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Thanks, Glenn NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1373 Sun 0230 WWCR3 5070 Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215 Sun 0800 WRMI 9955 Sun 1500 WRMI 7385 Mon 0300 WBCQ 9330-CLSB [irregular; not 9/3/07] Mon 0415 WBCQ 7415 [time varies] Mon 0830 WRMI 9955 Tue 1030 WRMI 9955 Tue 1530 WRMI 7385 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]. Desde hace unos días noto la ausencia de Radio Solh vía Reino Unido en 17700 en el servicio de 1200 a 1500; en un principio pensé que se trataba de mala propagación o bien algún problema técnico, quizás una reducción de horario, pero según pasa los días parece que este servicio ha sido cancelado. Por regla general esta señal entra con mucha fuerza aquí en Valencia. 73 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, Sept 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Segun Aoki, el esquema completo era/es: 02-09 11665 UAE, 09-12 11675 UAE, 12-18 17700 UK. I haven`t heard 17700 lately either, but that`s not unusual with poor propagation. So please check if the 11 MHz frequencies are gone too (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Glenn, cuando son las 1732 la estoy escuchando con mucha fuerza, SINPO 45444. Por regla general suelo encontrarla a las 1200, que es normalmente cuando llego a casa del trabajo; suelo chequear esa banda, en busca de la afro-pop en 17660 y una posible reactivación de Sawt al-Amal, cosa que no ha ocurrido por el momento. Sin embargo me ha extrañado lo de Radio Solh, ya que ni hoy ni ayer la escuché ni a las 1200 ni a las 1330, ¿Quizás cambio de horario o problemas técnicos? 73 (José Miguel, ibid.) [Luego:] Glenn, hoy 8 de septiembre a las 0722, sin señal de Radio Solh en 11665. 73 (José Miguel Romero, ibid.) Tampoco a esta hora, 0950 UT, en los 11675 por la region del Plata 73 (Arnaldo Slaen, ibid.) A las 1023 sin señal en 11675, Valencia (España) 73 (José Miguel, ibid.) That`s still not conclusive, as the UAE relays aimed toward Afghanistan on lower daytime frequency no doubt are putting much less signal toward all of us than 17700 UK when the MUF cooperates. In fact, Saturday Sept 8 from before 1400 past 1600, 17700 was fairly audible here with almost continuous music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Solar-terrestrial indices for 07 September follow. Solar flux 67 and mid-latitude A-index 14. The mid-latitude K-index at 1500 UTC on 08 September was 1 (8 nT). No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours. No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours (SEC via DXLD) ** ALASKA [and non]. Besides Schickele Mix, another real fun radio show is on the way out. I think produxion ceased several years ago, and indeed its home station WVXU no longer exists as an independent entity, but a few stations have still been running RIDERS RADIO THEATRE, a weekly semihour of humourous skits, faux-radio drama, and cowboy songs that your commercial country station would not be caught dead playing. See previous item in DXLD 6-011. 20 months later, Publicradiofan.com now has only three airings, not including the one we just heard UT Sat Sept 8 at 0230-0300 on KCHU Valdez but whose stream is unfortunately only 16 kbps. WVRU still has RRT on their schedule Sat 1200 UT, followed by the companion show COW PIE RADIO, neither confirmed as scheduling and webcasting from this station have been unreliable in the past. PRF also has it Sat 1330 on KGLP, but it is not on their grid now, and webcasting is still suspended. Nor does it now show on the KSUT grid at the same time. Anyhow, we know it is still running on KCHU (na zdar!) Friday nights. And the Riders are still plenty busy touring; catch them in person if you can. Also have, of course a blog via http://www.ridersinthesky.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. ANTÁRTIDA, 15476, LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel (probable), 1947-2002, 06-09. Canciones españolas y latinoamericanas sin interrupción. Señal clara pero con bastante desvanecimiento. A partir de las 2000 la señal se deterioró y se volvió prácticamente inaudible. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, escucha realizada en casco urbano de Lugo, Grundig Satellit 500 y Sony ICF SW 7600G, Antena de cable, 8 metros, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15476, Antártida, RN San Gabriel, 03/09 1903 Spanish female voice: talks about indices de pesquisa dos candidatos de Cordoba 22222. Trecho de escuta, quando da identificação em português; no inicio das transmissões do dia 4/09 em: http://www.freewebs.com/audiodx/r.rn.san.gabriel15476khz1800utc040907.mp3 73 (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu (área rural)-SP Brasil (23 33’ S, 46 51’ O), Sony ICF SW40, dipolo 18m e 32m em OC e OT, radioescutas via DXLD) ** ARMENIA. Armenian Radio Home Service on 1395 kHz is now on the air between 0100-1902. The National Anthem is played at 0058 and 1858 (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, 21 August, BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** ASCENSION. Have noticed BBCWS with VG and only listenable signal here (starting) at 0300 on 7160. Seems 65º is a good back lobe beaming to Tiquicia (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica. Sony ICF7600GR + T2FD, UT Sept 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 7250, Bangladesh Betar, 1559, Sept 06, IS surfaced for only 15 secondss between co-channel Vatican Radio sign-off and back on again same minute. Very poor signal, Arabic scheduled here 1600 - 1630 (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELGIUM. VRT AM TRANSMITTERS TO REMAIN AS THEY ARE It was announced that the VRT (Flemish Radio and Television) will keep its analogue AM transmitters on 540 kHz (Radio 2), 927 kHz (Radio 1), 1188 kHz (Radio 2), and 1512 kHz (RVI) in 2008. This means that earlier plans to quickly replace the current transmitters and to turn the 1188 kHz into a DRM transmitter have been cancelled. The only plans that will go through is the cancellation of all analogue TV transmissions, probably in August 2008. 73 (Herman Boel, Europe, MWC via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 4875.03, Radio Estambul, "en... transmite... Estambul" 1010. OM has moved on to another frequency or possibly returned to 4498.1 which was logged previously with full IDs (Robert Wilkner, FL, date? Japan Premium Sept 7 via DXLD) 5967.85, Radio Nacional de Huanuni, Huanuni, 0933 tune in to 1045 fade. Unexciting program details of talk by YL and OM en español. Does seem to ID on the hour. This CP is buried in co channel interference. Per previous discussions of recoverable audio; the best audio was produced by Drake R8 in LSB using the 1.8 filter and PBT. Using the 746 Pro, could visually shift the twin PBTs and isolate the signal. Aug 5th (Robert Wilkner, FL, Japan Premium Sept 7 via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 5967.72, Radio Nacional de Huanuni, Huanuni, 1037-1045, September 08, Spanish, very nice Andean songs, identification (Canned) by male as: “En su canal internacional... transmite CP177 Radio Nacional Huanuni, Voz Sindicalista del Minero Boliviano”, 33333 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Arnaldo, I guess I am in a skip zone for this station? I checked this frequency at the time you logged it, and I didn't hear anything there. I have been trying to hear Huanuni for ages (Chuck Bolland, FL, ibid.) What odd callsigns they have in Bolivia. Checking this in WRTH 2007, we notice that a great many stations are lacking any full callsign, just CP-, so does that mean they are not exactly licensed, or the government doesn`t make sure every station has a proper callsign, or won`t give them to WRTH, or what? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. Re 7-108: 4699.40, Radio San Miguel, Riberalta, 0115-0208* Sept 8, Tentative with Spanish talk, Bolivian style music. Abrupt sign off. Threshold signal at tune-in and improved to a more readable level by 0200, but no ID heard (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4716.67, Radio Yura, Yura, 0125-0140+, Sept 8, Spanish talk. Wide variety of Bolivian music, Andean ballads, pops, & rustic vocals. Mentions of Yura. Weak but readable. Sign off noted around 0157 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. While browsing the list of podcasts and downloads available at the CBC website, the category named "Listener's Choice" includes listener-requested archive material from the CBC. This podcast / download is updated weekly; the podcast for August 31st is the last edition of Morningside, which aired May 30th, 1997. It's available at http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/pastpodcasts.html?15#ref15 roughly 1/3 down the page. I know there are several folks on the list(s) who consider Gzowski one of the world's best interviewers in his day; here's you chance to hear him yourself (Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA, Sept 7, swprograms via DXLD) ** CANADA. The CBC Radio 1 and 2 programming for the new fall season has now been updated on MONITORING REMINDERS CALENDAR, along with miscellaneous other updates (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. I received word today that McGill University has asked CKUT to drop the name "Radio McGill". No official explanation has been offered for this request, however CKUT has agreed in principle but approval is required from the station membership among other things. A General Meeting to discuss the name change will be held on September 25th. Until McGill's Board of Governers receives proof from CKUT that the name change process has been initiated, they are withholding the fees that students voted to pay to the station ($4 per student per semester) in a referendum held two years ago. Station management have already supplied the University with documents pointing towards the change. It is now a matter of getting the change approved at the meeting and proceeding with the paperwork. CKUT hopes that everything will move forward smoothly and that the station will receive their fees by late fall. I personally find this to be a rather strange request on the part of McGill University. I can only speculate that perhaps someone on the McGill Board of Governors objects to some of the alternative programming aired by the station. It is also a fact that there are more non-McGill students producing and presenting programming at the station than there are actual McGill students. However this is the case at many campus/community stations across the country. Should the change be approved, it will result in a lot of work having to be done by CKUT to purge "Radio McGill" from everything they do (station IDs, advertising, website, stationery, etc.) The telephone number of CKUT was recently changed from the "398" exchange used in all McGill telephone numbers. The number is now 448- 4041. When you call the number, the automated answering service responds as CKUT with no mention of Radio McGill. All very interesting (Sheldon Harvey, QC, Sept 5, radioinmontreal yg via DXLD) ** CAYMAN ISLANDS. Re 7-108: I was there in '82, I think. Indeed the only other FMer was Radio ICCI International College of the Cayman Islands on 101.1. Surprised that wasn't in Bob Foxworth's observations as I presume they are still active. When I visited Radio Cayman, the 1205 antenna was actually a dipole (not a stick as Jerry Kiefer states -- unless it was replaced after my visit). The dipole was on the roof of the studios near downtown George Town. and they told me the same thing Jerry states about the FM -- 105.3 was only 250 watts then and the sole purpose was to serve as an STL to the Gun Bluff, East End 1555 kHz transmitter site. But the tower for 1555 surely was much higher than 150' from my viewing recollection. I stayed at a diving lodge near the tower. I wonder if all of that has been dismantled by now (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Incredible! Only 150 feet? I logged and taped both of these in SE Kansas in the '70's. The 1555 was in almost every night, but the 1205 was quite a bit more rare, but audible when it was in, although the modulation for both was relatively low. I really miss not hearing these splits and others, like 834-Belize, 735-R. Melodía, Quito, 545- R. Jumbo, etc., etc. (Paul Swearingen, Topeka KS, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC. CAR: U N-BACKED RADIO STRIVES FOR NATIONAL COVERAGE | Text of report by state-owned Central African Republic radio on 5 September Now it's over to Athanase Karayenga of Fondation Hirondelle [Geneva- based NGO], representing his colleague at Radio Ndeke Luka [Bangui FM station backed by UN and Fondation Hirondelle]. Athanase Karayenga talked with the communications minister about Ndeke Luka's plan to broadcast to the whole country. At the end of the meeting, Mr Karayenga answered questions from [reporter] Ruben Ngoya. [Karayenga] I discussed Radio Ndeke Luka's plans with the communications minister. We have received two directives from the EU, one of Radio Ndeke Luka's donors, asking us to rework the statutes so that Ndeke Luka becomes a Central African national judicial entity. We hope to complete this by the end of the year. It is possible. The second directive is to cover the whole country, via shortwave, in the not-too-distant future. These are requests from the European Commission. I met the communications minister yesterday, when I was in Boali. I met friends at ICDI, a shortwave [religious] radio station broadcasting from Boali, and which could broadcast our programmes for one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon, every day. Source: Radio Centrafrique, Bangui, in French 1800 gmt 5 Sep 07 (via BBCM via DXLD) ICDI`s monster signal should help a lot (gh, DXLD) ** CHINA. Re Recent DXLD items about CRI prizes: Friday, September 7, 2007, mailman delivered a package from CRI containing a CRI tee shirt (orange/yellow color with white Chinese writing and CRI) and a certificate as the second prize winner in the 2007 "Sichuan, the Beautiful Land of the Panda" Knowledge Contest. Nice surprise as I'd forgotten about entering the contest. I'd entered many CRI Q & A type contests in the past. Never won. Why this time? Because I additionally wrote about the popularity of the pandas at the National Zoo in Washington DC. GH, you won a trip to PRC years ago. Correct? 73 (Kraig Krist, KG4LAC, Manassas, VA, Sept 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I visited PRC as guest of what is now CRI, in Oct 1986, along with several other listeners/journalists, including Larry Miller of Monitoring Times, and Don Rhodes of Australia; at that time it was not the result of winning a contest. On the way and on my own, I paid my only visit to Hong Kong, Macau. The China tour included Beijing, Great Wall, Xi`an, Hangzhou, Shanghai (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** CHINA. Over here, we have caps that hold beer cans. "'People to the Olympic Games have to wear a cap to shelter the summer sunlight anyway, if the cap happens to be a radio for the Olympic events, how can they refuse?' Xu Jun, director of the Olympic Radio of the China Radio International (CRI), said. ... The round-the-clock radio programs are to be transmitted to the caps in ... Chinese, English, Russian, French, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Korean and German, and will be largely from the CRI's Olympic Radio." http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-09/06/content_6087043.htm (Xinhua, 6 September 2007 via kimandrewelliott.com Sept 8 via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA [non]. Sat. Sept. 29th: The Galcom annual banquet is today. Pray for Russell Stendal as he speaks and for everyone else involved. Mon. Oct. 1st: Remember Russell Stendal today as he is interviewed by 100 Huntley Street. Pray that the Lord will give him the right words to speak (Fall Galcom prayer bulletin via DXLD) Banquet in Toronto area? Stendal = Voz de tu Conciencia, Marfil Estéreo, 6010v, 5910v, 5810v, 6110v, etc. What`s 100 Huntley Street? (gh, DXLD) ** CUBA. Hi Glenn, The situation with CRI 9570 via Cuba [12-14 UT] interfering with RA has been much improved since about early August, UNTIL TODAY. Interference in the form of white noise was back under all 3 RA frequencies [9560, 9580, 9590] and the spurs 19 kHz of the fundamental returned to. All August the problem was cleaned right up - perfect I'd say other than some 10 kHz splatter which my sync detector took care of fine. Now, today at least, it was like we are right back at the beginning with the problem again. Unfortunately, I am only able to listen in the morning, on weekends. I know what I want Santa to bring me or more correctly for China - a new frequency! Best Regards a (Andy Reid, Ont., Sept 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. Re 7-108: A reply to the incorrect and insulting comments against my country, CUBA, by Señor Henry Klemetz, From Arnie Coro To all HCDX list recipients, a message from Arnie Coro, the host of Dxers Unlimited Radio Hobby program of Radio Havana Cuba. Once again Mr. Henrik Klemetz attacks Cuba using this list as he has done in the past whenever he has wished to do so --- not only here but also using other short wave hobby publications too. I won't reply to his message, which is simply reproduced here once again in case you had hit the delete key when reading the first sentence of its content, that had nothing to do with the radio hobby and a lot to do with Mr. Klemetz` ultra-right wing political attitude. He did ask me to provide a list of frequency of the AM (didn't mention I think the FM or TV stations) of my country : CUBA. I told him that my radio hobby show was not designed to provide lists of operating frequencies of stations, because my audience is not interested in this information that takes a lot of on the air time and can be found on the http://www.radiocubana.cu website, run by one of my graduate students, and I may add, very well kept up to date by her. Also, for your knowledge, and Mr. Klemetz too --- ALL Cuban broadcast stations, AM, FM and TV are registered in full details with the International Telecommunications Union in Geneva, providing to the ITU all the operating parameters. Recently the WRTH publisher contacted me requesting my cooperation to assist him in fixing up the many mistakes and errors related to Cuba that his publication's 2006 and 2007 editions had printed, something that came out after I sent WRTH a message calling the attention to the fact that the data they were publishing was misleading to the readers of the World Radio and TV Handbook, whoever had provided them with that data. For the anti-Cuban right wingers, the continuous bashing against Cuba is a matter of keeping up a campaign that has closely paralleled the now almost 50 years old economic, trade and financial blockade against Cuba that the successive US administrations, from the days of Dwight D. Eisenhower have kept up to this very moment. And Mr. Klemetz who proclaims to be a very knowledgeable person related to radio broadcasting seems to forget also that since 1960, on an every day basis my country, CUBA , has been subjected to the most intense radio war ever done in the history of broadcasting, in which the US government has spent more than 750 million dollars of the taxpayers money, and violated a great number of international treaties, agreements as well as ITU rules and regulations, including the use of TV and AM broadcast from high flying aircraft for the broadcasting of anti-Cuban propaganda that has even included instructions on how to sabotage transportation means and appeals to the assassination of our political leaders. Please read between lines the text sent to the list by Mr Klemetz, and you will be able to pick up the poison that transpires from each sentence (Arnie Coro, CO2KK, Your Friend in Habana, HCDX via DXLD) Thoroughly enjoyed the Henrik Klemetz v. Arnie Coro crossfire in the DXLD electronic pages. It sounds like Arnaldo Coro Antich (who long ago refused to continue corresponding with me when I asked questions like these, light years before anyone else) should receive all my personal Cuba radio observations as monitored for the past 30+ years from Central and South Florida and waters beyond. My observations include a big open carrier on 1181.00 kHz that loops about 152-153 degrees. In hindsight, I could kick myself for not going to the studios of WFLA (970 kHz), Tampa back in -- I think -- 1995, when he was passing through to NYC on "official" business and was interviewed mid-morning on the [then] local talk show [Jay Marvin]. I would have had fun grilling him. Clearly Arnaldo Coro Antich needs someone from Florida to tell him what stations are active and from where in his own country so that he can tell the rest of the world. Pathetic on his part, isn't that? Listening to Radio Veinteséis, Matanzas province, at local level on 1060 kHz as I type this. Guess that one is not really there per Arnie (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, Sept 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Arnie gets provoked to over-react. Politix quite aside, all we want is a complete and accurate listing of Cuban MW stations, at least, including frequency, callsign, power, location, name of station or network. Is this too much to ask? Of course a long list of frequencies would not be suitable for a show like Arnie`s. However, an occasional feature highlighting one of Cuba`s many provincial networks or municipal stations, for example, would be of great interest, and that could include a short list of frequencies and locations. The site he cites, http://www.radiocubana.cu looks promising, until you try to find some frequency information there. Incredibly, the link near the top labeled ``Vea también sus frecuencias de transmisión y otros datos de interés en nuestro Directorio``, leads to a list by province showing the NUMBER of frequencies on AM & FM each station has but NOT the actual frequencies! Yes, there are links to the individual websites of each station (with a few exceptions), but just try to find a frequency list there, e.g. Radio Reloj, where there have been some new ones popping up, no one knows where for sure. No doubt the WRTH has been trying for 50 years to get accurate frequency lists, with all the common technical details, just like the info published for every other country, out of the Cuban government, with little or no success. So Arnie, if that info is so accessible, just forward it to WRTH and we can really look forward to the 2008 edition, and prove your critix wrong. Why wait? Post it on this list. Otherwise we will be forced to conclude that such info is really considered a sensitive state secret, and you will weasel your way out of making it known to the world. I can`t wait for you to call me ``ultra right-wing``. BTW, all info provided to the ITU is by definition ``official`` and may not mesh 100% with reality, especially in a radio-war situation, so observations by DXers will continue to be valuable. 73, (Glenn Hauser, HCDX via DXLD) Amen and Amen!!!!! Thank you Glenn for that reply. One other problem with Arnie's list it is in Spanish. My high school Spanish isn't that good any more (Been out of high school for almost 45 years.) With the way things are going I might have to relearn Spanish. My thinking on this is, that "when pigs fly" or "When hell freezes over" then you will see a list as you asked for (Willis Monk, TN, ibid.) Friendship through DXing --- As we are all friends, we might consider returning to DXing rather than politics. 73s to all (Bob Wilkner, FL, ibid.) I'm not sure if it is politics being discussed here. It sounds to me more like frustration over the lack of information that has existed right throughout the Communist era regardless of the country. Take the former USSR, where listings in the WRTH during the 70s provided only the metre band for shortwave while medium wave relied on monitors for information (Paul, NZ, ibid.) Also, it is well-known now that the USSR registered false SW transmitter sites, at considerable distances from the real ones, presumably for security reasons. Unfriendly. This is still causing confusion today. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) As my country was also a part of the Soviet block I remember how it was with our transmitters (MW, TV, FM) and their data in EBU lists. For example, G. Coordinates of our local TV/FM transmitter Krasov refered to the capital of the region which is 40Km away. It was almost impossible to get correct data through official channels. Maybe even Arnie has no access to the information we would like him to give us and perhaps we should not blame him for unwillingness (Karel Honzik, Plzen, the Czech Republic, ibid.) Karel, great words. I was following this discussion and had same thoughts you had. At some point what one wants to do and/or is allowed to do are not on the same line (Jari Savolainen, Finland, ibid.) A friend sent me a recording of a Cuban outlet he was unable to identify. I identified the station for him, and in order to verify the frequency information, which was missing from the network´s website and the WRTH, I decided to call the station by phone. There was a number given on the network website. To be able to talk to anyone on the station I would have to register previously with the national telephone company, so a recorded voice told me. In so doing, the number suddenly went dead. A subsequent email message sent to the address given on their site did not produce any answer. Arnaldo Coro´s DXers Unlimited is of course not the place where one would expect to retrieve frequency information for local Cuban AM stations, not even a feature to present one network at a time. I contacted him as there are not many other identifiable Cubans interested in broadcasting and at the same time readily accessible online. Arnaldo replied saying that the info I was looking for did not match the format of his DX programme, and furthermore he did not wish to compete with other shows that still, he added, are on the air giving this kind of information. As an alternative I offered to publish any frequency information he might have to share with DXers giving him appropriate credit. Instead of accepting this proposal he referred me to this list which has been available online for at least six months. The listing was prepared by one of his ex-students at the University but does not include any frequency information. It is now making its reappearance on the website related to the 85th anniversary of Cuban broadcasting. Now that Arnaldo Coro has been approached by the WRTH editor for the upcoming 2008 edition, let´s hope this will leave us with accurate frequency information and phone numbers to the various local stations and regional networks. I am sure we would all appreciate such a gesture of goodwill (Henrik Klemetz, ibid.) Hi Guys, It would be nice if we could keep emo-politics out of the DX reports wouldn't it? I spent ten seconds with Yahoo and came up with the following site. http://members.tripod.com/donmoore/central/cuba/cubalog.html OK; so it's eleven years old and it may not have everything that some people want but it does provide information gathered first-hand by a DX'er and isn't that what we are all about? How about a challenge? How about caribbean-rim DX'ers putting together a current comprehensive Cuban MW listing and putting it up on this forum? All the best, (Ray Phillips, HCDX via DXLD) This bandscan was an excellent contribution and so have been many others, but it covers only a fraxion of the stations on the air then and now, audible from only one location (including US stations). Eleven year old info is not too reliable either. DXers should not have to compile hit and miss lists like this, but every little bit helps. The official info from Cuba should be the starting point. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Thanks, Ray, for allowing me to explain what this is all about. A 10 year old list, as the one you are mentioning, is of little use today even if it was accurate at the time. Take for instance the last station on the list, Radio Granma, on 1590. I have no doubt that my friend Jean heard them on that frequency during his stay in Cuba. But does this help a DXer today? I don´t think so. The WRTH 2007 says it is on 1370, probably following the info given in http://www.amfmdx.net/amdx/cubanradio.html but they are now on 1000, and they are likely to have been on that frequency for quite some time. The station was positively identified in Sweden in January 2007. (Info was published in the British MWC list and elsewhere). Then take a look at the column for the station location: "likely location" it says on top. A "likely location" in 1996 is no more likely today than 10 years ago (Henrik Klemetz, ibid.) I think it is fascinating that HCDX prints this lively political discussion and yet does not print my posting of links to receiver reviews that Nick Hall-Patch, Walter Salmaniw, Ian McFarland and I have done on our personal website http://DXer.ca (Colin Newell, BC, http://www.coffeecrew.com DX LISTENING DIGEST) see TESTIMONIALS Saludos Glenn, el otro día en radioescutas daba un link de emisoras cubanas, creo que de 1999. He encontrado esta web, actualizado en el 2006, desconozco hasta que punto es correcto o si sigue en vigor. http://www.lionelremigio.com/cuban_radio_station_list_list_up.htm 73 (José Miguel Romero, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: EMISORAS DE RADIO AM (AMPLITUD MODULADA) Y FRECUENCIAS: FRECUENCIAS EN BLANCO SIGNIFICA QUE NO HEMOS ENCONTRADO NADA EN LAS MISMAS. CUBAN RADIO STATION LIST Actualizada Octubre 27, 2006 Compilada por Lionel Remigio, WD4LR (via José Miguel Romero, dxldyg via DXLD) More pieces to the puzzle, but this is only a bandscan made from Miami (altho his HQ is apparently way up in Ocala), far from complete and he does not even attempt to assign locations to most of the frequencies. Also misuses ``harmonic`` to refer to spurs in band (gh, DXLD) ** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 6025.04, Radio Amanecer, Santo Domingo, 2350- 2358+, Sept 7, religious music, ID at 2355 followed by more religious music. Fair level but poor reception due to adjacent channel splatter & open carrier on frequency. Very difficult to hear past 2358 due to strong splatter on both sides of 6025 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Are they aware in the DR that Cuban jamming and Martí are right next door on 6030, in more ways than one? Why in the world consign the country`s only(?) active SW station to such a channel? And are the 7DA aware of what a raw deal they have? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** ECUADOR. 4814.99, Radio El Buen Pastor, Saraguro, 0145-0240+, Sept 8, Tentative with lite religious music. Spanish announcements. Religious talk. Poor with CODAR QRM (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. DW via RWANDA, Sept 7 at 2130 on 15205 with usual excellent signal which could be mistaken for a NAm instead of a WAf service, magazine show of several stories, including problems of Turkish Moslems in Germany and Moroccans in Netherlands; Jews in Berlin, the ``most cosmopolitical city``, then chopped off at 2157 sharp before show was over. This is no mistake, but built into the system. The question is, why don`t they match the program lengths to the transmitter availability? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. As every year, Telekom T-systems Nauen transmitter site sightseeing is possible, on Monument Open Day Sept 9th, from 10 hours LT. [UT +2] Aus dem QRP Forum habe ich die Info, das am 9.9.2007, das ist der Tag des offenen Denkmals, die Sendestation Nauen ab 10 Uhr besichtigt werden kann. Der OV Nauen Y08 http://www.darc.de/distrikte/y/08/ ist auch mit Loetkolben, Bausaetzen und Amateurfunkstation vor Ort (via Sven Dibbert-D, A-DX Sept 7 via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) But unlike all the years before, the Nauen site staff will have to explain to their guests for the first time that they have nothing to do with Deutsche Welle anymore. Btw, of the current transmission facilities, only the control room is open on this annual event; no transmitters after bad experiences had been made. Open as well is the Nalepastraße radio centre at Berlin; 10 AM to 5 PM, tours at 11 AM, 1 PM and 3 PM, cf. http://www.quartiersmanagement-berlin.de/eventcalendar/index.php?fuseaction=kalender.showDetails&q_id=1&v_id=11956 Meanwhile a presentation has been set up by the new owners: http://www.nalepastrasse.de (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Sept 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. EMR - NEW QSL Card + Information Sheet --- Hello Dear Listeners of EMR, Our next transmission is on the 16th of September 2007 at 1200 UT on 6045 via MV Baltic Radio from Germany. From this transmission onwards EMR will have a NEW QSL card and a completely NEW Information sheet for listeners who send in correct reception reports to our email or postal address. This is a NEW design QSL card and information sheet. Also the September transmission will be the last transmission of 2007, due to personal reasons (family life) and work load. Good Listening and good DX to all our listeners. 73s (Tom Taylor, EMR, Sept 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE [non?]. 7250 at 1435 29 July, V. of Greece, OM speaking, I Touch Myself music, OM DJ, SIO 444 (Keith S. Knight, Northwood, Middlesex, Sept BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Never heard of Greece on this frequency. Per WRTH May update, Vatican Radio is on 7250 at 1430-1500 with music daily except Fridays when it`s Italian, // 5885. 29 July was a Sunday. Greek is strangely one language missing from the VR schedule at any time, so seems unlikely they would have thrown in some Greek --- o, language of transmission not really specified above. Guess the RCC have given up Greece to the Orthodox (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HAWAII. Station News: + 620 KIPA HI Hilo. Per spokeswoman 8/6, station is off the air awaiting transmitter parts. A posting on the bulletin board HawaiiThreads.com says the station had been relaying KBGX-FM 105.3 and using the slogan "Lava 105." (DP-HI) + 690 KHNR HI Honolulu. 9/4. Noted station owner Salem Media swapping formats and calls again, with newstalk format and calls (ex-KHCM) moving from 880 to 690. The station is now known as "Hawaii's new choice for Intelligent Talk." Station receptionist said change happened 9/3. Time to update that NRC Log already! (DP-HI) + 850 KHLO HI Hilo. 8/15 0757. Hawaii County Civil Defense update on Hurricane Flossie; ID for KKBG-FM and relay KLEO-FM "K-Big FM," then ID for KHLO and relay KKON 790; DJ came on saying ESPN 8-50 was simulcasting K-Big while the hurricane was going on. (DP-HI) + 880 KHCM HI Honolulu. 9/4. Swapped format and calls again with 690. Is now Jones Radio's "US Country" C&W format, calls ex-KHNR. Formats also switched on 97.5 from KHNR-FM "Hawaii’s FM Talk" to C&W " Hawaii’s Country Music." (DP-HI) (Dale Park, HI, NRC DDXD-West via DXLD) And just at our deadline on 9/7, the FCC has changed the FM’s calls to KHCM-FM (Bill Dvorak, Ed.-WI, ibid.) ** HONDURAS. Re 7-108, INTERNATIONAL WATERS: One of the biggest chains, HRN was on the air 24 hours with reports about hurricane FELIX; honestly I didn't monitor the rival chain, Radio América. HRN occasionally extends its broadcasts beyond local 2300 (0500 UT) and on those occasions it could be heard elsewhere. Their outlets are La Ceiba 660 kHz. Tegucigalpa 670 kHz, San Pedro Sula 690 kHz, and then a bunch of other cities on 680, 690, 700 and 710 kHz (Siguatepeque, Olanchito, Choluteca, Danlí, Tela, Yoro... and so on). On the WEB they are to be found at http://www.radiohrn.hn although this site is a bit "unfriendly" in my opinion. 73s (Elmer Escoto, Honduras, Sept 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. V. of Iranian Kurdistan was heard again after long absence: 1600-1626* on 4826. Communist stations are on the air *1528- 1633* and *1659-1758* on 4366. And a big surprise on 3801 at 1726, a different station with close down at 1814. All above strong jammed by Iran and all staying without jumps on stable frequencies: 4860, 4366, 3801 (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, Sept BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** ISRAEL. Re 7-108: 9400 // 11590, Kol Israel, 2006-2010, captada el 6 de septiembre en hebreo con programa musical, locutor con comentarios, conversación con invitado, sin señal en 15615, SINPO 34433. Por otra parte se observa que la emisión en ruso en 9345 está cancelado, no hay señal. 73 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, Sangean ATS 909, Radio Master A-108, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. After storms in the DPRK it seems one of their radio centres was damaged but they returned on the air on 19 August: to WEu 1300-1750 & 1800-2350 on all three frequencies, 4405, 13760, 15245. The ME/NAf service is on 3560, 9975/9990, 11545/11535 at 1500-2200. Some of the home services were observed on 18 August: program A, 1600-1900 on 3320, 6250, and to 1800 also on 6400 program B, 1600-1730 on 3920, 3960 Broadcasts from S Korea jammed by DPRK: 1600-2000 3912, 6600 – jammers on 3912, 6003, 6600 are old Soviet-type `rumble` 1700-1900 3985, 6003, 6348 --- jammer on 6348 is `dog` type (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, Sept BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) That`s cute – dog as in `yipping`, the way it sounds to me. We had a previous item from him about this, but it seems his material sent to different outlets is not identical (gh, DXLD) ** LATVIA. 9290 RELAYS THIS WEEKEND Sat September 8th Radio Six International 0700-0800 UT parallel on 945 AM and FMeXtra 100.5 MHz Riga http://www.radionord.lv Latvia Today 0800-0900 UT Radio Marabu 0900-1300 UT Sun September 9th Latvia Today 1900-2000 UT Good listening (Tom Taylor, Sept 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) advance on yg ** LIBYA. 11835, Voice of Africa. Aug. 29 at 1959-2020 in Arabic. SINPO 25332. Arabic song till 2000, then talk by a woman. ID was heard as "...Jamaherya al Ozma." at 2011, then talk by a man. Also heard on Aug. 30 at 2040-2115 in Arabic with SINPO 35333 (Iwao Nagatani, Japan, Japan Premium Sept 7 via DXLD) 21695, Voice of Africa, 1410-1440+, Sept 8, English programming with Afro-pop music. IDs. Talk about African Union. Readngs from the Green Book. Very weak. Better on // 17870 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As long as GUF TDF DRM be off 17870-17875-17880 at least on weekends (gh, DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. 9688.70, R Madagasikara, 0605-0615, Aug 14, talks, announcement in Malagasy, fair. // 6134.97 (poor) and 7105.0 (good). (Vaclav Korinek, RSA, in DXplorer via Sept DSWCI SW News via DXLD) Before someone corrects me, he was originally known as Vaclav, and BTW there is a hook over the R in his surname, making it `rzh` sounding, but he probably got tired of having his name mispronounced VAH-klav, instead of VAH-tslaf, so went with the Anglicized nickname Vashek (gh, DXLD) ** MEXICO. 1060, XEEP, R. Educación, Distrito Federal; occasionally a strong signal. Mexican National Anthem at 0500 then a gruff voice, hardly identifiable as Spanish, mentioned “Radio Educación”. Following this there seemed to be some sort of play entitled “Matrimonio Inmortal”. Good peaks, 0500 4/9. A recording of some of the stronger bits, including the ID (14s) and the programme name mentioned above, can be found here: http://www.6kh.mediumwaveradio.org/audio/XEEP_1060_0500_5.9.07.mp3 XEEP’S website has been updated, and it now seems much harder to find the useful information that used to be there (Andrew Brade, Holme, UK, MWC via DXLD) The minute by minute playlists are still there but you have to run thru a gauntlet to find them. Here is Sept 8, in LT of UT -5 of course: http://www.radioeducacion.edu.mx/HojaProg9.htm Note that as before, the page number runs one ahead of the day of the month; why not? Probably easier to find successive days by bookmarking this and then changing to the day number wanted +1. And here`s the color coded (? You figure it out) full week program grid, nothing later than July. http://www.radioeducacion.edu.mx/pdf/JULIO.pdf All this presumably applies also to SW 6185 on the air 2300-1100+ UT, and of course webcast all the time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It is there, though. On the home page, http://www.radioeducacion.edu.mx/ select Programacion and then Musical and you can then select the appropriate day's programmes (Paul Crankshaw, MWC via DXLD) Thanks Paul. This is the XEEP programme information that I'm used to, but I couldn't find it on their new format website. I'll have another look! Their very detailed programming information is a great bonus. Wouldn't it be nice if every station followed their example! 73 (Andrew Brade, ibid.) ** MEXICO [non]. Re 7-108, Mexico 9599.29: ``XEYU, R UNAM, Ticomán, heard in Sri Lanka, 0030, Sep 03, Spanish talks and the usual styling. Bad splatter from AIR 9595 and hefty China from Kasgar on 9610 (Victor Goonetilleke in DXplorer, via DSWCI DX Window Sept 5 via DXLD) Frequency measurement was probably by Ron Howard in a previous log not repeated here (gh, DXLD)`` Another thing I wish I had noticed before finishing that issue: RHC is scheduled on 9600 at 0000-0500, per its own website, Aoki and EiBi, so unless he got a definite XEYU ID, none such cited, he was probably hearing Cuba, and it would have been on 9600.0. I haven`t checked it at 0030 lately. Victor has said he has several excellent receivers, but I can`t recall him reporting frequencies to one or two decimal places. In a case like this it would really help, as well as not jumping to conclusions. Of course with Cuba you never know; could have been missing on that occasion (Glenn Hauser, OK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Later:] I forgot to check at 0030 UT, but I did at 0052 UT Sept 8, and 9600 was full of RHC which IDed for me immediately. If XEYU were on, it may or may not have had enough signal by comparison to make a het with this, but certainly not to be heard instead of RHC, at least in OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. unID on 830 in native language: see UNIDENTIFIED ** MOLDOVA. Nueva imagen de la web de Radio Moldavia Internacional: parece en construcción, ya que apenas hay información sobre sus programas; tampoco se encuentra referencia a los servicios en idiomas extranjeros. En la nueva web queda integrado: TRM Teleradio Moldova, Moldova 1, Moldova TVI, Radio Moldova y Radio Moldova Internacional. http://www.trm.md/ La dirección para escucharla en directo es: http://87.248.185.156:8000/rmi.m3u 73 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, Sept 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS. When and how do you listen to Radio Netherlands? RNW wants to know. There's a listener survey on the Radio Netherlands frequency / program schedule for the A-07 season, and they're requesting feedback from North American listeners to help them plan how to best reach us. Check out the survey here: http://www.radionetherlands.nl/listeningguide/how_to_listen_namerica -- (Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA, International broadcasting / shortwave blog: http://www.intlradio.blogspot.com swprograms via DXLD) ** NIGERIA. Re 7-108, FRCN on 7255: Wait a minute, it`s the external service VON on 7255; FRCN Abuja should be on 7275. There was an identical mistake(?) made in a previous report (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Thanks for your remarks!! I checked my logbooks and recording. The correct frequency on which I heard this station is 7275 kHz. Thanks again! (Max van Arnhem, The Netherlands, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. LICENSE CANCELLATIONS/CALL LETTERS DELETED 1240 KBEL OK Idabel 1560 KKUZ OK Sallisaw 1600 KUSH OK Cushing (Bill Hale, Sept 8, AM Switch for upcoming NRC DX News, via DXLD) Again??? We went thru this last year: ``OKLAHOMA. LICENSE CANCELLATIONS/CALL LETTERS DELETED: (All, most likely, due to license renewal snafus) 1240 KBEL OK Idabel [renewal application accepted] 1430 KALV OK Alva [renewal application accepted] 1560 KKUZ OK Sallisaw 1600 KUSH OK Cushing [what about the other two? KUSH is still on the air, anyway --- gh] (Bill Hale, AM Switch, NRC DX News Aug 14 via DXLD 6-126, Aug 19, 2006 via 7-109)`` AND: ``1600, KUSH, Cushing - Station was deleted from the FCC`s files due to the fact they did not file for renewal during the allotted time. The owner`s illness has been stated as the reason. A Special Temporary Authorization has been requested to operate while the renewal paperwork is filed (Bill Hale, AM Switch, NRC E-DX News Oct 30 via DXLD 6-165, Nov 5, 2006 via 7-109) And remained on the air thruout, I think (gh, Enid, ibid.)`` Hi Bill, Again?? We went thru this about a year ago, as in your columns of Aug 14 and Oct 30, 2006. Have these three stations really been deleted again? What reason? I just checked and the one I can ordinarily hear, KUSH, is indeed still on the air. 73, (Glenn Hauser, circa 2000 UT Sept 8, to Bill Hale, via DXLD) I take it you are questioning the Oklahoma cancellations only, so this is right from the FCC website: ``DKBEL OK IDABEL USA Unlimited Deleted facility record. Deleted facilities cannot be reactivated. Interested parties must file an application for construction permit during the approprate AM application filing window. DKKUZ OK SALLISAW USA Daytime Deleted facility record. Deleted facilities cannot be reactivated. Interested parties must file an application for construction permit during the approprate AM application filing window.`` Most likely they were cancelled due to either not submitting their renewal paperwork in a timely manner, or for not paying a fine. The KUSH item was announced along with the others, although they are listed in the CDBS as 'licensed' today. So that one will have to be resurrected next issue. If you've been reading the Fines items lately, some stations are being fined for operating with no license, for a period of 'years'. Glen[n], I don't make these things up. Thanks for writing (BILL Hale, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tnx for clarifying. I certainly wasn`t suggesting that, but thought it odd the same stations would be going thru the same ``deletion`` process one year later (gh, DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. Station News: + 1120 KEOR OK Catoosa. 8/13-16. No sign during AM and PM drive time of this CP reported as on in AM Switch 74- 29, only a weak/noisy KMOX in the mornings and nothing but hiss/white noise during the evening drive-time. I'll keep an ear on 1120. I suspect that 1110 KFAB's IBOC hiss will be a problem for 1120 during SRS and SSS! (BW-OK) (Bruce sent an update on 9/6-- still no sign of this station. Ed.-WI) (Bruce Winkelman, Tulsa, NRC DDXD-West via DXLD) Move-in from 1110 Atoka, SE OK (gh) + 1340 KJMU OK Sand Springs. 8/13-16. New calls, ex-KTKX, were reported in AMS #74-29. Heard with these new calls this week and a Black Gospel format, ex-SS music. No new slogan heard (Bruce Winkelman, Tulsa, NRC DDXD-West via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. Re 7-107, KOCB, What has happened to channel 34? This was posted to HDTVOK.com by the Director of Engineering for KOCB, Aug 31: Quote: We experienced a transmission line failure at approximately 9:38PM Thursday evening, resulting in knocking off KOCB Analog and Digital. KOCB Programming can be found at 25.2 while we work on restoration of the transmission line. I will keep everyone posted on the status. We hope that we can get this repaired by late this evening. I apologize for the interruption of service and we are working very diligently to get this back on the air ASAP. Update 12:30 AM 8-31-07 --- We have identified where the problem exists, and the tower crew will start Saturday morning removing the damaged line. No eta as to when we will be back on the air until we break the line and see what is all damaged (Steve, KOKH/KOCB Director of Engineering, via Matt, Sept 4, okctalk.com via DXLD) The latest updates posted on hdtvok.com: Quote: Update 7:30 AM 9-5-07 --- If the weather cooperates, we might have all the repairs to the transmission line done late Thursday evening and have KOCB analog and digital back on the air. The burnout damaged over 300' of transmission line, and it’s a time intensive process of replacing the line, and cleaning out the line below from all the soot. Steve Update 9:30 AM 9-6-07 --- The tower crew has made it to the original burnout at 1300', but the line is heavily sooted, and will have to be cleaned before we can get KOCB back on the air. We are hoping that once they get past the burnout, the line will clear up, but we just don’t know. Here’s a pic of the inside of the line to give you a idea of the soot and damage (Steve, via Matt, ibid.) Add to bookmarks: HDTV in OKLAHOMA: http://www.hdtvok.com/ (gh, DXLD) ** PAKISTAN. R. Pakistan heard 18 August with news in English 1600- 1615 on 4790, 5080, 9380, 11570. But the next day, Sunday, 4790 and 5080 were silent with only 9380 and 11570 heard (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, Sept BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Sunday insignificant in Pak (gh) 5080.14, R. Pakistan, Sep 01 1626-1636, 35343, Urdu, talk, ID at 1626 (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, Japan Premium Sept 7 via DXLD) 15100, Radio Pakistan. Aug. 26 at 0800-0830 in English. SINPO 25332. News till 0809, then Pakistani songs and interview. News in Urdu started at 0830 (Iwao Nagatani, Japan, ibid.) English starts at 0730 (gh) ** RUSSIA. After listening to and comparing different national anthems, the stations operating on 7325 between 1700 and 1900 have been heard as follows: Mon & Thu 1700-1800 and Sun 1800-1900 is radio of Adygeya Republic Radio (Maykop) These are presumed: Wed 1730-1800 Kabardino-Balkar Radio (Nalchik) in Kabardin and Circassian Thu 1730-1800 ?? in Karachay and Balkar languages On Thursdays the sign-on ID is ``Salom Aleikum`` in a Turkic language and on Wed & Sun at 1730 the language is similar to Abkhaz, Adygey, etc. (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, Sept BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) The above also confirmed, logged Kabardino-Balkar Radio at 1730 on Sunday 29 July and at 1700 on Monday 6 August (Tony Rogers, UK, ibid.) ** RUSSIA. Was in a usual check on Radio Australia's frequencies around 0250 and caught my attention some sprinkles on 15415. It was Voice of Russia in Russian from Petropavlosk 15425 at 65º, making an effective back side lobe arrival to Tiquicia. Aoki mentions there is English at 0300, but they went off the air. SINPO 35443 (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, UT Sept 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) GEOCLOCK distance function shows mainlobe from Kamchatka at 65 degrees via Anchorage-AK, Nevada, Veracruz-MEX direct into Costa Rica. 15425 Cut only to 0100-0300 UT Russian WS. Not 3-5 UT portion! Russian WS 0100-0300 15425 Petr-Kamchatskiy North America VoRUS English is rather via 22 mb 13635 0100-0500 1,2,6 P.K 250 65 13775 0100-0500 1,2,6 VLD 250 50 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks, Wolfy. Now that's clarifying while night was just beginning in Tiquicia, I didn't take in count it was daylight while such transmission was taking place, which corresponds to the arrival on 15425 through the Pacific. 73s (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Subject: [dxld] Radio Moscow recordings I finally got round to finding three links to Radio Moscow material, following a request on the swprograms list, in my favourites and then googled around and came across a whole lot more which I have downloaded, mainly of Moscow Mailbag on the North American service, details below: Three broadcasts about cryopreservation made by Radio Moscow in the 1980s featuring Boris Berlitsky. There's an interesting contrast made between the Communist and Capitalist system at the end of the first talk. Click on Moscow 1, 2 and 3, worked without any problem for me on IE, not on Firefox: http://www.cryonics.org/media/mediabb.htm From WFMU: Vasily Strinikov, the Casey Kasem of Radio Moscow, discusses how he first learned of the August 1991 Soviet coup. Followed by Radio Moscow's first announcement of the takeover. http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/mind/07_-_Soviet_Putsch_Radio_Moscow_-_Soviet_Putsch_Radio_Moscow.mp3 After the putsch fails, Radio Moscow apologizes for their unprofessional journalistic activity of the previous three days. Not a word about the half-century before that, though. http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/mind/32_-_Radio_Moscow_-_Apology.mp3 Moscow Mailbag on Voice of Russia, date not given: http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/AK/01_-_Moscow_Mailbag.mp3 From Simon Mason's numbers station site: Radio Moscow answers Simon Mason's question on numbers stations 1988(download link): http://www.swldxer.co.uk/radiomoscow.wma From WBAI Off the Hook archives for download, off air recordings of Radio Moscow North American service: March 13th 1989 Edition of Moscow Mailbag at 15' 45 plus other international broadcasting http://www.2600.com/offthehook/1989/0389.html 29th November 1989 Part 2, three minutes of Radio Moscow news at 48'30. http://www.trust-us.ch/oth/1989.htm 4th January 1990: New Year broadcast, Radio Moscow New Year programme, 64 minutes in, starts with announcers singing Silent Night, also includes Old McDonald Had a Farm and ends with them singing Auld Lang Syne. 29th March 1990: 1 minute 50 in, Soviet Viewpoint. Moscow Mailbag 12 minutes in. 25th October 1990: Moscow Mailbag 6 minutes 30 in. all at: http://www.trust-us.ch/oth/1990.htm 21st August 1991 Report on coup against Gorbachev, 26 minutes in: http://www.2600.com/offthehook/1991/0891.html From the WUSB Brain Damage archives for download, again Radio Moscow North American service off air recordings and later tapes sent direct from Moscow: March 19th 1988: 7 minutes 59 in, short recording of Radio Moscow news http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1988/0388.html June 4th 1988: 6 minutes in, Radio Moscow phone in programme with teenagers in the US and Soviet Union (16 minutes), then 49 minutes in introduces and plays Radio Moscow interval signal, news, complete Moscow Mailbag edition, discussion programme between KMOX and two Radio Moscow personnel, this recording lasts 47 minutes. June 11th 1988: Moscow Mailbag followed by News in Brief, 41 minutes in. both at: http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1988/0688.html December 10th 1988: 44 minutes 30 in, Moscow interval signal, news bulletin http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1988/1288.html January 28th 1989: 15 minutes in, Radio Moscow reports from the home scene http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1989/0189.html February 18th 1989: Moscow Mailbag 9 minutes in http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1989/0289.html March 11th 1989 Moscow Mailbag, 23 minutes in http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1989/0389.html April 29th 1989 Moscow Mailbag, 11 minutes 40 in http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1989/0489.html May 6th 1989 Moscow Mailbag, 15 minutes in May 13th 1989 Moscow Mailbag, 9 minutes in, ends by mentioning times of transmission as 24 point 10, 02 point 10 etc May 27th 1989 Radio Moscow, 18 minutes 30 in: most of a fascinating live phone in programme on London station FM LBC with the British section of Radio Moscow, Boris Berlitzky and Richard Alibergoff(sp?) were the Moscow participants, at the UK end presenter was Brian Hayes, Hugo Young of the Guardian and UK callers phoning in, first caller asks why Mrs Thatcher is popular in the Soviet Union when she isn't that popular in the UK, another caller suggests a international tribunal for Soviet officials involved in Stalinist purges and mass executions, 29 minute feature, all at: http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1989/0589.html June 3rd 1989 Moscow Mailbag 2 minutes in, later a news report from the BBC on Tianeman Square and a short one from Radio Moscow BBC 39 minutes 26 in, Moscow 45 minutes 40 in. June 10th 1989 Moscow Mailbag 6 minutes 40 in, Soviet Viewpoint 39 minutes 30 in June 17th 1989 Moscow Mailbag 9 minutes 10 in June 24th 1989 Moscow Mailbag 15 minutes 45 in all at http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1989/0689.html July 8th 1989 Moscow Mailbag 15 minutes 45 in July 15th 1989 Moscow Mailbag 9 minutes 15 in both at http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1989/0789.html September 30 1989 Moscow Mailbag 11 minutes 45 in, Soviet Viewpoint on US drug abuse 118 minutes 30 in http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1989/0989.html October 21st 1989 Moscow Mailbag 11 minutes 40 in (no Adamov this week) http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1989/1089.html November 18th 1989 Moscow Mailbag 12 minutes 45 in (again no Adamov) http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1989/1189.html December 2nd 1989 Moscow Mailbag 3 minutes 25 in (explained that Joe has been unwell) December 9th 1989 Media Roundup from Radio Moscow 15 minutes 35 in both at http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1989/1289.html January 20th 1990 Moscow Mailbag followed by Soviet Viewpoint on US invasion of Panama, 1 minute 45 in http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1990/0190.html March 10th 1990 Soviet Viewpoint, withdrawal of troops from Prague then Soviet Mass Media Review 9 minutes 50 in (I'm fairly sure the Viewpoint commentator is Doris Maxina from the UK service) March 24th 1990 Soviet Viewpoint, 24 minutes in http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1990/0390.html April 28th 1990 Soviet Mass Media Review, 4 minutes 40 in http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1990/0490.html May 5th 1990 Moscow Mailbag, 6 minutes 20 in http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1990/0590.html June 16th 1990 Moscow Mailbag, 7 minutes 10 in June 30th 1990 Soviet Mass Media Review, 15 minutes 50 in http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1990/0690.html August 18th 1990 Soviet Mass Media Review, includes Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, 13 minutes 55 in August 25th 1990 Moscow Mailbag, 5 minutes 50 in http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1990/0890.html 22nd September 1990 Moscow Mailbag, Joe Adamov returns and explains his absence, 26 minutes in http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1990/0990.html 11th November 1990 Moscow Mailbag, 3 minutes 10 in 17th November 1990 Soviet Viewpoint, 30 minutes 55 in 24th November 1990 Moscow Mailbag, 8 minutes in, ends with a surprising Joke of the Week all at http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1990/1190.html December 1st 1990: Moscow Mailbag 39 minutes 50 in, Joe just back from, and talks about, a visit to the US December 15th 1990: Moscow Mailbag 9 minutes in, all questions from a listener who wants to remain anonymous! December 22nd 1990: Radio Netherlands Jonathan Marks report on new radio stations in Eastern Europe, 41 minutes in Moscow Mailbag 63 minutes 25 in December 29th 1990: Moscow Mailbag 23 minutes 10 in http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1990/1290.html January 5th 1991 Moscow Mailbag 17 minutes 56 in January 12th 1991 Moscow Mailbag 6 minutes 40 in http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1991/0191.html February 9th 1991 Off air excerpts of Radio Moscow and Moscow Mailbag 15 minutes in, believe it's Doris Maxina reading the news, ends with start of Vasily's Weekend, 42 minutes of Radio Moscow in this show http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1991/0291.html March 9th 1991 Moscow Mailbag 9 minutes 40 in March 16th 1991 Moscow Mailbag 6 minutes 50 in http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1991/0391.html April 6th 1991 Beginning of programme missing so straight into Moscow Mailbag April 13th 1991 Moscow Mailbag 2 minutes 40 in April 27 1991 Moscow Mailbag 8 minutes 55 in http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1991/0491.html May 4 1991 Moscow Mailbag 18 minutes 55 in May 11 1991 Moscow Mailbag 13 minutes 55 in May 18 1991 Moscow Mailbag 11 minutes 30 in May 25 1991 Moscow Mailbag 10 minutes 30 in http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1991/0591.html June 1 1991 Moscow Mailbag 18 minutes in June 8 1991 Moscow Mailbag 17 minutes 30 in June 15 1991 Moscow Mailbag 3 minutes 45 in June 22 1991 Moscow Mailbag 11 minutes 20 in June 29 1991 Moscow Mailbag 9 minutes 35 in, also tape from shortwave of Croatian Radio in English as it becomes an independent nation 47 minutes 20 in. http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1991/0691.html July 6 1991 Moscow Mailbag 36 minutes 30 in (end cut off) July 13 1991 Moscow Mailbag 24 minutes 15 in http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1991/0791.html August 17 1991 Moscow Mailbag 13 minutes 50 in August 24 1991 Moscow Mailbag 10 minutes 35 in http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1991/0891.html September 7 1991 Moscow Mailbag 19 minutes 50 in http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1991/0991.html (Mike Barraclough, England, Sept 3, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAINT HELENA. 11092.5 USB, R St. Helena, Pounceys, St. Helena, *1900-2125, Jul 17, Test transmission in English with announced 1000 watts of power. The programme was hosted by Gary Walters and Station Manager Laura Lawrence and consisted of British oldies with frequent station ID's and requests for reception reports to station.manager @ helanta.sh but stating that they do not issue QSL-card on this test. Some e-mail reports received were acknowledged on the air. The test programme was also broadcast on their usual frequency of 1548 MW and included local news, announcements and advertisements. The SW- antenna was beamed towards Europe during the first hour and then turned more times between North America and Europe which resulted in varying signal strength. The selection of this time span meant that the Grayline propagation with its "Twilight Zone" hit Europe and Japan. At 1900 the Sunset was along a line Monrovia (Liberia) - Alger - Bologna - Salzburg - Prague - Kaliningrad - St. Petersburg - Siberia - Northern Japan. The "Twilight Zone" has a width from 30 minutes before till 30 minutes after sunset (or sunrise) when the ionosphere changes from daylight to night conditions and vice versa. This process enhances shortwave reception. At 2100 this line had moved 30 degrees more to the west. Propagation was also favoured by a Solar Flux of 72, a Sunspot Number of 16, an A-Index of 5 and a K-Index of 2. Here in Skovlunde near Copenhagen, I measured the generally good reception as follows in S- values and SINPO: 1900 S 5-7 SINPO 35434 1918 S 6-7 SINPO 35434 1940 S 6-8 SINPO 35434 1958 S 5-7 SINPO 35434 2002 S 4-6 SINPO 25333 2019 S 3-4 SINPO 25333 2031 S 3-4 SINPO 25333 2043 S 5-7 SINPO 35333 (The signal strength suddenly improved for a short time.) 2052 S 4-5 SINPO 25222 The DSWCI is issuing our 50 years anniversary QSL-card for correct reports on this special programme, if return postage is included. Also heard, with quality varying from poor to good, in many other parts of the world. Due to space limitation, I can only list the countries from which reports have arrived. Those were Denmark, Norway, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Greece, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Japan, India, Argentina. No positive reception neither in Australia nor in the USA (Dmitry Mezin, Ed, from summary prepared by Anker Petersen, Denmark, Sept DSWCI SW News via DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Must be Channel Africa, as scheduled in English during this hour on 17770, but Sept 7 at 1427 found open carrier only, 1428 off, 1429 back on for a few sex with English talk, off again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [and non]. REE in Castilian was off this Sat. 9 around 0300 on both 9535 // 9620, both most reliable channels here for this period. // 9630 was weak (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica. Sony ICF7600GR + T2FD, UT Sept 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I wonder if the MUF from Spain simply fell too low; 9630 is Costa Rica relay, so you would be getting residual groundwave, I suppose (gh) ** SRI LANKA. Re 7-108: Dear Glenn, The Sri Lanka BC 11910 kHz must read as 11905 kHz. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, India, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN. R. Peace, Narus, 4750, 0245 27 July, YL with English program, OM with English IDs around 0255, then talk in vernacular. Three more IDs around 0310; SIO 222 (Charles Hendry, Amersham, Bucks, Sony ICF-SW7600GR, 50m wire in loft, Sept BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** TAIWAN [and non]. Dear OM, I cannot receive Fu Hsing, Taiwan on 9410 kHz in the good situation in Japan. 9410 sounds like only 0800- 0900 weakly. There is side QRM of the jamming (CNR-1) for CBS - Taiwan on 9415 from 0900 and KO'ed from 0955 on CNR5. Now sked: 2300-0100, 0400-0600, 0800-1000 and 1100-1300 UT on 5995 and 9410 kHz (10 kW). Audio streaming: http://radio.hinet.net/radio/player/player_i.jsp?radio_id=288 de S. Aoki (S. Hasegawa, Japan, NDXC, Sept 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TRISTAN DA CUNHA AND GOUGH ISLANDS. ZD9. Brian, ZD9BCB is QRV from the weather station on Gough Island until September 14. He is usually active on 20 meters around 1720z. QSL direct via SQ8AQD (DX Bulletin 37 from ARRL Headquarters, Newington CT September 6, 2007, via Dave Raycroft, ODXA via DXLD) ** TURKS & CAICOS. WIV SHAKE UP, By Bobbi Misick, Created 2007-09-05 15:55 Published on TCI Free Press Online (http://www.tcifreepress.com) Source URL: http://www.tcifreepress.com/?q=node/1414 Managing Director and former partner of WIV, Peter Stubbs was terminated from his position at the Turks and Caicos Islands' television station last week after irreconcilable disputes with company partners. WIV aired a statement confirming the split on Thursday, August 30. "He (Stubbs) has no comments for the press on that matter" said a representative for Mr. Stubbs. However, many Turks and Caicos Islands residents are concerned as reports have been made that the severance could result in lost television, internet and electricity for some due to licensing issues. Apparently, Stubbs owns licensing rights for WIV's operation, while Tampa-based company WRB Enterprises -- an international communications company with a large Caribbean presence -- owns WIV's building at Tower Plaza and the equipment it uses. WRB also owns Turks and Caicos Television, Ltd. And Turks and Caicos Utilities. "There are different licenses for different things," said WRB representative Bob Blanchard. "I'm not gonna comment on specifics. Ultimately all of this is gonna end up in court." Another intricacy in the Stubbs vs. WRB conflict is the Turks and Caicos law that requires foreign companies to have a belonger partner in order to operate. While Blanchard who lives in Florida, would not comment on whether WIV has a belonger partner to replace Stubbs, he did say that WIV intends to continue broadcasting in the Turks and Caicos Islands. "We are gonna continue broadcasting WIV as we've been doing." Blanchard said. Stubbs departure supposedly arose after he attempted to buy WRB's shares in WIV. It has been alleged that Stubbs offered $6 million for the television station while WRB wanted $12 million. One local newspaper reported that Stubbs hoped to acquire full ownership of WIV for $10 million while WRB wanted $15 million. "I'm not gonna get into specific with numbers," Blanchard said. "However, the numbers quoted in the other newspaper were completely incorrect." (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) OED please note: gonna (gh) ** UKRAINE. Radio Ukraine in English is booming here from 0300 on 7440. Clear and reach signal. After all, what else can we expect with 500 kW. Equally strong as Russkoye Mezhd. Radio 7125 Grigoriopol, with nearly same azimuth (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica. Sony ICF7600GR + T2FD, UT Sept 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S S R. I'm looking for vintage recordings of Radio Moscow in English for use in a radio documentary. Any programming would be acceptable, but I'm particularly looking for propaganda. I'd appreciate any leads or the use of recordings from a DXer`s collection. There is a commercially released LP of Radio Moscow recordings on Cook records from 1961, but I'm running into licensing issues in order to use anything from it (David Goren, July 31, Swlfest mailing list via Mike Barraclough, dxldyg via DXLD) see RUSSIA ** U S A. CONGRESS MAY COME UP WITH BILL TO AVERT VOA CUTS EurAsia.net reports that plans to eliminate the Voice of America’s Uzbek language service are likely to be shelved due to opposition in both houses of the US Congress. The House of Representatives and the Senate have recommended “sufficient funding to fully restore the reductions proposed in the fiscal year 2008? and “continuing broadcasting which the administration proposed for language service reduction,” including Uzbek. In June, the House Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs recommended a budget allocation of $194 million to the Voice of America — $22.5 million more than the station’s 2007 budget and $15.7 million more than the 2008 request from the Board of Broadcasting Governors (BBG) who manages VOA and RFE/RL. In July, the Senate’s Subcommittee for State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs recommended a budget of $187 million for VOA, some $8.7 million more than the 2008 request from the BBG. A joint House-Senate conference will address the existing $7 million discrepancy in the two proposed budgets, and come up with a unified spending bill. According to a spokeswoman for the Senate Committee on Appropriations, “the conference committee should definitely happen before Christmas. We can’t say exactly when, but the sooner the better. Senator [Robert] Byrd, [a West Virginia Democrat and the committee’s chairman], is anxious to get the bill through.” Read more at EurAsia.net http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav090707.shtml (September 8th, 2007 - 9:54 UTC by Andy, Media Network blog via DXLD) If a not so major language like Uzbek can be saved, why not the others on the doomed list? Of is it just a matter of who has the strongest lobbying? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. VOICES OF FREEDOM: A CELEBRATION OF VOA JAZZ & WILLIS CONOVER The Voice of America (VOA) and the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival (DEJF) are hosting a free concert in memory of VOA jazz host Willis Conover and in observance of the 50th anniversary of Dizzy Gillespie’s first State Department-sponsored trip. Date: Monday, September 17, 2007 Time: 7:30 PM [EDT = 2330 UT] Performers: Paquito D’Rivera, Musical Director - Alto Saxophone, Clarinet (Cuba) Milcho Leviev - Piano (Bulgaria) George Mraz - Bass (Czech Republic) Valery Ponomarev - Trumpet (Russia) Horacio Hernandez - Drums (Cuba) Place: VOA Headquarters, Wilbur J. Cohen Building Auditorium, 330 Independence Avenue, SW, C Street entrance (1 block From Federal Center Southwest Metro stop). Security Screening will be in effect. (Photo ID required) Reservations: Limited Seating - Free and open to the public. Reservations required by 13 Sept to (202) 203-4962 or via e-mail publicaffairs @ voa.gov Called by Reader’s Digest “the world’s favorite American,” Willis Conover hosted VOA’s première jazz broadcast for over 40 years and was a legend around the world for his command of America’s art form and for his interviews with Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Count Basie and virtually the entire pantheon of jazz artists from the 1950s through the 1990s. He influenced a generation of musicians around the world, including Cuban-born jazz great Paquito D’Rivera. D’Rivera will lead a quintet made up of another Cuban-born musician and three players from former Soviet Bloc countries. For further information, please contact VOA’s Office of Public Affairs at (202) 203-4959 or Jana La Sorte, DEJF, at: (347) 742-9595 (mobile). http://www.dejazzfest.org (Source: VOA) (September 6th, 2007 - 10:54 UT by Andy, Media Network blog via DXLD) ** U S A [non]. Radio Sawa --- four different music programs were heard on R. Sawa between 0000 and 0015 on four different frequencies: 990 Cyprus, 1170 UAE, 1431 Djibouti, 1548 Kuwait. At 0015 all identified as R. Sawa, followed by news in Arabic (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, 21 August, BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) This must be the original version of the Spanish-translated DX program item recently quoted, wherein the frequencies and sites were deleted! WTFK? Who cares about that? (gh, DXLD) Latest schedule for R. Sawa on MW is, as per sked at http://www.voanews.com: 0400-1645 on 990 1170 1548 1645-0400 on 990 1170 1431 1548 (Sept BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** U S A. WHRI seems to have some kind of spur or mixing product on 7665 kHz. This frequency is not on their site. Noted WHRI ID at 0200 UT on 9/8/2007. Signal strength is variable, but up to S9 at times. Noted on two different radio and antenna systems, and some folks on IRC also confirmed hearing a carrier. Seems to be the same programming on 7315 kHz. Can someone confirm my observation? (Damon Cassell, Massachusetts, swl at qth.net via DXLD) I have not heard it myself, but this would be a leapfrog mixing product between the two WHRI transmitters on the air at that time, 7315 and 7490, 175 kHz further up the band. Despite all their other faults, I can`t recall hearing or hearing of such mixes from WHRI/SC before, so they must normally be greatly suppressed. 73, (Glenn Hauser, OK, ibid.) ** U S A. Saludos cordiales. 15745, WEWN, 2120-2124, captada el 6 de septiembre en español a locutor con programa religioso, música con el "Himno de la Alegría". SINPO 34333. ¿Cuál es el horario correcto? Según Aoki. 15745 WEWN 1400-2200 1234567 English 15745 WEWN 2200-2400 1234567 Spanish Sin embargo en el EiBi: 15745 1400-2200 USA WEWN Birmingham, AL S SAm 15745 2200-2400 USA WEWN Birmingham, AL E Eu (José Miguel Romero, Spain, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Según monitoreo este viernes 7, hay castellano antes de las 22 en 15745 y 9985. Después de las 22, hay castellano en 13615 y 9355, y otra programación en 15745 y 9975; debe ser el inglés. Muy débil en 15745, no propagando bien a distancia de solo un megámetro. Dice http://www.ewtn.org/radio/freq.htm el sitio de WEWN: inglés español inglés TU 9450 15745/9885 15220 2100 9975 13615/9355 15745 2200 Ambas 9885 y 15745 comienzan a las 14 en castellano. No obstante, no podemos creer la frecuencia de ``5010`` después de las 00: en realidad: 5810. 73, (Glenn Hauser, OK, ibid.) ** U S A. The Paducah Sun is reporting today that WPAD 1560 will be off the air until mid-September. According to the article, the WPAD transmitter is being replaced. Here is the link to the story: http://www.paducahsun.com/articles/stories/public/200709/06/085L_entertai.html 73, (Dan Riordan, Sherwood OR, Sept 7, IRCA via DXLD) With WPAD silent, what I presume is WSLA-1560, Slidell, LA is being heard rather well here at my QTH in North Alabama at 11:10 PM Central [0310 UT Sept 8] with sports programming and FRN News at the top of the hour. At about 5 after, there was local news which was clearly identified as being "from the WGSO newsdesk". Has WSLA started simulcasting WGSO-990? (J. D. Stephens, Hampton Cove, Sept 7, ibid.) ** U S A. 1660, KXTR, KS, Kansas City. 8-13. Station is announcing that High Def classical is now on KUDL 98.1 FM Kansas City. Their website shows High Def coming soon and also mentions FM with link to an equipment manufacturer. This might mean that they would not be going HD on 1660. Since I only live a mile from their transmitter and get a lot of overload on even my best receivers even without their being HD, I had phoned them previously to learn of their plans for AM, but they did not return my call. (J. E Lewis, Kansas City MO, NRC DDXD-West via DXLD) ** URUGUAY. Address change for CX42 Emisora Ciudad de Montevideo: Their new address: Arenal Grande 2093 casi Hocquart, 11800 Montevideo Uruguay Their new telephone numbers: (+05982) 9241312 Estudios: (+05982) 9291370 Gerencia: (+05982) 9240142 Fax: (+05982) 9240700 Their SW (9650) is still off the air, when asked the owner a couple of weeks ago he said it was a problem of fallen antenna. 73 (Horacio Nigro, Montevideo, Uruguay, Sept 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 1550, ALGERIA, RASD, Rabouni (27 29'N, 07 49'W), AUG 21, 2325 - Man in Arabic; good, sometimes over WNTN Haitian program. Best received on upper sideband to dodge 1548 Kuwait het. Some evidence of jammer in background (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, Rockport MA; R8A, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Mini-Circuits ZSC-2-2, DXP-6A, cardioid array on roof of car = vertical: 3.7 m whip (MFJ-1956) to 81:1 xfmr to DX Engineering RPA-1 amp + loop: broadband, in vertical plane, square, 2 m per side, to 1:1 xfmr to RPA-1 amp, peak east-west, null north-south, NRC IDXD Sept 7 via DXLD) Same, SEP 6, 2325 - Fair, over/under WITK with local WNTN already off; talk with mentions of politics, military, and Sahara, then a Mideast- style male group vocal that really popped thru co-channel domestics, 2333 "titulares" news headlines with fanfare into speed reading. Language seemed Arabic but interspersed with French and/or Spanish words. 2340 more Arabic vocals, an African highlife vocal, and a rural vocal more in the style of Moroccan music. SEP 7 0003 - Sign-off with distinct military anthem thru domestics (Bruce Conti, Nashua NH; R8B, Mini-Circuits 1:1 common mode choke, MWDX-5, 15 x 23-m SuperLoop antennas east and south, ibid.) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. SW Radio Africa, September 7, 2007, 1729-1804, 12035 kHz in English. Many anti-Mugabe items. Overall reception poor to barely heard. The latest EiBi, as of August 22, 2007, indicates SW Radio Africa 1700-1900 12035 is via Kvitsoy, Norway. 73, (Kraig Krist, KG4LAC, Manassas, VA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ZIMBABWE: SHORTWAVE RADIO COMES TO THE RESCUE Highway Africa News Agency (Grahamstown) 7 September 2007 Mao Nyikandzino Geneva http://allafrica.com/sources.html?passed_name=Highway%20Africa%20News%20Agency& passed_location=Grahamstown#detail Since its launch last year in December SW Radio Africa has become an alternative source of news and information using the short message sending (SMS) system directly to mobile phones. With many Zimbabweans struggling to get basic commodities from the shops, the short message sending system allows them to get news at any given time without having to peruse a newspaper or go to the internet. Despite the frustrating slow speed to connect to the internet the service has however given Zimbabweans a relief and an alternative media that can link them to the breaking stories as they unfold. Asked about how it works, the station manager at SW Radio Africa, Gerry Jackson hailed the facility as a success. "We have a service on the net that keeps our database of all our subscribers' mobile numbers. We log onto that website, write our headline or breaking news, punch our database of numbers and by just clicking the button 'send' all our subscribers automatically receive the news. It is very simple but effective in sending out critical information" she said. Since its launch the facility now boasts of more than six thousand five hundred subscribers (6 500). Jackson the number of subscribers is still growing everyday. Asked about how effective this facility is in reaching out to the rural populace, she explained that the facility is there to compliment [sic] their shortwave radio station that beams across the country. An expert in Media and Development, Mr. Denford Damba described the system as unique and worthwhile. "One good thing about this facility is that it is not confined to Zimbabwe alone, but to all masses of the world who are concerned about the crisis in Zimbabwe and its manifestations", he said. SW Radio Africa is one of many Zimbabwean radio stations that broadcast outside the country as a result of lack of media freedom in Zimbabwe. The shortwave radio service was founded by former owners of Capitol radio that was banned in Zimbabwe by the government of Zimbabwe for speaking against state repression (via Alokesh Gupta, DXLD) Misleading headline since this is all about how they use SMS. Many? I can think of three, including VOA (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Heard something under WCCO last night. Sounded like Native American language with some fiddle music and no English announcement at top of hour. Could WKTX [OH] be on nights? WFNO [Norco LA] is all Spanish, right? (Sheryl Paszkiewicz, WI, Sept 2, NRC via DXLD) Based on language, looks like this one is a good prospect, from John Callarman`s new Mexican list. What time did you hear it? They are supposedly a daytimer. 73, (Glenn Hauser, Sept 8, ibid.) Viz.: 830, MICHOACÁN, XEPUR, “La Voz de los Purépechas*” Cheran. (5,000/0) (8,000/0) 1300-0200. Spanish & Purépecha. Avenida Lázaro Cárdenas, No. 30, Col. San Marcos, C.P. 60270 T/F: (423) 594-20-05 per website, which noted power was increased to 8,000 watts in January 2006. Domicilio Conocido, Predio INI 60270 http://www.cdi.gob.mx/index.php?id_seccion=1029 N 19-40-52 W 101-57-32 (8,000/0)(ex N 19-40-48 W 101-57-32 5,000/0 ex 1,000/0) (via gh, ibid.) Hi Glenn, I was starting to think it could have been Mexico. I didn’t take a formal log of it but I believe it was before 0200 UT. It was battling it out with WCCO. The next night I heard a much stronger WFNO in Spanish but the previous night was definitely not Spanish. Thanks for your input (Sheryl Paszkewicz, WI, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 1181 STILL GOING --- The mystery 1181.0 carrier is now into its fourth week --- since Michael Richard in WY discovered it; perhaps longer. Perhaps everything about it that can be said has been said, except that I for one am still hearing it on almost nightly quick chex, such as 0052 UT Sept 8, and it is still looping about 125/(305) degrees from here. Can anyone come up with some new ideas about what or who may be behind it? Still a good idea to keep checking it regularly, in case some different bearing show up or something else happen to it, or for that matter, it just disappear. Subjunctively 73, (Glenn Hauser, Enid, dxldyg et al., via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Last night I couldn't hear it. Tonight it`s there, but pretty weak. The Cubans are weaker here tonight, although 555 ZIZ is doing well. Europeans are doing fairly well - BBC on 909 for example (Phil VY2PR Rafuse, PEI, Sept 7, ABDX via DXLD) I still haven't heard it here (Bert New, Watkinsville, Georgia, Proudly Serving You Since 1964! Ibid.) Hi Bert- Check you radio. At 2130 EDT the mystery signals is S-9 into Tennessee. WHAM and Cuban station is under the noise. It sounds like a het (Willis Monk, Old Fort, Sept 7, IRCA via DXLD) Glen[n], With little or no evidence to back up this working theory, I'll share what I've got. Various news reports in the Miami area over the past couple of weeks have indicated members of the Cuban exile community are receiving unconfirmed reports that Castro has in fact passed away. These rumors have been fueled by Castro's failure to appear in public for his 81st birthday. If the US Government has knowledge of his death, or even strongly suspects it, they may be preparing a lot of contingency plans of their own, including jamming, and propaganda broadcasts into Cuba. Many Cubans still rely on AM radio for their daily news and entertainment, so it would make sense for that medium to get a lot of use. I suspect that the 1181 transmitter, and the earlier tests this year on other MW frequencies are all connected to that effort. The ability to be frequency agile will be important to thwart efforts of the Cuban government to jam such broadcasts. And other types of testing including propagation studies, etc. would need to be conducted in advance. They may even be "burning in" the transmitter and antenna system at full power to insure that it will be ready for action once broadcasts begin. Can't prove a word of it, of course, but I suspect it will prove to be on the right track (Les Rayburn, director, High Noon Film, Birmingham, AL 35216, IRCA and ABDX via DXLD) That`s it --- birthday 81, so 11-81! (gh, DXLD) Les, I wonder if this is a situation like that of former USSR general secretary Yuri Andropov. We now know he was in a coma for over three months before his actual death; could it be that Castro is still alive but comatose? His prolonged absence from television certainly points to that if he is indeed still alive; El Jefe Maximo was never the shy, retiring type. I feel you are 100% correct, Les. The 1181 signal was in tonight at 9:10 pm Central. It's not as loud as before (antenna/power change?) and I can completely null it, but it's very audible against 1180 (Harry Helms W5HLH, Smithville, TX EL19, ibid.) I've been periodically checking for it myself. Sure doesn't seem as strong as it was when I first heard it, but it's back there. I can still hear it. Checked it a couple of nights ago. Maybe the power isn't as strong. Then again that could easily be just varying conditions. Don't know if anyone else has noticed any signal strength reduction (Michael n Wyo Richard, ibid.) The mystery 1181 station is about as strong into Austin tonight as it has been every time I have thought to check recently. An observation from here that may support the frequency agility theory of this station is that it appears to be generated by a not so good synthesizer which is producing a lot of phase noise or similar modulation + and - 10 Hz from the center 1181 signal. I would welcome a second opinion on this by anyone with Spectran or similar. Here, using a resolution bandwidth of 0.34 Hz or 0.67 Hz there is something unusual showing up in the 10 Hz either side of center. It looks like a bunch of short curved lines on either side (Alan Schreier, WA5DJU, 0254 UT Sept 8, ABDX via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 4700, Guatemala R. Amistad (tentative), Sololá/Lago de Atitlán, 06/09 2253 Spanish female voice talk, “...40 miliones de personas...revista educativa...” 22222 (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu (área rural)-SP Brasil (23 33’ S, 46 51’ O), Sony ICF SW40, dipolo 18m e 32m em OC e OT, radioescutas via DXLD) Has been off air for almost 5 years, per LADX archive: 4698.71 GUATEMALA R Amistad, S Pedro La Laguna[*1100-1250](.71-.79) Mar 02 C (offNov02 C) (skdNov01)1100-2300 (r)FM97.6 500watts 4700 Would be great if it`s back, but much more likely this, as just in 7- 108: ``BOLIVIA. NEW FREQUENCY. 4699.4, RADIO SAN MIGUEL, Riberalta, Depto. Beni, 05 Sept., 1028 UT, Spanish, Avisos y Comunicados, ID (Rogildo F. Aragão, Quillacollo - Bolivia, Sony 2001D - LW 25m, UT Sept 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` UNIDENTIFIED [non]. Re 7-108: 9505, NO ID, francés, 2030. Emisora religiosa. Family Radio ??? (José Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) YFR at 2030-2130 on 9505 is a recent change, Rampisham UK, replacing Ascension on 11985. 73, (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ [Continued from CUBA] That aside Glenn -- I have been reading your work for decades now - and have enjoyed the veracity of virtually everything you have ever done --- even if I am a left-wing nut. ;-) Cheers and Best 73; Ian says HELLO! -- (Colin Newell, BC, http://www.coffeecrew.com DX LISTENING DIGEST) DTV: OKLAHOMA CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES / DIGITAL BROADCASTING DRM: BELGIUM; LIBYA +++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++ HD/IBOCh: USA KXTR PRELIMINARY REPORT BY KEN FLETCHER REGARDING HFCC B07 CONFERENCE AT BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND Dxing is Dead !!! (Hang on Ken, not for some time yet!!) The 'enemy' of course is DRM, (Digital Radio Mondiale) in some form or other. I had the privilege and pleasure of being allowed to attend the HFCC Conference held at the Hilton Hotel, near Birmingham Airport on 27th to 31st August (2007) being allowed, as one of a possible two day delegates, to represent the 'DX community'. I am indeed grateful to Andrew Flynn and his committee from Christian Vision (the organisers) for allowing me, as I say, this privilege, as a conference such as this, is not usually open to non registered (i.e. non-broadcasters), unfortunately it was not possible to find a second 'day delegate', despite some considerable efforts by Dave Kenny. The gathering was held in a large conference foom; however, as this was a working conference, presentations for the whole gathering from 'top table' were few and far between, delegates mostly circulating and checking for 'potential collisions' between each other (see below about 'collisions'). Why will DXing (eventually) be dead or nearly so? There is a strong clue to this, in Gareth Fosters' article on Page 7 of September`s Communication. As DRM is increasingly adopted, presumably, DRM multiplexes will be re-used at least to some extent, especially outside primary service areas, on long, medium and short wave. Anyway, what has all this to do with the HFCC Conference? When some version or other of DRM is fully implemented (which I am now convinced it has to be, having talked to many 'in the know' at this conference) there will be no 'oh was that a catch' did I hear, did you hear, that station from the 'Burumbalas Republic' buried away in some African swamp. Like almost all digital media, it`s either heard at or near 100% or not at all, so very little 'critical' listening here. As I say, I was privileged to talk to a number of delegates, including representatives from VT Communications, engineers from AWR, TWR, Voice of Russia, Ukraine Radio International, Radio Sweden etc., etc. The purpose of the conference was to work out how to avoid 'collisions' on the VERY limited frequency space, which will be available for the forthcoming B07 season (mostly only on 7 and 6 MHz during darkness hours). This is done, largely by using charts that look something like the blue pages that are used in Passport to World Band Radio, however they are more comprehensive, taking into account stated beam headings and propagational considerations. Several stations will be making some unusual moves and one will be abandoning shortwave to Europe in English altogether for this frequency season, using mediumwave only instead. [which??] I now know why will we have to have DRM, in some form or other. Let us take a simple example; I think I am right in saying that Radio Nederland broadcasts a news bulletin in Dutch at 0900 UT on 5955 kHz (amongst others) using 500 kW. In theory at least, using a DRM multiplex will enable them to broadcast simultaneous news bulletins in 4 different languages, also using only c. 100 kW (total). We are promised (yet again!!) that suitable DRM receivers will become much more plentiful, by Christmas/New Year 2007-8. More or less regardless, (maybe, in practise, some would say this is a little strong) the broadcasters must go ahead with 'more' DRM to try to fit everything in and to reduce their rapidly escalating power and associated costs. (I did wonder could a different 'Codec' be found, but did not think of this until after my day at the conference). Apparently 'properly made' receivers, should be able to 'contain' all current DRM transmission channels to within 10 kHz each, with no associated problems. If this works(?) this means 4 speech channels per 10 kHz, (though not possible for music) in theory, at quality somewhere between medium wave and FM. Ultimately this should allow some channel conservation, as well as power conservation etc. The possible future difficulties regarding 26 MHz DRM Tests are acknowledged and indeed they are there, at least in part, to test out whether the 'theory' that they will be swamped when short wave conditions improve with increasing sunspot counts in the next several years, is bourne out in practice. [even during the last two or three solar cycle peaks when propagation was favorable, 11m has been barely used by only a handful of stations. If any really want to use 11 in next peak, it should be no problem avoiding collisions with local DRM, if really implemented --- gh] I was surprised at the amount of discussion amongst delegates, some of which was shared with me, about 'related' matters such as medium wave and the recognition that 'codecs aside', here in UK we are well in the lead, within Europe, regarding the development and use of DAB. (Perhaps I have been too critical of the Irish Republic, regarding their apparent 'lack of progress'.) Believe it or not, there is still enormous pressure on short waves; in fact some administrations, are now looking to return to short wave because satellite charges are escalating greatly. Short wave is usually more robust regarding 'jamming' or other administration- inspired interference. (I should imagine that Zimbabwe is a good example here); also, of course many poorer parts of the world must continue to rely on short wave, for the forseeable future. We share, of course, the short wave spectrum, with many other users. The World Radiocommunications Conference (formerly the World Administrative Radio Conference), meets again in Geneva from 15th October 2007 to 9th November 2007. I was absolutely delighted to be part of the 'delegation' on the day when Geoff Spells of VT Communications gave a short presentation regarding requests to be made to this World Radiocommunications Conference. Amongst all sorts of other business, resolution 1.13 seeks to make available on a co-primary basis an extra 350 kHz for broadcasting from 25th October 2015 (!!). (1) 5.000-5.250 MHz (Part of 60 Metre Tropical Band, 250 kHz here.) (2) 5.730-5.790 MHz (Extension to existing 49M Band of 60 kHz (3) 9.350-9.400 MHz (Extension to existing 31M Band of 50 kHz) [much of this up to 5110, down to 5745, and certainly down past 9350, is already in de-facto use by broadcasters --- gh] I see this adds up to 360 kHz; sorry, my note taking must have gone a little awry here, but you get the idea. I hope there will be a later report, in October`s Communication; however this will at the discretion of the editor. I will be contacting him, in the next week or so. I will be happy to try to answer any questions you may have, and any suggestions, to 'guide my thoughts' for a 'Communication' Report, Thank You (direct from Ken Fletcher, Prenton-UK, BrDXC-UK Sept 6 via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ FAA TOWER LIGHT VIOLATION PHONE NUMBER I spoze you have heard, the FAA has a new reporting number for tower light issues etc. I`ts 1-877-487-6867. While you are at it, it’s a good time to change all those signs, notes and rolodex cards (Clay, CPBE, K7CR, Freinwald, Clay`s Corner, Sept, via NORTHWEST BROADCASTERS via DXLD) ANOTHER VIEW OF WIFI DXING Reference WiFi DXing (about which I shall wrote a full technical article for VUD one day): WiFi works as an 'extendible two-way link' between a PC and a computer; laptop or stationary. It does this by (1) having a low power (2.4/5.8 GHz) transmitter on board, (2) a companion receiver and (3) a tiny antenna. Both 2.4 and 5.8 GHz qualify as 'microwave' and each shares a relatively narrow 'band of frequencies' with other unlicensed devices (a microwave oven also operates in the 2.4 GHz 'band'). The range or reach of a WiFi system obeys the usual rules of signal coverage and blockage, each magnified by the low power (under 100 mW) transmitters on both ends, simplistic receivers (lacking sensitivity or resistance from overload from other devices sharing the same band - such as 'wireless phones') and ineffective antennas (a tiny patch antenna that has minus dB of gain reference even the basic dipole). LOS (line of sight) distance maximums typically are measured in hundreds of metres and if an object (signal blockage) exists along that path, distances will plummet to tens of metres. When your editor was a child of 12, the best game I could find was to look for distant TV station reception in places where logic and theory suggested 'no TV reception should exist'; that would be in the early (19)50s. Son Seth (Cooper) has his own version of this, appropriately advanced with the technology. When we spent 6 weeks in North America during April-May, ten of those days were with satellite pioneer Doug Dehnert (SF#151, front cover) riding over 1,000 miles in Doug's 40 foot/12+m mobile home on wheels. Seth spent many hours with a laptop inside the vehicle at 110 kmh looking for WiFi 'hits'. What he found often defied wave propagation logic - 'lock' from WiFi sites 10-50 km away as we crested hills along interstate freeways. This 'DXing' activity taught both of us that while some hotel or motel's WiFi might be less than rock solid inside the building it was intended to cover, those pesky microwaves often went much further than anyone might anticipate. Alas, 'DX' reception of WiFi sites is neither intended nor helpful if the system does not work to something approaching 90% coverage within its design area. In a single example, when Dehnert's mobile monstrosity (only in America!) approached Lake City (Florida) on highway 75, Seth was spotting area motel and hotel signals from as far as 20 km distant. He zeroed in on one 'open access' system and stuck with it on the laptop until Doug pulled off for a night's stop. It persisted with occasional signal loss until we were within 1 km of a hotel which as chance would have it we elected to spend the night. We chose the facility largely because a sizeable sign out front read "FREE WiFi" and Seth's mom liked the neat appearance of the attached coffee shop. Once in our room, Seth quickly discovered the signal he had been 'reading' from a distance of 10 km was only available (good luck here) when he placed the laptop on the provided desk. Move the PC to his lap while sitting up in the bed (or the bathroom) and no connection. Curious, he talked me into walking around the sizeable facility with laptop unfolded in his young hands. Coverage was spotty but available in the coffee shop, the facility's check-in lounge room and where they had a swimming pool and exercise facility. But step outside onto the concrete walkways and it was more 'no connection' than 'locked'. We would repeat this test for several weeks at various stops along our sojourn. We quickly learned when standing before the registration desk of a hotel or motel to ask for a 'top floor room' since height above ground equals distance with all microwaves. It was enlightening to find a half dozen or more 'open access' WiFi systems into which he could check-in from modestly high 6 floor (20m above ground) rooms. In larger cities (such as Ft Lauderdale or Rochester) open access was less common although the number of sites fairly exploded - often as many as 20 from our room (Bob Cooper, NZ, Sept 8, WTFDA via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ Equinoctial propagation just about to be in full swing all around the world, and lots of Dxers Unlimited’s listeners are already enjoying it according to the reports that I am receiving at my e-mail address; several experienced amateur radio operators say that even the slight propagation disturbances of the past several days have helped in a way, by providing some unique contacts from stations not normally heard on some bands. Ionospheric absorption is also rather low, precisely due to the rock bottom low solar activity prevailing during the past several days and that helps too. OUR EXCLUSIVE AND NOT COPYRIGHTED HF PROPAGATION UPDATE AND FORECAST Sunspot number standing now ZERO, yes you heard it right, it can’t go lower, its ZERO sunspot count and the solar flux is also at rock bottom level of 67 units, and for your information scientists consider a totally quiet Sun radiating 65 flux units. No data from the farside of the Sun available so it is difficult to know what is going to happen in the next few days but despite those ugly numbers during the rest of the week I see rather good propagation conditions on the HF bands, something you can find out by monitoring the bands, especially during the sunrise and sunset periods, local time. Be on the lookout for some nice DX on the 60 meters Tropical Band, where you can now find Radio Rebelde’s 5025 kiloHertz transmitter that is on the air 24 hours a day (Arnie Coro, CO2KK, RHC DXers Unlimited Sept 8, ODXA via DXLD) ###