] English language broadcasts to Asia came to an end. This dramatic move in ending its shortwave transmissions will include the closure of their large shortwave station at Santa Maria di Galeria. No specific date was indicated in the brief three paragraph news release as to the target date for closure. However, this same news release refers to the fact that the Vatican will no longer use the shortwave station at Santa Maria di Galaria, and that NHK Tokyo has already enquired regarding the possibility of buying this station. In our program today here in Wavescan, we go back to the beginning, and we investigate the origins of Vatican Radio and its first shortwave station. This is the story. Back on July 25, 1925, a senior Vatican official issued a memorandum calling for the Vatican to establish its own radio broadcasting station, primarily for the broadcast of astronomy news from the Vatican Observatory. Two years later, the Italian-Irishman of radio fame, Guglielmo Marconi, received an official invitation from the Vatican to make plans for establishing a radio broadcasting station in the Vatican. Two years later again, on February 11, 1929, a concordat was signed between the government of Italy and the Vatican, thus re-establishing the Vatican as a separate political entity with extra-territorial status. Then four days after the signing of this concordat, which is known as the Lateran Treaty, Marconi was entrusted with the installation of a radio broadcasting station, Vatican Radio. Under the Marconi initiative, a new 10 kW shortwave transmitter was installed in Vatican City, or Leonine City as it is sometimes called. This transmitter and its associated equipment was manufactured in Marconi’s own factory at Chelmsford in England. The transmitter and self-supporting antenna tower, together with its associated reflector at the base, was erected in the area of the enclave known as the Vatican Gardens. Interestingly, this new radio broadcasting station would operate solely on shortwave, and a mediumwave service would not be established until a dozen years later, during the stressful years of World War 2. At 3:30 pm on Thursday February 12, 1931, Marquis Marconi arrived and he entered the small studio where he announced to the world in fluent English that the official inauguration ceremony would begin just one hour later. This introductory shortwave transmission was heard loud and clear, it was reported, in New York City USA, Melbourne Australia and Quebec Canada. All of the new electronic equipment was then switched off. One hour later at the previously appointed time of 4:30 pm, the electronic equipment was officially switched on again, stage by stage. The transmitter operator sent out a short four word message in Morse Code in the Latin language as an indication that the official inauguration program was about to begin. A few minutes later, Guglielmo Marconi himself, speaking again in fluent English, announced in two brief paragraphs the birth of shortwave station HVJ, the new Vatican Radio. Vatican dignitaries speaking in the Latin language for a full hour and a half, then pronounced the official inauguration of the new shortwave radio station whose signal could be heard around the world. Monitoring reports received subsequently indicated a good signal into so many different countries around the world. Initial programming from shortwave HVJ consisted of two brief broadcasts each day; 15 minutes each, beginning at 5:00 am on 15120 kHz and at 2:00 pm on 5970 kHz. Program content was usually astronomy information from the Vatican Observatory presented in the Italian language. There were however, special broadcasts on special occasions, and occasional broadcasts in the English language. Some six years later, in 1937, a German made 25 kW Telefunken transmitter, Model S379GR, also shortwave, was installed, though programming still remained much the same, with English on Wednesdays and Saturdays. However, with war clouds ominous over continental Europe, developmental plans were laid in the Autumn of 1939 with increased programming in multiple languages. The first mediumwave transmitter for Vatican Radio was installed during the year 1943 under the callsign HVI. From where did the Vatican obtain an additional radio broadcasting transmitter when active war was wreaking havoc and devastation in so many countries of continental Europe, including Italy itself? By this time, the European war was turning against the central powers, and Italy signed a Peace Memorandum with the allies on September 3, 1943, the very day that British forces landed on the toe of Italy. And American forces followed very quickly afterwards, just three days later. With the British and American presence already in Italy, we could guess that the new 1 kW transmitter in the Vatican came from either England or the United States. Perhaps the Marconi company in England, or perhaps RCA in the United States? Over the years, additional mediumwave transmitters have been installed in the Vatican, including 100 kW on 1529 kHz in 1951, and several smaller units at 5 kW 10 kW 15 kW and 20 kW. Also in 1951, a Philips 100 kW shortwave transmitter was installed in Vatican City, though this was transferred six years later as the first transmitter in Santa Maria di Galeria. The last shortwave transmitter in Vatican City itself was a double unit made up of a Marconi 50 kW and a Telefunken 30 kW combined to produce 80 kW on the out of band channel 6210 kHz. This unusual operation was closed down half a dozen years ago. Later this year, we plan to present the story of the Vatican shortwave station at Santa Maria di Galeria, which, we understand, NHK Tokyo would now like to buy (Adrian Peterson, IN, script for AWR Wavescan April 2, 2017 via DXLD) ** VIETNAM [and non]. Checked also the odd frequency channel of Voice of Vietnam from Son Tay around 0915 UT in Akitakata western remote unit in western Japan: Powerful heard one of the SOH Taiwan Sound of Hope stronger 100 kW (not 100 watt) unit outlets, marked in Aoki list: 9634.868 kHz powerful S=9+15dB, and heterodyne whistle tone of Son Tay unit, some 1170 Hertz tone distance apart on 9636.038 kHz VoVTN at 0912 UT. 73 wb [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZAMBIA. 5915, ZNBC1, Lusaka. May 24, 2017 Wednesday. 0329-0333. Nothing heard. Strange, it was there at a brief check last night, 1732. I was under the impression that their morning load-shedding had ended, guess I was wrong. Jo'burg sunrise 0444 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA. Drake R8E, Sony ICF2001D. dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Bill, May 24, on 5915, at 0235, had an open carrier/test tone; 0240 start of the usual African Fish Eagle IS; much weaker signal today than yesterday, so did not stay with this one, except to check sign on. On a day with better propagation, will try to follow them to hear if they are now going off the air early (Ron Howard, CA, ibid.) ** ZANZIBAR. TANZÂNIA, 11735, Zanzibar BC, Dole, 1843-1852, 14/5, suaíli, hinos durante a missa; 34432, QRM adjacente. Good DX and 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Surely you don`t mean mass as in Catholic? (gh, DXLD) ** ZANZIBAR. R. Japan on 6015 by mistake: see JAPAN [non] Many thanks to Ron Howard for blowing the whistle on this one. Today is the first chance I have had to follow up on his report. Would be interested to hear from Ron or others whether NHK was again causing havoc on Zanzibar's 6015 frequency this morning? I think I recognized the YL's voice as a ZBC regular rather than from another station, but the interference was so bad that I can't be certain. 6015 Zanzibar, ZBC Radio, Dole, May 22, 2017 Monday. 0403-0413. YL talking. Very poor with severe pulsing interference or SAH (from co- channel NHK?). Jo'burg sunrise 0443. To my poor old ears this morning's reception in South Africa sounded exactly the same as a few weeks ago when some of us were talking about "pulsing interference" on Zanzibar's 6015 frequency. I now wonder if that brief fiasco wasn't caused by NHK testing new frequencies? None of us would call it an SAH since, as Ron pointed out in his first report, historically, "they [Zanzibar] have had exclusive domain to 6015, after 0300+" (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA. Drake R8E, Sony ICF2001D. dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) FRANCE, 6105, Today May 22 NHK Radio Japan in Japanese towards Central America was again back on A-17 scheduled TDF Issoudun 6105 kHz channel, formerly on keyboard slip glitch wrong 6015 kHz on May 19&20. Usual 500 kW S=9+35dB powerhouse signal noted on remote Central Florida SDR unit at 0430 UT on May 22nd. 11.4 kHz wideband proper signal. On Saturday May 20th I informed the "nhk.or.jp" technical gang direct in Tokyo Japan. vy73 wolfie df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Thanks Wolfie, So the question becomes, was anyone else hearing a SAH or pulsing interference on ZBC Radio 6015 KHz this morning, May 22, just after 0400ut? I hope it isn't back on a regular basis as it made them virtually unreadable today in Jo'burg. And will it once again also affect their evening frequency? (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA. Drake R8E, Sony ICF2001D. dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Perhaps that was their own transmitter problem as was being reported a few weeks ago on their other frequency 11735 (gh, DXLD) Hi Bill, May 23, checking 6015, at 0305 and subsequent checking till 0330, found nothing at all - no Zanzibar and no noise, just a clear frequency. Propagation not bad at all, as Zambia on 5915, at 0243, heard with very nice signal for their African Fish Eagle IS. Perhaps as Glenn suggests, they are having their own transmitter problems? BTW - NHK was behaving itself tonight, up on 6105 kHz (Ron Howard, ibid.) [and non] Hi Ron, Thanks for checking. Yes, probably still having transmitter problems. I also found Zanzibar missing this morning, from 0258 through to 0406. Interesting that you heard Zambia on 5915 at 0243, did you hear them any later? I could hear nothing at all from them half an hour later. The mysteries of propagation perhaps? On the other hand, presumed Madagascar was coming in fair-good and I would say excellent at 0320. 6015, Zanzibar, ZBC Radio, Dole, May 23, 2017 Tuesday. 0258-0406. Nothing heard. Jo'burg sunrise 0443. 5915, Zambia, ZNBC1, Lusaka. May 23, 2017 Tuesday. 0310-0406. Nothing heard. Jo'burg sunrise 0443. Will be interesting to hear from others if Zanzibar's evening frequency of 11735 is missing as well; no use me checking that one, it is always very poor or just missing here in Jo'burg (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA. Drake R8E, Sony ICF2001D. dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Bill - Only noted 5915 in passing at 0243. Nice signal, but did not check again later. Only looking at 6015. Sorry (Ron, ibid.) TANZANIA, Weak signal of Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) on May 20: 1658&1802 11735 DOL 050 kW / non-dir CeAf Swahili, no English at 1800 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/weak-signal-of-zanzibar-broadcasting.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tonight, 1600+, Zanzibar is on 11735, but suffering both of its common problems, the pulsing sound and the broadband "white noise". 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, May 23, ibid.) re Zanzibar 11735 kHz --- Listen to the recording at 1950-1952 UT 11735 kHz Zanzibar Tanzania, seldom heard 'audio flutter ditter' sound ???. May 23, 19-20 UT 11735 kHz noted at S=9+15dB in southern Germany. 73 wolfie (Büschel, ibid.) 6015, ZBC Radio, Dole, May 24, 2017 Wednesday. 0330-0333. OM talking Swahili. Followed by YL. No pulsing / SAH or whatever has been there for at least the past two days, as reported by Thorsten and Wolfie (on 11735) and myself (on 6015). Fair. Jo'burg sunrise 0444 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA. Drake R8E, Sony ICF2001D. dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) TANZANIA, Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation ZBC in English on May 24 There is problem with the transmitter, something like a self-jamming! 1500-2100 on 11735 DOL 050 kW / non-dir to CeAf Swahili, including Eng 1801-1810 on 11735 DOL 050 kW / non-dir to CeAf English, self-jamming http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/zanzibar-broadcasting-corporation-zbc.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. [Re 17-21:] 4911: Hello, did you hear it again? At least tonight nothing there. 73, (Mauno Ritola, May 22, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Mauno, I heard it once again: last friday, may 19th, for a few minutes -1845* and again for a few minutes 1848+ on 4910.5/4911. Typical drifting, but nothing more noted. At the same time, presumed Madagascar on 5009.9, 73 (thorsten hallmann, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 6833.0, May 18 at 0545, open carrier at S9-S6, pirate or ute? BTW, I have yet to hear anything on 6855, since WRMI was forced to evacuate it for 9455 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7712.0+, May 18 at 0542, very poor carrier, slightly on the hi side, maybe JBM, but not enough to tell whether it`s Station YHWH as suspected. Earlier this night he was reported on 7585 again, but off now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7712 & 6833, the open carriers I heard last night now are both running high-speed RTTY, May 19 at 0231, 0234 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. EGYPT [sic], station with Egyptian music on May 22 0815-0820 on 9400 unknown transmitter / unknown to UNID, poor/weak http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/unidentified-station-with-egyptian_22.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 13560, USA? May 19, 2017, 1500–1530, and May 21, 2017, 1307–1308. Unidentified station that has popped up during the last month or so. Strong pulsing, buzzing signal, similar to some forms of jamming, but nothing to be jammed is listed or audible on this frequency. Signal continues 24/7. Due to the signal strength and rough azimuth, I am making an assumption that this signal is sourced in the USA or one of its offshore possessions, but that is only my best assumption. This same signal and frequency has been reported in past years as a possible OTH Radar, but I am not aware that this identification has ever been confirmed, or refuted. Might this recent activity be related to the North Korean missile-launching program? In that context, an OTH radar signal makes some sense (Vince Henley, Anacortes, WA, Equipment currently in use: Tecsun PL-380, JRC NRD-525, Drake R8B, Sony ICF-2010, Ten-Tec RX-340. Antennas are half-meter whip on PL-380, 1.2 meter whip on ICF-2010, and Alpha-Delta DX-Ultra installed broadside east-west, NASWA Flashsheet May 21 via DXLD) Not sure this is SW broadcast station, however it is interesting (Mark Taylor, Ed., ibid) 13560 is in the middle of a special `Industrial, Scientific, Medical` (ISM) band, reserved for very low power devices such as medical equipment, RF ID tags, etc. I hear similar noises around here, for both of us likely a short distance away, but impossible to identify short of a DFing transmitter hunt (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1879: Thanks to John Cimisi, Springfield Gardens NY, for a check to PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702. 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I hope you enjoy using this new Frequency Guide (Nicholas Hardyman, Publisher, May 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2017 Hamvention photos: Flea Market Schöne Fotoseite zum Flohmarkt der gerade in Dayton, USA (Christoph Ratzer via A-DX) We had a rather long day here at the 2017 Hamvention, but we had a fantastic time. It was especially fun meeting so many SWLing Post readers and contributors in person! Thank you for stopping by our booth at 6508. Below, I’ve posted well over one hundred photos I took at the Hamvention Flea Market this morning. Click on the thumbnail to expand each photo. I’ve tried to include price tags when available! I plan to post inside exhibit photos tomorrow. From http://swling.com/blog/2017/05/2017-hamvention-photos-flea-market/ (via SW Bulletin May 21 via DXLD) RADIO PHILATELY +++++++++++++++ ARMENIA --- 2016 radio postcard Dear radio friends: On December 23rd, 2016, the Postal Administration of Armenia put in circulation a postcard depicting a vacuum tube multi band radio receiver. More details, click on ARMENIA https://www.haypost.am/en/1482934944 Have fun. 73's. PU2KLM. (Fabio Flosi, Brasil, radiostamps yg via DXLD) 90th anniversary of Public Radio of Armenia In 2016 on December 23rd, a postcard with 1 stamp dedicated to the theme “90th anniversary of Public Radio of Armenia” is put into circulation. The postage stamp of the postcard depicts the commemorative logo of Public Radio of Armenia and the postcards depicts the entrance of the building of Public Radio of Armenia and the statue named “The broadcast” which is situated in front of the Public Radio building as well as one of the first radio receivers. Date of issue: December 23, 2016 Designers: Vahagn Mkrtchyan, David Dovlatyan Printing house: “Asoghik” Stamp size: 35,0 x 25,0 mm Postcard size: 150,0 x 110,0 mm Print run: 1 000 pcs. (via DXLD) Only 1000? A rarity deliberately? (gh) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See NEW ZEALAND ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC See USA: 560 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See also CANADA; MEXICO OKLAHOMA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ FCC DETAILS WINDOW FOR LPTV STATIONS AND TV TRANSLATORS DISPLACED BY THE INCENTIVE AUCTION TO SEEK NEW CHANNELS By David Oxenford on May 17, 2017 https://t.e2ma.net/click/egdwh/a5181k/yrfl6b The FCC last week released a Public Notice describing the process for the filing of applications for replacement channels for LPTV stations and TV translators that are displaced by the incentive auction. As the repacking of the TV band following the incentive auction will require LPTV and TV translator stations now operating on channels above 37 to move to a new channel below that channel, and as others will be displaced by full-power stations being moved from high channels to channels below 37 (or simply being rearranged on their channels to make room for some of the stations being repacked into the smaller TV band), this displacement window will be necessary for these LPTV/TV translator stations to continue to operate. The Public Notice sets out that the FCC will open a displacement window after full-power stations that were repacked as a result of the incentive auction have had their own windows when they can request alternative channels or increased facilities, as set out in the FCC’s auction Closing Notice (see that notice here). https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-17-314A1.pdf The FCC estimates that the LPTV/TV Translator window will likely be announced 7 or 8 months after last month’s Closing Notice in the auction – meaning that it is likely to be announced at the end of this year. As the announcement of the window will give LPTV and translator stations 60 days to prepare applications, and the window itself will last 30 days, it looks like we are looking at displacement applications being due late in the first quarter of 2018. In addition to displaced LPTV stations and displaced TV translators, full-power TV stations that lost coverage areas because of the repacking will be able to file in this displacement window for a new class of translators. In fact, these new translators will receive a preference over displacement applications for LPTV stations and TV translators if both happen to file for the same channel. The FCC will, however, provide mutually exclusive applicants filed during the window an opportunity to move to a different channel to resolve any conflict. LPTV stations and TV translators that are displaced by the incentive auction should study last week’s Public Notice carefully, as it sets out various procedures for filing, and even mentions that the FCC will itself make available its “Channel Finder” software that was used to repack full-power stations in the incentive auction to help find new channels for displaced LPTV and translators. Displaced LPTV/TV translator stations can change sites to find an open channel – up to 48 kilometers for stations already operating digitally, but only 16.1 kilometers for stations still in analog. The FCC also notes that LPTV/TV translator stations that can avoid displacement by a minor change to their existing facilities can file now. The FCC in fact urges stations to do so, as at some point before the release of the announcement of the Displacement Window the FCC will freeze all minor change applications to provide a stable database for stations filing in the window. All LPTV stations and TV translators still operating in analog will have to be operating in digital by the end of the repacking – July 13, 2021. Other details about the length of the construction permits granted to displaced stations, and conditions under which these stations can get extensions of their CPs, are also set out in the public notice. So LPTV and TV translators need to be getting ready for this window, either by looking for new channels or potentially at channel sharing with other stations – low power or full-power stations as recently authorized by the FCC (see our article here). http://www.broadcastlawblog.com/2017/03/articles/fcc-adopts-new-rules-for-post-incentive-auction-channel-sharing-including-opportunities-for-lptv-and-tv-translators-to-increase-over-the-air-coverage/ Their future direction is now becoming at least a bit clearer after all the uncertainty created by the incentive auction and repacking process (via Indiana Radio Watch via John Carver, DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ RECORDINGS OF DX TESTS I’m trying to do a limited-run podcast series that will focus on the history of AM Radio DXing. For the first episode, I’d love to do a show that highlighted DX Tests, including those from the early days of the hobby and more recent efforts. If you have recordings of DX Tests, especially those that may have been local to your station or semi-local, I’d love to hear them and possibly include them in the show. Vintage DX Tests especially welcome. MP3’s preferred but we can work with most any format. We can also dub older recordings from cassette or reel-to-reel if that service is needed. Thanks in advance! 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, 121 Mayfair Park, Maylene, AL 35114, EM63nf, Member WTFDA, IRCA, NRC. Former CPC Chairman for NRC & IRCA, NRC-AM and IRCA via DXLD) MP3 officially became free --- NEW TECHNOLOGIES http://www.radioportal.ru/news/internet/mp3-oficialno-stal-svobodnym The Institute of Integrated Circuits of the Fraunhofer Society officially "said goodbye" to the codec and the format of MP3 files. The term of key patents related to MP3, expired at the end of April. This is reported by National Public Radio. MP3 (MPEG-1 Layer III) is a popular codec and audio file format, widely supported all over the world. The vast majority of developers of media players (both programs and stand-alone devices) include support for MP3 in their product. It is worth noting that different patents relating to MP3 belonged to different companies, which gave rise to constant disputes and courts. As a result, some device manufacturers (for example, MP3 players) did not pay for the MP3 license at all, while others paid deductions of several tens of cents per device. And Alcatel-Lucent, for example, sued Microsoft for $ 1.53 billion. In a statement by the Institute for Integrated Circuits of the Fraunhofer Society, it is said that the licensing program associated with MP3 patents has been officially terminated. According to the Institute, the future is for codecs that compress audio more efficiently: for example, AAC or MPEG-H being developed. Despite the fact that National Public Radio reports "official death" of MP3, in fact, the expiration of patents (and the termination of the licensing program) means that MP3 support can be embedded in their products without any deductions to organizations that own patents. Recently, one more common technology - Adobe Flash Player - has officially passed away. The product was repeatedly criticized for a large number of known vulnerabilities in the code and Adobe in late 2015 recognized the victory of HTML5 over Flash. Nikolai Vorontsov, News.mail.ru (via RusDX 21 May via DXLD) SATELLITE DISH MONITORING Some have asked 'what does that dish look like that lets [you] get all those satellite TV and radio stations, and is it really 'free' to receive? I've had a fully functional satellite dish for a year now, so I can provide some insight of what I've learned in that time. Second answer first, I will pay for television when they pry my antenna from my cold dead fingers! ;). Yes, it IS 'free' but there is a STEEP learning curve. You have to learn about the various different digital standards, (because almost all of the satellites have stopped transmitting anything in analog NTSC -- there are just a handful of analog transponders left!) the difference between Ku and C band transmissions, and the hardware needed for each (because BOTH bands have free stuff available!) and how to 'find' the satellites. OK but 'free'? Really? Well, no, of course you have to buy the hardware. But that is a 'one time' investment. What does that entail, you ask? All told, I spent $3 for a 'DiSeq switch', $80 for a "dish positioner' (essentially a rotor control), about $15-20 (I forget exactly how much that was) for a 'weather boot' for the actuator that moves the dish (which had disintegrated over the years) $100 for the receiver and $55 for a dual band (both C and Ku band feeds) LNB (essentially the actual antenna, and a Low Noise Block amplifier that boosts the signals to improve reception): (The LNB is the orange and grey thing with co-ax coming out the back) I also oiled, cleaned and generally 'tightened things up' so the stuff that was supposed to move, moved, and the stuff that was supposed to not move, didn't move! I also recently added a 'fixed gain' amplifier for Ku signals which I got at a Radio Shack closeout for either 50 cents or a dollar (I forget). In all, I spent a total of around $250 for a 'fully functional' satellite system. Bear in mind the house came with the motor, actuator arm, dish and the cable running into the house underground in conduit so the 'whole shootin' match' would have been more, but not a LOT more. I'd guess for under $750 (if you bargain hunt) you could assemble this from scratch. And this provides video & audio entertainment FOR NO MONTHLY FEE -- in an area otherwise without much choice. I've got over 500 channels scanned in so far, and there are more out there. And there are changes on an almost weekly basis with new stations coming on and older ones going away. So, what does the dish look like? Here's a recent shot -- I need to let the ground get a little less soggy so I can safely use a ladder without it sinking into the muck and finish cleaning the mold off the top half of the dish, but I HAVE come up with an easy way to do this at least. (And all it takes is bleach water and some elbow grease.) That is probably more than you wanted to know, but I hope it might encourage some of you to play on your own too. A 'Ku band only' system would be smaller and cheaper, but much of the 'good stuff' (Heroes & Icons, NBC/ABC/Fox/PBS/CW/CTV/CTV2/Movies!/Decades/MeTV/DW TV/NASA TV/Ion/the Mexican broadcasters and much more) are only on the C band, so consider that before you decide to save a few bucks. Let me know if you would like more info or want to see this 'in action'. I'm happy to help! --kvz (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Port Hope MI, MARE Tipsheet 19 May via DXLD) Sunday, May 21, 9:15-10:15, Room 3 -- Receiving Antennas Moderator: Eric Nichols KL7AJ "Receiving antennas are DIFFERENT! Almost every amateur radio station can benefit from having a separate receiving antenna. Eric Nichols, KL7AJ will discuss the profound differences between the requirements of transmitting and receiving antennas, and how to optimize antennas for reception. As the overall noise floor in the HF band steadily increases, the deployment of well designed, low-noise receiving antennas will be increasingly important. Exciting new technologies make small, effective receiving antennas possible and practical." "Eric P. Nichols, KL7AJ is a two-time recipient of the William Orr, W6SAI Technical Writing Award, conferred by the ARRL. He is currently technical editor for the W5YI group, working closely with Gordon West. He has written dozens of articles for QST, and is the author of The Opus of Amateur Radio Knowledge and Lore, Radio Science for the Radio Amateur, Propagation and Radio Science, and, Digital Storage Oscilloscopes for Ham Radio. He is currently writing a book on active and passive receiving antennas for ARRL, the topic of this talk." (via Jack Amelar, MARE Tipsheet 19 May via DXLD) Jack adds: There used to be an SWL forum at Hamvention, it's been over a decade since. The All Ohio Scanner Club use to organize the forum, but since their demise, there has not been such a forum. A complete list of forums can be viewed at: http://hamvention.org/event-details/forums/ (MARE Tipsheet 19 May via DXLD) Re: [IRCA] "AIRPORT-FRIENDLY" FSL ANTENNA DESIGNS Chuck, If you are making a decision between building the second (3.5") FSL model or the third (4.7") model, you should definitely go for the second (160mm ferrite rod) model. It has a sensitivity "point score" (ferrite length x coil diameter) of 560, whereas the third FSL model has a point score of 292. In addition, the second model uses the highest sensitivity 1162/46 Litz wire, while the third model uses the less sensitive 660/46 type. By comparison, the 5" FSL models used by Craig and I in Hawaii last month have sensitivity point scores of 585 (and also have the most sensitive 1162/46 Litz wire). In any case the first "Heathkit-like" full construction article (for the second, recommended, 3.5" FSL model) should be completed in about a month-- which will give any interested DXers the time to order and receive the 160mm x 8mm ferrite rods from the (newly prosperous) eBay sellers in the Ukraine (Gary DeBock, May 16, IRCA via DXLD) The Ukrainian seller on eBay has lowered the listing price for a lot of 30 of the Russian surplus 160mm x 8mm ferrite rods, from $55.95 down to $44.76 (plus $27 shipping, to the U.S.). This means that the ferrite rods used to construct the latest "airport friendly" FSL design (the 3.5" Baby FSL model) can now be purchased for $71.76, instead of $82.95. The "Heathkit-like" full construction article for that model is currently being drafted. http://www.ebay.com/itm/30-pcs-Vintage-Ferrite-Rod-8mm-x-160mm-For-Crystal-Radio-/192185405777?hash=item2cbf249151:g:DREAAOSwNuxXaCFE 73 and Good DX, (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA) MAY 20, ibid.) FCC FINES COMPANY $90,000 FOR SELLING LED LIGHT FIXTURES CAUSING INTERFERENCE TO AM/FM RADIO TRANSMISSIONS There is a lot of lawyer speak here; see number 5 under background. I couldn't find how this came to the FCC's attention. It would be interesting to know how many similar products causing interference were tested and approved prior to marketing. This is too little too late but nice to see. https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-17-471A1.pdf Sent from my iPad (Dennis Gibson, May 24, IRCA via DXLD) AFCCE WANTS PAI TO ADDRESS RF NOISE, AM SYNCHRONOUS BOOSTERS http://www.radiomagonline.com/fcc/0019/afcce-wants-pai-to-address-rf-noise-am-synchronous-boosters/38921 Sent from my iPad (Dennis Gibson, ibid.) I seldom comment on political issues because of my libertarian stance. However, the gov. ought to put its own house in order first. Their "energy star" boondoggle is just that. Their testing is highly specious and what they tout is largely sent from "greased palms". Even the iconic "sae" and underwriters labs have questionable testing. My point is, if the gov. once approves something, they should refrain from punitive actions down the road against those entities submitting (Billy Brooks, ibid.) There's not much in the way of context here, but I think it would be a stretch to presume that the government inspects/tests each-and-every item. The problem is that they approve a "type" of product, and often that's that. It isn't clear here whether or not these products in fact even met the type that had been approved (Russ Edmunds, WB2BJH, Blue Bell, PA, ibid.) Further -- the engineering group presented what they always present - more stations, more power - as a "solution". It never is. That said, as far as noise from RF-producing appliances, etc., that horse left the barn decades ago, and there's so much of that stuff out there that there's no practical way to deal with it. Hence these proposals. What we have here is a long term failure to enforce the RF noise issue. This is nothing new. There are many laws and regulations out there which are either not enforced or selectively enforced depending on whose ox is gored. Nothing will change - we'll have more stations, higher power and the same noise. How AM continues to survive in this environment continues to amaze me (Russ Edmunds, ibid.) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ SPACE WEATHER - MAN-MADE VLF RADIO BUBBLE Hello All, I just found these articles concerning an aspect of space weather I've never heard of before, Radio Bubbles. Summary of articles: VLF radio waves from human activity have created a "barrier" in the Earth's magnetic field. http://s.newsweek.com/sites/www.newsweek.com/files/2017/05/18/shield-nasa.png NASA discovers humans have created an artifical barrier around Earth, and it could protect us from space weather Space probes have found a barrier resulting from low frequency radio waves which could shield us from geomagnetic storms. https://media.mnn.com/assets/images/2017/05/Geodynamo.gif.600x315_q80_crop-smart.jpg Earth has a new man-made protective 'force field' The invisible shield is the result of very low frequency radio communications interacting with particles in space (via Curtis Sadowski, May 19, WTFDA gg via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2017 May 22 0235 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 15 - 21 May 2017 Solar activity was very low throughout the reporting period. Region 2659 (N14, L=038, class/area=Dao/040 on 21 May 2017) was the most complex region; however, it has produced no significant flare activity. No Earth-directed CMEs were observed in available coronagraph imagery. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit ranged from normal to high levels, with a peak flux of 13,000 pfu at 21/1710 UTC. Normal levels were observed on 15 May and moderate levels were observed on 16-19 May. In response to a negative polarity CH HSS, high levels were observed on 20-21 May. Geomagnetic field activity was at quiet to active levels. Quiet to active levels were observed on 15 May. Conditions decreased to quiet to unsettled levels on 16-17 May under nominal solar wind conditions. A SSBC produced quiet to active levels on 18 May and quiet to unsettled levels on 19 May. The subsequent onset of a negative polarity CH HSS, with peak observed winds between 700-750 km/s, produced unsettled to active conditions on 20 May and quiet to unsettled levels on 21 May. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 22 MAY - 17 JUNE 2017 Solar activity is expected to be very low with a slight chance for C-class flare activity 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 range from normal to very high levels. Moderate levels are likely on 01-10 Jun and 12-15 Jun; high levels are likely on 22 May, 27-31 May, and 16-17 Jun; very high levels are likely on 23-26 May. Elevated levels of electrons are in response to multiple, recurrent, CH HSSs. The remainder of the outlook period is likely to observe normal background levels. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet to G1 (Minor) storm levels. Active conditions are likely on 22 May with unsettled conditions likely on 23-24 May due to the waning effects of a negative polarity CH HSS. Quiet conditions are then likely to prevail from 25 May-09 Jun under a nominal solar wind regime. An increase to active conditions is likely on 10-11 Jun from a positive polarity CH HSS. Quiet conditions are again likely on 12-13 Jun. A SSBC is expected to cause unsettled conditions on 14 Jun. A subsequent negative polarity CH HSS is likely to cause active conditions on 15 Jun, G1 (Minor) conditions on 16 Jun, then active conditions as the CH HSS wanes on 17 Jun. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2017 May 22 0235 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 2017-05-22 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2017 May 22 74 12 4 2017 May 23 76 8 3 2017 May 24 76 8 3 2017 May 25 76 5 2 2017 May 26 76 5 2 2017 May 27 76 5 2 2017 May 28 74 5 2 2017 May 29 74 5 2 2017 May 30 72 5 2 2017 May 31 72 5 2 2017 Jun 01 72 5 2 2017 Jun 02 72 5 2 2017 Jun 03 72 5 2 2017 Jun 04 70 5 2 2017 Jun 05 70 5 2 2017 Jun 06 70 5 2 2017 Jun 07 70 5 2 2017 Jun 08 70 5 2 2017 Jun 09 72 5 2 2017 Jun 10 72 10 4 2017 Jun 11 72 12 4 2017 Jun 12 74 5 2 2017 Jun 13 74 5 2 2017 Jun 14 74 8 3 2017 Jun 15 74 10 4 2017 Jun 16 74 20 5 2017 Jun 17 74 12 4 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1879, DXLD) GLENN`S PROPAGATION OUTLOOK FOR MEDIA NETWORK PLUS AS OF MAY 25, 2017 Keith, From Space Weather Service, Australia, the Global HF Propagation Forecast thru May 27: fair to normal at low latitudes; fair-poor to normal to fair at middle latitudes; poor to fair at high latitudes. From the Space Environment Predixion Center of China, the planetary A- index is predicted to rise to 13 on June 7, 16 on June 13. Solar flux declining gradually from a peak of 81 on May 26 From Spaceweather South Africa, thru May 27: magnetic conditions quiet, shortwave fadeouts unlikely, MUF unstable. From Met Office UK: A partial coronal mass ejection is likely to arrive at Earth in the second half of May 26th leading to unsettled to active geomagnetic conditions, a chance of G1 minor storm periods persisting into May 27. From F K Janda, OK1HH of the Czech Propagation Interested Group, the Geomagnetic field will be: quiet to unsettled until May 28, also June 5 - 6, 10 mostly quiet on May 29, June 4, 9, 12 active to disturbed on May 30 - 31,) June 2, 14 quiet on June 1, 8 quiet to active on June 3, 7, 11, 13 From SWPC in Boulder: Quiet conditions are likely to prevail from May 25 to June 9 under a nominal solar wind regime with A and K indices of only 5 and 2. An increase to active conditions is likely on Jun 11 and 12, peaking at 12 and 4; G1 minor storms June 16 at 20 and 5. Solar flux dropping from 76 on May 27 to 70 from June 4 to 8. William Hepburn`s VHF UHF Microwave DX maps show extreme tropospheric ducting across the Gulf of Mexico May 26 to 29. And at least until May 30 along the west coast of Mexico. Also May 27 around eastern Cuba. All week off the west coast of Africa around Cabo Verde. Off the coast of Angola, extending to Namibia by May 29. Continuing across all seas around the Arabian peninsula and as far as India. Also the east coast of India May 28 and 29 (via DXLD) DIURNAL & SEASONAL MUF VARIATIONS Daytime maximum useable frequencies tend to be lower during the summer than they are in winter, but higher at night. This is because there is more molecular nitrogen due to heating effects in summer, and as this is harder to ionise than monatomic oxygen the Total Electron Content, or TEC, is lower. However, the TEC of the night-time F layer in summer tends to be greater than in winter, which is why night-time maximum usable frequencies can be higher (RSGB Propagation News May 21 via DXLD) UPCOMING SOLAR ECLIPSE AUGUST 21 For those of you with SDR's, and located along its path http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/path_through_the_US.htm the solar eclipse over North American which is to occur on August 21 will present a most interesting possibility. I remember DX'ing during a solar eclipse back in the 1970's, and I experienced stations on the path 'ahead' of me coming in as if it were SS/SR propagation. Now, with SDR's, it will be possible to record the entire band for the duration of the eclipse, or at least for that portion where effects will be noticeable in any particular area. Alas, many of us in the Northeast, Southwest and North Central US won't be close enough to the path to experience the full effects (Russ Edmunds, WB2BJH, Blue Bell, PA, Grid FN20id, May 23, NRC-AM via DXLD) But we on the west coast will be! I don't have any experience with prior MW DX during solar eclipses, but I do remember scanning the 60 m tropical band, back in the days when it was populated, and sure enough, the stations did come up for a brief time as the eclipse began, and the sky darkened. Russ is right about the beauty of SDRs. I'll for certain have mine running, while I'm outside enjoying the near totality in Victoria! 73 (Walt, BC, IRCA via DXLD) The August 21 eclipse will hit the Oregon coast first, and we were lucky enough to book a room in the Lincoln City (OR) Liberty Inn at the regular room rate of $169/night before the motel jacked up the rates to $1000 per night that weekend (Lincoln City is in the path of totality). The motel tried to raise the rates on everybody up to $1000 for that period, but KGW-8 TV in Portland and the Oregon State Attorney General's office got involved, and the motel was eventually forced to honor the rates that they agreed to when the rooms were booked (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA), IRCA via DXLD) Gary, those folks living in Lincoln City and McMinnville have to consider themselves fortunate. They were in the path of totality for the last total solar eclipse visible from the U.S., too, on Feb. 26, 1979. And the people in Albany and Corvallis, who missed out on the whole show in '79, will get it this time around. IIRC, Portland was in the path of totality in '79, but cloudy skies ruined the spectacle there. Not many people in the U.S. can say they've been lucky enough to be living in the path of TWO of them in their lifetimes. Carbondale, Illinois, however, will be in the part of totality for both this upcoming one in August and the next one on April 8, 2024. 73, (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska (will be in eastern Iowa on Aug. 21, so will only get about 95% totality), ibid.) Anyone in the path of the eclipse may be able to pick up those elusive stations they have not heard as they will be on daytime power. (Roy - Falmouth, Barstow, WTFDA MWDX gg via DXLD) TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING ++++++++++++++++++++++++ SAY NO TO ZERO PUBLIC MEDIA FUNDING Glenn - The President just released his Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 budget to Congress. Like the "skinny budget" issued in March, public media funding is proposed for elimination. You can stop this dangerous proposal from moving forward. Call your lawmakers and tell them to say NO to ZERO and support continued public media funding at https://protectmypublicmedia.org/ We must act quickly. Congress is writing its own budget right now. To ensure public media funding is in this budget, lawmakers need to hear how much Americans like you value local public radio and TV stations. This is not the first time public media funding has been threatened. But, thanks to you, we have overcome every previous challenge. Let's do it again today. Thank you, (The Protect My Public Media Team, May 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ONLINE PRIVACY FOR JOURNALISTS Hello there Glenn, I saw that you mentioned the Committee to Protect Journalists on your page here: w4uvh.net/dxldtd3c.html so I figured that free press is a subject you care for. This is not an easy time for journalists all over the world, with the discoveries of surveillance on citizens, which includes journalists and their sources. I’d like to ask you to share a guide, written by one journalist to his colleagues all over the world. The guide can help them protect their work and fulfil their mission. https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/online-privacy-journalists/ If you can add it to your page, as well as share it over social networks, it would be a tremendous help to the free press. Thanks in advance, (Reem, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###