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Believe me, I`d rather not do it this way, but keeping up with everything has been a real challenge. DXLD YAHOOGROUP: Why wait for DXLD, which seems to be coming out less frequently? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our yg without delay. When applying, please identify yourself with your real name and location. Those who do not, unless I recognize them, will be prompted once to do so and no action will be taken otherwise. Here`s where to sign up http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/ ** ABKHAZIA [and non]. 9494.76, Abkhazia Radio in Russian at 0645 UT Nov 3, tiny YFR Spanish underneath, but on even 9495, and 240 Hertz BUZZ (Wolfgang Büschel, southern Germany, Oct 28 and/or 29, wwdxc BC- DX TopNews Nov 4 via DXLD) ** AFGHANISTAN. The Ministry of Information and Culture here in Kabul was the scene of a suicide bomber today. One guy detonated on the 2nd floor while another was still at large somewhere in the building. Originally they tried the ministry of communications, but couldn't gain entry. The British Intelligence report is below my signature block. Kind regards, (Al Muick, Kabul, Oct 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Subject: Attack on Ministry - 30 OCT 08 --- All, I have attempted to send this info by SMS, so some of you may have received it already. At around 1040 hrs this morning, two suicide bombers attacked the Ministry of Culture and Information in PD 1. Both bombers were able to enter the ministry, shooting some guards and locals in the process. One bomber detonated his explosive vest on the second floor of the building. An unknown number of casualties have been suffered in the attack. As at 1140 hrs, the second bomber is reportedly in the building and a stand-off with security forces is ongoing. Further information will be disseminated as and when received. Regards, (James Morris, Intelligence Analyst, PSM Department, British Embassy, Kabul, Mobile: +93 (0) 7997 22791, Office: +93 (0) 70 102277, via Al Muick, DXLD) ** AFGHANISTAN. 6700, 1/11 1640, R. Solh - Bagram Air Base, Pushto musica locale, suff (Roberto Pavanello, Italy, via Roberto Scaglione, shortwave yg via DXLD) ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. RADIO SOLH B08 SCHEDULE 0200-0300 5925 DHA 250 kW/ 045 degrees 0300-1200 11675 DHA 250 kW/ 045 degrees 1200-1500 13830 RMP 500 kW/ 085 degrees 1500-1800 9875 RMP 500 kW/ 076 degrees Regards & many 73s! DL (Dragan Lekic, Serbia, Oct 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) REINO UNIDO, 9875, Radio Solh, Rampisham, 1535-1545, escuchada el 2 de noviembre con emisión de música folklórica local afgana, SINPO 45544 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The marker now to confirm whether Radio Solh via Rampisham UK, 13830, is still playing exactly the same music day after day at the same time is an abrupt cutoff of one piece at 1348, few seconds pause, start another one with a hi-pitched soprano, as noted again Nov 6. But no sticking or skipping (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA [and non]. Quite contrary to the day before, KNLS was inbooming on 6150, Oct 30 at 1254, wrapping up English hour with schedule, way atop the Taiwan and mainland co-channel. But // 6915 KNLS was very poor. Hard to explain the disparity of two frequencies less than 1 MHz apart from same site. Both are 100 kW at 270 degrees. How about next-door neighbor CKZU 6160; is it atop the competition from VOA and the Chicom? No way! KNLS, 6150, Nov 1 at 1245 in English with distinctive organ riffs, about equal level to co-channel Chinese, // weaker 6915, 1246 ID and short features. KNLS, 6150, weak but clear at 1436 Nov 3 during final English hour of the day, devotional message and quickly back to music at 1437, the station for limited-attention-spans; some adjacent QRM from 6145 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA. FCC LIMITS DART ALASKA ALLOCATION AT 7 MHZ Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1629, October 31st, 2008 A win for the ARRL in its request that an Alaskan digital radio experimental broadcast license be modified to exclude operation in the 40 meter band, but one that may not have been necessary. This with word that the Federal Communications Commission has modified the license for the WE2XRH granted to Digital Aurora Radio Technologies for Digital Radio Mondiale trials in the far North. Amateur Radio Newsline's Don Carlson, KQ6FM, has more: -- As we reported last week, on October 20th the American Radio Relay League had asked the FCC to delete the 7.1 to 7.3 MHz amateur service segment from the 7.1 to 7.6 MHz allocation that it had approved to Digital Aurora Radio Technologies. This, as one of several segments originally authorized to its Digital Radio Mondiale transmission experiment. Acting uncharacteristically quickly, on October 24th the FCC limited the station's license to 7.3 to 7.6 MHz if it wanted to try 40 meter operations. All other spectrum allocated for the experiment in the 4.5 to 5.1 and 9.25 to 9.95 MHz were not affected. However, it turns out that the main reason for the quick action by the FCC may have had nothing to do with what hams wanted. Rather, the word is that it gave the agency a chance to correct a clerical error made in the original license grant. According to several sources, the reach of the 7 MHz Digital Aurora Radio Technologies frequency assignment down to 7.1 MHz was never an issue in the Digital Radio Mondiale broadcasting community. Sources say that it has always been widely understood that no domestic Digital Radio Mondiale experiment or service will be launched in any ham radio band. So what happened? The Digital Aurora Radio Technologies antenna system bandwidth as specified in its filing to the FCC shows that it had the capability to operate down to 7.1 MHz. In an oversight, that became authorized as the lower band edge for the experimental grant until the ARRL petitioned the FCC to change it. Soon after the ARRL filed its petition Digital Aurora Radio Technologies readily agreed to the change. Also to be noted is that none of the technical data that Digital Aurora Radio Technologies supplied to the FCC proposed transmissions in any amateur service band. None the less the ARRL apparently felt compelled to act now if for no other reason than to protect ham radio operations on 40 meters from the potential incursion that might happen at a later date. This, if another broadcaster or service came along that did not want to play be the established gentlemen's agreement rules. For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Don Carlson, KQ6FM, in Reno (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) The DRM DART allocation will likely be even further limited by something that happened this part week in the U.S. courts --- Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens, the guy who provided funding for this through an "earmark" attached to a Department of Defense funding bill, was found guilty on several corruption charges. He is now officially a convicted felon. After the new Congress is elected this coming Tuesday, it would be no surprise to see most of Stevens's earmarks eliminated from next year's budget (Harry Helms W5HLH, Corpus Christi, TX EL17 Oct 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA [and non]. R. Tirana, English to NAm, Tue-Sun: 0130 9345, 0245 7390, 0330 6110, 0430 6100 (Bob Thomas, CT, Nov 2, by p-mail, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13720, R. Tirana in English to UK and NAm, 1530-1557 UT. English to GB and NAm. S=7-8 till 1558 UT on Oct 28th. Continued til 1557:30 UT with S=9+20 dB level. ID close-down IS, then transmitter OFF at 1557:50 UT. S=9+25 dB in peaks at 1530 UT Oct 29th, very good audio level today. TX already on air at 1521 UT, S=7-8 only and deep fades. Unlike the ID+IS part from the control room, the English program was on low modulation. 1528:10 UT interval signal started. RT close down pause melody at 1558:07 (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 28-29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) More R. Tirana monitoring chex Oct 28-29: English at 2115 good on 7510, better than // 9345; unfortunately, V. of Korea is also on 9345, nondirexional in Chinese and Korean, not to NAm, but still with enough signal to QRM Tirana here, as the evening progressed; at 2258 the two making a fast SAH of maybe 15 Hz during Albania`s national anthem, and at 2300 I could hear the VOK IS. Tirana is back on 9345 for the next transmission to North America from 0000; checked at 0040, the same SAH with VOK and Tirana // 6110 much better but still with leftover DentroCuban jamming. R. Tirana missing from 9345 at 2140 check Oct 30, nor heard later at several chex such as 0115. We learned later that the Shijak-1 transmitter is down, so that leaves only Shijak-2 available for all external service broadcasting, one frequency at a time. Meanwhile, we are looking for a better 7 MHz frequency than 9345 when the transmitter comes back. 13720 also absent at 1535 check Oct 31. Both R. Tirana transmitters at Shijak are back on the air, Oct 31 at 2111 with undermodulated music on S9+12 7510 signal; 2123 also heard // 9345 which was somewhat stronger with news in English about Albania; 2126 went to closing theme on 7510 and cut off at 2127 but came back on for another minute or so at 2128-2129* Meanwhile 9345 was playing IS from 2128, rating S9+20, 2130 signing on in Albanian with full transmission schedule just like they do in English. No co-channel from North Korea audible today. R. Tirana reconfirmed active and audible in English to North America Nov 1 at 1535 on 13720, as checked on the DX-398 portable while at the Enid hamfest. Nov 1 at 2356, 6110 R. Tirana IS started prior to the Albanian sesquihour, and NO jamming, but there was a bit of a SAH from some other carrier. However, at 2359 I could hear some DentroCuban bubble jamming building up against vacated VOA underneath Tirana. At 0443, the R. Tirana English to NAm on 6100 could be detected underneath Cuban pulse jamming, this time against non-existent Radio República. These would be good frequencies for Albania if the Cubans would just put their jammers where they are `needed`. R. Tirana, 9345, Nov 6 at 2130 with open carrier, 2132 signing-on Albanian sesquihour with usual low and somewhat distorted modulation. Fair to good signal and no QRM. So I was too late to hear how English made it at 2100, but should have been OK, also on 7510 and no WRNO on 7505 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7465, R Tirana in French at 1830 UT, S=9+20dB powerhouse. 7465, R Tirana in English at 1945 UT, S=9+10dB. 7465 French at 1959 UT interval signal into French service, tremendous S=9+40dB signal!!! 7465, R. Tirana in German at 2030 UT on non-dir antenna USELESS on Oct 28th. Rather NIL signal, no power, no audio, S=Zero level!!! 7510, R. Tirana in English at 2101 UT, poor compared with powerful on Oct 27th, only S=3-4 tonight Oct 28th. On 9345 totally USELESS, S=0 signal in Germany. 11645, R. Tirana in English till close-down 1957 UT, S=6 only, tiny only, better on Oct 27th. 13720, R. Tirana in English to UK and N America, 1530-1557 UT. English to GB and NAm. S=7-8 til 1558 UT on Oct 28th. Continued till 1557:30 UT with S=9+20 dB level. ID close-down IS, then tx OFF at 1557:50 UT. S=9+25dB in peaks at 1530 UT Oct 29th, very good audio level today. Transmitter already on air at 1521 UT, S=7-8 only and deep fades. Unlike the ID+IS part from the control room, the English program was on low modulation. 1528:10 UT interval signal started. RT close down pause melody at 1558:07 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, southern Germany, Oct 28 and/or 29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 4 via DXLD) ** ALBANIA. Goofy off-channel Albanians were very noticeable: 1214.79, 1394.62, 1457.59. It would appear that nothing's changed very much at the old Enver Hoxha Crystal Factory (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, Billerica, MA, 24 km / 15 miles NW of Prudential & Hancock towers (and Fenway Park), Oct 31, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** ALGERIA [non]. RTA B-08 relays via Issoudun France, at 162 and/or 194 degrees: 04-07 5865, 19-22 7455, 21-23 5865 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Saludos cordiales. 5865, Radio Algeria Int.??? 2202-2204, escuchada el 1 de noviembre en idioma árabe, música de sintonía, me recuerda mucho la sintonía de Radio Argelia Int, locutor con presentación, comentarios, muchas referencias a “Salama”; no encuentro emisión en 7295, se anunció esta frecuencia de 2200 a 2300 UT, ¿quizás nueva frecuencia?, SINPO 54444. 5915, Radio Algeria Int.,, 2210-2212, escuchada e 1 de noviembre en idioma árabe, locutor con comentarios, emisión de música , esta me recuerda más a Radio Algeria Int, y si no recuerdo mal, ya confirmada en DXLD por Glenn Hauser, SINPO 55444. 5865 NO ID. 73 JMR (José Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5865, fair to good in N Am after sign on at 0400z the past couple of nights (Jerry Lenamon, Waco TX, Nov 2, ibid.) 5915//5865 Radio Algeria Holy Qur`an, 2100-2105, escuchada el 2 de noviembre en idioma árabe, música de sintonía, locutor con presentación y posible cuña de identificación, comentarios y canto del Corán, según el HFCC la frecuencia de 5865 está listada vía Issoudon en Francia de 2100 a 2300, la frecuencia de 5915 vía Rampinsan en el Reino Unido con el mismo horario, ambas para TDA Telediffusion d'Algerie, no se aprecia emisión en la frecuencia de 7175 anunciada de 2000 a 2200, ni tampoco en 7295 de 2100 a 2300, SINPO 45444 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) In the 2100-2300 block on 1 November, R. Algerienne good on all four listed channels - 5865 Issoudun, 5915 Rampisham, 7455 Issoudun, 9850 Sines - all in // with usual Arabic program (David Yocis, Harpers Ferry WV, USA (39.13 N, 77.48 W), R8B, various wires, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Despite RTA Algiers is a regular customer on VTC's (ex Merlin brokery) three UK sites Rampisham, Skelton, Woofferton, as well as Sines Portugal - we noted often also test transmissions from Issoudun site in France, in order to attract Radio Algerienne to change the broker in next season? I guess. See this TDA / TDF / ISS item of 2007: RTAlgiers tests in Arabic (Holy Quran sce) via TDF/ISS 500 kW on Dec 6-12 2007 only : 0400-0658 5960 / 194 deg to EaCeAf; 7295 / 162 deg to NoWeAf 0700-0758 9435 / 194 deg to EaCeAf; 11625 / 162 deg to NoWeAf 0800-0858 9435 / 194 deg to EaCeAf; 15230 / 162 deg to NoWeAf 0900-1058 15230 / 162 deg to NoWeAf; 15615 / 194 deg to EaCeAf 1600-1658 13830 / 194 deg to EaCeAf; 15165 / 162 deg to NoWeAf 1700-1758 9610 / 162 deg to NoWeAf; 13830 / 194 deg to EaCeAf 1800-1958 9610 / 162 deg to NoWeAf; 9820 / 194 deg to EaCeAf 2000-2058 7175 / 162 deg to NoWeAf; 9820 / 194 deg to EaCeAf 2100-2258 7175 / 162 deg to NoWeAf; 7295 / 194 deg to EaCeAf (R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX Dec 13, 2007 Maybe check now 5865 0400-0700, 5865 2100-2300, 7115 0600-0700 7295 0400-0700, 7295 2100-2300, 7455 1900-2200, 9390 1800-2100 9825 1900-2100 This season B-08 via VTC 5915 2100-2300 TDA Rampisham 500 160 NoAF HR 4/4/0.5 6090 400- 600 TDA Rampisham 500 180 NoAF HR 4/2/0.3 6125 400- 500 TDA Sines 250 134 NoAF HR 4/4/0.8 6125 500- 557 TDA Sines 250 134 NoAF HR 4/4/0.8 7435 1900-2000 TDA Rampisham 250 180 NoAF HR 4/2/0.3 7435 2000-2100 TDA Sines 250 170 NoAF HR 4/4/0.8 9455 1900-2000 TDA Rampisham 500 160 NoAF HR 4/4/0.5 9455 2000-2100 TDA Rampisham 500 160 NoAF HR 4/4/0.5 9850 2100-2300 TDA Sines 250 170 NoAF HR 4/4/0.8 (Wolfgang Büschel, Nov 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) FRANCIA, 7455, Radio Algeria Holy Qur`an, Issoudun, 2130-2140, escuchada el 6 de noviembre en idioma árabe a locutor con comentarios; a las 2126 comienza canto del Cor`án, emisión en paralelo por 5865, sin emisión en 5915, captada el pasado 2 de noviembre. No se aprecia emisión en 7175 ni en 7295, en paralelo por 5865, SINPO 45544 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS [and non]. 4760.02, 1530-1545, INDIA, 29.10, AIR Port Blair. English news e.g. about the earthquake in Pakistan, weak heterodyne maybe from AIR Leh 34343. The news were heard // AIR Imphal (4775), AIR Lucknow (4880), AIR Kurseong (4895), AIR Jaipur (4910), AIR Chennai (4920), AIR Guwahati (4940), AIR Shimla (4965), AIR Shillong (4970), AIR Itanagar (4990), AIR Thiruvananthapuram (5010), AIR Delhi (5015) and AIR Jeypore (5040). A few more AIR stations were heard in the 60 mb with other programs. The conditions are good now for Asia! (Anker Petersen, Denmark, AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** ANGUILLA [and non]. Not only does PMS, 6090 have a constant hum on her own transmitter, but also that het from Nigeria(?), and at 2237 Nov 6, DRM bleeding over from 6085. That`s supposed to end at 2200 per DRM skeds, 10 kW non-direxional from Bayerischer Rundfunk, Ismaning (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476.02, 1900-1930 30.10, R Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza. Spanish announcement, Argentine music, 25332, but deteriorating with deep fades (Anker Petersen, Denmark, AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ANTARTIDA, 15476, 1901-1910, 05-11, LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, escuchada a partir de las 1901 que cierra Africa nº 1 en 15475 kHz. Identificación en varios idiomas por locutor y locutora, comentarios en español y canciones latinoamericanas. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España. Grundig Satellit 500 y Sony ICF SW 7600G, Antena de cable, 8 metros, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. RAE now at 0100 on 11711v is making it here. Not even scratchin (Bob Thomas, CT, Oct 29, by p-mail, DX LISTENING DIGEST) You mean *not* making it there? (gh, DXLD) It`s been rough out there looking for new fall/winter SW frequencies! A lot of QRN, QSB, no shows, or zero propagation? (Thomas, ibid.) 11710.820 kHz, 0041 1/11, R.A.E. Radio Nacional Buenos Aires. Vrij goed tenemen sterk signaal, maar audio naar de zwakke kant. Gr. Maurits. Klikken op de linck http://www.4shared.com/file/69241014/1c8f5bd7/_3__rec_27.html - (3) rec_27.mp3 (Maurits Van Driessche, Belgium, bdx mailing list via DXLD) 11710.81v, RAE, 0013-0105, Nov 4, played tango music, "R-A-E" IDs spelled out, plus "RAE Buenos Aires" in Japanese till 0100, then English, fair-poor, best in USB (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 5945v, RNA. October 29, Spanish, 0807-0817 Panorama Nacional program, "Maradona treinador técnico de la selección de fútbol argentina.", 0811 OM ID "lo [sic] país escucha RN". // 5940, 44444, 73 (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - dipole 18m, 32m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I`ve yet to see an explanation of RN appearing around these unscheduled frequencies. The 6060 transmitter out of whack? See alsoi UNIDENTIFIED 6982 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** ASIA. More improvements at DXAsia The DXAsia website has added an SQL search facility, offering DXers the chance to make a quick search of all the data on the site to help in identifying stations. This facility is still being enhanced, and feedback from users would be appreciated. Click on 'What's this about?" directly underneath the query box on every page of the site, for an example of how it works. http://dxasia.info/ (Andy Sennitt, Nov 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ASIA [non]. USA [non] B-08 RFA Daily Broadcast Frequencies. All times in UT. Burmese (4 hours daily) 0030-0130 13710TIN, 13815IRA, 15700TIN 1230-1330 11795TIN, 12105IRA, 15700TIN 1330-1400 9670TIN, 11795IRA, 13855IRA 1400-1430 11795KWT, 13855IRA 1630-1730 7505TIN Cantonese (2 hours daily) 1400-1500 5840TIN, 7280TIN 2200-2300 9570TIN, 11775TIN Khmer (2 hours daily) 1230-1330 13725IRA, 15160TIN 2230-2330 9355IRA, 11850TIN Korean (5 hours daily) 1500-1700 1350 , 5860TIN, 7210IRK, 9385SAI 1700-1900 1350 , 5860TIN, 9385IRA 2100-2200 1350 , 7460 , 9385TIN, 12075TIN Lao (2 hours daily) 0000-0100 11830IRA, 15535TIN 1100-1130 9355IRA, 15120IRA 1130-1200 9355IRA, 15120SAI Mandarin (12 hours daily) [see also CHINA [non]] 0300-0400 11980IRK, 13710TIN, 15150TIN, 15665TIN, 17880SAI, 21540TIN 0400-0600 11980IRK, 13710TIN, 15150TIN, 15665TIN, 17615TIN, 17880SAI, 21540TIN 0600-0700 11980IRK, 13710TIN, 15150TIN, 15665TIN, 17880SAI 1500-1600 5810TIN, 7445TIN, 9440TIN, 9905PAL, 11945TIN, 13670TIN 1600-1700 5810TIN, 7415TIN, 7445TIN, 9455SAI, 9905PAL, 11945TIN 13670TIN 1700-1800 5810TIN, 7415TIN, 7445TIN, 9355SAI, 9455SAI, 9905PAL 11945TIN, 13670TIN 1800-1900 5810TIN, 6095TIN, 7385TWN, 7415TIN, 7445TIN, 9355SAI 9455SAI, 11790SAI, 11945TIN, 13670TIN 1900-2000 1098TWN, 5810TIN, 5990TIN, 6095TIN, 7385TWN, 7445TIN 9355SAI, 9455SAI, 9875PAL, 11790SAI, 11945TIN 2000-2100 1098TWN, 5810TIN, 5990TIN, 6095TIN, 7190TIN, 7355TWN 9355SAI, 9455SAI, 9875PAL, 11900SAI, 11945TIN 2100-2200 1098TWN, 5810TIN, 6095TIN, 7190TIN, 7355TWN, 9355SAI 9455SAI, 9875PAL, 11945TIN, 13745TIN 2300-0000 7540 , 11775TIN, 11975TIN, 15265SAI, 15430TIN, 15550TIN Tibetan (10 hours daily) 0100-0300 7470KWT, 9670WER, 11695UAE, 15220TIN, 17730 0600-0700 17515 , 17715KWT, 21570TIN, 21695UAE 1000-1100 11605LAM, 15140LAM, 17750KWT 1100-1200 7470 , 11540 , 11590KWT, 15375UAE 1200-1400 7470 , 11540 , 11590KWT, 13625TIN, 15375UAE 1500-1600 7470BIB-1530 / KWT1530-, 7550 , 11500KWT, 15145UAE 2200-2300 5820TIN, 7470TIN, 9835LAM 2300-0000 6010UAE, 7470 , 7550KWT, 9875LAM Uyghur (2 hours daily) 0100-0200 7480 , 9480LTU, 9645UAE, 9690UAE, 13605TIN 1600-1700 7470IRA, 7510 , 11720SAI, 11730UAE Vietnamese (2 hours daily) 1400-1500 5855TIN, 7515TIN, 9455SAI, 11605TWN, 12130IRA 13865IRA, 15195TIN 1400-1430 1503TWN 2330-0030 5855IRA, 11580 , 11605TWN, 11965TIN, 15135TIN, 15565VLD (Radio Free Asia website, via Gordon Brown-UK, NWDXC Nov 3 via BC-DX Nov 4 via DXLD) Some sensitive relay sites deleted (gh) Burmese service minus 2 transmission hrs, formerly 6 hrs. Vietnamese service +2 frequencies. (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** AUSTRALIA. 2485, VL8K Katherine, 10/29/08, 1210, English. Female DJ spinning modern and vintage pop tunes with a few local ABC AM/FM IDs and promos for other shows between songs, closing chat at 1229 mentioned a "15-minute outage" for FM freq, then a nice full ID and into ABC news at 1230. S9+ signal, though noisy. // 2325 similar strength, 2310 weak. Fair (Mark Schiefelbein, MO, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 4910 with a station in English at 0000, believe it`s VL8. Grayline in play between here and NT; and I see someone in Massachusetts had this during the previous hour (William Brown, 38 N/ 93 W, Missouri, Nov 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Seems too late to me; 9:30 am NT time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 5995, Nov 1 at 1236 Christian choral music with piano accompaniment, 1240 Chinese announcement, so it`s YFR via Pet/Kam; mixing with DRM centred on 5995 from RA Brandon, Australia, two rather incompatible modes. 5995 with roughly equal collision between YFR Open Forum via Petropavlovsk Kamchatskiy, and Radio Australia, both in English at 1439 Nov 3, making both of them useless (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) R. Australia via Taiwan, 11550, Nov 6 at 2220 in Indonesian mixed with English, perhaps part of lessons; fair. Someone else recently reported this as R. Cairo in Arabic and English, but that has moved to 6255, which I also heard today; see EGYPT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. With effect from Sunday 26 October 2008 until 9 March 2009, or until further notice, the following schedule will apply to Radio Australia broadcasts on shortwave from our off-shore partners at CVC (Cox Peninsular [sic]) and RTI (Taiwan). Indonesian 2200-2330 9630 Cox Peninsular 11550 Taiwan 0000-0030 15180 Cox Peninsular 15335 Taiwan 0400-0430 15180 Cox Peninsular 11550 Taiwan 0500-0530 15180 Cox Peninsular 11745 Taiwan 0600-0630 15180 Cox Peninsular (English on Sat/Sun) 15290 Taiwan (English on Sat/Sun) Chinese 1300-1430 11825 Cox Peninsular 11760 Taiwan English 2200-0000 12010 Cox Peninsular 2200-2330 15240 Taiwan 0000-0130 17775 Cox Peninsular Changes are: Indonesian, 9630 replaces 9785 kHz. English, 12010 replaces 11840 kHz. All transmissions are 250 kW except 15335 kHz 0000-0030 UT from Taiwan at 100 kW and 11760 kHz 1300-1430 UT from Taiwan at 300 kW (via Ian Johnson, Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. New schedule of DX Partyline via HCJB Australia in B08 : 1230 - 1245 UT on 15400 (Saturday) 1315 - 1330 UT on 15540 (Thursday) (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA. R. Austria International, 13730, Oct 31 at 1310 in German tho I was expecting English. Non-// 17855 inaudible. It would be nice if RAI would put English on at reliable same times every day; is that too much to ask? Yes, we are lucky they are still doing any English at all until the big turn-off Dec 31. 13730 at 1355 Nov 7 in English, interview about search engines and their drawbax, with someone who spoke with an Arnoldesque accent, so he must be Austrian too. Still going at 1359 and I feared they would not get finished by end of transmission, but closed Report from Austria just barely in time for 1400* DCI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA. 17610, AWR ID in English at 1430 Nov 3, introducing service in Afar, and I do believe it was, as I could not understand a word of it from afar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA. Frequency changes for Adventist World Radio / AWR from Nov. 1: 0330-0400 NF 6090 MOS 300 kW / 100 deg to WeAs, ex 6095 in Farsi 1900-1930 NF 9620 MOS 300 kW / 190 deg to WeAf, ex 9535*in Hausa 1930-2000 NF 9620 MOS 300 kW / 175 deg to CeAf, ex 9535*in French * to avoid CRI in Portuguese (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 3 via DXLD) ** AZERBAIJAN [and non]. AZERBAIJAN TO END VOA, OTHER FOREIGN BROADCASTS ON LOCAL RADIO --- By VOA News 31 October 2008 http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-10-31-voa54.cfm Authorities in Azerbaijan say they plan to halt local broadcasts by foreign stations by the end of the year. The chairman of Azerbaijan's National Television and Radio Council, Nushiravan Maharramli, says his country is not interested in granting local frequencies to foreign broadcasters. He says the change will affect the BBC, the British Broadcasting Corporation, U.S. financed Voice of America and Radio Liberty. The official says his country has been gradually implementing changes, having previously eliminated broadcasts by Russian, French and Turkish stations. The U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors, the federal agency responsible for all U.S. government-supported, non-military international broadcasting, says it strongly objects to the proposal. A BBG Board Member, Steven J. Simmons, says the decision follows a "disturbing pattern" that began with harsh restrictions on private broadcasters within Azerbaijan two years ago and now directly impacts international media. A spokesman for the U.S. embassy in Baku, Terry Davidson, says it will be seeking clarification of the issue from the Azerbaijani government. He said in Azerbaijan, foreign broadcasters such as the Voice of America, the BBC and Radio Liberty have contributed greatly to enriching the space for public debate and understanding. (Some information for this report was provided by AFP.) (via Dale Park, HI; Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India, dxldyg via DXLD) Aw, shux, another service that will have to rely on obsolete SW (gh) ** BANGLADESH. 4750, Bangladesh Betar, Shavar, 1057-1116, Oct 28, listed Bengali. Music and talk battling with CODAR for dominance; distinct flute IS at 1100; announcer with talk thru tune-out; poor- weak until crushed by huge spike in CODAR level at 1116 (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, N.H., USA, R8, R75, CLR/DSp, MLB1, 200' Bevs, 60 M dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) No Makassar? 4750 was still transmitting past 1800 UT, Mauno monitored also this frequency and says it was on through the nite. Some national event or change in bc times? (Jari Savolainen, Finland, DXplorer Oct 27 via BC- DX Nov 4 via DXLD)) RBD didn't sign on till 0030 this evening instead of previous 0000. (Bob Hill, MA, DXplorer Oct 27, ibid.) 4750.00, 1530-1610 03.11, Bangladesh Betar, English/Bengali. 1530 news in English about Bangladesh, 1545 Bengali ID: "Bangladesh Betar, Dhaka", talk, speech in English by a foreign guest about Bangladesh, Bengali talk, 1600 Bengali news 33443 QRM Qinghai PBS (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) 7250, R. Bangladesh, Dhaka. Caught the end of the English program at 1258 until 1300* on 17/10. Good but suffers from a lousy hum, transmitter fault? (John Adams, Beech Forest Vic (JRC NRD-535, 24 Metre long wire, Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) Do they still call it in English ``Radio Bangladesh`` rather than ``Bangladesh Betar``? (gh, DXLD) ** BELARUS. 7135 NF, Radio Station Belarus, 2100-2130+, Oct 29, opening English ID announcements at 2100. News at 2101 followed by lite instrumental music. News commentary. Fair level but the usual muffled audio. Some adjacent channel splatter. Weak // 7360 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. Even Belarus Radio on 6080 kHz booms in now to 2205 UT, due of low DWL level from UAE Al Dhabbaya site next door 6075 kHz. Strong also on new 7135 kHz at 1800-2400 UT. Minsk outlets of 7360 and 7390 kHz at 1200-2400 UT produce a distorted spurious signal on the upper side on 7420 kHz, at least in past two winter seasons. Latter hetting even R Sweden 500 kW powerhouse at 1200-1215/1230 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) BIELORRUSIA, 7390, Radio Belarus, Minsk-Kalodzicy, 1519-1522, escuchada el 2 de noviembre en bielorruso a locutor y locutora con noticias; a pesar de la buena señal se aprecia un nivel de audio muy bajo, SINPO 45443 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. Winter B-08 of Radio Station Belarus: Radio Belarus Minsk 1200-1700 on 7360 MNS 075 kW / 270 deg in Belarussian 1200-1700 on 7390 MNS 150 kW / 246 deg in Belarussian 1700-1900 on 7360 MNS 075 kW / 270 deg in Russian 1700-1900 on 7390 MNS 150 kW / 246 deg in Russian 1805-1900 on 7135*MNS 250 kW / 252 deg in Russian 1900-2040 on 7135*MNS 250 kW / 252 deg in German 1900-2040 on 7360 MNS 075 kW / 270 deg in German 1900-2040 on 7390 MNS 150 kW / 246 deg in German 2040-2100 on 7135*MNS 250 kW / 252 deg in Polish 2040-2100 on 7360 MNS 075 kW / 270 deg in Polish 2040-2100 on 7390 MNS 150 kW / 246 deg in Polish 2100-2300 on 7135 MNS 250 kW / 252 deg in English 2100-2300 on 7360 MNS 075 kW / 270 deg in English 2100-2300 on 7390 MNS 150 kW / 246 deg in English 2300-2400 on 7135 MNS 250 kW / 252 deg in Russian 2300-2400 on 7360 MNS 075 kW / 270 deg in Russian 2300-2400 on 7390 MNS 150 kW / 246 deg in Russian * co-ch 1900-2000 RFI in Russian; 1900-2100 VOA in Korean Belorussian Radio HS 0500-0800 on 7170#MNS 250 kW / 072 deg in Belarussian 1600-1800 on 7180^MNS 250 kW / 072 deg in Belarussian # co-ch 0600-0630 RRI in French ^ co-ch 1600-1700 VOA in Bangla; 1600-1700 CRI in Turkish; 1700-1800 CRI in English; 1700-1730 TRT in Croatian (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 3 via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DXLD) ** BELGIUM [non]. REINO UNIDO, 6040, Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal, Skelton, 1940-1950, escuchada el 2 de noviembre en holandés a locutora con entrevista a invitado en programa musical, emisión de música pop; según listado de HFCC para B-08 emisión diaria de 1900 a 2000 vía Skelton en Reino Unido, SINPO 55555 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELGIUM [non]. Winter B-08 of TDP stations: Moj Them Radio in Hmong: 0100-0130 on 15260 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Mon/Wed/Fri Haiv Hmoob Radio in Hmong: 0100-0130 on 15260 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Tue Hmong Lao Radio in Hmong: 0100-0200 on 15260 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Thu/Sun Hmong World Christian Radio in Hmong: 0100-0200 on 15260 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Sat Denge Mezopotamya in Kurdish: 0500-1400 on 11530 SMF 300 kW / 129 deg to WeAs 1400-2100 on 7540 SMF 500 kW / 129 deg to WeAs TDP Radio in DRM: 0800-0900 on 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Mon 0900-1000 on 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Tue 1000-1100 on 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Wed 1100-1200 on 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Thu 1200-1300 on 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Fri 1300-1400 on 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Sat 1400-1500 on 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Sun 1500-1600 on 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Daily 2300-2400 on 9790 SAC 070 kW / 227 deg to NoAm Daily Que Huong Radio in Vietnamese: 1200-1300 on 15680 DB 100 kW / 117 deg to SEAs Wed-Fri Radio Xoriyo Ogadenia in Somali: 1400-1430 on 21585 SAM 250 kW / 188 deg to EaAf Tue/Sat Aso Radio in Hausa: 1600-1645 on 15180 RUSorCIS transmitter to WCAf Mon-Fri Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church/Holy Synod Radio in Amharic: 1600-1700 on 15195 SAM 250 kW / 188 deg to EaAf Mon Addis Dimts Radio in Amharic: 1600-1700 on 15195 SAM 250 kW / 188 deg to EaAf Sun Ginbot 7 Radio in Amharic: 1700-1730 on 12120*SAM 250 kW / 188 deg to EaAf Tue/Thu/Sun 1700-1730 on 15350 SAM 250 kW / 188 deg to EaAf Tue/Thu/Sun * strong co-ch Radio Liberty in Georgian (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 3 via DXLD) Aso Radio is a new one (gh) ** BENIN. 1566, TWR, Parakou, 2004-2019, 01 Nov, French, songs, talks; 55444, better with just 50 kW than the VoA via STP with 600 kW. 5025, ORTB, Parakou, 1432- 01 Nov, carrier with extremely low modulation like on the previous evening (31 Oct); 15341 (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BHUTAN. 6035 *0000-0030 26+29.10, Bhutan BS, Sangaygang. Dzongkha opening announcement, Horn music, Monks intoning, songs 32433 strong Colombia QRM (Anker Petersen, Denmark, AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, Oct 30, playdx yg via DXLD) Bhutan Long Path --- Bhutan BS 6035 11/1 with weak, but clear signal with man talking in language from 0034 tune. No sign of Colombian yet as of 0045 (Bruce Churchill, CA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) Bhutan Broadcasting Service is broadcasting special live programme from Punakha on Coronation & Centenary celebration today, November 1 2008 on 6035 kHz (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India, 0204 UT Nov 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BBS by longpath: [Fallbrook, CA - near San Diego] 11/3 BBS on 6035, again with no Colombian QRM from 0010 tune with what I assume is Buddhist chants with man, group and (maybe) bells. Weak but clear except for adjacent channel splatter. SINPO 2+4442+. Noticeable improvement from 0010 and by switching from ECSS USB to LSB, eliminated most of splatter. At 0022 nice vocal music and then woman ann at 0025-25.5, another Bhutanese vocal piece at 25.5 (male). Woman announcement 0030-30.5, instrumental music to 0031 then man ann. Certainly best long path signal for BBS received here and at least as good as best 1400 transmission heard. 11/3 - BBS now peaking at 0035-0040 with Bhutanese male vocal at 0040, woman announcer 0044 then more vocal music 0044.5. Almost S-3 with flutter QRM. Started a fade after 0045, back to S2 by 0050 with man ann. Much more interesting programming today than usual at this time. Still clear frequency and minimal splatter with ECSS-LSB and 3.8 KHz bandwidth (Bruce W. Churchill, Fallbrook CA, Cumbredx mailing list via DXLD) ** BHUTAN. Hi Glenn, BBS has had special programming all this week for events relating to the formal coronation Thurs. (Nov. 6) of the Oxford educated Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, who has become the world's youngest reigning monarch. He is 28. The national holidays continue through Nov 8. Imagine that next week they will continue on with special programming via BBS. Check their website this weekend, as it probably will be updated http://www.bbs.com.bt/radiosch.htm (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Nov 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also TINY TRAP ** BHUTAN. Bhutan Watch - Alternate Source --- From Nov 7 to 17 Gerard (F2VX), Jean-Louis (F9DK) and Alain (F5LMJ) will be operating from Thimpu as A5100A for Bhutan’s 100th Anniversary celebration – 10 to 80m SSB and CW. Web site at http://www.tuduri.net/f5lmj/A5/a5100a/a5-08-en.htm Not SWBC, but hey, Bhutan is Bhutan! This would be a nice commemorative catch. The DXpedition is longer than the above dates (goes another week beyond 11/17, but operation will be portable and sporadic). (Bruce Churchill, CA, Nov 3, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** BIAFRA [non]. On the last Friday of A-08, Oct 24, V. of Biafra International via WHRI at 20-21 UT was on 15280, but their website said it was on ``15.67``. The first Friday of B-08, Oct 31, we made sure to check during that hour, and there it was on 15665, the scheduled B-08 frequency --- except now their website says: ``Voice of Biafra International (VOBI) A SHORTWAVE Radio Broadcast Service transmitting on 15.28 MHz (on 19 meter band) at 2000 - 2100 Hours UTC (Universal Time [Coordinated]) equivalent to 9.00 pm-10.00 pm Biafraland time every Friday. A project of Biafra Foundation, and Biafra Actualization Forum.`` as in http://www.biafraland.com/vobi.htm Will they ever get synchronized? I was not listening at the opening or closing when one frequency of the other may have been announced. Reception was a bit `hollow`, probably back-radiation from WHRI plus backscatter rather than long-path (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6075, Radio Kausauki [sic --- it`s Kausachun] Coca, (presumed), 0950-1040 Oct 31. It's getting tough to hear this station here. The freq is occupied with others and has background noise inhibiting reception. Anyway, noted a male in Spanish language comments at 0950 for a minute or two, then the signal faded out. At 1002, copy returned with a female talking which was followed with fading again. At 1011, signal returned for a few brief moments then faded again. At 1029 music was heard, but believe that was coming from Radio Rossii which is on the freq and which took over by 1035. Bolivia was poor to nil during the period (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston, Florida, NRD545, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6134.80, Radio Santa Cruz, 0100-0114*, Nov 1, Spanish talk. Ads. Spanish ballads. Local music. Many IDs. Sign off with local ranchero-style tune with many mentions of Santa Cruz in the lyrics. Poor to fair with adjacent channel splatter (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4885, R. Club do Pará, Belém PA, 1955- 01 Nov, ID + frequencies announcement, football news; 25332 but rapidly improving as usual. This is Brazil's first 60 m band stn to fade in (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Many more of his Brazilian and other logs appear in the dxldyg (gh) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 9665, Radio Marumbuy, Florianópolis, 2150-2155, 01-11, locutor, portugués, partidos de fútbol campeonato brasileiro. Interferencia de Radio Exterior de España en la misma frecuencia con programa "Tablero Deportivo". 12321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, Escuchas realizadas en Friol, Grundig Satellit 500 y Sony ICF SW 7600G, Antena de cable, 10 metros, orientada WSW, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11780, Rádio Nacional da Amazonia, 0205-0210, Nov 1, Portuguese talk. IDs. Lite instrumental music. Good. No //s heard (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RNA, 11780, Nov 3 at 0714 with Brazilian songs, S9+22, plus weaker but plenty strong distorted matching spurs centered at 11721.5 and 11838.5. Don`t recall any such spurs reported before from this Brasília transmitter; plus and minus 58.5 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Alô amigo Glenn, Ao ler teu LOG de hoje da RNA, informando sobre os espúrios, fui verificar se captava os mesmos, pois estou escrevendo um texto para o programa dexista, falando sobre os problemas nas transmissões, e uma gravação seria um ótimo exemplo prá utilizar nisso. Assim, estive monitorando a Radio Nacional da Amazônia, em 25 metros, na frequência de 11780 kHz, no período da noite, de 1800 ás 1923 UT. Mas, infelizmente, diferente do que você ouviu na parte da manhã, não observei a presença de nenhuma transmissão espúrias, pois a emissora estava transmitindo firme em sua frequência padrão, em 11780 kHz. Os espúrios que captei em 11721 kHz eram da Radio Riyadh, transmitindo cântico do Alcorão com 500 kW (freq. central de 11715 kHz) e em 11838 kHz eu não recebi nenhum sinal de RF, somente interferências. Mesmo querendo gravar, não consegui captar por aqui as anomalias que você ouviu ás 0714 UT. Um abraço, (Adalberto Marques de Azevedo, Barbacena - MG, Nov 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Your hearing a Saudi spur on 11721 must be quite coincidental, as I am positive I had those two spurs of RNA 11780 with matching audio – but not the next night. Perhaps they will reappear on other occasions (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RNA, 11780, which had distorted matching spurs the night before on 11721.5 and 11838.5, at 0737 Nov 4 heard without the spurs. However, the fundamental was not as strong (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks Glenn, Vou continuar monitorando para ver se consigo gravar esta falha (Adalberto, ibid.) ** BULGARIA [and non]. R. Bulgaria, 15700, starting news in English at 1230 Nov 1. This semi-hour transmission is at 306 degrees to Europe, and might as well be to NAm too in the same direxion. I usually hear this frequency after 1300 in Bulgarian. Radio Bulgaria`s English broadcast to North America at 0000-0100 is totally ruined on 5900 thanks to that defective motorboating Russian transmitter always operating in B-season from one of the Moscow sites on 5900, as heard 0010 Nov 2. Absolutely nothing was readable either from it or from Bulgaria. As in DXLD 8-115, 5900 is on VOR`s B-08 Spanish schedule at 0100-0300; not sure what service is on it during the previous hour. Aside from the QRM they cause to neighbors, waste of electricity and effort, ¿are the Russian engineers sinvergüenza? But we can still hear Bulgaria on 7400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Still heard using just one frequency, though announcing two, at start of new schedule period, English to Europe noted 0730-0800 on 7400, 1230-1300 on 15700, 1830-1900 and 2200-2300 on 7400 (Edwin Southwell, England, Nov World DX Club Contact via DXLD) R. Bulgaria, 15700 transmitter again putting out modulation spike spurs between 15680 and 15720, Nov 4 at 1423, bothering Portugal on 15690 which at the moment had some Brazilian talking about Carnaval. R. Bulgaria, 15700 is still putting out modulation spike spurs, at 1409 Nov 7 during Bulgarian bihour, this time evident out to plus and minus 25 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. DRM transmissions of Bulgarian National Radio, program Horisont from Nov. 1 1000-1300 on 11900 SOF 020 kW / 306 deg to WeEu Mon-Thu 1400-1700 on 9400 SOF 020 kW / 306 deg to WeEu Mon-Thu 0700-1300 on 11900 SOF 020 kW / 306 deg to WeEu Fri-Sun (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 3 via DXLD) ** BURKINA FASO. 7230, R. Burkina not audible on 01 or 02 Nov. I'm not sure, but believe their evening outlet of 5030 is down too (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BURMA [non]. New 5955, *2330-0029*, CLANDESTINE, 02/03.11, Democratic Voice of Burma, via Wertachtal. Burmese announcement with string music opening on usual winter frequency ex 9490, phone interviews, 0003 Burmese martial songs, 0015 programme in Arakan which sounded very different from Burmese, talk and folksongs accompanied by strident string instruments 33443 QRM splashes from Voice of Turkey 5960 (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** CANADA. Two English programs mixing on 6160 at 0738 Nov 4, making fast SAH, from CKZU and CKZN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also NEWFOUNDLAND ** CANADA. 6030, Calgary - CFVP relaying CKMX (AM 1060), 1412-1421 + 1603-1612, Nov 2, all infomercials (omega 3 super pills, etc.), fair- poor (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [and non]. CFRX has yet more competition for 6070, now that R. Rumanía Internacional is back in full business, as heard Nov 6 at 2235 with ID in Spanish and folk music. CFRX was capable of making no more than a fast SAH with RRI, now scheduled on 6070 only at 22-23, 300 kW, 247 degrees from Tiganesti. It`s about the same fast SAH that off-frequency and undermodulated CFRX sometimes makes with CVC Chile which now doesn`t open on 6070 until 0000 and then runs all-night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [and non]. In A-08 HFCC, OTTAWA appeared 24 hours on 7335, so broadcasters would at least know CHU existed, but in B-08 it`s deleted (and not shown on 7850, probably will not be as considered utility), so altho CHU has yet to make its long-planned QSY, the broadcasters have moved in on 7335, as if CHU and its would-be listeners do not exist. Among others, there`s VOR with a big signal via Guiana French to NAm at 0200-0600, but also WHRI is scheduled three hours a day, 12-13 and 22-24. WHRI`s ``Daily Dose`` of gospel rock heard at 2250 Nov 6, very strong. I reject this iatrogenic medicine (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Re: ``As far as I know, the transmitter is still owned by the CBC, and leased by the AM740 ownership. CJBC 860 (Radio-Canada in French) broadcasts from the same location. Its the CBC's call when work is done on it.`` But at least here in Europe it is standard to ask the customer for an opinion in regard to especially important programming that should better not be affected. Anyway I assume that the antenna work is limited to the daytime, thus nothing should prevent running full power during the evening and night. 860 is not just co-located, it's even diplexed into the same antenna. So what do they with this outlet during the announced work? And has it a real audience at all or is it a merely political thing, a demonstration of how much the CBC is committed to Canada's bilingual nature? The transmitter site is featured on a number of webpages, but beware, they are outdated in as far as the old tube transmitters are gone now, replaced by Nautel XR50 boxes (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Both. CJBC doesn't have a huge audience, I think just significant enough to show up as a blip at the bottom of the seasonal radio ratings. Radio-Canada has a presence in Toronto and other major centres in English Canada in the same way CBC Radio One has a presence in Quebec City. All part of the attempt to make a Quebecois feel at home in Toronto or Calgary and likewise for an anglophone in Quebec. Toronto/Southern Ontario actually has 5 or 6 radio stations now, devoted in whole or in part to neither English nor French, but since these stations serve a multitude of language groups, they don't have a huge audience at any one time either. There is even a station just across the Niagara River in the United States, WTOR 770 which goes after the Toronto ethnic radio market (Fred Waterer, ibid.) ** CANADA. Hi Glenn, FYI - noticed on the drive home shortly after 5 this evening [2300 UT] that 990 CBW in Winnipeg was nice and loud. Not sure how early in the day one can hear it right now - toward the winter solstice I've noticed it easily heard as early as 3 pm [2100 UT]. 73, (Todd Brandenburg, K0KAN Topeka KS, Nov 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Around here we have KTOK-1000 IBOC (gh) ** CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC. 7220, R. Centrafrique not audible on 01 or 02 Nov (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHAD. Radiodiffusion Nationale Tchadienne heard on 6165 kHz from tune-in at 2158 UT on 28 October 2008 with African rhythms, news and reports in French at 2201, followed by further music and announcements through to sign-off at 2230 with National Anthem. Fair reception on a clear channel (SIO 343). (Tony Rogers, Birmingham, UK, AOR 7030+ / LW, BDXC-UK via DXLD) Haven`t heard them lately on 4905 around 0600; inactive there again? (Glenn Hauser, OK, Nov 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 6165 ex-4905 - RNT N'Djamena back on 49 mb. Scheint auf 6165 kHz zurueck gekehrt zu sein. Es sind jedenfalls afrikanische Klaenge und franzoesische Ansagen und Kroatien zu hoeren. ID allerdings bislang Fehlanzeige - ueber die volle Stunde wurde Musik gespielt, und auch in den Ansagen war bislang nichts dabei. Auf 4905 kHz ist Station in den letzten Tagen jedenfalls nicht zu hoeren gewesen. Die Station auf 6165 kHz ist RNT - um 1901 UTC kam eine ID (Patrick Robic, Austria, A-DX Aug 22 [sic: must mean Oct 22]) via BC-DX Oct 28 via DXLD) New 6165.00, 2010-2025 25.10, R Dif. Nationale Tchadienne, Gredia. French announcements, Afropop, New frequency ex 4905, 43433. Stronger Croatia also on 6165.00 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, Oct 30, playdx yg via DXLD) Not new, but reactivated, or schedule expanded 6165, RNT, 2210-2231*, Oct 30, French talk. African hi-life music. Sign off with National Anthem. Poor with some co-channel QRM and adjacent channel splatter. (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6165 2210-2232* TCD 30+31.10 + 01.11 Rdif. Nationale Tchadienne, Gredia French political comments mentioning Chad, 2227 Afropop, ID, closing ann and martial National Anthem 44434 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear Anker, Chad was not to be heard on 4905 on Fri. 31 Oct & 01 Nov I did try 6165 during daytime on 01 & 02 Nov, but was unable to trace any signal underneath Croatia which was still audible via the Central African Beverage. In the late afternoon, all I can hear now is China, like right now, 1750, they're playing Strauss waltzes. Best 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear Carlos, Thank you for your e-mail. Chad is still on 6165.00 later in the evenings, replacing 4905. I just heard it free of QRM Nov 03 at 2210-2231*, because Croatia at that time had moved to 3984.95. Chad had a very strong signal S 9+ 5-15 dB, SINPO 55444 bringing French comments on Chadian affairs, 2225 native songs, two ID's and closed with their martial national anthem. Best 73 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, ibid.) 4905 & 7120. R. Natle. Tchadienne not audible on 01 & 02 Nov; I did try 6165 as I observed them using it back on 12 Oct (likewise, 4905 on 11 Oct), but the signal was either too weak or co-channel Croatia was blocking it (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. What is FIREDRAKE as often referred to in Glenn Hausers' DXLD. Nearest I can get using Google is something like Dragon Interference, if that`s right (or wrong) what is it? Thank You (Ken Fletcher, UK, BDXC-UK via DXLD) 'Firedrake' is one of the names given to the music used for jamming by China, though it sounds mainly like crashes and bangs to Western ears. It was however written as music in its own right, not originally for jamming (Dave Kenny, moderator, ibid.) A useful webpage which may illustrate this is the following: http://www.iarums-r1.org/iarums/sound/main.html It is a page of recordings of SW interference. Just look near the bottom of the page under "Broadcast Intrusions" and click on the links. I suspect it is the same thing (Andrew Tett, (Shoreham), ibid.) ** CHINA. 9930, CNR Program1 heard at 1420 on 29 Oct. with PSAs chat program. Apparently here in lieu of Firedrake against Sound of Hope. 73 de (Al Muick, Afghanistan, HCDX via DXLD) Saludos cordiales. 9000, Firedrake Dragon, 1410-12, captada el 29 de octubre emisión musical china, denominada Firedrake Dragon, SINPO 23342 (José Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) JAMMERS: 9000 Crash & Bang CC Music Jammer; 1854, 28-Oct; Explain this one! (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 210' center-fed RW, 85' end-fed RW, 125' bow-tie, Cumbre DX via DXLD) Now we`re lucky to find a Firedrake frequency, one of which is currently 9000, poor Oct 30 at 1318, presumably against the jumpy Sound of Hope. 9000, Firedrake, poor at 1257 Oct 31; no signal at 1303 recheck, cut back on at *1305. This is the usual top-of-hour monitoring pause. Got to hand it to the DentroChinese Jamming Command, able to DX low-power ham transmitters of Sound of Hope when we can hear nothing, thus tying up jammers. Firedrake still reliably on 9000, checked Nov 5 at 1316, presumably against Sound of Hope (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 11500, RFA Kuwait in Tibetan, +CNR ECHO jammer too, 15-16 UT. 11550, VOA Kuwait in Uzbek, +CNR Firedrake orchestra jammer too on Oct 30th 15-1530 UT. 11590, RFA Tibetan via Kuwait, +CNR ECHO jammer too, 11-14 UT. 11695, GERMANY, VOA Lampertheim in Uzbek, +CNR ECHO jammer at 15-1530. 11775, INDIA, AIR Delhi in Nepalese/Tibetan 12-1430 UT, +CNR ECHO jammer (Wolfgang Büschel, southern Germany, Oct 28 and/or 29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 4 via DXLD) see also TIBET [and non] ** CHINA. China echo jamming again badly against AIR Nepali/Tibetan this afternoon, 9575 and 11775 kHz at 1200-1330 UT Oct 30th. 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Jamming by CNR-1: Have others noticed that some frequencies seem to be more out of sync than others? 9825 had a strong echo (far out of sync), while 7295 had almost no echo (almost in sync)? This noted at 1410, Oct 30. Also heard strong Firedrake on 9000 (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9820, Guangxi FBS, 10/28/08, 2257, Vietnamese. Instrumental music to 2300, then ID (in Mandarin) as China Guangxi Foreign Broadcasting Station and into a female announcer in Vietnamese with what sounded like the news. Was hoping this might be open in B08 (as it was in B07), but heard R Havana IS and opening in Spanish at 2258 on 10/29, so may have just been a one-day mistake. // 5050 still occupied by WWRB. Poor (Mark Schiefelbein, MO, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. CRI had an interesting interview with a British guy who has walked the Great Wall, photographed it, and is pushing for preservation of the parts that are crumbling, on 15230 via Sackville, Thu Oct 30 at 1335 and exactly repeated one hour later. Both hours are at the same azimuth, too. This would have been a good time to put the alternate English program on one of them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. CRI theme music on 9560, Nov 1 at 1258 almost // Cuba relay on 9570, but 9560 cut off at 1259* uncovering R. Australia. 9560 CRI is now a relay via Sackville, CANADA, in Cantonese at 1200, 240 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. CRI English: 0000 on 6020, 7350, 9570; 0100 on 6020, 7350-wiped out by Prague 7345, 9570, 9580 (Bob Thomas, CT, Oct 27, by p-mail, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7350 is Kashi to Europe (gh) CRI Beijing, English to NAm at 0100: same on 6020 and 9570 [via AlBANIA], different on 6005 [via CANADA] (Bob Thomas, CT, Oct 30, by p-mail, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CRI English: 2300, with parallel programming on 5990 [CUBA] and 6040 [CANADA], different than 6020 and 9570 [mixup? These via ALBANIA are not supposed to start until 0000 --- gh] 0000, 6020 best [ALBANIA], 7350 [Kashi, CHINA], 9570 [ALBANIA] 0100, 6005 [CANADA] clashes with 6000 RHC and Cuba wins; 6020; 7350 wiped out by Prague [7345]; 9570 [ALBANIA] and 9580 [CUBA] hit or miss, being heard or active? 0300, 9690 [SPAIN] best; 9790 [CUBA], varies by propagation (Bob Thomas, CT, Nov 2, by p-mail, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Dear Francisco, At the end of October, we've changed most of our frequencies. Here we would like to suggest you log on to our website: http://english.cri.cn/4026/2006/12/31/44@179514.htm http://english.cri.cn/4026/2007/04/27/44@221034.htm There you can check the program guide and frequencies for your listening convenience. If there are any questions or comments, don’t hesitate to write to us. Best wishes. Yours sincerely, YingLian [collective name], English Service, China Radio International http://english.cri.cn/ There is something wrong with our email service(crieng@cri.com.cn), thus we also send this email via crioption@gmail.com It would be good to hear on your side that on which email address we used you get our email. Thanks a lot (via Francisco Freitas, Brasil, Nov 6, noticias dx yg via DXLD) ** CHINA [and non]. 7525, Nov 3 at 1441, co-channel between two or three Chinese speaking stations, i.e. VOA Mandarin, 30 degrees from Thailand, and Chicom jamming. 9000 still with Firedrake, Nov 3 at 1443 check, as Sound of Hope seems to have settled there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9000, 0720-1100 30.10, UNID Chinese talk, occasionally jammed by Firedrake from China, 13131 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) Firedrake music at 1600-1630 UT on 7335 kHz [via Moscow-RUS 250 kW relay, wb.] plus program of CNR in Chinese vs. ? BBC in Uzbek ? (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 28) 7335 1600-1630 smtwtfs BBC Moscow 250 117 Uzbek CeAS HR 1/4/0.8 7335 1630-1633 s...... BBC Moscow 250 117 Russian CeAS HR 1/4/0.8 7335 1630-1700 ......s BBC Moscow 250 117 Russian CeAS HR 1/4/0.8 7335 1633-1700 s...... BBC Moscow 250 117 Russian CeAS HR 1/4/0.8 (VTC) (BC-DX Nov 4 via DXLD) ** CHINA. Firedrake: Nov 2 & 3 on 6105 // 9000 // 9530 at 1510 + 1516 (earlier had caused QRM for Voice of Indonesia on 9525.90); Nov 2 on 9000 noted the usual 1600* - *1605 (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6155, M&W conversing in American English, turns out to be China Business Radio as IDed in passing at 1320 Nov 7. Badly squeezed by Chinese-language stations on each side. 9000 still with Firedrake, Nov 7 but at 1327 during a quiet passage, which no doubt repeats every hour at this minute, N.B., I could hear a second station underneath and making a SAH, presumably Sound of Hope (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Version 2.0 --- Playing sort of a Chinese ballroom music in an endless loop, heard 1735-1835 on many frequencies inclusing 6145, 7415, 7445, 9355, 9455, 11790, 11945. Periodically there is an announcement in Chinese and a "crowd" scene with people laughing and partying (David Walcutt, Eugene OR, Nov 7, NASWA yg via DXLD) ** CHINA. China Radio livestreams CNR1 (BC-DX Nov 4 via DXLD) ** CHINA. PFC QSL card (in Chinese) from Chanjiang Maritime Security Information Center (8794 kHz USB located in Wuhan, China) is shown in my HP http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~BCLSWL/QSL0811.html with a letter in Japanese and some explanation of the station (Takahito Akabayashi, Japan, Nov 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. Radio Free Asia in Mandarin, B-08: 0300-0600 11980 13710 15150 15665 17615 17880 21540 0600-0700 11980 13710 15150 15665 17615 17880 1500-1600 5810 7455 9440 9905 11945 13670 1600-1700 5810 7415 7445 9455 9905 11945 13670 1700-1800 5810 7415 7445 9355 9455 9905 11945 11795 13670 1800-1900 5810 6095 7385 7415 7445 9355 9455 11790 11945 13670 1900-2000 1098 5810 5990 6095 7385 7445 9355 9455 9875 11790 11945 2000-2100 1098 5810 5990 6095 7190 7355 9355 9455 9875 11900 11945 2100-2200 1098 5810 6095 7190 7355 9355 9455 9875 11945 13745 2300-0000 7540 11775 15265 15430 15550 (RFA website, last updated on October 28, 2008, via Eriz Zhou, China, dxldyg via DXLD) see also ASIA [non] ** CROATIA [and non]. 6165, Voice of Croatia, 0700-0704, Oct 31, three minute English news bulletin. IDs. Lite instrumental music at 0704. Very good. Weak // 9470, 11690 - both via Germany (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Croatian Radio, 7375 [via GERMANY], English at 0300, into Spanish at 0330 (Bob Thomas, CT, Oct 31, by p-mail, DX LISTENING DIGEST) via Germany, 7375, Voice of Croatia, 0300-0320, Oct 31, English “Croatia Today” news & current affairs program with news, sports & weather. Local pop music at 0314. Very good. Very weak on // 3984.97 - via Croatia (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CROATIA [and non]. VOICE OF CROATIA (Glas Hrvatske), Zagreb - B08 FREQ SCHEDULE ------------------------------------------------------------ 0000-0200 1134 Eu Zadar-Rasinovac 600 kW/ 315 degrees 3985 Eu Deanovec 10 kW/ N-D 7375 NAm-E Wertachtal 100 kW/ 300 degrees 7375 SAm Wertachtal 100 kW/ 240 degrees 0200-0400 1134 Eu Zadar-Rasinovac 600 kW/ 315 degrees 3985 Eu Deanovec 10 kW/ N-D 7375 NAm-E Wertachtal 100 kW/ 300 degrees 7375 NAm-W Wertachtal 125 kW/ 325 degrees 7375 SAm Wertachtal 100 kW/ 240 degrees 0400-0500 1134 Eu Zadar-Rasinovac 600 kW/ 315 degrees 3985 Eu Deanovec 10 kW/ N-D 7375 NAm-W Wertachtal 125 kW/ 325 degrees 0500-0600 1134 Eu Zadar-Rasinovac 600 kW/ 315 degrees 3985 Eu Deanovec 10 kW/ N-D 7375 NAm-W Wertachtal 125 kW/ 325 degrees 9470 NZ Wertachtal 100 kW/ 240 degrees 0600-0630 1134 Eu Zadar-Rasinovac 600 kW/ 315 degrees 6165 Eu Deanovec 100 kW/ N-D 9470 NZ Wertachtal 100 kW/ 240 degrees 11690 Au Wertachtal 125 kW/ 270 degrees 0630-0800 6165 Eu Deanovec 100 kW/ N-D 9470 NZ Wertachtal 100 kW/ 240 degrees 11690 Au Wertachtal 125 kW/ 270 degrees 0800-0900 6165 Eu Deanovec 100 kW/ N-D 11690 Au Wertachtal 125 kW/ 270 degrees 0900-1000 9830 Eu Deanovec 100 kW/ N-D 11690 Au Wertachtal 125 kW/ 270 degrees 1000-1400 9830 Eu Deanovec 100 kW/ N-D 1400-2130 1134 Eu Zadar-Rasinovac 600 kW/ 315 degrees 6165 Eu Deanovec 100 kW/ N-D 2130-2300 1134 Eu Zadar-Rasinovac 600 kW/ 315 degrees 3985 Eu Deanovec 10 kW/ N-D 2300-2400 1134 Eu Zadar-Rasinovac 600 kW/ 315 degrees 3985 Eu Deanovec 10 kW/ N-D 7375 SAm Wertachtal 100 kW/ 240 degrees ------------------------------------------------------------ VOICE OF CROATIA (Glas Hrvatske), Zagreb - B08 LANG SCHEDULE ------------------------------------------------------------ 0300-0315 ENGLISH 0330-0345 SPANISH 0700-0703 ENGLISH 1100-1103 ENGLISH MO-FR 1300-1303 SPANISH MO-FR 1500-1530 ITALIAN [R Pula] MO-FR 1700-1715 ENGLISH MO-SA 1700-1705 ENGLISH SU 1730-1800 HUNGARIAN [R Osijek] MO-SA 1905-1915 ENGLISH [simulcast with HR1] MO-FR 1905-1910 ENGLISH [simulcast with HR1] SA 2000-2005 GERMAN 2315-2330 ENGLISH 2330-2345 SPANISH ------------------------------------------------------------ Regards & many 73s! (Dragan Lekic from Subotica, Serbia, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DXLD) ** CUBA [and non]. RHC in English at 0100: 6000 hit by CRI [CANADA] 6005; 6140 wiped out by 6145, ROMANIA in English to NAm (Bob Thomas, CT, Oct 30, by p-mail, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Wow, RHC is so strong here on 6140 that even RRI could not wipe it out (gh, OK, DXLD) The DentroCuban Jamming Command has finally found 5745 (by reading DXLD? Sorry about that; we just report the facts). Trouble is, they were pulse-jamming WYFR in Spanish, Oct 30 at 0533 check! But at 1258, R. Martí 5745 was being jammed much more heavily for the first time this season. Here is how 5745 is divvied up by UStations: 05-10 WYFR, 11-14 Martí, 20-21 WYFR, 22-04 WWRB but soon to be 23-05 altho I think 3270 has replaced some or all of that. Version 1 of the B-08 FCC schedule dated 28 Oct at http://www.fcc.gov/ib/sand/neg/hf_web/B08FCC01.TXT still doesn`t show 3270! Meanwhile, DCJC is still wasting its watts on 11845, not used by Martí in B-seasons, but with jamming still running at 1328 and 1426 Oct 30. At the latter hour, RM with jamming could be heard on 11930 and 13820, jamming only on 15330. The wacky DentroCuban Jamming Command continues to run its noise- makers on frequencies long abandoned by hostile broadcasts, or far beyond the hours currently in use, thus causing collateral damage and wasting precious worthless Cuban pesos, not to mention scads of electricity which could be better used by the unfortunate Cuban populace, about to celebrate a semi-century of oppression. Jamming real broadcasts is bad enough, but these incompetents also expend countless kWh jamming nothing. Bandscanning Oct 31, I found: at 0620, pulse jamming on 9885, 9825, 9640 (VOA, Martí, República, but never on at this hour!); more pulse jamming but of a slightly higher pitch and slightly higher rate on 9600 and 9565 (the latter Martí but never at this hour!) Probably the 120 vs 132 per minute rates I have previously counted. 9600 is interesting, as I am not aware of any previous or current exile broadcasting on that frequency; in fact, it is used by RHC itself at certain hours. This could mean that there is a new anti- Castro-Castro service on 9600 sometime during the 24 hours. I was also hearing DCJC on 9600 spreading plus/minus 15 kHz, Oct 30 at 2158 as Vatican Radio was trying to sign on in Chinese. [but see below] At 1258, Cuban pulse jamming audible on 9885, 9825, 9805, 9640 (VOA, Martí, Martí, República, but again, never at this hour!). Also heavy jamming as usual on 9955 against WRMI. A-season-only Martí frequency 11845 is also still jammed, at 1338 check Oct 31. Despite very strong signal of REE on new 9640, Oct 31 at 2100 with RNE news, I could still hear the incompetent DentroCuban Jamming Command underneath it, still running the totally uncalled for jamming against Radio República which formerly used this frequency at another time. Isn`t Spain doing a lot of tourism business with Cuba? Perhaps diplomatic relations should be broken if Cuba does not desist. Yeah sure, like the Spanish government even knows, much less cares about this issue. As for RHC, found 9550 with unmodulated carrier, Oct 31 at 2103; then checked others: 11760 OK in English; 13680 very weak carrier, but as I strained to listen, at 2117 I could finally detect it was // 11760 and an echo ahead of it. At 2113 recheck, Spanish modulation had resumed on 9550. The tiny signal on 13680 again raises the question of whether this recently-added and unreliable frequency is a secret relay from some other country. One could certainly not blame propagation for its weakness this time, as nearby 13760 in Spanish was quite strong. Either that, or 13680 was Cuba, running at extremely reduced power. All those jammers against nothing (and something) do suck up a lot of juice, and naturally take priority over mere outgoing propaganda broadcasts. At 2207, 13680 had RHC in French // 5965 and leading it slightly. By now the signal on 13680 had improved and was even reading S9+10 but undermodulated, while 13760 in Spanish was S9+20 but sounded much stronger than 13680. I suggest people with the capability try to DF the 13680 signal between 2030 and 2230 or later, in English and French. Same channel at other times, 13-15 with RHC and 23-24 with Venezuela is very strong here and obviously really from Cuba. And I once heard the two transmitters overlapping around 2250. DCJC, 5745 pulsing against nothing Nov 1 at 0555. DCJC also continues jamming frequencies long vacated by other victims, and now causing collateral damage to innocent bystanders. See ALBANIA about 6110 and 6100. But they have found current VOA Spanish frequency 5890, which altho very strong Nov 2 at 0009 in music, had some bubble jamming underneath. I am no longer hearing RHC on 11690, which had been in use before and/or after 0000. Which is fine, since DW German is now there, teletypeless, Nov 2 at 0020 // 6075 but an echo apart. Kigali is now running 11690 all the way from 21 until 02. Nor is RHC on ex-11680. I wonder where that transmitter has gone? Now WWCR is getting hit by nonsensical DentroCuban jamming, on 5890, which earlier in the evening is used by VOA Spanish. Nov 2 at 0629 could hear jamming pulses under music which was undermodulated rather than overmodulated, in the Pastor Pete Peters service. RHC, 13760 with unmodulated carrier at 1408 and still at 1425 Nov 2; meanwhile, very strong on 13680, and modulated, but bothered by splash from CRI via Canada 13675 which was stronger. Commies vs Commies! Still no sign of Aló, Presidente. RHC SNAFU report for Nov 3: Tuned in 13760 at 1504 to find Despertar con Cuba announcers talking, so probably once again started replaying the 1100 UT show. Quickly checked all the other morning frequencies, and none of them were on: 11760, 12000, 13680, 15120, 15360, 15370, and finally at 1509, 13760 cut off the air. I suspect the replay is intended for internal listening only at the station during their mid- day break, but gets put on the air when engineers at the site are asleep at the switch (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Re 8-115, what has become of R. República? Hi Glenn, I verified Radio Republica 05/10 at 0320 on 6100kHz, good in Spanish with clear ID 0331, with lengthy comment and vibrant music/singing. ID at 0355 then off at 0400. Using R1000 with SW Eavesdropper antenna. Have heard them regularly on 6100 at 0300 since. Cheers (Ken Baird, 10 Sarabande Ave, Redwood, Christchurch, 8051, New Zealand, Oct 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Ken, Yes, I used to hear them too on that frequency between 02 and 04, but this week there have been tone tests instead, and now that is presumably some mixup on Voice of Russia to North America, scheduled in English at 02-04 from unknown site: 13735, 12040, 7250, 6240, 6100 0200-0300 13735, 12040, 7350, 6240, 6155, 6100 0300-0400 12030, 9855, 9840, 7350, 7335, 7150, 6240, 6155, 6135 0400-0500 12030, 9855, 9840, 7350, 7335, 7150, 6135 0500-0600 So have you actually heard República *since October 26* seasonal schedule change date on 6100 (or anywhere else?) 73, (Glenn to Ken, via DXLD) Hi Glenn, Haven't heard them since the Oct 26 but conditions have been very noisy. Will keep monitoring that freq just in case they turn up as it is one of their usual ones. Regards (Ken Baird, NZ, Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. 9600, R. República 0350 Nov 2 -- With 70s pop music, discussion of songs that had historic impact, ID "Radio República, la voz de Cuba libre." Good, strong signal -- Sackville? 9625 much weaker at the time (David Yocis, Harpers Ferry WV, USA (39-13 N, 77-48 W), R8B, various wires, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. I still haven`t found R. República for sure on any frequency, but Dave Yocis, WV reports hearing it on 9600 at 0350 Nov 2. At 0345 Nov 4 on 9600, I could hear jamming and something mixing with it, but both weak. Why would RR go up to a higher frequency in B- season? If it is on 9600, that will encourage the Dentro Cuban Jamming Command at least to turn it off when RHC is using the very same frequency. I had previously heard jamming against nothing on 9600 later in the night, so this explains that. [no; see below] 5745, WYFR in English heard with jamming pulses underneath, Nov 4 at 0734, because R. Martí uses same frequency at very different times; also jamming against nothing at 0735 on 5890, as WWCR-4 was absent, tho present on 5935 with WWCR-2; for the Cubans, 5890 must be jammed because VOA Spanish uses it at very different times. And at 0739 much more serious heavy multiple-site jamming was running against R. Martí axually using 5980 and 6030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non non]. Just because it`s jammed doesn`t mean it`s a Cuban clandestine. Following a report of R. República on 9600, I monitored UT Nov 5 at 0255-0300+ and guess what: it`s Radio Habana Cuba, and it is also jammed! They were ending a 3-hour program, the last part about how Cuban music is popular in Perú, and that could have been a Radio República produxion, but then telltale RHC sounder and ID at hourtop. Also checked 6060 at 0318 and it was //. The jamming on 9600 is not heavy, but is certainly there. 9600 is on the currently posted RHC frequency schedule as 0000-0500, so it seems unlikely R. República would also be there unless they are really spoiling for a fight. The question remains, why would Cuba jam its own broadcast? Habana SNAFUs are nothing new and this may be just another one. BTW, Jeff White says the RMI broadcast of R. República is now M-F at 1100-1200 on 6100 via Sackville; and there may be more. I have not yet checked at that early hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi David, Any comment? You reported a seemingly definite ID for Radio República 3 nights ago. 73, (Glenn to David Yocis, via DXLD) I don't have a tape, so it's hard to know for certain. But I'm pretty sure the ID I heard was not RHC (David Yocis, WV, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Now it`s Vatican Radio getting hit by the DentroCuban Jamming Command, which pulses and bubbles on 9600 most of the day, even when RHC itself is on it; Nov 6 at 2204, Vatican Radio direct in Chinese was mixing with the jamming. The Chicom themselves don`t bother to jam VR, despite their differences over who owns the Catholic church in China, so, nevertheless, --- Commies vs Catholix! RNV via Cuba, 11670 was funxioning normally as I scanned the 25m band around 2210 UT Nov 6, but at 2211 an ear-splitting broadband series of whines broke out, ranging from 11640 to 11725, overriding all broadcast signals in this range, such as 11700 WYFR, 11690 DW/Rwanda, 11665 Japan/WYFR. As I tuned across the 85 kHz I could hear not only multiple carriers heterodyning each other, about 6 of them equally spaced per 10-kHz segment, but also the RNV audio in Spanish over the entire range, so obviously the culprit was the Cuban transmitter which went totally out of whack and ruined that portion of the band. This lasted at least past 2230, altho I could not stand to monitor it constantly. At 2243 recheck, 11670 was back in whack and the broadband whine had ceased. I have caught similar outbreaks before from Cuban transmitters, POS. Typical DentroCuban jamming pulses and with BFO on, bubbling, around 7865, cut off at 2257* and back on at *2258; pulse rate of about 132 per minute; versus absolutely nothing on this out-of-band frequency. Nor could it be a simple harmonic; possibly a mixing product or just an inexplicable spur (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNIDENTIFIED 7862 Discrepancy report: RHC missing from 12000 at 1343 check Nov 7; on 11760 as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Glenn, I heard Radio Ciudad de La Habana yesterday on 980 kHz (hear recording attached). In searching for information I found an article in DXLD 8-104, in which RCLH was being relayed over R. Coco on 980, but the article indicated that this was a temporary state of affairs during Hurricane Ike. Have you seen any other reports of this please? 73 (Andrew Brade, UK, Nov 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Andrew, No, I haven`t, but it doesn`t take a hurricane for one Cuban station to relay another especially late at night [recorded at 0711?]. However, I don`t think the word before Ciudad on your clip is Radio, maybe Vedado? and there is a pause. They could have just been referring to the province by that name, Ciudad de la Habana, not an ID and not a relay. 73, (Glenn to Andrew, via DXLD) Thanks for the comments, Glen[n]. The subject of Cuban radio is fraught with difficulty, isn't it? I expect this was Coco, but it will be UNID for now. 73 (Andrew Brade, ibid.) ** CUBA. I really LIKE R. Enciclopedia [530] a LOT. I notch out LYQ and listen sitting on the porch in the afternoon reading the paper (Kevin Redding, Crump TN, ABDX via DXLD) My information is that CMBQ R Enciclopedia uses the same transmitter as Rebelde has in the past. Their music is very mellow, almost light classical and they have a very distinctive fanfare at their TOH IDs (Chris Black, MA, ibid.) ** CUBA [and non]. Frecuencia aerea en HF --- Saludos cordiales queridos colegas diexistas. Espero se encuentren muy bien. A las 2305 UT en la frecuencia 5561.9 USB, pude escuchar una comunicación aerea en español entre el piloto de un avión de Cubana de Aviación y el Centro Control de Maiquetía. El piloto dijo que realizaba un: Vuelo Ferry, esto quiere decir que es un avión que no lleva pasajeros solo tripulación. Asi mismo le decía al Centro Contro de Maiquetía que lo copiaba muy bajito. El piloto identificó su vuelo como Cubana CUC155. En cuanto a esta comunicación debo decir que efectivamente la transmisión de Maiquetía era demasiado bajita casi no se copiaba. Seguiremos monitoreando esta frecuencia para saber que mas se puede copiar. Receptor YAESU FT-890, Antena Dipolo de 12 metros por cada lado. Un abrazo para todos. QUE HA PASADO CON LOS BOYEROS DEL AIRE DE CUBA Saludos cordiales amigos de Ciceron YV. Para los diexistas era bastante fácil unos años atras escuchar las transmisiones de los Boyeros del Aire de Cuba, en la frecuencia 13339 USB, Los Boyeros tenían controlado el espacio aereo cubano y tenían comunicación con los aviones de Cubana de Aviación y de aquellos vuelos que aterrizaban en la Habana. Pero desde unos cuantos años, estas comunicaciones han cesado en esta frecuencia y no los he vuelto a escuchar. Ahora pienso lo siguiente, en relación con la escucha que acabo de hacer en la frecuencia 5561.9 USB, será acaso esta frecuencia la que estarán utilizando ahora los aviones de Cubana de Aviación para mantener contacto con su centro control ????. Mientras tanto en la frecuencia 13339 USB se estan escuchando en forma muy buena, fuerte y clara las comunicaciones de Aeromexico con su Centro Control. Atención entonces con esta frecuencia de 5561.9 USB donde pude escuchar esta noche a un piloto de Cubana de Aviación hablando con el Centro Control de Maiquetía. Atte: (José Elías Díaz Gómez, Apartado Postal 488, Código Postal 6001-A, Barcelona, Venezuela. http://sintoniadx.spaces.live.com Oct 30, noticiasdx yg via DXLD) Whether 5 or 13 MHz is used depends on the usual propagation factors on SW --- sunspot cycle, time of day, distance, etc. (gh, DXLD) ** CZECHIA [non]. 5830, Tajikistan, R. Prague, Dushanbe, Russian at 1900-1930 UT, very poor here (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 28-29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) R. Prague, via WRN, via CBC Overnight, via CBC Radio 1, via CBN via CKZN St. John`s, 6160, Monday Nov 3 at 0720 with ID, music, fair over QRM. Must be this, but does not match CBC Radio Overnight schedule at http://www.cbc.ca/overnight/schedule.html which shows R. Prague on weekdays appears as the second of four stations after 5:05 am local time, but 0720 UT would be 3:20 am AST, half an hour later in Nfld, but CBC programming is simultaneous in Nfld; just the clox are wrong. Is this sked now outdated? Of course, the 1:05 am local start means CKZU Vancouver is not into Overnight until 0905 UT. Weekday Schedule 12:05 a.m. Sirius or BBC W/S 1:05 a.m. Radio Netherlands 2:05 a.m. Radio Sweden & Radio Australia 3:05 a.m. Channel Africa & BBC W/S 4:05 a.m. Deutsche Welle & Radio Polonia 5:05 a.m. Radio Australia, Radio Prague, Deutsche Welle & KBS World Radio Weekend Schedule 12:05 a.m. Sirius or BBC W/S 1:05 a.m. Radio Netherlands 2:05 a.m. Radio Prague & KBS World Radio 3:05 a.m. Radio Sweden & BBC W/S 4:05 a.m. Deutsche Welle 5:05 a.m. Radio Australia R. Prague relays via Ascension: 0000-0030 on 15300, and 7420, both 245 degrees. The B-08 schedule at http://www.radio.cz/en/frequencies only shows 7275 for Ascension on this Spanish transmission, which of course, intrudes on the Western Hemisphere 40m hamband, but that hasn`t stopped VTC before. R. Praga, Spanish on new 7420, UT Thu Nov 6 at 0021 mentioning Praga, fair with quite a bit of fading, but at the moment WBCQ not on the 7415 air. This is a new relay via Ascension, 245 degrees to deep SAm; alternate 15300 where nothing heard. RP is always behind getting its website up to date, especially regarding relays, and early UT Nov 6 it still shows ex-7275 for this relay: http://www.radio.cz/en/frequencies Maybe VTC and/or R. Prague are finally deciding to respect the 40m hamband in the Western Hemisphere (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DJIBOUTI. 4780, R Djibouti, 10/29/08, 0300, Arabic. Sign-on with presumed Koranic recitations or call to prayer, mostly atop co-channel R Coatan. Fair/poor (Mark Schiefelbein, MO, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR [and non]. A week into the season, I`ve yet to see an HCJB B-08 schedule, tho maybe I`ve missed it. So surprised to find it loud and clear in Spanish on new 11625, UT Sun Nov 2 at 0022. At first I wondered if it was VOA, since the program was all about the good things the US Embassy is doing in Imbabura, Pichincha and other Ecuadorian provinces, such as medical aid, scholarships. Signal dumped off the air for a few seconds at 0026; and then closed ``Reportaje`` show with ``Ecuador y Estados Unidos --- Amigos y Socios``. Makes me wonder if show was produced by USA as a public diplomacy effort. 0029:30 to automated ID which astonishingly gave two wrong frequencies. Wait a minute --- it`s not astonishing, as HCJB was doing that for months, years on their morning Spanish broadcasts. Now claims to be on 9745 to Mexico (not), which this apparently replaces, and 21455 to Europe and Pacific, which as we have reiterated several times, HCJB dropped completely, months ago. But here`s a first: the automated timecheck was wrong too! At 0030 it claimed to be 1900 local = 0000 UT. Does that mean all their timechex are a semihour off now? Until reset, anyway, and it takes them forever to notice any discrepancies (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Following up my last report about HCJB 11625 at 0030: in the HCJB B-08 schedule via Alokesh Gupta we see that 11625 is not the bidirexional antenna, now dismantled? Just at 150 degrees, aimed away from us but plenty strong here. Target area is officially nothing but South America; 9745 still exists at 324 degrees, not just to Mexico, but to all of Caribbean, Central and North America except for Canada east of Manitoba. It succeeds 11625 at 0200-0500. So on UT Nov 3 I decided to check 9745 at 0359 to find out whether the timecheck was still a semihour and a several MHz off. But 9745 was dominated from 0357 tune- in by Channel Africa IS, and opening in French. I was beginning to wonder if HCJB was there at all until I made out its timesignal under RSA. The two were making a SAH of about 4 Hz. HCJB used to be gangbusters into OK on this frequency. By 0450 it had regained dominance. Checking La Voz de los Andes, HCJB to see if their timechex are wrong in the morning too, Nov 3 at 1359:30 on 11960 – correct for 9 am = 14 TU, but still announcing long-defunct 21455 frequency between 11690 and 11960, so have entered yet another month perpetuating that error (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re 8-115: ``From years ago when I used to hear Russian direct from Ekvador, Yuzhnaya Amerika, I thought the ID was just 'Golos And'. Is that also correct? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)`` Dear Glenn, you are absolutely right! HCJB Russian ID is "Golos And". I made a mistake because I don't listen to many Russian language transmissions. My mistake was made because I always heard "GOLOS NA ANDITE" in Bulgarian language on R Bulgaria's program DX-MIX, where Ivo Ivanov read the Golos na Andite schedules. I use to listen to DX- MIX on radio before they developed a website with DX-Mix sript. Also on http://www.hcjb.ru you can see ond the left side "Golos And", if you know to read Russian. Regards, DL (Dragan Lekic, Serbia, DX LISTENING DIGEST) New 3955, *1759-1810 [date?], GERMANY, HCJB, via Wertachtal. Low German ID, announcement, hymns, religious talks, new B08 schedule until 1859; 55555 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, Oct 30, playdx yg via DXLD) HCJB GLOBAL VOICE - Ecuador B08 BROADCAST SCHEDULE (26 October 2008 to 29 March 2009) Rev. 19 October 2008 UTC UTC Freq. Pwr Ant. Azi Target Days Begin End (Khz.)(KW)(Deg) Region SMTWTFS Site ------------------------------------------------------ COFAN 0030 0100 6050 50 18/172 S.America 1111111 Ecuador GERMAN (High) 0230 0300 9780 100 110/290 Mexico 1111111 Ecuador 0900 0930 11625 4 DRM 43 Europe 1XXXXX1 Ecuador 0930 1030 11625 4 DRM 43 Europe 1111111 Ecuador 2300 2400 12040 100 157/330 N/S.America 1111111 Ecuador GERMAN (Low) 0300 0330 9780 100 110/290 Mexico 1111111 Ecuador 2230 2300 12040 100 157/330 N/S America 1111111 Ecuador KULINA 2245 2300 11920 100 126 Brazil 1111111 Ecuador PORTUGUESE 1500 1700 11705 4 DRM 131 Brazil 1111111 Ecuador 1730 2000 15295 100 139 Brazil 1111111 Ecuador 2300 0230 11920 100 110/290 Brazil 1111111 Ecuador QUICHUA 0000 0100 690 50 000/180 Ecuador 1111111 Ecuador 0000 0300 3220 10 90 (Vert)S.America 1111111 Ecuador 0830 1100 690 50 000/180 Ecuador 1111111 Ecuador 0830 1300 3220 10 90 (Vert)S.America 1111111 Ecuador 0830 1100 6050 50 18/172 Ecuador 1111111 Ecuador 0830 1300 6080 10 90 (Vert)S.America 1111111 Ecuador 2130 0300 6080 10 90 (Vert)S.America 1111111 Ecuador SPANISH 0000 0200 11625 100 150 N/S America 1111111 Ecuador 0100 0500 6050 50 18/172 Ecuador 1111111 Ecuador 0100 0500 690 50 000/180 Ecuador 1111111 Ecuador 0200 0500 9745 100 324 Mexico 1111111 Ecuador 0830 0930 11625 4 DRM 43 Europe X11111X Ecuador 0830 0900 11625 4 DRM 43 Europe 1XXXXX1 Ecuador 1100 2400 690 50 000/180 Ecuador 1111111 Ecuador 1100 1500 6050 50 18/172 Ecuador 1111111 Ecuador 1100 1300 11960 100 355 Cuba 1111111 Ecuador 1100 1500 11690 100 150 S.America 1111111 Ecuador 1300 1500 11960 100 330 Mexico 1111111 Ecuador 1900 2400 6050 50 18/172 Ecuador 1111111 Ecuador 2100 2230 12000 100 150 S.America 1111111 Ecuador WAODANI 0000 0030 6050 50 18/172 S.America 1111111 Ecuador Mailing Address : HCJB Global Voice Casilla 17-17-691 Quito, Ecuador, South America Frequency Manager: Horst Rosiak (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India, and Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, DXLD) ** EGYPT. R. Cairo with marginal to useless audio quality, in English: 2115 6255; to NAm 2300 6850, 0200 7535. On UT Oct 27, 7535 was S 2-3, with propagation roll [fading?]. Audio barely heard: this is how you can tell who they are, ha (Bob Thomas, CT, Oct 29, by p-mail, DX LISTENING DIGEST) R. Cairo, secret English broadcast on 6850 to North America, Nov 1 at 2352 as hefty S9+22 level, but modulation so low that it was a whisper compared to normal listening level on other stations. I could turn the volume control to maximum and then hear it OK: fortunately with that much signal there was almost full quieting, but woe betide anyone tuning away without turning down the volume first. This is at 2300- 2430, then continues in Arabic, instead of all in Arabic as on ERTU schedules (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6255, Radio Cairo; 2145-2201+, 29-Oct; AR music to 2148, "Radio Cairo presents Europe in the Arab Press". Went into English news at 2201 without ID. SIO=4+44, minor ute QRM. Not // 6290.1 in Arabic, also strong. 6850, Radio Cairo; 2313-2330+, 30-Oct; Arabic & LAm music to pips/tone at 2315:27 and into English Arab world news; ID at 2327 as Radio Cairo North American Service then into mix of music and English commentary re Egypt. S10-20 sig but need LSB to take out warble. Music feeds much better than voice. Not // 6290 in Arabic and nothing on 6255 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 210' center-fed RW, 85' end-fed RW, 125' bow-tie, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Cairo, 11550, 2227, English, 232, Oct 31, OM with some vocal Arabic music. Also a YL announcer was heard (Stewart Mackenzie, CA, Nov 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ? This transmission moved to 6255 from Oct 26, where several of us have heard it, but was it back on 11550 Oct 31? In A-08 was colliding thruout 2115-2245 with WEWN, but now WEWN finishes at 2200. More likely it was R. Australia in Indonesian via Taiwan on 11550 as per my Oct 27, Nov 6 logs; are you sure it was Arabic, not Indonesian music; and if the talk was in English, it could have been one of RA`s ubiquitous English lessons (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Cairo en francés ex 6255, frecuencia de reemplazo?? 6225, Radio Cairo, Abis, 1958-2003, escuchada el 2 de noviembre en árabe a locutora con comentarios y emisión de música árabe, se aprecia el nivel de audio muy bajo, la señal a veces se comporta cómo una portadora sin señal, tonos horarios a las 2000 UT, comienza emisión en francés, sin señal en 6255, supongo frecuencia de reemplazo o emisión accidental, SINPO 45432 (José Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Noticed a computer punch error tonight EGY on 6225; instead of registered 6255 kHz. 6255 1500-2245 27,28 ABZ 250 330 Fre, Eng wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, ibid.) R. Cairo, 6255, Nov 6 at 2241 after Arab music, YL in English with sign-off announcement. Her thick accent, extremely rapid pace, and low modulation made it impossible to understand more than the gist and an occasional word. Then into tone which lasted until 2245* These people are doing just about everything wrong, preventing Radio Cairo from being even a moderately successful service. She alone could solve one of the problems: slow down and speak as clearly as you can! Your voice has to surmount great obstacles to reach listeners many megameters away. You should take lessons from your nearest neighbor on the dial, Radio PMR, 6240 which was loud AND clear, also ending English at 2246, into French (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA ECUATORIAL [and non]. 15190, Radio Africa, 0700- 0750, 02-11, programa en inglés, locutor, religioso: "Revelation Chapter 3". A las 0735 comentario religioso por locutora. Buena señal. 45444 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, Escuchas realizadas en Friol, Grundig Satellit 500 y Sony ICF SW 7600G, Antena de cable, 10 metros, orientada WSW, DX LISTENING DIGEST) R. Africa still going, 15190, Oct 31 at 2137 check with caterwauling and then long period of dead air, both dead giveaways; signal only fair now, and bothered by YFR via Ascension which in B-08 has been expanded from one hour to two, 20-22 UT on adjacent 15195. Before 21, this being a weekday, it was overwhelmed from the other side by VOA Hausa via Greenville 15185. However, 15190 itself is no longer colliding with WYFR, as Okeechobee is no longer using that in B-08 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15190, R. Africa, 2205-2228, Nov 3, sounded like Tony Alamo preaching, fair, no QRM (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also U S A: WWCR No sign of 15190, R. Africa, Nov 6 at 2157, just YFR/Ascension on 15195. Is its absence just for now or for a long time? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 6250, Radio Nacional, Malabo, 0505-0600, Oct 31, variety of African choral music, folk music, Afro-pop music. Spanish announcements. Radio Malabo ID. Fair (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005.00, 2230-2257* 30.10, R Nacional, Bata, Spanish announcement, nonstop Afropop, 2254 National Anthem, 35333 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** ERITREA. 5100, R. Bana (presumed), Asmara, 1652- 02 Nov, vernacular, talks; 13341. Or was this simply regular program from Ethiopia jamming Eritrea? (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA. 7100, VOBME, *0354-0400, Nov 1, IS. Talk at 0400. Covered by noise jammer at 0400. 7175, VOBME, *0354-0415, Nov 1, IS. Talk at 0400. Horn of Africa music. Poor to fair (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. 11835.02, 1715-1758*, CLANDESTINE, 30.10, Eritrean Liberation Front, via Nauen, Germany. Vernacular/Arabic talk, much hum on frequency improving from 12211 to 35333 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA. DW blox R. Ethiopia 9560: see GERMANY [non] ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Saludos cordiales. 15665, NO ID, 1800-1833, escuchada el 30 de octubre en idioma sin identificar, locutor con presentación, música de sintonía, “...Oromía... Victoria ..África”, locutor con comentarios, referencias a “Salama”, me recuerda el amárico o al tigriya, SINPO 45544. Acaba la emisión con una intervención en inglés de una locutora, posteriormente empieza una emisión en árabe dirigido por un locutor. Se trata de Voice of Meselna Delina?? ex 17690, lo que me ha extrañado es el fragmento en árabe de 1830 a 1833. [Luego:] Es WHRA (José Miguel Romero, Burjassot (Valencia), España, Coordenadas: 39.30 N 0.25 O, Sangean ATS 909, Antena Radio Master A- 108, dxldyd via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The WHR website program schedule has not corrected the frequencies for B-08, but maybe the programming still applies : 1800 - 1830 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Th,Fr Voice of Meselina [sic] Delina, Tes Meharenna 17.690 Mhz 5-minute Arabic program follows altho you would think it is in English from the listing. We have discussed this before: 1830 - 1835 2:30 PM - 2:35 PM Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr Bible Pathway Rich Hash 17.690 Mhz (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Was able to hear one of the RMI clandestines via Jülich mentioned on WOR 1432: Sat Nov 1 at 1700 on 9680, quite good with Jeff White`s RMI ID in English at the opening of V. of Oromiya Independence (Joe Hanlon, NJ, Nov 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. New 11810, *1700-1720, CLANDESTINE, Wed 29.10, Voice of Oromo Liberation, via Wertachtal, Germany. Oromo ID and talk. New B08 frequency on Wed/Sun 1700-1759; 35343 AP-DNK New 11835, *1700-1720, CLANDESTINE, Wed 29.10, Ethiopians for Democracy, via Nauen, Germany. Amharic (presumed - not Oromo) announcement, talk. New B08 broadcast, 25232. Best 73, (Anker Petersen, Denmark, AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. 15195, Addis Dimts Radio, Samara, 1600-1605, escuchada el 2 de noviembre en amárico, locutora con comentarios, SINPO 35333 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FINLAND. 5980, 1035-1305 Sat 01.11, Scandinavian Weekend R, Virrat Finnish/English announcements, Finnish pop songs at best: 25222. Not heard on other frequencies (Anker Petersen, Denmark, AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** FRANCE. 12015, Nov 1 at 1740 with talk in Brazilian Portuguese and what sounded like gospel songs in English, but not // HCJB 15295. 12015 was atop persistent RTTY infesting this frequency. Looked up later, it`s RFI`s Portuguese service to Africa, not Brasil, running a megawatt of this frequency from 2 x 500 kW at different azimuths from Issoudun, 160 and 204 degrees at 1700-1800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE [and non]. RFI GERMAN EXPLAINS SITUATION --- On its last day on FM in Saxonia the German service of RFI gave some explanations about this circumstance and its current situation. Summary: The withdrawal had been initiated by the BBC. Earlier this year, when the renewal of the licence for another eight years came on the agenda, the BBC told that they are no longer interested, not only because of poor ratings but also due to their general strategy that includes a withdrawal from Europe and from Germany in particular, the latter being obvious from the circumstance that the BBC no longer broadcasts in German already since nine years ago. RFI does not continue in Saxonia alone for cost reasons. The BBC paid more than 70 percent of the costs, and RFI is neither willing nor able to take these expenses. First RFI indeed found a solution to keep its German service on FM in Saxonia in spite of this situation: A commercial German station [of course they referred to Radioropa] was interested in purchasing the licence and still rebroadcast RFI German as well as one hour of RFI French and two hours of BBC World Service. The negotiations took a couple of weeks, they were just about to sign the contract when the German station [Radioropa] closed down altogether. After this development the BBC and RFI decided to finally return the licence. Our announcement mentions that listeners in Saxonia can still tune in via Astra satellite and online, but: RFI's new management, introduced in July, has announced that they "definitely" plan to close six language services, including German, as we learned last Friday to our great dismay. The argument are again poor ratings, although the FM outlet in Berlin gains much more listeners than in Saxonia. Beyond that it's a cost saving measure, RFI has a deficit, that's true. In future RFI will concentrate on Africa much more and expand its capacities there, and for that Europe will be simply sacrificed. It's a heavy blow for us, but we have not let go all hopes yet and started, amongst other action, a letter-writing campaign. Audio of this studio talk is here, sounding almost exactly like BBC- RFI on FM in Saxonia did: http://www.rfi.fr/actude/articles/106/article_671.asp I have not received word yet about what happened at midnight, so the chronicle will have to be completed later. And meanwhile the matter became a political issue because the Saxonian media authority will not reallocate the frequencies, stating that they are obligued to digitize broadcasting. The Liberal Democrats in Saxonia already criticized this position, pointing out that the radio market certainly deserves more variety since private radio in Saxonia is meanwhile concentrated in two big groups [Regiocast and RTL]. The plan of the media authority is to exterminate the frequencies (Frequenzvernichtung is indeed an almost established term for discussing media politics) by using them for digital pilot projects like DRM+. In Dresden this would be especially scandalous because the non-commercial Coloradio has to make do with two poor 100 and 50 watts frequencies while BBC-RFI was from Coloradio's 50 watts site (Dresden-Gompitz) on air with a solid 1 kW. (TFK: Freital 99.3, Dresden-Gompitz 98.4 and 91.1, respectively.) (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Nov 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Continued under GERMANY ** FRANCE. Appeal from the RFI in Russian and maybe some other services too. Seems to be stop soon some services of RFI on SW and MW and in programme in Russian they asking to listeners to support the existing of RFI on SWs on address: radiorfi @ rfi.fr (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, Nov 2 via Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. RFI Paris B08 schedule in English via TDF Issoudun site, 500 kW: 7315 0400-0430 261008-290309 EaAF 7315 0600-0630 261008-010309 AllAF 9765 0600-0630 010309-290309 AllAF 9805 0400-0430 261008-290309 EaAF 9805 0500-0530 261008-010309 EaAF 11615 1600-1700 261008-010309 AllAF 11725 0700-0730 261008-010309 AllAF 11995 0500-0530 261008-290309 EaAF 11995 0600-0630 261008-010309 EaAF 13680 0500-0530 010309-290309 EaAF 13680 0600-0630 261008-290309 EaAF 15160 0600-0630 010309-290309 EaAF 15605 0700-0730 010309-290309 AllAF 15605 1600-1700 010309-290309 AllAF 15605 1600-1700 261008-290309 EaAF 21620 1200-1230 261008-290309 EaAF (BC-DX Nov 4 via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DXLD) ** GABON [and non]. AN1, 17630, as previously reported, still suffers from a big collision caused by DW via Rampisham moving onto frequency for B-08, as heard Nov 1 at 1325. At 14-16, AN1 has long had another collision and still does with CRI English via Mali --- as AN1 does not bother to register its usage with HFCC, so the others may pretend it does not exist (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 15745, Nov 1 at 1404 with gospel rock, good signal and I suspected a US station, but it`s listed as CVC in English via Jülich, 145 degrees to E Africa at 14-18 (Glenn Hauer, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. DWL distortion from ?which location? Tonight the DWL German outlet on 6075 kHz noted with S=9+40dB of power and accompanied by two distortion spikes around 6016-6034 peak=6032 kHz, and symmetrical at 6119-6135 peak=6214 kHz. But I cannot say which transmitter causes the distortion at 1900-2000 UT slot: due to 6075 1800-1959 Woofferton 300 kW at 105 deg and 6075 1700-1957 Sines-POR 250 kW at 40 degr too. (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 30, harmonics yg via DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. 6075 DW via Dhabbaya [UAE]. News and commentary in English. Good strength signal of program directed to East Asia. New transmitter site, 2017, 27/10 (Charles Jones, Castle Hill NSW (Sony ICF 2001 with 7m vertical), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) Woofferton transmitter goes off abruptly mid-sentence 1959, but this didn’t come up until 2001 with German news in progress. Slightly off- channel, measured at 6075.08, 31/10 (Craig Seager, Bathurst NSW (Icom R75, Yaesu FRG 7700, Horizontal Loop, Dipole), ibid.) 7205 DW in Russian 2025 Nov 1, DW theme music and ID, talk in Russian, // listed 6180-Rampisham, 7145-Sines. Not included in the previously circulated DW schedules or in HFCC (David Yocis, Harpers Ferry WV, USA (39.13 N, 77.48 W), R8B, various wires, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear Glenn, Hope all is well. DW Radio for the new season for Asia has a frequency which we here in South India were used to Radio Ethiopia for a long long time. 9560 at 1600 is DW for the new season. DW being so strong there are no chances that we will be able to hear Radio Ethiopia. Disappointing. Could they have not chosen another frequency? Radio Ethiopia's other frequency of 7165 weak (Manikant Lodaya, India, Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Of course they could have chosen another frequency; it`s via Sri Lanka. Trouble is, Ethiopia is not in HFCC, so DW may have thought the frequency was available (Glenn to Manikant, via DXLD) I am beginning to wonder if all the broadcasters on 11690 have finally succeeded in driving the RTTY off 11688? Another day with no RTTY audible during DW English via Rwanda, Oct 31 at 2109 check. At other hours it`s also used by South Africa, Ecuador, Guam, Germany, China, Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No 11690 in African language, good at 1810 Nov 1 but with RTTY on side, which is still causing problems. It`s DW in Hausa via RWANDA, 1800- 1857 at 295 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. DEUTSCHE WELLE VS. DEUTSCHLANDFUNK --- The affair about the Chinese service of Deutsche Welle has reached the next level: It turned into a row with Deutschlandfunk since a report of this Deutschlandradio station said about the style of DW Chinese that "one has not to be a dissident to find it very reminiscent to Communist propaganda", adding that it would appear that DW German and DW Chinese are competitors, fighting each other. Deutsche Welle director Erik Bettermann complained in a letter to Deutschlandradio director Ernst Elitz that this Deutschlandfunk piece violated journalistic principles, did not consider many facts, suppressed informations, was biased and used unreliable sources. Deutschlandradio's program director Günter Müchler rejected these complaints and described it as regrettable that Deutsche Welle did not accept repeated invitations to explain their views for the report in question. Deutsche Welle says that they do not comment on this matter as long as internal investigations under way. However, Erik Bettermann already gave an interview for Evangelischer Pressedienst in which he said that so far no evidence for the accusations has been found. http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,587236,00.html (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Nov 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. BBC-RFI and DAB in Brandenburg [continued from FRANCE] To complete the chronicle in regard to the closure of the BBC-RFI service in Saxonia on Oct 31: The carriers had been cut (by way of timer control I would guess) shortly after midnight, in the case of Dresden-Gompitz 91.1 at 00:02 local time (2302 UT). Curiously RFI kept modulation on the satellite circuit beyond midnight, so the transmitters went off inmidst sentence. See also http://www.kimandrewelliott.com/?id=5136 : Meanwhile the BBC specified the audience figures they considered as too low. The weekly reach was 0.5 percent in Dresden and even 2 percent in Leipzig. Did they really believe that foreign-language programming can attract greater audiences? In my humble opinion these figures are a really lame excuse for the shut-down, and I think they just no longer care about Germany. Thank you, good-bye (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Nov 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. DAB in Germany, next act: After Hessen and most of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern also Brandenburg has no DAB service of its regional public broadcaster anymore. Recently, apparently on Nov 1, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg left the ensemble that covers the whole of Berlin and Brandenburg with a network of 19 transmitters. Thus this ensemble now contains only the Deutschlandradio programs and Voice of Russia, the latter being listed as 128 kbps mono, but when I checked it out in last year it sounded as if the encoder had been set to stereo (poor quality with lots of artifacts). Instead RBB has now crammed anything into the three-transmitter network (RBB site Scholzplatz, Deutschlandradio site Britz and former Marzahn TV gap-filler, as such no longer needed because DVB-T solved the issue of heavy ghost images there) covering Berlin only, using 192 kbps only for Kulturradio (emphasis on classical music) anymore. Otherwise its 160 kbps for Fritz (youth) and Radio Multikulti (immigrants station, to be closed down on Dec 31), 128 kbps for Radioeins (mass-compatible alternative music format with significant talk pieces) and the two so-called state programs (Radio Berlin 88acht, Antenne Brandenburg) while Inforadio (news) now gets 80 kbps mono. In reality nobody cares anyway, of course (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Nov 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GOA. Very BAD AUDIO as always on AIR Panaji Goa in Hindi and Malaylam? 12025 kHz 1600-1830 UT. 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) And their other frequencies have same problem on 9, 15 MHz (gh) ** GREECE. Radio Station Macedonia, 7430, f/d folder, sticker and post card in 5 years and 2 months. V/s Tatiana Tsioli. Address: ERT S.A., Subdirection of Technical Support, PB 11312, 541 10 Thessalonika, Greece (Joe Wood, TN, QSL Report, Nov NASWA Journal via DXLD) ** GREECE [and non]. Dear Glenn et al.: When I monitored 9420 on Wednesday, October 29, at 2000 and 2100 UT, there was no interference from Zambia, Africa 1. I wonder if Zambia has moved to another frequency permanently to avoid collision with Voice of Greece, or if this is a "not on Wednesday" deal. I'll see what happens when I check today, Thursday. Regards, (John Babbis, MD, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Don`t know about that date, but still colliding at about equal level, Sunday Nov 2 at 2200 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [earlier:] Dear Glenn et al.: Yesterday, October 30, Zambia, Africa 1, was back on again on 9420 at 2000, 2100, and even still on at 2200, interfering with Voice of Greece, when I monitored them here. I wonder how reception is in Europe and the Atlantic Ocean, where the main service area is intended for the broadcast? Even though it is not mainly beamed to North America, the signal was unusually strong with SINPO 55555, until Zaire showed up. Regards, (John Babbis, MD, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear Glenn et al: On Saturday, November 1, Zambia, Africa 1, practically wiped out reception of Voice of Greece on 9420 kHz. from 2000 to 2200 UT in this area. I wonder how reception was in Europe? 2000 2100 2200 22222 32442 55555 9420 323 170 AVL 3 ERA 5 Regards (John Babbis, Silver Spring, MD, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Here in Finland at 2100 V. of Greece is stronger, but Africa 1 causes significant interference. 73, (Mauno Ritola, ibid.) VOG coming in very well, Oct 30 at 0519, lively wakeup program with music and chatter, sing-alongs, on 7475 and slightly weaker // 7450, and also // weaker 9420. Yet 7475 is 285 degrees and 7450 is 323 degrees which ought to be better here, as is 9420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CNR8 China National radio #8 on same channel. And we suffer by another co-channel 9420 kHz station, which hit Avlis transmission in 1100-1400 - or -1700 UTC slot, originate from Lingshi, China in Kazakh, Uighur, Mongolian !! regards de (Wolfgang Bueschel df5sx, to John Babbis, via DXLD) Dear Friend Babis: As you can see from the below reception report, the Voice of Greece on 9420 kHz at 2000-2200 UT, was practically wiped out here on Sunday and Monday for all practical listening purposes by the co-channel Zambia, Africa 1, transmitter broadcasting in English. I wonder if they have moved their antenna to zero in on the Washington, DC, listening area? This is my reception report for Sunday and Monday UT November 3, 2008: SUNDAY 11/2 UT MONDAY 11/3 2000 2100 2200 2300 0000 0100 0200 kHz Az kW Station 12331 12331 55455 25332 25332 25332 25332 9420 323 170 AVL 3 ERA 5 This is my reception report for Monday and Tuesday November 4, 2008: MONDAY 11/3 UT TUESDAY 11/4 12332 12221 55555 55555 55555 55555 55555 9420 323 170 AVL 3 ERA 5 Regards (John Babbis, Silver Spring, MD, to ERA via DXLD) 7450, VOG, Avlis, 0427 Nov 2 -- Greek music // 7475, 9420, fair signal with splatter from WYFR-7455. Presumably replacing scheduled 12105. The Macedonian service is on this frequency in my local afternoons, heard well on both Nov 1 and Nov 2 (David Yocis, Harpers Ferry WV, USA (39-13 N, 77-48 W), R8B, various wires, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) GRECIA, 15650, Voice of Grecia, Avlis, 1548-1552, escuchada el 2 de noviembre en griego a locutor con noticias deportivas, emisión en paralelo por 9935 y sin emisión por 9420, en colisión con Miraya FM, SINPO 53553 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) More about this at SUDAN [non] ** GREECE. Voice of Greece, B-08 ERT S.A.: THE VOICE OF GREECE SHORT WAVE TRANSMISSION SCHEDULE Effective from 26/10/08 to 29/03/09 Wavelenghts-Frequecies [sic] Languages [Greek, u.o.s.] Service Area GMT/UTC m kHz m kHz EUROPE: 0000-0300 31 9420 41 *7475 0300-0600 31 9420 41 7475 41 *7450 0600-0700 31 9420 41 *7475 0700-1000 31 9420 19 15630 1100-1600 31 9420 1600-2000 31 9420 19 *15630 2000-2400 31 9420 41 7475 EUROPE Foreign languages: [really 666 kHz, they won`t ever say] 0600-1000 665 25 12105 Al, Eng, F, E 1000-1200 665 G, Rus, 1200-1700 665 Ar, Sc, Bg, Pl, R, Tr [see key below] TASKEND 1200-1400 31 9420 MIDDLE EAST 1100-1300 19 15650 INDIAN OCEAN 1300-1600 19 *15650 [collides with IRRS/Slovakia/Miraya FM 1500-1550] ATLANTIC OCEAN 0000-0300 41 *7475 0300-0600 31 9420 41 7475 41 *7450 0600-0700 31 9420 41 *7475 0700-1000 31 9420 19 15630 1100-1600 31 9420 1600-2000 31 9420 19 *15630 2000-2400 31 9420 41 7475 AFRICA 2300-0300 25 *12105 0300-0600 41 *7450 AUSTRALIA 1200-1600 19 *15650 NORTH AMERICA 0000-0300 31 9420 41 *7475 0300-0700 41 *7475 2300-2400 31 9420 SOUTH AMERICA 2300-0300 25 *12105 S ATLANTIC-PANAMA ZONE 0300-0600 41 *7450 (*) Transmission and min earlier [ends 10 minutes before the hour] (1) Gr=Greek, Eng= English, Al= Albanian, Ar=Arabian, Bg= Bulgarian, F=French, E= Spanish, G= German, Pl=Polish, R=Romanian, Rus= Russian, Sc= Servocroatian, Tr=Turkish [As usual this schedule ignores what is most important to us, WHEN THERE ARE WEEKLY ENGLISH BROADCASTS, already confirmed, at least Sunday 1105-1200 and Monday 0005-0100 --- gh] LIVE RADIO URL: http://www.voiceofgreece.gr http:www.ert.gr Tel studio 210 606 6439 Reports via e-mail: era5 @ ert.gr, apodimos_era5 @ ert.gr Technical information: bcharalabopoulos @ ert.gr ERA5 "THE VOICE OF CREECE" 432 Messogion, Ag.Paraskevi 15342, ATHENS- GREECE Tel: (+30)-210 606 6895-96, (+30)-210-606 6297-98,(+30)-210 606 6398, Fax (+30)-210 606 6309 (ERA via John Babbis, Nov 5, tidied up by Glenn Hauser for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREENLAND. Greenland via Europe Via Global Tuner UK 3815-USB. Ammasalik Radio at 2010 Nov 1 with kids singing and accordian music at 2020. They played music right through 2030. I am starting to wonder if this is weekends only now. The initial log was during the week, but all the subsequent logs are from the weekends [see below.] I keep trying during the week without success, but they always seems to have a nice signal on the weekend. Has anyone heard them during the week recently? Does anyone have contacts at the station that can provide us with their current schedule? (Hans Johnson, Nov 1, Cumbre DX via DXLD) Hans: The last contact I had there (KNR, not OZL) was Ms. Ivalu S?vndahl Pederson, Communications Assistant. If my memory serves me right, she has moved on, but an e-mail to isp @ knr.gl might elicit a response, using that position title. In her letter QSL to me on 4/12/06 she gave a complete station schedule (1200-1315 and 1800-1915 West Greenlandic Time – GMT calculated according to current offset). The OZL (Ammassalik Radio) contact whom I used for an earlier reception (Dec 2005) was sent to Gerda Vilholm at OZL @ tele.gl and resulted in an e-mail verification (Bruce Churchil, CA, ibid.) 3815, 2050-2115*, KNR, Tasiilaq (USB) (tentative), Greenlandic/Danish (presumed) conversation and news with short orchestral interludes, 2113 closed with a longer piece of orchestral music, 25232 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, Oct 30, playdx yg via DXLD) Date this was heard? Have they now shifted one UT hour later as expected for winter time? (gh, Nov 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3815 USB, Kalaalit Nunaata Radioa via OZL R Tasiilaq --- Probably also heard 2050-2115*, Oct 27, conversation between two men in undetermined language, talk with short musical interludes, 2113 a longer piece of music and off, 25232. No "foghorn" QRM. According to WRTH 2008, Greenland should shift from Daylight Saving Time to Normal Time like Europe on Oct 26, but it appears that the change is a week later, following North America (Anker Petersen, DSWCI DX Window Oct 29 via DXLD) ** GREENLAND. From 3 AST on [19 UT], Greenland 720 has been in solid today - no fading on a nekkid Sangean PR-D5 (Phil Rafuse, PEI, Nov 5, ABDX via DXLD) WOR's IBOC has pretty much washed out DX possibilities on 720 here, but I still try for Greenland now and then. Do you have any info on their format and operating schedule that you can pass along? (Barry McLarnon VE3JF Ottawa, ON, ibid.) Lots of spoken word programming. Some music, but spoken word predominates. KNR is to Greenland what CBC is to Canada. Listen for a language sounding somewhat similar to the language of our Inuit people and also listen for a Danish type language. Once you hear Greenland once, they are super easy to recognize. I used to think that they signed off in the early evening, but we had them coming in nicely late at night on October 15 at the Priest Pond DXpedition (Phil Rafuse, ibid.) ** GUAM. KSDA -- all outlets of this are much weaker here in Europe than in past decades. I guess a power reduction took place or a weaker antenna array is in use after a typhoon? All this compared to other stations from Pacific like Saipan, Tinian Guam and Palau etc (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 28-29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. KTWR B08 Effective Date: October 26, 2008 Language UTC Days Freq Target ------------------------------------------- Amdo-Tibetan 1300-1315 Mon-Thu 9355 China Cantonese 1100-1145 Mon-Fri 9975 China Cantonese 1100-1115 Sat 9975 China Cantonese 1100-1200 Sun 9975 China Cantonese 2245-2330 Mon-Fri 12130 China Cantonese 2245-2300 Sat 12130 China Cantonese 2245-2345 Sun 12130 China Hakka 1145-1200 Thu-Fri 9975 China Hakka 1115-1200 Sat 9975 China Hui 1000-1030 Sat 11935 China Hui 1300-1330 Sat 9355 China Mandarin 0930-1100 Daily 12105 China Mandarin 1000-1100 Daily 11590 China Mandarin 1100-1200 Daily 11935 China Mandarin 1100-1230 Daily 9910 China Mandarin 1200-1300 Daily 9355 China Mandarin 1315-1400 Mon-Fri 9355 China Mandarin 1200-1330 Sat 9355 China Mandarin 1200-1245 Sun 9355 China Mandarin 1200-1400 Daily 7485 China Mandarin 2300-2315 Daily 11765 China Mandarin 2300-2345 Daily 13720 China Nosu Yi 1100-1115 Sat-Sun 11935 China Nosu Yi 1200-1215 Daily 9975 China Swatow 1145-1200 Mon-Wed 9975 China Uyghur 1000-1030 Mon-Fri 11935 China Mongolian 1200-1215 Sat 9910 Mongolia Korean 1400-1515 Daily 11570 Korea English 0800-0835 Mon-Fri 11840 S.Pacific English 0800-0815 Sat 11840 S.Pacific English 0805-0900 Tu,Th,Fr 15170 SE Asia English 0820-0900 Wed 15170 SE Asia English 0835-0900 Mon 15170 SE Asia Balinese 0900-0915 Fri-Tue 15200 Indonesia Indonesian 0945-1045 Daily 15200 Indonesia Javanese 1045-1115 Daily 15200 Indonesia Madurese 0915-0945 Daily 15200 Indonesia Sundanese 1115-1145 Daily 15200 Indonesia Torajanese 0900-0915 Wed-Thu 15200 Indonesia Burmese 1200-1300 Sun-Fri 13765 Myanmar Burmese 1200-1235 Sat 13765 Myanmar Sgaw Karen 1300-1330 Daily 9585 Myanmar Vietnamese 1100-1130 Daily 9635 Vietnam Vietnamese 1400-1430 Mon-Fri 9920 Vietnam Vietnamese 1400-1500 Sat-Sun 9920 Vietnam Khmer 1300-1330 Daily 9975 Cambodia Kokborok 1230-1300 Mon-Fri 11895 South Asia Kokborok 1245-1300 Sat 11895 South Asia English 1355-1400 Daily 9975 South Asia English 1400-1500 Tue-Wed 9975 South Asia English 1400-1430 Mo,Th,Fr 9975 South Asia Assamese 1330-1400 Mon-Fri 12075 South Asia Assamese 1330-1345 Sun 12075 South Asia Santhali 1345-1400 Daily 11570 South Asia Boro 1300-1315 Wed-Sun 11570 South Asia Manipuri 1315-1330 Mon-Wed 11570 South Asia Mus/Bengali 1300-1315 Mon-Tue 11570 South Asia Mailing Address : Trans World Radio - Guam PO Box 8780, Agat, Guam 96928 USA (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GUATEMALA. He enviado un mail al Dr. Edgard Madrid, director de la emisora guatemalteca Radio Verdad, la cual está fuera del aire desde el 22 de Septiembre debido a que un rayo dañó sus transmisores. Esta emisora se escuchaba bastante bien por aquí, y le pregunté que cuando estarían de nuevo en el aire y esta es su respuesta: "Agradecemos mucho su carta de solidaridad mostrada por los daños que recibimos en Radio Verdad. Debo informarle que estamos esperando los transistores entre hoy y mañana, pues los pedimos a los Estados Unidos. El rayo nos cayó el 22 de septiembre, y se destruyeron los dos módulos de salida del transmisor. Ya puede imaginarse la profunda tristeza que he mantenido, por estar fuera del aire. Mientras tanto, nos puede sintonizar por Internet en http://www.radioverdad.org La respuesta formal de su carta, se la enviaremos por correo regular. Que Dios le bendiga y guarde. Dr. Édgar Amílcar Madrid, Director y Gerente." (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4779.96, R Cultural Coatan, 10/29/08, 0245, Spanish. Spanish-language songs and ballads with an enthusiastic "Radio Coatan" ID given over the music. Became apparent it was a little off-freq when it was QRMed by Djibouti from 0300, which was as strong or stronger. Mostly poor (Mark Schiefelbein, MO, WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUIANA FRENCH [and non]. The new Voice of Russia relays via Montsinéry represent no less than about a third of all transmissions via this site if I do not miss something. Quite remarkable. And they are also remarkable for being the first transmissions of RM/VOR via transmitters in the western hemisphere since 17 years, or was it not in 1991that the airtime exchange of Radio Moscow and Radio Habana Cuba stopped? (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Nov 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Much more under RUSSIA [and non] ** GUINEA. 7125, R. Conakry. November 5, 0751 slow African music, 0755 abrupt s/off. Seems higher modulation level than usual, 34333. 73 (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - dipole 18m, 32m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HAWAII. Looking for AFN Pearl Harbor on 6350-USB, Oct 31 at 1330, nothing audible, just the Korean mess on 6348, Echo of Hope and jamming. I again suspect AFN has completely stopped using 6350; it`s certainly a bad spot with Aoki A08 showing the 6348 Korean conflict at 03-05, 11-19, and Oct 5-13 only at 22-24 UT. But it also shows AFN LA via PH on 6350 at 15-23, which would be mostly daytime in Hawaii, and 10320 at 23-15 UT. Has anyone heard 6350 in months? 10320 was not audible at this time but could have been on and not propagating. I had previously noted 10320 well after 0600 UT, i.e. ``night`` in Hawaii. Both are still on the listing at http://myafn.dodmedia.osd.mil/ShortWave.aspx as well as http://www.npr.org/worldwide/shortwave.html but that is even more out of date, still listing Keflavik, Iceland, which closed a few years ago, on the same two frequencies! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HONDURAS. 1390, 30/10 0530, HRVC, La Voz Evangélica, Tegucigalpa, 2 programa religioso, lettura, mx e ID alle 0535 "La Voz Evangelica, Honduras" (Saverio De Cian, Sedico (Belluno), Italia, JRC-535, SDR-14, K9AY, shortwave yg via DXLD) ex SW! 4820 ** HUNGARY [and non]. Dear Istvan, tonight I checked the very few shortwave transmissions of Magyar Radio on 3975 kHz, to get the exact title of the station / program, like former "Radio Budapest" or Magyar Radio, Kossuth Radio. Maybe you can listen to short piece, which I recorded at 2200 UT November 1st. TX at Jaszbereny switched-ON at 2156:00 UT; no interval signal, no pause identification, just carrier noise. Signal strength S=9+10dB not overwhelming. 2200:02 UT Program on 3975 started with trumpet air horn fanfare for first 10 seconds. Then I heard like Itt Budapest, [ - hier ist Budapest ] Sülkönling [ ??? ] Mayar Radio [ Ungarisches radio ] Maybe you can tell me the exact identification of these three sentences. Kind regards de Wolfy from Stuttgart Other 75 mb stations at 2200 UT: 3955, KBS via Skelton UK S=9 +20 dB, the strongest 3984.96, Croatian Radio Deanovec S=7 3995 DRM, Sines POR S=7 4004.75 usb, Vatican Radio S=4-5 3 - 4 uV (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Nov 1, to Hegedüs István, via DXLD) Dear Wolfgang, The exact translation of the Hungarian sentences are the following: Itt Budapest = This is Budapest Szüloföldünk = Our homeland Önök a Magyar Rádió adását hallják = You are listening to the broadcast (or transmission) of the Hungarian Radio I enclose also the .pdf version to see correctly the accentuated vowels: Szüloföldünk > ü, o, ö; Rádió > á, ó [and we hope that your accenter is working properly as you read this --- gh] 73's (Hegedüs István, Hungary, Nov 2, to Wolfy, via DXLD) OUR HOMELAND programm small schedule. Recorded yesterday night Nov 1st 2200 UT opening fanfare and ID. 3975 acc HFCC entry is 0 direction; that means non-dir antenna except the 5995 kHz North American outlet which is 306 degrees 47 34'10.00"N 19 50'44.00"E Jaszbereny 22 curtain masts, 1 non-dir horizontal quadrant(HQ) antenna on far right side stub leg, revolving antenna on the northern stub leg http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&hl=de&geocode=&q=+47%C2%B034%2710.00%22N+++19%C2%B050%2744.00%22E&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=16&g=47%C2%B034%2710.00%22N+++19%C2%B050%2744.00%22E (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Nov 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I checked totally www radio.hu website, and found only this regarding SZuLoFöLDUNK (Our Homeland) program of Hungarian Radio: http://www.radio.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=238&Itemid=38 Az MR rövidhullámon és muholdon külföldre is sugároz magyar nyelvu programot, melynek címe: Szüloföldünk. ==> MR (Magyar Rádió = Hungarian Radio) also transmits on SW and satellite for abroad, a Hungarian language program, called: Our Homeland. ... ==> This program offers a mixture of MR1-Kossuth Rádió shows, packed in 1 informative hour. Rövidhullámú sugárzás = SW transmissions Muholdon = On satellite -- Also, when I Google-searched them, I found the following link for STREAMING, not listed on http://www.radio.hu neither on http://real1.radio.hu : http://212.92.28.75:2308/listen.pls IT IS IN MP3 FORMAT 32KBPS/22KHZ/MONO, and it is still active. Server Status: Server is currently up and public. Stream Status: Stream is up at 32 kbps with 1 of 20 listeners (1 unique) Listener Peak: 3 Average Listen Time: 14m 07s Stream Title: RADIO BUDAPEST HUNGARY Content Type: audio/mpeg Stream Genre: HIREK MAGYARORSZAGROL Stream URL: http://www.radio.hu/ This is probably old stream link from Radio Budapest, as you can see Stream Title: RADIO BUDAPEST HUNGARY and HIREK MAGYARORSZAGROL means NEWS FROM HUNGARY. Regards, DL (Dragan Lekic, Serbia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AIR with super fidelity --- Am listing to All India Radio 11620 at 2150 with the best audio fidelity I have ever heard from them. Not mumbly at all, and good treble. Did they hire the Romanian technicians to do an overhaul? ;-) // 9445 also good and 7410 OK (Andy Reid, Ont., Oct 28, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dunno; but when I saw your subject line figured you had to be listening in DRM on 9945-9950-9955 (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DRM, 9945-9950-9955, AIR, Khampur. Very steady signal, English DRM test, news 1906 tune-in. SNR 18-22 dB, 13.96 kbps stream, mono, 31/10 (Craig Seager, Bathurst NSW (Icom R75, Yaesu FRG 7700, Horizontal Loop, Dipole, Dream® DRM Software), Nov Australian DX News via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DXLD) 03/11/2008 1933z, DRM: General Overseas Service of All India Radio, 9950 khz, SNR: 19.4 dB. English news and commentary, Indian music. ID: HPT AIR KHAMPUR 13.96 kbps EEP aac Mono RX: ELEKTOR DRM RECEIVER, ALA 1530 73 (Marc van Gerwen, Ede Gld., Netherlands, BDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DXLD) All India Radio B08 schedule is now available on their website : http://allindiaradio.org/schedule/fqsch.html (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. INDONESIAN MONITORING LIST Oct. 08 version of indonesian monitoring list by "N-1 Tushin" was released. http://pub.idisk-just.com/fview/Z8ZFp7GBlyrOKq3T5SA-8zfFB6IOiOniGDmQzuqZZfPOLdxNVAmzQwECn59oj9ce/TW9uaXRvcmluZyBMaXN0ICggMjAwOC0xMC0zMCAp.PDF Or Please use hyperlink of "N-1 Tushin". http://n-1.at.webry.info/200810/article_43.html de A. Ishida (NDXC) (S. Hasegawa, NDXC, Nov 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sidebar of the N1-Tushin main page has the link of the list of monitoring. http://n-1.at.webry.info/ (S. Hasegawa, NDXC, Nov 3, ibid.) ** INDONESIA. VOI, 9526, day 14, Oct 29 at 1337 check with another episode of Let`s Speak Bahasa Indonesia, usual good signal. And day 15, Oct 30 at 1323 with Today`s Focus on an Indonesian presidential candidate --- no, not that one; 1325 news headlines (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) VOI at present 1610 UT on 11785.86 - one of the better reception days. 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) As usual after 1600 (gh) VOI missed another day, Oct 31, nothing on 9526 during the 13 UT hour in English, nor anything audible on 11785v. Hope it`s just one more temporary breakdown, like Oct 26. RRI Makassar, 4750, with phone/studio conversation in Indonesian, including ``salaam aleikum``, QRMing CODAR and another broadcaster under, reading S9+15 but still hard to copy. 4790 Fak2 also audible weaker with music, hi-pitch, off-key singing, which no doubt in the Indonesian context, is on-key, unless they have something like our TV ``talent`` shows (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9525.9, Voice of Indonesia, 1255-1315+, Nov 1, tune-in to choral music. Talk in unidentified language. English ID at 1305 & into English programming with news at 1307. Poor. Weak but better than usual with a somewhat readable signal. Only a threshold signal when checked at 1350 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) VOI, having missed Oct 31, was back on 9526 Nov 1, making that day 16, at 1253 with flutter, music, Suara Indonesia ID; running late, finally 1304 closing Indonesian hour, 1305 opening English, 1306 program summary, 1307 news: The VP warns Indonesians not to expect any big change in relations with US if Obama is elected, as he ``would keep a distance from Indonesia`` and is not directly related to the country, but ``he would be superior to George Bush.`` The Mohammedia organization praises passing of an anti-pornography law to ``stem the culture of liberalism``. Prince Charles will be visiting Yogyakarta Nov 4 at 11:30 am-4:50 pm, et al. Trade with Spain exceeds 2.1 gigaeuros, and their embassy has invited 60 Spanish businessmen to visit Bali. Bank-Indonesia not getting a bailout; Dutch Central Bank also mentioned. 1318, ``Our Today`s Bright Spot`` [which is not proper English], on presidential and vice-presidential elexion in Indonesia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9526, VOI, 1308, 11/1/08. Tune-in to English news by YL. Mentions of election and Obama. S6 on peaks with deep fades (Jerry Strawman, Des Moines, IA, NRD-545, Eton G5, Alpha Delta Sloper, Wellbrook 330S, 1.1 Meter Loop http://www.radiodx.net/wordpress/ Cumbredx mailing list via DXLD) VOI, day 17 on 9526 with hum, Nov 2 at 1308, VG with news in English about Bali bombers about to be executed, last-minute appeals. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Gents - Thanks to Steve Wood for this tip. VOI, 9526, 1302-1315 fade 11-02-08 Instrumental music. Clear VOI ID by YL at 1303, then into EE talking by YL. Signal just above the noise floor. It's been a few years since I've heard them here in EE. SIO: 141 (Chris Lobdell, Tewksbury, MA, USA, Eton E1, NASWA yg via DXLD) 11785, Voice of Indonesia, Jakarta-Cimanggis, 1608-1611, escuchada el 2 de noviembre en idioma árabe, locutor y locutora con noticias, referencias a Jakarta, Australia y Malasia, SINPO 44444 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) VOI still on 9526 for day 18, Nov 3, quick check at 1318 in English with good but hummy signal; in Malay after 1400 had a lite het from something on 9525. Day 19 for VOI on 9526, Nov 4 at 1335, lo-fi phone interview, in English, audio dropouts too, with someone at RRI Banjarmasin, Kalimantan Selatan, which used to be on SW, and then playing a song from there. I finally missed a day checking whether VOI was still on 9526, Nov 5, so unless I see someone else reporting it, I will have to suspend my enumeration of the days it has lasted, but it has definitely exceeded three weeks with two days off. It was there on Nov 6 at 1312 check, YL news in English, with hum and flutter. VOI, 9526, still active Nov 7 at 1330 during English hour playing some of its favorite background music, Cielito Lindo, in Miscellany program talking about how there are 100 football fields in Jakarta, owned by the government but funxioning as businesses. I hope I got that right? YL presenter outroduced herself as Yuko K-something, so apparently she is ethnic Japanese. 1333 to Music Corner with a YL singer born in September 1965 in Semarang (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL. 5905, Most terribly covered SW channel in winter schedule. Radio Rossii Moscow, RFI Paris via Issoudun in Russian, CRI Kashi, in Chinese, all co-channel 1900-2000 UT. And from 2000 UT DWL Arabic too, 20-22 UT from Sines, Portugal (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 28- 29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) "The Trinity Effect" on 5905 kHz at 1900-2000 goes on already 3 seasons (or more?) B-06; B-07; B-08 with three permanent teams on air - CRI, RFI & Radio Rossii which are broadcasting all three in Russian language co-channel (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, Oct 26 via Büschel, ibid.) ** IRAN. VOIRI, V. of Justice to NAm at 0130, just barely audible on 6120, better on 7160 (Bob Thomas, CT, by p-mail postmarked Oct 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6120, Voice of Justice, 0131-0203, Nov 4, in English, reciting from Qur'an, short promo for Islam, news (much about the anniversary of the 1979 capture of hostages at the US embassy, etc), commentary about Iran-India cooperation agreement, "Join us tomorrow for a detailed analysis" of the US elections, started out poor, fair by tune-out (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voz de la Rep Isl de Irán. B-08 http://spanish.irib.ir/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=375&Itemid=97 Español 0030-0130 C y S América 9680, 7225 0130-0230 C y S América 7225, 9680 0230-0330 C y S América 7225 0530-0630 España 15320, 13710 2030-2130 Sur Europa 6055 España 7350, 7130 (via José Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via DXLD) Spur splatter of IRIB in Turkish in 7060 to 7066 ham radio band. Hello, in new Winter season from Oct 26th two unclean spur peaks of IRIB traced recently. IRIB Tehran, tx Kamalabad 7125 kHz in Turkish (code "Turkish-ES") 7125 kHz 1600-1730 UT to zones 29S,39N KAM=Kamalabad Iran 500 kW 289 degr I traced spurs on 7060 to 7066 kHz ham radio band area, and symmetrically 7186 to 7193 kHz, approx. 62-63 kHz away, peaks near 7063 and 7187 kHz. \\ same program on 7310 kHz 1600-1730 29S,39N KAM 500 kW 298 deg 73 (Wolfgang df5sx Büschel, Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5890, IRIB in Pashto/Urdu 1430-1730 UT, and BUZZ bubble jammer (or ute); later the day 5890 kHz is used for Iranian opposition radio via Grigoriopol; maybe Iranian intelligence let the jammer on air? (Wolfgang Büschel, southern Germany, Oct 28 and/or 29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 4 via DXLD) ** IRAN [non]. Surprised to hear Asian language on 13680, Oct 30 at 1332, no RHC. But less than a minute later RHC blasted on, after either a transmission breakdown or a very late start instead of 1300, totally obliterating the weaker station, which per B-08 schedules in DXLD 8-115 is R. Farda via Wertachtal, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. 4360, Clandestine. Voice of Iranian Communists. According to ID in Kurdish at 1630 it is new frequency probably due to the sub harmonic of Monaco Radio in English and French which is heard on 4363 approx., fundamental 4828 [sic] USB, 28/10 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF-2001, Marconi), Nov Australian DX News via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DXLD) ?? 4363 x 2 = 8726. And you understand Kurdish? Should be 4764 x 2 = 8728 as below (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Monaco Radio (Utility) weather forecast in French & English 0730, 1303, 1830 on 8728 kHz SSB (Christian Ghibaudo, Nice, via Dario Monfeirini, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DXLD) ** IRAN [non]. 4366, Radio Sedaye Shurashi (Voice of Revolution). In Kurdish, ID at 0427, opening at 0425 with ID - motivs from "Nutcracker" by Tchaikovsky, playing communist hymn "The Internationale" at 0431 and jammed by Iran on 10/10 (it is on the air only on Fridays - checked) // 3881 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF-2001, Marconi), Nov Australian DX News via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DXLD) ** ISRAEL. 15780.82, Galei Zahal at 1445 UT. Surprisingly odd frequency. On Oct 26th and 27th on 15785.00 even. Maybe intention is, to avoid Chinese jammers on 15795 area? (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 28-29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15785, Galei Zahal, Tel Aviv-Yavne, 1555-1559, escuchada el 2 de noviembre en hebreo, locutor con comentarios, ID, cuñas publicitarias, cuña sobre las elecciones americanas, “...Obama o McCain”, SINPO 34433 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Galei Zahal is often reported on varying or jumped frequencies such as 15781, so when I heard Hebrew ads Nov 4 at 1357 I made sure to measure it: 15785.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. 11595, Kol Israel, Jerusalem in Persian at 1500-1630 UT, NOT bubble jammed! (Wolfgang Büschel, southern Germany, Oct 28 and/or 29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 4 via DXLD) ** ISRAEL [non]. Israel Radio is again being relayed by WRMI, 9955, UT Tue-Sat 0030-0100. More under U S A: WRMI (Glenn Hauser, UT Nov 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [non]. IRRS via Slovakia, 7290, Saturday Nov 1 at 2045 with DX Partyline, but now mixing with VOR in English (Joe Hanlon, NJ, WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So likely WORLD OF RADIO faces the same problem on Fridays at 2030. Yes, VOR from Moscow site is on 7290 all the way from 1600 to 2200, and one of the target zones overlaps IRRS, 18 which is Northern Europe. So Russia can ruin IRRS all over Europe at least. I`m sure IRRS would welcome reception reports about this (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SUDAN [non]: more QRM ** JAPAN [and non]. You know winter is coming on when you can hear Japan on 49m as early as 0622 UT = 1522 JST Oct 29. On 6055 I was getting a mix of Nikkei in Japanese, and BBC Ascension in French to W Africa; Spain is finished at 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nikkei Radio, Tampa Hoso, 6055, Thu Nov 6 at 1319 with French lesson presented in Japanese, conjugations of ``coucher``, ``s’arrêter``. Prof has a good Parisian accent except when it comes to ells. ``Ils`` sounds more like ``iru``. 1329 sign-off announcement in Japanese listing numerous JOZ- callsigns, frequencies and kirowatu, with the Z apparently pronounced not zee nor zed, but zeta (or zedu?), and off at 1330* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [and non]. NHK World, Radio Japan, 11705 now collides with VOA: Oct 31 at 1339 heard both at about equal level, VOA News in English, and Japanese song, 1340 Indonesian announcement, the two making a slow SAH of less than 1 Hz. VOA is Tinang, 349 degrees to zones 43 and 44, central and eastern China, while NHK is Yamata, 235 degrees to zones 49, 50 and 54, i.e. SE Asia, Philippines and Indonesia except New Guinea. So the two signals cross over SE China, and are bound to interfere with each other in the target areas. Who signed off on this `share`? Well, there are no duplications in the specified CIRAF zones, so it must be OK! At least VOA is off at 1400, so R. Japan can only interfere with itself via Sackville. NHKWNRJ, 6145 via Canada, very good UT Sun Nov 2 at 0007 in World Interactive, and since it`s the first Saturday, featuring haiku; at the conclusion they were talking about starting a quarterly haiku contest, once they figure out how to do it. This is the final daily repeat of each English program cycle (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KASHMIR [and non]. VOA AIRS URDU PROGRAMS ON PAKISTAN'S VOICE OF KASHMIR Washington, D.C., October 31, 2008 – The Voice of Kashmir http://www.vokfm105.com in Rawalakot, Pakistan, is airing the Voice of America's http://www.VOANews.com Urdu programs daily, the first affiliation between the U.S. international broadcaster and a private FM station is the Southeast Asian country. "This is a big step forward," said VOA Director Danforth Austin. "It allows people in Northeast Pakistan to hear VOA's news and information and it opens the door, we hope, to further ties between VOA and private broadcasters in Pakistan." Sardar Perviaz Yaqoob, general manager of the Voice of Kashmir, said after the launch, "We have a marvelous response from our listeners regarding the VOA and VOK agreement. We have received hundreds of calls from listeners asking the on-air schedule of VOA broadcasts on the Voice of Kashmir." The Voice of Kashmir in Rawalakot, available on FM 105.4, broadcasts four hours a day of VOA’s popular Aap Ki Dunyaa (English translation: Your World). The program, heard in northeastern and central Pakistan, will also be broadcast on the Voice of Kashmir's sister stations in Muzaffarabad and Dhirkot Bagh. Aap Ki Dunyaa is aimed at young people, includes news, information, music, call-in shows and features. All told, it broadcasts 12 hours a day on medium-wave and shortwave. Besides Aap Ki Dunyaa, VOA produces a daily, 30-minute television program - Beyond the Headlines (VOA Press Release via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India, dxldyg via DXLD) ?? Pakistan, and Kashmir are not by any stretch in southeast Asia. Nor is India. Look at a map, VOA PR department! (gh, DXLD) ** KIRIBATI. Radio Kiribati in technical and financial trouble The Radio Kiribati AM transmission that normally provides broadcasts covering the entire nation has now been off the air for five weeks because of problems with its transmitter and funding shortages. The national broadcasting station is now transmitting only on FM, which can only reach the capital atoll of South Tarawa and the nearby Line and Phoenix Group islands. This is the latest in a series of developments that have led the Kiribati government’s Broadcasting and Publications Authority (BPA) to slash staff, and the government to terminate some members of the BPA’s board of directors. This is the second time Radio Kiribati’s AM transmission has been off the air because of technical problems with its aging transmitter, which Engineering Manager Kautabuki Rubeiariki describes as out of date and beyond its lifespan of eight years. “Our transmitter has been used for the last 11 years — three years beyond its lifespan,” he said. “Even though it’s repairable, in the long run, the problem will continue because of wear and tear of other components.” The Engineering Manager says the only solution to bring back permanent national AM transmission is to purchase a new AM transmitter at a cost of almost 100,000 Australian dollars including transport costs to Kiribati, installation by the manufacturer and other local costs. “I’ve prepared a project document for this and it’s now being scrutinized by the mother ministry, Transport, Information and Communications, the Ministry of Finance and Cabinet, which will give the final approval,” Rubeiariki said. “If they react favourably, national broadcasting can be back on air in time before the next sitting of parliament, which is ‘on air’ during sessions, before the end of this year,” he said. (Source: Pacific Magazine) (November 1st, 2008 - 13:47 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via DXLD) 1 comment so far 1 ruud November 1st, 2008 - 15:33 UTC An 11 year old AM transmitter would typically be a solid state one, when bought new. The normal life span is 10 years, but with some proper maintenance they can go many years on. The are just obsolete in terms of power consumption and realibilty. If you are short of funds fixing this rig will be a good option, and put it back on air. To cope with power usage and reliability just power down 20% and increase mod as much as you can. Coverage will be the same. Solid State transmitter usually comprises of multiple final stages, you can run them with reduced number of those stage, of course with less power. The situation could be that to many final stages are gone, however they are not to hard to fix. Just replace the final FET’s. This requires a good engineer, which might be the real problem on such a remote island, with just a couple of stations and a few transmitters there is no business for a transmitter engineer. So this just a nice project for a technician who is used to improvise and loves a vacation on a nice tropical island. Just a few thoughts, it is hard to judge from such a distance (Media Network blog via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH. KCBS, 6285, soprano performing revolutionary (what else?) music at 1243 Nov 1, good here on C&SAm beam, and also audible on much weaker // 6185 to SE Asia; no sign of Mexico, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11679.75, KCBS Pyongyang, martial chorus 0035 UT. 11679.81 KRE KCBS Pyongyang, Korean 13-14 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, southern Germany, Oct 28 and/or 29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 4 via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5910, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze (tentative), 1419- 1430*, Oct 30. Since Oct 27 have been unable to locate Shiokaze. Only Vietnam in the clear on ex: 6020. Checked some former frequencies: 6015 (only very weak station there), 6005 (strong Russia with QRM from jamming of 6003) and 5985 (only Myanma R.), but no sign of Shiokaze. Today noted a woman announcer in Japanese with Shiokaze type piano music in the background. Heard clear mention of Tokyo, as with the usual Shiokaze ID, but somehow I was not hearing the distinct Shiokaze ID, or maybe I just missed it? Needs more work to confirm this (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Recently I have been corresponding with Shiokaze (via COMJAN), providing information about their transmission on 6020 (including an emailed audio clip of their reception) and the North Korean jamming that recently appeared there. Went on to suggest perhaps it was time to change to a new frequency again. Once I noticed they had in fact changed frequency, I inquired about it, as I couldn't immediately find them. Received this response: Thank you very much for your information. We have changed the frequency 26th October because there was strong jamming from North Korea. Now we don't disclose the frequency number because of avoiding jamming from North Korea. So we would like ask you to search our frequency near 6020 khz. Maybe you can easily touch with new frequency. Sincerely yours, Sadaki MANABE (COMJAN Vice representative). (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Oct 31, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Shiokaze/Sea Breeze B08 1400-1430 5910 kHz via Yamata 2030-2100 6045 kHz via Yamata (S. Hasegawa, Japan, Oct 31, NDXC, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And they have a number of other alternative frequencies QRX (gh, DXLD) Remaining tentative reserve frequencies are 5965, 5985, 6075, 6105, 6110, 6115, 7175, 7195, 7205 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, BC-DX Nov 4 via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DXLD) 5910, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze, *1400-1430*, Nov 2, 3 and 4, (1357 sign-off of R. Nederland) clearly heard even with moderate noise (jamming?) which is on well before and after Shiokaze. After Shiokaze signed-off heard Anthem, reciting from the Qur'an, into Arabic (Iran?) (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5910 with heavily-accented news in English about North Korea, Friday Nov 7 at 1416, fair signal and completely in the clear, no jamming, CCI or ACI. 1420 ID in clear American accent as ``This is Shiokaze, Sea Breeze, from Tokyo, Japan`` and then ``Today`s Editorial``. Unfortunately, everything but the canned IDs was very hard to understand due to the accents of the speakers. No enumeration of kidnap victims by birthyear this time. 1425 another clear ID, and then lengthy sign-off routine spelling out website, addresses, over piano music, concluding with callsign JSR, Tokyo at 1429. An excellent new frequency for them, but they are prepared to jump elsewhere if jammed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. B-08 Opposition radio schedules ?– JSR Shiokaze 1400-1430 5910(Japanese/Korean/English/Chinese) via YAM 2030-2100 6045(Japanese/Korean/English/Chinese) via YAM ?– Furusato no Kaze 1333-1357(12.4.6.) 9455(Japanese) via TWN 1430-1500 9880(Japanese) via DRW 1600-1630 9780(Japanese) via TWN ?– Nippon no Kaze?@ 1333-1357(..3.5.7) 9455(Korean) via TWN 1500-1530 9690(Korean) via DRW 1700-1730 9820(Korean) via TWN ?– Free North Korea Radio 1000-1100 9490 via TWN 1400-1600 7585 via TAC 1900-2100 7530 via YER ?– Open Radio for North Korea 1300-1400 7515 via TAC 2100-2200 9950 via YER ?– Radio Free Chosun 1200-1300 11560 via TWN 1545-1615 9940 via YER ?– CMI:Voice of Wilderness 1300-1400 11640 via YER ?– North Korea Reform Radio 1300-1330 9455 via TWN 1330-1400 9330 via DSB ?– VOF Voice of Free Radio?@ 1600-1630 7530 via TAC de Hiroshi (S. Hasegawa, NDXC, Nov 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [JAPAN/KOREA] Shiokaze ended at 1357 UT in Japanese on 9455 kHz, not 9445 kHz (Rumen Pankov-BUL, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 28) 9455 from Aoki list Furusato no Kaze 1333-1357 12.4.6. Japanese 100 kW 002deg Taipei-TWN Nippon no Kaze 1333-1357 ..3.5.7 Korean 100 kW 002deg Taipei-TWN (Wolfgang Büschel, BC-DX Nov 4 via DXLD) According to announcement of Furusato no Kaze. Test on 9965 kHz at 1333-1357 UT from Nov. 5. I think with QSY for QRM of 9455 kHz, i.e.: 9455, North Korea Reform Radio, 1300-1330 Korean 100 kW 002 Taipei, TWN 9455, Furusato no Kaze/Nippon no Kaze, 1333-1357 Japanese/Korean, 100 kW 002 Taipei, TWN 9455, Family Radio 1300-1400 Vietnamese, 100 kW, 267 Tainan, TWN (S. Hasegawa, NDXC, Nov 3, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) North Korea Reform Radio 1300-1330 and Nippon no Kaze 1333- QSY on 9965kHz from today (Nov. 4) (S. Hasegawa, NDXC, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) QSY: Radio Free Chosun at 1545-1615 to 9970 kHz via YER [ARMENIA] (ex 9940 kHz) from Nov. 5. de Hiroshi (S. Hasegawa, NDXC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. KBS Seoul, English to NAm [both via CANADA], 12- 13 9650, 0230-0300 9560 --- sometimes hit or miss, propagation noise or due to QRM (Bob Thomas, CT, Nov 2, by p-mail, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. WYFR doesn`t give us much chance to hear V. of Mesopotamia, via Moldova [? See below] on 11530; in B-08 WYFR is at 0500-0745 and 1200-1345, and WYFR Portuguese was way over VOM at 1329 Oct 30. So the convenient window for it is 1345-1400* V. of Mesopotamia, 11530 via Moldova [?], Oct 31 at 1341, sounds like sports play-by-play enthusiasm, with heavy flutter, but no QRM de WYFR. I thought WYFR would not have closed until nominal 1345* and it was totally dominant earlier in the hour, in Portuguese. Now VOM has problems from WEWN 11520 squeal extending plus/minus 18 kHz. On Nov 4 I monitored WYFR Portuguese on 11530 to find exactly when it would go off: 1345, uncovering V. of Mesopotamia, via Pridnestrovye, but its signal only poor with echo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also IRAN [non] UCRANIA, 7540, Dengue Mezopotamya, Simferopol [sic], 1523-1526, escuchada el 2 de noviembre en idioma kurdo a locutor con comentarios, probablemente presentando tema musical, emisión de música folklórica local, cánticos sin música, SINPO 35433. UCRANIA, 7540, Dengue Mezopotamya, Simferopol, 1929-1931, escuchada el 2 de noviembre en kurdo con emisión de música folklórica local kurda, SINPO 24332 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Una falta --- Simferopol disimular es UNA FALTA, es un secreto de Rusia USSR ACCURACY - That geographic coordinates material differs sometimes up to 150 miles/200 km, like vailed UKR_Mykolaiv_Luch_Posad-pokrovskote site, which is settled in USSR/ITU lists as SMF Simferopol Crimea. En lugar da Simferopol localidad es UKR_Mykolaiv_Luch_Posad-pokrovskote 46 48 55 N 32 12 39 E Ukraine http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&hl=de&geocode=&q=46+48+55+N++32+12+39+E&g=46+48+55+N++32+12+39+E&ie=UTF8&ll=46.815278,32.210833&spn=0.021469,0.040684&t=h&z=15 Saludos desde Stuttgart (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Hahaha¡¡ Thanks Wolfi, disimular?? Noooo, no es secreto (JMR2, ibid.) ???? call "SMF" Simferopol has no SW transmitter site! (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11530, Nov 7 at 1340 could hear V. of Mesopotamia unclearly under WYFR Portuguese, nearly zero-beat. After WYFR 1345* uncovered but now in continuous Kurdish talk I could detect flutter and short/long-path echo. This TDP transmission is registered as SMF = Simferopol`, Ukraine, an imaginary site where as Wolfgang Büschel points out, there are no SW transmitters, and SMF axually means Mykolaiv, Ukraine. We thought this was axually via Kishinov, Moldova / Pridnestrovye, or Samara, Russia, but whence is it, really? FWIW, not much from E Asia was making it at this time on 25m, and Romania 11940 was weaker than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. At first UNIDENTIFIED: 11630, Oct 30 at 1428, Qur`an, strong but fluttery signal, past 1430. 1428 Arabic announcement and back to another muezzin; seems over another weak station on frequency; 1453 lively talk or discussion; 1458 back to Qur`an past 1500, not // Saudi 15435. 1527 still going with Qur`an and also past 1600 tho weakening. Only in Aoki A-08 do I find a clue. R. Kuwait went on that frequency Oct 15, but at 1205-1500, 59 degrees. Can anyone confirm this is Kuwait, or what? Not // 13620 at 1535 check. I didn`t think Kuwait did a lot of Qur`aning, but this would be around sunset there pre-Friday. The other station on 11630 may be VOR, Moscow at 12-15. Tnx to quick monitoring by DXLD contributors, IDs were heard as Kuwait at 1625 by Jari Savolainen, Finland, and at 1732 by Wolfgang Büschel, Germany (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, - noted also here in southern Germany when checked at 1541 UT, always S=7-8 level til now 1625 UT. Reminds me on RTA - Algerienne Quran outlets, like tests via Issoudun last year. No \\ could be found in 49 to 19 mb when checked today. Oct 30 (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Around 1625 they had a phone? interview where mentioned also "Idha't al Kuwait" and then dicussion continued with some "kuwait" mentions. No IDs at the TOH/BOH noted here. Strong signal. Still waiting for good ID altho 11 MHz starts to fade out here (Jari Savolainen, Finland, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ID in Arabic at 1732 UT "...Huna Min Kuwait..." (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) R. Kuwait, 11630 with bits of Qur`an interrupted by Arabic talk rather than singing, good signal but fluttery, 1446 Nov 3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Aoki list entries 11630 kHz R. KUWAIT 1000-1200 daily Filipino 500 kW 84 degrees Sulaibiyah R. KUWAIT 1200-1500 daily Arabic Holy Quran 500 kW 59 degrees Sulaibiyah (Wolfgang Büschel, BC-DX Nov 4 via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. UNIDENTIFIED. 11675: To surprise me - seemingly [tentative] R Solh - R Peace via Al Dhabbaya, scheduled 0300-1200 UT. [2-3 UT 5925 UAE], noted this morning at 0730 UT, carried longsome phone-in calls by men and women into the radio studio and extended discussions heard. Or is that another Radio Kuwait service in 25 mb? Aunt BBC in Arabic was still next door 11680 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 3, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This is Kuwait on extended schedule via 11675 until around 0900UTC [not sure of the exact s-off] // 15495. It's their main Arabic programme. 11675 used to close around 0705. It amazes me that these three stations should operate so close together - Solh and KWT 11675 and BBC 11680 in Arabic - especially as there are clear frequencies available in the band (Noel R. Green (NW England), Nov 4, ibid.) ** KUWAIT. Not heard Radio Kuwait on 15110 at 0500. Have they shifted for the new season? (Manikant Lodaya, India, Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It`s still scheduled there, but seems to be quite irregular, as well as for the English at 18-21 on 11990. 73, (Glenn, ibid.) ** KUWAIT. USA/KUWAIT Updated winter B-08 for IBB via KWT 250 kW: 1830-2030 on 5750 / 070 deg ASH Pashto/Dari 1600-1800 on 5820 / 070 deg RFE Turkmen 0830-1400 on 5860 / 070 deg FAR Persian 1400-1500 on 7255 / 070 deg VOA Tibetan 0030-0100 on 7405 / 082 deg VOA Special English 2130-0030 on 7405 / 070 deg VOA English 2100-2200 on 7425 / 046 deg RFE Russian 0100-0300 on 7470 / 070 deg RFA Tibetan 2300-2400 on 7550 / 070 deg RFA Tibetan 1800-1830 on 7595 / 070 deg ASH Dari 1830-2030 on 7595 / 070 deg ASH Pashto/Dari 2030-2130 on 7595 / 070 deg VOA English 0030-0230 on 9335 / 070 deg ASH Pashto/Dari 1130-1430 on 9335 / 070 deg AFG Dari/Pashto/Dari 1430-1830 on 9335 / 070 deg ASH Pashto/Dari/Pashto/Dari 1500-1600 on 11500 / 070 deg RFA Tibetan 1500-1530 on 11550 / 046 deg VOA Uzbek 1530-1730 on 11575 / 070 deg ASH Dari/Pashto 1100-1400 on 11590 / 070 deg RFA Tibetan 1430-1500 on 12120 / 094 deg VOA Burmese 0230-0830 on 12140 / 070 deg AFG Pashto/Dari/Pashto/Dari/Pashto/Dari 0830-1430 on 12140 / 070 deg AFG Pashto/Dari/Pashto/Dari/Pashto/Dari 1430-1530 on 12140 / 070 deg ASH Pashto 0430-0530 on 15335 / 070 deg AFG Pashto 0530-0600 on 17530 / 070 deg AFG Dari 0700-0730 on 17530 / 070 deg AFG Pashto 0730-0930 on 17530 / 070 deg AFG Dari/Pashto 0600-0700 on 17715 / 070 deg RFA Tibetan 1000-1100 on 17750 / 070 deg RFA Tibetan 0430-1130 on 19010 / 070 deg AFG Pashto/Dari/Pashto/Dari/Pashto/Dari/Pashto AFG=Radio Free Afghanistan ASH=Radio Ashna RFA=Radio Free Asia RFE=Radio Liberty FAR=Radio Farda VOA=Voice of America (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 3 via DXLD) ** LAOS. 4412.58 Sam Neua, Laos. *1157 w/East Asian mx, 1200 gongs & into Vientiane relay. Fair at this time, despite some thunderstorm activity, 31/10 (Craig Seager, Bathurst NSW (Icom R75, Yaesu FRG 7700, Horizontal Loop, Dipole), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) ** LAOS [non]. Hmong Lao Radio, reconfirmed on the last day of DST, Sat Nov 1 at 1320 via WHRI 11785. Only further monitoring will tell whether it moves one UT hour later and/or to another frequency from next week. Hmong North Radio, which had been appearing for a few weeks UT Sundays at 0100-0130 on 5875, was missing Nov 2 at 0115 check, just WHR gospel rock instead. Hmong Lao Radio via WHRI, confirmed shifted one UT hour later to stay at the same local time in Hminnesota, Sunday Nov 2 at 1402, and still on 11785, referring to Thai newspapers about the political situation there; lots of English names and terms interspersed in the Hmong. A bit later back to the ethnic music we enjoy so much. So presumably it is now both Saturday and Sunday at 1400-1500; 11785 was off the air after 1500, but maybe on Sat it will stay on for Hmong World Christian Radio and at 1530 DXing with Cumbre (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LATVIA. Relays via 9290 kHz Sat November 8th Radio Casablanca 1200-1300 UT Latvia Today 1300-1400 UT RWI 1600-1700 UT Sun November 9th RWI 0700-0800 UT Latvia Today 0800-0900 UT Baltic Radio 1400-1500 UT Tue November 11th RWI 0900-1000 UT Good listening 73s (Tom Taylor, Nov 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBYA. Frequency change for Voice of Africa in French to NoAf from Nov. 1: 1600-1657 NF 15215 SAB 500 kW / 230 deg, ex 15660 \\ 17725 / 180 deg to CeAf (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 3 via DXLD) ** LITHUANIA. R. Vilnius, English half-hours: 2330 on 7325: extremely low; high hash level 0030 on 9875: nothing audible (Bob Thomas, CT, Nov 2, by p-mail, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7325 NF, Radio Vilnius, 2334-2359*, Oct 29, tune-in to English news. ID. Sign off with IS. New Frequency. ex-9875. Good but weak co-channel QRM. 9875 NF, Radio Vilnius, *2359-0032+, Oct 29-30, sign on with IS, ID. Talk in Lithuanian at 0000. English at 0030. New Frequency. ex-11690. Poor. Weak (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. From Fallbrook, CA: 11/3, RN Malagasy, 5010, with pop music, man/woman announcerss at 0250 tune - SINPO 35433 - nominal *0300. My ECSS keeps dropping sync on this one, even at 3.8 KHz bandwidth. Fading fast after 0300 (Bruce Churchill, Cumbredx mailing list via DXLD) ** MALAYSIA. 7295, Traxx FM, received a package from Ms Suhaila MD Zaini (Program Manager of Traxx FM), containing letter thanking me for my feedback and gives contact email for feedback as mail @ traxxfm.net several folders with program schedule and frequencies (none listed for SW) and 3 nice "TraXX fm Travel N Music Klang Valley 90.3 fm/100.1 fm" bumper stickers. About five weeks ago I sent one of their DJs (Shaz) an email with an attached audio clip of his program. He must have forwarded it on to Ms Zaini. This is my first mailed response from them. Recently they changed their station slogan to "Travel N Music" and they are now actively promoting domestic and international tourism, so now would be a good time to dust off those old reception reports (or generate new ones) and send them off. Street Address (mailed from): Traxx FM, Tingkat 4(u), Wisma Radio, Peti Surat 11272, 50740 Angkasapuri, Kuala Lumpur. Mailing address (on their stationary): Traxx FM, 2nd Floor Utara, Wisma Radio, P.O. Box 11272, 50740 Angkasapuri, Kuala Lumpur (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. 7284.9, R. Mali, Kati, 1116-1420, 02 Nov, Vernacular, traditional songs, contemporary Malian music; 45444; \\ 9635 good (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. 4845.00, 0540-0600 31.10, R. Mauritanie, Nouakchott. Arabic Qur'an recitations - early s/on maybe because it was a holy Friday; 35333 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) 7245, R. Mauritanie still in good shape here, good, steady signals (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6104.88, Candela FM, Mérida noted 1400 distorted in Cedar Key, Pompano and Louisiana 1 November (Bob Wilkner, Pompano Beach, Southeast Florida, US, Nov 3, WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. Altho I did not hear XEPPM, R. Educación, Nov 1 at 1243 when I was getting North Korea on 6185, I did hear it the following evening, having moved the sign-on an hour later already last week when Mexico went off DST. Nov 1 at 2355 rumbling het between two stations at least, Brazilian Portuguese song atop open carrier from XE. At 2358, RN Amazônia said it was almost dez horas (p.m.); 2359 Mexican national anthem started (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Just caught an English ID from XEPPM on 6185 kHz at 9:00 pm Central / 0200 UT. It was by a woman, and went "This is Radio Education broadcasting on six thousand one hundred eighty-five kilohertz in the international band of 49 meters." That was it --- all Spanish before and after --- and I happened across it during a bandscan. Is this something new? I haven't noted it before (Harry Helms W5HLH, Corpus Christi, TX EL17 UT Oct 29, ABDX via DXLD) No, they`ve been doing that for quite a while; it`s just a shame they don`t produce a real program in English, such as a news roundup. Check out Harry`s blog http://harryhelmsblog.blogspot.com/ --- some great recent entries there, about the future(?) of print publishing, the past and present of Cinerama (gh, DXLD) 6184.95, Radio Educacion, Mexico City, 0050-0105, Nov 1, Spanish talk. Lite instrumental music. Spanish ballads. IDs. Fair but some adjacent channel splatter. // 1060 - weak under KYW-Philadelphia (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. HUELGUISTAS DE MORELOS LANZAN RADIO CLANDESTINA -- Pedro Tonantzin http://www.exonline.com.mx/diario/noticia/primera/pulsonacional/huelguistas_de_morelos_lanzan_radio_clandestina/399655 CUERNAVACA. El magisterio de Morelos inició ayer la operación de una radiodifusora clandestina denominada radio plantón, similar a la que operó la Asamblea Popular de Pueblos de Oaxaca (APPO) durante el conflicto. Las transmisiones se realizan de manera irregular por diferentes frecuencias y no existe una cabina fija para no ser localizados. Según los voceros del movimiento, la decisión de abrir las transmisiones de esta radiodifusora se debe al cerco mediático que el gobierno estatal le ha tendido al movimiento magisterial. En tanto, promocionales que se emiten en esta emisora detallan que las transmisiones pueden ser localizadas por las frecuencias 82.5 [sic], 92.1, 94.1 ó 103.1 de Frecuencia Modulada (FM). Después de diversos rumores por la mañana, la radio clandestina pudo ser escuchada a las 16:00 horas, en el 92.5 de FM, donde dos voces, la de un hombre y una mujer que se dijeron llamarse Lili Ibarra y José Luís, al aire reivindicaron la lucha magisterial y pidieron a los maestros que no acepten el acuerdo firmado entre el Sindicato y el gobierno estatal. Además solicitaron a los padres de familia su comprensión y apoyo al movimiento. “Vamos a retornar, a hacer uso de este espacio informativo, para romper este cerco mediático en el que se nos ha tenido y que gracias a radio plantón Morelos estamos rompiendo”, dijeron. Los mensajes fueron insistentes para “los compañeros, también que no le hagan caso a otro, que no sea su representante delegacional o gente de la comisión negociadora, aquí estaremos dándoles información”, señalaron los locutores. Por la mañana del jueves, el movimiento recibió el apoyo del sindicato de trabajadores administrativos de la universidad morelense, que marchó de la iglesia del Calvario al zócalo de Cuernavaca para respaldar el plantón ubicado en este lugar. Por su parte el secretario de Gobierno, Sergio Álvarez Mata, ante la escasa respuesta de los maestros para retirar el plantón y regresar a clases, insistió en poner en marcha los castigos: “A partir de hoy comenzarán a correr las sanciones administrativas, de acuerdo con la dinámica establecida por lanormatividad” (via José Miguel Romero, Spain, Oct 31, dxldyg via DXLD) Cuernavaca = Cowhorn (gh) ** MONACO. See IRAN [non] ** MONGOLIA. 7260, presumed Mongolian Radio HS-2 Ulaanbaatar, 1122- 1202, Oct 28, vernacular. M & W with lengthy talks between brief music bits; beginning to fade at 1145; still audible at tune-out; presumed IDs at BoH/ToH but too weak for any definitive clues; poor (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, N.H., USA, R8, R75, CLR/DSp, MLB1, 200' Bevs, 60 M dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR [and non]. 9720, RVA Burmese and ?Burmese jammer at 2330 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, southern Germany, Oct 28 and/or 29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 4 via DXLD) ** NEPAL. Radio Nepal website has been re-designed http://www.radionepal.org (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India, Nov 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. It`s a bit stunning not to hear R. Netherlands in English to North America. They dropped SW (Bob Thomas, CT, Oct 30, by p-mail, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5955 / 6035 SWEDEN Radio Nederland (relay), Hörby; 0729-0734 October 27, 2008. I can only guess this is/are the site(s). Dutch news, ID. Both channels very good, with 6035 slightly better (Terry L Krueger. Clearwater, Florida, DX LISITENING DIGEST) Checking RNW's schedule, it appears my Sweden site is incorrect, but 5910 is also missing in the timeframe I logged them, right? http://www.radionetherlands.nl/features/media/081026-rnw-shortwave-schedule (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Says 5955 is Nauen at 0658-0758; 6035 is Issoudun at 0659-0757. Nothing about 5910 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Surprised to hear RNW in English on 11520, Oct 30 at 1429 with ID and frequencies 11520, 12090, (5825?), 9345 and 15595, but with SAH and co-channel from station in Spanish, no doubt WEWN, 155 degrees. 1430 RNW with Earthbeat program. At 1501 recheck, WEWN Spanish was atop or alone. It turns out that RN is now using Madagascar on 11520 but only during the 1400 UT hour, 250 kW at 50 degrees. Still not a good idea to `share` with a 500 kW station on the other worldside even if running at semipower. Then at 1459 RN Mad switches to 9345, which during the previous hour was via Tashkent (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RN`s only remaining English broadcast via Bonaire, 20-21 UT on 17810, was inbooming Oct 31 at 2040 check, S9+20 and hardly any fading, while // 11655 via Madagascar was much weaker and running 3 seconds behind. Bridges with Africa program, about Rwanda. Some classical music caught my ear on 5955, Nov 1 at 0558, but it cut off a minute later, replaced in a few seconds by RNW IS and opening in Dutch. This is listed as Sines, PORTUGAL, at 55 degrees, but nothing known before 0600 on a Saturday, unless BBC Rampisham really was on then, not just M-F. RNW on 9670, Nov 1 at 1255 in Dutch but playing phone intercept messages in English, why? Postbus 222 address in Dutch, fair. This is 267 degrees via TINIAN to SE Asia at 1159-1257. Altho Bonaire 17810 eclipses it during the 20 UT hour only, 11655 via Madagascar in English can also be heard in abandoned NAm during the previous two hours. Nov 1 at 1811, report on the food shortage in Zimbabwe. At 18-20 it`s at 300 degrees, 20-21 adjusted to 295. The 18 and 20 hours carry the same programs; on Saturday, The State We`re In, while at 19-20 earlier shows repeat, on Saturday, Network Europe Week, and Curious Orange (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tnx to hams relenting at the moment, station in Dutch heard on 3955, Nov 2 at 0632; must be RNW and must not be from Netherlands direct. Think this is the first time I`ve heard them on 75m. It`s via Skelton UK at 0600-0657, 250 kW at 121 degrees. Seemed to be // 5955, via Sines, PORTUGAL, but too much from RTI/WYFR 5950 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Dear Mr. Hauser, Dale Park-HI saw this story on radionetherlands.nl and thought you should see it, too. Click here to go the article: http://www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/region/middleeast/081027-RNW-Arabic (via Dale Park, HI, DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 7385, RN via Sta. Maria di Galeria [VATICAN]. New relay and new language segment, Arabic from *2000, ID as “Huna Amsterdam”. Strong 31/10 (Craig Seager, Bathurst NSW (Icom R75, Yaesu FRG 7700, Horizontal Loop, Dipole), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) ** NEWFOUNDLAND. Attn Harold Steele: Hello Mr. Steele, Thank you for taking the time last summer to discuss the status of AM 560 Carbonear. I understand that this station has now left the air. Can you confirm? (Andy Reid to CHVO, via DXLD) Andy, October 7 2008 at 5:30 PM CHVO-AM, 560 KHz, was shut down. Exactly 28 years and 12 hours after it first went on the air October 7 1980 at 5:30 AM. A little trivia, the first song ever played on CHVO was Snow Bird by Ann Murray (Harold Steele, Chief Engineer, Steele Communications, 391 Kenmount Rd., St. John's, NL, A1B-3P5, Cell 1(709)682-7601, Bus 1(709)726-5590, Direct 1-(709)570-1146 via Reid, Oct 22, DXLD) ** NEWFOUNDLAND [and non]. Tuning across 6160, UT Sunday Nov 2 at 0005, heard Randy Bachman introducing his Vinyl Tap show, atop the co- channel at times; ergo this is CKZN since the show would not appear until 3 hours later from CKZU. I could barely detect it also on CBCNQ 9625, but not synchronized, from different network feeds, and bothered by 9620 adjacent signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND [and non]. Resuming 17675 for B-08, RNZI for yet another season collides adjacently with CVC Chile which is on 17680 until 2400. RNZI was getting the worst of it when checked Oct 31 at 2211, especially when CVC was splashing music, which is a lot of the time. Are there no clearer frequencies available on 16m? Of course, there are! But neither cares about serving any audience in North America. Wait a minute: per its currently dated schedule at http://www.rnzi.com/pages/listen.php RNZI is supposed to be on 17675 only after 2236, until 0458, and in DRM, not AM! So we have another double anomaly from RNZI: the DRM transmitter again switched to AM, and went on the air at an unscheduled time, of its own volition or done deliberately without notice from Wellington? RNZI still not operating according to its own posted schedule. Nov 1 at 2123, on 17675 AM again, instead of 11725 which is supposed to run from 1951 to 2235; and abutting CVC Chile 17680; while DRM was on 15715-15720-15725 as scheduled. Yet another day, RNZI is on 17675 AM, at 2224 UT Sunday check Nov 2, rather than scheduled 11725. Maybe the schedule at http://www.rnzi.com/pages/listen.php simply has an error in it showing 11725 instead of 17675 and DRM on 15720. At 2245 recheck they had swapped, DRM on 17670-17675-17680 and AM on 15720. I asked Adrian Sainsbury about it and he says the schedule was wrong, that RNZI is really on 17675 AM at 2051-2235, not supposed to be 11725, and he corrected it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Hi Adrian, Again today at 2224 UT Sunday and for a few days I have been hearing RNZI AM on 17675, instead of the scheduled 11725 as per http://www.rnzi.com/pages/listen.php I wonder what the explanation for this is? Perhaps an error in the schedule as published, as I think you are not registered on 11725 after 2100; yet supposed to be only in DRM currently on 17675 after 2145?? DRM seems to be on 15720 at same time. 73, (Glenn to Adrian, UT Nov 2, via DXLD) Hi Glenn, You have noted a mistake in the web schedule. We are not using 11725 after 2100 UT. There is a line missing on the Web frequency schedule. 2051-2235 17675 AM & 15720 DRM which has now been corrected. Thank you for telling us. Rgds (Adrian Sainsbury, RNZI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17675, RNZI. Listened in AM until 2259*, then back on in DRM from *2300 with IS and straight into news. SNR 15.0 db, 31/10 (Craig Seager, Bathurst NSW (Icom R75, Yaesu FRG 7700, Horizontal Loop, Dipole, Dream® DRM Software), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) ? Nominal AM to DRM change time is 2235-2236 (gh, DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. QSL --- USA -- 6925, R. Paisano. Nice e-QSL, illustration of the Nina, Pinta and Sta. Maria and verie data. QSL #14 for this once-a-year Columbus Day weekend pirate. This for 10/13 report in the flush of my initial assumption that it was a transatlantic pirate. QSLer, "Luigi," was rather gentle in addressing my naive wishful thinking, saying he hoped I was not too disapppointed that R. Paisano wasn't really broadcasting from Italy. An attractive QSL and a lasting lesson on how easy it is to allow myself to hear what I want to hear (Don Jensen, WI, NASWA yg via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. OK`s newest AM radio station is on the air: 1120. This is the original KEOR 1110 in Atoka, SE Oklahoma, which was hijacked to Catoosa, Tulsa market, and frequency shifted in order to squeeze yet another AM station into The Metroplex, TX. Heard Nov 3 from 1727 UT playing nothing but oldies cuts, segués, pauses ranging from 5 to 30 seconds, never any announcements, not even a legal ID at hourtop 1800, as I monitored until 1815. Why is it that new stations testing on the air think they can get away without legal IDs? Not off to a good start, but this is obviously what I am hearing, and DF fits. Fair signal in Enid, some 200 km away, but splash at times from closer KLEY-1130 KS. Songs included Carrie Anne, I Get Around, Travelin` Man, Mother-in-Law, Surf City, World Without Love. Still going at 1935 recheck. Per FCC listing, call is still KEOR, which should work for Tulsa too, as in eastern Oklahoma radio; 2.0 kW daytime, two-tower direxional; facility ID number 3651 to read all about it: http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=3651 Which was extremely slow-loading, took some 5 minutes; is everybody looking it up already? Pattern is more or less cardioid, major lobe at 185-190 degrees toward western Tulsa, minor lobe in opposite direxion, and null at 50 degrees toward KMOX (which has a poor groundwave signal across the Ozarx), and one to match at 325 degrees – would that be toward Portland or nothing in particular? SR/SS table for the coordinates shows 1300 and 2315 UT in November. {BTW, the frequency is very slightly off, as a different BFO pitch could be heard on 1120 compared to stepping to 1130, 1140, 1150 and 1170 stations on the DX-398.} Radio-locator.com shows site is on North Peoria Avenue near 106 East Street North, which would be Tulsa terminology; can`t see a tower on the street view. Tho COL is Catoosa, still gives address as a PO Box in Atoka! Tiger map via FCC shows location is actually next to Sperry, N of Tulsa, not Catoosa, which is NE of Tulsa. Address on record with FCC is yet another, 3633 FM 437, Rogers TX 76569 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Checking 1120 again for new KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa, Nov 4 at 1530, instead heard KMOX with talk show, ID in passing, so skywave from it was still in and no sign of KEOR. An hour later at 1630, only KEOR was to be heard with music segué tests like the day before. In fact, around 1700 again without legal ID, they were playin the same music as the day before. 2120 recheck, off again and KMOX starting to show (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn Hauser wrote that KMOX-1120 "has a poor groundwave signal across the Ozarks." I can vouch for that! Surprisingly bad in fact... (Randy Stewart, Springfield MO, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Apropos of nothing; KMOX-1120 is almost never heard in eastern Kansas during the daytime, either, except under very exceptional conditions, although of course it blasts in at night (over three channels, courtesy of its IBOC sidebands). The 630 kHz St. Louis outlet, on the other hand, is always audible during the daytime. As KXOK, it was on my list of rock 'n' roll stations to listen for in the daytime, although WHB-710 was the obvious choice of teenagers and indeed commanded around 40-50% of the market in the '50's and '60's. Thanks for the tip, Glenn. I'll try to listen for it (Paul Swearingen, Topeka KS, ibid.) Hi Glenn, Thanks to Richard Allen for telling me about this new station. KEOR from Catoosa, OK is now on the air on 1120 kHz and now giving occasional IDs. One ID heard here at 1952 UT. "1120, KEOR, Catoosa." They're playing oldies music. The station is listed in Topaz as being a daytime station only, running 2000 watts. They list the station in the list of all stations on 1120 as being from Catoosa, but when you use the left column to figure distances from your receiver to the station, it lists the station and shows the distance from you to Atoka, OK. Putting in a VG signal here at first. At 2040 UT, KMOX suddenly faded in but still separable from KEOR, causing some rapid up and down fading. No ID at the TOH, and no ads heard and I tuned out after a second ID at 2053. As Richard told me, the station has unusually long dead air between songs. Today the dead air is lasting from 5-15 seconds or so. I know that you have reported about this newbie recently, but if I recall correctly, they weren't giving any IDs at all and had lots of dead air. Thought you might be interested in this if you didn't already know it. Take care and 73, (Kirk Allen, Ponca City, OK, Nov 5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) New station on 1120, still playing same oldies music for testing, but has added IDs; heard one immediately upon tune-in Nov 6 at 1844 UT: ``AM 1120, KEOR, Catoosa``. By 2100 it was mixing with skywave from KMOX with CBS News bong, but KEOR dominating for a bit longer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. My local KGWA 960 is still putting out spurs, not only on 950 and 970, but around 920 on the 10-kHz-step caradio, Nov 3 at 1732. Probably puts another one around 1000, obscured by KTOK OKC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 3449.1/cw, OK, Oklahoma HiFer low power beacon in well -- this seems to be the first 'hifer' to make it in each evening, and each season! Amazing sig for a reported 300Mw [sic], SIO 2+44 0605- 0610 20/Oct (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD) I assume he means milliwatts, not Megawatts or mu/microwatts. OK is the callsign, and is the entire message sent repeatedly. Also heard here if I tune across with BFO on. Supposed to be somewhere in northern OK, but I would like to know exactly where (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4077.3/CW MO Oklahoma HiFer beacon barely in 0703-0705 30/Oct (Zichi, op. cit.) ** PAKISTAN. Re 8-115: Hi Glenn, Radio Pakistan B08 schedule posted by Noel Green shows that a transmitter with callsign API-9 (100 kW) will be used for Pushto and Dari broadcasts as well as for English news broadcast for East and South East Africa. This transmitter is not amongst the listed ones for Radio Pakistan Islamabad which are from API-1 to API-8. Is it a new one or some typo error. Perhaps Noel may know about this development (Aslam Javaid, Lahore, Pakistan, Oct 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello Glenn and Aslam, API-9 is correct according to their schedule, and it's listed as a 100 kW unit at Rewat, Islamabad. As far as I'm aware, it's unlikely that Karachi (Landhi) will be ready until next year, as originally planned. There is no longer any listing for transmitters API-1 and 2 100 kW, and API-7 (a 10 kW transmitter) went off several years ago. I have no details of transmissions via API-8 as yet, but this is the one that usually carries Rawalpindi III/Azad Kashmir on 4790 and 7265. Perhaps Aslam can verify that API-8 is still on air? 73 (Noel Green, NW England, ibid.) Hi Noel, Thanx for the reply. In fact API-9 has not been used for any transmissions in the past. Radio Pakistan Islamabad has been using other transmitters from API-1 to API-8. I don't know why they opted to keep API-9 off the air for so long. Earlier it was announced that Radio Pakistan B08 schedule will be effective from October 26 but as per latest correction on their website, B08 will be effective from November 1, 2008. So I will have to wait till then to check the signals of API-9. API-8 is on air and is used for Azad Kashmir Radio Trarkhel and Voice of Jammu Kashmir Freedom Movement. You are right; Landhi-Karachi transmitters will not be operational till 2009. The above position also confirms that Radio Pakistan News and Current Affairs Channel is no longer available on shortwave and the transmitter API-4 used for that service will now be used for the external services. While API-3 will be used for lesser duration for external services. Regards (Aslam Javaid, Lahore, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello Everyone, Re 6140 -- My question Re Albert's news of Pakistan on 6140 kHz: maybe the two new 100 kW Thomcast SW transmitters and the Thomcast rotatable antennas are now ready for inauguration in 2009y? (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Gents, If it will help with this, on the day I heard the station, they were doing extensive 1 kHz modulation tests, so it could well be new transmitters, or just a case of alignment. Additionally, it was definitely RP World Service, as they signed on with that horrible Interval Signal that they use. Reception has since been confirmed by Mauno Ritola of Finland who heard them on subsequent days. I have heard them since, but the carrier is quite weak now, possibly being the rotatable antennas you mentioned, Wolfgang (Al Muick, Kabul, Afghanistan, ibid.) Hi Glenn, API-9 listed in B08 of Radio Pakistan is not a new transmitter and was not used for regular transmissions from Islamabad earlier. There is a possibility that API-9 could be the 100 thomsat SW transmitter which was reportedly installed at Mirpur Azad Kashmir in 1997. Thereafter when it was decided to set up a 100 kW medium wave station there instead of shortwave. The shortwave transmitter was later on re-located to Islamabad and nothing was heard about its operational status there. The transmission heard by Al Muick in Kabul on 6140 khz at 1330 could be the test transmission of API-9 which they now intend to use for regular transmission from now onwards. Regards (Aslam Javaid, Lahore Pakistan, Nov 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PALAU [and non]. VTC enhances coverage of South East Asia VTC has recently started offering shortwave capacity from a site on the island of Palau that provides extensive coverage of South East Asia. VTC has been successfully testing the site for a number of broadcasters. If you would like a test transmission on this new service to reach listeners across South East Asia and China please contact Tim Ayris at: tim.ayris @ vtplc.com [i.e. T8WH = `KHBN`] VTC’s Global Network of over 50 transmission sites provides extensive, worldwide coverage, ensuring our customers reach their target audiences. Through these sites we deliver over 1,100 hours of shortwave and medium wave programming every day for some of the world’s leading broadcasters, including BBC World Service and Deutsche Welle. Our Global Network offers the international broadcaster value for money combined with transmission sites that are geographically close to their intended audience. The Global Network is connected via VTC’s own fibre and satellite network (called the GMN), which is controlled from VTC’s state-of-the- art Media Management Centre in London. Our flexible and versatile network also offers other platforms for content distribution, including FM relays, satellite and digital media. To find out more about VTC’s Global Network and discover the benefits it offers international broadcasters please visit: http://www.vtc-online.com (First edition of Right Click, VT Communications’ (VTC) bi-monthly e- newsletter, via Dave Walcutt, OR, Nov 4, DXLD) ** PERU. Huaylas del Perú - música andina http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSkvn3VpOls Música Andina en Huanchaco - Trujillo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHxEevMb-W8&feature=related (Bob Wilkner, Pompano Beach, FL, Nov 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 3329.65, Ondas del Huallaga, Huánuco, 1020 to 1050, ID as "Ondas del Huallaga 90 metros" by om, exotic OA music, percussion frequent interruptions of music for comments, yl vocal, best signal in a month. 3 November (Bob Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, Southeast Florida, US, Nov 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4824.5, LV de la Selva, 10/29, 0102-0130, weakish with het, presumably from R. Sicuani, which was not audible this evening, plus some CODAR. Chicha and other "sonido amazónico" music with strong, galloping cumbia beat, some with destinct minor Andean sound but others sounding quite Colombian. Man and woman alternating briefly between music. 0121 reference to "para La Voz de la Selva." Also 0020- 0038 tune-out 11/1, weak with het, but this time R. Sicuani had audible programming and was just slightly stronger (Don Jensen, Kenosha WI, NASWA yg via DXLD) ** PERU. R La Hora is back on the air. 4857.45, 2350-0005 29/30.10. R La Hora, Cusco, Quechoa (presumed), talk by two men, heavy CODAR QRM, 22332. Drowned *0005 when AIR Delhi 4860 signed on its strong carrier. Best 73, (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) Peru, 4857.44, Radio La Hora, 2346-0008 Nov 6. Noted a program of Spanish comments from two males with mentions of "Peru" every once in awhile. At 0003 canned ID with TC even. Signal was fair to poor and went off the air at 0008 (Chuck Bolland, FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. I don`t notice this when VOI is on 9526, but in its absence Oct 31, 9520 had slow ballad by YL in S Asian language; 1348 brief announcement and more vocal music at slightly increased tempo. B-08 schedule shows R. Veritas Asia, 280 degrees in Sinhala at 1330- 1357, then Tamil (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. Radio Veritas Asia. Shortwave Transmission Schedule. 26 Oct 2008 to 28 Mar 2009 Program UTC kHz Studio Bengali 0030_0057 11945 2 1400_1430 11870 2 Burmese 2330_2357 9720 1 1130_1157 15450 2 Filipino 2300-2327 9720 1 Filipino 1500_1530 9615 1 Filipino 1530-1600 9615 1 (Wed/Fri/Sun ext) [WORLD OF RADIO 1433] Hindi 0030_0057 11710 1 1330_1400 11870 2 Hmong 1200_1227 11935 1 Kachin 2330_2357 9645 3 1230_1257 15225 2 Karen 0000_0027 11935 2 1200_1230 15225 2 Mandarin 2100_2257 6115 1 1000_1157 9615 1 Russian 0130_0230 17830 2 1500_1600 9570 2 Sinhala 0000_0027 11730 1 0000_0027 9865 3 1330_1400 9520 1 Tamil 0030_0057 11935 3 1400_1430 9520 1 Telugu 0100_0127 15530 3 1430_1457 9520 1 Urdu 0100_0127 15280 1 0100_0127 17860 2 1430_1457 11870 2 Vietnamese 2330_2357 9670 2 0130_0230 15530 1 1030_1127 11850 2 1300_1327 11850 2 Zomi-Chin 0130-0200 15520 3 Transmitting Station: Palauig, Zambales Transmitters: 3 x 250 kW G. Location: 119 50 E 15 28 N [see below] Antenna Type: 3 x HRS 4/4/0.3 4 x HRS 4/4/0.5 8 x HR 2/2/0.5 Frequency & Monitoring Radio Veritas Asia P. O. Box 2642, Quezon City 1166 Philippines E-mail: technical @ rveritas-asia.org Website: http://www.technical.rveritas-asia.org (via Victor Goonetilleke, Sri Lanka, 4S7VK, Oct 22, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 28 via DXLD) Location rather Radio Veritas Asia, Lipay, Palauig PHL: 15 28 02.00 N, 119 54 50.00 E (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Why would RVA put out such disinformation? Security reasons? Aren`t Catholix supposed to tell the truth? No, just confess eventually (gh, DXLD) ** POLAND [non]. Polish Radio External Service: November 1, 2008, 1314-1359* UT, 9450 via Germany. "Europe East", "A Look at the Weeklies" and "On The Chart". SIO 353. Enjoyable and informative programming. Good to hear Poland again since A08 reception was poor to not heard at my QTH. Off abruptly at 1359 without closing announcement. 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, Manassas, Virginia, USA, Nov 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5970, 9640, Polskie Radio in Deutsch um 2030 UT ist z.Zt. keine gute Idee. 9640 aus Franzoesisch Guiana in Suedamerika bekommt gegenueber der Uebertragung von REE Madrid aus der spanischen Liga kein Bein auf die Erde, wird heute vollkommen zugedeckt. REE sendet zwar nach Nordamerika, aber von der Rueckseite kommt noch genuegend Saft hier an. Vielleicht kommen die Signale aus GUF in den Wintermonaten hier besser an? Noch schlimmer hier die Aussendung aus Juelich auf 5970 kHz, da ist eindeutig RRI Saftica in klarsten Serbisch der Platzhirsch mit sagenhaften S=9+ >40dB, das verbiegt mir die E1 Display Anzeige. Da waere doch fuer PRW ein Wechsel nach Issoudun + Frequenzwechsel angesagt. GERMANY/FRANCE/FR GUIANA {POLAND non} Update of A-08 schedule. Radio Polonia B-08 BC schedule - 26 Oct 2008 to 28 March 2009 ENGLISH 1300-1359 7325 9450 1800-1859 6015 7345ISS POLISH 1130-1159 7285 9445 1630-1759 6140 2200-2300 6050 9660GUF GERMAN 1230-1259 5965 5975 1630-1659 7105 2030-2059 5970 9640GUF RUSSIAN 1200-1229 13840 15520 1400-1429 11675 11840 1530-1559 9790 1900-1929 5935 2000-2030 6135 BELARUSS 1430-1530 6035 7180 1630-1659 9670 UKRAINIAN 1530-1559 6000 1600-1629 7170 9440 1930-1959 5850 5935 HEBREW 1900-1930 9800 (Wolfgang Büschel, oct 26, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 28 via DXLD) ** PORTUGAL. 15465, fado music Nov 1 at 1745 with pauses for quick program promos, O Fado e a Guitarra Portuguesa, on RDP Internacional, and at 1755 O Fado em Silêncio; in fact, the latter was the program I was hearing, scheduled Sat 1708-1800 per their Nov 1 online listing where it may also be heard: http://ww1.rtp.pt/multimedia/?prog=3226 Also on // 17825 even stronger, as to be expected from 300 vs 226 azimuths (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PORTUGAL. Re 8-115: Glenn, It's simply not worth telling the RDPi people to update their programme list within the RTP webpage whenever local time changes, or advise them to timely insert the actual HF schedule. Luckily however, the latter does have the right times. Missing frequencies. --- You said "No sign of // 15690 scheduled for Africa; surely I would have heard at least a trace of it if it were on." - well, they are experiencing problems with the transmitter kept for the 144º/African service; their centre is automated, but if a major problem happen, as it did (and I don't know whether it's fixed), and personnel attendance has a more or less rigid shift, then extra broadcasts after they leave may not take the air since nobody is there to either manually do whatever needs to be done, or, alternatively, put one of the old 100 kW units into operation and then turn the transmitter off. Only the 4 x 300 kW units are automated. I am not aware whether this abnormal situation was being announced over the air. The "100 kW" power in the schedule (Venezuela & India/Middle East beams) does not mean the old 100 kW transmitters are used - they aren't. It's rather one of the 300 kW in reduced cycle due to antenna (rhombics) limitations. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, Oct 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PORTUGAL. Re RDPI B-08: I am sorry about the following: Europe 0600-0700 7130 kHz, not "12130" SoAm +WAfr 0800-1055 15555 kHz is missing. Here's another version anyway: >> Europe 45º (55º if via Sines, "Si", 250 kW) Mo-Fri 0600-0700 7130 0700-1300 9815 0745-0900 11660 Si 1700-2000 9455 extra b/casts when necessary 2000-2300 9795 2300-2400 7145 Sat+Sun 0800-1200 12020 1200-1500 11885 0930-1100 9815 Si 1500-1700 11635 1700-2100 9455 extra b/casts when necessary 2000-2300 9795 2300-2400 7145 >> Africa, 144º Mo-Fri 1100-1300 17745 1700-2000 13720 extra b/casts when necessary 2000-2400 11825 Sat+Sun 0800-1500 17590 1500-1700 15520 1700-2100 13720 extra b/casts when necessary 2000-2400 11825 >> MEast+India, 81.5º, 100 kW only Mo-Fri only 1400-1600 15690 >> NAm, 300º Mo-Fri extra b/casts when necessary 1300-1700 15560 1700-1900 17825 1900-2400 12040 Tues-Sat 0000-0300 9455 Sat+Sun 1300-1700 15560 1700-1900 17825 1900-2100 12040 exta b/casts when necessary 2100-2400 12040 >> Eastern SoAm+WAfr, 226º Mo-Fri 1100-1300 21655 1700-2000 15465 extra b/casts when necessary 2000-2400 11960 Sat+Sun 0800-1055 15555 1100-1700 21655 1700-2100 15465 extra b/casts when necessary 2000-2400 11960 Western SAm, 261º, 100 kW only 0000-0300 9855 Eastern SoAm, 226º Tues-Sat 0000-0300 11655 _____________________ The least used extra broadcast is the 1300-1700 period to NAm, Mon- Fri. This is extremely rare. 9455 to Eur 45º. I have been noticing what I'm almost sure is another jammer from Beijing. The same happened during the B07 schedule. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I traced the RDP Mon-Fri frequencies this noon: also the recent "left out" 17745 and 21655 too, both were powerhouses of back lobe here 1100-1300 UT today. And 14-16 UT noted also strong on side lobe 15690 kHz to S Asia. 0000-0300 UT I see only registered 9855 Brazil, and 9455 to N Am, but not 11655 yet !? 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 31, ibid.) Glenn, Still about our RDPi, don't be too surprised, if this or that frequency is not used when it was supposed to, especially whenever extra broadcasts are aired. This is by no means the rule, but is due to two main reasons: at least one of the 300 kW transmitters or more probably its control cicuitry is faulty and possibly not fully repaired yet, so they cannot switch the frequency but manually. That works when the site is manned (M-F 0900-1700) but not after the personnel leave, so when a frequency change is scheduled for an hour after the normal working hours, there is simply no signal. This is affecting the evening broadcasts to Africa/144º. According to their prgr schedule http://tv1.rtp.pt/EPG/radio/epg-dia.php?canal=5&ac=d&sem=e today is time for yet another extra broadcast: At 1900+: 1700-2000 Eur 9455 was on 1700-2000 Afr 13720 (weaker than normal) was on 1700-1900 NAm 17825 was off 1700.2000 WAfr+SoAm 15465 was on 1900-2400 NAm 12040 off At 1930: 9455 on 13720 off (should be off at 2000 only) 17825 still off 12040 was on I enquired about all this, and they replied: As the football match wouldn't start before 1930, 17825 to NAm was not programmed; instead, 12040 was, but would but not before 1930. No explanation about why 13720 to Africa was closed some time between 1900 & 1930, or why 11825 did not take the air. 9455 to Eur (and possibly 9795 at 2000) was said to be at 94 kW only. The match ended right now, 2138, so the extra broadcast period will probably end around 2200 after the usual tedious, silly comments typically added at the end of each match. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, Nov 5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PRIDNESTROVYE. I found Radio PMR, in English, 2300 on 6240; at 2326 it goes into French. Pretty good signal despite hash and propagation roll; heard first time Sunday (Bob Thomas, CT, Oct 27, by p-mail, DX LISTENING DIGEST) You mean 2316 into French? Usually quarter-hour each (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) At 2325 ID, mailing address, 2326 into French (Bob Thomas, CT, Oct 27, another report by p-mail, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PRIDNESTROVYE. MOLDOVA: 6240 Radio PMR; 2253-2329+, 28-Oct; French to 2258+ then German to English at 2315; back into French at 2328+; ll IDs as Radio PMR (letters); all was news commentary plus historical feature. SIO=4+44 with minor ute QRM (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 210' center-fed RW, 85' end-fed RW, 125' bow-tie, Cumbre DX via DXLD) Radio PMR from the separatist Trans-Dnestr region of Moldova has been observed with the following schedule for the B08 winter period: 1430-1730 on 7370 kHz : 1430-1445 English, 1445-1500 French, 1500-1515 German, 1515-1530 English, 1530-1545 French, 1545-1600 German, 1600-1615 English, 1615-1630 French, 1630-1645 German, 1645-1700 English, 1700-1715 French, 1715-1730 German 2230-0000 on 6240 kHz to N America & Europe: 2230-2245 English, 2245-2300 French, 2300-2315 German, 2315-2330 English, 2330-2345 French, 2345-0000 German (Dave Kenny - observations on 28 October, England, BDXC-UK via DXLD) ** PRIDNESTROVYE. 6240, MDA, Grigoriopol starts with 1000 Hz tone procedure around 2052 UT. 21-22 YFR religious?? (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 28-29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. Discovered jut by tuning around, RRI, English to WEu at 2100 on 7145, 6030; 2300 on 6015, 7105; 6015 hit by Arabic 6010, 7105 had ham QRM contesting. Also 0630-07009 7180 9690; 1300-1400 15105 17745; 1800-1900 on 7215, 9640. To NAm: 2130-2200 6115 9755; 2300-0000 6115 9610; 0100-0200 6145 9515 but nothing heard UT Oct 27; WNAm 0400-0500 615 7115 (Bob Thomas, CT, Oct 27, by p-mail, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. Tiganesti site on test today --- RRI Bukarest site Tiganesti outlets missing in B-08, i.e. Chinese, Russian and German services totally yet. Today Oct 30th noted the 2 x 300 kW Continental transmitters for the first time on air. At 0700-0726 UT was German service for the first time after 5 days silence on shortwave, in analogue 7175 and 9690 with 44444 in Vienna [thanks item of Paul Gager in A-DX ng]. 'SNR Tiganesti E2' is the call sign of a DRM test transmission on 6115 kHz which reported by Stephan Schaa in A-DX at 1316 UT. see Tiganesti SW 2 x 300 kW and 21 antenna masts. in G.E. 44 44'59.33"N 26 06'09.68"E http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=44.749722&lon=26.1025&z=16.5&r=0&src=ms l http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=44.749722&lon=26.1025&z=16.5&r=0&src=yh (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RRI Bucharest Romania with new Tiganesti tx equipment on air ? - or on test? Check on Nov 3rd at 1430-1456 UT, revealed RRI in Russian on both 9535 and 11905 kHz with powerhouse S=9+20 dB signal even in Germany, not on the main target of 52 degrees antenna. 2 x 300 kW Continental Made in USA units. Galbeni units still in service in Romanian 1400-1456 11940G 15170G (Wolfgang Büschel, Nov 3, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RRI on regular schedule --- new transmitters in Romania: I checked Nov 3rd and 4th, all five new transmitters are on air REGULARLY according B-08 schedule now. Started regularly 2 x SW units Galbeni on Aug 4th, Saftica single 100 kW on Oct 21, Tiganesti on Nov 3rd, all 2008. I'll stop all RRI reports from now. 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, Nov 4, WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RRI Tiganesti full in power S=9+30 / 40 dB, noted 1100 French, 1200 German, and now English at 1300 on 17745 kHz. Only 15105 kHz has problems, off till 1304 UT Nov 4, then many tries to put transmitter on air for 1-2 seconds ... after HARRIS MW network installations few years ago, now 5 x CONTINENTAL transmitters Made in USA on shortwave, now another superb success in Romania. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. North Americans now have another morning broadcast in English available: RRI at 1300-1400 on 15105, 17745, which is intended for Europe, but carries on just fine to OK; well, almost. At first 17745 was not audible, but 15105 was good, Nov 5 at 1328 in program about classical music by Enescu and others inspired by folk music. Usual string of mini-features followed on this Wednesday: 1339, when 17745 was also audible, sports report; 1342 Encyclopedia, about an exhibition of 110-120 radio sets celebrating the 80th anniversary of radio broadcasting in Romania, from Nov 1, 1928; 1347 The Cooking Show, recipe for pumpkin pie; 1349 DX Mailbag starting with a report from Rich D`Angelo, Wyomissing, on 6015. It seems Galbeni is pronounced GAHL-benn, forget the -i. Only two more reports referred to, the last from Dmitri Antonov, Krasnoyarsk. Then gave English transmission schedule to Western Europe; and to North America: 2130-22 6115 9755 23-24 6115 9610 01-02 6145 9515 04-05 6115 9515 WNAm Pacific: 0630-0700 15135 17780 Meanwhile, the Romanian-language service remains good as well on 11940, and on 15170 colliding with REE via Costa Rica, but Nov 5 at 1341 check I found that the undermodulated signal from REE was on top for a change, with a pronounced SAH of a few Hz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear friends: Romanian Postal Administration just issued a stamp (+ FDC and cancel) to commemorate the 80 years of the first Romanian radio transmission. More details in files. Have fun (FABIO FLOSI, radiostamps yg via DXLD) RRI, 11940 puts a hefty signal into NAm mornings, probably the best on the 25 mb direct from Europe. In Romanian, Nov 3 at 1332 VG with long list of world cities, continent by continent where one may vote for something. Still VG at 1450 recheck but off before 1500. At 13-15 it`s 300 kW from Galbeni at 285 degrees, intended only for France. RRI in English on 17745, Nov 4 at 1353 about traditional rôle of women, and the ritual of bread wreaths(?); fair signal not heard earlier in morningly bandscans since B-08 began, so believe this frequency has just been turned on. Also on stronger // 15105. Ending at 1355 saying next broadcast to W Europe would be at 1800 on 7250, 9640, .wma format on webcast, Hotbird 6, WRN; address eng@rri.ro The IS had just played a couple notes when cut off the air at 1356. Wolfgang Büschel says the new Tiganesti transmitters are finally in regular service, so the nominal B-08 schedule is now in effect. RRI, 15105 and 17745, Nov 6 at 1336 with bio of Enescu and his Romanian Rhapsody on piano, both with good reception in 13-14 English to WEu and consequently NAm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Shortwave outlet of 6000 kHz til 2230 UT produces a spur signal 5 kHz wide on 5972 to 5977 kHz S=6, at 5-7 uV signal level. Checked today October 27th and compared the program of Voice of Russia in Serbian on 6000 kHz. Checked on three receivers like Eton E1, Sony ICF 2001D and ICF2010, on different places on my home.Listen to the recording of 2100 UT today Oct 27th. [Later:] Since last Sunday Oct 26th, I noted some spurious signal in the 5972 to 5980 kHz range, which contain Voice of Russia's Serbian program at 2100-2230 UT time slot. My first guess was, that strange outlet came from the nearby 6000 kHz outlet with very same program content. But today Tuesday Oct 28th came across of two spur signals which splattered around 5861 - 5869 and symmetrical in 5972 - 5980 kHz range. So these spurious signals occur from the 5920 kHz fundamental transmitter (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, Stuttgart Germany, via harmonics yg via DXLD) 5920, VOR, St. P. produces two spurs on 5861-5869 and symmetrically in 5972-5980 kHz range. Noted 1854-2230 UT, maybe from 1600 UT onwards also. 6130, Heavy BUZZ started again around 1547 UT sign-on procedure. From supposed to be V of Russia Moscow Lesnoy transmitter, 1547-2200 UT. Covers up to 9 channels nearby -- also noted today Oct 29th (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 28-29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Successful action at Moscow transmitter site today. BUZZ off tonight Oct 30th. The terrible BUZZ from Moscow Lesnoy? on 6130 kHz noted on Oct 26th til 29th 1547 til 2200 UT disappeared entirely tonight. Note as always with three different rx, on three different antennas a.s.o. Regards de (Wolfy, Oct 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 6075, Radio Rossii via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, 1356-1400*, Oct 30, fair with sign-off announcements, 5+1 pips, today there was no CW after pips, transmitter off 70 seconds after last pip. This needs more monitoring for the CW to see what the situation is (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6075, R. Rossii, via Pet/Kam, has some enjoyable world music during the final hour of the broadcast day until 1400, good for SWLing. Nov 6 at 1326 it was banjo, or balalaika? Fair with some flutter. This frequency is scheduled 20 hours a day, 18-14 UT, 100 kW at 15 degrees. And to cap it off is the CW at 1400; see UNIDENTIFIED 6074 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. VOR, English to NAm, Oct 30 before 0530 coming in well on 9840, which is Pet/Kam at 70 degrees, with Music and Musicians show about Emil Gilels as scheduled UT Thu 0511-0600. Then at 0536 also found on // 7350 and new 7335 about the Chaikovsky Piano Competition with a performance that sounded more like Prokofiev to me. 7335 was NOT in the original B-08 schedule as quoted in DXLD 8-115, but rechecking http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&w=129&p= Oct 29, now it`s included, so here is the full list again. North America 13735, 12040, 7250, 6240, 6100 0200-0300 13735, 12040, 7350, 6240, 6155, 6100 0300-0400 12030, 9855, 9840, 7350, 7335, 7150, 6240, 6155, 6135 0400-0500 12030, 9855, 9840, 7350, 7335, 7150, 6135 0500-0600 Compared to the first version, at 04-06 7335 is an addition, making 9 frequencies at 04-05, 7 at 05-06. 7335 is slightly stronger than 7350 and obliterating CHU, just beeptraces deep below VOR, but whence? 7335 was originally used by Vatican Radio itself at 0330-0620, while 7350 is VOR via Vatican at 02-06. I would have first thought 7335 was a feed mixup, if it had not belatedly been added to VOR`s own schedule, but also from Vatican now or elsewhence? [GUIANA FRENCH: see below]. Anyhow, CHU better hurry up and move to 7850. If you want to hear VOR`s first hour in English to NAm, now from 0200 UT, reception is crummy. Checking the 5 frequencies listed at 0210 Nov 3: traces of signal on 7250, 6240, even less on 12040 and 13735, and zero signal on 6100. The latter was the one which was just running tones as the B-08 season began. Has it been totally dropped now? I have a feeling it is being held open for a revival of Radio Republica which until the end of A08 was using it at 0200-0400. 6155 via Germany was inbooming, but in Russian, as English does not start until 0300. Ditto Vatican on 7350, on but not yet in English. It turns out that 7335, formerly occupied by Vatican for its own broadcasts to elsewhere, has been ceded to VOR via Guiana French to USA at 0200- 0600. Too bad for CHU, not even beeps audible at 0350 check Nov 3 whilst VOR was still in Russian. VOR, English to NAm on new 7335, totally blotting out CHU, which should hurry up and move to 7850, at 0345 check Nov 4. VOR 7335 is via French Guiana, new relay site for them, and per DX Mix News, Bulgaria, replaces 6100 and 6135 which were used only the first few days of B- 08, the former heard with nothing but tones. At this hour 7335 was much stronger than // 7350 via Vatican, which apparently also gave up 7335 to VOR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RUSSIA/FRENCH GUIANA Freq. changes for VOR via Media Broadcast from Nov. 1: 0000-0100 NF 11605 GUF 250 kW / 181 deg to SoAm, ex 13575 Portuguese 0100-0300 on 13630 GUF 250 kW / 195 deg to SoAm, no change in Spanish 0200-0400 NF 7335 GUF 250 kW / 318 deg to NoAm, ex 6100 in English WS 0400-0600 NF 7335 GUF 250 kW / 318 deg to NoAm, ex 6135 in English WS (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 3 via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DXLD) That explains the contradictory info on VOR`s own website schedule, showing both the old and new frequencies at 02-06, but 6100 and 6135 had disappeared. I suspected they were from GUF. However, 7335 is not in English, but Russian at 0307 check Nov 6 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) VOR, 0200-0600 to NAm; I have to check earlier but I can confirm these as of Nov 2: 0300-0600 7335, not 7340 [Guiana French] 0400-0600 7340, also 7350 [as I noted, 7335 is still in Russian at 0300; English from 04? And still on 7345, not 7340 to 06, isn`t it? --- gh] 0200-0500 6240 [Pridnestrovye] 0300-0500 6155 [Germany] I don`t hear: 13735 at 0400 12040 or 12035 at 0400 9840 or 9855 at 0400 6135 at 0400 (Bob Thomas, CT, by p-mail, DX LISTENING DIGEST) If VOR in Spanish is really using 13630 via GUIANA FRENCH, not audible here at 0115 Nov 2 (Joe Hanlon, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) nor here (gh) GUIANA FRANCESA. 13630, La Voz de Rusia, en indoma español, 0220 UT, escuchado el programa numero 1000 de FRECUENCIA RM, editado y conducido por Francisco Pancho Rodriguez, reseña de efemerides Radiales Rusas, entrevista al Sr. Manolo de la Rosa, y saludos de los oyentes, buena señal desde la estación repetidora en Guiana Francesa, Montsinery, Sinpo: 45444 (HECTOR FRIAS, CHILE, @tividade DX Nov 2 via DXLD) The unknown site transmitter on 13600 is still buzzy, Nov 3 at 1337 in Russian // 12025 an echo apart. They kept talking about Ukraine making me wonder if it was really Ukrainian language, but not, and not // RUI 15635. At 1350 CODAR QRM starts, more M&W conversation about Ukraine; 1357 music, Golos Rossii ID, Brahms` Lullaby, Russkaya Sluzhba to Australia and New Zealand, 1400 Novosti, and some lite co-channel QRM starts, neither of which is accounted for in HFCC. After Cuba finally closed 13760, Nov 3 at 1410 heard a Russian song from VOR 13755 and again mentioning Ukraine. This is via Wertachtal, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13600 kHz - unknown location. Hallo! Für die Freunde der russischen Sprache! Wer spielt da so schön auf 13600? 55 + 73! Andreas Tschauder Glenn, -- we noted VoRussia Worldservice in Russian approx. 13-15 UT, according A-DX Tschauder in Frankfurt Germany. 13600 no location registered yet. Powerful S=9+10 dB 12025 MSK, 11630 MSK, 9800 IRK one second behind, 7260 500 kW powerhouse Ussuriysk, but rather Vladivostok Rasdolnoy acc Aoki list, much pretty signal. 6170 Khabarovsk, did not propagate to EUR. Wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Nov 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11630 in Russian about US elexion, atop Qur`an from Kuwait, Nov 6 at 1307. VOR Moscow is scheduled 1200-1500 at 100 degrees. 13600, still with big buzz marring Russian transmission from unknown site, Nov 6 at 1348; also CW QRM on low side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Russia in Russian WS: 1300-1500 on 13600 MSK 250 kW / 199 deg to ME, x15150 for B-07. 1300-1500 on 15450 ARM 250 kW / 110 deg to ME from March 1, 2009 (wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 4 via Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Hi Michael, General VoR postal address: Voice of Russia, ul. Pyatnitskaya, 25, Moscow 115326, Russia. (Add service name and programm or host name for VoR mail department be able to forward the letter to whom it is addressed.) General VoR e-mail address: letters @ ruvr.ru (Add service name and programm or host name in the "Subject" field.) Some language services have its own e-mail addresses, just look on the web-page of the proper service at http://ruvr.ru And one more note. VoR is a government station but not a part of VGTRK (Russia's government domestic broadcasting). VoR and VGTRK have absolutely different addresses and located in different regions in Moscow. I'm writing this as sometimes at VoR we receive correspondence for VGTRK sent to VoR address. Best regards, Vadim Alexeew, [Alekseyev], VoR Russian world service DX programme editor (Nov 6, via Michael Bethge, wwdxc via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Voice of Russia World Service, B-08 Russian Europa 0200-0400 - 936; 1300-1400 - 936, 999, 1431, 13760 DRM; 1400-1500 - 558 For London , 5905 DRM; 1800-1900 - 630, 693, 1431, 1575, 7290; 2000-2100 - 1215, 7290, 612; 2100-2200 - 999, 1215, 7170, 7290. Australia, New Zealand : 1300-1500 - 9800. North America: 0200-0300 - 6155, 7150, 7350, 12030, 13665; 0300-0400 - 7150, 12030, 13665. Central and Latin America [sic]: 0200-0300 - 6195, 7260; 0300-0400 - 7170, 7260 ? 9475. Asia: 0200-0400 - 15735 DRM; 1300-1400 - 1143, 7155, 7260, 12025, 11630 (:-28 February) and 15460 (From 01 March); 1400-1500 - 5900, 6005, 6170, 7260, 9885, 12055, 11630 (:-28 February) and 15460 (From 1 March); 1600-1700 - 1251, 5900, 9885. South East Asia: 1300-1500 - 5995, 7260, 11630 (:-28 February) and 15460 (From 1 March) Middle Asia: 0200-0300 - 648, 1314 and 1503; 1300-1400 - 1143; 1300-1500 - 15150 1400-1500 - 5900; 1600-1700 - 1251, 5900; 1800-1900 - 5985; 2000-2200 - 7285. Baltiya 2000-2100 - 5940, 7290. Belarus 2000-2100 - 7290. Moldova and Ukraine: 0200-0400 - 936; 1300-1400 - 936, 999, 1431, 1548. Countries of CIS and Middle Asia 0200-0300 - 1503; 0200-0400 - 648, 972; 1300-1400 - 1143, 11630 (:-28 February) and 15460 (From 1 March); 1400-1500 - 1251, 11630 (:-28 February) and 15460 (From 1 March); Countries of CIS and Kavkaz 2000-2200 - 7285. Kanal Sodruzhestvo. Russian ---------------------------------------- Europa 0800-1000 - 1170; 1000-1100 - 738 ; 1100-1600 - 1170; 1700-1800 - 7290; 1900-2000 - 1494; 2200-2300 - 630, 693, 1323, 1431, 1575, 612. Baltiya 0800-1000 - 1170; 0900-1100 - 1215; 1000-1400 - 612; 1100-1600 - 1170; 1500-1700 - 5940; 1900-2000 - 5940. Belarus 0800-1000 - 1170; 1100-1600 - 1170; 1500-1700 - 6045; 1900-2000 - 5920. Ukraine and Moldova 0700-1300 - 936; 1200-1300 - 1431; 1400-1700 - 1431; 1400-1600 - 999, 1548; 1400-1900 - 936; 1800-1900 - 999; 2000-2200 - 5965; 2100-2200 - 621. Countries of CIS and Middle Asia 0700-0800 - 972; 0700-0900 - 648; 0700-1000 - 801; 1000-1300 - 972; 1300-1400 - 1503, 6185, 7135; 1400-1500 - 1143, 1503, 5945, 6185, 7135; 1500-1600 - 1503, 5995, 6185, 7135; 1600-1700 - 1503, 5995, 6185; 1700-1900 - 1026, 1503, 5995; 1800-2100 - 648; 1900-2000 - 1026; 1900-2200 - 1503 ? 5925. Countries of CIS and Kavkaz 0700-0800 - 1377; 0700-1300 - 1314; 1300-1500 - 9435; 1400-2100 - 1089; 1500-1600 - 5910; 1500-1900 - 1170; 1700-1800 - 5910; 1900-2100 - 7285; 2000-2200 - 5965; 2100-2200 - 1170; 2200-2300 - 1089, 7285. Russkoye Mezhdunarodnoye Radio. Russian. ------------------------------------------------------------- Europa 0000-0600 - 7125; 0100-0500 - 1170; 0400-0700 - 936; 0500-0800 - 1548; 0800-0900 - 11635 DRM; 0800-1000 - 1548; 1000-1100 - 1170; 1300-1600 - 630, 693, 1323, 1431, 1575; 1600-1800 - 1494; 1800-1900 - 7105; 1900-2000 - 936, 7300; 2000-2100 - 7170; 2000-2200 - 603, 630, 693, 1431, 1575; 2100-2200 - 7240; 2200-0000 - 999, 1215. North America 0000-0600 - 7125; 0300-0400 - 7250. Middle East 0200-0700 - 801; 0300-0500 - 648, 1314; 0400-0600 - 1170; 0600-0700 - 801, 972; 1100-1300 - 1323; 1200-1300 - 801; 1500-1600 - 13755; 1500-1800 - 801; 1500-1800 - 5945, 5985; 1900-2000 - 4975; 1900-2300 - 1143; 2100-2300 - 1314; 2200-2300 - 1170. Baltiya 0100-0500 - 1170; 0800-1000 - 612; 1000-1100 - 1170; 1300-1800 - 1143; 1400-1600 - 612; 1600-1800 - 1494; 1900-2200 - 1143; 2000-2100 - 7170. Belarussia 0100-0500 - 1170; 1000-1100 - 1170; 1300-1800 - 1143; 1900-2200 - 1143. Ukraine and Moldova 0400-0700 - 936; 0500-0800 - 1548; 0800-1000 - 1548; 1900-2100 - 936; 2200-0000 - 999. Countries of CIS and Middle Asia 0000-0300 - 1026; 0200-0700 - 801; 0300-0400 - 1503; 0300-0500 - 648; 0600-0700 - 972; 1100-1300 - 1323; 1200-1300 - 648; 1200-1300 - 801; 1500-1600 - 12025; 1500-1800 - 801; 1500-1800 - 5945; 1900-2000 - 1323; 1900-2300 - 1143. Countries of CIS and Kavkaz 0300-0500 - 1314; 0300-0700 - 1089; 0400-0600 - 1170; 0500-0700 - 1314; 0700-0900 - 9435; 1100-1300 - 9435; 1500-1700 - 9840; 1700-1800 - 5985; 1900-1930 - 1170; 2000-2100 - 1170; 2100-2300 - 1314; 2200-2300 - 1170. (Vadim Alekseyev, Moscow, http://WWW.DXING.RU, RusDX Nov 2 via DXLD) ** RWANDA. 6055, Radio Rwanda 1925-2101* Nov. 2, beautiful upbeat hilife-style music with W. announcer, in local language to 2000, then French. Informal "Radio Rwanda" IDs near 2000, many mentions of Rwanda. In the clear and strong from 1945-2030; QRM de VOIRIran in Spanish after 2030. Plug pulled in mid-song at 2101 (Steve George, Mass., NE USA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** SAINT HELENA. Radio St.Helena will be broadcast on Sat, Nov. 15, 2008: 2000-2100 to JPN, 2100-2230 to WeEu, 2230-2330 to NoAm on 11092.5 USB (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 3 via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DXLD) ** SAO TOME. Recent QSL from VOA --- I stopped collecting QSL's back sometime in the 70's but decided to start again recently because there are so many new countries to verify and because I have so much more time on my hands after retiring from Voice of America. The first new QSL received came from, of all places, VOA , verifying the Sao Tome relay station. While it confirmed the site, the rest of the data was wrong. Frequency was wrong, date was incorrect, time was wrong. I'm not certain if I should return it--along with the original letter -- asking for a correct card or keep it as is. Someone somewhere probably has my correct version, and I have theirs. And they're wondering, too (Bruce Barker, PA, NRD-535D, Alpha Delta DX Sloper, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Bruce, Wonder if this was direct from ST or via Washington? The engineer there used to be a good direct QSLer until he retired. Since any QSLs at all are a bonus, and the site is easy to hear, I suggest you just send a new report rather than making an issue of it. You could ask that they put your name on the reply, which they apparently did not this time. OTOH, since you are ex-VOA, perhaps you would be in a good position to gently explain the needs of QSL-seekers to whomever is handling the task now. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** SAUDI ARABIA [and non] Weak 13m signals from the BSKSA channels known to be active here, assumed Arabic, Nov 3 at 1403: 21460, 21505 // 21640. Far too weak for any of the associated mixing products to penetrate. Spain`s triumvirate, 21540, 21570 and 21610 were equally poor. Down on 19m, BSKSA had loud and clear signal on 15435, Nov 3 at 1507 with Qur`an, and no buzz during the brief time I monitored, also // weaker 15225 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. [Cf. BRAZIL: RNA 11780 spurs] Os espúrios que captei em 11721 kHz eram da Radio Riyadh, transmitindo cântico do Alcorão com 500 kW (freq. central de 11715 kHz) e em 11838 kHz eu não recebi nenhum sinal de RF, somente interferências. Mesmo querendo gravar, não consegui captar por aqui as anomalias que você ouviu ás 0714 UT. Um abraço, (Adalberto Marques de Azevedo, Barbacena - MG, Nov 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Your hearing a Saudi spur on 11721 must be quite coincidental, as I am positive I had those two spurs of RNA 11780 with matching audio – but not the next night. Perhaps they will reappear on other occasions (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA [non]. International Radio Serbia is one of those stations which shift all their broadcasts one hour by UT depending on whether DST is observed locally or not, something that makes no sense for an external audience. So in B-08 we expect English to NAm to be at 0100 and 0200 rather than 0000 and 0100. Indeed, Nov 2 at 0004 I did not find anything on 6190, but at 0028 there was an open carrier, and 0030 opening in Serbian; I think I heard them give the frequency as 6185, which was replaced by 6190 months ago on our suggestion, to get away from Mexico, Brazil, but which they kept announcing incorrectly also in English. The supposed B-08 schedule on their website is not dated, and also incorrect now, but labeled B-08 when copied at http://www.bclnews.it/b08schedules/serbia.htm It is nothing of the sort, showing summer times and outdated frequencies. I have not yet monitored further myself for the English times, but Bob Thomas in CT has, and he says as of Oct 29 they are 0100 and 0200 on 6190 --- except the first one skips UT Sundays (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I`ve found International Radio Serbia half-hour English to NAm at 0100 and 0200 UT on 6190 (Bob Thomas, CT, Oct 29, by p-mail, DX LISTENING DIGEST) International Radio of Serbia noted October 30 at 1400 on 7200 starting 30 minute English broadcast with news bulletin, strong signal but slightly muffled audio on the speech. News and features until 1423 then classical music, Serbian broadcast at 1430 (Mike Barraclough, England, Nov World DX Club Contact via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DXLD) ** SEYCHELLES. Received in the mail today a partial/data letter from VT communications for a report sent direct to site. Friendly letter arrived in 27 days for a report along with $1.00. Letter has photo of BBC Indian Ocean relay station along with transmitter & antenna information. Confirmed frequency and "timing". V/S Albert Quarte, senior engineer. I was inspired to try for this after reading about Rich D'Angelo's success earlier in the year. They seemed very receptive to reports. I wonder how many other BBC/VT relay sites would be open to reports? (Stephen Wood, So. Yarmouth, MA, Nov 6, NASWA yg via DXLD) ** SLOVAKIA. R. Slovakia in English to NAm at 0100: 7230 with ham LSB interference, 9440 just audible (Bob Thomas, CT, Oct 27, by p-mail, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Regarding the schedule from Meyerton in last week's Top News [originally from DXLD], Radio Sonder Grense is NOT ex Springbok Radio. That station ended SW transmissions back in 1979, and finally closed at the end of 1985. RSG is the former Afrikaans Service (Radio Suid-Afrika, not the same as Radio "RSA") which became Afrikaans Stereo and subsequently RSG in 1996. 73 (Colin Miller, Canada, ex-RSA, via Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, I did insert that about Springbok, and I do believe Colin is correct. I think the point was that Springbok, another government service, was commercial when that was a rarity, unlike Radio Suid- Afrika. They do have in common, of course the equally rare trait of broadcasting in Afrikaans (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Brother Scare audible on 6370 peaking at S9+10 level but doesn`t sound that loud, Oct 31 at 0609, 2 x 3185 WWRB where the signal is so strong it`s hard to get an accurate S-meter reading on the FRG-7. Others have reported this harmonic before, but this may be the first time I`ve heard it. Unlike 3185, some fading is noticeable on 6370. Now that he`s on WWRB 3270 earlier in the evening, another harmonic is likely on 6540. See also USA: WWRB WBCQ, 15420-CUSB, another Saturday with Brother Scare at 1405 // 9330- CUSB, tho the 15420 sked at WBCQ website does not include The Overcomer Ministry. Also on WINB 9265. By 1712 recheck, 9330 was off, scheduled until 1600 only; 15420 had switched to the NM prophet; and WINB B.S. was *still* on 9265v, far past its authorized span, not // WWRB 9385, or at least far from synchronized. Sometime between 1712 and 1743, WINB had finally switched to 13570v, still Scary. Brother Scare, fair on 13810 when I tuned by as quickly as possible, Nov 2 at 1409, just long enough to hear him boast of being on 12 SW stations plus many MW. This is via DTK, Nauen, GERMANY, currently 14- 15 UT only, 100 kW at 120 degrees. I figured Brother Scare via WBCQ 9330-CUSB, would make a 1-hour-later timeshift after DST like all their other programming; had been daily at 14-16 UT, so now at 15-17? No, Nov 3 it was already on at 1432 as B.S. was admitting he had a speech impediment and limited vocabulary ``like Moses``; program was close to // 9385 WWRB, but not 9265v WINB where he was saying the US is ``on the verge of total collapse``. Also ran across B.S. on 13810 via Nauen, GERMANY. As for WINB, B.S. was on 9265v before 1500 but at 1502 I found it had switched to 13570v with some other gospel huxter. The WBCQ schedule at http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=9330 still has not been updated, showing times in EDT / 4 hours from UT and BS at 14-16 UT daily == 10 am to noon, so the question is whether this transmission will stay on Eastern time or UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. Re 8-115: Diario can be used for something spoken daily like: "diario de sesiones". But, you are right. It is most often used as the equivalent of a newspaper (Fab, Ada, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11680, Oct 31 at 2106 found a strange mixture of Spanish and Portuguese. This is the REE service to Brasil. The OM announcer said the correct words in Portuguese, but with a heavy staccato Castilian accent totally inappropriate for Portuguese of either variety, but which one also hears from REE`s Galician service. The YL spoke real Brazilian. F-G signal with REE liners, and ID at 2109. See also CUBA [and non] 11765 good in Arabic talk interspersed with fiddle tunes, mentioned Hispaniya giving away that it`s REE, confirmed at 1732 by ``Huna Madrid``, scheduled 17-19 at 110 degrees from Noblejas. REE, 17595, 1405 UT program is now ``El Español --- un Idioma sin Fronteras``, about the language, its literature, and worldwide impact, VG Nov 3. Seems the madrileños have no problem calling their language ``español`` rather than ``castellano`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SAUDI ARABIA ** SPAIN. Last night (Nov. 6) I found the English one hour program from Spain at 19 UT on 9665 kHz, instead of the scheduled 9690. 9665 is also used for French at 1800-1900: http://telefonica.net/web2/radioescuchadx/reeb08.pdf 73, (Erik Koie, Copenhagen, Nov 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN. Radio Peace --- Hi All - I got a message from these guys that they are back on the air. They used to make it to ECNA and Europe at 0300 on 4750 (Hans Johnson, Oct 29, Cumbre DX via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DXLD) On a really good day for E-W African propagation, can be heard on WCNA but would be marginal at best 0245 to 0315 (Bruce Churchill, CA, ibid.) I had a query as to whether 5895 is actually on the air, the station just confirmed for me that it is indeed on (Hans Johnson, ibid.) ** SUDAN [non]. 15650, GREECE, VOG, Avlis 1500-1550 UT, and co-channel R Miraya FM, IRRS via Rimavska Sobota-SVK relay, terrible QRG selection. Avlis-GRC S=9+30 dB (Wolfgang Büschel, southern Germany, Oct 28 and/or 29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 4 via DXLD) ERT Greece, 15650 in Greek at 1506 Nov 3 over co-channel, no doubt still Miraya FM via IRRS via Slovakia. I wonder how the mix is in Sudan? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. USA (non) B-08 for Voice of America in Arabic Radio Sawa to Sudan-Darfur: 0300-0330 on 4960 SAO 100 kW / 030 deg 9845 IRA 250 kW / 275 deg 11855 UDO 250 kW / 276 deg 1800-1830 on 4960 SAO 100 kW / 030 deg 5880 IRA 250 kW / 275 deg 9380 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg 1900-1930 on 5880 BOT 100 kW / 010 deg 9380 SAO 100 kW / 076 deg 9815 WER 250 kW / 150 deg (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 3 via DXLD) Affia Darfur: see U S A [non] ** SURINAME. 4990.05, 2325-2345 25.10, R. Apintie, Paramaribo (tentative), Dutch (presumed) talk, western pop music 15211 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, Oct 30, playdx yg via DXLD) ** SWEDEN [and non]. Previous item was WTFK? 9400! -- Now that R. Sweden has cancelled morning English to NAm, I tried to pick up the 1430 broadcast which has two transmitters direct from Hörby at 70 and 100 degrees, but inaudible at 1432 Oct 27. Another relay from Madagascar of R. Sweden in English, also arriving in NAm where RS no longer tries to broadcast direct: 9895 at 2030, 320 degrees. Ran across it Friday Oct 31 at 2051 interviewing epidemiologist on cancer and immigration; trouble is, the modulation kept clipping out at troughs, making it rather rough-sounding; I did not notice any such problems on the relay an hour later a few days before, 7395. Maybe it arose in the feed route rather than the ultimate transmission. Also unprofessional and demonstrating inadequate contact and coordination between studio and transmitter: expendable music fill at end of broadcast was cut off abruptly at 2058* R. Sweden, English to NAm at 0230 on 6010 [via CANADA] has splash from CRI 6020 [ALBANIA]. Same at 0330, 6010 but to west coast, same QRM (Bob Thomas, CT, Oct 31, by p-mail, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Big surprise: NO Radio Sweden our mornings! Thomas, Nov 2, ibid.) ** SWITZERLAND. BIG CHANGES IN FM RADIO STATIONS IN SWITZERLAND --- This morning our Swiss OFCOM as delivred new licenses and olso not renewed few existing ones. More details in French, Italian and German can be found here: http://www.bakom.admin.ch/dokumentation/medieninformationen/00471/index.html?lang=fr&msg-id=22341 Best 73's (HB9DSP, Oct 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) SWISS MEDIUMWAVE FREQUENCY AVAILABLE FOR PRIVATE BROADCASTER In 2009, the 5 Swiss MW frequencies will available for private broadcasters. 531 Beromünster 500 Kw - 0500-1800 100 558 Monte Ceneri 300 Kw - 0500-2400 42 765 Sottens 500 Kw - 0500-2400 90 1485 Savièse 1 Kw - 0000-2400 - 1566 Sarnen 300 Kw - 90 0000-2400 10 The new MW broadcaster (if there is candidates) will be announced in July 2009. The owner of the license must be located inside of the country, the mode of transmittion can be in analogique or digital More details here http://www.bakom.admin.ch (hb9dsp, Oct 31, dxldyg via DXLD) The frequency list just gives the Geneve schedule allocations. 765 is not available because it's still in use by SRG SSR. However, Bakom's announcement in German adds that this is the case "vorderhand", some weasel wording which is presumably meant to hint that this is not a definite, to-stay thing. For now Bakom just asked for statements if somebody is interested in broadcasting on mediumwave at all. If somebody declared its interest they will put the requested frequency on tender or probably allocate it freehand if only a single party wants to use it. Otherwise no further action will be taken. http://www.bakom.admin.ch/dokumentation/medieninformationen/00471/index.html?lang=de&msg-id=21638 (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [non]. RTI, 5950 via WYFR, Nov 1 at 0600 opening in Spanish, admitting that their news is stale, dated Oct 31. Strange that one of the Okeechobee relays they would keep is the one in the middle of the night to Central America. Axually, it`s 285 degrees to zone 10, which is Mexico, NOT Central America; and in the western timezones of Mexico it`s only 10 or 11 pm, but the great majority of the Mexican population is in the Central timezone = midnight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. Dear Friends, the B08 not only changed the frequency band but also changed the upper management of Radio Taiwan International. Now the New Chairperson of RTI is Ms. Alice Kao, the President is Mr. Wang Tan-ping and the Vice President is Hsiao Hsu-chen. They assumed their new posts last week. Let`s Congratulate them (Ashik Eqbal Tokon, Rajshahi, Bangladesh, Nov 3, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAJIKISTAN. New 4765.02, 1450-2000* 27.10, Tajik R, Yangiyul. Tajik talks and folksongs. New frequency ex 4635. Transmitter hum, 25232. New 4765.07, *2300-0110 27/28.10, Tajik R, Yangiyul. Tajik opening ann and heavy Tajik Rock to wake up people! Poetry and folkmusic. Clear ID at 0100 and national hymn by choir. Transmitter hum, 45333 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, Oct 30, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DXLD) 4765, Tajikistan, Tajik Radio (presumed), Dushanbe-Yangiyul. October 31, Russian (scheduled), 0307 OM and YL talks, short music, 0308 romantic music returning at 0315 to talks till 0317. 23322 (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - dipole 18m, 32m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4765, Tajik Radio. For [means after] many years dropping 4635 kHz and moving here for Home Service, ID at 1600 in Tajik (similar to Farsi), 28/10 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF-2001, Marconi), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) Silk Road type music 1942, announcements. In apparent Tajik, fair, recent NF x 4635, 31/10 (Craig Seager, Bathurst NSW (Icom R75, Yaesu FRG 7700, Horizontal Loop, Dipole), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) 4765, *2258-2320, 30.10, Tajik R, Yangiyul, Tajik, sign on in midsentence of a conversation with more persons, Pakistan mentioned twice, short musical interludes, 2315 folksongs, 44333 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, was still hearing 4635.05 at various times between 1219 and 1334 on Oct 11, 18, 19, 23 and 25 (Japan Premium Nov 1 via DXLD) So Oct 25 was final day there? (gh) Dushanbe 4765 (ex-4635) kHz appeared new in B-08 season, noted amongst the German Perseus rx [software defined radio] user like Patrick Robic and Christoph Ratzer OE2CRM in Austria on first day Oct 26th. http://www.ratzer.at Registered 4765 kHz 1500-1200 UT 100 kW non-dir in B-08 season, maybe rather an in-band shift from 4635. Later confirmed by Rumen Pankov in Bulgaria and Anker Petersen in Copenhagen (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC- DX TopNews Nov 1 via DXLD) Dushanbe on 4765. Thanks to Christoph Ratzer, I can confirm that Tajik R, Yangiyul, now is heard on 4765.07 kHz at various times e.g. right now at 2325-2350 with SINPO 45333 with some humming noise. Out-of-band 4635 is silent, so it seems to have replaced this one (Anker Petersen, Denmark, DXplorer Oct 27 via ibid.) Yep, 4765 TJK noted also here 1700 onwards 26 Oct. 4765 Recognizing two Indians on adjacent 4760 kHz I found at 1530 UT a long comment in Tajik (it is like Persian similar) oftenly mentioning "Tajikistan" and at 1600 UT ID " Indzha Dushanbue" and checking 4635 kHz found nothing, not any signal there (Oct 28). Checking Oct 29 & 30 - it is Tajik Radio Home Service. Ovoz Tajik Radio in Russian at 0600 UT opening procedure and news from 0603 UT on 7245 kHz Oct 27 (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 27) To zone 30 former USSR south of 60 degrees North & between 50-75 degrees East, or real south of Perm, midst between Teheran, Alma Ata and Kashmir. TJK Dushanbe Yangi Yul 30masts, and 36 lower antennas. 4740, 4765, 4940, 4975 antennas Northerly MW 1143 kHz; and LW 252 kHz 4 mast antennas on the south-western corner (Wolfgang Büschel, BC-DX Nov 4 via DXLD) ** THAILAND. 9725, R. Thailand in English, fair signal S=6-7 in Europe. ID and stroke of the gong at 1400-1430 (ex-9805). (Wolfgang Büschel, southern Germany, Oct 28 and/or 29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 4 via DXLD) 11870, R. Thailand, Udon Thani, *1200-1214*, Nov 1, listed Malay. IS/English ID at sign-on; music bridge into listed Malay service; music at 1211; pulled the plug at songs end; fair (Scott R. Barbour Jr., Intervale, NH USA, R8, R75, CLR/DSP, NIR10, MLB1, 200' Bevs, 60 M dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) R. Thailand back on 12095 for ENAm at 0030-0200? Inaudible here (Joe Hanlon, NJ, UT Nov 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) and here (gh, OK, DXLD) 15275, R. Thailand, *0200-0230, Nov 3, in English, on with bell / chimes, local news, history of the royal family, business news, several promos (Bangkok Airway, etc.), announced for WNAm, as usual gives wrong time ("10:00-10:30" their local time and "0300-0330 GMT"), fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) R. Thailand, 7365, Nov 6 at 1315 big open carrier goes to HSK9 chimes, R. Thailand World Service ID in English, introducing Mandarin service; very good and unjammed by China; I fear there will be runover by DentroCuban jamming, since at 00-05 7365 is R. Martí; but none of that heard either this time. Now if R. Thailand would put English on this band around this time, they could really have a North American service! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET. 4820 at 0000, English lessons for Chinese, tentatively Lhasa (William Brown, 38 N/ 93 W, Missouri, Nov 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [and non]. 9575, INDIA, AIR Tibetan, +CNR ECHO jammer, 12- 1330 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, southern Germany, Oct 28 and/or 29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 4 via DXLD) See also CHINA [and non] ** TINIAN. After hearing a big open carrier from WRNO on 7505 for several hours the morning of Nov 1, I checked the frequency again at 1715 and could hear a very weak station with music, and announcements in a SE Asian language, i.e. Radio Free Asia in Burmese at 1630-1730, 279 degrees from Tinian. Also bits of RFA Mandarin on 7445, also Tinian; or the Chicom jammer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also NETHERLANDS [non] 5840, Nov 2 at 1428 with phone-in, a Chinese language, good signal. And 5855 with SE Asian song. These are both Radio Free Asia, Cantonese and Vietnamese respectively, one 279 and the other 280 degrees. Latest RFA schedule I can find on their website http://www.rfa.org/english/about/frequencies.html?searchterm=None shows them altho dated August 2, apparently still in effect (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) More TINIAN under USA [and non] ** TURKEY. VOT/TRT English to NAm at 2300 on 5960, fair/good but adjacent QRM from Cuba 5965. At 0400, 6020 pretty good signal with some propagation roll, S 3-4+ (Bob Thomas, CT, Oct 27, by p-mail, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7180 Voice of Turkey; 2217-2220:37*, 28-Oct; Live from Turkey, English news; off after 2 IS cycles. SIO=333-, CC [co-channel, or Chinese? gh] QRM (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 210' center-fed RW, 85' end-fed RW, 125' bow-tie, Cumbre DX via DXLD) Tuesdays, Live from Turkey is on the 1930 broadcast starting live about 1950. Sometimes they repeat it on the next one at 2130, or the 2300, sometimes not. I checked webcast Nov 4: at 2153, LFT repeat started with time check for ``10 to 10`` but then cut back to regular programs! (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 9700 at 0524 Oct 30, thought it was an Arabic YL singer ululating but looked up later it must be TRT in Turkish now scheduled 05-08 at 310 degrees from Emirler toward Europe and onward. Since I often have to complain about inaccurate timesignals, I am pleased to uncomplain about an accurate one: V. of Turkey, opening English at *1330 Oct 30 on 12035 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UGANDA. 4750, Dunamis Shortwave, Mukono, scheduled 1500-1900 during B08 period according to Program Schedule received Oct 18 from Bible Voice Broadcasting, P. O. Box 425, Station E, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6H 4E3 (Björn Fransson, Lunds, Gotland, Sweden, DSWCI DX Window Oct 29 via DXLD ** UKRAINE. RUI English to NAm at 0400: 7440 S3-4 with minor propagation roll (Bob Thomas, CT, Oct 27, by p-mail, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RUI`s unexpected extra frequency, 15635, noted here Nov 1 at 1330 with music akin to that of Greece on 15650; 1340 ID in Ukrainian. 1345-1355 had a talk feature, slowly and clearly enunciated, so one could tell better how Ukrainian differs from Russian. 1359 IS interrupted and off. 15635 is reported as 600 kW to Australia & New Zealand, also for the English hours now shifted to 10 and 12 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15635, R. Ukraine International, heard with Ukrainian programming at 0950 on 31 Oct. going into English at 1000 aimed at Australia. S5 signals all the way here in Kabul. Transmitter site is Lviv (Old Empire: Lemburg) and 100 kW (Al Muick, Kabul, Afghanistan, WinRadio G303e, 100m longwire, HCDX via DXLD) Lvov [Lemberg] Krasne at (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Wolfy, please don't use the name "Lvov", unless in the past tense. Like "Peking, Peiping, etc., now Beijing), the proper name is Lviv (formerly Lemberg (German), Lwow (Polish), Lvov (Russian). It's now known in its proper Ukrainian as Lviv. As for Krasne, it's easily seen on the highway into Lviv approaching from the south-east in the distance with multiple towers. Vlad Titarev and I went searching for the site perhaps 10 years ago and found it --- mostly abandoned at that time, but not in disarray. It wasn't operating at the time, but still a very impressive site, up close (Walt Salmaniw, BC, ibid.) ** UKRAINE. 5970, 2155-2259* 02.11, Ukrainian R 1, Kiev. Ukrainian, weather forecast, ID, National Hymn, time signal, announcement, folksongs, 2220 Ukrainian and English pop songs, 2253 talk and closing ann 55444 (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** U A E. Radio Farda 1575 kHz / UAE Heard in Grayland WA on SRF-39FP The highlight of my 2-night DXpedition over the weekend in Grayland, Washington was certainly the logging of Radio Farda, 1575 kHz in the UAE. This was during grayline conditions last night (Nov. 2 UT date), less than an hour past local sunset and just before Al-Dhabbaya, UAE sunrise. It's a distance of 7,538 mi. / 12,131 km., per the Google Earth "Distance Tool" from the R. Farda antenna array to Grayland Beach State Park! To my knowledge, R. Farda has not been heard before on the West Coast of North America with a receiver of any type, communications receiver OR a cheap portable. I had R. Farda the previous night on my Perseus SDRs before 0200, but didn't realize what I was hearing. I first thought it was an early fade-in of an Asian, but of course 0130-0155 UTC is *far* too early! I never expected to hear a TA on a *barefoot* ultralight portable from Grayland, much less on my Perseus receivers and Wellbrook Phased Array antenna. When I realized that it might have been R. Farda after all, I was more prepared the next evening. Sure enough, a het was first heard and seen on 1575 with the Perseus spectrum display at 0130, and audio faded up with dance / techno music at 0140. Five minutes later between music selections, I heard an Arabic language announcer with mentions of "Arabiyya". The best reception (poor-fair level at best) was around 0150 with a pounding, bass-heavy dance / techno tune and Arabic vocals. [It`s Persian, not Arabic! gh] Would it be possible to hear anything at all on a barefoot SRF-39FP? I had pre-tuned the Sony between a Spanish station on 1570 and 1 kw. KBAL, Lebanon, Oregon on 1280. The radio was ready to go, already rotated for best null of 1280, and waiting for me on the railing of the outside porch. When Farda seemed like it wouldn't get any stronger, I dashed outside the yurt (cabin) in Grayland and slapped on the headphones --- woo-hoo!! There was the dance / techno music, in parallel to what I was hearing on Perseus! The signal (only moderately weaker than on Perseus) lasted only 15-20 seconds on the small Sony before it was gone into oblivion on both radios. Here's a short MP3 of how this TA station sounded on the Perseus SDR: http://www.guyatkins.com/files/sdr/grayland_nov08/1575_farda_uae_02nov08.mp3 As luck would have it, my Wellbrook Phased Array (prototype) antenna was oriented approximately correct for grayline reception of Radio Farda--to the Northwest at 300 degrees. Hmm...perhaps this wasn't technically a "trans-Atlantic" reception, as the grayline took the signal north-northeast over Russia, Siberia, across Alaska, and down along the British Columbia coastline. The only other possible TA noted during this DXpedition was 1008 kHz, heard both nights with dance and electronica music before 0200 UTC, but not found on the Sony ultralight. 1008 may be a reactivated GrootNieuwsradio, Holland, or possibly a Spanish SER station. This Grayland DXpedition was highly productive overall; I'll be sharing full details early this week (Guy Atkins, Puyallup, WA USA http://www.perseus-sdr.blogspot.com Nov 3, IRCA via DXLD) Wrong. I logged them a couple of years ago and got a QSL. This was during the same two-day period that I heard Kvitsøy-1314 and Croatia-1134. Several other West Coasters have heard them as well. However, it is hardly a nightly visitor. Congratulations! Guy Atkins recently logged Farda-1575 at 0130 GMT (6:30 pm PDT) from Grayland with his array oriented toward 300 degrees. Please pardon my naivete on technical matters but it seems to me that at that angle, the signal would be going through a reasonable amount of daylight before it got here whereas if it were coming from the east, it would be going through almost total darkness. Also isn't the hop to the east a shorter distance? What am I missing? (Pete Taylor, Tacoma, WA, 12225w 4719n, ibid.) ** U A E. Re 8-115: 5980.07, DWL in Russian 18-20 UT at Al Dhabbaya noted Nov 2nd with same wandering unit, like DWL 6075 kHz 2000 UT on past Sunday. Het the nominal TRT Çakirlar measured at 2201 UT as nearly 5980.00 (Wolfgang Büschel, southern Germany, Oct 28 and/or 29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 4 via DXLD) ** U K. UK Frequency Allocation Table 2007 | Ofcom This will need a pdf reader, I have found Adobe, now too big and instead use something called Foxit Reader, which James Welsh and myself found recently. This link should take you straight on to a menu which says Roke - The UK Frequency Allocations, Click this, if loading from Dial Up it will take about 3-4 minutes. Broadband should be quicker. http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radiocomms/isu/ukfat/ (Ken Fletcher, BDXC-UK via DXLD) ** U K. Norman Tomalin's 1998 book Daventry Calling the World has now been made available on the BBCeng.info site as a pdf download: http://www.bbceng.info/Books/dx-world/dx-world.htm (Mike Barraclough, England, Nov 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. A new Merlin transmission has been added, UT Sun and Mon 0500- 0600 on 6010, 500 kW at 285 degrees, i.e. toward Caribbean, tough luck for R. Mil and LV de tu Conciencia. Could it be R. República? Rampisham has little other demand for that azimuth (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. 17865, Oct 29 at 1344 heard B-B-C chimes, so quickly turned WWV on another receiver to check accuracy of the timesignal --- but there was none; 1344:30 already opening Hausa service, 1345-1415 250 kW, 55 degrees via Ascension. Yet, the BBCWS Burmese service opening at the same off-hour does play a probably phony timesignal, as previously monitored; the latter is now via Singapore on 7135, 9580 (despite R. Australia) and 11685. Now why would the Burmese get a timesignal and not the Hausa? Cultural differences? Ex-colonial perk? 5975 is a usable BBCWS frequency in English even tho it`s now from Thailand to E Asia; I listened to the excellent and very depressing Wednesday documentary, tho it was never identified by that name, about America`s Lost Veterans, all the way thru at 1306-1320 Oct 29. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2008/09/081027_lostveterans_doc.shtml 5975 from Nakhon Sawon runs 12-14 UT at 45 degrees, 14-15 at 25 degrees, and then 15-18 to S Asia at 290 degrees. See also JAPAN [and non] 11665, BBCWS in English with reports about Africa, Somalia in particular; poor at 1719 Nov 1. It`s 16-18, 180 degrees from Skelton. I wanted to hear the final BBCWS special from the USA, from Minnesota this time, Talking America: the Challenges Ahead, discussing ``tribal politix``, Sat Nov 1 at 1806; the only audible frequency I could quickly locate was 17830 Ascension, but not very strong and aside PORTUGAL 17825, q.v. So I converted myself from an SWL into a web listener for the remainder of the hour. 11955, B-B-C chimes, 1458 Nov 3 with ACI de HCJB 11960, 1500 HCJB gone and BBC opening listed Urdu via Rampisham. 6065 weak with ``BBC Radio English``, i.e. lessons for Chinese speakers, Nov 6 at 1318. This transmission does not appear on the seemingly exhaustive VTC schedule in DXLD 8-115, perhaps because VTC has nothing to do with this relay via KBS in S Korea, 1300-1530 at 290 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. BBC WORLD SERVICE TEMPORARILY BROADCASTING VIA RNW MADAGASCAR RELAY Serious flooding in Thailand has forced the BBC’s relay station at Nakhon Sawan off the air. It’s expected that the station will be silent until next Tuesday at the earliest. VT Communications has arranged temporary broadcasts from other sites. Until Nakhon Sawan is back in normal operation, the RNW Madagascar relay station is broadcasting BBC World Service programming towards India as follows: English 0100-0200 UTC on 11955 kHz 250kW beam 050 degrees Hindi 0230-0300 UTC on 15405 kHz 250 kW beam 050 degrees English 0300-0500 UTC on 17790kHz 250kW beam 050 degrees (November 7th, 2008 - 17:07 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via DXLD) Nakhon Sawan had a heavy schedule, so there should be lots more short- term substitutions via other sites! (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** U S A [non]. Correction to Radio Liberty / Radio Free Europe B-08 in DXLD 8-115 October 29. North Caucasus 0400-0500 5885 15625 1600-1700 9725 11605 (Bernie O'Shea, Ottawa, Ontario, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. VOA Bengali B08, 1600-1700 UT: 1575 - Clashing with Radio Farda !! VOA Bengali weak in background. Radio Farda much stronger at my location. 7180 - Chinese co-channel QRM, now being changed to 7435. 11500 - Weak signal, noisy copy. Regds (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India, Oct 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1575 having two super-power IBB transmitters, in Thailand and UAE. One can see how their beams would collide somewhere over India when aimed toward Bengal and Iran respectively. Didn`t the engineers and frequency planners think of that? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Surprised to hear VOA Spanish at an unscheduled later hour than usual, Nov 3 at 1326 on 9885. It was the Enfoque Andina program with news about sexual exploitation of children in Perú, then filled out semihour with a rap song, #2 in the Top Ten; said would be back tomorrow at 7:30 am Eastern time [= 1230 UT]. I thought there was no DentroCuban jamming on this frequency for a change, but during a brief pause which followed, I could detect it. Then English outro from ``VOA, Washington``, and I thought they were about to sign off. But re-opening at 1330 UT with Buenos Días, América, giving current time correctly as 8:30 am in Washington, 1330 UT. No frequencies announced. At 1340 found it on // 13715, item about Vietnamese-Americans supporting McCain as good for business, and he has certain connexions with the home country. The trouble is, the VOA website B-08 schedule for Spanish, quoted in DXLD 8-115, shows the morning broadcast is at 1100-1230 only! And here we have it running past 1330, presumably until at least 1400. It seems VOA Spanish is another service which observes local DST changes in Washington, no doubt confusing target listeners all over Latin America where no such changes are happening! How incestuous: programming is scheduled for the convenience of the studio, not the listeners. Axually, the morning broadcast was at 1100-1230 until Nov 1, but is now registered for 1230-1400 thru B-08 until March 28 (but what about another timechange here earlier in March??) // before and after being 9535 and 13715, unchecked. Note that the total block has shifted one sesquihour later, not just one hour. Then there is the morning sports roundup M-F at 1400-1415, which I think does not make a DST shift. I was looking for it too, not heard on 17565, but Greenville sometimes does not propagate on 16m altho much further signals do such as Spain 17595. Also supposed to be on 11840, unchecked. I did find that 9885 was still on with open carrier at 1409 but 13715 was not. Now I wonder how VOA`s evening broadcast in Spanish may have shifted; it started B-08 at 0000-0130, extended UT Sun and Mon to 0200, on 5890, 5940, 9885. And the M-F news roundup should stay at 2300-2315 on 5890, 9885 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) NO --- GLENN, DIDN'T YOU READ MY PREVIOUS POST: VOA SPANISH NEVER SHIFTS TO STANDARD/DAYLIGHT TIME, THEY JUST CHANGED THE TIMES TO A LITTLE EARLIER IN LOCAL EVENINGS AND LITTLE LATER IN THE MORNINGS: [see below] And, as you can see, they cancelled sports show 1400-1415 on 11840 17565 MO-FR and also CANCELLED news show at 2300-2315 on 5890 9885 MO- FR, so you will not be able to hear VOA Spanish at this times anymore. So, the new, revised schedule for VOA Spanish is: 0000-0100 5890 5940 9885 1230-1300 9885 13715 15590 MO-FR 1300-1400 9885 13715 15590 Best regards! DL (Dragan Lekic, Serbia, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No, I hadn`t seen it yet. Too much info is piling up and I just can`t keep up with everything in real time. However, if DST has nothing to do with the schedule change, why didn`t they do it on B-08 day Oct 26 instead of a week later when there just happened to be a local clock change? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Tell you what. As many presume SW Central American listeners leave their homes for work before 8 a.m. local (1400 UT), won't have any difficulties listening to Enfoque Andino, which name suggests is aim to South American listeners, who by their local 9 a.m. must be at work. If some countries like Argentina are entering their Summer schedules, some three hours ahead, (their local 10 a.m.), who could possibly there would be listening the so called Enfoque Andino or Buenos Días América (better named Buen Tardes América)? Unless they are enough lucky on line at work, despite the boss approval. The new VOA Spanish service starting at 1230 UT is OK for a Tico like me, but toooo late for Chileans of Argentinians, who are supposed to be favored as a huge population, compared with the four cats in Central America, with the exception of (same time) México. Bottom line here is, "you can't please everyone so you got to please yourself (VOA)" (on Ricky Nelson's Garden Party). 73 (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Checked retimed morning VOA Spanish service Nov 5: at 1315 on 9885, promo for Enfoque Andino at 7:30-8:30 EST, and Buenos Días, América at 8:30-9:30 --- yes until 9:30, they said, = 1430 UT, so maybe it goes on for another semihour after SW closes? Also said there would be newscasts at 10 and 11 am = 15 and 16 UT, but now apparently referring to via FM relays in LAm cities. At 1326, also heard on new // 15590, very strong and blowing away Spain on 15585, but that`s not to the Americas. Was ending Enfoque Andino segment with Tobey Keith song. Closing Buenos Días, América at 1359, said next program would be deportivo = sports report at 1700 UT! Is that on SW, like ex-1400 on 17565? At 1359:30, 15590 DCI = dropped carrier immediately, while 9885 went thru the Yankee Doodle sign-off routine. Supposed B-08 Spanish schedule at http://www.voanews.com/english/about/frequenciesAtoZ_s.cfm is still totally out of date as of Nov 5 at 1520. And so is this: http://www.voanews.com/spanish/programas_radio.cfm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Haiti has not observed DST since 2006, according to http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=709&syear=2000 But VOA still keeps shifting its three daily Kriyol broadcasts one hour depending on when DST comes and goes in Washington! Obviously they are more concerned with their own convenience than with the listeners, whom the shifts can merely confuse, and consequently result in a loss of audience. Or could it be that VOA/IBB are so out of touch with their audience that they don`t even know DST no longer reigns in Haïti? Now we hear the evening broadcast at 2200 instead of 2100, on 13725 and stronger // 15390, until closing at 2229. Both played the YDD sequence, and carrier stayed on 15390 until 2232:30, wasting taxpayer kilowatts x 3 including third frequency unchecked, 11895 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. VOA Russian resumes on radio; Affia Darfur on satellites; New times for VOA Spanish I've just downloaded VOA satellite schedules: http://www.voa.gov/afl/pdf/afsat.pdf AFSAT = INTELSAT 907 (332.5E) http://www.voa.gov/afl/pdf/asd.pdf ASD = ASIASAT (105.5E) http://www.voa.gov/afl/pdf/hotbird.pdf (13.0E) http://www.voa.gov/afl/pdf/ior.pdf IOR = NSS 703 (57.0E) http://www.voa.gov/afl/pdf/s.pdf S = NSS 806 (319.5E) and after a careful look into it, I can say the following: - VOA RUSSIAN is broadcasting on radio! But that is only at 1400-1430 Mo-Fr, on Moscow MW 810 kHz & HotBird satellite: HB 20: 1400-1430 RUSS TPB M-F. I assume TPB is taped broadcast (pre-recorded) [tape playback], most likely the new VOA Russian internet podcast, mentioned to start as of November 03. - AFFIA DARFUR program from Radio Sawa to Sudan is available on ASD & IOR, in complete, and on HOTBIRD, but only one transmission: HB 6: 1900-1930 SAWA SUDAN. [it would be nice if someone in Europe can record their ID, and upload it to DXLD YG] [see also SUDAN [non] and more below] - VOA Spanish changed times. As per S schedule http://www.voa.gov/afl/pdf/s.pdf the new times for SW are 0000-0100 & 1230-1400. I see some new programs "De Capital a Capital" SA-SU & "Ventana al C A R I B E" M, W-F: LA 5, 6 in schedule: 0000-0100 VENTANA AL CARIBE M, W-F 0000-0100 HABLEMOS CON WASHINGTON TU 0000-0030 DE CAPITAL A CAPITAL SA, SU 0030-0100 CLUB DE OYENTES SA, SU 1230-1330 ENFOQUE ANDINO MO-FR 1330-1400 BUENOS DIAS, AMERICA MO-FR Best regards! (Dragan Lekic from Serbia, Nov 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) This is significant: VENTANA AL CARIBE rather than VENTANA A CUBA --- thus the DentroCubans will no longer have any reason to jam it and the rest of VOA Spanish and anything else unfortunate enough to be on same frequencies elsewhen. Yeah, sure! (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Taking a tip from Dragan Lekic, I recorded a clip of Affia Darfur signing-on at 1900 UT today on the Hot Bird satellite, and have uploaded it to the Station Sounds section of dxldyg (Dave Kernick, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear D Kernick, Thank you very much for recording it! I've just listened to your file, and I may say, after main jingle, they (R Sawa, Springfield, Virginia) use the same jingle for news as VOA Uzbek. Since Affia Darfur on HotBird is only at 1900-1930z, I assume this is meant as audio feed at this time for WERTACHTAL relay in Germany on 9815 kHz with 250 kW at 150 degrees. Regards, DL (Dragan Lekic, Serbia, ibid.) AFFIA DARFUR, RADIO SAWA SUDAN program live link mms://a1874.l211041091.c2110.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1874/2110/v0001/r eflector:41091 Regards (Harry Brooks, NE England, UK, ibid.) 11975, VOA, Bonaire. English now here via this relay, Special English feature about the Four Tops, whose lead singer died recently, 1955, 31/10 (Craig Seager, Bathurst NSW (Icom R75, Yaesu FRG 7700, Horizontal Loop, Dipole), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) Bonaire is at 19-20 UT only; other VOA relay sites elsewhen, such as Botswana 20-21 in the Africa Beat music hour, fairly well here until 2059* Nov 4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Checking for R. Tirana, English at 0245-0300 on 7390, only a weak carrier, next to a strong open carrier on 7385, Nov 5 at 0253. At 0300 VOA Spanish special elexion coverage cut on the air in mid-word, obviously already in progress on satellite, internet. I assume this SW frequency will be gone tomorrow, not a time VOA Spanish is normally on the air. Then checked Kim Elliott`s site and there it is, special elexion-night broadcast 0300-0400 on 7385, 5940 and 9890. 9890 was barely detectable, and 5940 was much weaker than 7385. If these and some English frequencies cut off at 0400 UT just as President Obama was proclaimed, it was a case of monumentally poor timing by VOA; I was listening to TV but a radio was still on 7385, and noticed the noise level jump at 0407, so that`s when the carrier went off and so may have prolonged modulation too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. VOA Special US Election Coverage in Bengali English Urdu on 5th Nov. Fri, 31 Oct 2008 --- VOA will b'cast special live coverage of US Presidential Election on 4th November. VOA is adding extra transmissions in addition to the regular broadcast on SW on 5th November (UTC) time as the per following schedule : Bengali : 0200-0230 11500 15205 Urdu : 0200-0400 7135 9325 English : 0000-0100 7405 9490 9715 0030-0200 15185 0000-0200 6105 7315 15230 17685 0200-0300 6105 7315 11705 12090 13860 15095 15185 15230 17685 0300-0500 9700 9550 11785 12090 13860 15095 15230 15530 17780 (Alok Dasgupta via http://dxasia.info/news/20081031 via Alokesh Gupta via Rachel Baughn, DXLD) THE FOLLOWING IS TOTALLY COPY-PASTED FROM KIM ELLIOTT: http://www.kimandrewelliott.com/?id=5149 Additional VOA transmissions for election night coverage. [for the record] These are in addition to the regularly scheduled VOA transmissions listed at http://www.voanews.com/english/about/Frequenciesatoz_a.cfm Times are UT. Frequencies are kilohertz (kHz). Frequencies below 1600 kHz are medium wave (MW), above 1600 kHz are shortwave (SW). All are UT 5 November (the evening of 4 November in the USA). English to East and South Asia and the Middle East 0000-0100 on 1593 6000 6105 7315 7405 9490 9715 12015 12090 15095 15230 17685 0100-0200 on 6105 7315 12015 12090 15095 15230 17685 0200-0300 on 6105 7315 11705 12005 13680 15095 15185 15230 15700 17685 0300-0400 on 9550 9700 11785 12005 13680 15095 15230 15530 15700 17685 17780 0400-0500 on 9550 9700 11785 12005 13680 15095 15230 15530 15700 17685 17780 English to Africa 0000-0300 on 909 1530 4930 6080 9885 15580 Amharic 0300-0400 9485 11675 Bangla 0200-0230 11500 15205 Creole 1800-1830 15390 17565 (presumably 5 November) Kinyarwanda/Kirundi 0430-0500 7340 11915 Kurdish 0600-0700 5940 9695 Portuguese 0430-0500 1530 9540 Somali 0330-0400 13580 15620 Spanish 0300-0400 5940 9890 7385 Swahili 0330-0400 9435 Urdu 0200-0400 7135 9325 Posted: 03 Nov 2008 (via Dragan Lekic, Serbia, in advance on the dxldyg; via DXLD) ** U S A [non]. VOA Chinese, nice to hear for a change without Firedrake or CNR1 jamming, tho there was a trace of CCI, Nov 7 at 1349 on 12040 via Tinian, harmonica riff, discussing Obama, frequent mentions of Mei-Guo, interviewing someone in English about fife-and- drum corps, but they kept voice-overing him in Chinese! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Fascinating 10 minute video about saving VOA Delano which also looks at the historical impact of shortwave from the US: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qlLhWlDbKbI&fmt=18 (Mike Barraclough, England, Nov 3, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. BBG SPOKEWOMAN COMMENTS ON DELANO STORY Radio World Newsbytes: October 31, 2008 http://www.rwonline.com:80/pages/s.0100/t.16077.html Responding to a story here last week about the fate of the Voice of America facility in Delano, spokeswoman Letitia King with the Broadcasting Board of Governors defended the organization's management and said a statement in Mike Dorrough's letter was incorrect. "The Oct. 24 piece, 'Mike Dorrough Lends His Voice to Delano VOA Effort' is misleading in calling the government's Delano transmitting facility 'the one intact VOA in existence,'" King pointed out. "Far from being the only VOA transmitting station, Delano is part of a network of over 70 transmitting sites and nearly 20 facilities worldwide run by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (the organization that provides broadcast and engineering support for VOA and other U.S. international broadcasters)." BBG has medium-wave radio transmitting facilities in Marathon, Fla., and shortwave radio transmitting facilities in Greenville, N.C., and in the Northern Marianas, a commonwealth of the U.S. King wrote that the facility in Greenville now covers Latin American regions that Delano used to handle, and broadcasts to Africa as well. Some of the Delano transmitters will be moved to broadcast facilities in the Philippines to improve reach to critical audiences, she said; and she described the Delano facility as being in cold storage. "The Delano facility has been a valued asset in our efforts to promote the values of democracy for 63 years but shortwave broadcasting is no longer the most effective way to reach our audiences in all parts of the world. To put it into perspective, in Iran, VOA reaches one quarter of adults each week via satellite TV. In China, use of Internet and SMS by 15-to-29 year olds is three and seven times greater than radio listening. In other places, such as Afghanistan radio listening remains prevalent." "We are proud of our important history and investing in the future. By any measure, shifts of our broadcast resources have proven successful, growing our international audience - on radio, TV and the Internet - by 75 percent over the last eight years." (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) Typical blather. The question is, whether what is left of the Delano facility is slated for demolition. Answer that! (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7505, WRNO several times during Nov. 1, first noted 1040- 1056 on 7505.13 with Christian contemporary music, ID 1054 mentioning the station would be on the air for several hours for transmitter maintenance. At 2328, presumed this one with enormous signal, right on 7505.00, with Christmas music (David Yocis, Harpers Ferry WV, (39.13 N, 77.48 W), R8B, various wires, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7505, big open carrier first noted at 1250 Nov 1; must be WRNO warming up for another revival; left a receiver on this, but never any modulation, still in at 1341, 1347, 1402, 1425 but not at next check 1711 when I heard something else on frequency. Subsequent check was at 2346, and now VG signal S9+22, gospel music, so WRNO is back in business, on expanded schedule from former 0100-0400 only, unless this is just temporary for testing. Still at 0032 Nov 2; weakening by 0115 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRNO still heard mostly with gospel music on reactivated 7505, and extended to long hours. FCC B-08 schedule shows it available 23-16 UT. At 0637 Nov 2, MUF was falling and signal weak, but still there with two different IDs in a row, back to music; at 1307 back up to big strength with music. I wonder when they will get the daytime frequency going, 15590, available at 14-23, i.e. at 14-16 they could be on either. Oops: still going at 1607 and even 1755 and even past 1900 playing Battle Hymn of the Republic on 7505, contrary to FCC authorization, which doesn`t seem to mean much, as other US SW stations are also heard on frequencies at unscheduled times. Closing in on 24 hours, still going past 2000, and 2115. It`s now clear that WRNO is running 7505 24 hours a day, even tho authorized at maximum from 23 to 16 UT. Continuing my log starting after 2300 Nov 1: still running Nov 2 past 1900 playing Battle Hymn of the Republic. And still going past 2000, and 2115 and 2200 in hourly chex. If this is not merely `burning in` the new transmitter as a test, it will override R. Tirana English on 7510 Mon-Sat at 2100-2130, which depended on WRNO honoring its registered schedule, not coming on before 2300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, I noted that WRNO was on the air last evening, 3 Nov 08, from 0010 tune in to 0255 UTC on 7505. Program consisted of continuous religious music, with first ID at 0150 UTC as follows: "Please stay tuned as we do our maintenance broadcasting. WRNO Worldwide, broadcasting on 7505 kHz," then back to music. Same ID's above repeated at 0207, 0230 and 0254 UTC. Good signal, despite sporadic E fading, which caused some distortion of the music during the deeper fades. Conditions best at tune in, declining after 0200 but still completely readable. 73's, (Ed Insinger, 28 Madison Avenue, Summit, NJ 07901, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRNO continues running long hours on 7505; Nov 3 at 0716 with the usual gospel rock/praise music, at this hour no longer the big solid signal; still big at 1318, 1530, but weaker in full daytime 1715, 1935, despite supposed break in authorized 7505 schedule between 1600 and 2300. At 2115 I could barely detect R. Tirana on 7510 in the WRNO splash; without WRNO, Tirana may have been better on 7510 than // 9345 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glen[n]: WRNO has had several technical problems with their new ELCOR transmitter, which are covered by the ELCOR warranty. ELCOR engineers had arrived at NO this weekend and were repairing and testing the transmitter. There follows the data that we supplied to the FCC on this matter. Testing of a transmitter is authorized by the FCC during the periods that have been coordinated with the HFCC, and at other periods as needed, provided interference is NOT caused to other stations that have coordinated the use of 7505 kHz, or + or- 5 kHz. The B-08 HFCC coordinated schedule shows Radio Tirana on 7510 kHz only between 2100-2130 UT, and requesting protection ply in broadcasting Zone 27 (Europe). The second period 2100-2300 UT in Albanian that you mention does not appear in the coordinated schedule. While it is not required by the HFCC for Radio Tirana to receive protection in the US broadcasting zones for their 7510 kHz operation,, I have asked WRNO, if testing is still necessary, to consider completing it by 2100 UT (3 PM CST). When WRNO returns to regular broadcasting, they must then, of course, adhere to their coordinated schedule as authorized by the FCC only between 2300 and 160o UT on 7505 kHz, and 15590 at 1400-2300 UT. 73, (George Jacobs, P.E., Broadcast Engineering Since 1941, Nov 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRNO still being heard long hours testing mostly music on 7505, Nov 3 and 4. George Jacobs tells me that once the testing is finished, it will no longer broadcast on this frequency in the 16-23 UT period when it is not scheduled, and even before then will consider concluding it at 2100 due to R. Tirana in English on 7510 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRNO - Glenn suggested I contact them to find out about their current schedule: received an email from Larry Thom (WRNO Chief Engineer) at 1445 UT, Nov 4: "As it stands, we are still testing the transmitter. We are using automation right now, our programming is not live. We still have some minor bugs to work out and are waiting for a couple of parts. Most of these modifications/parts are used in the 15590 frequency and do not affect the 7505 frequency. Normally we would not be on the air 24 hours at this time, but are doing this to make sure the new oscillators we installed in the transmitter are stable, and frequency drift will stay at a minimum. However, WRNO is planning to increase air time to day and night hours, and at some point, 24 hours of broadcast. We will be utilizing two frequencies 15590 (day time) and 7505 (evening). If all goes well, we may complete most of the modifications today and I expect normal programming to resume very soon. Thanks, Larry" (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Nov 4, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) After running 24 hours for several days on 7505 with music tests, including the non-registered block of 1600-2300, WRNO was missing at 2055 UT Nov 4, as we had asked them not to interfere with R. Tirana in English on 7510 at 2100-2130. WRNO was also off when checked around 0300 Nov 5, but back on at 0641 and with jazz at 1317. WRNO still running music tests on 7505, Nov 6 at 1316, very strong (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. I see on the WBCQ online schedule, a new show has been added to 9330, 7 days a week at 10 pm-mn eastern, 0200-0400 tonight when I was too busy compiling this report to check it, but thence 0300-0500 UT, The Roger Fredenburg Show. What`s that about? Will it propagate that late in the winter night on 9+ MHz from Maine? Re the new show on the WBCQ 9330 sked, daily 0400-0600, The ``Roger Fredenburg Show``, Googling that got exactly two hits, one to my previous report, and the other to a testimonial at the healthyheartsclub mentioning hearing about a a heart and body extract to treat fybermyalgia on the Fredenburg show a year ago. However, if you spell his name right, Fredinburg, you get a hefty 192 hits starting with http://www.regularguy.com/ He also has a message board with anti-Obama stuff and Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Looks like we have another winner in the ``free speech`` category. Could not hear it around 0455 UT Nov 3; is it really on and not propagating? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Fredenberg [sic] is on Mon-Fri 10p-12 mid eastern on 9330 (Allan Weiner, WBCQ, Nov 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So that means 0300-0500 UT Tue-Sat, not 7 days (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. First airing of WORLD OF RADIO, Thursdays 2330 via WBCQ 7415 [now UT Fridays 0030] is pretty much useless to me. Just barely audible with a gread deal of fade. It`s been this way for several weeks (Bob Thomas, CT, Oct 31, by p-mail, DX LISTENING DIGEST) You are too close to Monticello, Maine, and/or the frequency is too high. Have you tried the Area 51 airing of WOR on 5110? UT Saturdays at 0000 --- tho it was missing without explanation on Hallowe`en, when the summer time was UT Friday 2300 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5109.62, WBCQ, carrier only at 0050 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 28-29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. Ted Randall is trying to find good spots for his QSO show, and notes QRM on WBCQ 7415 from a Cuban station on 7405 (gh) 7405: it`s not a Cuban station, but rather our Cuban station, Radio Marti via Greenville NC. Despite the proximity to 7415, I rarely have any problem with it QRMing WBCQ, nor even the Cuban jamming always hitting it. 73, (Glenn to Ted, via DXLD) On the Cuban station you will I find that I am a wealth of misinformation. I know that whatever it is, is far wider than 80% of the rest of the stations on the band. I am not the only one but I had a number of folks complain about the thing. Watt Hairston the former Chief Engineer for WSM now working for the GOV as a consultant for the point of entry group involving EAS listens regularly and he tells me the Cuban (sounding) station is wide as a barn estimating the % of modulation of about 170% positive. It does not bother my Yaesu 757's but my Alinco DX 70 does not reject it at all. My Grundig Satellit 800 does not reject it well at all. So whatever that means. Very interesting foreign language program on top of 7415 real bad. Totally knocking them out of any range of reception. 11:02 PM 10/28/08. What is going on? This is terrible. Is there no coordination to these frequencies? Recording of 7415 11:15 PM 01/28/08. Something sounds like a train and then some foreign program blasting in (Ted Randall, TN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CDT = 0415 UT Oct 29. It`s in Arabic. As I pointed out before, Rampisham site is now on 7415 at 0400-0430, Deutsche Welle in Arabic, 500 kW at 110 degrees, and there are a lot of other registrations during the 24h on 7415, while in A-08 season, WBCQ had it to itself worldwide! Someone was not protecting WBCQ`s interests at the latest HFCC, but of course, there is increasing demand for 7 MHz band frequencies. Other 7415 collisions: 00-02 CRI Kashi; 15-16 CRI Kunming; 16-19 IBB Tinian; 1930-2000 CRI Kunming AND VOR Moscow; 20-22 CRI Kashi. WBCQ is registered for the entire 24 hours on 7415, but currently uses only fraxions, on weeknights after DST until 0530 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WBCQ, 15420-CUSB on the air past scheduled 2100*, Friday Oct 31 at 2136 with the Fence Lake NM anapestic preacher. Perhaps they just did not get around to turning it off on time; however after DST next week, I assume this will ordinarily run until 2200, and Wednesdays until 2230 for WORLD OF RADIO, altho by then will be facing usual winter nighttime MUF plunge below 15 MHz. A higher frequency ought to be used earlier in the day during winter, not later, but DST/ST leaps trump basic propagation. WBCQ 7415 still has a pair of very enjoyable music shows on Friday evenings, Behavior Night at 2100, and Bluegrass State of Mind at 2200. Oct 31 at 2139 I was sidetracked from bandscanning by Dixieland music such as the Tiger Rag (hmm, they have tigers in India, so do they also have tiger ragas? Quite an opportunity for crossover). From next week, of course, both one UT hour later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WBCQ, 15420-CUSB, another Saturday with Brother Scare at 1405 // 9330- CUSB, tho the 15420 sked at WBCQ website does not include The Overcomer Ministry. By 1712 recheck, 9330 was off, scheduled until 1600 only; 15420 had switched to the NM prophet. At 1815 I found 9330 back on, now QSO with Ted Randall, another play of the interview with a YL about the space station, etc., and with lo het from Syria 9330.0 vs WBCQ 9329.9. [Scare on WBCQ: see also SOUTH CAROLINA [non]] Only had time for a quick webcheck after 2100 Sat Nov 1 to confirm that Marion`s Attic has indeed moved to that new time (2200 from next week), ex-0100/0200 Sundays. So what has replaced her at 9 pm Eastern Saturdays? TimTron was running a bit late, belch, until 0103 UT Sunday on 7415, and then started up with Star Trek theme, another replay of QSO with Ted Randall interview with YL about space station, which I thought was supposed to be on two hours later. TimTron had said his show was being simulcast on 5110, also not on published schedule, tho I did not check, but at 0135, 7415 was missing, and QSO was on 5110. BTW, 7415 was unusually getting some splatter from VOA 7405 until 0100* In this case, not Martí or DCJC. WBCQ, unlike the days before, missing from 9330 at 1425 check Nov 5, but was on with Brother Scare at 1517 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WBCQ To Air Live Election Coverage on 5110 --- November 4, 2008 – 7:25 pm --- As a service to our valued shortwave listeners, WBCQ will be providing live election coverage on our 5.110 MHz service on Election Night, Tuesday, November 4, 2008, from 9 PM to midnight election time (Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 0200 to 0500 UT). Regards, (Larry Will, in advance, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. More QSO on WRMI: Sounded like Ted Randall on WRMI 9955 early Friday at 0618 UT Oct 31, interviewing YL about space station, good signal and NO jamming. I guess Jeff put in an extra repeat to fill time. Can we rely on it for a while and when does it start and end? 73, (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, We have been able to slip in a few editions of QSO at odd times where we need to fill two hours. Hopefully we can continue that, but not on any regular basis (Jeff White, WRMI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRMI, 9955, 2206 UT Thu Nov 6 with Irish accent and discussion of Irish vs EU laws, ergo it`s RTE again, via WRN, on WRMI relay, no more Overnight AM, which a few weeks ago occupied the 21-24 UT period weekdays, and if it had continued would now be 22-01 UT. At the beginning some DentroCuban jamming bothered; at 2300 recheck another European English relay was running, Radio Netherlands scheduled, and now no jamming audible, but a continuous het had appeared from about 9954.8. It had some audio too but unable to separate from WRMI. Most likely source is France via Taiwan, which was there at least in A-08. After 0030 I checked the WRMI webcast and there was Israel Radio again on SW in English. 0102 went into Rick Hash, Bible Pathway, readings in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, we have returned to running WRN [from 1700] until 0100 UT weekdays. Overnight AM is gone, but who knows if it will come back again at some point? (Jeff White, WRMI, Nov 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WWRB transmitter on 5050 is way out of whack: Nov 1 at 2348 all I could hear on 5050 were swishing noises in a cadence resembling talking, but totally unintelligible. Also putting out spurs peaking around 5034 and 5066 as I have heard before, the latter now strong enough to bother its neighbor WWCR on 5070. At 2357, 5050 had settled down a bit, undermodulated but recognizable with choral version of ``Wonderful Words of Life``. At 0000 Nov 2, Dave Frantz`s quick lo-fi legal ID interrupted a preacher titled ``--- Truth Broadcast``. Brian Alexander in PA had monitored more spurs and measured them 22 hours earlier: 5002.78, 5018.52, 5034.26, 5065.74, 5081.48, at 15.74 kHz intervals --- hmm, that`s very close to the nominal horizontal sweep frequency of black and white NTSC TV --- does Dave have an old TV set hooked into the homemade transmitter somehow? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 5002.78, 5018.52, 5034.26, 5065.74, 5081.48, WWRB Spurs, 0145-0200+, Nov 1, multiple weak, distorted spurs from 5050. Note 15.74 kHz separation between each frequency. 5034.26 was the strongest (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6370, WWRB, 0302 Nov 2 -- Woman giving address to send love gifts, 2d harmonic of 3185. Decent signal on the harmonic, very strong on the fundamental (David Yocis, Harpers Ferry WV, USA (39-13 N, 77-48 W), R8B, various wires, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WWRB, 6370, again audible but weak on 2x harmonic of 3185 with Brother Scare, Nov 5 at 0646 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Is anyone hearing WWRB on 3270? They brought it up a few weeks ago for Brother Scare in the evenings, apparently instead of 5745, but I haven`t found it lately, and not mentioned on the WWRB website (Glenn Hauser, OK, Nov 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tho WWRB came up on 3270 a while ago, logged here Oct 22 at 0230, for Brother Scare in the evenings, I have not found it lately; for example, nothing there at 0230 Nov 6. Is anyone hearing it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. I am never quite sure what will happen to the WWCR 3215 airing of WORLD OF RADIO on DST/ST change dates, as it`s close to the official clock-resetting time in the Central zone. Sunday Nov 2 at 0633 country gospel music was running, so I guess WOR had already been moved to 0730 even tho that is before the 2 am CDT/CST shift. See also CUBA [and non] 5890 missing. WWCR`s 5935 transmitter for PMS continues to suffer from ``ringing`` spurs of roughly plus/minus 4 kHz, but which beat against the main signal very annoyingly and vary with modulation, as Nov 2 at 0008. Have not noticed this on any of their other frequencies, even the same transmitter when in daytime on 13845 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WWCR, 13845, 2220, English, 444, Oct 27, OM with comments on the Merging Church plus CD's for sale. YL with religious comments. OM and YL mixing with each other. YL had a 444 signal and the OM a 333 signal and IDing as the Watchman on the Watch. Double programs from WWCR??? (Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA, Huntington Beach, California, USA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, this happens all too often with WWCR transmissions. In their program schedules not updated for DST, and still dated Oct 6, the only time for such a program was 0300 UT Sunday on 5070, ``Watchman Radio Broadcast Richard Keltner`` following WORLD OF RADIO, which would now be 0400. The non-PMS audio you heard could have been from WNQM 1300 at the same site, for which no program schedule is available (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) WWCR 15825 was inbooming Nov 4 at 1400, tnx to off-season sporadic E, so I reconfirmed that ``Tony Alamo`` is still being broadcast despite his serious legal problems; opened show #725, probably recorded long ago, about Jude, and offering tapes or CDs of it free (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WWCR - The most powerful US station signals on air noted these days here in Europe from WWCR (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 28-29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WEWN, The Squeal, getting worse on 11520 in Spanish Nov 3 at 1455, reaching the nails-on-blackboard level. No such problem on // 7555 nor on English 5755 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. EWTN GLOBAL CATHOLIC RADIO SHORTWAVE FREQUENCY GUIDE Effective October 26 2008 - March 29 2009 Vigente del 26 de octubre 2008 al 29 de marzo 2009 Column 1: New York S.E. Asia/Middle East/Africa/India (English) Column 2: Cuba/South America (Spanish) Column 3: Mexico/Central America (Spanish) EST UT 7 PM 11520 AF 17510 5810 0000 8 PM 11520 AF 11870 5810 0100 9 PM 11520 AF 11870 5810 0200 10 PM 9455 AF 11870 5810 0300 11 PM 9455 AF 11870 5810 0400 12 AM 9455 AF 11870 7555 0500 1 AM 9455 AF 11870 7555 0600 2 AM 9455 AF 11870 7555 0700 3 AM 9455 AF 11870 7555 0800 4 AM 9390 SEA 11870 7555 0900 5 AM 9390 SEA 11870 7555 1000 6 AM 9390 SEA 11520 7555 1100 7 AM 5755 11520 7555 1200 8 AM 5755 11520 7555 1300 9 AM 5755 11520 7555 1400 10 AM 5755 11520 7555 1500 11 PM 5755 11520 11550 1600 12 PM 15610 EU 17510 11550 1700 1 PM 15610 EU 17510 11550 1800 2 PM 15610 EU 17510 11550 1900 3 PM 11520 ME 17510 11550 2000 4 PM 11520 ME 17510 11550 2100 5 PM 11520 ME 17510 5810 2200 6 PM 11520 ME 17510 5810 2300 (WEWN website Oct 31 via DXLD) ** U S A. 5919.92, WBOH in English, news at 2300 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 28-29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So the het with stations on-frequency is about 80 Hz (gh) 9369.93, WTJC at 2330-2400 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 28-29, wwdxc BC- DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 70 Hz off ** U S A. 9974.97, KVOH Rancho Simi poor at 0725 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 28 and/or 29, southern Germany, BC-DX Nov 4 via DXLD) ?? They have not been active on this frequency for years, tho it keeps appearing in registrations, currently 0100-0800. Any ID or definitive programming in Spanish? Nothing else is listed on 9975 at that time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WINB is apparently changing 13570v to 9265v at 2200 UT now, instead of 2100, since before 2200 it was not to be heard on 9265, and at 2203 there it was with some preacher (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) More: see SOUTH CAROLINA [non] ** U S A. Harold Camping overkill during the 20-21 UT hour on 16m: Three WYFR frequencies are in use within 40 kHz; some of them are on before or after the hour in other languages, but during this one hour they all converge into Open Forum from the same audio feed. 17535 1800-2145 ENGL 315 17555 1700-2145 ENGL 285 17575 2000-2100 ENGL 140 As noted Oct 31 at 2042, Brother Camping was inbooming on all three, the lowest one being closest to aiming usward. But wait, there`s more --- they all interact producing leapfrog mixing products. Now, I cannot necessarily blame all this on coming out of the transmitters in Okeechobee; such overload could cause the FRG-7 to be involved too. I did switch in maximum attenuation and could still hear these: 17495 = 17575 over 17535 another 40 kHz down 17515 = 17555 over 17535 another 20 kHz down 17595 = 17555 over 17575 another 20 kHz up However, I was not hearing: 17615 = 17535 over 17575 another 40 kHz up All three fundamentals are also on the air between 1700 and 2145 when there would be various combinations of Spanish, English, Portuguese and French leapfrogging over each other. You`re asking for mixes like this if you run two or three transmitters at such geographical or frequency proximity. I was also hearing evangelical Arabic, only fair on 17690 at 2045. Now in B-08 the only US station on 17690 is WYFR, not WHR as in A-08. Also WYFR on 9355, before 2100 UT Oct 31 in Romanian, and afterwards very strong in Spanish. At 2124 could hear weak Chinese underneath, which must be IBB Saipan, Americans vs Americans! Hard to believe this huge signal from WYFR here is at 44 degrees to Europe, roughly 90 degrees offbeam from OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. USA: 6240, WYFR Family Radio, Okeechobee FL; 2137- 2145+, 29-Oct; Bro. Camping taking phone calls on Open Forum -- seems fixated on Dooms Day. Maybe he's been listening to Bro. Smear too much. Bro. Camping sounds half in the bag today. All in English. SIO=454- Not // 6915 also in English. 6915 ID'd at 2144 & went off at 2145. 6240 continued, but noted off at 2201, so 6240 probably went off at 2200 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 210' center-fed RW, 85' end-fed RW, 125' bow-tie, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ?? The marine band immediately above 6200 is off-limits to SWBC stations in the USA, so it has to be a relay, in this case via Pridnestrovye, as same 6240 transmitter is also used later for Radio PMR and VOR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. On 7530-SSB, Thu Oct 30 at 1306 I came upon a military net, apparently Coast Guard. ID of NCS was hard to copy, especially since whenever he transmitted there would be a big squeal, feedback that he himself could not hear?? Yet he got ``loud and clear`` radio check signal reports! It was ``Camp [something] Chesapeake`` altho at first I thought he saying ``Camp Fletcher [something]``. Voice comms alternated with various digital sounds, including what seemed like sped-up voice bursts. 1310 called Air Station Miami and announced frequency as 7350; 1312 called Sceptor (?) Miami; 1314 called San Juan, and announced frequency change, not called QSY, to 11436.0 ``for more testing``. So I switched too; 11436 was slightly better, 1316 again calling San Juan; 1320 called Air Stations Clearwater, Savannah and Charleston. 1323, calling Sceptor (or is it Sector?) Key West, San Juan, St. Petersburg. All of these had much weaker signals than Chesapeake, if heard at all. Searching over 17 kilomessages in the UDXF yg produces zero useful hits on frequencies or names. Does anyone have any info about this, or correxions? Googling ``Camp Chesapeake`` gets an old YMCA nostalgia site, suspect unrelated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I think we've talked (email) a few months ago about the Texas DOT Net you found. Looks like another great catch! 7530 has also been used as a USCG ALE frequency in the past, so you're dead on concerning the user. Here's a log of mine from 2002: 7530.0 CGD9, NODW, & NRKP, US Coast Guard station & cutters: 2324 USB ALE (11/JULY/02) (JLM) This log wouldn't have shown up on the UDXF archives, since it was still WUN in 2002 (Jack L. Metcalfe, Stanford, KY, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re my log of a Coast Guard net chaired by Chesapeake, on 7530 and 11436 SSB, it occurred to me that Chesapeake could be the name of a vessel rather than a shore station. Googling it, I indeed found such a vessel: http://www.cgblog.org/2007/12/uscg-photo-of-week-cgc-chesapeake-wlv.html ``Photo of the Lightship Chesapeake. Mr. Leonhardt's caption: USCGC Chesapeake WLV-116 Baltimore MD 13 Oct 2007``. Is WLV-116 a radio callsign or just some other designator? A noisy bridge might account for the squeal I was hearing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CG radio operators are pretty well trained to focus on whatever issue we're addressing at the time. Even though we may have 3 or 4 radios going, telephones ringing, people coming in and out of the comm center, and several emergency cases running simultaneously, part of training is to focus on the issue at hand. It is hard to hear in a comm center with lots of feedback and other distractions but it's part of the job. Regards (Bob Puharic/WF3H, ibid.) Glenn, WLV-116 is the hull number. LV probably for Lightship Vessel. It was decommissioned in 1971 according to the link. I doubt it's on the air (Martin Foltz, ABDX via DXLD) Try Googling "11436 USCG" and you'll get some hits, especially a 1991 PDF. I haven't had time to look real close at other links. Didn't find the NCS calls though. I want to say that St. Petersburg HF communications (we have the USCG air station with HH-60 helo's and HC- 130 aircraft) and USCG cutter/tender base near the pier, downtown) actually channel through the Miami transmitting facilities, located near Miami MetroZoo (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Both frequencies and many others appear several times in this 218-page document all about USCG radio operations: http://www.responseboatproject.net/rbmcontract/sections/Section_J/References/COMDTINST_M2400_1F.pdf But the word Chesapeake appears only once (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) US COAST GUARD, NMN, CAMSLANT, CHESAPEKE, 4426 kHz USB, F/d. QSL card, Personal Letter, in 30 days, V/S : Tim Rulon (Officer in Charge), ADDRESS : Commanding Officer, US Coast Guard Camslant, 4720 Douglas A. Munro road, ZIP*23322-4599 Chesapeake VA (DXer Sergey Kolesov, Ukraine, playdx yg via DXLD) CAMSLANT is probably the acronym I was hearing before Chesapeake. It means Communication Area Master Station Atlantic. I wonder if Tim has a military rank and why he doesn`t use it (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. If you hear oldies on 1700 you can be sure is KVNS Brownsville. Strong and steady signal at 0115 while playing Summer Breeze by Seals & Crofts followed by a live DJ giving away 4 DVDs; next Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell. So different from most FM oldies stations sounding like a juke box, playing one song after another. Caught my attention they have an adress in Weslaco, Texas. Used to listen to a station during the mid 60s around 1300 Kcs. (!) I can't recall its call letters. KVNS is heard in Tikizia all night long with slight fadings until local dawn at 1130. 73 (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, UT Oct 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Skywave at the top end of the MW band is holding up at least to within an hour of local mean noon 1832 UT. Nov 3 at 1728 UT there was sportstalk about Dallas Cowboys on 1700, G signal at peaks but briefly fading completely down, also with weaker station making SAH. No other X-band stations beyond local KFXY-1640 were audible, not even Kansas City 1660. The 1700 is KKLF Richardson TX in The Metroplex, and the SAH most likely from Des Moines` KBGG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Noted an interesting problem for KKOB while on our way out of Santa Fe Tuesday morning, where we'd spent the night with a brother-in-law on our way back from Arizona. A dominant cyclical sound from what appeared to be a subaudible heterodyne, presumably from the synchronized 230-watt transmitter on the west side of Santa Fe. (NRC log says night-time only, but FCC data base shows as unlimited.) I counted the cycles ... 120 in 60 seconds, indicating, if my fuzzy understanding of SAHes is accurate, that the Santa Fe transmitter and the Albuquerque transmitter are 2 Hz off. It was extremely annoying, and carried as far south as milepost 277 on US 285, about 25 miles from the Santa Fe transmitter. I had heard a similar effect 25 to 30 years ago when I was at WMIX- 940, weather knocked off the daytime transmitter, and we switched to the night-time facility. When the power went back on at the daytime transmitter site, the combination gave the same cyclical, wobbulating effect. My SAH assumption, though, may be wrong, if the effect was caused by the difference in distance between the two transmitters. Engineering knowledgeable people may set me straight on this. The bottom line, though, would seem to be that the product of the two transmitters would make KKOB's programming unusable within a 25-mile radius of the Santa Fe transmitter (John Callarman, TX, Oct 29, IRCA via DXLD) Your hypothesis sounds plausible to me, John. A difference in arrival times (due to the difference in distance and other propagation delays, if any) would cause nulls to appear in the frequency domain (i.e., selective fading), which could cause some distortion, but not the period amplitude fading that you observed. It would take a frequency offset to do that, and I think you did the math correctly. (Barry McLarnon VE3JF Ottawa, ON, ibid.) Regarding the KKOB sites: I think the Santa Fe site uses 230 watts. I have been told that these "synchronized" operations are supposed to have a 1 Hz maximum frequency difference. I was not aware of that and perhaps someone on this list can confirm it. The Dallas, Texas, operation on 1600 is no longer using a synch site. When it was they had a 4 Hz disparity in frequencies. Chug, chug, chug! (JimTonne, Oct 29, NRC-AM via DXLD) Group, I got this email from Bill Harris, Director of Engineering for Citadel Broadcasting Albuquerque and Operations Manager for 96.3 KBZU- FM. *************************************************** Hello Paul, Thanks for the forward of the message regarding the 770 signal in Santa Fe. The booster transmitter is not actually synchronized with the main in Albuquerque. Rather, each transmitter is using a GPS frequency locked standard. When this system was installed, the two signals were intentionally slightly offset in frequency to place the worst of the interference zone in the least 'damaging' areas. If the frequency shifts slightly, the interference zone 'wanders', and you will experience increased interference. The booster generally does a pretty good job in the area immediately around Santa Fe, but not very far out of town. The route Mr. Callarman took kept him in a pretty weak signal area from the main transmitter, where even the relatively low power of the booster continued to cause quite a bit of interference. Bill Harris CSRE, CBNT, KE5EFG Director of Engineering Citadel Broadcasting Operations Manager - KBZU FM ************************************************************ There you go folks, straight from the horse`s mouth, so to speak (Paul B. Walker, Jr., Ord NE, http://www.onairdj.com IRCA via DXLD) Why not synchronize the transmitters to a very tight frequency tolerance, as well as the audio feed delay? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I've caught KKOB's 230 Watt Santa Fe night time fill-in transmitter still on in the daytime quite often lately. The wobbulating is quite noticeable and annoying up here in Los Alamos. What I don't know is whether their main transmitter in ABQ was also still on night pattern, but very well could've been. I've commented before that the SAH shows that the fill-in isn't really a synchro, even though the FCC data lists it as such (Mesa Mike, N6KUY, WDX6O, Westfall, LA de NM (DM65uv) Nov 2, http://mesamike.org IRCA via DXLD) ** U S A. * * * WFMU's Electile Dysfunction '08 * * * Polling problems getting you down? Make your vote last from morning till night by tuning in to WFMU's election day webcast of political music, comedy, commentary, and audio art. Who needs cable news when you can spend November 4th listening to WFMU's totally uncensored and totally unprofessional political coverage? TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4th 2008 [times are all EST!] . . . http://www.wfmu.org/ed-08.html (via Dragan Lekic, Serbia, Nov 1, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. November 2, 1920 - It All Started in Pittsburgh... At 6:00 pm, on Tuesday, November 2, 1920, a few men in a shack changed the course of history. Four pioneers, announcer Leo Rosenberg, engineer William Thomas, telephone line operator John Frazier and standby R.S. McClelland, made their way to a makeshift studio - - actually a shack atop the Westinghouse "K" Building in East Pittsburgh - - flipped a switch and began reporting election returns in the Harding vs. Cox Presidential race. At that moment, KDKA became the pioneer broadcasting station of the world. . . http://www.kdkaradio.com/pages/15486.php (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** VANUATU. 7260, R. Vanuatu, Malapoa. Thought I would try for this after hearing a ZL maritime ham somewhere near Port Vila in a QSO with VK, G3 and G4 hams on 7115 LSB earlier. R. Vanuatu was poor through noise in a mixture of Island dialect and French at 0737, IDed at 0749. The ZL Ham was pumping out a much better and clearer signal, suggests Vanuatu are very low powered at this time (John Adams, Beech Forest Vic (JRC NRD-535, 24 Metre long wire), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) ID after IS 0800 fair level, getting better, 19/10 seemingly better than recent times; maybe they have their new transmitters? As certainly signal strength points to this fact. English and Bislama announcements (John Wright, Peakhurst NSW (Sony Car Radio CDX270, Icom R8500, EWE, ibid.) ** VATICAN. VR, 9600, Oct 30 at 2158 IS, but bothered by inexplicable Cuban jamming centered here, then sign-on as ``Laudetur`` i.e. Latin slogan plus some Chinese words, GBDT, what a mix! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4004.75-usb, Vatican Radio at 2230 UT from garden transmitter in Vatican state, S=4-5 only, approx 3-4 uV (Wolfgang Büschel, southern Germany, Oct 28 and/or 29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 4 via DXLD) ** VENEZUELA. See UNIDENTIFIED 6982 ** VENEZUELA [non]. RNV CI via Cuba, 11680, Nov 3 at 1501 broken English YL opening this ``International Channel Circuit``; 1512 recheck was back in Spanish, sounds like Chávez himself blustering (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA! ** VIETNAM [non]. VOV English to NAm, half-hour at 0100, 0230 and 0330 on 6175 (Bob Thomas, CT, Nov 2, by p-mail, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This has remained same for many years, A- and B-seasons, via CANADA (gh) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. I often hear La Voz de la República Árabe Saharahui Democrática after 0600 on 6300, but it`s only in Hassania Arabic then; the final hour is in Spanish, but I only heard the end of it Nov 1 at 2354 with Spanish talk and music, 0001 Nov 2 closing show about refugee camps, sign-off, 0002 anthem by amateur band, 0003 to open carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZAMBIA [and non]. 7160, CVC Lusaka, 0409 Nov 2 -- Usual CVC Christian pop, Christian message by woman with African accent, giving telephone number and e-mail address, One Africa mentions. Good signal (David Yocis, Harpers Ferry WV, USA (39-13 N, 77-48 W), R8B, various wires, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1Africa good and clear here on 13650 until 1700 (Joe Hanlon, NJ, Nov 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The intolerable collision on 9420 goes on: Nov 6 at 2150, about equal levels from V. of Greece in Greek, music, and 1Africa, CVC Zambia in English; SAH of approximately 4 Hz between them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also GREECE ** ZANZIBAR. 11735, RTZ, Sat Nov 1 at 1735 with co-channel QRM and a low het; as I outpointed before, Romania is gone from 11735 in B-08; at first I thought V. of Korea, but not on 11735 at this time. Next thought is the Brasilian, R. Transmundial, likely the source. Fortunately, it had abated at 1800 when Zanzibar began news in English from Spice FM, but still hard to copy with fading: items about DR Congo, attack in Islamabad, 1805 ID amid, ``You`re listening to Spice FM``, more news, 1809 back into Swahili, sounding like the same announcer as in English. Had occasional QRM from DW 11725 splash, which just signed on at 1800, 295 degrees from Kigali. BTW, several others have logged the English news on Thursdays only at 2000 instead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: With English news again today at 2000. Fine reception on receivers in both Europe and Pennsylvania (Hans Johnson, Cumbre DX Thursday Oct 30 via DXLD) TANZANIA, 11735, Radio Tanzania Zanzibar, 1750-2058* Nov. 1, English news from Spice FM with no prior time pips at 1800; then mix of east African and Middle-eastern style music, with no English at 19 or 20 UT, to 2058 s/off with national anthem (Steve George, Mass., NE USA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 11735, TANZANIA. R. Zanzibar, 1801. 10/31/08. Took Eton G5 on business trip to extreme SW Iowa, near Missouri/ Kansas/ Nebraska borders. Stopped along a rural road and extended whip. Tuned to English nx by OM. Presenter's English showed little accent. 1804 ID, "This nx is coming from Spice FM." Fair to good signal. English service at this hour has never been received at home QTH (Jerry Strawman, Des Moines, IA, NRD-545, Eton G5, Alpha Delta Sloper, Wellbrook 330S, 1.1 Meter Loop http://www.radiodx.net/wordpress/ Cumbredx mailing list via DXLD) ** ZIMBABWE. 3396, ZBC, Guineafowl, 1837-1850, 01 Nov, Vernacular, talks; 25332. 4828, Voice of Zimbabwe, Guineafowl, 1854-1911, 01 Nov, non-stop African music, mainly pops; 35333, still on at 2255. 73. (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. via United Kingdom, 11745 NF, SW Radio Africa, 1715-1730, Oct 31, “Newsreel” program with talk about human rights violations in Zimbabwe. Talk about cholera outbreak. IDs. New Frequency. ex-12035. Very good (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11745, new frequency ex-12035 for SW Radio Africa, Nov 1 at 1721 with interview re the Zimbabwe situation; 1734 ending Weekend News Roundup, ``another depressing week``, vernacular ID, back into English with Health Beat; good signal at 152 degrees from Woofferton (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Checking around 4052 tonight UT Oct 31, 0055, to see if R. Verdad is back I am hearing a definite carrier on 4050. However there is no audio. There either isn't any or it's to weak to come thru. PWBR listed R. Rossii via Kyrgyzstan. Checked 4010 and there is a similar carrier also with no audio. Propagation and sound of signal is very similar . Haven't seen R. Rossii logged here before. Might warrant some further checking (Steve Wood, So. Yarmouth, MA, Drake R8B 70 x 30 E/W flag antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4765, unid Iran? 1650 om 30 oct 08 (Michel Lacroix, France, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ex-4635; see TAJIKISTAN UNIDENTIFIED. 5883, (CUBA?) 0717-0720 (and recheck 0740) October 27, 2008. Five-digit Spanish female numbers, full AM mode. Clear and good (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5883, very strong 5-digit YL spy numbers, Nov 4 at 0737, presumably from Cuba. This frequency is in regular use, as well as some others late at night in the 5.8-5.9 MHz range (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5982, 0727-0729 October 27, 2008. Mutant data cycling pattern, almost Morse .--. pattern when in RTTY mode. Who? Very good, but gone post-sunrise check, so I guess Europe? (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. RE DXLD 8–115: CW on 6075 - Email from David E. Crawford: The callsigns are typical of Russian Army (4 random alfa/num characters), almost certainly unrelated to the SWBC transmission. These things are all over 3-10 MHz, always keyboard sent (to hide the "fist"), and they often run repeating callup loops. Some nets are simplex, but crossband is probably more common. The standing nets do keep regular schedules, which would explain why you always hear it at the same time. Cyrillic characters are used in the text but not the callsigns. There are also a few CHICOM CW stations with similar calls, but mostly in broadcast mode if I recall correctly. We hear the Russians more in the evening on this side when conditions are good (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Oct 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Crawford presumably being the one in FL who never communicates directly with me (gh) After listening to R. Rossii on 6075 via Pet/Kam, Nov 6 at 1400, I had the BFO on to catch the mysterious CW marker on 6074. After the final timesignal from RR, pause a few seconds, and very weakly audible, starting before the RR carrier went off, there it was, hard to copy but I could make out CQ DE 8GAL K, with the CQ and 8GAL repeated. 8GAL is exactly the same ID I was hearing until last February, altho Ron Howard in CA recorded it Oct 29 and listening to that clip, the ID was instead VZAI. David E. Crawford told Ron that ``the callsigns are typical of Russian Army (4 random alfa/numeric characters), almost certainly unrelated to the SWBC transmission``. I listened to Ron`s clip again, and yes, that was definitely: ``DE VZAI VZAI K`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Haven't checked the frequency myself, but I wonder if it's the same call anyway, be it 8GAL or VZAI. There might be errors in auto keying/receiving or phasing against nearby carrier. I'd love to hear both calls on audiofile. I'm no professional, but during my years in comms/cw I got familiar with these things (I hope). (Jari Savolainen, Finland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, thanks for the Ron's clip. No doubt, it gives the VZAI call. Actually I was speculating with the habit many Russian RTTY stations have to contact between messages with CW on one keying channel making the other to "mirror CW". So no help from me solving the problem, I'm afraid. 73, (Jari, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 6115 at 0600, Arabic? Re 8-115: Here in Germany today, 6115 usual Belarus. 6110 usual powerhouse BBC Skelton in Arabic to NoAF. 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Saludos Colegas Diexistas! Hoy 2 de Noviembre a las 7:50 AM hora local (1225 UT [sic]), sintonizé en los 6982.37 kHz la emisora religiosa no identificada, que Rafael Rodríguez presume está en Venezuela en el Estado Mérida. La señal SINPO 55132 con 15 a 20 db de intensidad captada con mi radio Yaesu FRG-7 con frecuencímetro digital y una antena Hy-Gain 2BDQ, teniéndola que captarla en banda lateral USB para poder decifrar la transmisión. Pero que va hay demasiado ruido y cierto desbanecimiento. Pero por la intensidad de la señal presumo su cercanía. El Estado Barinas limita con el Estado Mérida y si allí se encuentra esa emisora pues no estamos muy lejos de ella geográficamente. Lamentablemente yo no la grabé pues tengo mi grabadora dañada, pero llamé a Freddy Gamboa en Los Teques, Estado Miranda quien sí la grabó y esta tarde me envía ese archivo en mp3. La señal como tal es fuerte en intensidad pero muy pobre o bajo el volumen de lo que se transmitía y por supuesto un ruido infernal. Freddy me manifestó que tenía las mismas condiciones de propagación. La emisora estaba transmitiendo una omilía o 'misa católica' desde algún templo o iglesia. Escuché cuando nombraron al Papa Benedicto XVI y la misa es igual a como se hacen las iglesias católicas. Seguimos entonces detrás de esta misteriosa estación. Más tarde si recibo el archivo sonoro, se los hago llegar. 73 Cordiales y Buen DX amigos !!!! (Santiago San Gil González, CLUB DIEXISTAS DE LA AMISTAD Teléfono Celular 0414-2280616, http://diexismovenezolano.blogspot.com V E N E Z U E L A, Nov 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hola mis amigos! Saludos desde la ciudad de Mérida, Venezuela. Yo también he podido estar pendiente de todas las noticias en torno a la nueva emisora que supuestamente emite desde Venezuela por onda corta, y que además, según parece, emite desde muy cerca de la ciudad donde actualmente estoy viviendo. Lamentablemente no he captado absolutamente nada hasta ahora; al contrario, solo hay ruidos y tal cual vez señales en morse etc. Después de bajar el audio que han dejado en este blog, estoy casi seguro de que no se trata de la emisora que el amigo Rafael captó y ha venido captando. Si prestan atención, en realidad el audio corresponde a la versión en español del programa "Foro Abierto", del señor Harold Camping que se emite por WYFR Family Radio. Hay ciertos trechos del audio donde se escucha claramente las voces de los locutores de dicha estación mientras uno lee preguntas el otro responde seguidamente. De repente esto significa un dato importante, no obstante. De ser así, podemos suponer que dicha emisora venezolana retransmite programas de WYFR y que no estaríamos hablando de una emisora católica como el colega Santiago supuso en un comentario aparte. En fin, escuchen el audio y saquen sus propias conclusiones. De algo, sí estoy seguro, la cacería de esta estación se torna bastante interesante. Buenas escuchas a todos!!! Su amigo, Leonardo Santiago (via Santiago San Gil, ibid.) Saludos Leonardo Santiago y Colegas Diexistas del Mundo! Mi hermano, en verdad disfruto cada minuto de nuestro hobby y más aún cuando se nos presentan casos donde no tenemos certeza de lo que escuchamos. Resulta que yo capté una misa católica en los 6982.37 kHz el pasado domingo 2 de Noviembre de 2008 a las 1225 UT donde por cierto mencionaron al Papa Benedito XVI, pero debido al ruido atmosférico no pude confirmar de qué estación se trataba ni mucho menos de precisar desde dónde emite. Simplemente ando tratando de confirmar una supuesta nueva estación de radio venezolana en onda corta captada en 6981.5 kHz por Rafael Rodriguez desde Bogotá, Colombia hace unas semanas. En verdad, no sé si la propagación - que no está muy buena que digamos - nos está jugando una mala racha pues en los 6985v kHz he captado señales espúreas de Radio Martí desde EE.UU en español y Alcaravan Radio desde El Meta Colombia en los 6912v kHz, también espúrea o armonico (?). Lo cierto del caso es que no sé si también hay radiación espúrea de WYFR en ese segmento de frecuencias como tu lo manifiestas al escuchar la grabación hecha por Freddy Gamboa Rivas desde Los Teques, Estado Miranda, cosa que no me extrañaría. Creo que lo más sensato es darse una vuelta por Santa Cruz de Mora en el Estado Mérida o Santa Cruz de Mara en el Estado Zulia para indagar si hay alguna emisora de la zona con transmisiones en onda corta o seguir monitoreando esa frecuencia desde nuestros radios a ver qué conclusiones sacamos sobre esta misteriosa estación. Será radiación espúrea o armónica o será una nueva estación de radio en onda corta? No lo sabemos! Para finalizar, les comentaré algo, que no viene al caso antes señalado, pero que sirve de ejemplo para explicar cosas que a veces nos pasan al practicar el DX-ismo y que de momento no tienen explicación alguna. Hace algunos meses reporté en los 49 metros a Radio Nacional Argentina emitiendo conjuntamente con Radio Argentina al Exterior un acto oficial de gobierno en los 5935v kHz. En ese entonces todas las frecuencias de esa radio gubernamental en ondas cortas estaban fuera del aire por problemas técnicos, según lo dieron a conocer en su página web. O sea que alguien o algún organismo (feeder) estaba retransmitiendo esa emisora desde otra frecuencia en onda media, FM o internet. Varios colegas diexistas argentinos dijeron que eso no era posible por las razones antes expuestas y que ellos no escuchaban nada! Pues bien, hace unos dias leí un log de un diexista brasileño reportando en 5945v kHz a esa misma emisora en una frecuencia no registrada. Con ésto quiero concluir, que a veces hay cosas a las que uno no le encuentra explicación. Solo el tiempo dirá si uno está equivocado o no. En éste caso tenía razón! Volviendo al caso inicial que nos ocupa, los animo a seguir "monitoreando" y podamos resolver este enigmático caso que está documentado en http://diexismovenezolano.blogspot.com y http://sintoniadx.spaces.live.com/ Si nos equivocamos, pues bien nos llevaremos una gran decepción; si no es así, develamos ese misterio. En todo caso, me alegraría que fuera cierto, puesto que la mayoría de las radios venezolanas prácticamente abandonaron sus frecuencias en la onda corta y si aparece tan solo "una nueva emisora" nos daría un gran satisfacción! Sigamos compartiendo esta aficion! 73 y Buenos DX!!!! (Santiago San Gil González, CLUB DIEXISTAS DE LA AMISTAD - VENEZUELA, 32 Años, Escuchando al Mundo! Nov 5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7295, 2231-2243+, 28 Oct; M&W in English with pop tunes. Presume Traxx FM Malaysia. Poor at QRN level. Nothing there at 2213, so looks like the window is 2230-2300. Best peak was about 2235. Heard similar same time yesterday (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 210' center-fed RW, 85' end-fed RW, 125' bow-tie, Cumbre DX via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 7862, approximately: the day before I was hearing typical DentroCuban jamming around 7865 [see CUBA], but Nov 7 at 0654 there was higher-pitched and faster pulsing than that e.g. heard on 7365 at the same time. This was at the rate of 4 per second (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9490, Nov 1 at 1301-1302* unstable noisy carrier, hard to describe, but not like Cuban bubble jamming; with polar flutter. CRI via Kunming to S Asia is scheduled here before and after 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9640 with strong open carrier, Nov 6 at 1310; suspected Greenville or something in N America, but only thing scheduled here is IBB Thailand at 130 degrees, VOA in English per schedule in DXLD 8- 115. No trace of modulation, so perhaps this was it having lost feed. R. Thailand [q.v.] was also inbooming on 7365 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9770 UNID ?? distorted FM mode like + bass bubble jamming around 1430-15 UT, a puzzle, same type like KRE jamming on 9715 and 9770 kHz too. 9880, AUSTRALIA, JCI Darwin relay, and distorted [KRE?] FM mode like + bass bubble jamming around 1430-15 UT, a puzzle, same type like KRE jamming on 9715 and 9770 kHz at same time slot too (Wolfgang Büschel, southern Germany, Oct 28 and/or 29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 4 via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Rapid pulses, like OTH radar, extending at least plus / minus 10 kHz from 13950, Nov 5 until cut off at 1408* Same sound as heard previously centered on 15090 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Rapid pulsing with multiple carrier peaks between 15075 and 15105 centered on 15090, Nov 4 at 1358 and still at 1420 recheck. Seems like OTH radar, Cyprus maybe? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 17410-17520, earsplitting whine was back again Nov 1 at 1747, extremely strong, with multiple carriers across the broad band, peaking at 17450; and just as I was noticing a secondary peak around 17510 at the edge, they all cut off at 1748* What is this??? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dear Glenn, I am situated near Munich in southern Germany, being a listener to your "World of Radio" show for the last 20-25 years or so (previously on SW and WRN, now downloading it online). Born in 1962 and DXer since when I was around 14 years old, I am now looking forward very much to being added to your Yahoo Group. Best wishes + keep on doing your informative work which, as far as I am concerned, has always been one of my best sources of knowledge about the international broadcasting scene (Eckard Pfeifer) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ DX/SWL/MEDIA Programs in English Our listing has now been updated for B-08: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html Any updates and correxions will be welcome. 73, (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) THE B-08 FCC PRIVATE SW STATIONS SCHEDULE is now available for viewing. Point your web browser to http://www.fcc.gov/ib/sand/neg/hf_web/B08FCC01.TXT to download the schedule (Jim Moats, OH, Oct 30, dxldyg via DXLD) Updated versions may appear later changing the 1 at the end to 2 or 3, so try those (gh) LISTADO HFCC B-08 Saludos cordiales, ya está disponible el listado de emisiones de la HFCC para el periodo B-08. http://www.hfcc.org/data/b08/b08allx2.zip Hay que agradecerles la prontitud en publicarlo, normalmente se demoran bastante (José Miguel Romero, Spain, Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) AOKI B08 A provisional version of B08 Aoki List was released, only Excel zip version. The text file version releases it after monitoring. http://www.m2.mediacat.ne.jp/~binews/bib08.zip (S. Hasegawa, NDXC, Nov 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) BDXC web site updates The following have just been updated on the British DX Club web site: AFRICA ON SHORTWAVE - November 2008 A comprehensive country-by-country guide to domestic & external broadcasts from Africa on shortwave by Tony Rogers DX & MEDIA PROGRAMME GUIDE Now updated for the B08 Winter schedule period SHEIGRA DXPEDITION REPORT 2008 A report the recent DXpedion to Sheigra by Alan Pennington, Dave Kenny & Tony Rogers has been added to the DXpedition archive. All of these can be found on the BDXC web site at http://www.bdxc.org.uk - see Articles Index (Dave Kenny, BDXC-UK, Nov 3, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WHAT DO YOU KNOW? Monitoring Times, the full spectrum radio hobby magazine out of Brasstown, North Carolina, is a great outlet for sharing your radio knowledge. MT is currently soliciting feature and technical articles for 2009. If you're wondering, "But what would I write about?" MT has recently posted a starter list of around 136 suggested topics to get your thinking started at http://www.monitoringtimes.com/html/list_of_topics.html These ideas may be altered, embellished, added to, etc. Give us your best pitch at editor @ monitoringtimes.com Or write Editor Rachel Baughn, 740 Hwy 64 West, Brasstown, NC 28902. Over the years, potential authors have asked us, "What kinds of articles are you looking for?" We always responded, "Write what you know." Now, with this list of topics to help get you started, there's no excuse! What are you waiting for? (Rachel Baughn, Editor, Monitoring Times, Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ GH JARGON Glenn - Please pardon my ignorance, but can you tell me what the following abbreviations stand for? Many thanks in advance. [non] [and non] SAH Regards, (-Pete Jernakoff-, K3KMS, Wilmington, DE, http://www.21centimeter.com, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Peter, [non] makes the word ahead of it negative. DXLD and my own log reports are organized by country. But a lot of transmissions do not actually emanate on SW from the country concerned. If the item is about relays, it is headed [non]. This is also used for broadcasts TO rather than FROM the country, as a convenient way of grouping clandestine, or at least `target` broadcasts. If the item concerns broadcasts from the country, and also one of the above it is [and non]. This can also apply if the item mainly about one country also mentions another country, such as by way of interference. SAH = subaudible heterodyne, i.e. a beat produced by two frequencies not quite synchronized, less than 20 Hz or so, so you can`t hear the pitch but you can hear the fading between them. Such as a SAH of 4 Hz = 4 beats per second. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ABDX via DXLD) Glenn - Many thanks for your reply to my questions! Best regards, (- Pete Jernakoff-, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TINY TRAP +++++++++ BHUTAN: I really like the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, 0200 UT Tue- Sat, repeated at 0400, but in reporting on the new king, she really got caught in the TT, saying at 0229 UT Nov 7 ``teeny, teeny, teeny, tiny little country, Bhutan``. It may be a lot smaller than its massive neighbors, but that doesn`t make it tiny x 4 or even times once (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF HOROLOGY see also USA: VOA re HAITI, Spanish +++++++++++++++++ DST OR NOT Re 8-115: ``?? 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)`` I am not asking anyone to reset anything. I have a day time job and do not have the choice of when I come and go. If I had a choice - I would rather it be dark in the morns as this is routine for me [and most] than to get home in the dark. Hate it. DST year around for me (Andy Reid, Ont., Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ The latest video offering from UKQRM is now on-line http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKhl-1CRkkU In this video we provide a simple non technical description of the huge problem of Power Line Transmission interference to Shortwave Radio. Are you affected by this? Do you live in the UK? If you can answer yes to these questions we need to hear from you! Only by coming together can we stand a chance of preserving shortwave radio for the future. Don't leave it to someone else, they are probably leaving it to you! Check out the UKQRM web site for more details and how to join the UKQRM Yahoo group. Regards, Mike http://www.ukqrm.org The end of world broadcasting? (Mike, Sussex, monitoringmonthly yg via DXLD) OFCOM - POWER LINE TELECOMMUNICATIONS (PLT) The website of the UK regulator Ofcom now carries a statement regarding Power Line Telecommunications (PLT). You can read the Ofcom statement at http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radiocomms/ifi/enforcement/plt/ Comtrend Powerline Adaptors - Radio Interference Video http://www.southgatearc.org/news/october2008/comtrend_powerline_adaptors.htm Data over Mains Radio Interference http://www.southgatearc.org/news/august2008/data_over_mains.htm UKQRM website http://www.mikeandsniffy.co.uk/UKQRM/ UKQRM Yahoo Group http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/UKQRM/ http://www.southgatearc.org/news/october2008/ofcom_plt_statement.htm (via Mike Terry, UK, Oct 29, dxldyg via DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ IRAN IS NUMBER 4 Iran has opened a telecommunications tower more than quarter of a mile high. The 1,427-foot Milad Tower is the world's fourth tallest communication structure. The tallest is believed to be the 1,815-foot- high CN Tower in Toronto, Canada. There is a report with photos at Payvand News http://www.payvand.com/news/08/oct/1077.html - Oct 8, 2008. Milad Tower is overshadowed by the CN Tower in Toronto, Ostankino Tower in Moscow and the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai (Amateur Radio Newsline Report 1628 - Oct 24, BDXC-UK via BC-DX via DXLD) We are talking here about self-supporting towers. GUYED TV broadcast towers are commonly 2000 feet in the USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE NEW DE1123 I got my DE1123 yesterday, In fact, as I was posting on another radio site, the amazingly attentive eBay seller, Tquchina, read my comments about waiting for the radio, actually tracked my package and sent me an email to let me know that my package was at the post office, where I was able to pick it up. First of all, I am a person who really likes radios that do a lot of things. I have a collection of those old multiband radios that try to do everything - the more bands the better! - and I LOVE them. I have one of those Icom R3 radios that was created in that same spirit, and I don't care what the reviewers said about it - I really enjoy playing with the thing. That said, I was attracted to this radio because it did so many things, and I am not at all disappointed. First of all, it is a very attractive little radio that is nearly flat and would fit into almost any pocket. It comes with an English language manual which is extremely easy to follow in spite of the sometimes amusing translation. There are 3 rechargeable AAA batteries (pre-charged and ready for action), a carry pouch, a USB cord, earbuds, and a small wall charger that attaches to the USB cord. The radio is ergonomic heaven - it is totally intuitive, and I had no trouble trying out all the functions. I like the 1121 a lot, but it is extremely complicated to use. The 1123 doesn't do everything the 1121 can do, but what it does, it does well. The MW band is outstanding - this evening from my home right outside of NYC, I heard Charlotte NC, Cleveland, Nashville, and the sometimes elusive semi-local Hartford Connecticut without any effort. FM and MW have no bleed-through, so even the strongest stations don't cover up neighboring frequencies. The FM is fine - nice stereo sound, and quite good reception. The test stations I use, which only the "good" radios pick up here, were all there. The SW was a great surprise - lots to listen to and very little noise to detract from the clear, surprisingly steady reception. I loaded up the mp3 section of the radio with my favorite music - there was a lot of memory available, and I was able to use the Windows Media Player to transfer files to the 1123 with no problem. There was no extra software to load. The tracks sound great, and are easy to access. I recorded WAV files from the radio bands, and this was extremely easy to do - you just press a button as if it were a tape recorder. The files are a bit muddy-sounding and the manual is right - this recording works best with the volume turned way up. If your primary interest is to record music from the radio, this radio is probably not ideal since the WAV files are not high fidelity. If you want to record speech, or if you aren't fussy about the sound quality of your music, then all is well. The display has a 12 or 24 hour clock (selectable), the date is displayed, and there is an attractive green backlight. There is a speaker which doesn't sound too bad, but obviously, the included earphones are a major improvement. There is no SSB, there is only rudimentary push-button tuning, there is no bandwidth nor tone adjustment possible, and the mp3 files are not named, so you need to remember what number folder your files are in. The buttons that control the mp3 playback system are on a strange 3 second delay, so you need a little patience to access the files, but the process itself is very simple. My verdict - this is a handy, fun-filled entertainment center for casual radio and mp3 listening and some DXing, especially on MW and SW. As a radio-ipod hybrid, it is very satisfactory. As a radio recorder, it is efficient and easy to use, but the sound quality could be better. Am I glad I bought it? Absolutely! (Emily Keene, Middletown, NJ, Oct 29, ABDX via DXLD) Is the Etón E-1 to be discontinued? I don't think anyone knows if the E1 has been discontinued or not, but there have been rumours going around for a few months now to that effect. The radio is still listed on Eton's website, and I read elsewhere (on dxer.ca I think) that someone at Eton earlier this year did say that the radio is not being discontinued. But on the other hand, no one seems to be able to actually get one. Radioworld in Toronto doesn't even have them listed on their website. Three weeks ago I was in the Durham Radio store and I asked one of the staff about the E1. He told me that they've had an order in to their supplier since the middle of the summer for more, and they can't get any answer as to when they'll be available. I gave them my number to call me when they come in, since I'm interested in buying one sometime, but I haven't heard from them, so I assume they still haven't arrived. It would be a real shame if the E1 has been discontinued. From everything I've read, it's an excellent radio and it has only been on the market for a few years (Greg Shoom, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Nov 1, ODXA yg via DXLD) Universal still has both versions listed on their web site (Mike Wolfson, ibid.) I actually was in that store on Saturday to look at stereo equipment and I saw it too. I asked them if they had any E1's in stock, and they said no, but that they have them on order and expect them soon. The one on the shelf is the demo model and is the only one in the store. So it's another store that is still carrying the E1 but has none in stock and is waiting on more. I'll check back there in a few weeks to see if any more actually show up (Greg Shoom, VE3LXL, Nov 2, ibid.) Eton E1 and AOR LA390 Antenna http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBEqKsEF62M Eton E1 Demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-whGJNcBelU&feature=related 73s (Bob Wilkner, Pompano Beach, FL, Nov 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) POTENTIAL MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGH – RF KILLS PATHOGENS Roger Knipp, N6VU, an engineer with KLCS-TV, has designed and built a device that is reportedly able to "electrocute" many body pathogens, and hasten recovery from the diseases they cause. The device works by painlessly inducing small RF currents at frequencies reported to be lethal to bacteria and viruses, which in turn relieves the immune system of a significant load. According to Roger, experiments in the Philippines have shown the device to quickly relieve viral blood infections such as dinghy [sic!] fever and shingles. For further information, you can download a free 600-page book touching on the subject (below) or Roger can be contacted at rwknipp (at) yahoo.com for a copy of the manual for his improved device. http://www.drloyd.com/cure.pdf (CGC Communicator Nov 2 via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) ON THE AIR 1937 How AM radio broadcasting works, step-by-step, a 1937 film classic 6.5 minutes in length: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VHtZr_xsT8 This is a wonderful piece of radio history, highly recommended. (THE CGC COMMUNICATOR CGC #865 November 2, 2008, Robert F. Gonsett, W6VR, Editor, via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) THE BMC PLAN TO REMAP AND REVAMP RADIO --- by Guy Wire, 11.05.2008 If you haven't read about or carefully considered the BMC's ambitious proposal that could literally save broadcast radio, keep reading. The idea of converting TV Channel 6 for use by radio following the DTV transition has been around for a while and suggested by many. An enterprising group of broadcast consultants, lawyers and engineers decided to get busy and start developing the concept into a formal FCC proposal. Calling themselves the Broadcast Maximization Committee and led by Paul Reynolds, Jack Mullaney and Bert Goldman, the group has put together a compelling case. They filed their initial proposal as part of the FCC's Diversification of Ownership proceeding in July. Comments are still being accepted as "late filed" since that proceeding has ended. The BMC wants to reuse TV Channel 5 along with Ch. 6 to create enough space to migrate all existing AM and LPFM stations to new spectrum. The scheme would also open up more space and coverage for LPFM and NCE opportunities. The resulting interference relief to existing bands that could then be "repacked" would be dramatic. NEW CHANNEL DETAILS Let's take a look at their basic plan. TV Channels 5 and 6 would add 12 MHz of additional spectrum immediately below the existing FM band. The BMC envisions creating 117 new 100 kHz channel allocations out of this spectrum called the EXB (EXpanded Band). One hundred channels between 77.0 and 86.9 MHz would be allocated for AM migration. . . [much more] http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0048/t.16138.html (via Kevin Redding, TN, Nov 5, ABDX via DXLD) The fundamental problem facing AM/FM radio is simple: over the past quarter century, the number of stations has grown faster than the pool of listeners and available ad dollars. In the that period, cable TV channels and now web sites (like Craigs List) are taking away ads that once would have gone to radio and local newspapers. Radio is in the same boat as the housing market and the American auto industry: the supply of product is way out of balance with the demand for that product. You can set up a new band on channels 5 and 6, you can broadcast in HD/IBOC, or do whatever other technical solution you can dream up; all will be futile, wasted effort until a lot of stations --- say maybe 40% of the currently active AM/FM outlets --- go dark. And that doesn't even take into account the looming tsunami known as wireless broadband. By the time any effort to implement a new band on channels 5 and 6 was ready to go live, in-car and portable wireless broadband will be as commonplace as CD and MP3 players today. This idea is the broadcasting equivalent of lighting a candle to Santa Manteca and asking for her assistance with a terminal disease (Harry Helms W5HLH, Corpus Christi, TX EL17 http://harryhelmsblog.blogspot.com/ ibid.) DIGITAL BROADCASTING DRM: ALASKA; ANGUILLA; AUSTRALIA; BELGIUM; ++++++++++++++++++++ BULGARIA; ECUADOR; FRANCE; HUNGARY; INDIA; NEW ZEALAND; ROMANIA; RUSSIA CABLE COMPANIES AND DTV FCC rules require cable companies to convert digital signals to analog for any full power stations within a certain radius from the company's head end. (I think it is 38 miles.) They are required to do so as long as they have any analog channels left on their system including shopping channels, "gospel huxters", etc. Another FCC rule prevents cable companies from encrypting the must- carry OTA digital signals. That means that if you buy a TV with a QAM digital tuner you will be able to watch these channels without renting a cable box. If the station is broadcasting in HD format you will see the program in HD if your set is also capable of displaying HD pictures. You do not have to rent a separate cable HD box or pay for HD service to see these channels in HD. (You may have to subscribe to more than basic cable to do this as legacy systems typically insert traps to chop off any signals above channel 23 or so including those that carry the digital off-air signals.) Cable systems are allowed to reduce the data rate of digital signals but not to the point where the picture becomes perceptably degraded. "Perceptable degradation" is not defined by the FCC so it is in the eye of the beholder. (If you can get your local stations over the air, you may get a sharper picture if the cable guy's perception of degradation is less critical than yours.) These rules are to be revisited in 2011 and if not amended or extended will sunset in 2012. After that you will need a cable box to see anything (Joe Buch, FL, Oct 24, swprograms via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ MORE LONG-HAUL TRANS-EQUATORIAL FM DX, CARIBBEAN TO SOUTHERN BRASIL [in chronological order tho frequency listed first] 97.1, ANTÍGUA & BARBUDA ZDK – Liberty Radio International, Saint John’s, EE, 0003, 14/10, mx pop EE, EE 43343. 97.3, SANTA LÚCIA Radio Saint Lucia, Castries, creole, 0006, 14/10, OM, nxs 45444. 97.9, MARTINICA NRJ Antilles, Martinique, FF, 0113, 14/10, mx caribenha 35333. 98.1, ?? Unid (Liberty FM – Barbados?), EE, 0115, 14/10, mx, YL 43333. 99.1, ?? Unid (Radio Archipel – Lê Robert /MRT??), FF, 0119, 14/10, OM, nxs 33333. 99.9, SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES WE FM, Kingstown, EE, 0121, 14/10, OM, conversa telefônica c/ ouvinte 45344. 103.7, SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES Hitz FM, Kingstown, EE, 0123, 14/10, OM/OM, talks 44344. 107.5, SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES NBC, Kingstown, EE, 0125, 14/10, mx caribenha 45344 96.7, SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES Nice FM, Kingstown, EE, 0128, 14/10, OM, mx caribenha 45344. 95.7, SAINT VINCNT & GRENADINES Praise FM, Kingstown, EE, 0132, 14/10, OM, pregação, relg ?????. 94.7, ?? Unid (CBC – Barbados??), EE, 0135, 14/10, mx caribenha, OM 33333. 94.3, MARTINICA RFO, Morne - Rouge, FF, 0139, 14/10, mx, YL 45333. 94.0, MARTINICA RFO, Trinité, FF, 0142, 14/10, YL/OM, talks // 94.3 44333. 93.7, ?? Unid (The Wave – LCA??), EE, 0143, 14/10, mx caribenha 35333. 91.3, ?? Unid, idioma??, 0147, 14/10, OM 15231. 97.0, GUADALOUPE RFO, Basse-Terre, FF, 0153, 14/10, OM/OM, talks 45333. 94.1, ?? Unid (Love FM – TRD??), EE, 0202, 14/10, OM/YL, talks 33333. 91.2, MARTINICA RCI, Martinique, FF, 0210, 14/10, YL/OM, talks 35333. 97.1, ANTÍGUA & BARBUDA ZDK – Liberty Radio International, Saint John’s, EE, 0020, 18/10, mx caribenha 45333. 95.7, SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES Praise FM, Kingstown, EE, 0022, 18/10, mx caribenha 45333. 103.7, SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES Hitz FM, Kingstown, EE, 0144, 18/10, mx caribenha 45333. 107.5, SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES NBC, Kingstown, EE, 0146, 18/10, OM, conversa telefônica c/ ouvinte 45333. 106.6, GUADALOUPE RCI, Guadaloupe, FF, 0148, 18/10, mx caribenha 15231. 90.1, ?? Unid, idioma??, 0150, 18/10, mx caribenha 35333. 91.9, ANTÍGUA & BARBUDA Hitz FM, Saint John’s, EE, 0154, 18/10, mx caribenha 35333. 93.7, ?? Unid (The Wave – LCA??), EE, 0156, 18/10, mx caribenha 43333. 97.0, GUADALOUPE RFO, Basse-Terre, FF, 0202, 18/10, OM/OM, talks 34333. 97.1, ANTíGUA & BARBUDA ZDK – Liberty Radio International, Saint John’s, EE, 2350, 19/10, YL/OM, anúncios, mx pop 44333. 96.7, SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES Nice FM, EE, 2353, 19/10, OM/OM, talks, anúncios 43343. 94.0, MARTINICA RFO, Trinité, FF, 2353, 19/10, mx caribenha 44344. 94.1, ?? Unid (Love FM – TRD??), EE, 2355, 18/10, mx caribenha, OM 43333. 95.7, SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES Praise FM, Kingstwon, EE, 0003, 19/10, YL, pregação, relg 45333. 107.5 SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES NBC, Kingstown, EE, 0011, 19/10, OM 45243. 93.7, ?? Unid (The Wave – LCA??), EE, 0013, 19/10, mx caribenha, YL/OM 44333 . 92.7, ?? Unid, EE??, 0025, 19/10, mx c/ Shania Twain e outras, OM, 35333. 92.3, ?? Unid, SS, 0137, 19/10, OM, relg 34333. 91.5, ?? Unid (Hitz FM – VCT??), EE??, mx caribenha 35233. 94.0, MARTINICA RFO, Trinité, FF, 0008, 21/10, OM/YL, talks, risos 44333. 94.1, ?? Unid, FF??, 0011, 21/10, OM/YL, talks 33333. 94.3, MARTINICA RFO, Morne - Rouge, FF, 0015, 21/10, YL/OM, talks 44333. 96.7, SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES Nice FM, Kingstown, EE, 0018, 21/10, OM anunciando o site da emissora 43343. 97.0, GUADALOUPE RFO, Basse - Terre, FF, 0020, 21/10, mx reggae 33343. 97.1, ANTIGUA & BARBUDA ZDK - Liberty Radio International, Saint John's, EE, 0022, 21/10, mx caribenha, OM 43343. 97.3, SAINT LUCIA Radio Sant Lucia, Castries, EE, 0023, 21/10, OM em conversa telefônica c/ ouvinte 43343. 107.5, SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES NBC, Kingstown, EE, 0028, 21/10, OM falando sobre educação 45344. 103.7, SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES Hitz FM, Kingstown, EE, 0035, 21/10, OM, mx pop EE, px musical 45344. 91.9, ANTIGUA & BARBUDA Hitz M, Saint John's, EE, 0042, 21/10, mx caribenha 35333. 92.9, ?? Unid, idioma??, 0046, 21/10, OM 33333. 92.7, JAMAICA FAME M, Coopers Hill, EE, 0110, 21/10, mx pop EE, OM, jingle por voz masculina: “FAME FM” 45333. 95.7, SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES Praise FM, Kingstown, EE, 2349, 22/10, OM/OM, talks 44333. 93.7, ?? Unid, EE, 2351, 22/10, OM/OM, talks 44333. 96.7, SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES Nice FM, Kingstown, EE, 2353, 22/10, OM/OM, talks 34343. 97.1, ANTIGUA & BARBUDA ZDK – Liberty Radio International, Saint John’s, EE, 2354, 22/10, mx caribenha, OM 33333. 97.3, SAINT LUCIA Radio Saint Lucia, Castries, EE, 2355, 22/10, OM, nxs 42332. 97.1, SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES Nice FM, Kingstown, EE, 0038, 23/10, mx caribenha 45333. 96.7, SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES Nice FM, Kingstown, EE, 0050, 23/10, OM, nxs 34333. 92.7, ?? Unid (FAME FM?), EE?, 0051, 23/10, mx caribenha 25232. 96.7, SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES Nice FM, Kingstown, EE, 0004, 31/10, mx caribenha rítmo de reggae, OM 45344. 97.1, ANTIGUA & BARBUDA Liberty Radio International, Saint John's, EE, 0008, 31/10, mx caribenha 35333. 97.3, SAINT LUCIA Radio Saint Lucia, Castries, EE, 0010, 31/10, mx caribenha, OM/OM 43343. 103.7, SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES Hitz FM, Kingstown, EE, 0011, 31/10, mx caribenha, OM: "More music 1037 --- ---" 45333. 92.7, JAMAICA FAME FM, Coopers Hill, EE, 0013, 31/10, mx caribenha, OM 35333. 107.5, SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES NBC, Kingstown, EE, 0019, 31/10, mx caribenha 45344. 94.0, MARTINICA RFO, Trinité, FF, 0021, 31/10, OM/OM/YL, talks 35343. 94.3, MARTINICA RFO, Morne Rouge, FF, 0022, 31/10, OM/OM/YL, talks 34333. 91.2, MARTINICA RCI, Martinique, FF, 0024, 31/10, mx caribenha, OM 25332. 93.7, ?? Unid, FF??, 0026, 31/10, mx caribenha, OM 35333. CARIBE: QSL: 96.7 MHz - Nice FM - Kingstown - VCT. Recebido e-mail QSL no data. Menos de 1 dia. V/S: Douglas de Freitas (Manager). Informe enviado por e-mail: bdsnice @ caribsurf.com (Rubens Ferraz Pedroso, Bandeirantes, PR, Brasil, @tividade DX Oct 26 and Nov 2 via DXLD) BARBADOS: 92.9, 16/10 0012, Voice of Barbados, Bridgetown, longa conversa de OM/OM em EE e Id "Voice of Barbados FM", jingle musical "Voice of Barbados" 94.7, 13/10 2357, CBC, bloco musical, ads "...octoberfest. ..", ID por YL "...CBC, nine four seven FM..." 95.3, 14/10 0033, Hott FM, Bridgetown, longo talk enter OM/OM, varias ID e musica (MARCIO MARTINS PONTES, REGISTRO-SP, BRASIL, @tividade DX Nov 2 via DXLD) PROPAGATION FORECAST TO RETURN On Friday October 31, 2008 I'm going to begin publishing my LF/MF/HF/6M frequency radiowave propagation forecast once again. It will be located at http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf6.htm I have an archive of daily solar, space weather and geomagnetic data going back through 2001. Year 2001 is at http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf5c.htm when solar cycle 23 was at peak. Wow what a difference in activity then versus now. 73, (Thomas F. Giella, Lakeland, FL, USA, kn4lf1 @ verizon.net With God All Things Are Possible <>< KN4LF Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf5.htm Solar Cycle 23/24 Forecast Discussion Archive: http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf72.htm Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) THE NEW DAILY IONOSPHERIC FORECAST SERVICE (DIFS) For nearly 30 years the Advanced Technology Centre - Gt Baddow has produced and issued a daily ionospheric forecast. A recently enhanced service has been implemented under co-funding through the ESA Space Weather Applications Pilot Project and is part of the Space Weather European Network (SWENET). The service now offers three HF Forecasts, two 24 hourly forecasts for high latitudes (polar and auroral regions) low latitudes (equatorial region) and a 12 hourly forecast for mid latitudes. These are aimed at HF sky-wave users who suffer from degraded performance during solar & geomagnetic storms and wish to have advance warning of poor propagation conditions. . . http://www.sflorg.com/BAE_Systems_DIFS/ (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) Geomagnetic field activity was at quiet levels during 27 - 28 October. Activity increased to active levels during 29 - 30 October. Activity decreased to quiet to unsettled levels on 31 October. Activity decreased to quiet levels during the remainder of the period. ACE solar wind measurements indicated a recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream (CH HSS) commenced on 28 October. Solar wind velocities increased from a low of 287 km/sec at 28/0056 UTC to a high of 741 km/sec at 29/1648 UTC. Velocities began to gradually decrease on 31 October as the HSS subsided. Interplanetary magnetic field changes associated with the onset of the CH HSS included increased Bt (peak 14 nT at 28/1841 UTC) and intermittent periods of southward Bz (minimum - 10 nT at 29/0447 UTC). FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 05 NOV - 01 DEC 2008 Solar activity is expected to be at very low levels. However, there will be a chance for low activity (isolated low-level C-class flares) during 20 November - 01 December with the return of (old) Region 1007 to the visible disk. 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 05 - 15 November and 26 November - 01 December. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet levels on 05 November. Activity is expected to increase to unsettled levels on 06 November. A further increase to active to major storm levels is expected during 07 - 08 November due to a recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream (CH HSS). Activity is expected to decrease to unsettled levels on 09 November as the HSS subsides. Quiet conditions are expected during 10 - 24 November. Field activity is expected to increase to unsettled to active levels during 25 - 27 November due to a recurrent CH HSS. Activity is expected to decrease to quiet levels during 28 November - 01 December as the HSS subsides. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2008 Nov 04 2252 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 Nov 04 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2008 Nov 05 69 5 2 2008 Nov 06 69 8 3 2008 Nov 07 70 30 6 2008 Nov 08 70 15 4 2008 Nov 09 70 8 3 2008 Nov 10 70 5 2 2008 Nov 11 70 5 2 2008 Nov 12 70 5 2 2008 Nov 13 70 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 5 2 2008 Nov 25 67 12 4 2008 Nov 26 67 12 4 2008 Nov 27 68 8 3 2008 Nov 28 68 5 2 2008 Nov 29 69 5 2 2008 Nov 30 69 5 2 2008 Dec 01 69 5 2 (SWPC Nov 4 via WORLD OF RADIO 1433, DXLD) TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING ++++++++++++++++++++++++ PINCH ME ...A MESSAGE FROM MICHAEL MOORE Friends, Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a time of deep despair. In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, it was an unexpected moment, shocking in its simplicity: Barack Obama, a good man, a black man, said he would bring change to Washington, and the majority of the country liked that idea. The racists were present throughout the campaign and in the voting booth. But they are no longer the majority, and we will see their flame of hate fizzle out in our lifetime. There was another important "first" last night. Never before in our history has an avowed anti-war candidate been elected president during a time of war. I hope President-elect Obama remembers that as he considers expanding the war in Afghanistan. The faith we now have will be lost if he forgets the main issue on which he beat his fellow Dems in the primaries and then a great war hero in the general election: The people of America are tired of war. Sick and tired. And their voice was loud and clear yesterday. It's been an inexcusable 44 years since a Democrat running for president has received even just 51% of the vote. That's because most Americans haven't really liked the Democrats. They see them as rarely having the guts to get the job done or stand up for the working people they say they support. Well, here's their chance. It has been handed to them, via the voting public, in the form of a man who is not a party hack, not a set-for-life Beltway bureaucrat. Will he now become one of them, or will he force them to be more like him? We pray for the latter. But today we celebrate this triumph of decency over personal attack, of peace over war, of intelligence over a belief that Adam and Eve rode around on dinosaurs just 6,000 years ago. What will it be like to have a smart president? Science, banished for eight years, will return. Imagine supporting our country's greatest minds as they seek to cure illness, discover new forms of energy, and work to save the planet. I know, pinch me. We may, just possibly, also see a time of refreshing openness, enlightenment and creativity. The arts and the artists will not be seen as the enemy. Perhaps art will be explored in order to discover the greater truths. When FDR was ushered in with his landslide in 1932, what followed was Frank Capra and Preston Sturgis, Woody Guthrie and John Steinbeck, Dorothea Lange and Orson Welles. All week long I have been inundated with media asking me, "gee, Mike, what will you do now that Bush is gone?" Are they kidding? What will it be like to work and create in an environment that nurtures and supports film and the arts, science and invention, and the freedom to be whatever you want to be? Watch a thousand flowers bloom! We've entered a new era, and if I could sum up our collective first thought of this new era, it is this: Anything Is Possible. An African American has been elected President of the United States! Anything is possible! We can wrestle our economy out of the hands of the reckless rich and return it to the people. Anything is possible! Every citizen can be guaranteed health care. Anything is possible! We can stop melting the polar ice caps. Anything is possible! Those who have committed war crimes will be brought to justice. Anything is possible. We really don't have much time. There is big work to do. But this is the week for all of us to revel in this great moment. Be humble about it. Do not treat the Republicans in your life the way they have treated you the past eight years. Show them the grace and goodness that Barack Obama exuded throughout the campaign. Though called every name in the book, he refused to lower himself to the gutter and sling the mud back. Can we follow his example? I know, it will be hard. I want to thank everyone who gave of their time and resources to make this victory happen. It's been a long road, and huge damage has been done to this great country, not to mention to many of you who have lost your jobs, gone bankrupt from medical bills, or suffered through a loved one being shipped off to Iraq. We will now work to repair this damage, and it won't be easy. But what a way to start! Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th President of the United States. Wow. Seriously, wow. Yours, (Michael Moore, http://MichaelMoore.com MMFlint @ aol.com Nov 5, via DXLD) #########