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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1956 contents: Anguilla, Argentina non, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Cuba, East Turkistan, Eritrea and non, France and non, India or Indonesia, Iran, Korea South, Kurdistan non, México, Netherlands non, Nigeria non, Northern Mariana Islands, Oman, Perú, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sudan, USA; and the propagation outlook SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1956, November 13-19, 2018 Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 [confirmed] Tue 0200 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] 5010 Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 [confirmed] Wed 1030 WRMI 5950 [zzz] Wed 2200 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v [confirmed] Sat 0730 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [confirmed Bulgaria] Sat 1200 WINB 9265 via Unique Radio [confirmed] Sat 1531 HLR 9485-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [barely confirmed] Sat 1700 WRN 5950 via WRMI [unconfirmed] Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sun 0400v WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415][confirmed 0423] Sun 1130 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [confirmed Bulgaria] Sun 2130 WRMI 7780 [confirmed] Sun 2230 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Mon 0230 WRMI 5950 9395 [confirmed both] Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v-AM Area 51 [no signal, confirmed webcast] Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] 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 ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. 13860, Nov 7 at 1455, very poor ME talk; it`s R. Ashna in Pashto at 1430-1500, then Dari 1500-1630, 300 kW, 75 degrees from Woofferton UK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA. KNLS, 7355 kHz, Full Data “35th Anniversary – Mount Denali” card in 50 days. It was back in May 1983 that I visited the station under construction and reported my story in The Messenger. It just so happens this week I found the cassette recording of Glenn Hauser reading my report of my visit to KNLS on World of Radio from July 1983 (Mick Delmage, AB, Nov CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ** ALBANIA [non]. 9395 // 5950, Nov 9 at 0237, Great // good reception of great music in WRMI World Music Fill --- instead of Radio Tirana as now scheduled on both at 0230. Once again there has been a breakdown in the convoluted automated routing of RT programming into WRMI; previously caused by RT itself changing audio feed URL without notice. In case there was any doubt, no RT announcements, but instead at 0245 WRMI own Spanish ID not by Rudy or Dino; and 0300 both into English from Radio Prague. I`ll bet the Friday-only at 2300 Tirana on 5850 is also a no-show. BTW, if and when restored, there would be no RT at 0230 UT Monday, just when WORLD OF RADIO has shown up on 5950, but that was part of the WRN relay now curtailed (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) {later: WOR resumed then // 9395} ** ALGERIA [non]. Hello! Received (for 12 days) e-QSL from “Radio Coran Algerienne” (6050, via Issoudun). Report in French sent to: https://facebook.com/radiocoran.dz 73! (Ivan Zelenyi (Nizhnevartovsk, Russia), Receiver: Degen DE1103, Antenna: indoor, Selfmade loop SW antenne, D=0,77 metres. https://twitter.com/ivan_z_nv Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Or 6060? 73, (Mauno Ritola, ibid.) ** ALGERIA [non]. FRANCE, Reception of Telediffusion d'Algerie via TDF Issoudun, Nov 6: from 1904 NF 7315 ISS 500 kW / 200 deg Arabic French news, ex 5905 from 1904 on 7375 ISS 500 kW / 155 deg Arabic French news bulletin 2000-2059 on 5940 ISS 500 kW / 160 deg Arabic Holy Quran program 2000-2059 NF 6170*ISS 500 kW / 194 deg Arabic Holy Quran, ex 5905 2100-2159 on 5940 ISS 500 kW / 160 deg Arabic Holy Quran program 2100-2159 NF 6040 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg Arabic Holy Quran , ex 5905 from 2204 NF 6040 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg Arabic French news, ex 5905 *2030-2120 6170 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg WEu Korean KCBS Voice of Korea https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-telediffusion-dalgerie-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 3-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS. 4760, AIR Port Blair. Heard at best level ever with Hindi talks 1300, to abrupt sign-off at 1315. Station only normally heard at around 1600. Maybe power or transmitter upgrade? Station is sked for English daily 1600-1630. If there’s been an upgrade to the 4 kW transmitter, it may be related to Indian Government initiatives to improve early public warnings for adverse weather conditions in the region. Logged on NZRDXL SDR, plus my own receiver 28/10 and 30/10 (Rob Shepherd, Toowoomba QLD (JRC NRD 535-D, 35 metre balanced longwire), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) Yes, powered up as already in 18-45 (gh) ** ANGOLA. 4949.61 kHz, Radio Nacional de Angola, Mulenvos, PP, 08/11 2135. YL: A song in PP, OM: talk from the studio. 'Um livro, uma história... Angola...'. 2043 UT: TC '22 e 43 em Angola...'.35543 (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP, BRAZIL, http://dxways-br.blogspot.com YouTube Channel: GrimmSBC, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Slightly lower off-frequency than usual, viz.: (gh, DXLD) 4949.741, tentative, R Nacional Mulenvos, tiny string at 0500 UT (Wolfgang Bueschel, short morning log Nov 9th, in Germany, Belgium and Doha Qatar remotes, [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz], wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGUILLA. 11650-11695, 11765-11790, 11850-11880, all very approximate, Nov 6 at 2150, intermittent modulation spike spurs matching PMS on 11775. I first noticed this when checking 11880 for RHC, see CUBA. All disappear when 11775 goes off at 2156. Fortunately, so-called Caribbean Beacon usage of 11775 is quite sporadic. Such spurs had been reported previously: ``11775, Caribbean Beacon at 1726 with OC to 1729 when a sermon by the late Dr. Gene Scott came on // 13845 (WWCR) to 1731 and OC to 1732 and back to the late Dr. Gene Scott – Very Good Oct 13 – I guess Pastor Melissa Scott's satellite feed was acting up as the carrier never dropped dead but the still very dead Dr. Gene Scott kept dropping dead. Also this one was noted later acting up by showing up plus and minus 100 kHz (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) So spurs on 11675 & 11875? Seek those (gh)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11775, Caribbean Beacon at 1116 with a taped sermon by the late Dr. Gene Scott – Barely audible to Poor Nov 7 – Wouldn't it be better to use 6090 until at least dawn? Their signal improved considerably as daylight moved across the continent. After all, they are broadcasting to North America and mainly to an audience in the USA. Pastor Melissa Scott may know a lot about Sacred Scriptures but she and her people obviously don't know diddly about signal propagation (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) In this case their QSY times of 2200 and 1000 UT correspond roughly to local sunset and sunrise in their UT-4 zone (gh, DXLD) ANGUILA, 6090. Nov 7, 2018. 0417-0430, The Caribbean Beacon, The Valley-AIA, em Inglês. Pastora Melissa Scott faz sua pregação religiosa com tranquilidade; 0425-0426 Sem modulação; 0426 Pastora continua a pregação; 0429-0430 Sem modulação até às 0430 e retorna a pregação. Recepção avaliada como satisfatória, mesmo com dois intervalos sem modulação, mas com a portadora aberta, 35433. (José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX) - PR7036SWL, Cabedelo-PB, Brasil, Receptor (es): Degen DE1103, WOR iog via DXLD) 11775, Nov 8 at 1535, PMS is on and managing to modulate without the spurspikes plus/minus 100 kHz range I was getting before 2200 Nov 6. 11775, Sat Nov 10 at 1903, DGS is S9+10 with some hum and rather distorted, but no spurs found plus/minus ~100 kHz as before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. [15476] Nothing heard on various Thursdays, when checked via remote Perseus SDRs in Europe, US states and Alberta Canada, nor nothing on SDR Kiwi Pardihno in Brazil (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 8, BC-DX Nov 10 via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. Buenos Aires X-Bandscan October 2018 --- Noticeable is the disappearance of several stations in this portion of the dial: 1610 RADIO SINTONIA (Canning) 1610 RADIO LUZ DEL MUNDO (Rafael Calzada) 1620 RADIO VIDA "Red de Vida" (Monte Grande) 1620 RADIO SENTIRES (Parque San Martín) 1620 RADIO ITALIA (Villa Martelli) – Inactive 1630 RADIO UNIDAD (Alejandro Korn) 1630 AM RESTAURACIÓN (William C. Morris) – Inactive 1640 RADIO HOSANNA (Isidro Casanova) – Inactive 1650 RADIO LAS ESTRELLAS (Longchamps) – Irregular 1650 RADIO EL MENSAJERO (Rafael Castillo) – Inactive 1650 LRI-227 ANTARES AM 1650 (Pilar) 1660 RADIO REVIVIR (Gregorio de Laferrere) 1680 RADIO BETHEL (Banfield Oeste) – Inactive 1700 LRI-236 RADIO FANTASTICO (Tigre) – Inactive 1710 AM SELVA (Ituzaingó) (Marcelo A. Cornachioni, Buenos Aires, via ‘Argentina en AM y FM’ Facebook page 16/10 via Nov NZ DX Times via DXLD ** ARGENTINA [non]. 7780, Nov 6 at 2100, WRMI with disco-vamping theme music from RAE, no opening in German until 2102.5. 7780 // much stronger 9395, Nov 6 at 2203, RAE via WRMI in Italian. Above M-F only. Note that RAE English on 9395 UT Tue-Sat, is now scheduled one hour later at 0200-0230, as yet unconfirmed by monitoring. Nov 7 at 0200, 9395 is JBA! And the one on 9955 has also shifted one UT hour later, RAE Portuguese at 12-13 instead of 11-12 during the DST season, no doubt confusing to Brazilians who have their own different DST changes to consider (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also GERMANY [non]; USA: WRMI ** ARMENIA. Fair signal of Trans World Radio India, Nov.4: 1500-1535 on 7550 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to SoAs Hindi Mon-Fri 1535-1540 on 7550 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to SoAs English Mon-Fri 1500-1600 on 7550 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to SoAs English Sat/Sun https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/fair-signal-of-trans-world-radio-india.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 3-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Reception of Reach Beyond Australia in English, Nov.6 1115-1130 on 15575 KNX 100 kW / 315 deg to SEAs English Mon-Wed/Fri 1230-1300 on 11945 KNX 100 kW / 310 deg to SoAs English Daily 1445-1500 on 9740 KNX 100 kW / 335 deg to SoAs English Mon-Wed https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-reach-beyond-australia-in.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 3-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 7530, Reach Beyond Australia at 1516 with a “Voice of the Salvation radio program” ID in English, address given in Korean, then into English with “Welcome to Spotlight…”, a program of slowly-spoken, limited vocabulary English, the topic being looking for lost items. RBA is sked here on Fridays in Korean to 1517 followed by English at 1517-1532 - Very good, Nov 9 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, listening in my car on a quiet, back-country road. CommRadio CR-1a and Sony AN-1 antenna on car roof, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7530 is replacement for ill-chosen 7190 INTRUDER in the ham band for this transmission, as previously discussed (gh, ibid.) ** AUSTRALIA. Watchdog approves landmark Australian media merger 8 Nov 2018 AFP/File / William WEST The Nine-Fairfax merger is the first deal under a controversial media ownership law that removed restrictions on companies owning newspapers, radio and free-to-air television stations in the same city [caption] A landmark merger between Australian broadcaster Nine Entertainment and venerable newspaper group Fairfax won regulatory approval Thursday, clearing the way for the creation of a media giant across television, print, video streaming and digital... https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/watchdog-approves-landmark-australian-media-merger-doc-1an99q1 (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA [non]. Screwed up on automatically recording Unique Radio via WINB using the U. Twente SDR receiver this morning. Forgot about the time change plus the hour earlier shift of the start of the programming (1000 UT). Only fair to poor reception, but at the start of recording, 1155 UT, Sounds of Your Life was airing (shouldn't it have been International Radio Report?) and that was followed by World of Radio #1955 (-- Richard Langley, Sat Nov 10, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA. History and some photo images of ORF ORS Moosbrunn broadcasting center near Vienna Austria. Besuchsbericht der ORS-Anlage Moosbrunn. Im Netz wurde ein Link auf einen aktuellen Besuchsbericht von der Sendeanlage Wien ORS Moosbrunn geteilt. (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 6) Aufgefunden im Beitrag von (Herbert Meixner-AUT, A-DX ng Nov 6) via (BC-DX Nov 10 via DXLD) ** BARBADOS. Workers at Barbados state broadcaster to be laid off November 7, 2018 https://www.stlucianewsonline.com/workers-at-barbados-state-broadcaster-to-be-laid-off/ (CMC) - The Barbados Workers Union (BWU) says the state-owned Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has announced plans to send home more than half of its 230-strong workforce while also agreeing to a proposal by the employees' bargaining agent for voluntary separation. BWU special advisor and former general secretary, Sir Roy Trotman, speaking to reporters following more than two hours of discussions with CBC management on Monday night, said the union was unsuccessful in its attempt to get the Corporation to give an enhanced separation package to those volunteering to leave. He said the meeting was a follow up to the one held last Friday where it was decided then that "it was necessary and it was according to the protocol and to the law, that what CBC should do, was to allow first of all for a discussion that would give people the chance to volunteer for separation if they so desired. "So CBC has done that and we expect that sometime over the next two or three days, those persons who wish to leave CBC would do so," he said. "We were hoping to get an enhanced package for those separations, but CBC has been insisting that the circumstances of its finances are so dire that they are unable to go beyond what are the limits set out in the Employment Rights Act and the Severance Payments Act," Sir Roy told reporters. In a statement, CBC confirmed that it had agreed with the BWU on the option of voluntary separation. "The union accepted that voluntary separation will be under the same terms and conditions as those who will be retrenched from the corporation. Those opting for voluntary separation must indicate their willingness to accept the terms and conditions no later than 4 p.m. on Friday 9 November, 2018," the CBC release said. The corporation said that severance payments and payment in lieu of notice for those opting for voluntary separation packages, along with the retrenched employees would be as outlined in the Severance Payments Act and the Employment Rights Act. It said that the two sides will meet on Monday where it will be able to inform the union how many staff have volunteered to leave and have accepted the terms and conditions as well as the remaining positions to be made redundant. Sir Roy told reporters that the BWU sought unsuccessfully to find out how much the retrenchments would cost the station, describing as "a little sad" its inability to get that costing from the corporation. "We would think that given the enormity of the separation that would take place we ought to have had a better understanding of cost implications. We ought better to be able to understand what it is that CBC has done, what it is doing and what it will do. Our understanding is that it will be shedding 116 persons or 52 per cent of its current staff. That digs deep. It cuts very, very deep, and it's painful," Sir Roy added. Just last week, the union had announced that workers at the state-owned entity would be receiving a five per cent wage increase and Sir Roy confirmed that talks will be held on Monday with CBC. "This is 116 of possibly 230. So you can see just how grave that is. We will be meeting again next Monday and we have to start looking at the way by which we are going to approach these separations. There is a commitment to last-in first-out and that is consistent with what we have at the level of the Social Partnership," he added. The six month old Mia Mottley government has embarked upon a retrenchment programme in a bid to revitalise the ailing economy. The government has entered into a US$290 million Extended Fund Facility (EFF) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** BHUTAN. Glenn, In spite of somewhat auroral conditions, had a JBA carrier this morning on 6035 between 1030 and 1045Z which disappeared right at 1045, as per published schedule. Unfortunately, no audio, but under better TP conditions, I might get that, too. Thanks to Ron Howard for the tip! 73, (Art Peterson, Blind as a bat but still forging ahead! Nov 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Axually 1045 is not a published close-down schedule; Ron has been hearing widely variable cutoffs as late as 1200 (Glenn to Art, via DXLD) Glenn, Looks like I mis-interpreted the HFCC listings; 1045 is the end of the listing for the BC in English, not s/off. It did seem like a strangely early hour to end their BC day. However, I did notice a lack of carrier after 1045 on that day. Even 1200 seems a little early, but I guess Bhutanans go to bed early. I will continue to monitor the freq for this exotic DX. One of my problems in using the HFCC list is not being able to see a whole page at once; I can only get the screen reader to recite the list one line at a time. It was nice to have China step aside from the channel. Once in a while we win one. 73, (Art Peterson, ibid.) ** BOTSWANA. 4930, VOA, 1514-1525, Nov 7. In English; surprised to hear the relay of "in Ethiopia, on 102.1 FM"; usual FM format; announcer chatting about "Make A Wish Foundation," etc. and playing pop songs; almost fair via long path (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BOTSWANA. UNKNOWNIA: 9485, 2139, 11/5; W in French with Afro-pop & French pop. Possibly VoA via Kuwait on after Aoki/EiBi listed 2130* for French. SIO=3+53+ (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ----- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time & without the aid of a computer! -----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) VOA Bambara via BOTSWANA is now scheduled on 9485 M-F at 2130-2200 (gh, DXLD) ** BOUGAINVILLE. 3325, NBC Bougainville (Maus Blong Sankamap), 1102-1111*, Nov 5. Cut off in mid-sentence, leaving a faint Voice of Indonesia here (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Rádio Municipal, 3375 kHz (Ondas Tropicais banda de 90 metros) Música Local tradicional do Estado do Amazonas 2335 UT 05 Novembro 2018 https://youtu.be/miRYcn6TC-4 RX: Yaesu FRG 8800 Antena: DS SWL DL Dipolo Assimétrica 42 Metros + Balum + 15 Metros Coaxial (Daniel Wyllyans, Sítio Estrela do Araguaia, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4885.024, The usual powerhouse, strongest Brazilian stn in 60 mb. S=9+5dB in peaks at 0519 UT, nice music program [Clube do Pará] 4904.987, UNID, maybe Brazilian R Relógio (?), fluttery S=4-5 under threshold level. 4985.010, Brasil Central Goiânia, totally covered by RTTY ute here in Germany SDR. 850 Hertz apart distance of high speed RTTY on center 4984.575 and 4985.425 kHz measured (Wolfgang Bueschel, short morning log Nov 9th, in Germany, Belgium and Doha Qatar remotes, [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz], wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 5939.736, Camboriú, SC 0.5 kW/ND Radio Voz Missionária, Nov 8, 2248 - Good solid reception with a revival meeting, in Portuguese. No drift noted (Walt Salmaniw, Listening Waters DXpedition, Murray Harbour North, PEI, 3–10 Nov 2018, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. News: 8000 kHz (ANATEL) --- A Rádio Casa 8000 foi desativada! ACABOU! OFF 8000 para sempre. A ANATEL Fechou. Ao que sabemos pelo o dono que foi denúncias de vizinho (Estava interferindo em interfones). As demais continua no ar. Só se algum de nossos inimigos dar nosso endereço para a ANATEL. O TX da Rádio Casa 8000 Não foi levado porque era no estilo LIVRE (Não possuía comercial e não possuía fim de lucro). 73 (Daniel Wyllyans, Nov 9, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DXLD) Busted, after denounced by a neighbor for QRMing phones, transmitter not confiscated, however, since it was non-profit (gh summary translation, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL, 10000. Nov 10, 2018. 1951-2000, Observatório Nacional (ON), Rio de Janeiro-RJ. Hora oficial de Brasília, em voz feminina, falada a cada 10 segundos: ON: 17h51´40´´; ON: 17h51´50´´; ON: 17h52´00´´ e etc. Emissora de Sinal Horário chegando satisfatória por aqui, 35553 (José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX) - PR7036SWL, Cabedelo-PB, Brasil, Degen DE1103, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11325 kHz, Rádio GBA (Ondas Curtas Riberao Preto SP) Atenção: A Rádio GBA está em Nova frequência no Ar --- nesse momento 11325 kHz. Para atingir mais longas distâncias em MT PA GO MS SP RS SC MG BA RJ sintonize. Rádio GBA Riberão Preto SP No ar até a boca da Noite 2025 UT 12 Novembro 2018 https://youtu.be/G6bZv3wod3I RX: Yaesu FRG 8800 Antena: Dipolo Assimétrica DS SWL DL 42 Metros (Daniel Wyllyans, Sítio Estrela do Araguaia, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. [sic:] Chuva de veri deslike ataque de alguns inimigos in Brazil --- Para meus alguns inimigos que está dando deslike nos vídeos (Descobri que eles está inscrito aqui) se prepara que agora vem mais DX retirei meu tempo esses dias para fazer 24 horas de dexismo sem parar agora que vou fazer mais!!! VAI ENGOLIR NA MARRA SÓ ESTÁ COMESANDO O NEGÓCIO VEM MUITO MAIS VOU FAZER MAIS E MAIS VIDEOS SEM PARAR ... DW (Daniel Wyllyans, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) [tradução:] Rain of veri deslike attack of some enemies in Brazil For my some enemies it is giving deslike in the videos (I have found that they are subscribed here) prepare now that more DX has taken my time these days to do 24 hours of dexis without stopping now that I will do more !!! GO ENGOLIR IN MARRA IS ALREADY COMESING THE BUSINESS COME SO MUCH MORE I WILL DO MORE AND MORE VIDEOS WITHOUT STOPPING ... DW (via DXLD) Google translates Comesando as comes-ing, not realising that the word is really misspelt for Começando = beginning, and that there is no such word in English as ``comesing``! (gh, DXLD) ** BULGARIA. SECRETBROD, Updated B-18 of Brother HySTAIRical via SPL Secretbrod 1300-1400 on 11600 SCB 100 kW / 126 deg to N/ME English Sun-Fri 1405-1455 on 11600 SCB 100 kW / 126 deg to N/ME English Daily 1700-1945 on 9400 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English Daily 1805-2000 on 6000 SCB 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu English Mon-Fri 2005-0300 on 5900 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg to ENAm English Daily https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/updated-b-18-of-brother-hystairical-via.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. 11945, Nov 7 at 1503, S Asian song at S7-S5. It`s AWR in Tamil, 250 kW, 111 degrees via Sofia, says HFCC, so I guess the music is pro-Adventist, or at least pro-Christian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA [and non]. Shortwave Radiogram, 9-12 November 2018 "Teufelsberg" --- Am 09.11.2018 um 16:43 schrieb Shortwave Radiogram: Hello friends, For anyone who was awake for last Monday's 0800 UT broadcast, sorry that it was missing. There was an automation issue at WRMI, which I hope is resolved by this coming Monday. The 0800 UT transmission is interesting, because, as we approach winter, it is beginning to be audible in Europe. Reception is usually good in Australia and New Zealand and most of North America. On 9400 kHz from Bulgaria, our new Saturday broadcast time of 1400-1430 UT is working well, and was even received in parts of North America. However, The Mighty KBC's new time of 1300-1400 on 9400 kHz experienced interference from FEBC Philippines. Accordingly, KBC will move to 11600 kHz, via Bulgaria, beginning this Saturday at 1300-1400. It will be interesting to see if this new frequency is heard in Asia-Pacific and the Americas. At 1400, please don't forget to retune to 9400 kHz for Shortwave Radiogram. Reception in Europe is also improving Friday at 2030-2100 on 7780 kHz from WRMI. It continues to be good in Europe Sunday at 2330-2400, also on 7780, although the hour is late. Videos of last weekend's Shortwave Radiogram (program 72) are provided by Ralf in Germany (Saturday 1400-1430) and Scott in Ontario (Sunday 2330-2400). The audio archive is maintained by Mark in the UK. Analysis is prepared by Roger in Germany, including the colorization of last week's trail cam image sent by Mike in Washington state. This weekend's Shortwave Radiogram will be relatively simple, with text and images in MFSK32 and MFSK64 only, including eight MFSK images. Here is the lineup for Shortwave Radiogram, program 73, 9-12 November 2018, in MFSK modes as noted: 1:40 MFSK32: Program preview 2:50 Listening station near Berlin to become museum* <=== "Teufelsberg" 9:16 MFSK64: New Caledonia votes to stay with France* 14:02 North Korean officer purged for listening to RFA* 18:19 Images of the week 26:57 MFSK32: Closing announcements ~~ Mountain of the devil ~~ Montagna del diavolo ~~ Montaña del diablo Gleich beim ersten Beitrag dürfte es sich um einen Artikel der Deutschen Welle über die ehemalige Abhörstation auf dem "Teufelsberg" handeln siehe hier: https://www.dw.com/en/berlins-teufelsberg-listening-station-to-be-historical-monument/a-46147018 Hier der Link zu einem aktuellen Video vom RBB (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg): https://tinyurl.com/ya6ns8qm Ähnlich: https://tinyurl.com/y84m65th (via roger, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BULGARIA. SECRETLAND, Adventist World Radio via SPL Secretbrod, Nov.3 1300-1330 on 11730 SCB 100 kW / 075 deg to EaAs Chinese Mon-Fri 1300-1330 on 11730 SCB 100 kW / 075 deg to EaAs Uighur Sat/Sun 1330-1400 on 11730 SCB 100 kW / 075 deg to EaAs Chinese 1500-1530 on 11945 SCB 100 kW / 126 deg to SoAs Tamil 1500-1530 on 11985 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg to SoAs Telugu 1530-1600 on 9830 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg to SoAs Hindi, not on air 1530-1600 on 11945 SCB 100 kW / 126 deg to SoAs Gujarati 1600-1630 on 9770 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg to SoAs English https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-adventist-world-radio-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, Observer, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 1610/AM$(?), CHRN, “Radio Humsafar”, QC, Montréal singing ID mentioning “Humsafar” well under the carrier, but clearly audible under the dead air of Toronto’s carrier. Into YL subcontinental music, (See log below). When Toronto started up again, they were lost and not really audible under them, HOWEVER -- there was a singing ID as “Humsafar” during the CHHA silence, and the on line stream was // so, positive ID. 244+4+3 during dead air, 214+4+1 when Toronto had audio. ONE of these stations is in stereo, as the pilot was mostly on I’m thinking it was Toronto -- I'll have to check daytime at the lake to ‘know’ for sure what the deal is. 0351-0358 was the ‘clear’ period. 6/Nov SoDiRa +ANC4 +random wire antenna --Zichi MI 1610/AM$(?), CHHA, “Voces Latinas”, ON, Toronto, actual English ID with call letters and everything, then someone in Italian (not Spanish!) with a programme promo, and then dead air. During that time the co-channel mumblage from Radio Humsafar in Quebec was clearly audible. CHHA Back at 0358 with Spanish accented OM giving call letters and address and into Italian announcements, another English ID at ToH and into Newscast in Albanian (listed – sounded sort of Like a cross of Portuguese and Russian to my ear!) 444+4+4 I’m pretty sure this is the one that is in stereo as the pilot was USUALLY on when it was ‘in the clear’ but not always! SO -- further ear time is needed! 0350-0413 6/Nov, SoDiRa +ANC4 +randomwire antenna --Zichi MI 1650, CINA, ON, Mississauga, Sub-continental music and an English ID with phone number to listen to the station on “in the GTA” at 0432, by OM who PRONOUNCED the call letters “cheena” as opposed to calling them out one letter at a time. Banging in 4+4+4+44 for the most part but with no stereo pilot evident. 0425-0440 7/Nov, SoDiRa +ANC4 +randomwire --Zichi MI 1670, CJEU, QC, Gatineau, French announcements and (mostly English) Thumpity-Thump music. No ID heard, but this matches their TuneIn stream, so --- There was also a talker (Madison WI?) well under them but I never got an IDable element from that station. 444+3+3, no stereo pilot evident. 0355-0425 7/Nov, SoDiRa +ANC4 +randomwire (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) More of Ken`s x-band logs at U S A ** CANADA. 6660, CHU Canada time station; 2147, 11/7; 2 x 3330 harmonic; ID announcements at M:54. Best in USB; not heard at 2302 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ----- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time & without the aid of a computer! -----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 15034-USB, Nov 12 at 1425 UT, ``No report received`` from Cold Lake, Edmonton, Winnipeg; at 1426 UT, Trenton Military timecheck as now ``1325``, then some successful aviation weather reports timedated 1400. Something`s always wrong at CHR. One can only hope their weather statistics, when they have any, are more accurate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Inuk activist's radio show pulled off the air after sexual harassment allegations CBC News . Posted: Nov 10, 2018 4:46 PM NT | Angus Andersen's radio program NunaKakKaasimaju: First People, First Occupants has been removed from the schedule of Memorial University's campus radio station CHMR as the school's student union conducts an investigation into his online behaviour. . . https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/inuk-activist-show-pulled-off-the-air-sexual-harassment-1.4900818 (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** CANADA [non]. GERMANY, Good signal of Bible Voice Broadcasting via MBR Nauen, Nov 4 1930-2015 on 7425*MOS 100 kW / 130 deg N/ME English Sun, ex NAU B-17 * co-ch same 7425 RIY 100 kW / non-dir N/ME Arabic Holy Quran RRiyadh https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/good-signal-of-bible-voice-broadcasting.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 3-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Christians crusading against Islam! (gh, DXLD) ** CANADA [non]. Follow The Bible Ministries via BaBcoCk Woofferton on Nov 4: 1830-1858 NF 7425*WOF 300 kW / 114 deg N/ME Arabic Sun, ex 7220 B-17 * co-ch same 7425 RIY 100 kW / non-dir N/ME Arabic Holy Quran R.Riyadh https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/follow-bible-ministries-via-babcock.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 3-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHAD. Radio TV Chadienne, Ndjamena, has reactivated their mw-transmitter on 840 kHz. Heard in Finland on Oct 27 at 1659Z using their traditional interval-signal (Jorma Mantyla via dxing.info via Medium Wave News 64/06, November 2018 via DXLD) ** CHAD [non]. Radio Ndarason International via BaBcoCk on Nov 6: 0500-0700 on 5960 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg WeAf Kanuri-QRM Kuwait 5959.8 0700-0800 on 13810 WOF 250 kW / 165 deg WeAf Kanuri, very good signal 1800-2100 on 12050 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg WeAf Kanuri, very good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/radio-ndrason-international-via-babcock.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 3-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CNR-1 jamming vs free frequency 9700 kHz, Nov 6 0900-1100 on 9700 unknown kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/cnr-1-jamming-vs-free-empty-channel.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 3-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 14775, 0735, CNR 1, Jamming for Sound of Hope // 14900, 333 10/10 (Franck Baste, St Bonnet de Rochefort, France, IC-756proIII, SDR Perseus /ALA1530, 2x10m Dipole, Nov BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) 16160, 2325, CNR 1, Likely jamming Sound of Hope // 15940, Chinese, 434, 06/10 (Vince Henley, Anacortes, WA, USA Tecsun PL380, Drake R8B, ICOM IC-R8600, Ten-Tec RX-340, Nov BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) 21800, 0900, CNR 1, Jamming for Sound of Hope // 14920, 14900, 252 21/10 (Franck Baste, St Bonnet de Rochefort, France, IC-756proIII, SDR Perseus /ALA1530, 2x10m Dipole, Nov BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** CHINA. 12150, CNR, November 10, 2018, 0050–0100 in Chinese. SIO 444. OM and YLs in talk. This is likely jamming “Sound of Hope” from Taiwan. Off air at 0100 after time pips. 13920, CHINA, CNR1, November 6, 2018, 0046–0049 in Chinese. SIO 333. Talk, audio clips, advertisements. Listed language is Mandarin. This is possibly covering up “Sound of Hope” from Taiwan on the same frequency (Vince Henley, Anacortes, WA, WiNRADiO G39DDCe SDR, ICOM IC-R8600, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R8B, SDRPLAY RSP Duo, TECSUN PL-880. Antennas: whip on PL-880 and Alpha-Delta DX-Ultra installed broadside east west at 30 feet for all others, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** CHINA. 6145, China National Radio (via Kouhu) at 1600 with traditional Chinese music. Evidently broadcast is being used to jam Chinese service of Radio Taiwan Intl. on at this time. Strong on fading band with advancing morning here - Very Good Nov 11 (Rick Barton, AZ, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9620, CNR1 at 2227 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin via the Philippines with a man and woman with excited news reporting followed by some promos to 1+1 time pips at 2230 and a fanfare and a man and woman with more news reporting – Poor to Fair Nov 9 Coady-ON 11555, CHINA, CNR1 at 1238 in Mandarin jamming RFA in Tibetan via Biblis, Germany with a man and woman with excited news reporting – Barely audible to Fair in peaks Nov 9 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) Again not clear if victims also audible (gh) 9605, CNR1 at 1408 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin via the Philippines with a man and a woman with excited news reporting with many promos – Fair Nov 10. 9860, FIREDRAKE at 1937 jamming RFA in Mandarin via the Northern Marianas with the usual cacaphony of string, woodwind, and percussion instrumentals – Fair to Good Nov 10 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, odxa iog via DXLD) ** CHINA [non]. 5910, Nov 9 at 0345, bigsig about NHL teams and pending games with their Beijing times! Suspect it`s CRI; yes, CUBA relay for B-18 is down here ex-9790, which is prudent considering plunging winter night + solar cycle minima MUFs; however, 9 MHz might have worked tonight, judging from WRMI. Not a het from HJDH 5910.3v which remains gone formonths, forever? Nor do I ever hear anycarrier when frequency is clear before 0100 RRI, after 0500 CRI Cantonese (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6200, Voice of Jinling, 1234, 11/5/18. Usual double-sign on pattern holds firm for 2018 DX season. Carrier suddenly on at 1234 this morning, song in midstream, and then cut after maybe fifteen seconds. After almost a minute gone, popped back on, same song in progress, and stayed on. This is a most unusual procedure their engineers follow, clearly something that is inviolable for them and built into their standards. Funny we don't see this from any other broadcasters. All those LA stations down through the years, for example, we'd hear them turn on the xmtr early in the mornings, open carrier there for a minute or two and then the NA would start. Never a test of modulation with programming (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Ill., Drake R8B, Dentron Super – Tuner, Ameco & Palomar Preamps, Wellbrook Loop, 350’ LA BOG, Delta Skyloop, NASWA Flashsheet Nov 11 via DXLD) ** CONGO. Fair signal of Radio Congo Brazzaville, Nov.9: from 2007 on 6115 BRZ 010 kW / non-dir to COG French https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/fair-signal-of-radio-congo-brazzaville.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Later than it`s usually on? (gh) ** CUBA. 5040, Nov 6 at 0000, RHC opening English here, VG and also audible on // 11880, but that cuts to dead air at 0002, as not supposed to accompany any more like they were in A-18 at 23-24 --- but recheck at 0015, English has resumed on 11880, suptorted. Before 2400, at 2354, I found 11880 quite undermodulated and suptorted, sounded like Kriyol; wiggle that patchcord! While 5040 was VG in Spanish. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 6000 & 6165 are still off at 0105 UT Nov 6, so presumably the English block has also moved startup an hour later to 0200. 6000 // 6165, UT Tue Nov 6 at 0200, RHC beginning 6-hour English span of 1-hour shows repeated over & over & over & over & over, previewing content including ``DXers Unlimited with Arnie Coro`` --- what? That`s supposed to be a Sunday+UT Monday show; has it moved, an announcer slip, or playback of yesterday instead of today`s produxion? Did not listen to any full hours following to deconfirm. Something`s always wrong at RHC. The mitweek edition should now be imminent on UT Wednesday Nov 7. Not checked again until 0711 Nov 6, when 6165 & 6100 & 6060 & 6000 are all on, plus 6020 VP leapfrog of 6100 over 6060 another 40 kHz below. But tonight at 0716, 5040 is off, unlike last night when it accompanied the others into the sixth hour. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 13740 // 13700, Nov 6 at 1452, RHC Spanish still on both, starting `Estampas de Cuba` which is not about stamps but scenery; now that the 1400 CRI English relay has moved to 15700, other transmitter on 13740 can stay on without risking collision. But at 1504 recheck, both of them are off. The exact nominal spans for each may not be known until a sesquiweek or so when Arnie issue a new delayed B-18 schedule. 11880, Nov 6 at 2200, no signal yet; RHC seems confused, or undecided, about what to do with its second English hour of the day to ``Africa``. Had been at 2300 here during A-season, but in previous B- season shifted *earlier* to 2200. Nov 5 it was sporadic after 0000 along with 5040. Recheck at 2350 Nov 6 finds 11880 on again with poor -fair signal and barely modulated, distorted cutting in and out, like before seemingly Kriyol, while 5040 is still in Spanish. After 0000 UT November 7, 5040 is definitely in English, somewhat suptorted still at 0030 check. By now 11880 is a JBA carrier, maybe something else. RHC never used to run it after 2400. 5040, Nov 7 at 0701, this RHC is still on opening final hour of English replays, but 0703 cut to dead air just before news can start; supposed to run at 0600-0700 only. After 0700, 6000, 6060 and 6165 remain, while 6100 is a JBA carrier, presumably still RHC too. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11930, RHC at 2139 // 11860 in Spanish jamming Radio Marti with a telephone interview between two men about Donald Trump and the midterm elections in the U.S. - Fair to Good with fading Nov 7 – The Cubans must have taken a page from the Chinese authorities' book about jamming using the feed of a legitimate broadcaster rather than other forms of jamming (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) More likely a mixup, not heard otherwise; something`s always wrong at RHC, and likely jamming also carried out from same sites --- assuming Mark is referring to 11930; in fact RHC was on 11860 before R Marti glommed onto it (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13700, Nov 8 at 1542, RHC Spanish still on here, unlike Nov 6, but weak S9-S6, // others also going: 15230, 11760, 9535, 7340, two of them soon to be dropped. Wolfgang Bueschel has received the new B-18 sked to go into effect November 11; here are the morning and midday blox: 1200-1500 6000 QVC 250 305 NCAm Spanish 1200-1600 9535 BEJ 100 230 CeAm Spanish 1200-1600 9640 BEJ 050 110 Antill Spanish 1200-1600 11760 BAU 100 n-d NCAm Spanish 1200-1400 11950 BAU 100 340 WNAm Spanish 1200-1500 13780 BEJ 050 160 SoAm Spanish 1200-1600 15140 QVC 250 130 SoAm Spanish 1400-1600 13700 BAU 100 315 WNAm Spanish 1600-1630 11760 BAU 100 n-d NCAm Spanish Mon-Sat 1600-1630 11760 BAU 100 n-d NCAm Esperanto Sun only 1600-1900 15140 BAU 100 010 ENAm Spanish 1630-1900 11760 BAU 100 n-d NCAm Spanish Note that last Sunday I heard Esperanto on both 11760 and 15140. Also of note, the new English frequency for ``Africa`` at 00-01 will be 9720, // 5040 Antilles (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15140, RHC at 2007 with Langston Hughes with news – Weak Nov 8 – I wonder if this is an anomaly or if this suggests that RHC's contined use of this frequency as we move deeper into the B18 international broadcasting season is a waste of energy and bandwidth (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) 15140 is usually not weak here, closer to the boresight (gh, OK, DXLD) 15140, Nov 8 at 2030, RHC English is VP S7 and undermodulated, much worse than usual. Something`s always wrong at RHC. Partly due to degraded propagation altho K-index at 21 is only 2 and G1 storm not started yet. Arnie`s B-18 sked effective Nov 11, via Wolfgang Bueschel shows 15140 to remain now and expand to continuously 1200-2130, but in three different segments of site, power, antenna; take that, Oman: 1200-1600 15140 QVC 250 130 SoAm Spanish 1600-1900 15140 BAU 100 010 ENAm Spanish 1900-1930 15140 BAU 100 340 WNAm Arabic 1930-2000 15140 BAU 100 340 WNAm Creole 2000-2100 15140 BAU 100 340 WNAm English 2100-2130 15140 BAU 100 340 WNAm French (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ========================= Otherness ======================= 11860, Raspy pulse jammer; 1533, 11/8; same on 11930 and similar with higher pitch on 13605. No other sigs audible; Aoki lists Radio Marti 14-23 on 11860, 14-24 on 11930 & 13-20 on 13605 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ----- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time & without the aid of a computer! -----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5040, Nov 9 at 0045, RHC English, but no // found, neither old 11880 nor new 9720 as from Nov 11 (local or UT?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Winter B-18 changes of Radio Habana Cuba from Nov 11: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/winter-b-18-frequency-changes-of-radio.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 1200-1300 NF 6000 QVC 250 kW / 305 deg to WNAm Spanish, ex 11840 1200-1300 on 9640 BEJ 050 kW / 110 deg to SoAm Spanish, addit. 1200-1300 NF 11950 BAU 100 kW / 340 deg to WNAm Spanish, ex 11670 1200-1300 NF 13780 BAU 100 kW / 160 deg to SoAm Spanish, ex 17580 1200-1300 NF 15140 QVC 250 kW / 130 deg to SoAm Spanish, ex 17730 1300-1400 NF 6000 QVC 250 kW / 305 deg to WNAm Spanish, ex 11840 1300-1400 NF 9640 BEJ 050 kW / 110 deg to SoAm Spanish, ex 11650 1300-1400 NF 11950 BAU 100 kW / 340 deg to WNAm Spanish, ex 11670 1300-1400 NF 13780 BAU 100 kW / 160 deg to SoAm Spanish, ex 17580 1300-1400 NF 15140 QVC 250 kW / 130 deg to SoAm Spanish, ex 17730 1400-1500 NF 6000 QVC 250 kW / 305 deg to WNAm Spanish, ex 11840 1400-1500 NF 9640 BEJ 050 kW / 110 deg to SoAm Spanish, ex 11650 1400-1500 NF 13700 BAU 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm Spanish, ex 15370 1400-1500 NF 13780 BAU 100 kW / 160 deg to SoAm Spanish, ex 17580 1400-1500 NF 15140 QVC 250 kW / 130 deg to SoAm Spanish, ex 17730 1500-1600 on 9640 BEJ 050 kW / 110 deg to SoAm Spanish, addit. 1500-1600 NF 13700 BAU 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm Spanish, ex 15370 1500-1600 NF 15140 QVC 250 kW / 130 deg to SoAm Spanish, ex 17730 1600-1630 on 15140 BAU 100 kW / 010 deg to ENAm Spanish Mo-Sa, addit. 1600-1630 on 15140 BAU 100 kW / 010 deg to ENAm Esperanto Sun, addit. 1630-1900 on 15140 BAU 100 kW / 010 deg to ENAm Spanish, addit. 2200-2300 on 11840 QVC 250 kW / 170 deg to SoAm Spanish, addit. 2300-2400 NF 11700 QVC 250 kW / 160 deg to SoAm Portug., ex 15230 0000-0600 NF 11700 QVC 250 kW / 160 deg to SoAm Spanish, ex 15230 0100-0130 on 15730 BEJ 050 kW / 135 deg to SoAm French, x Quechua ??????????? ?? Observer ? 10:38 AM (via DXLD) 13700, Nov 9 at 1407, this RHC is already off today while 13740 remains on. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 9570, Nov 10 at 1431, S9+10 of dead air, obviously still transmitter for CRI relay which ended at 1400. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. 11760, 11840, 11860, Nov 10 at 2239, RHC Spanish on all these big, plus 12000 small. 13780, Nov 11 at 1408, RHC Spanish on new frequency ex-13740, weaker than // 13700. Also on new 15140 much earlier than before, from 1200 totally blocking any hope of Oman 1400 in English, // 15230. 15140 may be ex-17730, RHC no longer on 16mb in the morning or anywhen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re CUBA, first day of RHC B-18 schedule, start of Nov 11, at 1200 UT. 5999.999, RHC Quivican San Felipe TITAN site, Nov 11 at 1204 UT. S=9+10dB in Detroit MI state remote SDR unit. 9535.001, RHC Bejucal bcast center, S=8 at 1215 UT fluttery signal. 9640, non, NOTHING heard on this channel at 12.19 UT. non, NOTHING heard either at 1326 UT Nov 11. 11760even, RHC Bauta Spanish sce, S=8-9 in Detroit MI state, 1222 UT 11950even, RHC Bauta, female presenter with GRANMA items, 1223 UT S=9+10dB much stronger on straight northerly curtain antenna. 13780.010, RHC Bejucal, fluttery S=7-8 signal at 1229 UT. In remote NY-US state remote SDR unit S=8-9 at 1325 UT Nov 11. 15140even, RHC Quivican San Felipe TITAN site, backlobe S=6-7 signal at 1231 UT on Nov 11. S=9+5dB backlobe signal noted in NY-US state unit at 1323 UT. as usual wideband 20 kHz range audio block. 1200-1500 6000 QVC 250 305 NCAm Spanish 1200-1600 9535 BEJ 100 230 CeAm Spanish 1200-1600 9640 BEJ 050 110 Antilles Spanish 1200-1600 11760 BAU 100 n-d NCAm Spanish 1200-1400 11950 BAU 100 340 WNAm Spanish 1200-1500 13780 BEJ 050 160 SoAm Spanish 1200-1600 15140 QVC 250 130 SoAm Spanish 1400-1600 13700 BAU 100 315 WNAm Spanish (Wolfgang Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15370, Nov 11 at 2056, RHC reactivated here for European service in French at 2030, Portuguese 2100, Arabic 2130-2200. Arnie`s sked shows 100 kW, 10 degrees from Bauta site, which is not really right toward Europe but up the east coast of North America. This and 15140 in English are the SSOB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15140, RHC at 2013 with the weekend edition of Arne Coro's “DXers Unlimited” and into Langston Hughes with “The Mailbag Program” at 2024 - Fair with fading Nov 11. According to Dan Ferguson's SW Skeds files the beam is 340º which is for the U.S. Midwest, the Prairie provinces of Canada, Siberia, eastern China, and Sumatra. If that is true then this frequency is underperforming, for sure, and should be replaced. My QTH in Ontario is close enough to the beam that this frequency should perform better but it is, after all, a summer frequency (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) Full B-18 schedule of R. Habana Cuba start on 11 Nov 2018. Update arrived November 12, two freq/time changes, see below, wb. 0000-0100 6000 QVC 250 010 ENAm Spanish Mon-Thur "Mesa Redonda" 0000-0500 9640 BEJ 050 110 Antill Spanish {0000-0100 9720 BAU 100 130 SoAf English, now new time 22-23 wb.} 0000-0500 11670 BAU 100 130 SoAm Spanish 0000-0600 11700 QVC 250 160 SoAm Spanish 0000-0100 11950 BAU 100 340 WNAm Spanish Mon-Thur "Mesa Redonda" 0000-0030 15730 BEJ 050 135 SoAm Creole 0030-0100 15730 BEJ 050 135 SoAm Portuguese 0100-0130 15730 BEJ 050 135 SoAm French exQuechua 0100-0600 6060 BAU 100 010 ENAm Spanish 0200-0600 6000 QVC 250 010 ENAm English 0200-0800 6165 BAU 100 340 WNAm English 0600-0800 6000 QVC 250 010 ENAm English 0600-0800 6060 BAU 100 010 ENAm English 0600-0800 6100 BAU 100 310 WNAm English 0800-0830 6100 BAU 100 310 WNAm Esperanto Sun only {ex 1200-1500 6000 QVC 250 305 NCAm Spanish, wb.} 1200-1600 9535 BEJ 100 230 CeAm Spanish 1200-1400 9600 QVC 250 305 NCAm Spanish {ex 12-15 UT, wb.} probably Quivican antenna HRS4/4/0.9 305degr mainlobe San Francisco CA 1200-1600 9640 BEJ 050 110 Antill Spanish 1200-1600 11760 BAU 100 n-d NCAm Spanish 1200-1400 11950 BAU 100 340 WNAm Spanish 1200-1500 13780 BEJ 050 160 SoAm Spanish 1200-1600 15140 QVC 250 130 SoAm Spanish 1400-1600 13700 BAU 100 315 WNAm Spanish 1600-1630 11760 BAU 100 n-d NCAm Spanish Mon-Sat 1600-1630 11760 BAU 100 n-d NCAm Esperanto Sun only 1600-1900 15140 BAU 100 010 ENAm Spanish 1630-1900 11760 BAU 100 n-d NCAm Spanish 1900-1930 15140 BAU 100 340 WNAm Arabic 1930-2000 15140 BAU 100 340 WNAm Creole 2000-2100 15140 BAU 100 340 WNAm English 2030-2100 15370 BAU 100 010 WeEu French 2100-2130 9720 BAU 100 130 SoAf French, new time slot, wb. 2100-2130 15140 BAU 100 340 WNAm French 2100-2130 15370 BAU 100 010 WeEu Portuguese 2130-2200 9720 BAU 100 130 SoAf Portuguese, new time slot, wb. 2130-2200 15370 BAU 100 010 WeEu Arabic 2200-0600 9535 BEJ 100 230 CeAm Spanish 2200-2400 9640 BEJ 050 110 Antl Spanish 2200-2300 9720 BAU 100 130 SoAf English, new time slot, antenna Bauta #3, HRS4/4/0.8, 160degr minus 30degr slewed, wb. 2200-0300 11760 BAU 100 n-d NCAm Spanish 2200-0600 11840 QVC 250 170 Chile Spanish 2200-0500 13740 BAU 100 160 SoAm Spanish 2200-2400 15370 BAU 100 010 WeEu Spanish {2300-2330 9720 BAU 100 130 SoAf French, now new time 21-2130, wb.} 2300-2400 11700 QVC 250 160 SoAm Portuguese {2330-2400 9720 BAU 100 130 SoAf Portuguese, now new time 2130-22 wb} 2330-2400 15730 BEJ 050 135 SoAm French Mon-Sat 2330-2400 15730 BEJ 050 135 SoAM Esperanto Sun only 83 and 263 degrees CT2/1/0.8 0000-0100 5040 BAU 100 n-d Cuba English 0100-0130 5040 BAU 100 n-d Cuba Creole 0130-0200 5040 BAU 100 n-d Cuba French 0200-0600 5040 BAU 100 n-d Cuba Spanish 0600-0700 5040 BAU 100 n-d Cuba English 2200-2400 5040 BAU 100 n-d Cuba Spanish Transmitter sites: BAU = Bauta BEJ = Bejucal QVC = Titan-Quivican San Felipe. Shortwave schedule of Radio Rebelde 0000-2400 5025 BAU 100 non-dir to Ce&SoAm Spanish Shortwave schedule of Radio Progreso 0130-0500 4765 BEJ 050 non-dir to Cuba Caribbean Spanish (RHC of Nov 6, thanks to Arnaldo Coro-CUB - CO2KK - RHC B-18 sheet file - transformed to pure text file via wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 7, updated Nov 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9720, Nov 12 at 0022 check, RHC English on new frequency, first time heard, during `DXers Unlimited`. // 5040. Later on Nov 12, Wolfgang Bueschel got a revised B-18 sked, showing this transmission moved *two hours earlier*, which certainly makes sense for an audience in Africa: English at 22-23, after French & Portuguese at 21-22. And so confirmed English at 2257 check --- but also English again at 0029 check Nov 13, so maybe at both times temporarily for transition (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6180, Nov 12 at 0656, RHC English is here at S9+20 but JBM! This is the new CRI relay frequency I previously discovered, but supposed to be running only at 01-03. Now, RHC is missing from 6000, so maybe that`s the transmitter on 6180 by mistake? The rest of RHC English at 0656: 6060 loud and splattering, 6100 very weak, 6165 good at S9+10, 5040 off. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 9640, Nov 12 at 1510, another reactivated RHC Spanish frequency, S9+10/20, quite stronger than // 9535. Yet per Arnie`s sked, this is one of the weakest transmitters, only 50 kW, 110 degrees from Bejucal for Antillas, at 12-16 and 22-05. While 9535 is 100 kW, 230 degrees from Bejucal for Central America. [and non]. 13728.304, Nov 12 at 1517, weak music and talk spur // 13700 modulation, so is there a matching one 28.304 kHz on the opposite side? Yes! on 13671.696. Something`s always wrong at RHC, but this is different, not like the panoply of strong FM spurs all over the band which used to come out of 13700-AM. The lower one hets something weak on 13670 in French, i.e. CRI via ALBANIA to W Africa (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. 1260, FLORIDA, WSUA, Miami. 0456 November 6, 2018. Closing of pre-recorded Radio Martí, with Radio Martí ID and theme, heavily accented male "WSUA, Miami, Radio Caracol" at 0459. Presume the Radio Martí replay remains local time 2200-2400 (Terry Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 13820, 11860, Nov 8 at 1543, nothing but WON jamming here, not even a carrier detectable from Greenville Martí. JBA carrier amid on 11930. Is it VP prop or GB off? 7355, 7375, 7435, etc., Nov 9 at 0708, NO Radio Martí frequencies on this band --- and none are scheduled after 0700, just 5980 and 6030, both heavily jammed. Nor 11860, which was originally registered overnight in the latter A-season, in addition to daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 9490, FRANCE, Radio República at 0131 in Spanish with a woman with talk with a mention of “Directorio Democrático Cubano” then a man with talk and the man and woman with talk from 0133 – Fair with fading Nov 9 – This is run by the Cuban Democratic Directorate (Directorio Democrático Cubano in Spanish) - a nongovernmental organization, founded in 1990 in Miami Beach, Florida, at the International Congress of Cuban Youth for a free Cuba, that seeks to support freedom, democracy, and human rights in Cuba by way of nonviolent civic struggle (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) It can be argued that jamming this is a ``violent`` response. But Mark did not hear any? Jamming usually atop here (gh, OK, DXLD) ** DENMARK. 5840, Karup, 0.1 kW World Music Radio, Nov 3, 2057 - Only threshold signal, but clearly // to their on line player. Hoping for better over the next week. Fades occasionally up to fair, then down to nothing at all. Tough copy, for sure! (Walt Salmaniw, Listening Waters DXpedition, Murray Harbour North, PEI, 3–10 Nov 2018, WOR iog via DXLD) Reception of World Music Radio Denmark, Nov.6 from 2343 on 5840 001 kW Randers/Denmark to Eu English https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-world-music-radio-denmark.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 3-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 4850 & 4980 & 5060, Xinjiang PBS, 1219, Nov 6. First day back again on these frequencies (different services), with their winter schedule (Ron Howard, CA, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Even if JBA carriers, when I detect this trio, even a fourth, 4500 Mongolian, I am quite sure they are XJPBS at grayline times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks to Hiroshi for the following details: Xinjiang PBS Winter frequencies: effective from 1100 UT on November 6, 2018 Uighur 2300-1800 (Tue. 0800-1100 off the air) 3990 2310-0300, 1135-1800 4980 2310-0300, 1135-1800 6120 2310-0300, 1200-1800 7205 2310-0300, 1225-1800 7275 0300-1200 9560 0245-1200 11885 0250-1200 13670 0300-1225 Chinese 2300-1800 (Tue. 0800-1100 off the air) 3950 2310-0230, 1145-1800 5060 2310-0300, 1135-1800 5960 2310-1800 7260 0230-1200 7310 2310-0300, 1200-1800 9600 0300-1200 11770 0250-1200 Mongolian 2330-0330, 0530-1030, 1230-1800 (Tue 0800-1100 off the air) 4500 2340-0330, 1210-1800 6190 2340-0330, 1210-1800 7230 0510-1050 9510 0510-1050 Kazakh 2330-1800 (Tue 0800-1100 off the air) 4850 2340-0300, 1155-1800 6015 2340-0345, 1150-1800 7340 0300-1155 9470 0345-1150 Kyrgyz 0330-0530, 1030-1230 7295 0310-0530, 1030-1230 9705 0310-0530, 1030-1230 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ECUADOR [non]. GERMANY, Very good signal of HCJB Voice of The Andes via MBR Nauen, Nov 3 1530-1600 9500 NAU 100 kW / 100 deg CeAs Russian Sat, ex 11900 MOS B17 1600-1630 9500 NAU 100 kW / 100 deg CeAs Chechen Sat, ex 11900 MOS B17 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/very-good-signal-of-hcjb-voice-of-andes.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 3-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9940, Radio Cairo presumed the one at 1948 with muffled talk under TWR Africa then in the clear after 1950 to Middle Eastern instrumentals at 1953 and off at 1958 – Fair signal but crappy audio Nov 11 – Radio Cairo is scheduled in Turkish from 1700 to 1900 but they are not scheduled to use this frequency after that so they left the transmitter on and had some kind of a program feed but it was impossible to discern the language thanks to their crappy audio. This is one station that should do everyone a favour and shut down their station and leave the shortwave bands to stations that know how to transmit a program with good audio (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) Winter B-18 frequency changes of Radio Cairo. All transmissions are with reduced power from 250 kW to 100/125 kW & from 200 kW to 125 kW https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-mystery-egyptian-music_12.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 0400-0600 9480 ABS 100 kW / 166 deg CEAf Swahili, ex 250 kW 1300-1400 15630 ABS 100 kW / 061 deg WeAs Dari, ex 250 kW 1400-1600 12065 ABS 100 kW / 061 deg WeAs Pashto, ex 12045 250 kW 1500-1600 9610 ABS 125 kW / 325 deg WeEu Albanian, ex 9575 200 kW 1600-1800 15310 ABS 100 kW / 181 deg CEAf Swahili, ex 15660 250 kW 1700-1900 9940 ABS 125 kW / 005 deg N/ME Turkish, ex 9975 250 kW 1800-1900 9540 ABS 125 kW / 325 deg WeEu Italian, ex 200 kW 1800-2100 15310 ABS 100 kW / 241 deg WeAf Hausa, ex 9325 250 kW 1900-2000 9590 ABS 125 kW / 005 deg EaEu Russian, ex 9420 250 kW 1900-2000 9570 ABS 125 kW / 325 deg WeEu German, ex 200 kW 2000-2115 9900 ABS 125 kW / 325 deg WeEu French, ex 200 kW 2115-2245 9900 ABS 125 kW / 325 deg WeEu English, ex 200 kW 2215-2330 12010 ABS 100 kW / 252 deg SoAm Portuguese, ex 12005 250 kW 2330-0045 12010 ABS 100 kW / 252 deg SoAm Arabic, ex 12005 250 kW 0045-0200 12010 ABS 100 kW / 252 deg SoAm Spanish, ex 9420 250 kW ??????????? ?? Observer ? 11:04 AM (via DXLD) How does Ivo know this? HFCC B-18 registrations for ABS show none with 200 or 250 kW. Cutting their losses? Since most transmissions have distorted or little modulation, and most frequencies are offset. Are Radio Cairo imagining they are somehow saving face by continuing these severely incompetent broadcasts on the books? They are the laughingstock of international broadcasting, and have been for years. Also, is the 2215-0200 S American transmission on 12010 really on the air? I think it has been AWOL previously (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. Radio Bata, *0522, 06-11, open with African and Afropop songs, at 0537: Spanish, "Buenos dias compañeros de los estudios centrales de la Radio Nacional de Guinea Ecuatorial", news with correspondents. Clear signal. 25432 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [non]. 21525, USA, Radio Africa (Pan American Broadcasting via WRMI) at 1432 with female vocals and a man mentioning the singer was his beautiful wife and into preaching about angels – Fair to Good with fading Nov 10 – Only signal on the band at this time (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, odxa iog via DXLD) ** ERITREA. 7140.020, Oct 31 at 0334, JBA carrier, presumed VOBME as others have reported, still Intruding, while the other VOBME is not being heard on 7180v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST 18-45 via WORLD OF RADIO 1956) 7140, VOBME 1 (presumed), 1435-1510, Nov 7. In vernacular with mostly HOA music/singing; in the past was always jammed with white noise (or DRM?) a minute or two after 1500, but today that was not the case; still in the clear at 1528; at times fairly heavy ham QRM, so best in USB. My local sunrise at 1437 UT (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) via Long path (Glenn Hauser, ibic.) [and non]. Both Asmara Eritrea TX again on air, but lowered their power to 5-10 kW? tiny strings of a Horn of Africa program on 7140.020 kHz and 7180.020 kHz. Tiny S=4-5 signals compared to neighbour 7205even SDN R Omdurman, Sudanese Arabic female presenter, S=9+5dB in Doha Qatar remote SDR unit, out of Sudanese 100 kW TX power at 0553 UT (Wolfgang Bueschel, short morning log Nov 9th, in Germany, Belgium and Doha Qatar remotes, [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz], wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. GERMANY, Very good signal of Voice of Oromo Liberation via MBR Nauen on Nov 4 1700-1730 NF 9610 NAU 100 kW / 144 deg EaAf Afan Oromo Wed/Fri/Sun, ex 11810 B-17 1730-1800 NF 9610 NAU 100 kW / 144 deg EaAf Amharic Wed, ex 11810 B17 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/very-good-signal-of-voice-of-oromo.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 3-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Very good signal of Voice of Oromo Liberation via MBR Nauen on Nov 7 1700-1730 9610 NAU 100 kW / 144 deg EaAf Afan Oromo Wed/Fri/Sun 1730-1800 9610 NAU 100 kW / 144 deg EaAf Afan Oromo, not Amharic Wed https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/very-good-signal-of-voice-of-oromo_8.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) GERMANY, Reception of Voice of Oromo Liberation via MBR Nauen on Nov 9 1700-1730 9610 NAU 100 kW / 144 deg EaAf Afan Oromo Wed/Fri/Sun, good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-voice-of-oromo-liberation.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. FRANCE, Radio Voice of Independent Oromiya via Issoudun, Nov 11 1600-1630 on 17850 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Oromo Sun, weak/fair: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/radio-voice-of-independent-oromiya-via.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Reception of Radio Xoriyo Ogaden via MBR Nauen [sic], Nov.10 1600-1630 on 11970 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Somali Tue/Sat, good: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-radio-xoriyo-ogaden-via_10.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. 3965 DRM, Issoudun, 1 kW/ND Radio France International, Nov 5 0358 - I could actually see and decode 'French' on the DReaM software on my Perseus, but no audio. Hardly surprising, but nice to see the signal, at least. A first for me (Walt Salmaniw, Listening Waters DXpedition, Murray Harbour North, PEI, 3–10 Nov 2018, WOR iog via DXLD) ** FRANCE [and non]. 5950, Nov 9 at 0051, WRMI in British English, VP S9-S5, discussing French politicians, and Romania, somewhat more readable with ECSS, but het de 5952.4 Bolivia must be avoided by PBT and narrow bandwidth; anyhow presumably new RFI relay as just appeared at 00-01 on WRMI skedgrid. This will be helpful if it continue beyond Nov 18 when RFI says it will cancel its morning English, retaining 1400, only? Ivo Ivanov reports that the scheduled 06-07 English from Issoudun on 7235 is already absent, leaving only the 0600 WRN via WRMI relay on 5950. Meanwhile, the new 00-01 RFI 5950 bumps off Japan and Israel via WRN which we got for a week or two. Whatever else is on the WRN sked at 15-24 UT http://babcock.media/world-radio-network/schedules/Schedule-English-North-America.pdf should still be showing on 5950 if you can hear it, and until more changes be made (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5925, Nov 10 at 0657, ID in French for RFI, which is 500 kW, 195 degrees from Issoudun. 5950, Nov 10 at 0657, a different RFI in English via WRN via WRMI, about WWI armistice commemoration (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WRMI 5950, Nov 11 at 0657, France-oriented news items in English, so RFI via WRN English at 06-07 still exists via WRMI, for now. At 0753 recheck, Spanish on 5950. So I scribbled, half-asleep, but now supposed to be RFI Portuguese (not via WRN English, of course, but a separate deal with RFI for relays in various languages) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, I hope this day finds you well. Have you heard anything about RFI dropping their 0400 GMT English broadcasts from 28 November? Regards, (Chris Campbell, Clintonville OH, Nov 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) What 0400 broadcasts? I have heard this: (gh) RFI ENGLISH CUTBACK =-= At the end of today's 1400 RFI English broadcast, there was an announcement that RFI English morning broadcasts will be discontinued later this month. The 1400 "Paris Live" program will continue (Mike Cooper, GA, Nov 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I heard the announcement again today at the end of the 1400 UT English hour. It said that effective Sunday, November 18, RFI English morning broadcasts will come to an end. The announcement encourages us to join RFI for "new Paris Live programs" at 1400 from Monday through Friday every week. This implies there will be no more weekend broadcasts. No mention was made of the daily 1600 broadcast (which is a repeat of the 1400 hour, with a fresh newscast). I have yet to find any mention of these changes on RFI's web site (Mike Cooper, GA, Nov 8, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The 0600 only has been on SW, 7245 direct, new frequency for B-18 I`ve yet to check, and also on WRN via WRMI 5950. Maybe also at 1600, tho WRN sked is self-contradictory also showing New Zealand that hour M-F. Of course, 5950 at 1600 is audible only circumchobee (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio France International in English is inactive in B-18 0600-0700 on 7245 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg to WCAf English till Feb.2 0600-0700 on 9735 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg to WCAf English from Feb.3 (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, Nov 8, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DXLD) ** FRANCE [non]. TAJIKISTAN, Weak signal of Voice of Tajik 7245 Nov 9: 0400-0600 on 7245 DB 100 kW / non-dir to CeAs Farsi 0600-0800 on 7245 DB 100 kW / non-dir to CeAs Dari In B-18 no signal of Radio France International on same 7245 kHz 0600-0700 on 7245 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg to WCAf English till Feb.2 0600-0700 on 9735 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg to WCAf English from Feb.3 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/weak-morning-signal-of-voice-of-tajik.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 8-9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. Winter B-18 frequency changes of Radio France International: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/winter-b-18-frequency-changes-of-radio_12.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 0500-0600 NF 6040 ISS 500 kW / 157 deg to CeAf French, ex 11700 0600-0700 NF 7245 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg to WCAf English cancelled 0700-0730 NF 11760 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg to WCAf Hausa, ex 15315 0700-0730 NF 13740 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg to WCAf Hausa, ex 13685 1600-1700 NF 15300 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg to WCAf Hausa, ex 17615 1700-1730 NF 15485 ISS 500 kW / 155 deg to SoAf Portug, ex 15300 1700-1800 NF 13740 ISS 500 kW / 165 deg to NWAf French, ex 13685 1700-1800 NF 15300 ISS 500 kW / 150 deg to CeAf French, ex 17850 1900-1930 NF 9775 ISS 500 kW / 155 deg to SoAf Portug, ex 13660 1900-2000 NF 7245 ISS 500 kW / 195 deg to NWAf French, ex 9790 1900-2000 NF 9580 ISS 500 kW / 150 deg to CeAf French, ex 13740 2000-2030 NF 7380 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg to WCAf Hausa, ex 9825 ??????????? ?? Observer ? 10:39 AM (via DXLD) ** FRANCE. RFI English cutback --- Confirmed. Nothing heard on 7245 kHz this morning (11 November) using the U. Twente SDR receiver (-- Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD) Was 06-07 UT (gh) I guess WRN will be repeating the remaining RFI English program at 1400 in all of its existing time slots. In the B18 schedule, WRN to North America and Africa have RFI hours at 0600, 1000 and 1600. WRN to Europe has RFI at 0700, 1200 and 2000. However, there will only be RFI English programs Monday through Friday. I wonder what WRN will do with these time slots on the weekends (Mike Cooper, GA, Nov 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Glenn: Note that I just sent you page from RFI web site that discusses the changes. -mc] viz.: http://en.rfi.fr/culture/20181110-quiz-back The Sound Kitchen Podcast Podcast The quiz is back! By Susan Owensby Released on 10-11-2018 Modified 10-11-2018 to 12:26 This week, Sound Kitchen producer Alain Bleu joins me in the kitchen. You'll hear the answer to the question about the Berlin marathon, hear some great music and of course, there's the new quiz question. Just click on the arrow in the photo above and enjoy! Hello everyone! Welcome to The Sound Kitchen. Big news for RFI English: On 18 November, RFI English morning broadcasts will come to an end. There's an all-new Paris Live programme starting on 19 November. You can hear it on-the-air, and of course, on our website, rfienglish.com, Monday through Friday at 14h00 universal time, 3 pm Paris time. And you can always join us on rfienglish.com, where we are boosting our content to meet your demands for news, special features, analysis, interviews, podcasts and more. What does this mean for The Sound Kitchen? The Sound Kitchen will no longer be heard on our FMs. It will be available here on our website, rfienglish.com, as it always has been, as well as on The Sound Kitchen Facebook page. It will be posted on Saturdays, as it always has been. The format will not change: you'll hear the winner's names announced and the week's quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you have grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, "On This Day", quirky facts and news, interviews and great music, so be sure and go to the RFI English website every Saturday for The Sound Kitchen. For our DX enthusiast friends: Our shortwave frequency is 11830 kHz on the 25m band, from 06.00 to 07.00 UT every day - until 17 November. [11830, is that correct?? Not sked for B-18 --- gh] We've had reception reports from Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, the UK and the US, and although the frequency is "aimed" (or however that works) towards the African continent, give it a try. You never know ... and be sure and send us your reception reports. Maybe we can get more time, which would be wonderful. You can also hear our programs on WRMI and WRN. In Paris, you can hear us on World Radio Paris on DAB+. These broadcasters diffuse our programs out of the goodness of their hearts, but unless you tell us how you heard us we have no way of knowing ... so do write and tell us how you listen to us. Did you know there is an RFI English newsletter? On the very top of our homepage, there's a little tab that says "Newsletters". Click on it and fill out the form, and every day you'll receive the latest from the RFI English website. We want to hear from you. We have a phone number you can call to leave us a message, so we can hear your voice. Just call, give your name, your country, and a short message - something like "I love RFI", because of course you do - and we can put you on-the-air. The number to call is: + 33 1 84 22 95 82. RFI Clubs: Be sure to always include Audrey Iattoni (audrey.iattoni@rfi.fr) from our Listener Relations department on all your RFI Club correspondence. Remember to copy me (thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr) when you write her so that I know what is going on, too. N.B. You do not need to send her your quiz answers! We've made a Facebook page just for you, the RFI English Clubs. 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He was nearly five minutes behind Kipchoge - usually in these marathons we're talking a matter of seconds, maybe a minute or two ... but five minutes shows you just how fast Kipchoge is. Kipruto's time was 2 hours, 6 minutes, and 23 seconds. What was the world record time, broken by Eliud Kipchoge? 2 hours, 2 minutes, and 57 seconds, set by Kenyan Dennis Kimetto in 2014. The winners are: Mrs Lutfunnesha Begum, a member of the RFI International DX Radio Listeners Club in Murshidabad, India; Jobayada Aktar Jai from the Nilshagor RFI Fan Club in Nilphamari, Bangladesh; Muhammad Rashid, a member of the RFI Pak France International Listeners Club in Sahiwal, Pakistan; Mrs Permi Devi from Rajasthan, India and Mr Li Ming from Maanchan City in China. Congratulations, winners! Here's the music you heard on this week's program: "Jam Session", written by Norman Shrdlu; Rimsky-Korsakov: "The Flight of the Bumblebee" and "Les baricades misterieuses" by François Couperin, arranged by Thomas Ades. 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To find out how you can win a special Sound Kitchen prize, click here: To find out how you can become a member of the RFI Listeners Club, or to form your own official RFI Club, click here (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) [non]. 5950, Nov 12 at 0655, RFI English is still here on WRMI from WRN, but RFI will stop producing English in the mornings from Nov 18, as Mike Cooper heard them announce, apparently leaving only the 1400 broadcast; what then to be heard at 0600? And, after an Ian ID at 0659, Nov 12 at 0700, 5950 goes into RFI Spanish, definitely not Portuguese as on the WRMI skedgrid when last checked; as I write it doesn`t want to load, maybe down for editing. Before 0700 WRMI is presumably getting RFI from WRN, but not after 0700 replacing WRN feed which is DW in English as previously heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WRMI ** GERMANY. News Nov 1st 2018: Our current broadcasting times are as follows: 3975 kHz 0800 to 2300 UT 6160 kHz 0800 to 1500 UT These transmissions are from Mondays to Sundays, 7 days a week. 6160 kHz is on air again, finally. [or: Wednesdays to Tuesdays! gh] For detailed programe line-up click here: (via Herbert Meixner-AUT, A-DX ng Nov 3 via BC-DX Nov 10 via DXLD) ** GERMANY. RADIO DARC mit drei neuen Sendeplaetzen. Ab Sonntag, den 11. November ab 11 Uhr MEZ/CET sendet RADIO DARC \\ zur bisher bekannten Frequenz 6070 kHz erstmalig auch auf 7440 kHz im 41 Meterband. Zum Einsatz kommt der neue Zweitsender von Channel 292 mit 10 kW Leistung an einer Dipol-Antenne. Auch die Montags-Sendung um 17 Uhr MEZ/CET wird nun \\ auf 6070 kHz und auf 7440 kHz abgestrahlt. Die zusaetzliche Frequenz verspricht vor allem in Nord-Deutschland und Europa-Randgebieten besseren Empfang als die 6070 kHz, die vor allem fuer den Nahbereich konzipiert ist. Fuer die Abendsendung duerfte nun fast weltweiter Empfang moeglich sein, fuer Testsendungen liegen bereits erste Empfangsberichte aus Neuseeland vor. Wir bitten alle Hoererinnen und Hoerer, die neue zusaetzliche Frequenz von RADIO DARC zu beachten und Empfangsberichte zu senden. Auch gibt es ab sofort zwei weitere Sendeplaetze auf Buerger-Radios auf UKW. Fuer Hoererinnen und Hoerer im Grossraum Berlin wird RADIO DARC ab Freitag {Friday}, den 9. November um 15 Uhr MEZ/CET im Wechsel mit 'Welle370' vom Verein Funkerberg Koenigs Wusterhausen via 'ALEX RADIO Berlin' auf 91.0 MHz FM zu hoeren sein. Im Norden Thueringens steht ab dem 7. November ebenfalls ein neuer Sendepartner zur Verfuegung. 'RADIO ENNO' aus Nordhausen wird kuenftig das DX-Magazin des DARC immer mittwochs {Wednesdays} um 21 Uhr MEZ/CET auf UKW FM 100.4 MHz verbreiten. Mit diesen neuen zusaetzlichen UKW-Sendeplaetzen ist RADIO DARC nun fuer rund 6 Millionen Menschen in Deutschland terrestrisch auf UKW zu empfangen. Fuer den Grossraum Hamburg erfolgt seit Oktober ebenfalls eine Aussendung auf UKW und DAB+ via 'TIDE RADIO' auf 96.0 MHz FM. Darueber berichtet Rainer Englert, DF2NU (DARC, Redaktion CQ DL Deutschland-Rundspruch 45/2018, 45. KW, Nov 8, via df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews via BC-DX Nov 10 via DXLD) [and non]. AUSTRIA, Radio DARC via ORF Moosbrunn & Channel 292 Rohrbach on Nov.11 1000-1100 6070 MOS 100 kW / non-dir CeEu German Sun, very good signal 1000-1100 7440 ROB 010 kW / non-dir CeEu German Sun, fair/good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/radio-darc-via-orf-moosbrunn-channel.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Slow Scan Radio on C292 now at 1930 UT tonight --- Hi All, There has been a late change of time for tonight's broadcast of Slow Scan Radio via Channel 292, and the programme will now be on air one hour earlier at 1930 UT instead of the previously listed 2030. The broadcast will also go out on both 6070 and 7440 kHz at the same time, so if you've never managed to catch it on the 6 MHz frequency you may now have a better chance on 7 MHz (QRM permitting). The Channel 292 schedule is also showing a number of additional programmes going out on 7440 kHz as well now, including DARC Radio, which will be on air on Sundays at 1000 UT and Mondays at 1500 UT on both frequencies, and various other stations on Sunday mornings on 7440, such as IBC, SM Radio Dessau and Radio Oberlausitz. Also on air again this Friday evening at 1900-2200 UT will be Sonnet Radio Europe. 73 for now, (Alan Gale, Nov 7, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Did it go out on 6070 kHz? Nothing heard using the U. Twente SDR receiver (Richard Langley, NB, ibid.) Hi Richard, I was out at the time but left the recorder and decoder running, and it looks like the signal dropped right down just after it started on 6070 kHz, probably due to the skip going very long (I have no idea how well or badly 7440 performed at that time though). I noticed that the C292 schedule has been updated today, and the programme is now listed as being on both 6070 and 7440 at 1300 UT on Saturdays from now on which is probably not good news for you, and may be an indication that the propagation was poor on both channels last night. No mention of this on the Slow Scan Radio website as yet though: http://www.slowscanradio.com/ (Alan Gale, 1852 UT Nov 8, WOR iog via DXLD) ** GERMANY. 7440 kHz from Rohrbach Bavaria ? 7440.003 kHz on November 4 at 1030 UT on the air: Irgend solch ein Netherlands Konserve programm laeuft gerade. S=6 oder -92dBm - distanzmaessig weiter weg in Steiermark Austria / NorthWestern Hungary SDR's. Beim DARC Amberg Bayern remote SDR unit dagegen S=4 oder -100dB duenne Signalstaerke. Ja gut; im 41 meterband im winter darf man im Nahbereich nichts erwarten (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 4) ** GERMANY. Low power hobby radio. Universe Radio on new erected 7440 kHz via Channel292 Shortwave Broadcast Schedule, Nov 4th 2018, Live. To celebrate six years of on-line radio we will do a live combination of on-line and shortwave radio. In a seven hour special we will bring back the sounds of the 70's, 80's, and 90's to the airwaves with of course a touch of modern music. We will be transmitting through 7440 kHz, the new Channel292 Frequency. Thank you Rainer for setting it up again! Times are in CET [UT +1hr]: [Sunday] 1100-1200 Hello Europe with Michiel Bouwmeester 1200-1400 Record Attic with Maurice van Ginderen 1400-1600 Full Throttle with Olaf Kerkhof 1600-1800 Panic Show Back in Time with M Bouwmeester & Bennito Mol source: (via Harald Kuhl-D DL1ABJ, Germany, BrDXC ng Oct 16) (BC-DX 1360, 1 Nov 2018)(BC-DX Nov 10 via DXLD) Tomorrow, the 4th of November, it is once again Shortwave time. Starting at 1000 UT we will be broadcasting on 7440 kHz, the new channel 292 frequency. We will hope that you all will join us in a great day of oldies, hits and indie music! 1000-1100 Hello Europe 1100-1300 The Record Attic 1300-1500 Full Throttle 1500-1700 The Panic Show 7440 kHz Best regards, met vriendelijke groet, Michiel Bouwmeester Wilhelminalaan 51 4872 BW Etten-Leur The Netherlands phone +31683949249 (via Vasily Lazarev, Samarskaya oblast-RUS, "deneb-radio-dx" via BC-DX Nov 10 via DXLD) Reception of Channel 292 on 6070 & 7440 kHz, Nov 9: 0600&1000 on 7440 ROB 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu English 0600&1000 on 6070 ROB 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu English https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-channel-292-on-6070-7440.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 8-9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7440, UKRAINE, Radio Ukraine International tentatively at 2248 in presumed Ukrainian with pop vocals and a man with talk in a Slavic language at 2250 – Very Weak Nov 9 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) Mark, that would be big news if RUI were back on SW (other than via WRMI 0230 Tue-Sat on 7780). HFCC does maintain imaginary registration from LViv at 2200-0500 on 7440, gone for many years. Not Slavic, but another 7440 station during that hour is CRI in Japanese, maybe that? Aoki has only CRI on 7440 at any time. Also, Channel 292 Germany 6070 has started using new 7440, which would be a VG catch in North America. 73, (Glenn Hauser, Nov 10, ODXA yg via DXLD) Interesting, Glenn, that Dan Ferguson's SW Skeds latest edition has Channel 292 testing on 7440 from 0400 to 2400. I suspect it was them as CRI is in Japanese and the talk was definitely not Japanese. This requires more monitoring. I should have time tomorrow afternoon to listen again (Mark Coady, Nov 10, odxayg via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Próximo ejemplar Atlantic 2000 --- Desde el 2000, Atlantic 2000 ha estado transmitiendo transmisiones de 6070 kHz en una banda de 49 metros en el transmisor Rohrbach en Alemania operado por el Canal 292. El canal 292 acaba de poner en servicio un segundo transmisor a 7440 kHz, con una potencia de 7.5 kW. Las pruebas realizadas por la estación son muy alentadoras, ya que la señal se recibe en excelentes condiciones en buena parte de Europa. El sábado 8 de diciembre de 2018, nuestro programa se emitirá en la frecuencia habitual de 6070 kHz de 0900 a 1000 UT, con una potencia de 10 kW. El programa se retransmitirá el domingo 9 de diciembre de 0900 a 1000 UT, pero esta vez en 7440 kHz con una potencia de 7.5 kW. La oportunidad para que Atlantic 2000 regrese en la banda de 41 metros (Gaétan Teyssonneau, 10 nov, noticiasdx yg via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Radio Waves International via Channel 292 on 6070/7440 kHz, Nov 10 0700-0800 6070 ROB 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu English/French Sat, good 0700-0800 7440 ROB 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu English/French Sat, good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/radio-waves-international-vi a-channel.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. 5950, Nov 6 at 0713, WRN via WRMI, African-accented interview in English so is it RFI or DW? 0715 ID in passing as DW- Africa, per sked from WRN this hour. See also USA: WRMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) But replaced by RFI in Spanish 9395, USA, DW (WRN via WRMI) at 2206 with a man and a woman with “Africa Link” news magazine mainly dealing with problems journalists experience trying to report the news with reports on a journalist detained in Tanzania, CNN reporter Jim Acosta being banned from the White House press corps by Donald Trump, and journalists being persecuted in Kaduna, Nigeria – Good Nov 8 – This is a new development where WRMI is carrying an expanded schedule of World Radio Network (WRN) programming. DW's English service is only available on-line or via the WRN so it is nice to see their English service back on shortwave where it should never have been discontinued (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. 15195, FRANCE, DW at 1438 // 15320 (Poor) in Hausa with two men with excited Bundesliga football coverage over rabid crowd cheering and chanting with many mentions of “Bremen” – Good with fading Nov 10 – I wonder if some of the players might be Nigerian or speak Hausa which would explain why Bundesliga football is broadcast to western Africa (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, odxa iog via DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. Winter B-18 shortwave schedule of Deutsche Welle: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/winter-b-18-shortwave-schedule-of.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 1300-1400 NF 11980 SAO 100 kW / 020 deg to WeAf Hausa, ex 17840 ASC 1425-1630 NF 15320 ISS 500 kW / 175 deg WeAf Hausa Sat Bundesliga, ex 17840 1600-1700 NF 13780 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg EaAf Amharic, ex 15275 1600-1700 NF 15275 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg EaAf Amharic, ex 11995 ??????????? ?? Observer ? 10:42 AM (via DXLD) That`s all?? Or really just the changes? (gh, DXLD) ** GERMANY [and non]. Schedule of MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH (formerly German Telekom - T-Systems) for the B18 period (28.10.2018 - 30.03.2019). https://www.wwdxc.de/mbr.shtml (Rus DX 11 Nov via DXLD) ** GUAM. 11580, Nov 9 at 1340, talk in language; at first I assume would be Radio Nigeria, Kaduna, via WRMI as scheduled, but unseems Hausa, and gone at 1347 recheck. So it`s really FEBA Radio India via GUAM scheduled until 1345* in Kannada on Friday. Aoki doesn`t say which Guam station, but HFCC shows KTWR. I suppose those are better bedfellows than AWR & FEBA could be (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see NIGERIA [non]! Reception of KTWR Trans World Radio Asia in English Nov 10: 1128-1158 on 9910 TWR 200 kW / 350 deg to EaAs Jap/Eng Sat, fair/good 1230-1300 on 9910 TWR 100 kW / 290 deg to SoAs English Sat, very good 1318-1346 on 7510 TWR 100 kW / 320 deg to EaAs English Sat, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-ktwr-trans-world-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUINEA [and non]. Radio Guinée Conakry and Radio Riyadh HQ on 9650 kHz, Nov 7 0600-2400 9650 CON 050 kW / non-dir WeAf French Radio Guinée Conakry & 0850-1550 9650 RIY 100 kW / non-dir N/ME Arabic Holy Quran R Riyadh https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/radio-guinee-conakry-and-radio-riyadh.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Checked this channel on Nov 9 at 1545 UT, noted in Germany, UAE and Delhi-IND remote SDRs. 9650.002 kHz R Guinea Conakry program underneath, but more powerful 9650.041 kHz odd frequency from Riyadh Saudi Arabia on this new B-18 channel. S=9+5dB strength here in southern Germany. Rather weak signal at S=5 level on short skip zone in Qatar [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 9)(BC-DX Nov 10 via DXLD) 9650, Radio Guinée at 1940 in a local language with a radio drama with male and female characters then into French at 1942 with a man with talk and promos then a woman in a local language followed by a man in French then brief Afropops at 1945 and a man with talk in French over the Afropops then the man without the Afropops with talk with mentions of “Guinée” and “Conakry” – Fair Nov 10 – It was really confusing at first with the flip-flop in languages (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, odxa iog via DXLD) ** HUNGARY. Received e-qsl from Radio Chaos for receiving 27.1018 / 1700-1730 UTC / 6335 kHz e-mail: kosqsl@gmail.com (VL, QSL World, Rus DX 11 Nov via DXLD) 9 November --- Today Chaos Radio from Hungary is raided by the Hungarian telecommunication authorities. Here the original message from the operator: ``Thanks everyone, who wrote me reports here! It was a fun one month, but it is over. Unfortunately, today, while I was testing some, the Hungarian telecommunication authorities showed up, so looks like no more transmissions from Hungary. We had problems for like a year now with more and more frequent pirate radio raids on 3 meter band, so I tried to move to shortwave, and hoped the best. Sadly, they told me, they are monitoring these frequencies too, and no mercy to unlicensed activities even on sw, so they killed my sw station too, pretty quickly.`` (Martin Sievers, Germany / https://www.facebook.com/groups/1474899382735615/ Rus DX 11 Nov via DXLD) ** INDIA. 4869.94, R. Sedaye Kashmir, Delhi (Kingsway). Lively Kashmiri songs at 1455, fair signal, 4/10 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Kenwood R5000, Tecsun PL-680, Horizontal Sky Loop, Double Bazooka antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), Nov Australian DX News via WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DXLD) Indian Clandestine broadcast to Pakistan in Dogri via AIR Delhi 1500-1530. Weak signal, 20/10 (Rob Shepherd, Toowoomba QLD (JRC NRD 535-D, 35 metre balanced longwire), ibid.) See also UNIDENTIFIED ** INDIA. 7550 DRM, Bangalore, All India Radio, Nov 6, 1908 - 100% decode (almost) with 2 channels. Channel 1 is the GOS in English (although the DReaM window indicates 'Russian Programme from SPT AIR Bangalore') and indicating GOS-IV, while Channel 2 indicates RAGAM, and Hindi Country Music. Both in Mono at 10.48 kbps. Not bad for half way around the world! Not sure of power (unclear from SW Skeds), but target is Europe. Starting to have more dropouts by 1925. 7550-DRM, Bengaluru, 250 or 500 kW, 120deg, All India Radio, Nov 3 1923 - Excellent 100% copy with 2 channels noted: 2nd channel reads as GOS IV, while 1st channel reads as GOS IV, as well, but with AIR English programming. About a Canadian female poet. SNR 19.7 dB. Very nice! Finally heard on my FDM S-2. // 9445 in AM blasting in at S9+30 (Walt Salmaniw, Listening Waters DXpedition, Murray Harbour North, PEI, 3–10 Nov 2018, WOR iog via DXLD) ** INDIA. 11560, Bangalore, 500 kW/325 deg, All India Radio, Nov 8, 1504 - Superb reception with my favourite exotic Indian music. Listed in Pasthto at this time. Yep, Pashto at 1506:40 (just kidding! I would have no idea what language I was listening to, besides checking SWSkeds). (Walt Salmaniw, Listening Waters DXpedition, Murray Harbour North, PEI, 3–10 Nov 2018, WOR iog via DXLD) 11560, AIR (Bengaluru) at 1327 in Dari with a man with talk and ID at 1331 of “All India Radio” and into male subcontinental vocals – Very Good with very slight fading Nov 10 – About as good a signal as I have ever heard on this particular frequency at this time. AIR is another station with a heading of 20° from my QTH so the signal must hop in the donut of the auroral zone (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, odxa iog via DXLD) Nov 10: All India Radio - 11560 (1339), weak, excellent music, YL announcer in Dari (?), 1341 back to music, nice tabla and strings with male vocal, copied again 11/11, signal s-6, in Dari (presumed) (Chris KC5IIE Krug, Tulsa OK, Rec: FT-1000mpMk5, FT-2000, Ant: 40m loop, WOR iog via DXLD) ** INDIA. Winter B-18 frequency changes of All India Radio AIR: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/winter-b-18-frequency-changes-of-all.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 0000-0045 NF 11590 PAN 250 kW / 120 deg to SoAs Tamil, ex 11740 0045-0115 NF 11590 PAN 250 kW / 120 deg to SoAs Sinhala, x 11740 0130-0230 NF 7555 DEL 100 kW / 154 deg to CeAs Nepali, ex 7505 0130-0230 NF 9950 BGL 500 kW / 035 deg to CeAs Nepali, ex 9800 0700-0800 NF 9950 DEL 100 kW / 102 deg to CeAs Nepali, ex 9940 0700-0800 NF 11620 DEL 100 kW / 102 deg to CeAs Nepali, ex 11730 1145-1315 NF 15030 BGL 500 kW / 060 deg to EaAs Chinese, x 15040 1300-1500 NF 11590 DEL 250 kW / 124 deg to SoAs Sinhala, x 11780 2300-2400 NF 11590 PAN 250 kW / 120 deg to SEAs Hindi, ex 11740 Published by Observer at 10:43 AM (via DXLD) ** IRAN. Winter B-18 frequency changes of VIRI IRIB / PARS TODAY: Cancelled from SW Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Kazakh & Uzbek Extended programs in French, Hausa, Hebrew, Russian and Spanish https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/winter-b-18-frequency-changes-of-viri.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz., all 500 kW: 0323-0420 NF 6085 SIR / 288 deg EaAf Arabic VOPalestine, ex 7425 0323-0420 NF 9550 SIR / 030 deg EaEu Russian, addit. 0553-0650 NF 13710 SIR / 255 deg NWAf Hausa, addit. 0553-0820 NF 12035 SIR / 065 deg WeAs Dari, ex 13740 0600-0730 NF 13790 SIR / 216 deg N/ME Arabic, ex 13780 0653-0720 NF 15440 SIR / 293 deg EaAf Hebrew, addit. 0723-0820 NF 15200 SIR / 300 deg SoEu Spanish, ex 17820 0730-0830 NF 13790 SIR / 216 deg N/ME Arabic, ex 13780 0923-1220 NF 9495 SIR / 053 deg WeAs Dari, ex 13740 AHW 1123-1150 NF 17665 SIR / 248 deg NWAf Hausa, addit. 1223-1320 NF 7360 ZAH / non-dir WeAs Pashto, ex 13750 AHW 1253-1420 NF 6000 SIR / 083 deg SoAs Urdu, ex 9500 1323-1420 NF 9835 SIR / 336 deg EaEu Russian, ex 11675 1423-1520 NF 5920 SIR / 090 deg SoAs Hindi, ex 5935 1423-1520 NF 6155 SIR / 090 deg SoAs Bengali, ex 9470 1430-1730 NF 9800 SIR / 216 deg N/ME Arabic, ex 9655 1523-1620 NF 5965 SIR / 095 deg SEAs English, ex 9420 1623-1650 NF 6155 SIR / 090 deg SoAs Bengali, addit. 1923-1950 NF 6190 SIR / 295 deg SEEu Italian, ex 7305 2223-2320 NF 7225 SIR / 255 deg NWAf Hausa, addit. 2223-2320 NF 7280 SIR / 255 deg NWAf Hausa, addit. 2323-0020 NF 6090 SIR / 298 deg SoAm Spanish, addit. 2323-0020 NF 7230 SIR / 240 deg SoAm Spanish, addit. 2323-0020 NF 7260 SIR / 255 deg NWAf French, adiit. 2323-0020 NF 9660 SIR / 255 deg NWAf French, adiit. Published by Observer at 10:44 AM (via DXLD) ** IRAN [non]. Reception of Radio Ranginkaman/Rainbow via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol, Nov 4/6: 1730-1800 on 7560 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi Daily, ex 7580 1600-1630 Mo-Fr https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/radio-ranginkamanrainbow-via-babcock.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 3-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Ranginkaman/Rainbow via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol on Nov.9 1730-1800 on 7560 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi Daily, fair/good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/radio-ranginkamanrainbow-via-babcock_10.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRELAND [non]. ROMANIA, Reception of IRRS Radio City via RADIOCOM Saftica, Nov 10 0900-1000 on 9510 SAF 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu German Sat, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-irrs-radio-city-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [ITALY [non]] ROMANIA, Reception of IRRS EGR/UN Radio via RADIOCOM Saftica, Nov.11 1030-1300 9510 SAF 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu English Sun, fair signal: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-irrs-egrun-radio-via.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISLE OF MAN. Future of Broadcasting In Isle of Man There was an interesting feature on tonight's BBC North West Tonight TV programme regarding a report to be presented to Tynwald. Basically, at present IOM pay a TV Licence to receive BBC television but they also part fund (through taxes) Manx Radio (the remaining funding is via advertising). The report, due to be debated next month, includes a proposal to ask the BBC to provide a local radio station or more radically, according to the report to consider IOM citizens to stop paying the licence fee and therefore stop accessing BBC TV services and to use the money to fund public broadcasting on the island. More details are on the BBC website- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-46141625 (Paul Banning, Nov 8, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) Presumably if IOM citizens were to stop paying the licence the BBC TV transmissions on the island would have to be discontinued. So what would the transmitters be used for and what about the non BBC channels broadcast there? (Gareth Foster, ibid.) ** ITALY [and non]. Broadcasting in Italian. ------------------------- Le radio in italiano - Lista per orario UTC di trasmissione EMITTENTI IN LINGUA ITALIANA (aggiornato al 6 novembre 2018) A cura di Roberto Pavanello https://playdxblog.blogspot.com/2018/11/le-radio-in-italiano-lista-per-orario.html (Rus DX 11 Nov via DXLD) ** JAPAN. 774, Nov 9 at 1238, via DX-398 with internal antenna only, NHK-2 with enough audio to hear English lesson with Japanese mixed --- our #1 TP signal, 500 kW JOUB, Akita. See UNIDENTIFIED for all the JBA carriers too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. A trip to a Mainichi Broadcasting System, Osaka, Japan It was 1990 and I had come back to my parents' home in a town called Raniganj in eastern India for my winter break from university. It was a welcome change from the monotony of my studies and the never-ending hustle and bustle of Calcutta. And of course, I could now do some DXing in a bit of peace and quiet. We had a couple of radios in the house, some from my early days in England and the US. But in my inquisitive and destructive youth, I had dismantled and destroyed almost all of them, including a Philips Henriette. So I had to settle for a Raja DL171, an IC-based set made by Philips India. In spite of the analog tuning, it was mostly an excellent receiver. Like many other places in semi-urban India at the time, there was very little in the way of electrical interference marring radio reception. This made for some very interesting listening on medium wave, particularly on winter nights. One night I was very surprised to hear a Japanese-language station fading in and out on my radio. I did not have any external aerial connected either. Quickly I used known markers of Indian medium wave stations to make a mental note of the likely frequency of the station. When I later checked it against the World Radio TV Handbook listings, I was delighted to learn that I had actually heard Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS) a 50 KW station on 1179 kHz from Osaka. A reception report was quickly prepared and sent out. A couple of weeks later I was most thrilled to receive a QSL card and verification letter ! I showed them to my friends and they were delighted. Some of my friends had received Japanese and other faraway MW stations too, but only with the help of beverage antennae. Many years passed since my Japanese MW DX catch in India in 1990. This summer (2018) my wife and I decided to take a trip to Japan and our itinerary included Osaka. MBS was still on my mind after all those years. From our hotel I tuned in to 1179 kHz on my Tivdio V115 radio, received MBS and made a recording. I then called the station and was told only the shop area was open to the public, should we wish to visit. We took the train there anyway and found the MBS building in Chayamachi, thanks to the helpful locals even though we spoke no Japanese. While we were looking around the shop, a gentleman came over and introduced himself in English. It turned out he was Mr Okamoto, ex-head of audience relations, now working in a different department of MBS. When I told him the reason why I was visiting MBS, he became very excited. His co-workers were equally surprised to hear my story. I then played my recording and he confirmed it was their station. To our utter delight, he soon came back with not one, but two QSL cards for us ! We were informed that they change the design of their QSL card every couple of years. The new one has a picture of one of their transmitters on it and of course the MBS mascot Lion-chan. It was most delightful to be able to visit an exotic radio station I had heard all those years ago and receive a warm reception from the staff too. I guess not many of us would have had a similar experience, so it is a pleasure to share my story with fellow MW DXer (Story by Joydip Hazra, Medium Wave News 64/06, November 2018 via DXLD) ** JAPAN [and non]. 11815, Nov 6 a 1406, NHK World Radio in Japanese is atop CCI from TRT, within a few Hz of each other today! By 1458, however, near the end of this collision, Turkish music is dominant (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also TURKEY ** JAPAN [non]. B-18 frequency changes of Radio Japan NHK World https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/winter-b-18-frequency-changes-of-radio_60.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 0300-0500 NF 6105 ISS 500 kW / 290 deg to CeAm Japanese, x 5960 0500-0530 NF 7410 ISS 500 kW / 155 deg to SoAf English, ex 9770 0530-0600 NF 7450 ISS 500 kW / 190 deg to WCAf French, ex 11730 1400-1430 NF 6165 TAC 100 kW / 163 deg to SoAs English, ex 9560 ??????????? ?? Observer ? 10:46 AM (via DXLD) ** KASHMIR [non}. See INDIA ** KIRIBATI. KIRITIMATI: BRYAN CLARK, Mangawhai spent a bit of time during October trying to establish the evening sign-on time for Radio Kiribati, Christmas Island on 846. “The signal has shown up abruptly on my SDR at a variety of times on different days e.g. 0517, 0528, 0530, 0537, 0550 and 0606:30.” 1440, 0653, Radio Kiribati with local public announcements in English over Moana AM 15/10. “This is Radio Kiribati (pronounced Kiri-Bus), 5 minutes to 7 local time”. Freq measured at 1440.005 but has been ‘seen’ as high as 1440.009 some days (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, New Zealand, with WinRadio G33DDC & AOR7030+ fed by EWEs directed to NE, East and SE, Nov NZ DX Times via DXLD) 1440, R Kiribati, Bairiki, Tarawa; local music, anns/talk in vernacular, though no ID copied; I sent a clip by e-mail to Babera Marewenimakin, Engineering Network Manager at the station, who replied “The station confirmed to be ours on the said frequency”; personal first; (1440.007) F, 1004 24/10 (Martin A Hall, Clashmore, Scotland, (Medium Wave News 64/06, November 2018 via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. JAPAN, Shiokaze Sea Breeze & Furusato no Kaze via Yamata on Nov 8: Shiokaze Sea Breeze 1300-1400 on 7245 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg NEAs English Thu, weak, co-ch same time on 7245 DB 100 kW / non-dir CeAs English Voice of Tajik!! 1600-1700 on 6110 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg NEAs English Thu, good signal Furusato no Kaze 1405-1435 on 6085 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg NEAs Japanese, fair to good: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/shiokaze-sea-breeze-furusato-no-kaze.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 8-9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 7245, JAPAN, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze at 1300. Carrier strong enough to cover the mess of multiple-source CCI and ACI (including DPRK jamming). W in Korean and familiar music themes - Good Nov 9 (Rick Barton, AZ, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. PALAU, Nippon no Kaze & Furusato no Kaze via T8WH Angel 5 on Nov 8: 1300-1330 9965 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Korean Nippon no Kaze and 1330-1400 9965 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Japanese Furusato no Kaze https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/nippon-no-kaze-furusato-no-kaze-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 8-9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. UZBEKISTAN, North Korea Reform Radio via Tashkent on Nov.6 2030-2130 NF 7495 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean, ex 7500: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-north-korea-reform-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 3-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. UZBEKISTAN, Radio Free North Korea via Tashkent on Nov.7: 1200-1300 NF 7610 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean, ex 9345 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/fairgood-signal-of-radio-free-north.html Voice of Wilderness via Tashkent, Nov.7 1330-1530 on 7625 TAC 100 kW / 070 deg to NEAs Korean https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/good-signal-of-voice-of-wilderness-via.html North Korea Reform Radio via Tashkent, Nov.7: 1430-1530 NF 7580 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean, ex 7590 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/good-signal-of-north-korea-reform-radio.html Trans World Radio India & Voice of Martyrs via Tashkent, Nov.7 1445-1545 7505 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg SoAs Punjabi Mon-Fri TWR India 1530-1600 7505 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg NEAs Korean Daily Voice of Martyrs https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/trans-world-radio-india-vs-voice-of.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Are you saying the same 7505 transmitter is running both of them overlapping at 1530-1545? (gh, DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. B-18 frequency change of KBS World Radio: 1800-2100 on 9630 KIM 250 kW / 264 deg to SoAs English, x 14-17 2000-2100 NF 5910 DHA 250 kW / 285 deg to NEAf Arabic, ex 9840 2300-2400 on 11810 KIM 250 kW / 304 deg to WeEu Korean, ex 02-03 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/winter-b-18-frequency-change-of-kbs.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGqpfd0qGT4&feature=youtu.be ??????????? ?? Observer ? 11:48 AM (via DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. B-18 of Dengê Welat via Issoudun & Grigoriopol 0330-0600 on 9525 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish 0600-1500 on 11530 KCH 300 kW / 130 deg to WeAs Kurdish 1500-1600 on 11530 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish 1600-2000 on 9525 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish 2000-2200 on 9525 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Kurdish https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/b-18-schedule-of-denge-welat-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 9-10, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I had a few hours to listen to the radio this weekend (hooray!), here's a few highlights: 11/10, VO Welat (R Denga) - Moldova - 11530 (1325), very weak but in the clear, Eastern Euro music (sounds similar to Middle Eastern mx), improving by 1337, nice (Chris KC5IIE Krug, Tulsa OK, Rec: FT-1000mpMk5, FT-2000, Ant: 40m loop, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. Very good signal of Radio Kuwait Holy Quran, Nov.5 1355-1600 on 11629.7 KBD 250 kW / 230 deg to CeAf Arabic https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/very-good-signal-of-radio-kuwait-holy.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 3-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. On 5960 kHz channel terrible 124 Hertz interference BUZZ noted: ASCENSION ISL 5960 even, R Ndarason Int. S=7-8 at 0626 UT, and co-channel signal on odd fq of 5959.876 kHz Radio Kuwait in Arabic HQ. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15110 DRM, Sulabiyah, 250 kW/310 deg, Radio Kuwait, Nov 8, 1325 - In my never ending search for DRM signals, I found Kuwait today. Too weak to decode, besides the caption: 'Radio Kuwait'. Off a few minutes later (Walt Salmaniw, Listening Waters DXpedition, Murray Harbour North, PEI, 3–10 Nov 2018, WOR iog via DXLD) Reception of MOI Radio Kuwait General Service, Nov.9: 0200-0635 on 5959.8 KBD 250 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic, fair 0500-0900 on 15515.1 KBD 250 kW / 059 deg to EaAs Arabic, good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-moi-radio-kuwait-general.html MOI Radio Kuwait in Farsi on unscheduled 15530v kHz on Nov.9 0800-0810 on 15529.8 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Persian, very good 0800-1000 on 7249.8 KBD 250 kW / non-dir to WeAs Persian, fair/good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/moi-radio-kuwait-in-farsi-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 8-9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KYRGYZSTAN. 5130, Voice of Life (Sedaye Zindagi), Kyrgyzstan. In Vernaculars on 8/10 at 1550 with carrier, followed by songs & presumed Christian program in Dari, close/down around 1750 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi antenna), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) ** KYRGYZSTAN. KYRGYZ REPUBLIC, Um 1759 UT Hymne des Landes und abendlicher Sendeschluss? von Kyrgyztelekom: 4010.177, KGZ, Birinchi Radio Krasnaya Rechka Bishkek 1758-1800 UT, S=9+5dB, und auch Sendeschluss des TWR Afghan Evangelen Ablegers Afghan Pashto religious program "Radio Sedaye Zindagi" via Bishkek site. 5129.95 kHz auch S=9+5dB, alles in Athen gehoert, vor 1800 UT Nov 6. report to: or or Answer received from: Ms. Cholpon Temirbekova International Relations and Protocol Department Officer Public Broadcasting Corporation of the Kyrgyz Republic 59, Jash Gvardiya boulevard 720010 Bishkek Kyrgyz Republic Mobile: +996706030794 Office: +996312655662 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 6)(BC-DX Nov 10 via DXLD) ** LATVIA. ====== Radio Center. Our next test transmission from Riga, Latvia is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 13th, 2018 at 0300-0500 UT on AM 1485 (Andrey Nekrasov, USA / Russia / https://www.facebook.com/groups/wrthgroup/) (Rus DX 11 Nov via DXLD) ** LIBERIA. 6049.985, tiny signal observed here in Germany on Nov 6 at 0622 UT [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LITHUANIA. ========= Radio Baltic Waves International Viešintos 1386 kHz 75 kW B18, UTC 1630-1700 Radio Poland, Polish 1700-1730 Radio Poland, Russian 1730-1800 NHK World Japan, Russian 1800-1900 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Russian 1900-1930 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Belarusian 1930-0300 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Russian 0300-0330 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Belarusian 0330-0400 NHK World Japan, Russian 0400-0500 Radio Poland, Belarusian (Rimantas Pleikys, Lithuania. ???????? ??????? ???????, ?????? / [via Dmitriy Kutuzov, Ryazan`], “deneb-radio-dx")(Rus DX 11 Nov via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. Winter [sic] B-18 changes of WCB Madagascar World Voice https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/winter-b-18-frequency-changes-of-wcb.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 1800-1900 11885 / 355 deg EaEu Russian tx#2 KNLS, New Life Stn ex 9570 1800-1900 13670 / 310 deg WeAf English tx#3 African Pathways R ex17640 1900-2000 9690 / 355 deg EaEu Russian tx#3 KNLS, New Life Stn ex 9810 1900-2000 11965 / 355 deg N/ME Arabic tx#2 Radio Feda, ex 11945 2000-2100 11965 / 295 deg CeAf English tx#3 African Pathways R ex17640 2000-2100 13710 / 355 deg N/ME Arabic tx#2 Radio Feda, ex 11945 2100-2200 11965 / 265 deg SoAm Portug. tx#3 La Voz Alegre new language 2200-2300 11965 / 055 deg EaAs Chinese tx#3 The Light of Life, ex 9490 0200-0300 15510 / 040 deg SoAs English tx#3 African Pathways R ex 9600 0300-0400 6180 / 265 deg SoAm Spanish tx#2 La Voz Alegre, ex 7330 0300-0400 15510 / 040 deg SoAs English tx#3 African Pathways R ex15560 ??????????? ?? Observer ? 10:35 AM (via DXLD) 11965, Nov 7 at 2050, APR on MWV already signing off with English schedule, and today`s outro song, ``A Place For Us``. Usual good signal all the way from Mahajanga. 11610, Nov 10 at 2237, S9+10/20/30 in Arabic, mentioning ``Greenwich`` several times, evidently reciting its schedule or quoting reports? And contact via radiofeda.com. MWV bigsig good for music when they get to it. 11965, Nov 10 at 2240, Chinese here which must also be MWV, S9+10/20. Now running 11965 four hours straight, 19-23 in Arabic, English, Portuguese, Chinese, each on different beam, the lastter toward Asia, not Europe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11885, World Christian Broadcasting (KNLS) at 1759 in Russian with IS to 1800 and a man with opening announcements and western pop vocals and a woman with brief talk at 1804 and a music bridge based on their IS and back to the woman with talk – Poor to Fair with fading Nov 10 – Once again, the way to heaven is through western pop vocals, or so it seems (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, odxa iog via DXLD) ** MEXICO. Re 18-45, [WOR] 730 Ensenada BCN --- Dear Mr. McGreevy, XHEBC says that they don't operate on 730 kHz any more and also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHEBC-FM says that the AM transmitter went off the air in 2016. Is it possible, that you were listening to XELBC or is Ensenada AM operating illegally? Could you please share a recording? Thanks, (Mauno Ritola, ibid.) XELBC = 2.5 kW Loreto BCS. Loreto is about halfway down the BCS portion of the peninsula (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Or XESOS, I am advised. Is he on this list? Best regards, (Mauno Ritola, WRTH, WOR iog via DXLD) Yes, he is. XESOS = Agua Prieta, Sonora, next to Douglas AZ, not in WRTH 2018 either (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Deadline nigh for WRTH 2019! Thank you. XESOS was supposed to stop, maybe it will happen soon. But no one else that I have asked is hearing XHEBC [sic] (Mauno, ibid.) ** MEXICO. 6185, Nov 6 at 0600:26, XEPPM goes from othermusic without a break right into choral Mexican NA, S9-S7 and then quick ID as a 100 kW station, i.e. their MW 1060 XEEP which is nominally only 20 kW at night! And I do believe it is very night. SW supposedly signs off now, but instead starts playing more music medley; what happened to the RFI Spanish news relay which used to go on at 0600 at least on MW? Manuel Méndez, Spain has the answer to the WOR iogroup, since he was listening at the exact same time, earlier and later: ``6185, Radio Educación, Ciudad de México, 0447-0619*, 06-11, Spanish and Portuguese songs, at 0600 anthem, ID “1060 AM, medio siglo de acompañar la transformación social, política y cultural de México, 100.000 watts de potencia, desde la Ciudad de México, Radio Educación, una emisora del Servicio Nacional de Comunicación Cultural, crea, colabora, comparte”, classic music, at 0607 Radio France International news in Spanish, “Las noticias de Radio Francia Internacional”, at 0619 close. At first 35433 and later 25422`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1060, XEEP Radio Educación, México DF, 1103 November 5, 2018. Muddy Waters set with "Too Young To Know," "Mean Old Frisco Blues," and "Champagne & Reefer" then female XEEP and slogan ID, 100,000 watts power, into sets by Nat King Cole then Frank Sinatra with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. Parallel weak 6185 kHz (Terry Krueger, Clearwater FL, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6185, Nov 9 at 0056, absolutely no signal from XEPPM, as it is getting quite sporadic. Yet Terry Krueger in Florida was hearing a weak 6185 Nov 5 at 1103 // MW 1060. ~1100 is a very strange time for it to be on; beware of North Korea on 6185, but which is in French at 11-12 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. ESTADOS UNIDOS/MEXICO --- La organización binacional Campesinos Sin Fronteras anunció la apertura de su estación de radio para el 9 de noviembre próximo, como un espacio dedicado al servicio social e información para los trabajadores agrícolas. La directora del organismo ciudadano, Emma Torres, manifestó que las transmisiones de la estación radial tendrán cobertura en el condado de Yuma, Arizona; valle de Imperial, California; San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora y en el valle rural de Mexicali, Baja California. En entrevista con medios, dijo que están muy emocionados por lo que serán las primeras emisiones de Radio Sin Fronteras, dedicadas a educar a la comunidad de ambos lados del límite internacional. Expresó que además de la música, la principal meta de esta organización sin fines de lucro, es fomentar la educación e información de los residentes en temas como salud, servicios médicos, educación y cultura, entre otros. Adelantó que la estación trasmitirá de manera bilingüe durante las 24 horas, con una potencia de 25 kilowatts de frecuencia modulada (FM) en el cuadrante 99.9, al indicar que las transmisiones iniciarán el 29 de octubre para las pruebas técnicas, pero la inauguración oficial será en noviembre. Ver más en: https://www.20minutos.com.mx/noticia/433215/0/anuncian-apertura-de-radiobinacional-en-frontera-sonora-arizona/#xtor=AD-1&xts=513356 (via Conexion Digital 11 nov via DXLD) Evidently this is a single station on the Mexican side, typical XH 25 kW power (ERP?), but a bit more info would be helpful! WTFDA FM Database has no BCN on 99.9, and only some other Sonoran, an Exa-FM way over in Agua Prieta. Wait: I keep looking in California: no 99.9 near the Frontera; but AZ has this in a Yuma suburb, must be the one: KYMZ 99.9 SOMERTON AZ USA 25.0 25.0 56.0 32-38-31 114-33-34 VARIETY (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTEING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Espacios como Uni Radio 99.7, la radiodifusora de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, son fundamentales para divulgar entre diferentes públicos la ciencia y la cultura, afirmó Francisco Jasan, uno de los creadores del radio cómic Crónicas del Dr. Manuel Buhardilla. Acompañado del artista visual y plástico Sebastián Zapata, el también locutor ofreció una conferencia en la Facultad de Arquitectura y Diseño de la UAEM, en el marco del programa de actividades académicas y culturales conmemorativas al 11 aniversario de Uni Radio 99.7. Ante estudiantes de diversas facultades, ambos, compartieron el proceso de creación del radio cómic y cómo generaron un producto que acerca la ciencia a un público infantil y adolescente, a partir de la fusión de la radio con las artes visuales y el diseño gráfico. “Las radiodifusoras universitarias son muy importantes, debido a que hacen posible que trabajos como el nuestro lleguen a más personas. Necesitamos más espacios similares, que permitan acercar temas científicos a la población”. Ante la directora de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Diseño, Martha Patricia Zarza Delgado, y el director de Uni Radio, Marinho Aguilar Albarrán, Sebastián Zapata compartió con los asistentes el proceso creativo que conlleva generar un radio cómic a partir de un contenido científico. Crónicas del Dr. Manuel Buhardilla es un proyecto de comunicación de la ciencia a través de cápsulas radiofónicas ilustradas, también conocidas como radio cómic en el género de radio drama o radio serie. Actualmente, está financiado por el Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT). (Al Momento.mx) Más: El pàsado 23 de octubre se inauguró el Museo de la Radio, en la estación del Sistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC) Parque de los Venados de la Línea 12. Jorge Jiménez Alcaraz, director general del Sistema de Transporte Colectivo, Metro dijo que es un espacio público incluyente con tecnología y arte para los miles de personas que utilizan esta estación diariamente. La radio en nuestro país ha ido a la par de los avances tecnológicos que se han dado a nivel mundial, siempre ha contribuido a la integración nacional, a fortalecer nuestra identidad y ha sido parte sustancial de la integración de nuestra sociedad, es el medio de comunicación que siempre nos acompaña en cualquier momento en cualquier hora, por eso la sentimos tan nuestra”, indicó Jiménez Alcaraz. Juan Carlos Celayeta, presidente de la Asociación de Radiodifusores del Valle de México, señaló que el Museo de la Radio, es un espacio para la difusión, promoción de las estaciones en la Ciudad. Es un sitio público intervenido con tecnología y mobiliario, que te hará recordar, reconocer, emocionarte, un lugar donde podrás ver y escuchar la historia de un medio tan fascinante como es la radio”, aseguró el presidente de la Asociación de Radiodifusores del Valle de México. Hay paneles que muestran la historia de la radio en México, en que cada estación radiofónica nos traslada a un recuerdo, el lazo estrecho, inquebrantable entre la Radio y quienes la escuchamos. El Museo de la Radio se presenta en dos pabellones, que ofrecen información interesante, sobre la radio en tres formatos: formato gráfico, audio y audiovisual, además cuenta con una cabina de transmisión que funciona en vivo. El Museo de la Radio en el STC, es el esfuerzo de los grupos radiofónicos de la Ciudad de México para llevar a los usuarios del Metro el mayor agradecimiento a su preferencia por casi un siglo del medio de comunicación más cercano con la población. Así, la Radio ha sido testigo fiel de la historia y espejo fiel para que cada escucha pudiera estar ahí y enterarse sin tener la vista fija. Actualmente, en el Valle de México hay 36 estaciones de radio de Frecuencia Modulada, FM, y 35 en Amplitud Modulada, AM, asociadas en 12 grupos radiofónicos --- https://www.excelsior.com.mx (via Conexion Digital 11 nov via DXLD) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- including TDT = DTV Responding to pressure and interest, the IFT put up the documents and material related to the October 31 Pleno meeting with all those concession renewals. In fact, it also revealed there was another meeting between the 17th and the 31st by numbering (this is the 32nd Ordinary Meeting, the last available was the 30th Ordinary), but we don't have it yet. There were many, many concessions renewed, too. The total is 411 stations (of 450), which break down like this. 7 Multimedios stations in Multimedios Televisión and Televisión Digital (evidently excluding XHAW) Televisa: 126 Televimex stations (125 Las Estrellas + XHTV in another auth) 63 Radio Televisión 17 Teleimagen del Noroeste 17 Televisora de Occidente XHBF (Televisora de Navojoa), XHTP (Televisora Peninsular) TV Azteca: 178 Televisión Azteca stations (excluding XHCH in Chihuahua) XHTVM (Televisora del Valle de México) The prices break down as follows (in pesos): Multimedios: $105,789,716 + $102,101,582 = $207,891,298 (US$10.52 million) Televisa: $1,711,875,369 + $1,628,519,340 + $969,237,308 + $880,336,273 = $5,189,968,390 (national concessionaires, in order 2/5/9/regional) + $440,368,533 (XHTV) + $3,537,697 (XHBF) + $32,774,988 (XHTP) = $5,666,649,608 (US$286.7 million) TV Azteca: $1,728,965,416 (Azteca Uno) + $1,713,312,497 (Azteca 7) + $438,533,953 = $3,880,811,866 (US$196.4 million) These are all 20-year renewals but these payments must be made in a lump sum. Per year of renewal, Multimedios will pay about US$526,000, Televisa US$14.335 million, and TV Azteca about $9.82 million. 39 renewals remain to be made, mostly of Televisa local partners (current and former), a few independents like XHIJ and XHILA, and XEIMT. Aside from a reorganization of the shares in XHZM-FM and an expected delay in the Canal 16 multiprogramming plan in Chihuahua, the IFT did not take on any other noteworthy broadcasting matters in this meeting, but this is plenty. Update: The IFT has put out a press release, and they also mention that more renewals of radio and TV stations will be approved soon. (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, Nov 6, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) It's happening November 11 at noon. Radio Educación goes FM — and not just on test — this Sunday. https://twitter.com/RadioEducacion/status/1060219488094900224 The first program on FM will be a live concert from the National Symphonic Orchestra. ——— Meanwhile, a pirate radio station in Paraíso, Tabasco, is coming under some scrutiny after it not only received a municipal advertising contract but dismissed two journalists who were critical of the municipal government. https://www.sinreservas.mx/paga-alcaldia-de-paraiso-radio-patito-y-corren-a-conductores-por-hablar-mal-de-la-administracion/?fbclid=IwAR1f9XXxukUHv_ANebHvJWcwBy_8zeAkFf-ZV-dPNbjWpKI_GYORJQSPPls "La Radio del Sureste Mexicano" transmits on 103.9 MHz and is owned by two municipal employees, Enrique Gutiérrez and Edi Olivé López. They canceled the program "Cangrejeando la Noticia", saying that in order to secure the advertising, the municipality, headed by Antonio Alejandro Almeida, asked them to remove the show from their air. As municipal employees, according to the state Law of Responsibilities of Public Servants, Gutiérrez and Olivé López should be barred from making any sort of contract with the municipal government. That's not the only recent curiosity involving advertising in Tabasco, either. XHLI-FM/Tab. is so upset with not being paid by the state government that yesterday it began airing a notice asking outgoing Governor Arturo Núñez Jiménez to pay them, saying "Governor, the work you asked for should be paid for". https://twitter.com/Joseraul_reyes/status/1059974328803094528 Last edited by Raymie; 11-07-2018 at 05:09 PM (Raymie, Nov 7, ibid.) Who's Left? 39 Station Renewals Remain from the Class of 2021 With the IFT's action last week, 411 commercial television stations had their concessions renewed for 20 years. This leaves 39 commercial stations that will need renewals in the near future. Independent Stations Of those 39, eight stations are essentially independents. I've counted XHTRES as an independent in the pre-IFT-1 context. These stations are XHILA, XHAS, XHDTV, XHIJ, XHPNW, XHTRES, XHNSS, and XHRIO. Canal 22 XEIMT-TDT has a commercial concession, a legacy of the fact it almost was privatized as part of the sale of Imevisión. (It was rescued from that fate by a cultural lobbying campaign.) It, too, has a 2021 concession expiration date. Televisa Local Partners (Current and Former) 28 of the 39 are local TV stations historically associated with Televisa but not owned by the company. Some still are. Others, including the four Telsusa stations, not so much. Some of the "local" stations actually provide network service, like XHTX and XHLL. XHCH and XHAW Televisión Azteca asked the IFT to exclude XHCH from the network renewals. In Chihuahua, TV Azteca has always owned three stations because Imevisión did. Leaving the concession alone may just be a formality, or it could keep the door open to a sale or other spinoff (though Azteca has not done that despite being in existence 25 years). XHSAW was renewed, but not XHAW (yet). (Raymie, Nov 7, ibid.) I want to circle back to something I mentioned in recapping the October 31 meeting: the approval by the IFT of an extension to get Canal 16 Chihuahua on the state's two operating Imagen TV transmitters. This is not big news, and I want to point out why. There are two factors at the state level that are causing headwinds for Canal 16 — and that prompted reporting back in August that an extension would be requested. https://www.eldiariodechihuahua.mx/Estado/2018/08/11/hasta-nuevo-aviso-canal-16-estatal-/ The state government said "the conditions do not exist for now to launch this service", and Antonio Pinedo, who heads up the state's PR apparatus, said there was no money for it to launch this year. In fact, the initial launch budget has already been slashed from 80 million pesos to 50 million. The reason the money hasn't come yet is because other matters, like health and education budgeting, became more important. Additionally, as with all social communication activities nationwide, the austerity from the federal government, new legislation and a desire to significantly slash this discretionary purse could serve as problems going forward (though Chihuahua badly needs public media). The second article actually prompted me to dig up a transparency request that included the proposed schedule for Canal 16. It's heavily reliant on programs supplied by Canal Once and Canal 22. A few local programs, including news, a tourism show, a program on indigenous people, a cooking show and some others, would also be on the schedule. Canal 16 won't be on the air for a while — certainly not in 2018 (Raymie, Nov 9, ibid.) Social Wolf, Social Frequencies — Part II In late May, I published a piece on the new social station owner Frecuencias Sociales, A.C. (XHPVT, XHTOJ, XHTUJ in Jalisco). http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?9113-OPMA-is-changing&p=45981#post45981 I reported that Frecuencias Sociales was associated with José Antonio Aguilar Arellano, who owns commercial radio stations in Texas including joint ownership of a few with Elías Navarro of GlobalMedia. GlobalMedia, too, had a curiosity, an announced Texas station project and a San Antonio rimshot translator (K229BJ) owned by a "GlobalMedia Network" whose director, Christian Wertz, appeared to also be from the world of Mexican broadcasting. Well, I found the missing link. Or a couple. I went looking for more information on Christian Wertz in particular and came across some references to a company called "Wertz Bush Radiodifusores, S.A. de C.V.", which apparently conducted activities in Tepic (where Wertz once ran XETNC Radio Aztlán in Tepic). Bush had to be another name. I went back to the Frecuencias Sociales application and found him: Ing. Jaime Bush Medina. Not only did I find him, I found the company that ties Wertz, Arellano and Bush (and K229BJ) all together: Partes y Servicios para Radiodifusión. http://www.psradio.mx/ This Zapopan, Jalisco-based company provides engineering services and equipment to radio stations in Mexico (and it's mentioned in the Frecuencias Sociales filing) and the US. And they're all part of it, together with A. Jaime Bush Ponce (apparently Jaime Bush Medina's father), Héctor García and Ing. Guillermo Corvera Caraza. Corvera Caraza used to work for the SCT when it handled broadcasting. Today, he's involved in some other things; notably, he's the listed ombudsman for the Media Group stations. García appears to also do engineering work. He appears as the engineer on some documents related to engineering applications filed by Texas stations owned by Protelse, which is in turn owned by Abraham Farid Karam. Protelse lists the same San Antonio address as GlobalMedia Network. GlobalMedia is also a client of Frecuencias Sociales, according to their website, along with MVS, Capital Media, Promomedios, Multimedios, ACIR, Radiorama, Imagen, MegaRadio, Grupo Radio Korita, and XHZAM-FM Mazamitla, Jalisco. The question now might well be...is this wolf hiding another, larger broadcaster? ——— In smaller news, thanks to more IFT commissioners writing their votes in advance, we have a new callsign to break. It's for the new FM for the Universidad Tecnológica de la Región Norte de Guerrero at Iguala. Unfortunately, they don't get their old callsign or frequency back. They'll instead be on 103.3 FM in what appears to be a new templated callsign series as XHCPAF-FM. (I believe CP means Concesión Pública.) This callsign series appears to be, like the PE, SC and SI series, sequentially assigning the last two letters based on application or some other criterion (Raymie, Nov 9, ibid.) Speaking of SC series, one of the nation's newest community radio awards trumpeted its existence today at a press conference. Grupo Radioasta, A.C., which will go on the air on 107.9 MHz in Ensenada, Baja California, explained that it intends to begin test transmissions sometime in the second half of 2019. They are also seeking to co-locate their equipment with a university. https://www.elvigia.net/general/2018/11/10/otorgan-concesion-grupo-radioasta-316026.html?fbclid=IwAR2bcA5n-vKIfUQCRTnUEzIj62zwjnl8jXwtJIpL8dmtcKNsIMBgwAhlbco#&gid=1&pid=1 (Raymie, Nov 10, ibid.) At least three of the four commercial radio stations in Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche, will go off the air for an hour on Tuesday in a coordinated protest against rising electricity rates going far beyond local radio. Citing "disproportionate and out of control increases" https://www.facebook.com/LaMejorCarmen1005/photos/a.314238178755898/1014962818683427/?type=3&theater in electrical rates set by the CFE and the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE), XHIT, XHBCC and XHMAB will all spend the 7pm hour off the air in an action helmed by the local STIRTT chapter. They are being joined by businesses across the Yucatán Peninsula and supported by Governor Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas. https://www.facebook.com/AlejandroMC/videos/2387631794643387/?__tn__=-R XHCMN is a STIRTT member, so they are likely to join but I have not seen references to them yet. CFE rate hikes have been news in the southeast in recent months. In Quintana Roo, rates have doubled in the last year, https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/en-quintana-roo-se-unen-contra-cfe-por-aumento-del-100-a-tarifas/1277555 and there are more than 400 complaints by businesses in that state alone. Business organizations have banded together; in a letter sent in October, https://www.lajornadamaya.mx/2018-10-16/Exige-Iniciativa-Privada-a-CFE-revertir-aumento-de-tarifas-en-Yucatan 31 business groups from Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo have demanded the rollback of rate hikes and more equitable rates nationwide. Speaking of Ciudad del Carmen, there will soon finally be an IFT-4 station on the air in Campeche. XHPCAR-FM 95.5 http://www.sensorinformativo.com/noticia/muy-pronto-kiss-fm-955-en-ciudad-del-carmen/ is Grupo SIPSE's westernmost radio station and will be, as might have been predictable, Kiss FM. In an item dated October 23, Kiss FM announced its forthcoming debut and said it was 90 percent complete with construction. The station will take the Campeche version of Kiss FM in regard to format, and it will also broadcast the Panorama Informativo national news from Grupo ACIR. It's worth noting XHPCAR is not in the CPCREL system. Campeche has been an IFT-4 laggard; it has eight FMs from the auction but none of them are on yet (Raymie, Nov 12, ibid.) The 2019 PABF landed in this morning's Diario Oficial de la Federación. It was approved by the IFT in that missing Pleno meeting on October 22. http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5543543&fecha=12/11/2018 TDT Commercial - No stations Social - 4 stations (2 U and 2 V), in Tecario Mich., Agua Prieta and Puerto Peñasco Son., and Choapas I Ver. Public - 7 stations, including one UHF in each major population center in Sinaloa and a VHF for Guadalajara. There are two low-Vs, which are Jocotitlán/Toluca Mex. and Moroleón Gto. FM Commercial - 39 stations though only two B1s, at Santa Rosalía BCS and Puerto Escondido Oax. Social - 21 stations Public - 7 stations. Notably, five of the seven are likely CDI bait. The others are an AA at San Francisco de Campeche, Camp. and an A in Acapulco. Four of the five CDI bait allocations were in localities where public applications from the Federal Executive displaced other applicants. AM Commercial - a B in Apatzingan and a C in Izúcar de Matamoros, Pue. Social - three stations, in Zinapécuaro Mich., Los Reyes de Juárez Pue., and Las Choapas Ver. More Stations Coming Notably, 7 FM and 11 TDT applications will not appear in the first round of the PABF but may appear in the second round of the PABF, likely to be published in February or March of next year. These are FCC international coordination cases. On FM, these are Granjas el Venado Chih., San José (el Cibolo) Coah., and Bacerac (2), Hermosillo, and San Javier (2) in Sonora. The two (2) towns have social and public applications. The 11 TDTs break down as follows: Nogales Son. (public); Castaños, Cuatro Ciénegas, Frontera, Monclova and San Buenaventura Coah. (all commercial); Monterrey (public), Cd. Apodaca and El Carmen (both social) in Nuevo León; and public and commercial applications for Reynosa, Tamaulipas. The IFT has announced that the auction for the 39 commercial FMs would be held in the second half of 2019 (Raymie, Nov 12, ibid.) ** MEXICO. LA ROSA DE TOKIO PARA EL SÁBADO 10 DE NOVIEMBRE 2018 La Rosa de Tokio es un programa semanal dedicado a difundir el apasionante mundo de la radio y del diexismo, producido y realizado en los estudios de LS11 Radio Provincia de Buenos Aires, (AM1270 kHz) http://www.radioprovincia.gba.gob.ar/ La Plata, República Argentina. Email: lrtradio@gmail.com El tema de la semana: HISTORIA DE LA RADIODIFUSIÓN EN MEXICO (PROGRAMA 1) No se pierdan los archivos de audio históricos con los cuales se ilustran cada programa. LA ROSA DE TOKIO se irradia los sábados de 23:00 a 24:00 UTC (20:00 a 21:00 hora argentina) por los 1270 kHz y en Internet por http://www.amprovincia.com.ar Además, una extensa red de emisoras de frecuencia modulada de toda la República Argentina retransmite en forma semanal nuestro programa en diferentes días y horarios. La Rosa de Tokio también sale por onda corta gracias a las facilidades brindadas por WRMI Radio Miami Internacional http://www.wrmi.net También puede ser escuchada en cualquier momento entrando en la página ProgramasDX y haciendo “click” en http://programasdx.com/larosadetokio.htm Desde este vínculo también podrán acceder al archivo que recaba ediciones anteriores del programa. La Rosa de Tokio es producida y conducida por Omar José Somma y Arnaldo Leonel Slaen y cuenta con la colaboración habitual de Rubén Guillermo Margenet, desde Rosario y Alejandro Daniel Álvarez, desde Neuquen. E-mail de "LA ROSA DE TOKIO": lrtradio@gmail.com (Audio a demanda) http://programasdx.com/larosadetokio.htm Si desean escuchar otros programas diexistas en: http://programasdx.com/ Programas DX en facebook: https://www.facebook.com/programasdx Programas DX en twitter: https://twitter.com/programasdx Cordiales 73 Programas DX (via playdx yg via DXLD) ** MONGOLIA. 7258, Mongolian Radio 1, Ulan Bator. 1420, tentative with Asian folk singing, 20/10 (Rob Shepherd, Toowoomba QLD (JRC NRD 535-D, 35 metre balanced longwire), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) 7258?? is that a typo? (gh) ** MONGOLIA. 12085, V. of Mongolia, Ulaan Baatar. Good reception of an ID and closing anns in the Mongolian service at 0958 on 9/10 (Dennis Allen, Milperra NSW (Icom IC-R75, Realistic DX160, Longwires), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) [same] 1021 7/10 in. English. Just there. Recognisable at times. Patriotic songs (Bob Emanuel, Blackheath, NSW (Icom R8500, Sony AN1 Active antenna), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) ** MYANMAR. FYI - This is my last posting for a while. Ron 5985, Myanmar Radio, 1550-1554, Nov 7. The Wednesday only "VOA Special English" program; today with "Refugee Artists Seek to Give Back to Community"; program transcript at http://goo.gl/QsFrfJ along with video and audio streaming; fair and very readable (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** MYANMAR. Hi, This is the first time I am sending my logs to Hardcore DX. I logged the below mentioned SW stations. *Date: November 4, 2018 (Sunday)* *Received at: Chennai (Madras), India* *Receiver: Tecsun PL660* *Antenna: Inbuilt Telescopic* *Station: Thazin Radio Paoh Service* *Frequency: 9590 Khz* *Time: 0740 UT* When I tuned into Thazin Radio by 0740 I heard a song being played but there was lot of noise in the transmission and the noise did not get reduced as the broadcast continued. I have attached the recording of the log. --- Regards (N. Arun Kumar, DX Listener, Chennai, India, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. SECRETLAND, New time of Mighty KBC Radio via SPL Secretbrod, Nov 3: 1300-1400 on 9400 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg WeEu English Sat, ex 1500-1600 * co-ch same 9400 IBA 100 kW / 330 deg EaAs Chinese Daily FEBC Manila https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/new-time-of-mighty-kbc-radio-via-spl.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 3-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So KBC relay quickly moved to 11600, instead of Brother Scare (gh) 5960, GERMANY, Nauen, 125 kW, 300 deg, The Mighty KBC, Nov 4, 0000 - Nice to hear them like the old days. Very powerful signal with start right at 00:00 after transmitter came on just after 23:59. Still the same format as always. Amazing signal into PEI (Walt Salmaniw, Listening Waters DXpedition, Murray Harbour North, PEI, 3–10 Nov 2018, WOR iog via DXLD) Bulgaria/Netherlands: Reply to a reception report (Sa 1300-1400, 9400 kHz followed by radiogram) "Hi Hansjörg, Thank you sir, it's much appreciated. It's always great to read how real reception was going. This Saturday we are on 11600 kHz from Bulgaria between 1300-1400 UT. Have a great week. Met vriendelijke groet, Eric van Willegen, KBC Radio, Argonstraat 6, 6718 WT Ede, Tel. (+31) 0318 552491" (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 7 November 2018, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SECRETLAND, Frequency change of The Mighty KBC Radio via SPL Secretbrod, Nov.10 1300-1400 NF 11600 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English Sat, ex 9400 to avoid FEBC Ch https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/frequency-change-of-mighty-kbc-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NICARAGUA. 8989/USB, El Buen Pescador Pastor (presumed); 2249-2300+, 11/5; M in SS preaching; only pick up a word here & there; palabra, Dios, etc. Poor at QRN level + intruder (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ----- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time & without the aid of a computer! -----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. NIGÉRIA, 9690. Nov 10, 2018. 1842-1852, Voice of Nigeria, Abuja, em Inglês. A economia nigeriana e o desenvolvimento em locuções masculina e feminina. VON com boa recepção em Cabedelo, 45544. [and non] 9690. Nov 10, 2018. 2001-2010, Voice of Nigeria, Abuja, em Hauçá. IS e locução masculina; Locutora fala, ID e Noticias, presumivelmente. VON com recepção satisfatória e, ao fundo, ouve-se uma leve modulação da REE na mesma frequência, 44433 (José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX) - PR7036SWL, Cabedelo-PB, Brasil, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9689.9, Nov 11 at 2052, VON is back on here causing LAH to SPAIN 9690.0, unlike hetlessness yesterday, until VON goes off at 2101:45* clearing REE for its silly ballgame coverage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. Radio Nigeria Kaduna via TDF and WRMI, Nov.5/6 0500-0700 on 7335 ISS 150 kW / 170 deg to WeAf Hausa 0500-0700 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg to WeAf Hausa 0700-0900 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg to WeAf Hausa 0700-0900 on 13840 ISS 150 kW / 170 deg to WeAf Hausa 1100-1500 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg to WeAf Hausa 1100-1500 on 17690 ISS 150 kW / 170 deg to WeAf Hausa 2000-2300 on 7235*ISS 150 kW / 170 deg to WeAf Hausa 2000-2300 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg to WeAf Hausa *2000-2056 on 7235 TIG 300 kW / 277 deg to SoEu Spanish R. Romania Int https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/radio-nigeria-kaduna-via-tdf-and-wrmi.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 3-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11580, Nov 6 at 1408, Radio Nigeria, Kaduna, via WRMI back to northern Nigeria, yet hefty S9+10 in reverse to OK; is playing some really wild rustic music, great fun to listen to; but at 1450-1457+ recheck it`s crapped out to dead air, WRMI doing nothing about it. This has happened before, or defaulting to fill music, Oldies, or other programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7235, FRANCE, Radio Nigeria Kaduna at 2146 // 11580 (via WRMI) in Hausa with a telephone interview between two men – Poor to Fair with deep fading Nov 7 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) 11580, Nov 8 at 2042, no signal from R. Nigeria, Kaduna, via WRMI, scheduled 2000-2300. Ivo Ivanov, back after more than a month of silence, points out that besides WRMI relays, RN,K is also scheduled via ISSoudun, France: 05-07 7335, 07-09 13840, 11-15 17690, 20-23 7235 (-21 CCI with Romania). These cover same timespans as RMI 11580, also 05-09 & 11-15 [WORLD OF RADIO 1956] 7335, Nov 9 at 0552 check, guess what: JBA carrier under heavy pulse jamming by CUBA against an ex-Radio Martí frequency. Something`s always wrong. Kai Ludwig replies to the WOR iog: ``So who is the financier of these Issoudun transmissions? FRCN Kaduna itself is so short of money that they can hardly operate their own Jaji transmitters anymore (so it was probably not even an equipment failure that silenced 6090 kHz again earlier this year): https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/fgs-information-agencies-groan-under-poor-funding.html Kai``. Viz.: ``FRCN Kaduna, which was hitherto a leading source of information to many Hausa speakers in Nigeria and neighbouring countries, is now a shadow of itself. The Radio Kaduna, as popularly called, does not operate full hours because it cannot afford diesel to run its transmitter in Jaji. “Whenever our transmitter in Jaji is off because of power supply, the radio station goes off air. The transmitter guzzles diesel that the station’s meagre resources can’t afford,” a senior staff of the station said`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11580, Nov 9 at 1340, WRMI missing again, no Radio Nigeria, Kaduna relay, instead FEBA Radio India via GUAM, q.v. Guess what, the latest WRMI skedgrid checked Nov 9 at 1657 shows that Jeff White and sidekix Anonymous Axolotl (? vanished before I could copy spelling) and Anonymous Quagga have removed RN,K completely from the sked leaving 11580 blank 24 hours to Africa. Reactivated Ivo had uncovered more relays of this via ISSoudun, France, including 17690 at 11-15 UT, but nothing audible there at 1415; Europe surely propagating poorly anyway, tho the Saudi trio 17895/17705/17615- are detectable. However, Wolfgang Bueschel was hearing RN,K via ISS Nov 9 at 0555 on 7335, while overrun Cuban jamming blox it here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17690 just came on air, crash-starting at 1100 into music, followed by a clear TOH announcement for Hausa radio from Radio Nigeria Kaduna. (Kai Ludwig, Nov 10, Wor iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re Radio Kaduna Nigeria relays managed by Jeff White via WRMI Frequency Management Organization, as HFCC table requested #s 16009, 16011, 16012, and 16096. Requests show these details: via TDF Issoudun broadcast center 7335 05-07 13840 07-09 17690 11-15 7235 20-23 Both 7 MHz outlets via ALLISS antenna type #216, like 4 'number of rows spaced half a wavelength apart one above the other' 13 and 17 MHz outlets on daytime coverage path via ALLISS antenna type #227 instead on 6 'number of rows spaced half a wavelength apart one above the other' Power is always lowered from original 500, - to 150 kW only. Also this service via WRMI Okeechobee, Florida site on 11580 kHz at 05-09, 11-15, 20-23 UT. - - - Signal on 17690 ISS at 1244 UT Nov 10: S=9+10dB in U.K. and Sweden, but back-sidelobe rest of the long range signal poor S=4-5 in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Finland and Moscow Russia remote SDR's. 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGST) 7335even, F__, Radio Nigeria Kaduna Hausa language sce via TDF Issoudun. S=9 at 0555 UT. Male voice program, but hefty suffered by powerful splatter of near-by BBCWS Woofferton UK signal on 7345even, latter S=9+20dB strength. Re R Kaduna Nigeria relay via TDF Issoudun, my strong feeling is, paid for by EU Brussels budget or even by France/Germany's secret services to strengthen the Muslim government there. Similar help by French government goes to TDA Algiers Arabic language program on shortwave 49, 41, and 31 mb. Covers Sahel Sahara zone with the Algiers program to the locals to stabilize the authority governments there - since a decade or much longer. 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, short morning log Nov 9th, in Germany, Belgium and Doha Qatar remotes, [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz], wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17690, FRANCE, Radio Nigeria Kaduna at 1318 in Hausa with a man with spirited talk – Fair in peaks with fading Nov 10 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, odxa iog via DXLD) Kaduna Nigeria program relay on TDF Issoudun, 17690even S=7 strength on sidelobe of the 170degr antenna. 11-15 UT RMI FMO requested, only lowered 150 kW outlet, but 6 row curtain #227 in use [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (wb df5sx, heard in US and Alberta, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) time heard? ** NIGERIA [non]. Dandal Kura Radio International via MBR, Nov.6 0500-0600 NF 7315 NAU 125 kW / 185 deg to CeAf Kanuri, ex 5950 B-17 0600-0700 NF 9620 NAU 125 kW / 185 deg to CeAf Kanuri, ex 7415 B-17 1800-1900 NF 9770 ISS 100 kW / 167 deg to CeAf Kanuri, ex 11670 B-17 1900-2000 NF 7455 ISS 100 kW / 167 deg to CeAf Kanuri, ex 11670 B-17 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-dandal-kura-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 3-6, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7315even, D__, Dandal Kura International, 'Salam' mentioned in 'Kan' language. MBR Nauen Germany relay site. S=9+20dB powerhouse at 0554 UT.73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, short morning log Nov 9th, in Germany, Belgium and Doha Qatar remotes, [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz], wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORFOLK ISLAND. 1566, 0733, VL2NI Poor with sports talk, KUAU splash. KB** (Kevin Bradley, DXing on the DX League’s SDR at Russell, Bay of Islands, Nov NZ DX Times via DXLD) Norfolk Island --- Following the sacking of some of the volunteer announcers at VL2NI, the people involved have set up a community radio station themselves: Pines FM 99.9 http://www.facebook.com/NIcommunityradio/ or by email Pinefm999@outlook.com or phone 22899 http://www.norfolkonlinenews.com/norfolk-island-free-news/pines-fm-99-9-community-radiostation (Paul Rawdon via dxdialog, Nov NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6955, USA [sic], Pirate, Green Monster Radio, Nov 9, 2214 - Initially at poor level, but improving to good level at 2241 UT with Boston Red Sox themed program. Live programming with time checks and lots of songs and references to the Red Sox. QSL to GreenMonsterRadio@gmail.com announced several times. As the loop was taken down, the N/S 500' BOG was our compromise antenna. Note below them, the region from 6922.5 to 6946.5 is unusable due to wide band digital noise. My name and Niel's name was given with thanks at 2245! I'm really impressed with Shazam app on my iPhone. ID'd 2/2 songs tried without any difficulty! Another tool to use DXing! Now will it work for Arabic music? (Walt Salmaniw, Listening Waters DXpedition, Murray Harbour North, PEI, 3–10 Nov 2018, WOR iog via DXLD) ** NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS. Tho we know both SAIpan and TINian are out of commission for many months at least, latest B-18 HFCC dated 1108 still shows many transmissions from them. Some have surely been moved to other sites now following Typhoon Yutu destruxion, others just off, but USAGM has failed to update registrations and does not answer my requests for accurate new info. Confidentiality about this cannot be justified (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/nkmilitaryrfa-11072018152331.html just prompted me to check in particular the frequencies for RFA Korean: Here in Europe no trace of any carriers on 5885, 9590 and 9985. Which still not means that they are completely off air, still having mediumwave (now the FEBC HLKX transmitter in Seoul/Incheon area), in 2017 described as their most important frequency (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Nov 11, WOR iog via DXLD) There is always a VOA/RFA difference between IBB data to the public, 2030 UT, VOA Korean purged the HFCC requested Tinian site 9800 kHz, but brought instead 9800 even fq under Tinang The Philippines relay site use. S=7 signal not much strong in Seoul though. 7465even kHz S=9+35dB in Seoul SDR at 2045 UT on Nov 12. 9975.006 kHz VOA Udorn Thani Thailand site S=9+40dB powerful in Seoul Korea. - - - But RFA Korean entries show still all 3 as Tinian relay site the Mariana Island usage, - REALLY all OFF air now Nov 12. 7485, NOT NOTHING, NIL at 2116 UT {but UZB Korean NKRR from Tashkent on 7495, S=9+25dB in Seoul remote SDR site.} 9860, NOT NOTHING, NIL at 2114 UT and 9985 kHz NOT NOTHING, NIL, empty at 2110 UT on Nov 12. Next door 9990.114 kHz at 2112 UT S=8-9 SOH Mandarin from Taiwan island. 73 wb requested in B-18 season though, Korean 1000-1100 1566JEU {1100 VoA Korean 1188SEO} {1130 VoA Korean 1188SEO} {1200 VoA Korean 1188SEO 5840TIN 9490PHT 11570PHT} {1230 VoA Korean 1188SEO 5840TIN 9490PHT 11570PHT} {1300 VoA Korean 1188SEO 5840TIN 9800PHT 11570PHT} {1330 VoA Korean 1188SEO 5840TIN 9800PHT 11570PHT} {1400 VoA Korean 1188SEO 5840TIN 9800PHT 11570SAI} {1430 VoA Korean 1188SEO 5840TIN 9800PHT 11570SAI} 1500-1700 1188SEO 5885TIN 9590SAI 9985TIN {1700 VoA Korean 1566JEU} {1730 VoA Korean 1566JEU} 1700-1900 1188SEO 5885TIN 9985TIN {1900 VoA Korean 7465PHT 9800TIN 9975UDO} {1930 VoA Korean 7465PHT 9800TIN 9975UDO} {2000 VoA Korean 7465PHT 9800TIN 9975UDO} {2030 VoA Korean 7465PHT 9800TIN 9975UDO} 2100-2200 7485TIN 9860TIN 9985TIN (Wolfgang Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORWAY. DAB Radio Setback for Bauer Media in Norway Digital Radio FM Insider 8 November 2018 Oslo rumours: Radio 1 closure, staff cuts. In recent months, the low listening figures for most of the national commercial radio channels stay on. One of the two players hardest hit Bauer Media with its eight DAB channels has a 9.7% national radio market share versus the P4 seven channels total of 22.3%. Now rumours reveal extensive staff cuts in Bauer's Norwegian operations and that the Radio 1 channel with only a 0,3% market share will be shut down after just one year of operation. - Since 2017 Bauer and P4 no longer broadcast on FM. However, speculations about the cuts and closure of Radio 1 are rejected by Bauer Media's director Lasse Kokvik in Oslo. I can reject any speculation about this, he told Media24.no, whose sources however say that employees has been informed that they will face a difficult time. Since been closing the national FM networks in 2017, Bauer and P4 only operates DAB-only terrestrial channels together with public broadcaster NRK. Besides the main channel Radio Norway (3.2%) and P4 (14.1%), there is not any national commercial DAB channel that has more than 2.3% market share. Radio 1 has a market share of 0.3%. (Listener figures by Kantar). For the NRK it looks better. Public service channels have a total market share of 67.8% (almost on level with its Swedish equivalent SR on FM). NRK P1 is still the major channel with 39.1% and P1+ 12.5%. However, none of the NRK's other eight channels have a share of more than 4.7%. In Sweden, where the main platform is FM, Bauer and P4 operates a total of ten channels on FM, while in Norway there are about 15 channels on DAB. The expansion of FM frequency spectrum for commercial channels in Sweden has proved successful with increased listening. On the other hand, the Norwegian DAB initiative has suffered from problems in the form of irregular reception conditions and angry citizens who prefer to listen to the local radio on FM. In addition, only half the car park is equipped with DAB receivers. Prior to the transition to DAB radio, Bauer (and SBS before) did not share the enthusiasm of competitor P4 over leaving the FM band. In other countries, Bauer's main platform is still FM, although it also broadcasts DAB, as in Denmark and Great Britain. In Finland and Sweden Bauer is on only FM. Bauer Media in Norway belongs to the Bauer Media Group in Hamburg, Germany. The Group operates in 17 countries, and the majority shareholder is Mrs Yvonne Bauer. P4 belongs to Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT) - formerly MTG - and is part of the Swedish Kinnevik Group. https://digitalradioinsider.blogspot.com/2018/11/dab-radio-setback-for-bauer-in-norway.html#more (via Mike Terry, Nov 11, wor iog via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. OK Connerville 97.3 NEW NS 6kw/96m, 34-25-55/96-38-11 (The Chickasaw Nation) OK Edmond 107.3 K297BB PG>190w (KUCO-90.1) [see below] OK Elk City 98.9 K255DL QG from K202AG-88.3 (KSNZ-92.9) OK Hennessey 97.7 KHEO PG<3.9kw/100m, 36-12-59/97-54-54 OK Okeene 101.5 KOCD PG<14kw/88m, 36-07-11/98-15-45 OK Oklahoma City 95.3 K237GE PC>250w OK Tipton 94.5 KSOC CC from KOEE OK Waukomis 106.3 KWEO XG 36-12-59/97-54-54 (FCC News by Doug Smith, Nov WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. [About KUCO 90.1 Edmond OK] K297BB Hi Brad, I was surprised to find this info in FCC: https://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=k297bb&arn=&state=&city=&freq=0.0&fre2=107.9&serv=&vac=&facid=&asrn=&class=&list=0&NextTab=Results+to+Next+Page%2FTab&dist=&dlat2=&mlat2=&slat2=&NS=N&dlon2=&mlon2=&slon2=&EW=W&size=9 [translator claims to FCC that it is retransmitting KUCO 90.1] which raises the questions: 1) Why does KUCO need a translator right there in Edmond? 2) Is it really relaying KUCO? Main channel, or?? 3) What is Russell Ministries and how is it connected to KUCO, a secular institution? 4) If you are making translator arrangements, we still need one in Enid, where 90.1 is too weak for stereo on caradio, very subject to picket-fencing, and also on home receivers very subject to co-channel from Radio Kansas with a bit of tropo-weather. (But not on 107.3 with local 107.1) 5) And/or is there any chance of increasing power on 90.1 itself? Other OKC antenna farm stations are solid; and so is KOSU from its other slightly closer site. Could you go up to 100 kW ERP if affordable? Anyhow, a constant listener despite the obstacles. Regards, (Glenn Hauser, Enid, to Brad Ferguson, GM of KUCO, via DXLD) Hi Glenn, I have no idea who these people are. We have no translator in Edmond. We are planning to replace our old xmtr with a new one this spring (Brad to gh, via DXLD) Brad, I hope the new transmitter will lead to stronger signal, maybe higher antenna too? I was wondering if there is any regulatory impediment to KUCO increasing or going to `full` power, such as protecting other co- or adjacent-channel stations. Perhaps the K297BB people have some other plan but had to fill in the blank with some station to be relayed. I wonder if it`s on the air yet. Maybe you should tell them to put up or shut up -- remove KUCO if they have no intention of translating it. On the other hand, stations with extra HD channels may put one of those on a translator as main channel (Glenn to Brad, ibid.) Thinking this through, Glenn, I believe this is the translator on our tower owned by Clear Channel but leased out to KLove radio (also one of our renters). We've been sinking a lot of money into our infrastructure over the last three years with a new antenna and new aux antenna. The transmitter (water cooled) will be highly efficient and cost $300K. I'm pretty sure I have all the money (largely from grants) that I will need and the project will commence next spring. We have also purchased a new antenna for KBCW/McAlester [91.9 relay] so we can increase our power there. We were always hampered by Channel 6 in Tulsa, but that's no longer a problem as you know when the change in the TV spectrum (Brad to Glenn, ibid.) ** OKLAHOMA. Dirato's weekly 'Stillwater Jukebox' a hidden gem for past 16 years --- By Jordan Bishop Oct 28, 2018 https://www.stwnewspress.com/news/dirato-s-weekly-stillwater-jukebox-a-hidden-gem-for-past/article_a25b2c7d-7863-5629-837f-1d9391accd38.html Chuck Berry’s guitar riffs hit the airwaves, the phone lines open, three overhead lights shine down on the microphone and Tom Dirato’s voice once again kicks off another edition of northern Oklahoma’s best retro radio program. No, this isn’t the Dirato who talks about the Oklahoma State Cowboys or his beloved Coweta Tigers during the week. This Dirato is a different man on Sundays, one who hearkens back to the DJs of his youth such as Bruce “Cousin Brucie” Morrow and the “Morning Mayor” Herb Oscar Anderson. When he arrived in Oklahoma in the late 1970s, he saw his new home had the same icons in guys like Ronnie Kaye on KOMA. Dirato has been hosting the “Stillwater Jukebox” on Triple Play Sports Radio every Sunday from 6-8 p.m. since August 2003 and only missed maybe three weeks out of almost 900 shows. Whereas sports was his bread and butter for many years and still is during the week – Sundays are reserved for his labor of love that is music. “You don’t have to talk baskets and field goals and tackles here,” Dirato said. “I find that a lot of fun. Just talk music and have a good time, like old radio used to be.” Dirato approached station owner Bill Coleman and the late longtime KRMG Tulsa radio icon Jerry Vaughn nearly 20 years ago and said he would like to get into the music side just for kicks. He never thought that after the first show – back in the old studio in a former Perry beauty salon – that he would be back the next week or let alone the next 16 years. Now at the current Stillwater location on Seventh Street in downtown, Dirato can be seen – yes, seen as he likes to open up the blinds and entertain passersby as much as his listeners – still every Sunday at the same time. Dirato prepares for the show throughout the week to fine-tune it as much as he possibly can. As a kid growing up in Northvale, New Jersey, he and his family had an old phonograph in the house and radio was a big part of his life. Stations like WABC and WINS in New York City were mainstays with a live host on no matter what time you called. “There was always a radio in the background and it was our connection to the world,” Dirato said. “I do remember those days and wish we had those days really. It is one of those reasons I like this show because we have a little of that connection back. It is like it was. I try to make it like that without copying anybody.” For two hours a week, Dirato likes to bring that era back and plays tunes from the 1950s on to even the 1980s, though the latter is a little more rare unless it is a theme night or by request as Dirato likes to stick to his roots. It’s how it was when he started the show as he stuck mainly to the ‘50s and ‘60s with the former being something he said one doesn’t hear much of anymore and what makes his show unique. While he doesn’t have much big band music from the ’40s or rap of the ’90s – in between Dirato can pretty much find anything. In a show the News Press was present for, the Jukebox was holding a “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame” night and there was a wide range of HOF members played from the Village People to Meatloaf and the Bee Gees down the line to Fleetwood Mac along with all those in between. Dirato has a playsheet consisting of several pages of notebook paper stapled together chock full of blue ink with no spare real estate of white space left. In it are a variety of songs – once one is played, it is shelved for a couple of weeks unless it is requested, along with lengths and plenty of tidbits about the artist to help fill the airtime. Filling the blank space has never been a problem for the septuagenarian, as the two hours fly by. One minute, he is coming on the air and welcoming listeners to another edition and the next, the highly popular hand-holder half hour is winding down to close out the show. “It is such a fun two hours, it really is,” Dirato said. “I have never, in any of the years I have been doing it; I have never not looked forward to coming down here. That is a lot of shows.” The show isn’t like any other around as Dirato isn’t just playing music for the two hours straight or taking up most of the time talking. He knows his audience and with the now five signals the station boasts, he understands his audience goes from border to border so there are a lot of drivers listening along. He keeps it lively and personal, answering every phone call that comes in and getting every request that comes in on the radio whether it is that week or the next as long as he has the song. Usually it isn’t a problem as in the hand-holder half hour, he fulfilled requests for The Teddy Bears – the only band Phil Spector ever sang in – and Lobo – real name Roland LaVoie. Out of the nearly 400 albums placed in a system along wall racks and his personal collection that only Dirato can navigate, rarely has there been a song he couldn’t find. With the albums all from the original Perry studio, Dirato is familiar with what tracks each contains and he has a routine of loading and unloading the dual player while keeping the program on time that one is mesmerized watching him until the time has already wound down and a dozen empty disk cases lie beside the soundboard. “People will call and say, ‘That’s not the Tom Dirato I know,’” he said. “That is what I aim to do. I am one doing sports, I was one working at the university and one on the Cowboy Radio Network. People who hear it for the first time say I don’t even sound the same. For two hours, I am not because I am a whole other persona. I don’t want this to be another sports show because it is not. If I create a little bit of a different energy and sound, I do it by design.” A music aficionado, Dirato has a wide array of listeners from college students to senior citizens – experts to people who have to hum the tune because they don’t know the song or artist’s name. Since it is on a sports station, word of mouth has helped it grow and most of it comes from the host’s persona. Although never a musician himself – he played the trumpet for about a year before deciding sports better suited him – Dirato gets what his listeners want. His favorite artist of all time? Little Richard, much to his parent’s chagrin as his mother was a Frank Sinatra and Jerry Vale fan. Favorite albums? Can’t go wrong with Neal Diamond or Johnny Rivers as well as a storyteller like Harry Chapin. Even those artists he is not a fan of, he will play with a smile on his face. One such singer is Elvis Presley, who Dirato felt got it a little bit easier than the rest of his military counterparts and he just never liked the songs, but when someone wants to hear “Heartbreak Hotel,” you won’t hear a no from the DJ. “Live radio is what it is all about and that is what drives me on this thing knowing that I am here and people know that I am here listening to them,” Dirato said. “I try to make it sound that way.” Although he doesn’t have a vault full of 45s and 78s, he likes the theater of imagining he is like the radio idols of the 50’s. When he gets a pat on the back from Coleman, calls from as far as Fort Smith, Arkansas, or people dancing on the sidewalk next to the studio, Dirato has all the validation he needs. As last Sunday’s show wound down with a hand-holder request from soft rock band Bread, Dirato started cleaning the discs before putting them back in the case and on the shelf. Despite another show being over, he was already looking forward to the next week and its theme of trivia night. While the past might be just that, for two hours every Sunday, he gets to live them for just a little bit longer and that’s all he can ask for. “I am so happy people remember these songs because it is so easy to forget them,” Dirato said. The “Stillwater Jukebox” can be heard every Sunday from 6-8 p.m. on Triple Play Sports Radio on signals 93.1 FM, 105.1 FM and 1020 AM in the Stillwater area along with 93.3 FM and 1580 AM in Ponca City (via DXLD) I ran across this deviation from sportstalk some months ago (gh) ** OMAN. No signal of Radio Sultanate of Oman on B-18 frequencies https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/no-signal-of-radio-sultanate-of-oman-on.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 0000-0200 on 9500 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Arabic 0200-0300 on 9540 THU 100 kW / 220 deg to EaAf Arabic 0300-0400 on 9540 THU 100 kW / 220 deg to EaAf English 0400-1000 on 13600 THU 100 kW / 220 deg to EaAf Arabic 1400-1500 on 15140*THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu English 1500-1600 on 15140*THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Arabic 1600-2200 on 15140*THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Arabic 2200-2400 on 11650 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Arabic * till 2130UTC Radio Habana Cuba is on this frequency! ??????????? ?? Observer ? 10:54 AM (via WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DXLD) ** PAKISTAN. Pakistan reinstates ban on Indian TV, radio Pakistan's top court has reinstated a ban on the broadcast of Indian TV content following a petition from local producers. Pakistan's Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar announced the verdict, overturning a lower court ruling last year that had lifted the 2016 ban on airing Indian content on TV or FM radio. The regulatory body for electronic media says the court's order was implemented immediately. Earlier this year, India banned performances by Pakistani artists, and some Indian stations have stopped airing Pakistani content. Indian producers have called for a comprehensive ban on Pakistani content, and Hindu extremists have threatened to attack cinemas showing films featuring Pakistani artists (AP 28 October via Medium Wave News 64/06, November 2018 via DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, NBC Madang, Maus Blong Garamut (Voice of Indigenous Drums), 1140-1145, Nov 5. Segment of drums and chanting/singing. Over the years I have often monitored this and recently noted they are now giving full IDs ("NBC Madang, Maus Blong Garamut") more often than they ever did before and also now playing more indigenous music (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** PERU. 4775, Radio Tarma – Tarma, 1030, 11/6/18. At 1030, hearing R Tarma 4775 with good signal on my LA bog (poor on the more omnidirectional skyloop) (Perry – Il.) 4810, Radio Logos (Presumed), 1030, 11/8/18 sneaking through on the lowside of swishing ute QRM on 4810, both with familiar morning musica del OA campo selections. OM deejay on Tarma, a YL today on Logos (Ralphus Perry, Wheaton, Ill., Drake R8B, Dentron Super – Tuner, Ameco & Palomar Preamps, Wellbrook Loop, 350’ LA BOG, Delta Skyloop, NASWA Flashsheet Nov 11 via WORLD OF RADIO, DXLD) I have heard 4810 carrier several times in early evening; this the first confirmatory report (gh, OK, DXLD) ** PERU. 4920. LA VOZ DEL PUEBLO. Noviembre 4. 0110-0120 UTC. Música. SINPO: 35343 (Claudio Galaz; Receptor: TECSUN PL 660; Antena: Hilo de 90 metros de largo; Lugar de escucha: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile, HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DXLD) ** PERU. 5025. R. QUILLABAMBA. Noviembre 8. 0005-0025 UT. Hombre habla en quechua acerca de una cooperativa y de docentes, junto al anuncio de teléfonos de contactos de asociaciones campesinas. A las 0014, espacio musical hasta las 0019. Luego habla de una campaña de navidad y cursos de capacitación. SINPO: 45444, desde las 0222 SINPO: 55544 (Claudio Galaz; Receptor: TECSUN PL 660; Antena: Hilo de 30 metros de largo + balun 9:1; Lugar de escucha: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile), Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Wow, I=5, no QubaRM at all! (gh, DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. Winter B-18 frequency change of FEBC Radio Teos 1500-1530 NF 9920 BOC 100 kW / 323 deg CeAs Russian Daily, ex 11650 1530-1600 NF 9920 BOC 100 kW / 323 deg CeAs Russian Mo-Sa, ex 11650 1530-1600 NF 9920 BOC 100 kW / 323 deg CeAs Ukrainian Sun, ex 11650 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/winter-b-18-frequency-change-of-febc.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: ** PHILIPPINES. 15640 // 17700 // 17820, R. Pilipinas, 0227+, Nov 7. In English; news; business news; "Provincial Report"; "DFA Online, news and events from different Philippine embassies and consulates around the world"; poor-fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DXLD) ** PUERTO RICO. 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 are just filing their official notifications now. 580 WKAQ San Juan – applies to extend STA, U1 10000/4500. 940 WIPR San Juan – applies to extend STA, U1 2500/2500 from WKAQ-580 tower. 1230 WNIK Arecibo – applies to make its (shorter) STA tower permanent after losing licensed tower to Hurricane Maria; will remain U1 1000/1000. 1330 WENA Yauco – applies to extend STA, U1 500/350, 185’ LW at 18'01'17/66'51'54. 1350 WEGA Vega Baja – applies to extend STA, U1 625/625. 1370 WIVV Vieques Island – silent September 20, 2017; on the air August 14. 1370 WIVV Vieques Island – applies for license to cover CP, new tower at 18'06'06/65'28'15. 1370 WIVV Vieques Island – CP for new tower at 18'06'06/65'28'15 is on the air. 1430 WNEL Caguas – silent September 20, 2017; has been on the air since February 13. 1430 WNEL Caguas – applies for STA, U1 2300/2300 into what’s left of its post-Hurricane Maria tower. 1490 WDEP Ponce – granted STA extension, U1 1000/1000 from CP site. 1540 WIBS Guayama – silent September 20, 2017; has been on the air since November 1, 2017 (NRC DX News 85/20) Slogan “Radio Caribe” (IRCA’s DX Monitor 56/04) 1580 WVOZ Aguadilla – silent from Morovis site September 25, 2017; on the air from CP site with STA September 6, 2018 1660 WGIT Canóvanas – granted STA, reduced power post-Maria (using U1 1000/1000). (NRC DX News 85/20 and 86/01 u.o.s. via Tore Larsson, Central America News, Medium Wave News 64/06, November 2018 via DXLD) See also VIRGIN ISLANDS US ** ROMANIA. 7235 DRM, Tsiganeshti E1 [?], 300 kW/307 deg, Radio Romania International, Nov 3, 1945 - 100% copy with SNR at 17.3 dB in German. Wow, 2 DRMs heard already in the course of an hour! 7350 DRM, Tsiganeshti, 90 or 300 kW/307 deg, Radio Romania International, Nov 5, 1819 - Almost perfect copy of English RRI programming, regarding radical and anti-Semitic parties from the early 1940s in Romania. Occasional dropouts. Nice as it's only 2:20 in the afternoon, and still 2 1/2 hours until LSS (Walt Salmaniw, Listening Waters DXpedition, Murray Harbour North, PEI, 3–10 Nov 2018, WOR iog via DXLD) [and non]. 5980, Nov 9 at 0055, pulse jamming already over weak station, i.e. RRI Spanish now here at 00-01. No, no, DentroCuban Jamming Command, this is not Radio Martí, not until its *0600! Commies vs ex-Commies. RRI Galbeni also 5980 in English at 23-24: so much for monitoring Radio Chaski, Perú sign-off circa 0000, which ought to be detectable now without all the QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6155, RRI at 0257 with IS to opening music at 0300 and a man in Romanian with opening announcements – Poor Nov 9 – With Romania here at this hour it kills all hope of hearing Channel Africa from South Africa in English as the // 3345 frequency is full of noise at my QTH (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) Winter B-18 frequency changes of Radio Romania International: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/winter-b-18-frequency-changes-of-radio_27.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 0000-0056 NF 9600 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to SoAm Spanish, ex 13730 0300-0356 NF 6155 GAL 300 kW / 310 deg to CeAm Spanish, ex 9480 0400-0456 NF 9820 TIG 090 kW / 097 deg to SoAs English DRM ex 9800 AM 0500-0526 NF 11820 TIG 300 kW / 067 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15220 0600-0626 NF 9610 GAL 090 kW / 285 deg to WeEu French DRM, ex 6040 0730-0756 NF 9610 GAL 300 kW / 245 deg to NoAf Arabic, ex 15360 0730-0756 NF 11960 TIG 300 kW / 142 deg to N/ME Arabic, ex 15330 0730-0756 NF 13630 TIG 300 kW / 142 deg to N/ME Arabic, ex 17810 0800-0856 NF 11960 TIG 300 kW / 142 deg to N/ME Romanian Sun, ex 15370 0800-0856 NF 13630 TIG 300 kW / 142 deg to N/ME Romanian Sun, ex 17860 0900-0956 NF 11780 GAL 300 kW / 175 deg to EaAf Romanian Sun, ex 17745 0900-0956 NF 11960 TIG 300 kW / 142 deg to N/ME Romanian Sun, ex 15430 0900-0956 NF 13630 TIG 300 kW / 142 deg to N/ME Romanian Sun, ex 17775 1000-1056 NF 11780 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Romanian Sun, ex 17870 1100-1156 NF 11780 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu French, ex 17870 1200-1256 NF 11825 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu English, ex 17650 1200-1256 NF 17800 GAL 300 kW / 165 deg to EaAf English, ex 17765 1300-1326 NF 13630 TIG 300 kW / 142 deg to N/ME Arabic, ex 13610 1400-1456 NF 7410 TIG 300 kW / 052 deg to CeAs Russian, ex 11985 1630-1656 NF 6100 TIG 300 kW / 142 deg to N/ME Arabic, ex 11760 1700-1756 NF 7325 TIG 300 kW / 292 deg to WeEu French, ex 7230 1700-1756 NF 9870 TIG 090 kW / 292 deg to WeEu French DRM, ex 9810 2000-2056 NF 5920 TIG 300 kW / 277 deg to SoEu Spanish, ex 9610 2200-2256 NF 9490 TIG 090 kW / 247 deg to SoAm Spanish DRM ex 13730AM ??????????? ?? Observer ? 10:47 AM (via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Information on the call sign of Russian marine objects On the radio scanner I was prompted by the information on the call sign of Russian marine objects. https://planesandstuff.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/ciscallsigns.pdf (Pavel Ivanov, Belgorod, Russia / “open_dx” via Rus DX 11 Nov via DXLD) CIS navy Morse communications Seventy-second edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter (Date: Mon, 03 May 2004) Military stations CIS navy Morse communications Compiled by Fritz. http://www.cvni.net/radio/nsnl/nsnl072/nsnl72mil.html (Pavel Ivanov, Belgorod, Russia / “open_dx”, ibid.) ** RUSSIA. UVB-76 immortalised in beer: see RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM ** SAUDI ARABIA. Changes of Republic of Yemen Radio & Radio Riyadh HQ: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/winter-b-18-changes-of-republic-of.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Winter B-18 changes of Republic of Yemen Radio & Radio Riyadh 0000-2400 on 11860 JED or RIY / unknown to N/ME Arabic, ex 0900-0700 Radio Riyadh Holy Quran 0300-1000 on 9715 RIY 100 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic, cancelled 0900-1800 on 9650 RIY 100 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic, additional 1800-2400 on 7425 RIY 100 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic, additional ??????????? ?? Observer ? 10:49 AM (via DXLD) ** SIKKIM. 4835, AIR Gangtok. At very weak level with vocals but discernible with OZY Radio off air 1605. Noted past their normal sign off, 20/10 (Rob Shepherd, Toowoomba QLD (JRC NRD 535-D, 35 metre balanced longwire), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) Tentative logging. At 1500 with sub-continent dance music and no announcements. A tough one to hear from this location but pleasing to copy it when the co-channel Ozy R. is not on air. Weak signal in the noise, 4/10 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Kenwood R5000, Tecsun PL-680, Horizontal Sky Loop, Double Bazooka antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) ** SINGAPORE. 7355, Nov 8 a 1550, poor signal in Asian language: BBC Korean at 1530-1830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALIA. 7750u, 1855, Warsan Radio, news in Arabic [sic], surprisingly good signal on USB. ID as “Radio Warsan” after actuality report 1924. Closed after Qur`an at 1943 26/9. BCM** (Bryan Clark, Please add the symbol ** after your initials if you heard the station using the League’s Northland SDR, Nov NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. B-18 frequency changes of Channel Africa & Radio Sonder Grense: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/winter-b-18-frequency-changes-of.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 0600-0655 NF 11925 MEY 250 kW / 315 deg WeAf English Mon-Fri, ex 15255 0900-1200 NF 7230 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg SoAf English Mon-Fri, ex 9625 1200-1300 NF 7230 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg SoAf Nyanja Mon-Fri, ex 9625 1300-1400 NF 7230 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg SoAf Lozi Mon-Fri, ex 9625 1400-1500 NF 7230 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg SoAf Portuguese M-F, ex 9625 1500-1600 NF 7260 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg SoAf English Mon-Fri, ex 9625 Radio Sonder Grense 0800-1555 NF 7330 MEY 100 kW / 275 deg SoAf Afrikaans, ex 9650 1600-1755 NF 7285 MEY 100 kW / 275 deg SoAf Afrikaans, ex 9650 ??????????? ?? Observer ? 10:50 AM (via DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. - Summarising a report on Channel Africa (“Africa Digest” 7 November 2018) The Board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation has informed the SABC staff of coming cuts in the work force. The station will lay off about a third of its permanent employees and about half of the freelancers. This cost cutting measure is meant to stabilise the debt ridden and de facto bankrupt organisation. The process is to be completed by January 2019, but is opposed by the unions. They are not only furious the layoff but also point to the excessively high salaries earned by the senior management. At the end of the day, it is the average journalist who pays for the long history of corruption and mismanagement of the broadcaster (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 7 November 2018, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Radio Veritas South Africa strengthens bonds with English Africa- La Croix International https://international.la-croix.com/news/radio-veritas-south-africa-strengthens-bonds-with-english-africa/8730 Radio Veritas SA strengthening bonds with English Africa - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/africa/news/2018-10/radio-veritas-sa-strengthening-bonds-with-the-english-africa.html (both via Mike Cooper, Nov 6, DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. SECRETLAND, Brother HySTAIRical via SPL Secretbrod on Nov 3 1305-1455 on 11600 SCB 100 kW / 126 deg to N/ME English, ex 1500-1655 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-brother-hystairical-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 3-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13845, USA, Nashville TN, 100 kW / 90 deg, WWCR, Nov 8, 1547 - WTF! Until 1547, we were hearing 2 Brother Stairs, simultaneously, from 2 old programs. Someone must have noticed, as it was corrected back to one feed only. Call in from someone in great pain listening on 4840. Won't go to a doctor for 3 or 4 years. Then BS's answer. Excellent reception, of course (Walt Salmaniw, Listening Waters DXpedition, Murray Harbour North, PEI, 3–10 Nov 2018, WOR iog via DXLD) 11600, BULGARIA, The Overcomer Ministry at 1415 // 9395 (via WRMI) with Brother Stair preaching and pontificating and railing against Catholics and the Church and the Pope – Good with some fading Nov 10 – The signal from here was delayed about seven seconds so it makes you wonder if he is, indeed, using a satellite feed or a possibly cheaper terrestrial (landline) feed? My experiences with international telephone calls show that calls made by terrestrial (landline via undersea cables) have a considerably longer pause in their transmissions than with calls via satellites (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, odxa iog via DXLD) SECRETLAND, Brother HySTAIRical via SPL Secretbrod on Nov 10 1400-1409 on 11600 SCB 100 kW / 126 deg to N/ME dead air & BaBcoCk Mx 1409-1455 on 11600 SCB 100 kW / 126 deg to N/ME English, ex 1300-1555 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-brother-hystairical-via_10.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12160, 9395, 9330v, 7780, Sat Nov 10 at 1905, Brother HyStairical has three stations tied up on four frequencies, also heard in order of decreasing signal strength: WWCR, WRMI, WBCQ, WRMI. More, more!!! Bulgaria too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also BULGARIA; USA ** SPAIN. 9690 // 11940 // 12030, Nov 6 at 2155, REE same Spanish programming now, while a previous day after 2200, 9690 // 11940 had split from 11685 // 12030 for separate shows, the latter `Africa Hoy`. Also, circa 2030 I am still hearing that low het from off-frequency Nigeria below 9690 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Having claimed that the 1800-h-slot is used for Portuguese (at least on the Mondays I checked), I tuned in to REE on this Wednesday, 7 November, just to find out, that REE exempts its normal schedule for sports coverage. In contrast to the normal schedule, all four frequencies were active with a transmission of the Championship League game Valencia-Bern. 181107 9690 1810 0711 E REE, Sp, CL Valencia-Bern 13521 (i: 9685+9695 kHz, 9685 1827 off, did not help reception of REE) 181107 11685 1810 0711 E REE, Sp, CL Valencia-Bern 45444 181107 11940 1820 0711 E REE, Sp, CL Valencia-Bern 45444 181107 12030 1815 0711 E REE, Sp, CL Valencia-Bern 25442 (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 7 November 2018, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Can't hear anything on 9690 kHz this evening (7 November) at 2145 UT here in NB. Propagation problems or the transmitter is just not on? (-- Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD) Not making it to central Ohio, either. -- (Mike Bott, 2158 UT, ibid.) Greetings, Transmitter not up, it's usually audible through the whole slot in Twente, just receiving noise today. 73, (Quim, Spain, 0010 UT Nov 8, ibid.) 12030, Noblejas, 200 kW/ 110 deg, RNE, Nov 8, 1600 - IS heard splattering when listening to 12035 Sri Lanka. Excellent reception signing on in Spanish. None of the other 3 frequencies were on/or heard (9690, 11685 or 11940). Oops, spoke too soon. 11685 is now there at 1607 check, but marred by digital/RTTY just above the frequency. LSB solves the problem (Walt Salmaniw, Listening Waters DXpedition, Murray Harbour North, PEI, 3–10 Nov 2018, WOR iog via DXLD) Earlier the Nov 8th evening heard all 4 fqs on air Spanish program of REE Noblejas in \\ here in southern Germany, around 20 UT. 73 (wolfie df5sx wwdxc, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Heard this evening (8 November) in NB. Reception started out as poor just before 2300 UT. As expected for a Thursday, there was Spanish programming rather than English (scheduled for M,W,F only). Reception improved so that the French program starting at 2330 was mostly listenable as was Portuguese starting at 0000. Spanish followed at 0030 and after half-an-hour or so reception became poor again, eventually fading into the noise. The time pips on the hour and half-hour are synchronized to UTC to better than a second (-- Richard Langley, NB, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9690, Nov 10 at 1907, REE Castilian silly ballgame coverage, music bits mixed in, but NO LAH from Nigeria minus, off for a change? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. Excellent signal indoors here in NB today (11 November) starting at 1950 UT tune-in on 9690 kHz. Spanish with live coverage of the Real Madrid - Celta de Vigo football game. Occasional weak growl of a het from Voice of Nigeria. Breathless commentary. Play-by-play announcer hardly takes a breath and when Real Madrid scored a goal, the word "gol" went on forever. Exciting overtime (or whatever they call it in football) with both sides scoring a goal after 90 minutes. Ended up 4–2 for Real Madrid (-- Richard Langley, NB, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA [and non]. 9739.921, Nov 6 at 1459, RB Australia is signing off 9740.0 with a LAH (low audible heterodyne) on the minus side of approx. 79 Hz, clear at 1500 with JBA talk and music, i.e. AWR Nepali via Trincomalee. On Oct 29 I had independently measured same on 9739.918. I also heard some beeps about 1501:10, which if a timesignal would be quite late (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12035, Trincomalee, 125 kW / 345 deg, AWR, Nov 8, 1554 - Excellent reception in listed Marathi. Amen, followed by enjoyable south Asian music. AWR with address in India given. Off shortly afterwards (Walt Salmaniw, Listening Waters DXpedition, Murray Harbour North, PEI, 3–10 Nov 2018, WOR iog via DXLD) Simultaneously in Enid: 12034.898, Nov 8 at 1536, JBA talk, from AWR Marathi at 1530-1600, 125 kW, 345 degrees from Trincomalee, always? off-frequency now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) re: Are any of their [Trincomalee] frequencies accurate? Yes, out of three 250 kW TX units of former DWL Bonn/Berlin Germany relay site: [WORLD OF RADIO 1956] 9720even kHz at 1117 UT on Nov 10, S=9+30dB SLBC Tamil service to Indian subcontinent audience there. 1115-1215 UT, noted on remote SDR unit in New Delhi-IND. 15609.874 kHz at 1140 UT on Nov 10, S=9+10 AWR Shan sce, 1130-1200 UT, noted on remote SDR unit in New Delhi-IND. 15400even kHz at 1223 UT on Nov 10, scheduled AWR Mon language sce, BUT NOT ON AIR when checked Saturday Nov 10, 1200-1230 UT, on remote SDR unit in New Delhi-IND. 11824.903 kHz at 1227 UT on Nov 10, S=9+10 AWR Karen language sce, 1200-1300 UT, noted on remote SDR unit in New Delhi-IND. Underneath RRI Tsiganeshti in English on even fq 11825 kHz. 15430even kHz frequency at 1232 UT on Sat Nov 10, AWR Bengali sce scheduled at 1230-1300 UT. Only S=7-8 noisy short distance signal at Sri Lanka - remote Delhi SDR unit path, noted on remote SDR unit in New Delhi-IND. But checked also in U.K. Blackpool area remote SDR unit, as S=8. 15430even kHz frequency at 1322 UT on Nov 9, S=9+5dB AWR Nepali sce scheduled at 1300-1330 UT, noted on remote SDR unit in New Delhi-IND. 11934.902 kHz at 1315 UT on Nov 9, S=9 AWR Chinese sce, 13-14 UT, noted on remote SDR unit in New Delhi-IND. 11945even kHz at 1338 UT on Nov 9, S=8 AWR Hmong sce[on Fris], 1330-1400 UT, noted on remote SDR unit in New Delhi-IND. 15179.874 kHz at 1448 UT on Nov 9, S=8 AWR Karen, 1430-1500 UT, noted on remote SDR unit in Seoul-KOR. 15215even kHz at 1453 UT on Nov 9, S=8 AWR Burmese, 1430-1500 UT, noted on remote SDR unit in Seoul-KOR. 9739.921 kHz at 1505 UT on Nov 9, S=8 AWR Nepalese sce, 1500-1530 UT, noted on remote SDR unit in New Delhi-IND. 15250 kHz at 1508 UT on Nov 9, scheduled AWR Mizo sce, BUT NOT ON AIR when checked Friday Nov 9, 1500-1530 UT. 11985even kHz at 1550 UT on Nov 9, S=9+25dB AWR Tibetan sce, on Thur/Fri only. Annmt "Serengi Radio", flute mx. 1530-1600 UT, noted on remote SDR unit in New Delhi-IND and Doha Qatar. 12034.901 kHz at 1554 UT on Nov 9, S=9+35dB powerhouse signal AWR Marathi to India sce, 1530-1600 UT, noted on remote SDR unit in New Delhi-IND. 11750even kHz at 1635 UT on Nov 9, S=9 SLBC Sinhala sce to Indian subcontinent and UAE/ARS states to the foreign worker there. 1630-1830 UT, noted on remote SDR unit in New Delhi-IND and Doha Qatar. Sweet female singer voice. 15359.877 kHz at 1640 UT on Nov 9, S=8-9 AWR Pashto sce to AFG/IRN target, 1630-1700 UT, noted on remote SDR unit in New Delhi-IND. 15155.004 kHz at 1845 UT on Nov 9, S=3 -106dBm poor sidelobe signal of West Africa sce at 255degr. AWR English, 1830-1900 UT, noted on remote SDR unit in U.K. far away distance. Some S=3-4 or -106dB poor signal sidelobe towards Europe 9540even kHz at 2100-2200 UT on Nov 9, AWR in Chinese, S=9+15dB. Checked in Seoul-KOR remote SDR at 2130 UT Nov 9 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 9 / 10) B-18 taken from Aoki Nagoya-JPN Perseus userlist: 9510 0000-0030 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Tha Trincomalee 1-7 11905 0030-0100 CLN SRI LANKA BC Hin Trincomalee 1-7 15625 0100-0130 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Chi Trincomalee 67 15625 0100-0130 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Amo Trincomalee 12345 11905 0115-0230 CLN SRI LANKA BC Hin Trincomalee 1-7 15625 0130-0200 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Chi Trincomalee 7 15625 0130-0200 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Can Trincomalee 1-6 15500 0300-0330 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Oro Trincomalee 1-7 15500 0400-0430 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Amh Trincomalee 1-7 17780 0500-0600 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Ara Trincomalee 1-7 9720 1115-1215 CLN SRI LANKA BC Tam Trincomalee 1-7 15610 1130-1200 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Sha Trincomalee 1-7 15400 1200-1230 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Mon Trincomalee 1-7 11825 1200-1300 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Kor Trincomalee 1-7 15430 1230-1300 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Mei Trincomalee 146 15430 1230-1300 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Ben Trincomalee 2357 15430 1300-1330 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Nep Trincomalee 1-7 11935 1300-1400 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Chi Trincomalee 1-7 11945 1330-1400 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Mal Trincomalee 237 11945 1330-1400 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Hmo Trincomalee 56 11945 1330-1400 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Ass Trincomalee 14 15180 1430-1500 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Kar Trincomalee 1-7 15215 1430-1500 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Bur Trincomalee 1-7 9740 1500-1530 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Nep Trincomalee 1-7 15250 1500-1530 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Miz Trincomalee 1-7 11985 1530-1558 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Eng Trincomalee 12347 11985 1530-1558 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Tib Trincomalee 56 12035 1530-1600 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Mar Trincomalee 1-7 11985 1600-1630 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Urd Trincomalee 1-7 15360 1630-1700 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Sin Trincomalee 1357 15360 1630-1700 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Pas Trincomalee 246 11750 1630-1830 CLN SRI LANKA BC Sin Trincomalee 1-7 15155 1830-1900 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Eng Trincomalee 1-7 9540 2100-2200 CLN ADVENTIST WORLD R. Chi Trincomalee 1-7 der Zustand der bisher gepflegten drei 250kW Trincomalee Sender exDeutsche Welle, habe ich auf eine Idee von Glenn Hauser reagiert. Zumindest einen Techniker aus dem Sauerland in Trinco kenne ich vom e-mail Verkehr. Der ist mit seiner Familie voerst mal dort geblieben und hilft mit seinem technischen Wissen den ceylonesischen Technikern von SLBC Colombo bei ihrer niveauvollen Arbeit am Sender. gruss wolfgang [übersetzung] The state of previously maintained three 250 kW Trincomalee transmitters ex DW, I responded to an idea by Glenn Hauser. At least one technician from the Sauerland in Trinco I know about e-mail traffic. He is there for the first time with his family and helps with his technical knowledge the Ceylonese Technicians of SLBC Colombo in their high-quality work on the transmitter. greeting wolfgang (Wolfgang Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15430, AWR at 1320 in Nepali with two men with talk with subcontinental music bridges and a man with ID, url, and contact info at 1322 and into subcontinental male vocals at 1323 – Good with slight fading Nov 10 – It never ceases to amaze me how good AWR sounds from Sri Lanka. With a heading of 20° from my QTH the signal must hop in the donut of the auroral zone (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, odxa iog via DXLD) ** SUDAN [and non]. R. Omdurman, Adventist World Radio & Radio France Int on 7205 kHz, Nov 9: 1930-2200 7205 ALF 100 kW / 210 deg CeAf Arabic Radio Omdurman Sudan 1930-2000 7205 NAU 125 kW / 210 deg NoAf Tachelhit Adventist World R 2000-2200 7205 ISS 500 kW / 198 deg NWAf French Radio France Intl https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/romdurman-adventist-world-radio-rfrance.html Voice of Africa Sudan Radio reactivated 9505 kHz, Nov.10: 1600-1900 on 9505 ALF 100 kW / 210 deg to CeAf Swahili or Hausa, 1900-2200 on 7205 ALF 100 kW / 210 deg to CeAf Arabic R.Omdurman https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/voice-of-africa-sudan-radio-reactivated.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 9-10, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Africa, Sudan, Reactivated --- Following a tip from Mauno Ritola on FB, it appears that foreign language broadcasts from Voice of Africa, Sudan, may have been reactivated on 9505 kHz (AMsync frequency 9505.002 Hz). Monitored using the U. of Twente SDR receiver today (12 November) starting at about 1610 UT. Signal is S9+ but the modulation is quite weak so not readily understood. But the language is French. No positive ID heard but a partial "Voix de ..." was heard at a modulation peak. Perhaps English will follow at some time (-- Richard Langley, 1640 UT Nov 12, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DXLD) Actually I credited it to Ivo, who tipped it first. Yes, I heard English yesterday between 1700-1800 (Mauno Ritola, Finland, ibid.) Not in English at the moment. Seems to be an African language (-- Richard Langley, 1738 UT Nov 12, ibid.) Yes, Swahili. Yesterday it was English after 1700, so the schedule seems very 'flexible'. Still in Swahili after 1800 and off at recheck at 1820. Best regards, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, Nov 12, WOR iog via DXLD) 9505, Voice of Africa, Al Aitahab, English, 12/11 1801. OM: talk, political subjects. 25432 (RG). **Tx w/210º Az to Africa (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP, BRAZIL, http://dxways-br.blogspot.com YouTube Channel: GrimmSBC Rx: KiwiSDR (São Bernardo) + Mini Whip Antenna (PA0RDT Standard), Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** SUDAN [non]. Very good signal of Radio Dabanga via Meyerton & Issoudun, Nov 9: 1530-1600 15350 MEY 250 kW / 005 deg EaAf Juba Arabic ex 13800 MDC B17 1530-1600 15550 ISS 250 kW / 134 deg EaAf Juba Arabic ex same SMG B17 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/very-good-signal-of-radio-dabanga-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. 6020, Nov 9 at 0351, CRI Chinese via ALBANIA has considerable undercurrent of talk in Arabish? It`s Radio Tamazuj, 0330-0400, 250 kW, 327 degrees from MADAGASCAR so also USward. Both stop about 0357 but still a carrier, taken over by RRI Galbeni IS for 0400 English to western North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reception of Radio Tamazuj via Talata Volonondry, Nov 5 1500-1530 11705 MDC 250 kW / 340 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic ex 13800 B-17 1500-1530 15550 SMG 250 kW / 150 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic, NO SIGNAL https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-radio-tamazuj-via-talata.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 3-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWAZILAND. 4774.772, TWR Africa Manzini, English, religious chorus at 0505 UT, scheduled 05-07 UT, noisy static fluttery S=6 signal (Wolfgang Bueschel, short morning log Nov 9th, in Germany, Belgium and Doha Qatar remotes, [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz], wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Way off frequency (gh) 9940, TWR Africa at 1948 in French with a man and woman with talk then a man with ID and mailing address at 1949 followed by brief IS and off at 1950 as per sked – Good signal but a hum on the audio Nov 11 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) See also EGYPT 9940 kHz, TWR Africa, Manzini, Lingala, 12/11 1920. OM: Christian message in Lingala language. 35553 (RG). **Tx w/343º Az to Africa (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP, BRAZIL, http://dxways-br.blogspot.com YouTube Channel: GrimmSBC Rx: KiwiSDR (São Bernardo) + Mini Whip Antenna (PA0RDT Standard), Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ESWATINI, Reception of Trans World Radio Africa in 31mb, Nov 7 1745-1815 on 9475 MAN 100 kW / 005 deg to EaAf Swahili 1802-1832 on 9500 MAN 100 kW / 013 deg to EaAf English 1832-1847 on 9500 MAN 100 kW / 013 deg to EaAf Arabic 1905-1935 on 9940 MAN 100 kW / 343 deg to CeAf Lingala 1935-1950 on 9940 MAN 100 kW / 343 deg to CeAf French https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-trans-world-radio-africa_8.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. ESWATINI, Good signal of Trans World Radio Africa Nov 11 from 1630 11660 MAN 100 kW / 013 deg to EaAf Afan Oromo Winter B-18 schedule of Trans World Radio Africa [partial, changes?]: 1420-1450 NF 9585 MAN 050 kW / 005 deg SoAf Lomwe/Portuguese/Makua, ex 7315 1500-1530 NF 11780 MAN 100 kW / 031 deg to EaAf Somali, ex 1630-1700 on 9940 KCH https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/good-signal-of-trans-world-radio-africa.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. The Central Weather Bureau CWB from Taipei in Taiwan broadcast 24 × 7 weather forecast and Reports in Chinese on 5170 and 8113 kHz in SSB mode which I logged and reported with the audiofiles in CWB's website. I received this beautiful QSL from CWB! (Jawahar Shaikh, Chennai, India, Nov 7, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) No attachments allowed there (gh) ** TAIWAN. 14500, 1112, Sound of Hope, Taiwan (presumed). Talk in Chinese, 242, 21/10 (Arthur Miller Llandrindod Wells, Powys JRC NRD 525, NRD 545, G5RV 40m long wire, Nov BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) And how do you presume it was not a jammer? (gh) ** TAIWAN [and non]. B-18 changes of Radio Taiwan International https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/winter-b-18-frequency-changes-of-radio_9.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 0900-1000 NF 6105 KOU 100 kW / 267 deg to EaAs Chinese, addit. 0900-1000 NF 9700 TSH 100 kW / 352 deg to EaAs Chinese, addit. 1200-1300 NF 9470 TSH 100 kW / 352 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 7385 1200-1400 NF 11640 KOU 100 kW / 310 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 5900 1200-1300 NF 11985 TSH 100 kW / 352 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 9545 1500-1530 NF 9545 PAO 250 kW / 205 deg to SEAs Cantonese, ex 11605 1530-1600 NF 9545 PAO 250 kW / 205 deg to SEAs Hakka, ex 11605 1600-1700 NF 6180 PAO 300 kW / 225 deg to SoAs English, ex 6185 1700-1800 NF 7220 ISS 500 kW / 055 deg to EaEu Russian, ex 5935 1900-1930 NF 5900 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg to WeEu German, ex 1900-2000 on 3955 WOF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5zl223i8IM&feature=youtu.be ??????????? ?? Observer ? 11:38 AM (via DXLD) ** THAILAND. 13745, Radio Thailand, November 6, 2018, 0034–0044 in English. SIO 343. OM announcer with news in EE and then an interview. Target is WNA. Listenable with moderate QRN/QSB. Frequent station identification. [+ same] November 10, 2018, 0000–0014 in English. SIO 555. Advertisement for Bangkok Airways, National and world news with OM and YL announcers, all in EE. Excellent signal (Vince Henley, Anacortes, WA, WiNRADiO G39DDCe SDR, ICOM IC-R8600, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R8B, SDRPLAY RSP Duo, TECSUN PL-880. Antennas: whip on PL-880 and Alpha-Delta DX-Ultra installed broadside east west at 30 feet for all others, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** THAILAND. HSK9 Radio Thailand World Service in 31mb on Nov.7: 1800-1900 NF 7475 UDO 250 kW / 316 deg to WeEu Thai, ex 9390 1900-2000 NF 7475 UDO 250 kW / 324 deg to WeEu English,x 9390 2000-2015 NF 7475 UDO 250 kW / 324 deg to WeEu German, x 9390 2030-2045 NF 7475 UDO 250 kW / 324 deg to WeEu English,x 9390 2045-2115 NF 7475 UDO 250 kW / 316 deg to WeEu Thai, ex 9390 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-hsk9-radio-thailand-world_8.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good signal of HSK9 Radio Thailand World Sce, Nov 9 1230-1300 on 9940 UDO 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs English, ex 9390 B-17 1400-1430 on 9940 UDO 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs English, ex 9390 B-17 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/good-signal-of-hsk9-radio-thailand.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. 7580, Nov 9 at 0058, VP in Chinese? Likely CNR1 jammer vs VOA Tibetan scheduled this hour only via Kuwait (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. TAJIKISTAN, Reception of Voice of Tibet on Nov 6 1200-1230 on 11674 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1300-1330 on 11651 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1230-1300 on 11601 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1300-1330 on 9894 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1330-1400 on 9884 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 2300-2330 on 7496 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 2330-2400 on 7484 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-voice-of-tibet-in-25-31.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 3-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Note all are now 1 kHz off 0/5 channels rather than 2 or 3 (gh, DXLD) ** TURKEY. Unscheduled broadcast of Voice of Turkey on Nov 5: 0800-0808 on 15235.8 EMR 500 kW / 210 deg to CEAf Macedonian https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/unscheduled-broadcast-of-voice-of.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 3-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ! the Hausa & Swahili on 15235 did not get turned off at 0800; but where did they get Macedonian? Nowhen in WRTH 2018 (gh, DXLD) TRT Voice of Turkey on wrong and very odd frequency on Nov.5: 1630-1725 9785.7 EMR 500 kW / 090 deg WeAs Azeri, instead of 5965 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/voice-of-turkey-on-wrong-and-very-odd.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 3-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Last sked ``9785`` usage was 1430-1500 in Kazakh, per HFCC B-18 (gh) TRT Voice of Turkey on very odd frequencies, Nov.6 0700-0955 on 11925.7 EMR 500 kW / 105 deg to WeAs Turkish 1000-1055 on 11955.7 EMR 500 kW / 180 deg to NEAf Arabic 1330-1425 on 13685.7 EMR 500 kW / 072 deg to CeAs Uyghur 1430-1455 on 9785.7 EMR 500 kW / 072 deg to CeAs Kazakh 1500-1525 on 6185.7 EMR 500 kW / 290 deg to SEEu Italian https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/trt-voice-of-turkey-on-very-odd.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 3-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11815.00, November 6 at 1406, TRT collision with NHK finds Japan the winner, today only a few Hz apart rather than ~700. But by 1458 recheck, VOT music is atop as Japan is about to sign off. The other TRT, English is also not askew, on 12035.0 with poor signal at 1406 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6125.66, Voice of Turkey, 0401, Nov 7. Definitely off frequency, for this broadcast in English (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) Voice of Turkey on odd frequencies 15235.7/11795.7/13655.7 kHz on Nov 9, EMR 500 kW: 0600-0755 15235.7 / 210 deg CEAf Hau/Swa, instead of 15235 Nov.8 0930-1055 11795.7 / 105 deg WeAs Persian, instead of 11795 Nov.8 1130-1155 13655.7 / 062 deg CeAs Uzbek, instead of 13655.0 Nov.8 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/voice-of-turkey-on-odd-frequencies.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 8-9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 12035.730, Nov 9 at 1403, VOT is VP in talk, presumably `Letterbox` now on Friday. Half an hour earlier I had only a weak signal on 12035.0 which must have been KSDA in Thai, but no sign of TRT off-frequency then. 11815.00, Nov 9 at 1405, NHK music is atop the collision with on- frequency TRT Turkish, a medium-SAH apart today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TRT Voice of Turkey on 9495 kHz with wrong languages Tatar/Arabic, Nov.10 1730-1825 9495 EMR 250 kW / 290 deg SoEu Tatar & Arabic, instead of Spanish https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/voice-of-turkey-on-9495-khz-with-wrong.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11815.701, Nov 11 at 1413, TRT in Turkish up here today, with considerable het from 11815.0 JAPAN direct. TRT English close to 12035.0 much weaker with music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TRT Voice of Turkey on very odd frequency 11815.7 Nov.11 1400-1655 11815.7 EMR 250 kW / 310 deg WeEu Turkish, instead of 11815 Winter B-18 frequency change of TRT Voice of Turkey in Chinese: 1200-1255 NF 13630 EMR 500 kW / 072 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15420 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/trt-voice-of-turkey-on-very-odd_12.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 11815.0, Nov 12 at 1409, TRT Turkish on-frequency today, only a SAH apart from Japan which is slightly weaker. OTOH, 12035.7, Nov 12 at 1414, TRT English is the one way off-frequency, poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U A E. 11719.986 kHz at 1400 UT on Nov 9, S=9 sidelobe into southern Germany, target meant is Afghanistan Central Asia [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 9)(BC-DX Nov 10 via DXLD) Deutsche Welle in Pashto (gh) ** U K. 1206 kHz gives already several hours a very very distorted signal. Also, less distorted is 1224. So, possibly 1215 khz Absolute Radio is the cause? 73 (Max van Arnhem, The Netherlands, 1915 UT Nov 11, MW Circle yg via DXLD) ** U K. Great Britain: 3955/DRM, BBC World Service English audio with Journaline digital text. Audio was ”Weekend” show, news and feature items included a bit about Llama antibodies being used in a new anti-flu medicine, and Alec Baldwin arrested in NYC for allegedly punching someone over a parking space dispute. Then into silly sports news. At the BoH there was a “BBC in DRM” ID talking about the superior sound quality (which ironically had a drop out in it! -- hear attached) and then into more features including items about indoor air pollution and its impact on child development, the gaining divide in US politics, and how to talk to kids about pornography. Reception was actually decent, and a full 55 minutes of the hour broadcast decoded well, so I could follow things but there were a lot of really brief cut-outs making it ‘annoying’ to listen to. The s/n was typically 15-17 dB but it varied quite a bit, particularly if there was a ham transmitting nearby as happened a couple of minutes before I took this screen shot: [visible on the WOR iog] [Blue is s/n--scale on left, and black is decoding--scale on right, and ‘0’ is ‘now’, with time looking backward on the x-axis.] The Journaline was interesting, and only took 3-4 minutes to fully download while the audio played. There were two ‘headline news feeds’ in English, one for Europe, the other for Asia, and a third in Arabic: [illustrated] The English feeds had items about a man-eating tigress in India, storms in Italy & Asia Bibi’s death penalty for blasphemy in Pakistan being set aside by the Court there. (THAT court has stones -- I want to know more about that ruling!) This would be a lot more useful if there were a way to go BEYOND a headline, but the data rate just won’t support that I‘m sure. 15-17 dB s/n and mostly decoding well, *0559-0700* 3/Nov SDRplay, +SDRuno +DReaM, +randomwire (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Port Hope MI2, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. 5875, Nov 9 at 0049, very poor in English, is BBCWS, 250 kW due east from Woofferton to S Asia at 00-01; more English: 05-06 due south; 19-22 (Sat/Sun -21) also southerly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [and non]. The old hobby of hunting feeds is still alive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojuYTh_KmtM I would assume that the BBC has its dedicated IP/MPLS network and connected also its new Nairobi site to it. A use of satellites for internal video and audio contribution from Nairobi to London would nowadays be pretty surprising (Kai Ludwig, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U K. RADIO? WHAT’S THAT? --- BBC 25 October 2018 How the BBC is remodeling its listening services in search of a youth audience A casual remark made recently by small child to a BBC presenter during a school visit has jangled the nerves of those in the highest echelons of Broadcasting House. “What’s radio?” the child asked, after the Radio DJ tried to explain what his job entailed. BBC Sounds It was a reminder to the BBC that, even though the recent departures to commercial radio of star presenters Chris Evans and Eddie Mair have brought negative headlines and holes to fill in the schedules, the broadcaster faces a much more fundamental challenge. Namely that it can’t expect young people who feel undressed without a smartphone to have the same affection for radio as previous generations who felt a physical connection to the treasured transistor in their bedrooms. Former Labour MP James Purnell, and now head of radio for the BBC, calls BBC Sounds “probably our biggest product launch since the iPlayer”. This is the age of Spotify and Deezer and Apple Music, when music listeners expect instant access to any tune ever recorded and see no reason for loyalty to any particular radio station. The BBC has looked at the stats and gulped. While live broadcasting accounts for 75 per cent of radio listening among older audiences, that falls to 40 per cent among 15 to 24-year-olds, who increasingly prefer streaming music mixes and podcasts. Today’s primary school children might come to regard the linear radio schedule as something as antiquated as the Light Programme. This explains why the Beeb will this month unveil what James Purnell, BBC Director of Radio, describes as “probably our biggest product launch since the iPlayer” (that was in 2007), with the advent of an all-encompassing audio platform aimed at mobile phone users: BBC Sounds. Personalised yet unexpected The service (already being tested in beta format) is a rich mix of music shows, documentaries and mixes, alongside podcasts, audio drama and comedy. Live listening is available from a carousel of BBC stations – but that’s unlikely to be the app’s principal appeal. “The proposition is going to be radio/music/podcasts – no-one else in the market will have that width. It will be encouraging people to listen without limits,” Purnell tells i. The idea is that the app takes you on a journey of personalised yet unexpected recommendations. A search for “jazz” points to a Radio 4 documentary on how the US State Department used jazz players during the Cold War for propaganda purposes. Search “hip hop” and you surface a BBC Inside Science programme looking at the neuroscience of beatboxers and rappers. The app is a gateway to the BBC’s 600 hours-a-year cache of audio drama and its roster of podcast hits, from comedy (‘Evil Genius with Russell Kane’) and sport (‘That Peter Crouch Podcast’) to true crime (law professor Philippe Sands on the trail of a Nazi fugitive in Radio 4’s ‘The Ratline’). Purnell says the app’s recommendation algorithm is finely pitched. “It’s personalised enough that it’s suggesting the right stuff without being spooky [or] keeping people in their filter bubble.” Failure of iPlayer Radio BBC Sounds is an acknowledgement that iPlayer Radio, which was introduced six years ago to allow listeners to “take BBC Radio with you wherever you go”, has failed to fire the imaginations of young audiences. Purcell says it has been popular with “an audience that knows about radio” but less attractive to users who wish to search for content on-demand. Expect iPlayer Radio to be slowly phased out next year. The success of BBC Sounds in finding new young listeners will be critical to the broadcaster’s future attempts to make the case for the continuation of its licence fee model. Young people have become accustomed to paying £9.99 for a Spotify premium and the BBC needs to demonstrate that it provides similar value. Radio 1’s YouTube video channel, which has grown to more than 5m subscribers, is another prong in the same strategy. Seekings under-35s “The BBC has a particular focus at the moment on under-35s,” Purnell says. “Older audiences use us (the BBC as a whole) for 20-30 hours a week. Younger users… use us for eight hours a week. That’s been going down and we want to increase the value that they get from their licence fee.” Purnell says that for this generation “the market norm has been set as streaming” and that the BBC is a “challenger” brand facing rivals with “deep pockets”. Yet he is convinced that BBC Sounds offers something “unique” in the breadth of its offering. It is this big picture that he is focused on, rather than the loss of Chris Evans or the next set of Rajar quarterly audience figures. “My job is…to make sure that radio is healthy in 10, 20, 50 and 100 years,” he says. “The challenge for the BBC is can we modernise quickly enough so that we can serve young people just as well as we have previous generations.” (via Medium Wave News 64/06, November 2018 via DXLD) See also RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM: B&W TV ** U K. 9635, ENGLAND, IBRA Radio (Radio Sama) at 1733 in Beja Arabic with a man with talk and a Middle Eastern music bridge at 1736 and more talk – Poor to Fair with heavy fading Nov 11 – Beja Arabic is an Afroasiatic language of the Cushitic branch spoken by the Beja people who number about two million and live on the west coast of the Red Sea in parts of Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea. 9775, ENGLAND, IBRA Radio (Radio Sama) at 1743 NOT // 9635 in Arabic with male Middle Eastern vocals and into an apparent radio drama with male and female characters – Fair Nov 11 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) ** U S A. RON GITSCHIER Broadcast engineer, news director and former navy man Ron Gitschier Of Palm Coast/Bunnel, Florida, passed early this morning at the age of 56. He had some serious health complications late last week with his liver that he was unable to recover from (Powell E Way III, SC, W4OPW, Nov 7, ABDX yg via DXLD) Very sad to hear this. Ron just visited me in May of last year. He was in town for a Navy reunion. We spent a nice afternoon together, looking at the Perseus and talking about radio. He really enjoyed trying out the Perseus, and was hoping to get one when he retired. Seemed like he might be a good candidate for a future Border Inn DXpedition! He sent my wife and me some very nice T-shirts from his radio stations to thank us for our hospitality. A very nice guy. Condolences to his family. I know he had a daughter in northern CA, and I think he mentioned a son as well (Tim Hall, CA, ibid.) obit Ron Gitschier and I have known each other from before the ABDX days, That`s quite a while. We both often talked about DX around the world from ships at sea and traded ID tapes. He was a good person as long as I knew him and spoke with him many times over the phone. I will miss him. I miss all the people who have passed that were on ABDX starting with Morris Sorensen. This list is like a family of DXers and we are close. It`s hard to lose a member like Ron (Kevin Redding, Crump, TN, ABDX yg via DXLD) Just reading this and it's sad to lose another DXer and good guy. Too young. We're losing too many in this hobby. I hope we can do something to remember them. A couple of other websites I visit have threads to memorialize those who pass away. I think this hobby needs to do a better job of this. On that note, I've been reading some posts from 2004/2005 from another club and see several names that I no longer see. Never heard what happened to them. One was Charlie Taylor who posted here. Prayers to Ron's family (Martin Foltz, ibid.) We used to have a section on our web site that at least mentioned “in memory of”. Thanks for the reminder, Martin. Always enjoyed reading Charlie’s posts as well. Another great guy (I actually got to meet him) was Don Kaskey. Always sad to lose somebody and as Kevin said --- we’re still a “family” and it still sucks to lose a family member L (Michael J Richard, ibid.) Rick, I almost was gone like Ron when I was 56. I was fighting stage 4 cancer here in Tennessee. It`s a miracle I am still here. You handle some of the worst chemicals and radioactive items known to man if you are in the military or naval service. The only good thing you can say about serving is that you get to DX all over the world (Kevin Redding, Crump, TN, ibid.) True. My dad was a transport pilot on aircraft carriers, and got assigned additional duties like "aircraft officer," which meant he had to stay on board and manage all the deliveries of aircraft fuel and other scary chemicals whenever the ship was in port. He died of an extremely rare cancer affecting only 4 out of a million people. One of the few suspected causes of this virtually-unknown cancer was exposure to harsh chemicals. I think the only 2 DXers I've seen in person in recent years were Ron Schiller and Ron Gitschier, now both gone only about 6 weeks apart. 73 (Tim Hall, Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone, ibid.) R.I.P. Ron Gitschier - obituary column --- I added Ronald-Charles "Ron" Gitschier to the long list of deceased radio - friends at http://www.schoechi.de/obituary.html (Martin Schöch, Eisenach ---------------------------------------------- Martin Schoech - PF 101145 - D-99801 Eisenach ---------------------------------------------- E-mail: radio@schoechi.de Web: www.schoechi. de --------- --------- --------- --------- ------- ABDX yg via DXLD) Thank you for sharing this. Maybe you could add DXer Ron Schiller, died 23 SEP 2018 in Cœeur d'Alène Idaho at age 79. 73 (Tim Hall, ibid.) ** U S A. Your reception on 193.5 kHz --- Hi Glenn, I saw the item in the last DXLD regarding 389 EN in Kenosha, WI. Sorry I didn't chime in sooner, but wanted the chance to go to a quiet spot to check it out. I was less than 30 miles from the site, and did not hear anything on 193.5. Also checked adjacent frequencies with the same result. EN's identifier spaces the 'E' and 'N' fairly close together, but not so close as to confuse it with an 'R.' It does not have any other notable keying characteristics. There are offset harmonics audible, e.g., 386.89, 387.945 (normal LSB offset), 390.02 (normal USB offset), and 391.04. At this close range, this is probably normal. I listened around 2000z 11/11/18. Hope this helps. 73, (Steve Zimmerman, Nov 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tnx, I`ve not heard it since either (gh) ** U S A [and non]. In the meantime... https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article220915645.html Says that further decisions in regard to Radio/TV Martí were supposed to be made after ten days of investigation, so next week; a staff member says that the consequence of a really thorough investigation would be to close the station altogether; "interview" with a former FBI agent was merely existing stuff ripped from Youtube; also questions to the blogger who broke the story why he came up with this only now, a half year later. Hint to Ms. Cuervo and Mr. Cancio: We just had the 80th anniversary of Reichskristallnacht. If this says nothing to you, google for Auschwitz (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Nov 11, WOR iog via DXLD) 7355 & 7365, Nov 9 at 0100, no signals from R. Martí on the two frequencies scheduled this hour, just some jamming, but still audible mixed jamming on 6030. Suspect the upper GBs are off rather than a sharp MUF cutoff this early in evening. And later at 0341, 7355 & 7435 are VG over jamming, as usual much better than 6030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15580, Nov 6 at 2105, end VOA news and into ``VOA-One, all the hits and more!``, rock music, blasting in, wideband; what a pity they do not emit any classical music this way (or *any* way). [non] 9485, Nov 6 at 2158, similar music but not // 15580, maybe way out of sync? Much weaker. Unlike 15580 Greenville, this one at 2200 plays the standard ``VOA, Washington DC`` sign-off and Yankee Doodle Dandy, as it is getting whished by DRM noise which has started centred on 9490. 9485 is really the M-F 2130 VOA Bambara service via BOTSWANA, while 9490 is Romania starting its daily DRM Spanish. 11850, Nov 8 at 2044, S9-S7 of tonal African language, music. It`s VOA Hausa via BOTSWANA, daily except Sunday 2030-2100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1955 monitoring: confirmed second SW airing at new shifted time of 0200 UT Tuesday November 6 on WRMI 9955, fair-good. Also confirmed the third, Tue Nov 6 at 2054, the 2030 on WRMI 7780, fair S9-S8. Next: 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5950 to WNW 2200 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0729 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1200 UT Saturday Unique 9265 via WINB to WSW 1531 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW 1700 UT Saturday WRN 5950 via WRMI to WNW 2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional 0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND 1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0230 UT Monday WRN 5950 via WRMI to WNW 0400vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW 0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9955, USA, WRMI at 2201 with Glenn Hauser's “World of Radio” - Good Nov 7 [Wed] (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) WORLD OF RADIO 1955 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday November 7 at 2200 on WRMI 9955, and about one second later on WBCQ 7490+, both fair; and a fine example of coördination, both having latened exactly one hour post-DST. Next: 0729 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1200 UT Saturday Unique 9265 via WINB to WSW 1531 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW 1700 UT Saturday WRN 5950 via WRMI to WNW 2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional 0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND 1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0230 UT Monday WRN 5950 WRMI to WNW [sometimes? maybe no more] 0400vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW 0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE WORLD OF RADIO 1955 monitoring: Ivo Ivanov, Observer, Bulgaria, reports: ``World of Radio via HLR on 6190 CUSB & 9485 CUSB, Nov 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcKr-L0srSM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Uv-pPt8cc&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4wAJTt7eAk&feature=youtu.be 0731-0800 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sat, weak signal 1531-1600 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sat, fair signal`` Confirmed Saturday November 10 at 1210, the airing retimed to start at 1200 via Unique Radio, Gunnedah via WINB Red Lion, S9+10 with some wobble. Also confirmed UT Sunday November 11 at 0449 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, about 21 minutes into, so started circa 0428. Next: 1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, NEW 9395 to NNW per Jeff White 0400vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW 0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE, NEW 5010 to SSE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) GERMANY, Reception of World of Radio via HLR on 7265CUSB, Nov.11 1131-1200 on 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sat, fair/good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1955 monitoring: confirmed by Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria: ``GERMANY Reception of World of Radio via HLR on 7265CUSB, Nov 11 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on.html 1131-1200 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sat, fair/good`` Also confirmed here: Sunday November 11 at 2142 the 2130 on WRMI 7780, poor S7-S9. Also confirmed Sun Nov 11 at 2230 on WRMI 9955, good S9+10 and no jamming. Also confirmed UT Monday November 12 at 0230 on WRMI 5950, S9+10 and undermodulated, lite pulse jamming since WRMI had Radio Martí on there for a while; then it was WRN with WOR, now it`s not via WRN, but WRMI itself and also on NEW // 9395, both of which are now carrying Radio Tirana, Albania in English the other six nights of the week, if they can get their program to WRMI. WOR 1955 also confirmed on Area 51 webcast just as it finishes at 0429 UT Monday Nov 12, while WBCQ 5130v had been inaudible; 9955 WRMI before 0430 is poor with music, but after 0430 WOR confirmed on its webcast (which BTW now continues at 0500 with Israel Radio via WRN, which should also still be on SW WRMI 5950: 0527 plugging the Kan/Reqa app.) WORLD OF RADIO 1956 contents: Anguilla, Argentina non, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Cuba, East Turkistan, Eritrea and non, France and non, India or Indonesia, Iran, Korea South, Kurdistan non, México, Netherlands non, Nigeria non, Northern Mariana Islands, Oman, Perú, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sudan, USA; and the propagation outlook. WOR 1956 ready for first airings UT Tuesday November 13: confirmed at 0030 on WRMI 7730, good; Also confirmed the 0200 UT Tuesday November 13 on WRMI audible on portable at 0220 on NEW 5010; not audible on 9955; nor is 9955 audible on R75 at 0233, just pulse jamming; and by now 5950 is carrying `Frecuencia al Día` from 0230. Both 5010 and 9955 are aimed SSEward - -- 151 & 160 degrees resp., but MUF favors the new lower one now duplicating 9955 at 0100-0500. Next: 2030 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5950 to WNW 2200 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0729 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1200 UT Saturday Unique 9265 via WINB to WSW 1531 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW 1700 UT Saturday WRN 5950 via WRMI to WNW 2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional 0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND 1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, NEW 9395 to NNW 0400vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW 0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE, NEW 5010 to SSE Complete updated WOR sked, all affiliates, satellite, webcast, AM&FM: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI: ** U S A. USofA: 5850, WRMI, BSR Radiogram with a new ‘all digital’ hour of photos and digital text ‘sponsored by’ the "Oklahoma Objector Church". The digital hour included a bunch of photos of James B’s Oregon trip. Here is one image sent: [visible in the WOR iog] Despite near perfect audio, as you can see, there were ‘artifacts’ that ‘smeared’ the photos. Something JB does in recording the signal? It made the text hard to read! At 0800 they aired ‘music and ID’ filler and did NOT have the usual Shortwave Radiogram. Most disappointing. At 0830 into ANOTHER replay of the Business Growth Radio from 24/Sept (and others) I didn’t bother to actually record that segment so I have no idea when it ended. The signal was starting to fade *a bit* by 0830 and I’d guesstimate it was down to S4 by then. It was S4+ (10 dB over S9 on the meter) when I went to bed as the station signed on. 4+4+4+4+4+, *0655-0831 5/Nov, SDRplay +SDRuno +randomwire +FLDigi for digital bits +ANC4 (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9955, Nov 6 at 0003, WRMI with a `Viva Miami` in Spanish, presumably the same episode running for several weeks about Bratislava, but now vs heavy wall-of-noise jamming. Radio Libertad clandestine now retimed to 0015-0100 Tue-Sat makes this hour primetime for jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRMI skedgrids via http://www.tinyurl.com/WRMIfqs have now been redated effective Nov 4 --- the individual System program skeds, not really updated, still showing 5950 with various outdated programming, while the frequency blox at the top now label 5950 as World Radio Network at 15-03 & 05-08 daily, 285 degrees from XMTR 5, but no details. See also GERMANY [non]; and ARGENTINA [non]. Furthermore, Radio Martí is no longer mentioned anytime on 5950, so maybe that different programming is over & done with, and we can also only hope, the jamming it attracted even beyond its own hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, Nov 7, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5950, Nov 7 at 1421 check, this WRMI with JBA music and not // 9955. Usage of 5950 is constantly changing, and at one time would duplicate the 9955 morning block. 5950, UT Thu Nov 8 at 0147, trying to check whether this WRMI is now // 9395 as on the skedgrid --- 5950 with Oldies music, 9395 only a JBA carrier, so can`t be sure. 0151 ``Moon River``, 0152 Oldies-style ID (the word Oldies is never heard), 0153 VOA news, 0158 ad for cheap airline tickets with 800 number, 0200 opening RAE with multi-lingual ID reel, prior to English-only. 5950, one more WRMI check at 0558 Nov 8; very poor music, and not // 9395 fair with other music. Presumably one or both about to pick up RFI via WRN relay. Speaking of which, Mike Cooper in GA says Nov 7: ``RFI ENGLISH CUTBACK =-= At the end of today's 1400 RFI English broadcast, there was an announcement that RFI English morning broadcasts will be discontinued later this month. The 1400 "Paris Live" program will continue.`` And on Nov 8: ``I heard the announcement again today at the end of the 1400 UT English hour. It said that effective Sunday, November 18, RFI English morning broadcasts will come to an end. The announcement encourages us to join RFI for "new Paris Live programs" at 1400 from Monday through Friday every week. This implies there will be no more weekend broadcasts. No mention was made of the daily 1600 broadcast (which is a repeat of the 1400 hour, with a fresh newscast). I have yet to find any mention of these changes on RFI's web site`` [MORE: See FRANCE] The 0600 only has been on SW, 7245 direct, new frequency for B-18 I`ve yet to check, and also on WRN via WRMI 5950. Maybe also at 1600, tho WRN sked is self-contradictory also showing New Zealand that hour M-F. Of course, 5950 at 1600 is audible only circumchobee. Meanwhile checked at 1750 UT Nov 8, Jeff White, logged into his WRMI skedgrid spreadsheet flanked by anonymous moose, wombat, ferret and hedgehog, has entered yet another change, now showing 5950 at 00-01 with Radio France International. Before that, in same bright green, it`s generic WRN. 7780 // 5950 // 5850 // 9395, UT Fri Nov 9 at 0107, `Voice of the Report of the Week` on all these WRMIs; maybe one reason he`s not on WBCQ any more; the self-absorbed John musing about not making many changes but maybe some reduxions in December. 5850 & 9395 are *much* stronger than the others, and 9395 has surged up to S9+30/40. Skedgrid shows he`s also on 7730 the previous hour UT Fri 00-01 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRMI: See also nons: ALBANIA, FRANCE, NIGERIA 9395, Nov 10 at 0229, tuning in to check whether R. Tirana relay via WRMI is back in whack --- surprised to hear a YL ID for ``SonPower World Radio, from the studios of WRMI --- on 5850, 7455 and 9395`` --- but I am not sure of the first two unexpected frequencies, as could have said 5950, 9455. SonPower, you may recall, was the Rick Wiles thing subtitled TruNews that used to be on WRMI --- is he making a comeback, or was this just an old ID that surfaced somehow? Anyhow, neither SPR nor Tirana follows at 0230, rather World Music fill including some of the same tunes heard 24 hours ago, breaking for a canned Spanish ID at 0243, and now confirmed // 5950. 9955, Nov 10 at 1435, WRMI has some annoying QRM, not conventional jamming noise; rather, multi-tone whine co-channel, which fine-tuning with BFO seems to come from carriers about 292 Hz apart up to 1460 Hz, beating against each other and WRMI as I tune upwards, during Japanese-accented `Living the Bible`, still past 1502 with Blalock the Blaster. STILL same whine QRM to 9955 at quick 2242 recheck. [WORLD OF RADIO 1956] 5950, Nov 11 at 0140, what`s going on WRMI UT Sunday? VOA News ending, Rudy ID in Spanish during Oldies stream, ``City of New Orleans``, but 9395 a JBA carrier cannot confirm //. At 0153 it`s in again and yes, // 5950. 0205 still Oldies on 5950, 9395 gone again. Further changes on the WRMI skedgrid as checked at 0530 UT Nov 11: 5950 with more RFI France relays: 07-08 Portuguese (ex-DW English via WRN), 18-19 Spanish, 19-20 French, 20-21 Portuguese; and already 00-01 English. Unspecified WRN relays on 5950 contract to: 05-07, 15-18, 21-24; and // 9395 at 22-23. Is the 06-07 hour from WRN still RFI English? What will happen when RFI drops its morning English? Also: 5010 now shown as System B // 9955 at 01-05. [not any more] 9955, Nov 11 at 1352, WRMI World Music fill, jazzed-up `Ode to Joy`. 9955 at 1437 and still 1449, AWR Wavescan instead of scheduled `Word to the World` at 1430. Pulse jamming running at 1449, not earlier, and not later at 1506 with Blalock the Blaster (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Monitored WRMI Sunday Evening / Monday Morning (UT) 7780 kHz Schedule From my recording last Sunday evening, 11-12 November UT: 2015 Viva Miami (in Spanish talking about the trip to Bratislava for the HFCC meeting; repeat yet again) 2030 Reserve Military Retirement (repeat of last week's) 2100 Wavescan (#507) 2130 World of Radio (#1955) 2200 Oldies (Included a Tecsun Australia ad. Your Weekend Show NOT aired again this week. Has Bob Biermann temporarily or permanently stopped his program or is it being aired at some other time on WRMI?) 2250 VOA News with Christopher Cruise, followed by more Oldies 2300 Full Gospel Hour Broadcast (program name used this week) 2330 Shortwave Radiogram (#73) 0000 Radio Slovakia International in Slovak 0030 Radio Slovakia International in English 0100 Wavescan (#507) 0130 Through the Cross Ministry with Pastor Chuck 0200 Radio Prague in English 0230 Viva Miami (in Spanish talking about the trip to Bratislava for the HFCC meeting; repeat yet again) 0245 Living Water (-- Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD) Your Weekend Show on Hiatus? Hi Glenn: See my recent posting to WoR io group about monitoring WRMI on 7780 kHz yesterday. Two weeks in a row that Bob Biermann has been absent with his Your Weekend Show. Haven't looked for it at some other time on the WRMI sked. Already cutting back involvement with WRMI as previously announced? Best regards (-- Richard Langley, Nov 12, DXLD) I don`t know, either (gh) WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ: ** U S A. 7490.1+, Nov 9 at 0101, WBCQ with an `Allan Weiner Worldwide` playback filling an Available Time Slot; over ``William Tell Overture`` he queries, ``what the hell happened to radio? We`re still trying, yes we are`` and then plugs americanradiohistory.com site, into the early history of RCA. I wish he would announce at the outset, the original YOOL airdate so we can keep better track of episodes. 7490, UT Sat Nov 10 from 0000, WBCQ with Tom instead of Allan Weiner, Worldwide. Over to John Carver`s summary: ``Show started on time this evening on 7490. Tom Barna is hosting the show again with Robert sitting in as sidekick. Show opens with music after Tom states that a lot of things have been going on this past week. Opening talk about Maine's new governor. A Democrat and the first female to ever hold the office. Apparently all that happened in Maine this past week as that's all they talked about to begin with. Several songs were played. Robert announced that a donor was paying to have the old episodes of The Hour of the Time show by Bill Cooper broadcast. It was also announced that Hal Turner would begin simulcasting his show on 7490 and 5130. There will be a special program from Germany broadcast on 5130 from one to five-thirty local time tomorrow. One airing only. Ramsey called at 0131. Brief talk about the old radio he was using to listen to the show tonight and then some comments on the election. Another phone call at 0141 from a caller asking if they could find a donor to pay to rerun the Amos and Andy show, Tom explained that they couldn't as Ed Bolton insisted that the tapes of the show be returned to him every three months or so and they had very few episodes in their archives. The caller stated that he has a lot of CDs that Ed Bolton had sent him years ago with a lot of episodes of the program. Said if he could make some money doing so, he would be willing to send the CDs to the station if a backer could be found. Tom said he would be in contact with him. Larry Will called at 0151 to say that he had a few episodes of Amos and Andy in his archives. No superstation news this evening. Show was off the air at 0200 in the middle of a song and 7490 also went off the air at this time. John Mid-North Indiana`` 5130, Sat Nov 10 at 1913, no signal from WBCQ, nor any expected way out here, 2721 km = 1690 statute miles from Monticello over a full-day path, during special booking from Universe Radio, Netherlands, as publicized for 18-22 UT today. Not checked again until 2229 when some JBA talk and music can be measured on 5130.159. Must be the other transmitter, rather than usual 5129.83 area. Still offset plus at 0147. WBCQ said that Universe would be extended to 2230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WINB WINB WINB WINB WINB WINB WINB WINB WINB WINB WINB WINB WINB WINB: ** U S A. 9265, WINB with a ‘good old boy’ preaching and (mostly) strumming on his Gee-tar, singing and blowing the ‘monica and asking for song and prayer requests. Actually sort of entertaining especially in contrast to what passes for preaching on Bro. Stair and Posthumous Pastor Peter J Peters. It was rather ‘rustic’ style folk singing, but I can get into that, and his ‘messages’ tended toward “if you’re feeling depressed, don’t consider suicide, come to Jesus instead” and similar rather sane stuff. WINB Red Lion PA ID by YL at 0215, and into “The Victory Hour” from Virginia -- another good old boy, this one preaching instead of singing though. His message boiled down to ‘a lot of TV preachers are only out for money and aren’t preaching about the real Jesus. I am never surprised to hear a preacher claim his is the only TRUE message, but it is amazing how they all do it, isn’t It? :o In stunningly better than usual, way better than any other 31 metre signal, and way better than usual: 4+4+4+44. 0205-0220 8/Nov, SDRplay +SDRuno +randomwire +ANC4 (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13690-DRM, Red Lion, PA, 50 kW/62 deg, WINB, Nov 8, 1346 - Another DRM signal seen in PEI. Too weak to decode audio, but IDs as WINB English Religion 8.28 kbps EEP Mono. I'm thinking that we might be too close and the signal is skipping over us. The signal is unusual in appearance, though, with the lower 5 kHz hashed (with a rapid buzzing sound), while the upper 5 kHz looks more the normal, 'white noise' DRM appearance. Another hindrance to decoding is that 13685 has Turkey present, while AIR is on 13695. In my experience, this interferes with reception of DRM. Bits and pieces of audio started coming through about 1355 with piano music. On the SDR waterfall, it's easy to see that the upper half of the signal appears twice as strong as the lower half. Perhaps someone can explain that to me! The music is from the Phantom of the Opera. Nice ID at 1359:20, then into a religious program, Take a Look in the Book. Fully able to decode now. 9:00 AM local at our receiver site. Very powerful at 1518 recheck and in Italian. A really messy transmitter splattering well beyond the 10 kHz window. Same strange 1/2 and 1/2 on the waterfall. I recognize the program. This is IBC (heard on WRMI in past). They should be doing something in digital, which would be funny: Digital broadcasting digital! Nope, into music at 1529, then ID with postal address for WINB, and into South Carolina religious broadcast. Interesting that suddenly, the signal just dropped to a very low level and I stopped being able to demodulate at about 1535. Someone did something at the transmitter site! (Walt Salmaniw, Listening Waters DXpedition, Murray Harbour North, PEI, 3–10 Nov 2018, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7310-7315-7320, Nov 9 at 0708, finally hearing WINB-style DRM noise on this frequency registered 0700-0900 M-F. By ``style`` I mean normal DRM noise on the plus side, very ``rough`` noise on the minus side just like had been on 15665-15670-15675, then replaced by 13685-13690-13695 in the daytime as again roaring S9 Nov 9 at 1406 (but never on weekends). BTW, 7315-AM is also available to WHRI at 0600-0900. There continues to be a dearth of info on what *programming* is on these DRMs, and what kind of *data* is also being transmitted, even among DRM enthusiasts, who don`t seem to care about content. A recent WINB twit says the 09-11 test on 9265 to Europe is being received well oppositely in NZ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHER: ** U S A. 5935, Nov 6 at 2355, Brother Scare anticipating end of his ministry since Jesus is almost recome. Yeah, sure; can hardly wait. First noticed with bigsig on 11870 = 2 x 5935, as I am checking out Cuba 11880 on the PL-880 with external antenna plugged in. Maybe receiver overload, as soon on the R75 I am not hearing 11870 but 5935 is S9+40. WWCR of course, but own schedules are contradictory. Transmitter sked effective Nov 4 shows WWCR-2 starting 5935 at 2300. But program sked still dated Oct 1! Shows 5935 starting at 0000 UT = 7 pm CDT with DGS, not Scare, and no Scare anytime on 5935 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5970, Nov 9 at 0054, S9+20 dead air from presumed WEWN Spanish. The QSY from 12050 was supposed to be at 0000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reception of WEWN-1 Global Catholic Radio on 11520/9470 kHz, Nov 10 0000-0900 11520 EWN 250 kW / 085 deg to WeAf English as scheduled B-18 0900-0904 11520 EWN 250 kW / 085 deg to WeAf English, instead of 9470 0905-1300 9470*EWN 250 kW / 355 deg to SEAs English as scheduled B-18 *till 1200 9470 URU 100 kW / non-dir to EaAs Kazakh PBS Xinjiang co-ch https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-wewn-1-global-catholic.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 9-10, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I`ve *never* heard WEWN on 9470, thought they were not really using it; now must check before 1300 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** U S A. 7505, Nov 9 at 1320, distorted music, Chinese announcement from WRNO, S9+20/30. Presumably running until nominal 1400* now post- DST. 7505.013 approx., Nov 11 at 1354, WRNO still on with gospelhuxter in English, not Chinese, S9+20 but noticeably off- frequency, presumably until nominal 1400* for winter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, KVOH. Voice of Hope website still displays old program sked of September keyed to PDT --- Lacking any explicit answer about it from Ray, I want to confirm correct time for AWR Wavescan now, which had been Saturday 1500. Nov 10 at 1513, maybe a JBA carrier? Maybe not, as 1603 I still hear nothing; but 1627 recheck just in time, it`s faded up to poor S9-S8 for a couple words sounding like Jeff White, then classical piano music fill, so it seems WS is now starting at 1600. 1859 check: no signal, already off or faded out again? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17775, KVOH (The Voice of Hope, Rancho Simi, CA) at 1814 with Christian pop vocals and an American preacher at 1816 – Poor Nov 10 – Only signal on the band at this time (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, odxa iog via DXLD) [and non]. Hi, Glenn and all. There was a power outage at the KVOH transmitter site on Saturday, related to the nearby SoCal fires. English on Saturdays is now scheduled 1600-2000, with Wavescan 1600-1630. I've just returned from Israel and am fighting off a bout of flu. The website schedules for both KVOH and the Voice of Hope - Middle East will be updated soon. English on that station is now 2000-2200 UT on Fridays (1287 kHz). Voice of Hope - Africa remains unchanged - no seasonal adjustments (Ray Robinson, Voice of Hope World Radio Network, Americas/Africa/Middle East. http://www.voiceofhope.com Nov 11, wor iog via DXLD) ** U S A. 5085, Nov 10 at 1912, WTWW-2 is on `night` frequency, achieving S9+10 over a daytime megameter, playing `Popcorn` and presumably more classic rock; meanwhile 9475, WTWW-1, S9+20 in usual QSO ham show diverging from PPPP. 5085, Nov 11 at 0100 tune-in, WTWW-2 with `Theatre Organ in the Ozarx` running late as usual from timeshifted nominal 0030 UT Sunday; speech sounds OK but some distortion on the music; finally over at 0111 for Tedad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5085, Nov 11 at 1351, once again WTWW-2 is on in the morning, hokey drama/narration with organ music, just like `Unshackled`; along with usual spur parasite carriers 5072.1 & 5097.9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15555, Milton FL, WJHR, Nov 3, 1941 - Something wrong with the transmitter with choppy audio. Can't make out much as a result, despite decent signal strength. I rechecked at 1455 on 8 November, 2018 and all back to normal (Walt Salmaniw, Listening Waters DXpedition, Murray Harbour North, PEI, 3–10 Nov 2018, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A. 21610, WHRI at 1655 with “Heart to Heart” with preacher Kimberley Ann then program closing announcements at 1658 and WHRI info and ID at 1659 and into “Treasure of Truth” with Dr. Joel Gray at 1700 – Fair to Good Nov 11 – Along with Radio Africa on 21525 (via WRMI) this was it for the under-utilized 13 meter band at this hour (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) 21610 on at 14-19 per Aoki, 250 kW, 85 degrees toward Africa. Have not heard it here yet this season (gh, DXLD) ** U S A [non]. Adventist World Radio Tentative [B-18, English] 1530-1600 su-we SAs 11985-trm 1600-1630 Daily SAs 9770-sof 17730-mdc 1830-1900 Daily EAf 15155-trm 2100-2130 Daily WAf 7270-mos 2200-2230 su/tu/th As 12040-sda (HFCC via Nov BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Is that all?? Not including AWR Wavescan on WRMI, otherstations! (gh) ** U S A [non]. Winter B-18 frequency changes of Adventist World Radio https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/winter-b-18-frequency-changes-of_12.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: [ALL of the below are labeled NF for new frequency! Why so many changes? A good way to lose audience unnecessarily --- gh] 0000-0030 5010 YFR 100 kW / 151 deg CARI Spanish, ex 5950 0000-0030 17650 SDA 100 kW / 285 deg SEAs Burmese, ex 9810 TRM 0030-0100 17530 SDA 100 kW / 285 deg SEAs Manumanaw Karen, ex 9810 TRM 0230-0300 5975 MOS 300 kW / 094 deg SoAs Punjabi, ex 5970 0300-0330 7350 NAU 250 kW / 140 deg EaAf Tigrigna, ex 7315 0330-0400 6170 MOS 300 kW / 100 deg WeAs Farsi, ex 6120 0300-0330 15500 TRM 250 kW / 270 deg EaAf Oromo, ex 12010 MDC 0400-0430 5975 ISS 125 kW / 095 deg SEEu Bulgarian, ex NAU 0400-0430 15500 TRM 125 kW / 270 deg EaAf Amharic ex 0330-04 11875 TAC 0500-0600 17780 TRM 125 kW / 300 deg CEAf Arabic, ex TAC 0600-0630 7375 ISS 250 kW / 162 deg WeAf French, ex 12015 1100-1130 5010 YFR 100 kW / 151 deg CARI Spanish, ex 5950 1100-1200 9610 SDA 100 kW / 330 deg EaAs Chinese, ex 11730 1200-1300 9460 SDA 100 kW / 330 deg EaAs Korean, ex 9880 1200-1230 15400 TRM 125 kW / 060 deg SoAs Mon, ex 1230-1300 15195 SDA 1300-1330 11590 SDA 100 kW / 285 deg SEAs Khmer, ex 11900 1300-1330 11730 SCB 100 kW / 075 deg EaAs Chinese M-F, ex 15480 NAU 1300-1330 11730 SCB 100 kW / 075 deg EaAs Uighur Sat/Sun, ex 15480 NAU 1300-1330 15450 SDA 100 kW / 285 deg SEAs Kachin, ex 15670 1300-1400 11935 TRM 125 kW / 045 deg EaAs Chinese, ex SDA 1300-1400 11855 SDA 100 kW / 330 deg EaAs Korean, ex 12025 1330-1400 11730 SCB 100 kW / 075 deg EaAs Chinese, ex 15480 NAU 1330-1400 11945 TRM 125 kW / 025 deg SoAs Hmong Thu/Fri, ex 11900 SDA 1330-1400 11945 TRM 125 kW / 025 deg SoAs Assamese Sun/Wed ex11900 SDA 1330-1400 11945 TRM 125 kW / 090 deg SEAs Indonesian Mo/Tu/Sa ex 11900 1330-1400 12035 SDA 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs Thai, ex 15450 1330-1400 12085 SDA 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs Lao Thu/Sat, ex 17770 TRM 1330-1400 12085 SDA 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs Thai Mon-Wed/F ex 17770 TRM 1400-1430 11870 SDA 100 kW / 285 deg SEAs Asho Chin, ex 15150 1400-1430 15255 MDC 250 kW / 055 deg SoAs Sinhalese, ex SDA 1400-1430 12025 MOS 300 kW / 095 deg SoAs Urdu, ex 15440 1400-1500 11730 NAU 250 kW / 070 deg EaAs Chinese, ex 15480 1400-1500 9580 SDA 100 kW / 315 deg EaAs Chinese, ex 11935 1430-1500 11985 SDA 100 kW / 285 deg SEAs Pwo Western Karen, ex 15150 1430-1500 15180 TRM 125 kW / 045 deg SEAs Manumanaw Karen, ex SDA 1430-1500 15215 TRM 125 kW / 045 deg SEAs Burmese, ex 15255 SDA 1500-1530 9740 TRM 125 kW / 015 deg SoAs Nepali, ex 11900 SDA 1500-1530 11945 SCB 100 kW / 126 deg SoAs Tamil, ex 15715 SDA 1500-1530 11985 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg SoAs Telugu, ex 15490 SDA 1500-1530 15250 TRM 125 kW / 025 deg SoAs Lushai, ex SDA 1530-1600 9830 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg SoAs Hindi, ex 15250 NAU 1530-1600 9855 DB 100 kW / 137 deg SoAs Oriya, ex 15715 SDA 1530-1600 9905 ERV 100 kW / 255 deg SoAs Kannada, ex 15730 SDA 1530-1600 11945 SCB 100 kW / 126 deg SoAs Gujarati, ex 9505 TAC 1530-1600 11955 MOS 300 kW / 095 deg SoAs Punjabi, ex 11995 1530-1600 12035 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg SoAs Marathi, ex 11955 SDA 1530-1630 9765 SDA 100 kW / 330 deg EaAs Korean, additional 1600-1630 9770 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg SoAs English, ex 15715 SDA 1600-1630 11985 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg SoAs Urdu, ex SDA 1630-1700 11955 NAU 250 kW / 139 deg EaAf Tigrinya, ex 15490 1630-1700 12035 NAU 250 kW / 141 deg EaAf Amharic, ex 1700-1730 11985 1630-1700 15360 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg SoAs Pashto M/W/F, ex 11985 SDA 1630-1700 15360 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg SoAs Sindhi Su/Tu/Th/Sa ex 11985 1700-1730 11800 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg CEAf Swahili, ex 15490 1730-1800 9800 ISS 125 kW / 180 deg NoAf Kabyle, ex 11985 NAU 1730-1800 11870 ISS 250 kW / 126 deg EaAf Oromo, ex 15155 1800-1900 7225 MOS 300 kW / 175 deg EaAf Arabic, ex 11985 1900-1930 7275 MOS 300 kW / 190 deg WeAf Hausa, ex 9840 1900-1930 9895 NAU 250 kW / 218 deg WeAf Wolof, ex 11750 1900-2000 6120 NAU 250 kW / 210 deg NoAf Arabic, ex 9535 1930-2000 9780 MOS 300 kW / 170 deg CeAf French, ex 15155 1930-2000 9850 MEY 250 kW / 328 deg WeAf Ibo, ex ISS 1930-2000 11790 MEY 250 kW / 328 deg WeAf Fulfulde, ex 17800 2000-2030 9515 MDC 125 kW / 320 deg NoAf French, ex NAU 2000-2030 6070 MOS 300 kW / 210 deg WeAf Dyula, ex 9770 2000-2030 9780 MEY 250 kW / 328 deg WeAf French, ex 11800 2030-2100 7270 MOS 300 kW / 205 deg WeAf French, ex 11980 2100-2130 7270 MOS 300 kW / 210 deg WeAf English, ex 11980 2030-2100 9780 MEY 250 kW / 328 deg WeAf Yoruba, ex 11750 2200-2230 12040 SDA 100 kW / 255 deg SEAs Sundanese M/W/F/S x 9720 TRM 2200-2230 12040 SDA 100 kW / 255 deg SEAs English T/T/Sun, ex 9720 TRM 2230-2300 12040 SDA 100 kW / 255 deg SEAs Javanese, ex 9720 TRM 2200-2300 11870 SDA 100 kW / 345 deg EaAs Chinese, ex 15685 2200-2300 11955 SDA 100 kW / 255 deg SEAs Indonesian, ex 11800 2300-2400 15685 SDA 100 kW / 330 deg EaAs Chinese, ex 17520 ??????????? ?? Observer ? 10:52 AM (via DXLD) ** U S A. 580, Nov 9 at 1256 UT, with WIBW KS nulled as much as possible, something else in English with ads, one mentioning Montrose, i.e. KUBC in SW CO, 5/1 kW U2, 500 watt PSRA. Night pattern goes slightly east of north with very minor lobe thisaway; day pattern ND. Official November sunrise is not until 1345 UT! (Dec: 1415) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. [750] WSB reporter gets new voice from old tapes (via WSB promo) For more info: (via Larry Russell, MARE Tipsheet 9 Nov via DXLD) ** U S A. WTLN VS CUBA --- 950, WTLN, Orlando, FL --- WTLN was granted an STA as long ago as 28th July 2010 to use 10 kW nights compared to the authorised 5 kW to combat interference from CMBD, La Habana, Cuba. WTLN asserted that the Cuban station is using an unauthorised non-directional 10 kW antenna which is interfering with WTLN’s signal. The station has successfully applied for an extension every six months since. The STA has been renewed again, and the current extension expires on 27th April 2019 (Medium Wave News 64/06, November 2018 via DXLD) ** U S A. Night Lights --- Late last night while a friend and I were driving home from a midnight meal at Canters Deli, I noticed next to the 10 freeway just below downtown L.A., the former KGFJ 1230 horizontal "hammock" style long wire antenna which is still atop that building, is all decked out in multi colored Christmas lights. The support poles and guy wires form Christmas trees. Quite an impressive sight. Hope I can get back up that way for some photos. Currently KYPA 1230 diplexes from the 1580 tower site. ms Sent from my iPod (Mike Sanburn, Nov 11, IRCA via DXLD) ** U S A. Silent stations update 1410, KQV, Pittsburgh, PA – silent 31st December 2017, has an STA to remain silent for 180 days from 18th July 2018; now has a Construction Permit granted on 6th June 2018 for new owners to relocate to the WEDO site and reduce nighttime power from 5 kW to 75 W. The CP has a 36-month expiry. The owners have also applied on 2nd October to change the licence type from “Commercial” to “non-commercial educational”. 1500, WGHT, Pompton Lakes, NY – silent 15th December 2017, STA to remain silent for 180 days from 16th February 2018 was extended on 12th September 2018 citing continuing financial difficulties; licence will expire automatically if no broadcast is made by 16th December 2018. 1510, WMEX, Boston, MA - WMEX’s application made on 15th June 2018, for a permanent licence, remaining 100 W at night and just 10 kW daytime, 2 kW critical hours has been granted on 10th October 2018 by the FCC and a construction permit issued. All three operations would continue to be from a non-directional antenna, at the Quincy site diplexing with WBIX. 1540, WDCD, Albany, NY – silent 16th October 2017. Silent under various Special Temporary Authorities, the licensee (DJRA Broadcasting LLC) surrendered the licence to the FCC on 28th September. 1700, WRCR, Ramapo, NY – silent 7th August 2017 having lost its transmitter site. On 27th July WRCR applied to go silent again, and was granted an STA to remain silent for 180 days from 10th August 2018. WRCR’s licence will expire automatically if no broadcast is made by 28th July 2019. All information in the above articles was sourced from the FCC (Medium Wave News 64/06, November 2018 via DXLD) ** U S A. 1630/(mono), KCJJ, IA, Iowa City, contemporary pop/rock and many ‘Mighty KCJJ’ and ‘Mighty 1630 KCJJ’ IDs. I am told someone at this station is very hostile to AM$ and has turned off the exciter, however, tonight the stereo pilot WAS flickering – an artifact or is someone else on 1630 in Stereo? Reception was pretty cruddy tonight. 33+4+43, 0415-0425 6/Nov, SoDiRa +ANC4 +randomwire --Zichi MI 1640/AM$, WSJP, WI, Sussex (Milwaukee), many mentions of “Relevant Radio” and ads for Wisconsin car dealer and many many ‘Catholic’ Products and into Catholic talk. No actual ID, but this fits. 44+4+44 well on top of anything else, with a solid stereo pilot lighting, 0230-0245 6/Nov, SoDiRa +ANC4 +randomwire --Zichi MI 1660, WBCN, NC, Charlotte, “94.7 Smoke” non-ID at 0655 and rock music -- this must be the music station I’ve been hearing, but they FINALLY popped up during something identifiable! I’m also now sure that KQWB in ND is Fox Sports Radio but I’ve not heard anything like “Bison 1660” which is what they supposedly use as an ID but instead just lots of ‘Fox Sports Radio’ non-IDs from them. They DO advertize that they use AM$ as do Kalamazoo but apparently this station does not. Go figure. In and out for an hour, with KQWB mostly dominant. WBCN was Mostly 33542 but occasionally faded up to 44544 like it did briefly at 0655. 0615-0700 8/Nov SDRplay +SDRuno +randomwire (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See CANADA, X-band ** U S A. 1710 kHz, USA, Jersey City, New Jersey, 10 watts, WQFG689 and one other, Nov 5, 0435 - Once the power was restored after a 24 hour outage, I became aware of 2 TIS stations, about equal in strength. The initial prominent one was a long loop from Hudson County, Office of Emergency Management. There are apparently 5 transmitters licensed, each 10 watts. The other cochannel was a slightly muffly sounding male speaker, with more highway information, which should be the Pennsylvania Turnpike TIS. An FCC search, though, didn't come up with any other TIS station besides the first one. The IRCA TIS list from 2018, does have others. K...760 is listed for the PA station. I was unable to find out anything else about this second station. Listening carefully, though, I'm still hearing mentions of New Jersey and highway advisory, cochannel by the female voice, which I'm sure is the WQFG689 station. Perhaps one or more of the 5 stations listed under that ID is carrying another program? There is mention of www.???.org (I think). Listening again, it's www.511NJ.org. This frequency bothered me, so I listened again at 2250 the next afternoon, and there they were again. With help of Bruce Conti who had laid a south directed wire, I could now work out who the 2 stations were: The New Jersey station, again (mostly dominant), with the slightly muffly male speaker, and the female speaker, occasionally fading up, being the National Parks Service TIS station at the Springfield Armory National Historic Site in Springfield, Mass. Glad to have that mystery solved! (Walt Salmaniw, P.E.I. DX-pedition, IRCA via DXLD) ** U S A. 87.9, Bay City MI LPFM relay; 11:12-11:37 AM EST, 11/4; Traditional & pop Xmas tunes & “Merry Xmas” spot; call ID sounded like “WLAP” -- doubt that. +++ 1:35-2:07 PM EST, 11/6; Pop, novelty & traditional Xmas tunes, including a hard version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; Pet Smart ad; “106.7 (sounded like) KMTI”. QRM north of Freeland with cool jazz & EZL that went off abruptly at 2:07PM (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, GMC Car Radio for FMBC logs, ----- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time & without the aid of a computer! -----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) He hears lots of piracy there on 87.9 (gh) ** U S A. 96.3 MHz, FLORIDA, WPCQ-LP, Clearwater. Heading to just north of downtown St. Petersburg mid-morning November 7, 2018, so decided to check the status of LPFM's in the southern half of the county. Upon departure, I noticed that this one is back to airing the roughly 10 minute loop of safety tips and PSAs after many weeks of just an open carrier. No doubt fixed after I sent an email to my County Commissioner, who in turn confirmed she forwarded it to the appropriate ones at the facility at US-19 at Drew Street. 96.3 MHz, FLORIDA, WBPU-LP, St. Petersburg. This one begins to fade in just north of Park Blvd./Gandy Blvd. when southbound on US-19, as WPCQ-LP drops out with their rather puny signal. Slogan is "Black Power 93.3" with gangsta rap and hip-hop (FCC no-no words bleeped). Promo for the Marcus Garvey Cruise to the Cayman Islands and Honduras, departing Miami (that should be a blast), sponsored by the African Socialists International. Website blackpower96.org has a feature on how their antenna is (has?) gone from 45 to 70 feet. Appears to be a legitimate upgrade per the second entry on the FCC's LPFM dB showing a height (in meters) change. Operated by the African People's Education & Defense Fund. 96.7 MHz, FLORIDA, WMTB-LP, St. Petersburg. Singing jingle "M-T-B Music Tampa Bay" and playing apparently all local artists, mostly folk and Blues-style vocals. Legal ID top of hour and mention of studios on 1st Avenue North at The Zoo Studios (apparently a recording studio venue) as detailed on their musictampabay.com site. 99.1 MHz, FLORIDA WUJM-LP, St. Petersburg. Black gospel soul, later with nice-sounding Caribe accented female hosting Old School reggae (Bob Marley) alternating with Christmas soca vocals, "99 Jamz The Burg" (as in St. Petersburg) slogan. Noted airing a blatant commercial for Florida Brakes & Tires, an LPFM violation. Best of the noted LPFM signals from St. Petersburg, making it with fringe reception back to East Bay Drive, Largo. 100.1, WUBP-LP, St. Petersburg. No trace of this one, listed as active and licensed to the All African People's Development & Empowerment Project at a mere 10 watts. Notice the similarity in ownership name as well as inverted call letters with 96.3 WPBU-LP, highly suspicious at that. Only a strong WZJZ, Port Charlotte with Hot AC heard on the channel. 102.1 MHz, FLORIDA, WPBW-LP, St. Petersburg. The mere 15 watter still spewing away with pointless Catholic EWTN talk and no listeners (just one DXer). Florida Low Power Radio Stations: https://sites.google.com/site/floridadxn/florida-low-power-radio-stations (Terry Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Journalism’s bad reflection: CJR looks closely at newsroom diversity in 10 communities, from Hawaii to Indiana By The Editors, CJR Fall 2018 --- Illustrator: Álvaro Domínguez What does it mean that most newsrooms in America don’t reflect the diversity of the communities they cover? The answer can’t be good. CJR visited 10 newsrooms across the country where the mismatch between the makeup of the staff and the demographics of the coverage area seems particularly notable. What we found is both depressingly predictable—lots of talk about job pipelines and a lack of qualified candidates—and unusually candid. Editors admitted that they had, frankly, failed. The fact that the conversations about diversity are the same ones that the industry has been having for decades (really since the report of the Kerner Commission a half-century ago), shows how little progress has been made in the United States, even as the demographics of the country have changed profoundly. It is true that journalism’s failure is not unlike that of other institutions, from corporate America to college campuses to Congress, but that is as much an excuse as an observation. For the profiles that follow, we talked to newsroom managers, reporters, and residents about what a lack of diversity means to readers and to journalism itself. And, critically, we look at what now has to happen to fix the problem. Honolulu, Hawai‘i Seattle, Washington Los Ángeles, California Baltimore, Maryland Queens, New York Denver, Colorado South Bend, Indiana Houston, Texas Orlando, Florida Jackson, Mississippi [each linked separately from:] https://www.cjr.org/special_report/10-newsrooms-racial-disparity.php/ (Columbia Journalism Review via Indiana Radio Watch via John H Carver, Jr, mid-north IN, DXLD) ** UZBEKISTAN [and non]. Reception of BVBroadcasting via Tashkent on Nov 11: 1130-1200 15640*TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to EaAs English Sun, good signal * co-ch 15640 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Pashto R.Free Afghanistan https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-bvbroadcasting-via.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UZBEKISTAN. Various clandestines via Tashkent: v KOREA NORTH [non] ** VATICAN [and non] B18 schedule for Vatican Radio in English 1130-1200 Fri ME 15595-smg 17590-smg (Mass) 1630-1700 Daily Af 11625-mdc 13830-smg 1715-1730 Daily ME 7230-smg 2000-2030 Daily Af 6010-smg 7365-smg (HFCC via Nov BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Is that all? (gh, DXLD) Very good signal of Vatican Radio liturgy in Russian, Nov.11: 0930-1020 15595 SMG 250 kW / 040 deg to EaEu Russian 2nd and 4th Sun 0930-1020 17590 SMG 250 kW / 072 deg to CeAs Russian 2nd/4th Sun Winter B-18 frequency changes of Vatican Radio: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/very-good-signal-of-vatican-radio.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 1230-1245 NF 9695 GB 250 kW / 168 deg CeAm Spanish, ex 9610 1230-1315 NF 6115 TIN 250 kW / 329 deg EaAs Chinese Mass Sat, ex 11875 PUG 1230-1300 NF 6145 PHT 250 kW / 332 deg FERu Russian, ex 7330 1230-1300 NF 7435 TIN 250 kW / 332 deg FERu Russian, ex 9695 1530-1600 NF 11620 SMG 250 kW / 115 deg EaAf Amharic, ex 11615 1530-1600 NF 13830 SMG 250 kW / 139 deg EaAf Amharic, ex 13765 1600-1620 NF 6185 SMG 250 kW / 040 deg CeAs Armenian, ex 9640 1620-1640 NF 6185 SMG 250 kW / 040 deg EaEu Russian, ex 9640 1700-1720 NF 6185 SMG 100 kW / 026 deg EaEu Belarussian, ex 9640 1740-1800 NF 6185 SMG 100 kW / 054 deg EaEu Ukrainian, ex 9640 1600-1615 NF 13830 SMG 250 kW / 150 deg EaAf Swahili Sat, ex 13765 1615-1630 NF 13830 SMG 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Somali Sat, ex 13765 1600-1630 NF 13830 SMG 250 kW / 150 deg EaAf Swahili Sun-Fri, ex 13765 1630-1700 NF 13830 SMG 250 kW / 150 deg EaAf English, ex 13765 1630-1700 NF 7230 SMG 100 kW / 114 deg N/ME Arabic, ex 11935 1700-1715 NF 7230 SMG 100 kW / 114 deg N/ME French, ex 9700 1715-1730 NF 7230 SMG 100 kW / 114 deg N/ME English, ex 9700 1700-1730 NF 9705 SMG 250 kW / 165 deg ECAf French, ex 13765 1730-1800 NF 9705 SMG 250 kW / 114 deg N/ME Tigrinya, ex 9660 1800-1830 NF 9705 SMG 250 kW / 165 deg SoAf Portuguese, ex 9660 1940-2000 NF 6010 SMG 250 kW / 185 deg CeAf Rosary, ex 7365 1940-2000 NF 7235 SMG 100 kW / 114 deg N/ME Rosary, ex 9700 1940-2000 NF 7365 SMG 250 kW / 206 deg WeAf Rosary, ex 9665 2000-2030 NF 6010 SMG 250 kW / 185 deg WCAf English, ex 7365 2000-2030 NF 7365 SMG 250 kW / 206 deg WeAf English, ex 9660 2030-2100 NF 6010 SMG 250 kW / 185 deg WCAf French, ex 7365 2030-2100 NF 7365 SMG 250 kW / 206 deg WeAf French, ex 9660 2100-2130 NF 7365 SMG 100 kW / 234 deg NWAf Portuguese, ex 9660 2200-2230 NF 6185 SMG 250 kW / 060 deg EaAs Chinese, ex 6090 PUG 2200-2230 NF 9580 TIN 250 kW / 329 deg EaAs Chinese, ex 9600 2315-2400 NF 9580 TIN 250 kW / 280 deg SEAs Vietnamese, ex 9600 PUG ??????????? ?? Observer ? 11:06 AM (via DXLD) ** VATICAN. 12075, Nov 9 at 1418, talk with heavy echo, long/short path apparently, from R. Azadi (Free Afghanistan), IBB service 250 kW, 80 degrees via SMG site, violating Separation of Church & State (let alone Mosque). Long path is 3.55 X farther than short path. Latest Aoki/NDXC shows further 12075 usage: 1430 switch to R. Ashna via Kuwait; but latest HFCC says Vatican continues to 1500, then switch to Thailand. Which is it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM [non]. 9930, T8WH, Medorn [PALAU]. The Que Me Radio program in Vietnamese on Fridays is scheduled here at 1200-1230, but not this week! Instead, there was some fast-talking American preacher woman in full flight. Good signal, 5/10 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Kenwood R5000, Tecsun PL-680, Horizontal Sky Loop, Double Bazooka antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) Cancelled clandestine broadcasts via Alyx & Yeyi in winter B-18 schedule: Suab Xaa Moo Zoo 1130-1200 on 7530 TSH 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Hmong Daily Radio Que Me 1200-1230 on 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg to EaAs Vietnamese Fri https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-denge-welat-via-alyx-yeyi.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 8-9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIRGIN ISLANDS US. 1090, WUVI, Charlotte Amalie – granted STA, D1 225, has been off post-Irma. (NRC DX News 85/20) 1620, WDHP Frederiksted now silent. (IRCA’s DX Monitor 56/04) (via Medium Wave News 64/06, November 2018 via DXLD) ** YEMEN [non]. See SAUDI ARABIA ** ZAMBIA. No signal of Voice of Hope Africa on B-18 frequencies: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/no-signal-of-voice-of-hope-africa-on-b.html (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 0500-0800 on 9680 LUV 100 kW / 000 deg to SoAf English Mon-Fri tx#1 0500-0800 on 11680 LUV 100 kW / 315 deg to WeAf English Mon-Fri tx#2 1600-1900 on 4965 LUV 100 kW / 000 deg to SoAf English Mon-Fri tx#1 1600-1900 on 6065 LUV 100 kW / 315 deg to WeAf English Mon-Fri tx#2 1200-1700 on 9680 LUV 100 kW / 000 deg to SoAf English Sat/Sun tx#1 1200-1700 on 13680 LUV 100 kW / 315 deg to WeAf English Sat/Sun tx#2 1700-1730 on 9680 LUV 100 kW / 000 deg to SoAf English Sunday tx#1 1700-1730 on 13680 LUV 100 kW / 315 deg to WeAf English Sunday tx#2 ??????????? ?? Observer ? 10:55 AM Nov 12 (via DXLD) However: 4965, Voice of Hope Africa, Lusaka, 1850-1857, 12-11, English, religious comments. Very weak. 15311. (Méndez) 5915, Zambia NBC, Radio 1, 1845-1855, 13-11, Vernacular comments. Very weak. 14221. (Méndez) 11680, Voice of Hope Africa, Lusaka, 0718-0735, 14-11, religious songs and comments in English. 35433 (Manuel Méndez, Spain, WOR iog via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, Nov 9 at 1241-1253, after first hearing audio from always checked first, 774 JAPAN, q.v.: 567-NW, 594-NW, 603-NW, 612-NW, 693-NW, 738-NW, 747-NW, 828-NW, 873- NW, 882(2), 936-NW, 945-NW, 1008-NW(2), 1017, 1044-NW, 1098-NW(2), 1134-NW, 1548-WSW, 1566-NW. By the time I`ve finished, 774 has faded down quite. Local sunrise: 1303 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 880, Nov 9 at 1304 UT, with KRVN nulled, seems WSW/ENE, opening Spanish hyper wake-up DJ show. 406 area code mentioned, I thought, but that`s Montana with an English 880. More likely WIJR Highland IL near St Louis MO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 3215even USA, WWCR Nashville TN, totally covered by high speed RTTY 800 Hertz distance apart signals on centered 3214.600 and 3215.400 kHz at 0540 UT. 3185even USA, Totally covered by high speed UTE. Maybe carrier of WWRB (?) scheduled earlier on night? UTE centered at 3184.750 and 3185.250 kHz, 500 Hertz apart (Wolfgang Bueschel, short morning log Nov 9th, in Germany, Belgium and Doha Qatar remotes, [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz], wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WWRB not really active on 3185 (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. 4869.904, Nov 9 at 1315, very poor carrier, but off- frequency attention-getting, since that`s where RRI Wamena, INDONESIA used to be, as last reported February 23, 2017 by Ron Howard, DXLD 17 -09. Ron found it missing after that but Atsunori Ishida last logged it on April 3, 2017: http://web.archive.org/web/20170726001348/http://rri.jpn.org:80/dat/html/2017/2017-04.html Other Indos have surprisingly reactivated lately; stranger things have happened. AIR Kingsway had been on the + side of 4870 but currently not on before 1330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See INDIA UNIDENTIFIED. 4869.904, Nov 11 at 1348, JBA carrier again today on the off-frequency previously home of RRI Wamena; really too late after sunrise here. So far have not heard from anyone closer or via remote checking this out (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7600-USB, Nov 9 at 0711, 2-way in colloquial Spanish. I won`t call these intruders, rather all the broadcasters in the 7 MHz fixed band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. EGYPT, Mystery Egyptian Music Station on 9400/9600 kHz, Nov 6 0815-0821 on 9400 unknown tx / unknown to ????, good signal 0930-0941 on 9600 unknown tx / unknown to ????, good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-mystery-egyptian-music.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 3-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Mystery Egyptian Music Station on 9550 kHz on Nov.7: 0920-0921 on 9550 unknown tx / unknown to ????, good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-mystery-egyptian-music_8.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) EGYPT. Mystery Egyptian Music Station on 9600/9550 Nov.9 0815-0820 on 9600 unknown tx / unknown to ????, good signal 1040-1045 on 9550 unknown tx / unknown to ????, good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-mystery-egyptian-music_9.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 8-9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Mystery Egyptian Music Station on 9600 kHz on Nov.10 0930-0940 on 9600 unknown tx / unknown to ????, good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-mystery-egyptian-music_10.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov. 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Reception of Mystery Egyptian Music Station on 9550 kHz on Nov 11: 0900-0910 9550 unknown tx / unknown to ????, good signal, but distorted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c8X7XSZ9rI&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcjf1mLClUY&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanóv, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11415-USB, Nov 9 at 1350-1401+, net of Indonesian stations, some of them melodic, believed to be pirate QSOs. One strong enough, most of the others quite weak. Previously one could detect a number of similar nets at 5 kHz steps in the 11.4`s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 12121.17-USB, Nov 12 at 1417, 2-way in colloquial Spanish with some CODAR QRM, but not the usual big RTTY around here. During QSO at 1420, an automatic Morse code ID(?) fires, like one hears on VHF repeaters! Not copied and not recorded (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15330-USB, Nov 6 at 1454, colloquial Spanish 2-way INTRUDERS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1956: Hello Glenn, Here is another donation for your longtime works-of-excellence for the radio DXing Community, esp. WOR & DXLD. Best 73 - (Steve - N6NKS McGreevy with two contributions via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) One may also contribute by MO or cheque in US funds on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 DX Listening Digest is a very well respected source of information about HF (and MF, LF and VHF) matters for the "DX hobbyist" community, but I also find it useful for information professionally from time to time: Link: http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt (Ben Dawson, Hatfield-Dawson, WA) Hi Glenn, Name is Robert. F. Butterfield. Location is Columbia, MD which is between Baltimore and Washington DC along I95. You may remember me from the "old days" as I was a column editor for SPEEDX beginning in year one of their existence, and I co-wrote with Doug Snyder SPEEDX's A Guide to Soviet Broadcasting and edited the SPEEDX Guide to Utilities. I grew up and lived in Massachusetts, then New Jersey in the early 80's and Maryland from 1986 on. I just recently retired from working for the U.S. Government (mostly DoD) after 35 years of civilian service. I was a Supv. Security Specialist the majority of my career. My last position was as the Chief, Security Division/Command Security Manager, G-2, of the U.S. Army Cyber Command, a 3-star Command. I have a little more free time now and thus am getting more time to DX (though I still have a 15 1/2 year old high school daughter at home who plays sports year round). My wife, originally from Japan, is an attorney. We visit Japan each year, and sometimes I can DX there as well. I found WOR via the web/Hard Core DX, but also know you from before and via your SW WOR broadcasts. Over the years I have kept up with the hobby though just in the background as my job requirements involved travel around the States and overseas. Want to join the WOR group to get up-to-the-minute DX info. I am updating my main longwire antenna now as the old one has seen many winters. Hope everything is going well at your end. Thank you for keeping the hobby alive. 73 (Bob Butterfield) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ Coverage maps by frequency The pattern reference maps on the site http://radio-timetraveller.blogspot.com/ have been a great source of information. However, lately, the pages show up with a mask that says FOR DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES ONLY. Has anyone else noticed this? Do you know of any other sources of maps that show all the stations on each frequency? The NRC pattern book is great, but I'm looking for something digital, for the classes I'm teaching. Any thoughts are welcome! Cheers! (Mark Durenberger, MN, Nov 9, nrc-am gg via DXLD) The fault is with Google, which changed its policies a month or so and increased the fees it charges websites for using Google Maps as part of their offerings. This has affected a lot of radio-related sites that use maps, including FCCdata.org. So far, nobody seems to have many good solutions, and it's reduced the resources available to all of us. s (Scott Fybush, NY, ibid.) The files for the maps are zip files. They are difficult or impossible to use on many tablets and cell phones. I found a website that has them. http://www.nf8m.com/nf8m/us-medium-wave-pattern-references/day-patterns/ http://www.nf8m.com/nf8m/us-medium-wave-pattern-references/critical-hours-patterns/ http://www.nf8m.com/nf8m/us-medium-wave-pattern-references/night-patterns/ Sent from my iPad (Dennis Gibson, 9 Nov, IRCA via DXLD) Hi Mark, I've noticed it too. I think it's because the Google API that sites like this one used, which used to be free, is now being charged for, and if you don't pay the fee, you get that error. Either that, or the Google API that's being used is being deprecated. I don't know of any other places that show pattern maps though; sorry! There was one other site I used for grayline maps, but that one had to switch to another mapping software (which was inferior, sad to say) for the same reason I think. For grayline maps, I ended up using the radio maps here: https://www.dxmaps.com/spots/mapg.php I also found another API that is still free. Don't know anything about it, but I have seen talk of people switching to that who don't want to pay the extortio-- I mean, fee, to Google: https://leafletjs.com/ Best regards, (Mark Pettifor, Goshen, IN, ibid.) SWDX Contest There is a very cool SWDX contest coming up that runs throughout the month of December. It is free and open to all SWDXers. They send you a very nice framable certificate. I participated last year and had a blast! http://www.topdx-radioclub.com (John Cooper, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ PEI DXpedition website Info from Bruce Conti on NRC Facebook page: https://www.bamlog.com/pedx2018.htm The 2018 Prince Edward Island DX'pedition website is up and running, so far just some of my logbook entries for a test run; Updates as time allows. Transatlantic DX is in by 3:00 p.m. Atlantic time, so we're all busy at our receivers well before dark (Mark Connelly, Nov 6, nrc-am gg via DXLD) Walt Salmaniw, Listening Waters DXpedition, Murray Harbour North, PEI, 3–10 Nov 2018 [His SW logs are spread thruout this issue] Here are some loggings from the 2018 edition of the Listening Waters DXpedition that historically has occurred between the last week of October and the first week of November, and organized expertly by local DXer, Brent Taylor, and Nashua, NH DXer and expert (see his fantastic website, BamLog), Bruce Conti. Although the emphasis is on MW DX, I still spent some time on the Shortwaves. We battled inclement weather, a 24 hour power outage (robbing us of, perhaps the best day for DX), and major solar disturbances. Still, there’s always interesting DX to be had. I brought along only a single Asus laptop, of modest means (i5 processor, 4 GB RAM), a Perseus SDR and an Elad FDM S-2 SDR. Antennae included a 80 deg BOG of 1000’ + length, a similar length 40 deg BOG, a 500’ N/S mini Beverage, and a large diameter corner fed loop at about 80 deg/260 deg. Notice my emphasis was DRM, as there’s virtually nothing to be had from the west coast, anymore. I brought the Elad this year, as it really shone last year decoding signals that my Perseus DReaM software could not. For some reason, the same arrangement this year yielded exactly the opposite effect! Go figure!!! 73, (Walt Salmaniw (enroute home via Toronto), WOR iog via DXLD) LANGUAGE LESSONS See BRAZIL: comesando ++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC See RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM - caradios +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See FRANCE; GERMANY; NORWAY! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See MEXICO ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See ERITREA; FRANCE; INDIA; KUWAIT; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ROMANIA; UK; USA: VOA, WINB; DX-PEDITIONS; RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ High-frequency traders flirt with high-frequency spectrum News article https://www.policytracker.com/high-frequency-traders-flirt-with-high-frequency-spectrum/ The ongoing hunt for low latency communications between financial exchanges has generated renewed interest in the technology used for shortwave broadcasting – but using the spectrum in this way appears to breach of US regulations. Nov 08, 2018 by Toby Youell Research Analyst - Location: USA Software developers across the world have long competed to build algorithms whose purpose is to outwit each other at making money from tiny fluctuations in asset prices. Individual algorithms can gain a major advantage over competitors if they receive information about prices at a distant financial exchange before anyone else. This is a very murky subject. There may even be some activities of questionable legality involved Over the last few years, financial institutions have spent enormous amounts of money building networks that can bring information from one financial exchange to another milliseconds faster than competing networks. We previously reported on the race to build the lowest latency microwave network between London and Frankfurt. Now an engineer in the US has stumbled upon the use of trans-Atlantic shortwave radio by high-frequency traders. https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/ As with the use of microwave, the rationale is that radio travels twice as fast through the air than light travels through fibre-optic cables. There are problems: shortwave is relatively indirect, as information bounces off the stratosphere and the oceans, but these lags are compensated for by the relative sluggishness and/or unfeasibility of alternatives. Satellites orbit at much higher altitudes and a microwave tower with line of sight vision across the Atlantic would have to be 620 miles high, according to Jason England of TD Bank. The links are also unreliable, given the constantly changing propagation conditions provided by the upper atmosphere. It is also possible that transmissions can be intercepted by a competitor – after all, this is a technology designed for broadcasting. However, according to England, this can easily be overcome by encrypting the data, even with the low (potentially 2 Kbps) data rates. There is no HFT shortwave licence In addition to the technical limitations, the regulatory environment in the US, as it presently stands, also appears to cause problems for shortwave-based high-frequency traders: the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) does not appear to offer any sort of spectrum authorization product for this service. The FCC’s rules do allow for long distance communications in the 2–25 MHz range under Section 90.266, says communications lawyer John Joseph McVeigh. But these links are only authorized as a standby for domestic services or to “support operations which are highly important to the national interest and where other means of telecommunication are unavailable”. “I have a hard time fitting the contemplated use under either of the above criteria,” McVeigh told PolicyTracker. One provision of the FCC’s rules used to authorize International Fixed Public Radiocommunication Services (IFPRS), points out Ben Dawson, a radio engineering consultant. But this was abolished in 2010 on the grounds that that Service was “outmoded” and the three licensees with IFPRS licences had ceased operation. The “experimental” workaround According to several commentators, most high-frequency traders overcome the regulatory vacuum by obtaining experimental licences. For example, the SVP and General Counsel at Virtu Networks, a high-frequency trading (HFT) firm, is the designated contact https://apps.fcc.gov/coresWeb/searchDetail.do?frn=0024046823 for a Delaware-registered shell company that has an experimental licence for shortwave communications from several sites. https://apps.fcc.gov/els/GetAtt.html?id=210051&x= The technical details of the sites have been kept confidential due to the “highly competitive” market, but the authorized power at these sites would be useful for communications from Chicago and New York to Europe and potentially even Asian markets (via its site at Anchorage, Alaska). https://apps.fcc.gov/els/GetAtt.html?id=206152&x= The problem with experimental licences is that they are not allowed to be used for commercial operations on a regular, sustained basis. FCC rules limit the scope of such operations to experimental and developmental ones, according to McVeigh. Virtu Networks declined to speak to PolicyTracker. The DRM workaround Emcor Securities, a New York-based brokerage firm, appears to have tried a different approach. Its subsidiary, Turms Tech, has obtained a construction permit for a tower for international broadcasting in New Jersey. https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/ib/forms/reports/swr031b.hts? q_set=V_SITE_ANTENNA_FREQ.file_numberC/File+Number/%3D/IHFC/P2017041700002&prepare=&column=V_SITE_ANTENNA_FREQ.file_numberC/File+Number According to the application for that permit, the tower will eventually provide “broadcast of financial, economic news and data through the distribution of programs generally prepared on the basis of requests by clients”. https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/104112444521024/TURMS%20TECH%20-%20FCC%20Form309%2004-11-2017.pdf Emcor Securities declined to speak to PolicyTracker. Interestingly, the application says it will use DRM, the ITU-recognised digital radio standard for shortwave. The technology is only used by a handful of stations worldwide – and is not used by mainland US shortwave broadcasters at all – but in principle, it has a capacity of 71 Kbps. DRM provides four channels that are designed for digitized voice and/or programming information, but according to Ruxandra Obreja, chair of the DRM Consortium, there is nothing to prevent all the channels being used for data. The FCC’s rules currently provide specific provisions for ancillary data in medium wave AM (which is used for smart grids) and VHF FM services, but no equivalent yet exists for shortwave. McVeigh said he could imagine an international broadcasting licence being granted where “the ‘ancillary’ data communications is the tail that wags the dog”. But according to McVeigh, HFT is unlikely to be permitted under the quite restrictive conditions attached to broadcasting licences in higher bands. Without a rule-change or a waiver, he does not see how a station licensed only for broadcast service could legally engage only in the transmission of, for example, encrypted data available only to people or organizations that subscribe to the service and thereby obtain decryption keys. A murky subject PolicyTracker understands that some trading firms have been looking at international shortwave for at least the last four years. But many more, according to England, still need to understand this technology as it may require them to adjust their trading operations. Indeed, the engineer who found the shortwave towers, Bob Van Valzah, has now been recruited to work for a trading firm. The FCC might also need to adopt a policy that will allow high-frequency traders to use shortwave under appropriate conditions. Until then, these firms and their shell companies will likely continue to shadow box in a legal grey zone. “This is a very murky subject”, said Dawson. “There may even be some activities of questionable legality involved.”• Related Content Use of fixed links for high frequency trading leads to accusations of spectrum hoarding https://www.policytracker.com/use-of-fixed-links-for-high-frequency-trading-leads-to-accusations-of-spectrum-hoarding/ (via Ben Dawson, WA, DXLD) CELL ADVICE I use rechargeables in all of my collection of portables. For AA cells, I use ENLOOPS now from Panasonic, formerly from Sanyo. I buy from reputable sellers since there are many knock offs of those excellent cells. The newest ones hold most of their charge for 7 years in my radio collection so all are ready to pick up and operate anytime I like. Of course if used regularly, they only have 2,000 mAhr for the ones intended for lower currant draws. For radios using C or D cells, I have been using Rayovac brand slow self discharge cells. They are not full capacity, each are only 3,000 mAhr. but they hold on the self a year or so even with some use. They are fairly cheap, and often when I check the cells before recharging, one or two has a much lower voltage. I had been buying direct from Rayovac to get fresh cells of the same mfg dates, but Rayovac has recently stopped selling direct. Modern Alkalines do have long shelf lives now, but I still don't trust they will never leak if forgotten in a radio. For some one with only a few portables, buying a quality charger and batteries is fairly expensive. Luckily modern power supplies for Sangean and C Crane radios are pretty quiet. Likely a set of C or D cells could last through DX season if you only used them for DXing sessions or power outages. I like the idea of the newer Li cells some recent radios use. For a radio collection using AA cells, it may have been cheaper to buy the Eveready Li in large packs at Walmart and use them up as long as they last in occasionally used radios. I have my kids save those when too weak for Photo use, and they operate LED lights and analog radios for many more hours. I would like suggestions for a high quality brand of slow self discharge, full capacity C and D cells for my favorite radios, even though they are quite expensive. NiMH cells which are not self slow self discharge would seldom if ever be run down by radio listening by me. C cells have 5-6 Ahr and D cells with 10-12 Ahr are not unusual. The MAHA brand should be good. If I used a particular radio regularly, I would consider NiCD cells. They have about half the capacity. Just wait until they are weak to recharge them. I still have a set I bought from C Crane for a C Crane radio which died just out of warrantee. They do need to be recharged about twice a year if not used, and must be nearly 20 years old. A slightly older set of 4 D cells had one cell die, so those are in a 3 cell Maglite I converted to a LED bulb. I top off my rechargeables in July before Hurricane season and around Christmas before we are likely to have big snow storms. OK, this is probably way more than any one wanted to know. I do hope some find a little useful info here (FARMERIK, Nov 7, ABDX yg via DXLD) Your Tesla Can Go Zero to 60 in 2.5 Seconds But Can’t Get AM Radio Electric-powered motors interfere with AM reception, prompting some car makers to drop the dashboard option; ‘I was so mad I told them to take the car back’ By Chester Dawson – for The Wall Street Journal - Nov. 6, 2018 https://www.wsj.com/articles/your-tesla-can-go-zero-to-60-in-2 -5-seconds-but-cant-get-am-radio-1541523098?tesla=y Cars and AM radio go back a long way, but there’s a rough road ahead for the old travel buddies. The same types of electric-powered motors that propel Teslas past 150 mph and the Chevy Bolt as far as 238 miles on a charge, are a total buzz kill for AM reception. Instead of sports, oldies or news, it’s more like all-static, all-the-time radio. As auto makers race headlong into an electrified future, AM radios are getting kicked to the curb, joining cassette decks, eight-track players and ashtrays. Daniel Rich is a fan of both San Francisco’s KNBR-AM 680 and his Chevy Bolt. That means his commute isn’t as easygoing as it used to be. “All my other cars over the years could receive that station just fine, despite the distance,” the 58-year-old eye surgeon said. “Not the Bolt.” A General Motors Co. spokeswoman said GM was aware of the issue in the Bolt and has “taken steps,” but declined to say exactly what they are. The problem, experts said, is that electric-vehicle motors generate electromagnetic frequencies on the same wavelength as AM radio signals. That creates the buzzing and signal fading from electromagnetic interference. “You get two signals that literally collide into each other and cancel each other out before the antenna even receives the signal,” said Brian McKay, head of engine innovation and technology at the North American operations of Continental AG. As EV motors grow more powerful, so does AM static. “The root of the problem is getting worse,” Mr. McKay said. Rather than field complaints about lousy reception, some auto makers, including BMW AG, have dropped AM radios from their electric vehicles. Honda Motor Co. no longer offers them on its hybrid electric Acura NSX sports car. Tesla Inc. has phased out AM radio from all current production models, including its Model S, which used to offer it. Instead, the company offers an internet-based radio service as well as FM radio, optional HD radio and Bluetooth connectivity for streaming from smartphones. Travis Hollman, a Dallas-area business owner, said he ordered a fully loaded Tesla when AM radios were still offered. His 2018 Model S arrived in April without one, he said: “I was so mad I told them to take the car back.” Mr. Hollman, 49, ended up keeping the car but misses tuning into local sports and conservative talk-radio stations. “They don’t want me listening to Rush Limbaugh, ” he joked. Car AM radios have been as common as windshield wipers since the 1940s. On summer road trips, AM radio has been the north star for generations of drivers crossing the U.S., an idiosyncratic sampler of local Americana and a distraction from the fatigue of long hours on the open road. Transistor radios blasted the sports, news and music of the 1960s on AM radio stations at home and on the streets, with hand-held versions nearly as ubiquitous as the smartphone is now. Today’s AM radio stations, already struggling with a decadelong loss of advertising revenue, worry about losing any more of their drive-time audience. “It’s a real challenge for the industry, and they’ve been trying to convince car manufacturers to include it” in all vehicles, said Mark Fratrik, a senior vice president and chief economist at BIA Advisory Services, a market research firm focused on broadcast media. In a sign of the times, the L.A. Kings hockey team said in September that audio for most games would switch from AM radio to internet-only radio. The biggest AM stations hold spots on internet radio services, which give drivers a way to hear favorite stations, even far from home. Smaller AM stations might not be able to afford the equipment needed to join the digital age. BMW said it recognized the interference problem early, in its Mini E and BMW ActiveE models. AM radio never reached the i3 model, which made its debut in 2013. The National Association of Broadcasters criticized BMW’s decision in a 2014 open letter. “AM Radio continues to serve an important role in America’s cultural landscape, and i3 drivers deserve access to this programming,” NAB President Gordon Smith wrote the head of BMW’s North American operations. HD Radio [IBOC], which uses digitally transmitted radio signals, is standard on U.S. models, a BMW spokesman said, and “many traditional AM stations in key markets are available on secondary and tertiary HD signals.” There isn’t an easy way to eliminate the electromagnetic interference that drowns out AM signals without adding too much weight, experts said. Toyota Motor Corp. is working on a solution, but “it’s a tough problem,” said Rich Sullivan, an electromagnetic compatibility expert and senior engineering manager at the auto maker’s U.S. research and development center. Mr. Sullivan pointed out that the auto industry faced a similar challenge when gas-powered cars began offering AM radio and had to deal with noise from defrosters and heater fans. Some companies that make entertainment systems for vehicles said AM radio’s time may have already passed. “Even if we do resolve it, there’s a gravitation toward internet-based radio” that is displacing traditional radio, said Balaji Iyer, vice president for connected cars at Samsung unit Harman. One web developer offers a smartphone app that, when used with a diagnostic port adapter, can activate the dormant AM radio reception in a BMW i3 EV. The German auto maker warns that may void the warranty, but using the app is easy, said Art Isabell, 74, a 2014 BMW i3 owner. He retired from Apple as a software support engineer and lives in Honolulu. Even though the AM reception in his electric vehicle is sketchy, Mr. Isabell said, he wants the option: “I rarely listen to AM radio, but I want to have it available as another potential source of information during emergency situations such as severe weather, tsunamis or North Korean missile attacks.” (via Mike Cooper, DXLD, also via Nov CIDX Messenger via DXLD) THOUSANDS STAY TUNED TO BLACK & WHITE TV https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/thousands-stay-tuned-to-black-and-white-tv-bnq82c5tg [Access may not be available without a subscription] Jack Malvern November 8 2018, 12:01am, The Times Sir David Attenborough when he was controller of BBC Two in the 1960s DAVID CAIRNS/GETTY IMAGES [caption] Sir David Attenborough introduced colour television to the nation in 1967 while he was controller of BBC Two but for more than 7,000 people the technology is modish nonsense. The latest figures issued by TV Licensing show that 51 years after the Wimbledon tennis championships became the first colour footage to be broadcast in Britain there are still 7,161 households watching on black and white sets. They are mostly based in London, where 1,768 people had a mono licence in September, but there are also strongholds in the West Midlands (431), Greater Manchester (390) and West Yorkshire (281). Co Antrim (165) and Co Tyrone (157) were also in the top ten. The licensing department said that it did not suspect people of lying about their televisions to get a cheaper licence. A black and white licence costs £50.50 — £100 less than a colour licence. This is a better deal than the 50 per cent discount for being registered blind. Jason Hill, a spokesman for TV Licensing, said that he was not suspicious because black and white televisions were available commercially until the early 2000s. “There’s no suggestion anyone is lying. We know black and white televisions are popular with enthusiasts. Not so long ago you could get portable black and white TVs,” he said. The number of black and white TVs has been in rapid decline since the turn of the century, but the rate of change has slowed as the last few thousand households retain their loyalty. In 2000 there were 212,000 such licences, falling to 93,000 in 2003 and 9,300 in 2015. Mr Hill suggested that one source of decline was that older viewers, who are the most likely to have the older TV sets, are entitled to free licences when they turn 75. Jeff Borinsky, a television and radio technology historian, said that some people did not see an advantage to watching in colour. “There are hundreds of collectors like myself who have many black and white TVs. Who wants all this new-fangled 4k Ultra HD, satellite dishes or a screen that’s bigger than your room when you can have glorious black and white TV?” In 2014, when 11,000 mono licences were issued, one man tried to buy a black and white licence because he preferred watching TV with the colour turned off. Mr J Jones asked the BBC whether he could keep his black and white licence but was told that if his receiver accepted a colour signal then he would have to pay for it. Since the analogue signal was switched off in 2012 people have only been able to apply for black and white licences if the digital receivers attached to their old TV did not record, as the recordings would be stored in colour (via Gerald T Pollard, NC, DXLD) Tsk2, there would be no way of making such an assessment in licence-free USA; or how about the next census? (gh, DXLD) New KiwiSDR in Central Ohio, USA Greeting, I've brought a new KiwiSDR online here in central Ohio, USA. It can be reached through the listing at SDR.hu or directly via http://ohioswl.com:8073 Check it out if you have the time. Several notes. For the next couple of days (12 Nov to 14 Nov), I will be completing some antenna maintenance, so there might be periods of time when it is unavailable. Also, there currently is a connection timer of 130 minutes. All 4 channels of the KiwiSDR should be available. Finally, I try to keep the RFI to a minimum by rotating the magloop antenna as needed, but there may be times the RFI wins. American Electric Power is a tough competitor. :( Enjoy! -- (Mike Bott, Nov 12, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) Shortwave and Malt enthusiasts in the Tri-Cities and the Royal City region, unite! https://www.canadianbeernews.com/2018/11/08/wellington-brewery-announces-2018-edition-of-uvb-76-imperial-stout-series/ (Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA, odxa iog via DXLD) Viz.: Wellington Brewery Announces 2018 Edition of UVB-76 Imperial Stout Series --- by CBN On November 8, 2018 At 3:00 pm Category : Beer Releases Tags : Ontario, Wellington Brewery Responses : Comments are off for this post GUELPH, ON – Wellington Brewery has announced details of a second annual set of bourbon barrel-aged imperial stouts that are due for release later this month. UVB-76 (11.9% abv) takes its name from a mysterious shortwave radio station that broadcasts a repeating buzz tone that is occasionally interrupted by a voice in Russian that includes many names in its messages. The series debuted last year with four beers released as part of Wellington’s 2017 DecemBEER promotion. For 2018, two of last year’s versions – Roman (straight bourbon barrel-aged) and Mikhail (Mexican hot chocolate style with cinnamon, cocoa, vanilla, and spicy chillies) – will be returning, and will be joined by two new variants – Nikita (Neapolitan style with vanilla beans and strawberry) and Alexei (coffee). The beers can be pre-ordered now via Wellington’s online store, and will be released at the brewery on Saturday November 24th with a launch event that will feature eight further versions available exclusively on draught. For more details, see the full event announcement. Source: Wellington Brewery mailing list Comments are closed (via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2018 Nov 12 0247 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # Product description and SWPC contact on the Web # https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/content/subscription-services # # Weekly Highlights and Forecasts # Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 05 - 11 November 2018 Solar activity was at very low levels. The solar disk remained spotless. However, spots emerged late on 11 Nov near N05E13, but remained unnumered. No Earth-directed CMEs were observed. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at moderate to high levels on 05-09 Nov, normal to moderate levels on 10 Nov and normal to high levels on 11 Nov. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to G2 (Moderate) storm levels during the period due to a pair of recurrent CH HSSs. The solar wind enviroment was enhanced on 05 Nov due to a positive polarity CH HSS. Wind speeds peaked at 610 km/s at 05/0506 UTC and the Bz component saw a maximum deflection of -8 nT at 05/0406 UTC. During this timeframe, unsettled to G2 (Moderate) geomagnetic conditions were observed. 06 Nov began a downward trend to a more nominal solar wind regime as CH HSS influence waned. Wind speeds decreased to a low of 400 km/s at 07/0611 UTC. Quiet to isolated active conditions were observed from 06-08 Nov. Mostly nominal conditions continued until early on 09 Nov with arrival of a SSBC/CIR ahead of a negative polarity CH HSS. Density reached a maximum of 18.17 particles per cubic cm at 09/1530 ahead of the CIR. Total field reached a maximum of 14 nT at 10/0600 UTC and the Bz component reached a maximum deflection of -8 nT at 10/0821 UTC. The negative polarity CH HSS arrived early on 10 Nov with wind speeds just over 600 km/s, which continued to be geoeffective through 11 Nov. Field conditions were at quiet to isolated active levels from 09-11 Nov. Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 12 November - 08 December 2018 Solar activity is expected to be at very low levels through the forecast period (12 Nov-08 Dec). No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at high levels 12 Nov-16 Nov due to CH HSS influence. An extened period of normal levels is expected 18 Nov-01 Dec due to nominal solar wind environment conditions. Mostly high levels are likely 02-08 Dec with the return of a pair of recurrent CH HSSs. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be slightly enhanced 12 Nov-14 Nov, with a chance for isolated active levels possible, due to a geoeffection, negative polarity CH HSS. Quiet to unsettled conditons are expected 15 Nov-30 Nov under a nominal solar wind regime. Unsettled conditions are likely 01 Dec-08 Dec, with a chance of a few active periods, due to a pair of recurrent CH HSSs. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2018 Nov 12 0247 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # Product description and SWPC contact on the Web # https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/content/subscription-services # # 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table # Issued 2018-11-12 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2018 Nov 12 70 12 3 2018 Nov 13 70 10 3 2018 Nov 14 70 8 3 2018 Nov 15 70 5 2 2018 Nov 16 70 5 2 2018 Nov 17 70 5 2 2018 Nov 18 70 5 2 2018 Nov 19 69 5 2 2018 Nov 20 68 5 2 2018 Nov 21 68 5 2 2018 Nov 22 68 5 3 2018 Nov 23 68 5 2 2018 Nov 24 68 5 2 2018 Nov 25 68 5 2 2018 Nov 26 68 5 2 2018 Nov 27 68 5 2 2018 Nov 28 68 5 2 2018 Nov 29 68 5 2 2018 Nov 30 68 5 2 2018 Dec 01 68 15 4 2018 Dec 02 68 30 5 2018 Dec 03 69 10 3 2018 Dec 04 69 10 3 2018 Dec 05 70 8 3 2018 Dec 06 69 8 3 2018 Dec 07 69 12 3 2018 Dec 08 70 12 3 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1956, DXLD) ###