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Thanks, Glenn NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRING OF WORLD OF RADIO 1366: ** tentative Wed 0730 WRMI 9955** SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1367: ** tentative Wed 2200 WBCQ 7415 Wed 2300 WBCQ 18910-CLSB or 17495-CLSB Thu 0600 WRMI 9955** Thu 1430 WRMI 7385 Thu 1500 KAIJ 9480 Fri 0630 WRMI 9955** Fri 1030 KAIJ 5755 Fri 1100 WRMI 9955** Fri 2030 WWCR1 15825 Sat 1630 WWCR3 12160 [confirmed July 14] Sat 2130 WRMI 9955 Sun 0230 WWCR3 5070 Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215 Sun 0800 WRMI 9955 Sun 1500 WRMI 7385 Mon 0300 WBCQ 9330-CLSB Mon 0415 WBCQ 7415 [time varies] Mon 0530 WRMI 9955** Mon 0930 WRMI 9955** Tue 1030 WRMI 9955** Wed 0730 WRMI 9955** WORLD OF RADIO, CONTINENT OF MEDIA, MUNDO RADIAL SCHEDULE: Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WRN ON DEMAND: http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24 WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN NOW AVAILABLE: http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/podcast.php OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO [also CONTINENT OF MEDIA, MUNDO RADIAL] http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org SOME THINGS WE DON`T COVER MUCH, not because they aren`t important, but because we have to draw the line somewhere Domestic broadcasting developments in India. Press about this appears constantly on several lists, notably dx_india yg RSL (temporary low-power) stations in the UK. British DX Club keeps track of these. Netherlands` continually evolving domestic radio scene – see the Media Network blog Journalists in trouble, kidnapped or killed, or muzzled – see Reporters Without Borders, etc. Public diplomacy, quarreling over, in US government circles --- see Kim Andrew Elliott blog ** ABKHAZIA. 9494.8, 0416-, Abkhaz Radio, Jun 29. Easy-listening music with a somewhat distorted signal. EZL music. Presumably Abkhazian. Female announcer took a phone call at 0426 with, 'Allo'. Probable ID at 0432 as Apsua Radio. 'Abkhazia' heard with a reverb effect at 0454. By 0500 pretty much impossible to hear due to adjacent channel on 9490 (Volodya Salmaniw, Brody, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9495, 0359-, Apsua Radio, Jul 01. Brief IS, then ID'd as Apsua Radio with muddy but strong audio. The frequency is normally 9494.75 but I was not able to record the frequency any more accurately on the Kaito 1103 (Walt Salmaniw, Transcarpathia, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9495.58, 0510-, Radio Apsua, Jul 04. Abkhazia is normally spot-on 9494.75 and indeed they were there before 0500, but when I rechecked, they had moved up to this frequency. The usual somewhat distorted signal was heard in Russian. Local announcements for Sochi heard at 0607, and weather at 0609. Always a fascinating station to monitor with their old 5 kw jamming transmitter. They sure could use cleaner modulation, though! (Volodya Salmaniw, Kremenchuk, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9495, 0458-, Apsua Radio, Jul 06. Luhansk region in Ukraine is much closer to Abkhazia than the other areas I monitored. Reception was good, with a jingle ID for 'Apsua Radio'. Suffered from 9490 splatter from 0500. Russian ads at 0502, but seemingly off at 0504 (Walt Salmaniw, Luhansk, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AFGHANISTAN. 6700, 14/7 2325, R. Solh, Bagram Air Base, Pashto, MX, buono (Roberto Pavanello, Vercelli - Italia, shortwave yg via DXLD) ** AFGHANISTAN. TALIBAN RADIO BACK ON AIR From our ANI Correspondent http://www.dailyindia.com/show/157671.php/Taliban-Radio-back-on-air Kabul, July 16: Taliban's official mouthpiece, Radio Voice of Shariat has been launched again in southern Afghanistan. Locals and authorities have that the broadcasting in the southern provinces has begun. Radio Voice of Shariat signal is available in the provinces of Paktia, Paktika and Khost. Taliban controlled the Afghanistan Radio and TV when they captured Kabul In June 1996. They took the TV off the air and blasted the uplink dishes. their main objection was the appearance of female artists on the TV which they declared anti-Islamic. Broadcasting was restricted to Radio on MW and FM . Playing music and broadcasting female sounds was stopped. The name of the Radio Afghanistan was also changed to Radio Voice of Shariat. Radio Voice of Shariat went off the air and Radio Afghanistan regained its existence after September 11 when the Northern Alliance forces, backed by the US and the allies captured Kabul in 2001. And Radio Afghanistan started its broadcasting. According to locals in the southern provinces bordering Pakistan, the renewed Taliban programmes are heard every night from an unknown place on FM band, which can be heard for over a week. Most of their programmes are propaganda against the Karzai Government and international forces based in Afghanistan. Their propaganda calls the country 'occupied' and they encourage the people to fight against the Government and international forces. Parts of the programme are messages of Mullah Mohammad Omar, the Taliban leader that provokes people for Jihad. Radio Voice of Shariat do broadcast songs, but without music, the same music which was heard during the times when Afghanistan was under their control. The songs do have music; are more provocative and remind the people of Taliban as a good period of their rule. In the songs the Taliban played during their time of rule, the Northern Alliance was described as un-Islamic, and fighting them was called the holy war. The Taliban used to distribute letters throughout the night, dropping them in the front of house doors, throwing them inside shops, hanging them on walls and especially in mosques. As long as Radio Shariat broadcasts, they are able to have easy access to people, and this will make it easier too for them to reach people and harass them. Without doubt they're getting more powerful day by day, now that they launched a mobile FM radio that makes it difficult to trace the place from where they are broadcasting. This, surely is just one of the signs of their gaining ground (via Zacharias Liangas, DXLD) Songs w/out music? Same: http://www.newkerala.com/july.php?action=fullnews&id=46957 Regards & 73's (via Mukesh Kumar, The Cosmos Club, Muzaffarpur, INDIA, and via Jaisakthivel, DXLD) ** ALBANIA. 7425, 0245-, Radio Tirana, Jul 01. Excellent reception of the English North American service. // 6115 also very good (Walt Salmaniw, Transcarpathia, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13750, 1315-, Radio Tirana, Jul 07. Excellent reception in English to North America. Can't hear them at this time on the WCNA, though (Walt Salmaniw, Luhansk, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 15344v, R. Nacional, with relay of R. Nacional de Santa Fe (LRA14), 0001-0111 July 16, many IDs for R. Nacional de Santa Fe; LA vocals, ballads, several Bob Dylan songs, tango music, classical music, jazz, etc.; segments of what seemed to be Lotto Bingo (sound of numbers tumbling in the background, with OM & YL calling out numbers) and also the Lotería Nacional (also giving out many numbers), good- fair (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15344.11, RAE, 1823-1854, 7/13/07. Good-poor in rapid fading with English service to Europe. Music of Argentina, tourist information, economic news, DX program (1838-1845), ID-IS sequence beginning at 1854. First time I've heard RAE on this frequency. 15344.11, R. Nacional (Buenos Aires), 2201, 7/14/07. Fair in Spanish with "Argentina Informes"; Radio Nacional Buenos Aires ID at 2203 (Jim Ronda, Tulsa OK, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) Amazing --- on exactly same frequency 27+ hours apart! (gh, Enid, DXLD) ** ASCENSION [non]. Re Wind power (Ascension, DXLD 7-078 and 7-079) Three even more impressive figures for nominal powers of installed wind turbines: In Germany 20,622 MW, in Spain 11,615 MW, third one are the USA with 11,603 MW. State of the art for general power generation purposes are today 2 MW turbines, and the largest one introduced to the market by now is a 6 MW model. "Nominal power" refers to the full output which requires wind forces of 6...7 Bft. Reduced power operation starts already at 2...3 Bft, though. Here is a presentation of a complete solution to introduce wind power into island grids, step by step until "diesels off" becomes the regular operational condition of the system: http://www.enercon.de/de/inselnetzsystem.htm (Kai Ludwig, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Right now at 0825 UT, 4835 Alice Springs and 4910 Tennant Creek coming in nicely except there is plenty of static around. Currently hearing ABC with sports commentary on both; actually my first time logging these stations on these frequencies. Using my Redsun RP2100 connected with my outdoor 100 ft dipole antenna (Ray Kelly, Halifax, NS, Canada, July 15, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) And both are supposed to switch to 120m at 0830, so just before then should be optimum time to DX them on 60m (gh, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. Radio Australia - as at June 8, 2007. Subject to change 5995 0900 1100 Brandon Tok Pisin CPac/SPac 5995 1100 1200 Brandon English CPac/SPac 5995 1200 1400 Brandon English (DRM) As 5995 1400 1800 Shepparton English CPac/SPac 6020 0900 1100 Shepparton Tok Pisin CPac/SPac 6020 1100 1400 Shepparton English CPac/SPac 6080 1400 1800 Shepparton English WPac 6080 1800 2000 Shepparton English WPac 6080 2000 2100 Shepparton English WPac (Sa/Su) 6080 2000 2100 Shepparton Tok Pisin WPac (Mo-Fr) 7240 1400 1700 Shepparton English As 7240 1800 2000 Shepparton English WPac 7240 2000 2100 Shepparton English WPac (Sa/Su) 7240 2000 2100 Shepparton Tok Pisin WPac (Mo-Fr) 9475 1100 1300 Shepparton English As 9475 1300 1430 Shepparton Mandarin As 9475 1430 1900 Shepparton English As 9500 1900 2200 Shepparton English As 9560 1100 1400 Shepparton English WPac 9580 0800 1400 Shepparton English CPac/SPac 9580 1700 2000 Shepparton English CPac/SPac 9590 0800 1600 Shepparton English CPac/SPac 9625 1400 1600 Shepparton English As 9660 2300 0800 Brandon English WPac 9660 2100 2200 Brandon English WPac 9660 2200 2300 Brandon BBC English WPac 9710 0700 0900 Shepparton English WPac 9710 0900 1100 Shepparton Tok Pisin WPac 9710 1600 2000 Shepparton English WPac 9785 2200 2330 Darwin Indonesian As 11550 0400 0430 Taipei Indonesian As 11550 2200 2330 Taipei Indonesian As 11650 2000 2200 Shepparton English WPac 11660 1300 1430 Shepparton Mandarin As 11660 1430 1700 Shepparton English As 11660 2000 2200 Shepparton English WPac 11695 2100 2200 Shepparton English As 11695 2200 2330 Shepparton Indonesian As 11745 0500 0530 Taipei Indonesian As 11825 1300 1430 Darwin Mandarin As 11840 2200 0000 Darwin English As 11880 0900 1300 Shepparton English WPac 11880 1700 2100 Shepparton English CPac/SPac 12080 1100 1200 Brandon English WPac (DRM) 12080 2300 1200 Brandon English CPac/SPac 12080 2000 2200 Brandon English CPac/SPac 12080 2200 2300 Brandon BBC English WPac 13630 0700 0900 Shepparton English As 13630 2100 2300 Shepparton English CPac/SPac 13690 2300 0700 Shepparton English WPac 15180 0000 0030 Darwin Indonesian As 15180 0400 0430 Darwin Indonesian As 15180 0500 0530 Darwin Indonesian As 15180 0600 0630 Darwin Indonesian As (M-F) 15230 2200 0000 Shepparton English As 15240 0000 0800 Shepparton English CPac/SPac 15240 2200 2330 Taipei English As 15290 0600 0630 Taipei Indonesian As (M-F) 15290 0600 0630 Taipei English As (Sa/Su 15335 0000 0030 Taipei Indonesian As 15415 2330 0000 Shepparton English As 15415 0000 0030 Shepparton Indonesian As 15415 0030 0400 Shepparton English As 15415 0400 0430 Shepparton Indonesian As 15415 0430 0500 Shepparton English As 15415 0500 0530 Shepparton Indonesian As 15415 0530 0600 Shepparton English As 15415 0600 0630 Shepparton English As(Sa/Su) 15415 0600 0630 Shepparton Indonesian As (Mo-Fr) 15415 0630 1100 Shepparton English As 15415 2200 2330 Shepparton Indonesian As 15515 0200 0700 Shepparton English CPac/SPac 15515 2100 2300 Shepparton English CPac/SPac 17715 0000 0200 Shepparton English WPac 17750 2330 0100 Shepparton English As 17775 0000 0130 Darwin English As 17785 2200 0000 Shepparton English CPac/SPac 17795 2300 0200 Shepparton English CPac/SPac 21725 0200 0500 Shepparton English Wpac (we) (Walter Eibl, DX Magazine, July, WWDXC via Michael Bethge, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 13680, 0520-, CVC International, Jun 27. An interesting clash on this frequency with two stations virtually at equal strength. First is CVC with the 'Scope' program from Australia in English, and also RFI in English (direct from France?) to Africa with mostly news about Zimbabwe. Both were heard at good level (Walt Salmaniw, Gdynia, Poland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA. Re 7-082: ÁUSTRIA – A Rádio Áustria Internacional sofrerá um corte em seu orçamento previsto para 2008. Uma fonte ligada àquela emissora negou que a economia seria feita parando as emissões em ondas curtas (Célio Romais, Brasil, Panorama, @tivade DX July 15 via DXLD) ** BAHAMAS. BIG E Skip Opening FLA & BAHAMAS >>>>> ONTARIO --- Tons of Florida and Power 104.5 ZNS-FM Nassau BAHAMAS at 1030 EDT (Robert S. Ross, VA3SW, London, Ontario, CANADA, July 14, ODXA via DXLD) 104.5 ZNS was a fantastic station that I really enjoyed during my visit to the Bahamas. I can't remember the dj's names, but it was two guys and a lady. I would have to listen to my recordings. Their slogan was "rrrrrrrrrockin' the tower with the power hour 104.5" the word "hour" was pronounced very long and drawn out "hhhouuuuuwwwwwwaaa aaaaaaaaa". They had the accent and all. Excellent programming those days when I was there (Steve Price, Johnstown, PA, ibid.) I did POSITIVELY hear 104.5 ZNS-FM Nassau, BAHAMAS at 1030 EDT with Local Ads for the Bahamas. Int'l Tourist Hand Bag Sale. Male DJ with a Caribe Accent and ID's as "POWER 104.5". This too is a RELOG!! (Robert S. Ross, VA3SW, London, Ontario, ibid.) ** BAHRAIN. 9745, 0510-, Radio Bahrain, Jul 04. I've finally heard this station! No doubt it was them, but unfortunately they seem to never ID. I never did hear 6010, but 9745U came in at good level. Initially at fair level, but steadily improving. Nonstop Arabic music. No IDs noted and no announcement/time pips/IS at 0600. Occasionally marred by a bubble/gurgling sound which is intermittent... ?OTH radar, or digital data transmission of some sort? Wish they'd ID! (Volodya Salmaniw, Kremenchuk, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. 7390, 2000-, Radio Station Belarus, Jun 23. Very good reception with sign-on in English as, 'You are listening to Radio Station Belarus', and then into the news (Walt Salmaniw, Gdynia, Poland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7105, 1950-, Radio Station Belarus, Jun 28. Excellent reception in Polish, then into English at 2000. // 7390 almost as strong, while 7440, although equally strong, but much lower in modulation and with some hum. This was my first logging from Ukraine. In this case, near Brody a small city to the east of Ukraine's western capital of Lviv. After this batch, we left for the Carpathian mountains which I'll report next (Volodya Salmaniw, Brody, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6010, 0437-, Belarussian Radio domestic services, Jul 04. I did a bandscan of the Belarussian radio transmitters and found the situation much as it had been last summer. This is what's heard: 6010 BR1 Brest 5 kW (fair to good), 6070 BR1 Brest 5 kW (poor to fair with lots of splatter), 6080 BR1 Minsk 150 kW (good to very good), 6115 BR1 Minsk 75 kW (good), 7110 BR1 Hrodna 5 kW (good to excellent), 11930 BR1 Minsk ?75 kW (poor with het). BR1 presented the weather at 0440, and then ads (Reklama), followed by multiple IDs for 'Radio Facts' or 'Fax' --- I'm not sure which. BR2 is solely represented by 7265 Hrodna 5 kW at good level (Volodya Salmaniw, Kremenchuk, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BHUTAN. Een van de meest indrukwekkende stations Dx is nog altijd, Radio Bhutan, Thimpu op 6035. Vanaf 0001 UT was de ontvangst hier tot zeergoed tenoemen; op de zelfde freq. zit ook LV Guaviare, Colombia. Het program van radio Bhutan opend zich met echte monniken muziek op blaasinstrumenten, met af en toe niks tehoren (meditatie) of soms met lichte stem van een monnik, gevolgt met blaasinstrumenten. Om 0020 hoorde ik niks meer. Ik heb ook een opname van 5 min. Gr (Maurits van Driessche, Belgium, July 15, BDX via DXLD) His 5-minute clip is in the DXLD yg; other-worldly sounds from the wind instruments, introduced as follows (gh) Hier heb ik een opname gemaakt van radio Bhutan, Thimpu op 6035, om 0003 UT 15/7. De opname duurt 5 min. Omdat er veel stille momenten inzitten (meditatie ) zelfde freq. is LV Guaviare Colombia = QRM. Je hoort duidelijk de blaasinstrumenten Gr (Maurits van Driessche, Belgium, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4650.2, Radio Santa Ana, Santa Ana del Yacuma, 2218-2235, 12-07, música boliviana, locutor, locutora, comentarios en español. Señal muy débil, audible en LSB. 14321. 4716.7, Radio Yura, Yura, 2217-2225, 09-07, canciones bolivianas. Señal muy débil. 14321. 5952.5, Radio Pio XII, Siglo XII, 2208-2240, 09-07, canciones y música boliviana, locutor, comentarios: "la calidad educativa", identificación: "Radio Pio XII, un recorrido por los municipios de Bolivia", anuncios comerciales en español y quechua: "Cooperativa veterinaria", "Ferretería Lima, Llallaguas", "Radio Pio XII, las seis de la tarde con treinta y un minutos". 23222 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, escuchas realizadas en Camping de Reinante, provincia de Lugo, Mar Cantábrico, Grundig Satellit 500 y Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Antena de cable, 10 metros, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. July 13th 0900 to 1110 --- Bolivian reception is generally good from 0900 to 1030 when the fade begins with most stations fading out by 1105. Thus a station signing on at 1115 would not be heard at this QTH (Robert Wilkner, FL, @tividade DX via DXLD) ** BULGARIA. 9900, 2100-, Radio Varna, Jun 24. Jingle ID for Radio Varda, and a time check for 23:00 in Bulgarian, then into news. Good to very good reception (Walt Salmaniw, Gdynia, Poland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 7335, 0308-, CHU, Jun 25. One of few time signal stations heard in Europe. I never did hear WWV or WWVH. CHU was heard weakly under cochannel Vatican Radio in Ukrainian which itself was heard at fair to good level (Walt Salmaniw, Gdynia, Poland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [and non]. July 17 at 0625 I was pleased to hear CHU in the clear on 7335, no WHRI collision as had been the case for months starting at 0600. Did WHRI finally relent? Next time I woke up, at 1050, checked again, and nothing but gospel music heard on 7335. Perhaps a fluke; WHR online schedule still shows 7335 in use at 0600- 1100. At 0625, WHRI was also on 7365 and WHRA 7490 as usual with different programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 13760, 1815-, CRI, Jun 23. I was looking for Pyongyang, but instead heard CRI in English with an armchair 5-5-5 copy. CRI is heard everywhere in Europe, across all bands, and usually at very strong and local levels. I'd swear they were transmitting from across the street. One of few broadcasters dominating the spectrum. I never did hear Pyongyang during my 3 week European stay (Walt Salmaniw, Gdynia, Poland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) As I already wrote in the initial discussion about the current shortwave usage by Voice of Russia: Once it was Radio Moscow, now it is China Radio International. The new Thomson facilities near Kashi produce signals that can be mistaken for European transmitters. Pyongyang is during the evenings no problem on the lower frequencies here, in particular on 9325 (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) ** CHINA. Re 7-082: By co-channel do you mean two different transmissions at the same time now on 1323 from the same site? I recall that this was axually done intentionally on some MW frequency over there using highly direxional antennas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Co-channel of course means using the same frequency and only that. The site for the Russian transmission so far is unknown, but must be in the same general region as the site for the Korean transmissions (early fade-in noted by Mauno using a web receiver in Japan). (Olle Alm, Sweden, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. Sound of Hope on 145XX kHz has been swinging around on 14520, 14530, 14550, 14470 and today is on 14410, so is closing in on the ham band. The 181XX kHz transmitter on the other hand has reverted to 18180 outside the ham band. 13970, 10300 and 9200 seem to be stable (Olle Alm, Sweden, July 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Looked for Firedrake against Sound of Hope, July 16 at 1354 from 14200 to 14600 but did not hear any while it was audible on 13970. Checked again July 17 at 1425 and did not find it anywhere between 14000 and 15000 altho audible on 13970 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CROATIA. Hi, all! Just received the enclosed e-mail from Voice of Croatia. Thought you might be interested! -- Dave Askine ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:09:56 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Voice of Croatia From: Majda.Ivkovic @ hrt.hr Dear Mr Askine, Due to a technical error, you have not been allowed to e-mail reception reports to The Voice of Croatia. We have solved that problem so from now on you may freely contact us! Our e-mail address is: voiceofcroatia @ hrt.hr Thank you very much for being with The Voice of Croatia! Best regards, Editor-in-Chief Zlatko Kureti´c [sic] (via Dave Askine, July 17, DXLD) ** CROATIA [non]. CROÁCIA VIA ALEMANHA – Para quem aprecia ou deseja conhecer a música croata, uma dica é sintonizar a Voz da Croácia, que possui fácil recepção, na América do Sul, entre 2200 e 2300, pela freqüência de 9925 kHz. Na primeira meiahora, há uma emissão em inglês, intitulada Croácia Today. Já na segunda, vai ao ar uma emissão em espanhol, chamada Croácia Hoy. Entretanto, entre o boletim informativo, que geralmente possui 15 minutos de duração, a estação irradia muita música croata. A Voz da Croácia retransmite sua programação em ondas curtas utilizando um relay de Jülich, na Alemanha (Célio Romais, Brasil, Panorama, @tivade DX July 15 via DXLD) ** CUBA. Re 9570 CRI relay vs R. Australia [Previous discussion of this topic was under CHINA non]. Hi Andy, Wonder if you have checked 9570 vs RA the last few days? It`s off and on, but when on it sounds better-modulated to me. Hard to tell here whether the spurs have been suppressed. 73, (Glenn, OK, to Andy Reid, Ont., via DXLD) Hi Glenn, You`re right - somewhat. Things have seem to be improved re CRI 9570 but not fully. The white noise that was emanating from Cuba has been suppressed but it is still there. It is weaker than before. Also, the spurs at 13 & 19 kHz from the fundamental, are also down. All in all, maybe 1 -2 dB? So, I wonder was has been going on? Transmitter retuning? Cleaning up the filtering? You have noticed 9570 off for periods last week. I noted they went off Jul 14 at 1220 UT for a few minutes. Why would they do this sort of work during production hours? [sporadic breakdown? gh] The situation is better but not perfect. I suspect that when RA is weaker, the Cuban will still give it some grief. For instance, yesterday July 14, 9580 was putting in a strong signal here in Ontario. There was not much of a problem other than some 10 kHz splash. Today, 9580 is weaker and there was noticeable white noise again under 9580. RA 9560: though more of a DX catch, it comes in fine until CRI starts. Much noise comes on the frequency. But why park this big transmitter beside a long established frequency/broadcast? If any one *may* be interested, there are other clear frequencies available. I notice that frequencies between 9675 - 9710, except 9705, are all clear between 12-14 UT. 31 metres will propagate though more in the darker months. Looking at last winter`s PWBR, I should think the following should work for CRI/Cuba year around, without causing interference to other broadcasters: 9685, 9695, 9700, 9710 (Andy Reid, Ont., July 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Well, I would hate to see 9690 India blocked at 1330-1500, certainly not for us but SE Asia, sometimes listenable here winterly. CRI relay still testing 9570 transmitter, July 13 at 1424, very strong carrier with trace of modulation, but that may have been receiver crosstalk from KAIJ 9480; no spurs detectable against R. Australia frequencies; then tone-test on and off until 1427* on 9570 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DJIBOUTI. DJIBUTI – A Rádio Djibuti foi captada, em Veranópolis (RS), pelo colunista, em oito de julho, às 0304, pela freqüência de 4780 kHz. Naquele momento, levava ao ar a leitura do Corão em árabe. O sinal era excelente (Célio Romais, Brasil, Panorama, @tivade DX July 15 via DXLD) 4780, RTV Djibouti, 0303, 7/12/07. Fair-poor with Kor`an chanting; man speaking in Arabic at 0312 recheck (Jim Ronda, Tulsa OK, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) 4780, Radiodiffusion Télévision Djibouti, *0300-0326, 7/14/07, opening music followed by a man announcer with ID and announcements in Arabic. Another man followed with a recitation from the Qur`an. After another ID at 0312 another man began a long talk. Fair to good (Rich D'Angelo, PA, ibid.) ** ECUADOR. I finally managed to copy the text of the quotation from Albert Einstein which HCJB broadcasts every day along with its totally incorrect frequency announcement in Spanish at 1359:30 UT on 11960 claiming to be on 11760, 9745: ``El hombre encuentra a dios detrás de cada puerta que la ciencia no puede abrir``. Cop-out. Fortunately, AE was a bit better with math. Here`s a long string of AE quotations, in English, but searching them on keyword `door` only finds one, and not that one HCJB uses: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/albert_einstein.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, Radio Africa (Bata), 0955-1100, 7/13/07. Much stronger here at the seacoast than 12 miles inland. Noted with The Christ Gospel Broadcast at 0955, Nice ID by OM in English at 1057, then into another canned Christian program (Chris Lobdell, Baker`s Island, Salem harbor, MA, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Now every day of the week is accounted for on the 15260 1600-1700 UT transmission, per TDP SW Airtime sked http://www.airtime.be/schedule.html Zena Tewahedo the Ligament Holy Synod of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Exile 1600-1700 15260 AM m...... Amharic Africa Radio Xoriyo Ogadenia 1600-1630 15260 AM .t...s. Somali Africa Andenet Ledemocracy 1600-1700 15260 AM ..w.f.s Amharic Africa EPPF Radio 1600-1700 15260 AM ...t... Amharic Africa (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. On Friday evening UT, RFI broadcast a live Paris concert featuring Johnny Clegg, Alpha Blondie and other African musicians performing before an estimated 100,000 people. I didn't catch the start, but coverage was uninterrupted for news between 2010 and the 2200 end of the program. This was the first time since twice-hourly newscasts began on RFI years ago that I heard them skipped in favor of long-form programming. How nice it was! (Mike Cooper, GA, Jul 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GABON. 17660 Jul 13 1321-1350 France: Voice of Africa (Afropop Station) - Issoudun. Music Program, not Afropop today, melodic and religious music type in French, SINPO 55444 (captaciones, [reporter otherwise unID], HCDX Online log via DXLD) Afropop music jammer, 17660, fair signal with usual music, July 17 at 1330. Have not heard any trace of Sawt al Amal for months, but it seldom propagated here anyway; others suspect it is off the air, but the jammer goes on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. Dear friends, Please note the changes in Deutsche Welle Hindi & Bengali language transmission as from July 20th 2007: Hindi 1500-1530 UT Old: 7225 kHz; New: 9540 kHz Bengali 1530-1558 UT Old: 7225 kHz; New: 9540 kHz (Swopan Chakroborty, Kolkata, India, July 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. Apodimos: I enjoyed another "Greek In Style" program on Voice of Greece from 2305 UT Sunday to 0005 UT Monday on the frequencies of 7475 and 9420 (SINPO 55555) with Angeliki Timms introducing Greek New Wave songs of 1965 as well as other songs of the '60s. The program closed with a rousing version of "Ta '21" a patriotic song describing Greek Independence warriors of 1821. (John Babbis, MD, DX LISTENING DIGEST) There was also another partial-English interview during the 0200 UT Monday hour; I only had a chance to check the webcast around 0255 before it finished (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn: I also tuned in to that 0200-0300 UT Monday VOG broadcast on 7450 and 9420 here at the beginning and heard a man saying "United States of America" a few minutes in English into it and "Rose Bowl" and a few other English words later and then I dozed off. Dear Apodimos or Babis: What is the title of the partial-English- speaking program at 0200-0300 UT Monday on Voice of Greece on 7475, 9420, and 15650? Regards, (John Babbis, MD, ibid.) ** HUNGARY. 6025, 1900-, Radio Budapest, Jun 23. Multilingual IDs for Radio Budapest, well over a cochannel, and then into English with, 'On shortwave, satellite, WRN, and NPR this is Radio Budapest Hungary signing-on'. Good level and // to equally good 3975. No mention of them closing down their foreign language broadcasts on 30 June. 6195, 0252-, Radio Budapest, Jun 25. Good to very good in English with a DX program about Esperanto programs until 0258. Again, no mention of the 30th (Walt Salmaniw, Gdynia, Poland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6025, 2100-, Radio Budapest, Jun 29. I'm not sure if anyone else noticed this, but the multilingual IDs during the IS included languages that were used in the past by Radio Budapest, for example Ukrainian. I hadn't noticed this on previous days. Announced a program from the archives, but first news in English. Very good reception, but a cochannel English religious station could just be heard. Nothing heard on my listed // of 9525 (Volodya Salmaniw, Brody, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6195, 0230-, Radio Budapest, Jun 30. Presumably the last broadcast in foreign languages by Radio Budapest was obliterated here in Ukraine by the BBCWS in English cochannel. I could make out 'Thank You' at 0257 and then off the air (Volodya Salmaniw, Brody, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6025, 1859-, Radio Budapest, Jun 30. There was talk that the 29th might be the final broadcast, but today (a Saturday), Radio Budapest carried the program 'Insight Central Europe'. Again no mention of a last broadcast. Excellent level as was // 3975 (Walt Salmaniw, Transcarpathia, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HUNGARY. NEW MEDIUMWAVE TRANSMITTERS IN HUNGARIA Since 2004 all but two of the mediumwave transmitters in Hungaria were replaced by new TRAM series transmitters of Transradio (ex- Telefunken), including antenna diplexing solutions at Lákihegy and Szolnok. Details and photos: http://www.broadcast-transradio.com/html/hungary.html The two tube transmitters remaining in operation for now are a 500 kW at Marcali (now run at 300 kW on 1188) and the mighty 2000 kW at Solt (540). Both are Soviet products, the Marcali transmitter is probably a Shtorm model (???), the one at Solt could be a Buran, but that's merely speculation. 135.6 at Lákihegy belongs to the same remote switching system than 129.1 from Mainflingen and 139.0 from Burg: http://www.efr.de/com/system/longw/cont.htm (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. Dear Friends, The AIR Vividh Bhartahi program on 10330 is now broadcast from AIR Delhi (Khampur Site) with 250 kW, (ex via Bangalore 500 kW). The sked is: 0025-0435, 0900-1200, 1245-1740. 73 (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, July 15, dx_india via DXLD) Bangalore azimuth for this was 335 degrees, also favorable for NAm; I wonder what it is from Khampur (gh, ibid.) ** INDIA/UK. UK/INDIA: WRN WINS CONTACT WITH INDIAN MEDIA COMPANY | Text of press release by the London-based World Radio Network on 16 July WRN, the UK-based television and radio transmission company, has concluded a deal with AirChord, the New Delhi-headquartered, multi- media streaming media company that converges mobile and web. WRN is making its 24/7 international news and current affairs radio channel available to Indian mobile users via AirChord and its Juice Up mobile application. Mobile subscribers will be able to access world class content from WRN's international public broadcasting clients that include China Radio International, Korea's KBS World Radio, Radio Canada International, America's NPR, Ireland's RTE and Radio Romania International. Juice Up, developed by AirChord on proprietary technology, allows high quality audio to be broadcast using small data throughput. The application lets users access numerous audio services from across the world including feeds in various international languages such as Chinese, Polish, Japanese, Korean and Russian. Content can also be uploaded directly via handsets or through the AirChord website for mobile and web viewers to be connected globally. Gary Edgerton, WRN's managing director, says, "India is one of the fastest growing mobile markets globally and this partnership with AirChord gives WRN a significant mobile presence across the country and offers the growing numbers of Indian mobile subscribers access to unique global content from WRN". Anil Sharma, president of AirChord, says, "Working with WRN, a trusted international partner, allows us to offer more exciting and relevant content to AirChord's targeted subscriber base". Source: World Radio Network press release, London, in English 16 Jul 07 (via BBCM via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 11785, Voice of Indonesia, 0930-0943 July 15, fair with pop music, R.R.I. ID. During the past week both 9525 (VOI) and 9680 (RRI Jakarta) have not been heard (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. Another Indonesian SW survey as of end of June is accessible via A. Ishida`s N1HP blog at http://wave.ap.teacup.com/applet/n1hp/msgcate2/archive And I assume subsequent updates will be there too. On his main page, http://wave.ap.teacup.com/n1hp/ Clip of RRI Biak IS and ID at 1030 UT July 7 on 4920 http://wave.ap.teacup.com/n1hp/html/04920_070708_1030.wmv and RRI Biak again heard July 15 at *2000 on 4920 and earlier, June 26 at 1029, IS and ID: http://wave.ap.teacup.com/n1hp/html/04920_070606_1029.wmv And here`s a clip of Palangkaraya on 3325: http://wave.ap.teacup.com/n1hp/html/03325_070621_1603.wmv And Manokwari, 3987: http://wave.ap.teacup.com/n1hp/html/03987_070521_1000.wmv (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. NEW BILL WOULD STAVE OFF CRB RATES WHILE BOTH SIDES NEGOTIATE --- BY DANIEL MCSWAIN Concern that webcasters and artists would be "irreparably harmed" by proposed royalty rates has spurred the introduction of a new bill that aims to give parties more time to negotiate a settlement. The bipartisan legislation, titled H.R. 3015, was introduced by Chairwoman of the Committee on Small Business, Nydia M. Velázquez (pictured below left) and Ranking Member Steve Chabot, and would postpone the implementation of the CRB decision by 60 days, during which time webcasters and the recording industry would be charged with crafting a compromise. Velázquez and Chabot (pictured below right) sent letters to Reps. Howard Berman (D-CA) and Howard Coble (R-NC), Chair and Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee respectively, urging them to adopt H.R. 3015. A letter sent to SoundExchange http://www.soundexchange.com and DiMA http://www.digmedia.org also encouraged negotiations and private resolution of the royalty issues. Sources close to the bill expect H.R. 3015 to be passed through Congress quickly. The adoption of the new legislation would not impact the standing of the Internet Radio Equality Act (H.R. 2060 and S. 1353), which has now received the support of over 130 co-sponsors in the House and continues to gain cosponsors in the Senate. The Committee on Small Business' involvement in the matter increased after a June 28 hearing [previous *RAIN* coverage here http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/062807/index.shtml ] in which webcasters, artists and members of the recording industry testified about the impact of the proposed CRB rates on their businesses. A statement from the Committee notes that after that hearing, "the consensus was that fair compensation to musicians was crucial, but that the royalties as they currently stand could be prohibitively expensive for small internet broadcasters." (via Zacharias Liangas, DXLD) NET RADIO "COMPROMISE" HINGED ON DRM ADOPTION By Ken Fisher | Published: July 15, 2007 - 10:48PM CT As we reported Friday, the looming royalty crunch on Internet radio that would have begun today (July 15) was narrowly averted last week by a temporary reprieve from SoundExchange. Now it appears that a lasting compromise is indeed possible, but such a compromise will likely mean mandatory DRM (Digital Rights Management) for Internet radio. The original decision by the Copyright Royalty Board would have tripled royalties over the next three years: an increase which many webcasters said would straight-up put them out of business. Political positioning or not, SoundExchange didn't want July 15 to be a date that lived on in infamy, so they offered a temporary reprieve and laid out the terms for a new compromise. We have to agree with Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA), who warned that a July 15th cut-off could have made the situation rather unfavorable for SoundExchange. "Whatever congressmen and women have heard to date, you're going to hear five to ten times as much after July 15 [if net radio stations go dark]," Inslee told a hearing of the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Small Business. That catastrophe has been averted, and SoundExchange looks ready to deal. Yet it appears that the CRB-backed royalty increase and the increased per-station fees may be leveraged to accomplish something else the music industry would really like to see: Internet radio locked down in DRM. . . http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070715-net-radio-compromise-hinged-on-drm-adoption.html (via Zacharias Liangas, DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. FCC SETS COMMENT PERIOD FOR SATELLITE MERGER RULING --- Comments must be filed by August 13th; reply comments by August 27th. Docket number is 07-57. See http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/fcc-sets-comment-period-for-satellite-merger-rule.html (Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA, International broadcasting / shortwave blog: http://www.intlradio.blogspot.com July 16, Swprograms mailing list via DXLD) ** ISRAEL. 15760, 1558-, IBA, Kol Israel, Jun 24. IS, and then into Yiddish. One of very few broadcasters using this colourful language! Very Germanic sounding. Excellent armchair copy, and almost immediately into a medley of Yiddish songs. Very enjoyable, even if one can't follow the speech. // 9345 good, 11590 poor (Walt Salmaniw, Gdynia, Poland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Germanic to such an extent that Yiddish from Kol Israel is included in the program line-up of WRN Deutsch and shown in lists of German broadcasts on shortwave. Years ago this was subject of some dispute in the German shortwave listeners scene, since it was considered as linguistically not correct. But these objections were overturned by referring to the circumstance that the broadcasts can be easily understood (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) ** ISRAEL. I often look for Galei Zahal on 19m in the mornings, especially when Kol Israel is audible on nearby 15760. But usually I hear nothing. July 13 at 1421, with BFO, I was able at least to detect a carrier on 15783.4, likely the current variant of GZ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. Re: ``IBA Channel 33 on the Hotbird satellite has an information card directing viewers to the free to air broadcasts at 11633v transponder 6 on the Amos satellite.`` This is just ridiculous and a sign of flagrant incompetence. Or does it instead reveal that IBA in fact never intended to be available in Europe and was only interested in covering the Middle East? The reason has been already mentioned in the initial David de Jong report. It appears that the Middle East footprint of the Amos system is not even designed to cover the whole region but instead to serve Israel only. Look here: http://www.lyngsat-maps.com/maps/amos1_mea.html It should be added that the dish sizes on these tables refer to mere DXing. Reliable reception requires larger antennas. So IBA reception via satellite is now limited to Israel and the surrounding area, with one exception: Channel 2 on the American beam of Telstar 12 (15 deg. West). Or will they cancel this as well? Btw., it is interesting that the Telstar signal is free-to-air; no rights issues here? (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Channel 2 is not IBA - it is actually a competitor. English description of the "Second Authority", which regulates Channel 2, Channel 10 and regional (non IBA) radio stations, is here: http://www.rashut2.org.il/english_index.asp (Doni Rosenzweig, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Oops --- thank you for pointing out! The radio side is quite interesting as well: http://www.lyngsat.com/freeradio/Israel.html So left on Hotbird is only Radio 2000: "Ever since it was established, Radio 2000 is prosecuted by the Government for broadcasting without license, and on the other hand refused to grant Radio 2000 the requested license, and thus on 1996, Radio 2000 has started to broadcast from a ship, that was utilized for a short period before it was sunk by the authorities." http://www.radio2000.co.il/news/index14en.html So it is this station: http://www.offshore-radio.de/2000.htm (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) ** ITALY. 9710, 0415-, RAI, Jul 04. One of my tasks while travelling in Europe was to monitor as many broadcasts in Ukrainian as possible. RAI has to have the driest presenters of any station. The same monotoned male announcer drones on, and thankfully the program is very short --- news only, and then Italian music, all in just 20 minutes or so. 9710 at excellent level, // 11830 good with a het, and listed 6135 not heard. News from 0405 to 0417, and then Italian music until the end of the program at 0425 (Volodya Salmaniw, Kremenchuk, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Aren`t all their language services like that? English, certainly (gh, DXLD) ** JAPAN [non]. Another example of the unneighbourliness of DRM: July 17 at 1326, NHK Swahili via Ascension on 17870 was audible but with heavy QRDRM from Guiana French 17870-17875-17880, which starts nominally at 1300, but not every day. NHK lasts until 1330, heard with ID at 1328 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JOHNSTON ISLAND. KH3, JOHNSTON ISLAND. Skipper of the USSV Dharma, Susan Meckley, W7KFI, is expected to depart sometime this week for Johnston Island (OC-023, USI OI-006). Susan was told that she is the last official operation from KH3-land as the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has delcared it a closed island. It took Susan 7 months to get permission from the USAF to stop there. Susan is expected to use the callsign KH3/W7KFI and prefers the CW mode (she states "I can get many more QSOs in"). Watch the frequencies 7036, 10105, 14036, and 18170 kHz. She will also operate SSB (possibly 14236 kHz), but can operate most anything upon request. QRP fans are supposed to watch 10105 kHz. QSL via her home callsign (QRZ.com via KB8NW/OPDX/BARF80 July 16 via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) Departing from Hawaii, that is, where she had to stop for surgery (gh) ** KAZAKHSTAN. 9355, 1530-, Golos Pravoslavya, Jul 06. Very good reception of this program, known in English as the Voice of Orthodoxy. The speech portions (all in Russian) had somewhat narrow modulation, although the music was normal (Walt Salmaniw, Luhansk, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. ``I never did hear Pyongyang during my 3 week European stay.`` (Salmaniw; see CHINA) P`yongyang is during the evenings no problem on the lower frequencies here, in particular on 9325 (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. TAIWAN, 9485, 1314-, Shiokaze, Jul 07. English at fair level (much weaker than on the WCNA, but still a treat!) with bios of disappeared Japanese citizens. This was on a Saturday (Walt Salmaniw, Luhansk, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. Regarding my recent remarx about KDDI Yamata site being authorized for Furusato no Kaze broadcasts, looking back over previous issues, it was Shiokaze which got access to KDDI for their morning 2030 UT broadcast on 6045, callsign JSR – tho with the government getting into the abduction-broadcasting business itself, you`d think they would go with that instead of Taiwan. Wonder if FnK advent affects how Shiokaze is handled. Could be Taiwan is preferred for propagational reasons, Japan being too close and subject to skip zoning. This is what I get for relying on my decaying memory (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. TAIWAN, 9485, 1301-, Shiokaze, Sea Breeze, Jul 14. Very good reception with their usual sign-on in English as reported previously by Ron Howard. 'This is Shiokaze, Sea Breeze from Tokyo Japan....' Some splatter on lower side, so USB works best by far. Much better than yesterday. The same announcement was repeated twice, and then a third time with just the basic ID and then into more detailed story of a particular abductee. At 1330 directly into Radio Free Chosun programming (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9485, Shiokaze - Sea Breeze via Taiwan, 1305-1330, July 15, OM reading news stories in English from the Washington Post, Herald Tribune, etc. about North Korea, many IDs: "This is Shiokaze Sea Breeze from Tokyo, Japan", fair-good. Also heard yesterdays program as Walt has reported. Two consecutive days of English (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN. UNID, 6335, 0412-, Voice of Iraqi Kurdistan, Jun 29. Fair level, with a station playing middle east style music. Checking my WRTH shows that this might be Voice of Iraqi Kurdistan, presumably from Iran (Volodya Salmaniw, Brody, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. Dear Glenn: Today I heard R. Kuwait English language broadcast at 2045 to 2100 UT on 11990 with 55555 SINPO. Western pop music and news bulletin. Best, (Andy Martynyuk, Russia, July 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LATVIA. 9290, 1955-, Latvia Today, Jun 24. A presumed logging with English talk, into Latvian folk music until 2001 when the transmitter cut without any announcements. Only poor/fair. I suspect I was too close to the transmitter in Gdynia/Gdansk to be able to hear them very well (Walt Salmaniw, Gdynia, Poland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9290, 0830-, Latvia Today, Jul 07. Good reception in English with Latvia's economic performance. On recheck at 0950, there was non-stop music followed by a Radio Joystick ID in German, with a postal mail address in Germany, and finally 'Charlie Quinn' saying bye-bye (Walt Salmaniw, Luhansk, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBERIA. 5470, Radio Veritas, 2049-2104*, 7/13/07. Animated political discussion between several OM in English, phone callers, short terse ID at 2104 before pulling the plug. Still signing off at approx. 2100 despite WRTVH saying it's on to 2300 (Chris Lobdell, Salem harbour MA, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** LIBERIA [non]. 9525, Star radio, 0704 14.7 with news and ID, 45423 (Zacharias Liangas, Fourka Chalkidiki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So they are back; to stay? (gh) ** LIBYA. 17870, 1537-, Voice of Africa, Jun 24. Good reception with program in English and ID ending the English news and into a long- winded commentary. Occasional deep fades. Another Voice of Africa ID at 1544, and into a reading from the Green Book. Did not hear any other // frequencies (Walt Salmaniw, Gdynia, Poland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17870, 1533-, Voice of Africa Jul 06 English news at fair to good level. 17870, 1457-, Voice of Africa, Jul 07. Fair to good reception with an ID in English. They also announced 21695 which was not heard. This was my final logging for this European trip. Overall, I had a lot of fun, and heard a number of stations impossible to hear in North America. Also, I was surprised by the continued strength of shortwave in Europe, compared to what's available on this side of the pond. There's life in the old girl yet! (Walt Salmaniw, Luhansk, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LITHUANIA. 6255, 2243-, The Mighty KBC, Jun 23. ID in English, with mostly non-stop techno music. ID was as follows: 'We are the Mighty KBC, broadcasting from Lithuania. Write us at KBC @ planet.nl '. There were several other addresses given. Good to very good reception. I did not check for the 500 kW MW //. 6255 is 100 kW, of course. Ended transmission at 2259. 6225, 1533-, Radio Racja, Jun 24. Good reception shortly after their sign-on in Belarussian. A nice choral jingle for 'Radio Racja' (Walt Salmaniw, Gdynia, Poland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also BELARUS; POLAND ** MADAGASCAR. July 15 noted RN Malagasy at 1850 on 5010 with radiothéâtre in French. Strong signal, parallel 3287.6 was much weaker. Both frequencies signed off at 1905 after N/A and IS. I guess they used to stay on the air later on Saturdays and Sundays (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) MADAGASCÁR – O início da emissão da RTV Malagasy, pela freqüência de 5009 kHz, de oito de julho, foi acompanhado, pelo colunista, em Veranópolis (RS), às 0257. Consistiu em sinal de intervalo, hino nacional daquele país e identificação em malgaxe. A emissora apresentava distorsão no áudio (Célio Romais, Brasil, Panorama, @tivade DX July 15 via DXLD) ** MALAYSIA. [V. of Malaysia] Dear Glenn, very good reception on 15295 1000-1030 in Malay, SINPO 43333, ID at 1014 and 1025, broadcast time and frequency, 1026 broadcasts National anthem, then the folk music. I think he antenna direction does not permit today, that I can hear its voice time, it's so difficult to pick up its signal in this summer. I only received only one letter from the Chinese section, and no QSL enclosed, there're Malay stamps, postcards, and a nice programme handbook for different languages (Lenfant Lee, China, July 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15295, VOM, YL with talks, Islams chantings at 1537, 1815 song cinta from Amy mastura. Good semi Hifi audio (Zacharias Liangas, 13.7, Fourka Chalkidiki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 9599.2, Radio UNAM, México DF, 2248-2315, 09-07, música clásica, a las 2303 locutor, comentarios sobre arqueología mexicana, los mayas, Chichen Itza. A las 2312 completamente eclipsada por Radio Vaticano, que comienza sus trasmisiones en inglés en 9600. 24222. 9599.2, Radio UNAM, México DF, 0705-0720, 10-07, música clásica, canciones, lírica. 23222 variando a 13221. 9599.2, Radio UNAM, México DF, 0547-0557, 11-07, locutor, locutora, comentarios "son las 23 horas con 47 minutos", "Llámenos a los teléfonos 5589..... 0188...5636..., recuerden nuestros premios, un pasodoble", "Recuerden, en el Hospital Metropolitano", saludos a los oyentes. A las 0557 eclipsada por Radio Bulgaria que comienza su transmisión en francés en 9600 kHz. 24322. 9599.2, Radio UNAM, México DF, 0540-0557, 12-07, música clásica ininterrumpida, música de piano. A las 0557 se deja de escuchar, al comenzar sus transmisiones Radio Bulgaria en 9600. 34333. También 0541-0557, 14-07, música clásica. 24322 variando a 34333 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, escuchas realizadas en Camping de Reinante, provincia de Lugo, Mar Cantábrico, Grundig Satellit 500 y Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Antena de cable, 10 metros, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9599.3, presumed R.UNAM, 1025-1045, July 14, Spanish. Classical/opera music with brief YL at 1030. Poor/choppy signal. Noted again on July 15, 0940-1017 with same format/signal quality (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, NH, R8, R75, NIR-10, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, I hear Radio UNAM, Mexico City on 9599.30, time 2308 UT, poor but fair with classical piano music non stop. At 2312 heavy QRM on 9600 from radio Vatican, date 14/7 Gr (Maurits from Belgium Driessche, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio UNAM, 9599.3, barely audible with classical music in noise, July 17 at 1322 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 15120, 2030-, Voice of Nigeria, Jul 05. One of the stronger African stations heard in English, and one of very few in that language! Good reception with English news and then into a '60 minutes' program (Walt Salmaniw, Luhansk, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. Hi! Decent reception here in St. Louis, MO, of pirate WMPR on 6955 kHz on UT 7/15/07. Tune-in at 0004, WMPR IDs heard at 0007, 0022, 0031, 0036, 0048, 0055, 0059, and 0115 UT. Moderate fading, some semi-local storm noise, but generally clear. I'd estimate the SINPO at 45334. Started with just music, then combination of music and sound effects (wind noise, cat calls, etc.). Much weaker after 0100 with some unclear vocal segments. Tuned away about 0125 with no signal heard any longer. 73, (Will Martin, Saint Louis, MO, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Am hearing a Cherokee hour on KRSC 91.3 Claremore OK, 17- 18 UT Sunday, also Sat 13-14. Seems to be semi-religious, mixes English and Cherokee; attributed to the Cherokee Nation. Audio link: mms://www.rsu.edu/KRSC-FM (Glenn Hauser, Enid, July 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. 5080, R. Pakistan, 1635 13.7 with news in English. ID at 1637. Buzzing and muffled audio (Zacharias Liangas, Fourka Chalkidiki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3335 R. East Sepik (presumed), 0858-0913 July 15, EZL music, news segment with announcer that sounded Australian, with detailed election news in English, several reporters with voting results, 0909 into EZL music, weak reception. Update: Reception continued to improve. 1150-1210, on-air phone calls with election information, 1200 announcement that this is special coverage of the 2007 elections, continued with details of the number of votes in so far from different provinces, news headlines, all in English. 3385, R. East New Britain (presumed), 0915-0925 July 15, news in assume Tok Pisin, pop songs, fair (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3905 kHz 0950 UTC R. New Ireland, Papua-New Guinea. Muy débil al principio. Música pop y locución por YL. Idioma no identificado. Alrededor de 1000 UTC parece oírse ID, algo de "...Broadcasting Corporation" . Luego talks por YL y OM y más música pop. QRM de utilitarias y fuerte ruido eléctrico local. 1030 ID positiva por OM "...Radio New Ireland" con cortina musical que suena como como cánticos locales. SINPO 24332 (Captaciones de Moisés Knochen, Montevideo, Uruguay, Escuchas del último fin de semana en Cuchilla Alta, Uruguay, 07/07/07, Conexión Digital July 15 via DXLD) PAPUA NOVA GUINÉ, 3905 kHz, 1020 15/07, R. New Ireland, Kavieng English/(Pidgin?) fv talks, 32333 (LOB). Trecho desta escuta 117 kbs, 30 seg. em: http://www.freewebs.com/audiodx/r.newireland3905khz1507071020.mp3 (LÚCIO OTÁVIO BOBROWIEC, EMBU-SP BRASIL (23 33’ S, 46 51’ O), SONY ICF SW40(REVISADO), DIPOLO 18M E 32M EM OC E OT, @tividade DX via DXLD) PNG divisa est en partes sex --- per the NASWA country list, http://www.naswa.net/images/NASWA_country_list.pdf New Ireland is one of six ``radio countries`` making up PNG, but we don`t bother with that in DXLD, except occasionally for Bougainville due to separatist/clandestine activity (gh, DXLD) ** POLAND. 6105, 1950-, Radio Racja, Jun 23. ID in Belarussian at good to very good levels. The transmitter doesn't sound at all like the old Radio Polonia transmitters, so is it certain that this transmission is direct from Poland? Interesting jingle, 'Lay, lay, lay, Moya krajina Belarus' (Walt Salmaniw, Gdynia, Poland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I would say yes, when I checked it recently I found a slight trace of the well-known rumble. However, I was surprised by the transmission quality, too. The modulation depth was much better than while these transmitters were used by Polskie Radio. Apparently now a limiter/compressor is in use and other measures were taken to improve the audio level and to eliminate or at least reduce the rumble. One can only wonder why they do it now, when it's really too late? Btw, here is a recording of Radio Racja via Leszczynka (the shortwave plant near Warsaw) in 1999, from the first period of activity which came to an end in 2002: http://www.radioeins.de/meta/sendungen/apparat/020914_A1.ram Back then it had been said than the phone-quality content after the ID had been produced under conspiratory circumstances at Minsk. The transmission had even lower modulation that on Polskie Radio programming, as it was the case even earlier when Radio Maryja used Leszczynka for a while during the nineties and found the results so disappointing that they soon left in favour of the Russian Samara site (Kai Ludwig, Germany, July 15, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** POLAND [and non]. Re: ``The Racja program is produced and fed in a different way than the Radio Polonia prgrs were, probably this makes a difference in the output result as well. Also, not every of the old Tesla txs used to behave in the same way, plus the audio problems always were less distinct at a closer range. For example, when listening in Warsaw, the typical audio problems were almost not noticeable at all.`` I assume Emitel has set up a system for local ingest and playout of audio files, since to my knowledge Radio Racja uses no live feeds via audio circuits? But this still leaves the question why they were not able to fix the problems on transmissions off circuit. The studio production at Polskie Radio is certainly not to blame, their levels appeared to be consistent. Is it known for sure that the rumble is hardly audible when listening locally? If so this would indicate that it is not amplitude-modulated but instead more or less disappears when both sidebands are equally strong. This would be the same situation than on DRM simulcast signals, here the DRM component is supposed to be inaudible by way of one sideband extinguishing the other one. But in practice a more or less prominent hiss uses to appear nevertheless, because there is no perfectly linear reception of both sidebands. If "audio problems" primarily refers to the low level: This will of course hardly turn out locally, where one just needs to turn up the volume and has no noise that would be sucked up this way (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** POLAND [non]. GERMANY, 9695, 1820-, Polish Radio, Jul 02. My earlier observation was incorrect. Here there was a full program in Hebrew from Poland, via Germany. The station calls itself, 'Kol Polin' and is frequently mentioned. Very good signal except for a small amount of splatter from 9690. ID'd at 1828 (Walt Salmaniw, Transcarpathia, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9695, 1759-, Polish Radio, Jul 05. Checked once more about the Hebrew service. Very good reception with ID in Polish/English, then music bridge and ID as 'Kol Polin' and into Hebrew news (Walt Salmaniw, Luhansk, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PRIDNESTROVYE. 5965, 1600-, Radio of the PMR, Jun 27. Good reception in English with sign-on ID as the 'Radio of the PMR'. At 1620, they announced the wrong frequency as 6235 (a B06 frequency, I think), and then continued on in English. So-called break-a-way republic from Moldova, but not recognized by anyone except Russia, of course. Divide and conquer, I suppose. This was my final logging from Gdynia, Poland (Walt Salmaniw, Gdynia, Poland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 9645, 0310-, Radio Romania International, Jun 24. RRI in English at very good level. This transmission is for the west coast of North America, but heard much better in northern Europe! // 6150 also to WCNA at very good level. The transmission to India at the same time on 11895 and 15250 was not heard. 11895, 0300-, Radio Romania International, Jun 25. This time, at excellent level with English to India. Also // to 9645 at very good level and 6150 at good to very good level. Both of these are to WCNA. 15220 to India at fair level as well (Walt Salmaniw, Gdynia, Poland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Re 7-082, Salmaniw`s logs: Well, both 9890 and 12070 were on air throughout all the recent years. 9890 is Samara while 12070 is at present even registered twice, under "MSK" and also the old "SRP" fake site code, and as always one can only wonder which of the three transmitter plants around Moscow is the actual origin. In the old days about ten times more frequencies would have been a realistic number; I have been told that at times Radio Moscow World Service could be heard on not less than 50 frequencies, and a German handbook stated for Radio Moscow under "frequencies" just "everywhere in the shortwave bands". I assume this will be never seen again, whatever may happen in Russia. Not long ago I got to listen to "Moscow Mailbag" for a while, and I had to conclude that it sounded just like the old Radio Moscow. I found this quite interesting because the German service instead sounds quite different nowadays, much more straightforward. Here is an example about the demonstrations in last spring: http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=ger&q=464&cid=98&p=20.04.2007 This program closed with the joke of the week: "We have created a capitalism with a human face. Well, there was just barely enough money for the capitalism, but the face..." (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. Re 7-082, Salmaniw: VORWS consistently was very well and widely heard throughout my European travels. Walt, fine estimation. But like an echo, less-Western policy by Russia has something to do with stupid Bush family decisions on Iraq/Iran hot and cold war and amongst US govt rocket plans matter in Czechia and Poland. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, HCDX via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 15110, 0410-, Tatarstan Wave, Jun 29. Good reception with sign-on in Tatar and Russian. Checked again at 08:15 [means 0415 UT?] and at that time, 11925 is heard at excellent level with news in Russian and an ID (Volodya Salmaniw, Brody, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non] 171, 1512-, Radio Chechnya Svobodnaya, Jul 06. Bandscanned the LW band during the afternoon in Luhansk, and again only 3 stations heard with 171 by far the strongest with big band music. Also heard was Ukrainian Radio on 207 (poor to fair) and 261 Radio Rossii from Taldom north of Moscow at fair level (Walt Salmaniw, Luhansk, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAINT HELENA. A reminder - it`s today! Please be advised that another test transmission on 11092.5 KHz USB will take place from Radio St Helena on Tuesday 17th July around 7pm GMT forabout 2 hours approximately. Please spread the word. Thank you Laura Laura Lawrence (Miss) Radio Station Manager Radio St Helena Pounceys Tel/Fax: +290 4542 station.manager @ helanta.sh (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1900-2100 UT ** SAUDI ARABIA. 17660, 1547-, BSKSA, Jun 24. French at fair levels, with many references to Allah, but off in mid-sentence at 1557 (Walt Salmaniw, Gdynia, Poland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 17660, 1535-, BSKSA, Jul 06. Fair to good in French with some deep fades over a weaker cochannel. IDs as Radio Riyadh (at 1540), followed by the NA, another ID and then a reading from the Kor`an. Sign-off announcement at 1553 mentions English in a few minutes, but they cut the transmitter at 1557 before this happened. 15250, 1200-, BSKSA, Jul 07. ID in English as Radio Jeddah, and into English news at good level (Walt Salmaniw, Luhansk, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA. 7240, 1831-, International Radio of Serbia, Jun 30. In English with an ID at 1835 as, 'You are listening to the International Radio of Serbia'. The transmitter suddenly cut out at 1836. Cochannel WYFR in English, but still good at times. I heard this station a number of times in central and eastern Ukraine with even better results. The announced // of 6100 was never heard (Walt Salmaniw, Transcarpathia, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA [and non]. Dear DXers, Yesterday I again phoned Belgrade, technical department of International Radio Serbia, and here is some news. Spare parts for Bijeljina transmitter, Bosnia arrived in Belgrade airport waiting for customs. Because there are some legal problems between Serbia and Bosnia, this would be processed in about one or two months period. When spare parts actually arrive in Bijeljina, very soon the broadcasts with 250 kW will start. Till then, Stubline, Serbia mobile transmitter with only 10 kW is operational (1300-2100 UT, 7240 kHz). P.S. My personal opinion is that it is very possible that would be more delayed. The situation is very complicated. Probably next year new law will determine the future of Intl R Serbia. Best regards, (Dragan Lekic from Subotica, Serbia, July 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SLOVENIA. Re 7-082: 918 kHz Back on FULL POWER tonight, at present sports/football live report. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, 2022 UT July 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. Glenn: I can't tell you about status of La Salamandra on RNE Radio 3, but some programming was disrupted this weekend for live performances from a rock festival, including six hours from 1900 to 0100 UT on Friday and Saturday nights. I enjoyed live performances from the Kaiser Chiefs, Arcade Fire, P.J. Harvey, among others. RNE Radio 3, along with Radio 1, the domestic classical channel and REE in Spanish are all available via satellite, requiring an MPEG receiver and, regrettably for those who don't have one, a 10-foot (C-band) satellite dish. RNE Radio 3 has a curious format -- all hour(s)-long block programming, with everything from new and old Spanish music, American folk music, and late-night ambient/drum-and-bass/dance music. While I'd bookmarked the Web page with their program schedule, I see I need to check the RNE3 home page for announcements about special programming, such as this weekend's festival coverage (Mike Cooper, GA, Jul 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. In mid-June, we enquired about when English is actually heard from Sudan Radio Service. Rechecking their timetable now, which lacks any frequency info, one of the English blox is shown M-F at 1730-1800 UT (not 1530, change or our mistake in conversion earlier?), and the frequency then per WRTH A-07 May update is 9590 via UAE. Confirmation? (Glenn Hauser, July 16, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yep, on 9590 SRS until 1729 in some local language sounding a bit like Swahili. At 1729 ID and contact info in English. English program started at 1730. I came back to 9590 at 1757 but another transmitter just started there, RVI in Flemish with advertisements, I guess relaying Radio 2. As the SRS transmitter was a bit off the nominal (up) I think their carrier went off around 1800. There was possibly another station under RVI 1800 onwards (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, July 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9590 Mons-Fris 17-18 UT 250 kW 240 degr via Al Dhabbya UAE VRT Skelton from 1800 UT. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Coincidentally: CLANDESTINA – A emissão em inglês da Sudan Radio Service foi captada, em Veranópolis (RS), pelo colunista, em nove de julho, às 1732, pela freqüência de 9590 kHz. Foi ao ar um noticiário, a identificação da emissora e da apresentadora que se chamava Rebecca. Além disso, a emissora apresentou um anúncio, em idioma desconhecido, provavelmente abordando os cuidados que o ouvinte deve ter com o vírus do cólera. De acordo com o EiBi, a Sudan Radio Service, nesta freqüência, usa retransmissor localizado nos Emirados Árabes Unidos. Informações adicionais sobre a estação podem ser conferidas em http://www.sudanradio.org (Célio Romais, Brasil, Panorama, @tivade DX July 15 via DXLD) ** SYRIA, 12085, 2020-, Radio Damascus, Jun 23. A presumed logging, with the news in English just finishing, and then into an Arabic musical piece. Slight transmitter hum, but otherwise a good level (Walt Salmaniw, Gdynia, Poland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. I just noticed that we have contradictory info about RTI`s new postal address, unless there are really two different boxes depending on the language: [123-199 or 123-119] ``TAIWAN. New RTI postal address starting July 1st. PO Box 123-199, Taipei, Taiwan (as announced on air, twice now) (Ian Baxter, Australia, June 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` ``Nouvelle adresse effective à partir du 1er juillet 2007: Radio Taiwan International - Section française, BP 123-119, 11199 Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C (via Dan Say, BC, DXLD)`` Trying to confirm this on website, all I can find is the physical address! [on the Contact US page] RTI, 55 Pei- An Rd. TAIPEI, TAIWAN, ROC. So, which is correct? (Glenn Hauser, July 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) From RTI website http://english.rti.org.tw/Content/WhatsNewSingle.aspx?ContentID=39703 RTI has a new mailing address: P. O. Box, 123-199. However, letters to our old mailing address (P. O. Box, 24-38) can still be received by the end of this year. Regards, (Alokesh Gupta, India, ibid.) Funny, French section gives it as 123-119 http://french.rti.org.tw/Others/ContactUs.aspx Maybe a typo (Jari Savolainen, ibid.) Estimada/o oyente: En primer lugar quisiéramos agradecerle por el apoyo mostrado a Radio Taiwán Internacional en los últimos años. Debido a cuestiones de comodidad en el recibo de la correspondencia, a partir del 1 de julio de 2007 la dirección postal de Radio Taiwán Internacional será 123-199 y el código postal será 11199 en vez de 106. Aunque nuestros amigos oyentes llevan utilizando el correo postal 24-38 desde tiempos inmemoriables, esperamos que este pequeño cambio pueda atraer a muchos más oyentes a nuestro pequeño espacio de emisión diaria en la onda corta. Esperamos vuestras cartas con el nuevo correo postal a partir del 1 de julio; no obstante, aceptamos también todas las cartas con el matasellos hasta el 31 de diciembre de 2007 cuyo correo postal sea 24-38. Reciba un cordial saludo de RTI, Radio Taiwán Internacional, Sección Española (via José Miguel Romero, ibid.) Aucune idée. I just clipped the default home page of the French service where there are running a scrolling banner mentioning there is a new address from 1 July. Maybe they are doing what Radio Beijing/CRI tried with a different address subsection for each language. D.S. (Dan Say, BC, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And here it is again: from - http://french.rti.org.tw/Others/ContactUs.aspx Nos coordonnées Téléphone (886) (2) 28.85.61.68 poste 386 Fax (886) (2) 28.86.70.88 Courrier électronique rti @ rti.org.tw / fren @ rti.org.tw RTI Web Site http://www.rti.com.tw Adresses postales --- en Allemagne Radio Taiwan International - Section française, Postfach 309243, D- 10760 Berlin, Allemagne Adresses postales --- à Taiwan Radio Taiwan International - Section française, BP 24-38, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. Nouvelle adresse effective à partir du 1er juillet 2007 Radio Taiwan International - Section française, BP 123-119, 11199 Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. ---- from http://spanish.rti.org.tw/Others/ContactUs.aspx P. O. BOX 123-199, TAIPEI, TAIWAN, 11199, R.O.C. ---- http://german.rti.org.tw/Others/ContactUs.aspx P. O. Box 123-199, Taipei 11199, Taiwan, R.O.C (via Dan Say, DXLD) ** TAJIKISTAN. Re DXLD 7-082, "Website http://radio.tojikiston.com is under construxion." This website has no connection with the External Service; in fact this is an old site which is no longer maintained, the message "under construction" is just a place holder. The site was designed for the HS in 2001, but was soon no longer supported. Since 2003, it carried an additional note "temporarily closed" and in 2005 all pages were removed and replaced by the current placeholder. You can follow the development over the years at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine site http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://radio.tojikiston.com (Bernd Trutenau, Lithuania, July 15, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET. I think that 6050, 6200, 7125, 7385, 9490 and 9580 kHz are rather also coming from Lhasa than from Xi'an or Lingshi - also according to HFCC registrations: 6050 2000-1800 42SE,43SW LHA 100 290 6200 2100-1805 43SW LHA 100 85 7125 1000 1805 43SW LHA 100 85 7125 2100 0200 43SW LHA 100 85 9490 0200 1000 43SW LHA 100 85 9580 0200-0930 42SE LHA 100 290 (Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany, July 14, WWDXC DX Magazine via DXLD) Tibet, wrong Xi`an entry 6050, correct HFCC entry shows Lhasa ONLY, see 2 x MW and 13 x 50 kW at 29 38 58.20 N, 91 14 55.90 E (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4905, 1755-, Xizang-Tibet, Jul 05. A presumed logging of Lhasa. Bizarre programming for early July: Jingle Bells, followed by Auld Lang Syne. Reception was good. Go figure! This was my first logging from a rural location in the Donbas (south-east corner of Ukraine). Although extremely quiet still, there seems to be a slight increase in RF noise (Walt Salmaniw, Luhansk, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. Made a point of catching VOT`s Saturday July 14 broadcast on the webcast at 0300 UT Sunday July 15 --- at opening gave timecheck as 21:30 local! Which means this is a playback of the 1830 UT `news` and rest of broadcast. Also announced English transmission schedule, including 2030 UT between 2200 and 0300, still out of order, having merely crossed out the wrong `2330` time I told them about. But they did say the DX Corner was coming up later, before Turkish Music show. The DX Corner axually ran from 0325 to 0335, so that`s :25-:35 or :55- :05 into the broadcasts. Guess what --- it was indistinguishable from a mailbag. If this is a DX program, what is the Letterbox show on Wednesdays?? All the YL host did was read reception reports from listeners, including Tim Doyle in Australia who is 61 but looks 50 despite having asthma since childhood, plans to sit for ham exam this year now that CW is no longer required; also listeners from India, Ukraine, Turkey, Pakistan, Australia, Japan. Mentioned that so far they have received ten entries for the essay contest, reward for which is a 12-day all-expense-paid tour across Turkey. Confirmed that show is biweekly and will be back in two weeks, so we are making that adjustment in DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS. BTW, it was DXLD 7-020 where we had the laboriously compiled VOT program schedule for this year, not 6-036 mentioned a week ago! And the folder this time apparently covers the full year as it only shows two changes in features for the second semester: FRIDAY: The Harem [July-Dec: New Dimensions of the Armenian Issue], Turkish Album, From History // Turkish Capital SATURDAY: Outlook, From Our Correspondents, From History // DX Corner, Masters of Turkish Pop Music SUNDAY: From the World, In the Wake of a Contest [July-Dec: Skilled Hands], Blue Voyage, Turkish on Radio, Turkish Music But this is now wrong, as New Dims of the Arm Issue is on the Saturday/UT Sunday broadcast, not the Friday/UT Sat; and the music show on Sat is called just ``Turkish Music`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. Re 7-082, Walt`s 7490 log: I seem to recall that it had been characterized as kind of a poverty schedule when RUI terminated in 2002 all transmissions via Brovary and introduced this single- frequency scheme which remained in use until today. The only thing that has changed since is the circumstance that now rumours about plans to dismantle the Brovary shortwave facilities circulate. But I also think that the reception should still be better with 100 kW. At present the signal sounds rather like 20 kW. One has really to wonder about the shape of the antennas, especially after hearing about Kopani having to revert to rhombics after various curtains fell into disrepair and could no longer be used. Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9945, 0520-, Radio Ukraine International, Jun 24. Very good reception with the Saturday mailbag feature in English, to 0531. The DX program was just finishing at the beginning of my observation (Walt Salmaniw, Gdynia, Poland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 657 kHz, 1930-, Radio Ukraine International, Jun 30. There are barely any MW transmitters left in Ukraine. During the day, the band is practically empty. Chernivtsi, in the Carpathian mountains in the west of the country still has a 25 kW transmitter used for both RUI programming to Romania and for local programming. At 1930, the local program switched to RUI's IS, Ukrainian ID, and then into the Romanian 30 minute program. Fair to good (Walt Salmaniw, Transcarpathia, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7440, 0307-, Radio Ukraine International, Jul 01. RUI in English with Ukrainian Diary at good level. // to 7530 at fair level. In the past, the secondary frequency to Europe/Russia continued with programming in Ukrainian, so this is a change (Walt Salmaniw, Transcarpathia, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1359 kHz, 1500-, Radio Tsentr, Jul 06. The MW band is pretty much dead in Ukraine during the day. I did a bandscan in Luhansk during the afternoon and heard a single Ukrainian station, that being Donetsk (Dokuchaievsk) with 50 kW and relaying Radio Tsentr (as opposed to what's listed in the WRTH). Otherwise, the following Russian MW stations were also heard: 549 Radio Mayak (Novocherkassk), 567 Radio Rossii (Volgograd), 810 Radio Mayak (Volgograd), 945 Radio Rossii (Rostov-na-Donu), 1089 Commonwealth Program aka Sodruzhestvo (Tbilisskaya). Besides these, I had forgotten about aeronautical beacons in the MW band. I heard: 617 with dah-dah-dit [G], 721 with dah-dah-dit-dit-dit [7], and 1155 with dit-dah-dit dit [L], then dit-dit-dit [S]. I recall rarely hearing these on the west coast of North America during DXpeditions. During the night, of course, the MW remains alive with stations all over Europe and Asia well heard (Walt Salmaniw, Luhansk, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Maybe LS = Luhansk itself ** U K. 12095, 0645-, BBC World Service, Jun 27. An ancient BBC frequency, so glad to see that they still occupy it. I wonder when their first usage of this channel was --- I bet 60 years ago or more! Still going strong with good reception, but then marred by a Slavic numbers station cochannel. Kind of dumb, I think! (Walt Salmaniw, Gdynia, Poland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. RUSSIA, 21660, 1545-, BBC World Service, Jul 06. I was surprised to hear anything on 21 MHz, but the BBC was coming in very well with business news. Checking the WRTH website seems to indicate this is from Armavir. I could hear a faint cochannel IS from Vatican Radio (Walt Salmaniw, Luhansk, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, WRTH May update says Armavir, but later HFCC info says BBCWS 21660 at this time is Cyprus, 177 degrees. No Vatican on 21660 or anywhere around there (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** U K. Re 7-078, BBC / 16:9 >>> Non-starting Real Player clip info insists: http://www.bbc.co.uk/concertfordiana/media/nb/part1_16x9_nb.ram ``Rights Summary: There are no rights or restrictions associated with this clip`` Evidently 16x9 means HDTV aspect ratio format. Do any non- UKOGBANIans get it to play? <<< Doesn't work here either. No problem to download the .ram-file and extract the rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/concertfordiana/nb/part1_16x9_nb.rm streaming URL (with some added UID hash, for whatever this may be good), but I simply get no connection to the server when I try to open it directly. Seems to me they block any connections to non-UK IP's on this server. And yes, 16:9 of course refers to the image ratio. It is now widely used by various European broadcasters, although often only in standard 576 x 768 resolution, so 16:9 by no means indicates HDTV broadcasts. ARD now also felt compelled to broadcast its Tagesschau newscasts in 16:9 and does so since July 1st, but the way they use it is quite pointless. Here is a discussion of this issue, also including a comparison with ZDF's much better practice (in German, but the screenshots speak for themselves): http://www.fontblog.de/tagesschau-grafik-ignoriert-169-format (Kai Ludwig, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. This is the best place to go for Prom Concerts on demand: http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2007/promsbroadcast/radio/ Concerts here launch on your stand-alone Real Player, allowing more manipulation than with the BBC`s player. If you bring up the Prom player direct http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/proms_promo.shtml it has problems (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. CALL FOR 2015 END TO ANALOG RADIO IN UK Source: http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0100/t.7022.html According to an article in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper, commercial radio companies in the United Kingdom are looking to set a firm end date for analog radio. The industry body RadioCentre was expected to approach the British broadcast regulator, Ofcom, about setting a shutoff date for analog radio that could be as early as 2015. An analog shutdown would mirror the transition path being followed by the television industry, which will see an end to terrestrial analog broadcasting in 2012. There is a concern, according to the Telegraph report, that only a firm analog shutoff date will ensure continued investment and development of digital radio, although there are political concerns about making millions of analog receivers obsolete (via Jaisakthivel, Arumbakkam, Chennai-600106, India, dxldyg via DXLD) If you read the actual document it is not as the journalist reports, for example: "It is almost certainly too early to set a date for even partial switch off of the analogue spectrum". which reflect the mixed views of their members, EMAP for one is against analogue shutdown and the document also argues that the future could involve a mixed analogue/digital scenario, with smaller stations in particular retaining analogue transmissions. They are uncertain about DRM, see sections 8.35 through 8.43, including where they say that they cannot rule out the possibility that DRM for domestic broadcasting could suffer complete market failure. Not all the Future of Radio Responses are on the Ofcom website yet but the RadioCentre on is: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/futureradio/responses/ (Mike Barraclough, ibid.) ** U S A [non]. RE: ``VOA used diesel generators, not mains power, and run the transmitter at 60 Hz; German postal office staff was just shocked when they discovered this during their first inspection of the station! (Reportedly they installed rotary 50/60 Hz converters to run the transmitter off main power, the own diesel sets were from an economical point of view just mad and a real "when costs do not matter" concept, with the 1973 shut-down being the almost unavoidable result.)`` That's the way that VOA has always done business. To be promoted to VOA management, one must have 60% of one's brain removed and also have one's backbone removed! CAT, Retired Transmitter Troll (Charles A & Leonor L Taylor, Greenville, North Carolina, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. VOA EXPANDS BROADCASTS TO SOMALIA New live half hour added at 1630 UT Washington, D.C., July 16, 2007 - The Voice of America (VOA) has added 30 minutes to its daily Somali radio broadcast, providing a full hour of live, up-to-the-minute news and information to listeners. VOA Somali currently airs from 1600-1700 UT (7:00-8:00 PM in Somalia), with a repeat broadcast at 1700. The additional half hour, 1630 to 1700, includes a wider variety of listener interactives, such as call- ins, roundtable discussions, and debates on topics ranging from health, education, and youth to business and development. Weekend programming will offer in-depth discussions and interviews focusing on the interests and needs of Somalis. "Listener response to our programs has been overwhelming," said VOA Somali Service Chief Fred Cooper. "They appreciate the accurate, balanced, and timely news and information we provide and continue to ask for more," he added. VOA's Somali Service was launched on February 12, 2007. Broadcasts are available on AM, FM and shortwave radio frequencies 13580, 15620, 1431 kHz. The 1700 UT broadcast repeats on HornAfrik (88.8 FM in Mogadishu), a VOA-affiliated station. {Media Network update: Wolfgang Bueschel reports that the frequencies in the VOA press release are wrong. At 1630 UTC he heard VOA Somali on 11530 and 15675 kHz. Andy Sennitt} VOA's Somali-language service is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of State. For more information, please visit VOA's website at http://www.voanews.com/somali/ The Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts more than 1,000 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of more than 115 million people. Programs are produced in 45 languages. For more information, contact the Office of Public Affairs at (202) 203-4959, or by e-mail at publicaffairs@voa.gov (VOA press release via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. 5070, 0235-, WWCR, Jul 01. Very good reception with Glenn Hauser's World of Radio (an older edition). Another excellent time in Europe to hear Glenn (Walt Salmaniw, Transcarpathia, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yawn Hi, Glenn! WoR #1366 was booming in on Sat 7/14/07 on WWCR 12160 kHz at 1630 UT, a far stronger signal here than usual, and maybe the best- ever reception on 12160 I've ever had here. It was so strong and clear that I could easily hear the crosstalk faint-background preacher behind your words (& it was also there behind the ranting guy that precedes you); I was able to check WWCR's other frequencies on another radio and verified that it was the program being aired on 15825 kHz. However, the level of the crosstalk was not so high as to really interfere with understanding you. Just thought you'd like to know if you hadn't had as good a reception there. 73, (Will Martin, St Louis MO, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So a somewhat mixed blessing. Sporadic E has been intense the last several days to the delight of VHF DXers, and it also pumps-up shorter-skip HF signals like this --- and 25 MHz (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** U S A. 7415, WBCQ, 0440, 7/9/07. Caught the last few minutes of gh's pgm which ended at 0443 followed by - nothing! Eight minutes of dead air before I moved on (Gerry Dexter, WI, NASWA Flashsheeet via DXLD) I think the op has a hard time staying awake, even before I start talking. Often misses end of Amos & Andy, and another episode starts, but that week WOR started more or less on time. All that follows is sign-off, anyway. A week later, played old tape again because new one got mangled. So I phoned in the new show once again, but it had to start a few minutes late. That too was followed by dead air for a few minutes, no sign-off heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7415, 0313-, WBCQ, Jul 01. Excellent reception, with comedy show called 'Shore to Shore HF' (Walt Salmaniw, Transcarpathia, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WBCQ 5110 Anomaly --- Hi, all! Was listening to the regular 0400-0500 UT 7/15/07 late-Saturday-night "Tom & Darryl" program on WBCQ on 7415 kHz, from which WBCQ signed off 7415 around 0500 UT as usual, and happened to tune to the next memory channel on the Grundig 800, which was 5110 kHz, and was surprised to hear the Tom & Darryl program continuing there, with what normally is an Internet-and-dish-net-only transmission. So I just left it on and eventually fell asleep, and then noted that it was still on (tho weak & noisy) every time I woke up after that, until it was gone after 0830 UT. So it might be worthwhile to check 5110 late-night, as it may be something other than "Good Friends". 73, (Will Martin, MO, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. QSL received: Station: - Radio Miami International. Date: - 24-06-2007. Frequency: - 1430-1445 kHz. Time: - 7385 UTC [sic, mixed up line entries]. Language: - English. Description: - Verified by Bruce Baskin. World Cricket Today. Bringing the world of cricket into your home with WRMI’s “World Cricket Today” hosted by Bruce Baskin. Sundays 1430 UTC summer, 1530 UTC winter on 7385 kHz and at http://www.wrmi.net (Mukesh Kumar, The Cosmos Club, Bihar, India, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) It`s amazing you could hear WRMI 7385 at that hour in full summer daylight when I can barely pick it up here if at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) We have a series of new QSL cards now for different programs, like Radio Cuba Libre, Trova Libre, DXPL/Aventura DXista, World Cricket Today and the Radio Prague relays, plus the EDXC Conference in Switzerland in November (Jeff White, WRMI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And Jeff is adding one for WORLD OF RADIO / MUNDO RADIAL. For this hard-copy-only QSL do not report to gh, but direct to WRMI, P O Box 526852, Miami FL 33152, or info @ wrmi.net It is available of course, only for WOR and MR as heard on 7385 or 9955 kHz (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Studio Link Transmitters heard: 25910 FM WBAP, Dallas, TX relaying 820 at 1305 25950 FM KOA, Denver, CO relaying 850 at 1935 25990 FM KSCS, Dallas (Fort Worth), TX relaying 96.3 at 1325 All still there at 2020 check. 14 July 2007 (Steve Lare, Holland, MI, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tnx intense Sporadic E (gh, DXLD) 25910, 1320, 7/14/07. Wideband FM studio link with excellent signals during 1300 UT hour. ID for WBAP 820, Ft. Worth. Also heard 25950 carrying news headlines from KOA, 850 Denver, and 25990 relaying KSCS, 96.3, Arlington, TX, with CW music. 25910 & 25990 signals pegged S- meter. 25950 improved from S6 with fading to S9 (Jerry Strawman, IA, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) Domestic feeders WBAP, Ft. Worth, 25910; KOA-Denver, 25950; and KSCS- Dallas-25990 all heard around 1430, 7/14/07. Per Jerry Strawman tip. (Thanks!) None were very good, and Denver was barely audible at all. An hour or two later WERN-88.7(Madison) was over ridden (right at ID time by KUHF-Houston, also playing classical music (Gerry Dexter, WI, ibid.) 25950, KOA (Denver - broadband FM relay), 1555-1632, 7/14/07. Fair- good with local phone-in talk show; lots of Denver mentions and community announcements; still heard at 1700. I also had readable signals of this on 25945 and 25953. Thanks to Jerry Strawman for tip (Jim Ronda, OK, ibid.) ** U S A. INSPITE OF THE SOMEWHAT NEGATIVE COMMENTARY ABOUT HD IN THIS ARTICLE, WCLV HAS LOCATED A SILVER LINING IN THE DARK CLOUD. IN PARMA, IN THE AREAS NEAR THE FM AND TV ANTENNA FARMS, RECEPTION HAS BEEN DIFFICULT BECAUSE OF THE RF FROM THE MANY TRANSMITTERS. HOWEVER, A NUMBER OF WCLV LISTENERS HAVE FOUND THAT AN HD RADIO WITH A RABBIT EAR ANTENNA BRINGS IN WCLV 104.9 LOUD AND CLEAR WITHOUT INTERFERENCE. WE'RE TOLD THAT THE RADIO SHACK HD RADIO WORKS WELL (from http://www.wclv.com/page.php?pageID=81 via DXLD) ** U S A. I shut down the Radio Free Veronica internet station back in May. After running it for about a year, I was just not garnering enough listeners to support continuing the operation. WORLD OF RADIO is still being run on Veronica-FM. It's on Sunday evenings at 7:30 Eastern. The Sunday 7-9 PM schedule is actually: 7:00 Sue Supriano, 7:30 World of Radio, 8:00 Building Bridges, 8:30 War News Radio. 73, (Rene' F. Tetro, Lansdale, PA, USA, W2FIL, WPXG816, WPXU288 http://www.radioveronica.us and http://www.dxhub.com DX LISTENING DIGEST) WOR = 2330 UT Sundays on 91.3 part 15, webcast ** U S A. KMA's New Middle Tower is Up --- you may recall that a few weeks ago I posted info relayed to me by Ernie Wesolowski of Omaha, concerning KMA 960 Shenandoah IA. Ernie revealed that on 5/31 the station had taken down the deteriorating 48-year-old middle tower in its three-tower array, which was in bad need of replacement. The station planned on using one of the two remaining towers at reduced nighttime power while the new tower was being built. This afternoon I got a phone call from Ernie. Last Thursday he made a visit to the station. The new tower is now up, but there is a great deal of engineering to complete before the station returns to its nighttime directional pattern. The station expects to be back to U2 5000 5000 by about August 1. In the meantime, it will be on its current STA, which sets its nighttime non-directional power at 1250 watts. BTW, a short video clip of the old tower coming down is still on the KMA website, http://kma960.com 73 (Bill Dvorak, Madison WI, Column Editor, NRC DX News, DDXD-West, July 16, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** U S A. KXTO-1550 DX Test 14 July 0953-1002 UT: Heard fair-good with Spanish inspirational songs, "KXTO Reno, Sparks, Carson City" ID at 0600 EDT (1000 UT), & Morse: "VVVVVVVV de KXTO.." which cuts through the jumble on 1550 very well (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA, Grundig G5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I gather hardly anyone else managed to hear this; congrats, and welcome back, Dan (gh) Ladies and Gents, I have CONFIRMED it with KXTO General Manager José Pacheco that the station DID run at full power and ran the tone/sweep files as scheduled. José even got up in the middle of the night to turn the transmitter up to full power. I think we can probably chalk this up to bad conditions, as Les said.. "There's a reason we don't schedule many, if at all ANY tests, during the summer" -- Sincerely, (Paul B. Walker, Jr., IRCA via DXLD) Wrong answer. The reason we don't schedule tests during the summertime is lots of static from thunderstorms and yes, as we all know, static does skip. It's even worse on the lower short wave bands! The A and K index levels have been quite high, and that was the reason for the not hearing KXTO. That same type of conditions can occur anytime, and if there's no static for the entire hemisphere would not have allowed KXTO to be heard (Powell E Way, NRC-AM via DXLD) Static from summertime thunderstorms is "A" reason, but we can have high A and K index levels ANYtime (Way, IRCA via DXLD) ** U S A. WCMA 1560 Daleville, AL, New 50 KW CP --- NOT EVEN ON THE AIR! I had a friend in the Opp/Enterprise, Alabama check on this station several times Friday while he was driving in his car --- nothing, zilch. No signal from 1560 WCMA. I highly doubt they suffered an equipment failure so soon after going on the air with their "new" 50 kW signal. I remember checking a bit over a year ago; this station wasn't on the air then. I don't know when the last time this station was actually on the air --- but it's for sale, so oh well. Sincerely, (Paul B. Walker, Jr. http://www.walkerbroadcasting.com IRCA via DXLD) ** VANUATU. 3945, Radio Vanuatu (assumed), 15 July 07 0957 Island talk. No ID at 1000 but into obvious Sunday church Vanuatu style program. Always great a cappella music here. Pretty clear, fairly steady signal, moderate strength (David Norcross, Kawaii Kai, Oahu, Hawaii, Satellit 800 20' random wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. 4005, 0328-, Vatican Radio, Jul 01. Polish programming at this time. In the past this frequency carried a multilingual program, so I'm not sure whether this continues or not. 6185, 0300-, Vatican Radio, Jul 01. Low key religious program in Ukrainian at excellent levels. // 7335 at good to very good level, cochannel to CHU also well heard (Walt Salmaniw, Transcarpathia, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. RUSSIA, 11810, 1800-, SWR Africa, Jun 23. First logging from Gdynia, Poland. Fair to good reception with lots of adjacent splatter from 11805. Armavir, I believe is the site. // 12035 from Norway is at good level in Poland (Walt Salmaniw, Gdynia, Poland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. SOUTH AFRICA, 4880, 1827-, SW Radio Africa, Jul 06. In the rural location in south-east Ukraine I was able to hear SWR Africa direct from South Africa at fair level. // heard were 11810 (good level with some splatter from 11805), and 12035 (very good) (Walt Salmaniw, Luhansk, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 3451 kHz, 0020, unID en español. Talks acerca de educación. QRK 2-3 Nota: dudé bastante acerca de reportar esta escucha ya que la frecuencia no la encuentro en los listados consultados. Llegué a dudar de mi registro, si habría errado la frecuencia, etc, pero por las dudas aquí está (Captaciones de Moisés Knochen, Montevideo, Uruguay, Escuchas del último fin de semana en Cuchilla Alta, Uruguay, 07/07/07, Conexión Digital July 15 via DXLD) Anoche sábado 14/7 hora 2250 UT escuché una transmisión en español que no pude identificar en la frecuencia de 3450, programa de comentarios sobre la educación y la comunidad; en la hora se anuncia la transmisión para más adelante de la misa desde la iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria; pasada las 2300, empezó un programa tipo radioteatro. Podría ser Virgen de los Remedios, Tupiza, Bolivia, que suele operar en frecuencias fuera de banda (Alfredo Locatelli, Durazno, Uruguay, http://webcindario.com http://www.qsl.net/cx1no July 15, condig list via DXLD) Alfredo: estoy seguro que es la misma estación que reporté haber escuchado el 7 de julio a las 0020 en 3451 kHz casualmente también con comentarios sobre educación (Moisés Knochen, Uruguay, ibid.) Probably 3 x some 1150v station, such as: 3449.77 EQA HCGB5 LVd Riobamba, Riobamba [2155-0400] May04 A x (P Dec 04 D) (h)3x1150 see 2299 2299.84 EQA * HCGB5 LVd Riobamba, Riobamba [1015-1045](.81-.84) Jan04 H (p Dec 04 D)(h)2x1150 see 3449 (from http://www.sover.net/~hackmohr/sw.htm via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 11960. 2218-2310, 7/14/07. Fair-poor with long political talk in African-accented French; change from one male speaker to another at 2230; no discernible IDs at 2230 and 2300; no music heard; still on past 2310; harder to copy after 2253. EiBi, PWBR, HFCC, and Bi Newsletter frequency lists of no particular help on this. Might this be Mali on late past its scheduled 1800 s/off? (Jim Ronda, OK, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ These are the introduxions to Walt Salmaniw`s multi-part DX report from Europe, which have been re-sorted into country and chronological order above. The complete reports part by part are in the dxldyg, and most but not all of the logs are in this DXLD, except the first episode, from the UK, was in 7-082 --- 2: European loggings from Gdansk, Poland This is the second part of my European journey. I flew from Stansted to Gdansk on Ryanair (not recommended!) and occupied a 6th floor flat at a naval academy residence between the 23rd and 28th of June in Gdynia, Poland. Same receiver --- Kaito 1103 with its short random wire antenna, but the usual RF noise problems that any high rise experiences. Following this will come further sessions all across Ukraine, including a stint at the infamous Ukrainian DXer and good friend, Vlad Titarev in Kremenchuk, in central Ukraine. 3: I've now moved on to Ukraine, and specifically to western Ukraine, land of many castles and gently rolling hills. The area was rural with minimal RF noise, although our time was short to DX. Here is a smattering of results from this part of my trip. From here we travelled south and west into the Carpathian Mountains, a fantastically beautiful region of mountains, akin to Switzerland in my opinion (but at a tenth of the price). I predict that when this part of Ukraine becomes discovered by tourists, it'll become very popular! 4: European loggings from Kremenchuk, Ukraine As always, Vlad Titarev did much to facilitate my visit to Ukraine. We spent a wonderful evening at his inner city oasis in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk. He has one of the most impressive DX shacks that I've ever seen along with a decent urban antenna farm. This city is located on the Dnipro (Dnieper) River several hundred km south of the capital Kyiv (Kiev). The morning of the 4th of July, I was able to briefly DX using his AOR 7030/ Toshiba laptop combination. Thanks for the hospitality, Vlad! 5: European Loggings: Part IV from the Carpathian mountains The next part of the journey involved driving into the lovely Carpathian Mountains. This was the quietest RF area of my travels. If you've never experienced low (no) RF, than it's a real treat --- No noise between channels at all. One assumes that there is a technical glitch, but there isn't; provides incredibly good S/N ratios. No wonder our grandparents and great grandparents routinely heard trans- Oceanic stations without a lot of difficulty. 6: Final European report from SE Ukraine Below are my final loggings during my recent European trip. They're all from a rural area about 70 km from Luhansk in the extreme south- east of Ukraine. A very good quiet location, even using just the Kaito 1103 and a few feet of random wire. I recorded many interesting segments on my Edirol R-09 mp3 recorder. I hope that some of you found my loggings of interest! (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ GUIRIGAY Re 7-082, SPAIN: Hola Glenn: Perdona pero aunque no entiendo muy bien el inglés me parece que en este texto estás preguntando qué significa Guirigay; si es así intentaré explicártelo, sino pues disculpa. A ver el diccionario, dice de esta palabra, "Lenguaje oscuro y de dificultosa inteligencia"; ahora bien coloquialmente se dice sobre todo a una reunión de gente o un lugar concurrido dónde hay mucho ruido, mucha gente hablando de tal forma que apenas se entiende nada y por lo tanto resulta poco inteligible o comprensible entender lo que se dice. En principio no tiene ninguna connotación digamos de índole homosexual, aunque también te diré que puestos a dividir la palabra se dice Guiri- de una forma despectiva, a los turistas, pero bueno eso es una historia aparte. Saludos cordiales (Tomás Méndez Losa, Spain, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DIGITAL BROADCASTING DRM: see AUSTRALIA; JAPAN; POLAND ++++++++++++++++++++ DAB: see U K HD: USA WCLV PROPAGATION +++++++++++ OUR EXCLUSIVE AND NOT COPYRIGHTED HF PLUS LOW BAND VHF PROPAGATION UPDATE AND FORECAST Solar flux is hovering now very near the baseline activity. Latest reports show that the flux was around 72 units, just five units above the 70 figure that scientists consider to be the minimum baseline activity. The effective sunspot number was at ___30____ at around noon local time here in Havana, and the A index was a nice and low 02. Expect propagation to improve somewhat by Thursday, when the effects of the solar wind will vanish (Arnie Coro, CO2KK, RHC DXers Unlimited July 17, HCDX via DXLD) ###