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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1882 contents: Alaska, Antarctica and non, Argentina non, Bougainville, Bulgaria, Canada, Cuba, Indonesia, Iran non, Korea North and non, Korea South, Kurdistan non, Kyrgyzstan, Papua New Guinea, Somaliland, South Carolina non, USA, Zambia, unidentified SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1882, June 15-21, 2017 Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [confirmed, Bulgaria] Sat 1431 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [confirmed, UTwente] Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed; NOT changed to 2330] Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM 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 Tue 2130 WRMI 9455 15770 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. Weak to fair signal of Radio Afghanistan External Service, June 9: 1532&1612 6100 YAK 100 kW / 125 deg SoAs English/Urdu & off air 1620 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/weak-to-fair-signal-of-radio_10.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA. 11870, June 8 at 1254, KNLS is S9, surprisingly good, close to directly off the back, signing off English hour with full new sked by Rob: 11870 at 08 & 12; 7355 also at 12 (JBA carrier here), 9690 at 10, 11765 at 14. Also if in S Asia, listen at 02 on 9600, 03 on 15515 (which are Madagascar he fails to mention). I first checked 11885 where Dave Valko caught KNLS on June 5 until 1259, // 11870, but no 11885 here today). At 1259, 11870 to open carrier and off, but back on with open carrier at *1300-1303* (or something else?) 11870, June 9 at 1221, checking KNLS English again earlier in the hour, which was in well yesterday by closing. Today it`s VP S2-S4 with echo, long/short path? pop music, 1226 announcements I can`t be positive are in English, much weaker than Vatican via Philippines open carrier already on 11875 at S9. KNLS improves slightly to S5-S7 by closing circa 1255 with English schedule, but still unusable. Checking their own website, as expected, far out-of-date schedule at http://www.knls.org/broadcasting-front.html showing everything on 6, 7 or 9 MHz, nothing higher, and the MWV sked is also old, from B-16. As usual, we have to go to Russian to find the current sked for all languages, such as http://www.knls.net/rus/schedule.htm The Chinese site http://www.smzg.org/home/ refuses to load for minutes but when it does, schedule there is out of date too. The Chinese must also go to the Russian page for accurate info! For example, Chinese at 0800-1000 is really on 11885 (which explains how 11885 was once erroneously on air a few hours later; and Dave Valko says it was again today June 9 // 11870 during the 12 English hour), but the Chinese page shows 9655 and the English page 7355 for Chinese at 08-10! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Just noticed now at 1220 KNLS is on 11885 again unscheduled and parallel to 11870. Not as good here as the first time noted on Monday. 1221 ID and mailing address announcement by lady, song announcement, and into "Every Breath You Take" by The Police. Just want to add that of course no other frequencies are noted on KNLS now except for 11885 and 11870. 1227 short segment about DXing equipment and techniques now, and into song by U2 (Dave Valko, June 9, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Re: ``Chinese at 0800-1000 is really on 11885`` KNLS requested 11870 just after A-17 conference on Feb 23, and 11885 kHz just between March 9 and March 17 database. But 1200-1300 UT second English entry was still on 7355 kHz 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 25 meters in great shape this morning; I got to the radio too late to catch anything on 90 meters. KNLS (Alaska) - 11870 - (1206), Dance pop music followed by YL "this is your new life station" (1207), to discussion of Cher (yikes!), 1208 "more of your favorite music from the 80's and 90's" (thanks to the tip from dxld/hcdx) sinpo-33433. Time to head to the antique radio swapmeet :0), 73's (Chris KC5IIE Krug, Tulsa, OK, FT-450D, 40m loop, June 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11885, June 10 at 1256, KNLS English is once again on this unlisted frequency, // scheduled 11870, both about S5, with music coda and no announcements before 1259 when 11870 goes off, but 11885 stays on with carrier, 1300 IS, 1301 Chinese ID and more IS, 1302 theme opening Chinese hour. Now at 1303 June 10, I find the other // Chinese transmitter has moved to 9655 which is S5 while 11885 is now up to S9. I`m beginning to think 11885 is intentional, despite the most up-to-date schedule version, at least with A-17 dates, at http://knls.net/rus/schedule.htm which shows 11885 only at 08-10 in Chinese; while the 13-14 Chinese is supposed to be on 9920 // 9655. Not heard on 9920, of course. Could also be second transmitter is stuck on 11885 and won`t change to the other scheduled frequencies for the rest of the span until 1800? Fortunately not much else is in HFCC on 11885 during the 10-18 UT span, so KNLS can get away with this; just imaginary Ujung Pandang [sic], Indonesia in English! at 11-13, 100 kW eastward; and at 17-18 SOFia in Tigrinya, but probably also imaginary, as not in Aoki or EiBi. BTW, in Russian we are reminded that it`s ALYASKA, not Alaska, the ya having got lost in transition (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11885, KNLS at 1648 UT June 10 in Chinese. KNLS Interval Signal at 1658 until 1701 UT, then Chinese announcement, another IS to 1702, then English pop music. Excellent (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA 100 loop antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11885 // 11870, June 11 at 1243, KNLS same as yesterday, duplicating English hour on both, so can hardly be accidental. When will they ever get around to posting correct new schedule on all of their own websites?? Poor signal on both, interview about how you are 69% more likely to survive a plane crash if seated in the back. 1247 Profiles in Christian Music, two songs. 1251 Creation Moment, time to tune out their anti-science utter nonsense. It`s possible to be a Christian and *not* be creationist, but you`d never know that from all the SW and other stations that dutifully diffuse it. Recheck at 1316, also same as yesterday, Chinese on 11885 // 9655 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11885, KNLS, 1457 M announcer sounded like Mandarin ending with instrumental signature, then 1458-1500 deadair, and 1500 IS twice and off. Came back on with IS in progress and into Mandarin programming. 11 June. 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop and 153 foot Delta loop antennas, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 11885, June 12 at 1418 check, VP signal in Chinese, so it`s still KNLS on unscheduled frequency. On June 10, Mick Delmage in Alberta was also hearing KNLS on 11885 in Chinese from 1648 past 1700, and on June 11, Dave Valko had it before and after 1500; so it looks like my previous assumption is correct: this transmitter stays on 11885 for the entire 08-18 UT broadcast day, most of which is in Chinese. What does FCC say? Belatedly availablized A-17 schedule dated April 11 https://transition.fcc.gov/ib/sand/neg/hf_web/A17FCC01.TXT does not show 11885 at all, and still no updated version 2, like https://transition.fcc.gov/ib/sand/neg/hf_web/A17FCC02.TXT 11885, Jun [not Jan as typo in original report!] 13 at 1322, no signal from KNLS Chinese, unlike several days recently, nor on 11870, but very poor signal on 9655. So either second transmitter is off, or moved, or maybe not propagating at all. Need to check before 1300 in English when it`s been 11870 // 11885 contrary to all published sked info. 7355, June 14 at 1200, KNLS IS opening English ``from the top of the world``, poor but better than very poor // 11870. So back on correct frequency 7355 instead of 11885 where it was for several days. By 1250 recheck, 7355 degraded to JBA, and 11870 still VP (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA [non]. Paul Walker, see: OMAN ** ALBANIA. WE RETURN TO THE RADIO SCENE IN ALBANIA: THE WARTIME YEARS Recent news reports in the international radio world inform us that the small European country of Albania finally closed its remaining mediumwave and shortwave stations earlier this year. Thus in Albania, all radio broadcasting stations throughout the country, numbering one hundred or more government and commercial stations, are now concentrated into the standard FM Band 2. However, Radio Tirana shortwave is still on the air, via a new relay with the large American commercial shortwave station WRMI in Okeechobee Florida. In our program today, we present our third episode about the radio story in Albania, and on this occasion, we begin with the historic era of ancient times. Way back in the times of antiquity, the territory now known as Albania was traversed and settled by wandering tribal peoples coming in from the east. Then next on the scene came the ancient Roman Empire, and they conquered and annexed Albania. Albanian history informs us that a colony of some 70 Christian families was established in the coastal town of Durres through the original ministry of St Paul in New Testament times; and two hundred years later, the entire territory was established in Christianity. Islam came to Albania five hundred years later again. Politically speaking, the Kingdom of Albania was established in the year 1272, though two hundred years later again, the Ottoman Empire from Turkey took over the country. In 1912, Albania declared its independence again, as a revived kingdom; in 1939 it was taken over by Italy; four years later it was taken over by Germany; and after the end of World War 2, the country was formed into a socialist republic. In 1991, Albania officially became just a republic. It was in April 1939 that Italy occupied Albania, and at that stage, there were just three broadcast transmitters on the air. On mediumwave, Radio Tirana I (One) was noted with 10 watts on 1384 kHz with studios and transmitter in the Municipality Building on Rruga 28 Nentori in Tirana. On shortwave, their scheduling, if listed correctly, showed two transmitters on the air in parallel, 6080 kHz and 7840 kHz, under the callsign ZAA. These transmitters were originally installed in 1937 for the purpose of international radio communication in Morse Code, rather than for program broadcasting. Their shortwave equipment was manufactured by Tesla in Prague Czechoslovakia; and their transmitter base was located at Laprake, in the military encampment on the edge of suburban Tirana, we would suggest. In July 1939, a few months after the Italian occupation, shortwave ZAA was heard in the South Pacific closing with the Italian National Anthem. Interestingly, the callsign ZAA was retained, in spite of the fact that some had suggested earlier that maybe the callsign would be changed to an Italian call beginning with the letter I (eye). Around that same time under the Italian occupation, an additional mediumwave transmitter was co-installed in the Municipality Building. This new unit was originally listed with a power of 1 kW, though apparently it was operated at only one quarter of that power level. The new transmitter took over the programming and frequency of Tirana I (One) on 1384 kHz, and the older 10 watt transmitter was moved to 1290 kHz as Tirana II (Two). After about a year of Italian occupation, or perhaps a little less, Radio Tirana was no longer reported as active on shortwave. The final known listing was in August 1940, when Arthur Cushen in South New Zealand noted the station on 7850 kHz. Apparently station ZAA as a program broadcaster lay silent for the remainder of the European Conflict. When peace finally began to descend upon continental Europe again, Radio Tirana ZAA was noted on the air once more, and on the same shortwave channel 7850 kHz according to Arthur Cushen again. That was early in the year 1946. Apparently the original old Tesla equipment had been revived. Interestingly, all programming at this stage was still in the Italian language, in spite of the fact that German forces had replaced the Italians two years earlier. Next time, growth and development in the radio scene in Albania. Radio Tirana now on relay via WRMI: 2300 UTC Mon-Fri [sic] 5850 kHz Audio Insert --- Radio Tirana, station announcement, folk instrumental (Adrian Peterson, script for AWR Wavescan June 11, 2017 via DXLD) ** ANGOLA. RNA-Canal "A", Mulenvos, 4949.729 2300 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, check June 8 at 2300 UT til 0052 UT June 9 in southern Germany, in reply to Carlos Gonçalves` less precise but accurate frequencies as in DXLD 17-23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4949.8, Rádio Nacional de Angola, Mulenvos, 1947-2025, 09-06, Portuguese, comments, African songs. 15321. Also 1902-2003, 10-06, Portuguese, news, ID “Rádio Nacional de Angola”, sport news, at 2000 time signals, ID “Nacional, a rádio da República”. 25332 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Tecsun PL-880, Sangean ATS- 909X, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza, 1935-1947, 08-06, comments, songs. Very weak, barely audible and only on USB. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Tecsun PL-880, Sangean ATS-909X, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hardly anyone seems to get this but MM, over a trans-Atlantic water path; I was wondering if still on air as usually vanishes for winter. Nominal sked 18-21 UT M-F only (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** ANTARCTICA [non]. Calendar 2016: Tuesday 21 June: British Antarctic Survey annual midwinter broadcast via BBC World Service to BAS staff in Antarctica on midwinter's day. The schedule in 2016 was 2130-2200 UT on 5985 kHz Woofferton (UK), 6035 kHz Dhabbaya (UAE) & 7360 kHz Ascension Island (June BDXC-UK Communication via WORLD OF RADIO 1882, dxldyg via DXLD) BBC British Antarctic Midwinter Special Frequency Testing Tonight There are a number of frequency tests THIS EVENING for the BBC Antarctic Midwinter specials next week. Wednesday 14th June - All times GMT ASCENSION ========= 2130:00-2145:00 7360 DHABAYYA ======== 2130:00-2145:00 6035 WOOFFERTON ========== 2130:00-2145:00 7230 2130:00-2145:00 5985 Regards (Martin, 1951 UT Wednesday June 14, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DXLD) So this year should be on three? of those, WEDNESDAY June 21, 2017 (gh) Nothing in Metro Detroit. I was using an NRD 525 with a long wire. Liz 73/ (Liz cameron, 2133 UT June 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks to Martin for providing tonight's test frequencies which are broadcasting regular WS news programming. All frequencies audible - 7230 444 7360 343 6035 121 5985 555+ (David Morris, Lytchett Matravers, Poole, 2138 UT, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Of course, nothing possible into the west coast, but using a Swedish remote Perseus, all frequencies are on: 5985: Woofferton is best with excellent S9 + 10 signal strength. 7230: Woofferton is good, but with adjacent splatter from 7225. 7360: Ascension very good reception 6035: Dhabayya fair/good. We need 25 meters are higher frequencies to stand any chance here! 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, 2138 UT June 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Here in NB, just outside Fredericton, using a Tecsun PL-880 outdoors away from the house using just its whip antenna, 7360 kHz from Ascension had the best signal. Fair but fully understandable with negligible QRM. Programming seemed to be standard BBC WS fare with interviews of voters in the general election. 7230 kHz from Wooferton was also fair. 5985 kHz from Wooferton could also be heard but it was weak. 6035 kHz from Dhabayya could not be heard (-- Richard Langley, 2200 UT, ibid.) 5985 went off at 21:39:30, but returned shortly after. Transmitters off at 21:45:00. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, 2200 UT June 14, ibid.) Dear Martin, dear Dave, BBC WorldService English program test 2130- 2145 UT, British Antarctic Midwinter Special Frequency Testing Tonight June 14 --- I heard on various remote SDR's: in Santa Cruz de Tenerife Canaries islands on KiwiSDR net, Kiwi SDR Liste via Google Chrome browser very easy. At Rimini Italy and at western Hungary installations, in PerseusSDR net. 6035, UAE, Al Dhabbaya transmitter already on air at 2126 UT, sidebandlobe azimuth, S=9+10 in Canaries, and Europe ITA and HNG. 5985, at 2128 UT, suffer by adjacent 5980 VoA BOT French til 2130 UT. At 2130 UT powerhouse Woofferton S=9+45 to +50dB !!, in Canaries, and S=9+35dB in Europe. 10 kHz wideband. 7230, requested by CNR1 Xian China underneath signal at 2129 UT, but Woofferton then S=9+40powerhouse, 10 kHz wideband. S=9+35dB in western Hungary remote installation post. 7360, ASC S=9+30dB fluttery across Atlantic Ocean, in Canaries and Europe. Adjacents 7355 kHz IRN Japanese sce S=9+10dB, 7365 kHz S=9 from HCJ Weenermoor Germany. BBCWS En program end noted UAE 6035 kHz, at 2145:10 UT. 73 wolfie df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany. 2221 UT June 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) While I was recording WOR 1882, several listeners confirmed the BBC Antarctic tests on June 14 [as above], but Ray Robinson asked, (gh) Hi, Glenn. Are you sure they're going to broadcast this year? There isn't anybody there! I was just watching a documentary on the BBC yesterday about how the British Antarctic Survey team had to evacuate their base completely for this winter, due to large and unpredictable cracks in the ice. It will apparently be the first winter in over 20 years that they will have no scientific measurements being taken. So if they do broadcast, who is it the BBC thinks they will be targeting??? And apparently, even in an ordinary year, the population of the BAS base in winter is only 16 people. Ray. Sent from my HTC One max on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network (Ray Robinson, KVOH, 2347 UT June 14, dxldyg WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I barely managed to squeeze in Ray`s comment as I was completing WOR 1882, but not what followed: (gh) Well, in any case the tests were done, and well heard via remote receivers. That's good evidence that it's going to happen again this year. I would suspect that there has to be more than one British Antarctic site as well? 73 (Walt Salmaniw, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) You're right, Walt. According to Wikipedia, BAS operates five permanent research stations in the British Antarctic Territory. It was only the Halley Research Station on the Brunt Ice Shelf that was evacuated. However, three of the others are only manned during the Antarctic summer. The only base that is currently operating is the Rothera Research Station on Adelaide Island. That has a summer population of 130, and a winter population of 22 (Ray, ibid.) Last year, 7360 kHz provided the best reception here in NB, while 5985 kHz was best in Europe (at least for the U. Twente WebSDR receiver): https://shortwavearchive.com/archive/bbc-world-service-british-antarctic-survey-annual-midwinter-broadcast-june-21-2016?rq=antarctic and https://archive.org/details/BBCWSBASAnnualMidwinterBroadcast7.360MHz21June20162130UTC (-- Richard Langley, ibid.) ** ARGENTINA [non]. 11580, Monday June 12 at 1350, RAE AVLM via WRMI in French talking about Radio Rainbow and other DX items, clip in Spanish of a 250 kW station on 810 kHz, ex-Sutatenza? So the ``Friday`` DX program is still being repeated on Monday before a new Monday semihour is available (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Estimado Adrian, Algunos asuntos extraños --- Esta noche, 0145 TU martes 13 de junio en 9395 no hubo RAE sino el programa Wavescan de WRMI. ¿Qué pasa? Webcast ahora denominado (WRMI RAE) a las 06 con Frecuencia al Dia, no sé en qué frecuencia de OC. Antes con 9955 pero ahora en 9955 hay Brother Scare. http://wrmi.listen.creek.fm/ stream Después de las 06 del martes. RAE en japonés, sí en 5850 y 7730. ¿Se han enterado que la hora en español ha sido agregado a las 14 TU en 11580? Todavia no ha llegado la anticipada tarjeta QSL 001. 73, (Glenn to Adrián Korol, RAE Director, June 13, via DXLD) Querido Glenn, Gusto de recibir siempre tus correos. Estuve casi una semana "fuera del aire" debido a un estado gripal (que casi se ha puesto de moda al menos en Buenos Aires) del cual estoy recién recuperado y con ciertos recaudos. Efectivamente hay algunas irregularidades en el schedule con WRMI que deben ser ajustadas, muchas de ellas involuntarias, que tratamos de resolver dentro de nuestras posibilidades. Todo se realizó dentro de un contexto de emergencia con la finalidad de "mantener" la señal de RAE en onda corta, y a partir de estas retransmisiones que son ante todo TEMPORARIAS Y EXPERIMENTALES, generar apoyo de oyentes, informes de recepción, publicaciones en sitios especializados en SW, etc. que refuercen ante las autoridades y funcionarios del área a la que pertenece RAE, la importancia y necesidad de mantener la ONDA CORTA, más allá de todas las plataformas digitales y esquemas de emisoras asociadas que podamos desarrollar. A propósito, nos está yendo muy bien con el público alemán con aquella retransmisión de 21 a 22 UTC en 3985 via Shortwaveservice Kall, Deutschland. Escuché justamente la acá en Buenos Aires con un viejo transceiver Kenwood TS140S y antena G5RV sintonizada, así como con la SONY ICF SW55 y su propia antena telescópica, la emision en Japonés en 7730 con muy buena señal. No sabía lo del agregado de español de las 14 en 11580. Nos vamos enterando por los oyentes y por los "profesionales del aire" como vos. El correo suele demorar (las QSL ya se han comenzado a enviar); sé que la tuya está en viaje con firmas y rúbrica donde consta que es la QSL #001. La QSL son tarjetas que hemos impreso a partir del aporte de oyentes que durante casi dos años enviaban cupones IRC o billetes de dólar para asegurar franqueo (y aun asi no tenían ninguna respuesta) por lo que una de las primeras medidas que tomé cuando se confirmó la retransmisión en SW fue destinar buena parte de esos cupones y billetes de 1 dólar, a sufragar los costos de diseño e impresión de QSL en calidad postal con papel de 300 gramos, frente 4 colores con laca y dorso a un color con la información, por lo que en cada tarjeta hay una leyenda en idioma español que dice: "ESTA TARJETA QSL FUE REALIZADA GRACIAS AL APORTE DE RADIOESCUCHAS DE RAE". Por cierto, aclaramos de paso, RAE no requiere que los oyentes envien IRC ni billetes de dólar, ya que tiene un presupuesto asignado para FRANQUEO POSTAL / ESTAMPILLA / CORREO que nos permite responder cada correspondencia recibida Y NO HAY NECESIDAD DE QUE SE NOS ENVIEN CUPONES NI BILLETES. Lo que sí necesitamos son informes de recepción, mensajes de oyentes, emails, sugerencias y cartas para seguir adelante en onda corta y lograr una pronta reactivación del transmisor de SW en la planta de General Pacheco. emails a: conexionrae@radionacional.gov.ar o bien a: rae@raeargentina.com cartas a: P.O. BOX 555, CP 1000 Buenos Aires, Argentina. Un abrazo estimado Glenn, 73 y hasta pronto (Adrian Korol, RAE, June 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) English summary below 9395, June 13 at 0146 check, NO English hour from RAE! What happened? Instead I`m hearing a repeat of `Wavescan`. Not checked now, but later on skeds I see WS is on 11580 at this time, so apparently // that (at least WBCQ happens to be playing at this very same time, ``Don`t Cry For Me, Argentina`` from Evita). 11580, June 13 at 1401, RAE AAM, via WRMI, still opening Spanish as ``primera edición``, 22-23 UT June 12 on 5950. They still don`t know about this repeat which started early this month, so I have informed them of it. Director Adrián Korol agrees there have been some anomalies in appearances of RAE on WRMI, but emphasizes that it`s all experimental and temporary, hoping to gather enough listener response quickly to convince the Radio Nacional powers that be that own SW transmitter should be repaired and reactivated (and maybe continue the relays too). If you haven`t yet sent them a report (in some language), please do so. Adrián emphasizes that return postage is not necessary, and some rp collected previously has gone into printing the new QSL cards. E-mail to: conexionrae@radionacional.gov.ar or rae@raeargentina.com P-mail to: P.O. BOX 555, CP 1000 Buenos Aires, Argentina. Checking 9395 again 24 hours later, June 14 at 0139, still no RAE in English, instead PCJ with `Happy Station` clips and Patreon fundraiser plugs, now definitely // 11580 where this has long been scheduled UT Wednesdays at 01-02. 0147 on to a David Monson piece; remember him? At 0205 check, 9395 is back to Oldies and 11580 on to usual Ukraine relay in English. Then I receive a reply from Jeff White: ``That's not supposed to happen, Glenn. I will check on that.`` Later: ``Yes, it was an automation glitch. But it should be OK tomorrow (Wednesday). Jeff`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9395, June 15 at 0142, RAE still a no-show on WRMI, instead // 11580 during another `Wavescan` repeat (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Finally resumed UT June 16 ** AUSTRALIA. 9685, Reach Beyond Australia, 1117-1128. Somewhat slow and deliberate English program about Baseball rules and “Almost Perfect” segment of Armando Galarraga’s near perfect game. 1129 instrumental music, and into next program in Chin Hakha. No ID between programs. Fair signal. 9 June. 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop and 153 foot Delta loop antennas, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.42, Radio Pio Doce, 0120-0229*, June 11. Many on air phone conversations; 0227 start of the normal sign off format (whistling “Colonel Bogey March,” full ID and chimes) (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6025. RED PATRIA NUEVA. Junio 7. 2338-2357 UT. Identificación como “Red Patria Nueva” y avisos de políticas públicas, luego informaciones sobre la emisora y de su programación. Luego noticiero de la red nacional llamado: “Bolivia informa” con informaciones de las actividades que realizará el Presidente Evo Morales en Bruselas. SINPO: 45444 (Claudio Galaz; RX: TECSUN PL – 660; ANT: Hilo de 40 metros de largo; QTH: Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BOUGAINVILLE. See PAPUA NEW GUINEA [not always cross-referenced] ** BRAZIL. Rádio Clube AM de Pernambuco de volta! Após três anos apenas repetindo a programação da Radio Globo, fruto de uma crise, a Rádio Clube do Recife, a mais antiga da América Latina, que ficou muda nestes tempos, ressurgiu na madrugada desta segunda, 12 de Junho de 2017. A rádio já voltou com uma equipe esportiva, a mesma que narrava os jogos das equipes pernambucanas antes, com programas jornalísticos e muita música tropical e nordestina. O fim da Clube AM foi motivo de muita lamentação por todos os ouvintes espalhadas pelo nordeste e norte do país, que agora comemoram o retorno daquela que é classificada como o Canhão do Nordeste! Rádio Clube de Pernambuco, opera com 100 kW, na frequência de 720 kHz. E é fácil de sintoniza nos finais da tarde e nas noites no centro sul da Bahia. Em breve coloco aqui um vídeo de como chega aqui a Rádio Clube de AM de Pernambuco (Ed Santos, Locutor, June 14, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Seems like long2 ago it was on SW? (gh, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 1645.0, 2232-..., 01/6, MLZ ndb, Merluza oil rig off São Paulo state coast. Continuous telegraphy IDs. 25331 (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, JRC NRD-545DSP, PERSEUS & DRAKE R-E; Advanced Receiver amp.; raised, 4 loop K9AY, 30 m 180º/0º mini-Bev., 80 m 300º/120º Bev., 200 m 270º/90º Bev., 270 m 145º/325º Bev., 300 m 225º/45º Beverage, radioescutas yg via DXLD) There`s a target for North Americans, half-way split frequency (gh) ** BRAZIL. Emisoras y frecuencias que parece que actualmente están fuera del aire --- BRASIL, Rádio Clube do Pará, Belém, que emite por los 4885 kHz, siendo captada con buena señal al amanecer aquí en España, lleva varios dias que no se sintoniza a esa hora (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, June 10, noticiasdx yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL. R. Roraima, Boa Vista RR, 4875.258 2324 UT R. Educação Rural, Tefé AM, 4925.209 2325 UT R. Alvorada, Parintins AM, 4965.020 2328 UT R. Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, 5939.831 2330 UT R. Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte MG, Two tiny peaks, 6010.032 stronger, and/or COLOMBIA? 6010.003 kHz 2338 UT R. B2, Curitiba PR, 6040.702 kHz 2340 UT {{ ? Radio Evangelizar, Curitiba PR, only daytime ? }} R. Marumby, Curitiba PR, 6080.029 0020 UT R. Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, 9665.872 2355 UT R. Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte MG, 15190.041 kHz 2359 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, check June 8 at 2300 UT til 0052 UT June 9 in southern Germany, in reply to Carlos Gonçalves` less precise but accurate frequencies as in DXLD 17-23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Obrigado por colaborar! Em Domingo, 11 de Junho de 2017 19:54, "Luiz A., via Avaaz.org" escreveu: Obrigado por assinar minha petição: Petição para Rádio Itatiaia voltar a transmitir em Ondas Curtas! Toda pessoa que se junta a esta campanha aumenta nossa força de ação. Por favor, separe um minuto para compartilhar este link com todos que você conhece: https://secure.avaaz.org/po/petition/Radio_Itatiaia_de_Belo_Horizonte_Retorno_das_transmissoes_em_Ondas_Curtas/?tzhhCdb Vamos fazer a mudança juntos, Luiz --- Aqui está a petição para encaminhar para seus amigos: Petição para Rádio Itatiaia voltar a transmitir em Ondas Curtas As ondas curtas são o melhor veículo para que as emissoras possam atingir os mais longínquos rincões, sobretudo onde a conexão de internet é deficiente ou mesmo ausente. A rádio Itatiaia desligou há algum tempo o seu transmissor na freqûencia de 5970 kHz, só transmitindo em Ondas médias, Internet e SKY! Enviado pela Avaaz em nome da petição de Luiz A Avaaz é uma rede de campanhas globais de 44 milhões de pessoas que se mobiliza para garantir que os valores e visões da sociedade civil global influenciem questões políticas internacionais. ("Avaaz" significa "voz" e "canção" em várias línguas). Membros da Avaaz vivem em todos os países do planeta e a nossa equipe está espalhada em 18 países de 6 continentes, operando em 17 línguas. Saiba mais sobre as nossas campanhas aqui, nos siga no Facebook ou Twitter. Para entrar em contato com a Avaaz não responda a este email, escreva para nós no link www.avaaz.org/po/contact ou ligue para +1-888-922- 8229 (EUA) (via Ariovaldo Lobrito, June 11, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Is it really off SW? Wolfgang Büschel reported it as late as May 22, via remote SDR in Florida: ``5969.264 BRA ZYE523 Radio Itatiaia "A Radio das Minas" Belo Horizonte MG very poor threshold level S=4-5 signal noted at 0517 UT`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Rádio Nacional de Brasília - QSL-card (6180 kHz / 0700 UT / March 14, 2017) Photo here: http://qsl-review.blogspot.ru/2017/06/radio-nacional-de-brasilia.html (Standard QSL with a view of the Amazonka [sic] River). - Received at the post office by registered mail on May 4, 2017 (KB = Constantine, St. Petersburg, Russia, Rus-DX June 11 via DXLD) Must`ve been one of the last receptions/QSLs before latest crash (gh) ** BRAZIL. 9514.97, R. Marumby, 2224-2300, “Voz do Brasil” // to other ZYs including 9665.87 Voz Missionária, 9674.92 Canção Nova, 11856.02 Aparecida, and 15190.05 Inconfidência. 2300 instrumental music, 2301 usual “Marumby” singing jingle by women, then canned ID/promo with mention of Marumby, several more canned announcements, and into next program at 2304. Fady with some 9505 WHRI slop QRM, but stronger than usual and readable. 9 June. 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop and 153 foot Delta loop antennas, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Congrats, Dave; 9515v Marumby is one of the weakest Brazilian signals these days, wolfie (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** BULGARIA. SAVE RADIO BULGARIA - WEBSITE PETITION --- I've been informed that there is now a 'Save Radio Bulgaria' website petition. Pretty much for what is the last remnants of Radio Bulgaria. This is for saving the foreign editors who produce the foreign language content & for resumption of streaming on the Radio Bulgaria website. http://saveradiobulgaria.com/en "....the BNR wants to keep English but it will be just an English version of the Bulgarian website of the Radio, rather than dedicated content for users abroad." - Radio Bulgaria (Ian, June 12, shortwavesites yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DXLD) Salvemos a Radio Bulgaria / Estimados amigos: Necesitamos su apoyo para una causa noble y responsable. Radio Bulgaria, que pertenece a Radio Nacional de Bulgaria, es el único medio de comunicación que presenta la imagen de Bulgaria ante el mundo en nueve idiomas, como también en lengua búlgara con programas destinados a las comunidades búlgaras en el extranjero. ¡Hoy Radio Bulgaria afronta el riesgo de quedar en la historia! Les incitamos a que apoyen los esfuerzos de los redactores, periodistas, traductores e instituciones contra este acto destructivo, contrario a los intereses de la sociedad y de la estatalidad de Bulgaria, firmando nuestra petición de salvar nuestra, y también la suya Radio Bulgaria. Estimados colegas, correligionarios [sic] y amigos: Necesitamos su apoyo para una causa noble y responsable. Con la presente petición pretendemos defender y conservar a Radio Bulgaria y ayudar a que esta estructura multiligüe sin parangón despliegue todo su potencial en tanto le sea brindada la oportunidad de optimizarse y desarrollarse a tono con las últimas tendencias en las plataformas informativas en Internet. ¡Bulgaria y Radio Nacional de Bulgaria lo merecen! Trabajaremos a favor de esta causa y buscaremos la reacción y apoyo de las instituciones para que el estatuto de Radio Bulgaria permanezca estable y fuera del alcance de toda suerte de decisiones escasamente perspicaces. Estimadas señoras y señores: consideramos que la resolución sobre si ha de existir o no producción de contenidos por Radio Nacional de Bulgaria en lenguas extranjeros y en qué lenguas ha de ser dicha producción no es una prerrogativa administrativa de la directiva de turno de Radio Nacional de Bulgaria sino que es una cuestión de la política exterior de Bulgaria, así como de la seguridad del país a largo plazo. Colegio de Trabajadores de Radio Bulgaria Radio Nacional de Bulgaria Carta abierta a las instituciones nacionales firmada por el Colegio de Trabajadores de Radio Bulgaria con motivo de los planes del Director General de Radio Nacional de Bulgaria de cerrar Radio Bulgaria. No existen condiciones para modificar la licencia de Radio Bulgaria que emite programas en idiomas extranjeros para el exterior. Consejo para los Medios Informativos Electrónicos Dictamen jurídico de fecha 6 de junio de 2017 El director general Alexander Velev había pedido modificar la licencia dejando en el éter únicamente los programas en lengua turca, y mantener los programas en las demás lenguas extranjeras sólo en Internet. Apoyamos íntegramente la opinión expresada en Carta Abierta por el Colegio de Trabajadores de Radio Bulgaria de que la resolución sobre si ha de existir o no producción por Radio Nacional de Bulgaria de contenidos en lenguas extranjeras y en qué lenguas ha de ser dicha producción no es una prerrogativa administrativa de la directiva de turno de Radio Nacional de Bulgaria sino que es una cuestión de la política exterior de Bulgaria, así como de la seguridad del país a largo plazo. Carta Abierta Unión de Periodistas de Bulgaria Unión de Escritores Búlgaros Unión de Traductores de Bulgaria Asociación de Periodistas Hispanohablantes en Bulgaria Asociación de los Periodistas Francófonos en Bulgaria Fundación Europa y el Mundo 15 relevantes instituciones estatales y 6 organizaciones profesionales y públicas expresaron su categórico desacuerdo con las inaceptables actuaciones del director general de Radio Nacional de Bulgaria, Alexander Velev, que apuntan a cerrar Radio Bulgaria. Les incitamos a que apoyen los esfuerzos de los redactores, periodistas, traductores e instituciones contra este acto destructivo, contrario a los intereses de la sociedad y de la la estatalidad de Bulgaria. http://www.saveradiobulgaria.com/peticion (via Sandro Lennart, June 13, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BULGARIA. 5950, 05/11 at 2305, Overcomer Ministry Sofia. English. Lots of wailing and "woe-is-me". 45444 (Alan Roe, UK, June CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ?? New frequency on me; had been on 5900; error? (gh, DXLD) ** CANADA. FYI - - - - per the HF Underground, posted 0326 UT: I've been listening to CHU on 3330, 7850, and 14670 kHz for the past 30 minutes: There are no time pips and no announcements, but the signal is strong. I've never heard CHU as a quiet carrier before. There's no mention of any testing or absence of time pips on the National Research Council Canada (CHU) web site. Dag, Seminole county, Florida, USA. TS440s + attic dipole (via Ron Howard, CA, 0447 UT June 11, DXLD) 3330-CUSB & 7850-CUSB, June 11 at 0617, both CHUs are dead air with no timesignals or any modulation! Also 14670-CUSB silent at 1403 check, but lite SSB ACI from algo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7850, CHU, 1230 nothing but an OC here. Strong signal. Same on 3330 but a much weaker signal. Must be having some technical difficulties. 14670 too weak to tell if there was only an OC there, and the web receivers didn’t have it any better. 11 June. 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop and 153 foot Delta loop antennas, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 14670, CHU. Indeed, only an OC here at 1900 when the signal was much improved. Shortly thereafter, Ron Howard forwarded a quote that they had a suspect piece of equipment and they would be looking into the problem. By 2045, everything as back to normal on all frequencies. Reception video of the OCs on all frequencies can be found using this link: https://youtu.be/Ox78B0nWFbI (Valko, 11 June) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop and 153 foot Delta loop antennas, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 7850-CUSB & 3330-CUSB, June 12 at 0424 check, CHU has resumed modulating with bilingual time signals, probably some time ago, but before that was open carrier, depriving countless Canux from finding out what time it really was (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7850even, CHU Ottawa, time and standard program, S=9+5dB in MI-US. Time signal in French and English, time pips procedure in progress at 1720 UT on June 13 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, on remote SDR unit in Detroit Michigan USA, 1615-1730 UT on June 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Following an alert I received from Ron Howard early Sunday morning, I contacted NRC about the missing audio. I received a reply that stated, in part, "We have a suspect piece of equipment that could cause that." and that they would look into the problem a.s.a.p. A subsequent e-mail from the CHU engineer sent at 19:59 UTC the same day simply said that the signal is back on. I confirmed this, at least for 7850 kHz, with my own receiver a few minutes later. Canadians (and Americans within "earshot") may still have been able to hear the once-a-day time signal via CBC/Radio-Canada. As stated on the CHU website: "Both the English and French radio networks of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation carry the NRC time signal once per day, the former at 1 p.m. and the latter at 12 noon Eastern Standard or Daylight Time. Note: The radio time signals described above may be routed via one or two communications satellite hops, being delayed by 0.25 seconds per hop." -- (Richard Langley, June 13, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 3990 // 5970, Gannan PBS, 1315, June 11. Finally able to clearly hear them //; in Chinese; seems ex: 5979 has really been abandoned (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9620, CNR10, Dongfang at 1600 UT June 3 with time pips then male in Chinese telling a story with very expressive wording. Very Good (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA 100 loop antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Temp frequency ** COLOMBIA. 1170, Caracol, Cartagena, Bolívar. 0957 May 27, 2017. Bucaramanga and Bogotá news datelines, ID 1000 into commercials (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO. 6115, Radio Congo, Brazaville, 1815-1825, 09-06, French, comments. 14321. Also 1820-1857, 10-06, French, comments, sport comments. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Tecsun PL-880, Sangean ATS-909X, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO DR. Radio Kahuzi, 6210 kHz. Large envelope received from USA address containing full data QSL Card, beautiful large banana leaf painting and station literature after 8 years and 2 months. Well worth the wait (Patrick Cody, Co. Tipperary, Ireland AOR 7030+ / Wellbrook ALA-1530 loop, June BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** CUBA. 6060, June 9 at 1230, RHC Spanish is S9+10 of dead air while 6000 & 6100 are modulating at same signal level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15230, Sunday June 11 at 1412, RHC is in Spanish // 17580 et al., not Esperanto as heard on this frequency exactly one week ago by Claudio Galaz, Chile, so that must have been an anomaly. Esperanto reconfirmed here on scheduled 11760 at 1528 June 11, nominally starting at 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6230, June 12 at 0438, RHC in Spanish, VP S3-S5 in storm noise level, but // 6060, of which this is a leapfrog mixing product over newish 6145, another 85 kHz higher. Used to be on 6270 when the fulcrum was 6165, and I have been alert for this ever since the QSY to 6145. 6000, June 12 at 0442, RHC music in English service is suptorted here, clearer on // 6145 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5025, June 12 at 0446, R. Rebelde is on, unlike earlier in evening, but music is barely modulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CYPRUS [non]. 9955, Wed June 14 at 1307, FG Radio via WRMI playing Badfinger, ``If you want it, here it is, come and get it; you`d better hurry, `cause it`s goin` fast``. Then some Famagusta Gazette items including Easy Jet website redesign a disaster; by 1311 a bit of pulse jamming is audible before WOR starts at 1315.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9799.61, R. Cairo, 2205 Arabic music, 4+1 higher pitch time ticks at 2215, then W with English news ending with ID at 2217. 2219 ID with intro for “Egyptian Challenge” program, then off the air. Back on with OC a minute later, and program already continuing. Good signal but audio over modulated. 9 June. 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop and 153 foot Delta loop antennas, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Radio Nacional, Bata, *0507-0514, 11-06, extremely weak, only carrier detected (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Tecsun PL-880, Sangean ATS-909X, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) S/on time varies widely (gh) ** EUROPE. 6205.01, PIRATE, Laser Hot Hits, 0128 Rock song then M with Off Shore Echos ad, then back to music. 0133 ID jingle, and another song. Thought this might be someone else as they weren’t on nominal 6220. 11 June. 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop and 153 foot Delta loop antennas, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** EUROPE. Channel 4 Kesäsaundit 31 mb test today --- From: "Dick Spacewalker" Some short tests today on 9270 kHz around 1900 up to 2300 UT. Power 5 watts, including announcements and music. Please report all observations to us, thanks. (Dick Spacewalker, Spaceshuttle Radio, June 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. No bids for longwave 162 kHz, power reduced to 800 kW --- Radio.nl reported on 9 May that the CSA had not received any expressions of interest for using the former 162 kHz longwave transmitter. http://radio.nl/813397/frankrijk-langegolffrequentie-162-khz-blijft-stil From 14 March, the power of the transmitter was reduced to 1100 kW to save costs. This did not cause any difficulties for the users of the time signal. From 9 May they have reduced the power to 800 kW. http://www.anfr.fr/gestion-des-frequences-sites/signal-horaire/les-tests-du-signal-horaire/#menu2 (Mike Barraclough, June BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** GERMANY. 6070, Atlantic 2000 International, Rohrbach, *0800-0815, 10-06, ID “Atlantic 2000 International”, French, 35th anniversary program, pop and rock songs, comments. 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Tecsun PL-880, Sangean ATS-909X, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. No signal of DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst on June 5-6: 0600-0630 on 6180 PIN 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German AM mode 1200-1230 on 6180 PIN 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German AM mode 2000-2030 on 6180 PIN 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German AM mode * or on alt. 5905 PIN 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German AM mode http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/no-signal-of-dwd-deutscher-wetterdienst.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1012 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, June 10, 2017 via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Weak signal of Radio der Dokumenta 14 in Indonesian language on June 9 1500-1800 on 15560*KLL 001 kW / non-dir to CeEu Indonesian/English & other langs *15 - 16 QRM 15550 SMG 250 kW / 150 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic R.Tamazuj/R.Dabanga: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/weak-signal-of-radio-der-dokumenta-14_10.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. Reception of Voice of Greece on 9420/9935 kHz, June 6-7 1815-1930 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 & off 1930-2045 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu tx#3 is off air, 2045-0730 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek*tx#3, BACK 1715-2005 on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek & dead air 2005-2012 on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu dead air, tx#1 & 2013-0730 on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek*tx#1, BACK * including news in Arabic 0652 & in Serbian 0655. From 0708 frequency announcement: 9420 and 9935 to WeEu/ENAm, 11645 to NoAf. But frequency 11645 is not active from beginning of summer A-17. From 0730 live broadcast from Greek Parliament and off 0755. http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/reception-of-voice-of-greece-on-9420_7.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1012 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, June 10, 2017 via DXLD) ** INDIA [and non]. 4809.998, AIR Bhopal, as always the best AIR India audio quality sound. S=9+25dB at 1737 UT. 4910.003, AIR Jaipur, more than fair S=9+15dB signal, 1738 UT, on June 13. And two spurs accompanied on plus/minus 50 Hertz either sideband. 4920.001, AIR Chennai Madras, rather poor signal at S=5 level, 1741 UT 4970.016, AIR Shillong at S=9+15dB, but rather on final program announcement, and followed by transmitter switch off down at 1741:41! 5009.997, AIR Chennai Thiruv..., poor S=5 signal at 1744 UT, female presenter station ID at 1745 UT on June 13. And another string visible, poor level, tentative MDG Malagasy on 5009.940 kHz?! (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, remote receiver in eastern Thailand, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. Radio Republik Indonesia Palangkaraya on 3325 kHz can be received because of Ramadan === Log by Anker Petersen on blog PlayDX: https://playdxblog.blogspot.it/2017/06/rri-palangkaraya-su-3325-khz-per-il.html 73 (Giampiero Bernardini, Milan, Italy, June 13 bdxc-uk yg via DXLD) Dear DX-friends, Here are my latest loggings from Skovlunde, Denmark, on the AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire. 73 Anker Petersen 3325.00, 2155-2205 12.6, RRI, Palangkaraya, Bahasa Indonesia ann, nice Indonesian songs - early programme due to Ramadan 35333 AP-DNK heard also at 2025 UT, it starts at 1825 (via playdx blog via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. Very weak to fair signal of Voice of Indonesia in English on June 9: 1300-1400 on 9525vJAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs other broadcast of VOI in English 1900-2000 on 9525vJAK 250 kW / 290 deg to WeEu English is totally blocked by CRI 1900-2000 on 9525 BEI 500 kW / 318 deg to EeEu Russian China Radio International http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/very-weak-to-fair-signal-of-voice-of.html (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DXLD) Change of frequency to 9526.0, VOI, ex: 9524.95, at 1358, on June 13, with full ID in English; into Indonesian segment (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Checked the Voice of Indonesia Cimanggis program on upper channel flank, noted at 1752 UT in eastern Thailand at S=6 rather weak signal on exact 9525.940 kHz. 73 wolfie (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, remote receiver in eastern Thailand, June 13, WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Thanks very much to Wolfie, who today accurately measured the new VOI frequency (Ron Howard, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. In Iran, Radio Liberty Doesn’t Live Up to Its Name https://www.wsj.com/article_email/in-iran-radio-liberty-doesnt-live-up-to-its-name-1497213690-lMyQjAxMTI3MTExMjUxNDIwWj/ Sent from my iPhone (via David Cole, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DXLD) i.e. RADIO FARDA; Viz.: Opinion Commentary IN IRAN, RADIO LIBERTY DOESN’T LIVE UP TO ITS NAME The Persian-language service too often parrots state media and doesn’t give Israel a fair shake. Nenad Pejic, then the interim head of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, in 2014. Photo: Agence France-Presse/Getty Images [caption] By Sohrab Ahmari June 11, 2017 4:41 p.m. ET 27 COMMENTS President Trump is hiring a chief executive for the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the federal agency that oversees Voice of America and other media outlets charged with beaming light and liberty into closed societies world-wide. Politico reports the leading contender is Michael Pack, a conservative filmmaker and president of the Claremont Institute. Whoever gets the job faces an uphill battle to reform an agency that has lost its sense of mission. To get a feel for the dysfunction, consider Radio Farda, the Persian- language component of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. With an annual budget of $117 million, RFE/RL is supposed to serve as a surrogate press in 23 countries across Europe and Asia that restrict media freedom. Farda is one of its most important broadcasters, intended to give Iranians a rigorous, fair and morally credible alternative to propaganda from Tehran. But Farda too often fails to deliver. Nowhere is this more apparent than in its treatment of Israel. Here’s how it recounted a Palestinian attack that took place March 19, 2016, amid last year’s stabbing intifada: “Israeli media, quoting security officials, claimed that Abdullah Ajlouni, a 20-year-old youth, had, as Israeli media put it, approached several Israeli soldiers in a ‘suspicious manner,’ and ‘had tried to attack them.’ ” In fact, Israeli forces didn’t open fire on Ajlouni merely because he had acted suspicious. Ajlouni had pulled a knife and stabbed one of the soldiers before they opened fire. The story went on to claim that Ahmad Dawabsheh, a 6-year-old Palestinian boy who eight months earlier survived an arson attack by hard-line Israeli settlers, had been “transferred to Spain for treatment of wounds sustained in the flames, and Israel still hasn’t arrested anyone on suspicion of carrying out the attack.” Again, incorrect. Israel had two months earlier indicted two Jews, charging one with murder over the attack, which killed Ahmad’s parents and 18-month-old brother. Iranians relying on Farda to understand these events were given the false impression that Israel is a place where Jews kill Arabs with impunity. Nenad Pejic, a former Balkan correspondent who now serves as RFE/RL’s Prague-based editor-in-chief, conceded in an email that the stabbing story that also discussed the Dawabsheh case had been “inaccurate.” Here’s a Farda headline, from a March 10, 2016, news brief: “Three Palestinians and One American Killed in Clashes in Israel.” The implication of saying that Palestinians were killed in impersonal “clashes” is that unmentioned Israelis hover in the background as potential culprits. It is only in the second paragraph that the story identifies the attacker as a “Palestinian man.” Omitted altogether is that the “clashes” started after he began stabbing mainly Jewish civilians. Such obfuscation of assailants’ and victims’ identities reinforces the frame, familiar to Iranians from their own media, in which Israelis are always aggressors. Mr. Pejic acknowledged that this story was “incomplete.” Still another article, published in February 2017, concerned Israel’s decision to deny a visa to a researcher with Human Rights Watch. The story failed to note that the researcher had participated in the movement to boycott the Jewish state — context Iranians deserved to know. Mr. Pejic countered that a three-paragraph squib didn’t allow room for elaboration. Yet Farda published a second, much longer story on this incident that still didn’t divulge the researcher’s anti-Israel views. Then there is Farda’s coverage of President Obama’s nuclear diplomacy. At least five stories, published between 2012 and 2017, described critics of Mr. Obama’s engagement with Tehran as “extremists” and their views of Iranian realities as “amateurish.” The extremists in question included Sen. John McCain, congressional opponents of the deal generally, GOP aides on Capitol Hill, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Mr. Pejic said the label “extremist” was “misused” with respect to Mr. McCain in a 2012 article. But he said the other instances arose from quotes, or came from opinion pieces, or were otherwise “in line with the kind of political observation frequently found in news analysis.” Yet RFE/RL couldn’t point to any instances in which Democrats or supporters of the deal were labeled “extremists” — or with other pejoratives like “peaceniks” or “hippies.” As a taxpayer-funded broadcaster, RFE/RL has a particular duty to refrain from partisanship when reporting on American politics. Perhaps most dismaying are the stories that seem to be borrowed wholesale from state-run Iranian media. An April 2016 Farda headline quoted President Hassan Rouhani to the effect that “If It Weren’t for Iran’s Assistance, ISIS would Have Captured Baghdad and Damascus.” Another, from November 2016, read: “Iran’s Deputy President Visits Shiite Festival in Iraq.” Like any item that might appear in Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, these U.S.-funded stories deferentially quoted one Iranian official after another without offering context or any alternative view. Mr. Pejic agreed that these stories were “incomplete.” If any federal agency could use a Trumpian shake-up, the Broadcasting Board of Governors is it. Mr. Ahmari is a Journal editorial writer in London (via DXLD) ** IRAN [non]. U.K., Radio Ranginkaman/Radio Rainbow via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol on June 9 1600-1630 7575 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg WeAs Persian+BBC English* Mon/Fri: * including BBC English teaching program "Beta Speaking", but only on Friday. http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/radio-ranginkamanradio-rainbow-via_10.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. Radio Ranginkaman/Rainbow via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol, June 12 1600-1630 on 7575 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Persian Mon/Fri, good: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/radio-ranginkamanrainbow-via-babcock_12.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [non]. ROMANIA, IRRS EGR, UN Radio and other via ROU RadioCom on June 4: 0930-1200 9510 SAF 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu English Sun, good signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/irrs-egr-un-radio-and-other-via-rou.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1012 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, June 10, 2017 via DXLD) ROMANIA, IRRS EGR, UN Radio and other via RadioCom on June 11: 0930-1200 9510 SAF 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu English Sun, good signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/irrs-egr-un-radio-and-other-via-rou_11.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KAZAKHSTAN. All stations of Kazakhstan http://vcfm.ru/radio/radiokz.php Updated http://www.vcfm.ru/vc/kazakhstan.htm http://vcfm.ru/vc/f-indexr-sng.htm The general list of government stations is basically composed of two lists, one old, year 2012 or so, severely incomplete, and a second, relatively fresh and relatively complete, formally 2016, but the information there is clearly a little older. Some frequency values ??do not match or may differ. Some are unknown. Some old or questionable stations did not add to the main list. Some information on the capacities is also taken from the licenses, as far as they can be understood due to the incompleteness of the data. There is no information on regional state stations at all, although some have separate frequencies, and similar TV companies have large websites and the whole network of social networks. In Wikipedia, someone wrote a couple of years ago 3 cities with frequencies for Russian radio (plans were real sometime), but there is nowhere else to link to it. With the Russian / Soviet / Kazakh names of cities and places, I was racking my brains for a long time, but I do not like any option, so I just wrote what I wanted, without any system. In general, there is very little open information, and people and organizations need to be slowed down further. https://vk.com/vcfm2014 (Rus-DX June 11 via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6165, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze, via Yamata, *1405- 1435*, June 13. In Japanese; usual intro and closing for Shiokaze, but main body of the program is "Furusato No Kaze" ("Wind of Hometown"), thanks to Hiroshi for this info; CNR6 has returned to the air here, so some QRM (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. UZBEKISTAN, Voice of Martyrs, including in English via RED Telecom, June 13 1530-1700 7510 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean/English, very weak http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/voice-of-martyrs-inclin-english-via-red.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 5940, Voice of Freedom (clandestine), through June 12, at 1247, still unjammed here; jamming still going on at ex: 5920 and ex: 6135 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. I don`t recall hearing this before; this frequency is thick with hams but I can copy some audio by switching to USB. V of the People (S Korea) (tentative) - 3930 - (1050-1115), OM and YL announcers over choral music (similar to what N Korea plays a lot), signal fading by 1125 as sun rises, sinpo 12211. No copy on PNG's the past few mornings (Chris KC5IIE Krug, Tulsa, OK, IC-7410, 40m loop, 1129 UT June 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. On June 13: Echo of Hope - VOH, at 1348: 3985 // 5995 // 6250, all were jammed; // 4885 // 6350 // 9100, all with no jamming. Voice of the People, at 1353: 3910 // 3930 // 4450 // 6520 // 6600, all were jammed. Voice of Freedom, on 5940, with no jamming; strong signal today, 1331 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, June 9 at 1408, KBS World Radio in Korean at S5-S6, no good, nor I am sure was it any better before 1400 in English on same beam. Even in summer it`s insufficient to North America, and totally wasted most of the year because of incompetent frequency management/refusal to use relays. Claudio Galaz, Chile on HCDX points out that KBS are running an ``Overseas Listener Satisfaxion Survey`` and we should say ``yes`` to shortwave at question 12. http://world.kbs.co.kr/special/survey/2017/ However, question 1 is ``Have you listened to KBS WORLD RADIO in the past month? Yes (Go to Q2), No (Go to End of Survey)`` So you might want to try to hear it first; good luck! 15575, June 10 at 1305, I`m attempting to listen to KBS World Radio in order to fill out their survey. News in progress at S5-S7 or SINPO 25322, just not good enough to follow. 1309 news outro, 1310 weekly interview program with conductor(?) of New York Philharmonic, who must be on a visit. I give up and monitor HLW2 instead. Even here in summer, this KBS transmission should be on a much lower band, probably 25m, where VOK 11710 is S9+10/S9, much better readable (in Korean now), despite self-jamming! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 12923.0-CW, June 10 at 1320, CQ marker copied over and over as: ``CQ CQ CQ DE HLW2 HLW2 HLW2 QSX 127Z``. Despite repeated tries from very poor signal amid fading I can`t be certain of the last number. I would have expected a 5-digit reply frequency also on the 12 MHz band. HLW2 is Soul Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. [Re 17-23, site for the 0330 broadcast on 7350?] Wolfie, in case you are up DXing exactly one week later, maybe you can check on this? 73 Glenn to Wolfgang Büschel, June 10, via DXLD) Sorry no chance, I have no way to >>distinguish<< Issoudun or Grigoriopol Maiac, with the pure truth. Both outlets are nearly on zero even frequency. Otherwise, Ivo may check Sofia Kostinbrod on the local frequency harmonic outlet. In my log I put/selected only the HFCC location entry on notice paper. But Aoki list show Grigoriopol instead, I think the Nagoya people took over the Ivo information? 73 (wolfie, June 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, Checked TDF ISS / GRI MDA 7350 kHz, 0225 til 0310 UT this morning June 11. Check 7350??? / 7460GRI kHz same time to Iran channel. The most important argument: 7460 kHz GRI/MDA was already on air when checked at !0226! UT, like Russian TX warm-up behavior, which is still the same behavior validity in Grigoriopol these days. But 7350 kHz came on air very late, like TDF / MBR behavior action handling: at 0229:40 UT TX on air at crash, program music start at 0230:01 UT. The signals on most central European remote SDR receiver units were same strong, there is not any difference on 7350 nor/or 7460 kHz; see the attached European PERSEUS RX unit map, with all checked SDR at western England, Grenoble France, Switzerland, BEL/HOL, GER, AUT, ITA, HNG, and Greece. So, I would guess at 90%, Kurdish Radio 7350 kHz comes from TDF ISS FRANCE broadcast center these days. 73 wolfie ps. V of Greece Avlis program was on air at 0200 and 0330 UT only on single 9935.002 kHz, S=9+30 dB here in southern Germany. (Wolfgang Buschel, June 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Okay, seemingly this schedule according to check today: 0230-0500 ISS 7350 0500-1600 MDA 11600 1600-1930 ISS 11600 1930-2100 MDA crash started at 19.29:55 UT, 11600 kHz, and additional two spur peaks appeared on screen plus/minus 50 Hertz distance of fundamental 11600 kHz. Also checked of 7480 and 9940 kHz today June 11, on Grigoriopol/Maiac MDA site: 7480 Payem e-Doost Bahai religion, TX GRI on air 1755:11 UT, S=9+20 in Germany, backlobe. 9940 TWR Africa, ID "TWR Swaziland", TX GRI on air 1757:46 UT, S=9+20dB, 1759:34 ID "TWR Swaziland". 73 (wolfie, 2020 UT June 11, WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DXLD ** KUWAIT. Radio Kuwait in English and unscheduled in Arabic on June 5 1800-2100 on 15540 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English, good signal 1830&2050 on 15540 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English, nx bulletin 1930-1950 on 15540 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu R.Kuwait & R.Bahrain 2100-2156 on 15540 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic & off 2156UTC http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/ministry-of-information-radio-kuwait-in_5.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1012 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, June 10, 2017 via DXLD) 15540, Radio Kuwait; 1958-2003+, 12-June; 2W in English discussing makeup, foundations, cosmetics, etc. (Does the Koran allow that?) 2002 break with peppy, Greek-sounding music short & ID, then cosmetics program continued. SIO=2+53 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' center-fed RW, ----- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! -----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I`ve noticed that even those showing nothing but their face, go heavy into the eye-makeup. Or draw elaborate oversize eyebrows on their foreheads (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** KYRGYZSTAN. 4010.218, Kyrgyz Radio Bishkek, S=9+10dB in eastern Thailand. 1720 UT on June 13. Female presenter in Kyrgyz language. and 5129.966, KGZ Afghan Pashto religious program "Radio Sedaye Zindagi" via Bishkek site, S=9 in eastern Thailand, but NOTHING on 2nd channel of Bishkek KGZ on 4820v kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. 15125even, CRI Bamako Mali relay in Arabic language to central Africa, Sahel zone and northeastern part of Africa. Mandarin Chinese / Arabic language lesson hour at 1652 UT, Salem Alaikum announcement, S=7 signal sidelobe into eastern North America [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, on remote SDR unit in Detroit Michigan USA, 1615-1730 UT on June 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 900, XEW, W Radio, México DF, 1034 June 10, 2017. Local level riding the local sunrise, with "Pumpin' Blood" by NoNoNo, "Downtown" by Nancy Sinatra, "Back To Life" by Soul II Soul. Male canned "W Radio" slogan dropped in (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- So Tecnoradio received a 14 million peso fine, http://www.cronica.com.mx/notas/2017/1027664.html just for violations of the Federal Economic Competition Law. That doesn't include any criminal components, which have been taken on by the Federal Crimes Unit http://mediatelecom.com.mx/index.php/radiodifusion/radio/item/139317-tecnoradio,-entra-la-pgr-a-investigar of the PGR. The IFT also cleared 15 subtyped (community and indigenous) social stations to receive 1% of the IFT's advertising budget — something provided for by the LFTR in 2014 but which other agencies haven't even implemented. http://mediatelecom.com.mx/index.php/radiodifusion/radio/item/139201-ift-dar%C3%A1-apoyo-a-los-ind%C3%ADgenas This should help these small stations receive more revenue. Also, in one of my favorite pieces in a while, Irene Levy interviewed http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/entrada-de-opinion/columna/irene-levy/cartera/2017/06/5/entrevista-tecnoradio-su-version Alí Eduardo Bañuelos of Tecnoradio — and he doesn't say much, but it just feels so detached from reality (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, June 9, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) IFT-4's amparos keep piling up. http://www.cronica.com.mx/notas/2017/1028294.html Several new ones of note: -Promotora de Éxitos (Grupo Radio Centro) challenged the rules of the auction in two separate proceedings. -Integración Radiofónica Quantum challenges the award of a station in Querétaro that they did not end up paying for. (I can't explain this one.) -CJAguirre Nacional challenges the award of their ability to participate in the auction. I'm confused. Of course, CJAguirre came away with three stations after post-Tecnoradio reallocation (Raymie, June 14, ibid.) Of potential use or not to DXers, but definitely a change. A PRD federal deputy has put forth a proposal to make the broadcast of Mexican AMBER Alerts mandatory for all stations. http://amqueretaro.com/mexico/2017/06/10/proponen-que-difusion-de-alerta-amber-sea-obligatoria-para-concesionarios-de-radiodifusion They're not mandatory now but the RTC does provide them on its site. Anyone who has had 10+ Amber Alert popups show up when visiting the RTC Pautas page can attest to that. Normally the RTC designates specific states for the broadcast of these alerts or will label them "Emisoras: República Mexicana" intending them for national broadcast. Probably the worst effects would be on border blaster stations that would have to work these in. [tagline, after standard disclaimer on government broadcasts] Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa (Raymie, June 14, ibid.) ** MOROCCO. Emisoras y frecuencias que parece que actualmente están fuera del aire --- MARRUECOS, Radio Medi 1, que emite su programación en francés y árabe por la frecuencia de 9575 kHz lleva más de 3 semanas fuera del aire (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, June 10, noticiasdx yg via DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 9730, Myanmar Radio, 1229*, June 11. There has been a recent change in sign off format here; for a long time they always closed with their usual indigenous theme music, but now is // to 5985 and both with singing ID with their three different "kilohertz" frequencies before going off the air, while 5985 continues on (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. Weak to fair signal of Myanmar Radio in English on June 11 1530-1700 on 5985 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs English and strong co- ch with CRI 1600-1700 on 5985 BEI 500 kW / 257 deg to CEAf Swahili China Radio International http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/weak-to-fair-signal-of-myanmar-radio-in.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEWFOUNDLAND. 6159.97, CKZN, at 0359, on June 11. Very readable; "This is CBC Radio One. 98.7 FM, in Mount St. Margaret"; into the news. While it's unfortunate that Vancouver (CKZU) still is off the air, is nice to have clear reception from the other coast of Canada (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NICARAGUA. YNFA-304 --- New log received this evening in Akron, Ohio. [NTSC RF TV channel] 4, YNFA-304 Managua, Nicaragua at 2,027 miles. Click images for larger version. Name: IMG_6731.JPG Views: 12 Size: 122.4 KB ID: 20518 Name: IMG_6730.JPG Views: 13 Size: 139.7 KB ID: 20519 Name: IMG_6732.JPG Views: 12 Size: 133.9 KB ID: 20520 Name: IMG_6733.JPG Views: 12 Size: 128.4 KB ID: 20521 The last photo is an ad for a local radio station on 105.1. Here is a video: https://youtu.be/rJMTdSn4sFg (Andrew, ``crazymonkey``, Akron OH, June 11, My TV and FM DX Photos from Akron, Ohio: https://www.flickr.com/photos/133179 WTFDA Forum via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6940-USB, June 10 at 0028, poor pirate signal with music, maybe gospel/praise rock? 6940-AM, recheck June 10 at 0032, now it`s hard rock in AM mode with stronger signal but cuts off at end of tune 0033* and does not come back for some while. Makes me wonder whether first 6940 was really AM, or two different stations? What does HF Underground say? These logs of 6940-AM https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,35411.0.html say it was Pee Wee between 0007 and 0033*. Clever Name Radio had been on 6940-USB much earlier until 2150* June 9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. YHWH bulletin --- After being off a cupla nights, YHWH and Joshua back on with S-9 signal here in AZ on a modest receiver. 73 and Good Listening (Rick Barton, 0411 UT June 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Rick, I was typing the same thing when you beat me to it! Very low modulation into Victoria, tonight, despite a decent signal strength. Essentially unreadable. 7585 kHz at 0413. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, ibid.) Hi Walt, After three nights of apparently being off the air, YHWH is back again June 9. Heard on 7585-AM, with a sign on between 0325-0329. Very decent signal and readable, even with QRN (static). (Ron Howard, California, ibid.) 7585, June 9 at 0540, very poor carrier registers S9, but Station YHWH modulation barely audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) June 10 & selected recent logs. The times/dates UT. Assume language English unless stated otherwise. Unless otherwise stated, equipment was RS SW-2000629, outdoor Slinky. 73 and Good Listening ! ~Rick 7585, USA [sic] (Pirate) YHWH. 0400 in progress. Creepy song 0442, but going on thru at least another half hour. June 9 Barton-AZ 7585, YHWH, 0430 (at tune-in). Joshua with another Yahweh or the highway sermon, 10 commandments of Yahweh, etc. Creepy Lace song at 0517, then went to an OC. Xmtr off at 0530, then back on with subdued modulation and Joshua again at 0533. On and off with annoying whistle until 0609. Sounded like tinkering or transmitter trouble during broadcast - not sure which. Hold the phone! He was back at 0640. Fair/Good signal with choppiness. June 10 (Rick Barton, AZ, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) YHWH: 7585/AM, 0309, 10-June; Poor but, unmistakable voice of the Yahweh dude (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' center- fed RW, ----- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! --- --, DX LISTENING DIGEST) YHWH 7585 already on the air at 0220 tune-in. Already hearing Joshua at poor level, but his distinctive voice. 2 hours from our LSS, so predictably weak. Brought to your attention, mainly because of the early sign-on (earlier than the usual 0300, and occasional 0230). Interesting that the modulation came way up at 0222 to very readable. "Thank you so much for tuning in". "Most people who believe in God's kingdom have been brainwashed", etc. (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, June 12, ibid.) Very faint signal here in Massachusetts. Only brief audio, a word here and there is about all I’m getting (Stephen Wood, Harwich, MA, 0231 UT June 12, ibid.) 7585, June 12 at 0427, Station YHWH is R4, averaging S8, dissing ``that hybrid man-god, the notorious Jesus Christ``. Walt Salmaniw, BC, found him on the air earlier than usual already at 0220 this date, weak a bihour before his sunset (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) YHWH still holding steady on 7585 --- normally I have had to abandon the patio for the Summer by now. enjoying a cool evening with the RS SW-2000629, 20' wire. 73 and Good Listening! Current log: 7585, USA (Pirate), YHWH at 0245. At tune-in, lecture by "Josiah" to creepy "Days of Hard Life"/Lace at 0300. Good signal; subdued audio, not doing justice to the carrier. June 13 (Rick Barton, AZ, ibid.) Agree. Signal is pretty strong into Victoria, but really puny audio, just above the numerous static crashes. 0318 tune-in tonight. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, 0321 UT June 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Walt & Rick, June 13, heard YHWH, on 7585-AM, at 0200; mostly fair and quite readable, good modulation level the whole time, unlike some of his recent transmissions; 0259-0302, as Rick also heard, the song "Days of Hard Life," followed by what seemed to be a brief live segment, with station ID and IDed the song; 0304 back to his recorded readings; slightly less readable by 0323. My local sunset was at 0326 UT (Ron Howard, California, ibid.) ** OKLAHOMA. 88.1, Thu June 8 at 2333-2335 UT, `StarDate`, then back to NPR ATC. Presumed KWOU Woodward OK on usual marginal signal easily overridden by Es DX. We habitually try to hear SD on KWOU M-F at 1331 UT during another 2-minute break in NPR. Morning tropo enhancement often helps, but not always, in which case our next chance is at 1458 UT via KUCO 90.1. The KGOU schedule grids, both weekly and daily, find StarDate too insignificant to show, but on their A-Z program list as: ``StarDate Daily 6:31 and 8:31 a.m. and 7 p.m.`` CT, but it looks like the last one is wrong, unless I was really hearing some otherstation. And they do not mean every day, but M-F only! More about and access: https://stardate.org/radio (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 89.5-FM, June 9 at 1827 UT on caradio in western Enid, surprised to get a weak signal here in the sidesplash of local 89.7. Fades in and out, but no other signs of Es; promo for Dobson, on Christian Satellite Network. So do they have a nearby 89.5? Kudos to these gospel huxters for a user-friendly station list, all on one page so easily searched: http://csnradio.com/stations/ Of the nine 89.5 entries, there are two translators not close in Kansas, and this non-translator in OK: 89.5 KJCC CARNEGIE OK --- That`s west of Anadarko, surely what I am getting on the margin, rather than Public Radio Tulsa, KWGS. WTFDA FM DB shows KJCC is 23.5 kW ERP H&V at 118.8 m HAAT. There is also a 2-page pdf station list; is it identically updated? http://www.csnradio.com/downloads/pdf/CSN_StationList.pdf in quite a different format, no callsigns; only foreign outlet on both is 97.5 in Tonga, They also have a page with lots of info on frequency and station changes, etc.: http://www.csnradio.com/news/ Including these: Stations Off Air: January 9, 2017 Our stations in Carnegie, Oklahoma (KJCC, 89.5 FM) and Chickasha, 102.3 FM (because it takes signal from KJCC) are off the air until KJCC is reconstructed at a new site. Station Frequency Change: February 14, 2017 Our translator in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (89.5 FM) is now broadcasting at 89.7 FM. So that may explain why I had not been hearing KJCC before. But there is as yet no new info about KJCC being back on air from new site. From where to where, and why? I assume call stands for Jesus C. Christ. CSN was originally Calvary Satellite Network, and got into the FM satellator business early, gobbling up countless frequencies around the country, edging out more diversity on the band. HQ is still in Twin Falls ID. As an example of the absolute nonsense they purvey, currently promoted on website is a book ``Evolution Impossible``! From first station list page, link to KJCC shows: http://csnradio.com/stations/studiowaivered/KJCC.php ``KJCC provides solid Bible teaching and Modern Praise & Worship music to the Carnegie, OK area. KJCC is a studio-waivered full power FM station, re-broadcasting our primary station, KAWZ Twin Falls, Idaho. View a Radio Soft Comstudy Longley-Rice coverage map of KJCC.`` http://csnradio.com/stations/studiowaivered/coveragemaps/KJCC.pdf This is full of color-coded pixels axually showing a rather small coverage area, but hard to interpret without firm contour lines, Seems less than expected for power and HAAT above. Distance to city is 158 km/98 statute miles from here. {Later checking FCC FM Query, I see that it`s direxional, with suppressed signal from 80 to 220 degrees, least at 150, which means it`s pushing more to the NNW than expected. I`m still hearing it marginally in dead conditions, unlike before. Strangely this FCC page has no linx to correspondence, callsign changes, no history at all} (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 92.1, June 12 at 0313 UT, checking for Es, and hear a ``Foxy 92`` ID thru local KAMG-LP with the PL-880 whip in just the right position. Per WTFDA FM DB, turns out to be only this from southern OK between Chickasha and Duncan: KFXI, Marlow OK, 100 kW H&V, 166m HAAT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. Radio Sultanate of Oman in Arabic, instead of English June 13 1400-1430 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg WeEu nothing, transmitter is off 1430-1500 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg WeEu Arabic, instead of English: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/radio-sultanate-of-oman-in-arabic.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) DX Tip: Oman, 15140 kHz --- Several things are happening with them, noted at my location in Northwest Pennsylvania 1.) Coming in better then usual 2.) Actually modulating pretty good 3.) Running English language pop music instead of Arabic language talk and music. English is supposed to be 1400-1500 and is usually weak here and undermodulated. Arabic is 1500-2200 UT and stronger with usually better modulation. Email sent: Tuesday June 13th 2129 UT [later:] 15140 is ON LATE, still, as of 0022 UT Wednesday June 14th, over 2 hours past sign off. This is very clearly because of Ramadan, even though 15140 is just simulcast the English language pop music station 90.4 Oman FM. Even heard an official call to prayer from "The Radio Sultanate Of Oman", some dead air, a 90.4 Oman FM jingle and then some jazzy sounding instrumental music (Paul B Walker, Jr., Hard- Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Maybe, but it`s *not clearly* because of Ramadan, since Oman has frequently let 15140 stay on late into the night, thru carelessness? During non-Ramadan. As for Paul Walker, northwest Pennsylvania? What became of Galena, Alaska? He hasn`t mentioned it lately. I see he is still on the staff list of KIYU as operations/program director: http://www.kiyu.com/staff.html Paul has a reputation for rarely being able to stay at any radio job for more than a year (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. After listening for PNG Milne Bay (3365) for the past week, I finally have a little audio (1111 UT), actually a little better than Bougainville (3325). R Milne Bay - PNG - 3365 (actually closer to 3364.96) - 1110 UT, music followed by OM announcer in unknown language, sinpo 12411 (lots of what sounds like T-Storm QRM even though weather is fine in NE OK), pretty much gone by 1140 UT (can still hear carrier but no audio). Bougainville - PNG - 3325 - 1100 UT, have had pretty reliable reception of this for the past week or so (after a long absence), dance music followed by YL announcer at TOH, sinpo 12411, signal gone by 1142 (no carrier either so may have signed-off??) (Chris KC5IIE, Krug, Tulsa OK, June 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Chris, Very nice report! Glad to see someone else monitoring PNG. June 8, indeed NBC Bougainville off the air earlier than recently observed; gone before 1137 today, after being heard earlier: 1106- 1120. June 8, noted silent were 3260 (NBC Madang) and 3275 (NBC Southern Highlands), at 1121. So today only NBC Bougainville and NBC Milne Bay (3365) were heard. Would seem that NBC will try very hard to keep Bougainville active on SW, as I have been reading on the web about the importance of the June 15, 2019 referendum, to determine if the the citizens want a separate independence for Bougainville or want to remain an autonomous region of PNG. The referendum is not binding on the government. Before voting in 2019, there will be many factors for them to take into account regarding this important vote. Will be interesting to see what develops over the next two years (Ron Howard, California, ibid.. WORLD OF RADIO 1882) I didn`t make clear referendum is two years off (gh) Thank you for the interesting PNG broadcast observation. Does anybody know their sign on/sign off times on 90 m band? Are they working at 1700 or 1800 UT? 73, (Eduard Korsakov, Moskva, ibid.) ** PERU [and non]. R. Tarma, Tarma, Probably PRU 4774.901 kHz ? and BRA 4774.971 kHz ?, 0038 UT June 9 R. Cultural Amauta, Huanta, 4954.997 0045 UT excellent signal in southern Germany June 9 R. Quillabamba, Quillabamba, 2202-2213, 5025.005 0048 UT June 9 (Wolfgang Büschel, check June 8 at 2300 UT til 0052 UT June 9 in southern Germany, in reply to Carlos Gonçalves` less precise but accurate frequencies as in DXLD 17-23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980. R. CHASKI. Junio 7. 2314-2335 UT. Reflexiones acerca de la muerte en torno al suceso de Caín y Abel, y el pecado hasta las 2322. Luego espacio musical e ID: “El camino de la vida”, para luego continuar un espacio musical. Luego avisos de la emisora, cortina musical, Identificación como: “Red Radio Integridad”, después un pequeño devocional. SINPO: 55444 (Claudio Galaz; RX: TECSUN PL – 660; ANT: Hilo de 40 metros de largo; QTH: Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) Must have turned off around 2335 (gh, DXLD) ** PERU. LA HORA DEL RADIOAFICIONADO El Sábado 10 de junio de 2017 23:42, "'Carlos J. V.' tati53> escribió: AMIGOS COLEGAS Y PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Después de mucho tiempo sin nada para nosotros, quienes amamos las COMUNICACIONES y para aquellos que deseen aprender e interiorizarse de nuestro HOBBY-CIENCIA, llega LA HORA DEL RADIOAFICIONADO, un programa radial que estará dedicado íntegramente a la RADIOAFICION Y AFINES. HISTORIA - ANTENAS - SATELITES - COMUNICACIONES DIGITALES - DIEXISMO INFO EN GENERAL DE CONCURSOS Y/O ACTIVACIONES y mucho más referente a nuestra pasión: LA RADIOAF...ICION. [sic] Desde el próximo viernes 9 de junio y todos los viernes de 17 a 18 hs. (8 PM. a 9 PM. GMT/UTC): LA HORA DEL RADIOAFICIONADO, programa producido por el GRUPO DE RADIOAFICIONADOS DE LIMA - GRALI. [Peru is on UT -5, so correct conversion from 17-18 local to UT would be: 22-23!! -- gh] Nos podrán sintonizar a través del ETER de FM.CIUDAD DE LIMA - 91,9 Mhz. - LIMA - BSAS. También nos podes escuchar en su sitio Web: http://www.fmciudaddelima.entudial.com y también en tu celular o tablet ANDROID a través de la APP de GOOGLE PLAY STORE: FM 91.9 Ciudad De Lima (locución AR) Enviado por: "Carlos J. V.", June 10 CORDIALES SALUDOS / GOOD LUCK / JUAN FRANCO CRESPO * STAMP JOURNALIST (AIPET) SÀLVIA 8 (MAS CLARIANA) E-43800 VALLS-TARRAGONA (ESPAÑA-SPAIN- ESPAGNE-SPANIEN) (via Juan Franco Crespo, Spain, DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. Radio Veritas Asia via Palauig Zambales on June 13: 1330-1357 on 11870 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs Chin, poor signal 1400-1427 on 11870 PUG 250 kW / 300 deg to SoAs Hindi is cancelled 1400-1427 on 11880 PUG 250 kW / 300 deg to SoAs Bengali, weak signal 1430-1457 on 11870 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs Telugu, fair to good http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/radio-veritas-asia-via-palauig-zambales.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 11870, June 12 at 1345, now that KNLS quit 11870 at 1259, what`s this? S5 talk halting in unknown language. Sounds a little like French intonation, or maybe some language spoken with a French accent. HFCC shows it`s Radio Veritas Asia westward at 1330- 1357 in `ctd` --- so what does that translate to?? EiBi`s nomenclature makes it ``C-T``. Finally let`s see what Aoki says in plain English: ``Chin``, and all agree it goes with obvious S Asian languages Hindi and Telugu during the following hour. On to EiBi`s readme.txt for details: ``C-T Chin-Tidim: Myanmar-Chin (0.2m), India-Mizoram, Manipur (0.15m) [ctd]`` --- how fortunate are the 350 kilopeople of this trans-border minority that some Filipino expansionists care enough to remake them into Roman Catholix! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 6180, June 12 at 0441, JBA talk in uncertain language. HFCC shows it`s RRI in Romanian at 04-05, 285 degrees from Galbeni; and certainly not Brasil reactivated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11850, Radio Romania International at 2032 UT June 7 in English with news. Sign off announcements and schedule at 2055 UT followed by Interval Signal. Good (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA 100 loop antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Fair to good signal of Adygeyan Radio on June 4 1840-1845 on 6000 ARM 100 kW / 188 deg to CeAs open carrier, 1845-1855 on 6000 ARM 100 kW / 188 deg to CeAs 1000 Hz tone, 1855-1900 on 6000 ARM 100 kW / 188 deg to CeAs open carrier, 1900-2000 on 6000 ARM 100 kW / 188 deg to CeAs Adygeyan Sun: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/russianon-fair-to-good-signal-of.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1012 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, June 10, 2017 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 7345, Radio Sakha, via Yakutsk. Recently had been observing them consistently going off the air 1200-1201*. June 8, with anomaly of 1208-1300*; therefor blocking reception of Thazin Radio (Myanmar); 1208-1245 with all traditional singing; 1245 changed to segment of pop songs; 1248 brief ID (anomaly to not have any ads following ID) and pop music continued; 1257 National Anthem (first time I have heard this!); off with no IS nor time pips. So a special one day only anomaly? (Ron Howard, oceanside at Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sorry, I missed this schedule in DXLD 17-22. My reception was not an anomaly: ``Sakha Republic ---- Local broadcasting Radio Sakha: 7345 0000-0300 SaSu RUS NVK Sakha 7345 0300-0501 RUS NVK Sakha 7345 0900-1200 RUS NVK Sakha 7345 1200-1300 Mo-Fr RUS NVK Sakha 7345 2100-2200 Su-Th RUS NVK Sakha 7345 2200-2400 RUS NVK Sakha http://dxing.ru/forum.html?func=view&catid=21&id=25888&limit=8&start=56#37080 (via RusDX 28 May via WORLD OF RADIO 1880, DXLD) So no more // 7295 [GH]`` June 9 (Friday), on 7345, Radio Sakha mixing at equal strength with Thazin Radio; 1251-1253 birds chirping; 1257-1300* National Anthem; again off with no IS nor time pips (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. HISTORY DX ============ The data are not published in chronological order, but as the material is received. Spring. 1971 year. ----- In the program Radio Sweden - "Sweden Calling Dxers" in Russian read the address for contacts of the Moscow DX- system Alexander Firsov. This was a great event of the time in the DX movement in the USSR. The following year, my mailing address sounded on the waves of the program. I became the second DX-era, then there were several more addresses of Soviet DX-sistems, who reported their addresses for contacts in this program. In the 60s and 70s, the weekly broadcast of "Sweden Calling Dxers" in Russian was the only news release, listening to which many began to get involved in listening to the radio and did it for themselves as a favorite activity. And most importantly, the Swedish radio was not jammed, although the USSR mail practically did not miss letters to capitalist countries. But it was possible to circumvent this ban by sending a letter through a friend by correspondence or through the embassy of a foreign country in the People's Democracies - the GDR, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia. At that time, the occupation of the DX hobby was indirectly connected with the state policy and was not supported as amateurishness. And reports about the reception were generally considered to be harmful to the state in its ideological struggle with the West, since the station knew about the hearing of the station in a certain region and if the reception was bad, could replace the frequency with another to improve the signal quality. DX-listeners called in local committees of the KGB and had conversations, after which many fans of short waves either switched to the ranks of radio amateurs, or permanently stopped their contacts and did not listen to the radio any more. The meaning of the conversations is clear to all. The most enthusiastic did not abandon their hobbies, but switched to contacts with radio stations from the People's Democracies (Radio Berlin International, Radio Prague, Polish Radio, Radio Budapest, Radio Bucharest, Radio Belgrade, etc.) and the USSR (Radio Moscow, Radio Kiev, Radio Tashkent , Radio Riga, radio station "Rodina", radio station "Mir and Progress", etc.). But this is a topic for another conversation. This lasted many years until 1988, when Perestroika and glasnost came. There were new fans of long-distance reception, who can not imagine that there was another time DX hobby in the USSR. Here is what Alexander himself wrote about this time in his letter, which was published with the consent of the author. "Hello, dear Anatoly! So we found ourselves again. I often remember you. You were one of the first who was not afraid then, in those far Brezhnev times, to respond to my call, which suddenly sounded on Radio Sweden in the distant 1970. With my light hand, it all started. Unfortunately, no one now remembers me and does not know who was the true pioneer of Soviet diexing. Until 1970, everyone was brewing in their own juice, but everyone was already tired of brewing in their own juice, and when my bold call for Radio Sweden was sounded, everybody was happy at once, then I was a powerful impetus and catalyst, and Soviet diexing began. The Soviet diheksists finally found out that they were not alone in the vastness of the Soviet Union, they began to communicate with each other and exchange experience. Not surprisingly, this immediately alarmed the KGB, the Chekists feared that the Soviet dieticians would rally their ranks, and ultimately this could serve as the germ of some kind of informal organization of dissenters. Then they made trouble and split in our ranks. I began to gradually move away from watching broadcast stations in the 1980s, and when perestroika began in 1988, the jamming of foreign radio programs was completely stopped, and with the easy hand of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev all ordinary mortals were allowed to travel freely abroad, and in The completion of everything, in 1995 appeared such a miracle as the Internet, then listening to foreign broadcasting stations already lost all meaning and lost the former halo of attractiveness. Everybody has good receivers with a digital scale, the life of Soviet and Russian dilexists is so simplified that it became simply not interesting. Letters began to reach all countries. Everything has become easy and simple, accessible to every schoolboy, and therefore no longer interesting for us. We are not used to looking for easy ways! But I did not lose interest in the ether, just went to higher frequencies up to 13 GHz. In 1988, I was in Moscow one of the first who did not hesitate to install a half-meter dish for receiving satellite TV programs on my balcony, Valdis Ketners from Riga then came to my house to set up this plate. Back then, the KGB was still in power, and they did not approve of satellite dish antennas. In 1990, I had a huge 100-kilogram parabolic antenna with a diameter of 3 meters on the polar axis on the roof of my house on Novatorov Street, which I could aim at any satellite without leaving home. Since 1989, I began to actively travel to Singapore, then engaged in the shuttle business, took from there various goods, mostly electronic: computers, accessories for them, office equipment, supplies, video cameras, and then VHF radios, radio scanners. In 1989, finally, I was struck from the blacklist of the KGB, and finally I was able to get the UA3AMB radio call sign, I started to work on short and ultra short waves, but then quickly cast short waves, and my interest was focused on VHF. He has experimented extensively with VHF radio, packet radio, antennas and repeaters, telephone interfaces, and trunked radio communications. Then there was a good business: they sold car radio telephones "Altai" to businessmen. Naturally, the left. The demand was huge, we sold them for 2000-2500 dollars, it was the golden time (1996-1997). At the same time, I became on the frequency of 824-825 MHz to intercept the signals of honeycomb pipes "Beeline" and learned to decode digital packages, extracting from them all the necessary information to make a double tube. This business prospered in 1995- 1997. Then came the converted home radio-telephones-vampires, who themselves caught the codes of foreign home radiotelephones and automatically connected to other people's bases of home radiotelephones. Then the mobile operator Sonnet appeared in Moscow, and for a long time I got carried away by cellular communication of the CDMA standard. Until now, I'm staying in this thread, writing different programs, developing software and software algorithms. I reverse engineering, disassemble the binary code of the working microprograms of cellular telephones assembled on the basis of a processor with the ARM kernel, modify the binary code of the firmware by hacker methods, revealing the blocked functions of such devices as cell phones, personal communicators, palmtops, GPS navigators, mobile bank terminals. I am engaged in research of SIM cards, other smart cards ... I have been living in Thailand for 4 years, I started my roots here, I got a new family, children. Thank you for writing. Thanks to Viktor Puzanov, that he gave you my greetings from Thailand! I embrace you all. Your old friend and colleague on a hobby. Alexander Firsov. " (Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, "Rus-DX Plus" Number 402. Date: 11 / September / 2011, via Rus-DX 11 June 2017 via DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 15434.986, BSKSA Riyadh, 1st program in Arabic, scheduled 1450-1700 UT S=7 in Michigan at 1644 UT on June 13. Male presenter talk. 15204.968, BSKSA Riyadh, Holy Qur`an prayer program in Arabic, male voice presenter talk program, S=6-7 poor at 1650 UT, 13710.015, BSKSA Riyadh, Holy Qur`an prayer program in Arabic, male voice presenter, \\ 15205v kHz. S=7 at 1658 UT [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, on remote SDR unit in Detroit Michigan USA, 1615-1730 UT on June 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SIKKIM. 4835, AIR Gangtok, 1230, June 9. News/stock market report/ sports in English; clearly // AIR Chennai (4920, with PBS Xizang still off the air) // AIR Shillong (4970) and // AIR Jeypore (5040). Certainly is not every day that I can hear Gangtok so well (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020, Wantok FM, via SIBC, 1200-1244*, June 12. Extended broadcast; 1159 end of NA and deadair till start of relay; almost fair; frequent generic spots ("Makes me happy. Turns me on," etc.), but no Wantok FM IDs as such; played all pop Pacific Islands songs. My local sunrise was at 1248 UT. June 11 (Sunday), 1230-1308*; extended broadcast; non-stop pop songs (Tina Turner - "What's Love Got To Do With It," etc.), instead of the usual all religious songs (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. 7120, R. Hargeisa, 1417, June 12. As they have done in past years, they are now on the air 1400-1500, just during Ramadan; their usual schedule is to be off the air during 14-15; heard with HOA music and a call in program; weak (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Yesterday a local non-radio friend (non-SWL, non DX'er) told me he had noticed the overnight BBC WS relay was back on Radio Today 1485, at least for the past two nights. I checked last night (June 11), and sure enough they switched over to the BBC WS at 2301ut. I don't know how long they have been back, or how long they are back for. Only monitoring will resolve the latter question. 1485, Radio Today, 1485. Marks Park, Jo'burg. Jun 11, 2017 Sunday. 2255-2315. Usual music at tune in. Switched over to BBC WS relay at 2301. News, into History Hour talking about the 1967 (six-day) war in the middle east. Jo'burg sunset 1523 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA. Drake R8E, Sony ICF2001D. dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Power? 1 kW in Honeydew, per WRTH (gh) ** SOUTH AFRICA. 15235, Channel Africa at 1746 UT June 9 with full station ID during Africa Digest followed by sports. Sign off announcements at 1753 followed by music to 1800, then into lang? until transmitter was shut off at 1804. Very Good (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA 100 loop antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9370 & 3185, June 9 at 0057, both WWRBS frequencies are off --- I caught them during a QSY interval. Waiting for 3185, JBA exciter carrier on at *0059.5, *0100 JIP BS at full power reaching only S9 here this early (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9330v-CUSB, June 10 at 1620 check, NO signal from WBCQ, which had been carrying Brother Scare all day and night; while 9265 WINB is fairly audible on Saturday this early. Suspect the greatly expanded hours have been deleted, if not all TOM hours on WBCQ. Axually, was it June 9, 8 or 7, when I checked 9330 for WOR at 2330, and just before then heard The Planet IS & ID loop, implying 9330 had not been on the air all day until about *2325. Previously had made an abrupt switch at 2329 from TOM to WBCQ ID and 2330 WOR. WBCQ schedules still show extensive TOM hours on all frequencies and likely will be slow to update, just as it took a long time for the TOM expansion to upshow. Likewise Overcomer`s own schedule which contains lots of wrong info, including recently reactivated 9370 & 3185 as BOTH WWRB and WBCQ! More at USA: WBCQ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3215, WWCR Nashville TN (presumed); 0427, 13-June; Bro. STAIRway-to- doom said that the 8/21 solar eclipse is a sign of the end times and we should join him in SC that weekend. S30 & about 5 seconds ahead of // 3185 via WWRB (presumed). The eclipse will pass totality near BSland. (Personally, I’m shooting for Grand Island NE, but sharing the eclipse with BS certainly would be interesting. This bodes well for some interesting commentary from the last days prophet of God this summer.) 15770, WRMI Radio Miami Int’l (presumed); 2005, 12-June; Gloom & doom, gasping, screaming religihuxter, from “this year of our Lord 1987.” Said that there will be a financial collapse & people will throw their gold & silver into the streets because it’s worthless. (I want to be around for that!) SIO=454. Overcomer listed, but not Bro. HySTAIRical, who was on 15760 [WHRI]. (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' center-fed RW, ----- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! -----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. Emisoras y frecuencias que parece que actualmente están fuera del aire --- ESPAÑA, Radio Exterior de España, la frecuencia para Sudamérica de Radio Exterior, 17715, parece que está fuera del aire desde hace tres días. Por aquí no se capta ni tan siquiera la portadora, mientras que las otras frecuencias, 17855, 15520 se reciben fuerte, mientras que 15390 entraba bien en dias pasados y hoy tampoco se escucha (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, June 10, noticiasdx yg via DXLD) Sigue estando fuera del aire REE en su frecuencia de 17715 hacia Sudamérica, siendo lunes 12 de junio, 1830 UT (ce3BBC, Hugo López C., Santiago de Chile, ibid.) ESPAÑA, Radio Exterior de España, 1922, 14-06 ya hay señal en 17715; se recibe aquí en Lugo, con intensidad moderada, 24322 (Méndez, ibid.) Manuel y amigos, como bien mencionas, ya está de vuelta y por Sudamérica con intensidad 55545, a las 2136 UT, que es la zona para donde se dirige. Atte. (ce3BBC, Hugo López C., Santiago de Chile, June 14, ibid.) ** SWEDEN. Importance of Sweden Calling DXers to Russians: see RUSSIA ** TAJIKISTAN. On the 7th of June at 1630 on 14295 kHz, it was quite possible to hear Tajikistan's radio in the Tajik language (It is similar to Farsi / Persian) and the main frequency is 4765 kHz (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Rus-DX June 11 via DXLD) Third harmonic (gh) ** TURKEY. April 18, The Voice of Turkey sent a confirmation for the February auditions, we have June 6; The card is dedicated to the "Day of abstinence from smoking" (Victor Varzin, Leningradskaya oblast, Kommunar, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX June 11 via DXLD) Voice of Turkey - QSL-card (9410 kHz / 1400 UT / February 27, 2017) Photo here: http://qsl-review.blogspot.ru/2017/06/voice-of-turkey-tur-date-february-27.html (World Day Against Tobacco) - Sent from Turkey on April 18, received on June 5, 2017 (total time - more than three months). (KB = Constantine, St. Petersburg, Russia, Rus-DX June 11 via DXLD) ** U K [non]. 9740, June 9 at 1237 BBCWS with elexion coverage, including itchy-for-autonomy Northern Ireland and Scotland. 1245-1247 break for other news during special `Newshour` (?), about Catalunya referendum for autonomy, Qatar, selling baby chimps in Ivory Coast. S9 fading to S6 is the best BBC can do for us, without really trying. HFCC shows at 10-13 they are splitting SINGAPORE 250 kW with 125 kW each at 135 and 13 degrees, the latter carrying on USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. AMBASSADOR ALBERTO M. FERNÁNDEZ JOINS BBG AS PRESIDENT OF THE MIDDLE EAST BROADCASTING NETWORKS --- June 13, 2017 --- Ambassador Alberto M. Fernandez [portrait caption][accent omitted thruout] WASHINGTON - The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) today announced that Ambassador Alberto M. Fernandez will join the Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc. (MBN) as its new president beginning July 17, 2017. In this role, he will oversee MBN's multimedia operations in the U.S. and across the Middle East, including its digital properties, Alhurra Television networks and Radio Sawa. MBN is a private, not for profit, multimedia corporation funded by the BBG that provides news and information to the 22 Arabic speaking countries across the Middle East and North Africa. With a weekly audience of more than 27.5 million people, MBN supports democratic values by expanding the spectrum of ideas in the region and producing accurate, professional, and independent news and information on all media platforms; and is a trailblazer in audience engagement. Brian Conniff, BBG veteran and current MBN President, is leaving the company after 11 years. Under his leadership, MBN has grown to be a forward-looking, flexible organization responding to the region's evolving media environment and challenges. "It has been a pleasure to work with the professionals of MBN," said Conniff. "This transition comes at a time of strategic importance as the organization continues to focus its content and seek new ways to increase its impact. I am confident that Ambassador Fernandez will advance MBN's important work and continue to increase its impact." In response to Conniff's announcement, John Lansing, CEO and Director of the BBG said, "Brian has played a significant role in BBG's growth throughout the years, and his expertise and counsel has been invaluable to me. He is an extraordinary leader and has worked very closely with other network leadership to streamline our collective and individual efforts, and to develop creative programming that demonstrates real impact. Ambassador Fernandez is inheriting a first class team with a portfolio of major initiatives." Ambassador Fernandez, a fluent Arabic speaker, will join BBG from the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), where he served as Vice President from 2015 to 2017. During his Foreign Service career, he was widely regarded as one of the most knowledgeable and impactful U.S. Foreign Service voices in the Arabic-language media. Ambassador Fernandez held numerous roles at the U.S. Department of State, including the Department's Coordinator for the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, Chief of Mission in Sudan, Director for Near East Public Diplomacy and Director for Iraq Public Diplomacy. He was a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister- Counselor and was a recipient of a 2008 Presidential Meritorious Service Award, the 2006 Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Public Diplomacy, and a 2003 Superior Honor Award for his work in Afghanistan, among other awards. He also served as a Foreign Service Officer in Iraq, Kuwait, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, and the United Arab Emirates, and as USIA desk officer for Egypt, Yemen, and Sudan. Ambassador Fernandez is a graduate of the University of Arizona and the Defense Language Institute. Ambassador Fernandez has also lectured and debated on U.S. foreign policy in numerous public venues, and has published in several publications, including Brookings Institution publications, the Foreign Service Journal, Journal of International Security Affairs, Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Cipher Brief, Providence, the Harvard Review of Latin America, Middle East Quarterly and the Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society (JAAS). He is also a Non-Resident Fellow in Middle East Media and Politics at the TRENDS Foundation in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Kenneth Weinstein, Chairman of the Board for the Middle East Broadcasting Networks, conveyed the Board's support for the selection, "Ambassador Fernandez shares our values and focus on long-term growth," he said. "He has the perfect combination of skill, experience, and regional expertise that we need to continue driving forward at MBN. We are pleased that he accepted this challenge and look forward to working with him. The Board and I are also very grateful to Brian Conniff for his passion and leadership, and thank him for his accomplishments over many years of dedicated service to the agency." "I am truly honored and humbled to join the Broadcasting Board of Governors as the President of the Middle East Broadcasting Networks," said Fernandez. "I am delighted to have an opportunity to contribute to the impact the BBG's networks have on millions of lives around the world. MBN is a media leader in the region, and I look forward to joining with its dedicated and accomplished staff to continue its growth momentum in new and creative ways." (BBG PR via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DXLD) ** U S A. TRUMP TO CUT $4.5 MILLION FROM RADIO FREE ASIA Washington Free Beacon-7 hours ago The Voice of America, the more official U.S. government broadcaster, took a similar step in 2011, cutting off short-wave broadcasts into China during the Obama .. http://freebeacon.com/national-security/trump-cut-4-5-million-radio-free-asia/ (via Artie Bigley, Mike Cooper, DXLD) See also IRAN [non]! Trump to Cut $4.5 Million from Radio Free Asia Mandarin broadcasts to China to end in shift to state-controlled Chinese social media --- BY: Bill Gertz June 13, 2017 5:00 am The Trump administration plans to cut $4.5 million from Radio Free Asia in a move that critics say would sharply reduce Chinese language broadcasts into China by the pro-democracy radio. The budget cuts were announced at RFA's Washington headquarters recently and drew opposition from the staff and the radio's supporters in Congress, according to administration officials. The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the government entity that is RFA's parent organization, defended the funding cuts to Mandarin- language radio as part of a shift to the use of social media—outlets in China that are tightly controlled by the government and explicitly ban RFA content. "RFA will continue to focus on Mandarin through social media which is the platform the agency has determined to be most cost-effective," the board said in a statement to the Washington Free Beacon. The proposed budget cut from $40 million last year to $35 million in fiscal 2018 is "in keeping with President Trump's focus on streamlining government expenses," the statement said. "RFA is an authoritative source of East and Southeast Asian news, and will continue to substitute for domestic media in Asian countries that prevent or restrict freedom of the press," the board said. Rohit Mahajan, a spokesman for RFA, a federally funded non-profit organization, declined to comment on the cuts, citing a policy that prohibits public discussion of budget matters. "We look forward to Congress establishing foreign policy priorities on China," he said. RFA President Libby Liu said in a statement: "I'm really proud of the work done by Radio Free Asia’s Mandarin service in bringing incisive news and uncensored perspectives to China. We hear from Chinese listeners every day who are yearning to know more about events happening in their country that China’s state-controlled media either chooses to ignore or misrepresent." RFA Mandarin broadcasts have a responsibility to audiences that fill an information gap that the radio is working tirelessly to close, she said. The cuts come as foreign states, such as China and Russia, are sharply increasing soft-power official broadcasting and propaganda activities directed against U.S. interests and allies. RFA as a semi-official radio station is devoted to promoting democracy and freedom in China and Asia. It broadcasts in Burmese, Cantonese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Mandarin, Tibetan, Uyghur, and Vietnamese on shortwave, medium wave, satellite, television, and the internet. The Voice of America, the more official U.S. government broadcaster, took a similar step in 2011, cutting off short-wave broadcasts into China during the Obama administration. VOA came under fire from Congress recently for curtailing an interview with an exiled Chinese billionaire, Guo Wengui, who has been revealing high-level corruption among Chinese leaders. Rep. Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee that oversees the BBG budget, said he wants RFA to continue broadcasting in Mandarin. "As long as Beijing's internet firewall blocks sites including RFA and VOA, we should continue funding Mandarin radio service," Royce said, adding that he would "rather see the BBG find cost savings by cutting bloated bureaucracy in DC." Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) also criticized the proposed budget cut. "China's propaganda and censorship efforts are growing, and now even reach into the United States," he said. "We need to smartly invest in countering these efforts so that China’s authoritarians do not gain a strategic advantage in the battle of ideas." Information specialists criticized the radio cuts. Retired Navy Capt. Jim Fanell, a former Pacific Fleet intelligence chief, said the Trump administration should bolster both RFA and VOA broadcasts that are urgently needed to combat China's approach to power politics. "Radio is a powerful application and we should not walk away from it," he said. "On a daily basis American citizens are bombarded with Chinese propaganda from state-owned media outlets like China Daily, People's Daily, and Xinhua," said Fanell. "In order to keep up with and attempt to counter Beijing's strategic narrative, venues like Radio Free Asia provide an assured method of communication to the citizens of China, something that Internet-based communications cannot do," he added. "The short-term savings of cutting Radio Free Asia's Mandarin broadcasts can in no way mitigate the long-term damage to U.S. national security interests from the public broadcast of the truth of Beijing's attack on freedom." J. Michael Waller, an information operations expert, said the budget cuts would help China's censors maintain party control over Chinese media and messaging. Beijing likely will cheer the proposed funding cuts, he noted. "The U.S. government should be protesting Beijing's censorship, not facilitating it," said Waller, a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy. "The Communist Party already controls social media access and content on the mainland. A U.S. shift to social media in China, at the expense of broadcasting, further empowers the censors." Waller said any change in funding for Mandarin language broadcasts should be focused on breaking through official Chinese media censorship. "Although the Chinese people have been shifting heavily toward censored social media, hundreds of millions of Chinese still listen to traditional radio broadcasting," he noted. "This is why the Communist authorities continue to jam Radio Free Asia and other independent Mandarin-language media." The RFA cuts are part of an overall cut of $63 million in funding cuts for government-sponsored radio broadcasts, such as the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and other foreign language broadcast outlets. The BBG budget document sent to Congress for fiscal 2018 shows that a total of $4.69 million will be cut from the Mandarin service. Slight increases in RFA funding for its offices in Taiwan and Hong Kong will offset some of those cuts for a total cut of $4.55 million to the entire radio. The budget requests a total of $35.3 million. The Chinese language broadcast cuts are part of plans by RFA to "focus its Mandarin resources on social media, which is the platform the agency has determined to be most cost-effective," the report said. The Mandarin budget RFA headquarters for the coming year will instead be around $300,000. China imposes strict controls on all social media. Inside China, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are blocked. Chinese microblogging sites such as WeChat and Weibo, which have tens of millions of users, explicitly block all content from RFA. Additionally, the Chinese government recently took steps to further restrict the use of virtual private networks, or VPNs, that are widely used to circumvent Chinese censorship. The RFA cuts appear to be part of the Trump administration's focus on the threat from North Korea while diminishing its policy focus on the threat posed by China. John Tkacik, a former State Department China expert, said Radio Free Asia is "probably the single most reliable, accurate, and comprehensive source of information the Chinese have on civil society, environment, and rule of law news today." "They certainly aren't getting it from the Voice of America which still relies for much of its Chinese language programming on Chinese governmental sources like Xinhua and Global Times," he said. Congress last year mandated that the poorly managed BBG dissolve its managing board and appoint a single chief executive officer. The leading candidate for the post is Michael Pack, an experienced broadcast journalist who is currently president and CEO of the California-based Claremont Institute and publisher of the conservative Claremont Review of Books. The Trump administration also is seeking a replacement for Voice of America Director Amanda Bennett, a liberal journalist who is married to former Washington Post Publisher Donald Graham. Bennett and Graham founded the group TheDream.US, which provides scholarships to illegal aliens. William C. Triplett II, a former professional staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who specialized on China, said former Vice President Joe Biden help launch RFA as a senator. "This is Joe Biden's baby. He wrote the legislation. Will he intervene with Hill Democrats to rescue it or will he let it die? TBD," Triplett stated in an email. A spokeswoman for Biden did not respond to an email seeking comment. (via WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DXLD) similar story: TRUMP TAKES HEAT OVER PLANNED CUTS TO RFA BROADCASTS INTO CHINA By World Tribune on June 14, 2017 by WorldTribune Staff, June 13, 2017 http://www.worldtribune.com/trump-takes-heat-over-planned-cuts-to-rfa-broadcasts-into-china/ The Trump administration’s plan to slash $4.5 million from Radio Free Asia’s budget came under fire for cuts to the pro-democracy Chinese language broadcasts at a time when Beijing has sharply increased its propaganda activities against U.S. interests and allies. “China’s propaganda and censorship efforts are growing, and now even reach into the United States,” Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, said. “We need to smartly invest in countering these efforts so that China’s authoritarians do not gain a strategic advantage in the battle of ideas.” In a social media post, security correspondent Bill Gertz said: “As China ramps up info war against the US, Trump wants to cut Radio Free Asia broadcasts to China. What?” The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the government entity that is the parent organization of Radio Free Asia, (RFA), said the proposed budget cut is “in keeping with President Trump’s focus on streamlining government expenses.” RFA, a semi-official radio station is devoted to promoting democracy and freedom in China and Asia, broadcasts in Burmese, Cantonese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Mandarin, Tibetan, Uyghur, and Vietnamese on shortwave, medium wave, satellite, television, and the Internet. “RFA will continue to focus on Mandarin through social media which is the platform the agency has determined to be most cost-effective,” the BBG said in a statement to the Washington Free Beacon. “RFA is an authoritative source of East and Southeast Asian news, and will continue to substitute for domestic media in Asian countries that prevent or restrict freedom of the press,” the board said. RFA President Libby Liu said in a statement: “I’m really proud of the work done by Radio Free Asia’s Mandarin service in bringing incisive news and uncensored perspectives to China. We hear from Chinese listeners every day who are yearning to know more about events happening in their country that China’s state-controlled media either chooses to ignore or misrepresent.” Rep. Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee that oversees the BBG budget, said he wants RFA to continue broadcasting in Mandarin. “As long as Beijing’s Internet firewall blocks sites including RFA and VOA, we should continue funding Mandarin radio service,” Royce said, adding that he would “rather see the BBG find cost savings by cutting bloated bureaucracy in D.C.” Voice of America (VOA), the more official U.S. government broadcaster, took a similar step in 2011, cutting off short-wave broadcasts into China during the Obama administration. VOA came under fire from Congress recently for curtailing an interview with an exiled Chinese billionaire, Guo Wengui, who has been revealing high-level corruption among Chinese leaders. Retired Navy Capt. Jim Fanell, a former Pacific Fleet intelligence chief, said the Trump administration should bolster both RFA and VOA broadcasts that are urgently needed to combat China’s approach to power politics. “Radio is a powerful application and we should not walk away from it,” he said. “On a daily basis American citizens are bombarded with Chinese propaganda from state-owned media outlets like China Daily, People’s Daily, and Xinhua,” said Fanell. “In order to keep up with and attempt to counter Beijing’s strategic narrative, venues like Radio Free Asia provide an assured method of communication to the citizens of China, something that Internet-based communications cannot do,” he added. “The short-term savings of cutting Radio Free Asia’s Mandarin broadcasts can in no way mitigate the long-term damage to U.S. national security interests from the public broadcast of the truth of Beijing’s attack on freedom.” (World Tribune via Artie Bigley, DXLD) ** U S A. HOW AN INTERVIEW WITH ONE CHINESE BILLIONAIRE THREW A US BROADCASTER INTO TURMOIL http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/09/interview-with-guo-wengui-throws-voice-of-america-into-turmoil.html * Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui alleges corruption among top Chinese officials. * Taxpayer-funded Voice of America cut short a live interview with Guo in April. * Five journalists were put on administrative leave after the broadcast. Evelyn Cheng | @chengevelyn 20 Hours AgoCNBC.com A dispute over why Voice of America abruptly shut down an interview with a vocal critic of Beijing is raising questions about whether Chinese leadership influenced the U.S. broadcaster. On April 19, taxpayer-funded Voice of America cut short a live interview with Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui -- and subsequently put five of its own journalists on administrative leave. "I suspect somebody caved in to the Chinese government's demand, because the timing itself was very suspicious," one of those journalists, Mandarin Service Chief Sasha Gong, told CNBC last week. "Someone very, very powerful must be very, very afraid of this. Otherwise, nothing makes sense." Gong said Chinese authorities met with Voice of America's Beijing correspondent two days ahead of the April 19 interview and asked for its cancellation. Voice of America management then asked Gong to cancel the interview, or at least to shorten it to 15 minutes, she said. Gong said management declined to cancel the interview in writing before it began, but then abruptly pulled the plug one hour and 19 minutes into the live conversation. "Why was the interview stopped while it was going on? You send a message to the audience that's watching." -Robert Reilly, former director, Voice of America Two of the other reporters on administrative leave, who did not wish to be identified, concurred with Gong's account. Voice of America, however, disputes Gong's version. "At no time was there any management consideration of not doing the interview, nor of cutting short an ongoing interview for any reason," the broadcaster said in a statement to CNBC. Voice of America confirmed that it put Gong and four other department employees on administrative leave. Voice of America Director Amanda Bennett denied that Beijing influenced VOA's decision. "It was not caused by the Chinese involvement. It was caused by our own recognition at a news meeting that an unusual interview had been scheduled," she told CNBC, arguing that Guo was making allegations that could not be verified. "It wasn't miscommunication, and the instructions were clear." The Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees Voice of America, appointed James McGregor, chairman of greater China for a public relations firm called Apco Worldwide, to investigate any influence from Beijing. Gong characterized McGregor's role as "crisis management PR." Bennett said McGregor is "probably as neutral and respected and ethical as anybody in the field." McGregor did not respond to a CNBC request for comment. A law firm and the Broadcasting Board of Governors' internal security department are conducting two separate investigations, Bennett said. Mission to encourage a free press Voice of America was founded in 1942 to encourage freedom of the press beyond U.S. borders. The organization received $218 million in funding from Congress in fiscal 2016. Bennett became director in 2016. She led the projects and investigations unit of Bloomberg when it came under fire from Beijing for a report on the wealth of Xi Jinping's relatives in 2012, just before he became Chinese president. Bennett resigned from Bloomberg in 2013. She told CNBC she is "exceptionally proud" of the report on Xi and that it "was extremely controversial and at various times during the project we faced strong pressure from China not to publish." This April when Voice of America began promoting its Mandarin-language interview with Guo, Chinese officials told the news organization that the planned program "was interfering with China's internal affairs," Gong said, noting the broadcaster has two visas for work in Beijing. BEIJING'S FINANCIAL CRACKDOWNS LIKELY WON'T AFFECT CHINA'S GROWTH TRAJECTORY: Pro Wednesday, 24 May 2017 | 8:41 PM ET | 03:05 Among the billionaire Guo's allegations is that Wang Qishan, leader of Beijing's anti-corruption efforts, is himself tainted by corruption. CNBC was unable to reach the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs early Saturday morning Beijing time for comment. Guo is believed to have fled China for the United States in 2014. The tycoon's deep involvement in Chinese government and business affairs has apparently given Guo plenty of inside material, which he disseminates to his more than 200,000 Twitter followers. A New York Times profile of him last week noted that while "some of his claims have been outlandish and easily debunked," others "have turned out to be accurate." Guo did not respond to CNBC requests for comment. Voice of America's Gong said her reporting and live interview with Guo would have shed light on how much the Communist Chinese government is spending to monitor and intimidate dissidents -- practices she said are on the scale of what was seen in the Soviet Union. The Chinese Foreign Ministry has called Guo a "criminal." On the day of the Voice of America broadcast, the ministry confirmed that it had asked Interpol to issue a "red notice" for Guo's arrest. At 9 a.m. ET that day, the live interview in Mandarin began as scheduled before stopping shortly after an hour. The program had been planned as a one-hour televised broadcast, followed by two hours of internet livestreaming. The initial hour of the televised broadcast is still available on Voice of America's Mandarin Service YouTube channel. "As I understand it, there were several members of senior management who were viewing this as it was taking place," Robert Reilly, who served as Voice of America director until 2002, told CNBC. "Why was the interview stopped while it was going on? You send a message to the audience that's watching." (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** U S A. NO LIVE VOA COMEY FEED, DISMAL AUDIENCE http://bbgwatch.com/bbgwatch/no-live-voa-comey-feed-dismal-audience/ BBG Watch> Featured News > No live VOA Comey feed, dismal audience BBGWatcher June 8, 2017 0 Comments Featured News, Hot Tub Blog BBG Watch Commentary Unlike BBC, Al Jazeera, RT, DW and almost all other major international and U.S. news media outlets, U.S. tax-funded ($221 million in FY 2017) Voice of America (VOA) did not have a live feed on its Facebook VOA News English page or its VOA News English website from former FBI director James Comey's congressional testimony. During his testimony, VOA News posted on Facebook a number of Comey- related videos and reports. In some of them, VOA correspondents seemed to be the major focus of the video, not the former FBI director or his answers to questions from members of Congress. There is absolutely no indication whatsoever that anyone in the Trump administration had ordered VOA not to carry Comey's testimony live on Facebook or on VOA News website. High-level officials and executives appointed during the Obama administration are still in charge of the Voice of America and its "nearly defunct" (Secretary Clinton's 2013 description) parent agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). In any case, VOA did cover the Comey testimony story extensively. It's likely that the VOA management and or VOA editors may have been concerned that a Live Facebook transmission of Comey's testimony could expose VOA's dismally small audiences for such feeds compared to BBC, The New York Times, or even Russia's RT audience for Live Facebook feeds. Considering the major news value of the Comey testimony story and the fact that it also concerned the president of the United States and that the Voice of America is an American, tax-funded media outlet, VOA should have been in the forefront in news coverage and the size of the audience it should have attracted for such coverage on its website and its social media pages. There was, however, no live feed from Comey's testimony, and VOA's online audience was once again dismal during such a major U.S. news development. Audience engagement for VOA News regular Facebook posts on James Comey's testimony has been also embarrassingly low compared to Facebook posts from other media outlets on the same story -- both international like BBC, Al Jazeera, RT or Deutsche Welle (DW) -- or U.S. news media, such as The New York Times. Critics blame VOA's decline as a digital news provider almost entirely on the mismanagement by the Broadcasting Board of Governors. They mention the tremendous growth of the BBG bureaucracy at the expense of programs and programming jobs, poor hiring practices and the inexperience of BBG and VOA senior leaders appointed during the Obama administration and not yet replaced. Under their watch, some VOA reporting has become highly biased in violation of the VOA Charter. IFRAME: https://www.youtube.com/embed/RcDG6j2qfrA This one-sided attack video on Donald Trump (with commentary added later by critics of the VOA management) was posted on Facebook with foreign language subtitles by one of VOA's many foreign language services. It was later removed. In 2016, the Voice of America had posted one-sided attacks not only on Donald Trump but also on Bernie Sanders. VOA also has lost recently much of its reputation and credibility in China as a result of a programming scandal involving the shortening by the management of a controversial interview. Critics blame this on decisions by senior BBG and VOA executives who strongly deny that they are doing anything wrong. Employee morale at the federal part of the Broadcasting Board of Governors is at record low, as measured in employee surveys by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Voice of America's decline as a U.S. and international news provider under the current management of the Broadcasting Board of Governors federal agency ($748 million in FY 2017, including VOA) can be clearly seen from the screenshots of VOA and various other news media Facebook pages taken at about the same time on Thursday afternoon during former FBI director James Comey's testimony. These various posts had been on Facebook between one and three hours when the screenshots were taken. VOA does not even come close to any of the other media outlets in the number of "Views," "Likes," "Comments," or "Shares." BBC: 982K Views RT: 47.8K Views Al Jazeera: 188K Views DW: 39.1K Views NYT: 839K Views VOA Facebook Post No. 1: 6.2K Views VOA Facebook (non-video) Post No. 2: 323 Likes, 2 Comments, 1 Share VOA Facebook Post No. 3: 1.9K Views Screenshot of BBC Facebook Comey Post 1:25 PM ET, Jun. 8, 2017 Screenshot of RT Facebook Comey Post 1:26 PM ET, Jun. 8, 2017 Screenshot of Al Jazeera Facebook Comey Post 1:27 PM ET, Jun. 8, 2017 Screenshot of DW Facebook Comey Post 1:27 PM ET, Jun. 8, 2017 Screenshot of NYT Facebook Comey Post 1:28 PM ET, Jun. 8, 2017 Screenshot of VOA Facebook Comey Post No. 1 -- 1:29 PM ET, Jun. 8, 2017 Screenshot of VOA Facebook Comey Post No. 2 -- 1:30 PM ET, Jun. 8, 2017 Screenshot of VOA Facebook Comey Post No. 3 -- 1:30 PM ET, Jun 8. 2017 When the Voice of America actually did have a Live Facebook feed of President Trump's major foreign policy speech during his visit to Saudi Arabia, the number of Live Views on VOA Facebook page was equally dismal, considering the importance of the speech and the fact that Donald Trump is the president of the country which pays for VOA's operations. Al Jazeera English had nearly 20 times more Live Facebook Views than VOA News English for President Trump's speech in Saudi Arabia on May 21, 2017. Al Jazeera also had about ten times more Live Facebook Views than the U.S. government-funded Alhurra Television. Alhurra is also managed by the BBG. Radio Sawa, part of the same BBG network ($108 million in FY 2017), did not have a Live Facebook feed of President Trump's speech in Saudi Arabia. Al Jazeera: 23,100 Live Facebook Views Alhurra: 2,300 Live Facebook Views VOA News: 1,200 Live Facebook Views Al Jazeera Live Trump Facebook Feed 10:42 AM ET, May 21, 2017 Alhurra (Broadcasting Board of Governors) Live Trump Facebook Feed 10:44 AM ET, May 21, 2017 VOA Live Trump Facebook Feed 10:45 AM ET, May 21, 2017 Despite of [sic, written by a native speaker of Spanish???] these facts, the Broadcasting Board of Governors claims in its press releases ("Alhurra and Radio Sawa aired extensive coverage of President Trump's first foreign trip" | BBG Press Release) that it has a successful outreach in the Middle East. ALSO SEE: Both BBC and RT beat Voice of America on Comey's written remarks, BBG Watch, June 7, 2017 (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** U S A. VOA Radiogram, 10-11 June --- This weekend is the penultimate VOA Radiogram. It is all MFSK, includes some Arabic (prints out right to left), and two images of the VOA Greenville NC transmitting station. http://voaradiogram.net/post/161629874212/voa-radiogram-10-11-june-2017-penultimate-is (Kim Elliott, June 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Shortwave Radiogram will be the name of the show that will replace VOA Radiogram, starting 24 June. “Shortwave Radiogram” is not as creative as most of the names suggested by VOA Radiogram listeners. Thanks for those ideas! The new website will be http://www.swradiogram.net (maybe active this weekend), the new email radiogram (at) verizon.net and the new Twitter account @SWRadiogram Last weekend’s new transmission via WRMI Florida, Sunday 0600-0630 on 7730 kHz, was, to my surprise, audible in Europe, at least via http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901 in the Netherlands. Reception was marginal at my house in Virginia (and I was only marginally awake at 2:00 am local time). I received a great signal using an SDR in Hawaii and a good signal via Australia. This weekend is the penultimate (always wanted to use that word in a sentence) VOA Radiogram, so please tune in if you can. The entire program will be in MFSK32. It will include some Arabic text, that prints from right to left. You will need the UTF-8 character set for the Arabic text to display correctly. There will also be two images of the North Carolina transmitting site. Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, program 219, 10-11 June 2017, all in MFSK32 centered on 1500 Hz: 1:47 Program preview 2:53 Bus-train hybrid drives on painted tracks* 6:27 India launches heavy satellite* 12:57 Arabic text from Alhurra * ** 16:33 Three photos* 24:49 Closing announcements* * with image ** Use UTF-8 character set Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com See and submit results on Twitter: @voaradiogram (via WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DXLD) On 9925 kHz (via Nauen), MFSK-32 had problems with strong multi-path conditions. I got 100% error-free text only after several attempts, despite loud audio. In this case an OLIVIA mode could provide a pretty better show. I could do a few experiments, to determine the different guard intervals (MFSK vs. OLIVIA), in a multitrack wave editor. But for that I also need a few days with bad weather .... ;-) http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2017-06-10.htm#9925 (roger, June 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Doug Copeland in Winnipeg, Manitoba says “I think the VOA is basically a non-verifier. I have sent many reports with no reply. The latest reports went to VOA Botswana relay site and VOA HQ in Washington with no reply after 2 and half a month’s”. Yes Doug even though on their website it says request a QSL card from lettersuser@voanews.com they do seem irregular at best. I have received verifications direct from the IBB sites in The Philippines and Thailand recently (Mick Delmage, June CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. GERMANY, Weak signal of HLR relays on 9485-CUSB, June 4: PCJ Media Network Plus 1000-1030 on 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sun World of Radio#1880 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/2017/06/weak-signal-of-hlr-relays-on-9485-khz.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1881 monitoring: confirmed first SW broadcast, Thursday June 8 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB, fair S6-S4. 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 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 Tue 2130 WRMI 9455 to WNW, 15770 to NE Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Full schedule for WORLD OF RADIO including AM/FM, webcasts, satellite: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html WORLD OF RADIO 1881 monitoring: confirmed Friday June 9 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330.1v-CUSB, good. Also confirmed Saturday June 10 at 1439 the 1431 broadcast on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB: via the UTwente remote, where reception is very poor in noise level but recognizable if not fully readable. Slightly better at 1454 check, and at least there is no CCI audible from the ChiCom. Next: 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 Tue 2130 WRMI 9455 to WNW, 15770 to NE Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) GERMANY, Weak signal of HLR relays on 6190-CUSB, June 10 Switzerland In Sound 0600-0630 on 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu Sat English World of Radio#1881: 0630-0700 on 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu Sat English http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/weak-signal-of-hlr-relays-on-6190cusb.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1881 monitoring: confirmed Saturday June 10 at 2230 on WBCQ 9330.2v-CUSB, fair-good, having just signed on. Missed checking the 0200 UT Sunday on WRMI 11580; anyone hear it? Confirmed UT Sunday June 11 at 0327 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM about Alaska DRM, so just started a few minutes ago. Next: 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 Tue 2130 WRMI 9455 to WNW, 15770 to NE Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) GERMANY, Weak/fair signal of HLR relays on 9485-CUSB, June 11 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#1881 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/2017/06/weakfair-signal-of-hlr-relays-on-9485.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13585, KUWAIT, Babcock International at 2107 with the Babcock IS music repeating after the obvious sign-off of KBS World Radio at 2100 and still on at a 2129 re-check – Very Good Jun 12 – A complete waste of transmitter time and energy! If they need to keep the transmitter running then why not give the time to a non-profit broadcaster or Glenn Hauser’s “World of Radio”? (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) WORLD OF RADIO 1881 monitoring: confirmed Sunday June 11 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330.15v-CUSB, good. Also confirmed UT Monday June 12 at 0300.0 on Area 51 webcast, and at 0310 via WBCQ 5129.82, unusually with a het, something on 5130.0? Maybe overload. Also confirmed after 0330 UT Monday June 12 on WRMI 9955 webcast; 9955 was good during previous half-hour Prague music show. Next: Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 2130 WRMI 9455 to WNW, 15770 to NE Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1881 monitoring: confirmed Monday June 12 at 2344 the 2330 airing on WBCQ, 9330.00v-CUSB, fair. Also confirmed UT Tuesday June 13 at 0030 on WRMI, 7730, very good. Also confirmed Tuesday June 13 at 2130 on WRMI 9455, fair // 15770 very poor and also with splash from 15760 supersig of WHRIBS. Also confirmed Tue June 13 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330.25v-CUSB, fair. Next: Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) From: Richard Lemke City: St. Albert Country: Canada Radio: JRC NRD-535 HF Antenna: random long wires in the trees 9955 kHz, USA, WRMI FL, World of Radio #1881 heard (453), 0330, June 12 UT (Lemke, Richard-AB) 11580 kHz, USA, WRMI FL, World of Radio #1881 heard (453), 0200, June 11 UT (Lemke, Richard-AB) 5850 kHz, USA, WRMI FL, World of Radio #1881, heard (553), 1030, June 14 UT (Lemke, Richard-AB) Good listening, (Richard Lemke, Alberta, June 14, 2017, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1881 monitoring: confirmed Wed June 14 the 1030 on WRMI 5850 // 9455. Also confirmed Wednesday June 14 at 1315.5 on WRMI 9955, G-VG at S9+10. Also confirmed Wed June 14 at 2100 on WBCQ webcast, but JBA on 7490. WORLD OF RADIO 1882 contents: Alaska, Antarctica and non, Argentina non, Bougainville, Bulgaria, Canada, Cuba, Indonesia, Iran non, Korea North and non, Korea South, Kurdistan non, Kyrgyzstan, Papua New Guinea, Somaliland, South Carolina non, USA, Zambia, unidentified WORLD OF RADIO 1882 ready for first SW broadcast June 15: 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 [or 2330 now??] {NO} 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 Tue 2130 WRMI 9455 to WNW, 15770 to NE Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Full schedule for WORLD OF RADIO including AM/FM, webcasts, satellite: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9395, June 9 at 0210, WRMI Oldies music continues with no break for VOA news, as sometimes happens. During this hour no // 9455, instead BS. Another check of 9395 now // 9455 at 0543-0544 June 9 gets the last minute of VOA News by Steve Miller including a clip in German from Frau Merkel. 9395 // 9455, Sunday June 11 at 1318, secret WRMI airing of `Wavescan` during discussion about NASB meeting, Ben Dawson`s presentation about AM still being a viable medium in some parts of the world. Like new VOH station in Israel, suggested slogan ``Sounds like heaven on 12- 87``, which went on the air March 28. On to Philippine DX report of loggings. We`re still waiting for some reports on the events at NASB Simi Valley, direct from John Figliozzi and/or Ben Dawson. Nothing on the NASB website itself, but two photo albums are now up, 31 + 25, where else? on their FB, https://www.facebook.com/nasbshortwave but requires login. {It looks like the same photos are on WRMI`s FB, maybe without login.} https://www.facebook.com/wrmiradio Meanwhile there are bits and pieces about it on Wavescan and Ask WWCR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) YouTube: WRMI Florida tour HamRadioConcepts posted on YouTube June 11 I was able to get a tour through the WRMI shortwave station out at Okeechobee. 1.4 megawatt transmitter site. If you want to see some huge antennas, tubes and transformers, check out this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKlic5e47ek (via Mike Barraclough, June 12, dxldyg via DXLD) 1.4 megawatts? That implies 14 x 100 kW, but WRTH shows 12 x 100 kW plus 1 x 50 kW. And some of the 100s are probably operating below full rated power (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40gJJu7iGLw#t=33.2152348 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMwrtxQq9Cs (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I`ve noticed that during various hours when no other programming is scheduled on WRMI`s System D, and when no SW frequencies may be carrying it, that webcast is still running with World Music, now the best way to hear it: http://67.239.246.10:8000/listen.pls 9395, June 12 at 0612, WRMI Oldies channel with something else by Bob Biermann, his `Your Weekend Show` of soft-core preaching, still a non- starter, and for the first time against this frequency I hear some RTTY QRM on the hi side, about 9396. Will WRMI then be banned from this frequency too? 9395 // 9455, June 14 at 0616, VOA News relay again caught in progress on WRMI Oldies channel. Both frequencies about equally good here, one aimed S of, the other aimed N of us. However, in daytime both are usually too weak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7490v & 9330v & 5130v, June 9 at 0542 check, all WBCQs are off when they would have been Brother Scaring. 9330 still AWOL at 1254 check. `Tis the season also to check for the new transmitter on 3250, which tested briefly last fall, and Allan is back in Monticello to get it going this summer. More likely to try on weekends (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [7490, WBCQ, UT June 10:] Tonight`s AWWW: Show started on time this evening but with guest host Pirate Joe. Opening theme and voiceovers were marred by five or six dropouts caused either by Pirate Joe's internet or someone trying to upload something to the station. I still maintain that live internet feeds and radio don't mix well, especially with WBCQ. Rest of the program was dropout free. Pirate Joe announced right after the theme finished that he intended to talk about radio tonight and save the politics for his show tomorrow evening. Immediately got a phone call from Ramsey and they talked about --- politics. Discussion switched to video after an email talking about that was read. Finally moved to radio talk around 0030 but mostly commercial AM and FM and not shortwave. Another radio related phone call and show signed off promptly at 0059. Tuned to 5130 to check it and it appeared to be off the air. No station news or program information was released this evening (John Carver, Mid-North Indiana, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7490v-AM, UT Sat June 10 at 0020, WBCQ`s `Allan Weiner Worldwide` is instead subbed by J. P. Ferraro, as AW has something else to do tonight. On phone with Ramsey, I think, with long discussion about how DTV means reduced coverage, fewer channels available to J.P., at least, compared to analog era. At 0037 also detectable on 5129.8-AM, poor signal and 47 seconds behind 7490. Says Allan has instructed him to wrap it up by ``9 PM`` = 0100 UT. I`m wondering if BS hours on WBCQ have suddenly reduced? All frequencies were off the air late last night. Then on UT June 10 at 0552, 9330 is apparently off, at least not propagating; 5130v is off; 7490 is on with music, not BS as is still on e.g. 5850 WRMI. There have been other instances of 7490 playing music late at night instead of BS, who had been running until 0700* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non] 9330v-CUSB, June 10 at 2206 check, WBCQ is off, further evidence that the greatly expanded Overcomer filler is gone (some of which no doubt transferred to 24/7 WWRB 9370/3185). 5130v-AM WBCQ is also inaudible and probably off, as it had been starting at 2200 with BS overnight except when other programming was already on schedule. 7490v-AM at 2206 is on as usual, with JP Ferraro`s `Shortwave Saturday Night` at S9, as he reminds us it is not on 5130 too (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, You mention the defunct Overcomer ministry. Is that "defunctness" only on WBCQ? I can find nothing on google about it. Thanks. Regards, (George, NJ3H, Redmond, Oregon USA, dxldyg via DXLD) George, Yes, I meant defunct insofar as the large filltime on WBCQ. Haven`t checked yet whether he`s still on previous limited schedule, 7490, most weekdays 22-23 and 01-03 UT. Glenn 0028 ut June 13 (Glenn, ibid.) 7490.0, UT Monday June 12 at 0426, WBCQ is on but not BS; they have wasted no time in getting a replacement, but it`s more wacky off-the- wall conspiracy stuff: discussion between a Richard and a Steve referring to a ``disclosure event`` as if we knew what that is, in light of current political situation in US and world. Eventually becomes clear these guys think there are extraterrestrials among us already. One of them thinks it matters for historical prestige, which nation gets to make the big announcement. Will Trump do it? Recheck 7490.02 at 0618, still going with more of same at S9 but with deep fades, giving phone 505-796-8302, on `The Other Side of Midnight`. Invitations to join Club 19.5, reference website https://www.theothersideofmidnight.com/ O yeah, it`s the face-on-Mars guy, Richard C. Hoagland, and I vaguely recall his show was on SW a few years ago, also WBCQ? He thinx the number 19.5 is extremely significant, keeps showing up here and there, e.g. NASA budget of 19.5 billion. Will have to do, lacking Art Bell. Website gives live schedule of ``9 pm-midnight PST Sat & Sun``, presumably meaning PDT now = 04-07 UT Sun & Mon. And also repeats ``Tuesdays through Saturday Midnight to 2 A.M. PST`` = 0700-0900 UT if again they really mean PDT. So is on *both* sides of Pacific midnite. Is WBCQ carrying the full trihour both UT Sun & Mon? Of course, nothing about this yet on WBCQ website, not in program index: http://schedule.wbcq.com/index.php?fn=x and program schedules still show defunct Overcomer Ministry. How many stations is this broadcast on? Only one is mentioned as a webcast source, KIYQ. WTFDA FM DB shows it`s KIYQ-LP, 100 watts on 107.1 in Las Vegas NV (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7490.043 kHz noted at 0203 UT June 13, heard on remote Perseus unit at Michigan US, S=9+45dB powerhouse, not TOM/BS, but modern pop music orchestra played. 5130v WBCQ not on air. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7490, June 13 at 0100, WBCQ after `From the Isle of Music` on webcast I hear music fill instead of Brother Scare, so apparently has also been reduced from pre-expansion slots. Still music at 0146, `Don`t Cry for Me, Argentina`, (which is something, considering RAE is missing from 9395 WRMI at same hour!). I`m not checking during the 0200+ hour but Wolfgang Büschel was hearing 7490 at 0203 on the Michigan remote, and says ``not TOM/BS, but modern pop music orchestra played; 5130v WBCQ not on air``. After 0300, however, I am hearing TOM gospel huxter rather than `Financial Survival` usual during this hour. Further chex: at 0417 rock music; 0500+ still music. At 0650 final check of 7490 itself: off the air, so not sure when it really went off altho the webcast kept running. 7490, next evening, June 14 at 0151, WBCQ is back to BS, several seconds behind 9455 WRMI. At 0205 both continue with BS. At 0151, 9330 is off and 5129.82 is JBA very poor in storm noise level, presumably the ham radio show which should have gone up to 9330 for summer! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WBCQ Schedule Updates --- Hello Glenn, I've confirmed with Allan Weiner that Brother Scare is back to his old schedule on 7490 and has dropped all time on 9330 and 5130, and all time after 0400 on 7490. I've adjusted the online schedule accordingly. There may be some additional minor adjustments to the schedule based on this change and I'll try to confirm with Robert later. Allan also says he is working on the 3250 transmitter now and is planning to get it online later this summer. Regards, Lw (Larry Will, MD, June 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7505v, June 9 at 0211, WRNO is AWOL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 0318 tune-in tonight. I think Glenn mentioned the absence of WRNO, but they are on at excellent levels on 7504.982 kHz in Mandarin at same time. 73, Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, UT June 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) BTW - WRNO, on 7505v, has the current schedule of approximately 0300 to 0400, for their Chinese program "Praise for Today." Heard June 13, at 0330, with contact info in both English and Chinese. Chinese also heard June 11, at 0311 and on June 10, with the start of "Praise for Today" at 0307 and WRNO closed down at 0404*, in mid-ID (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5890, June 8 at 0616, WWCR Brother Scare disservice is OFF, while 5935 DGS is VG S9+35 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dead air of Brother HySTAIRical TOM via WWCR-1 on June 9 1000-1033 on 15795 WCR 100 kW / 046 deg to WeEu open carrier & 1033-1100 on 15795 WCR 100 kW / 046 deg to WeEu BS TOM Mon-Fri http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/dead-air-of-brother-hystairical-tom-via.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5930, WWCR Nashville TN (presumed); 0508, 12-June; Move from 5935 or an oops? Rev. Barbi on female leadership & Miriam. S30; // distorted 6090 via Anguilla (presumed). (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' center-fed RW, ----- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! -----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Very weak signal of World Wide Christian Radio WWCR-1 Nashville on June 12 1115-1130 on 15795 WCR 100 kW / 046 deg to WeEu Arabic Mon-Fri religious program 1130-1145 on 15795 WCR 100 kW / 046 deg to WeEu Russian Mon-Fri, Focus on Family 1145-1200 on 15795 WCR 100 kW / 046 deg to WeEu English Mon Australian DX Report from 1200 on 15825 WCR 100 kW / 046 deg to WeEu English Dly various rlg programs Slightly distorted on 15795 kHz & good on 15825 kHz, like from 2 different txs http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/very-weak-signal-of-world-wide.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. RADIO HOST CONVICTED IN MINNEAPOLIS PONZI SCHEME LOSES BID TO OVERTURN HIS SENTENCE http://www.startribune.com/radio-host-convicted-in-minneapolis-ponzi-scheme-loses-bid-to-overturn-his-sentence/427319023/ Judge upheld radio host Patrick Kiley's 20-year prison sentence. By Dan Browning Star Tribune June 8, 2017 -- 6:44pm Copy shortlink: http://strib.mn/2rb7 A Minneapolis salesman who peddled investments in foreign currencies on the radio failed to convince a federal judge that his conviction in a $194 million Ponzi scheme should be overturned because his attorney had conflicts of interest. Patrick Kiley, 79, is serving 20 years in prison for his role in the scheme, which bilked more than 700 investors nationwide from its office in Minneapolis. Kiley said that his attorney, Henry Nasif Mahmoud, had a conflict of interest because he was paid with investor funds by the scheme's mastermind, Trevor Cook. U.S. District Judge Michael Davis issued a 40-page order Thursday upholding Kiley's conviction, saying that while Mahmoud made mistakes, the errors were not serious enough to warrant relief. Davis noted that he oversaw the trial and was familiar with the evidence. Kiley's former radio program, "Follow the Money," was broadcast on a Christian shortwave network and bought time on about 200 stations at its peak. But the investment was a sham created by his sidekick Cook, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty in 2010. Other participants were sentenced to terms ranging from 7 1/2 years to 30 years in prison. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Kiley's sentence in 2015, but it did not address his ineffective assistance claim because it had not been presented to the lower court. Davis' ruling resolves that (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) Which SW station was it: much more detailed story about convixion: http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1224.txt Appended with this: See previous stories on the `Follow the Money` scheme, wherein the ``Christian shortwave network`` was identified as:: WWCR; apparently they are still held guiltless. http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld9079.txt http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld9085.txt http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1130.txt (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1621, DX LISTENING DIGEST) (via gh, DXLD 17-24, WORLD OF RADIO 1882) ** U S A. 5085, along with spurs 5072.1 & 5097.9, WTWW-2 is on, Monday June 12 at 0444 with gospel huxter about to quote John XVII, when he is rudely interrupted by Ted ID and into gospel music with crackle (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, Tuesday June 13 at 1354, KVOH is already on, warming up with praise music, S9+10 but distorted modulation and slight ripple on carrier. 1358 goes to English IDs alternating with guitar IS(?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17774.992, KVOH heard here, scheduled according to Aoki Nagoya Japan list in Spanish Mon-Fri requested 13-24 UT. S=7 audio signal strength in Detroit Michigan. And accompanied by two spur signal strings visible either sideband, plus/minus 60 Hertz visible at 1633 UT on June 13. Sonorous vibrant men`s presenter voice in Spanish. Spanish language vocal program from 1635 UT onwards, and followed by English station ID at 1639 UT [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, on remote SDR unit in Detroit Michigan USA, 1615-1730 UT on June 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRMI-NASB-KVOH Feature Report: Jeff White WRMI, Jerry Plummer WWCR, Ray Robinson KVOH. KVOH Transmitter Site, Mt Chatsworth; Dramatic drive up mountainside, barely paved roadway, 2400 ft above sea level; Towers raised 1986. Original 100 kW RCA: Vatican Gardens, late 60s, then HCJB. Similar to Palau. Early 1980s to KVOH. Bifurcated 2 at 50 kW 1986 Oct. Now 17775 kHz. Now, Harris from KTWR, 100 kW 9975 kHz [inactive! gh] (Adrian Petersen, summary of segment for AWR Wavescan June 11, via DXLD) ** U S A. FORMAT, SLOGAN AND SILENT STATUS CHANGES: 690, KGGF, Coffeyville, KS old slogan: “The Mighty 690”, new: “KGGF News Radio 690 AM” (Robert Wien, Broadcasting Information, IRCA DX Monitor June 17, published June 13, via DXLD) Source? I reported as recently as a sesquimonth ago:``690, May 4 at 0556 UT, one minute of Fox News Radio, ``Mighty 690, KGGF, Coffeyvile KS`` ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` Must check further ** U S A. 1130, June 11 at 1223 UT, KLEY Wellington KS is still AWOL. Had not rechecked it lately, but first noted off as of May 20. Gone for good? Have they notified FCC? On the 1130 DF toward Shreveport I do have a weak gospel huxter this Sunday from KWKH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Finally back on June 17 (gh) ** U S A. 1260, FLORIDA, WSUA, Miami. 0930 GMT May 29, 2017. Initially presumed this was WWVT, Christiansburg, VA -- WBIX Boston way too late by 1030 here (and New England is rare) -- with 5 + 1 time sounders, English BBC World Service ID and news by same female, faded after a couple minutes. Time time sounders popped through again at 1030. Listed as BBC, NPR etc. and regional network "Radio IQ" slogan. But subsequent listens confirm it's actually WSUA, Miami, which otherwise is Spanish "Caracol 1260" and "W Radio" along with Radio Martí rebroadcast from 2200 local [02-04? UT]. Comes out of two minutes BBC with slogans and Spanish news features at these hours at least, but not on weekends. Today, June 5, the final time sounder was at 0930:17, so presumably recorded from the top of the hour and inserted 30 minutes later. Why this? (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1580, TENNESSEE, WLIJ, Shelbyville. 0942 June 4, 2017. The one that's been unidentified for weeks heard again and a reasonably good signal with a few periods of fades, until lost to throttle ups from WCCF and WTCL at 1030. Titles heard in order (with some gaps) were: CSN Southern Cross; AC/DC Shoot To Thrill; Rascal Flatts Bless the Broken Road; Jo Dee Messina Lesson In Leavin'; Roy Orbison Only the Lonely; Bill Withers Ain't No Sunshine. Male canned voice briefly at 1001, probably an ID. Also, that often-heard snotty, mumble-mouth kid liner at 1010. IDed as WLIJ "Jax Radio" by David Crawford from his remote site in southern NC while listening about the same time today as I, with Shelbyville ads, confirmed ID June 6. So to recap, two TN stations -- unidentified for many weeks and heard by two FL DXers from within FL -- are IDed only because said two FL DXers went to NC where they could then ID these. This one by David, and WSEV on 930 kHz with their format change a couple weeks ago by myself (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, June 11 at 1228 UT, KBXD Dallas making slow 1 Hz SAH with KQAM Wichita English talker. Praise music in Spanish, 1234 UT plug some upcoming revivals, 877 phone number, Iglesia Evangélica la Nueva Esperanza. So it is still presumably greatly extending the reach of 700 KHSE by duplicating it with 50 kW day. On June 8 I received this enlightening info from Jerry Kiefer, FL, who used to work for KBXD: ``Glenn, The circus is about to move on. Here's the last chapter in the KBXD saga. Yet another sale of Dallas AM KBXD/1480, a year after last year’s transaction with Georgia-based Chris Muse failed to close. That one was for $1.5 million (May 11, 2016 NOW Newsletter). The backup buyer is John S. Hammond and Linda Hammond’s Hammond Broadcasting Group, a niche-format player based right there in Dallas. They’re paying $600,000 for KBXD, which has a six-tower daytime directional array blasting 50,000 watts, and a four-tower directional array for the 1,900-watt night signal. This year’s price and last year’s price are more comparable than you’d think – separately, Hammond’s buying the Salem-owned KBXD site for $600,000. The seller of KBXD is the patient Mark Jorgenson of "ACM JCE IV B LLC." That company took over KBXD and three other AMs previously held by James Crystal Enterprises out of the 2015 bankruptcy auction. (The debt-holder was Atalaya Capital.) Buyer Hammond Broadcasting has begun an LMA with KBXD, adding to its interests around Dallas-Fort Worth. Quick list of those - Hammond Broadcasting owns [ex-] South Asian KHSE Wylie, Texas/700. John’s a principal of Texoma Broadcasting, licensee of South Asian daytimer KVTT Mineral Wells/1110. He also has an attributable interest in the company that brokers time on Liberman’s regional Mexican KZMP University Park/1540. Broker on the sale of KBXD – Jorgenson Broadcast Brokerage. Not much of a deal. Seller grosses 600K, take out of that 200K for engineering including a used DX50 Harris transmitter. The killer was 600k$ to Salem for the tower site, plus out of pocket expenses over the past several years. Hard to move six towers and stay close to the original site. This was the only place you could throw your night lobe over Dallas. Jerry`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1490, June 12 at 0455 UT tune-in, one station is atop the graveyard, with YL ID ``KDMO, Carthage-Baxter Springs-Joplin``, and NOStalgic music, so this 1/1 kW U1 station. Baxter Springs is across in Kansas on the opposite side of Joplin from Carthage. KDMO is my closest 1490 in this direxion. I suppose KBIX Muskogee OK is still silent, if that helps (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. UNIDENTIFIED. 1589.89 approx., June 11 at 0610 UT, considerable het from off-frequency station, in fact separable with stronger signal than the 1590.0s --- soft music but it`s just an interlude before 0612 UT resuming talkshow, YL & YL discussing some children`s syndrome. IIRC there was an off-frequency station like this several months ago but I can`t seem to find it by searching IRCA archive or my own. 1589.9, June 12 at 0448 UT, another check into the off-frequency unID here: at tune-in, ad/promo for the ``June 28 tenth anniversary of local Christian TV station, KNLG-TV [?]``, phone in 573 area code; then back to program with clips of vintage Vietnam war coverage. 573 puts it in Missouri, and NRC AM Log shows KDEX, Dexter MO in SE corner, has an AC 573 phone number. But it`s a C&W 620 watt daytimer, and this is the nightmiddle! It turns out that AC 573 also encompasses Rolla and Jefferson City, so never mind KDEX. Searching Missouri TV listings in W9WI.com, the best fuzzy match on call is KNLJ, a megawatt RF Channel 20 in Jefferson City, which is with Christian Television Network as virtual 25.1. Own website confirms it`s at tenth anniversary: http://www.knlj.tv/ (But there is also a KNLC on RF 14, 900 kW in Saint Louis, also religious as virtual 24.1) Recheck at 0457 UT June 12, 1589.90 with promo for `Pathway to Victory` show, on Bott Radio Network.com, BRN, 0500 UT Unshackled theme. 1590 in Rolla MO, not too far from Jeff City, has KMOZ, 1000/85 watts U1, with Bott network, Christian, or BRN. So this is definitely KMOZ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As in Missouri OZarx? 1589.89, June 14 at 0633 UT, still het from off-frequency station, previously traced to KMOZ, Rolla MO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. New log - TIS-1680 in SoCal --- Tim Hall, Chula Vista (San Diego) CA --- Just got home from a quick road trip to Oregon and discovered we have a new TIS. 1680, TIS. CA, San Diego or Del Mar - 6/10 2330 UT - new TIS for San Diego County Fair, "brought to you by Albertsons-Vons!". (Seems a bit dodgy for a TIS to have a sponsor!). Professional-sounding male announcer with up-to-date info on parking conditions and tonight's main event concert (Toby Keith). Nice strong signal (must be 10 watts, and very clean audio) and the transmitting antenna must be close to the ocean, so I wouldn't be surprised if folks up the coast get this by waterpath (in years past I've logged several San Diego TIS stations while driving down US 101 west of Santa Barbara). Logged well within my 25-mile limit so this is #1401 from San Diego. After 41 years in the same town, I'll take whatever I can get! This is probably the 3rd or 4th TIS the County Fair has had over the years. I think the prior ones were all on 1610 (and seemingly in different locations) but I'll have to check my notes. Can't use 1610 now because UCSD has a station on 1610 nowadays. The county seems to forget about these stations pretty quickly. I don't recall any of the previous stations being on the air more than 2 consecutive years. 73 (Tim Hall, CA, June 10, Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone, ABDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DXLD) ** U S A. Another sporadic E opening up to 108 on the 6m map, but we are really on the periphery of more northerly paths. I check anyway from the bottom and find the MUF here barely creeping into FM band: 88.1 FM, June 8 at 2320 UT, seems Es fading up over the two OK stations, mentions ``Intermountain Christian`` and ``Fairfield``, and ``88.1 The Bridge`` (but not certain of that word in fade); presumably this as searched out, Intermountain Christian Camp, Fairfield, Idaho: http://www.iccfairfield.com/ but that doesn`t mean this signal is direct from ID. At 2326 another fade-in with gospel choir; no RDS to help. 2330, ``The Rejoice Broadcast Network``, and a Bible verse. Own website is user-unfriendly, having to investigate each pin on map: http://www.rejoice.org/Stations/ Wikipedia is much better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejoice_Broadcast_Network but not a single 88.1, not even low-power, as most of them are; originates with 89.5 WPCS Pensacola FL and only one other full-power per this is 89.7 KPCS in Princeton MN. O, that station list was admittedly last updated 3.5 years ago! I remember WPCS itself used to be a common catch here. Better luck searching on ``The Bridge`` 88.1 --- KTFY in Twin Falls, ID! per numerous hits, http://barefootmm.org/radio/88-1-the-bridge/ but are they with Rejoice? WTFDA Database has no 88.1 anywhere with Bridge slogan. But searching on 88.1 for Idaho gets KTFY, and ANOTHER station which *is* with Rejoice Radio. Now I am thinking I was hearing both stations, a few minutes apart from the same state: [KRRB, 88.1, KUNA ID, 45.0 kW H&V, 298.0 m HAAT, 43-37-15, 117-12-35, REJOICE RADIO, RELIGIOUS TEACHING] 1763 km/1096 stmi to Boise suburb [KTFY, 88.1, BUHL ID, 0.0 kW H, 60.0 kW V, 199.0 m HAAT V-only, 42-43- 48, 114-25-06, 88.1FM KTFY, CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN] 1602 km/996 st mi near Twin Falls Going back to the Rejoice station map, it shows Twin Falls on 89.3, Boise on 88.1 with coverage maps and dates on air but no further info. Kuna would be a wonderful rare place to get a call sign to match (like Kona, Hawaii)! But the real KUNA-FM is 96.7 in La Quinta CA with 970 watts in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. French 91.7 --- local WEGS has been off the air this weekend. This is the only significant Es signal picked out on the frequency, probably nothing useful. Suspect CBMB Sherbrook, QC CBC Attached Files File Type: mp3 91-7_unid_FF_1714_Jun11_17.mp3 (1.48 MB, 5 views) (Randy KW4RZ Zerr, Fort Walton Beach, Florida panhandle EM60, June 11, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Hi Randy, This is the Haitian pirate La Voix du Peuple in Brooklyn, NY. "(347) 851-7727" is said at 00:11. "La Voix du Peuple" is also said at 00:40. Good catch! (Jon, St. Catherines Ont., ibid.) Thanks again, Jon; fascinating that they are all over the web! (Randy KW4RZ Zerr, Fort Walton Beach, Florida panhandle EM60, ibid.) ** U S A. Mark Sills, Dallas, who communicates only by phone, tells me that his good friend George Thurman, Houston, and one of our longtime contributors, was having a medical problem, aneurysm? circa June 11, and asked Mark to call for help. He did so and at first it was not clear whether he had survived, and the authorities were not very forthcoming, but as of 2308 UT June 13, Mark says that he found out George is in stable condition at an unspecified hospital. Meanwhile, I tried e-mailing him, but no reply: gsthurman at gmail.com I also checked out Facebook, where his last post was on June 10, quoting Bernie Sanders. He`s probably not in condition to go on FB now, but you might want to keep an eye on https://www.facebook.com/gsthurman I don`t know how else to contact him to wish him well! (Glenn Hauser, June 14, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [non]. 11875, June 8 at 1259, VR IS and off at 1300, first noticed as some ACI to 11870 ALASKA. HFCC shows 1230-1300 VR is Russian relayed by VOA Tinang, PHILIPPINES, violating Separation of Church and State (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM. Voice Of Vietnam SW Transmitter Sites? I know with the exception of WHR Cypress Creek, it all comes from their own site(s) now. Two sites lists VOV as transmitter from Hanoi-Sontay. One other website suggests Hanoi and Sontay are two separate sites. I tried finding the co-ordinates for both sites and came upon these two websites: http://www1.s2.starcat.ne.jp/ndxc/vn.htm http://swcountry.be/vtn.html I inputted the co-ordinates form those sites and got dropped on google maps somewhere not even close to the correct location. I don't know enough about maps, co-ordnates and such forth to try and figure it out. I want to see if any decent satellite images exist so I can post one in my "I take pictures of transmitter sites" Facebook group. Can someone post the correct co-ordinates so I can find them? Thanks, (Paul walker, June 12, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Only Son Tay in WRTH now, Me Tri has been closed. Hopefully this link takes you there: https://www.google.fi/maps/@21.1392942,105.417157,2862m/data=!3m1!1e3 (Mauno Ritola, ibid.) ** ZAMBIA [non-log]. 5915, R. One/ZNBC1, through 0432, June 12. They continue to be silent, as Bill Bingham (RSA) and I have both monitored this past week; seems like a significant problem, unrelated to the former "load shedding" (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6920.9-LSB, June 10 at 0030, ``Hola, audio, hello``, counting 1-2-3 over and over in Spanish and English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7597.43, June 8 at 1239 hi-speed RTTY on what for hours and hours earlier at night is nothing but open carrier. Whence? 7597.4, June 9 at 0212 and 0542, rapid RTTY clattering away now from unknown source rather than open carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. EGYPT [sic], Unidentified station with Egyptian music on June 12 1110-1116 on 9600 unknown tx / unknown to UNID, very weak: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/unidentified-station-with-egyptian_12.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) EGYPT station with Egyptian music on June 14 0905-0915 on 9600 unknown tx / unknown to UNID, very weak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjp1k7OSqkE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkynycry-vM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBjEs11CBHA&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. I've been hearing a beacon on 10100 CW repeating "CN85 CN85" roughly once a minute from first checking around 0200 UT June 14, tnx to a tip from Dwayne VE6QX. Reasonable signal, assume from the Portland OR area [as in grid square location]. Google couldn't find out anything about this, at least not with any search parameters I tried. 73 (Don VE6JY Moman, Lamont, AB, Perseus and Wellbrook loop, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nothing heard in Redmond, Oregon, 0615-0618Z. Regards, (George, NJ3H, Redmond, Oregon USA, Perseus and Elad FDM-S2, Wellbrook ALA1530AL-2, June 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not heard throughout the day the few times I checked, but was in nicely at 2355 ut June 14, repeating the cycle of "CN85 CN85" every 65 to 70 seconds typically but a few when I first started timing them were 60 seconds. Posted on HF Underground as well but no further info. CN85 is a grid square centered around Portland, but it's fairly large so you might be out of ground wave range George. I don't know if they were on at 0615 either. I had checked at 2340 today and not heard but then they were on when checked at 2355, decent signal so suspect they came on sometime in that period. That's assuming CN85 means a grid locator - but I don't know that it does. Curious though, as to what the purpose might be (Don Moman, 0010 UT June 15, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. The Mystery of 13560 by V.E. Henley: Sometime in April or early May 2017, a signal popped up on 13560 KHz that wasn’t there earlier. With a short whip for an antenna, the signal strength was S9 or greater and with another radio and an outside dipole antenna oriented broadside east-west, the signal strength increased to S9+15dB. This was a very strong signal. Measurements showed that the signal was centered on 13560 with strong sidebands extending more than 5 kHz on either side. On AM or SSB the signal sounded as if it were a strong buzzing and pulsing sound with seemingly pulsed modulation. In the USA, this frequency is licensed for “Near Field Communication,” and certainly not for a strong signal with global propagation capabilities. There are currently between 400 and 500 licensees listed in the FCC database and those licenses cover such devices as RFID merchandising tags, photo printers, laboratory instruments, non- contact card readers, set-top boxes, gaming devices, Bluetooth speakers, security devices such as electronic locks, tablet computers, and hundreds of others. Since this signal was new to me, I used a portable radio and an “RF sniffer” to probe all the devices in my home and my newly acquired automobile. Most of these devices exhibited a near-field digital “hash” but none of the devices I explored accounted for the signal described above. I drove around my neighborhood and town but did not discover any source emitting the signal heard on 13560 other than the pervasive global one. A search of the Internet turned up several reports from previous years that suggested that this signal might belong to an “Over the Horizon” (OTH) radar. The USA, as far as I know, does not have any OTH installations still active, and the word is that these are in “warm storage,” and could be reactivated, but not quickly. Estimates range from six months to two years for returning these sites to service. China has an active OTH Radar capability as does Australia, but I am not aware of any other currently active OTH Radar sites. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t any. Several nations have sufficient technical capability and resources to develop and operate such a site. The mystery continued, as did the signal for 24/7. I suspected that this activity might be related to the recent activity by North Korea to test potential ICBMs capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to the USA mainland, and/or of the USA’s simultaneous testing of an ICBM intercept and destruction capability. I have no hard evidence or proof for this possibility. Suddenly, the signal disappeared. I am not certain when it happened, but my best estimate is that sometime between June 1 and June 4, 2017, the signal went away. In any event, by June 4, it was gone, and it remains gone. No trace of it exists on 13560 KHz. There is a slight hash on the frequency consistent with its licensed intent of multiple near-field communications devices, but none of these move the S meter more than a quiver, even if you are in the near field. These are very weak signals, not something of global propagation capability. For now, this signal remains unidentified, and the subject of speculation. (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 June 11 via DXLD) It could still be a relatively nearby RF device. Should have checked for same signal on various remote receivers at same time. (gh, DXLD) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hi Glenn, Thank you so much for all the updates and info. It is much appreciated. Regards, (George, NJ3H, Redmond, Oregon USA, SDRs: Perseus and Elad FDM-S2, Antenna: Wellbrook ALA1530AL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) No financial support received recently; by check or MO in US funds on a US bank to : World of Radio, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702; or Via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ THE NUMBERS STATION movie Instead of listening to the radio, just finished watching movie on TV, 'The Numbers Station` but was [little?] more than a love story, also dull, boring. Nothing much to do with numbers stations (Jon Collins, Birmingham UK, June 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNID HELP WITH INTERSTATE HIGHWAY INTERSEXION REFERENCES FYI, Wikipedia does a *state by state* of all the sections of Interstate # and shows each Exit/Junction by Highway name or name of crossroad. The example here being, I-95 in Florida; there is a Wikipedia page for the entire stretch of I-95 in Florida: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_95_in_Florida You can go through the Exit list and read the names of the junctions, such as - Highway 1; Miami Avenue - Downtown; etc. (Jim Thomas, Springfield MO, June 8, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) RUS-DX EDITOR'S DESK My illness -------------------- Medicine: the name of the disease and the other is not published here, it's purely mine. Probably from my illness, something began to change in consciousness. I remember our DX-listeners who left the world differently. No one leaves their memories of their hobbies. I remember the meeting of the International Radio of Taiwan in Moscow. Albet Grabarenko, from Dubna, said that his house is packed with many printed materials about DX and his wife keeps grumbling all the time that it is necessary to throw everything into the trash. Several years have passed. Albert did not become, and probably everything is really sent to the dump. This is really so, since after the death of a person, all of his property is thrown into the dump. And this is not only in our country, but all over the world. But it is not enough that everyone has information on the history of DX in the USSR and Russia, but many are afraid to publish under their own name. The syndrome of fear remained. I can publish under the all- edom [sic]. I receive information by e-mail and postal service in Russia. Write contact - address for contacts - the address of the newsletter. E-mail : rusdx@yandex.ru (Editor : Anatoly Klepov, Rus-DX June 11 via DXLD) "History of DX" --------------------- The editor will be grateful for the information for the "History of DX" section. It's interesting to know how it was. You can help in this matter, since everyone in the personal archive has interesting News about the development of the DX movement in the USSR and Russia. Nobody deals with this topic. And soon everything can be forgotten. Your name as a source of information --- Dear readers, at your request we may not indicate your name in the messages, but only indicate the name. This, of course, is due to various reasons, of which we do not ask. Several readers have addressed this request, but we have been practicing for a long time - in some reports there is only the name and city of the correspondent. You know that our bulletin is published in two languages, respectively, in foreign publications, when copying data, your name may not be there, as there is no name, but the name of the bulletin "Rus-DX". So do not put forward your ambitions that your name is not listed as the first one for this information. (Rus-DX June 11 via DXLD) See also: RUSSIA MUSEA +++++ ANDY BOLIN WEBSITE -- 1970'S FM BAND ID'S AND BRIEF AIRCHECKS Since there is precious little skip anyway, you should all rush to check out Andy Bolin`s wonderful web site, filled with brief IDs and air checks from 1970`s FM band. It`s like listening to a time machine. Even if you live nowhere near the markets that Andy captured, the sounds and styles of that era will ring true to you. I was instantly transported back to the days when the FM band was just beginning to become the most popular radio band. http://dx.bobandtanya.com 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, AL, amfmtvdx at qth.net, June 15 via DXLD) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2017 IRCA/NRC/DecalcoMania CONVENTION IRCA will be hosting the 2017 IRCA/NRC/DecalcoMania Convention held Thursday August 17-Saturday August 19 (checking out on Sunday) at the Best Western Airport Plaza hotel, 1981 Terminal Way, Reno NV 89502. For reservations use phone number 775-348-6371 and request International Radio Club of America rate of $100 per night plus tax. Major credit cards accepted. (Attendees are encouraged to double up, share a room and save). Airlines serving Reno include Alaska, Allegiant, American, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest, United, and Volaris. Amtrak passenger train service is available as well. Registration fee (not including banquet) is $25 payable to Mike Sanburn, PO Box 1256, Bellflower CA 90707-1256. Or, by PayPal (add $1 to cover fee) mikesanburn@hotmail.com Include contact info and club affiliation(s) if any. Information on activities, banquet, and station tours will be announced shortly. Visitor’s information can be found online at http://www.visitrenotahoe.com. This year’s IRCA/NRC/DecalcoMania convention in Reno will be an excellent chance to re-connect with old friends and to share DX stories. Speaking of sharing, we issue our annual call to action for those who wish to present a talk or paper during the convention. As you know, this can be as formal or informal as you want. To make it easier, we can provide you with audio-visual support, including slide- preparation and display. If you’re interested in sharing your experiences... or if you want to present questions for discussion that might lead to a better understanding of a particular aspect of your own DXing, please contact Mark Durenberger at Mark4@durenberger.com It is the tradition of both IRCA and NRC to have a Saturday Night auction at their annual conventions. This August is no exception. If you are planning on attending Reno, if you are able to find any interesting and preferably radio/DX related items that can be donated it is always greatly appreciated. Perhaps raid the local thrift store for some radio station coffee mugs, or maybe there is that station T- shirt which no longer fits, some DX books which you have already read 10 times. Best if you can bring them directly to the convention hotel, but I can accept smaller and midsized items mailed via USPS to my PO Box (1256 Bellflower CA 90707-1256) Auction proceeds will be divided between the clubs and hopefully all attendees can leave with a little item or two for their shack. Thank for your time (Mike Sanburn KG6LJU, IRCA DX Monitor via DXLD) 2017 MADISON-MILWAUKEE GET-TOGETHER Our 24th annual get-together will be on Saturday, August 21 at our place in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, 801 E Park Blvd. By all means, go to the Reno convention the same weekend if you can, but if you can’t, we offer an alternative. If you’re travelling to view the eclipse, take in the get-together as part of your trip. E-mail me at DXing2@aol.com or phone me at 414 813-7373 if you’d like more information (Tim Noonan, IRCA DX Monitor via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM, DAB NO cross-references this time +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ HOW TO LOG ADDITIONAL STATIONS ON LOCAL FREQUENCIES This may seem like a silly question -- but keep in mind that I'm new to FM DXing. How does one go about logging additional stations on channels where you have strong local stations? I've already invested in the most narrow-pattern antenna I can find -- and spent lots of time twirling the dial looking for dead spots where tropo stations can peak through. That's worked on several frequencies. On others, I've driven around in my car listening to locals--looking for dead spots in local topography where other stations have a chance to sneak in. Despite this, I still have a dozen or so channels with only one logging. Obviously, being alert to these stations being off the air for maintenance is one way. But are there things I can do to attack the problem in other ways? 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, June 9, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) You can't --- There is no frequency on which I've logged only one station, but there are seven where I've only logged two, one of them local. I think most of that is because I've been at it for 20+ years at this location. You will have maintenance opportunities in that time. I will say, the second stations I've logged on these frequencies are not particularly good DX. They're usually the nearest high-powered station on the channel. Use an HD radio. In a recent Denver opening I landed three Colorado stations over locals. The HD sidebands "straddle" the analog signals, so the HD will come in even if it's weaker than the local analog signal (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, http://www.w9wi.com June 10, ibid.) Definitely echo Doug's input on the HD Radio angle, as even the strongest analog-only locals will be easily "overcome" with a distant IBOC decode, since the IBOC carriers are on adjacent frequencies which are more clear. Nashville and Atlanta locals align pretty closely and I've logged a few Atlanta stations over my analog-only locals this way. Even as, like you, I DX primarily with an SDR, if I'm working the opening live, it's easy to see sidebands pop up around an analog local during openings, at which point I swivel over to my Sony receiver and give that frequency a try. Oh, and I should also mention phasing. That's another way I've been able to log stations on tough frequencies. Albeit not against my 100 kW / LOS [line-of-sight to antenna] locals, but it does make a big difference on translators and stout semi-locals. (Bryce Foster - K4NBF (formerly KG6VSW), Hermitage, TN EM66, http://www.k4nbf.com Tuners: Elad FDM-S2 SDR, Sony XDR-F1HD Antennas: Innovanntenna 10 Element FM beam (primary) @35 ft Winegard HD-6065 (phase) @25 ft with Bolin Phase Box Tennadyne T2 V/UHF log periodic @ 30 ft, June 11, ibid.) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See USA: WBCQ; PROPAGATION ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ These antennas turn anything into a radio station Welcome to the June Technical Topics column. This month, courtesy of Science News for Students comes an article about some unique antennas (Don Moman, ed., June CIDX Messenger via DXLD) viz.: A LOW-POWER APPROACH TO HIJACK RADIO SIGNALS ALREADY MOVING THROUGH THE AIR --- By Stephen Ornes – Science News for Students A new device turns posters into radio stations. These smart posters could broadcast sound clips, such as from bands with upcoming concerts. - University of Washington Look — and listen. That concert poster just might be singing. Engineers have designed antennas that can turn everyday objects, from posters to clothing, into radio stations. Anyone walking or driving by can tune in and hear what’s on. The devices use radio waves, but they don’t generate their own. They hijack the same waves that carry music and news to your smartphone. Vikram Iyer is a graduate student in electrical engineering. He studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. He co-led the project with Anran Wang, a graduate student in computer science and engineering. Antennas don't send out new waves. So they need little power. A button-sized battery could power an antenna for years. “It's the ideal way to minimize the power consumption for any kind of communication,” notes Iyer. The two got the idea for their invention by paying attention to what was already around them. Their research had focused on new types of wireless communications that won't require much energy. They wanted something that would work outdoors in a city. Then they realized the air is already filled with wireless communications in the form of radio stations. “In most cities, you have all these FM radio stations just pumping out power,” says Iyer. The duo wondered if they could find a way to harness that power. Radio waves carry energy at the speed of light from tall transmission towers to radios in cars, phones and homes. These waves fill the air — especially in dense cities. The new devices take advantage of that. They take in existing radio waves and change them slightly. Those changes add new sound information. The altered waves are then sent back out into the world where people can listen in. So the device only needs enough power to change the waves, not generate them. The scientists tested their device with a poster. It advertised a Seattle concert by Simply Three, a string trio. People standing almost 4 meters (12 feet) away from the poster could use FM receivers on smartphones to listen to snippets of the band's music. Those in cars as far as 18 meters (59 feet) away could use car radios to pick up the songs. FM stands for “frequency modulation.” Frequency is a measure of how many waves pass in one second. The higher the frequency, the closer the waves must pack together. In FM radio, sounds are encoded in the waves by making small changes in the wave frequencies. This is known as “modulating” the frequency. When a radio wave hits something, it bounces off in a different direction. This is called scattering. Backscattering is what happens when the wave heads back in the opposite direction. The new antenna uses backscattering to send information. It doesn't simply reflect a wave, though. It encodes a different signal on top of the existing wave by changing its frequency. The enhanced waves don't interfere with other radio stations. The new antenna changes the frequency of the wave so that the new message can be heard at a frequency not being using by an existing radio station. The original sound in the wave remains unchanged. Electrical engineer Daniel Stancil says the idea of using existing FM signals “is an exciting one.” Stancil is an expert on antennas and communication at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. He did not work on the new study. Iyer and his colleagues see many uses for their technology. Ads could broadcast sounds. Street signs could send out the name of an intersection or directions. They could also alert people when it's safe to cross the street. The technology could even extend to clothes. Iyer, Wang and their team stitched conductive thread into a cotton t-shirt. That thread conducts electricity. It turned the shirt into an antenna. It let the shirt talk to the wearer's smartphone. If a sensor in the shirt tracked a person's heart rate during exercise, for instance, the antenna could transmit those data to the wearer’s phone. The work by Iyer and Wang shows that the devices work. Now they're trying to figure out the best way to use it. Stancil sees only one possible downside — that people are using FM radios less than they did in the past. “People are normally walking down the street listening to iPods instead,” he says. NOTE: This is one in a series presenting news on technology and innovation, made possible with generous support from the Lemelson Foundation (via Technical Topics, June CIDX Messenger via DXLD) UPCOMING SOLAR ECLIPSE So, here's my dilemma: The path of totality nearly crosses my house. Unfortunately, for reasons beyond my control, I will not be at home during the eclipse. As this is a one-time opportunity, I would like to: record the entire AM band, or as much of it as possible, during the eclipse (I figure to record a 60-minute period straddling totality). Since I'm not possessed of the time to record & review on a regular basis, I don't want to spend too much money on this project. It might be nice to have an Elad or something, but I probably wouldn't use it enough after the eclipse to be worth the money. I'm thinking RTL-SDR and an upconverter. I've diddled with just the software & USB stick on the FM BCB. I have a reasonably fast PC (HP Z400 running Windows 10) available; it seems to handle SDR# just fine for FM DXing. What do people think of this arrangement? How much disk space will I need to record the entire AM band for an hour? Any reports on any specific upconverter? (Will I regret the separate upconverter model & be better off with one of the packaged setups?) Any experience starting SDR recordings from a scheduled task? (I'm tempted to install remote desktop software instead, so that I can *know* it's recording and stand some chance of recovering if it doesn't) == (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, June 6, NRC-AM via DXLD) Doug et al., I got a cute little SDR that is really quite nice for casual DX'ing from HRO last year, it's on sale now for $119.95 thru June: SDRplay SDRplay RSP1 - Radio Spectrum Processor SDR Receiver includes SDR-UNO Software http://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-014408 I downloaded and installed HD SDR software with its record feature. It's not the Drake R-8B but for that price it gives me lots as taping to listen to when have time. 73 (Wayne Heinen N0POH, Editor AM Radio Log, June 8, ibid., WORLD OF RADIO 1882) I received the RSP1 today. Tossed things together & ran a quick recording. - It works. Haven't tried to schedule a recording yet. - Some strange noise at the bottom of the band. I'll need to test with the other radios to make sure it isn't somehow coming in on the antennas. Things sound fine at the top of the dial. (I think I might have caught a new one on 1290. Fighting an ear infection so IDing anything over a computer speaker isn't going to happen right now :( ) - Diddling around on the 40-meter ham band and the FM BCB shows it's decently functional & selective. - SDRUno is the only software I've been able to get working so far. SDR#, Windows 10 blocks the driver installation claiming it's malware. That's not the end of the world, SDRUno is certainly adequate for what I'm trying to do. - I wonder if it literally dead-ends at 2 GHz? Surprisingly there seems to be a plugin for decoding DVB-T on the SDRPlay website. TV live trucks transmit DVB-T on frequencies *just* above 2 GHz (as in, IIRC 2000 MHz is the bottom of channel 1). If this thing can be convinced to tune just a few MHz above 2000, it could be used to bench-test our microwave transmitters... - Recording spectrum is magic:) There's a menu option for selecting the "input" -- you switch between the hardware & a file -- EVERY other control is identical either way. You tune a spectrum recording in EXACTLY the same way as you'd tune the actual radio. Only difference is you can't leave your 2 MHz chunk of band (since the AM BCB is less than 2 MHz wide, for BCB DXing it makes no difference whatsoever...) - I think I'm going to end up using TeamViewer as my remote-access solution. Again, it seems to work in testing. Windows security has been making it difficult to get any kind of VPN working. == (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, ibid. WORLD OF RADIO 1882) Images of new SDR Airspy HF+ coming soon http://air-radiorama.blogspot.it/2017/06/le-prime-immagini-del-nuovo-sdr-airspy.html ciao (Giampiero Bernardini, June 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIVERSAL RADIO SELECTIVE OVERSEAS BUSINESS Also writing by letter through the post – and don’t forget that OTD likes to hear from you by post or e-mail – is DAVID CRYSTAL in Israel. He tells us “Universal Radio, USA, is owned by Fred Osterman. He is willing to export books, but will not export anything else except to a very few people he trusts. Early in his career he was badly burned by dishonest foreign customers. Laws in the USA and Canada protect mail order houses, but they have no jurisdiction abroad. Fred Osterman’s masterpiece is the book Communications Receivers 1942-2013. It is well worth a US$100, and was reviewed in Communication in November, 2016. To buy from Universal Radio – http://www.universal-radio.com – you will need an intermediary in the USA or Canada. The intermediary will buy from Universal and then change the address on the box and mail it to you. They charge plenty for their service. For me, the Universal catalogue is a basic tool.” (June BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ GEOMAGNETIC INDICES – Compiled by: Phil Bytheway E-mail: phil_tekno@yahoo.com Geomagnetic Summary May 1 2017 through May 31 2017 Tabulated from email status daily (K @ 0000 UTC). Flux A K Space Wx 1 75 5 3 no storms 2 77 4 2 no storms 3 75 4 0 no storms 4 75 4 0 no storms 5 74 6 1 no storms 6 74 4 1 no storms 7 72 8 2 no storms 8 71 6 1 no storms 9 69 6 2 no storms 10 69 6 3 no storms 11 69 6 2 no storms 12 69 7 1 no storms 13 70 4 1 no storms 14 71 10 3 no storms 15 71 14 3 no storms 16 72 8 2 no storms 17 71 8 2 no storms 18 72 11 2 no storms 19 72 11 3 no storms 20 72 24 3 no storms 21 74 9 2 no storms 22 74 10 3 no storms 23 76 8 2 no storms 24 78 4 1 no storms 25 76 4 2 no storms 26 80 3 1 no storms 27 82 14 6 moderate, G2 28 79 51 1 strong, G3 29 76 10 1 no storms 30 74 7 1 no storms 31 74 4 2 no storms Gx – Geomagnetic Storm Level Rx – Radio Blackouts Level Sx – Solar Radiation Storm Level (IRCA DX Monitor via DXLD) NASA LAUNCHED ARTIFICIAL IONOSPHERIC CLOUDS Hello All, Not sure if there is anything in this that will affect propagation, but it is interesting. Curtis Sadowski http://www.newsweek.com/nasa-watch-live-new-york-artificial-colorful-clouds-us-east-coast-space-624215 Tech & Science -- How to Watch NASA Create Colorful Clouds Over New York and the East Coast --- By Hannah Osborne On 6/12/17 at 6:23 AM NASA is set to launch a rocket that will create colorful artificial clouds over the U.S. East Coast to study part of the Earth’s atmosphere. The clouds should be visible from New York down to North Carolina, and as far west as Charlottesville, Virginia. Live coverage of the mission will start at 8.30 p.m. ET. Viewers can watch the broadcast online below, or via the NASA Wallops Ustream site. The Sounding Rocket will create luminescent blue-green and red clouds in the sky via vapor canisters that will be released around five minutes after launch — currently scheduled to take place from the Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, between 9:04 and 9:19 p.m. ET. Read more: NASA discovers humans have created an artificial barrier around Earth, and it could protect us from space weather NASA had initially scheduled the launch for Sunday night, but had to postpone it because of boats being in the launch range hazard area. This is the fifth failed launch attempt for the mission, with previous attempts scrapped due to high winds and clouds as well as boats in the hazard zone. NASA artificial clouds Artist impression of the clouds, which should be visible from New York down to North Carolina, and as far west as Charlottesville, Virginia. NASA [caption] The mission aims to study the ionosphere and aurora — by creating these colorful fake clouds, scientists will be able to visually track the motions of particles in space. NASA will deploy 10 canisters — each about the size of a soft drink can — at altitudes of between 96 and 124 miles to create the clouds. These canisters will eject “vapor tracers” that form as a result of the interaction of barium, strontium and cupric-oxide. The clouds pose no risk to people living along the mid-Atlantic coast. Once the clouds form, scientists will be able work out particle motion over an area far larger than has ever been possible before. Earth’s upper atmosphere extends over 620 miles into space and scientists would extend understanding of this region by studying particle motions. “The movement of neutral and ionized gases are important to understand as they reveal how mass and energy are transported from one region to another. These movements also respond to changes in the sun’s activity,” the space agency said. NASA artificial clouds Map showing the projected visibility of the vapor tracers. NASA [caption] The artificial clouds allow NASA to track these changes: “Vapor tracer payloads are used to measure atmospheric winds and/or ion drifts in the upper atmosphere and ionosphere. They carry small amounts of gas into space in a canister that are then released along a portion of the rocket trajectory. “The small amount of gas is then visible from the ground. By tracking their motions directly with cameras on the ground (or in an airplane), these tracers make it possible to observe the movements of the upper atmosphere or the ionosphere directly.” (via Sadowski, June 12, WTFDA gg via DXLD) VHF-UHF PROPAGATION, TERRAIN and ANTENNAS Let's be real: what some locations barely receive with a massive 15' long yagi antenna, other locations (like where Ed lives) can receive at the same distance using a paper clip. That's just how tropo works, especially when you're dealing with UHF signals that have a hard time penetrating any terrain. Tropo comes in all varieties, but most of the time you need a low-noise location that's unobstructed by terrain. Flat Midwest is ideal, or on a hilltop; maybe just slightly down the side of the hill to block signals coming from the non-desired direction. And the stronger your locals are, the worse this can be for DX. Personally, I've invested in some channel filters that attenuate my local blowtorches that are only ONE mile away. I would not use an indoor antenna. In my opinion, if you`re DXing, getting the antenna outside alone will drastically improve reception. But then again, my home has aluminum siding, and that basically kills off everything. I have had a hard time with receiving any long-haul UHF tropo at home. So I've used a 4-bay antenna in a better location, and I've doubled my number of DTV logs by doing so. Driving 10 miles away to a better location has been successful. Here's the tropo probability map too. As you can see, the most number of ducts occurs over eastern Illinois and a few spots next to the Gulf of Mexico. If you're trying to DX tropo in Utah, then find another hobby. Click image for larger version. Name: Tropo Probability.jpg Views: 24 Size: 68.0 KB ID: 20514 (Andrew Crazy Monkey, Akron OH, June 10, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) I'd like to share one observation about terrain and the potential issues it can cause. I live in an area of SW Missouri that is referred to as the Ozark Highlands. Constant rolling hills, heavily wooded with oak and walnut trees. Both are hardwoods. People talk about trees being an enemy to DTV signals, and if that's the case, the hardwoods are the worst of the enemies, as researchers have found the hardwoods *eat* DTV signals (so I imagine the dBm in FM signals probably comes down also but that's analog). BUT before we even think about the trees, the rolling hills are the biggest culprit in disrupting the development of tropo conditions. The numerous valleys in the hills create eddies of air (pockets) that are sinking and rising, which can cause the upper atmosphere to be very unstable. This contributes to the t-storm activity that occurs during the Winter to Spring struggle in the Midwest. The ONLY time this area ever gets substantial tropo activity is when a High pressure ridge develops or moves into the area and winds totally calm. This allows for tropo to develop. I used to live in Colorado north of Denver and I had more success with tropo ducts there than I do here in Missouri, due to terrain issues. If you look at the map Andrew posted, it would appear Colorado is less prone to benefiting from tropo conditions. But as I say, it`s the terrain issues. Colorado east of the mountains is the High Plains region, meaning totally flat and very few trees. There were several times I received Omaha TV stations at just under 500 miles. I had to be aware of what the High pressure systems were doing across the Plains states, because tropo doesn't occur as often in the drier climate (Jim Thomas, Springfield, MO, Making FM Dxing more fun than a barrel of monkeys! ibid.) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2017 Jun 12 0422 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 05 - 11 June 2017 Solar activity was at very low levels on 06, 08-11 June. Low levels were reached on 05 and 07 June due to flare activity from Region 2661 (N06, L=211, class/area Dao/200 on 02 June). The largest flare of the period was a C2/Sf at 05/0531 UTC. No Earth-directed CMEs were observed in available satellite imagery. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal to moderate levels. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to G1 (Minor) storm levels. Quiet to unsettled conditions were observed during the first six days of the reporting period (05-10 June) under a nominal solar wind regime. During this timeframe, solar wind speeds decreased from approximately 400 km/s to near 275 km/s. Total field values (Bt) ranged between 1 and 7 nT while the Bz did not drop lower than -5 nT. Phi angle was variable. At approximately 11/1330 UTC a solar wind enhancement occured, indicated by an increase in wind speed to near 430 km/s, an enhanced total field of 14 nT, and a low Bz value of -12 nT. Phi angle remained in a positive orientation shortly after the enhancement indicating a SSBC and the arrival of a recurrent, positive-polarity CH HSS. The geomagnetic field responded to this enhancement with unsettled to active levels and an isolated period of G1 (Minor) storm conditions. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 12 JUNE - 08 JULY 2017 Solar activity is expected to be at very low to low levels throughout the forecast period. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal to moderate levels with high levels likely on 16-26 June due to recurrent CH HSS influence. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be mostly quiet with unsettled to active levels expected on 12-19 June and G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm levels likely on 16 June due to recurrent CH HSS effects. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2017 Jun 12 0422 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 2017-06-12 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2017 Jun 12 77 15 4 2017 Jun 13 78 12 3 2017 Jun 14 76 8 3 2017 Jun 15 74 15 4 2017 Jun 16 72 25 5 2017 Jun 17 72 15 4 2017 Jun 18 72 12 3 2017 Jun 19 72 8 3 2017 Jun 20 72 5 2 2017 Jun 21 72 5 2 2017 Jun 22 72 5 2 2017 Jun 23 72 5 2 2017 Jun 24 72 5 2 2017 Jun 25 70 5 2 2017 Jun 26 70 5 2 2017 Jun 27 75 5 2 2017 Jun 28 75 5 2 2017 Jun 29 75 5 2 2017 Jun 30 75 5 2 2017 Jul 01 75 5 2 2017 Jul 02 75 5 2 2017 Jul 03 75 5 2 2017 Jul 04 75 5 2 2017 Jul 05 75 5 2 2017 Jul 06 75 5 2 2017 Jul 07 75 5 2 2017 Jul 08 78 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1882, DXLD) GLENN`S PROPAGATION OUTLOOK FOR MEDIA NETWORK PLUS AS OF JUNE 15, 2017 Keith, from the Space Environment Prediction Center of China, the Planetary A index peaking at 15 on June 16; 13 on July 8. From Space Weather Services Australia, the global hf propagaton foecasst thru June 17: normal at low latitudes; normal to fair at middle and high latitudes. From Spaceweather South Africa, thru June 17, magnetic conditions active to minor storm to unsettlled to active, shortwave fadeouts unlikely, MUF unstable. [last two parameters seem never to change, but possible] From Met Office UK thru June 18; solar activity very low. Geomagnetic field increasing to Unsettled or Active levels (K indices of 3 or 4) with a chance of G1 minor storm intervals June 16 and 17. From the Space Weather Predixion Center in Boulder, Colorado, Geomagnetic field mostly quiet, with unsettled to active levels expected until June 19 after A and K indices peaking at 25 and 5 on June 16. Lowest A`s and K`s of 5 and 2 from June 20 at least thru July 8. Solar flux bottoming out at 70 on June 25 and 26; up to 78 by July 8. William Hepburn`s VHF UHF DX maps call for extreme tropospheric ducting thru at least June 20, increasingly off the west coast of Mexico; off west Africa around Cabo Verde, and off the coast of Angola. And all around the Arabian peninsula as far as Pakistan. All across the Mediterranean June 16; central and eastern Mediterranean June 17 (via DXLD) TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING ++++++++++++++++++++++++ [Re 17-23:] CHRISTIANITY VS. SECULAR HUMANISM ON SHORTWAVE: A RECENT EXAMPLE How about we drop political/religious programming discussion on this site – I thought this was a SW DXing group… (Bruce Churchill, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I wasn't offended by the post, and I'm a Christian. I too tire of the (phony) preaching on SW, especially Brother Scare. It would be great if they had more intellectual programming available that does not seem to exist on any other airwaves on any band or frequency. Even if they read Isaac Newton's books, Kepler's Laws, or even the late Dr Lynn Margulis. I find it rather concerning that even with so many billionaire philanthropists, there isn't (at least in my findings) ONE real teaching program on the air. Some one could buy airtime and just air scientific papers, anything. Even on the old time radio archive programs, there are Schools of the Air, March of Time, Democracy in America, oh there are so many, all very bright, not a one dumbed down for the masses - all enlightening and educating (Kay Morgan, ibid.) From the description of this yahoo group: "Both DXing and program listening are covered." I already knew about the BBC's "Heart & Soul", a wonderful program and only religious in the broadest sense of the word, but I am happy Richard made others aware of it. Too bad someone might be offended by its mention; perhaps we should ask Glenn and others to refrain from mentioning Koran readings in program schedules from international broadcasters. (-Saul Broudy, ibid.) This is my only response to this thread. I became a born again Christian in 2004. I do listen to some of the Christian Evangelist radio broadcasters on MW and SW but I too feel that there is to much of it going on on shortwave, especially considering that most are charlatans and in it for the money and power, but they will have to answer for that behavior when they pass. On the flip side the radio evangelists keep most of the stateside shortwave broadcast stations on the air, many of the international broadcasters also. I mostly listen to Dr. Charles Stanley on radio http://www.intouch.org and he is fantastic because he preaches the loving Prince of Peace gospel versus the revengeful Lion of Judah gospel that Brother HysSTAIRical preaches. Brother Stair is the self described last day prophet of God but he will have to answer for that claim when he passes. 73, (Thomas F. Giella W4HM, Lakeland, FL http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/spaceweather ibid.) ###