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Thanks, Glenn SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1432 Wed 2100 WBCQ 15420-CUSB Thu 0530 WRMI 9955 Thu 1430 WRMI 9955 Thu 2330 WBCQ 7415 Fri 0100 WRMI 9955 Fri 0800 WRMI 9955 Fri 2030 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 7290 Fri 2030 WWCR1 15825 Fri 2300 WBCQ 5110-CUSB Area 51 Sat 0800 WRMI 9955 Sat 1630 WWCR3 12160 Sun 0230 WWCR3 5070 Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215 [or 0730 as DST goes off] Sun 0900 WRMI 9955 Sun 1615 WRMI 9955 Mon 2300 WBCQ 7415 [temporary, reconfirmed Oct 27] Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 Tue 1630 WRMI 9955 Wed 0630 WRMI 9955 [or new 1433] Wed 1230 WRMI 9955 [or new 1433] 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: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org EDITOR`S NOTE: Here`s another huge issue with a week`s worth of material. Believe me, I`d rather not do it this way, but keeping up with everything has been a real challenge. ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. Enjoyed the last day of good reception from R. Solh, via Rampisham UK, on 17700, Oct 25 from 1426 until fading after 1630. Music at 1501 included the word ``whatever``; 1610 some rap partly in English --- we recognized a music string which months ago was appearing 2 or 3 hours earlier including at 1622 the bilingual one partly in English about ``Be my only one``. But still haven`t heard for ages what we dubbed the ``Solh theme``. Fortunately, we have that and a lot more on tape for replays at will. Aside from the anti-Taliban messages several times an hour, I am just about convinced the tactic of this US psyop is to get all the Afghans dancing joyously and thus stop killing each other. From B-08 I expect Solh to appear as follows, none of which are likely to come in so well here, so far from the target area: 03-12 11675 via UAE, 12-15 13830 Rampisham, 15-18 9875 Rampisham. Last winter 15265 was used 12-15 and rivalled or exceeded 17700 reception. If Solh really uses 13830, it will collide with Gospel for Asia via Wertachtal at 1330-1500 per the B-08 DTK schedule! 11675 during the early hours may also collide with Kuwait which at least is scheduled to switch from DRM to AM at 0300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) REINO UNIDO, 13830, Radio Solh, 1233-1235, escuchada el 26 de octubre con la emisión típica afgana en colisión con emisora sin identificar, probablemente en idioma asiático, SINPO 43443 (José Miguel Romero, Burjassot (Valencia), España, Coordenadas: 39.30 N 0.25 O, Sangean ATS 909, Antena Radio Master A-108, dxldyg via DXLD) Radio Solh is still going and well heard on new 13830 ex-17700, Oct 26 at 1303 with talk at the moment, soon the usual lively dance music. Good signal but occasional splatter from Martí/jamming on 13820. After ``Salaam, Afghanistan`` song ending at 1329 I was monitoring closely at 1330 when Bible Voice was expected to join them on 13830 in the B- 08 schedule. I could hear the co-channel underneath, but Solh dominating here; the QRM enough to mar good recordings of Solh music. Time will tell how this sesquihour collision pans out for us, but surely in the targets one CIRAF zone apart, 40 vs 41, the mix is unacceptable. Doesn`t VTC coördinate with its major competitor DTK? BVB is 90 degrees from Wertachtal, while Solh is 85 degrees from Rampisham, so look for one of these to move, that is, if anyone is paying attention now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Indeed the audio product (as the producers call it) appears to go out on 13830 now. Probably at 1300 another station came on 13830, at least it now sounds like a mess on two signals what I hear on 13830. Unfortunately it's too weak to make out more (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) One of them is GFA (Radio Atmik Yatra) in some Indian language, other one seems to be Solh playing a Hindi movie song. 13830 off the air at 1500 UT. Hindi movie songs again on 9875 when I checked at 1610, presumed to be Solh. At 1615 vernacular talk by OM with mention of Afghanistan, splatter from AIR VBS 9870. Followed by 3 vernacular songs, this is R. Solh. Regds (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, ibid.) Check of R. Solh via Rampisham, UK, its second day on 13830, Oct 27: at 1308, music with excessive reverb on the drums, so at first I thought something was wrong with the playback, but cleared up with next piece. At 1443, no co-channel audible under Solh music, so BVB may have moved, or remains very much secondary to the RMP off-the-back signal, quite good here. R. Solh continues to provide very good reception here on 13830 via UK, mostly music, Oct 28 at 1406 check; could barely hear another station under and making very slow SAH, presumably still BVB via Germany (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA [and non]. KNLS Broadcast Schedule Starting October 26, 2008 0800-0900 7355 41 English 0800-0900 9615 31 Mandarin 0900-1000 6150 49 Russian 0900-1000 7355 41 Mandarin 1000-1100 6150 49 English 1000-1100 7355 41 Mandarin 1100-1200 6150 49 Russian 1100-1200 7355 41 Mandarin 1200-1300 6150 49 English 1200-1300 6915 49 English 1300-1400 6890 49 Mandarin 1300-1400 7355 41 Mandarin 1400-1500 6150 49 English 1400-1500 7355 41 Mandarin 1500-1600 6150 49 Russian 1500-1600 7355 41 Mandarin 1600-1700 6150 49 Russian 1600-1700 6915 49 Mandarin 1700-1800 6150 49 Russian 1700-1800 6915 49 Mandarin Besides B-08, Russian page also has A-09 sked already: http://www.knls.net/rus/schedule.htm And this time the B-08 sked presented in English on the Chinese page appears to match, except Mandarin listings appear above English at respective times. 12-13 UT is the only KNLS English broadcast on both transmitters, now for B-08 on 6150 and 6915. Oct 27 at 1255 tried to catch at least the closing on 6150, but dominated by station in Chinese. Quickly checking weak 6915, I could detect the same music that was buried on 6150. Per Aoki A-08, and no doubt continuing, that`s RTI in Chinese, 100 kW at 310 degrees, and indeed at 1300 there was a 3+1 timesignal and ``RTI News`` altho the program was really in Chinese. KNLS never seems to get its frequency usage together avoiding stations in its Asian target! Do its donors know this? At least 6915 is in the clear for KNLS if we can get it on a good propagation day. The other KNLS English hours are now: 08 7355, 10 6150, 14 6150. The same blockage occurs on 6150 at 1000, but should be in the clear at 1400 if we`re not too far east for that to reach (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. The unknown stations on 2916 and 4373 kHz are harmonics from a transmitter in Albania operating on 1458 kHz and relaying China Radio International in Bulgarian (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, R. Bulgaria DX Oct 24 via DXLD) Note the 3rd one is not ending in 4, since the fundamental is axually off-frequency (gh, DXLD) CRI MW Fllaka ALB relay at 1700 UT on odd 1215.03 and 1457.56 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26/27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. Last minutes change of Radio Tirana: 0000-0130 NF 9345 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg NoAm, ex 7485 Albanian Daily 0130-0145 NF 9345 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg NoAm, ex 7485 English Tue-Sun 2130-2300 NF 9345 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg NoAm, ex 7510 Albanian Daily (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Oct 28 via DXLD) R. Tirana chex Sunday Oct 26 when broadcasts are only in Albanian: at 2200, fair on extended 9345 in the clear; UT Oct 27 at 0105, 9345 barely audible as really needs to be on 7 MHz band, while 6110 was much better but with jamming left over from the DentroCuban Jamming Command against VOA Spanish, which vacated 6110 the night before. Hope DCJC wises up quickly. For the rest of the week, let`s see how R. Tirana does in English: 1530 on 13720; 1945 on 11645, 7465; 2100 on 7510, 9345; 0130 on 9345, 0245 on 7390, 0330 on 6110, 0430 on 6100. Monitoring R. Tirana`s new 13720 on its first day, for English to NAm at 1530-1600: Oct 27 *1525 carrier on at S9+20, good and clear of any QRM. 1527 began IS, some distortion on modulation. 1530 sign-on undermodulated at first. As always to begin, YL reading complete B-08 transmission schedule in English, and was correct as I know it to be, but off the air abruptly just as she was about to give the frequency for 0330. Finally came back on at 1539 with programming in progress. Equally good the next day Oct 28 at 1554 check. Further chex of R. Tirana`s new schedule Oct 27: the English broadcast at 1945-2000: at 1950 found 11645 fair-good with no QRM, but nothing audible on scheduled // 7465. However, at 2000 recheck, 7465 was audible with IS and opening French with schedule, making me wonder if this transmitter was really off the air when I checked a few minutes earlier. No, the difference is that the English broadcast is non- direxional while the French brings up the same 310 degree antenna used for many other broadcasts to western Europe and North America. 2100-2130 in English: next check was on the DX-398 portable in a grocery parking lot at 2110. Both 9345 and 7510 were audible, fairly good, with 9345 a bit stronger. After 2130 in Albanian, only 9345 is on the air and continued to be well heard. Nothing else heard on 7510 which could also be used. 9345 continued to be heard at several checks, but fading somewhat by 2230. On the next transmission, 0000-0130 in Albanian, Oct 28 at 0018, 9345 was just barely audible, and // 6110 fairly good but again with DentroCuban jamming against former VOA Spanish frequency. At 0130-0145 English on 9345: not audible by now; 6110 instead probably would have been, and only a trace of jamming was still to be heard. 0245-0300 English on 7390: poor, but could recognize the woman announcer`s intonation. 6110 still open except for lite jamming. 0330-0400 English on 6110: fair but with subaudible heterodyne and lite jamming; the SAH may have come from a jammer as I don`t see anything else likely to be heard on 6110. 6115 is clear and could be used until 0400 Romania – but nothing heard there; I guess Tiganesti is still off the air. 0430-0500 English on 6100. About the same as 6110 an hour earlier, including residual jamming by Cuba. Nothing audible here on 6105, 6110, 6115 or 6120, tho there are supposedly other European stations on each of them to targets other than North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA [and non]. 7360, R. Tirana, out of ham band range 7.1-7.2 MHz, daily 0730-1000 UT in ADVANCE out of 40 meter Ham Radio segment now daily 7360 kHz (ex-7105) at 0730-1000 UT in Albanian, PROPER S=9+10 dB signal in Stuttgart. [later] 6005/9345: That was a surprise tonight, when checked the 6005 kHz channel at 2130-2300 UT. Suddenly appeared an IRIB Tehran outlet on adjacent channel 6009.98 ...6010 kHz, which service is not registered yet. Maybe IRIB originate from usual Kamalabad 500 kW 304 degree location. 6005 kHz - Noted R Tirana Shijak with S=9+10dB around 2130 UT, later in 2230 UT slot less strong on S=8-9 level. IRIB Tehran 6010 kHz carried Japanese service til 2200 UT [Sayonara ...], then followed by Arabic Holy Qur`an prayer, and from 2230 UT onwards in Indonesian language, S=9+20 dB powerful, heard still after 2300 UT. On lower side 6000 kHz noted V of Russia in Balkan languages as usual S=7-8. 9345 kHz - R Tirana 2130-2300 UT is too HIGH for reception in Germany at this time, only S=5-6, - should be much better reception in GB and N America? I hope so. Tiny signal in background of co-channel Voice of Korea, Pyongyang in Chinese, but that's not a problem in the western hemisphere (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26/27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALGERIA [non]. Télédiffusion d’Algérie confirmed with its Kor`an service on 5915, 2100-2300 via Rampisham, with strong signal and quite distorted program audio at 2230. A 5 kHz het on the radio turned out to be a strong open carrier on 5920 which was gone at 2238 recheck, unblocking a mixture of two faint signals I did not bother to identify (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. I've been following the LRA36 story this year in DXLD. 15476, LRA36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza (presumed), 2055-2058*, 10/23/2008, Spanish. Frequently hear only a carrier on 15476. Today, heard pop music briefly peaking above the noise at 2055. This was followed by a woman talking at 2056. The signal fell below the noise soon thereafter, but the carrier was heard until 2058. Modulation was audible on USB and the USB side of DSB only. LRA36 is readable only once or twice per year here. A very tentative log today, but no doubt it was this station. Logged on the RX-340 and the 90' wire (Jim Evans, Germantown, TN, TenTec RX-340, Drake R8B, RF Space SDR-14, 90' Random Wire, 200' PAR EF-SWL, Eavesdropper Dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA [and non]. I knew it would be a good day for LRA36, when I tuned in Africa Numéro Un, 15475, Oct 24 at 1834 and heard a continuous het from 15476. At 1900, ANO started news in French for a semiminute about Mauritanie until its laggard engineer turned off the modulation and a few seconds later, the carrier. During that brief period, despite some hum from Moyabi, I could tell that 15476 was playing music. Then LRA36 was on its own against the noise level, but no QRM whatsoever from other broadcast stations. There were occasional Bronx cheers from some kind of ute, and LRA36 carrier dropped off a couple times for a split second. First I made sure the frequency was really 15476, or rather very close to it. Initially Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel was playing guitar music mixed with some talk. At 1929 announcement by YL following some more music, but too weak to copy. I then spent some time on the ATS-909 trying to decide whether modulation was on USB or LSB or both. Not certain because it was so weak, but seemed to be as much LSB as USB, in keeping with some recent reports, contrary to others. Maybe the proportion varies day to day? 1939 another YL announcement; by 1955 it was weaker and finally gave up for today. Altho I never could copy a definite ID this time, I am positive this is what I was listening to, from previous experience, and above all because of its unique frequency. I wish other monitors would be as careful, for I occasionally see a report of this logged before 1900. Some advice: if you think you have LRA36 before 1900, you need to explain how you were able to separate it from the incomparably stronger signal 1 kHz away, ANO Gabon. Was Gabon unexpectedly off the air? Could you employ extremely tight selectivity or notching? Were you sure what you were hearing was not in French? Gabon has an enormous propagational advantage as well, from the Equator. Did very strange propagation give Antarctica an edge instead? But why try to log Antarctica before 1900 anyway when you can listen after 1900 without the QRM? LRA36 would have been blown away for the rest of its three hours, five days a week, a few seasons ago, if CVC Chile had gone ahead with its plan to grab 15475. We spearheaded a successful effort to persuade CVC to go elsewhere. It was another case of the big boys thinking a frequency is open because the little ones don`t make the least effort to register their usage with HFCC, and furthermore can`t conceive of changing frequency themselves, for licensing or technical reasons. Surely the management of LRA36 is aware by now from numerous DX reports (or by turning on a radio themselves?) that Gabon is covering up one third of their transmissions. If they can`t change frequency and can`t get Gabon to move or close one hour earlier, why doesn`t LRA36 simply shift its own broadcasts one hour later? Another station which doesn`t really understand the basics of what`s necessary to be a successful SW operation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA [and non]. RAE vs Morocco on 15345v: Oct 24 at 1904 while Antarctica was appearing on 15476: Morocco in Arabic dominating, the two maybe 150 Hz apart, and hard to tell which was which, but more modulation from Morocco, tho both are undermodulated. By 1946 the het was stronger as RAE was evidently gaining by comparison. RAE was off for a sesquimonth recently, and did they take the opportunity to make any improvements? No, when they came back, same old variable frequency colliding with Morocco. Neither of these participates in HFCC, but surely RAE management has heard by now from numerous listener complaints, that Morocco is blocking them in the European target languages. Yet all they do is change transmission times by one hour depending on the local clock when what they need to do is change frequency. Not vary by 200 Hz, but CHANGE 5 or 10 kHz to get away from the collision. Some complimentary consultancy: in B-08 every 5-kHz channel from 15335 to 15360 should be clear for all the hours RAE is presently using 15345 to Europe, 17-23 UT if not more. A simple switch to 15350 should do the trick, or should I say, forcing the transmitter to vary more than it usually does. Anyone want do donate a new crystal? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11710.75v, RAE, 2303-2335, Oct 24, tune-in to Portuguese ID announcements. Instrumental music. Portuguese talk. 11710.75 at tune varying to 11710.82 by 2335. Only a threshold signal at 0004 check. 15344.68, Radio Nacional, 2250-2325+, Oct 25, Spanish ballads. Spanish talk. ID at 2303. Fair (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15345.04, Radio Nacional, 2315-2328, Oct 26, in Spanish, music program (LA ballads and Antonio Carlos Jobim with bossa nova, etc.), fair-good (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15345.03, RAE with football live coverage at 1900 UT Sun Oct 26 (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26/27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not RAE, but R. Nacional? Wow, only 30-40 Hz off frequency! (gh) ** ASIA. DXAsia has now added transmitter sites! Alok das Gupta has asked me to tell you that the schedules on the DXAsia site http://www.dxasia.info now include a column giving the transmitter sites, following comments by Glenn and others on this list. The site has already been partly updated for B08, and the remaining schedules will be updated as soon as possible. Alok says that his son, Abishek, will hopefully will try to improve the script (during the Christmas holiday) with a link to Google Earth, but that isn't definite yet. But they will add hyperlinks to the sites and a list will pop up with times, freqs, lang, and broadcaster transmitting from the same transmitter site (Andy Sennitt, Oct 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. HCJB B-08 schedule lacks the former 0700 transmission on 11750; just 15 MHz frequencies, and the only airing shown of DX Partyline is Sat 1230-1245 on 15400 (via Alokesh Gupta, via Rachel Baughn, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA [non]. WRMI, 9955, Friday Oct 24 at 1939, fair-poor with no jamming, discussion of nervous system; per WRN schedule it`s Radio Australia during this semi-hour. The 18-21 UT stations on WRN to North America weekdays, when WRMI is still relaying it are, half an hour each: Ireland, Prague, Sweden, Australia, Poland, Korea. From Nov 3, with the end of DST in North America, both WRMI and WRN should move all this one UT hour later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENINGN DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA [non]. R. Australia, Indonesian ID on 11550, Oct 27 at 2215. I assume this is the same usage as in A-08 which per Aoki was 2200-2330, 100 kW, 205 degrees via Tainan, Taiwan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA. ``Esquema de programación del 26 de octubre 2008 al 31 de diciembre de 2008`` No es normal que ésta emisora publique las frecuencias sólo hasta final de año, ¿estamos pues ante una posible cancelación?. Veremos (José Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The program schedule for ORF on shortwave of course expires at yearend, since the production of English and Spanish programming will cease at this point (that's what the now defunct Insight Central Europe project euphemistically referred to as "changes"). I understand that the transmissions will continue beyond this point, but who knows, it could be that the plug will be pulled on New Year's Eve altogether. If they continue it would be interesting to see what will be carried on the frequencies for overseas targets. Just putting on Österreich 1 for an accidental 60 or even 30 minutes period makes not so terribly much sense. And if they pull the plug it will also affect RCI by way of the still running airtime exchange with ORF (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) ** AUSTRIA. 17855, Oct 26 at 1320 English discussion of airline privatization in Austria, Germany, fair signal; 1321 still IDs as ``Radio Austria International``, and then Post Box, in Report from Austria; acknowledging reception reports such as a scholarly 4-page one from Japan. Did not think to check whether much better signal heard earlier on 13730 was now //, and 17855 gone after 1330 while 13730 was in German at 1332. It`s on only at 1300-1330, 90 degrees from Moosbrunn, which was mentioned in the mailbag in answer to a question about where the transmitters are. So we don`t have to wrestle with OE or O-umlauts to name this station in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Should be // 13730, judging from http://oe1.orf.at/service/international What would need to be figured out by way of monitoring (for which I will hardly have time soon) is when 6155/13730 switch back to Österreich 1. Could be at 1330 or already at 1320 (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) R. Austria International, 13730, Oct 27 at 1313 in English discussing IMF, Hungary and its financial problems, good signal. Did not check 17855 until 1327 and then found them both in German, but not //, so apparently one was external service and the other domestic relay. 17855 went off at 1330* after the gong bong. R. Austria International, Oct 28 at 1327: 17855 was in English, 13730 in German and with a SAH but I don`t know of anything else supposed to be on the frequency; clear after 1330. Possibly was really receiver cross-modulation from a strong nearby signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. 7135, Radio Station Belarus; 2140-2215+, 27-Oct; Several IDs, all as, You are listening to Radio Station Belarus; English feature on children; news at 2200. SIO=3+43, minor ARO QRM & ute brief clatter at 2159. Strong QRM from 7140 in Chinese after 2200 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 210' center-fed RW, 85' end-fed RW, 125' bow-tie, Cumbre DX via DXLD) The local transmitter at Mahiloú has made the customary winter shift from 7145 to 7235 - I've tried, but I can't think of a reason why it does - and was heard at fair strength around 0750, but not with the same programme as Hrodna 7265 - also fair strength. It will be interesting to see what happens in A-09 when 7145 will be within an exclusive ham band if they make the shift back (Noel R. Green (NW England), Oct 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS [non]. 3960, LITHUANIA, R. Racja, Sitkunai, ID in Belarussian, 1635 UT, S=6-7 deep fades at 1630-1730 (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26/27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELGIUM [non]. Came shortly after 1850 across a signal on 5960 with soft modulation, containing a well-known pop song in a Bantu language (but I just can not remember the name of the artist). Aha, the remains of Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal. Off at 1900, continued from 1900 via Skelton on 6040 instead, sounding somewhat tiny here (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELGIUM [non]. TDP PROGRAM AND FREQUENCY SCHEDULE B08 PROGRAM TIME(UTC) (kHz) LANGUAGE TARGET Moj Them Radio 0100-0130 15260 AM m.w.f.. Hmong Asia Haiv Hmoob Radio 0100-0130 15260 AM .t..... Hmong Asia Hmong Lao Radio 0100-0200 15260 AM ...t..s Hmong Asia Hmong World Christian Radio 0100-0130 15260 AM .....s. Hmong Asia Denge Mezopotamya 0500-1400 11530 AM mtwtfss Kurdish M East Denge Mezopotamya 1400-2100 7540 AM mtwtfss Kurdish M East TDPradio 0800-0900 6015 DRM m...... English Europe TDPradio 0900-1000 6015 DRM .t..... English Europe TDPradio 1000-1100 6015 DRM ..w.... English Europe TDPradio 1100-1200 6015 DRM ...t... English Europe TDPradio 1200-1300 6015 DRM ....f.. English Europe TDPradio 1300-1400 6015 DRM .....s. English Europe TDPradio 1400-1500 6015 DRM ......s English Europe TDPradio 1500-1600 6015 DRM mtwtfss English Europe Que Huong Radio 1200-1300 15680 AM ..wtf.. Vietnamese As Radio Xoriyo Ogadenia 1400-1430 21585 AM .t...s. Somali Africa EOTC Holy Synod Radio 1600-1700 15195 AM m...... Amharic Africa Addis Dimts Radio 1600-1700 15195 AM ......s Amharic Africa Ginbot 7 1700-1730 12120 AM .t.t.s. Amharic Africa Ginbot 7 1700-1730 15350 AM .t.t.s. Amharic Africa TDPradio 2300-2400 9790 DRM mtwtfss English Americ (via Eric Zhou, China, Oct 23, and Jaisakthivel, Chennai, India, Oct 26, dxldyg via DXLD) The sites are not secret, but TDP never publishes them, forcing us to research them (gh) ** BIAFRA [non]. V. of Biafra International, via WHRI, again this Friday Oct 24 opening early from 1959 on 15280, The Orator ``bringing you matters of interest to Biafra`` and at least twice claiming to be ``transmitting on the 15.67 MHz frequency in the 19 meter band``, before and after playing ``God Bless Africa`` anthem in usual opening; 2006 into news by another speaker with heavy accent. VOBI HQ hasn`t a clue what frequency they are really on, so pity the poor listeners. In previous seasons I have heard them announce ``15.67`` which was never in use, tho in B-08 will supposedly be 15665. BTW, when rounding numbers, if halfway between an even and an odd one, you are supposed to go to the even one, not the odd one; but deliberate rounding is unacceptable with SW frequencies, whether or not your listeners have digital readout. 15280 signal was strong, much better than last week, but with a bit of echo, probably backscatter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.8, Radio Pio Doce. 10/23, 0125-0135. Man and woman, alternating talk in Spanish, with brief orchestral bridge music 0133. Through heavy QRM from WYFR, 5950. Normally I would have labeled this presumed, but Chuck Bolland in FL reported, subsequently, the identical programming at the same time, IDing it as Pio Doce. This is one of my favorite CP stations, not heard in a long while because of a difficult frequency. Years ago it was quite regular and I got to know the Roman Catholic brothers who supported the station, financially and technically. One of them later visited me en route back to his home near Montreal. The station's purpose then, at least, was to support, educationally and politically, the tin miners' union in the mining town of Siglo Veinte (a rather improbable name -- 20th Century -- for such a backwards-backwaters community). The political aspect resulted in the station being dynamited several times by government goons. That, at least, is not likely to be repeated during the Morales regime. 5996.5, Radio Loyola (tentative) 10/24, 2344-2355, man talking in Spanish, vocal music. Heard through heavy QRM from Havana on 6000 and something else (Mali??) on 5995. Really tough reception but this is one of about 40 CP and OA lower SW frequencies checked nearly daily and only very rarely is anything heard through the QRM mess on this difficult frequency (Don Jensen, Kenosha WI, Oct 26, NASWA yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA [non]. Russia, 6075, Radio Rossii, 1000-1010, Prior to the hour, this station was getting buried under Deutsche Welle, but something happen on the hour and they faded in to a point where they were dominating the freq. Heard an ID at 1004 as "Rossii" in the middle of the news. According to Passport, this is being relayed via Kamchatka Radio from Petropavlovsk. USA Pop music presented at 1014. Signal was good. Germany, 6075, Deutsche Welle, 0945-1015, This is relayed via the UK at Skelton during this period according to the WRTH. The Passport says it's via Rampisham. Noted news and features all in German language. Signal was fair. UnID, 6075, 1000-1020. Underneath the above loggings, there's a weak station broadcasting in Spanish language. It sounds like news with male and female individuals commenting. I am looking for that Bolivian noted on this frequency a few weeks ago, but can't be certain if this is them. They were much more dominant when heard before. Signal is threshold at this point (Chuck Bolland, October 28, 2008, Clewiston, Florida, NRD545, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) R Kausachun Coca ** BULGARIA. 15700 in A-08 switched abruptly from Bulgarian to DW Russian at 1400, but now it`s R. Bulgaria from 1300 to 1500; enjoyed VG signal with some great folk music Monday Oct 27 from 1439. 15700, putting out spurious spikes at modulation peaks, worst around 15720 and 15680, but also audible around 15740 and 15660, Oct 28 at 1330. May have been bothering the DRM from Sines on 15720-15725-15730 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BURMA [non]. OPPOSITION DVB RADIO TO INCREASE AIRTIME | Text of report by Norway-based Burmese Democratic Voice of Burma website, on 20 October Dear listeners, beginning from Monday, 27 October, the daily radio programmes of the Democratic Voice of Burma [DVB] will be increased by an hour while some current broadcasting frequencies will be changed. The new extended broadcast will be aired from 1930 to 2030 Burma Standard Time [BST] [1300 to 1400 gmt] on shortwave 25 meter band with frequency 11880 kHz. The regular 0600 to 0700 BST morning programme [2330-2430 UT --- gh] will be changed to shortwave 49 meter band with frequency 5955 kHz while the regular 2100 to 2200 BST [1430-1530 UT -- - gh] evening programme will be changed to shortwave 16 meter band with frequency 17495 kHz and shortwave 31 meter band with frequency 9415 kHz. These changes will take effect on 27 October. Beginning from Monday, 27 October, DVB will broadcast three radio programmes daily - 0600 to 0700 BST programme on shortwave 49 meter band with frequency 5955 kHz, 1930 to 2030 BST programme on shortwave 25 meter band with frequency 11880 kHz and 2100 to 2200 BST programme on shortwave 16 meter band with frequency 17495 kHz and on shortwave 31 meter band with frequency 9415 kHz. Source: Democratic Voice of Burma website, Oslo, in Burmese 1430 gmt 20 Oct 08 (via BBCM via WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DXLD) I was also looking for this on their website, http://www.dvb.no which has a lot of English content, but never found anything there about new schedule. 11880 is the new relay via T8WH Palau. 5955 is Wertachtal ex-9490. 9415 unknown, but could be Armenia instead of 11795, ex-15480. 17495 is Madagascar, ex-17625 (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Hi, Here in Northern France, strong Greek speaking station with many songs in Greek; 0630z on 1690 kHz. Assume it is CHTO Toronto. Someone else in Europe hears it too at sunrise? Cheers de Pat (Patrice Privat, Oct 23, mwdx yg via DXLD) Hello Patrice. CHTO is a regular visitor with UK DXers at sunrise on 1690. It seems to dominate the frequency though is only ever weak. Good DX! (John Faulkner, ibid.) ** CANADA. In WOR 1431, an item on the traffic death of Ken L. A. Burgess, I said he was with CJSW in Canada. Should have said CKSW, which is in Swift Current, Sask.; my mistake, but meanwhile I sought the original report. BTW, that was the ONLY Google hit on his name; must have maintained a very low internet profile (Glenn Hauser, Oct 23, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Vanhemalle polvelle tiedoksi, että monen CKSW 570:n QSL:n allekirjoittaja Ken L.A. Burgess ja hänen vaimonsa ovat kuolleet viikko sitten auto-onnettomuudessa, heidän tyttärensä (27) on saanut vakavia vammoja. Olin Kenin kanssa kirjeenvaihdossa melko täsmälleen 30 vuotta. Hän lähetti minulle mm. erinomaisen Kanadan tiekarttakirjan, josta on ollut vuosien mittaan monenlaista hyötyä DX- kuuntelunkin saralla. 73 SSS (Simo S. Soininen, Oct 19, Finnish DX, via HCDX via DXLD) ** CANADA. How often does Toronto 740 ID? There is no actual time that is required to give an ID, as long as they give the call letters once in a day between midnight and 11:59 PM, it could be at 4:32 in the morning if they want, and they don't have to give the city either. Some stations will do it every hour on the hour, and some like CILV here in Ottawa sometimes do it twice an hour (Thomas Anderson, ABDX via DXLD) ** CANADA. 6160, CKZU Vancouver 1316-1335 Oct 26. Classical music program // 690 MW; news at 1330. Both freqs fair here with QRM. 6160 was mixing with a co-channel Chinese-language station not noted previously - something new for B08 maybe (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado. DRake R-9, 100-foot RW, Cumbredx mailing list via DXLD) ** CANADA [and non]. IBB doesn`t give a damn about North Americans being able to hear CBC on shortwave, for it periodically goes on 6160, and has just done it again for B-08. Oct 27 at 1252, R. Australia WRN relay buried by VOA Chinese, as quickly IDed by jingle and mention of Mei-Guo, and making a SAH, plus Chicom jamming, which now instead of Firedrake is at least two CNR-1 programs echoing against each other and everything else. Still going past 1300. So now we can forget about listening to CKZU between 11 and 14, when Tinang is running at 332 degrees to China. I bet this also wipes out CKZU in its target area of northern BC, and at 1100 could even bother CKZN`s area (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. Oct. 24, 7120 kHz, 1823z, CRI English MIXING with R Rossii. CRI received better than R Rossii. I checked HFCC data, and practicly for same ITU zones those stations mixed each other for entire A08 season! 7120 1800 1900 28N BEI 500 322 7120 1330 2100 27,28 MSK 250 265 (Dragan Lekic from Subotica, SERBIA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. CRI English via Sackville at 1300 is now on 13675, very strong Oct 26, but now they have very strong RHC next door on 13680. Commies vs Commies! The two splatter against each other, somewhat evitable by side-tuning each. In all my bandscanning for new B-08 info, Oct 26 between 1248 and 1438, it just dawned on me that I had not run across any Firedrake, tho I was not looking for it specifically. I hope this is a good sign, but maybe just a propagational fluke (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Some German list posting reports an absence of Firedrake as well. But I would wait some days before coming to any conclusions. Perhaps CRI's parent agency just needs a break to monitor the new situation (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 26 Oct around 1330 noted Firedrake on 8000. Seems to be on again at 1630 mixing with 8000 ETH and 7999.4 ERI (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, ibid.) Also very strong now (1640) at 8000 here in Spain (George, ibid.) 7999, Firedrake Dragon, 2118-, captada el 26 de octubre emisión musical Firedrake Dragon, utilizada por las jamer chinas, SINPO 22332 (José Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DXLD) I believe Sound of Hope has been on 8000 before, so that would explain it, nothing to do with Ethiopia (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DXLD) Thanks to a tip on another list I found Firedrake on 8000 kHz from 2150 until 2200. It took a pause, then resumed the typical music at 2205, and is continuing on. Fair signal (Damon Cassell, Salem, MA, Oct 26, ODXA yg via DXLD) Who knows if this is a permanent change, but Chicom jamming has for now replaced Firedrake with the alternative: domestic programming, presumably CNR-1, usually with an offset echo to drive listeners batty and away from targeted services. Such was noted Oct 27 at 1300 on 6150, 6095; at 1344 on 6030, 6040, 6095; 1355 on 6085; 1402 on 9605 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, noted some CNR1 echo on Oct 26th, much weaker outside China target I guess, when compared with former Firedrake. Today Oct 27th nothing of new echo jammer did arrive in Europe til about 1400 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) Hi Glenn, I also noted the CNR-1 echo jamming on Oct 27. Was CNR-1, as heard parallel with non-jamming (non-echo) 4800 and 7275. Did happen catch one strong Firedrake on 7270 at 1442, so not completely gone. (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Strongest Firedrake here in Costa Rica has been on 7280 between 1100 and 1300 UT, which enables me to even "enjoy" the music. But gone now for the last couple of days. 73 (Raúl Saavedra, ibid.) All the Chinese Firedrake have gone yesterday, heard very few on Oct 26th in the morning, but now stopped with end of A-08 season. What about Sound of Hope outlets outside the broadcast bands? (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26/27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7295 [Traxx FM via RTM] totally covered by CNR-1 echo: see MALAYSIA Yes, noted some CNR1 echo on Oct 26th, much weaker outside China target I guess, when compared with former Firedrake. But Firedrake re-appeared today Oct 28th orchestra full in action: against AIR Delhi Mandarin sce at 1130-1315 UT on 11840 and 15795 kHz, covers the fundamental program in total. Remaining 9425 couldn't be checked here even with small filter, due of Greece 9420 powerhouse nearby (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. At 2335 the only strong signals in the old 41 mB besides Galbeni-7105 originated from Urumqi: Spanish on 7250 and Chinese on 7300 (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. USA(non)/CHINA: Heard VOA YD IS at 2158 Oct 26 and then another station came on top at 2200 -- CRI in Spanish for SAm, on 9490 with fair signal. Note that the Spanish service has its own opening tune, different from the English service -- going away from the familiar music that opens all other CRI language services (Joe Hanlon, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CRI is 500 kW, 318 degrees from Beijing site for South America, a rather odd azimuth. VOA is Tinang, 250 kW at 200 degrees (gh, DXLD) What I heard before CRI came on in Spanish at 2200 10/26 on 9490 was: the opening of VOA English to the Far East, Asia, etc., 250 kW, 200 deg. via Tinang site (as shown in B07 Aoki sked, see). CRI was heard over VOA from *2200 (Joe Hanlon, NJ, 10/28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 8794-USB: Thanks to Ron Howard's tip I checked this one on 26 Oct. Changjiang Maritime Security Information Center, 8794U started at 1343 with continuous orchestral music IS loop. First very poor signal, but rapidly building up to fair/good. Time pips at 1400, female announcer, possibly id and music continued. Then into female voice announcements with music bridges just like Ron described. I guess they ID during these bridges, couple of times heard slogans starting with "Changjiang". Off at 1419. A bit different programming compared to those dull synthetic voices on some weather stations :-) (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, dxldyg via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. 6035, LV Guaviare, 0250-0303*, Oct 25, local romantic ballads. Spanish talk. Closing ID announcements at 0259. National Anthem at 0301. Fair to poor with weak co-channel QRM from the BBC in English. BBC off at 0300 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. NUEVA ESTACION COLOMBIANA DE ALCARAVAN RADIO, EN ONDA CORTA ! Freddy Gamboa Rivas (fregamri @ hotmail.com) desde Los Teques, Estado Miranda, Venezuela, tras la búsqueda e identificación de una estación religiosa venezolana reportada hace días por Rafael Rodríguez desde Bogotá, Colombia en los 6981.6 kHz entre 1200 y 1400 UT nos informa que el pasado 25 de Octubre de 2008 encontró lo siguiente: “A las 9:OO AM hora local Venezolana (1230 UT [sic --- Venezuela is UT -4:30 so that would be 1330 UT --- gh]) sintonicé una nueva emisora que se identificó tentativamente como “RADIO LUZ” operando en la frecuencia de los 6870 kHz con una señal aceptable -SINPO 344443- [sic] y música de diferentes géneros como baladas del grupo Maná, Ricardo Arjona, Marcos Swith, entre otros”. “Posteriormente, en horas de la noche, a las 10:00 PM hora local de Venezuela (01:30 UTC [I guess he means 0230 UT]) con un SINPO de 35322, escuché en esa misma frecuencia de los 6870 kHz a una emisora identificándose como “ONDA TUPÁ (?) u “ONDA TUPAC” (?) desde el Departamento de El Meta; perteneciente al grupo radial colombiano “Alcaraván Radio” que opera a dos estaciones de onda corta como son: Marfil Estereo y La Voz de Tu Conciencia en los 5910 y 6010 kHz desde Puerto Lleras. El Programa Luz captado ésta noche, incluía música cristiana así como mensajes de conservación del medio ambiente”. Anexo incluyo la grabación de las 0130 UTC [0230], para que la escuchen y me ayuden a confirmar su identificación definitiva y posible ubicación desde donde emite. Gracias! Parte de la trascripción: Voz femenina identifica “Mensaje de Alcaraván Radio”. Voz Masculina “SINTONIZATE CON ONDA TUPAC EN EL CORAZON DEL META, EN EL META! (via CLUB “DIEXISTAS DE LA AMISTAD, 32 Años, Escuchando al Mundo ¡ Santiago San Gil González, Editor del Blog del C.DX.A - INTERNACIONAL http://diexismovenezolano.blogspot.com VENEZUELA, Oct 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hard to believe that Alcaraván Radio, which has been bound by Colombia`s unreasonable radio regulations as to being stuck on a bad frequency, 6010, for its SW outlet, would finally go the pirate route? The clip is in a strange format I am reluctant to install software to play just for this, .amr (gh, DXLD) Falsa Alarma. La supuesta nueva estación en SW de Alcaraván Radio, resultó ser una radiación espúrea! Hola amigo y colega Santiago, Saludos desde Colombia; muy interesante lo que reportan; lastimosamente no puedo abrir el archivo de audio con extension .amr ojalá el amigo Fredy pueda convertirlo a .wav o mp3. Tengo que verificar sobre la frecuencia 6870 que esté operando una emisora del Alcaraban [sic] Radio, ya que me inclino a sospechar que puede tratarse de una señal imagen; por la cercanía de las antenas de emisión en Puerto LLeras se nos han presentado frecuencias spóreas notadas en 5710, 5810, 6110, 6210 y que incluso han alcanzado otros continentes. Hay un promo de la emisora que reza "Sintonízate con Ondas de Paz desde el Corazón del Meta" para la emisora Marfil Estéreo que podría oirse “SINTONÍZATE CON ONDA TUPAC EN EL CORAZÓN DEL META, EN EL META!`` que señala el amigo Freddy. Me suena lo de Radio Luz, como nombre de la emisora esuchada por mí en días pasados por los 6891, ya que mencionaban la Iglesia Luz del Mundo. Bueno, es necesario continuar en la "Caza" de la señal para lograr una plena identificación. Buen DX (Rafael Rodríguez, Bogotá, Oct 26 via San Gil, DXLD) Esta grabación de Alcaraván Radio/Ondas de Paz tiene todos los visos de ser un espúrea tal como sugería Rafael. Muchas gracias por pasarnos el audio. El colega Yimber también me preguntó y le decía lo mismo, que creía que era una imagen. La emisora que Rafael reportaba antes, la supuesta "Radio Luz" será otra cosa, digna de más pesquisas. Saludos (Henrik Klemetz, Sweden, Oct 27, ibid.) Hola Santiago, Muchas gracias por el audio en formato .mp3 del cual te cuento algunas cosas. Alcaraban [sic] Radio es la identificación de la emisora en onda media 1530 kHz y además del Sistema completo, es decir (emisoras en AM, FM y Onda corta); por la voz de la locutora y la música que se escucha considero deber tratarse de alguna mezcla de Marfil 5910 y Alcaraban 1530. A pesar que el amigo Freddy comenta que no se escuchaba Marfil Estéreo, no significa que no estuviera en el aire; ya que muchas veces he notado las zonas de silencio que tienen estas emisoras; en Bogotá no escucho las fundamentales pero las mezclas en (5710, 5810, etc.) sí se escuchan Sobre la posible venezolana, ayer capté una señal portadora pero sin audio en 6981v alrededor de las 1220 UT. Este fin de semana es "puente festivo" así que tendré 3 dias para poder chequearla y además pienso salir fuera de Bogotá, para así incrementar las posibilidades de escucha e identificación de la misma. De otro lado te felicito por la página del CDXA, muy interesante y completa. Un saludo y Buen DX (Rafael Rodríguez, Oct 27, ibid.) Nota del Editor: Así me gusta colegas Rafael Rodriguez, Yimber Gaviria y Henrik Klemetz. Gracias por confirmarnos la información anterior. Freddy sigue buscando la nueva estación venezolana; quizás de esta vez un tubazo. Nos quedamos con las ganas! (Santiago San Gil, Venezuela, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. REE HQ in Madrid has been notified that at least two of its Cariari relay frequencies have been one kHz off for many months, but so far no fix. Oct 24 at 1847 check, still 11814 instead of 11815, undermodulated talk in Spanish with barely audible het from something on 11815. The other one is 5964 at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SPAIN! ** COSTA RICA. REE relay, 3350 at 0340 on 26 Oct. in Spanish. S5 but low audio. See DXLD 8-114, dated 22 Oct (Liz Cameron, MI, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CROATIA [non]. VOC already on new 7375 ex-9925, UT Oct 26 around 0245 in Croatian via Germany. Finally out of the 40m American hamband, where it had used 7275 in previous B-seasons, and part of A-season, pretending to target Iceland (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Croatian Radio relay at 0300 was VG on new 7375 with short English newscast 10/27. This channel actually was first heard on UT-10/25 so it got an early start to the new B08 sked then (Joe Hanlon, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CROATIA [and non]. The low power transmitter Deanovec uses on 3985 is about 200 Hz low. This was no big problem so far, but now it is: At 2215 a loud het drowned out the modulation almost completely. Must be Iran, now using this frequency for Arabic, // 6065 Radio Sweden hardly uses anymore (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. CUBA DENUNCIA AGRESIONES RADIALES Y TELEVISIVAS POR PARTE DE ESTADOS UNIDOS http://www.cronicadigital.cl/modules.php?name=AvantGo&file=print&sid=13803 Fecha Miércoles, 22 octubre a las 18:20:04. Tema Cuba El incremento y nuevos métodos utilizados por Estados Unidos en sus agresiones radiales y televisivas contra Cuba fueron denunciadas hoy aquí como evidencia del total desprecio de Washington por las normas que rigen las relaciones internacionales. Al intervenir en el debate de la IV Comisión de la Asamblea General sobre Cuestiones Relativas a la Información, el embajador cubano Rodrigo Malmierca reiteró los mantenidas ataques radioeléctricos del gobierno norteamericano contra su país. Esas agresiones "infringen abiertamente los principios del Derecho Internacional que rigen las relaciones entre los Estados y las normas y reglamentos de la Unión Internacional de Telecomunicaciones", puntualizó. Malmierca dijo que cada semana emisoras radicadas en el territorio norteamericano transmiten hacia Cuba más de mil 920 horas de radio y televisión por 32 diferentes frecuencias de onda media, corta, FM y TV. Añadió que como muestra de la nueva escalada de agresión contra Cuba, desde el año 2003 el gobierno estadounidense utiliza un avión militar C-130 del Pentágono, con alcance de 200 kilómetros, para enviar esa señal televisiva, a un costo de 150 mil dólares por cada emisión. Añadió que tres de las 27 emisoras que transmiten programaciones subversivas contra Cuba son propiedades del gobierno de Washington; la Voz de las Américas y las mal llamadas Radio y TV Martí. La decisión del tipo de información que desea recibir el pueblo de Cuba, le corresponde de manera soberana a nuestro país y no a los que desde la administración gubernamental de los Estados Unidos malgastan los aportes de los contribuyentes, subrayó el embajador Malmierca. El diplomático llamó por la necesaria creación de un Nuevo Orden Mundial de la Información y las Comunicaciones, luego de advertir que el flujo informativo se produce de manera muy peculiar. "Las noticias que se divulgan o se silencian son las que convienen a los poderosos, se impone la mentira, se manipula la historia, se legitima la discriminación y se ultraja la libertad de expresión y de información", opinó. El Embajador pidió que el mundo subdesarrollado sea tratado de manera especial en el Sistema de Información de la ONU y precisó que sus Centros de Información diseminados por el mundo deben desempeñar un papel más activo en la difusión de información equilibrada. El uso de mecanismos de difusión, como por ejemplo la radio, debe continuar potenciándose como medio para contribuir a la información de las amplias poblaciones analfabetas que existen en los países del sur, subrayó. Señaló que pese a sus limitados recursos, Cuba aplica con éxito en 15 países el Programa de Alfabetización "Yo sí Puedo", premiado y reconocido por la Organización de las Naciones para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura debido a su eficacia. Por su parte, la funcionaria Rebeca Hernández dijo al replicar una intervención de la delegación de Estados Unidos, que "los cubanos no pedimos sus trasmisiones y no las necesitamos". No le corresponde al gobierno de Estados Unidos decidir qué tipo de información requiere Cuba. Sólo el pueblo cubano tiene derecho a determinar cómo y sobre qué se informa, afirmó la diplomática. Lamentó que millones de dólares de los contribuyentes norteamericanos se desperdicien en transmisiones agresivas que en Cuba nadie ve ni oye. Naciones Unidas, 22 de octubre 2008 Prensa Latina (via José Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via DXLD) What a crock of B.S.! Every so often representatives of the unelected, corrupt, dictatorial Castro-Castro regime try to make a big issue of US broadcasts to Cuba, claiming they violate international law, that only Cubans have the right to decide what broadcasts they should receive. First of all, Cubans ARE deciding what broadcasts Cubans should receive. Make that: Fuera-Cubans are deciding what broadcasts Dentro- Cubans should receive. Cuban exiles run Radio Martí and all the other clandestine broadcasts. This is not to say that the Martís are not huge boondoggles and wastes of taxpayer money, especially the TV side. So ``nobody in Cuba sees or hears these aggressive transmissions``, as in the last paragraph? OK, then why are Castros` minions so upset about them??????? Let the yanquis waste their money. The fact is that a lot of the radio broadcasts do get thru the jamming, if not the TV. Can you imagine any other country objecting to broadcasts from a neighboring country crossing the border? Well, yes, there must be a few, in all cases countries lacking a free press, and very much in need of news from the outside. But they never admit to that reality. Do Americans cry out, that only Americans have the right to decide what broadcasts they receive? Do we jam ANY broadcasts from across our borders? Of course not. That would be unthinkable, even under the current corrupt, unelected, law-breaking, Cheney-Bush regime! Not even Radio Habana Cuba, with its relentless anti-American talking points, some of the strongest signals infesting our shortwave radios, in English, absolutely free to enter the US. Grow up, Castro Cuba. {And another point: ``only the Cuban people have the right to decide how and about what they should be informed`` --- well, yeah, each individual Cuban has that Human Right! And the repressive Cuban government does its best to deny such rights, including protests such as this delivered along with a similar one from their pals in attempted mind-control, the North Koreans} (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) OTOH: Saludos amigos, Acabo de actualizar el Blog luego de varios días sin poder acceder a la red; en este nuevo artículo expreso mi opinión sobre una estación radial. Espero que les guste y me envíen sus comentarios. El vínculo es: http://blogguajiro.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/radio-marti-y-otros-demonios/ (Ing. Yandys Cervantes Rodríguez, Cuba, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. DentroCuban Jamming Command grinding away plus pulses, Oct 26 at 0555 on 6100, but off at 0605 recheck. The jamming is ``needed`` only until 0400 when R. República closes. This bodes ill for R. Tirana`s 0430-0500 English broadcast scheduled for B-08 on 6100, which should otherwise have been clear for it. DentroCubans who want to hear R. Martí without jamming should make an effort to tune around on the first days of new seasons, when the Jamming Command is lagging behind frequency changes, even tho they are rather predictable from previous matching seasons. Oct 26 at 1248 I found R. Martí on reactivated 5745, jamming-free and // 5980 with had the usual jamming. RM was discussing something about Spain`s cultural center. Recheck 1346, 5745 still going in the clear; at 1358 QSY announcement claimed that in a few moments RM could be heard on 9565, 11930 and 13820. Really?? Nothing on 9565 at this hour. Is RM giving out disinformation, or just ignorant about its own schedule? 9565 is now supposed to run at 20-24 UT, ex-17-24 in A-08, or was it *1730? Here are my other logs of RM this date: At 1346, open carrier on 15330, which was not used all A-season, jammed anyway at times but not right now. 1402 check, RM programming underway on 15330 as well as 13820, and at 1414 check on 11930 --- almost always runs three frequencies at any one time. DCJC still pulsing and grinding against nothing on 9490, Oct 26 at 1255; is that still in use for República via RMI via Sackville at 10- 11 only? RHC missing from 6140, Oct 27 at 0327, so I could hear instead R. Romania International in Spanish, as now scheduled via Galbeni, 310 degrees at 03-04. But Cuba just had a breakdown (or a monitoring pause?), and was back on with overpowering signal at 0401 check, also bothering V of Russia English relay from unknown location on 6135 starting at 0400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) At approx. 0330 UT 27 OCT 2008 (1030 PM CDT 26 OCT 2008), RHC disappeared from the air. 6140 kHz fell in signal strength by approx. 50% at 0230, and by 0330, Radio Havana Cuba was no longer heard. 6180 was checked and RHC wasn't heard there although their English broadcast had been found there as well for the past two nights as well. 6000 was also silent even though that frequency had also been in use last night by RHC. The only sign of them was that for approx. 5 minutes at 5965 KHz, from 0330 to 0335 the RHC "bells" were heard playing in a contentious loop. Then, that too was silent. Update: As of 0350, RHC is back up and broadcasting on 6140 and 6000. Must have been a temporary transmitter glitch. Happy listening,(Jeramy Ross /W5XTL, Lawton OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6180 has been entirely in Spanish lately. Now that VOA is gone after 0500, RHC may be tempted to resume it for English? RHC bells? I wonder if you heard Vatican bells, but 5965 not supposed to open from them until 0400, along with REE Costa Rica (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** CUBA [and non]. DentroCuban Jamming Command still running on 6100 at 0622 UT Oct 27; previously had noted it went off at 0600, tho it is apparently no longer needed at all with R. República gone from 6100 previously at 0200-0400. Radio Martí on reactivated 5745, still unjammed for the second day, Oct 27 at 1306; at 1359 QSY announcement again claimed to be on 9565, 11930, 13820 but 9565 remains imaginary at 1400. Earlier at 1311, I found jamming on 13820 but no R. Martí audible; instead something in a S Asian language, which per DTK B-08 is YFR, 500 kW, 84 degrees from Nauen at 1300-1459. At 1444, tho, R. Martí was atop 13820 with the jamming. At 1454 check, reactivated 15330 RM was also on over jamming. {5745 still unjammed Oct 28 at 1308 check} To confirm whether Cuba has reverted to UT-5 a week ahead of Yankee Imperialists, monitored RHC 13680, Oct 27 at 1357 and also copied first the always-misleading frequency announcement read live by Tony: 15120, 15360, from 13 UTC 15370; 13760; from 9 am also 13680; 11760, 12000; 9600; 6000. Why mix local and UT in the same announcement? And 13680 coming on at 13 UT now = 8 am local time! He also fails to say that 9600 ends at 1300, and totally omits 6180, also on the air until 13; and the fact that 6000 ends at 14. Why do I know so much more about RHC`s true schedule than the studionix? Then at 1359 he gave a live timecheck for ``9 de la mañana`` so Cuba is back on EST. Recheck at 1458 just before sign off: said would resume at 23 UT on 9600, 11680; at 00 on 13760, 11760, 11690, 9600 [so are they on 11680 for one hour, then 11690? I think not]; 02-05 on 9550, 5965, 6060, 6180; 24-01 on 6000, 6140. A bit of musical finale, but carriers stayed on and guess what: At 1500 started playing back Despertar Con Cuba, giving date 27 oct., and time as 6:03 am! Bárbara Betancourt (sp?) and Tony went on to talk about the time change, and how they would be on the air until 9 am. No [see below], in the summer you were on until 11 am (EDT) = 15 UT, and now you are still supposed to run until 15 UT which is 10 am EST, minus the replay --- which went out on most of the frequencies, 15370, 15360, 15120, 13680, 12000, but not 13760 or 11760. Finally at 1505 someone woke up and cut the modulation and then the carriers, with 15120 and 15360 going off first, then a minute later 15370. I also noticed that 15120 had considerable co-channel QRM at 1456, but it went off before RHC did so could not ID it. Looks like that was most likely IBB Lampertheim, a non-VOA service. Not on the RFE/RL schedule far below after 1400. RHC, 15120, Oct 28 at 1357 ending Despertar con Cuba, Tony crediting staff, including himself, Antonio Gómez, and the other main announcer Bárbara Betancourt, reiterating that DcC is on the air from 6 to 9 am local time (EST). Correcting my earlier remarx, that is indeed now 11-14 UT. It`s the entire morning transmission which runs to 1500, i.e. 11 am by DST, 10 am by ST, the final hour on weekdays being other programming such as Voces de la Revolución, old diatribes by Fidel et al., and Formalmente Informal at 1430, by then a MUCH needed partially musical respite {Also noted 6180 cutting off in middle of news at 1303.5* Oct 28} (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. 7210-SSB, Oct 27 at 1246 heard polemic speech in Cuban Spanish, just as if it were a scripted, or well-memorized exile broadcast. Tuning by first in AM, the intonation caught my attention as it sounded like a broadcast orator, not a conversation. But this guy paused now and then for 2-way encouragement from others. ``Raúl Castro vive como un rey``, ``Viva la Revolución``, spoken ironically. I heard a W4 callsign go by but could not copy it, nor an N-something. Checking the final Nets to You, not updated for over a sesquiyear, the only item on 7210 was Old Goats, in eastern US, daily at UT 1230 ST/1130 DST, which this unseems altho the speaker may well have been a cabrón viejo by coincidence. Nor do I find anything likely on other frequencies around this time, nor is there anything with Cuba in its name on the entire list. O well; but might be a regular source of entertainment if tuned in earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) {this is probably the only DXLD issue where the word `goat` has been mentioned more than once in different contexts} ** CUBA [non]. What has become of Radio República? Can`t find it on any of the former frequencies in the 22-04 UT period, which in A-08 were two hours each on 9515, 9640 and 6100. Oct 27 at 2212 there was relentless jamming on 9515, but no sign of R.R.; Cuba has been jamming this frequency long hours anyway far beyond 22-24 whether República was using it or not. Not found on 9640, 6185, 6155, 6135 or 6100, so I scanned the entire 6, 7, 9 and even 11 MHz bands looking for signs of it, but nothing. They dropped relays via WRMI 9955 previously, and now poking around the website http://www.directorio.org/ I am beginning to suspect they have decided to `broadcast` via YouTube rather than shortwave; nothing found about radio schedules, and what used to be there was long out of date anyway. One can`t look this up on VTC schedules, since listings were always kept secret. Jeff White says the RMI relay of RR via Sackville will move to 6100 next week; has been at 10-11 UT; then 11-12?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CZECHIA. R. Prague usage of 13580 now starts at 1400, VG in English to NAm at 1401 Oct 26. R. Prague`s morning broadcast at 1400 in English to NAm is much appreciated and comes in well on 13580; Monday Oct 27 just caught the closing at 1428, which was music, IS once and off at 1429* not wasting time with reading entire transmission schedule in French. Back on at 1430 after beamchange with much weaker signal in French; interfering with CODAR at 1445 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DENMARK. Re 8-114, Kalundborg 243 kHz --- Glenn, the pause jingle has been in DRM since Oct 20th 0830 UT except for a short software fallout (Ydun Ritz, Denmark, Oct 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. HCJB B-08 schedule shows that two of the tribal language broadcasts have been moved one hour later in the evening: Waodani 0000-0030 and Cofan 0030-0100 on 6050, 50 kW, 18/172 degrees, daily. The morning broadcasts have been canceled (Glenn Hauser, from sked via Alokesh Gupta, via Rachel Baughn, DXLD) ** ECUADOR [non]. Oct. 24, 11740 kHz, 1611z, HCJB in Russian, Rampisham, UK, 500 kW/076 degrees, good reception; ID "Golos na Andite" (Voice of the Andes), freq, address, and announcement that as of Oct. 26 this xmission will be aired at 2000 Moscow time (1700z in B08) on 9805 kHz. I checked the schedules, that would be Skelton 300 kW/ 070 degrees (Dragan Lekic from Subotica, SERBIA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) From years ago when I used to hear Russian direct from Ecuador, I thought the ID was just ``Golos And``. Is that also correct? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** EGYPT. (unconfirmed). 6290, Radio Cairo; 2320-2330 UT, 23 October. Arabic-sounding music then, at 2330, the 'Big Ben' tune on bells followed by newscast with female vocals which included mention of Shimon Peres. SINO 3533 (variable: occ. 3522 or 4533). Good wishes and 73's, (Dave Harries, Bristol, England, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. Altho already heard a few days before B-08, R. Cairo in Arabic Oct 26 at 0603 M&W dialog on 6290, scheduled all the way from 1900 until 0700 at 315 degrees toward us. Checking R. Cairo`s new frequencies in English for B-08 as in DXLD 8- 114: Oct 26 at 0105 it was too late to tell if 6850 had been in English at 2300-2430, but was on the air and audible in subsequent Arabic service; weaker than 6290 also in Arabic. Next check at 0300, when 7535 is scheduled for English at 0200-0330: a signal there but too weak to be sure it was Cairo in English. Meanwhile, 6290 was quite strong by comparison. Why don`t they put English there? Because Arabic is more important to them, even when broadcasting to North America. Confirming R. Cairo`s new frequencies for English in B-08: 2115-2245 on 6255: Oct 27 at 2203, good signal but undermodulated YL introducing show whose title I could not copy, about ``excellence of Arabs in the domain of medicine and surgery``. This is for Europe but carries on well in same direxion to North America. 2300-2430 on way-out-of-band 6850 to NAm: some R. Cairo schedules fail to break out this English sesquihour, listing it as Arabic as well as the following hours on same channel, but Oct 27 at 2326 I confirmed it is in English, undermodulated as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, Radio Africa, 1120-1125, Oct 24, English religious programming. Fair level but muffled, distorted audio. Also heard at 2045 with somewhat distorted, muffled audio (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Have not been making regular chex of R. Africa on 15190, but per reports seems to be on most of the time. It was on Oct 24 at 1916 with undermodulated preacher in English; at 1945 another preacher, more distorted than undermodulated, talking about scarlet dyes. Usual good signal, anyway, comparable to Nigeria on 15120 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6250, Radio Nacional, Malabo, *0521-0540, Oct 25, abrupt sign on with Afro-pop music. Hi-life music. Spanish announcements. Fair (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. 5985.00, Radio Ethiopia, 1530, Oct 22, Amharic noted here to 1559 carrier off after clear ID &IS. Badly messed up co- channel Myanma Radio. Ron Howard's report in DXLD 8-114 (see Myanmar) makes no mention of this clash at all. At the same time I could also hear presumed ETH on 5990.27v hetting VOIRI. Not sure what to think of this NF, it does not appear to be on every day. Would this be a replacement, an additional frequency or is this possibly meant to jam something, ERI? (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Martien, only BRM today on 5985 kHz between 1530-1600. Did you manage to check if the programming was // 5990.27 kHz? I agree that it was probably for jamming ERI. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, ibid.) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. From the DTK B-08 schedule, Jeff White explains the three RMI entries: 9680 1700-1730 47E,48 130 216 7 JUL 100 RMI 7 = Saturday This (above) is Voice of Oromiya Independence. 9680 1730-1759 47E,48 130 216 6 JUL 100 RMI 6 = Friday This (above) is Radio Oromiyaa Liberation. 9695 1600-1659 47E,48 130 216 135 JUL 100 RMI 135 = Sun/Tue/Thu This (above) is Voice of Oromiyan Liberation Front. (via Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not that the O-word is spelt differently in each case! ** FRANCE. RFI has been mostly but not entirely fill music so far today because of the strike. Meteo Marine aired on SW as normal, with current weather information, after 10 minutes of RFI Musique. RFI aired a newscast in French at 1230 UTC, but has been largely RFI Musique in subsequent hours, except for playback of previously recorded programs (i.e. Culture Vive at 1510 UT). This strike is a continuation over displeasure at reforms under President Sarkozy. RFI is not happy to be in the same organization as television outlets TV5 and France 24, with a political appointee at the head. TV5 and France 24 are both lame television channels. I fear money will be diverted from RFI to television. Another aggravation is Sarkozy's move, announced some time ago, to end commercials on public television stations France 2 and France 3. To some, this is his effort to weaken public television and help friends in commercial TV (TF1). Sarkozy wants to stop commercials, but has said and done nothing about replacing the substantial revenue that will be lost. In other words, it's a big budget cut and a weakening of a quality public broadcaster. Sarkozy also wants the CSA, which regulates French broadcasters, to be headed by someone he appoints, instead of being chosen by a committee that Sarkozy appoints (cutting out the middleman and removing a layer of protection from political influence). These RFI strikes are in sympathy with French domestic public television and occur on a day when it was announced that France 2 would have to lay off many longtime employees because of the impending budget reduction (Mike Cooper, GA, Oct 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. CERRARÁ OTROS SERVICIOS EN SEIS IDIOMAS Radio Francia Internacional estudia potenciar su servicio en español http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2008/10/27/comunicacion/1225122080.html PARÍS.- La dirección de Radio Francia Internacional (RFI) estudia reforzar sus servicios en español y considera cerrar, por baja audiencia, los que ofrece en otros seis idiomas: alemán, albanés, polaco, serbocroata, turco y laosiano, según informaron fuentes sindicales. El servicio en español forma parte de los prioritarios para la dirección de RFI, indicó a Efe el director de esa redacción, Alejandro Valente. Los sindicatos, que durante semanas temieron el cierre de la redacción hispana, confirmaron que en las últimas reuniones con la dirección ha desaparecido el peligro de cierre. "El español ha sido incluido entre los servicios que deben ser reforzados, lo que implica su continuidad", indicó a Efe una fuente sindical, que precisó que también serán desarrollados los servicios en francés, inglés, portugués-brasileño, hausa y suahili. La dirección está particularmente preocupada por la difusión de las emisiones de RFI en América Latina, donde la radio cuenta tan sólo con seis frecuencias moduladas, además de numerosos acuerdos con emisoras locales. "Eso resta visibilidad a RFI, por lo que la dirección quiere y que se impulsen otros medios de difusión, como internet", precisó la fuente sindical. Valente destacó la importancia de que el español forme parte de los servicios que RFI quiere desarrollar. "La dirección considera que el español es importante y que hay un gran potencial de desarrollo. A partir de ahora tenemos que estudiar las formas de mejorar nuestras audiencias", aseguró el director del servicio hispano, que emplea a 24 periodistas y una quincena de colaboradores. RFI tiene una audiencia aproximada de tres millones de oyentes semanales en América Latina. El Gobierno francés anunció hace unos meses una reforma de sus servicios audiovisuales para el extranjero, que además de la radio incluyen a las televisiones TV5 Monde y France 24 (via José Miguel Romero, Spain, and Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DXLD) However, English is one of the languages to be ``developed`` --- about time! (gh, DXLD) ** FRANCE. African language at 0601 Oct 26 on 6170, good; 0604 quick ID in passing as ``RFI``, the letters pronounced in French. This is a B-08 frequency for RFI in Hausa via Issoudun at 0600-0630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH (formerly T-SYSTEMS - DTK) B08 B08 period (26/10/2008 - 28/03/2009) - 24.10.2008 Gesamtplan [dates 261008-280309 u.o.s.] frq startstop ciraf azi type day loc pow broad 3955 1759-1859 27W,28 ND 926 1234567 WER 100 HCJ 3975 1900-2000 27,28 ND 926 1234567 WER 125 TOM 5850 1630-1930 40 105 216 1234567 WER 250 IBB 5850 1930-1959 29S 75 146 1234567 WER 100 PRW 5935 0030-0045 41 75 216 17 WER 250 BVB -290309 5935 1900-1929 29S,30 75 216 1234567 WER 100 PRW 5935 1930-2030 29S 75 201 1234567 WER 100 PRW 5945 0800-0900 27,28N 280 156 1 NAU 100 BVB 5945 0800-0915 27,28N 280 156 7 NAU 100 BVB 5945 0815-0915 27,28N 280 156 6 NAU 100 BVB 5955 0658-0758 27S 220 216 1234567 NAU 250 RNW 5955 0758-0859 18,27,28W ND 930 1234567 WER 500 RNW 5955 1100-1458 18,27,28W ND 930 1 WER 500 RNW 5955 1500-1557 18,27,28W ND 930 234567 WER 40 RNW 5955 2330-0030 41,49 75 218 1234567 WER 125 DVB 5960 1900-1959 28E,29 75 208 7 WER 100 CHW 5960 2000-2159 37,38W 210 216 1234567 WER 250 YFR 5960 2200-2300 37,38W 210 216 1234567 WER 250 YFR 5965 1230-1259 28NW ND 926 1234567 WER 100 PRW 5965 1400-1500 27,28 ND 976 1 JUL 100 RTR 5965 1626-1659 29S,39N 90 216 23456 WER 100 TWR 5965 1626-1659 28 105 206 7 WER 100 TWR 5970 1700-1900 29,30 65 216 1234567 NAU 250 YFR 5970 2030-2100 28NW ND 926 1234567 JUL 100 PRW 5975 1230-1259 28NW 40 805 1234567 WER 100 PRW 5980 0430-0500 27,28 60 208 1234567 WER 250 NHK 6000 1530-1630 29S 97 156 1234567 NAU 100 PRW 6010 1659-1757 27S,36,37 240 215 1234567 WER 250 RNW 6015 1800-1859 27 300 206 1234567 WER 100 PRW 6015 1900-1930 28,29 45 146 36 WER 125 BVB 6015 1900-1945 28,29 45 146 57 WER 125 BVB 6015 1900-2000 28,29 45 146 1 WER 125 BVB 6015 1915-1930 28,29 45 146 24 WER 125 BVB 6020 1931-2016 37,38 150 201 1 WER 250 PAB 6020 1931-2031 37,38 150 201 7 WER 250 PAB 6020 2000-2030 37,38 150 201 6 WER 250 PAB 6025 0500-0600 28E 120 201 1234567 WER 100 AWR 6030 0030-0100 41 90 217 1234567 WER 250 BVB -290309 6035 0759-0857 18,27,28W 300 215 1234567 WER 100 RNW 6035 1430-1529 28NE,29W 60 205 1234567 WER 100 PRW 6040 2030-2100 47,48,52,53 190 156 23456 NAU 250 IBB 6040 2030-2100 37,38,46,47 190 156 17 NAU 250 IBB 6045 0000-0100 41 105 216 1234567 WER 250 WRN -290309[IBC] 6045 1000-1100 27E,28 ND 926 1 WER 100 HLR 6050 1800-1859 28E 100 206 1234567 JUL 100 YFR 6050 2200-2300 28NE,29W 55 201 1234567 WER 250 PRW 6055 1000-1059 27,28 90 201 1 WER 100 CHW 6055 1130-1200 27,28 ND 926 17 WER 125 EMG 6055 1200-1215 27,28 ND 926 1 WER 250 MWA 6060 1727-1800 30S,40 90 216 1234567 WER 100 TWR 6105 0400-0500 28,29 60 217 1234567 WER 250 IBB 6105 0742-0920 27 285 146 1 NAU 125 TWR 6105 0757-0850 27 285 146 23456 NAU 125 TWR 6105 0812-0850 27 285 146 7 NAU 125 TWR 6105 1700-1759 40 105 216 1234567 NAU 500 YFR 6110 1400-1559 27,28W 290 805 1234567 JUL 100 TOM 6110 1559-1657 27S,37N,28S 220 146 1234567 NAU 250 RNW 6110 1800-1859 39,40 120 216 7 WER 125 BVB 6110 1830-1859 39,40 120 216 1 WER 125 BVB 6120 0400-0600 29 60 218 1234567 WER 250 IBB 6120 0559-0657 27S,37N,28S 220 216 1234567 NAU 250 RNW 6120 0859-1100 27S 255 215 23456 WER 250 RNW 6120 1802-1902 37N 230 216 1234567 NAU 250 YFR 6135 2000-2030 29N 45 208 1234567 WER 100 PRW 6140 1300-1400 27,28 ND 926 1 WER 100 MVB 6140 1630-1759 28NE,29W 55 201 1234567 WER 100 PRW 6155 0200-0300 6,7,8,9 300 216 1234567 WER 250 VOR 6155 0300-0500 6,7,8,9 300 216 1234567 WER 250 VOR 6165 0030-0045 41 90 216 1 WER 100 PAB -290309 6175 2100-2200 27,28W 300 206 1234567 WER 100 TOM 6175 2300-2400 39,40 105 216 1234567 WER 125 VOR 6195 1645-1800 39,40 120 215 24 WER 100 BVB 6195 1715-1730 39,40 120 215 6 WER 100 BVB 7105 1630-1700 28NW ND 926 1234567 WER 100 PRW 7165 2000-2200 29 60 218 1234567 WER 250 IBB 7170 1457-1600 28-30 60 216 1234567 WER 100 TWR 7170 1600-1629 29S 75 208 1234567 WER 100 PRW 7180 1430-1530 28NE,29W 60 217 1234567 WER 100 PRW 7200 2330-0030 41NE,43S,49 75 216 1234567 WER 250 GFA 7205 0230-0330 40 105 216 1234567 WER 250 IBB 7205 1800-1830 37NW 240 216 1 WER 100 BVB 7210 1800-1815 39,40 100 216 7 JUL 100 BVB 7210 1800-1830 39,40 100 216 246 JUL 100 BVB 7210 1800-1859 39,40 100 216 35 JUL 100 BVB 7210 1830-1859 39,40 100 216 1 JUL 100 BVB 7215 0030-0130 40E,41NW 90 217 1234567 WER 250 GFA -290309 7235 1900-1930 39N 105 216 1234567 WER 250 FEB 7245 1900-1929 52,53,57 170 216 1 NAU 500 BVB 7260 1830-2000 46,47 155 216 1 JUL 100 BVB 7260 1930-2000 46,47 180 217 7 WER 125 BVB 7280 0300-0330 48 135 216 1234567 WER 250 AWR 7285 1130-1200 28NE,29W 100 156 1234567 NAU 100 PRW 7305 2100-2159 46E,47,52N 180 216 1234567 WER 500 YFR 7315 0300-0330 48 135 216 1234567 WER 250 AWR 7315 0330-0359 48 135 216 1234567 WER 250 AWR 7325 1300-1400 18 5 156 1234567 NAU 100 PRW 7345 1800-1900 18 25 216 1234567 ISS 250 PRW 7375 0000-0400 7,8,9,10 300 216 1234567 WER 100 HRT -290309 7375 0200-0600 2,3,6,7,10 325 216 1234567 WER 125 HRT 7375 2300-0400 11,12,13,14 240 216 1234567 WER 100 HRT 7425 0400-0430 39,40W 120 216 1234567 WER 250 AWR 9405 1600-1700 41 90 217 1234567 WER 500 YFR 9415 1600-1659 29 60 201 1234567 WER 250 IBB 9430 0400-0500 40 105 217 1234567 WER 250 IBB 9445 1130-1159 27 300 217 1234567 WER 100 PRW 9445 1700-1729 39,40W 120 216 1234567 WER 250 AWR 9450 1300-1359 27 300 216 1234567 WER 100 PRW 9460 1630-1915 39,40 130 216 1 NAU 100 BVB 9460 1645-1700 39,40 130 216 24 NAU 100 BVB 9460 1645-1715 39,40 130 216 6 NAU 100 BVB 9460 1645-1720 39,40 130 216 3 NAU 100 BVB 9460 1645-1745 39,40 130 216 5 NAU 100 BVB 9460 1645-1929 39,40 130 216 7 NAU 100 BVB 9460 1800-1900 39,40 130 216 3 NAU 100 BVB 9460 1830-1859 39,40 130 216 6 NAU 100 BVB 9465 1800-1859 46E,47W 183 216 1234567 NAU 500 YFR 9470 0500-0759 55,59,60 240 216 1234567 WER 100 HRT 9470 1800-1859 47,48 150 200 1234567 WER 250 IBR 9470 1901-1931 39,40 120 217 7 WER 250 BVB 9470 1901-1946 39,40 120 217 1 WER 250 BVB 9470 1930-1959 39,40 120 217 6 WER 250 BVB 9480 1900-2200 46,47,52 180 217 1234567 WER 500 YFR 9485 1730-1800 48 135 216 23456 WER 250 IBB 9485 1800-1900 48 140 156 1234567 NAU 250 IBB 9485 1900-1930 48 140 156 23456 NAU 250 IBB 9495 0230-0330 40 105 216 1234567 WER 250 IBB 9500 1900-1959 37E,38 150 216 1234567 WER 250 YFR 9520 1600-1700 29 45 218 1234567 WER 250 IBB 9540 1700-1829 40 100 218 1234567 JUL 100 IBB 9565 1400-1459 40E,41NW 75 216 1234567 WER 250 IBB 9595 0700-0800 37,38W 210 217 1234567 WER 100 AWR 9595 1400-1500 30S 75 217 1234567 WER 250 IBB 9595 1800-1859 40 105 216 1234567 WER 250 IBB 9595 2000-2059 46E,47,52N 165 216 1234567 WER 500 YFR 9605 1600-1630 29,30 65 216 7 NAU 250 EMG 9610 1000-1100 28W 180 216 1 NAU 100 AWR 9615 0430-0530 39,40 120 217 2345 WER 250 BVB 9615 0430-0545 39,40 120 217 6 WER 250 BVB 9640 2030-2100 28NW 35 216 1234567 GUF 250 PRW 9650 1600-1659 40 105 217 1234567 WER 500 YFR 9660 1730-1759 39S,47E,48 140 216 1234567 JUL 100 IBR 9660 2200-2300 27S 40 216 1234567 GUF 250 PRW 9665 1500-1530 41N 90 216 1234567 WER 250 AWR 9665 1530-1559 41N 90 216 1234567 WER 250 AWR 9670 0100-0300 42,43 75 217 1234567 WER 250 IBB 9680 1700-1730 47E,48 130 216 7 JUL 100 RMI 9680 1730-1759 47E,48 130 216 6 JUL 100 RMI 9680 1830-1930 40 100 218 1234567 JUL 100 IBB 9695 1600-1659 47E,48 130 216 135 JUL 100 RMI 9695 1900-1959 37,46 210 217 1234567 WER 500 YFR 9730 1600-1759 38S,39S,47, 140 216 2345 JUL 100 BVB 9730 1600-1830 38S,39S,47, 140 216 7 JUL 100 BVB 9730 1600-1859 38S,39S,47, 140 216 16 JUL 100 BVB 9750 1559-1657 27S,37N,28S 225 216 1234567 NAU 250 RNW 9760 1600-1659 39 120 216 1234567 WER 250 YFR 9760 1830-1845 52,53 160 216 35 JUL 100 RRP 9770 1700-1800 40 105 217 1234567 WER 250 IBB 9790 1530-1600 29N 45 146 1234567 WER 100 PRW 9800 1500-1600 41E 95 216 1234567 NAU 500 YFR 9800 1830-1859 46S,47SE 180 217 1234567 WER 500 LWF 9800 1900-1929 38E,39 120 216 1234567 WER 100 PRW 9805 2000-2030 37,38W 210 216 1234567 WER 100 AWR 9815 1900-1930 47,48W 150 216 1234567 WER 250 IBB 9820 1630-1659 38E,39S,48 145 216 36 NAU 100 RHU 9830 1730-1759 37,38W 210 217 1 WER 100 AWR 9830 1730-1800 37,38W 210 217 234567 WER 100 AWR 9845 1800-1859 37E,38 150 146 1234567 WER 250 YFR 9845 1900-2030 46N,46SE 210 217 1234567 WER 100 IBR 9850 1600-1630 39,40 100 218 15 JUL 100 PAB 9850 1700-1759 39 120 217 1234567 WER 250 YFR 9895 0559-0658 28S,38,39N 140 216 1234567 NAU 250 RNW 9895 0658-0757 28S 120 217 1234567 WER 250 RNW 9895 1100-1557 27S,37N,28S 225 217 1 WER 250 RNW 9925 1530-1729 39,40 105 216 1234567 WER 100 BVB 11605 1600-1659 29SE 90 218 1234567 WER 250 IBB 11635 0430-0500 48 135 218 1 WER 125 BVB 11635 0430-0530 48 135 218 7 WER 125 BVB 11645 1530-1629 40E,41NW 90 217 1234567 WER 250 GFA 11645 1730-1759 47,48,52 145 217 1234567 JUL 100 IBR 11675 1400-1429 30N,31W 60 217 1234567 WER 250 PRW 11675 1500-1530 41N 75 217 1234567 WER 250 AWR 11675 1530-1600 41N 75 217 1234567 WER 250 AWR 11685 1700-1800 37,38 180 217 1234567 WER 100 YFR 11690 0600-1000 58,59,60 270 217 1234567 WER 125 HRT 11695 1400-1459 41 70 217 17 NAU 250 BVB 11720 1300-1329 42,43W 70 216 23456 NAU 250 AWR 11720 1300-1329 42,43W 70 216 17 NAU 250 AWR 11725 1330-1500 42,43W 70 216 1234567 NAU 250 AWR 11760 1900-1930 37,38W 210 216 1234567 WER 100 AWR 11760 1930-1959 37,38W 210 216 1234567 WER 100 AWR 11795 1730-1759 48 135 218 1234567 WER 250 AWR 11810 1700-1758 38E,39S,48 135 217 14 WER 125 SBO 11830 1500-1559 41 90 217 1234567 WER 500 YFR 11835 1700-1758 38E,39S,48 145 216 146 NAU 250 EFD 11835 1700-1758 38E,39S,48 145 216 5 NAU 125 ELF 11840 1200-1230 19,20,21,22 35 216 7 NAU 250 EMG 11840 1400-1429 29 60 217 1234567 WER 100 PRW 11875 1630-1729 47,48 150 217 1234567 WER 100 BVB 11875 1729-1745 47,48 150 200 6 WER 250 BVB 11885 1600-1629 29S,39N 105 217 1234567 WER 250 IBB 11895 1500-1530 41 87 216 17 NAU 250 BVB 11895 1500-1556 41 87 216 56 NAU 250 BVB 11895 1515-1556 41 87 216 4 NAU 250 BVB 11895 1530-1556 41 87 216 23 NAU 250 BVB 11905 1630-1659 48 135 218 1234567 WER 250 AWR 11905 1730-1759 48 150 217 23456 WER 250 IBB 11905 1800-1859 48 150 218 1234567 WER 250 IBB 11935 0757-0857 27S,36,37 240 217 1234567 WER 250 RNW 11955 1900-2000 37,38W 200 216 1234567 JUL 100 AWR 11970 1625-1715 39,40 120 217 36 WER 250 BVB 11970 1625-1729 39,40 120 217 245 WER 250 BVB 11975 0800-0830 37,38W 210 217 1234567 WER 100 AWR 12005 1430-1529 41NE,43S,49 75 218 1234567 WER 250 GFA 12010 0800-0830 37,38W 210 217 1234567 WER 100 AWR 12010 0830-0900 37,38W 210 217 1234567 WER 100 AWR 12015 1400-1500 30S 75 216 1234567 WER 250 IBB 12025 1830-1900 29SE 90 217 1234567 WER 250 IBB 12035 1515-1559 40,41 90 217 3456 JUL 100 BVB 12035 1530-1559 40,41 90 217 17 JUL 100 BVB 12045 1759-1957 47E,48,52E, 150 217 1234567 WER 500 RNW 13645 1400-1415 39N,40 90 217 7 WER 250 PAB 13645 1400-1430 41 90 217 14 WER 100 PAB 13645 1415-1430 41 90 217 23567 WER 100 PAB 13645 1430-1445 41 90 217 1 WER 250 PAB 13655 1500-1558 41SE 95 218 1234567 NAU 500 YFR 13660 1600-1757 47,48 155 218 1234567 NAU 500 YFR 13680 1230-1559 40 105 217 1234567 WER 250 IBB 13700 1400-1559 41 90 217 1234567 WER 500 YFR 13750 1330-1429 41NE,43S,49 88 218 1234567 NAU 250 GFA 13755 1500-1559 39,40 120 218 1234567 WER 100 VOR 13790 1600-1657 47E,48 128 217 4 ISS 500 BVB 051108- 13810 1400-1500 28,29W,38E, 120 156 1234567 NAU 100 TOM 13820 1300-1459 41E 84 218 1234567 NAU 500 YFR 13830 1330-1459 41 90 217 1234567 WER 250 GFA 13840 1200-1229 29S 90 217 1234567 WER 100 PRW 13840 1400-1459 41S 105 217 1234567 WER 500 YFR 15190 0830-0900 38-40 105 217 1234567 WER 500 NHK 15215 1300-1345 41 90 217 1234567 WER 500 NHK 15215 1345-1515 41 90 217 1234567 WER 500 NHK 15225 0500-0600 39N,40W 105 156 1234567 NAU 250 IBB 15495 1200-1230 41NE 90 217 1234567 WER 250 AWR 15495 1230-1259 41NE 90 217 1234567 WER 250 AWR 15520 1200-1229 29 60 217 1234567 WER 100 PRW 15520 1230-1330 41NE,42S,43 75 217 1234567 WER 250 GFA 15565 1200-1230 31S,42N 70 218 23456 NAU 250 BVB 15620 1630-1700 48 135 217 1234567 WER 250 IBB 17485 1500-1559 46E,47,48W, 160 216 1234567 JUL 100 TOM 17545 0900-1000 38,39 135 217 6 WER 125 BVB 17650 1530-1559 47,48 135 217 4 WER 100 BVB 17675 0600-0700 40 105 217 1234567 WER 250 IBB List of Broadcasters which are using MEDIA BROADCAST technical equipment: [taken from A-08 summer schedule:] AWR Adventist World Radio BVB High Adventure Gospel - Bible Voice Broadcasting CHW Christliche Wissenschaft CVC Christian Vision DTK MEDIA BROADCAST (Deutsche Telekom) DVB Democratic Voice of Burma EFD Ethiopeans For Democracy ELF Eritrean Liberation Front EMG Evangelische Missionsgemeinden in Deutschland FEB Feba Radio UK GFA Gospel for Asia HCJ Voice of the Andes HLR Hamburger Lokalradio HRT Hrvratska Radio Televizija IBB International Broadcast Bureau IBR IBRA Radio Schweden LWF Lutheran World Federation MVB Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Baltic Radio MWA Missionswerk Arche NHK Nippon Hoso Kyokai PAB Pan Am Broadcasting PRW Polskie Radio Warsaw RHU Radio Huriyo (Xoriyo) RMI Radio Miami International RNW Radio Netherlands World Service RRP Radio Reveil Paroles de Vie RTR Radio Traumland (Belgium) SBO Sagalee Bilisummaa Oromoo TOM The Overcomer Ministry [Brother Scare, South Carolina] TWR Trans World Radio VOR Voice of Russia WRN World Radio Network YFR WYFR Family Radio New address Michael Puetz MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH Order Management & Backoffice Josef-Lammerting-Allee 8-10 50933 Koeln - Cologne Germany Please send your inquiries and reception reports to: E-Mail: Internet: ************************************* WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Postfach 1214 D-61282 Bad Homburg GERMANY ************************************* (DTK Cologne via wwdxc; wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 24 via Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 25, DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. Nemetskaya Volna, VG and synchronized on both 15420 and 15700 via Rampisham UK, Oct 24 at 1409 giving contact address in Kiev, Ukraine --- does that mean DW Russian service is not allowed to have a mail drop within Russia? In B-08 this 1400 transmission moves to 1500 via Woofferton on 11720. Also heard DW in Russian on 11885 via Woofferton, at 1854 to 1859:30* 15620 very good in tonal African language, probably Hausa, Oct 24 at 1832, enthusiastic dialog, drama? With village sounds, bits of hilife music, laughing, children`s voices. Yes, this is DW via Portugal at 18-19. In B-08 this broadcast moves to 9430. A strange program in English on 7240, Oct 26 at 0606, ``Learning by Ear`` with rather explicit drama about teen sexual encounters, pregnancy at 0610. Some of the players had American accent, others African. VG reception except occasional SSB ham QRM. DW was inviting letters to the program and at 0616 gave website http://www.dw-world.de/lbe Is this supposed to be teaching English, or how to manage sex? Apparently it is a general education service, for 12-20-year-olds, claiming an audience of 30 megAfricans, but I suppose that includes the Portuguese, French, Swahili, Hausa and Amharic versions. In A-08 we heard RDPI Lisboa on 7240 at 05-08, but now in B-08 it`s DW at 0600-0629, 150 degrees via Sines, PORTUGAL; followed by 0630-0659 Hausa, 160 degrees via Woofferton, UK. DW on new 17630, Oct 26 at 1349 in German with strange accent so first doubted it was DW, discussing orthodoxy, but 1355 DW jingle and ID in standard German; was fading up and down in collision with Africa No. One, Gabon, which has used this frequency for many sesquiyears. ANO does not register its usage, however, so DW, not bothering to turn on a radio or consult DXLD or other monitoring resources, assumed they had a clear shot on it, now scheduled at 12-14, 80 degrees via Rampisham. 13585-13590-13595 with DRM buzz, not to be confused with the analog transmitter buzz on 13600, Oct 26 at 1436. DW via Sines, Portugal is scheduled at 1400-1557, 90 kW at 30 degrees for Europe (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I also heard it [Learning by Ear item above on 7240] on Oct 26 via 17710 and 21840 0900+ (scheduled 0900-1000) with very good signal (Tony Ashar, Depok - West Java, Indonesia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) DW`s only Rwanda relay frequency for the 2100 English broadcast to W Africa, formerly in A-08 well heard onward in NAm on 15205 and 11865, is now 11690, and just as I expected, clashing with perpetual very heavy RTTY on the low side, checked at closing with ID at 2158 Oct 27 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) However Oct 29 around 2130 was not hearing RTTY (gh) After 2000 I checked out the brand-new use of Al-Dhabbaya for DW's 6075, between 2015 and 2030 with lengthy discussion of ballgame affairs, such as the circumstance that the German league leader is now Hoffenheim, a village where a multi-millionaire bought players for his hobby. More or less what I expected: It's noticeably weaker than the UK/Sines synchro until 2000. The audio sounds more pleasant, but the reception is too noisy, not adequate. Just the same than on other attempts to use Al-Dhabbaya to serve Europe on 49 metres (I think RNW and RTI were the other stations who already tried it). Between 2015 and 2030 I checked out the new use of Al-Dhabbaya for DW German on 6075: Not too bad, but a bit weak and rather noisy, I fear a bit too noisy for "ordinary" listeners. There was also a low rumble of about 100 Hz I first did not pay attention to, but meanwhile Patrick Robic reported that the transmitter was off-frequency, on 6075.11. So the rumble must have been a het, and the only possible source I find is the Yelizovo site on the Kamchatka peninsula, beaming Radio Rossii to Eastern Siberia, the eastern parts up to the Chukchen peninsula that is already targetted by Alaskan gospel-huxters on mediumwave. Locally there are only FM transmitters with limited coverage (at least 657 at Anadyr is off for years now), thus the additional shortwave service of Radio Rossii. DW German on 6075 at 2325 with Musikszene: Now Sines, alone, and it sounds much better than with the Woofferton synchro before 2000. Punchy audio, but different from the widely misliked kind one hears on DW German via the UK transmitters. Also different from how Sines transmissions used to sound a while ago; seems they have tweaked the Optimod settings (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 26, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6075.11 odd from DWL, new Al Dhabbaya site relay, as mentioned in German newsgroup, measured 6075.06 kHz at 2000-2300 UT, only fair signal in western Europe; transmitter site is too far away from European target (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26/27, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9545, DWL Woofferton still in AM mode, will switch to 'unheard' noise mode in DRM on Dec 4th. S=9+40dB powerhouse in AM at present. And \\ accompanied spur on 9580, S=5-6 on Oct 26 (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26/27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [and non]. Oct. 24, 1636z BBC Persian on 6090 kHz via Al Seela, Oman 250 kW/ 335 degrees, fair reception despite heavy QRM from DRM signal on 6085 kHz. That is Ismaning. It's interesting to mention, when I rechecked this at 1708z, there were no DRM signal on 6085 kHz any more! And I immediately recalled I was NOT HEARING DRM also on Oct. 23 after 1800z, if I remember correctly. So, Bayerisher Rundfunk ends DRM at 1700z (Dragan Lekic from Subotica, SERBIA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE [and non]. Since 1105 UT [Sunday Oct 26] the music program 'Greek in Style' in English has been heard on 9420 and 15650 kHz. 73, (Erik Koie, Copenhagen, Denmark, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Monday 27 October 2008. Tuned in 9420 at 0006 to find Voice of Greece just starting Greek In Style programme in English about to play the first tune. Excellent signal in parallel with 7475 also with an excellent signal. Regards (Harry Brooks, NE England, UK, Oct 27, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ex 2306 Sunday in A-08 (gh) ** GREECE. ERT habitually registers lots of wooden frequencies, such as both 15650 and 15630 thruout the day, but uses only one of them. Now in B-08, Oct 26 at 1317 I find them on 15650 with Greek music, nothing on 15630, and perhaps a trace of // 9420. John Babbis says they have yet to distribute a definitive B-08 schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) INTERFERENCE ON 9420 KHZ. We were getting severe interference here on an unknown station in an unknown language, which is co-channel with Avlis 3 on 9420, when I monitored Voice on Greece at 2000 and 2100 UT. Perhaps you can locate the source of the interference on the HFCC registrations for the B-08 Broadcasting Season. Regards, (John Babbis, Oct 26, to ERT, via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Altho I have not monitored yet in this time period, I have been pointing out for some time that CVC Zambia, 1Africa, in English would be colliding at 1700-2200, 315 degrees toward Nigeria and North America. They moved from 13590 in A-08. Regards, (Glenn Hauser to John and ERT, via DXLD) ERT using 15650 instead of 15630 in B-08 is bad news for IRRS/NEXUS- IBA, since their Miraya FM service via Slovakia for Sudan is also on 15650 at 15-18. Oct 27 at 1508 I was hearing ERT with IDs in Greek atop co-channel QRM causing a fast SAH, which was surely Miraya. Meanwhile, nothing on 15630, which Greece might as well still be using. At 1830 recheck, however, Greek was back on 15630, so the current switch time needs to be determined. Whichever frequency Greece is on between 15 and 18, Miraya needs to be on the other one, or somewhere else entirely (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Per VOG B-07 schedule compiled by John Babbis, 15650 changed to 15630 between 1550 and 1600; probably same in B-08 (Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) Missed checking at 1550 Oct 28 but at 1615 Greece indeed on 15630, and weak station on 15650 in the clear, presumably Miraya. So the collision is only during the first hour at 1500 (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) As I expected, VOG 9420 is now hit by co-channel from 1Africa, CVC Lusaka, Zambia which has inexplicably decided to use the same at 17- 22. Oct 27 did not check until 2201 and found Greek music with 5 Hz SAH from English-speaking station almost as strong, a 21-year-old YL from South Africa testifying about her faith. So CVC was running a few minutes late, off around 2205 I think, and not heard at 2210 check, just Greece // better 7475 with sirens, not // Makedonian program on 7450 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Greece has a daily LUNCHtime noon break at 1000-1100 UT, all transmitters down [Greek wine time ... hi] (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26/27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12105: Bad Overlapping KTWR Mandarin with Voice of Greece multi language service 0930-1000 UT. ERT-ERA5 program 0600-1000 UT, 0600 Alb, 0700 En, 0800 Fr, 0900-1000 Sp. Remaining Ge 1000 and Ru 1030- 1100 UT only on local MW 666 and web Online stream (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26/27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREENLAND. (Via Global Tuners in UK) Kalaalit Nunaata Radioa via OZL Radio, Tasiilaq on 3815-USB heard from 2041 to 2114 abrupt sign off after news bulletin and music. Best signal ever heard from any receiver location, almost like a power increase - SINPO 44544 with no "foghorn" ute QRM typical of 2007/2006 receptions. Could be a possible catch on ECNA as night conditions get earlier. Woman announcer 2041 to 2050.5 (sounded like reading numbers at times), program tones 2050.5, woman announcer to 2051 then pop music tunes to 2100. Canned OZL announcement by woman (tentative) at 2100 followed by program IS and into news bulletin by woman (with remote reports) at 2100.5 to 2109. Program IS again and then instrumental music to 2110. Woman 2110-2110.5 followed by two accordion pieces to abrupt off at 2113:50. Also heard on Global Tuner Sweden from 2021 to 2041 but much weaker and with high background noise and long-term fading. What sounded like choral music from tune in to 2030 with a long fade followed by a woman announcer, fading in again 2038 until switched to the UK site. Tnx to Mauno for the heads up on this one (Bruce Churchill, CA, Oct 25, Cumbre DX via DXLD) This was the last day of DST in Europe (and Nuuk but not Thule, Greenland), so from Oct 26 this transmission should move one hour later to approximately 2100 to 2215 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, Oct 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I can hear them now, but a lot of other traffic there, too. 73, Mauno Ritola, Finland, Oct 25, Cumbre DX via DXLD) Mauno/Hans: Greenland is coming in SINPO 44544 on Global Tuners UK at 2045 with woman announcer reading numbers or letters - much better than GT Sweden which was SINPO 23432 (AOR 7030 vs. Icom PCR-1500...not to mention antenna difference...). Virtually no QRM. Best I have heard them on any receiver. Tnx Mauno for heads up! (Bruce Churchill, CA, 2049 UT Oct 25, ibid.) Thanks tips. 3815U talk by woman. Poor hope it gets better. Via the Global Tuner UK. Anyone else hearing them today? (Hans Johnson, Oct 26, ibid.) Hans, Good at the moment, YL in clear 2030 (Bob Wilkner, Oct 26, ibid.) Noted here with music 2053, not only much stronger than I have heard them here before but clear of any interference (Mike Barraclough, Letchworth Garden City, UK, ibid.) I listened with Bruce Churchill on the same UK tuner. Sign off was still 2114* today Oct 26. 73s (Hans Johnson, ibid.) And now? (gh) ** GREENLAND. 720 kHz, KNR, OCT 15, 2157, W in assumed Greenlandic, then M. Seemed to go on past the hour. Sounded like choral singing with version of What A Friend We Have In Jesus. Amazingly clear signal over WGN-Chicago for a long time. +++ OCT 16, 0120 - Noted again with what sounded like religious program, possibly in Danish. Eventually faded below WGN (Niel Wolfish, Priest Pond, Prince Edward Island DXpedition, MARE Tipsheet Oct 26 via DXLD) ** GUAM [non]. Oct 23 at 1310 found English broadcast on 15320 I had not noticed before, about proverbs for children. After a sidetrack to Turkey, resumed listening at 1321, examples: ``The pen is mightier than the pig``, ``A penny saved is not much``, ``Two is company, three is musketeers``, and other clever variants apparently produced by first-graders. Signal was fair but with deep fades. 1326 closing with addresses, Debbie, Hong Kong, Kowloon, Central PO Box 71030, or zhaoming at vohc. something; seems show was called ``Jewels from the Internet``. VOHC? Finally figured it must stand for Voice of Hope, China. 1328 brief Chinese announcement also giving e-mail. After a pause, finally at 1330 Adventist World Radio ID, in English and French, theme music, web address, ``following program in ---`` fade, but must have said Chinese, since I then heard more Chinese. KSDA Guam at this hour? No such ID, and no site heard. Looked up later, it`s AWR via Wertachtal, Germany, which is also even used for Chinese broadcasts, in A-08 per Aoki: 15320 ADVENTIST WORLD R. 1300-1330 .23456. Chinese 250 75 Wertachtal D 15320 ADVENTIST WORLD R. 1300-1330 1.....7 Uighur 300 75 Wertachtal D 15320 ADVENTIST WORLD R. 1330-1500 1234567 Chinese 250 75 Wertachtal D 01041E 4805N AWR a08 However, these transmissions will move in B-08, to 11720 via Nauen. KSDA is still on 15320 at 22-24, but in Indonesian, English, Vietnamese. Except as noted, the program before 1330 was entirely in English, presumably for advanced students, despite the fact that this semihour is officially ``Chinese``. AWR, 15320 via Germany, monitored again on its last transmission at the end of A-08, Saturday Oct 25 at 1330, just after scheduled weekend Uighur service (how many Uighurs are potential Adventists??? Doesn`t matter), with multilingual ID break in English, French, German, Italian. In French the name AWR was properly translated but in German they said it in English, ``Adventist World Radio``. What`s up with that? Then opening ``Mandarin`` with Grieg`s ``Sunrise`` melody (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 11570, Oct 26 at 1309 with South Asian vocal music. This is KTWR`s Boro language service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. R. Verdad hoped to be back on the air by Oct 20, with replacement 600V transistors burned out by a lightning bolt, but still nothing on 4052.5 at 0545 check Oct 24 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4780, Radio Cultural Coatán, San Sebastián, presumed returned to frequency, after a month off. Fading out 1255 to 1305 in Southeast Florida. Locutora with Christian message, Christian music on hour. Weak, one mention de Cultural. 26 October. 73s (Bob Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, República de Flórida, EE UU, Mosquito Coast 1981 - 2008, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4780, R. Cultura[l] Coatán. 10/26, 1212 tuneby with religious program. This one back after some absence, first noted this morning. Signal was only fair (Don Jensen, Kenosha WI, Oct 26, NASWA yg via DXLD) ** GUIANA FRENCH. Voz de Rusia now relayed from here on 13630: RUSSIA ** HAWAII. QSL: OPEN RADIO FOR NORTH KOREA via KWHR; 9930. Full data (except site) personal letter from Han Gwang Hee and program schedule in 13 months. Letter says they don’t have QSL cards due to “a temporary printing difficulty. The usual cards will resume very soon.” Address: P.O. Box 158, Mapo, Seoul, 121-600, Rep. of Korea (Wendel Craighead, Kansas, USA, Oct 27, Cumbre DX via DXLD) QSLing SWBC from Hawaii is again impossible since KWHR is kaput like VOA before it --- unless you are willing to accept WWVH (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. Hi Glenn, Heard 9945-9950-9955 DRM AIR at 2130 UT this evening Oct 23, good audio and fairly strong signal, with feature about India's space program. For 50 kW, the signal is good, but still with few breaks in signal. Unfortunately, while adjusting my antenna, on my way back into the house, I walked straight into it, snapping it, and nearly strangled myself! It was dark. The things I do to get a good signal! (Chris Lewis, England, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AIR good but with flutter at 1342 Oct 26 on 9870 with music in VBS, 335 degrees from Bangalore; but GOS unheard on 9690, so wonder if it was still on; still scheduled from same site but at 108 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9870, AIR 1530-1540 tune out. Bangalore site coming in strong enough to shake the QTH. No fading. No wobbly modulation. Just YL DJ playing lots of Bollywood type music (Bruce Barker, Broomall, PA, Oct 26, NRD- 535D and Alpha Delta DX Sloper, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11585, AIR, Delhi, 1320, 10/26/08. Listed Sindhi program. Non-stop vocals with tabla and sitar, featuring YLs and OMs. S9 signal down to S5 by 1407 tune-out (Jerry Strawman, Des Moines, IA, NRD-545, Alpha Delta SWL Sloper, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) AIR, 9425, Oct 27 at 1433 caught with tail of news bulletin in English during Hindi service, about rupee/dollar exchange rate, ending at 1435; not // 9870 VBS which had better signal. Aoki A08 says 9425 is the National Service via Bangalore, 500 kW at 18 degrees, which has English segments of varying lengths every hour on the hour from 1330 to 2230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [non]. Oct. 24, 9855 kHz, 1530-1630z, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 100 kW/131 degrees, good to very good signal, VT Communications instrumental music (like in recent tests, but without spoken announcements). Received in back beam. Obviously VT control room in London lost feed from scheduled transmission of FEBA Radio in Hindi, so they inserted their music IS, and then, of course, routed to Uzbekistan tx. I've heard this first at 1531z, rechecked at 1559, 1616 and 1629z. Finally at 1630:18z tx dropped carrier (Dragan Lekic from Subotica, SERBIA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. VOI, still on 9526 for day 9, Oct 23 at 1302, Indonesian-to-English announcement, but then fragments in Korean, and dead air. Finally at 1305 joined English news in progress. Good reception as usual, but the hum was getting worse (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9525.9, Voice of Indonesia, 1300-1315, Oct 24, tune-in to local music. Theme music & English ID at 1302 followed by talk. Weak. Too weak to catch any further program details. Covered by Poland in English at 1200-1300 on 9525 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) VOI, day 10 on 9526, Oct 24 at 1342 check with YL ID and slogan, ``Voice of Indonesia, the sound of dignity``, music. Good signal as always but hummy. Fingers crossed things will not change in B-08 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Indonesia noted Oct. 25 at 1332 on 9525 [sic] with YL reading news in English. Signal was fair-good level, S7, with only moderate fading and QRM. Went into travelogue style program after ID's (Steve Wood, So. Yarmouth, MA, Drake R8B, 30 x 70 E/W Flag Antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. VOI, day 11 on 9526, Oct 25 at 1345 check with rock music, English announcements, 1357 to gamelan vamp, and het de China did not start until 1358. VOI did not make it to day 12 on 9526, which started Oct 15 for the English broadcast at 13-14. Oct 26 at 1257 check, nothing at all on 9526, nor at several chex during following hour. Surely not due to propagation, as RRI was propagating very well on 9680 at 1340 atop the CCI. Has VOI gone back to 11785v? Quick check there at 1259 before WHRI came up could not detect it or even a carrier. 9525, however had very weak B-B-C chime notes at 1259, unID language opening, but nothing scheduled there unless they or I were on 9520 by mistake, for Uzbek via Thailand. Normally VOI has only three frequencies available, 9525v, 11785v and 15150v. Possibly they went to 15150 where not propagating at 1345 check, but in the B-season they should certainly stay on the lowest frequency, in addition to the fact that it was loud and clear until the day before! Hope it was just an off-day for 9526; what next? Whew, altho VOI was absent from 9526 on Oct 26, it was back on Oct 27, at 1230 in Indonesian talking over music that was too loud by comparison. 1300 running late with vocal music continuing; 1302 gamelan and address in Indo, 1303 transition announcement Indonesian to English. 1337 recheck, Let`s Speak Bahasa Indonesia, this episode on what we wear – clothes, not applicable to nearly naked tropical natives, I assume. 1404 recheck into Malay with gamelan and now no het in this hour, with CRI moved elsewhere for B-08; a final recheck sometime after 1500 found 9526 off the air. VOI, 9526, day 13, Oct 28 at 1318 saying Indonesia had been committed to democracy since 1998, more of a consensus model than one-man-one- vote, in Focus Today feature. Then P- and E-mail addresses; 1320 news in brief; 1323 plug listening via website http://www.voi.co.id and piano music introducing Indonesian Wonder about a dance festival in Jakarta Oct 28-31. Usual very good signal, no het, some transmitter hum (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL. B08 AWR Broadcast Schedule (2008-10-26 to 2009-03-29) English Language Broadcasts Version 04/2008-10-27/pub_eng AWR Frequency Management Office Sandwiesenstr. 35, 64665 Alsbach, Germany, Phone: +49 6257 9440969, Fax: +49 6257 9440985, Email: dedio@awr.org Site Start Stop Service Area kHz m Azi kW Days MEY 1800 1830 SW-Africa 3215 90 290 100 1234567 MEY 1800 1830 E-Africa 11830 25 19 250 1234567 MEY 1800 1830 Botswana, S.-Africa, Zimbabwe 3345 90 5 100 1234567 MOS 2100 2130 W-Africa 9830 31 210 300 1234567 SDA 1330 1400 Cambod, Viet, Thai, Laos 11935 25 270 100 5 7 SDA 1630 1700 N-India 11980 25 300 100 1234567 SDA 1730 1800 ME 9980 31 300 100 1234567 SDA 1130 1200 Indonesia, Malaysia 15260 19 255 100 1234567 SDA 1330 1400 Bangladesh 15660 19 285 100 23 567 SDA 2230 2300 W-Indonesia 15320 19 255 100 1234567 SDA 1600 1630 S-India 11690 25 285 100 1234567 SDA 1500 1530 S-India 12105 25 285 100 1234567 SDA 1600 1630 C-India 9585 31 285 100 1234567 SDA 2130 2200 W-Japan, S-China 9625 31 315 100 1234567 WER 1200 1230 NE-India, Bangladesh 15495 19 90 250 1234567 WER 1530 1600 Nepal, Tibet 11675 25 75 250 1234567 Site: ISS = Issoudun JUL = Jülich Days: 1 = Sunday MDC = Madagascar SDA = Agat 2 = Monday 6 = Friday MEY = Meyerton TAI = Taipei 3 = Tuesday 7 = Saturday MOS = Moosbrunn WER = Wertachtal 4 = Wednesday NAU = Nauen 5 = Thursday (AWR via Rachel Baughn, NC, DXLD) ** IRAN. On 15555, heard a rather strange combination, Qur`an at 1333, and Japanese talk at 1349 Oct 24. I wonder how many Japanese are Moslems? Doesn`t matter. What else but VIRI? At 1401 YL was still speaking in Japanese, and Iran was being mentioned. Lower modulation than neighbors like 15550 VOR, but quite intelligible. Sirjan site is scheduled 1330-1430 in Japanese at 60 degrees. Mideast/SW Asia propagation was quite good this morning. In B-08 this transmission moves to 9905. Was PWBR `2008` any help; only with a lead, since it erroneously shows VIRI in unID language on 15555 ending at 1330. 15545, Oct 26 at 1318 with ME singing, VG signal with some flutter; also at 1347 in Arabic, talking about Bahrain, mixing with bits of music. 1430 with VIRI`s theme music, and Arabic, news? Then looked up, it`s Sirjan, 500 kW at 295 degrees with lengthy Arabic service 0530- 1630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. B-08 relays: see LITHUANIA ** IRAN [non]. 17670 with pop vocal music in presumed Farsi, Oct 24 at 1404, good signal, better than Solh on 17700. It`s Radio Farda, as soon IDed; via Wertachtal at 14-15 only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL [and non]. Jamming the Mossad station! Hello DXers, lately I have been paying more attention to number stations. There's a very well known voice on the SW, a YL reading phonetic alphabet messages in English. Number stations fans call that one "E10" and we think it's coming from Israel. Lately we have noticed that there's a jammer following the station on the airwaves. strange enough as the station is having a special system to announce if there's a message or not. If the YL gave the ID of the station (which is mainly 3 letters) followed by Number 2 it means there's no message. Strangely enough in that case the jammer doesn't follow that frequency; if there's no Number 2 after the ID of the station the jammer is there. For more information please check the blog of a number station fan in Crete, Greece. http://hfsurfing.blogspot.com (Tarek Zeidan, Cairo, Egypt, Oct 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also KURDISTAN [non] ** ITALY [non]. B08 IRRS-Shortwave and EGR schedule effective Oct. 26, 2008 Dear IRRS and EGR listeners and friends, Just a short message to let you know that our new winter 2008 (B08) schedule comes into effect today Oct. 26, 2008, when we turn our clocks back one hour over-here in Europe. Please check our new schedules online at: http://www.nexus.org/NEXUS-IBA/Schedules We are now adding one hour every Friday, Saturday and Sunday to Europe, Mid East and Africa. Our broadcasts can be also heard 24/24 and 7/7 via streaming audio at http://mp3.nexus.org and http://www.egradio.org Reports and comments on our programs are always greatly appreciated at reports (at) nexus (dot) org. Best 73s, and stay tuned! (Ron Norton, NEXUS-Int'l Broadcasting Association, email: ron (at) nexus (dot) org http://www.nexus.org Oct 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST)1 See USA: WINB, Tony Alamo: I also wonder if he is still on European Gospel Radio, 5990, Mon-Thu at 0530? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, on 5990 Mon-Thu 0530-0630 UT via European Gospel Radio/IRRS- Shortwave to EU (Ron Norton NEXUS-Int'l Broadcasting Association, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 747, JOIB Sapporo (43 05'N 141 37'E), OCT 26, 1040-1055 - Briefly good s6 signal; a man in Japanese, speaking in a rather dry tone, perhaps a religious program. Fading down to s4 by 1100, receiver sunrise 1113 UT (Bruce Conti, Nashua NH; SDR IQ, WR-CMC-30, MWDX-5, 15 x 23-m SuperLoop antennas east with remote variable termination and south, 1150-Ohm terminated. http://members.aol.com/baconti/bamlog.htm MWDX yg via DXLD) ** JAPAN [non]. Sweden may have abandoned us in the mornings, but a few stations retain English to North America, such as R. Japan, NHK World Network, 11705 via Canada at 1400-1429. Monday Oct 27 at 1417 they had a quite interesting discussion of space elevator technology. R. Japan, English on 11780, Oct 28 at 1403, running three words behind 11705 Sackville relay. This is 62 degrees via Rampisham UK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JORDAN. 9830, station with Arabic music, Oct 24 at 1853, would have been good but for constant RTTY QRM as always on this frequency. Presumably R. Jordan, only thing scheduled, 1745-2000 at 300 degrees for Europe but onward to us; in B-08 extends to 2100. This is the best we can do since Jordan quit broadcasting in English in our mornings on 11690, another RTTY frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. New B08 Winter schedule of VOICE OF KOREA, Pyongyang, Dem. People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) which will start one week earlier than usual. It is valid as of Monday, 27 October 2008, 0700 UT. It appears that last year's schedule comes into effect again unaltered except for the feeder frequencies 3560 & 4405 kHz which changed their languages by 16 February this year. Have not yet been able to confirm Japanese broadcasts but I assume these will also be the same as last year's. Any further information or amendments will be mailed when and if they become available. I hope for a wide publicity electronically (e.g. on your homepage) or in print with due reference to me as the source of information. Happy listening and best wishes to you! Kindest regards. Arabic 1500 9990 11545 Near & Middle East, North Africa 1700 9990 11545 Near & Middle East, North Africa Chinese 0000 13650 15100 Southeast Asia 0200 7140 9345 9730 Northeast China 0300 13650 15100 Southeast Asia 0800 7140 9345 Northeast China 1100 7140 9345 China 1300 6185 9850 Southeast Asia 2100 7180 9345 Northeast China 2100 9975 11535 China 2200 7180 9345 Northeast China 2200 9975 11535 China German 1600 6285 9325 Europe 1800 6285 9325 Europe 1900 6285 9325 Europe English 0100 7140 9345 9730 Northeast Asia 0100 11735 13760 15180 Central & South America 0200 13650 15100 Southeast Asia 0300 7140 9345 9730 Northeast Asia 1000 6285 9335 Central & South America 1000 6185 9850 Southeast Asia 1300 7570 12015 Western Europe 1300 9335 11710 North America 1500 7570 12015 Western Europe 1500 9335 11710 North America 1600 9990 11545 Near & Middle East, North Africa 1800 7570 12015 Western Europe 1900 7100 11910 Southern Africa 1900 9975 11535 Near & Middle East, North Africa 2100 7570 12015 Western Europe French 0100 13650 15100 Southeast Asia 0300 11735 13760 15180 Central & South America 1100 6285 9335 Central & South America 1100 6185 9850 Southeast Asia 1400 7570 12015 Western Europe 1400 9335 11710 North America 1600 7570 12015 Western Europe 1600 9335 11710 North America 1800 7100 11910 Southern Africa 1800 9975 11535 Near & Middle East, North Africa 2000 7570 12015 Western Europe Japanese 0700 621 3250 7580 9650 Japan 0800 621 3250 7580 9650 Japan 0900 621 3250 6070 7580 9650 Japan 1000 621 3250 6070 7580 9650 Japan 1100 621 3250 6070 7580 9650 Japan 1200 621 3250 6070 7580 9650 Japan 2100 621 3250 7580 9650 Japan 2200 621 3250 7580 9650 Japan 2300 621 3250 7580 9650 Japan Korean 0000 (PBS) 7140 9345 9730 Northeast China 0700 (PBS) 7140 9345 Northeast China 0900 (KCBS) 7140 9345 Northeast China 0900 (PBS) 13760 15245 Europe 0900 (PBS) 9975 11735 Far Eastern Russia 1000 (PBS) 7140 9345 Northeast China 1200 (KCBS) 6285 9335 Central & South America 1200 (KCBS) 6185 9850 Southeast Asia 1200 (PBS) 7140 9345 Northeast China 1300 (PBS) 6285 9325 Europe 1400 (KCBS) 6185 9850 Southeast Asia 1700 (KCBS) 7570 12015 Western Europe 1700 (KCBS) 9335 11710 North America 2000 (KCBS) 7100 11910 Southern Africa 2000 (KCBS) 6285 9325 Europe 2000 (KCBS) 9975 11535 Near & Middle East, North Africa 2300 (KCBS) 7180 9345 Northeast China 2300 (KCBS) 7570 12015 Western Europe 2300 (KCBS) 9975 11535 China Russian 0700 13760 15245 Europe 0700 9975 11735 Far Eastern Russia 0800 13760 15245 Europe 0800 9975 11735 Far Eastern Russia 1400 6285 9325 Europe 1500 6285 9325 Europe 1700 6285 9325 Europe Spanish 0000 11735 13760 15180 Central & South America 0200 11735 13760 15180 Central & South America 1900 7570 12015 Western Europe 2200 7570 12015 Western Europe (via ARNULF PIONTEK, BERLIN, GERMANY, Oct 26, DXLD) Sorts in other formats will be forthcoming. Because of all the tabs, they require a lot of fixing up for DXLD (gh) Thank you, Sir. Yes, I heard them on 15180 Sun Oct 26 0102 national anthem followed by news in English read by OM; 24232 (Tony Ashar, Depok - West Java, Indonesia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 9665.38, V of Korea, P`yongyang in Korean 1100. 11734.89, P`yongyang in Korean in 9-10 UT slot (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26/27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. KBS in English after 2210 with strong signal and very good audio on 3955, appently using the same antenna as for German 2000-2100. Does it work well in the UK? (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. I noticed as well today that there's a jammer on some frequencies around 1700 UT, like 4365 kHz, 4895 B[ubble] Jammer very strong; also on 7540 I can hear Denge Mezopotamia beating a BJ on the same frequency, but the strange thing is the jammer starts only at 1700 UT though the station starts around 1600 UT. All the best my friends (Tarek Zeidan, Cairo, Egypt, Oct 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Should start 7540 at 1400, as I just heard it closing 11530 at that hour (gh, DXLD) Viz.: Tuned in 11530, Oct 28 at 1359 just in time to hear a final music minute, no announcement before 1400* That`s Denge Mezopotamya in Kurdish via Moldova, now scheduled 05-14 on 11530 and 14-21 on 7540. Was weak and quite fluttery on 11530. Never hear it on 7540 so did not check (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. Those further east report good reception of R. Kuwait`s English broadcast at 18-21, but not here. Checked 11990 several times on Oct 24, but only poor, at 1842 in talk, not even sure it was English instead of Arabic which sometimes substitutes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTEING DIGEST) 11990, Radio Kuwait, 1800-1845, Oct 25, time pips and English ID at 1800 followed by National Anthem. Opening English ID/frequency announcements at 1801. Program at 1802 about the teachings of Islam. Lite US pop music at 1815. Techno-pop dance music. News at 1830. Back to US pop music at 1840. Very good, strong signal (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) R. Kuwait, 11990 at 2050 on 26 Oct. in English. Schmaltzy American tunes. Moderate signal. See various logs in DXLD 8-114, dated 22 Oct (Liz Cameron, MI, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 13620 with Arabic music at 1523 Oct 27, 1525 seemed a bit of Qur`an, 1527 back to other music. Suspect this is R. Kuwait`s Urdu service which per Aoki in A-08 was at 1505-1800, 310 degrees, a rather odd azimuth if trying to reach Pakistan; really for Europe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13620, R. Kuwait in Arabic, but not in DRM at 10-11 UT. Scheduled 0905-1400 (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26/27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LAOS [non]. WHRI, 11785 with Hmong Lao Radio, reconfirmed Sunday Oct 26 at 1311; no het audible if Indonesia [q.v.] is back on there now. WHRI was on 11785 only during this hour, nothing before 1300 or after 1400, unlike Saturday when it stayed on with other programming past 1400, even 1500. From Nov 2, we expect HLR to shift one UT hour later to 14-15 on Sun & Sat (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBYA. V. of Africa, better than usual on 17725, Oct 25 at 1417 in English about how the Leader of the Revolution had established a man- made river from the desert 4000 km to the northern regions in 1977. A bit of reverb on the modulation; the lexure frequently paused for some music; 1422 talking about Senegal. Recheck at 1616, only open carrier audible on 17725 when it was supposed to be in French after 1600. Starting B-08, Voice of Africa still on 17725, fair Oct 26 at 1350 in Swahili, and presumably after 1400 in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17725, Voice of Africa *1404-1505. Note that sign-on was an astonishing 4 minutes late. Or has Libya switched to some kind of weird Jamahariya Savings Time? After s/on, English news with brief musical bridges between items about the Leader of the Revolution, then into YL's commentary about democracy and Libya's constitution. Report on development of Africa and its resources, focusing on Mauritius. Signal began at S9+ but started ailing at about 1500 UT and then succumbed by 1505. Checked // 21695 but it was struggling to stay above surface (Bruce Barker, Broomall, PA, Oct 26, NRD-535D and Alpha Delta DX Sloper, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBYA. Winter B-08 of LJBC Voice of Africa: Swahili 1200-1357 on 17725 SAB 500 kW / 180 deg to CeAf 1200-1357 on 21695 SAB 500 kW / 130 deg to EaAf English 1400-1557 on 17725 SAB 500 kW / 180 deg to CeAf 1400-1557 on 21695 SAB 500 kW / 130 deg to EaAf French 1600-1657 on 15660 SAB 500 kW / 230 deg to NoAf 1600-1657 on 17725 SAB 500 kW / 180 deg to CeAf 1700-1757 on 11965 SAB 500 kW / 230 deg to NoAf 1700-1757 on 15215 SAB 500 kW / 180 deg to CeAf Hausa 1800-1857 on 11965 SAB 500 kW / 230 deg to NoAf 1800-1857 on 15215 SAB 500 kW / 180 deg to CeAf 1900-1957 on 11860 SAB 500 kW / 180 deg to CeAf 1900-1957 on 11965 SAB 500 kW / 230 deg to NoAf Arabic 2000-2057 on 7470 SAB 500 kW / 180 deg to CeAf (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Oct 28 via DXLD) ** LITHUANIA. LITHUANIA/IRAN B-08 Winter schedule of Sitkunai relays 0730-0828 9770 SIT 100 kW 259 deg WeEU VOIROI/IRIB in Italian 0900-0958 9710 SIT 100 kW 259 deg WeEU R Vilnius Lith/English 1430-1528 3960 SIT 100 kW 079 deg EaEU VOIROI/IRIB in Russian 1530-1728 3960 SIT 100 kW 079 deg EaEU R Racja Belarussian 1730-1828 6180 SIT 100 kW 259 deg WeEU VOIROI/IRIB in German 1830-1928 6115 SIT 100 kW 259 deg WeEU VOIROI/IRIB in French 1930-2028 6115 SIT 100 kW 259 deg WeEU VOIROI/IRIB in English 2030-2128 6055 SIT 100 kW 259 deg WeEU VOIROI/IRIB in Spanish 2130-2228 6055 SIT 100 kW 259 deg WeEu Mighty KBC in English 2300-2358 7325 SIT 100 kW 310 deg NoAM R Vilnius Lith/English 0000-0058 9875 SIT 100 kW 310 deg NoAM R Vilnius Lith/English 0100-0200 9480 SIT 100 kW 079 deg Asia RFA Uighur 0200-0258 6110 SIT 100 kW 310 deg NoAM Mighty KBC English Sun (Wolfgang Büschiel, Oct 28, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. 5010, RTV Malagasy Antananarivo, 2058-2110*, Oct 25, vernacular. Up-beat music in [unknown] language; W at 2103 followed by ballad thru sign-off; poor-fair in reduced carrier USB (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, NH, R8, R75, CLR/DSP, MLB1, 200' Bevs, 60M dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA [and non]. 7295, Traxx FM via RTM, 1248-1300 + post-1500, Oct 27, fair to good reception, in English, pop songs. From 1300-1500 totally covered by CNR-1 echo (they were operating more than one jamming transmitter and out of sync, causing echo) against new schedule for VOA in Chinese (CNR-1 echo jamming also on 6040, 6160 and 9680, all against VOA), but Firedrake (music jamming) was not used. So Traxx FM is of no use for 2 hours (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. 5995, RTVM, 2345-0002*, Oct 24-25, vernacular & French talk. Rustic tribal music. Sign off with National Anthem at 0001. Poor. Weak. Difficult signal with adjacent channel splatter from both sides (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7284.56, RTM Bamako hetting Ukraine even xx.00 at 0820 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26/27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. 7245, R. Mauritanie, Nouakchott. October 26, Arabic, 0805-0815, OM studio talks (seems commentaries) alternating long outside talks. 33433. 73 (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - dipole 18m, 32m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I was surprised to find what appeared to be Nouakchott on air as early as 0730 UT via 7245 also on the 28th. The signal was good, but with some splash from the Vatican on 7250. A man was reading what appeared to be news items, but in a unknown (to me) language, and using string instrumental music as links from one item to the next (Noel R. Green (NW England), Oct 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Hola Glenn: acabo de leer tu Digest: en cuanto a XEXQ yo sí la escucho con mejor presencia; a ciertas horas está tapada pero en general alcanza un SINPO de 4. Lo que han reportado los amigos de Florida es correcto si se trata de RASA Mérida en los 6105 kHz, la he escuchado muy baja entre las 19 y 19:30 Central Time [was 0000-0030 UT}. Espero tener pronto más información al respecto. Saludos, (Julián Santiago, DF, Oct 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. XEXQ, 6045, Oct 23 at 1340 check, classical music with rumbling het from Vladivostok. Both of them stay audible later day by day as Solstice approaches. But in B-08 Vlad should be gone, and the only co-channel Delhi from 1315 in Nepali, 1430 in Urdu, both 334 degrees; that could be audible along grayline for a while, but less of a problem than Vlad at 230 degrees = 50 degrees off the back (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. XEPPM, 6185, presumed the one playing Nat King Cole`s soft version of ``Quizás`` with heavy gringo accent, making vowels into diphthongs, Oct 27 at 0623, in the clear at this hour after Vatican and before Brasília. With DF back on standard time a week ahead of us, 6185 should now be running 0000-1200 UT instead of 2300-1100v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Daylight Savings [sic] Time Ended in Mexico Today (Oct 26th) --- Daylight saving time ends at 2AM today (Sunday Oct 26th) in Mexico, but we won't switch in the U.S. until a week later (Sunday, November 2): http://tinyurl.com/SavingsTime [sic] 73, (Steve Ponder N5WBI, Houston TX, Oct 26, ABDX via DXLD) That`s signonsandiego.com --- and yes, Tijuana is an hour earlier than San Diego for the Week of Confusion (gh, DXLD) ** MICRONESIA. It has now been over a year since Pacific Missionary Aviation Radio 'The Cross' left the air on 4755. I had sent an email or two a few months back which went un-answered. Obviously still having antenna issues or perhaps just no intention of returning to SW? http://www.pmapacific.org/ministries/radio/shortwave.php Web page has not been updated (Steve Lare, Holland, MI, USA, Oct 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONGOLIA. 12085, Ulanbataar in Chinese at 0900 and English at 1030- 1100 UT, ID, schedule, S=6-7 (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26/27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hola amigos: Paso un dato, he escuchado La Voz de Mongolia en inglés en los 12085 khz aproximadamente entre las 1030 y 1100 UT; la calidad de escucha es regular, con un SINPO de 22112. Paso el dato por si alguien la puede escuchar. Un gran abrazo desde Esquel, (42º S, Argentina) (Patricio ("Pato") De los Ríos, Oct 27, Noticias DX yg via DXLD) That SINPO I would say is pretty bad, not ``regular`` (gh, DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 9730.1 kHz Radio Myanmar. Oct. 20 at 0550-0730. SINPO 25332. Talk by two men in Burmese lasted till 0606, then music program. Radio drama at 0637. News in English was heard at 0700, followed by music program at 0703 (Iwao Nagatani, Japan, Japan Premium Oct 24 via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Our new shortwave/mediumwave schedule effective from Sunday 26 October is now online. http://www.radionetherlands.nl/features/media/081026-rnw-shortwave-schedule If you live in North America, another reminder that our final shortwave transmission in English beamed to North America will be on Saturday evening 25 October your time. More information on other ways to hear RNW can be found on this page. http://www.radionetherlands.nl/features/media/080912-shortwave-america [plus 8 pages of listener comments now] We are expecting that our transmission at 1959-2057 UT on 11655 kHz to West Africa will be audible in North America, as it's beamed 295 degrees from Madagascar (Andy Sennitt, Media Network newsletter Oct 23 via DXLD) And at same time try 17810 Bonaire to W Africa which is usually audible (gh, OK, DXLD) RNW English to Africa via Madagascar, 11655, is fairly well audible in CNAm at 20 UT, // 17810 Bonaire, and 11655 can also be heard before 20 starting at 18 in English. However, I was surprised to hear a station on 11655 closing in English at 2157 Oct 27. I was also checking VOA and DW at the same time and missed a definite ID on 11655, but RNW is supposed to be here in Dutch via Madagascar until 2157; feed mixup or am I mixed up? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RN via Nauen, GERMANY, 6120, Oct 26 at 0600 opening an hour in Dutch, fair (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Radio Netherlands Worldwide launches Arabic program: 1900-1957 on 11830 MEY 500 kW / 019 deg to WeAs Mon-Fri 2000-2057 on 7385 SMG 250 kW / 114 deg to ME Daily 2200-2257 on 5970 ISS 500 kW / 183 deg to NoAf Mon-Fri (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Oct 28 via DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. 9655, Radio New Zealand International; 1058-1130 UT, 22nd October. Bellbird interval signal at 1058 UT. Verbal at 1100 UT as "Radio New Zealand International" then straight into newscast with male vocals. At 1108 UT came "Dateline Pacific" which included mention of the need by one of the Pacific Islands (Cook Islands?) to update its prison infrastructure. Music programme at 1130 but could not listen past this point. SINO 3443 (variable: occasionally 2532). Great to hear this station on shortwave again: I hadn't heard it on SW since the days when it used 9700 in the morning UT despite constant trying. Good wishes and 73's, (Dave Harries, Bristol, England, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. B08 already valid in NZL: 9765 1751-1800, 25 Oct, English, short story, wrong frequency announcement (inviting listeners to change to 9765), IS at 1758, newscast at 1800 when blocked by CRI in Russian; 44533. It was nevertheless audible underneath CRI, and I observed them s/off at 1858 only. 9765 1022-1058*, 26 Oct, English, music; 45433, so this is good for us here in Europe. 9765 1801-1850*, 26 Oct, English, news, sport, music, Pacific news, s/off announcements, IS; 55544 (!), so it's now free from [CRI] QRM during the whole period. 11725 /1859-f/out 2010, 25 Oct, IS, English, news, sport at 1935; 24422, adj. QRM de AWR 11730 starting at 1800. As of 26 Oct, reception is disturbed by co-channel QRM. 13840 /1100-1235, 26 Oct, IS, English, news, talks; 45444 but very poor at 1230; adj. QRM at 1200. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, Oct 27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RNZI was quite good on 9615, but now it`s moved to 11725 for B-08, heard Oct 26 at 0613, and only fair here, with report about parliament, Hamilton; in fact it was the strongest if not the only station audible on 25mb at the moment! Now scheduled 0459-0658 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ran across Radio New Zealand on 9765 at 0745 UT, during a program where they were discussing their frequency changes as they transitioned from A-08 to B-08 schedules, and how a national holiday had "delayed their changes from the international agreed upon date of 26OCT2008" as they couldn't ask their engineering staff out on a holiday to make changes to the aerial systems. I, unfortunately, did not catch more details as I came in on the back side of this program and the conversation. 73, (Jeramy/W5XTL Ross, Lawton OK, Oct 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RNZI Mailbox, tuned in Monday Oct 27 at 1345 on 6170, when Adrian Sainsbury was giving new transmission schedule and explaining why the previous one was valid for only one week. Oct 26 is a holiday in NZ, so could not get engineers out to the site to adjust the aerial to handle 17675. Instead did that a week earlier. Then acknowledged letters from Costas in Cyprus, and a couple from Texas, all referring to reception on now defunct frequencies such as 7145, 9655, 9615; show ended at 1351 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 917 kHz, R. Gotel, Yola, OCT 26, 2150 - Definite carrier noted alongside 918 kHz, no audio for positive ID. You have to catch this before sunset or 2200 UT when it gets buried in the domestic noise floor. Annotated SDR IQ screen shot uploaded to the mwdx Loco the DX Cat files area (Bruce Conti - Nashua NH, http://members.aol.com/baconti/bamlog.htm MWDX yg via DXLD) I also had a trace a moment ago. It just disapeared suddenly at 2303 UT. Before going off, when switching to the 30 beverage, the carrier was disappearing. It was present on the 55 and 88 beverages. A good sign that it could have been Nigeria indeed (Sylvain Naud, Portneuf, QC, Canada, ibid.) I have some more info about the new station on AM 917 kHz (for the WRTH files & DXLD yahoogroup): 917, Radio Gotel, Yola, has address "Modire (After Yola Bridge), Off Yola-Mubi Expressway, Jimeta-Yola, Adamawa State" or "P. O. Box 5759, Jimeta-Yola". They also use email addresses "radiogotel @ yahoo.com" and "radiogotel @ gmail.com". According to Mr. Kwaji Tari Kwaya (Head of Engineering) Radio Gotel "... is a private radio station established by an illustrious son of Adamawa State of our great country Nigeria. The station is meant to inform, entertain and educate listeners in the following languages: English, Hausa, and Fulfulde alongside musical entertainments in various local languages of Adamawa State. .... The Station began full Broadcast on the 29th June, 2008 and is always on the air from 0600 to 2400 hrs Nigerian time [05-23 UT]; Period of broadcast therefore is eighteen (18 hrs) daily". Radio Gotel also uses slogan "Voice of the People" and one of the regular programmes has been "Heart to Heart" live show hosted by Mr. Huram Lokodi "every week day" between 2303-2400 Nigerian local time. The Head of Programmes is Mr. Mohammed El-Yakub. 73 / IPA (Ilpo Parviainen, Finland, Oct 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Re 8-114, fall break comments and HSFB: I taught in Oklahoma State School System for nearly 20 years, so I might as well add my two cents worth on the Fall Break Comments, even though they really aren't really a DX topic. The Fall Break concept first came about to allow teachers to attend the annual 2 day Oklahoma Education Association Convention held generally during the third week of October. Teachers were given the option of showing up at school and spending the 2 days doing busy work or attending the convention. Students were given the two days off so teachers could attend. Some schools required teachers to provide some sort of proof they actually attended the convention, some didn't. Over time, so many teachers just played hooky from the convention and took personal time to do whatever they wanted, the convention attendance requirement was dropped and the term "Fall Break" was created, mainly to eliminate an attendance management headache. As far as a holiday for "hunting season", that came about as it coincided with the start of Oklahoma's Deer Gun Season in November on the Saturday before Thanksgiving and ending the following Sunday. In rural schools, so many students, usually male, but a few female, would take off from school to hunt, that attendance among students and a few teachers would fall. Again, rather than buck the attendance trend and take a hit in the ADA (Average Daily Attendance-a funding determination measurement) and the hassles involved, some schools decided to take the whole week of Thanksgiving off. Thus was created the "Thanksgiving Break." Both breaks were created to accommodate a desire for time off to pursue a personal past-time. One academic, the OEA convention (which by the way had lousy attendance when it was held on a weekend instead of on the current days of Thursday and Friday). The other pleasure-- deer hunting. In both cases the school year calendar was modified so that the required minimum of classroom instruction days was met. The reason for the games being broadcast on Thursdays instead of the usual Fridays: this is done so everyone gets a full three day weekend during the respective Fall Breaks whether during the OEA convention or the annual deer hunting season. Hope this helps explain the controversy (Steve Cross, Del City, OK, Oct 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. Radio Pakistan B-08 for SW Services from Islamabad 0045-0215 Urdu (World Service) to S.E.Asia API-5 15490 118deg API-6 11580 118deg 0115-0200 Bangla API-3 9345 118deg API-4 7445 118deg 0215-0300 Hindi API-3 9345 118deg API-4 7445 Q-II 0400-0430 Gujrati API-3 9380 147deg API-4 7445 Q-II 0500-0700 Urdu (World Service) to ME/Iran & Turkey API-9 15100 282deg API-6 17835 282-30=252deg 0830-1104 Urdu (World Service) to West Europe (also English news 1100-1104) API-5 15100 313deg API-6 17835 313deg 1030-1130 Hindi API-3 9345 147deg API-4 7475 Q-II 1200-1245 Bangla API-3 9345 118deg API-4 7475 118deg 1200-1300 Chinese API-5 9385 70deg API-6 11510 70deg 1300-1400 Pushto API-4 4835 270deg API-9 3975 270deg 1430-1530 Dari API-4 4835 270deg API-9 3975 270deg 1330-1530 Urdu (World Service) to ME/Iran & Turkey API-5 9380 282deg API-6 11565 282-12=270deg 1600-1615 English News to ME/Iran & Turkey API-5 9380 282deg API-6 11565 282-12=270deg to East/South-East Africa API-9 15100 233deg (will be radiated wef 1st Nov.) 1700-1900 Urdu (World Service) to West Europe API-5 9390 313deg API-6 7530 313deg 1700-1800 Irani API-3 6030 260deg API-4 7500 260deg (via Noel R. Green, Oct 28, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. 6140, R. Pakistan World Service, s/on at 1330 in Urdu on 26 Oct. Not even listed on their new B08 sked on their website, yet there they were. S4 sigs until beat down by PBS Xizang on 6130. Stumbled across this while looking for R. Gloria International via Wertachtal. Tuned in at 1315 and there was nothing but a 1 kHz test tone (nice sidebands!) at about S3/S4, so I hung out, waiting for something to happen. 1327 R. Pakistan World service signed on. Not even so much as a carrier or a heterodyne from Gloria was detectable. Interesting evening for DX. I was really disappointed about not being able to hear R. Gloria International and the Latvia Today show on 9290 appears as only a weak carrier here which I am just able to zero-beat. I guess I can't have everything! 73 de (Al Muick, Kabul, Afghanistan, WinRadio G303e, 100m longwire, Palstar MW-550P mediumwave preselector, HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DXLD) ** PERU. Logs from Mosquito Coast DX News ~ Florida: At 2300 to 2308 Oct 27 the following Peru stations are audible: 4824.53, La Voz de la Selva, Iquitos 4826.56, Radio Sicuani, Sicuani with het from Zimbabwe on 4828 [but see below! WORLD OF RADIO 1432] 4835.42, Radio Marañón, Jaen 4857.39, Radio La Hora, Cusco 73s (Bob Wilkner, FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. RSF PIDE RESPETO A MEDIOS TRAS ATAQUE CONTRA RADIO SICUANI Lima, 27/10/2008 (CNR) -- Reporteros sin Fronteras (RSF) llamó hoy a asociaciones sindicatos que apoyan el movimiento "Levantamiento de los Pueblos" a que respeten la independencia de los medios de comunicación y a las autoridades peruanas a que garanticen la seguridad de Radio Sicuani, emisora que fuera saqueada el pasado viernes. Como se recuerda, una turba de 30 personas incursionó violentamente en las instalaciones de Radio Sicuani (Cusco), destruyendo valiosos equipos y provocando la salida del aire de la emisora, asociada a la Coordinadora Nacional de Radio (CNR). El ataque se registró hacia las 13:30 horas, cuando una muchedumbre armada con piedras y palos ingresó por la fuerza al local de la emisora, cercana a la plaza de armas a la plaza de armas de la provincia de Canchis. "La multitud destruyó y robó algunos equipos de transmisión, interrumpiendo la emisión de los programas", reseñó RSF en un comunicado. La organización por la libertad de prensa expresó que, afortunadamente, no hubiera que lamentar víctimas. A través de la CNR, Doris Ochoa, directora de Radio Sicuani, indicó que el ataque obedecería a la cobertura que realiza la radio cusqueña del denominado "Levantamiento de los Pueblos" que acatan los campesinos de esta localidad desde el 20 de octubre en rechazo a las concesiones mineras. Detalló que, desde el inicio de las protestas, consultaron a sus afiliadas de las provincias altas del Cusco -como Espinar, Chumbivilcas, Canas y Acomayo- donde el paro no tuvo acogida. Lo mismo ocurrió con emisoras en Puno -como Radio Juliaca, Radio Onda Azul y Pachamama Radio- donde la medida de fuerza tampoco tuvo mayor impacto. En tal sentido, Ochoa subrayó que Radio Sicuani ha informado de manera objetiva sobre los reales alcances de esta paralización, la cual se circunscribe a la provincia de Canchis. No obstante, algunos dirigentes agrarios tratarían de magnificar los hechos, contando para ello con el respaldo de tres estaciones de radio de la localidad. Ochoa sindicó a los dirigentes campesinos Valeriano Cama, Aquiles Sanco y Mario Tapia, del Frente Único de Defensa de los Intereses de Canchis (FUDIC), como los responsables de haber enardecido los ánimos de la población en contra de Radio Sicuani. (Fuente: Coordinadora Nacional de Radio http://www.cnr.org.pe/noticia.php?id=23948 via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, Oct 28, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DXLD) 27.10.08 - PERU: RADIO STATION RANSACKED IN ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTEST The studios of local station Radio Sicuani, in the Canchis province of the southern region Cuzco, were ransacked on 24 October by about 30 anti-government demonstrators wielding sticks and stones who burst into the building, smashed or stole equipment and forced the station off the air. Station chief Doris Ochoa said the attack was aimed at its reporting about a local agricultural protest movement called “People’s Uprising,” which claims support from farmers, shopkeepers and students, and opposes President Alan García’s government, especially its handling of the country’s mineral resources. Reporters Without Borders deplored the attack and called for organisations and trade unions supporting the movement to respect media independence. It urged the authorities to ensure the safety of the staff of the station, which will resume broadcasting tomorrow (RSF via DXLD) ** POLAND [non]. PRES on new, or rather reactivated from B-07 frequency 9450 for English to Europe, now in B-08 shifted an hour later to 13-14, coming in well enough Oct 26 at 1300 with Slavek Szefs opening the hour mentioning timechange, weather. Still OK at 1344 with mailbag. In A-08 was on 9525 at 12-13 under Indonesia. 9450 is via Wertachtal, Germany at 300 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PORTUGAL. RDPI, VG on 15560 with Abraço da Madeira show, Sunday Oct 26 at 1316, giving phone numbers for live call-ins by listeners to greet others. No sign of // 15690 scheduled for Africa; surely I would have heard at least a trace of it if it were on. Madeira hug show is now scheduled 1311-1500 UT Sundays, tho their daily program schedule is as usual slow to recognize that Portugal is back on UT, not UT+1. Scan of 13m as I was finishing the morning monitoring session at 1444 found // 21655 to SAm/WAf audible, and nothing else on that band. Looking for R. Portugal on 15560, which has a VG signal on weekends to NAm, but Monday Oct 27 missing at 1508; I could hear a weak Portuguese signal on 15690. The B-08 sked in DXLD 8-114 says 15560 is definite on Sat and Sun, but indefinite on weekdays, for special occasions (like silly ballgames?). 15690 is scheduled M-F 11-13, 144 degrees to Africa and M-F 14-16, 81.5 degrees to India/ME (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PORTUGAL [and non]. 15555, RDP Lisbon at 0800-1100 UT, heavy interference by CVC Darwin 0930-1130. Bad choice (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26/27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also GERMANY [non] ** PRIDNESTROVYE. Radio PMR on 6240, at 2258 wrapping up French, with the announcement apparently recorded in a room without any soundproofing and far away from the mic, resulting in way too much reverb. I seem to recall they got some kind of problem in their studio and thus had to take refuge elsewhere in the building? At 2300 German followed, with obsolete frequency announcement for 12135. Noise gate action tends to cut out program audio way too soon, creating ugly holes (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sunday 26 October 2008. Tuned in at 2318 on 6240 to hear Radio PMR in English with an excellent signal. French service followed at 2330. Tuned away then until 2358. Radio PMR still with an excellent signal on 6240 with the ending of the German service, then time signal for 0000 and then Radio Rossii in Russian. Regards (Harry Brooks, NE England, UK, Oct 27, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA [and non]. RRI, 11940, Oct 26 at 1312 with Romanian talk, good signal but some distortion. At 1314 I found // 15170, but here colliding with REE via Costa Rica, making a heavy SAH, RRI now playing music, roughly equal signal level, but RRI winning due to REE undermodulation. At 1345 Romanian music well over REE, and still the case at 1433. RRI is Galbeni, 285 degrees to Europe at 13-15, now ruining REE reception at 340 degrees toward North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. B-08. Unfortunately, new 2 x 300 kW units at Tiganesti are NOT READY on air yet. Former emergency plan not in effect anymore, like in A08 season since August 4th. [WORLD OF RADIO 1432] All six outlets of RRI's German service originate from Tiganesti normally. This Oct 26th morning noted RRI from Galbeni on air: 0700 UT German totally silent. 0730 UT 11905? 15155 (not 11710TIG 15330TIG) Arabic 0800 UT 15430 17775 (not 11730TIG 15370TIG) Romanian 15430 came on air for seconds, then antenna protection unit forced it down, that happened again and again til ... around 0845 UT, when signal stabilized. 0900 UT 15380 17745 (not 15430TIG 17775TIG) Romanian 1000 UT 15260 17825 (not 15380TIG 17780TIG) Romanian 1100 UT 15150 17845 (not 15255TIG 17790TIG) French 1200 UT German totally silent And now at 1300 UT the single Saftica unit with 100 kW joined the Galbeni beasts: 1300 UT 9610SAF 11940GAL 15170GAL. This night RRI German program in DRM mode: 5875 1700-1730 from Kvitsoe in Norway 65 Kilowatt at 160 degrees towards Bordeaux, Lisboa, Agadir ... 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Winter B-08 schedule of Radio Romania International: ARABIC 0730-0756 15155G off: 11710T 11905G 15330T 1500-1556 11730G 11880G off: 9655T 15235T AROMANIAN 1530-1556 6105S 1730-1756 6015S 1930-1956 6110S CHINESE 0500-0526 off: 15160T 17870T 1400-1426 off: 9660T 12005T ENGLISH 0100-0156 6145G 9515G - not checked 0400-0456 6115T 9515T 9690G 11895G - not checked 0630-0656 7180T 9690T 15135G 17780G - not checked 1300-1356 off: 15105T 17745T 1800-1830 5895 DRM via KVI 065 kW / 220 deg 1800-1856 off: 7215T 9640T 2130-2156 6030G 7145G off: 6115T 9755T 2300-2356 6015G 6115T 7105G 9610T - not checked FRENCH 0200-0256 5975G 9515G - not checked 0600-0626 7170G 9610G - not checked 1100-1156 15150G 17845G off: 15255T 17790T 1700-1756 off: 7135T 9690T 2100-2126 6030G off: 7120G GERMAN 0700-0726 off: 7175T 9690T 1200-1256 off: 9690T 11940T 1700-1730 5875 DRM via KVI-Norway 65 kW / 160 deg 1900-1956 off: 7125T 9525T ITALIAN 1500-1526 7160S 1700-1726 9855S 1900-1926 6180S ROMANIAN 0100-0156 5910T 9640T - not checked 0200-0256 5910T 9640T - not checked 0500-0556 6055G 7220G - not checked 0800-0856 15430G 17775G Sun "Curierul romanesc" off: 11730T 15370T 0900-0956 15380G 17745G Sun "Curierul romanesc" off: 15430T 17775T 1000-1056 15260G 17825G Sun "Curierul romanesc" off: 15380T 17780T 1300-1356 9610S 11940G 15170G 1400-1456 11940G 15170G 1600-1656 9700G 11870G 1700-1756 7335G 9595G 1800-1856 7140G 9590G 1900-1956 7140G 9590G 2000-2056 7125G 9565G RUSSIAN 0530-0556 6175T 7210T - not checked 1430-1456 9535T 11905T - not checked 1600-1656 6025T 7190T - not checked SERBIAN 1630-1656 6025S 1830-1856 7130S 2030-2056 5970S SPANISH 0000-0056 5960G 9525G 9665T 11960T - not checked 0300-0356 6140G 9635T 9765G 11825T - not checked 2000-2056 7140G 9620G 2200-2256 6070T 9575T - not checked UKRAINIAN 1600-1626 6130S 1800-1826 7160S 2000-2026 5960S G=Galbeni, S=Saftica, T=Tiganesti site. Updated acc monitoring on Oct 26th, by wb. (R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 21, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. From 1900 RRI in Italian via the new Saftica transmitter came in on 6180 with strong signal and good (although a bit muffled) audio, but suffers from a heavy, fast SAH. Suspected culprit is Kamalabad with IRIB in French. RRI in English with strong signal on 6015 and less strong on 7105, introducing piece about drinking water supply in Bucuresti at 2320. Seems to me they cranked the audio processing, in my memory it was not so punchy when the new transmitters at Galbeni went into service (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RRI on 6140 with Romanian folk music, Oct 27 at 0327, Spanish announcement a few minutes later, as now scheduled via Galbeni at 03- 04, 310 degrees. Amazingly, no RHC which had been on 6140 with big signal in English for the last few weeks including the night before. Did RHC axually cede 6140 to RRI? RHC still on weaker 6000 in English, 6060 in Spanish. Not checked again until 0401, and RHC 6140 was back on with usual huge signal in Cuban music; wonder if they waited until RRI was finished? No, Jeramy Ross, W5XTL in Lawton OK tells me that RHC came back on at 0350. Why in the world would RRI choose 6140 and collide with RHC? Because as an outlaw nation, RHC does not register its frequencies with HFCC, and RRI would have had to inform itself by reading DXLD to find out where RHC really operates (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. PUTIN APPOINTS NEW HEAD OF VOICE OF RUSSIA BROADCASTING COMPANY | Text of report in English by Russian state news agency ITAR- TASS Moscow, 23 October: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has dismissed the CEO of the Voice of Russia state broadcasting company, Armen Oganessian, the government press service said. The new appointee for the job is Andrey Bystritskiy, a deputy director general of the All-Russia State Broadcasting Company up to date. The Voice of Russia broadcasts to audiences in the Commonwealth of Independent States and in countries outside the CIS. It is one of the oldest existing international broadcasting services. Before 1995, the Voice of Russia was known worldwide as Radio Moscow. Source: ITAR-TASS news agency, Moscow, in English 1348 gmt 23 Oct 08 (via BBCM via DXLD) So what is the political background to this? (gh) Voice of Russia chairman fired --- Armen Oganesyan, the chairman of Voice of Russia, has been fired by Vladimir Putin on Oct 23. The reasons for this step remain unclear. New head of VOR is Andrei Bystritsky, formerly a deputy director of VGTRK. Earlier he was the head of Radio Mayak. http://www.lenta.ru/news/2008/10/23/oganesyan/ (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 26, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 6245 NO ID, inglés, noticias y música clásica: 6245 1803- 1812, escuchada el 26 de octubre en inglés, locutora con noticias, espacio musical con comentarios y fragmentos de opera, SINPO 44333 73 JMR (José Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) V of Russia in English to NoEUR, NE, ME, 6245 from Grigoriopol-MDA towards ME, (ex 7125 in B-07, see p444 in WRTH 2008), backlobe in Germany S=9+20 dB powerhouse \\ today 1494spb 6055arm 7270msk 7320msk, worldwide opera classic music program (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, ibid.) ** RUSSIA [and non]. VOR WS in English to NAm on new, or reactivated, 6135, G at 0558 Oct 26 in closing announcements, saying at 0600 would be on air to Au/NZ on 16 mb, and to Europe on 190, 209, 227, 432, 476 metres. Get out your calculators! Shades of the USSR. And ending NAm service to return at 0200 on the 22, 25, 41 and 49 mb. 6135 was quite strong but somewhat undermodulated, and suffering from splash de RHC 6140. I suspect 6135 is via Germany, as IIRC they used it in previous seasons, but this is not on the DTK B-08 schedule, nor is the new VOR B-08 schedule available yet. Previously they did not have the Habana 6140 problem, but now they do, even if 6135 is running for the entire four hours of VOR English starting at 0200. Commies vs ex?-Commies (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Or your old tube radios, they provide the best reproduction of AM signals anyway. And Anoraks will no doubt be excited about these freq... err, wavelength announcements (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Looking around for R. República, no longer on 6100, and not heard earlier on 6135, 6155, 6185, 9515, or 9640 --- Oct 27 at 0256 found same MOR music playing on 6100 and stronger 6155 – could that be it? No, at 0259 both into Golos Rossii ID and frequencies, but several seconds out of synch; at 0300 6155 cut to opening of VOR WS in English to NAm, and 6100 to continuous tone which was still going at 0330 [per sked below this is supposed to be VOR English 0200-0400 but ditto 24 hours later, tone at 0330 Oct 28!]. Obviously this is intended for something more modulated, but whence? 6155 is on the DTK schedule B08 as 02-05 via Wertachtal, 300 degrees to NAm, but not 6100. 6135, which I heard the night before with VOR English closing at 0600, not yet on the air at 0300 Oct 27. 6135 was added at 0400, running a couple of words behind 6155 Wertachtal, and 6135 also suffering heavy splash from RHC 6140. At 0330 check, also found VOR English on 7350, which is Vatican scheduled at 02-06. As usual, VOR doesn`t have their new season schedule up yet and when it appears will not show transmitter sites anyway; as of 0305 UT Oct 27, the English page still showed useless A-08 info, including earlier 2008 change dates: http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&w=129&p= (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) But checked again at 1600 UT Oct 27, it had been updated for B-08: VOR WS in English B-08, posted a day late at: http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&w=129&p= Africa 9470 1600-1800 11510, 7335, 7270 1800-1900 11510, 7335 1900-2000 Australia, New Zealand 17665, 17805 0600-0900 17665 0900-1000 Europe 1548 0400-0500 1575, 1431, 693, 630 0500-0600 1575, 1431, 1323, 693, 630 0600-0700 11635*, 1575, 1431, 1323, 693, 630 0700-0800 1575, 1431, 1323, 693, 630 0800-0900 13670*, 1575, 1431, 1323, 693, 630 0900-1000 558 (except Saturday) 1300-1400** 9675*, 5905* 1500-1600 7320, 6130 1600-1700 7320 1700-1800 7320, 7240, 6245(Sat,Sun), 6175(Sat,Sun), 6055(Sat,Sun), 1494(Sat,Sun) 1800-1900 7290, 7240, 6175 1900-2000 7330, 7240, 6145 2000-2100 7330, 6145 2100-2200 Middle East 1251, 972 1500-1600 9470, 4975, 4965, 972 1600-1700 9470, 4975, 1251 1700-1800 7270, 4975, 1251 1800-1900 N America 13735, 12040, 7250, 6240, 6100 0200-0300 13735, 12040, 7350, 6240, 6155, 6100 0300-0400 12030, 9855, 9840, 7350, 7150, 6240, 6155, 6135 0400-0500 12030, 9855, 9840, 7350, 7150, 6135 0500-0600 [WORLD OF RADIO 1432] Asia 15735* 0400-0600 15195, 1251 0800-1000 9660, 7260, 7350, 1251, 972 1500-1600 7260, 7305, 4975, 4965, 972 1600-1700 7125, 6125, 1269, 1251 1700-1800 7335, 6125, 1251 1800-1900 * - DRM broadcast ** - English Hour in London This schedule is subject to change without prior notice [at least this version does not give MW in metres as do on-air announcements! Each target area has a link to ``full schedule``, i.e. programming] (VOR website tidied up by Glenn Hauser for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Estimados amigos: Este martes 28 de octubre sale al aire la emisión número 1000 del programa Frecuencia RM de La Voz de Rusia. Con tal motivo, hemos editado una QSL especial que enviaremos a quienes reporten este programa y los que sigan hasta el fin de este año. Atentamente, (Francisco Rodríguez, Frecuencia RM, La Voz de Rusia, via Dino Bloise, FL, and José Bueno, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voz de Rusia, Español B-08; nuevo 13630 2100-2200 por 5940 y 7340 0100-0200 por 5900 5945 6135 6195 6240 7170 13630 0200-0300 por 5900 5945 6135 7170 9475 13630 (via José Miguel Romero, Spain, Oct 28, dxldyg via DXLD Horario de Transmisión para FRECUENCIA RM: Martes 2145–2200 UT por 5940 y 7340 kHz - Espana y Europa. Martes 0122–0137 (UT Miércoles) por 5945, 6240 kHz - América Central. Martes 0122–0137 (UT Miércoles) por 13630(*), 7170, 6135, 6195, 5900 kHz - América del Sur Martes 0222–0237 (UT Miércoles) por 5945 kHz - América Central Martes 0222–0237 (UT Miércoles) por 13630(*), 9475, 7170, 6135, 5900 kHz – América del Sur (*) Desde la Guayana Francesa En internet podrá escucharse haciendo "click" en: http://www.ruvr.ru/index.php?lng=spa Página Web del Programa: http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=spa&e=64&p Archivo de los programas de Frecuencia RM en: http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=spa&w=56 También podrá escucharse cualquier día y a cualquier hora en: http://es.geocities.com/programasdx/frecuenciarm.htm Nuestro correo electrónico: post_es@ruvr.ru o bien, pcortes@orc.ru La Voz de Rusia Programa "FRECUENCIA RM" Redacción Latinoamericana Calle Pyatnitskaya 25 115 326 Moscú RUSIA Si desea escuchar otros programas DX en espanol pueden hacerlo en “Programas DX”: http://es.geocities.com/programasdx/ 73, (via José Bueno, Córdoba – Espana, dxldyg via DXLD) That's a surprise: VOR via Montsinery. 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13630 at 0100-0300 (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, ibid.) ** RUSSIA [and non]. A previous item below lacked date and time! It was 0542 UT Oct 24 in A-08: 7200 with heavy SAH of about 6 Hz, between a station in Russian with pop music, and unID language. Russian must be Yakutsk at 45 degrees, on very long hours, and the other R. Bulgaria, scheduled in German during this semihour at 295 degrees, so neither is aimed here, but both cross somewhere in North America when extended. Yakutsk is also the one that used to motorboat, but not currently (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [non]. 13755 with pop song in Russian, Oct 27 at 1521. This is VOR via Wertachtal, GERMANY at 15-16, 115 degrees. BTW, the VOR B- 08 English schedule, minus relay sites, has been posted a day late at http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&w=129&p= (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. Around 1850 I noted an open carrier on 6155, no longer in use at this time by ORF. After 1900 it had classical music, so Moosbrunn back on? No, it turned out to be Voice of Russia in Czech, // 1170 (Sasnovy) but with a delay of not less than two seconds, so this unID transmitter must use DVB-S as audio source. Perhaps the site is Bolshakovo, since 1215 has a similar two second delay compared // 6235. This 6235 comes on air at 1800, is only a weak signal here, and it's Gavar, i.e. Armenia, as stated by VOR German service itself at http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=ger&q=1055&cid=130&p=23.10.2008 Probably the first time ever that RM/VOR German is relayed via Gavar, unless it had already been done more than 15 years ago, when Radio Moscow transmitter sites were a big mystery. German also // on much stronger 6145 from either Lesnoy, Kurovskaya or Taldom, but this 6145 gets destroyed from 1900 by, you guess it, CRI, in particular Romanian via Urumqi. And now the big question: Is Samara still on air or has it indeed been shut down yesterday? VOR German (at this time relaying an Universelles Leben / Radio Santec program, closing with the CW sounder that already fooled DXers who no longer listen to program audio) was until 1900 also on 7300 which then switched to something else. The site list at the bottom of the referenced page still specifies Samara, the frequency list does not mention 7300 at all. Well, it is on air, BUT from where? If not Samara it could be Tbilisskaya, 7300 was in use from there some years ago. Russian pop songs, presumably Russkoye Mezhdunarodnoye Radio, noted at 2245 on 5940. An old Tbilisskaya frequency, in the past used for North America, but that was later in the night. But for sure it's this site at the same time on 6040, with RNW in Dutch and about the same signal strength. And at 2335 there was a strong carrier on 7330, presumably either of Lesnoy/Kurovskaya/Taldom preparing for VOR to Latin America from 0000. It has some problem: A hiss, varying in pitch over a period of about seven seconds, disappearing and coming back again (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 7200, R. Rossii via Yakutsk, 0318-0343, Oct 27, in Russian, various music, several IDs, fair. Parallel 5935 via Magadan (ex: 5940 - poor, QRM from WWCR), 6075, via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka (ex: 5920 - fair), 7320 via Magadan (fair to good), unable to hear 7345 6075, Kamchatka Radio via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, 0810-0900, Oct 27, local programming, (back to their winter times and frequency: ex: 5920 - end of DST, ex: 0710-0800), pre-0810 and post-0900 R. Rossii programming. News, long interview, BoH local news with musical fanfare between items, 0830 + 0837 "This is Kamchatka", long radio drama, fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See UNIDENTIFIED 6075 UNIDENTIFIED. 13600, Oct 26 at 1308 in Russian with big buzz of the Saudi Arabian type obscuring the modulation. Nothing scheduled here, but info from Russia is slow to come in. I suspect this is indeed a Russian transmitter with big problems. Same tho somewhat weaker at 1401, 1435 rechex. 13600 again the next day Oct 27 at 1315 in Russian with buzz. In A-08, CRI Russian via Xian was on 13600 during this hour, but doubt that is it now. See also 9835. Still hearing lite buzz on an unlisted 13600 transmitter, Oct 28 at 1335, talking about Ukraine, but am quite sure the language is Russian; and then found // without buzz on 12025, but the two were a reverb apart, not exactly synchronized. The latter is listed as VOR via a Moscow site. Wolfgang Büschel has reported a terrible buzz from VOR Lesnoy(?) site from 6120 to 6140 at 1600-2200, so maybe this is more from the same (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 6130 TERRIBLE! V of Russia Moscow Lesnoy[??] (buzz from 6120 to 6140 kHz area), !! as last year in B-07 season !! too. That's a combination of 4 x 50 kW = 200 kW combined unit, on air 1600-2200 UT, left the air at 22.00:50 UT today Oct 26. 9435 UNID, was on air when checked 1120 UT, around 1100-1500 UT? Mezhdunarodnye Russkie Radio ID heard at 1135 and 1150 UT today Oct 27. Still a little bit OVERMODULATED, and reminds me the Samara transmitters` quality. Not as strong as yesterday Oct 26th, reception quality even with SONY ICF 2010 in the kitchen room towards S Europe direction, is only S=7-8 fair, without connecting outside antenna (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26/27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Oct. 24, 9810 kHz, VOR English, Moscow (MSK), Russia 250 kW/260 degrees, excellent signal strength, but EXTREMELY STRONG HUM, sounded like chainsaw! Really not good to ears (Dragan Lekic from Subotica, SERBIA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [non]. As soon as I tuned in a good signal on 13660, Oct 26 at 1307 I heard an ID ``Govorit Radio Svoboda`` and into piano music. This is via Lampertheim, Germany, 13-14 at 56 degrees (Glenn Hauer, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAINT HELENA. R St. Helena Day on November 15th at 2000-2330 on 11092.5 kHz in USB --- By Robert Kipp, ZD7PU, Special Assistant to the Station Manager of Radio St. Helena Gary Walters, Station Manager of Radio St. Helena, and his staff are promoting RSD 2008 on their notice board in the corridor between the two studios and the office area (almost straight across from the room with the MW and SW transmitters). Trainee Miss Ashton Yon (17) has been busying herself with decorating the notice board here at Radio St Helena in preparation for the big day (Radio St Helena Day 2008, November the 15th, 2008, on 11092.5 KHz in USB). On the board are selected pictures sent in by DXers from around the globe, and there are also pictures including the operator together with radio equipment. DXers also sent recordings of the reception of RSD, and some even sent us pictures of themselves and families. Radio St Helena looks forward to the great response during and after the next Radio St. Helena Day broadcasts! Now is the time to get ready for the next "Party-On-The-Air" with Radio St. Helena! [Robert Kipp sent DXLD this message, along with 4 photos, which you can see here; by enlarging them you might recognize someone: http://www.dswci.org/news/2008/0810/rsh_2008.html via DXLD] ** SAUDI ARABIA. 17660, BSKSA in French at 1415 Oct 24 ending Courrier des Auditeurs (letters from listeners), with E-mail address; fair with flutter. Oh, oh, the big buzz is starting up again from some BSKSA transmitter(s) --- Oct 24 at 1510 there it was on 15435 mixing with Arabic talk, soon into Qur`an. At this point, the Arabic was still intelligible if one wanted to put up with the buzz, which months ago grew and grew until nothing else was audible, yet they kept this mess on the air until officially notified by monitors abroad, rather than Allah (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glen[n], I hear a lot of BSKSA outlets today in past six hours, Ar, Ins, Fr, En etc. All loud and clear, no trace of a BUZZ station yet. Bon jour. And BSKSA Riyadh extreme loud in French on 17660 14-18 UT today. de wolfy (Büschel, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No BUZZ from faulty BSKSA Riyadh heard anymore. 15250, BSKSA in English, equal level co-channel CNR Kunming 10-11 UT, but later BSKSA til 1230 UT on better level S=6-7 to S=7-8. Spotlight feature at 1030 (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26/27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) BSKSA, 15225, Oct 27 at 1455, with Qur`an, VG except for splash from CRI/Canada 15230. Qur`an still going at 1503 when I found that 15435 had joined it //. 15435 also very strong, and periodically developed some buzz, at 1506, gone at 1510, back at 1522. It`s there but not yet severe or constant. Wolfgang Büschel in Germany says he has not been hearing any Saudi buzz on the frequencies he has been monitoring. Another BSKSA program was on 13710, Oct 27 at 1524 with Qur`an by a different more melodic singer; at first I thought it was the Iranian guy heard previously on 15150 (and maybe it was, if these all really come from recordings.); 1525 BSKSA ID in Arabic, not // 15435 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13710, BSKSA *1500-1515, Sign-on with announcements in Arabic, then directly into pleasant sounding Qur'an chanting and recitations. Signal was clear but nothing to write home about (Bruce Barker, Broomall, PA, Oct 26, NRD-535D and Alpha Delta DX Sloper, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA [non non]. 7199.94, odd, Serbian radio via old site Stubline unit, 11-12 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26/27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Serbia B-08?? http://glassrbije.org/S/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=22&Itemid=47 Español 1400-1430 Europa 7200 1900-1930 Europa 6100, 7200 Sin embargo anuncian en su emisión por Internet, de 1500 a 1530, ¿UTC u hora de Belgrado? (José Miguel Romero, Spain, Oct 28, dxldyg via DXLD) This looks like the Summer A07 schedule still. I am currently hearing Spanish at 1500-1530 UTC on 7200 kHz i.e. one hour later than shown on their web site schedule (Dave Kenny, UK ibid.) Just like Italian yesterday, is one hour shifted (Roberto Scaglione, Sicily, Oct 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) You mean A-08, Dave? Certainly not B-08. Still has them on 6185 at 2330-0130 to NAm, replaced by 6190 last spring, and I am still hearing them on 6190 around 0000 in B-08 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** SIKKIM [and non]. Re PAKISTAN: 1300-1400 Pushto API-4 4835 270deg, 1430-1530 Dari API-4 4835 270deg (Noel R.Green (NW England)) Hi Noel, So it looks as if we lose 2 hours (1300-1400 & 1430-1530) for the opportunity of hearing AIR Gangtok on 4835, as I assume PBC is stronger there than AIR (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SLOVAKIA: MIRAYA FM via RIMAVSKA-SOBOTA; 15650. Full data (except site) Miraya FM cd from Omerovic Wihada for Mr. Jean-Luc Mootoosamy, Miraya Program Officer, in 17 days. Address: Fondation Hirondelle, Avenue du Temple 19C, Ch-1012 Lausanne, Switzerland (Wendel Craighead, Kansas, USA, Oct 27, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** SOMALIA [non]. Re 8-114, IRIN Radio, 7160: Glenn, Thank you for the 'heads up' of this station; now searching my memory banks, I'm trying to figure out just what I heard. a) Was it a punch-up error? b) I did hear the talks in dialect which was not French. c) There was a partial ID or a mention for IRIN radio or was this a program name? I will leave as this for now as is and put into a the file; who knows what was it, shortwave x-files. And then try for them again on 9665 kHz. It reminds of a station I heard when the fall of the Soviet Union era. After the fall (as I can remember it) there was a station on 9490 kHz (around 1400-1600) that I was hearing for about three weeks in the late (October/November) 80's. I thought it was Pacific Fleet Service or Mayak Service (it certainly wasn't Radio Moscow). Up-beat rock/pop music, a woman disc jockey, commercials (yes commercials) and a whole lot of ID's but nothing I could pin down for a 'real' ID, like 'govorit svbonian' was one, another for 'FM 99'. I figured it was coming from either around the Moscow area (long path) or from the Far East (Vladivostok) (short path). As quickly as it appeared, then it disappeared and to this date I did not figure out who or what it was, an FM relay, a new station, a program, who knows, or a punch-up error? I tried to find some information but nothing appeared on who it could have been for this short time frame. Take care (Edward Kusalik, Alberta, Canada, Oct 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Another Sabbath, so another check of just how Brother Scare is appearing on four frequencies from three US stations, Oct 25. WBCQ 9330 cut on at 1355 joining organ music in progress as also heard on WINB 9265 and WWRB 9385, but never synchronized. Then checked WBCQ`s other frequency as heard last Saturday, also on air today at 1359 with same organ music and fast SAH with DW via UK carrier, and modulation from that started at 1359:30, first with bells, then Russian 1400 overriding WBCQ. But last week there was an audible het, and this week WBCQ is much closer to being on frequency only making a subaudible het. And still no mention re on annotated program guide http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=15420 For B-08, no more DW collision at 14-16, just a much weaker BBC. Recheck at 1613, 15420 was clear of DW, 9330 was off as it runs at 14- 16 only, and 15420 was close to matching WWRB 9385. At 1621, WINB was still running same on 9265, long after its scheduled switch to 13570 at 1200; on some weekdays they switch at 1400. Not only was WBCQ on 15420-CUSB as early as 1400 Sabbath Oct 25 but also Sunday Oct 26 with Brother Scare, weaker than // 9330-CUSB, but 15420 finally clear of DW Russian collision via UK. So maybe WBCQ will be on 15420 daily this early? See also USA: WINB. Checking for Brother Scare via WBCQ, scheduled daily 14-16 on 9330v- CUSB: Missing Oct 27 at 1405, so could only hear him on WWRB 9385. Come on! We desperately need B.S. on three frequencies at once within 120 kHz in the 9.2-9.4 area. 9330 was on at 1432 recheck, but no 15420 as heard Saturday and Sunday; Oct 27 at 1441, BBC Outlook was weak but clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) At 21 UT Oct 26 heard Brother Scare using 6175 with good signal; was it from M+B German site? (Joe Hanlon, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, Wertachtal, 300 degrees (gh) ** SPAIN. Landed at 2255 on 6125: REE just wrapped up its English broadcast, coming in with excellent signal. And at 2315 they had French on 5970 as well as much weaker and more bassy sounding 6055. 5970 is for Europe while 6055 beams away to Canada. WRTH lists 5970 as Sat and Sun only, something that perhaps needs to be checked out in detail. Also at 2315 6125 has Spanish to South America, accordingly noted with weaker backlobe signal here (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) REE on new 9640, VG signal and modulation, so has to be direct rather than via Cariari, Oct 27 at 2200 with news from Radio Nacional --- I believe REE is no longer allowed to do separate newscasts. This is 19- 23 at 290 degrees from Noblejas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. Enlaces para descargar esquemas de REE para el invierno B08 EN FORMATO PDF: Invierno 2008 – Frecuencias de REE http://telefonica.net/web2/radioescuchadx/reeb08.pdf Invierno 2008 – Parrilla programación de REE http://telefonica.net/web2/radioescuchadx/reeb08p.pdf EN FORMATO TEXTO: Invierno 2008 – Frecuencias de REE http://telefonica.net/web2/radioescuchadx/reeb08.doc Invierno 2008 – Parrilla programación de REE http://telefonica.net/web2/radioescuchadx/reeb08p.doc (José Bueno, Córdoba, España, Oct 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Lots of changes in the new program schedule. Crónica en Lenguas Co- Oficiales, the 5-minute newscasts in Catalan, Galician and Basque, which had been at 1240-1255 UT weekdays [previous winters: 1340], are gone [NOT: see below], unless hidden under a new name, but I don`t see anything likely; Otros Acentos might fit, but it`s already been on the schedule at other times, and I am not familiar with it. Now that`s M-F at 22-23, Tue-Sat second edition at 02-03, or rather after 5 minutes news on the hour, presumably. Quite contrary to the recent item from its producer, Amigos de la Onda Corta is still shown as a semihour show (or rather 25 minutes), not a one hour show encompassing mailbag, which is also still on the sked as a separate show --- so is this new sked effective 26 Oct already out of date, or is the just-cited info incorrect? Amigos de la Onda Corta: Fri 0930, Sat 0505, Sun 1530 [some targets] Correo del Oyente: Thu 0930, Sun 2305 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hola Glenn: En el programa de hoy sábado 25 de octubre 2008, nos informan de nuevas variaciones en la programación: “En el caso de REE, hay que sumar a su programación nuevos espacios que los oyentes de la emisora irán descubriendo. No será como estaba previsto, ya que en tan solo un mes que lleva en el cargo la Directora de REE, Josefina Beneítez, es imposible acometer la programación que tenía perfilada, y esto influye en el programa Amigos de la Onda Corta: Íbamos a disponer de más tiempo, unos 55 minutos, y ahora nos quedamos como estamos, en realidad la duración iba a ser la misma, por que el programa se iba a complementar con una sección más amplia dedicada a la correspondencia, de unos veinte minutos, más o menos. Asumiríamos el papel de las personas que contestaríamos a las cartas, a los correos, a las llamadas telefónicas de nuestros oyentes, y lo haremos pero dentro de un nuevo espacio que se llamará Correo del Oyente de Radio Exterior de España. Que sepan nuestros radioescuchas que seguimos esta nueva temporada con la duración de siempre, aunque, por ejemplo, hay variación en la emisión de los programas. Amigos de la Onda Corta se emitirá los viernes, sábados y domingos: Los viernes a las 09:30 UTC, los sábados a las 0500 UT (0505) y los domingos a las 1500 UT (1505). [not 1530?] Estos cambios y otros podrán ser consultados en la página electrónica de Radio Exterior de España, en la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://www.rtve.es/programas/radioexterior/ Pueden acceder al programa en: http://es.geocities.com/programasdx/amigosondacorta.htm Y también en la página de REE: http://www.rtve.es/programas/amigosdelaondacorta Cordiales 73 (José Bueno, Córdoba, España, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [and non]. REE via Costa Rica, reconfirmed with third frequency 1 kHz off, not only 5964 and 11814, but 9764, as measured Oct 26 at 1302, weak modulation, hetting something on 9765. See also ROMANIA. [2 days later:] The 1-kHz-off-frequency operations of REE via Cariari, COSTA RICA, have finally been rectified, following our note to the engineer in Madrid last week, tho he has not replied directly. Oct 28 at 0625, 5965.0 ex-5964, now within a SAH of Vatican co- channel, English which was // 7250; REE was playing a singer sounding like Piaf. So I also checked the others a few hours later: Oct 28 at 1313, 9765.0 // 11815.0 ex-9764 and 11814, in RNE Diario Hablado. It`s quaint that a radio newscast is called a ``spoken daily [newspaper]``. Also // 15170 which never was off-frequency, and still buried by Romania in B-08. All the CR relays are very undermodulated whether on- or off-frequency. These off-frequencies had been observed since February and March. First reports of each in DXLD: 5964, DXLD 8-025, February 24 9764, DXLD 8-035, March 15 11814, DXLD 8-039, March 30 Tho they all could have begun as early as Feb 24. One version of the B-08 REE program schedule no longer lists the newscasts in Catalan, Galician and Basque, but there are lots of other anomalies in it, and I gather that it is an imaginary proposed (?) schedule. In fact, the 3-language news is still running. It`s been a good many months since I axually listened to them, so I did so again Oct 28, as it`s fun to see how much one can understand knowing only some Castilian and Portuguese. In B-08 these have shifted an hour later to M-F 1340-1355. Forget 15170, ruined by Romania, but 17595 direct from Noblejas has excellent signal and modulation. I no longer hear these called ``Lenguas Co- Oficiales`` so I assume this politically correct terminology is no longer in vogue [tho appeared in print on sked as above]. Oct 28 started promptly at 1340 in Catalan direct from Barcelona studio, lots of short items ending with something about the Lakers and the Blazers (Blaisers?)! 1345 switched to Galician with cute Celtic- influenced nautical jingle, M&M with weather et al. 1350 to Euskadi, and same as months ago, this Basque segment is about Basque country, but IN Castilian --- only the opening and closing announcements are in Basque. Items included literature prizes, 22-year-old arrested for rape (``violación`` as the Spaniards call it), ETA arrests. 1355 PSA for Instituto Cervantes, music fill. {I am beginning to wonder if there is some rule against REE broadcasting in Basque, since non- Basques don`t understand it, and something untoward might be said.} Castilians normally speak rapidly and stacattoly, but all three of these are at even more of a breakneck pace, heavily produced with two alternating announcers, quick axualities, music beds and stingers. What would you do if you only had 5 minutes a weekday to convey your region`s news to the world? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. VOA 9815 at 1920 on 27 Oct. in Arabic to Darfur. Poor signal. //9380 fair. ID as Radio Sawa. As EiBi and BiNews aren't updated, I don't have the transmitter QTHs (Liz Cameron, dxldyg vi DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9815 is Wertachtal; 9380 São Tomé (gh) ** SUDAN [non]. via Slovakia, 15650, Miraya 101 FM, *1459-1515, Oct 24, sign on with African music. Time pips & ID at 1501 followed by English news. IDs. Arabic talk at 1511. Poor to fair (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Miraya FM: See also GREECE [and non] ** SWEDEN. POSSIBILITY OF SPECIAL NIGHT TIME TRANSMISSION OF SAQ --- This was posted on LWCA Longwave Messageboard by Todd Roberts WD4NGG on October 26, 2008 Hi All, I recently wrote to Lars SM6NM at SAQ to inquire if they might consider a special night time transmission to favor North American listeners. Here is a copy of my letter : "Hi Lars, Just a note to confirm I was able to hear SAQ between 0920- 0935 UTC 10/24/08 but weakly with lots of QRN static and low signal levels. I was wondering if someday the operators at SAQ might consider a special night-time transmission of SAQ to favor North American and other listeners? After years of monitoring VLF I have come to the conclusion that your regular transmit time of 0900 UT is the absolute worst time of day for North American listeners. A mid-evening winter transmit time of 0100 would be the best time for North American listeners and probably Europe also. A one-time event at this time of night would probably give you scores of new listeners here in the USA and around the world. All VLF signals from Europe are greatly enhanced at that time of evening and static is usually low around 0100. By 0900 VLF signal strength is usually at its lowest from Europe and static levels are at the worst time of night, making it very difficult to hear SAQ. Thank you for giving this some consideration! 73 - Yours Truly, Todd Roberts WD4NGG" Here is the reply by Lars : "Hello Todd, Thank you for your consideration of a better reception in the US. The matter is to be taken up at the next Board Meeting. The reason why we mostly transmit during fore-noon is, that it is the best time for our station Public and the Crew. 0100 UT will be about mid-night and no one will come and visit the transmission. But why not. For once a year or so it would be possible. I will let you know further on. I am glad you could hear the last transmission, even if it was weak. Best 73. Lars/SM6NM " So looks like there is a possibility that SAQ may consider a once a year mid evening transmission to North American listeners! Will keep everyone informed of any updates. 73 (Todd WD4NGG http://www.lwca.org/mb/msg/286.htm via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) Ha; I suspected that doing the tests at 10 or 11 am local time was for the convenience of staff, not listeners (gh, DXLD) SAQ special broadcast on 24 October: Lars Kalland SM6NM advises me that despite stating "no reports required" he has received 18 so far (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ``No reports required`` is not quite the same as ``don`t send any reports`` (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** SWEDEN [and non]. The end of an era. Radio Sweden`s last morning broadcast to North America, Oct 25 at 1430 on 11640 via Canada. I recall it was primarily a morning station for many years before the Sackville relays started; reception direct from Northern Europe to Central North America was much more reliable in our mornings than our evenings (and still is). This was the usual Saturday review of the week`s stories, no mention of giving up in the mornings, and no announcement of new transmission schedule as had been run during the previous week. Items about how fewer and fewer countries since WWII maintain the death penalty; and a film festival in Uppsala; 1459 IS and into ``Radio Sweden, Lordag`` -- yes, in Swedish IDs they pronounce the station name in English; what`s up with that? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good question, Glenn. I wish you would put it to the people concerned. I too would be interested in an answer. Why can´t they keep the old name Sveriges Radio, Utlandsprogrammet? In a 50-minute panel discussion on the occasion of the station´s recent 70th anniversary, no one specifically raised this point. Finally, a lady representing an organization of Swedish-speaking women living in the diaspora, underlined the importance of the existing Swedish language service. These housewives do believe it helps keep their Swedish language and cultural ties alive. One of the panel members disagreed. Instead of continuing on the delicate off topic subject of how to uphold a seemingly dwindling Swedish cultural identity the moderator decided to wrap the whole thing up. I noticed that ex-DXer and co-founder of the Arctic Radio Club, Christer Hederström, voiced strong support for the continued use of SW and MW. Listen to the program at http://www.sr.se/webbradio/webbradio.asp?type=db&id=1333566 See also the headlines and pictures at http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/International/nyhetssidor/artikel.asp?nyheter=1&ProgramID=2076&Artikel=2029356 (Henrik Klemetz, Sweden, ibid.) Now that R. Sweden has cancelled morning English to NAm, I tried to pick up the 1430 broadcast which has two transmitters on 9400 at 70 and 100 degrees, but inaudible at 1432 Oct 27 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) R. Sweden 2130 in English to Africa via Madagascar, 7390 put an adequate signal into OK as well on 280 degree beam, at 2150 Oct 27 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11540, R. Sweden in Swedish, except for ID in passing pronounced in English, inbooming at 1400 Oct 28, so strong I suspected Sackville relay had resumed, ex-11640. But no, this is Hörby direct aimed 95 degrees, and on the air this semi-hour only, unfortunately, no English before or after (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SYRIA [and non]. 9330, Oct 24 at 1852 while WBCQ`s weekday 18-19 broadcast of some financial program was still running, with big hum, but also detectable het, WBCQ being slightly off-frequency to low side, yet transmitting in CUSB, not CLSB. At 1908, WBCQ was gone leaving an S9+10 carrier on 9330, but very low modulation in talk, maybe French? Yes, that`s scheduled this hour per DXLD 8-114. If modulation were up to par, would have been readable. R. Damascus frequency was on 9330.0 as far as I could tell compared to Wichita 1330.0 on the FRG-7. At 1947 recheck, nothing on 9330, so Syria must have gone off, perhaps at 1945 for a half-sesquihour instead of full- hour transmission? R. Damascus fan Kris Janssen in Belgium says the former English broadcast at 2000 has been off SW for some time, but still on satellite, with SW resuming for the second English broadcast at 2100, that not checked here yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Oct. 24, 9330 kHz, 1840z, Radio Damascus, Adra, Syria 500 kW/ 340 degrees, excellent signal strength but very low modulation! The talking was so quiet, that when I turned the volume to maximum, I still couldn't understand the language. Latter I found in schedules it was German! When will they repair the transmitter?! (Dragan Lekic from Subotica, SERBIA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [and non] /FRANCE/FR GUIANA/UK R Taiwan International B-08 schedule Mandarin 0000-0500 CHN 11885 TWN 100 0000-0500 CHN 11640 TWN 100 0000-0400 CHN 15245 TWN 100 0000-0300 CHN 9660 TWN 100 0200-0500 CHN 15290 TWN 250 0400-0500 CHN 1008 TWN 600 0400-0500 SeA 15320 TWN 100 0400-0600 CHN 15270 TWN 100 0900-1000 SeA 11635, 15525, 11520 TWN 100 0900-1000 SeA 1422 TWN 50 0900-1000 CHN 9415 TWN 100 0900-1400 CHN 6150 TWN 100 0900-1500 CHN 6085 TWN 300 0900-1600 CHN 11665 TWN 300 0900-1600 CHN 603 TWN 1000 0900-1800 CHN 7185 TWN 100 0900-1800 CHN 1008 TWN 600 1000-1200 CHN 1503 TWN 600 1000-1400 CHN 9780 TWN 100 1100-1300 CHN 11710 TWN 300 1100-1800 CHN 9680 TWN 100 1300-1320 CHN 1503 TWN 600 1300-1400 SeA 15265 TWN 250 1300-1500 SeA 7445 TWN 100 1300-1800 CHN 1098 TWN 250 1430-1530 CHN 7270 TWN 300 1400-1800 CHN 7130, 6145 TWN 100 1600-1700 CHN 1503 TWN 600 1600-1800 CHN 7365 TWN 300 2200-2400 CHN 11710 TWN 300 2200-2400 CHN 11885 TWN 100 2200-2400 CHN 6105 TWN 100 2200-2400 SeA 11635 TWN 100 2300-2400 CHN 15245 TWN 100 2300-2400 CHN 9660 TWN 100 2300-2400 CHN 7270 TWN 100 2200-2400 CHN 6150 TWN 100 Hokkein 0000-0100 CHN 11875 TWN 250 0500-0600 CHN 1008 TWN 600 0500-0600 CHN 1422 TWN 50 1000-1100 CHN 15465 TWN 100 1200-1300 SeA 11715, 1206 TWN 250/100 1300-1400 CHN 11635 TWN 100 Hakka 0130-0200 SeA 15290 TWN 100 0230-0300 SeA/TWN 15440, 1422 WYFR/TWN 100/50 0330-0400 SeA 15610 TWN 100 0530-0600 CHN 15320 TWN 100 1030-1100 SeA 15270, 11635 TWN 100 1230-1300 NeA 6150, 11915 TWN 100/250 1530-1400 SeA 11550 TWN 100 Cantonese 0130-0200 SeA 15290 TWN 250 0200-0230 SeA 15440/1422 WYFR/TWN 100/50 0300-0330 SeA 15610 TWN 100 0500-0530 SeA 15320 TWN 100 1000-1030 SeA 15270, 11635 TWN 100 1200-1230 CHN 11915, 6105 TWN 100 1500-1530 SeA 11550 TWN 250 English 0100-0200 SeA 11875 TWN 250 0200-0300 cNAm 5950 WYFR 100 0300-0400 SeA 15320 TWN 100 1100-1200 SeA 11715, 7445 TWN 250/100 1100-1200 Thur SeA 1206 TWN 100 1600-1700 EU Issoudun 500 9785 (from 2008/10/26-2009/02/28) 11995 (from 2009/03/01-2009/03/28) 1600-1700 CHN, SAs 11550 TWN 100 1700-1800 EU Issoudun 500 11850 (from 2008/10/26-2009/02/28) 15690 (from 2009/03/01-2009/03/28) 1800-1900 EU 3965 Issoudun 250 2200-2300 Thur TWN 1206 TWN 100 French 1900-2000 wEu Issoudun 500 9365 (from 2008/10/26-2009/02/28) 11875 (from 2009/03/01-2009/03/28) 1900-2000 wEu 3985 Skelton 250 Spanish 0200-0300 SAm 15215 11825 (stop from 2008/11/1) WYFR 100 0200-0300 SAm 9840 Montsinery 500 0400-0500 CAm 11855 WYFR 100 0600-0700 CAm 5950 WYFR 100 2000-2100 EU 3965 Issoudun 250 2300-2400 SAm 11885 9690 (stop from 2008/11/1) WYFR 100 German 1900-2000 Eu 3955 Skelton 300 2100-2200 wEU 3965 Issoudun 250 Russian 1400-1500 wSiberia 15430 Issoudun 500 1100-1200 NeA 11985 TWN 100 1700-1800 wSiberia Issoudun 500 6120 (from 2008/10/26-2009/02/28) 9840 (from 2009/03/01-2009/03/28) Japanese 0830-1000 NeA 11605 TWN 250 1100-1400 NeA 9735 TWN 250 Vietnamese 0000-0100 SeA 11655 TWN 100 0900-1000 SeA 15270 TWN 100 1100-1200 CHN 1422 TWN 50 1300-1400 CHN 1206 TWN 100 1400-1500 SeA 11550 TWN 250 Thai 1300-1500 CHN 1422 TWN 50 1400-1500 SeA 11635 TWN 100 1500-1600 SeA 7555 TWN 100 1500-1600 SeA 1503 TWN 600 2200-2300 SeA 1503 TWN 600 2200-2400 SeA 7445 TWN 100 2300-2400 SeA 1422 TWN 50 Indonesian 0300-0500 CHN 1422 TWN 50 1000-1100 SeA 11520 TWN 100 1000-1100 SeA 11550 TWN 250 1200-1300 TWN 1422 TWN 50 1200-1300 SeA 11635 TWN 100 1400-1500 SeA 11875 TWN 250 Code for Area and Countries Af- Africa CHN-China CAm-Central America RUS-Russia Eu-Europe TWN-Taiwan NAm-North America NEm-North East America ME-Middle East SAm-South America SAs-South Asia SeA- South East Asia RELAYED VIA: WYFR-USA; Skelton-UK; Issoudun-France, Montsinery-Fr Guiana. KEBAR [sic] AM 1210 kHz, Sacramento CA, USA Mandarin: 2000-2300, Cantonese/Hakka: 2300-2400, local time WBGR 860 EST DST Mandarin A 2000-2100, Mandarin B 2100-2200, Cantonese/Hakka 2300-2400 (via ADDX, Andreas Volk-D, Oct 19 via BC-DX Oct 22 via DXLD) ** THAILAND. 7260, Radio Thailand, 1108-1130*, Oct 24, talk in Vietnamese. English ID at 1110. Gong IS & English ID at 1114 & into listed Khmer at 1116. Fair to good. (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND. RADIO THAILAND WORLD SERVICE BROADCAST SCHEDULE (effective October 26, 2008 as per B-08 seasonal change) GMT Language Audience Frequency (kHz) [note: some of the target areas are still wrong!] 0000-0030 English *Live US-East 09680 [really to S Africa] 0030-0100 English *Live US-West 12095 [really to ENAm] 0100-0200 Thai US-West 12095 [really to ENAm] 0200-0230 English US-East 15275 [really to WNAm] 0230-0330 Thai US-East 15275 [really to WNAm] 0530-0600 English *Live Europe-Africa 11730 1000-1100 Thai (Re Run from 1800-1900 yesterday) Middle East 06185 1100-1115 Vietnamese Asia-Pacific 07255 1115-1130 Khmer Asia-Pacific 07255 1130-1145 Lao Asia-Pacific 07235 1145-1200 Burmese Asia-Pacific 07235 1200-1215 Malaysian Asia-Pacific 11805 1230-1300 English *Relayed Asia-Pacific 09810 1300-1315 Japanese Asia-Pacific 07365 1315-1330 Mandarin Asia-Pacific 07365 1330-1400 Thai Asia-Pacific 07365 1400-1430 English Asia-Pacific 09725 1800-1900 Thai Europe 11855 1900-2000 English Europe 09805 2000-2015 German Europe 09535 2030-2045 English Europe 09535 2045-2115 Thai Europe 09535 (Radio Thailand website via Eric Zhou in Nanjing, China, Oct 26, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DXLD) Well, well, they finally go back at 0030-0200 for NAm to 12095 from 12120 where they were buried by RTTY thruout the A-season. Because of that? More likely ignorant of that, but simply had to shift to 12120 in A to accommodate DW which wanted 12095. However, at 0140 check Oct 28, all I could detect on 12095 was a weak carrier (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) HSK9 is back on 9725 for the English broadcast at 1400-1430 in B-08; checked Oct 27 at 1401, it was too poor to copy, but no QRM. At least it no longer has Defunct Gene Scott to contend with from Cahuita; so may make it on a better day (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9805 Bad choice. R. Thailand in English 1900-2000 UT, listened on upper flank only, due of RCI Sackville in DRM on 9795-9800-9805 (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26/27, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) But RCI DRM 9795-9800-9805 is 70 kW at 268 degrees for NAm, not Eu (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DXLD) ** TINIAN. Oct. 24, 5870 kHz, 1658z, good signal; I've heard a talk in language similar to Japanese, so I waited TOH to hear ID, but the talking continued. I couldn't wait further, so I checked on my computer Aoki schedules, and saw this is RFA KOREAN via TINian 250 kW/333 degrees. Tinian is 12.300 kilometers away from me and this xmission with 250 kiloWatts proves bcasters really don't need 500 kW to well propagate. I was thrilled with Tinian reception, so at 1823z I checked the following for RFA Korean: 5870 kHz, TIN, 333 degrees: very good reception! 7465 kHz, TIN, 313 degrees: good rcptn. (Dragan Lekic from Subotica, SERBIA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TUNISIA. RTT is such a regular on 41m that I rarely report it, but often listen for the music, such as 0617 Oct 26 on 7275 stronger than // 7190. 7275 is at 340 degrees and thus better in NAm than 7190 at 265 degrees, both from Sfax and both now scheduled nominally at 0400- 0800, but in reality 7275 has been closing much earlier than 7190. WRTH 2008 with the schedule a year ago showed 0630* and 0810* respectively, and probably still so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tunisia's national SW outlet is up on both 7190 and 7275 at 0600 UT. Ran across them at 7275 at 0555 with interesting music that caught my ear and a weak signal affected by QSB. Realized at the top of the hour who I was dealing with and spun the dial back to 7190 and found they were both places. Odd thing is that the signal at 7190 was much stronger (on the order of 6 db or so). Are they operating from two sites, or are they targeting different areas with the two frequencies? I thought Tunisia's outlet was a more regional operation (both transmitter site and target wise). Programs were in Arabic. Mixture of music with commentary with YL and OM speakers, and music (instrumental, and what appeared to be a choral song with a child singer at 0616). 73, (Jeramy/W5XTL Ross, Lawton OK, Oct 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. VOT, enjoying last few days of good 15450 reception on the 1230 broadcast to Europe which is also onward to N America: Thu Oct 23 at 1311 discussing their new web service, début of which has been postponed again until Nov 20, tho the YL working on it thought they could use another 6 months of testing. It will be multimedia, with podcasts, ``programs published`` -- meaning transcripts? Covering 20 languages. There is a ``huge crew working on it downstairs``. That finished Live from Turkey, plus a Did You Know That? feature on how tulips had originated in Central Asia, brought to Anatolia by Suleiman the Magnificent, and onward to Holland where they became big business. From Oct 26 this transmission moves to 1330 on 12035, // 11735 eastward, and we found out last winter that 11735 was sometimes inexplicably better here than 12035, reversed antennas, or strange long- vs short-path propagation? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. New frequencies of the VOT English Broadcast: As of Sunday October 26th, the Voice of Turkey’s English language transmission will be broadcasting from Ankara in the 49 metre band between 19:30 and 20:30 UTC on 6050 kilohertz to Europe; between 23:00 and 00:00 UTC on 5960 kilohertz in the 49 metre band to Europe and North America, and in the 41 metre band between 21:30 and 22:30 UTC on 7180 kilohertz to Asia and Australia. Voice of Turkey’s English language transmission will broadcast in the 25 metre band between 13:30 and 14:30 UTC on 11735 kilohertz to Asia and Australia, and in the 25 metre band on 12035 kilohertz to Europe. The Voice of Turkey will also be beamed between 04:00 and 05:00 UTC in the 49 metre band on 6020 kilohertz to Europe and North America; in the 41 metre band on 7240 kilohertz to Asia and North Africa and in the 41 metre band on 7325 kilohertz to North America. You can listen to us over the Turksat 2A satellite and on the Internet at http://www.trt.net.tr through the Voice of Turkey link. Please note that transmissions broadcast between 21:30 and 22:30 UTC, between 23:00 and 00:00 UTC, between 00:00 and 01:00 UTC, between 02:00 and 03:00 UTC, and between 06:00 and 07:00 UTC have been pre- recorded (TRT English Desk, Oct 23, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This matches the info we previously published, and looks like the script for broadcast announcements; but what are those times about in the last graf, 00-01, 02-03 and 06-07, when there are no English broadcasts anyway? (gh, DXLD) VOICE OF TURKEY B-08 EUROPE German 17700 16 1230-1330 EMR 500 German 7205 41 1830-1930 EMR 500 Albanian 9665 31 0700-0730 CAK 250 Albanian 11910 25 1230-1300 EMR 250 Bosnian 9525 31 1430-1500 CAK 500 Bosnian 6055 49 1900-1930 CAK 250 Bulgarian 7105 41 1200-1230 EMR 250 French 5990 49 2030-2130 EMR 500 Croatian 7180 41 1700-1730 EMR 500 English 5960 49 2300-0000 EMR 500 English 6020 49 0400-0500 EMR 500 English 12035 25 1330-1430 EMR 500 English 6050 49 1930-2030 EMR 500 Spanish 9790 31 0200-0300 EMR 500 Spanish 7160 41 1730-1830 EMR 500 Italian 6185 49 1730-1800 EMR 500 Hungarian 13770 22 1100-1130 EMR 500 Makedonian 11895 25 0900-0930 CAK 250 Romanian 9560 31 1000-1030 CAK 250 Russian 7215 41 1400-1500 EMR 500 Russian 6135 49 1800-1900 EMR 500 Serbian 7170 41 1630-1700 CAK 250 Turkish 9700 31 0500-0800 EMR 500 Turkish 15350 19 0800-1400 EMR 500 [also try in NAm] Turkish 5980 49 1400-1630 EMR 500 Turkish 5980 49 1630-2200 CAK 500 Greek 9840 31 1130-1200 EMR 500 Greek 6185 49 1530-1600 CAK 250 AMERICA English 5960 49 2300-0000 EMR 500 English 6020 49 0400-0500 EMR 500 English(1) 7325 41 0400-0500 SAC 250 Spanish 9790 31 0200-0300 EMR 500 Turkish 5980 49 1630-2200 CAK 500 AUSTRALIA English 11735 25 1330-1430 EMR 500 English 7180 41 2130-2230 EMR 500 Turkish 15475 19 1000-1400 EMR 500 Turkish 7190 41 1630-2000 EMR 500 ASIA Arabic 11910 25 1000-1200 EMR 500 Arabic 13690 22 1000-1200 EMR 500 Arabic 6175 49 1500-1700 EMR 500 Azerbaijani 11835 25 0800-0900 CAK 250 Azerbaijani 15160 19 0800-0900 EMR 500 Azerbaijani 5965 49 1500-1600 EMR 500 Chinese 11750 25 1200-1300 EMR 500 Dari-Uzbek-Peshtu(2) 7155 41 1600-1700 CAK 250 Dari-Uzbek-Peshtu(3) 7155 41 1600-1730 CAK 250 Farsi(Persian) 11795 25 0930-1100 CAK 500 Farsi(Persian) 17690 16 0930-1100 EMR 500 Farsi(Persian) 9585 31 1330-1430 CAK 500 Georgian 9840 31 0800-0900 EMR 500 English 7240 41 0400-0500 EMR 500 English 11735 25 1330-1430 EMR 500 English 7180 41 2130-2230 EMR 500 Kazakh 9785 31 1430-1500 EMR 500 Kirgiz 9655 31 1430-1500 EMR 500 Uzbek 11865 25 1300-1330 EMR 500 Russian 7215 41 1400-1500 EMR 500 Russian 6135 49 1800-1900 EMR 500 Tatar 6140 49 1600-1630 CAK 500 Turkish 7180 41 0200-0400 EMR 500 Turkish 9820 31 0500-0800 EMR 500 Turkish 11925 25 0800-1000 EMR 500 Turkish 11955 25 0800-1400 CAK 250 Turkish 15475 19 1000-1400 EMR 500 Turkish 7190 41 1630-2000 EMR 500 Turkish 6165 49 1630-2200 EMR 500 Turkish 6120 49 1630-2200 CAK 250 Turkmen 6065 49 1500-1530 CAK 500 Urdu 11985 25 1300-1400 EMR 500 Uighur 6000 49 0100-0200 EMR 500 Greek 7295 41 1030-1200 CAK 250 AFRICA Arabic 11910 25 1000-1200 EMR 500 Arabic 11810 25 1500-1700 EMR 500 Arabic 6175 49 1500-1700 EMR 500 French 6050 49 2030-2130 EMR 500 English 7240 41 0400-0500 EMR 500 Turkish 11955 25 0800-1400 CAK 250 Turkish 6120 49 1630-2200 CAK 250 (1): This transmission will be on the air via Sackville Canada (2): This transmission will be on the air 26 October-31 December 2008 (3): This transmission will be on the air 01 January-28 March 2009 EMR: Emirler Transmitting Station CAK: Cakirlar Transmitting Station SAC: Sackville Canada Relay Station [gh notes: strange non-alfabetical order probably results from proper order by Turkish names for each language. Note that Sackville 7325 relay expires at end of calendar year. Hope it will be renewed, just when we need it most at mid-winter. It should already be at 0400 during the Week of Confusion] (via Mustafa CANKURT, Vergi Denetmenleri Burosu, 32210 Isparta, Turkey, Oct 25, from a spreadsheet tidied up by Glenn Hauser for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY [and non]. VOT World webcast via http://www.trt.net.tr/wwwtrt/canli.aspx had made the one-hour-later change for standard time in Europe, UT Oct 26 with English at 0400 instead of 0300. So I checked the shortwaves, for this transmission supposed to be on new 6020 direct to NAm, and 7325 via Canada. And what do I hear? CRI relay via Sackville on 6020, with usual Peruvian het and very weak co-channel, presumably Turkey, and nothing on 7325. I`ll bet Sackville turned on 7325 at midnight local time as usual, 0300 UT, and put on some other language coming over the feed from VOT. So not only did Sackville not relay Turkey as it should have at 0400 on 7325, but it blocked Turkey on its other frequency which might otherwise have arrived direct! The CRI relay scheduled at 0400-0600 ends ambiguously Oct 26, so 6020 should be clear for Turkey on UT Oct 27. And maybe that next night too, VOT 7325 via Sackville will be on the air at 0400 in English. Or maybe next week, after DST is over in North America too. IIRC, at a previous Zeitwechsel, Sackville failed to coördinate with the programming coming over the line from Ankara for several days if not a full week. There`s not much Turkish any more from VOT for North America, but 15350 for Europe carries on here, and well heard at 1315 Oct 26. Somewhat undermodulated, and unfortunately not playing music but apparently play-by-play of a silly ballgame on a Sunday afternoon; at 1432 found WYFR Spanish back on 15355 next to it. 17700, vacated by Radio Solh, promptly in B-08 season like B-07, occupied by V. of Turkey 1230 German service, tho I heard only some Turkish music when checked at 1319, off the air by 1326 recheck. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Since VOT via Sackville 7325 was missing during the 0400 UT hour Oct 26, I expected to find it still during the 0300 hour UT Oct 27, but nothing then either. It was on at 0417 recheck, in English, so that has been outstraightened; and at 0425 // 6020 direct, which was a few seconds ahead of 7325`s circuitous relay path. CRI via Sackville 6020 now gone, but that leaves the perpetually off-frequency gospel-huxter in Perú. CRI always had this het on it, and now VOT suffers the same fate. No doubt they don`t know about the non-HFCC participant Radio Victoria, not keeping up with DX publications. If they did, they would surely avoid 6020 or even zero beat it. Yes, if Perú won`t correct its frequency, all the other 6020 stations should match it! Like that would ever happen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Turkey in English at 2315 on 5960, not very strong, talking about financial crisis (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) VOT, 15350, Oct 27 at 1323 with Turkish rock music, good signal. At 1334 checked reactivated 12035 ex-15450, for the time-shifted English to Europe, and OK beyond: good signal with jingle and ID amid news in English; nothing audible on // 11735 aimed eastward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The Voice of Turkey has added a new language service : Uyghur. The first broadcast is at 0100-0200 UTC (Oct. 26) on 6000. The complete B08 schedule can be found at http://www.trt.net.tr/wwwtrt/frekanstsr.aspx (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, Oct 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Winter B-08 schedule for Voice of Turkey: ALBANIAN 0700-0725 on 9665 1230-1255 on 11910 ARABIC 1000-1155 on 11910 13690 1500-1655 on 6175 11810 AZERI 0800-0855 on 11835 15160 1500-1555 on 5965 BOSNIAN 1430-1455 on 9525 1900-1925 on 6055 BULGARIAN 1200-1225 on 7105 CHINESE 1200-1255 on 11750 CROATIAN 1700-1725 on 7180 DARI (new) 1600-1625 on 7155 ENGLISH 0100-0155 on 6165 0400-0455 on 6020 7240 + 7325 SAC 250 kW / 277 deg 1330-1425 on 11735 12035 1930-2025 on 6050 2130-2225 on 7180 2300-2355 on 5960 FRENCH 2030-2125 on 5990 6050 GERMAN 1230-1325 on 17700 1830-1925 on 7205 GEORGIAN 0800-0855 on 9840 GREEK 1130-1155 on 7295 9840 1530-1555 on 6185 HUNGARIAN 1100-1125 on 13770 ITALIAN 1730-1755 on 6185 KAZAKH 1430-1455 on 9785 KYRGYZ 1430-1455 on 9655 MACEDONIAN 0900-0925 on 11895 PASHTO 1630-1725 on 7155 PERSIAN 0930-1055 on 11795 17690 1330-1425 on 9585 ROMANIAN 1000-1025 on 9560 RUSSIAN 1400-1455 on 7215 1800-1855 on 6135 SERBIAN 1630-1655 on 7170 SPANISH 0200-0255 on 9790 1730-1825 on 7160 TATAR 1600-1625 on 6140 TURKISH 0200-0355 on 7180 0500-0755 on 9700 9820 0800-0955 on 11925 11955 15350 1000-1355 on 11955 15350 15475 1400-1625 on 5980 1630-1955 on 5980 6120 6165 7190 2000-2155 on 5980 6120 6165 TURKMEN 1500-1525 on 6065 URDU 1300-1355 on 11985 UYGHUR(new)0100-0155 on 6000 UZBEK 1300-1325 on 11865 (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Oct 28 via DXLD) ** UGANDA. 4750, 17.10 1848, BVB via Dunamis med religiös körsånger och många Helleluja vilket är ett hebreiskt jubelrop och betyder Lovsjung Gud, vilket man också gjorde.Kvällens sändning avslutades med några minuters tal och cl.down 1903 2 LRH 4750, 17.10 1848, BVB via Dunamis with religious choir songs and lots of Hallelujahs which is a Hebrew cry of joy and means Praise God which indeed they did. The evening transmission ended with a few minutes of speech and closedown at 1903. O=2 (Leif Råhäll, SW Bulletin, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. Oct. 25, 9950 kHz, 0820z, R Ukraine Intl, Ukrainian, Kharkov 100 kW/ 277 degrees, very good signal strength but with EXTREMELY POWERFUL heterodyne tone in the background. This heterodyne was so SCREAMING, that my ears almost exploded! Actually this is rather unusual for Kharkiv transmitter... I certainly hope this will not happen again (Dragan Lekic from Subotica, SERBIA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. Additional transmitters of Ukrainian Radio from 24.10.08: QTH kHz kW Px UT (Winter) Oktyabr'skoe (Krim) 648 150 UR1 0330-2300 Krasne (L'vov) 936 1000 UR1 0330-2300 Zarvantsy (Vinnitsa) 1530 30 UR1 0330-2300 Brovary (Kiev) 549 150 UR2 0200-0100 Luch (Nikolaev) 549 500 UR2 0200-0100 Krasne (L'vov) 549 70 UR2 0200-0100 Luch (Nikolaev) 1431 1000 UR3 0400-2300 Krasne (L'vov) 936 1000 RUI EUR 2300-0300 Luch (Nikolaev) 9785 250 RUI SAm 1900-0300 Krasne (L'vov) 15635 600 RUI AUS 0600-1400 Luch (Nikolaev) 7285 100 RUI RUS 0300-1500 Luch (Nikolaev) 6020 100 RUI RUS 1500-0200 Bad news: The finance for work of these transmitters, will suffice only till 2009. The further destiny of an announcement depends on the budget for 2009, which duly occurrence under very big Question (Alexander Egorov, Ukraine, "open-dx" via RUSdx Oct 25 via Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) NRCU needs to burn up some money before yearend. Around 1430 I have no signal on 15635, but maybe I'm already too close to the transmitter site (less than 800 km). 7285 from Luch/Kopani is indeed on but gets heavily clobbered by co-channel China, it is just barely possible to tell that the same music as on 9950 is faintly audible under the 500 kW boom from Beijing. This 7285 and later 6020 is a kind of Kopani transmission that was on air for the last time in autumn 2002, when the RUI transmissions had been cut back to the minimum that remains until now. 100 kW transmitter and an antenna beaming almost due north into Russia, probably used for Glusheniye until 1988? Voice of Russian via Ukrainian transmitters? Oh, by the way, what about Voice of Russia on 936 and 1431? Contract with RRT cancelled? Is NRCU priviliged and a wish from their side to again use specific transmitters overrides any transmission contracts of other customers? Or have the VOR relays stopped for political reasons? (Kai Ludwig, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, Germany, ibid.) What I assume to be the new frequency for (Luch - Nikolayev) was heard this Tuesday morning (Oct.28) on 7285 at 0740 UT. The signal was fairly strong but the audio was muddy, and with a hum, which made it difficult for me to tell if Ukrainian or not. However, two ladies were chatting about something or other. A little further up the band I found 7440 (listed Kharkiv at this same time) also at fair to good strength. However, this one was playing classical music, with intro's by a lady in - I assume - Ukrainian. Higher still, I found 15635 (listed as Krasne - L'vov) at very good strength, with slight splash from Avlis 15630. And it was parallel to 7440. So it seems that the Ukraine now has two different programmes on air via SW at this time (Noel R. Green (NW England), Oct 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. Additional B-08 transmissions of R. Ukraine International: 0300-1500 on 7285@SMF 100 kW / 004 deg to RUS Ukrainian 0600-1400 on 15635 LV 600 kW / 096 deg to AUS En 0600,1000,1100 1500-0200 on 6020#SMF 100 kW / 004 deg to RUS Ukrainian 1900-0300 on 9785^SMF 250 kW / 245 deg to SAm En 2000, 2200, 0100; Ge 2100, 0000 @ co-ch 0500-0530 DWL in English 0900-0957 CRI in Romanian 1130-1155 Polish Radio in Polish 1300-1357 CRI in Mongolian 1400-1457 CRI in Urdu # co-ch 0000-0157 CRI in English 1800-2257 CRI in Bulgarian/Albanian/Polish/Spanish 1930-2030 PAB in English Fri-Sun ^ co-ch 1900-2000 VOA in Special English First Channel of Ukrainian Radio in Ukrainian: 0330-2300 on 5970*KV 100 kW / non-dir to UKR * co-ch 1400-1500 WYFR in Kannada 1600-1757 CRI in German 1700-1900 WYFR in Russian 1800-1957 CRI in French 2030-2055 Polish Radio in German 2100-2200 WYFR in Arabic 2200-2257 RNW in Arabic Mon-Fri (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Oct 28 via WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DXLD) ** UKRAINE [non]. Kopani/Lutch is supposed to be on 6020 around 1900. Not the faintest beep of it here, instead the frequency is occupied by, guess what, CRI, in particular Bulgarian via Xian (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Happened upon Radio Ukraine International, on two frequencies last night, between 2200-2300 UT. They were on regularly scheduled frequency of 5830, which was giving good reception, and also on 9785, with fair reception. I have never heard RUI on two frequencies at once. I don't know if this was an experiment, or if it was a permanent fixture. 9785 continued thru 2300 UT. Best Regards (Chris Lewis, England, Oct 28, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. Have you seen the reports about VTC leaving Bush House in favour of a new location? One such report mentioned in passing that they needed the BBC's permission for each programming they were routing through the Bush House main control room. In some cases the BBC already refused to give this permission, and this was apparently one of the reasons for making the real cut now (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) No; what you get for outsourcing (gh) ** U K. 3995, DWL in DRM via new Skelton unit, patch noise covers on 3987 to 4003 in total ! 1600-2200 and 0600-0700 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26/27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I also hear the buzz here, not so wide (gh, OK) ** U K [and non]. As expected, VOA Greenville is gone from 6180, where all A-season, after RHC finally left, it provided excellent signals off the back to CNAm in English at 0500-0700. Now Oct 26 at 0602 a weak signal in French which is BBCWS due south from Skelton. BBCWS ending From Our Own Correspondent Sunday Oct 26 at 0628, good on 5875; I had already heard it Saturday at 0432. 5875 looks like a good bet for North Americans to hear BBC despite their best efforts to prevent us, with the seemingly unfavorable azimuth of 62 degrees from Rampisham at 0500-0700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Around 1900 BBC WS in English via Rampisham boomed in on 5875; you would not think that it's no longer meant for Central Europe if the BBC had missed to notify us about their "changes". BBC Russian on 5920 via Cyprus clashes badly with Voice of Russia via Krasny Bor. Here it completely ruins the latter, and the other way round BBC reception could be seriously affected in the target area as well. At least BBC Russian is also in the clear on 5990 via Rampisham, as strong as 5875 but with noticeably different, less pleasant audio processing. Futher tuning around let me land at 1912 on a signal with programming in Arabic, mentioning Livny in this very moment: Again the BBC, via Skelton, // 6195 from the same site, strong as in the old days when it was English to Europe (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WTFK for this one? (gh) Not sure if it's an anomaly or not, but the BBC is booming in at an almost nostalgic signal level on 7255 since 0400 UT (Currently 0513) from Ascension Is. Unannounced change in pattern, or temporary change due to elections/economic focus? Doesn't seem to be a propagation issue as the rest of the band seems to be par for the course. Happy listening, (Jeramy Ross / W5XTL, Lawton, OK, UT Oct 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BBCWS, good in English at 0425 Oct 27 on 7255, but wasted on sports report which I hope only took a few minutes. In B-08 that`s Ascension ex-7160 to WAf at 65 degrees from 0300 to 0600 so should be good for us; plus another hour until 07 via Skelton at 180 degrees. I assume VTC are getting a head start on evacuating the 7100-7200 band to attain squatter`s rights on 7200-7300 channels (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Some more BBCWS frequencies now funxional for uninvited listening in North America: Oct 27 at 2204 news on 6155, fair signal and in the clear; at 2229 also found it on 6110, weaker but also clear at the moment before Dentro Cuban jamming; 2232 both into Business Daily. Per VTC A-08 sked, 6155 is 100 kW, 330 degrees from S to W Africa at 22-23 only; 6110 is 300 kW, 180 degrees from Skelton to N Africa at 21-23 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) One more time a strong signal of BBC WS in English, now at 2250 noted on 6110. This time it's Skelton, of course for North Africa, with Central Europe under no circumstances being a secondary target. But perhaps I should spread the word in Dresden (if I find anybody who cares): Your radio is still working, the BBC is not gone, you just have to press "KW"! That's where you 25 years ago listened to Radio Luxemburg! Join me in admitting it! (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. Correction on BBC at 13 on 11750 which I reported last week: That was from Thailand, not SNG, and it shows in the Blue Pages listing in the new PWBR-'09' book that I received in the mail on Friday (Joe Hanlon, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And in B-08 BBC is not on 11750 at all at this hour (gh) ** U K. BBCWS English B-08. From website October 27, 2008 Daily except where indicated. ss =Sat. and Sun. Time is UT. West and Central Africa 0300 0700 7255 0300 0400 6145 0400 0706 6005 0400 0500 9650 0500 0800 11765 0600 0700 9410 0700 1000 17830, 15400 1000 1100 ss 17830, 15400 1100 1130 15400 1100 2100 17830 1500 2300 15400 1600 1800 11665 1800 2100 9630 2100 2200 7445 2100 2300 6110 2200 2300 6155 East Africa 0200 0400 6005 0300 0400 7375, 9750 0400 0500 12035 0330 0600 11945 0500 0800 15420 0500 0700 17640 0800 1400 17640 0800 1700 21470 1300 1900 15420 1500 1530 9410, 11860, 15105 1530 1615 Sat. only 9410, 11860, 15105 1615 1700 ss 9410, 11860, 15105 1700 1900 12095 1700 1745 11860, 9410 1830 2100 9410, 6005 Southern Africa 0300 2200 6190 0300 0400 6145*, 6005 0300 0600 3255 0400 0500 9650* 0500 0700 11765* 0600 1600 9860 0800 1700 21470 1600 2200 3255 1700 2100 12095 2100 2200 6005, 7445* *West Africa programmes Western Russia 0500 0700 5875, 12095 1800 2000 5875, 7390 East Asia 0000 0200 15335, 15360, 17615 0900 1000 17760 0900 1200 11895 0900 1600 9740 1000 1300 9605 1200 1500 5975 1300 1600 6195 1500 1600 6040 2100 2200 5975 2100 2400 5965 2200 2300 5955, 6135, 6195 2200 0200 9740 2300 2400 6000, 9570 2330 2400 6170 South East Asia 0000 0200 15335, 9740 0000 0100 6195 0100 0200 11750 0900 1600 9740. 6195 2100 2200 3915 2100 2400 6195 2200 2300 5955, 6135 2200 2400 9740 2300 2400 11955, 3915 South Asia 0000 0200 5970 0000 0100 7105 0000 0300 9410 0100 0200 11955 0100 1400 15310 0200 0230 1413 0300 1300 17790 1300 1600 9410, 6195* 1300 1400 1413 1400 1600 11915 1400 1500 5960 1500 1800 5975 1600 1800 7270 1600 1830 9740 1800 1830 7260 * East Asia programmes Middle East and Gulf States 0200 0730 1323 0730 0900 ss 1323 0900 2300 1323 0200 0230 1413 0100 0200 7410 0200 0400 6195 0300 0600 9410 0300 0400 1413 0600 1500 11760 0700 0730 15575 0730 0900 ss 15575 0900 1400 15575 1300 1400 1413 1500 1700 12095 1800 2000 5945 1900 2100 1413 Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia 0100 0200 5940 0200 0230 1413 0300 0400 1413, 11760 0200 0400 6195 0300 0600 9410 0400 0600 15360 0600 0700 11760 0700 0730 15575 0730 0900 ss 15575 0900 1400 15575 1400 1500 11760 1500 1700 12095 1800 2000 5955, 5945 1900 2100 1413 (via Bernie O'Shea, Ottawa, Ontario, Oct 27, DXLD) ** U K [and non]. VTC B-08: [MW too was in original dxldyg post] 3230 1900-2000 smtwtfs YFR Meyerton 100 5 English SAF 3255 300- 600 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 0 English SAF 3255 1600-2200 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 0 English SAF 3380 2030-2100 .mtwtf. BBC Meyerton 100 76 Portugues SAF 3380 430- 530 .mtwtf. BBC Meyerton 100 76 Portugues SAF 3915 2100-2200 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 160 English SEAS 3915 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 160 Indonesia SEAS 3915 2300-2400 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 160 English SEAS 3955 1900-2000 smtwtfs YFR Meyerton 100 76 Portugues SAF 3955 2200-2230 smtwtfs KBS Skelton 250 106 English EUR 3955 2100-2200 smtwtfs KBS Skelton 250 175 French EUR 3955 2000-2100 smtwtfs KBS Skelton 250 106 German EUR 3955 1900-2000 smtwtfs NEW Skelton 250 106 German WEUR 3985 1900-2000 smtwtfs NEW Skelton 250 175 French WEUR 5875 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 77 Dari SWAS 5875 1600-1700 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 97 Farsi ME 5875 1500-1600 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 77 Pashto SWAS 5875 1730-1800 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 77 Pashto SWAS 5875 100- 130 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 77 Pashto SWAS 5875 130- 200 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 77 Dari SWAS 5875 30- 100 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 77 Dari SWAS 5875 200- 230 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 77 Pashto SWAS 5875 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 77 Dari SWAS 5875 230- 300 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 77 Dari SWAS 5875 2000-2300 smtwtfs BBC Kvitsoy 35 190 English WEUR 5875 1800-2000 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 250 62 English RUSS 5875 400- 500 .mtwtf. BBC Rampisham 250 47 Russian RUSS 5875 400- 500 .mtwtf. BBC Rampisham 500 76 Russian RUSS 5875 500- 700 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 62 English RUSS 5875 1600-1700 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 110 Farsi WEUR 5875 300- 330 smtwtfs BBC Woofferton 250 90 Pashto SWAS 5885 30- 100 smtwtfs FEB Erevan 100 125 Tamil SAS 5895 1900-2000 smtwtfs BBC Kvitsoy 35 190 English WEUR 5905 500-1600 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 173 Arabic ME 5915 2100-2300 smtwtfs TDA Rampisham 500 160 Non-Speci NAF 5920 1800-1900 s.....s BBC Cyprus 250 7 Russian RUSS 5920 1900-2000 s.....s BBC Cyprus 250 7 Russian RUSS 5920 2000-2100 ......s BBC Cyprus 250 7 Russian RUSS 5920 1700-1800 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 7 Russian RUSS 5920 1500-1700 .mtwtf. BBC Cyprus 250 7 Russian RUSS 5920 0- 20 smtwtfs NHK Skelton 300 140 English EUR 5935 1900-2000 smtwtfs KBS Skelton 300 180 Arabic NAF 5940 100- 200 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 64 English WAS 5940 300- 400 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 125 Arabic ME 5945 1900-2000 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 90 English WAS 5945 1800-1900 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 90 English WAS 5955 1800-2000 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 20 English CAS 5955 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 60 English FE 5955 500- 600 .mtwtf. BBC Rampisham 250 47 Russian RUSS 5955 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 13 English SEAS 5960 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 290 English SAS 5965 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 185 Arabic ME 5965 2100-2200 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 45 English FE 5965 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 45 English FE 5965 2300-2400 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 45 English FE 5965 2100-2200 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 20 English FE 5965 300- 330 smtwtfs BBC Woofferton 250 75 Russian RUSS 5970 0- 30 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 85 English SAS 5970 0- 30 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 50 English FE 5970 30- 100 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 50 English FE 5970 100- 200 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 English SAS 5975 2100-2200 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 60 English FE 5975 1500-1600 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 290 English SAS 5975 1200-1400 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 45 English FE 5975 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 25 English FE 5975 1600-1800 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 290 English SAS 5975 500- 530 smtwtfs NHK Rampisham 500 140 English EUR 5975 530- 600 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 160 Hausa WAF 5980 430- 500 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 65 French W CAF 5985 200- 230 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 20 Pashto SWAS 5985 230- 430 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 95 Farsi ME 5990 2030-2100 .mtwtf. BBC Rampisham 250 190 Portugues WAF 5990 1600-1700 .mtwtf. BBC Rampisham 500 47 Russian RUSS 5990 2000-2100 ......s BBC Rampisham 500 47 Russian RUSS 5990 1900-2000 s.....s BBC Rampisham 500 47 Russian RUSS 5990 1800-1900 s.....s BBC Rampisham 500 47 Russian RUSS 5990 1700-1800 s.....s BBC Rampisham 500 47 Russian RUSS 5990 1700-1800 .mtwtf. BBC Rampisham 500 47 Russian RUSS 6000 2300-2400 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 25 English FE 6005 300- 400 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 114 English SAF 6005 400- 706 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 27 English WAF 6005 2100-2200 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 240 English SAF 6005 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 300 Somali EAF 6005 200- 300 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 270 English EAF 6005 1830-2100 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 270 English EAF 6015 300- 400 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 101 Arabic ME 6015 400- 500 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 101 Arabic ME 6015 400- 500 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 173 Arabic ME 6015 300- 400 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 173 Arabic ME 6015 500- 530 .mtwtf. BBC Moosbrunn 300 115 Turkish SEEUR 6020 2200-2330 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 60 Mandarin CHN 6030 1700-1800 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 305 Arabic ME 6030 1800-2100 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 305 Arabic ME 6030 1600-1700 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 101 Arabic ME 6030 1400-1600 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 101 Arabic ME 6030 1800-2100 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 173 Arabic ME 6040 2345-2400 ...wt.. NEW Dhabayya 250 85 Non-Speci SAS 6040 2345-2400 smt..fs NEW Dhabayya 250 85 Non-Speci SAS 6040 2330-2345 smtwtfs NEW Dhabayya 250 85 Non-Speci SAS 6040 1500-1600 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 25 English FE 6045 1700-1800 smtwtfs YFR Dhabayya 250 225 Amharic EAF 6045 1800-1900 smtwtfs YFR Meyerton 100 15 English SAF 6045 700- 800 smtwtfs KBS Skelton 300 110 Korean EUR 6050 1600-1630 s.....s BBC Moosbrunn 100 115 Turkish SEEUR 6050 1600-1650 .mtwtf. BBC Moosbrunn 100 115 Turkish SEEUR 6055 600- 630 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 27 French WAF 6055 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 64 Azeri CAS 6065 130- 200 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 50 Urdu SAS 6065 30- 100 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 75 Bengali SAS 6065 100- 130 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 90 Hindi SAS 6065 30- 30 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 75 Bengali SAS 6065 100- 130 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 60 Hindi SAS 6065 0- 30 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 325 Burmese SEAS 6080 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 140 Indonesia SEAS 6085 130- 200 smtwtfs BBC Armavir 500 110 Urdu SAS 6090 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 Dari SWAS 6090 1730-1800 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 Pashto SWAS 6090 1600-1700 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 335 Farsi ME 6090 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 77 Dari SWAS 6090 1830-1900 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 77 Dari SWAS 6090 400- 600 smtwtfs TDA Rampisham 500 180 Non-Speci NAF 6095 1300-1530 smtwtfs BBC Kimjae 250 290 Mandarin CHN 6095 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 20 Mandarin CHN 6100 1800-1900 smtwtfs CRI Meyerton 100 0 Chinese SAF 6100 1900-2000 smtwtfs YFR Meyerton 100 335 Portugues SAF 6100 1500-1800 smtwtfs CRI Meyerton 100 0 English SAF 6105 1100-1130 .mtwtf. BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 325 Burmese SEAS 6110 1300-1330 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 290 Indonesia ME 6110 1300-1330 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 150 Indonesia SEAS 6110 1900-2000 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 168 Arabic NAF 6110 1800-1900 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 168 Arabic NAF 6110 2000-2100 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 168 Arabic NAF 6110 1700-1800 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 168 Arabic NAF 6110 400- 500 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 180 Arabic NAF 6110 600- 700 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 180 Arabic NAF 6110 500- 600 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 180 Arabic NAF 6110 1700-2100 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 195 Arabic NAF 6110 400- 600 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 140 Arabic NAF 6110 2100-2300 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 180 English NAF 6115 1600-1630 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 10 Farsi ME 6115 1630-1700 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 35 Pashto SWAS 6125 230- 300 smtwtfs FEB Dhabayya 250 45 Dari ME 6125 200- 230 smtwtfs FEB Dhabayya 250 45 Pashto SWAS 6125 500- 557 smtwtfs TDA Sines 250 134 Non-Speci NAF 6125 400- 500 smtwtfs TDA Sines 250 134 Non-Speci NAF 6130 300- 330 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 61 Russian RUSS 6135 1545-1615 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 110 Tamil SAS 6135 530- 600 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 55 Hausa WAF 6135 2030-2100 .mtwtf. BBC Meyerton 250 32 Portugues SAF 6135 1630-1700 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 300 Bengali SAS 6135 1630-1630 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 300 Bengali SAS 6135 1430-1445 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 13 Vietnames SEAS 6135 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC Vladivostok 500 240 English FE 6140 130- 200 smtwtfs FEB Dhabayya 250 105 Telegu SAS 6140 0- 130 smtwtfs NEW Dhabayya 250 85 Non-Speci SAS 6145 300- 400 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 330 English WAF 6145 430- 530 .mtwtf. BBC Meyerton 250 32 Portugues SAF 6155 400- 430 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 160 Somali EAF 6155 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 330 English WAF 6165 230- 330 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 90 Farsi ME 6165 330- 430 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 90 Farsi ME 6170 2200-2330 smtwtfs BBC Kimjae 250 285 Mandarin CHN 6170 2330-2400 smtwtfs BBC Kimjae 250 285 English FE 6175 1500-1600 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 50 Urdu SAS 6175 1730-1800 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 50 Urdu SAS 6175 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 60 Hindi SAS 6180 2215-2245 s....fs BBC Cyprus 250 314 Greek SEEUR 6180 1700-1730 smtwtfs FEB Dhabayya 250 230 Orominya EAF 6180 1830-1900 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 300 Dari SWAS 6180 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 300 Dari SWAS 6180 600- 630 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 180 French NAF 6190 600-1600 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 0 English SAF 6190 1600-2200 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 15 English SAF 6190 300- 600 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 15 English SAF 6195 1630-1700 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 77 Pashto SWAS 6195 200- 400 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 90 English WAS 6195 600- 800 smtwtfs BBC Kvitsoy 35 190 English WEUR 6195 500- 600 smtwtfs BBC Kvitsoy 35 190 English WEUR 6195 900-1100 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 0 English SEAS 6195 2100-2200 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 150 English SEAS 6195 900-1100 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 90 English SEAS 6195 900-1100 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 1 English SEAS 6195 1100-1600 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 1 English SEAS 6195 1100-1600 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 90 English SEAS 6195 2200- 100 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 1 English SEAS 6195 2200- 100 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 90 English SEAS 6195 1500-1600 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 110 Pashto WEUR 6195 1800-2100 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 125 Arabic ME 6195 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 110 Dari WEUR 7105 0- 100 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 English SAS 7115 2330-2400 smtwtfs NEW Dhabayya 250 90 Hmong SEAS 7120 200- 300 smtwtfs FEB Dhabayya 250 70 Urdu SAS 7135 1300-1330 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 140 Indonesia SEAS 7135 1100-1130 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 140 Indonesia SEAS 7135 1430-1445 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 13 Vietnames SEAS 7135 1345-1430 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 340 Burmese SEAS 7150 1400-1500 smtwtfs FEB Novosibirsk 250 195 Urdu SAS 7160 1830-1900 smtwtfs FEB Meyerton 100 345 French CAF 7165 230- 330 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 335 Farsi ME 7180 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 40 Mandarin CHN 7205 530- 600 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 55 Hausa WAF 7205 400- 430 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 85 Swahili EAF 7205 600- 630 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 70 French CAF 7205 430- 530 .mtwtf. BBC Meyerton 500 335 Portugues SAF 7205 1545-1615 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 255 Tamil SAS 7205 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 280 Hindi SAS 7205 1500-1545 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 305 Urdu SAS 7205 1930-2000 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 180 Hausa WAF 7205 1630-1630 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 340 Bengali SAS 7205 1630-1700 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 340 Bengali SAS 7210 2215-2245 s....fs BBC Cyprus 300 314 Greek SEEUR 7215 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 90 Azeri CAS 7225 2200-2300 smtwtfs NHK Dhabayya 500 285 Japanese MENAF 7225 1330-1400 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 305 Bengali SAS 7225 1330-1330 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 305 Bengali SAS 7230 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 250 76 French SAF 7230 1746-1800 ......s BBC Meyerton 500 7 Swahili EAF 7230 1746-1800 smtwtf. BBC Meyerton 500 5 Swahili EAF 7235 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 150 Indonesia SEAS 7235 1800-1900 smtwtfs KBS Rampisham 500 62 Russian RUSS 7235 300- 330 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 140 Swahili EAF 7240 1800-1900 smtwtfs YFR Skelton 300 110 Turkish SEEUR 7245 400- 500 .mtwtf. BBC Cyprus 250 359 Russian RUSS 7245 500- 600 .mtwtf. BBC Rampisham 500 62 Russian RUSS 7255 300- 600 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 65 English WCAF 7255 600- 700 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 180 English NAF 7260 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 English SAS 7260 2030-2100 .mtwtf. BBC Meyerton 500 335 Portugues SAF 7260 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 255 English SAS 7260 1730-1800 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 305 Urdu SAS 7260 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 280 Hindi SAS 7260 1900-1930 ....t.. NEW Skelton 250 175 French NAF 7265 300- 330 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 90 Russian RUSS 7270 1700-1800 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 320 English SAS 7270 1600-1700 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 320 English SAS 7325 1700-2000 s.....s BBC Cyprus 250 359 Russian RUSS 7325 900-1000 s...... BBC Cyprus 250 7 Turkish SEEUR 7325 2000-2100 ......s BBC Cyprus 250 359 Russian RUSS 7325 1500-1800 .mtwtf. BBC Cyprus 250 359 Russian RUSS 7325 400- 500 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 121 Arabic ME 7325 300- 400 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 121 Arabic ME 7325 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC Dhabayya 250 60 Mandarin CHN 7325 500- 700 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 250 168 Arabic NAF 7325 400- 500 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 250 168 Arabic NAF 7330 1300-1530 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 20 Mandarin CHN 7335 1630-1633 s...... BBC Moscow 250 117 Russian CAS 7335 1630-1700 ......s BBC Moscow 250 117 Russian CAS 7335 1633-1700 s...... BBC Moscow 250 117 Russian CAS 7335 1600-1630 smtwtfs BBC Moscow 250 117 Uzbek CAS 7345 1630-1700 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 255 Sinhala SAS 7350 600- 630 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 250 168 French NAF 7365 1600-1650 .mtwtf. BBC Woofferton 250 102 Turkish SEEUR 7365 1600-1630 s.....s BBC Woofferton 250 102 Turkish SEEUR 7370 1430-1500 smtwtfs FEB Tashkent 100 131 Hindi SAS 7370 15- 100 smtwtfs FEB Tashkent 100 131 Bangla SAS 7370 1500-1530 smtwtfs FEB Tashkent 100 131 Bangla SAS 7375 430- 500 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 85 French CAF 7375 300- 400 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 175 English EAF 7375 1800-2100 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 121 Arabic ME 7375 1600-1800 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 121 Arabic ME 7375 1600-1800 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 173 Arabic ME 7375 100- 130 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 90 Hindi SAS 7375 130- 200 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 90 Urdu SWAS 7375 400- 430 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 125 Somali EAF 7375 500- 530 .mtwtf. BBC Woofferton 250 114 Turkish SEEUR 7390 1800-2000 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 358 English RUSS 7410 200- 300 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 101 English ME 7425 2000-2100 ......s BBC Rampisham 500 62 Russian RUSS 7425 1900-2000 s.....s BBC Rampisham 500 62 Russian RUSS 7425 1500-1600 .mtwt.. BBC Rampisham 500 62 Russian RUSS 7425 1500-1600 .....f. BBC Rampisham 500 62 Russian RUSS 7425 1600-1700 .mtwtf. BBC Rampisham 500 62 Russian RUSS 7425 1700-1800 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 62 Russian RUSS 7425 1800-1900 s.....s BBC Rampisham 500 62 Russian RUSS 7430 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Duchanbe 200 135 Hindi SAS 7430 1330-1400 smtwtfs BBC Duchanbe 200 135 Bengali SAS 7430 1330-1330 smtwtfs BBC Duchanbe 200 135 Bengali SAS 7430 1500-1530 smtwtfs BBC Duchanbe 200 135 Nepali SAS 7435 200- 230 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 81 Pashto SWAS 7435 330- 430 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 97 Farsi ME 7435 300- 330 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 77 Pashto SWAS 7435 30- 100 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 81 Dari SWAS 7435 100- 130 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 81 Pashto SWAS 7435 130- 200 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 81 Dari SWAS 7435 230- 300 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 81 Dari SWAS 7435 1900-2000 smtwtfs TDA Rampisham 250 180 Non-Speci NAF 7435 2000-2100 smtwtfs TDA Sines 250 170 Non-Speci NAF 7445 2100-2200 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 330 English WAF 7445 2030-2100 .mtwtf. BBC Skelton 300 180 Portugues WAF 7580 1330-1500 s...... BBC Tashkent 100 131 Bengali SAS 7580 1330-1330 s...... BBC Tashkent 100 131 Bengali SAS 9290 0-2400 smtwtfs LRC Ulbroka 100 250 Unknown WEUR 9355 1330-1330 s...... BBC Duchanbe 100 125 Bengali SAS 9355 1330-1500 s...... BBC Duchanbe 100 125 Bengali SAS 9410 1300-1500 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 English SAS 9410 200- 300 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 English SAS 9410 500- 600 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 90 English WAS 9410 400- 500 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 90 English WAS 9410 300- 400 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 50 English RUSS 9410 900-1000 s...... BBC Cyprus 300 342 Turkish SEEUR 9410 1200-1300 .mtwtf. BBC Furman 250 182 Spanish CARIB 9410 0- 100 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 255 English SAS 9410 0- 100 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 290 English SAS 9410 100- 200 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 290 English SAS 9410 600- 700 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 160 English NAF 9410 1500-1530 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 280 English EAF 9410 1830-2100 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 280 English EAF 9410 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 295 Somali EAF 9410 1530-1630 .mtwtf. BBC Seychelles 250 280 Swahili EAF 9410 1530-1615 s...... BBC Seychelles 250 280 Swahili EAF 9410 1530-1700 ......s BBC Seychelles 250 280 English EAF 9410 1615-1700 s...... BBC Seychelles 250 280 English EAF 9410 1630-1700 .mtwtf. BBC Seychelles 250 280 English EAF 9410 1700-1746 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 280 English EAF 9410 1746-1800 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 280 Swahili EAF 9410 1500-1600 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 320 English SAS 9430 1700-1800 smtwtfs YFR Skelton 300 110 Turkish SEEUR 9440 630- 700 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 55 Hausa WAF 9440 500- 530 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 185 Arabic ME 9440 330- 430 .mt.... BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 325 Bengali SAS 9450 400- 500 .mtwtf. BBC Cyprus 300 7 Russian RUSS 9450 500- 600 .mtwtf. BBC Cyprus 300 7 Russian RUSS 9455 1900-2000 smtwtfs TDA Rampisham 500 160 Non-Speci NAF 9455 2000-2100 smtwtfs TDA Rampisham 500 160 Non-Speci NAF 9455 1333-1357 sm.w.f. NEW Taipei 100 2 Japanese FE 9455 1333-1357 ..t.t.s NEW Taipei 100 2 Korean FE 9495 1600-1630 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 325 Uzbek CAS 9505 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 60 Hindi SAS 9505 1500-1600 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 97 Urdu SWAS 9505 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 315 Dari SWAS 9505 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 315 Dari SWAS 9505 1730-1800 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 315 Pashto SWAS 9505 1830-1900 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 315 Dari SWAS 9505 1600-1700 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 90 Farsi ME 9510 100- 130 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 280 Hindi SAS 9510 1100-1130 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 150 Indonesia SEAS 9520 1300-1330 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 325 Uzbek CAS 9530 1700-1800 smtwtfs YFR Rampisham 500 105 Arabic ME 9540 1545-1615 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 270 Tamil SAS 9550 1903-2030 smtwtfs FEB Kigali 250 30 Arabic ME 9560 130- 130 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 85 Bengali SAS 9560 130- 200 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 85 Bengali SAS 9570 2300-2400 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 20 English FE 9575 1700-1900 smtwtfs NHK Dhabayya 500 285 Japanese MENAF 9575 30- 30 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 325 Bengali SAS 9575 30- 100 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 325 Bengali SAS 9575 0- 30 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 330 Burmese SEAS 9575 1600-1630 s.....s BBC Skelton 300 110 Turkish SEEUR 9575 1600-1650 .mtwtf. BBC Skelton 300 110 Turkish SEEUR 9580 2200-2330 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 25 Mandarin CHN 9580 1345-1430 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 340 Burmese SEAS 9590 1800-1830 s.....s TWR Dhabayya 250 225 Non-Speci EAF 9590 1800-1815 .mtwtf. TWR Dhabayya 250 225 Non-Speci EAF 9590 1815-1845 .mtwtf. TWR Dhabayya 250 225 Non-Speci EAF 9590 1830-1845 s...... TWR Dhabayya 250 225 Non-Speci EAF 9595 1500-1530 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 Nepali SAS 9605 1730-1800 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 77 Urdu SWAS 9605 1000-1100 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 25 English FE 9605 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 300 Hindi SAS 9605 1100-1200 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 25 English FE 9605 1200-1300 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 25 English FE 9605 1630-1630 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 340 Bengali SAS 9605 1300-1530 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 13 Mandarin FE 9605 1630-1700 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 340 Bengali SAS 9610 300- 330 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 500 20 Swahili EAF 9615 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 30 Dari SWAS 9615 1630-1700 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 120 Sinhala SAS 9615 1600-1630 smtwtfs BBC Woofferton 250 78 Uzbek CAS 9625 1500-1600 .mtwtf. BBC Rampisham 500 47 Russian RUSS 9630 1800-2000 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 180 English NAF 9630 2000-2100 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 180 English NAF 9650 400- 500 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 335 English WAF 9660 1900-2000 smtwtfs YFR Meyerton 250 19 Swahili EAF 9660 1800-1900 smtwtfs YFR Skelton 300 140 Arabic NAF 9670 1300-1330 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 140 Indonesia SEAS 9675 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 250 180 French NAF 9685 1600-1630 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 57 Uzbek CAS 9685 1900-2000 smtwtfs YFR Dhabayya 250 260 Hausa WAF 9730 1100-1130 .mtwtf. BBC Singapore 100 330 Burmese SEAS 9730 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 140 Indonesia SEAS 9740 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 290 English SAS 9740 900-1600 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 135 English SEAS 9740 900-1600 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 13 English SEAS 9740 1600-1800 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 315 English SAS 9740 2200- 200 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 13 English SEAS 9740 2200- 200 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 135 English SEAS 9745 0- 100 smtwtfs CRI Bonaire 250 290 Spanish C AM 9745 1730-1800 .....f. TWR Dhabayya 250 225 Non-Speci EAF 9745 1730-1800 s...... NEW Dhabayya 250 230 Amharic EAF 9750 1700-1730 s.....s BBC Rampisham 500 85 Azeri CAS 9750 1700-1730 .mtwtf. BBC Rampisham 500 85 Azeri CAS 9750 300- 400 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 270 English EAF 9750 1400-1430 ......s RNZ Woofferton 35 102 English WEUR 9750 1430-1500 .....f. KBS Woofferton 35 102 English WEUR 9760 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 185 Arabic ME 9760 2215-2245 s....fs BBC Cyprus 250 315 Greek SEEUR 9760 1130-1200 .....f. NHK Woofferton 35 102 Russian WEUR 9760 1100-1130 .....f. NHK Woofferton 35 102 English EUR 9780 1600-1630 smtwtfs NEW Taipei 250 45 Japanese FE 9795 1730-1800 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 315 Urdu SAS 9795 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 315 Hindi SAS 9800 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 300 Hindi SAS 9805 1700-1730 smtwtfs HCJ Skelton 300 70 Russian RUSS 9810 1500-1600 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 300 Pashto SWAS 9810 1600-1630 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 315 Farsi ME 9810 1630-1700 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 315 Pashto SWAS 9815 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 125 Somali EAF 9820 1600-1615 smtw... NEW Dhabayya 250 100 Non-Speci SAS 9820 1615-1630 ....tfs NEW Dhabayya 250 120 Non-Speci SAS 9820 1615-1630 smtw... NEW Dhabayya 250 70 Non-Speci SAS 9820 1600-1615 ....tfs NEW Dhabayya 250 100 Non-Speci SAS 9820 1701-1731 smtwtfs NEW Taipei 100 2 Korean FE 9850 1630-1700 smtwtfs FEB Dhabayya 250 230 Somali EAF 9850 2100-2300 smtwtfs TDA Sines 250 170 Non-Speci NAF 9855 1400-1500 smtwtfs YFR Dhabayya 250 105 Marathi SAS 9860 600-1400 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 15 English SAF 9860 1400-1600 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 15 English SAF 9885 1900-2000 smtwtfs YFR Dhabayya 250 210 English WAF 9885 1730-1800 smtwt.s NEW Dhabayya 250 215 Somali EAF 9895 1800-1900 smtwtfs YFR Dhabayya 250 230 English SAF 9915 1800-2100 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 280 Arabic NAF 9915 1600-1800 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 280 Arabic NAF 9915 600- 700 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 280 Arabic NAF 9915 500- 600 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 101 Arabic ME 9915 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 121 Arabic ME 9915 1500-1600 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 121 Arabic ME 9915 700- 800 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 250 168 Arabic NAF 9915 1500-1600 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 168 Arabic NAF 9915 1600-1800 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 125 Arabic ME 11665 1600-1800 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 180 English NAF 11680 700- 800 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 280 Arabic NAF 11680 1500-1700 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 168 Arabic NAF 11680 800-1000 smtwtfs BBC Woofferton 250 170 Arabic NAF 11685 1345-1430 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 340 Burmese SEAS 11685 1500-1530 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 330 Nepali SAS 11710 1130-1200 smtwtfs NHK Rampisham 250 62 Russian EUR 11730 1300-1330 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 57 Uzbek CAS 11730 400- 430 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 270 Swahili EAF 11740 1600-1700 smtwtfs YFR Dhabayya 250 90 English SAS 11740 130- 200 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 305 Urdu SAS 11740 1430-1445 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 13 Vietnames SEAS 11740 1030-1100 smtwtfs NHK Singapore 250 1 Burmese SEAS 11740 1130-1200 smtwtfs NHK Singapore 250 1 Thai SEAS 11740 1100-1130 .mtwtf. BBC Singapore 250 340 Burmese SEAS 11740 800- 900 smtwtfs NHK Singapore 250 1 Japanese SEAS 11740 900-1000 smtwtfs NHK Singapore 250 1 Japanese SEAS 11740 1300-1330 smtwtfs NHK Singapore 250 1 Chinese SEAS 11740 1230-1300 smtwtfs NHK Singapore 250 1 Vietnames SEAS 11750 0- 30 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 340 Burmese SEAS 11750 100- 200 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 340 English SAS 11750 30- 100 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 340 Bengali SAS 11750 100- 200 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 140 English SEAS 11750 30- 30 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 340 Bengali SAS 11760 230- 300 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 100 Hindi SAS 11760 700-1400 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 320 English ME 11760 300- 400 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 20 English CAS 11760 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 90 English WAS 11760 600- 700 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 90 English WAS 11760 130- 200 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 300 Dari SWAS 11760 100- 130 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 300 Pashto SWAS 11765 500- 600 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 335 English WAF 11765 600- 700 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 250 328 English WAF 11765 700- 800 smtwtfs BBC Sines 250 150 English NAF 11780 1400-1430 smtwtfs NHK Rampisham 250 62 English EUR 11785 1730-1757 smtwtfs FEB Kigali 250 30 Tigrinya EAF 11785 1700-1730 smtwtfs FEB Kigali 250 30 Somali EAF 11820 600- 800 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 101 Arabic ME 11820 1600-1746 ......s BBC Meyerton 500 20 Swahili EAF 11820 1430-1600 ......s BBC Meyerton 500 20 Swahili EAF 11835 1300-1330 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 90 Indonesia SEAS 11835 1330-1330 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 330 Bengali SAS 11835 1330-1400 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 330 Bengali SAS 11845 500- 600 .mtwtf. BBC Cyprus 250 359 Russian RUSS 11855 2030-2100 .mtwtf. BBC Ascension 250 27 Portugues WAF 11860 1200-1300 .mtwtf. BBC Montsinery 250 305 Spanish CARIB 11860 1500-1530 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 270 English EAF 11860 1746-1800 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 270 Swahili EAF 11860 1630-1700 .mtwtf. BBC Seychelles 250 270 Krwanda/KdEAF 11860 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 300 Somali EAF 11860 1615-1700 s...... BBC Seychelles 250 270 English EAF 11860 1530-1630 .mtwtf. BBC Seychelles 250 270 Swahili EAF 11860 1530-1700 ......s BBC Seychelles 250 270 English EAF 11860 1700-1746 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 270 English EAF 11860 1530-1615 s...... BBC Seychelles 250 270 Swahili EAF 11860 200- 300 smtwtfs NHK Singapore 250 340 Japanese SEAS 11865 500- 530 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 177 Arabic ME 11865 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 330 French CAF 11865 300- 330 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 270 Swahili EAF 11875 1600-1630 smtwtfs FEB Kigali 250 30 Afar EAF 11880 1300-1400 smtwtfs DVB Palau 100 270 Burmese SEAS 11895 900-1200 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 20 English FE 11895 1300-1530 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 13 Mandarin FE 11915 1500-1600 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 English SAS 11915 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 315 English SAS 11920 1100-1130 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 90 Indonesia SEAS 11945 330- 600 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 280 English EAF 11955 100- 200 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 290 English SAS 11955 1500-1600 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 250 85 Urdu SWAS 11955 2300-2400 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 90 English SEAS 11985 830- 900 smtwtfs TWR Ascension 250 27 Non-Speci WAF 11985 2145-2215 ....tf. FEB Ascension 250 27 Pulaar WAF 11995 330- 430 .mt.... BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 290 Bengali SAS 11995 130- 130 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 340 Bengali SAS 11995 100- 130 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 320 Hindi SAS 11995 130- 200 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 340 Bengali SAS 12015 1500-1600 smtwtfs YFR Dhabayya 250 90 English SAS 12015 630- 700 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 180 Hausa WAF 12025 2100-2145 smtwtfs HCJ Sackville 250 73 Arabic NAF 12030 930-1030 smtwtfs BBC Dhabayya 250 46 Dari SWAS 12030 1030-1130 .....f. BBC Dhabayya 250 45 Pashto SWAS 12030 900- 930 smtwtfs BBC Dhabayya 250 46 Pashto SWAS 12030 830- 900 smtwtfs BBC Dhabayya 250 46 Dari SWAS 12035 400- 500 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 173 English EAF 12045 1430-1500 smtwtfs FEB Dhabayya 250 70 Punjabi SAS 12045 1400-1430 smtwtfs FEB Dhabayya 250 110 Telegu SAS 12045 1500-1700 smtwtfs NHK Singapore 250 315 Japanese SWAS 12065 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 97 Hindi SAS 12095 700- 700 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 27 French WAF 12095 700- 730 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 27 French WAF 12095 1900-2100 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 173 English EAF 12095 500- 700 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 359 English RUSS 12095 1700-1900 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 173 English EAF 12095 1500-1700 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 250 95 English EUR 13660 400- 500 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 270 Arabic ME 13660 500- 600 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 121 Arabic ME 13660 600- 800 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 121 Arabic ME 13740 630- 700 smtwtfs BBC Moosbrunn 300 195 Hausa WAF 13745 1300-1315 .....fs TWR Kigali 250 30 Afar EAF 13790 330- 430 .mt.... BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 325 Bengali SAS 13820 930-1030 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 77 Dari SWAS 13820 1030-1130 .....f. BBC Cyprus 300 77 Pashto SWAS 13855 1300-1330 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 57 Uzbek CAS 15105 1930-2000 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 65 Hausa WAF 15105 1530-1630 .mtwtf. BBC Meyerton 500 7 Swahili EAF 15105 1500-1530 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 500 7 English EAF 15105 1630-1700 .mtwtf. BBC Meyerton 500 7 Krwanda/KdEAF 15105 1615-1700 s...... BBC Meyerton 500 7 English EAF 15105 1530-1700 ......s BBC Meyerton 500 7 English EAF 15105 1530-1615 s...... BBC Meyerton 500 7 Swahili EAF 15105 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 295 Somali EAF 15180 500- 600 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 270 Arabic ME 15180 600- 700 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 180 Arabic ME 15180 800-1000 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 280 Arabic NAF 15180 700- 800 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 180 Arabic ME 15195 2000-2100 smtwtfs YFR Ascension 250 65 English CAF 15195 2100-2200 smtwtfs YFR Ascension 250 65 English CAF 15215 1200-1230 smtwtfs FEB Dhabayya 250 85 Tibetan SAS 15310 300- 600 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 English SAS 15310 1200-1400 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 290 English SAS 15310 600-1200 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 290 English SAS 15310 200- 300 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 290 English SAS 15310 100- 200 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 315 English SAS 15335 0- 200 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 13 English SEAS 15345 230- 300 smtwtfs BBC Irkutsk 250 224 Hindi SAS 15360 400- 600 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 20 English CAS 15360 0- 200 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 25 English FE 15400 700-1000 .mtwtf. BBC Ascension 250 27 English WAF 15400 700-1130 s.....s BBC Ascension 250 27 English WAF 15400 1100-1130 .mtwtf. BBC Ascension 250 27 English WAF 15400 1500-2300 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 27 English WAF 15400 400- 430 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 250 19 Swahili EAF 15405 230- 300 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 280 Hindi SAS 15420 900- 930 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 35 Pashto SWAS 15420 830- 900 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 35 Dari SWAS 15420 930-1030 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 35 Dari SWAS 15420 1030-1130 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 35 Pashto SWAS 15420 1500-1700 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 173 English EAF 15420 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 173 English EAF 15420 1700-1900 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 250 5 English EAF 15420 500- 530 s...... BBC Seychelles 250 270 English EAF 15420 530- 600 s...... BBC Seychelles 250 270 Krwanda/KdEAF 15420 600- 800 s.....s BBC Seychelles 250 270 English EAF 15420 500- 600 .mtwtf. BBC Seychelles 250 270 English EAF 15420 500- 600 ......s BBC Seychelles 250 270 Krwanda/KdEAF 15420 1300-1400 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 280 English EAF 15425 1200-1230 smtwtfs BBC Sines 250 170 French NAF 15445 100- 200 ......s AWR Taipei 100 250 Vietnames SEAS 15520 1400-1500 smtwtfs YFR Dhabayya 250 90 Hindi SAS 15540 1300-1400 smtwtfs CRI Santiago 100 45 English SAm 15540 1200-1300 smtwtfs CRI Santiago 100 45 Chinese SAm 15540 1100-1200 smtwtfs CRI Santiago 100 45 Portugues SAm 15570 1400-1600 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 180 Arabic ME 15575 700- 900 s.....s BBC Cyprus 250 90 English WAS 15575 700- 730 .mtwtf. BBC Cyprus 250 90 English WAS 15575 900-1400 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 90 English WAS 17585 1200-1230 smtwtfs NHK Dhabayya 500 315 English EUR 17615 0- 100 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 25 English FE 17615 100- 200 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 13 English SEAS 17640 500- 700 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 173 English EAF 17640 800-1400 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 270 English EAF 17645 2100-2200 smtwtfs CRI Santiago 100 45 Portugues SAm 17660 1830-1930 smtwtfs YFR Ascension 250 85 French WAF 17695 830- 900 smtwtfs NEW Dhabayya 250 225 Somali EAF 17695 700- 730 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 500 320 French CAF 17695 700- 700 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 500 320 French CAF 17710 230- 300 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 315 Hindi SAS 17735 1300-1400 smtwtfs YFR Dhabayya 250 100 Kannada SAS 17760 230- 300 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 300 Dari SWAS 17760 900-1000 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 25 English FE 17760 300- 330 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 300 Pashto SWAS 17780 1200-1230 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 27 French WAF 17780 1100-1130 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 160 Somali EAF 17780 1345-1415 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 250 169 Hausa WAF 17790 1200-1300 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 English SAS 17790 700-1200 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 English SAS 17790 300- 600 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 280 English SAS 17790 600- 700 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 280 English SAS 17810 1300-1400 smtwtfs YFR Dhabayya 250 100 Telegu SAS 17810 1400-1500 smtwtfs YFR Dhabayya 250 100 Tamil SAS 17830 800-2100 s.....s BBC Ascension 250 65 English WCAF 17830 800-1000 .mtwtf. BBC Ascension 250 65 English WCAF 17830 1100-2100 .mtwtf. BBC Ascension 250 65 English WCAF 17830 700- 800 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 500 328 English WAF 17850 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 160 Somali EAF 17865 1345-1415 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 55 Hausa WAF 17870 930-1030 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 81 Dari SWAS 17870 1030-1130 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 81 Pashto SWAS 17885 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 27 French WAF 17885 1930-2000 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 55 Hausa WAF 17885 500- 600 ......s BBC Meyerton 250 7 Krwanda/KdEAF 17885 530- 600 s...... BBC Meyerton 250 7 Krwanda/KdEAF 17885 430- 500 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 240 French EAF 21470 1300-1700 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 114 English SAF 21470 800-1300 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 240 English SAF 21595 1100-1130 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 160 Somali EAF 21630 1200-1230 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 85 French CAF 21630 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 65 French WCAF 21630 1345-1415 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 65 Hausa WAF 21680 1700-1800 smtwtfs YFR Ascension 250 85 English EAF (VTC B-08 via ADDX Andreas Volk, Germany, Oct 16, BC-DX Oct 22 and 29 via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. V O I C E O F A M E R I C A B 0 8 AFAN OROMO 1730-1800 9320 9485 9860 11675 11905 MO-FR ALBANIAN 0600-0630 6035 1700-1730 7235 1930-2000 7455 AMHARIC 1800-1900 UTC 9320 9485 9860 11675 11905 ARABIC (Radio Sawa) 0000-0400 990 1170 1431 1548 0400-1645 990 1170 1548 1645-2400 990 1170 1431 1548 ARABIC to Sudan-Darfur (Radio Sawa) 0300-0330 4960 9845 11855 1800-1830 4960 5880 9380 1900-1930 5880 9380 9815 AZERBAIJANI 1830-1900 9750 9805 12025 BANGLA 0130-0200 11500 15205 1600-1700 1575, 7180 11500 BURMESE 0000-0030 1575, 7430 9325 12120 0130-0300 12110 15115 17780 1130-1230 11965 15550 17850 1430-1500 1575, 9325 11965 12120 1500-1530 9325 11965 12120 1500-1530 1575 SA-SU 1530-1600 1575, 9355 11560 1600-1630 9355 11560 2300-2400 7430 9325 12120 CANTONESE 1300-1500 1170, 7390 9705 CREOLE ## FROM NOV/02/2008 1 HOUR LATER ## 1130-1200 11890 15390 MO-FR 1630-1700 15390 17565 2100-2130 11895 13725 15390 CROATIAN 0530-0600 6035 1930-1945 6135 7465 DARI (Radio Ashna) 0130-0230 1296, 7595 9335 1530-1630 1296, 9335 9770 11575 1730-1800 1296, 9335 9445 9770 1800-1830 1296, 7595 9335 9445 1930-2030 1296, 5750 7595 ENGLISH to Europe, Middle East, and North Africa 0100-0130 1593 1400-1500 9480 15205 1500-1600 9685 11765 ENGLISH to Africa 0300-0400 909 1530, 4930 6080 9885 15580 0400-0430 909 1530, 4930 4960 6080 9885 15580 0430-0500 909, 4930 4960 6080 9885 15580 0500-0600 909, 4930 6080 9885 15580 0600-0700 909 1530, 6080 9885 15580 1400-1500 4930 6080 15580 17715 17750 1500-1600 4930 6080 15580 17715 17895 1600-1700 909 1530, 4930 6080 15580 17715 17895 1700-1800 6080 13710 15580 1700-1800 17895 SA-SU 1800-1830 6080 11975 13710 15580 17895 1800-1830 909, 4930 SA-SU 1830-1900 909, 4930 6080 11975 13710 15580 17895 1900-2000 909, 4930 4940 6080 11975 13710 15580 17895 2000-2030 909 1530, 4930 4940 6080 11975 13710 2030-2100 909 1530, 4930 6080 11975 13710 2030-2100 4940 SA-SU 2100-2200 1530, 6080 15580 ENGLISH to Zimbabwe 1720-1740 909, 4930 12080 15775 SA-SU 1730-1800 909, 4930 12080 15775 MO-FR ENGLISH to Afghanistan 0000-0030 1296, 7405 2030-2130 1296, 7595 2130-2430 1296, 7405 ENGLISH to Far East Asia, South Asia, and Oceania 0100-0200 7325 9435 11705 1100-1130 1575 SA-SU 1130-1200 1575 1200-1300 1170, 9345 9640 11705 11730 15190 1300-1400 9345 9640 9760 11705 1400-1500 7125 9760 11885 12150 1500-1600 7125 9590 11525 12150 13735 2200-2300 5910 6105 7220 7425 7480 9490 11610 2230-2400 1575 FR,SA 2300-2400 6105 7220 7265 7480 9490 11610 ENGLISH-SPECIAL 0000-0030 1593 0030-0100 1575 1593, 7405 9325 9620 9715 11695 12005 15185 15205 15290 0130-0200 1593, 5960 7405 TU-SA 1500-1600 6140 7520 9760 15460 1600-1700 9345 13600 15445 1600-1700 1170 MO-FR 1900-2000 9785 12020 2230-2300 7230 9780 15445 2300-2330 1593, 6180 7460 11840 2330-2400 1593, 6180 7460 11655 11840 13640 FRENCH to Africa 0530-0600 1530, 4960 6020 7265 9480 9505 MO-FR 0600-0630 4960 6020 7265 9480 9505 MO-FR 1830-1900 1530, 9815 15225 17580 1900-2000 1530, 15225 17580 2000-2030 9780 9815 12080 13735 15225 2030-2100 6040 9780 9815 12080 15225 SA-SU 2100-2130 9435 9680 9780 9815 MO-FR GEORGIAN 1530-1600 9605 11790 1600-1630 11525 11885 1700-1800 12025 12120 HAUSA 0500-0530 1530, 4960 6045 9600 0700-0730 4960 11985 13775 1500-1530 7155 9450 11705 2030-2100 4940 6040 9780 12080 15185 MO-FR INDONESIAN 0000-0030 9620 11805 15205 1130-1230 7255 9725 15165 1400-1500 11985 13605 TH-SA 2200-2400 9620 11805 15205 KHMER 1330-1430 1575, 9325 11965 2200-2230 1575, 6060 7260 13640 KINYARWANDA/KIRUNDI 0330-0430 7340 9540 11915 1600-1630 11750 12010 17785 SA KOREAN 1200-1500 1350, 5890 7235 9555 1900-2100 648, 6060 7135 7360 KURDISH 0500-0600 5945 9690 15225 1300-1400 11805 15530 17750 1400-1500 1593, 11805 13740 15530 1700-1800 7550 9650 9815 2000-2100 1593 LAO 1230-1300 UTC 1575, 9835 11930 MANDARIN 0000-0200 7495 9545 11925 15385 17645 21580 0200-0300 11925 15385 17645 21580 0700-0800 9845 11855 11965 13650 13765 15515 0800-0900 9845 11665 11855 11965 13650 13765 15515 0900-1030 9845 9855 11665 11855 11965 13650 13765 15515 1030-1100 9845 9855 11665 11700 11965 13650 13765 15515 1100-1200 1170, 6160 9530 9805 11665 12040 15515 1200-1300 6040 6160 9530 9680 11920 12040 1300-1400 6040 6160 7295 9680 11920 11995 12040 1400-1500 6040 6105 7295 7525 9680 9825 2200-2300 6045 7440 9545 9755 9875 11655 NDEBELE 1740-1800 909, 4930 12080 15775 SA-SU 1800-1830 909, 4930 12080 15775 MO-FR PASHTO (Radio Ashna) 0030-0130 1296, 7595 9335 1430-1530 1296, 9335 11840 12140 1630-1730 1296, 9335 9770 11575 1830-1930 1296, 5750 7595 PASHTO (Deewa Radio) ## FROM NOV/02/2008 1 HOUR LATER ## 1200-1300 7455 9310 9380 9780 1300-1500 7455 7495 9370 9565 1500-1800 5835 7455 7495 9370 PERSIAN (VOA) 0230-0330 7205 9495 9820 1530-1630 1593, 9320 11705 11775 1630-1730 1593, 5850 9320 9540 1730-1800 1593, 5850 9495 9540 1800-1830 648 1593, 5850 9495 9540 1830-1900 648, 5850 9680 9960 1900-1930 5850 9680 9960 1930-2030 5860 9680 9925 PERSIAN (Radio Farda) 0000-0030 1575 0030-0200 1575, 5860 6115 7145 0200-0230 1575, 5860 6115 9520 0230-0300 1575, 6115 9520 15690 0300-0400 1575, 5925 9520 15690 0400-0500 1575, 9430 9585 15690 0500-0600 1575, 9585 12015 15690 0600-0830 1575, 9585 15690 17675 0830-1230 1575, 5860 15690 21715 1230-1400 1575, 5860 13680 15690 1400-1530 1575, 11750 13680 15410 1530-1600 1575, 11750 11840 13680 1600-1700 1575, 7520 7580 11840 1700-1800 1575, 7520 7580 9785 1800-1900 1575, 7520 7580 9595 1900-2000 1575, 7580 9335 9570 2000-2130 1575, 7485 7580 9335 2130-2400 1575 PORTUGUESE to Africa 1000-1030 17740 21590 SA-SU 1700-1730 1530, 11775 15545 21495 1730-1800 1530, 9435 9805 11775 21495 1800-1830 1530, 5825 9805 21495 MO-FR SHONA 1700-1730 909, 4930 12080 15775 MO-FR 1700-1720 909, 4930 12080 15775 SA-SU SOMALI 1300-1400 13580 15620 1600-1630 1431, 13580 15620 1630-1800 13580 15620 SPANISH 0000-0030 5890 5940 9885 WE 0030-0130 5890 5940 9885 0130-0200 5890 5940 9885 SU,MO 1100-1230 9535 9885 13715 1400-1415 11840 17565 MO-FR 2300-2315 5890 9885 MO-FR SWAHILI 0300-0330 7340 9440 MO-FR 1630-1730 9565 13870 15730 TIBETAN 0000-0100 7255 7480 9645 0300-0400 15545 17860 21570 0400-0600 15545 17860 1400-1500 7255 9670 12105 1600-1700 7280 7560 11920 TIGRIGNA 1900-1930 9320 9485 9860 11675 11905 MO-FR TURKISH 0430-0500 7295 MO-FR 1145-1200 9555 15205 MO-FR 1930-2000 7235 9490 MO-FR UKRAINIAN 2100-2115 5895 9715 2115-2130 5895 9715 MO-FR URDU (Radio Aap ki Dunyaa) ## FROM NOV/02/2008 1 HOUR LATER ## 0000-0100 972 1539, 7135 9820 1300-1400 972 1539, 7440 9390 1400-2400 972 1539 UZBEK 1500-1530 801, 6105 9530 11550 11695 VIETNAMESE 1300-1330 1575, 9325 11695 1500-1600 1170, 5955 9485 9725 2230-2330 6060 13640 -- NOT ON SHORT WAVES: ARMENIAN (VOA TV only) (Satellite and local affiliates only) BOSNIAN (VOA TV only) (Satellite and local affiliates only) GREEK (Satellite and local affiliates only) HINDI (VOA TV only) (Satellite and local affiliates only) MACEDONIAN (VOA TV only) (Satellite and local affiliates only) RUSSIAN (VOA TV only) (Satellite and local affiliates only) SERBIAN (VOA TV only) (Satellite and local affiliates only) THAI (Satellite and local affiliates only) Regards, DL (Dragan Lekic, Serbia, Oct 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Comparing this schedule with the own transmission schedule of Media Broadcast reveals that today VOA is on air from a new site for the very first time: Nauen. At least it's for the very first time scheduled, there is a possibility that VOA programming had been transmitted from Nauen on earlier occasions as cover for Wertachtal. VOA via Nauen in detail: 0500-0600 Kurdish on 15225, 1800-1900 Amharic on 9485, 1900-1930 Mon-Fri only Tigrinya on 9485, 2030-2100 Hausa (Mon-Fri) or French (Sat-Sun) on 6040 (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 9345 is a good new frequency for VOA English, heard Oct 26 at 1254, apparently during Press Conference show. Also Sunday 1338 VG in Jazz USA, much better than // 9760. Gone at 1440 recheck, tho something else weak was there, presumably RNW via Tashkent. VOA 9345 is now the 21 degree beam from Tinang, Philippines at 12-14, which in A-08 was doubled up with the 270 degree beam on 9760 at 13- 15. Now 9760 is at 270 degrees only at 13-15, joined by 21 degrees at 15-16. [WORLD OF RADIO 1432] 13580, not Prague, but Oct 26 at 1335 in Somali, mentioning Mohammed Ali, 1336 Nairobi. This is VOA via Lampertheim at 13-14. Previously it was on 13570 colliding with WINB when it axually was on that early. Found the replacement for 11740 in VOA`s Korean service: 9555, Oct 27 at 1403, running 3 seconds ahead of 5890. Site? That depends; they make it so complicated. The 12-15 UT Korean service on 9555 is from 3 different sites: 1200-1230 Saipan at 325 degrees, 1230-1400 Udorn at 38 degrees, 1400-1500 Tinang at 21 degrees, the latter being most favorable for us, spelt U-S. It`s also on Tinang 7235, 329 degrees for the entire broadcast, unchecked, but probably with plenty of SSB QRM here. And 5890 is Tinang 325 degrees thruout. Remember the American English music break at 1315 on this service. VOA Korean service on 9555 collides with WYFR in Spanish, which tends to be on top here, until 1400, as I tried at 1315 Oct 28 to hear the daily tune in English, but instead got lexure about sheep, goats, Christ, unleavened bread, intestines. So had to go to 5890 for VOA music. Of all the hours VOA is on 15580 in B-08, only one is from Greenville, 21-22 UT, 94 degrees, but also putting a huge signal backwards to CNAm. Fortunately, that`s for the Music Mix string of shows, such as American Gold on Mondays, heard wrapping up at 2156 Oct 27. Earlier, 15580 comes via Botswana, Sao Tomé, Bonaire and UAE. In fact, it`s the highest G-B frequency in use this winter. Lower ones carry Hausa, Portuguese to Africa, Creole, Martí, Spanish and Spe-cial Eng-lish. [WORLD OF RADIO 1432] Also heard 11610 in VOA news at 2214 Oct 27, item about Russia`s falling population expected to drop below 100 mega by mid-century; quick lite echo from long path vs short path. This is Tinang, Philippines at 21 degrees toward us, same as used for 9345 before 1500, 9760 afterwards, when the latter was also inbooming in English lessons. At 2214, // 9490 which is Tinang at 200 degrees, no echo audible there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 17750, Bad OVERLAPPING with VTC endless cello pause music played over and over again before 1400 UT midst on VoA Botswana's Kurdish outlet. Needs crash start at Meyerton? Botswana 1300-1400, Meyerton VoA English 1400-1500 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26/27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. ESTADOS UNIDOS – A apresentadora da programação em espanhol da Voz da América Mercedes Antezana informa que está afastada de suas funções. Ela está em tratamento de um problema de saúde que a fez perder a voz pela 3ª vez neste ano. As informações são de Antônio Avelino da Silva, de Caruaru (PE). (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX Oct 26 via DXLD) ** U S A [non]. Radio Liberty/Free Europe From website October 27, 2008 --- B-08 SW Schedule, Daily except where indicated, Time is UT Afghan (Pashto and Dari) 0230-0430 9335 0230-1430 12140 0230-0530 15335 0430-1130 19010 0530-1030 17530 1030-1330 9990 1130-1430 9335 Belarusian 0400-0600 6105 6120 1600-1800 9415 1600-2000 9865 1800-2000 6105 2000-2200 7165 7220 Kazakh [same shown for N Caucasus below] 0100-0200 7235 9790 1300-1400 12005 15120 North Caucasus (Avar, Chechen, Circassian) [same as for Kazakh above!] 0100-0200 7235 9790 1300-1400 12005 15120 Persian (Farsi)-Radio Farda 0030-0230 5860 0030-0300 6115 0030-0200 7145 0200-0400 9520 0230-1400 15690 0300-0400 5925 0400-0500 9430 0400-0830 9585 0500-0600 12015 0600-0830 17675 0830-1400 5860 0830-1230 21715 1230-1600 13680 1400-1600 11750 1400-1530 15410 1530-1700 11840 1600-1900 7520 1600-2133 7580 1700-1800 9785 1800-1900 9595 1900-2133 9335 1900-2000 9570 2000-2133 7485 Georgian 0500-0600 9725 15265 17495 1130-1145 MonTueWedThuFri 15265 15460 17495 1400-1500 15120 15265 1800-1900 9620 9780 2000-2100 SatSun 9590 9840 Moldovan 0500-0530 MonTueWedThuFri 5925 1600-1630 SatSun 6120 1700-1730 MonTueWedThuFri 6135 1900-1930 MonTueWedThuFri 6135 Russian 0400-0500 5940 0400-0600 7305 0400-0800 9520 0400-0700 17770 0500-0600 7345 0600-0700 9535 0600-0800 15250 0700-0800 12015 15285 0900-1100 7220 9520 15130 1300-1500 9715 15130 1300-1400 13660 1400-1500 7225 1500-2000 7220 1500-1600 7270 11870 1500-1700 11805 1600-1800 7305 9520 1700-1800 9725 1800-2100 6150 1800-2000 7350 9650 2000-2100 9520 2100-2200 6105 7335 7425 Tajik 0100-0300 7275 0100-0400 11795 0300-0400 9760 1400-1500 7595 1400-1700 9695 1500-1700 7260 Tatar-Bashkir 0400-0500 5920 7220 0600-0700 9680 1600-1630 5895 7380 1700-1730 5895 7380 2000-2100 5895 Turkmen 0200-0300 7295 0200-0400 12015 0300-0400 5955 1400-1600 6055 1400-1500 9445 1500-1600 9835 1600-1800 5820 9625 Uzbek 0200-0400 9680 12025 15590 1400-1500 9595 11715 12015 1600-1700 6060 7550 9760 (via Bernie O.Shea, Ottawa, Ontario, Oct 27, DXLD) ** U S A. What will it take for Tony Alamo to lose his radio broadcast time? Convixion and imprisonment? Googling found this useful site: ``Tony Alamo News --- Our goal is to promote awareness and understanding of the true nature of Alamo Christian Ministries and of the exploitation of its members by self-proclaimed "World Pastor" Tony Alamo. We hope to serve as a resource for victims, survivors, their family and friends, their advocates, and for anyone else interested in learning more about Alamo Christian Ministries.`` http://www.tonyalamonews.com/ Site has roundup of latest press reports about him. I was looking for an AP story of Oct 24, i.e. this one: http://www.tonyalamonews.com/701/102408-fspd-first-learned-of-kolbeck-in-march-2006-after-he-officiated-a-marriage-between-a-13-yr-old-girl-and-a-34-yr-old-man-at-alamos-church.php Alamo`s radio schedule includes this ``Short Wave Radio Information`` http://www.alamoministries.com/content/english/radiobroadcasts/radio.html WWCR 12.160 MHz at 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. (CST) Coverage area: Central America, Caribbean, South America 15.825 MHz at 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. (CST) Coverage area: Europe, Middle East, Africa 5.070 MHz at 4:00 a.m. – 5:00 a.m. (CST) Coverage area: Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean Islands [but we`ve already confirmed only 15825 is current, and it`s M-F 8-9 am CDT = 13-14 UT] WINB 13.570 Frequency at 11:00 a.m. – 12 noon and at 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. and at 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. (EST) Monday through Friday Coverage area: USA, Europe, and Africa. [WINB sked shows M-F at 11 am, 3 pm and 6 pm, not 7 pm, EDT, i.e. 1500, 1900, 2200 UT. First two on 13570v, last on 9265v; 1500 and 2200 confirmed lately] European Gospel Radio 5990 kHz at 6:30 a.m. – 7:30 a.m. Monday – Thursday (CET) Europe [that`s IRRS/NEXUS-IBA via Slovakia, 0430 UT. In B-08 that is now 0530 UT on 5990. The program schedule just says European Gospel Radio, so is Alamo really still on here?] Yes: see ITALY [non] Radio Africa Stations 7190 Frequency Radio West Africa – 50,000 watts SW at 9:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. Saturday & Sunday and at 11 p.m. – 12 midnight Monday through Friday Coverage area: Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia [imaginary schedule with 7190 inactive; however, has been regularly heard on 15190 around 2200 UT == 11 pm in UT+1, or 2130 on weekends?] 15190 Frequency Radio East Africa at 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays Coverage area: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Congo, Somalia, Burundi, Rwanda, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea [should we assume these times are UT+3 as in E Africa, or UT +1 as in Equatorial Guinea? maybe 0830 or 1030 UT weekends, when seldom reported, but may be active] 15190 Frequency Radio South Africa – 50,000 watts SW at 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Mondays and 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays, & Fridays, and 12 noon – 1 p.m. on Wednesdays Coverage area: South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Namibia [should we assume these times are UT+2 as in S Africa, or UT +1 as in EqG? Maybe 0830 or 0930 UT/ 0730 or 0830/ 1000 or 1100 respectively] 9430 Frequency Radio North Africa – 250,000 watts SW at 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Saturdays Coverage area: Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan, Algeria [imaginary service; could not be from Equatorial Guinea itself] Sri Lanka Station Radio Sri Lanka Frequency 9770 100,000 watts SW at 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Sundays Coverage area: India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhurma [sic], Arab Emirates, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Malaysia [almost all these countries are in different timezones, so is this SL time? Would be 0400-0500 UT on 9770. Can anyone confirm this? Per Aoki only on Sundays does the 9770 broadcast extend until 0500] (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WINB, 13570v, Oct 27 at 1527, sounds like Tony Alamo, but time for Tirana 13720 and could not stay with it. Per his website, is scheduled M-F at 15-16 on WINB, plus other times. I am becoming able to recognize the unpleasant pastoring of alleged sex and child molester ``Tony Alamo``, such as Oct 27 at 2209 on WINB 9265v. His own website claims to be on WINB at 7 pm EST, while WINB site shows 6 pm EDT, so the latter is correct. Altho WINB stayed on 9265v Sabbath Oct 25 as late as 1621, on Sunday Oct 26 Brother Scare was done there by 1400, and at 1401 found WINB on 13570v opening some preacher from Denver, PA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9265, WMLK Bethel PA (presumed); 2106-211+, 25-Oct; English religious pgm; M speaking during and over tunes, but mic apparently much closer to the musicians. SIO=343-, ute clatter QRM (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 210' center-fed RW, 85' end-fed RW, 125' bow-tie, Cumbre DX via DXLD) No, it`s WINB which switches from 13570 at 2100. WMLK has been inactive for years, but B-08 registered on 9265 at 04-09 daily and 16- 21 except Sundays, which of course should be except Saturdays; Yahweh tells Elder Meyer so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Please note the following additions to the WYFR B-2008 Frequency Schedule, effective 1 November 2008: Add 9690 kHz 142 degrees zone 13 2300-0000 UT Portuguese Add 11825 kHz 160 degrees zone 14 0200-0300 UT Spanish (WYFR Oct 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Replacing RTI to LAm, I believe (gh) ** U S A [non]. 15760, Oct 24 at 1828 with nice classical piano concerto fragment, 1830 announcement in uncertain language, giveaway YFR IS and music. Then looked up, it`s Family Radio in Turkish via Woofferton. I wonder how many Turx care about the Biblical interpretations of non-ordained Protestant Brother Harold Camping? Doesn`t matter. They will be regaled by him in translation nonetheless (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 11740, which on Oct 26 bore Vatican in Italian at 1310, occupied Oct 27 at 1332 by WYFR in French, and probably now blocked by YFR earlier in the hour as well. Catholix vs Protestants (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WEWN has made a lot of schedule changes for B-08. Oct 26 at 1251 heard on 7555 with translation of Italian to Spanish, papist? The old A-08 sked is still displayed on their website Oct 26 at 1623 check, http://www.ewtn.com/radio/freq.htm as well as the Spanish version at http://www.ewtn.com/spanish/Frequencias_radio.asp Per FCC, 7555 is now sked 05-16 at 220 degrees. Also heard next to Martí 5745, at 1249 in English on 5755, which is 12-16 at 335 degrees, not to be confused with the defunct KAIJ which lives on in FCC schedule listings earlier on 5755. WEWN is still ``the squealer``, audible in the background of Spanish on 11520, Oct 27 at 1517. Their B-08 schedules have still not been posted on website, Spanish or English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WRMI, 9955, Sunday Oct 26 at 1441 baseball show, unexpectedly good signal over some jamming. Must be on NW antenna; hope it held up for WORLD OF RADIO at 1515, but did not get that checked, as I stopped listening a semihour earlier to start compiling this 2.5-hour monitoring report which it turned out took over 4 hours to complete (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO confirmed once again still running Monday at 2200 on WBCQ 7415, as heard Oct 27. Tnx to Allan for this extra airing, which if still going next week will shift to 2300 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7415, WBCQ Monticello ME; 2219-2231+, Monday 27 Oct. Glenn Hauser's World of Radio #1431; lost audio for about a minute at 2225 and back- tracked program. The real voice of America, The Planet spot at 2230+ and into English religious program. SIO=4+33= till audio loss then jumped to S20. QRM is transmitter? buzz and Radio Marti in Spanish on 7405 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 210' center-fed RW, 85' end-fed RW, 125' bow-tie, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 9329.88, WBCQ tiny signal, in English, female announcer, noted only in SYNC mode reception level (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26/27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) time? More on 9330: see SOUTH CAROLINA [non]; SYRIA ** U S A. MARION'S ATTIC IS MOVING TO A NEW TIME SLOT To all of my listeners, You have been very patient with me during the Winter months with no reception. It is just the way radio works on short wave. This has to change and it is very expensive for me to allow only the Moose in Monticello to hear my show. The good news is I just got off of the phone with the owner of WBCQ, Allan Weiner. He is willing to move my program, Marion's Attic, to a better time so my fans can hear it on their radio better during the Fall, Winter and early Spring months. The streaming audio will also change time too. Thank-you, Allan. You are a perfect gentleman. The new time, effective IMMEDIATELY, is: SATURDAY, 5:00 PM, EASTERN TIME ON 7.415 MHz! My web site will be down for a while due to AOL Hometown going away. We will try to update our web site and find a new host soon. Thank-you for being loyal listeners all these years. Lovingly, Marion Webster, Marion's Attic, WBCQ Radio & Kristina & Electra, Oct 28, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So that`s 2100 UT on Nov 1; 2200 UT thereafter, on 7415 (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DXLD) ** U S A. KVOH, 17775.01 at 2042 on 26 Oct. in Spanish with music. Weak. I can't hear spurs or any other problems because of weak signals lately. See my log in DXLD 8-114, dated 22 Oct. (Liz Cameron, MI, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WBOH, 5919.96 at 2030 on 26 Oct. with music. // WTJC 9369.93 with solid S7 but overmodulated (both are). My guess is that they will never be on frequency (Liz Cameron, MI, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7480.6, WWCR Nashville TN (presumed); 2243, 27-Oct; English Bible thumpage. SIO=3+32, // strong 7465 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 210' center-fed RW, 85' end-fed RW, 125' bow-tie, Cumbre DX via DXLD) i.e., spur ** U S A. At 2310 a quite strong signal on 5850 was immediately screaming "USA", not just because the talk it carried was in American English but also due to the typical close-miking sound, in all likelihood using an RE 20. Of course: It's WHRA, and it is almost as strong as a single-skip signal from within Europe. I can't remember Greenville ever performing so good. But then I hardly witnessed the heyday of transmissions from Greenville to Europe. Further tuning around finally brought me at 2340 to the sister station at Furman / Cypress Creek on 7335. Less bassy modulation and a bit weaker, but then Europe is not the target of this frequency at all (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) And no CHU heard? ** U S A. Don`t be too excited if you hear a strong signal in Arabic on 7465, as I did Tuesday Oct 28 at 0617. It`s just WHRA, in B-08 scheduled there at 75 degrees, despite outdated listing for 7490 on WHR website: 0615-0620 Mo,Tu,We,Th Bible Pathway Rich Hash 7490 If entry is correct, it`s yet another one not specified as in a language other than English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 11805, pop music in Spanish, strong signal and one of few at all on 25m, Oct 28 at 0614, besides NZ 11725 and RA 12080. But nothing on 11665 --- so it`s CVC La Voz, Miami via Chile, moved from there, confirmed by // 6070 which has the CFRX SAH most of the night. 11805 now scheduled 00-08 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. KRKO --- Mike McKenna wrote: ``Looks like Snohomish County failed to approve the CUP and use of the new proposed KRKO site.`` No, that's NOT the case, and there's a lot of confusion going on here. After years of legal battles, KRKO *did* finally win permission a few months back to start construction on the new site in the Upper Snohomish Valley. That site is now almost finished, and should be on the air within a few months. In the meantime, though, KRKO's owner, Andy Skotdal, also applied for a new signal licensed to Snohomish on 1520, and is now fighting with the county for permission to add two MORE towers to the new KRKO site for the new 1520 signal. It's THAT project, not KRKO itself, that failed to win a permit last week. But that denial doesn't affect the construction and operation of KRKO itself from that site, and Andy is continuing to battle with the county to get the additional towers built for 1520. He doesn't give up, and is well-funded for a long fight, so I'd expect him to win that one, too, in the end. (This is all straight from Andy himself, who ought to know!) s (Scott Fybush, NY, Oct 26, IRCA via DXLD) ** U S A. IRCA 2008 Convention, Flagstaff AZ, mid-September: The convention got started on Friday at 9:00 AM in the Cedar Room at the Days Inn. We left for the first station tour which was at Northern Arizona University which was less than 1 mile away from the motel. The station that we went to was KJack Radio on 1680 which is a low power station and it covers the Flagstaff area well. When we were at KJack Radio it was off the air due to lightning as they said the transmitter was toast. Mr. Romey Haddad the promotions director for KJack gave us a great tour and they have some nice equipment. At 12:50 we left the motel for the drive down to Sedona for the tour of KAZM-780. When we got to KZAM we were told that the tour had been cancelled as the person that was to give the tour was called out of town. They were very nice and they gave us a tour anyway. The station is not all that big so only 5 or 6 people go at a time. After the KAZM tour we drove down to Cottonwood for the tour of KVNA- 600 and KYBC-1600 plus some FM stations. The station tour was great and I found out why I could not find the tower for KVNA-600 in Flagstaff. They don't have a tower! They use a longwire for an antenna after they lost the land that the antenna was on. They now are looking for land but it will be hard to find land in the Flagstaff area due to the high cost of land. When we were leaving they gave everyone a KYBC coffee mug. On Saturday afternoon we drove by the studio and transmitter of KAFF- 930. We also went by the studio of KBXZ-1650 which is a low power station with Fox Sports in Flagstaff. On Sunday some people left for home but a good number went on the tour of Meteor Crater. Meteor Crater is 35 miles East of Flagstaff and they even had a TIS station located near the RV park. On Sunday night a small group went to find the longwire antenna for KVNA-600 which was not hard to do as we were told at the tour of KVNA where the antenna was at (from an unattributed report in IRCA DX Monitor, Oct 25 via DXLD) ** U S A. PLAY BY PLAY, NAVAJO STYLE, FOOTBALL ANNOUNCER CUYLER FRANK TO CALL LSU PLAYS, By Maria Scandale, Today correspondent ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – When The New York Times, USA Today, ESPN and Fox Sports Network were all calling him, “it was the coolest time,” recalls history-making football announcer Cuyler Frank, Diné, “but hectic.” “I was even a Jeopardy question.” In high school, Frank had been on his way to making his name in another sport – bull riding. But a car accident one night stole not only championship dreams, but his will to live. Now his voice is heard across the Navajo nation, broadcasting New Mexico State University Aggies football games in Navajo. On Nov. 15, a Southeastern Conference game will be aired in Navajo for the first time when Frank sits in the booth of the Louisiana State University Tigers. The groundbreaking sound of the collegiate play-by-play reaching the reservation in the Native language captivated the attention of the mass media in 2005. “It was Sept. 23, 2005” – Frank lists the date by heart – when New Mexico State became the first university to broadcast a game in Navajo. The event also made national news because the announcer was a young man who had overcome the grip of a crippling despair at being placed in a wheelchair at age 18. His work made an even better story when the big networks mentioned that many Native languages were in danger of disappearing: here was someone from the tiny rural town of Blackhouse Valley going the whole nine yards to help preserve his. But, really, calling the plays in Navajo was something he had done for his family and friends since he was a kid, cracking them up with a free flow of one-liners into a mock microphone. He never dreamed he would someday get paid for announcing sports. Then, for two years after the accident, he couldn’t dream of anything. “There was a time in my life when I thought, ‘Man, I’m not going to ever be better than this, and I’m reduced to a wheelchair,’” he said. He had also been one of his high school’s best cross country runners. Told there was a slim chance of ever walking again, he used alcohol and drugs to escape. Without the intervention and prayers of loved ones, Frank says he might not have gone on. Today, he encourages young people to “never give up” and never lose sight of their dreams.” “The one message that I want to get out there,” said Frank, now a 32-year-old who wants to write a book about his experience, “is that the human spirit does find its own way to adapt, to recover. “What my father made me realize, after I was holding a gun to my head, was that my life was so important to them. I wanted them to know that their prayers and thoughts of me becoming a better person were always going to be carried on,” he said. His father told him that education was a good option. “What kept me going was that I was young, and there was so much left for me to do.” Now it’s a high point when NMSU head football coach Hal Mumme says about Frank: “Cuyler Frank is a great, enthusiastic and energetic person. He has a unique sense of humor that always carries the day. We really appreciate his work and for bringing football into the Navajo Nation.” As a student at NMSU, Frank was producing agricultural how-to videos in Navajo when then-Associate Athletic Director Sean Johnson took notice. “He said, ‘What language is that?’” Frank recalls. “He said, ‘Wow, would you be interested in doing a game for the Aggies in Navajo?’” Frank handled the details to get the broadcasts started. “I look at it as a way of revitalizing and preserving our language. I think that it would encourage the youth and probably encourage other tribes to speak their language more and to get involved with something like sports.” Growing up 30 miles south of Shiprock, Frank and his family hauled their own water, gathered firewood and spoke the Navajo language. His grandfather, Ben Frank, encouraged the speaking to continue. “My grandfather said that if you know the language, your clan, where you’re from, that’s the foundation of who you are. And that’s how we identify ourselves, as Diné Hastiin, Navajo man,” Frank said. Ironically, the dual reality that American Indians face is that English advances students to the jobs that are off the reservation. Frank entered Diné College on the Navajo Nation after intense physical therapy at Craig Hospital in Denver. He went on to earn a communications degree from NMSU. As the guidance and recruitment coordinator for NMSU’s American Indian Program, Frank now helps students “find the resources to succeed” using the programs on campus. “Our Native youth are what is important. We need to get them up to speed, get them going to colleges, get them recognized, help them become professional citizens.” It was former NMSU President Michael V. Martin – now the LSU chancellor – who invited Frank to broadcast the upcoming LSU game. Martin added that institutions of higher learning “have to reach out and make universities much more accessible and in many ways much more welcoming to American Indian kids than they have, for many of them. I think Cuyler’s now part of that solution, having been through it. He’s working in the American Indian Program office, he’s out recruiting, he’s counseling, he’s organizing students and he’s serving as a role model and mentor.” The Aggie Sports Network – Navajo goes out over radio stations KNDN-AM 960 in Farmington and KGAK–AM 1330 in Gallup. As beautifully descriptive as the Navajo language is, football doesn’t translate easily because it wasn’t around when the language came to be. And so when the sportscaster reports a first down, he has to use more words and say the Navajo equivalent of, “they have 10 more yards to go to get four more tries.” Frank loves “bringing it into the living room and making it happen for them.” (Indian Country Today 10/12/08 via Dale Park, HI, IRCA DX Monitor Oct 25 via DXLD) Surprised that, perhaps for clan competitive reasons, this was not about KTNN-660, which I think also broadcasts some silly ballgames in Navajo, much more widely heard (gh, OK, DXLD) ** U S A. Anne Pressly 1982-2008 --- KATV broke into network programming (Penn St v. Ohio State CFB) at 7:39 pm CDT to announce that Anne Pressly, co-anchor of "Daybreak" and also a reporter had died. I'm sure several DX'ers in the south had seen her on-air while logging KATV during tropo scatter/ducting. Ms Pressly was attacked in her home earlier this week and was in a Little Rock hospital. http://www.katv.com/news/stories/1008/564436.html (via Fritze H. Prentice Jr, KC5KBV, Star City, AR, Grid: EM43aw, DXLD) ** U S A. OWNER OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS LOW-POWER DTV IN LEGAL TROUBLE Kyle Reeves, Republican candidate for Arkansas House of Representatives and owner of KTWN-LD 18/My Town TV is alleged to have fired a pregnant employee. KTWN is currently leased by Crain Media but is owned by Reeves. The incident occurred in 2006, and will go to court in a civil lawsuit on November 12. Article from _The Daily Citizen_ (Searcy, AR), and referenced on the Arkansas Times blog, with comments. http://www.thedailycitizen.com/articles/2008/10/27/news/local_news/news03.txt http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/2008/10/familyfriendly_candidate.aspx -- (Fritze H. Prentice Jr, KC5KBV, Star City, AR, EM43aw, Oct 27, DXLD) ** VATICAN [and non]. Pileup on 6185, Oct 26 at 0602, seems three stations with multiple SAHs; could make out what sounded like Swedish, so Vatican Radio in Scandinavian service. WRTH 2008 does not even try to distinguish them, tho surely there is a day-to-day rotation. Other main signal probably XEPPM, with tentatively some Spanish in the mix. Vatican is finished at 0620, so I rechecked at 0622 and found a strong open carrier, with rumbling het. Third station probably Amazonia, Brasil warming up. Also, 7250, VR in English at 0609 Oct 26; at 330 degrees for UK, it also carries on quite well to NAm. 11740, Oct 26 at 1310, VR in Italian, 310 degrees to Europe and onward to us, over another weaker signal, which now would be R. Japan in Chinese via Singapore, as VOA Korean has departed, but still on 5890 via Tinang (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7250, SMG powerhouse, Vatican Radio, Sunday Pope Benedikt audience at 1050-1130 UT accompanied symmetrically by two spurs 70 kHz away each on 7180 and 7320 (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26/27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Around 1900 Radio Vatican on 5885 had somewhat distorted audio. Not too bad, but certainly something that should be fixed. Quite obvious was also a hard gating, reminiscent to transmissions from the FSU in the past (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [non]. Sorry, not Bonaire as reported earlier: VR relay is from Madagascar site at 0300 with English on 9660; heard with fair- poor signal after NHK in Portuguese via Bonaire was off. There's a RNW sked available at http://www.bclnews.it and that's where I noted the VR relay on that list. Also found the Khabarovsk relay on 5900 with poor signal at *2200 in Chinese // to 9600 and new 7395 direct (Joe Hanlon, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VENEZUELA. Possible new station on 6981v: see COLOMBIA ** VENEZUELA [non]. RNV, 11680 via Cuba, Oct 24 at 1507 in Spanish, rumbling co-channel QRM, no doubt usual overlap with VOT in Turkish to Europe until 1530. In B-08 TRT moves way down to 5980 and one hour later at 1400-1630, so that will resolve that problem. Then another will arise, possibly worse, BBC via Rampisham to Africa on 11680 starting at 1500. As an outlaw nation, Venezuela refuses to register its transmissions with HFCC, or even accurately on its own website, so BBC/VTC, not paying any attention to DXLD, are probably unaware of the impending collision, as RNV does not habitually make any schedule changes coinciding with A/B seasons either, so is likely to remain as is. 15290 on with big open carrier at 1858 Oct 24, 1911 recheck RNV via Cuba in Spanish. 1958 ending ``De Primera Mano`` commentary by someone named Vladimir [no, not Lenin, but an alive Commie], and sign-off with contact info, Apartado 3979, Caracas 1010, Venezuela, or canalinternacionalrnv@gmail.com --- 1959 open carrier for a few seconds and off. This 1900-2000 transmission is the one they have wrongly announced and webdisplayed for 3 sesquiyears as at ``11 am for San Francisco on 13740``. Why S.F. and not L.A.? Probably Cuban antenna is traditionally aimed at the former, originally for RHC itself, but if I were aligning it, would be at 300 degrees, splitting the 4-degree difference between the two cities. In any event, puts huge signal into OK not far off the path. Then tuned up to 17705 for next RNV broadcast, but not checked until 2006 when it was going with much weaker signal by YL in broken English. RNV CI enters yet another season clueless about its own schedule. Just as I tuned by 11705 via Cuba Oct 26 1258, heard them giving grossly outdated sked starting with 13740 to San Francisco. As for Aló, Presidente, still no show on any of the former frequencies Sunday morning after 1400, checked at 1415; except 13680 was on with regular RHC philatelic program (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15250, R. Nacional de Venezuela assume via Cuba, 2332-2348, Oct 26, outstanding reception, very strong signal, in Spanish and English, ID in Spanish, into their program "Contact" in English, acknowledged reception reports (one from Japan), full explanation of the SINPO codes and about UTC, back to Spanish with speeches by Hugo Chávez (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RNV CI via Cuba, 11680, Oct 27 at 1518 had broken English YL talking about a supreme court case involving articles 105, 42 and 55 and Mayor López. My ears glazed over (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZAMBIA. 13590, 1Africa, CVC Lusaka, Oct 26 at 1336 in English dialog, F-P signal, fades. Not nearly as good as it used to be around 1900 on 315 degree beam to Nigeria and Upper Michigan; but now 13590 lasts only until 1400, then 13650 at 14-17, and 17-22 on 9420 despite Greece, the latter two not yet checked here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) until later: see GREECE ** ZANZIBAR. Via receiver in Europe --- TANZANIA, 11735, Radio Tanzania - Zanzibar. Thanks Glenn's tip. Heard Oct 23 at 1957 with ID as above in Swahili. 2000 heard with world news in English from Spice FM. ID's as Spice FM at 2003 and 2009. Clear channel, fair signal (Hans Johnson, FL, Cumbredx mailing list via DXLD) Ahá, so that makes another Thursday that English news was on at 2000 instead of 1800. That is of course the beginning of the weekend in Islamic terms (gh, DXLD) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. SW Radio Africa, 12035 via Rampisham UK [tho Kvitsoy, Norway was also available], Oct 24 at 1837, fair in interview between studio announcer and someone in an outdoor location with background noises, not in English, so Ndebele or Shona, but at 1839 they were conversing in English about developments in Angola and Mozambique. 1840 ID as ``Newsreel on S-W Radio Africa``, gave website, on to food shortage demonstrations in Zimbabwe, arrest and imprisonment of some involved. Best I`ve heard it in some time; scheduled 17-19 UT, but in B-08 switching to 11745 via Woofferton. Note: the ID says the letters S-W, never the word shortwave, nor the word southwest, as some have assumed it means (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED [non]. 6030, 1512-1524, Oct 27, man announcer with non- stop on-air phone calls in what sounded like Arabic, weak (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Probably I seem to be BBC-Cyprus on 6030kHz in Arabic. I was able to receive it from 1500UT in Japan. One of CNR-1 jamming for Ming Hui Radio (1300-1400) was done on the air of in the limit lapse of memory of the switch until 1500 (S. Hasegawa, NDXC, ibid.) Happened to catch the sign-off today (Oct 29) on 6075 of R. Rossii via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, at 1400, with 5+1 pips. Continued with open carrier and a few seconds later the start of CW. By the time I got my recorder on it was the tail end of the CW. Audio clip attached. Assume this is what you were hearing earlier this year? (Ron Howard, CA, to gh, via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tnx. I guess so, but different message, or ID now. All I copy is DE VZAI VZAI K Instead of DE 8GAL. Is it really on 6074? What is your opinion now on whether it is coming from the same Russian transmitter? Maybe you can record the whole message later (Glenn to Ron, ibid.) Hi Glenn, I will get the whole sign-off tomorrow. When Rossii signed- off today and the CW started, I just had time to start my recorder, so didn't have time to check frequency, but I was on 6075.0 for Rossii. Hard to say if CW actually from the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka transmitter. It certainly sounded about the same signal strength as Rossii and was not too many seconds after the last pip before the CW started, so perhaps they are connected. After the last Rossii time pip the transmitter was still on with an open carrier. Will check to see when the transmitter actually goes off the air. Let's see what tomorrow is like. Thanks for your feedback (Ron Howard, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 6115, Oct 26 after 0600 sounds like Arabic with a Christian tinge, fair and mixing with something else; before 0600 was hearing a hum apparently coming from two carriers on slightly different frequencies. In B-08 all that is scheduled here at 0600 is CRI in English via Sackville, which this certainly was not. Nor are there any clues in the A-08 schedules (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6137.5, Shortly after I rolled off of 6140 [PAKISTAN] around 1400, there appeared a strange set of carriers between PBS Xizang and R. Pakistan. At first I thought it was some sort of multichannel ute, but it sounded like 1 kHz test tones, but I couldn't zero-beat it. Turns out it's a spur! AND (!) it needs FM wide (6 kHz) to be received at any intelligibility. Not true FM, but more like angle (phase) modulation. Sounds like Hindi, but the one song was almost south-seas like. The music had wow and flutter to it like it was off one of the older Studer 10 inch reel machines. Male and female announcers in light-hearted banter. No time pips on the hour and the last song before the hour sounded like Curly Howard [a Stooge] trying to sing opera. 73 de (Al Muick, Kabul, Afghanistan, WinRadio G303e, 100m longwire, Palstar MW-550P mediumwave preselector, HCDX via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 6220, Oct 26 at 0620 weak music making a fast SAH with RHC mixing product. Suspect Europirate, Mystery Radio. No real station is officially scheduled on 6220 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7295, 2251-2258, 27 Oct; W DJ with English pop tunes. Poor at QRN level; covered by Chinese sign-on at 2258+ then by strong Chinese sign-on on 7300 at 2300. Like to think it was Traxx FM Malaysia breaking through -- have logged them at this time a handful of times in past (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 210' center-fed RW, 85' end-fed RW, 125' bow-tie, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 7295 until 2300* could be VOR Irkutsk, or something via TDF Issoudun. The Chinese opening at 2300 on 7295 is CRI via Mali, and on 7300 CRI via Urumqi (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7845, NO ID, 1208-1210, escuchada el 26 de octubre a emisora sin identificar con locutora hablando en idioma asiático, probablemente chino, con comentarios, SINPO 34443 (José Miguel Romero, Burjassot (Valencia), España. Coordenadas: 39.30 N 0.25 O, Sangean ATS 909, Antena Radio Master A-108, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9835, Oct 27 at 1340 with buzz, just barely audible modulation underneath verging on open carrier, flutter. I compared it to the buzz on 13600, and both were of the same pitch, which could be a useful clue. Now sked on 9835 at this hour is IRIB Kamalabad in Urdu, and maybe AIR Delhi (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11705 - Something is putting out a blob of distorted noise covering 11701-11710. Seems to be on 11705. I can barely decipher a few announcements in what sounds like Portuguese. Definite Definite mention of Brasilia heard a couple of times but not much else. Some music. All at 0205. Signal is powerful. Now they're playing "Tequila" (Steve Wood, So. Yarmouth, MA, Drake R8b 70 x 30 E/W Flag, Oct 22, NASWA yg via DXLD) Ugly and strong in northern California at 0245. Can make out that there is currently music being played, but that is about it. It is a slight improvement on my power line noise though (Bob Coomler, Cloverdale, CA, ibid.) Not checked here until after 0300, nothing heard. Anything since? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED [non]. 13720, something in Spanish discussing desarrollo, Oct 26 at 1305, maybe with Italian accent? Also over lite CCI with a SAH --- but nothing is scheduled here that I know of. I suspected Vatican, which does have Spanish at this hour but supposedly on MW only. The Cuban mixing product, 13760 over 13740, cannot start until the 13740 carrier comes on around 1350 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Saludos Glenn: 0800-1400, Radio Exterior de España, S y D, Europa, 13720. 73 JMR (José Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15670, Strange frequency. WHR 1700-1900 UT (IDed in English at 1700 UT), as P O Box 1596.., zip code 95xxx USA on 15670.00 kHz, -- but registered only 15665 WHRA weekdays (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 17540, Oct 24 until 1329* what I took to be ``Merlin music`` often heard on tests, but I see that Prague was scheduled here in English from 1300. Then tuning down to 19m, at 1330 heard same music on 15760 for another minute until 1331*, no announcements. That`s scheduled for a US client of VTC via South Africa M/W/F at 1300-1330, namely SSIRI for Sudan. In B-08 the 15760 transmission moves to 15250, per SENTECH schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Info from WOR/DXLD allows me to make the best use of my limited time for DXing. Thanks (Rob Peebles, Dublin OH, with a check in the mail to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ Listado emisiones en español B-08, versión preliminar. Emisiones en español para el periodo B-08 Efectivo a partir del 26 de octubre del 2008, Versión preliminar. http://es.geocities.com/jmromero782004/B08.pdf (José Miguel Romero, Spain, Oct 26, dxldyg via DXLD) WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ DST VS ST DST just ended in Europe, and ends tonight in Mexico and Cuba, per http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst2008.html That could cause some confusion in non-North American DXing. Can anyone confirm whether Mexico and Cuba have really quit a week ahead of us? So San Diego and Tijuana are an hour apart again for the Week of Confusion? BTW, it`s not ``savings`` but ``saving``; not a bank account. BTW2, it`s not ``saving`` but ``shifting`` since no daylight can possibly be ``saved``. 73, (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, Oct 25, where UT-5 is observed by those who buy into this nonsense, in the UT-6 Central zone, and which per meridian of longitude west of 97.5 should always be UT-7 just like Arizona, IRCA and ABDX via DXLD) I hate when the clocks go back. Leave us on daylight time year around. Who cares if it is dark in the morning? Sad when I get home and it is dark (Andy Reid, Ont, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ?? I care if it is darker in the morning than it should be according to my longitude and standard time clock. If it is dark when you get home, you should leave one hour earlier in the morning and come back one hour earlier, rather than require the rest of us to reset our clox to pretend the time is something that it is not (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It might be interesting that France in fact has what you want. They are on almost the same longitude as Britain but have CET. I seem to recall that CET had been introduced to France by the German occupying force in World War II and kept after the war. Of course this means that during the summer noon in Paris is almost two hours after 12 AM, for many people with the result that it is even in summer still dark when they have to get up. Kind of the Mitteleuropäische Hochsommerzeit of UT +3 used in Germany for a very short time after the war. And yes: I'm close to the 15th longitude to which CET refers. Yesterday sunset was at about 17:45 local time here. From now on it will on overcast days be already dark at 5 PM, when it's still afternoon. And around the winter solstice you can make that rather 16:30, even earlier when the sky is covered by thick Stratus clouds. Once I believed that the depressing situation was an entirely psychological thing. Not so anymore since I'm active in photography again. If that says something to you: It is impressive in some way to shoot outdoors around noon with 1/60 second when the lens is open at 2.8. On such days even ISO 200/24 are not enough for photos of running trains etc. Kind of a softcore variant of the polar night (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) DIGITAL BROADCASTING DRM: AFGHANISTAN; BELGIUM; BULGARIA; DENMARK; ++++++++++++++++++++ GERMANY; INDIA; KUWAIT; ROMANIA; THAILAND; UK RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ Satellite 750 Thought some on this list might be interested in the following - my personal observations concerning Eton Corp's long-awaited ( just why ??) Satellite 750, a first-in-store copy of which I inspected today at a local Source (Circuit City) store near my home in Stittsville, Ontario, Canada. In a nutshell, I hope ETon is planning an early price cut on this baby - because, after having both handled one myself and read a few of others' reviews elsewhere on the 'net, I tentatively conclude it is NOT worth the $300 introductory asking price. $199 would be fairer and more realistic. The once-fine Grundig name's 'Satellite' line used to be reserved for higher end, better quality products. So it is a shame Eton chose to bring out this patently flimsier product under that banner (Satellite), because it cheapens the established currency of the former German manufacturer's name. This radio is a classic example of a product entirely designed and packaged to LOOK like something much more expensive and substantial and valuable than it turns out to be when you pick one up. A bit like a good plastic imitation of a handgun that only turns out to be plastic when you actually pick it up - if you get my drift. I was struck by its suspiciously light weight and the rather flimsy plastic case with cheap-feeling knobs. I'm told that Eton removed, in the 750, a desirable feature of its better value for money S350DL ($99) that addressed and mostly resolved the issue of receiver drift on shortwave - a very serious shortcoming of the 750 if true. Discerning buyers of usually only better SW gear may want to pass on this one - or wait for a few more reviews and the inevitable price cut(s) !! END of MESSAGE From: (Michael Bryan, mbryan@magma. Ca Oct 23, ODXA yg via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ Geomagnetic field activity was at quiet levels during 20 - 21 October. Activity increased to unsettled levels on 22 October. Activity returned to quiet levels during 23 - 26 October. ACE solar wind measurements indicated minor variations during the period. Velocities ranged from approximately 290 - 450 km/sec. IMF Bt ranged from 01 - 10 nT. IMF Bz ranged from +09 to -07 nT. The increase to unsettled levels observed on 22 October was associated with increased velocities coupled with intermittent periods of southward IMF Bz. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 29 OCTOBER - 24 NOVEMBER 2008 Solar activity is expected to be very low. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to reach high levels during 30 October - 06 November and 08 - 15 November. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at unsettled to active levels during 29 - 31 October with a chance for minor storm conditions on 30 October due to a recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream. Activity is expected to decrease to mostly quiet levels during 01 - 06 November as the high- speed stream subsides. Activity is expected to increase to minor storm levels with a chance for major storm conditions on 07 November due to a recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream. Activity is expected to decrease to unsettled to active levels during 08 - 09 November as the high-speed stream subsides. Activity is expected to decrease to quiet levels during 10 - 23 November. Activity is expected to increase to unsettled levels on 24 November. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2008 Oct 28 2152 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # Product description and SWPC contact on the Web # http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wwire.html # # 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table # Issued 2008 Oct 28 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2008 Oct 29 67 12 4 2008 Oct 30 67 15 4 2008 Oct 31 68 10 3 2008 Nov 01 69 5 2 2008 Nov 02 69 5 2 2008 Nov 03 69 5 2 2008 Nov 04 70 5 2 2008 Nov 05 70 5 2 2008 Nov 06 70 5 2 2008 Nov 07 70 35 6 2008 Nov 08 70 15 4 2008 Nov 09 70 10 3 2008 Nov 10 70 5 2 2008 Nov 11 70 5 2 2008 Nov 12 70 5 2 2008 Nov 13 69 5 2 2008 Nov 14 69 5 2 2008 Nov 15 69 5 2 2008 Nov 16 68 5 2 2008 Nov 17 68 5 2 2008 Nov 18 68 5 2 2008 Nov 19 68 5 2 2008 Nov 20 68 5 2 2008 Nov 21 68 5 2 2008 Nov 22 67 5 2 2008 Nov 23 67 5 2 2008 Nov 24 67 8 3 (SWPC Oct 28 via WORLD OF RADIO 1432, DXLD) ###