DX LISTENING DIGEST 19-05, January 28, 2019 Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING edited by Glenn Hauser, http://www.worldofradio.com Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. Materials taken from Arctic or originating from Olle Alm and not having a commercial copyright are exempt from all restrictions of noncommercial, noncopyrighted reusage except for full credits For restrixions and searchable 2018 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html [also linx to previous years] NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1967 contents: Argentina, Australia, Bhutan, Chile, China, Congo DR, Cuba, East Turkistan, India, Indonesia, Kashmir, Korea North non, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nigeria and non=7265, North America, Oklahoma, Papua, Thailand, Turkey, UK, USA, Uzbekistan; unidentified; and the propagation outlook. SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1967, January 28-February 4, 2019 Mon 2330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 [confirmed] Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 [confirmed] Wed 0930 Unique 5045-LSB NSW Australia low-power Wed 1030 WRMI 5950 Wed 2200 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v [confirmed] Thu 0100 WRMI 7780 [confirmed] Fri 0930 Unique 5045-LSB NSW Australia low-power Sat 0730 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1200 Unique 5045-LSB NSW Australia low-power [alt weeks, Feb 2] Sat 1230 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Sat 1531 HLR 9485-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [confirmed] Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2200 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Sun 0400v WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415] Sun 0830 WRMI 5850 5950 7730 Sun 1130 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sun 2130 WRMI 7780 Mon 0230 WRMI 5950 9395 Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v-AM Area 51 Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 Mon 0930 Unique 5045 NSW Australia low-power Mon 2330 WRMI 9955 [or new 1968] 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 MORE PODCAST ALTERNATIVES, tnx to Keith Weston: https://blog.keithweston.com/2018/11/22/world-of-radio-podcast/ feedburner: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GlennHausersWorldOfRadio NEW via tunein.com: http://bit.ly/tuneinwor 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. And now also posted on our website. INTRODUXION to DXLD in HTML and PDF: http://www.worldofradio.com/DXLDformats.htm HTML and PDF versions converted by Jacques Champagne are now also posted shortly for open access: http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1905.html http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1905.pdf Thanks also to Jacques for assisting with formatting of .txt original ** ALBANIA [and non]. Albania and illicit radio listening Hello Glenn, came across your website when trying to find info on which radio stations Albanian people may have been listening to when they tuned into foreign stations illicitly during Communism and what they might have heard. I'm also told that to do this, people sometimes had to make antennas from beer cans and other things. I wondered if you might know where I could find some info on this - I hope you don't mind me asking and thanks in advance for any help. Best wishes (Lee Tusk, Jan 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Lee, A good place to start would be Radio Free Europe, whose Albanian service still exists, altho not on the radio. Of course there will be people there who also speak English. Perhaps there is someone familiar with its history or something on the website about it: https://www.evropaelire.org/ I`ve also worked with someone at Radio Tirana, Drita Çiço, altho I have not heard from her lately: [her e-mail] I recently had this item, or maybe what hit on your search: ALBANIA [non]. 1950 US-funded offshore radio project to beam propaganda to Albania --- A new addition to the Broadcasting Fleet.. . (Glenn to Lee, via DXLD) I also copied this to Ullmar Qvick, Swedish DXer with strong Albanian connexions, and he replied Jan 25, 2019: Hello Glenn, When I visited Albania in 1970, 1978 and 1979, listening to foreign radio and TV was not totally banned, listening to and watching non-political programs was tolerated, and holiday - makers on Durrës beach walked around with transistor sets, listening to Italian music.... and polluting the environment! Members of the Swedish - Albanian friendship society reported in its bulletin that they had talked to Albanian youngsters who had given them a long list of Western pop music groups they knew about. Amazingly there was a relay or booster transmitter in Tirana carrying the programs of the Italian state television. This was done to provide party officials with news and cultural items from the outside world but politically sensitive programs were excluded and even jammed on the Italian channels. When visiting Korça in southeastern Albania in 1970 I noticed in this town that many citizens had three TV antennas on their roofs, for watching Albanian, Greek and Yugoslav television. This town in the past, through emigrants and students who went to France, Italy and USA, had been culturally linked with the Western world and it was startling to come to a town with a French rather than Albanian urbanistic look! An Albanian writer in the 1990'ies gives a living picture of young peoples` parties in the 1960'ies. They secretly listened to VOA and other shortwave broadcasters, but mostly for music. Listening to foreign political propaganda was strictly forbidden, it could lead to harsh sentences and many years of imprisonment. Albania was and is fascinating, I have never regretted learning the difficult Albanian language, starting in 1969. This gave me my second profession as a translator and friendly relations with a people, outstanding in honoring and respecting friends and visitors with great hospitality, irrespective of political conditions. Ullmar Qvick (via DXLD) ** ANGUILLA. 11775, University Network; 1816-1822+, 1/19; Robustly Blessed Rev. Barbie sed that her stewardship has been on display. Roundly Behootered Rev. Barbie is well known for her past displays. 1820 knee-slapper gospel tune & contact info. 1822 Dead Dr. Gene on Exodus. We don’t hear DDG much lately. Perhaps Prominently Mammaried Pastor Melissa is moving on. S9+ peaks with xmtr hum & ratatat burst QRM (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 6935-AM. UNID. Enero 23. 0004-0014 UT. Música ochentera en Inglés. SINPO: 55444, corte abrupto a las 0014. 6935-AM. UNID. Enero 23. 2348-2359. Música ochentera en idioma Inglés. SINPO: 45444. 6973-AM. R. LUPO. Enero 22. 2250-2330 UT. Música de Tangos y algunas identificaciones de la emisora con voz femenina. SINPO: 45433. Archivo de audio: https://archive.org/details/6973KHZLUPORadio.Enero222259UTC (Claudio Galaz; Receptor: Tecsun Pl-660; Antena: Hilo de 50 metros de largo; Lugar de escucha: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile, HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. Radio La Colifata. The Documentary (BBC 5 December 2018) How is a radio station in an Argentinian psychiatric hospital changing the way people view mental illness? Radio La Colifata - slang for loon, or crazy person - airs from Hospital Jose Borda in Buenos Aires every Saturday afternoon. In-patients produce and present the shows, discussing everything from Argentinean politics and the economy to their own mental health and treatment. Millions of Argentinians tune in and interact with the show as it goes out live, encouraging a dialogue between the La Colifata team and the outside world which otherwise might not happen. Founder and psychologist Alfredo Olivera says, "La Colifata represents a broken space forgotten by others." The impact of Alfredo’s seemingly simple innovation cannot be underestimated. The programme doesn't model itself on a traditional radio show. Their goal is not to filter voices but to provide a platform for them to be heard, regardless of how challenging or unconventional they may be. For example, one contributor reflected on a period of intense anxiety and psychosis when she began to rethink the concept of walking on two legs. This opened up a philosophical discussion on the nature of physical movement. By allowing these conversations to happen and for others to be able to listen, Radio La Colifata is changing the dialogue around mental health, encouraging others to start rethinking their approach. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csy1l8 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nq0lx/episodes/downloads (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD) ** ARGENTINA [non]. 7780, USA, RAE (via WRMI) at 2202 // 9395 (Very Good) in Italian with a man and woman with opening announcements and a mention of “Buona Sera” (Good evening) and into apparent news at 2203 – Good Jan 22 – I've mentioned before that there is a sizeable Italian community in Argentina. My wife even has distant cousins there. So, it's a natural that RAE would broadcast in Italian. While it's great for the Italian diaspora in the US and Canada, it's just too bad that they can't broadcast themselves or find a broadcaster who has a better chance of putting a signal into Italy (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) Well, 7780 is aimed at Italy, and 9395 at the other Taranto (gh) ** ARMENIA. 5835even, BBC English via CJSC Gavar Yerevan, 14 kHz wideband audio signal, but at Gavar relay site on shortwave these days scratching annoying terrible audio quality. I wonder why the BBC London responsible tolerates such a bad audio transmission quality? Jan 25 at 0156 UT noted on remote Delhi India SDR unit [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 22 - 25, dxldyg via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. Many thanks to Al Kirton from 4KZ Radio in Innisfail, Australia for kindly sending hard copy QSLs for both 531 and 5055 reception from my DX cottage at Masset, BC. In addition to the lovely QSLs, he also sent a couple of stickers, and the note stating I was the first simultaneous QSL request for both 531 and 5055! 73, (Walt Salmaniw, BC, [with pdf image showing powers as 8 and 1.2 kW respectively], WOR iog via DXLD) 5055, Radio 4KZ, Innisfail, 0750-0804, 20-01, strong carrier and some songs detected in LSB. Extremely weak audio (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Then has to be long-path (gh) 5055, Jan 26 at 1158, very poor music JBA, presumably 4KZ Queensland; snooze and next check at 1450, still a JBA carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Australian Foreign affairs wants [to] beam Commercial content to the Pacific Islands https://www.abc.net.au/radio-australia/programs/pacificbeat/australian-governments-pacific-broadcasting-deal-questioned/10738822?smid=Page:%20ABC%20Radio%20Australia-Facebook_Organic&WT.tsrc=Facebook_Organic&sf206427161=1 Why not beam a quality radio service on HF? This Government has lost direction with how to communicate with our Pacific neighbours. 73 (Tim Gaynor, NSW, WOR iog via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. Reception of Reach Beyond Australia in English Jan.25 1115-1130 15575 KNX 100 kW / 315 deg to SEAs English Mon-Wed/Fri, good 1230-1300 11945 KNX 100 kW / 310 deg to SoAs English Daily, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-reach-beyond-australia-in_25.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.24-25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA. 6155, Jan 22 at 0641, classical piano music from Ö1, as they always play for a few minutes to gently wake up the Wiener & Wienerinnen, also here during their only SW service left. Reception usually too poor to enjoy, but almost succeeds today. We must treasure every precious moment of classical on SW, since there is so little of it. Is there ever *any* on US SW stations, public or private? Sacred music overlapping with classical genre does not count since it`s for the glory of God, not Art (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Very good signal of Oesterreichischer Rundfunk, Jan.28 0600-0720 on 6155 MOS 300 kW / non-dir to WeEu German Mon-Fri https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/very-good-signal-of-oesterreichischer.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA. 5930even, BBC London in Dari via ORS Moosbrunn site, much much, better audio compared to Gavar at 0157 UT on Jan 25, TX off at 0159:40 UT; scheduled 0130-0200 UT. S=9+35dB in Delhi India [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 22 - 25, dxldyg via DXLD) ** BHUTAN. 6035, BBS, 1007-1047*, Jan 22. Some of the pop songs heard today - Whitney Houston - "I Wanna Dance With Somebody," The Beatles - "Hey Jude," etc.; 1020 seemed like an English lesson(?), talking about the meaning of words ("indestructible"); cut off at 1047*; very respectable signal, but not very readable (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DXLD) Hi Glenn -- listened to your on-air DXLD today, though I had read it the other day. Thought you would be interested in this -- my description of Bhutan receptions Friday and Saturday 01/25-01/26. They have been booming in using the Twente SDR --- extraordinary this evening to hear them signing on and holding in well after 0200. Item below sent to Hard-Core. I would say that of all the SDR sites, Twente is actually the best for Bhutan, even considering the various Kiwi locations which are often plagued by noise. BTW -- this does not seem to match their printed sked which is online, which has them with a 5:55 AM sign on. An 0140 or so sign on UT is 7:40 AM or so Thimphu time. Continuing Excellent Reception of Bhutan [6035] On 25 January I heard Bhutan with one of the biggest signals in recent memory -- this was a Friday night EST, Saturday morning Thimpu time. From about 0145 well past 0215 [UT 26 Jan] -- however, there were at least two strange breaks in programming, almost as if they're having either transmitter problems and/or studio issues. There was a sudden shutdown or pause around 0151 without warning, but then back at about 0157, then off again. Low modulation male in talk heard again around 0202 sounded like news. Signal held up well after 0200. According to their Saturday schedule on the website, they have news from 8:00 AM Thimpu time so that's probably what this was. Superb signal at Twente, but then I shifted to one of two SDRs run by Victor G in Colombo, and signal there was better, though still bit noisy on that Kiwi site. Checking again on 26 January [UT Jan 27], Sunday Thimphu time, BBS was there again at similar excellent level -- sign on time seems to be about 0140 UT. Bhutan signal is good enough to withstand problems from 6030 kHz -- and a larger signal on 6020 which I presume is CRI. Listening in AM mode is quite possible at this 0140 or so sign on, though USB/LSB need to be employed a bit later to maintain clarity. I was able to make an excellent recording of BBS sign on on 1/26; again this is all via Twente SDR which as far as I know still operates with a PA0RDT mini-whip, which speaks well of the capabilities of the Twente site. Distance from Netherlands to Thimphu is 7257 km (Dan Robinson, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6155 [sic], Radio Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, SS, 22/01 2205. An international pop song, ID by male voice: 'Radio Santa Cruz y también Radio Santa Cruz por la Internet...'. A romantic song by YL in Spanish. 35553 (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP, BRAZIL http://dxways-br.blogspot.com YouTube Channel: GrimmSBC, Rx: KiwiSDR (São Bernardo) + Mini Whip Antenna, PA0RDT Standard, HCDX via DXLD) That could explain why we have not heard it on 6134.8 lately, but more likely his typo as 6155, since he does not remark about a change. BTW, 6155 used to be another Bolivian, Radio Fides, gone so long it is not even still in Aoki. The Domestic Broadcasting Survey of April 2016 reported it had last been heard in January 2016 on 6155.1 (gh, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 5070, Rádio GBA - Ribeirão Preto - Brasil (Ondas tropicais banda de 60 Metros) Locutores Notícias. 2143 UT 28 Janeiro 2019 https://youtu.be/qIyU3ePtoEo RX: Yaesu FRG 8800 Antena: DS SWL DL 42 Metros Dipolo Assimétrica + Balun + 15 Metros Coaxial (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) pirate ** BRAZIL. 6010, Radio Inconfidencia, Belo Horizonte, 0758-0810, 20-01, program “Trem Caipira”. Very weak. 14321. (Méndez) 9630.5, Radio Aparecida, Aparecida, 2050-2130, 19-01, Portuguese, religious comments, “A Nossa Senhora Aparecida”, at 2101 DX program “Encontro DX”, news about short wave stations, Celio Romais report, from Porto Alegre, “DX Clube Sem Fronteiras”. // 11856.2. 34433. 10000, Time Signal Station Observatorio Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 2105-2107, 19-01, time signals, female: “Observatorio Nacional, 17 horas, 6 minutos, 0 segundos”. 23322. (Méndez) 15190.1, Radio Inconfidencia, Belo Horizonte, 1631-1648, 19-01, Portuguese, comments, Brazilian songs, id. “Você esta sinonizando a Inconfidencia o melhor da musica brasileira”. 35433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 6010, R. Inconfidencia. Enero 22. 0026-0036 UTC. Música romántica en Inglés y a las 0034 identificación de la emisora. SINPO: 45444 (Claudio Galaz; Receptor: Tecsun Pl-660; Antena: Hilo de 50 metros de largo; Lugar de escucha: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile, HCDX via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED, 6009.991 kHz measured signal, in MA, NJ, FL - US state remotes, as well as in Alberta-CAN, and at Netherlands SDR's around 0100 to 0145 UT Jan 25, but even when AGC switched OFF totally, I couldn't recognize the program in total. Rather sounded like Spanish, not in Brazilian Portuguese? Need more monitoring. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, ibid.) If really Spanish, COLOMBIA could be back ** BRAZIL. 9630.5, Jan 26 at 0702, no signal from R. Aparecida, and has been missing for several nights now at various chex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, Até ontem elas estavam fora do ar. Hoje às 1608 UT, 9630 e 11855 são ouvidas aqui em meu QTH. 73, (Jorge Freitas, My Blog: https://dxlogfreitas.blogspot.com/ Feira de Santana Bahia 12°14´S 38°58´W - Brasil, 1609 UT Jan 28, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11780.010, Jan 25 at 1332, Brazilian talk and music but only S5-S8 as RNA is normally weak in our mornings. Recheck at 1425, no signal; at 1517 a JBA carrier which by now could be TWR SWAZILAND in Somali. Apparently RNA is not on continuously all-day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Hi Daniel, I see that you are the QSL manager for some Brazilian stations? Can you tell me what stations you QSL for and what e-mail address you prefer reports sent to. Thanks. 73 (Mick Delmage, CIDX QSL Editor, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Eu oficialmente sou da Rádio Municipal 3375 kHz and Rádio Novo Tempo 4895 kHz . Rádio Brasil Central NO. rbcamfm@gmail.com (Directo qsl) Rádio Voz Missionária no (Directo qsl) Radio Nacional da Amazônia No (Directo qsl) Rádio Aparecida No (Directo qsl) Rádio Inconfidência *Maybe directo qsl. (*Posso responder) Eu envio os relatórios recebidos para outras emissoras brasileiras a eles em ondas tropicais na página deles no facebook. Eu sempre respondo os informes más eles raramente me respondem somente visualiza os informes: 3365 Radio Cultura Araraquara danielnx18@gmail.com 3375 Rádio Municipal danielnx18@gmail.com 4862 Rádio Alvorada de Londrina danielnx18@gmail.com 4875 Rádio Roraima Danielnx18@gmail.com 4885 Rádio Clube do Pará danielnx18@gmail.com 4885 Rádio Difusora Acreana Danielnx18@gmail.com 4905 Rádio Relógio Danielnx18@gmail.com 4925 Rádio Educação Rural Danielnx18@gmail.com 4965 Radio Alvorada de Parintins danielnx18@gmail.com 4885 Rádio Clube do Pará; SRDA 6060 9565; Marumby 6080 9515; Radio 9 de julho 9820. And others irregular, 4895 Novo tempo, 4845 Cultura do Amazonas, 4845 Ibitinga, etc. 73 and good DX (Daniel Wyllyans, ibid.) ** BULGARIA. 9400, SW Radiogram via Spaceline with audio and digital text & photos as usual in programme #83 including stories about MFSK32: Sackville NB shortwave site future plans, with a rather 'Rorschachey' photo of the antenna farm: 9400.jpg Then an MFSK64 story about Space events of 2019 then this week's images, none decoded because the 'header' that triggers the photo decode in MFSK is rather 'fragile' & if there is any QRM for that second, it often doesn't decode the photo, even though the text would be 'understandable'. Then an audio ad for Tecsun Radio & the text/photo of the Tecsun Radios Int’l decoding competition which DID work as shown above. 2+4442 1400-1429* 19/Jan (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet 25 Jan via DXLD) [and non]. Shortwave Radiogram, 25-27 January 2019 --- Shortwave Radiogram this weekend is in MFSK32 and MFSK64, with nine images and some Bulgarian text ... http://swradiogram.net/post/182292496692/shortwave-radiogram-25-27-january-2019-your The first broadcast of the weekend is soon at 1500-1530 UT on 13690 kHz DRM from WINB Pennsylvania. Best bet for decoding is receivers in southern Europe, but receivers in western North America are also worth a try. Shortwave Radiogram Transmission Schedule | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | UTC Day | UTC Time | Frequency | Transmitter site | +----------+---------------+---------------+---------------------+ | Friday | 1500-1530 UTC | 13690 kHz DRM | WINB Pennsylvania | +----------+---------------+---------------+---------------------+ | Friday | 2030-2100 UTC | 7780 kHz | WRMI Florida | +----------+---------------+---------------+---------------------+ | Saturday | 0330-0400 UTC | 9265 kHz | WINB Pennsylvania | +----------+---------------+---------------+---------------------+ | Saturday | 1400-1430 UTC | 9400 kHz | Space Line Bulgaria | +----------+---------------+---------------+---------------------+ | Saturday | 1830-1900 UTC | 9265 kHz | WINB Pennsylvania | +----------+---------------+---------------+---------------------+ | Sunday | 0800-0830 UTC | 5850 kHz | WRMI Florida | | | | 7730 kHz | | +----------+---------------+---------------+---------------------+ | Sunday | 2330-2400 UTC | 7780 kHz | WRMI Florida | +----------+---------------+---------------+---------------------+ (Kim Elliot, Jan 25, WOR iog via DXLD) See also USA: WRMI/WINB ** BULGARIA. SECRETLAND, From the Isle of Music via SPL Secretbrod on Jan.27 1500-1503 on 9400 SCB 100 kW / 030 deg to EaEu open carrier/dead air 1503-1600 on 9400 SCB 100 kW / 030 deg to EaEu En/Sp Sun, very good: On Sat Jan.26 no signal of Radio Warra Wangeelaati via SPL Secretbrod 1500-1530 on 15515 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Oromo Sat, TX IS OFF! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-from-isle-of-music-via-spl_27.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Bedtime beacon DX as I start to doze: all I have to do is remember my Morse and write down the logs legibly: 341 kHz, Jan 22 at 0711, dash and ND beacon YYU, which is 500 watts from Kapuskasing, Ontario (once the site of a TVDX catch). 395 kHz, Jan 22 at 0713, dash and ND beacon YL, which is a hefty 1600 watts from Lynn Lake, Manitoba. Hearing it tuned both to 394 and 395. Too far north to appear in Rand McNally`s Manitoba map but shows on the whole-Canada map as the end of the road from Thompson; well north of Flin Flon near the Sask frontier, at 56 49 51 N, -101 4 13 W. I guess flying there is preferred over driving; per distancefromto, air path to Enid is 2289 km = 1423 stmi; driving distance 2768/1720 --- 300 miles further which is quite an overland disparity by 21 percent. 413 kHz, Jan 22 at 0716, dash and ND beacon YHD, which is 250 watts from Dryden, Ontario, rather regular. Also heard tuned to 412-USB See also USA for five more (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 366, Jan 26 at 0718, ND beacon, dash and YMW, which is 500 watts from Maniwaki, Quebec. See also USA for five more (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 530, CHLO, Brampton ON; 1500, 1/19; “This is AM 5-30 CHLO serving Brampton...” into LL program -- Croatian per Rob’s log (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 530, CHLO, Brampton ON. Jan/19 0920-1000 EDT [sic], VG Portuguese / Croatian; PP vocals & talk 0920-0930 EDT [sic]. Into Croatian show 0930-1000. Croatian talk & vocals. ID in ENGLISH at 1000 as “This is AM 530 CHLO AM 530”. RELOG but NEW CALL EX-CIAO, 1 kW/250 Watts ROSS, ON (Rob Ross, MARE Tipsheet 25 Jan via DXLD) 530, CHLO, ex CIAO, ON, Brampton, Italian songs & OM in Italian, English ID with mention of the web address, Brampton/GTA etc. & the new call CHLO, into more Italian which also mentioned the web address, then into a Slavic sounding language (Bulgarian is listed), YL reading news. 34543+ kinda messy, but the best it's been all day today. 2352-0007 20-21/Jan (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet 25 Jan via DXLD) 530, CHLO, ON, Brampton – 1/21 1840 – Man and woman in bilingual conversation. Primary language sounded like something from the Indian subcontinent, secondary language was English. Both of them would pepper the conversation with English phrases like "Thank you very much," "You're really going to love this," "I think so," etc. Ads for pest control company, diesel repair, etc. (RJS, OH, NRC DX News Feb 4, published Jan 27, via DXLD) What you heard was likely “Hindglish”, a mixture of Hindi and English that is often heard spoken in India and in Bollywood movies. Note the recent call change, as of 1/19 per Glenn Hauser and Canadian Radio News Facebook page. CHLO used to be a station on 1570 in St. Thomas, ON (defunct, moved to FM years ago). Not sure why they changed, but “CIAO” means “hello” in Italian, and much of their programming now seems to be in South Asian languages rather than Italian (Mike Brooker, ed., ibid.) 530, Jan 22 at 0721, after my beacon-band scan, South Asian songs here overcoming Cuba, presumably Brampton, Ont., in Punjabi? Allegedly changed calls from CIAO to less-Italian CHLO, but reluctant to utter the new letters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [and non]. 6070, CFRX, Toronto, 0514-0620, 20-01, English, news, comments, advertisements. At about 0620 eclipsed by Channel 292 when the German station open transmission. 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Radio Canada International: Spectres of Shortwave Radio Canada International By Marc Montgomery 15 January, 2019 It started out as an art project, but circumstances changed and it became an artistically inspired documentary look at the former shortwave service. It deals in part with the history of the shortwave transmission site, its massive antenna array, and how it was an iconic feature for residents near Sackville New Brunswick as it all came to a relatively sudden end. We speak to filmmaker Amanda Dawn Christie about her film “Spectres of Shortwave” here: Radio Canada International: Spectres of Shortwave [18:08] http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2019/01/15/radio-canada-international-spectres-of-shortwave/ (via Mike Terry and Alan Gale, WOR iog via DXLD) Surely RCI have interviewed her before now? BTW, she never QSLed my report for her special post-RCI ``Spectres`` SW broadcasts, despite even a follow-up. I think she said something like, she had QSLed the first batch received, and would get to the rest later. Broken promises like this send one back to non-reporting for QSLs; which saves me an enormous amount of time, expense and frustration; Yet I value my tangible QSL collexion from when I was active. A few old and newer ones: http://worldofradio.com/QSL.html (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** CHILE. 4080. RCW. Enero 15. 0105-0115 UT. Música y anuncios de test. SINPO: 35333. 7565. RCW. Enero 15. 2104-2130 UT. Música del recuerdo y aviso de emisión de test. SINPO: 45322 (Claudio Galaz; Receptor: TECSUN PL 660; Antena: Hilo de 30 metros de largo; Lugar de escucha: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DXLD) ** CHILE. 5825. R. TRIUNFAL EVANGÉLICA. Enero 14. 2320-2347 UT. Predicación. Desde las 2340, espacio de música y saludos a los auditores. SINPO: 45333 con fading largo (Claudio Galaz; Receptor: TECSUN PL 660; Antena: Hilo de 30 metros de largo; Lugar de escucha: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DXLD) 5825. R. TRIUNFAL EVANGÉLICA. Enero 22. 2230-2250 UT. Espacio de predicación. SINPO: 45454 (Claudio Galaz; Receptor: Tecsun Pl-660; Antena: Hilo de 50 metros de largo; Lugar de escucha: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile, HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DXLD) ** CHINA [and non]. 5970, Jan 23 at 1342 in absence of WEWN Spanish, two Chinese mixing; echo jammer? At this hour EiBi and Aoki have only PBS Gannan: EiBi says 1020-1410 in Tibetan via he site; Aoki says 1020-1230 Tibetan, 1230-1410 Chinese; but also 1300-1400 CNR11 in Tibetan, all from Hezuo site. That would certainly account for the self-defeating double audio. WRTH slick map page 55 shows Hezuo is in north central China between Xining and Baoji (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Mauno Ritola, Finland, replies Jan 24 to my 5970 log: ``CNR1 heard with echo over Gannan PBS, at least two carriers. Probably started at 1200. Sounds like there is also noise jammer via Delhi receiver. This sounds like a normal jamming procedure, but for what? Is it possible that they think Gannan Tibetan is from RFA or is there something else? Ron Howard? 73, Mauno`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FYI - - - Via "Now On The Radio DX": https://radio.chobi.net/DX/bbs/?res:1778#3694 Thanks Glenn Hauser @WOR.Group https://bit.ly/2UesxCu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** CHINA. 5970, Jan 23 at 1342 in absence of WEWN Spanish, two Chinese mixing; echo jammer? At this hour EiBi and Aoki have only PBS Gannan: EiBi says 1020-1410 in Tibetan via he site; Aoki says 1020-1230 Tibetan, 1230-1410 Chinese; but also 1300-1400 CNR11 in Tibetan, all from Hezuo site. That would certainly account for the self-defeating double audio. WRTH slick map page 55 shows Hezuo is in north central China between Xining and Baoji (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- As Gannan PBS changed most of morning and evening programs to Chinese, it may be that it is relaying CNR-1 until the end time of 1400 at night. I appreciate valuable information. I will investigate as well. I hope to be able to do 3990 kHz broadcasting and parallel check, but at my location there is strong interference. (H.K.) [Hiroyuki Komatsubara?] Hi Ron, Hopefully others will check, too. It would be 'great' if they really jam Gannan PBS by mistake :-) 73, Mauno Ritola, Jan 24 No, it was definitely stronger than Gannan PBS before 1200 and Gannan was heard in Tibetan below it. At least two CNR1 transmitters. Mauno Re: CHINA : Gannan PBS 5970kHz CNR-1 relay - XYZ Jan 24, 2019 23:16 UTC No.3696 5970 kHz Gannan PBS (Morning program) -2241- 5970 kHz CHINA, Chinese, (not CNR-1), maybe Gannan PBS? -2254- SA, program started, sounded like: "Gannan renmin guangbo diantai, zonghe guangbo" 2255- CNR-1 relay start, // 4750 kHz etc.. See also: https://radio.chobi.net/DX/bbs/?res:1778#3694 Perhaps it may be suffering interference with RFA-Tibetan on co-channel?? YouTube : https://youtu.be/-k1_kAvydB4 Re: CHINA : Gannan PBS - Mauno Jan 25, 2019 14:17 UTC No.3698 Can anyone recognise the language heard with CNR1 in this clip? https://app.box.com/s/qca637219zdqcgooo1fwbn8gf58g29wk Thanks, Mauno Re: CHINA : Gannan PBS - XYZ Jan 25, 2019 14:35 UTC No.3699 Hi Mauno, https://radio.chobi.net/bbs/?res:8554#8579 I have also asked questions on the Japanese site, but please wait a while. 5970 kHz? BTW, 5970kHz Gannan PBS : Both EiBi and Aoki are mistaken for Gangnam's schedule. Since around 2016, Tibetan language program changed to Chinese language program, relaying General Broadcasting. https://radio.chobi.net/DX/DXNEWS/?res:17 (sorry in Japanese..) : https://radio.chobi.net/bbs/?res:8554#8580 Thanks AMANO !! ** Translation by Google ... (omitted the first half..) Although I have not confirmed the SA/ID and the program name of that, male Chinese heard on the back of CNR-1 is SOH's "Nine criticism Communist Party" or "Dismantling the party culture" (** program title) I think. BTW, the program of CNR-1 will be "CNR news". CNR-1 may be Jamming for SOH because it can hear multiple stations? (all via Ron Howard, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DXLD) SA? Maybe means station announcement? as distinct from ID? (gh, DXLD) re 5970 --- I noticed RTI missing on 11985 kHz. Maybe a replacement for that? 73, (Mauno Ritola, 0139 UT Jan 26, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DXLD) And consequently jammed (gh, ibid.) ** CHINA. 6120, CNR1 (broadcast station used as Jammer) at 1645, with man in Chinese, speaking over sound bed of soft music. Radio Free Asia is listed here at this hour. I have noted a // transmission on 6145 with armchair level reception, obviously there to jam co-channel Radio Taiwan International - Very Good. Jan 27 (Rick Barton, AZ, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; HQ-180A; RS SW-2000629, with various outdoor wires ~ 73 and Good Listening.......! WOR iog via DXLD) ** CHINA. 7415, Firedrake 1730z 1/22/2019 ---- 7415 CHINA Firedrake 1714z - 1802z. Non-stop percussion flutes and drums. Must be 500 kW perhaps Jinhua region, Cutting through the ionosphere mid-day here in Texas. No break top of the hour (Steven Wiseblood, Harlingen, TEXAS, Tecsun R9710, Outside LW aerial, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9860, (Unidentified; nicknamed The Firedragon musical jamming station) at 1700 with crashing banging and booming. Frequency should normally be used at this time by Radio Free Asia (obviously the target of the jamming) - Very Strong Jan 19 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; HQ-200; RS SW-2000629, with various outdoor wires. 73 and Good Listening.......! WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. RECEPTION IN SÃO BERNARDO SP, BRAZIL January 28, 2019 (Time in UTC) Rx: KiwiSDR (São Bernardo) + Mini Whip Antenna, PA0RDT Standard. STANDARD TIME STATION. 5000 kHz CHINA: BPM, Pucheng, time pips/Chinese, 28/01 2345. Time pips each second. A longer pip on 0' second. On 2359 10 x 'BPM' in CW, and the ID in Chinese language by female voice. 35543. An excellent signal received here in southeastern Brazil!!! (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP, BRAZIL, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) O=3 is not excellent, but sufficient (gh) ** CHINA. 5050 kHz --- Beibu Bay Radio is putting in a good signal into central Maryland this evening. IS at 2248, announcement by male at 2250, hip-hop style music. Time pips at TOH and male and female in Chinese. Usually fades severely by 2300, but seems to be holding up well tonight. If you have a directional antenna, point it to the southeast (Art Delibert, Maryland, 1/25/19, Ten Tec RX-340, SAL-12 antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** CHINA [non]. 6020, Jan 26 at 0342, bad collision between two stations: CRI in Chinese via ALBANIA to North America; and some Arabish language with brief English clip, about as strong, i.e. per HFCC, FPU via MADAGASCAR at 0330-0400, 250 kW at 327 degrees, which is also USward! I.e. really Radio Tamazuj for Sudan South (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 7210, PBS Yunnan (ethnic minority broadcasting), again broadcasting here after a considerable absence; Jan 22 at 1048, tuned in to hear the usual IS of a non-stop loop of EZL instrumental music till 1100; some Chinese and into vernacular; QRM underneath. Nice that this is now reactivated and 6035 kHz. (FM99 - Voice of Shangri-la - relay via PBS Yunnan) was activated some time ago (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DXLD) ** CHINA. 7255.0, Jan 23 at 1354 romantic song at S9 vs QRhaM; certainly not Nigeria on this frequency at this hour, and Nigeria unknown to HFCC which shows three other possibilities: CNR Tibet at 1000-1805; CRI Russian via SZG site at 13-14; and MBR Nauen algo at 12-16. EiBi and Aoki unlist imaginary wooden MBR entry, and I`ll go with CRI which is at 37 degrees also USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. 15700, Jan 23 at 1426, China Plus via CUBA is big S9+30 as usual, a bit suptorted but loud enough, with a slight whine. On BFO the tone is much louder with multiple peaks and other artifacts over 15690-15710. What a messy signal. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO. 6115, Radio Congo, Brazzaville, 0610-0625, 19-01, African songs, French, comments. 24322. Also *0538-0633, 20-01, open with Vernacular comments, at 0600 French, news, African and Afropop songs. 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO DR. Hello! Is Kahuzi still working? Anybody heard them? 73, (Eduard Korsakov, Moskva, Jan 24, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DXLD) Yes, today closed at about 1750, heard via SDR Kiwi remote receivers in Switzerland and South Africa, with very weak signal, best signal yesterday fair to weak and close approximately at same time. Not all days on air. The last weekend out of air, and some days of the week out too. Best 73,s (Manuel Mendez, Jan 24, ibid.) Thank you for the info. Here in Moscow no trace at all. 73, (Eduard, ibid.) Radio Kahuzi reply to Eduard --- Website of this station, with pictures of the new SW transmitter and antenna: http://radiokahuzi.blogspot.com/ (Nico Philby, France, Jan 28, WOR iog via DXLD) Must see ** CUBA. 1050, Radio Victoria, Las Tunas. 1017 January 27, 2019. Traditional Cuban instrumentals and oldie vocals, some via scratchy vinyl sources, sweet voiced female hosting "Melodias para Usted" program. Male ID and time check at 1031, into a different female hosting more modern vocals. Parallel though way slow station website feed. 1070, CUBA unidentified. 1134 January 27, 2019. Great, another wobbler. CMKS and Radio Guamá listed here. No audio making it, just the occasional wobble. Last wobble noted at 1207, a bit late for CMKS in Guantánamo, so suspect Guamá or someone else from Cuba (Terry L. Krueger, All times/dates GMT, Clearwater, FL, IC-R75, NRD-535, longwires, active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Mister Terry, I see in NRC 86.10 log of Guama radio on 1050. I can not find a Guama on this frequency in my Cuban lists or the new World Radio Television book. You seem to know Cuban radio. Could you tell if this is correct? (Bashir Alizar, via Terry Krueger, Jan 27, DXLD) Any idea on this one? I am only hearing Radio Victoria. The log in the NRC states clearly parallel 1170. 1050 Guama radio --- Looking at the log it's actually parallel 1070. (Terry Krueger, ibid.) and 970, 990, 1020 per WRTH 2019 (gh, DXLD) ** CUBA. 9065, Unidentified Numbers Station (presumed the one) at 0800, with only open carrier, carrier commencing on time, then going on and off, then steady to some more outages at 0820. I had observed open carriers on what usually are scheduled numbers broadcasts at 0700 (9330) and 0600 (10345), although sans the carrier outages. "There is always something wrong", as it is said (Glenn Hauser re: Cuban radio). Note: a couple of times, I noted a strange bonking sound intermittently on each of these transmissions, like a couple of glass bottles hitting together. Otherwise, silence. A scheduled transmission at 0900 on 9240 was a no-show. Jan 21 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; HQ-200; RS SW-2000629, with various outdoor wires. 73 and Good Listening.......! WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15140. RHC. Enero 20, 1600-1631 UTC. Programa en esperanto. Presentación del programa. Luego se habla de la industria de turismo, de un profesor de la Universidad de Chicago, Santiago de Cuba. Desde las 1615, espacio musical hasta las 1618 cuando se habla de la Asociación Universal de Esperanto y la UNESCO, luego se un proyecto de colectas. A las 1620, se habla de una conferencia auspiciada por la UEA y de un día especial. Desde las 1625, se menciona: al Presidente Díaz Canel, la embajada de Guyana en Cuba, la economía y la Revolución Cubana. A las 1631, despedida del servicio y aviso de “La Marcha de las antorchas” por el natalicio de José Martí. SINPO: 55444 (Claudio Galaz; Receptor: Tecsun Pl-660; Antena: Hilo de 50 metros de largo; Lugar de escucha: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile, HCDX via DXLD) So there we have confirmed that contrary to RHC`s own schedule, and Esperanto announcements, this Sunday-only transmission is not only on its original frequency 11760 which I have heard, but also on 15140, which is // to 11760 every other day of the week during this semihour in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6060, Jan 22 at 0413, RHC already in English and louder than // 6000 & 6165. I`m not often monitoring during this hour, but not the first time English has shown on 6060 before nominal 0500 switch from Spanish; or is it ever thus? Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15140.0, Jan 23 at 1510, RHC is S9+20/30 and music as usual distorted, but I have to struggle to detect the spur panoply, JBA blobs mostly around the usual spots: 15398, 15311, 15283, 15198, 15168, 15112, 15083, 15055, 14997, 14968, 14882, 14854. Something`s always wrong at RHC. see also CHINA [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Checked speedy 2120 to 2200 UT on Jan 23: At 2120 UT 9720 Bejucal NOT on air. RHC French servoce on both 15140even S=9+15dB in remote MA-US state. News program 20 kHz wideband signal. Same French also at 2126 UT on 15370 kHz even, NOT Portuguese language service, S=9+5dB at 2128 UT [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 22 - 25, dxldyg via DXLD) 6000, Jan 24 at 0130, RHC continues with English during this hour, S9+10 but just barely modulated while // 6165 is S9+20 and sufficient. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5040, RHC English hour programming with the Midweek edition of the mailbag show & the arts show. Abruptly off in mid-sentence at 0654. 454+43 with subdued modulation and a 'hum' in the audio marring things. 0625-0654* 24/Jan (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet 25 Jan via DXLD) 15311 & 14968, Jan 24 at 1440, these are the only JBA spurs from 15140 I can detect today; and still none on 13 MHz band. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 6000, Jan 25 at 0649, RHC English undermodulated // louder and louder: 6100 < 6165 < 6060 < 5040, the last of The Cuban Five, rather rough. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15311, 15168, 15111, 15083, 15054, 14997, 14968, Jan 25 at 1319, weak wobbly spurs detectable out of 15140.0 RHC at approx. 28-29 kHz intervals. Something`s always wrong at RHC. At 1324 I find a similar spur further out, this one measured exactly at 14882.472, that is minus 257.528 kHz, but that means the separations would be 25.7528 kHz, less than about 28.6 otherwise indicated; so maybe 14882+ is really unrelated to these. I was also briefly distracted by some talk on 14980.0, but that`s receiver overload from 7490 WWCR X 2, going away with Preamp 2 off. 13700, Jan 25 at 1422, this RHC is off but 13780 is on. 13700 is supposed to start at 1400. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 9720, Jan 25 at 2249, RHC in English, S9+20, so manages to emit proper language this hour today! Something`s not wrong at RHC. This is supposedly aimed 130 degrees toward South Africa, but a bigsig back here where I bet they reach a lot more listeners than after midnight there. 5990, Jan 26 at 0015, CRI Spanish relay is suptorted = modulation suppressed and distorted. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. Mark Coady, Ont., monitored the same the earlier hour in English: ``5990 CUBA CRI at 2301 with a woman with “CRI News” - Fair signal but absolutely crappy audio Jan 25 Coady-ON – Another example of how Cuba treats their customers with disrespect and contempt`` 15700, Jan 26 at 1510, CRI English relay is S9+30 but distorted. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. 15197.2, Jan 27 at 1542, cursory check for spurs from RHC 15140 finds this one with enough squishy music sound to match, i.e. 2 x 28.6 kHz above, and signs of others above and below at those multiples. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15140, Jan 27 at 2120 on caradio, RHC French is distorted; much weaker French on 15370 seems non-distorted. Toujours, quelque chose de faux à RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13779.239, Jan 28 at 1456, RHC bigsig is way off-frequency today. No spurs to be heard from 13700 or 15140. Siempre hay algo equivocado en RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15700, Jan 28 at 1459, CRI Plus relay English modulation is suptorted; wiggle that patchcord! Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DENMARK. 5825, 1345-1410 Sunday 20.1, OZ-Viola, Hillerød via groundwave. Non-stop rhythmic music, 1401 English ID, 35343. Best 73, (Anker Petersen, Denmark, in Skovlunde on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, wbradio yg via DXLD) ** DENMARK. 5840.014 kHz, S=7-8 signal around west European countries SDR installations. Carrier only at 0950 UT on Jan 22. World Music Radio. Nothing on 15805 kHz at this time slot. 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5840, World Music Radio, Randers, 0835-0857, 20-01, pop song, ID “World Music Radio”. 15321. 15805, World Music Radio, Randers, 0935-0955, 20-01, pop songs in English, ID “World Music Radio”, Latin American songs, song “Colegiala de mi Amor”. Excellent signal. 45444 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. See TURKEY [and non]; CHINA ** ECUADOR. Radiodifusión sonora y Televisión abierta The ARCOTEL Ecuador regulatory agency public listing at http://www.arcotel.gob.ec/lista-completa-de-ganadores-del-concurso-de-frecuencias-hasta-el-22-de-agosto-de-2017/ is the most recent radio station listing I could find and it doesn't include power. Both the 2019 WRTH and mwlist have 1510 Monumental at 3 kW. Does the Ecuador government maintain an online public file with more recent and more detailed data about radio stations? (Bruce Conti, B.A.Conti Photography http://www.baconti.com ¡BAMLog! http://www.bamlog.com via ARC mv-eko 28 Jan via DXLD Yes, and it is updated regularly: http://www.arcotel.gob.ec/radiodifusion-sonora-y-television-abierta-2/ There are 3 links to 3 files. The last one is "Listado completo de estaciones de RTV". The last column is P.E.R. (Potencia Efectiva Radiada; in English E.R.P.). As every official listing, it contains all the licensed stations. If a station is there it is because its license is still valid so a reactivation could be possible. If not, it will be deleted as soon as the license expires (the present Ecuadorian government does not love private broadcasting). (Mauricio Molano Sanchez, Salamanca, Spain, via RealDX via Thomas Nilsson, ibid.) ** ECUADOR [non]. GERMANY, Reception of HCJB Voice of The Andes via Weenermoor, Jan.22 0700-1700 on 5920 WNM 1.5 kW / 145 deg to SEEu German, weak to fair 0900-1500 on 7365 WNM 003 kW / 145 deg to SEEu German, fair to good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-hcjb-voice-of-andes-via_22.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ivo`s format does not make clear whether the times given are sign on/off, or merely the span between which he heard them. 5920 is sometimes shown as on the air much earlier, when it can be confused with WHRI (gh, DXLD) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Radio Nacional, Bata, 0555-0616, 19-01, African songs, at 0602 Spanish, news, “Boletín informativo”, “vamos con los titulares”, “seguimos con la actualidad nacional”. 15321. Also *0518-0612, 20-01, open with African songs, pop and Spanish songs, at 0559: “En breve el boletín informativo en conexión con Radio Malabo, todos los días en Radio Bata”, at 0600 “Boletín Informativo”, news in Spanish. 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. GERMANY, Athmeeya Yatrahe Radio instead of Voice of Oromo Liberation, Jan 23 [intentional or mistake? -- gh] 1700-1800 on 9610 NAU 100 kW / 144 deg to EaAf various SoAs languages, very good: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/athmeeya-yatrahe-radio-instead-of-voice.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan. 23-24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. SECRETLAND, Reception of Dimtse Radio Erena via SPL Secretbrod [BULGARIA] on Jan.27: 1700-1800 9720 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Tigrinya ONLY, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-dimtse-radio-erena-via-spl_27.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 7440, Channel 292, Rohrbach, *0620-0836, 20-01, non stop Simon & Garfunkel songs “Simon & Garfunkel Greatest Hits”, at 0700 “Radio Waves International”, at 0800 “Super Clan Radio”. // 6070. 35433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. Radio. Menschen & Geschichten in DRM Hi All, I just saw this post on the RMG Facebook page, very interesting that they are planning to re-broadcast it in DRM as well: ``Radio. Menschen & Geschichten Our next show will be broadcast on the next Sunday, 27.01.2019 From 10-11 pm cet to breakfast but first digital on the web as livestream and then as a podcast, from 19-20 pm cet to 5830 Khz in classic on and from 20:30-21:30 pm cet to 5830 Khz in drm. 00 kw each, each direction Europe`` 73 for now, (Alan Gale, Jan 24, WOR iog via DXLD) This is rather unclear; what site on 5830 in AM or DRM?? Only thing besides WTWW at night in HFCC is Armenia with BBC Urdu at 15-16 only. So did anyone hear it in DRM? EiBi says the Jan 27 broadcasts were via UZBEKISTAN. Something new? Have they ever run DRM before? Ivo reports only the 18-19 UT broadcast in AM, not the DRM (gh, DXLD) UZBRKISTAN [sic], Radio Menschen&Geschichten via Shortwaveservice on Jan.27: 1800-1900 5830 TAC 100 kW / 301 deg CeEu German last Sun, good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/radio-menschen-via-shortwaveservice-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Press Releases -- DW revamps English TV broadcast schedule DW English programming is set to launch targeted regional daily news programs to appeal to audiences in Asia and Africa. The update to the English language broadcasting roster features new faces and new formats. Hongkong, Skyline (picture-alliance/J.Schwenkenbecher) Beginning January 28, the broadcast schedule will be updated to include the new DW News Africa and DW News Asia Monday through Friday. Featuring a strengthened network of correspondents providing reporting from across both continents, the regionalization of the programs should enhance the broadcaster's attractiveness and relevance. "I'm really excited about DW News Africa and DW News Asia," said Head of News Richard Walker. "They are much more than TV shows, they are vehicles for us to get closer than ever to our viewers and digital users on these incredibly important continents. The shows will report the news with DW's trusted journalistic standards and tell stories that matter in fresh new ways." . . . [more] https://p.dw.com/p/3CArJ (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, Jan 28, DXLD) ** GREECE. Voice of Greece Sunday Orthodox Liturgy on 9420 kHz, Jan.27 0758-0800 on 9420 AVL 150 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 & off air https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/voice-of-greece-sunday-orthodox-liturgy_27.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) What time does it start? Neat music (gh, DXLD) ** GREENLAND. Very good conditions to the northeast last evening [1/23]. Some strong signals from GRL (particularly 279:SI and 372:OZN) including one new for the logbook (386:CP) and one new for the season (328:HB). 328 HB -397 GRL Holsteinborg 2176 1/23 0051 (DT) 386 CP 413 GRL Nerferit Inaat 2988 1/23 0019 (DT) (Dave Tomasko, MI, MARE Tipsheet 25 Jan via DXLD) ** HAWAII [and non]. WWVH Visit January 1986 recording... HI Glenn and everyone, For those who (as I do) really like the NIST's WWV/WWVB/WWVH station and signals, this might be of interest: In mid-January 1986, Shel Remington (NI6E) and myself (no-ham call yet) went on a 12-day DXpedition to Kauai, Hawaii where we camped outside in "unofficial" (but legal) camping spots all around the Island and strung out several short (200m or so) end-fed BOGs. Shel employed his active-whip for NDB/LWBC station DX also). This was the trip where I also broke the distance record of a legal-power input level (1-watt) LowFER beacon reception (receiving solid sigs from 165 kHz "Z2" atop a mountain on the Big Sur Coast of California, run by Mike Mideke - WB6EER) from just east of Poipu, Kauai, about 16 January 1986 - this record still standing today. On the 15th of January 1986, after spending the night at the "Kekaha Public Dump Beach" just a bit west of the town of Kekaha, where I recorded astounding NZ/Australian MWDX and saw the Southern Cross constellation sink into the southern ocean, we visited WWVH and spoke with a nice fellow (name un-recalled nor documented, alas). I noted "many hams" worked at WWVH back then, so we were met with enthusiasm by the fellow and he took Shel and myself on a really cool tour of the WWVH facilities. Interestingly, at about 5 minutes into this recording, the fellow talks about how they get the female time announcements broadcast -- they were coming from a 25 year-old unit that had a large drum rotating on which all 60 time announcements - plus the TOH and BOH ids, were recorded, similar to the old-fashioned drum recordings on wax cylinders! The drum looked to be about 12 inches/30 cm in diameter and rotated at maybe 10 RPM. I made a recording of the visit (I was age 23 back then...) via a Fisher micro-cassette unit so the quality is not tops, but it might be very interesting for many... The link to the 23:24 MP3 file is at: https://archive.org/details/TheBestOfHawaiiMediumwaveamBroadcast-bandDx-86To91/WWVH_Visit_SPMcGreevy_January_1986_Kauai_HI_along_with_Shel_NI6E.mp3 This and more tape archives from Hawaii ('86-'91) are being added to both of of Hawaii DX archive sites at Internet Archives, BTW. While returning from an ELF-VLF recording expedition to central Saskatchewan July 2001 (near the Hanmore Lake Prov. Park south-east of La Ronge) I stopped by WWV/WWVB which is actually closer to Wellington, CO (a very pretty farming community) than Ft. Collins, I took a few 35mm pics of the big LF antennas and some distant HF ones. Hanging around the entrance, a fellow working there came out. I knew they required (by then) a visit to be pre-scheduled (if allowed), but he chatted with me for 1/2 hour, and complained that WWV (etc.) cost each US taxpayer only 25 cents. I guess there was pressure back then to reduce their services also, so this present "threat" is nothing new but seems to be VERY threatening in light of the fact that too many people today see "shortwave" as very obsolete. Glad we know otherwise! 73 - (Steve McGreevy -- N6NKS - http://www.auroralchorus.com Jan 26, WOR iog via DXLD) Very nice, Steve! Looking forward to listening to it in its entirety! To me, the sad thing, Steve, is there are a number of hobbyists, including those in the industry who DO believe that WWV is outdated, and refuse to believe that everyone, everywhere has easy access to cell coverage, and if they do, at an affordable rate. That is just not so! Large swaths of rural North America (especially in rural and Northern Canada), as well as the Pacific simply do not have this access. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, BC, ibid.) Walt, I couldn't say it better. I, too, live in a very rural location. I have only one physical connection to the rest of the world and it's a buried electrical power line. And due to storms, I have that backed up with a 10 kW propane powered generator. I only get internet via a local radio tower relay that is slow and not so cheap. Radio is a lifeline back here in the woods. 73, (Don W8SWL, W Branch MI, ibid.) Hi again Walt and Don, Yeah! For sure - I often travel and camp out (in warmer weather) a lot of deep-desert locations totally DEVOID of mobile/cell-phone coverage (like the teeny burg of Darwin, Calif. too). I know in some places I might be able to hike up to a spot to get some cell-signal, but not always. I always hike with a portable SW radio and find SW always has lots of signals on some band propagating in just fine and strongly. Well, those who want to toast SW have been too "indoctrinated" by the Internet Gods (Zuckerberger, etc.) and I too, alas, believe as this weird Century groans on and on, SW will likely be relegated to more and more "fringe" broadcasters. There may even come a time within the next two decades that China - what with its plethora of SW signals, will slowly shut those down in favor of digital-microwaves, somehow... As an acquaintance Eric Dollard complains: "The Digital Beast is taking over the Analogue Beast"... (and we all use the marvelous Internet I admit and I could not do without it today unlike when I first began DXing in 1972 or so.) However, there are those "renegades" who think - well, if SW and analogue (too) is destined to be relegated to the trash-pile of history coming, than maybe just maybe "we" have to make more of our "own" analogue signals." (And I won't get into details there, hi!). I still think we have lots of time left, though... But god it would be sad to see the NIST stations go away. We'll all then have to look to CHU (etc.) for help... ;-) By the way, does this perceived "threat" to the HF side of WWV/WWVH mean that the WWVB 60 kHz signals will go also? 73 - (Steve, ibid.) Steve, my understanding that if WWV/WWVH close, than so would WWVB leaving millions of "atomic clocks" unable to keep coordinated time. 73, (Walt, ibid.) Unless they flew them to east Asia--hi! Yeah, Walt, I certainly contemplated that aspect of the truly very important usage. I had a bit of a giggle in China Nov. 2013 when a doctor on the tour I was in mentioned that his watch was on "Japan time" (BJT - 1 hour) [plus one --- gh] and I told him the reason it shifted... ( of course JJY on 60 kHz as is on 40 kHz and the latter is in regularly every morning here in Keeler). Has NIST emphasized this aspect to the bean-counters in WDC, I wonder? Besides that White House Petition we "signed" a couple of months ago (and not enough?) - the only other way is direct letter/e-mail writing to those who are making those budget decisions and tell them a real, scientific usage of the various WWVx signals, but of course those 60 kHz clocks they ought to be made aware of! I guess they think GPS signal time-keeping could take over. BTW right now at 2146 (28 Jan.) WWV on 20000 is fair and 15000 very strong, so a bump-up in the MUF right now but little 27185 CB-19 nor the blasters on 27025 heard. Something else good about the 60 kHz WWVB signal for scientific (ionosphere) study, is that at about 1755 UT on 21 August 2017 (i.e. the total Solar Eclipse day) WWVB as received here in Keeler using a restored 1960s-era Sierra Electric selective volt-meter, the 60 kHz BCD signal completely faded down to my noise floor, perhaps 15 dB less than on most days I have monitored WWVB around the same time. As such, obviously the eclipse has a great influence that day - I surmise it was a phase-fade from two paths of the WWVB signal. At this time the center of the totality was near North Platte, NE. Someday the ionosphere will be passé... :-) 73 - (Steve -- N6NKS - McGreevy, http://www.auroralchorus.com -- all of my DXing is done real-time with traditional (non-SDR) receivers --, WOR iog via DXLD) ** INDIA. Reception of All India Radio in English in 31mb, Jan.23 1135-1140 on 9620.0 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to SoAs English, good 1135-1140 on 9949.8 DEL 100 kW / 342 deg to SoAs English, fair https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-all-india-radio-in-english.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Token English newscast tacked on to the trihour of Urdu (gh, DXLD) ** INDIA. 4895, AIR Kurseong, 1512-1545*, Jan 23. Back on the air again; start of the New Delhi audio feed; became // to 5040 (AIR Jeypore); usual commercial segment in Hindi; 1515, the news in Hindi (one brief ommercial announcement) till 1530, when the news given again, this time in English; cut off just after the news in English, while AIR Jeypore continued on in English. Kurseong with very weak signal to start out, but by 1530 doing somewhat better and positive English. Very nice to have this one reactivated! Helping my reception was my local sunrise at 1515 UT. FYI - Re: Mongolia on 4895 kHz., via Mauno Ritola - ". . .Today [Jan 23] it operated only a few hours 0030-0500 and is definitely off now at 1100. . ." (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DXLD) ** INDIA [and non]. No closure for Netaji Thursday, 24 January 2019 | Kingshuk Nag It's unfortunate that the man, who led India towards its freedom, was lost when India woke up to Independence. Till date only theories exist about his death When Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death in an air crash in Taipei on August 18, 1945, was announced, the British Government suspected that this was a cover for his escape to the Soviet Union. Their suspicions were confirmed a few months later when transmitters in Calcutta's Governor's House caught three broadcasts on shortwave band 31 by Netaji between December 26, 1945, and February 1946. The broadcasts showed that he was alive: Netaji said that he was under the "shelter of great world powers" and his utterances revealed that he was aware "my men are being tried at the Red Fort." Subhas Chandra Bose promised to come to India and sit on judgement on "those trying my men at the Red Fort." He also said that the back of British imperialism had been broken and that the British could concede Independence to India in two years. Copies of these transmissions have now been made public after the declassification of records pertaining to Netaji in 2015. Due to inferior technology in those times, transmissions never reached the ears of millions of Indians for whom they were meant, but the British masters were definitely alarmed on hearing them. . . [more] https://www.dailypioneer.com/2019/columnists/no-closure-for-netaji.html (via Mike Cooper, GA, DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 7289.92, Pro 1 RRI Nabire, 0739-0917*, Jan 22. Has been a long time since I last checked on this, so very pleased to find them still active; started out extremely poor, but slowly improved; 0801 time pips (late); into the news, followed by announcers (not sure just when news ended?); 0839 into music segment till 0914; started reciting from the Qur'an (in the past this Qur'an segment was always started at 0900, but not so today); cut off at 0917* (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. "I Trawl the Megahertz" --- Former director of BBC World Service likes a musical piece called "I Trawl the Megahertz." If the composer had trawled the megahertz below 30, the piece might not have been so soothing. And then there was this woman reciting what sounded like Vogon poetry. Tweet: https://twitter.com/sambrook/status/1088066018273120256 Video: https://youtu.be/1bSPNboKCzM (Kim Elliott, WOR iog via DXLD) Very nice, but nothing to do with VHF or HF DXing, despite the keyword. Finally in the last sesquiminute of the 21:58 piece, alludes to radio astronomy. See YT comments from real likers of it (gh, DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL WATERS. Maintaining the Information Barrier https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2019/01/21/maintaining-information-barrier/ "Sailors have been making use of the Amateur Radio net (ham radio) for decades, and while National telecommunication authorities have often turned a deaf ear to unlicensed operators using made-up call signs while at sea, warnings from a National regulator to Golden Globe Race skippers has created intrigue into an exciting finale for race leaders." Background: The 2018 Golden Globe Race started for 17 skippers from Les Sables d’Olonne on Sunday July 1, 2018, with the inaugural solo non-stop around the world yacht race expected to take 9-10 months to complete (via Tony Molloy, WOR iog via DXLD) ** IRAN. 7230. IRIB. Enero 15. 0003-0050 UT. Noticias de HispanTV sobre la salud en Chile, México y la política exterior, Caravana de migrantes, y otras problemáticas latinoamericanas. Desde las 0015, se emiten informaciones sobre “Otra política es posible” en Europa, luego se habla acerca de Panamá, Bolivia, Venezuela, entre otros países latinoamericanos. A las 0030, se emite una entrevista al respecto de Macri y el panorama político en Argentina, la ideología conservadora de Bolsonaro y de los países pertenecientes al Mercosur. Desde las 0046 se emite un reportaje acerca de la niñez en América Latina. SINPO. 45444. 7230. IRIB. Enero 20. 0030-0059 UT. Servicio en español. Entrevista acerca de las noticias falsas, la viralización de las mismas en whatsapp y los efectos de esto en la política, tal como el caso de Brasil o de lo negativo en el periodismo. SINPO: 44444 con leve interferencia de CNR-1. 7230. IRIB. Enero 21. 0000-0100 UT. Servicio en Español. Noticias de Hispan TV sobre varios países latinoamericanos, entre ellos: Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela, México, Chile, Guatemala y Ecuador. A las 0026 aviso de los programas siguientes y cortina musical. Desde las 0028, se realiza un comentario acerca de los Derechos Humanos en Estados Unidos hasta las 0035, luego aviso de la emisora y Programa de conversación acerca de elecciones, nombrándose al Parlamento Europeo. SINPO: 45444 (Claudio Galaz; Receptor: Tecsun Pl-660; Antena: Hilo de 50 metros de largo; Lugar de escucha: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile, HCDX via DXLD) So there we have a good look at Iran`s outreach to Latin America; whilst VOA abolished SW in Spanish many years ago. However, 7230 is an INTRUDER frequency into the Region 2 ``exclusive`` hamband (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KASHMIR. I contacted AIR Leh today regarding non reception of their SW frequencies lately. I was informed that their SW transmitter is indeed on air on 4760 & 6000 but with low modulation. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio Hyderabad, India, Jan 24, dx_india yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH. 9665, KCBS at 1645, sappy patriotic music. Much of the 31 m waveband dying at the moment, but this station remains the strongest station on the band - Very Good Jan 19 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; HQ-200; RS SW-2000629, with various outdoor wires. 73 and Good Listening.......! WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. JAPAN, JSR Shiokaze Sea Breeze & Furusato no Kaze on Jan.24 1300-1400 on 7345 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs English Thu, good 1405-1435 on 7295 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese, good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-jsr-shiokaze-sea-breeze.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.24-25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7295, Jan 24 at 1432, music and YL Japanese talk with 3 Hz SAH from a second much weaker station. Aoki and EiBi agree that sibling stations Shiokaze (Sea-Breeze) and Furusato no Kaze now overlap for 5 minutes on 7295: 1405-1435 Shiokaze from Ibaragi/Yamata JAPAN site, and 1430-1500 Furusato no Kaze via Paochung, Taiwan. In fact, altho not made clear in either listing, as Ivo Ivanov reports, the 1405-1435 broadcast of Shiokaze is axually a relay of Furusato no Kaze --- so it`s in effect FnK vs FnK, in fact could be the very same program 25 minutes apart. The first one goes off at 1435* eliminating the SAH and uncovering the much weaker S8 and undermodulated Taiwan one, tho supposedly 300 kW from both, but at quite different azimuths vis-à-vis us. Shiokaze et al. have a pitiful record for incompetent frequency management, like jumping onto a frequency already occupied by China, currently 7345 for the 13-14 broadcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. UZBEKISTAN, Three clandestine broadcasts via Tashkent, Jan.22 Radio Free North Korea from 1201 on 7610 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean, fair/good Voice of Wilderness from 1331 on 7625 TAC 100 kW / 070 deg to NEAs Korean, very good North Korea Reform Radio from 1430 on 7600 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-three-clandestine.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.22-23, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 5920, Voice of Freedom (oppo) at 1355. All over heavy DPRK jamming, jammer remained on after station went off at 1400. M in Korean language in monologue, soft instrumental music, then off - Good Jan 20 5920, Voice of Freedom (oppo) at 1530. Rechecking frequency, has them reopened. Korean pop, well over DPRK jamming and intermittent unrelated utility station with intermittent bursts. - Good. Jan 20 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; HQ-200; RS SW-2000629, with various outdoor wires. 73 and Good Listening.......! WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. KBS World Radio. Russian service. Sunday Magazine. January 20, 2019. “Please pay attention to this message. Since [sic] March 4, some changes will occur in our programs. First of all, on Saturdays, instead of news releases, “Panorama of the Week” will sound on our air, and on Sundays at the beginning of the program - a 10-minute issue of the heading “We Speak Like Heroes of TV Series”. There are no five-minute issues of “Speak as Heroes of TV Series”, which are now aired from Monday to Friday after the radio magazine “Seoul Today”. Due to this, the duration of "Seoul Today" will increase slightly, and we will have the opportunity to include one more song into it. Within the framework of the Sunday Magazine, instead of the column Mini-Theater: a Beautiful World, twice a month a new column will be aired with a review of news about the CIS countries in the Korean media. On Tuesdays at the end of the Seoul Today radio magazine, the World of Korean Cuisine column will be replaced by Korean cinema news.” http://world.kbs.co.kr/service/program_segments_view.htm?lang=r&procode=one&bbs=othc_letter&no=29137 (via Rus-DX 27 Jan via DXLD) Wonder if similar adjustments apply to what`s left of English service, inaudible most of the year to ``NAm`` at 13-14 on 15575 (gh, DXLD) ** KUWAIT. 5959.87, Radio Kuwait, Sulaibiyah / Kabd, 0322-0332. Traditional Middle Eastern vocal music. Announcement in Arabic by a woman at 0325, then talk by a woman over/around music. Announcements by a man at 0327 followed by national anthem. Announcements by a man at 0330, then a few bars of music and talk by a woman with music. Weak signal occasionally fading up to moderate strength. 1/22/2019 (Jim Evans, Germantown, TN. Equipment: IC7300, IC-R75, Perseus, Random Wires, Wellbrook Loops, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) typical Unscheduled broadcast of Radio Kuwait in Filipino in 41mb, Jan.22: 1000-1045 7249.7 KBD 250 kW / non-dir WeAs Filipino, good signal and 1000-1200 17760.1 KBD 250 kW / 084 deg SEAs Filipino as scheduled B18 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/unscheduled-broadcast-of-radio-kuwait.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan 22, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KYRGYZSTAN. KYRGYZ REPUBLIC, On Jan 23 noted an UNID carrier on 5134.749 kHz at 1510 UT; could it be Kyrgyztelekom at Krasnaya Rechka Bishkek warm-up the small 15 kW TX unit? scheduled religious in Dari/Persian, irreg. few days a week [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 22 - 25, dxldyg via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. ANTENAS MAHAJANGA --- segun informacion de Rob Wagner VK3BVW Recientemente, los transmisores de Madagascar World Voice estaban "en un abrir y cerrar de ojos" (es decir, fuera de servicio) debido a un rayo y un incendio resultante. Aparentemente, un transformador explotó y sacó la estación del aire durante aproximadamente una semana. Según las fuentes, se requirió que una parte de reemplazo se enviara al sitio de Mahajanga en Madagascar. Sin embargo, en una nota más brillante, World Christian Broadcasting ha publicado un breve video de una vista de dron del sitio de Mahajanga, acompañado por la canción Jingle Bells en un idioma no identificado. Y puede consultar una vista satelital mundial, cortesía de Google Maps ingresando estas coordenadas: -15.727372, 46.445842 https://youtu.be/xFMWwDrncDI (via Conexion Digital 27 Jan via DXLD) Drone-view greeting video with a somewhat incongruous Xmas song (gh) ** MALAYSIA. 9835, Sarawak FM, Jan 22, not heard 0945+; no signal at all. 11665, Wai FM (presumed), on Jan 22, actually did hear them at 0946 with distorted audio; certainly them, but unable to make out a clear Wai FM ID. So this goes off the air extremely early now. In the past the sign off was at 1600, so a radical schedule change recently. Thanks very much to Rob Wagner (Australia), who pointed out Wai FM was still on the air, but at a very different time than heard in the past (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DXLD) ** MEXICO. 610, XEGS, Guasave, Sin., JAN 11, 1105 - Initially prevalent with norteños and banda music. XHGS ID between songs, sometimes including time checks. [Vance-TX] 620, XENK San Andrés de la Cañada, Edo. Mex., JAN 12, 1110 - U.S. contemporary hit radio oldies and periodic rooster crows. Frequent "Radio Seis-Veinte" ID announcements with mentions of "Colonia Roma" (studio location). Full ID at 1129, followed by a series of station promos then back to music. [Vance-TX] [I wonder where he gets that location? Funxions as a Mexico City station; WRTH 2019 says Ecatepec EM. IRCA Logs no other place ---- gh] 860, XEMO, La Poderosa, Tijuana BC, JAN 12, 1401 - National anthem in progress; ID at 1402:40: "XEMO La Poderosa Ocho Sesenta..." also mentioning 10 kW power and address at 950 de León. Rough copy so not sure what followed. [Wilkins-CO] 860, XEZOL, 860, R. Noticias, Cd. Juárez, Chih., JAN 17, 1306 - National and local news; frequent MST time checks and "Ocho Sesenta Radio Noticias" ID's. Fair in the mix. [Wilkins-CO] 970, XESW, R. Madera, Cd. Madera, Chih., JAN 21, 1303 - XE anthem in progress, followed by a long prayer; finally an ID at 1309 giving call letters, "Radio Madera" slogan, address, and probably other stuff. Music followed, presumably the regular program "Entre Pasadas y Presentes." So-so copy today in the mix. [Wilkins-CO] 1000, XEOY, R. Mil, México, DF [sic], JAN 12, 1210 - Mexican contemporary hit music. Frequent "Mil AM" ID's, time check, and temperature between songs. Call letter ID at 1233 UTC. [Vance-TX] Robert Vance, El Paso TX; WiNRADiO G33DDC, various indoor and outdoor loop antennas. John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge CO; Drake R8, 4-foot box loop (NRC IDXD via DXLD) ** MEXICO. 6185, Radio Educación, Ciudad de México, 0520-0601*, 20-01, Spanish, comments, songs. 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also UNIDENTIFIED 6185 ** MEXICO. Al circular por la carretera Panamericana, que atraviesa Chiapas, basta con encender la radio para escuchar mensajes bíblicos en español y en lenguas indígenas, principalmente tzotzil y tzeltal. Son “púlpitos electrónicos” que exhortan, predican, amonestan y bendicen a sus fieles. Hay 67 estaciones radiofónicas religiosas, localizadas en 31 municipios, pero su área de difusión cubre la mitad de la geografía estatal. Además, en la zona fronteriza se capta la señal de dos radiodifusoras guatemaltecas: Radio Santa Teresita del Niño Jesús (católica) y Estéreo Shadai (cristiana) [sic]. La proliferación de radios religiosas “pirata”, o “radios al margen de permisos”, como prefiere llamarlas el doctor Sarelly Martínez Mendoza, catedrático de la Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas (Unach), muestran la “increíble disputa por fieles que hay en el estado”. Aunque tardía, la incursión de la iglesia católica en la radio sucedió en junio de 2012, al crearse Radio Tepeyac, en el 93.3 de FM. Estación de la Diócesis de San Cristóbal de las Casas - una de las dos únicas radiodifusoras con permiso de la Comisión Federal de Telecomunicaciones (Cofetel) -, que “transmite todos los días del año una programación cristiana dirigida a la familia, con mensajes, estudios, cultura y todo tipo de servicios”, informan en su página web. Destaca también Radio Vida, una estación cristocéntrica que transmite en la ciudad de Ocosingo por el 92.7 de FM, la más importante de Chiapas por su número de oyentes y el área que cubre, que abarca a todas las comunidades que están en la selva Lacandona. Su potencia se debe a un transmisor de tres mil watts que fue adquirido gracias a la aportación voluntaria (300 mil pesos reunidos en sólo dos meses) de sus radioescuchas. “Las emisoras religiosas no son simples medios de difusión sino púlpitos electrónicos”, explica el doctor Sarelly Martínez, quien recientemente coordinó una investigación sobre este fenómeno, titulada: “Radios al margen. Frecuencias no concesionadas en Chiapas”, en la que participaron Hugo Alejandro Villar Pinto, Francisco Cordero y Juliana Matus. Chiapas, con su variedad de creyentes, es el estado con el mayor número de estaciones radiofónicas que emiten mensajes cristianos desde diferentes denominaciones: católicas, pentecostales, adventistas, presbiterianas y cristocéntricas, explica el doctor Martínez. Son muestra del dinamismo que se vive en Chiapas respecto a la religión. San Cristóbal de las Casas es el municipio con el mayor número de radiodifusoras religiosas. Aunque los católicos suman 65.5% de su población, sólo hay una radiodifusora católica (Radio Tepeyac) y, en contraste, operan una decena de radios evangélicas. El doctor Martínez ejemplifica como emblemático al cerro de Huitepec, en la zona alta de Chiapas no sólo por su elevación de dos mil 700 metros sobre el nivel del mar y mil 600 metros sobre la ciudad de San Cristóbal de Las Casas, y que forma parte de la historia de la radiocomunicación nacional y chiapaneca. Desde abajo se contabilizan 16 antenas de diverso calibre que transmiten para Televisa, Televisión Azteca, Sistema Chiapaneco de Radio, Televisión y Cinematografía, además de las radiodifusoras “pirata”. Este cerro, desde septiembre de 2006, es territorio zapatista y se mantiene bajo el cuidado de la Junta de Gobierno de Oventic. “Curiosamente - explica el doctor Martínez - fueron los comuneros, y no el gobierno, los que organizaron las antenas de la radiodifusión y les dijeron como deberían estar funcionando; ellos deciden si bajan o no una antena; y es a ellos, los ejidatarios, a quienes hay que pedir permiso para establecer una nueva antena”. Hace diez años, en 2008, las radiodifusoras religiosas vivieron la peor ofensiva presentada por el gobierno federal para cerrarlas. Agentes de la AFI decomisaron equipos de radiodifusoras ubicadas en Mapastepec, Villa Las Rosas, Comitán y Frontera Comalapa. Ante los operativos - recuerda el investigador de la Unach -, los cristianos decidieron mostrar su músculo. Hicieron una marcha que congregó entre tres mil y seis mil personas para exigir reformas a la Ley Federal de Radio y Televisión con el propósito de que las asociaciones religiosas pudieran administrar estaciones de radio sin fines de lucro. Como resultado de esas movilizaciones se instaló una mesa de diálogo el 19 de diciembre de 2008, en donde la Secretaría de Gobernación garantizó que no habría decomiso de estaciones religiosas en Chiapas hasta que lograran los permisos respectivos. En otras palabras, desde ese momento serían toleradas (El Sol de San Luis via Conexion Digital 27 Jan via DXLD) Más: Los municipios de Santa María del Río y Moctezuma tendrán posibilidades de tener frecuencias de radiodifusión, a partir de las convocatorias que abrirá el Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) a mediados del 2019. A nivel nacional se contempla la licitación de un total de 41 frecuencias de radio para uso comercial, así como la asignación directa de 31 frecuencias de radio y 11 canales de televisión para uso social y público. En el caso de telecomunicaciones, el PABF 2019 incluye, entre otras, la licitación de espectro de segmentos de bandas para servicios móviles como telefonía y acceso a internet de banda ancha. Para uso comercial, se pondrán a disposición 39 estaciones de radio en Frecuencia Modulada (FM) en localidades de Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Guerrero, Jalisco, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, SLP, Sinaloa, Sonora, Yucatán y Zacatecas. Mientras que habrá a disposición dos frecuencias para Amplitud Modulada (AM) en Michoacán y Puebla. En este caso, entra el municipio de Moctezuma. Para concesiones de uso social, el PABF 2019 considera la asignación de 21 frecuencias de radio FM que operarán en localidades de Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Guerrero, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, SLP, Sinaloa y Sonora; y 3 estaciones de radio AM en Michoacán, Puebla y Veracruz; mientras que, para uso público, se pondrían a disposición 7 frecuencias de radio FM para cubrir localidades en Campeche, Chihuahua, Durango, Guerrero y Nayarit. La circunscripción de esta licitación es para Santa María del Río. (source? via Conexion Digital 27 Jan via DXLD) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- including DTV = TDT Raymie, do you have a handle on how popular (or not) directional antennas are on AM stations in Mexico? They seem considerably less common than in the U.S., but that's based on observations of what's notified to the FCC (notoriously inaccurate for *all* non-U.S. stations, not only Mexican facilities). For example, a list of stations in Nuevo Leon lists only five directional stations. (XEBJB-570, XEFB-630, XENL-860, XET-990, and XEMR-1140. XEBJB, XENL, and XET are also listed with *non*-directional antennas.) Of course, a directional antenna implies considerably more land required, and considerably more difficultly in moving to a different site (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, http://www.w9wi.com Jan 22, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) No, but there is information on directionality in the Coverage Viewer. XEJP is listed as directional, so it's possible that the other La Pradera stations were. XERED is also directional. ——— Radio Centro continues to be front of mind in the media news today, with two stories in El Financiero alone. In another interview, this time with Itzel Castañares, Francisco Aguirre Gómez says that four stations will be combined at the new Radio Red AM site, https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/empresas/grupo-radio-centro-apaga-radio-red-am-por-mudanza-de-antenas though there's not much precision on which site that will be. (On paper, Atlazolpa is housing four stations already.) The other item, this time a blurb in a column, https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/opinion/cuarta-transformacion/seadrill-reloaded mentions some specifics that have not been raised before, namely a specific mention of the cancellation of the more than 25-year-long XHFO operation contract because GRC couldn't keep paying 8 million pesos a month to run the station. It says GRC's debt is about 1.15 billion pesos, primarily in the form of bonds and other securities (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, Jan 22, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) More violence against community radio stations this time is only limited to physical damage. Unknown assailants ransacked the studios of XHSILL-FM 106.7 in Hermosillo. https://twitter.com/PDesplazadosMX/status/1087748368607178752 (Raymie, ibid.) In announcing formally all of the picks to lead the various public media outlets, Andrés Manuel López Obrador also announced his appointment to head up RTC. Rodolfo González Valderrama https://news.culturacolectiva.com/mexico/quien-es-rodolfo-gonzalez-fernandez-proximo-director-rtc/ is not the highest-profile name by any stretch, but he has a background in public relations and media. He holds a master's degree in communication from the UNAM and had headed up the PR offices of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) and the federal environmental prosecutor (Profepa). Most recently, he was the director of public relations for the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation. González was raised in Tampico and has been described as one of the closest tamaulipecos to the president. https://expreso.press/2019/01/23/propone-amlo-a-tamaulipeco-para-regular-radio-cine-y-tv/ There will also be a new umbrella "Public Radio and Television System" (Sistema Público de Radio y Televisión) that will provide some level of coordination between all the public media agencies (Raymie, Jan 23, ibid.) In August, I looked at some partially declassified documents relating to bidders in the IFT-4 auction. I'm going back to that well where there are some new documents available. G1-034254 - Grupo Radio Sapp, S.A. de C.V. If you can believe it, another Torres/Navarro/GlobalMedia bidder. This one should have been called the Q bidder; it was authorized to make bids on stations at Puerto Morelos Q. Roo and Cadereyta de Montes and Tequisquiapan Qro. The IFT — today, by chance — released through a transparency request made by a third party full bidding records for every station lot in the auction. We know that Sapp bowed out fairly early in each bidding. La Mera en Playa, S.A. de C.V. Redactions do exist in these documents, but in some cases they are not enough to hide the identities of winners. The Promotora de Éxitos (Radio Centro) approval warned of the concerns the agency had if Promotora de Éxitos and La Mera en Playa won stations. Why? Because there was a connection between the two. The redactions suggest that a person "RA" related to La Mera en Playa was a related person to Francisco Aguirre. A redaction of "los CC. Francisco and [XXXXX]" suggests that this person is probably also an Aguirre. Lo and behold, Rafael Aguirre was on Radio Centro's board of directors until 2013. Corporación Sonitel, S.A. de C.V. One of several winners of the 88.3 Chignahuapan Pue. station that never paid, Sonitel was allowed to bid provided that some of its employees cease providing services to businesses of the Cañedo family. In Puebla radio, Cañedo means Cinco Radio. Administradora Arcángel, S.A. de C.V. Arcángel — Grupo Imagen — came out of IFT-4 with just one station, 98.1 FM Chilpancingo. However, they were allowed to bid on much more and probably had their sights on doing better. In some cases, they placed one bid and walked away. However, Imagen placed multiple bids in a couple other places, including La Paz and Chetumal, suggesting heightened interest in those frequencies. We're also going to meet some applicants that were turned away: A1-220143 Activación Radiofónica y Medios, S.A. de C.V. — Another Luz Network company. While they hoped to bid for Guasave, family ties with RSN prevented that. It's worth noting that this and other Luz Network filings say that while some Luz people hold stakes in RSN concessionaires, there isn't even any "personal treatment". That sounds like a family fallout. L0-453150 LD Noticias, S.A. de C.V. — Speaking of RSN, this vehicle would have bid for one of the stations in Guamúchil. However, it would have given RSN a market participation greater than 30 percent. LD stands for Línea Directa in this case. R1-052033 Radio Integral Puerto Vallarta, S.A. de C.V. — Look ma, it's Grupo ACIR! And yes, that was the only market they wanted to bid on with this company. This is the first time ACIR is confirmed to have sought participation in the auction. R1-230301 Ros Comunicaciones, S.A. de C.V. — The direct shareholders of Ros (as in Rosiñol Abreu) are not known names, Corporativo Rosher and Proyectos Inmobiliarios del Carmen. But if I tell you Mario Antonio Boeto Blanco's name is in this, you'll immediately understand that these are the people behind XHIT and XHMAB Ciudad del Carmen. Carmen was the only market in which they had interest. S1-300542 Sinalomedios en Comunicación, S.A. de C.V. — See Luz Network, but for Guamúchil. T1-113350 Triangularte, S.A. de C.V. — Two managers of XHMZO-FM Manzanillo attempted to seek a station at Armería, Colima. (I suspect these may have been the two that were denied a social wolf there.) A concentration concern blocked this effort (Raymie, Jan 24, ibid.) I was a bit surprised to learn that Armando Carrillo Lavat had resigned from the SPR. Now it seems a bit more like he was forced out https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/columna/periodistas-el-universal/nacion/la-ruta-de-villamil-y-la-clase-media-jodida — according to one El Universal columnist, he was treated in a "rude and even intimidating" manner by government officials who wanted to make their own nomination. The resignation is effective February 1; Carrillo Lavat will return to TV Azteca and ADN40. https://heraldodemexico.com.mx/opinion/vientos-de-cambio-en-el-poder-judicial-de-la-federacion-miscelanea-politica/ (Raymie, Jan 24, ibid.) Owning Radio Centro stock has not gone over well for anyone this week. The shares opened the week at 14.5 pesos and closed today at 10 pesos after precipitous falls on Tuesday (13.8%) and Thursday (20%). (Raymie, Jan 24, ibid.) [and non] The rumors whirling around GRC have picked up hurricane-like speed. GRC's Los Angeles station, which has lost GRC over $1 million or more a year for some time per the MX official filings, quit subscribing to Nielsen and then let go the whole morning show, about a dozen people in all. A google search on "bancarrota" and "radio centro" produces several pages of news reports from the last week, mostly based on the closure of XERED for "a transmitter move" and the firing with no indemnification of 97 employees. Usually when a station moves to a new site, they build first and then transfer the programming to the new transmission facility before decommissioning the old one. Not this case, making me think that the closure was used to conveniently and cheaply getting rid of the entire news and announcer staff of XERED now that XERC-FM is the GRC flagship news and talk station. XERED has had mediocre-to-bad ratings in the last few years, and they never recovered from the Gutiérrez Vivó fiasco. I suspect GRC will come out of this with an efficient new format for XERED and, probably, sell the dog that is KXOS in LA. The LA money will likely pay much of the loans taken out to pay the fines they "earned" in the last several years from the aborted TV episode and the monopolistic practices litigation. I think that the bankruptcy rumors are, thus, false. Panchito is very good at walking on the edge of a precipice without falling, and always profiting from his daring stunts. This looks like another one, his biggest yet. He's the Evel Knievel of broadcasters. Last edited by DavidEduardo; 01-28-2019 at 02:23 PM. (David Gleason, La Quinta CA, originally Jan 27, ibid.) If you like crumbs, the first update of the multiprogramming and virtual channel lists in three months has a few to snack on. One order of business was the assignment of virtual channel 8 to XHTX, which had lost its channel 5 along with Canal 5 to XHTUA. Other virtual channel assignments include the 8 for XHFAMX, revealed the other day, and two assignments that make sense: 8 to XHRTNA and 13 to XHTMPT. Officially, seven of twelve Telsusa transmitters from IFT-6 now have the virtual channel; the remaining five are Veracruz, Xalapa, León, Chetumal and Tulum. XHCLV moved to channel 9, which should allow two more Telsusa transmitters to use 13. Additionally, the Canal 16 service in Chihuahua has been scuttled. Already delayed due to changes in funding priorities and major cuts of much as 80 percent to advertising spending at the state government, Imagen surrendered the multiprogramming authorization before the January 15 deadline to put it on the air. The channel, which was to carry a few local programs and many shows from national public broadcasters, may not appear until Chihuahua gets its common-concession state network, which is pending at the IFT. I've asked the new social communication coordinator for Chihuahua's government, María José Valles, for comment. She replaced Antonio Pinedo in December. ——— This week also saw the other shoe start falling at Broadcast Company of the Americas, the embattled San Diego operator of Tijuana and Tecate radio stations. BCA dismissed its vice president of programming and operations https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/183436/vp-programming-and-operations-mike-shepard-among-l along with eight other staffers (Raymie, Jan 26, ibid.) Acustik? Akustik? It just got more confusing. A few months back, the Quintana Roo division of Acustik—long characterized for running its own website and social media and a pirate radio station—subtly changed from Acustik to Akustik with a K, which matched the legal name of the company, Akustik Media, S.A.P.I. de C.V. On Friday, it announced it was changing again due to "trademark registration concerns", https://www.facebook.com/noticiasorigen/photos/a.1322442237796129/2615983755108631/?type=3&theater to Origen Noticias. The Q. Roo operation now has a new site, origen.tv. What's evident is that this is a real schism. In two articles this week, it was mentioned that the presidents of Acustik and Akustik/Origen were at NATPE in Miami. The former is Roberto Arandia, who came over from the acquisition of LiveNetwork and has been linked to (the late) Rafael Moreno Valle. The latter is José Gabriel Gutiérrez Lavín, who once ostensibly owned all of Acustik. Obviously these are now separate businesses. The primary offering of the new Origen seems to be two new TV channels: https://www.facebook.com/noticiasorigen/posts/2611573155549691?__xts__[0]=68.ARDcPqzaJ5KwFHbE7JG_FTZ2k1vOpDThK3qPsP06eBPvTCvh1T49lxzQ2jXGcYgBsFPaGpFI4hVbv4pSRJFfeMwTi_47KS85DVqxBbir4iSC_t6yVctXpWaWNmXu3WbaUSV5PLYAWoAS4tcU5yR4pEzByiTUQQEzxCqJfMABVLNdhy8b_Fk0pHjvTk8AncDYVffJ8BDFrjQl1GMyMaFWKgOaTlEmyeKsV2lgdSQ787NHlFCbiHeXbQF4Q60Ymz34p8SaMo4-Z0AebdpHhDoO3OSTMD9MXQWf3gUXEnr-iWOUD2xkYDycG-_jJWov9Bej9AQIXDZP-p7n-ACzhJ5bolRja48b&__tn__=-R Turistik and Urbanik (definitely names thought up to go with, uh, Acustik). These channels appear to be separate from Acustik TV. The trademarks for Acustik (with a C) are owned by a company known as Comercializadora GLB Trading, S.A. de C.V., headquartered at Paseo de la Reforma 250 in Mexico City, according to IMPI MarcaNet records. A page on Acustik's corporate website confirms this address was related to the company. http://grupoacustik.com.mx/nuestras-instalaciones/ However, this facility ended up being too extensive for Acustik to maintain; they have since moved to Río Nazas 34, Col. Cuauhtémoc. (Raymie, Jan 27, ibid.) I always enjoy reading your analysis, and I think you've nailed it here. GRC is definitely in something and there's actually a blurb in one of today's columns in El Heraldo de México https://heraldodemexico.com.mx/opinion/ifc-por-ano-record-y-creditos-por-800-mdd-baker-aqui-con-gobierno-e-ip-apps-y-compromiso-con-amlo/ mentioning additional challenges facing the company. One is an investigation by the IFT related to payments from the TV auction (presumably IFT-1). Another has not been previously reported: legal action by some of Francisco Aguirre's siblings who had sold him shares in the company, who claim Pancho has not honored agreements that were made at the time of the sale. Speaking of people named Aguirre (and related), CIRT head José Luis Rodríguez Aguirre says the IFT needs to revise downward its payment structure https://www.mediatelecom.com.mx/2019/01/28/pide-cirt-bajar-el-costo-a-licitacion-de-radio-y-tv/ for the coming IFT-8 radio auction. He says that with increasing competition for advertising, auction prices should be adjusted lower than they were in IFT-4 two years ago. It was also announced this morning that authorities in Baja California Sur have captured the man https://lasillarota.com/estados/cae-el-moreno-presunto-asesino-de-rafael-murua-detienen-periodista-homicidio-el-moreno/268373 suspected of killing Radiokashana founder Rafael Murúa last week. His name is Héctor (last name withheld), alias "El Moreno", and he's a 34-year-old man from Veracruz who is one of the leaders in the local drug trade. [Tagline:] Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa (Raymie, Jan 28, ibid.) ** MONGOLIA [and non]. 4895, Mongolian Radio 1 (presumed), prominent carrier (no modulation) heard on Jan 22, checking at 0919, 0943 & 1115; some Voice of Strait (China) QRM from 4900. This was confirmed today by Hiroyuki Komatsubara via his "Now On The Radio DX" website. Thanks to Hiroyuki for his monitoring! "-0923- 4895kHz MONGOLIA, Radio 1, //Live :: http://www.mnb.mn/live/radio1 Updated info from WRTH Facebook (Jan 22) - Mauno Ritola - "AIR Kurseong seems to have restarted also the evening transmission today on 4895 kHz." Alok Kr Dasgupta - "Yes but weak." Mauno Ritola - "Yes, here in Finland co-channel Mongolia is stronger. Jose Jacob said, that they should run at 30 kW, but maybe even less now after reactivation to see, how it works." (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DXLD) See UNIDENTIFIED Re: [WOR] Mongolian Radio, Murun 4895.02 now on air, heard via SDR Kiwi Irkutsk --- If their transmitter has a fault, I hardly think they will repair before the mid-late spring. Winters are very-very harsh in Mongolia. This is the reason why mainland Chinese are timing their transmitter checks and repair in the summer - especially in western part of the country (Tibor Gaal, Hungary, Jan 22, WOR iog via DXLD) Surely the transmitter is inside a building, even with heating (gh) Probably not a fault; after reactivation at New Year on 4895 kHz it just has operated irregularly and often closed in local afternoon after the reactivation at new year. Maybe lack of power. Today it operated only a few hours 0030-0500 and is definitely off now at 1100. 4830 kHz has been off for half a year (Mauno Ritola, Finland, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONGOLIA. Reception of Voice of Mongolia in English on Jan.23: 0900-0930 on 12084.9*U-B 250 kW / 178 deg to SEAs English, fair * strong QRM 12080.0 BJI 100 kW / 255 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-2 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-voice-of-mongolia-in.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 7255-, Jan 21 at 0644 check, no signal from VON. Again Jan 22 at 0640 nothing. Is 9690- still being heard after 1800, and low- hetting Spain after 1900? Not a trace of it Jan 22 at 1823. No LAH het against Spain at 1918 (tho at both times a JBA carrier on the plus side, presumably local device). People keep expecting VON to crash completely on SW, but it`s far too early to conclude that just yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good signal of Voice of Nigeria in Hausa and Fulfulde on Jan.23 0600-0700 7254.9 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf Hausa, B18 as scheduled 0700-0730 7254.9 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf Fulfulde, not in French 0730-0800 7254.9 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf Fulfulde, as scheduled: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/good-signal-of-voice-of-nigeria-in.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.22-23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7255-, Jan 23 at 0707, VON is back on in African language at S9+10/20 after AWOL at least the past two mornings. Wolfgang Bueschel measured it on 7254.939 today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7254.939 kHz, V of Nigeria Abuja. Though there are some S=6-7 -85dBm signals into SDR units in western Ireland, Belgium and Riviera Italy, also to MA US state coast at 0810 UT on Jan 23, as well as S=4-5 -103dBm 'in-land' in Bavaria Germany. I could understand NOTHING of the program, low level audio, I could only recognize male/female voice this morning. 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good signal of Voice of Nigeria on new morning frequency 9689.9 kHz Jan.24 0700-0750 9689.9 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg Fulfulde, instead of 7254.9 Jan 23; from 0750 no signal-transmitter is not on air https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/voice-of-nigeria-on-new-morning.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan. 23-24, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7255-, Jan 24 at 0702, no signal again from VON, tho it was on yesterday in presumed Fulfulde (if it`s African but not Hausa, only other one they employ, despite several major Nigerian languages). French is supposed to be aired at 0700-0730, then Fulfulde, but Ivo Ivanov reported that on Jan 23 the entire hour was Fulfulde; while today Jan 24 they were on ``new morning frequency`` 9689.9 instead, again in Fulfulde at 0700-0750*. Which I did not check but not likely to propagate as well hereward. Rather I will assume VON are indecisive about which language to air on which frequency. 7255-, Jan 25 at 0645, VON is back in presumed Hausa, S9+10/20, despite yesterday`s ``new morning frequency`` of 9689.9 as Ivo assumed. 7255- still on at 0704 check and no 9690 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Nigeria in Hausa & Fulfulde again 7254.9, Jan.25 0600-0700 7254.9 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg Hausa, instead of 9689.9 Jan.24 0700-0800 7254.9 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg Fulfulde, instead 9689.9 Jan.24 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/voice-of-nigeria-in-hausafulfulde-again.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.24-25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7255-, Jan 28 at 0732 check, VON is off again (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. GERMANY, New clandestine via MBR Issoudun - Radio International, Jan.22: 1900-1930 7265 ISS 100 kW / 175 deg WCAf Nigerian Fulfulde, good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/new-clandestine-via-mbr-issoudun-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.22-23, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7265, 23/Jan, 1901, FRANCE (Non), Nigerian Fulfulde. As announced by Ivo Ivanov. OM with ID, instrumental music, follows the programming with interviews recorded and commented. The signal é weak. 73 (Jorge Freitas My Blog: https://dxlogfreitas.blogspot.com/ Feira de Santana, Bahia, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DXLD) But what station is it? Ivo said Radio International, Which still doesn`t tell us anything about the source. Anyhow the next broadcast should be underway now at 1922 UT Jan 24. Follow the videos of today's listening with the signal a little better and some of the videos in filter mode 2. They are in my blog: https://dxlogfreitas.blogspot.com/ (Jorge Freitas, ibid.) I tuned in at 1929 UT Jan 24 on 7265 kHz and caught a just under a minute of African indigenous music on a flute (or similar wind instrument) until CRI in Esperanto burst onto the frequency at 1930. By the way (for what it's worth): Radio Ndarason International have been known to ID simply as "Radio International" (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, ibid.) It's Koode Radio International [thanks to Mauno Ritola via WRTH Facebook group for the ID]. Details on their website here: https://www.kooderadio.com/koode-radio-live-transmission/ (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, ibid.) On air for a month already. Since they openly operate from Abuja, can hardly be clandestine: ``Koode Radio an international radio station with Fulfulde as the major broadcasting language will officially launch and start broadcasting its programs tomorrow 26th December from 8:00-8:30 PM, targeting at least 70 million speakers of the language dispersed across the African continent from the Gambia in the West, to the east Sudan then to the south up to Gabon, Fulfulde is one of the largest African languages and ethnic groups.`` (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) 7265, 24/Jan 1922-1930, FRANCE (Non) Nigerian Fulfulde. As announced by Ivo Ivanov. Mauno Ritola identifies it as Koode Radio International. The signal é weak. Due to my location and the low propagation of the moment, the signal comes to me weak. Here are some videos with 2 and 1 kHz filter mode recording of today's broadcast. (Jorge Freitas, Brasil, ibid.) GERMANY, Reception of Koode Radio International via MBR Issoudun, Jan.25 1900-1930 7265 ISS 100 kW / 175 deg WCAf Nigerian Fulfulde good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-koode-radio-international.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.24-25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 4081-USB, Jan 26 at 0348 music must be a pirate (in absence of any to be heard on 6.9 MHz band), but unfortunately this lands right amid local-device blob (cable box or computer?) which I cannot evade. 0350 YL (Synthyl?) ID as ``You are tuned to ---- shortwave radio ----``, followed by a 6-note tune repeated over & over (IS?), 0354 on to heavy beat music; 0405 another YL ID, ``Thank you for listening to ----`` but again cannot copy the significant words, and off. Answer is here from a few other logs: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,50427.0.html Mix Radio International, heard as early as 0230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 4085-AM, Jan 27 at 0250, DJ and rock music S9 but noisy, by 0256 JBA carrier. Must be an unidentified pirate I will uplook later in HF Underground --- NO, not a single log there now or ever on 4085! --- the first time I search it, but as Ron Howard point out there are plenty including at the time I was hearing it: X-FM https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,50482.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. Whatever happened to YHWH? Once again, it's been many months since anyone has heard YHWH. Perhaps not since last October? I was wondering whether all of the wild fires impacted them? Might have knocked them of the air temporarily or permanently? Just wondering (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, Jan 28, WOR iog via DXLD) ``Them``, AFAWK, was one guy, ``Josiah`` (gh, DXLD) Hi Walt, Jan 18 (UT), spent several hours seriously looking for YHWH between 7200 to 7700 kHz, about 0230+, with no results at all. Couldn't find his distinctive audio anyplace. Is always possible he has changed frequency or is broadcasting at a different time? Time will tell if he ever returns in our evening, to his former frequency again (Ron Howard, San Francisco, Jan 28, WOR iog via DXLD) Thanks for looking, Ron. I also casually look in the 41 m band for signals which otherwise shouldn't be there, and no sign of him (Walt Salmaniw, BC, ibid.) ** OKLAHOMA. 27185-AM, Jan 27 at 2125 on caradio, continuous techno music, seems local as no fadeouts and no QRM on prime CB channel if there were skip; stops to dead air at 2139; recheck at 2155, back to normal inane QSOs with reverb. No less a pirate broadcaster than on 6.9 MHz? (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. DTV RF19, Jan 26 at 1555 UT, KAUT OKC ex-RF-40 is barely decoding, during minor Level-1 tropo enhancement over central OK, also southern KS, maybe source of some of the only other non-normal Bad signals on RF 22, 31, 42. I suspect it`s just the tropo, KAUT not yet up to repacked par; nothing visible in afternoon (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN [and non]. Reception of Radio Sultanate of Oman / Oman FM 90.4 MHz on Jan.23: 1400-1401 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu transmitter is not on air from 1401 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu English, very good + weak same time 15140 QVC 250 kW / 130 deg to SoAm Spanish Radio Habana Cuba from 1501 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu switches on Arabic https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-radio-sultanate-of-oman_24.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan. 23-24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA. See INDONESIA (WORLD OF RADIO 1967) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3259.994, On Jan 22 at 1125 UT noted - probably - R Madang in Pidgin singer group performance, S=6 -90dBm signal on remote SDR in Brisbane Queensland. UNID INS / PNG ? 3325even fq, poor S=6 or -86dBm in Brisbane at 1133 UT on Jan 22 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 22 - 25, dxldyg via DXLD) ** PERU. 4747. R. HUANTA 2000. Enero 15. 0124-0135 UT. Entrevista a profesora, luego corte de señal y portadora al aire desde las 0133. SINPO: 45444. 4775. R. TARMA. Enero 15. 0136-0146 UTC. Música de cumbias serranas. SINPO: 44443 con leve interferencia de heterodino de una emisora sin identificar [probably Brasil --- gh] 4775. R. TARMA. Enero 16. 0010-0028 UT. Música de cumbias serranas intercaladas con saludos al público. SINPO: 45454. 4955. R. CULTURAL AMAUTA. Enero 22. 0016-0026 UT. Hombre habla en idioma quechua. SINPO: 45444 (Claudio Galaz; Receptor: Tecsun Pl-660; Antena: Hilo de 50 metros de largo; Lugar de escucha: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile, HCDX via DXLD) ** PRIDNESTROVYE. re Moldova two spurs, nothing noted today Jan 23 at 0840 UT. I guess has something to to with harsh winter condition also on Balkan, i.e. ICING on feederlines or antenna dipols? [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 22 - 25, dxldyg via DXLD) Broadcast centers in use are different during daytime, via TDF Issoudun or Radiotelecentr (PRTC) transmitter Grigoriopol Maiac MDA. 11530even kHz, this Jan 25 at 1043 UT S=9+25 or -52dBm signal in remote Doha Qatar site. Nothing heard of the spurs yesterday noon on Jan 24. But today Jan 25 again 7 main x 100 Hertz apart distance spurs seen again, 'wobbling' unstable frequencies_strings, either side on approx. 11480 and 11580 kHz, 11479.417 ... x.423 kHz and 11580.577 ... x.583 kHz, both S=7 or -85dBm strength level. PS: Background of the broadcast on the short wave: the 38 million Kurds are that ethnic group, 95 years ago at the peace conferences of the British and French Empire Colonial divisions in the Middle East after the Ottoman empire collapse were N E V E R served. And hope for their own state ever since. Das hatten wir hier schon mal genannt im letzten Monat: Radiotelecentr (PRTC) transmitter Grigoriopol Maiac MDA Moldova. Ganz einfach zwei Spurs symmetrisch von 50.283 kHz Abstand beidseitig. Fundamental 11530 kHz, und etwas huepfend unstabil wobbelnde 5 x 100 Hertz Abstand Signal-Strings sichtbar, bei 11479.713 ... 722 kHz, sowie oben auf circa 11580.280 kHz 5 strings visible, gleichermassen (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 19 / 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) But what I heard on 11479v around 1600 was NOT A SPUR from 11530; and Mark Coady, Ontario independently reached the same conclusion. See UNIDENTIFIED (gh) ** RUSSIA. UTILITY, Samara & Rostov Meteo and Military One, Jan.23: 1245-1250 on 8888 kHz USB mode Samara Meteo, weak signal 1257-1300 on 11297 kHz USB mode Rostov Meteo, good signal from 1313 on 11253 kHz USB mode Military One, fair signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-samara-meteo-rostov-meteo.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Interesting places ------------------------- Uralmash, one of the world's largest radio repeaters. Towers-jammers on Veera. December 18, 2017, Author: Stanislav Shminke. Text and photos. https://ural-n.ru/p/uralmash-odin-iz-samyh-bolshih-v-mire-radio-retranslyatorov.html (Anton Yakunin, Volgograd, Russia / https://vk.com/club3877182 RusDX Jan 27 via DXLD) At Yekaterinburg ** SAUDI ARABIA. 11820.044, BSKSA [sic] Riyadh, HQur`an program prayer, 18-22, noted at 2142 UT Jan 23. S=8 signal on remote units in Europe [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 22 - 25, dxldyg via DXLD) This music used to be good enough to nap by over here, always off-frequency-plus, but not for a long time now; maybe by spring? (gh) ** SEYCHELLES [non]. U.K., FEBA Radio / Radio Sama via ENC-DMS Woofferton, Jan.28 1700-1830 on 9775 WOF 250 kW / 107 deg to N/ME Arabic, very good: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/feba-radio-radio-sama-via-enc-dms_28.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SINGAPORE. 7465, Jan 24 at 1524, S9+10 fading to S7 of almost dead air, trace of modulation. Only thing sked is BBC Pashto this hour via Kranji. At first thought it might be a closer carrier like Radio Martí, atop a weak one, but not //11930 and 7465 is not on current RM roster anywhen. (BTW, Aoki still lists YHWH on 7465 at 0000-0700 altho not heard for several months) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SLOVAKIA. Cards of the "International Radio Slovakia" in 2019 will be about Bratislava. The Russian service of the International Radio Slovakia (RSI) told about the subject of the 2019 verification cards. In March of this year, Bratislava will mark the 100th anniversary of the time when this name appeared on the map of Europe. A quiz “Bratislava: yesterday, today, tomorrow”, consisting of 10 rounds, is held for listeners. Also, the management of the broadcaster decided to release QSL, dedicated to this event. “Taking into account that this year the RSI quiz is dedicated to Bratislava, we decided that the new QSL cards will fit this topic. We hope that you will like them and, of course, we look forward to your letters in which you will appreciate the new cards, ”said RSI Chief Editor Josefina Mikleova. “International Radio Slovakia” broadcasts daily at mid-wave in Moscow and the Moscow region at a frequency of 738 kHz. The heading on the letters of listeners "Feedback" is published on Sundays. (via Igor Kolke, Moscow, Russia / https://kolkeradio.blogspot.com/2019/01/2019_20.html via Rus-DX 27 Jan via DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 13845, WWCR Nashville TN (presumed); 1931-1940+, 1/19; Boldly Sanctimonious Bull Shitter Bro. Stair on a real roll; pearls of “wisdom” included: After Jesus comes, there will be 45 days of travail (where did that number come from?); lamenting on how he is hated, “I am not a wicked man.” (Just a fondler) Talked about how he stays on the air & mentioned being on “The Planet X” (WBCQ?). “There was no 10 million years ago.” “Time has existed only 6000 years.” (I’m still waiting to hear how many years have passed since the end of the 6th Genesis “day”.) Went into a multi-faceted rant about how evil America is, black holes, planet X, Trump rant, Saudi Arabia rant, War with Mexico, French-Indian War etc. & the coming financial collapse (At least he’s onto something there with the fiscally clueless Congresses we’ve had for too many years.) I’m surprised he didn’t work Glenn Hauser into this, but I’d had enough “wisdom”. SIO=454 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9455, Jan 24 at 0138, TOMBS at S3-S7, as UT Thursday is the sole day WRMI upfires this frequency for Hal Turner at 02-04, bookending with BS in each hour before and after (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 9739.920, Jan 26 at 1516, VP S2-S3 wobbly carrier, gone already at 1528. Only thing scheduled is AWR Nepali via Trincomalee, traditionally off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTEING DIGEST) ** SUDAN. 9505, Voice of Africa, Sudan Radio, Al Aitahab, 1650-1740, 19-01, African songs, French, comments, ID “La Voix de l`Afrique”, English, news, comments. 25322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. FRANCE, Very good signal of Eye Radio in various languages, Jan.23: 1559-1659 on 15410 ISS 250 kW / 139 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic* Mon-Fri * including other langs English/Dinka/Nuer/Shilluk/Bari/Zande/Lutoho https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/very-good-signal-of-eye-radio-in.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan. 23-24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWAZILAND. 9585, Jan 26 at 1513, S5-S7 in Special French about Dieu, J-C. It`s 100 kW TWR at 1455-1525 in Malgache/French at 64 degrees, following another 1418-1453 in other languages at 5 degrees. May well be the only African on band now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) and long-path? ** TAJIKISTAN. 4765.06, Tajik Radio 1 - Yangi Yul. Distinctly Central Asian sounding music programming with Tajik announcements at 1930. The music reflects this country's position on the border with Afghanistan and close to Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir. The Tajik language is a dialect of Persian (closely related to Dari). Interestingly, many Tajiks also speak Russian - a throwback to the eras of domination by the Russian Empire in the 1870s+ and later the Soviets, where it was known as the Tajik Soviet Socialists [sic] Republic (Tajik SSR). A surprisingly good signal right up until the signoff at precisely 2000 UT. Slightly off-frequency on Jan 19 (DX QUICK TIPS January 20, 2019, Some interesting DX signals have reached Mount Evelyn this week. Rob Wagner VK3BVW, via RusDX Jan 27 via DXLD) 4765.070, still further now on odd fq unit, from Yangi Yul Dushanbe site. On Jan 25 at 0205 UT S=9+20dB noted in Delhi India remote SDR [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 22 - 25, dxldyg via DXLD) ** THAILAND. 13745, Radio Thailand at 0040 with news and a local weather report from man, followed by woman with a sort of national community calendar segment - Absolutely Armchair Jan 22 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; HQ-200; RS SW-2000629, with various outdoor wires. 73 and Good Listening.......! WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND [and non]. In Bangkok, said farewell to the honored veteran of the Soviet radio. The mourning ceremonies and funerals of Mrs. Chyachan Thapanosot, who had worked as a broadcaster and broadcast on Soviet radio broadcasting in Thai for more than 25 years, were held in the Thai capital these days. Chyachan Thapanosots lived in Moscow for a long time and worked as a Soviet radio announcer in Thai from 1966 to 1992. In Thailand, she was known not only as a host of shortwave radio broadcasts from Moscow, but also as a translator of Russian fairy tales into Thai ... Chyachan finally returned to its homeland only in 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the termination of broadcasting in Thai. For the rest of her life, Chyachan Thapanosot lived quietly and modestly in the Bangna district on the eastern outskirts of Bangkok ... The Moscow radio host and translator of Russian fairy tales died in Bangkok in December 2018, at the age of 89. According to Thai tradition, the body of the deceased was embalmed and preserved until the day of cremation in a Buddhist temple, where religious ceremonies were held for several weeks ... Moscow Radio Inoveshcheniya - the first radio station in the world that started regular broadcasting in foreign languages, existed from 1923 to 1992 and became the predecessor of the Voice of Russia and Radio Sputnik radio stations. news.rambler.ru http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__72042/ (RusDX Jan 27 via DXLD) obit ** TIBET [and non]. India vs. China on 4920 very strong tonight via gray-line path --- I have been monitoring the 4920 AIR Chennai, India vs. Lhasa, China clash this local evening starting at about 0040 on 24 January (when only S3 peaks), and it's been gaining strength dramatically to S9+5 peaks by 0100 but with rapid fading as usual - obviously via gray-line path. Sounds like about a 10 Hz SAH between the two. This same mix is also in at sunrise to past 1615 and is gone by 1645 usually, thus a dual opening these short days to here. The gray-line signals from these two presently reach stronger signal peaks than during the local morning reception period. 4980 presumed Urumqi, XJ. China is far weaker this evening than usual (at home here in Keeler, CA in the northern Mojave Desert). (Rx. used is my Kenwood R-1000 fed with RG-8 coax to a 20m end-fed wire.) 73 - (Steve McGreevy, 0115 UT Jan 24, WOR iog via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. 11601, Voice of Tibet - Dushanbe. S/on 1230 in Tibetan. Moves to 11605 at exactly 1235, right in mid-sentence and runs until 1300 s/off. Fair to good signal on Jan 17 (DX QUICK TIPS January 20, 2019, Some interesting DX signals have reached Mount Evelyn this week. Rob Wagner VK3BVW, via RusDX Jan 27 via DXLD) ** TURKEY. TRT Voice of Turkey on very odd frequencies, Jan.23: 0930-1055 11795.7 500 kW / 105 deg Persian, instead of 11795 Jan.22 1200-1225 7245.7 250 kW / 300 deg Bulgarian, instead of 7245 Jan.22 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/voice-of-turkey-on-very-odd-frequency.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12035.7, Jan 23 at 1357, VOT in English, off-frequency today, poor copy and soon mostly music occupying as usual last half of the broadcasts. Stronger Turkish on 11815.0 is talking, with accurate timesignal at 1400:00; and no sign of NHK CCI which should overlap until 1500, and often does, especially noticeable when they are ~700 Hz apart. 12035.7, Jan 25 at 1331, VOT English has just started but JBA, only enough to tell it`s an off-frequency day. Already off at 1422 recheck to hear if it`s built up as the Sun levants itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5960, Jan 25 at 2303, no signal from V of Turkey English to NAm; by 2344 a JBA carrier, from Urumqi *2330? VOT should be audible, as Romania DRM noise is detectable around 5980. Seems this transmission is missing more often than not. In case Emirler sloppyrators keep forgetting to change frequencies after previous nocturnal emissions, or are sound asleep, these are they, frequencies to check after 2300 in absence of 5960: -2130 French on 9625, 5970 -2200 Turkish on 6120, 5980 -2230 English on 9610 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 5960, Jan 26 at 2331, VOT English to N America is certainly on the air today, unlike yesterday, as I tune in first via UTwente SDR; very strong signal but with some humbuzz, and very little CCI from slightly off-frequency station; more of a problem is splash from 5970 China unless narrowed to considerably less than default 9 kHz AM bandwidth. The now-Saturday `Letterbox` is in progress, very informal replies to mail, ending at 2336 to be back ``in two weeks` time``. Does this mean none at all next Saturday, or playback this one, and a new one in two weeks? During music interval, checking 5960 direct, sufficient tho more fadey signal and no QRM problems, at 2339 good S9/+10. Back on UTw: After music break, `Turkish Cuisine` recipe for bugur (sp?) pilaf, and CCI with LAH is worsening. 2350 sign-off with totally mixed-up English schedule for A-season but some wrong times even then: 1830 9785 Europe, 2030 9620 SAsia/Australia; 2200 9830 Europe/USA/Canada, 1930 15520 to Afghanistan/Pakistan/India/Uzbekistan/Turkmenistan; 0300 9515 Europe/USA/E Canada/Cuba; 06-07 UT on 6165 Europe/Syria/Jordan/Arabian PeninSUla. (And the 1230 broadcast not even mentioned). Adds, ``Note that at 23-24 and 04-05 the broadcasts are prerecorded``. Interesting the targets they specify, many of them non-English-speaking. Besides completely wrong A-season times and frequencies, there never is a broadcast at 06-07; 6165 was the // for the 03 UT summer transmission. Yet they specify the correct winter times for the repeat notice. Dear announcer: please engage brain before reading copy. 2352 IS fragment is cut off before even one play is complete (Alan Roe had noticed a new orchestration); and off uncovering the CCCCCCI talk. Fortunately, this week TRT does not stay on another hour with the unscheduled German service, off in plenty of time for The Mighty KBC. By 2359 the Nauen carrier is on causing quite a LAH with the Chinese. At least in Europe the QRM is pretty bad. But no doubt little problem back in N America. By 0130 recheck during Kim`s beepery, heavy QRM/het should make decoding that quite a challenge over there. What is the 5960 QRM? Xinjiang PBS, Urumqi, East Turkistan, listed in HFCC as 100 kW ND starting at 2330. However Aoki/NDXC says it start at 2310 with 50 kW ND; and EiBi agrees *2310. It`s significantly off- frequency causing LAH to VOT and KBC, but I don`t get it measured vs all the QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, From my observations, Letterbox has been outro'd as "back in two week's" for months now, but is never-the-less still heard weekly with (as far as I can tell) new editions each week (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DXLD) ** U K. 9775, Jan 27 at 1447, F-G, ``You are listening to a test transmission`` and music medley (a few seconds each) of S Asian, Portuguese? and off in less than a minute at 1448*. AFAIK, such tests come only from the Encompass Woofferton site (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) also 15600 as in 19-04 ** U K [non]. UZBRKISTAN, Frequency changes of BBC via Tashkent effective from Jan.25: 1330-1400 7520 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg SoAs Bengali, fair+jamming ex 5875 Parallel freqs 9510 SNG 250 kW / 330 deg & 11750 SLA 250 kW / 075 deg And frequency changes of BBC "Premier League" effective from Jan.26 1700-1800 NF 9465 MEY 100 kW / 030 deg to EaAf Somali Sat, ex 7335 1800-1930 NF 9465 MEY 250 kW / 032 deg to EaAf Somali Sat, ex 7335 1700-1930 NF 9600 DHA 250 kW / 215 deg to EaAf Somali Sat, ex 9465 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/frequency-changes-of-bbc-in-bengali-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.24-25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. Scala Radio (light classical music channel) to be launched on 4 March 2019 A NEW PLACE FOR CLASSICAL MUSIC - SCALA RADIO IS LAUNCHING JANUARY 22ND, 2019 Launching 4th March 2019 Weeks after the launch of Greatest Hits Radio and only months after the launch of Hits Radio, Bauer Media today announces a ground-breaking brand-new classical entertainment radio station, Scala Radio to its fast-growing radio portfolio. Offering classical music for modern life, Scala Radio is set to be the biggest launch in UK classical music radio in nearly thirty years, Scala Radio anticipates explosive growth in the genre and an ever growing cross-over into the mainstream - the new station will break the mould of classical music in the UK. Bringing together familiar masters along with fresh and exciting new classical pieces, Scala Radio will be presented with an informal ‘come as you are’ attitude. The new station will surprise and delight listeners with its accessible tone and unique format inspiring musical discovery, along with interesting conversation and features. Leading the presenting line-up is much-loved and award-winning broadcaster Simon Mayo who will host a brand-new mid-morning entertainment show, with celebrity interviews, listener interaction and a new re-imagined ‘Classical Confessions’ feature. Ensuring the conversation is as absorbing as the music, the new station will feature Angellica Bell leading the weekend, Mark Kermode who will bring alive his love of film scores and Chris Rogers hosting a live Sunday brunch show with guests. Music innovators Goldie and William Orbit will also launch their own series. ‘Goldie’s Classic Life’ will feature classical music mixes, alongside a narration of his own journey into classical music, explaining how it inspires him to write, perform and paint – as well as introducing listeners to exciting new classical artists. ‘William Orbit in The Space’ will be a curation of well-known artists, unusual pieces and new composers, mixed with classical versions of songs from other genres as well as William’s insight and exploration into classical music. In addition, one of Britain’s youngest commissioned composers - 19-year-old Jack Pepper will bring a new fresh point of view to classical music on the radio. Also on the line-up are presenters, Charles Nove, Mark Forrest, Sam Hughes and Jamie Crick. Insight has uncovered three major trends driving interest in classical music: the boom of the experience economy with 70% agreeing that there is nothing quite like hearing a live orchestra. Music being much more readily available via digital channels, leading to a new and younger audience discovering classical music through a new set of influencers, and enjoying as an emotional escape from the noise of modern life with 45% saying they want to know more about the classical genre. Scala Radio presenter, Simon Mayo commented on the launch, “There are hundreds of radio stations playing rock and pop, and only two classical music stations up until now. We’re different because we’re going all out to entertain, laugh with the listeners, and have a good time. Some of it will be familiar, some new and exciting but all timeless, beautiful and all absolutely relevant to today”. Steve Parkinson, Bauer Group Managing Director, National Radio said, “We are launching new radio brands at great velocity and we believe that Scala is the most exciting new personality-led radio station launch in years. The mix of music, personality and conversation will make it both intriguing and completely unique. We’ve completely re-imagined a format and designed it to appeal to a modern audience. This will be the very best in classical music for today.” Classical music is changing, and Scala Radio promises to provide the listener with the modern experience. With a huge rise in immersive music events - from movies with a live orchestral soundtrack to re-imagined classical concerts playing Ibiza classics or Prince – music lovers are enjoying classical music in a whole different way. The appetite for the genre is growing, with breakthrough classical artists appearing at the Royal Wedding, The Proms, and winning mainstream TV shows like Britain’s Got Talent. Scala Radio is for those that love classical music, and lead a modern life. Expect a broad and topical variety of the world’s most stunning music, including familiar masters from Mozart and Holst to surprising new works from living composers such as Karl Jenkins, Rebecca Dale and Thom Yorke (Radiohead). Both new and classic film scores, and a variety of musical pieces will feature, plus music performed by bright young artists like Sheku Kanneh-Mason. The station is set to become a big supporter of the arts and musical communities, as well as new and up-and-coming talent. Launching on the 4th of March 2019, the station will also feature topical shows covering the influence of classical music in gaming, mindfulness and special guest weekly round ups. The sound of the station has been created with modern bespoke scores recorded by The City of Prague Philharmonic. Listen on national DAB Digital Radio, online, via smart speakers and via mobile apps. Further information on how to listen can be found at http://www.scalaradio.co.uk -ENDS- Further information: - Cat Martin – Communications Director, Bauer Media cat.martin@bauermedia.co.uk - 07932 746 363 Sian Collins – Senior Commercial Communications Executive sian.collins@bauerrmedia.co.uk – 07718 124 791 About Scala Radio: Scala Radio is a brand-new entertainment radio station that breaks the mould of classical music in the UK. Presenters include Simon Mayo, Angellica Bell, Chris Rogers and musical innovator Goldie. The station plays familiar masters from Mozart and Holst to surprising new works from living composers Karl Jenkins, Rebecca Dale, Thom Yorke (Radiohead), film scores and musicals plus music performed by bright young artists like Sheku Kanneh-Mason. Scala Radio is for those that love classical music and lead a modern life. About Bauer Media UK: Bauer Media UK reaches over 25 million UK consumers through a portfolio of world-class, multi-platform media and entertainment brands including heat, KISS, Grazia, Empire, Magic, Absolute Radio and the Hits Radio Network. These brands offer commercial partners access to highly engaged audiences, with creative solutions underpinned by insight and instinct. Bauer Media UK is part of the Bauer Media Group, one of the world’s largest privately-owned media businesses with media assets all over the globe. https://www.bauermedia.co.uk/newsroom/press-releases/a-new-place-for-classical-music-scala-radio-is-launching (22 January 2019 via Dr Hansjoerg Biener 23 January 2019, DXLD) WTFK? Great Britain ----------------------------------- The largest media holding Bauer Media, which consists of 308 publications, radio stations and channels (Cosmo, Harper's Bazaar and others), launches Scala Radio in the UK. It will be led by former BBC host Simon Mayo. Bauer Media explained that the decision to create such a project is associated with a new trend among young people, according to which a young audience, tired of a rich rhythm, switches to the classics. Also, the press service of the company noted that all advertising campaigns of the radio station will be aimed at young people. According to the BBC, classical music was the fastest growing musical genre in 2018, sales of which grew by 10% over the previous year. On the wave of Scala Radio will be the works of both great composers and modern musicians. In addition, there will be themed shows, interviews and quizzes. As the head of the Bauer Group Steve Parkinson said, Scala is one of the most exciting projects in recent years. “The combination of music, conversations and the personality of the host will make him both intriguing and completely unique,” ??the businessman noted. Simon Mayo himself added that Scala Radio will differ from its few competitors in that “we are going to have fun, laugh with the audience and have a good time”. The launch of a new radio station is scheduled for March 4th. esquire.ru http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__72044/ (via Rus-DX 27 Jan via DXLD) ** U S A. Re: Where are they now? Al Merriman attended the Kulpsville NRC convention in 2005. He also attended one or two of the NASWA Winterfests in that time period. As of 2005, he was pulling around a trailer which we was living in, and was moving around a lot. I recall seeing a notice of Ray Moore's passing some time back. [obit] Richard Eckman had lost interest in DX'ing, I believe while he was still in college. I can't provide any info on Elliot Strauss (Russ Edmunds, WB2BJH, Blue Bell, PA, nrc-am gg via DXLD) ** U S A. As I am drifting off, tuning for beacons as I scribble info hoping it will be legible later; see also Canada for three more: 365 kHz, Jan 22 at 0712, ND beacon AA, which is 100 watts at Fargo- Harwood, North Dakota. I was tuned to 363-USB. 400 kHz, Jan 22 at 0714, ND beacon AHQ, which is 25 watts from Wahoo, Nebraska. That`s just north of Lincoln on US 77. 412 kHz, Jan 22 at 0715, ND beacon CMY, which is 30 watts from Sparta -Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. 420 kHz, Jan 22 at 0717, ND beacon FQ, which is 25 watts from Fairmont, Minnesota. 428 kHz, Jan 22 at 0718, ND beacon POH, which is 25 watts from Pocahontas, Iowa, NW of Fort Dodge. Almost all my beacon logs continue to come from the NE quadrant to here tho my longwire antenna to the R75 should favor E-W if anything 383, Jan 26 at 0708 UT, ND beacon CNP, 25 watts from Chappell, Nebraska, which is on I-80 midway between Ogalalla and Sidney just above the NE Colorado frontier. 379, Jan 26 at 0710, ND beacon RUE, which is 25 watts from Russellville, Arkansas. I`m tuned to 380-USB mixing with two others all at different pitches, this one lowest. Russellville, halfway between Fort Smith and Little Rock on I-40, barely escapes the NE quadrant to here, into the SE. 382, Jan 26 at 0712, ND beacon SP mixing with RUE, but SP at a higher pitch as I am still tuned to 380, i.e. 25 watts from Springfield, Illinois. I would much rather hear the SP on 386, 50 watts from St Pierre as in Miquelon. 380?, Jan 26 at 0715, as I am still tuned to 380, a third and weakest beacon is fading out and in at highest pitch, BXN? The only letter I am certain of is B-. Nothing very close to match at DXinfocentre, beyond 380 BBD Brady TX; or per https://www.classaxe.com/dx/ndb/rna/signal_list 380, UBX in Cuba, Missouri, but not logged since Dec 2005. Ideas? 375, Jan 26 at 0717, ND beacon DS, which is 25 watts from Searcy, Arkansas, NE of Little Rock, and home of Harding Univ., where an early HS girlfriend escaped from Enid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Glenn, This evening, UT Friday at 0330, I heard the Arizona beacon on 2097.3, sending "A," quite easily in Richmond, CA. Since it is an A1 modulation transmission, there is no carrier to look for, so where on earth did you find out about it and where it is located? I have no idea who would be in charge of it. Can you please enlighten me? (Art Peterson, Jan 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Art, I dug up this report from almost 3 years ago: ```2097-CW, Feb 23 at 0206 UT, beacon with a simple ID as A in Morse code every 10 seconds. Weak but no doubt about the letter sent. Tnx to tip from Rick Barton, Peoria AZ, who reported this Feb 16, as 2097.3, from Quartzsite AZ. It`s among the HIFers on this list: http://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/High_Frequency_Beacon ``(15 watts) - 'A' ident or malfunctions as series of dits - 15 watts max., 24/7 [1] Last reported: June 30, 2012`` Quartzsite is on I-10, 20 miles from California, or 944 miles = 1519 km from Enid, amounting to 63 miles per watt. Wonder what happened to some other such beacons in the 3.4+ and 4.0+ MHz range, including a couple in OK I used to hear?``` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WWV: See also HAWAII [and non] Days of amateur radio activity in connection with the anniversary of the station WWV, 09/28/19 - 02/10/19 01/19/2019 BY IGOR Press Release Radio Club of Northern Colorado Fort Collins, Colorado January 11, 2019 The Northern Colorado Amateur Radio Club (NCARC) announces the days of amateur radio activities in connection with the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the WWV time station - the oldest radio station in the world that has [NOT???] ceased broadcasting. She will turn 100 on October 1, 2019. In collaboration with the scientific long-wave (WWVB) and short-wave (WWV) radio stations, the radio club of Northern Colorado will work with 4 operators on different amateur bands at the same time. The goal is to conduct the largest number of radio communications throughout the world within 5 days - from September 28 to October 2, 2019, using various types of communication (telegraph, voice communication, digit). The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has included this event in the list of events held. Northern Colorado Radio Club and NIST are working together to coordinate the celebration and days of amateur radio activity. Due to the current suspension of the US government (shatdown) planning and discussions have been suspended. We look forward to the end of Shatdaun [sics], the future press release from NIST and the continuation of work on planning the celebration of this historic event. The radio club found it necessary to issue this press release on their own due to the uncertainty about the duration of the shatdaun and the need to notify all interested parties about this historical event as soon as possible. Organizing the work station is not an easy task, it will require the help of radio amateurs and radio clubs from all over Colorado, neighboring states and from across the country. Those interested in a trip to Fort Collins this fall and participating in the event are invited to submit an application starting February 15, 2019. More information on the official website dedicated to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of WWV: wwv100.com/? Based on SWLing Post. https://swling.ru/2019/01/19/dni-radioljubitelskoj-aktivnosti-v-svjazi-s-jubileem-stancii-wwv-28-09-19-02-10-19/ (via Rus-DX 27 Jan via DXLD) ** U S A [non]. 11610, Jan 22 at 1600, VOA jingles, S7-S9, uncertain language but scheduled as IBB Somali via Woofferton UK at 16-18 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency change of VOA Learning English via Tinang, Jan.23: 1130-1200 NF 11620 PHT 250 kW / 283 deg SEAs English, fair, ex 17790 1130-1200 on 12125 UDO 250 kW / 304 deg SEAs English, fair/good 1130-1200 on 15715 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg SEAs English, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/new-frequency-of-voa-learning-english.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non non]. 15580, VOA (via Greenville) long-path "echo" very strong -- While reading the latest DXLD on my iPad in my bedroom (I'm taking today off from a lot of yard-work labor/roof repairs), I've been monitoring the VOA 15580 on my bedroom DX394. Prior to 2100 this VOA signal was poor and fadey, but suddenly at 2100 they popped on much stronger with VOA News in English following a "VOA One" ID and into pop music, and turning up the volume louder I notice that the second "echo" presumably the long-path signal is far-stronger than the short-path and back-of-beam signal! I've noted the oft long-path "echo" on VOA 15580 for decades (since about 1988 actually) but never the switchover as just observed, whatever their beam was before 2100 UT and then afterwards (to Western Africa after 2100 UT I presume?). 73 - (Steve McGreevy -- N6NKS - http://www.auroralchorus.com 2118 UT Jan 23, WOR iog via DXLD) Assuming they are following HFCC-registered parameters, before 2100 it`s 10 degrees from Botswana, resulting in a poor signal in N America. At 21-22 only it`s Greenville eastward at 94 degrees. Unless the MUF is way down, I can get a VG signal from that directly off the back, never any LP echo. I suspect your primary signal is still Greenville short path. Also possible is on this date they failed to turn off Botswana by 2100, which would certainly echo against GB. HFCC: 15580 2000 2100 38,46-48,52-53 BOT 100 10 0 156 1234567 281018 300319 D 13500 Eng BOT IBB IBB 914 15580 2100 2200 46,47,52 GB 250 94 0 896 1234567 281018 300319 D 16000 Eng USA IBB IBB 915 (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Hi Glenn, Very interesting and thanks for the detailed info. I took a look at my 2018 WRTH English language section and noted that Greenville comes on at 2100. So the Botswana relay was the weak one, obviously beaming away from me. I made an audio recording earlier when the VOA echo was big, and I swear it sounded like the second "echo" was stronger than the first (short-path/back-lobe), but not 100% sure still, what with the QSB. Back in September 1988 I remember demonstrating this very same 15580 VOA frequency "echo" to a good friend in Santa Rosa [CA?] who was a budding DXer. It was often during the "AfroPop Worldwide" show with super music. She was amazed that a shortwave signal could travel nearly fully around the world and make such an echo. Hard to explain, though, why curtain antennas do have back-lobes, hi! I will monitor this again tomorrow and try to ascertain which or either path is coming in the strongest. I'll also see if the "echo" persists in the days to come - I assumed a long-path echo (LPE) rather than a second transmitter only because I've noted this VOA signal has been one of the best ones for LPEs over a few decades in CA, as I said earlier! It sounded similar earlier today. Regarding LPEs against short-path signals: has anyone done a detailed study of the echo-delay lengths on the various noted instances of this effect - delay vs. path lengths? VOA Greenville, being that the ratio of short-path to long-path distances is substantial to my QTH here, would likely have a longer LPE-duration than if a quarter way around the planet. (I also recall that when I was in Hawaii that 60 mb antipodal reception of stations in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswana was astoundingly-strong in comparison to reception of the same signals in Marin County, CA. I recently found a great cassette-recording of a very strong 4880 SABC from September 1989, pre Hawaiian sunset, made while I was DXing in the Hawaii Volcanoes NP with my Sony ICF-2002 during a stop on a long, insane, and grueling bike ride I did from Keaau. I put that on the Hawaii DX page recently. There are a lot of other 60mb recordings of such Hawaiian reception now being transferred to MP3 that I have too-long ignored in favor of the MW DX archives from there.) 73 for now Glenn and all, (Steve McGreevy, -- all of my DXing is done real-time with traditional (non-SDR) receivers --, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DXLD) I`ve done it before in some other instances; just measure the short- and long-path distances, if in miles, divide by 186,000, the speed of light per second, and subtract one from the other to get the fraxion of a second delay. A rough example, similar to your case: 23,000 miles vs 2,000 miles: 0.1234 minus 0.0107 = 0.1127 second difference (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Observations of the 15580 VOA situation at 2100 --- This is a follow-up to my submission last week pertaining to the VOA 15580 relay "switchover" at 2100 UT so: I went out on a walk out of town here at about 2045 (carrying my Sony ICF-SW7600GR), and I noticed a ways out that is was almost time to check out the switchover from the VOA Botswana relay to Greenville on 15580 about 2100. As such, at 2057 I noted a fair-to-poor and fadey Botswana relay of VOA airing the tail-end of what I think was the "Afro Pop" program. At about 2058, an open-carrier began far stronger, putting about a 5 to 7 Hz SAH upon the presumed Botswana relay. At 2100, audio began on the presumed Greenville VOA relay and the SAH shortly after ceased, indicating Botswana shut-off. But once again, the Greenville signal had a wonderful and cool sounding long-path echo (LPE) interspersed with a generally *weaker* short-path signal, and switching on the BFO, I could not detect a SAH of another signal whatsoever - just the phasing in and out of the two signals. Once again VOA Greenville on 15580 wins the "LPE Award" as it has for decades here in Calif. 73 - (Steve McGreevy, -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com -- all of my DXing is done real-time with traditional (non-SDR) receivers --, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) VOA: see also MUSEA ** U S A. VOA news cockup --- Something's always wrong at VOA, too. Listening to the 1700 "International Edition" a correspondent report turns out to be two-in-one, with two seemingly different versions of a report by the same female reporter playing at the same time. This seems to go on for more than two minutes. It's impossible to comprehend either one because they are at equal audio levels until one of the reports ends. Finally, we can hear a single report, but the audio is then turned down and the announcer states "Pope Francis will make his youth trip to Panama..." No apology or explanation is offered. Why does it take so long for anyone to notice this and fix it. No one noticed for more than two minutes? Is anybody listening? (Mike Cooper, GA, Jan 22, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. Anita M. Mallinckrodt, PhD, Augusta community activist, Town Historian, and history writer, passed on January 7, 2019. She was 89 years old. https://boonecountryconnection.com/featurespeople/obituaries/6369-anita-m-mallinckrodt-phd ...Following 1950's journalism work in Jefferson City and St. Louis, Anita spent the next decade living in Washington, DC, working as a writer in the Department of State and the U.S. Information Agency. In the 1970's she went to Cologne in the Federal Republic of Germany to work freelance in the field of political communication. Until 1992 that included international shortwave radio work for the Deutsche Welle, teaching German politics to U.S. exchange students abroad, and researching/publishing numerous books about East Germany. Mallinckrodt also periodically taught political science in Washington, DC, at George Washington and American Universities... (via Mike Cooper, GA, DXLD) Augusta, like in Georgia? No, I had to keep searching to find this in Missouri, very small town in St. Charles County west of STL (gh, DXLD) obit ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1965 monitoring: GERMANY, 6190, Hamburger LokalRadio, Goehren, 0720-0800, 19-01, English, program “Media Network Plus” and at 0730 Glenn Hauser’s “World of Radio”. 25322. 7265, Hamburger LokalRadio, Goehren, 1100-1200, 20-01, English, “Media Network Plus” and at 1130 Glenn Hauser’s “World of Radio”. 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1966 monitoring: confirmed Tuesday January 22 at 2056 on WRMI 7780, JBA on PL-880 portable; first check at 2030 was JBA carrier. Next: 2200 UT Wednesday WRMI *9955 to SSE 2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ *7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE 0930 UT Friday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 0729 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 0930 UT Saturday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND [alt weeks; not Jan 26?] 1200 UT Saturday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 1200 UT Saturday Unique *9265 via WINB to WSW [apparently canceled] 1230 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE 1531 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW 2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM MO non-direxional 2200 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND 0830 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5950 to WNW, 7730 to WNW 1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW 0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW 0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0930 UT Monday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE * also webcast; WORLD OF RADIO 1966 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday January 23 at 2200 [not 2100 as in original report!] on WRMI 9955, S9-S7 and about 6 words behind on WBCQ 7490.07v drifting downwards, also modulation somewhat distorted, but S9+20/10, stronger than WRMI which is not distorted playing back exactly the same file. Also confirmed UT Thu Jan 24 at 0128, just in time as the new 0100 on WRMI 7780 ends, poor S7-S5 but presumably better further east. Next: 0930 UT Friday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 0729 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1200 UT Saturday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND [alt weeks: Feb 2 & 16] 1230 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE 1531 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW 2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM MO non-direxional 2200 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND 0830 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5950 to WNW, 7730 to WNW 1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW 0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW 0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0930 UT Monday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE * also webcast WORLD OF RADIO 1966 monitoring: Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria confirms: ``GERMANY, Reception of World of Radio via HLR on 6190 CUSB, Jan 26: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on_22.html 0730-0800 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sat, fair signal`` I`m awake Sat Jan 26 at 1200 so confirm WINB 9265 is off, no longer carrying Unique Radio programming including WOR. Unique Radio itself in NSW would be airing WOR at this time but alternate weeks, Feb 2 & 16, so no signal now, but I am getting bits of 5055, see AUSTRALIA. I`m asleep again, so unchecked at 1230 for WOR on WRMI 9955. Next to check is 9485-CUSB from 1531 Sat for Hamburger Lokalradio with WOR --- as usual, absolutely no signal here, but none either via UTWente SDR when brought up at 1553. Alan Gale, England, also reports: ``Hi Glenn, Yet again nothing was heard on 9485 kHz here so I can't confirm if World of Radio was on or not. I thought conditions might have improved a bit now as the days get longer, but no luck so far. I will keep making my weekly check just in case it returns again. Alan`` Next: 2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM MO non-direxional 2200 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND 0830 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5950 to WNW, 7730 to WNW 1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW 0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW 0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0930 UT Monday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE * also webcast; WORLD OF RADIO 1966 monitoring: 1860-AM, Sat Jan 26 at 2030, WA0RCR MO is JBA propagating this early by daytime skywave, enough to tell it`s a YL talking, so already running late past nominal WORLD OF RADIO time. Check at 0257 finds heavy CWQRM on both sides, so another contest must be running. No CW above 1881 or so, so it might be prudent for WA0RCR to QSY to 1885+. OTOH, then its AM signal might confront LSB hams instead when there is no contest. WOR confirmed at 0427 UT Jan 27 at CIAO item, about 7 minutes in, so started circa 0420. Also confirmed Sat Jan 26 at 2200-2229 on WRMI 9955, good S9+20 with no jamming. Next: 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW 0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW 0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0930 UT Monday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE * also webcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) GERMANY, Reception of World of Radio via HLR on 7265 CUSB, Jan.27 1131-1200 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sun, weak/fair: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on_27.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1966 monitoring: confirmed Sunday January 27 before 2200 on WRMI 7780, JBA on portable PL-880, the 2130 which was below ambient noise level where first checked. Also confirmed UT Monday January 28 at 0230 on WRMI 5950, F-G interrupting an ID by Jeff. // 9395 a JBA carrier at first, finally JBA confirmed. (Strangely, often later at night, 9395 is in well.) Also confirmed UT Monday January 28 at 0400 on Area 51 webcast, right after music with no ID; also via WBCQ 5130.433, JBA at 0424 check. Also confirmed UT Monday January 28 at 0430 on WRMI 9955, VG S9+20, interrupting ``Hallelujah`` song before it`s over. I was listening to that from start at 0425 as fill after R. Prague 25-minute broadcast which at 0400 is on UT Sundays and Mondays only. WRMI plays the same fill music every Sunday night. It`s a moving performance but not Kate McKinnon, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG-_ZDrypec https://genius.com/Kate-mckinnon-and-leonard-cohen-hallelujah-lyrics nor the original Leonard Cohen; who? I hate to be the one interrupting, but it`s the automation setup, man. Next: [or maybe I`ll have 1967 ready by 2330 Monday?] {yes} 2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 7730 to WNW * also webcast; (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1966 monitoring: Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, reports: ``GERMANY Reception of World of Radio via HLR on 7265 CUSB, Jan.27 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on_27.html 1131-1200 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu English Sun, weak/fair`` WORLD OF RADIO 1967 contents: Argentina, Australia, Bhutan, Chile, China, Congo DR, Cuba, East Turkistan, India, Indonesia, Kashmir, Korea North non, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nigeria and non=7265, North America, Oklahoma, Papua, Thailand, Turkey, UK, USA, Uzbekistan; unidentified; and the propagation outlook. Ready for first airings: Confirmed Monday January 28 at 2330 on WRMI *9955, good S9+10 interrupting some music; lite Cuban jamming starts to ramp up about 2355 altho Spanish R. Libertad does not begin until 0015. Also UT Tuesday January 29 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, good-very good. Next: 2030 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0930 UT Wednesday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5950 to WNW 2200 UT Wednesday WRMI *9955 to SSE 2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ *7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE 0930 UT Friday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 0729 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1200 UT Saturday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND [alt weeks: Feb 2 & 16] 1230 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE 1531 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW 2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM MO non-direxional 2200 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND 0830 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5950 to WNW, 7730 to WNW 1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW 0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW 0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0930 UT Monday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE [or #1968] * also webcast; direct linx to these and many others at: 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. As is well known, Alexa can play various radio station streams from TuneIn and other aggregators as well as SiriusXM. So, yesterday evening (26 January) on a whim, I asked Alexa to play WRMI. And she did! In fact, at 2200 UT, it was World of Radio, episode 1966. The streamed audio is that which goes out on 9955 kHz. Another way to listen to WoR "live." And I think you can get Alexa to play the WoR podcasts, too. Haven't checked to see if Alexa knows about any other SW stations except for BBC WS (-- Richard Langley, Jan 27, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DXLD) 5850, WRMI, with BSR Radiogram repeat from November (still!) noted only because the FLDigi decode appeared, so apparently my audio recording caught things 'in progress'. Then into a repeat of SW Radiogram #83; photos in VERY Well. Compare these with other logs from WINB & Bulgaria: 5850A.jpg RCI’s former CTS-100 & Dragon Asteriod Gault towers w/tail 5850B.jpg Snowfall Dogs oil painting Tecsun scene D.C. in snow image by Jack Whitten [captions garbled] Tecsun Australia audio ad & Ian McFarland ID at BoH into GH World of Radio #1965, with the usual mix of radio news, including items about Bougainville NBC & Greece on 'their only SW frequency' 9420, 4+554+4+ 0747-0900* 20/Jan [Sunday] (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet 25 Jan via DXLD) 7730, Jan 22 at 0420-0430+, WRMI, VG with World Music fill including some of our old favorites. Sked during the 04-05 hour UT Tuesdays is `Broad Spectrum Radio` which hasn`t produced a new program since November, and its original middle-of-night airing has been more or less deleted. So a good time to hear the World Music loop; preferably without praise music mixed in (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5950, Jan 23 at 2054, this WRMI is propagating well enough to tell it`s Supreme Master TV, ID in passing. Here is the report about RFI, Jan 20, which I was trying to find, about SMTV schedule changes: ``0000-0100 5950 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg English new, instead of Oldies 0500-0600 5950 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg Supreme Master TV is cancelled 2000-2100 5950 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg English new, instead WRN - RFI ??????????? ?? Observer ? 12:45 PM`` 15770 is already off, so 20-21 on 5950 fills the gap between 15770 and 4980. The thing is, in English you cannot leave out the word ``of`` as in ``instead of`` --- if you do, it can mean just the reverse! I don`t recall RFI ever being on 5950 at 20-21, and if so it may not have been in English --- here referring to the SMTV language, which really must be mixed with a bunch of others. RFI English *was* for a brief while in the 00-01 hour, but not just prior to the latest shift. Survey of what`s on the WRMIs, Friday Jan 25 at 2250+: 9955, VORW 9395 // 7780, Spanish poetry about the tango, i.e. RAE relay; supposed to be RAE Italian on 7780, Oldies on 9395; or RAE Italian on both 5950, bass strumming, Italian talk, so RAE relay; both 5950 & 9395 supposed to be Oldies 5850, gospel huxter in English, on air Fri only: Yeshua P&P, which knocked WOR out of this good slot several months ago 5010, Spanish not // 9395/7780 where RAE Spanish supposed to be (only) 4980, SMTV in Spanish at the moment And checking the same at 2304+ Friday Jan 25: 9955, Spanish DX program about El Salvador: La Rosa de Tokio 9395 // 5950, also SMTV, no echo! 9395 supposed to be Oldies 7780, Blalock the Blaster with huxtergasms 7570, dead air. TOM supposed to start at 2300 5850, Radio Tirana in English, VG, Fridays only 5010, not checked; Family Radio Programa A is scheduled 4980, SMTV with echo on audio; see above 9395 // 5950 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Monitored WRMI Sunday Evening / Monday Morning (UT) 7780 kHz Schedule --- From my recording last Sunday evening, 27-28 January UT: 2100 Wavescan (#518) 2130 World of Radio (#1966) 2200 Oldies 2210 VOA News with Christopher Cruise 2215 Oldies continues 2300 Full Gospel Broadcast (program name used this week) 2330 Shortwave Radiogram (#84) 0000 Radio Slovakia International in Slovak 0030 Radio Slovakia International in English 0100 Wavescan (#518) 0130 Through the Cross Ministry with Pastor Chuck 0200 Radio Prague in English 0230 Viva Miami (in English, acknowledging "tons and tons" of listeners' reports, mostly U.S.) 0245 Living Water (still repeating; how long has it been now?) 0300 Transmitter off in the middle of closing announcement (-- Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD) Per Twitter: Shortwave Radiogram @SWRadiogram --- 2m The last Shortwave Radiogram of the weekend is soon at 2330-2400 UT on 7780 kHz from WRMI (with a good signal to Europe and eastern NA) swradiogram.net/post/182292496… Includes the sixth and final image of the @TecsunRadios Australia decoding competition (via Mike Terry, 2306 UT Jan 27, WOR iog via DXLD) Cancel the good signal to Eastern NA, or at least to Virginia. Still good to Europe, however (Kim Elliott, 2335 UT, ibid.) There was a very good signal into New Brunswick, quite a bit further up the eastern seaboard than Virginia. Kim: You'll get my usual report later (-- Richard Langley, NB, ibid.) Using an SDR in Slovenia, I received the nine MFSK images, 2330-2400 UT, 7780 kHz from WRMI Florida. The "noise" in the images is caused by local noise on the signal in Slovenia. The "jitter" in the devil and tree image was probably due to very brief (milliseconds) breaks in the internet connection between Slovenia and my decoding software here in Virginia. MFSK text almost entirely survived the same conditions that caused the fuzziness in images. This is because of the error correction incorporated in the MFSK text modes. The text shown below was decoded 100% except for ?ÑÈeŒ1??, which, even though I do not have Bulgarian, I'm pretty sure is not a word in Bulgarian (Kim, 0041 Jan 28, illustrated on the WOR iog, via DXLD) WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ: ** U S A. 7490.16, WBCQ Monticello ME (presumed); 2108-2113+, 1/18; on US-China trade; audio lost 15 seconds & back with rock tune, then back to English commentary S10 peaks (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) That`d be `Financial Survival` 7489.890, Fri Jan 25 at 2254, WBCQ off-frequency-minus for a change, last few minutes of `Behaviour Night` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) (7490), I`m busy elsewise, so miss the start of `Allan Weiner Worldwide` UT Sat Jan 26 from 0100, but John Carver quickly reported: ``Glenn. 7490 might be running AWWW but I can't pick it out of the noise. 5130 has the militia and no signal on 9330. Sorry man. Will keep listening to static and checking the other frequencies for at least a half hour. Really wish that Allan would keep 5130 clear during his show for a relay so those of us that are internet- challenged could still at least hear AWWW every week. John`` It`s running on the webcast which I tune in at 0112, as AW is ranting against Speaker Pelosi, so tune out at 0113. Did anyone else hear any significant apolitical info in rest of hour about programming changes or progress on Superstation? Recheck webcast at 0200, AWWW still running until 0208 or so; formerly cut himself off at 0200, so no programming to follow any more? Had been `Dead Frog Radio` at 02-04 UT Sats as still shown on the never-up-to-date program schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHER: ** U S A. 5890, Jan 22 at 0412, WWCR`s very brief sked on this frequency is very undermodulated but S9+20. Tough luck, `Worship` with Kelly Lawson! Hmm, seems I have said this before. How are the other frequencies? 3215, Jan 22 at 0416, S9+10/20 of dead air with some hum, instead of TOMBS. Thank you! 4840, Jan 22 at 0422, unfortunately, this WWCR is fully modulated with wacko Alex Jones. One out of three is not good: clearly, WWCR is a station very much in decline (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, Jan 22 at 2102, KVOH ID in English, gospel music in Spanish to dead air, so signing off? No, still there at 2136 with gospel rock. New program grid updated 21 Jan at http://www.voiceofhope.com/schedule/kvoh_program_grid.pdf now shows Spanish at 15-22 M-F, English at 16-21 Saturdays; and never on Sundays. By late afternoon has built up to decent signal, while from *1500 it`s usually a JBA carrier; however Jan 23 it`s fair by 1530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5970, Jan 23 at 1342, WEWN Spanish still gone, and not on 12050 either; nominal transition time is 1400. Audiblizes CHINA q.v. on 5970. 12050 is up sometime after 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5085, UT Fri Jan 25 at 0014, S9+20/30 of dead air from WTWW -2, with the weak parasitic spurs about 5072.1 & 5097.9. FWIW, websked claims: ``THE BOSS RADIO DREAM TEAM THE GREATEST HITS OF ALL TIME - WITH TED RANDALL- MONDAY - WEDNESDAY 8 PM - 12 AM CENTRAL ON 5085 THE GREATEST HITS OF ALL TIME - WITH STEVE TAYLOR - THURSDAY 8 PM - 12 AM CENTRAL ON 5085 THE GREATEST HITS OF ALL TIME - WITH GRANT HUDSON FRIDAY 8 PM - 12 AM CENTRAL ON 5085 THE GREATEST HITS OF ALL TIME - WITH JEFF LAURENCE - SATURDAY 8 PM - 12 AM CENTRAL ON 5085 THE GREATEST HITS OF ALL TIME - WITH BIG JIM EDWARDS - SUNDAY 8 PM - 12 AM CENTRAL ON 5085`` i.e. not starting until 0200 UT daily except Wed when there`s a ham show; and for only four hours until 0600, but sporadically stays on all night, or even all day, presumably automated beyond the ``dream team` DJ hours. (5085), UT Sun. Jan 27 at 0045 I remember to tune in WTWW-2 webcast for `Theater Organ in the Ozarx`, as I had found it before to be in stereo, and less distortion than on SW. But tonight as heard on headphones, it`s all in mono, with scratches and pops, so Bob is playing old vinyl by George Wright, and the distortion level even thus is at times extreme. Keeps going past 0100 so must have started late as usual; at 0106 self-QRM from a cue-up saying, ``This is the best - --``. Something`s always wrong at WTWW. Closing at 0107 Bob expects to *see* us again next week, which would be quite a trick, as AFAIK this is one-way AF sound via RF in the opposite direxion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9265, WINB YL 'legal' ID at 1829 into SW Radiogram #83 with 100% digital data copy, including all the headers that were missing from Bulgaria. One photo sent this week on a scale of 1-10 hit '11' on cuteness & the photo of DragonX was pretty cool too! 9265.jpg Jeff White's audio bit about the Tecsun contest was audible & at 1859 an OM ID for WINB into "The Bread of Life Victory Hour" with Pastor Jack Meeks in Huntsville AL. 44+4+44 (I originally was thinking 3+ but it really WAS better than fair-good, 1829-1915 19/Jan (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet 25 Jan via DXLD) See BULGARIA ** U S A. Russian Language Station on 7520 kHz --- I am in the US near Dallas TX - last night at about 0320 GMT I picked up a Russian language broadcast on 7520 kHz; it should have been All India Radio (which I have never been able to receive here) but it was a radio sitcom or play of some sort. Any ideas what that broadcast was? (John Dusek, UT Sun Jan 27, WOR iog via DXLD) Hello John, Indeed, direct transmissions from AIR emanating from India have to generally traverse the auroral-zone region of Earth and tend to take on a very rapid "fluttery fading" as received in North America (even California here) compared as heard from Europe or regions where the path to India does not come close to the auroral-zone(s) surrounding the magnetic poles. I'm sure SW DXers here will submit info and IDs -- I have not heard this so I don't know, but if the signal you heard is very "fluttery" in its fading-rate it MIGHT be from India or central Asia to your mid-continent TX location. 73 - (Steve McGreevy, CA, ibid.) As in HFCC, WHRI in South Carolina has some Russian during this hour on this frequency. AIR is supposed to be in Urdu (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) HFCC listing for WHRI 7520 claims it`s at 03-04 on Day 7 only = Saturday, but this is about Day 1 = Sunday: usual confusion over local vs UT days. WRTH 2019 pp 505-506 shows no 7520 nor any language but English for WHRI! EiBi shows 7520 on air from WHRI only Saturdays 03-04 and in English! More confusion about UT day. Aoki misses 7520 WHRI completely. I know WHRI briefly in Russian Saturday nights has been reported before but even FBC`s own current sked does not produce it. Frequency search includes 7.520 on dropdown as a possible one, but gets no hits. Nor does searching all frequencies in language: Russian. Then I inspect the program schedules for Angels 1, 2, 5 and 6. Nothing on 1, 5 or 6, but 2 is the one supposedly targeting Russia, and it includes this entry at the time you were listening: 0315 - 0300 10:15 PM - 10:00 PM Su Messianic Word Pictures Tracy Still 7.385 Mhz [sic!] I guess they meant 0315-0330, 10:15-10:30 PM unless they get time to flow in reverse. Google searches on keywords get no significant results except back to the WHR sked. The only thing to do now is tune in 7520 before and after these hours next UT Sunday, for WHRI IDs, and also note whether 7385 be off the air during that span. WWCR has also used 7520 in past, and has had some Russian on 15795, but current sked has no 7520 nor anything titled Messianic nor hosted by Still (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7555 was the final frequency of KJES Vado NM. Jon Gorski of Vinton, Iowa bought the facility, was planning to revive it and even invited me to participate with programming. But he has had health issues, and I have not been able to contact him over the past year. Now I see that the KJES entry has been removed from WRTH 2019. In 2018 issue it was between FTIOM and VORW, now replaced by Shortwave Radiogram which is another program, not a station. 2018 explained: ``In 2016, the Shellsburg Community Broadcasting Association bought the former shortwave station KJES from Our Lady`s Youth Center, Inc - the KJES license had expired in 2015. The new owner is planning to resume SW transmissions, but has still to receive the FCC permit`` I also notice in WRTH 2019 that the long-planned SW station KIMF in Nevada has been removed. For a sesquidecade, it has kept registering imaginary schedules, including HFCC B-18 on 6065, 9300, 13570; and occasionally some FCC activity concerning it has appeared; out of commission now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1030, WBZ Boston, MA received in Japan -- Salt water heading NW from Hull, MA transmitter site definitely helps "get-out-ability." https://eureka-fumi.blogspot.com/2019/01/comparison-of-wbz-news-radio-1030.html?fbclid=IwAR1zjb--aeI8vyXZ_nsO-XA6FKrRJqnOXJzfxIW4Y8-aqP5r2aqz5ZqO-Wo (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, IRCA at HCDX via DXLD) Thanks for posting this link, Mark. The DXpedition participants also received WPTX-1690 and WRDW-1680, the latter before Hokkaido sunset. These are major DX, even if their night time powers were being uh, unobserved. best wishes, (Nick Hall-Patch, BC, IRCA via DXLD) WBZ's tower site in Hull, MA - a peninsula surrounded by salt water on all sides but a narrow piece south - affords the station great "get-out-ability". http://www.bamlog.com/wbz.htm For your listening pleasure, a few recordings of WBZ 1030 at far-flung locations: Australia (FEB 1996) https://app.box.com/s/kydfvk9b18pj1h562f5bq8psc7jv423n Midway Island, Pacific Ocean (OCT 1965) RX = R-390A https://app.box.com/s/5idnzvxo93r3w56vmzxo2abefwm51uf2 Iceland (MAY 2018) https://app.box.com/s/94x7jc74zvzgqswgqw1nc53c9ozfhph5 On the MW Circle Facebook page, Vincent Stevens says "heard occasionally down in Cape Town" (South Africa) even though ERP that way is only about 5 kW, but next to no land in the way on the 7000+ mile route (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, ibid.) ** U S A. 1470, Jan 25 at 1349-1403 UT, I`m trying again to catch ``La Nueva 14-70 AM`` with a more definite ID, suspected reactivated KAIR Atchison KS, but no sign of it or any SS, mostly just KYYW Abilene TX mixing with KSMM Liberal KS; KYYW with ABC News at hourtop. Now I see a more likely one in the NRC AM Log: KWSL Sioux City IA, U1 2500/69 watts, SS:NOS format as ``La Nueva Preciosa 14-70``: https://lapreciosa987.iheart.com/ Nostalgic means going as far back as the `80s. And audio supposed to play thus: https://www.iheart.com/live/la-preciosa-987-fm-y-1470-4539/?pname=kwsl-am&campid=play_bar&cid=index.html to check for the slogan as I heard it, but includes an adstring in English after 1700 UT Jan 25, then a silly Mexican gabfest, ``Alex "El Genio" Lucas Show`` with no local IDs; http://www.alexelgeniolucas.com/ unclear whence it originate, but unseems local. Shows an 831-AC phone, which is around Salinas-Monterey CA. I keep trying to listen to the intermittent stream, and barely catch an ID at 1802 UT as ``La Preciosa - KWSL`` not `La Nueva`` and K254DL, as their otherwise top-billed FM 98.7 is of course really nothing but a mere 250-watt translator. Anyhow make my previous non-precious log tentatively KWSL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1510, KSFN, CA, Piedmont, 1/12 0520-0630 [EST = 1020-1130 UT] unexpected change from Asian format noted with alternative music, alternative to anything you’ve heard on any other station, with obscure musicians playing folk/blues/country/bluegrass/rock. 0530 quick announcement that KPIG was back in the Bay Area on 1510, for a limited time. Then at 0600 canned TOH ID “Yes, indeedee doodee, it’s Pig Radio, KPIG, Freedom, 107 oink 5 FM, KYPG, Cayucos, 94 oink 9 FM, and kpig.com” Several years ago KPIG was on this frequency until they ran into financial difficulties. A unique station with all kinds of puns/jokes related to pigs, hogs, swine, and pork, plus occasional pig squeal sound effects. Spots for Santa Cruz area businesses. 1/14 1400 [1900 UT] heard a live ID that included KSFN call for 1510 that is not included in the canned version of the ID, so I guess no call change at least not for the time being (Art W Peterson, Richmond CA, awpetersonrpf@att.net JRC NRD-545, Quantum ferrite loop, Bonito Boni-whip active antenna, WDXR, IRCA DX Monitor Jan 26, published Jan 22, via DXLD) ** U S A. 1520, Jan 25 at 1340 UT, KYND Cypress TX is *again/still* running that loop barker looking for clients rather than axual programming. It`s audible under KOKC, and occasionally topping my semi-local, as they are almost collinear so can`t null one to get the other. mentions how great their 25 kW coverage is of the sixth radio market (Houston), with phone (281) 373-1520. This is close to sunrise here, 1338 UT. KOKC ought to have no problem blotting this out, but has refused to restore its full potential of 50 kW ND. It seems I caught KYND on its first day back, per Mediafrog+ at https://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?714184-What-s-going-on-with-KYND-(Part-Two) First post from ``12-17-2018, 09:36 AM #1: What's going on with KYND? (Part Two) --- When checking KYND 1520 a number of times the past week or so, all I'm hearing is dead air. Not only do the owners have no clients to pay the bills, it would appear they are also content to set money on fire by transmitting 25,000 watts of nothing. What on earth is going on?`` And from ``Today, 12:01 AM #2: And an update: After six weeks of either being off the air or transmitting nothing but dead air, KYND was back this morning with its audio loop soliciting potential clients. Been almost 17 months without a paying customer for the station`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, Jan 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1660, Sunday Jan 27 at 1455 UT, church service in English concluding with standard benedixion; got to be KWOD Kansas City KS, straying from sports format as The Score; missed ToH ID, but by 1501 it`s back to sports scores. KWOD allegedly has no website, so no program schedule either. With a ~4 Hz SAH, from KQWB ND or KRZI TX, all of which are disportive (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1690, WMLB -- Glenn: I noticed this test transmission from the defunct Atlanta arts station this afternoon. Perhaps they are considering reactivation. Very good late afternoon skip with s9 plus signal. WMLB, 1690, 2200, 25 Jan. Test transmission with 60s rock music. ID between each song "This is WMLB 1690 Avondale Estates testing". Strong signal into Nashville, TN via daytime skip (David Hodgson, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1690, GEORGIA, WMLB, Avondale Estates. 0109 January 26, 2019. Thanks D. Crawford alert, here with long test loop of Classic Rock including the album version of Iron Butterfly's "Inagaddadavida," Chicago, CCR, Wilson Picket, The Grass Roots, etc. Frequent male recorded "This is WMLB, 1690, Avondale Estates, testing." Suspect it was a demo for a prospective buyer or LMA (Terry L. Krueger, All times/dates GMT, Clearwater, FL, IC-R75, NRD-535, longwires, active loop, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1690, FLORIDA (MIS), City Of Marco Island. New, apparently as of September, 2018. Unheard this far north as one would expect. Call sign unknown (the FCC dB doesn't appear to be returning results very well during this partial government shutdown). More information, including a photo of the transmitter, at: https://www.marconews.com/story/news/2018/09/25/mipd-launches-am-radio-station/1408610002/ Thanks Brian Miller K9RA for passing this information along. Florida Low Power Radio Stations: https://sites.google.com/site/floridadxn/florida-low-power-radio-stations (Terry Krueger, Clearwater, FL, NRD-535, IC-R75, active loop, broken longwire things, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BTW, call sign for that Marco Island TIS previously reported is WRCB708 (Terry L. Krueger, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. i-Heart Radio files for bankruptcy; http://www.insideradio.com/iheart-gets-court-approval-for-chapter-reorganization-plan/article_36c8f916-1e92-11e9-812f-1b2869694287.html (via Ken Zichi, MARE Tipsheet 25 Jan via DXLD) The United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas has confirmed iHeartMedia’s reorganization plan paving the way for the company to exit Chapter 11 during the first half of 2019. The finalization of the bankruptcy proceedings will see iHeartMedia’s debt reduced from $16.1 billion to $5.75 billion. The move will also include the separation of Clear Channel Outdoor [billboards] into a distinct publicly held company. iHeartMedia Chairman/CEO Bob Pittman and COO/CFO/President Rich Bressler have both agreed to new four year contract extensions with the company (Radio Insight via AM Switch, NRC DX News Feb 4, published Jan 27, via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DXLD) ** VIETNAM. RUSSIAN LANGUAGE RADIO. FOREIGN RADIO STATIONS "Voice of Vietnam". Review of letters for 2018. ...In 2018, the Voice of Vietnam’s Russian Editorial Office received more than 500 letters and comments from listeners from 15 countries around the world, such as Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Latvia ... In most of the letters sent to the Russian edition in 2014 [sic] are our listeners express love and attention to Vietnam, its people and culture, and also highly appreciate the successes achieved by our country in various areas, in particular in the areas of economy, trade and culture. We are sincere Thank you for your support and interest in our programs over the past year. ... In the new 2019, the listeners of the international broadcasting channel in Russian are waiting many innovations. From the beginning of February 2019 we will hold every week a small quiz. Five first listeners to give the correct answer to our question, will receive a gift. You can send answers to our email or write on our website. We want to emphasize that our questions will not be difficult for you because you can answer them easy enough to find on our website or on the Internet. We would also like to inform you that if earlier every year listeners who listen to our programs for three years, 5 years or 10 years, received memorable medals and certificates, then, starting from 2018, every year the Russian edition will give a commemorative medal and a certificate to only one best listener. In 2018, this title was awarded to Alexei Veselkov for the most the number of reports and letters sent to the Russian edition in the past year, as well as for useful comments and interesting questions. There is one information that was known, probably, not to all listeners. Due to a technical problem, our email stopped her work. Since 2018, the Russian edition of the radio broadcasting channel began to use the new e-mail . To avoid the loss of letters, please check information about the addressee before clicking on the button. On this we finish our transmission today. Thank you for attention. Hopefully that in the new 2019 you will continue to listen and support us. http://vovworld.vn/en-RU/%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B0/%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0BB% D0% BE% D1% 80-% D0% BF% D0% B8% D1% 81% D0% B5% D0% BC-% D0% B7% D0% B0-2018% D0% B3% D0% BE% D0 % B4-717344.vov (via Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / “deneb-radio-dx” via Rus-DX 27 Jan via DXLD)) If that URL look very strange --- yes, it gets a 400, but that`s the way it copied. You can start over at the Russian VOV site: http://vovworld.vn/ru-RU.vov (gh, DXLD) ** WESTERN SAHARA [and non]. EAJ203 Radio Sahara -- Christer Brunström I förra numret av Ekot visade Ronny Forslund ett kuvert från Tore Larssons QSL-samling. Det hade postats av Radio Sahara i El Aaiún i dåvarande Spanska Sahara. Intressant nog hade brevet frankerats med ett frimärke med radioanknytning. I min egen QSL-samling finns ett QSL-kort från EAJ203 Radio Sahara från 1967. Samma år hade en ny sändare på hela 50 kW installerats i El Aaiún och om jag kommer ihåg rätt var frekvensen 656 kHz. Beslutet att uppgradera EAJ202 i Villa Cisneros och EAJ203 i El Aaiún hade tagits den 2 juni 1967 och på rekordtid fanns de nya sändarna på plats. De invigdes den 18 juli 1967. Radio Sahara i El Aaiún var tämligen lätthörd och svarade fint med QSL-kort. Kortet föreställer en kamelmarknad i Spanska Sahara. På baksidan skriver chefen för Radio Sahara att vimplarna tyvärr tagit slut – annars skulle han ha bifogat en sådan. Men jag misstänker att jag trots detta var mycket nöjd med att kunna lägga Spanska Sahara till min samling radioländer. Spanien började intressera sig för området mellan Marocko och Mauretanien på 1880-talet och 1884-5 etablerades smärre baser i Villa Cisneros, Río de Oro och Bahía Blanca. Vad orterna hette på det lokala språket – en arabisk dialekt – brydde man sig inte speciellt mycket om. De första spanjorerna i Sahara var militärer och fiskare. Frankrike såg med ogillande att Spanien började intressera sig för kustområdet i nordvästra Afrika men år 1920 slöts ett avtal de två länderna emellan. África Occidental Española (Spanska Västafrika) bestod av området mellan Cabo de Bojador och Cabo Blanco. År 1959 anslöts områdena Río de Oro och Saguía och därmed bildades provinsen Spanska Sahara. Den lokala tuaregbefolkningen önskade självstyre och fick stöd av FN. År 1973 bildades POLISARIO som kämpade för en självständig republik. Detta var dock något som Marocko och Mauretanien motsatte sig eftersom de två länderna gjorde anspråk på Sahara. Den 5 november 1975 inledde Marocko den Gröna marschen då man ”fredligt” invaderade Spanska Sahara. Regeringen i Madrid slöt då ett hemligt avtal med regeringarna i Rabat och Nouakchott som ledde till en delning av provinsen. POLISARIO utropade den självständiga Demokratiska Arabrepubliken Sahara (RASD) den 26 februari 1976. Efter mångårigt krigande råder numera vapenstillestånd i provinsen men många Saharabor lever fortfarande i flyktingläger i trakten kring Tindouf i Algeriet. Marocko har de facto lagt under sig hela provinsen och vägrar fortfarande att genomföra den utlovade folkomröstningen om Västsaharas framtid. Jag har flera gånger diskuterat Västsahara med marockaner men de har ingen förståelse alls för att ”ökenborna” önskar slippa det marockanska styret för att bilda en egen stat. Kolonialism är uppenbarligen inte ett enbart europeiskt fenomen. Västsaharas stora rikedom är förekomsterna av fosfat och till en viss del fisket i havet utanför. EAJ202 och EAJ203 invigdes den 18 juli 1961. Inledningsvis användes äldre utrustning som ledde till ständiga tekniska problem. I juni 1966 ställde Cadena Azul de Radiodifusión i Spanien upp med att bekosta en ny sändare på 5 kW. Den invigdes den 18 juli samma år av General Franco under ett av hans besök i provinsen. Myndigheterna i Spanska Sahara insåg dock att den nya sändaren inte räckte till för att motverka radiosändningarna från främst Marocko. Det var detta som ledde till den kraftiga uppgraderingen år 1967. Myndigheterna hade ständiga problem med att organisera radioverksamheten i provinsen. Från 1972 fick Radio Nacional de España det övergripande ansvaret. På 1970-talet fanns även sändningar på kortvåg från El Aaiún på 25 och 49 meter. Kortvågssändare i Spanien användes också för att reläa program från Radio Sahara till nordvästra Afrika. Idag har den marockanska radion fortfarande en mellanvågssändare med regionala program i El Aaiún på 711 kHz. Dessutom har RASD en sändare i Tindouf på 1550 kHz. År 1964 gav Spanska Sahara ut en serie på åtta frimärken. Tre frimärken avbildar en tuaregpojke med en flöjt och ytterligare tre märken visar en kvinna med en trumma. På de återstående två valörerna ser vi en kamelryttare samt en mikrofon. Deras syfte var uppenbarligen att uppmärksamma att Spanska Sahara hade fått en egen radio. Jag har några dubbletter av serien om någon ARC-are skulle vara intresserad. --- Ett litet PS från TL: ARC har faktiskt haft ett specialprogram över EAJ203 Radio Sahara, det sändes den 27 november 1965 och hörbarheten här i Sverige var fin. ARC anordnade under en period i början av 60-talet då det var ganska lätt att få, speciellt spanska stationer, att sända ett specialprogram då övriga stationer på frekvensen lämnat denna fri, en av dessa var EAJ203 Radio Sahara. Senare under 60-talet blev de spanska stationerna hårdare centralstyrda och det blev inte möjligt att arrangera ytterligare specialprogram. DS (ARC mv-eko 28 Jan via DXLD) Google translation: EAJ203 Radio Sahara --- Christer Brunström In the last issue of the Eko, Ronny Forslund showed an envelope from Tore Larsson's QSL collection. It was posted by Radio Sahara in El Aaiún in the then Spanish Sahara. Interestingly, the letter had been stamped with a postage stamp with radio link. In my own QSL collection there is a QSL card from EAJ203 Radio Sahara from 1967. In the same year, a new transmitter of 50 kW was installed in El Aaiún and if I remember correctly the frequency was 656 kHz. The decision to upgrade EAJ202 in Villa Cisneros and EAJ203 in El Aaiún had been taken on June 2, 1967 and in record time there were new transmitters in place. They were inaugurated on July 18, 1967. Radio Sahara in El Aaiún was fairly easy to hear and answered well with QSL cards. The card represents a camel market in the Spanish Sahara. On the back, the head of Radio Sahara writes that the pennants have unfortunately ended - otherwise he would have attached such. But I suspect that, despite this, I was very pleased to be able to add Spanish Sahara to my collection of radio countries. Spain began to take an interest in the area between Morocco and Mauritania in the 1880s and in 1884-5, minor bases were established in Villa Cisneros, Río de Oro and Bahía Blanca. What the places were called in the local language - an Arabic dialect - they did not care much about it. The first Spaniards in the Sahara were military and fishermen. France looked on with disapproval that Spain began to take an interest in the coastal area of ??northwestern Africa, but in 1920 an agreement was reached between the two countries. África Occidental Española (Spanish West Africa) consisted of the area between Cabo de Bojador and Cabo Blanco. In 1959, the areas of Río de Oro and Saguía were joined and thus formed the province of Spanish Sahara. The local Tuareg people wanted self-government and were supported by the UN. In 1973, POLISARIO was formed which fought for an independent republic. However, this was something that Morocco and Mauritania opposed because the two countries claimed the Sahara. On November 5, 1975, Morocco launched the Green March when "Sahrawi" was invaded peacefully. The Madrid government then concluded a secret agreement with the governments of Rabat and Nouakchott which led to the division of the province. POLISARIO proclaimed the Independent Democratic Arab Republic of the Sahara (RASD) on February 26, 1976. After years of war, now there is a truce in the province but many Saharabor still live in refugee camps in the Tindouf area of ??Algeria. Morocco has de facto subjugated the entire province and still refuses to carry out the promised referendum on the future of Western Sahara. I have several times discussed Western Sahara with Moroccans, but they have no understanding at all because "desert residents" wish to avoid the Moroccan regime to form their own state. Colonialism is obviously not a mere European phenomenon. Western Sahara's great wealth is the occurrence of phosphate and to some extent fishing in the sea outside. EAJ202 and EAJ203 were inaugurated on July 18, 1961. Initially, older equipment was used which led to constant technical problems. In June 1966, Cadena Azul de Radiodifusión in Spain paid for a new 5 kW transmitter. It was inaugurated on July 18 the same year by General Franco during one of his visits to the province. However, the authorities in the Spanish Sahara realized that the new transmitter was not enough to counter the radio broadcasts mainly from Morocco. That was what led to the strong upgrade in 1967. The authorities had constant problems in organizing the radio business in the province. From 1972, Radio Nacional de España was given overall responsibility. In the 1970s there were also broadcasts on short wave from El Aaiún on 25 and 49 meters. Short-wave transmitters in Spain were also used to relay programs from Radio Sahara to North-West Africa. Today, the Moroccan radio still has a mid-wave transmitter with regional programs in El Aaiún at 711 kHz. In addition, RASD has a transmitter in Tindouf on 1550 kHz. In 1964, Spanish Sahara issued a series of eight stamps. Three stamps depict a Tuareg boy with a flute and three more badges show a woman with a drum. On the remaining two denominations we see a camel rider and a microphone. Their purpose was obviously to note that Spanish Sahara had received its own radio. I have a few duplicates of the series if any ARCs would be interested. A small PS from Tore Larsson: ARC has actually had a special program over EAJ203 Radio Sahara, it was broadcast on November 27, 1965 and the audibility here in Sweden was fine. ARC arranged for a period in the early 60's when it was quite easy to get, especially Spanish stations, to send a special program when the other stations on the frequency left this free, one of which was EAJ203 Radio Sahara. Later in the 1960s, the Spanish stations became harder-controlled and it was not possible to arrange any further special programs. DS (ARC mv-eko 28 Jan via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 1710, (PIRATE) 0945 GMT January 14, 2019. Spanish preaching and Spanish gospel singing, clearly from within a church from the audio. Often peaks subsequent days between 1200-1230 before rapidly fading. Points NE/SW, though the format and channel would indicate an improved signal from Radio Reten lo que Tienes, Baton Rouge. Need to check parallel to https://www.radioretenloquetienes.com All other New Orleans stations are correctly pointing NW, and Reten even upon returning after the FCC bust continued to point that way, so why this is pointing presumably NE is a mystery. Radio Celestial, Bronx, NY and Radio Conquista, Siler City, NC are reportedly inactive. (Terry Krueger, Clearwater, FL, NRD-535, IC-R75, active loop, broken longwire things, WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6185, Jan 23 at 0710, sounds like bagpipe music, S7 and undermodulated, typical of Radio Educación signal quality earlier. Suspect XEPPM running overtime, as per Aoki/NDXC nothing is known on 6185 between 0600 and China Huayi from *0915. EiBi agrees except shows a more realistic closing for XEPPM at 0640 as we had heard it until 0638*. Bagpipes also fits for their eclectic music format (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7259.988, Jan 24 at 1527, JBA carrier slightly offset, vs LSB QRhaMs. I don`t have any other carrier nearby. Others have been trying to unravel Mongolian Radio 3 (per Mauno Ritola, not 2), from PBS Xinjiang on slightly different frequencies, but at this hour X should be off. Aoki/NDXC has Mongolia until 1600, while EiBi says irregular until 1500. But there is another possibility on 7260 at 15- 16 M-F: Channel Africa in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Today at 1030 I have Xinjiang on 7259.990 and Mongolia on 7260.000 kHz. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Jan 26, WOR iog via DXLD) Tnx, so my exact frequency points to XJ but the time to Mongolia (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. 7555-LSB, Jan 23 at 1350, weak 2-way in Spanish, not really intruding since this is a fixed, not broadcast band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See USA: KJES 7555 UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 10051-USB, Jan 23 at 1447, 2-way in Asian language, sounds Indonesian, spirited conversations, rather like the 11.4-11.5 pirates, but not very melodic now. Someones might as well occupy this frequency, since New York Radio VOLMET self-destructed, abandoning the hourparts reserved for it, :00-:20 & :30-:50. But this will be bad for Gander Radio still active the rest of the hours! Sure enough, Gander comes back at 1450 and gets QRM from this crap, altho Gander is atop. Recheck at 1508, 2-way is still going. I`ve wondered why Gander doesn`t take over the whole hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11480-, Jan 22 at 1549, good S7-S9 in unID language, which I figure per BC-DX reports will be spur out of Dengê Welat, 11530 from Pridnestrovye, but that is weaker at S5-S7 and I soon realize tho programming is similar, they are *not* // -- i.e. one talking while the other musicking! Furthermore there is nothing at all around 11580. And the lower one is drifting audibly downward, as I attempt to measure it: first about 11479.65; at 1553, 11479.46; but by 1600 has reached 11479.00. And now 11530 is off while 11479 continues. [WORLD OF RADIO 1967] Compare to these reports from BC-DX in translation: ``MOLDOVA Log: 11479.5 kHz, station ??, UT 0805, Jan 18. SINPO 25232. Turkish and Hindu mx, currently male voice with report? ID not heard, not recognized. I have been listening to the station since Jan 14 Every day, Greeting Horst, QTH Bardudvarnok / HNG, RX AOR 7030 / FCD2, 30 m LW (via A-DX ng Jan 18) We already mentioned that last month: Radiotelecentr (PRTC) transmitter Grigoriopol Maiac MDA Moldova. Simply two spurs symmetrical from 50.283 kHz spacing on both sides. Fundamentally 11530 kHz, and slightly bouncing unstable wobbling 5 x 100 Hertz distance signal strings visible, at 11479,713 ... 722 kHz, as well as on top of approx. 11580.280 kHz, 5 strings visible, equally. Just turn it on to the 11530 kHz and you'll get the same program delivered. 73 wb`` --- Well, not now! Of course, Dengê Welat, clandestine for Kurdistanish Turkey, also uses FRANCE site in alternation with Pridnestrovye; or is this now something totally different? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11481.6, at 1523 in AM mode (so not an SSB feeder) in possible Kurdish with two men in an instudio interview with many mentions of “Iran” and “Iraq” and a singing ID at 1529 and a man with talk with promos and sound effects like whistles blowing over pop vocals and a definite mention of “Iraq” at 1530 and more promos and singing IDs and a man with talk mentioning “Iran”, “Iraq”, and “Kurdish” then a telephone interview between two men with mentions of “Syria” - Good Jan 22 – The language used was similar to that heard on Radyo Dengê Welat but they were on 11530 so this is something different. I heard this one on both transceivers so it was not an image. Signals were good on the 80 meter OCFD on both transceivers and weak but audible on the 40 meter OCFD which is not surprising because all 25 meter reception is better heard on that antenna (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DXLD) And I was hearing this following half hour when it varied down to 11479, and I reached the same conclusion; nothing heard following few days at same time checked. 11479v, Jan 23 at 1402, 1509, 1515, 1553 chex, no signal from the station heard yesterday past 1600, connected with Dengê Welat? While their proper 11530 is very poorly audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11766 kHz, Radioamador Indígena, Ondas Curtas banda de 25 metros) Indígena falando fora de Banda 2107 UT 26 Janeiro 2018 https://youtu.be/pIx7gJSmuGI RX: Yaesu FRG 8800 Antena: DS SWL DL Dipolo Assimétrica 42 Metros + Balun + 15 Meters Coaxial (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT Brazil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Intruder. Indigenous means non-Portuguese, non-Spanish; seems tonal but not sure it`s S American. In SSB? Yes, sounds SSB tho rx dial seems to display CW; 2-way, more than one station. Doubt they are radio hams which implies licensed and following the rules (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 11815, Jan 25 at 2247, S4-S6 of dead air. Nothing listed here at this time, just Japan and Turkey much earlier in the day --- except R Brasil Central, 24 hours. Lately has been reported very lowly modulated, so maybe this is it, and among few ZYs close to on- frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 12000, Jan 24 at 2244, the open carrier again, S4-S7; and Jan 25 at 1334, S9+10 with some deep fades to S4. Another possibility is some RTTY station which leaves its transmitter on all the time but only rarely sends something in that mode. 12000, Jan 26 a 1502, open carrier is still here. TDOA technique might DF it, but won`t work without any modulation, right? 12000, Jan 27 at 1435, mystery open carrier at S8-S5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1967: Thanks for your dedication to the listening hobby. Happy New Year! -- (Terry Colgan, Austin TX, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: Glenn; I hope the new year will be good for you and yours. Best, (Bruce Miller Earle, with a generous PayPal contribution to woradio at yahoo.com) Here's what I consider is my yearly subscription fee. I haven't been listening as much lately, but I do read the i. o. group and hear the podcast from time to time. I hope this finds you well Glenn! (-Rodney Johnson, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) I began listening to your programme on RCI when I was a teenager, and I am now retired. Thank you so much for a lifetime of great service to the SWL community. 73s until your next broadcast (David Rosenfeld, Toronto, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) One may also contribute by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ VERIFICATION SCANNING PROJECT Many members have been involved with prepping, scanning and displaying the unique collection of verifications at http://www.nationalradioclub.org The verification collections (some complete and some partial) currently on display include Kelly Andrews, Joseph "Joe" Brauner (SK), William "Bill" Burrows, Ernest R "Ernie" Cooper (SK), Carl "Skip" Dabelstein, Wayne Heinen, F. William Hendrick (SK), Kraig Krist, Robert "Bob" Karchevski (SK), Stuart Leland (SK), Roland “Len” Lindblade (SK), Norman “Norm” Maguire (SK), Alan "Al" Merriman, Stanwood "Stan" Morss (SK), Maurice "Bill" Nittler (SK), Jim Renfrew, Steve Sprague, and Ronald "Ron" Schiller (SK). Volunteers, family and friends who made this project possible: Holly (Schiller) Anastasio, Ken Chatterton, Bruce Conti, Skip Dabelstein, David Gleason, Bill Hale, Harry Hayes, Wayne Heinen, John Herkimer, Kay Karchevski, Kraig Krist, Ginnie Lupi, John Malicky, Ron Musco, Sally Nittler, Bob Smolarek, Jerry Starr, Paul Swearingen and Ernie Wesolowski. If there is anyone I missed please contact me direct and I will add you to this list, so your efforts can be recognized. We're still trying to track down portions of Ernie Cooper’s collection including these BCB areas: Canada, South & Central America and the following US States CO, IL, MT, ND, OH, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, WV, WY and his FM veries (Wayne Heinen, NRC DX News Feb 4, published Jan 27, via DXLD) CONEXION DIGITAL The weekly E-bulletin from Argentina for years has been publishing all my log reports complete and unedited, as the final sexion of each weekly bulletin, ``For Readers in English``. They are delayed at least a week. In the latest issue, these take up 20 of the 90 pdf pages. Tnx to GRA for doing this! (gh) Uppdaterad hörighetslista från MV-Eko säsong 56-59 I oktober lade jag ut den första sammanställningen över stationer hörda från och med säsong 56, vilket innebär att den startar med de tips som fanns med i första utgåvan den 1/7 av säsong 56 från 2015. Tanken är att denna årssammanställning kommer att uppdateras med nya loggningar några gånger per år. Listan sorteras årsvis och innehåller loggningar över Hawaii, Nord-, Central- och Sydamerika samt Västindien. Jag har undantagit Europa, Asien och Oceanien. Möjligen kommer en separat statistik över dessa områden att göras senare. Det är ett mer omfattande jobb än jag trodde att få ihop det hela. En del stationsinformation, stater mm är inte alltid rätt i Ekots logg. Eftersom sortering och summering på stationsnamn sker i Access, så är det helt avgörande att varje förekommande stationsnamn ser exakt likadant ut för varje post. Listorna finns i två versioner, dels i pdf-format, dels i Excel-format. Den senare kan lätt användas för den som vill jobba med materialet på egen hand. När uppdatering skett, kommer det att meddelas i Ekot. På ARC’s website finns även listorna tillgängliga för nerladdning. Se http://arcticradioclub.blogspot.com/p/links.html Listorna kan laddas ner här: http://www.thomasn.sverige.net/ARC/MV-Eko_Loglist-Year.pdf http://www.thomasn.sverige.net/ARC/MV-Eko_Loglist-Year.xlsx (Thomas Nilsson, ARC) Google translation: UPDATED LISTING OF MV-EKO SEASON 56-59 In October, I released the first compilation of stations heard from season 56, which means that it starts with the tips that were included in the first edition on 1/7 of season 56 from 2015. The idea is that this annual report will be updated with new logs a few times a year. The list is sorted annually and contains logs across Hawaii, North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. I have excluded Europe, Asia and Oceania. Possibly, separate statistics on these areas will be made later. It is a more extensive job than I thought to get it all together. Some station information, states etc. are not always right in Ekot's log. Since sorting and summing up on station names takes place in Access, it is absolutely crucial that each station name that is present looks exactly the same for each record. The lists are available in two versions, partly in PDF format and partly in Excel format. The latter can easily be used for anyone who wants to work with the material on their own. Once the update has taken place, it will be announced in Ekot. The ARC's website also contains the lists available for download. See http://arcticradioclub.blogspot.com/p/links.html The lists can be downloaded here: http://www.thomasn.sverige.net/ARC/MV-Eko_Loglist-Year.pdf http://www.thomasn.sverige.net/ARC/MV-Eko_Loglist-Year.xlsx (Thomas Nilsson, ARC, ARC mv-eko 28 Jan via DXLD) WORLD OF HOROLOGY See HAWAII; USA: WWV, ANNIVERSARY +++++++++++++++++ MUSEA +++++ Re: New Archive Recording: Kol Yisrael, First Night of First Gulf War Just wanted to set the record straight: While reviewing more of my recordings from the same time period (Radio Baghdad, Voice of Peace, Voice of Free Iraq, Mother of Battles Radio), I realized that I had incorrectly stated that the first missile attacks on Israel occurred on the first night of the First Gulf War. Two corrections needed here. Technically, the First Gulf War began on 2 August 1990 (first correction) with the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. This was also the start of Operation Desert Shield. The coalition response, Operation Desert Storm, began on 16/17 January 1991 with the initial bombing of Iraq. The Iraqis fired the first Scud missiles into Israel on the second night (second correction) of Operation Desert Storm, 17/18 January. The metadata for the archived recordings has been corrected appropriately. I hope to archive additional recordings associated with the First Gulf War soon (-- Richard Langley, Jan 25, WOR iog via DXLD) NATIONAL VOA MUSEUM OF BROADCASTING TO CELEBRATE 75 YEARS of Telling the Truth at VOA Bethany Station http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2019/january/75-years-of-telling-the-truth.htm "The Voice of Truth in America" event series with MidPointe Library System announced The National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting plans a dozen free events this year at the iconic history museum in West Chester. Included is a four-part series on "The Voice of Truth in America: Celebrating 75 Years of the VOA Bethany Station" with the MidPointe Library System. Jack Dominic, left, director of the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting, and Steve Mayhugh, MidPointe Library West Chester director, announce a joint four-part event series running from March 6 through Aug. 25 titled, "The Voice of Truth in America: Celebrating 75 Years of the VOA Bethany Station." Events are free and open to the public. (VOA Museum Photo) Events commemorate the 75th birthday of the former VOA-Bethany Station, which houses the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting. Freewill donations will be accepted at the door. The MidPointe Library Series includes: "Covering the White House and the World," with VOA White House Bureau Chief Steve Herman at the VOA museum on Wednesday, March 6; "History of the VOA-Bethany Station and the VOA Museum Today," with museum director Jack Dominic at MidPointe Library West Chester, Wednesday, April 3; "There's a Radio in my Cell Phone!" a children's STEM event at MidPointe Library Liberty, Wednesday, June 5; and Big Band music at MidPointe Library West Chester, Sunday, Aug. 25. Other 2019 events at the museum this year include: "The Imagination of Rod Serling: A Conversation with Nick Parisi" on Feb. 17; "Theater of the Mind: Sound Effects During Radio's Golden Age " with Mike Martini, president of the museum's Media Heritage Collection, April 9; "Hamvention Nights at the VOA Museum" with the West Chester Amateur Radio Association, May 16, 17, 18, 19; "Stealth Antennas for Amateurs Living in HOAs, July 11; the fourth annual VOA museum "75 Years of Rockin' the Radio" fundraiser, Sept. 21; and "Jamboree on the Air," with West Chester Amateur Radio Association (WCARA) and area scouting organizations at the museum, Oct. 18, 19 and 20. "We're proud of the VOA-Bethany Station's role in transmitting truthful news worldwide to inspire generations of listeners to fan the flames of hope and freedom in their home countries," said Ken Rieser, VOA museum board president. "Knowing and understanding the story of the VOA-Bethany station can inspire us all to become better citizens and work toward a more just, civil and ethical nation." The MidPointe Library System includes branches in West Chester, Liberty Township, Middletown, Monroe, and Trenton, Ohio. Of all U.S. libraries, MidPointe circulation per capita ranks 16th nationally. "We're proud to offer this series in conjunction with the VOA museum as part of our ongoing mission to promote literacy and critical thinking skills throughout the community," said Travis Bautz, MidPointe Library System director. For 50 years, the iconic, art deco VOA-Bethany Station transmitted Voice of America broadcasts via shortwave radio to countries worldwide that lacked a free press, first in Europe and northern Africa during World War II and to South America during the Cold War. The station and its rhombic antenna display over 625 acres was decommissioned by the federal government in 1994, and the building transformed into the National VOA Museum of Broadcasting through community and volunteer efforts. The Voice of America is the largest U.S. international broadcaster and reaches a weekly global audience of more than 275 million people in 40-plus languages in nearly 100 countries. VOA programs are delivered on multiple platforms, including radio, television, web and mobile via a network of more than 3,000 media outlets worldwide. The news organization is funded by the U.S. Congress through the U.S. Agency for Global Media, an independent federal agency. The VOA website is http://www.voanews.com The VOA museum is open Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m. at 8070 Tylersville Road. Museum general admission is $5 for adults and $1 for children. For complete schedules of 2019 VOA museum events, the "The Voice of Truth in America," series and WCARA events, visit http://www.voamuseum.org http://www.midpointelibrary.org and http://www.wc8VOA.org (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ November 2018 Hawaii Ultralight DXpedition-- 15 Page Article What is it like for a west coast TP-DXer to suddenly escape all of the North American pests, and find himself in a dream location far out into the Pacific -- with Asian propagation wide open from the Middle East to East Asia, including multiple stations from India? Well, it was the hobby rush of a lifetime! A 15-page article describing the awesome 6-day DXing experience on the beach at Poipu on Kauai island (the Hawaiian island closest to Asia) has been written, including multiple photos, 94 transoceanic DX station recording links, detailed descriptions of the ocean-enhanced propagation and the related DXing challenges, and also a "Scouting Report" for Broadband SDR-DXing at the same site. With receptions from Oman, Iran, Egypt, India (2), Bangladesh, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam (5) and many other exotic locations, the entire experience was unforgettable -- and a return trip is definitely planned! https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/p21pc6hddkxejcnf8i3k9gp9ksxvsa0u ((Gary DeBock (DXing in Poipu, Kauai, Hawaii from November 3-8), 24 Jan, IRCA via DXLD)) To the NRC gg, posting the entire log list by frequency with audio linx to each, he made a somewhat different introduxion: (gh) From November 3-8 I had the awesome opportunity to chase exotic TP-DX from the patio of a beach side condo in Poipu, Kauai -- the Hawaiian island closest to Asia. Despite the fact that I was using only a modified Ultralight radio and a 5 inch "Frequent Flyer" FSL antenna the Asian propagation was outstanding, resulting in the hobby thrill of a lifetime. Chasing DX from this forward Pacific location made it possible to track down several middle East stations, multiple stations in India, a great number of Southeast Asian stations and multiple receptions from Taiwan, the Philippines and other interesting areas. Seven transoceanic DX stations were received on 702 kHz alone. The forward Pacific propagation was unforgettable, and a return trip to Kauai is definitely scheduled for November. If you are a TP-DXer who would like to experience your own "hobby thrill of a lifetime," my strong recommendation is that you leave the North American RF noise far behind, set up on the beautiful Kauai beach, and enjoy your own fair share of exotic, unforgettable DX! Listed below are 94 transoceanic DX receptions made in Kauai with the related recording links, including stations in Oman, Egypt, Iran, India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and many others. Sincere thanks is given to all who helped identify mystery stations, especially the Finnish DXers like Mauno, Mika, Jari L. and Jari S. with their awesome language identification skills. You guys really rock! (Gary DeBock, nrc-am gg via DXLD) Gary, Thank you for this well written, detailed report. For an East-coaster, such as myself, this is something of a dream. I cannot imagine logging so many far East MW stations. It is inspiring and informative. Thank you again! 73 & good DX (Gary Wilt, W2GJW, Wood Ridge, NJ FN20WU, NRC or IRCA via DXLD) Hello Gary, Thanks for your generous comments, and I'm happy that you enjoyed the article. Every DXer should have the chance to spend a week in Hawaii in the middle of winter, and escape all the North American pest stations while chasing ocean-enhanced transoceanic DX. It would provide the perfect cure for any hobby boredom! (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA), ibid.) FURLOUGH DXpedition Jan 14-18, 2019 While on furlough I visited Waters Edge, near Fleeton, VA for a few days about a week ago. Waters Edge is right on the Chesapeake Bay and usually has good reception up and down the east coast of the U.S. Depending on how one points the DKAZ antenna that I normally use, stations from New Brunswick to Brazil can be heard … as well as some TAs. Highlights this trip were Barbados on 900 kHz, Panama on 860, Voice of Nevis & St. Kitts also on 860 and a new Dominican station for me, Radio Dial, on 670. I’m still reviewing Perseus wav files but you can see/hear what I've heard so far on this webpage: http://realmonitor.com/am_logs_we8.php Oh yea, the antenna used was a 160’ DKAZ aimed at 130 degrees (Bill Whitacre, Alexandria, VA, nrc-am gg via DXLD) Good report, Bill. Lots of similarity to receptions here on Cape Cod. Above 1220 you are getting more FL, GA, SC, and NC. Barbados 900 and Dom. Rep. 670 have been heard here but not in a long time (>5 years?). The more reports we can get from East Coast US & Canada the better (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, ibid.) REPORT FROM PUERTO RICO Puerto Rico bandscan from Ivan Cholakov (Medium Wave Circle Facebook group). Lack of South American signals is interesting, less from there than from here on the Cape. No TA's. 680 WAPA must have been off to let WRKO get through. 680 is usually WPTF/WRKO/WAPA/HJ jumble-mess on the Dominican Republic SDR. "Scanning the medium wave band from a shipboard location near San Juan, Puerto Rico at 11 PM local time. Signals from as far west as Dallas and as far North as Boston. SDRPlay with handheld W6LVP portable loop." --- 530 Radio Rebelde, Cuba 540 Radio ABC Dominican Republic 550 Multiple 580 WKAQ PR 630 WUNO PR 660 WFAN New York 680 WRKO Boston 700 WLW Cincinnati 710 WOR New York 720 WGN Chicago 740 WIAC Puerto Rico 750 WSB weak 760 WORA PR 770 WABC New York 790 WNIS Norfolk 800 TWR Bonaire 810 WKVM PR 820 WBAP Ft Worth 860 CJBC Toronto 870 WQBS PR 880 WCBS New York 890 Progreso 900 Progreso 920 WDMC Vero beach 940 WIPR PR 950 WKDN Philadelphia 960 Radio Reloj Cuba 1000 WMVP Chicago 1010 WINS New York 1030 WBZ Boston 1050 WEPN New York 1060 KYW Philadelphia 1100 WTAM Cleveland 1120 WMSW Puerto Rico 1130 WBBR New York 1140 WRVA Richmond 1160 KBDT Dallas 1170 WWVA Wheeling 1190 WBMJ Puerto Rico 1220 WHKW Cleveland weak 1280 WCMN Puerto Rico 1320 WSKN Puerto Rico (Radio Isla) 1350 WEGA Puerto Rico 1370 WIVV Puerto Rico 1390 WISA Puerto Rico 1460 WTKT Harrisburg 1480 WMDD Puerto Rico 1500 WFED Washington 1510 WLAC Nashville 1520 WWKB Buffalo 1540 ZNS-1 Bahamas 1610 CHHA Toronto 1640 Radio Juventud Dominican Republic 1650 WHKT Portsmouth 1660 WGIT Puerto Rico 1680 WOKB Orlando (via Mark Connelly, IRCA via DXLD) Well, I recall that once DXing from the northern side of the Dominican Republic the band was awash with Venezuelans, but many of those are gone now (Jim Renfrew, ibid.) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See BULGARIA; GERMANY; ROMANIA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See MEXICO; OKLAHOMA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See UK ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ "Alexa: Play WRMI" I've had an Amazon Echo Dot (3rd Generation) smart speaker for about a month now and from time to time I try different things with it. She already controls a table lamp in the family room and I've added a few other skills to her repertoire, such as Mark Hirst's Shortwave Signals, which accesses the EiBi database https://swling.com/blog/2018/11/alexa-can-now-look-up-broadcast-schedules-with-the-shortwave-signals-skill/ As is well known, Alexa can play various radio station streams from TuneIn and other aggregators as well as SiriusXM. So, yesterday evening (26 January) on a whim, I asked Alexa to play WRMI. And she did! In fact, at 22:00 UTC, it was World of Radio, episode 1966. The streamed audio is that which goes out on 9955 kHz. Another way to listen to WoR "live." And I think you can get Alexa to play the WoR podcasts, too. Haven't checked to see if Alexa knows about any other SW stations except for BBC WS (-- Richard Langley, Jan 27, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DXLD) I have the 2nd generation Echo arriving mid February. I am hoping someone will develop a “skill” for using a web based remote receiver. I think since we put a man on the moon this could happen. LOL (Charles Harlich, ibid.) I have found that a skill, MyTuner Radio, more easily recognizes requests for many international stations. However, I would not use MyTuner as a total replacement for Echo's "default" TuneIn. As with most Echo skills, Alexa has a hard time making up her mind on what is best under different circumstances. In other words, where one skill does not work, try the other (Gerald Zimmerman, Carbondale, IL 62901, One of the multiple epersonalities of cyberkotic@yahoo.com ibid.) HISTORY OF THE CAR RADIO --- and beyond One evening, in 1929, two young men named William Lear and Elmer Wavering drove their girlfriends to a lookout point high above the Mississippi River town of Quincy, Illinois, to watch the sunset. It was a romantic night to be sure, but one of the women observed that it would be even nicer if they could listen to music in the car. Lear and Wavering liked the idea. Both men had tinkered with radios (Lear served as a radio operator in the U.S. Navy during World War I) and it wasn't long before they were taking apart a home radio and trying to get it to work in a car. But it wasn't easy. Automobiles have ignition switches, generators, spark plugs, and other electrical equipment that generate noisy static interference, making it nearly impossible to listen to the radio when the engine was running. One by one, Lear and Wavering identified and eliminated each source of electrical interference. When they finally got their radio to work, they took it to a radio convention in Chicago. There they met Paul Galvin, owner of Galvin Manufacturing Corporation. He made a product called a "battery eliminator", a device that allowed battery-powered radios to run on household AC current. As more homes were wired for electricity, more radio manufacturers made AC-powered radios. Galvin needed a new product to manufacture. When he met Lear and Wavering at the radio convention, he found it. He believed that mass-produced, affordable car radios had the potential to become a huge business. Lear and Wavering set up shop in Galvin's factory, and when they perfected their first radio, they installed it in his Studebaker. Then Galvin went to a local banker to apply for a loan. Thinking it might sweeten the deal, he had his men install a radio in the banker's Packard. Good idea, but it didn't work. Half an hour after the installation, the banker's Packard caught on fire. (They didn't get the loan.) Galvin didn't give up. He drove his Studebaker nearly 800 miles to Atlantic City to show off the radio at the 1930 Radio Manufacturers Association convention. Too broke to afford a booth, he parked the car outside the convention hall and cranked up the radio so that passing conventioneers could hear it. That idea worked. He got enough orders to put the radio into production. That first production model was called the 5T71. Galvin decided he needed to come up with something a little catchier. In those days many companies in the phonograph and radio businesses used the suffix "ola" for their names; Radiola, Columbiola, and Victrola were three of the biggest. Galvin decided to do the same thing, and since his radio was intended for use in a motor vehicle, he decided to call it the Motorola. But even with the name change, the radio still had problems. When Motorola went on sale in 1930, it cost about $110 uninstalled, at a time when you could buy a brand-new car for $650, and the country was sliding into the Great Depression. By that measure, a radio for a new car would cost about $3,000 today. In 1930, it took two men several days to put in a car radio. The dashboard had to be taken apart so that the receiver and a single speaker could be installed, and the ceiling had to be cut open to install the antenna. These early radios ran on their own batteries, not on the car battery, so holes had to be cut into the floorboard to accommodate them. The installation manual had eight complete diagrams and 28 pages of instructions. Selling complicated car radios that cost 20% of the price of a brand-new car wouldn't have been easy in the best of times, let alone during the Great Depression. Galvin lost money in 1930 and struggled for a couple of years after that. But things picked up in 1933 when Ford began offering Motorola's pre-installed at the factory. In 1934 they got another boost when Galvin struck a deal with B.F. Goodrich tire company to sell and install them in its chain of tire stores. By then the price of the radio, with installation included, had dropped to $55. The Motorola car radio was off and running. The name of the company would be officially changed from Galvin Manufacturing to "Motorola" in 1947. In the meantime, Galvin continued to develop new uses for car radios. In 1936, the same year that it introduced push-button tuning, it also introduced the Motorola Police Cruiser, a standard car radio that was factory preset to a single frequency to pick up police broadcasts. In 1940 he developed the first handheld two-way radio, the Handy-Talkie for the U.S. Army. A lot of the communications technologies that we take for granted today were born in Motorola labs in the years that followed World War II. In 1947 they came out with the first television for under $200. In 1956 the company introduced the world's first pager. In 1969 came the radio and television equipment that was used to televise Neil Armstrong's first steps on the Moon. In 1973 it invented the world's first handheld cellular phone. Today Motorola is one of the largest cell phone manufacturers in the world. And it all started with the car radio. Whatever happened to the two men who installed the first radio in Paul Galvin's car? Elmer Wavering and William Lear, ended up taking very different paths in life. Wavering stayed with Motorola. In the 1950's he helped change the automobile experience again when he developed the first automotive alternator, replacing inefficient and unreliable generators. The invention lead to such luxuries as power windows, power seats, and, eventually, air-conditioning. Lear also continued inventing. He holds more than 150 patents. Remember eight-track tape players? Lear invented that. But what he's really famous for are his contributions to the field of aviation. He invented radio direction finders for planes, aided in the invention of the autopilot, designed the first fully automatic aircraft landing system, and in 1963 introduced his most famous invention of all, the Lear Jet, the world's first mass-produced, affordable business jet. Not bad for a guy who dropped out of school after the eighth grade (source??? via Rich Line, MARE Tipsheet 25 Jan via DXLD) RATINGS Data from Nielsen indicates that over-the-air viewing (antenna) reached 14% of U.S. households in 2018, up from 9% in 2010, according to Fortune. The percentage of households subscribing to cable or (pay) satellite TV stood at 79%, down from its peak of 88% in 2010. Roughly 40% of the over-the-air viewing households watch no other video services from the internet and have a median age of 55. The other 60% or so also subscribe to online video services and have a median age of 36. http://fortune.com/2019/01/15/over-the-air-tv-cord-cutting-nielsen/ (via Larry Russell via Ken Zichi, MARE Tipsheet 25 Jan via DXLD) SATELLITE ALTERNATIVE TO HF AERO This could be bad news for those of us who enjoy listening to HF aero communications ... https://www.aviationtoday.com/2019/01/18/satvoice-game-changer-pilots-controllers/ Ultimately, though, they want planes to be able to forego HF radios altogether in favor of two “dual-dissimilar” satvoice solutions — one leveraging Inmarsat’s satellite network and one leveraging Iridium’s. The two systems need to be on separate networks to create the redundancy that the regulators are seeking with the requirements. The reasons to get there are compelling, according to L2 President Mark Lebovitz. “If you were just to say to our customers, ‘You can pick between a short-wave radio and a high-tech cell phone — and, by the way, [the latter] one is cheaper and lighter — which do you want?'” the answer would be obvious, Texeira said. “The idea of having HF radios that our grandparents were using … they’re not very clear and at times they’re not usable,” he said. On the other hand ... https://runwaygirlnetwork.com/2019/01/15/wideband-digital-hf-a-go-for-the-cockpit-says-collins-aerospace/ Collins Aerospace is pursuing a wideband, digital HF communications modernization program that includes new ground systems as well as airborne equipment for operators. ... 'this new HF will include multi-channel capability, allowing operators to accomplish long range voice and data communications simultaneously with one unit, significantly reducing the overall size, weight and power of the system.' (Kim Elliott, Jan 28, WOR iog via DXLD) And HF research for Canadian Arctic communications is afoot at UNB: https://blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/2018/11/unb-physicists-help-government-of-canada-improve-arctic-communications.php (-- Richard Langley, UNB, ibid.) viz.: UNB Newsroom --- News at the University of New Brunswick UNB PHYSICISTS HELP GOVERNMENT OF CANADA IMPROVE ARCTIC COMMUNICATIONS Author: UNB Newsroom Posted on Nov 14, 2018 Category: UNB Fredericton, myUNB Physicists from the University of New Brunswick’s Radio Physics Lab have developed a new model that will help Canada monitor activity in the arctic and improve arctic communications. The Empirical Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Model (E-CHAIM) is the first phase of the UNB Radio Physics Lab’s $1.2-million All Domain Situational Awareness Program contract with Defence Research and Development Canada. Dr. P. T. Jayachandran, UNB physics professor and principal investigator for the Canadian High-Arctic Ionospheric Network, is leading the project. Dr. David Themens, who was a graduate student at the physics department of UNB, is leading the development of the model. “Due to the receding and thinning of arctic sea ice, the arctic has become more accessible year-round,” says Dr. Jayachandran. “This accessibility has caused an increase in commercial, industrial, and defence traffic. But disturbances in the ionosphere can cause flights to be re-routed and can inhibit proposed radar systems that would monitor this traffic.” The ionosphere, an ionized layer of the earth’s upper atmosphere, facilitates high frequency communications. “But like weather on land,” says Dr. Themens, “the ionosphere experiences ‘space weather’, which changes significantly from day-to-day. This weather makes ionospheric modeling a challenging endeavour.” Space weather can cause significant disruptions to high frequency radio transmission, global positioning systems, and navigation technologies. Aircraft re-routes and other costly service disruptions occur regularly because of ionospheric disturbances. The ionosphere also facilitates the use of long-range communications and early warning radar systems, but poor modeling in the past has limited the deployment of these technologies and prevented their use in the Canadian Arctic. If successful, E-CHAIM will provide users with significantly improved high arctic communication and monitoring capabilities and will act as an integral tool for designing future high frequency communications and radar systems. For the two remaining phases of the contract, the UNB Radio Physics Lab will develop a sophisticated data assimilation system capable of capturing space weather impacts on the ionosphere using similar techniques to those used by meteorologists around the world. Media contact: Hilary Creamer Robinson Photo: UNB CHAIN researchers Dr. P. T. Jayachandran, Chris Watson and Todd Kelly in Hall Beach, Nunavut. Credit: Richard Chadwick (via Langley, WOR iog via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2019 Jan 28 0141 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 21 - 27 January 2019 Solar activity was at low levels due to a C5 X-ray flare observed at 26/1322 UTC from Region 2733 (N05, L=261, class/area Dso/090 on 27 Jan). Region 2733 emerged on the disk on 22 Jan as a C group, and slowly grew in area and spot count through 27 Jan. The region produced numerous B-class flares in addition to the lone C-class flare. 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 normal levels on 21-24 Jan, increasing to moderate to high levels due to CH HSS effects. Geomagnetic field activity was at predominately quiet to active levels with an isolated G1 (Minor) storm interval. The period began with quiet conditions under a nominal solar wind regime. An enhancement in solar wind parameters was observed beginning early on 23 Jan through midday 26 Jan with an increase in total field to a peak of 11 nT late on 25 Jan and a noticeable southward turning of the Bz component to -8 nT midday on 23 Jan. Wind speeds increased from about 340 km/s to peak at about 640 km/s midday on 24 Jan. During this time frame, the geomagnetic field responded with mostly unsettled to active levels, with an isolaed G1 (Minor) storm interval observed late on 24 Jan. By late on 26 Jan though 27 Jan, quiet levels were observed under a mostly nominal wind regime. Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 28 January - 23 February 2019 Solar activity is expected to be at very low levels, with a chance for low levels through 31 Jan due to the presence of Region 2733. Very low levels are expected from 01-23 Feb. However, a chance for low levels exists upon the return of old Region 2733 on or about 12 Feb. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at moderate to high levels on 28 Jan - 11 Feb and again on 21-23 Feb due to CH HSS influence. Mostly normal levels are expected on 12-20 Feb. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at unsettled to active levels on 31 Jan - 02 Feb and 19-22 Feb with G1 (Minor) storm conditions likely on 01 Feb and 20 Feb, all due to recurrent CH HSS influence. Mostly quiet conditions are expected for the remainder of the outlook period. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2019 Jan 28 0141 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 2019-01-28 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2019 Jan 28 71 5 2 2019 Jan 29 71 5 2 2019 Jan 30 71 5 2 2019 Jan 31 71 8 3 2019 Feb 01 71 18 5 2019 Feb 02 70 10 3 2019 Feb 03 70 8 3 2019 Feb 04 70 5 2 2019 Feb 05 69 5 2 2019 Feb 06 69 5 2 2019 Feb 07 69 5 2 2019 Feb 08 69 5 2 2019 Feb 09 69 5 2 2019 Feb 10 69 5 2 2019 Feb 11 69 5 2 2019 Feb 12 69 5 2 2019 Feb 13 69 5 2 2019 Feb 14 69 5 2 2019 Feb 15 69 5 2 2019 Feb 16 69 5 2 2019 Feb 17 70 5 2 2019 Feb 18 70 5 2 2019 Feb 19 72 12 4 2019 Feb 20 72 20 5 2019 Feb 21 72 12 4 2019 Feb 22 75 8 3 2019 Feb 23 75 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1967, DXLD) TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Re: Letter: 2019 headlines we could see Jan 14, 2019 Democrats impeach Trump; Pence becomes President; Pence names Trump Vice-President; Pence resigns; Trump becomes President; All Democrats heads explode (Harold Frodge, MI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ha2; but a successful impeachment would have to be bi-partisan; how much will ever be too much for the Republican toadies? 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