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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1971 contents: Australia and non, Benin, China, Cuba, Denmark, Equatorial Guinea, France/Germany non, Korea South, Nigeria and non, South Africa, South America, Spain, Switzerland, UK non, USA; and the propagation outlook SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1971, February 27-March 4, 2019 Mon 2330 WRMI 9955 [1970 replayed] Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 [1970 replayed] Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 [1970 replayed] Wed 0930 Unique 5045-LSB NSW Australia low-power Wed 1030 WRMI 5950 Wed 2200 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v [confirmed] Thu 0000 WRMI 7730 [confirmed to 0015 only] Thu 0100 WRMI 7780 Fri 0930 Unique 5045-LSB NSW Australia low-power Sat 0730 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [confirmed Bulgaria] Sat 1200 Unique 5045-LSB NSW Australia low-power [alt weeks, Mar 2-16-30] Sat 1230 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Sat 1531 HLR 9485-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [not confirmed] Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2200 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Sun 0030 WRMI 7730 [NEW! confirmed] Sun 0400v WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415][confirmed from 0432] Sun 0830 WRMI 5850 5950 7730 Sun 1130 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sun 2130 WRMI 7780 [confirmed] Mon 0230 WRMI 5950 9395 Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v-AM Area 51 Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 Mon 0930 Unique 5045-LSB NSW Australia low-power Mon 1901 IRRS 7290-Romania [NEW] Mon 2330 WRMI 9955 [or new 1972?] 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!!!! WOR IO GROUP: Effective Feb 4, 2018, DXLD yg archive and members have been migrated to this group: https://groups.io/g/WOR [there was already an unrelated group at io named dxld!, so new name] From now on, the io group is primary, where all posts should go. One may apply for membership, subscribe via the above site. DXLD yahoogroup: remains in existence, and members are free to COPY same info to it, as backup, but no posts should go to it only. They may want to change delivery settings to no e-mail, and/or no digest. The change was necessary due to increasing outages, long delays in posts appearing, and search failures at the yg. Why wait for DXLD issues? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our io group without delay. ** ABKHAZIA. The Abkhaz radio again went on the air at a frequency of 1350 kHz according to this schedule: 0400-0500 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. 0500-0700 Saturday, Sunday, Monday. 1500-1600 daily. News in Russian from Monday to Friday 0530-0540 and 1510-1520 UT (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria via Rus-DX Feb 24 via DXLD) ** ALASKA. WCB KNLS The New Life Station on wrong 9710 Russian Feb.20 0900-1000 9710 NLS 100 kW / 300 deg NEAs Russian tx#1, instead of 7370 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/knls-new-life-station-on-wrong-9710-khz.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.19-20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGUILLA. It seems that the Caribbean Beacon on 11775 and also 6090 remains intermittent the past few weeks and even going back into late December, as noted here. I did not hear 6090 last night (18 Feb., but they are very good strength now at 0234 - 19 Feb. / Monday evening local PST). Does anyone know if their 1610 transmitter is on again? I heard them very clearly in Hawaii in autumn 1986 but they are buried in the HAR/TIS-mixture/hetrodynes here in the remote desert of eastern California. When the 1610 Carib-Bcn faded out in Hawaii after their (post) sunrise, the (probably WCNA) TIS mixture was very easily heard there - even on short wires, and there was no 1620 QRM either back then. On 1610 USB I could hear mixtures of voices, hi! 73, (Steve McGreevy, N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com WOR iog via DXLD) Stephen, 1610 Caribbean Beacon used to be a regular into WCNA, but I haven’t heard it for years now. I suppose then, that they must be off the frequency. More regular is the ethnic station in Toronto, and then the WA state DOT highway advisory stations. PS. Thanks for the Richard Woods memories. I’m looking forward to hearing your recordings from the Big Island! 73, Walt in Victoria, BC, ibid.) See MUSEA I don`t think 1610 is on the air at all. There was one report of it several months ago, possibly a test or mistake (gh, DXLD) [and non]. 6090, Caribbean Beacon at 0330 with Pastor Scott II (PMS) lecture. Suddenly dropped out at 0340. (Checking 5935 WWCR outlet had it coming in strong). There is always something unusual at the CB. In progress at tune-in - Beyond Armchair Feb 19 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; Hammarlund HQ-180A & HQ-200; RS SW-2000629, with various outdoor wires. 73 and Good Listening....! WOR iog via DXLD) 11775, The Caribbean Beacon at 1715 in progress with Pastor Melissa monologue. Same on recheck 1755. Recheck after 2000 had them completely gone. Heard on ATS-909x and tomato stake antenna - Good Feb 23 11775, The Caribbean Beacon/University Network at 1640, in progress at tune in. 2nd Scott (Pastor Melissa) with lecture. Same on recheck at 1700. 1740, with 1st Scott (Dr. Gene), and Scott-2 again at 1800 and 1830. Sundays seems to be the only thing predictable about the CB schedule, which surely was drafted by the same guy who drew up the "Truck Route" through Miamuh, Oklahoma. Poor band condx - Fair Feb 24 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, 73 and Good Listening....! WOR iog via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. Australian Radio DX Club via Unique Radio DX programme starts Monday 4th March 1000 UT Remember World at your finger tips????? 3NE Wangaratta on 1600 kHz? from yes, all those years ago --- decades ago. Well, to try something different, for 4 weeks starting on Monday 4th March 2019 1000 UT, 9 pm NSW time, 8 pm in QLD etc., we are going to have a 15 minute segment. Now as a 15 year old who joined the club, music/songs by rock bands were the normal. However as we all remember many decades ago, and so will be the interval signal. Remember interval signals? Australia and New Zealand pop groups were the normal, i.e. Skyhooks, Zoot, Buffalo; well, the interval signal is from a Melbourne based group from that era. You will have to be all tuned up by say 0959 UT. Now we will play a popular song from that era, so have your volume controls full up! A bit of fun followed by over 10 minutes of DX News taken from the Australian DX News and any recent news by the ARDXC members. So for the first 30 correct reception reports, we have a special QSL. Now what do they call Gunnedah NSW? "The Koala Capital of Australia". Not even Port Macquarie, where I spent 10 years and some of this near the Koala crossing. And finding Koala bears in the Japanese flame trees asleep, or one kept sitting on the handrail on the balcony of the house. So I have learnt something. So what does this mean? Well the special QSL is a postcard of koala bears confirming the report. Reports via remote receivers will still be acknowledged with a QSL but not with the Koala card. What do hope to achieve? We know that many people do listen to 5045 kHz in Lower Sideband, so we are trying a promotion to promote the hobby and the club. Pretty simple. reports to dxer1234@gmail.com or Australian Radio Dx club, 71 Hilton Avenue, Roselands 2196 NSW, Australia. Well, happy listening! 73's (Johno Wright, Feb 25, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Johno, Thanks for that Mate. What a great idea. Here's a bit of history some may be able to relate to. My Go To Station each night from the late 70's when I was at High School in Maryborough, was actually 95 2UE. Tunes like Copa Cabanna, 5707 Are you on the Line, Ego, Dirty Deeds, and pop hits. It was a real buzz to do your Homework to, Ahhh those were the days, a simpler world and a brighter future. Sometimes I would go to sleep listing to 2UE and be woken at about 2-AM with a US Voiced radio station as 2UE had closed for the night. This I believe is called Noctournal DXing by default. I used a Longwire of old speaker wire, and the former Family portable Cassete Radio, Hitachi I think it was. They were indeed the days, as the local AM staion 4MB just played Rubbish for Old people, or of course there was the local ABC, heaven forbid. Keep up the great work, John. Best wishes (Mike Charteris VK4QS, ibid.) ** AUSTRALIA. 5055, Radio 4KZ, Innisfail, 0810-0825, 21-02, carrier and some songs detected, only on LSB. Extremely weak, barely audible. (Manuel Méndez. Lugo, España, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) Must be long-path (gh) [5055], 4KZ, Innisfail QLD (tentative); 1146-1206, 2/23; Sounds like mix of pop & C&W music; 1159+ English announcement into English news, mentioned “defense council”. Poor at QRN & best in USB (nothing on 5045) +++ [same], 1152-1204+, 2/24; Pop tunes including familiar Somebody’s Knockin’ by Terri Gibbs; 1157 Enlgish ads to ToH “This is 4KZ” (tentative) into English news. At QRN level. I would have hung in there longer, but my battery died (Harold Frodge, Michigan Area Radio Enthusiasts DXpedition, Brighton MI, Drake R8B + 500’ unterminated bev, dogleg E-W/N-S, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5055, Radio 4KZ, on Feb 24, with another day of decent reception; 1052, song (Foreigner with "Waiting For A Girl Like You"); commercial announcements (towing service - "24 hours, 7 days a week, with 3 trucks on the road," etc.); 1100, "National News" (item about three teenagers [one 13 and two 17] have been charged with supplying pills at a dance and "carrying a knife in a public place," etc.); 1115, with Johnny Horton with "Sink the Bismarck," Carl Douglas with "Kung Fu Fighting," etc.; probably the most readable reception so far. My audio with brief music, ads and news item, at http://bit.ly/2Tciiln (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BENIN. Trans World Radio is raising money for a second transmitter at their West Africa medium wave station. "Northern Nigeria is a spiritual battleground. For 10 years or more, radical religious movements have ravaged the land with horrific acts of violence. But there is hope in the gospel of Jesus Christ. We now have an opportunity to take the good news farther into Nigeria and strengthen the Church there. We're launching a powerful new 200,000-watt transmitter broadcasting hope into all of Nigeria, as well as parts of the neighboring countries of Cameroon, Benin and Niger. We have already begun by faith, with a prayer goal of launching programming with the new transmitter by the end of 2019. The total cost of the project is $1.3 million for installation, upgraded power and antenna, and the first year of operations to reach all of Nigeria and beyond. As of Jan. 1, 2019, the remaining need for the project is $750,000. Would you consider giving generously to the Oasis Transmitter Project today? Your gift will provide a clear radio signal to bring more evangelism programs for the lost, more discipleship programs to strengthen the Church, and more effective ministry than we’ve ever been able to bring to this region of Africa before. https://www.twr.org/project-detail/oasis-transmitter-project (incl a 3:30 promotional video) via Dr Hansjoerg Biener 24 February 2019, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DXLD) WTFK? Or are they really referring to an ``upgrade`` of the existing 1566 transmissions? Above info not really news, as F.Pl. for a second 200 kW transmitter probably on 1476 was already in WRTH 2019 as of presstime last November (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** BHUTAN. 6035, BBS, on Feb 20, with extended schedule; all in English; 1019-1036, usual segment with announcers; 1036-1100, pop music segment (Bob Dylan with "Desolation Row," etc.); 1100-1107, news; C&W songs; 1120, warm greetings for a special program (mostly talking about their king and some indigenous music/singing) Probably due to the fact it is the king's birthday tomorrow (Feb 21).; 1133, back to C&W songs; at *1139 hit with strong QRM from the start up of PBS Yunnan (FM99 relay), also on 6035, making for unpleasant listening; so BBS was on 1139+ today. My audio of indigenous music today (Feb 20) - http://bit.ly/2SejuA3 6035: Feb 21, BBS broadcasting on his majesty the king's birthday; 1035-1103*; all in English; mostly nice indigenous, repetitive music/singing, but did again play the long song "Desolation Row," sung by Bob Dylan (1041-1053); noted news in English at 1100, but unreadable and not as good as yesterday's reception; cut off 1103* in mid-sentence, so not the extended broadcast as heard yesterday (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. Bolivian Miners’ Radio Station Documentaries Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Tracy Wood (K7UO), who shares the following guest post: Bolivian mine workers’ radio stations have long held an affinity among these Altiplano communities. Many were stations targeted for shootings, bombings, etc. by forces loyal to earlier dictatorships. Today, few stations remain as the mining sector has declined in importance and newer generations migrate to the larger cities and lowland farming regions. Radio Nacional de Huanuni and the Catholic church’s Radio Pio XII are two of the remaining miners’ stations with some long-standing shortwave presence; others like Chocaya’s Radio Ánimas permanently signed off with the mining center’s closing. Two documentaries have been made about this earlier Bolivian miners’ broadcasting movement. The first one is a 30-minute 1983 UNESCO documentary entitled “La Voz del Minero” (“The Voice of the Miner”). This grainy 16-mm Spanish-language documentary fortunately has been ported to YouTube. The film features audio and video clips from several stations including Radio Nacional de Huanuni, Radio Pio XII, Radio Ánimas and Radio Vanguardia. Sharp eyes will notice at the 26-minute point a console-mounted Hammarlund HQ receiver in Radio Pio XII’s studios. Read the full story here: https://swling.com/blog/2019/02/guest-post-bolivian-miners-radio-station-documentaries/ (via SW Bulletin Feb 24 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 5880 kHz, Rádio Top Cidade (MG Brasil) --- Músicas. 2358 UT 19 Fev 2019 (Picos 120 watts.) RX: Yaesu FRG 8800 Antena: DS SWL DL (Daniel Wyllyans - Serra do Roncador Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) pirate ** BRAZIL. Re: 6010.007 kHz gerade so an der Grasnarbe. According Brazilian DXer is now only with limited power on reserve unit? 6010 (5 kW) ZYE521 R. Inconfidencia, Belo Horizonte MG http://inconfidencia.mg.gov.br/modules/programacao/players/pop_am.php need open Adobe Player in Firewall. Aber wenigstens verständlich via dem Livestream um 0714 UT. Die Musik gefällt mir sehr. 73 wb df5sx Die website mit dem Player Aufruf zeigt die MW Frequenz AM 880 --- AM 880 O gigante do ar (Wolfgang Bueschel, Feb 24, A-DX via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 9300 kHz, Rádio Pig 30 (SP Ondas Curtas) Músicas. Novos transmissores no Brasil está [sic] sendo testados agora com 300 watts. https://youtu.be/4SG2ubv45wU 1855 UT 16 Fevereiro 2019. RX: Yaesu FRG 8800 Antena: DS SWL DL 42 Metros + 15 Metros Coaxial + Balun (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brasil, HCDX via DXLD) pirate ** BRAZIL. E-QSL da Rede Nacional de Rádios Livres --- Recebido Cartão E-Qsl da Rede Nacional de Rádios Livres Em comemoração ao dia internacional do radio dia 13 de Fevereiro. (2019 eqsl) . Confirmando as escutas de: 6210 kHz Rádio Pig Rock (Picos 120 watts) 5955 kHz Nova Rádio Máxima (Picos 120 watts) 9835 kHz Rádio Global Hits (10 Watts) 20955 kHz Radio Cidadeoldies (15 watts) E-mail: Jonas360souza@live.com 73 (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brasil https://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com/2019/02/qsl-6210-khz-radio-pig-rock-picos-120.html?m=1 Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) pirates ** BRAZIL. 16500 kHz, Paulo Radio (MA Ondas Curtas) Músicas. 2248 UT 16 Fevereiro 2019 https://youtu.be/ol-uI1QNpCc RX: Yaesu FRG 8800 Antena DS SWL DL 42 Metros + 15 Metros Coaxial + Balun (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brasil, 18 feb, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) pirate ** BRAZIL. A nossa ONG da Rádio Serra do Roncador e da proteção do cachorro vinagre e aldeias Xavantes recebeu uma ajuda e vamos transmitir com 120 watts muito em breve. Vamos atingir 700 KM com som muito forte. E até uns 2.500 km som fraco por propagação. As aldeias Xavantes e do Xingu será [sic] atendidas. ONG Rádio, Serra do Roncador proprietário: (Daniel Wyllyans, Hard-Core-DX mailing list Feb 23 via DXLD) WTFK?? ** BRAZIL. [Re Don Moore`s comment about an antique radio dial:] On older WRTH's up to 1967 year issue read as follows: ZYZ27 9575, 10kW, and ZYZ28 11775, 10 kW, but not from Rio Grande do Sul, rather Radio Mayrink Vaiga [sic], Rio de Janeiro. Also MW PRA9 on 1220 kHz, 50 kW too. From 1969 onwards read ZYT29 as Estacoes Radio Diario da Manha, Florianopolis, Santa Catarina (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 11, BC-DX 21 Feb via DXLD) sic --- accents stripped; like I said, it was R. Mayrink Veiga, named for an interesting historical figure (gh, DXLD) ** BULGARIA. 11600, Sat Feb 23 at 1315, rock music at only S2-S3, i.e. `The Giant Jukebox` on The Mighty Farty KBC, weekly 13-14 broadcast for Europe, but which Mark Coady, Ontario, keeps recommending for better reception than for North America, UT Sunday 0100 on 5960 via Germany --- not the case here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA [and non]. Decoded, from near and far. This is A Music Show: http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2019-02-23.htm#TIAMS This is a SSTV-Show: http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2019-02-23.htm#SSR_27 (The combination of Cp2 and MFSK-128 should be prohibited. Roderick would agree with that.) This is the SWRG-Show: http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2019-02-23.htm#SWRG This is the (short) KBC-Data-Show: http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2019-02-23.htm#KBC (roger, germany, Feb 24, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CANADA [and non]. 351 kHz, Feb 23 at 0703 UT, one NDB log before shuteye is YKQ, which is 500 watts from Fort Rupert - Waskaganish, Québec; and it`s overcoming 350 kHz RG, 400 watts at Will Rogers World Airport, OKC, a.k.a. Gally; 2502 km = 1555 miles, so it`s about 22 times as far away as RG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 2749-USB, Feb 23 at 0437 S8 synthyl in French with marine weather, including minimums & maximums, past 0441+. 2598-USB, Feb 23 at 0441 I check the other frequency and hear same thing weaker, running just a split second ahead of 2749, as I am able to hear them on two different receivers. I can never be quite sure whether that be due to transmission delays or DSP-caused reception delays. 0443 one of them stops but shortly they are back almost //. DXLD 19-07 quoted this info: ``Les Escoumins, Quebec maritime weather station VCF --- Located in the eastern part of the province of Quebec, VCF is on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River. It broadcasts its weather bulletins in both English and French as follows: 2598 and 2749 kHz 0437-0500 VCF Les Escoumins QC`` Among other times, this being the final one until 0847. But that info omits important data, true transmitter sites of each frequency as in: http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/Marine-Communications/RAMN-2018/Part2#21 ``04:37 Natashquan 2598J3E La Vernière 2749J3E Radiotelephony --- Technical marine synopsis and forecasts for marine areas 215 to 221 and 301 to 302. Wave height forecasts for marine areas 215, 217, 219, 220, 221, 301 and 302. Notices to Fish Harvesters (when available)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [and non]. 6070, CFRX, Toronto, 0503-0515, 21-02, English, news, comments, advertisements. At 0515 eclipsed by Channel 292, Rohrbach on the same frequency. 24322 (Manuel Méndez. Lugo, España, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) Does ``eclipsed`` mean that was when the ROR carrier and/or modulation started??? (gh, DXLD) ** CAYMAN ISLANDS [and non]. 1813.90-LSB, Feb 23 at 0449, ZF9CW working K9ZO in Illinois. Per his QRZ.com page, Stan H. Stockton is a big 160m contester, on Cayman Brac, but address in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, almost an Okie. I`ve found 160m crammed with hams, during a big contest, LSB all over the place, and many QRMing each other less than 1 kHz apart. Only below 1805 do I hear some CW, and one ragchewer stands out on 1880; something digital intermittently 1840-1845. There are frantic phone contest contacts exchanging 5&9s. Mostly US and Canadian of course, so I pick out the one foreign I log; some further east are working Europe. This QRhaM bodes ill for WA0RCR this weekend, such as during WORLD OF RADIO starting UT Sunday anytime between 0400 and 0505 recent weeks, on 1860-AM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Re: [HCDX] 10140 kHz UNID Mistery asiatic 0857 UT [following a lengthy discussion about what it might be] Well, how about this combination; CNR11 on 9480 Baoji-Sifangshan 724 CNR2 on 9810 Baoji-Sifangshan 724 9810-9480=330 9810+330=10140 [i.e., what I call more simply, a leapfrog mixing product --- gh] This assuming both frequencies are on at that time and are from the same site. There may be then something (CNR2 or CNR11) also on 9150. 73, (Jari Savolainen, Finland, Feb 18, HCDX via DXLD) 10140 kHz Intermodulation Symmetrical (China Shortwave) https://youtu.be/3QjM-jXwDjU https://youtu.be/EuuJO2WturU https://youtu.be/erXqZ6R7kfQ Thanks by yours jobs. 73 (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT Brazil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** CHINA. 6105, CNR1 at 2241 in Mandarin jamming RTI in Mandarin with a man and woman with excited news coverage – Fair Feb 24 Coady-ON 9680, CHINA, CNR1 at 1225 // 9660 in Mandarin jamming RTI in Mandarin with a man and woman with excited news coverage and promos to 1+1 time pips at 1230 – Poor but audible Feb 23 Coady-ON 9825, CHINA, CNR1 at 1235 // 9660 and 9680 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin via the Philippines with a man and woman with excited news coverage – Fair Feb 23. 7445, CNR1 at 2240 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin via Thailand with a man and woman with excited news coverage – Fair Feb 21 Coady-ON 11640, CNR9 (Voice of the Literary) possibly the one at 1344 in Mandarin jamming RTI in Mandarin with a man with much calmer talk than the news reporters on CNR1 – Weak but audible Feb 21 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4, Kenwood TS440S, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) ** CHINA. EAST JAMMERSTAN: 9455, Symphonia de Pots & Pans; 1944, 2/22; about = LL [unknown language] audio; Radio Free Asia in Chinese via Germany listed -- but didn’t sound like Chinese. I see that Aoki is still showing Marianas as a site, but EiBi is not (Harold Frodge, Michigan Area Radio Enthusiasts DXpedition, Brighton MI, Drake R8B + 500’ unterminated bev, dogleg E-W/N-S, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9825, CNR1 (Xian) at 1256 // 9660 in Mandarin with a man and woman with excited news coverage and promos to 5+1 time pips at 1300 – Poor to Fair Feb 22 – This is a legitimate frequency registered with the HFCC as carrying CNR2 (China Business Radio) but today it carried CNR1 which is the main news channel. It is this feed that the Chinese authorities use to block western broadcasters like RTI (see above logging on 9660). (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4, Kenwood TS440S, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) [and non]. 9825, Feb 24 at 1417, CCCCCCI, i.e. Chinese Communist Chinese language co-channel interference, CNR1 jamming of VOA Mandarin via Tinang, PHILIPPINES. Also checked Feb 25 at 1459 with LAH until CNR1 off at 1500* leaving VOA ``Washington DC`` sign-off in the clear. One of them at least 20 Hz off-frequency, likely VOA, but VOA is gone before I can measure it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CNR-1 Jammer vs Sound of Hope Xi Wang Zhi Sheng, Feb.19: from 1026 on 10960 unknown kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese, fair/good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/cnr-1-jammer-vs-sound-of-hope-xi-wang_19.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.18-19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 3 CNR1 jammer heard remotedly in Brisbane Queensland, and in Hiroshima/Tokyo Japan at 0020 to 0040 UT on Febr 20. 10820even, CNR1 jammer, in Queensland only S=5 or -102 dBm, 30 kHz wideband audio block, S=9+20dB in Hiroshima and Tokyo remote SDR units. At 0020 UT. Similar CNR1 jamming station broadcast on 11150even at 0031 UT. 11500.012, odd fq outlet, S=9+20dB in Japan. 16 kHz wideband audio block. At 0040 UT on Febr 20 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Buescel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 20, dxldyg via DXLD) [and non]. CHINA/TAIWAN SOH TWN / CNR1 jammer matter. re Glenn's item of 15990.204, Feb 23 at 1457 UT: 15990v kHz Nothing traced on various SDR's in Delhi, Hiroshima, Gifu Nagara, and Tokyo SDR's. 15800even, CNR1 jamming S=7-8 at 0624 UT heard in Tokyo and Gifu Nagara. and accompanied by SOH TWN same strength on 15799.937 kHz at 0626 UT Febr 24. 15869.943 TWN SOH threshold level Falun Gong program?, S=3-4 threshold poor level, 0607 UT 15969.909, SOH TWN poor and tiny at 0603 UT S=4-5. B u T on 15970.004, CNR1 jamming came up and started at 0606 UT late after 06 UT. 18 kHz wideband CNR signal, when checked again 06-08 UT at Gifu Nagara Japan. 16100even CNR1 jamming at powerful S=9 level, 0612 UT. and accompanied 16100.114 kHz TWN SOH program underneath. 16159.102 TWN SOH at 0616 UT Febr 24, S=5-6 tiny. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 24, dxldyg via DXLD) ** CHINA. 4900, Voice of Strait, on Feb 20, at 0940, suddenly on with test tone; 0945 tone off (just open carrier); 0953 start of their programming; not // 4940. 4940, Voice of Strait, on Feb 20, at 0940, suddenly on with test tone; 0945 tone off (just open carrier); 0953 start of their IS; at 0955 ID in Chinese followed by Western classical orchestra music till ToH time pips; this was not // to 4900. Same format and timing as I reported hearing back on Oct 17, 2018. 5050, Beibu Bay Radio, 1000, Feb 20. Time pips; Beijing time in Chinese and English ("6 PM"); singing station jingle; 1002-1005, segment in English about Chinese heating systems and burning charcoal; not very readable, but seems a daily feature (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) 5050, Beibu Bay Radio in Chinese at 1508 UT February 23 with song and talk. Very Good (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, RX: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA 100 loop, WOR iog via DXLD) 4940, Voice of Strait, on Feb 24 (Sunday), 0946-0955, tuned into the weekend "Focus on China" program in English, already in progress; talking about food and the Chinese New Year; fairly readable. 6035, PBS Yunnan, with FM99 relay, on Feb 24, daily hearing their sudden *1139; has been very consistent (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) Yunnan International Radio - new schedule. According to the Febr 15 edition of Chinese broadcasting information site the schedule of Yunnan International Radio on 6035 kHz at the date of Febr 15 is as follows. The international program in Vietnamese is now only 1 hour per day; most of the program (17.5 hours per day) is a relay of FM99, Voice of Shangri-la, the domestic broadcasting for tourism, in Chinese. 2140-2200 Test Music 2230-2300 International program in Vietnamese 2230-2300 Music 2300-1630 Relay of FM99 1630-1700 International program in Vietnamese Takahito Akabayashi. Tokyo, Japan via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 24 Posted by: ("Wolfgang Bueschel" dxldyg via DXLD) Does this mean that they would have reactivated 6035 kHz on 15 February? They have been very irregular for some months. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, WOR iog via DXLD) This seems to be their official schedule. So this does not necessarily mean the complete reactivation of 6035 kHz. Original Chinese reporter of this information did not confirm all the schedule was on 6035 (Takahito Akabayashi, ibid.) Thank you. I can detect a carrier here at 1615 and heard with clear signal via Hong Kong remote receiver, so they probably look like being more regular than in the recent month (Mauno Ritola, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CHINA. China’s becomes world’s largest DRM shortwave broadcaster Asia Radio Today 21 February, 2019 From having no regular DRM presence just a year ago, China has now become the world’s largest DRM shortwave broadcaster. It had some DRM infrastructure in place for over a decade, which had only been sporadically tested so far. Today, China operates the most DRM transmitters in this band and has the most extensive schedule. The initial broadcasts started in early 2018 from Beijing. Services continued to rollout over the year via various transmitter sites, often on the country’s periphery. A DRM shortwave transmitter in Beijing targets north China almost 24 hours a day. A second Beijing transmitter targets east China for eight hours a day. Another transmitter in Ürümqi in the country’s west targets central and east China for 14 hours a day, while a transmitter in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang province (the Manchurian plain), is on more than 11 hours a day and reaches south and southwest China. Dongfang on Hainan Island province is on eight hours a day on two frequencies for both north and southeast China. Finally, the DRM shortwave transmitter located in Kunming in the Yunnan province is on eight hours daily for south China.There is now a DRM network providing nationwide coverage. Programming takes place on the first channel of China National Radio, part of the country’s state-run domestic service. The only issue at the moment seems to be the availability of DRM receivers, which are currently manufactured only by Gospell. The company makes the GR-216 - which is nonportable and is not readily available, and the GR-227 digital radio car adaptor. http://www.asiaradiotoday.com/news/china%E2%80%99s-becomes-world%E2%80%99s-largest-drm-shortwave-broadcaster (via Mike Terry, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DXLD) News about Chinese DRM mode CNR China National Radio stations. New DRM test broadcasting schedule of CNR after Febr 20. According to February 20 edition of the Chinese broadcasting information site China National Radio revised their DRM shortwave test transmission schedule on Febr 20. All relay "Voice of China", the 1st CNR program. (* New addition) 6030 2025-1805 (except Tue 0600-0900) BEI 30 kW 0° to North China since 7/24/2018 9655 2200-0100 0800-1200 URU 30 kW 98° to North and East China since 11/19/2018 9870 0900-1200 QIQ 30kW 203° to South China since 12/15/2019 11695 0100-0900 DOF 30kW 41° to East and South China since 10/23/2018 13825*0100-0900 BEI 30kW 175° to South China since 01/30/2019 13850 0100-0800 URU 30kW 98° to North and East China since 11/19/2018 15250 0100-0900 KUN 30kW 32° to North China since 01/15/2019 15580 0100-0900 DOF 30kW 16° to North China since 10/23/2018 15735 0630-0900 QIQ 30kW 225° to Westsouth China since 12/15/2018 17800 0030-0630 QIQ 30kW 225° to Westsouth China since 12/15/2018 (Takahito Akabayashi, Tokyo, Japan via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 24 via DXLD) Will DRM make more of an effective "jammer" than the "FireDragon clash-and-bang" music or CNR1 analogue audio? ;-) (Steve -- N6NKS, WOR iog via DXLD) DRM mode China National Radio service. 15250drm S=9 in Tokyo Japan at 0549 UT from Kunming site in southwestern China mainland. 15580drm Not strong from southern China Dong Fang island at S=7 or -89dBm level at 0554 UT [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 24, dxldyg via DXLD) ** CONGO. 6115, Radio Congo, Brazzaville, 1655-1710, 20-02, French, comments. 14321. Also 0605-0626, 21-02, French, comments, ID. “Radio Congo”, African songs. 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) [non-log]. 6115, Radio Congo, on Feb 22, from 0541 to 0601. Clearly off the air today; only one station here ("RN2" - Japan); no trace at all of Congo (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CONGO DR. Radio Kahuzi, Bukavu, 6210.2, 1725-1740, 20-02, now on air with catholic religious songs, and comments by male in vernacular, probably Swahili. Very weak. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CUBA. RADIOCUBA informs in facebook that on Feb 16th "El Sapo" CTOM resumed transmission of Rebelde and COCO from new tower. 73! (Mauricio Molano, Salamanca, ESPAÑA - SPAIN, Feb 19, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DXLD) 980, Radio COCO, El Sapo, Ciudad de la Habana. 0106 February 17, 2019. Cuban salsa, Back on 980 kc/s after the tornado of January 27th toppled the tower and COCO audio was reportedly flipped to the 1550 kc/s Radio Rebelde, Santa Catalina site. Thanks to D. Crawford, who discovered the return to 980 kc/s the day before. 1620, Radio Rebelde, El Sapo, Ciudad de la Habana. 0110 February 17, 2019. Back on with the usual big signal after the January 27th tornado took out the tower that multiplexed with Radio COCO on 980 kc/s. Back to usual strong signal local daytime checks as well (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, FL, IC-R75, NRD-535, longwires, active loop, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 980, Radio COCO, El Sapo, Ciudad de la Habana. 1525 February 18, 2019. Nearly local level when WDVH, Gainesville, FL nulled. [HISP] 1550, Radio Rebelde, Santa Catalina, Ciudad de la Habana. 1550 February 18, 2019. Very weak in tight and only slight WAMA, Tampa null. Probably this site based on previous daytime monitoring and bearing. [HISP] (Terry Krueger, logs (appended with [HISP]) were made between 1525-1730 GMT (10:25 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time), February 18, 2019, at Hog Island a/k/a Honeymoon Island State Park, Dunedin, FL with an ICOM IC-R75 and active portable loop, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11760, RHC at 0014 // 11670, 11700, and 11840 in Spanish with a Latin American ballad – All frequencies Fair to Good Feb 19 – Just how many 25 meter band frequencies do the Cubans need to broadcast the exact same program? 15700, CRI at 1525 with a man and woman with a totally unintelligible “Roundtable” discussion – Great signal but totally muffled audio Feb 19 – After the kudos I gave the Cubans for the great service they gave to CRI yesterday they go on to prove they can't do it two days in a row! (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4, Kenwood TS440S, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) 6100, Feb 20 at 0648, RHC English continues reactive here, but distorted; undermodulated on 6000 & 6165, and just right on 6060. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 13671.713, Feb 20 at 1437, JBA music, first suspect being RHC 13700 spur, 28.3 kHz away, but not //. Is there one on the opposite side? 13728.294, also close to 28.3 with no modulation audible. Can such a spur contain different audio from source? Or maybe on a single receiver, music stopped as I retuned. These are not the huge FM spurs which are sporadically provided by 13700. Nearest fundamental is 13670 CRI French via Albania, but not much heard of that. At 1514 I check again, finding JBA carriers on 13671.7 and 13727.7, not matching. 13779.289, Feb 20 at 1445, RHC S9+10 knocked way off-frequency again today. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 6100, Feb 21 at 0632, RHC English is S9+30 but modulation spikes only, totally useless; wiggle that patchcord! // 6165 is S9+10, OK modulation but with CCI, presumably NHK Arabic via France until 0630 not turned off yet; 6000 somewhat distorted; 6060 overmodulated distorted. Somethings are always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15700, Feb 21 at 1527, CRI Plus English relay is S9+30 of dead air except for some lite crackle. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9624 & 9656, Feb 21 at 2242, diffuse spurblobs obviously out of 9640 RHC transmitter which is S9+20. Not FM, and no modulation recognizable on them. I then scan for more further out at 16x kHz multiples. There is more hash but not on exact spots, such as around 9590, 9540 vs other RHC 9535, 9565? vs jamming, 9520. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 5990, Feb 21 at 2315, CRI relay is JBM with scratches, S9+10/20. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12160, Radio Havana Cuba 0630. RHC commentary bit. Started to fade out before the ToH, so not sure whether they closed or just faded out (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, English used unless otherwise stated. Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; Hammarlund HQ-180A & HQ-200; RS SW-2000629, with various outdoor wires. 73 and Good Listening....! WOR iog via DXLD) Date apparently Feb 22 This is an interesting one I haven`t heard. Rather than a leapfrog of 25m band frequencies, or a second harmonic, it computes as the *sum* of 6060 and 6100 = 12160! I wonder which receiver was used and whether he compared to find out if it could be receiver-produced? (gh, DXLD) 15700, Feb 22 at 1448, CRI Plus relay is S9+40 but suptorted. Readable if you want to put up with it. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. But no spurs on 15 or 13 MHz bands today (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11730 [sic], RHC in Creole. SIO 333, February 23, 2019, 0000–0004. Language switch from French to Creole at 0000. ID by YL. Distorted audio (Vince Henley, Anacortes, WA, WiNRADiO G39DDCe SDR, ICOM IC-R8600, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R8B, SDRPLAY RSP Duo, TECSUN PL-880. Antennas: whip on PL-880 and Alpha-Delta DX-Ultra installed broadside east west at 30 feet for all others, NASWA Flashsheet Feb 24 via DXLD) 11730 is not an RHC frequency nor have I ever heard a spur here. 11950 could leap over 11840 another 110 kHz but at least one of them would have to be in French/Creole. Or rather, a typo for 15730 where both of those are scheduled only (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 9910-9980, Feb 23 at 0011, wall-of-noise jamming against 9955 WRMI not quite into R. Libertad yet, asymmetrically splattering out over this range. Something`s always wrong at the DentroCuban Jamming Command (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6270, Radio Habana Cuba; 0155, 2/23; mixing product; M&W in Spanish with talx re Cuba. SIO=2+53 peaks; similar on 6360 but much weaker & not //6270 (Frodge-DXP) [6360 could be 6000/6180 China relay mixture -- gh] 6970, China Nat’l Radio (presumed); 1219, 2/23; Chinese drama--sounds like a child’s program. Presume from Cuba as S10 steady sig; //7230 SIO=333 with SSTV QRM; //7290 SIO=3+53 & //7305 SIO=3+53, all via China & listed as CNR. 6970 not listed in either Aoki of EiBi. Pirate checks do come in handy for other things occ’ly! (Harold Frodge, Michigan Area Radio Enthusiasts DXpedition, Brighton MI, Drake R8B + 500’ unterminated bev, dogleg E-W/N-S, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Can`t explain this as a mixture and Cuba would not be relaying CNR, rather CRI somehow. 9570 is the one on air at that time (gh, DXLD) 6100, Feb 23 at 0516, this RHC is on but S9+50 in Spanish instead of English, supposed to start at 0500; also // Spanish on 6060 & 5040, leaving English only on 6165 and 6000. Consequently, the 6270 leapfrog mixing product of 6060 over 6165 is bilingual, attaining hefty S5. But 0656 recheck, all four 49m are back in English, with 6000 weakest at only S9. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15700, Feb 23 at 1453, CRI Plus relay this day is overmodulated and distorted, rather than JBM or suptorted. They can never get it just right! Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 11860, Sunday Feb 24 at 1409, pulse jamming against weak presumed Republic of Yemen clandestine via Saudi Arabia, rather than Radio Martí which has never operated 11860 beyond Monday-Friday. Something`s always wrong at DCJC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15700, Feb 24 at 1405, CRI Plus relay is suptorted today, while 15140 & 15230 RHC are overmodulated/distorted, but no spurs found on 15 or 13 MHz bands. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9640, Feb 24 at 1448, RHC apparently pre-empted `En Contacto` --- instead of Arnie & Marta we hear a discussion of Feb 24 as a big day for ratifying the new Cuban constitution, and also about ``solidarity`` with Venezuela (meaning the Maduro dictatorship, not the people of V.) Such also continues past 1450 instead of the medical show; will they be back next Sunday? Something`s always wrong at RHC. Recent spam from Diario de Cuba, allegedly datelined Habana, with contrary views: https://mailchi.mp/diariodecuba/today-six-reasons-why-the-next-constitution-be-the-shortest-lived-in-cuban-history?e=75468380c8 https://mailchi.mp/diariodecuba/today-poll-reveals-widespread-rejection-of-the-regimes-new-constitution?e=75468380c8 https://mailchi.mp/diariodecuba/today-the-castroist-military-junta-is-above-the-new-constitution?e=75468380c8 6000 S9+10 but JBM, 6165 a bit more mod, 6100 a bit more than that but still under-, only 6060 VG signal and modulation, Feb 25 at 0638 check of RHC English. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Re: ``12140, Feb 18 at 1237, JBA carrier as I check for possible leapfrog of both very strong 11760 over 11950 another 190 kHz beyond; 12140 is weaker than 12300 = 2 x 6150. Something`s always wrong at RHC. At this early hour, 15140 & 15230 are JBA carriers, while 13780.0 not way-off frequency today, has built up to good level, the OSOB, and no spurs on 13 or 15 MHz`` Altho I am of course partial to Cuban leapfrogs, as a JBA carrier, 12140 at this time could also have been fundamentally IBB Kuwait, 250 kW at 70 degrees, during the scheduled multi-hour Dari/Pashto Radio Azadi service (Glenn Hauser, Feb 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) no, it`s RHC 15700, Feb 26 at 1448, CRI Plus relay is S9+30 but suptorted with modulation spikes only, continuing a slightly different wrongness from one day to the next (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Prensa Latina Positions New Online Radio in Internet https://www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=39105&SEO=prensa-latina-positions-new-online-radio-in-internet 24 de febrero de 2019, 08:26 Havana, Feb 24 (Prensa Latina) --- Prensa Latina News Agency positions today in Internert [sic] its second Online Radio station with an uninterrupted 24-hour program. Prensa Latina Radio offers a wide variety of programs designed by a team of journalists, who transmit the most important events from the places where they occur, under the premise of reporting truthfully and immediately. Reports, analysis and comments in the voice of recognized specialists, offer the Spanish and English-speaking world, an objective vision of global events. Culture, sports and science are part of a program designed for all audiences. The constitutional referendum in Cuba and the following-up of the situation in Venezuela, will be relevant issues as part of the news programs in this inaugural journey. The Prensa Latina office in La Paz, Bolivia, is home since 2017 to the first experience of this new service. ef/acl/ehl (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) competition for RHC? ** DENMARK. Very good conditions today Saturday on 15 MHz: World Music Radio (WMR) was audible for a good part of the day on 15805 kHz presumably in the whole of the eastern and southern part of European Russia, good signal strength noted on remote Kiwi SDR receivers in Romania, Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal. Very strong signals in Iceland for most of the day. Also very weak signals visible in Thailand, Kerala India and on the island of Bonaire. Somewhat weak on the North American east coast. Today no luck in Brazil. WMR is on the air again tomorrow Sunday on 15805 kHz at 0500-2000 UT. Please be advised that next weekend WMR will be on the air on 15805 kHz continuously: - from Friday March 1st at 0700 UT - until Sunday March 3rd at 1700 UT Power is 200 Watt. Transmissions on 5840 kHz continues - 24/7 - with a power of 100 Watt. Transmitter site for both 15805 and 5840 kHz is Randers, Denmark. Reception reports are welcome to: wmr@wmr.dk and World Music Radio, PO Box 112, DK-8960 Randers SØ, Denmark. Best 73's (Stig Hartvig Nielsen, http://www.wmr.radio 1542 UT Feb 23, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DXLD) ** ECUADOR. 6050, HCJB, Pichincha, *0924-0935, 21-02, music, Quechua, comments. Extremely weak due to daylight here. 15411 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Radio Nacional, Bata, 0545-0610, 20-02, Spanish, program “Panorama Nacional”, greetings and messages from listeners, at 0600 “Boletin informativo”, news. 15321. Also *0510-0611, 21-02, open with Afropop songs, at 0630 Spanish, “Panorama Nacional”, at 0601 “Boletin informativo”. 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) 5005, RNGE, R. Bata, on Feb 22, suddenly on at *0505, in mid-song. Unlike my Feb 17 reception of non-stop African pop music, today played only a few EZL selections, while mostly just announcers in Spanish; just above threshold level audio; still heard at 0540 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [non]. `MINISTRY OF EVIL, the twisted cult of Tony Alamo`, documentary premieres Wed Feb 27 at 11e/10c on Sundance cable channel, 4-parter, 1 hour each. Repeats a few hours later at 3/2 am Thu, and following Saturday at 2/1 am. Or in UT: Thu 0400 & 0800, Sat 0700. Third and fourth episodes should be 1 UT hour earlier due to imposition of DST. Sundance may also have a delayed western feed, probably same PT as ET, i.e. 3 real hours later (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. SECRETLAND, Dimtse Radio Erena via SPL Secretbrod, Feb.22 1700-1730 9720 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Tigrinya, very good 1730-1800 9720 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Arabic Mon/Wed/Fri 1730-1800 9720 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Tue/Thu/Sat/Sun https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/very-good-signal-of-dimtse-radio-erena.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.22-23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [and non]. re Eritrea / Somaliland / Sudan mornings 7120 nothing from Hargeysa 7140.020 ERI single outlet in 41 mb from Asmara today Febr 24, S=9+5dB at 0515 UT. 7180v kHz nothing from Asmara ERI. 7205even, Drums and singer program, Omdurman S=9+5dB signal in Doha Qatar at 0520 UT [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 24, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. FRANCE, R. Xoriyo Ogadenya & Voice of Independent Oromiya via TDF are cancelled. No signal of these two clandestine programs via Issoudun from the beginning of 2019: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/rxoriyo-ogadenya-of-independent-oromiya.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.22-23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not: GERMANY, Reception of Radio Xoriyo Ogaden via MBR Nauen [sic] Feb.23: 1600-1630 11970 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Somali Tue/Sat, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-radio-xoriyo-ogaden-via_24.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.23-24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GEORGIA. The magic of antennas. The Tbilisi TV Tower, built in 1972 on Mount Mtatsminda, has an unusual shape - the main trunk of the tower, along with two "supports", forms a triangle in projection. The height of the tower is 274.5 meters above the mountain surface (height above sea level is 719.2 meters). Photo: https://vk.com/club171176221?z=photo-171176221_456241072%2Falbum-171176221_00%2Frev https://vk.com/club171176221 (via Rus-DX Feb 24 via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Weak/fair signal of Radio City via HLR on 6190 CUSB Feb.23 1300-1400 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg German 4th Sat, instead of 9485 1300-1400 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg English 1st/2nd/3rd Sat UNRadio https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/weakfair-signal-of-radio-city-via-hlr.html Reception of Radio Tropicana via HLR on 9485 kHz CUSB on Feb.23: 1400-1500 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg Spanish Sat, weak/fair plus QRM same time 9490 KUN 150 kW / 270 deg Bangla China Radio International https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-radio-tropicana-via-hlr-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.22-23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. Thursday 21 February: Annual SW broadcast of Radio Amrum (Radio Öömrang) from Amrum Island, German North Frisian Islands. Tentatively 1600-1659 UT on 15215 kHz via Issoudun in Frisian, German and English. QSLs via Media Broadcast qsl-shortwave@media-broadcast.com (Feb BDXC-UK Communication via WORLD OF RADIO 1970, DXLD) Aimed at expats in NYC; sked info as per last and previous years (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1970, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And also registered in current HFCC as 500 kW, 300 degrees Feb 21 only (reminder posted by gh to WOR, bdxc-news and HCDX groups about an hour earlier) Thanks to Glenn for the reminder about this. Radio Amrum heard with a good signal here at 1600 sign-on, with German ID and short intro in English. SIO 344. 73s (Dave Kenny, Caversham Berks UK, AOR7030+ 25m long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) Thanks for the reminder, Glenn; carrier came on at about 15 secs to the hour and broadcast started with ID's in German and English on the hour at 1600 UT. It's a very poor signal in NW England when compared to previous broadcasts. The signal is peaking to about S8 and dropping to S2 with much fading. There's also an annoying background "drumming" noise. By 1610 the signal is dropping in strength and very difficult to understand any of the languages. Maybe 300 deg is not favourable from ISS. I'm using a loop antenna - on my long wire the signal is much weaker (Noel R Green, ibid.) At 1603 UT noted in Blackpool UK S=9, and at MA and NJ US state SDR's like S=9+30 ... +35dB excellent signals. But in the background noted some 'ditter pulsing sound - joke?' like the Vietnam and Iran jamming services often use. 73 wb df5sx wwdxc (Wolfgang Bueschel, dxldyg via DXLD) Noel, Here in central Ohio, it is hitting s9+20 on the SDRplay RSPduo and Wellbrook ALA1530LNP. Been getting a bit stronger as the hour progresses. -- (Mike Bott, 1633 UT, WOR iog via DXLD) FRANÇA, 15215. 21/2/2019, 1600-1636, Radio Öömrang, Issoudun, em Inglês e Alemão. Locução masculina: ID e frequência em inglês; 1605 Locutora fala e inicia-se uma espécie de mesa redonda entre ela e outros dois participantes do programa; 1623 Continua uma simpática conversação entre eles, em alemão; Risos; 1625 Locução masculina em inglês e continuam a conversação em alemão. Também falaram uma linguagem que não conseguí identificá-la; 1636 Finalizei a minha escuta. Recepção de pobre a satisfatória, inicial, mas a partir das 1612 melhorou sensivelmente, merecendo uma avaliação de 45433 (JRX_José Ronaldo Xavier, SWARL Callsign PR7036SWL, Cabedelo-PB, Brasil (UTC-3), WOR iog via DXLD) Noted at 1630 with S9 to S9+10 signal from KPH Historical Site near San Francisco with TCI-530 antenna (the HF site, but also heard at lower level from KPH LF-MF site) – English and German IDs at 1639 by man; at 1640 with “Welcome to Radio Amrum to New York” or words to that effect. Program appeared to be multiple men/women talking with occasional English segment. Pulsing noise in background noted by Wolfy heard here as well but very weak and a non-issue for QRM. Nothing heard from two sites in Hawaii at either Kaneohe Oahu or Maui at gray line passage (Bruce Churchill, ibid.) Re: [A-DX] 15215 kHz Radio Amrum (Radio Oeoemrang) via TDF Issoudun > wie es auch Vietnam und Iran gelegentlich zur Radioabwehr nutzen. Bei dem Programm erscheint mir die Radioabwehr gar nicht so falsch. 73 (Christoph Ratzer, -- http://ratzer.at http://remotedx.wordpress.com http://a-dx.at/facebook A-DX via Wolfgang Bueschel, dxldyg via DXLD) FRANCE, 15215 kHz Radio Amrum (Radio Oeoemrang) via TDF Issoudun, to ITU zones 4,8,9, 500 kW at 300 degrees azimuth. S=9+35dB in MA, NJ, MI Ich werde nachher noch mal in die Aufzeichnung hineinhören, wenn ich mich gar nicht äußerst getäuscht habe, um 1639 UT d.h. Minute-35.29m/s der mp3 File im englisch-sprachigen Teil wurde auch die Sendestelle Juelich genannt ... schon lange ge-bisambergt ... Die Deutsche Welle und Norden-Osterloog sind auch schon längst verblichen. Und für das Jahr 2020 am 21. Februar ist eine weitere Ein-Stundensendung von Radio Oeoemrang angekündigt, wenn es denn noch MBR Kölle gibt ... Die ersten 3 Minuten kam ich zu spät, aber den Rest werde ich mal mit 24b/s komprimieren und auf den Box Zugriff stellen. Dort können Nils und ähnliche Norddeutsche dann frei zugreifen. Spenden für diese Brauchstum-Sendung werden auf Amrum Island gerne entgegen genommen. In New Jersey an der Ostküste der USA kam die Amrum Sendung mit einem schönen S=9+35dB Signal an. Ende der Sendung war mit der Absage um 1659:10 UT, der Sender TDF Issoudun wurde um 1700:04 UT ausgeschaltet. Die heutige Aufzeichnung 16.03 bis 16.59 UT 9,77 MB (10.250.898 Bytes) 56.56 m/s F__ISS_15215kHz_R_Amrum_Oeoemrang_180221_16_17UT.mp3 steht auf der Box zum Anhören: https://app.box.com/s/dlolfr18x2wr311e13qm800v6rvpeh6b Kann mir mal jemand erläutern woher dieses Bubble-Geräusch pulsend herkommt? 73 wb df5sx https://www.wwdxc.de/topnews.shtml (Wolfgang Bueschel, ibid.) Heard the once a year broadcast via France as follows: 15215, FRANCE, Radio Oomrang at 1629 UT February 21 in multi languages (Frisian, German and English) with conversations, A mention of Amanda in New York at 1633 UTC. Full English and German ID's at 1638:39. Off air at 1659. Very Good signal with a worrible / pulse in the background (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, RX: Perseus SDR Ant: Wellbrook ALA 100 loop, WOR iog via DXLD) Many thanks to Glenn for the reminder, as I've seen it no where else! Tuned in at 1600 in Victoria before leaving for work, and the carrier was there, but with deep fades and only occasional audio. Switched to Don Moman's Perseus SDR in Alberta with excellent reception, so taped it for the next hour. In English at the beginning. I'd like to know whether it was a new program, or just a replay of previous years. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, WOR iog via DXLD) 15215, Feb 21 at *1600, annual broadcast of ``Radio Amrum, the Frisian Voice`` via FRANCE, carrier on and soon sign-on in English mentioning 500 kW, the edition for 2019 --- but the ``19`` was clearly edited in, replacing ``18``, or even earlier! This is the ``tenth issue`` -- or was that referring to a previous year now being played back? The following content certainly sounds familiar. It would be nice if they could come up with new stuff, perhaps even some local music breaks. The date is coordinated with a celebration on Öömrang every Feb 21 at 5-6 pm, a bonfire of non-toxic, non-plastic materials collected over previous months. Live coverage of this would be more exciting! Host introduces ``latest news`` at 1603 but then switches to German. Several English bits interspersed are only brief, so for those not fluent in German, much less Frisian, little is comprehensible, but since this is such a special occasion I monitor the entire hour. Mostly it`s an informal conversation among a woman and one or two men, except at 1611 they seem to be reading a script. Apparently the host only speaks (high) German and English, while most of the hour is in the Frisian dialect. I wonder how well standard German speakers can understand Frisian? 1604 English something about a ``special game`` and back to Frisian. 1625 English about happy birthday to a Mr. Peters who has been married for 15 years. 1633 English about having made a trip to New York, also in German about Australia, New Zealand; in Frisian about Las Vegas. 1639 break ID as on 15215 k-h-z from Jülich! How many years now has the original DW site been kaput?? And times as 11 in NY, 17 M-E-Z; ``welcome from Amrum to New York``. 1645 talking about schnee (snow). 1659 apologizes for interrupting the conversation, but promises to be back on Feb 21, 2020, 500 kW on 15215, ``to all Amrum exiles all over the world, especially New York``. Also said earlier that more of them live elsewhere in Germany than on the islands. Credits those responsible for this annual broadcast, Ian (Eien?) Kursel? at 25946 Niebel, and two contact phone numbers repeated in English and German: 046822688 and 01704425007; inviting donations. 1659 dead air and 1700* VG S9+20 signal here in deep North America, fading to S9. Simul- monitoring via UTwente found it much weaker/poorer, too close to Issoudun, skipping over, and worsening by 1642 check. Via UTwente only, from the outset and further chex, there is scratchy intermittent SSB ACI from some INTRUDERS. I do not manage to isolate it, but seems to be USB, slightly from the lower side. There is also constant tone-pulsing QRM underneath for the entire hour, at the rate of approx. 7X per second. What is this? At times it seems to fade independently, so jamming? Toward the end I find it peaking about 0.5 kHz above and below 15215.0; it continues during the brief dead air at conclusion, and goes off at exactly the same time as carrier. So I conclude it`s a defect at Issoudun, not external jamming, and not on the Amrum program audio either. Other monitors were also hearing it. I alerted the WOR iog, British DX Club and Hard -Core-DX an hour earlier, and will round up several resulting reports in next DXLD. Wolfgang Bueschel recorded most of it and also wonders about the source of pulsing: ``steht auf der Box zum Anhören: https://app.box.com/s/dlolfr18x2wr311e13qm800v6rvpeh6b Kann mir mal jemand erläutern woher dieses Bubble-Geräusch pulsend herkommt? 73 wb df5sx`` This fine reception into deep North America demonstrates that even at solarmin, any European broadcaster could serve us successfully on 19m at our mid-mornings, but not a single station is willing to do so. Remember when, sesquidecades ago, London Calling had a separate North American service? I think it was on 11 metres then during solarmax circa 1958! 15215 also had a JBA carrier before Amrum, at 1530 Feb 21 check, and after it went off at 1700; nothing else whatsoever listed so maybe of local origin (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) > the Frisian dialect. > I wonder how well standard German speakers can understand Frisian? Only a limited handful northern German national people on the islands chain, understand this dialect, in addition some Frisian people in Northern Netherlands understand it too. Frisian are not Germans in previous history. For me, it`s similar strange language word sound, like Pidgin from Bismarck archipelago in PNG. This much pure amateur radio is so nostalgic, and makes me sad feeling, and memories of Deutsche Welle termination German SW a decade ago. 73 (Wolfie, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Fair signal of Radio Oeoemrang via MBR Issoudun, Feb.21 1600-1700 on 15215 ISS 500 kW / 300 deg to ENAm Frisian/German/English https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/fair-signal-of-radio-oeoemrang-via-mbr.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.20-21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15215, FRANCE, Radio Oomrang at 1629 UT February 21 in multi languages (Frisian, German and English) with conversations, A mention of Amanda in New York at 1633 UTC> Full English and German ID's at 1638:39. Off air at 1659. Very Good signal with a worrible / pulse in the background (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, RX: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA 100 loop, WOR iog via DXLD) The annual Radio Öömrang transmission from Issoudun, France: Ron Hunsicker, Dave Reitz and I were planning a mini-Dxpedition to a local park near Ron‘s home that appeared to have electricity available for our radios. A snow, ice, rain storm combination occurred the previous day. As a result, there was no electricity in the park the day of the scheduled transmission (February 21st). After receiving a phone call from Ron and Dave, I decided to stay home for the annual transmission. Radio Öömrang via Issoudun, France was heard with a very nice signal on 21 February 2019 from 1600 to 1700 UT on a frequency of 15215 kHz. Once again, I enjoyed being able to tune in this annual broadcast over Media Broadcast transmission facilities. I already look forward to next year’s broadcast which the announcer mentioned as being on February 21, 2020 (Rich D’Angelo, PA, 22 Feb, NASWA iogroup via DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. Hi All, Radio. Menschen & Geschichten will be on air again this coming Sunday in both AM and DRM, details are below. Info taken from the DRMRX Forum: Sunday 24th of February 2019: Radio. Menschen & Geschichten ( = Radio. People & Stories) will be on air... 0900-1000 UT online live streaming http://www.radiomenschenundgeschichten.de 1800-1900 UT in AM on 5830 kHz and 1930-2030 UT in DRM on 5830 kHz (Alan Gale, UK, Feb 22, WOR iog via DXLD) Hi All, A very good signal from Radio. Menschen & Geschichten in DRM on 5830 kHz at the moment from Tashkent, so far no drop outs at all and coming into north west England 55555. It's on till 2030 UT, so still time to check it out of you haven't already done so (Alan Gale, 2011 Feb 24, WOR iog via DXLD) See also UZBERKISTAN ** GERMANY EAST. In the footsteps of "Voice of Russia" ----------------------------------------- Photo - https://vk.com/club171176221?z=photo135031077_456242167%2Fwall-171176221_3088 Transmitting Medium Wave Center Wachenbrunn, East Germany, Thuringia. Standing in the 50th years. twentieth century. Until 1993, transmissions were conducted with a power of 250 kW, and later the power was reduced to 20 kW. There were also several low-power transmitters. Since 1988, the radio center began broadcasting "Moscow Radio", and later the Voice of Russia at a frequency of 1323 kHz. For this purpose, a directional antenna was used, consisting of four mast frame masts 125.1 meters high, isolated from the ground with a triangular cross section. These masts, which were locally called the “Russian Quartet”, were located 800 meters from other parts of the facility to avoid unwanted interference. Used power: 1000 kW. in 2002-2003 The transmission equipment for the Voice of Russia was modernized. The transmitter efficiency reached 84%. There is evidence that the transmitter has become a transistor, which at a very decent radiation power is amazing. Broadcasting of the German radio company (MDR) was discontinued on June 30, 2011. On July 14, the “German” site of the center was demolished, the work of the Voice of Russia continued normally. In December 2012, the management of the Russian foreign broker announced intentions to stop using the radio center for financial reasons. "Voice of Russia" was silent from Vakhenbrunnen on December 31, 2012 at 23.00. September 19, 2013 equipment was demolished. In the history of the radio center set point. By the way, this was not the only reduction in radio broadcasts. After a year and a half, Russia's oldest broadcaster was liquidated. Pictures: http://www.jans-radioseiten.de/wachenbrunn.htm Video dismantling antennas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLEM2abBue8 According to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachenbrunn_transmitter (Andrey Molokov, St. Petersburg, Russia / https://vk.com/club171176221 via Rus-DX Feb 24 via DXLD) ** GUAM. KSDA: See TURKEY [and non]. 12035 ** GUATEMALA. 4055, Feb 20 at 0656, S9+10 open carrier/dead air as TGAV must not have turned off transmitter after normal sign-off circa 0612 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4055, TGAV Radio Verdad (presumed); 0132, 2/23; EZL music + My Country Tis of Thee instrumental & fife & drum marching song. Strong hiss QRM in AM & USB; LSB took it out; hiss there all weekend (Harold Frodge, Michigan Area Radio Enthusiasts DXpedition, Brighton MI, Drake R8B + 500’ unterminated bev, dogleg E-W/N-S, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HAWAII. See MARSHALL ISLANDS [and non] ** INDIA. 4895, AIR Kurseong, 1216-1235, Feb 21. Back on the air again; started out very weak, but improved; 1230-1235, news in English, with the New Delhi audio feed; unreadable; only the news was // to a stronger AIR Jeypore (5040); best in LSB due to Voice of Strait on 4900. Great to have them back again! No Mongolia noted here today (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) 4895, AIR Kurseong, Feb 23, listening at 1016 & 1102, with no signal, so seemed as if no Mongolia today. After 1228+, was only hearing a carrier (assume AIR), with never any trace of any audio; still with just a carrier at last check at 1327. So they are still having issues with their reactivation? AIR Jeypore (5040) heard with the usual news in English at 1230, on Feb 23. Long standing silence from AIR Shillong (4970) continues through Feb 23 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** INDIA. 9445, All India Radio; 2202-2211+, 2/19; News by W in English; “This is all India Radio giving you the news.” (Reminds me of the Laugh-In news tag line) 2210 GOSoAIR ID into Hindi- music. SIO = 3+53 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9445, AIR (Bengaluru) at 2223 with traditional subcontinental vocals and a woman talking about the selection then ID of “You are tuned to the General Overseas Service of All India Radio” at 2225 followed by brief woodwind instrumentals and a woman with closing announcements followed by more woodwind instrumentals at 2227 and the woman with sign-off at 2229 – Fair to Good with fading Feb 19 – This has not been heard here for a while, at least at my QTH (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4, Kenwood TS440S, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. FTA Satellite stuff: While I use a ‘BUD’ (A “Big Ugly Dish” -- although beauty is in the eye of the beholder if you ask me -- a 96 inch diameter white dish in the yard) for this, it is important to appreciate that anything in the “Ku” band (above 11 GHz) is receivable with one of the more popular ‘small dishes’ you see for pay satellite TV. You don’t NEED to have a huge dish (although much of the stuff we really enjoy is on the “C” band and for that you do need a larger dish) but you DO have to appreciate you don’t need to pay for radio/TV to get stuff off satellites! Television: 95°W Galaxy 3C 4.000 GHz Horizontal/30000 Msps. ABC (American Broadcasting Corporation [sic]) Network feeds. Five streams: Svc ID 001 ABC-14 ET feed Svc ID 002 ABC-10 PT feed Svc ID 003 ABC-8 MT feed Svc ID 004 ABC-4 ET feed too - perhaps meant for CT? Svc ID 005 “Dummy 2” same as ET feed, but audio includes ‘descriptive video’ on one of the feeds. I watched the ABC-14 feed of “Star Wars Episode VII”. 71% and steady, this and all feeds were 720p, 8PSK modulation, H.264 compression, 0100-0400 18/Feb. And a bit of a ‘China survey’ since that country seems to have taken the idea of “soft power” to heart and is doing a LOT more broadcasting both on SW and on satellites! They also have an English “documentary” channel, and various other Western language news services (French, Spanish etc.) all available on FTA satellites (Galaxy 3C in North America) as well. 95°W, Galaxy 3C, 11.780 GHz, Horizontal/20760 Msps. CGTN News in English (China Global Television Network, the political/societal network) w/‘The World Today' 15 minute newscast including video of Venice’s (Italy) version of the Carnival with holograms of ‘angels’ inside of floating balls, gondolas decked out in a parade, etc. very cool looking! 60% and steady 480i MPEG2 compression, QPSK modulation, 1559-1615 17 Feb. 97°W, Galaxy 19, 12.053 GHz, Vertical/22000 Msps. CNC World English (China Xinhua News Network Corporation, China’s ‘economic’ network) weather in China and the world & into economic news. The newscast included an item about a “king fu tea ceremony” where the guy was wielding a teapot with a really long spout like a sword! Impressive -- I’ve never seen anything like it but, hey, it's a good day when you learn something new! 56% and steady, 480i MPEG2 compression, QPSK modulation. 1325-1355 17 Feb. 103°W, SES3, 12.144, Vertical/20000 Msps. CGTN News with ”China24” show. This was a 'placeholder' transponder and CGTN/RT/NHK etc. were formerly at 11.942v/20000 in HD. That old transponder is now off air completely, and instead of the placeholder, this is here now using service ID 6 along with four other streams. The other streams now on this transponder are: 1) RT (“Russia Today”) in English 2) NHK (Japan in English) 3) SBN Religion (in English) and 4) Infomercial channel (also in English). (There was no service ID 5 – gone or just not on at the moment?) 6) CGTN (China Global Television Network) in English. 60% and steady. All streams were 720p QPSK/h.264, 1630-1635 18/Feb (Ken Zichi, Port Hope MI2, WOR iog via DXLD) ** IRAN. 6090, Feb 24 at 0137, VIRI in Spanish, S9 but undermodulated, discussing Venezuela. Genuine Latin American accents are heard on VIRI, so don`t be fooled, as they reach out to correspondents or sympathizers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) IRIB Sirjan intermodulation 1920-1950 UT. Confirmed on 17 & 18 Febr on 6340 kHz, mix of IRIB Iran's two programs in English & Italian at 1930 UT. Maybe the formula is 6340-6190 / 6190-6040 = 150 kHz distance apart intermodulation on the tx site, where 6040 is in English & 6190 kHz ( \\ 6135 kHz) is in Italian. As I wrote earlier there is a new transmission of IRIB Iran on 9510* kHz at 1120-?1150? UT since 1st Jan in language like Arabic (?) but it is not \\ 9650 kHz in Arabic or 17665 kHz in Hausa (Rumen Pankov-BUL, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 19) 9510.013 kHz, IRIB Zahedan interval signal, before Pashto service starts regularly at 1223:15 UT with HQ prayer (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 20, BC-DX 21 Feb via DXLD) ** IRAQ. See MUSEA ** IRELAND [non]. Electronic QSL available for Voice of Life broadcasts --- Hello There from IRRS-Shortwave & NEXUS-IBA, For the whole month of February 2019 we are running a special test broadcast on behalf of Voice of Life, each Monday evening at 1900-2000 UT (20:00-21:00 CET) on 7290 kHz to Europe. The same program is also streamed Mon-Fri: 0615-0715 UT, Sat/Sun: 0900-1000 UT on All Gospel Radio http://egradio.org/egr-player This program carries quite interesting music and features on the lives of a group of persecuted Christians in China. We will issue a special electronic QSL card for this broadcast, featuring our first QSL card printed by a local Italian artist in 1989. This card will be only available by return email. We encourage you to listen also to our daily broadcasts on 7290 kHz at 19-20 UT. Our electronic QSL card will also be available in exchange of all correct (verifiable) reception reports for our broadcasts on Shortwave and on streaming during the month of February. Please check our web site for our schedules and more details: https://nexus.org http://egradio.org Please send your reception reports to: reports (at) nexus.org . Give it a try: modulation has been improved in the last few days. Stay tuned! 73s, de Ron Norton P.S. Please notice: our PO BOX address no. 10980 in Milan, Italy, is currently inactive. -- Tech Support NEXUS-Int'l Broadcasting Association email: support@nexus.org http://www.nexus.org ph: +39-02-2666971 (EN) +39-02-70606602 (IT/DE) USA: 1-888-612-0039 (IRRS mailing list Feb 19 via DXLD) From Feb 25 Mon replaced by WOR The program is called "Voice of Love" NOT "Voice of Life." The program, from the Church of All [sic] Mighty God, was received fairly well (and recorded) with slight QRM using the U.Twente SDR receiver on 18 February (7290 kHz from 1900 to 2000 UT). Correction: Should be the Church of Almighty God. Also known as Eastern Lightning (Chinese: ????; pinyin: Dongfang Shandiàn), which is a new religious movement established in China in 1991. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Lightning for more details. Even though in English, I wonder if the Chinese are jamming the broadcast? I thought I heard weakly and briefly what might be a jammer after the transmitter turned off. Or something else? (-- Richard Langley, NB, WOR iog via DXLD) what kind of jammer? ** IRELAND [non]. World of Radio on 7290 instead of Voice of Life Hi All, I just tuned in to 7290 kHz at 1900 to catch the Voice of Life test, but instead they are broadcasting World of Radio 1970! (Alan Gale, England, 1905 UT Monday Feb 25, WOR iog via DXLD) Hi Alan: Caught that, too, and fired off a direct message to Glenn. By the way, it's Voice of Love not Voice of Life (-- Richard Langley, NB, ibid.) Viz.: Hi Glenn: My scheduled recording of Voice of Love today (25 February) on 7290 kHz at 1900 UT (IRRS Milano from a Romanian (?) transmitter) using the U. Twente SDR receiver is not Voice of Love. Guess what? It is WoR 1970 with so-so audio. I wonder what there will be in the second half hour? 73 (-- Richard Langley, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Richard, Thanks for that, I've never actually heard it yet due to poor propagation here in recent weeks. The Voice of Silence might be a better name for it tonight I think! :-D It will be interesting to see what follows at 1930 UT (Alan Gale, ibid.) Alan. Feature Story News (FSN) followed by The Shortwave Report http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml (-- Richard Langley, ibid.) Alfredo Cotroneo of IRRS had just informed me that WOR would officially be on 7290 Mondays at 1900 starting March 4. Have been intending to check whether any of this reach NAm, but via UTwente at 1955, VG signal with some American political show, but heavy splash from 7295 = CRI English due west from Urumqi. At 1857 the 7290 signal is buried by some other noise, jamming or defect?? Or just CRI starting music instead of speech (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Yes, CRI signed on in English on 7285 kHz with huge +/- 10 kHz signal both music and voice obliterating tail end of IRRS transmission. Best reception of IRRS was in LSB before the QRM from 7285 as CRI was on 7295 kHz earlier (-- Richard Langley, ibid.) Hi Glen[n], Please note that 7290 kHz is used quite a bit by N. American radio amateurs using AM voice mode. It is used quite a bit during the day and evening. Thus their could be unintentional interference to IRRS on 7290 kHz. 73 de (Chuck W3ON Gessner, ibid.) ** ITALY [non]. Glenn, Just to confirm that effective Monday March 4, 2019, we scheduled WOR each Monday at 20:00 CET (1901 UT/Winter 1801 UT summer approx, after a 30second news bulletin) on 7290 kHz to Europe & N Africa. The program may be also repeated at other random times both on this frequency (Mon-Sun) and on IRN (Internet Radio NEXUS) at: http://mp3.nexus.org/irn.mp3 or: https://nexus.org/irn-player Enjoy! 73, (Alfredo Cotroneo, IRRS/NEXUS-IBA/IPAR, Feb 25, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [non]. 7780, USA, IBC Radio (via WRMI) at 0100 with IS and opening music and ID of “This is IBC, Italian Broadcasting Corporation” then url of ibcradio.web.com and many Merry Christmas greetings and into “Italian Shortwave Panorama” DX program – Good Feb 19 [Tue] – WRMI is still airing old programs so I guess IBC hasn't corrected their financial problems nor have they found a broadcaster capable of being reliably heard in Italy at a reasonable cost (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4, Kenwood TS440S, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) ** ITALY. The Italian right-wing party "League", part of the government coalition, launched a campaign aimed at making radio stations devote almost half of their airtime to Italian music. It is reported by The Times. The deputy of the League and the former director of the party radio station, Alessandro Morelli, submitted to Parliament a bill that provides that radio stations must give more than a third of the airtime to the songs of Italian singers that are recorded and produced in the country. An additional 10% of airtime should be reserved for new Italian talents, and as a whole, 43% of airtime should be given to Italian music. Morelli said that promoting Italian music will help the country's cultural industry and create jobs. “Music is not just entertainment, but a story of our life. We want to help young people, as there is a cartel agreement that prevents young Italians from starting work,” he said. The bill was filed after singer Alessandro Mahmoud, known under the stage name Mahmoud, whose father was an Egyptian immigrant, won the San Remo festival and will present Italy at Eurovision-2019. His song Money contains Arabic lyrics and links to the Muslim holiday of Ramadan. League leader Matteo Salvini expressed dissatisfaction with such a winner: “Mahmud ... Mah ... a beautiful Italian song ?! I would choose Ultimo,” he wrote on Twitter, referring to the singer from Rome, who took second place in the competition. “The victory of Mahmud shows that big lobbies and political interests prevail over music. I hope that this proposal will open wide debates about Italian creativity and, above all, our people,” said Morelli. Politicians of the League claim that the bill was created following the example of France, where 35% of the songs on the radio must be French. The share has been reduced from 40% in 2016. http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__72365/ (via Rus-DX Feb 24 via DXLD) see also SLOVENIA ** IVORY COAST [non]. 7375, Feb 21 at 0627, S9-S7 music and French ID as ``Radio Mondiale Adventiste, La Voix de l`Espérance`` with Abidjan postal address, also e-mail like lavoixdelesperance@yahoo.com then AWR theme and plug Bible-par-correspondence course until 0630*. HFCC shows 0600-0630, 250 kW, 162 degrees via FRANCE. Amusingly, sandwiched between two imaginary entries on 7375: 0500-0600 Nauen in Croatian; 0600-0800 Thumrait, Oman RSO in Arabic. Hey, how about another imaginary 7375 entry in memory of RFPI Costa Rica? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Oops, CÔTE D`IVOIRE --- except I do not accept their demand* to be called only in French --- that would be like the UNITED STATES forbidding anyone in French to utter ``ÉTATS-UNIS`` (ggh, DXLD) *note: ``demand`` is much stronger in English; in French can merely mean request (gh) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. Using the U. Twente SDR receiver to record the [Thursday-only] English program on 21 February 2019: 1300-1400 UT on 6085 kHz -- not heard; Radio Mi Amigo via ShortwaveService came up on the frequency at about 1315 UT anyway 1600-1700 UT on 7440 kHz -- not heard initially as unscheduled (just a test?) Radio DARC via Radio Channel 292 started up at about 1600. After about three minutes, it stopped or faded out and Sea Breeze could then be weakly heard. The Sea Breeze signal improved during the hour and at times the speech was fully understandable despite adjacent channel QRM primarily from the high side. Switching to LSB improved intelligibility. The bubble (?) jammer was only briefly noted; for the most part, it was not heard. P.S. Question: What tune is the piano IS from? (-- Richard Langley, NB, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6085, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze, on Feb 23, from 1320 to 1325. Good reception with no N. Korea jamming; in Japanese; song "Furusato" (Home) sung by the Waseda University School of Music chorus (song at YouTube: http://bit.ly/2BQbUGx - also via YouTube: " 'FURUSATO', meaning 'Home,' is a beloved song in Japan. Since 3.11, it takes on a special meaning for the Japanese all around the world: for those living abroad and cannot come back home... for those whose hometowns were shattered by tsunami... for those who have lost their loved ones through the disaster... for those who are forced to live away from home because of radiation. And for those of us in Japan who fortunately escaped such tragedies, this song is a reminder of the fact that the landscapes which look the same as before are actually not the same anymore."); message from the Japanese government; emergency siren. Thanks very much to Hiroshi (Japan) for the details of what I heard today. My good audio at http://bit.ly/2Sm8dh6 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. 5920, Voice of Freedom, Feb 20, at *0858, audio suddenly started with musical instrumental by Yang Bang Ean - "Frontier"; usual N. Korea jamming. Comment made by Hiroyuki Komatsubara, on his "Now On The Radio DX" site, on Feb 19 - "5920kHz SOUTH KOREA, Voice of Freedom, They are in here for a long time. They may not change their frequencies anymore ??" (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. 6015, KBS Hanminjok Bangsong 1, on Feb 24, at 1003. As usual had some white noise jamming from N. Korea, but fortunately not too strong today; was checking for the usual "KBS, Pops Freedom" show that I have enjoyed for many years (since 2015), during the 1000-1100 time period; during all the years was always hosted by Kwak Young Il, but today clearly no "Pops Freedom" show from 1003+. What happened? A check of their website shows the program has changed the broadcasting time and per audio streaming there, no longer with Kwak Young Il, as the announcer, but instead hosted by YL http://program.kbs.co.kr/scr/radio/popsfreedom/pc/ website shows show time of "3:00 - 4:00" (?). I will certainly miss the program with Kwak Young Il, as he had such a distinctive voice and had a fun time playing good pop songs in English (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 9525, PRIDNESTROVIE, Radyo Dengê Welat at 2038 with a man and a woman with apparent news with sound bytes then a man with an apparent commentary from 2043 with many mentions of “Iran”, “Iraq”, and “Ankara” and into folk vocals at 2048 – Fair to Good with fading Feb 24 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4, Kenwood TS440S, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. Good signal of MOI Radio Kuwait in English, Feb.21 0500-0800 on 15529.7 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/good-signal-of-moi-radio-kuwait-in.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.20-21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15529.707 much odd fq of Radio Kuwait Kabd, English service, S=8 or -78dBm signal strength in Qatar SDR. 0530 UT, folk music singer - not HQ prayer program. 15515even fq, R Kuwait Kabd in Arabic language, S=8 or -79dBm / resp. S=7 or -85dBm in remote SDR at Tokyo Japan at 0540 UT [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz](Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 24, dxldyg via DXLD) ** LIBERIA. 6050, ELWA Radio, Monrovia, 0647-0655, 21-02, English, religious comments, “Back to the Bible”. 25432 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** MARSHALL ISLANDS [and non]. V7AB (formerly WSZO) 1098 and their nightly open-carrier --- I've been reading DXpedition reports made by Gary DeBock of his excellent FSL Hawaiian DXpeditions mentioning that 1098 V7AB Majuro, Marshall Islands runs an open-carrier all night. I find this very odd and a seemingly waste of electricity, but I recently came across a recording that I made at Polihale, western Kauai in January 1986. One of the very first stations I tuned into, as soon as I rolled out the (southward aimed) approximately 300 m long Beverage wire there, was of 1100 KFAX San Francisco, and then I slowly tuned lower through a big 2 kHz het onto a dead-air carrier! I assume this is the same station (former calls were WSZO I think). As such, I wonder if this has been a longtime thing with that station? The only reason I can think for this to go on for such a long-time is that it is being employed as a radio-navigation "back-up" of some kind. The Marshalls also used to (on still?) have a big NDB: 316 MAJ, which was very strong nightly in the Hawaiian Islands in the late 80s, and I also heard it from time-to-time from the Marin County coast (Point Reyes North Beach - not far from the NMC/KPH receive sites). Glenn also hears their JBA carrier from Oklahoma, frequently. This must be why I can't find any recordings of them made when I was living in Hawaii. Thinking more about this, I recall that their modulation-levels were rather low when they faded in soon after HI sunset. That frequency is clobbered by 1090 XEPRS splatter here, so I'll never catch them other than a JBA carrier buried in the big-splatter, too. 73 - (Steve McGreevy -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com WOR iog via DXLD) Another reason could be in a high-humidity area to keep the rig drier. (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Hi Glenn, Interesting(!) - the heat and humidity on Majuro must exceed the often uncomfortable levels of it at sea-level on the Big Island of Hawaii, but I could always drive upwards in elevation to the wonderfully mellower mid-elevations between about 2K to 4K feet elevation (~800 - ~ 1500m) - above that, the nighttime temps in winter and even in September can plummet on clear nights Mauka-side (Mountain side) to pretty chilly temps. If I desired really cold fog and chill, I would sometimes drive to the very end of the road up to Mauna Loa where there was an observatory and weather station. FM reception up there was wild, and my VHF-HI band portable radio was filled with Honolulu taxis, etc.! On the road to there, the local VHF DXing hams would cruise up and down that road (in elevation) to find the "hot spot" of the tropo-duct to California simply by listening to "San Diego and L.A. FM stations" on their car radios, they said... cool! Folks living perilously close to Kilauea Volcano often have wood stoves to ward off the night-chill. Dr. Wood lived one block from the seashore -- it was muggy/buggy there! I often walked to the shoreline (rocky lava amongst an abandoned cane-field) and DXed via my portable Sony ICF-7600D back in autumn 1986. In September 1986 in Hilo, I assisted Dean Manley (KH6B) - the CE of KAHU 1060 (~900 watts to a 1/5 wave tower back then), installed a very old (40s) art-deco "KHBC" AM transmitter but the wooden plywood shack was not air-conditioned but rather well-ventilated Hawaiian style. But, 900 watts (maybe only gets as hot as a big ham linear?) is not 25 kW like 1098 Majuro is presently. Back to a another question about 1098 Majuro: Why would modulation or not cause any difference in a high-humidity environment? Could the reason be the extra heat generated by the transmitter's modulation circuitry(?) - presumably tubes or a solid-state block in a push-pull mode/class, similar to the Reykjavik Bauer 666 kHz transmitter I saw in December 2016? I wish I personally knew an AM-band CE today... I am tempted to e-mail 1098 Majuro and ask what their actual schedule is and more queries, and I should tell them their signal is giant in Hawaii. I imagine, though, that 1100 KFAX San Francisco really hets them badly, away from their (large) primary coverage area -- 1100 KFAX's ERP that way must be about 200 kW (assuming 6dB gain via their main Pacificward lobe). Oh, and another interesting tidbit about the early 1060 KAHU Hilo in late 1986: (Hawaiian owned, with their new and very minimalist "studio" in a shielded room adjacent to the 'ole KHBC AM transmitter) was that to fine-tune the transmitter on 1060 kHz, Dean and his assistant essentially just zero-beat the transmitter's master- oscillator as close as they could to the big Mexican station (XEEP) which was NO PROBLEM with reception via their tower, hi! Groundwave coverage was very poor - the soil conductivity of the lava terrain was only 0.3 mmhos via the curve calculations and the various field-strengths we took at various radial-points surrounding the transmitter site. Just 10 minutes drive outside Hilo, the Mexican station would begin to swamp out the rather low-modulation levels of KAHU. Mellow Pacific Island stations love mellow modulation levels... ;-) 73 for now, Steve McGreevy, N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com, ibid.) ** MEXICO. Grupo Radio Centro reinstaló este lunes a los trabajadores de Radio Red AM para continuar con la transmisión de la estación vía streaming mientras se completa la instalación de las antenas para volver a la Amplitud Modulada (AM) a más tardar en junio de este año. Un redactor de Radio Red AM, quien había sido despedido y pidió el anonimato para hablar al respecto, señaló a El Financiero que se reincorporará a partir de este martes 29 de enero, luego de que les llamaran para indicarles que podían continuar con su trabajo de manera normal. “Sí, hoy tuvimos que continuar con el chequeo de entrada y salida, y ya mañana normal”, comentó. Otro colaborador, con casi dos décadas dentro de Radio Centro comentó que casi todo el personal que fue despedido está trabajando de manera normal. “La mayor parte de los que fuimos despedidos hace una semana sí (están trabajando). Los programas que pasábamos por Radio Red, (ahora) estamos de vuelta transmitiendo por internet en http://www.redamf21.com ”, precisó. Cabe recordar que el pasado viernes 18 de enero la frecuencia de Radio Red, en el 1110 de AM fue apagada, además de que se efectuaron varios despidos en la estación. Esto debido a que, - como posteriormente confirmó a este diario Francisco Aguirre Gómez, director general de Radio Centro -, se ‘apagó’ la señal de la estación debido a que las antenas se van a mudar a otro terreno, reinstalación que estará lista “entre mayo y junio”, de acuerdo con el empresario. Respecto a los despidos, Aguirre Gómez aseguró el lunes pasado a El Financiero que ésa sería la última reestructura del grupo, mientras analizaba con detenimiento la situación de los trabajadores de ese equipo. En ese sentido, agregó que evaluarían también las capacidades del personal “para determinar si van en línea con los nuevos objetivos que perseguimos”, subrayó (El Financiero.com via Conexion Digital Feb 23 via DXLD) ** MEXICO. 760, XEABC, ABC Radio, México, CDMX. 1202 February 19, 2019. The Animals "House Of the Rising Sun" then female canned "ABC Radio" into Spanish female ballad, another slogan ID into "Because" by The Dave Clark Five. Parallel station stream that was remarkably almost in sync with the over-air signal. Good but in tight WLCC, Brandon, FL null. 830, XEITE Radio Capital, México, CDMX. 1153 February 21, 2019. Long ad string into choral anthem 1156, ID 1157, filler music then news. 830, MEXICO, unidentified. 1200 February 21, 2019. Choral anthem popping up way under XEITE, probable ID by man 1201, into Mexi-tunes. Pointing more east than XEITE. Suspect XELN La Caliente from Linares, Nuevo León. Lost in post-sunrise fade and local noise by 1214 (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, FL, IC-R75, NRD-535, longwires, active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Subject: Symphonic? Today is the second night of the mystery station February 22nd 3 a.m. Central Standard Time. I finally heard a speaking voice in Spanish at three minutes past 3 a.m. [0907 UT]. Before that I don't know the name of the symphonic music; it's the same thing that Dr. Gene Scott used to use back before he passed away and she took it off. I'm very familiar with the tune is I used to hear it all the time I'm short wave. At least I know a little bit more about it, but if somebody could shed some light on the mystery 1510 K C station with the word musica in Spanish overheard slightly, I would be greatly appreciative to know what station is playing symphonic music in the middle of the night in the southern part of North America mixed in with Nashville Tennessee. Thank you (Mark Sills, Dallas, Texas, Feb 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Mark, Your symphonic music on 1510 is very likely XEQI in Monterrey, which is a ``cultural`` station, supposedly a 10 kW daytimer, but you know --- Name if they ever utter it should be Opus 15-10. I don`t recall any particular classical music associated with Dr. Scott (Glenn to Mark, via DXLD) ** MEXICO. 6185, Radio Educación, Ciudad de México, 0550-0631*, 20-02, classic music, at 0601, anthem, id., and more classic music, at 0607 Spanish, news: “Las noticias de Radio Francia Internacional”. Close at 0631, later than habitual at about 0600. 15321. Also 0501-0610*, 21-02, classic music, at 0545 Spanish, comments: “Los servicios de televisión de pago, teléfono e intenet”, at 0600 anthem, ID “... Radio Educación, Servicio Nacional de Comunicación, crea, colabora, comparte”, more classic music, at 0607 “Noticias de Radio Francia Internacional”, close at 0610. 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) [and non]. 6185, Feb 23 at 0412, trying to hear XEPPM, but its music is underneath talk in unknown language, making SAH of 200/minute = 3.33 Hz. 0400-0430 is the only evening time when CCI is now scheduled: AWR Turkish via AUSTRIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- including TDT = DTV Luz Network recently lit up an HD4 on XHMSL-FM Los Mochis, carrying the programs of new-to-air XHPFRT-FM El Fuerte. It's one of the first HD4s in the country — and notably the first not belonging to Radio Fórmula. We have not had new IFT meeting notes in quite some time — the last meeting published was a special meeting on January 11 — so we do not yet know when this was authorized by the IFT. Speaking of new things in Sinaloa, XHCUAD-FM 93.7 https://www.facebook.com/LOBOSFMCLN went on the air earlier this month, completing the expansion of Lobos FM kicked off by the permit forest awards in December 2017. The Culiacán station was actually the last one awarded, in January 2018. It also appears the UAD network has a design refresh with new logos for its stations. ——— The new government brings the same old call from religious leaders: let us broadcast. https://www.elmananerodiario.com/quieren-iglesias-concesiones-radio-tv/ Yesterday, evangelical leaders including the president of the National Brotherhood of Christian Evangelical Churches met with President López Obrador to ask for the ability for religious associations to own broadcast outlets. AMLO suggested they take their concerns to the Secretary of Government, Olga Sánchez Cordero. (SEGOB regulates religious associations.) This change would require the amendment of the Ley de Asociaciones Religiosas y Culto Público, which contains this long-standing prohibition (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, Feb 22, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) It appears that there's one less talking Mayan star — for now. For the past several years, the Sebastián Uc Yam stations in Felipe Carrillo Puerto had formed a simulcast of social station XHRTO 100.5 and commercial XHECPQ 102.1 (with the whole thing being simulcast in José María Morelos on XHYAM 88.1), operating as La Estrella Maya Que Habla. XHECPQ broke off from the simulcast in about November and found a new operator: Luna Medios, which also controls XHQAA-FM Chetumal (La Bestia Grupera, RR-owned) and XHCMM-FM Coalcomán Mich. Like XHCMM, it's known as Adictiva with a grupera format. (Luna has a longer history in Quintana Roo than Colima or Michoacán; it famously built pirate Ke Buena and Exa FM stations for Chetumal on 90.1 and 92.1 in 2011 then moved their facilities to Belize.) It's not the first time that XHECPQ has been rented out to another operator: in 2013, the Navarro Hernández brothers, who also were involved in Chetumal pirate radio with a station known as Power Mix, were programming the frequency out of their facilities in the state capital. (The mess known as Media Vyasa has a legacy of this station: an entry for an "XHGNH" on 90.7.) With two new IFT-4 stations still in the wings (Grupo Turquesa and Pantalla Líquida), radio competition is heating up in the Zona Maya (Raymie, Feb 23, ibid.) A couple of highlights from an interview conducted this week with Gabriel Sosa Plata, the new head of Radio Educación: https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/empresas/AMLO-quiere-medios-publicos-inclusivos-no-un-canal-para-las-mananeras-Sosa-Plata-20190224-0008.html Money's a problem. RE needs 12 million pesos to put XHFLO and XHIAM on the air, and Sosa Plata would like to begin local production for XHYRE Mérida which currently is fed all of its programming from Mexico City. However, at least on the first point, they will receive support from the Secretariat of Culture (RE's parent) because this is a priority for the agency. Multiprogramming is interesting, but Sosa Plata didn't have much of an idea about the SPR/IMER content sharing agreement. (Of course, you do: the two operating SPR FM stations run Radio México Internacional.) Violeta Radio's still on track, but delayed. We've been waiting for XHCDMX for about 18 months since the concession award, and it looks like the feminist radio station is finally getting somewhere. In fact, this week, the topic of sharing the transmitter site came up again. 106.1 projects a sign-on in about three months, according to Sosa Plata. They will also have access to Radio Educación's studios, though most of the new station's programming will be recorded for now. RE plans to immediately ask for 1060 AM back. In November, a year to the day of formally signing on XHEP-FM, it will be time to hand over 1060 AM. The Secretariat of Culture, however, plans to immediately ask for the facility back, which would likely happen through a PABF. Another potential way that this could happen, and one that might just end up being the case with a clear channel station like XEEP, is that the IFT could declare a continuity obligation for 1060 AM. A new concession would allow Radio Educación to split its FM and AM frequencies, which must simulcast under the conditions of migration. That said, any new programming would have to come from the same budget (Raymie, Feb 25, ibid.) Baja California Sur has a 10 again. XHCPBC-TDT entered program service last Monday at 6am, https://www.facebook.com/tvmarlapaz/videos/611709239290058/ marking the first time since the closure of XHK-TV more than three years ago that Baja California Sur had a full-time local TV station. Just one challenge is left for CPS Media: the Los Cabos TV station, XHCPCS-TDT. [tagline:] Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa (Raymie, Feb 25, ibid.) ** MONGOLIA. 4895, (presumed) at 1513 UT February 23 with talk between man and woman. Big Signal (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, RX: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA 100 loop, WOR iog via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 5960, EAST GERMANY, The Mighty KBC (Nauen) at 0020 with DJ Dave Mason and oldies music and general hijinks – Good over suspected PBS Xinjiang Feb 24 – Once again, this one was heard quite well right through their second hour, “The Giant Jukebox” with “Uncle” Eric Van Willigen, which is the same program as that which airs every Saturday at 1300 on 11600 via Bulgaria. As the days grow longer, conditions on this band should improve until it's time for the A19 international broadcasting season to take effect at the end of March and frequencies will change for the summer. 5960. CHINA. PBS Xinjiang (Urumqi) presumed the one at 0020 in Mandarin with Asian pop vocals and a man with talk – Fair under the Mighty KBC Feb 24 – This really was a pleasant surprise on my Saturday evening. Hopefully, it's a portent of greater conditions on this band to come over the next month (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4, Kenwood TS440S, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. Radio New Zealand Pacific on wrong frequency 11725 kHz AM mode, Feb.18 1951-2050 on 11725 RAN 050 kW / 035 deg to Tonga/Samoa English, instead of 11690 DRM https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/radio-new-zealand-pacific-on-wrong-freq.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.18-19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7330, RNZI at 0929 with a man playing oldies pop and rock vocals and a TC and ID at 0935 of “25 to 11 on RNZ” - Very Good Feb 23 – New frequency ex-9765 whose sked is daily from 0759 to 1258. This is a much better choice for listeners in Eastern North America who, like me, have been deprived of their daily feed of all things kiwi (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4, Kenwood TS440S, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) [and non]. 7330, Feb 23 at 1257, RNZI confirmed here, only S9 with flutterfading to S4, QSY to 6115 announcement, one bellbird chirp and off 1259*. I retune to 6115 which soon comes up, not much better than 7330 and I could easily believe it`s still on the NNW antenna only, not back to split with NNE antenna favoring us. There is also CCI from a fast SAH, probably the Saturday-only Vatican Radio in Chinese via Philippines not turned off yet by 1300*; violating Separation of Church & State (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 9690, No sign of REE Spain here this afternoon, though being heard well here on 11940. VoN, Abuja is the beneficiary with good signal in the clear from 1905 tune in to past 2000. ID after Int.-Sig. 2000. SINPO - 45333 (John Figliozzi, Sarasota, FL, Panasonic RF-B65, Whip, Feb 19, WOR iog via DXLD) [and non]. UNID in DRM mode on 15120 kHz --- probably Voice of Nigeria from 0900 on 15120 kHz in DRM mode but off air at 0910 UT -- And again on air from 0915. 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, Feb 24, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DXLD) Yes, Voice of Nigeria in English at 1003 on 15120 and Radio Kuwait on 15110 at same time (Nico, (Near Paris/France), NRD525, ibid.) Also yesterday 1400+ DRM on 15120. Also now after 1000. As usual at VON, it's centered a few 100 Hz below 15120. Also DRM on 15110, listed as Kuwait, and also centered below nominal. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, ibid.) DRM Radio Kuwait on 15109.7 & DRM Voice of Nigeria on 15119.9 (Ivo Ivanov, 1048 UT, ibid.) Voice of Nigeria 15120 kHz --- VON has been on all day in DRM mode with detailed election results. Listening at 1440 UT with OM reading out lists of codes and numbers --- ANP 10, ANRP 37, APA 338, APC 289903, APDA 307 --- I have no idea what it might mean. Regards, (Kevin Ryan, 1443 UT Feb 25, bdxc-news iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DXLD) Hi Kevin, Those are various party acronyms. Here’s the results page. https://www.von.gov.ng/live-update-collation-of-2019-presidential-election-results/ (Chris McWhinnie, G0MQW, ibid.) Updated shortwave schedule of Voice of Nigeria https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/updated-shortwave-schedule-of-voice-of.html 0600-0700 on 7254.9 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf Hausa 0700-0800 on 7254.9 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf Fulfulde 0800-0900 on 7254.9 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf English 0900-1600 on 15119.9#AJA 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf English DRM, irreg. 1600-1615 on 9689.9+AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf Arabic 1600-1615 on 15119.9 AJA 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf Arabic DRM 1615-1630 on 9689.9+AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf Igbo 1615-1630 on 15119.9 AJA 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf Igbo DRM 1630-1900 on 9689.9+AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf English 1630-1900 on 15119.9 AJA 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf English DRM 1900-1930 on 9689.9+AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf French 1930-2000 on 9689.9+AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf Fulfulde 2000-2100 on 9689.9+AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf Hausa # co-ch R.Saudi Int in Indonesian 0900-1200 on 15120 Daily + co-ch REE in Spanish from 1500 Sat/Sun & from 1900 Daily also WCB Madagascar World Voice in Russian 1900-2000 Daily ??????????? ?? Observer ? 4:26 PM (via DXLD) ** NIGERIA [non]. FRANCE, Radio Nigeria Kaduna & Manara Radio Int via TDF Issoudun on Feb.23 0500-0700 7335 150 kW / 170 deg WeAf Hausa Radio Nigeria Kaduna, fair 0700-0800 13840 150 kW / 170 deg WeAf Hausa Manara Radio&TV Int#, good # instead of 13840 150 / 170 deg WeAf Hausa Radio Nigeria Kaduna B-18: My last 3 videos of Manara Radio Int. on 15440 kHz via MBR Issoudun on Dec.8, 2016: 0730-0830 15440 150 kW / 170 deg WeAf Hausa Manara Radio Int, good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/radio-nigeria-kaduna-manara-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.22-23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FRANCE, Radio Nigeria Kaduna via TDF Issoudun on Feb.25 0500-0700 on 7335 ISS 150 kW / 170 deg to WeAf Hausa, fair+hum https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-radio-nigeria-kaduna-via_25.html Good signal of Manara Radio International, instead of Radio Nigeria Kaduna via TDF Issoudun, Feb.25 0700-0800 on 13840 ISS 150 kW / 170 deg to WeAf Hausa https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/manara-radio-int-instead-of-rnigeria.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.25, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Then Kaduna dropped, leaving only Manara ** NORTH AMERICA. 4015-USB, Feb 24 at 0125, music and immediate ID break as Wolverine Radio, then blues, S9, found here after nothing on 6.9 MHz band. Many reports here https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,51341.0.html that it had just QSYed from 6950 with song titles having a day of the week in them, as also displayed in SSTV signpost (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. Pirates: 4095/AM, X-FM, ID at 0237 and into more rock music, as usual high quality audio but weaker than usual signal making it rather noisy. Blink-182 tune, and ‘live’ Time check (18 mins before 3) and reading listener letter from MO, and KY and others some reporting really good reception on web SDRs but I don’t think that counts! :) Offer of both email and postal QSLs at 0245 and into a ‘Clash’ song (“London Calling”) by request. Heard thanks to an email tip from Uncle Harold. 3+5443+, occasionally fading up to 4544+4, 0235-0315+ 17/Feb SDRplay +SDRuno +randomwire (Ken Zichi, Port Hope MI2, WOR iog via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. RADIO MUSEUM STATION: 6770.02/AM; 2219-2231+, 2/23; Drama to 2226 theme & announcer mentioned NBC; 2228 into Tales of the Texas Rangers starring Joel McCray [sic]. Later program much better than prior with peaks above QRN. Best heard in a loooooong time. Does no one know where this place is located? (Harold Frodge, Michigan Area Radio Enthusiasts DXpedition, Brighton MI, Drake R8B + 500’ unterminated bev, dogleg E-W/N-S, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. WOLVERINE RADIO: 4015/USB, 0109-0211+, 2/24; Tunes with days of the week -- all 7 days covered; including big bands, blues & pop; voice IDs (THANK YOU!) every few songs. The best one of his efforts ever! I haven’t listened to a pirate this long in ages -- so much better than the plethora of music & ID stations abounding in recent years (Harold Frodge, Michigan Area Radio Enthusiasts DXpedition, Brighton MI, Drake R8B + 500’ unterminated bev, dogleg E-W/N-S, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 27185-AM, Feb 22 at 2110-2147+ UT continuous extremely repetitive loop of local CB music pirate including phrases such as ``pineapple man``. Lumberjack attempts to interrupt at 2116 producing a LAH briefly. Should anyone hear this stuff on skip, they will know they`ve got Enid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 90.1-WBFM, Feb 23 at 1459 UT, open carrier/dead air from KUCO, our classical station. So much for the repeat of its signature show, `Performance Oklahoma`, part of which I missed on first airing UT Thu from 0200. I leave a radio on, and modulation finally resumes, mid-music at 1549, until 1559 ID with no back-announcement, apology or explanation of what happened, and into `The Record Shelf`, including Groucho Marx singing Gilbert & Sullivan, ``Tit-willow``. Maybe something to do with KUCO`s imminent installation of a new transmitter; but if some transmitter be radiating, adding modulation to it shouldn`t be too difficult. Later in day the 90.1 signal seems weaker than usual (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. Reception of Radio Sultanate of Oman / Nation Station Oman FM 90.4, Feb.18 1400-1500 on 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu English, very good, but distorted from 1500 on 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Arabic RSO, very good signal: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/radio-sultanate-of-oman-nation-station.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.18-19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PALAU. 15675even, KHBN, Medorn final announcements in English at 0556 to 0600 UT, many IDs, addresses, phone numbers postcode, POBox, told the world has Mon-Fri 15-22 hrs program, phone 110...291...; Indiana address POBox. Finally after all, TX Palau switched OFF at 0600:18 UT, like Aoki Nagoya database says, seemingly a Sunday ONLY program ? S=8-9 in Japan sidelobe [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 24, dxldyg via DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, NBC Madang, (Maus Blong Garamut - Voice of Indigenous Drums), 1117-1204*, Feb 23. In Pidgin; talking about "local government"; several clear IDs ("NBC Madang"); 1130, into segment of nice Pacific Islands songs - my audio of music at http://bit.ly/2Xi2VXD [non-log] Feb 23, NBC Bougainville (3325) noted already off the air 1114+; instead heard the Voice of Indonesia, in Chinese, via RRI Palangkaraya. 3260, NBC Madang (Maus Blong Garamut), 1146-1202*, on Feb 24 (Sunday) with usual religious programs, till cut off at 1202* (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. Fair/good signal of FEBC/Radio Teos in Ukrainian, Feb.24 1504&1533 on 9920 BOC 100 kW / 323 deg to CeAs Russian/Ukrainian Sun: Wrong announcement summer frequency 11650, instead of winter 9920 kHz! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/fairgood-signal-of-febcradio-teos-in.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 9485-9490-9495, Feb 19 at 2245, DRM noise, scheduled 22-23 as RRI in Spanish, 90 kW at 247 degrees from Tsiganeshti site to CIRAF 14 = northern Argentina & Chile, southern Bolivia. I never see DX reports from anyone in the Southern Cone listening in DRM, so how many listeners can RRI possibly count on? Not to be confused with Cuban jamming often extending beyond the later Radio República hours via France on 9490 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SLOVENIA [and non]. Slovenia / Italy ---------------------- The government of Slovenia will sue Italy because of the illegal broadcast of Italian radio stations in the border areas. This writes RTVslo. "Thus, we want to remind Italy once again that this violates all international norms in this area. At least now, obviously, there is no other lever," said Slovenian Minister of State Rudi Medved. The Slovenian government plans to file six lawsuits against the neighboring state. In addition, it promises to continue to draw attention to the problem from the International Telecommunication Union, at the bilateral level and at the EU level. Last week in Italy, on the same day, the first sessions were held in eight lawsuits due to the increased presence of Slovenian broadcasters in Italy. eurointegration.com.ua http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__72358/ (via Rus-DX 24 Feb via DXLD) ** SOMALILAND [non]. 7120, Feb 23 at 0409, no signal from R. Hargeisa. It`s been missing for weeks, gone for good? Only other hamband intruder remains 7140, VOBME Eritrea, presumed the JBA AM carrier, but not the other one on 7180. ARRL reported Dec 13, 2018, that per IARU, Hargeisa had resumed after a break of several weeks, but we saw no definite reports of it since I had a long-path carrier Nov 29 at 1347; and Bryan Clark, NZ, reported it reactivated but with distorted audio Nov 17 at 1812 and 0328 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Channel Africa in French on wrong frequency 17770 kHz, Feb.18 from 1600 on 17770 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg to ECAf French, instead of 15235 kHz https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/channel-africa-in-french-on-wrong.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.18-19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. 15235, Channel Africa at 1714 with “African Digest” news magazine with a speech by a Ugandan opposition leader and comments by an African-accented man then a man with “Channel Africa” ID at 1717 – Fair to Good with fading Feb 19 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4, Kenwood TS440S, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. 15350, Feb 19 at 1536, S3-S5 in Arabish, i.e. R. Dabanga for Sudan from FPU = Free Press Unlimited, Amsterdam, at 1529 -1600 only. Not much else is propagating on 19m; this from SENTECH, Meyerton, rumored to be closing down at Marchend. // is 15550 via France, even less audible. Via Mike Cooper, here`s some new self- promotion: Covering Sudanese protests from the heart of Amsterdam | Radio Dabanga https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/covering-sudanese-protests-from-the-heart-of-amsterdam (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Bye bye Meyerton RSA! It is confirmed that Sentech of South Africa is ending SW broadcast from 31 March 2019. So Channel Africa (Old Radio RSA), BBC, AWR, Deutsche Welle, S. Africa Radio League, etc. broadcasting via Meyerton will be only in memory shortly. (Info via Jeff White, AWR Wavescan of 24 Feb 2019) -- Thanking you, Yours sincerely, Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Bye bye Meyerton! It is confirmed that Sentech of South Africa is ending shortwave broadcasts from March 31. All broadcasting via Meyerton will be only in memory shortly. Here is full B-18 transmissions via Meyerton until March 30: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/bye-bye-meyerton-all-transmissions-will.html Channel Africa 0300-0455 3345 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg SoAf English Mon-Fri 0300-0355 6155 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg ECAf English Mon-Fri 0500-0900 7230 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg SoAf English Mon-Fri 0600-0655 11925 MEY 250 kW / 315 deg WeAf English Mon-Fri 0900-1200 7230 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg SoAf English Mon-Fri 1200-1300 7230 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg SoAf Nyanja Mon-Fri 1300-1400 7230 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg SoAf Lozi Mon-Fri 1400-1500 7230 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg SoAf Portuguese Mon-Fri 1500-1600 7260 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg SoAf English Mon-Fri 1500-1555 17770 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg ECAf Swahili Mon-Fri 1600-1655 15235 MEY 250 kW / 328 deg WeAf French Mon-Fri 1700-1755 15235 MEY 250 kW / 328 deg WeAf English Mon-Fri Radio Dabanga 0430-0500 9600 MEY 250 kW / 355 deg EaAf Juba [sic] Arabic 1530-1600 15350 MEY 250 kW / 005 deg EaAf Juba [sic] Arabic BBC 0500-0600 3255 MEY 100 kW / 000 deg SoAf English 0500-0600 6190 MEY 100 kW / 015 deg SoAf English 0500-0600 9915 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg CEAf English 0500-0600 11945 MEY 250 kW / 005 deg ECAf Kinyarwanda/Kirundi Sat 0500-0600 15490 MEY 250 kW / 005 deg ECAf Kinyarwanda/Kirundi Sat 0530-0600 11945 MEY 250 kW / 005 deg ECAf Kinyarwanda/Kirundi Sun 0530-0600 15490 MEY 250 kW / 005 deg ECAf Kinyarwanda/Kirundi Sun 0600-0700 6190 MEY 100 kW / 000 deg SoAf English 0600-0700 12095 MEY 250 kW / 342 deg CeAf English 0600-0700 15420 MEY 100 kW / 019 deg SoAf English 0700-0800 6190 MEY 100 kW / 000 deg SoAf English 0700-0800 15420 MEY 100 kW / 019 deg SoAf English 0700-0800 15490 MEY 250 kW / 340 deg CeAf English 1130-1400 17745 MEY 250 kW / 032 deg EaAf Somali Sat Premier League 1200-1230 17870 MEY 250 kW / 342 deg CeAf French 1400-1430 17640 MEY 250 kW / 328 deg WeAf Hausa Mon-Fri 1400-1500 17745 MEY 250 kW / 032 deg EaAf Somali 1500-1600 15420 MEY 100 kW / 019 deg CEAf English 1600-1700 3255 MEY 100 kW / 000 deg SoAf English 1600-1700 6190 MEY 100 kW / 015 deg SoAf English 1600-1700 12095 MEY 100 kW / 019 deg CEAf English 1630-1700 17870 MEY 250 kW / 007 deg ECAf Kinyarwanda/Kirundi Mon-Fri 1700-1800 3255 MEY 100 kW / 000 deg SoAf English 1700-1800 6190 MEY 100 kW / 015 deg SoAf English 1700-1800 9410 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg CEAf English 1700-1930 9465 MEY 100 kW / 030 deg EaAf Somali Sat Premier League 1730-1750 12095 MEY 100 kW / 015 deg EaAf Amharic Mon-Fri 1750-1810 12095 MEY 100 kW / 015 deg EaAf Afan Oromo Mon-Fri 1810-1830 12095 MEY 100 kW / 015 deg EaAf Tigrinya Mon-Fri 1800-1830 7395 MEY 250 kW / 076 deg SoAf French 1800-1830 9465 MEY 250 kW / 032 deg EaAf Somali 1800-1830 11875 MEY 100 kW / 030 deg EaAf Somali 1800-1900 3255 MEY 100 kW / 000 deg SoAf English 1800-1900 6190 MEY 100 kW / 015 deg SoAf English 1830-1850 9885 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg EaAf Amharic Mon-Fri 1850-1910 9885 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg EaAf Afan Oromo Mon-Fri 1810-1930 9885 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg EaAf Tigrinya Mon-Fri 1900-2000 3255 MEY 100 kW / 000 deg SoAf English 1900-2000 6190 MEY 100 kW / 015 deg SoAf English Radio Sonder Grense 0500-0755 7285 MEY 100 kW / 275 deg SoAf Afrikaans 0800-1755 9650 MEY 100 kW / 275 deg SoAf Afrikaans 1800-0455 3320 MEY 100 kW / 275 deg SoAf Afrikaans Deutsche Welle 0630-0700 15200 MEY 250 kW / 330 deg WeAf Hausa 1000-1100 17710 MEY 250 kW / 007 deg EaAf Swahili 1800-1900 15200 MEY 250 kW / 330 deg WeAf Hausa South African Radio League Amateur Radioday 0800-0900 7205 MEY 100 kW / non-dir SoAf English Sun 0800-0900 17760 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg EaAf English Sun 1630-1730 4895 MEY 100 kW / non-dir SoAf English Sun Voice of America 1630-1700 11850 MEY 100 kW / 020 deg SDN Sudanese English Mon-Fri 1630-1700 15260 MEY 250 kW / 007 deg CeAf Swahili 1730-1800 12040 MEY 100 kW / 020 deg EaAf Oromo Mon-Fri 1800-1900 12040 MEY 100 kW / 020 deg EaAf Amharic ??????????? ?? Observer ? 4:31 PM (via DXLD) I wouldn't be surprised to see it return in the future, probably in a new guise, and as DRM only. That would seem to fit with our government's apparent fascination with all things digital. Either that, or one hand at Sentech doesn't know what the other hand is doing. As of October 2018 it seemed that shortwave was here for years to come: https://www.ee.co.za/article/is-there-still-room-for-shortwave-radio.html (Bill Bingham, Jo'burg, RSA, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DXLD) Viz.: [and non]. Is there still room for shortwave radio? October 8th, 2018, Published in Articles: EngineerIT, by Hans van de Groenendaal, features editor, EngineerIT Shortwave is where radio communication began and while some sceptics may say that the final chapter is likely to be written soon, they may well have the wrong end of the stick. The subject was fiercely debated earlier this year when Sentech arranged a digital radio showcase where, in addition to the aspects of digital audio broadcasting plus (DAB+) and digital radio mondiale (DRM), a panel discussion was held about various scenarios around shortwave broadcasting: would DRM make shortwave broadcasting more efficient and cost effective? Would switching off of South Africa’s shortwave services have a negative impact on Africa where FM and digital radio service are limited to the main cities? Can shortwave services be commercialised? Sentech operates South Africa’s shortwave radio station in Bloemendal, near Meyerton which it inherited when Radio RSA was closed down. Radio RSA started its broadcast 1 May 1966 and by 1976 the station transmitted for 36 hours a week in twelve languages including English, French, Portuguese, and Afrikaans. The service was discontinued in 1992. The only transmission that survived the close down was a broadcast into Africa, renamed Channel Africa which has daily programmes in Chinyanja, Silozi, Portuguese, Swahili, and English. The SABC also transmits Radio Sonder Grense (RSG) on shortwave to the Northern Cape. Today, Sentech’s shortwave operation is financed by selling services to other international broadcasters by the South African Government. There are many critics who believe that South Africa has lost a golden opportunity to let its voice be heard around the world. However, many other countries have stopped their international broadcasting, mainly because of the high cost and budget constraints. But there are different views. The head of BBC distribution, Nigel Fry, said during the panel discussion that shortwave is an essential means of reaching people in conflict areas and in areas where no reliable broadcasting exists either because of environmental issues or military intervention. This creates a vacuum for information which often can only be filled by shortwave broadcasters. “One thing we have learned is that if we (the BBC) pull out, the Chinese move in!” The fact that Sentech currently relays programmes into Africa on behalf of the BBC, the Voice of America, and other smaller broadcasters supports the point made by Fry, that shortwave fills a huge void in reaching people. Panel members agreed that for many years to come, shortwave broadcasting will continue to play an important role and that South Africa still has an important contribution to make, particularly on the educational front. The question is, however, who should pay for this? Could it be commercialised and carry advertising, or would the US model of public radio work? US public radio is financed from grants by companies, philanthropic institutions and listeners. Solly Phetoe of Channel Africa made the strong point that the channel could better support business development in Africa by carrying advertising which it currently does not. This appears to be more of a policy issue than a legal restriction. Would international companies advertise if such a service was offered? One of the reasons why foreign broadcasters have chosen Sentech to reach their audiences in Africa is about efficiency and the much lower power required to deliver a good signal. Shortwave broadcasters have up to now used amplitude modulation (AM), which is not an efficient use of power. For some years SSB was considered, but as the digital age is taking shape, DRM is the obvious answer. It is digital, provides better signal quality and is less energy-intensive. Currently several international broadcasters such as Radio France International, Radio New Zealand and the BBC have daily shortwave broadcasts using DRM. But as with all new technology, it is a question of volume. DRM shortwave receivers are still expensive. Cheaper options would be a dongle on a laptop and DRM software. However, the ultimate would be an inexpensive DRM shortwave radio. One of the Sentech panellists remarked it is the chicken and the egg situation. It would need injection of government funding to make it happen. For Sentech, shortwave broadcasting is becoming a problem, the equipment it inherited from the Radio SA days is old and requires frequent maintenance with spare parts becoming difficult to obtain and expensive. If we want to have our voice heard in Africa and the rest of the world, there needs to be a new funding model and an investment in modern transmitting equipment and antennas. Fig. 1: Receiving and decoding a DRM shortwave broadcast using a dongle and a laptop. An old solution for a new problem An article recently published in IEEE spectrum entitled “Wall Street tries shortwave radio to make high-frequency trades across the Atlantic”, created a new interest in the use of shortwave frequencies. It is all about latency in fibre cables across the Atlantic which Wall Street believes it can overcome by using radio. The author of the article, David Schneider writes: “Communications on shortwave, or high-frequency (HF) bands, as any radio amateur will tell you, is an iffy affair, because these long-distance transmissions depend on the configuration of the ionosphere, which in turn depends on such factors as time of day and the intensity of sunspots. Right now, the sun is at the very worst part of its 11-year cycle as far as shortwave communications goes. So it’s likely that the high-frequency traders using shortwave bands are facing significant technical challenges. “Even if the integrity of the link itself were not a problem, those traders will have to contend with much lower bandwidth than they are used to. That means that they won’t be able to transmit very much information about price shifts – perhaps just a few bytes at a time (presumably well encrypted). If they tried to send more at the low data rates that shortwave affords, the time required would wipe out any latency gains over communications by fibre. “With low-orbit satellites still not able to provide such fast communication links and lots of money to be made this way, it makes good sense that high-frequency traders are giving shortwave a try. What’s still a mystery to me, though, is why they didn’t attempt this many years ago” To answer the question asked in the headline: yes there is still plenty of room for shortwave! With the DRM replacing AM, many broadcasters may see shortwave in a new light! (via DXLD) So that panel discussion back in autumn was, as it turns out now, part of final attempts to save the Meyerton station. And the remarks from the gentleman responsible for BBC World Service distribution are close to hypocrisy if he at the same time told Sentech that they intend to reduce their bookings, prompting the decision to close down the station (here I'm quoting a statement of facts by Jeff White). I don't see much chances for returning in a new guise. For securing a future it would be essential to offer a continuous service to existing customers, instead of sending away everyone and later trying to sell again a service that is "on its last legs" (allegedly an original quotation from BBC WS). DRM: Old transmitters with high level plate modulation are hardly suitable for putting out a COFDM signal. Only possibility is to use the final RF stage as linear amplifier for the output from the DRM modulator, with low efficacy producing only a small fraction of the possible AM carrier power. I'm not aware of this approach still being in operation anywhere, after the Taldom, Bolshakovo and Junglinster operations ceased. So it would require major investments. For a service for which no market exists whatsoever. Norkring in Norway tried it more than a decade ago and failed completely (and still did clandestine transmissions in AM during this attempt). The report also mentions an important aspect not discussed so far: "Spare parts becoming difficult to obtain and expensive". It would in fact be interesting from where they still get tubes for the old Telefunken transmitters. These tubes are old Siemens designs, and I would be surprised if anyone still makes them. And I think no one else still operates such transmitters (as opposed to the PDM transmitters introduced around 1980), with Wertachtal and Junglinster being gone. What also caught my eye was the description that Radio RSA "was discontinued in 1992". So far I understood that the service had simply been renamed. Was it a different affair, a complete relaunch, maybe even a "let's get rid of the old Apartheid propagandists"? It was, as a reminder, not this caesura that brought an end to the broadcasts to target areas outside Africa. They had been terminated already in 1990, shortly after de Klerk assumed office. This is well remembered here in Germany, because it also meant that the broadcasts in German went away, at just the time when Radio RSA would have to tell its audiences a lot. Seems that some details still need to be added to the history books here (Kai Ludwig, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DXLD) DW will probably just move the broadcasts to other sites. However I will be very curious to see what BBCWS does -- whether they keep the same number of transmitter hours from alternate sites, or if cuts are coming in A-19. Given the financial problems of both SENTECH and the SABC, this is no surprise. I do remember the old Radio RSA and the solid signals the Meyerton site put into North America. Four hours to NA each evening on three or four frequencies. But that was half a century ago (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, WOR iog via DXLD) The online schedule of Channel Africa shows that their schedule is till 27 March 2019. It is an odd date as the B 18 schedule ends only on 30 March 2019. So they may go off early??? http://www.channelafrica.co.za/sabc/home/channelafrica/frequencyfinder They are conducting a Listeners survey also this week: http://www.channelafrica.co.za/sabc/home/channelafrica/noticeboard/details?id=bac8d0cb-4354-46d4-9424-1d5a2da33adc&title=Channel+Africa+is+Conducting+a+listener+feedback+session&fbclid=IwAR39sntGcd0sfoWGtjdE5NRBXSf6gCGNy3udXZo8jgWc91uI4sL1g5o0KWc (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, ibid.) Well, ChAf has been M-F only but 3/27 is Wednesday (gh, ibid.) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Channel Africa is conducting a listener feedback session. If you have any comments, concerns, questions & suggestions about Chanel Africa Please send voice notes or call on Whatsapp: +27 76 300 3327 or social media Facebook: Channel Africa and Twitter: @Channel Africa1. You can also call in live on: +27 11 714 3943/3944/3946. The station management will be in studio to respond to your queries make sure you tune on the following times & dates 1300-1400 on 7230 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg to SoAf Silozi on Feb.26 1400-1500 on 7230 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg to SoAf Portuguese on Feb.27 1500-1555 on 17770 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg to ECAf Kiswahili on Feb.28 1600-1655 on 15235 MEY 250 kW / 328 deg to WeAf French on Feb.28 1500-1600 on 7260 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg to SoAf English on March 1 From April 1 Channel Africa might continue on internet only. BBC relays will be moved from Meyerton to Malagasy Global Business S.A.in Talata-Volonondry. https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/channel-africa-is-conducting-listener.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WRMI for Wavescan report about this ** SOUTH AMERICA. Radio Piraña Internaciónal 6930 Hola Glenn! Espero que te encuentres bien amigo! Saludos desde Sudamerica! Esta noche estaremos en el aire con nuestro transmisor "beacon" (faro) con 10 vatios en portadora desde algún lugar en la parte sur de sudamerica. La transmisión se iniciara a las 21.00 UTC hasta las 11.00 UTC mañana. Este esquema se repetirá varias veces las próximas semanas. La excepción seria cuando estamos al aire con nuestro nuevo transmisor de 100 vatios en amplitud modulada, con transmisiones en directo. En estos momentos estamos armando el nuevo transmisor de alto rendimiento. Estaremos informándoles. Jorge R. García, Radio Piraña Int. Greetings from South America. This evening from 2100 UT and until aprox 1100 UT tomorrow, we will air our beacon transmitter of 10 watts from somewhere in the southern part of south America. Frequency is just around 6930 kHz CW. The msg. is transmitted in 10 WPM. This beacon will be on and off in the same sched the next weeks. When the beacon is not on the reason will be that we are on with AM broadcast around the same frequency with 100w carrier power. We are now preparing the transmitter that we hope to have on air in the coming days. 73 (Jorge R. García Radio Piraña Int. http://www.radiopiraña.com -- Porfavor siempre responder a: rpi@radiopirana.com 1723 UT Feb 25, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I already heard the carrier last night on 6930.16 around 0230 while he was testing (Chris Smolinski, Black Cat Systems, Westminster, MD USA http://www.blackcatsystems.com 1754 UT Feb 25, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 4840, UNITED STATES, WWCR at 1200. An old fav program: piano music in background and lots of unintelligible voices, moaning, and groaning. SW doesn't get any better than this - thank you Bro. Stair! - Very Good Feb 18 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; Hammarlund HQ-180A & HQ-200; RS SW-2000629, with various outdoor wires. 73 and Good Listening....! WOR iog via DXLD) TOMBS moanin` & groanin` hour is regular at 7 am & pm ET (gh, DXLD) ** SPAIN. 9690, Radio Exterior de España, Spanish OM giving frequencies and then programme preview, and pips to ToH. SS ID and “English Service” announcement, and into news summary, much talx re Spain budget crisis and election called after Catalan parties ‘deserted’ the coalition by failing to support the budget. Then into music show with intro: “That was the news from Spain, now the Blues from Spain”, English vocal blues tunes starting at about 2303. Guest in the studio was a Spanish amateur musician who is known for bringing US blues artists to Spain with talx re his past guests, and plans for the future in bringing ‘blues-men’ to Spain. Into French at BoH. In well, 4+54+4+4+ THIS close to all 5s, but only with LSB sync since there was a 5 kHz het on the USB -- unclear where it was from! 2257-2331 15/Feb. At 2245 set-up, the 25 metre channels were all in with at least ‘fair’ reception, but by the ToH those had faded completely, and only this was left. SDRplay +SDRuno +randomwire (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Port Hope MI2, WOR iog via DXLD) 9690, Radio Exterior de España dead air, and then pips to ToH. SS ID and “English Service” announcement, and into a music programme (only) which seems to be the primary use of the thrice weekly show since reactivation of the service. I would guess the (one) English announcer is mostly interested in music, and his bosses let him do what he wants, but it sure would be nice to hear something more than just ‘music news from Spain’ which is what this often is of late! Into French at BoH and that too seemed to be a show about the Spanish music scene! This did NOT fade during the hour I listened tonight -- conditions getting better? 4+4+54+4+ 2258-2358 18/Feb SDRplay +SDRuno +ANC-4 +randomwire (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, ibid.) [and non]. Football UEFA Champions league games tonight REE Madrid, strange 9689.920 REE Noblejas tonight not on 11685 kHz, but games Liverpool vv Munich, Lyon vv Barcelona on very odd strange frequency 9689.920 kHz S=8 at 2030 UT and 11940even S=8-9 at 2028 UT Febr 19 and 12030even S=9+10dB signal strength here in Germany. vy73 (wolfie df5sx, 2059 UT Feb 19, dxldyg via DXLD) That very odd strange frequency is more like exactly where Nigeria had been. Are you sure it was Spain? If so, could they have been trying to match off-frequency VON and reduce/eliminate the LAH? I have long felt stations victims of such collisions should be more pro-active at least to zero-beat them. However, on this same date, earlier Feb 19, Spain was in fact reported missing: ``9690 - NIGERIA - No sign of REE Spain here this afternoon, though being heard well here on 11940. VoN, Abuja is the beneficiary with good signal in the clear from 1905 tune in to past 2000. ID after Int.-Sig. 2000. SINPO - 45333. John Figliozzi, Sarasota, FL, Panasonic RF-B65, Whip`` A later revised report from wb in BC-DX said 9690 Spain was on at 2030 with Nigeria underneath (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 9690, Feb 21 at 2156, REE Spanish frequency announcement as 11940 to S America, 9620 to N America ---- what? Did I hear that right? It`s really 9690, of course. Will have to try again at same hour. Seems like 9620 may have been REE sometime in past. Currently not registered anything below 9690, but several imaginary alternates in the 15 and 17 MHz bands likely to return in A-season (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9690, Feb 22 at 2155 as planned, I`m retuned exactly 24 hours later to REE after I thought I heard them announce frequency as 9620 --- but not any fq anmt today before 2200! Instead plugs special show Monday at 0130 (¿TU o HNE?), ``Festival del Cine desde Los Ángeles``. Obviously about the Academy Awards but no mention of same by name in either language. And multilingual generic REE IDs, fill with ``Sueño`` song about dreaming; 2200 no timesignal (even tho they often emit them at half-hours), and next show ``Marca España`` about worldwide trade. 2300 recheck for Friday English segment: starts with flamenco music, Justin Coe says in honor of Paco de Lucía anniversary, 2306 starts his performance of ``Concierto de Aranjuez`` by Joaquín Rodrigo, 3- movement masterwork likely to occupy rest of the semihour. ¡Viva la música clásica en onda corta! 9690, Monday Feb 25 at 2309, REE`s Justin Coe ending some news about the Catalunya demonstration situation, before he can get back to some flamenco guitar music, his continuing tribute to Paco de Lucía, apparently on the fifth anniversary of his death. Ken Zichi has also noted how this service is mainly music, evidently according to Coe`s preferences, rather than an emphasis on news (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. Trincomalee --- See latest photos of the site on the TWR Lanka Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/twrlanka/ (Ian, swsites yg via DXLD) ** SUDAN. Using the U. Twente SDR receiver, noted beginning of the French broadcast of Voice of Africa from Sudan at about 1630 UT today (23 February) on 9505.002 kHz. Signal was initially fairly good. English followed time pips at 1715 UT (last pip at 17:15:06 allowing for usual approximately one-second receiver/Internet delay). The news broadcast included the announcement of the declaration of a state of emergency in Sudan for one year and the list of new state governors appointed from the military. The signal started to deteriorate around 1730 and dropped into the noise shortly thereafter (-- Richard Langley, NB, WOR iog via DXLD) Yes, Sudan government financial situation is much, much very bad, these days. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, dxldyg via DXLD) Signal revived a bit during the Hausa program, switched at some point to Arabic and continued at a varying poor to fair level and was still going after 2000. Presumably went from the Voice of Africa Arabic service into domestic Radio Omdurman. Have recorded it so will try to see when the transition actually occurred (Langley, 2007 UT, WOR iog via DXLD) ** SUDAN [non]. R. Dabanga: See SOUTH AFRICA ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. MADAGASCAR, Reception of Radio Tamazuj via Talata Volonondy, Feb.25 1500-1530 11705 MDC 250 kW / 340 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic, fair signal: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-radio-tamazuj-via-talata.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWAZILAND. 4775, TWR, on Feb 22, brief check at 0434, had religious song and sermon in English (African accent); semi-readable (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** SWITZERLAND. DRM Service A 6930.5 kHz 1440 UT --- Aktuell ist ein DRM-Datendienst mit dem Label "DRM Service A" auf 6930.5 kHz zu empfangen. Duerfte wohl der gleiche Ursprung sein, wie Aussendungen im Tropenband vor einiger Zeit (Patrick Robich, Austria, A-DX ng Febr 16 via BC-DX 21 Feb via WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DXLD) ex-Thomson Broadcast, now Ampegon, staff at Thurgi Switzerland: (Bueschel, ibid.) An Ampegon customer, says Hans Johnson, but not from Switzerland (gh) ** TANGIER [and non]. TWR marks 65 years in ministry Mission Network News By Beth Stolicker February 25, 2019 On Friday, Trans World Radio, who strives to share God’s Word through mixed media, marked 65 years in ministry. A 65-Year History: TWR’s first-ever broadcast aired from Tangier in Northern Africa on February 22, 1954. In a press release, TWR says this first broadcast reached across “the Strait of Gibraltar to Spain, where Protestants were a vanishingly small minority” facing governmental bans on evangelism and even discrimination. Then, when Morocco gained its independence and Tangier was reunited with the country, TWR was asked to leave. The organization moved to Monte Carlo and shared a facility with Radio Monte Carlo. During the day, Radio Monte Carlo when to work, and at night TWR took over. It was here where TWR really began to have a global influence. Ten years after the first broadcast, TWR was reaching most of Europe and expanding further into the world. Through radio, the ministry slipped into areas no Christian worker could, like the Iron Curtain. Radio has a way of providing information regardless of governmental regulations. It has been key in TWR sharing God’s Word across the globe, expanding to the ends of the earth. Article continues here: https://www.mnnonline.org/news/twr-marks-65-years-in-ministry/ (via Mike Terry, WOR iog via DXLD) Some clarification about TWR Tangier era; In the 1950's there were three commercial broadcast stations licensed by the International Zone of Tangier. Those were (brand names) Radio Africa, Radio Tanger and Pan American [sic] Radio. TWR (Voice of Tangier then) "hired airtime" from Radio Tanger. The fourth broadcaster was VOA. Morocco gained independence in 1956 and had then also control of Tangier. The existing broadcasters were given time to operate until the end of 1959. So, Voice of Tangier (TWR) stopped broadcasting from Tangier in the end of 1959. As we all know, VOA was of course granted permission to continue after that 1959 deadline. 73, (Jari Savolainen, Finland, WOR iog via DXLD) ** THAILAND. 13745, HSK9 Radio Thailand; 0012-0020+, 2/23; English Phuket Marriott Resort & Spa promo to 0013 “HSK9 Radio Thailand” with freqs (no SW mentioned) into world news. I don’t recall ever hearing them ID with the HSK9 call before. SIO=353+ (Harold Frodge, Michigan Area Radio Enthusiasts DXpedition, Brighton MI, Drake R8B + 500’ unterminated bev, dogleg E-W/N-S, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15745 [sic: should be 13745 --- gh], Radio Thailand in English. SIO 444, February 23, 2019, 0009–0025. Various OM and YL speakers with Thai national headlines. Good signal. Ads for vacation tours. Ad from Ministry of Tourism and Sports. Long ad and tourism promotion. Credit for the Public Relations Department of the Royal Thai Government. News of Maduro preventing aid from reaching Venezuelans in need. Many other international news items. Clear listening. Frequency and time programming announcements and contact information given for advertisements (Vince Henley, Anacortes, WA, WiNRADiO G39DDCe SDR, ICOM IC-R8600, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R8B, SDRPLAY RSP Duo, TECSUN PL-880. Antennas: whip on PL-880 and Alpha-Delta DX-Ultra installed broadside east west at 30 feet for all others, NASWA Flashsheet Feb 24 via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. 9884, OPPOSITION (to China / Tibet), Voice of Tibet – Yangi Yul, TAJIKISTAN (Presumed), 1346, 2/23/19, in Tibetan. Woman announcer with pause then started again, musical bridge into same announcer, correspondent report with sound bites, then woman announcer interviews the correspondent. (Not // CNR 1 or jammers) - This was the same program heard on 9899.1 earlier this morning. Fair. 9899.1, OPPOSITON (to China / Tibet) Voice of Tibet – Yangi Yul, TAJIKISTAN (Presumed), 1317, 2/23/19, in Tibetan. Woman announcer, musical bridge into same announcer, correspondent report with sound bites, then woman announcer interviews the correspondent. (Not // CNR 1 or jammers.) Fair (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin, Perseus, Elad FDM-S2, Airspy HF+, ICOM R75, Tecsun PL 880, and various other portables; 42 meters dipole, 100’ long wire, W6LVP loop, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** TUNISIA. Confirmed on MW Tunis Djedeida 963 kHz on 27 & 29 Jan at 1930-2000 UT in German & from 2000 UT in French, but on 27 Jan from 1900 UT the program was in Spanish & on 29 Jan from 1900 UT in French. (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 19, BC-DX 21 Feb via DXLD) ** TURKEY. TRT Voice of Turkey in Persian on very odd frequency 11795.7 kHz, Feb.19: 0930-1055 on 11795.7 EMR 500 kW / 105 deg to WeAs Persian, instead of 11795 Feb.18 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/voice-of-turkey-in-persian-on-very-odd_19.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.18-19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TRT Voice of Turkey on odd frequencies 11925.7 & 11955.7 kHz, Feb.20, both EMR 500 kW: 0700-1000 11925.7 / 105 deg WeAs Turkish, instead of 11925.0 1000-1055 11955.7 / 180 deg NEAf Arabic, instead of 11955.0: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/trt-voice-of-turkey-on-odd-frequencies.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.19-20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12035.0, Feb 20 at 1428, VOT not very off-frequency, but still on air following English, with IS and ID break in presumed Kazakh. Keeps going past 1430 timesignal, opening presumed Kazakh, finally cut off circa 1431. I then swoop to 9785 where Kazakh should have been already and do hear a JBA carrier there. 6125, UT Sat Feb 23 at 0415, VOT is S9+10, modulating Turkish music; kept on it for `Letterbox`, but talk feature at 0418 is something historical; o yeah, L`box has moved 24 hours later to UT Sundays. [and non]. 12035, Feb 23 at 1338, something in Thai S9-S6 way atop VOT in English, so no hearing Letterbox now --- spells out ``T-H-A-I at AWR.org``. So it`s KSDA GUAM as scheduled 1330-1400 due west. Making no het since VOT is on-frequency today. First time I`ve noticed this, as I must have been tuning to Turkey after 1400. 12085 has a very similar broadcast, i.e. KSDA in Lao, same time, same parameters, 1342 with rustic music, same signal but no CCI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TRT Voice of Turkey in Bulgarian on very odd frequency 7245.7 kHz, Feb.24: 1200-1225 7245.7 EMR 250 kW / 300 deg Bulgarian, instead of 7245 Feb.23 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/voice-of-turkey-in-bulgarian-on-very_24.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12035.7, Feb 24 at 1406, VOT music and English talk is only S2-S5 with flutter, notably inferior to Turkish on 11815.0, tho HFCC registrations indicate should be vice versa: 500 kW on 12035, 250 kW on 11815, and azimuths USward only 5 degrees apart (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TRT Voice of Turkey in Persian on very odd frequency 11795.7, Feb.26 0930-1055 11795.7 EMR 500 kW / 105 deg WeAs Persian, instead of nom. 11795.0 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/voice-of-turkey-in-persian-on-very-odd_26.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. Media holding Vesti Ukraine (MHVU) appealed to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) with the requirement to verify the facts of corruption crimes committed by officials of the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting, the media holding said on Wednesday. The main reason for this appeal is the refusal of the National Council to extend the term of the radio broadcasting license of Radio Vesti. For its part, the media holding suspects the regulator in exceeding official authority and bias against the HCVU. At the same time, the Moscow Art University declares its plans to protect its rights and interests, as well as to challenge in court all further, in its opinion, illegal actions and decisions of the National Council on television and radio broadcasting. As reported, MHVU is protesting against the decision of the National Council on TV and Radio Broadcasting to put the Kiev frequencies previously owned by Radio Vesti to the contest. In November 2018, the National Broadcasting Council imposed a fine of more than 20 thousand UAH on Radio Vesti because of a violation of the law on language quotas. In March 2017, the National Council on TV broadcasting refused to renew the broadcasting license of TRK DIVOSVIT LLC (Kiev, broadcasts under the Radio Vesti logo), which expired in February of the same year. Interfax.com.ua http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__72377/ (via Rus-DX Feb 24 via DXLD) ** U K. 3950-3955-3960, Feb 20 at 0658, DRM noise at S9+10 usurping a stretch of our ``80 meter`` hamband, which is of course BBCWS in English, scheduled 0559-0700 only, 100 kW, 114 degrees from Woofferton for Western Europe, but plenty signal back this way (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. Now, at 2113 on 11660, the BBC WS. All lists report in Hausa, including HFCC. Any changes I did not see here on the list? 73 (Jorge Freitas, My Blog: https://dxlogfreitas.blogspot.com/ Feira de Santana Bahia 12°14´S 38°58´W - Brasil, Tecsun PL-310ET Antenna Delta Loop 8.5 meters, Feb 18 WOR iog via DXLD) Not heard in NB at 2132 UT. Poor propagation or off at 2130? (-- Richard Langley, NB. WOR iog via DXLD) Reported by me, here, yesterday (see below). Probably a special broadcast because of the Saudi state visit to Pakistan. I have read that the Pakistanis consider this to be a very important visit. Possibly a special BBC broadcast heard today, February 17th, at 2122 UT on 11660 (presumed Ascension) in English with interview concerning the state visit to Pakistan by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Online references show Hausa normally aired at this time. Fair reception here in British Columbia (Harold Sellers, ibid.) I guess (postponed) Nigeria election date (out of Ascension island) is highly more important and of extreme political value. Is an important item in all European TV newscasts. 73 wolfie df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Mauno Ritola on WRTH Facebook reports extra BBCWS English broadcasts to Nigeria - presumably due to the elections in Nigeria: In addition to the usual Hausa frequencies, there will be BBC World Service in English for Nigeria this week as follows: 0600-0630 17830 kHz 0700-1400 17780 kHz 1430-1700 17780 kHz 1700-1930 15695 kHz 2000-2230 11660 kHz (Dave Kenny, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DXLD) Using the U. Twente SDR receiver today (19 February), a strong carrier came up on 17780 kHz at about 1414 UT, lasting for about 4 minutes. I vaguely recall that the frequency was spot on. Then at about 1423 UT a carrier came on and soon afterwards BBC in Hausa. The SyncAM frequency reported was 17779.994 kHz. At 1429, BBC WS in English started. Initially seemed to be a bit of hum. Not noticeable later (just before 1700). At about 30 seconds before 1700, transmitter went off. Came back a few seconds later but with SyncAM frequency now exactly 17780.000 kHz. No noticeable change in strength. Transmitter change? Site change? Signals have been pretty good since initial s/on (-- Richard Langley, 1704 UT, WOR iog via DXLD) Extra BBC frequencies, due to the elections in Nigeria this week, all ASC 250 kW 0700-1200 on 17780 / 065 deg to WeAf English WS, very good signal 1200-1400 on 17780 / 055 deg to WeAf English WS, very good signal 1400-1430 on 17780 / 065 deg to WeAf Hausa Mo-Fr as scheduled B18 1430-1700 on 17780 / 065 deg to WeAf English WS, very good signal 1700-1930 on 15695 / 065 deg to WeAf English WS, fair/good signal 1930-2000 on 11660 / 055 deg to WeAf Hausa Mo-Fr as scheduled B18 2000-2230 on 11660 / 055 deg to WeAf English WS, fair/good signal 2000-2030 on 11660 / 055 deg to WeAf Hausa Friday in B18 schedule https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/extra-bbc-ws-frequencies-due-to.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11660, UNKNOWN TRANSMITTER SITE, BBC at 2207 with a woman interviewing a male correspondent about the Home Office moving to deny an ISIS bridge of British citizenship – Very Good Feb 19 – Not sure if this was a mistake or a change in schedule as the BBC Worldservice website makes no note of this frequency in English nor at this time (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4, Kenwood TS440S, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) 15695 at 1800 UT? African voices discussing something. Several references made to Nigeria, any idea on station ID? SIN 322 on ICR8600 and ALA1530LN loop. Thanks (Will Grocott, Warwickshire, UK, 1804UT Feb 24, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) Extra frequencies of BBC, due to elections in Nigeria on Feb.23: 1700-1930 15695 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg WeAf Hausa, instead of WS English (Observer via gh WOR iog via DXLD) Extra frequencies BBC, due to elections Nigeria Feb.23: 0700-1200 17780 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg WeAf Hausa, instead of WS English 1200-1430 17780 ASC 250 kW / 055 deg WeAf Hausa, instead of WS English 1430-1700 17780 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg WeAf Hausa, instead of WS English 1700-1930 15695 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg WeAf Hausa, instead of WS English 1930-2000 11660 ASC 250 kW / 055 deg WeAf Hausa - as scheduled in B-18 2000-2230 11660 ASC 250 kW / 055 deg WeAf Hausa, instead of WS English https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/extra-frequencies-of-bbc-due-to.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.22-23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. BBC 5G broadcast plans --- Source a516 digital.. https://www.a516digital.com/2019/02/bbc-reveals-details-of-5g-broadcast.html?m=1 (Gary Drew worldwide. Sent from my iPhone, Feb 22, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) BBC trials live radio over 5G for remote areas of Scotland. Hi, just came across this trail that the BBC are conducting in the Orkney Isles to broadcast radio over a test 5G network. https://www.pocket-lint.com/phones/news/bbc/147201-bbc-trials-live-radio-over-5g-for-rural-areas-that-cannot-normally-get-it https://www.5gruralfirst.org/project/broadcast/ https://www.5gruralfirst.org/announcing-the-5g-ruralfirst-orkney-test-locations-part-1/ (Robert Wilson, Glasgow, Scotland, Feb 24, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A. 400 kHz, Feb 19 at 1255, ND beacon AHQ. It`s 25 watts from Wahoo, Nebraska, which is N of Lincoln and W of Omaha (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Regarding the AZ/CA desert beacons "A" and "W" (Windy) I've seen recent comments in DXLD pertaining to the 2097.3 kHz "A" beacon and the ~4103 kHz "Windy" beacon (now also with battery voltage and ambient-temperature in F). Firstly, they are not my beacons whatsoever, and I have never visited the Arizona "A" beacon, ever, JIC some folks think I might have implanted them or am responsible for them. Because I know the fellows doing it I have this "insider" information, allegedly. However, back in March 2001, Ed Hendricks (one of the inventors of the early Internet - specifically the IBM and ARPA nets) and myself DFed the "Wind" beacon that back then was on about 4095.5 kHz and only sent the ident "W followed by the wind-speed "pips" (that were one pip per revolution of its home-made anemometer). I am acquainted with one of its constructors and installers (more than one person is involved) and I was aware of the general (but not specific) location of Wind(y). And so on one fine Spring 2001 morning after a night camping at Joshua Tree National Park, Ed and I decided to see if we could find it. I had along with me a small Magnavox portable receiver that employed a loop-stick (strictly) for the tropical bands, as well as mediumwave of course. It took about five hours and a few bearing checks to eliminate the loopstick's ambiguity and ascertain its general location, and we eventually found it after some walking and driving, and by monitoring its considerably weaker harmonics as we drew near. I took a few photos and wiggled the hilarious "three cantaloupe spoon" anemometer to have it send CW saying "we found it" several times, JIC the owner or anyone else was tuned-in! It is NOT in Inyo County where I reside. Regarding the 2097.3 kHz "A" beacon, most assuredly, it is NOT anywhere near Quartzsite, Arizona. There, one will only hear its skywave. I'm not sure how that town became associated with its location. I've not ever seen it save for photos taken by friends who have. I needed to make some subtle "corrections" in all of this but without giving away its location in-consideration of their ops. 73 - (Steve McGreevy, -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com Feb 25, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4102.3, “W” California desert wind speed beacon + wind speed pips, weak; 0459, 2/17 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4102.4, “W” California desert wind speed beacon; 1143, 2/23; 6 wind speed pips & occasionally sending other characters (Harold Frodge, Michigan Area Radio Enthusiasts DXpedition, Brighton MI, Drake R8B + 500’ unterminated bev, dogleg E-W/N-S, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4102.3, Feb 26 at 0730, the ``W`` beacon somewhere in the California desert. Sends that ID a few times a minute, but in between series of dits which signify wind speed on its anemometer, and other readings, battery voltage and temp. Steve McGreevy explains in the WOR iog how he located the thing almost 20 years ago; and that the `A` (only) beacon on 2097.3 we also hear is not in Quartzsite AZ, altho he does not know exactly where (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13565-CW, Feb 20 at 1433, K6FRC beacon, Patterson CA, is JBA, but quite stronger at 1515. I patrol the 13550-13570 ISM/HIFER band almost every day, but K6FRC not heard since Dec 19; even longer since I`ve heard any others (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 7460, Feb 23 at 0406, S7-S8 African? music, which must be the Kirundi/Kinyarwanda service of VOA as scheduled 0330-0430 via BOTSWANA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non non]. 17655. 25/2/2019, 1802-1830, Voz da América, Greenville-NC, em Português. Uma canção na voz de cantora caboverdeana de muito sucesso; 1805 Ana Guedes apresenta algumas notícias breves; 1810 Uma canção com cantor angolano; 1815 Ana Guedes fala sobre a viagem de Trump à Coreia do Norte, seguida de uma canção com cantora zimbabueana e outras mais; ID. VOA com ótima recepção, 45554. Nota: Música africana de excelente qualidade nestes primeiros 27 minutos; 1827 Mais notícias com Ana e seu colega locutor (JRX_José Ronaldo Xavier, SWARL Callsign PR7036SWL, Cabedelo-PB, Brasil, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A. VOA Director Amanda Bennett's Chinese New Year Greeting Backfires - BBG Watch Commentary By Anonymous VOA China Branch Reporter http://bbgwatch.com/bbgwatch/voa-director-amanda-bennetts-chinese-new-year-greeting-backfires/ Note: VOA journalist who wrote this commentary wants to remain anonymous because of fear of reprisals from the management. The reporter attempted to get a response from Voice of America (VOA) Director Amanda Bennett and the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) management, including USAGM CEO John Lansing, but the request submitted on behalf of the journalist was ignored. VOA Director Amanda Bennett is featured in a VOA China Branch Lunar New Year greeting that was placed on the Branch's Twitter account on Feb.3, 2019. By Feb. 7, 60,000 people have viewed the one-minute video clip, and hundreds have left comments. China Branch Chief Ernest Torriero sent a congratulatory e-mail to a bunch of people, Amanda Bennett included, on Feb. 4. To that, Ms. Bennett replied: "That's cute." What Torriero and Bennett apparently did not know is that most of the viewers' comments were highly critical of the VOA Director for cutting short the live Guo Wengui interview on April 19, 2017, and of her decision to place five VOA Mandarin Service journalists on forced leave with pay, as well as the decision to fire Sasha Gong from her job and her position as Service Chief for alleged "insubordination." Ms. Gong claims that she was only questioning Ms. Bennett's and senior management's decision to shorten the live interview convinced that they were responding to pressure from the Chinese government. One viewer wrote in English: "VOA shame on what you did to Miles Guo in 2017. You are not a friend of our Chinese any more! You are a CCP's good helper and Amanda is demobilized! VOA, evil! Amanda, evil!!!" Another viewer uploaded a red certificate that is normally issued by the CCP Central Committee to exemplary Communist Party members, and placed Ms. Bennett's photo right in the middle of the certificate. Many more demanded that Ms. Bennett resign. One viewer's comment reads: "If you truly wish the Chinese people well, you should fulfil your duty of promoting democracy and rule of law and telling the truth....That will be ten thousand times better than this insincere New Year's greeting!" VOA China Branch Chief Ernest Torriero also appears in the short video. He was promoted to his current post in April 2018 although he doesn't speak or understand Chinese. This fact didn't escape some of the viewers' attention. One viewer's comment says: "China Branch chief does not speak Chinese. Such a joke! How ironic!" That may also explains why Mr. Torriero sent his congratulatory email to his superiors apparently without knowing what the viewers' comments said. Someone who speaks and reads Chinese should have told him, but at VOA employees no longer feel safe to tell the truth to the powers that be. When appointing Torriero as the China Branch director, Amanda Bennett told the branch staff that the management turned down all Chinese-speaking applicants in favor of Torriero because he is a "leader." VOA DIRECTOR AMANDA BENNETT: "You know, if you're weighing something, you know, we've got a lot of candidates that came in who are super fluent in Mandarin, you know. But that was it. What good is that gonna do? You guys all speak Mandarin, you know, and Cantonese, you know. Why would I hire someone to do what all of you guys are able to do? What we need is a leader. Right?" What good can speaking Chinese do? After all, this incident proves that speaking Chinese may still have a little use for the boss of the Voice of America China Branch (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** U S A. VOA TECHNICAL ISSUES --- Something's often wrong at VOA. I listened at 2300 for "VOA Asia." After the top of the hour newscast, the announcer begins the longer segment by saying the program will sound a little different today because we are having technical difficulties. After a few minutes of the anchor reading the news, there is silence for a couple of minutes, then the anchor is on again saying there are technical difficulties, so we are going to sit and talk about the top stories of the day. Which they did (Mike Cooper, Feb 24, DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. [Re WOR via Area 51 webcast, WBCQ 5130+] Glenn. If I'm not mistaken Zombo's show originates from WRCT and he was on before WOR that evening (John Carver, Mid-North Indiana, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, Just to confirm that effective Monday March 4, 2019, we scheduled WOR each Monday at 20:00 CET (1901 UT/Winter 1801 UT summer approx, after a 30second news bulletin) on 7290 kHz to Europe & N Africa. The program may be also repeated at other random times both on this frequency (Mon-Sun) and on IRN (Internet Radio NEXUS) at: http://mp3.nexus.org/irn.mp3 or: https://nexus.org/irn-player Enjoy! 73, (Alfredo Cotroneo, IRRS/NEXUS-IBA/IPAR, Feb 25, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1970 monitoring: barely confirmed first SW broadcast, Tuesday February 19 at 2033 on WRMI 7780, JBA via PL-880 portable. Slept thru as usual the Wed 0930 & 1030 airings. 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 1200 UT Saturday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND [alt weeks: March 2] 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 1970 monitoring: missed the 2200 openings, so unknown if WRMI made it on air in time this week, caught the endings: Wednesday February 20 at 2227, S9+10 fading to S7 on WBCQ 7490+, now better than WRMI 9955, which is running 15 seconds ahead of WBCQ. Also confirmed UT Thu Feb 21 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, poor S9-S7 vs noise level. As usual, I hope that the 7780 emissions arrive much better further east on 44 degree azimuth. 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: March 2] 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 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7730 kHz, Feb 21 UTC heard World of Radio #1970 until the ID came on at 0015 (then heard recorded music), at 0010 (55433). World of Radio on Feb 21 UTC (Wednesday) evening only was aired for 15 minutes on 7730 kHz (Richard Lemke, Alberta, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1970 monitoring: Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria confirms: GERMANY, Reception of World of Radio via HLR on 6190 CUSB on Feb.23 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on_23.html 0731-0800 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu Sat, weak/fair signal`` Confirmed Sat Feb 23 at 1246 amid the 1230 on WRMI 9955, good S9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9955, USA, WRMI at 1236 with Glenn Hauser's “World of Radio” with fading - Fair Feb 23 [Sat] (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4, Kenwood TS440S, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) 9955, WRMI Radio Miami Int’l; 1240-1300+, 2/23; Glenn Hauser’s World of Radio #1970; mentioned “incompetent interferers” & that all MN airports may shutdown NDBs. WoR to 1258:32 fill music to 1259:15 Bob Zanotti WRMI ID; 1259:54 into English Radio Prague News. S20+ peaks (Harold Frodge, Michigan Area Radio Enthusiasts DXpedition, Brighton MI, Drake R8B + 500’ unterminated bev, dogleg E-W/N-S, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As usual no signal here for Feb 23, Sat 1531 on 9485-CUSB via HLR Germany; nor at UTwente SDR; but audible poorly at 1537 on SDR in Italy. Alan Gale, England, also reports: ``Hi Glenn, HLR faded in here around 1455 UT so no problem hearing Media Network Plus and most of World of Radio today, though I did notice that while the audio sounded fine in the CUSB mode, when switched to AM there was noticeable distortion on it and it sounded a little raspy and overdriven. The signal faded out suddenly at 1552 but didn't come back again unfortunately. A short mp3 file is attached showing the distortion on the AM signal. Alan`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) GERMANY, Reception of World of Radio via HLR on 9485 CUSB on Feb.23 1531-1600 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sat, good signal: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on_24.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.23-24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 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 1970 monitoring: confirmed Saturday February 23 at 2215 the 2200 on WRMI 9955, S5-S9. Richard Lemke, Alberta, caught a new airing! 0030 UT Sunday Feb 24 on WRMI 7730, replacing an IBC Radio time almost two months after new episodes stopped (but not the next ex-IBC time, UT Sun 0130 on 9395). Also confirmed UT Sun Feb 24 starting at 0427 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Wentzville MO, as usual editing out as much of the musical theme opening as possible; S9+30 and not much QRhAM during the 160m contest. Earlier check at 0144 had WD5K calling CQ contest right on 1860-LSB. That`s Thomas C. Johnson in Dallas. 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 [or maybe 1971?] * also webcast; direct linx to these and many others at: Complete WOR sked, all affiliates, satellite, webcast, AM&FM, podcast: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Searching the WRMI skedgrid on Wld of Radio and World of Radio, we find another ***new time and still long-unconfirmed times presumably *wrong; the complete list: Mon 2330 9955 5950* Tue 0030 7730 Tue 2030 7780 5950* Tue 2130 7780* 5950* Wed 1030 5950 Wed 2100 7780* 5950* Wed 2200 9955 Thu 0000 7730*** Thu 0100 7780 Thu 2100 7780* 5950* Sat 1230 9955 Sat 2200 9955 Sun 0030 7730*** Sun 0830 5850 5950 7730 Sun 2130 7780 Mon 0230 9395 [but also 5950] Mon 0430 9955 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5850 kHz, 0830, Feb 24 UT [Sun], heard World of Radio #1970, 0855 (55433), Have a nice Sunday, (Richard Lemke, February 24, 2019, Radio: JRC NRD-535 HF Receiver; Antenna: long wire antenna in the trees, Alberta, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1970 monitoring: Ivo Ivanov confirms: ``GERMANY, Reception of World of Radio via HLR on 7265 CUSB, Feb.24: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on_80.html 1131-1200 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sun, weak signal`` Also confirmed Sun Feb 24 at 2149, the 2130 on WRMI 7780, fair. Also confirmed UT Mon Feb 25 at 0230 on WRMI 5950, S9+10, but 9395 a JBA carrier as usual. (Strangely the WOR skedgrid shows this on 9395 but not 5950!) Also confirmed UT Mon Feb 25 from 0402 on Area 51 webcast; and JBA at 0426 on WBCQ 5130.099, NF down from ~5130.48 area! Also confirmed UT Mon Feb 25 at 0430 on WRMI, JBA carrier on 9955, but on webcast as every week interrupting the ``Hallelujah`` song filler from 0425. Next: 2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 7730 to WNW * also webcast (I`m so far behind, that I do not expect to have WOR 1971 ready before later UT Tuesday) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1970: confirmed Monday Feb 25 at 2345 the 2330 on WRMI 9955, fair but fading by 2355. NOT confirmed UT Tuesday Feb 26 at 0045 the 0030 on WRMI 7730, which is off the air (while 7570 and 7780 continue). JBA in noise level Tuesday Feb 26 at 2055 the 2030 on WRMI 7780. I`m about 24 hours behind in accumulating material so WOR 1971 not ready until early UT Wednesday February 27: WORLD OF RADIO 1971 contents: Australia and non, Benin, China, Cuba, Denmark, Equatorial Guinea, France/Germany non, Korea South, Nigeria and non, South Africa, South America, Spain, Switzerland, UK non, USA; and the propagation outlook 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 0000 UT Thursday WRMI 7730 to WNW [NEW] 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: March 2/16/30] 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 0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7730 to WNW [NEW] 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 1901 UT Monday IRRS/NEXUS-IBA/IPAR 7290 Romania [NEW] 2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE * also webcast; direct linx to these and many others at: Complete WOR sked, all affiliates, satellite, webcast, AM&FM, podcast: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ: Hi Glenn, Work on the world`s biggest, most powerful free speech station continues. Should be on air on or before July 1st of this year. Attached some photos you may find of interest. Hope you are well, (Allan & Angela Weiner, Feb 21, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The attached photos were posted on the WOR iog (gh) 3264.897V, Feb 22 at 0715, WBCQ is JBA with talk and music not // much stronger 9330+ TOMBS. Haven`t checked much for it lately, as never enough signal to be listenable, but apparently still running 24 hours. V = audibly wavering slightly, as opposed to lower case v meaning long-term variability (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) One editor changed my capital V after the frequency to l.c. v, thus making my point totally useless; contrary; confusing (gh, DXLD) 3264.9, WBCQ Monticello ME; 2314-2407+, 2/22-23; “Evening Concert” with segments for DeBussy [sic] piano music, chorales & semi-classical sextet music; ID at 0000+ & said in propagation test mode on antenna system #1; 0002:15 into religious? program with host who has lotsa problems. SIO=444 with chatter QRM from downfreq ute; also transmitter hum evident after 0000 +++ 0205-0215+, 2/23; Chit-chatty 2M with rock music; mentioned “Hillbillies on speed”, animalfriends.com & “The Planet”. SIO=3+33- with roar QRM. +++ 1206, 2/23; “Blue Sky Radio”, “98.1 WXNZ Skowhegan”. SIO=3+53 [that would be relaying the LPFM in TimTron`s Mainetown -- gh] +++ 2351, 2/23; “WXNZ 7-80, the best rock & roll mix”. S9 (Harold Frodge, Michigan Area Radio Enthusiasts DXpedition, Brighton MI, Drake R8B + 500’ unterminated bev, dogleg E-W/N-S, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 780 ID probably misheard WXME, which is the AM side of WBCQ (gh, DXLD) 7490.2, UT Sat Feb 23 at 0100, WBCQ starting `Allan Weiner Worldwide`; also I think on 3264.9 where I make out a trace of opening ``William Tell Overture`` theme; nothing at all audible on 9330. 7490+ is already fading out before AW finishes interjexions, so over to John Carver for his summary: ``Show started a few seconds early on 7490 which is coming in this evening. Prior to startup, signal was just shy of S9 but dropped to S5 when the theme song started. Timtron and Angela in the studio with Allan. Allan says they're broadcasting on 7490, 9330 and 3265. First phone call at 0105 from Mr. Transistor Norm. Allan says the snow is so deep, they had to hire professional snow removal. Has a crew coming tomorrow to shovel the roofs off as they are expecting a foot of snow by Monday. Says they have four feet of snow in the fields as Tom Barna walks into the studio. Some jokes about Tom stopping by to use the bathroom in the studio as it's the warmest room on the compound. Norm says he's receiving all three frequencies well in FLA with a portable receiver using the whip antenna. Some long, deep fades but so far no political talk. Then I hear Allan state that HAARP is no more and that after the superstation starts broadcasting, he predicts that the conspiracy theories will start up again and the new antenna will be accused of causing all sorts of things. Even speculated that North Korea would complain to Trump about being bombarded by something harmful from WBCQ. Says that 9330 will be the primary frequency but they also plan on testing another but a deep fade made it impossible to hear the number. [did anyone get it?? gh] When the signal comes back up, Tim is talking to Norm about the antennas he uses for working the hambands from his home QTH. Then the signal fades down and disappears at 0134. Can find no signal on 9330 and move to 3265. Signal is jumping between S3 and S5 with some light fades. Allan is talking radio with Norm but they're talking about MW. By 0141 the noise has come up making it difficult to copy the program. I miss the days when the program was also heard on 5130. Now Tim and Norm are talking again but difficult to copy. Another phone call at 0150 but I can't tell what they're talking about. Hard to believe that WBCQ has become such a difficult DX catch. Lost the signal at 0157. Tuned to 5130 and the Militia program was coming in like gangbusters. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7490, WBCQ at 2156 with IS and ID loop to a man with ID, singing ID, and a plea for funding at 2159 and into “Marion's Attic” eclectic and really old music program (featuring recordings on 78s and wax cylinders) at 2200 hosted by Marion Webster and Christina – Very Good Feb 24 – Between this show and “Behavior Night” are there any better eclectic and old music programs on shortwave radio these days? Are there any finer programs available on satellite radio or via the internet? I think not! And both of these fine programs are on WBCQ! (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4, Kenwood TS440S, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI: ** U S A. USofA: 5850, WRMI ’cold-start’ of yet another repeat of the November “Broad Spectrum Radio” broadcast of the new ‘objector church’ show, and then at ToH into SW Radiogram #87 with the usual mix of digital text and photos including items about: Russia ‘testing’ ‘cyber-security’ by disconnecting from the world-wide Internet, a reminder of the Winter SWL fest in Olivia 64-2000; and MFSK64 stories about the Opportunity mission on Mars ending, and the Mars MAVEN orbiter around Mars both with photos: [illustrated in the WOR iog] and several different ‘images of the week’ including fun cars: At 0830 an ad for Tecsun Australia, an ID voiced by Ian McFarland, and into GH’s WoR #1969 with the usual mix of radio news, this time including items about: cutbacks from KNLS for Chinese and Russian and MWV Madagascar including English on 15510; and a discussion of CGTN (see satellite log below). Also did a run-down of the problems with Cuban SW broadcasts, and the WRTH mid-season update among MANY other items. At ToH into a Bob Zanotti ID which as usual was cut short with a plugpull. 4+54+4+4+ with band noise making it through during fades, but only slightly. *0741-0900* 17/Feb SDRplay +SDRuno +FLDigi for digi-bits +randomwire (Ken Zichi Port Hope MI2, WOR iog via DXLD) WRMI 7780: From my recording last Sunday evening, 17-18 February UT (no report from previous week due to failed experiment using USB; frequency drifted 2 kHz in the cold resulting in severe distortion!): 2015 Viva Miami (in English and Spanish, acknowledging listeners' reports, including one of mine) 2030 Reserve Military Retirement 2100 Wavescan (#521) 2130 World of Radio (#1969) 2200 VOA News with Christopher Cruise 2205 Oldies 2300 Full Gospel Broadcast (he shouts so loudly that the apparently taped program has bled through from one piece of tape to the overlying one on the reel giving a "pre-echo") 2330 Shortwave Radiogram (#87) 0000 Radio Slovakia International in Slovak 0030 Radio Slovakia International in English 0100 Wavescan (#521) 0130 Through the Cross Ministry with Pastor Chuck 0200 Radio Prague in English (recording curtailed by battery running out of juice in the cold weather) (-- Richard Langley, NB, WOR iog via DXLD) 7730, UT Sat Feb 23 at 0404, this VG WRMI is playing World Music fill, including several of our favorites for the rest of the hour such as at 0443, ``Sandunga`` on marimba and orchestra. 0459 Zanotti ID cut off incomplete at 0500*. Too bad that much of WRMI automation is out of alignment now. Programming for this frequency-hour is unaccounted for on the WRMI skedgrids, except for VORW on Fridays; what of the other five days? More World Music? 9395, Sat Feb 23 at 0501, S9+20 of dead air from WRMI, eventually JIP that airline commercial. Maybe it was switchover time from/to Oldies. 7570, Feb 23 at 1255, Supreme Master TV via WRMI now playing ``Für Elise``, yay, classical music on SW, but on piano I can notice the recording wowing. 1300 switch to other music including birdchirps. Ending ``part 2`` of something in English; and multilingual announcements; 1308 lengthy listing of worldwide platforms including WRMI frequencies 15770, 4980 and 7570 only, enumerating the exact number of countries each reaches on each continent! I had no idea SW was such a precise medium! Also refers to website for language schedule: http://suprememastertv.com/schedule ``/`` always uttered as ``forward-slash``, even tho the forward part is totally unnecessary [and I use ``slant``, much less threatening], as if one were to type a backward-slash in such a position, it would still work! As I just proved going to site http://suprememastertv.com\schedule which autodefaults to English: http://suprememastertv.com/en1/index.php with linx to specific dates --- but nothing resembling a language sked grid, just info about a few specific programs with no times shown! Enough time wasted on this. 4980, Feb 24 at 0129, Spanish as WRMI on long past normal 2400*, seems religious but not hearing enough to decide if SMTV segment; and off the air at 0132 recheck. Meanwhile 5010 WRMI was already off. 9395, Feb 24 at 0129, S9 of WRMI dead air, 0130 Bob Biermann plugs his `YWS` without any specific times or frequencies (too many?), 0131 into Oldies instead of defunct IBC Radio as still on skedgrid. 7780, Feb 24 at 0131, this WRMI is playing Mideast music, so World Music fill? Certainly not `Worship in your Home` as still on skedgrid. While checking the above at 1642 Feb 24, the WRMI skedgrid has Jeff White logged in as well as three anonymous creatures: Loris, Unicorn, and Dumbo Octopus. 9955, Mon Feb 25 at 1421 as I tune in WRMI, during AWR `Wavescan` Jeff White is making a brief update to his report two weeks ago from HFCC Tunis that Sentech might be closing down its Meyerton SOUTH AFRICA, SW transmitter site at Marchend --- now it`s confirmed! As of March 31, end of B-18 season. Says BBCWS relays will be moved to MGLOB MADAGASCAR; Channel Africa might continue on internet only. [see also SOUTH AFRICA] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) New Weekly Music Show Thurs 0100-0200 on 5850 --- Hello Glenn, I wanted to let you know about the new weekly music show I've started. It is called "This Is A Music Show," and will air each week on Thursdays 0100-0200 UT. The first broadcast went out last night via WRMI on 5850 kHz. I must apologize right away as I believe it conflicts with one of your broadcasts, also on WRMI? Luckily, us listeners have a few different times to catch your show. :) I've posted a recording of last night's show on soundcloud. It's actually two recordings, (one with an SDR + loop antenna, the other a Sony portable + dipole), with a bit of panning for an interesting new twist on AM Stereo. Reception at my QTH in Toronto was quite good last night: https://soundcloud.com/thisisamusicshow/this-is-a-music-show-001-offair-2019-02-20 I hope you'll check it out if you have a moment. Best regards, (Your Host, 0315 UT Fri Feb 22, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As of 0414 UT Feb 26, WRMI sked grid still had a blank space on System F, red, 0100-0200 UT Thu (and Wed and Sat) on 5850 (gh) Some pretty good music in there and the WRMI modulation levels and audio-quality are excellent! Long ago, I discovered at age 13 or 14 years old (in the mid-70s) the really neat-sounding effects of SW diversity-reception ("stereo') using two SW radios - my friend and I were walking around our neighborhood in San Rafael, California with our portable SW radios tuned to a pop-music show via the BBC - maybe the Antigua site - the radios were two Realistic DX-66s, and when we separated by the length of a typical house driveway, I noticed that the fading was very different between the two receivers, just like in "The Host's" recording! Reception shifts back and forth between the two receivers. I do this frequently even now - in my radio room here, I'll tune my Drake SSR-1 and my Kenwood R-1000 to the same station - both employing different antennas of curse, and can enjoy this very same effect! A few days ago, I made an audio patch-box that has two mono- 3.5mm jacks and one stereo 3.5 mm jacks on it, wired so the two mono jacks are combined stereo in the stereo jack (that connects to my Zoom H2 recorder). With three patch cords and two nearly identical radios (a Sangean ATS-818C and a RadioShack DX-390), I've been orienting them orthogonally apart (i.e. 90 degrees apart in their loopstick orientation), and two nights ago I made a long recording of the 1230 graveyarder mixture as heard here in Keeler (Mojave Desert). If I listen via my Zoom H2's headphones, it is AMAZING how easily I can "aurally separate" some individual stations. Thanks for this tip and recording! (Steve McGreevy - N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com Feb 26, WOR iog via DXLD) OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHER: ** U S A. 13685-13690-13695, Wed Feb 20 at 1430, no WINB DRM today, missing again. 13750-13755-13760, Feb 21 at 1421, WINB DRM on new frequency, ex-13685-13695, why? Neither was on yesterday. Got to be WINB with distinctive hybrid of DRM noise on the top half, multiple non-DRM carriers on bottom half, which no one else seems to notice or explain. 13690 was close, but not too close to Cuba 13700. 13755 center looks like a clear choice, but may be too close to Cuban FM spurs when they surely resume. HFCC has nothing on 13755 but imaginary English from Jakarta at 0800-0900; but adjacent 13750 could bear something from MBR Nauen at 1330-1530, plus IBB Kuwait at 1630-1700 in Swahili; and on adjacent 13760, imaginary VOR Moskva in Russian at 1200-1500. 13755, Feb 22 at 1447, no DRM from WINB, only heard yesterday on this frequency, and not on previous 13690 either. Nor at 1636 recheck. What do they twit about this? ``winb? @SWWINB Feb 21 --- New WINB DRM Schedule - Effective Immediately - 07-09 UTC 7315 kHz, 09-12 9265 kHz, 12-17 13755 kHz #shortwave #drm #HFCC #B18`` NOT now, as I said, on 13755. That`s from Hans Johnson in FL, who is reluctant to sign his real name. Here`s some more news: ``winb?@SWWINB 4h4 hours ago [from 1612 UT Feb 22 --- why in the world don`t they just show the real time of the items???] New WINB DRM program - Unique Radio's @AussieTimG 1100-1200 UTC Wed, Thu, and Fri on 9265 kHz. Reception reports wanted. #drm #swling #shortwave #dx #swl`` We had not even heard about this from Tim Gaynor himself, who earlier had quit WINB completely. But this now on his own website: https://www.uniqueradio.biz/ ``HOT NEWS --- Unique Radio will be transmitting on 9265 kHz DRM 1100 - 1200 UTC via WINB, Wednesday's, Thursday's and Friday's (From February 27th 2019), aimed at 62 degrees to Eastern North America, Europe and possibly being able to be received on the North African Continent and very remotely, in parts of Australia. Reports to John Wright C/O ARDXC at the following email: dxer1234@gmail.com`` This twitfeed also includes some posts about other DRM stations: https://twitter.com/@SWWINB ``winb @SWWINB Feb 13 --- #vonigeria *1600 today 15120 kHz in Arabic! I don't think they have been on in Arabic via shortwave for a few years, certainly not on DRM. Via SDR in Switzerland``. And about China DRM. And even some non-DRM, non-WINB items such as Koode Radio International (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Just weekdays or every day? Setting up to record WINB on 9265 kHz this morning (23 February [Sat]) while I'm on campus, there was no signal yet, DRM or otherwise, noticeable at 1130 UT (-- Richard Langley, UNB, WOR iog via DXLD) 13750-13755-13760, Monday Feb 25 at 1419, WINB hybrid DRM is on again, now scheduled 12-17 UT M-F (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WINB surely knows that 15120 is the DRM frequency of Voice of Nigeria; yet 15120 is the tentative new A-19 frequency for WINB DRM in our mornings. Perhaps an experiment to ascertain what happen when two DRMs collide head-on? Has this ever happened before even by accident? Would it be a total mess, no decode, or could there be a mixed decode of sound or video? Or like FM would one or the other ``capture`` the frequency? Axually FM capture is not a total either-or situation at near-equal levels audiblize both (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15555/USB, WJHR Milton FL (presumed); 1907-1912+, 2/19; Religihuxter Terry Blalock(presumed); close but over 5 minutes without a huxtergasm. SIO=253- fady. Aoki continues to list this on 15550; EiBi has it right (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Therefore it is not Blalock, but the only huxter ever broadcast on WJHR, its namesake John Hill, for whom after all the station was established in memoriam. Aside from the `gasms, they all tend to sound alike (gh, DXLD) 15555-USB, Feb 20 at 1445, WJHR manages S8 signal of gospel huxter, best heard in a while (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, Feb 20 at 1507 & 1545, still no signal from KVOH, at midweek. (Nor any from 17780 BBC Ascension). 17775, Thu Feb 21 at 1530, 1616 & 1700 chex, still no signal from KVOH now off the air for a week, awaiting a replacement part. 17775, Friday Feb 22 at 1512, still no signal from KVOH; however at 1637 there is a JJBBA carrier, maybe KVOH if not an artifact; QRP or just not propagating? Only other signal on band is a JBA carrier on 17830, BBC Ascension. 17775, Sat Feb 23 at 2014, still no signal from KVOH, now sounding its second week of silence. Saturday-only English span should be 16-21 UT. Tnx to Ray, we know what happened, but nothing on website to explain it to all would-be listeners; everything looks fine: http://www.voiceofhope.com/station_americas.html 17775, Monday Feb 25 at 1515, still no signal from KVOH; OSOB is a JBA carrier on 17780 from BBC Ascension. Ditto both at 1734. 17775, Feb 26 at 1502, 1529, 1659, 1901, still no signal from KVOH, altho Ray Robinson of KVOH notified me at 2339 UT Feb 25, ``We're back! It was a lot more complex than it appeared originally, and multiple components had to be replaced. It also took a lot longer than we anticipated, but we're back. Testing now.`` I don`t know if he meant on the air yet at that unusual hour as I was not monitoring then (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5085, Friday February 22 at 1751, it`s another on-all-day from WTWW-3 rock music, only S4-S5 to here, not completely absorbed. But it was not on-all-night as of 1245 Feb 23 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5970, Feb 26 at 1456, open carrier of S9-S8 past 1500, apparently WEWN, despite daytime Spanish frequency 12050 already on too. Altho the schedule would imply a single transmitter switches between 5970 and 12050, Glen Tapley once explained to me that they axually use different transmitters for high and low bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 3215, WWRB Manchester TN (tentative); 2353-2401+, 2/23-24; The Word of Life religihuxter program; mentioned WWRB; hymn by sister Rebecca; continued past 0000. S20+; Not listed in Aoki; EiBi shows starting at 0000 on Sundays (Harold Frodge, Michigan Area Radio Enthusiasts DXpedition, Brighton MI, Drake R8B + 500’ unterminated bev, dogleg E-W/N-S, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. (former) KJES Vado, New Mexico and my comment about “Children Chanting” (referencing DXLD 19-07) It seems I am in the midst of a minor “freedom of speech” controversy regarding my silly-comment about the “children chanting” on the former KJES (at “The Lord’s Ranch” near Vado, New Mexico, USA). That comment provoked a reaction from the Reverend Bob Biermann of “The Weekend Show.” (I had to Google-search for the Reverend’s name and his show as I am unfamiliar with it entirely). To do the right proper thing, I do apologize to the Reverend for my possibly “snarky” comment about KJES and the children “chanting.” In doing so I guess I alluded that the events near Grants, NM of late were something similar and “cultish” to KJES, and was compared to the unusual type of programming that was on the former KJES. Vado and Grants, New Mexico are quite a ways apart, I know. Now, because of this controversy and to avoid further possible “reaction” from anyone, I guess I’ll just have to self-censor my comments to DXLD in favor of straight DX reporting, without making any potentially “snide” comments about programming, technical-faults, etc. I am certainly not interested in abusing my own “freedom of speech” whatsoever - I prefer being cordial and polite overall, being a global traveler and DXer. I think the Good Reverend would agree with me that we are certainly now, today, enmeshed in what I call “Babel 2.0” — a situation of ever increasing social-fragmentation where fewer and fewer folks are even on the same page anymore - common understanding has given way to common misunderstanding. I live in a tiny California desert town, and these days — due to a big drop in the social-climate here since January 2017 (go figure!) — I entirely keep to myself and DO NOT get involved in any of the town’s fractuous entities (fire/water) due to this syndrome. It could actually get dangerous to say the “wrong” thing in this teeny (minded) town! How oppressive… What a stew! When people start to beat upon each other for every little thing said, THAT can be almost as oppressive (a form of “tyranny of the people”) as would government sanctions put upon me for criticizing “the Government” - (as if the US government is some monolithic thing, anyway)= “Tyanny of the Government.” Both forms/extremes can be equally oppressive, and even deadly. Read Alvin Toffler’s book “Future Shock” and this will become a bit clearer, and although that book is a bit dated however, a lot of his points remain very relevant today. Thank you John Figliozzi for backing me up, and to Glenn for his comment that the programming on KJES did sound somewhat like a form of indoctrination of children - a bit cultish, maybe — or maybe not. I suppose many also believe that even Christianity is a “cult” (that Babel 2.0 again). I do not - I am not atheist and feel there are MANY paths to acquiring an understanding (or feeling of) a “higher power.” Alternatively, I also feel it is every person’s right to entirely abstain from all organized religion/faith, also. I am friends with many kinds of people - in the USA and abroad, and although I do not agree with all of their beliefs, I see a lot of common-ground, and I do understand they are individuals and have rights to be the way they are. I do not believe in “dittoheadism.” People should be able to think for themselves. And, being not very trusting of most US federal Government agencies these days (I am rural dweller in an area surrounded by US Governmental agencies, but I am OK with some Federal entities too), I am very much against Government censorship or control, any place, any time. This is where PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY and COURTESY must then rule. I will also say this: I grew-up a Catholic but am non-practicing today. I was forced against my will to go through “confirmation“ at age 17, but a naive minor is in little power to go against parental edicts without big trouble and consequences. One of my most beloved uncles now passed away - a life-long (Catholic) Dominican priest in the O.P. order, told me he felt a person should wait until adulthood - maybe even age 30, before a decision should be made regarding to remain or leave the Catholic Faith (or any other faith/religion). I am all-right about Christianity, but I will complain here that way too many “Christians” (like the Pharisees?) literally PUSH their faith upon others in a domineering fashion, and I think this IS excess! As such and knowing this, I always thought (but I guess I am mistaken), that the KJES kids dutifully saying their Psalms and Prayers sounded (just a bit) cultish and sounded like a bit of a kind of indoctrination, as Glenn pointed out. But then again, I understand parents wish the best for their kids and want to “bring them up” as they see fit… this can either be horribly controlling (as I experienced) or very uplifting and enlightening (as I also experienced). A duality… In closing, thank you Reverend Biermann, for your comments in defense of KJES and regarding the defense of our freedoms of speech. As such, I now will place a limit to my own freedom of speech and I shall refrain from making any (even “silly”) comment about religious faith(s), etc., here in DXLD and WOR. Nice going… (Stephen P. McGreevy -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A. I am in the process of arranging DX tests for 3 AM stations in Montana, hopefully at the end of March :) I'll share more details soon (Paul Walker, Laramie, Feb 21, nrc-am gg via DXLD) ** U S A. 620, Feb 23 at 0506 UT, unusually something in Spanish: certainly not kaput XEBU Chihuahua2, so XENK in EdoMex or something more exotic? Not a single US or Canadian 620 is listed in the NRC AM Log as SS, altho a few are ETHnic. Immediately hear an ID as ``Radio Oasis``, repeating phone number 469-397-0620, and plugging some event domingo a las 11 de la mañana, ``véngase`` to an address on Harry Hines Blvd. (!) That means this is Dallas, where HH is a major artery I have traversed, and ergo this is KEXB, until now known only as ``Experts in Business`` in English (ex-KWFT, 620 hijacked from Wichita Falls). Also has a het from 621, no doubt CANARY ISLANDS. KEXB websked confirms the program 7 days a week at 11 pm-5 am CT is indeed Radio Oasis, but no further info about it; unsure if it`s religious. = 05-11 UT now, 04-10 UT once DST be imposed. That means KEXB is now exactly 25% Spanish (unless there be even more I haven`t noticed), so worthy of an SS designation among its formats; U4 5/4.5 kW. Re 620, my log of KEXB, The Metroplex now in Spanish 05-11 UT, Wayne Heinen, Editor of NRC AM Radio Log replies Feb 24 on the nrc-am gg: ``Checking my overnight recording about one session a week, I find the first instance of Radio Oasis the morning of January 23 with solid KEXB ID's at TOH. Still finishing up the morning of December 29 and KEXB was still running programs from BizTalk.com overnight`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 660, Feb 19 at 1428 UT, plugs for `Adventures in Odyssey` program, access 660-KCRO via Alexa, ``Omaha`s Christian Talk``, temp minus 2. 1 kW on E-W longwire from the north, but dominant instead of KSKY 20 kW from the south. At this break anyway, did not hear any reference to FM translator or the slogan tied to that, as in NRC AM Log, ``660-AM 106.5 The Word``. Must still be arriving by skywave, as on full daytime groundwave, KCRO is barely audible under KSKY. 660, KCRO Omaha: Paul Walker explains why I did not hear them mentioning 106.5 translator: ``They are moving the fm translator on 106.5 for KCRO to 106.7 in Lincoln as K294DJ where it’ll still rebroadcast KCRO`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re KCRN 1120 Limon CO: The Catholic Radio Network staff has told me KCRN is currently running 12,500 watts and hope to go to full power of 50 kW on Monday (Paul Walker, WY, Sat Feb 16, HCDX via DXLD) KCRN is coming in even louder today in Castle Rock, CO, they may have hit the 50 kW level that Paul mentioned (Steve Hinman, 2309? UT Feb 18, ibid.) 1120, Feb 20 at 0027 UT, I`m seeking the new 50 kW daytimer in Limon CO, KCRN, ex-KLIM, which Paul Walker in Laramie reported finally activating CP a few days ago at quarter-power for starters. Official FCC sunset for Feb is 0030 UT, so this should be my best chance for it, after the 10 kW Okie KETU is off; and it`s close to a right angle from KMOX for easy nulling. However, KCRN pattern is broad to the west, null to the east; and there is another 1120 normally audible here around SR/SS, KTXW Manor TX (Austin). In fact that`s what I mainly hear with KMOX nulled, ``Austin`s Christian talk, The Bridge`` --- alluding to the one that`s batty?? By 0029 underneath I hear a song, maybe hymn, so quickly compare on same DX-398 to 1060 where there is KRCN Longmont (Denver), 50 kW daytimer, another Catholic station, but will they really be simulcasting? Could be // in brief bit. And nothing more from it after 0030. KCRN is also designed to reach Denver past sparsely-populated eastern CO plains. I will have an even worse chance at KCRN sunrise *1345 vs KETU, KMOX et al. In March, KRCN span will be 1315-0100 UT (which of course must stay the same UT after DST start already March 10). KRCN & KCRN are in fact sibling stations, as the related calls imply, both licensed to Catholic Radio Network --- so why do they need two 50 kW Denver-market stations?? 1120, Feb 21 at 0008 UT, I`m trying again for definite reception of KCRN, Limon CO now with 50 kW day power. On the DX-398, KMOX is nulled and hearing English religious talk, but that could be Austin. Simulmonitoring on R-75 with E-W longwire on 1060, I get // audio just a reverb apart, i.e. KRCN Longmont CO, the sibling Catholic Radio Network station. KRCN is also 50 kW day power but unlike KCRN may continue at night with 111 or 105 watts, but none of that matters since it also has a puny 92.1 FM translator. Paul Walker says 1120 also has a new 102.3 translator in Black Forest, which is near Colorado Springs. 1120 should be putting equally bigsig into Denver and CS, less so Pueblo further south. Not enough 11520 signal to // WEWN. At 0013, 1120 fades in better when I can tell it`s a Catholic Radio fundraiser, phone 888-447-2425 --- so KCRN for sure, way out of their broad major lobe westward, here to the SE. Re 1120, my log of KCRN, Wayne Heinen, Editor, NRC AM Radio Log replies Feb 24 on the nrc-am gg: ``As to Limon on 1120, only calls heard so far are old canned KLIM even though the CDBS lists them as KCRN now… 73`` Paul Walker, Laramie, WY also replies, as I had found 1120 // 1060: ``Just an FYI guys, Catholic Radio Network has been told 1120 is IDing improperly. It became KCRN in 12/2018 and still IDs as KLIM. They had some kind of failure Saturday [Feb 23], leaving them with a dead carrier, then completely off for awhile. When they came back, they had a network-wide conga-line-style ID. Normally, KLIM/KCRN IDs by itself and its programming is usually separate from 1060 KRCN. That 1060 usually runs the same feed as KEXS 1090 Kansas City and 1120 runs something else, but when 1120 came back on, it was running the same feed at KRCN 1060, at least temporarily`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1130, Feb 25 at 1926 UT, rock music means KLEY Wellington KS, 250 watts at daytime, is back on the air after missing for weeks if not months. Yes, 1932 local weather, and ``From the Wheat Capital of the World, The Wave 100.3 and 1130``. OK signal, no breaking up. Didn`t get it checked whether still on air next day. As for slogan, Enid might dispute that, but how do you rate a Wheat Capital? Total grain elevator storage capacity, and whether full every harvest season? It seems that Enid has the third-largest capacity in the world; I bet Wellington can`t beat that, but it has made the most of the WC designation. Its county, Sumner, previously got official Kansas state designation as W.C., and it was just another step up for Wellington to the World? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. This from Greg Buchwald via FB: Traveling to WION, Ionia, MI tomorrow to do a bunch of PM [preventive maintenance??]. After midnight EST (early Sunday morning [0500 UT]), we will be doing testing at full power [4.7 kW], omni. Work includes IPM* reduction and sweeping each tower so that I can complete the design and construction of a non-resonant power divider. The current resonant tank circuit divider exhibits 4dB of sideband tilt that I currently correct using the cquam exciter. That is, of course, not ideal and we'll be broadbanding that array. WION 1430 kHz. We will complete the work with a few highly separated musical selections. DX reports appreciated! (via Todd Skaine, MN, Feb 22, IRCA at HCDX via DXLD) *Top hit on the meaning of IPM leads to Integrated Pest Management; somehow, I doubt that`s it. More likely: Intelligent Power Monitoring (gh, DXLD) 1430, Feb 24 at 0500 UT, short-notice but widely-publicized DX test prompted by engineering work at WION, Ionia MI is supposed to start now but nothing noted in first biminute, just huge pileup of roughly equal signals, nothing readable; length of test unknown, but I decide to recheck later: At 0558 UT now I hear a 1 kHz tone; or could it be a JBA TA carrier? Rather too late for Djibouti, Ukraine is inactive; leaving only some very/low powers in UK, Greece and Italy. I don`t have a chance to detect whether it`s on 1431 only as in DX, or 1431 & 1429 as in modulation from a domestic. I keep listening intently for almost the next hour on the DX-398 aimed NE/SW, whence the tone peaks as if from WION. At 0600 there is a pause and then a lower-pitched tone, one half kHz, or 440? 0605 another tone audible, and 0608 peak stronger, stops about 0613. If there had been a Morse code ID during this span, probably could have copied it. Todd Skaine says WION runs a Morse code ID at hourtop even during normal programming. Otherwise: occasionally rising slightly above the din is TexMexmx, or maybe a real Mexican like at 0627. At 0634, ad for Schlotzky`s (?) restaurant in Belleville, i.e. KZQZ St Louis as in following jingle --- that`s the station I mainly expected to hear in the way of WION, altho KZQZ night pattern is unfavorable thisaway. No more tones heard until 0650. But what I heard earlier correlates with other DX monitors (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ken Zichi, Williamston MI, replies on the WOR iog to my report: WION modulation adjustment / test --- It sounds to me like you got it, Glenn. Your description matches what I heard, and what was verified by Jim Carlisle (The owner / GM / head honcho at WION) in some private text messages between us during the test. The audio tones didn't start until almost 0550 UT, and even here in MI the channel was a huge jumblemush of signals. During the test there was no 'regular programming' or code ID, and the 'normal' code ID is for the FM translator not WION itself (They should be amending that soon as they are about to add a second FM translator shortly). They ALSO ran some tones in LSB and then USB (with a carrier and the stereo pilot on, and off) so you might have gotten 'fooled' into thinking it was a DX carrier since it would have only appeared on one side of the carrier if you were looking! I'm working on Jim to get him to do a 'real' DX test one of these days, with code and actual 'sweep tones' (there weren't any during this despite the advance publicity implying there would be) and maybe some other easily identifiable 'elements'. If I'm successful, I'll try to give more notice to the DX community. I think he was impressed at the interest this generated if I read between the lines correctly. That might bode well! 73 //Ken`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) HI GLENN - I had 1430 dialed in with a loop aimed in that direction and heard pretty much everything you did. I note that I did, however, hear a series of what sounded like modulated tones as two dots (like the morse letter "I") from 2258-2259 local (0558-0559 Zulu/UT). At this time, I have no idea if what I heard was related to the DX test or not. Regards from the southwest -rb (Rick Barton, ABDX yg via DXLD) 1430 WION Ionia MI DX test 2-24-19 --- Several long test tones alternating with presumed open carrier 0035-0113 EST [0535-0613 UT], fair to occasionally good levels. As 0130 neared, much stronger with Elton John's "I'm Still Standing", then promo: "Hearing AM Stereo 1430 at a local business today? *Thank* the business! Then let *us* know, so that we can thank 'em too. On almost any device, almost anywhere, we're WION." Into unfamiliar rocker, still strong. Been chasing this for 48 years (Steve Francis, Alcoa, Tennessee, Realistic TRF, Select-a-tenna, nrc-am gg via DXLD) WION test --- Was heard very well at times from 11:35 to 12:15 [CST = 0535-0615 UT] with old style frequency check tone! Nostalgic! Bonus station, KLO [Utah]! First 3 letter call since hearing KQV 12/17 (Todd Skaine, MN, 2010 Modified, MDXC yg via DXLD) My apologies for the delay of this email. Very busy day. Greg said this email address will be best: office@1430.com (Todd Skaine, ICOM 7300 wth a Superloop, 2 Modified 2010s barefoot, Toyota car radio, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I Emailed the station re verification, here is the reply: "We'd be happy to verify reports via office@i1430.com, please put "TEST OF SIGNAL" in the subject line, and allow a little time for us to personally write back. We're a small staff, but have a big sound and what we believe is great programming. Please make sure to invite DXers to enjoy us in REAL AM STEREO online via our apps (WION Radio) or our website http://www.i1430.com or with an amazon or google smart speaker. We feed the web with a REAL AM STEREO tuner (Carver) and we're known for great AM sound. We periodically have our AM stereo expert engineer come to tune up our processors and our transmitter, which was the purpose of this "test" but it seemed to lend some joy to those who enjoy distant listening, and we thank them for trying to tune-in. Thank you so much. Jim Carlyle, Owner, Morning Host, Manager, WION-AM Stero 1430, Ionia, MI bcc: Greg B., WION Engineer." (via Phil Bytheway, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Recorded 1430 kHz from 2345 EST Saturday until 0115 EST Sunday. Dominant station before 0000 [0500 UT Sunday Feb 24] was CHKT Toronto with Asian programming. After midnight WENE Endicott, NY dominant with Fox Sports Radio and slogan, "Fox Sports Radio 1430, Binghamton." Someone with light instrumental music also noted - either CHKT or WNSW-NJ. WION heard with 1 kHz test tones off and on 0035 - 0052 EST occasionally topping WENE. Thanks to Todd Skaine for this last minute surprise (Marc DeLorenzo, South Dennis, Cape Cod, MA. JRC NRD-525 & Delta in the trees, nrc-am gg via DXLD) [WION 1430 test:] Starting 0034 [EST Feb 24 = 0534 UT] heard various test tones through about 0112 then mostly indistinguishable from the QRM (CHKT, WENE, WKOX) until 0127 when bits and pieces of Elton John's "I'm Still Standing" and part of the canned promo/ID, happily, including the calls. Received using SDRPlay RSP1a SDR and untuned 2' air core loop. This is the first new logging this season and the first new AM log here with the SDR, with which it was easy to see as the test tones were changed (Russ Edmunds WB2BJH, Blue Bell, PA, Grid FN20id, nrc-am gg via DXLD) ** U S A. 1480, Feb 20 at 2218 UT on caradio, already hearing Vietnamese from presumed KBXD Dallas QRMing closer KQAM Wichita English talker. At 2229-2230+ Vietnamese talk now on DX-398, same slow SAH between them as before; 2255 during Viet mentions ``Cámara de Diputados``, i.e. Spanish name about the Mexican House of Reps!; 2257 break for legal English ID as ``KBXD, 1480-AM, Dallas`` and back to VV. Tim Hendel in AL had been trying to confirm via webcast, KBXD in Vietnamese instead of ngu?i Tây Ban Nha (español), but was hearing Banda Trece programming. I too found a webcast attributed to KBXD but with Banda Trece, so not really what was on the 1480 air! Tim agrees this was probably the case. Meanwhile, I was wondering if the Viet I had been hearing could have been from KLVL Houston market, which has had Vietnamese in past, mainly Spanish now? But the bigsig vs KQAM has been typical of KBXD, whatever the programming language. 2359 recheck, Vietnamese still audible in mix on 1480. Feb official SR/SS times are 1315/0015 UT; March: 1245/0030. At night KBXD must cut from 50 to 1.9 kW on a similar pattern with major lobe to NW, but a notch NNW toward us. We are still wondering if KBXD now be 100% Vietnamese, or what? Someones in The Metroplex could easily check this out. 1460, 1480, 1600, Feb 23 at 1330 UT, confirming these three Metroplex stations are all in different Vietnamese, i.e. KCLE (weakest), KBXD, KRVA. How big an audience is there there? Google search turns up 85,000 in Dallas-Fort Worth, fourth place metro after LA, San José and Houston. Not clear how many be first-generation with primary language Vietnamese. At 1332, 1600 is playing a choral anthem: I bet it`s RVN, defunct. Re my previous reports of Vietnamese from KBXD, Stephen Luce, Houston replied Feb 22: ``Glenn, regarding Vietnamese on 1480: KLVL in the Houston market is currently running a Spanish language religious format, mostly music, so not them. This "brokered time" station has had several different programmers with short-lived formats recently. KBXD in DFW can really get out during critical hours; it often severely bothers KLVL at my NW Harris County QTH.`` 1480, Feb 25 at 1348 UT, I`m rechecking for Vietnamese from KBXD, but never hear any; in fact, suspect KBXD Dallas is off. KQAM The Big Talker, Wichita is dominant so anything else is fighting it when nulled as much as possible. First I`m getting a gospel huxter in English (San Antonio or Memphis?); at 1400 while KQAM is in local news, something else in Spanish, same station switched or different? Mention AC 713, so that`s Houston, and 1402 Radio Vida slogan, which is not listed for KLVL Pasadena. Now there is a SAH of 2 Hz, rather than 0.75 Hz I measured Feb 15 between KQAM and KBXD. But this could still be KBXD varying slightly in frequency and varying greatly in programmation. There is a Radio Vida in Dallas, but website has no info on a frequency or callsign! http://radiovidadallas.com/ altho stereo praise music in Spanish autolaunches. And it seems the Radio Vida in Houston is on 1380. This is all very confusing. There are other 1480s in TN, KS, CO and TX which could be involved in this mixture; but at least the NM one is gone, whew. At 1407, KQAM starts ``hour 3 of Voice of Reason`` [sic] on this ``conservative talk`` station, which is also on FM, and live on KCTT- TV, I thought he said, but the closest call to that of a real TV station in Wichita is low-power KCTU. 1480, Feb 25 at 2322 UT, another check for Vietnamese on KBXD Dallas. Today it`s making a SAH of 96/minute or 1.6 Hz vs KQAM Wichita. YL is speaking, but the more I hear, the less certain am I that it be Vietnamese at this time; certainly a tonal SE Asian language, perhaps Khmer, which is sort of a mix between Viet and Thai/Lao as the geography would imply. Or maybe Viet with a peculiar accent; or a tribal dialect? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WZUM Pittsburgh --- Hi Glen[n], I see that the group does, at times, show entries on the MW and FM band. Here is a listing for a grreat public supported Jazz format station located in the Pittsburgh PA area. It provides simultaneous transmission of the 'Pittsburgh Jazz Channel' through transmitters of: WZUM 1550 AM Pittsburgh 'Braddock' neighboorhood - 1 kW Day, 4 W Night WZUM 101.1 MHz FM-Low Powered Translator located in Pittsburgh's 'North Side' neighborhood. WZUM 88.1 MHz FM - (1.1 kW-due for upgrade to 10 kW) - Bethany, West Virginia. The stations are owned by Pittsburgh Public Media, and operated remotely. You can also hear them via internet stream. See this article in the Pgh Post Gazette for info. https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/tv-radio/2017/12/21/Pittsburgh-jazz-radio-WZUM-WDUQ-FM/stories/201712210121 For more information: http://www.wzum.org/ (C Gessner, W3ON, Feb 23, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A. 1650, FLORIDA, (HAR), unidentified site. 1539 February 18, 2019. A real humanoid female voiced "Attention drivers: the ramp to southbound I-275 and northbound I-75 is closed (followed by two or three words never copied)" for a total of about an eight seconds loop. Weak, in tight nulling of the western I-275 Tampa generic robo-male HAR loop. Those ramps closure should put it in Manatee County, which matches this 2018 report on the closure from the Bradenton Herald: https://www.bradenton.com/news/local/article215113885.html Presume it's either a portable HAR near the junction (suspected), or else one of these existing ones on 1650 kc/s: WQQY809 FDoT, Skyway Bridge South City: Terra Ceia, FL County: MANATEE Coordinates: 27° 35' 0.0" N, 82° 36' 0.0" W. Or less likely WQQY908 FDoT, I-275 @ Highway 41 City: Palmetto, FL County: MANATEE Coordinates: 27° 35' 9.0" N, 82° 32' 26.0" W. [HISP] Florida Low Power Radio Stations: https://sites.google.com/site/floridadxn/florida-low-power-radio-stations (Terry Krueger, logs (appended with [HISP]) were made between 1525-1730 GMT (10:25 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time), February 18, 2019, at Hog Island a/k/a Honeymoon Island State Park, Dunedin, FL with an ICOM IC-R75 and active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1710, LOUISIANA (PIRATE), Radio Reten lo que Tienes, Baton Rouge. A non-log. I've been wondering if this one, reactivated though weaker since, might appear in this coastal and RF quiet location daytime. No trace of, not even a weak het. Nor any sign of the mystery Spanish Christian heard at time in darkness pointing NNE-NE from the Clearwater base. Oh well. [HISP] (Terry Krueger, logs (appended with [HISP]) were made between 1525-1730 GMT (10:25 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time), February 18, 2019, at Hog Island a/k/a Honeymoon Island State Park, Dunedin, FL with an ICOM IC-R75 and active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Rob Lorei fired at WMNF after 40 years --- Station says firing was an attempt to help move WMNF into “a new world” beyond just radio broadcasting. By William March Times Correspondent February 18, 2019 https://www.tampabay.com/breaking-news/rob-lorei-fired-at-wmnf-after-40-years-20190218/ TAMPA — Rob Lorei, an iconic figure in Hillsborough County politics and broadcasting, has been fired from his job as news and public affairs director at WMNF, the non-profit “community radio” station he helped found some 40 years ago. Lorei and the station announced the move Monday. Lorei, 64, said he intends to continue, at least for now, another local broadcast endeavor for which he’s well known, the “Florida This Week’’ political panel show he hosts on Tampa’s WEDU Public Broadcasting System television station. In a statement, WMNF general manager Craig Kopp said the station “has ended its long-running relationship” with Lorei. “We are deeply grateful to Rob for all he has done for WMNF. … We wish Rob well in all his future endeavors.” The statement said the station will continue its focus on “local issues and how national and international issues affect the Tampa Bay area,” and would undertake a national search for a news director. In an interview, Kopp said the firing was an attempt to help move WMNF into “a new world” in news media beyond just radio broadcasting. Lorei said in an interview he hopes to remain in Tampa. He said he doesn’t want to leave “the station I love,” and that the reasons Kopp gave for firing him were “not factual.” “I don’t contemplate any legal action,’’ he said. “What I hope is that the board and the listeners will recognize how much I put my heart and soul into making WMNF a success and I hope they don’t take this lightly.” Lorei said Kopp told him the station’s listening audience was low between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., when many public affairs shows air, that “I hadn’t been supervising the news and public affairs volunteers as he wanted, and that I didn’t post enough on Facebook.” Lorei is known for hosting interview and call-in shows on WMNF as well as interviews and panel discussions on Florida This Week, and for moderating political forums and debates. His political views are liberal, but he’s generally thought to provide platforms and serious consideration of views across the political spectrum. Kopp, formerly an anchor and reporter for WUSF radio station, said Monday was “absolutely the worst day I’ve had” in a 44-year career in news, mostly radio. “I would have preferred it not work out this way, and went to great lengths to have that happen,” he said. “But it’s a new world in media … We’re heading into an era where the radio station can become a multi-platform source of news … even if radio signals go away. We need to begin positioning ourselves for that.” Firing Lorei, he said, was “partly because of that and differences on how to achieve that.” Kopp said the board of the Nathan B. Stubblefield Foundation, established to own and operate WMNF, had been informed of the move, and he’s had no reaction from board members. Board Chairman David Harbeitner couldn’t immediately be reached for comment Monday. Lorei moved to Tampa in June 1978 and joined a group of people seeking to start WMNF. He and others raised money for a year, including going door to door for contributions, before getting the station on the air in 1979. The station gets about 70 percent of its budget from community contributions, plus some money from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and state grants, Kopp said. (via Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Feb 19, DXLD) -- [More:] https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/carlton-is-it-still-wmnf-without-rob-lorei-20190219/?template=amp (via Krueger, Feb 20, ibid.) ** U S A. PIRATE Act Passes Congress [i.e.. HOUSE] February 25, 2019 at 2:14 PM (PT) Be the first to comment! https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/184342/pirate-act-passes-congress House OKs PIRATE Act The revived PIRATE Act -- the Preventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement (PIRATE) Act (H.R. 583), amping up enforcement of anti-unlicensed operator laws and increasing fines to up to $100,000 per violation and $2 million maximum, passed Congress today by unanimous vote. The bill now awaits passage by the Senate. NAB Pres./CEO GORDON SMITH said, “NAB applauds the House of Representatives for unanimous passage of the PIRATE Act, which strengthens the FCC’s ability to combat illegal pirate radio operations. Unlawful pirate radio stations not only interfere with licensed radio broadcasts, but also jeopardize air traffic control communications and threaten public safety. We commend Reps. (PAUL) TONKO (D-NY) and (GUS) BILIRAKIS (R-FL) for their leadership on this issue and urge swift passage of the PIRATE Act by the Senate.” (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) [more:] https://radioink.com/2019/02/25/house-passes-pirate-act-again/ (via Artie, ibid) REC is the broadcast consulting venture of Michelle Bradley. She analyzes this legislation. https://recnet.com/node/2723 REC Statement on PIRATE Act: HR-583 Submitted by admin on Mon, 02/25/2019 - 13:52 Overall, REC does support most of the text contained within the PIRATE Act. Improperly operated broadcast transmitters can cause interference to public safety and safety of life communications especially in the aeronautical mobile and aeronautical radionavigation services and higher powered transmitters can pose a public health hazard. REC does not support the language prohibiting preemption of state or local laws in regards to pirate broadcasting as proposed in pagragraph (e). We feel that regulations regarding the use of radio spectrum apparatus within the jurisdictional limits of the United States is considered interstate commerce and within the domain of the Federal Communications Commission. As state and local agencies do not issue broadcasting licenses and may have different standards as to what constitutes "pirate broadcasting", it does create a conflict between state's rights and what is in the federal domain. In paragraph (h), REC had previously called notice to the frequency band used to define FM as 88~108 MHz. This has been updated to 87.7 to 108 MHz. REC does call attention to the AM spectrum that has been codified. REC recommends that this band be amended to encompass 525~1715 kHz, especially in light of increased higher-powered pirate radio activity recently observed on 1710 kHz in the eastern United States. Where this legislation falls short is that it does not address the bigger problem, the flow of uncertified transmitting devices that, without modification can exceed the tolerances allowed for short range devices in accordance with 47 CFR §15 of the Commission's Rules. Sales of illegal equipment are currently being facilitated through the "marketplaces" of major aggregators such as Amazon.com, Ebay and Walmart directly from the companies in China and other places where these transmitters are manufactured. The FCC needs to be more empowered to stand up to Amazon, Ebay, Walmart and others to address the sales of this illegal equipment. Also, Congress and the Commission need to look at other opportunities that can be achieved to make more spectrum available for small organizations and rural communities, especially towards community of color, religious and sexual minorities. This can be achieved through several methods including: redefining second and third adjacent channel NCE protections in cases where rural communities are being denied new localized opportunities as a result of domination of the reserved band spectrum by full-service stations that serve at least 50% of an urbanized area. the reallocation of the spectrum between 76~88 MHz from television (Channels 5 and 6) to low and medium-powered broadcasting through the immediate occupation of spectrum where it is not used by a television user and the eventual refarming of remaining Channel 5 and 6 stations through the encouragement of channel sharing and the discouragement of additional spectrum for ATSC3 to clear this spectrum to make 60 additional channels for FM radio. In the expanded spectrum, create a small New Zealand-like license free subband to allow micro-powered license free certified FM transmitters with specific operating rules. To embrace Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) and consider the domestic use of the 11 meter shortwave broadcast band (25.6~26.1 MHz) for the use of lower powered DRM transmitters that can be implemented in all urban areas across the country with minimal interference to incumbents. This band has potential, especially to reach ethnic minority groups in a manner similar to the "narrowcasting" service in Australia. In short, the PIRATE Act penalizes the small "users", does nothing to address the big "dealers" and does not address the overall issue, the lack of localism in radio and the lack of remaining spectrum for those who wish to bring localism back to the dial. REC Networks February 25, 2019 (via DXLD) ** U S A. Do I have to report that again? 1 Files 129KB MP3 2019-02-20 1621.mp3 129KB Save If you're a radio geek, the answer to the question in the title is: Yes! But sometimes you need to 'be in the right place at the right time' to make the log 'interesting'. For example WXK81 is my 'local' NOAA weather station, and nothing I'd 'normally' bother to report, but ..... : 162.400 MHz, WXK81, MI, Onondaga, NOAA alert tone turning on the radio, and then dead air followed by the inaccurate statement: "This NOAA weather radio station is temporarily off the air. Please tune to an alternate weather radio broadcast or visit weather.gov for information' instead of the expected 'this is only a test' announcement for the weekly test of the EAS. The station most certainly WAS 'on the air' -- the problem was in their audio chain, apparently! :) Then normal weather info. I wasn't quick enough to get a recording the first time, but the alert sounded again and the 'error' announcement started up again and I got the attached during the 'retry'! Into a Winter weather advisory announcement. ID at 1625 and a t/c, and back to normal weather forecast. So was this an attempt to activate the alert for the Winter advisory that failed, a regular weekly test that got confused because there is a Winter advisory or something else entirely? I'm going to guess 'something else' because of the successful test later! I happened to be working from home, or else I would have missed this! Re-did the test at 1634 and this time the alert and regular announcement aired properly. 1615-1625 and again 1634-1636 20/Feb Uniden BC248clt with whip antenna that lives in the 'man-cave' and is set to alert us if there is a weather emergency (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, WOR iog via DXLD) ** UZBERKISTAN. Radio Menschen&Geschichten via Shortwaveservice on Feb.24: 1800-1900 on 5830 TAC 100 kW / 301 deg to CeEu German last Sun, good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/radio-menschen-via-shortwaveservice-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See mainly GERMANY [non] ** UZBEKISTAN [non]. Frequency change of IBB Radio Liberty RL via Biblis, Feb.23 1600-1700 NF 9940 BIB 100 kW / 075 deg CeAs Uzbek, ex 9490, very good Parallel freq 9490 UDO 250 kW / 304 deg CeAs Uzbek, fair to good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/frequency-change-of-ibb-radio-liberty.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.23-24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [non?]. Re: ``15635, Feb 4 at 1456, here`s something new: speaker in Arabic`` which turned out to be special broadcast by Vatican Radio concerning pope`s UAE visit, as scheduled this day only per publicity but not providing transmitter site: I concluded it was likely Madagascar rather than SMG since it was much stronger than known SMG transmission on 15550 for Sudan; yet Wolfgang Bueschel assumed? it was SMG for another special a few hours earlier on 15645: re SMG at 07.00 UT 11810 15645 kHz Hi Glenn, I did not even think about whether there sends SMG or MDG ... > ``reaching a different conclusion?`` SMTWTFS 05:46:00 S CVA ENGL 15645 AM SMG 20 MP4 SMTWTFS 05:46:22 S CVA ENGL 11810 AM SMG 20 MP4 SMTWTFS 06:03:35 S CVA ENGL 15645 AM SMG 20 MP4 SMTWTFS 06:03:57 S CVA ENGL 11810 AM SMG 20 MP4 2019-02-19 07:01:23 capture: AM 17640 (DHA) BBC AFEE 2019-02-19 07:01:45 capture: AM 15420 (MEY) BBC AFEE 2019-02-19 07:02:07 capture: AM 15420 (MEY) CHA ENGL 2019-02-19 07:02:29 capture: AM 15645 (SMG) CVA ENGL ***** 2019-02-19 07:02:51 capture: AM 11810 (SMG) CVA ENGL 2019-02-19 07:03:13 capture: AM 1548 (KWT) SAW ARAB 2019-02-19 07:03:35 capture: AM 15235 (EMR) TRT HAUS SMTWTFS 14:02:51 S CVA ENGL 15635 AM SMG 20 MP4 SMTWTFS 14:03:13 S CVA ENGL 11835 AM SMG 20 MP4 SMTWTFS 15:01:00 S CVA ENGL 15635 AM SMG 20 MP4 ***** SMTWTFS 15:01:22 S CVA ENGL 11835 AM SMG 20 MP4 [apparent log readout of IBB monitoring system showing SMG for both] VATICAN STATE. Both outlets around 0700 UT on Febr 5th very strong in target remote SDR unit at Doha Qatar: 11810even, Vatican Radio via Santa Maria di Galeria site, S=9+35dB 10 kHz wide signal. At 0710 UT voice of Papa Francisco performing in Abu Dhabi in Italian language. At 0715 UT speech of someone padre in Arabic language. Same program \\ 15645even Vatican Radio via Santa Maria di Galeria site, S=9+35dB strength, at 0720 UT on Febr 5. Main audio block 10 kHz, but on speech peak strings up to 28 kHz wideband transmission visible on screen [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 5, DXLD) ** VENEZUELA [non]. Just received this from Jeff White, RMI at 1635 Feb 22; who has special interest in this, as Mrs. Thaïs White is from there, probably family still: ``Venezuela Aid Live concert --- WRMI’s web stream is carrying Richard Branson’s Venezuela Aid Live concert all day today February 22 until approximately 2200 UT. It can be heard on our website http://www.wrmi.net and on TuneIn (search for WRMI). -- Jeff White, General Manager WRMI Radio Miami International 10400 NW 240th Street Okeechobee, Florida 34972 USA Tel +1-305-559-9764 Fax +1-863-467-0185 www.wrmi.net`` Why not turn 9955 at least back on for this too? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As if in reply, Jeff follows up at 1703: ``We are also broadcasting the Venezuela Aid alive concert on 5950 kHz until 2000 UT`` 5950 is of course as always here in daytime a JBA carrier as at 1750 check. Meanwhile, higher daytime frequencies on azimuths across North America remain silent. However, at 1730, the WRMI stream is playing, silently: http://wrmi.listen.creek.fm/stream Jeff White replied at 1809: ``There have been some breaks in the audio we are getting from Colombia, but it’s OK right now.`` More about this: https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-venezuela-aid-live-unfurled-2019-htmlstory.html Richard Langley replied at 1754: ``Live with video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J55O252e72k -- Richard Langley`` I replied at 1855: ``Yes, but monitoring YT, instead all I see is a still photo of huge crowd, and precious little music since 1830, rather impassioned speeches, all in Spanish. Found this also on the Telemundo TV network, with full-motion video and audio. Backdrop and corner bug map of Venezuela includes Guyana, claim apparently also approved by the anti-Maduros. 1931 pause for commercials, to return? Glenn`` Yes. The ``Guyana es nuestro`` low-res outline map also shows 6 tiny islands off the coast. Oh oh, are they claiming the ABCs too? No, consulting an atlas there are six fully YV islands between ABCs and Trinidad, including a favorite ham DX-pedition target, Aves, where I guess there are also birds, at the western end, and the largest, Margarita at the eastern. As for Guyana, the Venez claim is thinner than the whole country now, evidently the western half bounded by the Essequibo River, and not including Georgetown (but what about Jonestown?). This appendage is reminiscent of another flaccid hanger the USA has on its southeast. {the map also shows Lake Maracaibo in the same color as the Caribbean --- but as totally land-locked, surely it is entirely Venezuelan territory, not international waters, or are they implicitly ceding ownership of all that oil?} Richard Langley, UNB, replies the next day Feb 23 at 1501: ``I had continuous live excellent video and audio for several hours on one computer connected to the university's network while doing work on another. Glenn, you could have been having computer/network issues. Pretty well the only English heard was when Richard Branson talked and a few words from some of the performers like Miami-resident Danny Ocean. Not all rock music. Some nice Latin American folk music, too. At one time, over 43,000 people were watching the YouTube feed. It is replaying this morning as I enter this. -- Richard Langley`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM [non]. 7315, UNITED STATES. Voice of Vietnam in English relay via WHRI, Cypress Creek SC. SIO 555, February 23, 2019, 0142–0150. OM announcers with audio tour of flower growing village north of Hanoi. Village grows forty flower varieties. News, Communist style, followed by pop music with mixed vocals. Clear signal, easy listening. (Vince Henley, Anacortes, WA, WiNRADiO G39DDCe SDR, ICOM IC-R8600, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R8B, SDRPLAY RSP Duo, TECSUN PL-880. Antennas: whip on PL-880 and Alpha-Delta DX-Ultra installed broadside east west at 30 feet for all others, NASWA Flashsheet Feb 24 via DXLD) Another instance of wrong language at wrong time instead of Spanish on the half-hours? Rather per Peter Hansen, now intentionally 0130 English ex-Spanish, as well as at 0000 & 0100 (gh, DXLD) ** VIETNAM [and non]. Vietnam Takes Aim at Radio Free Asia One of its writers is missing and another sits behind bars. 11 Comments By Libby Liu Feb. 19, 2019 6:45 p.m. ET https://www.wsj.com/articles/vietnam-takes-aim-at-radio-free-asia-11550619921?emailToken=398c4bd8386d89d53aff4a1dc2d8638f694V5hVLurLO+C/JJiwy52hZnHidnyodsHi+OGx3pCxJ0XhUIaMXaZwWPTN9q1OaNL44HTQrGMySagKYi6tGYGw0J8iWaiy8egXZ+d/Y+jQ%3D&reflink=article_email_share Radio Free Asia contributor and Vietnamese dissident Truong Duy Nhat during an interview in Washington, May 31, 2016. Photo: /Associated Press Vietnam is tightening controls on dissent and targeting journalists. When President Trump goes to Hanoi next week for a summit with his North Korean counterpart, he should raise with the host nation the fate of two Vietnamese journalists working for Radio Free Asia, the U.S. government-funded broadcaster I lead. Popular blogger Truong Duy Nhat has been missing for more than three weeks since he fled his home in Da Nang, Vietnam, for neighboring Thailand to seek asylum. We fear Mr. Nhat was abducted and taken back to Vietnam for imprisonment and interrogation. Mr. Nhat, 55, has been in the government’s crosshairs before. He was arrested in 2013 and served two years in prison for writings critical of ruling Communist Party leaders. After his release in 2015 he began contributing to Radio Free Asia, which broadcasts and publishes in nine languages to six Asian countries lacking press freedom. According to Vietnamese human-rights activists, Mr. Nhat became concerned last month that Vietnamese security agents were pursuing him, suspecting that he had information detrimental to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. The sources claim Mr. Nhat sought asylum on Jan. 25 at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees office in Bangkok. Yet the Thai government says it has no record of Mr. Nhat entering the country, and he hasn’t been heard from since Jan. 26. Not surprisingly, Vietnam has been silent about the case. Vietnam holds many political prisoners—200, says Nguyen Kim Binh of the California-based Vietnam Human Rights Network. One of those prisoners is Radio Free Asia’s Nguyen Van Hoa. Now 23, Mr. Hoa breached a state media blackout in 2016 to report on protests that followed a toxic-waste spill. He was arrested in January 2017 on the supposed crime of “conducting propaganda against the state” and received a seven-year sentence, which he is now serving. Mr. Hoa revealed in a letter to his family that he was repeatedly beaten in detention and forced to make a false confession, which Vietnamese authorities used to convict an environmental activist. Mr. Hoa recanted that confession at a court hearing last August, possibly subjecting himself to renewed torture. A strong message in Hanoi from Mr. Trump about the plight of these Radio Free Asia journalists would resonate in Vietnam and beyond. It’s a message that needs to be heard; governments across the region use repressive tactics to try to intimidate our network. Radio Free Asia was forced to close its Cambodian bureau in 2017 amid a crackdown on independent media. Two of our reporters were falsely accused of espionage and spent nine months in prison under charges that still hang over them. In China, dozens of close relatives of reporters of Radio Free Asia’s Uyghur Service are in internment camps in Xinjiang, where we have covered the persecution of the Muslim minority. It’s against this grim backdrop that Mr. Trump has a chance to let authoritarian nations in Asia know that America will defend press freedom and stand up for the right to free expression. Ms. Liu is president of Radio Free Asia. Appeared in the February 20, 2019, print edition. (via David Cole, OK, DXLD) ** VIETNAM [non]. TAIWAN, New on shortwave is Radio Dap Loi Song Nui Radio DLSN via Tamshui tx https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/new-on-shortwave-is-radio-dap-loi-song.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.19-20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIRGIN ISLANDS US. Formerly silent stations informing the FCC that they are back on the air: 1620 WDHP VI Frederiksted – Silent Sept. 20, 2017; on the air Feb. 6. (Note PR/USVI stations that were silent due to Hurricane Maria have been given 18 months, rather than the usual 12 months, maximum silent period before license is cancelled.) (AM Switch, NRC DX News March 4 via DXLD) But did it stay on the air? Usually they don`t (gh, DXLD) ** YEMEN [non]. SAUDI ARABIA, BSKSA Al-Azm Radio & Republic of Yemen Radio, Feb.26: till 0657 11745 JED or RIY / unknown to N/ME Arabic BSKSA Al-Azm Radio from 0658 11860 JED or RIY / unknown to N/ME Arabic Rep.of Yemen Radio https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-bsksa-al-azm-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So what is the point? Is this when one went off and the other came on, or just when you tuned them? (gh, DXLD) ** ZANZIBAR. TANZANIA, Reception of Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation, Feb.18: from 1700 on 11735 DOL 050 kW / non-dir to CeAf Swahili, fair, but from 1800 on 11735 DOL 050 kW / non-dir to CeAf English, NO SIGNAL https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-zanzibar-broadcasting.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.18-19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TANZANIA, 6015, Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation, Dole, 0450-0457, 21-02, Swahili, comments. 25433. (Méndez) 11735, Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation, Dole, 1800-1809, 20-02, time signals, English, ID, news by female. Very weak. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) 6015, ZBC Radio, on Feb 22, 0401-0431. Started with the usual news, with many items about "Zanzibar"; then series of monologues; poor to almost fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Feb 22 at 0701- 0708: No doubt I would hear more earlier in the evening, but interesting that bedtime check this late is still getting Europe, the western fringes at least. Sunrise at Madrid today was right at 0700 UT. 612, 621, 774, 837, 846 (Kiritimati?), 855(2), 882, 1008, 1035?, 1098(2), 1125, 1152, 1215, 1305(3), 1413, 1485(2), 1503, 1575, 1584. On the R75 with E-W longwire so no DFing. (2) means at least two carriers beating, or even (3) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 2394-, Feb 20 at 0703 UT, sounds like CW negative keying in repeating pattern, but I can`t invert my brain to copy it. I.e., tone during pauses, no tone during dits or dahs. Or possibly a local device cycling (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 2940.14, Feb 20 at 0700 UT, JBA carrier seems to be real rather than receiver overload. Merits further pursuit, possibly second harmonic from an off-frequency MW 1470+. 2940.14, Feb 23 at 0430, off-frequency with some JBA talk, language uncertain, S4-S6 vs storm crashes as spring is nigh. Cannot detect any signal on likely fundamental 1470.07 producing second harmonic. As I mentioned in October, one known harmonic on 2940 is HJNT Cali, Colombia, and this is probably it. MWOffsets shows three possibilities: 1470.063 USA WBCR (Alcoa, TN) 2017-03-30 1470.075 CLM Radio Huellas (Cali) 1100-0500 2015-12-15 1470.08 EQA HCED1 Ecos de Cayambe (Cayambe) 2005-07-04 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 3237.0, Feb 26 at 0740, dead air at S8, goes off, and back on. Maybe a ute (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4260, Feb 25 at 1358 UT, JBA talk, still there with R75 preamps off so think it`s a real signal, not overload, and most likely a 3rd harmonic of something on 1420. But at hourtop I`m more concerned with the mixture on 1480. At 1411, 4260 ruled out mix with strongest locals on 960 & 1390, but too weak to be sure when I compare to 1640 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5010-USB, Feb 20 at 0654, very poor 2-way in French, certainly an unusual language for such (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. UNKNOWNIA: 7330, 1224-1235+, 2/23; English feature on selective breeding, moving sperm samples from a flightless bird “across the island” to a test facility. SIO=3+33 with 7335 Chinese splash QRM. No candidates in Aoki or EiBi (Harold Frodge, Michigan Area Radio Enthusiasts DXpedition, Brighton MI, Drake R8B + 500’ unterminated bev, dogleg E-W/N-S, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It`s the latest change for RNZI (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 7335, Feb 23 at 0408, S6-S8 of dead air. Nothing at all scheduled now among broadcasters; the next being R. Nigeria, Kaduna via France from 0500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 13618-13640, Feb 20 at 1435, rapid over-the-horizon radar clicking, wonder from where? Seldom hear these any more, probably primarily due to pitiful propagation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15990.204, Feb 23 at 1457, JBA carrier, maybe trace of modulation. Such a WOOB frequency instantly brings to mind Sound of Hope, but chance of 100 watts propagating thus is nil. Nor is 15990 one of the scores of SOH frequencies in Aoki/NDXC nor Wolfgang Bueschel`s monitoring. Maybe some spur if not a local device; no spurs from Cuba on 15 or 13 MHz today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See CHINA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1971: Thanks to Chuck Ermatinger for a PayPal contribution to woradio at yahoo.com TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: Thanks to Jeff Murri for a PayPal contribution Thanks to Anne Fanelli, Elma NY, for a check in US funds on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 Thanks to Steve McGreevy, CA for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ SWL/DX/MEDIA PROGRAMS updated http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html But further changes required effective March 10 with imposition of DST WRTH 2019 B18 updates & Questionnaire Dear WRTH reader, We have uploaded a pdf of updates to the B18 schedules in the International section of WRTH 2019. 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Best wishes, (Nicholas Hardyman, Publisher, WRTH mailing list via DXLD) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ UNDERSTANDING SINPO CODES [and SIO, SINPFEMO] In fact in various lists I see the following signal Barely Audible Very poor Poor Almost fair Fair Almost good Good Very good Excellent (But I don't know like I can change with SINPO code (Dario Gabrielli, Feb 17, WOR iog via DXLD) I don't see an answer, but I DO see a lot of people who misunderstand/misuse SINPO/SINFO/SIO codes so I thought a 'public' answer would be appropriate -- the 'reception rating codes' (RST/SINPO/SINFO/SIO) have been a recurring question I've dealt with in my Michigan Area Radio Enthusiasts "Q and A" column. Dario, your confusion is not unusual! The "O" portion of the rating (in whatever scale) translates to: 1 = Unusable 2 = Poor 3 = Fair 4 = Good 5 = Perfect/local quality/Excellent Some people (me included) advocate something that is not 'officially' part of the code, the use of #+ ratings. I find that very helpful for my use: 1+ = Almost unusable 2+ = Almost fair 3+ = Almost good 4+ = Very good And I think that addresses your DIRECT question, but if you really want to understand this, there is more! We should start with the 'official' ITU code chart description: [visible in the WOR iog] That is a lot of information in a small amount of space, but a couple of things deserve further explanation: Note that 'logically' the "O" rating can never be larger than the I, N, P, or E ratings, and the M can never be lower than the O either. Thus while an SIO rating of 354+ is certainly possible, as would be a 25554 SINPO, etc, an SIO rating of 115 or 114, is just logically inconsistent. You cannot have good or excellent overall reception if there is extreme QRM and the signal is barely audible. Also, if the 'O' is '1' it is impossible to provide any programme details. So you couldn't give detailed programming information ("English news with items about President Trump's latest declaration") and then rate the signal '111'. If it is truly '111' you can't understand anything and really, the only way to get a definite ID for that station would be if the signal faded, and/or interference started as you listened. And you CANNOT have an overall excellent rating unless all the other columns are also '5' 55555 is possible (although rare on SW) 11115 is not. 55551 is possible, but it requires some additional information. For example, just because the signal is S9+50 dB it does NOT imply the 'overall' rating is 'excellent'. Egypt and Cuba, for example, with lousy modulation are both classic examples of a really strong signals that are poor or fair at best, and often unusable and at times might even rate a '55551'. I hope this helps. 73 (//Ken Zichi, WOR iog via DXLD) MUSEA +++++ ‘We interrupt this program’: The day the Cold War put Fort Wayne on edge https://wpta21.com/news/featured/2019/02/24/we-interrupt-this-program-the-day-the-cold-war-put-fort-wayne-on-edge/ (via Indiana Radio Watch via John Carver, DXLD) Voice of Free Iraq Three recordings of the Voice of Free Iraq from January and February 1991 have been archived here: https://shortwavearchive.com/archive/voice-of-free-iraq-january-6-8-and-february-3-1991 and here: https://archive.org/details/1VoiceOfFreeIraq17.940MHz6January19911427UTC (-- Richard Langley, Feb 18, WOR iog via DXLD) Likely via Radio Cairo or TDF Issoudun France ? clandestine facilities (Wolfgang Bueschel, BC-DX 21 Feb via DXLD) 1991 was a long time ago. What year was Issoudun site inaugurated? The first mention in my e-mail archive was in November, 2000y, but Issoudun was already in the 1993 WRTH (gh, DXLD) Recording of Radio Baghdad in English on 16 January 1991 beginning at about 2135 UT on 13660 kHz, a few hours before the start of the bombing campaign of Operation Desert Storm during the First Gulf War archived here: https://shortwavearchive.com/archive/radio-baghdad-january-16-1991 and here: https://archive.org/details/RadioBaghdad13.660MHz16January19912135UTC (-- Richard Langley, NB, WOR iog via DXLD) Recording of Mother of Battles Radio in Arabic on 27 January 1991 beginning at about 1330 UT on 17940 kHz, during Operation Desert Storm of the First Gulf War archived here: https://shortwavearchive.com/archive/mother-of-battles-radio-january-27-1991 and here: https://archive.org/details/MotherOfBattlesRadio17.940MHz27January1991 (-- Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD) Sir - thank you for posting this and your other recent posts as well. A part of history for sure. Much appreciated. Good DX to you & yours, (Rich Ray, Near Chicago, IL, ibid.) I sure remember those exciting (but scary) days! Imagine if SDRs would have been available. I, too, have many 100s of cassette tapes, and later compact disc recordings saved for prosperity [sic] (....Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, ibid.) HAWAII: Recordings found of Dr. Richard E. Wood's MWDX from Saudi Arabia in the early 80s I've been making a big project of going through once again my (way too many) tape cassette archives of LW, MW and SW DX recorded over several months time in Hawaii, mainly between 1986 to 1991. What has just astounded me is that I have found a recording on a tape cassette labeled "Big Island #3" that I totally forgot I had made a dub of. The tape-dub was made from a tape Richard gave me to listen to at his Puna District (Hawaii Island) home way back in September 1986 during one of my many visits to his amazing location in Hawaiian Paradise Park. He became a good friend of mine. I had spent one month at his home in August 1986 until I found a house to rent in north Hilo, later feeling that I had really loved my 3 weeks at Richard's home because it was so very acoustically quiet (only birds and distant surf!) and his radially-oriented Beverage antennas were astounding to listen with, particularly after I revived his non-functioning Connelly antenna-phasing-unit. Thereafter, I built one for myself and employed two of my preselectors to produce marvelous MWDX from north Hilo (and cull the noise...). The link to Richard's Saudi DX recordings is at: https://archive.org/details/TheBestOfHawaiiMediumwaveamBroadcast-bandDx-86To91/Dr_Richard_E_Woods_MWDX_from_Saudi_Arabia_in_early_80s_tape-dub-by-SPMcGreevy_Aug_1986.mp3 What amazing DX! - some it buried in bad QRN. At his home in Puna back in 1986 he had a Drake R4 and also an older Trio-Kenwood R-1000, like mine. Of course many of us have been seeing the news reports of the 2018 eruption of Kilauea Volcano that began in 1984. I could see Pu'U O'o from Richard's house to the south, and at night it created an orange glow upon the clouds above it! One day while wandering about Richard's backyard enjoying the quietude and birdsong, I found a small lava-vent that was about 2 feet wide amongst shrubbery, and it was emitting warm air from it. Later on I reported this to Richard, who exclaimed "that's new." And so 32 years on, it certainly portended the inundation danger still ongoing there. 73 - (Steve McGreevy -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com Feb 19, WOR iog via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See MEXICO ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See SOUTH AFRICA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See also CHINA!; GERMANY; NEW ZEALAND; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ NIGERIA; ROMANIA; SOUTH AFRICA; SWITZERLAND; UK; USA: WINB Does Shortwave Have a Future? It plays an important role and can still go a long way Ruxandra Obreja · 5 days ago The author is chairman of Digital Radio Mondiale. [illustrated, including portrait] https://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/guest-commentaries/does-shortwave-have-a-future (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) I`ve always wondered about the ethnicity of a person so-named: ``Ruxandra is a Romanian feminine given name, and a variant of Roxana. Notable bearers of the name include: ... Ruxandra Dragomir (born 1972), Romanian tennis player.`` (gh, DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ COLLINS R390A Now for those of you who have a soft spot for the Ultimate Valve Communications Receiver, the Collins R390 & R390A. Check this out as a Current Advert as we speak for sale in the US. This is from the Collins R390A group on FB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuxmx7wL1b8&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1junYYBCfI7CY59ujaqrIhWbQSD1Tk-_-CHYIJgYBKN7cntyxSV2HgeX4 Total production of the R-390A (as determined by the high serial numbers noted) is over 55,000 units. Initial production started in 1955 and ran through approximately 1970, and then was restarted in 1984 by Fowler Industries for Avondale Shipyards (Mike Charteris, VK4QS, DX LISTENING DIGEST) KPH SOFTWARE DEFINED RECEIVERS The same group that operates the maritime telegraph station KPH/KFS on the weekends also has some online SDRs that are at an ultra low noise site North of San Francisco at Point Reyes. The receivers are hooked up to some large antennas that should provide an interesting listening experience in the MW and HF bands. Here are the details from their website: Now you can listen to the LF, MF and HF bands using the same antennas the operators at KPH use - from the comfort of your computer no matter where you are in the world. We have installed several Kiwi Software Defined Receivers (SDRs) covering all frequencies from 0 to 30Mc - and made them publicly available via the Internet. The LF/MF receiver uses a Marconi T antenna while the HF receiver used a TCI-530. Both are located at the KPH receive site where electrical noise is extremely low. We are still fine tuning the installation but the project has reached the point that it's ready for you to use. Here are the links. For LF/MF click http://198.40.45.23:8072/ For HF click http://198.40.45.23:8073/ We'd appreciate your comments. Please write to info@radiomarine.org (via Paul Dobosz, Holland MI, MARE Tipsheet 22 Feb via DXLD) WCVH Seeks to Dump Its Landlines By CURTIS LEEDS February 18, 2019 at 12:51 PM FLEMINGTON, NJ - More than half of all Americans have ditched their landlines in favor of alternatives such as cellphones and VOiP, according to a National Center for Health Statistics survey. Now, Hunterdon Central High School's radio station is looking to do much the same thing. WCVH (90.5 FM) currently uses two radio tie lines to get its signal from the station to the transmitting antenna in Cherryville, according to county communications technician John Silliman. He said those lines belong to CenturyLink and are "deteriorating causing noise ... which ends up being rebroadcast." . . . [more] https://www.tapinto.net/towns/flemington-slash-raritan/articles/wcvh-seeks-to-dump-its-landlines (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ VHF TROPO DUCTING CALIFORNIA/HAWAII: see MARSHALL ISLANDS [and non] A MONTH WITHOUT SUNSPOTS? It could happen. The sun has been without spots since the beginning of February. Only 2 more days are necessary for an entire month of spotlessness. This long interval of blank suns is a sign that Solar Minimum is underway. This phase of the solar cycle brings extra cosmic rays, long-lasting holes in the sun's atmosphere, and strangely pink auroras (Spaceweather.com Feb 26 via Mike Terry, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DXLD) A familiar refrain from them, strangely pink auroras :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2019 Feb 25 0822 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 18 - 24 February 2019 Solar activity was very low. A DSF centered near N19W38 was observed lifting off after 23/2332 UTC. A subsequent CME signature was first observed in LASCO C2 imagery at 24/0125 UTC. However, after forecaster analysis and WSA/Enlil modeling, the CME was determined to be off the Sun-Earth line. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reached moderate levels on 18-20 Feb. Normal levels were observed during the rest of the summary period. Geomagnetic field activity reached active levels on 21 Feb due to CH HSS influences. The remainder of the period was at mostly quiet levels. Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 25 February-23 March 2019 Solar activity is expected to remain very low for the forecast period. 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 25 Feb - 10 Mar, and 13 Mar due to recurrent CH HSS activity. Normal to moderate levels are expected for the remainder of the outlook period. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at G1 (Minor) storm levels on 27-28 Feb due to recurrent CH HSS activity. The remainder of the period is expected to be mostly quiet to unsettled. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2019 Feb 25 0822 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 2019-02-25 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2019 Feb 25 71 5 2 2019 Feb 26 71 5 2 2019 Feb 27 71 18 5 2019 Feb 28 71 24 5 2019 Mar 01 71 16 4 2019 Mar 02 71 12 4 2019 Mar 03 71 8 3 2019 Mar 04 71 5 2 2019 Mar 05 71 8 3 2019 Mar 06 71 5 2 2019 Mar 07 71 8 3 2019 Mar 08 71 10 4 2019 Mar 09 71 8 3 2019 Mar 10 71 5 2 2019 Mar 11 71 5 2 2019 Mar 12 71 12 4 2019 Mar 13 71 10 3 2019 Mar 14 71 5 2 2019 Mar 15 71 5 2 2019 Mar 16 71 5 2 2019 Mar 17 71 5 2 2019 Mar 18 71 5 2 2019 Mar 19 71 5 2 2019 Mar 20 71 10 3 2019 Mar 21 71 5 2 2019 Mar 22 71 5 2 2019 Mar 23 71 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DXLD) ###