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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1949 contents: Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Bhutan, Brasil, China, Colombia, Denmark, Europe, Germany, Hawaii, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea North non, Korea South, Myanmar, Nepal, North America, Papua New Guinea, Romania, South Africa, Switzerland, UK, USA, Zambia; and the propagation outlook SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1949, September 25-October 1, 2018 Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 [confirmed] Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 [confirmed] Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v [not aired] Wed 1030 WRMI 5950 [confirmed] Wed 2100 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v [confirmed] Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v [not aired] Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v [not aired] Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1231 WINB 9265 via Unique Radio [confirmed] Sat 1431 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [not on air?] Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2130 WBCQ 9330v [maybe, or 2330?] Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM [confirmed] Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sun 2130 WRMI 7780 NEW:9955 Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v [maybe] Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v-AM Area 51 Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v [maybe] Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 [or #1950?] 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!!!! 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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) Thanks also to Jacques for assisting with formatting of .txt original ** ALGERIA [and non]. Your 936 AM Observations --- Hi Glenn, Noting your comments of 11 September regarding likely Morocco on 936 and the possibility of the signal reaching us in the Southwest Pacific, I have been keeping an ear and eye on 1422 for signs of Algeria. This is a clear frequency in New Zealand whereas 936 has a Chinese language station in Auckland, only 60 miles away. With the SDR I can see multiple carriers on the 9 kHz channels after dark when Aussies or Pacific Island stations start to fade in. But it is many years since I have heard 9 kHz signals from further afield in our local evening when darkness spreads across the Pacific - meaning a long path signal from Europe or North Africa. There has been a carrier trace on 1422 in our early evening for some weeks but audio has been absent. So it was a big thrill on 17 September to hear Qur`an on 1422, between 0515 and 0535 UT (Algiers sunrise was at 0531) meaning I was almost certainly hearing Algeria - I previously logged and verified them on 1422 back in the 1970s before NZ went to 9 kHz channel spacing in 1978. Not an easy reception this time, but have attached an audio clip for your interest. Regards, (Bryan Clark, Sept 24, Mangawhai - NZ (Google Earth: 36°07'07"S, 174°36'10"E) For SW & MW DX: WinRadio G33DDC Excalibur Pro & AOR7030+ with EWE directional antennas to North, Central & South America NZ Radio DX League - Broadcast News Editor, Treasurer & Life Member World Radio TV Handbook - South Pacific Collaborator; WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Very good! And 1422 is only 50 kW (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** ALGERIA [non]. 9655, Sept 21 at 2156, romantic song in unknown language at S7; scheduled is TDA via FRANCE at 20-22 (Glenn Hauser, OK DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGUILLA [and non]. 6090, the Caribbean Beacon at 0320 with Dr. Gene Scott, preaching from regions Beyond. About equal to parallel transmission on 5935 via Tennessee. Suddenly went off, mid-sentence, at 0417. Noted nasty audio hum, otherwise - Excellent Sept 18 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; RS SW-2000629, & ATS-909X with various outdoor wires. 73 and Good Listening..! : D ! rb, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 1709.83 mystery carrier, Argentina? I've been noticing a carrier the last few nights on 1709.83 so I started checking various remotes on the Kiwi network. My search led me to Argentina where one of the receivers had a station label on 1710 for a "Radio Selva". Looking closer, the station on the Kiwi remote is right on 1709.83, the same as the carrier I'm seeing here in Michigan on my DKAZ pointed due south. Such DX from deep South America isn't exactly common here, unless conditions go very auroral, but there are no signs of such conditions elsewhere on the band right now. Radio Selva's audio stream: https://amselva1710.wixsite.com/envivo Buenos Aires remote that had the best copy on the station: http://kiwisdr.gastonet.com:8073/ The carrier was pretty strong tonight at local sunset, but fading in and out rapidly. I was unable to dredge up any audio to confirm it was Selva but it's peaked [sic] my interest. Anyone else seeing or hearing this mystery carrier or know anything about this station? Pirate, licensed, power, etc.? 73, (Tim Tromp, West Michigan, 0026 UT Sept 24, IRCA at HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) Had nothing here until about 3 minutes before local sunset (2337 UT); then a trace carrier appeared over the next minute or so. It's been up and down in strength, not even close to audio levels. The carrier is drifting around some, moving erratically upwards from 1709.83 to 1709.835. Now (2356 UT) it's drifting slightly back down again. No other station is dominant currently on 1710. I'm also seeing a very weak trace at about 1709.955. Are there other offset lists besides the one at MWLIST? (Mark Pettifor, Northern Indiana, South D-Kaz / Perseus, Sept 24, ibid.) ** AUSTRALIA. Radio Australia’s “Wicked Witch” is gone! ABC sacks Michelle Guthrie as Managing Director https://www.9news.com.au/2018/09/24/10/01/michelle-guthrie-departs-as-abc-managing-director ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie has been sacked from the national broadcaster. ABC chairman Justin Milne informed staff of Ms Guthrie’s sudden exit in a message to staff this morning. Mr Milne said the decision follows discussions with directors and Ms Guthrie, 53, over “several months”. “The board has given long and detailed consideration to this serious matter. We appreciate that a change in leadership creates uncertainty, however, we are firmly of the view that this decisions is in the best interest of the organisation,” he said. “The board wishes to thank Michelle for her contribution to the ABC. We are very grateful for all her hard work”. ABC executive David Anderson has been appointed acting managing director as the broadcaster begins the formal search process for Ms Guthrie’s full time replacement. Mr Anderson is the director, entertainment & specialist responsible for broadcast, television networks, radio music networks, podcasts and specialist radio content. Ms Guthrie became the first female managing director in the ABC’s history when she replaced Mark Scott in the role in 2016. She received an estimated salary package of $900,000. Prior to joining the ABC she headed Google's marketing and advertising in Asia and as the managing director for Agencies in the Asia-Pacific, based in Singapore. She is a former lawyer who has worked for Foxtel and British Sky Broadcasting in London. © Nine Digital Pty Ltd 2018 --- Regards, via (Brian Powell (VK2FBAJ), Sydney, Australia, WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) ABC Employee reactions to MD sacking https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2018/09/24/michelle-guthrie-reactions/ Current and former ABC staff have been among the most vocal in reacting to the sudden sacking of managing director Michelle Guthrie, just two and a half years into her five-year tenure. Sally Neighbour One of the strongest early reactions came from Four Corners executive producer Sally Neighbour, who said it was an “excellent decision”. Excellent decision http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-24/michelle-guthrie-leaves-as-md-of-the-abc/10297608 … 11:04 AM - Sep 24, 2018 421 people are talking about this Jon Faine In Melbourne, radio presenter Jon Faine described Ms Guthrie’s legacy as an “astonishing fail” on his morning show. “Staff morale has never been so low,” he said. “[She was] given the benefit of the doubt because she was a woman. She was smart and we were excited. But she was only interested in a few parts of the organisation. “She wouldn’t advocate for us, which is an astonishing fail. She’s been all but invisible. Every time you tried to get something from her, it was all jargon.” Rafael Epstein Rafael Epstein, host of Drive on ABC Radio Melbourne, said his “best guess” was that the board did not like the way Ms Guthrie “treated senior execs [and] staff and were unimpressed with the way she deals with Canberra”. “‘Good job’ is not glowing praise,” he said, referring to the comments of ABC board chair Justin Milne. Philip Adams Veteran Late Night Live presenter Philip Adams said: “Michelle, we hardly knew you.” He then joked he was in the running. “ABC board decides on an internal appointment. I thank the board for their confidence in me,” he wrote on Twitter. Tom Ballard Comedian Tom Ballard, whose ABC show Tonightly was controversially axed recently because of funding cuts, joked that he wanted the job (via Tim Gaynor, NSW, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) ABC board sacks managing director Michelle Guthrie September 23, 2018 9.01pm EDT o Updated September 23, 2018 10.41pm EDT Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Author 1. Michelle Grattan Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Disclosure statement Michelle Grattan does regular commentary on the ABC. University of Canberra provides funding as a member of The ConversationAU. Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under Creative Commons license. http://theconversation.com/abc-board-sacks-managing-director-michelle-guthrie-103756?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton Michelle Guthrie has been criticised for not standing up for the organisation sufficiently, and for her lack of journalistic experience. AAP/Julian Smith The ABC Board has sacked managing director Michelle Guthrie, declaring in a blunt statement that it was "not in the best interests" of the organisation for her to continue to lead it. ABC chairman Justin Milne said the board "believed that new leadership would benefit the organisation, its dedicated employees, and the ABC audience". The statement said the decision followed several months of discussion. Guthrie said she was "devastated" by the board's decision to dismiss her "despite no claim of wrongdoing on my part". She was considering her legal options. Guthrie, who was only about halfway through her contract, has been under fire from critics outside the organisation and within it. News Corp has been unrelenting in its attacks on the ABC, accusing it of political bias and pushing back at the competition it presents to commercial operators. Guthrie has also been criticised for not standing up for the organisation sufficiently, and for her lack of journalistic experience. The Australian on Monday reported a split between Milne - who was appointed by the Turnbull government - and Guthrie over the future of the organisation. It cited differences over key projects and how to deal with a hostile Coalition government. Milne said: "In resolving to seek fresh leadership, the Board's foremost consideration was the long-term interests of our own people and the millions of Australians who engage with ABC content every week". David Anderson will be acting managing director while a search is conducted, internally and externally, for a replacement for Guthrie. He is currently Director, Entertainment & Specialist, responsible for broadcast television networks and associated services, radio music networks, podcasts and specialist radio content The MD is selected by the board, independently of the government. "We understand that transitions can be disruptive in the short-term. However, the ABC is fortunate to have an experienced and capable executive team that will provide continuity in the months ahead," Milne said. "The board wishes to thank Michelle for her contribution to the ABC. We are very grateful for all her hard work," he said. In a very brief statement, Communications Minister Mitch Fifield - who has been a constant fault-finder of the ABC's political coverage - said "The government thanks Michelle Guthrie and acknowledges her service as managing director of the ABC for the past two and a half years in what is a challenging and rapidly changing media environment." Earlier in her career, Guthrie worked for News Corporation and for Google. Liberal senator Eric Abetz, who repeatedly has attacked the ABC, demanded an explanation of Guthrie's sacking. "The dismissal of the Managing Director, seemingly without notice, requires a full and detailed explanation from the ABC Board," Abetz said. "I am hopeful that the new managing director will ensure that that the Ultimo-centric broadcaster is more in line with the aspirations of Australians including by delivering benefit to the taxpayer, stopping the left-wing bias and bringing an end to the frolics masquerading as news and `comedy' from some ABC employees," Abetz said. Milne, in a interview with the ABC, would not be drawn on the detail of why Guthrie was dismissed. "We feel that we need different leadership to take us through what are very obviously very challenging times," he said. The board had made the decision and "the details, the ins and outs of that decision I am not sharing with you". "The board felt in the end that her leadership style was not the style that we needed going forward". Milne denied the government had had any influence on the decision. Asked about Guthrie's relationship with the government - which has cut the organisation's funding - Milne said: "That is possibly an area that could have been better, I think that is fair to say". He said he would like to see the relationship with government improve - stressing he was talking about "government", not "the Liberal party or the Labor party". In a statement, Guthrie said that when she joined the ABC in 2016, "I knew I had an enormous challenge in front of me to break down some of the internal barriers to progress." She had "invested more in investigative journalism; more in regional journalism; more in innovative content; and increased the efficiency and effectiveness of work across the ABC". As the first female managing director, "I felt a tremendous responsibility and unique privilege to lead Australia's most important cultural institution. At all times I have promoted the ABC's importance to the community, including having to defend and protect the ABC's independence". She pointed out that the ABC Act fixed the managing director's term at five years. "My term concludes on 4 July 2021. While my contract permits the board to terminate my appointment without cause and with immediate effect, I believe there is no justification for the board to trigger that termination clause. I am considering my legal options," she said. "I wanted to continue the transformation of the ABC and to support the great work of ABC's dedicated and passionate employees to ensure our continuing trust, quality and distinctiveness as the source of Australian culture, conversations and stories. "To me, it is the content produced by the ABC that is of primary importance to Australians, with the technology used to deliver that content a distant second," she said. "At no point have any issues been raised with me about the transformation being undertaken, the investing in audiences strategy and my effectiveness in delivering against that strategy." (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) Search begins for new ABC boss By Australian Associated Press Published: 13:37 EDT, 24 September 2018 | Updated: 13:37 EDT, 24 September 2018 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-6202803/Search-begins-new-ABC-boss.html The search is on for the ABC's new boss as managing director Michelle Guthrie considers her legal options over her sudden sacking. She was kicked out of the job on Monday, two-and-a-half years into her five-year term. "I am devastated by the board's decision to terminate my employment despite no claim of wrongdoing on my part," she said in a statement on Monday. Board chairman Justin Milne said her relationship with the government could have been better, and she was not the right leader for the ABC. "The board felt in the end that her leadership style was not the style that we needed going forward. We needed a different leadership style," Mr Milne told the ABC. Various reports said the relationship between Ms Guthrie and Mr Milne had broken down in recent times. Her contract contained a clause allowing the board to sack her without a reason at any time. "I believe there is no justification for the board to trigger that termination clause. I am considering my legal options," she said. The first woman to run the ABC and a former Google and News Corp executive, Ms Guthrie was appointed in May 2016 to drive digital transformation. Mr Milne said her relationship with the government "could have been better", but there had been no government pressure and it had been entirely a board decision. ABC journalists and the media union have been critical of Ms Guthrie's leadership, expressing hopes the next director will be an advocate for the broadcaster. During Ms Guthrie's time as managing director, the ABC faced unprecedented political attacks and "Hunger Games"-like processes, according to the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance. ABC's 4 Corners Executive Producer Sally Neighbour tweeted, "Excellent decision", while ABC Melbourne radio presenter Jon Faine said Ms Guthrie "would not take on her role as a champion for this organisation. It's an astonishing fail on her part." David Anderson, a 30-year ABC veteran, will be acting managing director while a formal search looking at internal and external candidates begins (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) Sacked ABC boss considers legal options By Australian Associated Press Published: 07:32 EDT, 24 September 2018 | Updated: 07:32 EDT, 24 September 2018 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-6201479/Sacked-ABC-boss-considers-legal-options.html A devastated Michelle Guthrie says no one raised any issues with her handling of the ABC's transformation before she was sacked as managing director. She is considering legal action after being kicked out of the job two-and-a-half years into her five-year term. "I am devastated by the board's decision to terminate my employment despite no claim of wrongdoing on my part," she said in a statement on Monday. Board chairman Justin Milne said her relationship with the government could have been better, and she was not the right leader for the ABC. "The board felt in the end that her leadership style was not the style that we needed going forward. We needed a different leadership style," Mr Milne told the ABC. Ms Guthrie's contract contained a clause allowing the board to sack her without a reason at any time, which they did on Monday. "I believe there is no justification for the board to trigger that termination clause. I am considering my legal options," she said. But some ABC staff welcomed the move. Senior journalist Sally Neighbour, executive producer of 4 Corners, tweeted: "Excellent decision". Melbourne radio broadcaster Jon Faine said Ms Guthrie's term was an "astonishing fail". The first woman to run the ABC and a former Google and News Corp executive, Ms Guthrie was appointed in May 2016 to drive digital transformation. Mr Milne said her relationship with the government was a factor, but there had been no government pressure. "That is possibly an area that could have been better ... That said, I think Michelle tried hard and was involved with government," he said. "(But) the government, I must say, has provided no pressure, no opinion, has not been involved in this decision. This is entirely a board decision." Mr Milne conceded Ms Guthrie had done a "pretty good" job turning the ABC towards its digital future. "At no point have any issues been raised with me about the transformation being undertaken, the Investing in Audiences strategy and my effectiveness in delivering against that strategy," Ms Guthrie said. David Anderson, a 30-year ABC veteran, will be acting managing director while a formal search for a replacement begins. In an email to staff on Monday afternoon, Mr Anderson said he was honoured at the appointment. "I want you to know that I am passionate about the ABC's purpose, public broadcasting and providing valuable services to Australians every day," he wrote. "We all know that we face challenges around budget constraints, increased competition and changing audience behaviours. But we have a clear plan for the present and a vision for the future." The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance said Ms Guthrie's replacement has to protect the ABC's independence and editorial decisions. "This includes refocusing daily journalism away from lifestyle content and 'clickbait' and back towards news and current affairs," the union said. Prime Minister Scott Morrison was told on Sunday night Ms Guthrie was going to be sacked, but said the ABC board made decisions independently. Deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek said she was perplexed by the decision and the board's statements had not clarified it (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) Guthrie's 'Hunger Games' legacy at ABC By Australian Associated Press Published: 04:16 EDT, 24 September 2018 | Updated: 04:16 EDT, 24 September 2018 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-6200861/Guthries-Hunger-Games-legacy-ABC.html Michelle Guthrie's time as the ABC's managing director will be remembered for low staff morale, redundancies and budget cuts, says the national journalist's union. In the two-and-a-half years of Ms Guthrie's leadership, there has been widespread concern over "Hunger Games"-like processes and unprecedented political attacks on the ABC's independence, according to the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA). In response to the announcement of Ms Guthrie's sacking on Monday, the union, along with ABC journalists, have expressed hope the next director will put up a better fight for the public broadcaster. "Whoever the next MD is, they need a deep understanding of the history, purpose and importance of an independent public broadcaster, and be ready to fight bare-knuckled to protect it," said ABC TV news presenter Juanita Phillips. Others were harsher in their criticism of the former managing director, such as ABC's 4 Corners Executive Producer Sally Neighbour, who tweeted: "Excellent decision." ABC Melbourne radio presenter Jon Faine said Ms Guthrie had no interest in journalism and had been "obsessed with platforms, structures, flowcharts". "She would not take on her role as a champion for this organisation. It's an astonishing fail on her part," Faine said on-air. MEAA Director Katelin McInerney said the next managing director needed to back staff and be an advocate for the ABC, who lost $84 million in funding in this year's budget. "The next managing director of the ABC will face real challenges, including how to restore the trust and confidence of staff by ending the 'Hunger Games' processes," Ms McInerney said. ""They must be 100 per cent committed to public broadcasting and to fend off any attempts to privatise the ABC either directly or by stealth." Leader of the union for non-journalism staff, Sinddy Ealy, said it was the right decision to remove Ms Guthrie. "It's been clear for some time that Michelle Guthrie is not the right leader for the ABC," said the secretary of the ABC section of the Community and Public Sector Union. "The board needs to act quickly now to reassure Australians that they will appoint a new MD who not only knows understands public service broadcasting but someone who is committed and able to restore the confidence of the ABC workforce and the community at large." Meanwhile, Ms Guthrie has said she is considering her legal options following her sacking, which came halfway into her five-year term. "I am devastated by the board's decision to terminate my employment despite no claim of wrongdoing on my part," she said in a statement. (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** BELGIUM. Re: ``621, RTBF is to shut down the transmitter on 621 kHz before the end of this year. As soon as the DAB+ Network is complete the MW transmissions will stop and the the site at Wavre will be dismantled. Info from ON3MEE, via (Remy Friess-F, Sept 9, MWCircle yg via dxld Sept 10)`` RTBF macht im Jahr 2019 Schluss auf MW 621 kHz. Neulich stand der Leertraeger von RTBF die ganze Nacht lang an! Das Abendprogramm von "RTBF int" (Mischprogramm 1ere / Vivacite) ist sowieso meist 1125 kHz mit Fussballuebertragungen und Musik. [...] Erstens weil dann die viele Belgier die in Nord-Frankreich leben, kein Radio von daheim mehr hoeren koennen. Zweitens weil RTBF Radio nicht fuer DXer enstanden ist, sondern fuer Hoerer. Drittens weil des einen Lokalsender des anderen DX-Empfang ist. Wenn alle MW Sender ueberall Schluss machen, und das wird gewiss eines Tages geschehen, dann nuetzt dir die "freie Bahn" auch nicht viel (Remy Friess-F, and 'Sylt' discussion, A-DX ng Sept 10 via BC-DX 19 Sept via DXLD) ** BHUTAN. 6035, BBS, on Sept 19, with positive reception of extended broadcast; 1207-1245+. From 1207 to 1221, usual monologue with normal breaks for stringed indigenous music at 1214, 1217 & 1220; from 1221 to 1230, with indigenous solo chanting; 1230+, announcer; 1241+, with indigenous singing/music; poor with QRM from PBS Yunnan's relay of FM99 and QRM spur from North Korea jamming of 6045 (against Voice of Freedom). My local sunrise at 1353 UT, with Thimphu sunset at 1201 UT (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) - - - - per WRTH Facebook (Sept. 19): Pradip Kundu [India] Now 1438 UT. BBS Thimpu still going on with a phone-in program (Ron, ibid.) On 6035 since 2015 I listen to international pop music without interval. From 2130 Asian music, which may be anticipated Bhutan(?) or PBS(?). Still on the air. Listening to via SDR Twente. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana Bahia, 12°14´S 38°58´W - Brasil, Tecsun PL-310ET, Antenna Delta Loop 8,5 meters, Sept 23, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This is Bhutan BS (Ivo Ivanov, WOR iog via DXLD) Yes, from 2130, but before with international pop music? HFCC says "6035 1800 2000 27E, 28 SOF 100 321 15 616 7 090618 090618 D 11650 Mul BUL MBR MBR 17650 A.307". Test? (Jorge Freitas, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 3310. R. MOSOJ CHASKI. Septiembre 19. 0140-0150 UT. Música y reflexiones en idioma quechua. SINPO: 45444. 3310. R. MOSOJ CHASKI. Septiembre 20. 0115-0125 UT. Espacio de conversación en quechua. SINPO: 35343 (Claudio Galaz; Receptor: Tecsun PL-660; Antena: Hilo largo de 30 metros; Lugar de escucha: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile, HCDX via DXLD) 3310, Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba 0010 to 0032 with Quechua and Spanish, fading often 22 September (Wilkner) 6134.78, Radio Santa Cruz 0035 to 0040 weak and a bit distorted, a shadow of its former self 22 September (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, Florida, 746Pro - NRD 525, 60 meter dipole and noise reducing antenna, NASWA yg via DXLD) 3310, Radio Mosoj Chaski at 0153 in Quechua with local vocals and into instrumental of Beethoven's “Ode to Joy” with a woman with talk overtop and more of “Ode to Joy” then brief guitar instrumentals at 0200 and a man and woman with talk – Poor Sept 23 6134.8, Radio Santa Cruz at 0105 in Spanish with Latin American female vocals and a man with talk with a definite mention of “Santa Cruz” at 0107 and into a Latin American male ballad – Poor to Fair in peaks Sept 23 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) 6134.82, R. Santa Cruz. 0202*, Sept 19. Off with the usual "Santa Cruz" song; didn't hear any Brazil QRM. 5952.42, Radio Pio Doce, 0230*, Sept 19. Off after the usual whistling “Colonel Bogey March” (a.k.a. River Kwai March), with full ID, followed by chimes; poor (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BONAIRE. Mala señal de RTM Bonaire Radio Transmundial Bonaire en 800 kHz, escuchada en la ciudad de Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico entre las 0055 y 0200 UT el 24 de septiembre UTC 2018 (1955 - 2100 domingo, hora local de verano; 2055 - 2200 domingo, hora de Bonaire) con un receptor es un Radio Shack multibanda modelo 20-125 con antena telescópica. Moderada interferencia de Radio Reloj en 790 vía Pinar del Río, Cuba y una estación de habla inglesa aparentemente estadunidense. Se puede escuchar casi al inicio de la grabación mencionan https://tierrafirmertm.org luego la canción “caminante no hay camino” de Joan Manuel Serrat, el programa “Vale la pena vivir” y más adelante música entre ellas “The morning has broken” al parecer de Johnny Pearson. Muy mala señal (¿serán por las tormentas que azotaban la Península de Yucatán?) a pesar de muy buena escucha al inicio de la grabación ¿qué pasa con su transmisión? [49+ minutes of noisy signal, seems of local electrical origin; also his radio needs much better selectivity, as 790 from Cuba should not be a problem that far away to something on 800 --- gh] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPXy7nKkPPw PJB Radio Transmundial (Trans World Radio) Bonaire (800 kHz) escuchada en Mérida, Yucatán (fragmentos). PJB RTM (TWR) Bonaire en 800 kHz, escuchada en la ciudad de Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico entre las 0055 y 0200 UT Atte.: (Ing. Israel González Ahumada, M.I., DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4875.19, R. Difusora Roraima, Boa Vista in Portuguese (presumed), 09.17.2018 2230-2330 checked here for about half a hour with a carrier on only, then finally audio on from about 2230, with man unclear talk, slow songs, same man unclear talk, two whistles, man enhanced long unclear talk, with typical Braz. intonation, two songs (presumed ballads), long unclear talk by man / woman, heard better in USB, first with inter and then with narrow filter (better) to almost nullify strong ute, very strong QRB statics; barely audible/poor; 4875.20, R. Difusora Roraima, Boa Vista in Portuguese (p), 09.21.2018 0306-0402* slow songs, and one rock song, alternated by man announcements (also over songs and music in brief) and same man/woman talk (no much clear), from 0356, same man/woman religious talk (also excited talk by man, with some ment. Jesus, Espirito Santo), slow song, man frequency quote and presumed ID (no clear) at 0401, talk over slow song, s/off at 0402; heard better in LSB to nullify strong RTTY, strong QRN; poor/fair at times. 9514.96, Radio Marumby Campo Largo, Curitiba, in Portuguese 09.11.2018 2010-2047 man talk (no much clear), other man brief announcement in low voice (unclear), slow song, brief women chorus and brief man announcement, continuing song, man religious sermon (mostly unclear, with many ment. Jesus), alternated with slow religious songs and talk over slow music; heard better in LSB, fast QSB, strong QRN statics, poor; in // http://radioevangelismo.com/radionline.htm (Radio Marumby, a emissora da paz), with around 40 seconds of delay from shortwaves broadcast (Gianni Serra - Roma-Italy, Email: gianni24.dx@gmail.com Equipment: JRC NRD 525 receiver; Alpha Delta DX-SWL Sloper-S antenna; RG 8 mini coaxial cable; JPS NIR 12 Noise & Interference Reducer-Dual DSP outboard audio filter; JRC NVA 319 external loudspeaker unit; Sony MDR-101 stereo headphones; WOR iog via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 7676, Rádio Pink Panther Araraquara SP ON TODAY --- Pedi para deixar no ar até agora a noite vai deixar. Tente aí. 7676 Rádio Pink Panther Araraquara SP Já chegou a 1760 KM Recibiendo con mucho QSB en Buenos Aires, Argentina. Receptor Tecsun PL 880 antena telescopica ?? Saludos desde Radioactiva 6900 KHz. Un vídeo corto del DX https://youtu.be/C7g6uIU03xs (via Daniel Wyllyans, Brasil, 2237 UT Sept 23, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Chamada: 9925 kHz, Rádio Serra do Roncador - Nova Xavantina MT Chamada de Ouvintes: Em Outubro Rádio Serra do Roncador 9925 kHz Ondas Curtas. Alcançe regional estimado em 1.200 KM. Chamada Na voz do famoso DJ Fernando da BR 163. Conheça no vídeo meu QTH de escutas DX. A Rádio é no estilo livre. (Não tem comerciais e sem fins lucrativos). Para nós obedecer as leis de impostos do Governo cobrados e taxados sobre as Rádios que são Comerciais ou de alta potência. https://youtu.be/6UO7izcppzM 73 (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina, Brasil, Sept 21, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) Em Breve Testes da Rádio Serra do Roncador em Ondas Curtas 9925 kHz Com 12 Watts banda de 31 metros (Arnaldo Slaen via Facebook Grupo Radioescucha Argentino, SW Bulletin Sept 23 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 11780, Radio Nacional da Amazonia at 0202 in Portuguese with ranchero-like male vocals and a female DJ with mentions of “Brasil”, then Brasopops at 0207 – Good Sept 24. And again at 1132 in Portuguese with a man with talk – Poor and noisy Sept 24 – So, as I asked last week, the answer may be that they are, indeed, on a 7 day/24 hour schedule or close to it (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) Still not heard after 0300 (gh, DXLD) ** BULGARIA. Kostinbrod testing on 9400 kHz until 2000 UT --- Following a tip from Georgi Ivanov on facebook, Kostinbrod, Bulgaria testing today 21 September on 9400 kHz with Overcomer Ministry. Strong here in Teddington, UK. Scheduled until 2000 UT. Test is on 300 kW directed to Middle East (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, Sept 21, WOR iog via DXLD) 300 kW via Secretbrod, ha ha, only 2 x 50 & 2 x 100 kW was here (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) So if they use all four transmitters on 9400 that would add up to 300 kW! Nothing but the best for Brother HyStairical, ha ha ha. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) By the way: Any details about the "DRM transmitter"? As shown at http://www.predavatel.com/bg/1/kostinbrod#rps Just low powered stuff, as the plate "Molniya-2" suggests? I seem to recall that this was a model name for utility transmitters of 5 kW or thereabouts, not for broadcasting transmitters of 250 kW (there are allegations that such a transmitter exists at Kostinbrod). Which, I fear, also means that some descriptions of these DRM transmissions in the last decade, as told also on industry events, have indeed been fairytales. (Back then there was some lashing out at yours truly from London for asking too much questions. The rest is history.) The other transmitters are apparently all Sneg models, presumably never modified/upgraded, so the original 50 kW (new tubes made it possible to raise powers of Russian AM transmitters up to 400 % of the original design level; in the case of Sneg this was done at Krasny Bor where the transmitters got the the new designator "Sneg-MU", as opposed to "Sneg-M" which was the upgrade to 100 kW "only"). See also the picture "komutator 50 + 50 kW", showing a unit for coupling two transmitters to a single 100 kW. At Königs Wusterhausen such transmitter pairs were considered a single 100 kW unit, and apparently this kind of counting is in use at Kostinbrod as well. So presumably altogether six 50 kW transmitters and coupling equipment. And I understand that the shortwave operations from Bulgaria and Armenia maintain a partnership. So quick swaps between Kostinbrod and Gavar would be pretty much possible, which could be an answer to the "7280 question". A current result is a Kostinbrod customer trying mediumwave from Gavar, as reported at https://mediumwave.info/news.html (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Sept 22, ibid.) ** BULGARIA [and non]. Shortwave Radiogram Hello friends, Thanks to everyone who participated in last weekend’s exercise to eliminate slant in MFSK images. Many of you did not see any slant to begin with. This usually happens with direct reception. But if reception is through an SDR, another sound card is involved, increasing the chance for a clash in the sampling rates. This tweet shows how I was able to eliminate the slant during the first image of vertical lines, so that the lines were perfectly (at least to my eye) vertical during the second image. Recording Shortwave Radiogram gives you another opportunity to eliminate any slant in your MFSK images. You can make the RX ppm adjustment in Fldigi, or use the Audacity software to change the speed of your recording. A (+)100 ppm adjustment in Fldigi would be the same as a (+).01% adjustment in the speed of your playback. Videos of last weekend’s Shortwave Radiogram are provided by Scott in Ontario (Friday 2030 UT), 2010DFS in Japan (Saturday 1600 UT) (see also his Twitter thread showing an inexpensive D-808 receiver connected to a Beverage antenna; his use of a voice recorder might have added additional slant, which he corrected in time for the second image of vertical lines), by Ralf in Germany (Saturday 1600 UT). Mark in the UK maintains an audio archive. Roger in Germany provided analysis. This weekend’s Shortwave Radiogram will be in our usual combination of MFSK32, MFSK128, and MFSK64, with maybe a mystery mode (and mystery image – to save it, click Save) during the closing music. The show will include eight MFSK images. Here is the lineup for Shortwave Radiogram, program 66, 21-24 September 2018, in MFSK modes as noted: 1:38 MFSK32: Program preview 2:55 US requiring registration of Chinese media in the USA* 7:09 MFSK128: Wasps play a crucial role in the ecosystem* 10:36 MFSK64: TESS space telescope spots its first exoplanet* 13:35 Remote island bounces back after its rats are eliminated* 19:19 This week's images* 27:07 MFSK32: Closing announcements (Kim Elliott, via roger, Sept 23, WOR iog via DXLD) Sonogram 7780 kHz: ====> https://www.dropbox.com/s/e1m06vnj447gqm6/2018-09-21_SWRG66_7780kHz.png?dl=0 (roger, Sept 22, WOR iog via DXLD) http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2018-09-15.htm (roger, Sept 23, ibid.) Text and visual details of SW Radiogram, Broad Spectrum Radio, IBC, KBC (gh, DXLD) ** CHINA [and non]. 7300, CNR1/RTI 1233+ 12 Sept. CNR1 (jammer) thumping RTI (sked 1000-1300 in Chinese), 13 Sept. RTI ahead of the jammer 1230+ (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach/Encinitas, CA, PL380/6m X wire, via Robert Wilkner, Sept 22, NASWA yg via DXLD) 11640, CNR1 at 1208 // 11785 and 11825 in Mandarin jamming RTI in Mandarin with a man and woman with excited talk – Very Good Sept 17 11785, CNR1 at 1138 in Mandarin jamming the VOA via the Philippines in Mandarin with a man and woman with excited talk – Very Good Sept 17 11825, CNR1 at 1139 // 11785 in Mandarin jamming the VOA via the Philippines in Mandarin with a man and woman with excited talk – Very Good Sept 17 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) 9745. Set 20, 2018. 1930-1940, China National Radio 1 - Jammer / Firedrake, Unid. Programa com música chinesa instrumental, contínua, sem intervalo, bloqueando as transmissões da RFA neste horário. Violinos e tambores predominam sobre os demais! CNR1 com excelente recepção, nesta tarde, em minha cidade, 55555 (José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX) - PR7036SWL (SWARL), Cabedelo-Paraiba, Brasil, Receptor: Tecsun S-2000, WOR iog via DXLD) Seems people are still confused about this. If it`s Firedragon/drake, percussive instrumental music ONLY, it is NOT CNR1. CNR1 is the #1 ``full-service`` national radio channel of talk, music, variety of programming, which is also, separately, employed as jamming. Sometimes both at same time from different sites. There are already sixteen different CNR-## programs, so FD should be #17 but it is not (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7300, CNR1 at 1058 in Mandarin jamming RTI in Mandarin with a man and woman with excited talk and promos to 5+1 time pips at 1100 – Weak but audible Sept 21 Coady-ON 9665, CNR5 Voice of Zhonghua/Zhonghua News Radio) at 1102 in Mandarin with two men with emphatic talk – Fair in peaks Sept 21 Coady-ON – A legitimate Chinese broadcaster whose program is often used by the Chinese authorities and transmitted on the frequencies of western broadcasters targetting China. 9685, CNR3 (Voice of the Music) at 2112 in Mandarin jamming RFA in Mandarin via Kuwait with woman playing Chinese pop vocals and love ballads – Fair Sept 21 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles 9555, CNR5 possibly the one at 2306 in Mandarin jamming RFA in Tibetan via the United Arab Emirates with a man and woman with emphatic talk – Fair Sept 23 – I settled on the Chinese authorities using this feed as this seemed to be a news program and there was none of the excited talk or promos that CNR1 has. 9685, CNR1 at 2311 in Mandarin jamming RTI in Mandarin with a man and woman with the usual excited talk and promos – Fair Sept 23 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) From his wording it is again not clear whether he was also hearing anything from the jammees (gh, DXLD) ** CHINA [and non]. 6065, CNR2 (Beijing) [non-log] CNR2 here & // 6155 off 12, 13, 14 Sept. during checks from 1215-1320, but back with usual "Haiyang Live Show" at 1240+ 17 Sept. 6090, NHK 1228* 12 Sept. closing Korean programme mid-song leaving: 6090, CNR2 (Geermu), 1230+ 12 Sept. Very poor with "Haiyang Live Show" // 7315 (Xianyang) [which was 'way better]. (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach/Encinitas, CA, PL380/6m X wire, via Robert Wilkner, Sept 22, NASWA yg via DXLD) 7210, PBS Yunnan (ethnic minority broadcasting), heard daily with their pre-1100 IS of non-stop EZL instrumental music loop; usually a fair signal against QRM from VOV1 (// 9636); sign on time varies (Sept 17, with *1039) (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) [non-log]. Sept 24 - Both PBS Yunnan frequencies clearly off the air today (very rare!). 7210, at 1055 UT, should have had a much stronger signal from PBS Yunnan, above a much weaker VOV1 (Vietnam) underneath, but today found only VOV1, with definitely no PBS being present; checking till 1223 UT and still no PBS. 1105 UT, went down to 6035, checking for the PBS Yunnan relay of FM99, that had been well heard on a daily basis, but today only heard the N. Korea jamming spur on 6035 (from jamming on 6045, against Voice of Freedom [Korea]), with positively no FM99 today, also checking through 1223 UT. Very unusual for them both to be off the air! Per WRTH Facebook (Sept 24), from Mauno Ritola: "Hi Ron, yes, both still off at 1415, maybe Monday maintenance. 7215 kHz [7210 kHz - Ron] has a station, but sounds Vietnamese, so Vov." (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) 4940, Voice of Strait, *0940-0955, Sept 22 & 23 (Saturday & Sunday), with the "Focus on China" program. Both days suddenly on with program in progress (identical program both days and also a repeat of what I heard last Sat. - Sept 15); a readable audio feed from a CCTV9 documentary -- they have many video documentaries in English online at http://cctv.cntv.cn/documentary/ this weekends interesting program was about the Shaolin monks and kung fu; the Leshan Giant Buddha, a 233 feet tall stone statue; taking the world`s longest cable ride on the Tianmen Mountain Cableway, then walking 999 steps up to the Tianmen Cave (“Gateway to Heaven”). From my observations, due to their starting time, have recently not heard the beginning of the 25 minute "Focus on China" program. Program ends at 0955. "Focus on China" is not // to the other VOS frequency of 4900, which is their Minnan service in Minnan, Amoy, Hakka and Chinese (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. Alcaraván Radio and La Voz de tu Conciencia Dear Thomas, very good that Short Wave Bulletin will be issued each two weeks again. Congratulation for your fan-tastic work. Here is this about Alcaraván Radio and La Voz de tu Conciencia, to publish it in Short Wave Bulletin if you consider it. Best 73,s, Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain ---------------------------- The two Colombian stations that remain actives on shortwave, Alcaraván Radio, 5910 kHz, and La Voz de tu Conciencia, 6010 kHz, had been on air very irregular, one day active and three or more inactive, but now, for about two months both stations are in complete silence, so they seems to be in danger of closure. In order to know what could happen with them, I contacted, via e-mail, with Colombian colleague Rafael Rodríguez, who also is the QSL manager of Alcaraván Radio and La Voz de tu Conciencia, and he responded, very kindly, with the following email: “Cordial saludo, bueno, la realidad es la siguiente; los constantes problemas con el fluido eléctrico en la zona donde se ubican los transmisores ocasionaron daños significativos, especialmente al que se utiliza para la señal de 6010 kHz que es un equipo que ya tiene varios lustros encima por no decir décadas; la señal 5910 kHz estaba saliendo en un horario local reducido, pero igualmente sufrió un daño. Hace algo más de un mes están por fuera del aire ambas señales. Con grandes esfuerzos económicos ya se estaban haciendo los procesos para conseguir los repuestos necesarios y durante el fin de semana pasado, los amigos [sic] de lo ajeno se robaron el cobre de las líneas de transmisión, antenas, radiales y otros elementos del sistema de transmisión. Y para completar la racha de problemas durante esta semana, la fuerte ola invernal que afecta la zona de Puerto LLeras ocasionó varios derrumbes y la pérdida de un puente que comunica la zona donde están los transmisores. Quiero ser optimista y pensar que para antes de fin de año puedan estar al aire nuevamente, ya que la organización mantiene intactos sus objetivos a largo plazo con las emisoras en onda corta, pero por ahora atraviesan una situación bien compleja.” And here is the email translated to English: “Best regards, the situation is as fallows: the constant problems with the power supply in the area where the transmitters are located, caused significant damage, especially to the one used for the 6010 kHz signal, which is an equipment that has been in use for decades; the 5910 kHz signal was on air at a reduced local time, but it also suffered damage. More than a month ago both signals were out of the air. With great economic efforts, the processes were already being done to obtain the necessary spare parts, but during the last weekend, the copper was stolen from the transmission lines, antennas, radials and other elements of the transmission system. For more problems, this week the strong winter that affects the area of Puerto LLeras caused several landslides and the loss of a bridge that communicates the area where the transmitters are located. I want to be optimistic and think that before the end of the year the stations can be on air again, because the organization keeps intact its long-term objectives with the shortwave stations, but for now they are going through a very complex situation.” (SW Bulletin Sept 23 via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) ** CONGO. [Republic of] [non-log]. 6115, Radio Congo, checking 0529-0550, Sept 19. Definitely no Congo heard underneath a fair signal from Japan (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CRIMEA [and non]. Media in Russian occupied Crimea From the US mission to the OSCE, regarding media in Crimea: US Mission to OSCE: Authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea continue to target Crimean Tatars and ethnic Ukrainians for reprisal The US Mission to the OSCE stated, "The United States condemns the Russian Federation's aggression in Ukraine and Georgia. Its occupation of parts of their territory are egregious examples of aggressive nationalism. Russia seized Crimea by force, and as it seeks to 'russify' the peninsula, occupation authorities continue to discriminate against and target for reprisal the two largest non-Russian minorities - Crimean Tatars and ethnic Ukrainians. Russian occupation authorities have banned most Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar-language media, replacing the content with Russian programming, and commit gross and widespread harassment of organizations representing minority communities. Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars can no longer gather to celebrate their national holidays and mark historic dates, school instruction in their languages has decreased dramatically, and their leaders have been subjected to arbitrary arrest, interrogation, politically motivated prosecution, and imprisonment. Russia fomented the conflict in eastern Ukraine on the false pretext of protecting Russian speakers. As the direct result of Russian aggression, the population has undergone terrible suffering: nearly two million people have been displaced and more than 10,000 killed. In Russia-controlled territory, civilians considered to have pro-Ukrainian sympathies have been imprisoned, tortured, and subjected to extrajudicial killings." 73, (via Walt Salmaniw, WOR iog via DXLD) https://cpj.org/2018/05/ukraine-extends-ban-on-russian-news-agencies-journ.php (via Leo Barmaleo, Moldova, ibid.) I was just waiting for a response from Leo! 73, (Walt Salmaniw, ibid.) ** CUBA. 6060, Sept 20 at 0136, this RHC Spanish frequency is off. 6000 English is suptorted, while 6165 is not distorted, but undermodulated. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 13740, Sept 21 at 1418, China Plus relay in English is very undermodulated; must turn up the volume compared to e.g. 13700 RHC Spanish; at least the two are not producing spurs today. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. 6000, Sept 23 at 1320, RHC Spanish is S9/S9+10 but just barely modulated. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 13740, Sept 23 at 1405, RHC Spanish audio underneath CRI English, two transmitters mixing about 1 Hz apart, but RHC finally turned off about 1405:45*. Close enough for government work, only 6 minutes overlapping; remaining CRI relay has a big hum. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 11840, Sept 21 at 2159, RHC in suptorted Spanish, much weaker than usual here, only S5, and plus/minus 10 parasites inaudiblized. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 11975-12025, Sept 24 at 0009, big dirty overmodulated signal of RHC 12000 can be heard splattering out over 50 kHz range; something`s always wrong at RHC. 11840, Sept 24 at 0011, this RHC is S9+10 but suptorted modulation; wiggle that patchcord! Also audible are the parasite carriers on 11830 & 11850. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15730, Sept 24 at 0013, scanning up the 15 MHz band, it`s as good as dead until at the top I run into this S9+25! RHC French signal, really the OSOB and SSOB. What a waste of spectrum. But it too has suptorted modulation. Wiggle that patchcord. SAWA RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 11930, R Martí Spanish talx as usual, but the ‘startup’ after moving from 41 metres was a bit ‘rocky’ today. Carrier dropped several times, and they appeared to be running less than full power at first. Things seemed to have stabilized by 1410 though when the SINPO was up to 4+5444 1402-1432 15/Sep SPR4 +randomwire (Kenneth Vito Zichi from just north of Port Hope MI (“MI2”) where I have a quiet environment, WOR iog via DXLD) 11860, Sept 18 at 1359, noise jamming over JBA carrier, presumably Yemen [non]; *1400:52 GB open carrier on (after a false ping 6.5 seconds earlier); finally at 1401:20.5 brings up R. Martí modulation in progress; S9+20/10 well atop the jamming. Seems Greenville has not been affected by Florence. 11860, Sept 18 at 2052, hearing Radio Martí // 11930 over jamming, but no RHC --- until soon RHC Portuguese begins to emerge underneath, as Brazuguese also on 12000 at 2054, S7-S8 with squeal. 12000 is not supposed to start until 2100 in Spanish; 11860 is supposed to be in Arabic at 2030, Portuguese back at 2000. We observed the same anomalies recently. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 11860, Sept 21 at 2159 music from Radio Martí is S9+25, 2200 cut to dead air, audiblizing jamming noise underneath but no RHC. RM and jamming still taking weekends off, no signals after 1400 Saturday Sept 22 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DENMARK. Danish Broadcaster Told to Scrap Promotion of Integration, Focus on Christianity (c) AP Photo / Jens Dresling Europe https://sputniknews.com/europe/201809201068204065-danish-broadcaster-new-contract-christianity/ The Danish Broadcasting Corporation has signed a new contract with the government, which has been largely influenced by the anti-immigration Danish People's Party. The fresh edition no longer defines the broadcaster's mission as being focused on the promotion of integration, but rather is centered on Denmark's democracy and Christian roots. The Danish government has handed new regulations to the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR), the country's largest public broadcaster, which marks a significant shift in its programming policy from multiculturalism to somewhat more conservative values. The new contract for 2019-2023, published by Denmark's Ministry of Culture online, stipulates 20 percent budget cuts, which could lead to 400 lost jobs, and also obliges that DR clarify that Danish society "is based on democracy and has its roots in Christianity." READ MORE: Denmark Loses Track of Thousands of Rejected Asylum Seekers Previous editions of the contract said that DR's mission was to promote integration in Danish society. This line has been reworded and now reads, "DR must work to promote a Denmark based on community, built on values of democracy, equality and free speech." According to the Denmark-based newspaper The Local, the anti-immigration Danish People's Party (DF), the second-largest in the country, has pushed for this major media policy change. "This is a tightening up we have had put in relative to the previous wording, which only obliged DR to particularly recognize [our] Christian cultural legacy. We felt that was too weak. That's why we demanded this specification, which makes it clear that DR must present [our] Christian cultural heritage to a greater degree," DF spokesman Marinus told the newspaper Politiken, adding that programs about the pros and cons of integration should continue to be part of DR's output (Sputnik News [Russia], via Mike Cooper, GA, WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) ** ERITREA [non]. SECRETLAND, Reception of Dimtse Radio Erena via SPL Secretbrod, Sept 22: 1700-1800 9720 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Tigrinya Sat very good signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/reception-of-dimtse-radio-erena-via-spl_22.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. FRANCE, Reception of Radio Xoriyo Ogaden via TDF Issoudun, Sept 21: 1600-1630 17770 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Somali Mon/Fri, poor/weak http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/reception-of-radio-xoriyo-ogaden-via_22.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 21-22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. FRANCE, Reception of Radio Xoriyo Ogaden via TDF Issoudun, Sept 24: 1600-1630 17770 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg EAf Somali Mon/Fri, fair/good http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/reception-of-radio-xoriyo-ogaden-via_24.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. GERMANY, Reception of Voice of Oromo Liberation via MBR Nauen, Sept 21 1700-1730 15420 NAU 100 kW / 144 deg EaAf Afan Oromo Wed/Fri/Sun, good http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/reception-of-voice-of-oromo-liberation_22.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 21-22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. FRANCE, Radio Voice of Independent Oromiya via Issoudun, Sept 23: 1600-1630 17850 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Oromo Sun, weak to fair http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/reception-of-radio-voice-of-independent.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. FRANCE, Reception of BRB Voice of Amara Radio via TDF Issoudun, Sept 24: 1700-1758 15360 ISS 250 kW / 120 deg EAf Amharic Wed/Sat-Mon weak/fair http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/reception-of-brb-voice-of-amara-radio.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. Charleston Radio International resumed (daily?) broadcasts on 5140 kHz on September 15th. Schedule according to their Facebook page is 1700-2130 UT. Format of old-time 1930s, 1940s records. Good signal here at 1900. 73 (Alan, AOR 7030plus, longwire, Pennington, Caversham, UK, Sept 23, bdxc-news iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) Thanks, Alan, for this tip and reasonably well heard in Lytchett Matravers, Poole at 1954 23rd September with 20s (?) music. Is this a pirate, or what? (David J Morris, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) As far as I know, the station's unlicenced, though with an unusual music format for a pirate. They have an email address for reports of: charlestonradiointernational at yahoo dot com 73 (Alan, ibid.) I've only heard them at weekends and they take a break during the summer. Run by a guy called Harry. Yes, the format is vintage jazz; and Charleston music, of course. They are on Facebook: search "Charleston Radio International" for their page and just "Charleston Radio" for their (closed) group (Ian Kelly, Reading, bdxc-news iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) ** GERMANY. [JAPAN non], MBR Nauen's harmonics, regularly observed & confirmed here with different receivers & antennas & places: at 0430-0500 UT NHK Radio Japan Tokyo in Russian language on 12330 \\ 6165 kHz daily & on Sundays only at 0445-0515 UT Day of Decision Ministry in English on 19100 \\ 9550 kHz. Maybe there are more harmonix? (Rumen Pankov-BUL, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 13, via BC-DX 19 Sept via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) ** GERMANY. Re: ``Rainer, the owner/operator of Channel 292, just told me that they plan to transmit both on 6070 kHz and 7440 kHz at the same time. Details are not fixed yet (Harald Kuhl-D, BrDXC-UK ng Sept 4, via dxld Sept 5`` Commercial firm address of Rainer Rainer Ebeling, Intermedicom GmbH, Rudolf-Diesel-Strasse 1, 85296 Rohrbach, Bavaria, Germany. fon +49 [0] 8442 / 953901 6070_Radio_ch292_easy dipole at 48 36 39.47 N 11 34 36.72 E has been changed to an older farm house some 4 kilometers distance away at location 48 35 12.95 N 11 31 38.18 E in May 2018 to Intermedicom GmbH, Eja 2, 85276 Pfaffenhofen, Germany fon: +49 [0] 84 41 / 456 99 88 btw. necessary electro magnetic distance need. (?) More space here to erect another 41 mb antenna, also taking into account the necessary electromagnetic compatibility against the pedestrian population. (?) (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 19 via BC-DX 19 Sept via DXLD) ** GERMANY. DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst ONLY on 6180 kHz on Sept 18: 0600-0630 on 6180 PIN 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German, good, but at same time 5905 PIN 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German, no signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/reception-of-dwd-deutscher-wetterdienst_18.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Additional broadcast of New Shortwave Radio for Europe from Sept 18: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/additional-broadcast-of-new-shortwave.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 20-21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz: Additional broadcast of New Shortwave Radio for Europe from Sept.18: 1000-1300 3975 WIS 001 kW / non-dir NWEu English Daily eff.frm Sept 18 1600-2200 3975 WIS 001 kW / non-dir NWEu English Daily scheduled A18 1600-2200 6160 WIS 001 kW / non-dir NWEu English Daily scheduled A18 ??????????? ?? Observer ? 3:39 PM (via DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. Reception of Deutsche Welle Bundesliga, Sept 22: 1325-1530 on 15195 ISS 500 kW / 165 deg to WeAf Hausa Sat, fair 1325-1530 on 17840 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf Hausa Sat, good http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/reception-of-deutsche-welle-bundesliga_22.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [and non]. Some changes of Media Broadcast MBR: Athmeeya Yatra He Radio/Gospel For Asia is cancelled from July 16: 0030-0130 on 7410 NAU 250 kW / 100 deg to SoAs Varies Asian langs 1230-1500 on 15350 NAU 250 kW / 089 deg to SoAs Varies Asian langs 1330-1530 on 15400 NAU 250 kW / 085 deg to SEAs Varies Asian langs 1530-1630 on 15395 NAU 250 kW / 099 deg to SoAs Varies Asian langs 2330-0030 on 7410 NAU 250 kW / 085 deg to SEAs Varies Asian langs Bible Voice Broadcasting 1400-1430 on 15265 NAU 250 kW / 102 deg to SoAs English 1st Sat ex ISS 1430-1500 on 15265 NAU 250 kW / 102 deg to SoAs English Sat, ex ISS 1730-1830 on 6130 NAU 100 kW / 090 deg to EaEu English Sun is deleted 1800-1830 on 6130 ERV 100 kW / 330 deg to EaEu English Sat, new addit 1800-1900 on 6130 ERV 100 kW / 330 deg to EaEu English Sun, new addit 1830-1900 on 9585 NAU 125 kW / 230 deg to NoAf English Sun, new addit HCJB Voice of The Andes 1530-1602 on 13800 NAU 125 kW / 100 deg to CeAs Russian Sat, ex MOS 1602-1630 on 13800 NAU 125 kW / 100 deg to CeAs Chechen Sat, ex MOS Pan American Broadcasting 1930-2000 on 9515 NAU 250 kW / 155 deg to NoAf English Sat, new addit http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/some-changes-of-media-broadcast-mbr.html ??????????? ?? Observer ? 11:36 AM (via DXLD) as of late Sept not July ** GREECE. Reception of Voice of Greece on 9420 kHz, Sept 18: 0651&0655 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 *Arabic/Serbian news & the transmitter switches off at 0707 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/reception-of-voice-of-greece-on-9420_18.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reception of Voice of Greece on 9420 kHz, Sept 21: 0651&0709 on 9420 AVL 150 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek*tx#03 At same time 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg via tx#1, no signal *Arabic/Serbian news & the transmitter switches off at 0805 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/reception-of-voice-of-greece-on-9420_21.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 20-21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. Reception of KTWR Trans World Radio Asia in English, Sept.22 1230-1300 on 12160 TWR 100 kW / 290 deg to SoAs English Sat, good 1317-1346 on 7510 TWR 100 kW / 320 deg to EaAs English Sat, fair http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/reception-of-ktwr-trans-world-radio_22.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HAWAII. 15000, Sept 24 at 0045, no WWV, while WWVH is in well enough to copy the propagation semi-minute: YES, unlike WWV which has been stuck at Sept 18, WWVH has current info for Sept. 23: Solar flux 68; planetary A-index 13; K index at ``two thousand one hundred`` September 23 was 2; no storms past or future. Well, by now she should utter the K for 0000 Sept 24. At 0047 promotes listening to WWVH by phone with number (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks. Glad to know they’re still alive and awake at WWVH. Perhaps the problem at WWV is just that someone is on vacation and there’s no replacement! (Art Delibert, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also U S A: WWV! ** INDIA. 7550, Sept 18 at 2041, JBA carrier, presumed AIR GOS instead of in DRM. Others report this is sometimes DRM, sometimes not. Seems they have a lot of problems keeping it going. 7550, Sept 21 at 2152, S Asian song S5 in AM, so another day AIR GOS is not in DRM here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 5040, AIR Jeypore, 1242, Sept 20. Back on the air again, after being silent for a while (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) India (4950 kHz): On 24 September 2018, Radio Kashmir was heard at 1705 UT on 4950 kHz with two men talking interspersed with very similar music. The programme was in parallel with Kashmir stream at http://allindiaradio.gov.in/Default.aspx (except for the time delay of the internet stream). (Dr Hansjoerg Biener 25 September 2018 http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ India (5040 kHz): In a recent DXLD, AIR Jeypore was reported inactive. On 24 September 2018 (tune in 1715 UT), AIR Jeypore was heard on 5040 kHz with mainly film music (and some DJ announcements), Delhi central news in English (1730 UT) and Hindi (1735 UT) and sign-off at 1741 / 1742. The programme was clearly not parallel with the Odia stream at http://allindiaradio.gov.in/Default.aspx (except for the English news). (Dr Hansjoerg Biener 25 September 2018 http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9800, All India Radio, Bengaluru (or Delhi-Khampur); 21 September 2018; 0126 UT with 1 kHz test tone to their lovely interval signal at 0128; the Nepali service began 0130; fair-good level. 73, (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan USA, Airspy HF+ with SDR Console v.3 and a 45' PAR EF-SWL end-fed wire at 20', WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [non]. ARMENIA, Trans World Radio India in English via Yerevan on Sept 23 1514-1544 9330 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to SoAs English Sat/Sun, very good http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/reception-of-trans-world-radio-india-in.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. Alert DX: 3345 kHz RRI Ternate https://youtu.be/kHkHgiqEwvI (Daniel Wyllyans, Brasil, Sept 19, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) VERY poor quality recording. Maybe one could assume a bit of talk is Indonesian-sounding, and also assume Ternate must be it, given the frequency (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) RRI Ternate reactivated on 3344.86 kHz --- Hi Glenn, More good SW news! Hiroyuki Komatsubara (Japan), on Sept 19, on 3344.86 kHz, has heard the reactivation of RRI Ternate (Indonesia). Confirmed via WRTH Facebook by Mauno Ritola - "Yes, per Jakarta remote rx it sounds like being // with RRI1 Ternate web stream." Hiroyuki's 1224 UT recording today - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHkHgiqEwvI . Ending RRI Ternate broadcast today (1501*), recorded via audio streaming: http://radio.chobi.net/DX/mp3/3345kHz_RRI_Ternate_20180919_1501UTC_LIveStream.mp3 (Ron Howard, California, Sept 19, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3344.86, RRI Ternate (presumed), 1208-1235, Sept 20. Started with a fluttery carrier; by 1215 some faint audio with announcers heard from time to time; no steady audio; listening carefully for the patriotic song ending the Jakarta news relay, but unable to hear it; overall very poor; definite station here. If they stay on the air through to Dec. them maybe a chance for much better reception? Thanks to Hiroyuki Komatsubara for the original report of Ternate reactivation (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. SHF Geo-Stationary stuff: Radio: 55.5°W Intelsat-34, Several BBC World Service audio streams: 3.940-H / 5422 Msps; 9 BBC audio streams, not all active, many of the EE feeds are // sometimes, but not always (they have alternatives to sport on Saturday, which is good. And the best part? They don't overly compress the audio like Sirius/XM so it actually sounds good!: SvcID LL Station 13903 EE BBC English (America); 13910 EE BBC English News (usually //to BBC English America feed) 13916 AR BBC Arabic 13925 PP BBC Brazil (often silent as it was this check) 13952 EE BBC "APM" (feed to American Public Media (presumed)) 13995 EE BBC America Feed 1 (usually //to APM feed) 13996 -- BBC America Feed 2 (usually silent) 13997 -- BBC America Feed 3 (usually silent) 13998 -- BBC America Feed 4 (usually silent) 13903 and 13910 were // carrying News and “Death In Ice Valley” programme, and 13952 and 13995 were // carrying News and “In the Balance” feature about the 10th anniversary of the Lehman brothers’ collapse. 13916 had OM Arabic talx. 13996-13998 had a “there are no programmes on this channel at present” place-holder announcements, and 13925 was just silent. All of these are QPSK-S2 and MPEG2 with 60% quality and steady reception, 1830-1845 16/Sept (Kenneth Vito Zichi from just north of Port Hope MI (“MI2”) where I have a quiet environment and a moveable “BUD” (“Big Ugly [satellite] Dish”) looking at the Clarke Belt satellites, WOR iog via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. SHF Geo-Stationary stuff: Television: 105°W AMC-18 3.780-H/30000 Msps NBC Network Feeds (US Network) Five feeds, four NBC and one “Cozi-TV”: •Service ID 0009 NBC East (blank at the moment) •Service ID 0010 NBC Central (blank at the moment) •Service ID 0011 NBC Mountain (1/2 hour behind West) [? Central?] •Service ID 0012 NBC Pacific (“Meet The Press”) •Service ID 0020 Cozi-TV network feed (E/I programming) During commercial breaks, when the network has time for local spots, they air a blank screen with the ‘NBC chimes’ in the audio, & a logo that shifts colours (kinda classy/cool actually) like so: [illo] Normally, the feeds are ‘offset’ by time zone, but for some reason, “Mountain” time was only offset by a half hour today. The ‘Pacific’ feed sometimes carries TWO editions of “Meet the Press” on Sundays -- presumably so stations can choose which to air? Eastern and Central rarely carry different shows, and whenever I’ve noticed, Central tends to just have a blank screen. All the NBC feeds are 8PSK/h.264 encoded 080i HD, the Cozi TV is 8PSK/MPEG2 encoded 480i SD. 57% and steady, seen 1500-1600 16/Sep (Kenneth Vito Zichi from just north of Port Hope MI (“MI2”) where I have a quiet environment and a moveable “BUD” (“Big Ugly [satellite] Dish”) looking at the Clarke Belt satellites, WOR iog via DXLD) ** IRAN. 9550, Sept 24 at 0021, poor S4-S6 signal with chimey IRIB IS, 0023 sign-on in Spanish of Voz de la República Islámica de Irán, NA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. U.K.(non) New schedule of BBC in Farsi from Sept 22 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/uknon-new-shortwave-schedule-of-bbc-in.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 23-24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Probably timeshift due to Sept 22 equinoxial end of Iran DST; viz.: (gh) 0330-0430 on 7305 DHA 250 kW / 045 deg to WeAs Farsi 0330-0430 on 11875 SLA 250 kW / 340 deg to WeAs Farsi 0330-0430 on 13825 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg to WeAs Farsi 0430-0530 on 9480 DHA 250 kW / 045 deg to WeAs Farsi 0430-0530 on 11875 SLA 250 kW / 340 deg to WeAs Farsi 0430-0530 on 13825 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg to WeAs Farsi 1600-1700 on 5875 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg to WeAs Farsi 1600-1700 on 6195 SLA 250 kW / 335 deg to WeAs Farsi ??????????? ?? Observer ? 1:41 PM (via DXLD) ** ITALY. RAI board votes to nominate Foa president Parliament oversight body expected to OK appointment this time Redazione ANSA Rome 21 September 201819:03 News (ANSA) - Rome, September 21 - The board of State broadcaster RAI on Friday voted to nominate Marcello Foa its new president, sources said. The board also nominated Foa, the government's pick to lead the network, in July, but parliament's oversight body of the State broadcaster failed to ratify the appointment. This time, however, Foa is expected to get a majority vote as ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right Forza Italia party is tipped to drop its opposition. Deputy Premier and 5-Star Movement leader Luigi Di Maio said Foa was "an independent journalist" and said he hoped the oversight body would approve him this time around. He said the whole process had been "in the light of day", denying secret deals. Berlusconi reportedly agreed to Foa at a meeting with ruling League leader Matteo Salvini where he reportedly received assurances on his Mediaset media empire, RAI's rival. Foa is a controversial figure due to previous Euroskeptic, pro-Putin, anti-vaccine, anti-gay and anti-immigrant stances and his sharing of fake news including Hillary Clinton's supposed Satanic dinners (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** JAPAN [and non]. Oklahoma TP DX 9/19/18 594, JOAK poor, man talking at 1153; poor with vocal music & talk at 1209-1217 (LSR 1215). 774, JOUB poor with English lesson at 1202, fading out at 1204. 828, JOBB poor to fair, man talking at 1153-1156. 972, HLCA? [KOREA SOUTH] strong heterodyne, no audio (Richard Allen, near Perry OK USA, Skywave + FSL. Sent from my iPad, IRCA via DXLD) 774, Sept 21 at 1200, I am interrupting a 9-kHz bandscan (see UNIDENTIFIED) just in time to hear the NHK top-of-hour final prolonged timesignal chime, from 500 kW NHK-2, JOUB, Akita, on the NW coast of Honshu, but remains the #1 MW TP signal here, and despite splash from nearby 780 KSPI Stillwater, worsened since that flipped to music format. Along with 693, 747 & 828, other superpower NHKs, 774 stronger than other carriers thruout my monitoring span today between 1150 and 1215 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KIRITIMATI. 846, Sept 22 at 0622, JBA carrier here presumed R. Kiribati. During my initial bandscan at 0606, did not hear it but a bunch of Europeans; see UNIDENTIFIED (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. TP 16 Sep Victoria version. --- At some point, one has to throw in the towel, and let some of the DX get away, I'm afraid. What a snorter of a morning. I don't think anyone raised power, just the ionosphere letting its hair down, finally. 855, Pyongyang Bangsong; man in Korean 1301 UT, snagged a N. Korean parallel later; this had 3 and one pips on the hour, sounding more sluggish than the usual NHK/KBS set. 657, Pyongyang Bangsong, choral music //819 (though not listed as Pyongyang Bangsong) and 855 1318-9 (Nick Hall-Patch, Victoria BC, IRCA at HCDX via DXLD) FYI, Nick: Pyongyang Broadcasting and KCBS sometimes run parallel programming for special events or live broadcasts or live theater/cultural shows and/or political-related speeches, especially in the afternoon hours or into the evening hours (Korean time), sometimes later, such as the big New Years broadcast and other big events like the 70th anniversary celebration last week. The rural stations, no matter what network they are listed as part of, often will broadcast Pyongyang instead of KCBS as a time-share, but 657 is the main Pyongyang Broadcasting signal and 819 is the main KCBS signal, no matter what. 855 does not stray from its listed network as it broadcasts in a more highly populated area, not a rural area like those areas east and north of Pyongyang or in the south near Pyonggang (not a typo), north of Cheorwon. So if you ever hear any of them running parallel programming, there is a special event or something! I remember back in late 2015 when I was confirming which network each frequency was airing since a lot of info on the Internet was flat out wrong and every night I would go out at different times and listen and jot down who is parallel to who and I started finding half of them didn`t match the listed network and then the next night, they would, but only half of them, etc., and it got ridiculous until I realized that they were time sharing and that whatever the schedule was, if there even was one, it was too complicated for me to figure out reliably. So don`t let it fool you. It`s darn obvious when you hear a DPRK station usually, whatever it`s airing, and they only use certain frequencies. I`m curious how many lately have heard any of the higher powered Pyongyang jammers, like 1467 (-Chris Kadlec, Seoul AM Radio Listening Guide, http://www.beaglebass.com/dx/seoul ibid.) ** KOREA NORTH. 3920, KCBS (Hyesan), 1234-1300+ 7 Sept. KCBS' apparently irregularly sked 75M broadcast showed up this morning // 2850 (heard daily) with mostly non-martial tunes & Korean chat (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach/Encinitas, CA, PL380/6m X wire, via Robert Wilkner, Sept 22, NASWA yg via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. JAPAN, New frequency of Furusato no Kaze via Shiokaze Sea Breeze 1405-1435 NF 6070 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese, ex 7325 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/new-frequency-of-furusato-no-kaze-via.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 21-22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency changes of JSR Shiokaze Sea Breeze 1600-1700 NF 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs, ex 7215 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 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/frequency-changes-of-jsr-shiokaze-sea.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 21-22, WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. PALAU, Furusato no Kaze via T8WH Angel 5 Sept 21 1430-1500 on 9960 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Japanese 1600-1630 on 9960 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Japanese http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/good-signal-of-furusato-no-kaze-via.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 21-22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. PALAU, Nippon no Kaze via T8WH Angel 5 Sept 21 1500-1530 on 9975 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Korean 1530-1600 on 9965 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Korean http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/good-signal-of-nippon-no-kaze-via-t8wh.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 21-22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. UZBEKISTAN, Radio Free North Korea via Tashkent on Sept 23: 1200-1300 on 15630 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean, fair signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/reception-of-radio-free-north-korea-via.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 6045, VoF (Hwaseong), 1300+ 6 Sept., 1232-1300+ 7 Sept. Ex-5920 as of 6 Sept. [thanks to Ron Howard's info on the radio.chobi site] with K-Pop, Korean chat & the NK jammer still rumbling away on 5920, however, 1252 13 Sept. the NK jammer is back messing up VoF's programming once again (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach/Encinitas, CA, PL380/6m X wire, via Robert Wilkner, Sept 22, NASWA yg via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. 9785, 21Set 1947, UNID in English. An animated conversation, by YL. Very weak signal, audio is lost for a few moments. In the Pardinho SDR the carrier signal is even reasonable, but the noise is higher than the modulation. In Twente the signal arrives very weak and I have no understandable audio. At 2000 suffers severe QRM since 9790 from RFI. At 2002 pop music. At 1708 YL speaks. Signal becomes very weak. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana Bahia 12°14´S 38°58´W - Brasil, Tecsun PL-310ET, Antenna Delta Loop 8,5 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) Glenn, segue o áudio da escuta. Segundo o Júlio Pereira entendeu dizer Korea: "A moça falou a palavra "Korean". Creio ser a KBS. Ela está falando de uma cidade que tem 2000 anos." "Fala da comida, de um castelo muito antigo e que a cidade está localizada no sudeste do "país". Eles falam duas vezes a palavra país, mas não falam o nome. O nome do programa não me é estranho, parece ser "Better Show" ou algo assim. Ele fala em World Rádio, mas não ouvi o nome KBS. Enfim." Korea já usa essa frequência em inglês mais cedo. O modo de apresentar segue modelo KBS. O que você acha? Segue os áudios, a gravação não é boa devido a QRM, eu tive que estreitar a amplitude. Um abraço, (Jorge Freitas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Jorge, Yes, I hear about the same things on the middle clip, Korea mentioned, about a 2000-year-old city in the southeast of the country. Initial name of program maybe ``Hot spots``. Seems to be KBS, listed for English a 14-17 UT on 9785. No luck finding any SW schedule info at http://world.kbs.co.kr (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Jorge then sent me three clips of this 9785 unID, toward the beginning, the middle and end of the hour, going off by 2100*. He asked me to summarize our findings in English. He says that Júlio Pereira already listened to them, and heard Korea mentioned so it`s believed to be KBS. She is talking about a 2000-year-old city, cuisine, a very old castle and that the city is located in the southeastern part of the ``country`` but not what country. Name of program something like ``Better Show``. Mentioned World Radio but ``KBS`` not heard. KBS does use this frequency earlier. Presentation style follows the KBS model. I, gh, hear about the same things. Initial name of program maybe ``Hot spots``. Seems to be KBS, listed for English a 14-17 UT on 9785. No luck finding any SW schedule info at http://world.kbs.co.kr (Glenn Hauser, OK, ibid.) Hi Glenn, Regarding Jorge Freitas's UNID on 9785 kHz. - After listening to his audio clip, was able to piece together a portion that was a show of a two part series about Gyeongju, a beautiful city in the southeast of South Korea, is often referred to as the "museum without walls." Was the former Silla capital. City has more than over 2000 years’ of history. Have edited a brief portion of the audio that Jorge kindly provided and attached it here. Thanks Jorge! Info about Gyeongju - http://goo.gl/VwsHxL Would indeed seem to be KBS, even though different from their schedule (attached). (Ron Howard, California, ibid.) Hi Jorge and all, I can confirm 100% it's KBS World Radio. The clip in YOUR FILE "appr.org.br_2018-09-21T20_36_49Z_9785.00_am.wav" is from the Sep 21 edition of Korea 24 - a segment called Korea Hotspot. I attach the same part from the KBS Listen Again pages at: http://world.kbs.co.kr/service/listen_again.htm?lang=e&broad_date=2018-09-21 (Alan Roe, ibid.) The KBS broadcast in 9785 in English has been heard here in Brazil with a very weak signal. Now at 2007 I observe trace in SDR Pardinho and in Twente. It would not then be an operator error, but it seems to be a new transmission scheme. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana Bahia 12°14´S 38°58´W - Brasil, Tecsun PL-310ET, Antenna Delta Loop 8,5 meters, Sept 23, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, MOLDOVA, Radyo Denge Welat, Grigoriopol in Kurdish 09.10.2018 0727-0816 non stop men chants with instrumental music (strings, percussions, claps etc.); woman ID (Radyo Denge Welat) and brief announcement over music, time pips at 0800 music break into man reading news (till 0811), with many mention Kurdistan, and many music breaks, music pause and woman ID, chant with instrumental music; from 0815 men talk; heard in AM and SSB with local audio, lite QSB at times with mild rustle when heard in AM only; QRM het (0800-0811) almost nulled with notch and inter filter; good; in // , with many seconds of delay from shortwaves broadcast (till 0800, continuing in streaming with chants and talk) (Gianni Serra - Roma-Italy, Email: gianni24.dx@gmail.com Equipment: JRC NRD 525 receiver; Alpha Delta DX-SWL Sloper-S antenna; RG 8 mini coaxial cable; JPS NIR 12 Noise & Interference Reducer-Dual DSP outboard audio filter; JRC NVA 319 external loudspeaker unit; Sony MDR-101 stereo headphones; WOR iog via DXLD) FRANCE, Reception of Dengê Welat via TDF Issoudun on Sept 22 0230-0500 on 9525 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish, very good 0500-0600 on 11530 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish, very good http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/very-good-signal-of-denge-welat-via-tdf.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 21-22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11530, PRIDNESTROVIE, Deng? Welat at 1546 in Kurdish with male folk vocals then a man with talk over stringed instrumentals and back to male folk vocals at 1552 – Fair to Good Sept 23 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. 15109.71, R. Kuwait Sulaibiyah in Arabic / English in brief 09.16.2018 0951-1010 Arab chant, about 2 minute later woman talk with lite reverberation over chant (till 0958), other woman announcement (with freq. quote ment. kiloherz and megaherz), anthem at 0959, time pips at 1000, woman announcement, again same anthem, man frequency quote in English and announcement in Arab, man vocal chant, man talk, Arab music and other man / woman chat (some mentioning Kuwait and talk in English in brief), heard in AM and LSB, lite fast QSB at times, very good (Gianni Serra - Roma-Italy, Email: gianni24.dx@gmail.com Equipment: JRC NRD 525 receiver; Alpha Delta DX-SWL Sloper-S antenna; RG 8 mini coaxial cable; JPS NIR 12 Noise & Interference Reducer-Dual DSP outboard audio filter; JRC NVA 319 external loudspeaker unit; Sony MDR-101 stereo headphones; WOR iog via DXLD) Good signal of Radio Kuwait in English on Sept 21 0500-0800 on 15529.7 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/good-signal-of-radio-kuwait-in-english_21.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 20-21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Kuwait programma in inglese DRM --- Ottimo segnale di Radio Kuwait nel programma in lingua inglese alle 1800 UT su 15540 kHz in DRM. Allegata clip audio con identificazione. Ricevitore Kenwood TS-440 e antenna Beverage. Convertitore autocostruito. QTH: Tortorici, provincia di Messina. 73 de Giovanni -- [gh copied to:] http://www.w4uvh.net/RADIO+KUWAIT+23+SEPTEMBER+2018.mp3 (Giovanni Lorenzi, ITALIAN AMATEUR RADIO STATION I T 9 T Z Z ESCLUSIVAMENTE IN TELEGRAFIA Sito web> http://www.webalice.it/it9tzz [1] QRZ.com page> http://www.qrz.com/db/it9tzz [2], Sept 23, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) Yes, crystal clear; can even hear the script papers rustling (gh) ** LIBERIA. 6050, ELWA presumed the one at 2220 with an African choral hymn and a male preacher at 2223 then an African-accented man with talk from 2225 to an anthem at 2230 and off a 2234 – Weak but audible in peaks Sept 23 – Sign off on weekends is listed as 2230 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. 17640, Sept 18 at 1805, African Pathways Radio on MWV, with its usual condescending advice on how Africans should live their lives, treat their spouses; offering literature to convert Muslims. Notable only that this quasi-antipodal station is quite listenable on the G8 pocket portable with telescopic antenna only as I am dining at an Enid restaurant a meter from a south-facing window. The repeat at 2048 heard on the home rig is only a JBA carrier, like everything else on 16m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. México: 6185, XEPPM Radio Educación with flute-ish music that I presume was native, clear YL ID as “Radio Educación” at 0359 and into Spanish talk. The music was rather haunting. Almost a Mid-Eastern sound to it, but clearly not that! After the ToH into OM ‘traditional’ vocal chanting/moaning but if they described what it was beforehand, I missed it. Not nearly as pleasant as the flute music! 3+4443 with my local noise being the only real issue, but occasional deep fades challenging things. 0345-0415 18/Sept SDRplay +SDRuno +ANC-4 +Randomwire (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, WOR iog via DXLD) ** MEXICO [and non]. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- including DTV = TDT The pirate is coming! The pirate is coming! Juárez is getting a 101.3 soon, known as "La Voz 101.3". One problem: they don't have a concession! This station appears to be Christian. They chose their frequency well — a Class A legally can fit here. The process that identified the second-wave migration frequencies found three open spots in Juárez: 98.7, 101.3, and 107.9, all Class A. None were put in migration, because Juárez has two reserved band FMs and reciprocity eats both the allotments up. 98.7 is also assigned on condition of restricted parameters, as it is short-spaced to Class C station KSNM Truth or Consequences. If Juárez is to get a new FM that isn't community, it will be by rimshotting from the south. The Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez had the right idea in its 2010 permit application — specify Práxedis Guerrero. (The FCC Query indicates that community has a 90.1 B1 allotment. This can't be done in center-city Juárez because of protection to KRWG 90.7 in Las Cruces — it falls 21 km short. I believe Ciudad Guerrero is considered the same locality, but the specification makes me suspect this would be the frequency for UACJ's FM.) (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, Sept 18, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Another way to view the data I got from the IFT over the weekend is to see how old the permit applications on file are: [histogram] http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?9113-OPMA-is-changing&p=46752#post46752 The tail is long. The oldest application was filed by Jaime Azcárraga Romandia at León, Guanajuato, on April 29, 2000. When this application was filed, Ernesto Zedillo was president; Vicente Fox was running to be president; the Milenio newspaper was nearly five months old, having (true to its name) been printed for the first time on January 1; and the UNAM strike that had begun a year earlier had just been broken on April 23. Also filed in 2000 and still unresolved are a trio of applications by Impulsora Pro Cultura y Salud del Estado de Chiapas, A.C., for Comitán, Tapachula and Tonalá; these came to the SCT on October 13. There are 33 pending applications on file from between 2000 and 2008, but 39 from 2009 and 2010 combined. The pace quickened; in 2013, Cofetel and the IFT (established on September 10) received more applications, 77 of them still unresolved. One in three pending applications from this set were filed in 2013. It's worth noting that the 2014 data only covers the period through to August 14. The last permit application ever was filed on August 11, 2014, by Pablo Antonio Molina Mora for a station at Anenecuilco, Morelos. On August 14, the Ley Federal de Telecomunicaciones y Radiodifusión officially came into effect. There were 37 applications in the first seven and a half months of 2014; sustained over a full year, there would have been 60 applications in the year. With the LFTR in effect, a five-month interregnum began between the permit era and the first PABF (2015). Among the leaders in outstanding applications are: Fundación de la Radio Cultural, A.C. - 8 Música de mis Recuerdos, A.C. - 7 Fundación Ecoforestal, A.C. - 6 Impulso a la Música Mexicana, A.C. - 6 Promoción y Fomento Cultural, A.C. - 6 TV Turismo y Salud, A.C. - 6 (2 FM, 4 TDT) Gobierno del Estado de Nuevo León - 5 Radio y Televisión de Hidalgo - 5 (all TDT) Valores y Tradiciones de mi Tierra, A.C. - 5 I have not discussed the RTH ones in much detail. While the Hidalgo state network once did have five more transmitters, two of the applications do not correspond to those lost transmitters. Three would be for restoration of service to Molango de Escamilla, Tenango de Doria, and Zacualtipán de Ángeles. But where Atotonilco El Grande and Tizayuca are specified now, the other two lost RTH stations were at Atotonilco de Tula and Pisaflores. It's worth noting that the two Atotonilcos are not the same town; they are 66 km apart. Pisaflores is not near Tizayuca, either (Raymie, Sept 18, ibid.) Coverage Spotlight: XHZA-FM While going through State of Mexico radio stations, I ran across something I didn't expect for an Edomex FM: [map with two pins] http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?9113-OPMA-is-changing&p=46755#post46755 That's a shadow! The main transmitter for XHZA is in Toluca. It's a 63.14 kW ERP Class C1 (HAAT of 39.77 meters). The shadow is in Atlacomulco, a Class A pumping out 200 watts from a high point east of the city (98.03 m HAAT), which seems to be at about 19°47'23.2"N 99°50'48.9"W (unfortunately I don't see a tower or site). The shadow covers Atlacomulco and points south to about Ixtlahuaca de Rayón, which is on the fringe of the Toluca transmitter's coverage. This must be fairly new (Raymie, Sept 19, ibid.) XHPBLM-TDT entered formal program service this morning, https://elrio.mx/canal-44-la-televisora-de-la-udeg-inicia-transmisiones-desde-lagos-de-moreno/ completing (for the moment) the Universidad de Guadalajara's television network. The reason I say for the moment is because their Puerto Vallarta dreams are still alive, and they want to get on the air early in 2019. The main problem should be obvious: the concession still has not been approved. For the first time, there's also discussion of XHUDG's two approved shadows, for Tlajomulco and Chapala. The shadows, which will fill a service gap of some 400,000 people, are expected to be in service in early 2019. The repeaters were first discovered here when the INE put up a list of all television shadows, which included these, but this is the first time the university has mentioned them. They are allotted from the start for channel 27, XHUDG's post-repack channel. ——— XEZT looks to be finally headed somewhere, and it doesn't look like it's another grupera format. With Ke Buena blocked in Puebla by XHEPA-FM, XEZT looks like it's going romantic, and smart money would have it adopting the new Vox format introduced earlier this year at XHOD-FM San Luis Potosí. That format is a Televisa Radio development. New purple and pink branding collateral has been introduced, and the station's social posts mention groups that definitely aren't grupera — and mostly aren't current. ——— The ORC reported this, and now their website has a callsign to match. One of the community station association's members, Sueños de Vida Xalatlaquense, A.C., was greenlit in an as yet unpublished IFT meeting for its community station in Xalatlaco, State of Mexico. The ORC site now lists XHSCBU-FM 106.7 for this station, the first local service in this town of 26,000 on the southeast edges of the Toluca metropolitan area. 106.7 is listed in the 2WM spectrum analysis for Toluca as not being available due to protection for first-adjacent XHDFM Mexico City. However, Xalatlaco is shielded from Mexico City by the mountains to the southwest of the capital. The frequency has not been used in the State of Mexico, though XHVAB-FM Valle de Bravo, a Class A allotment, was assigned as one of the ghost stations of 2000 (it is one of the ghost stations in the reserved band and actually did not appear in the spectrum analysis, though XHBRA-FM 105.3 did). Edit: The meeting is now up! It was awarded on September 5, when the IFT also... -Approved the transfer of XHZL-FM Xalapa Ver. to Radiodifusoras Capital, S.A. de C.V., as Capital Media has done a number of pro forma reorganizations of late. -Approved the transfer of XHBM-FM San Luis Potosí to Centro de Telecomunicaciones y Publicidad de México, S.A. de C.V. — also a pro forma reorganization. -Cleared the Nuevo León state TV network for what appears to be a common concession reorganization. New stations: Abel Santiago Miguel — Asunción Nochixtlán, Oax. (social) Juntos por Loma Bonita, A.C. —*Loma Bonita, Oax. (social) Sueños de Vida Xalatlaquense, A.C. — Xalatlaco, Mex. (community) ??? — El Arenal, Jalisco (social; PABF 2017 MX group, four applicants) It looks like Juntos por Loma Bonita is going to be Radio Bendición, https://www.facebook.com/RB-1071-Fm-640836882673713/ currently on 107.1 (it will get a new frequency as this is not a community station). This is the only reference to a group by that name I can find. https://twitter.com/fm_balance/status/1028394562245414913 Last edited by Raymie; 09-19-2018 at 07:22 PM (Raymie, Sept 19, ibid.) I finally found a list of the seven stations in that mysterious Oaxaca community radio group, "Frecuencias Mexicanas de Radios Sociales" (FM Radios). The article I had said that the FM Radios members are at Oaxaca, Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz, Ejutla de Crespo, Santa María Huatulco, Chalcatongo de Hidalgo, Santiago Juxtlahuaca and Santa María Asunción Tlaxiaco. I hazarded a guess that these were XHEDI, XHDCA, XHEJU, XHHDH, XHÑUC, XHVMT and XHTRO. Guess what. That's who they are! More importantly, the list I had also showed names, which I've never had for some of these stations. XHEDI is "Stereo Uno". My guess had been a station known as La Número Uno on the frequency, but they just moved to 93.1 this month. Unfortunately, this one seems to be not on the air at this time. XHHDH is "Radio Mar". They are now confirmed operating. https://www.facebook.com/RadioMarHuatulco/ XHÑUC is "La Favorita". Guess what, they're on social media too! https://www.facebook.com/lafavorita.favorita.14?fref=search XHEJU and XHDCA moved to their assigned frequencies this year, leaving XHTRO to do the same. There's also no sign of XHVMT on social media on its new frequency —*or on its old 100.3 when it was "La Nueva" (Raymie, Sept 20, ibid.) Yesterday, the Tabasco attorney general's office offered a press conference on the arrest http://www.diariodetabasco.mx/tabasco/2018/09/20/juan-n-autor-material-del-asesinato-huerta-valenzuela-pernas/ of the man they believe killed journalist and newly minted radio station owner Juan Carlos Huerta in May, but the investigation continues as officials look for a potential mastermind. Juan Miguel "N" (whose last name is being withheld as is standard), was arrested on June 5 along with three other men and a woman who were being arrested for car thefts and robbing a convenience store located in Villahermosa. During that investigation, his accomplices revealed that he had likely killed Huerta. He had actually told them that on May 15, the day Huerta was killed, he had shot at a man driving a gray BMW, similar to the vehicle Huerta had. On Wednesday, a witness to the murder identified Juan as having carried out the murder, though it appears that he may not have been the mastermind behind the crime. Two days prior to murdering Huerta, Juan and his accomplices had robbed a convenience store in Nacajuca, at which time they stole the Mazda that would be used as his getaway vehicle after the murder and later be found burned on a ranch on the outskirts of town. He was arrested wearing the same clothing that he had on when he took the vehicle that day. However, organized crime and journalism have been ruled out as motives for the attack, according to authorities. http://www.diariodetabasco.mx/tabasco/2018/09/21/presentan-a-presunto-homicida-huerta/ (Raymie, Sept 21, ibid.) [non] Quote Originally Posted by Trip View Post ``This is an interesting anomaly about how analog licensing was done in the US. In analog, although we thought of ERP in kW most frequently, the FCC actually licensed stations in dBk, which is number of dB above 1 kW, and to the nearest tenth of a dB. So, to use a simple example, a UHF station at 1000 kW would be licensed for 30 dBk. In the case of high-VHF, it turns out that 316 kW is 25 dBk (or, to be exact, 24.99687... dBk). The 100 kW low-VHF limit, not surprisingly, was 20 dBk. Mexico probably did not license stations in that way, so it makes sense that they rounded to the neater-looking 325 kW. (Of course, the difference turns out to be about 0.12 dB, so imperceptible as a general matter.)`` For what little it's worth, Canada did analog TV the same way Mexico did -- the high-VHF ERP limit was 325kW, not 25dBk. This resulted in a couple of ads in the trade magazines listing CKLW-TV Windsor as "the most powerful TV station in Detroit" (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, Sept 20, ibid.) It's a good morning to dissect a tech sheet! Just one, but it's one of interest around here. It's the tech sheet for XHINFO-FM! http://rpc.ift.org.mx/rpc/pdfs/36276_180830131959_629.pdf XHINFO does indeed broadcast from the Atlazolpa site mentioned. What we didn't know were two things: the antenna height is 88 meters, not 100, giving it a HAAT of 50 m; and the ERP is 2,000 watts. There's also one detail of interest: the timeline. The Mexico Beat first that revealed the name of Aire Libre came on April 24. At that time, the final technical parameters for XHINFO had not even been filed with the IFT. That came on May 8. There seems to have been some sort of issue with the initial technical parameters proposed, reading closely. The IFT gave Aire Libre the green light in a letter dated June 21, and they began testing August 9. [tagline:] Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa (Raymie, Sept 22, ibid.) ** MONGOLIA. 7260, Mongolian Radio 3 (presumed), 0954-1010, Sept 20. Stronger than weak China QRM; non-stop pop songs in English (Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood - "Summer Wine," etc.); no break at ToH (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 5985, Myanmar Radio, 1215-1228, Sept 17. The Monday edition of "Say It In English" language lesson; "Tom" asks for directions ("Excuse me. Can you tell where the post office is?", "Excused me. Can you tell me where the cinema is?", "Excuse me. Can you tell me where the Royal Hotel is?", etc.) (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) ** NEPAL. [A-DX] Nepal zurück auf Kurzwelle https://www.radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/medienmagazin/radio_news/beitraege/2018/nepal.html (Reinhold Schuttkowski via A-DX via SW Bulletin Sept 23 via DXLD) [Re 18-38:] Nepal on 5005 kHz. --- Sept 18, no carrier detected on 5005 kHz, 1100+ UT, here in California. Erratic testing? My non-reception today confirmed via WRTH Facebook, by Pradip Kundu (India). Clearly Nepal was off the air 1100+. via WRTH Facebook: Mauno Ritola: ``They [Nepal] closed earlier today, I think after 1030`` (Ron Howard, CA, Sept 18, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) ** NEWFOUNDLAND. 2598-USB, VON St. John's Newfoundland 0017 to 0020 with om weather, a UTILITY alas good indication of working noise reducing antenna built by Russel Scotka in 1990, 22 September (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, Florida, 746Pro - NRD 525, 60 meter dipole and noise reducing antenna, NASWA yg via DXLD) There is a net of NL stations on 2598, so which one heard depends on the time. Canadian Coast Guard website has detailed schedules. 2598 (and 2749-USB from Nova Scotia area) are regulars here once we get further into fall/winter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. Anyone have any ideas if/when RNZI will return with DRM? 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, Sept 23, WOR iog via DXLD) RNZI sked has resumed DRM for some time, but at inopportune times for propagation over here. Currently shows: 1651 - 1750 6115 DRM Cooks, Samoa, Tonga Sun - Fri 1751 - 1850 7285 DRM Cooks, Samoa, Tonga Sun - Fri 1851 - 1950 9760 DRM Cooks, Samoa, Tonga Sun - Fri 1951 - 2050 11690 DRM Cooks, Samoa, Tonga Sun - Fri I also heard DRM noise test on 9760 at much different daypart during maintenance period. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Thanks for the info on RNZI DRM. Wow, hardly any left anymore. I used to enjoy the high fidelity on 13, 15 and 17 MHz in DRM mode in our evenings (Walt, ibid.) ** NIGERIA. NIGÉRIA, 9690. Set 18, 2018. 1941-1955, Voice of Nigeria, Abuja-NIG, em Fulfulde. Locutores falam sobre coisas da Nigéria; 1945 Breve música, ID; 1946 Locutor em longa conversação com uma senhora nigeriana, alguns risos; 1959 IS. VON chegando com boa recepção em Cabedelo, 45444. 9690. Set 18, 2018. 2000-2010, Voice of Nigeria, Abuja-NIG, em Hauçá. IS, ID. Locutor apresenta o noticiário; 2006 ID e continuam as notícias. Emissora com boa recepção em minha cidade, 45444 (José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX) - PR7036SWL (SWARL), Cabedelo-Paraiba, Brasil (UTC-3), Receptor: Sony SW100 & Tecsun S-2000, WOR iog via DXLD) ** NIGERIA [non]. 12050, ASCENSION ISLAND, Radio Ndarason Internationale (or still called Dandal Kura Radio International?), in Kanuri 09.09.2018 1821-1918 man talk over African instrumental music, man talk with some brief sound breaks, other man talk with final same brief sound break, two afropop songs, man announcement, music pause at 1830, woman talk (poss. news with correspondent talk, external service, music breaks and poss. ID mention International only), till 1839, afropop song, women choral chant with percussions sound, music pause, men talk with unclear IDs (in clear caught only "Radio International" ), woman talk, and music breaks, (till 1857), women choral chant with percussions sound, men/women chatting, with some mentioning of Radio International, and instrumental music pauses, heard in LSB and USB, lite fast QSB in increasing two times, for about 1 minute each ones, good / fair at times; this day, program format is different from my previous listening on August 21st on same frequency; more news about this Radio on in French and English (history etc.) (Gianni Serra - Roma-Italy, Email: gianni24.dx@gmail.com Equipment: JRC NRD 525 receiver; Alpha Delta DX-SWL Sloper-S antenna; RG 8 mini coaxial cable; JPS NIR 12 Noise & Interference Reducer-Dual DSP outboard audio filter; JRC NVA 319 external loudspeaker unit; Sony MDR-101 stereo headphones; WOR iog via DXLD) Dandal Kura Radio International via Woofferton on Sept 18 0700-0800 13810 WOF 250 kW / 165 deg to WeAf Kanuri, fair, instead of: Radio Ndarason International via Woofferton on Sept 15 0700-0800 13810 WOF 250 kW / 165 deg to WeAf Kanuri http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/dandal-kura-radio-international-via.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dandal Kura Radio Int via Issoudun & Woofferton, Sept 21: 0600-0700 11910 ISS 100 kW / 167 deg to CeAf Kanuri, very good signal 0700-0800 13810 WOF 250 kW / 165 deg to WeAf Kanuri, fair/good signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/dandal-kura-radio-international-via_21.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 20-21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. SECRETLAND, Radio Nigeria Hausa Sce/Radio of Truth via SPL Secretbrod, Sept 23 1800-1900 15110 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg Eng/Hau Radio Na Gaskiya, weak/fair: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/radio-nigeria-hausa-sceradio-of-truth_23.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6965-USB, Sept 23 at 0031, old-style love songs at S9 including ``With a Song in My Heart``, 0033 ``I Feel a Song Coming On``, 0039 Wolverine Radio ID. Evidently tonight`s theme is the very word Song in titles. It was not on at first bandscan circa 0020. Many more logs here including playlist; on the air from 0029 to 0133: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,46187.0.html Over time it seems that Wolverine has shown up on just about every 5- kHz increment in the Pirate Band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 7470, UNITED STATES (religious pirate), R. YHWH at 0235. He's back. Once again, it's Yahweh or the highway! Josiah monologue/lecture on Ezekiel, in progress at tune-in. Good signal, fully lighting the green tuning eye on the SW-2000629 on peaks. Appeared to have transmitter problems at 0303. Sep. 18 7470, UNITED STATES (religious pirate), R YHWH in progress at tune-in, 0250. Usual canned lecture, and nothing special for the Day of Atonement. Near armchair reception, but transmitter probs again and weak 0330 and 0355. Recheck after 0400, was gone. Sept 19 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; RS SW-2000629, & ATS-909X wirh various outdoor wires. 73 and Good Listening..! : D ! rb, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11490-AM, Sept 23 at 1810, good thing my routine bandscan slipped below 11500, for there is Josiah the YHWH guy with usual rants, anti-Catholic at the moment; S7 fading to S5 but rather undermodulated. Gone at my next check 1846. Generally very poor propagation on bands above 12 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No copy here at 1839z, perhaps it is already QRT? I will have to check this frequency other afternoons to see if it is another scheduled transmission (Chris Smolinski, Black Cat Systems, Westminster, MD USA http://www.blackcatsystems.com WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) He went off at 1827 UT. Weak carrier here with only bits of audio. 73, (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan USA, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 800, KQCV, Oklahoma City, Sept/17/18 0659 EDT, English, GOOD Under CKLW - Windsor. Female with Weather Report. ID as “BOTT RADIO Network”. Into Relig Pgm called “Walk in the Word”. RELOG 2.5/1 kW 1210, KGYN, Guymon, Sept/11/18, 0659 EDT [1059 UT], English, GOOD Over WPHT - Philadelphia. ID by Male DJ as “The Big Talker - KGYN-AM”. Ads For Western Oklahoma Businesses. RELOG 10 kW. RECEIVER is ELAD FDM-S2 SDR, ANTENNA is WELLBROOK ALA-1530 LNP Imperium Loop. 73 ROB VA3SW (Robert Ross, London, Ontario CANADA, NRC-AM gg via DXLD) Neither should be heard so well (or at all) in Ontario. Out of whack antennas, deliberately or necessarily (gh, OK, DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. 1230, WBBZ, Ponca City – Format to TLK/AC (ex-NWS/TLK/SPT); slogan to “Sunny 1230,” networks to C/Ok/Oa/P (Wayne Heinen, AM LOG update, NRC DX News Oct 1, published Sept 22, via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. Application for STA filed: 1240, KOKL, Okmulgee – Applies for STA, reduced power (using U1 333/333); faulty insulators on the tower preventing operation at full power (David Yocis, AM Switch, NRC DX News Oct 1, published Sept 22, via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA [non]. Broad Spectrum Radio, Sept 15: http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2018-09-15.htm#BSR_18v2 (roger, Sept 23, ibid.) Text and visual details of Broad Spectrum Radio, also on same page SW Radiogram, IBC, KBC (gh, DXLD) see also BULGARIA; USA ** OKLAHOMA. Ha Ha --- From AllAccess: "Requesting Silent STAs were ... FAMILY STATIONS, INC. (K202BY/ENID, OK, transmitter failure)" Isn't this the one that's been silent/OC for years? Looks like someone actually finally monitored! -- (GREG HARDISON, CA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Goes and comes; only week/months this time: yes, right now still on with dead air. The 88.3 transmitter itself is not what failed; what do they know? (Glenn to Greg, 0315 UT Sept 19 via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN [non]. Punjab --- Government plans FM channel to counter Radio Pakistan --- Transmission will also be received in Lahore and other cities https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/govt-plans-fm-channel-to-counter-radio-pakistan/655255.html The AIR’s FM transmitter tower near Attari border. [caption] GS Paul Tribune News Service Amritsar, September 18 With a view to reach out to a wider Punjabi diaspora and counter neighbouring Pakistan’s radio penetration in its territory, India has announced to launch an exclusive radio service for the border belt. Named “Des Punjab”, this FM radio channel will send out a message of cultural oneness of Punjab across the border. A 1,000-ft high, 20-KW high power relay transmitter tower was set up at Gharinda, 5 km from the Attari-Wagah border. Officials of AIR confirmed that the FM transmitter at Gharinda had an expected coverage of about 80-km radius and the transmission would be received in Sialkot, Gujranwala and Lahore, too, where people are predominantly Punjabi-speaking. The trial run has begun on 103.6 MHz and the service is going to be formally started on September 24 by the Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment in India. Officials said the radio service would be operational between 6 am and 12 midnight in Punjabi and Urdu language. Sources said it would relay entertainment programmes on music, art, heritage and religious activities in addition to programmes highlighting India’s vision on sensitive issues like situation in Punjab and Kashmir in reply to Pakistan’s false propaganda, resulting in confusion across the border. Similar initiatives will be taken in other regions bordering Pakistan. A total of 88 transmitters are proposed to be installed at strategic locations. Local resident Sandeep Kumar received official information through RTI that the proposal was to set up a 10-KW FM station in Green Ridge (Uri sector), Himbotinga (Kargil), Patnitop, Udhampur, Naushera, and replacement in Srinagar, Jammu, Bhadarwah (6 KW) and Chauntan Hill (20KW) in Rajasthan. At present, a 20-kW FM transmitter installed in the Punjab border district of Fazilka on 100.8 MHz is already operational through Jalandhar centre, but it misses its target, apparently due to its limitation to reach across the border clearly. Des Punjab for border belt Named Des Punjab, this FM radio channel will send out a message of cultural oneness of Punjab across the border. This channel will be an answer to Radio Pakistan for its ‘Punjabi Darbar’ programme, which raises anti-India propaganda and is received in the Indian territory too. The project has been conceived by All India Radio (AIR) and Prasar Bharati Corporation of India under the Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. According with an email received today from Wantok Radio Light, they will be on air again on October 6: We have been off for a while but will resume our shortwave broadcast on October 6, 2018. Please tune in after October 6 to pick up Wantok Radio light on 7325 kHz. We would appreciate your confirmation on or after October 6, 2018. Thank you and blessings to you and family. Billy Yasi, General Manager, Wantok Radio Light 93.9FM in Port Moresby and parts of Central Province 105.9FM rest of the country 7325 kHz on the Shortwave band Internet livestreaming: http://www.wantokradio.org https://wantokradio.org/ Address Papua New Guinea Christian Broadcasting Network P. O. Box 1273, Port Moresby, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea. Email: wantok@wantokradio.org (via Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Sept 18, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) During all their time off did they ever turn on a radio to check what else was on 7325? to maybe come back on a better frequency? Currently CRI for 11 hours a day; India until 0930, per NDXC (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sept 18 - Doing a pre-activation check for Wantok Radio Light (WRL). Yes, as usual CRI came on suddenly at *0957 UTC, on 7325 kHz, with a very strong signal and went into Japanese. Here in California, WRL will need monitoring before 0957, which was also the case in the past. Former WRL frequency was 7324.95 kHz (Ron Howard, CA, WOR iog via (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) ** PERU. 4747.26, Perú, Radio Huanta 2000, Huanta, Ayacucho, 0015 to 0034 weak in Spanish OM, occasional brief music bridge 22 September. 4955, tentative. Perú, Radio Cultural Amauta, Huanta, 0025 to 0040 weak signal fading, with Spanish OM chat 22 September (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, Florida, 746Pro - NRD 525, 60 meter dipole and noise reducing antenna, NASWA yg via DXLD) ** PERU. 5025. R. QUILLABAMBA. Septiembre 17. 0048-0059 UT. Transmisión de Misa Católica. SINPO: 44444 con interferencia de R. Rebelde (Claudio Galaz; Receptor: Tecsun PL-660; Antena: Hilo largo de 30 metros; Lugar de escucha: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile, HCDX via DXLD) ** PUERTO RICO [and non]. Section 312(g) of the Communications Act (as amended in 1996) provides that the FCC shall cancel the licenses of stations that have been silent for a full year, with limited exceptions to promote “equity and fairness.” On August 30, the FCC published a notice stating that it would forgo cancelling the licenses of stations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands that have been silent since September 2017 due to Hurricanes Irma and Maria, until March 9, 2019, if such stations file applications for a “silent STA.” Some stations that have been silent all this time (such as WDHP 1620 above) are just filing their official notifications now (David Yocis, AM Switch, NRC DX News Oct 1, published Sept 22, via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. Radio Romania Int. Russian 0430-0500 UT --- Since 15-Sep-2018, the Russian broadcast from Radio Romania International at 0430-0500 UTC is on the following frequencies: - 7305 kHz (new), ex 7390 kHz (old) - // 9770 kHz The first frequency is scheduled in DRM; however, it is currently operating in AM due to technical difficulties with the DRM transmissions via "SNR Tiganesti E1". Full RRI schedule in printable PDF format: http://ab27.bplaced.net/rri.pdf DRM radio broadcasts on shortwave: http://ab27.bplaced.net/drm.pdf 73, (Alexander Busneag, Germany, Sept 22, WOR iog via DXLD) Despite reading Ivo Ivanov's log of Radio Romania International with Russian in DRM on new frequency of 7305 at 04:30, using Don Moman's remote receiver, all I'm getting is weak Russian in AM at this time. Presumably them. Too bad, as I'm looking for a DRM signal to compare an Elad SDR vs Perseus/DReaM but there's precious little to be found anymore. Anyone have any ideas if/when RNZI will return with DRM? 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. Frequency change of R. Romania International from Sept 15 0430-0456 NF 7305 TIG 050 kW / 037 deg to EaEu Russian DRM*, ex 7390 Parallel freq 9770 TIG 300 kW / 037 deg to EaEu Russian AM, unchanged * currently in AM mode due to technical difficulties with the DRM tx http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/frequency-change-of-radio-romania.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. Noel Bernard – a Legend of Romanian Journalism (RRI 2018-09-17 Steliu Lambru) Few names in Romanian journalism between 1945 and 1989 hold more prestige than the name Noel Bernard. Noel Bernard was born in 1925 in Bucharest. His father was Jewish and his mother was a Austrian Catholic. In 1940 he left Romania with his family to settle in Palestine. After the war, he emigrated to Britain, and then moved to the Federal Republic of Germany, where he went on to become head of the Romanian service with Radio Free Europe. He is seen as an exemplary journalist thanks to his balanced, rigorous, and persevering approach to the realities of communist Romania, up until 1981, the day he passed away at 56. His death came as a shock to his colleagues, friends, and listeners. Essayist Virgil Ierunca wrote a memorable eulogy, which he read on the air at Radio Free Europe, a recording that Radio Romania's Center for Oral History keeps in its archives Virgil Ierunca: “Noel Bernard's biography has the luminous simplicity of a destiny. He was born and died in the studios of Radio Free Europe. Because the imaginary space of the studio comprised the real Romania in which Noel Bernard, this tempered agnostic, went into as into a religion. A strange religion with millions of invisible faithful, who were waiting for his words as if for redemption, in a country locked in by history and misfortune. The paradox is that Noel Bernard never preached. However, his country waited for his words with an eagerness that was beyond the cold tonality of communication. There is a mystery of vocation. Noel Bernard's vocation was that of opposing lies as noise with truth as an essential whisper. To whisper essential truths means taking the simplest of words and arranging them such that each of them matches the listener's heart beat. This does not mean baffling the truth, but investing the word with that secret dimension that grants truth itself weight, a vocational necessity, a worthy rooting. All this without vanity.” Noel Bernard knew how to do quality journalism out of love of his profession, which meant not only the wish to be as good as he could, but to put first the principles that everyone learns in childhood: the search for the truth, respect, humanism. Virgil Ierunca: “Whoever listened to Noel Bernard – and I don't think there is anyone who hasn't – could not forget his voice. A voice whose transparency blended determined speech, a vigor of ideas, respect for facts. However, it wasn't missing fruitful irony, or a sense of wonderment, but these rhetorical tools never strayed from the elegant dignity of speech. Noel Bernard was more than a good journalist. There may have been some who were not receptive to this passion for looking at reality. These we can answer with the words of the dispassionate Paul Valery: 'Truth can only be obtained by passion." In the years of the communist dictatorship, which got bleaker and bleaker as it was nearing its end, Radio Free Europe was not only a vital means of information, but outright social medicine, in great part due to Noel Bernard. Virgil Ierunca: “We may also say that Noel Bernard's secret was that of not passionately cladding ideas and facts, which would have meant falling into ideology, but of interrogating truths passionately. Noel Bernard was not an ideologue, but a conscience that embodied the thirst for justice and truth on the part of Romanians everywhere. Thanks to him, Radio Free Europe became a soapbox for human rights where people brought their grievances to be heard high above, where no complaint is heard. The historical grievances of the miners in Jiu Valley reached Radio Free Europe and its director too. No one can forget that during the earthquake Romanians endured suffering and disaster easier thanks to Noel Bernard, who turned Radio Free Europe into an open studio for calls for help.” Upon Noel Bernard's death, the emotional and hopeful words uttered by his friend Virgil Ierunca showed what his departure left behind for each of us: “If, as they say, intelligence is only organized memory, Noel Bernard spent his intelligence through an unimaginable squandering of lucidity, effort, understanding, and action. He was the first to arrive at his workshop, and the last to leave. All that could be of interest for Romania was heard, weighed, interpreted, in order to be launched on the air in the country without antennas, in the systematically misinformed country. For Noel Bernard, the microphone became a living tool of his intelligence, and of everyone's memory. The secret of death strives to turn now this precious presence into a frightful absence. Absence must remain without reason in this 11th hour, the hour of parting ways with our squandering friend. This is Radio Free Europe, without Noel Bernard, as if tears could wash away the mourning, yours and ours, the mourning of the radio waves.” Radio Free Europe was never the same after Noel Bernard's death, but he continued to inspire those he left behind to continue what he started. Time proved them right. (Radio Romania International - Noel Bernard – a Legend of Romanian Journalism http://rri.ro/en_gb/noel_bernard_a_legend_of_romanian_journalism-2586458 (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener 23 Sept 2018, WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) obit ** SAAR. Heusweiler MW masts demolished The MW masts at Heusweiler, Germany, once used on 1422 kHz with 1200 kilowatts were demolished yesterday. This report from mediamagazine.nl (translated from Dutch) includes link to film of the demolition: Germany: Radio masts for medium wave in Heusweiler dismantled On Friday evening the transmission masts for the medium wave were dismantled in the German Heusweiler. The masts were blown up around 7:30 PM. Medium wave The transmission masts in Heusweiler (Saarland) were put into operation in 1935. The Europawelle Saar program was broadcast for a large number of years via this channel at 1422 kHz. By using a very large capacity of up to 1200 kilowatts, the broadcasts of this programme could be heard in large parts of Europe. Also in the former East Germany the channel was still to receive and was listened to a lot. From 1994 up to and including 2015, the national programme Deutschlandfunk was broadcast via this channel. From 2015, the broadcasts were stopped via the medium wave. Digital Radio is increasingly being listened to digitally and as a result it was no longer profitable to broadcast via the medium wave. The medium wave is no longer broadcast in Germany. Incidentally, there are still broadcasts on the long-wave from Germany. The French commercial radio station Europe 1 broadcasts at 183 kHz from Germany. Dismantled The "unemployed" radio masts were dismantled on Friday evening. Around 19.30 hours the connectors of the guy wires, which are connected to the transmitter mast, were blown up and the two transmitter 120 metre masts were destroyed. A small auxiliary mast in the neighbourhood was also blown up. In order to ensure that the dismantling is carried out safely, an adjacent highway was closed for a few hours. Germany The transmitter masts in Heusweiler were one of the last large masts that were used for medium wave transmissions and had not yet been dismantled. Earlier this year, radio masts were dismantled in Aholming, Donebach, Tannfeld and Nordkirchen. https://mediamagazine.nl/duitsland-zendmasten-voor-middengolf-in-heusweiler-ontmanteld/ Direct link to film on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=70&v=G1udlYq1SM0 (via Alan Pennington, Sept 22, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. In previous report I neglected to mention the center frequency, altho it would have been obvious: 15376 & 15384, Sept 17 at 1340, BSKSA Holy Qur`an is flanked by noisy spurs plus and minus approx. 4 kHz from 15380. Maybe related to the pitch of the singing? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND [and non]. Illegal BC on the 40 m-band. Radio Hargeisa (Somaliland) was still on air on 7120 kHz over 3 weeks, same as Radio Ethiopia(*) on 7140 kHz. The last August-week no transmissions were audible. We did not miss them (IARU bandwatch via BC-DX 19 Sept via DXLD) See PUBLICATIONS ** SOUTH AFRICA. ANALYSIS --- SABC job cuts: Lest we forget - the ANC fiddled while Hlaudi was burning the national broadcaster By Marianne Thamm o 19 September 2018 https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-09-19-sabc-job-cuts-lest-we-forget-the-anc-fiddled-while-hlaudi-was-burning-the-national-broadcaster/ Photo by Steven Lang The insistence by ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule as well as Minister of Communications, Nomvula Mokonyane, that the financially hobbled SABC hold back on job cuts is beyond satire. Listen to this article [10:15; [synthyl, skips some punxuation pauses] IFRAME: https://spkt.io/a/112825 "All great events and personalities in world history reappear... The first time as tragedy, the second as farce." - Karl Marx For around two decades the governing party, through various ministers of communications, non-existent parliamentary oversight and a board stacked with sweetheart chairs and members, aided and abetted gross mismanagement and the flouting of laws of good governance at the public broadcaster. The workers have the ANC to blame for SABC's financial trouble and not the board. It was the ANC who birthed and raised, at the great teat of patronage, former disgraced SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng. King Hlaudi, Hurricane Hlaudi, or just Hloudi, the self-proclaimed intellectual who broke an already badly limping SABC, is the love child of former ministers of communications Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, Dina Pule and Faith Muthambi along with former president Jacob Zuma and then Free State ANC chair, later premier and now ANC Secretary-General, Ace Magashule. In other words, the usual suspects. Various hand-picked board chairs too, including Motsoeneng's most vocal groupie, Ellen Tshabalala (chair from 2013 to 2015 and who, it was later found, had also faked her qualifications), Ben Ngubane (January 2010 to March 2013), and Mbulaheni Maguvhe (2015-2017) all colluded to entrench and encourage Motsoeneng's unbridled abuse of power at the expense of the public purse. Even after former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela's stinging recommendations in her 2014 report, When Governance and Ethics Fail, which exposed systemic corporate governance failures at the SABC under Motsoeneng's watch, he was still appointed to the top job. The Farce About Ace (with a nod to Pieter-Dirk Uys) is not only that he is the ANC's Secretary-General who attends unscheduled meetings at the Maharani Hotel, but also that he was first out of the blocks to condemn the SABC board announcement that the public broadcaster needed to cut its bloated R3.1-billion per annum wage bill after reported losses of R622-million at the end of this financial year. The public broadcaster's debt clocks in at R1.3-billion. In August the SABC board informed Parliament's communications committee that as at 15 August' the broadcaster owed its creditors R694-million, with further accruals of R475-million -- with only R26-million in the bank at the end of that month. It was in the Free State that Motsoeneng was to launch his career, eventually moving from stringer in the old Qwa Qwa to Bloemfontein before capturing the public broadcaster as CEO, summarily firing staff, paying himself a bonus of R11-million in 2016, and insisting on "sunshine journalism", all while systematically mismanaging the entity and causing chaos in his wake. Motsoeneng got away with it also because of non-existent parliamentary and regulatory oversight, a situation the South African Editor's Forum (SANEF) has described as "a dark period". Nothing, it seems, stood in the path the ANC had paved for Motsoeneng. Until it all imploded as later revealed to audible gasps at Parliament's ad hoc committee of inquiry into the SABC board and instituted in November 2016. Magashule, after the announcement of proposed staff cuts, issued a public statement threatening the new board, saying that "the ANC has taken a decision and I am talking on behalf of the President that we must not allow any retrenchments even in our SoEs same with the SABC.. we should not allow people to be retrenched". Old habits, particularly in the ANC, die hard, however, especially after years of growing accustomed to treating SoEs as party feeding troughs. The SABC board hit back immediately, informing Magashule that it noted "with concern" the SG and the ANC's statement but gently pointing out that the Board, in case Magashule or the ANC might not be aware, had executive power in terms of section 13(11) of the Broadcasting Act, 1999 to "control the affairs of the Corporation". "This includes how the SABC operates the business of the public broadcaster and conducts labour relations with its employees," said SABC spokesperson Neo Modumo. Meanwhile, the South African Editor's Forum also hit back in a statement saying the "cruelty" of the situation is that workers would be at the receiving end of years of leadership abuse and negligence. The new SABC board quickly revealed its independence, refusing to be intimidated or played by politicians, as early as in January 2018 when it was revealed by Daily Maverick that GCIS, through Minister of Social Development Bathabile Dlaimini's spokesperson, Lumka Oliphant, had paid the SABC R149,000 for an "interview" with the then minister on Anele Mdoda's SABC3 show Real Talk with Anele. Immediately afterwards the SABC board issued a statement slamming the deal and saying that charging for interviews was "a breach of organisation practice". "We do not solicit sponsorships for programmes where it is part of a marketing campaign to communicate a departmental or client programmes or policies," the SABC said at the time. Fast forward to the current dispute: After the board had stood its ground in the face of Magashule's statement, Communications Minister Nomvula Mokonyane weighed in, saying the SABC had "ignored the department's advice despite several meetings". "As the shareholder, it is our considered view that any retrenchment exercise must be a last resort and an integral part of a holistic, well formulated and broadly canvassed turn-around plan aimed at steering the SABC towards future financial sustainability," Mokonyane said in a statement. She expressed concern that the SABC's turn-around strategy - including proposed plans to shut down offices in regions and retrenchments - lacked detail with regard to how else it would raise cash and cut costs. "The SABC is a national asset and as a public broadcaster its well-being is not the exclusive domain of the board and its management, but that of all stakeholders with an interest in its sustainability," she said. William Bird, director of the Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), said the board was correct to push back against Magashule and the ANC's statement and that the minister's response could be viewed as a backlash against the Board's standing its ground. MMA and the Support Public Broadcasting Coalition (SOS) issued a statement on Tuesday noting "with alarm" Mokonyane's statement. "There are too may assertions in her statement that are simply untrue and require urgent correction," read a joint statement. While Mokonyane claimed that the SABC board had ignored the "advice and support of the shareholder", she seemed to have forgotten, said SOS and MMA, that it was Treasury who had insisted on the retrenchments as a condition of a previous bailout, which had not been complied with. "Her statement that the Board has `insisted in retrenchment as the foremost and only solution' is simply untrue. The SABC made comprehensive public proposals on its turn-around strategy which addresses a range of issues and not just staff numbers as was discussed at a Department of Communications Colloquium on Public Broadcasting just last week," said the statement. Mokonyane's statement also that the health of the SABC "is not the exclusive domain of the staff and its management" was incorrect in law as section 12 (11) of the Broadcasting Act specifically provided that the SABC board "controls the affairs of the corporation" while section 13 (13) made it clear that the SABC board was "the accounting authority of the corporation". "The statement represents a shocking and unlawful attempt to position the minister, once again, to be able to interfere in the management of the SABC's affairs under the guise of being `the shareholder representative'." Losing one's job in the middle of a punishing economic recession is a frightening and awful prospect in the country where one salary often supports several people. Fighting for the rights of the workers at the SABC who are about to be retrenched is a job for the unions not the ANC, which is fully responsible for the problem and chaos in the first place. MMA and SOS questioned the bona fides of "those who claim to care about retrenchments at this time, having stood by silently when the SABC engaged in reckless hiring and salary inflation during the term of the previous Board and management constitution fruitless and wasteful expenditure". Mokonyane's statement, said MMA and SOS, appeared to be "a cheap electioneering ploy to shield the ruling party from the consequences of its disastrous interference in the SABC Board and management matters over the past decade". Meanwhile, the findings of two inquiries instituted by the SABC, one into editorial interference and another on sexual harassment, are rumoured to be explosive and expected to result in criminal prosecutions. Announcing the two commissions, Acting CEO Nomsa Philiso said that the broadcaster was hoping, once the inquiries had been completed, that it would be able to claim that "we have cleansed the first layer of the people issues. We are under no illusions that we have a lot issues". In August 2014 the wood-panelled Court Nine at the Cape High Court was fully loaded as five silks (senior counsel) and 11 advocates packed the benches to present arguments in the Democratic Alliance's application for an urgent interim interdict to have Motsoeneng suspended as COO, a position he was appointed to in July that year. At the time Muthambi had claimed that a legal firm had cleared Motsoeneng of all wrongdoing. Motsoeneng, clearly inspired by uBaba's Stalingrad legal stalling strategy, had racked up massive legal costs defending his illegal appointment. At the weekend it was revealed that former President Zuma had allegedly pressured Gavin Watson's Bosasa - African Global Operations - to settle Motsoeneng's legal costs incurred in challenging his "wrongful dismissal". Muthambi had told Parliament in 2015 that Motsoeneng's hefty legal bill would be paid by "insurance" taken out by the broadcaster (via Mike Cooper, WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. 11924.99, Channel Africa, Meyerton in English 09.05.2018 0644-0656* man ID "this is Channel Africa", talk, drum sound, woman unclear brief announcement, music pause, man/woman for presumed news (mostly unclear), mentioning Africa many times, and some external services, music pause at 0651, woman/man announcement, music pause, other man talk, with some brief external talk services, music pause and S/off at 0656; (schedules of their programs are not clear on their site ; heard in USB and LSB better with Nir 12, fast QSB, strong rustle QRN, poor/ almost fair at times (Gianni Serra - Roma-Italy, Email: gianni24.dx@gmail.com Equipment: JRC NRD 525 receiver; Alpha Delta DX-SWL Sloper-S antenna; RG 8 mini coaxial cable; JPS NIR 12 Noise & Interference Reducer-Dual DSP outboard audio filter; JRC NVA 319 external loudspeaker unit; Sony MDR-101 stereo headphones; WOR iog via DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. SECRETLAND, Updated schedule of Brother Stair The Overcomer Ministry via SPL Secretbrod from Sept 21: 1500-1655 on 11600 SCB 100 kW / 126 deg to N/ME English 1832-1846 on 9400 SCB 100 kW / 126 deg to N/ME English 1835-2000 on 6000*SCB 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu English 1901-2000 on 9400 SCB 100 kW / 126 deg to N/ME English 2000-0300 on 5900 SCB 050 kW / 126 deg to N/ME English * co-ch same 6000 ARM 100 kW / 188 deg to CeAs G T R K Adygeya/Adygeyan Radio till 1900 Mon/Fri; from 1900 Sun http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/updated-schedule-of-brother-stair-via.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) New schedule of Brother Stair BS via World Wide Christian Radio: 0300-0500 on 3215 WCR 100 kW / 046 deg to ENAm English Mon-Fri WWCR-1 1400-1900 on 13845 WCR 100 kW / 040 deg to ENAm English Mon-Fri WWCR-3 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/new-schedule-of-brother-stair-bs-via.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN. 7205, Sudan National Broadcasting Corporation, Al-Aitahab; 21 September 2018; 0257 UT with Qur`an to wildly late time "double pips" shortly after 0301 into Arabic announcements by man; not too strong and rather weak modulation. 73, (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan USA, Airspy HF+ with SDR Console v.3 and a 45' PAR EF-SWL end-fed wire at 20', WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWITZERLAND. 4770drm, Schon seit Tagen beobachtet man auf 4770 kHz einen "DRM Service A". Laut DRMRX-Forum eine Testsendung fuer die Schweiz von Ampegon, meine Kiwi-SDR-Peilung rastet in Norditalien ein. Gegenwaertig mit 10 kHz Bandbreite on air und somit dick in zwei Utility-Signalen, sodass nicht mehr als 14 dB SNR drinnen sind. Gutes Signal dieser mysterioesen Station aktuell mit bis zu 18 dB SNR. Gesendet wird aktuell mit 5 kHz Bandbreite. Label: DRM Service A. Data: Unknown Service (5.00 kbps) (Patrick Robic-AUT, re Daniel Kaehler-D, A-DX ng Sept 5, via BC-DX 19 Sept via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) ** TAIWAN. 9410-USB+carrier, Fu Hsing BS, 0936, Sept 18. Fair, with this is pre-BBC sign on reception; certainly not on the air daily; very erratic. Taiwan's other frequency (9774) remains silent. 9725-AM, StarStar Broadcasting Station (XingXing BS), V13, 1121, Sept 20. Chinese numbers; almost fair. Also Sept 18, at 1116; almost fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** TIBET. China Tibet Broadcasting --- I received the first QSL card from China Tibet Broadcasting from China for the report of August 5, 2018. Also in a very beautifully designed envelope put a postcard with a photo of a mountain landscape. QSL can be viewed here http://freerutube.info/2018/09/22/qsl-china-tibet-broadcasting-kitay-avgust-2018-goda/ (Dmitry Elagin, Saratov, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" , Rus-DX 23 Sept via DXLD) ** TURKEY. TRT Voice of Turkey on odd frequencies 11795.7/9855.7 kHz on Sept 21, EMR 500 kW: 0830-0955 11795.7 / 105 deg WeAs Persian, instead of 11795.0 1000-1025 9855.7 / 032 deg CeAs Tatar, instead of nom. 9855: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/trt-voice-of-turkey-on-odd-frequencies_21.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 20-21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9635.68, Voice of Turkey, Emirler; 21 September 2018; 2005 fair-good level with a sequence of multilingual IDs a la Argentina; languages included English, Russian, and Farsi. 73, (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan USA, Airspy HF+ with SDR Console v.3 and a 45' PAR EF-SWL end-fed wire at 20', WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) TRT Voice of Turkey without very odd frequencies on Sept 22 1000-1055 9655.0 EMR 500 kW / 072 deg to CeAs Georg.same on Sept.21 1000-1025 9855.0 EMR 500 kW / 032 deg to CeAs Tatar, 9855.7 Sept.21 0830-0955 11795.0 EMR 500 kW / 105 deg to WeAs Farsi-11795.7 Sept.21 Other 2 frequencies in Turkish 11675 and 13635 also on nom. xxxxx.0: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/trt-voice-of-turkey-without-very-odd.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 21-22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TRT Voice of Turkey again on odd frequencies 11795.7/9855.7 on Sept 23, EMR 500 kW 0830-0955 11795.7 / 105 deg WeAs Persian, instead of 11795 Sept.22 1000-1025 9855.7 / 032 deg CeAs Tatar, instead of 9855 on Sept.22 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/voice-of-turkey-again-on-odd.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11615, Voice of Turkey at 2030 with time pips and a man with ID, sked, satellite and web platforms, and contact info and a man with program highlights and into news at 2032 and off finally at 2035 – Fair Sept 23 – An example of the Voice of Turkey asleep at the switch. This was supposed to be off when their French program (scheduled 1930 to 2030) concluded (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) TRT Voice of Turkey on very odd frequency 9655.7, Sept 24 1000-1055 on 9655.7 EMR 500 kW / 072 deg to CeAs Georgian, instead of 1000-1025 on 9855.7 EMR 500 kW / 032 deg to CeAs Tatar, September 23: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/trt-voice-of-turkey-on-very-odd_24.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 23-24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. OBITUARY --- Denis Norden Avuncular TV host and comedy scriptwriter known for his elaborate wordplay, dreadful singing and long collaboration with Frank Muir September 19 2018, 9:00am, The Times Norden in 1989 on the set of ITV’s It’ll Be Alright on the Night Nobody told a shaggy-dog story or delivered an elaborate pun with more panache than Denis Norden. Nobody, that is, unless it was Frank Muir, his partner in crime, with whom he created some of the most memorable comic scripts in British radio. Norden and Muir later became familiar faces on television, but it was as scriptwriters and panellists on the airwaves that the pair made their most indelible mark on what the BBC has traditionally called “light entertainment”, a phrase that Norden hated. “Is the opposite of light entertainment dark or heavy?” he once asked. Bouncing their gags off each other, Norden and Muir wrote more than 300 scripts for Take It From Here, the BBC’s flagship radio comedy throughout the 1950s that introduced the… Continue reading [one may register for two free articles per week] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/register/denis-norden-obituary-kkdtplvvn (via Gerald T Pollard, NC, WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) We remember him and Frank Muir from BBCWS programmes long ago, My Word and My Music, mentioned in this obit but not in much sketchier ones we searched for elsewhere. And as of Sept 23, none found on the BBC website! There is also a tendency to spell him Dennis (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) ** U K [and non]. Ascension Island: 15400, BBC World Service to Africa, programme previews and News, then into “Focus on Africa” which is not // to any of the feeds on the NAm satellite (expectedly enough). On a somewhat unrelated matter, I heard that there were plans to change the ‘theme’ music. I have listened, but if there is some sort of a new ‘replacement’ for “Lilliburlero” at the ToH, it either wasn’t aired here, or it just sounded like plain old time pips to me. I have noticed once or twice something that sort of sounded new in bumper music stuff, but it is VERY subtly different than what they were using. Is it just the ‘jumpy’ tune in the African targeted Morning Show that getting axed? If so, that is good, but all that fuss and there really isn’t a big difference! I thought maybe it was just that the NPR feeds were covering it with local announcements, but I’ve not heard it on SW or Satellite either. Has this just not happened? 3+5443+ 1857-1915 16/Sept SDRplay +SDRuno +Randomwire (Kenneth Vito Zichi from just north of Port Hope MI (“MI2”) where I have a quiet environment, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U K [non]. See IRAN [non]: BBCWS post-DST retiming ** U S A. UNIDENTIFIED. 521 kHz, Sept 24 at 0640 UT, barely audible beacon tentatively as ORC. Not in Hepburn`s NDB list on any frequency, and nothing similar near 521 (it could have been plus/minus 1 or 2 kHz). Ideas? Bill Hepburn replies: ``Hi Glenn, That must be ORC Orange City, IA. It "was" decommissioned. Looks like someone turned in back on again. It still has an FCC license: http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/licenseFreqSum.jsp;JSESSIONID_ULSSEARCH=LCm6bq1R212LnqGT9Tnm1QpzXzhLzvP70bS7xyvVNQZZvdm2Gp1p!-2019351399!-84967774?licKey=1982555 ... but is no longer listed in the FAA airport/facility directory: http://aeronav.faa.gov/afd/13sep2018/nc_64_13SEP2018.pdf I'll re-add it to the list. Thanks, Bill`` FCC shows 521.51000 kHz, 25 watts. Sounds familiar; I did log ORC earlier this year and reference to another listing, still there: ``521 kHz, April 8 at 0635, ND beacon ORC --- NOT listed on this or any frequency (including 260/261 in case it`s second harmonic) nor any similar fuzzy call near either, in dxinfocentre.com --- but it IS listed at https://www.classaxe.com/dx/ndb/rna/signal_list on 521 as 25 watts from Orange City, Iowa, which is in the NW corner near Sioux Center, i.e. about equidistant from Sioux Falls and Sioux City`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The ".51000" is because the licensed frequency is the middle of the occupied bandwidth. The beacon has only an USB 1020 Hz tone, the LSB 1020 is missing. This is the old "A2H" mode. The carrier frequency is 521.0 kHz. wrh (Bill Hepburn, Ont., ibid.) ** U S A. WWV: Are they testing us? WWV has been broadcasting an outdated propagation report for several days, giving the solar flux as of September 18 and K Index as of 1200 on September 19. THIS MAY BE A TEST TO SEE IF ANYONE IS LISTENING, and if not, they’ll shut it down. We’ve had similar tests from other SW services prior to shutting down – for example, Radio Australia a couple years ago went off the air briefly, allegedly for xmtr maintenance; the response from listeners wasn’t strong enough, and they used that as evidence to shut down permanently. [:18 minutes past every hour on WWV; :45 on WWVH] The NIST website gives an email address of: nist.radio@boulder.nist.gov Does anyone have other addresses for them? (Art Delibert, KB3FJO, Sept 22, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) Good point! Speak up, everyone! (Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA - ibid.) Forgive me for being a bit of a "Debbie Downer", but I am dubious that the complaints of a couple of dozen radio hobbyists will change a decision of a government bureaucracy that is probably trying to save every penny that it can. But, I guess that it doesn't hurt to try (John Fisher, Canada, HCDX via DXLD) At that point, tell WWV that you know they're broadcasting wrong data. Then you tell the NIST Director, Undersecretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology Walter Copan that something is wrong at the station. His top priority is said to be cybersecurity. Don't geek out but explain why this WWV falls under "Critical Infrastructure & Key Resources". He doesn't have a public-facing e-mail. Lather, Rinse, Repeat with Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. He's dealing with quite a bit about Census 2020 right now. KISS is operative. General NIST contact form is here: https://www.nist.gov/about-nist/contact-us General contact page for the Commerce Department is here: https://www.commerce.gov/page/contact-us If you think that this is an instance of Fraud, Waste, and/or Abuse by the folks at NIST you probably should contact the departmental Office of Inspector General who can take "Internal Affairs" types of action. Their website is here: https://www.oig.doc.gov/pages/default.aspx And if you feel that WWV/WWVH/WWVB fall into the category of "Critical Infrastructure & Key Resources", apparently Homeland Security has multiple avenues to make suggestions to them such as perhaps having their Office of Emergency Communications take those stations over. Check out those possibilities here: https://www.dhs.gov/contact-us (Stephen Michael Kellat, KC8BFI, Ashtabula, Ohio, UT Sept 23, WOR iog via DXLD) The outdated prop info still airing on WWV at :18 past UT Sept 23; also at :45 via WWVH? (gh) 5000, Sept 23 at 1318, WWV with long-outdated propagation info dated Sept 18! Apparently stuck with this ever since, every hour. I`ve been trying to tell whether the same thing be happening on WWVH at :45 past the hours; poor reception so far, but maybe not: at 1345 Sept 23 I think one of the dates mentioned had a ``twenty`` in it. I confess also to subscribing to WWV prop info by e-mail, which has continued updating. However, sometime last week a bunch of them piled up and then arrived in a spurt rather than 3 hours apart (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5000, Sept 24 at 1718, WWV propagation info is now up to date, for Sept 23-24. Will we ever know why it was not for the past week? Were we really being tested? (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also HAWAII Via Terry Krueger and Mike Cooper, here`s another story about Drumpf`s threatened closure of the WWVs, local angle, but mentioning that the WH petition drive fell far short of the 100K replies required allegedly to get his attention, only 20K signatures: After nearly 100 years, budget cuts could mean radio silence for stations near Fort Collins Kevin Duggan | Fort Collins Coloradoan | 15 hours ago Radio station WWV has broadcast time and frequency standards from Fort Collins since 1966. [and before that from Maryland] Kevin Duggan, kevinduggan@coloradoan.com Time might be running out for America’s timekeeper. Proposed budget cuts could silence radio stations operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, north of Fort Collins that continuously broadcast the time of day. . . https://amp.coloradoan.com/amp/1352761002 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Richard, Since I was trying to cross-check what my federal employee union was saying about the prospect of Yet Another Government Shutdown Furlough, I came across a bill sponsored by Representative Barbara Comstock of Virginia bearing the number HR 6229. The House Majority Leader has it on the list for floor consideration this week. Since it is the NIST Reauthorization Act, you may want to bring it up. The bill text is here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/6229/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22hr+354%22%5D%7D. Appropriations texts say how much you can spend on an agency provided the bill ever passes. In the jargon of the Congress, authorization texts are how the appropriations are supposed to be spent and on what areas. I didn’t see any specific mention of time services at all in the authorization bill which could impact the Internet itself if NIST stops running stratum-1 Network Time Protocol servers beyond just WWV. My union’s lobbyists on Capitol Hill are a gloomy bunch as we were warned to get our families ready for another possible lockout from work. Nobody in Congress is doing the heavy lifting of their constitutional responsibilities to make appropriations for next fiscal year except for Energy & Water, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs so far which are done. VOA et al. may see an impact come October 1st if the pending “continuing resolution” doesn’t pass in time (Stephen Michael Kellat, KC8BFI, Ashtabula, Ohio, Sept 24, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13565-CW, Sept 21 at 1417, K6FRC beacon from California barely audible enough to copy vs CODAR. Usually inaudible, and I wonder if it be on the air always or not? 13565-CW, Sept 24 at 1424, K6FRC hifer beacon from California is again barely audible; seems to be best time of day for it altho MUF should build up better later after sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. FCC urged to review HFBC rules --- The FAQ on our recent FCC filing on the HF broadcasting rules, with a link to the document and to related FCC Public Notice on audio programming, is available at: http://www.kobb.us/filing.html (Benn Kobb, Sept 22, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) Viz., with some embedded linx: FAQ: HF Broadcasting Filing Q. What is this about? A. On August 27, 2018, three commenters, the 'High-Frequency Parties,' filed a comment on the FCC Public Notice on audio programming. Q. Who or what do the High-Frequency Parties represent? A. We do not represent any organization or corporation — just ourselves: Bennett Z. Kobb AK4AV and Kim Elliott KD9XB of Arlington VA, and Christopher Rumbaugh K6FIB of Salem OR. Kim blogs on international media, and is the producer of Shortwave Radiogram. Christopher publishes the DRM North America website. Q. What is the FCC Public Notice on audio programming? A. On July 23, 2018 the FCC issued this Public Notice asking for comments on competition and entry into the market for audio programming in AM/FM radio and other media, and about any regulatory impediments to the business. Q. The Public Notice doesn't say anything about shortwave. Why are you commenting on that? A. The Public Notice concerns audio programming. Shortwave stations deliver audio programming. We think the FCC should use this opportunity to review and update the HF rules. Q. Are you trying to legitimize unlicensed pirate radio stations? A. There is nothing in our filing about unlicensed broadcasting. Q. Won't your petition bring thousands of mom-and-pop DIY shortwave radio stations? They'll fill up the bands and cause interference. A. Our filing is not a petition; it is a comment responding to the FCC Public Notice. We don't think it's realistic to fear an influx of thousands of new U.S. HF stations. Relatively few U.S. citizens use shortwave receivers. We suspect that few know or care that U.S. private HF broadcasting even exists. Most U.S. private HF broadcasting is provided by religious organizations with the financial means to maintain high-powered shortwave transmitters, or to buy time on these transmitters. We don't object to religious broadcasting. However, relaxing the minimum power level requirement could contribute to a wider diversity of content on U.S. shortwave stations. Solar conditions, the need for frequency coordination, the prohibition on domestic HF programming and other obsolete FCC rules may also contribute to the limited growth of private HF stations. Perhaps if the rules were updated, more would be encouraged to enter the business and try out new types of programs and technologies. Any potential impacts should be examined in a FCC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) which does not exist at this time. Any changes would have to go through the public NPRM process which can take years. Also, there is no assurance that the FCC will do anything with regard to our comments, or anyone's, that are filed on the Public Notice. Q. Is this related to the proposed closure of WWV, WWVB and WWVH? A. No. Those stations belong to the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the Commerce Department. They are not regulated by the FCC. Q. The filing appears to contain a reference to the Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services. A. That is a metadata error relating to the FCC website. Our filing is not about maritime radio. Q. What does this filing have to do with Shortwave Radiogram? A. The FCC rules could be interpreted to mean that "datacasting" is limited to Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM), a specific transmission standard. The FCC did not define datacasting, but the apparent limitation to DRM might inhibit the growth of content such as Radiogram. The FCC should clarify that digital broadcast via AM audio is a type of permitted datacasting on shortwave. Q. Is this filing about those HF stock trading stations? A. No. They are licensed in the Experimental Radio Service. Unlike the FCC rules that govern HF broadcasting, no rules exist for regular, non-experimental, international HF encrypted data stations such as the stock trading stations. So far, except for some basic data such as locations and frequencies, the FCC has withheld from public disclosure most of the pertinent information about those stations. Their licensees are shell companies. We think that future FCC proceedings on commercial HF transmission should address such stations, what exactly they are doing, how to get licenses and what will happen when the present experiments end. But this is not part of our FCC comment. Q. Your comments seem very late. Why didn't you raise your concerns when the rules were adopted? A. We weren't born yet. Some of the rules we address were adopted in the 1930s. ©2018 Bennett Z. Kobb Arlington, Virginia USA (via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) ** U S A [non]. USA/Czech Republic - On 19 September 2018, RFE/RL posted the first edition of the AfPak File, a new biweekly podcast series jointly hosted by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Woodrow Wilson Center Washington DC. In the first edition a group of experts discussed “what impact [Jalaluddin] Haqqani’s death may have on the Haqqani Network and on the war in Afghanistan; what we know about the Haqqani Network’s numbers and location; what role it plays in the insurgency in Afghanistan; what its relationship is with Pakistan; how it may figure in a potential peace process in Afghanistan; and how it affects the U.S.-Pakistan relationship.” https://pressroom.rferl.org/a/whats-next-for-the-haqqani-network/29497992.html While the podcast did provide for some interesting listening, there was little room for debate or controversial views. The panelists quickly agreed that the death of the founder has little effect on the network, because the leadership has already been in the hands of his son for years. I found two topics of interest that were only vaguely touched. It was said, that the network has good connections into the Arab world, but this was not explained in detail. For an international audience it would have been important to know which state/family is known/thought to be a financial sponsor of the group. It was also mentioned that Pakistan is seeing the Haqqani network as an ally for its operations in Indian Kashmir. Obviously the panelists agreed on the fact, that the Pakistani Government is sponsoring the infiltration of this territory and attacks there. This is a view generally heard on the General Overseas Service and the English news of All India Radio, while the English news of Radio Pakistan always speaks of Kashmiri people being “martyred” by Indian forces. So it would have been important to go into more detail about the Haqqani network and the terror in Kashmir (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 22 September 2018, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9805, Sept 18 at 0620, open carrier at S4-S6, 0621 brief tone test, 0622 a few words of Spanish and off*; sounds like Radio Martí, and indeed similar talk continues as I quickly switch to 7335 which is S9+30/40. 9805 no doubt an advance tuneup test at Greenville for the RM transmission not really starting until 1000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 7730, WRMI at 0030. Glenn Hauser W.o.R., commencing, and confirmed on the frequency. Heard on the battery Longine's Symphonette World Traveler portable with stock whip, - Excellent Sept 18 [UT Tue] (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs. 73 and Good Listening..! : D ! rb, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1948 monitoring: confirmed Tuesday September 18 at 2042 the 2030 on WRMI 7780, very poor S7-S2. Listed // 5950 VP vs storm noise instead with Jeff White narrating another of the three dozen repeats of Wavescan. At 2155, no 2130 WOR either on 5950 or 7780; those and 9395 are all playing different music. WRMI program sked has still not been updated, showing WOR Tue at 2030 & 2130 both on 7780 & 5950. WOR not aired either at 2330 Tue Sept 18 nor Wed Sept 19 on WBCQ 9330, just BS. Confirmed Wednesday Sept 19 at 2103 tune-in on WRMI 9955, equally very poor on WBCQ 7490v, first on portable, then on home rig where 9955 is better --- and virtually synchronized with 7490v, so this week 9955 playout must not have started one semi-minute later. Next: 2330 UT Thursday WBCQ 9330v [maybe] to WSW 2330 UT Friday WBCQ 9330v [maybe] to WSW 0629 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1230 UT Saturday WINB 9265V via Unique Radio to WSW 1431 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional 2130 UT Saturday WBCQ 9330v [maybe, or 2330?] to WSW 0310vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional 1030 UT Sunday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 2330 UT Sunday WBCQ 9330v [maybe] to WSW 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2330 UT Monday WBCQ 9330v [maybe] to WSW 0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 7730 [or 1949?] to WNW 2030 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 5950 [or 1949?] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) GERMANY, Today Sept 22 no signal from Hamburger Lokalradio 6190 CUSB 0631-0700 on 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sat - WOR#1948 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/reception-of-bible-voice-broadcasting_22.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 21-22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1948 monitoring: NOT confirmed Saturday Sept 22 from 1452 on 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio, the 1431 broadcast as monitored via UTwente SDR --- instead Chinese music, talk for at least rest of hour; did not notice any change in signal later, but some familiar CRI theme. Still going past 1530, conversation intonation sounding like German, but not vocabulary, until 1534 ``auf wiederhören``!? So there may have been some schedule change in China. Alan Gale, England, reports at 1457: ``Hi Glenn, Well, I've been checking 6190 since around 1200 UT and not heard anything that sounds like them [HLR]. There is something on there at 1445, but it's very weak and it sounds like a woman's voice and music, and it's in and in AM only, so possibly PBS. Nothing at all on the Twente webSDR either, so I suspect that they're off the air for some reason. Alan`` Recently it was either WOR or no WOR, rather than anything audible from China altho PBS Xinjiang is scheduled in Mongolian long before and after our time; and in HFCC I see that NHK direct in Chinese is also on 6190 at 1430-1500, which I have also never heard via UTwente. [WORLD OF RADIO 1949] Next WORLDS OF RADIO: 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional 2130 UT Saturday WBCQ 9330v [maybe, or 2330?] to WSW 0310vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional 1030 UT Sunday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 2330 UT Sunday WBCQ 9330v [maybe] to WSW 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2330 UT Monday WBCQ 9330v [maybe] to WSW 0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 7730 [or 1949?] to WNW 2030 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 5950 [or 1949?] WORLD OF RADIO 1948 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday Sept 23 at 0329 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, fair signal, already 26 minutes into show, so started way early this week circa 0303. Next: 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 2330 UT Sunday WBCQ 9330v [maybe] to WSW 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2330 UT Monday WBCQ 9330v [maybe] to WSW 0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 7730 [or 1949?] to WNW 2030 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 5950 [or 1949?] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) GERMANY. Today Sept 23 no signal of Hamburger Lokalradio 9485 CUSB: 0900-1000 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg German Sun Hamburger Lokalradio 1000-1030 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg English Sun PCJ "Media Network+" 1030-1100 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg English Sun World of Radio#1948 1100-1200 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg Spanish Sun Radio Tropicana http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/no-signal-of-hamburger-lokalradio-on.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1948 monitoring: confirmed Sunday September 23 at 2145 the 2130 on WRMI 7780 --- but *also* on unscheduled and stronger 9955! Supposedly at 2130 Sunday there is `Coming Home`. Also confirmed UT Monday Sept 24 at 0300 on Area 51 webcast, and on WBCQ 5129.84. Also confirmed after 0330 UT Mon Sept 24 on WRMI webcast and at 0343 check on 9955, poor. Expect to have new WOR 1949 ready for first airing UT Tuesday Sept 25 at 0030 on WRMI 7730 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1949 contents: Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Bhutan, Brasil, China, Colombia, Denmark, Europe, Germany, Hawaii, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea North non, Korea South, Myanmar, Nepal, North America, Papua New Guinea, Romania, South Africa, Switzerland, UK, USA, Zambia; and the propagation outlook. Ready for first airing Sept 25: 0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 7730 to WNW [confirmed, very good] 2030 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE [also 5950 to WNW?] 2130 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 & 5950 [scheduled; not aired last weeks] 2330 UT Tuesday WBCQ 9330v [maybe] to WSW 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5950 to WNW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 2330 UT Wednesday WBCQ 9330v [maybe] to WSW 2330 UT Thursday WBCQ 9330v [maybe] to WSW 2330 UT Friday WBCQ 9330v [maybe] to WSW 0629 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1231 UT Saturday WINB 9265V via Unique Radio to WSW 1431 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional 2130 UT Saturday WBCQ 9330v [maybe, or 2330?] to WSW 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional 1030 UT Sunday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9955 to SSE 2330 UT Sunday WBCQ 9330v [maybe] to WSW 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2330 UT Monday WBCQ 9330v [maybe] to WSW 0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 7730 [or 1950?] to WNW 2030 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 5950 [or 1950?] Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, updated Sept 18: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ: ** U S A. 7490.1, Thursday September 20 at 2124, WBCQ in an `Allan Weiner Worldwide` playback, with Angela and caller discussing texting replacing phoning or other human contact. Yes, Thu 21-22 is now on schedule http://wbcq.com/schedule/ as Available Time Slot, among several others. It also still claims Glenn Hauser`s World of Radio airs on 9330 every day at 2330, except Saturdays 2130!!! NOT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) (7490v), UT Sat Sept 22 at 0029, checked WBCQ webcast amid `Alan Weiner Worldwide` at opportune moment since he was talking with a caller about the hi-power project. The Continental 420-DM transmitter has not arrived yet, undergoing tests at the factory. Expected around November 1, and then will take another month to install. The rotatable antenna external work is completed; now under construxion are the ``internal`` dipole antennas within it. Some photos of Angela and this are now at http://www.wbcq.com Caller wonders how he can hear WBCQ in DRM. Since the transmitter will be capable, Allan says they will experiment with it, but nothing definite. Also says it will be ``compatible`` so can listen in AM at same time! This is news to me as I have never heard or heard of DRM being compatible with AM, i.e. both modes on same frequency at same time. Maybe AW has it confused with hybrid IBOC? John H Carver, Jr, in mid-north Indiana, monitored the whole show and reports this week: ``Listening again on 7490 this evening and show started right on time. Comments made during the opening theme suggested that the show would be political this evening with the phrase ``moon bat socialists`` being used. Allan and Angela in the studio this evening. Storms in the area and temps in the high forties in Northern Maine. Allan says summer is over. Allan opened with the statement that he is very disappointed with his generation and what they are doing in Washington. Then switched to a discussion about religion which was interrupted at 0006 with a phone call about Near Fest and looking for headphones. After that back to the discussion of religion. Allan states that there are two types of religion. One promotes peace and love and one promotes war. Implies that Muslims are Satanists. Phone call from Freddie at 0017 with comments on pictures he's just seen of Angela. Says Allan has a beautiful wife. Talk of transmitters, WRMI and Family Radio. Allan insists that the private shortwave stations in this country are national assets. Says the transmitter for the superstation is now expected in November. Phone call from Dave in Indiana at 0036 with signal report and talk about division in this country caused by congress. Urges that we vote out the moon bat Democrats this next election. Says he's not in love with the Republicans either but that they are better than the Democrats. Mentioned socialist communists more than once. Then into a mini rant about political and sexual correctness. Thinks the current supreme court nominee should be approved and the allegations about him ignored. Phone call at 0050 from Ramsey. During this conversation Allan stated that he knew that he and the superstation were being investigated by the FBI. Said they were welcome to come to the station anytime they wanted and look around. Says now that the superstation won't be on the air till spring. March or May. Reading of emails at 0056. Programming report from Robert stated that Dead Frog Radio would premier next week after AWWW with a two hour live show. A reception report from Mexico came in. Prayer at 0100. Show was off the air at 0102 followed by some fill music and station was off the air at 0105. A very subdued Angela this evening. John`` I didn`t quote John`s AWWW report last week in my own logs, but it`s in DXLD 18-38 imminently (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI: ** U S A. USofA: 5850, WRMI English s/on with Broad Spectrum Radio repeat of broadcast from April with ”Passover” songs including ones based on “Uptown Funk” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” among others. Then into repeat of digital mode BSR Radiogram #3 with SWL logs and photos of station logos: [illustrated in the WOR iog] Then into SW Radiogram #65 with experiments/stories about: An MFSK image slant exercise; an MFSK128 encoded story/photo of NASA’s foldable heat shield; an MFSK64 encoded story/photo about China barring Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People"; and Images of the week which this time included shots of the test of the parachutes on 12 September for the Orion manned deep space missions and Hurricane Florence as photographed from the International Space Station, among others. The ‘steps’ in the photo happen occasionally in MFSK images and I’ve yet to figure out why it happens.... Then into “Business Growth Radio” Still claiming to be on “WMRI” (sic) and only mentioning 7730 kHz. William Eastman hosting how to ‘grow your small business’ and move from the 80% of businesses that will likely fail and into the next 15%..... but interestingly, he has never (that I have heard) explained where these percentages come from other than his ‘proprietary research’ ... in other words ‘trust us we’re experts!’ Now where have I heard that before? ;) 4+4+54+4+ *0658-0930* 17/Sept [Monday] SDRplay +SDRuno +FLDigi for the digital bits, +Randomwire (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, WOR iog via DXLD) Re: WRMI ``I do hear 15770, Monday Sept 17 at 1715, fair in French only S8 here to the side, vying with the noise level; 1812 sounds Italian; 1848 unRussian Slavic. So what are these programs? Probably religious (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1948, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` Possibly Alameda Bible Fellowship http://www.searchinghisword.com multi-lingual synthetic voice Bible prophecy as I reported from my monitoring of WRMI [7780] on Sunday evening at 2300 UT with, at that time, first English, then Spanish, then French. The website quotes scripture in many more languages (-- Richard Langley, Sept 19, WOR iog via DXLD) 5010. WRMI. Septiembre 19. 0117-0130 UT. Hombre habla en francés. SINPO: 35333 (Claudio Galaz; Receptor: Tecsun PL -660; Antena: Hilo largo de 30 metros; Lugar de escucha: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile, HCDX via DXLD) Another Alameda prolongation? (gh) 9455, UT Thu Sept 20 at 0108, WRMI with music rather than weekly Hal Turner talkshow; 9455 on air this night only and supposed to be // 7490v WBCQ, but music fill there too, different. Both must have lost feed or suddenly canceled? 0111 WRMI with Oldies-style ID, and the canned one about the Everglades, ``back to the music``. So Oldies gets a frequency while 9395 is occupied by Argentina in English. Rechecking 7490 at 0113, now Hal Turner is on WBCQ talking about Israel, but 9455 still music, ditto at 0122, and 0132 when 9395 has reverted to music too but not //. Meanwhile I checked the other WRMI frequencies circa 0112: 5950 algo in Spanish, so not // 9395 with RAE English as still shown on sked. 5010 still on air with religion in Spanish, despite shown off after 0100. 9455 & 7490, re Hal Turner show replaced by music Sept 20 after 0100 on WRMI & WBCQ, Richard Langley replies on the WOR iog: (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) He had a power surge in the studio just before scheduled airtime and had to reboot everything. Details here: http://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news/world-news/3174-archive-hal-turner-show-sept-19 -- not that I'm interested in most of his drivel. I noticed the late airing on 9455 kHz when turning the bands around 0200 UT, hearing the "Star Spangled Banner" performed "cringeworthy" by Madison Rising. Looks like WRMI managed to transmit the second hour live (Richard Langley, NB, WOR iog via DXLD) 9395, Sat Sept 22 at 2300, after WRMI ID, `Alameda Bible Fellowship` [California] beginning synthyl Bible readings in English; rechex: 2327 in Spanish; 2341 in French; but at 2346 had reverted to Oldies music. The non-English versions do not sound like synthesized voices. 7730, Sat Sept 22 at 2306, another WRMI with Alameda, now in Japanese, recheck 2320 in Indonesian; 2341-2345+ in Tagalog with some Spanish words such as ``versículo``, right up to 0000 when `Wavescan` starts. So the various languages are not in 15-minute blox as first thought. This stuff is sprouting up at various spots on WRMI, yet nothing whatsoever about it yet on skedgrids, nor on the Programming page. ABF site mentioned on air has more info in various languages: http:/www.searchinghisword.com 5950, UT Sunday September 23 at 0024, this WRMI like last week is replaying an old Wavescan, at odd timing, citing Harold Sellers loggings dated June 22, not // at all to the new one on 7730 which started at 0000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9955, Sunday Sept 23 at 2200, this WRMI had been // 7780 with surprise WOR simulcast until 2159, but now they split: 9955 with `Wavescan` as scheduled, and 7780 with `Your Weekend Show`, the self- absorbed Bob Biermann, now // 9395. 7570 is starting `VORW` with the self-absorbed John J.---. 7730 is not on air yet. 5950 something in Spanish, seems gospel huxter. Before 2200 it was in Italian. 7490v, by 2210 Sunday Sept 23 I find something I`d rather listen to, on WBCQ, `Uncle Bill`s Melting Pot`, but only fair signal, with music from Ukraine, and usual clownish SFX. 9955, UT Monday Sept 24 at 0015, WRMI starting `Moderna` with Yadira Escobar, Miami Cuban bloggess with commentary on the so-called constitutional reform in Cuba, and acknowledging listeners in Mexico. Averaging S8, and no jamming, oops! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHER ** U S A. 5044.25 & 5055.75, Sept 23 at 0019, WWRB awful modulation includes spurs cutting on and off at 5.75 kHz above and below center frequency 5050. A bit earlier on caradio tuned to 5040 RHC I was also hearing such adjacent QRM squeaking upon it. 5055.75, Sept 24 at 0036, WWRB 5050 again tonight putting out filthy parasitic spur at plus 5.75 kHz, also 5044.25 on opposite side. Still on at 0243, much later than usual, with gospel huxtress, and now I find a second-order pair of spurs at twice the separation, circa 5038.4 and 5061.55; the lower one hetting 5040 RHC, which to make matters worse for itself, is now undermodulated, and in addition general splatter out of 5050 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Farewell Silver Dollar Radio Josh McDonald, Shoshone News-Press, Sept. 5, 2018 (via Tim Hall) http://www.shoshonenewspress.com/local_news/20180904/farewell_silver_dollar_radio After 80 years the KWAL-AM [sic] 620 radio station signed off for the final time at 11:59 p.m. on Saturday night. The third oldest radio station in the state had been a hub for mobile information over the years providing local listeners access to election results, school lunch menus, school closures, regional and national news, and local sports. The station in its current form came to be after Paul Robinson and other investors bought the station from Lee Black in the fall of 1971 and reopened the station in 1972. In 1977, Robinson hired his right-hand man and local legend George White, and the two have been riding the waves together ever since. Over the years, Paul and George would be seen doing just about everything together, the chemistry between the two evident when listening to any of their broadcasts. Over the years the station experienced the financial hardships that are being felt by nearly every smaller media outlet across the country, but KWAL would power through them. “The internet is killing small business,” Robinson said. “The other day I got an ad on my phone for Levis jeans. You can buy directly from Levis now. What does that do to Sears, J.C. Penney or Macy’s? What does that do to the little mom and pop businesses that are selling Levis? These are businesses that advertised and sponsored with us and it’s killing them.” Besides lost revenue to the internet, KWAL suffered a death blow when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) declined to renew the station’s extension to utilize their single radio tower at 250 watts and would only allow them to operate at 60 watts. What that means is they would only be able to power a signal as far as Silverton. They had a second radio tower, but in 2016 the tower was destroyed after an inattentive driver clipped the guy wire, pulling the tower down into the South Fork Coeur d’Alene River. That second tower was vital for the station, allowing it to operate at night on a lower strength signal, so as to keep the signals from crossing with signal in Spokane, western Montana, and even as far away as Portland, Ore. After the tower was destroyed, the FCC allowed the station to use the remaining tower to broadcast at 250 watts, which kept the signal strong enough to broadcast from Kingston to Mullan. “It was enough for us to cover the local towns,” Robinson said. “And it kept us out of the western Montana area and over the hill. We had six months to get a new tower up and after those six months, we got an extension. I think we got four extensions.” Unfortunately, the driver who pulled the tower down also hit some power poles that caused the power to go out in the Sunny Slopes area and after the power company got their cut of the insurance money, there wasn’t enough left for KWAL to pay the near-$200 thousand it would take to get a new tower and then have it set up and calibrated. Even as they stare retirement in the face, the two DJs look back fondly on their time behind the mic, but will miss one thing in particular. “I’m gonna miss sports the most,” White said. “We saw so many good athletes over the years. We are going to miss calling the ball games” (via Tim Hall, NRC DX News Oct 1, published Sept 22, via DXLD) Publisher’s Note: Two comments on this article. First, contrary to what is stated in the article, the FCC’s official renewal of KWAL’s STA (dated July 24, 2018) specifically allows for an STA power of 250 watts at night for the usual 6-month period, running until January 2019. If the FCC in fact reduced the STA night power to 60 watts, there’s no record of it in the FCC online system. Second, until the station turns in its license to the FCC (or is silent for a full year), don’t count on it being permanently dark. I’ve seen many newspaper articles announcing the permanent closure of a station, only for a buyer to turn up who wants to keep the station on the air under new ownership. In other words, don’t believe everything you read, and don’t cross KWAL out of your Log just yet! Also, fans of Scott Fybush’s Tower Calendar will remember the two towers of KWAL (when both were standing) as they were photographed with Interstate 90 actually crossing between the towers. There’s an online photo and article from Scott at https://www.fybush.com/site-of-the-week-10262012- kwal-wallace-idaho/ (David Yocis, ibid.) ** U S A. Los Angeles Kings eschew AM radio for streaming-only audio http://www.insideradio.com/free/la-kings-leave-am-radio-for-streaming-pact-with-iheartradio/article_c1b68aee-bb86-11e8-8dd8-4f086426d4d6.html This is the first example I've seen for one of the major US professional sports teams not offering a radio broadcast of their games. Instead, the team struck a deal with IHeart Radio for a streaming-only service. Will be a development worth watching. (Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA, Sept 20, WOR iog via DXLD) Yes and reading the comments on the blog none of the locals are too happy. 73 (Mick Delmage, AB, ibid.) It was pointed out on the RadioDiscussions.com Los Angeles forum by industry veteran David Gleason that hockey is at best a niche sport in Southern California whose radio broadcasts get miniscule audiences. None of the stations there apparently wanted to take the ratings hit. Most of the fans are watching the games on TV. Also pointed out that this is part of iHeart's strategy to dominate the growing streaming market. Forum link: https://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?712447-Los-Angeles-Kings-to-have-their-games-on-the-Iheart-app (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, ibid.) The Kings have been heard on KABC/790 since 2014 -- and there's not much they could do to help or hurt the crappy overall ratings, short of mailing out free gold bricks. The August (Kings off-season) book had KABC coming in at #41, way less than 1% of the audience. This on-air toilet has been long since beaten to death, starting with Disney ownership twenty years ago, and continuing through subsequent incompetent programming management (Greg Hardison, LA CA, ibid.) ** U S A. Travel Logs: 880, KRVN, Lexington NE; 9:49AM...5:07PM CDT [1449-2207 UT], 9/14; MANY call IDs, "Rural Radio Network, 8-80 KRVN". "The Voice of rural Nebraska". KRVN News with Dave Schroeder, Bob Broggan & Scott Foster; ag news with Dewey Nelson, Susan Littlefield & Shelley Peters; KRVN Weather Watch with Paul Perkins & Brandon Bennett; KRVN sports with Jason Jorgenson. Emerald ash borers, first found in MI in 2002, are now in eastern NE. Weaning calves will reduce a cow's maintenance costs by 25% (You won't hear this valuable tidbit on WJR!); promo for ChuckNorrisFacts.com. Ads for Larry's RV in North Platte, Skeeter Barnes Catering & Holdredge Irrigation. No manure management, dead stock removal or bull semen ads heard & no C&W! VGood-Xlnt all across I-70 in KS (Harold Frodge, KS, MARE Tipsheet Sept 21 via DXLD)) ** U S A. 1390, WSPO, SC, Charleston – 9/15 0601 [EDT = 1001 UT] – In multi-station mix (WJMR, WZHF, UNID ESPN, Fox Sports, preaching and oldies stations) with ID as “AM 13-90 is WSPO W261DG. The Holy See Gospel station.” A lot of stations were running day power, presumably due to Hurricane Florence. “This is understandable, but the stations, IMO, were abusing the privilege by carrying regular programming. In other words, let’s use the hurricane as an excuse to run day power during darkness. With many stations running day power, listening was a mess of mixing stations --- similar to graveyard DXing.” (Kraig W Krist, VA, Domestic DX Digest East, NRC DX News Oct 1, published Sept 22, via DXLD) ** U S A. Application for STA denied: 1470, KVSL, AZ, Show Low – Denied STA; wanted to take the AM silent and broadcast only intermittently while operating FM translator fulltime, to test financial impact of migrating to FM. The FCC has denied several STAs in the last year or so that were requested for solely financial or programming reasons (David Yocis, AM Switch, NRC DX News Oct 1, published Sept 22, via DXLD) Viz.: ** U S A. FCC Report 9/23: Arizona AM’s Attempt To Operate Only Via Translator Gets Quickly Shot Down By Lance Venta on September 23, 2018 Comments Closed https://radioinsight.com/headlines/170738/fcc-report-9-23-arizona-ams-attempt-to-operate-only-via-translator-gets-quickly-shot-down/ Dismissals Rewind 108 1470 KVSL Show Low http://www.rewind108.com/ Casa Pinon’s STA application to take Classic Hits “Rewind 108” 1470 KVSL Show Low AZ off the air while continuing to operate 100.5 K263CA under Experimental Authority was quickly denied by the FCC: ``Casa’s request fails to explain how this experiment will aid in the development of new technology, equipment, systems or services. Furthermore, Casa fails to explain why the information it intends to collect about listeners and sponsors cannot be obtained while it continues to operate KVSL(AM). Absent additional empirical or theoretical evidence warranting testing, Casa has not sufficiently justified the grant of experimental authority. We also find the request to be facially inconsistent with our FM translator rules. More significantly, the request is completely at odds with the intended goals of the Commission’s ongoing AM Revitalization proceeding. Throughout the AM Revitalization proceeding, the Commission has consistently pursued proposed rule changes and other procedures with the goal of enabling AM stations to improve their service and to provide better service to the public. The Commission has not contemplated allowing AM stations to surrender their AM licenses and use only their translators, as Casa suggests.`` (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) So why is it branding itself ``Rewind 108``? Right, because of another translator as in radio-locator.com, K300CL on 107.9. So how does that figure into this matter?? (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. Glenn, Mentioned at the end of the ABC radio news yesterday afternoon: [WWAY-TV when on analog 3 was a regular by Es in Enid - gh] WWAY transmitter running out of fuel, will stream news online; other Wilmington stations to follow By WWAY News - Sept 17, 2018 11:30 PM WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — WWAY’s over-the-air signal went down earlier today and again this evening, with the station’s transmitter running out of fuel for its generator. Two other Wilmington stations that share the site are likely to go down soon. If we lose our signal again, WWAY will continue to broadcast news during regularly scheduled times via our livestream. Some newscasts will air on The Big Talker 106.7 FM. Our signal may be available on some cable providers. WWAY engineers braved brutal rain and wind early Friday morning as Hurricane Florence came ashore near Wrightsville Beach to go to the transmitter deep in the woods off US 17 in Winnabow to switch the transmitter, which puts out signals for WWAY ABC (digital channel 3.1), WWAY CBS (3.2) and the Cape Fear CW, over to the diesel generator after electricity to the site went out. While they were there, the signals for WECT and WSFX also went down, so WWAY’s team switched those stations to back-up power as well. The stations made arrangements before the storm to have fuel available to refill the generators, but the flooding in the area from Hurricane Florence has so far made it impossible to get the fuel to the tower. As a result, WWAY briefly went off the air around 3 p.m. WECT and WSFX are also expected to run out of fuel soon and could lose their over-the-air signals. The stations have been working with local, state and federal officials, include Rep. David Rouzer, FEMA and the governor’s office to figure out how to access the transmitter site by ground or air in order to provide essential information to the area during this ongoing disaster. Related Article: Pender County: Move large animals to higher ground We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to have more information available soon. https://www.wwaytv3.com/2018/09/17/wway-off-the-air-still-streaming-news-online-other-wilmington-stations-to-follow/ Three Television Stations Running Out of Gas to Power Generators in ... The Weather Channel-14 hours ag https://weather.com/news/news/2018-09-17-wilmington-tv-stations-running-out-of-fuel At a Glance Three North Carolina TV stations are on the brink of going dark because of a shortage of gas to fuel their generators.WWAY-TV, WECT and WSFX all switched to generator power when Florence knocked out their power.The stations are all expected to run out of fuel soon and could lose over-the-air signals. Three television stations in Wilmington, North Carolina, are on the brink of going dark because of a shortage of gasoline to fuel their generators. WWAY-TV reported that engineers braved Hurricane Florence's fury to switch their transmitters to generator power after their site's electricity went out. WECT and WSFX has also lost power to their transmitters, so WWAY's technicians switch those to generator power also. (MORE: The Latest Impacts From the Carolinas, as Well as Virginia) The stations made arrangements before the storm to have fuel available to refill the generators, but flooding in the area has made it impossible to get gasoline to the tower. WWAY briefly went off the air around 3 p.m. WECT and WSFX are also expected to run out of fuel soon and could lose their over-the-air signals. The statement from WWAY said the stations have been working with local, state and federal officials to determine how to access the transmitter site by ground or air to provide information to the area during recovery from the storm. This is a developing story. Please continue to check back with weather.com for updates (both via Artie Bigley, Sept 18, DXLD) ** U S A. Congress moves forward on public media funding Glenn - Late last week, a select group of House and Senate lawmakers agreed to a spending package that includes funding for all of public media programs. Yesterday, the Senate approved the package. Congress’s recent actions are vital steps toward securing Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 public media funding. When the House is back in session next week, it is expected to vote on the legislation. Provided it passes, it will go to the President to be signed into law. If that happens in September, it will be the first time in over 20 years that public media funding has been finalized before the beginning of the new fiscal year on October 1. Your outreach this year was essential to making sure public media funding was in a strong position going into Congress’s final consideration of this spending package. We are so close to the ultimate victory of securing public media funding for FY 2019. We’ll keep you posted as the process unfolds. Sincerely, (The Protect My Public Media Team, Sept 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. The Spanish-Language Voice of Resistance https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/09/hispanic-latino-immigrants-resist-trump-radio-campesina-219737 Letter from California The Spanish-Language Voice of Resistance Throughout Western states, La Campesina has become the immigrant community’s version of Radio Free Europe at a time of deep partisan hostility toward Latinos. By ALONDRA DE LA CRUZ September 09, 2018 ARVIN, Calif.— Around midday on a recent Thursday morning, a group of 20 Central Valley farmworkers walked out of a kale field, untied the bandanas they usually wear as facial protection and lined up to collect a free lunch. Farmworker Norma Alvarado won the meal for her colleagues after entering the “Cuadrilla De La Semana” drawing hosted by her favorite radio station: Bakersfield’s 92.5-FM, La Campesina. Fifteen years ago, Alvarado emigrated from San Luis Potosi in central Mexico, and has worked in the fields of California’s Central Valley ever since, picking food—broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, cabbage, potatoes—and religiously listening to La Campesina, not for the prizes or the Mexican music, but because of the singular role it plays in the life of the farmworker community. Stop by any group of farmworkers here, and you’re likely to hear La Campesina. That’s as intended—the network was founded in 1983 by Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers with the goal of reaching farmworkers in the fields, and it is operated today by the Cesar Chavez Foundation. But where Chavez originally dreamed of programming that would serve the needs of Spanish-speaking immigrants by educating them about workers’ rights, today’s political climate demands something different to serve the immigrant audience. Though it’s happened largely out of the view of the mainstream news media, throughout Western states, La Campesina has adapted to the political moment by becoming something like the immigrant community’s version of Radio Free Europe—a voice of idealistic defiance broadcasting in hostile territory—at a time of deep partisan animus toward Latinos. Now, with nine stations across four states—from Yuma, Arizona, in the south to the tri-cities of Washington in the north, broadcasting in both AM and FM—it reaches more than 1 million regular listeners, many of them immigrants working in hotels, restaurants, and manufacturing or food-processing plants. While AM radio is often thought to be the turf of conservative talking heads, La Campesina’s KNAI is frequently the top-rated AM station in metropolitan Phoenix. In April, it had double the ratings of KFYI, the local station that carries Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck, competing against those broadcasting titans with regional Mexican music, resistance-themed commentary en Español, and practical life tips for getting by as a Latino immigrant in Trump’s America. Among Campesina’s most popular regular segments: advice on what to do if approached by an agent from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. For Alvarado, the radio contest winner, the prospect of being detained by ICE looms as her biggest fear. “We need to be on the lookout for la migra because they are going strong right now and they want us out of this country,” she says. It’s one of the main reasons she listens religiously to La Campesina: She and her colleagues carry a portable radio with them in the fields because they see the station as a lifeline. That’s a role the radio network plays on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Mexican listeners in San Luis Rio Colorado and Mexicali tune in to Yuma’s KCEC for its immigration-related programming. Other listeners as far south as Mexico City, Guatemala and El Salvador stream La Campesina’s programming online. All can hear tips on how to best avoid ICE and the resources available to them if they are detained. “We are a beacon of hope for immigrants and people who are coming to the country who do not necessarily have their footings here or don't necessarily know where to go for help,” says Cesar L. Chavez, grandson and namesake of the civil-rights leader and the general manager of La Campesina’s Bakersfield station for the past six years. “We try to guide them in the right direction.” “There is no wall for us,” says Maria Barquin, a longtime La Campesina employee who now directs programming for the entire network. “The signal crosses the wall.” *** The genesis of La Campesina came in 1962, when Cesar Chavez, along with leadership of what would become the United Farm Workers of America founded the National Farm Workers Association and adopted a resolution calling for the creation of a once a week, 30-minute Spanish language radio program to entertain and educate farmworkers. From that seed grew the vision for Radio Campesina, which formed in 1983 not as a single show, but an entire station—Visalia’s KUFW. Today, La Campesina’s programming consists of popular regional Mexican music hosted by colorful deejays, public service announcements and educational programming. Their daily network educational program, “Punto de Vista” (“Point of View”), covers topics related to immigration, health and education, with experts invited on to speak about those topics. When immigration raids expanded in California earlier this year, La Campesina adopted a new slogan to fits its more aggressive posture in opposing the crackdown — “La estación siempre en guardia,” or “the station always on guard.” Hosts receive on-air phone calls from farmworkers who’ve encountered ICE and are willing to share their stories. Attorneys and psychologists offer educational commentaries, advising the immigrant community how to cope with the anxiety of family separation. In between, the station broadcasts an announcement from their current campaign: “Since the beginning of [the Trump] administration, the community has had to adapt to a new way of living. Millions of Latinos live in fear of seeing their families separated by an ICE detention. That is why at Radio Campesina, we are a station that is on guard against these actions. Here, we will tell you how to prepare your family with information that can help you in the case of a raid. Not having a status in this country does not make you a criminal. Get ready and act.” “We are protecting our community and informing them of their rights by giving them information about what to do if they get detained or if a friend gets detained,” says Barquin. This advice includes how to get representation by an attorney and how to secure their families and properties if they are deported. In April, Radio Campesina’s team traveled to Tijuana, Mexico, to meet the migrant caravan that had traveled from Central America (and earned the ire of President Trump in the process), and broadcast a live show from across the border, hoping to create a bridge between immigrants wanting to enter the U.S and immigrants who are already there. Besides bringing together both sides of the border through their airwaves, La Campesina hoped to create awareness with all people, even those who are not part of the immigrant community. La Campesina also traveled to the border in response to Trump’s family-separation policy. It broadcast live reports after every update on the issue. The crisis prompted the network to relaunch its annual “En guardia con mi voto” or “Get out to vote” campaign, with a more aggressive posture than ever before. This summer, Campesina has expanded its efforts to reach a new audience: the sons and daughters of immigrants, people who see themselves as having a sort of dual identity. In Fresno, KBHH “Forge” has become the network’s first bilingual station (it already has an English-language station in Bakersfield; Forge is aimed at listeners who can speak both languages). “Forge” will follow the same strategy as its Campesina brethren but will play Top 40 music with a twist of Spanish-language songs. “The kids of those listeners of Radio Campesina are growing up,” says Barquin. “This generation needs to have empowerment maybe in a different language. We understand that they have the same roots as their parents in the culture that they love, but we also understand that the language and the music is something that is evolving as they come to a different country.” It’s a country that, according to Alvarado, gives opportunities to immigrants that their homelands could not. “We came here to work, not to commit crime. We came here to progress,” says Alvarado. “We are not stealing, and they are not giving us anything for free. We are working for it.” On the day Alvarado won lunch, local disc jockey Marimar Flores stopped by to help deliver it, and congratulated her on winning the contest. Alvarado’s fellow farmworkers let out a celebratory cheer and lined up for helpings of pork in green chile, salad, rice and beans. While they ate, a representative from a local health care provider taught them how to make a medical appointment. Throughout, it had the feeling of a celebration. When the food was gone and their plates cleared, the farmworkers waved goodbye to the radio station’s van as it drove away, kicking up dust in its wake. They retied their bandanas over their faces and returned to the fields, where the tinny sound of La Campesina would waft alongside them until they stopped working. Alondra De La Cruz, a White House Correspondents Associations Scholar, is a multimedia reporter from the Central Valley in California pursuing a master’s in journalism from UC Berkeley. You can follow her on Twitter @alondradlcnews. (via David Cole, Goodwell OK, DXLD) ** VATICAN. 9700, Sept 24 at 0019, song and ID starting ``Thini``, which I associate with Thai or Lao, but maybe extends to Kachin, as now scheduled from RVA Philippines, secretly transmitted via SMG. S5- S7 signal is very alike e.g. Romania on 9730, and nothing direct from SE Asia audible elsewhere on band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIRGIN ISLANDS US. Hello. This note from the NRC: 1620, WDHP, VI, Frederiksted – Has been silent since Sept. 20 (2017); tower destroyed in Hurricane Maria. Best wishes (Barry :-) Carlisle UK, Davies, MWCircle yg via DXLD) ** ZAMBIA. 5915, R. One/ZNBC1, 0343-0522, Sept 19. In vernacular; 0459 music & call of the Fish Eagle; into the almost readable news, sports and weather in English (Zambia in the semi-finals in South Africa [football/soccer]); heavy QRN (static), but signal coming through it fairly well; break in transmission 0503* *0505 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) 5915, Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation, Lusaka; 21 September 2018; 0239 UT, 1 kHz test tone; 0247 unmistakable and delightful "Fish Eagle" interval signal; reasonably fair signal level but really struggling with slop from WHRI-5920 despite using LSB. 73, (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan USA, Airspy HF+ with SDR Console v.3 and a 45' PAR EF-SWL end-fed wire at 20', WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZAMBIA. Good Day. Many apologies if this is old news but after reading one of your messages mentioning the Zambian Fish Eagle call of ZNBC Radio 1 I was reminded that the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation now streams all its radio services (Radio 1 in national languages, Radio 2 in English and the educational network Radio 4 which is usually in English. I think 'Radio 3' transmitters carry audio from parliament). The audio quality is excellent and can be found at https://www.znbc.co.zm/radio-streaming/ scroll down to the radio player at the bottom of the page and click on the play button. If one clicks on the top right of the player this will change the audio to Radios 2 or 4. I find the quality of Radio Zambia's broadcasts to be generally good and entertaining despite the small budget they must have. [and non] Streaming audio, in regards to public radio (formally on shortwave of course), is rather patchy in the region. There used to be live streaming from Botswana and Namibia, both at which have not been working for a while now, and also live audio from Angola (including the English hour in the late evenings) but I've been unable to access that too for quite a while now. The SABC from South Africa has live audio links for all its stations including the overseas service Channel Africa and the Afrikaans service which is also still broadcasting to the Northern Cape on shortwave. The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) does have live audio which can be accessed from their home page at www.zbc.co.zw In order to access this one must click on the station name from the drop down radio menu. Classic 263 is the main English speaking station (formally SFM, Spot FM, Radio 1....). Audio quality can be patchy at times and the programmes not much better I'm afraid! (Robert Wilson, Northern Ireland? Sept 22, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Sept 19 at 0634: only 936, none lower (except 846 presumed TP Kiribati). Regarding the stronger-than-others JBA TA carriers I have been getting on 936 kHz, here`s another report regarding that: ``MARROCOS, 936. Ago 26, 2018. 0010-0035, SNRT*-Al Idaâ Al Amazighia, Agadir-MRC, em Berbere. Conversação entre a locutora e uma ouvinte, ao telefone, provavelmente; Uma canção berbere, suponho. Apesar de estar entre duas emissoras brasileiras OM ativas (930 e 940 kHz, a saber: Radio Liberdade, Aracajú-SE, filiada Band e Super Radio Brasil, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, respectivamente). Al Idaâ tem recepção satisfatória por aqui, 34433. Minha primeira sintonia desta emissora. 936. Ago 27, 2018. 0154-0210, SNRT-Al Idaâ Al Amazighia, Agadir, em Berbere. Locutora em conversação com um senhor; 0200 Canções berberes, interpretadas por cantor, cantora e coral de vozes. Hoje, apresenta recepção pobre entre nós, 35432. *Société Nationale de Radiodiffusion et de Télévision. Fonte da pesquisa desta Emissora: https://www.mwlist.org/mwlist_quick_and_easy.php?area=1&kHz=936 (José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX) - PR7036SWL (SWARL), Cabedelo-Paraiba, Brasil (UTC-3), Conexion Digital Sept 16 via DXLD)`` That source gives power as 400 kW: ``400 Thomson S7HP tx, max 400 kW, la: Tamazight (Berber), Tachelhit, Rifain, ar // 711 1044`` JRX says he heard it for the first time August 26, which may also imply the power increase was recent (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search Sept 20 at 0605-0613 UT: 846 (this one only presumed TP Kiritimati); 855, 1044, 1116, 1125, 1215, 1413, 531, 558, 774, 828. Sept 21 at 0246 while computers, TVs, etc. are also running: 1044-NE, 1215, 1503. Sept 21 at 0600 with other devices off: 774, 747, 738, 639, 612, 558, 855, 882, [no 846], 936, 1017, 1098, 1107, 1125. UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search Sept 22 at 0602- 0616 UT: 855(2), 837, 783, 774, 729, 648, 621, 612, 585, 558(2), 531; 882, 918?, *936, 1017, 1026, 1044, 1098(2), 1107, 1125, 1134, 1215, 1224. *936 the strongest, presumed Agadir, Morocco; (2) = some have at least two carriers beating. UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Sept 23 at 0610 UT: 855, 882, 936, 999, 1044, 1098, 1107, 1125; at 0618, 612 and 648; at 0638 still 882. UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search Sept 24 at 0638 UT: 936*, 837(2); at 0643, 882 and 846(presumed TP Kiritimati). UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, Sept 19 at 1126-1131 on the R75 with E-W longwire: 1098, 936, 891, 846, 828, 774, 747, 666, 612, 594. Immediately repeating the search on the DX-398 which I can rotate for DF, Sept 19 at 1133-1142: 594-NW, 612-WSW, 747-NW, 774-NW, 846-W, 936-WSW, 972-NW, 1017-?, 1035-?, 1098-?, 1512-WSW. NW points to E Asia such as Japan, Korea; WSW to Australia or NZ; W to other Pacific islands. Sunrise at Enid 1217 UT. My neighbor Richard N Allen, with more antenna gain, was also active this morning with audio from Japan before and after 1200 on 594, 774, 828 and carrier maybe Korea on 972. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search Sept 21 at 1150-1159 on R75 with E-W longwire: 558, 594(2), 603, 612, 621, 657, 666, 675, *693, 702, 711, 747, 756, 765, *774, 792, 819, *828(2), 837, 846, 855, 873, 909, 927, 936, 972, 1035, 1044, 1098, 1134, 1287. I then hasten back to 774; see JAPAN. * here means strongest signals, surely also NHK; (2) means (at least) two carriers beating. Sept 21 at 1202-1215 UT, another search this time on the rotatable DX-398 with DF notations for most: 558-NW, 594-SSE? (beware, probably the KZLS 1640 spur I tracked down a few years ago), 612-WSW, 675-NW, 684-WSW, *693-NW, 702(2)-WSW, 765-WSW, *774-NW, 792-NW, 828-NW, 846-NW, 882(2), 891-NW, 936-WSW, 972-NW, 1035(2)-NW, 1053-NW, 1098-W, 1134-NW. 828 is still in at 1218, almost sunrise 1219 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Bubble jamming heard on 29 Aug at 0120 UT on MW 648 & 828 kHz. Checking on next days - on 828 kHz the jamming is at 1500-0400 UT, maybe is 24hrs (Rumen Pankov-BUL, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 13 via BC-DX 19 Sept via DXLD) Well, not much on 648 around there except 2 megawatts from Sa`udi Arabia, while 828 has 50 kW from Iran. These two adversaries have been engaging in counter-jamming on SW, so why not MW? (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. [1368, continued thread from 18-38:] Keep in mind that the SAPPRTF lists in China only show stations licensed by the government, which includes perhaps only half of stations that are on the air in China. Of my usual FM stations that I could hear from my location in Korea, maybe only about 50-60% were actually in the database, and similar with my old AM regulars - many weren`t in the database, but far more AMs were in the database than FMs as obviously it`s harder to go under the radar on AM than on FM at night. The rest were operating illegally, though you and the citizens would never know it as they are all covering large areas and are well-established local stations with programming and advertising. Most of them pay people off or just skirt the rules until they`re caught, and few of them ever are. Nei Menggu usually has multiple stations on FM that aren`t in the database, as I`ve heard them via Es with IDs, but they mostly hold licenses for the majority of their stations. So I guess my point is: NEVER trust the SAPPRTF database as a resource of what`s on the air. Take the information that IS in the database as reliable but when a station isn`t in the database, don`t assume it doesn`t exist. It usually does. Use the station websites to confirm (if they have any) and even then, they often don`t list their frequencies on there. But I may be an ``expert`` on the ground who knows a lot, but I only know what I could regularly hear, and Inner Mongolia is certainly not one of those areas. I can only help out with what I have experience with. It could very well be any Chinese station playing a song that just doesn`t match on Shazam. It`s very possible! I wouldn`t be able to confirm either way without contacting my Mongolian friend (I kinda don`t wanna bother him :) ?) It`s just gonna have to be one of those unsolved ones I guess aside from knowing the general region it came from (-Chris Kadlec, IRCA via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. I just heard a WMNI Columbus OH (95.1 & 920 AM) ID on 1520 AM at the top of the hour in the local ID slot. It sounded so strong that I would suspect the usual dominant WWKB, but would they really give an ID for WMNI? 73 (Mika Makelainen, Finland, 0223 UT 19 Sept, IRCA via DXLD) There are three low-power Ohioans on 1520, FWIW, but I see no connexion with the 920 station in FCC info (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Eu recebi esse comunicado há alguns dias mas não consegui ainda por aqui. É Ondas del Huallaga (Pres.) Se eu conseguir ouvir as músicas consigo indentificar. 73, parabéns pela a escuta. Em Qui, 20 de set de 2018 19:28, Rudolf Grimm escreveu: Daniel, Aqui no meu kiwiSDR (São Bernardo SP) por baixo da CHU em 3330 kHz eu ouço uma estação em espanhol. Antigamente ali ouvíamos a Ondas del Llallagua, Peru, mas durante muito tempo nada nesta frequência em SS. E agora voltamos a ouvir uma estação em espanhol nesta frequência. Qual seria a sua opinião sobre o que podemos estar ouvindo? O horário: depois de 0000 UT. 73, Rudolf Grimm (via Daniel Wyllyans, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Also could be some 1110 kHz station on x3 third harmonic. 73, (Glenn hunting-harmonix-with Hauser, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 7457, Sept 24 at 0025, AM open carrier and off. IIRC this is a MARS frequency, not otherwise in AM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7466.75-USB, Sept 21 at 0552, strange net with multiple stations, including some Spanish words but otherwise unknown language; whistling (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. EGYPT, Mystery Egyptian Music Station on 9400, Sept.22: 0815-0820 on 9400 unknown tx / unknown to ????, weak signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/09/mystery-egyptian-music-station-on-9400.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Sept 21-22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11531.50-USB, Sept 24 at 1426, 2-way in colloquial Spanish, stronger than 11530 presumed Kurdistan [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1949: Many thanks to Gerald T Pollard, Research Triangle, Raleigh NC, for generous quarterly seasonal support at the autumnal equinox to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702. Gerald reports on Sept 19: ``Minimal in this elevated area on the periphery, serious to the east and south, especially bad where combined with negative factors such as storm surge along the coast and poverty along the Lumber River (home of the Lumbee Tribe). By the grace of WCPE-FM https://theclassicalstation.org/ and plenty of reading matter, I survived three days of work-deprivation and, having been duly resurrected, am back at the desk`` One may also contribute, not necessarily in US funds, via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ World of Radio Hitlist Update Hi Glenn, my latest Hitlist update. http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm 1) Albania - R Tirana: Added additional link to a further alternative livestream address (thanks to Alexander Busneag in WOR iog) 2) Australia - Ozy R: Removed link to the "under-construction" website as it no longer seems to exist 3) Germany - Channel 292: Updated links to programme schedules 4) Nigeria - V of Nigeria: Added link to Facebook home page 5) Pakistan - R Pakistan: Updated link to frequencies webpage and to live-stream 6) South Africa - Channel Africa: Updated link to live stream Unless there's a major change anywhere, the next update will be late October. Best wishes and 73 (Alan Roe, Sept 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PRIME TIME SHORTWAVE TO CEASE Hello shortwave listeners. I was hoping not to do this but Prime Time Shortwave will cease to exist October 27. The new schedule season starts on October 28 and there would be too much inaccurate information at that time. I did the Prime Time Shortwave database from 1998-2007 and Ernest Riley did the database 2007-2018. It's been a wonderful 20 years for the website. I haven't heard from Ernest Riley since May and have received no replies to my emails. I very much appreciate the work that Ernest Riley did on updating the schedules. There is quite a bit of research involved to create the schedules. I don't have the time to go back to working on it myself. In my request to have someone take it over there was one inquiry, but I can understand when someone doesn't want to take it over due to the work involved. If someone has the interest to work on the schedules the decision could be reversed. The Prime Time Shortwave email list will continue as long as there is an interest in keeping the email list active. (Daniel Sampson Prime Time Shortwave http://www.primetimeshortwave.com Sept 22, ptsw yg via DXLD; also via Mike Agner, WOR iog) IARU Monitoring System, monthly newsletter for Region 1, August 2018 (via BC-DX 19 Sept via DXLD) Huge report of INTRUDERS into the ham bands, including a few broadcasters such as R. Hargeisa, VOBME (gh, DXLD) see SOMALILAND SHORTWAVEOLOGY Useful website with recorded files of Interval Signals, jingles, programs etc of shortwave Radios (Gianni Serra - Roma-Italy, WOR iog via DXLD) WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ EAS test today [Sept 20 --- NOT!] at 1818 UT The industry news source Inside Radio reports that FEMA will conduct the next nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System on September 20 at 12:18 pm (MDT). “After conducting a first-ever national EAS test in 2011, this test will be the fourth dry run of an infrastructure designed to allow a President to speak to the country in case of a national emergency. “FEMA will also conduct a simultaneous first-ever national test of the Wireless Emergency Alert or WEA. It will involve sending an 87-character test message to be displayed on mobile handsets. “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.” My recommendation? Mark your calendars and remember, it’s only a TEST. We’ll see (September KUNM Zounds! via DXLD) Past tests have had serious problems. The EAS portion will presumably attempt to interrupt all radio, television, and cablecasts. Some ``stations`` far down the relay-link-chain would sound horrible, or unintelligible, multiply echoing, etc. (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) This test has been postponed to 10/03 due to the current hurricane issues. https://www.fema.gov/emergency-alert-test?utm_campaign=%2B%20Disasters%20and%20Emergencies&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--e1J9SXLzsdnJFpsStlGX2ZN7JSRvwIpRqLccAGBsttpXRsRDR-jfrTdmFYZ4TC1_Oln5GDzqPU6eCysZ4TvwFcY7wzw&_hsmi=65982954&utm_content=65982149&utm_source=hs_email&hsCtaTracking=e9b4a343-4f29-4f52-ad9b-e4733bcf72bc%7Cebdcd46a-63fd-47b9-b10e-b5c472428e1d (Don Hosmer W8SWL. W Branch MI USA WOR iog via DXLD) Viz.: The IPAWS National Test Graphical representation of what a Presidential Alert will look like on cellular phones. In this case the alert is a test message. Fact Sheet IPAWS National Test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) The National EAS and WEA test has been postponed to the backup date of October 3, 2018, beginning at 2:18 p.m. EDT. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) on the backup date of October 3, 2018 due to ongoing response efforts to Hurricane Florence. The WEA portion of the test commences at 2:18 p.m. EDT, and the EAS portion follows at 2:20 p.m. EDT. The test will assess the operational readiness of the infrastructure for distribution of a national message and determine whether improvements are needed. The WEA test message will be sent to cell phones that are connected to wireless providers participating in WEA. This is the fourth EAS nationwide test and the first national WEA test. Previous EAS national tests were conducted in November 2011, September 2016, and September 2017 in collaboration with the FCC, broadcasters, and emergency management officials in recognition of FEMA’s National Preparedness Month. The EAS is a national public warning system that provides the President with the communications capability to address the nation during a national emergency. The test is made available to EAS participants (i.e., radio and television broadcasters, cable systems, satellite radio and television providers, and wireline video providers) and is scheduled to last approximately one minute. The test message will be similar to regular monthly EAS test messages with which the public is familiar. The EAS message will include a reference to the WEA test: “THIS IS A TEST of the National Emergency Alert System. This system was developed by broadcast and cable operators in voluntary cooperation with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Federal Communications Commission, and local authorities to keep you informed in the event of an emergency. If this had been an actual emergency an official message would have followed the tone alert you heard at the start of this message. A similar wireless emergency alert test message has been sent to all cell phones nationwide. Some cell phones will receive the message; others will not. No action is required.” Cell towers will broadcast the WEA test for approximately 30 minutes beginning at 2:18 p.m. EDT. During this time, WEA compatible cell phones that are switched on, within range of an active cell tower, and whose wireless provider participates in WEA should be capable of receiving the test message. Some cell phones will not receive the test message, and cell phones should only receive the message once. The WEA test message will have a header that reads "Presidential Alert" and text that says: “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.” The WEA system is used to warn the public about dangerous weather, missing children, and other critical situations through alerts on cell phones. The national test will use the same special tone and vibration as with all WEA messages (i.e. Tornado Warning, AMBER Alert). Users cannot opt out of receiving the WEA test. The test was originally planned for September 20, 2018 but has been postponed until October 3, 2018 due to ongoing response efforts to Hurricane Florence (via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See MEXICO ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See BELGIUM ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See BULGARIA; INDIA; KUWAIT; NEW ZEALAND; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ROMANIA; SWITZERLAND; USA: FCC, WBCQ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC See USA: WBCQ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ ODE TO ANALOG DXING I love my analog DXING lifestyle --- In decades of radio listening, I?ve yet to reboot a radio, upgrade the memory in the radio, install WINDOZE on the radio, complain that the screen died on the radio, lose all my ?settings? on the radio, nor have my radios ever been victimized by malware, ransomware or viruses. Recording is for people who want to binge watch Game of Thrones. Give me knobs, dials, switches, wires, tubes and transistors any day of the week. Harrumph I say! Harrumph! (Colin Newell - Tongue in cheek - B.C. CANADA _ _ ... ... _ _ IRCA via DXLD) West Coast TPs Sept 19 A good morning... https://youtu.be/gNKwy7TLk4U (Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA - IRCA at HCDX via DXLD) Colin, Nice to see a video with the audio of what it really sounds like on this side of the ocean. Not many post a lot of the audio. 972 Dangjin is 750kw day, 1500 night. I lived about 40 miles from the tower (25 mi. to my FM site), so the power change btw. night and day didn`t make much difference to me. They came on with their 1-hour sign-on sequence at noon and turned off the following morning. Henan often interfered with it at night and I`d often hear 972 Pyongyang from atop the skyscrapers downtown (like with many stations, I could only hear them atop the towers *shrugs* - even though people say things like height make no difference with AM, something must explain that; perhaps steel conducts signals). 603 is indeed Hwaseong playing Do Hyeon-yun`s `Saranghaessnabwa` (I Guess I Loved You). 250kw day, 500 night. 657 - I haven`t heard that song in a while. Naturally Pyongyang. 1098 - I also cannot tell from the audio which station it is. 1017 - is CRI Korean, as you figured //1323. (-Chris Kadlec, IRCA via DXLD) I don't think you're crazy here. Here's what I think might have been happening: if you're in a crowded downtown of a big city like Seoul, at ground level you're probably in a somewhat effective Faraday cage. A 300-meter-wavelength signal is going to have a hard time penetrating a downtown street grid where the buildings are only 20 or 30 meters apart from each other and hundreds of meters tall. Get on top of those buildings and you're out of the Faraday cage. The signals are still being conducted along ground (and perhaps up the steel of the buildings to your radio) rather than through skywave - but up on the roof you're not within the giant steel city grid that attenuates the long wavelengths of MW radio. And we've known for 90+ years that steel building frames can have effects on MW signals - go all the way back to 1922, when AT&T started its station WBAY at one of its buildings in Lower Manhattan, only to discover the building frame itself was resonant at WBAY's 360 meter wavelength, causing it to absorb much of the transmitted signal. They had another station, WEAF, at a different location that worked better and they moved their programming over there. (We had a similar situation in 1922 here in Rochester - the Times-Union newspaper put WHQ radio on the air in March and found its building absorbed too much of the signal from the rooftop antenna, so they shut it down and sold the license to George Eastman of Kodak fame, who restarted it later that same year as WHAM.) s (Scott Fybush, NY, ibid.) Try Something New This DX Season! If you are looking for some new DXing excitement this season, why not try out one of the DIY antenna projects described in the links below? A great variety of projects are listed, all of which have proven to be popular and effective in the Ultralight Radio DXing community over the past ten years (with the exception of the new XHDATA D-808 "Supercharging" article, which was just written). Whether you would like to "homebrew" a low cost PVC air core loop, transform a modest portable into a dream travel DXing radio or become a "Frequent Flyer" DXer with a miniature FSL antenna that performs like gangbusters on exotic ocean beaches, an exciting DXing future is yours when you accept the challenge. So go ahead and take the plunge! 1) Supercharging the Sony ICF-2010 (May 2008) Using the loopstick transplant principles developed through extensive Ultralight radio experimentation, this article details how to replace the ICF-2010's stock 6.5" loopstick with a 19.5" composite transplant, thereby dramatically boosting MW band sensitivity (while providing a significant boost to Longwave reception as well). http://www.mediafire.com/file/3msq1yx6hn7tm5g/SuperchargingtheICF2010LargeComplete.pdf 2) E100 Slider Loopstick (September 2008) Co-authored with John Bryant, this article explains how to replace the E100 stock loopstick with a far more effective 7.5" Slider loopstick. Many of these highly sensitive models are still in DXing service today http://www.mediafire.com/view/nqggfm2jymc/YOU_CAN_DO_THIS_Building_the_Slider_E100.pdf 3) PVC Loops-- The Low Cost Ticket to High DX Gain (August 2009) Tired of expensive commercial antennas or pricey ferrite sleeve loops? This article will teach you how to build a dirt-cheap PVC air core loop with side sizes from 18 inches up to 9 feet... all of them (MW models) costing well under $100. The 9' monster size loop was used here to receive 7 Medium Wave TA's in 2009-2010. http://www.mediafire.com/file/0bpbmda7lnhdy6p/PVCLoop-LCTtoHDXG-Article.doc/file 4) PL-360 Plug-in 7.5" Loopsticks (June 2010) Do you have a PL-360 model (with its plug-in antenna jack for AM and LW loopsticks)? This article will teach you how to replace the deaf midget loopstick with extremely effective 7.5" Medium Wave and Longwave plug-in replacements-- with no modification required to the radio at all. 25 of the MW and 5 of the LW plug-in loopsticks were made here and sent out to PL-360 owners-- many of which are still in use. http://www.mediafire.com/view/2cqwsqj0bvajf6k/7.5%20inch-LS.doc 5) 7.5" Longwave Loopsticks (June 2011) Detailed technical article describing the challenge and success in developing 7.5" Longwave-optimized loopsticks for the Tecsun DSP Ultralights. Includes basic instructions for building your own 7.5" Longwave loopstick PL-380 model http://www.mediafire.com/view/845snah2h4ek9z9/7.5inLWLS.doc 6) 7" FSL Antenna-- Detailed "Heathkit-like" Construction Article (October 2011) Build your own 7" Ferrite Sleeve Loop antenna at a cost of under $200. This detailed article has multiple Photoshop-enhanced instructional photos to guide you in creating a highly effective 7" FSL antenna http://www.mediafire.com/view/dshnqlbydf6qu25/7%20Inch%20Diameter.doc 7) 5" FSL Antenna-- Detailed "Heathkit-like" Construction Article (March 2012) Build your own 5" Ferrite Sleeve Loop antenna at a cost of under $150. This detailed article has multiple Photoshop-enhanced instructional photos to guide you in creating a highly effective 5" FSL antenna http://www.mediafire.com/view/9ze98h293s85p86/5%20inch%20FSL.doc 8) Supercharging the PL-380-- Detailed "Heathkit-like" Construction Article (October 2013) Replace the midget stock loopstick in your Tecsun PL-380 with a far more effective 7.5" Medium Wave or Longwave loopstick transplant-- and enjoy a new level of DXing success. Multiple Photoshop-enhanced assembly photos to guide you in the process of creating your own highly sensitive DXing portable-- for under $100 in assembly parts. http://www.mediafire.com/view/du3sr5cd9thqvau/7.5inch-LS-PL380.doc 9) 3 inch FSL Tecsun PL-380-- Detailed "Heathkit-like" Construction article (January 2016) Replace the midget stock loopstick in your Tecsun PL-380 with a compact, lightweight 3" FSL antenna-- externally mounted and optimized for high-level Medium Wave DXing excitement . Multiple Photoshop-enhanced assembly photos guide you in the assembly process. http://www.mediafire.com/file/w0gcek56f6aq7kr/3_Inch_FSL_Tecsun_PL.doc 10) 3.5 inch (89mm) "Frequent Flyer" FSL Antenna-- Detailed "Heathkit-like" Construction article (July 2017) Specifically designed to routinely pass through airport security checkpoints and provide high-gain inductive coupling boosts for MW-DXing portables, the "Frequent Flyer" FSL's have already been used in Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and Hawaii for some exceptional DXing fun. During a recent visit to the Cook Islands one of these models tracked down 657-AIR (India), 693-Bangladesh, 918-Cambodia, 1431-Mongolia and 1000-Radio Record (Brazil). The detailed article uses multiple Photoshop-enhanced assembly photos to guide you in the construction process- all for about $150 in commonly available parts. http://www.mediafire.com/file/pnfm8909c77zjoy/3.5inch-FF-FSL.doc 11) Supercharging the XHDATA D-808 AM-LW-FM-SW-AIR SSB Portable (September 2018) Although the XHDATA D-808 is not an Ultralight Radio, it is a very sensitive AM-DXing portable that can be transformed into a dream AM or Longwave DX-chasing travel radio. It can also be used as an SSB "spotting receiver" on ocean beaches, to track the carrier strength of exotic DX stations for Ultralight Radio reception. "Supercharge" your D-808 with this detailed, illustrated article-- containing 20 pages of clear instructions to guide you in the process! http://www.mediafire.com/file/t2989hg61vbkb5h/Supercharging_the_XHDATA_D_-808-FinalMWLW.doc/file 73 and Good DX, (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA), Ultralight Radio Group Co-Founder, Sept 20, nrc-am gg et al., via DXLD) Developer Completes "Proof-of-Life" Off-Grid Crypto Transaction Primed for Post-Apocalypse --- By Marie Huillet 12264 Total views, 362 Total shares, Listen to article, 2:30 https://cointelegraph.com/news/developer-completes-proof-of-life-off-grid-crypto-transaction-primed-for-post-apocalypse News A developer known as “Daniel Jones” on Twitter claims to have completed a solar-powered, off-grid crypto transaction using shortwave radio and blockchain, The Next Web reports Tuesday, September 18. The project was reportedly devised in response to the CallForCode challenge, which challenges tech innovators to improvise with existing tools in order to find relief solutions for natural disasters. The off-grid transaction was completed on the open-source blockchain network ‘Burst’ and involved just a portable hard drive, a solar battery pack and a shortwave radio, as one of the project devs revealed in a Tweet September 15: ``It is with great honor I present to you the first $burst radio transaction. Solar powered, mesh net, and on chain.`` https://explore.burst.cryptoguru.org/transaction/17490887355364942154 The developer – known as Daniel Jones on Twitter or nixops on reddit – has dubbed the project “Proof-of-Life,” and explained that it entails a simple, verified wallet-to-wallet transaction or message designed to confirm someone’s survival in cases of extreme danger or catastrophe: “[The] transaction... was a multi factor verification of Proof of Life…. during a disaster… there could be cases where you may need to verify [that] someone is who they claim to be but without being able to see them .... the wallet was assigned to someone who sent a transaction with the fee to show the target wallet they were "alive". This gives us some levels of certainty, wallet seed, target wallet known, and amount + fee or message content.” Jones added that “in a war torn environment you may not want to disclose location, [so] in this case I can still deliver a message and not disclose [it but nonetheless] notify my loved ones that I am ok[ay].” As Jones has emphasized, the use of amateur radio requires a license from the FCC, and the developer chose not to disclose the licensed operator that enabled the experiment. As previously reported, the use of crypto to serve humanitarian relief has been recognized by agencies including UNICEF, which this year appealed to PC gamers to use their powerful processors to mine Ethereum (ETH) and generate earnings to be donated to children in war-torn Syria. In January 2017, UNICEF also presented “Donercoin” at London Blockchain Week, a blockchain-based program aimed at creating transparency in global aid by digitizing donations (via Daniel Wyllyans, Sept 21, HCDX via DXLD) Over and out: CB radio-maker struggles to adjust to Trump tariffs By Jeanne Whalen, Taylor Glascock For the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/over-and-out-cb-radio-maker-struggles-to-adjust-to-trump-tariffs/2018/09/23/87cf518a-b6b8-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253_print.html?noredirect=on CAPTION: Chris deWaal, senior product engineer, displays a marine radio prototype he has been testing at Cedar Electronics in Chicago. CHICAGO -- Cedar Electronics has been selling CB radios to American truckers since the 1960s, helping connect the workers who keep the U.S. economy rolling. But these days Cedar's business isn't exactly trucking along. The Chicago-headquartered company is racing around Asia looking for other countries to host its manufacturing, after the radios Cedar makes in China and brings to the United States were hit with one of the Trump administration's 25 percent tariffs this summer, making them more expensive to import. The White House's decision to extend its tariff campaign to an even broader range of Chinese imports starting Monday is putting similar pressure on more U.S. companies to uproot their Chinese manufacturing, and to consider layoffs, price hikes and investment cuts. "We are looking as fast as possible to find an alternative [manufacturing] place, but we're dealing with a very unstable situation," said Cedar vice president Mark Karnes, referring to President Trump's penchant for issuing policy decisions by tweet. He added: "As a business, my government just clubbed me over the head." The Consumer Technology Association alone has heard from hundreds of U.S. member companies hurt by the levies, many of which are small businesses ill equipped for this sort of tumult, said Sage Chandler, vice president for international trade at the lobbying group. "Eighty percent of our companies are small and medium enterprises," she said. "They don't have trade experts on staff. They don't have customs people on staff." More than 80 industry and agricultural groups this month backed a multimillion-dollar campaign, "Tariffs Hurt the Heartland," to oppose the White House effort. The groups are holding town-hall events and running advertising arguing that the tariffs are causing job loss and higher prices for consumers. Sellers of consumer electronics and appliances are in a particular bind. Many shifted their manufacturing to China years ago to take advantage of lower labor costs. As manufacturing grew in China and withered elsewhere, China became the sole source of parts for some products, making companies more reliant on the country. Taylor Glascock For the Washington Post CAPTION: Mark Karnes, vice president for strategic planning and business development at Cedar Electronics. Scosche Industries, an Oxnard, Calif., seller of car-stereo accessories and other electronics, manufactures 95 percent of its products in China, according to chief executive Roger Alves, who co-founded the company nearly 40 years ago in his garage. The company in recent weeks has dispatched employees to look for new manufacturing in Taiwan and Vietnam after the Trump tariffs hit some Scosche products, Alves said. Scosche needs to find an existing factory it can contract with to do the work, because it can't afford to build one from scratch, he said. The company isn't considering moving production to the United States because labor costs are too high, and there isn't enough manufacturing capacity to make Scosche's products, he said. Scosche is also attempting to negotiate price increases with retailers now that its goods are more expensive to import, but it is in a vulnerable position with big-box stores that drive hard bargains, Alves said. "If they don't like our pricing, they'll invite someone else to compete," said Alves , who employs 190 people in the United States. "Our argument is it's not an arbitrary price increase: It's a mandate from the government." Cedar Electronics' predecessor company was the first to introduce CB radios to the market decades ago. "We like to joke it was the first social media device," Karnes said. The radios, made famous by movies like "Smokey and the Bandit," are still used by many truckers, despite the advent of cellphones. Steven Fields, a trucker based in Kansas City, Mo., said he uses a CB to warn other drivers about bad weather and accidents. "Being prepared can make a big difference between a miserable trip and a safe trip," he said. About 15 years ago, Cedar moved its manufacturing to China to save money on parts and labor, Karnes said. Cedar imports almost all of its Cobra-brand CBs to North America, where it holds almost 80 percent of the market. The radios are mostly sold at large truck stops, for $99 to $199, depending on the model. When Cedar learned its CBs would be included on the initial tariff list targeting $50 billion in imports, it applied for an exemption and imported additional inventory by costly airfreight to have stock on hand before the tariffs took effect. That gave the company enough CBs to meet demand through September without having to raise prices, Karnes said. Taylor Glascock For the Washington Post CAPTION: The exterior of Cedar Electronics, with a logo for Cobra, one of its brands. As the weeks wore on, the company's other products, including its dashboard cameras and portable power packs, were also hit by 25 percent tariffs as the Trump administration widened its attack on Chinese imports. Cedar is planning to request exemptions from those levies, too, but realized it had to start planning for the possibility that the tariffs were sticking around, Karnes said. Some of the manufacturers Cedar works with in China have factories in Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan, so Cedar started asking whether it would be possible to shift to those facilities. Those discussions are still unresolved, Karnes said. In case its Chinese partners are unwilling to move production, Cedar also started combing Vietnam and other countries for manufacturers, he said. Moving to the United States isn't an option, Karnes said, because China is the only supplier of most of the parts used to make Cedar products, and many of those parts have been hit with U.S. import tariffs, too. The company estimated it would take about two years and cost millions of dollars to move each product line to a new facility outside of China: to set up new machinery, buy new parts and secure approvals from the Federal Communications Commission and regulators in other countries, which certify new products. Cedar also recently began talking to its retailers, including truck stops and sporting-goods stores, about the possibility of raising prices after its current pricing agreements expire at the end of the year. The retailers are "sympathetic, but they do warn us they have other options," Karnes said. "If our products become too expensive, [the retailers] are likely to lose business." Cedar's competitors manufacture their CBs in Vietnam and Japan, so they haven't been hit with the tariffs and can hold their prices steady, Karnes said. Cedar employs about 150 people in the United States -- most in corporate, engineering or warehousing jobs in Chicago, but also some in West Chester, Ohio, where the company makes its high-end radar detectors, which are custom installed in cars. The parts for those products also come from China and now carry a 25 percent tariff. "Unless we can find relief, we will have to take drastic measures. It could mean job loss; it could mean cutting investment in new products," Karnes said. (c) The Washington Post Company (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ National Solar Observatory folo We finally know more about the "criminal activity" being investigated at the National Solar Observatory earlier this month, prompting the closure of the sudden and mysterious closure of the facility. According to this Reuters report filed on September 19th: (Reuters) - The mysterious 11-day closure of a New Mexico solar observatory stemmed from an FBI investigation of a janitor suspected of using the facility’s wireless internet service to send and receive child pornography, federal court documents showed on Wednesday. The National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, was evacuated without public explanation on Sept. 6, leading to a swirl of social media speculation and rumors driven by its proximity to two U.S. military installations and the town of Roswell. Approximately two hours away from the observatory by car, Roswell was the site of a famous 1947 sighting of unidentified flying objects that the U.S. Air Force later said were top-secret high-altitude weather balloons. UFO conspiracy lore has it that a flying saucer crashed near Roswell, and that remains of the craft and alien crew were clandestinely removed from the crash site by the government and taken to a top-secret test site in Nevada for examination. But the mystery of the Sunspot Observatory closure proved far less complicated. It was finally explained in newly unsealed FBI records, including a 39-page application for a warrant to search the suspect’s residence. An agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation wrote in the affidavit that she was “investigating the activities of an individual who was utilizing the wireless internet service of the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, to download and distribute child pornography.” The FBI affidavit identified the suspect as a janitor under contract to clean the facility, whose laptop was found to have been used to connect to the observatory’s wireless system. According to the affidavit, observatory officials made the decision to close and evacuate the site out of concern that the suspect might pose a danger to other personnel. The observatory was reopened on Monday. The person has not been arrested or charged, and no arrest warrant has been issued, according to the FBI. Frank Fisher, a spokesman for the FBI field office in Albuquerque, told Reuters that the case was still under investigation. The warrant issued by a U.S. magistrate in Las Cruces, New Mexico, showed that on Sept. 14 agents removed from the man’s home three cell phones, five laptops, one iPad, an external hard drive, 16 thumb drives, 89 compact flash disks and other material. (viai David R. Alpert dra@pipeline.com (818) 588-NEWS Twitter:@DaveAlpert http://www.linkedin.com/in/david-alpert-radionews Sept 22, WOR iog via DXLD) Eleven days? Seriously? Weather balloons, anyone? Forgive my skepticism, but as an American I've grown accustomed to being lied to by what's supposed to be my government :-). Tnx for the report and very 73 de (Anne WI2G Fanelli, ibid.) Well, the folks from the Inspector General who cover my work unit [IRS] also cover nine separate facilities across two states. The problem currently is that it was folks and is now just a single IG agent with way too much geographic territory in Ohio and Michigan to cover in addition to having several thousand employees under that solo agent's watch. If there wasn't a nearby FBI presence or the local unit was busy with other higher priority matters, I could easily see an 11 day lock-down happening (Stephen Michael Kellat, KC8BFI, Ashtabula, Ohio, ibid.) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2018 Sep 24 0321 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 17 - 23 September 2018 Solar activity was at very low levels this period. There were no numbered spot regions and no Earth-directed CMEs observed in available satellite imagery. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reach high levels on 17 - 23 Sep, with a peak flux of 34,900 pfu observed at 17/0005 UTC. Geomagnetic field activity was at quiet to unsettled levels from 17 - 19 Sep due to effects from a negative polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). Wind speeds began the period on 17 Sep near 370 km/s, but increased to over 500 km/s following the onset of the CH HSS, seeing a peak speed near 587 km/s. Total field strength reached 12 nT while the Bz component saw isolated southward deflections to near -7 nT. Conditions returned to quiet levels on 20 Sep and most of 21 Sep, until the last synoptic period, when a SSBC ahead of a positive polarity CH HSS, increased activity to G1 Minor storm levels. The enhanced conditions continued into 22 Sep, with G1 storm levels reached the first period, and unsettled to active conditions continuing throughout the day. Wind speeds took a while to increase, but along with the SSBC from negative to positive, a CIR enhanced the mag field, increasing total field strength to approximately 11 nT and dropped the Bz component to near -11 nT. Wind speeds eventually increased to reach a peak of 574 km/s late on 22 Sep. By 23 Sep, conditions remained slightly enhanced, with active levels occurring the first synoptic period of the day, but were beginning to subside. Quiet to unsettled conditions returned for the remainder of the day as CH HSS influence continued to wane. Forecast of Solar & Geomagnetic Activity 24 September-20 October 2018 Solar activity is expected to be at very low levels throughout the outlook period, with a slight chance for C-class flare activity. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at moderate to high levels through the period. Moderate levels are expected from 06 - 08 Oct. High levels are expected from 24 Sep - 05 Oct, and 09 - 20 Oct. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm levels on 7, 8, 10, and 19 Oct due to recurrent positive polarity coronal hole high speed streams (CH HSSs). There is a chance for G2 storm levels on 8 Oct as well. Active levels are expected on 24 Sep, and 2, 10, and 20 Oct from the influence of the recurrent CH HSSs as well. Field activity is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels throughout the remainder of the outlook period. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2018 Sep 24 0321 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 2018-09-24 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2018 Sep 24 68 15 4 2018 Sep 25 68 10 3 2018 Sep 26 68 8 3 2018 Sep 27 68 5 2 2018 Sep 28 68 5 2 2018 Sep 29 68 5 2 2018 Sep 30 68 5 2 2018 Oct 01 68 10 3 2018 Oct 02 70 12 4 2018 Oct 03 70 5 2 2018 Oct 04 70 5 2 2018 Oct 05 70 5 2 2018 Oct 06 70 5 2 2018 Oct 07 70 20 5 2018 Oct 08 70 35 6 2018 Oct 09 70 10 3 2018 Oct 10 70 18 5 2018 Oct 11 68 15 4 2018 Oct 12 68 8 3 2018 Oct 13 68 5 2 2018 Oct 14 68 10 3 2018 Oct 15 68 8 3 2018 Oct 16 68 5 2 2018 Oct 17 68 5 2 2018 Oct 18 68 10 4 2018 Oct 19 68 25 5 2018 Oct 20 68 15 4 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1949, DXLD) ###