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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1886 contents: Anguilla, Argentina non, Bolivia, Bougainville, Brazil, China, Ethiopia and non, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Korea North [I meant to say 1710 kHz, instead of 17], Micronesia, Morocco, Netherlands, Newfoundland, North America, Perú, USA, Venezuela SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1886, July 13-19, 2017 Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1431 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Sat 2300 WRMI 11580 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/fair signal of Radio Afghanistan External Service, July 7: 1532-1647 6100 YAK 100 kW / 125 deg SoAs English/Urdu/Arabic & off air http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/07/weak-to-fair-signal-of-radio.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. 7210, July 9 at 2341, S8 in Spanish, which is Radio Internacional de China, 150 kW at 280 degrees from Cërrik at 22-24. I was looking for Nelson Roig, N1NR in Pennsylvania, who used to hold forth on this frequency LSB with anti-Castro diatribes, sounding much like scripted broadcasts. Haven`t heard him or his cohorts in quite a while. Anyhow, no other broadcasts on 7210 until Kolkata from 0215 per HFCC. N1NR also was more active in the mornings around sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALGERIA. Music on Shortwave (and Longwave) Many thanks to long-time supporter of this column, Rafael Martínez, who writes: “One of my latest discoveries is the programme Diwane on Radio Alger Chaîne 3. RTA website describes the show with a very brief “grand Maghreb music” - the grand Maghreb is formed by Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania - It needed surfing on the web to get some additional information. Diwane is the name given in Algeria to the music played by the Gnawa (or Gnaoua) community, descendants of South Saharan Africa black slaves deported to North Africa after the Maghreb Muslim conquest. Gnaoua in Berber means black man or original from a black men country. The show is one hour long, in French, usually dedicated to an only artist or band, sometimes includes interviews with the musicians. Besides Gnaoua music also is played music labeled in the World Music scene as “Tuareg Rock” or “Desert Blues”. Diwane is produced by Amel Feddi et Amine Fedala for Radio Alger Chaîne 3, aired every Saturday at 1904 on 252LW, FM and online at http://www.radioalgerie.dz/player/fr/live/chaine-3 A repeat is scheduled Sunday at 0300. Old programmes are available to hear and download at http://www.radioalgerie.dz/chaine3/diwane (Alan Roe, UK, Listening Post, July BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** ANGUILLA. 11775, Caribbean Beacon with Dead Dr Gene deep in didactic discourse but so deeply distorted that his discussion was in- decipherable. This is becoming en-demic. First it was Cairo, then Cuba started with the mumble-mouth disease & now The Univ. Network/Caribbean Beacon. Have technicians lost skills? Are stations so heavily invested in showing SW has no audience that they do this to insure nobody listens? Sigh. 454+41, only able to ID because I KNOW what the station breaks sound like, and there was one at the end -- well that & because Dead Dr Gene has a rather distinctive voice. 2106- 2110 2/Jul SPR-4 + randomwire (Ken Zichi, Port Horin MI2, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD) 6090, July 9 at 0040, incredibly, decent modulation has finally been restored at Caribbean Beacon after several months of extreme distortion, PMS at S9+35, an echo apart from // 5935 WWCR. Downside now is that it splatters more out to 6080-6100! Plus reaudiblizing the boring content of The so-called University Network. 11775, July 9 at 1302 check, corresponding day frequency is also finally back to normal, with DGS. 11775, July 10 at 2135, Caribbean Beacon is AWOL, a few days after finally fixing the modulation. Not audible on 6090 either which normally starts at 2200. 11775 still off at 1550 check July 11 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11775, July 12 at 1345, PMS is back on with OK modulation. However, Harold Frodge says it cut off at 1422:10* today in mid-preach. I recheck at 1916, it`s still off. Meanwhile, as I read later in the DXLD yg, Chuck, W3ON was hearing Caribbean Beacon on 11865 instead of 11775 at 1856-1910, OK modulation. This was previously reported by Dave Valko a few weeks ago as a spur of 11775. Then I check at 2043 to find nothing on 11865, but 11775 is back on with dead air. At 2101 it`s off again (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DX LISTENING DIGEST) More to come? 11775, No sign of Rev. Barbi or Dead Dr. Gene. 1745, 11- July +++ 1416-1422:10*, 12-July; Rev. Barbi preaching & not distorted! SIO=454; Off abruptly in mid-preach, so apparently the xmtr angel isn’t done yet (Harold Frodge, MI, 1427 UT July 12, WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11865 kHz -- 1856 UT - University Network-English-probably Anguilla Island transmitter. Hmm. As I write this at 1856, I hear them with a signal of SIO 252. What I think is the University Network transmitter on Anguilla Island with Pastor Melissa Scott talking. Then at 1910 I rechecked 11865, and I heard Pastor Gene Scott talking. Not the scheduled 11775 kHz, where they had distorted audio for many months. The distorted audio problem appears to have been taken care of. 11775 kHz -- 1900 UT - Unknown-German?-Maybe Voice of Greece-ID. I heard in English 'This is the Voice of Athens'. Then about 1915 UT they switched to English. Very hard to understand due to mushy audio and lots of fading (QSB). 73 de (Chuck W3ON Rig: Icom IC756 Pro 3, Cushcraft MA5B Beam, 1931 UT July 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11865 was previously reported as a spur when 11775 was on the air. The German on 11775 is CRI at 18-20 via E Turkistan (Glenn, ibid.) Hi Glen[n], OK. Thanks for the update. Transmit spur on 11865 kHz, from 11775 kHz. Funny, I could not hear The Caribbean Beacon station on 11775 kHz at the time. Only that German speaking station, which you ID'd as a CRI relay. Hmm. I kind of wonder who is running the show at the Caribbean Beacon to allow that transmit spur situation, and others to happen. I wasn't sure who was transmitting on 11775 kHz at the time as their audio was real mushy sounding. 73 de (Chuck W3ON, July 12, ibid.) ** ANTARCTICA [non]. Hopefully some of you had the opportunity to tune in the annual BBC Mid-Winter Broadcast to staff located at various research stations in the Antarctic. The broadcast took place on June 21 to mark the mid-winter season in Antarctica. BBC broadcasts the 30- minute broadcast once a year. This year it was transmitted from three transmitters in the UK, the Middle East and Ascension Island. Tom Witherspoon of the SWLing Post blog asked DXers around the world to record the broadcast if they were picking it up in their part of the world. Many DXers obliged and sent along recordings of what they heard. Check out this extensive report, including the recordings and information on equipment and antennas used, on the SWLing Post blog special feature at http://swling.com/blog/2017/06/listening-across-the-globe-the-2017-bbc-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast/ (July CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA [non]. RAE Argentina to the World --- A welcome development over recent weeks has been the relays of RAE Argentina to the World via the transmitters of WRMI, Okeechobee and of the Shortwave Service in Germany. Finally, I can get to hear some of the programming from this station. Unfortunately, English is relayed in the early hours (UTC) so too late for me, but other languages can be heard earlier in the evening and provide an opportunity to hear some great Argentinian music. The basic features schedule is the same in all languages, as follows: Monday programme: Our Football; Argentine Tango. Tuesday programme: Argentinians Sans Frontiers; (In Touch with) The Folklore Reality Wednesday programme: The Talk; Argentine Routes Thursday programme: Welcome; Science & Technology Friday programme: Actualidad DX.COM.AR; Shared Stories However, note that the actual WRMI transmissions all comprise the content of the previous “Program” day. The SWS transmission comprises that day’s “Program” day; as follows: UTC Lang Broadcast Day “Program” Day Freq 0100-0200 English Tuesday-Saturday Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr 9395 0600-0700 Japanese Tuesday-Saturday Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr 7730 0700-0800 English Tuesday-Saturday Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr 5850, 7730 0800-0900 Chinese Tuesday-Saturday Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr 5850 0900-1000 Japanese Tuesday-Saturday Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr 5850 1100-1200 Portuguese Monday-Friday Fr,Mo,Tu,We,Th 9955 [+9455] 1300-1400 French Monday-Friday Fr,Mo,Tu,We,Th 11580 1400-1500 Spanish Monday-Saturday Fr,Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr 11580 [gh add] 2100-2200 German Monday-Friday Fr,Mo,Tu,We,Th 11580 2100-2200 German Monday-Friday Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr 3985 Kall 2200-2300 Italian Monday-Friday Fr,Mo,Tu,We,Th 11580 2200-2300 Spanish Monday-Friday Fr,Mo,Tu,We,Th 5950 That’s all for this month – 73’s until next time. Alan Roe (Listening Post, July BDXC-UK Communication via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. EXTRA UPDATE FROM ARGENTINA: LR9 Radio America is definitely out of the air and these days the frequency of 1190 kHz is free, thus becoming a true "DX channel". Radio América stopped transmitting because it lost its license and was taken away by the National Communications Entity (ENACOM), which is dependent on the National Government. A public tender for the award of the license has recently been carried out and will soon begin operating on the 1190 Khz Radio Profile, which will also be broadcast from the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. The goal of Perfil is to launch a predominantly news radio in 2017. An idea that has been exploring for four years in FM format and inspired by the world's oldest news radio: the New York City AM 1010 WINS (from the periodically prestigious CBS), which turned fifty years as news radio in 2015 and has been the inspiration for hundreds of news radio stations around the world. The idea of a radio 100 x 100 news is linked to the history of Radio América itself. The entrepreneur Eduardo Eurnekian had acquired it in 1989, baptizing it with that name. Before it had been called Radio Antártida, Radio Malvinas Argentinas and, in its foundation in 1929, Radio Fénix (ArnaldO Slaen, Argentina, Medium Wave News July-August 2017 via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. “End of Life Care" ALL IN THE MIND - ABC Radio National At a specially designed palliative care unit at a leading Sydney hospital we hear from a patient about his needs and expectations for the final stages of his life. We also hear from the passionate medical staff including a doctor, a social worker, and a psychologist—about their determination to create comfort and meaning for residents and their loved ones. The staff reflect on what they learn about their own priorities in life by caring for others. (30”) http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/end-of-life-care/8547822 “The Science of Hedonism” ALL IN THE MIND - ABC Radio National Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n' roll. It’s a winning trifecta—no matter what the potential dangers are. But our compulsion to seek pleasure is not as primitive as we might think. Hear about what we can learn from having sex in an MRI machine, how a Swiss scientist discovered the highs of LSD, and the wide-ranging effects that music has on our brain. (30”) http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/the-science-of-hedonism/8598236 Capsule Review: ALL IN THE MIND (ABC Radio National) Periodic, rolling budget cuts to Australia’s public radio broadcaster have started to restrict the number of topical subject matter-oriented programs ABC Radio National can produce. Its managers claim that more wide ranging and less focused magazine style programs with shorter features and more general conversation are more popular with younger listeners. Nonetheless, while more narrowly focused programs can be more challenging, they also can be more valuable and informative. ALL IN THE MIND is one of the survivors (so far); and it is as unique as it is most welcome. The program describes itself as “an exploration of all things mental...about the brain and behaviour, and the fascinating connections between them.” Given that our brain arguably is the most important factor in making us human, it stands to reason that it should deserve undivided attention at least now and then. Let’s hope that ABC management continues to see it that way, for ALL IN THE MIND amazes with the breadth and depth of its examinations and explorations of our “inner space”. __ __ A monthly compendium of these newsletters, plus on occasion additional pertinent material, is now published in The CIDX Messenger, the monthly e-newsletter of the Canadian International DX Club (CIDX). For further information, go to http://www.cidx.ca Good listening! (John Figliozzi, Editor, "The Worldwide Listening Guide" 7th edition available from Universal Radio, Amazon, W5YI.com and Ham Radio Outlet, Podding Along, dxldyg via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. ABC BOARD HOLDS COMMUNITY FORUM IN ALICE SPRINGS https://radio.press.abc.net.au/abc-board-holds-community-forum-in-alice-springs Thursday, July 6, 2017 -- Alice Springs turned on its charm when the ABC Board and Leadership team held its first Community Forum at Desert Park on Tuesday, 4 July. The event brought together more than 120 members of the local community to share their views on the role and activities of the ABC in regional Australia. Guests at the Alice Springs Community Forum were invited to share their views on what the ABC does well and which of its services could be improved. Among the topics discussed were the future of ABC broadcast services in Central Australia, the ABC's recent announcement of a $15 million investment in ABC Regional and the creation of 80 new roles, the closure of shortwave services and the ABC's commitment to science broadcasting and specialised genres. ABC Chairman, Justin Milne, said the Community Forum was a valuable opportunity to hear from audiences in Central Australia particularly given NAIDOC Week celebrations and the ABC's 85th anniversary. "We value feedback from our audiences and our visit to Alice Springs provided many insights into what our audiences like and expect from us. With the Q&A broadcast and the chance to meet with many stakeholders, we have a much better understanding of our audiences in Central Australia and their expectations from our content and services." ABC Managing Director Michelle Guthrie said that the aim of the Community Forum was to listen to feedback from the community and to increase awareness of the ABC's content and services. "The Community Forum allowed the ABC to gain a deeper insight into how Australians view us, and how we can improve our content and services to ensure that we remain relevant for all Australians." The ABC will hold its next Community Forum in Wagga Wagga in August (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) So what was the outcome of the SW matter?? ** AUSTRIA. 9550, July 8 at 0429, soft jazz until 0429:30*. It`s AWR Turkish via Moosbrunn from 0400, erroneously shown until 0428* in Aoki, 0430* in HFCC & EiBi. Only we present the truth! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Moosbrunn video --- Hi All, An interesting video showing a visit to the Moosbrunn transmitting site has been posted to YouTube by Max Berger, and although the language is in German, it's still well worth a watch even for non-German speakers, as it shows some great shots of the antennas, transmitters and control room: (Alan Gale, UK, July 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Presumably many readers here will not read DXLD. Those who will have already seen what follows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h0qz8CPWMU A recent radio fan visit at Moosbrunn. The walk through the transmitter room that starts at 12:30 should be discussed in detail: First come the two 100 kW Thomcast (as the company was called back then) transmitters installed in 2000, also shown before with opening the PA tube cabinet etc. Then to the left the 10 kW Continental transmitter used until 1984 at Aldrans on 6000 kHz "to serve deep valleys" as ORF put it back then, unable to just say that this was for Southern Tyrol. Then to the right the only remaining one of the four 100 kW Telefunken transmitters from the 60s, the original equipment. Then behind the gateway (into a building extension it seems) the two 500 kW Telefunken transmitters from the 80s, used for all transmissions with 300 kW, thus most of the remaining output, including the prominently shown BBC in French (Kai Ludwig, Germany, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) Hi Kai, Thanks very much for the Youtube link re Moosbrunn visit. Like many of us, we get busy & not always able to look at DXLD as often as we'd like to, (and we can miss relevant items) hence always great to have re-posts of SW TX site specific topics here. :-) (Ian, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) L (gh, DXLD) ** AUSTRIA. Updated summer A-17 relays via Moosbrunn transmitting site + video: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/07/updated-summer-17-of-relays-via.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) These special transmissions in September will not be ORF programming but DARC broadcasts, too (to cover some ham radio event). And perhaps it should be pointed out what this station visit video shows on the walk through the transmitter room that starts at 12:30: First come the two 100 kW Thomcast (as the company was called back then) transmitters installed in 2000, also shown before with opening the PA tube cabinet etc. Then to the left the 10 kW Continental transmitter used until 1984 at Aldrans on 6000 kHz "to serve deep valleys" as ORF put it back then, unable to just say that this was for Southern Tyrol. Then to the right the only remaining one of the four 100 kW Telefunken transmitters from the sixties, the original equipment. Then behind the gateway (into a building extension it seems) the two 500 kW Telefunken transmitters used for all transmissions with 300 kW, thus most of the remaining output, including the prominently featured BBC in French (Kai Ludwig, ibid.) ** BOLIVIA. Shortwave Loggings for: July 7, 8, and 9, 2017 I spent the weekend camping at a rural location west of Lindsay, Ontario hoping to score big in the IARU HF Championships but band conditions were atrocious for this QRP contester. The site is home to the Victoria-Haliburton Amateur Radio Association's VE3LNZ repeaters. It was here a couple of weeks ago that my Kenwood TS-440S added the 80 meter band to their Field Day for the first time as the 80 meter inverted vee dipole I have for portable operations worked admirably. For other contests where I want to be portable I think I will have to build a multi-band dipole so that I won't have to rely so much on a tuner to get my signal out. It's a good thing, however, that I never gave up on SWLing as I put my Ten-Tec Argonaut II to good use with the dipole. I can always find something to listen to especially stations like Radio Mosoj Chaski that I just can't hear from my home. And the fact that I was in a rural location using solar charged batteries there was no local noise which made even regulars like RNZI sound like a local station. There’s still a lot to be heard on the shortwave bands but you have to be in an electrically quiet area, possess excellent receivers (or receive sections in a transceiver), and employ good antennas. My article on DXing this way, “Is Nomadic DXing the Way to Go?” is still available on the ODXA website http://www.odxa.on.ca/ under “Article Archives” then “DXing Articles”. All loggings are in English unless otherwise stated [including] 3310, BOLIVIA, Radio Mosoj Chaski at 0114 in Quechua with female vocals then two women with brief talk then a male choral version of “Glory, Glory, Hallejuah” and into female vocals at 0118 – Fair with static crashes Jul 9 (Mark Coady, DXing in Grass Hill, Ontario Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 80 meter inverted vee antenna, ODXA yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DXLD) ** BOUGAINVILLE. 3325, NBC Bougainville, 1122-1201*, July 5. Usual format of playing pop songs (Journey - "Don't Stop Believing," etc.), but with anomaly of no DJ today; just a minute of dead air between songs; 1200 ID; PNG bird call and start of NBC News till cut off. 3325, NBC Bougainville, 1052-1200*, July 8. Reception above the norm, but with QRN (static); DJ in Pidgin with "Saturday night" "dedications" show of various music (C&W, pop and Pacific Islands songs); frequent "NBC Bougainville" IDs and a few full IDs; "frequency 3 point 3 2 5 kilohertz, 90 meter band, shortwave one and on 95.5 FM"; cut off at 1200*. My audio of DJ - http://goo.gl/paJGz6 3325, NBC Bougainville, on July 9, Sunday, with a second consecutive day of very decent, above average reception. 1028-1125: Election coverage via "NBC National Radio" audio feed, in English; many different reports giving the vote count; "Stay with us for more election 2017 coverage," ad for mobile phone service, "Welcome back to election 2017 coverage"; promos and PSA about "building a great nation" and for "NBC TV"; "NBC National Radio updates"; "NBC official broadcaster of the 2017 election." 1125-1201*: Local "NBC Bougainville" ID and into the usual Sunday program of religious (Christian) songs mostly in English; DJ in Pidgin; suddenly cut off. A point of interest - PNG during this election has over 3,300 candidates running for office! 3325, NBC Bougainville, on July 11, with special extended broadcast. 1028-1203: Continuing special election coverage; same format as I reported July 9, with many different reports giving election results; some breaks for ads, promos and PSAs. Extended broadcast 1203-1320+: 1203-1208: NBC News in English. 1208-1230: DJ in Pidgin, playing pop Pacific Islands songs. 1230-1245: "NBC Bougainville update," in Pidgin, with long list of the voting results. 1245-1320+: more Pacific Islands songs. July 10, noted 1201* cut off, so today was the first day of their extended broadcasting. My local sunrise was at 1257 UT. Wonderful to hear this NBC station without any Indonesian (RRI Palangkaraya) QRM, as they remain absent here. NBC Bougainville still being heard in Japan, at 1627+ UT. Streaming now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JzkXEV-E0g&feature=em-lss Thanks to DFS (Shimane, Japan). (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Heard from KiwiSDR near Auckland NZ still going at 1705 tune to past 1730 with woman announcing election results interspersed with local pop music. SINPO 45544 (Bruce Churchill, ibid. WORLD OF RADIO 1886) Heard in Moscow region with YL election announcements and local music (Degen 1103, built-in whip antenna) - 11.07.17, 3325, 1720-1735 UT - 1107201724776 DX 3325 kHz - NBC Bougainville extended, Kieta (distance - 12285 km), https://youtu.be/_y_QLHGPMLI 73, (Eduard Korsakov, Russia, July 12, dxldyg via DXLD) 3325, NBC Bougainville, tuned in at 1018 and still on the air at 1318, on July 12, with second day of extended broadcasting well past the normal 1200* cut off. Today with completely different format than heard on July 9 and 11; didn't carry the "NBC National Radio" audio feed in English; instead had local segments of non-stop music (John Denver - "Take Me Home, Country Roads," etc.) and segments with the election results in Pidgin; a number of local IDs (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. UNIDENTIFIED. Re: Que emissora é esta? 5016 --- Alex, O WebSDR de Itajaí talvez esteja muito próximo de uma emissora local de OM/MW. Minha sugestão é comparar o áudio de 5015 com emissões mais fortes de OM (Huelbe Garcia, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Turma, Obrigado pela dicas, sugiro fazerem a monitoria desta frequencia também. Talvez consigamos identificá-la com melhor certeza. Abraços (Alexandre Deves Sailer, ibid.) Caros, De fato é isso mesmo. A Cultura de Cuiabá esteve no ar com programação da IUDA até meses atrás, e mantinha seu sinal nos 710 e 5015 kHz. Não estava desativado não. Captei eles diversas vezes aqui em SP, claro que com menor potência, a propagação não ajuda. Tenho ela logada em AM e OT. Eu os escutei recentemente, estão apenas com programação musical. Nada de comercial ou anúncios da emissora. Provavelmente estão montando sua grade de programação nova ainda. Mas é fato, a emissora é mesmo Cultura de Cuiabá. Importante dizer que esta é uma das emissoras que em AM vai se silenciar. 73, (Denis Zoqbi, July 10, radioescutas yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DXLD) Com certeza vai ser FM (Ariovaldo Lobrito, ibid.) ** BRAZIL. 4885, Radio Clube do Pará, after weeks of silence in the early morning hours here in Europe, today on air at this time with its classic program "Clube na Madrugada". Heard between 0510-0625, 10-07, ID "Clube na Madrugada", Brazilian songs and comments, Portuguese. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 9664.8, Voz Missionária, Camboriú, 1954-2017, 08-07, Portuguese, religious comments and songs, ID “Voz Missionária”. 24322. 9818.5, Rádio 9 de Julho, São Paulo, 2042-2056, 08-07, religious comments and songs, Portuguese. 23322. 11734.9, Rádio Transmundial, Santa María, 1947-2005, 08-07, Portuguese, religious comments and songs, ID “Transmundial”. 34433. 11764.55, Super Rádio Deus é Amor, Curitiba, 1545-1712, 08-07, Portuguese, religious songs and comments, ID “Super Rádio Deus é Amor...”. 24322. 11815, Rádio Brasil Central, Goiânia, 1135-1550, 08-07, Brazilian songs, Portuguese, comments, ID “Brasil Central”, “A nossa programação”. 14321. 15190, Rádio Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte, 1512-1545, 08-07, Brazilian songs, ID “Inconfidência”. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11855.05, July 9 at 2350, VP S1 talk in unknown language. Can it be Rádio Aparecida, so close to nominal rather than 1-2 kHz off? Hard to imagine, but nothing else is scheduled in HFCC between 1900 and 0230. Encourages me to measure this and other ZY frequencies later. Best window for 11855 is 0530-0700, after Iran in Arabic, and before Albania in CRI Chinese. July 10 at 0601, I put the R. Aparecida ID on 11855.068. Only other ZY carriers on 25m now, no SRDA nor of course Bandeirantes: 11934.924, July 10 at 0604, VP carrier presumed from R. Evangelizar. 11815.038, July 10 at 0605, VP carrier presumed from R. Brasil Central. Estimated accuracy of these measurements: within 2-3 Hz; earlier 31m: 9818.706, July 10 at 0547, VP carrier presumed from R. Nove de Julho, drifting ever-lower. 9725.442, July 10 at 0550, VP carrier presumed from R. Evangelizar. 9674.935, July 10 at 0553, VP carrier presumed from R. Canção Nova (which BTW is missing from WRTH 2017; inactive at presstime? In Aoki) 9664.847, July 10 at 0556, poor but definitely in Brazuguese, R. Voz Missionária (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. The former RB2 short wave frequencies are now listed on the site of Rádio Evangelizar. https://www.padrereginaldomanzotti.org.br/padre/ https://www.padrereginaldomanzotti.org.br/rec/frequencias-de-radios/ Você pode ouvir a programação da Rede Evangelizar de Comunicação pelas frequências: FM 99.5 MHz – ZYN289 – Curitiba (PR) FM 90.9 MHz – ZYT992 – Lapa (PR) AM 1060 KHz – ZYJ246 – Curitiba (PR) AM 1430 KHz – ZYJ200 – Curitiba (PR) 49m 6.040 KHz – ZYE 725: Alcança estados como São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro 31m 9.725 KHz – ZYE 725: Alcança estados mais distantes do Paraná, como Minas Gerais e Goiás 25m 11.935 KHz – ZYE 725: Alcance transcontinental, em vários outros países. The programme schedule for the AM/SW broadcast is found at: https://www.padrereginaldomanzotti.org.br/rec/prog-radio-am-oc/ A web stream is available at: https://www.padrereginaldomanzotti.org.br/rec/radio-am/ (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 11 July 2017, WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. USA(non), More and more frequencies of Brother HySTAIRical via SPL Secretbrod, according to Overcomer SW radio schedule http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/07/more-and-more-frequencies-of-brother.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz: 1700-0300 5900 kHz to Eu/ME, but in reality is 2057-0317 UT 1800-2000 6000 kHz to Eu/ME, but in reality is 1832-2002 Mon-Fri 0800-1400 7400 kHz to Eu/ME, inactive at present 1700-0200 9400 kHz to Eu/FE, but in reality is 1832-2028 1500-1900 11590 kHz to Eu/ME, but in reality is 1805-2035 [see SOUTH CAROLINA [non] for an 11590 log at 2008] 1900-2200 11700 kHz to NE/ME, inactive at present 1400-2000 13600 kHz to Af/ME, ex 15325?, inactive at present 1500-2000 15600 kHz to Eu/ME, new addit, inactive at present 0800-1300 18800*kHz to ME/FE, frequency, inactive at present *strange QRG, also no signal on 9800; 11800; 13800; 15800; 17800; 21800 (??????????? ?? Observer ? 5:50 PM via DXLD) 18800 = 2 x 9400 ** CANADA. CRTC APPROVES FIVE NEW INDIGENOUS RADIO STATIONS The CRTC has approved five new indigenous radio stations serving the urban markets of Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto and Ottawa to replace the failed Aboriginal Voices Radio. The licences are split among three groups: First Peoples Radio, which is basically APTN, gets Ottawa and Toronto; Northern Native Broadcasting, which runs CFNR-FM Terrace, gets Vancouver; and Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta, which runs a station with retransmitters throughout Alberta, gets Edmonton and Calgary. FPR/APTN had applied for all five markets and argued that its applications were not severable, but the CRTC called that bluff, arguing they should still be able to function with fewer stations. The commission was not impressed by applications by two other groups, one because they proposed a hybrid indigenous/South Asian programming, and the other because its business plan was “speculative”. Each station has two years to launch (though extensions can be given) and their licences expire in 2023. Here are their conditions of licence, beyond the standard ones: Vancouver: 106.3 MHz, 9,000 W, 2 hours and 30 minutes a week of indigenous spoken-word programming, 25% of music as indigenous- Canadian music, 5% of all music in indigenous languages, 120 hours a week of local programming Edmonton: 89.3 MHz, 100,000 W, 7 hours a week of indigenous spoken- word programming, 20% of music as indigenous-Canadian music, 5% of all music in indigenous languages, 120 hours a week of local programming Calgary: 88.1 MHz, 100,000 W, 7 hours a week of indigenous spoken-word programming, 20% of music as indigenous-Canadian music, 5% of all music in indigenous languages, 117.5 hours a week of local programming Ottawa: 95.7 MHz, 9,100 W, 9 hours a week of indigenous spoken-word programming (of which 5 must be local as of Year 3), 25% of music as indigenous-Canadian music, 60% local programming Toronto: 106.5 MHz, 2,600 W, 9 hours a week of indigenous spoken-word programming (of which 5 must be local as of Year 3), 25% of music as indigenous-Canadian music, 60% local programming (via Steve Faguy Fagstein Blog & the CRTC, July CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ** CHINA. One of my favourite programmes from China Radio International is Alight on Literature (“bringing to life China’s literary heritage”). (Incidentally, I find the series title Alight on Literature a little strange. I wonder if it should have really been A Light on Literature, which would seem to me to be more apt). Anyway, the series is currently featuring a reading from the book Mao Zedong: Man Not God. The book is a biographical look at Mao through the eyes of one of his bodyguards from 1947-1962, and written as a first person narrative. The publisher’s blurb for the book, which I found on the web, reads in part: “(the) revealing, intimate, never-before-published recollections of Li Yinqiao, Mao's bodyguard, and brought to light by the author Quan Yanchi. After fifteen years of devoted service, Li received this request from Mao: ‘If what happens in my family is a secret to others, it is not a secret to you. But don't write about me while I'm still alive; wait until I die, and write truthfully when you do.’ For the first time, the personal, inside story of China's dynamic leader and world statesman is told - the life and thought of Mao, the husband, father, comrade-in-arms, the peasant's son.” As of the episode on 30 June [Friday] (at 1330 on 13670 kHz), we are up to part 20, and hearing Mao giving dating advice to his bodyguard! I suspect that there has been much, shall we say, “poetic licence” in the telling of this tale, but it is none-the-less quite entertaining. I first caught the current reading at the end of the broadcast on 16 June with the announcer asking us to tune for the next part which covers the "national tragedy in the form of the Cultural Revolution" which is a notable announcement for two reasons. Firstly, who (especially listeners who remember the old R Peking) would ever have imagined hearing the Cultural Revolution being described as a national tragedy on Chinese radio. Secondly, the Cultural Revolution did not start until 1966 and this book apparently covers the period 1947-1962. I guess that the announcer possibly meant to refer to The Great Leap Forward which ran from 1958 to 1962. All the readings are very well read by Ian Reed, an English voice actor, although I find it a little hard to accept the choice of an Irish accent given to dialogue by Mao Zedong. Anyway – it’s a great series and highly recommended (Alan Roe, UK, Listening Post, July BDXC-UK Communication via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DXLD) ** CHINA [and non]. 17510, OMAN / CHINA. BBC – A’Seela and CNR 1 Jammer, 1235, 7/4/17 with BBC in Uzbek and CNR jammer in Mandarin. BBC with woman announcer and Uzbek music. CNR jammer with male announcer. I wonder what the Uzbekistani think of China jamming the BBC for them. Either would have been fair, both together were poor. A determined listener probably could have made out the Uzbek (Mark Taylor, Mini DXpedition, Lake Farm County Park, Madison, WI. On July 4, 2017, 1130–1505 UT. With Bill Dvorak and Carlie Forsyth. Thanks to both for their help – Carlie in particular is referenced a couple of times in my logs. Equipment: Tecsun PL660, whip antenna, NASWA Flashsheet July 10 via DXLD) ** CHINA. 6035, PBS Yunnan, 1204-1210*, July 5. Non-stop EZL music till suddenly cut off; BBS/Bhutan not on the air (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 9555.00, *1600-1615 6.7, RFA, Kuwait, Uighur talk programme with strong talk jamming from China, 31441 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, my latest loggings in Skovlunde on the AOR AR7030PLUS with a 28 metres of longwire, wbradio yg via DXLD) ** CHINA. 11560, July 6 at 1828, Firedragon! jammusic at S7-S9, fast flutter, or rather a steady SAH of about 6 Hz, but no sign of any other audio from victim. Also is the only significant signal from E Asia now on the 25 m band. Still going past 1830 and 1900 --- but cut off a few seconds after, and not uncovering the other carrier which has also offed: Scheduled at *18-19* only is RFA Chinese via Saipan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 7385, CNR, July 7, 2017, 1434–1445 in Chinese. SIO 534. This is likely CNR from Beijing covering up RTI on same frequency. It seems too strong to be Lhasa. M & F in rapid commentary. Fluttery QSB, modest QRN. I can hear another station underneath the CNR signal, but not well enough to positively identify it as RTI. Bumper music, ads, strident announcements, interviews, and commentary. Strong signal, but not as clear as it could be. [+ same] July 6, 2017, 1510–1522 in Japanese. SIO 444. F announcer with commentary. Some music. Followed by language lesson with repeated phrases, emphasis, and explanations. Good signal overall (Vince Henley, Anacortes, WA, Tecsun PL-380, 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 via DXLD) ** CHINA [and non]. 11640, TAIWAN / CHINA. Both Radio Taiwan International and CNR 1 jammer, 1300, 7/7/17, in Mandarin. RTI with fanfare, time pips, ID, fanfare again, male announcer over news continuity to sound bites. CNR 1 jammer with time pips, ID sequence, male announcer starts to talk and abruptly off (Mark Taylor, Mini DXpedition, Lake Farm County Park, Madison, WI. On July 7, 2017, 1200– 1430, Equipment: Tecsun PL 660, Kaito K34 antenna, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** CHINA / KUWAIT / MARIANAS ISL [TINIAN/SAIPAN] 6080, 20-21 UT, Radio Free Asia Mandarin program, S=9+10dB in remote SDR unit at Brisbane Australia, totally covered by "Firedragon! jammusic" too at 2020 UT July 8. Same CHN mainland jamming also on 9355 RFA Saipan, 9745 RFA Kuwait relay. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. 9790, July 8 at 0431, French talk clearly audible under music and Cantonese from CRI via CUBA adding up to S9+30. With plenty of vacant frequencies around, there is no excuse for such a collision: RFI French via Issoudun at 04-05, 500 kW, 140 degrees; and CRI via ``Habana`` at 03-05, 250 kW at 305 degrees, as alleged in HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 11640, CNR1 at 1202 // 11845 in Mandarin (jamming RTI in Mandarin) with a man with excited talk --- Poor Jul 10 11845, CNR1 at 1156 in Mandarin (jamming AIR in Mandarin) with a man with excited talk and a female ballad then a man and woman with excited talk from 1158 to 5+1 time pips at 1200 --- Poor to Fair Jul 10 (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) ** CHINA. 7118-USB, VC01 (Chinese Military numbers station), at 0957, on July 12. Numbers in Chinese. Strange they would now be in the ham band! Thanks to tip from Hiroyuki Komatsubara (Japan). My audio at http://goo.gl/5EQ24m (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. 5910.35, 0355-0405 8.7, Alcaraván R, Puerto Lleras. Spanish talk, conversation, 25232 AP-DNK 6010.10, 0405-0410 8.7, La Voz de tu Conciencia, Puerto Lleras. Spanish talk, 15131 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, my latest loggings in Skovlunde on the AOR AR7030PLUS with a 28 metres of longwire, wbradio yg via DXLD) 5910.3, Alcaraván Radio, Puerto Lleras, 0605-0705, 09-07, Latin American songs, “Alcaraván Radio”, Martin Stendal comments. 35433. 6010.1, La Voz de tu Conciencia, Puerto Lleras, 0701-0712, 09-07, religous songs, Spanish. Very weak. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5910.360, Poor tiny S=4 signal of Alcaravan Rádio, logged at 0653 UT, rather threshold signal level. Log in remote Detroit MI-US SDR unit [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 9, dxldyg via DXLD) ** CUBA. [Re 17-27, 1660? Other possibilities] And WGIT Puerto Rico (Terry Krueger, FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6000, R Havana Cuba with Cuban music, into News at ToH with host Ed Newman. Then DX program with Arnie Coro phoning in his segment (Their audio has been so poor lately that the phone line made it REALLY hard to understand him although the announcers in the studio were easily understood despite the muffled audio. Then the “stamp collecting’ program, then the Sunday mailbag show. 4+4+54+3 0345-0445 3/Jul, Eton Field + randomwire (Ken Zichi, Port Horin MI2, MARE Tipsheet 7 July via DXLD) When Arnie started phoning in DXers Unlimited (not that there was anything wrong with that), and I remarked on it, he indignantly denied it was by phone; rather, deliberately squashed audio bandwidth done from the studio, supposedly to *improve* intelligibility! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 6100, July 6 at 0710, RHC S9+10 open carrier is still on here until 0711*, while the others were already off. Remarkable that at this hour, there is *nothing* to be heard above this on the 49m band except a JBA carrier on 6135.2, presumably Brasil. 6145, July 8 at 0422, RHC is still AWOL from this English frequency, while 6000 is poor and undermodulated; 6060 Spanish is good. I knew I would be wasting my time, but quite a while since I last checked http://radiohc.cu/interesantes/frecuencias --- Yup, *still* dated Abril-Noviembre *2016* so worse than useless for current info: ``6165`` at 01-07. 11840, July 8 at 0435, RHC is JBM in Spanish at only S4, but still enough to drag along the JBA spurcarriers on 11830 & 11850. [non]. 15140, July 8 at 1805, no signal from RHC which is supposed to be in Arabic now; there is some weak Arabic, no doubt OMAN, which had this frequency first but RHC used to usurp it; and probably still will by 1900 for English; yet it seems that RHC is limping along with at least one less transmitter operational than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.!: 15140, CUBA, RHC at 1909 with a man and woman with news then news headlines at 1912 and into a commentary on the “Atlanta Plan” – Good Jul 8 15140, OMAN, Radio Sultanate of Oman at 1912 in Arabic with a man with talk – Poor under RHC Jul 8 (Mark Coady, DXing in Grass Hill, Ontario Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 80 meter inverted vee antenna, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** CUBA. 9530, July 9 at 0029 I happen to reach this frequency in bandscan, where there`s usually a JBA carrier which I have previously matched to 4765 as second harmonic of R. Progreso. Its nominal sign-on is *0030, so I quickly tune second receiver PL-880 to 4764.0 with BFO on, and the NRD-545 to 9529.0 with BFO, listening to both, one into each ear. Will there be a *carrier-on simultaneously? Yes!! At *0029:55, S9+20 on the lower, JBA on the upper. But all I hear is dead air with some hum on 4765, maybe a bit of music at 0033. I leave one on while continuing to bandscan, not paying attention again until 0048 when I discover both are off --- gave up, I guess, unable to modulate. Also should look for 3 x 4765 at 14295, but adequate propagation unlikely (not to be confused with Tajikistan x 3). Meanwhile, 5025, R. Rebelde was running by 0035, at S9+25 with music undermodulated but sufficient. 7340, July 9 at 0055, RHC in S9+10 of dead air. This one supposedly runs from 21 to 04 UT per Aoki. 6145, July 9 at 0109, this RHC English frequency still missing, when it should have started at 0100; leaving only 6000 which is good level now but suptorted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5025, Nice mix of 'speedy' local Cuban Rumba music played at 0643 UT on July 9th from R Rebelde Bauta transmission. S=8 signal noted in Detroit Michigan remote SDR unit. 6000, RHC English service powerhouse of S=9+35dB strength, from TITAN San Felipe Quivicán broadcast center. At 0654 UT on July 9, heard some Free Jazz piano music theme til 0701 UT. \\ 6100 kHz from Bauta site at S=9+10dB signal strength, hit a little bit by 16 kHz broadband 6090 kHz Anguilla adjacent signal, surprise, surprise, latter not distorted ANYMORE! Nothing noted on \\ 6145 kHz, nor on \\ 6060 kHz (latter which had some S=7 lower signal from Brazil measured on 6059.845 kHz exact). 6000 kHz had program extended much late to 0701:20 UT, TX off at 0702. 6100, No RHC Esperanto language section signal heard this Sunday morning. Bauta transmission had steady EMPTY CARRIER signal on air after 0702 UT, still on air EMPTY audio signal - Useless, energy consumption - when checked at 0717 UT, noted then Bauta off at 0728:58 UT exact. Log in remote Detroit MI-US SDR unit [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 9, dxldyg via DXLD) 6100. RHC. Julio 9. 0700- UT. Servicio en esperanto. Sonido de una portadora, sin audio. (Claudio Galaz; RX: TECSUN PL – 660; ANT: Hilo de 40 metros de largo; QTH: Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) Además de ello, esta escucha es informada por Efren Rodríguez, mediante el grupo en Facebook: “Shortwave Radio Station Listening” con el siguiente mensaje: “Is Radio Havana Cuba's Esperanto broadcast at 0700 UT on 6100 kHz still around? Today and for the past two weeks I only got dead air. I hear strange data bursts, but that could be the normal static that would have been there during the broadcast. Hmmmm......” (via Galaz, ibid.) 17580, July 10 at 1350, fair Spanish signal from RHC, but no signal on the other 16m frequency, 17730, supposedly running 11-15 per Aoki, with 17580 at 11-14. Yet another sign of contracted transmitter usage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR [and non]. 3995.00, 0155-0205 6.7, GERMANY, HCJB, Weenermoor, English religious talk, contact us at "Hostline. com" from Ireland, pop song 55434 AP-DNK 6050.00, 0220-0225 6.7, EQA, HCJB, Pichincha. Spanish religious talk, piano music and a hymn, 25333 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, my latest loggings in Skovlunde on the AOR AR7030PLUS with a 28 metres of longwire, wbradio yg via DXLD) ** EGYPT. 13829, Radio Cairo, Abis, at 1747, on 6/6/17, in Urdu. A male announcer spoke briefly. A song with a long instrumental intro played with a male singer singing. There was a persistent motor boating type sound in the background playing. Poor (John Cooper, Lebanon, PA, Winradio-G33DDC, CommRadio CR-1a, SDR-IQ, Grundig Satellit 750, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, Wellbrook ALA1530LNPro, Pars SWL Sloper, GAP-Hear It-In Line Module, July CIDX Messenger via DXLD) 9800, Radio Cairo heard at 2226 on 7/6/17. Instrumental music to 2230 D [?] and news headlines. Poor with the usual poor modulation (Bob Brossell, Pewaukee WI, JRC NRD-545 (Godar DXR-1000 antenna); ICOM IC R75 (Grove Flex antenna); DRAKE DSR-2 (Longwire); ETON E1; SONY SW77, NASWA Flashsheet July 10 via DXLD) 9799.6, Radio Cairo – Abis, 2147-2225, Jul 8. Local vocals followed by time pips at 2215, station ID and woman announcer with news in listed English (because of awful modulation almost impossible to understand). Fair to good signal, however (Rich D'Angelo, 2216 Burkey Drive, Wyomissing, PA 19610, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R-8B, Eton E1, Eton E5, Alpha Delta DX Sloper, RF Systems Mini-Windom, Datong FL3, JPS ANC-4, NASWA Flashsheet July 10 via DXLD) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Radio Nacional, Bata, 0527-0557, 09-07, carrier and some comments detected. Extremely weak, barely audible. 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. Radio Al-Mukhtar via MBR Issoudun was back on air, July 11: 1500-1558 15205*ISS 100 kW / 125 deg to EaAf Arabic Tue, fair to good *from 1553 15205 RIY 500 kW / 320 deg to WeEu Arabic Holy Quran R.Riyadh http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/07/radio-al-mukhtar-via-mbr-issoudun-was.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I`ve found it odd that Arabic should be a significant language in Eritrea. A bit of research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Eritrea ``Foreign languages --- Arabic is mostly found in the form of Standard Arabic as an educational language taught in primary and secondary schools, but there are native speakers of dialectal variants of Arabic, as follows: Sudanese Arabic, also spoken by Sudanese Arabs. It has around 100,000 speakers. Hijazi Arabic, spoken by the Rashaida. As of 2006, there were around 24,000 speakers. Official status --- The 1997 Constitution of Eritrea does not define any official languages. It states that "the equality of all Eritrean languages is guaranteed" without providing a conclusive list of the languages in question. The CIA Factbook cites Tigrinya, Arabic and English as official languages, alongside ethnic Eritrean languages like Tigre, Afar and other Cushitic languages, as well as the Nilo- Saharan Kunama. SIL Ethnologue lists Tigrinya as the de facto language of national identity, Arabic as the de facto national language, and English as the de facto working language. The Eritrean embassy in Sweden says "The main working languages are Tigrigna and Arabic. English is the medium of instruction from middle school level upwards.".`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [and non]. 7141-7155 & 7171-7179 approx., July 8 at 0423, tell-tale DRM jamnoise indicating they are attacking Eritrea actively intruding into 40m hamband again. But I cannot detect even a JBA carrier around the centers of these ranges (7150? & 7175?), probably too late. Some LSB hams are still trying to work inside the noise. I bet they have no idea what it is. Meanwhile, 7205, Sudan`s JBA carrier, is there at 0426 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See PUBLICATIONS: IARU Region 1 Intruder monitoring ** ETHIOPIA [and non]. Reception of Voice of Oromo Liberation via MBR Nauen on July 7: 1700-1730 on 15420 NAU 100 kW / 139 deg to EaAf Afan Oromo Wed/Fri/Sun, strong --- Transmission is jammed by Ethiopia with very weak white noise digital jamming: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/07/reception-of-voice-of-oromo-liberation_8.html Reception of Sagalee Qeerroo Bilisummaa via TDF Issoudun, July 7 1630-1658 on 17840 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Oromo Tue/Thu/Fri via Alyx&Yeyi --- Transmission is jammed by Ethiopia with very strong white noise digital jamming http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/07/reception-of-sagalee-qeerroo-bilisummaa_8.html Reception of Radio Xoriyo Ogaden via MBR Issoudun, July 11 1600-1630 on 17630 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Somali Tue/Sat, fair/good Transmission are jammed by Ethiopia with weak white noise digital jamming http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/07/reception-of-radio-xoriyo-ogaden-via_12.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. 15 Years of Action test transmission today! Hi, we are still testing our 15 years celebration-transmitter today Tuesday 11th of July. Our power is very limited 5 watts only on 31 meters Free Broadcast Band on frequencies 9270 and/or 9290 kHz. But so we are even more interested of our propagation and quality. Please drop your notes to our e-mails during transmission, please. So we have plan to start around 18 h UTC /20 Central European Daylight saving Time and will have few short transmissions until morning hours of Wednesday. Our program includes nice Summer selection of mx . If you like us to play music You like please send message to our e-mail spaceshuttleradio@yahoo.com Stay tuned and enjoy! It's time to relax! RR always welcome! Best regards, (Dick Spacewalker, Radio Spaceshuttle, P.O.Box 2702, NL-6049 ZG Herten, The Netherlands, July 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Couldn`t you manage somewhat more than 5 watts? (gh, DXLD) 9269.7, Radio Spaceshuttle (presumed), 5 watts, 1829-1837, 11-07, very weak signal, barely audible, carrier detected and some comments and songs. At 1837 the signal disappears. Radio Spaceshuttle now on 9289.6 , 5 watts, 1853-1901, 11-07, very weak signal, barely audible, but better than on 9269.7, male, comments, songs (Manuel Méndez Lugo, Spain, Log in Reinante, Tecsun PL-880, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1808 on 9269.72 with just marginal carrier heard in LSB under S1 level noise. At 1844 on 9289.72 with the same level carrier and also 1920. R75 16V antenna in THS Greece (Zacharias Liangas, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** FALKLAND ISLANDS [and non]. YouTube Video of the Month Argentine Annie (Falklands War, South Atlantic 1982) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcS0EPPVWlw During the 1982 conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands, the Argentineans had taken over the Falkland Islands radio broadcasting station, renamed it “Liberty,” and put TV News anchor Silvia Fernandez Barrio known as “Argentine Annie” on the air. This station operated from 2 April to 26 June 1982. The anti- British propaganda broadcasts actually originated on a military base in the vicinity of Buenos Aires. The short wave-facilities from Cable & Wireless on the Falklands were used to relay Radio Nacional Malvinas and to carry unscrambled radio telephone traffic to Argentina. Here is an excerpt of one of the broadcasts (July CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ** FRANCE. Reception of Radio France International on July 10: 0600-0658 on 11905 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg to WCAf English, good http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/07/reception-of-radio-france-international.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. Just a short note to tell you that Sunday July 16 on the ARTE channel will air the movie ‘’Good Morning England’’ telling the story of Radio Caroline, at 20h55 locale (France), or 18h55 TU! Good week-end for all! (François F Theveneau, France, July 8, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Good Morning England appears to be the franco-german title for The Boat that Rocked which has never claimed to be a documentary nor its story based on any one particular station. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Morning_England (Mike Barraclough, ibid.) ** GERMANY. I heard from a recent visit at Nauen how the guys had been scared by some wipes on the smartphone making the antennas rotate (through a VPN connection of course). It's one of the tools that makes it possible to continue the operation at all. What also struck their attention was a satellite dish with an exotic LNB almost looking at the eastern horizon, which with an offset dish looks pretty weird: Media Broadcast used to receive NHK programming from Intelsat 20 at its Usingen teleport and forward it to Nauen, as they already did back then with the CRI feed for Pori (where the forwarding was done through the Hotbird mux also used by Deutsche Welle). After some trouble with this detour they tried to receive this C-band feed from Japan directly at Nauen, with success (Kai Ludwig, Germany, shortwavesites yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DXLD) ** GERMANY [and non]. Reception of Radio der Dokumenta 14, July 7: 0600-1000 on 15560*KLL 001 kW / non-dir to CeEu French/English * co-ch CRI 15560 XIA 500 kW / 292 deg to CeAs Chinese 08-10UT The next broadcast of Radio der Dokumenta 14 will be on July 8: 1000-1400 on 15560 KLL 001 kW / non-dir to CeEu English/various And final broadcast of Radio der Dokumenta 14 will be on July 9 1400-1800 on 15560 KLL 001 kW / non-dir to CeEu English/various http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/07/reception-of-radio-der-dokumenta-14_7.html Very poor signal of Radio der Dokumenta 14 on July 8: 1000-1400 on 15560 KLL 001 kW / non-dir to CeEu English/various The final broadcast of Radio der Dokumenta 14 will be on July 9 1400-1800 on 15560 KLL 001 kW / non-dir to CeEu English/various http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/07/very-poor-signal-of-radio-der-dokumenta_8.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. There's another of Max's videos of interest concerning a quick view of the HCJB Weenermoor site antenna (plus cows & more): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUynyu-Bftg (Ian, July 10, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** GREECE. Reception of Voice of Greece on 9420 and 9935 kHz, July 12: 0651-0911 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek*tx#3 & off air 0651-0811 on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek*tx#1 & off air * news Arabic 0651, Serbian 0656, Spanish 0804, Russian 0905. From 0708 VOG frequency announcement 9420 & 9935 kHz to WeEu/ENAm, 11645 kHz to NoAf. But frequency 11645 kHz is inactive in summer A17 From 0710 to 0717 UT on 9420 kHz and 9935 kHz open carrier/dead air http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/07/reception-of-voice-of-greece-on-9420.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. TWO NEW 100 KW DIGITAL TRANSMITTERS TO BROADCAST ACROSS THE BORDER FOR AFGHANISTAN - PAKISTAN REGION: Venkaiah Naidu India Blooms New Delhi July 6 2016 https://www.indiablooms.com/ibns_new/news-details/N/32483/two-new-100kw-digital-transmitters-to-broadcast-across-the-border-for-afghanistan-pakistan-region-venkaiah-naidu.html All India Radio expects to commission two new Shortwave Solid State digital transmitters, of 100 kW power each. for dissemination of content across the border for Afghanistan- Pakistan region by the end of August 2017, announced Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday. Minister for Information & Broadcasting, Naidu, said that the transmitters will be installed in Delhi. The I&B minister was speaking at a meeting in New Delhi to review the functioning of the media units of Ministry of I&B located in the Union Territories. He said that the Government has been working proactively with the States/UTs to enhance cooperation in the field of communication and outreach. Cooperation between Centre and States/UTs in content generation in Indian languages and local dialects was critical to effectively reach out to people in their own language, Naidu said. He said adopting innovative ways and leveraging New Media in information dissemination was necessary to keep pace with the changing communication paradigm. Col. Rajyavardhan Rathore, Minister of State for I&B, Prof. Jagdish Mukhi, Lieutenant Governor of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Secretary I&B, N K Sinha, representatives from UTs and senior officers from Ministry were also present during the meeting. Soliciting cooperation from the UTs, Naidu stressed upon the need to ensure effective implementation of Cable TV Act in order to restrict airing of objectionable content and unauthorized channels. He urged UTs to appoint Nodal officers who can assist the DMs for this task in the UTs. He also highlighted that UT administration was required to direct concerned DM’s to investigate the matter for identifying non-existing publications in their districts and cancel the declarations of such publications as per the PRB Act. Out of 16,132 registered publications in Delhi, only 3,704 publications has submitted their Annual Returns in the last five years. The I&B minister also said that for the Andaman and Nicobar, a new 100 W FM transmitter would be installed in Car Nicobar by the end of the financial year. He also mentioned that to enhance the outreach, the 3KW FM transmitter in Daman would be replaced by 6KW transmitter. Similarly, in Karaikal, Puducherry, the present 6 KW FM transmitter would be replaced by 10 KW FM transmitter to enhance the reach. Highlighting the importance of communication in local dialects, Naidu urged the UTs to give emphasis to setting up of community radio stations in UTs. He also mentioned the liberalised subsidy of 75% by Central Government for stakeholders in this regard. Naidu reiterated that the Government believed in cooperative federalism and that the centre & states/UTs need to work as Team India in scripting the development narrative. Col. Rajyavardhan Rathore, Minister of State for I&B mentioned that the monitoring of the content broadcast by cable operators/ channels can be done using a software and that physical verification was not required. Earlier on Thursday, Secretary I&B chaired a review meeting with the officials from UTs, senior officials from Ministry and media units heads to discuss and deliberate on the concerned issues. Posted by: (Mike Terry, July 6, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DXLD) Digital? Meaning in DRM for Afghanistan and Pakistan? Hard to believe. Or just a buzzword about transmitter capability, or even referring to innards rather than transmission (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1886) A union territory is a type of administrative division in the Republic of India. Unlike states, which have their own elected governments, union territories are ruled directly by the Union Government (Central Government), hence the name "union territory". Union territory - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_territory (via Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. ALL INDIA RADIO'S REGIONAL LANGUAGE BULLETINS FROM DELHI SET TO BECOME A PASTTHING https://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/India/20170708/3141834.html From today the national news in Bengali in AIR in the morning afternoon and evening would be read from Kolkata studio. Old habits die hard. At 7.45 am AIR Kolkata-A which is now called "Gitanjali" apologised to listeners that it had inadvertently announced Delhi instead of Kolkata before the 7.25 IST news bulletin. (Dr. Supratik Sanatani, Kolkata) (via Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE, New Delhi, July 8, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. TRAI STARTS CONSULTATION PROCESS ON DIGITAL RADIO BROADCASTING Livemint.com New Delhi By Harveen Ahluwalia July 10 2017 http://www.livemint.com/Consumer/cNprCk8knPzsBMpUbrxBGM/Trai-starts-consultation-process-on-digital-radio-broadcasti.html The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Monday floated a consultation paper to address issues pertaining to digital radio broadcasting, in a bid to enable private FM broadcasters across the country to move towards it. Currently, radio signals are largely transmitted in analogue mode and are available in frequency modulation (FM) and amplitude modulation (AM)—short wave and medium wave. While state-owned broadcaster All India Radio has initiated digitization of its radio network (medium wave and short wave) in three phases, there is no clarity in the current policy guidelines regarding “provisioning of digital radio service in FM band” for private broadcasters. According to a statement issued by the regulator, the consultation paper aims to develop an ecosystem [sic] which can encourage existing private FM broadcasters to evaluate digital radio broadcasting. There are 293 private FM radio stations across the country. AIR operates 420 radio stations. “Analogue terrestrial radio broadcasting when compared with digital mode is inefficient and suffers with operational restrictions. Digital radio technologies can overcome problems faced in analogue transmission with exciting new capabilities and promises fast growth,” said the regulator, in a statement. Additionally, the regulator also highlighted that digital radio broadcasting will improve the audio quality for the listeners and broadcasters will be able to air three-four programmes/channels on a single frequency (analogue mode allows broadcast of only one programme per frequency). An executive at one of the leading private FM broadcasters, who did not wish to be named, said, “Digital is definitely an upgrade over the current technology and will help the audio quality of radio broadcasts. However, it is still premature to outline the advantages of digital broadcasting. We will have to evaluate the paper and we believe that Trai is also doing the same,” the executive said. The authority has sought comments from various stakeholders by 4 September and counter-comments by 18 September to access the viability and issues pertaining to digital radio broadcasting and develop a roadmap for private FM radio operators (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** INDIA. Radio Japan via Big FM in India --- Radio Japan Hindi Service is broadcast by the following 5 stations of Big FM at 1830- 1900 UT (i.e. Midnight to Midnight 30 Indian Standard Time) Bengaluru, Hyderabad. Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi all on 92.7 MHz. News and current affairs programs are not there in this segment. http://927bigfm.com/ Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, July 11, dx_india yg via DXLD) So much for Freedom of the Press in the World`s Largest Democracy --- Private stations are not allowed to do news, let alone relays of foreign stations` news --- only governmental AIR/DD controls all broadcast news, right? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) and also: ** INDIA. AWR programs via AIR -- Current schedule of programs broadcast by Adventist Media Centre of AWR via All India Radio is attached. Programs are not of Christian preaching but regarding Health and other general topics. Many popular Film songs are also inserted by AIR in the Hindi & Telugu programs. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, July 11, dx_india yg via DXLD) No att to the digest ** INDONESIA. Voice of Indonesia with new language in Dutch, July 6 1500-1600 9526vJAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs Dutch and deleted Chinese http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/07/voice-of-indonesia-with-new-language.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9525.95, VOI, on July 7, at 1033 through subsequent checking till 1207, found only open carrier; no modulation/audio at all (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525.95, VOI. Years ago, who would have thought we would see the day that this country only had one active SW station? Yes, now RRI Ternate (3344.86) has been silent for several days. As I have been reporting recently, RRI Palangkaraya (3325) has been absent and still so through July 12. VOI heard July 12, at 1001, with news in English; QRM from OTH radar (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3325 last reported June 16; 3345 last reported July 8, per http://rri.jpn.org (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see 17-27, Anker`s Trends regarding Indonesia`s drastic reduxion, and the World`s (gh, ibid.) ** IRELAND. RTE1 252 kHz --- Noted back on air with normal programming. (2215 UT 7/7) 73s. Nick. Buxton Sent from Samsung Mobile on O2 Posted by: (Nick Rank, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** ISRAEL [non]. "The Voice of Peace". Abie Nathan, Odysseus AUSTRIA Programmhinweis ORF OE1 radio Piratensender "The Voice of Peace Saturday, 08. July, 0905-1000 MESZ / 0705-0800 UT. "Diese Sendung ist aus rechtlichen Gruenden nicht downloadbar." Abie Nathan: Der israelische Friedensaktivist und sein Piratensender "The Voice of Peace". From somewhere in the Mediterranean. Abie Nathan, Odysseus. Von Mona Winter (RBB/WDR 2016). In der Reihe "Abgetaucht. Geschichten vom Wasser". Im OE1 Online- Auftritt begleitet von Arbeiten der Fotokuenstlerin Silvia Maria Grossmann. Abie Nathan - Frauenheld, Freigeist, Friedensaktivist. 1973, als Israelis und Araber auf eine weitere kriegerische Auseinandersetzung zusteuern, installiert Abie Nathan auf einem Schiff im Mittelmeer den Piratensender "The Voice of Peace" und sendet Friedensbotschaften an Millionen von Zuhoerer/innen. Zum ersten Mal hat der israelische Visionaer 1966 mit einer couragierten Aktion auf sich aufmerksam gemacht. Mit einem Doppeldecker flog der vom britischen Militaer zum Piloten ausgebildete Aktivist von Israel nach Aegypten. Er wollte Praesident Nasser eine Friedensbotschaft bringen. Abie Nathans Geschichte ist die eines ungewoehnlichen Menschen, dessen Vision es war, den Frieden auf der Welt nicht nur der "Hohen Politik" zu ueberlassen. Von irgendwo im Mittelmeer, wir sind die Stimme des Friedens: Unter diesem Slogan schickte sein Piratensender 20 Jahre lang Friedensbotschaften von Bord des Schiffes "Peace". Das ehemalige niederlaendische Frachtschiff war ausserhalb der Drei-Meilen-Zone vor Tel Aviv verankert. Die letzte Botschaft wurde am 1. Oktober 1993 gesendet. Das Schiff war in schlechtem Zustand und die Mission schien vorerst gelungen: Israel und PLO gelangten zu einer gegenseitigen Anerkennung - ein kurzer Frieden, wie sich herausstellen sollte. Die "Peace" hat Abie Nathan vor der israelischen Kueste versenkt. Eine Plakette am Strand von Tel Aviv erinnert noch an ihre hoffnungsvollen Botschaften. Mit Karl Markovics als Abie Nathan Ton: Kaspar Wollheim; Redaktion: Regine Ahrem. (via Herbert Meixner-AUT, A-DX ng July 5) Posted by: (Wolfgang Bueschel, July 6, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ITALY. 1350 --- Italy's I AM Radio heard this morning at 0300, despite my antenna pointing in the opposite direction. University Radio York is off for the summer :-) What is the status of this station - is it licensed? 73 (/Andrew Brade, UK, July 8, MWCircle yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DXLD) I believe they are making use of a gap in the law that says that experimental broadcasts are allowed without license. But maybe someone from Italy has better info about this. 73, (Guido Schotmans, Belgium, ibid.) No, it is not a licensed radio. In Italy we are waiting for new MW rules. Some stations will be authorized but on Italian ITU MW channels so I don't think 1350. Anyway this radio broadcasts from Milan area. Try mail to info@iamradio.am Ciao (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, ibid.) [I was thinking not-1350 referred to 9-kHz spacing, but that does fit; rather, refers to only certain such channels reserved for Italy? - gh] Thank you, Giampiero and Guido. I see the station is listed in WRTH in the country pages which is why I asked the question. 73 (/Andrew Brade, ibid.) ** ITALY. Marconi Radio International back on the air on 9 July 2017 on 11390 kHz --- Greetings from Italy! Please be advised that after many weeks of absence due to a transmitter fault, MRI will be back on the air tomorrow, Sunday, 9 July 2017, with its original, very old and just refurbished transmitter as follows: 0830-1130 UT on 11390 kHz AM with only 25 watts. Reception reports with audio clips (mp3-file) are welcome and confirmed by QSL verification. Some lucky listeners will ALSO receive our printed QSL card, so don't forget to include your postal address. E-mail: marconiradiointernational (at) gmail.com Last but not least, we need your help! If you are a DX blogger, or use social networks, please post an announcement on your own blog and/or Facebook or send out a tweet the day before the broadcast. You can also forward this message to a friend. This should help increase our potential audience. We hope to hear from a lot of shortwave listeners about our transmissions. Best 73's (Marconi Radio International (MRI) ********************************************************************** Dopo diverse settimane di assenza a causa di un guasto al trasmettitore, Marconi Radio International (MRI) sarà di nuovo in onda domani, domenica 9 Luglio 2017, dalle 08.30 alle 11.30 UTC su 11390 kHz AM. Per l'occasione useremo il nostro vecchio trasmettitore, di recente revisionato, che eroga una potenza di soli 25 watts. Per i vostri rapporti di ricezione scrivete a: marconiradiointernational (at) gmail.com La QSL elettronica è garantita a tutti, mentre la cartolina stampata solo ad alcuni fortunati ascoltatori. Non dimenticate quindi di includere anche il vostro indirizzo postale. Come al solito Vi preghiamo, qualora abbiate un vostro blog dedicato al radioascolto od un profilo su Facebook o altro social network, di pubblicare un annuncio sulle nostre trasmissioni. In alternativa potreste inoltrare il presente messaggio ad un amico. Cordiali saluti (Marconi Radio International (MRI), DXLD; also via Mike Terry and Manuel Méndez, dxldyg via DXLD) ITALY, 11389.7 usb (25 watts), Marconi Radio International, 0830-0855, 09-07, comments, male and female, Italian, English, radio news, mentioned “QSL”. Very weak. 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun PL-880, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DXLD) Weak to fair signal in AM mode, not USB (Ivo Ivanov, 1013 UT, ibid.) OK Ivo, but here, in AM mode it is inaudible, and only audible with very weak signal on USB. Greetings (Manuel, 1055 UT, ibid.) Weak signal of Marconi Radio International on July 9, videos 0830-1130 11389.6 unknown 25 watts tx to WeEu Italian/English AM mode http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/07/marconi-radio-international-will-be.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, 1121 UT, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DXLD) ** JAPAN. 11825, July 6 at 0715, laughing in Japanese, S4, so can`t be WWCR summing its 5890 + 5935 gospel huxters, as has happened before and could again overload on some receivers depending on how strong the fundamentals be. No, it`s really NHK Yamata this hour, 300 kW at 290 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK< DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KASHMIR. INDIA, 4949.995, UNID offset station carrier signal visible at 0003:08 UT on July 8. That is not Rádio Nacional Angola offset frequency. But rather warm-up of AIR Srinagar on test procedure very early. According to Aoki Nagoya database around 0025 UT is daily program start time of AIR Srinagar. 73 wb [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KASHMIR [non]. INDIA, Weak to fair signal, Voice of Kashmir July 7 1430-1530 on 6030 DEL 100 kW / non-dir to SoAs Kashmiri and co-ch Radio Oromiya 6030 GDR 100 kW / non-dir to EaAf Oromo from 1500UT: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/07/weak-to-fair-signal-of-voice-of-kashmir.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. Listening on my 25m converter this afternoon on my bike on a very electrically quiet bike path, I heard this. Don't often observe this transmitter at this time of day. KCBS, 2100-2120z, 7-8-2017. 11680 kHz (freq presumed). Female vocalist singing in a reverent style, typical of North Korean musical segments. Signal was 43554, which is the best I have ever heard this transmitter at this time of day. Adjacent channel-high side RTTY interference, but it was kept at bay by the good sigs. Music programming dominated; no spoken word heard during this reception. Receiver: Homebrew 25m-to-1710 kHz converter; I.F. receiver is a re- aligned Realistic 12-655. Antenna: 35 inch base-loaded whip resonated for 25m (Steve Zimmerman, Milwaukee, WI, WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9900 & 9940, July 11 at 1325, equally poor signals in Korean, YL speaking, 1326 spelling something out, presumably contact info. 9940 is running about one second behind 9900. HFCC claims at 1300-1330 that 9900 is via BaBcoCk, Taipei, China, 300 kW at 352 degrees, while 9940 is Taipei, China, 100 kW at 2 degrees. Aoki is more helpful with 9900 being 100 kW, 45(!) degrees from Paochung, Taiwan, and 9940, 100 kW at 2 degrees from Tamsui District, Taiwan, both on the JCI (Japan) A17 schedule, as ``Wind from Japan "il bon ue baram"``. WRTH spells it ``Ilbon-e Baram``, i.e. one of the abduxion stations. 1342 recheck, 9940 is off but algo is on 9900, i.e. same site, same service in Japanese, Furusato no Kaze (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 5920, Voice of Freedom, 1115, July 5. Why do they stay on this jammed frequency, when their ex 5940 is clear of any jamming? VOF signal often does fairly well against the jamming, e.g. July 7, at 1120 almost fair reception even with jamming. Ex 6135 is still jammed with white noise. 4885. Echo of Hope VOH, on July 9 with anomaly of only hearing a strong open carrier the whole time; no modulation at all; starting at tune in of 1054 through last check at 1230. It will be recalled that 4885 has recently been running a different program ("Radio Broadcasting Guide") than all the other VOH frequencies (3985 // 5995 // 6250 // 6350 // 9100), which today were all on as usual with normal audio at quick checks at 1131 & 1218. 5920, Voice of Freedom, July 9, brief check at 1135, found them somewhat stronger than the jamming; propagation must be currently favoring VOF, rather than N. Korea jamming (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. COREA DEL SUR PODRÍA SUSPENDER EMISIONES DE PROPAGANDA EN ÁREAS FRONTERIZAS DEPENDIENDO DE RESPUESTA DE RPDC 09/07/2017 [does this refer only to AF, loudspeakers, rather than RF radio broadcasts? There IS a difference! gh] El ejército de Corea del Sur indicó que podría suspender la radiodifusión [sic] de propaganda en las áreas fronterizas dependiendo de la respuesta de la República Popular Democrática de Corea (RPDC). El portavoz del Ministerio de Defensa, Moon Sang-kyun, dijo en un comunicado de prensa regular que aunque predeciblemente esto no vaya a ser posible en el momento actual, será necesario aguardar la respuesta de la RPDC. El presidente surcoreano, Moon Jae-in, propuso una “Iniciativa de Paz para la Península Coreana” en Berlín, Alemania, donde se encuentra de visita para asistir a una cumbre del G20. Como parte de la iniciativa, Moon ofreció detener cualquier acto hostil cerca de la Línea de Demarcación Militar (LDM), que ha dividido la península coreana durante las últimas siete décadas, a partir del próximo 27 de julio, fecha que marca el 64º aniversario del acuerdo de armisticio que puso fin a la Guerra de Corea (1950-53). Corea del Sur restableció las emisiones de propaganda, por altavoces situados en unidades de primera línea del ejército, tras la cuarta prueba nuclear de la RPDC en enero del año pasado. El portavoz de Defensa dijo que el ejército surcoreano tomará las acciones pertinentes de acuerdo con la respuesta de la RPDC, aunque indicó que es difícil decir definitivamente si se acabará con la guerra psicológica (Radio Internacional de China via GRA blog July 9 via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. USA. 9605. KBS. Julio 9 [domingo]. 0126-0200 UT. Via WHRI. Programa “Buzón del Radioescucha” con información sobre ajustes en las antenas desde Corea del Sur, recuerdo acerca de la encuesta de satisfacción. Luego lectura de las cartas de papel. A las 0133, se emite: “Literatura en audio: La vegetariana” con la visión de la protagonista con respecto a la carne, la carnicería y sobre su adelgazamiento. Después la canción “Este amor” que pertenece a la banda sonora de una novela. A las 0140, se leen los informes de recepción llegados electrónicamente. A las 0149, se emite: “Corea en 5 minutos” con la temática de las culturas laborales de las empresas coreanas. SINPO: 55444 (Claudio Galaz; RX: TECSUN PL – 660; ANT: Hilo de 40 metros de largo; QTH: Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) What kind of adjustments to their antennas? (gh, DXLD) ** KYRGYZSTAN. KYRGYZ REPUBLIC, 4010.145 wandered up to 4010.152 kHz, Radio 1 Birinchi, Bishkek, channel noted as empty carrier warm-up procedure and 5 minutes duration, also short 10 seconds of exact 1000 Hertz test tone could be heard few times, between 2354 UT July 7, and R Birinchi-KGZ program start at 0000:08 UT on July 8. Nothing noted on KGZ \\ 4819v ... 4820v kHz channel. 73 wb [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The broadcasting network of the first program Birinci Radio consists of CB transmitters operating at a frequency of 612 kHz (150 kW, Krasnaya Rechka), 1404 kHz (transmitters with capacities of 20, two for 7 and two for 1 kW located in populated areas Points Dedemoyl, Aidarken, Naryn, Orgolchor and Cholpon-Ata, respectively) and 1431 kHz (40 kW, Jalal-Abad city). In addition, the broadcast is on HF at a frequency of 4010 kHz (power Transmitter - 100 kW) and 4820 kHz (transmitter power - 15 kW). In the broadcasting grid there are quite a few (almost at the beginning of each broadcast hour) short programs in Russian. Bring all the schedule will not allow the volume of the allocated magazine area. Let's just mention that this is mostly news "Results of the day". From thematic - "Sports Week", "Capital", "Kyrgyzstan", etc. (Radio Magazine # 07/2017, Radio Reception, V. Gulyaev. ftp://ftp.radio.ru/pub/2017/07/20.pdf via RusDX 9 July via DXLD) ** LUXEMBOURG [and non]. See pictures of Radio Luxembourg's big antennas in Marnach http://theantennasite.com/locations/marnach-beim-sender/?a=gallery Other antennas in Europe Http://theantennasitearchive.com/ (Lennart Deimert, Arctic Radio Club mv-eko 3 July via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. 17640, July 8 at 1806, JBA carrier with trace of modulation, implying that the MWV English hour of African Pathways Radio is still vigent but virtually unpropagable over to here, unlike in B-season (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6185.02, 0140-0150 6.7, R Educación, Ciudad México, Spanish ann, classical music, 25333 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, my latest loggings in Skovlunde on the AOR AR7030PLUS with a 28 metres of longwire, wbradio yg via DXLD) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- [no TV] Re: Entregan títulos de concesión para estaciones AM y FM Milenio.com Negocios And so it begins --- These will probably be dumped into the RPC soon. At that time, I will advise the database of callsigns (which will be more than useful) and to put in at least the stations' owners. Only two FM stations that I know of have announced their names/formats. These are Radio Zócalo, 90.5 Cuatro Ciénegas-Monclova Coah. Radio Tex-Mex, 97.1 Acatlán de Osorio Pue. I expect that in the 2018 DX season, we are going to be doing a lot of trying to figure out stuff about these stations. A big question mark will be technical parameters and precise locations (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, July 6, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Sinaloa is a turbulent state, but Mazatlán has taken the crown for Format Flip Capital of Mexico from San Luis Potosí. In just June and July, three stations there have changed franchise or format. Two can be blamed on what appears to be some turbulence at the Mazatlán Radiorama/MegaRadio cluster. In early June, XHFIL Éxtasis Digital lost its format and took the Switch pop format. It seems the staff didn't want to do this, but they were forced to "due to a strategic reorganization of radio groups at the national level". https://www.facebook.com/ExtasisDigital/photos/a.410028135708987.97482.407858049259329/1517788164932973/?type=3&theater Switch was already on XHZS-FM 100.3, which retained its pop format by reversing last year's move and returning to Arroba FM. Last edited by Raymie; 07-08-2017 at 04:35 PM. Reason: whoa, wrong state (Raymie, July 8, ibid.) A very good news: Finally UAM radio obtained the authorization of the IFT so that it can increase the power of transmission. Of being using five transmitters with 0.020 kW passes to one transmitter of 3 kW with the call sign XHUAM-FM (RadarDX, DF, July 9, ibid.) So Mexico's second-largest radio SFN will soon be no more. As RadarDX mentioned, UAM Radio is going to one transmitter, XHUAM-FM, which will apparently broadcast from the Cuajimalpa site. http://www.ift.org.mx/comunicacion-y-medios/comunicados-ift/es/el-ift-expide-lineamientos-para-la-presencia-fisica-del-agente-economico-preponderante-en-los-puntos The accompanying power increase will also allow the station to reach new listeners in the eastern portion of the State of Mexico in addition to covering areas formerly served by other transmitters. I don't think this would have happened without the 400 kHz spacing change. It should improve reception for many listeners and eliminate any multipath caused by interference among transmitters (Raymie, AZ, ibid.) Regarding UAM Radio there is no interference between the five transmitters as they are synchronized. As an example, the closest are those located in the General Rectory of the UAM and the UAM Xochimilco. What if it happens, is that when distancing itself from the location of some transmitter the signal begins to be weaker (RadarDX, July 9, ibid.) Ahh OK, so they're fairly well synchronized. I imagine most of the saved headache will be dealing with RTC/INE pautas and other obligations (Raymie, ibid.) Even if synchronized, they can QRM each other due to the capture effect, which fails if two or three are at equal levels (gh, DXLD) Are sounds of Siltepec dancing in your head? If you get an Es opening to Tapachula, they could soon be given the surprise class given to XHSIL-FM. Today we learned not only of the station's mountaintop location but also that it was made a Class C1 — the first new Class C of any kind in Mexico in a long time, as migration and IFT-4 did not have any stations better than B1. (I believe XHEMA, at 100 kW but with a HAAT of 162 meters, is also considered a C1, but the actual modification does not give a class to the station.) The HAAT of the site is about 1,130 meters, not even counting the height of an antenna mast. ——— File this one under "headlines that make you check today's date". A long, long time ago – I mean more than 9 years – in a galaxy far, far away–ahem, La Presa 212, San Jerónimo Lídice – a radio strike began. It looked like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39W_8QNLFuM The red and black strike flags that have been up for nearly a decade are coming down. For the first time since May 23, 2008, the strike is over at Radio Monitor http://aristeguinoticias.com/1207/mexico/concluye-huelga-en-grupo-monitor/ after an agreement was reached to provide indemnizations for 85 former employees of the station. This comes on the heels of the recent final award of US$40 million in favor of Grupo Radio Centro in the long- running legal case. The end of the strike, which was the catalyst in the second-longest active station silence in Mexico (only XEDJ beats it), could pave the way for some sort of action relating to not only 1320 AM but to the sale of equipment and facilities. Nobody will want a Mexico City AM, though they will certainly try to sell it, that is if its concession is valid and on track for renewal. I'd imagine residents and neighbors will want to see the neglected property sold to someone who will clean it up, or repurpose it for other uses. Some cash could probably be raised from selling station equipment, plus the aforementioned property. The questions that linger: who controls the 1320 AM concession, is it eligible for renewal/has it been renewed, and who would want an AM in Mexico City? Last edited by Raymie; 07-13-2017 at 12:30 AM. (Raymie, originally July 12, ibid.) For what it's worth, 100 kW/162m is indeed a C1. C1 is anything that exceeds 50 kW/150m but is less than 100 kW/300m. The classes are defined in the US/Mexico treaty (so they're the same in both countries) although I believe Mexico authorizes some classes that aren't allowed in the US (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, http://www.w9wi.com July 13, ibid.) The primary difference is that A is still capped at 3 kW and there's a 6 kW class AA. Class D is also a little different. Otherwise they're identical (Raymie, ibid.0 ** MICRONESIA. 1449 kHz, 23.11, 1102, V6AH, Voice of Pohnpei, Kolonia. In Kongsfjord we have for several years heard “island music” on 1449 kHz when conditions have favored the Pacific region. Sometimes with news from Voice of America, but no station identification. We were quite certain this was V6AH, but had no proof. Until now! This time the signal was really clear and strong and two minutes past the hour the closing ceremony started. Like other stations in this area, nothing is left out in the closing ceremony, so we got our proof! It took another 6 months to obtain a QSL, but now it is finally landed! OJS/K (Odd-Jørgen Sagdahl, Norway, Arctic Radio Club mv-eko 3 July via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DXLD) Odd-Jørgen Sagdahl 21.6.2017: Sesongen 2016-17 var preget av få - om noen - skikkelig gode åpninger. I stedet ble det mange timer lytting for hver nye stasjon som ble funnet. Noe av dette skyldes nok at antallet ikke-hørte stasjoner avtar for hver ny stasjon som høres, men likevel - sesongen var ikke spesielt bra synes jeg. Et av høydepunktene i sesongen var etableringen av 1000-metersantennen på det tidligere Loran C-området mellom Kongsfjord og Berlevåg. Vi traff ikke helt med condsen, men når vi sammenligner det vi hørte der med hva som ble hørt i Kongsfjord samme tid, aner det oss at dette kunne blitt et svært produktivt QTH. Dessverre ser det ut som om vi ikke får nye muligheter der siden Forsvaret er i gang med å bygge nytt anlegg der oppe. Men nå går det mot mørkere tider igjen (endelig!) og jeg gleder meg til en ny og spennende sesong. Erfaringen fra de siste årene viser at september ser ut til å være den mest spennende måneden, og det er ikke lenge til! God sommer til alle sammen! 73 de OJS Odd-Jørgen Sagdahl 21.6.2017 [Google translation from Norwegian:] The season 2016-17 was characterized by few - if any - really good openings. Instead, it became a lot of hours listening for each new station found. Some of this is due to the fact that the number of non- heard stations decreases for each new station that sounds, but still - the season was not very good, I think. One of the highlights of the season was the establishment of the 1000- meter antenna in the former Loran C area between Kongsfjord and Berlevåg. We did not quite meet the condsen, but when we compare what we heard there with what was heard in Kongsfjord at the same time, we realize that this could be a very productive QTH. Unfortunately, we do not get new opportunities since the Armed Forces are building new facilities up there. But now it's going to darker times again (finally!) And I'm looking forward to a new and exciting season. Experience from recent years shows that September appears to be the most exciting month and it is not long until! Good summer to everyone! 73 the OJS (Odd-Jørgen Sagdahl, Norway, Arctic Radio Club mv-eko 3 July via DXLD) ** MOROCCO. Médi 1 has cancelled SW --- According to a mail sent by Abdellah El-atmami (Transmitting station), Médi 1 has stopped shortwaves for good. Regards (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, July 10, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Was 9575, very sporadic lately; RIP another SW country (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DXLD) According to Jean-Michel Aubier France and a mail sent by Abdellah El- Atmami from transmitting station Nador, Radio Médi 1 (Meditérranée) has stopped shortwaves forever: 24 hours on 9575 NAD 250 kW / 110 deg to NoAf Arabic/French My last [audio-]videos April 24, several days before stopping at 9575 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/07/radio-medi-1-mediterranee-has-stopped.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, `B`lgariya, July 11, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. Weak to fair signal of Myanmar Radio, July 5: 1530-1700 on 5985 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs English http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/07/weak-to-fair-signal-of-myanmar-radio.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS. Groot Nieuws Radio, AM 1008 KHz. Flevoland - The Netherlands goes off-air. The last powerful AM outlet 1008 kHz in The Netherlands will leave the airways as from September the first this summer. The actual user, the Christian broadcaster Groot Nieuws Radio, has lost in a adjudication to keep the Flevoland transmitter in operation. Groot Nieuws Radio asked the Dutch organisation Autoriteit Consument en Markt (ACM) - Authority For Consumer And Marketing, to do a decision. Groot Nieuws Radio has a hiring contract until September 2017. The broadcasting organisation says in a statement to be disappointed in the decision of the ACM. Also AM should be needed to reach the whole of the Netherlands, instead of distribution via DAB+, internet, interactive television and the analog kabelnetworks, according to the Christian broadcaster. NOVEC, the owner and exploration company of the transmittersite near Zeewolde - Flevoland, wants to dismantle the 207 m. high broadcasting masts in favor of an electrical windmill power project. Also the company says that maintenance of the masts is needed. After that an exploration will be to expensive or will not have an effectiveness. The transmitters site Flevoland is in use since 1980. It was the main transmitter site of the Netherlands, consisting two transmitters with a maximum output from 600 kW, to distribute the first two programs of the Dutch public radio. Earlier two programs of the Dutch public radio. Earlier called Hilversum 1 and 2, later Radio 1 and 2. In 1985 Radio 2 was replaced by Radio 5. Frequencies are 1008 and 747 kHz. The last one was switched off definitely September the first 2015. Commercial users were hiring airtime on the 1008 kHz since 2004. Groot Nieuws Radio is allowed to use 1008 until 2020. They will probably have to look for a different possibility. But at last, a nationwide coverage of a AM broadcasting location in The Netherlands will be ending at the end of August this year. https://www.grootnieuwsradio.nl/k/n663/news/view/101311/86103/groot-nieuws-radio-uitspraak-acm-stelt-teleur.html (Willem Prins via Mediumwave.Info via Medium Wave News July-August 2017 via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DXLD) GrootNews Radio is sending out petition to keep Flevoland transmitter up: they are talking about it here https://www.grootnieuwsradio.nl/k/n663/news/view/101757/42103/luisteraars-openen-petitie-voor-behoud-zendmast.html and the petition is here: https://www.petities24.com/grootnieuwsradio Hopefully a lot of DXers will sign it and maybe Netherlands will stay on air (Mitja Kocjancic via Mediumwave.Info, WORLD OF RADIO 1886, ibid.) BTW, Flevoland was also major SW site for RNW (gh, DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS. Eddy Startz en The Happy Station --- Recently published article in Dutch, which google translates to English well, on Eddie Startz along with audio from 1937 and 1938 and 1955 video. https://beeldengeluid.atavist.com/happystation Posted by: (Mike Barraclough, July 6, dxldyg via DXLD) ** NEWFOUNDLAND. CANADA. 6160, CKZN, St. Johns, at 0055, on 6/7/17 [probably June 7], in English. A discussion about authors is being presented with a female author talking about her writing. A program promo for “Challenge of Words” was presented followed by a CBC 1 station ID at 0058. Fair (John Cooper, Lebanon, PA, Winradio-G33DDC, CommRadio CR-1a, SDR-IQ, Grundig Satellit 750, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, Wellbrook ALA1530LNPro, Pars SWL Sloper, GAP-Hear It-In Line Module, July CIDX Messenger via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DXLD) Delayed; one of the last logs before turned off (gh) CKZN: STILL OFF THE AIR AND STILL WANTING COMMENTS Latest information from St. John's is that there is no date, as yet, for CKZN returning to the air. Comments are still wanted and not just from Labradorians, it seems. They are interested in getting comments from elsewhere in Canada. After all, all Canadian taxpayers help to fund the CBC. All comments get funnelled to Larry Wartman who is the senior manager for transmission operations and he is based in Halifax. Some might know him as a QSL card signer for some CBC stations. He can be reached at 902-445-6040 or via e-mail at larry.wartman at cbc.ca. (-- Richard Langley, NB, July 12, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Just shot him an e-mail. I used to listen regularly to CBC in Windsor when I lived in Dearborn MI for 40 years, but since moving to northern Michigan 5 years ago, I can no longer hear CBC AM or FM outlet. CKZN was my only source of "As It Happens" and other shows as my internet is slow and steaming doesn't work here in the sticks. CKZN has been my only way to hear the CBC except very late at night when I occasionally hear some CBC AM outlets. I sure hope they resume broadcasts on 6160 (Don Hosmer W8SWL, West Branch MI USA, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, July 8 at 0434, RNZI, S7-S6 with pop music, ex- 13840 at this hour; 11725 now before instead of after 0459 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. ROMANIA vs NEW ZEALAND, Radio Romania Int vs Radio New Zealand Int, July 10: 0600-0627 9700 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg WeEu German Radio Romania Int 0459-0658 9700 RAN 050 kW / 035 deg Pac. English Radio New Zealand Int http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/07/radio-romania-int-vsradio-new-zealand.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9700, July 11 at 0605, RNZI is VG at S9+20 and no CCI audible. Ivo Ivanov pointed out that RNZI QSYing to this frequency at 05-07 makes it collide with Romania at 0600-0630 in German (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 7254.939, V of Nigeria, Ikorodu, French service, men talk at 0735 UT on July 9, poor S=5 at -84dBm level in Detroit MI remote SDR post. S=4 tiny signal in Liverpool England, Grenoble France, and Rimini Italy remote posts on threshold signal level [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 9, dxldyg via DXLD) ** NIGERIA [non]. R. Dandal Kura via BaBcoCk Ascension & Woofferton, July 7 0500-0600 on 5960 ASC 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAf Kanuri, weak/fair 0600-0700 on 7415 ASC 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAf Kanuri, poor/weak 0700-0800 on 13810 WOF 250 kW / 165 deg to WeAf Kanuri, very poor http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/07/radio-dandal-kura-int-via-babcock.html U.K. Radio Dandal Kura Int via BaBcoCk Woofferton, July 12 0700-0800 on 13810 WOF 250 kW / 165 deg to WeAf Kanuri, weak/fair http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/07/radio-dandal-kura-int-via-babcock_12.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6950.0-USB, July 9 at 0047, honky tonk piano song at S9, had not been on at first bandscan circa 0030. At 0101.5, Wolverine Radio ID. Too much else going on, like The Giant Jukebox on 9925, Theater Organ of Ozarx on 5085, to stay with this and figure out the theme, so check https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,35994.0.html where many logged it all at 0044 until 0140* with ``town`` in tune titles, along with a neat color SSTV image of some town (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6950-USB, July 10 at 0004, pirate music poor at S4, interjected ID, maybe as ``Radio Revolution``? No, a dozen logs all from further east, except Denver, here https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,36022.0.html say it was Radio Free, What-ever, from *2355 to 0036* with such an ID at 0004 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. Where's YHWH? Haven't heard Josiah for some weeks. Anyone else hearing or know anything about this station? (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, July 12, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not that long. Last reports were UT June 30, with transmitter problems, as in DXLD 17-27 (Glenn, ibid.) only 7585 for some while but had used many other frequencies and bands (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Considering he'd been on air virtually every nite in May and June, his absence is strange. Maybe he got the knock (again). (Rich near Chicago (a.k.a. the shooting gallery), Ray, WORLD OF RADIO 1886, ibid.) Rich, Chicago --- the shooting gallery?? I refer to call it Chi-raq. I avoid it like a plague and take the Lake Michigan ferry to Wisconsin to avoid driving through the Windy City. I lived in Schererville IN back in the early 70's when I worked as a dispatcher at the state police post, before it moved to Lowell IN. Chicago was dangerous back then, but not as bad as it is today (Don Hosmer, W8SWL, W Branch MI, ibid.) ** NORWAY. THE DIGITALIZATION OF NORWEGIAN RADIO The digitalization of Norwegian radio has given the audience a wide variety of channels to choose from, and they seem to appreciate the diversity. A clear trend in Norway’s radio transition is that the new digital channels have increased their support at the expense of the big channels. Radio listening in total is almost as before, however increasingly digital. Article here: Norway’s radio transition: Benefits the newcomers – https://radio.no/2017/07/norways-radio-transition-benefits-the-newcomers/ (via Mike Terry, July 7, dxldyg via DXLD) DAB+ ** OKLAHOMA. 92.1, July 8 at 1807 UT check, KAMG-LP Enid is still emitting dead air; what a crock! 92.1, July 12 at 1825 check, KAMG-LP is still running dead air. Yesterday I drove by the FCC-registered address for Maranatha Radio Corporation in Enid, 627 E Carrier Rd., and found the closest thing per mailboxes on the road in a semi-rural outskirsts area, was a residence at 625. Hmmm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn: -- Just for the helluvit, I looked at the QTH on Google Street View. An image-capture dated June 2014 shows a black mailbox, with the number "627", displayed next-door (East side) to your 625. This is across the road from a similar one-story house, with what looks like a utility structure-a glorified tool shed, or possibly metal of some sort immediately SW of the main house. Could be the great 92.1 Sanctuary?? (-- GREG HARDISON, CA, ibid.) ** OKLAHOMA. KXLS TEASING SOMETHING NEW IN ENID By Lance Venta on July 11, 2017 No Comments https://radioinsight.com/headlines/118784/kxls-teasing-something-new-enid/ My 95.7 KXLS Enid Chisholm Trail Broadcasting Hot AC 95.7 KXLS Lahoma/Enid OK is promoting a change coming Friday, July 14. The station’s logo has been replaced on its website and social media with a graphic stating “A Change Is Coming” and a brief statement “We can’t tell you, but we know you’re gonna love it! Tune in Friday July 14th to hear what all the excitement is about!!”. KXLS currently utilizes programming from Westwood One (via Artie Bigley, OH, July 11, DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. After hitting the reset button by mistake, I have to reprogram my Sanyo TV screen: this model does not allow DTV channels to be added individually, only auto-programming. So away we go circa 0430 UT July 6: it detects 42 channels, and flipping thru them, discover some major ones got skipped, like KTUZ-29 ``30``. But to my great surprise, tropo must be up, so KTOU-LD on RF 21 is now included from OKC. If I auto-reprogram it again during dead conditions, will lose it. Here`s how its six subchannels are labeled: 21-1, HSN 21-2, SBN 21-3, HSN2 21-4, ONTV4U but LR bug says JTV 21-5, KTOU-LD, but only broadcasting black screen with some flashes 21-6, KTOU-LD, infomercial with no bug Here what Rabbitears.info shows for KTOU: display physical video audio call sign network/programming 21-1 21.1 480i DD2.0 HSN HSN 21-2 21.2 480i DD2.0 SBN SonLife + SAP Audio Icon 21-3 21.3 480i DD2.0 HSN 2 HSN2 21-4 21.4 480i DD2.0 ONTV4U Infomercials 21-5 21.5 480i DD2.0 KTOU-LD Gun TV 21-6 21.6 480i DD2.0 KTOU-LD [Blank] It`s only 4 kW ERP, with signal slightly direxional toward Enid. BTW, KUOT-CD on RF 19 is slated to move to 21, apparently supplanting KTOU: because KAUT 40 goes to 19. Others repacking in Market 50: KOPX 50 to 18; KOCM 46 to 16; KOHC-CD 45 to 31; KWTV 39 to 25. The reprogramming also picks up KETA 13, with the four OETA subchannels NOT breaking up. Tropo boost may account for it, and I fear when that subside, it`ll be back to jerking around, presumably due to QRM from the second harmonic of KNID 107.1 on 214.2 MHz. I can also barely get OETAs in clear on a third set with rabbit ears only. {No, continues to be almost break-up-free on this antenna, and fortunately because Suddenlink Cable has reverted to the problem before two months ago: NO stereo, and mandatory DVS imposed on OKLA. I`ve notified OETA again and they are working on getting it fixed} My HD screen is also receiving RF channel 48 in analog, a weak but steady, snowy but color-confetti pixure from KOCY-LP, with Estrella Network, 15 kW ERP. Also noisy analog audio. That`s the one I have previously seen on my B&W analog TV and other antenna, cutting on and off the air, but nothing lately, and I still see no trace of it there. This is the *first* time I have seen any NTSC weak transmitted video on my HD Sanyo screen! At 0459 UT July 6, an anti-cable promo for all the stations and networks one can get off the air. Otherwise, programming is infomercials, at late-night, probably usual sex enhancement devices or pills. However, at 0511 UT, suddenly goes to black, and floating around the screen in small font are NO SIGNAL, and NO PROGRAM. This is obviously produced at the input to the ch A48 transmitter, not by my receiver. Disappears at 0523, but back at 0524, probably a brief fade below reception threshold here. So anyhow, KOCY-LP on analog 48 is still there, sometimes, but a big mess if anyone would axually try to watch it, rather than as a full- power virtual 48 subchannel of the KTUZ RF 29 transmitter. The KOCY-LP ID on the hour showed 48-1, even tho it was seen in analog! (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. KFOR-27, ``channel 4``, OKC, July 6 at 1800 UT ID slide at ToH shows a bunch of translators, as stations are required to do periodically. It`s only up for a few seconds, impossible to read, let alone retain. Note to self: have tape rolling next time, ready to freeze and photo, in case the list be accurate and up-to-date. I do so July 8 at 1800: NO SHOW, between programs, not even a legal ID for KFOR itself! Does this appear at random times? Maybe a translator list on the website http://kfor.com --- of course not. Even searching on `translator` gets nothing but some news stories mentioning that word, not talking about TV relayers! (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 42, July 11 at 1430 UT, 4-channel station decodes, as tropo is enhanced from eastern OK, also bringing in Bad signals on many other UHF channels, correlating with Tulsa area market. Only other decode is RF 26, KTEN ``10`` Ada. 42 might have been the LD in OKC, but not now. I survey what`s contained within: 41-1 KMYT-TV, 41-2 GetTV, 41-3 GritTV, 41-4 HNI as per PSIP, but ``H&I`` shown in program promo, during an old Andy Devine B&W movie. But contrary to schedule showing Wagon Train at 9-10 am CT, per http://handitvnetwork.com/schedule/ Means Heroes & Icons. We don`t get this in OKC market, or local cable. Site is halfway between Tulsa and Muskogee with 900 kW ERP. KMYT MyTV will be repacked to RF 34 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, NBC Madang, noted after Bougainville signed off on July 9; at 1205 giving vote count; promo for NBC National Radio; pop song till suddenly cut off at 1211*. 3275, NBC Southern Highlands[non-log]. July 9, continues silent. 3365, NBC Milne Bay[non-log]. July 9, continues silent (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, July 9 at 2328, I start monitoring for R. Chaski, as it`s been over a month since I last timed their autocutoff, June 5 until 2334:11.5*. With our latest sunset of 0153* just surpassed, conditions will improve very gradually from now on, but 2330v is really borderline as far as propagation possibility so far before sunset here. Gaisma.com does not include Urubamba, but Cusco sunset is 2235 UT, an hour earlier, so signal gets a good head-start. On the E/W antenna, I can`t hear it, but on the N/S, JJJBBBA carrier, fading in and out vs the noise fading up and down differently. Relentlessly, I keep listening to this for 10 minutes until R. Chaski finally no longer carries at very close to 2338.0*, but can`t be precise to the semisecond. This is 3:48.5 minutes since last catch 34 days ago, or 228.5 seconds = 6.72 seconds later per 24 hours ---- so we are still on the same cycle at the well-established slippage rate. But at 8 minutes past nominal 2330*, a reset of their clock is likely imminent. BTW, I do not compute this till afterwards, while monitoring not knowing exactly when to expect cutoff (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. R Romania Int heard today, 9 July, 1700-1800 in English on 11975 kHz (in parallel with 11810) - Romanian is normally scheduled at this time. Transmission continued at 1800-1900 with Romanian as scheduled. 11810 frequency was in English as normally scheduled; 11975 was in English instead of scheduled Romanian (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 7345, Radio Sakha, via Yakutsk, 1037, July 7. Sounds of a large crowd; sounded like some interviews at the event; strongly suspect this was coverage of Yakutsk's Guinness World Records event with 16,620 people wearing traditional Yakut clothing - http://goo.gl/xspMww (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks Ron for the Sakha log and URL-that's what shortwave's all about. I have heard this before but I live in noisy conditions (Liz Cameron, MI, ibid.) ** RUSSIA. I looked at the blog of the Japanese dx-server http://fmdx.blog81.fc2.com Have drawn attention to the audio recordings of radio stations of the USSR. There is a lot of audio already and a new era of the Russian Federation. I duplicate my message with vcfm.ru - the theme "All-Union radio" - in the adapted version. There is only one problem if clicking on a link to a record is not from the blog page, then in many browsers it produces a 404 error. For those who want to listen, there is one way out - copy the link to the clipboard, and then insert into the line of some audio player "Open URL". Checked, opens without problems. "On air, the third program of the All-Union Radio ..." (1988.05.14 / 1559 / 68.3 MHz): http://blog-imgs-44-origin.fc2.com/f/m/d/fmdx/198805141559_683MHz.mp3 Local regional, republican broadcasting of the USSR. 1. "Vladivostok Says!" [govorit], The beginning of the musical stereophonic program "The Seagull" (1986.06.27 / 1705 / 69.7 MHz): http://blog-imgs-27-origin.fc2.com/f/m/d/fmdx/ 198606271705_697MHz.mp3 2. "Amur" radio station (Khabarovsk) - the beginning of the stereophonic program (1987.06.19 / 1600 / 72.0 MHz): http://userdisk.webry.biglobe.ne.jp/021/887/11/N000/000/000/128839451218416104729_Khabarovskoe_R._198706191600_72.0MHz.mp3 3. Radio station "Zeya" (Blagoveshchensk) - program schedule (1988.06.19 / 1600 / 72.4 MHz): http://blog-imgs-27-origin.fc2.com/f/m/d/fmdx/198806191600_724MHz.mp3 The completion of work (1990.07.08 / 1159 / 72.4 MHz): http://blog-imgs-27-origin.fc2.com/f/m/d/fmdx/199007081159_724MHz.mp3 4. "Krillon" radio station (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) - program schedule (1987.08.08 / 1600 / 66.1 MHz): http://userdisk.webry.biglobe.ne.jp/021/887/11/N000/000/000/128839436411216104130_Sakhalinskoe_R._198708090600_66.1MHz.mp3 Shutdown at the Mayak frequency (1988.07.27 / 1857 / 66.1 MHz): http://blog-imgs-44-origin.fc2.com/f/m/d/fmdx/198807271857_661MHz.mp3 5. "Says [govorit] Birobidzhan!" (1986.07.12 / 1115 / 67.8 MHz): http://blog-imgs-27-origin.fc2.com/f/m/d/fmdx/19860712_678MHz.mp3 6. Kazakh radio (1990.12.05 / 1740 / 11950 kHz): http://blog-imgs-31-origin.fc2.com/f/m/d/fmdx/199012051740_11950.mp3 recording the second one (1990.11.23 / 1758 / 11950 kHz): http://blog-imgs-31-origin.fc2.com/f/m/d/fmdx/199011231758_11950.mp3 7. Yakut radio - weather, callsign, republican news (1988.09.09 / 0630 / 14530 kHz [harmonic of 7265 – gh]): http://blog-imgs-62-origin.fc2.com/f/m/d/fmdx/198809090630_14530(7265x2)KHz.mp3 the republic's latest news (1988.09.20 / 0646 / 14530 kHz): http://blog-imgs-62-origin.fc2.com/f/m/d/fmdx/198809200646_14530(7265x2)kHz.mp3 8. Amur TV (Blagoveshchensk) - program schedule (1990.06.26 / 1631 / R1ch): http://blog-imgs-44-origin.fc2.com/f/m/d/fmdx/199006261631_R1ch.mp3 Source: http://fmdx.blog81.fc2.com/blog-date-201310.html http://fmdx.blog81.fc2.com/blog-date-200904-1.html (Maxim Ivanov, Moscow, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" & "open_dx" via RusDX 9 July via DXLD) - Without problems opens in Edge (Pavel Ivanov, Belgorod, Russa / "deneb-radio-dx" & "open_dx", ibid.) ** RUSSIA. Republic of Adygea -------------------------- GTRK "Adygea" in the summer season broadcasts programs of foreign broadcasting on shortwave at the following schedule: 1800-1900 - in Adyghe, Arabic and Turkish languages on Mondays; 1800-1900 in the Adyghe language on Fridays; 1900-2000 in the Adyghe language on Sundays. All broadcasting is conducted at a frequency of 6000 kHz, the transmitter power is 100 kW, the azimuth is 188 degrees. The site of GTRK "Adygea" http://www.adygtv.ru/ programs/radio-inoveshchanie/broadcasted/ (Radio Magazine # 07/2017, Radio Reception, V. Gulyaev. ftp://ftp.radio.ru/pub/2017/07/20.pdf via RusDX 9 July via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [and non]. Journal of Radio Amateurs # 2007-03 page 61. Author of the article: Vasily Gulyaev, Astrakhan. RADIOPRIC Let's imagine for a moment that on the street the very height of the construction of "developed socialism" is the 70s of the last century, calls for peace are sounding everywhere, and all the people are coming closer and closer to bringing the cherished communism closer and closer. Now imagine that it is you who live at this very time, have a receiver and listen to foreign radio stations, from the highest official stands declared "enemy voices." And even write cautious letters to these radio stations from time to time, where you ask to confirm the very fact of your reception Radio broadcasts. All this is pretty easy to imagine. But information about the reaction of the relevant bodies, which fully fell upon the head of this very fan of "enemy voices," can be gleaned from some films or books about those years. Add to all this that any of the neighbors could report your suspicious Enthusiasm "where necessary" ... Here you have a complete picture of the situation with DX-ing in times of "stagnation": this is what will be discussed today In those same years, the attitude of the authorities towards radio amateurs-shortwave fans was quite loyal: well, people are fond of talking to each other, although they live in different countries through radio. So all this is put under state control by filling out questionnaires and other documents, issuing permission for a radio station, official membership in radio clubs, etc. Measures. Much more difficult was the case with lovers of long-distance radio reception. It's enough for a person to buy a receiver, pull the antenna and everything ... You can listen to whom and at any time: and those who are supposed to know about everything, this fact may not be guessed. In the former USSR, the former republics of the Baltic States have always been an order of magnitude different from the rest of the Soviet people. It is not in vain that we tried to go there during the holidays, so that at least a little touch with freedom and the Western way of life. That's exactly where the "Union of Baltic DX-Stories" was organized on June 1, 1974, or simply - the DX-club "Baltika". The club's mission was to unite the DX-origins living in the Baltic republics, as well as in the Leningrad and Kaliningrad regions. In addition, associate members of the club could be foreign DX-ists from the Baltic states. The first secretary of the club was Ulinda Rimas from Lithuania. It is interesting that the club published a printed bulletin, which was called "DX-Echo", it was published until October 1975. Then the band of problems began, which led to the fact that the club several times stood on the verge of collapse. And only with the arrival of G. Grigoriev and V. Ershov appeared hope for a full-fledged activity. Moreover, the club began to accept all comers into its ranks. As you understand, all the communication of the members of the club was then conducted exclusively with the help of ordinary letters. This is how the information came to the newsletter "DX-Echo", which was initially hand-written, and was subsequently printed on a typewriter and sent out to its readers again ordinary by mail. By the way, it should be noted that the mail was then inspected by all DX-stories, in spite of the fact that the reports were mainly written only on radio stations that were considered relatively loyal to the Soviet Union. Another bulletin published at that time; Was called "NDH", which meant - News DK. " The author of these lines managed to communicate recently with the permanent editor of the bulletin "NDH", now the teacher of the university from Tula, Vladimir Zharikov. It was a weekly publication, founded on April 7 1973, which in its size was limited only by the volume of information received. There were also radio station schedules, and current changes in the air, and annotations of new reference publications (as it was for the shortwave), and observations, and many other very different messages ... The only thing that immediately strikes the eye: nowhere are the authors of information indicated - in the last resort, only the initials. Not too much precaution at the time! http://ptk-servis.ru/Radiolubitel%202007-03/61 (via RusDX 9 July via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [non]. [re 17-27, Radio Sputnik Goes Live in FM in Washington DC:] According to the FCC the station in Reston, VA on 105.5 is 0.099 kW. Berryville, VA also has WXBN on 105.5 with 3 kW. Berryville isn't too far from Reston. However, I still think R. Sputnik in Reston is a difficult station to hear, regardless of WXBN or higher powered stations on frequencies nearby, unless one is very close to the antenna in Reston. 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, Manassas VA, July 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) FROM THE KREMLIN TO K STREET: RUSSIA-FUNDED RADIO BROADCASTS BLOCKS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE --- By Justin Wm. Moyer, Published: July 12 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/im-sure-youve-heard-a-lot-about-us-russia-funded-radio-broadcasts-blocks-from-the-white-house/2017/07/12/a5813f1c-6660-11e7-a85a-668d1feaf231_print.html (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** SAMOA AMERICAN. [KVZK continued from 17-26] . . .Attached screen capture from their web stream at 11 am Pago Pago time (5 pm Central). The web stream page says its KVZK-2, but note the logo bug LR with the network logos below that (Jim Thomas, Springfield, MO, June 29, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and maybe a fifth one, blurred (gh, DXLD) Then too, CD's third paragraph stating the unincorporated islands joining the Internet Age/21st Century could be the answer. They might have decided the most economical trend would be to shift from conventional digital TV broadcasting to streaming via internet using copper, fiber optic cables. The total land area is 77 sq. miles with a 2016 estimated population of 54,194 (GACTVDX, Easton PA, July 1, ibid.) Has there ever been correspondence from KVZK on our li'l discussion? If not, that's a shame --- but somehow I'm not surprised. I have the feeling that if I made a phone call to them, I may hear "why do you want to know? You don't live here...." JMO; I'd love to be wrong. Even though I have smartphone, there might be a hefty charge to call, so therefore I won't call. Re the above post, the other KVZK('s) cherry pick programs from CBS and ABC, so I would think that OTA is still an option there. But again --- why the secrecy? cd (Chris Dunne, FL, July 11, ibid.) I can reply to CD's query about a reply on my part - I sent an email to the operations manager of KVZK about their status; two weeks already? I haven't had a single reply. American Samoa is NOT a gigantic country where emails can get lost or fall in the cracks. So I begin to wonder, why the secrecy or *no reply*? Maybe they don't really know how to use email. What am I to assume? If anyone offers an email address on a website as part of their contact procedure and someone uses it for such, shouldn't you expect a reply? The same would occur with a telephone number - if someone would call the listed number and someone at the receiving end is available to answer, wouldn't they answer? (Jim Thomas, Springfield, MO, ibid.) I wouldn't waste my time calling the station. You'll probably find the person who answers the phone knows absolutely NOTHING about the station they work for, and, is too stupid to find anyone who does. This has been a common occurrence in my 58 years of TV DXing. 73, (Ed NN2E, Owner / Operator - Murphy's Law Test Site & Thunderstorm Proving Grounds, KY, ibid.) Seems to me the best option would be to contact any media outlet in American Samoa, and ask that way. Still, it's no excuse --- especially when they stream video, for cryin' out loud. Edit: at this time, even the live stream isn't working --- but maybe they aren't 24 hours. cd (Dunne, FL, ibid.) Back in 1990, the KVZK-TV technical director was Robert Blauvelt. In 2003 he moved to West Palm Beach, Florida as the engineer for WPEC-TV. email: rblauvelt@usa.net (GACTVDX, ibid.) Cf. DXLD 17-27 reply already ** SAUDI ARABIA. 15435, Saudi Arabia Broadcasting Service – Riyadh, 1725-1757, 7-7-17. Talk by OM in Arabic, then some chanting for about 5 minutes; at 1740 more talk between two OM, followed by a musical interlude (techno-pop?!), then back to talk before cutting off. Poor signal in my high QRN area (Ronald Sives, South Planfield, NJ, ETON field radio and 66 ft. random wire, NASWA Flashsheet July 10 via DXLD) 9714.919, BSKSA Riyadh non-directional local NE/ME peninsula service in Arabic, endless talk by men at 0623 UT on July 9. S=9+15dB strength. log in remote Doha Qatar Middle East SDR unit [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 9, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SOMALIA [non]. VOA SOMALI TOWN HALL DISCUSSES SOMALI MEASLES OUTBREAK IN US https://www.voanews.com/a/voa-somali-hosts-town-hall-to-discuss-somali-measles-outbreak-in-us/3934467.html Voice of America's Somali service hosted a town hall Saturday in Minnesota, home to a large Somali-American population, to discuss a recent outbreak of measles in the state, and address rumors in the community surrounding childhood vaccines and autism. The northern U.S. state of Minnesota is struggling with the biggest outbreak of measles in the state since 1990. Seventy-eight people caught the disease, mostly Somali-Americans, and nearly a third were hospitalized. The panel, gathered to address concerns of parents, consisted of four Minnesota health officials, two of whom have children who have been diagnosed with autism. The town hall event, called Vaccine and Autism: Myths and Facts, was broadcast from the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs. It could be watched on VOA Somali's Facebook page and YouTube channel (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) Altho undoubtedly a useful public service, such a meeting would seem to go beyond VOA`s remit to broadcast abroad. Somali VOA is probably carried on some Minnesota stations of their own volition (gh, DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. 12094.979, BBC London English program via SenTec Meyerton RSA site, heard at 0640 UT on July 9. Talk on India vv Pakistan relations. BBC NY correspondent talked about US consular Raymond Davis interview, murder charge at Lahore, Pakistan. Log in remote Doha Qatar Middle East SDR unit [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 9, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non non]. 15760, WHRI Cypress Creek SC (presumed); 2112, 5-Jul; Bro. HySTAIRcal is really hot-to-trot about the upcoming eclipse. B.S. queried if this eclipse might be the last one before “that great & dreadful day.” (B.S. is dreading it?) B.S. seems to fail to grasp that all eclipses are total, if you’re in the right place. S8 peaks, fady (Harold Frodge, MI, MARE Tipsheet 7 July via DXLD) Annular eclipses are not total - unless you are in space closer to Moon (gh, DXLD) Like I said "if you're in the right place". I had this discussion with Larry Russell too. I'm shooting for Grand Island NE for the grand event (Harold Frodge, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 11590, Brother Stair, Sofia, Bulgaria relay heard at 2008 on 7/3/17 with Brother Stair reminding the world that he is the "Last Day Prophet of God," and warning his listeners of impending doom. Fair for signal quality and very poor for content (Bob Brossell, Pewaukee WI, JRC NRD-545 (Godar DXR-1000 antenna); ICOM IC R75 (Grove Flex antenna); DRAKE DSR-2 (Longwire); ETON E1; SONY SW77, NASWA Flashsheet July 10 via DXLD) See also BULGARIA Hi Glen[n], Oh, I heard someone replaying an 'Overcomer Ministry' show early this morning about 0900 UT on 4840 kHz, in which Brother Stair was going on and on about you. It was sort of funny, because obviously someone had edited the recording to periodically splice in someone moaning and saying 'Boring-Boring'. This went on for quite a while. Then I realized it was an old recording. So, I turned the knob. I kept wondering who was monitoring the transmission at WWCR, and why they would allow that to be transmitted. Oh well. 73 de (Chuck W3ON, July 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Presumably the same old clip from a couple years ago, about Michigan not being ruled by Napoleon? But hadn`t heard the boring-boring interexion before. 4840 is of course WWCR, but current(?) pdf sked dated June 1 shows The Power Hour repeat is supposed to be on at 0900 weekdays. WWCR has inserted BS at various other times and frequencies to fill, so have they replaced TPH now? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN. 7205.00, 0410-0415 8.7, R Omdurman, Al-Aitahab, Arabic talk by two persons, 25242 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, my latest loggings in Skovlunde on the AOR AR7030PLUS with a 28 metres of longwire, wbradio yg via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. RTI Tamsui test broadcast in German on July 6th. ----- Original Message ----- From: audience01@mailserver.rti.org.tw Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2017 10:55 AM Subject: Testsendungen aus Tamsui am 6. Juli TAIWAN Liebe Hoererinnen und Hoerer, Radio Taiwan International wird heute Testsendungen von der Sendeanlage Tamsui ausstrahlen: Analog: 1730 bis 1740 UTC 12030 kHz 1800 bis 1810 UTC 9680 kHz DRM mode: 1745 bis 1755 UTC 12030 kHz 1815 bis 1825 UTC 9680 kHz Wir wuerden uns ueber Empfangsbeobachtungen an die E-Mail-Adresse sehr freuen. Radio Taiwan International plant auch in diesem Jahr im August, September und Oktober mehrere Direktsendungen des deutschsprachigen Programms von der Sendeanlage Tamsui, Taiwan. Sobald Zeiten und Frequenzen feststehen, wird RTI dies auf der Homepage per E-Mail und in der Sendung "Briefkasten" bekanntgeben. Mit besten Gruessen aus Taipei Radio Taiwan International Deutschredaktion (RTI via Michael Bethge (WWDXC Germany), July 6, A-DX) Posted by: ("Wolfgang Bueschel", dxldyg via DXLD) Test transmissions of Radio Taiwan International, July 6 1730-1740 on 12030#TSH 100 kW / 325 deg WeEu German AM, fair 1741-1755 on 12030#TSH 100 kW / 325 deg WeEu German DRM 1800-1810 on 9680*TSH 100 kW / 325 deg WeEu German AM, poor 1811-1825 on 9680*TSH 100 kW / 325 deg WeEu German DRM # and QRM on 12025 PAN 250 kW / 300 deg WeAs Malayalam All India Radio * strong QRM 9675 RIY 500 kW / 340 deg N/ME Turkish Radio Saudi Inter * strong QRM 9685 URU 500 kW / 308 deg WeEu Chinese China Radio Inter http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/07/test-transmissions-of-radio-taiwan.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) DRM Newsletter July 13 2017: Radio Taiwan International carried out test DRM transmissions on 6th July, 2017 from the Tamsui transmitter: Analogue : 1730 - 1740 UTC 12030 kHz 1800 - 1810 UTC 9680 kHz DRM: 1745 - 1755 UTC 12030 kHz 1815 - 1825 UTC 9680 kHz Observations should be sent to deutsch@rti.org.tw Radio Taiwan International is also planning this year in August, September and October several direct deliveries of the German-language program of the broadcasting system Tamsui, Taiwan. DRM Newsletter July 2017 [sic] http://mailchi.mp/drm/drm-newsletter-april-1276721?t=1 Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) Using a time machine? DRM publishes this a week after the test (gh) ** TAIWAN [non]. Hello all, These are the first logs that I report to the group. I have been lurking for some time now but it is time to contribute. The following are logs for July 8 on 25 meters [including] Station Frequency(kHz) SINPO Time (UTC) Language RTI 9455 33233 03:15 Spanish RTI appears in their summer frequency of 9455 kHz. It is not listed in the Shortwave Info site transmitting in this frequency. The logs result from a rather fast scan using Shortwave Info as I go. In most cases this site is accurate. I have been a shortwave listener since 1968 when I started with a small two band transistor radio connected to a makeshift antenna. Later on I also became a ham radio operator and still hold an advanced class license since 1977. At the present time my main receivers are a Sony ICF 2010 and Grundig Satellit 750. I also have a plethora of tube communications receivers collected over a 40 years period, the so called boatanchors. My antennas are three long wires and one MFJ 1024 remote amplified antenna. I hope that my logs come out OK. Best 73s (Guido Santacana KP4FAR, San Juan, PR, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Welcome, Guido. 9455 is the WRMI relay, additional frequency to 5985 for the 03-04 RTI Spanish service; it`s been there for several weeks, ex-6855. You would have found that by searching the DXLD yg (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 11675.007, V of Turkey, Emirler, Turkish morning service, heard at 0632 UT on July 9. Light Turkish modern music singer program, \\ 11750.035 kHz which was S=8 strength on air. log in remote Doha Qatar Middle East SDR unit [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 9, dxldyg via DXLD) 9830, July 9 at 2346, German! So the dozy Emirler operator has again allowed Die Stimme der Türkei to run almost the full hour of German which comes over the program feedline following English to North America, which is supposed to close down before 2300. At least there is no more RTTY co-channel this late. YL is closing with ``Auf wiederhören``, but non-IS music continues a while longer. Finally really off by 2356 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. Ukrainy Radio, program 1 is broadcast 03-2100. Frequencies used are: 549 Luch, Nikolaev; 837 Kharkov, Taranovka; 873 Krasny Yar (a new transmitter in the Donetsk area; 1278 Odessa, Petrivka and 1431 Mikolaiev Luch. Some of the transmitters are used for Foreign Service 1600-2000. Reports to: tsekhanovskyy@nrcu.gov.ua (Ullmar Qvick, Sweden, 26.6.2017, Arctic Radio Club mv-eko 3 July via DXLD) ** UKRAINE. Military Radio of the Ministry of Defense "Army FM" launched its own website, where you can listen to radio stations online. This was reported on the Facebook page by the chief editor of the radio station Irina Sampan. "Now we have a face." Army FM "launches its website, there is a" Listen "button above, and in sections you can find our projects and ourselves," she wrote. The site of the FM Army radio station available at http://www.armyfm.com.ua is Ukrainian-language and has six sections: "About Us", "Projects", "News", "Gallery", "Military TV" , "Contacts". There is also a "Listen" section, which makes it possible to listen to the radio station on-line. Recall, on March 1, at 6 o'clock in the morning the test broadcast of the radio station "Army FM" began. In December 2015, it became known that from March 1, with the support of the American public initiative in Ukraine, a radio station for the military will be launched. (Source: Portal "Media detector"). http://proradio.org.ua/news/2017jun.php via RusDX 9 July via DXLD) ** U K. [Re 17-27:] Radio 4 Open Country July 6 - BBC Monitoring at Caversham ---- The episode is now indefinitely available for download by non-UK persons at the show's podcast downloads page. See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qgft/episodes/downloads for more information. I've downloaded it to add to my queue but I haven't gotten to listening to it yet. Drafting the sermon for Sunday needs to be finished first (Stephen Michael Kellat, KC8BFI, Ashtabula, Ohio, July 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Its a fascinating programme. So many important world historical events were identified and monitored at Caversham mainly using good old shortwave radio (Mike Terry, UK, ibid.) ** U K [non]. More inactive frequencies of BBC registered in HFCC http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/07/more-inactive-frequencies-of-bbc.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz: 1500-1900 NF 5810*TAC 100 kW / 068 deg to NEAs/No.Korea Korean 1500-1900 on 9940 TSH 300 kW / 002 deg to NEAs/No.Korea Korean * instead of 5895 TAC 100 kW / 068 deg to NEAs/No.Korea Korean 1730-1830 on 7375 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg to Somalia Mon-Fri vary 1730-1830 on 9585 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to Somalia Mon-Fri vary 1730-1830 on 11795 KCH 300 kW / 163 deg to Somalia Mon-Fri vary 1830-1930 on 6155 DHA 250 kW / 230 deg to Somalia Mon-Fri vary 1830-1930 on 9780 SLA 250 kW / 240 deg to Somalia Mon-Fri vary 1830-1930 on 17745 ASC 250 kW / 070 deg to Somalia Mon-Fri vary (Bulgarian DX blog via DXLD) ** U K [and non]. Sharp drop in world views of US, UK: Global poll for BBC World Service --- Other Key Findings Date: 03.07.2017 Last updated: 04.07.2017 at 00.01 Category: World Service Negative views of US influence in the world have increased in the majority of countries surveyed in the latest global country poll for the BBC World Service. Compared to 2014, when the poll was last conducted, double-digit increases in negative views of the US, rising to majorities, are now found in several of its NATO allies, including the UK (up from 42 to 64%), Spain (44 to 67%), France (41 to 56%), and Turkey (36 to 64%). Negative opinion has also sharply risen in Latin American nations Mexico (up from 41 to 59%), and Peru (29 to 49%). In Russia, negative views of the US have also increased, from 55 to 64 per cent. The Country Ratings Poll was conducted by GlobeScan/PPC among 18,000 people in 19 countries between December 2016 and April 2017. It asked respondents to rate 16 countries and the EU on whether their influence in the world is “mostly positive” or “mostly negative.” . . . [much more] http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2017/globescan-poll-world-views-world-service (3 July 2017 via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD) ** U S A. Re: Night of Nights imminent, maritime CW MF & HF Night of Nights Update with info on K6KPH ham operations: http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1109843077277&ca=275e9064-949f-4908-8498-fe8cde217a1f (Via Paul Dobosz, MARE via gh, July 12, dxldyg via DXLD) Left the radio/computer running from 0001 UT on 17016.8 CW with good reception. Unfortunately, I was out for the evening, and when I returned home, the computer had rebooted. Darn it! In any case, at 0550 tune-in, 426 is still broadcasting. Calling CQ, CQ, CQ DE KPH KPH KPH SAN FRANCISCO. etc. Good reception. Nothing noted on 500 kHz. 4247 in // and exceptionally strong. 6477.5 as well. 8642 is at fair strength. Also noted KFS with excellent strength on 6365.6, and still going strong at 0605 UT. 73 (Walt Salmaniw, BC, UT July 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Monitored KPH from 0645 tune on 8642.0 CW with SINPO 45544 from a KiwiSDR remote site near Auckland NZ - checked against my local rcvr to ensure same station. Xmsn appeared to cease at 0708 (Bruce Churchill, CA, ibid.) Same with KFS. I monitored on 6365.6 and they also went off at 0708. Here's what my Fldigi decoded on CW: [sic: I am making NO attempt to edit this, except to close up the line breaks and set off some paragraphs --- gh] ARIZONA APRIL 4, 2014. ON THIS MEMORIAL DAY, 26TH DAY OF MAY 2014, WE, THE CAPTAIN AND CREW OF THE U.S.-FLAG SHIP APL SINGAPORE, DO HEREBY WITH UTMOST RESPECT AND DIGNITY SCATTER THE REMAINS OF DECEASED SAILOR RICHARD D. FILKENS, SAILORS' UNION OF THE PACIFIC BOOK NUMBER 2214, UPON THE WATERS OF THE NORTH PACIFIC AT LATITUDE 49-51.7N AND LONGITUDE 145-21.8W AT 1426 LOCAL TIME AS WE SOUND EIGHT BELLS ON THE SHIP'S BELL TO BID END OF WATCH AND FINAL DEPARTURE. READING 1 BY THE CAPTAIN: FOR BURIAL AT SEA : FOR AS MUCH AS IT HAS PLEASED ALMIGHTY GOD TO TAKE UNTO HIMSELF THE SOUL OF OUR BROTHER DEPARTED, WE THEREFORE COMMIT HIS BODY TO THE SEA; IN SURE AND CERTAIN HOPE OF THE RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD AT THE APPEARING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. AMEN READING 2 BY THE CAPTAIN: CROSSING THE BAR BY ALFRED LORD TENNY ON SUNSET AND EVENING ST EE, AND ONE CLEAR CALL FOR ME, AND MAY THERE BE NO MOANING OF THE BAR, WHEN I PUT OUT THE SEA, BUT SUCH A TIDE AS MOVING SEEMS ASLEEP, TOO FULL FOR SM UND AND FOAMM M WHEN THAT WHICH DREW FROM OUT THE BOUNDLESS DEEP TURNS HOME AGAIN. TWIGHLIGHT AND EVENING BELL, AND AFTER THAT THE DARK, AND MAY THERE BE NO SADNESS OF FAREWELL, WHEN I EMBARK; FOR THO' FROM OUT OUR BOURNE TIME AND PLACE THE FLOOD MAY BEAR ME FAR, I HOPE TO SEE MY PILOT FACE TO FACE WHEN I HAVE CROSSED THE BAR. VVV VVV VVV DE KFS KFS KFS SAN FRANCISCO RADIO SUP FREE PRESS SUP FREE PRESS SUP FREE PRESS ANOTHER EXCERPT FROM THE JUNE 2014 ISSUE FOLLOWS JUNE 6, 1TP94, A REMEMBRANCE OF D-DAY IN THE JEREMIAH O'BRIEN TO: GUNNAR LUNDEBERG, CAPTAIN PETER MCISAAC, PORT AGENT 3 SAN FRANCISCO BAR PILOTS GENTLEMEN: TWENTT T YEARS AGO TIEIS MORNING I WAS ON THE LIBERTY SHIP S.S. JEREMIAH O'BRIEN, AT ANCHOR IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL. WE WERE ANCHORED UP OFF THE NORMANDY COASTLINE A FEW MILES FROM POINTE DU HOC, AND JUST ABEAM OF THE AMERICAN CEMETERY AT COLLEVILLE. THE DAY BEFORE ON JUNE 5, I WAS HONORED TO MEET PRESIDENT AND MRS. CLINTON WHILE AT ANCHOR IN SOLENT, JUST OFF PORTSMOUTH ENGLAND, AND ACTUALLY HAVE A SHORT CONVERSATION WITH EACH OF THEM. THE ROYAL YACHT BRITANNIA, WITH THE HEADS OF STATE FOR ALL OF THE ALLIED COUNTRIES EN WWII STETMED BY AS THEY REVIEWED ALL OF THE SHIPS AT ANCHOR IN THE SOLENT. LATER THAT NIGHT AS WE WERE CROSSING THE ENGLISH CHANNEL I WAS SITTING IN MY ROOM WITH THE DOOR ON THE HOOK, WHEN SOMEBODY KNOCKED AND ASKED IF HE COULD COME VISIT FOR A MINUTE. I OPENED THE DOOR TO LANE KIRKLAND A MEMBER OF THE MM AND P) WHO AT THE TIME WAS HEAD OF THE AFL-CIO. HE SAYS TO ME \ANY BOSUN I EVER KNEW WHO WAS WORTH HIS SALT ALWAYS HAD A BOTTLE IN HIS ROOM.\ WELL HE WAS RIGHT, I DID HAVE A COUPLE OF JUGS. AS HE SAID LATER RNI JUST E TANTED TO SIT AND HAVE A DRINK OR TWO AND GET AWAY FROM ALL THOSE KING'S POINT STUFFED SHIRTS.\ WE PUT A PRETTY GOOD DENT IN A BOTTLE OF JOHNNY WALKER, TOLD A FEW LIES AND ENJOYED EACI OTHERS COMPANE A FOR A COUPLE HOURS LOOKING BACK, IT WAS ONE HELL OF AN EXCITING DAY FOR ME. JUNE 6, WAS A S WLEMN DAY FOR US AT ANCHOR. IT WAS THE DAY THAT WE HAD ALL WORKED FOR TO GET TO THE NORMANDY BEACH HEADS. A DAY TO REPRESENT MARITIME HISTORY, AND TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE, AS WER L AS HONOR ALL OF THOSE WHO FOUGHT AND DIED ON THE BEACHES. THE VOYAGE WAS A HUGE UNDERTAKING AND COULD NEVER HAVE BEEN COMPLETED WITHOUT THE WILLINGNESS, HELP AND COOPERATION OF THOSE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO WATERFRONT COMMUNITY. TO ME PERSONALLY THE SAILORS' UNION OF THE PACIFIC AND THE SAN FRANCISCO BAR PILOTS PLAYED A BIG ROLE IN MAKING THAT HISTORIC VOYAGE POSSIBLE. MANY MAY HAVE FORGOTTEN, BUT I HAVEN'T, SO I JUS T WANTED TO TAKE A MINUTE AND GIVE EACH OF YOU A BIG \MAHALO NUI LOA\ THANKS AGAIN FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP AS I THINK OF THIS VOYAGE TWENTY YEARS LATER. ALOHA, RICH REED BOOK NR 3181 RETIRED) \WEST COAST SAILORS\, THE SAILORS UNION OF THE PACIFIC'S MONTHLY NEWSPAPER VVV DE KFS THIS IS THE 18TH ANNUAL \NIGHT OF NIGHTS\ COMMEMORATIVE BROADCAST FROM THE MARITIME RADIO HISTORICAL SOCIETYT SIGNAL REEGORTS AND CMMMENTS MAY BE SENT TTA INFO AT RADIOMTRINE DM T ORG, OR TO MARITIME RADIO HISTORICE L SOCIETY C/O RICHARD DILLMAN PO BOX 392 POINT REYES STATION, CA 94956 THIS IS THE 18TH ANNUAL \NIGHT OF NIGHTS\ COMMEMORATIVE BROADCAST FRON THE MARITIME RADIO HISTORICAL SO CIETY. DE KFS TNQ CQ CQ DE KFS KFS KFS SAN FRANCISCO RADIO SUP FREE PRESS FOLLOWS DE KFS SUP FREE PRESS FOLLOWS DE KFS WELCOME TO THE LATEST ISSUE OF \WEST COAST SAILORS\, THE SAILORS UNION OF THE PACIFIC'S MONTHLY NEWSPAPER EXCERPT FROM THE JUNE 2017 ISSUE WORLD'S LARGEST SAILING SHIP LAUNCHED. THE WORLD'S LARGEST SAILING SHIP WAS LAUNCHED AT THE BRODOSPLIT SHIPYARD IN CROATIA THIS MONTH. THE FLYING CLIPPER IS A NEAR REPLICA OF THE FRANCE II ORDERED IN 1911 AT LA GIRONDE SHIPYARD BORDEAUX. THE VESSEL HAS BEEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR TWO YEARS FOR MONACO-BASED STAR CLIPPERS. FA YIT G CLIPPER HAS A STEEL HULL AND WILL HAVE TEETK DECKING. SHE IS 532 FEET LONG AND *0 FEET WIDE, WITH A DEADWEITE ST OF 2,000 TONSAK SHE WILL BE SQUARE-RIGGED WITH FIVE MASTS AND HAVE AN OVERALL SAIL SURFACE OF 68, IM00 SQUARE FEET. U DYING CLIPPER HAS FIVE DECKS, WITH ACCOMMODATION FOR 450 PERSONS, 300 PASSENGERS IN 150 LUXURY CABINS, AND 74 CREW CABINS FOR 150 CREW MEMBERS. THE SHIP IS INTENDED EXCLUSIVELY FOR SAILING, ALTHOUGH SHE WILL HAVE TWO FULLY INDEPENDENT ELECTRIC ENGINES. SHE WILL MEET SAFE RETURN TO PORT REQUIREMENTS WITH TWIN ENGINE ROOMS AND AN ADDITIONAL BRIDGE. THE DESIGN WILL ENABLE THE VESSEL TO RETURN TO PORT FROM AROUND 2,000 NAUTICAL MILES FROM E HORE. FLYING CLIPPER IS DESIGNED TO SAIL IN ALL OCEANS INCLUDING THE ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC AND WILL BE BUILT TO MEET ICE CLASS REQUIREMENTS. SHE IS EXPECTED TO BE CAPABLE OF SAILI EG AT UP TO 20 KNOTS UNDER THE FAVORABLE WEATHER CONDITIONS AND AT AROUND 16 KNO TS UNDER POWER. FLYING CLIPE NER WILL BE THE FOURTH SAILING VESSEL FOR STAR CLIPPERS WHEN SHE ENTERS SERVICE IN 2018. \WEST COAST SAILORS\, THE SAILORS UNION OF THE PACIFIC'S MONTHLY NEWSPAR R IE ***DE*H/*S *H/*S *H/*S NIGHT * NIGHTS CLOSINR ENEDICTION F*L*S QSW 50*/HF TO L SHIPS AND SKTIONS THIS CASING BENEDICTION WAS TRT TRADITION*LY SENT BY O* BELOVED DENICE STOOPS DENICE IS UNABLE TO BE AT THE KEY THIS EVENINR BUT WE SEND HER BENEDICTION JUST AS SHE HERSELF K MMPOSED IT DE GODDESS TE MEMBERS OF THE MARITIME RADIO HIST*IC* SOCIETY E Y* HUMBLE SERVANTS AND WE THANK Y* ** PROTECTING TS THIS PAST YEAR AS WE CONTIT AED OUR STEWARDHSIP OF SKTION *H ST* THE MUSIC * MKRSE HAS GLADDENL THE HETS * MANY AS OUR SIGN*S CROSSED THE BARRIERS * TIME AND SPACE *ND THE W*LD ST* WEASK THATY*GUIDE * DECISIONS AND ACTIONS DURING THE COMING YE THATWE QMBE W*THY* THE V*UABLE E *IPMENTAND THE HON*ABLE TRADITION THAT HAS BEEN ENCUSTED INTO * HUABLE HANDS STOP BLESS *SO THE MANY EARS TS THAT S IARE T HE FRUITS * *R LAB*S ZUT 73* D *** DA WE WISH Y* FAIR UINDS AND FOLL*ING I SEAS GL AND VY 73/8*DE*H/*S CL --- 73, (*Walt, ibid.) I could tell how rusty my code copy was with all this! I think the initial speed was around 12-13 WPM (same as the former General Class ARO requirement) but it seemed after 0700 the speed substantially increased (Bruce Churchill, ibid.) ** U S A. WWV 25 MHz Antenna Change --- Hello, I just saw this on the ARRL web site a few minutes ago. Today July 12th, WWV lead electrical engineer Matt Deutch N0RGT told the ARRL that it had changed its antenna from its standard vertical antenna, to a circular polarized turnstile antenna on its 25.0 MHz (2 kW) Boulder [??? not Fort Collins? gh], Colorado transmitter. Reception reports are wanted. You can view the article at: http://www.arrl.org/news/wwv-25-mhz-signal-swapped-to-circular-polarization I can just barely hear the 25 MHz WWV signal as I type this at 1720 UT, while listening with a Cushcraft MA5B beam antenna pointed in a westerly direction. The signal is just about unreadable at my location south of Pittsburgh, PA. 73 de (Chuck W3ON, July 12, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Much depends on sporadic E openings moreso than antenna type (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DXLD) Viz.: WWV 25 MHz Signal Swapped to Circular Polarization, Reception Reports Invited --- 07/11/2017 The resurrected 25-MHz signal of time and frequency standard station WWV is now emanating from a circularly polarized turnstile antenna. WWV had used a vertically polarized antenna on 25 MHz in the 1970s. Silent since 1977, the 25-MHz signal returned to the air on an “experimental basis” in April 2014, and it’s been transmitting ever since — initially on a broadband discone until August 2015, when it switched back to a vertical, which it used until the July 7 switch to circular polarization. “[W]e are broadcasting with 2 kW from a circularly polarized turnstile antenna,” WWV lead electrical engineer Matt Deutch, N0RGT, told ARRL this week. “It is just your standard plain-vanilla turnstile — two horizontal orthogonal dipoles with a quarter-wave phase-shifting coax linking them.” Deutch has explained that when the 25-MHz transmitter was shut down in 1977, the antenna’s radiating element was “tossed in the bone yard, and a new longer section put on the tower to make it a 15 MHz stand-by antenna,” Deutch recounted. When WWV first reintroduced the 25-MHz broadcast some 37 years later in response to requests, it used a broadband monopole. But, it was later decided to use that antenna for WWV’s 2.5-MHz stand-by transmitter and to rebuild the 25-MHz antenna. The old radiating section was retrieved and the antenna rebuilt, so that it looked like what was being used in 1977. Deutch said it’s hoped that the latest antenna change to circular polarization might be helpful to anyone studying propagation during next month’s total solar eclipse, which will be visible across the US. “My effort right now is focused on getting the word out, just to make people are aware that [the 25-MHz signal] is available, if it can be useful to them.” Before the change, Deutch said WWV had received reports on the 25 MHz signal from across the Atlantic. The 25 MHz broadcast includes the same information transmitted on all other WWV frequencies and at the same level of accuracy. Located in Fort Collins, Colorado, WWV is operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). WWV has invited listeners’ comments and reports on its 25-MHz signal (via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DXLD) ** U S A [non]. AFN CELEBRATES 75 YEARS http://myafn.dodmedia.osd.mil/afn75 http://myafn.dodmedia.osd.mil/afn75/afn-history-seldom-heard-stories-of-military-broadcasting.aspx Today it is a shadow of its former self, but many of our European members will have grown up with American Forces Radio as an important presence on the MW radio dial. At its peak in the early 1960s it claimed millions of listeners across all of Europe, when local broadcasters on both sides of the Iron Curtain were generally drab government broadcasters. American Forces Radio began May 26th 1942. Unintentional cultural impact One of the U.S. military's biggest accomplishments in post-war Europe was unintentional: the music the GIs listened to on the radio made a deep, positive impact on Europeans that continues today. Prior to AFN's arrival, Nazi Germany had banned most American music, as "decadent," and even after the Americans first arrived, state-run German radio didn't play English language music. When rebuilding began after World War II, American soldiers seldom mixed with locals. Regulations prohibited it and few spoke the local language. But some curious Europeans chose to invite the GIs' radio station into their home, car or restaurant: the American Forces Network Europe, known throughout the world as AFN. Many Europeans wanted to hear the rich diversity of jazz, blues, country and rock music that wasn't airing on their country's radio stations. AFN never intended or tried to broadcast to host nationals. As a matter of fact, the network took extraordinary measures to not reach them. AFN's linked radio transmitters used special broadcast patterns targeted where the Americans were stationed, the music and the talk was all in English and most transmitters were low-powered, so planners didn't think many people living in Germany, Italy, France, Austria or Belgium would bother tuning in. But they did. Historian Dr. John Provan said a survey in AFN's early years indicated the military network was reaching a potential listening audience of 50 million Europeans. AFN began broadcasting from locations in France, Austria, Italy, Germany and Belgium, and was heard, despite restrictions, in Paris, Vienna, Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich and other major population centers. While many transmitters were low-powered, some were "sound monsters," with the Munich and Weisskirchen, Germany, AM transmitters reaching much of Europe. At night, the Weisskirchen signal skipped across the English Channel into the United Kingdom. AFN first broadcast from BBC studios in London on July 4, 1943, but American broadcasts in the island nation ended after the war. Ironically, a generation of English-speaking kids was among those trying hardest to pick up the faint American radio signal because in the 1950s, Brits weren't hearing jazz, blues and rock on their local radio statons. One of the lads listening in was Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant. He talked to David Letterman about why he chose the crackly distant AFN signal over local radio stations in the United Kingdom. "We didn't have the same cultural exchange you had. We didn't have Black America," he said. "We couldn't turn our dial and get an absolutely amazing kaleidoscope of music. (In the UK) now and then, if you were lucky, there was this American Forces Network radio coming out of Germany. If you were lucky, you could hear Muddy Waters or Little Richard coming through the waves." Plant and Zeppelin's lead guitarist, Jimmy Page, both say American blues and jazz heavily influenced their music. They got that exposure by listening to the American military's radio network in the 1950s. "To hear current releases, you tuned in AFN and hoped that you could catch the title of something after they played it," Page said in an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine. At the same time another future musician, Van Morrison, was struggling to tune in AFN as a boy growing up in Northern Ireland. The singer of rock classics "Brown Eyed Girl" and "Moon Dance" even wrote a song about trying to listen to AFN back then called "In the Days Before Rock and Roll." The impact of AFN on Bill Wyman, the bass player for the Rolling Stones for 31 years, was even stronger. He was a British soldier stationed in Germany listening to AFN Munich at night. According to the German audio magazine "Schau ins Land," Wyman said he was so fascinated with what he was hearing that he went out and bought a guitar to play, and that without AFN Munich he would not have become a musician and certainly would not have been with the Rolling Stones. AFN played a major role in introducing American country music to the Europe. In Germany, clubs featuring line dancing, Western garb and country music popped up in the '70s and '80s, such as the huge club "Nashville" near Nuremberg. Germans started forming bands such as Truck Stop, with country songs in German. In one tune, they sang about wanting to listen to Dave Dudley, Charlie Pride and Hank Snow but AFN was too far away. German radio stations started their own country music DJ shows. German radio and TV personality Fritz Egner said the Munich-based producers of Donna Summer's disco classics listened to AFN for inspiration. Another Munich based group, Silver Convention ("Fly Robin Fly") used an AFN newscater for one of their tracks. Egner said an early '60s German newspaper survey indicated more than twice as many Germans were listening to AFN than Americans. "AFN was probably the best ambassador for the U.S. in the post-war era," said Egner. "It was sort of like a radio station from another planet. They played the music we didn't hear and presented it in a different kind of way." Egner got his broadcasting start with AFN, where he was known as AFN Munich's tap dancing engineer. His side-kick role on AFN led to a German radio station hiring him as a DJ. He then went on to host several popular German TV programs, including a version of Candid Camera. Around Europe, other stations were looking for AFN DJs to bring their "crazy" American style of show to their airwaves. In Belgium, one of the biggest classic rock DJs on the air today started with AFN SHAPE, Patrick Bauwens. Radio Luxembourg hired former AFN Soldier Benny Brown and he's still playing the hits. AFN Berlin's Air Force Sgt. Rik De Lisle left the military to become a radio DJ and program director for German radio. AFN Nuremberg's Mike Haas, left the Army to become the founding program director of radio station Antenne Bayern in 1988 and still works in Germany as a media consultant. AFN music served as a bridge with the United States and a generation of future politicians. Germany's foreign minister and vice chancellor from 1998-2003, the Green Party's Joschka Fischer, said the music he listened to on AFN heavily influenced him. According to the book "Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic," when asked who had a more profound influence on him, Bob Dylan or Karl Marx, Fischer snapped, "Clearly Bob Dylan. His music has always been a highly emotional thing for me; I wanted to be free." Other Green Party officials felt a similar bond with AFN. When the American military was about to leave Berlin and Frankfurt, Green Party leaders asked if AFN could stay, not realizing that the network was as much a part of the American military as the infantry. A politician from another German party, the CDU's former state of Hessen Minister Roland Koch, said he learned to speak English by listening to AFN. He, like a generation of Germans now in their 40s- through-60s, started to listen for the music, then got interested in learning English to understand the lyrics. It was during my two years as an Army staff sergeant DJ in AFN Nuremberg, from 1979 to (19)81, that I personally came to understand the depth of the impact AFN had made on its "shadow audience" of non- American listeners. Both happened when I was doing the morning show with the air name, "Gorgeous George." While that moniker could have gotten me sued for truth in advertising, it was a lot more memorable than my real name, George Smith. At least one host national agreed with me. One night I went to the biggest disco in town and was shocked to hear him open his microphone, call himself AFN's Gorgeous George and proceed to use some of my favorite corny lines from my shows. Color me shocked but flattered. An ever bigger surprise came later that year when the buzzer to our station rang and an American wearing civilian clothes walked in with a younger man shadowing him. It turned out the younger man listened to my show in then-communist Czechoslovakia, escaped across the border and now wanted to meet me. I asked him why he listened to AFN and he replied in hesitant English, "We get Voice of America in our village, but we like listening to you. You are a Soldier talking to other Soldiers -- you're going to tell them the truth." While AFN still has loyal European listeners, there are fewer of them, because now many European radio stations sound like U.S. stations. In Germany, some stations play almost all English-language music. Stations even have names like Big FM, Planet Radio or You FM. Sometimes the only hint you'll get that you're listening to a German station is when you hear a song with a chorus of non-bleeped out profanity that could turn the baby's formula to cheddar or melt the FCC's complaint line. English language bad words don't count as bad words on German radio. The fact that Europeans sought out our music and folded it into their culture is something every American can take pride in. Europeans value our diverse music. Our nation didn't try to sell them or influence them to listen. They chose to. So without trying, American service members' music made a major positive impact on European culture and their AFN radio network forged a lasting bond with the European people. (personal footnote: I owe my introduction to MW DXing and listening entirely to AFN. Around 1970 I managed to get my hands on my father’s Telefunken receiver (bought through the US PX on base since my father taught American Forces English literature courses!). Sitting in a darkened room watching the green “magic-eye” flicker as I tuned the dial I eventually stumbled upon AFN. Somehow I sent them a reception report (I’m sure I didn’t know it by that name) and to my amazement I received a QSL in the post. My first QSL! And so my DXing hobby started... - Editor [Steve Whitt]) (via Medium Wave News July-August 2017 via DXLD) A minor point: ``AFN`` it was known in Europe, but elsewhere, AFRS, or later AFRTS. Also the A was originally for Armed, later softened to American (Glenn, ex-American Forces Thailand Network, 1969-1970, DXLD) ** U S A. 17530, July 8 at 1806, VOA with `Nightline Africa`, fair via Greenville. This sesquihour from 1700 is our last best hope to hear English direct from VOA Greenville. Looking thru the HFCC as of July 5 entries for GB, I see it also as the site for Bambara at 2130-2200 M-F on 13670, 15120. Yet, in B-16 as listed by EiBi, these had shifted much closer to Ascension, Botswana, respectively. Why back and forth? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also MUSEA below ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1885 monitoring: first SW broadcast confirmed Thursday July 6 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.23v-CUSB, fair. No more logs until my next check 24 hours later: also confirmed Fri July 7 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.16v-CUSB, fair. [6190, Hamburger LokalRadio, Gohren, 0610-0700, 08-07, English, comments, songs, at 0630 Glenn Hauser’s program "World of Radio". 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Spain, dxldyg] Next: Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE 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 WOR schedule on all affiliates, AM, FM, satellite, webcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Also access to podcasts WORLD OF RADIO 1885 monitoring: confirmed Saturday July 8 at 2230 on WBCQ 9330.02v-CUSB (after IS & ID loop from 2227 tune-in, drifting down from 9330.04v; followed at 2300 by an `Allan Weiner Worldwide` playback on 9330.00). Also confirmed Sat July 8 at 2300 on WRMI, 11580, fair. Also confirmed UT Sunday July 9 at 0200 on WRMI, 11580, fair. Also confirmed UT Sunday July 9 at 0335 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, at the Indonesia item about 9 minutes in, which means it started circa 0326. 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 WORLD OF RADIO 1885 monitoring: confirmed by Ivo in Bulgaria the Sunday July 9 at 1030 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 9485-CUSB, following Media Network Plus with our propagation outlook: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/07/reception-of-hlr-relays-on-9485cusb.html Also confirmed here, Sunday July 9 at 2338, the 2330 on WBCQ 9330.02v- CUSB, averaging S4 (while `Le Show` on WBCQ 7490.07-AM is S9+10). Also confirmed UT Monday July 10 from 0300 sharp on Area 51 webcast, also barely audible vs noise level via WBCQ 5129.82-AM at 0308 check. Also confirmed UT Monday July 10 at 0330 on WRMI webcast, and good S9+20 to S9 on 9955. 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 1885 monitoring: confirmed Monday July 10 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330.0v-CUSB, good. Also confirmed UT Tuesday July 11 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, VG S9+30. Next: 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 1885 monitoring: confirmed Tuesday July 11 at 2130 on WRMI 9455, fair, 15770 very poor. Also confirmed Tue July 11 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.0v-CUSB, fair. Also confirmed Wed July 12 at 2100 on WBCQ webcast, and then on 7490, very poor. Also confirmed Wed July 12 from 2331 on WBCQ, 9330.15v-CUSB, fair (one minute late after some ID overlaps and dead air: perhaps they were hustling to get 1886 downloaded in time, as it was unexpectedly available early by 2310; if so, thanks for trying). WORLD OF RADIO 1886 contents: Anguilla, Argentina non, Bolivia, Bougainville, Brazil, China, Ethiopia and non, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Korea North [I meant to say 1710 kHz, instead of 17], Micronesia, Morocco, Netherlands, Newfoundland, North America, Perú, USA, Venezuela WORLD OF RADIO 1886 ready for first SW airing July 13: 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 Sat 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE 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 WOR schedule on all affiliates, AM, FM, satellite, webcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Also access to podcasts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5950, July 9 at 0037, WRMI as usual poor here aimed south in Spanish, mentions ``checoeslovaco`` so likely either R. Praga or R. Eslovaquia Internacional. Skedgrid shows it`s the latter, with more 5950 added at 0100-0130, `Creciendo en Gracia`. Full sked of 5950 includes 0000-0030 AWR Cuba; 2300-2400 Fámily Radio; 2200-2300 RAE in Spanish; 1100-1200 AWR Cuba (but second half at 1130 is really full of DX programs alternating: Wavescan, Antena DX, Frecuencia al Día) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Shortwave Radiogram, 8-9 July 2017 --- After 32 years as a bureaucrat, Kim has moved to the private sector with Shortwave Radiogram ... http://swradiogram.net/post/162706104467/shortwave-radiogram-8-9-july-2017-mfsk-mode Use Fldigi for PCs or TIVAR for Android devices to decode the text and images. We thrive in difficult reception conditions where voice broadcasts are difficult to understand. Archive of Shortwave Radiogram audio by Mark in the UK: https://1drv.ms/f/s!Ah7fj9CZV0zynm_IejUWLKL2Ye4v (Kim Elliott, July 7, dxldyg via DXLD) I trust more to the information of a Western bureaucrat than the pronouncements of an Eastern autocrat. ;-) For image comparison of the modes: MFSK64 - MFSK32: barely detect differences, MFSK32 minimal poorer. http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2017-07-08.htm#MFSK64-32 MFSK16-MSFK32: significant differences, MFSK16 quite out of focus, blurred. MFSK16 images are not useful, clear deficits for the same transmission time, despite bombastic RF signal. http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2017-07-08.htm#MFSK16-32 (roger, germany, ibid.) SECRETLAND, Reception of Shortwave Radiogram # 3 via SPL Secretbrod, July 8 1601-1631 on 9400 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English Sat plus 2nd harmonic 18800 kHz http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/07/reception-of-shortwave-radiogram-3-via.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9955, Monday July 10 at 2134, wall-of-noise jamming from CUBA, nothing audible from WRMI. What`s to jam now? Skedgrid shows Argentine media history program `La Rosa de Tokio` this hour. Perhaps DentroCuban Jamming Command hasn`t realized that Radio Libertad is no longer getting a prepeat before 2315-2400. The 9955-only program grid has now been updated as effective July 3, and I have created this easy direct link to it: http://www.tinyurl.com/WRMI9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. ALLAN WEINER WORLDWIDE, 0000 UT Saturday July 8, WBCQ 7490 Show started on time with no dropouts or interruptions with Allan back in the studio this week. Started off talking about antique autos again then talked about the electric system in Northern Maine which morphed into talk about working on transmitters and then about power problems with the transmitters. Then general tales of transmitter problems and repairs this week. Then talk about the progress with the 3250 transmitter. Prank phone call received at 00:23 which stopped the flow of conversation for a bit and then back to transmitter talk. 3250 transmitter passed its first test. Some talk about phones, then a few phone calls and then Tom Barna appeared in the studio during a particularly long phone call. Few more phone calls then some talk about future crap from a magazine article Allan had read this week. That morphed into talk about alternative batteries for automobiles. Larry Will called in and right after that Dr. Becker called in on another line and there was a bit of a cluster fook at times with all four of them trying to talk at once. Reading of emails finally started at 0151 interspersed with a couple of phone calls. It was mentioned that Tom Barna is responsible for and connected with the Other Side of Midnight program. Mention of George Thurman`s death during the show. Off the air at 0217. Again the simulcast on 5130 ended at 0100 (John H Carver Jr, Mid-North Indiana, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9930 & 12105, Thu July 6 at 1826, both these WTWWs are AWOL, while 9475 continues. 5830, July 8 at 0419, WTWW-1 is off (nor on day frequency 9475), while 5085 is on with music. At 0447, 5830 is back on, S9+35 with hum. At 0448, 5085 with canned TedID, more rockmusic. 9930, Saturday July 8 at 1804, WTWW-2 is OFF, so no `Theater Organ from the Ozarx` unless it start later: 12105 WTWW-3 also off; but 9475 WTWW-1 is running the first priority ham radio show. 9475, July 9 at 0031, WTWW-1 is quite weak at S5, and JBM; while all other frequencies, 9930, 5085 and 12105 are off. At 0100 I find that 5085, WTWW-2 has just come on, with rock music and ham ad, 0102 opening `Theater Organ from the Ozarx`. Strangely: on the PL-880 this has an annoying big hum, but not so much on the NRD-545. The Tecsun is on battery only of course, so I walk around the house and even outside to find no change in hum level, so not picking up some local device. {Nor do I get any such hum on other bigsigs.} I conclude the hum is really being transmitted, but the NRD filters it down and/or has less bass frequency response, especially to headphones or external speaker, than the hi-fi speaker of the PL-880, which in this case is a disadvantage. Hard for me to judge the pitch but maybe 120 Hz = 2 x 60 Hz AC. 9930, July 12 at 1828 check, WTWW-2 is on with dead air instead of being completely off with no Dave Ramsey. 9475 WTWW-1 is on with abnormal SFAW, while 12105 WTWW-3 is still gone (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, July 6 at 1905, KVOH with Spanish praise music is really wobbly and distorted; any listeners put up with it? Do they hear it that way in the studio, or only monitor, if anything, the program-out feed line (as I suspect so many other stations do)? And it`s on air past nominal closing again, still 1915+. At previous tuneby 1825, it was not so unstable. We continue to wonder why KVOH keep running this defective old transmitter when they have a newer one. Still lacking all the parts for it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5890, WWCR with Fibber McGee & Molly. This program was about a baseball game & even had an homage to the “who’s on first” Abbot & Costello routine. VERY funny! ;) Then a suspense/sci-fi show “Dantro, The Planet Man”. At 0254 a promo re God’s blessings & promos for religious programs & Quantum Nutrition Labs ad selling snake oil leading up to the ToH. WWCR ID at 0300 then more Bible Bumping with the “Herald of Truth” from “Kingdom Identity Ministry” from Arkansas, mentioning WWCR & WBCQ complete with frequencies & toll free number to call in. Today’s show was about how we can get back to what God intended by returning to a ‘godly patriarchy’ where men are in control of things & polygamy is best. The end of society is marked by things like women having political power and being ‘allowed’ to vote & why monogamy makes weak families which power hungry tyrants from Nimrod on forward really liked & that’s why they discouraged polygamy because that makes strong families that could challenge them. This is kinda like a car crash. I just had to listen even though I didn’t really want to! Just BTW, there were no calls in the half hour! ;) 4+4+4+44, 0235-0335 3/Jul, Eton Field + randomwire (Ken Zichi, Port Horin MI2, MARE Tipsheet 7 July via DXLD) 4840, UT Sunday July 9 at 0036, WWCR-3 in dead air --- but it`s just a very long pause in the manner of speaking by `Ken in the Bronx`. PDF skedgrid still has wrong time conversion, showing 7 pm Central as = 0100 UT instead of 0000! belying WWCR`s true objective to be a domestic rather than international SW broadcaster (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5050, UT Sunday July 9 at 0034, WWRB`s limited transmission is on with usual hateful anti-pope rant; 0120 recheck, it`s already off, circa 0100*? 5050, Sunday July 9 at 2357, WWRB carrier is on, dead air at S9+5; still hasn`t started hateful programming by 0003 Monday July 10, as I call it quits. It`s time to enjoy `With Heart & Voice` on KUCO 90.1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15555, WJHR Radio International – Milton, 1653-1715, Jul 8. Found this with labored signal and apparent operation in upper and lower side band with English language religious program with nice ID and e-mail address (WJHR@usa.com) at 1704 (Rich D'Angelo, 2216 Burkey Drive, Wyomissing, PA 19610, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R-8B, Eton E1, Eton E5, Alpha Delta DX Sloper, RF Systems Mini-Windom, Datong FL3, JPS ANC-4, NASWA Flashsheet July 10 via DXLD) 15555-USB, July 10 at 2132, screaming gospel huxter, i.e. WJHR Milton FL with perpetual preaching of passé John Hill. Someone recently reported hearing this on LSB, but I reconfirm it`s USB only, and not even a residual carrier either. Beware: some receivers depending on settings can ``flip`` an SSB signal to the opposite SB, a phantom audible weakly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1060, 6 December 2016, 0850, KFIT Lockhart TX. Gospel on AM is always interesting - and hearing this on 1060 was an incentive to further investigation. The reason for spending time on 1060 was the ongoing hunt for KIJN-TX which has been surfacing from time to time this season on its quite high offset. Anyway, listening closely for the GOS station on 1060 gave a super-weak ``103.9`` and ``KRMY``-ID at the top of the hour 09 UT. But further listening yielded a clear and nice "Your home for praise and inspiration Gospel 10-60 KFIT" ten minutes earlier. Quick reply and confirmation. OJS/S 1060, 24.9, 0334, KIJN, Farwell TX. Having suspected this un-daytimer high on 1060 (varying around 1060.020) for quite some time, I decided it was time to find out. After several days and nights of listening through last winter's recordings I found several IDs, most of them including their website myjesusradio.com. Although visible throughout the winter, the signal was best in September and March. OJS/K (Odd- Jørgen Sagdahl, Norway, Arctic Radio Club mv-eko 3 July via DXLD) ** U S A. WFLI CHATTANOOGA RETURNS --- By Lance Venta on July 10, 2017 Following its $100,000 acquisition https://radioinsight.com/headlines/117960/station-sales-week-519-red-zebra-continues-dc-sell-off/ by Evan Stone and Marshall Bandy’s Tri-State Radio, WFLI has returned with an Oldies format. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports that WFLI is playing blocks of six 1960s songs followed by seven 1970s songs in honor of the station’s heritage. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2017/jul/08/wfli-agatakes-flight/437252/#/ (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) Jet FLI AM 1070 back on the air - July 8th, 2017 by Barry Courter in Local Regional News Read Time: 2 mins. Tommy Jett promotes the Winter WFLI Spectacular in November, 1967 in Chattanooga, Tenn. (Photo courtesy David Carrol/Steve Hill) Photo by Maura Friedman /Times Free Press. [caption] WFLI-AM 1070, the radio station that introduced new rock 'n' roll to the market in the 1960s and '70s, is back on the air with only the second owners in its 56-year history. Evan Stone and Marshall Bandy bought the station from Ying Hua Benns, the widow of Billy Benns, who launched the station in Lookout Valley. "We are only the second owners and it is the only station in Chattanooga with its original call letters," Stone said. Benns had been trying to sell the station for some time and signed it off from the air in April. Bandy and Stone began the process of buying it and applying for a new license from the Federal Communications Commission around the same time. It was off the air for about a week and played syndicated news while the application process was handled. It signed back on Monday, playing "six in a row from the '60s and seven in a row from the '70s." It's been playing oldies hits ever since in honor of the station's history, Stone said. A news conference is set for 2 p.m. Monday to announce plans for the station, but Stone said it will include a music component. "We realize the history of the station and what it means to people," he said. "People have been calling and emailing us and they are so tickled it is back on." The station touted itself as the "fastest jet in the sky" in its heyday, and made local stars of on-air people such as Johnny Eagle, Mike Murray and Tommy Jett. "I grew up listening to it and actually worked there in the '80s when it was country," Stone said. "Tommy Jett was in charge of hiring part- time people and he actually hired me." Stone also owns WKWN-AM 1420, WKWN-FM 97.7 and WKWN-FM 106.1 in Trenton. With its 50,000 watts, WFLI is the most powerful AM station in the area. Stone said he already has made some improvements to the equipment, adding some solid-state transmitters. (via DXLD) WFLI CHATTANOOGA FLIPS TO TALK --- July 11, 2017 2 Comments 1070 WFLI Jet-Fli Chattanooga Hits Headlines Update 7/11: After returning to the air with Oldies, Tri-State Radio has flipped 1070 WFLI to Conservative Talk. The new WFLI lineup will include syndicated talkers Rick & Bubba, Laura Ingraham, Dave Ramsey, Eric Metaxas and Todd Starnes. It will also include news headlines from WDEF-TV and some Oldies programming including a daily “Hits & Headlines” program that will mix news and music. The Marion County Messenger reports https://marioncountymessenger.com/2017/07/big-jet-fli-flies-news-weather-sports-radio-chattanooga-area/ that former WRCB-TV Sports Director Randy Smith will join WFLI to host a show and do local high school play-by-play for the station. A local outdoors show hosted by Pat Rose will also be added. Owners Evan Stone and Marshall Bandy also intend to convert the station’s studios into a national Top 40 radio museum (via Artie Bigley, WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DXLD) Original Report 3/23: Another day and another AM station is going dark. WFLI Inc. Southern Gospel 1070 WFLI Lookout Mountain/Chattanooga TN will cease operations on March 31. The station has been in the possession of the Benns family since its sign-on in 1962 and became the powerhouse Top 40 for Chattanooga throughout the 1960s and 70s. Station co-founder Billy Benns also built and launched other heritage stations throughout the south including 690 WVOK Birmingham (now WJOX), 690 WAPE Jacksonville, and 740 WBAM Montgomery (now WMSP) with the Brennan Brothers. Comments: Eric Jon Magnuson July 10, 2017, 4:39 pm A tweet today by Rick Burgess (of Rick & Bubba) suggests that the actual new format debuts tomorrow (Tuesday), and will include both his show (in late mornings) and Dave Ramsey’s (in early afternoons)… https://twitter.com/bigvox/status/884448938975277056 (That said, the tweet was made before this afternoon’s planned press conference, which was mentioned in the source article.) Eric Jon Magnuson July 11, 2017, 2:24 pm Per that press conference, the new format is mostly Talk (local in morning drive)–but also with some dedicated Oldies programming (especially on weekends). What’s more interesting is that the new owners plan to create a Top 40 museum within the station’s building. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/life/entertainment/story/2017/jul/11/wfli-announces-new-format-museum/437643 (via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DXLD) ** U S A. "Sports Krap" (KRAP) 1350 and 107.1 FM --- Came across this web site (again) while prepping for this year's Border Inn trip. Talk about making the best of a tough situation... Did one of us write this? :) 73 Tim See http://thesportsstations.com/index.php/about/ [where?? Washington MO] "There are lots of sports stations called The Fan, The Ticket, The Score, and tons of those ESPN stations, but there’s only one station that’s Talking Sports KRAP 24 hours a day. It’s Sports KRAP. "Yeah, we know what you’re saying. “Dude, is this for real? A radio station named KRAP? You’re probably some internet-only station broadcasting from the basement of some guy’s Mom’s house.” "No, we’re for real. We`re an FCC licensed radio station broadcasting at 1350 Kilohertz pounding out a whopping 500,000 milliwatts. But we do realize that we’re KRAP. In fact, our transmitter is KRAP. Our signal is KRAP. Our studios are KRAP. Even our staff is KRAP. "Sports KRAP has been on the air for three years now. It’s been so successful that we’ve added another station. The new station is an FM station pumping out an amazing 250,000 milliwatts at 107.1 This new station is a sports blow torch. We had to cut down some of the trees near the new tower as the leaves were catching fire. "So now you have two choices for Sports. The original sports station at 1350 AM, and now the new sports station at 107.1 FM. We conducted a national contest to name both of these stations. And the extremely creative name that we picked was The Sports Stations. Ah yes, sports fans are a creative bunch." (via Tim Hall, ABDX yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DXLD) ** U S A. AM REVITALIZATION PLAN RUN AMUCK Hello All, Out here in the sticks, AM stations plug away day after day with talk radio, while their sister stations play music. No surprise there, they've been at for decades. WGFA in Watseka has been on the air since 1961. The AM side ran 1 KW days, the FM runs 50 KW, if I remember right. I'm sure that for quite a long time, both stations ran the same programming. In recent times, the signal on the AM has been weak, I can hardly hear it here in Loda, which is at the edge of the county it broadcasts from. Not that it mattered much, most of the programming is rather stale off-brand conservative talk, the second or third tier talkers. That, and some agri-talk, the rest of the time they filled in with a simulcast from the FM station. SO, last month things started changing. WGFA-AM got a call letter change, to WIBK. Then as part of the AM Revitalization plan, they picked up an FM relay, W245CV on 96.9 running 250 Watts (CP so far, haven't heard it yet). Through some sleight of hand, that one got moved from Kentucky to Illinois to join up with WIBK. Damned if I know how, that's what's in the FCC database. [WTFK??? WGFA was 1360 --- gh] Now, the Wikipedia page for WIBK shows a new logo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIBK WIBK is a News/Talk formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Watseka, Illinois, serving Watseka and Eastern Iroquois County, Illinois and Western Benton and ... That pretty much spells out that the talk format is going away, and I'd bet it's going country. Basically, the AM station will be an afterthought to an FM station with wider coverage. Some revitalization! (Curtis Sadowski, Loda, Illinois, July 10, WTFDA gg via DXLD) Leave it to the radio industry to find loopholes to circumvent FCC intent. The FCC never seems to close those loopholes, though, so they become standard operating procedure. Like using translators to retransmit HD2 signals. That, in effect, uses technology that hasn’t succeeded in the marketplace as a springboard to clutter the FM band with more translators. Hence, using three channels for one offering—the frequencies taken up by the HD sidebands _and_ a translator frequency. The inmates are in charge of the asylum. – (Rick Lewis, ibid.) Trouble is that many in management in the radio industry don't seem to understand that they are continuing to shoot themselves in the foot (Russ Edmunds, WB2BJH, Blue Bell, PA, ibid.) The FCC held two special filing windows for that kind of thing last year. Normally, you'd have to wait for a "major change" filing window to move a translator that far, but if you're a AM station you had an opportunity last year to move a translator up to 250 miles. (it is still possible to move a translator *any* distance -- for example, from 93.7 San Francisco to 107.5 Boston. You just have to wait for a "major change" window. And wait, and wait. Possibly ten years. Or more. In 2007 a Texas full-power FM station did manage to use a filing window to move to Kentucky.) (it's a "major change" if the station couldn't use its old parameters and the proposed new parameters at the same time without interfering with itself.) I count five major movers in Madison: 94.5 W225AV: from Bessemer, Michigan; to relay WLMV 1480 96.7 W236AS: from Park Falls; to relay WOZN 1670 97.3 W247CI: from Fort Dodge, Iowa; to relay WHFA 1240 97.7 W249DH: from Galena, Illinois; to relay WHIT 1550 104.7 W284CW: from Ashland; to relay WNWC 1190 100.9 W265CV: always located in Madison, relays WTSO 1070 107.9 W300BM: always located in Madison, relays WHA 970 There are eight AM stations in Madison; the only one that doesn't have a translator (yet) is WIBA 1310. Madison is by no means unique. On 07/10/2017 12:18 PM, Rick Lewis wrote: > Like using translators to retransmit HD2 signals. *THIS* one I haven't figured out. It looks like a rather significant change in policy, but there was no public process whatsoever. One day, someone just decided to do it and nobody at the Commission told them they couldn't... == (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, July 10, ibid.) ** U S A. [Re 17-27:] KPHX [1480 Phœnix AZ] Becomes Second Station To Go Off Due To Satellite Shutdown Someone on one of the two lists I subscribe to mentioned KPHX going dark but I don't remember which one. Here's the reason. Two stations in Hawaii (a simulcast so probably counted as one) have gone dark for the same reason. https://radioinsight.com/headlines/118798/kphx-becomes-second-station-go-off-due-satellite-shutdown/ Sent from my iPad (Dennis Gibson, CA, July 12, ABDX via DXLD) Viz.: Continental Broadcasting Corp. of Arizona has taken Liberal Talk 1480 KPHX Phoenix AZ off the air following the shutdown of the AMC-8 satellite. In an STA filing KPHX wrote: “THE LICENSEE MUST FIND A NEW STUDIO SITE FOR SATELLITE DISH INSTALLATION COMPATIBLE WITH THE NEW AMC 18 SATELLITE, AS THE AMC 8 SATELLITE WAS PHASED OUT ON 6/30/2017. THE STATION IS OFF THE AIR WHILE THE LICENSEE LOOKS FOR A NEW LOCATION.” A message on the KPHX website simply states “KPHX 1480 is no longer broadcasting progressive talk in Phoenix…Thank you for listening”. KPHX had been carrying syndicated Liberal Talkers Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, Leslie Marshall, and The Devil’s Advocates. KPHX was one of the original Air America affiliates upon its launch in 2004. With the exception of a brief run with Adult Standards in 2009 and carrying some CBS Sports Radio programming from 2014-2016, KPHX was one of the longest running Liberal Talk stations in the country (via DXLD) I believe that our local on 950 from St. Louis Park has been around just as long and is still on the air with progressive liberal talk (Todd Skaine, Bloomington MN, ibid.) Excuses, excuses. If they really wanted to keep with the programs they could certainly access them by webfeed, or godforbid some landline networking (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** U S A. 1500 kHz, WQCR Alabaster, AL on Day Power --- Took the dogs for a late night walk, and noticed that WQCR 1500 KHz `La Jefa` is on tonight on their daytime power. 2,300 watts as opposed to their normal 3 watts nighttime authorized power. If you need it, tonight is a good chance to pick it up! Sorry I didn`t catch it earlier, folks. 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF. Maylene, AL 35114, EM63nf, 0138 UT July 12, IRCA via DXLD) Hi Les and Group, I wanted to ask this question for a long time. :^) I understand the reasons for different authorized power between day and night, but a change from 2,300 to 3 watts, does it make sense? Is the station providing the service it's supposed to provide at 3 watts? Regards, (Vince Ferme, Ottawa, ON, ibid.) Class D stations have no city of license coverage requirements with their night time signal, and with Class D's, they simply, more or less, can't interfere with high[er] classed radio stations. There is no real expectation of service by stations like this at night from anyone (Paul Walker, PA, ibid.) Hi Paul, Are these stations run by volunteers? I can't see them paying staff (night shift) for this kind of operation, or they go into automated mode. But then, why bother? They are great for DXing though. :^) Thanks, (Vince, ibid.) It`s called automaiton [sic], computers chugging out the hits. It is against labor laws for a commercial station to take a volunteer unless it's a high school or college student getting course credit (Paul, ibid.) OK, anybody can afford the electricity bill for a computer, and a 3 watt transmitter. Thanks for the hard-core-dx (no pun intended) target. :^) (Vince, ibid.) I can tell you that WQCR is barely audible or not audible at all on 1500 kHz at night here, just a mile or two from the transmitter even with specialized receivers, low noise loop antennas, etc. Like many things the FCC has done over the years, this one makes no sense at all. How can they be serving an audience of any size at night with 3 watts of power? Add that to the list that includes IBOC-HD Radio, relaxation of the Clear Channel rules, AM Revitalization, FM translators, Low Power FM, and? and? 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, 121 Mayfair Park, Maylene, AL 35114, EM63nf, ibid.) ** U S A. GREETINGS FROM NORWAY: TUCSON RADIO WAVES TRAVEL TO THE ARCTIC [illustrated; see original found by gh]: https://radio.azpm.org/p/radio-azspot-splash/2017/5/30/111441-greetings-from-norway-tucson-radio-waves-travel-to-the-arctic/ Radio enthusiasts in Nordic countries picked up on AZPM's signal, and got in touch. By Nick O’Gara, Arizona Public Media 30.5.2017 via Odd-Jørgen Sagdahl Arizona Public Media always hopes for feedback, but our interest jumped one morning in December when a string of messages arrived from listeners in far-off lands. The messages all had things in common: They were enthusiastic, they contained a recording, and they bore a request asking that someone here at AZPM confirm that the recording was, in fact, us. The listeners had picked up our signal in Kongsfjord, Norway. Our AM frequency traveled around 5,000 miles to the very north of that country, and of the continent, to arrive at the Arctic fishing village. Odd-Jørgen Sagdahl on a September visit to Kongsfjord to work on the antenna that heard KUAZ 1550 AM from 5,000 miles away. (Photo: Courtesy of OJ Sagdahl) [caption] One of those messages came from OJ Sagdahl. He and two friends, Bjarne Mjelde and Ole Forr, count themselves as part of a worldwide group of radio enthusiasts known as DXers. Their particular brand of this hobby is to build large antennas and “catch” signals from radio stations in distant places. “I would say it’s definitely our main hobby for all of us. It’s like a stamp collector or coin collector who finds this really rare coin. So we keep lists and statistics - kind of competing partly with each other and also our friends in Sweden and Finland,” Sagdahl told AZPM over Skype from Copenhagen, where he was for work. While none of them lives in Kongsfjord, Sagdahl said, they operate their antenna project at a summer home there that belongs to Mjelde. The antennas are monitoring signals 24 hours a day, with remote- controlled receivers. Bjarne Mjelde, left, and Ole Forr pose with an antenna measuring more than 3,000 feet, pointed at the East Coast of the U.S. (Photo: OJ Sagdahl) [caption] Arizona is one of those rare coins for DXers in Nordic countries, and Forr was the first to hear on their receivers in Kongsfjord, Sagdahl said “One of us discovered an unusual signal on 1550 AM, with NPR programming … after a few hours we realized it was actually KUAZ in Arizona, which has been on the long-time wanted list because it’s a really difficult station to get." The Arctic fishing village is an ideal place for these signal catchers. Darkness allows for the propagation of the signal, and all the conditions must work together to “catch” a rare station. “If it had been summer, it wouldn’t have happened.” That’s because sun and solar activity hamper the signals, Sagdahl said. Summer’s round-the-clock sun means it’s a wintertime activity. Plus, they have to remove the antennas in the summer because it’s also a grazing area for reindeer returning from the mountain Rocks near Kongsfjord, Norway. (Photo: Courtesy of kongsfjord.no) Sagdahl said it’s not the first time Arizona Public Media has been picked up in Nordic countries, but it’s pretty rare. “Arizona is one of the most difficult states to catch in the U.S., probably because it’s so far, and there are also relatively few stations in Arizona. I’ve been collecting stations for many, many years. I have more than 2,000 U.S. and Canadian stations and only 21 from Arizona. So Arizona is really a very exclusive state for us.” Sagdahl followed the path of many radio hobbyists. He bought his first radio when he was 7, and at around age 12 realized he could send letters to radio stations, who would respond with “QSL” confirmation cards. He’s been doing it ever since, and sought out more challenges as he grew older, he said. With virtually all of the world’s radio stations available to stream online, what compels these DXers? “Some stations that we write to, they don’t really care. And they don’t find it that exciting that we hear them because we could have listened to them on the internet. But for us it’s not the same to listen to the signal on the internet compared to catching it with real radio waves.” The responses from AZPM employees is all part of the experience, he said. “These are also the things that made it great fun to be a DXer.” Visit their website http://kongsfjord.no/ where they log all of their “catches,” list their equipment and post photos. Southern Arizona has its own communities of DXers, including the Southern Arizona DX Association. The group is made up mostly of retired engineers who prefer to practice two-way, long-distance radio communication. They meet once a month in Tucson. Visit their website http://sadxa.org/ (Arctic Radio Club mv-eko 3 July via DXLD) ** U S A. [Re 17-27, KHGG 1580]. Here's a piece of the Fort Smith puzzle: http://foxsportsradio1031.com/ You may need to contact Fort Smith Radio Group to figure this one out as they seem to have two generations of websites going (Raymie Humbert, AZ, July 7, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Viz.: ``Fox Sports Radio 103.1 FM --- Welcome to The Sports Hog 103.1. If you have any questions about programming, sales, or anything related to sports, please don't hesitate contacting us. We look forward to serving you with the best programming in the River Valley. Let us know if you have any questions or comments.`` [Also linx only to: http://kool1047fm.com http://thefort945fm.com http://kfpwam.com --- The Marshall (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 94.9, July 10 at 1918 UT, weak steady signal here squeezed between OKC market outlets, first unusual found as I bandscan upwards hunting for Es which map shows might reach here. Ad for a July 13 event at The Warehouse, tickets for tables of 6 or 8 only via 500- 0042. Then fades out completely. That`s enough to search out the source to Wichita Falls TX, and the station somewhat NW of there is per WTFDA DB: {KOLI, 94.9, ELECTRA TX, 50.0 kW H&V, 150.0 m HAAT, 34-05-01, 98-59- 29, 361E, OUTLAW - Law Firm Ad, 94.9 - The Outlaw - The Best Country with a Texas attitude, Country, 94.9 THE OUTLAW, COUNTRY} Electra is 280 km = 174 miles away from Enid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. FCC CRACKDOWN ON PIRATE BROADCASTERS TARGETS AT LEAST ONE MORE AMATEUR LICENSEE --- ARRL 07/06/2017 http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-crackdown-on-pirate-broadcasters-targets-at-least-one-more-amateur-licensee A recent flurry of FCC Enforcement Bureau correspondence to alleged unlicensed broadcasters has targeted at least one more radio amateur — this time in the Greater New York City area. It’s not the first time Winston A. Tulloch, KC2ALN, of Paterson, New Jersey, has heard from the FCC, which has had Tulloch in its sights for at least several months regarding a pirate FM station on 90.9 MHz. Last November, the Enforcement Bureau sent Tulloch a Notice of Unlicensed Operationafter receiving information that he was operating a radio station. FCC agents used direction-finding techniques to zero in on a signal on 90.9 MHz coming from his residence. “The field strength of the signal on frequency 90.9 MHz was measured at 105,451 microvolts per meter (µV/m) at 101 meters, which exceeded the maximum permitted level of 250 µV/m at 3 meters for non-licensed devices,” the FCC said at the time. Tulloch was sent a second Notice of Unlicensed Operation on June 8, after Enforcement Bureau agents from the FCC’s New York Office on May 2 responded to a complaint of an unlicensed FM station operating on 90.9 MHz in Paterson. This time the signal, measured at 176,526 µV/m, was determined to be emanating from another residence about 1 mile from Tulloch’s. The FCC said someone at the residence identified Tulloch as the station’s operator. A third Notice of Unlicensed Operation followed on June 30, after Enforcement Bureau agents following up in the unlicensed FM station investigation in Paterson on June 12 confirmed by direction-finding techniques that the signal on 90.9 MHz was continuing to come from the same residence. On that occasion, the agents measured the signal at 5,705 µV/m at 185 meters, still greatly exceeding the maximum permitted under FCC Part 15 rules for unlicensed devices. FCC Enforcement Bureau Region 1 Director David C. Dombrowski now has advised Tulloch at least three times that the unlicensed radio operation on 90.9 MHz “must be discontinued immediately.” The Commission’s enforcement resources are already suffering from last year’s closing of FCC field offices and the layoffs of field agents, however, and the current administration’s budget allocates less money for the FCC. In late May, the Enforcement Bureau issued a Notice of Violation (NoV) to Lyle E. Hilden, KD6LUL, of Vista, California, alleging that he had engaged in pirate radio broadcasting on the FM band. In the past week, the Enforcement Bureau also sent Notices of Unlicensed Operation to other individuals in the Greater New York City area as well as to individuals and couples in Massachusetts and Florida (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** VENEZUELA. (ed: Tore Larsson) 690, YVMR, Deportiva Barquisimeto 690, Barquisimeto has returned to the AM band with a new name. It now belongs to "Circuito AM Center". The station was heard with a variety of musical styles - llanera, tropical - and IDs. This is good news as the station has been off the air for many months (via Mauno Ritola, WRTH 20.6.2017, translation Christer Brunström, ARC, Arctic Radio Club mv-eko 3 July via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DXLD) ** VIETNAM [non]. 7315, UT Sunday July 9 at 0050, VOV in Spanish via WRMI, YL announcer with very heavy Vietnamese accent, yet named ``Carmen``, introducing mailbag hosted by OM with no such accent, acknowledging four reports from Juan Franco Crespo, Spain, and the rest mostly Cubans, into basic geography lesson about Vietnam (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5965.1 at 0038 July 9, JBA carrier drifting down to 5964.80 by 0039.5, and 5963.8 by 0043; RTM Brasil? Or a birdie. Similar one on 6140.8 also going down at 0043 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6900.0-LSB, July 9 at 0045, first hearing a mixture in AM mode, I find two different Spanish QSOs on LSB and USB. One of them suggests a QSY to 15 arriba; USB one whistles and exclaims, ``qué bárbaro`` = how mean (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11435-USB, July 9 at 1255, JBA presumed Indonesian QSO pirate breaking into song (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1886: Dear Mr. Hauser, Enclosed please find a contribution toward the continuing production of World of Radio and DX Listening Digest. Thank you for all your efforts! While it is sad that a great number of the larger international stations no longer offer programs via shortwave directly, by relay or now even podcast, your weekly program and digest provide a wealth of information about the programming that is still available as well as news about the changing landscape of radio communications both here in the United States and abroad. Thanks again! Sincerely, (Robert W. Gruska, Glendale NY, June 24, with a PMO to PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702) TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: Glenn, you are doing a great service for us SWLers. Hope this helps (John Dailey, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) Hi Glenn, I know it has been a while since I've contributed any material, but am still a weekly reader of DXLD, and still listen to WoR on WA0RCR, 1860 kHz, cloud static permitting. I built a hardline coaxial loop a few months ago to deal with the ever-increasing electronic sludge levels here, and it actually gives me a fighting chance between 1800 and 7500 kHz. WA0RCR is heard at good to excellent levels on this antenna, connected to the ICF-2010, or the Hammarlund HQ-129X. One of the very first loggings on that loop was the "A" beacon in Quartzsite, AZ (you provided the tip) on 2097.3 kHz, but I was derelict in reporting my reception of it back in March; usually heard between 0400-0500z. As always, thank you for all you do for this hobby. In spite of falling solar flux and disappearing broadcast stations, DXLD/YG is a reminder that there is ALWAYS something interesting out there to chase (Steve Zimmerman, Milwaukee WI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) KOREA NORTH 11680 PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ Music on Shortwave A-17 v2.pdf New file uploaded to dxld Description : I have just uploaded my latest Music on Shortwave List Update (A-17 v2) 1) Updated frequencies for RNZI (0300-0500) 2) Corrected/expanded entries for RAE 3) Additional SP program added for RRI 4) Added additional entries for V of Hope Africa (1700-1930) 5) Corrected station name of Countdown2.Christmas R (0000) I hope that you find the list of use. Corrections and suggestions are always welcomed. You [DXLD yg members only] can access this file at: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/dxld/files/Music%20on%20Shortwave%20A-17%20v2.pdf Regards, (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, July 8, dxldyg via DXLD) The Ukrainian DXer Aleksandr Egorov keeps updated his LW/MW/SW music programmes lists; the SW listings are at: http://dxing.ru/informatsija/54-muzyka-v-am-efire/1275-muzyka-na-kv-povremeni.html But for me is especially valuable the MW list with interesting suggestions on music programmes on East European stations: http://dxing.ru/informatsija/54-muzyka-v-amefire/1310-muzyka-na-svdv-po-vremeni.html (Alan Roe, UK, Listening Post, July BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) STRANGE SIGNALS AND MYSTERIOUS OSCILLATIONS Southgate July 10, 2017 [includes visual displays; a LOT of intrusion, 21 pages, and all as monitored from Region 1, not from Americas -- gh] The IARU-R1 Monitoring System newsletter reports mysterious oscillations on 28000 kHz and strange signals from Central Africa The International Amateur Radio Union Monitoring System (IARUMS) Region 1 June 2017 newsletter can be read at http://www.iarums-r1.org/iarums/news2017/news1706.pdf Reports of Amateur Band intruders can be logged on the IARU Region 1 Monitoring System Logger at http://peditio.net/intruder/bluechat.cgi Monitor the short wave bands on-line with a web based SDR receiver at http://www.websdr.org/ IARU Monitoring System (IARUMS) http://www.iaru-r1.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=39&Itemid=87 Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) So are there similar publications for Regions 2 and 3? July issue not yet posted but should become at: http://www.iarums-r1.org/iarums/news2017/news1707.pdf (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ CIDX ANNUAL VERNON IKEDA MEMORIAL SUMMER BARBEQUE Saturday, August 19th 2017 - 1 pm Eastern (1700 UTC) LOCATION: 79 Kipps Street, Greenfield Park, QC Google Map: http://goo.gl/maps/1UvxP We are pleased to announce the 2017 CIDX Annual Vernon Ikeda Memorial Summer Barbecue. Sausages & hamburgers will be served. Please bring your own beverages. Any food contributions (snacks, desserts, etc) will also be appreciated. Please confirm your attendance by telephone, 450-671-3773 or by e-mail to Sheldon Harvey at ve2shw@yahoo.com All CIDX members and radio friends are welcome to attend. The annual CIDX Vernon Ikeda Memorial Barbecue in Montreal is coming up quickly. This year we are planning to do something special. While a number of CIDXers are able to make it to the event every year, there are many more of you who wish you could be there. Well, this way you can, sort of! We are planning to have a special on-line YouTube broadcast live from the barbecue. CIDXer Gilles Letourneau of Montreal, who some of you may know from his weekly shortwave related programs on YouTube, is going to set things up to make a live audio/visual transmission available from the barbecue. Those of you not in attendance will be able to interact live with CIDXers at the event. We’ll have all the details of how to link up to this special event next month. In the meantime though here are the details for those wishing to attend in person. Have a great month of July. We’ll see everyone again in August! (Sheldon Harvey, July CIDX Messenger via DXLD) VeteranLjuddagen 2017 Hörby Radioförening, i samarbete med ESR och SRF, inbjuder till en dag på temat nostalgiska ljud lördagen den 2:e september 2017. [. . .] Besök www.veteranljuddagen.se foeor mer information om bland annat taeltbokning, klenodut-ställning, inlämning av auktionsgods och försäljning av radiorör! Hörby Mellanvåg på 1179 kHz kommer att saenda mellan de 26/8 och 8/9 2017. Välkomna till en trevlig dag med många nostalgiska ljudupplevelser! Veteran Audio Day 2017 Hörby Radio Association, in cooperation with ESR and SRF, Invites you to a day on the theme of nostalgic sound on Saturday 2nd September 2017. Visit http://www.veteranljuddagen.se for more information on, among other things, reservation of reservations, klenodut-Position, submission of auction goods and sales of radio tubes! Hörby Mellanvåg [mediumwave] of 1179 kHz will be in between 26/8 and 8/9 2017. Welcome to a nice day with many nostalgic sound experiences! (translation, ARC mv-eko 3 juli via DXLD) MUSEA +++++ NATIONAL VOA MUSEUM OF BROADCASTING TO HOLD BIG BAND FUNDRAISING GALA Southgate July 11, 2017 Event to be held on 73rd anniversary of VOA-Bethany Station dedication Ladies, dust off your strings of pearls. Gentlemen, brush up on your swing. The National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting will host 'Celebrate the Voice of America under the Stars,' a romantic, Big Band dinner-and-dance party on Saturday, Sept. 23 from 6 to 11 p.m. at the VOA museum in West Chester. The event will mark the 75th anniversary of the Voice of America and commemorate the Sept. 23, 1944 dedication of the VOA-Bethany Station. Carmon DeLeone and his New Studio Big Band will provide entertainment and record a program for later broadcast on public radio station WVXU. “This promises to be the most fun and exciting social event of the season in West Chester, and it’s for a great cause,” said Jack Dominic, VOA museum director. “We’ll have a cocktail reception, dinner, big band music and swing dancing outdoors, plus VIP tours of the museum and the grand opening of a museum exhibit featuring Powel Crosley indoors.” Board members at the National VOA Museum of Broadcasting are calling for community support of “Celebrate the Voice of America Under the Stars,” on September 23, a gala marking the 75th anniversary of the Voice of America and celebrating the 73rd anniversary of the VOA- Bethany Station. From left, back row, are gala committee members and VOA museum board members: Chris Wunnenberg of Schumacher-Dugan Construction and Jack Dominic, VOA museum director. Front row, from left: Karl Ulrich of Sebaly Shillito and Dyer; Patti Alderson, interim CEO of the Boys and Girls Club of West Chester/Liberty; Melinda Zemper of Oak Tree Communications; and Joe Gruber, VOA museum chief technology officer. Not pictured is Greg Stevens of UBS Wealth Management. (Jeff Monroe Photo) [caption] Cost is $150 per person, or $300 per couple, with various levels of sponsorship for individuals, businesses and organizations. Bronze sponsors already include Mr. Mechanic; Oak Tree Communications; Sebaly, Shillito and Dyer; and Greg and Diane Stevens. Sponsorship prices for the fall gala event include: Presenting Sponsor Level, $10,000; Platinum Sponsor, $8,000; Gold Sponsor, $5,000; Silver Sponsor, $2,500; and Bronze Sponsor, $1,000. Tables for 10 and recognition in museum website, digital and print public relations before and during the event as well as the printed program are included at various sponsorship levels. The evening will also include the unveiling of a Powel Crosley exhibit supported by The Smith Family Foundation. “We want to celebrate the VOA and honor Crosley’s legacy as an entrepreneur who not only pushed the envelope of technology available at that time, but also motivated his workers to work for a cause greater than himself—promoting freedom and truth worldwide,” said Ken Rieser, president of the VOA museum board. “The history of the Voice of America and Bethany Station cannot adequately be told without an appreciation of Powel Crosley and his extraordinary list of inventions and innovations,” said Dominic. “The new exhibit will be the most comprehensive exhibit in the nation highlighting his accomplishments.” Crosley, an early 20 th century inventor, radio entrepreneur and industrialist, developed groundbreaking technology for the VOA Relay Station. His cadre of engineers and machinists crafted six of the most powerful shortwave radio transmitters in the world at the onset of World War II — and they accomplished it in one year. For 50 years, the VOA-Bethany Station transmitted Voice of America broadcasts to countries worldwide that lacked a free press, first in Europe during World War II and to South America during the Cold War. It was decommissioned by the federal government in 1994. The iconic art deco building has been developed into the National VOA Museum of Broadcasting with the help of the entire community, mostly with volunteer labor. Contributions and grants have been secured from local, regional and national companies and foundations. The museum is open the third Saturday of the month from 1 to 4 p.m. until late September, when it will be open weekends. Admission is $5 for adults and $1 for children. The museum is located at 8070 Tylersville Road. The museum is open this month on Saturday, July 15. The museum is still taking applications for docent volunteers. For more information about gala tickets and sponsorships, email admin@voamuseum.org , call Dominic at (513) 777-0027, or go to http://www.voamuseum.org (via Mike Terry, July 12, dxldyg via DXLD) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ SOME CANADIANS USED TO SPEAK WITH A QUASI-BRITISH ACCENT CALLED CANADIAN DAINTY [Canadiainty?] Schoolchildren taught to say 'tomahto,' 'shed-yool' over Canadian pronunciation in Victorian era By Lakshine Sathiyanathan, CBC News Posted: Jul 01, 2017 6:00 AM ET Last Updated: Jul 01, 2017 10:08 AM ET Vincent Massey, the country's first Canadian-born governor general, spoke with an extreme form of the quasi-British accent Canadian Dainty. [sidebar linx:] It's 'paw-sta' not 'pa-sta': How Canadian actors erase accents for U.S. work Origins of 'eh': How 2 little letters came to define Canadians U of T scholars have spent 47 years painstakingly trying to preserve Old English Everything British is better. At least that was the sentiment in 19th- century Canada when the upper middle class developed a hybrid speech style that was not quite Canadian and seemingly British. That quasi-British accent — coined "Canadian Dainty" by Toronto linguist Jack Chambers — is now mostly extinct. But as the country celebrates its 150th anniversary, the University of Toronto linguistics professor says the emergence of the accent and its later demise were a testament to "the maturing of the Canadian personality." Listen to Canadian Dainty with Peter Stursberg . . . http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canadian-dainty-accent-canada-day-1.4167610 [with several audio clips] (via Gerald T Pollard, NC, DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC See USA: 1500 WQCR +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See NETHERLANDS; NORWAY ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See ETHIOPIA; INDIA; TAIWAN ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See also OKLAHOMA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Technology --- TO CLOSE DIGITAL DIVIDE, MICROSOFT TO HARNESS UNUSED TELEVISION CHANNELS https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/technology/to-close-digital-divide-microsoft-to-harness-unused-television-channels.html The Microsoft offices in Midtown Manhattan. The company wants to use white-space technology to help get more of rural America online. GEORGE ETHEREDGE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES. [caption] By CECILIA KANG July 11, 2017 WASHINGTON -- Silicon Valley has dreamed up hot air balloons, drones and constellations of mini-satellites to connect the world to the internet. Now Microsoft is adding its own moonshot to solve the digital divide into that mix. The software giant plans to announce on Tuesday that it is harnessing the unused channels between television broadcasts, known as white spaces, to help get more of rural America online. In an event at the Willard Hotel in Washington, where Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated a coast-to-coast telephone call a century ago, Microsoft plans to say that it will soon start a white-spaces broadband service in 12 states including Arizona, Kansas, New York and Virginia to connect two million rural Americans in the next five years who have limited or no access to high-speed internet. In an interview, Microsoft's president, Brad Smith, said white spaces were "the best solution for reaching over 80 percent of people in rural America who lack broadband today." The United States has long grappled with uneven internet access. Many remote and less-populated areas have had particular trouble obtaining fast internet service because providers often cannot justify the cost of building out infrastructure to isolated locales with few people to serve. White-spaces technology has emerged as a potential solution to that problem. Since 2008, Microsoft and other companies have been involved in tests of television white spaces for internet access. The technology is sometimes known as "super Wi-Fi" because it behaves like regular Wi-Fi but uses low-powered television channels to cover far greater distances than wireless hot spots. It is also more powerful than cellular service because the frequencies can penetrate concrete walls and other obstacles. Promoting the white-spaces technology could reap rewards for tech companies: The remaining 24.3 million people in rural areas without internet are potential customers of cloud applications, search and other digital services. To support the white-spaces plan, Microsoft is appealing to federal and state regulators to guarantee the use of unused television channels and investments in promoting the technology in rural areas. But the company faces many hurdles with the technology. For one, few manufacturers are making devices compatible with white-spaces technology, and some devices that can be used with the technology cost more than $1,000 each. The National Association of Broadcasters, a trade group, said that only 800 devices that worked with white-spaces technology had been registered with regulators. "White spaces has tremendous opportunity to help with broadband coverage in rural areas, but it's hard to justify the cost to device makers who don't see economies of scale in rural areas," said Doug Brake, a senior analyst at the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, a research organization that is sponsored by tech companies including Microsoft. Mr. Smith said that he would demonstrate four devices that work with white-space technology at Tuesday's event, adding that prices for such gadgets would fall below $200 by next year. Another challenge is a battle with television broadcasters who have long argued that devices on the unused airwaves can interfere with the broadcasts run on neighboring channels. This week, the National Association of Broadcasters filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission arguing against Microsoft's request for one nationwide channel to be set aside for white-spaces use. "Microsoft has been making promises about white-spaces technology for well over a decade," Patrick McFadden, an associate general counsel for the association, wrote in comments to the commission. "At what point do we finally conclude that the white spaces project is a bust?" Microsoft said its goal was not to become a telecom provider. It will work with local internet service providers like Mid-Atlantic Broadband Communities in Virginia and Axiom Technologies in Maine by investing in some of the capital costs and then sharing in revenue. It has also opened its patents on the technology and teamed with chip makers to make devices that work with white spaces cheaper. "We're looking at this to be price competitive for people in urban areas," Mr. Smith said. "There is no reason people in rural areas need to spend more." Follow Cecilia Kang on Twitter @ceciliakang (via Mike Cooper, WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DXLD) Stuffing other things into ``white space`` TV channels is hardly a new idea, but this seems to be going forward. It would sound the death- knell of TV DXing, where `open` channels provide opportunities, or even ability to pull in non-local signals which might provide a service (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DRM SCHEDULES Following requests from our readers, we have updated the DRM schedules on our website. So please check for yourself! List of DRM transmissions Interactive map http://www.hfcc.org/drm/ (From July [sic] 2017 DRM Newsletter, http://mailchi.mp/drm/drm-newsletter-april-1276721?t=1 via DXLD) There is no interactive map, and this schedule is STILL woefully outdated/imaginary, e.g. with numerous ``Radio Russia`` DRM SW transmissions. Obviously it`s on the HFCC website, not DRM site. A-17 HFCC registrations would surely belie this nonsense if anyone were to go by that. Credibility of the DRM Consortium remains incredibly self- damaged (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ NAB STUDY FINDS THAT 600 FM STATIONS COULD BE AFFECTED BY TV REPACK radioworld.com By Paul McLane http://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/0002/study-finds-600-fm-stations-could-be-affected-by-tv-repack/339985 If (and that’s a pretty big “if”) this actually happens to anywhere near the dire straits predicted by this NAB funded study, FM DX’ers might have some opportunities to dig for other signals while powerful locals are off the air entirely, running at reduced power, or operating on auxiliary antennas. 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, 121 Mayfair Park, Maylene, AL 35114, July 7, WTFDA gg via DXLD) Viz.: We already knew that the ambitious TV spectrum “repack” process over the next three years was likely to have operational implications for FM broadcasters in the United States. Now an NAB-commissioned study seeks to quantify the scope of the impact on radio. The study, conducted by V-Soft Communications, finds that more than 600 FM stations could be affected by the repack, a process in which over 1,100 TV stations will change channels or, in some cases, go off the air. Many of the TV stations will require antenna replacements or other tower work that could take days, or weeks. The possible impact on radio is broken down in the accompanying table, and NAB has filed a list of affected FM stations in comments to the FCC. Robert Weller, NAB’s vice president for spectrum policy, tells Radio World that the potential impact on FMs is chiefly from RF exposure concerns. If an FM and a TV station share a common tower or are on nearby towers, workers for the TV station could face RF hazards unless the FM reduces or turns off power. “While many FM stations have auxiliary antennas that can help reduce downtime, many do not; and the expenses of constructing an auxiliary facility and revenue loss are generally not considered reimbursable by the Incentive Auction Broadcast Relocation Fund,” Weller said, referring to money set aside by Congress to help the TV industry through the process. Weller said that 452 TV stations planning to change channels could affect the operation of 629 nearby FMs. Further, more than 100 of those FMs are affected by three or more TV stations; some are affected by as many as six. Further, some of those are in different phases of their repack, and Weller said this could mean “multiple and lengthy” requests for FM stations to lower power or even cease operations. States with the most radio stations possibly affected are Florida (137), New York (117) and California (109). Forty-six states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have at least one affected radio station. V-Soft used information from the FCC’s station database; it listed FM stations likely to be affected by TV antenna modifications by full- service and Class A TV facilities required as a result of the spectrum auction repack; it also listed FM stations that, based on V-Soft’s calculations, are in a common aperture with the TV station antenna on the same tower, and identifies whether potentially affected FMs could use auxiliary facilities while work is being performed on the TV facility. Weller said that affected NAB member stations have already been provided a copy of the report. Read the list of FM stations affected by TV station channel changes (PDF, Appendix I) and the list of FMs affected by TV stations going off the air (PDF, Appendix II). (via Kevin Redding, TN, July 7, ABDX via DXLD) This could get you some FM DX as stations go off air for antenna work or go on aux antennas to move TV antennas to a new frequency (Kevin Redding, ibid.) It looks like this is simply a list of what FM stations are on the same towers as TV stations either being repacked or selling their channels. I suppose their point with regard to stations selling their channels is that they may choose to dismantle the no-longer-needed towers. In the cases I saw in Wisconsin & Tennessee, those towers are also used for other TV stations & aren't going anywhere. I suppose it is possible in some cases existing towers *will* be removed, forcing FM stations to move elsewhere. With regard to stations being repacked... - Mostly, safety may require FM stations to temporarily reduce power, while tower crews work near their antennas. I suspect in many cases these reductions will be measured in minutes rather than days. - Many TV stations will install temporary antennas to use on their old channels while they're replacing their regular antenna with one for the new channel. In a few cases these temporary antennas may need to go where an existing FM antenna is. In more cases, the tower may not be able to support both the temporary TV antenna *and* the FM antenna. The FM antenna may need to go, at least temporarily. These outages may be longer (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, WTFDA gg via DXLD) AIRPORT-FRIENDLY 3.5 INCH FSL -- "HEATHKIT-LIKE" CONSTRUCTION ARTICLE For those looking for a new hobby challenge, the "Heathkit-like" full construction article for the 3.5" (89mm) Baby FSL antenna (23 pages long) has been completed, and is posted at http://www.mediafire.com/file/pnfm8909c77zjoy/3.5inch-FF-FSL.doc This design is actually a more compact version of the 2012-year 5" FSL antenna (which also had a full construction article), which was tested and found to be competitive with a 4 foot (1.22m) air core box loop. By replacing the 660/46 Litz wire with the newer, more sensitive 1162/46 type and augmenting the ferrite sleeve with slightly longer rods, this compact "airport-friendly" design matches the high gain performance of the larger 2012 model. Protected by a matched-size plastic tote packed in hand-carry luggage, it was designed to be compact and rugged, and fully up to the challenge of frequent air travel. Already these "airport-friendly" FSL antennas have successfully passed through TSA screening 7 times here on the west coast, and have provided high-gain DXing excitement for both Craig Barnes and me during our April Hawaii DXpeditions. The article includes FSL operating tips (useful for any FSL antenna) and recommendations for travel DXing. Good luck to all who accept the challenge! (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA), July 8, IRCA via DXLD) Holy smokes, Gary, you went above and beyond the 'call of duty' on this one. My only minor, maybe even irrelevant suggestion, would be to PDF it for distribution. This way there is no risk of formatting issues, caused by different word processing software used for reading. Regards, (Vince, Ottawa, ON, Ferme, ibid.) I have one of the revisions as PDF in my downloads area on DXER.ca and will have the final version there soon as well (Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC, ibid.) Thanks, Colin and Vince, Your comments and assistance are very much appreciated, especially Colin's formatting and posting on DXer.CA. Vince, one of the reasons why this 23-page article was drafted was in order to provide a chance for dedicated Heathkit enthusiasts (like me) to feel like they are back in action. I has almost as much fun writing the article up as the builders will enjoy when putting the "kit" together (Gary DeBock, ibid.) RABBIT EARS ANTENNA AND NOAA SATELLITE RECEPTION I wanted to share a project receiving NOAA satellite images on 137 MHz using an old TV rabbit ears antenna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ulef0a8OSQ (Thomas Cholakov, NO2CW, Miami [TX? OH? OK? NM?], July, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) POLLUTION OF THE RF SPECTRUM --- Southgate 9 July 2017 A Radio World article highlights the growing RF pollution problem which is ruining peoples' enjoyment of radio. Broadcast engineers are becoming more aware of the impact of environmental radio noise on reception. The recent efforts at “AM improvement” have highlighted this challenge to AM stations, and evidence is growing that reception on FM and TV bands is being impaired as well. The general public, however, is far less aware of our growing noise pollution issue. Listeners or viewers may not know why there is a reception problem; they just perceive the signal as “weak” and may switch to a competitor. Broadcasters are hearing a common pattern in listener complaints: “I used to get good reception, but not anymore…” I wrote about this in Radio World in a 2011 article titled “Johnston Laments FM Noise.” Other industries using RF wireless technologies report growing noise trouble as well. A recent IEEE Spectrum article was subtitled “Electronic Noise Is Drowning Out the Internet of Things.” Designers of IoT devices are not getting the range they expect due to unexpectedly high background noise, it reported. Read the full story at Noise Inquiry Spurs Recommendations http://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/0002/noise-inquiry-spurs-recommendations/339989 (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) RE: POLLUTION OF THE RF SPECTRUM I’ve just been transferring my DX audio recordings from reel to reel onto the computer, most of them were recorded in the 70s and 80s. Back then the only real noise that I encountered was the buzz from the TV’s line output transformer and car ignition noise plus of course power line noise. At the time I thought my location was noisy but compared with today it was deathly quiet. These days, there is something wiping out the entire spectrum that is there 24/7. Sadly it’s not coming from me. Here is a sample https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqsSrKTZbYg and ideas will be appreciated (Paul, NZ, mwdx yg via DXLD) Paul - have you checked the ARRL's page of noise source sound files? http://www.arrl.org/sounds-of-rfi The one that seems closest is a grow light or possibly a light dimmer but it would seem that either of these should be off at some point. Grow light QRN has exploded in the past few years and will probably become even more of a problem as the laws change regarding this. (Steve 73 WEB - "The VE7SL Radio Notebook": http://qsl.net/ve7sl/ VE7SL BLOG - "Homebrewing and Operating Adventures From 2200m to Nanowaves": http://ve7sl.blogspot.ca/ ibid.) STEPS TO LOWER NOISE FLOOR AND REVITALIZE AM RADIO Southgate July 12, 2017 RadioWorld report that background noise interference is degrading the quality of broadcast reception, two-way communications, mobile cellphone services and every other form of wireless communications used today at an alarming rate. The FCC and the ITU agree that the DC to 60 GHz+ wide-spectrum background noise floor is increasing as more and more unregulated electronic devices are used by more consumers in more ways every day. While it is true that large numbers of these devices have been in use for some time, the question becomes: What can we do to lower the noise floor now that the floodgates of unregulated devices have been open for so long? Is this an impossible task? I believe the answer is an emphatic “no.” On June 15, 2016, the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology Technical Advisory Council opened a noise floor technical inquiry in the form of ET Docket No. 16-191 to seek answers to the following basic questions: 1. Is there a noise problem? 2. Where does the problem exist? Spectrally? Spatially? Temporally? 3. Is there quantitative evidence of the overall increase in the total integrated noise floor across various segments of the radio frequency spectrum? 4. How should a noise study be performed? The most prominent responses were from the American Radio Relay League, the Society of Broadcast Engineers, the NAB, the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council, the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, the State of California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services Public Safety Communications, Verizon and AT&T. Unfortunately, most were anecdotal, not accompanied with measured quantitative data. This is largely because the responders did not have the instrumentation resources nor the budget to provide the quantitative evidence being sought. Despite the scarcity of quantitative data submissions, one clear outcome of this TAC technical inquiry is an unmistakable consensus among the responders: A noise floor study is not only needed but overdue. Read the full RadioWorld article: http://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/0004/steps-to-lower-noise-floor-and-revitalize-am-radio/339995 (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) SOUTH AFRICA --- TREVOR WADLEY From City Press, Johannesburg, South Africa, July 9, page 11: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Do you know your nation? Every week, #Trending runs an excerpt from Know Your Nation, a punchy book series by Tim Mostert that's all about the rich culture, history and geography of South Africa. Today's extract is about Trevor Wadley. The young student listened intently to his lecturer at Howard College in Natal. The other electrical engineering students scribbled notes. They marvelled at Trevor Wadley from Durban, because he hardly ever took notes. He had a special kind of memory. Born in 1920, Wadley joined the British army in 1940 and worked on the new radar technology. After the war, he came home and worked for the National Institute for Telecommunication Research. His job was to design radio equipment. Wadley built a device to probe the ionosphere that surrounds the earth. But his first exciting invention was the Tellurometer in 1959. This surveying instrument uses radio waves to measure distances. It's accurate to the millimetre over 80 kilometres, and is used all over the world today. Then the ingenious Wadley turned his brain power to a big problem in radio communication. In the 50s, receivers had to change crystals to capture different frequency bands. With the invention of the Wadley Loop, the problem was solved. The Durban boffin's loop circuit went into a powerful British military receiver. When Wadley died in 1981, thousands of shortwave listeners were tuned into the world using his Barlow-Wadley XCR 30 portable radio. Buy the book for R90 at CNA, Exclusive Books, Spar, Makro or takealot.com (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) It seems that man made interference isn't just a problem of the digital age. Back in 1926 "receiver radiation" (bloopers) from the multitude of regenerative receivers were also a problem. Check out excerpts from this article in the February 1926 issue of Radio Digest (via BN). STATIONS AND FANS JOIN IN BLOOPER WAR --- JOIN I WON’T BLOOP CLUB Response That Greets Campaign to Lessen Receiver Radiation Exceeds Expectations Within one week after war was declared by the Radio Digest against the hundreds of thousands of bloopers who prevented reception of foreign programs during the international tests, the campaign is well under way. Thousands of Radio enthusiasts have pledged themselves to operate their sets so as to reduce radiation and limit interference and more than a score of broadcasting stations have offered their cooperation to help clear the air as individual chapters of the I WON’T BLOOP CLUB. Situation Is Critical The overseas tests plainly demonstrated that a situation exists that needs be corrected. Legislation cannot prevent blooping and a number of other forms of men-made static. It is the duty of each individual who considers the welfare of Radio to pledge himself to do what is within his power to keep his set from radiating; his share towards eliminating other disturbances that could, with a little care, be prevented. With that end in view, the Radio Digest has inaugurated the I Won’t Bloop Club. Believing the cooperation of listeners with accomplish more that legal commands with threatening penalties. Stations Sending Aid Radio fans throughout the United States and Canada have been asked to join the I Won’t Bloop Club. The leading broadcasting stations have requested to become chapters of the club and will accept memberships from their listeners. Numerous newspapers have endorsed the move and united the campaign, which will continue until an improvement is gained. To those fans who sign the pledge of membership in the I Won’t Bloop Club a certificate will be issued suitable for a billboard of framing. Fans wishing to enrol in the club may do so through the offices of the Radio Digest or though any of the stations which have secured chapters in the club. To enable the members to carry out their pledges, the Radio Digest will publish a series of articles of non-technical nature for the purpose of enabling fans to operate their sets with the minimum of interference to neighbouring receivers. Others are being prepared and the information and suggestions given are followed, it is believed the greatest problem of the Radio reception will be solved. Need Individual Cooperation The response to the I Won’t Bloop Club movement has far exceeded highest expectations. With the large numbers of fans, stations and newspapers joining the campaign with full enthusiasm, it is, certain that the congestion of needless squeals and whistles will be reduced considerably. Have you filled out the pledge card? Are you willing to do your part? If you are a real Radio fan you will want to do what you can to clear the air, for the enjoyment of all. Become a member of the I Won’t Bloop Club. FILL OUT YOUR PLEDGE CARD TODAY. At the time this issue goes to press, a large number of the broadcasting stations, both in the United States and Canada, have offered to lend their aid in the performance of this great service to listeners (via Arctic Radio Club mv-eko 3 July 2017 via DXLD) WGEO HEARD WITHOUT RADIOS I even had a couple of experiences where I heard shortwave without a radio! Another aunt and uncle of mine lived in Schenectady, New York near Albany. They had a nice ranch house located on Duanesburg Road, that was quite near to a vast meadow with big antenna towers on it. A vast patchy forest went on for acres and acres behind their house with lots fine gravel and rock dust. There was no shortage of quartz and granite and the silt at your feet would often sparkle. My cousins would sometimes tease me about the ghosts in the woods. As a little kid, I would, of course, believe them. "Sometimes you can even hear the ghosts talk, if you listen carefully enough." Believe it or not, they were correct! A nearby broadcast facility was the source of the phantom sounds. It was The Voice of America's powerful shortwave station originally designed and used by General Electric. GE had built the plant in 1923 and continued to broadcast with it through World War II. When the war ended, GE rented the facility to The VOA. I understand the broadcasts were sometimes as powerful as 100 kilowatts. Wow. The mysterious voices could be heard on misty and damp foggy days. When the combination of moisture and conductivity of the rocks became just so - you really could hear The Voice of America! It was an eerie muffled kind of sound but you could hear voices change and sentences end. It was enough to scare a little child very, very well. I know! It was beyond creepy! The power of a hundred thousand watts of RF! I will always remember that Grundig Majestic 2120 radio with great fondness and warm memories. It was very much like the first time you ever sat down and played a fine piano or cruised on a beautifully constructed sailboat. Almost 60 years later, I still find myself with big smiles when I recall its big sound and performance. I would guess it cost a dear penny but it was worth it. What a radio! [from a much longer article] (Karl Zuk N2KZ, Katonah, NY USA. Early Radio Adventures by Karl Zuk, July BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ HOW TO REALLY ANALYZE RADIO RECEPTION DURING A SOLAR ECLIPSE From the Topband list: ...there are many reports about solar eclipses effects on propagation dating from 1912 on. One of the best is "Radio and the 1999 UK Total Solar Eclipse" by Dr. Ruth Bamford. It can be downloaded from https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.01491 It includes a number of plots of amplitude vs time at 1440 kHz [Luxembourg, presumably] Bill Liles, NQ6Z The actual paper is at https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1703/1703.01491.pdf If that link doesn't work, go to the download page, and "PDF" link is at the top right. Looks like I have a little reading ahead of me. best wishes, (Nick Hall-Patch, Victoria, BC, Canada, IRCA via DXLD) Radio World free eBook: PROPAGATION ANALYSIS FOR PROFIT This latest Radio World eBook explores radio broadcast coverage tools and how to get the most out of them Broadcasters have endless “what if” questions about their radio station’s signal. How would my coverage be affected if I … moved my FM antenna? Changed height? Increased transmitter power? Added a fill-in translator? This ebook reveals that new software tools and data sets have changed the game when it comes to answering such questions. The book is targeted to FM, AM and shortwave broadcasters both in the U.S. and abroad. We talk to consulting engineers and other experts about the state of propagation analysis. What tools are available? How do they work? What does a user need to know about contours, population data, mapping and terms like Longley- Rice? What resources are available online? When is it time to use a professional consultant? This is the 33rd in Radio World’s hugely successful free eBook library. Read it here! Click here to request the eBook via RadioWorld. https://nbmedia.wufoo.com/forms/z185s9nc1su6d1p/ (July CIDX Messenger via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2017 Jul 10 0130 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 03 - 09 July 2017 Solar activity ranged from very low to moderate levels. The period began on 03 Jul with an M1 flare (R1-Minor) observed at 03/1615 UTC from an emerging region on the west limb. A CME was associated with the M1 flare, but was determined to be well off the Sun-Earth line. Low levels were observed on 04 Jul due to a single C1 flare observed at 04/0425 UTC from this same unnumbered region. Very low levels were recorded on 05-06 Jul. Activity increased to low levels on 07 and 08 Jul as new Region 2665 (S06, L=111, class/area Ekc/710 on 09 Jul) produced a C1 flare observed at 07/1349 UTC. This was followed by a C3/Sf flare observed at 08/2353 UTC from the same region. Activity levels increased to moderate as developing Region 2665 produced an impulsive M1/2n flare (R1-Minor) observed at 09/0318 UTC. Additional C-class flares were observed from Region 2665 throughout the remainder of 09 Jul. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal levels throughout the period. Geomagnetic field activity was at quiet to isolated unsettled levels from 03-08 Jul. During this time, the solar wind environment was at nominal levels with the phi angle in a steady negative orientation. By early on 09 Jul, solar wind parameters reflected the onset of a CIR in advance of a recurrent, positive polarity CH HSS. The geomagnetic field responded with active to minor storm levels (G1-Minor) throughout 09 Jul. Solar wind speed increased from near 365 km/s to a maximum of 602 km/s at 09/2103 UTC. Total field ranged from 4-14 nT while the Bz component varied between +/-11 nT. Phi angle rotated from a negative to a mostly positive sector after 09/0430 UTC. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 10 JULY - 05 AUGUST 2017 Solar activity is expected to be at low levels throughout the outlook period. A chance for additional M-class activity (R1-R2, Minor-Moderate) is possible from 10-30 Jul. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to reach high levels on 10-15 Jul with normal to moderate levels expected throughout the remainder of the outlook period. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at generally quiet to unsettled levels for a majority of the outlook period. Unsettled to active conditions are likely on 10 Jul with active to minor storm levels (G1-Minor) likely on 05 Aug due to the influence of a recurrent, positive polarity CH HSS. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2017 Jul 10 0130 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 2017-07-10 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2017 Jul 10 92 18 4 2017 Jul 11 92 12 4 2017 Jul 12 92 15 4 2017 Jul 13 92 10 3 2017 Jul 14 92 5 2 2017 Jul 15 92 5 2 2017 Jul 16 92 5 2 2017 Jul 17 90 5 2 2017 Jul 18 85 12 4 2017 Jul 19 85 10 3 2017 Jul 20 85 5 2 2017 Jul 21 85 11 3 2017 Jul 22 85 11 3 2017 Jul 23 85 5 2 2017 Jul 24 85 5 2 2017 Jul 25 85 5 2 2017 Jul 26 85 5 2 2017 Jul 27 85 5 2 2017 Jul 28 85 5 2 2017 Jul 29 90 5 2 2017 Jul 30 90 5 2 2017 Jul 31 85 5 2 2017 Aug 01 85 5 2 2017 Aug 02 85 5 2 2017 Aug 03 85 5 2 2017 Aug 04 85 5 2 2017 Aug 05 85 25 5 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1886, DXLD) GLENN`S PROPAGATION OUTLOOK FOR MEDIA NETWORK PLUS AS OF JULY 13, 2017 Keith, from Spaceweather Services Australia, the global HF propagation forecast thru July 15: normal at low latitudes, normal to fair at middle and high latiiude bands. From the Space Environment Predixon Center, China, the planetary A index declining from a peak of 22 July 13, rising to 14 on August 5. Solar flux dropping from 77 July 13 to 72 July 23-24 [compare SWPC:] From Spaceweather South Africa thru July 15, magnetic conditions active to unsettled, shortwave fadeouts unlikely; MUF unstable. From Met Office UK, thru July 16, a 25% chance of Moderate-Class flares producing (R1/R2 Radio Blackouts). Geomagnetic activity with a chance of unsettled conditions late on the 14th into 15th and a chance of minor solar wind enhancements returning. From F K Janda, OK1HH in Prague, the Geomagnetic field will be: active to disturbed on July 14, 28 quiet to active on July 15, 22 - 23, 27 quiet to unsettled July 16, August 2 - 3 mostly quiet on July 17, 19 - 21, 24, 29 - 31 quiet on July 18, 25 - 26, August 1 From Spaceweather Canada, greatest DRX Nannoteslas in the Auroral zone expected July 17 at 92. From SWPC in Boulder, Geomagnetic field generally quiet to unsettled. Lowest As and Ks of 5 and 2, July 14-17 and 23 to August 4; then active to G1 minor storm levels likely on August 5 and A and K indices soaring to 25 and 5. Solar flux predicted 20 points higher than last week to 92 until July 16, then dropping no lower than 85 from July 18 onward William Hepburn`s VHF UHF DX maps show extreme tropospheric ducting increasingly off Baja California Norte from July 16 to 18. Off northwest Africa around the Canary Islands from Morocco to Sahara, at least all week; between Mozambique and southern Madagascar July 16 and 17. Across most of the Mediterranean July 15; eastern and western on the 16th; Central and western on the 17th Across the Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and Gulf of Oman at least thru July 18. Our next outlook here will be on the first week of August (via DXLD) TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING ++++++++++++++++++++++++ PROTECT OUR PUBLIC MEDIA INTERCONNEXIONS Glenn - Today, the House Appropriations Subcommittee that sets public media funding levels passed a draft bill. We have both great news and bad news. The Great News: The draft bill provided essential public media seed funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in its draft bill. This is a tremendous victory that could not have happened without your outreach to Congress. But your help is needed once again. The Bad News: While we saved one important program, funding for public media's Interconnection infrastructure system was eliminated. Interconnection enables virtually every American to receive local station programming for free - reaching even the most rural parts of the U.S. The system allows your stations to distribute programming, as well as public safety, national alert, and warning communications. If Interconnection funding is eliminated, it becomes nearly impossible for local stations to broadcast your favorite programs and important public safety communications to you. You helped us take an important first step toward providing funding for local stations in the House Bill. Now we need your help to save Interconnection. Email your lawmakers https://protectmypublicmedia.org/email-save-funding/ and tell them to fully fund public media, including Interconnection. Funding levels for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Interconnection are not final, yet. We have a small window of opportunity to voice our support for this program. As early as next week, Congress could move legislation that could help or hurt our cause. We're on the right track to protect all public media funding, but we must stay active. It's going to take all of us - viewers and listeners - working together to keep our nation's public media system strong and accessible to every American. So, please email your Members of Congress today to protect your connection with your stations. We'll keep you posted on what happens next. Sincerely, (The Protect My Public Media Team, July 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###