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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1987 contents: Antarctica non, Canada, China, Cuba, Guatemala, India, Korea South, México, North America, Perú, Russia, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sweden, Turkey, USA; Caribbean; propagation outlook WOR 1987 completed by 2308 UT Thursday June 20, ready for first airings Friday June 21: (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1987.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1987.mp3 The shortwave broadcasts should be: 1000 UT Friday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW 2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 [confirmed] 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 [confirimed] 0629 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany [confirmed] 1000 UT Saturday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [June 22, July 6] 1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 1431 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2030 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 [NEW] [confirmed] 2100 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [confirmed] 2130 UT Saturday WBCQ 9330 [special test airing confirmed] 0130 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 [confirmed] 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315][confirmed] 1030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany [confirmed] 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 [confirmed] 0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 [confirmed] 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 [confirmed] 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 9330 [confirmed both] 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [confirmed] 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW 1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 [confirmed] 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [2 editions] 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v [and/or 2130] 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 0930 UT Friday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW Also check 9330 WBCQ for unscheduled airings during testing phase. 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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. ** ANGUILLA. 11775, Caribbean Beacon at 1715. Not heard on earlier checks. Show-me-the-money filler music to Dr. Gene, preaching now from his never ending journey on the edge of time. Recheck after 1730 had widow Melissa. I'll never understand the C.B. schedule, or know if there actually IS one - Good June 15. 11775 (checked), Caribbean Beacon at 1630. Heard on Grundig Satellit 205, indoor shortwire. DGS, filler music, more DGS . Recheck after 1700 had PMS Scott lecturing. On rechecks - 1900 PMS and DGS at 2040 and 2120. Did go off at 2200 - Very Good June 16 [Sunday] (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, 73 and Good Listening....! -rb, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA [non]. The annual BBCWS winter solstice special for the British Antarctic Survey is coming up next Friday June 21, and we have been expecting a dry-run frequency test sometime during the preceding week. Ivo Ivanov got the details to the WOR iog several hours ahead, to pick the best three out of four: June 14 at 2130-2145, so I try all four frequencies here at 2135: 7360-Ascension, JBA carrier; 9455-Woofferton, JBA S4-S6 not WRMI; 5990-UAE, JBA carrier; 5875 Woofferton, JJBBA carrier. About as expected here way off the target. Then at 2139 I check the same via UTwente SDR, and hear an interview about football, maybe regular BBCWS programming at the moment: 7360 good but with pervasive Ascension hum --- Kai Ludwig wonders if that would disqualify it? Not at all, one or two ASC transmitters remain in full service this way, hums to Africa often audible. 9455 good with no hum; 5875 very good; 5990 UAE however is VP, JBA back in Europe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re gh: ``Then at 2139 I check the same via UTwente SDR, and hear an interview about football, maybe regular BBCWS programming at the moment: 7360 good but with pervasive Ascension hum --- Kai Ludwig wonders if that would disqualify it? Not at all, one or two ASC transmitters remain in full service this way, hums to Africa often audible.`` Must remember to check the Deutsche Welle transmission. It would be interesting if they now, much contrary to their previous policy, accept a transmission that sounds as if the loudspeaker is full of bumble-bees, with hum creeping up to -10 dBr. Wertachtal would never have dared to put such a signal on air. The same question of course goes for other broadcasters as well (also the BBC if applicable under the arrangements they made; I understand they still are the owners of the facility but have outsourced its operation). https://youtu.be/zVHJfw8qZWw?t=155 where you can, in case you want, also copy the name of that programme discussing SBG. I forgot to check if maybe the regular Woofferton and Ascension frequencies for Africa had different programming, but either way what they had patched to the testing transmitters was the program feed "BBC World Service with no strings attached" (Kai Ludwig, Germany, WOR iog via DXLD) British Antarctic Survey Annual Midwinter broadcast on Fri June 21 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/british-antarctic-survey-annual.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News June 13-14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks to Ivo Ivanov for the reminder of the test frequencies for today's 15 min test broadcast. Virtually impossible to hear anything in Victoria at 2130 where it's mid-afternoon. I can just see the Woofferton 9455 carrier coming on right at 2130 without any announcements. Switching to remote SDRs, I note that 9455 is at fair/good level via Lamont, AB and all are audible via a Swedish KiwiSDR http://kiwisdr.sk3w.se:8073/ 7360 Ascension with 250 kW/207 deg is strong, but with an audible hum. 9455 is much better (clean without hum). 5990 via UAE is only at fair level. Scheduled to 2145 only (Walt Salmaniw, June 14, WOR iog via DXLD) 5875, 7360, 9455 very good, 5990 fair/good; videos after few minutes (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, 2141 UT, ibid.) 9455 is the only frequency heard here in central Alberta. Good with t-storm crashes. Abrupt off at 2145 UT. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, ibid.) Testing with regular World Service radio (English) as program audio. In Central Europe it triggers memories how Woofferton is booming in on 5875; this used to be one of their standard frequencies in Europe, usually from Rampisham and with programming including German. Co-located 9455 weaker of course. 5990 from Al-Dhabayya, which was first to turn on the carrier at 2128, weak here in Europe. 7360 from Ascension, which should beam away as well, is 10 dB stronger but marred by rather strong hum. This transmitter really must be considered defective, but will this be reason enough to exclude it from the real broadcast? (Kai Ludwig, ibid.) Right, Mickey and Ivo. All went off exactly at 2145, and without any announcements at the beginning nor end. Just regular BBC programming. Mostly about sports in Guam. Thanks, again! (Walt Salmaniw, ibid.) Good reception of test on 5875 and 7360 with BBC WS news followed by World Football 2130-2145*. Just a trace of 9455, 5990 not heard here. 73 (Alan Pennington, Sony 7600GR +telescopic, Cornwall, UK, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) BBC WS test to Antarctica on June 14 for the next week of British Antarctic Survey Annual Midwinter broadcast Friday, June 21: 2130-2145 5875 WOF 300 kW / 184 deg to Antarctica English-very good 2130-2145 5990 DHA 250 kW / 203 deg to Antarctica English-fair/good 2130-2145 7360 ASC 250 kW / 207 deg to Antarctica English-very good 2130-2145 9455 WOF 300 kW / 182 deg to Antarctica English-very good Good choice of ENC fq management but 5980 will be better than 5990 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVHJfw8qZWw&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y_lBbvD8RE&feature=youtu.be Публикувано от Observer в 2:07 PM (via DXLD) In central Ohio, both 5875 & 5990 were not heard. 7360 was jba and 9455 was jba+. Pretty much as expected -- (Mike Bott, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) Reception here of the BBCWS test 14 June 2130-2145 UT as follows: * 7360-asc: very good * 5875-wof: good * 9455-wof: fair * 5990-dha: not heard (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK (ELAD FDM-S2 and Wellbrook ALA1530LN Loop), WOR iog via DXLD) [bdxc-news] BBC Antarctic midwinter broadcast frequencies --- An email from BBC WS Audience Relations has confirmed the frequencies for tomorrow's (21 June) midwinter broadcast to BAS staff in Antarctica at 2130 UT are: 5875 7360 9455 73, (Alan Pennington, June 20, British DX Club, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) British Antarctic Survey Annual Midwinter broadcast, Fri June 21: 2130-2200 5875 WOF 300 kW / 184 deg to Antarctica special program 2130-2200 7360 ASC 250 kW / 207 deg to Antarctica special program 2130-2200 9455 WOF 300 kW / 182 deg to Antarctica special program -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) NASWA has posted this schedule, but I do not find it on any of the recent direct posts from Ivo. Is this info correct for 2019? Only 7360 matches frequencies tested on June 14. Glenn British Antarctic Survey Annual Midwinter broadcast on Fri June 21: 2130-2200 on 5985 WOF to Antarctica English special program 2130-2200 on 6035 DHA to Antarctica English special program 2130-2200 on 7360 ASC to Antarctica English special program (DX Mix-Bulgaria) (via Glenn Hauser, WOR iog via DXLD) This was the frequency usage in 2016, 2017 and, at least originally planned, also 2018. So they seem to speculate that it will be the schedule for 2019, too. But the usual practice is to use for the actual broadcast three of the frequencies tested in advance, with changes being made only if necessary (Kai Ludwig, June 17, ibid.) Hello, guys, as long as these speculations, which frequencies are going to be used, they will use those they decide, point. What I or I posted will have no meaning on June 21st 2130-2200 on 5875 WOF 300 kW / 184 deg to Antarctica English special 2130-2200 on 5990 DHA 250 kW / 203 deg to Antarctica English special 2130-2200 on 7360 ASC 250 kW / 207 deg to Antarctica English special 2130-2200 on 9455 WOF 300 kW / 182 deg to Antarctica English special (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. Trump Tagged the Wrong ABC on Twitter, and Got a Koala in Response - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/world/australia/trump-abc-koala.html (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** BHUTAN. 6035, BBS, 1110-1152*, June 18. Just after the news in English (unreadable), start of a segment of pop songs (Aerosmith - "Dream On," etc.); 1120-1132, announcers in English (still unreadable); 1132-1152*, again with pop songs (The Doors - "Riders On The Storm," etc.); no N. Korea jamming spur today, but FM99 (PBS Yunnan) started up at *1139, after which the two stations were mixing together. A good day for BBS (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. to your latest bulletin No. 1925: 4774.97 (TN) - it was surely Radio Congonhas (B). It can be heard often under Tarma. I have it also on my blog: http://dx-kh.cz/2019/05/08/radio-congonhas-4775-khz-brazilie/ I heard it at 0434 (when Tarma was already off) - the station should not be on the air at that time, but it was in that time period. 4940 - R. Brasil Central heard by Rafael Rodriguez. Yes, I heard it too on some remote KiwiSDR receivers in Brazil, but I thought it was a spurious signal or something like that. I never heard it from Europe. 5035, Jun 7, 2228. After quite a long time I heard Brazil again on 5035 kHz despite checking the frequency almost daily at this time. Radio Educacao Rural de Coari heard with quite a nice signal on June 7, 2019 at 2228 with A Voz do Brasil. Immediately after its end the station aired its complete ID and closed down at 2301. Usually listed inactive or with c/d at 0100 (Karel Honzik, Czech Republic [or Germany] via RealDX via Shortwave Bulletin June 16 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 5939.7, Voz Missionaria, Camboriú, 2050-2103, 18-06, Portuguese, religious comments. 24322. // 9664.2. 6135.1, Radio Aparecida, Aparecida, 2040-2055, 18-06, Portuguese, religious comments. 24322. // 9630.4. 9630.4, Radio Aparecida, Aparecida, 2041-2056, 18-06, Portuguese, religious comments, id. “Rede Aparecida de Radio”, “Nossa Senhora Aparecida”. 34433. 9664.2, Voz Missionaria, Camboriú, 2046-2058, 18-06, Portuguese, religious comments. 34433. 9818.3, Radio 9 de Julho, Sao Paulo, 2021-2033, 17-06, Portuguese, religious comments. 14321. 11895, Radio Boa Vontade, Porto Alegre, 2045-2056, 18-06, Portuguese, religious comments. 14311 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BULGARIA. UTILITY, Reception of LZW Varna Radio in 80mb on June 17 0709 & 0714 on 3740 USB mode Bulgarian/English, fair signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/reception-of-lzw-varna-radio-in-80mb-on_17.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News June 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Is 3740 ever in use at night for the rest of us to hear it?? (gh) ** BULGARIA [and non}. PRESS RELEASES RFE/RL Formally Relaunches Bulgarian Service (WASHINGTON - June 13, 2019) Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has formally dedicated its new bureau in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, marking a return to a region where media freedom and independence is under threat. Speaking at the opening ceremony on June 12, RFE/RL Vice President and Editor in Chief Nenad Pejic said, “When we left Bulgaria in 2004, the dominant opinion was that communism had collapsed, the West had won, freedom would inevitably come, and media freedom as well.” He then added, “As we see today, this is not the case in many countries. Media freedom is a process and it takes a long time... We hope we can help...” In attendance was U.S. Ambassador Eric Rubin, who recalled the Service's earlier, "heroic" work in the country, and said, "The ability to provide a comprehensive package of news that people can trust is something that Bulgaria needs.” Former RFE/RL President Thomas Kent, leading Bulgarian journalists, civil society representatives, and members of the diplomatic community also attended the event. Since resuming operations in January, the Service has broken major stories, working with local media outlets and anti-corruption groups to expose a massive real estate scandal involving ruling party members. It has been harshly attacked by one far-right political party, which accused RFE/RL of “working to destroy the Bulgarian state.” RFE/RL operated a Bulgarian Service from 1950 to 2004. In addition to reopening it this year, RFE/RL has also resumed its Romanian Service.​ RFE/RL relies on its networks of local reporters to provide accurate news and information to over 34 million people in 26 languages and 22 countries where media freedom is restricted, or where a professional press has not fully developed. Its videos were viewed over 2.6 billion times on Facebook and YouTube in FY2018. RFE/RL is an editorially independent media company funded by a grant from the U.S. Congress through the U.S. Agency for Global Media. ---- https://pressroom.rferl.org/a/press-release-bulgaria-launch/29997102.html 13 June 2019 (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD) Bulgarian and Romanian are NOT on SW or MW, only 6 other remaining languages per WRTH 2019; make that 5 with elimination of Belarussian by the A-19 update (gh, DXLD) ** CANADA. 17/05-2019 --- The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group has flipped Classic Hits CK 750 (CKJH) in Melfort, Saskatchewan to BEACH RADIO 750. The format has been tweaked and now emphasizes Classic Hits from the 80's and 90's. BEACH RADIO 750 WEBSITE: https://beachradiosk.com/ Thanks to Ted at Radio West for the tip (Canadian Radio News fb group (17/5-2019) via Mediumwave.info via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) ha2, beach in Sask?? (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) ** CANADA. CRTC decisions on AM stations Canada: Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2019-201 Ottawa, 10 June 2019 The Commission renews the broadcasting licences for the commercial radio programming undertakings set out below from 1 September 2019 to 31 August 2026. The Commission did not receive any interventions regarding these applications. [...] Bell Media Inc. and 8384819 Canada Inc., partners in a general partnership carrying on business as Bell Media Regional Radio Partnership CFRW Winnipeg, Manitoba [1290 kHz] [...] In regard to CFRW Winnipeg, the licensee shall also adhere to the following condition of licence: As an exception to the percentage of Canadian musical selections set out in sections 2.2(8) and 2.2(9) of the Radio Regulations, 1986, in any broadcast week where at least 90% of musical selections broadcast are selections released before 1 January 1981, the licensee shall devote 30% or more of its musical selections from content category 2 (Popular Music) in that broadcast week and between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. from Monday to Friday of the same broadcast week to Canadian selections broadcast in their entirety. The licensee is responsible for specifying the year of release for all musical selections it broadcasts on the music lists it provides to the Commission. For the purposes of this condition, the terms “broadcast week,” “content category” and “musical selection” shall have the meanings set out in section 2 of the Radio Regulations, 1986. https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2019/2019-201.htm (10 June 2019 via Dr. Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD) Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2019-211 Ottawa, 13 June 2019 Golden West Broadcasting Ltd.: Various locations in Manitoba and Saskatchewan [...] Various commercial radio stations – Licence renewals The Commission renews the broadcasting licences for the commercial radio stations set out in this decision from 1 September 2019 to 31 August 2025 [six years only because of non-compliance with several sections of the Radio Regulations, Hj. Biener]. This short-term renewal will allow for an earlier review of the licensee’s compliance with regulatory requirements. [...] Golden West Broadcasting Ltd. (Golden West) filed applications to renew the broadcasting licences for the following commercial radio stations, which expire 31 August 2019: [...] CFAM Altona, Manitoba [950 kHz] CFRY Portage La Prairie, Manitoba [920 kHz] CHSM Steinbach, Manitoba [1250 kHz] CJRB Boissevain, Manitoba [1220 kHz] [...] The Commission did not receive any interventions regarding these applications. https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2019/2019-211.htm 13 June 2019 (via Dr. Hansjoerg Biener, June 19, DXLD) ** CANADA [non]. 11945Even, ARMENIA, BVBN Canada ministry towards South Asia zone #41, via M&B Cologne brokery, via CJSC Yerevan Gavar Armenia noted even S=9 backlobe signal, 0227 UT English language pastor, ROARER voice like BS, "The Lord delivers me ... in the name of Jesus Christ....". 0200-0230 UT, but hfcc.org database show Suns only extended 0200-0300 UT frequency channel request too. Log of last night June 15 at 0200-0230 UT, here in western Europe [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 15, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CANADA [and non]. G’day from Ottawa, Canada - Was planning out day thinking about the CHU time station in Ottawa when I found this document. http://www.cbc.am/CHU.html First time I’ve ever seen it - not sure about its legitimacy (Robert Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA - In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada for a few days, June 17, IRCA iog via DXLD) It's as legitimate as the proposal for a second 60-kHz transmitter for WWVB - https://web.archive.org/web/20100323010350/http://www.radioworld.com/article/9286 Neither are funded. -- (Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train! Ibid.) Intriguing, with some interesting arguments, but now a 13 year old proposal, not looked at for 5 years? Thanks for digging it up. I guess that they were hoping that some university departments would run with it, and perhaps be a more reliable source of funding, but guess that hasn't happened (Nick Hall-Patch, ibid.) The document is dated 2006 so it looks like no rush to complete it. The second document had a number of misspellings and unusual sounding names. Who knows? 73 de Joe (Joseph Miller, ibid.) Yea - the internet and streaming was a different world in 2006... 13 years ago. If CHU-2 was on 50 or 65 kHz, in B.C. it would be useful indeed... but for how many?? (Colin Newell - Victoria – B.C., ibid.) CHU Time Station Proposal for Western Canada National Research Council White Paper CHU Western Canada Coverage Gap Elimination Proposal https://www.academia.edu/13855697/CHU_Time_Station_Proposal_for_Western_Canada Heavily illustrated and the text comes out garbled when trying to copy it. Example: (gh) ``CHU Time Station (Ottaa! is Canada"s domestic shortave time signal station#CHU e$isted long %e&ore the 'nternet and satellite navigation sstems that also provide time signals#CHU itsel& provides most o& the time services (%ut not &re)uenc services! o& e)ual )ualit to WW* + WW*, (,older- Colorado! and WW*H (.auai- Haaii!#Hoever- the use&ulness o& CHU decreases as one moves &arther and &arther aa &rom Ontario and /ue%ec#CHU reception in the high 0rctic ma %e as pro%lematic as reception in Western Canada# What ith other 0rtic nations ma1ing ne claims on 0rctic resources- there is a territorial imperative to provide services to this region# Current pro%lems ith CHU that need to %e addressed National sovereignt`` We heard direct about this from ``Max Power`` way back on May 20, 2009: From: "Max Power" To: wghauser@yahoo.com The CBC.am website CHU Proposal has been updated and is now listed on http://www.scribd.com/doc/15652506/CHU-Proposal Otherwise it is avalable at : http://cbc.am/CHU.htm Max Power, CEO Power Broadcasting HireMe.geek.nz`` Proposed location was Kelowna BC, on 7335 kHz, ex-Ottawa frequency. IIRC he has made other off-the-wall SW expansion proposals from the sidelines. I`m pretty sure the cbc.am website had nothing to do with the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., but set up to look like it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 11500, 11460, 11440, 11120, June 14 at 1253, and 12800 at 1259, all CNR1 jammers JBA as on the Aoki/NDXC jammed Sound of Hope roster (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15270, CNR1 at 1357 // 15470 in Mandarin jamming RFA in Tibetan via Tajikistan with female pop vocals to 5+1 time pips at 1400 and off – Fair to Good June 14 15470, CNR1 at 1353 in Mandarin jamming RFA in Tibetan via Tajikistan with a telephone interview between two men and a woman with spirited promos over light instrumentals at 1354 – Fair June 14 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S, Drake SPR-4, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 80 and 40 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, and a rotatable dipole made from two OPEK HVT-600 HF mobile antennas, ODXA iog via DXLD) Anything heard from jammees? Phrasing is ambiguous (gh) 12150Even, CNR1 China mainland jamming against intelligence service SOH program from Taiwan, S=7 signal strength even here as sidelobe in western Europe at 0229 UT. Log of last night June 15 at 0200-0230 UT, here in western Europe [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 15, WOR iog via DXLD) How do you know that SOH pertains to an ``intelligence service`` rather than the wacky Falun Gong cult -- just a front? (gh, DXLD) 13160, June 15 at 1251, Chinese is JBA and // 11825, i.e. CNR1 jammers. Also 14700 JBA at 1253, and 14980 JBA carrier, all of which are against Sound of Hope (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9965, The Firedragon station 1730 over RFA (relay Germany) - Good signal June 16 11100, CNR 1 at 1030, M in Chinese, instrumental music, then W in Chinese. Steady signal. Frequency listed as outlet for Sound of Hope via Taiwan. Go figure - Good June 16 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, RS SW-2000629 with various outdoor wires, Grundig Satellit 205 & indoor shortwire. 73 and Good Listening....! -rb, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15250, CNR at 1233 // 15470 and 15480 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin with a man and a woman with excited news coverage – Fair to Good June 18 15470, CNR at 1228 // 15480 in Mandarin jamming RFA in Tibetan via Tajikistan with a song by a child then a man and woman with gentle talk followed by an excited promo to 1+1 time pips at 1230 and into a man and woman with excited news coverage – Fair to Good June 18 [so were the jamming targets above also audible for you or not? gh] 15480, CNR (Beijing) at 1224 in Mandarin with a woman with gentle talk followed by a song by a child – Fair June 18 This is a legitimate frequency reported to the HFCC which the Chinese authorities are known to use the feed to jam western broadcasters' Mandarin and Tibetan programs beamed to China such as RFA on 15470 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S, Drake SPR-4, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 80 and 40 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, and a rotatable dipole made from two OPEK HVT-600 HF mobile antennas, ODXA iog via DXLD) 14900, June 18 at 1333, Chinese at S3-S6, CNR1 jammer only, // 15165 heavy mix with VOA Chinese. Also JBA on 14700. 13130 & 13070 at 1346 JBA carriers; 12880 at 1351, big S8/S9+10 // 11785. All these are accounted for in EiBi and/or Aoki/NDXC as CNR1 jammers on Sound of Hope frequencies, except 14700. 12455 at 1352, JBA carrier too but write this one off since it`s 1390 KCRC kHz below 13845 WWCR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6035, FM99 relay via PBS Yunnan, had recently been very consistent with *1139, but not on June 14. Not on the air at 1151, but later (1203) they were heard. A one day event? 6035, FM99 relay via PBS Yunnan, *1139, June 18. Program already in progress; mixing badly with BBS (Bhutan), till that went off at 1152* and FM99 continued on in the clear. 7210, PBS Yunnan, 1053, June 18. During a brief check, heard their IS (long musical loop), but mixing with SOH and VOV also on frequency (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CHINA. Frequency changes of CNR-1 in DRM mode effective June 18: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/frequency-changes-of-cnr-1-in-drm-mode.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News June 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 0100-0300 NF 17790 KUN 030 kW / 032 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15250 0300-0700 NF 21550 KUN 030 kW / 032 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15250 0700-0900 NF 17790 KUN 030 kW / 032 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15250 0900-1100 NF 9540 KUN 030 kW / 032 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15250 But on June 19 no signal on old 15250 & on new 17790, 21550, 9540 Публикувано от Observer в 2:08 PM (via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) ** CONGO. 6115, Radio Congo, Brazzaville, 1756-1815, 18-06, French, comments, at 1801 news “Radio Congo, le journal”. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CUBA. Interesting station --- I greatly enjoy your program. Have for years. Funny thing today --- at 2:25 pm EDT [1825 UT] I plugged in an old AirCastle tube radio to test it - one I gave to a family friend decades ago for their mom, and they returned it last week. The first thing I pick up testing the shortwave down here in Orlando, Florida was a numbers station on approximately 11.5 MHz (don't have my other equipment running to know exactly what frequency, given heavy storms). What was interesting about it was that it had the typical Spanish 5-number set you'd hear in Florida, but after a few number sets, there were what sounded like digital bursts, and a number set every so often thereafter mixed with digital bursts. I've been out of the amateur radio hobby for a couple of decades now, and getting into it again, in order to interest my son. Do you know much about those types of hybrid stations? I only remember the old number calling ones. With so much activity on our southern border, never know what they are up to, I guess. Many thanks, Chris -- (Christopher D. Watkins, Chairman & CEO christopherdwatkins.com Industrial Mindworks, Inc. | Algorithm, Inc. industrialmindworks.com | algorithm.com YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDHRvjyOmeM-qvB_3H-0uTA June 16, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Chris, This hybrid method has been in use by Cuba for a good many years now. Probably 11530. They usually adhere to a reliable schedule. Search Cuban spy numbers in this: http://eibispace.de/dx/freq-a19.txt There is a group called ENIGMA which has a lot of info about these. Keep listening, (Glenn to Chris, via DXLD) Check out his website: interesting stuff there (gh) ** CUBA. 5040, 6000, 6100 and 6165 on June 3 Radio Havana Cuba from 0500. Most of the frequencies coming very well with strong signals. Telling about the illegal US blockade om Cuba and the efforts from the USA for regime change in Cuba. Arnie Coro`s fine DX-programme at 0516 followed by the Mailbag show at 0516-0536. There is always a lot right at Radio Havana Cuba. Best 73s, (Stig Hartvig Nielsen, listening in Deshaies, Guadeloupe, on a Tecsun PL-880 with 30 m longwire, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) FYI, Most of my ``something`s always wrong`` remarx concern technical or operational issues, self-defeating failures. It goes without saying that a huge amount of their programming is anti-American propaganda; a pity that some inhabitants of free countries are so eager to overlook the gross human rights violations of the Cuban dictatorial regime for multiple decades, just to stick it to Uncle Sam (gh, DXLD) 5040, June 14 at 0527, RHC in Spanish instead of English as scheduled this hour --- maybe deliberately since there is no 49mb Spanish all evening with 6060 transmitter gone for weeks. A breakdown, or inexplicable scheduling change? As for what`s left of English, at 0522: 6165 S9+10 and JBM, 6100 best, 6000 undermodulated. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13739.240, June 14 at 1301, RHC self-knocked way off-frequency again today after quite a normal spell on 13740.00, while // 13700 remains .00. Something or other is always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5040, June 15 at 0546, RHC English service revived here unlike Spanish last night, since music is now // 49m frequencies: 6000 & 6060 remain OFF; 6165 is JBM, leaving only 6100 with good signal and modulation. Its X 2, 12200 is a JBA carrier now. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9640, June 15 at 1257, RHC is S9+10 but suptorted. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6000, RHC at 0216 // 6165 (non-existent audio) with a man ending the news, then RHC theme music bridge and two men in discussion about Donald Trump's attitude towards Cuba – Great signal but almost unintelligible audio June 16 – There's always something going wrong at RHC (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S, Drake SPR-4, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 80 and 40 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, and a rotatable dipole made from two OPEK HVT-600 HF mobile antennas, ODXA iog via DXLD) 5025V, June 16 at 0558, R. Rebelde carrier is wobbling audibly with BFO; either that or CCI from another signal slightly offset, but I can`t imagine R. Quillabamba could do that or even be on air at this hour. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6100, UT Monday June 17 at 0620, RHC English S9+20/30 but suptorted; I can tell it`s Arnie but combined with his slurred speech it`s really hard to understand what he is saying on `DXers Unlimited`. // 6165 is weaker but a bit clearer. 6060 & 6000 are OFF. 5040 is still on and in English, S9+20 but with a big hum --- and in a few seconds, modulation stops except for the hum, as I guess the sloppyrators are finally about to turn it off late. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Measured RHC at 1207 and 1341 UT on June 17 exact even xxxx.000 kHz on 9535BEJ, 9640BEJ 11760BAU 13740.004BEJ S=9+30dB in Edmonton SDR, 15140BAU, 15230QVC. 13700 kHz even covered by CNR Lingshi #725 in Uyghur at 1222 UT and 13700even Bauta site, at 1341 UT June 17. and 14-16 UT CRI Quivican English sce too on 11880even kHz. 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13740, June 17 at 1350, RHC is VP only S6-S8, unusually much weaker than // 13700 at S9+10/20. At least neither is off-frequency nor putting out spurs. But something`s still always wrong at RHC. 1351 starts `Estampas de Cuba` show which is not about stamps --- altho run across for years, appears nowhen on program sked http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/programacion nor via audio on demand archive: http://www.radiohc.cu/audios A truly secret show! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5040, June 18 at 0546, RHC in English at S9+20 but again with big hum --- wiggle that patchcord! Something`s always wrong at RNC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6000, June 21 at 0104, RHC English is JBM, // 6165 slightly more modulation, both registering S9+10/20. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9580, June 21 at 0117, CRI English relay is suptorted, S9+10/20; while same on 9570 via ALBANIA with decent modulation, similar strength runs about 2 words ahead. Must take another satellite hop to get it to Habana. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 4765, June 21 at 0106, no signal from Radio Progreso, supposed to start at 0030. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. FM DX: see MEXICO [and non] ** CUBA [non]. 9490Even, FRANCE, RTVMarti program ID mentioned at 0211 UT on June 15, S=9+30dB powerhouse signal noted as - Radio Republica - via Jeff White brokery, but via TDF Issoudun towards to Caribbean back. Log of last night June 15 at 0200-0230 UT, here in western Europe [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 15, WOR iog via DXLD) R. República just mentioned Martí? Surely not relaying it (gh) ** ECUADOR. Clip of 1510 Radio Naval time signal station (HCIO2) in Guayaquil, Ecuador. https://app.box.com/s/3d09mnqzir1d31cktx97fsrjj0w6qcz8 Heard here at 0259 UT / 20 JUN. Thanks to Aart Rouw and Karel Honzik (RealDX forum) for ID help (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, USA, nrc-am gg via DXLD) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Radio Nacional, Bata, *0521-0540, 17-06, open with songs in Spanish, at 0528 Spanish program “Panorama Nacional”. 15311 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ERITREA [non]. Reception of Voice of Eritrean Lowlands via MBR Issoudun, June 15 1700-1730 15390 ISS 100 kW / 123 deg EaAf Arabic Mon/Sat, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/reception-of-voice-of-eritrean-lowlands_15.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News June 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. 15390, FRANCE. Radio Sinit Eritrea, 1715, 6/15/19. Good signal now at 1715 via Issoudun, the new one on the air since end 2018. Weak when signing on with IS tune and IDs, but signal seems to gain with time and now, halfway through the transmission, is doing very well. Wonderfully funky HOA music. Wonder where the studio is? They like to imply downtown Asmara, on their website and Facebook sites, but . . . . Sked only for Saturdays 1700-1730 (Ralphus W. Perry, Wheaton, IL, Equipment: Drake R8B, Dentron Super – Tuner, Ameco & Palomar Preamps, Wellbrook Loop, 350’ LA BOG, Delta Skyloop, NASWA Flashsheet June 16 via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. GERMANY, Reception of Voice of Oromo Liberation via MBR Nauen on June 16: 1700-1701 15420 NAU 100 kW / 139 deg Oromo open carrier / dead air & 1701-1730 15420 NAU 100 kW / 139 deg Oromo Fri/Sun, very good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/reception-of-voice-of-oromo-liberation_16.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News June 16, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. EUROPIRATE, 6205, Laser Hot Hits on June 1 at 2220. Pop music and American English accented ID. Weak but easily readable. Also noted on June 3 at 2230-2300 with even better signals. Local sunset at the listening post in Guadeloupe is at 2230 UT. Best 73s, (Stig Hartvig Nielsen, listening in Deshaies, Guadeloupe, on a Tecsun PL-880 with 30 m longwire, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** FINLAND. FINNISH RADIO DROPS LATIN NEWS AFTER 30 YEARS https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-48661183 (via Gerald T Pollard, NC, June 18, DXLD) Viz.: By News from Elsewhere... ...as found by BBC Monitoring 17 June 2019 Image copyright yle.fi Image caption For thirty years Finland has spoken 'urbi et orbi' Finnish radio is ending its long-running weekly news bulletin in Latin. The Yle public broadcaster has told its 'carissimi auditores' (dear listeners) that "everything passes, and even the best programmes reach the end of the road. This is now the case with our world-famous bulletin, which has broadcast the news in Latin on Friday for the past 30 years". The core members of the 'Nuntii Latini' (News in Latin) team - Professor Tuomo Pekkanen and lecturer Virpi Seppala-Pekkanen - have been with the five-minute bulletin since it was first broadcast on 1 September 1989, although other newsreaders and writers have joined since. Professor Pekkanen took gracious leave of Yle, saying that, "judging by the feedback, Nuntii Latini will be missed around the world - and we send our warm thanks to you all for these past years!" 'Started as an experiment' Reijo Pitkaranta of Helsinki University's Classics Department was involved in the project from the start, and told Yle that "what started as an experiment has become an international phenomenon in modern Latin studies, while also reporting on major events like the Asian tsunami and the Twin Towers attack in New York". Yle's own creative director, Ville Vilen, also praised the programme's "unique cultural contribution", but concluded that ultimately the broadcaster's limited resources had to be focused on Finland rather than the 500-800 Latin enthusiasts who not only regularly tune in but actively engage with the bulletin around the world. The last bulletin went out last Friday evening, although broadcasts going back to 2011 will be available on Yle's Live Archive site. The growth of the internet has made far more spoken Latin resources available to listeners. Germany's F.R.E.I. Erfurt runs a 15-minute fortnightly show, Radio Bremen Zwei does something similar, and in the US there is the weekly podcast put out by Western Washington University's Latin class, among others. This is one of the reasons Yle gave for deciding to shut Nuntii Latini down in 2017, until an international outcry persuaded them to push the leaving date back to this summer. The legacy of Yle's innovative broadcasts lives on in the spoken Latin community, where it has helped coin terms the Ancients could have had little concept of - such as the 'interrete' (internet) itself. 'The Pope's Week' Latin news addicts won't have to suffer withdrawal symptoms for long, as the language's greatest remaining bastion, the Catholic Church, launched its own weekly news bulletin in Latin the same week as Yle's programme went off air. The key difference is that Yle offered a broad world news agenda, rather than Vatican Radio's more focused 'Hebdomada Papae' (The Pope's Week) - not to mention the fact that the Catholic Church uses its own, Italian-influenced pronunciation, rather than the Classical version preferred by scholars. Despite the demise of Nuntii Latini, Finland's special relationship with Ancient Rome is far from over. During its presidency of the European Union in 2006, for example, the country put out a newsletter in Latin, which picked up more subscribers than the French version. Image copyright vaticannews.va Image caption The Vatican's news bulletin has a narrower focus Reporting by Chris Greenway and Martin Morgan (via DXLD) see VATICAN ** FRANCE. RADIO FRANCE ON STRIKE OVER PLANS TO CUT UP TO 300 JOBS Employees at Radio France turned off their microphones this Tuesday over plans to axe nearly 300 jobs as part of a cost-cutting efforts, http://www.ft.com/content/d7e2c6f0-bd95-11e8-8274-55b72926558f with many of the daily programmes being replaced by music. Following a call by six unions, including the powerful CGT, employees stopped production at the public broadcaster's stations, which range from talk radio to pop music to classical. According to a pre-recorded announcement: "Following calls for a strike... we are unable to broadcast all of our normal programmes." A general meeting is due to take place at the headquarters of the broadcaster, Maison de la Radio, http://en.parisinfo.com/paris-museum-monument/71771/Maison-de-la-Radio later today. Continues ... https://uk.news.yahoo.com/radio-france-strike-over-plans-095502970.html (via Mike Terry, June 19, WOR iog via DXLD) Not UK news (gh) ** FRANCE [non]. Monthly airings of Radio For Peace International https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/monthly-airings-of-radio-for-peace.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News June 16, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see USA: WRMI ** GERMANY. 3975, Short Wave Radio de., Winsen, 2020-2037, 17-06, pop songs, English, comments. 25322. 3985, Radio Tirana via Kall Krekel, 2000-2030, 19-06, very nice Radio Tirana interval signal, Italian, “Tirana” news and comments about Albania, Albanian songs, at 2029 interval signal, id. “Short Wave Service”. 25322. 3995, HCJB, Weenermoor, 2008-2017, 17-06, German, religious comments. 25322. 5905, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Pinneberg, 2003-2010, 17-06, German, weather report. 25432. // 6190 with SINPO 35433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** GOA [and non]. 11560Even, INDIA, AIR Pashto language service as originate from Bangalore 500 kW, test signal of odd_1012 Hertz tone / into regular program signal which heard from crash sudden start at 0216:14 UT, heard in western Europe. Audio program feed switched on air suddenly midst in program content stream. S=9+25dB and \\ 11739.974, same program via AIR Goa Panaji installation, usual WHISTLE TONE (heterodyning) audio, failure at Goa which never solved in the past. S=7 signal in weEUR at 0224 UT. Log of last night June 15 at 0200-0230 UT, here in western Europe [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 15, WOR iog via DXLD) ** GUATEMALA. Radio Verdad, Guatemala, 4055 transmitter collapses 1 Files 113KB JPG 113KB Save [CC of a message to Ralph Wayne Borthwick, VA7GF, the engineer who has repaired Radio Truth transmitter in the past:] Last night by 8:30 pm (Guatemala time [0230 UT June 13), Radio Truth's Short Wave transmitter collapsed. It was not raining, neither any other abnormal situation. I made the diagnose this morning, and am attaching the results. The situation is not on my capacity, and we need you to make the repairs. I still have to find a way to finance your travel and repairs. I hope you are able to find a way to Guatemala. Please unload the attachments with all details and pictures. May God be with you. Yours in Christ. Édgar Amílcar Madrid, Radio Truth, Chiquimula, Guatemala, C. A. (June 14, via gh, DXLD) ``Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain Dear Mr. Édgar Amilcar, Radio Verdad seems to be out of air on short wave, 4055 kHz. Please, can you tell me when your station will be on air again? Thank you very much and greetings from Spain.`` 4055, June 15 at 0545, no signal from TGAV, Radio Verdad, normally on air until about 0615*. That`s because the transmitter ``collapsed`` per this from Dr. Madrid: [as above] On June 15, Dr Madrid replied to an inquiry from Manuel Mendez, Spain: ``Yes, Radio Truth is off air from last night. Our transmitter was burned out, and it is not on capacity to fix it. I have to wait until Eng. Ralph Borthwick comes from Canada to fix it. I am trying to put on the air a small amateur radio on on the meanwhile. I plan to attempt that this afternoon. May God be with you, and keep tune.`` 4055 again absent June 16 at 0557 check. Manuel forwards a further reply on June 16: ``We may be off air for several weeks. I attempted to put on the air a small transceiver today, but it didn´t work. We have to wait until Ralph Borthwick is able to come to Guatemala.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4055, RADIO VERDAD, Chiquimula, on air, 0430-0630*, 18-06, heard now with religious comments in Spanish. Very weak, best on LSB, later English program, at 0610 anthem and ID in several languages and English program again, closing at about 0630, 15311 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) 4055, June 18 at 0545, TGAV Radio Verdad is back, VP signal vs noise level; despite transmitter ``collapse``. It seems it was just a blown fuse, but of course that could still indicate a bigger problem. Manuel Méndez, Spain, received this early UT June 18 from Dr Madrid: ``I have good news: Radio Truth is on the air with full power. After some checking, I decided to start transmitter. When I put power on, there happened a strong explosion on Module B, but transmitter went on the air with 300 watts power. Then I installed a spare Module, and it came on the air with full power. I still need to get the 15 A, 600 V. thermal fuse though. I adapted a regular 15 A, 250 V fuse for the mean time. That`s a very difficult fuse to get in Guatemala. I will keep you informed. May God bless you. Édgar Amílcar Madrid, Radio Truth`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thank you very much. I am hearing now Radio Verdad here in the North West of Spain with Spanish program. Very weak, but Radio Verdad is on air again. Very good job. Congratulations. Greetings from Spain. GUATEMALA, 4055, RADIO VERDAD, Chiquimula, on air, 0430, 18-06, heard now with religious comments in Spanish. Very weak, best on LSB. 15311 later English program, at 0610 anthem and ID in several languages and English program again, closing at about 0630. 15311 (Manuel Méndez, Spain, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) ** INDIA. The 100 kW SW transmitter of AIR Mumbai is not heard for the last few days on 7340 kHz. The sked is 0025-0430 Urdu, 0830-1130 Urdu, 1130-1140 HS, [i.e. news in English, not Hindi? -gh] 1230-1500 Sindhi, 1500-1600 Baluchi Maybe 11935 is also off at 1745-1945 English (E Africa) Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, 1201 UT June 19, dx_india yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM & INTERNET. Sirius XM Available online with selected channels at siriusxm.com (Mike Terry, June 16, WOR iog via DXLD) Was that all you meant to say in this particular instance? I briefly held a tiny amount of shares of SIRI so I know the company happens to also now own the Pandora online outlet. In the last proxy card before I dumped all my shares in them I hadn't seen anything else interesting coming up (Stephen Michael Kellat, Ashtabula, Ohio, ibid.) I should have added that I'm listening in the UK; it`s free to air. (Mike Terry, ibid.) ** IRAN. 13639.969, VoIRIB Arabic from Sirjan, S=9+45dB real powerhouse! phone-in by males - what else, at 0821 UT. 05.0-0830 UT ... and accompanied by a lot of 10 x spurious strings visible either sideband, 50, 100, 150 ... 500, 550, and 600 Hertz distance apart/ log of Middle East Doha Qatar remote SDR check, few monitor checks also via remote Moscow Russia SDR unit too, at 0700 til 0900 UT June 16 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 16, WOR iog via DXLD) VIRI IRIB PARS TODAY on unscheduled 13745, June 20: 0600-0720 on 13745 SIR 500 kW / 198 deg N/ME Arabic, instead of 13640 0723-0733 on 13745 SIR 500 kW / 198 deg N/ME Spanish,instead of 17780 0733-0820 on 13745 SIR 500 kW / 198 deg N/ME Arabic, instead of 13640 0723-0735 on 17815 SIR 500 kW / 295 deg SoEu Arabic, instead Spanish: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/viri-irib-pars-today-on-unscheduled.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News June 19-20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. 9860, June 14 at 0505, R. Japan ID amid news in English, good S9+10 to S8, VATICAN relay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. Voice of Korea on wrong frequency 11735 kHz, instead of 9890 kHz, June 14 1500-1757 on 11735 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME Arabic/English/Arabic, instead of 9890: Very good signal, videos will be added later today (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News June 13-14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5935, Shiokaze-Sea Breeze, 1332+ 11 June. Back here & in the clear, but stepping all over XPBS [Tibet], alas. 6045, National Unity Radio, 1320+ 11 June. NK jammer apparently off today, leaving NUR's cheerful KR programming all by itself (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA Executive Satellit/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. UZBEKISTAN, Four clandestine broadcasts via RRTM Telecom Tashkent, June 13 Radio Free North Korea, extended, ex 1200-1300 UT 1200-1430 on 11510 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean, fair/good signal, BUT 1300-1315 on 11510 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan Voice of Tibet co-ch! Voice of Wilderness 1330-1530 on 7615 TAC 100 kW / 070 deg to NEAs Korean, weak to fair North Korea Reform Radio 1430-1530 on 11565 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean, poor & weak, plus QRM at same time 11560 BGL 500 kW / 325 deg to WeAs Pashto All India Radio-strong Voice of Martyrs 1530-1600 on 7530 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean, fair/good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/four-clandestine-broadcasts-via-rrtm.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News June 13-14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 12923-CW, June 18 at 1346, a rare CQ marker: CQ CQ CQ DE HLW2 HLW2 HLW2 QSX 12 MHZ K. That`s Seoul Radio as in EiBi, but call shown as innumeric HLW only (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 4885, Echo of Hope - VOH, 1156, June 18. About a month ago the schedule was changed for the English language lesson - "Easy English," during their former 1240-1300 time period; today tuned in to find them already in progress and ending right at 1200; one announcer was Isaac, who has his own "Isaac Communication Center" (ICC), that produces YouTube videos http://bit.ly/2WKvfR6 At 1200, Today's News ("oneul-ui sosig"). So there have been some changes to their former schedule at https://radio.chobi.net/DX/bbs/?res:3859 but not sure just how much of a change? "Easy English" website - http://home.ebs.co.kr/easye/main My VOH "Easy English" audio at http://bit.ly/2WSmNEc 5920, Voice of Freedom, 1300, June 18. In Korean; mostly fair. My audio at http://bit.ly/2RsbYmw (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) Hello Ron, Your east Asian/Bhutan logs and notings very much appreciated here, too! 73 and thank you! - Steve McGreevy in the CA desert... Oh, BTW, what is the reason for the fast "reverb/echo" on the 4885 VOH recording of yours?! Do they have perhaps TWO transmitters broadcasting this English/Korean lesson language? Reminds me of the 774/828/747 Japanese (NHK-1) EE/JJ language lessons, too-hi! :-) GREAT recording(s) you do! Thank you again good Sir! - (Steve McGreevy -- N6NKS – www.auroralchorus.com, ibid.) 4885, Echo of Hope - VOH, "Easy English" podcast from 1142 to 1200, on June 19 (Wednesday); fair reception; // 3985 // 5995 // 6250 // 6350 // 9100; program announced as "Saturday," with a review of this weeks homework; again with Isaac as one of the presenters; very readable (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. FRANCE, Reception of Denge Welat via TDF Issoudun on June 17 1600-2100 on 11530 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish, very good With a frequent interruption of the audio, same as in the morning: 0230-0500 on 9525 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish 0500-0600 on 11530 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/reception-of-denge-welat-via-tdf.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News June 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) MOLDOVA, Reception of Denge Welat via Grigoriopol on June 17 0600-1600 on 11530 KCH 300 kW / 130 deg to WeAs Kurdish, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/reception-of-denge-welat-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News June 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. Very good signal of MOI Radio Kuwait in 16mb on June 13 2000-2400 on 17549.8 KBD 250 kW / 350 deg to ENAm Arabic Gen.Sce https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/very-good-signal-of-moi-radio-kuwait-in.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News June 13-14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15540, Radio Kuwait, 1900, 6/15/19. Presumed that is R Kuwait doing pretty well here, 15540, and scheduled to stay on frequency to -2100*. Odd programming mix of Arabic rap, English language history segment, etc. Lots of rushing noise in background and fades, but impressive signal at peaks. Annouoncements hard to decode in the noise but mention of Oman at 1901, into news/commentary program with OM and YL in English. Kept it until 19045 [sic] tune-out. Lots of recognizable pop songs (recognizable for my Shazam app, that is!), a ten minute segment about Allah, some promo plugs. Not bad at peaks but again, spoken audio tough. Thanks to Mike Nikolich for the alert (Ralphus W. Perry, Wheaton, IL, Equipment: Drake R8B, Dentron Super – Tuner, Ameco & Palomar Preamps, Wellbrook Loop, 350’ LA BOG, Delta Skyloop, NASWA Flashsheet June 16 via DXLD) 15539.7, Radio Kuwait at 2043 UT June 15 in AM Mode with English pop songs "You`re In Love With A Psycho" by Kasabian and "Don`t Leave" by Snakehips & M0. Time pips at 2100, then into Arabic program // 17550.07 kHz. Weak in static with 17 MHz Fair. Noted back in DRM mode at check 1930 UT June 16. Thanks for the tip from Gillies Letourneau. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Ant: Wellbrook ALA 100, Receiver: Perseus SDR, WOR iog via DXLD) 17550.563, June 15 at 2053, JBA carrier, probably R. Kuwait`s Arabic to us, a widely variable/jumpable transmitter. However, I can`t be 100% sure since computers in the house also transmit such things all over the SW bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Very good signal of MOI Radio Kuwait in 16mb on June 17 2000-2400 on 17549.8 KBD 250 kW / 350 deg to ENAm Arabic Gen.Sce https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/very-good-signal-of-moi-radio-kuwait-in_18.html Reception of MOI Radio Kuwait in 19mb DRM, June 17 1800-2100 on 15539.8 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/reception-of-moi-radio-kuwait-in-19mb.html Fair/good signal of MOI Radio Kuwait in 49mb on June 18 0200-0630 on 5959.9 KBD 250 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic Gen.Sce https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/fairgood-signal-of-moi-radio-kuwait-in.html Very good signal of MOI Radio Kuwait in 19mb, June 18 0500-0800 on 15529.8 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English Sce: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/very-good-signal-of-moi-radio-kuwait-in_8.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News June 17-18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good signal of Radio Kuwait in 16mb on June 19: 1000-1200 on 17760 KBD 250 kW / 084 deg to SEAs Filipino https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/good-signal-of-radio-kuwait-in-16mb-on.html Reception of MOI Radio Kuwait in 19mb on June 19 1600-1800 on 15540 KBD 250 kW / 100 deg to SoAs Urdu, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/reception-of-moi-radio-kuwait-in-19mb_19.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News June 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KYRGYSTAN =========== 11/06-2019 KYRGYSTAN? On June 1 a test broadcast began on new transmitter 612 kHz (Central Asia) referred to in the press as "Silk Road". Following plans for transmitter [UT?] 00:00 to 12:00 the national program "Kyrgyz Radio". 12:00 to 13.55 - a pause. 13.57 - call sign Transmir Radio (TWR). 14:00 to 16:30 - TWR program in different languages in Central Asia. Omnidirectional antenna. Vasily Gulyaev (11/6-2019) Could it be the 612 kHz from Bishkek? / Ydun Ritz https://mediumwave.info/news.html (via Rus-DX 16 June via DXLD) ** MALAYSIA. Fair signal of RTM Wai or Limbang FM on June 14 from 0808 on 11665 KAJ 100 kW / 093 deg to SEAs Malaysian: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/fair-signal-of-rtm-wai-or-limbang-fm-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News June 13-14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. RADIO TEOCELO: SOS José Soto Galindo 09 de junio de 2019, Radio Teocelo es un participante de la industria de la radiodifusión en México con las manos atadas. Es un concesionario social comunitario, con un título que le permite utilizar el espectro para ofrecer servicios de telecomunicaciones y radiodifusión sin fines de lucro, bajo un modelo de financiamiento impuesto por ley que le asfixia. Trabaja con equipo técnico que le fue donado hace más de 25 años y cuyas condiciones hoy ponen en riesgo su operación. Y encima, como toda la industria, enfrenta el desafío de la radio de nueva generación: migrar de lo análogo a lo digital. Radio Teocelo tiene medio siglo de experiencia en la radiodifusión. Fue fundada en septiembre de 1965 en Teocelo, Veracruz, a unos 25 kilómetros al sur de Xalapa. Es pionera entre las radios comunitarias de México y en una industria llena de tiburones, diseñada bajo la ley del más fuerte. Una rara avis en un sistema que es benévolo con los amigos e implacable con los desconocidos, como también lo es Telecomunicaciones Indígenas Comunitarias A.C. (TIC A.C.) y otras organizaciones con vocación comunitaria y de beneficio social metidas en la industria. Atiende a una población de 400 localidades de 12 municipios de Veracruz, con una audiencia potencial de 500,000 personas. Su cobertura es de 50 kilómetros y transmite con las siglas XEYT [sic] desde el 1490 de AM. Radio Teocelo es una radio hecha por la comunidad para la comunidad, como si un conjunto de vecinos comprometidos con su entorno decidiera tomar los micrófonos y ofreciera servicios informativos, de entretenimiento y culturales a otros vecinos. Ganó el Premio Nacional de Periodismo 2003 en la categoría Orientación y Servicio a la Sociedad por el programa Cabildo Abierto, como un ejercicio de gobierno abierto y participativo, de transparencia, rendición de cuentas y contraloría social. Un programa de difícil realización desde una radio privada y comercial. Radio Teocelo es parte del llamado “tercer sector” de la sociedad, con identidad distinta de los sectores público y privado. Y también con un título de concesión distinto, que le ata las manos para hacerse de recursos suficientes que le permitan cubrir sus gastos de operación y permitirse la reinversión. El artículo 89 de la Ley Federal de Telecomunicaciones y Radiodifusión (LFTR) le impone un modelo de financiamiento de pocas verticales: donativos en dinero o en especie; aportaciones voluntarias de sus radioescuchas y realizadores (es donataria autorizada por el SAT); proveeduría de distintos servicios informativos y de radiodifusión sin fines comerciales, y renta de sus instalaciones y competencias. La última línea de financiamiento permitido es buscar parte del 1% del presupuesto de comunicación social de las entidades de la administración pública federal a escala nacional, conocido comúnmente como publicidad oficial. Radio Teocelo también es pionera en lo que hoy en la industria de los medios de comunicación se conoce como “vivir de la audiencia”: contar con más ingresos aportados por la comunidad a la que se atiende que por ingresos por concepto de publicidad u otros servicios. Pero no es suficiente: Radio Teocelo sirve a una comunidad muy concreta en un estado con un índice de marginación muy alto (1.4 en 2015, el cuarto más alto de México). Se trata de población en los deciles socioeconómicos más bajos, campesinos y productores de café, principalmente. clip_image004 Cobertura en vivo de Radio Teocelo durante la fiesta del Santo Entierro de Cristo, en enero de 2019. Foto: Cortesía Radio Teocelo El Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) ha descrito a la radio local, indígena y comunitaria como promotora de la cultura y las tradiciones de las comunidades, lo que genera arraigo, cercanía, identidad y fortalecimiento de los lazos comunitarios. Además, documentó el IFT en 2017, “permite prepararse ante una contingencia, conocer los beneficios de distintos programas sociales, participar en la vida de la comunidad, preservar sus costumbres y tradiciones”. Es útil y necesaria y representa el pleno ejercicio del derecho a comunicar, del derecho a la información y de la libertad de expresión. “Necesitamos ayuda para seguir siendo un medio de comunicación cercano, transparente, con incidencia y que sea contrapeso del poder”, me dijo Élfego Riveros Hernández, representante legal de Radio Teocelo y miembro de la Asociación Veracruzana de Comunicadores Populares, A.C. (Avercop), la entidad que posee el título de concesión. Se requiere un cambio de política pública y de modelo para la radio comunitaria de México, que permitan a estas estaciones dejar de ser pocas, pequeñas y pobres (PPP). Radio Teocelo necesita reconvertir y modernizar la estación. Por eso ha lanzado un SOS, con la esperanza de que se escuche y sea atendido mucho más lejos de su zona de influencia. José Soto Galindo - Editor de El Economista en línea = Economicón --- Periodista. Desde 2010 edita la versión digital de El Economista en la Ciudad de México. Maestro en Transparencia y Protección de Datos Personales por la Universidad de Guadalajara. Tiene especialización en derecho de las telecomunicaciones y las tecnologías de la información. Su blog personal es Economicón. (Enviado por: "Carlos J. V., radioescucha, via Juan Franco Crespo, Spain, DXLD) 1490 is the frequency, Kenneth, mentioned once in this long article. But the IRCA Mexican log says it is 1/1 kW on 1490 called XEYTM, and ``Still active on AM in 2017; web page still only mentions AM in 2018``. But what is the web page? WRTH 2019 agrees on 5-letter call, and http://radiotelocelo.org.mx and hours 11-02 UT (gh, DXLD) ** MEXICO. A new Mexican X-bander... but we already missed it! I'm researching the 2019-2020 edition of the IRCA Mexican List. I'm surprised at all the new info I am finding so soon after publishing last fall's big update. Probably the most amazing thing of all is the current Mexican administration's favorable attitude toward pirate station operators. A pirate on FM 105.5 in Tarandacuao, Guanajuato applied for, and was granted, a license to construct a "social community" station on 1670 kHz under callsign XECSCA. The AM 1670 went on the air in January, and the station's Facebook page brazenly stated they would be back on FM in a few months (despite there seemingly being no such allocation for this market). Sure enough, the station's Facebook page (I'll paste the URL below) now shows them operating on 106.7 FM, and the station just confirmed via Facebook message that they have vacated 1670 AM! https://www.facebook.com/Radio-Comunitaria-Tarandacuao-AC-164562973697289/ 73 (Tim Hall, June 16, ABDX yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) AFAIK no one ever reported DXing the 1670 station (gh, ibid.) Good to see these community stations. Yeah, I need to get the DKAZ Phased Array back up as I could steer a decent beam for Mexico and it won't hurt DU season. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, IL/WI, ibid.) Yeah, but I hate to see pirates get rewarded... Another interesting new CP is XECSCGU-1620 (the first 7-letter call on Mexican AM!) in Guachochi, CHIH, which is licensed to a drug rehab center and would most likely have a religious format based on some clues in the licensee's name. ‎This new CP would seemingly void the longstanding allocation for 1620 in Cd. Juárez. Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone (Tim Hall ibid.) The logo image on their Facebook page gives 105.5 MHz (Mauno Ritola, Finland, ibid.) That's their old pirate station. They got licensed for ‎1670 AM, went on the air very quickly (January) and immediately claimed via a Facebook post that they would be returning to FM in a few months. They seemed to do exactly that. I think they returned to FM around April. They told me yesterday in a private Facebook message that they are currently only broadcasting on 106.7 FM. Very strange. I don't think a CP was publicly granted for 106.7. The current administration is being very friendly to pirates. It's no wonder the piracy on FM is out of control now. 73 (Tim Hall, Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone, June 17, ibid.) ** MEXICO. ´Silencian´ radiodifusoras --- https://www.elmanana.com/silencian-radiodifusoras-instituto-federal-de-telecomunicaciones-cateos-operativo-federal/4849243 This is excellent news. I helped plant these seeds two years ago. I hope this is a trend. Let’s hope they keep this up. Best, B M E (Bruce Earle, TX, June 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: REYNOSA --- SILENCIAN´ RADIODIFUSORAS Cateos en Reynosa: sacan del aire a 5 estaciones ´piratas´ Desbandada: asegura IFT transmisores y computadoras Por: Nubia Rivera 19 / Junio / 2019 - SE ESFUMAN. La radiodifusora ´´La Que Pega Duro´´ 104.5 FM, ubicada en la zona centro, lució ayer con los micrófonos desiertos. A la derecha ´´La Radio del Barrio´´, 100.5 FM, opera en La Cañada y ´´Radio Oie´´ 92.1 ubicada en la zona centro. Cinco estaciones de radio ´´piratas´´ fueron sacadas ayer del aire en la ciudad de Reynosa, luego de que personal del Instituto Federal de Comunicaciones (IFT) bajo custodia de elementos militares realizaron incursiones y cateos en las instalaciones para asegurar transmisores y sistemas de cómputo. El súbito operativo federal obligó minutos después a una desbandada del personal de las radiodifusoras y los recintos cerraron sus puertas o bajaron las cortinas de metal para restringir el acceso ante eventuales nuevas incursiones del IFT para retirar los módulos de transmisión y los CPU de información. Fuentes gubernamentales consultadas por EL MAÑANA confirmaron que el despliegue con apoyo de personal de la Octava Zona Militar se realizó en atención a denuncias de la Cámara de la Industria de Radio y Televisión y denuncias anónimas ciudadanas. ´´Son varias las estaciones ´piratas´ en Reynosa que operan en condiciones irregulares´´, dijo la fuente que solicitó mantener su identidad bajo reserva, y reveló que al menos 200 radiodifusoras transmiten ilegalmente en el país sin permisos oficiales. Ayer, EL MAÑANA realizó un recorrido para verificar la operación de algunas estaciones de radio que fueron cateadas y se constató que en horas de la tarde, al menos tres estaciones se encontraban cerradas: en ´´La Que Pega Duro´´ 104.5 FM ubicada en la zona centro, ´´La Radio del Barrio´´ en la 100.5 FM que se encuentra en La Cañada y la ´´Radio Oie´´ 92.1 en la zona centro. En ´las oficinas de ´La Que Pega Duro´´ 104.5, en la calle Aldama, se dejó en una mesa un refresco a medio terminar, además de que el sistema del aire acondicionado estaba encendido, pero con las luces apagadas y cerrado, lo que generó conjeturas de que el personal había abandonado repentinamente el inmueble. En la lista de estaciones de radio que no cuentan con los permisos necesarios aparecen también ´´La Suprema´´ 92.5 y en Río Bravo ´´La Comadrita´´ 89.7 y 97.5 FM. Hasta el cierre de edición, el Instituto Federal de Comunicaciones no había emitido ningún pronunciamiento sobre el despliegue de su personal en la ciudad de Reynosa por lo que se desconoce el balance oficial sobre el equipo y material de cómputo asegurados. Por su parte, la vocería de la Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional, a través de la Octava Zona Militar, confirmó a EL MAÑANA que en el operativo participaron soldados en los protocolos de vigilancia pero que no hubo intervención directa en los cateos o decomisos. ´´Fue un operativo del personal del IFT para decomisar antenas parásito´´, manifestó la Sedena. El IFT es un órgano autónomo que se encarga de regular, promover y supervisar el uso, aprovechamiento y explotación del espectro radioeléctrico, las redes y la prestación de los servicios de telecomunicaciones y la radiodifusión. OTROS MUNICIPIOS Los cateos a las estaciones de radio se despliegan simultáneamente en las ciudades de Nuevo Laredo, Miguel Alemán y Díaz Ordaz donde al menos otras cinco permanecen cerradas. Se informó que son radiodifusoras que no cuentan con los permisos correspondientes y en otros casos no cuentan con documentación legal que los avale para operar o que operaban con permiso temporal. Durante los cateos del IFT no se realizan detenciones ni se desmantelan antenas, solamente se aseguran los módulos de transmisión y el CPU de información. En la mira: Operativos >´´La Que Pega Duro´´, 104.5 FM, ubicada en la zona centro. >´´La Radio del Barrio´´, 100.5 FM, opera en La Cañada. >´´Radio Oie´´ 92.1 ubicada en la zona centro. > Otras estaciones bajo investigación: ´´La Suprema´´ 92.5. > En Río Bravo ´´La Comadrita´´ 89.7 y 97.5 FM. Los decomisos: >Módulos de transmisión. >Los CPU de información. # INSTITUTO FEDERAL DE TELECOMUNICACIONES # CATEOS # OPERATIVO FEDERAL (via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) ** MEXICO [and non]. June 3 Es to [from!] Mexico, Texas and Cuba I finally broke my Es drought on the afternoon of June 3. There were three different openings as far as I can tell. The first was the most substantial, lasting a little over an hour. I received 15 new logs from several Mexican states and a sixteenth from TX. The Es took a short break but returned about an hour later, this time to Cuba. I only got one new log before this opening faded out, but it was a good one. I had a listenable signal from CMBT-1 92.3 Loma Travieso, Cuba (1103 miles, 613 watts) for a couple minutes. While I was eating dinner just after 8:00, my recordings caught a few minutes of weak Es to Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, an area where I didn't have any logs. I received two new logs from this opening. New logs: XHKH 91.7 Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro, 1191 miles, 6000 watts, "Top Music 91.7 mention XHY-FM 96.7 Celaya, Guanajuato, 1205 miles, 6000 watts, Radio Lobo mentions and Radio Lobo in RDS XHQRT 90.9 Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro, 1189 miles, 50000 watts, "91 DAT - Número 1 en Éxitos" XHTU 92.3 Tuxpan de Rodriguez Cano, Veracruz, 1122 miles, 20680 watts, mention of call letters and La Mexicana XHBV 95.7 Moroleón, Guanajuato, 1242 miles, 3000 watts, Radio Alegría and call letters XHTW 94.9 Tampico, Tamaulipas, 1027 miles, 12500 watts, La Lupe 94.9 mentions XHTEZ 90.9 Teziutlán, Puebla, 1180 miles, 2000 watts, Teziutlán FM and call letters XHPECD 89.7 Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, 1170 miles, 3000 watts, call letters and Magnética FM heard, the station interfering at times is relog XHID Álamo, Veracruz (1112 miles). XHCRA 93.1 Álamo-Temapache, Veracruz, 1102 miles, 40230 watts, XHCRA appeared in RDS information XHEJE 96.3 Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, 1167 miles, 6000 watts, This one was in just long enough to hear "Radio Reyna". XHGF 97.3 Gutiérrez Zamora, Veracruz, 1133 miles, 25000 watts, ad for restaurant in Tecolutla and La Ley 97.3 XHETO 98.5 Tampico, Tamaulipas, 1028 miles, 24000 watts, "Romantica 98.5 - Música para tu Corazón" heard multiple times and also appeared in RDS info XHEOLA 103.5 Tampico, Tamaulipas, 1029 miles, 25000 watts, multiple mentions of La Huasteca XHMDR 103.1 Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas, 1026 miles, 50000 watts, multiple mentions of Imagen and bogus PI code of A071 in RDS Spy, which matches the WTFDA FM Database. Is there any chance XHEPO is using this same PI code? If so, I'll remove XHMDR as a new log. XHXR 100.5 Ciudad Valles, San Luis Potosí, 1070 miles, 25000 watts, ment. La Mensajera KPAC 88.3 San Antonio, TX, 600 miles, 69000 watts, PI code of 379E in RDS Spy and classical music CMBT-1 92.3 Loma Travieso, Cuba, 1103 miles, 613 watts horizontally, Ment. Radio Jaruco XHK 90.9 Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, 742 miles, 3000 watts, Ment. XHK XHNOE 91.3 Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, 743 miles, 48500 watts, PI code decoded as KNOE and matched the previously heard XHK. Attached Files XHETO 98.5 Tampico, Tamaulipas 06-03-19.mp3 (763.5 KB, 1 views) XHGF 97.3 Gutierrez Zamora, Veracruz.mp3 (1.92 MB, 2 views) XHKH 91.7 Santiago de Queretaro, Queretaro 06-03-19.mp3 (1.41 MB, 1 views) XHPECD 89.7 Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato 06-03-19.mp3 (1.89 MB, 2 views) XHQRT 90.9 Santiago de Queretaro, Queretaro 06-03-19.mp3 (454.9 KB, 2 views) XHTEZ 90.9 Teziutlan, Puebla 06-03-19.mp3 (1.60 MB, 2 views) XHTU 92.3 Tuxpan de Rodriguez Cano, Veracruz 06-03-19.mp3 (1.22 MB, 3 views) XHXR 100.5 Ciudad Valles, San Luis Potosi 06-03-19.mp3 (1.80 MB, 1 views) CMBT-1 92.3 Loma Travieso, Cuba 06-03-19.mp3 (1.55 MB, 9 views) (Josh Moore – KG5JEL, Mountain Home, Arkansas (EM36ui) Receivers: AirSpy-R2 (primary). Tecsun PL-880 (secondary and travel radio). Antenna: Innovantennas 17 element beam at 30 feet, June 11, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) That's awesome that you received CMBT-1 "Radio Jaruco"! I work on the FM DB all the time as an editor and Cuba is one of my assigned countries to edit. I dream about receiving stations like Radio Jaruco. This year has not been good so far up here in Springfield for FM Es. IF there was Es to my area on the 3rd, I missed it because I had to work. And I'm glad to see you are cleaning up on México also (Jim Thomas, Springfield, MO EM37, June 11, ibid.) XHPECD is new for the 2019 skip season (in fact there are two other stations on air or on those frequencies for less than 18 months: XHXR and XHK — but XHPECD came on in December). It's only 3 kW! Nice catch. "XHPECD Magnética FM, al aire desde Dolores Hidalgo, Cuna de la Independencia Nacional, en el estado de Guanajuato, con estudios y planta transmisora ubicados en Carretera Dolores-Guanajuato #361, Ejido Los Carrillo ... 3,000 watts de potencia, 89.7 megahertz." https://goo.gl/maps/vGji4BNR9ayvRe9M6 The fun thing about Street View is that it went by the site twice in consecutive months but the tower was put up between the two visits! (Raymie Humbert, AZ, ibid.) ** MEXICO. Enviado: jueves, 20 de junio de 2019 2:26:12 CEST Asunto: [Radioescucha] DX Radio Centro ¿Debacle? Radio Centro prescinde de Sergio Sarmiento; “a petición de la empresa deja de transmitirse mi programa el 12 de julio” junio 19, 2019 por etcétera Tal y como lo adelantamos poco después del mediodía de este miércoles, el periodista Sergio Sarmiento confirmó a través de su cuenta de Twitter su salida de Grupo Radio Centro el próximo 12 de julio. @RadioCentroMX trata de solventar su desplome económico quedando bien con @lopezobrador_ : @SergioSarmiento dejará la emisión a mediados de julio. En los pasillos de la empresa le dicen "Chairocentro" y se preguntan quién llegará entre los voceros de la 4T. En un sencillo mensaje informó que a petición de la empresa, su programa vespertino dejará de transmitirse en tres semanas. Agradezco a Francisco Aguirre Gómez y Juan Aguirre Abdó el apoyo y la libertad en 36 años de colaboraciones”, agregó. El próximo 12 de julio dejará de transmitirse mi programa de radio @SarmientoRadio en Radio Centro Noticias a petición de la empresa. Agradezco a Francisco Aguirre Gómez y Juan Aguirre Abdó el apoyo y la libertad en 36 años de colaboraciones Durante 14 años, Sergio Sarmiento encabezó junto con Guadalupe Juárez el noticiero matutino de Grupo Radio Centro, colocándose en los primeros lugares de rating nacional. No obstante, desde el 14 de enero, Sarmiento pasó al noticiero vespertino con la llegada de Carmen Aristegui, quien en el primer semestre del año no ha logrado colocarse en los primeros lugares de rating, ocupados por los noticieros de Radio Fórmula, Noticias MVS y W Radio. En su propio comunicado, Radio Centro dijo que “de común acuerdo y en los mejores términos se ha programado que el periodista Sergio Sarmiento transmita el 12 de julio su última emisión en Radio Centro al frente del programa que ha conducido de lunes a viernes de las 17 a las 20 horas”. Asimismo, no perdió oportunidad para resaltar que el ciclo de Sarmiento se ha “significado por un ambiente permanente de libertad y respeto”; sobre quién lo sustituirá, la empresa sólo se limitó a decir que informará más adelante. Desde diciembre pasado, con la llegada de López Obrador a la Presidencia, Radio Centro fue uno de los medios que empezó a hacer reacomodos de su oferta informativa. Los primeros días de ese mes anunció la salida del periodista Carlos Loret, quien apenas llevaba ocho meses al aire con buenos niveles de audiencia. Diferentes colegas y parte del público acusó de censura. Aunado a lo anterior, Radio Centro lleva varios años inmerso en una crisis financiera que se niega a aceptar pese a las evidencias; aunque este año había prometido que en el primer semestre estaría al aire su canal de televisión abierta en la Ciudad de México, se tuvo que posponer ante los problemas financieros. Según un reportaje recién publicado en la página elceo.com la empresa arrastra un pesada deuda de 4 mil 414 millones de pesos, casi lo doble de su valor de capitalización, lo que tiene en un hilo los rumores de su posible quiebra. Enviado por: ("Carlos J. V.", Mexico, via JUAN FRANCO CRESPO * STAMP JOURNALIST (AIPET), SÀLVIA 8 (MAS CLARIANA), E-43800 VALLS-TARRAGONA (ESPAÑA-SPAIN-ESPAGNE-SPANIEN). DXLD) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- including DTV = TDT Breaking News: Imagen to Sell XHDL and XHAV to El Heraldo de México Good Sunday morning! The broadcasting industry awoke to this press release as a full-page ad in the El Heraldo de México newspaper today: COMUNICADO A LA OPINION PUBLICA [see image]: http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?9113-The-Mexico-Beat&p=47857#post47857 Grupo Andrade, the automotive group that owns the El Heraldo de México, is buying Imagen Radio's XHDL-FM Mexico City and XHAV-FM Guadalajara, https://heraldodemexico.com.mx/pais/grupo-imagen-y-grupo-andrade-suscriben-acuerdo-para-que-el-heraldo-de-mexico-adquiera-frecuencias-de-radio/ subject to IFT approval. This is a massive first move into station ownership for this newspaper and will result in another new entrant to the Mexican broadcasting industry. Imagen will use the sale proceeds to expand Imagen Radio and strengthen Imagen Televisión, according to the release. The press release also mentions that El Heraldo will absorb the staffs of XHDL and XHAV or at least make for a soft landing. Wait, who? The story of the El Heraldo de México name is long, though its revival is recent. The first newspaper to carry the name was started in 1965 and did not have any connections to broadcasting. That changed dramatically when José Gutiérrez Vivó bought the paper in 2003 and relaunched it as Diario Monitor (uh-huh, that Monitor) in March 2004. The newspaper outlasted Radio Monitor but likewise became entangled in the group's financial troubles. The paper was rebooted May 2, 2017. http://www.elheraldodepuebla.mx/archivos/7787 The newspaper has produced some broadcast programming. In early 2018, it backed an afternoon newscast with Alejandro Cacho that was produced by Acustik, and it currently has an afternoon newscast on the ABC Radio stations. That programming will likely form a critical backbone of the new XHDL and XHAV. The new El Heraldo de México is owned by Grupo Andrade, whose corporate website includes nary a mention of the newspaper and emphasizes its core competency in the car dealer business in the Mexico City area. For RMX, what now? The people with most to lose are in the RMX side of Imagen. Andrade could make major program changes to this rock station, not least the near-certainty of installing its own news service, and it may be very tempting for El Heraldo to go to a talk format. RMX has been operating for 13 years in Guadalajara. RMX programming still airs on 105.9 San Miguel de Allende and 90.7 Cancún outside of Imagen talk hours. That is probably going to end in the near future. Mexico City FM sales don't come along every day This is the first sale of a Mexico City FM radio station, and I mean an outright sale, in quite some time. The most recent acquisition of note would probably be Grupo Imagen being sold to GEA in 2003, and after that, you have the Ondas de Alegría/ARTSA trio selling to Grupo ACIR in 1995; Radio Centro's acquisition of Radio Red, with its 88.1 and 91.3 frequencies, in two stages between 1994 and 1996; and XHMM (SOMER) being bought by NRM in 1995. In Guadalajara, the wait is much less shorter: MVS bought XHLC-FM just last year from its original concessionaire. We'll be processing this one for a while, and it'll be fascinating to see how Andrade, new to broadcasting, performs not just in Mexico City, but in Guadalajara. Corrected some dates. Last edited by Raymie; 06-17-2019 at 12:53 AM. (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, originally June 16, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) I have been writing here nearly five years, and today, one of the best articles I've ever had the pleasure of reading in this field has come out. It's by Itzel Castañares for El CEO, a business site: "Radio Centro, a punto de colapso". https://elceo.com/negocios/radio-centro-a-punto-del-colapso-apaga-estaciones-programas-y-hasta-el-canal-de-tv/ Let's slow walk some of the shockers in this article... • GRC's total debts are 4.414 billion pesos — double the company's market cap. • The bad times started when Francisco Aguirre Gómez took over for Carlos in 2013. (Francisco and Carlos are among a total of 11 Aguirre Gómez siblings!) • GRC is planning on selling as many as 20 stations in order to meet obligations to bondholders, and the company is doing due diligence to verify the validity of the concessions. "Basically, Grupo Radio Centro would remain only in Mexico City," according to a source. • The TV station and XHPBCQ-FM Cancún—at 86.5 million pesos, IFT-4's most expensive single station—might be in danger. With regard to XHFAMX, Castañares reports that Radio Centro has yet to acquire the TV transmitter or build TV studios—and in the case of the latter, no plans to build studios are in the offing. • When Castañares asked Francisco Aguirre Gómez for comment, he said, Vamos no bien, vamos de maravilla — "We're not just doing well, we're doing marvelously." Wow (Raymie, June 17, ibid.) No Room at the Inn: Grupo Siete Outta Luck On June 13, all seven IFT commissioners, three IFT unit heads, the director general of the IFT department that produces spectrum and frequency studies, and a bunch of other office heads met at the Pleno Room and listened to a presentation by Andrés and Karen Sánchez Abbott, the director general of Grupo Siete and the head of radio, respectively. What they were asking for, to me, seems like a giant shrug emoji. Said meeting was to try and get XEROK and XEWG migrated to FM in Ciudad Juárez. http://www.ift.org.mx/conocenos/pleno/entrevistas-comisionados-agentes Wait, what? Well, to explain my confusion, I need to start with a document series that has been invaluable since it was published: the 2016 frequency studies for second-wave migration. These were produced by the General Directorate of Spectrum Engineering and Technical Studies (DG-IEET), within the Unidad de Espectro Radioeléctrico, and were made publicly available in the public comment period for second-wave migration. The 17 studies included every market that was included in the second-wave migration program, as well as two that were not: Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez. Tijuana was excluded because there was just no room for any station of any variety. (Though XHTIM being in the database makes me wonder about the quality of the records in the UER… It also contained several ghosts, including what appear to be two unused first-wave migration allocations and the original ghosts of 2000.) http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?9113-The-Mexico-Beat&p=46310#post46310 In Ciudad Juárez, the study found three available frequencies: 98.7, 101.3, and 107.9. The 98.7 frequency is parameter-restricted to 1 kW ERP because it is short-spaced to KSNM in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. The fact that Juárez has three open frequencies that could be legally awarded has been ignored even by the only people who could use them: potential community stations. (101.3 is currently home to La Voz, the first of the Voz y Visión Chihuahua pirates.) I have no record of any applications for a community station in Ciudad Juárez. While the 107.9 is obviously in the reserved band, Article 90 reciprocity claimed the other two assignments for the city. (In short: because XHUAR and XHNZ exist and can’t be moved, the open allotments must be reserved to compensate.) As such, Juárez was left out of the migration program because there was no space at all to relocate a commercial station. It’s not wrong to say there is room for additional Juárez-region radio stations. One is in the pipeline: the UACJ station green-lit earlier this year for Práxedis G. Guerrero after a 10-year wait, which I suspect will be given the 90.1 (B) assignment that is the only one for the community. (For some reason, the FCC also lists an 89.9 A assignment next door in Guadalupe Bravos, which won’t exactly work!) The key to additional stations for the region is El Porvenir, home of XHEPR-FM 99.1, a Class C station that turns 25 this year and is the youngest radio station in all of Juárez. El Porvenir also has 91.3 A, 96.9 C, 104.7 B, and 105.5 B. (One of the last three frequencies will become a forthcoming B1 allotment in IFT-8, which was incorporated in the 2018 PABF.) The 91.3 would barely rimshot Juárez using the Class A reference distance (Raymie, June 18, ibid.) Mexico Beat Exclusive: Two Ministros de Culto on the Rolls — Two Concessions on Shaky Ground Yesterday, in the wake of the continuing controversy over the La Visión de Dios award, the IFT issued a statement in which they explain in finer detail the criteria that allow them to reject some radio station applications for being associated with a ministro de culto — a registered religious minister. It’s a good explanation of what they can deny and what they can’t. Mostly, they can only deny religious associations (ARs) and actual ministros de culto from having concessions. The IFT says they have denied 17 applications because of the presence of the latter in the applicant’s structure. Using these criteria, I decided to verify if the members of any known civil associations with religious stations, as well as some stations awarded directly to people, showed up on the official SEGOB Directory of Religious Ministers. http://www.asociacionesreligiosas.gob.mx/work/models/AsociacionesReligiosas/pdf/Numeralia/MC_por_SGAR.pdf (It's 2,273 pages, as a note.) Two of them did, and today, I am calling on the IFT to rectify its mistakes by proposing the revocation of one concession and ordering the removal of one member from the civil association that holds another. XHPBJZ-FM Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oax. (Publicando Valores, A.C. — FER097486CO-517404) XHPBJZ-FM on 98.9 MHz was approved on May 23, 2018. This AC has four members: José de Jesús Gutiérrez Gutiérrez, Carlos Javier Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Olga Maribel Gutiérrez Gutiérrez, and Rubén Cuevas Estrada. Previous reporting here on Publicando Valores turned up this information on the applicants: I found one reference to the owners, in a magazine titled "Publicate de los Altos" https://www.scribd.com/document/55762656/1%C2%AA-Edicion-de-Mayo-2011 which apparently originates in Tepatitlán de Morelos, Jalisco, where José de Jesús, a priest who was ordained in 1996, led 50 pilgrims from the Istmo region on a pilgrimage. The publication also has a tie to this application: Rubén Cuevas Estrada is listed as the magazine's director general. [Additionally, Publicando de Valores has a legal address in Tepatitlán.] A more recent article from 2018 describes the priest as the "director of media and spokesperson for the Diocese of Tehuantepec". http://cambiodigital.com.mx/mosno.php?nota=370056 The diocesan website prominently features a link to a radio station it currently operates, "Guadalupe Tu Radio" on 95.7, in Tehuantepec. It currently operates 16 1/2 hours a day http://diocesisdetehuantepec.org/index.php/menupastoralessectoriales/menupastoraldecomunicacion with a variety of Catholic programs as well as programming from Vatican Radio. José de Jesús Gutiérrez Gutiérrez appears on page 1212 of the SEGOB list, which is sorted by religious association. As indicated above, Gutiérrez belongs to the Diócesis de Tehuantepec. Publicando Valores could come into compliance with the law if José de Jesús Gutiérrez Gutiérrez is removed as a member from the civil association. XHPEEF-FM Ejido Hipólito Landeros, Texistepec, Ver. (Eulalio Domínguez Soto — Not in RPC) On November 28, 2018, the IFT approved a resolution to award a concession stemming from an April 29, 2014, permit application. This resolution granted Eulalio Domínguez Soto a concession on 102.1 MHz in Texistepec, Veracruz. Domínguez Soto’s new XHPEEF-FM is the legalization of an existing Christian pirate in Texistepec, “Radio Santidad” 102.5. It also should never have been awarded. Eulalio Domínguez Soto is on page 1218, associated with the Unión de Iglesias Evangélicas Pentecostés Independientes Príncipe de Paz. This concession should never have proceeded to the Pleno to be approved. Because it is held by him directly, the only potential remedy would be a revocation of the concession. There is no RPC folio for XHPEEF at this time. For Everyone Else, Mostly Good News A search of the other ACs and people that hold concessions for stations broadcasting primarily religious programming turned up no results in the SEGOB directory. In some cases, however, the IFT does not have sufficient ownership information available on the AC to check. This includes many recent assignments (Voz de Transformación, Centro de Rehabilitación El Olivo, etc.) as well as the following: • Radio Familia, A.C. — XHDAB/XHGYC • Familia Brillante, A.C. — XHIXMI • Veritas Medios Globales, A.C. —*XHCRIS In the case of XHIXMI, I am concerned. Their legal representative, Francisco Javier Solís Domínguez, appears on page 884 and is affiliated with the Iglesia Cristiana Independiente Pentecostés. However, further information is not available. However, for XHPBJZ and XHPEEF, the information above raises doubts about the validity of the concessions and the IFT's decisions to grant the applications (Raymie, June 19, ibid.) Without a doubt, we are observing the birth of a new giant in information. According to his comments on this You Tube space (JesusMartinMX), the RMX format belonging to IMAGEN this week will continue broadcasting until 23:59 Hrs next Sunday. After of 00:00 Hrs on Monday, June 24, Grupo Andrade will broadcast its new programming bar that includes the appearance of a musical offer along with the spoken one. Jesus Martin Mendoza, has confirmed that he will have news space simultaneously in 98.5 fm of CDMX and 100.3 of GDL in a pending schedule to be confirmed. Today, some a few hours ago, Sergio Sarmiento has announced that he leaves his space in GRC 97.7 FM by request of his company (GRC) since next July 12th. He thanked all the people involved and the company for allowing to express himself freely for 36 years. (Of course divided in two stages). I think something is happening in GRC. This people are under many pressure. Rgds (f_santosp, Junior Member, VERACRUZ, June 19, ibid.) The winds of change are blowing at Constituyentes 1154 and it feels like one day the whole place is gonna come figuratively tumbling down. The Jesús Martín Mendoza news is also really noteworthy, though kind of to be expected given he's one of their columnists. They also announced their afternoon and evening hosts: Salvador García Soto and Alejandro Cacho. (The latter will create a gap for the ABC stations that have been airing him in early afternoons.) For El Heraldo de México, this is more of a prestige play than anything. There's obviously been enough of a reception to their radio newscasts, and in general since the newspaper was revived two years ago, that they wanted a broadcasting station of their own. And Imagen, evidently wanting money to get the remaining TV transmitters built, was happy to sell (Raymie, June 20, ibid.) If the name Scott Kaplan sounds familiar to you, that's because he was one of the most visible air personalities in the closing days of the Mighty 1090 on XEPRS. Now Kaplan is talking with the Bicharas about forming a partnership to resurrect the sports station. https://barrettsportsmedia.com/2019/06/18/kaplans-wants-mighty-1090-back-on-air-by-august-1/ On his radio show-on-YouTube yesterday, he explained, "It was much more about me going to the Bichara family and making it very clear, I'm not the guy who was part of the previous regime that made you feel like you got screwed over in business. I have nothing to do with those people. I got screwed over, too." Kaplan hopes that the new "Team 1090" station would be up and running by August 1, in time for football season. It would probably use some of the old Mighty 1090 studio equipment which is still sitting there, unused. Additionally, there is talk about ensuring the station has accompanying digital platforms. ——— We have additional information about the events that led the IFT to pull the plug on XHFCT-FM in Tomatlán, Jalisco, coming from extracts of the resolution incorporated in Commissioner Mario Germán Fromow Rangel's written vote list for the day http://www.ift.org.mx/sites/default/files/voto_raz_mgfr_13aord_220519_acc.pdf while he was in Nanjing, China, for a conference. Here's how it went down. The Unidad de Concesiones y Servicios noticed something was up and called in the Unidad de Cumplimiento — the Compliance Unit — to investigate. The following is translated from the record, and it's a doozy: 1. By way of letter IFT/225/UC/190/2018, dated July 9, 2018, the Permittee [Comité Pro-fomento de la Cultura de Tomatlán, A.C.] was made aware that, after searches on various websites, including that of the Municipality of Tomatlán, Jalisco, it was found that Evelio Alcantar Cordero, Director General and legal representative of the Permittee, was on the list of service providers to the Municipality in 2014, 2015, and 2016. The Permittee was also informed that, on said site, it is found that, in the public records for the months of April, August, September, October, and November 2014, Evelio Alcantar Cordero received payments for "Income for Payment of Radio Advertising" and "Payments for Advertising Services". Additionally, the Permittee was informed that, based on the information available in the municipality's expense reports for those months, there are payments of $8,000 and $9,280 pesos each month for "Advertising on local radio station La Tropicosta 96.3" and "Payment for spots for the municipality of Tomatlán". ... 4. On October 22, 2018, the Director General of Verification [DGV], using the powers granted to him by the IFT's Organic Statute, created statement of facts IFT/UC/DG-VER/445/2018, detailing the content of various Internet broadcasts associated with the station "La Tropicosta, XHFCT-FM". These transmissions included the broadcasts of commercial message from various establishments and providers of goods and services in the region of Tomatlán, Jalisco, and nearby towns, among them, those associated with the brands "Toyota Puerto Vallarta" and "Farmacias Similares". ... 8. On December 11, 2018, by way of letter with folio number 056026, María de Jesús Salgado Arreola informed the DGV that she has contracted Evelio Alcántar Cordero for advertising services, at a price of 300 pesos a week, for advertising for her Farmacias Similares franchise, over the station known as La Tropicosta on 96.3 FM (XHFCT-FM). However, she noted that the agreement was made verbally. Salgado Arreola also sent her receipt for advertising payments, dated September 28, 2018. 9. On December 6, 2018, by way of letter with folio number 055579, Guillermo Mayorga Martínez, Sales Manager at CCDAutoSales Puerto Vallarta, S.A. de C.V. (Toyota Puerto Vallarta), responding to letter IFT/225/UC/DG-VER/1939/2018, made the DGV aware that, in the first half of 2018, the dealership established a commercial relationship with Evelio Alcántar Cordero, which included the buying of ad time on La Tropicosta 96.3 FM; given that the relationship was not established formally, he does not have the relevant contracts. However, he enclosed three invoices issued by Evelio Alcántar Cordero, for "Advertising Package", "Remote Control" [broadcast from the dealership] and "Mentions", issued on May 4, 2018, for $13,920; June 6, 2018, for $12,180; and July 3, 2018, for $10,440. Disclosure: I was the first person to inform XHFCT-FM of the decision from the IFT and have been in regular contact with the station since. Last edited by Raymie; 06-20-2019 at 07:06 PM. [tagline:] Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa (Raymie, June 20, ibid.) ** MEXICO, 6185, Radio Educación, Ciudad de México, 0445-0507*, 18-06, Spanish, theater play “Germinal, una obra del escritor francés Emille Zola”, songs and close. 14321. Also 0448-0512*, 20-06, Celtic music, “100 temas de música celta”, “Música de Irlanda...”, “Radio Edución”. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 5985, Myanmar Radio, last Friday's (June 7) edition of the language lesson started at 1255, while today (June 14) it started at 1230; was a repeat of the same program heard last week; as usual, was fairly readable; between the two five minute shows, program ID as "Learning English with BBC, Burmese"; here is last weeks audio at http://bit.ly/2WmXFAc (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** NIGERIA. 7255, Voice of Nigeria June 3 from 0745 in Hausa. Long talk, short chant, local drums and into English at 0758 including announcements and IDs. News in English at 0800. Best 73s, (Stig Hartvig Nielsen, listening in Deshaies, Guadeloupe, on a Tecsun PL-880 with 30 m longwire, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 7255-, June 18 at 0551, VON on early again with song accompanied by thumb piano, S9+10/20, but 0552 cut to humbuzz, off and on. 7255-, June 19 at 0611, VON is gone again. One of the most unreliable major SW stations. I suspect the problem is operational, not technical (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 7480, YHWH, 0408-0458* 8 June, 0431-0433* 11 June. Sounds live with PDT TC at closing with "creepy song" ("Days of Hard Life" by Lace) & usual anti-Christian/__________(fill in the blank) monologue. 7485, YHWH, 0443, 0510+, 14 June. Up 5 kHz today & on somewhat longer, as well. Assuming Josiah-Elias is transmitting from the CA high desert, propagation has been unusually good--no deep fade-to-black QSB (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA Executive Satellit/6m X wire, WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DX LISTENING DIGEST) YHWH frequency change to 7485 --- Just got home and tuned in YHWH at good level at times on 7485. Very strong reception from a Prescott Valley, AZ Kiwi SDR, besides lots of static crashes. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, BC, 0428 UT June 14, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) At 0940z [sic, means 0440 UT] (14 June) no-trace at all on 7485. Nothing! Ready for bed-reading with the DX-394 in my bedroom to a coiled-vertical on a cane pole - 5m high at top. If down in Kern Co. perhaps, no skip and no groundwave either here into Keeler, Calif. by Owens dry Lake. -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com [a bit later:] OK a faint, wavery bit of faint carrier fading-up at (now) 0444Z (No. Mojave Desert - Keeler, CA) on DX-394 in LSB mode tuned 1 kHz or so higher. No modulation products audible with such a faint and rapidly-fading carrier on 7485 (Steve McGreevy, -- N6NKS – http://www.auroralchorus.com WOR iog via DXLD) Strong in Idaho on SDR: http://ka7u.no-ip.org:8073/ [0451 UT:] STRONG about the "warped society" - "War heroes" STRONG on Weiser, IDAHO (also saying "War is not healthy") the New World Order etc. S7 and clean audio on this SDR (SDRKiwi). Now at 0500z after the "spooky" music back to "peaching" [sic] - not bassy audio (mid-range limited) on Weiser, Idaho (KA7U) KiwiSDR rcvr. Now only S5 on that unit. 7485 signal is just a faint, wavery/rapidly-fading carrier here and ~10-15 dB below CHU 7850's carrier which is fair on peaks http://kiwisdr.ve6slp.ca:8173/ S9+10 in Alberta on the VE6SLP KiwiSDR in Lamont, Alberta at 0505z on 7485: "Incredible! Sounds like Sci-Fi..." (Steve McGreevy, -- N6NKS – www.auroralchorus.com, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) At 0508, there's still a lot of static crashes. Don Moman's Perseus SDR has a mind blowing signal on 7485. "People of the world, I truly love you", etc. "Thank you so much for tuning in", and into another article about Yahweh, at 0510. In its own way, much more interesting to listen to versus Brother Stair! I suspect YHWH moved up 5 kHz to avoid the ute which is located between 7480.6 and 7483.8 or so. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, BC, ibid.) Yeah, Walt, I too found YHWH tonight on 7485 (via Idaho and Alberta KiwiSDRs a bit ago and my subsequent reports above) pretty amazing and a lot of it plausible, but a lot "in the realm of speculation" (and conspiracies, maybe). Sometimes Stair is interesting, too. Usually when I take evening walks with the Sony portable (Steve -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com 0555 UT, ibid.) 7485, June 14 at 0429, anti-Christ pirate, Station YHWH slid up to here probably to avoid ute QRM on 7480; S9+10 vs considerable fading and noise. Still screeding past 0502, later than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non]. Listening for YHWH on 7485 kHz, monitored MM/FF dialog in unknown language with music/songs from 0315 to 0330 UT signoff. Database shows BBC Farsi service to Iran at this time from Kishinev/Grigoriopol Moldova. Not familiar enough with Persian to recognize the language, but several mentions of “Iran”. Just occurred to me that if YHWH operator is an ultra-fundamentalist follower of “Yahweh”, he might not broadcast on UT Saturday in any case (Jim Barrett, 0359 UT June 15, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) Jim, I think you are correct. I don't recall hearing him on local Friday nights (Walt Salmaniw, ibid.) [But he was on next UT Sat] YHWH is on 7465 tonight --- Just noticed that he signed on just before 0332 on 7465 at fair level. So this time, he's been on 7480, then 7485 on Thursday night, and now 7465. Trying to get away from the digital noise sources close to both 7480 and 7485 (Walt Salmaniw, BC, 0337 UT Sunday June 16, WOR iog via DXLD) Much weaker tonight until sign off at 0444. Just above noise floor here, and none of the usual KiwiSDRs yielded a good signal. Too much static crashes tonight, plus a weaker signal produced an unpleasant listening experience. Best signals seem to come out of Alberta! (Walt Salmaniw, ibid.) You mean, into Alberta? (gh, DXLD) YHWH on 7470 --- Scanning 41 meters, I see a very weak carrier on 7470. Too weak into Victoria at 0309 UT, so I tried Don Moman's remote Perseus SDR in Lamont, AB and sure enough it's YHWH. Very interesting, that at 0311, for about 5 seconds, he dropped down to 7465 kHz, and at 0311:45-0312:05 there's a loud digital noise on the high side. I suggest that he should not have returned to this frequency! Very weak today, even on Don's equipment, with terrible static. Measured frequency is 7469.992 kHz. Weakest I've heard him since his return recently (Walt Salmaniw, BC, 0316 UT June 19, WOR iog via DXLD) YHWH 7470 tonight --- Just home tonight, and there's YHWH on 7470, at 0352 UT. Stronger tonight compared to last night, but still weaker than last week. Kiwi SDR from Lamont, AB is stronger, but once again, terrible summertime static crashes, making reception difficult! 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, 0355 UT June 20, WOR iog via DXLD) Hi Walt, June 20 - YHWH on 7470. Started out unreadable at tune in (0326), then improved to mostly readable (0340), then back down again (0405). At 0413, heard the distinctive song ("Days of Hard Life"), before going off the air (Ron Howard, California, ibid.) ** OKLAHOMA. 1460, KZUE, OK, El Reno – Slogan & Group to Grp = La Tremenda. (FCC) Grp = La Tremenda – KZUE-1460, K249FG-97.7, K249EN-97.7 (FCC) (Wayne Heinen, AM Log Update, NRC DX News June 25, published June 19, via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. RF 26, June 20 at 1455 UT, KTEN 10-1 Ada is decoding with NBC, along with 10-2 The CW, and 10-3 ABC, as this station remains affiliate of two major networks, just like in the old days when they had only one analog channel and cherry-picked which network to run at which times. After 1502 UT, I snapped a big ID slide, and then a multi-city super ID over programming, Ada-Ardmore-Sherman-Denison-Durant, in OK-OK-TX-TX-OK: http://www.w4uvh.net/KTEN1.jpg http://www.w4uvh.net/KTEN2.jpg My TV DX photo archive, which could need some updating: http://www.worldofradio.com/tvdxfoto.html BTW, a documentary history of KTEN has appeared on OETA, and I have it on tape. I see at rabbitears.info that KTEN is due to repack from channel 26 to 17, why? which means it will be blocked in Enid by K17JN-D except when it fails. Ada is not that far, but normally beyond range, 210 km = 131 st mi, city-to-city. This was from my higher rooftop antenna, aimed close to Ada a bit east from OKC, into my HDTV screen. Then I check my other lower antenna aimed more clockwise, and to my surprise thru its STB into LDTV get a PSIP on RF 26 for 6-1, KTAL-DT! Its own video may have decoded briefly, mixed with KTEN. KTAL is Texarkana-Shreveport, named for its one-time Tall tower (now 1524 feet AGL) halfway between in the NW corner of LA near Vivian. That would be approx. 525 km = 328 stmi. I think it`s new on DTV here, while seen a number of times when on analog 6. KTAL is staying on 26, so maybe will be getting it more once KTEN is gone, unless something else intervene. Per Hepburn maps, Ada is near the center of enhanced level 5-6 tropo ring while Enid is toward the edge at level 2-3, like Vivian on the opposite edge (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN [non]. IRAN vs. TURKEY --- PARS TODAY VIRI vs. Voice of Turkey on 9620 kHz June 19 --- Today again no signal from Radio Sultanate of Oman 14-22 UT on 9620 kHz 2023-2120 9620 SIR 500 kW / 298 deg to SoEu Spanish PARS TODAY VIRI 2030-2125 9620 EMR 500 kW / 105 deg to SEAs English Voice of Turkey 1400-2200 9620 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Eng/Ara RSO - no signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/pars-today-viri-vsvoice-of-turkey-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News June 19-20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4930 - according to my observations during a few last nights there was no signal and even no carrier on this frequency at the time period around 2300...2400. There are no new posts on Facebook since May 20, no update of their web page with not working stream: http://www.radiosurandina.com/ (Karel Honzik, Czech Republic [or Germany] via RealDX via Shortwave Bulletin June 16 via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) ** RUSSIA. [Re 19-24, more about plans to reactivate 100 kW SW from Kamchatka, presumably meaning Petropavlovsk, to serve remote Chukotka. No mention of DRM this time --- gh] Far East and Chukotka ------------------------------------- In a short time, through a powerful radio center located in Kamchatka Yelizovo, it is planned to distribute the broadcast of Purga Radio to the entire territory of the Chukotka Autonomous Region. From an interview with Nikolai Garanin, Head of the Television and Radio Workshop of the city of Anadyr of the RTRS Branch “Delnoeostochny Regional Center”: “For us, the best option was to use the capabilities of the Kamchatka radio center, equipped with a 100-kilowatt radio transmitter, thanks to which residents of remote areas of Chukotka can receive the signal, having the most simple radio receivers that receive short waves. Thus, it will be possible to promptly deliver news and other programs to the workers of the reindeer-breeding brigades, fishermen, hunters, geologists and prospectors. We have already checked the range of radio signal coverage from Kamchatka, which is about 90% of the territory of Chukotka, which is a lot. Specialists set up a diagrammatic field, and its focus on Chukotka had to be regulated for almost four months in order to cover the territory as much as possible. All technical moments are coordinated with the center in Moscow. Information about the frequencies at which it is supposed to broadcast, we will give separately." Excerpt from the material of the portal "Far North". https://vk.com/club171176221 (via Rus-DX 16 June via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) ** SAMOA. 2AP --- off the air? Noticed this on FB. https://www.samoaobserver.ws/category/samoa/20466?fbclid=IwAR1RF4WeES86M556Y7j53gar5QperbM-kpCJFWdZLC_rZFrigZyKG8tyB7c With the mast toppled, is 2AP off the air until a new one is erected? Might have to dig into the article to find out. Yep, read the article. 2AP, 540 is temporarily off the air until a shorter mast is erected, and then a permanent one goes up. The temp one is 54 m, while the new one will be 80 m, and the old one 120 meters. Wonder how that will affect reception? PS: Too bad Cook Islands couldn't have done the same thing! Seriously, the Cooks are much more spread out compared to Samoa, so MW makes more sense there (Walter Salmaniw, BC, Jun 16, IRCA iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) Actually, Walt, when I was on Aitutaki in the Cook Islands in the spring of last year (about 150 miles north of Rarotonga) I couldn't find a single person who had ever listened to 630-Radio Cook Islands. Because of its wimpy signal (due to lack of maintenance) the station would routinely get plastered on the frequency by 630-RNZ and 4QN every evening (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA), ibid.) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 13610.045, SBA / MOCI facility in Riyadh, 1st Arabic program, S=9+25dB in Doha Qatar, scheduled 0600-1357 UT, at 0731 UT. and accompanied two spurious of 120 Hertz distance apart either sideband. Log of Middle East Doha Qatar remote SDR check, few monitor checks also via remote Moscow Russia SDR unit too, at 0700 til 0900 UT June 16 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 16, WOR iog via DXLD) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020, SIBC, 1320, 1406+, 10 & 11 June. SIBC left their carrier on again after 1200*; weak but clear & thanks to Ron Howard's tip for this one (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA Executive Satellit/6m X wire, WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5020, SIBC, June 14, another day they didn't turn off the transmitter at 1200; still being heard 1336+; today was able to confirm faint audio of definite non-stop pop songs. 5020, SIBC - the Voice of the Nation, on June 18, transmitter still on at 1305+, but unable to detect any audio (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. SABC TOTAL BLACKOUT WARNING -- Staff Writer 16 June 2019 https://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadcasting/310295-sabc-total-blackout-warning.html?source=newsletter The SABC is facing a serious financial crisis which forced it to make a difficult decision at the end of May – pay salaries or pay municipal bills. This is according to a Sunday Times report, which said the state broadcaster opted to pay salaries, meaning it now owes the City of Johannesburg more than R13.5 million. This decision did not solve its financial problems, and SABC board chair Bongumusa Makhathini told the Sunday Times that the broadcaster is not sure if it will be able to pay salaries this month. Apart from its municipal bills, the SABC owes Sentech R317 million and MultiChoice division SuperSport R208 million. Total blackout warning Due to its financial problems, the SABC has also stopped maintaining its infrastructure and Makhathini warned that a communication blackout is imminent. This followed a similar warning by SABC CEO Madoda Mxakwe who said in May that the public broadcaster was in danger of experiencing a total broadcasting blackout due to its crippling debt and lack of relief funding. Mxakwe said the SABC is not able to pay its creditors and while the company’s application for a R6.8-billion bailout was approved, the funds have not yet arrived. This means that if it is unable to secure sufficient funding, the SABC will be forced to cut its national broadcast due to the inability to continue operations. “We never had a blackout before, but if the funding doesn’t come soon the possibility of a blackout is imminent,” Mxakwe said. No serious cost-cutting To cut costs and make itself sustainable, the SABC previously planned to retrench up to 981 permanent employees and 1,200 of its 2,400 freelancers. However, political pressure forced the broadcaster to abandon the mass retrenchment process it outlined late last year. This decision followed a number of engagements between the SABC, its employees, and various stakeholders. The SABC acknowledged that it needs to review its increase in costs and conduct a thorough skills audit. The outcome of this audit, the SABC said, will provide it with a more defined structure and plan for the future. “This will ensure that the SABC meets its strategic objective of operating optimally and competitively in a digitised environment,” said the SABC (via Tim Gaynor, NSW, WOR iog via DXLD) Important, but FYI, this story did not make the cut for a WOR 1987 mention, as SABC has nothing to do with SW anymore (gh, DXLD) Re: SABC Day Zero can happen tomorrow – CFO https://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadcasting/310387-sabc-day-zero-can-happen-tomorrow-cfo.html?source=newsletter (via Tim Gaynor, NSW, WOR iog via DXLD) In Finland we've had for couple of years a so called YLE-tax. Every tax payer (over certain amount of income) pays money to our public broadcaster YLE. That keeps them afloat. Myself, I'm happy to pay the tax, because I get interesting programs on both radio and TV. Compared to to commercial channels, well you know what I mean. 73, (Jari Savolainen, WOR iog via DXLD) Jari's idea might work in a well paid country with high employment rates, but here in South Africa a small minority of the population earn enough to pay any tax at all. https://www.fin24.com/Budget/why-budget-2019-will-create-more-pain-for-taxpayers-20190220 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg, ibid.) ** SURINAME. 4990, Radio Apintie at 0005 on June 2 with a surprising good and readable signal. Dutch speaking announcer taking phone calls and asking for text messages from listeners. Also noted a lot of other times. Among others on June 3 at 2200 with an a cappella shout ID. Believed to be 24 hours a day. Best 73s, (Stig Hartvig Nielsen, listening in Deshaies, Guadeloupe, on a Tecsun PL-880 with 30 m longwire, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** SWEDEN. News from the Alexander Association Grimeton SAQ Veteran Radio Friends http://www.alexander.n.se SAQ Grimeton Transmission on June 30th, 2019. The annual transmission on "Alexanderson Day" with the Alexanderson alternator on VLF 17.2 kHz with the call SAQ will take place Sunday, June 30th, 2019. Two transmissions are scheduled as follows: Startup of tuning at 10:30 (0830 UT) with a transmission of a message at 11:00 (0900 UT). Startup of tuning at 13:30 (1130 UT) with a transmission of a message at 14:00 (1200 UT) Both transmission events will be broadcasted [sic] live on our YouTube Channel. NEW ! ONLINE RECEPTION REPORT FORM TO REPLACE E-MAIL REPORTS We are introducing a new online SAQ reception report form to be used by listeners to report reception of any SAQ transmissions. We are kindly asking listeners not to send SAQ reception reports via E-mail. QSL-reports to SAQ are kindly received via: - Reception report form at alexander.n.se/receptionreport - or via: SM bureau - or direct by postal mail to: Alexander Association Radiostationen Grimeton 72 SE-432 98 GRIMETON S W E D E N The Amateur Radio Station with the call “SK6SAQ” will be QRV on the following frequencies: - 7035 kHz CW or - 14035 kHz CW or - 3755 kHz SSB QSL-reports to SK6SAQ are kindly received via: - Email to info@alexander.n.se - or via: SM bureau - or direct by postal mail (see address above) Two stations will be on the air most of the time. The station will be open to visitors between 10.00 am to 4.00 pm. WELCOME! World Heritage Grimeton Radio station and The Alexander Association For further details, see http://grimeton.org or http://alexander.n.se (via Mike Terry, June 15, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) ** SWEDEN [non]. 15510, U.K., Radio Sama / IBRA, 1729, 6/15/19. Signal abruptly on at 1729.30 with chant and then 1730 official s/on with stringed instrumental music, drum tapping and YL announcements. Program in Beja Arabic via Woofferton. Fair signal, deep fades. Some great music (Ralphus W. Perry, Wheaton, IL, Equipment: Drake R8B, Dentron Super – Tuner, Ameco & Palomar Preamps, Wellbrook Loop, 350’ LA BOG, Delta Skyloop, NASWA Flashsheet June 16 via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. Re SOH ex Aoki Nagoya database XLS.list entry 13620 kHz - jammed marked * previous - seemingly frequency settled now 10 kHz up, or keyboard glitch(?) today ? - SOH now on 13629.993 kHz TWN SOH Chinese S=7-8 at 0852 UT June 16, probably scheduled 2130 til 1430 UT. Checked that 13630 kHz channel again today June 17, and heard instead 13629.999 1/2 kHz CNR1 program from 07.00 UT onwards in \\ 17580 kHz CNR1 same content. No SOH TWN sce heard on that 13630v kHz channel at this hour. listen both frequencies via remote Irkutsk KiwiSDR installation http://irk.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073/ [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] 73 (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 17, WOR iog via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. TAJIKISTAN, Frequency changes of V of Tibet June 15: 1230-1235 NF 9899 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 11661 1235-1250 NF 9886 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 11665 1250-1305 NF 9896 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 9899 1305-1312 NF 9884 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 9891 1312-1334 NF 9876 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 9884 1330-1400 on 9826 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan no change 1334-1400 NF 9884 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 9876 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/frequency-changes-of-voice-of-tibet-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News June 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 9515.69, V Turkey English YL talx re Turkey then at 0317 into Turkish music which was slightly better modulated & thus not so painful to listen to! At 0351 ID by YL with schedule into IS at 0353. 4+4+543 muddy modulation making copy a bit difficult despite the strong signal. 0310-0354* 8/Jun--(Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet 14 June via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) 9515, Voice of Turkey at 0256 with IS and ID loop to time pips at 0300 and a woman with ID, sked, web platforms, and contact info and another woman with program highlights and a woman with news at 0302 – Very Good June 13 It was nice to hear them on time and with a very very good signal for a change. One strange thing I noticed was that when they got to the 0300 transmission in reporting their sked they said they were beaming their signal to Eastern Canada and Cuba. What about the Eastern USA? Has Donald Trump pissed off Turkey that much that they don't mention they are beaming their signal there? 9830, Voice of Turkey at 2159 with IS and ID loop to time pips at 2200 and a woman with ID, sked, web platforms, and contact info then another woman with program highlights at 2202 and into news – Fair to Good June 14 – As with their 0300 transmission on 9515 it's nice to see the Voice of Turkey has finally gotten their act together (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S, Drake SPR-4, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 80 and 40 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, and a rotatable dipole made from two OPEK HVT-600 HF mobile antennas, ODXA iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) Voice of Turkey in Turkish on very odd frequency 13635.7 kHz, June 19 0600-0855 on 13635.0 EMR 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Turkish, as scheduled in A-19 0900-1155 on 13635.7 EMR 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Turkish, instead of nom. 13635 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/voice-of-turkey-in-turkish-on-very-odd.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News June 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. The site of "Ukrainian Radio" is transferred from the government domain gov.ua to the new domain rus.radio. This was announced on Facebook by the general producer of "Ukrainian Radio" Dmitry Khorkin. “The site of Ukrainian Radio is moving to a new European address: .radio is a new address: http://ukr.radio/,” he noted. Dmitry Khorkin explained that previously "Ukrainian Radio" was on the government domain gov.ua (gov - from the 'government'), which was provided only to state bodies and institutions. “As the Ukrainian radio is public, not government governmental, everything is logical! (For some time we still have the previous address as an additional address),” explained the general producer of UR. The manager of the Broadcast direction at Ukrainian Radio, Alexander Solomka, told Media Detector that the site on the old domain will work until the activity on the visit has faded. The new site can be found in the search engine for a few weeks. Now, for example, if Google introduces "Ukrainian Radio" into Google, then only the old domain is knocked out - http://www.nrcu.gov.ua/ Recall, on November 16, on the Day of Radio, Television and Communications of Ukraine, NSTU launched a mobile application for public radio, where listening to Ukrainian Radio, Radio Promin and Radio Culture is available. On gadgets on GooglePlay with iOS and Android operating systems, you can download the application suspilne.radio, which allows you to listen to all three radio stations of the Public Broadcaster and download programs from the archive. In February 2019, on the "Ukrainian Radio" created a map with Internet broadcasting of all regional radio stations from the Public network. In May, the site of the Ukrainian Radio published four interactive maps that reproduced, where and on which frequencies you can listen to Ukrainian Radio, Luch, Kultura, Voice of Donbass (Donetsk region) and Pulse ( Lugansk region) (Source: Portal "Public. Detector Media"). http://proradio.org.ua/news/2019jun.php (Rus-DX 16 June via DXLD) ** UKRAINE. The United States renamed Kiev in an international database. The United States Geographic Names Division (a division of the United States Geological Survey) decided to rename the capital of Ukraine from Kiev to Kyiv in its database, the Ukrainian Embassy in the country reports on its Facebook page. The publication says that Ambassador Valery Chaly requested this. The Office clarifies that after the entry into force of the decision on June 17, the spelling of the name of the capital of Ukraine will also change outside the United States, since foreign organizations are guided by the US base. In particular, we are talking about international airports. In late May, the Ukrainian government approved a change in the spelling of Slavic and, in particular, Russian surnames. It was noted that the adopted document would partially return to use the language norms that existed in Ukraine at the beginning of the twentieth century. So, the adjective endings of Russian surnames are now necessary to be written in the first line (Bliy, Ostrovsky), and names with the suffixes -sk-, -tsk- should be written with a soft sign (Mayakovsky, Trubetskoy). https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/5d0260469a7947489957b550 (via Rus-DX 16 June via DXLD) ** U K. [Continued from 19-24:] BBC director-general: We took on over-75s TV licences at height of austerity | BT http://tv.bt.com/tv/tv-news/bbc-director-general-we-took-on-over-75s-tv-licences-at-height-of-austerity-11364370572945 (via Mike Cooper, June 19, DXLD) ** U S A. High MUF noted with 25 MHz WWV being audible, or possibly someone else, as I didn't hear the time check at :55, just the time pips. All this at 0249 UT. Anyone else sharing that frequency? 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria BC, 0249 UT June 16, WOR iog via DXLD) There is a lot of sporadic E across the US per dxmaps.com, MUF above 25 MHz, but not up to 88 MHz. A while ago I noticed CB trucker channel 27025 was piled up (Glenn Hauser, 0254 UT, ibid.) Thanks, Glenn. I had forgotten about that resource. And, yes, it is WWV. Could just make out the announcements. No one else on that frequency according to WRTH 2019. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, 0300 UT, ibid.) Yes, Walt, WWV 25000 kHz huge signal here with usual WWV Male announcer. Hope to catch the ID at 0400 UT. 73 (Mick Delmage, AB, 0337 UT, ibid.) When this happen, tune the entire 11m band 25600 to 26500 or so looking for broadcast auxiliaries, probably NBFM mode --- if any still exist active. Used to be some in CA, TX, CO, FL, at least a few years ago, not necessarily on the air constantly (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Just copied WWV at 25, 20, 15, 10, 5, and 2.5 MHz at 0400 UT in East Central Minnesota. I really don't recall the last time I heard them all at the same time, but it's been decades. TNX for the tip. 73, (Mike Gorniak, NM7X, Braham, MN, June 16, ibid.) Nice Mike, Yes, all WWV are in here at 0408 UT. Although 25 MHz is much weaker I did catch the WWV ID at 0400 but no mention of 25 MHz. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, ibid.) First for 2019 for me for WWV on 25 MHz. SW propagation has been nothing short of terrible for a long time. 20 meters is practically dead most of the time, so it was nice to see e-skip reception higher up. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, ibid.) UTE Note --- 25000, WWV testing this frequency that was coming in very well at 0555 UTC June 16. Also noted from 0605 to 0610 UTC 60 kHz WWVB fair; 2.5 MHz WWVH fair and WWV Fair plus, 5 MHz WWVH and WWV both Very Good, 10 MHz WWVH Excellent WWV Good, 15 MHz WWVH and WWV both Very Good and 20 MHz WWV Very Good. So I logged all NBST frequencies at the same time and day --- a first for me. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Ant: Wellbrook ALA 100, Receiver: Perseus SDR, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) ** U S A [non]. PHILIPPINES: 15110 kHz Voice of America, via Tinang, Chinese, 13/06 1405. Instrumental music. Male and female communication. 35443. Tx to Asia with 349° Azimuth. THAILAND: 15165 kHz Voice of America, via Udon Thani, Chinese, 13/06 1350. Male communication. Instrumental typical music. Time pips on 1400. Sign-off. 35443. Tx from Udon Thani w/250° Az to Southern Asia (Rudolf Grimm PY2-81502 SWL, São Bernardo SP, BRAZIL, http://dxways-br.blogspot.com YouTube Channel: GrimmSBC Rx: KiwiSDR + PA0RDT Mini Whip, HCDX via DXLD) Rudolf, VOA does not run time pips. You were more likely hearing typical behavior of CNR1 jammer on 15165, and probably also 15110. It is rather important not to confuse jammers with their victims. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1986 monitoring: confirmed first US SWBC, Friday June 14 at 2200 on WRMI 9955, good S9+10/S9 and no jamming. Also confirmed at 0150 the 0130 UT Saturday June 15 on WRMI 7780, fair in storm noise level. Next: 0629 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany 1000 UT Saturday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW 1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 1431 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2100 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 0130 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] 1030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW 1815 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [2 editions] 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v [and/or 2130] 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 0930 UT Friday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7780, WRMI at 0134 with Glenn Hauser's “World of Radio” - Poor with heavy fading June 15 [UT Sat] (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S, Drake SPR-4, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 80 and 40 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, and a rotatable dipole made from two OPEK HVT-600 HF mobile antennas, ODXA iog via DXLD) GERMANY, Reception of World of Radio via HLR 6190 CUSB, June 15 0630-0659 on 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sat, weak (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, WOR iog via DXLD) Unlike Ivo's reception, 6190 was better than usual strength this morning at tune in towards the end of Glenn's WOR. The signal was reaching a S-9 level on my meter at times, but even so, it was a difficult to copy signal due to the ever present local noise (Noel R. Green in NW England, June 15, WOR iog via DXLD) Not confirmed the next HLR broadcast, Sat June 16 at 1430 on 9485-CUSB; absolutely no trace audible via UTwente SDR, just huge splash from 9490 Romania. 15770, June 15 at 2056, surprised to hear me in a routine bandscan. Yes, now showing on the WRMI skedgrid is an additional WORLD OF RADIO airing Saturdays at 2030 on 15770. First time on this frequency, I think, aimed NE toward Europe, mostly with SMTV daytime, but additional stuff tacked on before and after. Despite unfavorable azimuth for us to the NW, has been coming in better with sporadic E boosts. Not // 9395, the only other audible WRMI frequency; 7780 JBA carrier [WORLD OF RADIO 1987] WORLD OF RADIO 1986 further monitoring: immediately repeated Saturday June 15 at 2100 on WRMI 9955 after IS & ID loop, but upcut JIP in theme music, missing: ``This is Glenn Hauser, with WORLD OF RADIO 1986``. Fair-good but can also detect slight pulse jamming already. [WORLD OF RADIO 1987] Also confirmed, UT Sunday June 16 at 0140, the 0130 on WRMI 5850, very good. Due to severe storm noise could not confirm at 0330 UT Sunday June 16 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, but probably my voice amid WOR. Next: 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW 1815 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [2 editions] 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v [and/or 2130] 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 0930 UT Friday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW WORLD OF RADIO 1986 monitoring: confirmed Sunday June 16 at 2130 on WRMI 7780, JBA. Also confirmed UT Monday June 17 at 0130 on WRMI 9395, good, following the crazy ``SonPower Radio on 5850, 7455 and 9395`` ID. Also confirmed UT Monday June 17 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, JBA. Also confirmed UT Monday June 17 from 0302 on WBCQ-6, 9330.00, during a SuperStation test carrying Area 51 programming; VG S9+30/40!! while on original 5130.371 it`s JBA. Unfortunately there is no assurance or expectation that any WOR on 9330 will become permanent. [WORLD OF RADIO 1987] (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) I am hearing your show very, very clear here in NW Connecticut off WBCQ's new transmitter on 9330 from 11 to 11:30 pm ET. Show 1986. Off my G5RV antenna I getting the program S9+40 with some fades UP to +60. Zero noise. I can hear it well even on my cheap Tivdio V-115 with its built in antenna indoors. What is interesting is that 9330 and 7490 normally start skipping over not long after sunset. This has been S9+ all afternoon and now after sunset has only gotten stronger. Be well, (Chris, Loggings from Columbia, MD, USA, 0349 UT June 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Chris, Thanks; also pounding in here, and past 0500 with disco music. Unfortunately we can`t expect WOR on 9330 to continue after World`s Last Chance ministries takes over programming it, once testing is over (Glenn to Chris, ibid.) WBCQ, Monticello, ME, 9330, 17 Jun, English at 0207 with RNI program, excellent signal S9+40-50, 55555, slightly less after 0300 during airing of gh’s WOR 1986. 73 (Robert Butterfield, Columbia, MD, USA, Equipment: SDRplay RSPduo; 28m longwire with 9:1 Balun, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WoR 1986 via IRRS/Romania --- Confirmed today using the U. Twente SDR receiver with a very good signal on 7290 kHz starting around 1816:30 UT after the Triumphal March s/on theme (-- Richard Langley, Monday June 17, WOR iog via DXLD) Also confirmed UT Monday June 17 at 0330 on WRMI 9955; a few minutes earlier it was S9+10. Also confirmed Monday June 17 starting at 1816.30 on IRRS/NEXUS 7290 via Romania, VG via UTwente SDR, strong modulation, and no ACI or CCI. Tuned in at 1814 to some talk about gout! And into Aïda theme before WOR started, and ended at 1845:15; ID and 1846 Feature Story News from London. After 1900 I noticed that Dan Roberts` Shortwave Report` was playing, i.e. recordings of a few of his favorite stations; not a DX show. WOR 1986 also confirmed UT Tuesday June 18 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, JBA. Next: 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [2 editions] 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v [and/or 2130] 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 0930 UT Friday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7780, WRMI at 0100 with Glenn Hauser's “World of Radio” - Fair to Good with fading June 18 [Tue] (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S, Drake SPR-4, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 80 and 40 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, and a rotatable dipole made from two OPEK HVT-600 HF mobile antennas, ODXA iog via DXLD) WORLD OF RADIO 1986 monitoring: tuned in a minute too late, but confirmed at 2101, Wednesday June 19 on WRMI 9955, fair on the portable PL-880 and VP JBA on WBCQ 7490+, too weak to compare. This WRMI transmission has usually been upcut, so I time exactly when it end: 2128:39. Since #1986 lasted 28:48, playout likely started about 9 seconds before 2100:00; while transmitter does not bring it up any earlier than that ToH moment, out of synch. Also confirmed UT Thursday June 20 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, fair S9-S6, no upcut. WORLD OF RADIO 1987 contents: Antarctica non, Canada, China, Cuba, Guatemala, India, Korea South, México, North America, Perú, Russia, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sweden, Turkey, USA; Caribbean; propagation outlook WOR 1987 completed by 2308 UT Thursday June 20, ready for first airings Friday June 21: The shortwave broadcasts should be: 1000 UT Friday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW 2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 0629 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany 1000 UT Saturday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [June 22, July 6] 1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 1431 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2030 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 [NEW] 2100 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 0130 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] 1030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 9330? 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW 1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [2 editions] 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v [and/or 2130] 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 0930 UT Friday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1987 monitoring: confirmed first USA SWBC, Friday June 21 at 2200 on WRMI 9955, fair on PL-880 portable during Enid AC outage. Also confirmed UT Saturday June 22 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, S9/S9+10 fair vs summer non-nearby storm noise. Next: 0629 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany 1000 UT Saturday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [June 22, July 6] 1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 1431 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2030 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 [NEW] 2100 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 0130 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] 1030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 9330? 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW 1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [2 editions] 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v [and/or 2130] 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 0930 UT Friday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW Also check 9330 WBCQ for unscheduled airings during testing phase. [it appears we will now be running on a Friday-to-Thursday cycle, so freshest new airings are on weekends] Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI: ** U S A. 7780, VORW Radio International (via WRMI) at 0107 with the Five Man Band Electrical Band's “Absolutely Right” then a man with talk about the band and the song and ID of “This is VORW Radio International – the Voice of the Report of the Week” at 0109 and vorwinfo@gmail.com email address – Good June 14 The band he featured was from Ottawa, ON and were known as The Staccatos from 1963 to 1968 and The Five Man Electrical Band from 1968 to 1975. Their biggest hit was “Signs”. It's neat that this program features groups from the past who don't get a lot of airplay and up and coming indie acts in addition to established rock stars. 9395, VORW Radio International (via WRMI) at 0055 with David Bowie's “Heroes” and a man at 0057 with ID of “VORW Radio International - the Voice of the Report of the Week” and e-mail address of vorwinfo@gmail.com then some indie vocals – Very Good June 14 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S, Drake SPR-4, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 80 and 40 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, and a rotatable dipole made from two OPEK HVT-600 HF mobile antennas, ODXA iog via DXLD) Adjacent transmissions, but with all different content? (gh, DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. TIAMS#017, and some more with data content Here once more my complex HTML with all kinds of sonograms, especially interesting the ISB demodulation with the StereoTool-SBR component: http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2019-06-15.htm#TIAMS [favorite title this time: https://youtu.be/PxUEw4GO7nw ] http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2019-06-15.htm#SWRG "....brewing beer from recycled water" (Radio Prague - Story) [The main thing is the alcohol content. ;-) ] http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2019-06-15.htm#KBC [KBC with an RCI message] (roger, germany, WOR iog via DXLD) Hi All, I just saw this on the WRMI Facebook page: Alan. New program in WRMI from Friday, June 14th RADIO FOR PEACE INTERNATIONAL is being reactivated, although the new RFPI is not related to the old one in Costa Rica. We will emit in Short Wave on WRMI on frequencies of 15770 kHz on Friday at 2000-2100 UT for the Maghreb, 9395 kHz on Saturday at 2000-2100 hours Eastern Time in North America (0000-0100 UT Sunday), and on 6070 kHz in Europe and on our website http://www.rfpi.eu You'll be able to listen to our podcast shows on i-tunes, youtube podcasting platforms and on our facebook page. The broadcasts will be structured around 45-50 minute conferences on subjects that are related to peace, humanism, human rights, sustainable development ... The goal is not to impose a reality but to provide food for thought so that everyone can walk in respect, listening, sharing in order to build peace together (via Alan Gale, June 15, WOR iog via DXLD) 9395, UT Sunday June 16 at 0000, WRMI with new program ``Radio for Peace International``, opening with faux timepips, IDs in French, English at least, then into woman lexuring only in French. Checked here tnx to tip from Alan Gale, England earlier June 15 to the WOR io group [as above]. Well, if it is unrelated to RFPI CR, this is not a ``reactivation``. We were expecting this to start the week before, Friday June 7 at 2000 on 15770 when the air was dead instead. Contrary to the above, Ivo Ivanov says these RFPI are monthly: ``2000-2100 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu French 2nd Fri 1900-2000 on 6070 ROB 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu French 2nd Sat 0000-0100 on 9395 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg to ENAm French 2nd Sun`` But, but, altho June 14 was the second Friday, June 15 and 16, obviously? are the *third* Saturday and Sunday (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [it did air the next UT Sunday June 23 at 0000 on 9395 in French, repeat of last week -- gh] ** U S A. Monitored WRMI Sunday Evening / Monday Morning (UTC) 7780 kHz Schedule From my recording last Sunday evening, 16-17 June UT (again, mostly weak to fair signal for the first hour or so; reception improved significantly later as dusk approaches): 2015 Viva Miami (acknowledging listeners' reports) 2030 Reserve Military Retirement 2100 Wavescan (#538) 2130 World of Radio (#1986) 2200 Bob Biermann's Your Weekend Show 2300 Full Gospel Broadcast (again, tape bleed through on screams) 2330 Shortwave Radiogram (#104) 0000 Radio Slovakia International in Slovak 0030 Radio Slovakia International in English 0100 Wavescan (#538) 0130 Through the Cross Ministry with Pastor Chuck 0200 Radio Prague in English 0230 World of Radio (#1986) 0300 Transmitter off at 0259:58 cutting off the last few words of the station ID (-- Richard Langley, NB, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A. 15770, APS Radio (via WRMI) at 1211 in Spanish with a mix of Cuban salsa, Latin American ballads, and flamenco guitar instrumentals – Very Good June 18 – APS Radio is an internet radio station with several diverse channels that WRMI has apparently been relaying since early June. The posted is schedule is Monday to Friday from 1200 to 1300 on 15770 and Monday to Friday from 1900 to 2100 on 9455. While I did log them on 15770 this morning I have yet to hear then on 9455 despite North America being the reported target area (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S, Drake SPR-4, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 80 and 40 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, and a rotatable dipole made from two OPEK HVT-600 HF mobile antennas, ODXA iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) But, Ivo reports the same transmission above is canceled: (gh) Some changes of WRMI via transmitters #9 and #8 from June 18/22/23 [all ``YFR 100 kW`` altho not YFR and maybe not all 100 kW] https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/some-changes-of-wrmi-via-txs-9-and-8.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News June 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) viz.: tx#9 APS Radio from June 18 1200-1300 on 15770 / 044 deg to WeEu English Mon-Fri is cancelled tx#8 APS Radio from June 18 1900-2100 on 9455 / 355 deg to ENAm English Mon-Fri is cancelled tx#9 additional from June 22/23 2000-2100 on 15770 / 044 deg to WeEu English Fri RFPI as scheduled 2000-2030 on 15770 / 044 deg to WeEu English Sat/Sun Berean On Air 2030-2100 on 15770 / 044 deg to WeEu English Sat World of Radio 2030-2100 on 15770 / 044 deg to WeEu English Sun Wavescan Публикувано от Observer в 5:41 PM (via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ: ** U S A. 9330, WBCQ, ID & various 60-70s pop music like Allman Brothers' Ramblin' Man & Talking Heads' Life During Wartime & The Count Five Psychotic Reaction etc. An interesting mix! Killer signal: full 36+ dB SNR & signal peaking at -35 dBm. 55555 S9+40+ signal, no noticeable fading, just like a local, well modulated & within a few Hz of being 'on channel'. This is likely the 'new' transmitter and has to be putting out some serious kilowatts if not the full half megawatt. Opened up to 11 kHz bandwidth it sounded really good! 2205-2235 12/Jun, no noise reduction needed! (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet 14 June via DXLD) ** U S A. [9330] WBCQ --- They were on the super transmitter with Bro. Stair when I checked using my own receiver and the U. Twente SDR receiver around 0130 UT. Must have switched sometime after that (— Richard Langley, June 14, WOR iog via DXLD) 9330+, June 14 at 0428, Brother Scare on WBCQ, switched back to the old off-frequency transmitter, after having been on the new exact one when last checked at 0136, which was second night of testing it, but briefer and boringer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) To throw in a remark about the newest HFCC registrations: Transmitting on this frequency to target areas in the eastern hemisphere will simply not work between late morning and evening UT. A suitable starting point would be 15 MHz. Trying to use 9 MHz instead indicates a lack of even basic know-how in SWBC frequency planning. Which just further underlines the already raised and still completely unanswered questions (Kai Ludwig, Germany, WOR iog via DXLD) WBCQ: Fair to good reception but likely on their old transmitter tonight at 0429 on measured 9330.140 compared to 9330.000 and much stronger. Religious programming Overcomer Ministry. So the test from last night and overnight clearly not repeated tonight. Carrier is slowly drifting upwards (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, 0431 UT June 14, WOR iog via DXLD) Hi Walt and WOR, Yes, in here to the northern Mojave Desert at 0435z (14 June) with BroStair but not very strong and maybe 20 dB weaker than (peaks) a Chinese language station (CRI-relay? [CUBA]) on 9790 that is very good signal. Assume WBCQ is not beaming this way. 73 - (Steve McGreevy, CA, ibid.) Steve, last night the beam was to Mexico, and not to WCNA. Tonight, who knows, as it's the old transmitter (Walt Salmaniw, ibid.) 7490.1, UT Sat June 15 at 0002, WBCQ with ``William Tell Overture`` theme to `Allan and Angela Weiner WorldWide``, S9+10/20 but plenty of storm noise; also on 9330.1 ``classic`` transmitter, S9-S7, somewhat less noise but also less signal, so S/N is slightly better on the lower. AW says on all four frequencies tonight, but nothing audible vs noise level on 5130+ or 3265-. Quickly interrupted by a caller somewhere who I think was saying not heard on 5130. Allan says the new Continental transmitter issue has been fixed. Thalès in France air-shipped a replacement tube ring, which was the part that broke and leaked water. Now it has interlock issues --- won`t operate if there is any HV danger, apparently false positives? At this point 0009, it`s time for me to leave for tonight`s Enid Chautauqua performance by ``Che Guevara`` --- the actor needs some more Spanish pronunciation instruxion. Over to John Carver for his full report on tonight`s AAAWWW: ``Tonight's show started a few seconds early on 7490 after some fill music. Comments over the theme said that they were broadcasting on all frequencies this evening and there were issues with the new transmitter. Allan and Angela in the studio. A phone call immediately from Freddie with questions about the transmitter. Allan said that the transmitter has been repaired after the water leak but antenna work was ongoing. He said that now there was a problem with the interlock mechanism on the transmitter. Says he would like to have a transmitter that could operate more than twelve hours before shutting down. Says it's all damn digital crap. Way too many computers involved. He stated that for three million dollars the damn thing should work. He's still shooting for a start date of July 1 but says that if antenna work isn't finished they will only be broadcasting at night so the work on the antenna can continue during the day. Phone call at 0029 from Canada with questions about receivers and antennas in general. Phone call at 0039 from Ramsey commenting on the signal strength during this past week's tests. Phone call at 0049 from Bill Smith in prison. Says he's getting out of prison this next Wednesday. Reading of emails at 0054 along with another phone call from Freddie. Allan asks him to hold on so he can read the emails. Closing prayer at 0100. Allan mentions that 3265 will only be running Friday, Saturday and Sundays because of operating expense. Program was off the air at 0104. 7490 was off the air at 0111 after some more music. John Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9330.144, WBCQ poor signal in EUR, HIGH NOISE level though, poor S=4-5 signal at 0205 UT.Log of last night June 15 at 0200-0230 UT, here in western Europe [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 15, WOR iog via DXLD) The latest episode of AWR Wavescan (#538) featured Bob Zanotti interviewing Allan Weiner about the new transmitter and antenna. Worth a listen. During the interview, AW said that initially the new transmitter would be used exclusively by World's Last Chance (the proposed 24-hour daily schedule of WLC Radio is here: https://www.worldslastchance.com/wlc-radio-broadcast-schedule.html) but later on (when not specified) other programming could be aired. (-- Richard Langley, June 16, WOR iog via DXLD) Starts about 1/3 into the June 16 podcast at https://awr.org/program/engmi_wav-2/ (gh, DXLD) Just before 1700 UT June 16, 9330.00 with Brother Scare, S9+10 but fading, while 9265 WINB and 9395 WRMI are much weaker, JBA; even 9475 WTWW is weak. Manfred Korn in Stuttgart was also hearing AAAWWW between 04 and 05 UT June 16 on 9330, so tests have resumed/continued (Glenn Hauser, WOR iog via DXLD) 9330.00, June 16 at 1654, WBCQ-6 is on again, new transmitter testing, with oldtime hymn, soon into Brother Scare roarer; S9+10 with fading; much stronger than JBA 9265 WINB, 9395 WRMI, but even WBCQ cannot overcome the noise level. Recheck at 1754, off again, neither 9330v transmitter detectable. Manfred Korn in Stuttgart was also hearing AAAWWW June 16 between 04 and 05 on 9330, which must have been another #6 test (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I’m receiving WBCQ on 9330.10, at 1800 UT, so am wondering if this is actually the new transmitterz S9 to S9 +5 with Bother Scare flapping his gums. When the new transmitter was on a few days ago for its inaugural broadcast it was hitting S9 + 40, and was on exactly 9330.0. My QTH is only 137 miles north of Red Lion, so I rarely receive WINB well on 9265. A weak carrier is noted just above the noise level, which is typical at this location. WRMI on 9395 is about the same as WBCQ – about S9 to S9 + 5 at this time (Jim Barrett - Elmira, NY (Drake R8B with 125 foot long wire), WOR iog via DXLD) By my next check at 1754, could not hear either transmitter around 9330. When there is something on 9330.1, it`s certainly the ``classic`` transmitter, not #6 (Glenn Hauser, June 16, WOR iog via DXLD) WBCQ-6 on 9330 now --- Checking back at 2205 UTC June 16 - definitely #6 now - solid S9 +40 and dead on 9330.0 country song: “My old man” into saxophone jazz number at 22:09. Excellent audio quality (Jim Barrett - Elmira, NY, WOR iog via DXLD) After 2230 they went into disco classics. Funky town, etc., etc. Indeed very good modulation, with clean, 6 kHz wide audio. Roughly the same signal strength than WINB-9265 and WRMI-9395 here in Central Europe as well (Kai Ludwig, Germany, 2255 UT June 16, ibid.) Radio Timtron Worldwide, 2019 Father's day show, on at 2301 UT on 9330.00. Sold s20+ signal here in central Maryland. Lw (Larry Will, ibid.) So no `Le Show` at 2300 [as on 7490+]. `Marion`s Attic` was on 9330 by 2114, so we could hear that for a change. Was it `UBMP` after 2200? After 0000 UT [June 17] now it`s JL, apparently picking up Area 51 programming --- maybe still with WOR at 0300? Encore from Radio Tumbril could have been on 9330, but instead we have to hear it better on webcast (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) At a check just after 1600 June 16 WBCQ was rather poor with fading on 9330 running Overcomer Ministry; pretty sure it was the old transmitter, pretty much the same level as WINB, 65 kHz lower. However at a 0050 check UT June 17, 9330 is blasting into Houston, obviously the new facility; programming a profanity-laced rant about the recent oil tanker attacks (plenty of F-bombs and bull****s.) WBCQ is 1870 miles from my QTH (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, 0100 UT June 17, ibid.) At 0247, WBCQ is on exactly 9330.0 and very strong into Victoria, BC, so obviously the new transmitter, playing "These Eyes" by the Guess Who. Very strong with AW responding to emails, so live? 73, (Walt Salmaniw, ibid.) I`m hearing Johnny Lightning, yes, live, knows he is on 9330, not AW. Let`s hope this keeps going with WOR at 0300v (Glenn, ibid.) Oh, that's who it is. Sounds a lot like AW to my ear. Thanks, Glenn! Great, at 0302, into WOR 1986 (June 13th, so the most recent one). (Walt, ibid.) Fair signal at 0445 UT June 17 in Sofia, disco mx (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, ibid.) 0510 switch to WTO so an AAAWWW playback is starting (Glenn, ibid.) Unknown beam, 280 deg? (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) Test transmissions of "Super Power Station" WBCQ-6, June 17 Power, azimuths and target areas are tentative, according to HFCC. 0300-0700 on 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 280 deg to WNAm English, weak/fair 0700-0800 on 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 047 deg to WeEu English, very weak https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/test-transmissions-of-super-power.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News June 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9330.00, June 16 at 2103, WBCQ-6 is back on testing, S9+25 with gospel huxter, ID, rock music; while 7490+ is JBA at the Sunday hour scheduled for `Marion`s Attic` which is unlistenable most of the year on that lower daytime frequency. Too bad it`s not appearing on 9330 --- retune at 2114, now old music, as `Attic` has been picked up, late! Enough bigsig into the NRD-545 for AMS wideband listening --- but in this case, it just boosts the scratches on the inherently lo-fi music. VG except for some selective fading. Presumably well over 100 kW, but no news yet that WBCQ has run the new Continental at fullbore 500 kW. No time here for continuous listening, so I wonder if the next 7490 program, `UBMP`, followed on 9330 at 2200? Harry Shearer`s `Le Show` would be next at 2300, but must not have been as no such closing on 9330 before 2400. At 0000 UT Monday June 17, 9330 starting `Johnny Lightning`, so now it`s duplicating Area 51 programming from 5130+v. Spot chex during next trihour show he`s live and aware he`s also on 9330 this week. We were hoping A51 would stick past 0300, since that would put WORLD OF RADIO on 9330 --- and so it did, starting slightly late at 0302; and HRI followed, but at 0400 there is disco music for an hour (?). After 0500 ID and old `Allan Weiner Worldwide` playback from the era when Angela was merely his girlfriend; but you never know if or when he will mention the current YOOL date of the original live broadcast. 9330.00 at 0616 is still on with rock music at S9+20/30, strongest signal on band. 9330.14, June 17 at 1305 next check, now back to the ``classic`` transmitter, off-frequency with Brother Scare. Which number applies to it? 9330.00, June 17 at 2100 is next check, now on caradio, when #6 is back on with another `AWWW` playback, but cosmikdebris and Jane substituting, originally on March 29, 2019 as conveniently announced at the outset. First topic is the HAARP tests by Amanda Dawn Christie, then current. As usual, when Larry Will is doing it, he plays a good deal of music during the hour, which AW never does. VG signal has no trouble stopping the BST-1 memory scan. Unchecked what appeared in the 22-23 hour, but at 2300, ``WTO`` again and 2303 AW himself starting another WW playback, this time with date April 19. 2019, ``didn`t want to get political, but ---`` initial rant against income tax, which he says is illegal since the XVI Amendment was never ratified by enough states. Really? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_protester_Sixteenth_Amendment_arguments The hour before 0100 UT June 18 has more rock music; at 0100 yet another `AWWW` playback, starting with cabinet resignations in Canada some months ago, which Canadian Angela should have been following. Concludes with `news` that Brother Stair is out of jail. 0200 back to rock music. AW`s twits and WBCQ website are not giving any info about 9330 programming during these tests. Program guide is even more out of date than before, claiming e.g. that WOR is on 9330 almost daily at 2330, which stopped well over a year ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Off at 1000 on 9330.00 kHz. Surprisingly good signal also here in Eastern Finland, considering the low frequency and local midday here. Anyone know the current power? At 1001 I think the old transmitter was switched on at 9330.105 kHz. 73, (Mauno Ritola, June 17, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I did hear AW mention 500 kW, but I'm not sure whether this was the potential, or actual output (Walt Salmaniw, ibid.) 9330.122 kHz odd fq OLD TX Unit at 1410 UT June 17, S=6 in Detroit MI state (Wolfgang Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Fair/good signal of WBCQ on 9330 at 2100 tune in with Alan Weiner's Worldwide show. Testing the new TX? SIO 433 (Russ Cummings, AOR7030+, 18m long wire, North Ferriby, East Yorkshire, UK, June 17, bdxc=news iog via DXLD) WBCQ 9330 front end overload --- Well, it has finally happened --- WBCQ is the strongest signal at my location tonight (including some strong local AM stations) peaking at -29dBm out of the Wellbrook active loop. This is so strong that it is triggering occasional ADC [sic] overload on my RSP2 SDR. Good for WBCQ I guess but bad for me because if I reduce RF gain any further, the rest of the spectrum suffers. I might have to make a simple trap to notch them out. Hopefully they won't be beaming right at me too often. I can only hope there aren't any active SWLs anywhere near Monticello Maine. I can't imagine living near that beast (Paul Goelz, Rochester Hills, MI USA, pgoelz@comcast.net http://www.pgoelz.com 0032 UT June 18, WOR iog via DXLD) Is it at a point where WBCQ is receivable in tooth fillings that have broken/bad welds? Brother Scare via bone conduction could get exciting, I suppose (Stephen Michael Kellat, Ashtabula, OH, ibid.) Quite a HUGE signal here in the eastern California desert with bagpipe music segment and piano tune (rock) now at 0036z (18 June). Sounds like a great rockin' show tonight! 500 kW beast! (Anyone know their ant. gain on-beam?) Nice audio quality too. I always love selective-fading on rock music. Oh yeah, and their music mix (great BritRock from 60s/70s I am hearing!) could be the soundtrack to the movie "Pirate Radio" that I have a DVD of. -- Some folks might think they're hearing "God" himself in their heads (hey if they just played rock like they are (some new wave in t hee too now) and be listener-sponsored, they could "shine-on" Stair. ;-) SpM -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com (Steve McGreevy - Keeler, Calif. -- ibid.) WBCQ 9330 kHz booming in here at 0045 on my IC-7200 at S9+40db using my G5RV antenna and my W6LVP loop, too. Wonder what power AL W is testing with tonight? (Don Hosmer, W8SWL, W Branch, MI USA, ibid.) On the west coast, WBCQ is at S8 to S9, but with fantastic modulation, and we're still 3 hours from LSS [local sun set]. At 0100 into AWW. Amazing what a new transmitter and antenna system can do!!!! (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, ibid.) I forget which day it was (Saturday or more likely Sunday), 3265 kHz was on relaying HooSkow Radio, WXNZ-LP, Scowhegan, central Maine, as noted here in NB at 2040 (-- Richard Langley, UT June 18, ibid.) Much like last night, 9330 was booming in from late afternoon/early evening tune in, for a number of hours, but by 0530 slipping again to S5 to S6 signal. Still perfectly listenable, but not quite as nice as earlier. It's now 10:30 PM local [0530 UT], so bedtime around the corner in any case. 73 (Walt Salmaniw, BC, 0532 UT June 18, ibid.) Nice music, at 0840 Neil Young's "Cortez the Killer"! 73 (Mauno Ritola, Finland, June 18, WOR iog via DXLD) WBCQ 9330 tonight --- At 0937 UT June 18, S=9+20dB in Cape Canaveral, FL state, and at even 9330.000 kHz exact, but not strong in JPN, HOL, U.K., Alberta, MI, NJ, … 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, ibid.) When I checked 9330 at 0942z it was about an S9+10 here on my KiwiSDR with the 43/48m dipole attached, presumably one of the other transmitters. Now at 1053z it is S9+40 on peaks. So far it's not overloading the Kiwi, and at nights the band will probably be long enough that it won't be too much of a problem for me, but I do feel for others. (Chris Smolinski, Black Cat Systems, Westminster, MD USA, http://www.blackcatsystems.com ibid.) The transmitter switch occurred today at 1114 (Mauno Ritola, Finland, June 18, ibid.) 9330.00, June 18 at 0559, WBCQ-6 bigsig ending ``Dixie``, ID and rock music; 0604 ``Heart of Gold`` song. 0606 replay another song I remember hearing the previous afternoon; if only I could make out my dozy scribbling of its title. Mauno Ritola says this ran until 1000 switch to old transmitter. 9330.124, June 18 at 1421, TOM music same as on 9395 WRMI so once again in the mornings, back to classic transmitter, off the Super6. 9330.000, June 18 at 2108, WBCQ-6 on again at S9+10/20 with an AWWW playback when he was talking about trains --- Monticello had a passenger station until ~1953y; later a lengthy conversation with J.P. On the phone about eroding privacy due to internet. Not checked again until 0007 UT June 19 with rock music. More of that not checked again until 0440 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Great screen capture, Mauno! As for tonight (UT 19 June), at 0300, AWW again on channel, 9330. Same S8 to S9 signal with clean, powerful modulation. Perfect! 9330 is spread across 2 Hz on my zoomed Perseus waterfall, between 9329.999 and 9330.001. Old AWW programs, announcing 7490 and 5130. Perhaps a little weaker than last night. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, 0310 June 19, ibid.) Powerful modulation? I guess. Clean? Not so much. To my ears anyway, it is heavily compressed, distorted and a tad hard to listen to. There also seemed to be some sort of IM [intermodulation] that made it sound fluttery if there was any low frequency content. I'm assuming the intent is to hit the transmitter hard if this is still a "burn in" test. IMO, anyway (Paul Goelz, Rochester Hills, MI USA, pgoelz@comcast.net http://www.pgoelz.com ibid.) 9330.1, June 19 at 2306, moanin` & groanin` hour from TOMBS via WBCQ classic transmitter, no #6 yet. At 0151 June 20, now 9330.00 is on with very strong rock music. Others indicate it came up only some time after 0130. 0537 recheck, amid an old `AWWW` dated only by remark that he hoped Kavanaugh would be confirmed; but bits and pieces of details about the SuperStation: says the huge copper feedline alone cost $900K; and that total power consumption when running full-bore 500 kW, would be 950 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WBCQ tonight on 9330 (superstation not) --- Checking at 0032 UT, WBCQ is just visible on the waterfall on my SDR. Clearly on high side of the channel, so not the 500 kW transmitter so far tonight, after being on nightly for the past few nights with the new transmitter. 73 (Walt Salmaniw, BC, 0033 UT June 20, WOR iog via DXLD) It’s definitely on now at 0140 UT (20 June). (— Richard Langley, NB, ibid.) This is my first report here and I am glad it is WBCQ at 9330 kHz. It is coming in strong over here in the Caribbean with a signal over S9 in my FRG-7 connected to a 50ft long wire. Music is playing at 0139 UT. Very clear and strong (Guido Santacana KP4FAR, San Juan, Puerto Rico (US), June 20, WOR iog via DXLD) Also fair here in Finland at 0815. It sounds even stronger than in the past days. I wonder if it is the conds or they have managed to raise the power further? (Mauno Ritola, June 20, ibid.) 9330.00, June 21 at 0116, 9330.00 on again with rock music; 0225 amid another `AWWW` playback. It seems alternating those is the usual programming in the test phase. 0300 back to rock (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The latest episode of AWR Wavescan (#538) featured Bob Zanotti interviewing Allan Weiner about the new transmitter and antenna. Worth a listen. During the interview, AW said that initially the new transmitter would be used exclusively by World's Last Chance. The proposed 24-hour daily schedule of WLC Radio is here: https://www.worldslastchance.com/wlc-radio-broadcast-schedule.html but later on (when not specified) other programming could be aired. (-- Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD) New schedule of World's Last Chance Radio via Super Power WBCQ-6 --- But this schedule is completely different from the HFCC A-19 Database! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/new-schedule-of-worlds-last-chance.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News June 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 0000-0100 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 160 deg to SoAm Portuguese for Brazil 0100-0200 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 035 deg to SoAs Hindi for India 0200-0300 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 075 deg to NoAf Arabic for North Africa 0300-0400 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 035 deg to SoAs Hindi for India 0400-0500 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 060 deg to N/ME Arabic for Middle East 0500-0600 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 075 deg to SoEu Spanish for Spain 0600-0700 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 077 deg to SoEu Portuguese for Portugal 0700-0800 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 355 deg to EaAs Mandarin for China 0800-0900 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 347 deg to NEAs Korean for North Korea 0900-1000 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 005 deg to SEAs Indonesian for Indonesia 1000-1100 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 355 deg to EaAs Mandarin for China 1100-1200 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 347 deg to NEAs Korean for North Korea 1200-1300 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 005 deg to SEAs Indonesian for Indonesia 1300-1400 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 285 deg to AUS English for Australia 1400-1500 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 240 deg to MEX Spanish for Mexico 1500-1600 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 300 deg to CAN English for Canada 1600-1700 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 061 deg to WeEu French for Europe 1700-1800 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 270 deg to NoAm English for the USA 1800-1900 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 060 deg to WeEu German for Switzerland 1900-2000 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 180 deg to CARI English for the Caribbean 2000-2100 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 175 deg to SoAm Spanish for South America 2100-2200 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 055 deg to WeEu German for Germany 2200-2300 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 057 deg to WeEu English for the UK 2300-2400 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 075 deg to NoAf French for North Africa But this schedule is completely different from the HFCC A-19 Database 0300-0700 on 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 280 deg to WNAm English 0700-0800 on 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 047 deg to WeEu English, weak June 19 0800-1500 on 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 060 deg to N/ME Arabic 1500-2300 on 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 090 deg to NoAf Arabic 2300-0300 on 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 255 deg to MEXI English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkcFk3uMmD0&feature=youtu.be Публикувано от Observer в 2:10 PM (via DXLD) Here’s World’s Last Chance schedule from its website All times in UTC, frequency is 9330 kHz. 0000-0100 Portuguese for Brazil beamed at 160 degrees 0100-0200 Hindi for India beamed at 35 degrees 0200-0300 Arabic for North Africa beamed at 75 degrees 0300-0400 Hindi for India beamed at 35 degrees 0400-0500 Arabic for the Middle East beamed at 60 degrees 0500-0600 Spanish for Spain beamed at 75 degrees 0600-0700 Portuguese for Portugal beamed at 77 degrees 0700-0800 Mandarin for China beamed at 355 degrees 0800-0900 Korean for North Korea beamed at 347 degrees 0900-1000 Bahasa Indonesian for Indonesia beamed at 5 degrees 1000-1100 Mandarin for China beamed at 355 degrees 1100-1200 Korean for South Korea beamed at 347 degrees 1200-1300 Bahasa Indonesian for Indonesia beamed at 5 degrees 1300-1400 English for Australia beamed at 285 degrees 1400-1500 Spanish for Mexico beamed at 240 degrees 1500-1600 English for Canada beamed at 300 degrees 1600-1700 French for Europe beamed at 61 degrees 1700-1800 English for the USA beamed at 270 degrees 1800-1900 German for Switzerland beamed at 60 degrees 1900-2000 English for the Caribbean beamed at 180 degrees 2000-2100 Spanish for South America beamed at 175 degrees 2100-2200 German for Germany beamed at 55 degrees 2200-2300 English for the UK beamed at 57 degrees 2300-2400 French for North Africa beamed at 75 degrees (via Terry Colgan WD5GWC, Tuning SDRs worldwide from Austin, Texas USA, Listening to shortwave radio since 1958, ibid.) Hi Terry and Richard, Does this supersede - as of 18 June 2019 - the *mongo signal* I heard early 18 June (UT) here in the California desert 9330 - WBCQ's signal? When will this take effect? 9330 WBCQ was huge/mongo signal last night locally between 0045 past 0200z as heard here. It sounded like they were beaming toward the WCNA. The posted sked. looks like beams to other global regions, but starting when? Thanks and 73 - (Steve McGreevy -- N6NKS – www.auroralchorus.com, ibid.) We already had the very contradictory Superstation 9330 schedules some weeks ago: WLC version vs revised HFCC version (gh, DXLD) I think that depends on how long the testing/tweaking takes. AW's tweets are not specific. A recent one (within the past 24 hours) said "24/7 soon." (-- Richard Langley, ibid.) ``Here’s World’s Last Chance schedule from its website`` And in the meantime someone has filed something completely different to HFCC: http://hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A19&broadc=BCQ 15 hours in Arabic, which will, if implemented, mostly not reach the target area because the frequency is way too low for a path of 10,000 kilometres under broad daylight. Already now, at 0730, the 9330 signal has here in Germany faded to just barely audible (Kai Ludwig, WOR iog via DXLD) WBCQ Maine Center azimuth of 90 degrees is along Madeira, Agadir Morocco, Sahel, -30 = 60 degrees Almeria, Algiers +30 = 120 degrees Liberia, Ghana wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, ibid.) ** U S A [and non]. From the Isle of Music, June 23-29: No interviews this week. Instead, we listen to some selections from EGREM's 45 D'lujo and 55 D'lujo compilation series. The 12-CD set for 55 d'lujo has over 200 songs and was awarded a special prize in Cubadisco 2019. The broadcasts take place: 1. For Eastern Europe but audible well beyond the target area in most of the Eastern Hemisphere (including parts of East Asia and Oceania) with 100Kw, Sunday 1500-1600 UTC on SpaceLine, 9400 KHz, from Sofia, Bulgaria (1800-1900 MSK) Station website: www.spaceline.bg 2. For the Americas and parts of Europe, Tuesday 0000-0100 UTC (New UTC) on WBCQ, 7490 KHz from Monticello, ME, USA (Monday 8-9PM EST in the US). Station website: www.wbcq.com 3 & 4. For Europe and sometimes beyond, Tuesday 1900-2000 UTC and Saturday 1200-1300 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from Rohrbach, Germany. Station website: www.channel292.de Uncle Bill's Melting Pot, June 23 and 25, 2019: Episode 118, Electric Turkey, dives into the psychedelic music scene in Turkey in the 1970s. 1.Sundays 2200-2230 UTC (6:00PM -6:30PM Eastern US) on WBCQ The Planet 7490 KHz from the US to the Americas and parts of Europe 2. Tuesdays 2000-2030 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from Rohrbach, Germany for Europe. (William "Bill" Tilford, Owner/Producer, Tilford Productions, LLC, June 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHER: ** U S A. WEWN 12050, still major problems --- Sunday June 16 - WEWN is still suffering major problems with distorted modulation on their 12050 Spanish service beginning at 1400 UT and continuing to the present time (1745 UT). There is a weak carrier on 12050, with a very small amount of AM modulation, but the bulk of the RF energy is concentrated in a broad, highly distorted sideband centered (at this time) at about 12078, though it drifts up and down somewhat. Even using very broad filters on my RSP1A SDR, I can’t recover any usable audio in any mode - AM, USB/LSB or FM. I noted the transmitter was off air all day Wednesday and Thursday June 12 and 13, and thought that station engineers might be working on whatever technical problem might be causing this, but when it returned to the air Friday, the same problem noted earlier in the week is still present. It’s possible that fixing the problem might require parts not currently available, but I’m surprised that they continue running this broadcast despite the obvious malfunction. They are certainly not in compliance with FCC requirements for frequency stability or modulation/spectral purity. This is not RHC (Jim Barrett - Elmira, NY USA, WOR iog via DXLD) 12065-12120 approx., June 16 at 1348, WEWN Spanish with huge loud spurblob audible over this range, best readable in FM mode (much like the old RHC 13/15 MHz spurs which thankfully have not been heard in months). Center is very approx. 12082-12083. There is also a very weak S7-S9 AM signal on source 12050. Can`t even detect VOA Korean on 12080 until 1421 when a carrier is there under this mess. Recheck at 1652: still readable only in Fm mode altho distorted, now seems centered closer to 12078; 1755 recheck, same but weaker. I notified Glen Tapley about this for the third time. This is very like a previous report to the WOR io group by Jim Barrett [as above] Meanwhile Jim has filed another report today at 1746 matching my obs, which I forward to Tapley as his fourth notice: [as above] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I was hearing the same strong WEWN spurblob around 12082 at a check just after 1600 June 16. However fundamental 12050 JBA, a virtual ghost. The signal problems are similar to the RNA Brazil 11780 transmitter problems a few years ago. Vandiver is 586 miles from my QTH. The WEWN transmitters are 27 years old now, and probably in need of major refurbishment. Continental Electronics is supposedly good about accomplishing such a task with their vintage units. (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, WOR iog via DXLD) Glenn, Do you have any contacts South of Vandiver, Al, perhaps in Florida that may be able to report? The signal goes out from Vandiver at 155. Sent from my iPhone (Glen Tapley, WEWN, 1249 UT June 17, via DXLD) Glen, I`ll ask, but I don`t see why you need any further evidence that something is terribly wrong with that transmitter. Same thing is happening this morning as heard in Oklahoma. ``Best`` heard only if tuned in FM mode above 12080. 73, (Glenn to Glen, ibid.) I'm not looking for further evidence. Just need someone south to report if possible. Sent from my iPhone (Glen to Glenn, ibid.) 12060-12120 approx., June 16 at 2112, WEWN-FM still here peaking around 12078 at S7-S5, Spanish, while correct AM frequency 12050 is only S1-S4. Most of the power is going out on this horrible spur. Night frequency in Spanish 5970 has no such problems, a different transmitter. Kai Ludwig says, ``I'd say the error pattern points at the modulator as culprit``, 12065-12095 approx., June 17 at 1309, WEWN-FM centered a bit higher around 12085, Spanish and music, vs VOA Korean 12080; while WEWN 12050 is JBA. There has been a lot of discussion of this on the WOR iog, and I have forwarded some of it to Glen Tapley at WEWN. Finally started getting replies June 17, culminating at 1648 with: ``Glenn, Appreciate your info. Can your contacts take another look this afternoon? I think we may have it under control but would appreciate feedback. Thanks, Glen`` Such as this from Jim Barrett - Elmira, NY, who has been following this major problem closely, to the WOR io group: ``At 1815 UT Jun 17, WEWN 12050 noted on my local SDR in the northeastern US with clean modulation, though a somewhat weak signal. Perhaps they had to cut back overall transmitter power to prevent the distortion. Checked the KiwiSDR in Key West, FL where it is a bit stronger`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non] 12050 WEWN not on air 1400-1440 today only amongst others: 11969.988 TWN SOH 12050even IRN VoIRIB Sirjan, Hindi S=8 in Edmonton 12080even PHL Tinang Korean, powerhouse, 11 kHz wide 12140even MRA Saipan Cambodian 12160even UZB TWR India Taskent - CODAAAAAAR 73 wolfie (Wolfgang Bueschel, June 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: WEWN 12050, still major problems: At the moment, I see only the unmodulated carrier on 12050 at 1453 UT June 17. If Mr. Tapley is looking for a receiver south of his location, may I suggest the KiwiSDR at TWR Bonaire, accessible via any web browser at http://bonaire.twrmon.net:8073 or any other KiwiSDR accessible via the map at http://rx.linkfanel.net The KiwiSDR network is a valuable resource for any broadcaster wanting to monitor their transmissions at a variety of remote geographic locations. Most KiwiSDRs are GPS locked, meaning that frequency measurements are highly accurate. My own Kiwi in New York State is at http://kf2da.ddns.net:8073 It is normally online unless thunderstorms are occurring or predicted in my local area. When WEWN 12050 is experiencing the problem, all of the RF energy is concentrated in the upper sideband, centered between 20 and 30 kHz above the carrier, and more FM than anything else. The evening broadcast on 5970 kHz is fine, as is the late afternoon broadcast on 15610 [English]. At my location, I see the issue on the local KiwiSDR, and on a Drake R8B analog receiver, using either an active loop, or passive dipole antenna (Jim Barrett, Elmira, 1523 June 17, WOR iog via DXLD) And forwarded to Glen (Glenn) 12050 I heard only Iran in Hindi language today. 12050 WEWN not on air 1400-1440 UT today When checked at Cape Canaveral and Edmonton SDR's, at 1620-1624 UT, some sudden crash start tries noted from Zero on 12050 kHz by WEWN, up to S=9+ signal in Florida. At 1640 UT still some TX down breaks - but signal WEWN 12050 kHz is clean, about 10.8 kHz audio wideband, covers also adjacent NHK Radio Japan Yamata on 12045 kHz channel. Nearby is WWCR service on 12160 kHz also. B U T terrible CODAR signal covers totally 12098 to 12294 kHz frequency range in North America. 73 wolfie df5sx, (Wolfgang Bueschel, June 17, wor iog via DXLD) At 1815 UT Jun 17, WEWN 12050 noted on my local SDR in the northeastern US with clean modulation, though a somewhat weak signal. Perhaps they had to cut back overall transmitter power to prevent the distortion. Checked the KiwiSDR in Key West, FL where it is a bit stronger (Jim Barrett - Elmira, NY, ibid.) At 2238 UT, WEWN 12050 kHz is on air with clean audio, program in Cape Canaveral similar strong like REE Madrid from Noblejas on 12030 kHz; similar signals also noted in remote SDRs in Edmonton, Detroit, Rochester and NJ US east. Still B U T terrible CODAR signal covers totally 12098 to 12294 kHz frequency range in North America. http://bonaire.twrmon.net:8073/ in 'nearby' Bonaire KiwiSDR remotedly at 2245 UT some S=9+10dB or -62dBm signal in peaks. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, June 17, ibid.) Hello Wolfie, I just checked WEWN from here in the eastern California desert (hot - 32C - and some t-storms nearby, earlier but dissipated now) - I hear a weak/fair (peaks) Spanish transmission on 12050 (at 2306z - 17 June) with moderate level-modulation but clean-sounding here - only S5-peaks on my Kenwood R-1000 (6M wire) and only audible briefly in SS on peaks employing my Sony ICF-SW7600GR and its whip. No noted Es on CB-5 (27015) nor CB-19 (27185) presently - likely just one-hop F-layer from WEWN, assuming this is them. 73 - (Steve McGreevy N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com WOR iog via DXLD) Re: ``When WEWN 12050 is experiencing the problem, all of the RF energy is concentrated in the upper sideband, centered between 20 and 30 KHz above the carrier, and more FM than anything else. The evening broadcast on 5970 KHz is fine, as is the late afternoon broadcast on 15610 KHz`` I'd say the error pattern points at the modulator as culprit. Tonight at 1920 no apparent issue with the transmitter, but another problem: At Bonaire 12050 is an almost 1:1 mixture of Vandiver with Woofferton, carrying Radio Ndarason programming 5970 and 12050 could well be different transmitters, connected to different antennas. 15610 was, also at 1920, just barely audible here in Central Europe. I doubt that it will produce a usable signal level in West Africa. Would EWTN provide a budget for more extensive repairs by the transmitter manufacturer and/or other contractors, at this point, with the operation meanwhile appearing to be in phase-out status? I doubt it (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) Yes, Kai, 12050 and 5970 are from different transmitters: WEWN-1 Global Catholic Radio, Vandiver 0000-0900 on 11610 EWN 250 kW / 085 deg to WeAf English 0900-1300 on 9470 EWN 250 kW / 355 deg to SEAs English 1900-2400 on 15610 EWN 250 kW / 085 deg to WeAf English WEWN-2 Radio Catolica Mundial, Vandiver 1400-2400 on 12050 EWN 100 kW / 155 deg to CeAm Spanish WEWN-3 Radio Catolica Mundial, Vandiver 0000-1400 on 5970 EWN 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm Spanish (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) 12050, June 18 at 1353, WEWN Spanish is poor S7 but no FM spurs on the high side, evidently fixed (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9475, June 19 at 1828, WTWW-1 is S9-S5 of open carrier/dead air, instead of merely undermodulated as always now. SFAW! 9475, June 20 at 1514, WTWW-1 is off, while 5830 is still on at S9+10 fading to S7 and of course undermodulated. So that rules it out as source of some unID FM blob circa 9355 others were hearing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1020, KCKN, NM, Roswell – Granted STA, U1? 1000/1000, station has been silent (AM Switch, NRC DX News June 25, published June 19, via DXLD) Is anyone hearing it? Not I, vs KOKP OK (gh) ** U S A. [Re 19-24 and WOR 1986:] When GH speaks, people listen. Someone at CBS Radio must've heard your program. I've been listening for the better part of one hour. No carrier dropouts. Somebody must have gotten embarrassed and looked into it. Between 18 hours + 1855 hours KRLD 1080 did not poop out or pop. Will miracles never cease. I guess that's what you call the power of the press (Mark Sills, Dallas TX, June 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Well, maybe (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. Re: KHIL, Wilcox, Arizona --- Heard KHIL [1250] last night, 6/11/19 10:01 PM PDT [0505 UT June 12], tuned in to a song that wasn't country, nice ID mentioning Willcox Arizona and KHIL, into another non-country song. Will need to listen more to get format but was possibly soft pop or similar. So not silent as reported but probably a format change (Martin Foltz, Mission Viejo CA, June 12, ABDX yg via DXLD) Was able to listen again last night and heard KHIL about 10:45 PM PDT [0545 UT] running Country music. So this will need more monitoring (Martin Foltz, June 14, ibid.) ** U S A. [1560] KGOW de Houston, Texas, en vietnamés (es lo que dice la wikipedia) captada el 2 de junio a las 0355 UT aquí en Mérida, Yucatán en mi radio despertador Sony ICF-C414. Atte.: (Ing. Israel González Ahumada, M.I., DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. I have added distances below to my original report, otherwise duplicative; from distancefromto.net - city-to-city, not precise antenna-to-antenna It seems that the sporadic E DX season has been slow to start this year, with only one FM log in May, but as I am napping to Dvorak`s New World Symphony from 90.1 KUCO-FM, on the PL-880 some occasional interruptions at 2105 UT June 3, by NPR ATC --- could have been KHCC in KS, but more like sporadic E volatility. Since I am then getting only FL and GA, 90.1 could be WJUF Inverness FL. But more likely: WXVS, WAYCROSS GA, 79.0/77.6 kW, 280.0m, 31-13-17, 82-34-24, GEORGIA PUBLIC RADIO. Further chex don`t get any ID on this, but I start tuning around for more DX. {1543 km - 959 stmi} 90.7, June 3 at 2105 UT, NPR ATC //90.1. This is one of few `open` frequencies here besides plenty of ACI above and below. Surely WMFE-FM Orlando. 100 kW at 223m. {1774 km = 1102 stmi} 90.7 soon overtaken by smooth jazz. Jazz is the format of another closer FL, WKGC-FM Panama City, 100 kW. {1322 km = 821 stmi} 92.1, June 3 at 2112 UT, local KAMG-LP is still on with dead air, but manipulating the antenna can allow some other stations to capture. First, something in Spanish that is not KAMG! M&W conversation. 2120, another peak with a phone number starting 904-469. AC 904 is the NE corner of FL around Jacksonville. Another peak at 2131 discussing in Spanish préstamos – loans from FHA and USDA. WTFDA FM Database has three SS on 92.1 in FL, but this is the only one that fits: WJXR, 92.1, MACCLENNY FL, 25.0 kW H&V, 100.0m, 30-17-54, 82-00-55, Spanish, TROPICAL, LATINA 92.1 {1612 km = 1001 stmi} 92.1, June 3 at 2113 UT, Spanish WJXR is replaced by English talk, 2118 ad for Guardian Bank, program promos on Talk 92.1, back to Ben Shapiro Show. Guardian Bank is in Valdosta GA, near Adel, and that slogan matches only this: WDDQ 92.1 ADEL GA 2.6 kW H&V, 154.1m, 31-08-15, 83-23-41, TALK, TALK 92.1, //WSFB 1490 {1456 km = 905 stmi} 93.3, June 3 at 2133 UT, ad for car dealers on ``Mile of Life`` (?), ``93.3 The Beat``. That leads to: WJBT, 93.3, CALLAHAN FL, 98.0 kW H&V, 302.0m, 30-16-51, 81-34-13, HD, 1C99 BOGUS KEUB, Rhythm and Blues, URBAN CONTEMPORARY, 93.3 THE BEAT {1620 km = 1007 stmi} The thing is, I was tuned to 93.1; on 93.3 itself there was nothing but CCI hash. BTW before 2130 I added the DX-398 with RDS capability, but none of the Es DX signals were strong or stable enough to display any. 99.5, Unidentified, June 3 at 2138 UT ad in Spanish by super-hype voice actor, fades for ID, mentions Guerrero. There are no 99.5s in that state. If I am still getting Florida, could be WLLY-FM in Palm Beach Gardens, 6 kW H&V, 100m; or a bit of KBIJ, Guymon OK groundwave, 100 kW, 82.0m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. ESPN is ending its ESPN Deportes Radio network on September 8. Some of the ESPN Deportes Radio programming will shift to podcast delivery including “Jorge Ramos y Su Banda” and “Raza Deportiva”. The company will produce 10 additional Spanish language podcasts as well. Sports Business Daily adds that the move will lead to layoffs for 10 full-time and 25 part-time employees as ESPN closes its Coral Gables FL offices. While down in affiliates from a few years ago, the shutdown will leave affiliates such as Lotus Broadcasting’s 1330 KWKW Los Angeles and 1460 KENO Las Vegas, Actualidad 990AM’s 990 WMYM Miami, Entravision’s 710 KBMB Phoenix and 1090 KMXA Denver, Multicultural’s 1680 WTTM Philadelphia, and Liberman’s 1540 KZMP Dallas seeking new programming. ESPN owned 1050 WEPN New York will switch back to the English language national ESPN Radio feed (from Radio Insight via NRC DX News June 25, published June 19, via DXLD) ** U S A. Denver Police will change to encrypted transmissions https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/denver-police-will-change-to-encrypted-transmissions/73-4b4cf376-d1b0-42d4-90b3-e58b06282d47 Here we go --- I personally disagree with this idea of encrypted transmissions; the public owns the airwaves not the city, not the county (Paul Armani, CO, June 12, ABDX yg via DXLD) ** VATICAN. Radio Vatican launched on Saturday, June 8, a regular news program in Latin, reports Reuters. The program was named Hebdomada Papae, Notitiae Vaticanae latine reddiate (“Papal Week. Vatican News in Latin”). The weekly news release will last five minutes. Then follow a talk show in Latin, as well as tips in Italian on the use of an ancient language. “We wanted the official language of the Catholic Church to be used in the news as well as in daily worship services,” said program editor Andrea Tornielli. The transfer will be jointly issued by a team of newsmen, as well as the Vatican Department, which translates official documents into Latin. An Italian businessman who published a book of crossword puzzles in Latin, Luca Desiata noted that the Internet has helped to revive interest in this language, although more and more schools around the world are no longer teaching it. “Now there is Wikipedia in Latin (Vicipaedia Latina), about 40 Latin groups on Facebook around the world, and the Pope’s Twitter in Latin has almost a million followers. Not bad for a dead language, ”he said, commenting on the launch of the news show. iz.ru http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__73780/ (via Rus-DX 16 June via DXLD) It is not on shortwave. The news in Italian on Saturday is not replaced by Latin. It's Italian as for the other days of the week (except Sunday) as noted using the U. Twente SDR receiver. Called "Radiogiornale Latino" in Italian and "Hebdomada Papae" in Latin, it's only on the Web channels 1 through 6 at various times on Saturday. The only "frequencies" it is on would be the satellite distributions and the local FM and DAB stations. Podcasts are available. On Web channel 6 and the other outlets, "Radiogiornale Latino" is followed by "Anima Latina," a program "dedicated to the rediscovery of the value and beauty of the Latin language." (-- Richard Langley, June 18, WOR iog via DXLD) ``It's not clear if it will be on SW.`` Of course not! (Sorry, could not resist.) The English-language version of the announcement makes quite a fuss anyway. The German editors point out that they offer news in Latin on their website already since 15 years, initially even with a podcast. https://www.vaticannews.va/de/vatikan/news/2019-06/vatikan-latein-radio-nachrichten-uebersetzung-neu-programm.html So the only real news is that the "Hebdomada Papae" production is being put on linear radio. And here, as well known, not the use of the Latin language as such is news, only the editorial content, as opposed to the long-established broadcasts from this special studio: https://www.gettyimages.de/detail/nachrichtenfoto/vatican-radio-celebrates-75-years-of-broadcasting-nachrichtenfoto/108559531 (Once I played a recording of these liturgy broadcasts to someone not knowing what this is. His response: "Who, in the world, is putting *this* on an AM transmitter???") (Kai Ludwig, June 19, WOR iog via DXLD) see also FINLAND! ** VIETNAM. 9839.72 // 12018.94, VOV, 1145, on June 14. Interesting segment in English about making "Hu tieu, a type of rice noodle served with seasoned, sauteed beef is a signature dish of Vietnam’s southwestern region"; a full transcript of today's show at http://bit.ly/2MOC3xv both frequencies mostly readable (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** VIETNAM [and non]. 9840 ---!--- 1400, Huge collision Voice of Vietnam and WHRI noted June 16 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, RS SW-2000629 with various outdoor wires, Grundig Satellit 205 & indoor shortwire. 73 and Good Listening....! -rb, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) VOV being way off-frequency, making it worse, hetful (gh) ** YEMEN [non]. 11860even, ARS, Republic of Yemen Radio in exile via SBA / MOCI facility in Riyadh Saudi Arabia. S=9+15dB at 0720 UT. ex odd fq on approx. 11859.968 kHz in past half year or so. At same time 11745 kHz OFF-AIR of Al-Azm Radio from Jeddah. Log of Middle East Doha Qatar remote SDR check, few monitor checks also via remote Moscow Russia SDR unit too, at 0700 til 0900 UT June 16 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 16, WOR iog via DXLD) FRANCE vs. SAUDI ARABIA, Alameda Bible Fellowship vs Rep. of Yemen Radio, June 17 1930-2000 on 11860 ISS 500 kW / 180 deg to WeAf English Mon/Wed/Fri Alameda BF & same time on 11860 JED or RIY / unknown to N/ME Arabic Daily Rep.of Yemen Radio: Emergency frequency change 10-20 kHz down, free channels are 11840, 11835, 11830 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/alameda-bible-fellowship-vs-repof-yemen_17.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News June 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Emergency? You mean this is your suggestion? For which? (gh, DXLD) ** ZAMBIA. 5915, Zambia NBC, Radio 1, 1915-1925, 19-06, vernacular comments. 12321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ZAMBIA. 13680, June 19 at 1258, a few notes being repeated, an IS? 1300 into different music, poor S2-S3. Presumed Voice of Hope Africa, scheduled to start at 1300 (except an hour earlier SaSu) per EiBi; and not Aoki/NDXC where it`s unlisted. There, your only choices would be CNR1 jamming and/or SOH, but this is not that. At 1405 increased to S7-S9 with gospel? music. VOHA aims 315 degrees toward W Africa, and us beyond. Seems to be same as this: http://intervalsignals.net/Files/zmb-vo_hope_africa_081016.m3u (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) On the WOR io group, Ray Robinson replies to my 13680 log: ``'Load Shedding' power outages in Zambia due to low water levels at the Kariba Dam hydroelectric facility went into effect on June 1st, and these forced Voice of Hope - Africa to temporarily suspend our morning broadcasts. Instead, we are now on the air 1300-1900 UT daily, with an extra hour from 1200 to 1300 on the weekends. The afternoon frequencies from 1200/1300-1555 UT are 9680 (omni) and 13680 (315°). At 1600 daily, we change frequencies for the evenings to 4965 (omni) and 6065 (315°). Local sunset in Lusaka is currently around 1545 UT. Full program schedule, as always, is on our website, here: http://voiceofhope.com/schedule/voh-africa_program_grid.pdf (Posted on 6/21/2019 at 0555 UT.) Ray Robinson Strategic Communications Group Voice of Hope World Radio Network www.voiceofhope.com`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6170, 1320-1402+ 11 June. Good signal in what sounded like SEAs language (Cambodian/Thai/Burmese?) with maybe Women's World Cup play-by-play (crowd noises & music) by 1 or 2 W with very echoey voices; no break at TOH, just CNR1-style 5+1 pips. RNZI, if this wasn't them doing a "mysto" rebroadcast, was unheard but back on the 12th doing well (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA Executive Satellit/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9200, June 20 at 0536, mystery open carrier at S8-S3. It`s been there most nights, altho have not bothered to log it for a while (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Distorted on 9350 --- Hearing a highly distorted FM-like signal between 9345 and 9358 this morning. Never noted before. Anyone else hearing similar? At 1425 UT. Sounds domestic. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, WOR iog via DXLD) UNID is on 9355 at 1440, June 20, weak signal here (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, ibid.) Nothing here checked after 1500 (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. At 0728 UT: 13534-13563 kHz Middle East OTHR (British Cyprus?, TURKEY?, IRAN ?) S=9+30dB log of Middle East Doha Qatar remote SDR check, few monitor checks also via remote Moscow Russia SDR unit too, at 0700 til 0900 UT June 16 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 16, WOR iog via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 15476.225, June 19 at 1842, since it`s Wednesday, looking for LRA36, but only this JBA carrier detectable; unlikely RNASG would have shifted frequency, so suspect a local device, altho not noticed before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. broadcasts in 19mb & 31mb, June 19 from 0843 on 15110 USB unknown lang, weak signal from 0942 on 9654 USB Turkish lang, good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/06/unidentified-broadcasts-in-19mb-31mb.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News June 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Both these are NOT broadcasts, but 2-way INTRUDER contacts, as you would expect from USB mode (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 88.7 WBFM, June 15 circa 1730 UT on caradio, KLVV Ponca City OK has CCI from something, very unusual. Dxmaps.com do not show sporadic E MUF now anywhere near 88 MHz. It`s not KWTU Tulsa, only 5 kW, since the QRM is not classical music. In Kansas there are four 88.7s, all of them very low power and not near. That leaves the most likely possibility per WTFDA FM Database: KAJT 88.7 ADA OK USA 31.0 31.0 73.0 73.0 34-46-32 96-35-15 RELIGIOUS TEACHING THE SONLIFE RADIO NETWORK (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1987: Thanks to Gerald T Pollard, NC, for a generous quarterly seasonal solstitial check to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: Great thanks to David Cole, OK/LA, for a very generous contribution delivered in person (gh) A bit of help to keep the DXLD-kitty more full for the WORockin' that you have done for all of us, Glenn! 73 and Best Regards, (Steve McGreevy, CA, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) Steve, Tnx for another PP contribution. And always enjoy your posts (Glenn to Steve, via DXLD) Hi Glenn, You're most welcome, good sir! I think your work is priceless. I just simply cannot join any radio club - being most seem way too conservative to me - and cliquish; but WOR is diverse with folks globally, so it rocks way beyond others. More coming when more comes in... :-) (Steve McGreevy, CA, www.auroralchorus.com Natural VLF Radio and Travel, ibid.) Here is another "DX Tithe" for your fab. "cause" Mr. Glenn. You pleasantly amaze me with your energies and enthusiasm in your WOR/DXLD endeavors, and so this is another "shot" as you are like no others! A "Bay Boy" too - as a Canadian customs agent in MB said once! Thank you Sir! (Steve McGreevy with another contribution via PayPal) As always the best program on radio, broadcasting and especially the dynamic medium of shortwave. 73, (John Carson wb5q, Eagle Nest NM, with a generous contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) Hi Glenn, Another donation to you and WOR/DXLD for yet another great issue of 30 May, and truest Best Regards! (Steve McGreevy – N6NKS, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST update by Alan Roe, June 21: http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS updated June 22: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html MUSEA +++++ WNYW RECORDING, 1971 Joni Zornes shared a link to the Facebook group: Shortwave Radio Station Listening. "Here's an oldie, WNYW back in '71. My room with my sw radio was upstairs and I wired a speaker and put it in an unused vent so I could listen to the station downstairs. This recording is from a London SWL." https://www.mixcloud.com/alfred-bunzl/wnyw-19m-sw-radio-new-york-worldwide-sunday-12th-september-1971/ For those of us who remember WNYW. Decent recording except for the varying whistle (Jack Amelar, MARE Tipsheet 14 June via DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ WE10 DXpedition - May 18 - 21, 2019 From May 18 - 21 I was at ‘Waters Edge’, a rental house on the Chesapeake Bay near Fleeton, Virginia where I erected and DX’d with a 160’ DKAZ aiming @ 135 deg. A birding and radio trip to Maine the following week delayed reviewing Perseus wav files but that process is now underway and the building results are available here: http://realmonitor.com/am_logs_we10.php Highlights so far are WSTX-970 in the Virgin Islands and Radio Encarnación-760, Paraguay. For anyone interested, I put together short videos illustrating a bit about how the DKAZ I used is constructed and works - labelled ‘inside’ and ‘outside.’ They are available at links from the top-middle of the above webpage. Enjoy and good DX! (Bill Whitacre, Alexandria, VA, June 19, nrc-am gg via DXLD) EASTERN CARIBBEAN UPDATES I have made a list of active and silent MW stations in the Eastern Caribbean. Please check mediumwave.info/news.html from June 5. While still many Spanish speaking AM stations on air in the Caribbean - from Cuba, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic; there is a decline in English and French speaking stations in Eastern Caribbean. Here a list of silent stations: Anguilla: 690 kHz and 1610 kHz The Caribbean Beacon are off air. 1610 kHz is close to empty, but during nights CHHV Voces Latinas from Canada can be heard. On 690 kHz W Radio from Colombia is audible. Guadeloupe: 640 kHz is off air. Instead, you can hear Radio Progreso from Cuba and Fox Sports Radio from USA. Martinique: 1310 kHz is off air [since 2018? as not mentioned in WRTH 2019/ed]. The frequency is a myriad of different weak stations, of which at least one transmitter is off frequency, 1309.8 kHz maybe. St. Kitts & Nevis: 820 kHz Son Power Radio [and ex Radio Paradise], which was expected back on air in the beginning of 2019, still not reactivated. The frequency seems empty during night. Two very weak stations, possible from Cuba and USA, can be picked up. US Virgin Islands: WUVI 1090 kHz and WIGT 1690 kHz are still silent. On 1090 can now be heard Unión Radio Noticias from Venezuela and Caracol from Colombia. On 1690 kHz WPTX is dominant. The current status is, that there is no French speaking station left in the Eastern Caribbean. Regarding English speaking stations in that region, the following are active: 780 kHz: ZBVI, British Virgin Islands 860 kHz: VON Radio, St.Kitts & Nevis 900 kHz: "FM 94.7", Barbados 970 kHz: WSTX, US Virgin Islands 1000 kHz: WVWI, US Virgin Islands 1160 kHz: Caribbean Radio Lighthouse, Antigua 1300 kHz: The Voice of St. Maarten, St. Martin 1340 kHz: WSTA, US Virgin Islands 1400 kHz: Harbour Light, Grenada 1620 kHz: WDHP "103.5 The Reef", US Virgin Islands. (Stig Hartvig Nielsen, Deshaies, Guadeloupe (using a Tecsun PL-880 and 30 m longwire) May 29th until June 4th 2019 (5/6-2019), mediumwave.info via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) Thanks to Stig for this excellent update /Ed. (Ydun Ritz, ibid.) AM LOGS FROM NW FLORIDA Hi all, These logs are AM logs at the US coast on the Gulf of Mexico, where I spent a wonderful vacation. All logs were made with a SONY ICF-SW7600 GR in Rosemary Beach, Walton County, Florida panhandle, USA. All times in UTC! A) NIGHTTIME [just a few] 800, 2019-06-03, 0209, TWR Bonaire in Spanish, La Palabra de Hoy, RTM800.org, subsequent programs in accordance with the schedule on their website, great signal from their new transmitter, 54433 830, 2019-06-03, 0258, UNID US talk station (talking about income tax), faded out just before legal ID, 32422 830, 2019-06-03, 0259, Mexican station, just missed the ID, into "La Hora Nacional" about the city of Mérida in Yucatán, 53433 860, 2019-06-03, 0309, Radio Reloj (Cuba) with the typical clock ticks and cw ID, 32422 870, 2019-06-03, 0310, WWL booming in just as during daytime, ad for Louisiana bourbon, 55544 890 // 900, 2019-06-03, 0311, Radio Progreso (Cuba), love song, 53433 on both channels ========================================== B) DAYTIME At this location, it was easy to pre-sort stations in the identification process into three groups based on the bearing: a) Stations from along the Gulf coast (FL-panhandle, AL, MS, LA), coming in from an East/West direction; b) Stations from the Tampa area in Florida, coming in from SE; and c) Cuban stations (and a few local exceptions) coming from a more or less North/South direction. In real life, this meant: I hold the radio parallel to the pool where my daughter was playing -> probably Cuban. I hold it straight into the pool -> somewhere on the Gulf coast. I hold it at 45° -> probably Tampa. The thermos of ice-cold lemonade was the second-most important accessory for this week of DX sessions. Some logs were done inside. Luckily the house was pretty much QRM-free as long as the TV was off. Signals were stronger on the porch than inside, but at a very humid 98°F / 40°C this was not a long-term option! Note: The gain due to a pure-seawater propagation path from Tampa (and in one case from Corpus Christi, TX) seems to be vastly underestimated in the field-strength predictions of fmscan. So many stations heard in the US, and so sad to be back at home in Europe where daytime AM is practically empty now. 326, 2019-06-03, 2146, PKZ Pensacola is the ONLY NDB heard during daytime, along with a handful of DGPS stations. 530, 2019-05-31, 1539, Radio Enciclopedia, choir, 35453 540, 2019-05-31, 1540, WASG Daphne (AL), cheesy gospel songs, 35443 560, 2019-05-31, 1544, WOOF Dothan (AL), ".. Sports Radio", interview, 25332 570, 2019-05-31, 1549, WTBN Pinellas Park (FL), Family Life Today program, commercials with toll-free numbers, ID at ToH, 35343 590, 2019-05-31, 1600, WDIZ Panama City (FL), rock music, ID as "96 Rock", 44333 590, 2019-05-31, 1600, Radio Musical (Cuba), Spanish talk mentioning Santiago de Cuba, audible in the null of WDIZ, 33422 600, 2019-05-31, 1613, WVOG New Orleans (LA), talk about a book "Focus on Family", 45444 610, 2019-05-31, 1946, WVTJ Pensacola (FL), sermon, 44444 620, 2019-05-31, 1947, WDAE St Petersburg (FL), commercials for something on the Florida west coast, and for the USPS, ID as 95.3 and iHeart Radio. Then into MLB network talk. 54444 660, 2019-05-31, 1951, WXQW Fairhope (AL), money talk, ID, commercials, Hurricane preparation, children.al.gov, have a family emergency plan, don't text while driving, etc., ID at ToH, news, then "The Savage Nation". 45433 670, 2019-05-31, 2008, Radio Rebelde (Cuba), Spanish, sports, 35433 680, 2019-05-31, 2009, WGES St Petersburg, Spanish talk, skipped for now but IDed later, 45343 680, 2019-06-04, 1910, Spanish song, weather "92° de calor", traffic for Tampa, "Génesis cumple 30 años", Trump y la Reina en Londres, commercials for AAA en toda la Florida, ID as "Génesis 680 AM", 44444 690, 2019-05-31, 2009, WQNO New Orleans (LA), Christian pop song, ID as "Catholic Community Radio", piece about the Acts of the Apostles, 55454 710, 2019-05-31, 2017, WNTM Mobile (AL), Talk about the abuse of power during the Sean Hannity Show, commercials for windows (with a Hannity discount), weather for the Mobile shore, 24332 as thunderstorms start to cause QRN 710, 2019-05-31, 2017, Radio Rebelde (Cuba - several transmitters), Spanish talk with echo, 34333 750, 2019-05-31, 2028, KKNO Gretna (LA), Gospel "Celebrate the King", 35333 790, 2019-05-31, 2032, WPNN Pensacola (FL), CBS News, pizza commercial, sunny weather report, ID as WPNN Pensacola, 55444 800, 2019-05-31, 2037, WSHO New Orleans (LA), song "The Name of Jesus", 45444 800, 2019-06-01, 1825, dto., sermon, 45343 820, 2019-06-01, 1826, WWBA Largo (FL / Tampa), Sports talk (Tampa) in the Rick Wiley(?) Show, News, WWBA jingle, baseball, 55343 830, 2019-06-01, 1834, WFNO Norco (LA), Spanish RnB music, 44343 840, 2019-06-01, 1835, WBHY Mobile (AL), interview, 25232 (oh those thunderstorms) 860, 2019-06-01, 1840, WAMI Opp (AL), one of the few stations coming from a Northern direction, call-in show, 25232 870, 2019-06-01, 1842, WWL New Orleans, a pleasant deviation from the usual AM formats: a cooking show about seafood, paella in Barcelona and how it's done in New Orleans. All about cooking soft-shell crabs the right way. Commercial for a Michael Bublé concert and NO restaurants. 55343 890, 2019-06-01, 1850, Radio Progreso (Cuba), Spanish song, 35343 900, 2019-06-01, 1852, WGOK Mobile (AL), Gospel music, commercials, ID hard to understand but Fairhope was mentioned, which is right next to Mobile, 25232 910, 2019-06-01, 1901, UNID, sermon, 25231 910, 2019-06-04, 2106, talk (Spanish?), chanting, 25442 930, 2019-06-01, 1906, WLSS Sarasota (FL), commercials, ID "AM 930" with rest covered by thunderstorm QRN, sports, 35232 930, 2019-06-04, 1906, Jingle "Money Money", "Wall Street Radio Network" which is a sponsor of the Phil's Gang program which is scheduled on WLSS at this time, 35343 930, 2019-06-04, 2059, Gun talk, Commercials, traffic for Venice, ID as "AM 930 The Answer", 35443 940, 2019-06-01, 1908, WYLD New Orleans (LA), gospel song, 35242 950, 2019-06-01, 1909, Radio Reloj (Cuba), Spanish talk with the usual clock ticks and the RR cw ID, 25141 960, 2019-06-01, 1911, WLPR Prichard (AL), pop / country music, 35242 970, 2019-06-01, 1915, WFLA Tampa (FL), talk, 35141 980, 2019-06-01, 1916, WRNE Gulf Breeze (FL), lots of soul music, 45343 990, 2019-06-01, 1935, WGSO New Orleans (LA), talk about sea levels in the Gulf, river usage and sediments - a rare treat to hear actual science on talk radio. 34242 990, 2019-06-01, 1935, Radio Guamá (Cuba) (listed), Spanish talk, 24222 in the null of WGSO 1000, 2019-06-01, 1947, WYBT Blountstown (FL), oldies/country music, 35232 1010, 2019-06-01, 1953, WCKW Garyville (LA), talk, 15111 (not IDed at this point, cf:) 1010, 2019-06-03, 2157, ID as "EWTN", and WCKW is the only affiliate listed by EWTN on 1010, 15321 1010, 2019-06-06, 1259, "Let us pray", then legal ID, but wait - they list dozens of callsigns in their legal ID! Is that legal?? Finally another ID as "EWTN", 25332 1020, 2019-06-01, 1953, Radio Guamá (Cuba) (listed), Spanish music, ID not heard, 2001 program "A esta hora", 35242 1030, 2019-06-01, 2003, KCTA Corpus Christi (TX), Book about Christian life, 25232 1030, 2019-06-02, 1959, visit KCTAradio.com, win tickets for a family vacation, how to have a good family relationship, 25422 1040, 2019-06-01, 2008, WHBO Pinellas Park (FL), CBS Sports Radio, ID "10-40 The Team" 55343 1050, 2019-06-02, 1911, WJSB Crestview (FL), Baseball live (with loooong gaps of silence, must have been a thrilling match), promo for Northside Hospital which I google to be in the Tampa area, while Crestview is in the FL panhandle, with both cities at an almost opposite bearing from my location. 34443 1060, 2019-06-02, 1914, WLNO New Orleans (LA), gospel music, jingle not suited for AM since it's unintelligible, 55454 1070, 2019-06-02, 1917, WNVY Cantonment (FL), Christian sermon, 45444 1080, 2019-06-02, 1918, Cadena Habana (Cuba) (tent), latin mx, 15441 1110, 2019-06-02, 1921, mix of a latin music station (24432) and some talk/popmx (11432) in the same direction, listed candidates are WTIS and WTOF, check later 1110, 2019-06-04, 1927, WTIS Tampa (FL), Spanish rumba music, ID "Esta es .. Mega música 101.1, la mejor música", 25432 1110, 2019-06-04, 2113, Spanish love songs, jingle "101.1 La Mega", Spanish version of "Total Eclipse of a Heart", 35433 1110, 2019-06-05, 1156, WTOF Bay Minette (AL), WTOF ID, News: D-Day, Gun control in the US House, 43422 1130, 2019-06-02, 1923, WQFX Gulfport (MS), solemn music, 25432 1130, 2019-06-04, 1925, sermon of the yelling kind: Awakening, 15421 1130, 2019-06-05, 1959, gospel song, 15321 parallel to their web stream 1140, 2019-06-02, 1925, pop music, listed is WPNS Destin (FL) which is just 50 km from my QTH, I would have thought it should be stronger; no useful ID ever heard, 35433 1140, 2019-06-04, 2139, pop music such as Amy Whitehouse, Sade, Styx, no ID even at ToH, 44444 1180, 2019-06-02, 1930, Radio Rebelde (Cuba), music // to 670, jamming Radio Martí, 35422 1190, 2019-06-02, 1932, WMEJ Bay St Louis (MS), pop song, generic commercials plus "Christian Faith Publishing", ID as "Rejoice AM 1190", then a piece that sounded like black comedy but wasn't funny at all - how someone ends up in jail after they tried to cash a check. 45433 1230, 2019-06-02, 1945, WBOK New Orleans (LA), gospel music, Halleluia, 15431 1230, 2019-06-03, 2009, commercials, jingle "WBOK", 15421 1250, 2019-06-02, 1948, WHNZ Tampa (FL), talk, tent at this point, 15411 1250, 2019-06-03, 2007, definite WHNZ legal ID, 15421 1260, 2019-06-02, 1949, WFTW Ft Walton Beach (FL), talk about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, 55454 1270, 2019-06-05, 1158, WTLY Tallahassee (FL), Breakfast Club, ID "WTLY Tallahassee' RnB", HipHop, talk about racism, 32422 clearly still dawn conditions, fading, mixing with 2 other stations 1270, 2019-06-05, 1205, WIJD Prichard (AL), southern pastor ranting, website radiomissions.org which fits the schedule for WIJD's Wilkins Radio, 32412, faded out to be replaced by WBOJ 1270, 2019-06-05, 1554, sermon by an angry old man, ID with "IJ" in it, 13431 1270, 2019-06-05, 1752, Jesus talk, legal ID with "IJ" in it, phone number 888-989-3399(?), 23332 with splatter from 1260. Bingo, the WIJD website says "you may contact the Wilkins Corporate Offices at 888-989-2299" 1270, 2019-06-05, 1214, WBOJ Columbus (GA), Jingle heard as "Rumour 102.5" but listed as "Boomer 102.5" (I count that as a match), commercials, then 100% ID when something is sponsored by "Keep Columbus Beautiful", oldie music, 32422 1280, 2019-06-02, 1952, WODT New Orleans (LA), sports talk, 45444 1280, 2019-06-05, 1601, Commercials (hardware store in Lowe Louisiana, sea food, steak house, air conditioning - all that matters in a southern summer), ID as "New Orleans talk" and "WRNO 99.5", 45454 1280, 2019-06-02, 1952, UNID, latin mx, 11411 in the null of WODT, not heard again later 1290, 2019-06-02, 1953, WPCF Panama City Beach (FL), techno music, 45444 1300, 2019-06-05, 1957, WQBN Temple Terrace (FL), Spanish pop song, 14331 parallel to their web stream (yeah, not the old-school way, but on the afternoon prior to departure, you grow desperate to solve the last UNIDs) 1310, 2019-06-02, 1955, WHEP Foley (AL), Sports live (Tigers), ID "WHEP", commercials, baseball, 35443 1320, 2019-06-02,2010, WDDV Venice (FL), talk about the Mueller report, commercials, IDs as "iHeart Radio 1320" and as "Bloomberg Radio", 24432 1330, 2019-06-02, 2019, WEBY Milton (FL), Gun commercials, Gun talk: Which calibre to carry for self-defense, How to NOT use your gun since hey, it's actually not legal to shoot just anyone even on your property, it might be your drunken neighbor, 55454 1340, 2019-06-02, 2026, WTAN Clearwater (FL), Halleluia song, talk about anxiety about your future, invitation for a Bible study session in Clearwater, 24422 1350, 2019-06-02, 2042, WWWL New Orleans (LA), soul music, ID as "92.9 Classic RnB... old school..", 45344 1360, 2019-06-02, 2053, WMOB Mobile (AL), sermon, at 2101: gospel music, 13421 1370, 2019-06-02, 2053, WCOA Pensacola (FL), generic commercials, Pensacola fundraiser, 55454 1380, 2019-06-02, 2101, WWMI St Petersburg (FL), News, commercials, ID as "AM 13-80 - The Biz", money talk: Clark Howard Show, 43443 1410, 2019-06-02, 2108, WNGL Mobile (AL), talk about missionaries and the Holy Spirit, 35422 1410, 2019-06-03, 1957, very Catholic prayers, Our Father, Hail Mary, repeated over and over and over...., no ID at ToH, maybe just missed it, 35343 1420, 2019-06-02, 2109, never IDed this one but presumably it's WBRD Palmetto (FL), Spanish pop song, 45433 1420, 2019-06-03, 1817, Spanish, commercials, Mexican music, 25242 1430, 2019-06-02, 2110, WLTG Panama City (FL), threatening anti-refugee talk "and Mexico does not stop themmmmm" with a British (!) accent, 35433 1450, 2019-06-02, 2113, WBSR Pensacola (FL), popmx, 55444 1450, 2019-06-03, 1809, WBSR Pensacola (FL), popmx, Jingle "The Wow 90.9", 54544 1450, 2019-06-03, 1809, WSDV Sarasota (FL), RnB music, ID as "103.9.com, an iHeart radio station", commercial for something "all over Tampa", 33422 in the null of WBSR 1460, 2019-06-03, 1326, WZEP Defuniak Springs (FL), bluegrass music, Florida News Now, then local news "From the WZEP AM 1460 newsroom", traffic in Okaloosa and neighboring counties, 35433 (my favorite AM station not just because they're one of the few remaining local/rural signature stations with a friendly vibe, but also for a very nice QSL letter for a [almost DX] reception in Birmingham, AL) 1470, 2019-06-03, 1342, UNID talk, 15121 1480, 2019-06-03, 1343, UNID music, fade-out, 15111 1490, 2019-06-03, 1344, UNID, commercials, 23322 1490, 2019-06-03, 1344, music, 11321 1490, 2019-06-03, 1747, WWPR Bradenton (FL), generic commercials, ID "WWPR 1490", news, commercials with 941 area code (Sarasota/Bradenton area), 25332 1490, 2019-06-05, 1804, UNID, oldies, rock'n'roll, country music, 23422 in the null of WWPR 1520, 2019-06-05, 2028, WXYB Indian Rocks Beach (FL), Spanish talk, 15431 parallel to their web stream 1580, 2019-06-03, 1350, UNID, Spanish pop songs, short talking at 1400 but couldn't understand a word, 35311 (bearing for Gulf coast) 1600, 2019-06-03, 1401, KLEB Golden Meadow (LA), French pop song, commercials, ID as "The Ragin' Cajun 1600 KLEB Golden Meadow".. Country and bluegrass music in French/Creole... interesting listening! 35453 1620, 2019-06-03, 1416, WNRP Gulf Breeze (FL), info program about medicine, program for mothers and babies in Escambia [the westernmost county of Florida], 54343 Nothing else up to 1710 73, (Eike Bierwirth, Wiesbaden / Germany, June 16, WOR iog via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See VATICAN mention ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See CHINA; KUWAIT; RUSSIA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See also MEXICO; OKLAHOMA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DXING DTV PILOT SIGNALS and ANALOGUE VIDEO CARRIERS So I'm curious about DTV pilot signals. Since they are such a narrow bandwidth (500 Hz) compared to the full DTV signal (5,000,000 Hz), they are relatively easy to catch on a tune-able receiver, such as an SDR. IF you know who the pilot signal belongs to, isn't that DX, even if the REAL signal isn't showing up on the TV? I see pilot signals all the time on low VHF channels. Even on RF 13, one night this week I had 6 pilots showing up. I just don't know how you would ID them. Doug Smith says the FCC doesn't require TV broadcasters to publish the frequency they use for their pilot. But can't I count the station IF I know the pilot signal coming in belongs to them? (Jim Thomas, Springfield, MO EM37, Ozark Mountain DTV DXing Daredevil, WTFDA FM Database Mexico and Central America Editor; Summer 2019 DX equipment: Antennas - Antennacraft MXU59 UHF antenna & homebrew version of Kathrein VHF 2-6 five element antenna @ 25'. Both antennas fed through a Channel Master 7777 30dB pre-amp. Tuners - Zenith DTT901 converter box; AirSpy HF+ sdr; Silicon Dust HDHomerun Dual ATSC tuner, using Rabbitears autologger support. June 6, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) The pursuit of DTV VHF pilot frequencies A few months ago I realized I could find DTV VHF pilot frequencies on my AirSpy HF+ sdr. I can tune them specifically. Pilot frequencies are not regulated to EXACT frequencies by the FCC, BUT they do have to be a specific frequency area +/- from the center of the assigned channel they are on. A TV engineer sent this to me as an example of a DTV 2 assignment: "PILOT CARRIER ATSC Recommended Practice A/54a explains that the nominal pilot carrier frequency can be determined “by fitting the DTV spectrum symmetrically into the RF carrier.” To do this, center the bandwidth of the DTV signal (one half the 10.76222378 MHz symbol clock or 5.3811189 MHz) in the 6 MHz DTV channel. Subtracting 5,381.1189 kHz from the 6,000 kHz channel bandwidth leaves 618.881119 kHz. Dividing that in half leaves 309.440559 kHz, giving the precise standard pilot offset above the lower channel edge. Channel 2 center of channel frequency = 57.0 MHz. Lower channel edge is 54.0 MHz places the pilot at 54.30944 MHz, the pilot carrier tolerance is +/- 2.0 kHz." So why would I want to be tracking DTV pilot frequencies? As an early indicator for Es reception. Although I was warned about this from a TV engineer, DTV pilots, being only 500 hertz (very narrow bandwidth), can travel much further than their full signal (5,000,000 hertz, which is what is required to decode). So I may be chasing after signals I will NEVER see on my TV or STB. But I've noticed the pilots don't vary much on a day to day basis. I have been able to match pilots to stations coming in at the exact same time as the full signal decode. Several days later when the same station reappears, I check the pilot frequency I had recorded previously and it is the same. I realize there is NO OTHER WAY to verify who a pilot signal belongs to. It isn't published information and there isn't ANYTHING with the pilot to tell you who it is. At the same time, it might be difficult to nail down very many of these pilot signals. One evening when I was tuned to RF 8, I had 10 different pilot signals coming in. Three or four of them were almost on top of each other, according to the spectrum view I consult for the SDR, which is a program called SDR#. Here are a few examples I have recorded (frequencies in megahertz, +/-) RF 2 - KHME South Dakota, 54.309.900 RF 3 - WBRA Virginia, 60.309.534 RF 5 - KHSD South Dakota, 76.309.610 RF 7 - KOAM Kansas, 174.309.176 RF 9 - KAFT Arkansas, 186.309.550 RF 12 - KTHV Arkansas, 204.309.539 IF you have the capability to tune local or nearby DTV VHF pilot signals and can note the frequencies on your receiver, please feel free to share. I am trying to slowly assemble my own list, but it won't be something that is ever published. Some DXers use tuners that need to be calibrated and thus their tuning results may not agree with what my SDR shows or someone else's tuner, thus the reason for using +/- as a wildcard. I've attached a couple items to this post - one is a jpeg of the RF 5 session where I was tracking two pilot signals - KNHL Hastings Nebraska and KHSD Lead South Dakota. The other is an mp3 recorded at the exact same time as the screen capture of the two pilots. The steady tone is KNHL, the pulsating tone (warble) is KHSD. Attached Thumbnails Attached Files DTV 5 pilots x2 6-04-19.mp3 (271.2 KB, 0 views) (Jim Thomas, Springfield, MO EM37, June 13, ibid.) One problem with this, Jim, is the accuracy of the receivers. Even my old Icom R-8500 was off by a few 100 Hz in the UHF range. I had to average out readings of adjacent channels and come up with a correction formula that would make sense (higher freq = larger error). I was able to have confidence of ± 15 Hz after the corrections. I now have an Icom R-8600, which is high end and about as accurate as you can get without spending zillions of dollars. I no longer have to apply corrections. It has an auto readout down to 1 Hz. The auto readout is fine, but I've figured it's ±8 Hz. I can't get any more accuracy manually tuning, as the smallest tuning step is 10 Hz. Here's what I have so far, three decimals is measured on the R-8600. Two decimals are measured on the R-8500 last year and may not be that accurate - or have changed since then if there's been station maintenance. KHME-2 54.309.462 KNOP-2 54.309.441 WHDF-2 54.309.440 WLBZ-2 54.309.457 KDLO-3 60.309.462 WDVZ-3 60.309.40 KSNB-4 66.309.483 WHBF-4 66.309.54 WTSP-4 66.309.27 (tentative 66.309.146 this year) KHSD-5 76.309.588 warbler KNHL-5 76.309.462 KXGN-5 76.309.63 WLMB-5 76.309.44 WMC -5 76.309.44 WRGB-6 82.309.429 (William Hepburn, Ont., ibid.) Tonight, I've determined the KYUS 3 Miles City, MT pilot has a slight warble to it. One that's easy to pick out by its sound is WVUA 6/23 Tuscaloosa, AL. Pilot Frequency is 82.31-ish. At random intervals its pilot will take several small steps, down in frequency, then slide back up to where it started. I call it, "The Stepper." It doesn't always do this, and the time between 'steps' isn't always the same but, you'll know it when you hear it. Also = There's a DT 3 pilot (60.31-ish), to the southeast of here, that has a very small shift in frequency at about 1 second intervals. I call it, "The Shifter." I hear it during Cuban Es events and I wonder if it just might be the elusive WSBS Key West. Who wants to go to The Keys and check on it? 73, (Ed NN2E, Owner / Operator - Murphy's Law Test Site & Thunderstorm Proving Grounds, Thunderstorm KY, June 14, ibid.) Back in the analog days, long before digital, there were, and probably still are, TV DXers who were DXing video carriers. This practice was most widespread in Europe and Australia. The European guys had detailed lists of carrier frequencies for most of the analog channels. If Moscow R1 was measured at 49.253705 MHz, then they would count it as Moscow. When a station drifted up or down, somebody would notice it and report it. Those of us on this side of the pond were never into this much. Once I had Iceland's E2 carrier because what I had matched what the Europeans had listed. I never counted it in my totals. Europeans always said we were stupid for not noticing the video carrier frequencies. We would tell them that due to the huge number of high powered lowband Vs it just wasn't possible to get video carriers for Central/S.A. stations, but they didn't want to hear it (Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT -72° 30' W/41° 59' N FN31RX; Online since 1999 and still going at http://mikesdx.com June 16, ibid.) Quote Originally Posted by Jim Thomas ``Doug Smith says the FCC doesn't require TV broadcasters to publish the frequency they use for their pilot.`` I'm not sure I'd put it that way As Mike says in the other thread, the pilot is nominally at a specific frequency# with a tolerance of 2 kHz. That means each station's pilot will vary a bit. But they're all *supposed* to be on the same frequency -- no station *intentionally* sets its pilot 150 Hz high or 75 Hz low or ... The nominal pilot frequency is the same for every station on the same RF channel (again, see Mike's post in the other thread -- in a nutshell, approximately 309 kHz above the bottom of the channel) I do find the *method* used to determine the nominal pilot in the source Mike used to be a bit strange. I don't know exactly what's in most ATSC exciters; the newer ones are software-based. (Rohde & Schwartz makes one that's basically a very big RTL-SDR run backwards..) I would think in most hardware-based designs, the pilot is the carrier -- generated first, modulated with the data, and then partially (mostly) suppressed by phasing. I doubt in most cases that the pilot is added after the rest of the DTV signal is generated. (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, http://www.w9wi.com WTFDA Forum via DXLD) REPACKING DEADLINE FOR SUMMER SOLSTICE Just heard something on WNEM-TV Channel 5 in Saginaw; they are changing frequencies on June 21. People tuning in over-the-air will need to adjust. Researching this further shows over 1000 broadcast TV channels are changing frequencies because of FCC spectrum auctions. More information is available on http://tvanswers.org In Mid-Michigan, these stations are affected: [. . .] (Karl Racenis, MARE Tipsheet 14 June via DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ AVIATION MONITORING Everyone goes crazy on their own. One of my directions is aviation monitoring. The video is short, so as not to bore you much, but the idea itself will be clear. On the computer "data are falling" received directly from the air, using ADS-B technology (1090 MHz). No internet, filter or latency. Everything that the dispatcher sees, I also see, with all the marks (height, speed, climb rate up / down, respondent data - including emergency ones, if any). On audio control and recording (118.00 - 137.00 MHz, AM). I tried all sorts of different methods, recordings on a computer, or on a voice recorder using VOR. ... that's all garbage. That level does not coincide, since airplanes at different distances, the recording machine will not work. The most reliable, turned out to be the old fashioned way :) It's easier for me to press the "pause" key on a regular deck, and turn on the recording (if something interesting happens) than to rely on "automatic solutions" that let you down exactly when you need :) Video - https://vk.com/radioreceiver?z=video-163779953_456239943%2F251256178068ceae9c%2Fpl_post_-163779953_28315 (Igor K., Tallinn, Estonia / https://vk.com/radioreceiver Rus-DX 16 June via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ WWV PROPAGATING ON 25 MHZ --- see start of USA sexion above GEOMAGNETIC INDICES FOR MAY Geomagnetic Summary May 2019 Via Phil Bytheway – Tabulated from online status daily (K = 0000 UTC). Flux A K Space Weather 1 68 10 4 no storms 2 69 12 2 no storms 3 70 7 3 no storms 4 72 10 2 no storms 5 74 4 1 no storms 6 76 5 2 no storms 7 79 5 1 no storms 8 75 2 1 no storms 9 76 7 2 no storms 10 76 7 3 no storms 11 78 25 4 minor, G1 12 76 4 2 no storms 13 75 6 2 no storms 14 74 36 2 strong, G3 15 74 6 1 no storms 16 74 8 3 no storms 17 72 5 1 no storms 18 71 5 0 no storms 19 68 3 2 no storms 20 69 6 1 no storms 21 68 4 1 no storms 22 67 4 1 no storms 23 67 5 2 no storms 24 66 5 2 no storms 25 67 4 2 no storms 26 68 5 3 no storms 27 68 10 1 no storms 28 68 8 3 no storms 29 68 14 3 no storms 30 69 8 2 no storms 31 69 5 1 no storms Sx – Solar Radiation Storm Level / Gx – Geomagnetic Storm Level / Rx – Radio Blackouts Level (NRC DX News June 25, published June 19, via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2019 Jun 17 0339 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 10 - 16 June 2019 Solar activity was at very low levels. No sunspots were observed on the visible disk and there was an absence of significant flare activity. No Earth-directed CMEs were observed in available imagery. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal levels throughout the reporting period. Geomagnetic field activity reached active levels on 13 June, and unsettled levels on 14 June due to recurrent CH HSS influence. Quiet conditions were observed during the remainder of the period. Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 17 June - 13 July 2019 Solar activity is expected to be at very low levels throughout the outlook period. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to reach high levels on 26-30 June, with moderate levels expected on 18-25 June and 01-03 July in response to elevated wind speeds associated with recurrent CH HSS activity. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to reach active levels on 17-19, 25 June, unsettled levels on 20-22, 24, 26 June and 06, :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2019 Jun 17 0340 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 2019-06-17 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2019 Jun 17 67 12 4 2019 Jun 18 67 12 4 2019 Jun 19 67 12 4 2019 Jun 20 67 12 3 2019 Jun 21 67 10 3 2019 Jun 22 67 8 3 2019 Jun 23 67 5 2 2019 Jun 24 68 8 3 2019 Jun 25 68 12 4 2019 Jun 26 68 8 3 2019 Jun 27 68 5 2 2019 Jun 28 69 5 2 2019 Jun 29 69 5 2 2019 Jun 30 69 5 2 2019 Jul 01 69 5 2 2019 Jul 02 69 5 2 2019 Jul 03 69 5 2 2019 Jul 04 69 5 2 2019 Jul 05 68 5 2 2019 Jul 06 68 8 3 2019 Jul 07 69 5 2 2019 Jul 08 69 5 2 2019 Jul 09 69 5 2 2019 Jul 10 68 8 3 2019 Jul 11 68 8 3 2019 Jul 12 67 5 2 2019 Jul 13 66 8 3 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1987, DXLD) ###