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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1998 contents: Antarctica, Argentina, Ascension, Australia, Bahamas, Brasil, Chad non, Colombia, Cuba and non, Hong Kong non, India, International Waters and non, Iraq, Ireland non, Korea North, México, New Zealand, Oklahoma, Oman, Romania, Russia, Sudan, Taiwan, UK, USA; and the propagation outlook Ready by 0350 UT September 6 for broadcasts Friday September 7 to Thursday September 13 Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1998.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1998.mp3 Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html Also linx to podcast services. 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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. [Ed. note: apology for lateness of this issue: I am struggling to keep up with the huge flow of info; finished ASAP! September 15] ** ALBANIA. After 43 years of use of 'Made in China' equipment in Fllake, Shijak and Cerrik-A locations in the Hoxha Albania state: The scrapping took place in February / March 2019 in Albania at the international and domestic radio stations of Radio Tirana. Browse through Google Earth images on August 26, 2019. I'll call the table of inspection: Only the (more southern) Cerrik-B shortwave location is STILL IN USE for CRI Beijing European Shortwave Transmission Relay continues more 15 years of contract, after total modernization in 2004-2005 years, {and the new 2019 contract with the Chinese Embassy for more every 15 years just renewed, with independent self-sufficient Chinese organization handle around the broadcast center} with 22 curtain antennas visible on Google Earth images - most of modern RTC-China antenna design of 8 dipoles in row, from 2003 year ? - design stolen from the company TCI California in the early 2000s -? 2x non-dir omnidirectional Quadrant antennas for the Balkans 49/41 mb, 6 x 150 kW TXs, - row to mostly only 4 \\ in use at a time, each two can be combined to total of 300 kW combined powerful operation, especially for NoAM target usage in the 49 and 31 meter band, which happens during Europe-Atlantic Ocean-North America nighttime dark path, - even since the US wartime era in Vietnam since approx. 1966-1975 years. The Chinese MEDIUM WAVE large-scale plant at Fllake, built up in 1966 and 1971 years: R Peking/Beijing / R Tirana / Deutsche Welle relay / Voice of America relay / Trans World Radio broadcasts towards East and South East Europe target MW Fllake site, 2 x 500 kW (+ 1 x 500 kW unit as spare parts warehouse) was completely scrapped in February / March 2019, MW 1215, 1395, and 1458 kHz. the wounds in the landscape are shown in Google Earth Images, relative medium wave masts combinations Fllake ant#1 8-mast 033degr, north-easterly Fllake ant#2 4-mast 330degr, north-westerly, Fllake ant#3 1215 kHz single mast, southwesterly, RT, VoA and DWL Fllake ant#4 8-mast 003degr, north-westerly, Fllake ant#5 1458 kHz single mast, southeasterly, RT, CRI and DWL [why aren`t single masts non-direxional?? gh] As well as the Radio Tirana European target center at the Shijak location and the local MW 1089 kHz for the homeland service station there - origin of 'Made in USSR' era in late 1950s, are totally gone. Just as close to the capital, Tirana Kashar 1359 kHz, the oldest Albanian 'Made in USSR' station Radio Tirana from March 1952 - until spring 2013 in use, MW Sarande 864 kHz, Skoder 693 kHz, Kukes 648 990 kHz 3-masts, all scrapped in February / March 2019. The broadcaster Overseas Radio Tirana / Radio Peking on shortwave Cerrik-A site from the 1960s to July 2004 in use, 6 x 25, 10 x 50 kW transmitters, 14x curtain antennas, 5x long distance Rhombic antennas, all scrapped in March 2019. Of the Radio Tirana homeland MW and 60mb masts stand only the two in Korce 621/1260 kHz and Girokaster 909/1305 kHz, locations in the deep Albanian mountain areas. vy73 de (Wolfgang DF5SX, BC-DX 31 Aug via DXLD) See also BULGARIA, YUGOSLAVIA ** ALBANIA [non]. Radio Tirana --- A new QSL card was received from Radio Tirana in response to a report dated July 26, 2019. The card was sent on July 30th. Reception of the program in English through WRMI. The QSL theme is visible from the new series of cards - Series K: Impressions of Tirana - Motive 6. http://freerutube.info/2019/08/28/qsl-radio-tirana-albaniya-wrmi-iyul-2019-goda/ (Dmitry Elagin, Saratov, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", QSL World, Rus-DX Sept 1 via DXLD) ** ALGERIA [non]. FRANCE, Reception of TDA Telediffusion d'Algerie via TDF Issoudun Sept.4 0500&0503 6125 500 kW / 194 deg NWAf Arabic HQ/French, weak to fair 0500&0503 9535 500 kW / 162 deg CEAf Arabic HQ/French, fair to good And upcoming frequency changes of TDA Telediffusion d'Algerie via TDF Issoudun https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/reception-of-tda-telediffusion-dalgerie.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 3-4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS. See INDIA ** ANGOLA. 4949.7, Radio Nacional de Angola, Mulenvos, 0416-0514, 30-08, Portuguese, comments, songs. 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) 4949.7, Radio Nacional de Angola, Mulenvos, 1950-2005, 31-08, Portuguese, comments. 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476, 1844-, LRA 36, Aug 27. I was very pleased to hear Antarctica from Greenland! Snippets of audio only, and by 1904, just a weak het. This was heard in Qaqortaq, Greenland. I never hear them on the west coast! Are they really at 10 kW? I suspect much less! (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam. Greenland, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) 15476, LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza, 1835-1910, 29-08, songs and music. Extremely weak, best on USB. Also 1735-, 30-08, Latin American songs. Extremely weak, best on USB (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) LRA 36 has changed the program format and only non stop songs heard all days of the week --- 15476, LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel has been on the air since last week all days of the week, instead of only some days, mainly Tuesdays and Thursdays, but the program format has changed and now only non stop Latin American songs has been heard and not the program "Llevando Esperanza" with comments by two or three females and some male. The usual time is 1230 to 2000 UT, and the program "Llevando Esperanza" lasted about two hours, from about 1300 to 1500 and repeated from 1800 to 2000. Now, 1910 UT 30-08, on air with non stop Latin American songs, like all past days of the week, including last weekend (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Aug 30, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) ARGENTINA [sic]. LRA-36 Radio Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel has changed the program format and now only non stop songs heard all days of the week: 1230-2000 15476vSGB 010 kW / 180 deg to SoAm Spanish Dly, ex Tu/Th! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/lra-36-radio-nacional-has-changed.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 30-31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15476, LRA 36 on air again today Saturday with non stop Latin American songs (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Aug 31, Logs in Friol, WOR iog via DXLD) LRA36 on Saturday 31 August as it seems they forgot to close down the transmitter for 15476. The music program (carrier + USB; nothing in LSB) ended around 1752 UT but now at 2130 UT there still is a carrier on 15476. vy73 (Harald Kuhl, Germany, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) 15476, LAR 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza, 1630, 01-09, on air again today Sunday, heard now here in Friol, Very weak and strong fading, Latin American and Spanish songs, song by Leon Dan "Amor Divino" 15311. Signal improving here in Friol now at 1705, the best and clear signal for LRA 36 for the last 30 days (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, WOR iog via DXLD) 15476, LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza, 1630-1830, 01-09, Latin American and Spanish songs, song by Leo Dan “Amor Divino”. Very weak at first, but improving later. The best and clear signal for at least the last 30 days. 15321 but at moments 25322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) LRA 36 via Rio Kiwi-SDR --- LRA just heard via the Rio K-SDR by chance with poor signal at -90 db at 1731. Also in Argentina K=SDR on 1734 with signal -110 db S5 mixed with much local noise https://app.box.com/s/a42dkkecfau8bhscmpb9qekis39gewf8 (Zacharias Liangas, https://www.facebook.com/zachliang https://del.icio.us/gr_greek1/ZAK (all pages), Sept 1, ibid.) Video of my LRA 36 log, today at 1947 UT: https://drive.google.com/file/d/175oFwyvCzhb9G8VGZGxM8ny3MbSu5-4a/view?usp=drivesdk (Manuel Méndez, Spain, ibid.) Also audio, music sample only, has 1 kHz het, from something on 15475? (gh, DXLD) As reported on WOR, LRA-36 noted Wednesday 4 Sept from 1930 tune in -- frequency measured today as 15475.98 and best in USB though surprisingly good also in AM. Straight music which is apparently their new format with no IDs heard at least in the first minutes of listening -- the Pardinho Kiwi site is CROWDED these days because of this station! (Dan Robinson, 2000 UT Wed Sept 4, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) Also heard from SDR in W. Iceland (TF4-011) from 2028 with S3 signal – as Dan noted all music, but there was a short YL SS announcement just after 2030 and then back into music. I started in AM Narrow but again as Dan indicated, the signal was noticeably improved on USB. Music was kind of funky today – did not seem like Argentinian folk music as we often hear, but more jazzy. Base Esperanza and Iceland are on the Gray Line at 2045, so best reception should be 2030-2100 from here (Bruce Churchill, WORLD OF RADIO 1998, ibid.) Still audible as of 2105 with music but fading fast; as Bruce noted there was an actual human being announcer in the 2030 or so time range, female announcer in Spanish but could not drag an ID out of it. By 2112 peaking back up S5 to S7 straight music (Dan Robinson, ibid.) It seems the announcer or operator is not paying attention? The same repetitious song has been playing non-stop since before 2100 but finally at 2110 a new (also repetitious) song! Very strange music today! Still at Fair S3 level in Iceland at 2115 – have not heard them past 2100 prior to this (Bruce Churchill, ibid.) I think the final fade is underway as they're now S3 at Pardinho (Dan, 2119 UT, ibid.) Dan, you might try RX1 at Iceland http://tangar.utvarp:8073 – you can get a full waterfall on this rcvr (Bruce, ibid.) I have now switched to Iceland and surprisingly good signal there! Thanks for the tip on that, Bruce (Dan, 2124 UT, ibid.) Maybe the operator is eating dinner and forgot about the transmitter, Hi! (Bruce, 2126, ibid.) LRA-36 still going at 2145, the latest I have ever heard them…however signal is fading fast at Iceland and the xmtr shutdown may not be detectable – S1 at 2145 (Bruce, ibid.) LRA-36 still being heard from Iceland after 2215 on USB with improving, but highly variable signal strength (S1-3) after almost fading out at 2130-2145. Still non-stop music (Bruce, ibid.) LRA-36 on extended schedule 9/4 --- As heard from the W. Iceland SDR, LRA-36 was on past 2300 on 9/4. However, at that time the signal was virtually gone with only an almost invisible trace on the waterfall, so the actual s/off time today was unknown. The best signal was from 2030 to 2100 in sync with the Gray Line between Iceland and Esperanza Base (polar path). (Bruce Churchill, 0802 UT Sept 5, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) Thanks to Bruce and Dan for the heads-up. This morning, I can just make out a signal just below 15476 (before 1500 UT), and now checking with Don Moman's Perseus remote SDR, a stronger signal, with snippets of music. Wonder whether they remained on overnight? 73, (Walt Salmaniw, BC, Sept 5, ibid.) 15476 kHz, Radio Nacional San Gabriel Arcangel [sic], Base Esperanza, Spanish, 05/09 1640. Songs in Spanish, Female communication. 15321 (Rudolf Grimm, PY2-81502 SWL, São Bernardo SP, BRAZIL, Rx: Kenwood R-1000 (on of my favorites!!!), Antenna: AOR LA-400 Magnetic Loop Antenna (indoor), HCDX via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. RAE ARGENTINA AL MUNDO BUSCA RECUPERAR SUS HISTÓRICAS FRECUENCIAS DE ONDA CORTA --- 01/09/2019 En ocasión de la Convención de la HFCC que ha tenido lugar en Buenos Aires, las autoridades de RAE Argentina al Mundo encabezadas por su Director, el señor Adrian Korol, solicitaron ante las autoridades de la HFCC las frecuencias de onda corta de 6060, 9690, 11710 y 15345 khz que históricamente pertenecieron a RAE. Resultado de imagen para rae argentina al mundo y HFCC [undercaption] Asimismo se realizo una reunión entre el Gerente de Operaciones de LRA y el jefe de ventas internacionales de Continental Electronics, para conocer las condiciones y posibilidades de adquisición de un nuevo transmisor de onda corta para la planta transmisora de General Pacheco. Además, el pasado 29 de agosto se realizaron pruebas de recepción DRM al aire libre en distintos puntos de la Ciudad con excelentes resultados. Asimismo se realizó plenario de la edición B19 de la HFCC en el CCK donde se analizaron los resultados de las reuniones de coordinación que serán publicados, tal lo acostumbrado, en el mes de Octubre de este año. [previously:] Nueva Jornada de la HFCC en Argentina --- 28/08/2019 Con el auspicio de RAE Argentina al Mundo se llevo a cabo una nueva jornada del encuentro de la HFCC en el Auditorio de Radio Nacional, Buenos Aires. Resultado de imagen para rae argentina al mundo [undercaption] Con la presencia de mas de 60 delegados en representacion de mas de 40 organizaciones internacionales continuo el dialogo entre los participantes para acordar el nuevo esquema mundial de emisiones en onda corta. Ademas Michelle Coat, delegada de la UIT (Union Internacional de Telecomunicaciones), presento un nuevo software de gestión. Este encuentro tuvo lugar en el estudio de RAE. Entre las actividades del dia de hoy se destacan una mesa redonda sobre EL FUTURO DE LA ONDA CORTA y la presentación de la nueva planta transmisora que instalo la empresa Continental en la ciudad [sic] de Maine, Estados Unidos. (de la pagina web de RAE) [previoiusly:] LA RADIODIFUSIÓN INTERNACIONAL CELEBRA CONFERENCIA EN ARGENTINA 26/08/2019 Onda Corta. El período B19 se decide en Buenos Aires. Entre el 26 y el 30 de Agosto se realizará por primera vez en Buenos Aires (y en Sudamérica) el encuentro de la HFCC con alrededor de 60 delegados de más de 40 organizaciones relacionadas con la radiodifusión internacional como la UIT, la FCC, Deutsche Welle, NHK, KBS, WRMI, IRIB, CRI, Radio Vaticano, TWR, AWR, etc. Resultado de imagen para HFCC shortwave [updercaption] RAE Argentina al Mundo es host del encuentro que tendrá lugar en el Auditorio de Radio Nacional y aque además de las actividades de coordinación de frecuencias tendrá otros eventos de interés como una presentación sobre LRA36 Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel a cargo de los técnicos que trabajaron en su instalación y que viajarán a instalar las válvulas que pondrán en el aire de la onda corta al transmisor antártico. Habrá también una mesa redonda sobre el futuro de la onda corta y la presentación de la planta transmisora de onda corta que la empresa Continental inauguró en Maine, EEUU. El viernes 30 se realizará una visita a la Planta Transmisora de General Pacheco. Asimismo durante la semana del encuentro habrá transmisiones especiales en DRM dirigidas a la Argentina de BBC, NHK, KBS, TWR y Radio Vaticano (via GRA blog via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) So RAE wants to ``reclaim`` its traditional SW frequencies. They can be entered into HFCC like many other imaginary broadcasts, but they will really need to get a transmitter on the air for that to have any significance; says they are looking into getting one from Continental; however, beyond South America they would do better with relays like those existing via WRMI. While it would be nice for old time`s sake to recuperate the exact same frequencies before Gen. Pacheco fracassed, there is really no need to concentrate on them. 9690 and 11710 in particular are well used now by other stations, and robust frequency management could surely find some clearer ones (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. Re: [WOR] Unique Radio off air indefinitely === In looking at his letter to the public he cites several reasons. First, an issue with the antenna system, and the fact that engineering help is not available. Second, a lack of revenue. While I understand the benefit of HF communications, the non-technical world does not. I'm afraid, over the next decade, the number of engineers that can operate, maintain, and repair high powered HF facilities will almost disappear (Bob Biermann, WRMI, Aug 31, WOR iog via DXLD) Unique Radio is NOT high-power, more like amateur-radio level (gh) Unique Radio 5045 and 3210 resumes tomorrow Monday from 0300 UT (1 PM local AEST) --- Unique Radio returns tomorrow from 0300 UT or 1 PM local AEST. The fault has been fixed and coax also upgraded. Schedule is at https://www.uniqueradio.biz (Tim Gaynor, Sept 1, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) Will stay on 5045 and not change to 3210 kHz, see how it it goes today/tonight, best regards (Aussie Tim, Unique Radio, Gunnedah NSW, Australia, 0258 Sept 2, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) Did the guys from the Tamworth club help you out?? 73 (Tony Magon, VK2IC, ibid.) Hi Tony, no, I managed to sort it out, but have their URL and email, so will probably contact them soon, appreciate your help, Thanks, Tony (Tim Gaynor, ibid.) OK signal here in Sydney from 0335 in USB with tunes by Elvis 'Always on my mind' and Martha Davis 'Don't tell me the time'. (2/9) (Matt Francis, ibid.) ** AUSTRALIA. 5055, Radio 4KZ, Innisfail, 0707-0715, 31-08, only weak carrier detected here in Friol (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) LP 5055, Radio 4KZ, 1215-1248:30*, on Sept 1. Played all C&W songs; some commercial announcements, but not strong enough to make out; cut off mid-song. My poor quality audio at http://bit.ly/2MOs0aI Still a challenge to hear! BTW - Nothing heard on the future additional frequency of 2484/2485 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) I'm hearing Radio 4KZ from Australia on 5055 kHz at 1057 UT with an SIO 222 here in Westminster MD, using a netSDR and 670 ft horizontal sky loop antenna. Had the carrier since first check around 0900 UT. And now starting to fade back out at 1103 as it becomes daytime locally (Chris Smolinski, Black Cat Systems Westminster, MD USA, http://www.blackcatsystems.com Sept 4, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) So that`s what it takes ** AUSTRIA. Radio Joystick on air next Sunday --- The Charlie-Prince Show, Moosbrunn, will be on air tomorrow Sunday September 1st at 1000 UT, like all first Sunday of the month on 7330 kHz: https://radiojoystick.de/ "Since 2013 we broadcast via Media Broadcast. The transmitters are located in the small town of Moosbrunn near Vienna, broadcasting our shows on every first Sunday of each month at 12:00 h German time with 100 kW at 7330 kHz on shortwave to Western Europe." (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BAHAMAS. ZNS-1, 1540 kHz --- Hello, just wondering if ZNS-1 is on-air from Nassau, Bahamas. I'm too close and opposite to CHIN Toronto, ON. Perhaps Listeners in SE USA can report what`s being broadcast during the Hurricane Dorian. I fear that Freeport will get severe storm/tidal surges plus a fairly strong wind impact. Regards (Paul S. in CT, 0035 UT Sept 2, WOR iog via DXLD) Nassau seems to be out of danger, but Freeport could be blown away, 810 kHz (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) I was listening to ZNS-1 direct on 1540 kHz here in Central Florida. They appear to be offering nonstop coverage in English of the Hurricane impact. Often taking phone calls or conducting interviews. I can receive 1540 kHz on my Tecsun PL-660 and Car Radio, some fading and splatter from adjacent stations but still listenable (John the VORW, 0041 UT Sept 2, WORLD OF RADIO 1998, ibid.) Can you normally hear it as well, if it be direxional away from USA?How about ZNS-3 810 kHz Freeport? Can you tell whether it`s on or off, 10 kW? Now supposedly a gospel format, so might not be interested in ZNS-1 type programming instead of just praying (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) I can hear ZNS [1540] right now on a KiwiSDR receiver located in the Dominican Republic http://dr.twrmon.net:8073/ Good signal with hurricane related info (Bruce Portzer, WA, 0044 UT Sept 2, ibid.) We should point out that 1540 might well be non-direxional tonight and beyond under the circumstances, penetrating better into USA than usual (Glenn, ibid.) Normal pattern day and night is cardioid with deep null NW toward USA (Glenn Hauser, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) ZNS 1 also streams on the Internet from their web page. Just use your browser (John Figliozzi, NY, ibid.) [non]. 1540, Sept 2 at 0520 UT, try to hear ZNS which is reported still on air from Nassau, outside the hurricane, and which should be on emergency non-direxional antenna making it more audible in USA --- but no trace of it vs two Spanish stations, likely Texans, and English, KXEL IA, etc. The only other Bahamian MW is 810 ZNS-3 in Freeport, now listed as gospel format so not normally relaying Nassau; rather dedicated to praying away Dorian? cursory check there not expecting to hear it even if not yet blown off (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hurricane Dorian & Bahamas --- From our Facebook group: The Bahamas on 810 kHz seems to be off the air (Out of Freeport). I will try to raise my antenna and see what I can pick up on 810 later tonight (Ivan NO2CW, MWCircle yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1998 via DXLD) Ivan Cholakov Just checked. Radio Progreso from Cuba is what I hear on 810 tonight, 8 PM local time. 1540 kHz is on the air, heard near Miami, FL. Feel free to check them on my kiwisdr which is under my radio call NO2CW (via Steve Whitt, Sept 5, MWCircle via DXLD) ** BANGLADESH [and non]. 4750, Bangladesh Betar, Shavar. Long talks in Bangla with occasional short music excerpts at 1920. A Bangladeshi ballad at 1938. Strong signal and also a strong transmitter hum on 16/8. However, this is better than on 12/8 when there was a nasty transmitter buzzing sound and no audio! Voice of Indonesia was barely audible under Betar. In Jakarta, however, the KiwiSDR reveals a very strong VoI in Dutch, but also Bangladesh was easily heard (with its hummy transmitter) underneath (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Kenwood R5000, Tecsun PL-680, Horizontal Sky Loop, Double Bazooka, antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), Sept ADXN via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 3310, Radio Mosoj Chasqui, Cotapachi, 0056-0111, 30-08, Quechua, comments. Clear signal today. 25322. Good propagation tonight at about 0100 for Andean stations (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) Radio Mosoj Chaski, 3310, full detailed E-letter in 9 weeks for e-report to radiomosojchaski@hotmail.com. V/s Anna de Wheeler (Artur Fernández Llorella, More info at my DX blog: http://maresmedx.blogspot.com.es/ playdx yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4775, Radio Congonhas, Congonhas, 0445-0530, 01-09, Brazilian songs, Portuguese, comments. Very weak. At about 0453 QRM from Trans World Radio, Swaziland on the same frequency. 12321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4885.025, Weak signal on BrasPortuguese program of S=4-5 tiny, noted on remote NJ-US state remote SDR at 0539 UT on Sept 1. Log of Sunday Sept 1st, 0500 UT-0700 UT, made it into remote SDR units at central Europe, in Doha Qatar ME and Aberdeen-NJ-US east coast [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz](Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 1, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 5940a, R Voz Missionária, Camboriú, 0530, 8/26/19, terrific signal and good listening from 0530 check, Portuguese ID. [+] 5939.67, R. Voz Missionária, 2320, 8/26/19. really pounding in with musical variety show including some good sertanejo selections 2320, then ripple stinger and Portuguese ID 2325, ads, and internet address given at bottom of hour. Great listening! Into program seguéd playing ballads, arpa music, etc. Good ID segment at 2238 (Ralphus W. Perry, Wheaton IL, Drake R8B, Dentron Super – Tuner, Ameco & Palomar Preamps, Wellbrook Loop, 350’ LA BOG, Delta Skyloop, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) [sic] is that last time 2238 a typo for 2328 or 2338? (gh) ** BRAZIL. 6180, Radio Nacional da Amazônia, Brasília DF, Portuguese, 03/09 1230. News bulletin, 'Amazonas, governo Federal, Ministério Público do Pará...'. 35553. No signal on 11780 kHz (Rudolf Grimm PY2-81502 SWL, São Bernardo SP, BRAZIL, HCDX via DXLD) 6180, Radio Nacional da Amazonia, Brasilia, 1920-1945, 03-09, Portuguese, comments, Brazilian songs, program "Nacional Jovem", "Radio Nacional da Amazonia". 14321. No signal on 11780 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Reinante, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) Not even a trace here at 1952 (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, Sept 3, WOR iog via DXLD) Now weak here in Finland on 6180.02 kHz (Mauno Ritola, 2038 UT, ibid.) Yes, checked on Sept 3rd at 2148 UT, 6180.012 kHz RNA in Bras Portuguese, S=9+10dB -68dBm signal here in western Europe, when seen the software peak strings on screen, seen more 10 Hertz wide audio portion on the upper flank side. In our German TV and radio programs heard reports from Brazil, about cease all public radio organization services like Radio Nacional, and plans of President Bolsonaro to sell these national radio TV programs to the private Brazilian media corporations. And not line-loyal journalists in the state broadcasters to sack / dismiss soon. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) That could leave a vast (but sparsely populated) area without any news radio coverage at all, because it simply will not be commercially interesting to broadcast to that region. All they will have left there would be religious stations, which I guess suits Bolsonaro just fine (- Rik van Riel, All Rights Reversed. _Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Good signal here in NB on 6180 kHz at 0152 UT on 4 September (UT), even indoors with a whip antenna. Nothing heard on 11780 kHz (-- Richard Langley, NB, ibid.) And excellent signal into WCNA at 0302, but at 0302:15 or so, suddenly dropped to just poor to fair. What happened??? (Walt in Victoria, BC, Salmaniw, Sept 4, ibid.) 11780, Radio Nacional da Amazonia, Brasilia, 1931-1940, 04-09, back on 11780, Portuguese, program "Nacional Jovem". QRM on 11775. 21421. Nothing on 6180 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Reinante, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) 11780, Sept 4 at 2057, Brazilian song at S5-S7, as RNA is back here after a spell on 6180 as others have reported. There are also reports that Bolsonaro wants to privatize EBC stations, which would probably put an end to the SW service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, I also heard "Radio Nacional da Amazonia" last evening September 4th from 2209 to 0000 UT on 11780 kHz with good signals SINPO 45444 here in Pittsburgh PA. About 0000 UT their signal dropped to 33533 with lots of flutter. I did not hear their transmissions on 6180 kHz, although I looked for it at times. I am assuming all transmissions were in Portuguese, although I do not understand Portuguese. I noted what appeared to be a lot of talking, occasional music, and some sports or sports call in show. According to their web site http://radios.ebc.com.br/nacionalamazonia they operate from 0500 to 0000 BRST on 6180 kHz and 11780 kHz. Their time zone is (Brasilia) three hours behind UT. I used Google Translate to try and understand the information on their web site. From what I noted on their web site they relay quite a bit of programming from the national AM and FM network, and from the Alto Solimões National Radio network. Some programs that appear to not be on the Alto Solimões National Network and are unique to weekend transmissions schedules. I used Google Translate to translate their web pages for most of this information. A translated list of program names are: (National Network Mon thru Fri) National Dawn, Rural Brazil, Bibi Here Comes The Story, National Reporter, Beats National Ball (Sports), Voice of Brazil, Me From Here-You From There, National Informa, Brazil Magazine. (Alto Solimões National Radio) Hello Brazil, National Chat, Good Morning Amazon, In Count, Musical Memory, Mass (Sun 0600 BRST), Music Show, National Youth, Live Nature, Our Animals, Meeting Point, National Report Amazon, Brasil Magazine. By the way it appears that their address has changed as it appears to be different than in the WRTH 2019 (page 119). I copied English Translation: Portuguese Translation Amazon National Radio RÁDIO NACIONAL DA AMAZÔNIA Post Office Box 258 CAIXA POSTAL 258 CEP: 70.359-970 Brasilia, Brazil Zip Code: 70.359-970 email: centraldoouvinte@ebc.com.br I am not sure if any of this information is useful. If you understand Portuguese it might make listening very enjoyable. 73 de (Chuck W3ON Gessner, Sept 5, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Rádio Nacional da Amazônia completa 42 anos em 1º de setembro --- Publicado em 29/08/2019 - 11:05 http://www.ebc.com.br/institucional/sobre-a-ebc/noticias/2019/08/radio-nacional-da-amazonia-completa-42-anos-em-1o-de-setembro Criada para integrar a Amazônia Legal ao restante do país, a Rádio Nacional da Amazônia completa 42 anos em 1º de setembro. Para comemorar, os programas Natureza Viva (8h às 10h) e Ponto de Encontro (10h às 12h) recebem colegas de equipe e vozes sempre lembradas pelos ouvintes. Os demais programas da grade também prestam homenagem à emissora. Entre os funcionários, a data será comemorada na sexta-feira (30), a partir das 14h, na redação. No domingo (1º), haverá um café da manhã. A Rádio Nacional da Amazônia iniciou suas transmissões em 1977 e desde então conecta gerações de ouvintes. São mais de quatro décadas de prestação de serviço público. “A Amazônia é a voz da floresta, une cantos, rituais, histórias de guerreiros e guerreiras. A rádio garante a manutenção da memória de uma Amazônia que precisa se manter de pé, ser valorizada e protegida”, destaca a apresentadora do programa Natureza Viva, Mara Régia, há 41 anos na emissora. Quando criada, a Rádio Nacional da Amazônia veiculava programas que falavam do Brasil, da identidade nacional e da própria Amazônia, levando também recados e informações para a população de uma região com pouco acesso a veículos de comunicação. A Nacional se tornou ponto de encontro e um espaço que permitia a interação entre famílias e comunidades separadas por longas distâncias. “Acredito que a grande conquista da rádio nestes 42 anos é permanecer com o seu objetivo inicial de integrar a floresta ao resto do país, mesmo na era da internet, mesmo diante desse mundo digital tão presente em nosso cotidiano. A rádio continua sendo um elo, uma ponte no meio da mata, que possibilita a comunicação para diversas pessoas nos mais variados lugares do nosso país”, considera Ediléia Martins, há seis anos locutora oficial do programa Nacional Jovem. Hoje, a Rádio Nacional da Amazônia fortalece a conexão entre as comunidades da floresta, valorizando e divulgando a diversidade da região. “A rádio é a voz da Amazônia. A rádio é deles, são as ideias deles, o mundo deles, a forma de viver dessas pessoas. Muito do que vai ao ar na rádio é notícia que vem de lá pra cá, prezamos muito por isso”, explica Juliana Maya, apresentadora do Tarde Nacional e há 11 anos na emissora. O Tarde Nacional foi o primeiro na emissora a utilizar o Whatsapp* como ferramenta de comunicação instantânea com os ouvintes. As muitas mensagens recebidas via aplicativo mostram a relação emocional que a rádio desperta e que passa entre gerações. “É uma forma de transmissão de amor por meio da rádio. E ainda temos as pessoas que diariamente nos descobrem. É um crescimento coletivo, uma troca de realidades. A rádio é mais que especial, é necessária, é prestação de serviço”, resume Maya. Confira alguns áudios enviados pelos ouvintes: [...] (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 1 September 2019, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Rádio Inconfidência, reactivated only a few days, missing last days on 15190 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Aug 31, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) ** BRAZIL [non]. HOLLAND, Frequency change of Brazilian Radio Onda ASBL in 49mb from September 1: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/frequency-change-of-radio-onda-asbl-in.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 3-4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 0000-2400 NF 6060 MRT 001 kW / non-dir to WeEu Portuguese, but inactive, ex 6030 Публикувано от Observer в 9:34 PM (via DXLD) ** BULGARIA. An overview of the history of Bulgarian medium-wave installations should never forget the ill fated installation near Cape Kaliakra on the Black Sea coast. It should have broadcast the Bulgarian domestic program Horizon on 774 kHz (150 kW, 2-mast antenna) and Soviet external programmes on 1125 kHz (2 x 500 kW, 8-mast antenna) for the eastern Mediterranean. The directional antenna, consisting of four active and four passive masts, was among the best that the Soviet antenna industry had to offer. This facility has also made it to Wikipedia. The information at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliakra_transmitter apparently refers to an older version of http://www.predavatel.com/bg/6/kavarna because some of the information can be found in the files of the author under the year 2007. However, the following information refers to the 2019 version, which for example gives different data on the mast heights. In 1988, construction work started south of Bulgarevo. Until 1991 nine antenna masts of 135 to 169 m were built. But after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, a facility of this kind was no longer needed for a Soviet broadcaster. Work was discontinued in 1992. In 1993/94 there were talks to get Western broadcasters involved (Voice of America, BBC and Deutsche Welle) but no agreements were reached. In 2001, a 75 kW transmitter originally destined for the site was put into service at Vakarel as a longwave transmitter on 261 kHz. In 2005, broadcasting antennas for VHF broadcasting were installed on two masts, but obviously they were consolidated to one mast at a later date. In January 2014, six of the nine antenna masts were demolished. Since August 2016, according to the research of Wolfgang Büschel, only the northwesternmost mast is still standing. The coordinates 43 ° 23'24 "N, 28 ° 25'05" E given at http://www.predavatel.com/bg/6/kavarna will take you directly to it in Google Maps. However, the further dismantling of masts is not mentioned at http://www.predavatel.com/bg/6/kavarna. (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 4 September 2019, DX LISTENING DIGEST) http://www.predavatel.com provides a lot of information on the current situation of Bulgarian radio stations as well as many historical data. Google translate does not always give an adequate translation into German, but it seems that not all medium wave stations are covered (for example Petrich 747 kHz). These links are recommended for some information on medium wave stations. http://www.predavatel.com/bg/1/sofia http://www.predavatel.com/bg/2/blagoevgrad http://www.predavatel.com/bg/3/plovdiv http://www.predavatel.com/bg/4/stara-zagora http://www.predavatel.com/bg/6/kavarna - including information on a Megawatt project never finished, see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliakra_transmitter http://www.predavatel.com/bg/7/silistra (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 4 September 2019, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. Scrapping and total elimination of medium and shortwave facilities in Southeastern Europe / Balkan states over the past decades. Browse through Google Earth images on August 26, 2019. Many MW plants within Bulgaria were dismantled / scrapped between 2013 and 2018. The Plovdiv shortwave center with 11 curtain antennas, The rotatable 8 x dipole series large antenna in Sept 2013, the railway iron ring of the revolving antenna device is still visible. Stamboliyski 30kW 648 746 1449 kHz until August 2013. Location Pleven Gravitsa in June / July 2014. Stara Zagora Mogila 873 kHz 60 kW 165 degr in December 2014. MW Dragoman 963 kHz, Kardzali 963 1296 kHz, Petrich 747 kHz, Pirin 702 kHz, Shumen 747 828 kHz, Suvorovo 745 kHz, in August 2016. Varna 774 kHz only in July 2018. And around Varna, a large short-wave interference transmitter center against US Radio Liberty / Svoboda, in direction to exUSSR Moldova, Ukraine, Caucasus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkmenistan. Blagoevgrad MW 864 kHz (but also old Stoersender direction Balkan and Eastern Bulgaria, Georgia, Caucasus, Armenia, against Radio Liberty / Radio Free Europe) in March 2018. Radio Sofia former Foreign sce / US RFE relay on mediumwave at north- western Bulgaria border zone towards western Europe at Vidin Vodna location, 1224 kHz 205 deg azimuth 300 kW, SV2+2 sidefire directional antenna + single non-dir masts, still visible in 2019. In the 1989/1990 years, planned and under construction 6 of total 8 masts f the SV4+4 Sidefire antenna (USSR design type like in Kaliningrad Bolshakovo center of 1976) Kavarna Kaliakra location, mediumwave site ruin, 50 km north of Varna on Black Sea coast, planned Radio Moscow USSR relay of 1000 kW power, large transmitter for Greece, Libya, Tunisia target on MW 1161 kHz. Built never finished and be never in use. After August 2016, the north-westernmost mast (1 out of 8) remained probably only used for VHF, TV and mobile phones. vy73 de (Wolfgang DF5SX, BC-DX 31 Aug via DXLD) See also ALBANIA, YUGOSLAVIA ** CAMBODIA [non]. 12150 Not Heard, Voice of Khmer Chas Srok, Dushanbe. Nothing heard between 1130 and 1200 on Sundays, as has been the case for a long time now. However, it still appears in the EiBi list and other frequency lists that source their data from Eibi. 11/8 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Kenwood R5000, Tecsun PL-680, Horizontal Sky Loop, Double Bazooka, antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), Sept ADXN via DXLD) ** CANADA. New schedule for [CBC] Radio 1 Sept 2019. Laura Lynch for The Currant Bun [? sic] Good for The Current. Laura Lynch has been an international correspondent, lawyer, and stumbler over reading news scripts. Nala Ayet for Ideas. CBC Radio still has deadly draones [? sic] like way-past-his-prime Michael Enright on Sunday Mourning [sic], and Piya Chaddopaya in OutFront-and-obnoxious. See https://www.cbc.ca/radio/pdfs/Radio-One-schedule.pdf?cmp=newsletter-R1+Aug+30%2F2019 (Dan NoSpam Say, 30 Aug, alt.radio.networks.cbc, via Mike Cooper, DXLD) I see from the new CBC Radio 1 schedule that "Because News," the panel quiz about the news, has been moved out of its long-running Saturday morning slot and now only airs on Mondays at 11:30 a.m. local time (Mike Cooper, Sep 2, DXLD) ** CANADA [and non]. [Re 19-35, getting KVOH by GW in CA?] How was Sackville reception in various bands at Fred.? 176 km = 109 miles (gh) As I recall, I didn't have a problem with Sackville transmissions but should check my log books once I get home. I do recall hearing a half-harmonic below 5 MHz from them once. And as I've remarked before, I get so-so reception from WBCQ, on some of their frequencies, which is at a similar distance from my home in NB. Is it ground wave or iono-bounce shower reception? (-- Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CAYMAN ISLANDS. FINAL BROADCAST FOR CAYMAN 27 By Staff August 29, 2019 https://www.caymancompass.com/2019/08/29/updated-final-broadcast-for-cayman-27/ Tammi Sulliman, Cayman 27's station manager, reads the news in the TV studio in Camana Bay. The TV station will make its final broadcast at 6pm Friday. - Photo: Cayman 27 After being on television screens for 27 years, Cayman's only local TV news station will close down Friday, 30 Aug., with the loss of 13 jobs. Hurley's TV Ltd., which runs Cayman 27, will cease operations and the station will broadcast its last show, Cayman 27 News, at 6pm. Randy Merren, managing director of Hurley's TV Ltd., said the station had been struggling for the better part of a decade and cited a lack of cooperation from regulator OfReg as the reason behind the closure. The company owes more than $100,000 in unpaid regulatory and licence fees to OfReg. The regulator issued an enforcement notice to Hurley's TV Ltd. on 31 July, followed by a notice of suspension that informed the company that it would be suspending its licence on 1 Sept. Merren said his company had had repeated discussions with the regulator on how to make the station financially viable, including the possibility of the introduction of subscription fees, but no steps were taken. Of the 13 staff members who are losing their jobs, 10 are Caymanian, two are permanent residents and one is a work permit holder. Seven of the staff are full-time, and the others are part time, Television Station Manager Tammi Sulliman said. Merren also owns a number of local radio stations, including BOB FM, Rooster and Z99. Sulliman said the radio stations were not affected by the decision to close Hurley's TV Ltd. She said Hurley's Media was working with SteppingStones recruitment agency to help find positions for staffers who are losing their jobs. Merren said in the statement that before buying the business, he had discussed the TV station's financial issues with OfReg officials, "and I was under the impression that there would be the creation of a `must carry' fee, where each subscription TV licensed operator would pay to carry Cayman 27, so they could fulfill their own licence obligations that required each to provide local content. The `must carry' fee or Universal Service Fund never came to pass". He said that earlier this year, Cayman 27 received an OfReg notice of unpaid fees spanning "a couple of years". According to documents seen by the Cayman Compass, the unpaid fees totalled $103,619.71 and related to outstanding licence and regulatory fees. Merren said that, in May, Cayman 27 again laid out to OfReg the issues the company faced, stating that without a monetary contribution of a subscription fee, Hurley's TV Ltd. would have "no choice but to terminate the channel's current programming, as it is unsustainable under its licence requirements". In June this year, OfReg launched a public consultation on its regulatory remit issues, including the subject of local content. The consultation period on that was extended until 16 Aug. Before that consultation was completed, Cayman 27 received an enforcement notice as its 29 July compliance date for payment of outstanding fees had passed. A couple of weeks later, Merren said, OfReg issued a suspension notice, giving Cayman 27 a deadline of 1 Sept. to address the financial compliance issues, or its licence rights would be suspended. "In the absence of support from successive government administrations and a lack of a level playing field set by the regulator, we find ourselves in the regrettable position of no longer being able to continue daily operations. We have no choice but to shut down Cayman 27 and Hurley's TV Ltd.," said Merren. Premier's response Premier Alden McLaughlin, under whose ministerial remit OfReg falls, issued a statement on Thursday saying, "The decision to close the station was one made by its owner on the basis that it was not commercially viable. As far as the regulatory breaches are concerned, questions in this regard should be put to the regulator, OfReg." Requests for comment from OfReg's Acting CEO Alee Fa'amoe were not answered by press time. An email from OfReg stated that Fa'amoe is on vacation. Premier McLaughlin said the government believes that a television station that produces and broadcasts local programmes and news is "a critical piece of Cayman's information infrastructure", and added that the government would "immediately begin exploration as to how the void created by the closure of Cayman27 can quickly be filled". The Cayman Islands government in 2012 launched its own television station, CIG TV, which can be viewed on channel 23 and online. The premier also stated, "The government is very concerned about the loss of Caymanian jobs and will make available all of government's resources to assist with finding them alternative employment." Cayman 27 opened in 1992, and was first a division of WestStar TV Ltd., before becoming part of Logic Communications Ltd. in 2014. It was acquired by Hurley's Media the following year. Merren said that during the regulator's 2015 consultation period looking at the future of local television broadcasting, numerous submissions were made pointing out that the market was too small to support one TV station as a stand-alone free-to-air station without some sort of subscription model. He said Cayman 27 had never been profitable and had been subsidised from its inception by its parent company WestStar as part of its own cable licence requirement that it provide local content. Asked if any entities had been approached to buy Cayman 27 before it shut down, Sulliman said there had been no effort to find a buyer, as the channel was not financially viable. "We were so far down the river, there was no turning back," she said. Merren said that over the years, Cayman 27 had consistently provided local content comprised of news, weather, sports, talk shows, hurricane information and community events. Cayman 27 also employed and trained Caymanians to learn the tools of both the television production and television journalism trades, Sulliman said in the statement. "The training of Caymanians at the TV station is one aspect of which I am immensely proud. As long as someone was willing to learn and dedicate themselves to the service of the country through the work we do, the team at Cayman 27 always took the time to train and upskill those who needed it," she said. "The loss of this important training ground is one that personally affects me, as I am acutely aware of how many people gained skills and employment as a result of their time at Cayman 27." The station, originally called CITN, launched in September 1992, sending its first broadcast on UHF Channel 27. It was originally located at a converted warehouse space over Island Electronics on Godfrey Nixon Way before moving to the Television Centre, off Eastern Avenue, where it remained for more than 20 years, before moving to an office in Camana Bay after Merren bought it. (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** CHAD [non]. Radio Ndarason International via ENC-DMS Woofferton on Sept.3 1900-2100 12050 WOF 250 kW / 152 deg WeAf Kanuri, very good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/radio-ndrason-international-via-enc-dms.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 3-4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Additional broadcasts of Radio Ndarason Int via ENC-DMS Sept.4 0700-0730 12050 unknown / Woofferton WeAf Kanuri fair to good signal 0730-0800 12050 unknown or Ascension WeAf Kanuri weak to fair signal 1800-1830 9775 unknown or ASC / WOF WeAf Kanuri check this evening! 1830-1900 9775 unknown or WOF / ASC WeAf Kanuri check this evening! Other transmissions of Radio Ndarason Int via ENC-DMS Ascension/Woofferton 0500-0600 5960 ASC 250 kW / 055 deg WeAf Kanuri as scheduled in A19 0600-0700 7415 ASC 250 kW / 055 deg WeAf Kanuri as scheduled in A19 1900-2100 12050 WOF 250 kW / 152 deg WeAf Kanuri as scheduled in A19 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/uknon-additional-broadcasts-of-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 3-4, WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DX LISTENING DIGEST) U.K. Unscheduled Radio Ndarason International Sept 4 from 0700 12050 WOF 250 kW / 152 deg WeAf Kanuri fair to good signal 1900-2100 12050 WOF 250 kW / 152 deg WeAf Kanuri as scheduled in A19 Videos will be added later today -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, WOR iog via DXLD) R Ndarasan Int’l heard weakly from 1900 and then very nicely after 1930 from SDR in Bay of Islands NZ – peaked between 1930-2000 with near S5 signal – no QRM from strong station on 12030 and slightly stronger station on 12060. Lots of discussions/interviews, etc. and some Chadian music. Polar path with near-Gray Line connecting UK with NZ (Bruce Churchill, CA, WOR iog via DXLD) Date? maybe also Sept 4 ** CHINA. 14980, CNR1 at 1320, 8/29/19. jamming Sound of Hope, Taiwan which is not heard. SINPO – 35533 (John Figliozzi, Halfmoon NY. Equipment: ICOM IC -7300, Eton Grundig edition Executive Satellit; A/D DX Sloper, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) 6105, Firedragon/Firedrake music jammer station, 1030, crashing and banging over RTI Taiwan, listed to be here this hour - Very Good August 30 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Unless otherwise stated, equipment is Grundig Satellit 205/T.5000, RS SW-2000629 with various outdoor wires & indoor shortwire. 73 and Good Listening.......! = rb, WOR iog via DXLD) 7600, Aug 30 at 1321, CNR1 jammer, S5-S7 vs intermittent RTTY 7597, // 9680 but no highers found. At least I can DX the 7 MHz band, as we got 2.6 inches of rain! since 0730 UT which washed out the high line noise, probably temporarily; and now I can hear the weaker lightning crashes. Aoki/NDXC shows 7600 is a Sound of Hope frequency available 23 hours a day, so so is the jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 10960, 11440, 12350, Sept 1 at 1309, only JBA carriers I find WOOB which could be CNR1 jammers; very poor propagation, not even 11785. 25m almost dead except for RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15340, Music of CNR1 program jamming against SOH Taiwan at 0525 UT Sept 1, traced in Doha Qatar ME. 13550even, CNR1 powerful jamming against co-ch SOH TWN Falun Gong service, S=9 in Qatar ME at 0625 UT. But nothing of SOH program heard so far. Log of Sunday Sept 1st, 0500 UT-0700 UT, made it into remote SDR units at central Europe, in Doha Qatar ME and Aberdeen-NJ-US east coast [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz](Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 1, WOR iog via DXLD) CNR-1 Jamming vs.SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng, September 2: till 1200 on 11580 unknown kW / unknown to EaAs Chinese, fair signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/cnr-1-jamming-vssoh-xi-wang-zhi-sheng.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11785, CNR at 1153 // 11825 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin via the Philippines with a man and woman with excited news coverage and a brief telephone interview with a woman at 1156 then the man with more talk and brief male vocals at 1158 and a number of promos to 5+1 time pips at 1200 – Fair Sept 3 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S, Drake SPR-4, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 80 and 40 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD) and an Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, ODXA iog via DXLD) ** CHINA. On August 27, from 1220 to 1230 UT at frequencies of 9630 and 11630 kHz on the waves of China National Radio 17 (Kazakh service program), a lesson in English was noted. At the beginning, there were messages in Kazakh, Russian and English about lessons in Russian and English. Apparently, there are lessons in Russian on other days of the week, except in English, but probably someone from the diaxists will help to figure this out? (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Rus-DX Sept 1 via DXLD) ** CHINA [and non]. 12015, China & D.P.R.Korea. CRI, Beijing in English to Eu at 1700-1758. Plus VoK, Kujang in Russian also to Eu at 1700-1800 a few Hertz off-frequency. CRI is the dominant station here, 12/8 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Kenwood R5000, Tecsun PL-680, Horizontal Sky Loop, Double Bazooka, antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), Sept ADXN via DXLD) ** CHINA. 13850-DRM mode block, CNR1 DRM transmission from Qiqihar in far northeastern China, RTC site #2021. S=9 signal in Akitakata Japan. At 00.006 [sic] UT on Aug 31. Heard on remote access at SDR unit in Hiroshima Akitakata and Tokyo Japan [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, DXplorer wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 31, BC-DX 31 Aug via DXLD) ** CHINA [and non]. THE RISE OF SHORTWAVE BROADCASTING FROM CHINA Nigel Holmes has forwarded an interesting link to some statistical information on who is using shortwave, and for how many hours. Read about it here: https://blog.marxy.org/2019/08/the-rise-of-shortwavebroadcasting-from.htm (Sept ADXN via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. A Kiwi SDR is now available in Bogotá at http://186.80.201.188:8073/ and in a recent AM bandscan I noted the following variations to the 2019 WRTH station listings: 540 Radio Autentica 850 Candela 1010 Radio Universal and ‘iglesia universal’ 1100 “BBN” identification heard regularly. 1130 “Esta es Vida” 1250 Identifying as “Radio Capital” 1280 VACANT - Aviva2 missing from frequency 1310 Unusually, heavy metal rock music on “Radio 3:16, 24 horas” 1340 “Amor Bogota 13-40 AM” ident at 2359 UT, also references to “RCN” 1370 “Radio Mundial 13-70 AM”– no reference to “Autentica” heard. 1400 Emisoras Mariana? Presumed as signal too weak to identify. 1430 VACANT - Uniminuto Radio missing – no signal at 0005 UT. 1490 VACANT – no Emisora Punto Cinco on frequency at 0005 UT. 1550 G12 Radio phonetically announces as “Hay-Dossay Radio” 1580 Running parallel to 850 at 0008 UT with “8-50 AM Candela” ID (Bryan Clark, Sept NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. Date: 30 August 2019 --- Good morning, Glenn. This morning's sunrise monitoring yielded two medium wave harmonics in the 2900 kHz region - the first was a return of 2940.11 HJNT Huellas Radio, Cali, Colombia (2 x 1470) with impassioned Spanish preacher at 1028 UT, then into Spanish praise and worship music; confirmed via // web stream at http://www.radios.com.co/huellas/ - this looks like classic grayline reception on the map. Faded out soon after due to local sunrise. Heard on Perseus SDR and south-facing 100' x 26' Wellbrook corner-fed delta loop (Brett SAYLOR, 8/30/19, central PA, WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: 2900 WREL ** CONGO. 6115, Radio Congo, Brazzaville, 1823-1829*, 29-08, French, comments, songs. 14221. Also *0534-0610, 30-08, French, comments, news, female, male, African songs. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CONGO DR. 6210.2, Radio Kahuzi, Bukavu, 1753-1800*, 29-08, religious songs. Very weak. 15311. Also 1745-1803*, 30-08, vernacular comments, religious songs. Weak but clear signal today. 15311 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) 6210.2, Radio Kahuzi, Bukavu, 1740-1811*, 01-09, Vernacular comments, religious songs. 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** COOK ISLANDS. The following was posted on the Radio Cook Islands Facebook page on 7 August: “At midnight last night the 630 kHz service was turned off permanently. This morning, contractors Raro Weld were on the site to commence work on the dismantling of the 108-meter mast, which towers above the Matavera skyline. Project Engineer Esben Torget, one of two climbers for the dismantling job said they will be dismantling it from top to bottom but before getting to the top, they have to reinforce the mast from bottom up. He says there is severe corrosion 50m up in mid-section of the tower and is rusty on the inside so the job has to be done very carefully. The team will be setting up secondary stays (wires) that will replace the stays that were made in the early 90s which he says normally need to be serviced every four years. What they’re pretty much going to do is set up the secondary stays that will be anchored to new concrete anchor points and while they move up the mast, they will set up secondary stays on the different fittings around the mast in case the old stays give way. Then after setting up the secondary stays, they will dismantle the mast from the bottom by segments three meters long, 85kg heavy and they will be lowered down one by one using a small portable crane that will be attached to the immediate segment below. A base will be set up just below the mast that will have a puller system pulled out to a 20ft container about 30m away and everything will be controlled from there when it comes to lowering. Torget says they will be trying to push this as fast as they can but safety is priority. They’ve set a timeline of four to five weeks to complete the job, weather dependent. Equipment such as 4000m of specialized rope is also being manufactured at this moment out of various companies in New Zealand and Italy. The mast towers above the Takitumu school, who had to be relocated towards the end of June as an added precaution. The dismantling of the AM 630 kHz mast leaves the country without a national radio service, which is critical in times of emergencies such as during cyclones, and tsunamis. It also, leaves the country without a means of disseminating information of national interest via a single, reliable, and constant source. This concern has been echoed throughout social media and the community. The Cook Islands Investment Corporation has confirmed previously that a mast will not be re-erected in the same location due to the school below and the increase in residential housing in the surrounding area. At this stage, the Government has considered some options and will be strengthening the FM network in all of the Outer Islands. This is by far the easiest and fastest option available at this time in order to restore a national service to the country. Some preliminary costing has been obtained but full costings will be confirmed soon. In the meantime, the Pa Enua [the Outer Islands. BC] can get information via CITV which can be received in all of the islands. For radio listeners on Rarotonga, simply switch your radio to FM and tune it to the frequency 101 MHz.” [One comment posted on Facebook mentions that his Japanese import car radio doesn’t have coverage to 101 FM so he has lost RCI reception completely. Bryan Clark, ed.] (Sept NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** CUBA. The ICRT in Cuba (broadcast license regulatory agency) announced on July 9th this year that Cuba has officially gone to 1000 radio transmitters, which is the combined total of AM, FM, (and one shortwave) radio stations and repeaters. This is the total of original broadcasters, combined with the numerous repeaters on both bands that make up the network of stations across the island. Cuba made a big deal this past May that their 100th FM station had signed on the air. The WTFDA FM Database has a total of 339 FM radio stations and repeaters listed for Cuba. The other 661 stations and repeaters are on the AM airwaves (Jim Thomas, Sept WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) See also EL SALVADOR, PANAMA ** CUBA. Something's ALWAYS wrong with Radio Habana Cuba --- Hi, Glenn - I'm a longtime listener in the 1980s who started listening again via podcast when I returned to shortwave listening just more than a year ago. Anyway, just a few moments ago, at 2258 UT on Aug. 30, 2019, I stopped at a carrier on 11950 kHz to see what was about to sign on. At 2300, I heard the familiar synthesized female voice of HM01 reciting numbers, which seemed unusual for that frequency. Lo and behold, just a half-minute later, Radio Habana programming in Spanish replaced the numbers station. Somebody pressed the wrong button! (For the record, reception was fair to good amid noisy daytime conditions here.) Cheers and 73s, (Eric Fetters-Walp, Lake Stevens, Washington, WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9778-9779, Aug 31 at 0348, CRI Plus English relay on 9790-AM at S9+40/50! Also has FMish spur around this area, and somewhat readable if tuned in FM mode. Much weaker one on hi side around 9801; another blob circa 9668 may have been something else. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9640.04, Aug 31 at 1345, RHC 9640.0 with hum & crackle, and additional carrier +40 Hz. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11880, CRI at 1545 UT Sept 1 talking about US/China trade war. Excellent. Tell my why Radio Havana Cuba can not provide us with a strong clear signal like this for their English transmissions?? 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA 100 loop, WOR iog via DXLD) 11760, Sept 1 at 2134, RHC is dead air; 11850 just barely modulated, 9640 undermodulated. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 9640, Sunday September 1 at 2253, RHC `En Contacto`, Arnie with ham news, citing a postal address in Matanzas -- pen pal? 2253 Marta introduces a fibre-optic connexion --- big deal! --- to Arnie for propagation info, but he`s soon mumbling something about Zacatecas, QSL on-the-air? 2257 outro. 6100, UT Monday September 2 at 0510, RHC English starting `DXers Unlimited`, initially about Dorian which is totally missing Cuba, but Arnie recalls previous storms and ham activity. This frequency barely strong enough vs HLNL, not 6165 or 6000; normally strongest would be 5040 but it seems still to be in wrong language, Spanish. DXUL upwraps already at 0518. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) After many months, I`m again hearing multiple FM spurs from RHC; on almost daily morning bandscans, no sign of them until now, Sept 3 at 1337 as I am tuning downward, first encountered circa 13830 but covering 10-11 kHz, 13825-13836. Also 13758-13772, 13626-13637, 13562-13572 weaker; trace circa 13500. Very strong AM signals on both 13740 and 13700 before 1400, but these FM spurs are obviously out of 13700 at approx. 65 kHz intervals; and they are still there after 13740 is off at 1400 check. Then I search further: FM on 13894-13903; trace circa 13963: these two higher blobs I had not noticed initially. The closer ones are very strong too. Come to think of it, I did not notice any F# tone along with them which used to accompany, but rechecking at 1520 they are all off as is 13700. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6100, Sept 4 at 0623, RHC English, S9+20 but undermodulated, better than JBA carrier on 6165; 6000 and 5040 off. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 13700, Sept 4 at 1325, after resurgence yesterday, no FM spur constellation from this RHC today. Something`s not wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. Radio Martí Jazz --- Nice jazz program this evening (30 August UT [Fri]) on Radio Martí — one of the few non-talk programs — noted at 0430 UT in progress on 7335 kHz (best) // 7435 and 6030 kHz here in Indian Wells, CA (— Richard Langley, Aug 30, WOR Iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) Thanks, Richard; From the R Martí website, I see that this program is aired Tuesday to Saturday from 0400 to 0500 UT, titled: "TÚ ERES LA MÚSICA Es un programa inspirado en el talento de uno de los pueblos, que más ha influenciado en la música popular cosmopolita. La historia de creadores e intérpretes de la Música Cubana y otros relevantes creadores; el reflejo de la vida misma que se evidencia en sus obras, en los tópicos y géneros más variados; crónicas de la verdad acerca de hechos históricos en el mundo del arte y la búsqueda constante del buen gusto y alta calidad, más allá de dictaduras y prohibiciones, son divisa de este programa, hecho pensando en Ustedes." Google translate: "You are the music It is a program inspired by the talent of one of the peoples, which has most influenced the cosmopolitan popular music. The history of creators and performers of Cuban Music and other relevant creators; the reflection of life itself that is evident in his works, in the most varied topics and genres; Chronicles of the truth about historical events in the world of art and the constant search for good taste and high quality, beyond dictatorships and prohibitions, are the currency of this program, made thinking of you." Will re-check and add in due course to the next Music on Shortwave listing update (B-19, to be available late November/early December). (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, ibid.) The broadcasts are all online, but even the HQ recording has only mono, a pity. https://www.radiotelevisionmarti.com/z/476 https://av.martinoticias.com/flash/clips/CU/2019/08/31/20190831-040030-CU004-program_hq.mp3 But, I think, many of the older songs are only in shellac quality anyway. ;-) A further music program "...aventura musical....": https://www.radiotelevisionmarti.com/a/245299.html https://av.martinoticias.com/flash/clips/CU/2019/08/25/20190825-020000-CU004-program_hq.mp3 Postmoderno - La Música de Hansel y Raul "..Postmodern, under the leadership of the American Cuban filmmaker Joe Cardona, guides the public through a musical adventure that includes all genres and styles that helped shape fashion, art, literature and film in the free world. In Postmodern, Cardona and her guests break the cultural walls that have isolated Cuba for a long time and provide a musical bridge to a country that transits from what was once censored to everything that came later. True to the axiom that the past is a prelude to the present, Postmodern will help you to know the music that was once censored, banned and discarded by the narrow vision of yesteryear. Saturdays and Sundays at 11 pm..." [UT 0300 summer/0400 winter Sundays and Mondays] Postmoderno - La Música de Celia Cruz https://av.martinoticias.com/flash/clips/CU/2019/07/21/20190721-020000-CU004-program_hq.mp3 (roger, germany, WOR iog via DXLD) Many thanks, Roger. I'll add the links to the "Tú Eres la Música" and "Postmoderno" archived programmes, as well as "Interferencia" archived programmes, in the next update to the Hitlist at http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm due towards the end of September. best wishes (Alan Roe, WORLD OF RADIO 1998, ibid.) ** CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Thanks for the article and link in DXLD 19-34 re the commemoration of the Warsaw Pact invasion at Czech Radio. I was delighted to see that Vera Homolova was back for this year's ceremony. This picture (attached) is from the 2018 do, where she was holding court and giving endless interviews. Even at 93, she was as feisty as my two grand-nieces put together. In the photo, I like to think she's getting the last laugh on the Russians. Regards, (Chuck Albertson, Seattle, Sept 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST via WOR iog) ** CZECHIA. RADIO PRAGUE WILL BECOME RADIO PRAGUE INTERNATIONAL Radio Prague --- International ---- For 83 years now, listeners of Czech Radio’s external service broadcasts have been accustomed to hearing our specific call-sign. Both the call sign and the station’s name have changed over the years. Another small change is now in the pipeline. As of September 1, Radio Prague will become Radio Prague International. Use our audio slider for a walk down memory lane… https://www.radio.cz/en/section/the-sound-of/the-call-signs-of-czech-radios-external-service (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, Aug 31, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) As of September 1, Radio Prague will become Radio Prague International. Use our audio slider for a walk down memory lane ... Der Auslandssender des Tschechischen Rundfunks feiert seinen 83. Geburtstag. Erstmals haben wir uns am 31. August 1936 um genau 10 Uhr an unsere auslaendischen Hoererinnen und Hoerer gewandt. Die Auslandsprogramme wurden zunaechst aber nicht unter dem heutigen Namen Radio Prag ausgestrahlt. Vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg meldete man sich als "Tschechoslowakischer Kurzwellensender Prag". Nach dem Krieg wurden unterschiedliche Namen je nach Sendesprache genutzt: Sender Prag, Hier Prag - Tschechoslowakei, Es spricht Prag, Tschechoslowakischer Rundfunk - Sendungen fuer Afrika und so weiter. Nun haben wir uns entschieden, mit dem Namen unseres Senders die Ausrichtung auf die auslaendischen Hoererinnen und Hoerer zu betonen. Daher nutzen wir ab jetzt den Namen Radio Prague International beziehungsweise auf Deutsch: Radio Prag International. Unser Programm wird auch weiterhin in sechs Sprachen ausgestrahlt, das heisst in Englisch, Russisch, Deutsch, Franzoesisch, Spanisch und fuer Tschechen im Ausland auch in Tschechisch. Seit 1936 hat sich bei Radio Prag manches veraendert. Einst haben wir vor allem auf Kurzwelle gesendet. Heute ist unser wichtigstes Medium das Internet, in dem unsere Beitraege zum Lesen und zum Anhoeren zur Verfuegung stehen. In der letzten Zeit drehen wir fuer Sie immer mehr Videos und stehen in den sozialen Netzwerken Facebook, Twitter und Instagram mit Ihnen im Kontakt. Zum 83. Jahrestag haben wir fuer unsere Hoerinnen und Hoer eine Erweiterung unserer Produktion um themenbezogene Podcasts vorbereitet. Ein Flaggschiff der Herbstsaison wird die Podcast-Serie "In their Own Words - voices that shaped Czech history" in englischer Sprache sein. In Zukunft wollen wir unser Angebot an Podcasts in allen Sprachversionen erweitern (Radio Prague, via Paul Gager-AUT, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 30, BC-DX 31 Aug via DXLD) [non]. A good signal from Radio Prague International via WRMI on 9395 kHz this evening (4 September UT) as noted here in NB at 0210 UT (-- Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD) ** DENMARK. 15805, Randers, 200 watts, World Music Radio, Aug 17, 1127 - Fair to good reception with Latin music while we were cruising the English Channel. 5840 with 100 w was generally widely heard in the North Atlantic, as well. They don't ID very often, and when they do, they're generally very brief, and not at all like the lovely jingles heard from Radio Northern Star! (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam. Holland and English Channel, WOR iog via DXLD) 5840, World Music Radio, Randers, 0550-0620, 31-08, pop songs in English, Latin American songs, ID “WMR, World Music Radio”. 25322. (Méndez) 15805, World Music Radio, Randers, 1330-1410, 31-08, pop songs in English, Latin American songs. 35433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) Good signal now for World Music Radio, Randers, 15805, 1340, 31-08, pop songs, ID "World Music Radio". 35433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, WOR iog via DXLD) ** DJIBOUTI. 1431, 600 kW, Voice of America, Aug 6, 0049 - Weak talk in French. VOA is very widely heard throughout my North Atlantic journey, and often very strong in the late afternoon/early evening (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam, WOR iog via DXLD) 1431, ?DJIBOUTI, Djibouti, 600 or 300 kW, VOA, Aug 12, 2145 - I'm thinking most likely VOA, as it was widely heard in the North Atlantic both in English and in French. Weak at this time (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam, North of Faroe Islands, WOR iog via DXLD) 1431, 600 kW VOA, Aug 22 2103 - While cruising just south of Iceland, heading to Reykjavik, 1431 was coming in very well with VOA French, with only a weak cochannel. As mentioned, this sender really puts out well all over the North Atlantic! English was also heard at other times on this channel from the VOA (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam, Iceland and Greenland, WOR iog via DXLD) ** EAST TURKISTAN. CHINA. 5959.939, odd fq outlet. PBS Xinjiang, Urumqi northwestern China broadcast site, program in Chinese language, requested at 2300-0257 UT, S=9+10dB noted in Delhi India. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, DXplorer wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 25, BC-DX 31 Aug via DXLD) Seek het upon The Mighty KBC (gh) [and non]. 11884.991, CHINA, PBS Xinjiang covered CNR13 program, Uyghur service, via Urumqi site at 0618 UT on Sept 1. \\ 13669.964 kHz Urumqi and \\ 13700 kHz S=9 via Lingshi CHN same program too. Log of Sunday Sept 1st, 0500 UT-0700 UT, made it into remote SDR units at central Europe, in Doha Qatar ME and Aberdeen-NJ-US east coast [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz](Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 1, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ECUADOR. 6050, HCJB, Pichincha, 0102-0109, 30-08, Spanish, religious comments. QRM from China on the same frecuencia. 32532. Good propagation tonight at about 0100 for Andean stations. Also 0427-0500*, 31-08, Spanish, songs, comments, “Llegamos al final del programa de hoy, HCJB”, anthem and close. QRM from Algeria on the same frequency, but today HCJB stronger than Algeria. 32432 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** EL SALVADOR. This past July, El Salvador’s government redesigned the website for SIGET (Superintendencia General de Electricidad y Telecomunicaciones). SIGET is the regulatory authority, which includes the issuance of broadcast licenses. The website redesign included an upload section for PDF license documents, something that hadn’t been readily available before. This has made it possible to make the El Salvador FM listings in the database much more accurate (Jim Thomas, Sept WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) See also CUBA, PANAMA ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005a, RN Bata, 8/26/19. heard from 0518 check when seeming to crank up the modulation and improving from "is something there?" to "hmm, not too horrible signal". Kept to 0538 tune-out. OM announcements 0521, couldn't tell if SS or vernacular. Pleasant pops, some afro-pop, piano and chorus. Checked Congo 6115 around same time but no sign of them (Ralphus W. Perry, Wheaton IL, Drake R8B, Dentron Super – Tuner, Ameco & Palomar Preamps, Wellbrook Loop, 350’ LA BOG, Delta Skyloop, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) 5005, Radio Nacional, Bata, *0525-0604, 30-08, open with African songs, at 0555 Spanish, announcing programs of the station, at 0603 “Boletín Informativo”, news. 15321. Also *0601-0606, 31-08, open today later than other days, Spanish, news, “Boletin Informativo”. Very weak. 15311 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ERITREA. 7180, Voice of Broad Masses, Asmara, 1755-1835, 29-08, vernacular comments, East African songs. After various weeks off, back again. Out of air on 7140. 14321. Also 0440-0510, 30-08, vernacular comments. 24322. Out of air on 7140 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA. 5950, Voice of Tigray Revolution, Addis Ababa, 0440-0458, 30-08, East African songs, vernacular, comments. 24322. 6090, Voice of Amhara State, Addis Ababa, 0445-0457, 30-08, vernacular comments. 24322. (Méndez) 6110, Radio Fana, Addis Ababa, 2023-2028, 30-08, East African songs. 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** EUROPE. FRS-HOLLAND CELEBRATES ITS 39TH ANNIVERSARY Following our Summer evening broadcast late July, FRS-Holland will carry out its traditional late August Summer evening broadcast next Sunday September 1st. It will be the celebration of our 39th anniversary knowing FRS officially started its broadcasting life on Sunday August 31st 1980. In the past years various interesting themes were presented in our August broadcast: Made in Holland, progressive rock from Dutch bands, the 1967 Summer, Music & Radio Stories, music related to the 'Sea' topic, RNI Musical Memories etc. Also this time we offer a varied & interesting thematic programme offer! Just see for yourself and have a look at our schedule below.... Next Sunday FRS commences transmission at 1752 UT/19:52 CEST; close down will be at approx. 2105 UT/23:05 CEST. We realize that close down is late but we feel this is the best option. Frequencies will be good old 7700//5810 kHz. FRS-HOLLAND Programme Schedule for Sunday September 1st 2019... (via Manuel Mendez, WOR iog via DXLD) NETHERLANDS [sic], Free Radio Service Holland will be on air, Sept 1 1752-2105 on 5809.8 unknown kW / unknown to WeEu English/Dutch 1752-2105 on 7700.2 unknown kW / unknown to WeEu English/Dutch https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/free-radio-service-holland-will-be-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 30-31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) HOLLAND [sic], 5810, Free Radio Service Holland, 1745-1930, 01-09, English, ID “FRS Holland contest”, “Free Radio Service Holland”, This is FRS Holland Radiowaves”, at 1831 “This is Jan Van Dijk...”, pop songs. At 1906 Radio Andorra comment: “Aqui Radio Andorra, emisora del Principado de Andorra”, 1921: “The English Service of FRS Holland” “English, German and Dutch”. 35433. // 7700 35323 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** EUROPE. 6205, IRELAND, Europirate, Laser Hot Hits, Aug 17, 1230 - Fair to good level in the English Channel, and not heard at all during 3 days in Ireland (Cork, Dublin, and Belfast). Generally, I was expecting a much better signal from them than what was heard. I was doubting the Irish transmitter site, as I heard no ground wave anywhere along the entire south, east and north side of Ireland (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam, Holland and English Channel, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) ** EUROPE. [HCDX] 14 UT testings of Spaceshuttle 9290 kHz On now - rpts welcome…. spaceshuttleradio@yahoo.com Best greetings from Radio Spaceshuttle (Dick Spacewalker, Sept 3, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Test on 9290 kHz now 14 UT --- Radio Spaceshuttle testing now 9290. Rpts to spaceshuttleradio@yahoo.com 1412 UT Sept 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Zero signal at 1409 on 9290 kHz via SDR Twente and here in Sofia via my SONY ICF 2001D (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) ** FAROE ISLANDS. 531, Akraberg 10 kW, Kringvarp Føroya, Aug 12, 2100 - Good reception from the North Atlantic, north of the Faroe Islands. This station was well heard throughout the North Atlantic from Iceland, to Norway. Punches way above its power. Good to very good at 0604 recheck. Plays a lot of music, including US Southern C&W when first picked up here (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam, North of Faroe Islands, WOR iog via DXLD) ** FRANCE. Fair signal of Radio France International, September 3: 1200-1300 NF 15300 500 kW / 201 deg NWAf French from Sept.1, ex 13740 1200-1300 NF 15390 500 kW / 180 deg WCAf French from Sept.1, ex 13855 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/fair-signal-of-radio-france.html Very good signal of Radio France International in 31mb September 4 0600-0630 NF 9840 500 kW / 170 deg WCAf Hausa from Sept.1, ex 13750 1600-1700 NF 15670 500 kW / 170 deg WCAf Hausa, ex 13690 later today https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/very-good-signal-of-radio-france.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 3-4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. GERMAN TRANSMITTER PLATFORM PLUNGES LEAVING THREE DEAD https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49563797 (via Gerald T Pollard, NC, Sept 3, DXLD) HR, WTFK? [WOR] A maintenance platform has fallen 50m (164ft) at the site of a transmitter in central Germany, killing three people BBC News 3 September 2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49563797 They had been working on a radio mast in the Hoher Meissner hills when the accident happened, 30 km (18 miles) south-east of Kassel. The transmitter belongs to regional public broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), which said it was upset by the news. In a tweet, it said its thoughts were with the workers' families. The Hoher Meissner transmitter has three radio masts that are up to 220m in height and HR said initial reports indicated the accident happened on the tallest of the three. According to the broadcaster, the three engineers on the platform were winched up a diagonal cable towards the mast but at a height of 50m they got into difficulty. They tried to pull themselves up using cables, but when the cables sagged the platform fell to the ground on to an asphalt surface. The men died at the scene. The broadcaster said it would do its utmost to find out what had caused the accident (via Mike Terry, Sept 4, WOR iog via DXLD) The work on the mast of the Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) was actually the assembly of antenna elements for DAB+ for a better supply of West Thuringia, thus on behalf of the MDR. (Central German Radio) Specifically, these were employees of this company from Berlin-Marzahn: https://www.indus.de/en/investments/engineering/tsn.html "....TSN Turmbau Steffens & Nölle GmbH - International construction of towers TSN Turmbau Steffens & Nölle is one of Germany’s leading specialists in the construction of self-supporting steel towers, masts, and special structures as well as the assembly of complete broadcast antenna systems. The structures are up to 370 meters high and are erected for customers from the fields of radio, television, and telecommunications. They can be found in almost every part of the world. The company’s range of services encompasses project planning, foundation construction, steel supply, and construction. Highly specialized in conducting construction work at great heights, including executing construction measures from helicopters, TSN can also take on projects in related fields. TSN is the first port of call for engineering services at great heights....." https://www.turmbau.de/de/ [with Google translater] Statement relating the gondola crash during maintenance works at transmission tower "Hoher Meissner": Company: TSN Turmbau Steffens & Nölle GmbH The news of the deaths of three colleagues during the crash of a maintenance gondola at the "Hoher Meissner" mast in Hessen fills us with deep dismay. Our thoughts are with the families and loved ones, to whom we express our deepest sympathy and whom we will do our best to assist in this calamity. As is customary in such cases, the responsible office for occupational safety and security technology examined the crash. As an executive assembly company, we will do everything to support the investigation and root-cause of this horrific disaster. Once we have more information, we will let you know. On behalf of the company and the workforce, Steffen Traue, Managing Director of Turmbau Steffens & Nölle GmbH ===> https://www.turmbau.de/en/company see the slideshow, reference objects back to 1906 : 1906 LARGE STATION NAUEN 100 m iron lattice mast for TELEFUNKEN antenna World’s first tall-mast radio installation 1925 MAST 17 – KÖNIGS WUSTERHAUSEN Cradle of radio broadcasting. Assembly of 13 masts, 100 to 243 m high 1926 BERLIN RADIO TOWER 138 m steel lattice tower One of the city's landmarks 1939 TRANSMITTER MAST HERZBERG 325 m steel lattice mast Europe’s highest construction at the time 1949 TRANSMITTER SITE BERLIN-DAHLEM 120 m steel lattice mast, 60 m directional radio tower Transmitter for the US Army etc. (roger, germany, WOR iog via DXLD) The tower company from Berlin a very serious impression; I can hardly imagine that the valid safety rules were disregarded. HR broadcast center Meissner at 705 meter above sea level, started on June 1, 1952 as common MW network \\ Frankfurt/M 100 kW, on MW 593 kHz 20 kW, two masts of 160 and 110 meters height, then screened at 18 and 127 degrees. HR MW program had also a wide audience in communist GDR target in Weimar, Leipzig at southwesterly Sowjetzone of Germany. New antenna should be erected on the mast to serve digital radio programs via DAB+ mode towards northern Hesse and parts of Thuringia eastwards too. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, ibid.) ** GOA. 12025, AIR, Panaji (Goa). Hindi service to ME at 1615-1730, then into Malayalam 1730-1830. Squealing transmitter modulation is a feature of this audio and doesn’t ever seem to get fixed. A weak signal on 12/8 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Kenwood R5000, Tecsun PL-680, Horizontal Sky Loop, Double Bazooka, antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), Sept ADXN via DXLD) ** GREENLAND. 279, 50 to 2000 watts, SI, Simiutaq, Aug 26 2149 - Fair reception from 823 km NNW from our ship. Also heard on the 28th. No other NDBs were heard. Clearly, many had closed down, and were abandoned, as the one in Qaqortaq where we spent the day (was on 265) 359, 50 to < 2000 watts, NA, Narsarsuaq, Aug 26 2143 - Weakly heard 187 km to the NW, across the Greenland ice cap. Population of only 158. Later heard strongly on the 27th and even the 28th. 372, 50 to 2000 watts, OZN, Prins Christian Sund, Aug 25 1455 - By far the strongest NDB beacon in Greenland. Heard from west of Reykjavik all the way to the west coast of Greenland at good level. We sailed past the station at the east entrance to the sound. First heard about 400 km NE of the transmitter. 377, < 50 watts, DA, Kulusuk, Aug 25 1455 - Another beacon heard west of Iceland, about 250 km to the SE. PilotNav lists a 40 km range (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam, Iceland and Greenland, WOR iog via DXLD) ** GREENLAND. 570, Nuuk, 5 kW, KNR Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa, Aug 5, 2200 - Heard at good level, // to stronger 720. Nuuk is much further north, and lower power compared to 720. The latter is well heard everywhere we sailed in Greenland. Not so for the others. For some reason, I have 590 as // to 570 and stronger, but it's 650 which is listed as the 3rd Greenlandic. Hmm. I suspect that 590 was in fact VOCM St John's. 720, Simiutaq, 10 kW, KNR Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa, Aug 6, 0009 - Very strong, but with transmitter problems, that lasted several days, with intermittent cutting out, making speech choppy. 720 was very well heard throughout our time in Greenland, and far, far stronger than the other 2 transmitters on 570 and 650 which were only heard locally. No wonder they're so well heard in Eastern North America. Interesting Greenlandic language. Can't be confused with anything else! (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam, East coast of Greenland, WOR iog via DXLD) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, Radio Verdad, Chiquimula, 0503-0610*, 31-08, English, religious comments and songs, ID in various languages, anthem and close. Best on LSB. 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** GUINEA. 9650, Radio Guinea, Conakry, 0653-0730, 31-08, French, news, “Vous écoutez la suite de notre journal”, at 0702 African songs, at 0704 religious Protestant Church program “La voix de L’Evangile”. 44444 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** HAWAII. 10000, Sept 5 at 0550, WWVH YL announcement about MARS interoperability exercises, but now it`s generic, no specifix; ``aloha`` concludes just in time for next timecheck at 0550:45 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HONG KONG [and non]. RADIO THE GREATER BAY STARTS BROADCASTING China Plus Published: 2019-09-01 09:13:18 http://chinaplus.cri.cn/news/china/9/20190901/341122.html The first national radio service for the Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao greater bay area started broadcasting Sunday morning. - A launch ceremony for Radio the Greater Bay Area is held in Beijing on Sunday, September 1, 2019. [Photo: CMG] Radio the Greater Bay, under the China Media Group, broadcast 21 hours a day at FM 101.2 MegaHertZ and AM 1215 Kilohertz. Its programs will focus on finance, technology and innovation, as well as information on entrepreneurship and employment. The broadcast is in the Cantonese, Hakka and Chaoshan dialects which are used by the people in the area. - Radio the Greater Bay Area starts broadcasting on Sunday, September 1, 2019. [Photo: CMG] Shen Haixiong, president of China Media Group, says the new radio service will help to deepen the cooperation between the Chinese mainland with Hong Kong and Macao. The station's new media platforms were also launched on Sunday. The bay area consists of the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, as well as nine cities in Guangdong Province. Chinese authorities in February unveiled the outline development plan for the Bay Area, aiming to develop the region into "a role model of high-quality development." 1 September 2019 (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) Thanks. Also this on MW Circle list an hour ago: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-09/01/c_138355132.htm NEW RADIO CHANNEL ON AIR IN GUANGDONG-HONG KONG-MACAO GREATER BAY AREA --- (Xinhua) 14:48, September 01, 2019 BEIJING, Sept. 1 -- A radio channel covering the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area started broadcast from 7 a.m. Sunday. The channel, airing on FM 101.2 and MW 1215, will broadcast 21 hours a day mainly in Cantonese and also include programs in the dialects of Hakka, Chaozhou and Shantou, said its operator China Media Group in a press release, adding that it will also have accounts on social media platforms. The move aims to promote comprehensive advantages of the region, enhance cooperation among the mainland, Hong Kong and Macao and help the two special administrative regions integrate their own development into the overall development of the country, said Shen Haixiong, president of China Media Group (via Mauno Ritola, DXLD) Maybe replaces CNR7 on Zhuhai 1215 kHz? (Mauno Ritola, ibid.) Is this a reassignment of Zhongguo Huaxia zhi Sheng (CNR7, Voice of Old China), Zhujiang delta area, Guangdong, I wonder? Best wishes, (Nick Hall-Patch, Victoria, BC Canada, Sept 1, IRCA iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) CNR7 has been operating there on 1215 for a long time, so it's technically not new. It's apparently a new radio service using what has been the CNR7 transmitter (Bruce Portzer, WA, ibid.) And we could wonder why, with the recent and continuing activities in HK? It's interesting that it would be broadcasting in Cantonese; as the powers-that-be in the PRC were placing pressure a few years ago against the use of the dialect in the Guangzhou/Heung Kong region: TD (Theo Donnelly, BC, ibid.) Agreed, Theo! Having just visited Hong Kong (where the vast majority of the public wants to keep Mainlanders out of their lives as much as possible) it seems ludicrous for Beijing to keep drafting these "integration" plans. They are continually ignored in Hong Kong, except among the puppet government (who duly gives them contrived lip service). (Gary DeBock (with multiple Hong Kong In-Laws), Puyallup, ibid.) Ditto for all of the pontificating about Taiwan being a temporary errant province! I hate bullies! (Walt Salmaniw, BC, ibid.) ** ICELAND. 189, Gufuskálar, 300 kW, RUV, Aug 5, 2236 - Fair to good signal. While sitting at the back of the ship, shivering!!! Learned my lesson. Despite layers and layers of blankets, I was still chilled to the bone. I had started too early. Subsequently, I listened later, and from my balcony, which provided some protection from the bitterly cold winds! (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam, East coast of Greenland, WOR iog via DXLD) ** INDIA. AIR Chinsurah tests on 1134 kHz tonight with 1000 kW --- Please look out for All India Radio Super Power Transmitter at Chinsurah on 1134 kHz tonight around 1800-2230 UT (11.30 pm to 4.00 am IST ) for test transmissions (Timings subject to change due to test). Today's tests are with about 1000 kW. Reports may be sent to chinsurah@prasarbharati.gov.in -- Thanking you, Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, http://www.niar.org 1327 UT Aug 30, WOR iog via DXLD) ** INDIA. 4810, AIR, Bhopal, 1720-1733, 29-08, vernacular comments, at 1730 ID “All India Radio”, news in English. 15321. (Méndez) 4910, AIR, Jaipur, 1730-1733, 30-08, English, news. 15321. (Méndez) 4950, AIR, Kashmir, 1731-1734, 30-08, English, news. 14321. (Méndez) 5010, AIR, Thiruvananthapuram, 1720-1726, 30-08, Hindi songs. 14321. 5040, AIR, Jeypore, 1720-1725, 29-08, Hindi songs. 15311 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** INDIA. IT IS BYE BYE TO AIR KURSEONG ON SW 4895/7230 KHz 50 KW. THEY ARE PERMANENTLY OFF AIR ON SW FROM 7 AUGUST 2019. (They are only on FM now, 103.5 10 kW & 102.3 5 kW) Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, Sept 4, dx_india yg via DXLD) It is sad that several radio stations across the world are going off air in SW, AIR KURSEONG has joined the list. --- Regards (N. Arun Kumar, ibid.) The 10 kW SW transmitter of AIR PORT BLAIR 4760/7390 kHz also decommissioned.😞 https://qsl.net/vu2jos/qsls/Portblair_7170.jpg [1992y v/l for 7170] Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, ibid.) AIR MUMBAI 100 KW SW tx carrying External Services on 7340, 11935 kHz has also closed down 😞 Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, ibid.) The 50 kW SW transmitter of NORTH EAST SERVICE, AIR SHILLONG 4970/7315 kHz also decommissioned.😞 Yours sincerely, (Jose, ibid.) Regional SW stations of All India Radio On 4 September 2019, Jose Jacob reported the official closure of the short wave transmissions of AIR Port Blair (4760/7390 kHz, 10 kW) and Kurseong (4895/7230 kHz, 50 kW). This means that time is running out for those who want to verify or just get the chance of listening to the AIR regional short wave stations. In this context, it becomes important to note, that DX experts like Ron Howard (USA) and Manuel Mendéz (Spain) reported extended transmissions of several AIR regional stations in August. AIR Bhopal (4810 kHz), Jaipur (4910 kHz) and Jeypore (5040 kHz) were observed with cricket well past midnight IST. Normal close down would have been about 1740 UT, but in August there was reception until past 1900. The program extensions were related to the "India tour of West Indies 2019" (3 August-3 September). Those who do not want to overlook such opportunities should keep an eye on https://www.icc-cricket.com/mens-schedule/calendar However, the next series of tests against South Africa (2-6, 10-14 and 19-23 October) and Bangladesh (14-18 and 22-26 November) will take place in India. So the cricket reports may fit better into their official transmission times (Dr Hansjoerg Biener. 4 September 2019, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [WOR] Very sad news coming out of India ``The 10 kW SW transmitter of AIR PORT BLAIR 4760/7390 kHz also decommissioned`` [So now when we hear a AIR station on 4760, we will know for sure that it's Leh - Ron] ``The 50 kW SW transmitter of NORTH EAST SERVICE, AIR SHILLONG 4970/7315 kHz also decommissioned.`` [This was one of my favorite stations, as it was the strongest regional AIR station and one that I enjoyed for many years. Loved the fact that they gave so many local IDs - Ron] (Ron Howard, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) Has there been anything further about the possible overall closure of AIR's external service on SW? Seems every few months we hear more rumblings about that, then things go quiet. Are the Ministry of External Affairs and the Ministry of Information still at odds over AIR's future? (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, ibid.) This is all so depressing -- but inevitable (Dan Robinson. MD, ibid.) Sad news, All India Radio closed SW transmitters: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/sad-news-all-india-radio-closed-sw.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 4-5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Very recently 21 SW transmitters of All India Radio have been shut down permanently. These include AIR KURESONG 50 kW 4895 7230 AIR MUMBAI 100 kW 7340 11935 (External services) AIR PORT BLAIR 10 kW 4760 7390 AIR SHILLONG 50 KW 7315 4970 Please also see http://kalimpongonlinenews.blogspot.com/2019/08/plea-on-hill-radio-station.html Latest SW schedule of AIR can be seen in: https://qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm -- Thanking you, Yours sincerely, Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, http://www.niar.org Sept 5, DXLD yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) That accounts for only 4; the others? (gh) see next DXLD or already in the WOR iog ** INDONESIA. 3325, RRI, Palangkaraya at 1334 with Voice of Indonesia in English, talk, music, mention “culture” and at 1343 ID “This is Voice of Indonesia in Jakarta.” - Good level (my sunrise was 1316 UT) but poor overall due to static, Sept. 4 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, listening in my car. Parked beside Kalamalka Lake and using the CommRadio CR-1a and Sony AN-1 antenna, WOR iog via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL WATERS [and non]. Since Hurricane Dorian appeared, random chex of the two Hurricane Watch ham frequencies have produced absolutely nothing, day or night. Awful propagation, or what? Now unnecessary with huge professional meteorological and media coverage? https://www.hwn.org/ The Net is Active on 14.325.00 MHz & 7.268.00 MHz Click Here For Our Net Activation Plans https://www.hwn.org/policies/activationplans.html Update: Saturday, August 31, 2019 @ 12:30 AM EDT - 1630 UTC (Glenn Hauser, OK, Sept 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: NMG Further chex for the Hurricane Watch Net finally get something, Sept 2 at 2137: 14325-USB, reading a notice in Spanish with rainfall predixions in pulgadas, VP fading out and in. 7268-LSB, also VP, in English at 2138 Sept 2 reading a warning. Constant monitoring might turn up real-time reports from places being hit? Dino Bloise, FL, reported early UT Sept 2: ``Confirmed. The Net is Active on 7268 LSB, 0015 UT operated by AC0ML``. Hurricane Watch Net is posting daily(?) updates about what`s been happening on the HWN; keep checking: https://www.hwn.org/policies/activationplans.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 13729.996, VOIRI via Zahedan site, Arabic scheduled at 0530-0730 UT S=9+20dB strength in Qatar remote SDR, 20 kHz wideband audio, and terrible wideband spurious SCRATCHING spur of 65 kHz apart distance on 13660-13770 kHz, and 13790-13800 kHz symmetrical. Log of Sunday Sept 1st, 0500 UT-0700 UT, made it into remote SDR units at central Europe, in Doha Qatar ME and Aberdeen-NJ-US east coast [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz](Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 1, WOR iog via DXLD) ** IRAN [non]. UNKNOWN LOCATION, Radio Ranginkaman / Radio Rainbow on September 1: 1630-1700 on 7580 TAC or DB & not KCH to WeAs Persian, weak signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/reception-of-radio-ranginkamanradio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAQ [and non]. IRAQ SUSPENDS US-FUNDED TV STATION FOR 3 MONTHS OVER PROGRAM --- BC-ML--Iraq-Media https://hosted.ap.org/article/f82f7e7426784a4fa008d066c85c2432/iraq-suspends-us-funded-tv-station-3-months-over-program BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi authorities have suspended the license of a U.S.-funded TV station for three months after airing a program on alleged corruption within Iraq's Sunni and Shiite religious establishments. The investigative report that was aired last week on Alhurra reported that senior religious figures are benefiting from businesses as a result of their connections with the state. The report triggered an outcry on social media with some politicians demanding that the station's offices in Iraq be closed down. The Communication and Media Commission, the country's media regulator, demanded Monday a public apology from Alhurra and suspended its work for three months. In a statement, Alhurra described its report as "fair, professional and balanced" and said it had given ample opportunity for those mentioned in the report to respond (via Mike Cooper, WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) ** IRELAND. New series of Wireless on Flirt FM --- Hello, The 4th series of Wireless, the radio programme about radio on Flirt FM in Galway, Ireland, began today. Wireless covers all aspects of radio and this month's edition focuses on community radio in Ireland with features on two stations and an overview of the Irish community broadcasting sector almost 25 years after its legalisation. Wireless is now also available as a podcast on Spotify. More information here: http://wirelessflirt.radio.ie/ Regards, (John Walsh, Galway. Sept 2, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) ** IRELAND [?]. Laser Hot Hits: See EUROPE ** JAPAN. Some observations on Japanese broadcasting while I was staying at Minakami in the mountains, 137 km northwest of Tokyo in early July: The American Forces Network station on 810 identifying as ‘Eagle 8-10’ gave poor to fair reception during the day, but good reception at night. This was the only English-language programming heard, but an interesting aspect of NHK programming is the foreign language lessons carried throughout the day. For example, on 693 there was Russian at 1530 local time, English at 1550, Russian again at 1630, Italian at 1645. English lessons were also heard at 2115 local time (1215 UT) on 639, 693, 747, 774 and 873 – a time when DX reception would be feasible from NZ! (Bryan Clark, Sept NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** JAPAN [non]. 15130, Sept 4 at 2055, algo JBA, virtually the OSOB. Aoki/NDXC shows NHK in Japanese via FRANCE at 1900-2100. 11985, Sept 4 at 2059, French broadcast just ending. This one is NHK via MADAGASCAR at 2030-2100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 2850, KCBS, 1245. M and W in dialogue, some pips at ToH, then more dialogue. Having relief from the violent electrical storms, am using full outdoor longwire now, not the indoor shortwires or window frames. EXCELLENT signal today. Noted the absence today of the usual sappy saccharine vocal music. September 1 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Unless otherwise stated, equipment is Grundig Satellit 205/T.5000, RS SW-2000629 with various outdoor wires & indoor shortwire. 73 and Good Listening.......! = rb, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 12015, Mongolia & D.P.R.Korea. Two stations here. 12014.89 approx is V of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar at 1415 in Mandarin to Asia. A few Hertz up on 12014.98 is V of Korea, Kujang in Russian to Europe. Both were weak signals here at Mount Evelyn on 11/8 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Kenwood R5000, Tecsun PL-680, Horizontal Sky Loop, Double Bazooka, antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), Sept ADXN via DXLD) 12015, China & D.P.R.Korea. CRI, Beijing in English to Eu at 1700-1758. Plus VoK, Kujang in Russian also to Eu at 1700-1800 a few Hertz off-frequency. CRI is the dominant station here, 12/8 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Kenwood R5000, Tecsun PL-680, Horizontal Sky Loop, Double Bazooka, antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), Sept ADXN via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. JAPAN, Frequency changes of JSR Shiokaze Sea Breeze on August 30. Frequency changes of Furusato no Kaze via Shiokaze Sea Breeze, Aug 30 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/frequency-changes-of-jsr-shiokaze-sea.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 30-31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. Re: ``6015, KBS Hanminjok Bangsong 1, August 29, a special treat 1216+, as there was no N. Korea jamming today (very rare); jamming still off at last 1316 check; IDs "K B S News," with several clips in English during the news; also very unique to have a change to hear the presumed PBS Xinjiang QRM underneath KBS. My audio at http://bit.ly/2PnK3ql (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD)`` Hi Glenn, Thanks very much to Amano for posting this additional info about my recording today of KBS. Most helpful. https://radio.chobi.net/DX/bbs/?res:4055#4074 "This program is 'KBS News 9'. KBS Hanminjok Bangsong will broadcast KBS1-TV audio from 1200 UT. Your audio is parallel to the following YouTube 24:07 - 26:07 audio https://youtu.be/z7gqzT3FSnE Please confirm it is. Amano (Saitama, Japan)" Yes, definitely the Youtube audio does match my reception today. On my audio recording at 0:05, the English corresponds to the audio on Youtube at 24:12. Greatly appreciate all of the help Amano has provided to me over the years! (Ron Howard, WOR iog via DXLD) [Re Shiokaze] Thanks, Ron. I had noticed 6040 vacant, checked 6070 this morning, but got there too late to hear the familiar piano music and other identifiers. also using only a window frame for antenna; we have had violent thunderstorms here. With only "Fair" at best reception, I could not report it as a log. Any idea why the DPRK was not jamming the KBS broadcast you heard? Regards from AZ - RB (Rick Barton, Aug 30, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH & SOUTH. Rick, Stopping of the jamming of KBS Hanminjok Bangsong 1 on 6015 kHz can be either a sole event (because of a problem with the jamming transmitter and the jamming will be replaced by another one) or it can be a more serious problem (like electric supply problems or electricity rationing). North Korea is under more and more sanctions despite Trump's regular meeting with the DPRK's leader. If you are reading in Trump and Kim Jong-un's back-and-forth public communications in English, it looks that they try to engage each others differently than in the past, but, despite this, Trump tightened the sanctions around the neck of the DPRK more than ever. In the past there were a 6-member group instituted a dialogue called as 6-party talks (U.S., DPRK, South Korea, Russia, China and Japan) who tried to settle military/nuclear issues and their differences for more than a decade. In the frame of this the group appealed on China to push the DPRK to the negotiating table on its own way and try to convince the North Koreans to give up their nuclear ambitions in armament. But, China was 1. unsuccessful, 2. China cheated the group and supported DPRK with materials - except nuclear things -, fuels (mainly crude oil and oil products) and bought the DPRK's goods despite the increasing sanctions against the DPRK including products which were/are under the sanction of the United Nations. So, China evaded the sanctions and not only the DPRK did. Since Trump started a frontal attack against China, the Chinese became not as brave as they were, they had to tighten the economic environment more than before and the condition of their aid toward the DPRK. This affects the energy resources too, so it can be possible that more electricity rationing is necessary in the DPRK. Of course, sooner or later it could affect 1-2 transmitters too. Of course not the whole broadcasting/jamming scene since radio communication is too important for the North Koreans and they try to maintain their broadcasting/jamming by insulating it from other sectors of the economy as much as possible. North Korea have its own coal to maintain some part of the economy on a tolerable level generating electricity in coal-fired power stations but, nobody knows really their internal situation. They are very secretive toward outsiders and they were even before the socialism as an early Hungarian traveler wrote on the eve of the 20th century. Another reason can be is the cheer diplomacy toward the South: maybe they want to show their generosity to South Korea for which they expect a reciprocal move. Be sure, the South understands if it recognises that generosity since both of them are Koreans. It is another question if and how the South reciprocates it if it will do. In my opinion more monitoring is needed if it was an one-off event or a regular one. These are my ideas. P.S.: please, don't believe those 'experts' who are envisioning that North Korea is collapsing imminently, this is its last kick and it will turn up within a minute, we are in the 24th hour and it will bang in front of our eyes, etc. etc. They do it for minimum 40 years. In reality nobody knows the real situation there. Nobody can tell what will happen inside North Korea. Everyone just speculating and there are not so many credible resources except some hard-working entities and people devoting their efforts to gather information, painting a more realistic picture about that hilly, rangy country (Tibor Gaal, Budapest, Hungary, Sept 1, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. 11970-DRM mode, Radio Kuwait S=9+10dB or -61dBm digital block visible 0620 UT on Sept 1, bad HFCC fq request solution - on side flank of digital sound, due of NHK R Japan Arabic service nearby via 11975even TDF Issoudun France relay. Log of Sunday Sept 1st, 0500 UT-0700 UT, made it into remote SDR units at central Europe, in Doha Qatar ME and Aberdeen-NJ-US east coast [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz](Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 1, WOR iog via DXLD) Radio Kuwait General Sce on wrong 11629.8 at 1100 Sept 1: 1055-1330 11629.8 250 kW / 286 deg NEAf Arabic GS, instead of 9749.8 1355-1600 11629.8 250 kW / 230 deg CeAf Arabic Holy Quran Sce in A19 Something`s always wrong at Radio Kuwait Kabd Sulaibiyah station! Videos will be added later today -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Kuwait General Sce on wrong 11629.8 kHz at 1100, September 1: 1055-1330 11629.8* 250 kW / 286 deg NEAf Arabic GS, instead of 9749.8 1355-1600 11629.8* 250 kW / 230 deg CeAf Arabic Holy Quran Sce in A19 * QRM co-ch 11630.0 LIN 100 kW / 286 deg to EaAs Kazakh China National R.-17! Something`s always wrong at Radio Kuwait Kabd Sulaibiyah transmitting station! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/radio-kuwait-general-sce-on-wrong.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBERIA. 6050, ELWA Radio, Monrovia, 0620-0645, 30-08, religious songs, religious comments, English. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. 5009.94, R. Madagasikara, Ambohidrano. Music programming and Malagasy announcements at 1848. News reports, commentaries and interviews from 1900. Back into selections of pleasant local music programming from 1945. Monitored to well past 2030. Although the carrier was fairly strong, the audio level was often down throughout the transmission, 12/8. But on 16/8 at 1940, no sign of Madagasikara here or on the ZS6A KiwiSDR in Jo’berg. Sp [suppose?] this operation would seem to be irregular (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Kenwood R5000, Tecsun PL-680, Horizontal Sky Loop, Double Bazooka, antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), Sept ADXN via DXLD) ** MALI. Radio Mali, Bamako, last Saturdays with English program at 1850 on 5995, probably today again at same time (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Aug 31, WOR iog via DXLD) ** MEXICO. IRCA Mexican Log, 22nd Edition (Winter 2019) - now available! See PUBLICATIONS ** MEXICO. AM update - 85 vacated AM licenses up for auction to new licensees As Mexican AM stations move to FM, their old AM licenses are put up for auction. A few dozen such licenses have been auctioned off in the past. In one case, a migrated FM repurchased its own former AM license at auction, though the IFT insisted on issuing new call letters (XEMU --> XELRDA). [580 Piedras Negras] This week the IFT released 85 AM allocations for auction, and most appear to be the result of completed FM migrations. Unfortunately, the IFT failed to fill in the frequencies on these allocations (see p. 20-23 of the attached document), but some can easily be discerned (for example, the first one must be the recently-vacated license of XEDY-1080). If we study this list carefully, we MIGHT be able to deduce that a handful more AMs have made the move to FM. For example, the listing for Peto, Yucatan for a 10 kW ND daytimer would seem to imply that XEPET-730 has finished moving to FM. However, XEPET-730 was one of the stations the IFT had ruled must remain active on AM, so perhaps this is a case where the licensee is seeking a new licensee to take over the AM license, as recently occurred with XEEJ-650 in Puerto Vallarta. This is both interesting and confusing. 73 (Tim Hall, CA, Aug 28, ABDX yg via DXLD) ** MEXICO [and non]. 1160, XEQIN San Quintín, BCN cuts carrier at 0145z (05 September) presently --- I went out to the (too-warm) radio-room out in my shop building to check the storm-static levels on MW (as there are waning convective storms over the nearby Sierra Nevada) and I dialed around the DX-200 with its Tecsun AN-200 loop for a spell. I found a very strong 1170 KLOK San Jose with atrocious and too-tinny sounding Bollywood Music and so I nudged it down to 1160, and after nulling the splatter from KLOK I found lovely music on 1160 XEQIN and a quite strong S7 signal pre-sunset. They played (at 0140) a nice solo-flute rendition of "Unchained Melody" (Ecuadorian-style!) and then a traditional Mexican piece, but cut the song-off after one minute at 0145 with sudden carrier-cut, leaving a weak KSL and some 1170 KLOK slop still. I really enjoy this particular UaBC station when I can catch it - usually post-sunrise here it can over-ride KSL by a good margin, frequently. 73 for now, (Steve McGreevy, CA, 0220 UT Sept 5, WOR iog via DXLD) ** MEXICO. First up is a very truncated offering from Tony King in Greytown (the rest is in Bryan’s Broadcast column). He demonstrates that persistence clearly pays off with a logging of the Mexican XEGEM on 1600. Tony has been pursuing it for a long time and finally got the ID he was after. XEGEM is situated in the city of Metepec, which is right in the centre of the country. According to Wikipedia, the GEM in the call sign stands for Gobierno del Estado de México (Mexican State Government), who also own it. Its power is 2500 w day and 250 w night. [I’d call that a GEM of a catch, Tony!] KINGS OF THE KILOCYCLES --- TONY KING in Greytown says that his coup for August was XEGEM on 1600. He had been monitoring the frequency nightly and finally struck and taped the anthem, confirming XEGEM as the only Mexican on the channel. Tony also notes that Ecuadorian Radio Naval is still being heard on 1510 with its “second” pulse confirming its presence in the mix of stations. he was still in the mix. [Well done with 1600 Tony – don’t recall this being reported before – the presence of RRS 1602 in past years wont have helped. BC] (Sept NZ DX Times via DXLD) 2500/250 watts, only XE left on 1600 in new IRCA Mexican Log (gh) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week Aug 30-Sep 5 with DTV = TDT We've had a surprisingly eventful couple of days in the broadcasting world. Campeche's social station, XEBAL, took a hit on Saturday from a lightning strike, which sparked a fire that affected the station's events room. https://www.facebook.com/enlacesinformativosymedioselectronicos/posts/2074373846204303 Sunday saw the relaunch of XHMIA-FM 89.3, a reliable skip target for many, as "Wow 89.3" with a more pop and reggaeton format. On Monday, Grupo Acustik threw us a curveball by launching radio stations—XEJP 1150 Mexico City, XEMN 600 Monterrey, and XEUNO 1120 Guadalajara. This is the first time since the Acustik-Origen split that Acustik has gotten into radio. XEJP had been testing for August, it had been announced in mid-July that Acustik had bought XEMN (but there was no sign of any change), and XEUNO is a surprise. This must be a sale or LMA with Radio Centro. In fact, the Guadalajara AM dial now features Acustik and Origen going head-to-head, on 1120 and 1510 AM. If you like TV, there were a couple of items the last two days. An IFT Pleno meeting from August 7 was uploaded today, revealed that XHNTV-TDT has been cleared to add Multimedios and Milenio TV as subchannels. This brings Multimedios Televisión to Tepic, where the company operates a pair of radio stations. We also learned that Imagen TV will have a shadow in Lagos de Moreno, the fifth we've learned of since the end of July. [tagline:] Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, Sept 3, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Yes! only one post ** MEXICO. 6185, Radio Educación, Ciudad de México, 0456-0503*, 30-08, Spanish, theater play. 13321. Also 0445-0454*, 31-08, Spanish, news, “Proyecto internet telecom para todos”, “Para Radio Educación desde Washington, les informó...” cut off abruptly, in the middle of a news, at 0454, when usual closing time is 0503. Surprising to hear Radio Educación news at this time, when always emits music or theatre plays. In the past a Radio France International news bulletin was scheduled at 0505. Good and clear signal. 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** MONGOLIA [and non]. 12015, Mongolia & D.P.R.Korea. Two stations here. 12014.89 approx is V of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar at 1415 in Mandarin to Asia. A few Hertz up on 12014.98 is V of Korea, Kujang in Russian to Europe. Both were weak signals here at Mount Evelyn on 11/8 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Kenwood R5000, Tecsun PL-680, Horizontal Sky Loop, Double Bazooka, antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), Sept ADXN via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 5960, UT Sun Sept 1 at 0112, weak rock music presumably The Mighty KBC via GERMANY, already moved from summer-only frequency, 9925 where there is nothing now altho it had been propagating well (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5960, EAST GERMANY, The Mighty KBC (Nauen) at 0028 with DJ Dave Mason playing oldies music – Very Good Sept 1. New frequency ex-9925. They were not on at normal 0000 sign-on and I happened to stumble across this on an unplanned recheck. Perhaps they started out on 9925 with the folks at Nauen realizing their mistake. It never crossed my mind but sometimes it pays to check old and new frequencies to see if the transmission engineers are asleep at the switch (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S, Drake SPR-4, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 80 and 40 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD) and an Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, ODXA iog via DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. 5945, RNZI at 0959 with IS to time pips at 1000 and a woman with “RNZ News at 10” - Fair to Good Sept 2 – The best I have heard them after the 1000 beam change to the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea this broadcast season (Monday to Friday only sked). On Saturdays and Sundays RNZI stays with the Pacific beam after 1000 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S, Drake SPR-4, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 80 and 40 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD) and an Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, ODXA iog via DXLD) 6170, September 5 at 0543, surprised to find RNZI good on here at unsked time, so replacing 9700? NO, // very good 9700 is still on too and stronger, so both transmitters are running in AM. This may be another Thursday-maintenance test anomaly. BTW, 6170 is much stronger than adjacent 6165 RHC. By 0558, 6170 is off; at 0602 both 5945 and 9700 are on, and 9700 does not go off until late at 0603*, unusual (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 7254.9, Sept 5 at 0548, VON is on at S9+20 with African music, drumming prélude to 0600 Hausa. One never know whether this will be on or AWOL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. Reception of Koode Radio International KRI via MBR Issoudun on Sept.2 1900-1930 9810 100 kW / 175 deg WCAf Nigerian Fulfulde, fair/good: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/reception-of-koode-radio-international.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 2-3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. Radio Dandal Kura International via MBR, Sept.3: 1800-1900 11830 ISS 100 kW / 167 deg CeAf Kanuri, very good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/radio-dandal-kura-international-via-mbr.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 3-4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. [YHWH] Nothing heard on 7470 kHz here in Indian Wells, CA, last night (29 August UT). At least not from around 0140 to around 0420 UT when I stopped monitoring the frequency (-- Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD) 7470, Aug 31 at 0354, Station YHWH presumed is JBA in HNL with Noise Reduxion switched on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7470, UNITED STATES (Pirate), YHWH (in progress at tune-in) at 0245. Josiah and the usual Ten Commandments monologue. Good, but heard with SW-2000629 coupled to aluminum window frame antenna. Went off by my 0300 recheck - Good August 31. 7470, YHWH at 0245. Good and in progress at tune-in, heard on my usual outdoor long wire (no violent electrical storms tonight here - so far). "Josiah" and usual monologue. Gone on 0400 recheck - Good September 1 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Unless otherwise stated, equipment is Grundig Satellit 205/T.5000, RS SW-2000629 with various outdoor wires & indoor shortwire. 73 and Good Listening.......! = rb, WOR iog via DXLD) YHWH on now, 9/1, 0245, Good but already showing signs of getting fadey. No major electrical storms here, back to using my long outdoor wires. 73 and good listening - rb (Rick Barton, Arizona, WOR iog via DXLD) A bit weak amid RFI here at the hotel near the window with just whip on the PL-880 at LAX hotel at 0330 UT (— Richard Langley, CA, Sept 1, ibid.) I'm back in Victoria after an absence of about 5 weeks, so it's refreshing [sic] to hear YHWH still coming in. Here, 7470 about 0300 was at good level, but deteriorated. At 0330, he's booming into Lamont, AB (Don Moman's remote Perseus site), though with a fair amount of summer static. He signed off just before 0403 tonight UT, after a somewhat prolonged monologue. The recorded diatribe has been heard many times (about burning flags, and what would happen if no one showed up to a war). When he's live, his modulation is a little low. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Sept 4, WOR iog via DXLD) YHWH on tonight --- 7470 (Pirate) western USA, YHWH at 0300. Good with SW-2000629 and window frame antenna (I had checked earlier for Josiah when a very sudden cloud-to-ground lightning storm hit and I had to cut all of my outside longwire antenna leads). Station cut in right at 0300, but, as I write this, sounds like it went back off again. Giving the heads up anyway in case he comes back. May be there now, not audible with substandard antenna. 73 and Good Listening....! -rb. Arizona (Rick Barton, 0308 UT Sept 5, WOR iog via DXLD) Noted on 7480 tonight at good level at 0319 tune in. A change from 7470. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, BC, Sept 5, WOR iog via DXLD) Thanks for reporting this! I feel a bit red faced as I literally sat on 7470 after hearing them there for 5 minutes at 0300. Never thought to move the dial! xS xS xS (Rick Barton, ibid.) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6880-USB, Sept 1 at 0145, rock music at S9+10, checked just after some DX program on 5850 suggested to do so, tnx! First non-YHWH pirate I`ve heard in weeks, this one strong enough to battle my high local line noise. Many logs here say it`s Clever Name Radio: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,57599.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 1630 kHz, Taterpatch Radio, VA or FL?? PIRATE. Sept/01/19 0558 EDT [0958 UT], VG, English ID by Male DJ as “Ever since I’ve gotten away from that prison, I listen to Taterpatch Radio” at 0558 EDT. Into a cover of Leonard Cohen's “Hallelujah”. Into a program called “Retro Record on RC-FM” Show hosted by male with British accent. RC-FM……Radio Caroline?? Taterpatch Radio supposedly has studios in Hialeah, FLORIDA,…but I’ve heard they are associated To WPEX FM 90.9 and Community Radio Network (Pirate) which I have previously heard on 1710 kHz. I believe the Community Radio Network is located somewhere in the Shenandoah Valley of VIRGINIA, so I am not really sure where this Taterpatch Radio outlet is located,…FL or VA, or ??? Either way, first time I have heard it on 1630 kHz! AURORA K=5/A=38 MAJOR STORM, NEW STN, PIRATE (Rob ROSS, ON, ODXA iog via DXLD) ** NORWAY. 1611, Bergen, 0.20 kW, Radio Northern Star, Aug 14, 1512 - I know, I know. Cheating! But, while docked in Bergen, Norway, all 3 channels of Radio Northern Star were well heard. Usually but not always in //. 1413 (with 700 watts) did carry a podcast from an American doctor (until 2100, I think), before reverting to // programming to 1611 and 5895 SW (50 watts). I'm particularly impressed with the good modulation, and lovely frequent IDs and jingles. Good going!!! (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam, Bergen, Norway, WOR iog via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. 1490, Aug 30 at 1652 UT and still past 1730, DEAD AIR from KMFS Guthrie, a tremendous improvement over the usual gospel huxtering: no one at station may care, or cannot even stand it either enough to monitor when it break down. 1490, Aug 30 at 2132 UT; Aug 31 at 1835 UT, KMFS Guthrie, Jimmy Swaggart`s sobbery radio station, continues open carrier/dead air, reconfirmed by DF from Guthrie direxion. I wonder if they know, even care about this, back in Bâton Rouge. 1490, Sept 1 at 1434 UT check, KMFS Guthrie is *still* open carrier/dead air. Ditto at 2248 UT Sept 1 and 1753 UT Sept 2. 1490, after open carrier/dead air since at least August 30, KMFS Guthrie is finally revived Sept 4 at 1755 UT with some musical modulation, 1800 UT ID *only* as ``Son-Life Radio, WJFM, 88.5, Bâton Rouge``, i.e.. flagship station of Jimmy Swaggart network, who then starts gospelhuxtering (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1580, Sept 3 at 1830 UT, KOKB Blackwell is OFF, while sibling 1020 KOKP Perry remains nominal; KOKB still off Sept 4 at 1755, 2105 UT: opens frequency for traces of two other groundwave stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 17 DTV, Aug 31 at 2305 UT, K17JN-D Enid, 3ABN satellator, no change, still multiple channels all broken up as it tries to cram entire satellite transponder feed thru broadcast TV transmitter. RF 17 DTV, Sept 2 at 1400 UT, after a week of total breakup, trying to cram multiple satellite channels, K17JN-D Enid has been fixed but still anomalous. Now both the STBox and the Sanyo DTV get the same subchannels, no longer the extra ones up to -202. This is obviously still our local K17JN-D satellator from same site just west of Enid, N of Chestnut Ave, W of Boomer and E of St Hwy 152. But now it`s identifying as KCYH-LD!!! and remapping to ch 41!!! That`s really the Clarion Broadcasting Group parent station in Ardmore at the other side of Oklahoma. FCC TV Query shows it on RF 34, but a CP for 41, and yes, that CP is still at G.C. for Ardmore, not Enid; and FCC still lists K17JN-D with its near-Enid G.C. {41?? Repackedly, that CP is a non-starter, no more new stations above channel 36/37!! Why is it still in the FCC records??} When tuned directly to 41-2 and 41-4, the STB shows no signal on RF 34, but that may be saved from some DX long ago. Here`s the lineup now, not breaking up at all: 41-1, KCYH-LD, 3ABN bug LR 41-2, [blank] 41-3, AmFacts, AFTV bug LR with Unsupported Audio Codec on the Sanyo 41-4, [blank] 41-5, Hope201, Hope Channel bug UR 41-6, LLBN-EN, HisWord bug LR 41-7, 3ABN-RD, Audio only 41-8, 3ABN-RL, Audio only, Spanish 41-9, Radio74, Audio only, English And nothing further (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. See USA for daytime MW bandscan ** OMAN. 9620, Radio Sultanate of Oman, Muscat, *1430-1515, 30-08, English, ID “Radio Sultanate of Oman”, nice program of Latin American songs, at 1500 Simon & Garfunkel’s song “Sounds of Silence”, 1502 Arabic program, comments. 44444. Also *1400-1510, 31-08, English, IS “Radio Sultanate of Oman, the news, the headlines”, songs, 1409: “Radio Sultanate of Oman presents Oman this Week“, at 1426 pop songs, at 1505 Arabic. 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) Watch out for INDIA also on 9620 until 1500 Radio Sultanate of Oman was back on shortwave, September 1: from 1920 on 9620 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Arabic, good signal -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, WOR iog via DXLD) Radio Sultanate of Oman was back on SW 9620 kHz, September 1 1920&2028 on 9620*THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Arabic, good signal *from 2023 on 9620 SIR 500 kW / 298 deg to SoEu Spanish VIRI IRIB & *from 2026 on 9620 EMR 500 kW / 105 deg to SEAs English V.of Turkey According to summer A19 schedule Radio Sultanate of Oman is on air: 1400-1500 on 9620 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu English, pls check! 1500-2200 on 9620 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Arabic - as in HFCC https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/radio-sultanate-of-oman-was-back-on-sw.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 1-2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reception of Radio Sultanate of Oman on 9620 khz September 2 1400-1500 on 9620 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Arabic, not English from 1500 on 9620 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Arabic, good signal from 1530 on 9620*THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu surprise, NO SIGNAL *at same time 9620 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Baluchi All India R. https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/reception-of-radio-sultanate-of-oman-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Sultanate of Oman again without English September 3: 1400-1415 9620*THU 100 kW / 315 deg WeEu NO SIGNAL-only AIR India & 1415-1500 9620*THU 100 kW / 315 deg WeEu Arabic, instead of English 1500-2200 9620*THU 100 kW / 315 deg WeEu Arabic - good to very good *same time 9620 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg WeAs Si/Ba/Fa/Ar/Fr AIR co-ch & later from 2023 VIRI IRIB in Spanish & 2030 V of Turkey in English https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/radio-sultanate-of-oman-again-without.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 3-4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PANAMA. The Autoridad Nacional de los Servicios Públicos, or ASEP, authorized a power increase this past Spring for the TVN affiliate, 96.7 HORDC-2 in Ciudad de Panamá. In 2017, TVN News-Talk Radio 96.7 was authorized to increase to 98 kW, from 25 kW. In May, they boosted their power again, this time to 178,567 watts! This makes them the most powerful signal in all of Central America. Panamá is an east to west country and TVN’s signal is highly directional to take advantage of that. It will be tough for southern US DXers to pull in that signal during an Es event to that area of the globe (Jim Thomas, Sept WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) See also CUBA, EL SALVADOR ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, NBC Madang, 1121-1142, on Sept 1. Well above the norm; a pleasure to hear the full ID for "NBC Madang, Maus Blong Garamut," along with a child who seemed to say "90.7"; as it was Sunday, their usual religious programs (religious songs and EZL music). My audio, starting with clear ID, at http://bit.ly/2Ujd6tS (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** PERU. 4774.9, Radio Tarma, Tarma, 0057-0115, 30-08, good and clear reception today for Radio Tarma, Spanih, comments, at 0100 identification: “1510 kHz onda media, 4775 kHz onda corta, 90.9 MHz frecuencia modulada, transmite Radio Tarma, desde Tarma, Perú en América del Sur”, Peruvian songs, more comments in Spanish. 24322. Good propagation tonight at about 0100 for Andean stations (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. One transmitter of Romanian 300 kW broadcast center at Tsiganeshti is out of service on August 30: 1200-1226 on 9610 TIG 300 kW / 140 deg to N/ME Arabic 1300-1356 on 11940 TIG 300 kW / 052 deg to CeAs Russian 1400-1456 on 7355 TIG 300 kW / 300 deg to WeEu German 1500-1526 on 7360 TIG 300 kW / 037 deg to EaEu Russian 1530-1556 on 11830 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to NoAf Arabic 1600-1656 on 9590 TIG 300 kW / 135 deg to N/ME Romanian 1700-1756 on 11850 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu English 1800-1856 on 9570 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu German 1900-1956 on 11850 TIG 300 kW / 262 deg to SoEu Spanish 73! (Ivo Ivanov, WOR iog via DXLD) Tsiganeshti & Galbeni are out of service on August 30-31: One transmitter of Romanian 300 kW broadcast center at Tsiganeshti is out of service on August 30-31: 1200-1226 on 9610 TIG 300 kW / 140 deg to N/ME Arabic 1300-1356 on 11940 TIG 300 kW / 052 deg to CeAs Russian 1400-1456 on 7355 TIG 300 kW / 300 deg to WeEu German 1500-1526 on 7360 TIG 300 kW / 037 deg to EaEu Russian 1530-1556 on 11830 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to NoAf Arabic 1600-1656 on 9590 TIG 300 kW / 135 deg to N/ME Romanian 1700-1756 on 11850 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu English 1800-1856 on 9570 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu German 1900-1956 on 11850 TIG 300 kW / 262 deg to SoEu Spanish And even both Tsiganeshti are out of service on August 31 0630-0656 on 9740 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to NoAf Arabic 0630-0656 on 11970 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to NoAf Arabic And later today on August 31 Galbeni is out of service 1000-1056 on 9790 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu French, not on air 1000-1056 on 11650 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu French - is on air 1000-1056 on 13790 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to NoAf French - is on air 1000-1056 on 15130 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to NoAf French - is on air And later today on August 31 Tsiganeshti is out of service again 1100-1156 on 13750 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu English - is on air 1100-1156 on 15130 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu English, not on air 1100-1156 on 15320 GAL 300 kW / 165 deg to EaAf English - is on air 1100-1156 on 17670 GAL 300 kW / 165 deg to EaAf English - is on air -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov. Aug 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) One+one txs at Tsiganeshti & Galbeni are out of service on Sept 1 [with kW / deg] 0700-0756 9540 TIG 300 / 142 N/ME Romanian Curierul romanesc Sun 0800-0856 11990 TIG 300 / 142 N/ME Romanian Curierul romanesc Sun 0900-0956 15200 GAL 300 / 285 WeEu Romanian Curierul romanesc Sun 1000-1056 9790 GAL 300 / 285 WeEu French, also missing Aug.30-31 1100-1156 15130 TIG 300 / 307 WeEu English also missing Aug.30-31 1200-1226 9610 GAL 300 / 140 N/ME Arabic, also missing Aug.30-31 1300-1356 11940 TIG 300 / 052 CeAs Russian also missing Aug.30-31 1400-1456 7355 TIG 300 / 300 WeEu German, also missing Aug.30-31 1500-1526 7360 TIG 300 / 037 EaEu Russian also missing Aug.30-31 1530-1556 11830 TIG 300 / 247 NoAf Arabic, also missing Aug.30-31 1600-1656 9590 TIG 300 / 135 N/ME Romanian, missing August 30-31 1700-1756 11850 TIG 300 / 307 WeEu English also missing Aug.30-31 1800-1856 9570 TIG 300 / 307 WeEu German, also missing Aug.30-31 1900-1956 11850 TIG 300 / 262 SoEu Spanish also missing Aug.30-31 Etc. Full Summer A19 schedule of Radio Romania International here: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/oneone-txs-at-tiganesti-galbeni-are-out.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 30-31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency change of Radio Romania Inter from August 20: 1100-1156 NF 11990 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu English, ex 15130 11990 is unregistered in HFCC Database, but mentioned on RRI site 11990 is inactive at present, but here my two videos on August 27 1000-1056 on 9790 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu French - inactive https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/frequency-change-of-radio-romania.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The Romanian national news agency, Agerpress, published on 26 August a press release from the Romanian Union of Journalists (MediaSind) voicing their concerns that because of a 10million lei budget cut (approx GBP 2million), Radio Romania International's shortwave transmissions could be closed (Alan Pennington, bdxc-news iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) RADIO ROMANIA INTERNATIONAL NO MORE ON SHORTWAVE [sic] Unfortunately, a communiqué by the AGERPRES news agency 6 days ago announced the close of RADIOCOM and both its transmitter sites and the continuation of RRI broadcasts only on the Internet :( (Cristian Mocanu on Bclnews) https://www.agerpres.ro/stiri/2019/08/26/comunicat-de-presa-mediasind--360115 (via Roberto Scaglione, Sicily, Sept 1, WOR iog via DXLD) I could not find their own original English version, but here is google`s, along with the full original Romanian commentary, which is an objexion by the union to shutdown plans: (gh) Press release - MediaSind 2019-08-26 14:40:17 Play [button to javascript: is there really audio of this in Rom.?] DO NOT DESTROY RADIO ROMANIA INTERNATIONAL! The Romanian Syndicate of Journalists MediaSind, through the Radio Romania Branch, expresses its concern at the intention of the SRR president-general director, Georgică Severin, to suspend the shortwave broadcast of the Radio Romania International station. Due to the superficiality with which the responsible factors of the institution treated the problem of the allocated budget, the Romanian Broadcasting Society lost, at the last rectification, 10 million lei, an amount without which the good functioning of the company cannot be ensured. In order to cover this consistent deficit, according to some public statements of the President - General Manager, the expenses with the shortwave transmitters owned by Radiocom, which broadcasts Radio Romania International (RRI) programs in 13 languages, would be cut. dialects. The 'solution' to closing the shortwave emission, even if it is the most handy, having immediate effect, is a totally wrong one. Indeed, as hypocritically motivated by the Georgica Severin decision, these transmitters are not useful in the country, with the expansion of the FM network. The gravity of the decision of the Radio management is, however, a huge one, undermining even the national interest, with which even Georgică Severin has no right to play. Let us not forget that Romania has the second diaspora in the world, as a percentage of the population, after Syria. From the recent estimates of the Ministry for Romanians Everywhere, around the country live about 9.7 million countrymen whom we have to treat as Romanians with full rights, who have the right to information, including by Radio Romania International. The head of the SRR, Georgică Severin, had to make energetic and repeated requests from the Government in order to obtain sufficient funds for the good functioning of the institution, including for the antennas, taking into account the future presidential elections of 2019 and parliamentary from 2020. Why Is the main means of transmitting messages to Romanians abroad exactly during this pre-election period being abolished? Should we consider this gesture merely as a sign of disrespecting the diaspora? On the other hand, it should be noted that RRI issues programs for the Aromanian communities in the world, as well as for foreigners, in general, interested in Romania and the geographical area in which we are, RRI being thus an efficient polyglot software soft diplomacy tool. . Let us not forget then that the shortwave broadcast has a strategic character, because, in case of necessity, of disasters, of calamities, but also of suspension, by hostile decisions of Romania, of the Internet, the Romanian state can communicate with the Romanians from abroad and with the world at large. As it is known, the Internet is extremely vulnerable to political decisions. Also, in the case of catastrophic floods, earthquakes, conflicts, short waves remain the only reliable way to communicate with the world. Therefore, the idea of ​​stopping the shortwave broadcast, coupled with another simplistic idea that RRI will successfully broadcast on the Internet, can produce serious effects, jeopardizing Romania's national security. Exiting the Internet only means, in fact, closing the RRI station, which is in contravention of Law 41. According to art. 1 of the law, SRR makes programs for abroad, not online content; broadcast means radio broadcast, not online! The exit of the RRI from the shortwave frequencies (this is a heritage of about 7,000 frequencies that are traded biannually by international broadcasters) will result in the loss of frequencies in favor of other countries. At the same time, Radiocom stations in Ţigăneşti, Săftica and Galbeni, where the 5 stations used for RRI are located, will be closed and Radiocom employees will be relocated or even fired. And as according to a harmful Romanian tradition, any provisional decision becomes final, it is hard to believe that it will return to the previous situation, to the issuance on short waves, even if the Government would allocate the necessary funds. Closing the shortwave transmitters, without offering other means of transmission in exchange, would practically equate to the disappearance of the station; radio means broadcast on radio waves, analog or digital; a station on the Internet is no longer radio, it's just a multimedia product. The next logical step, after a possible shutdown of the shortwave emission at RRI, will be the personnel restructuring. See the unhappy experience with Radio3Net station, which is only online and experimentally on DAB, in Bucharest, which has under-sized staff, even under the conditions of online production. We consider that giving up the short wave, in whole or in part, is not a decision that falls within the competence of a president-general director because it concerns Romania's strategic interests. In this situation, the CSAT opinion should be requested and, in the Parliament, the Law on the organization and functioning of the SRR should be changed. Or, Georgică Severin is far from having the agreement of these institutions. The role of RRI has been and is very important: promoting the country abroad and spreading Romania's opinions worldwide. By giving up any transmitter, whether from long, short or medium waves, the main object of activity of the SRR is affected, which is the realization and dissemination of programs (according to art. 15 of law 41). Taking into account the serious situation that could arise as a result of the decision of the head of SRR, MediaSind Radio Romania requests the Parliament of Romania to intervene in an emergency regime to stop the destruction of the Radio Romania International station. Communication Department MediaSind Bucharest, August 26, 2019 ==== Comunicat de presă - MediaSind 2019-08-26 14:40:17 Play Nu distrugeţi Radio România Internaţional ! Sindicatul Român al Jurnaliştilor MediaSind, prin Filiala Radio România, îşi exprimă îngrijorarea faţă de intenţia preşedintelui-director general al SRR, Georgică Severin, de a suspenda emisia pe unde scurte a postului Radio România Internaţional. Din cauza superficialităţii cu care factorii responsabili din instituţie au tratat problema bugetului alocat, Societatea Română de Radiodifuziune a pierdut, la ultima rectificare, 10 milioane lei, sumă fără de care nu poate fi asigurată buna funcţionare a societăţii. Pentru a acoperi acest deficit consistent, conform unor declaraţii publice ale Preşedintelui - Director General, ar urma să fie tăiate, în principal, cheltuielile cu emiţătoarele de unde scurte, deţinute de Radiocom, care difuzează emisiunile Radio România Internaţional (RRI) în 13 limbi şi dialecte. 'Soluţia' închiderii emisiei pe unde scurte, chiar dacă este cea mai la îndemână, având efect imediat, este una total greşită. Într-adevăr, aşa cum, în mod ipocrit, îşi motivează decizia Georgică Severin, aceste emiţătoare nu sunt folositoare în ţară, odată cu extinderea reţelei FM. Gravitatea hotărârii conducerii Radioului este, însă, una uriaşă, aducând atingere chiar interesului naţional, cu care nu are dreptul să se joace nici măcar Georgică Severin. Să nu uităm că România are a doua diasporă din lume, ca procent din populaţie, după Şiria. Din estimările recente al Ministerului pentru Românii de Pretutindeni, în afara ţării trăiesc circa 9,7 milioane de conaţionali pe care trebuie să-i tratăm ca români cu drepturi depline, care au dreptul la informare, inclusiv prin Radio România Internaţional. Şeful SRR, Georgică Severin, trebuia să facă, din vreme, demersuri energice şi repetate la Guvern pentru a obţine fonduri suficiente pentru buna funcţionare a instituţiei, inclusiv pentru antene, ţinând cont de viitoarele alegeri prezidenţiale din 2019 şi parlamentare din 2020. De ce să fie desfiinţat, oare, principalul mijloc de transmitere a mesajelor către românii de peste hotare exact în această perioadă preelectorală? Să considerăm acest gest doar ca un semn de desconsiderare a diasporei? Pe de altă parte, trebuie precizat faptul că RRI emite programe pentru comunităţile de aromâni din lume, ca şi pentru străinii interesaţi, în general, de România şi zonă geografică în care ne aflăm, RRI fiind, astfel, un instrument poliglot eficient de soft diplomacy. Să nu uităm apoi că emisia pe unde scurte are caracter strategic, pentru că, în caz de necesitate, de dezastre, de calamităţi, dar şi de suspendare, prin decizii ostile României, a Internetului, statul român poate comunica cu românii de peste hotare şi cu lumea în general. După cum se ştie, Internetul este extrem de vulnerabil la decizii politice. De asemenea, în cazul inundaţiilor catastrofale, al seismelor, al unor conflicte, undele scurte rămân singurul mod fiabil de a comunica cu lumea. Aşadar, ideea de a opri emisia pe unde scurte, cuplată cu o altă idee simplistă, că RRI va emite cu succes pe Internet, pot produce efecte grave, periclitând siguranţa naţională a României. Ieşirea doar pe Internet înseamnă, de fapt, închiderea postului RRI, ceea ce contravine Legii 41. Potrivit art. 1 din lege, SRR realizează emisiuni pentru străinătate, nu conţinuturi online; emisiune înseamnă emisie hertziană, nu online ! Ieşirea RRI de pe frecvenţele de unde scurte (este vorba de un patrimoniu de circa 7.000 de frecvenţe care se negociază bianual de către radiodifuzorii internaţionali) va duce la pierderea frecvenţelor în favoarea altor ţări. Totodată, staţiile Radiocom de la Ţigăneşti, Săftica şi Galbeni, unde se află cele 5 emiţătoare folosite pentru RRI vor fi închise şi angajaţii Radiocom vor fi relocaţi sau chiar concediaţi. Şi cum potrivit unei păguboase tradiţii româneşti orice hotărâre provizorie devine definitivă, este greu de crezut că se va reveni la situaţia anterioară, la emisia pe unde scurte, chiar dacă Guvernul ar aloca fondurile necesare. Închiderea emiţătoarelor de unde scurte, fără a oferi alte mijloace de emisie la schimb, ar echivala, practic, cu dispariţia postului; radio înseamnă emisie pe unde hertziene, analogice sau digitale; un post pe Internet nu mai e radio, e doar un produs multimedia. Pasul logic următor, după o eventuală închidere a emisiei pe unde scurte la RRI, va fi restructurarea de personal. A se vedea experienţa nefericită cu postul Radio3Net, rămas doar online şi experimental pe DAB, în Bucureşti, care are un personal subdimensionat, chiar şi în condiţiile producţiei online. Considerăm că renunţarea la unde scurte, total sau parţial, nu este o decizie care ţine de competenţa unui preşedinte-director general deoarece vizează interese strategice ale României. În această situaţie, ar trebui cerut avizul CSAT şi schimbată, în Parlamnent, Legea de organizare şi funcţionare a SRR. Ori, Georgică Severin este departe de a avea acordul acestor instituţii. Rolul RRI a fost şi este foarte important: promovarea ţării peste hotare şi răspândirea în lume a opiniilor României. Prin renunţarea la orice emiţător, fie el de unde lungi, scurte sau medii, se afectează, de fapt, obiectul principal de activitate al SRR, care este realizarea şi difuzarea de programe (conform art. 15 din legea 41). Ţinând cont de situaţia gravă cea ar putea surveni ca urmare a deciziei şefului SRR, MediaSind Radio România solicită Parlamentului României intervenţia în regim de urgenţă pentru a stopa distrugerea postului Radio România Internaţional. Departament Comunicare MediaSind Bucureşti, 26 august 2019 (via gh, DXLD) Oh my. That is terrible news! I’ve really appreciated the superb programming and sweet clarity of the transmissions. Please tell me it’s all a misunderstanding! (Walt Salmaniw, WOR iog via DXLD) Note Ivo has been reporting several transmitters off air already last two days. At 0043 UT Monday Sept 2, in my terrible local noise level, I detect a carrier on 6040 but not on 7375, the two scheduled English frequencies this hour. But propagation is also probably degraded. Please check these and the rest of this evening`s schedule to Americas. See also separate thread with details of the shutdown plan. But no specific date (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) 6040 in French on-air now; 7420 in Romanian on-air now. Logs at 0102-0128 UT Sep 2, 2019. Greetings, (José Ronaldo Xavier, Cabedelo-PB, Brazil, ibid.) I was just listening to them a couple of days ago, in with a great signal in the 17 MHz band, very sad news if that is correct, :-( (Tim Gaynor, NSW, ibid.) 7325-DRM mode, RRO Bucharest in French at 0500-0530 UT S=9+25dB in WeEUR, target is Iberian peninsula. NOT ON 6080 kHz in DRM mode acc HFCC table - latter which is VoA STP English now instead. Instead RRO Bucharest on 6015 kHz via Galbeni site ex-6080 kHz - since April 11. Somehow the frequency request handling of the Romanian RadioCom organization is VERY SLOPPY over the months since February. 0515 UT on Sept 1. 15410, RRO Bucharest in English towards AUS and NZL Pacific, at 0530 UT on Sept 1. Maybe used Galbeni site exchange instead of TIG Tsiganeshti? S=9+20dB in Doha Qatar ME. 17760, RRO Bucharest in English via Galbeni requested, but NOT ON AIR, I guess TX at Galbeni used instead of RRO French to France on 6015 kHz instead. 0536 UT on Sept 1. 9540, RRO Romanian Sunday only "Curierul Romanes" NOT ON AIR on Sept 1, from 0700 UT onwards, heard instead on 11790TIG, 13750GAL, and 15200GAL. Log of Sunday Sept 1st, 0500 UT-0700 UT, made it into remote SDR units at central Europe, in Doha Qatar ME and Aberdeen-NJ-US east coast [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz](Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 1, WOR iog via DXLD) One+one tx at Tsiganeshti and one at Galbeni are out of service again, this morning on September 2: 0400-0426 on 13710 TIG 300 kW / 067 deg to EaAs Chinese 0430-0456 on 6190 TIG 090 kW / 037 deg to EaEu Russian 0500-0526 on 6015 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu French 0500-0526 on 13750 TIG 300 kW / 187 deg to CeAf French 0530-0556 on 17760 GAL 300 kW / 100 deg to SEAs English 0630-0656 on 9740 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to NoAf Arabic 0630-0656 on 11970 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to NoAf Arabic https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/tiganesti-and-galbeni-are-out-of.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 1-2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Unfortunately, a communique by the AGERPRES news agency 6 days ago announced the close of RADIOCOM and both its transmitter sites and the continuation of RRI broadcasts only on the Internet :( (Cristian Mocanu, Romania, Sept 1, HCDX? via DXLD) NO, it did not. That was a PROPOSAL (gh, DXLD) September 2, 2019. 1900-1956 UT. 1900, 11975 and 9500 relay Galbeni on air. Woman presents a newsletter. 1900, 11850 and 13810 relay Tsiganeshti out (José Ronaldo Xavier, Cabedelo-PB Brasil, WOR Iog via DXLD) 13810 replacing 9610 (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) Now back in NB, I note RRI today (2 September) at 2030 in English on 6170 and 13650 kHz (the better of the two frequencies). Scheduled 11850 not heard. Also heard likely DRM noise on 7315 kHz (-- Richard Langley, ibid.) Still on air this evening - e.g. currently 2030 UT, 6170 (Galbeni) strong in English here in Reading // weaker 13650 (Tsiganeshti) (Alan Pennnington, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) The RRI 2200 UT English hour strong on 5945 (Galbeni) and 7310 (Galbeni) but scheduled 7325 and 9790 (both Tsiganeshti) not heard here (off air?). 73, (Alan, AOR 7030plus, longwire, Caversham, UK, Pennington, ibid.) And frequency change of Radio Romania International, not in HFCC: 2300-2356 NF 11990 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to SoAm Spanish, ex 11700 11990 is unregistered in HFCC Database, but mentioned on RRI site (Ivo Ivanov, 2101 UT Sept 2, WOR iog via DXLD) Apparently it's not happening now. See :- https://www.bclnews.it/2019/09/02/rrs-rejected-the-proposal-of-closing-down-shortwave-and-mediumwave-in-romania/?fbclid=IwAR2E7mR-UHl_XXl6z83j8VJiYTll-hTHPaOUFqJXvVf3pxO_Y9tX3wt3W48 & From WRTH [FB?]: ``Cristian Mocanu: OK, I got a response from my RRI friends: "The Board of the Romanian Radio Society rejected the proposal of closing down any shortwave or mediumwave broadcasts as well as to disrupt in any way the production of radio programming, instructed the Management Council and the President-General Manager to reduce costs in other areas and the President-General Manager to take all the required measures in order to ensure funding for the Society". I've been told explicitly that I may share this with DXers, so I'm doing it`` Best regards (via Tim Gaynor, Gunnedah NSW Australia, WORLD OF RADIO 1998, ibid.) CUBA/ROMANIA, Seemingly took 5 months time, to realize by RadioCom Romania / RRI frequency request management that RHC La Habana Cuba use also/already 11700 kHz channel at this time slot from 250 kW broadcast center Quivican San Felipe TITAN site towards Buenos Aires South America azimuth. RHC only reports for ITU UN Geneve fq list request, not member to private HFCC.org ngo at Prague Czech Rep. 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD) RRI on air in Spanish 2300-2356 on 11990 kHz --- Fair to poor reception here. Relay Saftica? 73', (José Ronaldo Xavier, Cabedelo-PB, Brazil, 2329 UT, ibid.) I already reported 11990 3 months ago: ``ROMANIA. 11990, June 5 at 2313, RRI in Spanish ID, surprised to find here, // 11800, and I think still on 11700 under RHC where it`s been colliding. I thought 11700 & 11800 were the only two frequencies. EiBi does not show 11990, but Aoki/NDXC does. However, HFCC A-19 shows four frequencies for Spanish at 2300, not including 11990! --- 9700, 9760, 11700 and 11800, all for the full A-19 season, altho half of them might have been alternates, with two matching azimuths. EiBi, however, does show 11990 as an RRI frequency Sundays only at 0800-0900 in Romanian`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks Glenn, yes I see, only Aoki Nagoya Japan database has changed this entry from 11700 to 11990 kHz already, Spanish Tsiganeshti 247 degrees to Iberian peninsula, plus east coast South America towards Argentina-Chile. Private hfcc.org RRO Romania bcaster table has still - today - the old EARLY entry request #4084 of A-19 conference in Febr/March 2019. 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, ibid.) I don't think we've heard the last of this. Ultimately the Romanian government controls the purse strings for the SRR, and could replace the board if it wanted to. Cuts can be proposed "elsewhere" which of course will cause backlash from others. Preserving one part of the organization will mean sacrificing other parts. I'm surprised RRI has lasted this long on SW, given the budget problems the Romanian government has been dealing with in recent years. Nonetheless we could still see reductions in SW output in order to accommodate budget cuts -- and the North American beams would be a prime target, given online options. Will be interesting to keep an eye on this (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, UT Sept 3, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) Late sign on for the 0000 UT broadcast in English this evening (3 September UT) on 6040 kHz. Not there at midnight but appeared later. Nothing on 7375 kHz (— Richard Langley, ibid.) GLENN, Radio Romania to end shortwave broadcasts? Glenn, No doubt they are if the previous history of SW stations leaving the the air is to be followed and believed. http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2019/september/radio-romania-to-end-shortwave-broadcasts.htm#.XW6OWS5KiUk (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) Re: [bdxc-news] Radio Romania International shortwave under threat Maybe some better news on future of RRI's shortwave (via SWLing Post): Proposal to suspend Radio Romania International’s shortwave service has been rejected Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Tudor Vedeanu, who shares the following update regarding the threat to RRI’s shortwave service. Tudor writes: I contacted MediaSind asking for more details about the suspension of the SW broadcasts at RRI. Liviu Grosu, the general secretary of MediaSind told me this: “Following the reactions of MediaSind, the members of the Board of Directors rejected the proposal of the president-general director of the SRR, Georgica Severin, regarding the suspension of the shortwave broadcasts.” Brilliant news, Tudor! Thank you for sharing this and also many thanks for obtaining Liviu Grosu’s approval to post his message here on the SWLing Post. Readers, if you love RRI’s shortwave service, I believe this would still be a great time to let them know you’re happy they’re on the air! For the English language service, use the following email address: engl@rri.ro https://swling.com/blog/2019/09/proposal-to-suspend-radio-romania-internationals-shortwave-service-has-been-rejected/?fbclid=IwAR1dE8_G5m5gJdzIquNBSqAqhteiRN2TIxk1le-2wsIidxdBxozaZhx0-ds (via Alan Pennington, Sept 3, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) 6040, Sept 2 at 0043, JBA carrier presumed RRI English to N America, but not detected on // 7375. My high local noise level combines with degraded propagation, but Ivo has also been reporting some of their transmitters off the air the past few days. RRI has NOT been totally closed down yet, as some posts imply! Here`s the full A-19 schedule of RRI, to keep checking out: http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A19&broadc=RRO If Romanian SW sites be totally closed, IRRS will also be out of luck for relays such as 7290 for WORLD OF RADIO Mondays at 1816.5; maybe they will switch to Secretbrod, Bulgaria? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Late sign on for the 0000 UT broadcast in English this evening (3 September UT) on 6040 kHz. Not there at midnight but appeared later. Nothing on 7375 kHz (— Richard Langley, NB, WOR iog via DXLD) Oh bother, as Winnie the Pooh might put it. The 'experts' who think SW is 'old fashioned' and 'only for hobbyists' strike again. Does someone want to bleat about how 'radio is a business' and ignore that the way radio makes an impact is to have listeners and if the 'business' gets in the way of serving listeners, then it ultimately will fail no matter HOW much money it 'saves'? I still can't get past the fact that 'experts' don't understand that killing what makes radio great (personalities and programming worth listening to) in the name of 'saving money' is counterproductive. The web data is out there. Stations that have dropped SW have fallen off the 'radar' and have nobody looking for them on line. The ONLY international broadcaster that has an on line audience is the BBC. All the others rank in the lower tier of websites at best. And more than a few get tens of 'hits' a week -- almost what you'd expect from people typing the wrong URL into a browser! If that is the best we can do for 'soft power', heaven help us! kvz (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, WOR iog via DXLD) Missing transmissions of R. Romania International via RADIOCOM Tsiganeshti and RADIOCOM Galbeni, full version: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/missing-transmissions-of-rromania-int.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 2-3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO ROMANIA INTERNATIONAL "RRI" 5945, 7310, 9740 kHz So far, still broadcasting. Heard on September 3, 2019, from Pittsburgh PA, at 2205 to 2255 UT-Eng-WEu/Japan Freq SINPO 7310 45444 NB: strongest signal with very little fading 5945 25322 NB: weaker than 7310 with heavy fading 9740 35333 NB: slightly stronger than 5945, with moderate fading. Radio Romania International HFCC Schedule is at : http://hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A19&broadc=RRO From Radio Romania's Web Site: Dear friends, as from August 20, 2019, RRI’s broadcast in English, beamed on Western Europe, between 1100 and 1200 hours UT, can be listened to on different frequencies: 11990 kHz and 13750 kHz. 73 de (Chuck W3ON Gessner, My Station, TenTec Orion2, Cushcraft MA5B Yagi, WOR iog via DXLD) Tudor Vedeanu, a regular reporter to Thomas Witherspoon's The SWLing Post blogspot, has been keeping us up to date with the goings on at Radio Romania International. He reported several frequencies that were down over August 30th and 31st apparently due to transmitter maintenance. Turns out that there is far more to this story as the Director-General of the SRR (Societatea Romãna de Radiofuzune and RRI's parent organization), Georgicӑ Severin, wants to suspend RRI's shortwave transmissions completely due to budget cuts. His proposals have, so far, largely been rejected which should be the end of the story but I have been noticing // frequencies missing in their English broadcasts as well as some broadcasts, like their half hour English broadcast to North America at 2030, completely missing over the past few days but not today. I guess we can expect further disruptions to RRI's schedule until matters are resolved one way or another. 5945, RRI at 2159 with IS to opening music at 2200 and a man with ID, target areas, web platforms, and satellite reception info and a woman with news at 2201 – Fair Sept 2 – // frequencies 7310 beamed to Europe and 7325 and 9790 both beamed to Japan were not heard. 6040, RRI at 0003 on suddenly and late with a woman with news – Fair Sept 3 - // 7375 missing. 13650, RRI at 2027 with IS to opening music and 2030 and a man with ID, target area, web platforms, and satellite reception info and a man with news at 2031 – Fair with heavy fading Sept 3 - // 6170, 7315, and 11850 missing. 6170 and 7315 (DRM) are listed beamed to Western Europe while 11850 is listed as beamed to Eastern North America along with 13650. 13750, RRI at 1112 with a man with a “Radio Newsreel” report on the Romanian economy then a woman with a report at 1114 then a man with ID at 1117 then “DX Mailbag” at 1140 re-check – Fair at best with heavy fading Sept 3 – Beamed to Western Europe. // 11990 (also beamed to Western Europe) and 15320 and 17670 (beamed to South East Africa) were all missing. Listed // 11990 replaced 15130 at some point (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S, Drake SPR-4, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 80 and 40 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD) and an Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, ODXA iog via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. RUN UP THE OSTANKINO TV TOWER 2019 On August 24, a branch of the RTRS “Moscow RC” conducted a vertical run to the Ostankino television tower. The competition was attended by more than 30 athletes from 12 countries, who climbed 1,704 steps through a narrow metal staircase inside the trunk of the TV tower and reached the observation deck at an altitude of 337 meters. The length of the vertical distance is 686 meters. The metal staircase inside the barrel of the tower is more than 50 years old, 1 meter wide, and the angle of inclination varies from 39 to 56 degrees. There is no natural light throughout the course, which makes climbing a difficult challenge. A new record was set by the Polish athlete Petr Lobodzinski - 9 minutes 36 seconds. The second result for Wai Ching Song from Malaysia - 10 minutes 6 seconds. The third to the finish line ran Italian Alexis Trujillo - 10 minutes 17 seconds. A record was also set among women, Valentina Belotti from Italy ran to the observation deck in 10 minutes 54 seconds. The second result from Susie Walsham from Australia - 11 minutes 40 seconds. Bronze from the winner of the race last year - 12 minutes 46 seconds, American Cindy Harris. Last year, the German athlete Christian Riedl became the winner of the men's race, setting a record of 9 minutes 51 seconds. In women, the winner was the American Cindy Harris, reaching the finish line in 12 minutes 15 seconds. https://moscow.rtrs.ru/prof/rtrs-region/newspaper/zabeg-na-ostankinskuyu-telebashnyu-2019/ (Rus-DX Sept 1 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Voice of Russia DRM Tests? 1 File292.5kB JPG293kB 70397213_1300051126854884_7556317795588243456_o.jpg Download Good Evening all, I seen on a Japanese group I am in that one of their members was receiving DRM from Voice of Russia on 12025 kHz. I further investigated this and on the HFCC Global DRM Transmissions; it is indeed listing Voice of Russia 12025 kHz transmitting from Komsomolsk Amur, Russia which is on the far east of Russia with a power of 25 kW & an azimuth of 34 degrees. It's listed to run from the 5th September to the 27th October 2019. Attached is a screen grab from a SDR in Fukushima, Japan. Is this a possible return by Voice of Russia to the air even just purely by DRM? Best Regards, (Jordan Heyburn, NI, WOR iog via DXLD) Per drmna@yahoogroups.com this is from VoR Komsomolsk on Amur. As reported by Brendan Wahl and Terje Isberg. EssGee VU2UT (i.e. Sudipta Ghose, India, Sept 4, WOR iog via DXLD) Mystery Russian shortwave DRM test throughout Chukotka, August 31: 2000-1000 11615 K/A 250 kW / 034 deg Russian PROPAGATION TEST AM 2000-1000 12025*K/A 100 kW / 034 deg Russian Mystery Russian DRM *alternative 15735 K/A 100 kW / 034 Russian Mystery Russian DRM https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/mystery-russian-drm-broadcasting.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) blog leads not to audio clip but to: http://drmnainfo.blogspot.com/2019/08/mystery-russian-drm-test.html with more about this including a press release very similar to something already published here. A Sept 5 f/up gives powers for these as 25 kW, and 250 maybe a typo for that (gh) I think no. As far as I know the Voice of Russia as an organization was also dissolved. This is purely a scientific test (Tibor Gaal, Hungary, WORO iog via DXLD) Changes of Mystery Russian DRM transmissions effective from Sept 5 2000-0300 12025 K/A 100 kW / 034 deg FERu Russian DRM, ex 2000-1000UT 0300-1000 15735 K/A 100 kW / 034 deg FERu Russian DRM, ex alternative 2000-1000 11615 K/A 250 kW / 034 deg FERu PROPAGATION TEST, unchanged https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/changes-of-russian-drm-transmissions.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 3-4, WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 13610.042, SBA via MOCI Riyadh, Radio Saudi Arabic 1st program. S=9+20dB power at 0626 UT noted in Doha Qatar ME SDR unit. Log of Sunday Sept 1st, 0500 UT-0700 UT, made it into remote SDR units at central Europe, in Doha Qatar ME and Aberdeen-NJ-US east coast [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz](Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 1, WOR iog via DXLD) ** SCOTLAND. 810, Westerglen or Burghead, 100 kW, BBC Radio Scotland, Aug 12, 2118 - Another winner in the power department. Very well heard throughout the north Atlantic as far as Greenland and Norway. Usually very strong, and at times the only other station besides 531 Faroes heard during the day (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam. North of Faroe Islands, WOR iog via DXLD) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS, 5020, SIBC, Honiara, 0640-0710, 31-08, strong carrier but extremely weak audio, some songs and comments detected. QRM from Rebelde on 5025 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) long-path ** SPAIN. [WOR] New RNE LOCAL/REGIONAL schedule form Sep. 2nd. From next Monday (Sep. 2nd) the local and regional outputs on RNE-R1 and R5TN will be as follow: times UT (new times*) M-F: 0525-0530 R5TN LOCAL 0545-0600 R1//R5TN REG 0715-0730 R5TN LOCAL 0804-0806 R1//R5TN REG* 0904-0906 R1//R5TN REG* 1004-1006 R1//R5TN REG* 1110-1200 R1//R5TN REG 1504-1506 R1//R5TN REG* 1604-1606 R1//R5TN REG* 1820-1830 R1//R5TN REG* Sat-Sun: 0705-0715 R5TN REG 1130-1200 R1//R5TN REG 73! (Mauricio Molano, Salamanca, ESPAÑA - SPAIN RX site: Aldea del Cano, Cáceres. LAT: 39º17'09.70 N LONG: 6º19'00 W RX: PERSEUS. ANT: WELLBROOK ALA1530S+ http://moladx.blogspot.com/ Aug 30, WOR iog via DXLD) Dear MWC'ers, The Spanish National Radio changes its contents from this coming Monday (2nd September) to August 2020. The Radio 5 (RNE-R5 Todonoticias) network offers more local and regional windows on Medium Wave Band, as following: Monday to Friday: 0725-0730 R5TN LOCAL 0745-0800 R1//R5TN REG 0915-0930 R5TN LOCAL 1004-1006 R1//R5TN REG 1104-1106 R1//R5TN REG 1204-1206 R1//R5TN REG 1310-1400 R1//R5TN REG 2020-2030 R1//R5TN REG Saturday/Sunday: 0905-0915 R5TN REG 1330-1400 R1//R5TN REG R1// > Transmissions with Radio 1 Network. All times CEST (EA Time) NOT UT!!! Local windows will be fill out with local news from the province concerned. 73 and ¡Buen DX! (Jorge Garzón (EA-0080) Urb. San Roque 95, casa 5 (Villasevil) 39698 Santiurde de Toranzo (ESPAÑA - SPAIN), MWCircle yg via DXLD) ** SPAIN. 9690, Friday August 30 at 2203, REE, Justin Coe playing some Joan Baez and talking about her; why? her last concert in July before retiring was in Madrid. Usual VG signal at this hour but affected by local hi line noise level which now is extending up to 12 MHz, altho diminished (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I also listened to this programme - very enjoyable. FWIW, I believe that this was a repeat of the 16 August transmission. I guess that Justin is still having to run the whole show on his own (Alan Roe, WOR iog via DXLD) Radio Exterior de España --- A new QSL card was received from Radio Exterior de España for reports of April 1 and July 10, 2019. On the card is the stamp of the technical secretary of RNE REE. Also put station stickers in an envelope. http://freerutube.info/2019/08/28/qsl-radio-exterior-de-espana-aprel-iyul-2019-goda/ (Dmitry Elagin, Saratov, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", QSL World, Rus-DX Sept 1 via DXLD) ** SUDAN. 7205, Sudan Radio, Al Aitahab, 0515-0523, 31-08, Arabic, comments. 25322. (Méndez) 9505, Voice of Africa, Al Aitahab, 1718-1725, 30-08, English, comments, African songs, ID “Voice of Africa”. Strong QRM on 9500. 31421 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** SUDAN [and non]. SUDAN ALLOWS BBC BROADCASTS FOR FIRST TIME IN TEN YEARS Sudanese people celebrate the signing of a constitutional declaration between Deputy Head of Sudanese Transitional Military Council, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo and Sudan's opposition alliance coalition's leader Ahmad al-Rabiah, in Khartoum Sudanese people celebrate the signing of a new constitution in Khartoum Credit: Reuters * Adrian Blomfield, Africa Correspondent 3 September 2019 o 5:41pm https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/03/sudan-allows-bbc-broadcasts-first-time-ten-years/ Sudanese nationals are set to hear BBC broadcasts on domestic radio for the first time in nearly a decade after the country's transitional government ended a ban on the station's Arabic service. Five months after the overthrow of Omar al-Bashir, the former dictator, Sudan's ruling generals have agreed to restore the BBC's broadcasting licence, the Sudan Tribune newspaper reported on Tuesday. Until 2010, the BBC's Arabic Service was arguably the most popular and trusted FM radio station in Sudan, with an estimated audience of more than 10m listeners. But Mr Bashir's regime banned it that year, ostensibly because the BBC had flouted the law by bringing satellite equipment into the country without permission. Government critics argued it was more likely that Mr Bashir was curtailing independent media ahead of a referendum the following year that led to South Sudan breaking away to become an independent state. The Arabic service of the Paris-based Radio Monte Carlo was also banned. The restoration of "Radio London", as it is fondly known in Sudan, is understood to have been agreed by the military council that has ruled Sudan since Mr Bashir's overthrow after it came under pressure from Abdalla Hamdok, the country's new British-trained civilian prime minister. Although the ban on the BBC's FM licence has been lifted, a resumption of broadcasts has yet to be agreed. A BBC business development team is expected in Khartoum next week to negotiate a new agreement. "We are very optimistic that this important audience will be restored but there is a way to go," a senior BBC executive said. Mr Hamdok became prime minister last month under a power sharing deal between the generals and the civilian opposition coalition at the forefront of the popular revolution that overthrew Mr Bashir. The deal, if honoured, will pave the way for elections after a three-year period of reform overseen by a civilian dominated cabinet. Mr Hamdok appointed the first 14 members of the cabinet on Tuesday, naming a respected former World Bank economist, Ibrahim Elbadawi, as finance minister and Asmaa Abdallah as the country's first female foreign minister (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. FRANCE, Fair signal of Eye Radio via TDF Issoudun, September 2 1559-1658 15410 ISS 250 kW / 139 deg EaAf Juba Arabic* Mon-Fri * including other langs English/Dinka/Nuer/Shilluk/Bari/Zande/Lutoho https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/fair-signal-of-eye-radio-via-tdf.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 2-3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWAZILAND. 4775, Trans World Radio, Mancini, 0502-0511, 30-08, English, religious comments. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** SWITZERLAND. Swissinfo on how the Swiss Shortwave Service covered the start of WWII: see MUSEA. Esperanto: also see LANGUAGE LESSONS ** TAIWAN. Fu Hsing Broaodcasting Station denied the existence of QSL manager. Mr. Tetsuya Kondo of Asian Broadcasting Institute reported me. As for the article "QSL manager" in WWDXC Topnews 1374, Fu Shing Broadcasting Station (Taiwan) promptly announced in their home page as follows: "Our Station has no relation to him, and there is no contract of "QSL manager" with such a foreign person. Listeners are requested to send reception reports directly to our station. No return postage or money is needed." Probably this was the first time the station made such an announcement. At that time (April 2019) the shortwave signal of Fu Shing Broadcasting Station was stopped, but after this announcement they had resumed shortwave transmission (Takahito Akabayashi, Tokyo, Japan; via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 26 via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) WWDXC Topnews #1374, 1 March 2019: So, this address I S W R O N G ! China Huayi BS, Voice of Jin Ling and Fu Shing [sic] Broadcast station. [two in PRC, one in TAIWAN] Jonathan Short, Ming Ri Feng Lin 3-1002, Li Zha Road, Changshu, JS 215500 P.R. China (BC-DX 31 Aug via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) ** TAIWAN. 6229.953 kHz SOH from Taiwan, Chinese, S=6-7, at 2314 UT and \\ 6230even co-channel CNR1 powerhouse jamming from China mainland. 7650.312, SOH from Taiwan, Chinese, S=5-6 -96dBm, at 2310 UT. 9280.023, SOH from Taiwan, Chinese, S=5-6 -96dBm, at 2318 UT. 9970.200, SOH from Taiwan, Chinese, S=4-5 poor, at 2330 UT. 11500.086, SOH from Taiwan, Chinese, S=7-8, at 2335 UT. 11529.972, SOH from Taiwan, Chinese, S=9+5dB, at 2337 UT. and \\ 11530even CNR1 powerhouse jamming from China mainland. 11580.121, SOH from Taiwan, Chinese, S=7-8, at 2339 UT. 11715.012, SOH from Taiwan, Chinese, S=9+5dB, at 2340 UT. 13530.223, SOH from Taiwan, Chinese, S=9+5dB, at 2351 UT. and \\ 13530even CNR1 powerhouse jamming from China mainland. 13550even, CNR1 powerhouse jamming from China mainland, S=9+30dB, against whom ? - nothing underneath traced. 16 kHz wideband signal at 2353 UT. 13775even, CNR1 powerhouse jamming from China mainland, S=9+30dB, against whom ? - nothing underneath traced. 16 kHz wideband signal at 2356 UT. 13820.185, SOH from Taiwan, Chinese, S=8-9, at 2358 UT on Aug 30. Heard on remote access at SDR unit in Hiroshima Akitakata and Tokyo Japan [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, DXplorer wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 30. BC-DX 31 Aug via DXLD) Why do you indicate some CNR1 jamming is \\ [parallel] to SOH?? They should be totally different, NOT // (gh, DXLD) ** TAIWAN [non]. UNID: 5900.even kHz? Russian language service, traced around 1700-1730 UT --- help, Unidentified Russian language service, likely via SPC-NURTS Spaceline Ltd. Sofia Kostinbrod Bulgaria relay site? Left the air, when checked around 1740 UT. 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, wor iog via DXLD) Radio Taiwan Int in Russian, 1700-1730 to EaEu at 30 deg, Radio Taiwan Int in German, 1900-1930 to WeEu at 306 deg (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, ibid.) ** THAILAND. VOA’s new Rohingya service which is transmitted on shortwave at 1130-1200 UT, is also repeated at 1300-1330 on 1575 kHz MW same day (Pradip Kundu via WRTH Facebook page via Sept NZ DX Times via DXLD) See also USA [non] ** TURKEY. TRT Voice of Turkey in Bulgarian on 9655 & 7210 August 31: 1056-1103 9655 EMR 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs Bulgarian, instead of 7210 & 1104-1125 7210 EMR 250 kW / 290 deg SEEu Bulgarian, as scheduled A-19 Something`s always wrong at V of Turkey Emirler transmitting station https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/trt-voice-of-turkey-in-bulgarian-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 30-31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Unscheduled TRT Voice of Turkey in Spanish on shortwave, August 31: till 1125 7210 EMR 250 kW / 290 deg SEEu Bulgarian, as scheduled A-19 1128-1155 7210 EMR 250 kW / 290 deg SEEu Spanish - unscheduled on SW! Something`s always wrong at V of Turkey Emirler transmitting station https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/unscheduled-voice-of-turkey-in-spanish.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 30-31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11675.705, TRT Emirler in Turkish, requested at 0600-1155 UT slot service to NE/ME/CeAS target, S=9+35dB signal on remote SDR at Doha Qatar ME unit. 0611 UT on Sunday Sept 1st.Log of Sunday Sept 1st, 0500-0700 UT, made it into remote SDR units at central Europe, in Doha Qatar ME and Aberdeen-NJ-US east coast [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz](Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 1, WOR iog via DXLD) Unscheduled TRT Voice of Turkey in Greek on shortwave, September 2: 1400-1425 9610 EMR 500 kW / 290 deg SEEu Italian, as scheduled A-19 & 1426-1433 9610 EMR 500 kW / 290 deg SEEu Greek sce, unscheduled on SW Something`s always wrong at V of Turkey Emirler transmitting station https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/unscheduled-voice-of-turkey-in-greek-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, WOR iog via DXLD) Unscheduled TRT V of Turkey in Greek on shortwave, Sept 4: 1400-1425 9610 EMR 500 kW / 290 deg SEEu Italian, as scheduled A-19 & 1426-1444 9610 EMR 500 kW / 290 deg SEEu Greek sce, unscheduled on SW Something`s always wrong at V of Turkey Emirler transmitting station https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/unscheduled-voice-of-turkey-in-greek-on_5.html TRT Voice of Turkey in Azeri on odd frequency 9505.7 kHz on Sept.4: 1530-1625 9505.7 EMR 500 kW / 105 deg CeAs Azeri, instead of nominal Something`s always wrong at V of Turkey Emirler transmitting station https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/voice-of-turkey-in-azeri-on-odd.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 4-5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U A E. NHK World Radio Japan via ENC-DMS Al-Dhabayya on Sept 5 1515-1600 11775.2 DHA 250 kW / 060 deg SoAs Urdu, weak/fair signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/nhk-world-radio-japan-via-enc.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 4-5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [and non]. BBCWS See SUDAN [and non] ** U S A. [Continued from COLOMBIA]. The second station was right on 2900 kHz - WREL Lexington VA (2 x 1450) with Fox Sports, local ads for Labor Day festivities and top-of-the-hour ID: "Fox Sports Radio for Lexington, Buena Vista and Rockbridge County - AM 1450 WREL Lexington". This was heard from 1045-1100 UT. At first I thought this was my local 1450 but they are ESPN so it was soon obvious that it wasn't. Still going strong at 1115 UTC long after local sunrise. Heard on Perseus SDR and south-facing 100' x 26' Wellbrook corner-fed delta loop (Brett SAYLOR 8/30/19, central PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 4316-USB, Sept 1 at 0516, robovoice giving latest and predicted positions of some storm, surely unnamed Hurricane Dorian judging from the high-knot wind speeds. Hard to follow, as it does not pause before or after numbers like a normal human speaker. Surely those could be built into the software. Scheduled at 0515-0550 is NMG, USCG New Orleans; S9+20 to S9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Obituaries of residents from the District, Maryland and Northern Virginia. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/community-deaths/2019/08/29/d983c092-caa8-11e9-be05-f76ac4ec618c_story.html?noredirect=on AKBAR AYAZI, VOA DIVISION LEADER Akbar Ayazi, 65, an Afghan-born Voice of America journalist who since 2015 had directed the agency's South and Central Asia division, died Aug. 25 at a hospital in Falls Church, Va. The cause was lung cancer and pneumonia, the VOA said in an announcement. Mr. Ayazi, a native of Kandahar, joined the news staff of the U.S. government's international broadcast agency two years after immigrating to the United States in 1980, following the Soviet invasion of his homeland. He was chief of VOA's Pashto language service in 2005 when he left for Prague, where he served for 10 years at the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty broadcast service. In 2009 he moderated an Afghan election presidential debate pitting the incumbent, Hamid Karzai, against two challengers, current President Ashraf Ghani and current Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah. Returning to VOA, Mr. Ayazi directed the agency's broadcasting over a region stretching from Turkey to Afghanistan. He established an extremism watch unit to monitor and report violent political extremism around the world. He was a resident of Woodbridge, Va. PHILOMENA JUREY, VOA EXECUTIVE Philomena Jurey, 91, the former editor in chief of Voice of America who served as the broadcaster's White House correspondent during the Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan presidencies, died July 26 at a care center in Hillsdale, Pa. The cause was complications from vascular dementia, said a niece, Marian Fiscus. Mrs. Jurey was born Philomena Sparano in New Castle, Pa., and worked for newspapers in Virginia and Ohio before joining Voice of America in 1961. She retired in 1989. Four years ago, she moved to Pennsylvania from Washington. -- From staff reports (via Mike Cooper, WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) OBITUARY - Philomena S. Jurey Nov. 28, 1927 - July 26, 2019 Philomena S. Jurey, 91, passed away July 26, 2019, at AristaCare at Hillsdale Park in Hillsdale, Pennsylvania, after a long battle with vascular dementia. Philomena began a long and illustrious career with The Voice of America (VOA) in 1961, reaching higher and higher positions as she sought to cope with the death in 1969 of her beloved husband Jack, who was the editorial director of WTOP-TV in D.C. First a news writer and editor, then, in 1971, State Department correspondent, Deputy Chief of the News Division in 1972, and she became, in 1974, the VOA's White House correspondent. From her tiny office in the press corps area of the White House, she sent out reports heard around the world, covering Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan and traveling around the globe. When she accompanied President Reagan to China, she was swarmed by fans of her reports. The Washington Post wrote, "Jurey was the one media celebrity the Chinese officials wanted to meet." In 1988, Philomena became the Editor in Chief at the VOA. She served in that position until her retirement in 1989. Her colleagues remember her as a brilliant, judicious and immensely effective journalist who allowed nothing to come between the facts and the reports. In August 1989, the United States Information Agency recognized her with the Superior Honor Award: "In recognition of outstanding achievement as a VOA writer, editor, manager and White House correspondent, as well as leadership as editor-in-chief" (via Dan Robinson & Kim Andrew Elliott (ex-VOA staff), Sept CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ** U S A [non]. Frequency change of V of America Rohingya and English 1130-1200 NF 12030 UDO 250 kW / 280 deg Rohingya Mon-Fri, ex 9980 1130-1200 NF 12030 UDO 250 kW / 280 deg English Sat/Sun, ex 9980 Parallel freq.9310 UDO 250 kW / 276 deg, 11570 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/frequency-change-of-voice-of-america-in.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 4-5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also THAILAND ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1997 monitoring: confirmed first SWBC, Friday August 30 at 2200, on WRMI 9955, S9-S4 and not upcut unlike the airings at 2100. Also confirmed UT Saturday August 31 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, S9+10/20 including high line noise level which built up again quickly after our heavy rainfall temporarily quelled it Friday morning. Also confirmed Sat Aug 31 at 1448 the 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 9485-CUSB, not on the UTwente SDR, but barely audible on the OH5AE SDR vs huge splash from 9490 Romania. Also confirmed Sat Aug 31 at 2100 on WRMI 9955 after IS & ID loop. That stopped by 2100:00, but WOR JIP a sesquisecond later at 2100:01.5 when I am already at ``--- 1997``, as the first eight words already started playing out several seconds earlier before the unsynchronized transmitter picked up the feed. I wonder if this happpen to other 2100 programs? Next: 0130 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 to NW 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] ND 1030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 6160v? to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE 1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania ND 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) GERMANY, 6190, Hamburger LokalRadio, Gohren, *0600-0700, 31-08, English, “Media Network Plus”, at 0630 Glenn Hauser’s program “World of Radio”. 25322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) WORLD OF RADIO 1997 monitoring: Confirmed by Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, Saturday: ``GERMANY World of Radio#1997 via Hamburger Lokalradio, August 31 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/world-of-radio1997-via-hamburger.html 0630-0700 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu English Sat, fair/good`` Confirmed UT Sunday September 1 at 0130 on WRMI 5850, S9+10/30. Also confirmed UT Sun Sept 1 at 0328 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Wentzville MO, about 14 minutes into so started circa 0314; less line and storm noise than I expected, S8-S9 and mostly readable. Next: [Unique Radio, NSW is resuming already as of Monday Sept 2!] 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 6160v? to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB ND 1130 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB ND 1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania ND 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB ND [2 episodes] 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE WORLD OF RADIO 1997 monitoring: confirmed Sunday Sept 1 at 2155 the 2130 on WRMI 7780, fair, only by checking UTwente SDR toward which it`s aimed; at 2130 only a JBA carrier here, not enough to audiblize even with noise reduxion. Also confirmed UT Monday September 2 at 0130 on WRMI 9395, S7-S9; and JBA in HLNL on 7780. (Neither of these audible at UTWente SDR, 0150) Also confirmed UT Monday September 2 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, S9+10 vs HNLN, after ``Everglades`` ID. Also confirmed UT Monday September 2 from 0320 until 0329.5 concluding Area 51 webcast which must have started almost on-time 0300; as for WBCQ 5130.4, JBA carrier at earlier 0249 check in HLNL, nor could detect any signal on 6160v. BTW, 5130.4 not making it to UTwente SDR. Also confirmed UT Monday September 2 at 0330 on WRMI webcast, interrupting canned ID so WOR Opening is not upcut. Earlier at 0313 check, 9955 was VP S3-S4. Tim Gaynor posted a late decision to keep Unique Radio on 5045-USB instead of 3210 on his first day back on air, including WOR at 0930 & 1130 Monday September 2. Next: Confirmed Monday September 2 at 1816.5 on IRRS 7290 via ROMANIA, VG {via UTwente SDR!} after 1813 open carrier, 1814 JIP fragment report about testing patients for some illness, 1815 cut to Aïda, 1816.5, WOR 1997 starts. [doomed? See ROMANIA] 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio NSW 5045- or 3210-USB ND [2 episodes] 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ROMANIA, World of Radio #1997 via RADIOCOM Saftica on September 2 1815-1915 7290 SAF 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu English Mon, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/world-of-radio1997-via-radiocom-saftica.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 2-3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1997 monitoring: I missed checking UT Tuesday Sept 3 at 0100 on WRMI 7780; did anyone hear it? Next: 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7780, WRMI at 0100 with Glenn Hauser's “World of Radio” - Very Good Sept 3 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S, Drake SPR-4, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 80 and 40 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD) and an Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, ODXA iog via DXLD) WORLD OF RADIO 1997 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday September 4 at 2100 on WRMI 9955, after IS & ID loop. This stopped at the end of a cycle right at 2100:00, but WOR playout not cut on until 2100:03 when I have already reached ``---1997``, my first eight words upcut, as WRMI automation continues to be out of synchronization. S5-S8 anyway, much better than simulcast on WBCQ 7490.2, JBA in HNL, but confirmed L&C on webcast. Next: Thu 0100 WRMI 7780 to NE Full schedule: http://www.worldofradio.com/radiosked.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1998 contents: Antarctica, Argentina, Ascension, Australia, Bahamas, Brasil, Chad non, Colombia, Cuba and non, Hong Kong non, India, International Waters and non, Iraq, Ireland non, Korea North, México, New Zealand, Oklahoma, Oman, Romania, Russia, Sudan, Taiwan, UK, USA; and the propagation outlook WOR 1998 is available as of 0350 UT Friday September 6 (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1998.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1998.mp3 Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html Also linx to podcast services. The shortwave broadcasts should be: 2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 0629vUT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1030 UT Saturday Unique Radio 3210 or 5045-USB NSW [alt weeks] ND 1430 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM ND 2100 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0130 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 to NW 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] ND 1030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 6160v? to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210 or 5045-USB NSW ND 1130 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210 or 5045-USB NSW ND 1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania ND 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 3210 or 5045-USB NSW [2 episodes] ND 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ BCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ: ** U S A. (7490), UT Sat Aug 31 from 0000, AAAWWW on WBCQ, this time more talk about radio and tech than politix, so listen some more. At 0023 he says that the Super-Station will be testing ``this`` week on three new frequencies, 12120, 15705 and 17735 at various times, probably staring at 50 kW level, then 100, 150, 200, 250, 500, 600. (This corresponds to the latest HFCC registration as 500 kW, Arabic only, 60 degrees only --- so who needs a rotatable antenna? from 0900 on 15705, 1200 on 17735, and 2000-0857 on 12120 --- oblivious of the continuous RTTY on 12120 who won`t be too happy about being blasted by 500 kW of broadcast RF. Per UDXF Logs it`s the US Navy`s ubiquitous NAU in Isabela, Puerto Rico). So WBCQ must have got the needed documentation on how to tune up on other frequencies than 9330. But are there any ex-Ampegon engineers back at WBCQ by now? 9330, BTW is on the air now and close to 9330.0, but NOT the SS. At 0055 I check all five frequencies despite the HLNL: 9330.0 S9 and almost as good as 7490.1 at S9+10; 6160.1 at S9+10; 5130.37 at S9+20, but 7, 6 and 5 readings include the HLNL. 3264.9 is as always JBA. As usual he gets to E-mail near the end of the hour, says there isn`t much this week; but somehow keeps going way over until 0118, cut to ``He Is Coming Again`` hymn, except on 5 MHz which has changed to unreadable talk something. Here`s John Carver`s version: ``Tonight's show started a few seconds early on 7490. Allan and Angela in the studio this evening. Opening comments about Florida and the hurricane. First phone call at 0012 from Freddie. Superstation is down for now because of antenna work so the 9330 broadcast this evening is from a classic transmitter. It was also announced that the 6160 transmitter had been retubed at a cost of thousands of dollars. Special fall rates for 6160 of thirty-five dollars per hour. Allan said time on the transmitter is open except for AAWWW slot. He also announced that the 6160 transmitter was running compatible side band. It was also mentioned that soon there would be open time on 3265 for sale. In response to Freddie he said that the plenum had not been replaced as of yet so 3265 was still running on backup transmitter. Then Allan said to watch his twitter feed next week as testing would resume on the superstation. They would be trying 12120, 15705 and 17735. Next phone call at 0027 with caller singing the praises of a discontinued Grundig receiver. Angela then had a question about an article she'd read about 5G dumbphones and increased radiation and health risks. Allan went into a long discussion about the different types of radiation, effects of microwaves, amount of radiation from dumbphones from 1G to 5G. Phone call from Ramsey at 0041 continues discussion of harm of RFI, EMI etc. Phone call at 0049 on the other phone while Ramsey was still on the air. Finished the call with Ramsey and then Pirate Joe gave a signal report and then continued the discussion of radiation from devices. Reading of emails at 0059 and closing prayer at 0109. Program was off the air at 0118 and 7490 went into what was assumed to be Brother Stair. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Next week WBCQ-6 Super Station will be testing on 3 new frequencies 12120, 15705 and 17735 kHz at various times staring at 50 kW, then 100, 150, 200, 250, 500 kW 0900-1157 on 15705 BCQ 500 kW / 060 deg to N/ME Arabic 1200-1957 on 17735 BCQ 500 kW / 060 deg to N/ME Arabic 2000-0857 on 12120 BCQ 500 kW / 060 deg to N/ME Arabic https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/wbcq-6-super-station-will-be-testing.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Above item appears to be quoting our report without credit, see above, as many such items are based on reports elsewhere. OTOH we do our utmost to credit completely and properly, including Observer (gh, DXLD) 7490, WBCQ at 2055 with Brother Stair abruptly cut off and into IS and ID loop to 2059 and a man with an extended ID with singing ID and a man with a plea for financial donations and into “Marion's Attic” eclectic and really old music program at 2100 hosted by Marion Webster with Christina spinning the discs and wax cylinders – Very Good to Good Sept 1 – Maybe Allan Weiner read my post (wishful thinking) but it's nice not to have to listen to Brother Stair under Marion's Attic (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S, Drake SPR-4, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 80 and 40 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD) and an Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, ODXA iog via DXLD) 9330, WBCQ, Monticello ME; 2047-2203+, 9/2; Relaying NOAA 162.4 MHz, KIH26 Daytona Beach FL with Florida Atlantic coast weather & Dorian update; long loop repeated, but apparently being updated each round; 5:34 PM EDT TC. No relayer ID break, but e-mail response from Allen Weiner in just a couple of minutes confirmed it’s WBCQ. S9 peaks; very fady after 2100 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, --- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time ---, WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DX LISTENING DIGEST) GLENN, WBCQ 9330 khz on with FL NOAA radio beaming south. AAllan Weiner‏ @AllanWBCQ 4h4 hours ago 9330 khz on with FL NOAA radio beaming south. Keep tuned in to all the shortwaves. Much good information and entertainment. A very good alternative to main stream everything. Also check 7490khz. May you all be well everywhere (via Artie Bigley, OH, Sept 3, DXLD) 9330.034V, Sept 3 at 1412, WBCQ relaying NOAA Weather Radio: typical robotic cadence and intonation, hurricane info; S6-S8 and difficult to copy from old wavering transmitter, not 500 kW Super! I do hear a mention of ``eastern Okeechobee county``. Harold Frodge first reported this. 9330, Sept 4 at 1355, JBA signal presumed WBCQ relaying NOAA Weather Radio from Daytona, but too weak to be sure. At 2103 it`s just as bad but measured down to 9329.94. Will they pick up further NOAA`s up the GA, SC, NC coasts? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9330.16v, Sept 5 at 1421, WBCQ is JBA probably with a NOAA Weather Radio relay; now moved up the coast from Daytona? Allan twitted Sept 5: ``Allan Weiner @AllanWBCQ Sep 5 Still storming. Still beaming on 9330khz with weather info. Blessings for folks in the Carolinas. Tune in the shortwaves when you can. Bring a portable with you. It’s fun and important`` And on Sept 4: ``Prayers to all in the hurricane path. May our Father keep pushing it to the east. Far from land. Help our brethren in the Bahama land. 9330khz on with NOAA weather reports.`` And on Sept 3: ``9330khz on with FL NOAA radio beaming south. Keep tuned in to all the shortwaves. Much good information and entertainment. A very good alternative to main stream everything`` Really ``beaming south``?? CCW from 245 degrees WSW, which has been the nominal central beam for all WBCQ frequencies?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. From the Isle of Music, September 8-14: This week our special guests are members of Grupo Canela, which celebrated its 30th Anniversary in August. We also present a portion of a new recording by Legendarios del Guajirito. 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) If you don't have a shortwave radio or are out of range, you can listen live to an uplink from a listening radio in the Netherlands during the broadcast at http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=9400am 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). If you don't have a shortwave or are out of range, you can listen to a live stream from the WBCQ website here (choose 7490) http://www.wbcq.com/?page_id=7 3 & 4. For Europe and sometimes beyond, Tuesday 1900-2000 UTC and Saturday 1200-1300 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from Rohrbach, Germany. If you don't have a shortwave radio or are out of range, you can listen live to an uplink from a listening radio in the Netherlands during the broadcast at http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=6070am Uncle Bill's Melting Pot, August 25 and 27; September 8 and 10: Episode 129 presents psychedelic Brazilian music from the Tropicalia era. The transmissions take place: 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 If you don't have a shortwave or are out of range, you can listen to a live stream from the WBCQ website here (choose 7490) http://www.wbcq.com/?page_id=7 2. Tuesdays 2000-2030 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from Rohrbach, Germany for Europe. If you don't have a shortwave radio or are out of range, you can listen live to an uplink from a listening radio in the Netherlands during the broadcast at http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=6070am (William "Bill" Tilford, Owner/Producer Tilford Productions, LLC, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI RMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI: ** U S A. [WOR] Hurricane Dorian and WRMI --- As of right now, the track for Hurricane Dorian may pass somewhere close to the WRMI transmitter facility north of Okeechobee, FL. As that area is extremely rural, a storm of the magnitude of Dorian could be devastating. The many antennas on the 900+ acres could suffer damage, as well as the many open feed transmission lines. Because WRMI is at the "end of the line" for both power and the Internet, even if the site survives with less than anticipated damage, it still may be off the air for an extended time. Generators for such a facility are prohibitively expensive (unless you are the Federal Government) and not really practical. It will be interesting to see which direction this storm tracks, as it has changed often during the past week (Bob Biermann, WRMI, 1833 UT Aug 30, WOR iog via DXLD) Bob, How about the 5800 transmitter which the FB item said might stay on the air. Is it really located somewhere else than Okeechobee? (Glenn Hauser, August 31, WOR iog via DXLD) NO reply WRMI was bracing to close down all transmitters if winds were high enough to cause antenna arcing; this now seems less likely, but Okee might still be on the edge of the projected path of Hurricane Dorian. They hoped to keep the `test` frequency of 5800 on the air without explaining how. No further FB notices by end of August, but here is one reply earlier: ``Jorge Garzón Gutiérrez --- ¿Precisan monitorizar la fx de 5800 para comunicar si hay algún fallo o comprobar la calidad? Lo podemos comunicar desde el norte de España. Mucha precaución y coraje!!!`` Also for the record, a phone number change: ``August 29 at 2:51 PM · WRMI Audio by Phone --- The telephone number to hear our live stream on 9955 kHz has recently changed. The new number is +1-641-741-1762. We will try to update on online and on-air announcements as soon as possible`` {BTW, both old and new numbers are in IOWA area codes} (Glenn Hauser, OK, Aug 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Mike Sussman: So you know 9395 is jammed with a dead carrier on AM & some noise on SSB here ... 4h [at 2234 Sept 3] Comment on disgraced FB to WRMI`s latest post. Maddening how they refuse to timestamp anything, rather ``how long ago``, roughly. More likely I daresay is that WRMI 9395 was dead air for a while (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re WRMI: ``5800 kHz on the air even when the other transmitters are down and even if there is a power outage! (Aug 30)`` Ich weiss zwar nicht wie die Bedingungen aus NoAM ueber den Atlantik hinweg heute frueh waren, aber die exact 5800 kHz als zusaetzlicher Reservesender bei WRMI Okeechobee Florida USA war in den letzten circa 6 Wochen schon oefters in West Europa zu hoeren. Und dies meist mit Musikprogrammen. Viel staerker als die 5950 kHz transmission von dort. (wb df5sx) Bei WRMI Okeechobee FL ist ja vieles auch eine Frage der Richtung. 5950 kHz => 285 degr TX #5 Richtung SoWeUSA / Mexico) 5800 / 5010 kHz => 181 degr TX #14 towards Caribbean, zones 10-12. 27 27 03.12 N 80 56 18.27 W zoom in at dimmly at BING maps antenna ITU type #805, log-periodic horizontal LPH 18/36.5/32.2/16.7/1.4/13.2/200 Horizontal log-periodic antenna Designation: LPH N / L / h1 / hN / l1 / lN / Z, where N : number of elements. L : distance between the centres of the shortest and the longest element (m). h1 : height of the shortest element (m). hN : height of the longest element (m). l1 : half-length of the shortest element (m). lN : half-length of the longest element (m). Z : impedance of the antenna internal feeder line (). WRMI Radio Miami International, NW 240th St, Okeechobee, FL 34972, USA (viel Raum fuer Spekulation um die korrekte Richtung bzw. die Staerke irgendwelcher "Nebenkeulen" - hier in Europa. ) => 181 degr wuerden dann hier: dem XMTR 14 entsprechen. (Roger Thauer-D, A-DX Aug 30, BC-DX 31 Aug via DXLD) ** U S A. Very weak signal WRMI test frequency via Okeechobee Aug 31 0530&0600 5800 RMI 100 kW / 181 deg to CARI Mx tx#14, ex 5010, not // same time 9395 RMI 100 kW / 355 deg to ENAm English tx#9 Oldies, fair https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/very-weak-signal-on-wrmi-test-frequency.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 30-31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) How do you know it`s #14? Never shown on schedules (gh, DXLD) 5800.013, ??? Probably? WRMI Okeechobee, 181 degrees, new horizontal log-periodic antenna, in use with TX #14 also on 5010 kHz at other times. Weak signal of religious organ music. 0549 UT Sept 1. Log of Sunday Sept 1st, 0500 UT-0700 UT, made it into remote SDR units at central Europe, in Doha Qatar ME and Aberdeen-NJ-US east coast [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz](Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 1, WOR iog via DXLD) WRMI is still on nominally at 1415 Sept 3 check: 9395 good with BS, 15770 JBA with SMTV; 21525 JBA carrier Radio Africa. WRMI will have to close down if the winds get too high. At 1505 UT Sept 3 on MSNBC, Al Roker had a map showing ``scattered power outages`` inland including Okeechobee county (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD)] WRMI Radio Miami International 1 hr · Hurricane Dorian Update - It seems that the eye of the hurricane is not going to hit the coast of Florida. But there will still be high winds in Okeechobee and we hope that the power will not go out. One of our Internet services has been shut down due to the hurricane (they are based in Vero Beach on the coast), so some of our clients cannot upload programs to us temporarily (especially to 9395 kHz), and our live stream on wrmi.net is down for the moment. We hope this service will be back within the next 24 hours if the hurricane continues on its present course. Thanks for all of your messages of concern and prayers (WRMI FB circa 16 UT Sept 3 via DXLD) ** U S A [non]. Alameda Bible Fellowship via RMI Issoudun September 2 1700-1730 13660 500 kW / 135 deg EaAf English Mon/Wed/Fri, fair/good 1930-1933 11860* 500 kW / 180 deg WeAf English Mon/Wed/Fri, NO SIGNAL 1933-2000 11860* 500 kW / 180 deg WeAf English Mon/Wed/Fri, fair/good * heard only 11860 GB 250 kW / 183 deg Spanish Radio Marti, weak/fair https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/alameda-bible-fellowship-via-rmi.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 2-3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHER OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW: ** U S A. 9475, Aug 30 at 0407, WTWW-1 on the air with day frequency at night, no 5830; here it`s holding up at S9/+20 with hateful SFAW, referring to ``Governor Chickenlooper down in Colorado``. Wonder if this be more recent than by defunct PPPP (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5050, UT Sun Sept 1 at 0119, no signal from WWRB, nor on any possible 3-MHz frequency; perhaps the Saturday night broadcast is already over, altho on Sunday night = UT Monday it was still running two hours later along with 10100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. (Tennessee) - WWCR Nashville transmitter schedule for autumn, September 1, 2019 to October 27, 2019 WWCR-1 (100 kW, 46°) (15795 kHz dropped) 0000-0100: 6115 0100-1100: 3215 1100-2200: 15825 2200-2400: 6115 WWCR-2 (100 kW, 85°) 0000-1200: 5935 1200-1500: 7490 1500-2000: 12160 2000-2400: 9350 WWCR-3 (100 kW, 40°) 0000-1200: 4840 1200-2400: 13845 WWCR-4 (100 kW, 90°) (official transmitter schedule, de facto only for a few hours on weekdays, but the programme schedule was not updated) 0000-0200: 7520 0200-1200: 5890 1200-0000: 9980 Time UTC: frequency in kHz (from http://www.wwcr.com 29 August 2019 via Dr. Hj. Biener, DXLD) This schedule is until August 31, not from September 1 (Ivo Ivanov, Aug 31, ibid.) WWCR S-19 sked --- There has been a lot of confusion about WWCR`s schedule, whether there be significant changes Sept 1; are there really half- or quarter-hour gaps in it? Is it really on 15795 before 15825? NO. Now they have finally put up the new version, but as always, this represents the Total Possible Usage; in fact, especially with #4, axual on-air time is much less. This can be determined from the more accurate program schedules, but they have not yet been updated since August 1! (Glenn Hauser, Sept 2, WOR iog via DXLD) Viz.: WWCR A19 Schedule (step 2) September 1, 2019 to October 27, 2019 Transmitter #1 - 100 KW - 46 Degrees 12:00 AM-06:00 AM 0500-1100 3.215 MHz 06:00 AM-05:00 PM 1100-2200 15.825 MHz 05:00 PM-08:00 PM 2200-0100 6.115 MHz 08:00 PM-12:00 AM 0100-0500 3.215 MHz Transmitter #2 - 100 KW - 85 Degrees 12:00 AM-07:00 AM 0500-1200 5.935 MHz 07:00 AM-10:00 AM 1200-1500 7.490 MHz 10:00 AM-03:00 PM 1500-2000 12.160 MHz 03:00 PM-07:00 PM 2000-0000 9.350 MHz 07:00 PM-12:00 AM 0000-0500 5.935 MHz Transmitter #3 - 100 KW - 40 Degrees 12:00 AM-07:00 AM 0500-1200 4.840 MHz 07:00 AM-07:00 PM 1200-0000 13.845 MHz 07:00 PM-12:00 AM 0000-0500 4.840 MHz Transmitter #4 - 100 KW - 90 Degrees 12:00 AM-07:00 AM 0500-1200 5.890 MHz 07:00 AM-07:00 PM 1200-0000 9.980 MHz 07:00 PM-09:00 PM 0000-0200 7.520 MHz 09:00 PM-12:00 AM 0200-0500 5.890 MHz (via gh, DXLD) NO CHANGES after September 1 --- only tx#4 is as follows: WWCR-4, not 24hrs 2000-2200 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to CeAm English Mon-Fri 0200-0400 on 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to CeAm English Tue-Sat (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) ?? Central America is not east of Nashville! On these 90-degree beams HFCC registered CIRAF targets are: 9, 11, 47, 52, 53. 11 includes Caribbean and Central America; 9 is eastern Canada; 47-52-53 amount to central *Africa*. Of course they are counting on considerable sidelobes from rhombic antennas (gh) ** U S A. Also see that WRNO is back on tonight (off last night) on 7505. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, BC, circa 0320 UT Sept 5, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A. Hurricane DXing --- I don't know if AM stations are still authorized to use their daytime patterns at night during a hurricane event, or if it is even their policy to do that anymore, but after Hurricane Dorian starts to parallel the Florida coast, two stations to look for will be: WFLF, 540 kHz, Pine Hills, FL, 50,000 watts, and WOKV, 690 kHz, Jacksonville, FL, 50,000 watts. The latter is the former Big Ape, WAPE. Both of these stations cover a lot of ground [and water] with their daytime patterns (Dick W., Tampa, Sept 1, ABDX yg via DXLD) ** U S A. 670, KHGZ. Glenwood, AR. Aug/31/19, 0600 EDT [1000 UT], FAIR, English, ID as “KHGZ CADDO COUNTRY 98.9 and 670”. Classic C/W Music. AURORA, K=4/A=10 MINOR STORM, RELOG, 5 kW DAYTIMER (Rob ROSS, ON, ODXA iog via DXLD) ** U S A. KBRD-680 verie received (tip for DXers in the west: try for them in [October] E- mail verie received from KBRD for last October's reception from the Border Inn (707 miles for a 250 W daytimer!). The manager/announcer even took the time to research my band, and find a song he could add to their playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNRi2ePpHrA They're a bit confused about their October sign-on times. The correct sign-on time for October was 7:30 am PDT, but they were signing on at 6:15, which they believed was the correct sign-on time. I didn't try to correct them! So DXers in western states might want to try for them this October, before daylight time ends. [*1315 UT] It's a nice little station, kind of a labor of love. See http://www.kbrd.org 73 (Tim Hall, Aug 29, ABDX yg via DXLD) KBRD is licensed to Lacey WA, address in Olympia (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 1060, Sept 4 at 0630 UT, romantic song in Spanish loops WSW/ENE, fitting KIJN Farwell TX, the perpetually cheating 10 kW daytimer; repeated lyric, ``Quiero estar contigo``, i.e. Jesus rather than romantic, and 0633 UT KIJN ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1090, Aug 31 at 0403 UT, dead air loops E/W, no doubt KAAY Little Rock tho some understation talk is JBA. By 0405 KAAY revives with country hymn. 1090, Sept 2 at 0248 UT, dead-air, loops E-W, no doubt KAAY Little Rock again; understation something in Spanish, most likely KMXA Aurora CO, ESPN-D, 50000/500 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Format Change: KMXA 1090 Denver, CO --- Entravision has dropped ESPN Deportes this weekend on KMXA ahead of the network`s closure in a few days. The station is now playing ranchera and norteño [sic] music, ID'ing as "José 1090 AM". I noticed it this afternoon (September 2nd) (Paul, Laramie, WY, B. Walker, Jr., Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) It seems several stations are rebranded as José (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 1130, Sept 1 at 2248 UT, and Sept 2 at 1754 UT chex, music from KLEY Wellington KS, still not off the air again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Sunday nights on KSL --- Hopefully this will help someone out east. KSL 1160 broadcasts music and preaching on Sunday nights between 9:35 and 10:00 (PDT as I report this but I believe Utah is an hour ahead of us in spite of their website). The music is none other than the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and with their rich vocals and symphonic/organ accompaniment, this may be a very good time to try. I heard them once from Michigan but that was many years ago and I don't remember any details. 73 de Joe -- *** Avoid internet congestion, real radio uses airwaves. *** (Joe Miller, KJ8O, Desert Hot Springs, CA, Locator DM13sw, 0452 UT Sept 2, ABDX yg via DXLD) ** U S A. Nominally 1440 but significantly to the low side at 1439.72: WKLV Blackstone, VA. ID at 9 p.m. EDT / 3 SEP, '60s / '70s oldies. On south antenna that nulls WRED-ME pest. Should be easy to spot (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, nrc-am via DXLD) ** U S A. IRCA iog had a long thread on a 1710 kHz unID TIS which turned out to be at Travis AFB, CA; not in FCC listings since it`s governmental. If interested, seek that out (gh) ** U S A. During a break in my high local line noise level affecting MW as well as SW, at midday Sept 3, I decide to try something different: MW bandscan at 1 kHz below each 10-kHz channel in USB, to ``hear the hets``. Even tho this is far from an ideal quiet location and far from ideal equipment (R75 with 100` E-W longwire, meaning it`s a bit deaf to the N/S, such as not hearing 820 WBAP), I listen for frequencies with more than one carrier beating --- some of them very slow, to slow, to medium, to fast --- and skipping those with no signal or definitely only one signal. It would take a *lot* more time to count the beats and calculate each SAH. This indicates that there are remnants of groundwave from some second-tier stations around here I seldom or never hear in the clear. Of course, I am not interested in amassing station totals so am making no such claims, just an exercise in monitoring and propagation. I will include the most likely sources based on proximity, top station first. Remember that we do have some of the highest inland ground conductivity around here, in the 30s. I do this between 1840 and 1903 UT Sept 3, i.e. just after local mean noon always at 1832 UT, when there will be the *least* possibility of MW skywave, especially now still in summer. Some frequencies with one fairly strong semi-local seem to be wobbling; hard to be certain if transmitter fault or receiver overload. As usual when tuning MW or LW on this receiver, both Preamp 2 and Preamp 1 are OFF. But further ATT is not engaged. And of course there is no DFing with the LW. Quite possibly no other DX editor will wish to dedicate the space to publish this, but here it is in my original log report, which took at least twice as long afterwards to compile as to carry out. Reference for current listings and callsigns: NRC AM Log 2019-2020. 1600, v? KUSH OK 1590, slow: KVGB KS, KWEY OK [closer but not aimed thisaway] {not KGVB as typo in original; hope no others!!} 1580, fast, while KOKB OK is OFF!! That leaves KHGG AR, KGAF TX 1570, slow, KTUZ OK, KTAT OK, KBCV MO 1560, fast, KEBC OK, WMBH MO, KABI KS 1540, medium, KNGL KS, KZMP TX 1500, slow, KPGM OK, KJIM TX 1480, irr., KQAM KS, KNGO TX 1460, medium, KZUE OK, KKOY KS, KCLE TX 1450, medium, 3-way, KGFF OK, KSIW OK, KWHW OK, KQYX MO, KWBW KS 1430, medium-fast, KTBZ OK, KALV OK 1420, slow, KTJS OK, KJCK KS, KULY KS 1400, irregular, KWON OK, KREF OK 1350, fast, KMAN KS, KTLQ OK 1340, medium, KGHM OK, KJMU OK 1320, KCLI OK way off frequency 1310, medium, KYUL KS, KZRG MO 1280, slow 2.2 Hz, KSOK KS, KPRV OK 1270, show, KRXO OK, KSCB KS, KFLC TX 1260, fast, KWSH OK, KSGF MO 1250, fast, KYYS MO, KRRD AR 1240, medium, KFH KS, KADS OK 1220, very slow, KTLV OK, KCAX MO, KOFO KS 1190, medium, KFXR TX, KVSV KS 1150, fast, KSAL KS, KNED OK 1140, fast, KRMP OK, KLTK AR 1130, very fast, KLEY KS, KWKH LA 1090, medium, KEXS MO, KVOP TX 1070, KFTI KS way off frequency 1060, medium, KIJN TX, KBFL MO 1050, fast, KGTO OK, KXCA OK 1040, medium, KGGR TX, WHO IA, KGWA 960 OK spur 1030, medium-fast, 3-way, KFAY AR, KBUF KS, KCWJ MO 1010, medium, KTNZ TX, KIND KS 990, medium, KFCD TX, KRSL KS 940, medium, KIXZ TX, KSWM MO 860, irregular, KKOW KS 790, fast, KURM AR, KXXX KS, KFYO TX 760, slow, KCCV KS, KDFD CO 710, slow, KGNC TX, KCMO MO 670, slow, KLTT CO, KHGZ AR, WSCR IL 660, medium, KSKY TX, KCRO NE 640, irregular, KWPN OK 570, very slow, WNAX SD, KLIF TX 560, fast, KWTO MO, KLZ CO 540, medium, KDFT TX, KWMT IA (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Ken Zichi opines: WKAR [E Lansing MI] drives me crazy of late with their touting the 105.1 translator above any mention of AM 870. I can't get the translator in Williamston because they are directional away from us to protect a hippy hop station in Detroit. AM 870 is the ONLY way to hear them on this side of town! SO, based on this, CMU is apparently stating that it is not only AM that the stations pretend nobody listens to, but also the "HD" IBOCsssssssssss stations too! Apparently this tacitly implies analog works & digital doesn't as a 'translator' wouldn't be necessary if HD worked! I mean, that is the argument for AM right? "Nobody" wants to listen to AM because it sounds bad so we need the FM translator to stay in business. HD sounds bad too? What's the explanation? Inquiring minds want to know! ;) Jack Amelar adds: At least they still have a student run FM. In the 80s, when I worked at the PBS station at Grand Valley State College (now University), there was WSRX-FM 88.5 (Student Run Experimental) until the college got FCC approval to up the power from 100 watts to 50K, at which point it became WGVC-FM (now WGVU), yet another NPR station. Don Moore adds: A similar thing to what happened at Grand Valley happened at Penn State. When I was there in the late 70s there was a reasonably power student run FM called WDFM. I don't know what they had, but it could be easily heard fifteen miles away in Milesburg, where I grew up. Around 1980 a movement began to have the university take the station away from the students and turn it into an NPR station. That happened gradually. I think over about five years. I was no longer in the area. Around 1985 the call was changed to WPSU & there was no more student involvement. The only student radio left was some carrier-current AM stations in the dorms. In the mid 1990s they put in a low-power student run FM, but it only reaches the campus and nearby (MARE Tipsheet Aug 31 via DXLD) ** VIETNAM. 12018.98, VoV, Son Tay. English to EAs at 1135 to 1200, then into Japanese. The English service again at 1230-1300. A fair signal, 11/8 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Kenwood R5000, Tecsun PL-680, Horizontal Sky Loop, Double Bazooka, antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), Sept ADXN via DXLD) ** VIETNAM [non]. 7315, UT Sun Sept 1 at 0123, VOV relay via WHRI in Vietnamese --- kept going, not just a segment to be translated. Officially registered as VV after 0130 which has been in English as well as 0100; language mixup? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** YUGOSLAVIA [ex]. Scrapping and total elimination of medium and shortwave facilities in Southeastern Europe / Balkan states over the past decades. Browse through Google Earth images on August 26, 2019. SERBIA / Bijeljina BIH Continental 'Made in TexasUS' medium wave 2000 kW Beograd Zvecka location unit, formerly on 683/684 kHz, the station house was bombed in Kosovo war by US / NATO jets in May 1999, the main mast was still standing in August 2017, then dismantled in January 2018. The small reserve / or direction pattern mast? on eastern side stood until June 2006, lying down until June 2011, scrapped after Feb 2015. The western reserve mast was still standing in August 2017, was scrapped in January 2018. Valjevo Kolubarski 1386 kHz 10 kW scrapped in October 2012. Sombor Novi Sad-2 837/666 kHz mast is still standing in July 2018. Novi Sad - Orlovat (Vojvodina / Juznoborski okrug) 1107 kHz 50 kW 2 masts of 1107 kHz are still standing in March 2019. Subotica Palic 1089 kHz 10 kW, Nov 28, 1968, til bombed in May 1999. Srbobran, 1269 kHz former planned 750 kW unit after bombardment, screened towards DLF Neumuenster Germany co-channel, at 320 to 325degr azimuth. Uzica 531 kHz mast scrapped after November 2006. Vranji 1296 kHz and Bosilegrad {near Treklyano BUL} 999 kHz, the medium wave masts are still standing. Old shortwave transmission center location of Radio Yugoslavia / Radio Serbia International at Stubline from the 1950s, also used for guest workers radio services in Western Europe \\ MW Beograd 683 kHz in the sixties, of Radio Belgrade 20 kW transmissions on 6100 and 9620 kHz. The station house was bombed in May 1999 by US / NATO jets during Kosovo war, but the various antennas were still standing in the 2000s after the US/NATO attack still in use in the air, last with a mobile Magirus truck transmitter with 17 kW of mobile power generator electricity. The various masts are still intact on the transmitter area in September 2018. Major Shortwave station of Radio Yugoslavia / Radio Serbia International from Bijeljina on Bosnia BIH soil TX 'Made in Switzerland' + antenna design BBC-Mannheim-Schifferstadt Germany, a neatly designed gem (if you see the nice old photos) the Swiss have done the similar design as in Juelich or Wertachtal transmission centers copied. 4 x 500 kW 'Made in BBC' Turgi Switzerland, 17 curtain antennas, 1 x quadrant omnidirectional non-directional antenna, all scrapped between July 2017 and January 2018. CROATIA Osijek 1557 kHz mast is still standing, ex594, ex1143 kHz. Zagreb Deanovec ex594, 738. 1125 kHz mast is still standing in July 2018. Zadar 1134 kHz 600/1200 kW large transmitter tall 4-mast adriatic coast transmission center for the guest workers service at Western Europe, 4-masts are still standing in June 2019. MW Split on the island of Hvar, Hvar Mala Grcka location 774 kHz 50/10 kW. I had the coordinates 20 years ago 43 11 22 N 16 25 56 E or 43.188459 N 16.432282 E that would have been 1001 meters higher up the mountain. The mast on the island of Hvar as in 2019 continues to be given, at: Hvar Mala Grcka 774 kHz 50/10 kW 43 10 54.30 N 16 25 20.48 E a little further to the Adriatic coast. Thanks Patrick Robic-AUT. SLOVENIA Maribor Tezno 558 kHz, sce to 2005y, mast still standing in Dec 2018. Domzale 918 kHz 600 kW, of early 1955year CFTH Thomson Houston 'Made in France', mast still standing in 2019 year. BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA Banja Luka 1071 kHz eliminated in 2012. Sarajevo 612 kHz 300kW, survived the YUG / SRB / BIH war in the 90s, scrapped in September 2012. MONTENEGRO Titograd Podgorica Golubovci 882 kHz eliminated in November 2016. Montenegro built a large building on the grounds. vy73 de (Wolfgang DF5SX, BC-DX 31 Aug via DXLD) See also ALBANIA; BULGARIA ** ZANZIBAR. TANZANIA, 6015, Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation, Dole, 0413-0425, 30-08, Swahili, comments. 34333. (Méndez) 11735, Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation, Dole, 1750-1810, 30-08, Swahili, comments, at 1800 time signals, English, ID and news. 13221 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 930, Sept 4 at 0607 UT, WKY OKC nulled reveals a C2CAM station, most likely WTAD Quincy IL, or maybe KWOC Poplar Bluff MO; mixed with a sportstalk in English I will not attempt to guess (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9369.0-USB, Aug 31 at 1343, 2-way in Spanish INTRUDERS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. UNKNOWN/MYSTERY, Mystery shortwave DRM test broadcast on Sept.1: 1800-1900 on 9540 unknown kW / unid target area unknown language https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/mystery-shortwave-drm-test-broadcast-in.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 10125-LSB, Aug 30 at 1334, INTRUDER, 2-way lots of laughter, sorta Spanish, maybe Tagalog; within what is supposed to be a strictly non-phone ``30m`` hamband (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11685 to 11780 kHz wideband likely DITTER JAMMING received at Doha Qatar, probably against Saudi Army radio service "Al Azm Radio" on 11745 kHz from Jeddah-ARS towards Yemen civil war area. Heard at 0614 UT on Sept 1 Log of Sunday Sept 1st, 0500 UT-0700 UT, made it into remote SDR units at central Europe, in Doha Qatar ME and Aberdeen-NJ-US east coast [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]. (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 1, WOR iog via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 11999 approx., Sept 1 at 0130, weak SSB 2-way I cannot get to resolve, can`t even tell the language, tuning back and forth in LSB or USB --- maybe 3 x a ham just below 4000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 13572.75, Aug 30 at 1340, Spanish 2-way INTRUDERS, about putas and whistling (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1998: Hello Glenn, This is another gift to you for your ongoing work-of-excellence with WOR and DXLD and as reflected in the membership of DXers associated! Big thanks again and Truest Best Regards, (Steve McGreevy, CA, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) In mid-September, Glenn Hauser will be presenting his 2000th edition of his “World of Radio” program. CIDX joins with the world’s DX community in congratulating Glenn. We thank him for his years of service and dedication. Your efforts are greatly appreciated by all. We wish you continued success in your future endeavors, Glenn. (Sheldon Harvey, Sept CIDX Messenger via DXLD) Finally if all goes as usual, by mid-September, Glenn Hauser will present his 2000th World of Radio program. Congratulations Glenn and thank you for all that you’ve done for the radio hobby. Your dedication to accurate and timely reporting is appreciated by all especially the membership of CIDX. Continued success, Glenn (Mick Delmage, Sept CIDX Messenger via DXLD) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ IRCA MEXICAN LOG, 22ND EDITION (WINTER 2019) - now available! Just in time for the upcoming DX season!!! The IRCA MEXICAN LOG lists all AM stations in Mexico by frequency, including call letters, state, city, day/night power, slogans, schedule in UTC/GMT, formats, networks and notes. The call letter index gives call, frequency, city and state. The city index (listed by state, then city) includes frequency, call and day/night power. The transmitter site index (listed by state, then city) tabulates the latitude and longitude of transmitter sites. Also, in this edition, there is a spread sheet with links to web sites, live broadcasts and facebook page of many of the Mexican stations. This is an indispensable reference for anyone who hears Mexican radio stations. Size is 8 1/2" x 11". The 2019 Mexican Log .pdf is posted on the IRCA website for all to download. The link is: https://www.ircaonline.org/editor_upload/File/2019%20Mexican%20Log.pdf For those preferring a hard copy, one can be ordered from the IRCA Bookstore. Prices: IRCA/NRC members – $5.00 (US), $6.00 (Canada) $8.00 (México), $9.00 (rest of the world). Non-IRCA/NRC members – add $1.00. To order from the IRCA, send the correct amount (in US funds payable to Phil Bytheway) to: IRCA Bookstore, 9705 MARY NW, SEATTLE WA 98117-2334. Or, order through PayPal to Email: phil_tekno@yahoo.com Please state club affiliation when ordering. Feel free to pass this along to any other eGroup you feel might be interested (Phil Bytheway/Tim Hall - editor! Sept 3, IRCA iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) This is a monumental piece of research, as Tim Hall has contacted or attempted to contact, or find website, FB info about virtually every station, tracking the fast-changing Mexican MW scene, and for the first time is available free, online, interactive! (gh) FBIS DAILY REPORTS, 1941-1946, complete collexion, https://www.readex.com/content/foreign-broadcast-information-service-fbis-daily-reports-1941-1996 Product being promoted this weekend at the American Political Science Association annual meeting in Washington, DC. 73s, (David Cole, LA, Aug 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Designed for libraries, no prices published, but I bet it`s plenty, altho originally taxpayer-supported! Not on paper I assume (gh, DXLD) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ [WOR] ESPERANTO FROM SWITZERLAND SRI successor Swissinfo looks back at the history of Esperanto broadcasting from the Swiss Short-wave Service/Swiss Radio International ... https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/language-from-the-archives_when-switzerland-broadcast-esperanto-around-europe/45177656 (via Kim Elliott, Sept 1, WOR iog via DXLD) MUSEA +++++ SWISSINFO ON HOW THE SWISS SHORTWAVE SERVICE COVERED START OF WWII "To mark the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, we dug into our archives to see how our predecessors at Switzerland's Short Wave Service reported the dramatic events of September 1939. "Our predecessors used radio signals to reach their audience. Unfortunately, no audio recordings of broadcasts from August and September 1939 survived in our archives, but we did find the transcripts, some handwritten, of our broadcasts in German, French and English. ... " https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/from-our-archives_how-we-reported-the-outbreak-of-world-war-ii/45185560 (From Swissinfo via Kim Elliott, Sept 1, WOR iog via DXLD) The article mentioned a WW II archive providing a link to it. The link works, so I went there. I tried to extract frequencies or just the 'kilocycle(s)' in the database that they mentioned on the website but I found nothing. It is possible that my search method wasn't correct. Can someone look into it? (Tibor Gaal. Budapest, Hungary, ibid.) Friends, thank you very much taking the effort, it is very useful to me, hopefully for others too. I found something on a former German language webpage (I downloaded it at that time) too, but it is not shortwave. I don't know whether the Swiss reported World War II differently on mediumwave than shortwave. This list's severe limitation is that it doesn't cover the station names or if those are private or state-owned. The list contains the year of 1939 mediumwave in German, the excerpt follows: Die Rundfunksender in Europa (ausgenommen UdSSR) 1939 kHz m kW Senderstandort Land / Programm 401 748,1 1,3 Genf Schweiz 556 539,6 100 Beromünster Schweiz 677 443,1 100 Sottens Schweiz 1167 257,1 15 Monte Ceneri Schweiz 1375 218,2 0,5 Basel Schweiz (Tibor Gaal, Hungary, Sept 3, WOR iog via DXLD) There were no private mediumwave stations in Switzerland in 1939. All were owned by/controlled by state/government/Federation. If you have interest, you can see the "official" station list and info in the Radex magazine April 1939 issue. It's on magazine pages 39 and 40 at https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Radex/Radex%20128%2039%2004.pdf 73, (Jari Savolainen, Finland, ibid.) I think the archive is from the programming department, with very little technical information. But I did find one --- ``This is Switzerland calling in the overseas service of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation. [We] now present our daily Swiss program for North American listeners, "Switzerland calling America," full edition, which comes to you over three beams. In the 48 meter band, on 48,66 meters, frequency 6,165 kc; in the 47 meter band on 47,28, frequency 6,345 kc; and in the M meter band, on 3EK 4o,,65 meters, So please stand by for "Switzerland calling America," full edition.`` The garbled part was probably caused by the imperfect machine reading of a typed (or maybe even handwritten) script. If it's possible to go back to a picture of the script, I haven't yet figured out how to do it. Throughout the archives, I noticed the spelling "meter" rather than "metre," including "kilometers." Maybe the English staff was mostly American, or at least American-educated. Link for the above is https://archives.swissinfo.ch/ww2/articles/TH-1944-10-30-EN.php (Kim Elliott, ibid.) Yes, but that seems to be 1944. I did some googling and from various sources gathered this; The Swiss Shortwave Service transmitter site at Schwarzenburg began broadcasting early spring 1939. But July 6, 1939, severe fire destroyed it. Programs were then relayed via Radio Nations site at Prangins until Schwarzenburg site was rebuilt. Radio Nations was a joint venture of League of Nations (United Nations) and Switzerland (Radio Suisse). In the 1930's it carried United Nations and Swiss radio programs as well as some utility transmissions. Radio magazine "Globe Circler", September 1939 says that after the fire, Swiss Shortwave Service programs were aired over Radio Nations transmitters HBO 11402 kHz, HBJ 14588 kHz and HBF 18450 kHz alternating at various times of day. 73, (Jari Savolainen, Finland, ibid.) I recall that in my early DXing years, 1960s, there were still UN broadcasts from Switzerland on the fixed bands (gh, DXLD) MEET THE MOSQUITO NETWORK --- Inside the U.S. effort in a battle of the airwaves during the Pacific campaign of World War II ◗ROOTS OF RADIO I wonder how many of these stations were heard by DX-ers? http://www.durenberger.com/documents/MOSQUITONETWORK.pdf (Mark Durenberger, Aug 30, MWCircle yg via DXLD) It`s a new illustrated Radio World Sept 1 article by Mark himself, mentioning very few frequencies, no 1420 (gh, DXLD) I heard and QSLed the AFRS station on 1420 many years ago. Best wishes & 73s (Barry :-) Carlisle UK. Lat. 55.0119N Lon. 2.9668W Davies, ibid.) Which one? Broad searching leads to several 1420s over the years: Greenland (which I remember), Canal Zone, France, Germany, London, but not in Asia/Pacific. WTFK?? It seems the Mosquito Net RHF articles linked below never mention 1420, nor, skimming thru them, *any* frequencies in the otherwise detailed stories!!! (gh, DXLD) NZ's David Ricquish and his 'Radio Heritage Foundation' (the website which hosts Bruce Portzer's 'Pacific Asian Log') has a wealth of information about the Mosquito Network. This link leads to the first article in a series authored by Martin Hadlow, whose name shortwave DX'ers will recognise: Depending how your browser renders the Radio Heritage page, you should see on the left by scrolling down, and below the column tease "AFRS Armed Forces Radio Memories", an extensive list of links to 40 (by my count) stories of AFRS activities, ranging from India/Burma... to Japan... Alaska... New Caledonia.. and Antarctica. The NZ government very kindly donated what was at the time 1ZM/1250 in Auckland for use by the AFRS during the war. I think David has that detailed somewhere but I can't find the story. Politically, it's interesting to note that Mark Durenberger picked up the copy of the WSSO verie from Bougainville. In the Solomon Islands. Oh. Except the locals had their lot somehow thrown in with Papua/New Guinea after the war, and have been disagreeing since. I believe there's a formal referendum on independence during this October. 73 (Theo Donnelly, BC, ibid.) And if you're curious about that corner of the world and broadcasting in the area, see: https://www.amazon.com/Radio-Happy-Isles-Politics-Pacific/dp/0824821068 "Radio Happy Isles" was a pretty interesting read (Chuck Hutton, irca iog via DXLD) BBC'S SECRET WORLD WAR TWO ROLE REVEALED "A new archive of documents and interviews https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/100-voices/ww2 has revealed the BBC's role in secret activities during World War Two. "Plans were also made to replace Big Ben's chimes with a recorded version in the event of an air attack, and BBC programmers would also play music to contact Polish freedom fighters. "The material has been released as part of a five-year project https://connectedhistoriesofthebbc.org/ enabling access to hundreds of archived BBC interviews." https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-49570807/bbc-s-secret-world-war-two-role-revealed (via -- Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Two major DX conventions are taking place the first weekend in September. In case anyone there is listening, my greetings to the European DX Council, in Andorra; and the International Radio Club of America, near Seattle (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) CIDX ANNUAL BBQ YouTube “OfficialSWLchannel” Special CIDX BBQ live show August 17th https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FktcRdcvWtY&t=981s International Radio Report – August 18, 2019 - on CKUT-FM archives http://www.ckut.ca/en/content/international-radio-report (Listen or download either the 64 kbps Or 128 kbps edition) (Sept CIDX Messenger via DXLD) HFCC B-19 IN BUENOS AIRES see ARGENTINA DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ MY FINAL LOG REPORT FROM THE NORTH ATLANTIC As promised, I’ve attached the final report from our fantastic cruise to the North Atlantic Ocean, including Newfoundland, Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Holland, Ireland and now disembarking in Halifax tomorrow. I was most impressed with how well the little XHData D808 performed, both on MW and on SW. LW, it was a little deaf, but passable. FM reception (and the AIR band) was also more than adequate. Our noise was not much of an issue, despite being on a large cruise ship, with just a short length of random antenna wire slung across our balcony. As always, any errors are mine alone, and I always welcome corrections/comments. I had forgotten how well SW signals propagate to Europe in abundance, compared to the paucity of signals to the west coast of NAm. Also fun were the huge numbers of pirates in Europe on SW! So, please do yourself a favour and pack a small portable along your next trip/holiday. My radio interests were again reinvigorated! 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Sept 1, WOR iog via DXLD) [Walt`s full report appeared in the WOR iog; in this issue, see above: ANTARCTICA, DENMARK, DJIBOUTI, EUROPE pirate, FAROE ISLANDS, GREENLAND, ICELAND, IRELAND, NORWAY, SCOTLAND] DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See MEXICO; OKLAHOMA; DRM ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC See USA: WKAR +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See GERMANY; ROMANIA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See also ARGENTINA; CHINA; KUWAIT; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ROMANIA; RUSSIA; UNIDENTIFIED 9540 Re Radio World article on DRM, Ken Zichi opines: As CURRENTLY implemented by SW broadcasters, DRM doesn't work out- side a 'regional' audience. You need a steady s/n of 19-21 dB for it to decode a 64-QAM Mode A or Mode B signal. That just isn't realistic for SW. By comparison, a s/n ratio of 13 dB is considered by most to be 'fair to good' reception & is easily understandable in standard analog AM. In Mode C 16-QAM, a decode is mostly possible with a s/n of about 14 dB, but most broadcasters haven't 'figured that out yet' & insist on the higher data rates & stereo 'FM like' sound the 64 QAM allows them to broadcast. MY reaction is a great sounding signal that skips and doesn't decode is not superior to a fair sounding signal that decodes and can be understood. But that could just be me. I don't know; which of these two lines provides you useful infor- mation: 64 QAM decode: 1) This is ... See. Analog decode: 2) This is World Service of the BBC. They 'say' there is no interference. That is true. The problem is there is no reception either. Just as ATSC [DTV] doesn't work in 'grade B signal areas' neither does high data rate DRM. The mode allows for backing off the data rate. Station techs haven't figured out they should do that, though. Don't get me wrong. I strongly feel that if used appropriately, DRM could work. The problem is that it isn't being used appropriately for 'average Joe' [or Josephine] to receive things. As it is, it is a great way to feed a relay site, which has professional grade antennas and receiving equipment. It is a really poor way to get programming 'the last mile' into people's homes unless and until the 'fetish' for high quality audio in stereo with multiple streams and data channels is addressed. And the POINT is that DRM actually DOES provide 'error tolerant' modes, UNLIKE DMR, Sirius or IBLOCK. The problem is that the station techs don't want to use those error tolerant modes (like Mode C, Mode D or even Mode E) and the more 'spaced out' constellations like 16-QAM or 4-QAM are apparently like Kryptonite to them. See https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_es/201900_201999/201980/03.02.01_60/es_201980v030201p.pdf for a run-down of the specs and the various different modes. I'll see if I can't scare up a more 'consumer friendly' explanation of the various modes, but Paul, you'll appreciate this one even if it is a bit dense in the technicalese! The bottom line is that IF they would use lower bit-rate codecs & more interference tolerant encoding schemes, DRM might actually work on SW. As it is, they are letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. So no, DRM is not like Sirius, iBLOCK or DMR or even like ATSC 1.0. It actually COULD work in the real world (I think!) but the stations are too stubborn to try it. Well, that & the fact that there are so few radios out there other than SDRs that can receive it. [what is DMR?? Digital Mobile Radio amongst hams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_mobile_radio --- gh] And Paul Dobosz’ 14-cents worth: It's no different that XM Sirius & DMR digital radio formats. When it's good, it's good; when it's not, it's MIA. I have XM Sirius in both of my current vehicles & suffer dropouts as I drive though heavily wooded areas and behind tall buildings. (No terrestrial repeaters in this area). DMR is gaining traction on the 70cm ham band & I've been fairly active with that as well. All is well until the BER [something error rate? gh] starts climbing or there is packet loss somewhere in the network then it all falls apart. You either get a distorted squawking sound or holes in the transmission. The NBFM analog signals might have been scratchy, but at least you could pick out what they were saying. In addition to the technical downside of DRM, there was also the lack of low cost reception devices (kinda the same issue with iBAC) I refuse to call it in-band-on-channel since as it is implemented, it's really In Band ADJACENT CHANNELS. The signals are transmitted to an almost non-existent audience. Not a quantum improvement over FM & not really workable on AM. Add that to dropouts & fade to analog and having to sync the digital & analog & you have a clustercoitus. It's a solution out looking for a problem. Old fashioned FM had the ability to add metadata & two additional streams to the analog signal so no real advantage for HD there, either. On AM the noise floor has become troublesome, but the FCC has done the broadcasters no favor there by giving them a Mini FM to keep them from bitching too much. Opening up the bandwidth & filling the full 10 kHz channel instead of the crappy NRSC mask would be a good starter. If you can't eliminate the noise, then overpower it by allowing AM's to fill their envelope and to boost power to cover the noise level. As you can see, you opened Pandora's box & jerked my chain. Give me the days of AM stereo signals that sounded very mellow & easy on the ears. Not probably the venue for a symphony but for popular music, it sounds damn good, done right. OK, I’ll hop off of my soapbox. One side note; I'm now designing transmitting antennas for AM broadcast stations. They're not used as a primary but serve as a standby when they need to do work on the tower or after a natural disaster wipes out the primary antenna. The first one will be installed in about 2 weeks in Norfolk VA for WJOI-AM 1230 kHz. They are currently using a shunt-fed grounded antenna tower with a skirt (Gamma match) feeder to the tower. The FM tower has become structurally unsafe & will be torn down & replaced. During the replacement period the station will be using the antenna I designed to broadcast at about half their licensed power to allow crews to work on the new tower while the station continues to operate. I've been designing a full line of mid power (100-500 Watt) reduced size AUX/STA antennas for AM broadcast and have about doubled the radiation efficiency of the previously available designs for a compact antenna that can withstand hurricane force winds. My retirement gig has been fun and I have recently designed or re-designed at least 3 products for two clients that supply the TIS/HAR, Part 15 & AM Broadcast industry. Feels good to still be able to crank out the equations & design stuff that works in my mid 70's. Hopefully it keeps senility at bay (MARE Tipsheet Aug 31 via DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ EVACUATION OF ISWBC BANDS Hello, Glenn: I can remember in the early 1990's every frequency was filled with international broadcasters; now fewer and fewer are staying around, and just background noise from electronic devices (Richard Lemke, Alberta, Sept 5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) NO ONE PAYING ATTENTION TO THEIR OWN STATIONS [Re: Multiple 3ABN channels on K17JN-D] Jim, Glenn & Trip, I have come across a number of local FM translators that have distorted, missing audio or two adjacent off air FM signals being rebroadcast. I find it interesting to see how long it takes for someone to correct the problem. There is supposed to be someone monitoring these signals and is getting paid to do it, but it doesn't seem to be getting done. One translator for K-Love ran the audio of both 88.1 WRGN and 88.3 WLKA (the K-Love signal) from May 2017 through late July 2018. The WLKA signal was being received off the air for rebroadcast by the translator. In late July 2018 the translator went off the air due to strong thunder storms. When it came back on the air, the audio feed was finally corrected. A translator for WRGN on 90.5 was off the air for many weeks and no one apparently knew about it. After I mentioned it to another DXer, he contacted someone who knew who to contact at WRGN. They checked it and put it back on the air. There was a translator for WPXZ 105.9 that was rebroadcasting distorted audio for weeks. That wasn't corrected until I mentioned it to someone at the local LP station who knew the engineer that was supposed to be monitoring it. You would think that someone should be monitoring the broadcasts of K17JN-D, but they may not be paying attention to it (Bob Seaman, Hazleton, PA, Aug 30, WTFDA gg via DXLD) NATIONAL NC-183D RESTORATION UPDATE [continued] Guyz, Made more progress on the 1952 National NC-183D yesterday. Got the rest of the tubes that I didn't have so now the radio has all new old stock tested tubes including an excellent pair of GE 6V6GT push pull output tubes. Radio now operates as it should with an accurate S meter. WXGR 540 "The Goat" comes in as well as it does on the Flex and WDGY 740 sounds great with full audio. And, I haven't even aligned it yet! What’s really cool is that the NC-183D was $369.50 in 1952 before I was born. That’s $3577.47 in today’s dollars, so a lot of hams in the 50's had deep pockets for just the receiver. Transmitters were less expensive than receivers but you still needed one. My EAC 1967 contract R-390A sold for $1700 to the public in 1970 which is $11,241.51 today. I compare that receiver development as the ultimate in tube technology to the Douglas DC-7C or the Lockheed Constellation as the ultimate piston engine airplane technology. It's great fun to get this old technology up and running. 73, (Paul W0AD Staupe, Minnetonka, Aug 31, Minnesota DXC yg via DXLD) Paul, Do you have the “wand” to align the coils? I never had one to do a proper alignment on mine so I left it. Fortunately, the radio is very selective and sensitive the way it is so I left it alone out of fear of only making it worse. Best regards, (Pete KC0VSW Reiter, Sent from my iPhone, ibid.) Good point, Pete! I had one but I'll bet it got lost in the move, so I ordered a set on eBay for $6.99 including shipping. Do a search for Velleman VTPT 6-PC PLASTIC TUNING NEEDLE SET. You're right, I'm so pleased with the performance right now that I hate to touch it, but it's good to learn how to do it. My treble-bass control doesn't do too much although it does work somewhat. Does yours? Best regards, (Paul W0AD, ibid.) The Rohde & Schwarz EK-07 receiver should be part of any discussion about the ultimate in tube communications receivers. It was built to the standards of very high grade test equipment. It was a beast, both physically larger than the R-390A, and weighed 146 lbs. There were articles about it in the January 2000 and February 2014 issues of Electric Radio. The National FRR-59A was envisioned to replace the R-390A. The beast weighed about 250 lbs. It was not a successful receiver. There were serious reliability issues due to the complexity and heat which was generated. It was probably an over-reach for vacuum tube technology. 73 (John KC0G crabtreejr, ibid.) I agree wholeheartedly with John; The EK-07 is definitely more advanced than the R-390A. I should have prefaced my note by saying "in my experience..." I think the National FRR-59A was housed in a 6' relay rack as I remember. BTW, after a few months at the new house, we're all moved in so hope to see everyone at the next meeting. 73, (Paul W0AD Staupe, ibid.) Sunday 9-1-19 --- From the Sublime (Paul's fine receiver) to the ridiculous (the one mentioned here) Saturday I got an RRS RS-905 AM/FM/SW1/SW2 radio. It is 7.5"W x 4"H x 2"D. It is wide enough that it won't tip over in normal use. The antenna is 23" long. SW coverage is 3.2-10.0 MHz and 10.0-22.0 MHz. It is an analog receiver and the frequency readout accuracy is, well, not so much. But what does one expect for an inexpensive radio? It runs on either 2 D batteries, or a built-in (not user accessible) rechargeable battery, charged via a USB-mini cord. I tried it out on SW about 8 pm Saturday evening, tuning up the dial. I heard WRMI's broadcast of World Adventist Radio's DX program, in which the program host at 0113 GMT Sunday, was talking with a former MDXC club member and President - Kim Andrew Elliot! - Nice inauguration of my new radio! Experimenting with antenna length, I found that I could receive the broadcast well with the antenna fully retracted! Since I didn't know the frequency, I turned on the Tecsun PL-380 to help identify it, which turned out to be 5850. Reception on the PL-380 was about the same as on the RS-905. Not bad for a new-in-the-box radio that costs a mere $10! (Ted Holman, ibid.) Paul, Sadly, its been quite a while since I turned it on so I don’t remember how well the tone control worked on that radio. As I recall mine was a more trebelly sounding radio in the stock configuration. That is fine with me because it helps me to id weak signals better. Eric and I modified my 183 non-D for more bass by playing with cap values in the final audio amp. That tone control worked pretty well as I recall. As a result, my non-D sounds better with a clear signal but the D is a way better performing radio with regards to both sensitivity and selectivity. I did try to align the non-D after rebuild and was unsuccessful. I couldn’t get one of the adjustments to peak. It would only plateau. This was another reason for leaving the D alignment alone. One more thing I just remembered. I love these radios because they are relatively easy to work on and they work wonderfully when done correctly. But National used resistors that are extremely prone to drifting after a while.. I had to recheck and replace some more of these resistors during and after the initial burn in. Something you might want to check on your radio. Meanwhile, I’m glad you’re enjoying your “new” radio. 73, (Pete KC0VSW Reiter, Sent from my iPhone, ibid.) Thanks Peter for the info. I have gone through several listening sessions and it does appear as though the tone control is better now but it’s still not bassy enough. I’m using a Jenson 400 ohm speaker that I saved from my SP 400 that was a basket case. I might try to get an eight ohm two way speaker and see how that sounds. I was glad to see that all 19 of the problem caps had been replaced and even happier to see that a majority of the resistors were also replaced so the radio is now virtually new. It has the original power transformer and the sages say to keep the 5U4GB rectifier in there rather than solid-state it because the transformer heats up even more due to the sharp square wave cut off of SS rectifiers so I am considering putting a whisper fan on the back just to keep things cooler. 73, (Paul Staupe, ibid.) What’s cool about this receiver is that it has provisions for both 400 and 8 ohm speakers, so you’re right! (Staupe, ibid.) The matching speaker from National was 8 ohms (Peter Reiter, Sent from my iPhone, ibid.) IIRC, I think that is supposed to be an 8 ohm speaker. That said, my rememberer isn’t what it used to be.😁 (Reiter, Sent from my iPhone, ibid.) LOW RF NOISE LED LIGHTS? Budget is very tight here. A couple of years ago, my wife and I converted all the lights in the house from CFB to LED and the savings on our monthly bill have been significant. $22 dollars a month on average. The downside is that the LED bulbs put out a lot of noise on LF, MW, and HF. A few months ago, I saw a thread about some LED bulbs that were ham-radio friendly, putting out considerably less EMI than other bulbs. Alas, the link was broken. Has anyone found an LED light bulb that is radio-friendly? If you have links to directly purchase them, even better. Thanks in advance. 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, 121 Mayfair Park, Maylene, AL 35114, EM63nf, Sept 5, nrc-am gg via DXLD) Les, Please share if you find the Ham Friendly bulbs and a source. Between AM BCB DXing and 160m DXing, I fight noise all the time (Stephen Hawkins NG0G, IRCA iog via DXLD) Les/Stephen, I found this interesting article, showing a very rough comparison of two makes, https://www.hamradio.me/station/led-light-bulbs-make-table-lamps-work.html Then this, offering other advice and products, https://reductionrevolution.com.au/blogs/news-reviews/118469381-possible-solutions-to-led-lights-causing-electromagnetic-interference-emf-rf Then this, but looks expensive and industrial, https://www.omegashielding.com/ My Google showed other articles from ARRL too but I’m a little short on time today. It’s a start I guess, but I need something a little closer to home (Tom G6PZZ Crosbie, ibid.) I had about 25, 4 tube fluorescent lights, between my shop and garage, with electronic starters. They caused a lot of interference. So about 5 months ago I converted them all over to LED, which ended up to be a big mistake, as they cause even more interference. I tried adding capacitors across the line in each light along with adding FT240-31 ferrite toroids, with as many wraps of wire as I could get on them. The interference was so bad that if the garage lights were on the garage door openers would not work. I finally had to install new receivers, that operated on another frequency, to correct the problem with my garage door openers. I had several conversations with the supplier of the LED bulbs, but he had no solutions to correct the problem. The big problem is all of the LED bulbs are made in China. So if I want to listen to some DX, or work 160 meters I have to make sure the lights are off. So as more and more people change over to LED light replacements, chasing DX may become a thing of the past (Everett N4CY, ibid.) Something else one may be concerned about LED bulbs. The higher the kelvin temperature the more blue light is emitted and that could damage your eyes. A bulb of 2700 K would be a warm temperature and more natural and more safe to use (Roy Barstow - Falmouth, MA, ibid.) I never have liked CFL's or LED's. So I bought up a lot of old [incandescent] bulbs when the change happened back 10 years ago. I continue to use the old bulbs, which I believe Amazon still had some time ago, as I bought a few 75w ones I never had enough of at the time. Also the 3-way bulbs will work and those are still made. A bit more expensive, but they work. I know of a few people around here that have switched over to older bulbs where they can be found. They don't like the light. But of course the old bulbs don't last as long and run the electric bill up a bit, but considering the amount of electronics being run in the average home, a few light bulbs would not make much difference (Patrick Martin, OR, ibid.) Hello Patrick, Over here I can still buy the old style 150 W bulbs from an old style ironmonger near me. The late owner's son carries on the business so should see me to my coffin. They are classified over here for "industrial use". I have only one long life bulb to light the outside of the house. I have no dimmer switches in the property. Yes, it is more expensive, but at 70 years old, DXing is the only thing that keeps me sane, hi! 73s (Barry :-) DAVIES, Carlisle UK. Lat. 55.0119N, Lon. 2.9668W, ibid.) I’ve got four brands around my house: EcoSmart 50-Watt Equivalent PAR20 LED Flood Light Bulb, Bright White Philips LED Non-Dimmable A19 Frosted Light Bulb: 1500-Lumen, 5000- Kelvin, 14-Watt (100-Watt Equivalent), E26 Medium Screw Base Sylvania 60W Equivalent Soft White A19 Non-Dim LED Light Bulb Cree 100W equivalent I haven’t noticed noise from any of them. The Cree and Philips bulbs are about 10 feet away from the Icom R70 in my home office, where I sometimes DX while working. Hope that helps. 73! (Tim Kridel, ibid.) WHY CARS DON’T HAVE THOSE LONG ANTENNAS ANYMORE Jason Torchinsky Yesterday 5:46pm Filed to: explainers Illustration: Jason Torchinsky Have you ever wondered about the length of car antennae? Of course you have — you’re a human being (or advanced AI, or a brain-augmented dolphin) reading this, and as such you’re full of curiosity and wonder and almost crippling physical desires. As such, you’ve likely noticed that many modern cars have dispensed with the tall, thin “whip” antennae of older cars and now have stubby little antennae, or even little shark fin things. Why is this? Why did we use to use such long antennae? Were they all the same length? What changed? Why am I a dolphin reading the internet? Relax. I’m here to help. The antennae I’m going to talk about are the ones most common, still, in cars — radio antennae, designed to pick up (primarily) frequency-modulated (FM) radio signals. Sure, I know you kids with your Spotify and podcasts and Friendster likely don’t listen to the old over-the-air radio as much, but it’s still a thing, and cars still have antennae. . .. [illustrated] https://jalopnik.com/why-cars-dont-have-those-long-antennas-anymore-1837879149/amp (via Andy Reid, Ont., DXLD) YES, LIGHTNING IS NOT A GAME TO PLAY WITH. Last summer the apartment block in which I live received a lightning strike. It destroyed the in-house's cable amplifier which amplifies the signal from the apartment block's parabolic antenna on the roof-top. After that event the near-perfect digital terrestrial television signal became unusable to hear and to see. The amplifier produced frequent dropouts in the signal (around 3-4 per second) which insulted the decoders and the decoder's couldn't put together the image part of the signal. The audio part became also ununderstandable and unlistenable, however, human ear heard that there is a signal, someone talks or music is played. But what they talk or what is the concrete music? Well, this couldn't be figured out, it remained a mystery. But the problems haven't finished yet. I needed a permission from the common representative from the apartment block's board to call a repairman. The first repairman didn't bring an oscilloscope to measure it and talked non-senses like the near-running trolley bus or the 2 tram lines are causing the dropouts. I had to call another one. I told the next repairman that he cannot step over my doorstep without an oscilloscope which displays the signal's form graphically. Then the oscilloscope showed also the dropouts like I said above as he measured it on the amplifier's output. After that the amplifier had to be switched off and removed from the cable; then the signal became normal except the signal level decreased a little bit. Now it became decodable by the decoders and set-top boxes. We use it since then without an amplifier. Fortunately not so many people are using terrestrial digital television this way in the apartment block, so, the signal level is OK. Most of them subscribed to more expensive, real cable television where the best channels are in the most expensive package. I had another, more frightening "meeting" with this natural phenomenon in my teenage years. At that time I was on the countryside (Magyarlak) where they had no cable television at that time (now, it exists), everyone viewed terrestrial analogue television with an antenna, plus we had antennas for analogue radio too. I knew that a storm would come, the antennas were disconnected from the sets, they were grounded: I put the antenna cable's end onto the ground. Then, as the storm developed, once I heard a "ssssrrrrrrr" sound toward the cable, then, some seconds later, a big bang from the sky. The lightning stroke, it went down on the cable into the ground. I was sooooo frightened, I have never heard this type of "ssssrrrrrrr" sound before. I didn't restart connecting back the antennas for hours, it was so scary to me (Tibor Gaal, Budapest, Hungary, WOR iog via DXLD) AIRSPY DISCOVERY+ RECEIVER NEWS --- Check out this link for an early review of the new Aispy Discovery+: https://www.fenu-radio.ch/Airspy_HF-Plus_Discoveryen.htm (Craig Seager, Bathurst NSW, Airspy HF+, JRC NRD-545, Wellbrook Loop, Horizontal Loop, Sept ADXN via DXLD) BORDER FORCE DESTROYS INNOCENT EQUIPMENT A salutary lesson this month on the risks of importing electronic gear from offshore. After waiting almost a month for an Internet Radio (Logitech Squeezebox) to arrive from the UK, the box finally turned up, with a notation that it had been opened by Border Force, the government agency that attempts to stop bad stuff getting into the country. These guys look for drugs, dangerous goods and biosecurity risks, whether arriving by mail or as traveller luggage. The reality show on TV that attempts to capture a “day in the life” can be quite entertaining, and documents gormless visitors trying to bring in all sorts of weird and wonderful things, whether concealed on/in their person, or as part of baggage. Imagine my dismay when the contents of my box actually consisted of a hundred different pieces of smashed plastic and componentry, totally unrepairable, and unrecognisable for what they were assembled. I couldn’t have done a more comprehensive job on it myself with a sledgehammer [illustrated, fancifully?]. A personally written letter at the bottom of the package indicates that it aroused suspicion through the x-ray process, and that a device “appearing to be a radio” may have been damaged during further checks. The understatement of the year! Thank you very much, Peter Dutton. A blind 82-year-old has now been deprived of her only entertainment (too much RFI in the nursing home for a standard radio), until I can source another one of these discontinued models. The Department of Home Affairs doesn’t do subtlety, evidently. JW (presumably Johno Wright, Sept ADXN via DXLD) PROPAGATION :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2019 Sep 02 0207 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 26 August - 01 September 2019 Solar activity was at very low levels. New Region 2748 (N14, L=205, class/area Bxo/010 on 01 Sep) emerged on the disk, but remained quiet and stable. No Earth-directed CMEs were observed. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at moderate levels on 26 Aug, normal levels on 27-30 Aug, high levels on 31 Aug and very high levels on 01 Sep. Electron flux reached a maximum of 53,007 pfu at 01/2015 UTC. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to unsettled levels on 26-27 Aug due to influence from a weak, negative polarity CH HSS. Quiet conditions persisted from late on 27 Aug through midday on 30 Aug. From midday on 30 Aug through 01 Sep, field activity increased to unsettled to G1 (minor) and G2 (moderate) levels as Earth came under the influence of a large, recurrent positive polarity CH HSS. 30 Aug saw a SSBC from a negative to a positive sector in advance of a CIR, all preceding the CH HSS. 31 Aug and 01 Sep observed active to G1 and G2 storm conditions. Wind speeds averaged about 750 km/s during this time frame with a peak of 835 km/s observed early on 01 Sep. Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 02 September - 28 September 2019 Solar activity is expected to be at very low levels. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at high to very high levels on 02-13 Sep and again on 27-28 Sep. Normal to moderate levels are expected on 14-26 Sep. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at G1 (minor) storm levels on 02 Sep and G1 (minor) to G2 (moderate) storm levels on 27-28 Sep due to positive polarity CH HSS influence. Unsettled levels are expected on 03, 07-08, 23, and 26 Sep due to recurrent CH HSS effects. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2019 Sep 02 0207 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 2019-09-02 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2019 Sep 02 68 24 5 2019 Sep 03 68 8 3 2019 Sep 04 68 5 2 2019 Sep 05 68 5 2 2019 Sep 06 68 5 2 2019 Sep 07 68 8 3 2019 Sep 08 68 8 3 2019 Sep 09 68 5 2 2019 Sep 10 67 5 2 2019 Sep 11 67 5 2 2019 Sep 12 67 5 2 2019 Sep 13 67 5 2 2019 Sep 14 67 5 2 2019 Sep 15 67 5 2 2019 Sep 16 67 5 2 2019 Sep 17 67 5 2 2019 Sep 18 67 5 2 2019 Sep 19 67 5 2 2019 Sep 20 67 5 2 2019 Sep 21 67 5 2 2019 Sep 22 67 5 2 2019 Sep 23 68 8 3 2019 Sep 24 68 5 2 2019 Sep 25 68 5 2 2019 Sep 26 68 10 3 2019 Sep 27 68 35 6 2019 Sep 28 68 44 6 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1998, DXLD) ###