DX LISTENING DIGEST 18-34, August 21, 2018 Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING edited by Glenn Hauser, http://www.worldofradio.com Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. Materials taken from Arctic or originating from Olle Alm and not having a commercial copyright are exempt from all restrictions of noncommercial, noncopyrighted reusage except for full credits For restrixions and searchable 2018 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html [also linx to previous years] NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1944 contents: Alaska, Albania non, Australia and non, Brasil, Canada non, China, Cuba and non, France, Germany, Korea North non, Kuwait, México, Mongolia, Nigeria and non, Perú, South Carolina non, Tonga, Ukraine, USA, unidentified, propagation outlook SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1944, August 21-28, 2018 Tue 2030 WRMI 5950 7780 [1943 replayed?] Tue 2130 WRMI 5950 [presumably] Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v [not aired] Wed 1030 WRMI 5950 [confirmed] Wed 2100 WRMI 9955 [confirmed from 2103, joined late] Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v [confirmed] Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v [not aired] Thu 2330 WBCQ 7490v [surprise new time last week; and onward?] Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v [maybe] Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1431 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2130 WBCQ 9330v [maybe, or 2330?] Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sun 2130 WRMI 7780 [NEWish] Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v [maybe] Mon 0130 WRMI 5850, 7780 Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v-AM Area 51 Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 Mon 0400 WRMI webcast only Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v [maybe] Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 Tue 2030 WRMI 5950, 7780 [or #1945?] 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 IMPORTANT NOTICE!!!! WOR IO GROUP: Effective Feb 4, 2018, DXLD yg archive and members have been migrated to this group: https://groups.io/g/WOR [there was already an unrelated group at io named dxld!, so new name] From now on, the io group is primary, where all posts should go. One may apply for membership, subscribe via the above site. DXLD yahoogroup: remains in existence, and members are free to COPY same info to it, as backup, but no posts should go to it only. They may want to change delivery settings to no e-mail, and/or no digest. The change was necessary due to increasing outages, long delays in posts appearing, and search failures at the yg. Why wait for DXLD issues? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our io group without delay. NEWISH! DX LISTENING DIGEST IN PDF, HTML VERSIONS Jacques Champagne in Ville-Marie, Québec, has developed programs to convert DXLD .txt into PDF and HTML versions for his own use, and now has made them available to the rest of us. Starting with 18-24, they have been posted as attachments to the WOR iog. He says it takes about an hour to do this, once each issue is published. Merci, Jacques! (gh) ** AFGHANISTAN. TALIBAN THREATEN MEDIA AGAINST WORKING IN GHAZNI | Pajhwok Afghan News https://www.pajhwok.com/en/2018/08/16/taliban-threaten-media-against-working-ghazni (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** AFGHANISTAN. Reception of Radio Afghanistan External Service on August 16 [6400? I guess he means 6100 also for KNG === gh] 1530-1730 6100 YAK 100 kW / 125 deg to SoAs En/Ur/Ar/Ru, weak to good. * co-ch 6400 KNG 050 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean KCBS Pyongyang-weak http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/reception-of-radio-afghanistan-external.html Cf: KOREA D.P.R., Good signal of KCBS Pyongyang, August 16 from 2100 on 6400 KNG 050 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/good-signal-of-kcbs-pyongyang-august-16.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, August 16-17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA. KICY 850 1245Z Aug 17th [sic], Trinidad CA --- I had the opportunity to scan the band from Trinidad Rest Area Southbound (a bit north of Eureka CA) on Thursday [Aug 16]. Unfortunately just a car radio (10 kHz steps) and didn't hear anything too interesting (looking for Hawaiians) but did hear Russian language on 850 at 1245Z that caught my attention. I didn't think much of that until I later Google searched and discovered that this was a station from Nome AK broadcasting Russian to the west, directionally. By 1300Z the station was gone as the grey line moved on. This was the first time I've heard or even heard of this curious station. On the same drive the previous day I had the pleasure of visiting the Rockwork locations on the Oregon coast. It was daytime so no chance for any DX'ing but, my goodness, what a stunning setting (Ken Waters, IRCA at HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) 850 should be a great DX frequency on the west coast --- once KOA Denver fades out, there is *nothing* in conterminous USA or Canada on it *except* KHHO Tacoma WA, U4 10/1 kW with sports, if you can get pst that. There is also one Hawaiian, in Hilo (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DX LISTENING DIGEST) KICY normally operates with 3 towers 11 pm-4 am beaming to Russia but they have an STA to operate non directional with 50 kW 24/7. The directional signal is voluntary so no interference is being caused to other stations. KICY is 50 kW non directional all other times of the day anyways (Paul Walker, PA, ex-AK, IRCA via DXLD) Hi Ken, Congratulations on your reception of 850-KICY! Yes, the Rockwork cliff is not only stunning, but it's quite habit-forming :-) A growing contingent of DU-DXers is gathering there every August for some intense, cliff-enhanced transoceanic DX (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA), ibid.) [KICY 850] Very common here in the Winter, as well as KNOM [780] (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, KGED QSL Manager, IRCA via DXLD) ** ALBANIA [non]. 9395, USA, Radio Tirana at 0238 with a man with ID and into female pop vocals to 0242 and a woman with ID and “Radio Tirana the Week in Review” – Fair Aug 15 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre- fed dipoles, ODXA iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) 9395, Aug 18 at 0252 rockmusic from WRMI I suspect is not Radio Tirana relay from 0230 --- until I hear its IS at 0258; poor to very poor. May have been restored several days ago as I have not been checking everynight. Mark Coady, Ont., had it already Aug 15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGUILLA [non]. 1610 kHz, Aug 16 at 0642 UT, CHHA Toronto, ad in Brazilian accent, then one in Lusitanian Portuguese. More significantly, no trace of ANGUILLA, nor have I heard any since it was reported reactivated here Aug 4 at 0300 by John Williams, UK, MW Circle. May have been a one-shot or very limited sked like Caribbean Beacon SW. Has anyone else heard it on 1610 again? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) If you barely hear an huxter which could be DGS or PMS, try to // 5935 WWCR, or if when on, 6090 CB (gh) ** ARGENTINA [non]. 9395, Aug 16 at 2221, RAE Italian relay via WRMI 22-23 now here with good signal about tangos; had been on 7780 only, too weak to tell now, but transmission skedgrid shows on both (German at 21-22 however on 7780 only). But the System G sked shows RAE Italian at 16-17 EDT on 9395 which would be 20-21 UT! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. [non-log] 4835, Ozy Radio, on Aug 17, at 1203, heard humming/buzzing sound, either from faulty AIR Gangtok (Sikkim) transmitter or, as Mauno Ritola commented recently in WRTH Facebook about 4835: "Hi Ron, yes, also AIR Gangtok has a similar buzz with +/- 50Hz side carriers, but it signed off at 1658 and this stronger buzz still continues. I think it may be somewhere in Russia" and also "There is another buzzer [4835] in Eastern Europe, though not a problem in the target area," or am I hearing a combination of the two? Craig Allen (owner and operator of Ozy Radio) commented: "I have no buzz just perfect processed audio," but I'm unable today to make out Ozy Radio under the humming/buzzing (Ron Howard, Ocean Beach [San Francisco], CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) 4835, Ozy Radio, on Aug 18, even with very poor reception, at 0905, heard definite "Waltzing Matilda," which was the only detail I could make out; heard without the humming/buzzing sound, which I'm only hearing much later (Ron Howard, Ocean Beach [San Francisco], CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) Re "Pulse FM" via Ozy Radio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_FM_Kingborough_and_Huon (excerpted) Pulse FM Kingborough and Huon First air date 8 April 2016 (sic, see below) Pulse FM Kingborough and Huon is a youth narrowcast radio station in Tasmania, Australia. Pulse FM primarily targets people aged between 15 and 30 who live in the broadcast area (Huon LGA). Pulse FM operates a 90's to now Youth-Oriented Hot AC music format which complies with the Australian Communications and Media Authority's Narrowcast programming restrictions. Pulse FM is managed by Josh Agnew who was aged 12 when the station began FM broadcasts in 2017 (sic) (Josh is 14 years old as of July 2018). The transmitter for 87.6 FM is located in Geeveston on Ashlins Hill. The 87.8 FM transmitter is located in Lower Longley on Mt Herringback. On the 7th of August 2018, Pulse FM began regular shortwave broadcasts on 4835 kHz. Pulse FM can be heard across the Pacific and through many other areas of the world on 4835 khz from it's 1kw shortwave transmitter in Sydney between 12 am and 6 am local time, through the station's shortwave partner, Ozy Radio (wikipedia via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, Aug 21, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 5055, 4KZ. Re: Glenn's log: "5055, August 8 at 1146, JBA carrier from presumed 4KZ Queensland, despite storm noise level and switch to indoor longwire for safety. During July, Ron Howard had noted it cutting off the air by a timer, a few seconds earlier from one day to the next, reaching 1148:52* by July 31, so I am expecting carrier to vanish sometime during the 1148 or maybe 1147 minute --- but it does not! I am about to tire of listening to its JBA tone with BFO on 5054, when finally it stops at approx. 1157:11.5*, wouldn`t you know it, when I have glanced away from my watch. Perhaps Ron can confirm the new timing. . . (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)" Aug 17, thanks to Glenn's observations, able to confirm the change in the cut off time for 4KZ, which was 1156:20* today, so definitely the timer was changed from when I last heard 4KZ in July and is still continuing to daily cut off earlier each day. 5055, 4KZ. Regarding my Aug 17 observation of being ". . . able to confirm the change in the cut off time for 4KZ, which was 1156:20*." Thanks very much to Dave Valko for his Aug 18 feedback - "5055 4KZ had a relatively decent signal here this morning. Still only a little music when I tuned in at 1120. I stuck with it to see when it signed off. Went off at exactly 1156:15." On Aug 19, I had 4KZ cutting off at 1156:09.4*. So once again confirming their daily reduction. (Ron Howard, Ocean Beach [San Francisco], CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) 4KZ, on Aug 20, with cut off at 1156:04.7*. From 0950+, heard pop songs; the Beatles - "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," the Lovin' Spoonful - "Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind," the Doors - "Light My Fire," the Seekers (Australian group) - "A World Of Our Own," etc."; better than the norm, but still with heavy QRN (static). 5055, 4KZ, on Aug 21, from 1005+; wind conditions; ads; promo for joining Australian Radio DX Club and gave John Wright's email address; pop songs (Andy Gibb - "I Just Want to Be Your Everything," the Beatles - "Got To Get You Into My Life," Minnie Riperton - "Lovin' You," etc.); very respectable signal even with heavy QRN (static). The start of the DX season? (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) 5055, 4KZ (presumed the one) at 1150. Pop female vocal music to W at ToH. Hard to make out voice content under lightning crashes. Vocal music on recheck at 1155, then went off just a little after. - QRN Poor/Fair August 21 (Rick Barton, from Central Arizona, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; RS SW-2000629, & ATS-909X with various outdoor wires; Some signal strengths may be a little light, as my better outdoor antennas have fallen into disuse. (I have been tormented by Las Tormentas, i.e., we've been plagued by numerous sudden & unpredictable thunderstorms). 73 and Good Listening....! -rb, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA [non]. Unique Radio and WINB test on 15670 1100 to 1200 UT Friday --- WINB should be on DRM 15670 right about now with Unique Radio Australia between 1100 to 1200 hours UT. If anyone hears this test broadcast could you please let me know at nri3@yahoo.com.au Many thanks and best regards (Timothy Gaynor (Aussie Tim), 1126 UT Aug 17, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Unique Radio Australia 1100 UT Saturday August 18th 2018. Unique radio via WINB Red Lion Pennsylvania USA: Saturday night 9 PM AEST (Australia Eastern states) on 9265 from Saturday August 18th 1100-1300 UT (USA 7AM EDT, 6AM CDT, 4AM in Canada [sic] and west USA) also hosted by Aussie Tim from studios in Gunnedah NSW Australia with some local news, shortwave corner and choice oldies tunes. Featuring Sheldon Harvey and David from CKUT 90.3 Montreal Canada and 'International Radio Report' from 1130 UT; Hobart Radio International from 1200. If you hear Unique Radio Australia I would appreciate a reception report to: nri3@yahoo.com.au Many thanks and best regards (Tim Gaynor, Unique Radio, Gunnedah NSW, Australia, 1134 UT Aug 17, ibid.) See also CANADA [non]. Unique is to reactivate, on 2368.5, 5045? [WORLD OF RADIO 1944] ** AUSTRALIA. Hope you are well --- These are my FM logs from Australia, in case you are interested. Received on the mobile phone Samsung Galaxy S5NEO. North Stradbroke Island near Brisbane, 3 August 88.7 ABC Classic FM 90.3 ABC Radio 91.1 Hot 91 (4MCY), Sunshine Coast 93.3 SBS relaying Argentine Radio in Spanish 97.3 97.3 FM (4BFM) 104.5 Triple M (4MMM) 105.3 Hit 105 (4BBB) 106.9 Nova (4BNE) 107.7 Triple J Airlie Beach and Whitsunday Islands, 5-7 August 87.6 Radio TAB, sports betting 88.0 Island FM 89.1 Silence, modulation only 89.9 ABC Radio//101.1 90.7 Star 101.9//101.9 91.5 4MK, Mackay 92.3 Triple M//98.7 93.1 ABC Radio//102.7, but NOT parallel to 89.9 93.9 BBC World Service, probably via ABC News Radio 94.7 Hit 94.7, Mackay 95.5 ABC Classic FM//97.9 96.0 Service signals only, no voice 97.9 ABC Classic FM//95.5 98.3 4TOFM, “Townsville’s 102.3”, Bowen 98.7 Triple M (4RGM)//92.3 99.5 Triple J 100.3 Mackay’s Hit 100.3 101.1 ABC Radio//89.9 101.9 Star 101.9 (4MMK)//90.7 102.7 ABC Radio//93.1 103.5 Radio TAB, sports betting 104.3 ABC News Radio 105.9 My 105 FM, Proserpine Townsville, 8 August 87.6 Classic Gold FM 97.8 UNID Christian 92.3 4TOFM//102.3 93.1 ABC, Brisbane-based programme (probably ABC RN, Airlie Beach) 93.5 ABC News Radio, partly relaying BBC World Service. //94.3 94.3 ABC News Radio, partly relaying BBC World Service. //93.5 95.9 ABC Classic FM//101.5 96.7 ABC News Radio 97.5 Triple J//105.5 98.9 KIX 99.9 Live FM, Christian 100.7 Power 100 101.5 ABC Classic FM//95.9 102.3 4TOFM, partly relaying Triple M//92.3 103.1 Hit 103.1 103.9 Triple T 104.7 ABC RN 105.5 Triple J//97.5 106.3 Star 106.3 107.1 4K1G, announcing 98.9 FM, though not present there Mission Beach, 9 August 88.5 4KZ carrying NQ Radio//102.5 89.3 ABC News//95.7 90.9 ABC RN//94.1 94.1 ABC RN//90.9 95.7 ABC News//89.3 96.0 Service signals only 98.3 KOOL FM (4ZKZ) 101.1 ABC News Radio, partly relaying BBC World Service 102.5 4KZ carrying NQ Radio//88.5 105.1 ABC RN 105.9 ABC Classic FM 106.7 ABC 107.5 Triple J Cairns, 11 August 89.1 Cairns FM 90.5 SBS in minority languages, including Russian! 93.9 ABC RN 94.7 ABC Classic FM//105.9 95.5 ABC (tent.), sports talk 96.3 ABC News Radio, partly carrying BBC World Service//101.1 97.1 Triple J//107.5 98.7 UNID – mentioned National Plot Black(?). Probably BBM. 99.5 Cairns 99.5 carrying Triple M 100.5 2RPH, newspapers reading service 101.1 ABC News Radio, partly carrying BBC World Service//96.3 102.7 Star 102.7 103.5 Hit FM 104.3 TAB Radio, sports betting 105.9 ABC Classic FM//94.7 106.7 ABC 107.5 Triple J//97.1 Sydney, 11-13 August Very interesting FM radio scene here: many low-power community radio stations, along with national networks. Received in different locations across Sydney: Parramatta, Bondi Beach, Tempe, as well as on a ferry to Manly. 87.6 Voice of Islam in Arabic 87.8 Radio Austral – Spanish Radio Network 88.1 2RDJ carrying Community Radio Network and local ads 88.5 Triple R (2RRR) in a minority language. Anthem, instrumentals 88.9 UNID, in some Asian language, mentioned “Radio Natirana”(?). Most probably Radio Skid Row 89.3 2GRF Community Radio 89.7 Eastside Radio 90.1 2NBC FM in Arabic 90.3 UNID in Brazilian Portuguese (received near Manly). Perhaps Radio Northern Beaches? 90.5 Alive 90.5, Christian 91.3 C 91.3 (2MAC) 92.1 Muslim Community Radio (2MFM) in Arabic and English 92.9 ABC Classic FM//95.7 93.7 989 FM with country songs 94.5 FBI Radio (2FBI) 95.3 Smooth FM (2PTV) 95.7 ABC Classic FM//92.9 96.1 The Edge (2ONE) 96.5 Wave FM 96.9 Nova (2SYD) 97.3 ABC Radio 97.7 SBS in minority languages 98.1 i 98 (2WIN) 98.5 2 Triple O - Celtic FM (Irish) in the evening (relayed RTE News), Chinese programme in the morning 98.9 Triple J 99.1 WSFM (2UUS)//101.7 99.3 Northside Radio, partly relaying BBC World Service 99.9 SWR (pronounced “Swar”) Triple 9 100.5 2RPH radio reading service, sports talk 100.9 2BACR, Bankstown 101.3 Sea FM (2CFM) 101.3 101.7 WSFM (2UUS)//99.1 102.5 Fine Music (2MBS), partly relaying BBC World Service 103.2 Sydney’s Hope 103.2 (2CBA) 104.1 2day FM 104.5 Star 104.5 (2GOS) 104.9 Triple M (2MMM), sports talk 105.7 Triple J (2JJJ) 106.5 KIIS 106.9 UNID, received near Bondi Beach for a short time at 14:45 local time, not present at recheck at 14:57. Songs by Nicole Kidman and others with introductions. Probably Vox FM (2VOX), as per Internet, or a pirate. 107.3 2SER 107.7 2GO 107.9 UNID in Arabic with Muslim preaching (most probably Albayan Radio, as per Internet) Best, (Robertas Pogorelis, August 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 4750, Bangladesh Betar - HS, 1235-1242, Aug 20. The Monday only SAARC (The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) news bulletin in English; “Assalamu alaikum. This is Bangladesh Betar”; item - "India's armed services are stepping up efforts to rescue thousands of people stranded by flooding in southern Kerala state that has killed 324 people. Officials said hundreds of troops, and dozens of boats and helicopters are helping to evacuate people. Many people are still believed to be trapped on rooftops of flooded homes. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that . . . " - Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sent condolences on the death of former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee - etc.; a very good day here, as well above the norm; semi- readable due to CNR1 QRM; "SAARC" is pronounced as a word and not spelled out; 1242 into Bangla. My audio at http://goo.gl/JhJkxQ (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BANGLADESH [non]. BBC MARKS THE ANNIVERSARY OF ROHINGYA CRISIS To mark the anniversary of the beginning of Rohingyas’ exodus from Myanmar to Bangladesh, BBC News Bangla will run five days of special output on the website bbc.com/bangla, its social-media platforms and radio output. The special programming will start on Saturday 25 August with a radio phone-in programme. This will be followed by a Facebook Live with young Bangladeshis on how they think their country should handle the Rohingya issue. On radio and online, BBC News Bangla’s Akbar Hossain will assess how Bangladesh has managed its diplomatic efforts to end the crisis and begin the repatriation of nearly a million refugees. Shahnaz Parveen will meet residents of Cox’s Bazar to see how they have dealt with the crisis which has had a massive effect on the local environment, economy and social fabric. She will also explore the cases of child marriages in Rohingya families. Video reporter, Shahnewaz Rocky, will explore how a year of living in camps has affected Rohingya women. A series of reports will highlight the lives of Rohingya children growing up in the camps and other aspects of refugee life. BBC News Bangla Editor, Sabir Mustafa, said: “The flight of Rohingyas from the Rakhine state of Myanmar to Bangladesh has undoubtedly been one of the biggest stories of the past year. BBC journalists have brought the refugees’ personal stories – from tales of sexual violence to torture and killings – to the attention of a global audience. The one-year anniversary gives us an opportunity to take a fresh look at the plight of the refugees and explore the uncertain road ahead.” The anniversary also will be marked by BBC News Burmese, with special reports – on radio, TV and online – focusing on the community relations between Rohingya and Rakhine one year after the start of the violence. BBC News Bangla content reaches 15.4m people in Bangladesh every week and engages around 1.3m people around the world every week via its website bbc.com/bangla and on social media, including the BBC Bangla channel on YouTube. The BBC News Bangla Facebook page has over 12m followers (August 2018). The TV programmes, BBC Probaho and Click, are broadcast by Channel i in Bangladesh and are available on bbc.com/bangla and the BBC Bangla YouTube channel. BBC News Bangla radio programmes, produced in London and Dhaka, air on the state FM network, Bangladesh Betar, as well as on shortwave and via bbc.com/bangla. Burmese-speaking audiences can access the BBC via the website bbc.com/burmese, Facebook (over 14m followers), as well as Twitter and YouTube. The BBC News Burmese Monday to Friday TV news programme is broadcast by Myanmar’s digital channel, Mizzima TV, and is available via bbc.com/burmese and YouTube. The radio programmes are available online, on shortwave and via Myanmar’s FM network, Padamyar FM. BBC News Bangla and BBC News Burmese are part of the BBC World Service. Ends/ For more information please contact: BBC World Service Group Communications - Lala Najafova lala.najafova@bbc.co.uk Notes for editors: BBC World Service delivers news content around the world in English and 41 other language services, on radio, TV and digital, reaching a weekly audience of 279m. As part of BBC World Service, BBC Learning English teaches English to global audiences. For more information, visit bbc.com/worldservice. The BBC attracts a weekly global audience of 347m people to its international news services including BBC World Service, BBC World News television channel and bbc.com/news (BBC PR Aug 20 via DXLD) ** BIAFRA. Broadcasting Corporation of Biafra, Enugu, QSL letter: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Radio-Biafra-QSL-Card-Enugu-1969-SWL-Scarce-/312212470061?nordt=true&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m43663.l44720 (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) It`s from 1969y, gives sked as 0430-2230 UT on 7304. Who can remember hearing it? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOUGAINVILLE. 3325, NBC Bougainville (Maus Blong Sankamap), 1000- 1109, Aug 17. News in English; drums; news in Pidgin; 1021 music segment with DJ in Pidgin, giving phone number; 1031 interview; noted at 1047 with Voice of Indonesia QRM (in English) underneath NBC; by 1100 badly mixing together. 3325, NBC Bougainville (Maus Blong Sankamap), 1116-1145, Aug 19. The normal Sunday format of religious programs; almost no VOI QRM (Ron Howard, Ocean Beach [San Francisco], CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) /PNG. 3325, NBC Bougainville (Maus Blong Sankamap) // 3260, NBC Madang (Maus Blong Garamut), 0832-0909, Aug 20. In English the whole time; heavy QRN (static) (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Rádio Cultura de Araraquara ON! 3365 kHz Ondas Tropicais A emissora anunciou que vai investir em transmissões na banda de 90 metros em 3365 kHz com 1 kW. As transmissões serão apartir de hoje 17 Agosto 2018 e está prevista de dia por dia entre as 2100 até as 0300 UT. UT Noite no Brasil e grey line. O Engenheiro Tom falou "Somente a noite em 90 metros de dia não há propagação". Abaixo as fotos do Engenheiro Tom que vai ligar e desligar o transmissor. Fotos: (Ari via Radioescutas a dexismo) https://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com/2018/08/radio-cultura-de-araraquara-on-3365-khz.html?m=1 (Daniel Wyllyans, 2308 UT Aug 17, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) Um comentário: Unknown 18 de agosto de 2018 10:38 [from blog above] Isso é muito bom, fico muito feliz. Eu já fiz perguntas para o rádio operadores de ARARAQUARA; as respostas não eram boas, fiquei contristado (PU7VLZ/PX7H0362, DEUS SEJA LOUVADO, 73! Ibid.) Rádio Cultura de Araraquara reactivated on 3365 kHz. Via WRTH Facebook, from Mauno Ritola: Daniel Wyllyans X Elizia Martins reports on HCDX, that Rádio Cultura de Araraquara has reactivated 3365 kHz between 2100-0300. Only weak carrier so far here in Finland on 3365.1 kHz. Website: http://portalmorada.com.br/radiocultura/ (via Ron Howard, 2256 UT Aug 17, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) From Dave Valko (Aug 17, at 2332 UT): "Thanks Ron!! I was just listening to it on 2 web receivers in Brazil. It's on 3365.10. Playing "When a Man Loves a Woman" now at 2329. I have a minuscule signal here at home [PA - USA]. It's going to have to do something to get up to audible level." More from Dave: "Been watching the Araraquara signal in the last 10 minutes and it`s varying a little. It'll stay steady for a minute or two, then vary +/- 10 hertz for a minute or two. You can see what I mean below. All the horizontal lines are static crashes!! And there are some big boomers close by now so I better sign off" (via Ron Howard, 2348 UT Aug 17, ibid. WORLD OF RADIO 1944,) 3365 Atualizado reportagem --- Engenheiro Tom: "A foto é do Engenheiro José Roberto." - "Vou tirar as fotos da antena de 90 metros e mandar para você" (Ari via Daniel Wyllyans https://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com/2018/08/radio-cultura-de-araraquara-on-3365-khz.html?m=1 Aug 19, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 3365 ON Cultura Araraquara, 2038 UT (Daniel Wyllyans, Brasil, Aug 21, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. E-QSL de Ondas Curtas e Tropicais do Brasil --- Estou trabalhando como e-qsl manager confirmando as recepções de emissoras do Brasil em ondas tropicais e ondas curtas. O informe da pessoa e o e-qsl é enviado direto à emissora para eles saberem ou fazer uma segunda confirmação. Se talvez der sorte; Envie seus informes por redes sociais ou para danielnx18@gmail.com Abaixo as fotos do primeiro e-qsl enviado ao Carlos Gamarra do Peru confirmando a recepção da Rádio Difusora Acreana 4885 kHz Ondas Tropicais. A emissora visualizou como funciona o negócio :-) https://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com/2018/08/e-qsl-de-ondas-curtas-e-tropicais-do.html?m=1 (Daniel Wyllyans, Aug 14, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Hi, Do you have a list of the tropical stations from Brazil you are QSL manager for? (Chris Smolinski, Black Cat Systems, ibid.) Today 2018 actives is: 3365 Rádio Cultura de Araraquara (Inregular) 4775 Rádio Congonhas 4805 Rádio Difusora do Amazonas FM (Inregular) 4845 Rádio Cultura do Amazonas 4845 Rádio Ibitinga (Very,very rare um 2018) 4862 Rádio Difusora de Londrina 4875 Rádio Roraima 4885 Rádio Clube do Pará 4885 Rádio Difusora Acreana 4895 Rádio Novo Tempo (Inregular) 4905 Rádio Relógio 4925 Rádio Rural FM 4965 Rádio Alvorada de Parintins 4985 Nova Rádio Brasil Central 5035 Rádio Educação Rural de Coari Yes confirmations e-QSL. 73 (Daniel Wyllyans, ibid., WORLD OF RADIO 1944) 7676 kHz ON !!! Nesse momento. Nome da Rádio? Depois eu vejo. Cidade de Araraquara SP Brasil (Wyllyans? Hard-Core-DX mailing list 2210 UT Aug 15, via DXLD) 7676 kHz Rádio Pink Panther - ON! Desde a cidade de Araraquara SP. O proprietário falou que tem portadora em SDRs dos Estados Unidos (USA). 73 (Daniel Wyllyans 2214 UT Aug 15, ibid.) Hi Daniel, No copy locally, but I can receive the signal on an SDR in Buenos Aires. Maybe later when there is a night path between us? (Chris Smolinski, Black Cat Systems, Westminster, MD USA, via Daniel, ibid.) [15/8 17:11] Everton Rodrigues: Se tudo der certo vai ficar definitivo no ar. [15/8 17:12] Everton Rodrigues: Mas estamos pensando em ir la para 49m [15/8 17:12] Everton Rodrigues: Em torno de 6 MHz [15/8 17:13] Everton Rodrigues: Esses dias deixamos ligado mais para testes e também para mostrar para um pessoal de São Carlos que está interessado em montar mais uma free radio [15/8 17:20] Everton Rodrigues: Esse só funciona de 5 até 8 MHz. Em 8 ele da mais de 100w. Em 5 MHz é a potencia maxima. Rende muito mais. Passa de 200w. [15/8 17:21] Everton Rodrigues: Vai ficar no ar (Rádio Pink Panther, ibid.) ** BRAZIL. 9665, Rádio Voz Missionária at 2321 with a mix of American Gospel hymns to 2330 and ID of “You are listening to RV Radio” and back to more hymns to 2339 and another “RV Radio” ID and a mention of “to the glory of God” then more hymns to another “RV Radio” at 2346 and more hymns to 2350 and into Portuguese with a man mentioning “Missionária” – Weak to Fair in peaks Aug 15 – I originally thought they were saying “RB Radio”. I was not aware that they aired English programs. Maybe this was a test. Sometimes you have to stick with a logging for quite a while to rule out the obvious (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) 11780, Aug 20 at 0202, RNA/RNB is still on with bigsig; so I check what else there may be: 11815 JBA carrier presumed RBC and almost on- frequency; No signal 11855-11856 from R. Aparecida. Later I survey and measure what`s on 31m: 9630.540, Aug 20 at 0557, music, VP S5-S8 from R. Aparecida. NO signals circa 9665, 9675 9819.675, Aug 20 at 0600, JBA carrier from R. Nove de Julho 9725.333, Aug 20 at 0601, JBA, R. Evangelizar 9564.939, Aug 20 at 0606, JBA, SRDA is least off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn -- The Brazilian on 9664.89 was heard quite clearly here from around 2130 hours. Still on now (2315 hours). So they're still alive! (Art Delibert, Vineyard Haven, Mass., Aug 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9664.887, Aug 21 at 0253, VP with music from Voz Missionária, still active but not when I surveyed later last night. Art Delibert, Maryland agrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Now at 1720 of August 20 it [Aparecida] is not in the air in 11855 in my QTH nor in the SDR of Pardinho. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, WOR iog via DXLD) 11780, Aug 21 at 0236, RNA/RNB is still on with music. Have not caught when it quit, maybe circa 0300 UT = local midnite? Certainly not on by my ~0600 chex. EiBi shows 13-15, 1800-1859, 20-02 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL, 4774.8, R. Congonhas, Congonhas MG, 2101-2113, 07/8, música pop', seguindo-se-lhe missa, às 2102; 25331. 4845, R. Cultura do Amazonas, Manaus AM, 2133-2143, 04/8, música pop'; 35342, áudio pobre. 4875.2, R. Roraima, Boa Vista RR, 2116-2126, 02/8, canções, saudações aos ouvintes; 35332. 4885, R. Dif.ª Acreana, Rio Branco AC, 2207-2217, 05/8, texto, canções; 22441, QRM do R. Club do Pará. 4885, R. Club do Pará, Belém PA, 0936-desvanecimento total 0950, 09/8, texto; 15341. 4985, R. Brasil Central, Goiânia GO, 2134-2144, 04/8, programa musical Brasil Sertanejo (presumido); 35342. 5035, R. Educação Rural, Coari AM, 2118-2129, 02/8, canções; 25331. SINPO 35342 em 05/8, pelas 2210. 5939.7, R. Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, 2149-2200, 05/8, canções; 35343. 6010, R. Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte MG, 2137-2147, 02/8, canções, texto; 24331. Inaudível em // 15190. 6040.7, R. Evangelizar, Curitiba PR, 2112-2124, 03/8, canções; 35332. // 9725.4 com SINPO 33442, QRM adjacente. 6080.1, R. Marumby, Curitiba PR, 2135-2145, 02/8, propaganda religiosa, canções a condizer; 33331, QRM da CHINA. 9515, R. Marumby, Curitiba PR, 2140-2151, 02/8, propag. relig., canções a condizer; 34433, QRM da CHN (p). 9515 idem, 2109-..., 07/8, propag. relig.; 44343. 9550.1, R. Boa Vontade, Pt.º Alegre RS, 2107-2117, 06/8, música, texto; 23341, QRM adjacente. 9565, SRDA, Curitiba PR, 2109-2119, 06/8, propag. relig., testemunhos; freq. medida, de 9564.962; 32341, QRM da R. Martí, em 9565.031 [and do you hear no jamming?? gh] 9630.5, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 0945-1205, 13/8, programa "Acorda, Brasil", ..., noticiário; 35342. 9630.5, idem, 2038-2049, 09/8, noticiário; 35343. // 11855 fora do ar. 9630.6, idem, 1848-1907, 07/8, canções, texto; 25331, mas em ascensão; SINPO 34443, às 2105, hora a que emitia a missa. // 11855 fora do ar. 9630.6, idem, 1440-..., 10/8, canções, texto; 25331. 9664.9, R. Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, 1858-1910, 08/8, noticiário O Brasil e o Mundo, anúncio das freqs., seguindo-se propag. relig., às 1907; 35342. 9664.9, idem, 2036-2047, 09/8, propag. relig.; 34443. 9664.9, idem, 0948-1145, 13/8, rubrica dos ouvintes, noticiário em curso, pelas 1040, altura em que se fazia sentir QRM dos 9665. 9664.9, idem, 1445-..., 10/8, texto, música; 15331; melhor sinal, em 11/8, pelas 1440, SINPO 25342. 9725.4, R. Evangelizar, Curitiba PR, 2200-2211, 04/8, missa; 35443. 9725.4, idem, 1443-..., 10/8, texto, canções; 25331. 9725.4, idem, 0959-desvan. total 1040, 13/8, texto; 15341. 9818.8, R. 9 de Julho, São Paulo SP, 0955-1000, 13/8, testo, música; 25331, mas sob forte QRM da CHINA 9820, às 1000. 9819, idem, 2146-2154, 04/8, texto; 23441, QRM adj., da CHINA em 9820 11735, R. Transmundial, St.ª M.ª RS, 1909-1919, 06/8, propag. relig.; 35343. 11815, R. Brasil Central, Goiânia GO, 1617-1643, 03/8, prgr. Show da Tarde; 25342. 11815, idem, 1238-1259, 09/8, prgr. Correspondente Brasil Central; 25342. 11815, idem, 1245-1314, 12/8, prgr. Goiás Caboclo, anúncio de freqs. cantado; 35442. Áudio baixo. 11815, idem, 2107-2117, 12/8, canções; 34443, QRM adjacente. Ainda com áudio fraco. 11855.8, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 2104-..., 03/8, missa; 35443. 11895.2, R.Boa Vontade, Pt.º Alegre RS, 2106-2117, 03/8, propag. relig.; 34443, QRM adjacente. 11895.2, idem, 1301-1320, 12/8, propag. relig.; 15341. 11934.9, R. Evangelizar, Curitiba PR, 2204-2214, 05/8, missa; 34443, QRM adjacente. 11934.9, idem, 1214-1241, 09/8, anúncios comerciais, prgr. Diálogo; 25342. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, Aug 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. 9400, Aug 21 at 0256, S5-S7 carrier, open or JBM? Need USB to avoid WRMI; 0300 modulation increases in Arabic. EiBi and Aoki/NDXC show it`s Canada [non], Bible Voice, Dardasha-7 service via Kostinbrod at 0300-0315 only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BURKINA FASO. The radio 'saved my little girl's life' - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45133298 (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** CANADA [and non]. Useful Canadian Radio News from Jon Pearkins: 600, BC, Vancouver, CHOF: CRTC decision coming this week (Aug 13-17) on power increase to 50 kW day/20 kW night, and tower sharing with CKNW-980, likely positive given the lack of Interventions by other stations, could translate into testing very soon, if the new transmitter is already on site (a big “IF”). CKNW was off air in early July for site preparation. Night pattern is a broad lobe to the WNW with tight nulls to the South and East. Day pattern has a similar broad WNW lobe, but no tight nulls. Following CHOF’s required one month 24/7 Test Period, KRPI-1550 programming will move to 600, leaving KRPI’s fate unknown (Canadian Radio News with Dan Sys, IRCA DX Monitor Aug 18, published Aug 14, via DXLD) ** CANADA. Checking out the radio tonight after being away on vacation for a while --- I also noticed CJGX is back in strength on 940 so they've evidently resolved the issue that had them at low power recently, 73, (Nigel Pimblett, Dunmore, AB, Aug 21, IRCA via DXLD) ** CANADA [and non]. PROGRAMMING BY US STATIONS TO CANADA The items in the most recent DXLD mischaracterized some things. Canada used to have policy or even perhaps regulation that prohibited religious organizations from owning radio (or I suppose TV) stations. The exceptions were in Newfoundland, licensed before the 1948 absorption of that country by Canada (VOAR and VOCM, both licensed to churches). As a consequence, US commercial "religious" broadcasters built US stations which had signal in Canada. But FCC could [not] have cared less. The US rules against foreign transmitters with signal in US being programmed to US have no restrictions in the opposite direction. Canada wasn't happy, but the programming usually didn't originate in Canada, so could not be regulated by Canada. Of course Canada could (and did) eliminate allowing advertising on US stations as a legitimate business expense (and therefor tax deduction) but that had no effect on US originated religious broadcasters. Canada's advertising rules killed the US TV station in Pembina, ND [KCND-12 for Winnipeg market] and damaged but did not kill KVOS-TV Bellingham WA, but had essentially no effect on US "religious" broadcasters. Canada did grant a TCOC to an AM in suburban Vancouver BC on 540 kHz to counter the 550 kHz KARI Blaine WA, but it was such a construction cost economic non-starter as to make it unfeasible, and the owners of 550 Blaine negotiated a deal that moved the 540 TCOC holder to 1040 instead. (Technical Construction and Operating Certificate, more or less same as US Construction Permit.) (Ben Dawson, WA, Aug 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 1610 kHz, Aug 16 at 0642 UT, CHHA Toronto, ad in Brazilian accent, then one in Lusitanian Portuguese. More significantly, no trace of ANGUILLA, nor have I heard any since it was reported reactivated here Aug 4 at 0300 by John Williams, UK, MW Circle. May have been a one-shot or very limited sked like Caribbean Beacon SW. Has anyone else heard it on 1610 again? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. JIM CORCORAN BIDS FAREWELL TO A PROPOS By CBC Music Published August 10, 2018 https://www.cbcmusic.ca/posts/20247/jim-corcoran-bids-farewell-to-a-propos Today, A Propos host Jim Corcoran has announced that he will be leaving the long-running show. His last episode will be broadcast on CBC Radio One on Saturday, Sept. 1, at 11 p.m. and on CBC Music on Sunday, Sept. 2, at 4 p.m. [local times] Corcoran has hosted A Propos for 30 years now, highlighting some of the best recordings and interviewing French-Canadian artists from francophone Canada, with special emphasis on Quebec's popular music scene. Read his full goodbye letter below. I'm Jim Corcoran in Montreal — and I've been saying that as host of A Propos, the sounds of Quebec on CBC Radio, for 30 years in a row. Now, after 30 years, I feel (somewhat reluctantly, I'll admit) it's time for me to move on. It's been a profoundly rewarding experience for me and I'm extremely grateful to the CBC for having entrusted me with so much freedom. Only the artists I really loved were broadcast on A Propos and many of them became good friends. I'll miss you, the faithful and attentive audience of A Propos, who kept me on my toes, reminding me regularly what you liked most about the program and what you expected of me. I'm gonna miss reaching out for you every weekend. A Propos will forever be a major accomplishment for me, for which I'll always be very proud and grateful. I got to work with and learn from some of the finest of producers, especially Frank Opolko and Sophie Laurent, who made each edition of A Propos shine. I discovered music as a kid, thanks to great radio. And for 30 years, I had the time of my life sharing my passion for francophone songwriters and bands with you on CBC Radio. My entire life has been and will always be about music! How lucky can one man be? Thank you all for offering me such a priceless privilege. For years, the last word from me at the end of every edition of A Propos was "Au revoir." This one is bittersweet. Au revoir et merci, — Jim Corcoran Replacing A Propos in its time slot will be a show that will continue to feature the music of francophone Canada called C'est Formidable! with host Florence K. It will start the week of Sept. 8 on CBC Radio One and Sept. 9 on CBC Music. Below is a statement from Florence K: I’m so pleased to announce that I will be hosting C’est Formidable!, a new program coming this September on CBC Radio One and CBC Music. Each week, we will explore together the large and diverse world of francophone music. It is a great honor for me to take over for a fantastic artist I deeply admire, Jim Corcoran. For 30 years, Jim brilliantly hosted À Propos and generously shared his passion for francophone songs and lyrics with his listeners. I grew up surrounded by French music from all over Canada, which inspired me to become a singer-songwriter myself. I am now thrilled to take you on a journey through our French heritage and to tell you about the artists and songs who stand behind it. With C’est Formidable!, you will hear the newest hits that make Quebec dance and sing, beautiful songs from Franco-Canadian communities, classics from the past and music freshly arrived from francophone countries all over the world. N’est-ce pas tout à fait formidable?! — Florence K (via Day Say, alt.radio.networks.cbc via Mike Cooper, DXLD) see her portrait (gh) ** CANADA [non]. SHORTWAVE RELAY OF CKUT'S INTERNATIONAL RADIO REPORT Glenn, here is some news about my program, International Radio Report on CKUT in Montreal. It is now being relayed on shortwave each week by Tim Gaynor of New South Wales on his service called Unique Radio. Here are the details: International Radio Report to be re-broadcast on shortwave via Tim Gaynor, New South Wales, Australia International Radio Report is going to be re-broadcast each week by Tim Gaynor, the owner and operator of a station called Unique Radio in NSW Australia, via WINB-Red Lion, Pennsylvania. Tim says: "My local broadcasts have been off for a while as I had to move from Halls Creek near Tamworth to Gunnedah NSW and new frequencies of 5045 and 2368.5 kHz. I should have the 2368.5 on very soon". International Radio Report will be re-broadcast each Saturday at 1130 UT on 9265 through U.S. based shortwave broadcaster WINB in Red Lion, Pennsylvania." Tim has purchased a block of airtime on the station. Tim’s programs promote independent media programs (such as IRR) and music on WINB 9265 Saturdays from 1100 to 1300 UT beamed to North America and the Pacific area. For now the re-broadcast will appear just on the WINB relay until Tim’s domestic HF station is set up with a new frequency and antenna, but he will run our show on the HF domestic service in Australia when it gets on air. The Saturday airing will re-transmit the previous Sunday's edition of the International Radio Report program (Sheldon Harvey, Greenfield Park, Quebec, UT Aug 21, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHAD [non]. Radio International via Ascension and Woofferton on August 17: 0600-0700 7415 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg WeAf Kanuri, weak/fair signal & 0700-0800 13810 WOF 250 kW / 165 deg WeAf Kanuri*, good to very good * including news in French 0717-0727 UT http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/radio-international-via-ascension-and.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, August 16-17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio International via Ascension & Woofferton, Aug 21 0600-0700 on 7415 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf Kanuri, fair signal 0700-0800 on 13810 WOF 250 kW / 165 deg to WeAf Kanuri*, good signal * today without news in French 0717-0727 UT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2F9E_TxsgA&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB07Bq2s3Fs&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, August 20-21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also FRANCE ** CHINA. 7345-USB, V26, at 0945-0952*, Aug 17. Numbers given in Chinese. My audio at http://goo.gl/YoRXjU (Ron Howard, Ocean Beach [San Francisco], CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CHINA. Voice of Strait - "Focus on China" program with new schedule? 4940, Voice of Strait, at 0941, on Aug 18. Tuned into the Saturday only "Focus on China" program already in progress; in English; formerly was heard 1500-1530 (Sat.); seemed to be an audio feed from a documentary about calligraphy; 0951 closing announcement, followed by EZL song; 0955 into Chinese. Not sure if today was an anomaly or an actual schedule change? In summertime I'm unable to check 1500+, as that is too far past my local sunrise, but at 0941, I had almost semi-readable reception. At 0951 had positive program ID for FOC. Interesting development, but needs more Saturday monitoring! Website, in Chinese - http://www.vos.com.cn/ BTW - VOS, on 4940, signs on now around 0900, while VOS on 4900 doesn't start till later (maybe about 0945?) (Ron Howard, Ocean Beach [San Francisco], CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) 4940, Voice of Strait. Regarding my Aug 18 reception of the new time for the Saturday only "Focus on China" program, please note the following from the "Now On The Radio" website: http://radio.chobi.net/DX/bbs/?res:3411 Appreciate Hiroyuki Komatsubara's additional info! "Thanks to Ron Howard !! http://radio.chobi.net/DX/bbs/?res:3410 "FOCUS ON CHINA" It seems that this program has been broadcast twice on Saturday. Program schedule : http://www.vos.com.cn/public/2011-08/05/cms29450article.shtml China time = UTC + 8h "FOCUS ON CHINA" ------------------------------------------------- 0930-0955 Saturday, English language program 1430-1455 Saturday, English language program ------------------------------------------------- both new time (ex: Saturday 1500-1530) However, this program is gone in Minnan(Amoy) language broadcasting.. http://www.vos.com.cn/public/2011-08/05/cms29447article.shtml Sorry, I have not confirmed yet. (H. Komatsubara) I always appreciate Ron's detailed monitoring ! Thanks very much !!" (via Ron Howard, Ocean Beach [San Francisco], CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CHINA. 5050 at 0958 on 8/16, V of Beibu Bay Radio --- M and W in Chinese. M with Beijing time in Chinese, then W in English, Beijing Time is 6 pm. Glenn, I am in Pleiku VT for the next 14 days then Ho Chi Minh for 6 days then back to Vancouver BC. Take care, (Bruce MacGibbon, Aug 16, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Bruce is on an extended visit to Vietnam. For newtimers, a fellow DX editor, of SPEEDXGRAM long ago (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6035, FM99 via Yunnan, at 1200, on Aug 14. Time pips; Beijing time check; station singing jingle (as confirmed via their on- line audio streaming); normal FM format; still heard with UNID jamming (Ron Howard, Ocean Beach [San Francisco], CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) 6035, FM99 relay via Yunnan, on Aug 21, at 1120; finally clear of the UNID jamming that had recently been here. The jamming probably was a spur from the 6045 N. Korea jamming against Voice of Freedom. I conclude this, due to today being the first day that 6045 was free of jamming (moved down to 5920) (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CHINA [and non]. 11785, CNR1 at 1128 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin via the Philippines with a man with excited talk then some promos to 1+1 time pips at 1130 – Fair Aug 18 11785, PHILIPPINES, VOA at 1130 in Mandarin with a man with talk – Weak but audible under CNR1 jammer Aug 18 11825, CNR1 at 1131 // 11785 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin via the Philippines with a man with excited talk – Fair in peaks Aug 18 9660, CNR1 at 1143 // 11640 and 11785 in Mandarin jamming RTI in Mandarin with a man and woman with excited talk – Fair Aug 19 9680, CNR1 at 1149 // 9660, 11640, and 11785 in Mandarin jamming RTI in Mandarin with a man and woman with excited talk – Fair Aug 19 11640, CNR1 at 1146 // 9660 and 11785 in Mandarin jamming RTI in Mandarin with a man and woman with excited talk – Fair Aug 19 11640, CNR1 at 1101 // 11785 in Mandarin jamming RTI in Mandarin with a fanfare and a number of promos – Fair Aug 21 11640, TAIWAN, RTI at 1103 in Mandarin with a man with talk – Poor under CNR1 jammer Aug 21 11785, CNR1 at 1105 // 11640 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin via the Philippines with a man with excited talk – Fair Aug 21 11785, PHILIPPINES, VOA at 1106 in Mandarin with an interview between two men – Fair mixing with CNR1 jammer Aug 21 11825, PHILIPPINES, VOA at 1108 // 11785 in Mandarin with an interview between two men – Fair mixing with CNR1 jammer Aug 21 11825, CNR1 at 1109 // 11640 and 11785 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin via the Philippines with a man with excited talk – Fair mixing with the VOA Aug 21 13830, CNR1 at 1302 // 11825 in Mandarin jamming RFA in Tibetan via Tajikistan with a man and woman with excited talk and promos – Fair Aug 21 13890, CNR1 at 1156 // 11785 in Mandarin jamming the Sound of Hope in Mandarin via Taiwan with a man with excited talk and promos to 5+1 time pips at 1300 and off – Fair Aug 21 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre- fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) ** CHINA. CNR-1 jammer vs Sound of Hope Xi Wang Zhi Sheng, August 20 from 1200 on 12190 unknown kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese, very good till 1300 on 15940 unknown kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese, very good http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/cnr-1-jammer-vs-sound-of-hope-xi-wang_21.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, August 20-21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9745, unidentified Chinese music station ("Firedragon" / "Firedrake") at 1900. Crash and bang music. Radio Free Asia via Kuwait should be here, so it would be a good guess this is another jamming effort. - Poor/Fair August 20 9355, unidentified Chinese music station ("Firedragon"/"Firedrake") at 1900. Crash-boom-bang. Radio Free Asia via Mariana Islands should be here, so they likely are the target here. - Solid S-9 August 20 (Rick Barton, from Central Arizona, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; RS SW-2000629, & ATS-909X with various outdoor wires; Some signal strengths may be a little light, as my better outdoor antennas have fallen into disuse. (I have been tormented by Las Tormentas, i.e., we've been plagued by numerous sudden & unpredictable thunderstorms). 73 and Good Listening....! -rb, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 7215, CRI (via Xi`an) at 1300. Opening in Chinese. Careful listen showed nothing from co-channel Shiokaze/Sea Breeze station. VG on SW-2000629, windowframe antenna. August 13 (Rick Barton from Central Arizona, 73 to all, and Good Listening....! -rb, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5040, Aug 15 at 0618, S9+10 of dead air as RHC has failed to close this transmitter down at scheduled 0600*. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15230, Aug 16 at 1412, dead air from RHC; it`s the second SSOB after 15825 WWCR inbooming by Es, and very little else on band. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 13700, Aug 17 at 1349, RHC is S9+10/20 of dead air; 13740 is OK at S8/S9+10. By 1422, 13700 is finally modulating. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 13740, Aug 18 at 1404, both transmitters are on past 1405, RHC Spanish audible underneath CRI News in English from China Plus. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. 5040, Aug 19 at 0411, this RHC frequency is OFF; while 5025 Rebelde remains. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 5040, Aug 20 at 0153 and still/again at 0547 check, RHC is AWOL from here. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 12000, Aug 20 at 1314, RHC Spanish is S4-S6: must be 2 x 6000 which is S8/S9+10; both off at 1354. Only other 25m RHC now is big 11760. Something`s always wrong at RHC. It does employ 12000 as a fundamental in the tardes, with a much stronger and dirtier signal. 5040, Aug 20 at 2142, RHC is back on but JBA; had been absent last night. Aug 21 at 0238 it`s S9+20/30 but dead air. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 9790, Aug 21 at 0252, S9+20/30 of open carrier, warming up for CRI Plus relay in English at 0300; I won`t say it`s wrong, but unnecessarily wasteful. 6000, Aug 21 at 0629, RHC English is S9+10 but JBM; << // 6100 & 6165 more modulation and // 6060 plenty. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5200, RHC at 1113, in Spanish. I'm guessing this is some kinda spur or something, they aren't really broadcasting here, right? - Good August 21 (Rick Barton, from Central Arizona, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; RS SW-2000629, & ATS-909X with various outdoor wires; Some signal strengths may be a little light, as my better outdoor antennas have fallen into disuse. (I have been tormented by Las Tormentas, i.e., we've been plagued by numerous sudden & unpredictable thunderstorms). 73 and Good Listening....! -rb, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Rick, Which receiver was it? If it is single-conversion with a 450 kHz IF, an image could be receiver-produced -900 kHz from 6100, not transmitted by RHC (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) 13740, Aug 21 at 1359, transmitter for CRI is on with open carrier, while other transmitter with RHC Spanish can still be heard under. Today China Plus relay manages to start modulating on time, at 1400, but RHC Spanish continues underneath a while longer. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 11860, Aug 16 at 2000, RHC in Portuguese still mixing with Radio Martí but RHC is atop at the moment; do I also hear some lite jamming? Something`s always wrong at RHC. 2219 recheck, only a JBA carrier, Yemen non? Evidently this Cuban radio war is over by 2200 instead of 2300. 11930 is still on, RM over jamming with weather forecast for Cuba, tropical storm. Does the RM meteorologist get his info from external obs only? 11860, Aug 17 at 1358, R. Martí open carrier is on at S9, vs pulse jamming. 1422 recheck, RM modulation good over jamming. Aug 17 at 2008, now RM and RHC are still colliding at about equal levels producing that medium SAH. 11860, Sat Aug 18 at 1402, jamming but NO Radio Martí, not even a carrier amid the noise, tho I do hear some regular double-beeps by the jammers. Meanwhile old RM frequency 11930 is still well audible over jamming. I search the 9, 11, 13 and 15 MHz bands for a possible RM replacement, but nothing (while old 13605 does remain). Maybe I should have tried 7335, 7365 which had been closing by 1400? Same situation at 1528, 1705, as the jamming is still running against nothing on 11860. We shall see whether RHC has remained steadfast on 11860 from 1930? I wonder if OCB will now be issuing press release about what a mistake they made with 11860? Or blame RHC for blocking them even tho it was there way first. Ha. 11860, August 18 at 1912, R. Martí is still gone, but not the wall-of- noise jamming. At 1932, RHC French has started, and still jamming! So RM got Cuba to jam itself (and only itself) on this frequency; way to go! 11860, Sunday August 19 at 1409 & 1826 chex, still jamming and no replacement found for Martí. Possibly, but unlikely, OCB plan to add it on weekdays only? 11860, Monday August 20 at 1356, lite pulse jamming vs JBA carrier, presumed poor Yemen [non]. 1357 jamming level is ramping up, but *1400:45 mostly blocked by big S9+10 carrier from Greenville, 1402:55 JIP Radio Martí modulation well over jamming. So my ``unlikely`` hypothesis with previous report of no RM on 11860, Aug 18-19, Saturday & Sunday, proves to be correct: they are running 11860 on weekdays only, and presumably will again collide head-on with RHC by 1930. 11860, Aug 20 at 1933 on caradio, R. Martí atop RHC in French, the usual medium ~8 Hz SAH between them, atop jamming noise as the collision continues. Still at 2138 as RM is announcing its satellite parameters, over RHC, which must know what`s going on here, but does OCB? Pulse jamming is still running at 0235 August 21 against nothing, typical overkill. 11860, Tue Aug 21 at 1400, jamming noise is unimpeded just as it has been for at least a semihour; Greenville does not get the R. Martí carrier on until 1402, off and on again, modulating finally just before 1403 atop jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADI 1944, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CZECHIA [non]. 9955, Aug 15 at 1214, still past 1219, open carrier/dead air from WRMI when R. Prague in English is supposed to be emanating. Not even default to some World Music fill (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Czechoslovak anniversary --- The 50th anniversary of the invasion (the night of 20-21 August 1968) will be an opportunity to remember the many radio stories from that time. Here's a good article (written by Don Moore on the 25th anniversary) about the many stations that sprang up inside Czechoslovakia to oppose the invasion: http://www.pateplumaradio.com/genbroad/czech.html From the other side, Richard Cummings recalls Radio Vltava, the clandestine station broadcasting from East Germany: https://coldwarradios.blogspot.com/2018/08/clandestine-radio-vltava-during-soviet.html?spref=tw (Chris Greenway, UK, Aug 17, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. Hello! Received QSL card (53 days) for "ERTU-General Program" (819 kHz, via Batrah). station was listened at end of June in Kemer (Turkey). report was sent to: freqmeg [at] yahoo.com 73! (Ivan Zelenyi (Nizhnevartovsk, Russia), Receiver: Degen DE1103 Antenna: indoor, Selfmade loop SW antenne, D=0,77 metres. https://twitter.com/ivan_z_nv Aug 21, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** ERITREA. ERITREIA, 7140, Voz das Massas, Selai Dairo, 1700-1713, 11/8, ling. local, música da região, texto; 23341, QRM de radioamadores. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, Aug 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Circa 0300 unlogged JBA carrier but not 7180 (gh) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. FRANCE, R. Xoriyo Ogaden & Voice of Amara Radio via TDF Issoudun on August 20 1600-1630 17770 500 kW / 130 deg Somali Mon/Fri R. Xoriyo Ogaden and 1700-1758 15360 250 kW / 120 deg Amharic Wed/Sat-Mon V of Amara Radio: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/rxoriyo-ogaden-voice-of-amara-radio-via_21.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, August 20-21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. Dandal Kura Radio Int on unscheduled 9620 kHz on August 17 0500-0600 9620*ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Kanuri, very good signal 0500-0600 7220 ISS 100 kW / 167 deg to CeAf Kanuri, fair/good signal 0600-0700 11910 ISS 100 kW / 167 deg to CeAf Kanuri, very good signal *A-18 scheduled TDA Telediffusion d'Algerie one hour later 0600-0700 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/dandal-kura-radio-int-on-unscheduled.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, August 16-17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dandal Kura Radio International on unscheduled 9620, Aug 21 0500-0600 9620*ISS 500 kW / 194 deg NWAf Kanuri +self digital jamming 0500-0600 7220 ISS 100 kW / 167 deg CeAf Kanuri +self digital jamming 0600-0700 11910 ISS 100 kW / 167 deg CeAf Kanuri, very good signal *A-18 scheduled for TDA Telediffusion d'Algerie one hour later 06-07 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/radio-international-via-ascension.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, August 20-21, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. French radio history: Radio-Cité, la première radio music and news française (in 1935) http://www.radiotsf.fr/radio-cite-la-premiere-radio-music-and-news-francaise/ (via Kim Elliott, WOR iog via DXLD) yes, in franglais (gh) ** GERMANY. Radio Mi Amigo International bring us a special program of Aretha Franklin today Saturday, August 18 and tomorrow Sunday, August 19 on 6085 kHz via Kall Krekel and on internet, streaming: http://radiomiamigo.international/RMAI-stream4-192k.html Today 1600 UT, 1800 CET and tomorrow 0700 UT, 0900 CET and 1600 UT, 1800 CET. http://www.radiomiamigo.international/english/news.html "LATEST NEWS 18, August 2018 This weekend: Aretha Franklin Special - Bruno's Soul Box This weekend Bruno Hantson, our Soul Brother and R&B connaisseur extraordinaire, presents a one hour tribute to the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin that is not to be missed The show airs Saturday at 18:00 hrs and again on Sunday at 09:00 and 18:00 hrs." (via Manuel Méndez, Spain, Aug 18, WOR iog via DXLD) ** GERMANY. UPDATE - Very low priced airtime for reception in Europe! UPDATE / please note: Thank you for many requests concerning air time on our transmitter. A customer from the U.S. made a test with 56 hours / week, and when this was finished, he booked all time available until the end of August. So if you want to book or run a test for free, please notice that this will only be possible September 1st or later - until this date we are fully booked, 24/7. And we hope that we can offer you a second frequency very soon - it will be most likely in the 41 meter band. Dear Sir or Madam, if you are interested to broadcast to Europe on shortwave, we have a very good offer for you. You can rent airtime for only 15 € / hour (discounts for bookings on a larger scale are possible) on our transmitter, that guarantees good reception all over Europe on our frequency of 6070 kHz. You might deliver your programs as mp3 on our server or with some kind of DropBox; for live programs / internet streaming we have a fast internet connection with up to 100 MB/sec. download capacity. You would have the advantage that we don't switch on the transmitter only if someone rented airtime - this would mean, that only listeners looking for your program would hear you, but your program will be embedded in our own schedule with music, the in Europe well known "Jammin' Oldies"-show presented by Conny Ferrin, and Offshore Radio history. So you will get a lot of new listeners for free! Our customer "Radio Oberlausitz International" got for the first eight weeks on our station, only on air on Saturday evenings, more than 2.700 reception reports from all over the world! And below you find some more comments of customers. If this is interesting for you, don't hesitate to contact us; you can start within one day, don't have to sign a long running contract and are always free to change hours and time of your bookings - and ask us for a trial for free! Write to: info@channel292.de And we attach three predictions concerning reception of our station for this month; morning, daytime and nighttime. [coverage maps] This is what customers wrote: Translation: What can I say after our first broadcast - only good! We got reports from England, Spain, Germany, Austria and Italy (mentioned in a later mail: Russia, Greece, Japan, and still coming in! All report a strong signal with only a bit of fading). A big compliment for your station, it's absolutely crazy how good the transmitter can be heard all over Europe, I'm totally surprised! Directly I can say, we like to go on German: was kann ich Ihnen nach der ersten Sendung berichten... nur Gutes! Wir haben QSL-Anfragen aus England, Spanien, Deutschland, Österreich und Italien bekommen. (in einer folgenden Mail: Russland, Griechenland, Japan, und es kommen immer noch welche dazu! Alle berichteten von einem guten Signal und nur wenig Fading). Ein großes Kompliment an Ihren Sender, es ist absolut der Wahnsinn, wie gut der Sender in ganz Europa empfangen wird, bin total überrascht!! Kann direkt sagen, wir machen gerne weiter Another one wrote: Translation: I also had rented air time via X for over four months. But it got nowhere, because in all of these month' via ...... I got less reception reports than for the 6070 kHz within a single week, I canceled my program via station X. German: Ich hatte ja auch Sendezeit über X angemietet für über vier Monate. Da es mir allerdings nichts brachte, da ich in den ganzen Monaten über die ....... weniger Empfangsberichte bekam als über die 6070 in einer Woche, habe ich die Sendungen über den Sender X wieder eingestellt. Book airtime on 6070 kHz, available 24/7, clear channel nearly all the time - we are sure, we offer you the best propagation of all stations with less than 100 kW you can book all over Europe! Run a test for free - contact us ASAP! [with VOACAP computed coverage maps] -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards (Rainer Ebeling Radio Channel 292 Eja 2 85276 Pfaffenhofen Zuteilungsnummer der Rundfunklizenz: BNA 01 95 8482 Tel: +49 8441 - 456 99 88 info@channel292.de www.channel292.de Aug 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi All, A new fortnightly talk format programmes called 'Die Schleichfahrt' starts on Channel 292 [6070] this evening at 2000 UT. This 60 minute programme follows the regular weekly DARC Radio broadcast. Might be of interest to any German speakers in the group, who I'm sure will let us all know what it is about! :-) (Alan Gale, UK, 1951 UT Monday August 20, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) Google translates name as ``creep speed`` --- there you have it! (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, ibid.) No new programme, just more BS --- Hi All, Well, I was expecting the new talk format programme to appear on Channel 292 at 2000, but unless it features some ranting religious bloke, Brother Scare is back on instead, and one hour earlier than advertised. Must be a programming error or something (Alan Gale, 2007 UT, ibid.) GERMANY, Reception of Brother HySTAIRical via Channel 292, August 20 0000-1400 6070 ROB 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu English Mon, good signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/reception-of-brother-hystairical-via_21.html Reception of Brother HySTAIRical via Channel 292, August 21 2100-1800 6070 ROB 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu English Tue, good signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/reception-of-brother-hystairical-via_68.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, August 20-21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. Reception of Voice of Greece on 9420 kHz, August 21 from 0652 on 9420 AVL 150 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek*tx#03. Same time on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg via tx#1 - no signal * news in Arabic and the transmitter switches off at 0656 UT! http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/reception-of-voice-of-greece-on-9420_21.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, August 20-21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It seems there has been no signal on 9935 for many months now (gh) ** INDIA. EMERGENCY BROADCASTS BY AIR STATIONS IN KERALA Special emergency broadcasts were noted continuously last night (instead of regular sign off at around 1740 UT) by the following AIR stations of Kerala State on MW due to severe rain / flood / landslide warnings 576 Alappuzha 200 kW 630 Thrissur 100 kW 684 Kozhikode 100 kW 1161 Trivandrum 20 kW Please see the following link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dxindia/permalink/1805669812832740/ It may continue tonight / for a few days Watch coverage in Malayalam language in the following link https://www.asianetnews.com/live-tv The SW Transmitter of AIR Trivandrum (5010, 7290) is off air from 15 Aug 2018 due to a valve problem but is expected to be back on air today or very soon. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, Mobile: +91 94416 96043, http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos Aug 17, dx_india yg via DXLD) 5010 on air today. Weak signal here at 0100 (C K Raman, 0143 UT Aug 18, ibid.) ** INDIA. AIR's GOS in English on 7550 kHz today, 16 August heard at 1855 UT back in AM mode (rather than the 2-channel DRM service that has been transmitted recently). (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) AIR is back on DRM today, 17 August, on 7550, although at time of writing (1845 UT) signal is way too weak to decode audio, although the text GOS-IV info is being displayed (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, ibid.) [non?]. 7555-7560, Aug 18 at 0014, DRMish noise in this range, but not below 7555. Maybe nothing to do with AIR, which had been resuming DRM on 7545-7550-7555 until 0045, but latest report from Alan Roe August 17 says it`s back to AM again. Re my previous report, I mixed up the dates of Alan Roe`s obs: ``Just to clarify: I noted AIR on 7550 kHz in AM mode on Aug 16 around 1855 UT, and in DRM mode again Aug 17 at 1945 UT. Also in DRM right now (Aug 18 at 2155 UT) Regards & 73, Alan Roe, Teddington, UK`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See UNIDENTIFIED ** INDIA. 11560, AIR (Bengaluru) at 1528 in Pashto with subcontinental vocals and a woman with possible ID at 1530 and off – Fair Aug 19 – They are supposed to be in English from 1530 to 1545 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) ** INDIA [non]. TWR India 12160 kHz via Tashkent and Grigoriopol *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# TWR India on 12160 kHz: 1345-1430 UT via TAC(Tashkent) - not KCH(Grigoriopol)! 1430-1545 UT via KCH(Grigoriopol) *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja1Uscrf2-o 9 sec. on 12160 kHz TAC!, to SoAs, Tibetan, Voice of Tibet from 1345 UT on 12160 kHz TAC!, to SoAs, Indian dialects, TWR Recordings of 12160 kHz from 1420 UT to 1430:43 UT, 13-Aug-2018: a) via KiwiSDR in Switzerland: http://ab27.bplaced.net/twr/2018-08-13T14_20_00Z_12160.00_am_kiwisdr.hamspirit.de_TAC-MDA.mp3 b) via KiwiSDR in India: http://ab27.bplaced.net/twr/2018-08-13T14_20_00Z_12160.00_am_newdelhi.twrmon.net_TAC-MDA.mp3 In Recording a), you can hear the strong carrier of KCH from 1426:42 UT (06:42 min), covering the signal from TAC. Modulation from KCH starts at 1429:43 UT (09:43 min) with TWR IS. In Recording b), the KCH carrier is not as strong as in the first recording. Therefore, at the end of the TWR transmission via TAC till 1430 UT (10:00 min), one can remark TWR via TAC mixing up with the end of NHK English via TAC which is scheduled as follows: 1400-1430 UT NHK Eng via TAC on 11935 kHz. Modulation from KCH starts at 1429:43 UT (09:43 min) with TWR IS. The following recording on 12160 kHz is from 1540 UT to 1545:17 UT, 13-Aug-2018, via KiwiSDR in Switzerland: TWR via KCH closing down at 1545:08 UT (05:08 min). http://ab27.bplaced.net/twr/2018-08-13T15_40_00Z_12160.00_am_kiwisdr.hamspirit.de.mp3 Next: The TDoA result from 1520 UT showing that TWR 12160 kHz is indeed coming from KCH at this time: http://ab27.bplaced.net/twr/20180813-1520z_TWR_12160kHz_MDA_TDoA-combined.png http://ab27.bplaced.net/twr/20180813-1520z_TWR_12160kHz_MDA_TDoA-result.png 73, (Alexander Busneag, Germany, Aug 15, WOR iog via DXLD) Yes Alexander, that's how it is listed in WRTH A18 schedules. 73, (Mauno Ritola, WOR iog via DXLD) TWR India via txs Yerevan and Grigoriopol on August 15 1305-1315 on 9330 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to SoAs TWR Interval Signal from 1315 on 9910 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to SoAs Maithili, very good 9 sec. on 12160 KCH 300 kW / 098 deg to SoAs Tibetan Voice of Tibet from 1345 12160 KCH 300 kW / 098 deg to SoAs Marwari-good signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/twr-india-via-txs-yerevan-and.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, August 15-16, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 7289.92, Pro 1 RRI Nabire (tentative), 0902, Aug 17 (Independence Day). Today only hearing a carrier; well below threshold level; was gone by 1013; the poorest reception I have had so far. RRI Nabire, on Aug 14, a disappointing no-show (0839+). Aug 13, also not heard from 0828+. Andy Robins had positive reception, via Bill Whitacre's temporary remote receiver, at "Sans Souci" near Florence, Oregon, on Aug 12, from 0750+. While Dave Valko on Aug 15, noted "It's now 1117, the sun is shining here, and 7289.92 RRI Nabire is still showing up prominently on the Perseus display. I'm almost certain this is the latest I've ever noticed it on the air" and he says RRI went off close to 1131. He of course noted the strong CNR1 signal on 7290. Clearly this station is very erratic and certainly the cut off time varies a great deal. 7289.92, Pro 1 RRI Nabire (tentative), Aug 18, at 0846*, seemed their carrier ended. In SF have not had any days with audio (Ron Howard, Ocean Beach [San Francisco], CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. Satellite --- Television 55.5 W, Intelsat-34, 3.758-H/2953 Msps, Bolivia-TV with a BIG gathering of folks & a guy addressing the crowd in Spanish & “Rodeo Grande” ‘live from Chuquisaca’ printed on the screen as he talked. 1450-1500 16/Aug, 61% & steady, QPSK. MPEG2 & 480i SD -- Zichi MI2 58 W, Intelsat-21, 4.160-H/26590 Msps, NHK World (2 // streams) with a show about long distance trains in Japan, including the latest & greatest 150 kph train with barrier free bathrooms & special ‘family cabins’ etc. & the restoration of an old diesel engine. Then news read by OM. 1535-1605, 16/Aug. This is also // to the NHK video service on SES-3 at 103 W in the Ku band. 54% & steady, one stream (service ID 21 NHK World HD) QPSK/h.264 & in 1080i HD & the other (svc ID 11 NHK World SD 625) QPSK/MPEG2 in 576i SD -- Zichi MI2 103 W, SES-3, 4.090-V/14030 Msps. PBS-C Band Home Feed (2 // streams) with “Dinosaur Train” Kids show. 1620-1630 16/Aug. 57% & steady, one stream (svc ID 11 PBS SD) QPSK/MPEG2 in 480i & (svc ID 3 PBS HD) also in QPSK/MPEG2 but in 1080I --Zichi MI2 113 W, Eutel 113, 3.870-V/30000 Msps. Megacanal English movie with Spanish subtitles on the programme: 'Cinema platino'. This is a weekly ‘foreign film’ show that is a Saturday night staple on the Mexican satellites & does a good job picking stuff that is not ‘ordinary’! Tonight's was a 'The Big Wedding' a Robert DeNiro, Susan Sarandon & Diane Keaton 2013 chick flick based on a French movie. No ads during the time I watched, but into infomercial for women's shoes with memory foam insoles after the movie at BoH. 0310-0340 12/August. 61% & steady, using 8PSK/h.264. 480i SD signal -- Zichi MI2 127 W, Galaxy-13, 3.920-V/28060Msps. NASA TV (2 streams) with programme about the Sun & solar exploration then a ‘talking head’ show with astronauts on PR101 & an interview with Dr Parker for whom the Parker Solar probe is named on PR103. 1440-1450 16/Aug. Both were 58% & steady, QPSK/h.264 and 720p HD (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI2, MARE Tipsheet August 17 via DXLD) ** IRELAND [non]. IRRS 7290 kHz 1800-1900 UT Fri/Sat/Sun --- Is someone able to check the TX location of 7290 kHz with the new KiwiSDR TDoA tool? Unfortunately, I haven't been getting any reliable result for this frequency until now (Alexander Busneag, Germany, Aug 17, WOR iog via DXLD) ** IRELAND [non]. Listen to the All-Ireland Final worldwide Will be on shortwave to Africa with RTÉ Radio. "Sunday Sport on RTÉ Radio 1 starts at 2pm - All radio streams will be available worldwide on RTÉ.ie. Join Darren Frehill, Jacqui Hurley and guests for expert analysis. Full coverage of the All-Ireland minor decider between Galway and Kilkenny can be heard on RTÉ Radio 1 from 1.15pm with Pauric Lodge on commentary. There'll be plenty of post-match reaction including The Marty Squad from 7pm until 8pm as we hear all the reaction from the final." https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2018/0819/986047-how-to-watch-the-all-ireland-final-worldwide/ (via Mike Terry, Aug 20, WOR iog via DXLD) What`s the date?? I suppose everyone in Ireland knows without mentioning it. The story itself posted Aug 19 says ``today`` with lots of info about getting it on ``all platforms`` --- except SW! Tough luck. O, what`s the game??? Hurling, mentioned once (gh, DXLD) It's a pity RTÉ didn't give more notice (Mike Terry, WOR iog via DXLD) Although the RTÉ website mentions shortwave to Africa here https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2018/0819/986047-how-to-watch-the-all-ireland-final-worldwide it may be sloppy editing that has not removed this reference when the page was updated. I don't think the All-Ireland finals are relayed on shortwave any longer. Not in 2017 if I remember rightly - last shortwave relay was in 2016 (on 15320)? For the record, there is the All-Ireland football 2018 final still to be played at Croke Park, Dublin on September 9th (here in the UK audible on 252 kHz longwave still). 73, (Alan, Caversham, UK, Pennington, ibid.) I asked them about shortwave item and the reply was: ``LW 252 is the radio signal. You can also watch on this site: https://www.gaago.ie/ RTÉ Information Office`` (Mauno Ritola, Finland, ibid.) The All Ireland hurling and football finals used to be the 1st and 3rd Sundays of September respectively. The GAA Congress are implementing changes over two years so I believe that both the 2019 finals will be in August 2019. The 2018 football final is on the 2nd of September to avoid clashing with the Pope’s schedule during his visit (Kevin Ryan, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) Yes, date of football final is 2nd September (not 9th as I incorrectly posted earlier). Pope's visit to Ireland is 25-26 August (Alan Pennington, WOR iogo via DXLD) ** KIRITIMATI. 846, Aug 20 at 0616, JJBBA carrier from R. Kiribati (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6165, JAPAN, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze at 1320. W in Japanese, familiar music, M in Japanese and the jailbreak alarm (as I call it) sound effect (ex-7215)? Heard on SW-2000629 and windowframe antenna - Good August 18. NOTE: Faded out after BoH with rising sun (no pun intended) here. 6165, JAPAN, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze at 1300. Usual music opening, M in (listed/sounded) Korean. Faded very quickly at the BoH. Only heard a carrier and then going off at 1400. - Poor/Fair August 19 (Rick Barton from Central Arizona, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; RS SW- 2000629, & ATS-909X with various outdoor wires. Use of portables noted where relevant for perspective on signal strength comments. Some signal strengths may be a little light, as my better outdoor antennas have fallen into disuse. I have been tormented by Las Tormentas, i.e., we've been plagued by numerous sudden & unpredictable thunderstorms. 73 and Good Listening....! -rb, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) JAPAN, Frequency changes of JSR Shiokaze Sea Breeze, August 16 1300-1400 NF 6165 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs-weak, ex 7215 as follows 1300-1330 Chinese Mon; Japanese Tue/Sat; Korean Wed/Fri/Sun; English Thu 1330-1400 Korean Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat; Japanese Tue/Sun; English Thu 1600-1700 NF 7215 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs-good, ex 6165 as follows 1600-1630 Chinese Mon; Japanese Tue/Sat; Korean Wed/Fri/Sun; English Thu 1630-1700 Korean Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat; Japanese Tue/Sun; English Thu Reception of Furusato no Kaze via JSR Shiokaze Sea Breeze, August 16 1405-1435 on 7325^YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese, fair signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/frequency-changes-of-jsr-shiokaze-sea.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, August 16-17, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 5920.0, Voice of Freedom, 1140, Aug 14 (Tuesday - weekday schedule). Good reception, with "Aneun geos-i him-ida" ("Knowing is power") program; clear of any N. Korea jamming, which was still up on ex: 6045. My audio at http://goo.gl/jiogyH Aug 17 also found VOF still clear of jamming and usual very good reception (Ron Howard, Ocean Beach [San Francisco], CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) 5920.0, Voice of Freedom. Regarding my Aug 9 log, please note the following from website "Now On The Radio." Again I am thankful for Amano-san's wonderful ongoing assistance with my VOF audio clips. http://radio.chobi.net/bbsasia/?#4406 "Hello! Ron-san. I'm sorry for being late. Thank you for the frequency change information and your clear audio clip. Thanks to your audio, the program name of "Nalssi ..." turned out! >1010 UT: "Nalssi ..."? ("Weather ...") - http://goo.gl/wC3ycK This program name is "Nalssi-wa saenghwal". In English, "Weather and Life". In Japanese, ??????? [characters] >1020 UT: "Hanla-eseo Baegdu-kkaji" ("From Halla to Baekdu") http://goo.gl/zyn4Uc It is exactly "Hanla-eseo Baegdu-kkaji"! This audio program, the first song is "Eomji cheog" (Thumb Up) by Hong Jin Young. https://youtu.be/eToI-YtTiHM What a great audio! Ron-san. Thank you as always." (Ron Howard, Ocean Beach [San Francisco], CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) 5920.0, Voice of Freedom, on Aug 21, at 1120; the first day that N. Korean jamming is here; jamming finally moved away from ex: 6045 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. 15540/DRM, R Kuwait with English talx re sport ‘hero’, etc. in “Youth Impact” programme. Then hippy hop pop music. Also decoded a bit with SoDiRa’s built in DRM decoder, but not as reliable. In Stereo 17.46 kbps and bopping between 15-20 dB s/n with everything north of 16.5 decoding well. 453+ with lots of skipping, but better than usual, with about 8-1/2 minutes decoded during the 10 minutes I listened. 1942-1952 14/Aug (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI2, MARE Tipsheet August 17 via WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) 5959.878, Aug 21 at 0244, S6-S8 poor with ME music, talk. Must be R. Kuwait in Arabic, still there but JBA carrier by 0354. Aoki/NDXC shows nothing else now on ``5960`` spanning 02-09, and Ivo in July was reporting this and many other MOI frequencies offset below to .8 or .9, including here past 0500 despite Dandal Kura/Ndarason, Ascension (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reception of MOI Radio Kuwait GS in 49 & 19mb on August 21 0200-0625 5959.8 KBD 250 kW / non-dir N/ME Arabic, fair/good 0455-0903 15515.0 KBD 250 kW / 059 deg EaAs Arabic, very good http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/reception-of-moi-radio-kuwait-gs-in-49.html Reception of MOI Radio Kuwait in English on 15529.8 kHz on August 21 0500-0800 15529.8 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg WeEu English AM mode, very good Wrong frequency announcement: 11970 kHz in 19mb, instead of 15530 kHz in 19mb; Plus second wrong frequency announcement: 15540 kHz in 25mb, instead of 19mb! http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/reception-of-moi-radio-kuwait-in_21.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, August 20-21, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5960. Ago 21, 2018. 0248-0257, Radio Kuwait, Kabd-KWT, em Árabe. Locutor apresenta notícias, presumivelmente, e fala em Kofi Annan; 0255 Outro locutor continua o noticiário. Radio Kuwait com recepção satisfatória em minha cidade, 35433 (José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX) - PR7036SWL (SWARL). Cabedelo-Paraíba, Brasil (UT -3), HCDX via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. KNLS heard in Russian at 1930 UT on 9755 with a sinpo of 44344 with slight static QRN. Russian speaking female. Tecsun PL- 660, active antenna. 73, (Jon Collins, Birmingham, middle of the UK, Aug 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11610, World Christian Broadcasting (KNLS) at 2102 in Mandarin with western pop vocals and a male preacher from 2105 – Very Good Aug 16 – I still find it difficult to understand what playing western pop songs with their questionable, if not downright racy, lyrics has to do with preaching the Good News of the Gospel and salvation through Jesus Christ? (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) 11790, World Christian broadcasting at 2220 man talking over soft music in both English and Arabic. Dialogue with man woman and then Middle Eastern female vocal music at the bottom of the hour. Very nice to hear the station again as they has not been audible at all for most of the summer. - Ranging from Fair to Very Good, & fully lighting up the little tuning eye on the SW 2000629. August 18 (Rick Barton from Central Arizona, Some signal strengths may be a little light, as my better outdoor antennas have fallen into disuse. I have been tormented by Las Tormentas, i.e., we've been plagued by numerous sudden & unpredictable thunderstorms. 73 and Good Listening....! -rb, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Re my previous log of XETNT 650, Raymie Humbert, AZ, replied Aug 11 on the WTFDA Forum: ``That'd be the first news I'd have that XHTNT made its A90 clear. You couldn't tell from their Facebook. Listening, though, they still are using 106.5 FM jingles; so they must still be promoting the move [to 100.5] but haven't done it yet`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Wow!!! What is happening to what was the "Mighty 690" from Rosarito, Mexico. With Chinese programming from the mainland, this could be a real security problem. Rosarito's signal is heard quite strongly across the west and the effects on modern media could be substantial. In the 1970's, 690 AM stereo was the pride of the west coast with 77,000 watts. Its Easy Listening format was a nice alternative on the AM spectrum. Yes, it was a relic of border radio. (Tom Roberts, PhD, KF7PKG, 0103 UT Aug 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 710, Aug 15 at 1143, full ID for La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc, 1144 TC as 5:43, in newscast. That`s XEDP in Chihuahua, not using its off-frequency transmitter today. I`d rather be asleep but since I`m not, a quick scan of the lower band finds Spanish presumed usual Mexicans on all these frequencies: 540, 550, 560, 610, 650, 660, 700, 710, 720, 730, 740-, 750, 760, 780, 790- , 800 --– widely varying strengths and most are about to fade out. 740- is surely XEQH Torreón, previously IDed as the off-frequency one tearing up KRMG, R. Fórmula. 790- is surely XENT, La Paz BCS, with LAH vs US stations, as heard in April, another R. Fórmula --- coincidental lax engineering standards at this network? Soon losing out to Rogers AR 790.0. I get 780 briefly by tightly nulling nearby KSPI, clues in news that it is XESFT in Tamaulipas. 870, expect daytimer XETAR in Chihuahua to come on at 1200, but no sign of it by 1202; just too late for SRS, or has it evacuated for FM only? That would be quite a shame. Our sunrise today: 1149 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. XEROK Christianized --- Good day! Mr. Hauser, Reporting 8.19.2018 UT that XEROK 800 kHz is now running religious format! IDing as "Onda Cristiana Ochocientos AM" - "La Frecuencia Evangélica De Ciudad Juárez", playing Spanish Christian music, but something strange at 0730 UT, the old official ID was played making mention of being the home of the best grupero music?! I guess they haven`t had time to work on a new official ID to go with their new format. SIO 333 mixing with XESPN (mostly) and KBFP making a brief appearance every several minutes. 73 de (Luís H Esquivel, K6LHE, Pomona CA, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DX LISTENING DIGEST) really full-time religion? (gh, ibid.) ** MEXICO. LA XHINFO-FM BRINDA NOVEDADES DESDE EL ETER MEXICANO 16/08/2018 La XHINFO-FM deriva de la XEINFO 1560 de AM y estuvo involucrada en el pleito que desde el 2002 enfrentó Grupo Radio Centro con el periodista José Gutiérrez Vivó, quien la traspasó a Eduardo Henkel para dar cumplimiento a una serie de deudas contraídas con este empresario del negocio automotriz. Resultado de imagen para microfono de radio [capción] La XHINFO-FM sí podrá multiplexar su espectro para crear canales adicionales de radio digital. La XHINFO-FM comenzó este fin de semana a transmitir en modo de fase de pruebas por la frecuencia del 105.3 FM que el Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones le otorgó hace un año como parte de un programa de migración de estaciones de AM hacia la banda de Frecuencia Modulada que fue resultado de la innovación tecnológica y de políticas regulatorias encaminadas a construir un mercado más competitivo para la radio mexicana en todos sus rubros: social, comercial, público y comunitario. La emisora ocupó desde su origen la frecuencia de los 1560 kHz de Amplitud Modulada y las siglas XEFAJ-AM y luego XEINFO-AM. En agosto de 2017 se conoció que el IFT le había concedido el único espacio disponible para radio comercial en la banda de FM de la Ciudad de México, mientras que otra señal más la destinó para la radio pública, en este caso para Radio Educación que migró del 1060 de AM al 96.5 y con el distintito [sic] XHEP-FM. XHINFO-FM pertenece al empresario automotriz Eduardo Henkel y se ha destacado que por la señal de la 105.3 transmitirá el concepto “Aire Libre”, en alianza comercial con un grupo radiofónico de Quintana Roo, pues en la plaza de Tulum sonará el mismo concepto por la frecuencia de los 94.7 Megahercios. XHINFO-FM deriva de la XEINFO-AM y aquella estación estuvo en los últimos años involucrada en el pleito que enfrentó desde el año 2002 a los empresarios de Grupo Radio Centro con el periodista José Gutiérrez Vivó, quien la traspasó a Eduardo Henkel para dar cumplimiento a una serie de deudas contraídas con este empresario. La elección de Henkel por el IFT para otorgarle la, por ahora, única frecuencia disponible para radio comercial en la capital provocó enojos en la industria capitalina, pues históricos grupos del sector como NRM, ACIR, Radiorama, Radio 13 y Radio Capital, principalmente, intentaron adjudicarse la 105.3 FM y entonces algunos de ellos descargaron contra el regulador desde otras de sus plataformas de medios por esta decisión en favor de Eduardo Henkel. XHINFO-FM no será la estación con las mejores posibilidades del cuadrante de la FM capitalina, tanto en potencia radiada como alcance de cobertura, aspectos técnicos que terminan por ser contrarios a las opiniones vertidas en prensa de diversos grupos de radio que han descalificado al Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones por el supuesto de haber entregado de manera inequitativa esta señal a Henkel. En la práctica, la XHINFO-FM tendrá una cobertura y potencia radiada equivalentes a lo que alcanzan estaciones de tipo social ya en operación, como, por ejemplo, Radio Ibero 90.9 FM, de la Universidad Iberoamericana. El 105.3 FM está clasificado como una estación de clase A, por lo que su máxima potencia de transmisión será de 3,000 Watts y su alcance de cobertura será de 24 kilómetros desde su antena de transmisiones, que además deberá estar montada a una altura no superior a los 100 metros sobre el terreno. XHINFO-FM sí podrá multiplexar su espectro para crear canales adicionales de radio digital, si es de su interés ese plan y con el aval que debe conseguir del IFT. La nueva emisora se colocará en medio de otras dos de corte juvenil: a lado de Exa 104.9, de MVS Comunicaciones, y de Reactor 105.7, del Imer. De esta manera, la banda de FM de la Ciudad de México conocerá un nuevo jugador venido de la iniciativa privada como no había ocurrido en más de veinticinco años y que llega a esa frecuencia por otra vía legal contemplada en la actual legislación con fecha del 24 de noviembre del 2016 publicada en el Diario Oficial de la Federación, además de la figura de la licitación pública de espectro o el mercado secundario contempladas en la Ley Federal de Telecomunicaciones y Radiodifusión (GRA blog via DXLD) SOURCE? Not given!! But searching on the headline finds it here: https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/empresas/La-XHINFO-FM-105.3-de-Eduardo-Henkel-entra-a-la-radio-de-la-CDMX-20180812-0007.html (gh, DXLD) ** MEXICO. 1650 kHz Zer Radio - Ciudad de Mexico (X Band DX AM) Uma rara escuta de uma AM do México no Brasil. Falou o slogan repartido "16-50" Passando músicas calmas. Foi checado com o streaming da emissora e o áudio foi o mesmo! Feliz por esta escuta está chegando há uns 4 dias. 0943 UT 15 Agosto 2018 https://youtu.be/ODPCQZnjbfI RX: Yaesu FRG 8800. Antena: Beverage simples (Daniel Wyllyans, Sítio Estrela do Araguaia, Nova Xavantina MT, Brasil (Site da checagem). Eu estou ouvindo Radio ZER 1650 AM pelo RadiosNet. #OuvirRadio http://l.radios.com.br/r/43103 Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Often reported from Europe, DU? Still eludes me vs the US 1650s (gh) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- including DTV = TDT The multiprogramming agreement between the Chihuahua state government and Grupo Imagen calls for Canal 16 to get going next month, but it might be more like next year. http://eldiariodechihuahua.mx/Estado/2018/08/11/hasta-nuevo-aviso-canal-16-estatal-/ That's the word from Antonio Pinedo, the state communications director, who says the funds that would have gone to it this year were spent elsewhere, and a new allocation would need to be made in the 2019 budget. He also said the initial budget would be cut from 80 million to 50 million pesos, almost all of that for transmission infrastructure. The plan is to produce about three to four hours a day of programming; presumably, the rest would come from other state networks and public broadcasters. Several opposition figures criticized the expense of the new channel while there were more pressing needs for funds in education and health (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, August 15, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) The rumblings have been swirling for the last month, and they got louder yesterday when President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador called in to XHVT-FM's Telerreportaje news and said he wants to see José Gutiérrez Vivó and Carmen Aristegui back on the radio http://www.tabascohoy.com/nota/450404/procurara-amlo-regreso-de-carmen-aristegui-a-la-radio —*of course, if they and if radio station owners want it. And if they don't, there's always IMER and Radio Educación (Raymie, August 16, ibid.) Finally, news on IFT Pleno actions for the first time in quite some time, but there's really not much to talk about. On May 23, Radio Cultural de Villa de Carbón, A.C., got its station in Peñamiller, Querétaro. The application was made on July 29, 2013. They'll be on air as XHPMI-FM 100.7 from coordinates 21 03'28.21", - 99 49'01.55". A station class was not specified in what I saw, but social media posts (see below) imply a class A. None of the other stations awarded on May 23 have available documents. They already have a social presence, going by "Radiomiller". https://www.facebook.com/Radiomiller/ Apparently they were an ex-107.7 pirate. ——— ...and just as I say that, we get an IFT press release. http://www.ift.org.mx/comunicacion-y-medios/comunicados-ift/es/otorga-ift-mas-concesiones-para-uso-social-comunitario-comunicado-612018 How timely! The radio news consisted of four new community stations in Oaxaca, at Santo Domingo Zanatepec, San Antonino Castillo Velasco (not Antonio) and Tlacolula de Matamoros. Yes, four stations in three localities. According to my list of IFT station applications pending from last year, these are going to be the following: Centro Campesino de Asesori´a y Capacitacio´n Integral, Juntos en el Camino, A.C. (Santo Domingo Zanatepec) Comunicacio´n y Desarrollo Lani Nashi, A.C. (San Antonino Castillo Velasco and a bunch of other localities) Fundacio´n Guish Bac, Abriendo los Cielos, A.C. (Tlacolula) Somos Uno Radio La Voz de la Comunidad, A.C. (Tlacolula) The Santo Domingo Zanatepec applicant apparently set up a pirate here in 2010, Radio Guluchi. It broadcasts on 106.7 MHz https://www.facebook.com/Radio-Guluchi-264524406158/ Somos Uno Radio is an 88.7 pirate, http://somosunoradiotlacolula.com/ and Guish Bac I believe is also an ex-pirate. There was also news from television, where the IFT gave Imagen TV an 18-month extension of the coverage commitments in its network concession. In filing for the extension, Imagen cited delays in bringing transmitters into service resulting from, among other things, permitting delays at the municipal level and agreements with landowners where Imagen wants to build. According to the IFT, Imagen Televisión currently is operating 42 transmitters covering 61.72 percent of the population. ——— And the next day, we get some Pleno agendas, finally! The only two broadcasting items covered on July 4 and 6 were the Imagen TV extension and a merger deal being approved between Audio Publicidad and Radio Triunfos. The radio station awards must have happened in another meeting. While that's all the information available, the second item has enough info that we can extrapolate. It concerns the acquisition of XHERG-FM Guadalupe-Montemorelos, Nuevo León, outright by Multimedios (although quite clearly MM has had control for the last year). Audio Publicidad, S.A. de C.V., is the concessionaire for the station, and Radio Triunfos is a known MM subsidiary that is the concessionaire for several MM stations. The commissioners were split in their vote. A majority, consisting of Commissioners Fromow Rangel, Juárez Mojica, Robles Rovalo, and Díaz González, voted for the deal. Adolfo Cuevas Teja was in favor except for affirming that the deal meets point d of a transitory article of the LFTR, which requires that a merger "not have as its effect to diminish, damage or impede free competition in the sector". Gabriel Oswaldo Contreras Saldívar and María Elena Estavillo Flores voted no. Last edited by Raymie; 08-17-2018 at 02:04 PM (Raymie, originally Aug 16, ibid.) Puebla's radio carousel is spinning again, and there's quite a bit of news to process. Most of it centers upon Cinco Radio, which just four months after being greenlit for the 92.1 frequency that ABC Radio passed on, signed XHPUE-FM on the air on Wednesday and moved the Pasión FM format from 94.1 to 92.1. That leaves XHJE-FM 94.1 without a format, and for the moment, without a page on the Cinco Radio website. This is the third second-wave migrant to come on the air and the first of three second chance second-wave migrants, alongside ACIR's XHEHIT- FM 95.5 in Puebla and XHSAG-FM 92.5 in Salamanca, Guanajuato, to come to air. These stations were approved in April after the initial Puebla grantees, ABC Radio and Tribuna Comunicación, failed to pay, and in Salamanca, the originally selected station turned down the offer. If you remember the rumor from last month that was denied but has appeared to maybe be not all that false, it had Exa FM moving to XHJE. Edit: Gargadon just pointed me to the Exa FM national page...which has...an embedded stream for 94.1 FM! https://tunein.com/radio/Puebla-941-s306779/ The stream has an mvs.com contact email —*like owned and affiliated stations to MVS formats. Looks like it's true. Last edited by Raymie; 08-18-2018 at 01:26 AM (Raymie, originally Aug 17, ibid.) The IFT gave us all a steak dinner yesterday: the 80-page document http://www.ift.org.mx/sites/default/files/conocenos/pleno/sesiones/acuerdoliga/vppiftext0607182sinfirmanoct.pdf authorizing the acquisition of XHDD-FM (now XHERG) by Multimedios. We learned a lot about the reasons for the acquisition, how it got approved, and a bit about Multimedios. So let’s dig in to some of the big findings. The IFT’s poor definition of a service area let this one happen The IFT said that the relevant market to analyze included Ojo de Agua, the community of license for the station, as well as the municipalities of Montemorelos, Cadereyta and Juárez. In Montemorelos, the only stations with coverage are XHCHL, XHDD, XHERN and XHPAG, and one public station (XHLOS). In Cadereyta, XHMSN replaced XHERN. Juárez was listed as having all the commercial stations in the Monterrey market. Monterrey was considered irrelevant for the analysis. This came despite the July 2017 authorization that very much changed what XHDD was. When it was published in November, I wrote this: “XHDD's technical modification will almost certainly mean the end of XHDD as we've known it for 48 years. … It's sayonara Montemorelos (except for a shadow), hello Monterrey.” Anyone with half a brain and a coverage calculation tool could see that, besides attempting to regain lost AM ground, XHDD’s goal was to become a Monterrey station. When it signed on, it immediately began simulcasting XERG, a Monterrey AM station. It’s doubtful anything on XHERG will ever originate from Montemorelos ever again. However, with no audience studies available in the municipalities, the IFT did not look at the fact that in Juárez, Multimedios would own 61 percent of the commercial FM radio stations available. It instead chose to look at potential positives. Had this been considered as part of Monterrey radio, not Montemorelos, this deal might not have gone through. By the time the July 2017 authorization was approved, Multimedios had already bought assets from Audio Publicidad In 2017, Multimedios acquired the rights to the trademark “Delta 92.9 FM”. On June 26 of that year, it acquired from Audio Publicidad certain pieces of equipment utilized in the transmission facilities of the station. Further details, and prices, were redacted. In 2017, Audio Publicidad applied for the trademark for “DELTA 92.9 FM 800 AM ¡UN CARIÑITO PARA TUS OÍDOS!” (application). The application includes an authorizing instrument signed by Adalberto Gerardo Pezino Hernández dated June 22, 2017. http://marcanet.impi.gob.mx/marcanet/UCMServlet?folio=180505&serie=2017 A continuity obligation was bad news for XHDD’s finances The Pezino family, which had owned the station since it signed on the air in 1969, alleged that its finances were showing a negative turn, in part because in 2014 the IFT had assessed a continuity obligation forcing them to keep XEDD-AM on the air. One of the ways the Multimedios acquisition was spun as a good thing was that it would keep the station in operation and potentially allow HD Radio down the road. They also said that common buyers of ad time between the two stations could save money compared to their independent operation—an argument that is specious, given that the nature of XHDD-FM transformed as a result of the acquisition. Some of the arguments here resemble those made for failing station waivers in the United States. What timing One of the reasons this deal went through was also because of a quirk in the law. Transitory article 9 of the LFTR loosens restrictions on dealmaking in sectors where an agente económico preponderante has been declared with the goal of strengthening existing competitors. In fact, that very problem was the focus yesterday of an editorial https://lasillarota.com/es-hora-de-dejar-atras-el-noveno-transitorio/242156 by IFT commissioner Elena Estavillo, calling to repeal this article that, in her view, prevents the IFT from taking measures needed to safeguard competition. The OECD in 2017 found that this article was anticompetitive and prevented the IFT from exercising its rights. A bonus for social wolf hunters That’s not all. This filing also was revelatory about a group that I had already suspected of ties to Multimedios. I’m talking about Fundación Ecoforestal, A.C. This aspiring permit/social wolf operator first appeared on the radar in 2016, when the IFT put on the agenda then tabled applications that comprise what we now call the Culiacán permit forest. When this was cleared and the association was listed as being related to 35 commercial FM, 6 AM and 8 TV stations, I immediately suspected Multimedios because of the number of television stations. The Multimedios corporate hierarchy and company relationship tree include Fundación Ecoforestal. While this information was redacted in the document, Ecoforestal has a variety of other filings from the permit era, having filed for FMs at Orizaba, León, Pachuca, Culiacán, Oaxaca, Tampico, Puebla, Cancún, Mexico City, Xalapa, Durango, Toluca, Querétaro, Mérida and Villahermosa. The Cancún and Culiacán applications were denied in the clearing of their respective forests. In 2014, the IFT turned down the applications in Querétaro, Tampico and Villahermosa due to lack of station space. This leaves Orizaba, León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Xalapa, Durango, Toluca and Mérida as active applications; while all of these were markets where MM had no presence prior to filing, it now has radio stations in León, Orizaba (XHFTI-FM) and Xalapa (XHPALV-FM) and soon TV stations in Puebla and Durango. I also am able to supply a correction. I had previously stated that a social station application made in Mexico City was probably for radio. Unfortunately, the transparency request made last year that supplied this information did not denote the service (AM, FM or TDT) corresponding to each application. The language of the section mentioning digital television — saying the application is post-permit era (meaning it should appear in my list of station applications) and saying it was “en la [redacted]” — suggest that “Ciudad de México” belongs there, and that the Fundación Ecoforestal application in Mexico City was for a television station, not radio. With Multimedios having won a TV station in IFT-6, this application likely will be denied when it is processed. Last edited by Raymie; 08-22-2018 at 11:53 AM (Raymie, originally Aug 21, ibid.) Finally, a peep from Telsusa, which will go on the SPR towers in Campeche, Mérida and Xalapa. https://twitter.com/SPRMexico/status/1032064601112956929 In Campeche, there will actually be four TV stations on the SPR tower — SPR, TRC, Imagen TV and Telsusa. Mérida will have three stations. Imagen does not use the Xalapa tower. Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa [tagline] (Raymie, Aug 21, ibid.) ** MONGOLIA. 7260, Mongolian Radio 3 (presumed), 1035, Aug 14. Segment with on-air phone conversations; 1059 into pop music segment (Glenn Medeiros - "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You," etc.); stronger than China underneath, which was mostly announcers talking in Chinese; heard here daily and not difficult to tell them apart; nothing today on rare 4830 nor 4895. My audio at http://goo.gl/ksKcmg (Ron Howard, Ocean Beach [San Francisco], CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 5915, Myanmar Radio, 1159-1200, Aug 20. Indigenous music till covered by CRI sign on (*1200). 5985, Myanmar Radio, *1135, Aug 20. Suddenly on; in vernacular. 7345, Thazin Radio, via Pyin Oo Lwin, 1053-1101, Aug 20. In vernacular; covered by CNR1 at *1101 sign on. My audio at http://goo.gl/dGuJRF (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) See also UK: BBCWS ** NIGERIA. I note that V of Nigeria's DRM service on 15120 kHz from 1800 to 1930 UT is missing again today, 16 August (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, 1840 UT Aug 16, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) 7255-, Aug 18 at 0607, nothing from the usual VON bigsig in Hausa; you never know whether it will be on or off. 7255-, Aug 21 at 0627 check, VON is missing again tonight from its Hausa hour, normally a bigsig (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. See FRANCE; CHAD [non] ** NORTH AMERICA, 6950-USB, Aug 18 at 0004, pirate with soul music, sounds like the late Aretha, sure, S9+20. Off at 0033 recheck. These say it was Wolverine Radio from 2333 Aug 17: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,45192.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 7470, Aug 15 at 0331, JBA carrier as I have not closed down all local noise sources but presumed the anti-Christ, pro- Yahweh pirate, Station YHWH which at least Rick Barton, central Arizona keeps hearing almost every night around this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7470, USA, (religious pirate), Radio YHWH at 0255, in progress at tune-in with Josiah and usual Yahweh or the highway lecture. Fair/Good at tune-in, but at 0300, had to switch to my "windowframe" antenna as yet another monsoon season T-storm swept in. Did not hear the time of close tonight. August 15 (Rick Barton from Central Arizona, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; RS SW-2000629, & ATS-909X with various outdoor wires. 73 to all, and Good Listening....! -rb, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7470 ? UNKNOWN, unidentified utility at 0230. OTHR radar bursts going on for 5 minutes or so here while checking for YHWH (Never did hear the religious pirate this night). August 16. 7470, USA (religious pirate), R YHWH at 0340. Heard briefly at good level, then faded. Verified it was on, did not have time to monitor the broadcast. Usual voice ("Josiah"), typical content. Last heard on the 15th UT. Only some radar bursts (OTHR) heard on the 16th. Heard on SW-2000629 and windowframe antenna. August 18 (Rick Barton from Central Arizona, I have been tormented by Las Tormentas, i.e., we've been plagued by numerous sudden & unpredictable thunderstorms. 73 and Good Listening....! -rb, WOR iog via DXLD) 7470, USA (religious pirate), R. YHWH at 0220, in progress at tune-in, with "Josiah". First time heard in a few days. Good at tune-in, but dropped way down at 0247. At 0300, noted strong signal but very low modulation, as he went thru the familiar "Ten Commandments.... War mongering Christians" and "hybrid man-god" routine. Gone on recheck just after 0430. - Variable from S-1 to S-9 August 21 (Rick Barton, from Central Arizona, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; RS SW- 2000629, & ATS-909X with various outdoor wires; Some signal strengths may be a little light, as my better outdoor antennas have fallen into disuse. (I have been tormented by Las Tormentas, i.e., we've been plagued by numerous sudden & unpredictable thunderstorms). 73 and Good Listening....! -rb, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7470, Aug 21 at 0402, anti-Christ, pro-Yahweh pirate, Station YHWH is S9/S9+10 but barely modulated Josiah recognizable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 362 kHz, Aug 20 at 0219, NDB ID as OWP is one I can copy in quick check vs summer noise level. It`s 25 watts at William Pogue airport, Sand Springs, near Tulsa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1210, Aug 20 at 0214 UT, KGYN Guymon with S9+25 bigsig during talk show, obviously not nulling toward Philadelphia; in fact it`s stronger than 1200 WOAI before fading a bit. KGYN is supposed to be 10/10 kW, ND-day, DA-night; and still has a CP for 50/39/10 kW DA3 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. K17JN-D, Enid satellator of 3ABN, Aug 17 circa 1500 UT, all six subchannels are still black and silent. Aug 18 at 1423 UT, restored to previous situation --- only 17-2 and 17-6 are vacant, the other four resumed (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DTV ** OKLAHOMA. OETA technical difficulties test pattern: now uploaded is a photo with sharper resolution, same as from March 2015 which also had some false color tinges. It`s really totally black and white. You can now resolve the 4-station IDs at the bottom in tiny font. This was snapped sometime in early August when they lost programming for a few minutes. A neat and unique design, I have always thought: http://www.w4uvh.net/OETAtechpat2018.jpg BTW, OETA is now in another `Festival`, i.e. fundraiser, pre-empting almost all our favorite regular programming for two weeks? of pledge breaks interrupted by mostly self-improvement or sixties-rock shows. For PBS stations to keep doing this, the tactic must work, but sure doesn`t for me (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PALAU. 9965, Aug 15 at 1214, T8WH praise music with IADs --- intermittent audio dropouts; S9 to S9+10 much louder than neighbor 9955 WRMI with dead Czech air. Aoki shows 12-14 M-F is scheduled by LeSEA only as News/Music. Is it satellite or internet feed that is defective? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PALESTINE. Re: [radiostamps] State of Palestine - 2017 amateur radio issue --- Bom dia. Entrei no site dos correios da Palestina e não achei nada sobre esses selos. Mandei e-mail pedindo informações mas eles estão de ferias e so voltam em setembro. Vi as emissões de 2017 e nada consta. E possível que sejam fakes, ja que eles divulgam varios selos fakes (José Crestani-Loredy, PP5JLC, Brasil, Aug 17, radiostamps yg via DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, NBC Madang (Maus Blong Garamut), 1207* cut off, on Aug 19; after the usual Sunday religious programs (Ron Howard, Ocean Beach [San Francisco], CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) See also BOUGAINVILLE ** PARAGUAY. 610 kHz UNID?? Transatlantic DX MW of Rodrigo, Florianópolis SC. 2100 UT https://youtu.be/PmcF5fkHW-o (via Daniel Wyllyans PT9008SWL, Aug 22, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 610 is *not* a TA frequency, but surely from America. Sounds like ``low German`` as we hear from Chihuahua for the Mennonites, which leads to Paraguay, not far from SC, La Voz del Chaco Paraguayo, which indeed does have lots of German on its sked, along with Spanish, Guaraní, and other native languages: http://www.zp30.com.py/main/programacion/list/17.html?programacionzp30___dia=Lunes (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) YT replies: This a tough one. Language could be German but there are no such stations on 612. If it's Dutch, it could be a local MW station then but they are very low-powered. Or Northern American as they use 10 kHz tuning. Hopefully someone cracks it. 73, Ronald Mullis It is not contemporary German but sounds like ancient Low German (which sounds very similar to Dutch), so I think this is certainly ZP30 Radio Chaco, a religious station in Paraguay that is serving German emigrants who migrated to Paraguay several decades ago. 73! (senderjaeger, ibid.) ** PERU. 4955, R. Cultural Amauta, Huanta, 2212-2223, 05/8, quíchua, canções índias, texto; 35332. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, Aug 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. It seems that Radio Tawantinsuyo (*30. October 1948) closed down its short wave frequency 6173 kHz. In DXLD, the last mention of the station was in February. Looking for Radio Tawantinsuyo in the world wide web, I noticed that neither the address given in the World Radio TV Handbook 2018 http://radiotawantinsuyo.com/ nor the one I noted in 2017 http://www.radiotawantinsuyo.com/?i=1 are working any longer. Mauno Ritola pointed my attention to http://facebook.com/www.radiotawantinsuyo but that is behind the bars of facebook. An official list of Estaciones autorizadas de radiodifusion sonora (13 August 2018) at https://portal.mtc.gob.pe/comunicaciones/autorizaciones/radiodifusion/documentos/Autorizadas_Sonora.PDF still has the station on 1190 kHz (2 kW) and 6175 kHz (1 kW), but the 240 page list also lists many inactive licensees. Interestingly, there is no FM frequency of Radio Tawantinsuyo mentioned, but I think a number of years ago they were on FM. Radio Tawantinsuyo is still active and can be listened to at e. g.. http://www.fullradios.com/2017/08/radio-tawantinsuyo.html und https://www.enlaradio.net/2017/09/tawantinsuyo-cusco.html. (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 17 August 2018, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It was more like 6173.9 --- I have not noticed a JBA carrier there lately, but it was rather rare (gh, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) DX-ers have also reported Radio Tawantinsuyo heard in April and June 2018 on 6173 kHz. I tried the last two links mentioned by Dr Hansjoerg Biener tonight, but no live broadcast could be heard. Instead I saw this: radiotawantinsuyo.com is for sale! Then I tried tonight the Kiwi SDR receiver of a DX-er in Pardinho, SP, Brazil on http://appr.org.br:8073/ At 2156 UT I heard ID "Radio Tawantinsuyo" and then a mention of Cusco at 2158. Thus it is still on the air! By the way, on 14 November 2006, I took the attached photo of Radio Tawantinsuyo from the Santo Domingo Cathedral in Cusco on a guided tourist tour! Our local guide, Rosa, confirmed, that this station was founded in 1948 by its later director Raúl Montesinos E. as the first radiostation in Cusco. Sr. Montesinos died in 2003. I then told her, that I several times had heard this station on 6173 kHz in Denmark. Then she spontaneously pressed my hand! Best 73, (Anker Petersen, 2224 UT Aug 17, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. FEBC Philippines --- 15580, instrumental music at 0914 to 0915 then M speaking in Makassarese with music in background to 0920 then a vocal listed on 08/17 (Bruce MacGibbon, visiting Vietnam, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. Radio Pilipinas --- English broadcast at 0200 on 17820, 15640, and 12010 as announced on 8/21 (Bruce, Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android, MacGibbon, visiting Vietnam, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Commentary: Russian Woodpecker, Buzzer keep us vigilant Herald-Mail Media-11 hours ago https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/instant/commentary-russian-woodpecker-buzzer-keep-us-vigilant/article_e95a6292-9f60-11e8-8b57-13e42a32b7cd.html (Herald-Mail, Hagerstown MD via Artie Bigley, DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Good signal of GTRK Adygeya/Adygeyan Radio on August 20 1800-1900 on 6000 ARM 100 kW / 188 deg to CeAs Ady/Ara/Tur Mon: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/good-signal-of-gtrk-adygeyaadygeyan_21.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, August 20-21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Has received a QSL-card RWM. 23/07/2018/1900-1930 UT / 9996 kHz --- Wrote to the address: FSUE "VNIIFTRI", p / o Mendeleevo, Solnechnogorsk district, Moscow region, 141570. To look a card it is possible here - http://rusdx.blogspot.com/2018/08/blog-post_17.html (Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia, RusDX Aug 19 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. WHAT THE SHEETS AND MEDIUM WAVES ARE LISTENING TO YAKUTSKY REINDEERS [sic] Yakut politician Afanasy Maksimov in one of the July posts on his Facebook page wrote about the problem with the availability of broadcasting in the mountains of Verkhoyansk. Due to the cessation of broadcasting on short and medium waves in Yakutia, local reindeer herders are literally cut off from civilization. Yakut journalists discussed the problem with Viktor Sleptsov, the head of the Orto Salaa production cooperative of the Verkhoyansk ulus, who confirmed that reindeer herders have not heard Yakut or Russian broadcasting for the third year, and the only window in the world for them are Radio Liberty and International Radio China. " "For us, radio is a window to the world. We listen only to the radio, we learn all the news, it's a formed habit for years, and an accessible way of obtaining information. But for three years now the radio is inaccessible to us. (...) Now we are forced to listen to Radio Liberty and the Chinese radio in Russian. They catch very well, without interference. We listen for hours to the political situation in Ukraine. We already know more about this country than about Yakutia. And we also have access to the Chinese radio, where they talk about the communist brothers, "Sleptsov told the Yakut journalists. He complained that reindeer herders are very short of news about events in the country and the republic, concerts of pop stars, radio shows. "It's insulting and scary - suddenly a war, but we will not know," said the head of the community. Republican journalists write that the problem of shortwave and medium wave reception is relevant for all reindeer herders of Yakutia. The Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies of Yakutia, in turn, reported that the resumption of broadcasting on HF and SW is a federal issue. The agency also said that, after stopping the operation of a powerful radio broadcasting complex in the republican budget, they found money that they sent to increase the volume of Yakutia broadcasting in the FM band. "... the resumption of powerful broadcasting requires the decision and funding of the federal level. Today, the development is in the framework of FM broadcasting. Due to the moral and physical obsolescence of the equipment, which caused frequent breakdowns, pauses in broadcasting, as well as the inability to update the transmitters in connection with the cessation of their production, it was decided to turn them off in Yakutia from May this year. The released funds were directed to increase the volume of Yakut broadcasting in the FM-band. Until July 1, Sakha radio (now "Tetim") was broadcast in the uluses for a total of only 10 hours a day with two breaks. Radio listeners repeatedly pointed out the inconvenience of such interruptions and raised the issue of uninterrupted broadcasting in the settlements of the republic. Since July 1, the license of the NBC "Sakha" has been re-registered for 17-hour broadcasting in the regions of the republic, in Yakutsk the republican radio "Tateim" broadcasts 24 hours a day, "the Ministry said. The national broadcasting company "Sakha" (Yakutia) resumed broadcasting in Yakut and Russian on short waves on May 6, 2016. Since April 27, 2018, broadcasting on HF has been terminated due to the stoppage of funding. * The article was prepared based on materials: http://sakhaday.ru/news/pochemu-olenevody-v-yakutii-vynuzhdeny-slushat-radio-svoboda/ https://www.facebook.com/afanasy.maksimov http://www.novosibdx.info/schedules.html https://kolkeradio.blogspot.com/2018/08/blog-post_5.html (RusDX Aug 19 via DXLD) ** SEYCHELLES [non]. GUAM, Fair/good signal of FEBA Radio via KTWR Agana on August 20 1315-1345 on 11580*TWR 200 kW / 290 deg to SoAs Telugu and English Mon * co-ch same 11580 unknown kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese Digital Jammer http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/fairgood-signal-of-feba-radio-via-ktwr_21.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, August 20-21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Digital jammer; you mean DRM repurposed? And why would they be jamming these languages from TWR; or another target? (gh, DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA [and non]. 9650, SAUK/R. Sonder Grense (tentativo), 1702-..., 11/8, texto (noticiário?); 22441, QRM do IRAN (?), em árabe, de estação não identificada, com oração corânica, e da GUINÉ, em francês. Ora, 3 emissoras sobre a presumível SAUK, pelo que nem permitiu identificação da língua [africânder]. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, Aug 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9330, WBCQ Monticello ME; 2053-2101+, 8/13; Bro. HyStairical bragging about how much he’s on the air; said this was “14th of August”, which means this is not a 2018 broadcast, B.S. is confused, or B.S. is b’casting from the future. B.S. rudely interrupted by the B.S. chorus at 2057:06; WBCQ ID inserted over Alexander Scourby Bibling at 2100:17. SIO=3+43 w/one rat-a-tat burst (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, Drake R8B + 185' RW, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. GERMANY: I just tuned to Channel 292 on 6070 and noted Overcomer Ministry back on the station. Checking the Channel 292 website, Overcomer is scheduled 24 hours/day from 1600 on 16 Aug thru to 2400 on 19 Aug (except for 13 hours here and there of pre- booked programmes such as R Ohne Namen, From The Isle of Music, IBC, Goldrausch, etc). I guess next week will be booked similarly (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, Aug 16, WOR iog via DXLD) Brother Scare takes over Channel 292 --- Hi All, Well, the good brother hasn't really taken over the station, but he has taken over all the available airtime until the end of August, so it looks like the Channel 292 transmitter will be running 24/7 for the next few weeks. This might at least offer some of the more distant listeners a rare chance to hear the station on 6070 kHz. All of the normal programmes should still be on at their usual times, but Album Time will be missing. http://www.channel292.de/schedule-for-bookings/ (Alan Gale, England, Aug 17, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, ibid.) Weekly skedgrids thru Sept 30, no BS after Aug 31, but plenty of time to renew then too (gh, DXLD) Hi Alan, Hopefully the more money he spends over there reduces the amount of money he spends here. :-) -- (Mike Bott, ibid.) Hi Mike, Very true, or maybe he just thinks it's time us Europeans had a bit of Hell on Earth for a change? :-D (Alan, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) See also GERMANY ** SRI LANKA. QSL report from Ralph Perry: Very nice to receive an attractive eQSL from Victor G. for my report on the 11905 kHz local evening broadcast by SLBC in Hindi. GVG is serving as a QSL manager for them in Colombo. They do make it through many evenings, often good signals by the last half hour of the transmission, at 0200-0230 UTC on 11905 kHz. Scheduled *0115-0230* but sometimes they don't seem to come on promptly at 0115, but are there when I recheck a little later (NASWA Flashsheet Aug 19 via DXLD) The 11904.9 nominal schedule was changed to 0030-0100 & 0200-0230 some weeks ago as reported in DXLD. Always starts late after 0030 (gh, DXLD) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. 11620, Aug 21 at 0406, S9-S6 of somewhat suptorted Arabish, i.e. Juba dialect, from Eye Radio this hour via MADAGASCAR since August 1, per EiBi. Should have some English later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FRANCE, Fair to good signal of Eye Radio via MGB [sic] TDF Issoudun on August 20: 1500-1600 15410 ISS 250 kW / 139 deg Juba Arabic/English/other* M-F * including other langs: Dinka, Nuer, Shilluk, Bari, Zande & Lutoho at varied times http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/fair-to-good-signal-of-eye-radio-via.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, August 20-21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. 6105, Radio Taiwan International, presumed 1 Files 2 MB MP3 6105 @0929-0931 on 816.mp3 2 MB Save Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android (Bruce MacGibbon, Vietnam, Aug 16, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2-minute clip in a Chinese dialect, nothing identifiable by me. Aoki/NDXC and EiBi show RTI plus CNR1 jamming not starting until 1000 and nothing Asian at 0930 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. Frequency change of Radio Taiwan International, August 15 1400-1458 NF 9470 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg to CeAs Russian, ex 9590: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/frequency-change-of-radio-taiwan.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, August 15-16, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Taiwan International in Russian was back on 9590 kHz, August 16 1400-1458 9590 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg CeAs, instead of 9470 August 15 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/radio-taiwan-international-in-russian.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, August 16-17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TONGA. TONGA'S TBC STRENGTHENED BY NEW DIGITAL [sic] TRANSMITTER RNZ 17 August 2018 A new AM [sic] transmitter has been commissioned for Tonga's state broadcaster in a move that is expected to strengthen disaster preparedness. The CEO for the ministry responsible for disaster management, Paula Ma'u, said the new digital transmitter marks an important step towards the implementation of an enhanced and complete early warning system for the whole country. The Tonga Broadcasting Commission's AM frequency is the only one accessible everywhere in Tonga. Mr Ma'u said the service was the best medium to broadcast not only educational and informational content but also deliver 24 hour warnings and instructions during times of emergency. Details here: https://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/364329/tonga-s-tbc-strengthened-by-new-digital-transmitter (via Mike Terry, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) Details??? all it does is add the bits below, and a photo of studio building. ``He said the new AM service could even save lives in times of disasters. The Broadcaster's underground connection from the station in Fasi to the transmitter in Popua was badly damaged during February's Cyclone Gita, forcing the state broadcaster to use a temporary frequency until now. The new transmitter was funded by the World Bank Pacific Resillence [sic] Programme to the tune of $US440,000`` WTFK? Of course, we know it must be 1017 kHz, but RNZ are grossly deficient in never specifying it. Also, Digital???????? So it`s IBOC, or DRM??? Surely not. Must mean it`s a modern transmitter with digital components for ordinary analog transmission --- unless ``digital`` receivers are being handed out to all Tongans. A ``temporary frequency``? What was that, you mean from Nuku`alofa? Or you mean a temporary location? Or a temporary transmitter at same location? (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. TRT Voice of Turkey, EMR 500 kW odd frequencies, August 16 0500-0655 13765.7 / 210 deg CEAf Hau/Swa, instead of 13765 August 15 0822-0827 11795.7 / 105 deg WeAs Bosnian-unscheduled px on shortwave 0830-0955 11795.7 / 105 deg WeAs Persian, instead of 11795 August 15 1000-1025 9855.7 / 032 deg CeAs Tatar, instead of 9855.0 August 15 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/voice-of-turkey-on-odd.html Another very odd frequency 11675.7 of TRT Voice of Turkey August 17: 0500-0655 13765.0 / 210 deg CEAf Ha/Sw, instead of 13765.7 August 16 0600-1155 11675.7 / 150 deg WeAs Turkish, instead of 11675 August 16 0830-0955 11795.0 / 105 deg WeAs Farsi, instead of 11795.7 August 16 1000-1025 9855.0 / 032 deg CeAs Tatar, instead of 9855.7 August 16 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/trt-voice-of-turkey-on-very-odd_17.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, August 16-17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. Radio "Luch" - the second channel of the Public Radio of Ukraine - has updated its official Web site on the Internet. Now on the site you can listen to the radio broadcast directly through the online player, as well as there are the contact details of the radio "Luch" and links to the pages of the station in social networks. However, on his page in the social network Facebook "Luch" promises that updating and filling the page will last (Own information). http://proradio.org.ua/news/2018aug.php (RusDX Aug 19 via DXLD) ** UKRAINE. PIRATE RADIO, Fair signal of Russian Pirate "Radio Europe on Shortwave", August 15 0858&0950 5831-5833v unknown tx / EaEu English/Russian/Polish/German http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/fair-signal-of-russian-pirate-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, August 15-16, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ivo does not put it in Ukraine, but RusDX does: (gh) E-QSL cards and a few other E-souvenirs from Ukrainian free station - Pirate Radio Europe. The program was transmitted on 08. 08. 2018 on 5832 kHz (frequency indicated on the QSL cards - 5835 kHz). Transmitter site - Hoverla Mountain area / Western Ukraine. Some of the cards can be found here - http://rusdx.blogspot.com/2018/08/pirate-radio-europe.html (Piotr Skorek, Poland, RusDX Aug 19 via WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) Page with photos of Pirate Radio Europe. Serge V. - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100027737603880 (Dmitry Elagin, Saratov, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", RusDX Aug 19 via DXLD) Alexander Dneprov - https://vk.com/radioevropa (Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia, ibid.) QSL Pirate Radio Europe 5833 KHz serg104-130 @ rambler.ru con QSL elettronica allegata in 30 minuti (Roberto Pavanello, Italy / https://playdxblog.blogspot.com/2018/08/qsl-da-pirate-radio-europe-ascolti.html (RusDX Aug 19 via DXLD) ** U K. MATTHEW BANNISTER STEPS DOWN FROM OUTLOOK, BBCWS https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/matthew-bannister After 10 years behind the microphone Matthew Bannister has decided to step down from presenting Outlook - BBC World Service’s long-running programme which celebrates extraordinary personal stories of people from across the world. Mary Hockaday, Controller, BBC World Service English says: “Outlook is one of the most cherished programmes on the BBC World Service, and Matthew has been a truly wonderful presenter, guiding contributors through interviews with real skill and empathy. Among the many highlights was his 2012 interview with the late Kofi Annan and the wonderful anecdotes Mr Annan shared, from the trouble he got into at school for challenging authority to how he coped with being a single parent - it’s a brilliant interview. But Matthew was also truly skilled at talking to ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events and teasing out their inspiring stories. We thank Matthew for a wonderful decade and wish him all the best in his future endeavours. He will be greatly missed not only by his colleagues at Outlook, but by many listeners who tune in to the programme from all over the world.” Matthew Bannister says: “It’s been a real privilege to present Outlook for the last ten years. I’ve interviewed hundreds of inspiring people from all over the world who constantly reminded me of the universal power of the human spirit to rise above oppression and tragedy. It has been a life affirming experience. I’ve also loved working with one of the most talented and committed production teams in the business. But I always like to set myself new challenges, so I’m heading off to see if I can make an impact in the exciting world of podcasting.” Matthew’s last day on Outlook will be 27 September. He will continue to present Radio 4’s obituary programme Last Word. Outlook will continue to be presented by Jo Fidgen (21 August 2018 via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD) ** U K. BBCWS: see BANGLADESH [non] ** U S A. Our ham community in the Treasure Valley of Idaho was shocked to hear the news about the potential shut down of WWV. Please tell use where to best direct letters of concern either to our state authorities or to the National Bureau of Standards. Glen[n], the older our generation gets, the more shortsighted the modern bureaucrats seem to be with their approach to put all information on an internet and satellite grid. 73's, Heaven help us to help ourselves! Sincerely, Your fellow broadcaster, (Tom Roberts, PhD, KF7PKG, 0103 UT Aug 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Why is NIST considering shutting down these radio stations many listeners depend on these radio stations to set their watches and clocks and to get propagation forecasts. I really hope NIST can reconsider shutting down these radio stations and keeping these radio stations on the air. I was listening to Glenn Hauser and he mentioned that these radio stations were to be shut down in fiscal year 2019- 2020. Why aren`t there any announcements about NIST shutting down these radio stations? Personally I keep the stations on the air permanently. Sent from my iPhone (Sean Traverse, to nist.radio@boulder.nist.gov and cc to WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Online petition to keep WWV/WWVH: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/maintain-funding-nist-stations-wwv-wwvh (David R. Alpert, dra@pipeline.com (818) 588-NEWS Twitter: @DaveAlpert http://www.linkedin.com/in/david-alpert-radionews Aug 20, WOR iog via DXLD) A petition has been set up, however it needs 96,344 signatures by September 15, 2018 to get a response from the White House (Mike Terry, Aug 21, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) I tried to sign it, but to complete it you have to click on something in a return e-mail, which I never got. Donald! Should I try again with another e-mail address? I would never deliberately try to double-sign a petition (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Someone on another email list I'm on posted the following information. I'm posting it to this list as I thought the people here might find it of interest if they weren't already aware of it. The URL ends in -wwv- wwvh in case it doesn't come through properly or gets line-wrapped. "NIST station WWV and sister stations are among the oldest radio stations in the United States, having been in continuous operation since May 1920. The station has transmitted the official US Time for nearly 100 years, and is an instrumental part in the telecommunications field, ranging from broadcasting to scientific research and education. Additionally, these stations transmit marine storm warnings from the National Weather Service, GPS satellite health reports, and specific information concerning current solar activity, and radio propagation conditions. These broadcasts are an essential resource to the worldwide communications industry. This petition requests continued funding of these stations be maintained into the 21st century and beyond to ensure future operations." They need 100K signatures by 15Sep2018 --- gonna be tough! Here is a link to the petition if you wish to sign it: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/maintain-funding-nist-stations-wwv-wwvh (Kevin Cozens, Aug 19, ODXA yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) I will additionally encourage US residents to write to their members of the House and Senate. The Commerce/Justice/Science appropriations bills (HR 5952/S 3072) haven't been considered on the floor of either chamber yet. They haven't shown up in any package deals yet such as where the Financial Services and General Government bill (where my employing agency falls) got merged into Interior & Environment. Amendments to Commerce/Justice/Science can still be put forward on the floor in either chamber to keep WWV/WWVH/WWVB at NIST or to move them to another agency such as the Defense Department perhaps. You can find your relevant members of the Congress to contact by visiting https://www.congress.gov/ and using the "Contact Your Member" function on the homepage (Stephen Michael Kellat, KC8BFI, WOR iog via DXLD) It's time to receive these cards. Neither today nor tomorrow the stations will be disconnected. The decision was made. Meanwhile, a petition for support has been opened. https://swling.com/blog/2018/08/white-house-petition-to-maintain-nist-funding-of-wwv-time-stations/ The funny thing is, I tried to support the petition out of solidarity and the system took my vote. Then they will again write about Moscow's "hand" (Victor Samodelkin / https://vk.com/radioreceiver via RusDX Aug 19 via DXLD) ** U S A. 10057-USB, Aug 19 at 0349, contact by San Francisco with unID flight, both weak. These ATC frequencies are very sporadic, and contacts as brief as possible, pertinent business only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13565, Aug 20 at 0206, K6FRC beacon from California is JBA vs CODAR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Here's a story for you. BBG is re-naming itself. It will be called U.S. Agency for Global Media. Many jokes about this on the two main FB pages populated by current and former VOA employees. The note below was put out by management, inviting people to a August 22 unveiling of the new name. And, amusingly, placing an embargo on the announcement of the new name. Problem is, the name was mentioned during the last Global Town Hall held by John Lansing many weeks ago. BBG Watch broke the embargo a few days ago --- see the IBB (which itself is supposed to have been eliminated) note below, and link to BBGW. From: IBB Notices Admin Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 1:31 PM To: IBB Notices Administration Subject: Reminder: New Name, Same Mission On August 22nd, the BBG will officially change its name to the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM). All employees and contractors are invited for a celebration with CEO & Director John F. Lansing on that day. Date: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 -- Time: 11:30 AM – 01:00 PM EDT Location: the hallway in front of the Cohen Auditorium, 330 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC Staff at VOA, RFA, MBN, RFE/RL and OCB in Washington D.C. who aren’t located in the Cohen Building are welcome to attend. Please reach out to publicaffairs@bbg.gov so that we can sign you in for the event. See you there! (via Dan Robinson, ex-VOA, Aug 20, DXLD) Viz.: http://bbgwatch.com/bbgwatch/same-as-it-ever-was-agency-for-global-media-usagm-or-broadcasting-board-of-governors-bbg-under-john-lansing/ [see original for bold-face emphasis, quotations and headings:] Bureaucracy Warning Sign [caption] Same As It Ever Was --- Agency for Global Media USAGM or Broadcasting Board of Governors BBG Under John Lansing US International Media Information War: Lost By The Federalist Same As It Ever Was The more things change, the more they stay the same even when given a new name. The end result: it’s still the same old stuff. On Wednesday, August 15, 2018 the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) issued a press release: “New Name, Same Mission – Come Celebrate! According to the press release, “On August 22nd, the BBG will officially change its name to the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM). All employees and contractors are invited to a celebration with CEO & Director John F. Lansing.” It looks like Lansing has added another title. If you happen to miss this event, you haven’t missed anything because, The only thing worth celebrating is eliminating the BBG and the replacement of Lansing and Amanda Bennett (the hapless Voice of America [VOA] director). This is a non-event because it leaves in place the same people responsible for wrecking the agency and its mission including a bloated and generally incapable and incompetent bureaucracy. A name change does not equate with improvement. And in general terms, improvement in accomplishing the mission of the agency is well beyond the reach of this collection of bureaucrats and officials. A cosmetic name change cannot alter the agency’s dismal record – more than likely to be reaffirmed by the results of the latest Federal employee survey which are a few weeks in the offing. The individuals in charge of this agency are committed to protecting themselves at the expense of virtually everything else that is important: the agency’s employees and the agency’s mission, impact and effectiveness. However There is something else that has caught our attention: Sources report a planned “closed event” to be held at a public location (The National Press Club) in Washington, DC on Wednesday, September 12, 2018. With no prior government service, no public diplomacy, no foreign policy or international media and no international/cross-cultural communications experience, John Lansing, assisted by his multiple senior aides, seems not to grasp how inappropriate such a closed meeting about a U.S. Government tax-funded communications agency looks from a public relations perspective to domestic and foreign observers. Seeking private counsel in a government office is perfectly appropriate on a case by case basis. Calling for a large closed meeting at an otherwise public venue in Washington, DC (of all places, The National Press Club) on topics dealing with a U.S. Government agency shows an extreme lack of sensitivity and judgement. No former United States Information Agency (USIA) head or other senior USIA official would have made such a faux pas and open himself to outside criticism. They would have known how foreign propagandists and domestic critics would have reacted to closing a U.S. Government media meeting to the public. U.S. media should insist on being given access to this “closed event” called by a holdover U.S. Government official collecting a federal salary and presumably paying for the event with U.S. taxpayers’ money. Our understanding of subject matter in this “closed” event is as follows: The presentation is supposed to acknowledge changes to the global media environment in which information is being “weaponized” and press freedom is in decline. Keep in mind that anything presented at this event will be twisted in such a way as to preserve the agency without regard to its lack of mission effectiveness. We suspect the agency will make the usual claims of (unverified) audience numbers as it will with where agency programming can be seen, heard or read along with delivering on the “BBG mandate.” The lack of impact will be ignored. It is also expected that the agency will continue with its fantasy of projecting itself as a “corporate” entity and attempt to use this as a justification or outcome that will make it more effective as a tool of US foreign policy – an outcome that will have the die-hard “journalists” in the Voice of America newsroom in a frenzy. This has been described as a “closed event” (taken to mean not open to the public or the press), something bound to raise eyebrows, especially when it comes to an agency widely regarded as the worst- managed agency in the Federal government with the lowest employee morale. It creates the appearance of holding something out of the reach of public scrutiny. We don’t know the criteria for selecting attendees or what is expected of their participation other than to listen to a recitation of what a great job the agency is doing and how it is on the cutting edge of global information in the 21st century (not!). To break down the event as we understand it: Changes to the Global Media Landscape Should the agency presenters continue to lay claim to its audience numbers, reality would demonstrate an altogether contrary view. It is now possible to analyze BBG program effectiveness particularly on the Internet which the agency claims to be one of its top priorities. Consistently, the agency has demonstrated numbers of views, likes and genuine public comments from outside of the U.S. that are so far below the global consciousness as to be subterranean. “Corporate restructuring” appears to be connected to its name change to “U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM).” But calling it “corporate restructuring” is a misnomer. This is a Federal agency, not a corporation. The people running the agency have no clue what the substance of “corporate restructuring” really means or what it entails and it is patently absurd to believe these people know what they are doing other than preserving their self-interests. And in the real world of “corporate restructuring” it often means of getting rid of non-performing elements or individuals things which may not be applied to this dysfunctional agency. The audience numbers the agency cites are largely fabricated with paid rebroadcasting of pre-censored fluff programs, paid Facebook advertising bought with U.S. taxpayers’ money, as well as targeting of U.S. audiences in violation of the agency’s congressional mandate and U.S. laws. The agency has been out of the public eye for years because it has lost its previous impact. The agency’s claims have been much the same for much of the 21st century and we are now eighteen years in and counting. Remember too that the global population is in the 7-BILLION range. Diluted over “100 countries in 58 languages,” as the agency often claims, the agency’s figures become worse than unimpressive. The result: no real impact. If the agency had impact, the U.S. media would write about it and U.S. Presidents would talk about it as well, as they did during the Cold War. They don’t. One strategic consideration that is increasingly working against the agency is this: Authoritarian regimes, large and small, have determined that the agency is an easy soft target, both in fact and perception. Let’s deal with perception first: The United States Government is seen to be weak in certain areas including international broadcasting. Some of this is the direct result of the agency’s cutbacks in its broadcast reach, particularly in the area of radio. For example, just a week ago the agency ended its radio broadcasts to the Republic of Georgia, ceding if you will the information advantage to the neighboring Russian Republic. The agency also appears to have been largely ignored by the previous Obama administration which rarely if ever used the agency as a means of projecting explanations of US policies and interests. If Obama himself ever appeared on a VOA program at all, other than as a sound byte, it is largely forgotten. The agency is even more ignored by the Trump administration. It is well established that the US political Left is apoplectic about the agency being turned into a Trump propaganda mouthpiece when in fact the Voice of America has become a personal mouthpiece of some of its extreme Left-leaning officials, managers, editors and reporters. To the point of VOA becoming a Trump propaganda mouthpiece, the hysteria seems far overblown. Trump has demonstrated he has his own media outlet: his Twitter account. What appears in his Twitter feed is instantaneously grabbed by media outlets around the globe and likely translated into as many languages as the BBG claims to be broadcasting in. Even if only translated from English to Mandarin Chinese, Farsi, French, Spanish, Russian, Swahili and other major language groups, it is well within the realm of possibility that Mr. Trump has a larger audience than what the BBG has. By far. Let’s turn our attention to the factual side: Various governments which one might describe as authoritarian have taken direct action against the BBG: Russia: This is a no-brainer. The Putin government is as bold as the day is long. Imbedded in our memory is the action Russian authorities took to boot former Obama administration BBG chairman Jeffrey Shell out of the country, with travel companions Jeffrey Trimble and John Lansing dumbstruck as Shell went figuratively winging off to Western Europe like a soccer ball on steroids. BBG employees are routinely harassed by Russian authorities. BBG entities have been fined for non- conformance with Russian “foreign agent” regulations. China: Of late, the Chinese have been on a roll. In April 2017, there was an abrupt ending by VOA director Amanda Bennett and her senior staff to a VOA Mandarin interview with a controversial Chinese businessman Guo Wengui. If Chinese communist officials managed to achieve this on U.S. soil (Bennett claims there was no pressure form China), one can hardly be surprised that they have now also briefly arrested VOA reporters inside China in connection with other interviews with Chinese figures. The placing on a forced administrative leave of VOA Mandarin Service journalists who opposed the ending of the Gun Wengui interview gave a clear signal to communist China from senior VOA and BBG officials that they can push around VOA and Broadcasting Board of Governors management with impunity. Cambodia: In advance of recent elections, Prime Minister (i.e., strongman) Hun Sen pulled the plug on BBG broadcasts and has also targeted certain Radio Free Asia (RFA) broadcasts for his ire. In Cambodia, if your name comes up in the negative from Hun Sen, it’s as good as being dead. Fortunately, RFA reporters if mentioned by name have had the sense to get out of the country when Hun Sen has been provoked. There may have been similar incidents elsewhere as well. But you get the picture. Outside of some foot stomping and tantrum-throwing press releases by Lansing or Bennett, the message is clear: these governments have little or anything to fear from the BBG because the agency has lost the impact it once had. Let’s remember too that BBG mantra about “supporting freedom and democracy. That has pretty much gone bust. It’s a message that is off message to the agency’s mission. You won’t find that phrase in the VOA Charter. Much as the BBG would appear to wish it otherwise, the VOA Charter is the mission statement for the Voice of America. Anything else is nonsense and counterproductive, the BBG mantra in particular because it is seen to be synonymous with regime change, particularly in places with little or no experience in participatory democracy and have none of the instruments of government or delegation of powers to make it happen, not to mention cultural traditions or history. More importantly there is the matter of self-determination: people finding their own way as processes of government change internally without outside interference. In short, the BBG doesn’t have the answer to much of what ails the rest of the world and in some cases can very easily make things worse. As far as the “information battlefield” of the 21st century is concerned, the agency talks a big game, but it is the equivalent of a battlefield formation still using spears and shields against very sophisticated and technologically advanced adversaries. The agency is far behind these adversaries and may never catch up, particularly under its current leadership and fossilized bureaucracy. If the White House or the Congress want to do something meaningful with US international broadcasting, it has to find another way with new and competent leadership. The Federalist August 2018 (via DXLD; excerpts on WORLD OF RADIO 1944) The only thing I would challenge about this is the charge over morale. That is usually measured through the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey administered by the Office of Personnel Management ("OPM"). There are other agencies with more disgruntled staff such as the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Previously the component staff in Border Patrol dragged Homeland Security's score down below where BBG currently sits in the rankings. See: http://www.opm.gov/fevs Anybody bother to secure statutory authority for this sort of a name change? If it takes an Act of Congress to change the name of the position of whoever heads the Internal Revenue Service from being Commissioner of Internal Revenue to something else, surely somebody could have thought about amending Section 6203 of Title 22 United States Code? See: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/6203 (Stephen Michael Kellat, KC8BFI, WOR iog via DXLD) This is filed under “Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic.” (John Figliozzi, NY, ibid.) Meanwhile, VOA English Division was eliminated. That's a development that has some big significance, but alas in these days when all they care about is putting additional notches (which are actually non-existent) on their language service social media hit list, the disappearance of a major division in an organization that once was at the top in delivering English content, gets nary a whimper (Dan Robinson, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BBG now USAGM https://www.usagm.gov/ (Bennett Z Kobb, Aug 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 7260, Aug 21 at 0357, S9+20/30 bigsig of HOA song, what`s this? 0400 first two notes of VOA theme before cutoff*. It`s Somali via VATICAN at 0330-0400, 250 kW at 146 degrees, but a hefty fraxion of that is coming off the back thisaway, or the antenna heading is out of whack as I often suspect with this site, violating Separation of Church and State (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1943 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday August 15 from 2100.5 on WRMI 9955, poor S1-S6; NOT confirmed at 2100.0 August 15 on WBCQ 7490v: no signal at all, must be off the air (and 9330v is also absent tho always audible; power failure? WINB 9265 is propagating OK). Wed Aug 15 at 2330, 9330v is back on but WOR is not aired. Since WBCQ has missed WOR 1943 on its first three chances, I remind them that it would be nice to play it Thursday August 16 at 2330 --- but no, BS continues. Meanwhile, Tom Roberts, PhD says his program `Biblical Perspectives` was followed by mine today Thursday August 16 at 2330 on 7490 --- what? Not according to websked which they have a hard time keeping up to date. It still shows: ``Th 2300 2330 UTC Th 07:00PM 07:30PM EST[sic] Camp Constitution Radio Th 2330 0000 UTC Th 07:30PM 08:00PM EST[sic] Know Your Adversary`` I didn`t check 7490 where I had no expectation of hearing us; no one at stations tells me anything. We hope this continue. Next: Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v to WSW [maybe] Sat 0631 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW Sat 1431 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2130 WBCQ 9330v to WSW [maybe, or 2330?] Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW Sun 2130 WRMI 7780 to NE [NEW] Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v to WSW [maybe] Mon 0130.5 WRMI 5850 to NW, 7780 to NE Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 0400 WRMI webcast only, non-direxional Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v to WSW [maybe] Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 to NE, 5950 to WNW [or #1944?] Tue 2130 WRMI 5950 to WNW [or #1944?] WORLD OF RADIO 1943 monitoring: confirmed Saturday August 18 from 1431 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 6190-CUSB, sufficient via UTwente SDR (as was Media Network+ before it: at 1417 check a 2012y interview with someone named Klein(sp?) about a longwave book). Next: Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2130 WBCQ 9330v to WSW [maybe, or 2330?] Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW Sun 2130 WRMI 7780 to NE [NEW] Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v to WSW [maybe] Mon 0130.5 WRMI 5850 to NW, 7780 to NE Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 0400 WRMI webcast only, non-direxional Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v to WSW [maybe] Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 to NE, 5950 to WNW [or #1944?] Tue 2130 WRMI 5950 to WNW [or #1944?] WORLD OF RADIO 1943 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday August 19 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, concluding at 0347 so started circa 0318; S9+30 vs storm crashes. Next: Sun 2130 WRMI 7780 to NE [NEW] Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v to WSW [maybe] Mon 0130.5 WRMI 5850 to NW, 7780 to NE Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 0400 WRMI webcast only, non-direxional Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v to WSW [maybe] Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 to NE, 5950 to WNW [or #1944?] Tue 2130 WRMI 5950 to WNW [or #1944?] WORLD OF RADIO 1943 monitoring: barely confirmed August 19 at 2136 the new Sunday 2130 on WRMI 7780; we hope it was much better up the east coast if not Europe. Also confirmed UT Monday August 20 from 0130.5 on WRN to North America webcast. Also confirmed at 0146 UT Monday August 20 the 0130.5 on WRMI 5850, S9+30/40 and 7780 S7-S9. Also confirmed UT Monday August 20 from 0301 on Area 51 webcast, and fair at 0314 check on WBCQ 5129.8v; also confirmed at 0342 on WRMI webcast of 9955 from 0330, and immediate repeat from 0400 on webcast only at 0423 check. Next: Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v to WSW [maybe] Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 to NE, 5950 to WNW [or #1944?] Tue 2130 WRMI 5950 to WNW [or #1944?] WORLD OF RADIO 1943 monitoring: confirmed UT Tuesday August 21 after 0030 on WRMI 7730, good. Next: Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 to NE, 5950 to WNW [or #1944?] Tue 2130 WRMI 5950 to WNW [or #1944?] Full schedule for WOR on all outlets, not just SW; podcast linx: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1943 monitoring: presumed final repeat on WRMI, Tuesday August 21 at 2030 on 7780 & 5950; since I am just finishing up 1944, and previous weeks have been unable to hear these in the daytime, not checked. WORLD OF RADIO 1944 contents: Alaska, Albania non, Australia and non, Brasil, Canada non, China, Cuba and non, France, Germany, Korea North non, Kuwait, México, Mongolia, Nigeria and non, Perú, South Carolina non, Tonga, Ukraine, USA, unidentified, propagation outlook WORLD OF RADIO 1944 ready for first airing Tuesday August 21 at 2130 on WRMI 5950 --- no point in checking now either for inaudible signal, but likely aired as uploaded in time, replacing 1943 on the server. Not aired Aug 21 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330v, as it had been most Tuesdays, but not last week either. Next: Wed 1030 WRMI 5950 to WNW Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW [was off for lightning last week] Wed 2100.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v to WSW [maybe] Thu 2330 WBCQ 7490v to WSW [NEW --- surprise airing last week, &?] Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v to WSW [maybe] Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v to WSW [maybe] Sat 0631 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW Sat 1431 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2130 WBCQ 9330v to WSW [maybe, or 2330?] Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW Sun 2130 WRMI 7780 to NE [NEWish] Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v to WSW [maybe] Mon 0130.5 WRMI 5850 to NW, 7780 to NE Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 0400 WRMI webcast only, non-direxional Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v to WSW [maybe] Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 to NE, 5950 to WNW [or #1944?] Tue 2130 WRMI 5950 to WNW [or #1944?] Full schedule for WOR on all outlets, not just SW; podcast linx: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn. I am happy to report that KLQS-LP 96.7 FM in Agua Dulce, California has returned to the air. The station had been silent for quite some time due to equipment problems. Those issues have been resolved, and the station is back on the air with a 24/7 relay of Global Community Radio Channel One. As such, World of Radio is now back on the air in that area every Sunday at 6PM Pacific, or, UT Monday 0100. I wanted to let you know about this immediately so you can keep the WOR schedule accurate and up to date. All the best, (Jake Longwell, GCR Station Manager, Global Community Radio, Aug 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ+ ** U S A. Dear Glenn, Thanks for the information on program 1941. Both of our programs share the hour on WBCQ at 7490. My program, Biblical Perspectives, is aired at 2300 UT and glad to hear the World of Radio at 2330. It happened today, Thursday. Let's hope it continues. (Tom Roberts, PhD, KF7PKG, 0103 UT Aug 17, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TV NEWS REPORT ABOUT THE 500 KW WBCQ --- Glenn, I discovered this while looking for more WWV and WWVH articles! Let`s hope Allan will put a few airings of WOR on this transmitter each week!! Tuning in to Monticello --- The town of Monticello will soon be home to one of the largest short wave radio stations in the world, according to those involved. In this week's Aroostook 2020, News Source 8's Ashley Blackford finds out what this major project could mean for the area. http://www.wagmtv.com/content/news/Tuning-in-to-Monticello-490955221.html (Artie Bigley, OH, Aug 17, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It`s only 2:04 after the ad; see AW talking about it, shots of the huge central post for the rotatable antenna, other steel (gh, ibid.) 7490+, UT Sat August 18 at 0001, WBCQ starting `Allan Weiner Worldwide` with his interjexions amid ``William Tell Overture`` theme --- but 9330+ is still BSing; by 0003 it has joined to // 7490. I can also barely detect // synchro 5130-. 9330 reception is slightly better than 7490. First topic is a TV news report about the 500 kW project, on WAGM-TV Presque Isle, which we have already publicized to the WOR iog tnx to Artie Bigley finding it [as above]. He`s glad to get the word out to local areans on what this massive construxion is all about; but puts down WAGM for its long-time avoidance of WBCQ, viewed as a competitor, which it is not as a SW station. Joining him in studio are wife Angela and CE Tom Barna. Later discussion: WBCQ studios are in a 66-year-old trailer. Heavy winter snow/ice pileup on roof of another one collapsed it. At 0020, Mark Sills calls from Dallas, with news about closedown of the WWVs; considerable consternation --- Allan cannot believe this is really true. Finally someone (Larry?) clarifies that according to Glenn Hauser, closing is in the FY2019 budget request, not a done deal yet. Should it happen, Allan muses that WBCQ might dedicate a transmitter to timesignals. Blames stupid bureaucrats, but never Trump by name! They agree CHU is still running. Allan also says there have been severe lightning storms, such as two days ago causing WBCQ to shut down --- that would be Wednesday Aug 15 circa 2100, an inconvenient time silencing World of Radio (and maybe why they did play me at the totally unexpected time of Thursday 2330 on 7490 --- for once, or from now on? No one at stations tells me anything). Someone asks if the wind turbines at WBCQ are still in use? No, mechanical difficulties. Discussed Tom helping out a station AW approves of, WCXU Caribou ME, as engineers put aside competitive constraints. I listen until 0058 and assume it will run a few minutes over. Have not heard from usual monitor John H. Carver, Jr., in mid- north Indiana, as I assume his computer is still down (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) AW`s twitting includes various photos of the superstation construxion, interspersed with his political rants: he axually believes we have everything to fear from the Left, not the right (gh) https://twitter.com/AllanWBCQ?lang=en (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) 5129.8, Aug 20 at 0547, no signal from WBCQ, presumed off as at least a carrier should be detectable. Fortunately it was on for WORLD OF RADIO 2.8 hours earlier. 5130-, Aug 20 at 2142, WBCQ BS is still off, while 7490+ and 9330+ BS are on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. From the Isle of Music, August 26-September 1: Our special guest this week is José Dos Santos, one of Cuba's foremost living experts on Jazz, the Producer of La Esquina del Jazz, a fine radio program on CMBF, and Editor in Chief of D'Cubajazz, the most important website about Jazz in Cuba. The transmissions take place: 1. For Eastern Europe but audible well beyond the target area in most of the Eastern Hemisphere (including parts of East Asia and Oceania) with 100 kW, Sunday 1500-1600 UT on SpaceLine, 9400, from Kostinbrod, Bulgaria (1800-1900 MSK) 2. For the Americas and parts of Europe, Tuesday 0000-0100 UT on WBCQ, 7490 from Monticello, ME, USA (Monday 8-9 PM EDT in the US). This has been audible in parts of NW, Central and Southern Europe with an excellent skip to Italy recently. 3 & 4. For Europe and sometimes beyond, Tuesday 1900-2000 UT and Saturday 1200-1300 UT on Channel 292, 6070 from Rohrbach, Germany Also recommended: Jetzt geht's los! (Here We Go!), an excellent program of early German Jazz produced by Radio Ohne Nahmen, comes on right before FTIOM on Tuesdays from 1800 to 1900 UT on Channel 292. Uncle Bill's Melting Pot, Sunday, August 26 & Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Episode 77 is a musical mystery box. What's in it? That would be telling.... The broadcasts take place: 1. Sundays 2200-2230 UT (6:00-6:30 PM Eastern US) on WBCQ The Planet 7490 from the US to the Americas and parts of Europe 2. Tuesdays 2000-2030 UT on Channel 292, 6070 from Rohrbach, Germany for Europe. If current propagation conditions hold, the broadcast should reach from Iceland to Western Russia, Scandinavia down to North Africa and the Middle East, AND a long bounce to parts of New Zealand. Also recommended: Marion's Attic, a unique program produced and hosted by Marion Webster featuring early 20th Century records, Edison cylinders, etc., played on the original equipment, comes on immediately before UBMP on Sundays from 2100 to 2200 UT on WBCQ 7490. (William "Bill" Tilford, Owner/Producer Tilford Productions, LLC, Aug 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI+ ** U S A [and non]. Roger Thayer posts a weekly page with lots of views of Radiogram and other shows involving visual material, e.g.: ===> http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2018-08-11.htm (No scripts, no cookies, no ads, simple HTML with slightly larger images) (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) LOG: 2018-08-15 6070 kHz ch292 Slow Scan Radio #4 1830-1900z Slow Scan Radio #4: analog SSTV images and a mix of digital high-speed & old fashioned text puzzle: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4rri3rxjaxfkzqg/2018-08-15_1830-1900z_SSR4.png?dl=0 (roger, WOR iog via DXLD) 5850, WRMI with s/on with IS, into Broad Spectrum Radio repeat of last week’s ‘all ham’ programme including the same non-decoding digital stuff. At 0800 into SW Radiogram #60 with digital text & photos that DID decode including stories about astronomers discover a new planet not orbiting any star (Star Trek Enterprise did an episode featuring a ‘rogue planet’ that wasn’t in orbit around a sun -- so life imitates art!) a 20xPSK63R encoded story (which didn’t work so well as even the fast MFSK128 mode did!) about Chinese news outlets cover Africa, then MFSK128 encoded item about Clues to ancient mysterious star blast (with photo): Rogue planet Eta Carinae as seen in Hubble ‘scope Next was an MFSK 64 encoded story about hydrogen wall at solar system’s edge and Solar powered aircraft smashes duration record, Hydrogen ‘wall’ illustration Airbus Zephyr program aircraft then a few images including ones of a NY Fireboat, craft fighting the Holy Fire in California & the Perseid meteor shower [image]: Then the business advice dude who is STILL not announcing the call letters right & was cut off in the middle of his hour show by WRMI’s s/off. 44+54+4 *0657-0901* 13/Aug FLDigi for the digital bits (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI2, MARE Tipsheet August 17 via DXLD) 9455, UT Thu Aug 16 at 0058 check, this WRMI is again on for its weekly spell, with Brother Scare recognizable prior to presumed Hal Turner bihour. Yet the System L yellowsked still claims 9455 is ``currently off air``. See also ARGENTINA [non] 9955, Aug 18 at 1400, WRMI Saturday-only extension with Terry Blalock introducing his `Full Gospel Hour`, then right into eruptions. 9395, Saturday August 18 at 2253, `Voice of the Report of the Week`, John announcement after music, is still on this secret WRMI transmission, from 2200; probably also // 7780, too weak to tell in noise level; and ex-11580 remains off. 9395, Sat Aug 18 at 2316, Bob Biermann`s `Your Weekend Show` during this hour, as he is talking about St. Kitts & Nevis --- he visited there over two years ago to see about getting R. Paradise, 820, St. Kitts back on the air, as it had been off for 3 years then and still is, but instead discovered another Christian station on adjacent Nevis, Praise FM 99.3, which now he wants to help develop (Paradise is/was owned by his former cohort on WRMI, Rick Wiles, the fake-news ``TruNews`` gospel huxter, who supposedly had big plans for broadcasting from St. Kitts) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW ** U S A. 9475, WTWW Lebanon TN (presumed); 2101-2107+, 8/13; Scriptures for America spot; announcer said that the Saturday broadcast with Permanently Passed Pastor Pete Peters is “live”. 2103 into Predominantly Pointless & Possibly Possessed Pastor Pete Peters on a 1992 b’cast ragging on a Brasilian Earth Summit meeting; PPP said that these folks are “humanists”, and not “intellectual”, but “stupid”. S20 peaks. This is soooooo easy (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, Drake R8B + 185' RW, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5072.1 & 5097.9, Aug 16 at 0635, JBA parasitic spur carriers are on, so that must mean WTWW-2 big fundamental 5085 is too: yes, rock music, running way late (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) We were thinking, why Don't WTWW just drop Scriptures for America Worldwide all together (since it was hosted by a now deceased racist baptist preacher) and just run oldies music along with theater organ music in the Ozarks (we think that's what it's called) and the weird after midnight talk show? Since WRMI has now reduced playing the oldies towards the evening and into the wee hours of the morning (U.S. here), then after sunrise, it's the Overcomer Ministries with "Brother Scare". That would make broadcasting on shortwave a whole lot better. (JK & Josh, near ATLANTA, GA, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dream on. The whole shebang is owned by SFAW. We`re lucky (?) they are so disconnected that Ted can do whatever he wants with the other transmitter(s). (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) 15809.938, Sat Aug 18 at 1934, WTWW-3 is on with S9+30 of classic rock, while 9475, 9930 and 5830 are all off. But WTWW-2, 5085 is running at midday // 15809.938 with ham talk, S7-S5 vs noise level; 1944 Ted mentions being on both frequencies (rounded off), and it`s live(?) from the Huntsville AL hamfest which I gather is one of the major ones. At 2246 recheck, JBA carrier on 15810-, so apparently still on but propagation has dropped out, but 5085 is off, and so still is WTWW-1, neither 9475 nor 5085; what are we going to do without our daily dose of white identity racism?? #3 appears quite stably off-frequency; on July 7 I measured it on .937, within margin of error. 5085, Sat Aug 18 at 2328, WTWW-2 still hasn`t come back on air. `Theater Organ in the Ozarx` had been rescheduled a sesquihour earlier than 0100v+ UT Sundays: learnt about it too late a biweek ago, and forgot to check a week ago, so I`m all set now, but --- no show! Despite still being on websked. By 2344 at least 5085 has come on the air, no 15809+ audible, but with classic rock music, presumed one of the farmed-out DJ shows, ditto at 0018 & 0116 chex August 19. 15809.930, Aug 19 at 1822 & 1923, JBA carrier about as weak as degraded 15825 WWCR, must be WTWW-3, while no other WTWW transmitters are on. Can`t tell programming but probably SFAW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5830, August 20 at 0147, WTWW-1 remains OFF, clearing the channel for a uteblaap. 5085, August 20 at 0154, WTWW-2 is only active frequency, Ted ad for http://carshortwaveradio.com I have not heard before, during DJ show, back to John Edwards. This is the BST-1 I have and use every drive. I got it for review. For me the drawbacks are: no way for direct frequency entry: you have to set up memories, or switch to up or down tuning (and you better be parked); I don`t have RDS so no visual display of frequencies or axions; frequencies may be ``displayed`` by Morse code numbers on demand (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9475, Aug 20 at 2131, WTWW-1 is still off; and so are all other WTWW frequencies: 15810-, 12105, 9930, 5830 and 5085. By 0314 Aug 21, 5830 WTWW-1 is back on, PPP discussing harlots; 5085 WTWW-2 with rock (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5830, Aug 21 at 0628, WTWW-1 is still off; not due to propagation as neighbor 5935, WWCR is inbooming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Reception of WRNO Worldwide Radio in Chinese, August 16 0439 & 0457 on 7505 RNO 050 kW / 020 deg to ENAm Chinese, good No signal of WRNO Worldwide Radio 01-13 UT on 7505, August 17 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/reception-of-wrno-worldwide-radio-in_17.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, August 16-17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5050, Sat Aug 18 at 2324, WWRB is already on with gospel huxter, and modulation is OK! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15665-15670-15675, Monday August 20 at 1350, WINB DRM is on again, but extremely assymetrical; sounding like ``normal`` DRM noise on the USB, but quite rougher and louder on the LSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. re: ``Chuck Harder, host of “For The People” which aired on shortwave in the 1990s and 2000s has passed. https://news.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/headline_id=n35449 He was a true non-partisan and I especially enjoyed listening to him on my auto shortwave during commutes home from Brooklyn in the days after 9/11/2001. (Dan Srebnick, Aberdeen, NJ, May 8, WORLD OF RADIO 1929, DXLD) (....) I asked Dan if he remembered which SW station(s), frequencies CH was on? He replied, ``I recall listening on WWCR but he may have also once been on WRNO back in the 1990s. But I would verify that one``. Not many mentions of Chuck Harder in the DXLD e-archive. See 5-052 and 5- 080 about his TV network operations; 13-36 about a SW radio he sold (Glenn Hauser, OK, DXLD 180508 [sic])`` I knew I had a greeting card of „For the People“ in my archives. It was based on the WWCR general greeting card. At the time I received it, it was for a broadcast via WHRI Noblesville. Probably unrelated to the undated card is an entry in my WHRI files: WHRI schedule as copied on 5. August 2001 1805 Mo-Fr For the People Chuck Harder 9495 Mhz 1905 Mo-Fr For the People Chuck Harder 9495 Mhz (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 22 August 2018, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Attaches view of the card. Had roughly marked out WWCR 7.520 and written in WHRI 7.315. Also ``Membership in US funds: USA $15.00; outside USA: $18.00`` marked out, $19.75 written in (gh, DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. [WOR] Defacto DX test from WION 1430 Ionia MI now? UPDATE: From Jim Carlyle: My understanding is that tones will run for about an hour, probably as soon as legally allowed (is that midnight?) then after the transmitter is tuned up, a very "eclectic" mix of music to give the TX and our processing a good listen and a good workout. Friday night to Saturday (Saturday at :00:00 target time. Hope that helps. If it changes, I'll let you know! (MARE Tipsheet via gh 0435 UT Aug 18, WOR iog and several MW lists, via DXLD) The 'test' (actually a technical adjustment of the modulator and the AM Stereo modulator) went off as planned, and was audible through a good chunk of Michigan, despite some pretty severe Co-Channel QRM. Here are the logs from the Thumb of Michigan: 1430 CHKT(p) ON Toronto w/subcontinental music and Hindi(?) talk second among the mix, and often better than WXNT during fades, but no clear ID ever heard. Fair to good 0355-0520 18/Aug SDRplay +SoDiRa +randomwire --Zichi MI2 1430 WION MI Ionia w/test tones, announcements, weather etc, and ‘eclectic mix’ of music including Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody” etc. MOSTLY under Toronto and Indianapolis, but often equal or even a bit better than them. The stereo pilot was ‘flickering’ even when Jim Carlyle told me they had the pilot tuned off, so either SoDiRa doesn’t need the pilot tone to sense stereo, or someone else on the channel is also broadcasting stereo. Dunno which! This was a fun ‘test’ -- we need to get Indy to sign off to make it more successful! ;) Fair, when on daytime power and pattern, inaudible on night pattern/power 0355-0520 18/Aug SDRplay +SoDiRa +randomwire --Zichi MI2 1430 WXNT IN Indianapolis w/CBS Sports talk blather mostly on top as I monitored swapping with Toronto. Non-ID as “CBS Sports 14-30 Indianapolis” at 0500, and ads for 'RocketMortgage' prime among their 'IDable elements'. There were other stations too, but these three were the only ones that popped up sufficiently to presume anything. Fair to good 0355-0520 18/Aug SDRplay +SoDiRa +randomwire --Zichi MI2 QSLs for anyone who heard things (I was deliberately vague here -- please provide details!) will be available. You can send reports to either the Michigan Area Radio Enthusiasts at MARE.radio@gmail.com or the station directly attn Jim Carlyle. We're debating about paper QSLs but of course would need to recoup postage costs; if you're interested in that let us know and we'll gauge interest and make a decision. 73 (//Ken Zichi in Central Lower Michigan (MI) or in lower Michigan's "thumb" (MI2), Aug 19, WOR iog via DXLD) I tried for it circa 0445 UT Aug 18, but 1430 was totally dominated by rock station from NE/SW, presumed KZQZ St Louis, even tho its 5 kW night pattern is supposedly NW/SE with a deep null toward us! In case it were really WION, I`ll have to check again whether such KZQZ reception is ``normal``. BTW, this tip forwarded to the IRCA list got zero responses. 1430, Aug 20 at 0213 UT, KZQZ (kay-zee-cue-zee) 1430 ID amid rock music just as I intune. Checking this whether it`s really the St Louis station I was hearing during the WION defacto DX test, so yes, it was, despite null meward in NRC Pattern Book. Is this still correct, per FCC AM Query? The 5 kW night field strength plot just redated August 17, 2018! https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1513373-119319.pdf still shows deep nulls toward the SW and NE, major lobe NNW and secondary lobe SSE --- while 50 kW day pattern is quite the reverse, ENE and WSW lobes with only null toward the SSE: https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1513373-119318.pdf so I conclude they are really running day pattern and probably day power, at night. BTW, transmitter site is across the river in Illinois, as befits its original call WIL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1700, Aug 15 at 1203 UT, hefty promo for ``Banda Trece, más música, más deportes`` --- seems to me more of one would logically require less of the other on one single station, i.e. KKLF Richardson TX (The Metroplex); I see its unusual X-band power is 5/1 kW --- why not 10 kW day like most of the others? We still wonder about significance of Banda 13 branding; why not 17? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Answering Glenn's question about why KKLF-1700 is 5 kW day instead of the usual 10 kW - according to their CP application, at 10 kW they were causing QRM to their neighbors near the transmitter site. For a while they had different day/night sites, then an STA to operate 5000/1000, and finally just decided it was easiest to make the 5 kW day power permanent (David Yocis, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. POSSIBLE MOVEMENT ON "AM IMPROVEMENT" ALLOCATION RULES CHANGES --- This is an excerpt from Chairman Pai's speech to the Michigan Broadcasters Assn. meeting, which was in yesterday's late FCC releases [in blue-green]: “In addition to the translator initiative, we’ve been working on a follow-up rulemaking to refine earlier proposals on modifying interference protection for Class A stations. In my view, our rules should reflect the reality of the current noise floor and appropriately balance the interests of Americans who want to listen to smaller local stations in their communities with those who enjoy listening to Class A stations. Many folks weighed in on our proposal from 2015 on how to modernize our protection rules for Class A stations. We’ve been studying those ideas, and today, I’m pleased to announce that I’ve just shared with my colleagues a draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that contains new proposals regarding interference protection for Class A stations. They are based in large part on comments we received from experienced broadcast engineers. I hope that the draft Notice is approved soon so that we can get public feedback on these new proposals.” Here's the link to the whole speech, if you care about all the other blather.... https://www.fcc.gov/document/chairman-pai-remarks-michigan-association-broadcasters 73/ben -- (Benj. F. Dawson III, P.E., Hatfield & Dawson Consulting Engineers, LLC, 9500 Greenwood Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98103 USA 206 783 9151, 206 789 9834 Facsimile dawson@hatdaw.com Aug 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. FCC SHUTS DOWN ALEX JONES’ PIRATE FLAGSHIP RADIO STATION The Federal Communications Commission has shut down a pirate radio station that served as the flagship outlet for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/fcc-shuts-down-alex-jones-pirate-flagship-radio-station/2018/08/15/d0cbaf64-a0d8-11e8-a3dd-2a1991f075d5_story.html Sent from my iPhone (David Cole, OK, Aug 16, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) FCC SHUTS DOWN LIBERTY RADIO, ALEX JONES' PIRATE FLAGSHIP RADIO STATION --- Associated Press Austin, Texas August 15, 2018 http://time.com/5368588/fcc-liberty-radio-alex-jones/ The Federal Communications Commission has shut down a pirate radio station that served as the flagship outlet for conservative conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. The Austin American-Statesman reports the FCC also has fined the station’s operators $15,000 — a fine the FCC says in a lawsuit the operators are refusing to pay. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Austin alleges Liberty Radio operated on a channel without a license since at least 2013. The lawsuit names as defendants Walter Olenick and M. Rae Nadler-Olenick. Court documents show the FCC had tracked the transmissions to a 50- foot tower at an Austin apartment complex owned by an entity linked to the Olenicks (via Mike Terry, WOR iog via DXLD) Glenn, Hope you find this of interest.... WASHINGTON — FCC chairman Ajit Pai said efforts to enforce a fine against a pirate radio station in Austin, Texas, were not related to Alex Jones' show, which ... https://variety.com/2018/politics/news/fcc-alex-jones-pirate-radio-1202908796/ US Sues Operators Of Pirate Radio Station That Aired Alex Jones' Show ... acting against the radio station — something that FCC Chairman Ajit Pai brought up ... their letter by informing the FCC's enforcement bureau that its agents did not have ... as an official warning of impending action, Olenick and Nadler-Olenick said ... http://www.capradio.org/news/npr/story?storyid=639239647 (both via Artie Bigley, DXLD) U.S. Sues Operators Of Pirate Radio Station That Aired Alex Jones' Show --- By Bill Chappell | NPR Thursday, August 16, 2018 [An antenna tower is seen at the Orchard Plaza apartment building in Austin in 2014, the year the FCC imposed a penalty on the building's owners for operating a pirate radio station.] [caption] Google Maps/Screenshot by NPR Updated at 3 p.m. ET, Aug. 17 The U.S. government says the operators of a pirate radio station that has been known for airing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' program must pay a $15,000 FCC penalty for broadcasting without a license. The station's operators have rejected the demand and accuse the Federal Communications Commission of "trying to run a bluff." The agency says a civil suit filed by the Justice Department has nothing to do with the station's airing of Jones' broadcasts, and is only about the license issue. To collect the debt, the Justice Department recently filed a civil suit against Walter Olenick and M. Rae Nadler-Olenick, demanding the married couple pay the FCC's penalty "for willful and repeated violation" of U.S. law. They're accused of operating a pirate radio station; Texas Liberty Radio has been unlicensed at least since 2013, according to the FCC. On its website, Texas Liberty Radio says it stopped broadcasting when it lost tower access in December 2017. But for years, Olenick and Nadler-Olenick have been fighting the FCC's attempt to enforce federal laws, insisting the agency doesn't have any power over them. Jones' Infowars media company told NPR in an email that the controversial radio host has had no direct connection to Texas Liberty Radio. But the station's past broadcasts of his program earned it the moniker of the "Austin flagship" for Jones, according to the Austin American-Statesman. The Associated Press and Inside Radio have also referred to it as the flagship — raising the ire of one of the station's hosts, Danny Sessom, who said late Wednesday night that TXLR only rebroadcasts Jones' radio show. Calling it anything else, he said, was "actual fake news." When the FCC first penalized Olenick and Nadler-Olenick in 2014, The Austin Chronicle noted that the 90.1 FM frequency "has aired New World Order warnings for more than a decade, earning it the nickname 'Alex Jones Radio.' " In a string of correspondence with the FCC, Olenick and Nadler-Olenick dismissed the agency's claims against them as preposterous and unfounded, saying in essence that they never agreed to be regulated by the U.S. government. The FCC has been both praised and criticized for acting against the radio station — something that FCC Chairman Ajit Pai brought up Thursday during previously planned testimony before the Senate commerce committee. "It is important to make clear that our pirate radio enforcement efforts — including this one — have nothing to do with the content of pirate radio stations air," Pai said, according to the FCC's transcript. "We act against pirate radio station because they are violating the law by broadcasting on the FM airwaves without a license." In the Austin case, Pai noted, the station's operators were fined only after they ignored a warning to stop broadcasting illegally. The case began in 2013, when the FCC received a complaint about an illegal transmission on the 90.1 frequency in Austin. The FCC's enforcement agents used directional equipment to trace the source of the rogue signal to a 50-foot tower erected at a property owned by the Olenick and Nadler-Olenick. The tower's antenna was wired to equipment in a utility or maintenance room, the agents said. They also "observed a vehicle bearing a bumper sticker reading "Liberty 90.1 FM" parked in front." The agents used county records to determine who owned the property. In September 2013, the FCC sent a letter to Olenick and Nadler- Olenick, warning them of the penalties of running an unlicensed radio station and giving them 10 days to respond. The pair sent a rather extraordinary response, alternately telling the agency to "kindly never bother us with your harassment under color of law and office again" and saying that if the FCC wanted to communicate further, "knock yourself out." The demands in the FCC's letter were "facially preposterous," they wrote. The couple also seemed to assert rights reserved for foreign states, telling the FCC, "We expect that letters so addressed would more properly come from your company's International Bureau and then only after there's been some treaty of other discovered to which we are signators." It's unclear whether Olenick and Nadler-Olenick might adhere to the belief, long held among some Texans, that the state should operate as a republic rather than as a full member of the United States. The FCC's letter, we'll note, was sent to the couple's post office box in Austin. Olenick and Nadler-Olenick closed their letter by informing the FCC's enforcement bureau that its agents did not have permission to enter or visit their property, implying the agents would thereafter be considered trespassers. A string of further letters followed much the same pattern, and in early 2014, the FCC imposed the $15,000 penalty. Olenick and Nadler- Olenick didn't pay, and in November of that year, the agency sent a letter threatening to bring in the Justice Department. Instead of seeing the penalty notice as an official warning of impending action, Olenick and Nadler-Olenick said they took a different view of the FCC's citation of federal regulations. They wrote: "We look at the same compilation of words and see Monte Hall's, 'Let's Make a Deal!', i.e., an offer. We decline your offer, as we have from the outset, and we will forever decline your offer." Olenick and Nadler-Olenick repeatedly referred to the FCC as a company, as when they stated in a letter to Susan Launer, the FCC's deputy associate general counsel, "We dispute (your company's) claim in its entirety, for reasons already documented in our prior correspondence." In that letter, Olenick and Nadler-Olenick also wrote, "Obviously, we'll be sending no check to anyone in response to your continued mail fraud conspiracy." They accused the FCC of trying to conjure a justification for the penalty, calling it "a conspiracy ... to harass us and to intimidate us for and in retaliation of our very well-documented assertion of our 'right not to contract.' " The FCC penalty has now gone unpaid for four years, and the Justice Department filed a civil suit in federal court last week to collect the debt. That federal action comes after several large tech companies recently either banned or limited Jones' ability to use their platforms to air his shows. Twitter is the latest company to punish the conspiracy theorist, revoking some of Jones' privileges for breaking its rules against abusive behavior. Jones and others at Infowars have said they're being censored and deprived of their right to free speech. They also say the moves targeting Jones have been timed to coincide with the run-up to the midterm elections, now less than three months away. In videos posted to Twitter and elsewhere, Jones has told his followers to go directly to his website to watch or listen to his show through online streaming. Editor's note on Aug. 17: This story and its headline have been edited to restate that while Texas Liberty Radio has been called the "Austin flagship" for Alex Jones, it has no direct connection to the conspiracy theorist. Also, the story has been edited to restate that the FCC says its enforcement effort is not connected to any of the content that Texas Liberty Radio has broadcast and is only about the station's unlicensed broadcasting (summarised via WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) ** VATICAN. Unscheduled test transmission of Vatican Radio, August 17: 0800-0838 on 9645 SMG 250 kW / 054 deg to EaEu Hindi/Tamil & other* * French at 0825 & Belarussian at 0835UT, RFE/RL & VOA announcements http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/unscheduled-test-transmission-of.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, August 16-17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VENEZUELA. HACE 30 AÑOS COMENZÓ LA ERA DE LA FM COMERCIAL EN VENEZUELA En Venezuela, hasta bien entrada la década de 1980, la banda de FM en los receptores de automóviles y casas estaba de "adorno". El ensordecedor ruido cósmico eran el denominador común en casi todo el país: años antes se había "limpiado" esta banda de los enlaces estudio-planta (que proliferaron en el decenio de 1960) de las estaciones de AM de Caracas y el interior de la República. En la ciudad capital, verbigracia, sólo había una señal en la banda de FM: la Emisora Cultural de Caracas, que emitía en los 97.7 MHz, la cual inició actividades el 1º de enero de 1975 y era propiedad del ingeniero Humberto Peñaloza (*). Su programación pivotaba entre la música clásica, instrumental y la folklórica; las voces más emblemáticas de la estación eran Walter Parra y Jaime Suárez. La melodía que caracterizaba a la Cultural de Caracas - la indiscutible pionera de la FM nacional - era la "Fuga Criolla" (1931) del maestro Juan Bautista Plaza. En la década de 1970, el Estado venezolano se había comprometido a otorgar concesiones para la explotación comercial de la modulación de frecuencia (FM) y no fue sino hasta 1987 que se publicó un listado, en la prensa nacional, con los acreedores de las referidas licencias. La espera se había prolongado por más de 10 años. Uno de los beneficiados era Oswaldo Yépez, connotado hombre de la radiodifusión criolla que era fundador de la afamada Radio Capital 710 kHz. Sin embargo, el privilegio de sacar al aire la primera estación de FM con fines de lucro no fue para Yépez o el Grupo 1BC (Caracas 750 y Radio Caracas Televisión), sino para el conglomerado de Unión Radio, emporio de Enrique Cuzcó, que estaba presidido y dirigido por la leyenda de las ondas hertzianas: Sergio Gómez Letón (fallecido en 2007). El viernes 1º de julio de 1988 comenzó la era de la FM comercial en Venezuela con las transmisiones de Éxitos 107 (hoy La Mega), en el canal de 107.3 MHz. Con dos identificaciones con las voces de Jesús Leandro y Carlos Eduardo Ball, que se rotaban entre los temas de Bananarama, Swing Out Sister, Rick Astley, Franco de Vita y Yordano, se anunciaba que Éxitos 107 era la precursora de la explotación comercial en el espectro de la modulación de frecuencia. Hasta la fecha, El Salvador y Venezuela eran los únicos lugares de América Latina donde no había estaciones privadas en la banda de FM. Éxitos 107 era filial de 1090 Estéreo (Éxitos 1090), la estación de formato juvenil del Circuito Unión Radio que emitía música anglosajona y hacía abierta competencia a Caracas 750 (Radio Caracas Radio), la emisora del Grupo 1BC. Éste último era la casa matriz de Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), uno de los dos canales comerciales más importantes del país. Unión Radio estaba vinculado a Venevisión (competidor de Radio Caracas Televisión) a través de Sergio Gómez Letón, quien también era directivo en La Colina. Por ende, el batacazo de que Éxitos 107 fuese la primera FM comercial de Venezuela era un implícito revés para RCTV, Caracas 750 y el Grupo 1BC en general. Para nadie era un secreto que las relaciones entre Jaime Lusinchi - el entonces Presidente de la República - y el referido enclave empresarial no eran muy buenas. Marcel Granier y Peter Bottome Deery, los mandamases de 1BC, habían tenido desencuentros con Miraflores. Uno de ellos fue la ocasión en la que la periodista del matutino de RCTV "Lo de Hoy", Rosana Ordoñez, fue despedida por órdenes expresas del Presidente de la Republica puesto que había hecho comentarios que no habían sido del agrado de Lusinchi. Granier y Bottome habían sido presionados por el Ejecutivo para sacar a Ordoñez de RCTV y eso no les gustó para nada: el poder mediático era el que imponía sus reglas a los políticos, no al revés (**). Éxitos 107 estuvo en período de prueba por tres meses y el lunes 3 de octubre de 1988 empezó transmisiones regulares. De acuerdo con fuentes de la misma Unión Radio, en declaraciones a la prensa para la época, la inversión total para establecer la estación fue de un millón de bolívares antiguos ó 27.624,30 dólares a la tasa de cambio de Bs. 36,2 vigente para octubre de 1988. La empresa daría pérdidas por un par de años y posterior a ese período se haría rentable. Los estudios de Éxitos 107 se ubicaban en el edificio Esplendor de la avenida Mohedano de la urbanización La Castellana, en Caracas, sitio donde ya estaba 1090 Estéreo (Éxitos 1090), la cual fue fundada en 1969. El transmisor de la FM se hallaba en Conejo Blanco (Cerro El Ávila o Waraira Repano), lugar localizado al norte de la ciudad capital y a unos 1.500 metros sobre el nivel del mar, lo que explica por qué la emisora se sintonizaba tan bien en recovecos del cinturón suburbano caraqueño como Catia La Mar. El Circuito Unión Radio y el Circuito Quantum (Caracas 750 y sus afiliadas a escala nacional) eran los más destacados de Venezuela dirigidos al sector juvenil. La denominación de "Éxitos 107" se usó por pocos meses y ya en octubre de 1988 la radio se nombraba "FM 107, ¡la FM!". En 1991, la identificación pasó a ser "FM 107, La Megaestación" y más tarde sólo "La Megaestación". A finales del decenio de 1990, se acortó la frase a "La Mega" y así es como hoy en día se conoce a la pionera de la FM comercial. Los primeros jingles de la etapa de "La Megaestación" eran los mismos de una radio homónima en San Juan de Puerto Rico, en los 106.9 MHz, que hasta 1989 se llamó Sonorama 107, de formato romántico en español e inglés que después se convirtió en una de corte "anglo Top 40". Nunca supimos si se trataba de un convenio entre ambas empresas para usar el término "Megaestación" en Venezuela, hasta que John Fabio Bermúdez (primer gerente de producción de Éxitos 107) despejó la incógnita en mayo pasado: él admite que fue una especie de "intercambio" entre los colegas boricuas y él. Bermúdez ofreció la voz de Waldemaro Martínez, un afamado locutor venezolano que laboraba en la precursora caraqueña, para hacer las "voice over" a la radio de Puerto Rico y él - en contraprestación - recibía los novedosos jingles que comenzaron a sonar en los 107.3 MHz (***). Lo cierto es que el fenómeno de la "radio participativa", propulsado por Eli Bravo en Éxitos 107 (La Mega) a través del programa matutino "Cualquier Cosa" (emitido entre septiembre de 1992 y marzo de 1995), estaba inspirado en lo que se hacía en la Isla del Encanto y el mercado hispano de Estados Unidos: llamadas al aire de los oyentes, locutores desenfadados con voz aguda, sketch humorísticos y concursos. Por lo tanto, el mérito de Éxitos 107, John Fabio Bermúdez y Eli Bravo, es haberle dado "color local" a lo que era moneda corriente en otras latitudes hertzianas. Hoy en día, la sede de la emisora está en la urbanización Las Mercedes. DESPUÉS DE ÉXITOS 107 EMPEZÓ EL "BOOM" DE LAS FM EN VENEZUELA Posterior a la oficialización de emisiones de Éxitos 107, en octubre de 1988, el 26 de ese mismo mes apareció - en el dial del valle citadino - KYS FM 101.5 MHz, propiedad de Oswaldo Yépez, quien había sido fundador de Radio Capital 710 kHz. El estilo de la segunda FM comercial de Venezuela oscilaba entre las "big band" de los 1930-1940, la MPB (Música Popular Brasileña) y clásicos anglosajones del decenio de 1960. Más tarde entraría en escena Antena Tres 102.3 MHz, cuyos estudios estaban en la Torre La Previsora de Plaza Venezuela, en Caracas. Su formato era más popular y con música en español al estilo de Juan Gabriel, José José, Rocío Durcal, entre otros. Desconocemos si ésta tenía alguna relación con la cadena española de ídem nombre que existió entre el 1º de febrero de 1982 y el 19 de junio de 1994, la cual fue predecesora de la televisora ibérica Antena Tres. Ya en 1990, la estación se denominaba "FM 102.3" y poco después "Caraqueña 102.3". Con el nuevo siglo, ésta se identificaba como "Circuito Nacional Belfort" o "CNB 102.3" y al perder la persona jurídica la concesión de la frecuencia en 2009, el espectro fue ocupado por la estación radioeléctrica de la Asamblea Nacional o Parlamento. Una olvidada de esos años es la emblemática Ritmo 95.5, cuya portadora era tan o más potente que la de Éxitos 107. Salió al aire el 30 de noviembre de 1988 y en sus primeras promociones aseguraba que tendría en su menú los juegos de béisbol de la Liga Venezolana, entre otras ofertas. En realidad, todo eso se desechó más tarde. Ritmo se consagró a la música juvenil anglo en abierto desafío a Éxitos 107 y era muy sintonizada por esos tiempos. Las calcomanías de 95.5 se apoderaron de numerosos automóviles de la Gran Caracas mucho antes de que lo hicieran las peculiares pegatinas de 92.9, verbigracia. Quizás la ventaja de Ritmo 95.5 sobre Éxitos 107 era que la primera, además de ostentar una señal más fuerte y colocar más música por hora, difundía remezclas de los temas de moda en la programación cotidiana. En contraste, Éxitos 107 optaba más por las versiones para "radio" y las remezclas eran contadas: la que más recordamos (en Éxitos 107) es la de "Always on my mind" de Pet Shop Boys, contenida en el álbum "Introspective". Ritmo rotaba casi la totalidad de los discos de "Fast Track" lanzados por Sonorodven entre 1987 y 1988. La 95.5 tenía tantos kilovatios en antena que comenzó a interferir - en Curazao - a la filial de Radio Curom (Z86) en FM, la cual había inaugurado emisiones un año antes (1987). Z-FM se ubicaba en ídem canal (95.5 MHz) y de cajón entró en "colisión radioeléctrica" con su contraparte venezolana. En las Antillas Neerlandesas no les quedó más opción que moverse a los 95.7 MHz. Ritmo 95.5 duró un par de años, a lo máximo, ya que entre 1990 y 1991 cambió su formato y fue rebautizada como Jazz 95.5. Igualmente se redujo la intensidad de su señal en la zona metropolitana. Los estudios continuaron afincados en la Quinta "Ritmo 95" de La Campiña, en Caracas. En el convulsionado 1989 arribaron más estaciones al éter citadino: a principios de año, Estéreo 103 ocupó los 103.3 MHz con un estilo juvenil anglo que competía con Éxitos 107 y Ritmo 95.5. En octubre de 1990 desapareció Estéreo 103 y FM Mundial se instaló en los 103.3 MHz. Ésta última era filial de YVKE Mundial 550 kHz. En 1991, el banquero de origen cubano, Orlando Castro, adquirió el Circuito Mundial en AM y FM Mundial pasó a denominarse Radiorama 103.3 MHz puesto que no formó parte de la pretérita transacción. Otra filial de Unión Radio entró en escena a inicios de 1989: Hit 100 (99.9 MHz), conocida hoy como Éxitos 99.9. Ésta se consagró a los "oldies" o temas clásicos en inglés (chatarritas) de los 1960, 1970 y primera mitad de los 1980; en el jingle de "99.9 FM Hit 100", en algún instante se omitió - sin razón alguna - el "FM Hit 100" alrededor de 1991 ó 1992. Cuenta la "leyenda urbana" que un conocido circuito capitalino había registrado legalmente la denominación "Hit 100" y había prohibido a Unión Radio la utilización de ese apelativo. ¿Qué tal? El 12 de junio de 1989 entró en escena Hot 94, una estación anglo Top 40 que luego se especializó en rock e hizo rememorar a varios los tiempos de Radiodifusora Venezuela 790 kHz, dial que se hizo célebre para los amantes de dicho género a mediados de los 1980. Las guardias de locución en Hot 94 eran pregrabadas y lo pudimos constatar en varias ocasiones: en horarios y días distintos los presentadores decían exactamente lo mismo y colocaban idénticas canciones. ¡Obvio el asunto! Hot 94 era un proyecto de Rodolfo Rodríguez Miranda, directivo de Venevisión, que más tarde sería la piedra fundacional del Circuito FM Center junto con otras estaciones como Fiesta 106 (106.5 MHz), que era una concesión otorgada al esposo de la cantante Mirla Castellanos, Miguel Ángel Martínez (****). En julio de 1989, el Grupo 1BC pudo poner en el cuadrante el equivalente de Caracas 750 en FM: Caracas 92.9. Mejor conocida como "Tu FM 92.9". Entre octubre y noviembre comenzó emisiones regulares, aunque arribaba un poco tarde a la contienda con Éxitos 107. A pesar de esto, la 92.9 marcó pauta con programas como "Club Mix" del DJ Tony Escobar y "Rockadencia" de Fernando Ces y Guillermo Zambrano. Capital FM, la hermana de Radio Capital 710 kHz, empezó transmisiones de prueba el 31 de julio de 1989 en los 104.5 MHz. La intensidad de señal de Capital FM era avasallante y entre sus programas bandera se encontraba "La Noche" (de lunes a viernes), conducido por el magistral Julio César "Tercero" Venegas. La emisora dejó de existir en 2004 y fue sustituida por Rumbera Network, de Peter Taffin. Desde hace unos años, la 104.5 forma parte del Circuito Musik FM. Fuera de Caracas, otras estaciones surgieron en medio del frenesí radioeléctrico: Z-100 (100.3 MHz) fue la pionera en el estado Vargas en febrero de 1990. Su propietario era José Rubín, relevante político regional del partido Acción Democrática. Sus hijos, José María y Marcel, y su sobrino, René Rincón, eran quienes llevaban las riendas de Z-100. Sus estudios estaban en el edificio Centro Soublette de La Guaira. La precursora del centro-occidente venezolano fue B96 (95.9 MHz), cuya fase de período de prueba se inició el 7 de agosto de 1989. Tenemos entendido, desde aquellos años, que el célebre locutor de Radio Tropical 990 kHz, Enrique Hoffman, era el titular de la concesión de B96. De hecho, él era la voz oficial de la emisora. En Nueva Esparta, Súper Estéreo 98.1 MHz se convirtió en la pionera de la Isla de Margarita el 27 de junio de 1989. El sonido de la modulación de frecuencia (FM) era nítido, estereofónico y eso encantó al público que no conocía otra cosa que la AM; las limitaciones técnicas de la modulación de amplitud eran notorias y escuchar la música favorita en alta fidelidad - en la oficina, el automóvil o la comodidad de casa - era un privilegio que resultó irresistible para muchos. No olvidemos que en esos años era muy difícil y costoso hacerse de un reproductor de disco compacto digital; los tocadiscos y reproductores de cinta magnetofónica también tenían importes elevados. En ídem dirección, comprar álbumes de música en las discotiendas era prohibitivo: por el precio de un "long-play" fabricado en Venezuela se sufragaban 60 pasajes mínimos urbanos superficiales. No existían ni los MP3, ni los MP4 o los iPhone. Es decir, la FM era la forma más barata y práctica de oír música con calidad estereofónica. DE LA RADIO PARTICIPATIVA DE LOS 1990 A LA CRISIS DE NUESTROS DÍAS El formato participativo que se inició en Éxitos 107, en 1992, se expandió como un virus por todo el dial. De repente, era "cool" poner al aire las llamadas telefónicas de los oyentes o tener a locutores con voz de "adolescente" en la parrilla de programación. Hasta entonces, la radio juvenil venezolana era muy acartonada, seria: los tonos de los presentadores - por lo general - eran engolados y bajo ninguna circunstancia se permitía la interacción telefónica al aire con la audiencia, menos los mensajes personales. Ese panorama cambió en el decenio de 1990. Al principio todo resultó novedoso y divertido, no obstante, con el pasar del tiempo se tornó fastidioso el asunto puesto que la mayoría de los locutores sonaba como Eli Bravo. Teníamos "clones" de "Cualquier Cosa" en cada rincón del espectro. Sin embargo, el esfuerzo creativo rindió frutos con espacios como "La Hora del Gato" (Ávila 91.9, Éxitos 107, 92.9), "El Zoológico" (92.9), "El Manicomio" (89X) y "El Show de la Gente Bella" (92.9). La FM competía con la televisión en los horarios estelares. El alba del siglo XXI evidenciaba el desgaste del modelo interactivo y la deriva de la radio juvenil en Venezuela: la crisis de inventiva era manifiesta y la mediocridad se había alojado en el ambiente. La radio comercial ya no tenía el monopolio de la atención de los oyentes y debía disputarse el ágora con las emisoras comunitarias, verbigracia. La ausencia cada vez mayor de buena producción en el formato participativo era patente y esto se debía a varios elementos, entre ellos: a) la migración masiva de figuras de la televisión a la radio; y b) la preponderancia económica de la producción independiente. Lo primero provocó que gente ajena al medio tuviera programas en estaciones importantes, nada más por su cara bonita y su nombre; ser "exitoso" en la pantalla chica no es garantía de que te irá bien en la radio. En la televisión todo está cronometrado, planificado y escrito. En la radio, la espontaneidad y la improvisación son factores clave. Plagar de figuras de TV el cuadrante era matar la esencia de la radio y truncarla como escuela de noveles talentos. Lo segundo, el avasallamiento crematístico de la producción independiente, ha causado que las estaciones den más peso al aspecto económico y no al creativo a la hora de escoger qué programas aceptar en sus antenas. O sea, si Juan Bimba ostenta una buena propuesta pero no tiene clientes y, en oposición, Peter Sneuldezenberger - con sus lugares comunes y chistes reciclados - hace alarde de tres patrocinadores nacionales, adivinen con quién se quedará la gerencia de producción. Voilà! El reciente papelón infame de tres conductores de "Calma Pueblo", espacio que emitía La Mega, en el que tildaban de "homosexual" a un niño de siete años después de que éste había comentado que le agradaba Cristiano Ronaldo, nos indica el nivel de decadencia de aquello que alguna vez fue un formato prometedor, irreverente y refrescante. La radio participativa devino en una hoguera de egos, trivialidades y pataletas sifrinas que no ayudan a edificar una mejor sociedad basada en el respeto y la tolerancia. Hace 30 años, la FM se convirtió en una ventana de oportunidades para la expresión de una generación a través de una herramienta inédita y directa; Éxitos 107 abrió el sendero a cientos de estaciones en toda Venezuela y marcó un hito en la historia de la radiodifusión nacional. Tres décadas más tarde, es bastante la autocrítica que debemos hacer con respecto a nuestro gremio. (*) La Emisora Cultural de Caracas fue la pionera en modulación de frecuencia en 1975. En febrero de 1983, se inauguró la segunda FM del país: La Voz de Maraven 105.7 MHz, en Punto Fijo, estado Falcón. Era la estación institucional de una de las cuatro filiales de Petróleos de Venezuela. Su programación consistía en música (folklórica, instrumental, pop) y espacios culturales producidos por Maraven. (**) El Grupo 1BC también tuvo problemas con el gobierno de Lusinchi debido a El Diario de Caracas, otra de las empresas del citado "holding". El otorgamiento de divisas preferenciales a través de RECADI para la compra de papel y otros insumos importados, fue un mecanismo de presión del mandatario de turno con el fin de neutralizar a medios impresos que no comulgaban con sus políticas. RCTV y sus filiales eran más favorables a los gobiernos de COPEI (centroderecha), por el contrario, Venevisión (férreo competidor de RCTV) se decantaba más por Acción Democrática (centroizquierda en teoría). Por ser un político de AD, Lusinchi pasaba "factura" al Grupo 1BC y por ello Caracas 92.9 no vio luz sino hasta julio de 1989. (***) https://twitter.com/johnfbermudez/status/992186557422604288 (****) Era natural que Fiesta 106 (106.5 MHz) se nombrara "La Primerísima", ya que ése es el pseudónimo de la intérprete venezolana Mirla Castellanos, consorte de Miguel Ángel Martínez. No obstante, esto no fue posible porque Radio Capital ya usaba el eslogan de "La Primerísima" en sus transmisiones. Esta emisora, como hemos reseñado, fue fundada por Oswaldo Yépez y Tito Martínez del Box (creador del espacio humorístico "Radio Rochela"). Curiosamente, Yépez fue el padrino artístico de Mirla Castellanos. (ADÁN GONZÁLEZ LIENDO, Productor, guionista y locutor. Certificado 26950 (UCV, 1995), para COMPENDIO DE ESCUCHAR DX) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. Re: [WOR] Radio Nacional Saharaui off 1550, 702, 700 [as Carlos Gonçalves reported July 29] --- I noticed them at least on 10th August, forgot to check earlier. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, Aug 20, WOR iog via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 4810, Aug 20 at 0549, JBA carrier vs the utehash on hi side, intriguing; it`s fading a bit so seems genuine, and could not be a MW harmonic. Certainly not India or Armenia, neither scheduled nor propagable at this hour. Aoki/NDXC has one other 4810, Radio Logos, Chazuta, Perú, supposedly at 0900-2400 but seemingly inactive. Last report of it was in a 60m survey by Daniel Wyllyans, Brasil: ``4810 kHz, 10 Mar. 2018, 0035, Radio Logos, Voz masculina no idioma espanhol falando do livro da Bíblia de Matéus e sobre nossos pecados; recepção audível, 34232`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Re the DRMish noise I have been hearing above 7555 while AIR is DRMing on 7545-7550-7555, Noel Green, England, replies Aug 19: ``There certainly is something else, and it's been there for a long time. If memory serves me correctly, it is connected with the French navy unless there has been a change meanwhile. It is now a digital (STANAG?) type signal, but previously used to operate with a different system [and noise]. I've searched a couple of files but can't find it listed there. Aoki etc. doesn't list it but I'm fairly certain that they used to do so. The exact frequency is difficult to determine as it spreads from about 7551.8 to about 7557.6, and whenever I tune around there, it is always on air --- like now at 1730 UT [Sunday]. Perhaps this is what you're hearing? 73 from Noel Green, England`` Aoki doesn`t list pure utilities; EiBi does but mostly voice or fax modes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also INDIA UNIDENTIFIED. From Mauno Ritola, WRTH Facebook page: This just came from the address mentioned below. No reference to Channel 292, so probably a genuine one this time ... "Test transmission for Africa, Middle East and Europe on Thursday August 23rd 2018: 16.00-16.15 UTC: 11550 kHz 16.30-17.00 UTC: 9320 kHz 19.00-19.15 UTC: 9320 kHz 19.30-19.45 UTC: 11550 kHz Non stop music only. Monitoring observations – in particular from Africa – would be highly appreciated to this email-address: swtest818@gmail.com No QSLs are available`` (via bdxc-news iog Aug 20 via WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) Strange; maybe just for collecting e-mail addresses for the next SW related spam mail? (Harald Kuhl, Germany, WORLD OF RADIO 1944, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 9363-USB, August 15 at 0620, 2-way in unID language sorta Spanish intonation but words not recognized, which make me suspect Tagalog (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. EGYPT Mystery Egyptian Music Station on 9400, August 16 0845-0855 on 9400 unknown tx / unknown to ????, 10 min. dead air 0855-0900 on 9400 unknown tx / unknown to ????, test tone 1000 Hz 0900-0910 on 9400 unknown tx / unknown to ????, fair/good signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/mystery-egyptian-music-station-on-9400_17.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, August 16-17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED, probably Greek MW pirate on August 15: 0845 & 0945 on 9659 & 9660v or 6th harmonic on MW 1610v http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/unidentified-greek-mw-pirate-on-sw-9659.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, August 15-16, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9992-USB, Aug 15 at 1215, another Spanishish 2-way, maybe Tagalog (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1944: Your long-time contributions to the radio and DXing community are par- excellence, Glenn, and I hope this helps DXLD keep on going! With pleasure, 73 - (Steve - N6NKS - McGreevy, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) One may also contribute via money order or cheque in US funds on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Caribbean broadcasters meeting in Jamaica | Antigua Observer Newspaper https://antiguaobserver.com/caribbean-broadcasters-meeting-in-jamaica/ (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ Today is National Radio Day "National Radio Day is a time for communities across the country to celebrate radio." http://www.nationalradioday.com/ (-- Richard Langley, NB, Aug 20, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Which nation? Which country? Apparently USA only, digging deeper into the website; they seem oblivious of any other country; apparently a promotion by the newsmagazine Radio World. Specifically: ``National Radio Day is organized by Sabrina Roach, a Doer at Brown Paper Tickets, in partnership with non-commercial radio stations across the United States.`` (gh, DXLD) MUSEA +++++ SHORT-WAVE RADIO REPORTS MAY OFFER BEST EVIDENCE OF AMELIA EARHART’S FATE --- ARRL 08/17/2018 [similar to previous reports] http://www.arrl.org/news/short-wave-radio-reports-may-offer-best-evidence-of-amelia-earhart-s-fate The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) believes it has the key to unlock the decades-old mystery of what happened to famed aviator [sic] Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan in their planned circumnavigation of the globe in 1937. TIGHAR’s The Earhart Project analyzed dozens of radio transmissions received by radio amateurs and other short-wave listeners during the frantic search to locate Earhart’s plane when she did make her scheduled arrival at Howland Island. Many theories have sprung up over the years to explain the mysterious disappearance, but a TIGHAR research paper entitled The Post-Loss Radio Signals, published in July by The Earhart Project, maintains that “the patterns and relationships emerging from the data show that TIGHAR has answered the 81-year-old question: ‘What really happened to Amelia Earhart?’” The Earhart Project “is testing the hypothesis that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan landed, and eventually died, on Gardner Island, now Nikumaroro in the Republic of Kiribati,” its website says. In July 1937, a young teenager named Betty Klenck, listening to short- wave bands on her family’s radio, intercepted and transcribed pleas for help that TIGHAR calls “a remarkable record of perhaps the last communication” from Earhart and Noonan and “leave little doubt” that the 15-year-old heard a genuine distress call from the pair, transmitted from the aircraft Electra. Klenck’s notebook, discovered in 2000, inspired TIGHAR’s effort to catalog all reception reports. TIGHAR analyzed nearly 60 other reception reports made in the wake of Earhart’s failure to arrive on Howland Island. The vast majority, TIGHAR said, came from government or commercial operators as well as “licensed amateurs” working for the US Interior Department on Howland and Baker Islands, listening on Earhart’s primary, harmonically related frequencies of 3105 and 6210 kHz. TIGHAR contends that higher-order harmonics of the primary frequencies enabled the “accidental” reception of Earhart’s transmissions at greater distances, since those higher-frequency signals would be more prone to ionospheric propagation. Reports came from the Pacific and the continental US, but poor reception appears to have precluded efforts to pin down the downed plane’s coordinates, although Earhart did report that she was on the 157 /337 track to Howland. Earhart reported the plane down “on an uncharted island” that was “small, uninhabited.” The radio transmissions became progressively more desperate, with Earhart reporting that Noonan was injured and subsequently delirious. The commander of the US Coast Guard vessel Itasca, which was involved in the search, discounted the contemporary radio reception reports, saying that all available land areas had been searched. He expressed doubt that Earhart and Noonan had made any radio transmissions at all after the plane disappeared on July 2, 1937. The bulk of the paper — published on July 24, which would have been Earhart’s 121st birthday — is devoted to “Post-Loss Radio Signals and Analysis 2.0” by TIGHAR Senior Researcher Richard Gillespie and Robert Brandenburg. A study in Forensic Anthropology published earlier this year, Amelia Earhart and the Nikumaroro Bones: A 1941 Analysis versus Modern Quantitative Techniques, by Richard L. Jantz, claims that an analysis of bones found on Nikumaroro in 1940 prove that Earhart died as an island castaway. The study determined that the bones were a most likely Earhart’s, contradicting a contemporary conclusion that the bones were those of a male (via Mike Terry, WOR iog via DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ GRAYLAND, WA & FLORENCE, OR DXPEDITION - AUGUST 5 - 12 I visited two rentals in Grayland, Washington and near Florence, Oregon between August 5-12. At both I erected a 160' DKAZ pointing roughly 255 degrees with Vactrol termination. You can see and hear what I heard on this webpage: http://realmonitor.com/am_logs_grayland18.php I'm still working through Perseus wav files so the page will change over the next few weeks. Highlight was hearing Gold FM from Fiji on 990 kHz. Low point was having a deer or elk run thru the antenna on the last day of the DXpedition ruining reception. Note to self: always check antenna prior to sunrise. Reception conditions throughout were much more Asian than I'm used to from previous summer trips to the same locations over the past several years. May be an indication that we're at or near the minimum of the current cycle? For those interested, I'm trying a new strategy for working through wav files - going through 200 kHz at a time for each day of the 1300 UT TOH file. That's roughly sunrise on the west coast this time of year and based on past experience is the best time to hear 'good stuff' and catch IDs. When I find something interesting I'll have to delve into wav files before or after 1300 but this first-pass will guide where to look/listen next (Bill Whitacre, Alexandria, VA, Aug 19, nrc-am gg via DXLD) Bill, you were on the better coast for DXing for the dates you mentioned. Much of August has had persistent T-storm static during the warm and humid first half of August here in MA so my antennas have been disconnected more often than usual. Several days recently we had lightning hits less than a mile away, most likely on the 103.9 FM tower located on the opposite (south) side of Route 6 from us. During the summer the Pacific Northwest tends to be less static-prone than anywhere on the US East Coast. Even during the daytime if there is any thunderstorm action between Cape Hatteras and Nova Scotia, it will be noticeable here, especially if mostly over water. Even over land, crackles from 100+ miles will propagate since some of the RF is originating at high altitudes. Your idea of homing in on what would typically be each day's most productive top-of-hour to speed up processing of a multitude of SDR capture files makes sense here on the East Coast too (as you likely know from DXing in ME and VA). Here it's usually the one that fits in a block from 15 minutes pre-sunset to 45 minutes after sunset. Skew a bit earlier if DXing right at the shore and slide a bit later if more than 3 miles / 5 km inland on paths towards Europe, Mid-East, Africa, and Brazil. Thanks for the report (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, ibid.) ROCKWORK CLIFF -- TOP TEN (ALL TEN) S9 SIGNALS FROM THE SOUTH PACIFIC Life is good -- breathtaking ocean scenery, an innovative compact antenna, thunderous DU signals and even a partner (Craig Barnes) to share in the bounty. Who could ask for more? Listed below are the Top Ten DU signals recorded during the recent Rockwork ocean cliff trip (near Manzanita, Oregon) from August 1-9, including several low-powered Kiwi stations which acted like "big guns" pretty much throughout the DXpedition. All of these were recorded with 7.5" loopstick portables (CC Skywave SSB and XHDATA D- 808) and "Airport Unfriendly" 15" and 17" FSL antennas (detailed setup photo is posted at https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/shkdipy66ka1g0udrbdvw67ncvjnrm64 531 More FM Alexandra, New Zealand, 2 kW The obscure modern rock station usually managed at least one S9 peak each morning, and was fully competitive with Kiwi co-channel PI for the first time. This TOH recording at 1300 on 8-8 demonstrates its potent capability at the cliff https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/wlkl8yrxvxfblqytpee4wmp8l1oh0haj 531 PI Auckland, New Zealand, 5 kW Pacific island music at a huge level at 1248 on 8-7 was typical from this low band powerhouse, which was frequently in an all-Kiwi snarl with its overachieving co- channel More FM https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/c2y4uqb809exw7lqm2evdjzzcxie3mce 558 Radio Fiji One Suva, Fiji, 10 kW The donated Japanese transmitter still puts out awesome signals for this native-language powerhouse, including this island music with a Song Medley ID ("Radio Fiji One, na domoiviti") at 1:38 into this recording at 1252 on 8-1 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/vhwdviemmimdxervjaoe1qqci7a59dqj 567 RNZ National Wellington, New Zealand, 50 kW After demolition of its old tower the RNZ big gun has sometimes sounded anemic on the west coast, but certainly not at 1320 on 8-3 with Indian-accented English https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/kbx6rp6asp7v89hb08yhknjfp5cklhre 585 7RN Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 10 kW The RN network Tasmanian must have somehow hacked into the Kiwi propagation pipeline at 1306 on 8-6; at the time it was much stronger than its 576 parallel https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/santvgc0qi9txyz0pbzn93d9h72jczmo 594 Star Timaru/ Wanganui, New Zealand 5 kW/ 2 kW Another Kiwi overachiever, this low powered network was socking it to the Oz big gun 3WV all week, including with this powerful Christian music // 657 at 1326 on 8-3 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/j80d4a3hbktpk5284v2tr26sq284faf2 657 Star Wellington, Tauranga, New Zealand 50 kW/ 10 kW The flagship Star station sure was playing the part with Christian music at an overwhelming level at 1238 on 8-6, including an ID at the end of the recording https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/i5q311ii09gbni9dnxzyojrmh62x7616 765 Radio Kahungunu Napier-Hastings, New Zealand 2.5 kW The overachieving Maori station was its usual potent self with island music and Maori chants at 1218 on 8-1; it was usually slightly stronger than its 603 parallel (Waatea) https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ejwv81klsuy5j2phywh9cssyan2rafmt 936 Chinese Voice Auckland, New Zealand 1 kW One of the most incredible signals of the entire DXpedition-- the 1 kW ethnic station pounds into the cliff at an S9 level at 1309 on 8-2-- ocean cliff propagation at its finest! https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/9atqt5g542p3j818snnm95mtoaofth92 1017 A3Z Nuku'alofa, Tonga 10 kW Yikes! The rejuvenated Pacific island big gun thunders into the cliff with the strongest signal I've ever heard recorded in North America, featuring island music at 1314 on 8-1... almost loud enough to wake up the sleeping squatters https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/xgw85zga7d337r8905bnyu1qdgmvepn8 73 and Good DX, (Gary DeBock (DXing at the Rockwork ocean cliff near Manzanita, Oregon, USA with Craig Barnes from August 1-9), Aug 21, nrc-am gg via DXLD) See also RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC See [TONGA] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See MEXICO; OKLAHOMA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See also AUSTRALIA non; INDIA; KUWAIT; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ NIGERIA; [SEYCHELLES non]; [TONGA]; WINB The other day from 10 to 11 UT took DRM from Delhi at frequencies 819 and 1386 kHz via Kiwi SDR in the same city. The level of SNR was high - from 15 to 25, but Dream software only pulled text information, there was no sound at all. I'm trying to understand, what's the matter? After all, with the same DRM settings of other p-stations through Kiwi comes with sound .... Not so long ago, network KIWI- receivers received an additional function, allowing them to receive DRM broadcasts. How it's done: How do I use the Dream app to receive DRM broadcasts using the Kiwi? http://kiwisdr.com/quickstart/index.html#id-faq-drm (RusDX Aug 19 via DXLD) THE KIWI SDR AS A SHORT- AND MEDIUM WAVE DRM RECEIVER http://www.hobbyradio.se/en/drm/kiwisdr.html Using KIWI-receivers is most convenient through the map: https://sdr.hu/map You need to place the mouse cursor on the map and rotate its wheel, then a square button will appear on the right above to expand the map to the full screen. The receiver can be selected according to the SNR (signal to noise) ratio on another map: http://sibamanna.duckdns.org/sdr_map.html (Yuri, Novosibirsk, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX Aug 19 via DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ HISTORY OF DX AND RADIO ======================= ALL RADIO RECEIVERS OF THE USSR 1924 - 2000 -------------------------------------------------- ------- https://vk.com/radioreceiver?z=video104859552_456239352%2Fd95516132da898a2fc%2Fpl_post_-163779953_7896 There's an inside youtube link, a whole channel with reviews. "Hello everyone, basically I'm shooting reviews of Soviet or some other electronics! And as repairs and all sorts of homemade! ®Bergdima20 2013 - 2018" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRZGUY69OXfCjLSH3CJARDQ/videos (Dmitry Elagin, Saratov, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX Aug 19 via DXLD) CRAIG BARNES' 3.5 INCH BABY FSL ROCKS AT ROCKWORK The TSA-friendly 3.5 inch Baby FSL antenna was designed to provide air travelers with some serious inductive coupling gain during vacations, ocean cruises, business trips or other travel. Designed to provide gain roughly comparable to that of a 4 foot (1.3m) air core box loop, its design, construction and performance is fully described in the 22- page full construction article posted at http://www.mediafire.com/file/pnfm8909c77zjoy/3.5inch-FF-FSL.doc/file Recently I had the pleasure of welcoming "Frequent Flyer" Craig Barnes (veteran of multiple Hawaii DXing trips with his 5" Bar FSL) to the notoriously wild Rockwork cliff on the Oregon coast-- home of enhanced DU-DX, enhanced weather and (recently) an enhanced squatter population. Craig's original plan was to use his 5" Bar FSL to track down the DU's at the "Kiwi Cliff," where he and I would dodge the squatters to set up multiple FSL antennas each morning. Unfortunately, Craig's 5" Bar FSL had accumulated a little too many air miles during the trips to Hawaii, and was in need of some general maintenance (which could only be done back home in Puyallup). Fortunately I had brought along the very first of a new type of 3.5" Baby FSL, having an internal "rubber locking collar" to securely lock all the ferrite rods in place, even when the antenna is subjected to rough treatment and/ or vertical positioning during travel. Craig eagerly jumped at the chance to be the first to test out this reworked design, which was immediately put to the test in all out DU-DXing with his modified Tecsun PL-380 portable at the Rockwork cliff. The Baby FSL proved to be a real thriller when operated by a quick learner like Craig. Within a couple of days he was fully independent in tracking down the DU's, often finding Kiwi and Australian DX that I had missed. The Baby FSL generally tracked down all the same DU-DX as the 15" and 17" FSL models, although not quite at the same signal levels. As with any antenna, the attitude of the DXer was the most important-- and in this aspect Craig really shined. If a DXer really believes that he has a decent chance and goes after any type of rare DX regardless of the odds, then he is going to come away with some astonishing results. With his tiny antenna (small enough to easily fit within hand carry luggage) Craig tracked down 531-More FM, 558-Fiji, 936-Chinese Voice and 1017-Tonga, besides multiple Kiwi and Australian DX. For a DXer from an inland state like Colorado, Craig certainly ended up with results approaching those of a west coast veteran! Here are some of Craig's Rockwork Cliff DU-DX recordings, all using his modified PL-380 and 3.5" Baby FSL: 558 Radio Fiji One Suva, Fiji, 10 kW Island choral music at fair level at 1252 on 8-6 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/3u4csqfcg07kcghx0hzzwqe79u3oh0fp 567 RNZ National Wellington, New Zealand, 50 kW News and music at 1256 on 8-6, with ID at 7 seconds https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/983zbl3cosoo9nhcf397tvkdv24ucnof 603 Radio Waatea Auckland, New Zealand, 5 kW Beautiful Maori island music at good level at 1258 on 8-6 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/4tgbod0pyxn7emmi8gu7hgb3ofa604d0 657 Star Wellington/ Tauranga, New Zealand, 50 kW/ 10 kW Christian music at very good level at 1237 on 8-6 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/iz73c742lc7rwr50m6rgzayjhi5nd3v7 738 2NR Grafton, Australia, 50 kW ABC network conversation at very good level at 1312 on 8-6 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/85zgrh2dwg71xev2tjr1fclvp6y93o6rits 792 Radio Sport Hamilton, New Zealand, 5 kW Relay of Fox Sports Network (American accented) at very good level at 1315 on 8-6 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/2c3uv943u3373kg42vhop526au0kzcx9 1017 A3Z Nuku'alofa, Tonga, 10 kW Island choral music at good level at 1222 on 8-5 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/968jmqot7q6cadywcfdqktrlutoz8bp7 Craig Barnes and his 3.5" Baby FSL on a 4' PVC base at the Rockwork 6 ocean cliff turnoff on 8-2-18 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/xigucktp07306guw0fh3e4ep49f4qepb (Gary DeBock, Aug 22, nrc-am gg via DXLD) See also DX-PEDITIONS Gary, Has anyone done any experiments with an inductive secondary coupling loop on an FSL or a high-impedance unity gain preamp with an unbalanced low impedance output across the loop winding? I.e. what would be needed to couple to a receiver or an SDR? My thinking is about whether this might replace a 4-foot box loop that’s got an FET preamp across the main loop winding with an unbalanced output to 50 ohms. It would sure be a lot easier to tilt and rotate and a lot easier to use remote away from RFI. I’m thinking especially about my proximity to salt water and South American and Latin American targets. Thanks in advance, (Rick Kunath, Tampa Bay Area Florida, Sent from my iPhone, ibid.) Local buddy Guy Atkins (also living here in Puyallup) has performed multiple experiments attempting to match the compact gain performance of the FSL antenna with the Perseus-SDR receiver, and back in 2013 Guy tried almost every conceivable interface (low-noise Wellbrook preamps, sensing coils, direct connections, etc.) in order to somehow match the single-optimized-frequency performance of the FSL with the state-of- the-art Perseus-SDR receiver. Because of intense interest among local broadband DXers over $1K was used in these experiments, which unfortunately ran into the stark reality that a high-Q, single-optimized-frequency antenna with razor- sharp tuning peaks is not very compatible with a spectrum capture receiver requiring a broadband antenna to record all MW frequencies simultaneously. That's not to say that the FSL antenna couldn't be used on single frequencies to provide exceptional gain for the Perseus-SDR (or other 50 ohm antenna input receivers) once an impedance-matching system is devised, and I'm pretty sure that Guy experimented with those type of matching systems, and how to get good performance on narrow frequency ranges with a Perseus + FSL combination. But the essential fact remains that almost all Perseus- SDR DXers are oriented toward spectrum capture of the entire MW frequency range, and will not be satisfied with exceptional antenna performance on one single frequency. 73, (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA), ibid.) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ SCIENTISTS SLOWLY CAST LIGHT ON CELESTIAL MYSTERY KNOWN AS STEVE http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/steve-northern-lights-not-aurora-1.4792483 New study by University of Calgary scientists concludes Steve not an aurora, but rest remains unknown --- Carly Stagg CBC News Posted: Aug 21, 2018 2:00 AM MT | Last Updated: an hour ago This purple streak of light in the night sky, originally thought to be a proton arc, has been named Steve by Alberta sky chasers. (Dave Markel Photography) [Illustrated!!] There is a mystery lighting up the northern hemisphere — thin ribbons of glowing purple and green that have come to be known to photographers and scientists as "Steve." At first glance, an amateur might look up at the night sky and mistake the dancing lights for an aurora, which is caused by particles that come down magnetic field lines into Earth's upper atmosphere. The charged rain gives energy to atmospheric molecules and atoms, which in turn, take the energy and radiate light. [linx:] Meet Steve, the curious ribbon of purplish light discovered in Alberta skies Canadian hobbyists help shed light on mysterious northern lights phenomenon 'Steve' But Steve, despite the colourful rippling light, is no aurora, according to a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. "The aurora you see in the sky, at least from our data, is moving at a certain speed, and then you have this guy moving crazy fast at lower latitudes, passing from east to west, super narrow, almost like a comet," said Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, a space physicist at the University of Calgary and lead author of the study. "I like to describe it to my friends as the aurora moves like Wile E. Coyote, while Steve moves like the Road Runner," she said. Bea Gallardo-Lacourt is a space physicist at the University of Calgary. (Submitted by Bea Gallardo-Lacourt) Steve has been appearing to northern sky watchers for decades, but only came to the attention of scientists in 2016. The phenomenon was dubbed Steve after a scene in the 2006 animated movie Over the Hedge. The animal characters, encountering a hedge for the first time, decide to call it "Steve" — their name for something unknown. The scientific community took the nickname and created a backronym, said Prof. Eric Donovan. That's when a descriptive phrase is made to conform to a name as an acronym. Thus, Steve became short for Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement. Scientists take notice Donovan, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Calgary, is also the co-author of the study. He said he's known since he first saw Steve it was not an aurora, but scientists are still trying to uncover the mystery of exactly what Steve is. "With Steve what's happening is we can't find evidence of that particle precipitation, so it seems like the energy that's causing the light is coming from somewhere else," he said. Photographers at first thought the mysterious purplish light was a proton arc, which Donovan said he knew was incorrect, because proton arcs are not visible to the naked eye. But he couldn't say exactly what it was. Paul Zizka, a photographer in Banff, Alta., first saw the night sky feature known as Steve in 2008. (Paul Zizka) Scientists have started tracking Steve through a series of sky cameras across the country. When they see Steve appear in the cameras' data, they then look to satellites in the sky — belonging to organizations like NASA, the U.S. Air Force or the European Space Agency — to see if a satellite that takes particular measurements happened to fly through Steve on that day. The new study analyzed a historical Steve event on March 28, 2008, using the Canadian sky cameras (known as All-Sky Imagers) and energetic particle detectors on one of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Polar-orbiting Environmental Satellites. The satellite's equipment was able to measure charged particles precipitating into the ionosphere. The analysis aimed to determine whether Steve was produced by the same phenomenon that caused the aurora. The results found that particular Steve event to be distinct from the aurora due to an absence of raining charged particles. "Interestingly, its skyglow could be generated by a new and fundamentally different mechanism in the ionosphere," the study read. (via Gerald T Pollard, NC, DXLD) Wondering if anyone has detected the reflection of radio waves from these so-called ``STEVE`` or ``Skyglow`` events. Might reveal an entirely new form of radio propagation. 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, 121 Mayfair Park, Maylene, AL 35114, EM63nf, IRCA at HCDX via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2018 Aug 20 0445 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 13 - 19 August 2018 Solar activity was very low. Two small regions developed on the visible disk this period. Region 2718 (S07, L=191, class/area Hrx/020 on 17 Aug) developed on 14 Aug and decayed to plage by 19 Aug. Region 2719 (S06, L=133, class/area Bxo/010 on 19 Aug) developed in the SE quadrant on 19 Aug. No significant flare events occurred from either region. Other activity included a filament eruption centered near S11W04 observed lifting off the solar disk at approximately 19/0538 UTC. An associated coronal mass ejection was observed off the SW limb in SOHO/LASCO C2 imagery at 19/0812 UTC. WSA/Enlil modelling of the event suggested the ejecta was primarily directed westward of the Sun-Earth line and is not expected to cause any significant effects. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal levels on 13-15 Aug, moderate levels on 16-17 Aug, and at high levels on 18-19 Aug. The largest flux of the period was 18,287 pfu observed at 19/1800 UTC. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to active levels over the period. Solar wind speed was at nominal levels at the beginning of the period with solar wind speed ranging from 310-430 km/s while total field was between 1-4 nT. The geomagnetic field was quiet on 13-14 Aug. By 15 Aug, solar wind speed increased to approximately 450-500 km/s with total field increasing to a maximum of 14 nT by 16/1005 UTC as a positive polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) moved into geoeffective position. A further increase in solar wind speed to near 570 km/s was observed late on 17 Aug before slowly receding to nominal levels by midday on 19 Aug. The geomagnetic field responded with quiet to active levels on 15-18 Aug. By late on 19 Aug, total field increase again to 12 nT along with an increase in solar wind to near 550 km/s as a negative polarity CH HSS was becoming geoeffective. However, only quiet levels were observed on 19 Aug. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 20 AUGUST-15 SEPTEMBER 2018 Solar activity is expected to continue at very low levels. 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 22-27 Aug and again on 13-15 Sep due to CH HSS influence. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be unsettled to active levels on 20-25 Aug, 03-04 Sep, 07 Sep, and 11-15 Sep with a chance for G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm levels on 20-21 Aug due to recurrent CH HSS activity. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2018 Aug 20 0445 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 2018-08-20 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2018 Aug 20 67 20 4 2018 Aug 21 67 18 4 2018 Aug 22 67 12 4 2018 Aug 23 67 12 4 2018 Aug 24 66 10 3 2018 Aug 25 66 8 3 2018 Aug 26 66 5 2 2018 Aug 27 66 5 2 2018 Aug 28 66 5 2 2018 Aug 29 66 5 2 2018 Aug 30 66 5 2 2018 Aug 31 66 5 2 2018 Sep 01 66 5 2 2018 Sep 02 66 5 2 2018 Sep 03 66 12 4 2018 Sep 04 66 8 3 2018 Sep 05 66 5 2 2018 Sep 06 67 5 2 2018 Sep 07 67 8 3 2018 Sep 08 67 5 2 2018 Sep 09 67 5 2 2018 Sep 10 67 5 2 2018 Sep 11 68 15 4 2018 Sep 12 68 15 4 2018 Sep 13 68 12 4 2018 Sep 14 68 12 4 2018 Sep 15 68 10 3 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1944, DXLD) ###