DX LISTENING DIGEST 7-088, July 27, 2007 Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING edited by Glenn Hauser, http://www.worldofradio.com Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. Materials taken from Arctic or originating from Olle Alm and not having a commercial copyright are exempt from all restrictions of noncommercial, noncopyrighted reusage except for full credits For restrixions and searchable 2007 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1368: ** tentative 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 [not July 23] 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 ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. 17700, 1240-1759:30* Clandestine, 13-07, R. Sohl, via Rampisham, UK, Dari/Pashto announcements, Dari ID: "Injá Radio Sohl Afghanistana", most of time Afghan songs, abrupt sign off in the middle of a song. 34444, deteriorating from 1500 to 25333 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) See also USA [non] PsyOp ** ALBANIA [and non]. RHC blox 13750: see CUBA. At 2002 July 25 I checked 13720 and R. Tirana had a good signal, but modulation was way too low with hum making it hard to listen to (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As expected, Cuba was back on 13680 today July 26 at 1300, 13750 clear for R. Tirana, except no signal audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13750, 1300-1330 UT July 26th. S=9 +25 dB signal level. Excellent broadcast from RT Shijak site today. Though NOTHING noted from Cuba co-channel. Good audio quality on spoken parts, except a tiny music- song portion at 1323-1326 UT; the studio engineer should bring the song level from 20 to 100 % instead! Or should we blame the working conditions on plus 43 cC temperature at present in Albania? (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGOLA. 4950, 0255-0335 13-07, R. Nacional de Angola, Mulenvos, Portuguese pop music, 0300 TS, ID, news summary, 0304 announcement, Portuguese songs and Rhumbas, 35233 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. QSL: R. Exitos, Castelar, BA, 1610 kHz, e-mail with attached personal letter in 22 days for a regular mail report, no IRC, v/s Hernán Zabala (Director), QTH: radioexitos@ yahoo.com.ar (Vashek Korinek, RSA, July 24, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** ARMENIA. ARMENIAN PUBLIC RADIO REFUSES TO RE-SIGN CONTRACT FOR POPULAR RFE/RL PROGRAMS (Washington, DC--July 24, 2007) Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and its oversight agency, the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) expressed dismay at Armenian Public Radio's rejection of a new contract to continue carrying programs of RFE/RL's Armenian Service. RFE/RL Armenian programs have been aired on Armenian Public Radio -- Armenia's top radio network -- since 1998, where they have earned the trust of a significant number of listeners. Survey data shows that 15 percent of Armenian adults listen to RFE/RL programs each week. Three days of discussions in Yerevan, Armenia last week between U.S. and Armenian broadcast officials ended without agreement on a new contract to replace one that had lapsed in February. "Our delegation was asked to go to Yerevan to iron out some minor technical issues and conclude a contract to extend this successful partnership," said BBG Chairman James K. Glassman. "All these issues were resolved. Our delegation was told there are no deadlines, and no threat was made to take RFE/RL programs off Public Radio. Yet the contract remains unsigned, and our offers to make payment were refused. It seems clear that whatever is holding up an agreement has nothing to do with legal, contractual, or technical issues." "We value our relationship with Armenian Public Radio," added Glassman, "and certainly want it to continue. We look forward to signing the contract, and making all payments stipulated in the contract, as soon as our partners in Armenia tell us they are ready." The Armenian parliament on July 3 did not adopt amendments to the country's media regulations that would have banned RFE/RL and other foreign broadcasters from public airwaves. One week later, Armenian Public Radio indicated that it planned to stop RFE/RL broadcasts on August 9, citing contractual and payment issues. Last week's visit to Armenia by RFE/RL and BBG contracting officials was intended to resolve these issues. "The potential end of our very fruitful relationship with Public Radio has no economic or other legitimate justification," said RFE/RL President Jeffrey Gedmin. "Armenians go to the polls in eight months to choose their next President, and therefore it is particularly important that RFE/RL's broadcasts, which are widely respected for their accuracy, objectivity and timeliness, reach the largest possible audience. Our coverage of the May 12 parliamentary elections was singled out for praise by OSCE observers for its balance and thoroughness." RFE/RL's Armenian Service has been on the air since 1953 and produces more than three and one half hours of Armenian-language programming daily in Prague and its Yerevan Bureau. Armenian Service programming is available via satellite, local affiliates and the Internet, at the service's website and at http://www.rferl.org English-language news about events in Armenia can be found on the RFE/RL website. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a private, international communications service to Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia, funded by the U.S. Congress through the Broadcasting Board of Governors (RFE/RL press release July 24 via DXLD) Same: http://www.armenialiberty.org/armeniareport/report/en/2007/07/525F5086-E06C-43EE-886D-FC32FD90CB65.ASP (via Zacharias Liangas, DXLD) US representatives have concluded a preliminary agreement on the rebroadcast of Radio Liberty programmes by the private Yerevan FM radio station Ar Radio. The Armenian Public Radio has even agreed to stop transmitting its programmes on the airwaves of this station in order to give the released airtime to Radio Liberty. . . http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/?p=8496 (ITAR-TASS via BBCM via Media Network blog via DXLD) WILL “LIBERTY” SIGN THE AGREEMENT? [08:31 pm] 26 July, 2007 http://www.a1plus.am/en/?page=issue&iid=51799 In upcoming days an agreement will be signed on rebroadcast of programs of “Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty” through the Broadcasting Board of Governors and the “Ar Radio” Intercontinental. Alexan Harutyunyan, Chairman of Public Radio and Television Council informed this to “A1+”. Commenting on the disseminated announcement, Alexan Harutyunyan noted that they accepted the request of “Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty” to extend the term of broadcasting the programs on 9 August on Public Radio. As to how many radio listeners will have the opportunity to listen to the programs of “Liberty” on Public Radio, Alexan Harutyunyan doubted to answer, noting that the issue was still being discussed and it was difficult talk about the terms before signing the agreement. Public Radio will also sign an agreement with “Ar Radio” Intercontinental to reduce its broadcasting hours on “Ar Radio” FM network, so that these hours are allocated to “Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty”. The correspondent of “A1+” also talked to Head of the Armenian Service of Radio “Liberty” Hrayr Tamrazyan. “I deeply hope that our listeners will be able to listen to the programs of “Liberty” on Public Radio. We talked to Vardan Oskanyan today and he also expressed his hope that “Liberty” will continue to broadcast and will not loose its audience”, said Hrayr Tamrazyan from Prague. He also pointed that nothing had changed after yesterday’s announcement of Public Radio and Television Council. “The statement of the Broadcasting Board of Governors is still in force”. Alexan Harutyunyan assures that the agreement is ready and should be signed in the upcoming days. Hrayr Tamrazyan informed “A1+”: “We are not talking about 102 FM Tuner, we are talking about Public Radio. We hope that we will continue to broadcast our programs on Public Radio. We only talk about Public Radio at this moment”. After the interview with Alexan Harutyunyan, it became clear that broadcasting on Public Radio was excluded; the negotiations refer only to changing broadcasts of “Liberty” completely to “Ar Radio” and delaying it for some days or even months. Alexan Harutyunyan ensures that 102 FM Tuner, on which “Radio Yerevan” is broadcasted, was also Public. To our question whether “Radio Yerevan”, whose license is expired in 2009, will be deprived of license during 2008 competition, in the result of which the “Liberty” will also be deprived of broadcasting; Mr Harutyunyan said that “Radio Yerevan” would hardly be deprived of license. “Ar Radio” Intercontinental will have to update its network. By the way, programs of “Radiolur” will not be broadcasted on “Ar Radio”, thus, according to Alexan Harutyunyan “Liberty” will be provided a free competition field (A1+ via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. Re 7-087: Glenn: -- This appears to be the correct URL for the Australian info: http://www.acma.gov.au/pls/radcom/assignment_range 73z – (GREG HARDISON, CA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. QSL: Yolnu [sic] R. (ARDS), 5050 kHz, personal letter in 19 days, no IRC, v/s Dale Chesson (Radio Service Manager). (Vashek Korinek, RSA, July 24, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** BAHRAIN. 6010, R Bahrain, 1900, Jul 18, English news headlines mentioned São Paulo air crash, poor under co/channel Belarus but a little less difficult now that adjacent DLR 6005 is silent (Martien Groot, Netherlands, DSWCI DX Window July 25 via DXLD) ** BELARUS [non]. Radio Racja (Poland) expanded its transmission times and now uses three SW frequencies: 6225 (Sitkunai, Lithuania) at 1530- 1730, 6105 (Warsaw, Poland) at 1930-2200, 6120 (Warsaw) at 2200-2230. Transmitter power for all transmissions is 100 kW. Also on MW: 612 (Vilnius, Lithuania, 100 kW) at 0600-0700 & 666 (Sitkunai, 500 kW) at 1700-1900. (Bernd Trutenau, Lithuania, July 26, dxldyg via DXLD) ** BENIN. Dear Glenn, Just had an interesting email from Radio Parakou: - According to Mr. Eric Biokou, the chief engineer of Radio Parakou, the station uses a RIZ transmitter manufactured in (what used to be) Yugoslavia and installed in 1995. The transmitter can be heard most evenings in Sweden on 5025 kHz and is rated at 10 kW. Radio Parakou also has two 1970's transmitters which are broken and which cannot be repaired as spare parts are not available (Christer Brunström, Sweden, July 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4732.02, R. Universitaria, Cobija, Pando, 2235-0207* (one night to about 0300*), Jul 11, 12, 13 and 15, Spanish talks, romantic ballads and ID's. Consistent RTTY QRM on 4732 which has been reported as being from a military, Crimond transmitter located on north west coast of Scotland. The RTTY pattern seemed on for about 2 minutes then off for a minute. A series of "RYRYRYRYRY" at the end of each rtty period. Standard music oldies noted during RTTY breaks with up to 45343 (D'Angelo, Churchill and Herkimer in DXplorer, Gonçalves, Petersen, Valko and Wilkner, DSWCI DX Window July 25 via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. New 4732.03, 0058-0207* 11 & 13-07, R. Universitaria, Cobija, Pando, Spanish talks, pop songs, 0207 tent. ID at close, 21221. Heavy RTTY QRM most of the time, but this night with longer breaks than usual and then up to 25332 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. QSL: R. Tacana, Rurrenabaque, 4781 kHz, e-verie in 168 days (21 days after follow up) for a regular mail report, no IRC, v/s Roberto Carlos Chavez Ch. (Director), QTH: robertinho1982 @ yahoo.es (Vashek Korinek, RSA, July 24, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) see also UNIDENTIFIED ** CHINA. Looking thru the now completed (?) latest ITU monitoring report #314 for second quarter 2007, which has become a very large pdf file mixing broadcast and non-broadcast signals, we find a few interesting harmonics, tho not identified as such, on the higher frequencies, picked up at their Tokyo monitoring station, including: J TOKYO 23240.00 21 05 1919 CHINA R.I. CHN BC A3E 11 J TOKYO 23280.00 09 04 1705 CHINA R.I. CHN BC A3E 11 A3E = normal AM, double sideband, full carrier. The 11 in the last column means the category BC in a previous column is anomalous for that frequency. Most likely second harmonics of 11620 and 11640 respectively, but the trouble is, those do not match CRI scheduling. Other possible fundamentals for 23240: 5810, 3320; for 23280: 7760, 5820, 3880. They also had a broadcast from China on 17330 at 1733, and an unID BC on 19760 at 1939, 2 x 9880? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also KOREA NORTH ** CHINA [and non]. SOH Network 2 can be heard on 15000 and 16500 at 0500 UT on July 25. 15000 no jamming and heavy QRM on BPM. 16500 Firedrake at :05-:60 every hour. Monitoring station of Chicom cannot trace SOH at midnight. [1600 UT] [later:] SOH on 15000 moved to 18180 at 0522 UT, QRMed Firedrake from 0548 (S. Hasegawa, NDXC, July 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear OM, SOH can be heard at 0600 UT on 9200, 13970, 14900 (ex 10300), 16520 (move 16480 or 16500) and 18180. 7300 was not received in this time. f/in at 0800. SOH and Firedrake at 0604 on 18180 kHz on July 27. http://www.geocities.jp/ndxcjp/_gl_medias_/18180_70726_0604.wav de S. Aoki (S. Hasegawa, NDXC, 1010 UT July 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. 6035, 0020-0035 13-07, La Voz del Guaviare, San José del Guaviare, Spanish talk 25222. No sign of Bhutan! (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. EL CONFLICTO EN LA FRONTERA "Glifosato en ondas radioeléctricas" Quito, Miércoles 4 de Julio de 2007 De manera especial, locutores de las FARC invitan a jóvenes a unirse a la lucha armada. En cuatro provincias ecuatorianas ubicadas en la frontera norte se filtran programas de radios clandestinas de los grupos insurgentes y militares colombianos, que invitan especialmente a jóvenes a unirse a la guerrilla o a reinsertarse a la sociedad, respectivamente. No solo radios insurgentes son sintonizadas con facilidad en Sucumbíos, Orellana, Carchi y Esmeraldas, sino del Ejército colombiano, como Emisora Colombia Stereo, que en los 94.7 Mhz transmite desde el Caquetá, y cubre con sus ondas los departamentos del Putumayo y Mocoa. . . http://www.hoy.com.ec/impnoticia.asp?row_id=271337 (via José Miguel Romero, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) About FARC (and Colombian government) FM transmissions being heard in northern Ecuador, also on a number of other frequencies. Also linx to two clips of such broadcasts. Audio: http://www.hoy.com.ec/anio2007/multimedia/radio1.mp3 Audio: http://www.hoy.com.ec/anio2007/multimedia/radio2.mp3 I had to search out the page since JMR2 did not include a direct link to the source (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO BELGIAN [and non]. Glenn, In the early 1950's I remember hearing both R. Leopoldville and R. Brazzaville in the afternoons on my S-38B receiver as I did my high school homework. Leopoldville relayed programs from Belgium and Brazzaville relayed programs from Paris. Big signals nearly every day. As I remember the theme music from Radio Brazzaville was the Knightsbridge March. played by a brass band. Never have figured out why this very British tune was adopted by the French. 73, (Joe Buch in Delaware, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, I remember OTC from Leopoldville, pre-independence, including its stint as World`s Fair Radio (Bruxelles, 1957, the one with the Atomium – I have a QSL with that overprint), as well as R. Brazzaville from the French Congo, AEF: QSL folder with the topless natives. Knightsbridge March --- that`s still the theme music for HCJB`s DX Partyline (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. RHC was on 13750 instead of 13680, July 25 from 1309 tune-in, until 1459* or so. I was of course checking for R. Tirana, 1300-1328 in English to NAm on 13750. RHC has done this once or twice before, probably in error. Currently on their schedule 13750 shows Sundays only from 1400 for Aló, Presidente. No trace of Tirana audible underneath. RHC audio was somewhat distorted, and much weaker // 15190 also mixed with some hash, unclear whether from own transmitter or not. Perhaps the lesson is to avoid ANY RHC frequency 24 hours a day. We`ll see what happens the next day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Back to 13680; see ALBANIA ** ETHIOPIA [non]. 1600 - 1659 UT: 15260, CLANDESTINE Voice of Patriots at 1600-1700. Introductory music then male announcer with Somali identification (Ye Arbenyoch Dimts) and long talks. Continued with occasional local music to 1700 then abruptly off mid song. This new clandestine is produced by the Ethiopian People Patriotic Front and was launched on June 7. The programme is broadcast to Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. (Fair Jul 5 MLF) – this is on Thursdays only - ed 15260, RUSSIA, Voice of Xoriyo at 1600-1630 Tuesdays. Flute music at 1600 sign on, then male announcer with Somali identification and talks. At 1625 Somali songs and local music to 1630 and off. This clandestine is directed to the Ogadani people in the Ogaden region of Eastern Ethiopia. (Fair Jul 10 MLF) – this is on Tuesdays only - ed 15260, RUSSIA, The Holy Synod of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church at 1600-1700 Mondays. Tones to 1600 then intro music and female announcer with Ethiopian identification and schedule. Then male and female announcers with long talks and occasional local music bridges to 1700 and off. Very bad modulation buzz. This station was launched on July 2nd to Ethiopia by the exiled Holy Synod of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The Holy Synod is led by the legitimate patriarch of Ethiopia, Abune Merkorios, who went into exile when the Tigrean People Liberation Front came to power in 1991. The radio broadcasts are intended to expand the spiritual service the church is providing to its followers and to be a voice for the millions of Ethiopians who are being brutalized by the tribal junta currently in power. (Fair Jul 16 MLF) – this one is on Mondays only - ed (Michael Ford, Staffordshire, England, NDR515mod, NCM515, AR7030, 85’ wire, Aug ODXA Listening In logs, evidently quoting already published background info, via DXLD) ** FRANCE. Radio France - In response to my report on one of the R. France BCB stations, I received a thick envelope from RFI with frequency skeds, 3 stickers, several infosheets and a fill-in-the- blank reception report form, but no QSL. There was, though, an enclosed letter from Barbara Guidice - an Editor with the English service thanking me for writing, but stating that they receive too much mail to answer every letter individually. Jeez - the time taken and expense of what they sent had to have been more than filling out a simple QSL card and popping it back in the mail to me! (J. D. Stephens, Hampton Cove, AL, USA, July 24, HCDX via DXLD) Your mistake was reporting in English, which obviously got it sidetracked to the RFI SW service, where they do have English-speaking persons. Maybe she wanted to get the message out thru you, which you have just accomplished despite no QSL (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) But see INTERNATIONAL VACUUM ** GERMANY. Summer A-07 of DTK T-Systems Media & Broadcast. Pt 2 of 3: WYFR (Family Radio): to West Europe 1700-1800 3955 WER 100 kW / non-dir German to East Europe 1700-1900 9505 WER 500 kW / 060 deg Russian 1800-1900 11730 JUL 100 kW / 100 deg Romanian to South Asia 1300-1500 15350 WER 500 kW / 075 deg Bengali 1500-1600 13830 WER 500 kW / 075 deg Gujarati 1500-1600 13840 WER 500 kW / 075 deg Punjabi 1600-1800 11730 WER 500 kW / 075 deg Punjabi 1500-1800 12020 WER 500 kW / 075 deg Urdu 1300-1400 15640 WER 500 kW / 090 deg Marathi 1300-1400 15670 WER 500 kW / 090 deg English 1400-1600 15670 WER 500 kW / 090 deg Hindi 1400-1500 15715 WER 500 kW / 090 deg Kannada 1400-1500 15370 WER 500 kW / 090 deg Telugu 1500-1600 15370 WER 500 kW / 090 deg Tamil 1600-1800 11680 WER 500 kW / 090 deg Hindi to Middle East 1600-1700 11870 WER 500 kW / 105 deg Persian 1600-1800 9925 JUL 100 kW / 115 deg Turkish 1600-1700 13620 WER 500 kW / 120 deg Arabic 1700-1800 11875 WER 500 kW / 120 deg Arabic 1800-1900 11855 WER 500 kW / 120 deg Arabic 1900-2000 9495 WER 500 kW / 120 deg Arabic 2000-2100 9705 WER 125 kW / 120 deg Arabic to East Africa 1600-1900 13630 WER 500 kW / 135 deg English 1800-1900 13830 WER 500 kW / 135 deg Amharic 1600-1700 15650 WER 500 kW / 135 deg English 1500-1600 15750 WER 500 kW / 150 deg English 1600-1700 15750 WER 500 kW / 150 deg Amharic 1700-1800 15750 WER 500 kW / 150 deg Swahili 1800-1900 15750 WER 500 kW / 150 deg English to North Africa 1700-1800 13840 JUL 100 kW / 175 deg Arabic 1800-1900 11600 WER 500 kW / 150 deg Arabic 1900-2000 7180 WER 500 kW / 150 deg Arabic 2000-2100 9735 WER 500 kW / 150 deg Arabic 2100-2200 5915 WER 500 kW / 150 deg Arabic to Central Africa 1600-1700 15705 WER 500 kW / 165 deg English 1800-1900 13730 WER 500 kW / 165 deg English to South Africa 1900-2200 9610 WER 500 kW / 180 deg English 2200-2300 9620 WER 500 kW / 180 deg English 1900-2000 11610 WER 500 kW / 180 deg French 2000-2100 9595 WER 500 kW / 180 deg French 2100-2200 9720 WER 500 kW / 180 deg French to West Africa 2000-2100 11895 WER 100 kW / 195 deg French 2200-2300 9720 WER 500 kW / 195 deg French 1900-2000 13780 WER 500 kW / 210 deg French 2000-2200 11610 WER 500 kW / 210 deg Arabic 2200-2300 7115 WER 500 kW / 210 deg Arabic (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, July 27 via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Bible Voice Broadcasting Network (BVBN): to West Europe 0700-0815 5945 WER 100 kW / 300 deg Fri/Sat English 0700-0915 5945 WER 100 kW / 300 deg Sun English 0815-0845 9655 WER 040 kW / 300 deg Sat English DRM 1200-1230 5945 WER 040 kW / non-dir Sun English DRM 1800-1830 9435 JUL 100 kW / 220 deg Sun Spanish to East Europe 1800-1830 6015 JUL 100 kW / 085 deg Thu Ukrainian/English 1800-1830 6060 JUL 100 kW / 060 deg Tue/Fri Russian 1815-1830 6060 JUL 100 kW / 060 deg Mon English 1815-1830 6060 JUL 100 kW / 060 deg Wed Russian 1815-1845 6060 JUL 100 kW / 060 deg Thu Russian 1800-1845 6060 JUL 100 kW / 060 deg Sat English 1800-1930 6060 JUL 100 kW / 060 deg Sun English/Russian/English to West Africa 1900-2000 9775 WER 125 kW / 195 deg Sat English to Central Africa 1845-2000 9775 JUL 100 kW / 160 deg Sun English 1630-1730 15495 JUL 100 kW / 145 deg Daily Nier/Dinka to North Africa 0430-0530 13810 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Mon-Thu Arabic 0430-0545 13810 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Fri Arabic 2000-2030 9665 NAU 250 kW / 145 deg Thu Arabic 0900-1015 17595 WER 125 kW / 135 deg Fri Arabic to East Africa 0430-0530 13810 WER 125 kW / 135 deg Sat Amharic 0430-0500 13810 WER 125 kW / 135 deg Sun Amharic 1600-1700 13810 NAU 100 kW / 145 deg Wed Amharic 1630-1700 13810 NAU 100 kW / 145 deg Thu-Tue Amharic 1700-1800 13810 NAU 100 kW / 145 deg Daily Tigrinya/Amharic 1800-1900 13810 NAU 100 kW / 145 deg Fri/Sun Somali 1800-1830 13810 NAU 100 kW / 145 deg Sat Somali 1530-1600 15775 JUL 100 kW / 130 deg Wed Tigrinya to Middle East 2300-0100 6140 WER 100 kW / 105 deg Thu-Fri English 1615-1730 9430 JUL 100 kW / 115 deg Mon/Wed Arabic 1615-1730 9430 WER 100 kW / 120 deg Fri Arabic 1700-1730 9430 WER 100 kW / 120 deg Tue/Thu Arabic 1700-1800 9430 WER 100 kW / 120 deg Sat English 1630-1800 9430 WER 100 kW / 120 deg Sun English 1800-1900 9430 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Sat/Sun English 1830-1900 9430 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Fri English 1800-1830 11875 JUL 100 kW / 100 deg Mon/Wed/Fri Persian 1800-1900 11875 JUL 100 kW / 100 deg Tue/Thu/Sun Persian 1800-1815 11875 JUL 100 kW / 100 deg Sat English 1700-1900 11945 WER 100 kW / 105 deg Daily Persian 1630-1700 11975 JUL 100 kW / 105 deg Fri/Sun Hebrew 1625-1715 13580 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Tue/Fri Arabic 1625-1730 13580 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Mon/Wed/Thu Arabic 1540-1615 13590 WER 100 kW / 150 deg Mon-Fri English 1615-1645 13590 WER 100 kW / 150 deg Tue Hebrew/Tagalog 1645-1715 13590 WER 100 kW / 150 deg Tue English/Russian 1715-1800 13590 WER 100 kW / 150 deg Tue Hebrew 1615-1645 13590 WER 100 kW / 150 deg Thu Hebrew/English 1545-1730 13590 WER 100 kW / 150 deg Sat English 1730-1830 13590 WER 100 kW / 150 deg Sat Hebrew/English 1530-1730 13590 WER 100 kW / 150 deg Sun English to Far East 2245-2330 7245 WER 250 kW / 075 deg Fri Vietnamese 2300-2330 7245 WER 250 kW / 075 deg Sat Vietnamese to South Asia 0030-0045 9815 WER 500 kW / 075 deg Daily Bengali 0030-0100 9620 WER 500 kW / 090 deg Mon-Thu Hindi 0030-0100 9620 WER 500 kW / 090 deg Fri-Sun English 1500-1600 15530 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Mon/Thu/Fri Bengali 1530-1600 15530 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Tue Hindi 1515-1600 15530 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Wed Hindi 1500-1515 15530 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Sat Hindi 1500-1530 15530 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Sun Bengali 1400-1500 15680 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Sat/Sun English 1530-1600 15680 JUL 100 kW / 090 deg Mon English 1515-1600 15680 JUL 100 kW / 090 deg Wed Urdu/English 1515-1600 15680 JUL 100 kW / 090 deg Thu/Sat English 1515-1600 15680 JUL 100 kW / 090 deg Fri Punjabi 1530-1600 15680 JUL 100 kW / 090 deg Sun Urdu (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, July 27 via DXLD) ** GERMANY. The Wöbbelin site 25 km south of Schwerin is gone. Reportedly the buildings still exist but all antennas were removed. This was 576 with 250 kW and 999 with 20 kW (the latter in the past together with Hoyerswerda and Weimar transmitters), after 1995 both reactivated with new Thomson transmitters, 999 with temporary tests of a project that never saw the light of the day, 576 for Megaradio which went bankrupt in 2004. As well-known the former Megaradio transmitters on 630, 693 and 1431 were meanwhile leased to Voice of Russia, and a special arrangement with them made it possible to put 1575 again om air as well. Gossip had it that 576 was in the talks as well, but obviously no reactivation will happen here anymore (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4799.82, 0310-0410, Sunday 22-07, R. Buenas Nuevas, San Sebastián, Huehuetenango. Vernacular/Spanish announcement, late transmission with hymns and preaching, Rancheras, CODAR QRM, 23322 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. PRASAR BHARATI COULD BE SPLIT INTO TWO ENTITIES Saturday - Jul 21, 2007 Televisionpoint.com Correspondent http://www.televisionpoint.com/news2007/newsfullstory.php?id=1185027434 Public sector broadcaster Prasar Bharati could be split into two entities - an Asset Corporation (AC), to hold all the assets and a Programming and Broadcasting Corporation (PBC), to oversee programming and other operations. The proposal is currently being examined by the Group of Ministers (GoM), which was set up to examine various issues pertaining to Prasar Bharati. The restructuring proposal would help revive the PSU, and also make it competitive with regard to private broadcasters. According to the plan, the AC will maintain all assets, upgrade them and lease them out to any player including private broadcasters, while the PBC will run on a commercial basis. The PBC will also perform the role of a public broadcaster, where the government will continue to fund the production of content. The PBC will also be compensated by the government for airing public service broadcasts in the form of a broadcasting service fee. Listing the advantages of adopting this model, the Information and Broadcasting ministry has said AC will act as the guardian of all assets of both AIR and DD and also put safeguards in place for protecting them. This assumes importance since of the 1,371 properties held by DD and AIR across the country, no land records or details are available for 567 places. Additionally, many properties which have land records are not registered and also do not possess title deeds. Besides, capital funding and maintenance would be the exclusive job of the AC, which would enable the PBC to focus on programming content and bring about a competitive spirit in its operations, the I&B ministry's note to the GoM added. The I&B ministry has also said this would enable both corporations to work towards maximum revenue generation as their operations and income streams are different. Besides, the idle assets of different studios and Kendras can also be put to full use, the ministry added. At the same time, the I&B ministry has also pointed out that several complicated issues would have to be addressed before Prasar Bharati can be split up into two corporations. The option may require amendment to the Prasar Bharati Act, which may be difficult and may take substantial time and this may also lead to several HR issues and litigation. Prasar Bharati has accumulated losses of about Rs 4,000 crore over the last five years. Regards & 73's (via Mukesh Kumar, The Cosmos Club, Muzaffarpur, INDIA, dxldyg via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. RRI on both 9525 and 11785 --- Hello DXers, I was checking the Arabic section of RRI-Indonesia today and I noticed that both frequencies of 11785 and 9525 are working OK; some QRM on 11785 from 1630 UT with NHK in French, but other than that it's OK. Now [1716 UT July 26] it's the Spanish section and still both frequencies are OK. All the best, guys (Tarek Zeidan, Cairo, Egypt, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 4920, RRI Biak (presumed), 1149-1221, Jul 20, Indonesian vocal music to 1159, announcement, SCI, Jakarta relay 1200-1216, then back to local announcer with vocals. The music and Jak news were fairly readable, but the local male announcer hardly at all. First logging for me of this station on this frequency, although I have noted a weak signal there daily. They were right on 4920.00, going against the regional tradition of operating about .04 kHz from nominal. Excellent conditions this morning to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (John Wilkins, CO in DXplorer, via DSWCI DX Window July 25 via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. New WRN1 schedule has been posted at their Web site, with only change at 1000 ET [1400 UT daily] when RFI replaces Prague and Sweden (Mike Cooper, Jul 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL WATERS [and non]. Radio New York International video on the 20th anniversary of FCC bust: see U S A ** ISRAEL. There will be many studio cutbacks starting on Sunday. For English, the Reshet Hey broadcast at 1900-1925 UT (3 PM ET/10 PM Israel Time), will no longer exist. Here is what I posted on DXLD - hopefully, we'll see an official schedule soon. Again, the only English impact is the 1900 UT broadcast ceasing. === Looking at the IBA and israelradio.org websites, I still don't see any full listings for Monday's changes. As we know, they did announce the English Reshet Hey broadcast being cut and the REKA website mentions that as well. Anyhow, here is the listing I received earlier, with a couple of changes from the last posting, after getting some clarifications. I found out why there are discrepancies between the two schedules. The schedule that I sent out is the shortwave relay schedule - and the first schedule which I had (and didn't previously post), is the domestic REKA schedule. The shortwave relay doesn't broadcast during a number of hours over the course of the day. As I suspected, in the schedule I previously posted, the French morning broadcast was one hour off. The Persian in the shortwave schedule doesn't match the REKA schedule, for the following reason. The Persian on shortwave is still from Reshet Hey. REKA only has 1/2 hr of the Persian news recap from Reshet Hey. REKA itself has Russian during the first 1.5 hours of the Reshet Hey Persian broadcast. Again, Persian is all that is scheduled to remain of Reshet Hey. Anyhow, here is the schedule I have - although I'm not sure if it's 100% correct. Shortwave relay schedule in UTC, as of Sunday, July 29. REKA - except for Persian, which is Reshet Hey (Israel Radio International) 03:30 - 03:45 - English 03:45 - 04:00 - French 09:30 - 09:45 - English 10:00 - 10:15 - French 14:00 - 15:25 - Persian (Sun-Thurs) 14:00 - 15:00 - Persian (Fri-Sat) 16:30 - 16:45 - Romanian 16:45 - 17:00 - Ladino 17:00 - 17:15 - French 17:15 - 17:30 - Spanish 17:30 - 17:45 - English 17:45 - 18:00 - Yiddish 18:00 - 18:35 - Amharic 18:35 - 18:45 - Tigrit 18:45 - 19:00 - Hungarian 19:00 - 20:00 - Russian Reka - Domestic Schedule - Local Israel Time 06:30 - 06:45 - English 06:45 - 07:00 - French 07:00 - 12:30 - Russian 12:30 - 12:45 - English 12:45 - 13:00 - Mograbi 13:00 - 13:15 - French 13:15 - 13:30 - Georgian 13:30 - 14:45 - Amharic 14:45 - 15:00 - Bucharian 15:00 - 19:00 - Russian 19:00 - 19:30 - Persian (From Reshet Hey) 19:30 - 19:45 - Romanian 19:45 - 20:00 - Ladino 20:00 - 20:15 - French 20:15 - 20:30 - Spanish 20:30 - 20:45 - English 20:45 - 21:00 - Yiddish 21:00 - 21:35 - Amharic 21:35 - 21:45 - Tigrit 21:45 - 22:00 - Hungarian 22:00 - 23:00 - Russian (Doni Rosenzweig, July 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. Looking thru the now completed (?) latest ITU monitoring report #314 for second quarter 2007, which has become a very large pdf file mixing broadcast and non-broadcast signals, we find a few interesting harmonics, tho not identified as such, on the higher frequencies, picked up at their Tokyo monitoring station, including: J TOKYO 23730.00 21 05 1935 V.O.KOREA KRE BC A3E 11 That would probably be 2 x 11865, mentioned in PWBR altho not at this hour. The 11 in the last column means the category ``BC`` in previous column is anomalous for that frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CHINA ** KOREA NORTH [non]. Dear OM, cf. 7-086 and 7-087, Echo of Hope: 6003 kHz was added from July 1. Now operating; 3985 0300-0500 1100-1900 6003 0300-0500 1100-1500 6348 0300-0500 1100-1900 de S. Aoki (S. Hasegawa, NDXC, July 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6003.0, R Echo of Hope, heard 1220-1240, Jul 21, female hostess chatting, occasionally playing pop music // 3985 and 6348. Of these three frequencies, only 6348 seemed to be jammed. The jamming was quite strong and obnoxious and would be very noticeable on the other frequencies if they were jammed also. Why bother to jam only one frequency? (John Wilkins, CO in DXplorer via DSWCI DX Window July 25 via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. Re 7-081: Hi Glenn, Yes, Radio Kuwait has extended its DRM transmissions on 9880 kHz till 2115 UT. Heard here in Germany regularly with good signal. Conexion Digital gives their complete schedule as: KUWAIT: Radio Kuwait posee este completo esquema de emisiones: HORA UTC IDIOMA KHZ DESTINO 0130-1305 Arabe 6055 Golfo Pérsico 0400-0930 Arabe 15495 Africa [N] 0500-0905 Arabe 15110 Golfo Pérsico 0800-1000 Farsi 9750 Golfo Pérsico 0915-1330 Arabe 13620 Europa y Norteamérica 1000-1200 Tegalog 17885 Lejano Oriente 1015-1745 Arabe* 15505 Africa [C] 1200-1505 Arabe* 17885 Lejano Oriente 1345-1730 Arabe 9880 Africa [N] 1515-1800 Arabe 11990 Europa y Norteamérica 1800-2115 Arabe 9880 Africa [N] 1800-2130 Arabe 15505 Europa y Norteamérica 1800-2400 Arabe 9855 Europa y Norteamérica 1800-2400 Arabe 15495 Africa [C] 2200-0705 Arabe 11675 Norteamérica [O] Notas: (*) Recitación del Sagrado Corán. QTH: Ministry of Information, Department of Frequency Management, Radio Kuwait, P. O. Box 967, Safat 13010, Kuwait. E-mail: kwtfreq @ media.gov.kw Web: http://www.moinfo.gov.kw (Marcelo A. Cornachioni, Argentina) (via C O N E X I O N D I G I T A L, Buenos Aires - Republica Argentina, Numero 427 Edición 08 de julio de 2007) *********************** The new English transmissions are, however, not mentioned in this schedule. Best wishes, (Michael Bethge, Germany, WORLDWIDE DX CLUB, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The 7-081 report involved R. Kuwait in analog on 9885 instead of 9855 for a couple of days, not DRM, but from July 11 there was unID DRM on 9875-9880-9885 until 2111* Note that the ConDig schedule does not specify which are DRM! Marcelo never gives his sources, and as it does lack the revived English, we have no idea how old the sked really is. The website is also inaccessible when I check July 25 at 1605. The DRM schedule at http://www.baseportal.com/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=/drmdx/main&sort=Country,UTC shows only these broadcasts from Sulaibiyah, Kuwait, which site for some reason is a.k.a. Kabd: 0900-1330 daily 13620 310 Europe 120 Radio Kuwait KWT Arabic 1345-2115 daily 9880 282 N Africa 120 Radio Kuwait KWT Arabic 2200-0200 daily 11675 350 NE USA 120 Radio Kuwait KWT Arabic I wonder why it takes them 45 minutes to change frequencies on the DRM transmitter. WRTH 2007 also had 6055 in DRM at 05-09, before and after that in analog (Glenn Hauser, OK, July 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Many thanks for your kind answer. Unfortunately I have not monitored 9880 or 9885 kHz before July 11th. But since then it's definitely Radio Kuwait broadcasting until 2115 UT (official close down) on 9880 kHz in DRM. Real close down, however, varies every day: one day it is at 2110, next day at 2117. This leads me to assume that their transmitters are controlled manually, which could also explain why they need 15 or 45 minutes to tune to another frequency or by mistake tune to 9885 instead of 9855 kHz. Unfortunately Radio Kuwait's website is inaccessible also from here since I tried first a couple of days ago. I have asked for their latest schedule by e-mail, but no answer yet. I have just checked this evening, if there is a break in the DRM transmission on 9880 kHz from 1730 to 1800 as mentioned in the ConDig schedule. But is seems that the transmission is now going through from 1345 to 2115 as mentioned in Klaus Schneider's DRM-DX schedule, just corrected today (see the attached screen shot from 1743). By the way: The AM transmitter on 9855 kHz with the Arabic program abruptly started as late as 1804 instead of 1800, while the English transmission on 11990 kHz really started at 1800. Best wishes (from Germany, Michael Bethge, July 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LATVIA. 9290 relays Friday July 27th RWI (Radio Waves International) 2100-2200 UT Saturday July 28th RWI 0700-0800 UT Latvia Today 0800-0900 UT RMRC (Rhein- Main Radio Club) 1700-1900 UT Sunday July 29th RWI 0600-0700 UT Good Listening (Tom Taylor, July 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Desde ayer 23/07/07 por la tarde de México salió del aire la señal de XEYU en los 9600 kHz. La UNAM se encuentra en periodo vacacional de verano y reinicia actividades los primeros días de agosto, desconozco si la salida de la señal es por falla técnica o por vacaciones, en cualquier caso la señal de OM y FM siguen emitiendo las 24 horas aunque con algunos programas repetidos. 73´s (Julián Santiago D. de B., DF, Jul 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Taking time off the air according to academic vacations is not the sign of a professional operation, especially at Mexico`s #1 university and it happens at too many US college stations (gh, DXLD) ** MEXICO. 1530 kHz en MEXICO CITY --- Hola Amigos de la lista! Le comento la estación XEUR-AM 1530 kHz de Ciudad de México del GRUPO RADIO RAMA, la cual cambió hace meses su programación, la cual pasó de llamarse "Radio Mexicana" a "Colorín Color Radio". Lamentablemente, no tenían mas calcomanías de Radio Mexicana, ni de Colorín. Colorín Color Radio antes en los 540 kHz WEB : http://www.colorincolorradio.com.mx/ actualmente en los 1530 kHz Me dijeron que la página web de Radio Mexicana ya esta a punto de ser dada de baja de Internet, por lo cual ya no existirá más. Le recomiendo que la visites y grabes los logotipos de la emisora; la dirección es: http://www.radiomexicana.com.mx Atualmente 25 julio sigue activa. Sin más por el momento, estoy en comunicación. Saludos cordiales, (ROBERTO E GOMEZ MORALES, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [and non]. Desde Holanda: José Zepeda, director del departamento latinoamericano de Radio Nederland, anuncia oficialmente el término de Radio Enlace. Renovarse o morir, es uno de los argumentos para la desaparición de uno de los programas más populares de la onda corta internacional. Y aunque muchos anglosajones y los propios holandeses acostumbran decir... "Nunca cambies un equipo ganador", Alfonso y Jaime con filosófica comprensión de los tiempos que se viven prefieren decir un pensamiento taoísta: Hay un momento de empezar y otro de terminar. Son muchas las preguntas que se hacen numerosas personas, entre ellas miembros de la enorme audiencia de Radio Enlace, sobre cómo manejará en el futuro la emisora mundial holandesa, el legado que deja ese programa en el terreno de las comunicaciones. Como se puede comprobar por medio de los mensajes de numerosos oyentes en la página web del programa y en el Libro de visitas de la emisora, este es un tema que a muchos interesa y apasiona. Desde el estudio de Radio Enlace en Hilversum, Alfonso Montealegre y Jaime Báguena tratan de averiguarlo entrevistando a José Zepeda, director del departamento Latinoamericano de Radio Nederland (from this week`s summary about Radio Enlace, via DXLD) RADIO ENLACE es un programa semanal de 25 minutos que producen Alfonso Montealegre y Jaime Báguena para Radio Nederland Wereldomroep. Es un espacio informativo sobre temas del mundo de los medios de comunicación y la escucha de emisoras de onda corta, con la colaboración de corresponsales especializados. Radio Enlace se emite los viernes con repetición los domingos. "Radio Enlace" y "Amigos de la Onda Corta" en la misma sintonía para sumar oyentes e intereses en las áreas que nos ocupan: las telecomunicaciones y las tecnologías digitales. Desde España, nos hablarán de un tesoro... del rico patrimonio que guarda el Archivo Sonoro de Radio Nacional de España; registro de audio que se remontan a las primeras grabaciones realizadas por Edison. El segundo tema a tratar desde Madrid, es acerca de Google, uno de los buscadores en internet más utilizado, y en especial, para conocer su Política de Privacidad. Desde Holanda una primicia: Cedida con todo placer de amigos y colegas: la muerte de Radio Enlace, anunciada oficialmente por José Zepeda, director del departamento latinoamericano de Radio Nederland. Estos son los horarios y frecuencias de emisión de Radio Enlace: VIERNES: 2331-2356 UT – B17605 kHz Sudamérica (Sur) 0131-0156 (UT Sábado) B 9450 kHz Sudamérica (Sur) 0131-0156 (UT Sábado) S 6165 kHz Sudamérica Norte) y Caribe 0331-0356 (UT Sábado) B 9590 kHz México y Caribe 0331-0356 (UT Sábado) S 6165 kHz Centroamérica y Caribe DOMINGO: 0011-0036 (UT Lunes) B 9450 kHz Sudamérica (Sur) 0211-0236 (UT Lunes) B 9590 kHz México y Caribe 0211-0236 (UT Lunes) S 6165 kHz Centroamérica y Caribe B = Bonaire S = Sines, Portugal --- Página de Radio Enlace: http://www.informarn.nl/programas/programassemanales/RadioEnlace Sitio de Radio Nederland: http://www.informarn.nl/ También pueden escuchar este programa cualquier día y a cualquier hora en: http://es.geocities.com/programasdx/radioenlace.htm Y en la página de PROGRAMA DX: http://es.geocities.com/programasdx/index.htm Cordiales 73 (José Bueno, Córdoba – España, logsderadio yg via DXLD) The segment explaining why Radio Enlace is being cancelled starts at 7:19 into the file, until 11:15, and part two, from 17:35 to end just before 25. You can get it more quickly without downloading via the programasdx site, and it`s also archived there, in fact back to 7 April 2006, while at RNW itself only the latest program is available. Zepeda explains they are not cancelling it for lack of quality or lack of audience, but because after 30 years it is time to renew, revitalize, the programming; consolidate. There will be four joint (conjuntos) programs from end of October, replacing Radio Enlace and other specialized shows (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. With a population of just 4.1 million people, New Zealand is home to roughly the same number of people as greater Toronto. Unlike Toronto, however, New Zealand features towering mountains, glaciers, hot springs, and vast beaches (T.O.’s aren’t vast). Further, while the population seems small, New Zealand is huge and exceedingly modern when compared to other South Pacific micro- states such as Niue, Vanuatu, and Fiji. There are numerous print, radio, and television outlets, which operate in a largely deregulated environment. Not surprisingly, Radio New Zealand’s international arm is Radio New Zealand International. Radio New Zealand International (RNZI): http://www.rnzi.com/ RNZI wins the award for cleanest layout this month – their homepage displays black text on a white background, with just a hint of coloured text and a few small, tasteful graphics. Because of this (and a Site Map link, which all these sites should have), it’s easy to find what you’re looking for. The centre of the page features Pacific News Headlines, Audio, and What’s New sections, each with its own more button. On the left, you’ll find links including How to Listen, Schedules, Programmes, QSL – Contact, and About Us. How to Listen includes all the particulars needed for shortwave reception, plus information on DRM, World Radio Network, and Radio Australia streams, a link to internet audio, and a list of Pacific island rebroadcasters (well over a dozen of them). A variety of programming is available for download or podcast in MP3 format, and RNZI streams their broadcast in Windows Media and Real Audio formats, 24 hours a day. Now you won’t have to wait until late at night in winter to hear RNZI! (Paul E. Guise, Winnipeg, MB, Click!, Aug ODXA Listening In via DXLD) That must be a first impression, but if you delve deeper, you`ll find inaccurate or inadequate program sked info, non-updated or improperly dated frequency schedules, etc. (gh, DXLD) Here`s another version of the new sked in 7-087, adding the powers, and the antenna designation; interesting that new 9655, and old 7145 are the only ones running full power 100 kW; why are all the other AM frequencies at only 50 kW?? RNZI A-07 [northern summer] season. Update July 23, 2007 UTC kHz kW ant Target Azimuth 0459-0658 9890 DRM 35 148 Pacific 0 deg 0500-0658 9615 AM 50 156 Pacific 0 deg 0659-1258 7145 DRM 35 148 Pacific 0 deg 0700-1058 6095 AM 50 148 Pacific 0 deg 1059-1258 9655 AM 100 156 Bougainville, PNG, Timor 325 deg 1300-1550 6095 AM 50 148 Pacific 0 deg, no DRM 1551-1850 6095 DRM 70 148 7145 AM 100 148 Fiji, Niue, Tonga, Samoa, Cook Is 35 deg 1851-2050 9615 AM 50 156 Pacific 0 deg 1851-2050 9890 DRM 70 148 Fiji, Niue, Tonga, Samoa, Cook Is 35 deg 2051-2358 15720 AM 50 156 Pacific 0 deg 2051-2150 11675 DRM 70 148 NW Pacific, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu 325 2151-2358 13730 DRM 35 156 Pacific 0 deg 2359-0458 13730 AM 50 156 15720 DRM 35 148 Pacific 0 deg (RNZI via wwdxc BC-DX July 23 via DXLD) ** NIGERIA. The most populous country in Africa, Nigeria is home to 130 million people. Oil is the focus of the economy, although corruption may be a close second – despite massive oil reserves, poverty is rampant, life expectancies average 43 years, and large- scale violence (often on religious grounds) is a regular concern. A wide variety of media operate in Nigeria, often against challenging financial odds, and many outlets are renowned for the quality of their reporting. Voice of Nigeria is the external wing of the state-run Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria. Voice of Nigeria: http://www.voiceofnigeria.org/ After the joy of RNZI’s internet efforts, the Voice of Nigeria website is a bit of a rude awakening. The homepage is fairly typical, with news stories taking up the centre of the page and several links at the top. Unfortunately, most of these links are broken, leading either to blank pages or to browser error messages. The News page shows several 5-15 word headlines, six feature stories (two of which are identical), and, on my browser, twenty “missing icon” messages. The About VON page gives a brief history of the station, their current operating mandate, and links (on the right) to On Air audio in eight languages. None of these appear to work. Perhaps they’re in the midst of an update, and forgot to mention it on the main page. Sigh… (Paul E. Guise, Winnipeg, MB, Click!, Aug ODXA Listening In via DXLD) ** OMAN. When one thinks of the Middle East, one thinks of oil, and Oman is no exception. Except --- it’s also a nation with a long maritime heritage and burgeoning agricultural sector, and is rapidly becoming a tourist destination. The country of three million people has been quite effectively led by Sultan Qaboos since 1970, and boasts a very modern infrastructure and quality social programs. The state operates all media outlets and has the right to censor material. Recent changes in policy will soon lead to private (non-governmental) Omani ownership of certain media outlets. The Ministry of Information operates the shortwave broadcaster, Radio Sultanate of Oman. Radio Sultanate of Oman: http://www.oman-tv.gov.om/ After typing in the URL given above, be patient – it may take several seconds before anything appears on your screen (around 12 seconds for me). From the graphics that follow, click English under “Oman Radio”. The next page is the home of Radio Sultanate of Oman (or “Sultanate of Oman Radio”, as both are used on the page), and features photos of people working in the broadcast studios, several links, and a few small ads. Links across the page include a Programme Schedule and Channels & Frequencies, although the latter appears to have been last updated for 2003-04. Arab Radio & TV gives a basic list of broadcasters in the region, while Contact Us simply links to your email program (if it’s set up as such). My favourite link is Trends (on the left side of the page), which appears to be a bad translation. Clicking on it opens a new window, which is the Ministry of Information’s Tenders Online. Perhaps broadcast equipment suppliers might be interested! (Paul E. Guise, Winnipeg, MB, Click!, Aug ODXA Listening In via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. Romania’s 21 million inhabitants have seen a lot of change in recent years. After decades of Russian “influence”, Romania hung its leader (Nicolae Ceausescu, d. 1989), tinkered with democracy for over a decade, then joined NATO in 2004 (although you really have to squint to see the North Atlantic) and, finally, joined the EU in January of 2007. Corruption is down, standard of living is up, and European opportunities abound. Media outlets are a plentiful mix of public and private: domestic Radio Romania also operates the foreign service, Radio Romania International. Radio Romania International (RRI): http://www.rri.ro/ Radio Romania International launched their new website in mid-April of this year, and it’s very nice. The RRI homepage is formatted in a similar way to many other broadcasters’ websites, with links across the top and left side, news and features in the centre, and links to audio and major features on the right. Headings on the top include The English Service, Today in the News, What’s on This Week, Forum (actually a contact page), Reception Report, and QSL, which shows RRI’s printed QSL cards – these appear to change every month! On the left you’ll find Contact Us (perhaps this can be combined with Forum, Reception Report, and QSL in the future), current Frequencies, histories of both RRI and Romania, Contest (nothing new at the moment), Things to know, and Media Partners. On the right side of the website are links to three different RRI audio streams, each available in Real Audio and MP3 format. The quality of these streams was excellent during my listening. Below this is a listing of twelve languages used by RRI, and here’s the twist – when choosing a different language, the news and features in the middle of the page are also different! Even the photos change. Given that my Russian (and most of the other choices) is non-existent, I cannot give too many details, but it appears that each of the RRI language versions has been tailored to a specific listening/viewing audience. Excellent work! Please, take the time to explore RRI, as their new website is very well put together (Paul E. Guise, Winnipeg, MB, Click!, Aug ODXA Listening In via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. La Voz de Rusia amplia sus emisiones para España y Portugal A partir del día 1 de agosto, La Voz de Rusia amplia las emisiones para España y Portugal en media hora. Es decir, ahora esas emisiones serán de una hora cada una. Para España se emitirá desde las 2000 hasta las 2100 UT por las frecuencias de 7310 kHz, que seguirá vigente hasta el 27 de octubre, 12040 kHz, vigente hasta el 1 de septiembre, la que será reemplazada por los 9810 kHz frecuencia que estará en el aire hasta el 27 de octubre cuando se cambiará el esquema de horarios y frecuencias. Y en cuanto a la transmisión para Portugal comenzará a las 2100 y terminará a las 2200 UT y se utilizarán las mismas frecuencias. Cordiales 73 (José Bueno, Córdoba, España, July 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Re 7-086: ``In June 19 RTRN has destroyed MW site in Astrakhan, 46 21 10N, 48 04 13E, hi res: 576 RV-50 and 792 RV-35 are perished for ever too. FM and residential areas are coming.`` The Astrakhan branch of RTRS has a chronicle online at http://astrakhan.rtrn.ru/info.asp?view=3186 which reads like ... did they ever operate anything else besides FM and TV transmitters? Photos of the now gone 2 x 50 kW mediumwave site: http://bearism.nm.ru/temp/2006_09_08__CIMG0002.jpg http://bearism.nm.ru/temp/2006_09_08__CIMG0005.jpg http://bearism.nm.ru/temp/2006_09_08__CIMG0007.jpg This discussion reminds me on something I probably had not mentioned yet: The Wöbbelin site 25 km south of Schwerin is gone. … [see GERMANY] (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re [dxld] Syzran (Re: Ufa, Novosemeykino; Yekaterinburg and Kurovskaya silent?) ``Could it be in fact a VLF site what had been spotted near Syzran?`` http://maps.google.de/?ie=UTF8&t=h&om=0&ll=53.222788,48.446274&spn=0.030524,0.078278&z=13 Actually not, since 100 kHz is still longwave [LF]. The facility in this aerial photo is a high power (about 1000 kW) transmitter of the Loran-like Chayka navigation system, cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHAYKA When spotting this huge antenna facility I had RSDN-20 in mind, another navigation system that really uses VLF and is similar to the Omega system shut down in 1997. But not so, the transmitters of RSDN-20 (in the West dubbed "Alpha" because the actual name of the system was unknown there in the past) are located elsewhere, cf. http://www.vlf.it/alphatrond/alpha.htm The location of the RSDN-20 transmitter on the Kola peninsula (presumably off air) slightly differs from the mark on this page, the plant is easy to spot even on small-scale satellite images: http://maps.google.de/?ie=UTF8&ll=68.0325,34.637833&spn=0.076287,0.31311&t=h&z=11&om=0 At a glance I could not spot the Krasnodar facility around the given location. Other RSDN-20 sites not checked so far. Pictures of RSDN-20 installations: http://www.rirt.ru/onas/ftonas31-e.htm (Kai Ludwig, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ich kann Pankrateva in der Nordkette nicht finden. Fallingrain gibt auch nichts her. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ``At a glance I could not spot the Krasnodar facility around the given location. Other RSDN-20 sites not checked so far.`` Krasnodar hi res http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=45.403431&lon=38.158025&z=15.2&r=0&src=ggl Inta hi res http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=65.967&lon=60.309496&z=15.1&r=0&src=ggl (Victor Rutkovsky, Russia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAINT HELENA. New 11092.5, *1900-2102* 17-07, R. St. Helena, Pounceys USB English test transmission with oldies and frequent IDs, asked for e-mail reports, greetings to listeners, local news best first hour: 35434 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ? Per other reports they axually stayed on well past 2100 almost until 2200; maybe turned off at 2102 and then turned back on? (gh, DXLD) 11092.5/U, Radio St. Helena (presumed); 1848-1930, 2009-2025, 17-July; Bits of audio now & then till music started about 1906. Near continuous audio 1915-1925, then dropped away. Mix of pop tunes & talk. Nothing detectable 2009-2025 (Harold Frodge, MI, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD) 11092.5/U, Radio St. Helena (presumed): 17-July, I got something real real faint on freq at 1930 (Jerry Coatsworth, ON, ibid.) ** SCOTLAND [non]. RADIO SIX INTERNATIONAL RETURNS TO SHORTWAVE AND MEDIUM WAVE Effective August 11th, Scotland’s only independent international broadcaster returns to shortwave with a resumption of its Saturday morning broadcast on 9290 kHz beamed to Europe, the Far east and Pacific regions. The programme – transmitted every Saturday between 0700 and 0800 GMT – will be relayed from the 100 kW facility at Ulbroka, Latvia as well as from the 2.7 kW medium wave transmitter on 945 kHz in Riga, Latvia. The station has recently expressed reservations about the effectiveness of short wave transmissions, and is available 24 hours a day on the internet at http://www.radiosix.com as well as via satellite and FM in various parts of the world at certain times of day. The shortwave and MW transmissions will continue until the end of September, when the situation will be reviewed. For further information contact Tony Currie, Programme Director, at Radio Six International – tony @ radiosix.com Radio Six International, PO Box 600, Glasgow G41 5SH, Scotland Telephone and fax: +44 141 427 0531 radio six international press release (Tony Currie, July 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA. Re: [dxld] Radio Novi Sad, Serbia now available for streaming --- The website of Public Broadcasting Service of Vojvodina (Radio Televizija Vojvodine) is: http://www.rtv.co.yu Best regards from Subotica, Serbia! Dragan Lekic Hi Dragan, I have a question: what is the relationship between RTV Vojvodine (Prvi Kanal) and TV Novi Sad? I see both mentioned on the website http://www.rtv.co.yu Thanks. Best wishes (Bernd Trutenau, via Dragan Lekic, dxldyg via DXLD) Dear Bernd, New broadcasting law in 2003 says that Radio & TV Novi Sad should change name to Public Broadcasting Service of Vojvodina (Radiodifuzna ustanova Vojvodine=RUV). But, RTV Novi Sad decided to change its name to Radio Televizija Vojvodine = RTV. Sometimes on the air, hosts say TV Novi Sad instead of Radio Televizija Vojvodine, just like in Belgrade instead of Radio Televizija Srbije they say TV Beograd. Radio Novi Sad, as a part of RTV now says: "Radio Televizija Vojvodine - Radio Novi Sad". Best regards! (Dragan Lekic, Serbia, July 25, ibid.) ** SOMALIA [non]. QSL, CLANDESTINE: R. Waaberi, 17660 kHz, e-mail verie in 140 days, no IRC, v/s Ali Gulaid, QTH: alimarshal @yahoo.com (Vashek Korinek, RSA, July 24, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) No longer on air; was a WRMI client ** SOUTH AFRICA. Re: South African broadcaster launches 'progressive' new channel --- Satellite and other info: http://www.lyngsat-address.com/ss/SABC-News-Int.html (tribby2001, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. GORDON BROWN CONFIRMS FUNDING FOR BBC ARABIC TV, FARSI TV CHANNELS "I can also confirm funding for a BBC Arabic channel and an editorially independent Farsi TV channel for the people of Iran." Prime Minister Gordon Brown's statement on Security to Parliament July 25th: http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page12675.asp (Long paragraph near end of speech) (Mike Barrraclough, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [and non]. ARE YOU DECEIVING ME? WHEN DOES EDITORIAL CREATIVITY BECOME DECEPTION? --- Commentary by Andy Sennitt 26-07-2007 The BBC is going through an internal crisis following a series of revelations about what's being called "deception" in some of its programmes. It all came to the boil immediately after the press launch for BBC1's autumn schedule. One of the highlights was a documentary about Queen Elizabeth, acquired from independent production company RDF. Whether intentionally or not, the company had produced a promotional video that appeared to show the Queen arguing with a portrait painter and then storming out. In fact, she did no such thing: two clips had been edited together in the wrong sequence. . . http://www.radionetherlands.nl/features/media/070726bbc (via Media Network newsletter via DXLD) Later deals with birdsong SFX. Time for me to bring up again hearing the kookaburra (just like we used to on R. Australia, the ``laughing jackass``), used in movies or shows set nowhere near Australia. Any exotic jungle will do (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. DELANO CLOSING AT END OF OCTOBER *From:* IBB Notices Administration *Sent:* Wednesday, July 25, 2007 7:45 AM *To:* IBB Staff *Subject:* Delano Transmitting Station _Delano Transmitting Station_ As a result of the Broadcasting Board of Governors` changing global mission to meet current U.S. government broadcast requirements, along with reduced budgets and changes in technology, the International Broadcasting Bureau will cease broadcasting from its Delano, California Transmitting Station at the end of October 2007. As operating budgets decrease, we have had little choice but to downsize and realign the IBB transmission network. All of us in the IBB and Broadcasting Board of Governors regret the loss of valued and skilled employees at Delano as a result of this action. The history of U.S. international broadcasting is deeply rooted in the Delano Transmitting Station. Located about 140 miles north of Los Angeles, California, the station began shortwave broadcasts to the Pacific Theater of World War II in 1944. In early days, it beamed broadcasts directly to local audiences and to retransmitting facilities in Hawaii, Okinawa and the Philippines. Later the station provided critical shortwave broadcasts to Cuba, South America and Asia. These broadcasts clearly helped shape today`s world. There have been tremendous recent changes in communications, broadcast media and technology. The IBB Delano station relies entirely on shortwave wave radio transmissions, a format that is relatively expensive to operate. Although shortwave was the focus of international broadcasting for many decades, shortwave has declined in importance as traditional audiences have shifted to FM and MW radio, the Internet and television. We wish to recognize the employees and staff of the IBB transmitting station in Delano for their outstanding service to international broadcasting and the BBG is forever indebted for their contributions. July 24, 2007 (IBB via DXLD) BBG ANNOUNCES IT WILL END BROADCASTS FROM DELANO Dateline: WASHINGTON, 07/24/07. In its continuing assault against the Voice of America, the Broadcasting Board of Governors announced today the closure of the Delano, California transmitting station. The closure is scheduled for October 30, 2007. Employees then will be RIFed as a result of the manufactured “lack of work”. The plan would have the employees on the payroll only through January 5, 2008 (AFGE Local 1812 via DXLD) It's used now for Radio Martí and for VOA Spanish, Creole, and Special English to Latin America. There is much interest in Congress to overcome Cuban jamming of Martí broadcasts. Shortwave remains the medium of international broadcasting that is most difficult to block. But shortwave anti-jamming techniques work best by transmitting on as many frequencies as possible, from as many sites as possible. The closure of Delano thus makes it easier for Cuba to jam Radio Martí shortwave broadcasts. Beyond that, the BBG statement does not say if Delano will be placed in "mothball" status or closed altogether. I hope the former, because it will be needed during future crises, when more modern communications technologies fail due to overuse or hostile action. Posted: 25 Jul 2007 (Kim Andrew Elliott, kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) Since now we officially know that IBB Delano Transmitting Station will cease broadcasting on October 28, 2007 at 0330 UTC, here is the current A07 (final) schedule: freq. time pwr az. language station 5890 0200-0230 250 180 English R Thailand 5890 0230-0330 250 180 Thai R Thailand 9560 0030-0200 250 100 Spanish VOA 11815 0030-0200 250 100 Spanish VOA 13740 0130-0200 250 100 Special English VOA (Tue-Sat) 13820 2000-2400 250 100 Spanish R Marti 21555 2100-2130 250 100 Creole VOA Best regards & many 73s! (Dragan Lekic from Subotica, Serbia, July 25, dxldyg via DX LISTIENING DIGEST) Tour Voice of America - Delano http://www.w6lie.org/voa1.htm (via Media Network blog via DXLD) gee-whiz visit by ham club (gh) Wonder who Radio Thailand will use for its North American service? Hopefully Sackville can handle some more relays! (Randy Stewart, Springfield MO, IRCA via DXLD) Well, one of the broadcasts on 5890 is via Greenville, in case it last a bit longer than Delano. Somehow, I have the impression the US relays are not as important to R. Thailand as they are to us (gh, DXLD) A round of reconnaissance for everybody: http://maps.google.de/?ie=UTF8&ll=35.754275,-119.279224&spn=0.001171,0.002446&t=k&z=18&om=0 What the hell were they doing with their large satellite dish here? Is this just a rest position, or is it pointing at Intelsat 701 or Intelsat 2, the satellites that appear to be the most plausible candidates for such an alignment? If the latter, what did they want to receive here? No regular satellite reception at Delano anymore since the IBB multiplex on some satellite covering North America had been taken off, instead programming is fed to Delano through terrestrial circuits (T1 telcom line) now. This had been discussed in DXLD some time ago, but I can't find it right now (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Without knowing any details, I recall that IBB stations also use roundabout satellite linx, the far way around the world, at least as backup. Assuming that is the one aimed almost at the horizon, perhaps it is parked, out of service. Keeps the rain and debris out (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) IBB Delano dish aiming Ha! Guess what is the first Google hit for "delano uplink"? http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/dxld0072.txt The "Pacific satellite" mentioned there must be either of the already speculated Intelsat 2 or Intelsat 8 birds, cf. http://www.lyngsat-maps.com/intel2.html http://www.lyngsat-maps.com/intel8.html Presumably the IBB feeds there are encrypted, thus one of the unspecified feeds shown in the frequency list for the Pacific beams of either satellite. Obviously so far own IBB uplink facilities were used in all stages of the signal distribution. The closure of Ismaning signals an end of this policy (or has a new uplink facility be built at either Biblis or Lampertheim?), and probably Delano survived until now primarily because they had to keep it anyway as a satellite uplink. Not so anymore. Re: Tour report, including close-ups of the satellite uplink: http://www.w6lie.org/voa1.htm Of the portrayed transmitters #3 and #4 are apparently two of the newer Brown Boveri units while #6, #7 and #10 are presumably the elder Collins. Will the Brown Boveri's be pulled out and reused elsewhere, like the identical transmitters from Bethany, or are they meanwhile considered as old enough to let them rot away or let them become part of the scrap pile when dismantling the facilities (I guess it depends on the value of the station grounds if and when the latter will happen)? (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. DID A LAWYER'S LETTER CAUSE VOA TO "CEASE AND DESIST"? (updated) "The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) has taken legal action against proponents of US-Iran war who have waged a defamation campaign against NIAC. As a first sign of success, Voice of America’s Persian Service agreed to halt providing these activists a platform to spread false rumors about NIAC. In a letter dated June 19, 2007, NIAC's attorney Afshin Pishevar demanded that Voice of America, Persian Service (VOA) 'cease and desist' from continuing to function as a political platform for those attacking NIAC. This was the first time NIAC resorted to legal measures to thwart the campaign to depict all opponents of war between the US and Iran as agents of the Iranian government." http://persianmirror.com/Article_det.cfm?id=1594&getArticleCategory=41&getArticleSubCategory=2 (Persian Mirror, 14 July 2007 via kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) Update: "This tactic, commonly known as 'cease and desist letter' is typically not the first step in a legal action but an alternative to taking a legal action, aimed to intimidate. NIAC in the same statement has also bragged about having forced VOA to cancel further scheduled broadcasts. If this is indeed true, this is a shocking retreat by the Voice of America-TV that brings disgrace to the free media and discredits the United States in its strive to advance democracy and freedom of the speech in Iran." http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/07/silencing_the_voice_of_america.html (Omid Biniaz, American Thinker, 24 July 2007. Posted: 25 Jul 2007, kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) RL woes in ARMENIA: q.v. ** U S A. I have a sea-story to tell about AFRTS-15430, if anyone cares to hear it! The score was CAT 1, AFRTS 0; but CAT got the penalty! Shortly after I reported on board VOA (now IBB) Greenville in August 1986, I was placed in training status. Mostly that meant manning the control room (which meant switching the correct antennas to the correct transmitters, setting the transmitter's dedicated synthesizer to the correct frequency; and, of course learning to tune the transmitters properly. And if any of you AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS think the latter must have been a piece of cake, well tuning the old Continental 420A Dougherty- amplifier transmitters at 500-kW was a twenty-minute task! Anyway, the transmitters were (and still are) interlocked such that switching the antenna off a transmitter unkeyed the transmitter and shut down the 15-kV plate voltage. Antenna 03 was used for the AFRTS-15430 transmission. Its bearing was right toward Gander, Newfoundland; and via the circular route, into Europe. Well, Chuckie the Transmitter Troll was assigned the master control room that 8-hour shift. I switched up the phantom (dummy) load on the transmitter immediately to the left of transmitter GB-6's antenna switching panel position. That was GB-5's position. Well, after tuning GB-5 to its next operational frequency on the dummy antenna, I inadvertently switched down antenna 03 from GB-6 and switched up antenna 39 (the dummy load) on GB-6. In other words, I had taken down the AFRTS transmission on 15430 for all intents and purposes, without knowing it! Fortunately, our supervisor saw my error after five minutes, and thoroughly fussed me out after getting transmitter GB-6 on antenna 03. I still have the scars to show for the chewing out. Ah, the good ole' days. Good ole' days, haaaaruuumph!! (Charles A Taylor, WD4INP, Greenville, North Carolina, ABDX via DXLD) ** U S A [non]. PSYOP: MARKETING AS GOOD AS THE LOCAL NEWS Col. Curtis Boyd, 4th Psychological Operations Group: "Everybody has a different way of looking at it, but if you really want to get your head around it, it’s marketing. We inform a foreign audience of the good things and bad things about activities in the name of them for their future. ... It is all truth-based. As of anything media or otherwise, truth seems to be a matter of perception. However, you drill down into any of our activities, you’ll find they’re as good as anything in the local news." http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=268158 (Fayette[ville] (North Carolina) Observer, 26 July 2007 via kimandrewelliott.com Posted: 27 Jul 2007 via DXLD) ** U S A. Re 7-087, KVOH 17775: They've been missing after 2300 for some weeks. The quality of transmissions prior to 2300 varies from moderate to pathetic. Since their transmitter works, however poorly, this strikes me as being a rather permanent sked change. I haven't heard 9975 for years, tho' I will admit to not consistently checking. That propagated better. 73/Liz (Cameron, MI, July 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nominal sked per FCC A-07 is 15-01 on 17775, 01-08 & 13-15 on 9975, but 9975 appears to have been inactive, and 17775 evidently not running full hours authorized. Looking around for KVOH website now that it is La Voz de la Restauración, on the Media Network hitlist all I could find was its previous owner, and look what I found at http://www.highadventure.org/ We are saddened to report that George K. Otis, Sr. beloved friend and founder of High Adventure Ministries and Voice of Hope, went home to be with the Lord on Sunday July 22, 2007. George was a Christian radio pioneer and evangelist. He was an author of more than a dozen books, including his autobiography, High Adventure. The founder of the Voice of Hope Radio Network, Otis eventually surrounded the globe with short-wave radio stations. His ministry in Israel started what would become Middle East Television. He was best known for his energetic enthusiasm and unflagging commitment to reaching the world with the Gospel. His life touched the lives of actors, athletes and politicians like Pat Boone and former president, Ronald Reagan. His lifelong commitment to Israel gave him opportunity to meet with prime ministers like Yitzak Rabin, Menecham [sic] Begin and Shimon Peres. He died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Murrieta, California. Otis was 90. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Virginia, his sons George Otis, Jr., and Don Otis and three surviving daughters, Kay Smith, April McCallum and Heather Tayloe (via DXLD) OBIT Here`s more: http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2007/s07070152.htm also quoted in: http://www.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=17266&PN=1&TPN=1 Meanwhile, had to search for the real KVOH website: http://www.restauracion.com/pgs/radio.htm Which other than that seems to unhave any specific info about radio programming, times or frequencies (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Take a look back at the life of George Otis, Sr. by clicking on the play button. You will also get a chance to hear what Pat Robertson had to say about his dear friend. http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/200335.aspx (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. 5070, 0225-0300, Sunday 08-07, WWCR, Nashville, English ID, DX programs with Allen Graham and Glenn Hauser 44444 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** U S A. 6 videos of Radio New York International just posted: http://www.youtube.com/user/PeteRFNY (Mike Barraclough, England, July 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Are you one of the 402 members of the WWRB Listener Club, which has not been updated for 25 months? Better check: http://wwrb.org/club/members.html No. 373 is a William Martin in Montana --- I`ll bet Dave Frantz does not know that MO = Missouri. This could also cause a problem in aeronautical navigation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. More 11 meter broadcast auxiliary logs: 25910/FM WBAP Fort Worth TX studio relay; 2232-2241+, 24-July; Ad string including Dallas-Ft. Worth Lexus dealers, Cordell & Cordell domestic litigation; News-Talk 8-20 WBAP; Sean Hannity. Good peaks to zilch. (Frodge-MI) 25950/FM KOA Denver CO studio relay; 1831-1844+, 16-July; News Radio 8-50 KOA; Rush Limbaugh. Xlnt peaks but brief QSBs to zilch. (Frodge-MI) 25990/FM KSCS Fort Worth TX studio relay; 1845-1910+, 16-July; C&W music; "When we say all the best country, we mean all the best country...". Break-in anmt at 1855:50 ?GY434. "96.3 KSCS, we play the music...", "96.3 KSCS all the best country." Poor w/occasional copiable peaks, but better peaks after 1900. (Frodge-MI) 25990/FM KSCS Ft. Worth TX studio relay; 2231, 24-July; KSCS Traffic Update into C&W music. Good peaks to zilch (Harold Frodge, MI, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD) More sporadic E (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. Hello! is there anyone on this list who knows a working contact address for WWRU Radio Korea, New York. I have now tried at several times for more than half a year. Their home page seems to be working, but emails are bouncing back "No such user here". I´ve tried to find other addresses, but in vain. Also a letter to their postal address in Flushing got back... Thank you in advance and best regards from (Jan Edh, Hudiksvall, Sweden, (DX-ing in Fredriksfors), HCDX via DXLD) Jan, 2006-2007 NRC AM Log, which deals only in postal addresses, shows for WWRU 1660 Jersey City NJ: 449 Broadway, NY NY 10013-2549. Phone 212-966-1059. 73, (Glenn Hauser, OK, ibid.) Thank you Glenn, that was very useful help. From that information I have now been shopping around for a while and it seems they have moved to that address and also have a new boss. Calling them MRBI (Multicultural Radio Broadcasting Inc.) and seems to have dropped the seemingly working "Radio Korea" homepage. Best regards (Jan Edh, ibid.) Hi Glenn, Just a quick message of no importance, I want to see if I can pick up WWRU in Jersey City, should be able to. I see from the post from Jan in Sweden that this station is known as Radio Korea. Is it a clandestine, or better put, broadcasting anti- North Korean propaganda? Guess the only way to find out is to tune it up. Shouldn't have any problems from here in Pittsburgh, I'll point my loop antenna that direction. 73 (Rich Brock, Many receivers, MFJ Versatuner II, Random Longwire, Homebrew Directional Loop for Medium Wave, ibid.) No doubt it is an ethnic and very commercial station for all the Koreans in the NYC area, who have no need of propaganda against NK, hardly clandestine. But surely would side with the South (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. WISN/WOKY QSLs.... Hi Glenn, After a couple of years of moving around, I am about to get to sitting down and getting to the WISN/WOKY QSLs from 2005. Please pass the info along, and please apologize to everyone that has been so patient!!! (Kent Winrich, Ex CE Clear Channel Milwaukee, Now at Ft Bragg, NC, July 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WPR (Wyoming Public Radio) Hourly Legal Station Identification (ID’s) via http://uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/wpr/Templates/Sation%20ID’s.htmla [sic] We’ve been getting lots of comments about the 14 station ID’s that have been airing hourly since March. All broadcast stations are required by law to identify themselves once each hour; as near as possible to the top of each hour. Until March you heard only the ID for the station you happened to be listening to. Long story short: Wyoming Public Radio is a network of 14 transmitters around the state. Until recently we used a system whereby each transmitter would “cut away” from the network broadcast for 13 seconds to play its own local ID from a recorder located at the transmitter site. The WPR network sent out an inaudible tone that triggered each transmitter to play that ID. WPR recently completed converting all 14 of our transmitters around Wyoming to HD digital technology, which improves sound and enables us to create a second channel all over the state, the first of its kind in the nation. That pioneering second network is launching this spring and summer as equipment can be funded and installed. However, one of the unintended consequences was that the ID recorders for each transmitter will not “talk” to the new digital transmitters. We have ordered brand new equipment for each transmitter at a total cost of $32,000 that will allow WPR to go back to a single ID for each station. In the mean time, by law we must play all 14 WPR network ID’s once every hour. We apologize for the inconvenience, and appreciate your patience as we work to fix this issue (via Dan Greenall, FM/TV Report, Aug ODXA Listening In via DXLD) Hunting for the correct URL rather than the one above, on UT July 25, we found instead these notices: Good News --- the ID’s are fixed!! The single station ID’s are set to return beginning Wednesday July 11th. And on the network status page, http://uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/wpr/networkstatus.htm which has lots of useful info about transmitter problems, etc., what must predate the above: The new satellite receivers that are being installed during the last two weeks of June will once again allow each station to identify itself individually. This will eliminate the 14 station ID that we have been doing at the top of every hour. In addition, we will have the ability to update these IDs automatically over the satellite without interrupting normal programming. If you hear any problems with station IDs after July 1st, please contact WPR engineering at 766-3531 or E-Mail stoven @ uwyo.edu (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Why should a station ever be apologetic about identifying itself? (gh) ** U S A. In the latest DXLD you ask: Relaying NWS Weather Radio is a good thing. How many people have 152 MHz receivers in their cars? And why were those never mandated as standard equipment, for safety purposes? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) However, a 152 MHz receiver would not permit reception of NOAA Weather Radio stations, which transmit from 162.40 to 162.55 MHz. I seem to recall that someone (Radio Shack?) sold a converter about 25 years ago that would permit Weather Radio reception on a car radio (Mike Cooper, Jul 24, DXLD) Oops, but my point still stands (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. QSL: KKGM, Texas, 1630 kHz, personal letter, business card, fridge magnet in 20 days, no IRC, v/s Jack Davis (Program Director). (Vashek Korinek, RSA, July 24, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** VENEZUELA. Here`s a lot of coverage in English of the RCTV case: http://www.eluniversal.com/rctv_indexEng.shtml Our Venezuelan contributors continue their war of words in Spanish, which we`ll try to work in when space permit (gh, DXLD) CAN VENEZUELA REGULATE RCTV EVEN THOUGH ITS HEADQUARTERS ARE NOW IN MIAMI? "Venezuela’s Telecommunications Commission stated this week that the private TV channel RCTV must continue to follow Venezuelan media regulations, even though its new headquarters are in Miami. ... The nation's oldest private channel came back on the air last week via cable and satellite, after going off the national airwaves on May 28th, when its broadcast license expired. After the Chavez government denied the channel a renewal of its license to broadcast on the nation's VHF spectrum, RCTV came back on Monday of last week as RCTV International on cable and satellite subscription television. Since then, the channel has claimed that it does not have to comply with mandatory government public service messages or play the national anthem twice daily, as is required of all national broadcasters by law." http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=2362 (Venezuelanalysis.com, July 2007 via kimandrewelliott.com Posted: 27 Jul 2007 via DXLD) The government of Venezuela can probably force RCTV off cable systems in that country. Can it stop reception of RCTV via DirectTV Latin America? There are old international laws, some places observed, some places not, that target country consent is required for satellite broadcasts. It remains to be seen how DirectTV Latin America will respond to this situation. This is the essential problem of international broadcasting: how to get content into a country whose government does not want its people to receive that content (Kim Andrew Elliott, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. Glenn, I hear for the third time this week, a station on 4781.43, time 2250. Perhaps Bolivia, Radio Tacana, I don`t know; can you check this frequency please. Many thanks From (Maurits Van Driessche from Belgium, July 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Well, we had this in last issue: ``GUATEMALA. 4781.3, R. Cultural Coatán, San Sebastián de Coatán, 2236-2247, 21 Jul, Spanish, pops; 34332 (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Unusual to be that far off frequency (gh, DXLD)`` That also seems a bit early for Guat on 60m, and no definite ID? There was also this last December: ``4781.5 tentative, Radio Tacana, Tumupasa, Iturralde, Bolivia, 1018 beautiful flute solo followed by OM with comment in the mud, two men with conversational Spanish, fade out. 18 December. [Wilkner-FL]`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Hola: Aquí van las escuchas de hoy; únicamente tengo la duda de Radio Farda en 17560 que no me aparece en los listados, pero por la señal recibida no me extrañaría que saliera desde el relay de Tánger. KHz UTC ITU Emisora/Ctr. Emisor Comentarios Fecha Idioma SINPO 17560.0 1457 - R FARDA-? Mx+Id+Com FX no listada 24/07 Per 45444 Cordialmente, (Tomás Méndez, RX: GRUNDIG SATELLIT 700, SONY ICF SW7600GR, ICOM IC-R2, DEGEN 1103, playdx yg via DXLD) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ EDXC COUNTRY LIST Hi Glenn: The scope of the list is not well defined. It is intended to include all countries and territories that have had broadcast activity after WWII. The original authors also included a number of countries that were considered possible coming radio countries. I have not deleted these, although some of them may look silly today. The rules section of the list is a separate section that is not included in the list as such. It should also be noted that the list is not 100% updated. There may be errors and omitments, since I have not spent much time with the list in the past few years. Some countries have been included more or less only for the benefit of those hunting for amateur stations/countries. This is based on tradition, not on lists prepared by the hams themselves. Some odd "enclaves" in Europe have been included because of FM activity. 73 (Olle Alm, Sweden, July 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) MAPS OF European, Asian and African Longwave station sites http://www.mediumwaveradio.com/longwave.php (Mark Hattam, BDXC-UK via DXLD) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ MAELSTROM The term maelstrom has no Norwegian origin although it is used to describe several North Norwegian tide currents, responsible for widowing many a fisherman's wife in days past. The origin is the Dutch "/maalstroom",/ in Norwegian and Danish "malstrøm", in Swedish "malström"/. /"Stroom" or Norwegian "Strøm" is sea current (or stream); the origin of "maal" is a little obscure but according to Wiki may refer to the East Frisian "dwalen", meaning whirl or whirling. Don't always trust Discovery Channel. And now you see how closely knit the Germanic languages of Europe are (Bjarne Mjelde, Berlevag, Arctic Norway, July 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ ebay radio insanity ebay item 220132158407 --- A very rare R390A, built in 1984 Current bid: $9100 ...and reserve - which was lowered - still not met. (Al Quaglieri, NY, July 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CC Radio - SW http://www.ccrane.com/radios/shortwave-radios/ccradio-sw.aspx The CCRadio SW is not for sale until 8/16 but you can buy an orphan before that day on the CCrane site. You will get 10% off. If anyone gets one, let us know how you like it (Kevin Redding, Gilbert, AZ, July 26, ABDX via DXLD) I assume the twin coil ferrite antenna only applies to MW (gh, DXLD) Also should have mentioned, Kaito USA is selling essentially the same radio for $100, assuming their "Father's Day" pricing is still valid. http://www.kaitousa.com/KA2100.htm This is the same radio I have and about which I have previously posted reviews. I use it daily and am quite pleased with it. I'm anxiously awaiting the first comparisons of the RP/KA-2100 with the CCR-SW. Crane is still claiming their version is the only one to have the twin coil ferrite antenna, despite wide reports of the Redsun/Kaito having the same antenna and even the Tecsun BCL2000/Grundig S350 lines having the same twin coil ferrite antenna (Jay Heyl, FL, ABDX via DXLD) SDR-IQ at Granite Pier: a whole new way to DX I've tested out my newly-acquired RFSpace SDR-IQ software-defined receiver board from home several times over the past two weeks since it arrived. Its spectrum capture ability (up to a bandwidth of 190 kHz) allows "after the fact" DXing on any PC loaded with SpectraVue software. This includes adjusting 'virtual' IF filter bandwidth, selecting demodulation mode, and viewing received spectrum in several different screen presentations. Tests at home indicated that the receiver has DXing capabilities in the same class as many conventional table-top "knob and switch" radios. Yesterday (24 JUL) it was about time to make things a whole lot more interesting: take the SDR-IQ and laptop combo out on a little "road trip": an after-work DXpedition to what is arguably metro-Boston's best (and most famous) medium wave DXing site - Granite Pier in Rockport, MA. At this point I had no idea how much RF interference the laptop might generate in this situation since I was using antennas (active whip and broadband loop) mounted right on top of the car, rather than a fair distance away as in the case of the antennas used at home. I also had no clue how long the laptop's battery was going to hold out during the DX session. As I still wanted to do some "hand-on" conventional DXing on my trusty Drake R8A while the SDR-IQ was gobbling up chunks of spectrum and loading them to the PC hard drive, I placed a Mini-Circuits ZSC-2-2 splitter at the output of my DXP-6A phasing unit so that equal signals would go to the inputs of both receivers. I arrived at the site over an hour before sunset and the only transatlantic skip showing was fairly strong Saudi 1521 and some other hets (1134, 1503, 1557, 1575, 1584). The first two spectrum captures I did with the SDR-IQ were on longwave (150-340, 340-530) where purely daylight conditions were still in force. I figured that if noise from the laptop or the receiver was going to be a problem, it would likely show up "down there" worse than "higher on the dial". While there was a little bit of low-level hash, I was pleased to note the usual beacons coming through fine. By sunset (0011 UTC), medium wave was alive with European and North African signals. Mostly it was "the usual suspects" from Spain and Algeria leading the parade. Algeria was enormous on 890.97 and 981 (and 549 wasn't too shabby either). Interestingly mid-band showed better propagation than the high end. Soon the low end caught up. It was wild watching the SDR-IQ spectrum display and seeing Spain-684 showing up STRONGER THAN (!) WRKO-680 at times. With darkness setting in and some of the overseas signals getting seriously loud, it was time to capture some slices of medium wave for later dissection. I had saved ".ini" files of specific 150 and 190 kHz wide segments that I thought had the greatest potential to yield "goodies". This made setting the radio up "on the fly" much faster. I did a 1070-1220 kHz capture lasting 6 minutes. This produced a file of about 213 megabytes. A bit later I fired up a 639 - 829 kHz capture. Conditions in this segment were getting kicked-up with both Latin Americans and transatlantics in the stew. Also some killer Newfie signals (640, 740, 750, 800) at times for a nice domestic twist. About three minutes into this RF recording, the laptop battery gave up and the computer went into "hibernate". I wasn't sure if the file was going to be lost; luckily when I got home and powered up the laptop from the mains, it was there. Four minutes at a 190 kHz capture width produced a 308 megabyte file. Though the recording times seem short for the size of these files, I must emphasize that there's a LOT of DX jammed in here. It's like being able to DX simultaneously with over 30 receivers (figuring access to 9 kHz and 10 kHz multiple channels). Playing back the files the next day at lunch resulted in two more pages of loggings from what I had written down during the Drake R8A "live DXing". All logs will be distributed within a week. Everything worked flawlessly except the laptop battery endurance. I have to do something about that. Whatever that solution is can't generate RFI. The Boston Area DXers are set to have their annual "DX Clams" Granite Pier outing soon. I am looking forward to giving the SDR-IQ another workout there. Looking ahead, the next East Coast North America play for this technology would be at a high-grade coastal HOUSE-BASED setting: Vern Brownell's in Chatham perhaps, or Miscou, or the "new" Newfie DX Inn. Unlimited "band capturing" could then go on since battery operation wouldn't be needed. Outboard high-capacity hard drives and DVD writers would be simpler to put into use to "soak up" all the data. SDR receivers having significant spectrum capture range have the very real possibility of revolutionizing how DX is done (Mark Connelly, MA, July 25, NRC-AM via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING ++++++++++++++++++++ Another Software Defined Radio (SDR) Please have a look for this SDR at http://www.microtelecom.it/perseus/ (Kuhl in DXplorer, Jul 18) DRM / DAB Capable Receiver Himalaya 2009 is Officially Launched Long time DRM supporter Himalaya (Power) Electronics is proud to present the DRM 2009 to the European market. Based on the experience of manufacturing the first two DRM receivers, namely the Mayah DRM2010 and the Coding Technologies Digital World Traveller, Himalaya (Power) Electronics is pleased to deliver a new generation of high quality DRM receivers which is more affordable than ever. The Himalaya DRM2009 is a standalone radio which supports DAB/DRM/AM/FM services. It is a real portable receiver that could be run either by AC or batteries. With the SDcard slot, it can also be used as a MP3 player. In addition to MP3 playback features, the SDcard can be used for scheduled recordings of DAB/DRM programmes. Furthermore, features of Play/Pause for DAB and DRM services are supported through the internal memory. EPG (Electronic Programme Guide) is also supported for DAB service. The specialized user interface allows for easy navigation of these advanced radio features. DRM2009 uses an advanced Radioscape multiband module, allowing reception of a wide range of digital and analog services. DRM2009 is a truly portable and flexible system. Further information about the receiver can be found under http://www.himalaya.com.hk/ You can order the receiver in Germany and in Austria from the T-Online Shop on http://www.t-online-shop.de and from the Charly Hardt´s web site http://www.charly-hardt.de About Himalaya (Power) Electronics Himalaya (Power) Electronics was founded in 1974. For three decades, Himalaya has established a good reputation of producing high quality consumer electronics products. Having developed and produced a large variety of audio electronics products, Himalaya is one of the most experienced manufacturers based in Hong Kong. Our specialization has been successfully shifted to digital products such as digital flash- based audio recorders, radio-controlled atomic clocks, multi-band and RDS portable radios, car stereos, weather alert clock radios and direct key-in world band PLL radios. For the last few years, we have become a key supporter for the new digital radio standard of Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM). In 2004, we have helped to bring the two most advanced DRM receivers, DRM 2010 and Digital World Traveller (USB radio), to the market. Our most recent DRM receivers are the DRM2008 and DRM2009. About Mayah® Communications MAYAH® Communications' main objective is the development and distribution of innovative hiqh quality solutions for audio and audio/video communications in broadcast and corporate networks. Focus is given to standardized audio and video formats, such as MPEG-1, -2 and 4 as well as proprietary but accepted formats such as E/apt-X, ADPCM4SB and others. The company is located in a nice modern office park just a few minutes away from Munich Airport. Touching base with radio and TV customers in the media metropole Munich, MAYAH has an optimum location for international business. About Coding Technologies Coding Technologies provides the best audio compression for mobile, broadcasting, and Internet. SBR (Spectral Band Replication) from Coding Technologies is a backward and forward compatible method to enhance the efficiency of any audio codec; putting the "PRO" in mp3PRO and the "Plus" in aacPlus. Parametric Stereo from Coding Technologies and Philips again significantly increases the efficiency of audio codecs for stereo signals at low bit rates. Products from Coding Technologies are fundamental enablers of open standards such as 3GPP, 3GPP2, MPEG, DVB, Digital Radio Mondiale, HD Radio, and the DVD Forum. About DRM DRM (TM) is the only universal, openly standardised, digital radio system for SW, MW and LW - digital radio for frequencies below 30MHz. It has been endorsed by the ITU, and is standardised as ETSI ES 201 980. While DRM currently covers the broadcasting bands below 30 MHz, the DRM consortium is extending the system to the broadcasting bands up to 120 MHz. DRM has near-FM sound quality plus the ease-of-use that comes from digital transmissions, combined with long range and low power consumption. A continuously growing number of commercial, public, international, national and local broadcasters are already broadcasting DRM transmissions into Europe and North America, Mexico, Russia, China, India and other regions. Multi-standard, DRM-capable consumer radios were introduced, and are available in different on-line shops (e.g. http://www.igear.com ). Further information on DRMTM can be found under: http://www.drm.org (drm.org via Gupta, Jul 18, DSWCI DX Window July 25 via DXLD) Many new abbreviations to learn and understand! (Anker Petersen, Ed., ibid.) FRUGAL GUIDE TO DRM RECEPTION I do hope people find my "Frugal Guide to DRM Reception" interesting and helpful as published in the June issue of MONITORING TIMES. 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, VA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The June issue can be viewed free online at http://www.monitoringtimes.com:80/MT/html/free_issue.html It`s packed with interesting articles (Mike Terry, BDXC-UK via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ BLACKOUTS I am experiencing a higher bands shortwave "blackout" so to speak. I can't hear anything above 15 MHz. Anyone else having this problem? I can hear 5025 really good, so I know my receiver and antenna are both okay (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston, Florida 1254? UT July 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Definitely, Chuck. This is the main reason why I've been doing few postings lately, altho from time to time you receive a surprise. Like 12080 from RA Brandon, heard yesterday as early as 2140, just 10 kW, still hard to believe, on complete daylight. How it can be explain under such poor propagation conditions. Absence of "humming" Syria 12085 gave me a hand on this too. But anyway, not so different down here in Tiquicia. Too much static noise on 16 or 19m. A little bit better on middle bands. And 49 and 60 m. charged with distant (some nearby) T-storms. So you have just a couple of options: be patient (a little more) or be content with major broadcasters, while they not follow the example of Delano. 73 (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, ibid.) Shortwave fade out DXers, At this time (1326 UT July 27) I am experiencing a shortwave fadeout where the only stations I am able to hear without difficulty are those from North America and Caribbean such as Canada and Cuba (9550 & 5025) and CRI (9570). Anyone else having this problem about this time? (Chuck Bolland, FL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I was monitoring about this time, but was still getting poor reception including Turkey 15450 until 1320+ and as far up as the 17 MHz band, such as Spain 17595, and even a bit of Solh/UK 17700. Chuck is referring to an abrupt fadeout, rather than generally poor conditions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###