DX LISTENING DIGEST 11-11, March 15, 2011
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SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1556, March 16-22, 2011
[note all times except IPAR are now one UT hour earlier due to DST]
Wed 2115 WBCQ 7415 [confirmed]
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed, jammed]
Thu 1500 WRMI 9955 [confirmed]
Thu 2100 WRMI 9955 [confirmed]
Fri 0330 WWRB 2390
Fri 1430 WRMI 9955
Fri 2030 WWCR1 7465
Sat 0800 WRMI 9955
Sat 1400 WRMI 9955
Sat 1600 WWCR2 12160
Sat 1730 WRMI 9955
Sat 1900 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 6090 1566 1368
Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215
Sun 0800 WRMI 9955
Sun 1530 WRMI 9955
Sun 1730 WRMI 9955
Mon 1130 WRMI 9955
Mon 2130 WRMI 9955
Tue 1530 WRMI 9955
Wed 0100 WRMI 9955
Wed 1530 WRMI 9955
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** ALASKA. 9655, 1546-, KNLS, Mar 12, Terrible choice of frequencies.
Cochannel with a much more powerful station (not sure who [ROMANIA ---
gh]), with KNLS programming in English heard underneath. Good
modulation for KNLS making it audible, but unpleasant to listen to due
to the interference (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALBANIA. 6130, 0243-, Radio Tirana, Mar 13, Good reception with an
interval signal repeated for several minutes. Minor splatter from
adjacent channels above and below. At 0245 announced, 'This is Radio
Tirana, Radio Tirana Shortwave'. Proceeded to give their English
language schedule with frequencies and meter bands. Monday to Saturday
to North America. Presumably this is local time, as it's UT Sunday now
(Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALGERIA [non]. 7295, RTA via Issoudun, FRANCE, March 14 at 0603,
first in French, I think, then Arabic, marred by heavy echo. This has
happened before with such relays on 7 MHz band, at an hour when long-
path is unlikely over the dayside, so I again suspect there is some
kind of double-transmission error, either two transmitters at once, or
two audio feeds into one transmitter. Or maybe just a severe case of
backscatter/multipath. This frequency is now scheduled at 06-07 UT
only, 194 degrees, while until 27 Feb it was an hour earlier, 05-06 at
162 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS. 4760, INDIA, presumed AIR Port Blair,
0256, March 7, vernacular. Carrier noted during band scan with hints
of audio; tentative Hindi music at 0258; talk from 0302; very poor and
weak. Quite surprised if this is indeed Port Blair, especially at this
late hour, as reception of AIR regionals at my locale has been sparse
since the end of the last Solar Cycle (Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale,
N.H. USA, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
That`s about 9 am local mean time, so why not be less surprised if
it`s the other 4760, Leh, Kashmir, much further west? Also WRTH says
Leh lasts until 0400 at least, while PB offgoes at 0300.
Even more likely lately is Eritrea, which recently started using 4760,
as Bernardini reported, at the very same hour: ``4760, Voice of the
Broad Masses of Eritrea-2, Asmara, 0302, Feb 27, talks, weak // 7175``
(Glenn Hauser, DXLD) But see ERITREA, 4770 ex 4760? Or to and fro?
** ANGUILLA. 6090, The University Network continues to be off the air,
March 10 at 0636 leaving only the usual hets. At 1758 check March 11,
however, 11775 back on the air.
6090, after missing several nights, PMS is back March 12 at 0653, VG
signal doing away with the hets uncovered in her absence. Day
frequency 11775 had also come back midday March 11. PMS = Pastor
Melissa Scott, widow of Dr. EuGene Scott who inherited his business.
Some guess she must be his daughter; probably young enough to have
been, but afraid not: a porn star he reformed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
6090, Caribbean Beacon noted at 0710 on Mar 11th with a woman preacher
(Dr. Gene's wife or daughter???) then noted again at 0002 on Mar 12th
with the Very, Very, Dead Dr. Gene Scott preaching (Mark Coady,
Peterborough, ON K9J 6X3, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANTARCTICA [and non]. 15476, no LRA36 carrier, March 10 at 1355;
while Turkey 15480 was fair; Romania in German 15460 better giving DRM
schedule. Still no LRA36 at 1425 check.
15476, another week starts and still no show from LRA36, Monday March
14 at 1316, 1405, 1422, 1445 chex.
15476, March 15 at 1354 still no signal from LRA36, and here`s why,
tnx to Roberto Scaglione, of bclnews.it, March 14 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
They have not yet started; they are in trouble because the base is
currently in oversupply for the presence of staff assigned to other
bases and they're waiting for the next ship to continue their journey.
This should be the next weekend. Start date is now Monday 21, most
likely 1230-1500 UT.
Last year, broadcasting was on Monday, Wednesday and Friday although
the last month of broadcasts passed to daily programming. During
holidays the program is not aired. Next week there is a holiday on
Thursday 24 and Friday 25, so if they start regular on Monday, the
program will not be aired Thursday and/or Friday. Our contributor
Marcello Caneva spoke today with one of the speakers; they are merely
wives of military personnel to which he was entrusted with this task
(Roberto Scaglione, Sicily, bclnews.it, March 14, WORLD OF RADIO 1556,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. Radio Guabiyú --- Estoy realmente sorprendido por la
nitidez y estabilidad de Radio Guabiyú desde Gregorio de Laferrer,
Partido de La Matanza, Prov. de Buenos Aires en 1610 kHz. Programa con
música de chamamé y frecuentes identificaciones. Slogans: "Las
palabras hechas melodías" "Comunícate con Guabiyú al 4457872".
Web: http://www.guabiyu1610.com.ar/contacto.html
Mail: oyentes @ guabiyu1610.com.ar
Nota: En el WRTH'2011 y en otras tantas publicaciones el nombre de
esta emisora figura como Guaviyú. Sería interesante saber con qué
potencia está funcionando actualmente. Espero respuesta a mi informe
remitido recientemente. Saludos! (R. G. Margenet, 0257 UT March 9,
condiglist yg via DXLD)
Lamentablemente no funcionan ninguna de las dos direcciones anunciadas
en la WEB de la emisora: oyentes @ guabiyu1610.com.ar
ventas @ guabiyu1610.com.ar (RGM, 0354 UT March 9, ibid.)
El otro día, cuando regresaba de Rosario hacia Bs.As. la escuché tan
fuerte en ruta, a la altura de San Nicolás que pensé que era otra
emisora hasta que la identifiqué. No creo que opere con menos de 5 kW
(y un txr nuevito) (Arnaldo Slaen, March 9, ibid.)
En Uruguay, el nombre que es toponímico, siempre se escribió con uve.
LLega notablemente por nuestro pais. Siempre es un lugar de paso en el
dial, en busca de la señal de The Caribbean Beacon (Horacio A. Nigro,
Montevideo, Uruguay, ibid.)
Otro aporte: Guaviyú viene del idioma Guaraní y significa planta o
árbol frutal. Otras acepciones dan cuenta que es un tipo de árbol
frutal. Ello depende del lugar en que se emplee el término (cuyo uso
abarca desde el Paraguay al Uruguay pasando por las provincias de
nuestra Mesopotamia). (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, ibid.)
** ARGENTINA. UnID 1700 kHz, Arnaldo e demais, Tenho sintonizado essa
emissora com musica nonstop, e nos intervalos de hora cheia, apenas o
anuncio do patrocinador - "mercado rivadávia" - alguma idéia de
identificação? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnm3mL8AkTc
73s (Sarmento Campos, Brasil, March 13, rdioescutas yg via DXLD)
Hola Sarmento y amigos radioescutas! Supongo que se trata de la nueva
emisora que transmite desde Tigre, Radio Fantástico, a 30 km al norte
de la ciudad de Buenos Aires (Arnaldo Slaen, ibid.)
O video está no Youtube (sempre a Lei de Murphy, na ID o QSB detona
a recepção ... ) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7vjbo4T4Go
(Sarmento Campos, ibid.)
Es Radio Fantástico. Incluso se identifica. Pertenece a una cadena
discográfica que entre otros emprendimientos explota un local
bailable. Felicitaciones! Gran escucha!!!!! 73 (Arnaldo Slaen,
Argentina, ibid.)
Amigo Sarmento, Acabo de escutar esta transmissão e em ID informado, a
identificação da emissora corresponde ao que o amigo Arnaldo Slaen
informou. A emissora divulgou faz 20 minutos uma lista do "flash back"
que eles tocaram, com músicas - tropicales. Na sequencia, deram o
endereço, Radio Fantástico, Av Rivadavia, 3475 Once Buenos Aires.
Contactenos por el chat. http://www.fantasticodeonce.com
1700 kHz, ARG, 0026 UT. SIO 434, Sarapuí/SP, Receptor: Sony 7600 G,
Antena Loop DZ Pro. Abraços, (Alessandro Mamede, ibid.)
** ARGENTINA. 11710.7, RAE, 0113, 3/9/2011. Japanese service.
Unusually clear signal. Music with talk by YL. Fair to good overall
(Jerry Strawman, Des Moines, IA. Equipment: Perseus SDR, Wellbrook
330S Loop @ 7', dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. 15345.10v, RAE, 2255-2310, March 10. Tango
music; fútbol news (“fútbol, pasión nacional Argentina”); mostly
fair.
11710.60, RAE, 0009, March 11. Programming in French; 0103 in
Japanese; fair (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
11710.74, 0355-, RAE, Mar 12, Good reception with French programming
and lots of Latin music. Compared to my last visit to Masset, where
the MUF dropped off very rapidly (late December), the MUF continues to
be quite high, two hours after LSS. Guitar music at 0358 with RAE ID,
then into a piano piece. Time pips at 0400 and then carrier off (Walt
Salmaniw, Masset, BC, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 2368.5, R Symban, Sydney, never audible at several
different locations in Sydney. Nor can I find the station listed in
telephone directories nor on the web (Rolf Løvstrøm, Oslo, Norway
visiting Sydney, Feb 26, DSWCI DX Window March 9 via DXLD)
2368.5 kHz Leppington (Radio Symban) is currently back on air. Regards
(Ian Baxter, 1145 UT March 9, Shortwavesites Yahoo Group via DXLD)
2368, [.5?], Radio Symban, 1130-1140, 11-March-2011, in Greek. Male
announcer speaking between brief musical interludes, fair signal (Ed
Wlodarski, N2ED, New Jersey, Ten Tec RX340 & 100 Ft Long Wire, NASWA
Flashsheet via DXLD)
Hi Glenn, Radio Symban good copy this morning 3/15 at 1105 UT with
usual Greek music. (Bill W1OW Smith, March 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. Hi Glenn, the former 3210 kHz Sydney SW station testing
may be test broadcasting on 5050 kHz now. Similar non stop English-
language rock music as noted on 3210 kHz previously. Been listening
for past hour at 1147 UT. No announcements. Significant fading, would
need to check out frequency during the daylight hours to confirm if is
indeed Craig Allen's SW station. Johnno Wright did mention that 5050
was due on later this month. I wonder if this is now it. March 9, 2011
(Ian Baxter, NSW, WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
As I reported to Glenn & a few others 11-12 (11 UT) hours ago (March
9th, 2011) I am hearing non stop English rock songs on 5050 kHz.
Johno Wright (ARDXC) reported that Craig Allen (owner of 3210 kHz
station) would be testing on 5050 kHz later this month using ex ARRD
[ARDS] Humpty Doo transmitter. It appears to be happening now as 5050
kHz is still being heard here at 2220 UT which for this time of day
and time of year indicates a localised station. Despite close
proximity of station, there is significant fading compared to 3210
(now off)- but always more skywave propagation with the higher
frequencies.
Interesting to note that transmitter site for 5050 kHz is listed for
St. Mary's (Sydney) as opposed to 3210 kHz Schofields (Sydney). One
has to wonder why the two different sites, when only 10 km away from
each other. Perhaps has more to do with official-dom re ACMA. Wonder
if in fact there really are two transmitter sites in use at the
moment?
Modulation seams a little low this end. Would be interesting to know
how far this signal is travelling so far; just carrier detected in
Europe & USA. Regards (Ian Baxter, AUSTRALIA, 2223 UT March 9, dxldyg
via WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Just found some further news from the owner via the
aus.radio.broadcast newsgroup. Looks like I'm correct. First day of
test transmission was March 9, 2011 and announced an hour before I
happened upon transmission. 200W from St. Mary's (Ian Baxter, 2253 UT,
ibid.) Viz.:
Hi Everybody, 3210 kHz in now off air; we are now testing 5050 kHz,
200 Watts from St Mary's NSW using NVIS Antenna System (Dipole low to
ground) audio 80% modulation and rock type music, 1 hour loop. Please
tell me reception reports. Thanks Craig (via Baxter, ibid.)
Station is licenced to use 400 W on this frequency [5050], which in
the future will be daylight usage only transmissions. The St. Mary's
coordinates are listed (officially) as: -33 45 11, 150 46 22. Operator
may consider a higher gain antenna to improve reception in future (Ian
Baxter, 1145 UT March 9, Shortwavesites Yahoo Group via DXLD)
Tuned to 5050 kHz at 2130 [sic] UT March 10 - now off air. Was on some
6-7 hours prior. I suspect station will return to testing on this
frequency when Craig tries another antenna or after other technical
adjustments. 3210 kHz still off (Ian Baxter, NSW, 2050 UT March 10 as
timestamped, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Resumed on 5050 kHz at 2206 UT 10/3/2011 (Baxter, 2109 UT, ibid.)
Someone is one hour off, a computer clock, or your clock? This was
before the USA DST change (gh, DXLD)
The Craig Allen station is back on 3210 as of today. Monitored on 5050
throughout local morning, till abruptly off 0300. Running non-stop US
preacher. Noted on 3210 at 0510 re-check, 5050 silent, pretty good on
12 March. Regards (Craig Seager, Bathurst NSW, Icom R75, Racal 6790,
0512 UT March 12, ARDXC via DXLD)
SW transmissions on 5050 kHz ended yesterday (local time) March 12.
3210 resumed yesterday (local) March 12th with what appears to be
improved signal strength. Christian religious sermon programming (I.
Baxter, 2045 UT March 12, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
3210 khz back on air with religious loop sermon, 13/3 0800 from
Schofields Australia.
5050, religious same loop sermon for 3210 latter on 11/3 0900, 400
watts, ex ARDS transmitter.
Send me the reports if you want a QSL reply postage nice: 29 Milford
Road, Peakhurst NSW 2210, Australia.
Watch the 2300-2399 band. 5055 [sic] will be Aussie music station,
same for 2355. And 3210, well, see what happens (Johno Wright, ARDXC,
March 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
3210, Nameless station (very tentative), March 12, at 1149 + 1310 +
1410 + 1446 (my local sunrise was at 1426), heard a fairly good signal
with open carrier, but audio always below threshold level. The carrier
was so strong I fully expected to catch some audio, but never did.
This is looking more promising! Thanks to Ian for reporting on their
improved reception. Today had some outstanding propagation for
portions of Asia (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón
E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also
CHINA 5050; UNIDENTIFIED 5050
** AUSTRALIA. As one would expect, R. Australia provides extensive
coverage of the earthquake and tsunamis. Tune-in 9580 and 9590 at 0810
UT March 11, as ``PM`` program starts. Next check at 1357, 9590 is
announced with ``rolling coverage`` continuing all night. 1430 news
says tsunami hit Indonesia and Hawaii but no damage. However, once the
tsunami threat had receded RA was back to normal programming such as
`Saturday Night Country` around 1405 March 12 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD
OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Radio Australia giving extensive coverage on international outlets.
While monitoring from 1130 to 1245 UT, all 3 NTs are coming in well
here in Arizona on 2310, 2325, and 2485, but not with quake coverage
heard on 6020, 9560, 9580, and 9590. 6020 and 9560 getting some co-
channel QRM. the others are heard very well here atm. Regards (Rick
Barton, Arizona, 1311 UT March 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hello everyone, Very good coverage of Japan Earthquake and also of
Tsunami on Radio Australia at the moment. Reception is fair to good
here in Montreal on 9590 KHz at 1430 UT, talk of Tsunami crossing the
pacific ocean. U can also listen to radio Australia online.
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/
(Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, 1436 UT March 11, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Reception of Radio Australia on 9590 is good here in SW Wisconsin USA
at 1437 UT. As Gilles said, excellent coverage of earthquake/tsunami
(Mike Mayer, ibid.)
** AUSTRALIA. 15340 and 15400, the two HCJB frequencies were in quite
well, presumably long-path, March 15 at 1353 in Hindi and Chinese
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 4750, Bangladesh Betar. 1150 March 12, 2011. Islamic
vocals, Banglatalk 1158, male vocal 1159. Clear and fair, no sigh of
the Indo today (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N,
82.46.08 W, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA [and non]. 4795.96, Radio Lípez, Uyuni, heard with fair
signal but blipping ute QRM at 1025 until lost at 1047 on 3/12.
Announcer a high-voiced OM in Spanish and language (QQ or Aymara?)
between Andes-flavored music, with clear mentions of 'Bolivia' and
several time/checks for GMT-4. Nice opening this morning to the
Andes, with good signals noted when checking the usual suspects: 4700
R San Miguel at 1020; 4747 R Huanta 2000 also at 1020, 4815 R El Buen
Pastor [ECUADOR] at 1040; and 4955 R Cultural Amauta at 1045. No show
for 6134 R Santa Cruz, tho (Ralph Perry, Wheaton IL, HCDX via DXLD)
** BOLIVIA. 6134.8, 13/3 0100-0113*, Radio Santa Cruz, news. Also
about tsunami in Japan, with info about the nuclear fears and Caritas
helps. Better in LSB to avoid Radio Aparecida on 6135. Great IDs at
0108 and 0109, then the usual Radio Santa Cruz song. Off at 0113.
Fair. Nice Radio Santa Cruz after some weeks of bad signals (Giampiero
Bernardini, Collins 51S-1 & Drake R4-C; ANT: T2FD 15 meters long,
Milano, Italia, SW Blog: http://radiodxsw.blogspot.com/ dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOTSWANA. 4930, 1603-, VOA, Mar 12, English news for Africa at good
level (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL [and non]. 4754.88v, R. Imaculada Conceição, Campo Grande,
Mato Grosso do Sul, (presumed), 0940, March 15. In Portuguese with
what sounded like a religious program; weak. They seem to broadcast
irregularly, as many days there is no trace of them. The Cross Radio
(4755.44) was absent, so they must have signed off earlier than usual
(Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4885, March 15 at 0546 tune-in, quick ID only as ``Rádio
Clube``, carnaval music, S9+15. It`s ``do Pará``, as usual the best
Brazilian signal on 60m, better than the other Pará, ``Cultura do`` on
5045, still adjacented by Cuba 5040 until 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 6060-, March 12 at 0702, opening Voz da Libertação gospel-
huxtering, with RHC already off the air (and even it had almost faded
out from 6050 and 6060 before 0700). This is ZYE726, SRDA (Super Radio
God is Love), 10 kW from Curitiba, Paraná, slightly on low side
compared to Brother Scare on WLNO 1060, mixed with XEEP (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6059.95 // 6120, both Super Rádio Deus é Amor; 0752 + 0917, March 11.
Both with good reception; the usual wailing preacher (had to be David
Miranda) with his shouting IPDA programming; at times // 6019.19 (R.
Victoria – extremely strong signal). Very favorable propagation for
Brazil on the 49m band! (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA,
Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 9504.976, R. Record, 2250, 3/9/2011. Presumed the one with
ads by OM & YL. Very commercial sound. Fair on peaks (Jerry Strawman,
Des Moines, IA. Equipment: Perseus SDR, Wellbrook 330S Loop @ 7',
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 9593.0v-.23v, unID Brazilian but strongly believe "Super
Radio Deus é Amor" in São Paulo. First noted as an unID LA, when
fading-in at 2236 3/10. Het notchable, OM very weak with announcements
in Portuguese or Spanish, orchestrals, but weak signal. Followed to
2257, sig building but not really workable.
Retuned at 2230 on 3/12 and rewarded to hear no het this day.
Initially only a carrier but sig soon fading in with nightfall in ZY
land. Definitely Portuguese announcements and seemed sports/futebol
news show with replay, recorded game clips. Noted EZL / MoR ballads at
2310 recheck when signal better still, but no ID yet. Searched lists
at hand and learned that frequency-nomadic "Super R. Deus é Amor" of
São Paulo has recently been IDed here by Euro DXers. Cool log (Ralph
Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, HCDX via DXLD)
** BRAZIL. 9645.34, R. Bandeirantes, 2303, 3/9/2011. Football play-by-
play with mentions of Brazil. Good S5 signal was // 11925. 11925 was
mixing with CRI via Lingshi (Jerry Strawman, Des Moines, IA, Perseus
SDR, Wellbrook 330S Loop @ 7', dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11750, Voz Missionária, 0043, 3/9/2011. Ongoing exchange
between OM & YL. Bumper music and more talk. Noisy band. Professional
production sound. Fair to good overall (Jerry Strawman, Des Moines,
IA. Equipment: Perseus SDR, Wellbrook 330S Loop @ 7', dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. March 12, after hearing 15190, q.v. below, I looked for
Brazilians besides 11780 RNA on 25m: 11815 had a Portuguese-speaking
preacher at 2311, modulation a bit distorted, fair signal. I sure hope
R. Brasil Central has not sold out completely to the gospel-huxters
like so many Brazilian SW stations! At least this one is low-key, no
wailing David Miranda. 2317 hymn, 2321 R. Brasil Central ID in
passing. Hope this is just a brief program breaking their usual music
or `full-service` format (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Glenn, R. Nacional da Amazônia and Brasil Central are state-owned
stations, so it's quite hard to be taken by religious groups. On R.
Brasil Central, they have some Catholic talk segments during the day
and specially due to the Easter season, you may have listened some
kind of religious talk about this. What about Radio Daqui ("from
here") on 11830? 73's! (Thiago P. Machado, http://bsbdx.blogspot.com
Brasília-DF, Brasil [GH54XC], radioescutas yg via DXLD)
I thought RBC was a private station. I don`t hear 11830 during the
hours I usually monitor, anyway. Must beware of RFI via South Africa
at 06-07 which is starting to show up again in Portuguese, but usually
not Brazilian (gh, DXLD)
11815, 13/3 2010, Radio Brasil Central, sport live, good signal but
QRM from BBC on 11810 and Riyadh 11820. In this situation SDR gives
better reception. With 51S-1 I got fair reception in LSB and moving
the Rejection Tuning knob (Giampiero Bernardini, Collins 51S-1 & Drake
R4-C; ANT: T2FD 15 meters long, Milano, Italia, SW Blog:
http://radiodxsw.blogspot.com/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 15190, R. Inconfidência, 2351, March 10. In Portuguese;
speech; 0000, March 11 with ID and some classical music; poor to fair
(Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
According to W. Bueschel's data the exact coordinates of the Rádio
Inconfidência, are 20. 00. 21,95S 43. 58. 04,96W. Now the signals of
this station could be quite clear on 15190 kHz between 00 and 02 UT in
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Attached are some photos of the Tx building and two masts.
[Belo Horizonte, Brazil, R. Inconfidência. 1]
[Belo Horizonte, Brazil, R. Inconfidência, Tx building and one of the
masts. 2]
[Belo Horizonte, Brazil, R. Inconfidência, 5 kW. 3]
[Belo Horizonte, Brazil, R. Inconfidência. 6]
(Lev Lytovchenko, March 11, shortwavesites yg via DXLD)
15189.96, Radio Inconfidência, 2255-2310, March 12, Portuguese
pop/ballads. IDs. Ads. Portuguese talk. In the clear with a good
signal. // 6010 - very poor with co-channel QRM (Brian Alexander, PA,
DX Listening Digest)
After hearing R. Africa reactivated(?) on 15190, seemingly with a
second carrier interfering, as early as 2131 March 12, still at 2236
with EQUATORIAL GUINEA [q.v.] atop, by 2257 I am hearing only
Portuguese, trans-equatorial flutter, 2300 ending program `Sertanejo
Moderno`, Inconfidência IDs and announcements with hyped enthusiasm.
Brian Alexander, Pennsylvania, was listening at exactly the same time
and put ZYE522 at 40 Hz low, after also hearing `Africa until 2255
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15190, 13/3 1902, Radio Inconfidência, sport live "Goooooollllll".
weak/fair with slow fading (with the SDR-14 I observed another carrier
30 Hz higher) (Giampiero Bernardini, Collins 51S-1 & Drake R4-C; ANT:
T2FD 15 meters long, Milano, Italia, SW Blog:
http://radiodxsw.blogspot.com/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. After hearing the VY0SNO beacon on 10m, I kept looking for
some SSB DX higher up, and soon logged two Paulistas from nowhere near
Nunavut, March 12:
28406-USB, at 2151, PY2XC, making 5-9 contacts with US stations
including a WB9. Sounds like a North American, but his QRZ.com lookup
page shows: CARLOS SILVÉRIO, P. O. Box 210, ITUPEVA, SP 13295000,
Brazil, with photos of himself and his rig.
28507.5-USB, at 2152, PY2OE: Rogerio (Roger) Campos, P. O. BOX 47545,
03563-970 São Paulo/SP, Brazil. He has a more authentic Brazilian
accent in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BULGARIA [non]. 10 March at 1920 noted R Bulgaria in Russian on
5481-USB. Parallel 6200 (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, dxldyg
via WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
I checked again this 5481 USB station 12 March at 1945. It's cutting
off and back on rapidly but now there is both Radio Bulgaria from 6200
and distorted program of BBC Arabic from 6195. This is apparently some
ute voicelink whose "uplink" for some reason is on 6200 and picks up
also splatter from 6195 (Jari Savolainen, March 12, ibid.)
** CANADA. CKAC Montréal 730 kHz. New owners & new staff more QSL
friendly! After several snail-mail attempts with no success, the 10th!
Email try worked. This time sent to the new Directeur Général. V/s:
Réal Germain, (Directeur Général CKAC) Email : Real.Germain @
cogecodiffusion.com (Mauricio Molano, Salamanca, Spain via Dario
Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD)
** CANADA. The application by CINA-1650 Mississauga ON to increase day
power from 1 kW to 5 kW daytime has been approved by the CRTC. Night
power will remain 680 watts, and it appears that critical hours power
will be limited to 1 kW, at least in the afternoon (the details are
not yet in the IC database):
CINA Mississauga – Technical change
The Commission approves an application by 1760791 Ontario Inc. to
amend the broadcasting licence for the commercial ethnic radio station
CINA Mississauga by changing the authorized contours by increasing the
transmitter power from 1,000 to 5,000 watts day time.
Introduction
1. The Commission received an application by 1760791 Ontario Inc. to
amend the broadcasting licence of the commercial ethnic radio
programming undertaking CINA Mississauga. The licensee proposed to
change CINA’s authorized contours by increasing the day time
transmitter power from 1,000 to 5,000 watts. The night-time power
would remain at 680 watts and all other technical parameters would
remain unchanged.
2. The licensee submitted that the proposed change would significantly
improve CINA’s daytime coverage in Mississauga, resulting in a better
quality signal to listeners located in the western and south western
parts of its licensed area who are currently experiencing poor
reception. The licensee is also concerned that listenership will
continue to erode if the signal quality is not consistent throughout
its principal listening area.
6. Michel Mathieu expressed concern that a phenomenon known as
“critical hours,” which consists of sky wave interference occurring
approximately one hour before sunset and one hour after sunrise, could
potentially cause interference with the signal of CJRS – Radio Shalom,
which operates on the same frequency (1650 kHz) in Montréal. Michel
Mathieu suggested that CINA’s transmitter site be relocated to
minimize interference to Radio Shalom and to maintain the station’s
current service levels.
12. In addition, the Department of Industry has recently informed the
Commission that it has imposed specific conditions in the technical
comments (TA). One condition is to switch the day-time power from
5,000 to 1,000 watts 90 minutes before local sunset to maintain the
current protection of CJRS Montréal. The Commission considers that
this responds adequately to the concerns raised by Michel Mathieu in
his intervention. 73, (via Deane McIntyre, VE6BPO, March 14, DXLD)
** CANADA [non]. 5950, 13/3 0040, Bible Voice, relay in Germany,
religious talks in slow English, over Family Radio, in English too. So
something like a religious marmalade, with Bible voice dominant
(Giampiero Bernardini, Collins 51S-1 & Drake R4-C; ANT: T2FD 15
meters long, Milano, Italia, SW Blog: http://radiodxsw.blogspot.com/
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. I heard a pirate, (Northern Relay Service), on 27990 kHz
AM, (of all places) yesterday, 13 Mar '11 at around 1950Z (Spencer G.
Sholly <>< KB5WQW, 10-10# 43794, S.O.C.# 681, Killeen, TX, swl at
qth.net via WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DXLD) Programming? Previously
reported below 7 MHz as from CANADA, nowhere else in North America
** CANADA. After hearing CUBA on 12m, I tried 10m, the lower part of
which is 3+ MHz higher, and thus may still be above the MUF. At first,
not much in the DX/SSB range, but at 2143 March 12, a beacon on
28183.3 approx.: DE VY0SNO VY0SNO VY0SNO FP53RS K sent over and over.
QRZ.com shows a rather northerly location, to my surprise:
``VY0SNO, Larry L Horlick, BOX 1082, IQALUIT, NU X0A 0H0, Canada,
Beacon: 10m: 28.182, 15 watts, 1/2 wave horizontal dipole, 30m ASL;
A1`` And FP53RS chex for the grid square around Iqaluit. Poor signal
with some fadeouts, but R5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. Re 11-10: Hi Glenn, Thanks for info on 13500 - yes
I am in Tasmania, Australia and I simply have noticed on my SW
receiver that fire dragon is back - not saying it went missing as such
but I personally haven't heard it during my past searching for about 6
months. I'm unsure if it ever did have a break or somehow I just
missed it during searches. Also "Chinese Jammer" and Firedrake are the
same station I was mentioning -- I got so used to it and am 99.9% it
was it.
Also I've noticed a lot more digital stuff on HF lately, no idea why
but even a bit on the amateur bands - perhaps they have a digital
shortwave mode for voice for hams? But sirens appear randomly, other
chugging noises and just more digital noises - but good to see
shortwave used!! (Robb Wise, March 8, ODXA yg via DXLD)
Logs for 10.3 early local morning: 12240, Firedrake, 0518 marginal
(Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40,
heads Sennheiser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Firedrake March 10:
6030, atop the jamming and victim at 1324
8400, fair at 1342
10300, good with flutter at 1350
15265, March 10 at 1357 wavering het of about 0.3 kHz with some
Chinese audio; 1400 diminishes abruptly but not until 1401 is it gone.
Per Aoki, it`s ChiCom jamming vs RTI in Mandarin until 1400.
Firedrake March 12:
8400, JBA at 1349
10300, very poor with flutter at 1353 --- No others found up to 16 MHz
by 1400.
Firedrake March 14:
8400, poor at 1323
10300, fair at 1419, no 8400 now
Firedrake March 15:
10300, very poor at 1440; not heard earlier:
15375, fair at 1341, 1343 drops off for a second. Not found on usual
spots, but try to match with 6030 where FD is mixed with other jamming
and Taiwan during this hour --- does not seem //. 15375 cuts off
promptly at 1400*. Target is R. Free Asia in Tibetan at 12-14 via
TAJIKISTAN, also 11-12 via UAE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
CHINA/TAIWAN, broadcast on 40 m (7105 kHz). When I listen into 7105
kHz, almost every evening there are 2 stations, both sounds to me as
"Chinese language". So simple question: which two different stations?
I do not have DF possibilities. (73 Peter, HB9CET, USKA Union of Swiss
Shortwave Amateurs Radio Monitoring Member of IARU Monitoring System
http://www.uska.ch/monitoring via intruderalert Mar 7 via BCDX March
11 via DXLD))
The same here, no DF possibility on SW, but fortunately the stations
identify themselves. So I checked yesterday starting 2150 UT, when the
frequency was still empty.
1st station:
Sound of Hope R. International via Tanshui, Taiwan started with open
carrier at 2157 UT on 7105.02 kHz. Identification at 2200 UT: "Xi Wang
Zhi Sheng Guoji Guangbo Diantai".
2nd station:
And China started jamming it at 2201 UT carrying China National Radio
1st program on 7105.00 kHz. Identified by the signature tune, also
later the identification: "Zhongyang Renmin Guangbo Diantai" was
heard. Jamming may originate from various sites (Mauno Ritola,
Finland, intruderalert Mar 9 via BCDX March 11 via DXLD) See also
UZBEKISTAN [non]
** CHINA [and non]. BBC TO ANNOUNCE CIRCUMVENTION TECHNOLOGY TO GET
ROUND GREAT FIREWALL --- From evidence given to the BBC Foreign
Affairs Committee inquiry on BBC World Service cuts March 9:
Peter Horrocks, Director BBC World Service:
We are investing, and will shortly be making announcements about, new
circumvention technology that helps users on the internet to get round
some of the blocks put in the so-called great firewall of China. We
have received funding-interestingly, from the US Government, rather
than from the UK Government-in relation to researching that. Our
technologists are developing techniques that will at least help those
who seek out our content online.
Transcript of the full session is at:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmselect/cmfaff/uc849-i/uc84901.htm
(via Mike Barraclough, March 14, dxldyg via DXLD)
** CHINA. 4220, Qinghai PBS, Xining, verified a report direct to
station with a vague no data English verification letter and card with
station name and “Merry Xmas and Happy New Year!” handwritten on card
in 53 days from Haiming Niu, Head of Qinghai Radio Station. My verie
signer noted “Qinghai Radio Station has its long history and it has
very diverse programs with Mandarin and local languages such as
Tibetan language and Qinghai dialect based on Mandarin” (Richard
D’Angelo/NASWA, Wyomissing, U.S.A., DSWCI DX Window March 9 via DXLD)
** CHINA. 5050, Beibu Bay Radio (BBR), 1345, March 10. Their usual
fair reception with series of “Hello B-B-R” in different languages; in
Chinese with traditional greeting of “Ni Hao B-B-R” (pronounced: Nee
HaOW); 1409 said “weather report”, but as usual given in Vietnamese.
Checking for the Australian reported here by Ian Baxter, et al. If
here, it will be a real challenge for me to hear them. From 1430 to
1435 seemed to be AIR Aizawl underneath BBR with the news in English
(// 4840). If there was a third station here would take outstanding
propagation to make it heard through the other two stations! (Ron
Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non] vs CUBA. 15230, March 10 at 1410, even mix of CRI via
Sackville in English and RHC in Spanish. Both signals extremely
strong, completely unnecessary collision as many 19m frequencies are
available at this time. Commies versus Commies, as you say Glenn.
Deplorable frequency management. I left the following message on Arnie
Coro's Facebook page, we shall see if it does any good, "Arnie, I'm
writing to inform you of the frequency collision between RHC and China
Radio International via Sackville (Canada) on 15230 at 1300-1500 GMT.
Both of you are really really strong here in St. Louis, Missouri, in
the heartland of the USA. This is one of the worst collisions I've
ever heard between two international broadcasters. The thing is, it's
totally unnecessary as the 19m band is fairly unpopulated at this time
in North America. You could probably pick almost any 19m band
frequency at random, and you'd be better off than using 15230. I hope
you'll consider moving, even just 5 or 10 kHz, thanks!" (Earl Higgins,
Ten-Tec RX-321 with random length of wire draped around room, St.
Louis, Missouri USA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 5910, March 12 at 0643, lengthy ID mentioning music
styles they play, including cumbias from Panamá, norteñas from México,
``Alcaraván Radio, música sólo por dios``, I think they said, not sure
of last word but would be typical, as Latin Americans would not say
``por vos``. Fair signal, S9+12 while North Americans on 49m were
almost outwiped by auroral conditions.
I continue to see some list-logs of 5910 as Marfil Estéreo, or LV de
tu Conciencia. It`s all the same transmitter in Puerto Lleras,
currently simulcasting their AM 1530 station, so that`s the proper ID
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5910, the Puerto Lleras transmitter noted with a morning transmission
on 3/12, 1104-1118. Romantic HJ canciones with guitar and accordian.
Deep fade cycle, nice at peaks and all but gone at troughs. OM locutor
mentioning "la radio colombiana" but didn't ID relay source (Marfil
Estéreo or Alcaraván Radio). Need to get to this earlier next time,
before propagation path fade-out. But as luck would have it, gh in
Enid OK was tuning this just hours earlier and reports that it was a
relay of Radio Alcaravan -- tnx for ID! (Ralph Perry, Illinois, HCDX
via DXLD)
** CUBA. 1000, Radio Artemisa, Artemisa, Prov. Artemisa. 0007 March 9,
2011. Female hottie with seemingly canned long promo/ID over piano
tinkling, Cuban semi-traditional vocals, ID 0017 by same chica (so is
some of the programming blocks canned?), back to music. 0029 girl
canned and apparently frequently used, "Esta es Radio Artemisa, la
emisora de la Habana..." ID. Into traditional Cuban folk music at 0037
(Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) Why`d they say it`s of Habana if it`s Artemisa? (gh)
** CUBA [and non]. 6050, RHC, March 10 at 0659 ``starting`` today`s
program in English with headlines, news in detail about to begin when
modulation cut at 0700, to open carrier a while longer. The program
feed keeps repeating hourly, it seems, perhaps for benefit of web
listeners, while English SW frequencies close at 0700 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 7520, 5-digit Spanish YL spy numbers, strong March
12 at 0225, making slight SAH and mixing at about equal level with
WYFR in Portuguese! She also used to collide with WYFR on 6875 at
2100, IIRC. Does anybody notice or care, e.g. the YFR frequency
manager?
WYFR currently on 7520 0100-0745 in several languages. First time
numbers noticed here, but not my favorite time to monitor; new
frequency, or ongoing for years? Schedule could depend on day of week:
UT Saturday (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7390, surprised to find pulse-jamming here, March 12 at 0655, instead
of usual 7365, used by R. Martí earlier. Much weaker than wall of
noise against Martí 7405, but unseems spurious, so could be a tipoff
that now there is something, sometime, on 7390 needing blockage from
the poor oppressed and information-starved DentroCubans by their
unelected, dictatorial and repressive government.
When DST went off last fall, RHC surprisingly moved its Spanish
programming one UT hour later, i.e. keeping it on the same local time,
so with DST of UT -4 resuming March 13, in coördination with Yanqui
Imperialism, we expected program times to shift back one UT hour
earlier, but at the beginning of the day this did not happen --- no
change in UT:
1336, on 15120, `Cuba Campesina` is starting with its theme song and
announcements, instead of `En Contacto`, the DX program we were
expecting. At least it is still not conflicting with Spain`s DX
program `Amigos de la Onda Corta` adjacent on 15125 and much stronger
// 15170, both via COSTA RICA, which remains at 1330 Sundays, but no
telling when that will be scheduled once A-11 arrive.
RHC`s `Revista Iberoamericana` is billed as 5-7 pm Cuban time, so
maybe that transmission at least will shift from 22-24 to 21-23 UT and
along with it, `En Contacto` around 2240 instead of 2345.
We were astounded to hear English from RHC in the morning! March 13 at
1351 on the weak frequency 11730, while all the others remained in
Spanish --- 11760, 12040, 13680, 13780, 15120, 15230, 15360. English
seemed to be in ``news`` segment about Japan, human rights concerns
(ha, ha, ha, from Castros` Cuba???) in Bahrain, Yemen; then commentary
on ALBA, too literally translated, e.g. employing ``expressed`` as an
intransitive verb! 1359 started philatelic show, but 1400 morphed into
Spanish, now // all the other frequencies. Our hopes were dashed for a
regular morning English broadcast, as this was apparently a SNAFU in
the playbacks, but bears further checking.
At 1436, `En Contacto` had just started with birthday segment, so
remains at the same time as before, at least for now, but by now,
12040 and 13680 have gone off, as they habitually do on Sundays after
1400, whether or not there is any `Aló, Presidente`. And today there
was not, as they did not even bother to fire up the special
frequencies 13750, 15370, 17750, also silent at 1526 check, and at
1605.
Still on for `En Contacto` until 1450, the main feature being about R.
Reloj and its rôle in the revolution, were 11730, 11760, 13780, 15120,
and with heavy CCI, 15360. Now, will the third play still be at 0235
UT Monday, or 0135?
How about Esperanto: will there be any this week at scheduled time of
1500 on 11760 only? Of course not! Stayed in Spanish, also at 1525
recheck. Maybe will show at 2230 Sunday on 15370, which has been more
reliable lately.
¡Ajá! RHC sometimes sneaks in changes to its website schedule which
you might not expect since there is no specific effective date on it,
not to be confused with the automatically displayed current date:
http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/c_frecuencia/frecuencias.htm
Don`t even bother looking at the versions presented in other
languages, which are left to languish far outdated.
At 1610 I take a look and see that Esperanto on 11760 Sundays is now
shown as 1600 instead of 1500 --- and yes, there it is, when 11760 is
monitored at 1612. This should be more convenient, at a time when
Spanish transmissions are in siesta.
Looking over the rest of the schedule, there are no new frequencies
shown, and I don`t see any other changes; overall Spanish hours are
still listed as 12-16 and 22-06, rather than shifting one UT hour
earlier. And yes, no English shown on 11730 before 1400.
Oh oh, unlike last spring, it seems that Cuba has NOT yet gone on DST,
the same date as USA. In order to express its independence, Cuba is
doing it one week later this year on March 20, according to
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/clockchange.html?n=99
No other country does it on that date, but close to Iran on March 21.
So next Sunday, we shall have to check all this out again.
Meanwhile, there may be some added confusion about jamming hours, with
Martí and Miami on DST while Cuba is not (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF
RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
12010 & 12040, UT Monday March 14 at 0240, RHC `En Contacto` is
underway in final repeat, about Radio Reloj being taken over by pre-
revolutionaries on March 13, 1957.
http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/quienes-somos/39-historia-de-radio-reloj/58-el-asalto-a-la-emisora-radio-reloj
So the DX program has remained at this time, 0235 Mondays, but
probably one UT hour earlier from next week due to DST of UT -4.
13680, March 14 at 1400 UT, RHC timecheck as ``las diez de la mañana
en todo el territorio nacional``. What? Cuba is supposed to be on UT -
5 for another week. So I go to the ultimate authority, Radio Reloj`s
webpage. http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/la-hora-en-el-mundo
At the top, 1553 UT, Cuban time displays at 3:53!! Obviously it is
reading my computer clock on Azores Daylight Time, not displaying true
Cuban time, a serious programming defect. This page has numerous clox
below linked to WorldTimeServer, including ``Washington, EEUU`` as
approaching 9 am! So it`s Washington State, not DC, representing the
entire USA. Times in other American countries appear to be correct.
I listen for a minute to R. Reloj stream, zoning out during the
propaganda before the timecheck, at 1555 UT as 10:55 --- so yes, Cuba
is still on UT -5, oddly like Oklahoma for a week (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15370, 13/3 1925-1955*, Radio Habana Cuba, Cuban special Army program.
End at 1955 with ID and sign-off (Giampiero Bernardini, Collins 51S-1
& Drake R4-C; ANT: T2FD 15 meters long, Milano, Italia, SW Blog:
http://radiodxsw.blogspot.com/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This was `Aló, Presidente` relay of VENEZUELA, q.v.; so RHC appended
such a program?? (gh, DXLD)
** CUBA. I recently caught CO8LY, Santiago, on 12 meter CW; he must be
quite a fan of this band, since now I have him on phone/SSB, March 12
at 2138, calling CQ 12, QRZ on 24945-USB. Making quick contacts with
5-9 reports, so must be in a contest (unlike some DX contests which
exclude this so-called ``WARC band`` as if the original hambands were
not also established by previous World Administrative Radio
Conferences). One was K4IA. At 2140, VA7CQ called him, but CO8LY did
not respond. 2141 worked N5RRL. Looked for other 12m signals, and
there was some CW at the low end, but CO8LY was the OSSBSOB --- only
single sideband station on band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. 11930, 13820 and 15330, R. Martí atop heavy jamming,
March 14 at 1412, still messing with horoscope nonsense, which is
hardly the info DentroCubans need; earlier had a report on a sexology
conference --- sure to perk up listeners, ears (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 9760 Khz - Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation, Limassol/Chipre
Recebido: Cartão QSL, 38 dias, V/S: absolutamente ilegível ... IR
enviado por carta. QTH usado: CyBC Street - Nicosia 2120, Cyprus.
QTH que consta no cartão: P. O. Box 4854 - Nicosia, Cyprus
Ainda há muito o que se ouvir e confirmar nas OC!! Em breve a imagem
desta confirmação estará disponível no
http://pqslfabricio.blogspot.com/
Revendo a minha divulgação, quero aproveitar para acrescentar uma
informação: além do IR enviado por correio, eu enviei meu QSL de SWL
(que geralmente mando para radioamadores) . Além disso, eu enviei um
e-mail para a CyBC - rik@cybc.com. cy - de forma que eu não posso
dizer com precisão se o QSL foi resposta à minha carta ou ao meu e-
mail. Um forte 73 e novamente obrigado! (Fabricio Andrade Silva,
PP5002SWL (SWARL), Tubarão - SC, radioescutas yg via DXLD)
** DEUTSCHES REICH. Washington Times reviews new book on Axis Sally
Axis Sally was the nickname given to an American woman who broadcast
radio propaganda aimed at US troops in World War II. The Washington
Times [Moony] reviews a recently-published book on Axis Sally by
Richard Lucas. The hardback book is available online at a significant
discount from the published price of $29.95. Read the review:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/8/sadistic-broadcasts-in-world-war-ii/
(March 9th, 2011 - 11:49 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via
DXLD)
** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 2280.03 harmonic, Radio Anacaona, 1000 with
clear ID as Radio Anacaona at tune in. 12 March (Robert Wilkner, FL,
HCDX via DXLD)
** ECUADOR. 3280, La Voz del Napo, Tena, 1014-1020, 08-March-2011, in
Spanish. Ballad type song with female announcer speaking underneath
the music. male announcer with song title, female announcer still
speaking underneath male announcer. Either there are two stations on
this frequency or station has two audio feeds. Good signal (Ed
Wlodarski, N2ED, New Jersey, Ten Tec RX340 & 100 Ft Long Wire, NASWA
Flashsheet via DXLD)
** ECUADOR. 3810-LSB, HD2IOA, March 12 at 0640, Spanish timesignals
every ten seconds in the clear with no QRhaM at the moment.
Announcement is ``Al oir el tono, será la una hora, 40 minutos, 40
segundos``, for example, and still quite accurate compared to WWV.
Many nights is not audible and I continue to wonder if they are only
sporadically on air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR. 4814.88, R. El Buen Pastor, Saraguro, 1043, March 8,
Spanish. M announcer with talks over and between short, acoustic
guitar bits; poor and completely so when CODAR appeared at 1047 (Scott
R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages,
60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also BOLIVIA [and non]
** EGYPT. 6270, R Cairo with English YL talx re Nile flooding etc. in
Egyptian history & Egyptian music. While this was interesting, RC
needs to 1) CLEAN UP ITS MODULATION & 2) talk about more RECENT
Egyptian history! HF Het & modulation hum -- better in LSB where the
het could be notched but still only 3+4443 even with a lot of
processing. 0253-0308 6/Mar (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Brighton MI
DXpedition, MARE Tipsheet March 11 via DXLD)
6270, 0206-, Radio Cairo, Mar 13, S7 to S9 signal, so could come
across quite well, but with a hum, and very low modulation, it's
useless. I can just make out it's English, but that's about all. A
shame. Rechecked at 0252, and noted Arabic music at better level.
Fairly loud hum still present, though (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Frequency change of Radio Cairo in Arabic:
2000-2200 NF 9855 ABZ 250 kW / 100 deg to AUS/NZ, ex 6860
(DX Mix News, Bulgaria, 9 March via DXLD)
Radio Cairo 11590 --- Hard to believe, but at around 2310 Radio Cairo
had enough modulation to sound good. The audio or modulation dropped
out soon after but came back. News is on now (2318) and I can actually
understand what the female announcers are saying. It seems the
modulation is lower than it was at 2310, but still higher than usual
(Mike Mayer, location unknown, March 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Hi, Revolutions make miracles :) (Tarek Zeidan, Denmark, ibid.)
11590, since there has been a recent report of decent modulation, with
very low expectations I tried R. Cairo`s English to Western North
America, March 12 at 2311, and I was not disappointed --- as almost
always the case, there was NO modulation audible, on this S9+20
signal, with flutter. No improvement at 2316 when news should have
been underway. By 2355, to be charitable, I would upgrade it to JBM --
- just barely modulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, Radio Africa, 1750-1800, March 12,
Presumed with English preacher. Fair level but poor, muffled audio.
Sounded like Radio Africa audio. Also heard later at 2050-2245 with
audio varying from muffled to fairly clear, depending on the program.
Started to get some co-channel QRM from Brazil after 2225. Radio
Africa off the air around 2255 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening
Digest)
As I inquired a few days ago, is R. Africa active on 15190? It may not
have been for more than a month, but it`s there March 12 at 2131 with
a distorted gospel huxter, perhaps mixed with Brasil. Retuned at 2155
just in time to hear outro of that show giving a .org website, no ID,
and 2156 right in to program #428 from Tony Alamo --- yes, the
disgraced, arrested, charged, prosecuted, convicted and serving 175
years for child sexual abuse evangelist is still on the air
influencing dozens of listeners worldwide from his federal prison cell
in Terre Haute, Indiana (or rather, from stockpile of old program
tapes), thanks to Pan American Broadcasting and the Equatorial
Guineans who couldn`t care less what scum they put on the air as long
as the time keeps being paid for.
At 2236 I can tell there are two carriers, as Alamo is mixed with
noise, but I suspect more of that is coming from the Bata transmitter
itself than Belo Horizonte. Apparently off by 2257, only hearing
BRAZIL, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ERITREA. 4770.00, Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea-2, Asmara,
0310-0320, Feb 24, Afar (presumed) talk, Horn of Africa songs, 35333
// 7175, back from 4760.00 where it was heard on Feb 22 at 0310-0405
in Arabic and vernacular (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, DSWCI DX
Window March 9 via DXLD)
RTV Eritrea 2 usually seems to be on 7120 // 7165 // 7175 until 1800,
sometimes also 9700 (audible at least after closedown of new co-
channel R. Ethiopia at 1700, like today, March 10). 4770 and 5980 most
likely irregular and too weak to confirm, 7185 unheard for a quite
while. 7120 and 9700 can be relatively strong, but quite
undermodulated (at least today), 7165 is always quite weak. 73
(Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, March 10, WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) See also ETHIOPIA
** ETHIOPIA. First noted on Sun March 6, and several times since, 9700
R. Ethiopia until 1700* // 9705. Both almost equally strong. On Sunday
I thought I heard some clandestine transmission like "Dimtsi Ertra"
but could not confirm that. Also on Sunday, I heard a carrier on
9704.2 briefly after 9700 closed down, but only for a few minutes.
7120 and 7175 are usually noisejammed until 1700* (Thorsten Hallmann,
Germany, March 10, WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also
ERITREA
9704.994, R. Ethiopia, 0325, 3/10/2011. Listed Amharic. Pop music and
announcements. Fair to good signal (Jerry Strawman, Des Moines, IA.
Equipment: Perseus SDR, Wellbrook 330S Loop @ 7' dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA. 5935, Voice of the Tigre Revolution? Addis Ababa?
2011/03/10 Thu 1832-1853. Talk and music, ID only by // 5950. Very
poor, unreadable. Gone by 1850.
5950, Voice of the Tigre Revolution? Addis Ababa? 2011/03/10 Thu 1834-
1853. Talk and music, ID only by // 5935. Very poor, unreadable. Gone
by 1850 (Bill Bingham, South Africa, March 14, WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA. 6110, Radio Fana, *0256-0315, March 12, sign on with IS.
Vernacular talk at 0300. Some Horn of Africa music. Poor in noisy
conditions. // 7210 - poor to fair with occasional HAM QRM (Brian
Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest)
** FRANCE. Labor unions called a strike at RFI beginning on Monday,
March 14, at 2300 UT, to protest reforms including merging RFI's staff
with the France 24 television channel and moving RFI to the Paris
suburbs. The strike is to continue indefinitely, according to AFP and
other press reports (Mike Cooper, Mar 15, WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) Pulling out from JAPAN: q.v.
** FRANCE. Re A-11 season: A note on the 1200-1230 English
transmission of Radio France International: in past summer seasons,
21620 was in use from last Sun in March to first Sat in May, and from
first Sun in Sept. until end of the A schedule in late Oct., with
17800 used in May-Aug period; while this was not stated in the A11 RFI
schedule posted by Wolfgang Bueschel, I do expect this to happen again
this coming broadcast season (Joe Hanlon, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. The e-mail address of R Öömrang is familie-koelzow @ t-
online.de. Got a reply from Arjan Kölzow a few days ago, so the e-mail
is in good working order (David Foster, Australia, via Dxplorer, Feb
28 via DSWCI DX Window March 9 via DXLD)
** GERMANY [non]. 21780, DW German via UK, March 15 at 1350, VG
signal, vying with 21540 KUWAIT for SSOB honours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [and non]. Winter B-10 schedule of Media Broadcast (MBR).
Part 4 of 4:
Voice of Croatia
0000-0400 7375 WER 100 kW / 300 deg NEAm in Croatian/English/Spanish
0200-0600 7375 WER 125 kW / 325 deg NWAf in Croatian/English/Spanish
2300-0400 7375 WER 100 kW / 240 deg SoAm in Croatian/English/Spanish
Gospel For Asia
0030-0130 7215 WER 250 kW / 090 deg to SEAs in South East Asian langs
1230-1500 15285 WER 250 kW / 090 deg to SEAs in South East Asian langs
1330-1530 12005 WER 250 kW / 090 deg to SEAs in South East Asian langs
1530-1630 11645 WER 250 kW / 090 deg to SEAs in South East Asian langs
2330-0030 7240 WER 250 kW / 075 deg to SEAs in South East Asian langs
Radio Japan NHK World
1200-1230 9790 WER 250 kW / 300 deg to WeEu in English
0330-0400 6130 WER 250 kW / 045 deg to EaEu in Russian
0530-0600 9850 WER 500 kW / 195 deg to WCAf in French
1430-1500 12045 WER 500 kW / 105 deg to WeAs in Persian
2200-2300 9620 WER 500 kW / 105 deg to WeAs in Japanese
Lutheran World Federation Voice of Gospel
1830-1900 9800 WER 500 kW / 180 deg to WCAf in Fulani
WYFR Family Radio
1800-1900 3975 WER 250 kW / non-dir to CeEu in Hungarian
1800-1900 6120 NAU 250 kW / 230 deg to SoEu in Spanish
1700-1900 6140 WER 250 kW / 060 deg to EaEu in Russian
1800-1900 6050 WER 100 kW / 090 deg to SEEu in Romanian
1900-2000 3975 WER 250 kW / non-dir to SEEu in Serbian
1700-1800 11690 WER 100 kW / 180 deg to NoAf in Arabic
1800-1900 9845 ISS 250 kW / 134 deg to NoAf in Arabic
1900-2000 9500 WER 250 kW / 150 deg to NoAf in Arabic
1900-2000 9695 WER 500 kW / 210 deg to WeAf in French
2000-2100 9515 NAU 250 kW / 210 deg to WeAf in Arabic
2000-2100 9830 NAU 250 kW / 202 deg to WeAf in Bambara new ex-English
2100-2200 6010 WER 250 kW / 210 deg to WeAf in Arabic
2200-2300 5960 WER 250 kW / 210 deg to WeAf in Arabic
1800-1900 9535 WER 500 kW / 183 deg to WCAf in Hausa
1800-1900 11665 WER 500 kW / 180 deg to WCAf in English
1900-2200 9925 WER 500 kW / 180 deg to WCAf in English
2000-2100 9595 NAU 500 kW / 180 deg to WCAf in French
2100-2200 7305 NAU 500 kW / 180 deg to WCAf in French
1600-1700 13660 NAU 500 kW / 125 deg to EaAf in Oromo
1600-1700 11975 ISS 500 kW / 131 deg to EaAf in Amharic
1700-1800 11975 ISS 500 kW / 131 deg to EaAf in Swahili
1800-1900 12015 ISS 500 kW / 155 deg to SoAf in English (Sesotho*)
1800-1900 13660 WER 500 kW / 165 deg to SoAf in English (Setswana*)
1800-1900 12140 WER 500 kW / 165 deg to SoAf in English (Xhosa-Zulu*)
1900-2000 11955 NAU 500 kW / 177 deg to SoAf in Kikongo
1900-2000 12140 WER 500 kW / 150 deg to SoAf in Kinyarwanda-Kirundi
1600-1700 11995 WER 250 kW / 120 deg to N/ME in Arabic
1700-1800 9850 WER 250 kW / 120 deg to N/ME in Arabic
1600-1700 11885 NAU 500 kW / 105 deg to WeAs in Persian
1700-1800 6105 NAU 500 kW / 105 deg to WeAs in Persian
1700-1800 9630 WER 500 kW / 105 deg to WeAs in Kurdish
1400-1500 13605 WER 250 kW / 075 deg to CeAs in Uzbek Mon-Sat
1400-1500 13605 ISS 250 kW / 070 deg to CeAs in Uzbek Sun
1300-1500 13820 NAU 500 kW / 085 deg to SoAs in Bengali
1400-1500 15325 WER 500 kW / 090 deg to SoAs in Oriya
1400-1500 15315 WER 500 kW / 105 deg to SoAs in Malayalam
1400-1500 13655 WER 500 kW / 090 deg to SoAs in Sindhi
1500-1600 13655 WER 500 kW / 090 deg to SoAs in Kannada
1400-1600 13700 NAU 500 kW / 095 deg to SoAs in Hindi
1500-1600 9800 NAU 500 kW / 084 deg to SoAs in Gujarati
1500-1600 11935 NAU 500 kW / 094 deg to SoAs in Tamil
1600-1700 9405 NAU 500 kW / 094 deg to SoAs in Hindi
0100-0200 11730 GUF 250 kW / 306 deg to CeAm in Creole
2200-2400 9465 GUF 500 kW / 215 deg to SoAm in Spanish
2200-2400 7360 GUF 500 kW / 170 deg to SoAm in Portuguese
0000-0100 7360 GUF 500 kW / 170 deg to SoAm in English
0000-0100 7395 GUF 500 kW / 215 deg to SoAm in Spanish
0200-0300 5930 GUF 500 kW / 215 deg to SoAm in English
* future plan
[note that the so far unID site YFR English at 14 on 15185, 15 on
15485, 21 on 15280 are still not included above, or under U S A [non]
Babcock, so from somewhere else?? - gh] [later: 15185 gone, 15280
Ascension]
** GERMANY [and non]. AUSTRIA/FRENCH GUIANA/FRANCE/GERMANY
MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH (formerly T-SYSTEMS - DTK)
A-11 period (27/03/2011 - 30/10/2011)
A-11 operational DTK schedule [planned] as of March 10th 2011.
Times are in UTC
frq star-stop ciraf loc pow azi brc ant day from-to
3975 1800-2000 28 WER 250 ND YFR 926
5930 0000-0057 12,14 GUF 500 215 YFR 156
5930 1700-1900 28E,29W WER 250 45 IBB 206
5940 0030-0230 40 WER 250 105 IBB 226
5945 0700-0730 27,28N WER 100 300 BVB 216 1
5945 0700-0745 27,28N WER 100 300 BVB 216 7
5945 1100-1115 27,28 WER 250 ND MWA 926 1
5945 1300-1400 27,28 WER 100 ND RTR 926 1
5955 0558-0800 27,28 NAU 500 210 RNW 146
5955 0800-1000 27,28 NAU 500 210 RNW 146 17
5955 0800-1000 27,28 WER 500 210 RNW 930 23456
5955 1000-1459 18S,27,28 NAU 500 210 RNW 146 1 2703-250711
5955 1000-1459 18S,27,28 NAU 500 210 RNW 146 234567 0207-250711
5955 1459-1657 27,28 NAU 500 210 RNW 146
6040 1600-1630 28E WER 250 135 IBB 226
6040 1630-1930 40 WER 250 105 IBB 216
6045 0900-1000 27E,28 WER 100 ND HLR 926 1
6055 1030-1100 27,28 WER 125 ND EMG 926 17
6060 1500-1700 28E,29W WER 125 60 IBB 206
6065 0300-0330 48 WER 250 135 AWR 215
6065 0400-0430 28E WER 100 120 AWR 201
6100 0200-0300 12,14 GUF 500 215 YFR 156
6105 0130-0230 40 WER 250 105 IBB 206
6105 0645-0750 27 NAU 100 285 TWR 156 1
6105 0700-0750 27 NAU 100 285 TWR 156 23456
6105 0715-0750 27 NAU 100 285 TWR 156 7
6105 1700-1800 28E,29W WER 250 60 IBB 206
6115 2000-2200 37,38W WER 250 210 YFR 216
6120 0759-1000 27S,37N WER 500 255 RNW 215 23456
6125 1959-2200 27S,28SW NAU 500 225 RNW 146 3005-050911
6130 1800-1815 28,29 NAU 100 69 BVB 141 56
6130 1800-1830 28,29 NAU 100 69 BVB 141 3
6130 1800-1900 28,29 NAU 100 69 BVB 141 1
6130 1815-1845 28,29 NAU 100 69 BVB 141 7
6140 0900-1000 27,28 WER 100 ND MVB 926 1
6140 1300-1400 28 NAU 100 126 MVB 156 1
7215 1400-1430 28-30 WER 100 60 TWR 206 23456
7215 1400-1500 28-30 WER 100 60 TWR 206 17
7230 1900-1930 39N WER 250 105 FEB 216
7280 0230-0400 40 WER 250 105 IBB 226
7310 0300-0330 39S WER 125 120 BVB 201
7330 1800-1859 28E WER 100 105 YFR 206
7345 0230-0330 40 WER 250 105 IBB 226
7360 2200-0057 12,13,15 GUF 500 170 YFR 151
7375 0100-0300 2,3,4,9 WER 100 315 HRT 216 0709-291011
7375 0100-0300 2,3,4,9 WER 100 315 HRT 216 2703-090511
7375 0300-0500 2,3,6,7W WER 100 325 HRT 216 2703-090511
7375 0300-0500 2,3,6,7W WER 100 325 HRT 216 0709-291011
7375 2200-0300 11,12,13 WER 100 240 HRT 216 2703-090511
7375 2200-0300 11,12,13 WER 100 240 HRT 216 0709-291011
7375 2300-0100 6,7,8,9,10WER 100 300 HRT 216 0709-291011
7375 2300-0100 6,7,8,9,10WER 100 300 HRT 216 2703-090511
7405 0030-0100 41 WER 250 90 BVB 217
7420 2200-2300 37,38W WER 250 210 YFR 215
9430 1800-1815 39,40 NAU 250 125 BVB 217 1
9430 1800-1859 39,40 NAU 250 125 BVB 217 7
9430 1815-1845 39,40 NAU 250 125 BVB 217 1
9435 1800-1830 37NW WER 100 240 BVB 216 1
9440 1529-1559 28 WER 100 105 TWR 201 7
9440 1529-1559 29S,39N WER 100 90 TWR 218 23456
9445 0030-0130 40E,41NW WER 250 90 GFA 217
9490 2330-0030 41,49 WER 100 75 DVB 217
9505 0300-0330 48 WER 250 135 AWR 217
9505 1900-2000 47S,52N NAU 500 170 YFR 218
9510 1400-1500 30S WER 250 75 IBB 216
9515 1930-2015 37,38 NAU 250 150 PAB 201 1
9515 1930-2030 37,38 NAU 250 150 PAB 201 7
9520 2330-0030 41NE,43S WER 250 75 GFA 218
9545 0530-0600 46SE WER 100 180 RMI 216 23456
9585 1800-1859 28E,29 NAU 100 90 CHW 217 7
9590 1900-2000 37E,38 WER 250 150 YFR 201
9595 1159-1600 27 WER 250 300 RNW 217 0207-250711
9595 2000-2100 46E,47,52NNAU 500 180 YFR 216
9600 1800-1900 57 ISS 500 155 YFR 217
9610 1900-2200 46,47,52 WER 500 180 YFR 216
9620 1159-1600 18 NAU 500 11 RNW 146 0207-250711
9620 2200-2300 38,39,40 WER 500 135 NHK 217
9635 1800-1859 37N WER 250 225 YFR 216
9655 1400-1559 18,27,28 MOS 100 300 TOM 805
9675 1630-1700 47,48 NAU 250 150 IBB 156 23456
9715 2100-2159 46E,47,52NNAU 500 180 YFR 216
9735 0200-0500 6-8,10,11 GUF 250 320 VOR 158
9735 0430-0500 39,40 WER 250 105 BVB 206 345
9735 0500-0515 39,40 WER 250 105 BVB 206 6
9740 0659-0800 27 WER 250 300 RNW 216 3005-050911
9740 1600-1700 19,29,30 WER 250 60 IBB 226
9745 1900-1930 47,48 WER 250 150 IBB 216
9760 1630-1800 40 WER 250 105 IBB 226
9765 1900-1930 37,38W WER 100 210 AWR 216
9765 1930-2000 37,38W WER 100 210 AWR 216
9765 2000-2030 37,38W WER 100 210 AWR 216
9780 1700-1800 40E,41NW WER 250 90 IBB 226
9790 0900-1000 28W NAU 100 180 AWR 216 1
9805 1900-2000 29,30 WER 250 60 IBB 226
9810 0000-0200 12,14,16 GUF 250 195 VOR 153
9815 0300-0330 47,48 NAU 250 160 IBB 156
9815 0330-0400 48 WER 250 135 AWR 217
9815 1800-1830 47,48 WER 250 150 IBB 156
9815 2030-2100 46,47 NAU 250 190 IBB 156 23456
9830 0100-0159 11 GUF 250 306 YFR 216
9830 1600-1630 28E WER 100 120 AWR 217
9830 2000-2030 46E,47W WER 100 180 AWR 217
9895 0459-0557 28S WER 500 120 RNW 201
9895 0559-0659 27S,28SW NAU 500 220 RNW 146
9895 0800-1000 27S,28SW NAU 500 220 RNW 146 17
9895 1000-1459 27S,28SW NAU 500 220 RNW 146 1 2703-250711
9895 1000-1459 27S,28SW NAU 500 220 RNW 146 234567 0207-250711
9895 1459-1559 27S,28SW NAU 500 220 RNW 146
9895 2059-2127 17 NAU 250 320 RNW 216 3005-050911
9925 0100-0300 2,3,4,9 WER 100 315 HRT 217 1005-060911
9925 0300-0500 2,3,6,7W NAU 100 325 HRT 216 1005-060911
9925 1800-1859 57 WER 500 165 YFR 217
9925 1900-2000 57 WER 500 150 YFR 217
9925 2000-2100 46 WER 250 210 YFR 216
9925 2200-0300 11,12,13 WER 100 240 HRT 217 1005-060911
9925 2300-0100 6,7,8,9,10NAU 100 300 HRT 217 1005-060911
9935 2200-2300 12,14 GUF 500 215 YFR 156
9935 2300-2357 12,14 GUF 500 215 YFR 151
11600 1700-1900 29,30 WER 250 60 YFR 216
11605 2200-2400 12,13,15 GUF 250 180 VOR 153
11645 1400-1500 39N,40 WER 250 105 IBB 226
11670 1600-1700 40 WER 500 90 YFR 217
11670 1730-1800 37,38W WER 100 210 AWR 217
11670 1800-1830 47,48 WER 250 150 IBB 216
11680 1600-1659 41 ISS 500 85 YFR 217
11695 1500-1528 29,30 WER 250 60 EMG 217 7
11755 2030-2100 46SE,47W WER 100 180 AWR 217
11760 1700-1759 30S,39N,40WER 500 105 YFR 206
11785 1800-1859 57 NAU 500 168 YFR 216
11810 0500-0530 46SE NAU 125 185 BVB 216
11810 1500-1600 29SE WER 250 90 IBB 226
11830 1930-2000 46,47 WER 100 180 BVB 217 7
11840 1900-2000 37,46 WER 500 180 YFR 217
11855 1800-1815 39,40 NAU 100 105 BVB 216 7
11855 1800-1830 39,40 NAU 100 105 BVB 216 246
11855 1800-1859 39,40 NAU 100 105 BVB 216 35
11855 1830-1859 39,40 NAU 100 105 BVB 216 1
11865 1930-1959 46SE WER 100 180 RMI 217
11885 1700-1759 39 NAU 250 125 YFR 216
11905 1730-1800 48 WER 250 135 IBB 156 23456
11925 1800-1900 48 WER 250 150 IBB 206
11925 1900-1930 48 WER 250 150 IBB 206 23456
11940 1500-1530 30S WER 250 75 IBB 226
11955 1800-1859 37E,38 WER 250 150 YFR 201
11960 1700-1800 39,40 WER 100 120 BVB 216 17
11970 0530-0600 46SE NAU 100 185 RMI 216 23456
11975 1830-1859 46S,47SE ISS 500 167 LWF 217
11980 0700-0800 37,38W WER 100 210 AWR 217
11980 0800-0830 37,38W WER 100 210 AWR 217
11995 1600-1629 47E,48 WER 500 135 RMI 217 15
12010 0800-0830 37,38W WER 100 210 AWR 217
12010 0830-0900 37,38W WER 100 210 AWR 217
12015 1630-1700 47,48 WER 250 150 IBB 216 23456
12140 1530-1729 39,40 WER 100 105 BVB 217
13570 1500-1600 39N,40W WER 250 95 IBB 226
13580 1700-1720 39,40 ISS 250 115 BVB 217 2356
13580 1700-1735 39,40 ISS 250 115 BVB 217 4
13590 1530-1815 39,40 NAU 100 130 BVB 216 1
13590 1545-1600 39,40 NAU 100 130 BVB 216 24
13590 1545-1615 39,40 NAU 100 130 BVB 216 6
13590 1545-1620 39,40 NAU 100 130 BVB 216 3
13590 1545-1645 39,40 NAU 100 130 BVB 216 5
13590 1545-1730 39,40 NAU 100 130 BVB 216 7
13590 1700-1800 39,40 NAU 100 130 BVB 216 3
13600 1615-1630 39,40 NAU 100 130 BVB 217 246
13600 1700-1729 39S NAU 125 130 BVB 217
13630 1530-1545 39,40 ISS 250 91 BVB 211 1
13640 1900-1929 46SE WER 125 180 BVB 217
13645 1600-1659 39 WER 250 120 YFR 217
13700 0959-1459 27S,28SW WER 500 240 RNW 217 0207-250711
13700 1159-1459 28S,37W WER 500 120 RNW 217 0207-250711
13700 1459-1557 28S,39W WER 500 120 RNW 217
13700 1459-1657 27S,28SW WER 500 240 RNW 217 3005-050911
13710 1100-1130 19,20,21 NAU 250 30 EMG 218 7
13720 1630-1730 47,48 WER 100 150 BVB 201
13730 1400-1500 30S,40N WER 250 75 YFR 217
13730 1529-1727 47,48W WER 500 150 PNW 217
13740 1500-1515 41,49NW NAU 250 85 BVB 217 1
13740 1700-1759 40 ISS 500 90 YFR 227
13745 1600-1700 29SE NAU 250 95 IBB 226
13750 1800-1900 46SE WER 500 180 YFR 217
13790 1500-1559 41SE WER 500 90 YFR 217
13790 1800-1900 46E,47W ISS 500 170 YFR 217
13810 1400-1600 28,29W,38ENAU 100 130 TOM 216
13810 1600-1800 38S,394748ISS 100 131 BVB 206 25
13810 1600-1830 38S,394748ISS 100 131 BVB 206 16
13810 1630-1800 38S,394748ISS 100 131 BVB 206 34
13810 1630-1830 38S,394748ISS 100 131 BVB 206 7
13820 1700-1759 38E,39S,48ISS 250 126 EFD 216 14
13820 1700-1759 38E,39S,48NAU 100 145 ELF 216 5
13830 1700-1759 38E,39S,48ISS 100 126 SBO 216 14
13840 1700-1759 37,38 WER 100 180 YFR 216
13870 1630-1700 47,48 NAU 250 140 IBB 216 23456
13870 1730-1800 48 NAU 250 140 IBB 206 23456
13870 1800-1900 48 NAU 250 140 IBB 156
13870 1900-1930 48 NAU 250 140 IBB 156 23456
15110 1530-1600 40 WER 250 105 IBB 226
15155 1730-1800 48 NAU 250 140 AWR 217
15160 1600-1659 48 WER 500 135 YFR 217
15205 1400-1430 41 WER 100 90 PAB 217 1
15205 1415-1430 41 WER 100 90 PAB 217 234567
15205 1430-1445 41 ISS 250 83 PAB 217 1
15205 1900-1930 46S NAU 100 200 AWR 218
15205 1930-2000 46SE,47W WER 250 180 AWR 217
15215 1530-1629 40E,41NW ISS 250 86 GFA 217
15255 1500-1530 41N WER 250 90 AWR 217
15255 1530-1600 41N WER 250 75 AWR 217
15260 1900-2000 37,38W NAU 100 215 AWR 216
15275 1515-1545 40,41 NAU 100 85 BVB 217 7
15275 1530-1559 40,41 ISS 100 90 BVB 217 456
15320 1300-1330 42,43W WER 250 75 AWR 218 17
15320 1300-1330 42,43W WER 250 75 AWR 218 23456
15320 1330-1500 42,43W WER 250 75 AWR 218
15350 1230-1459 41 WER 250 90 GFA 217
15360 1500-1530 41N ISS 250 80 AWR 217
15360 1530-1600 41N ISS 250 80 AWR 217
15380 1430-1630 40 WER 250 105 IBB 226
15380 1700-1800 39N,40 NAU 250 113 IBB 218
15390 1330-1529 41NE,43S WER 250 90 GFA 218
15410 1700-1715 48SW ISS 250 140 ABA 217 7
15445 1700-1900 38,39,40 WER 250 135 NHK 217
15495 1500-1559 41E ISS 500 85 YFR 217
15495 1759-1957 48SW,52E WER 500 150 RNW 217
15565 1400-1500 41E NAU 500 85 YFR 217
15565 1500-1600 29SE WER 250 90 IBB 226
15650 1400-1700 30S WER 250 75 IBB 226
15670 1400-1559 41 NAU 500 95 YFR 218
15680 1230-1330 40 WER 250 90 IBB 226
15690 1400-1459 41S ISS 500 90 YFR 217
15710 1659-1727 47,52N WER 500 180 RNW 217
15715 0400-0900 40E,41NW WER 250 90 IBB 226
15720 1659-1727 47E,48,52ENAU 500 155 RNW 218
15750 1600-1759 47,48 WER 500 150 YFR 217
17485 1400-1559 46E,47,48WWER 125 180 TOM 216
17495 1345-1415 41 ISS 250 217 BVB 1. 1
17495 1400-1459 41 ISS 250 83 BVB 217 7
17495 1415-1500 41 ISS 250 83 BVB 217 1
17535 0900-1000 38,39 WER 100 135 BVB 217 6
17535 1200-1230 41NE WER 250 90 AWR 217
17535 1230-1300 41NE WER 250 90 AWR 217
17575 1630-1700 48 WER 250 135 AWR 217
17580 1300-1500 41E WER 500 90 YFR 217
17750 1400-1500 39N,40 WER 250 120 IBB 226
17800 1400-1559 41S WER 500 90 YFR 217
[sorted by client, then frequency:]
frq star-stop ciraf azi ant day from-to loc pow brc
15410 1700-1715 48SW 140 217 7 2703-291011 ISS 250 ABA
6065 0300-0330 48 135 215 1234567 2703-301011 WER 250 AWR
6065 0400-0430 28E 120 201 1234567 2703-301011 WER 100 AWR
9505 0300-0330 48 135 217 1234567 2703-301011 WER 250 AWR
9765 1900-1930 37,38W 210 216 1234567 2703-301011 WER 100 AWR
9765 1930-2000 37,38W 210 216 1234567 2703-301011 WER 100 AWR
9765 2000-2030 37,38W 210 216 1234567 2703-301011 WER 100 AWR
9790 0900-1000 28W 180 216 1 2703-301011 NAU 100 AWR
9815 0330-0400 48 135 217 1234567 2703-301011 WER 250 AWR
9830 1600-1630 28E 120 217 1234567 2703-301011 WER 100 AWR
9830 2000-2030 46E,47W 180 217 1234567 2703-301011 WER 100 AWR
11670 1730-1800 37,38W 210 217 1234567 2703-301011 WER 100 AWR
11755 2030-2100 46SE,47W 180 217 1234567 2703-301011 WER 100 AWR
11980 0700-0800 37,38W 210 217 1234567 2703-301011 WER 100 AWR
11980 0800-0830 37,38W 210 217 1234567 2703-301011 WER 100 AWR
12010 0800-0830 37,38W 210 217 1234567 2703-301011 WER 100 AWR
12010 0830-0900 37,38W 210 217 1234567 2703-301011 WER 100 AWR
15155 1730-1800 48 140 217 1234567 2703-301011 NAU 250 AWR
15205 1900-1930 46S 200 218 1234567 2703-301011 NAU 100 AWR
15205 1930-2000 46SE,47W 180 217 1234567 2703-301011 WER 250 AWR
15255 1500-1530 41N 90 217 1234567 2703-301011 WER 250 AWR
15255 1530-1600 41N 75 217 1234567 2703-301011 WER 250 AWR
15260 1900-2000 37,38W 215 216 1234567 2703-301011 NAU 100 AWR
15320 1300-1330 42,43W 75 218 17 2703-291011 WER 250 AWR
15320 1300-1330 42,43W 75 218 23456 2703-291011 WER 250 AWR
15320 1330-1500 42,43W 75 218 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 AWR
15360 1500-1530 41N 80 217 1234567 2703-301011 ISS 250 AWR
15360 1530-1600 41N 80 217 1234567 2703-301011 ISS 250 AWR
17535 1200-1230 41NE 90 217 1234567 2703-301011 WER 250 AWR
17535 1230-1300 41NE 90 217 1234567 2703-301011 WER 250 AWR
17575 1630-1700 48 135 217 1234567 2703-301011 WER 250 AWR
5945 0700-0730 27,28N 300 216 1 2703-291011 WER 100 BVB
5945 0700-0745 27,28N 300 216 7 2703-291011 WER 100 BVB
6130 1800-1815 28,29 69 141 56 2703-291011 NAU 100 BVB
6130 1800-1830 28,29 69 141 3 2703-291011 NAU 100 BVB
6130 1800-1900 28,29 69 141 1 2703-291011 NAU 100 BVB
6130 1815-1845 28,29 69 141 7 2703-291011 NAU 100 BVB
7310 0300-0330 39S 120 201 1234567 2703-291011 WER 125 BVB
7405 0030-0100 41 90 217 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 BVB
9430 1800-1815 39,40 125 217 1 2703-291011 NAU 250 BVB
9430 1800-1859 39,40 125 217 7 2703-291011 NAU 250 BVB
9430 1815-1845 39,40 125 217 1 2703-291011 NAU 250 BVB
9435 1800-1830 37NW 240 216 1 2703-291011 WER 100 BVB
9735 0430-0500 39,40 105 206 345 2703-291011 WER 250 BVB
9735 0500-0515 39,40 105 206 6 2703-291011 WER 250 BVB
11810 0500-0530 46SE 185 216 1234567 2703-291011 NAU 125 BVB
11830 1930-2000 46,47 180 217 7 2703-291011 WER 100 BVB
11855 1800-1815 39,40 105 216 7 2703-291011 NAU 100 BVB
11855 1800-1830 39,40 105 216 246 2703-291011 NAU 100 BVB
11855 1800-1859 39,40 105 216 35 2703-291011 NAU 100 BVB
11855 1830-1859 39,40 105 216 1 2703-291011 NAU 100 BVB
11960 1700-1800 39,40 120 216 17 2703-291011 WER 100 BVB
12140 1530-1729 39,40 105 217 1234567 2703-291011 WER 100 BVB
13580 1700-1720 39,40 115 217 2356 2703-291011 ISS 250 BVB
13580 1700-1735 39,40 115 217 4 2703-291011 ISS 250 BVB
13590 1530-1815 39,40 130 216 1 2703-291011 NAU 100 BVB
13590 1545-1600 39,40 130 216 24 2703-291011 NAU 100 BVB
13590 1545-1615 39,40 130 216 6 2703-291011 NAU 100 BVB
13590 1545-1620 39,40 130 216 3 2703-291011 NAU 100 BVB
13590 1545-1645 39,40 130 216 5 2703-291011 NAU 100 BVB
13590 1545-1730 39,40 130 216 7 2703-291011 NAU 100 BVB
13590 1700-1800 39,40 130 216 3 2703-291011 NAU 100 BVB
13600 1615-1630 39,40 130 217 246 2703-291011 NAU 100 BVB
13600 1700-1729 39S 130 217 1234567 2703-291011 NAU 125 BVB
13630 1530-1545 39,40 91 211 1 2703-291011 ISS 250 BVB
13640 1900-1929 46SE 180 217 1234567 2703-291011 WER 125 BVB
13720 1630-1730 47,48 150 201 1234567 2703-291011 WER 100 BVB
13740 1500-1515 41,49NW 85 217 1 2703-291011 NAU 250 BVB
13810 1600-1800 38S,394748131 206 25 2703-291011 ISS 100 BVB
13810 1600-1830 38S,394748131 206 16 2703-291011 ISS 100 BVB
13810 1630-1800 38S,394748131 206 34 2703-291011 ISS 100 BVB
13810 1630-1830 38S,394748131 206 7 2703-291011 ISS 100 BVB
15275 1515-1545 40,41 85 217 7 2703-291011 NAU 100 BVB
15275 1530-1559 40,41 90 217 456 2703-291011 ISS 100 BVB
17495 1345-1415 41 217 1. 1 2703-291011 ISS 250 BVB
17495 1400-1459 41 83 217 7 2703-291011 ISS 250 BVB
17495 1415-1500 41 83 217 1 2703-291011 ISS 250 BVB
17535 0900-1000 38,39 135 217 6 2703-291011 WER 100 BVB
9585 1800-1859 28E,29 90 217 7 2703-291011 NAU 100 CHW
9490 2330-0030 41,49 75 217 1234567 2703-291011 WER 100 DVB
13820 1700-1759 38E,39S,48126 216 14 2703-291011 ISS 250 EFD
13820 1700-1759 38E,39S,48145 216 5 2703-291011 NAU 100 ELF
6055 1030-1100 27,28 ND 926 17 2703-291011 WER 125 EMG
11695 1500-1528 29,30 60 217 7 2703-291011 WER 250 EMG
13710 1100-1130 19,20,21 30 218 7 2703-291011 NAU 250 EMG
7230 1900-1930 39N 105 216 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 FEB
9445 0030-0130 40E,41NW 90 217 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 GFA
9520 2330-0030 41NE,43S 75 218 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 GFA
15215 1530-1629 40E,41NW 86 217 1234567 2703-291011 ISS 250 GFA
15350 1230-1459 41 90 217 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 GFA
15390 1330-1529 41NE,43S 90 218 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 GFA
6045 0900-1000 27E,28 ND 926 1 2703-291011 WER 100 HLR
7375 0100-0300 2,3,4,9 315 216 1234567 2703-090511 WER 100 HRT
7375 0100-0300 2,3,4,9 315 216 1234567 0709-291011 WER 100 HRT
7375 0300-0500 2,3,6,7W 325 216 1234567 2703-090511 WER 100 HRT
7375 0300-0500 2,3,6,7W 325 216 1234567 0709-291011 WER 100 HRT
7375 2200-0300 11,12,13 240 216 1234567 2703-090511 WER 100 HRT
7375 2200-0300 11,12,13 240 216 1234567 0709-291011 WER 100 HRT
7375 2300-0100 6,7,8,9 300 216 1234567 2703-090511 WER 100 HRT
7375 2300-0100 6,7,8,9 300 216 1234567 0709-291011 WER 100 HRT
9925 0100-0300 2,3,4,9 315 217 1234567 1005-060911 WER 100 HRT
9925 0300-0500 2,3,6,7W 325 216 1234567 1005-060911 NAU 100 HRT
9925 2200-0300 11,12,13 240 217 1234567 1005-060911 WER 100 HRT
9925 2300-0100 6,7,8,9 300 217 1234567 1005-060911 NAU 100 HRT
5930 1700-1900 28E,29W 45 206 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
5940 0030-0230 40 105 226 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
6040 1600-1630 28E 135 226 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
6040 1630-1930 40 105 216 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
6060 1500-1700 28E,29W 60 206 1234567 2703-291011 WER 125 IBB
6105 0130-0230 40 105 206 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
6105 1700-1800 28E,29W 60 206 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
7280 0230-0400 40 105 226 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
7345 0230-0330 40 105 226 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
9510 1400-1500 30S 75 216 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
9675 1630-1700 47,48 150 156 23456 2703-291011 NAU 250 IBB
9740 1600-1700 19,29,30 60 226 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
9745 1900-1930 47,48 150 216 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
9760 1630-1800 40 105 226 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
9780 1700-1800 40E,41NW 90 226 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
9805 1900-2000 29,30 60 226 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
9815 0300-0330 47,48 160 156 1234567 2703-291011 NAU 250 IBB
9815 1800-1830 47,48 150 156 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
9815 2030-2100 46,47 190 156 23456 2703-291011 NAU 250 IBB
11645 1400-1500 39N,40 105 226 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
11670 1800-1830 47,48 150 216 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
11810 1500-1600 29SE 90 226 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
11905 1730-1800 48 135 156 23456 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
11925 1800-1900 48 150 206 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
11925 1900-1930 48 150 206 23456 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
11940 1500-1530 30S 75 226 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
12015 1630-1700 47,48 150 216 23456 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
13570 1500-1600 39N,40W 95 226 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
13745 1600-1700 29SE 95 226 1234567 2703-291011 NAU 250 IBB
13870 1630-1700 47,48 140 216 23456 2703-291011 NAU 250 IBB
13870 1730-1800 48 140 206 23456 2703-291011 NAU 250 IBB
13870 1800-1900 48 140 156 1234567 2703-291011 NAU 250 IBB
13870 1900-1930 48 140 156 23456 2703-291011 NAU 250 IBB
15110 1530-1600 40 105 226 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
15380 1430-1630 40 105 226 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
15380 1700-1800 39N,40 113 218 1234567 2703-291011 NAU 250 IBB
15565 1500-1600 29SE 90 226 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
15650 1400-1700 30S 75 226 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
15680 1230-1330 40 90 226 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
15715 0400-0900 40E,41NW 90 226 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
17750 1400-1500 39N,40 120 226 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 IBB
11975 1830-1859 46S,47SE 167 217 1234567 2703-291011 ISS 500 LWF
6140 0900-1000 27,28 ND 926 1 2703-291011 WER 100 MVB
6140 1300-1400 28 126 156 1 2703-291011 NAU 100 MVB
5945 1100-1115 27,28 ND 926 1 2703-291011 WER 250 MWA
9620 2200-2300 38,39,40 135 217 1234567 2703-291011 WER 500 NHK
15445 1700-1900 38,39,40 135 217 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 NHK
9515 1930-2015 37,38 150 201 1 2703-291011 NAU 250 PAB
9515 1930-2030 37,38 150 201 7 2703-291011 NAU 250 PAB
15205 1400-1430 41 90 217 1 2703-291011 WER 100 PAB
15205 1415-1430 41 90 217 234567 2703-291011 WER 100 PAB
15205 1430-1445 41 83 217 1 2703-291011 ISS 250 PAB
13730 1529-1727 47,48W 150 217 1234567 2703-301011 WER 500 PNW
9545 0530-0600 46SE 180 216 23456 2703-291011 WER 100 RMI
11865 1930-1959 46SE 180 217 1234567 2703-291011 WER 100 RMI
11970 0530-0600 46SE 185 216 23456 2703-291011 NAU 100 RMI
11995 1600-1629 47E,48 135 217 15 2703-291011 WER 500 RMI#
5955 0558-0800 27,28 210 146 1234567 2703-301011 NAU 500 RNW
5955 0800-1000 27,28 210 146 17 2703-301011 NAU 500 RNW
5955 0800-1000 27,28 210 930 23456 2703-301011 WER 500 RNW
5955 1000-1459 18S,27,28 210 146 1 2703-250711 NAU 500 RNW
5955 1000-1459 18S,27,28 210 146 234567 0207-250711 NAU 500 RNW
5955 1459-1657 27,28 210 146 1234567 2703-301011 NAU 500 RNW
6120 0759-1000 27S,37N 255 215 23456 2703-301011 WER 500 RNW
6125 1959-2200 27S,28SW 225 146 1234567 3005-050911 NAU 500 RNW
9595 1159-1600 27 300 217 1234567 0207-250711 WER 250 RNW
9620 1159-1600 18 11 146 1234567 0207-250711 NAU 500 RNW
9740 0659-0800 27 300 216 1234567 3005-050911 WER 250 RNW
9895 0459-0557 28S 120 201 1234567 2703-301011 WER 500 RNW
9895 0559-0659 27S,28SW 220 146 1234567 2703-301011 NAU 500 RNW
9895 0800-1000 27S,28SW 220 146 17 2703-301011 NAU 500 RNW
9895 1000-1459 27S,28SW 220 146 1 2703-250711 NAU 500 RNW
9895 1000-1459 27S,28SW 220 146 234567 0207-250711 NAU 500 RNW
9895 1459-1559 27S,28SW 220 146 1234567 2703-301011 NAU 500 RNW
9895 2059-2127 17 320 216 1234567 3005-050911 NAU 250 RNW
13700 0959-1459 27S,28SW 240 217 1234567 0207-250711 WER 500 RNW
13700 1159-1459 28S,37W 120 217 1234567 0207-250711 WER 500 RNW
13700 1459-1557 28S,39W 120 217 1234567 2703-301011 WER 500 RNW
13700 1459-1657 27S,28SW 240 217 1234567 3005-050911 WER 500 RNW
15495 1759-1957 48SW,52E 150 217 1234567 2703-301011 WER 500 RNW
15710 1659-1727 47,52N 180 217 1234567 2703-301011 WER 500 RNW
15720 1659-1727 47E,48,52E155 218 1234567 2703-301011 NAU 500 RNW
5945 1300-1400 27,28 ND 926 1 2703-291011 WER 100 RTR
13830 1700-1759 38E,39S,48126 216 14 2703-291011 ISS 100 SBO
9655 1400-1559 18,27,28 300 805 1234567 2703-291011 MOS 100 TOM
13810 1400-1600 28,29W,38E130 216 1234567 2703-291011 NAU 100 TOM
17485 1400-1559 46E,47,48W180 216 1234567 2703-291011 WER 125 TOM
6105 0645-0750 27 285 156 1 2703-301011 NAU 100 TWR
6105 0700-0750 27 285 156 23456 2703-301011 NAU 100 TWR
6105 0715-0750 27 285 156 7 2703-301011 NAU 100 TWR
7215 1400-1430 28-30 60 206 23456 2703-301011 WER 100 TWR
7215 1400-1500 28-30 60 206 17 2703-301011 WER 100 TWR
9440 1529-1559 28 105 201 7 2703-301011 WER 100 TWR
9440 1529-1559 29S,39N 90 218 23456 2703-301011 WER 100 TWR
9735 0200-0500 6-8,10,11 320 158 1234567 2703-301011 GUF 250 VOR
9810 0000-0200 12,14,16 195 153 1234567 2703-301011 GUF 250 VOR
11605 2200-2400 12,13,15 180 153 1234567 2703-301011 GUF 250 VOR
3975 1800-2000 28 ND 926 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 YFR
5930 0000-0057 12,14 215 156 1234567 2703-291011 GUF 500 YFR
6100 0200-0300 12,14 215 156 1234567 2703-291011 GUF 500 YFR
6115 2000-2200 37,38W 210 216 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 YFR
7330 1800-1859 28E 105 206 1234567 2703-291011 WER 100 YFR
7360 2200-0057 12,13,15 170 151 1234567 2703-291011 GUF 500 YFR
7420 2200-2300 37,38W 210 215 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 YFR
9505 1900-2000 47S,52N 170 218 1234567 2703-291011 NAU 500 YFR
9590 1900-2000 37E,38 150 201 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 YFR
9595 2000-2100 46E,47,52N180 216 1234567 2703-291011 NAU 500 YFR
9600 1800-1900 57 155 217 1234567 2703-291011 ISS 500 YFR
9610 1900-2200 46,47,52 180 216 1234567 2703-291011 WER 500 YFR
9635 1800-1859 37N 225 216 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 YFR
9715 2100-2159 46E,47,52N180 216 1234567 2703-291011 NAU 500 YFR
9830 0100-0159 11 306 216 1234567 2703-291011 GUF 250 YFR
9925 1800-1859 57 165 217 1234567 2703-291011 WER 500 YFR
9925 1900-2000 57 150 217 1234567 2703-291011 WER 500 YFR
9925 2000-2100 46 210 216 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 YFR
9935 2200-2300 12,14 215 156 1234567 2703-291011 GUF 500 YFR
9935 2300-2357 12,14 215 151 1234567 2703-291011 GUF 500 YFR
11600 1700-1900 29,30 60 216 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 YFR
11670 1600-1700 40 90 217 1234567 2703-291011 WER 500 YFR
11680 1600-1659 41 85 217 1234567 2703-291011 ISS 500 YFR
11760 1700-1759 30S,39N,40105 206 1234567 2703-291011 WER 500 YFR
11785 1800-1859 57 168 216 1234567 2703-291011 NAU 500 YFR
11840 1900-2000 37,46 180 217 1234567 2703-291011 WER 500 YFR
11885 1700-1759 39 125 216 1234567 2703-291011 NAU 250 YFR
11955 1800-1859 37E,38 150 201 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 YFR
13645 1600-1659 39 120 217 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 YFR
13730 1400-1500 30S,40N 75 217 1234567 2703-291011 WER 250 YFR
13740 1700-1759 40 90 227 1234567 2703-291011 ISS 500 YFR
13750 1800-1900 46SE 180 217 1234567 2703-291011 WER 500 YFR
13790 1500-1559 41SE 90 217 1234567 2703-291011 WER 500 YFR
13790 1800-1900 46E,47W 170 217 1234567 2703-291011 ISS 500 YFR
13840 1700-1759 37,38 180 216 1234567 2703-291011 WER 100 YFR
15160 1600-1659 48 135 217 1234567 2703-291011 WER 500 YFR
15495 1500-1559 41E 85 217 1234567 2703-291011 ISS 500 YFR
15565 1400-1500 41E 85 217 1234567 2703-291011 NAU 500 YFR
15670 1400-1559 41 95 218 1234567 2703-291011 NAU 500 YFR
15690 1400-1459 41S 90 217 1234567 2703-291011 ISS 500 YFR
15750 1600-1759 47,48 150 217 1234567 2703-291011 WER 500 YFR
17580 1300-1500 41E 90 217 1234567 2703-291011 WER 500 YFR
17800 1400-1559 41S 90 217 1234567 2703-291011 WER 500 YFR
*) 1st Sunday of the month --- Day 1 = Sunday ... Day 7 = Saturday
List of Broadcasters which are using MEDIA BROADCAST technical
equipment
ABA Radiyo Y'Abaganda (Ababaka)
AWR Adventist World Radio
BVB High Adventure Gospel - Bible Voice Broadcasting
CHW Christliche Wissenschaft
CVC Christian Vision - deleted
DVB Democratic Voice of Burma
EFD Ethiopians For Democracy
ELF Eritrean Liberation Front
EMG Evangelische Missionsgemeinden in Deutschland
FEB Feba Radio UK
GFA Gospel for Asia
HCJ Voice of the Andes - deleted
HLR Hamburger Lokalradio
HRT Hrvratska Radio Televizija
IBB International Broadcasting Bureau
LWF Lutheran World Federation
MBR MEDIA BROADCAST (ex Deutsche Telekom, DTK)
MVB Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Baltic Radio
MWA Missionswerk Arche
NHK Nippon Hoso Kyokai
PAB Pan Am Broadcasting
PNW% {"Press Now". wb.}
RHU Radio Huriyo (Xoriyo) - deleted
RMI Radio Miami International
RMI# {"Voice of Oromo Liberation Front" wb.}
RNW Radio Netherlands World Service
RRP Radio Reveil Paroles de Vie - deleted
RTR Radio Traumland (Belgium)
SBO Sagalee Bilisummaa Oromoo, Voice of Oromo Liberation.
TOM The Overcomer Ministry
TWR Trans World Radio
VOR Voice of Russia
WRN World Radio Network - deleted
YFR WYFR Family Radio
Michael Puetz
MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH
Order Management & Backoffice
Josef-Lammerting-Allee 8-10
D-50933 Cologne, Germany
Please send your inquiries and reception reports to:
E-Mail:
% "Press Now"
Witte Kruislaan 55
1217 AM Hilversum
The Netherlands
T +31 35 62 54 300
website E-mail
(MBR, March 10, via ADDX Hoerfahrplan Andreas Volk-D, transformed by
Michael Bethge-D via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Mar 11 via DXLD)
** GHANA [non]. Austria – AWR via Moosbrunn, 13 March 2011 at 2100 UT
sign on in English on 9830 kHz. Opening ID: “We are pleased to welcome
you to AWR Ghana.” Music and “Daylight Magazine” followed. Significant
interference from RTTY sitting right on top of the AWR signal. Sign
off at 2128. Gave address in Ghana, e-mail and a phone number to call
as well (Ed Insinger, Summit, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 4874.92, Third harmonic of Greek pirate, 2330-2345, Feb 27,
Greek ann, Bouzuki music, 23232 heard // original on 1625 MW (35433).
(Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window March 9 via DXLD)
** GUAM. 5765-USB, AFN with NPR Marketplace segment on Morning
Edition, March 11 at 1356, ahead of // KOSU 91.7, so survived first
wave of tsunami which should have passed Guam by then (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4052.5, R. Verdad, Chiquimula, 0622, March 6. Just
caught the tail end of NA; carrier cut at 0624; good (Scott R. Barbour
Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4052.49, 0229-, Radio Verdad, Mar 13, Must have been a listeners show,
or even a DX show, since on tune-in they were playing an interval
signal from a well known SW station. The hosts are a man and woman.
The woman is speaking Spanish. The male speaker sounds a lot like Jeff
White of WRMI. Can't tell whether he's speaking English or Spanish,
though. Occasionally fades up to fair strength. Rechecked at 0528 and
still at fair level with an American accented preacher in English
(Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See U S A, about
Frecuencia al Día, but that`s UT Saturday and this was UT Sunday (gh)
** GUINEA. 7125, RTG has usually been heard around this time, but not
March 10 at 0633 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7125, Radio Guineé, 0604-0620, March 12, French talk. Afro-pop music.
Poor to fair with occasional ham QRM (Brian Alexander, PA, DX
Listening Digest)
** GUYANA 3290, GBC Voice of Guyana, 0727 Mar 10. English, BBC
“Outlook” program, 0730 BBC news. Listening on 3292 to avoid the ute
QRM. One of the strongest signals I’ve ever heard from them. 0803 man
listing MW and FM frequencies, time check, “V-O-G, the Voice of
Guyana.” into Christian program. 0820 noted with Hindi music. 0905
English with TC and ID, poor (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British
Columbia, Listening from my car, lakeside, with Eton E1 and Sony AN1
antenna, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
3289.98, Guyana BC, (tentative), English commentary by M & F at 0744-
0759. Announcements, but no actual ID caught due to extreme QRN. TS at
TOH, seemed like religious program followed, middle east music at
0829, piano/violin music at 0834, Possibly Urdu singing without music
background to past 0837. Church choir singing at 0844, Dave Brubeck
music ("Take Five"), Perry Como singing, no TS at TOH heard, ad or
jingle, into sports related conversation with two M voices. Very
strong audio at first check (0744), slowly faded. 3/10 (Jim Young,
Wrightwood, CA, ICOM IC-756ProIII + 40-M yagi + antenna tuner, NASWA
yg via DXLD)
Hi Jim: Re Guyana, the "middle east music" and "Urdu" is likely Hindi,
which is normal fare for them. I also heard them this morning with an
excellent signal early on. Tuning to 3292 and using a 4 kHz bandwidth
eliminates the QRM but still provides good reception. 73, (Harold
Sellers, BC, ibid.)
3290, Voice of Guyana, March 10th at 2316 with a woman interviewing a
man then easy-listening vocal to 2328 and a man with a Caribbean
accent with program promos “on the Voice of Guyana” then a woman with
more promos and an ad for a national drama festival “all across
Guyana” - Fair but noisy. Atmospheric conditions are reported as
unsettled. You can still DX when the ionosphere acts up. You just have
to look around the bands a bit (Mark Coady, Peterborough, ON K9J 6X3,
ODXA yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DXLD)
3290 Excellent reception at 2337 Violin classical music (Robert
Wilkner, Pompano Beach, Florida, March 10, NASWA yg via DXLD)
Hello Glenn, My name is Mark Carlsen and I am a part time SWL from
Tewksbury, Mass. Last night while scanning the bands I came across a
strange broadcast on the unusual quiet frequency of 3290 kHz. As you
know, this is the famous DXer's dream catch spot for Tristan da Cuhna.
The time was 0100-0230 UT and still going after I went to bed. British
accent announcer, many ads, 60's 70's pop tunes, that famous pop corn
machine song that name escapes me in the background for a lot of
announcements, and at one point I thought I heard an ID for R.
Amsterdam.
The signal was a strong S-7, but there was some fading and static
crashes because of some storms moving thru the east coast. I've passed
over this frequency before and it is usually quiet this time of night
or maybe something there but not audible.
My guess it might be a pirate relaying another station or possibly
something new. It defiantly had that Euro-Pop vibe like and FM station
or something like that. At any rate I will be away tonight during this
time slot, but will try when I get home to see if it re-appears. Do
you have any idea who it might be?
I have always enjoyed your WOR shows and hope maybe you can solve this
mystery for me. 73's my Friend, (Mark Carlsen, March 11, WORLD OF
RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Mark, Tnx for your report. Unfortunately, Tristan has been gone from
SW for many years. This must have been Guyana, currently its only
active SW frequency. I have a hard time hearing it due to utility
nearby. Lots of people report it later at night (it`s on 24 hours),
but as sundown approaches Papua New Guinea, a station there begins to
mix in and eventually takes over the frequency before sunrise around
here. Regards, (Glenn to Mark, via DXLD)
3289.99, Voice of Guyana, 0245-0420, March 12, mostly continuous local
music until 0400. BBC News at 0401 followed by BBC World Service
programming about Japan’s earthquake. Surprisingly good signal (Brian
Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest)
3290, March 12 at 0634 I manage to hear a bit of talk in English
somewhat separable from the ute carrier on low side. Presumed GBC.
Could have been BBC relay, sounded similar to what was on 5875, but
either not // or too far out of synch to match. GBC is supposedly
looking for a new frequency to get away from all the QRM. Wish they`d
uphurry (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
3289.99, 0247-, Voice of Guyana, Mar 13, Fair to good reception with
EZL music. Some deep fades present, but mostly quite nice reception.
Probably the best I've heard them. Propagation seems to favour a
southerly direction tonight. Lots of late night banter by the male DJ.
'11 minutes after 11 o'clock' at 0311 UT. No ID at the TOH. On recheck
at 0530, BBC news (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Recently many reports of well above average reception of VOG and now I
have had mine; 3289.98 randomly from 0804 to 1013, March 13.
0804-0829 Poor with BBCWS relay in English. The latest news about
Japan.
0829 Local ID: “You are tuned to the Voice of Guyana”; mentions
Georgetown; gives frequencies for MW, FM and SW.
0912-0926 Almost fair with sports commentary in English about the
World Cup cricket series.
0943-0947* Fair with coverage of the Australia vs Kenya World Cup
cricket match. Suddenly off, but was noted again at 1013 (poor by
then) (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
3290, GBC, March 14 at 0555, English talk, seems like sports, which
would fit for the final few minutes of a typical BBCWS news hour
relayed. Too squeezed as usual by bigger carrier on low side, and now
also T-storm QRN from KS/MO. Signal seems a little stronger now;
wonder if GBC has made some minor improvement (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
3290, Voice of Guyana, 0638 Mar 15. BBC programming including BBC news
at 0700 and 0730, 0800 VOG s/on with TC and choir singing NA, 0803
“This is the V-O-G, the Voice of Guyana.”, mention the National
Communications Corporation, AM/FM/SW frequencies, 24 hours a day, 0805
“Inspiration Time” Christian religious message. Useless on 3290 but
good when listened to on 3292 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, BC, Eton E1,
Sony AN1 active antenna, listening from my car, Editor of World
English Survey and Target Listening, available at
http://www.odxa.on.ca dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
RE your Guyana reception: I took a short break from listening to the
Wantok Radio Light Christian songs (with terrible audio) and checked
Guyana. Well heard at 0811 ("Come into Trans Pacific Motor Spares and
Auto Dealers . . 43 Robb Street") plus with clear coverage of the
Bangladesh vs Netherlands World Cup cricket match. Another day of
solid reception! Is this all propagation, or as you say: "wonder if
GBC has made some minor improvement"? No matter why, has been most
enjoyable! (Ron Howard, CA, March 15, WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DXLD)
** HAWAII. Listening to Air Traffic Control at Honolulu as airlines
have flights scrambling to leave before any chance of tsunami reaching
Hawaii. Tune Honolulu ATC online here: http://t.co/bRa0pdz
Cheers, (Mark Fahey, NSW, 1014 UT 11 March, ARDXC via DXLD)
Japan earthquake and repercussions --- I am sure by now you have heard
of the awful earthquake that has hit Japan and local tsunami, and also
the risk of tsunami elsewhere along Pacific coasts.
I'm sure there's lots of coverage on shortwave, but I thought I would
listen to some local radio from Hawaii, (albeit online) where we
holidayed in 2009, where a tsunami warning has been issued, predicted
to hit around 1300 GMT today, Friday. Of course, there is plenty to
listen to in English.
I have plonked for Hawaiian 105 (KINE) which serves Oahu, including
Honolulu, simply because I listened to this a lot when I was there, as
it played superb Hawaiian music. Not surprisingly, they've gone over
to speech (I'm wondering if they have linked up with another service,
as ads (probably automated) have been heard interrupting the coverage
online. Their online stream is at:
http://streaming.hawaiian105.com/_players/coxradio/index.php?callsign=KINEFM
There are a list of Hawaiian FM and AM stations with links to their
homepages and listen live links at:
http://gohawaii.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=gohawaii&cdn=travel&tm=13&f=00&tt=14&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//archive.hawaiiradiotv.com/HIRATV/BigIsleRadio.html
Further to my earlier message, what I am listening to online from
Hawaii is an emergency broadcast from a number of Cox Media stations
serving Hawaii (Ian Kelly, Tilehurst, Reading, 1148 UT March 11, BDXC-
UK yg via DXLD)
I'm listening to KPOA 93.5 from Maui http://www.kpoa.com which is
currently part of a 6 station simultaneous link up by the Pacific
Radio Group Inc stations
http://www.pacificradiogroup.com/our_stations.html
KPOA 93.5
KJMD 98.3
KLHI 92.5
KJKS 99.9
KNUI AM 900
KMVI AM 550
Waves started hitting islands around 3.20am Hawaii time, 1320 GMT
(Mark Hattam, UK, 1438 UT March 11, ibid.)
** INDIA. 4970.01, AIR Shillong (presumed), 1418 English commentary on
drinking water and chlorine use in India. Indian launch (rocket, I
presume) facilities commentary, "By The Time I Get to Phoenix" song
(not the Glen Campbell version) at 1427, announcements, talking thru
1430 without TS or ID. English discussion followed. Very strong with
excellent audio, but with normal transmission hum for Shillong. 3/6
(Jim Young, Wrightwood, CA, ICOM IC-756ProIII + 40-M yagi + antenna
tuner, NASWA yg via DXLD)
** INDIA. March 9 was another day of World Cup cricket coverage, with
the India vs Netherlands match. Noted the following stations from 1316
to 1442, which carried intermittent coverage; stations occasionally
breaking away for news, etc. They all started out poor, but improved
to mostly fair by 1400. Conditions poorer than yesterday.
4880, AIR Lucknow. Today this had the best reception. Coverage of
match in Hindi and English; numerous ads; heard no less than four ads
for the “Lava KKT 22 Plus Mobil Phone”. At various times // with:
4810 - AIR Bhopal
4910 - AIR Jaipur
5010 - AIR Thiruvananthapuram
5040 - AIR Jeypore
March 10 another day of World Cup cricket coverage, with assume Sri
Lanka vs Zimbabwe the India; reception improving by 1450, but still
poor; could only hear three in // today: 4810, 5010 and 5040. Usual
Hindi and English coverage. Conditions very poor today!
World Cup cricket coverage continued on March 12 with the South Africa
vs India match up; 1402-1454 usual Hindi and English coverage; still
with many ads; // 4880, 5010 and 5040
4965, AIR Shimla, 1412, March 12. Recently heard with very weak
modulation, but a strong signal/carrier. A shame they do no increase
the modulation to get the full benefit of their nice signal strength,
something that is very evident with the Cross Radio signal. From one
kW, they get the most out of their signal with the maximum modulation
(Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via
WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. ALL INDIA RADIO --- Colegas radio escutas, é impressionante
o sinal da All India Radio em inglês em Porto Alegre RS é muito forte,
quase local. Tenho escutado nos últimos dias a transmissão em inglês;
é das 1000 às 1030 UT na frequançia [sic] de 15235 kHz. Uma
curiosidade que ela faz transição depois de 30 minutos de inglês para
outro indioma [sic == indian language?] sem avisar, simplesmente muda
o indioma na transmissão em inglês. São 15 minutos de notícias depois
15 minutos de músicas indianas típicas locais.
Estou pensando mandar um relatório de recepção para a emissora; algum
colega sabe se a emissora confirma QSL e se a emissora aceita
relatório de recepção por e-mail? Se algum colega souber o endereço de
e-mail da All India Radio, agradeceria. GRANDE 73 (PAULO MICHELON,
PORTO ALEGRE RS, RECEPTORES SONY ICF 7600 DS,MOTOGLOBE DA MOTOBRAZ,
TRANSGLOBE DA PHILCO, March 11, radioescutas yg via DXLD)
Caro Paulo, mande seu relatório de escuta e aguarde; não importa se a
rádio já respondeu ou se vai responder, no nosso hobby, vale também a
alegria de ter escutado e fazer a nossa parte ajudando-os a com estes
informes que deveriam ser muito bem aproveitado pelos técnicos, vá em
frente lance seu informe no mar de rádios quando algum "peixe" for
fisgado será uma pescaria melhor (Tulio Queiroz, ibid.)
Boa tarde Paulo e colegas. Por indicação de um amigo indiano que está
no Orkut, ele me disse que poderia enviar para o seguinte e-mail:
spectrum-manager @ air.org.in Meu relatório foi enviado em 5/12/2010,
estou aguardando, não custa tentar. 73 (Reinaldo T. Pires, PY2018SWL
(SWARL), S. Sebastião, SP, Brasil, ibid.)
** INDONESIA. 3325, RRI Palangkaraya, 1331 Mar 9 . Woman doing
interview, male announcer, Indonesian. Good (Harold Sellers, Vernon,
British Columbia, Listening lakeside from my car. Eton E1 and Sony AN1
antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
3325, RRI Palangkaraya, 1159, March 12. Before the relay of the
Jakarta news played SCI, which was also heard on RRI Ternate, but not
on RRI Jakarta; into the news in Bahasa Indonesia; 1222-1223 one of
their national songs; 1223 no longer // with RRI Ternate (3344.96),
RRI Kendari (3995), RRI Wamena (4869.95) and RRI Jakarta (9680).
Checking RRI stations at 1200 is the most interesting for me, as I can
quickly check for parallel receptions.
The 1200 Jakarta news relay was heard on March 15 via RRI Palangkaraya
(3325 - fair), RRI Ternate (3344.96 - fair), RRI Makassar (4749.95 -
fair) and RRI Jakarta (9680 - good). Noticeably off the air was RRI
Kendari (3995), which Atsunori Ishida also indicates was off yesterday
and today. RRI Wamena (4869.95) below threshold level, so could not
confirm their being // as usual (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean
Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 3345, RRI Ternate, 1335 Mar 9. Indonesian pop music,
female announcer. Very good (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia,
Listening lakeside from my car. Eton E1 and Sony AN1 antenna, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
3344.96, RRI Ternate, 1459-1501*, March 9. Fair reception of their ID
and Love Ambon. For a while now this has had outstanding reception
compared to what it was in the past and I have frequently monitored
randomly from about 1200 till sign off; have not heard any hint of
another station here; no PNG station (Ron Howard, San Francisco at
Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 3995, RRI Kendari, 1354 Mar 9. Indonesian, vocals, male
announcer, 1400 woman and apparent news at 1401. Fair (Harold Sellers,
Vernon, British Columbia, Listening lakeside from my car. Eton E1 and
Sony AN1 antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 4749.95, RRI Makassar on March 12 did not carry the 1200
relay of the Jakarta news due to non-stop coverage of a sporting event
which was still going at 1256.
Shortly after my local sunrise on March 12, at 1438 noted RRI Ternate
was strong; RRI Palangkaraya was good and RRI Makassar was almost
good. Outstanding propagation recently for these RRI stations! (Ron
Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 4749.98, 1558-, RRI Makassar, Mar 12, Good reception
until sign-off with, I believe, Song of the Coconut Islands.
Transmitter cut immediately after. Still other cochannels present
(Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. 9526, V. Indonesia (presumed) with what
sounded like a YL in an oriental language, or perhaps REALLY heavily
accented English, which is what is supposed to be on at this time, but
I really couldn't make much out because WHRI was splattering all over
this channel! (grrrrr) LSB helped, but the "O" was pretty much 1
throughout. I gave up! 1321-1329 6/Mar -- Zichi DXp [Viz.:]
9540, WHRI, Cypress Creek BONKING & splattering ALL up & down the dial
& stepping all over 9526 I was trying to hear! ID at 1329 as World
Harvest R in English: 555, 1328-1330 6/Mar (Kenneth Vito Zichi,
Brighton MI DXpedition, MARE Tipsheet March 11 via DXLD)
I believe WHRI is on this frequency only on weekends, or Sundays (gh)
9525.953, Voice of Indonesia, 1101-1115, 10 March. At tune in, noted a
female in Chinese language comments. Splatter from stations on 9530
including VOA are producing splatter that degrades VOI's signal to
fair with splatter (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston FL, 26N 081W, WR-G31DDC,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9680.057, RRI Jakarta, 1053-1105, 10 March. Noted Islamic type music
during period before the hour. On the hour a male comments in
Indonesia language. This is followed with martial music and comments.
Signal was good (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston FL, 26N 081W, WR-G31DDC, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
9526-, VOI, March 15 at 1319 in English, Jakarta handing it over to
Banjarmasin, but latter inaudible, modulation or feed problem, also
frequent IADs, flutter, adjacent QRM and generally low levels. Not
worth trying to listen to Exotic Indonesia this Tuesday (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. Iranian TV on 1530 mediumwave --- Possibly fearing that it
may lose its place on Arab satellite providers, the audio track of Al-
Alam TV (Iran's answer to Al-Jazeera) is now broadcast on 1530
mediumwave for the Gulf states. Al-Alam says the 1530 relay is on at
1430-2230 local time. If they mean Iran local time that would be 1100-
1900 GMT. WRTH lists an Iranian transmitter on 1530 in Yazd, but
that's well inland, so I assume that this is coming from a new
transmitter nearer the Gulf (Chris Greenway, UK, March 9, dxldyg via
WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Thanks for the tip. Presumably this heard with news in Arabic, good
signal at 2200 yesterday. 73, (Mauno Ritola, March 10, WORLD OF RADIO
1556, ibid.
** IRAN. 11655, 1536-, VOIRI, Mar 12, English news to Asia at fair
level. // 9915 poor/fair.
9510, 0317-, VOIRI, Mar 13, Good to very good reception of their
Russian service. Surprised with the strength. Presumably receiving
them across the polar region. ID'd at 0319 as Golos Islamska
Respublika Iran, or something like that (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. IRIB Tehran tentative A-11 schedule - surprise, surprise
usage of 25 MHz QRG towards South and South East Asia
Tentative A-11 schedule for The Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran
(VOIROI / IRIB)
ALBANIAN 0630-0727 13810 17595
1830-1927 9570 11980
2030-2127 6090 9830 [11830 alt.]
ARABIC 0230-0527 11660 11760 "Al-Quds TV"
0530-1427 13790 13800 15150
0830-1027 13740
1430-1627 15150
1430-1727 9920
1630-0527 6025 9460
1630-0327 3985
ARMENIAN 0300-0327 7220 11700
0930-0957 9700 15225
1630-1727 7230 9505
AZERI 0330-0527 13710 only transmission
BENGALI 0030-0127 7325 9730
0830-0927 11710
1430-1527 12085 13800
BOSNIAN 0530-0627 11790 13830
[S-Cr] 1730-1827 9860 12020
2130-2227 9810 11685
CHINESE 1200-1257 15190 15530 17610 17670
2330-0027 11645 13670 13715
DARI 0300-0627 11940 13740
0830-1157 11980
0830-1427 13720
1200-1457 9940
ENGLISH 0130-0227 9605 11920 "Voice of Justice"
1030-1127 21630 25820 !! 11 mb usage to S and SE Asia !!
1530-1627 9600 11945
1930-2027 5940SIT 6205 7215 9780 9800
[WORLD OF RADIO 1556, full English schedule]
FRENCH 0630-0727 15430 17700
1830-1927 5940SIT 9860 11865 13600
GERMAN 0730-0827 15085 15430
1730-1827 5940SIT 9565 11950 [9940 alt.]
HAUSA 0600-0657 17750
1130-1157 21520 21750 additional broadcast
1830-1927 11885 13710
HEBREW 0430-0457 9610 11875
1200-1227 13685 15240
HINDI 0230-0257 11710 13750
1430-1527 11955 13810
ITALIAN 0630-0727 9770SIT 13620 17665
1930-1957 5910 7350
JAPANESE 1330-1427 13630 15555
2100-2157 9765 11765
KAZAKH 0130-0227 9790 11800
1530-1627 7340 9940
KURDISH 0330-0427 7365 9715 Sorrani dialect
1330-1627 7230 Kirmanji dialect
MALAY 1230-1327 17560 21670
2230-2327 7245 9820
PASHTO 0230-0327 5940 7360
0730-0827 11990 15440
1230-1327 9570 11730
1430-0427 3945-m Mashhad progr, via Zahedan site
1430-1527 5890-m Mashhad progr, via Sirjan site
1630-1727 6090 7340
RUSSIAN 0300-0327 9650 11925
0500-0527 11790 13750 15150 17655
1430-1527 9555SIT 9580 11830 13720
1700-1757 6065 7350
1800-1857 6090 6140 [7320 alt.]
1930-2027 6155 9570
SPANISH 0030-0227 9905 11760
0230-0327 9905
0530-0627 15530 17530
2030-2127 6055SIT 7300 9780
SWAHILI 0400-0457 13750 15340
0830-0927 17660 21650
1730-1827 9655 11830
TAJIK 0100-0227 6175 7285
1600-1727 5950 6110
TURKISH 0430-0557 9560 12015
1600-1727 7370 9905
URDU 0130-0227 5930 7325 9845
1300-1427 9830 11695 11805 [9665 alt.]
1530-1727 5890-m Mashad program, via Sirjan site
UZBEK 0230-0257 7290 11930
1500-1557 5945 9685
Saut Falestin, "Voice of Islamic Palestinian Revolution"
ARABIC 0330-0427 9610 11875
Tentative SIT = Sitkunai site relays in Lithuania, all according of A-
10 registrations (IRIB via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Mar 10, dxldyg via
DXLD)
** ISRAEL. 6977, Galei Zahal. 0003 March 8, 2011. Clear and poor but
improving with Hebetalk female, 30's/40's-style vocals and then more
hipster Israeli vocals. Recently ex-6973, at least for the moment
(Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
15850.00, 1340-1355 10.03 Galei Tzahal, Lod, Hebrew entertainment
Show, modern music, 45333 (Anker Petersen, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with
28 metres of longwire in 9 metres altitude in Skovlunde, Denmark, via
Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD)
** ITALY [non]. 15710, March 15 at 1424 music with bells and drums,
unseems Sudanese, 1430 ``I-double-R-S`` ID in English, reference
website, into hymn in English. This is NOT the programming one would
expect from Miraya FM, supposedly scheduled 14-17 daily via IRRS via
SLOVAKIA. Not the first time someone has heard non-Miraya programming
on this frequency, so what`s going on? Program schedule at
http://ww2.nexus.org/NEXUS-IBA/Schedules/tue.htm
still shows at 14-17 UT: ``United Nations - Radio Miraya (to South
Sudan/Darfour)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [and non]. 9595, March 11 at 0754 instrumental music only
from R. Nikkei, 2+ hours after the earthquake. One might have expected
something more pertinent.
9750, March 11 at 0757, NHK in Japanese, fair, talking about tsunamis.
This frequency normally runs all the way from 07 to 17, 290 degrees
from Yamata.
Next English broadcast we could hear from R. Japan was the 1400,
scheduled only on 5955 and 9875 direct, 21560 via France. 9875 is
audible at 1407 with news on quake, casualties, but at 1410, 5955 has
CCI and SAH, colliding as usual with CRI English eastward from Beijing
site. Back to 9875: 1416 ending news, over to ``Focus`` on giant
pandas from China.
The only remaining NHK World R. Japan relays via Canada in English
are: 0500-0530 on 6110, 1200-1230 on 6120. And there is NO English
scheduled on any frequency between 1430 and 0500! (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. NHK World TV coverage of the quakes & tsunamis was
widely relayed on US networks such as MSNBC, CNN and Fox starting
between 0600 and 0700 UT March 11.
We checked the usual 1700-1730 UT M-F NHK relay via OETA OKLA, and of
course was still extensively and exclusively about that; but at 1715
wrapped up and switched to Brazilian summary of tsunami warnings! 1718
same in English, 1721 Chinese, 1723 Korean, 1725 Brazilian again.
These warnings concerned ONLY Japanese coastal areas, altho Koreas and
China if not Brazil would also be threatened, so intended for domestic
consumption (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. Incredible Live Coverage of Major Japan Earthquake - On now
HEADS UP!! Watch now NHK World. Also NHK the usually encrypted NHK
Premium is currently free-to-air on international satellites.
As I watch, the aftershocks are occurring. They have left cameras
running in the studio and the live coverage of the tsunami has to be
seen to be believed. I have never seen live coverage like this before.
(Mark Fahey, Sydney NSW, 0623 UT March 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
In the US, CNN and Fox News are on it, but no one else it seems.
(Glenn, 0630 UT, ibid.) Quake started at 0546 UT (gh)
For unique coverage if you have a satellite dish watch NHK Premium
(currently FTA) on Intelsat 8 & their global network. They are showing
the National Emergency Network programming including recorded Tsunami
Emergency Warning Announcements continuously being repeated in
Japanese, English, Mandarin and Korean. Cheers, (Mark Fahey, Sydney,
0840 UT March 11, WORLD OF RADIO 1556, ibid.)
Hi Glenn, After seeing the reports in NASWA yg of unusually good
reception of Guyana, I thought it was worth checking for other
abnormally good receptions. So on Friday (UT) I went to Ocean Beach
much earlier than I normally do. After 0800 UT the police came by to
tell me the news of the quake in Japan. Warned me of a possible
tsunami coming in maybe in seven hours or so. I curtailed my
monitoring and left the beach before 1100 UT. Have since learned that
the mayor of San Francisco ordered the closing of the only access road
(The Great Highway) to the area of Ocean Beach that I listen at. Am
happy that I did go early just to catch the positive reception of
Wantok Radio Light. One of my more interesting receptions (Ron Howard,
San Francisco, March 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Escucha de Radio Japón a horas del terremoto. Estimado señor Hauser:
Reporto para su boletín la siguiente escucha de una emisión de NHK
World Radio Japón a pocas horas del terremoto en ese país:
6195 kHz, NHK World Radio Japón, en español para Sudamérica vía
repetidora de Bonaire, 1000 UT, 11 de marzo de 2011. Edición especial
del boletín de noticias (desde los estudios en Tokio) dedicado
íntegramente al terremoto que azotó Japón hace pocas horas. Mención a
la magnitud de 8.8 en Richter, las evacuaciones producidas en el país
por el tsunami y la alerta en diversos países del Pacífico, reporte de
olas de hasta 7 metros en prefecturas como Iwate y Miyagi,
ofrecimiento de ayuda del embajador y tropas estadounidenses allí. El
boletín duró los primeros 15 minutos de la emisión, y luego se
transmitió el programa normal, dedicado a las escuelas convertidas a
otras funciones en virtud del envejecimiento de la población japonesa.
SINPO: 44354. Escuchada con mi receptor portátil Brigmton BT-353, con
antena de carrete, en sector residencial de Santiago, Chile. Cordiales
saludos, (Eduardo Peñailillo Barra, March 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Heard at 1205 UT - NHK2 domestic service is giving English reports on
the earthquake. English Language lessons are usually at this time.
Monitored on a Global Tuners receiver in Japan on 693 kHz. Regards
(Tony Magon, March 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Major disaster hits Japan; whole region affected --- major earthquake
hit Japan with Tsunami reported. Tsunami warning ALL of Pacific
region, including Hawaii, where evacuations underway. (quake measured
at 8.9).
Am hearing R. Nikkei normally with piano music (Rick Barton, Arizona,
1311 UT March 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also AUSTRALIA; HAWAII, NEW
ZEALAND!
NHK`s short-sighted curtailment of English broadcasts continues to
impede the world from getting news direct. At 1400, 21560 via France
is very poor and unreadable, as is 9875 direct. I also tried 9875
after 1300 when it is the only English frequency, but inaudible,
compared to CRI English over India on 9870 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Glenn: I was listening to NHK's English broadcast this morning at
1200-1230 on 9625. Reception was fair, with no QRM. 6120, 9695 and
9790 should have been parallel, but I forgot to check them! (Harold
Sellers, Mar 14, NASWA yg via DXLD)
I was chatting with a family friend this morning whose daughter is a
Tokyo resident. She hopped on a plane yesterday to return to the USA
with her young child. She was of the opinion that the government
authorities were lying about the severity of the nuclear situation.
I am not sure, even if Radio Japan were to have a two-hour English
broadcast vs. a 30-minute English broadcast, we'd be satisfied here in
the USA with the depth of coverage and governmental candor -- that is
just not the Japanese way.
In the FWIW department, NHK World does stream live TV in English via
the Internet; the JIB website, http://jibtv.com/ has been offering
24/7 English language TV coverage in relatively high quality; the
regular schedule has been suspended, instead being wall-to-wall
disaster coverage each time I've checked.
At least the service doesn't have the hyperventilating anchors that
seem to pervade USA-based TV news sources (Richard Cuff / Allentown,
PA USA, NASWA yg via DXLD)
Around 1410 UT March 12 I wanted to hear news in depth from ANY
English-speaking SW station, but scanning all bands, I could not find
a single one! NHK not making it on 9875 due to degraded propagation
and not intended for us, anyway. No VOA, no BBC; RA 9590 has gone back
to `Saturday Night Country` music. The only good signals in English
are gospel huxters for whom journalism, i.e. dealing with objective
reality, is anathema.
O well, there`s always NPR, so tune to KOSU 91.7 for `Weekend Edition`
--- or maybe NOT always, if the Republicans manage to have their way
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
NHK World TV now carry, Video-NHK General TV, Audio-NHK Radio 2.
USTREAM (Japan only ?)
NHK General TV http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-gtv
TBS TV http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tbstv
NIKOVIDEO Fuji TV http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv43019860
(S. Hasegawa, 1653 UT March 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Those all work for me in the US. Thank you (Terry Wilson, ibid.)
NHK World English to North America --- Their broadcast Saturday at
1200 UT on 6120 kHz via Canada was completely devoted to news about
the earthquake and tsunami disaster. The broadcast terminated abruptly
at 1230Z mid-sentence (Scott Walker, PA USA, March 12, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 693, 1335-, JOAK, Tokyo, Mar 12, Not a great morning yet for
Japanese stations, but multilingual tsunami warnings heard including
English announcing waves of up to 2 meters. Advising evacuation in the
following areas. Good at times, but often fading down to poor.
Earlier, there was a Portuguese language lesson. Oops, no, listening
again I realize that it was the same multilingual tsunami warning in
Portuguese, and not a language lesson. Continues with same at 1343.
Same loop past 1400 without ID. 'All people by the coast must
evacuate'. 'The Meteorological Agency is warning that tsunami is
expected in the following areas: The Pacific coast of ... prefectures
... The waves can be up to 2 meters high in some of the areas
mentioned. Everyone near the coast must evacuate to higher ground.'
Still on at 1604 recheck, so likely on continuously during this
disaster (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
JAPAN, 1089, 1441-, JOHB, NHK2, Sendai, Miyagi, Mar 12, Despite the
tsunami hitting Sendai hard, JOHB continues on the air at fair to good
level with the looped NHK2 tsunami warning broadcast (Walt Salmaniw,
Masset, BC, WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. Japan emergency ham frequencies
//////////// NOTICE! ///////////////
According to earthquake in Japan, amateur radio station JA3RL is
running emergency QRV. PLEASE keep clear of 7030, 7043 kHz.
//////////// NOTICE! ///////////////
(Japan Premium March 11 via DXLD)
RAC Bulletin 2011-006E - Japan Earthquake 2011-03-12
March 12, 2011 Forward: Japan earthquake. JARL has requested to keep
clear the frequency 7.030 MHz as it is used for emergency traffic
related to the Japan earthquake and tsunami. Thank you for your
collaboration.
Daniel Lamoureux, VE2KA
RAC Vice-President International Affairs
and Chair, Emergency Communications Committee,
IARU Region 2 (via Colin Newell, BC, WORLD OF RADIO 1556DXLD)
QTC DESDE JAPON Info via EA3RKR
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
El secretario del A1 Club desde Japón, nos acaba de hacer llegar este
comunicado urgente por correo para su difusión.
QTC! A1 CLUB DX miembros y otros
Como ustedes saben, tuvimos un terremoto terrible en la parte norte de
Japón el viernes por la tarde la semana pasada. Después de tres días
pasados, más de 2000 muertos y más de 10.000 desaparecidos hasta
ahora. Además, las centrales nucleares localizadas en Fukushima-pref.
son cada vez mas grave la situación.
Nosotros, como un operadores radioaficionados hacemos la recopilación
y el intercambio de trafico de emergencia. Por favor, amablemente
mantener limpias y antener la escucha en estas frecuencias.
3525 KHz + /-5 KHz
7030 KHz + /-5 KHz
14.100 MHz + /-10 KHz
21.200 MHz + /-10 KHz
28.200 MHz + /-10 KHz
50.100 MHz, 51.000 MHz, 51.500 MHz
144.100 MHz, 145.000 MHz, 145.500 MHz
430.100 MHz, 433.000 MHz, 433.500 MHz
Gracias por su amable cooperación. Secretario A1 CLUB
JE1TRV Atsu, je1trv @ a1club.net
http://a1club.net/ http://jo1zzz.blogspot.com/
[via:] 73´S ARMIC Team - EA3RKR.
Escuela de Radio A.R.M.I.C
Asociación Radioaficionados
Minusválidos Invidentes de Cataluña
ARMIC ONCE - EA3RKR
EDIFICIO ONCE CATALUÑA
C/ SEPULVEDA, 1
08015 BARCELONA (via Enrique Wembagher, March 13, condiglist yg via
WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DXLD)
** JAPAN. JJY 40 kHz stopped --- According to NICT (National Institute
of Communications and Information Technology), JJY Ootakadoya
transmitter site (40 kHz), which transmits standard time signal, has
stopped transmission since 1046 UT on March 12. The reason is the
evacuation advice by the Japanese government in view of the danger of
two Fukushima Nuclear Power Stations, severely damaged by the extra-
large earthquake and tsunami on March 11. The transmitter site is
located at the top of Mt. Ootakadoya in Fukushima prefecture, 16 km
from Fukushima Nuclear Power Station No.1. After the melt-down [sic]
and explosion in No.1 nuclear reactor of the No. 1 power station,
government advised the inhabitants within 20 km to evacuate.
Other nuclear reactors of the power stations are also in very
dangerous situation. The transmitting station has a power of 50 kW,
controlled by the staffs. In Japan there is another JJY station (60
kHz), located at Mt. Hagane, Fukuoka prefecture. Radio-controlled
clocks manufactured after 2002 can also receive 60 kHz signal
alternatively (Takahito Akabayashi, Japan, 1116 UT March 13, WORLD OF
RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. Radio Nikkei-1 (3925, 6055, 9595 kHz) relays the earthquake
disaster information program of Radio Fukushima JOWR 1458 kHz on Mar
15 to Mar 31.
"From rfc Radio Fukushima-Try hard Fukushima, Try hard Touhoku, Try
hard Japan (rfc Radio Fukushima hatu-Ganbarou Fukushima, Ganbarou
Touhoku, Ganbarou Nippon)"
Mar. 15 0605-0700, 1000-1110,
Mar. 16 0605-0700, 1005-1055,
Mar. 17 0930-1055,
Mar. 18 0605-0700, 1045-1130,
Mar. 19 0930-1030,
Mar. 20 1035-1130,
After Mar. 21 is not yet decided (S. Hasegawa, Japan, 1409 UT March
15, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. Re: NHK TV online simulcast: The links have come and gone
for the English service, but currently this is working:
http://jibtv.com/program/index.aspx?page=0
(Terry Wilson, 0636 UT March 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
USTREAM Live-cast
NHK World TV http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-world-tv
NHK General TV http://ustre.am/vmCj
NTV http://ustre.am/vnel (Now off)
TBS http://ustre.am/kJ3E
Fuji TV http://ustre.am/iEG9
TV Asahi http://ustre.am/vnnn (NDXC-HQ via S. Hasegawa,
Japan, 1327 UT March 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
NHK Japan Domestic Television
NHK Domestic Television continues free-to-air on Intelsat 8, 4060
Horizontal 26590. There are 5 NHK TV outlets on this transponder, the
domestic service is on the channel labeled "Premium". The standard
audio track is in Japanese, however if you move across to the right
hand audio channel you will find they are providing a live english
language translation of the continuing coverage. As usual, also on
this transponder is NHK World TV in standard and high definition, 4:3
& 16:9. Cheers, (Mark Fahey, NSW, 14 March, ARDXC via DXLD)
Another easy option for those with Ku Band only is NHK World TV on
Optus D2, 12546V, 22500 3/4. Been watching a fair bit of it over the
weekend, though they do repeat themselves a bit. I suspect the local
domestic service stuff is better, though. Rgds (Craig Seager, ibid.)
NHK World`s TV news in English via OKLA, March 15 at 1600-1630: I have
never seen them so rattled and disorganized. The anchor stumbled
around, kept repeating the same news, same wording, at least a dozen
times, about a 6.0 which hit near Tokyo in the Tokai region, Shizuoka
Pref., at 1331 UT, scenes of the newsrooms vibrating, people diving
under tables (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Brief item on Kyodo news agency Web site says:
+ 01:25 16 March NEWS ADVISORY: Radio France to withdraw staff in
Japan after nuclear accidents: Dow Jones Note
(Mike Cooper, DXLD, Mar 15)
RADIO FRANCE TO WITHDRAW STAFF REPORTING ON JAPAN QUAKE
PARIS, March 15, Kyodo --- Radio France decided Tuesday to pull out
staff dispatched to cover the major earthquake in Japan, following a
series of accidents at a Japanese nuclear power plant, a public
relations official told Kyodo News.
The state-run radio station has sent a total of seven reporters and
technical staffers to report on last week's quake and tsunami, and
accidents at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
The decision to withdraw the staff was made given the seriousness of
the accidents at the nuclear power plant, the official said. The
pullout will leave one correspondent based in Japan for the French
radio station. If the correspondent decides to leave Japan, support
will be offered in arranging return travel, according to the official.
== Kyodo (via Mike Cooper, 1738 UT March 15, DXLD)
http://www.istockanalyst.com/business/news/4971929/radio-france-to-withdraw-staff-reporting-on-japan-quake
(via Artie Bigley, March 15, DXLD)
Radio HF Internet Newsletter - SPECIAL EDITION - JAPAN EARTHQUAKE
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hfnewsletter/message/162
(via gh, dxldyg via DXLD)
Radio Japan English:
To North America
0500-0530 6110 via Canada
1000-1030 9840 via Japan [or rather, to Hawaii at midnight!]
1200-1230 6120 via Canada
To Europe
0500-0530 5975 via Great Britain
1200-1230 9790 via Germany
To Africa
0500-0530 9770 via France
1400-1430 21560 via France
To Southwest Asia
0500-0530 15205 via Uzbekistan
1000-1030 11780 via Uzbekistan
1300-1330 9875 via Japan
1400-1430 9875 via Japan
To Southeast Asia
0500-0530 17810 via Japan
1000-1030 9605 via Japan
1200-1230 9695 via Japan
1400-1430 5955 via Japan
To Oceania
1000-1030 9625 via Japan
1200-1230 9625 via Japan
Copied from
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/radio/shortwave/area.html
16-March-2011
0500-0530 5975 via Great Britain to Eur
0500-0530 6110 via Canada to NAm
0500-0530 9770 via France to Africa
0500-0530 15205 via Uzbekistan to SW Asia
0500-0530 17810 via Japan to SE Asia
1000-1030 9605 via Japan to SE Asia
1000-1030 9625 via Japan to Oceania
1000-1030 9840 via Japan to NAm
1000-1030 11780 via Uzbekistan to SW Asia
1200-1230 6120 via Canada to NAm
1200-1230 9625 via Japan to Oceania
1200-1230 9695 via Japan to SE Asia
1200-1230 9790 via Germany to Eur
1300-1330 9875 via Japan to SW Asia
1400-1430 5955 via Japan to SE Asia
1400-1430 9875 via Japan to SW Asia
1400-1430 21560 via France to Africa
(via Harold Frodge, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JORDAN. 15290, 14/3 1206-1229*, Radio Jordan, Arabic service,
reports also about Libya. Later Arabic songs. Off at 1229. Good
(Giampiero Bernardini, Collins 51S-1 & Drake R4-C; ANT: T2FD 15
meters long, Milano, Italia, SW Blog: http://radiodxsw.blogspot.com/
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 2850, KOREA DPR. Pyongyang BS, 1417 Mar 9. Korean,
operatic music performance. // 3250 and others. Strong. (Sellers-BC)
3250, Pyongyang BS, 1413 Mar 9. Korean, operatic song. Fair, // 3320
poor, 6398 very weak. (Sellers-BC)
3959.7, KCBS, Kanggye, 1350 Mar 9. Operatic singing, male announcer.
Fair, ham QRM (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening
lakeside from my car. Eton E1 and Sony AN1 antenna. Editor of World
English Survey and Target Listening, available at
http://www.odxa.on.ca dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. Re 11-10, Shiokaze on 5985 March 9: Hi Glenn,
Still heard with a strong signal here in California. Yes, another
Wednesday in English. March 9 heard *1400 (scheduled for half an
hour).
5910, Shiokaze, *1400, March 10. Ex: 5985. First day back here again;
no jamming, but slightly bothered by OTH radar pulses (Ron Howard, San
Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5910, Shiokaze = Sea Breeze, reactivated here, ex-5985, March 11 at
1409, very poor in English on Friday. Ron Howard says 5910 started
March 10, when I did not check for it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. QSL: Open Radio for North Korea 7480 KHz - P.O-
Box 158 - Mapo - Seoul 121-600 - Repubblica di Corea con lettera +
schedule in 268 giorni. v/s Kim Ik Hwan Programme Director. Si 1 IRC.
(Roberto Pavanello, Vercelli / Italia, March 15, via Roberto
Scaglioine, shortwave yg via DXLD)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. Inter-Korean broadcast war
MARCH 11, 2011 11:20 --- Pyongyang Broadcasting Station of North
Korea, which targeted South Korean audiences, carried radio programs
giving random numbers until December 2000. They were weird programs in
which announcers called numbers for 30 minutes from midnight after
saying that an uncle in Pyongyang was sending the numbers to a niece
in Seoul. “Niece in Seoul” was code for a certain spy in the South.
The program then gave a series of numbers for 15 minutes and repeated
them for another 15 minutes. Deciphering the numbers with a table
unraveled Pyongyang’s directives.
The North stopped the program as the Internet grew popular in South
Korea and radio waned. The communist country instead filled the radio
station’s air time with propaganda praising the North and denouncing
the South. The station remains on air for about 10 hours a day. The
North is also operating Kaesong Broadcasting, which airs psychological
warfare programs targeting South Korean audiences. Its airtime is
irregular perhaps because of the North’s power shortages. The
communist country also airs programs internationally targeting
overseas Koreans with pro-Pyongyang inclinations. While all the
programs are filled with clichés, they are aimed at brainwashing South
Koreans by indefinitely repeating the same messages.
The South also has a number of broadcast operations involving Korean
Broadcasting System (KBS), Far East Broadcasting and Arirang TV. KBS
changed the Social Education Broadcasting into Hanminjok (Korean
National) Broadcasting, shifting the target audience from North
Koreans to ethnic Koreans living in China, Russia and other countries.
Far East cannot be seen as a broadcaster targeting the North because
its purpose is promotion of Christianity in communist countries. It is
hard for North Koreans to watch Arirang TV because it requires Chinese
TV sets able to receive signals from the South.
Broadcasts by North Korean defectors in the South perform a role
existing South Korean broadcasters cannot not play. To avoid
intervention from the liberal Roh Moo-hyun administration, the
defectors began broadcasting by purchasing a shortwave frequency band
from abroad. Shortwave signals can be sent to faraway places but sound
quality suffers. Medium waves cannot go as far as short waves but has
better sound quality.
Offering a way to overcome the limits, Choi See-joong, chairman of the
Korea Communications Commission, told the National Assembly Tuesday
that the panel will consider allotting a medium-wave frequency to air
civilian broadcasting in the North. If this happens, North Koreans in
South Pyongan Province and areas south of it can listen to South
Korean broadcasts with clear sound quality. This could open the way
for the South to let North Koreans know what is going on the Korean
Peninsula and in the world.
Editorial Writer Lee Jeong-hoon (hoon@donga.com)
Source: Inter-Korean broadcast war http://bit.ly/hObCsJ
(via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD)
** KOREA NORTH. To smuggle facts into or out of North Korea is to risk
imprisonment:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/04/north-korea-8217-s-digital-underground/8414/#
(via Robert Wilkner, HCDX via DXLD)
** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 6045, KBS World Radio relay via Sackville,
Spanish at 06-07 to Europe, has been tough to hear clearly ever since
last November when RHC glommed onto 6050 with much stronger signal.
But March 13 at 0624 I notice that the VTC, or rather Babcock fill-
music loop is playing instead of KBS, so RCI has lost the feed from
Seoul: the same music as always played between VOV relays on 6175, and
also heard during other breakdowns, e.g. from SENTECH (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN. 4870.64, Voice of Iranian Kurdistan, via Salah Al-Din,
Northern Iraq, *0255-0320, Feb 24, Kurdish talk about Kurdistan, Iran
and Peshawar, martial song, best heard in USB, strong CODAR QRM,
33433. No jamming in the beginning, but later it came on (Anker
Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window March 9 via DXLD)
** KUWAIT [and non]. 21540, March 14 at 1446, R. Kuwait in Arabic well
atop collision with SPAIN direct, which itself had good signals on
clear 21570 and 21610. Saudi 21505 also in, weaker. If only we could
get Kuwait as well in English, from 1800 on 15540. See also
UNIDENTIFIED 13650 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. Update on Libya Thu Feb 24, 2011 9:12 am (PST)
1449 kHz is definitely off for a couple of days already. The old site
was Misurata 20 kW, lately it should have been from Al-Assah with
higher power. 1251 kHz is on exact, but with rather thick carrier.
Should have 400 kW according to reliable info, but is either on backup
tx or running lower power, probably in 50 kW range.
1053 is now on much lower than it used to be: 1053.014 kHz. It's 100
kW. 972 is on exact. 711 has been off since yesterday afternoon.
Judging by reception it was probably Jefren, and only one transmitter
was active. It was V of Africa/Main prgrogram // 1251 kHz. 675 and
1125 carry different programming, although it sounds similar. All ?'s
are off (Mauno Riotla, Finland, 1712 UT Feb 24, MWCircle yg via DXLD)
Now at 2230 UT, 1053 and 972 have different programming. The last
phase? (Steve Whitt, England, 0029 UT Feb 26, ibid.)
Libya: 5 MW transmitters on the air
On March 3rd, 4th Libyan local daytime few Libyan transmitters were
noted on the air. Thanks near-target web-Perseus- SDR receivers
(Ragusa, Sicily & Zakynthos, Greece) we have the complete picture
(hopefully). Thanks M. Ritola (MR) for comments/addings.
675 ===> 675.004 Benghazi (100) with "Libya al'hurr"
711 ===> 710.994 Jafran (50) with "saut al africa" // 1251 (NB. on Mar
4th ca. *1100-) NB. other 2 sites are OFF.
[MR: "710.994, drifting ±1 Hz. S/on variable."]
972 ===> 971.999 Surt (50) carrying main program.
1053 ===> 1053.101 Tripoli (100) with HQ "jamahiriya al'usma"
[MR: "1053 kHz should mostly carry TV sound.". "That's right, back to
its normal offset, it was quite a while on 1053.014 kHz."]
1251 ===> 1251.000 Tripoli (200) "saut al africa"
NB. 1125 which was active previous week, now it was silent.
73, Vlad Titarev, Kremenchuk, Ukraine, Perseus SDRs: Ragusa, Italy
(fed from ALA1530), Zakynthos, GRC (both via WWW), local: fed from
K9AY. via mwoffsets (via Steve Whitt, MWC yg March 5 via DXLD)
Hi Vlad, Thanks for posting these frequencies, which by the way also
appear in the WRTH 2011. In addition to yours that's all I have here:
648 kHz 300 kW Tobruk
792 kHz 20 kW Sirt
828 kHz 300 kW Sabha
909 kHz 20 kW Ghiagboub
1080 kHz 10 kW Kufra
1404 kHz 20 kW Tripoli
Their site: http://www.ljbc.net (Source WRTH 2011)
Interestingly both Kufra and 1404 were playing the same program
(music) when I checked earlier on at 01:30 UTC, and I also received El
Beida (Al Bayda) today on 1125 kHz, but it's not consistently on all
the time. 73 from (Dorset, UK, Tim, 0209 UT March 7, MWCircle yg via
DXLD)
** LIBYA. Observation of Libyan mediumwave frequencies on Mar 05,
2030-2230:
675, Free Libya, Benghazi
972, LJB Main Programme, Sirt
1053.11, tent. TV-audio of Libyan state TV
1125, Free Libya, El Baida
1251, LJB Voice of Africa, Tripoli
1449, inactive
(Patrick Robic, Leibnitz, Austria, DSWCI DX Window March 9 via DXLD)
** LIBYA. 98.0 FM, Tobruk Liberty Station. Until Feb 18 it was named
Al-Badnan and a part of the Main Programme from the Libyan Jamahiriya
Broadcasting Corporation (LJBC) in Tripoli with strict regulations to
the local editorial staff of not producing programmes regarding
politics or religion. Its range was limited to 40 km.
”But on Feb 18 the station was burned down, supposedly by the Gaddafi
regime, because they would not risk that the local editorial staff
became the voice of the rebellions”, says one of the leading staff
members, Mr. Khaled Shahata, in an interview to the Danish newspaper
Jyllandsposten on Feb 28.
”Thus the staff members decided to reopen the station from a new
facility on a hilltop with a range of 160 km.” It was the facility of
a closed LJBC TV-station, probably TV CH 8. The new radio station was
named Tobruk Liberty Station. Unlike the Gaddafi regime, the
rebellions have no restrictions.
”So the editorial staff for the first time have experienced real
freedon of expression! Now we invite people to go against the Gaddafi
regime. The station receives daily about 1,000 phonecalls from all
parts of Libya to get the latest news. Especially many from the
southern Libya calls in, because their media are still controlled by
Gaddafi”.
On Feb 28, an aircraft from the Libyan Air Force attacked a
radiostation in Misratah (4 FM-channels. Ed), but the aircraft was
shut down by the rebellions (Jyllandsposten, Denmark, Mar 01 via Anker
Petersen, DSWCI DX Window March 9 via DXLD)
On Mar 06 the LJBC claimed that its armed forces had conquered back
three cities, incl. Misratah and Tobruk. However, this could not be
confirmed by the rebellions, so Tobruk Liberty Station may still exist
(Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window March 9 via DXLD)
BBC WS interview: VOICE OF FREE LIBYA
BBC World Service: "Outlook" 07. March 2011
===========================================
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00f2frv
VOICE OF FREE LIBYA --- One of the technicians behind one of Libya's
only uncensored radio stations describes the fear and excitement he
and his colleagues felt when they launched the station and could speak
freely for the first time in 42 years.
LISTEN NOW (AAC-LC stream, 64 kbps, 44 kHz, stereo):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00f2frv/
(via Dragan Lekic, Serbia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. Re [dxld] ``Libya on 8500 ex-7500 --- Libya now on 8500 kHz
// 972 kHz. 73, (Günter Lorenz, Freising, Germany, RX: Perseus ANT:
ALA1530+SSB, 2036 UT March 8, HCDX via DXLD)``
Conforme esta emisora brindada por el colega Glenn Hauser estoy
escuchando una señal pobre y distorsionada siendo las 2230 UT en esta
QRG (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, March 8, condiglist yg via DXLD)
The signal on 8500 was subsequently (from around 1900 UT) covered by a
huge wide-band digital signal. Now at 2000 UT, they are on 7500 kHz.
I have recorded approx. 10 minutes here:
http://www.myradiobase.de/201103091812_8500.mp3
Recording started at 1812 UT, at 03:26 [into the file] I'm switching
to a remote Perseus in GRC (tnx SV8RV!) on 8500 kHz, at 03:55 to 972,
and back to 8500, 04:30 back to 972 with strong LBY. 05:10 back to my
own Perseus on 8500, quite weak. At 07:10 into Arabic OM telefone
call. 73, (Günter Lorenz, D-85354 Freising, Germany, RX: Perseus ANT:
ALA1530+SSB, March 9, HCDX via DXLD)
7500, 2055-2112* 09.03, Libyan Jamahiriya Brc. Corp., Sabrata, Arabic,
inflammatory speech about Gaddafi to an often shouting crowd // 972 MW
Sirt, Gaddafi's home city. Thanks to Günter
Lorenz! 34333
8500.00, 1845-2103* 10.03, Libyan Jamahiriya Brc. Corp., Sabrata,
Arabic inflammatory talks about Gaddafi and speeches to an often
shouting crowd // 972 MW Sirt. At 2026-2057 probably Mr. Gaddafi
himself was speaking to a well disciplined audience where the same
person in the audience raised questions that were answered and with
applauses and with the crowd chanting, praising Allah. 45434
The Gaddafi regime obviously has found it necessary to start relaying
the Domestic Main Program on shortwave, after at least two of its
major mediumwave stations (El Baida (1125 kHz) and Benghazi (675 kHz))
in the East have been taken over by the opposition and are called
"Free Libya". Best 73, (Anker Petersen, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28
metres of longwire in 9 metres altitude in Skovlunde, Denmark, via
Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD)
Hello DXers, while monitoring 7500 kHz I noticed that they go off the
air at 1712 UT. Checking 5800 kHz [sic, must mean 8500] yesterday a
strong ute on top of Libya, can't confirm if they sign off same time
1712 UT or not. Will double check today. B.Rgds (Tarek Zeidan,
Aalborg, Denmark, March 10, dxldyg via DXLD)
Also in Greece on 8500 right now with signal S9, and high pitched
talks! (Zacharias Liangas, 1448 UT March 10, HCDX via DXLD)
Libya on 8500 --- at 1455 today 10th with high pitched talks. Also
applause at 1518 and Arabic song at 1519 Signal S9. A 15 min audio can
be found here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?aq04t2920c0cgnu
(Liangas, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Arriva anche qui con un segnale molto variabile. Ho registrato anche
una parte del programma in cui si sente parlare in inglese. L'utilizzo
delle onde corte ha di certo l'intento di arrivare ad aree più lontane
e quindi l'uso anche della lingua inglese, mai ascoltata sulle onde
medie. Non ho potuto verificare se erano in parallelo anche sulle
medie per via della propagazione. Qui le due clip:
https://www.box.net/shared/cv7dzqcsio
https://www.box.net/shared/7durgtu8oq
Roby (Roberto Rizzardi, Italy, 10 March, playdx yg via DXLD)
Libya has been audible here on 8500 kHz today. Very weak from 0930
tune-in but has improved slightly since 1500, now with talk in Arabic.
It`s probably the main domestic channel of Libyan Radio ("idaat al
jamahiriya al ozma") but not 100% sure.
Same also heard yesterday on 8500 but with a much weaker signal. Some
time yesterday evening it switched to 7500, also very weak with
splatter, which appeared to close around 2110 UT.
Meanwhile, the external service, Voice of Africa from the Great
Jamahiriya, has only been observed on one frequency, 17725 kHz, for
the past few days, when checked between 1200-1800 UT. It's there now
(1520) with a strong carrier but no discernible audio today or
yesterday. Voice of Africa's 21695 channel seems to be off the air, so
they may be using that transmitter to relay the domestic service on
8500/7500 kHz. 73s (Dave Kenny, Caversham, AOR 7030+ 25m long wire,
1625 UT March 10, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD)
8500: I can receive Arabic at 1750 UT on Mar. 10; seems to be LJBC in
Japan. The signal is weak, but hear talking of Arabic by male (S.
Hasegawa, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Everyone, 8500 kHz Libya in English: 1800 10/3/11 phone-in program
and someone from UK phones in. I have cut some of the talk and music
at end. This is what I heard [3:34]
http://www.box.net/shared/5fl21azyvx
(Mark Davies, Anglesey, Wales, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Talks about sending some official to Benghazi. Seems like he is
talking to the rebel side; is he? (gh, DXLD)
Libya on 8500 heard 3/10 at 1850 tune from Global Tuner receiver in
Western Australia (about an 8,000 mile path length) - S2/3 with heavy
QSB. Animated male speaker alternating with Arab vocal/instrumental
music. Suddenly off at 1904.5 but back equally suddenly at 1908.5 with
a more calm announcer followed by the animated speaker and more music.
Still going past 1930 although signal faded to S2 after 1920 and by
1930 was barely audible. Program was a mixture of various speakers and
Arab music (Bruce Churchill, California, Cumbre DX via DXLD)
V. of Africa from the Great Jamahiriyah, March 10: 21695 still
missing, 17725 open carrier at S9+8 with maybe a trace of modulation;
same at 1424.
However, revived March 11 at 1401 on 17725, now modulating again in
Swahili, 1403 switching to English ID with drumming, usual hokum on
United States of Africa, ``era of the masses``, 1405 canned frequency
announcement for 21695 and 17850, both of which are wrong since 21695
remains off the air. 1437 a bit weaker with music. Checked 8500,
reported as active with Q`Daffy HS 972 relay, but nothing audible here
besides 8504 ute noises. At 1511, 17725 again announcing the two wrong
frequencies, African geographical statistics (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD
OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Radio Free Libya on 675 kHz, and Libya in General. --- Hello DXers,
for the last three days I noticed that Radio Free Libya on 675 kHz is
changing the transmitting set up. Normally they start with a test tone
around 0650 UT that lasts till 0700 (some days they shift that till
0712) and start with ID followed by recitation of the holy Qur`an.
I noticed on 9/3 that they were on as early as 0545 when I normally
wake up. It is a recorded program, mainly songs and some of the
previous shows they had. Around 0650 they are back to the normal sign
off with a test tone.
One more observation: the ID now is Sout Libya Al Hurra, not Idhaat
Libya Al Hurra. For the rest of the MW Scene of Libya:
972 is still pro Ghadaffi, broadcasting Idhaat al Jamaeriya al Ouzma
// 8500 kHz
1251 and 711 are mainly for the Voice of Africa.
1053 sometimes they are // 972 and in late nights they have the audio
carrier of the Libyan TV
1125 is having Radio Free Libya from Al Beida
Some of the news we are having that the rebels are getting closer to
Sert, where the transmitter of 972 kHz is located, so keeping an ear
on this one most of the time. All the best (Tarek Zeidan, Aalborg,
Denmark, 1211 UT March 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hello DXers, checking 8500 kHz around 0800 UT, I noticed that they are
carrying the audio carrier of Al Libya TV channel. Same style of
announcers talking about Gadaffi and how Libya should be unified and
stop those who are trying to destroy Libya, as they claim. 1000 UT,
Libya moved to 7500 kHz and 8500 is now silent (Tarek Zeidan, Aalborg
Denmark, March 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
8500, Libya 1957 with a military march (folks singing ) but signal is
only S5 max 11.3. On 12.3 at 1115 with talks and S5 (Zacharias
Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40, heads
Sennheiser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. 17725, VOAf from the GJ, again March 12 at 1400 Swahili
running overtime, 1403 opening English, 1405 usual totally wrong
canned frequency announcement. Same old stuff; 1530 check had declined
to just barely audible carrier, meanwhile 21695 still missing, altho
13m was barely propagating from anywhere but Furman.
17725, VOAf from the GJ, March 13 audible around 1345 presumably in
Swahili; 1415 check, poor in English, by 1525 fair-good with music;
still nothing on 21695.
17725, V. of Africa from the Great Jamahiriyah, March 14 at 1403 in
English after another Swahili runover, with usual 9-9-99 nonsense.
Fair signal and good modulation, anyway. At 1445 really happy hilife
music --- things must be peachy in Libya now. 1502 Beethoven`s Ninth
riff and Green Book crap, same old stuff. Still missing from 21695.
17725, VOAf from the GJ, still here and not on 21695, usual pompous
announcer in English at quick check 1435 March 15 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. BENGHAZI RADIO RAP BOOSTS MORALE
Two young Libyans whose rap music is broadcast to the front line by
rebel Benghazi radio hope they are helping to maintain the morale of
fighters outgunned by Muammar Gaddafi’s forces. “Rap does not
physically change things, but it invigorates the soul of people
fighting and sends a message to all Libyans,” said 16-year-old Imad
Abbar, sitting perched on a paint can in the patio of his home in
Benghazi.
Hamza Sisi agreed, and the lyrics - in Arabic - he wrote for their rap
song “Shamat Al-Medina”, or “Candles of the City”, say all:
* The candles of the city shine to tell the world what we want,
* The candles of the city won’t rest and won’t give up,
* The blood of the fighters is our own,
* We won’t surrender until the regime falls.
“I have friends who fought in Benghazi and others currently on the
front line and this pushed me to write the song as a sign of respect
to them,” the 22-year-old told AFP. “My words are reaching the front
and encouraging people,” said the shy young man dressed in a jacket,
jeans and sneakers - a remarkably European look in a country cut off
from the world for decades and where traditions run deep.
Although he is proud that his rap beats out of Benghazi’s radio - one
of the free radios working in the town since the uprising started in
February - Hamza dismisses his contribution to the Libyan revolution
as “not much”, saying he would rather join the ranks of the rebels and
battle against Gaddafi’s troops. “I would fight but we are only two
brothers and one is already on the front line so I have to stay home
and take care of my family,” he said with a glance at his father who
was watching the interview from the doorway.
Hamza has been rapping since 2004 while Imad’s first taste of the
music was in Italy, where he lived a few years with his father, who
had a band. The two met when Imad returned to Libya and settled in
Benghazi, now the centre of the uprising against strongman Gaddafi.
They record their songs in a small amateur studio, equipped with a
keyboard and a computer, in Hamza’s house.
As for Libya’s rap scene, Imad says there are many young men rapping
in Benghazi, Tripoli and other cities, adding that they all keep in
touch with each other but “few” are any good. He says rap is a
relatively new phenomenon in Libya and that the regime is not thrilled
at the talk-back tendencies of this music trend. “In the past, this
was very difficult to do. Anyone who said anything against the regime
spent the rest of his life in prison,” said Imad. “The revolution
expresses how we feel and that is what rap is about: expressing how
you feel. And now we are not afraid.” (Source: AFP)(March 15th, 2011 -
10:57 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via DXLD)
** LIBYA. Re 11-10: Further Comments on “RNW to broadcast via stations
in Libya”
jolyon curran on Mar 9th, 2011 at 19:08
This doesn’t seem the smartest of ideas. The Tripoli regime is far
from fallen and has dutch nationals as prisoners. Using the regime’s
own transmitters to lend support to the rebels will not go unnoticed
and might have consequences if Tripoli does not fall.
#5 Andy Sennitt on Mar 10th, 2011 at 09:46
We are NOT ’supporting the rebels’. We are doing what we have always
done - helping to provide a platform for people to speak freely.
That’s what Huna Amsterdam - which I assume you don’t listen to -
provides. This is merely a special edition focusing on the situation
in Libya.
We don’t take sides - it is a Libyan domestic problem. You could say
the same about us ’supporting’ Radio VOP to Zimbabwe, or DVB to Burma.
If Gaddafi wants to carry the programme on the stations he still
controls, we’ll be delighted
#6 jolyon curran on Mar 10th, 2011 at 11:38
I agree, Andy. However RNW does not broadcast on national transmitters
located in Zimbabwe or Burma/Myanmar. Maybe I am misunderstanding the
situation and Huna Amsterdam will not be broadcast from within Libya,
this is fine and I applaud it. By analogy though, I don’t think the
Nazi use of Dutch transmitters to propagate their views and of their
collaborators was popular in the Netherlands. North Africa has not had
free speech on the airwaves, this is a flower that needs careful
nurturing. None of the regimes have been truely toppled and a comment
I heard the other day on France24 about citizens in the free parts of
Libya now being classified as rebels because their voices and faces
have been shown in the media criticizing the Libyan regime. In other
words, if their revolution does fail, as it might, their could be
terrible retribution against these individuals. My Arabic is very
anaemic and my point was not directed at programme content, which I am
sure will be excellent. I’ve listened almost daily to the Wereldomroep
for more than 40 years in the 4 languages I do speak with any fluency.
#7 Ian B on Mar 10th, 2011 at 11:38
It would be interesting to know if it is the RCA ex Mebo transmitter
that is being used on 675 kHz. After the transmitters were removed
from the ship there seems to have been no confirmation that they were
ever used again. Certainly the Mebo 2 engineer Robin Adcroft was not
able to shed any light on it.
There was the 105 kw RCA MW, the two ex Veronica Continental 10 kW
rigs, two short wave transmitters and the 1kw FM. The ex Radio 390 10
kW never made it to Tripoli and apparently was dumped over the side en
route.
#8 Tarek Zeidan on Mar 15th, 2011 at 14:39
Hello Andy, I was listening to Sout Libya al Hurra on 675 kHz on 14/3
around 1740 UT, but I didn’t hear any RNW ID, it was mainly a
religious program. I checked 1125 kHz the other freq carrying Libya Al
Hurra but also there was no sign of RNW. Any idea if that transmission
took place? If not, any idea when it will take place? Many thanks in
advance. B.Rgds Tarek Zeidan, Aalborg, Denmark
#9 Andy Sennitt on Mar 15th, 2011 at 15:01
Tarek, I am working at home today but I will try to find out for you
tomorrow. The programme was apparently not live, but was pre-recorded,
so maybe they have broadcast it at another time and/or on a different
day (Media Network blog comment via DXLD)
** LUXEMBOURG. Luxembourg 60m [sic] beacon LX0HF --- March 10, 2011
The new Luxembourg 60m beacon LX0HF has been putting a good signal
into the UK on 5205.25 kHz. It is understood that the contact for the
beacon is Philippe LX2A/LX7I of the Luxembourg Amateur Radio Society.
http://www.rlx.lu/
LX0HF Spectrum display on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/g7ahn/
5 MHz Yahoo Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ukfivemegs/
(Southgate http://www.southgatearc.org/news/march2011/lx0hf_beacon.htm
via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD)
** MADEIRA [and non]. Only other items of note were on Longwave. I
heard NDB "PST", 338 kHz, from Madeira Islands at 0203 UT on 3/13 and
NDB "SPP" San Andrés Island on 387 kHz on 3/14 at 0301 (Bill W1OW
Smith, March 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALAYSIA. 9835, presumed RTM Wai FM, 1144-1206, March 6, listed
Malaysian. "Persian" sounding ballads; classical music at 1159 and
brief W announcer at 1201 (no discernible ID or time pips) into Kor'an
chanting; brief W again at 1206 and right back to Kor'an; poor-fair;
becoming noisier nearer ToH (Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA,
NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 730, March 11 at 0116 UT on caradio, R. Viva Villa was
dominating with several IDs during promo, i.e. XEHB in Hidalgo del
Parral, Chihuahua. Wonder if still on day power of 50 kW instead of 1
kW at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1430, XEWD, La Arrolladora 1430, Ciudad Miguel Alemán;
Mexican music and YL with “La Arrolladora” slogan; ID spotted by OM
Henrik Klemetz who says the name means irresistible women!!! A first
for me and the UK thinks OM Andrew Brade (I suspect they left the day
power on overnight) Fair, 0757 30/1 (Barry Davies, Carlisle, Cumbria,
UK. Perseus, 3.7m x 10.0m Flag + FLG100 amp, March Mediumwave News via
DXLD)
** MEXICO. Border Blasters --- ABC Radio National had an interesting
piece as part of “Hindsight” today about the so-called Mexican “Border
Blasters”, stations such as XERF in Acuña and how they came about.
It’s a U.S. NPR production, so not available from RN as podcast, but I
did find it here:
http://www.onthemedia.org/episodes/2007/11/16/segments/89005
A very entertaining program, and brings back some memories. Regards,
(Craig Seager, NSW, ARDXC via DXLD)
** MEXICO. 6185, R. Educación again with serious modulation problem,
distorted March 10 at 0635 check, ID for 1060 only, 100,000 watts
(which I assume is modulated OK); only hear some distorted modulation
at peaks of talk and music. It was OK the night before, but the same
problem first appeared the night before that.
6185, XEPPM, March 12 at 0645 dead air, I fear another breakdown, but
it is just a pause, as well-modulated music soon starts, cha-cha with
a name shouted periodically, ``Julia``? 0647 YL DJ outros as Pérez
Prado, but Julia unfound in his discography,
http://www.laventure.net/tourist/prezdisc_3_45s.htm
DJ in Spanish wishes us an excellent Saturday March 12, and more great
music by same artist, making me want to upstay to enjoy it. Henceforth
until Mexico DF goes on DST too April 3, I would already have to stay
up an hour later by local time just to hear start of their eclectic
music circa 0632 UT.
6185, XEPPM, March 14 at 0600 open carrier, 0601 JIP (join in
progress) national anthem. 0600 is when they switch from separate SW
programming to simulcasting MW 1060. It would be nice if they could
accomplish this flawlessly. 6185 well atop Vatican CCI which lasts
only until 0620 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Re: UAM Radio 94.1, inicio de transmisiones
Hola: A partir del día de hoy a las 6:00 horas del tiempo del centro
del país, inicia transmisiones UAM Radio XHUAMA-FM, XHUAMC-FM, XHUAMI-
FM, XHUAMR-FM y XHUAMX-FM en el 94.1 MHz con 0.020 watts de potencia.
Su página de internet es: http://www.uamradio.uam.mx/
Saludos cordiales (Roberto E. Gómez Morales, Mexico, March 11, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.:
UAM RADIO INICIA TRANSMISIONES EN EL 94.1 DE FM
*El próximo viernes 11 de marzo a las 6:00 horas se inician
transmisiones *El rector general de la UAM, doctor Enrique Fernández
Fassnacht, inaugurará oficialmente a las 9:30 horas *La Fonoteca
Nacional, Radio Educación, Radio UNAM y la Compañía Nacional de Teatro
se suman a este proyecto [captions]
UAM Radio, la emisora de radio de la Universidad Autónoma
Metropolitana (UAM), inicia transmisiones el próximo viernes 11 de
marzo a las 6:00 horas en el 94.1 de Frecuencia Modulada (FM). El
rector general del la UAM, doctor Enrique Fernández Fassnacht,
inaugurará oficialmente UAM Radio, “la radio abierta al tiempo”, a las
9:30 horas de ese día.
A la inauguración asistirán como invitados de honor la maestra Iris
Santacruz Fabila, secretaria general de la UAM; el maestro Raúl
Hernández Valdés, coordinador general de Difusión de esta casa de
estudios; y la doctora Beatriz Solís Leere, investigadora del
Departamento de Educación y Comunicación de la Unidad Xochimilco.
UAM Radio contará con cinco antenas transmisoras, una por cada Unidad
académica ubicadas en el Distrito Federal, y una más en la Rectoría
general de la UAM. Cada antena tendrá un alcance de onda entre seis y
ocho kilómetros a la redonda, lo cual permitirá a la estación cubrir
cerca de 70 por ciento del territorio de la ciudad de México.
El ingeniero Felipe Padilla Luna, quien coordina la instalación de los
equipos de transmisión y grabación junto con el ingeniero Ignacio
Espinoza Abonza, responsable técnico de la estación ante la Cofetel,
destacó en entrevista previa para la revista Casa del Tiempo del mes
de marzo, que la innovación de este proyecto recae en trabajar una
sola frecuencia con cinco transmisores, lo que implica que éstos se
sincronicen mediante GPS para evitar interferencia. “Vamos a lograr un
efecto parecido al de los celulares: cuando se vaya perdiendo una
señal entrará la otra, pero sin distorsión”.
Teodoro Villegas, subdirector administrativo encargado del proyecto
UAM Radio y profesor de Radio de la licenciatura en Comunicación
Social de la UAM, en entrevista previa detalló que la estructura de la
emisora “es mínima, pero con bastante experiencia y calidad”.
Expuso que la mayoría de los participantes son jóvenes menores de 30
años que “han demostrado capacidad, entrega y profesionalización
maravillosas en todos los sentidos: creativo, operativo, técnico, y se
están convirtiendo en individuos multifuncionales. Ellos pueden
operar, escribir, hacer una voz y musicalizar; todo esto en un solo
individuo, y eso me parece trascendental”.
El especialista en producción radiofónica consideró que “la gente está
acostumbrada a oír no a escuchar y en UAM Radio lo que deseamos es que
la gente nos escuche. Trataremos de ser concretos, no rolleros, y
ofrecerle a la gente un discurso sabroso y lúdico. Esto los chavos lo
están logrando”.
Gerardo Marván Enriquez, director de Comunicación Social de la UAM,
quien también fue entrevistado para Casa del Tiempo, dijo al respecto
del proyecto, “en esta radio se pretende jugar con toda seriedad, como
deben ser jugados todos los juegos, tomando en cuenta, sobre todo, la
gran responsabilidad de tener en tus manos un medio de comunicación, y
servir con él a la sociedad, pues finalmente ésa es la razón de
existir de la universidad pública”, parafraseando a Julio Cortazar.
A la inauguración también asistirán el doctor Javier Velázquez
Moctezuma, rector de la Unidad Iztapalapa; el doctor Arturo Rojo
Domínguez, rector de la Unidad Cuajimalpa; el doctor José Francisco
Flores Pedroche, rector de la Unidad Lerma; el doctor Salvador Vega y
León, rector de la Unidad Xochimilco, la maestra Paloma Ibáñez
Villalobos, rectora de la Unidad Azcapotzalco.
Asimismo, asistirán como invitados de honor el licenciado Fernando
Escalante Sobrino, coordinador de Radio Universidad de Veracruz, el
maestro Guillermo Gaviria, presidente de la Red Radios Universitarias
Latinoamericanas; Fernando Chamizo, director de Radio UNAM; Álvaro
Hegewisch Díaz Infante, director general de la Fonoteca Nacional;
Gabriela Warkentin directora de Radio Ibero 90.9 de FM; la licenciada
Ana Cecilia Terrazas, directora general del Instituto Mexicano de la
Radio, y el licenciado Antonio Tenorio Muñoz Cota, director general de
Radio Educación, entre otros.
Fuente:
http://www.uamero.uam.mx/UAMeros/insides/newsa.aspx?pid=1301
(via Morales, ibid.)
As I pointed out before, the power is 20 watts each, not 20
thousandths of one watt! Makes quite a difference in the coverage area
but hardly DXable in either case. But they are still making a big deal
of this. Again, I don`t see how these few watts can possibly compete
against all the RF overloading the FM band from full-power stations in
the world`s largest city. Are many of those transmitting from
buildings within the city, which is common in Mexico, rather than
somewhat remotely or from mountains? 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.)
Escuché la declaratoria oficial de apertura a las 09:50 horas del
centro de México, se escucha aceptablemente en el centro-sur de la Cd.
de México. Hay que desearles todo el éxito a este gran esfuerzo que
hace la UAM con esta especial característica de salir de cinco
diferentes puntos de la Cd. de México con una potencia de solo 20
vatios en cada uno de ellos. Saludos, (Julián Santiago, DF, March 11,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MICRONESIA. 4755.4, PMA-The Cross Radio, 1050-1102* Mar 7,
continuous inspirational music until 1100 when a man announcer
mentioned “The Cross” and gave local time as 10:00 PM. Another program
seemed to commence but it was cut off as carrier was terminated. Poor
(Rich D'Angelo, Wyomissing PA 19610, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R-8B, Eton
E1, Eton E5, Alpha Delta DX Sloper, RF Systems Mini-Windom, Datong
FL3, JPS ANC-4)
4755.4, The Cross, 0743 Mar 10. Playing Christian music. 0814
preacher. 0914 also a preacher. Very poor throughout (Harold Sellers,
Vernon, British Columbia, Listening from my car, lakeside, with Eton
E1 and Sony AN1 antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4755.44, PMA-The Cross Radio. 0728-0742, March 11. Contemporary
Christian songs; ID at 0739; a few minutes of “A Time for Harvest”
with Greg Laurie; fair to poor with QRN (Ron Howard, San Francisco at
Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4755.4+, very weak carrier detectable, March 11 at 0759, compared to
WTWW 5755.0 --- so PMA The Cross presumably not washed away yet by
tsunami.
4755.4+, JBA carrier compared to remnant of WTWW 5755.0, March 12 at
0709 check, presumably PMA The Cross. I might get something more from
it later, but not worth losing sleep over, unless unavoidable; and
from now on I would have to stay up an hour `later` by DST even to get
this (Glenn Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4755.44, PMA-The Cross Radio. Randomly from 0756 to 1038, March 13.
Off the air by 1111; fair to almost good; contemporary Christian
songs; 0759 “You are listening to the Cross Radio, 88.5 FM and it is
seven o’clock”; into “Turning Point weekend edition” with Dr. David
Jeremiah; 0953 singing; 0959 “This is 88.5 FM and it is nine o’clock”;
more singing (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MYANMAR. They continue to switch transmitter sites during their
evening broadcast. March 9 was hearing Yangon on 5985.84v at tune in
at 1127, but by 1510 they were using the Naypyidaw transmitter on
5985.0 (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MYANMAR [non]. 17790, Democratic V. of Burma via Madagascar, Mar 06
*1430-1440 35443 Burmese, 1430 sign on with opening music, ID, Opening
announce, Talk, // 11515 kHz
17790, Dem. V. of Burma via Madagascar, Mar 08 *1430-1445, 35433
Burmese, 1430 sign on with opening music, ID, Opening announce, Talk,
// 11515 (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, Japan Premium March 11 via DXLD)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. Radio Nederland has now posted its Dutch service
on shortwave as of March 27. Go to
http://www.rnw.nl/nederlands/article/ontvangst-wereldomroep
(Harry Van Vugt, Canada, March 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
The upcoming A11 schedule is now posted at:
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/rnw-frequency-schedule-summer-2011
(Peter Hanson, March 15, ibid.)
** NEW ZEALAND. 9765, RNZI, March 11 at 0800, tsunami warning for NZ
and various other Pacific islands named, including Nauru, Samoas,
Australia. That was apparently RNZ National news relay, interrupted at
0805 for RNZ International naming even more islands and continents
warned, as far as Hawaii, Pitcairn, Australia, New Zealand, Kermadec.
One of them even included Antarctica. 0808 rejoin National news in
progress, now with NZ weather forecasts.
I think this is extremely misleading! If a tsunami was possible as far
as Pitcairn, it could also happen all over the Pacific, so either name
every single island threatened, or just say, everywhere!
31m was almost dead before 0700 UT March 12, even WYFR frequencies not
making it, so at 0658 I stood by on 9765 to see if RNZI at least would
upshow --- yes, bell bird, 0700 timesignal and first news I had heard
of the radiation leaks in Japan. Also audible weaker, R. Australia on
9710, 9660, but not much else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, Voice of Nigeria, Ikorodu, 2011/03/07 Mon 1805-
1815. English. Discussing hills, height of Abuja above sea level,
mentions "here in Nigeria", ID "Voice of Nigeria". Fair - poor,
carrier kept cutting out completely (Bill Bingham, South Africa, March
14, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, 13/3 1850, Voice of Nigeria, talks in English about
Nigeria, some Yoruba style music. Other music, ID. Modulation a bit
low. Good signal (Giampiero Bernardini, Collins 51S-1 & Drake R4-C;
ANT: T2FD 15 meters long, Milano, Italia, SW Blog:
http://radiodxsw.blogspot.com/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [non]. GERMANY: HAMADA RADIO INTERNATIONAL via Wertachtal,
7350 in Hausa at 0530 to 0559, March 9. Men and women spoke, with
frequent IDs and very brief music bridges. Broadcast ended with
African instrumental music. Good signal (Wendel Craighead, Prairie
Village, Kansas, USA, Cumbredx mailing list via DXLD)
9460, March 14 at 0548, presumed Hausa, hollow sound, poor with
flutter. Hamada Radio International via RMI, 100 kW, 180 degrees via
Wertachtal, GERMANY, M-F at 0530-0600. It`s the second frequency added
to 7350 via Nauen at 185 degrees, but I could not pull out the signal
on 7350. Miami`s monthly correspondence publicity shows that HRI is
quite pleased with the results they are getting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. At 2155 UT March 13, Crystal Ship mailing list
notified: ``Good evening pirate radio DXers! The Crystal Ship goes on
the air this evening, on about 6815 kHz AM, commencing about 2200 UT
and running through 0000+. Programming tonight will be "Sounds of the
Seventies". Cheers! (John Poet, The Crystal Ship, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Just barely audible carrier here at 2215 check, maybe to improve later
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6815.42 S9 + 20dB into Toronto area (Whitby ON) on 40 m dipole to
Perseus with very familiar music of one of my eras and rare ID's....
(Mar 13th 2300Z) (Tony (VE3NO) ComputerViz, NYAA Starfest, Ward,
http://www.nyaa.ca Procrastinate Now! dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6815.4-AM, March 14 at 0036, some music is audible, not very good but
much better than 2+ hours earlier when we first checked for The
Crystal Ship, after having been notified they would be on the air at
least until 0000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
USA Pirate – The Crystal Ship Shortwave, 14 March 2011 at 0048 UT tune
in on 6815 kHz AM. ID’d as “You are listening to The Crystal Ship
Shortwave, followed by rock musical selection. Signal hampered by
static bursts this evening. Sign off occurred at 0052 UT (Ed Insinger,
Summit, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. PIRATE, 6925, 2337-, KARR Pirate Radio, Mar 11, Good
reception in USB mode with 70s/80s pop music. Rechecked at 0041 to
excellent reception. Very strong! At 0050, there is someone else
weakly on 6932. Continued on until 0200 with a 'K A R R Pirate Radio'
ID and then off. Great signal throughout! Thanks!
PIRATE, 6925, 0233-, Random Radio, Mar 13, Light banter by a male at
good level, with good wishes, and ID (pretty certain he said 'Random
Radio'. A little bassy. At 0235: 'Nice signal, Random Radio'. Then Dr.
Benway and Undercover Radio with a two way communication between
Random Radio and Undercover Radio. Both at equal strength (fair to
good). Later another pirate occupied the frequency, but too weak to
make any content out (around 0250). FRN states this was Wolverine
Radio (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
PIRATE, 6925.10, 0534-, unID, Mar 13, Back behind the dials and note a
pirate at fair level in AM mode. Heavy beat techno pops. Some deep
fades. Listened past 0600 and no ID, just the same music with a very
heavy beat. Sounds very much like some of the Europirates. Checking
the FRN back in Victoria, this turns out to be Liquid Radio. First
time heard here (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. USA Pirate – The Voice of Kaos, 14 March 2011 at
0030 UT on 6925 USB with ID and mention of Kia Optima recall on model
year 2006. May have been a rebroadcast; announced that this was show
#26 and correct reception reports would receive The Voice of Kaos QSL
O’Meter. Gave e-mail address voiceofkaos @ gmail.com Good signal into
northern New Jersey , peaking at S9 dB (Ed Insinger, Summit, NJ, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) So you know for sure this is in the USA? (gh, DXLD)
** OKLAHOMA. 1400, March 10 at 1700 UT, KREF Norman, joint ID with
KADA 1230 Ada, news from News9OK, Oklahoma Network, ``Sports Talk
1400``. I see nothing on the website
http://www.sportstalk1400.com/kref2/index.php
about Ada. 1400 is a.k.a. ``The Ref`` --- now I get it.
Neither station is audible in Enid, 1400 adjacent to local 1390, so I
was hearing this from just north of Kingfisher. In its previous
incarnation as KNOR, 1400 carried WORLD OF RADIO for a while (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. AN UPDATE ON FEDERAL FUNDING
There has been much discussion over the last several weeks about how
critical federal funding is for public radio. While we can't speak for
other stations or networks like NPR, we can tell you how important
federal funding is to KOSU. The grant that KOSU receives from the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting makes up 18 percent of our budget.
This $180,000 is restricted money, and we use it to pay for the
programming you listen to every day and a few infrastructure costs
related to getting that programming to you.
Because the threat to this funding is more real than it has ever been,
we must honestly look at alternatives. Because this is your station,
we want to be very open about the options. We must either make up the
amount lost by federal funding through contributions from listeners
and corporate support, or we must choose which programs to cut. I
don't say this to be threatening or fatalistic, I say it because we
need your help. If you believe public broadcasting should continue to
be supported with federal tax dollars, I encourage you to join the 170
Million Americans Campaign at http://www.170millionamericans.org
Even if you believe federal funding should be eliminated, we still
need you. I encourage you to consider a contribution to KOSU to
sustain the programming that you listen to every day. Nearly 50
percent of KOSU's budget comes from listener contributions in the
amounts of $50 or $120. Whatever you can contribute really does make a
difference. You can make your pledge at kosu.org or by calling
800.228.4678 (Rachel Hubbard, KOSU Associate Director, KOSU March 10
Newsletter via DXLD)
** OKLAHOMA. 105.3, the low-power station licensed to Okarche, KINB, I
tuned in since I was in the area, March 11 at 0452 UT, and heard ID as
``105.3 The Martini`` and something about ``Dean`s couch``, as in Dean
Martin? Yes, strange new pro-alcohol slogan just adopted per
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/88295/105-3-the-martini-debuts-in-oklahoma-city
``FERRIS O'BRIEN's deal to acquire KINB (105.3 THE SPY)/OKLAHOMA CITY,
the Alternative station he has operated/programmed for the past year
under an LMA with LAST BASTION TRUST, has fallen through following the
station's one-year anniversary [sic --- ``anni`` already means YEAR!].
Now, the station has jettisoned the format and has flipped to Adult
Standards as 105.3 THE MARTINI, say ALL ACCESS ears in the market.``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. `KJBX` is the call of a `radio station` at The
Jewel Box, a live theatre in Oklahoma City, currently presenting in
March, ``Mystery Radio Plays``, easy to stage since it`s mostly an
ensemble performing radio dramas in front of three mikes, one of which
is for sound effects. Well cast with some very good voice actors, but
the strange thing is, the three plays are not attributed to any
dramatist, so are they public domain? Yes, apparently, so even if the
writer is known, no need to credit?
It so happens there is a real KJBX, per FCC FM Query, licensed to
106.7 in Trumann, Arkansas with 6 kW, and a CP to QSY to 106.3 in Cash
AR, and increase power to 25 kW. Googling attributes KJBX to the
larger town in the area, Jonesboro. Since no radiation was involved
from the JBX, I assume that was no problem (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** PALAU. 9930, T8WH, March 12 at 1352 with WHR ID, send a SASE with
37 cents postage for a program schedule to Box 12, South Bend! That`s
over five years out of date. The rate went up to 39 cents on January
8, 2006, per
http://www.akdart.com/postrate.html
and subsequently increased to 41, 42, and currently 44 cents. Finding
any such stamps might be rather inconvenient in most of Palau`s
coverage area, but nice of WHR to take on the burden of adding seven
more cents to each such request. Make that a LOT more cents to any
address outside the US. Domestic US rates do apply to and from Palau
per http://pe.usps.com/text/imm/immctry.htm
despite it strange dual status, as T8WH is a.k.a. its former (?) US
call KHBN, and Palau also issuing its own stamps since
``independence`` in 1994 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. M/S Balmoreal is now in the Banda Sea, Indonesia.
Today Mar 08 at 1215 I checked Papua New Guinean stations:
3205 inaudible; 3220 inaudible; 3235 inaudible; 3260 fair signal; 3275
strong signal; 3290 inaudible, 3305 inaudible; 3325 fair; 3345 (R
Northern) fair; 3365/3375/3385/3905 inaudible (Rolf Løvstrøm, Oslo,
Norway visiting Australia and Indonesia, DSWCI DX Window March 9 via
DXLD)
Hi Glenn, It was because of this log that I posted: “3344.96, RRI
Ternate, 1459-1501*, March 9. Fair reception of their ID and Love
Ambon. For a while now this has had outstanding reception compared to
what it was in the past and I have frequently monitored randomly from
about 1200 till sign off; have not heard any hint of another station
here; no PNG station”.
Rolf being in Indonesian waters, he was much closer to Ternate than to
Poppondetta. He heard no strong QRM from Ternate? If I can hear RRI
well over here, wouldn’t it be even stronger over there? What am I
missing here? (Ron Howard, San Francisco, dxldyg via DXLD) Nothing?
Hi Glenn, Might be worth while to occasionally check on the PNG
website http://www.nbc.com.pg/index.htm as "This Website is under
MAINTENANCE". Prehaps they are finally going to update their site?
(Ron Howard, San Francisco, March 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 5960, Radio Fly, 0943-1053, March 14. Poor with
adjacent QRM, but the best reception ever; DJ sounded Australian;
frequent IDs; first time for me to get any positive ID, so I was
extremely pleased to get multiple IDs; mostly pop music (Diana Ross
"Set Me Free", etc.) and a few island songs; short segment that
sounded like recorded phoned in requests; 1000-1007 conversation
between DJ and YL; still nothing heard on 3915. Extraordinary PNG
propagation!
5960, Radio Fly, 0954-1048, March 15. DJ was not as talkative as
yesterday; quality of reception totally depends on the amount of
adjacent QRM at any given moment; signal strong enough for me to
easily ID no less than eight of their pop songs; played “Kokomo”
(Beach Boys) followed by DJ with: “Radio Fly with Kokomo . . . playing
60s, 70s and 80s music . . . Radio Fly”; after 1100 covered by CRI
(Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via
WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7325, Wantok Radio Light, 0805-0915, March 11.
Fair signal strength, but bothered by OTH radar pulses.
0805-0830: YL in English playing Christian songs in English; 0825
ID and TC (“25 past 6”); Reception improving by the BoH.
0830-0855: Sounded like the scheduled British based New Wine Church
ministry with Dr. Tayo Adeyemi preaching in English; followed by
religious songs.
0902-0912: Became // 3385 (NBC East New Britain) with distinctive PNG
bird call; followed by the NBC national news relay; believe in
English, as several recorded reports within the news were clearly in
English.
0912: Ended being // with 3385; YL in English with frequencies and
schedule; mentioned PNG; more religious singing.
Without the OTH radar, this would have had almost fair reception. Am
very pleased to have caught this one!
7324.95, Wantok Radio Light. Randomly from 0812 to 0902, March 13.
Poor reception; propagation not as good as on the 11th, but at least
no OTH radar pulses. Thanks to Martien Groot (Holland) for pointing
out they are somewhat lower in frequency. The other day with the OTH
radar QRM I did not notice, but today confirmed. Martien and David
Sharp (Australia) both report “warbly xmtr”, but I could not confirm
that; perhaps just too weak to notice.
0805-0836: OM (Australian accent?) in English playing Christian songs
in English and with some religious talk.
0836-0902: A late start for what sounded like the scheduled British
based New Wine Church ministry with Dr. Tayo Adeyemi preaching in
English. He was educated in Nigeria, so his accent reflects that;
sounded similar to some of the African-American preachers I have
heard on SW. There was no PNG birdcall today as they were running
late. Would be great to hear this with good propagation, at a time of
no QRM/OTH radar. Today was not able to pull out much in the way of
specific details.
7324.95, Wantok Radio Light. Amazing reception; by far their best to
date. 0743-0935, March 14. Regarding the warbling/distorted audio
I mentioned yesterday that others were hearing: extremely noticeable
today! Interestingly there was virtually no warbling detected during
the pre-recorded syndicated programs, but had moderate to severe
warbling/distortion of the audio during the local programming
(announcements, music programs, etc.). Thanks again to Martien Groot
(Holland) and David Sharp (Australia) for alerting me to this unique
feature.
0743-0758: Dr. Michael Youssef preaching in English; an Australian
gave phone number to call (1300 133 589) for more information and free
trial subscription; no warbling at all till local announcer came on
and immediately began distorted/warbling audio.
0758-0833: ID and into local program of Christian songs presented by
YL (severe warbling).
0833-0859: Late start for the “New Wine Church in London and Wantok
Radio Light bring you the program … senior minister Dr. Tayo Adeyemi”;
in English. His preaching had clear audio; close to 100% readable.
0901-0911: PNG birdcall; news; “This is N-B-C National News”; mostly
about Japan; weather for various cities; // 3385 (NBC East New
Britain). Moderate warbling.
0915: Frequencies (FM) for different locations (Vanuatu, etc.) and
today's program schedule.
0920: A bible reading program and Christian songs. At 0927 gave the
schedule for this show (Monday to Friday).
0930: Chinese language station sign on; PNG mixing with them; into
another religious syndicated show (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean
Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PERU. 3329.573, Ondas de Huallaga, 1037-1050, 10 March. It's a damp
morning locally, so that means a lot of noise. Noted a signal with a
female commenting in Spanish language as the noise and fading cover
the signal pretty well. Usually when trying for this station, CHU is a
problem, but this morning the noise is the major factor. At 1042 a
canned ID is heard. Signal was threshold to poor (Chuck Bolland,
Clewiston FL, 26N 081W, WR-G31DDC, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. (TENTATIVO) 4825, 08/03 0005, La Vóz de La Selva, Iquitos,
música com Madonna, bailables, parecendo retransmissão da estação FM,
audio baixo, 22422. 73 (Samuel Cássio Martins, São Carlos SP, Brasil,
radioescutas yg via DXLD)
** PERU. 5921.26, Radio Bethel, noted at 1020 with good signal.
6173.685, Radio Tawantinsuyo, Cusco, 1000 to 1100, "...Radio
Nacional... ID followed by 1002 "... Radio Tawantinsuyo.." ID by OM
"cinco en la mañana... en la ciudad de ...en la república... cinco y
cinco..." Numerous atenciones, fifteen heard, TC as 'cinco y siete",
announcements for coming events. Time check every two minutes,
followed by atenciones, "atención para todos en la república...
gracias amigos ...atención señora ...?." 1058 YL on phone for call in?
Fade out. 2355 rapid OM en español, music on the hour, no ID 14 March,
(Robert Wilkner, S Florida, HCDX via DXLD)
** PHILIPPINES. 9615, Radio Veritas Asia, 0959 Mar 10. Man in English
with ID and schedule for at least half a dozen broadcasts in various
languages, “Please standby for the broadcast in Mandarin.” and into
Mandarin. KNLS IS weak in the background. Fair (Harold Sellers,
Vernon, British Columbia, Listening from my car, lakeside, with Eton
E1 and Sony AN1 antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[and non]. Radio Veritas Asia, A11 Shortwave Transmission Schedule
27 March to 30 October 2011
Bengali
0030–0057 on 11945 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs
1400–1427 on 11870 PUG 250 kW / 300 deg to SoAs
Burmese
1130–1157 on 15450 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs
2330–2357 on 9720 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs
Filipino
1500–1557 on 15350 SMG 250 kW / 130 deg to N/ME
2300-2327 on 9720 PUG 250 kW / 331 deg to CeAs
Hindi
0030–0057 on 11850 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs
1330–1400 on 11870 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs
Hmong
1200–1227 on 11935 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs
Kachin
1230–1257 on 15225 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs
2330–2357 on 9645 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs
Karen
0000–0027 on 11935 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs
1200–1230 on 15225 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs
Khmer
1000-1030 on 11850 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs
Mandarin
1000–1157 on 9615 PUG 250 kW / 355 deg to EaAs
2100–2257 on 6115 PUG 250 kW / 350 deg to EaAs
Sinhala
0000–0027 on 9720 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs
0000–0027 on 11850 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs
1330–1400 on 9520 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs
Tamil
0030–0057 on 11935 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs
1400–1427 on 9520 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs
Telugu
0100–0127 on 15530 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs
1430–1500 on 9515 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs
Urdu
0100–0127 on 15280 PUG 250 kW / 300 deg to SoAs
0100–0127 on 17860 PUG 250 kW / 300 deg to SoAs
1430–1457 on 15435 SMG 250 kW / 070 deg to SoAs
Vietnamese
0130–0230 on 15530 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs
1030–1127 on 11850 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs
1300–1327 on 11850 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs
2330–2357 on 9670 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs
Zomi-Chin
0130-0157 on 15520 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs
1430-1500 on 9620 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs
PUG=Palauig, Zambales, Philippines
Transmitters : 3 x 250 KW
Antenna Type :
3x HRS 4/4/0.3
4x HRS 4/4/0.5
8x HR 2/2/0.5
SMG=Santa Maria di Galeria, Vatican City
(via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, March 15, dxldyg via DXLD)
** PHILIPPINES. 17770, 0208-, Radio Pilipinas, Mar 13, Very good
reception with a poem being read in English. A slight transmitter hum
present, as well as phone quality audio. Parallel 15285 fair. My notes
also list 11880, but nothing there. At 0215, they interviewed a well-
known Filipino singer in Tagalog (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** POLAND [non]. AUSTRIA/NORWAY/UAE/U.K. Polskie Radio Warsaw A-11 BC
schedule 27 March 2011 to 30 Oct 2011.
mos=ORS Moosbrunn, AUSTRIA via BAB(ex-VTC)
ENGLISH 1200-1259 11675ors 11980wof
1700-1759 7265kvi-drm 9770mos
POLISH 1030-1059 11790ors 15265wof 1530-1629 11640skn
2100-2159 6155skn 7245wof
GERMAN 1130-1159 9435wof 9610wof 1530-1559 9495rmp
1930-1959 6035skn 6135wof-drm
RUSSIAN 1100-1129 15265rmp 15460rmp
1300-1329 15480wof 17860uae
1430-1459 11760wof 1800-1829 11730wof
1900-1929 15155skn
BELARUSS. 1330-1429 11955rmp 15480wof 1630-1659 11760rmp
UKRAINIAN 1430-1459 15500wof
1500-1529 13730rmp 15265wof
1830-1859 11730rmp 15155wof 1900-1929 11730wof
HEBREW 1800-1829 11865skn
(BAB/VTC/PRW A-11 March 6 via BC-DX March 11 via DXLD)
** PORTUGAL. Re 11-10: History: check this map
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Descobrimentos_e_explora%C3%A7%C3%B5es_portuguesesV2.png
which is a file in
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descobrimentos_portugueses
So, apparently - and most likely too - we got there first. "Labrador"
is old Portuguese spelling for Lavrador, which can be translated into
"farmer."
On Sue Hickey's report: "Bacalao"?!?!
The Portuguese word for cod is "bacalhau."
The current RDPi verification signer is Paula Teixeira, paula.teixeira
@ rtp.pt, who replaced Miss (or Mrs, I never knew for sure) Isabel
Saraiva more than a year ago. She takes care of listeners' mail... or
at least she's supposed to do so. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 15460 / 17765, Radio Romania International. 1229 March 4,
2011. "Welcome to Skylark..." with that same classical score used by
the defunct Romanian spy numbers station, into talk about winter vs.
summer traditions with white and read threads. Excellent on both
channels, for those who want to hear Romania right now on the Eastern
Seaboard (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N,
82.46.08 W, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
If you love classical music, don`t dare listen to it on RRI, for you
will be slapped in the face by abrupt cutoffs, like March 15 at 1352
on 15460 when a Dvorak symphony was not allowed to finish before an
abrupt German announcement, and on to rock music! What crass
programming, continuity (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. Tentative A-11 schedule of Radio Romania International
27 March 2011 to 30 Oct 2011
ARABIC 0630-0656 11730 11790 15180 15400
1400-1456 11830 11945 15160 15490
AROMANIAN 1430-1456 ^7340, not Macedonian
1630-1656 ^5980, not Macedonian
1830-1856 ^5920, not Macedonian
CHINESE 0400-0426 *15530 17780
1300-1326 15435 17600
ENGLISH 0000-0056 7385 9580
0300-0356 7335 9645 11895 15340
0530-0556 *7305 9655 17760 21500
1100-1156 15210 15430 17510 17670
1700-1756 *9535 11735
[also 1700-1730 +DRM 7350 Kvitsoe Norway]
2030-2056 *9765 11880 11940
2200-2256 5960 7435 9790 11940
FRENCH 0100-0156 7385 9560
0500-0526 9655 *11810 15340 17770
1000-1056 11830 15240 15380 17785
1600-1656 9680 11950
2000-2026 *9655 11970
GERMAN 0600-0626 *7230 9740
1200-1256 9675 11875
[also 1600-1700 +DRM 7460 Kvitsoe Norway]
1800-1856 7240 *9495
ITALIAN 1400-1426 ^9800
1600-1626 ^9610
1800-1826 *^7425
ROMANIAN 0000-0056 7555 9525
0100-0156 7555 9525
0400-0456 9770 11920
0700-0756 9700 11970 15260 17720 "Curierul romanesc" Sun
0800-0856 11870 11970 15450 15700 "Curierul romanesc" Sun
0900-0956 11830 15240 15380 17600 "Curierul romanesc" Sun
1200-1256 ^7300 11920 15195
1300-1356 11920 15195
1500-1556 9855 11895
1600-1656 9690 11825
1700-1756 11970 15310
1800-1856 11970 15310
1900-1956 11970 15310
RUSSIAN 0430-0456 *7390 9800
1330-1356 11835 15140
1500-1556 9690 *11615
SERBIAN 1530-1556 ^6025
1730-1756 ^6125
1930-1956 ^6125
SPANISH 0200-0256 7400 9520 9645 11945
1900-1956 9700 11715
2100-2156 9755 11965
2300-2356 9655 9745 11795 11955
UKRAINIAN 1500-1526 ^5945
1700-1726 ^6135
1900-1926 ^5910
^ Saftica 100 kW, all other Galbeni and Tiganesti 300 kW.
* DRM via Saftica 100 kW; Galbeni or Tiganesti 300 kW.
+ DRM via Kvitsoe, Norway 60 kW.
(RRI-RRO schedule, Mar 7 via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Mar 11 via DXLD)
Schedule of Inter Radio Romania for the summer season (A-11) in
Russian:
0430-0456 UT 9800, 7390 (DRM)
1330-1356 UT 11835, 15140
1500-1557 UT 9690, 11615 (DRM)
According to the radio program "Club-DX" will be aired in the summer
Season: Saturdays (in the second and third gear for the day), repeated
on Sunday (in first gear of the day) and Wednesday (in third gear for
the day). (Dmitry Kutuzov-RUS, "deneb-radio-dx"; RUSdx Mar 4 via BC-DX
Mar 11 via DXLD) Gear = shift? (gh)
** RUSSIA. 5470, 2000-2010 09.03, Voice of Russia, Moskva, French
news, ID: "Le Voix de la Russie", 15111. A Mixing product (11600 -
6130 = 5470) heard // 6130 (Moskva 54554) and // 11600 (Moskva 45434)
with French scheduled 1700-2200. So this IS NOT R Veritas reactivated!
Thanks to Jari Savolainen! Best 73, (Anker Petersen, on my AOR
AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire in 9 metres altitude in
Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD)
** RUSSIA. 6075, GTRK Kamchatka via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, 0710-
0724, March 11. Continues with their shorter format; local/regional
programming; brief opening statement in Russian; ID “Radio Rossii
Kamchatka”; disappointed to not find the usual “This is Kamchatka”
ID; quickly into monologue by older woman; sounded like the same woman
I heard back on Feb 1; clearly not in Russian, so probably in Koryak;
frequent mentions of “Kamchatka”; 0724 back to being in Russian and
regular Radio Rossii IDs; good reception and the audio remains very
good; before and after this local/regional programming, they were //
5940 and 7320. With upcoming DST this will be on from 0810 to 0824
(Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
You mean 0610-0624, surely. I looked for this a number of times, but
over here, DW was always dominant on 6075 past 0700 (gh, OK, DXLD)
** RUSSIA [and non]. 7250, 0025-, VOR World Service, Mar 13, Good
reception in English from Krasnodar, while //7 290 from Moldova fair.
Still a couple of hours before my LSS.
9840, 0538-, VOR World Service, Mar 13, Very good reception in
English, with ID as, 'This is the Voice of Russia World Service, one
of the oldest radio stations in the world'. // 9855 at good level as
well (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
12030, March 14 at 0256 tones, 0259 VOR sign-on in English to NAm,
0300 news, good signal. 0545 still good with pop music but weaker than
// 9840, while 9855 was barely audible. 12030 is 250 kW, 70 degrees
from Petropavlovsk/Kamchatsky, 0300-0700. This was generally inaudible
during winter, but now things are warming up. And it will be gone for
A-11 in a biweek (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15735, 0207-, Voice of Russia, Mar 13, A powerful DRM signal here
tonight, but alas, I didn't bring any gear to decode DRM. I suspect
that it would have decoded fine. Scheduled as Russian to south Asia
(Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAN ANDRES [and non]. Only other items of note were on Longwave. I
heard NDB "PST", 338 kHz, from Madeira Islands at 0203 UT on 3/13 and
NDB "SPP" San Andres Island on 387 kHz on 3/14 at 0301 UT (Bill W1OW
Smith, March 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SARAWAK. 5030.02, Sarawak FM, 1321-1403 Mar 6. English and Malay
pop songs, including a Malay version of Bobby Hebb's "Sunny";
mentioned web site but did not get it; ended with old Beatles song at
1357; two pips and presumed news at 1400. Good signal and // to fair
9835 (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW,
Cumbredx mailing list via DXLD)
MALAYSIA, 5030, RTM Sarawak, 1510 Mar 9. Woman in Bislama with news to
1512, ID as “R-T-M”, into music // 9885. Very good (Harold Sellers,
Vernon, British Columbia, Listening lakeside from my car. Eton E1 and
Sony AN1 antenna. Editor of World English Survey and Target Listening,
available at http://www.odxa.on.ca dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
They continue to switch frequencies. March 9 heard the Wai FM singing
jingle at 1229 on 7270.0, in QRM and // 11665. At 1453 was off
frequency (het) on 7270.49v and // to a strong 11665 (Ron Howard, San
Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SARAWAK [and non]. HOME MINISTRY PROBING RADIO FREE SARAWAK
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/3/8/nation/20110308213017&sec=nation
KUCHING: The controversial Radio Free Sarawak radio station is being
investigated for its content.
"This is not about politics. This is about spreading malicious lies,
the issue of unity and harmony among the races," Home Minister Datuk
Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein told reporters after visiting the
ministry's operations room here Tuesday.
Hishammuddin said that no legal action could be taken at the moment
because the investigation was on-going. Responding to a question, he
said the Internal Security Act could only be used if the individuals
involved posed a serious security threat.
Last week, Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu youth wing lodged a police
report claiming that the radio station has been operating illegally
and spreading lies, especially about Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri
Abdul Taib Mahmud.
Clare Rewcastle Brown, the sister-in-law of former British Prime
Minister Gordon Brown, and Peter John Jaban, an Iban activist, told an
English tabloid last month that they were responsible for the blog
Sarawak Report and the radio station. - Bernama
Home Ministry to probe Radio Free Sarawak
http://www.nst.com.my/articles/HomeMinistrytoprobeRadioFreeSarawak/Article/2011/03/08
Read more: Home Ministry to probe Radio Free Sarawak
http://www.nst.com.my/articles/HomeMinistrytoprobeRadioFreeSarawak/Article/#ixzz1G52pYub8
(via Zacharias Liangas, Greece, March 9, DXLD)
** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5019.85 tentative, SIBC Honiara, noted 3/13 1125
tune-in with pretty good carrier level and programming decipherable
mainly when blaring Cuba 5025 in program pauses. Sig fading up by 1200
but still nearly unusable. Fragments of orchestral and piano music, OM
with muffled announcements (intonation and pace at times sounding
English but not readable). Some country music. OM long announcement
1155 to top of hour, with burst of orchestral music. Announcements
continued on hour, then orchestral music or theme 1202 (almost
sounded like a NA, but not sure) and lost 1204. At 1205.30 seems
carrier was cut. All I can say is this is a pretty painful way to tune
Honiara -- back in the day, they used to come in a heckuva lot better
than this . . . ;-) (R Perry, Illinois, HCDX via DXLD)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9980, Brother Scare via WWCR as I tune by
March 15 at 1312 is talking about his SW frequencies, as always in
self-aggrandizement. Says 9460 for Europe will be changing to 9655,
and time also changing? Rather vague. 9460 has been 14-16, 300 degrees
from Wertachtal. If already going to 9655, that will collide with
Romania and Alaska if in use at 1500-1600! Nothing about this yet at
ftp://www.overcomerministry.org/RadioSchedule/Short%20Wave%20Radio.htm
l
where the only `Europe` frequencies still listed are 9460, 13810 and
17580.
Axually, 9655 is not expected until A-11, via AUSTRIA, 14-16, when
Alaska may still be on it, but not Romania (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 5970, REE on late at 0000:52 with news read by Justin Coe on
Mar 12th (Mark Coady, Peterborough, ON K9J 6X3, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
I assume you mean they started almost a minute late? I.e. joined the
news in progress, or did it not start until this came on? (gh, DXLD)
REE heard on 14 March 2011 at 0020 UT on 5970 kHz asking for reception
reports. Gave postal and e-mail addresses. I thought that REE had
stopped QSL’ing and also have two reception reports unanswered from
the past six months, so am unsure if this is a change in their policy
or not. Excellent signal (Ed Insinger, Summit, NJ, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
15385, looking for REE`s weekly Emisión Sefarad, scheduled Mondays at
1425-1455 to ME, but no signal at 1423, and still nothing at 1428 when
I check 15325 just in case, the once-announced frequency, but nothing
audible there either. When I get back to 15385 at 1429, it has cut on,
joining judeo-español in progress. Perhaps a new transmitter operator
could not really believe the schedule showing such an odd start time
of 1425 instead of 1430? But cut off the air for a sesquiminute at
1436, so having further problems.
When on, had a long/short path echo, so heavy that I couldn`t copy the
schedule announced at 1440. We normally get this off the back, but
most of the signal is aimed eastward. Aoki shows 1425 on 15385 as 92
degrees from Noblejas. BTW, this transmission is missing from HFCC on
any frequency, tho they have the other two at 0115 and 0415 UT
Tuesdays.
21610, Tuesday March 15 at 1350, REE mixing Castilian with
gibberBasque, as interviewees or newsmakers may speak the major
language, then to be translated (or not?). Also // 21570, and under
KUWAIT 21540 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. ECOS DEL PASADO: RADÍO ESPAÑA INDEPENDIENTE, LA
«PIRENAICA``
En la despedida de Radio España Independiente decía Pedro Aldamiz:
"Expreso mi agradecimiento a todos los que con su ayuda desinteresada
hicieron posible estas108.360 emisiones. Doy las gracias a los miles
de colaboradores anónimos que con sus crónicas han difundido la verdad
de lo que pasaba en España, y a los camaradas que desde la cárcel de
Burgos, dejándose la vista y arriesgando mucho en el empeño,
aseguraron durante 8 años la emisión semanal de "Antena de Burgos".
Esta aventura es un caso sin parangón en la historia de las
emisoras clandestinas. . .
-fuente principal: entre el mito y la propaganda.
http://blogs.hoy.es/el-vagabundo-de-mi-ciudad/2011/3/12/ecos-del-pasado-radio-espana-independiente-pirenaica-
(Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, noticiasdx yg via DXLD) long history
** SRI LANKA. Glenn: Was involved with ham radio last weekend, can
confirm Radio Sri Lanka with an English ID (This is Radio Ceylon) was
heard here at 1530 UT today 12 March. 73 (de Ed, kb7wox, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. GERMANY: 11615, Radio Dabanga; 1712-1717+, 11-Mar;
Tuned past to hear not just a R.D. singing ID, but a lengthy Radio
Dabanga song. M commentary in unknown language at 1716+. SIO=3+43+
(Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft.
RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, ----- All logged by ear in real time! ----
-, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SWEDEN. THE MAYBE LAST VISIT AT HÖRBY SW AND SÖLVESBORG MW
Last weekend me and some other hams visited the shortwave station in
Hörby in southern Sweden and the mediumwave station in Sölvesborg (ex
1179 kHz) in southeast Sweden for maybe the very last time.
It was a very interesting visit but a bit sad. These stations were
closed down 30:th October 2010 due to a decision at Sveriges Radio
(Radio Sweden) to cease with AM-transmissions and concentrate the
transmissions to internet.
Hörby is being slowly picked down piece by piece. The transmitters
stand silent and the control board with frequency changer, antenna
switch etc. have been removed. The transmitters can be put back into
service, but on only one frequency desired at the transmitter. One or
two antennas can be used against Europe, Africa and Middle East. The
feeders to the other antennas are torn down.
The owner Teracom wants in first hand to get a new partner, in second
hand sell all the equipment and in third and last hand - demolition
(!)
Now it seems that Hörby will be torn down. The transmitters from
Thales (3 x 500 kW) were installed as late as 1993. Everything must be
gone until March next year if no partner appears or the equipment gets
sold.
The mediumwave transmitter in Sölvesborg is in better standard. It was
inaugurated 1985 (AEG-Telefunken S4006 - 1 x 600 kW) and carried SR P1
and Radio Sweden Intl. until 30:th October 2010. Now it stands silent.
It cost approx. 5 million € to build in today's value (25 Million SEK
1985).
The efficiency lies around 72% and the transmitter has many hours
left. Nothing has really been removed except for the modulation tube
that has been lifted up from its holder and put aside.
What will happen to the station is not clear. Maybe it will be
demolished completely. It'd be sad because it's the last medium wave
transmitter in Sweden. Teracom, the owner, wants the same thing as
with Hörby. But it must be someone that can transmit at least 12h a
day.
Let's hope that at least the mediumwave transmitter can be kept
preserved. It's tragic that more and more broadcast stations leave AM-
broadcast in favour for internet, a much more unreliable medium.
Pictures from my visit can be seen here:
http://s805.photobucket.com/albums/yy333/isbjornlw/2011-03-05/
73 de (Chris SM6VPU Stödberg, March 11, HCDX via DXLD)
109 slideshow, nice collexion, captions [almost] only in Swedish, and
garbled when umlauted (gh, DXLD)
** SWEDEN. 6060, 0848-1350 08.03, R Nord Revival, Ringvalla, Sala (10
kW), Swedish, 50 anniversary playing original programming with a
speech and a lot of swinging music from the 60'ies and frequent "Radio
Nord" ID's, 55444 (Anker Petersen, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres
of longwire in 9 metres altitude in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario
Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD)
Re 11-10: Radio Nord now testing ---
Information on QSL cards; they are happy to send printed ones:
http://radionordrevival.blogspot.com/2011/03/radio-nord-revival-qsl.html
(Mike Barraclough, March 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Some information on Radio Nord Revival QSL's, note the comment on MW;
What happened to the MW transmission on 1512 KHz?
9 mars 2011 10:42 Ronny B Goode said: Coming up on Saturday 12. We
used low power yesterday from another location. 9 mars 2011 11:01
(Mike Barraclough, England, 1409 UT March 9, MWCircle yg via DXLD)
Hej, R Nord Revival did transmit on 1512 kHz, but with only 60 watts
from the same location as the SW tx (Sala). However, the other MW
transmitter will be tested on Saturday (also on 1512). This one is in
Vallentuna just north of Stockholm and will use 1000 watts. I'm sure
there will be postings on the blogspot as to when they will test.
Take a look at the amazing antenna park at http://www.qrz.com
Type SK0UX in the search box. (S K zero U X). The MW sloper antenna is
attached to one the towers at 37 meters height. 73 (Eric SM6JSM Lund,
ibid.)
Hello Eric, Do you know their snailmail address? Tnx for the help! 73!
(Ruud, Netherlands, ibid.)
Yes - here it is:
Ronny Forslund
Radio Nord Revival
Vita Huset
SE-17995 Svartsjö
Sweden
73 (Eric SM6JSM, ibid.)
No chance to copy them in the Rio de la Plata area... 6060 is blocked
24h a day by Super R Deus é Amor, Curitiba. :-( (Horacio A. Nigro,
Montevideo, Uruguay, March 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
At 0710Z heard very faintly here in NZ (Thursday 10th). Got even
better after 0830Z (Dallas McKenzie, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Radio Nord Revival QSL postal address. from Ronny Forslund on
http://radionordrevival.blogspot.com/ this morning:
Radio Nord Revival QSL
Many of you have asked whether we will verify reception reports and
naturally, we will do that! This project is run by radio enthusiasts
so we very well understand the importance of a QSL. After all, your
observations and reception reports are very valuable for us so it is a
courtesy of thanking you for your efforts.
The number of reception reports has been impressive and they still
keep on coming in. Keep 'em coming - we would very much like to hear
how YOU could pick us up at your location. You can mail your reception
reports to ronny @ ronnybgoode se There has been a couple of old email
addresses which have bounced so this is the one to use. Also, please
write a comment in this blog about how you could hear us, where you
are - and, not least: what you thought of the programme.
Reception reports by good, old-fashioned regular mail ('snail mail')
can be sent to:
Ronny Forslund
Radio Nord Revival
Vita Huset
SE-17995 Svartsjö
Sweden
A printed QSL card will soon be available. Return postage in some form
will be appreciated, either stamps, International Reply Cupons or $.
If you are satisfied with an e-mail confirming your report we will
gladly respond as time permits. However, I don't really see the point
of sending a scan of a QSL card including personal details and
reception information via email. If you want a QSL card, wouldn't it
be better to have the real thing delivered to your letterbox? Besides,
scanning each and every personal QSL just to mail them to you seems a
bit overdone - it just adds extra amount of work. It's so much quicker
to just put a real QSL card in the letterbox. But of course we will
gladly respond with plain e-mails to each and every e-mail report.
Thank you so much for your interest in our Radio Nord Revival project.
Your support have made it all worthwhile. We will be back soon - do
check out this blog for updates.
http://radionordrevival.blogspot.com/2011/03/radio-nord-revival-qsl.html#comments
(via Alan Pennington, UK, March 9, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD)
R Nord, Sweden on 1512 kHz 11-12 Mar --- from Ronny 'B Goode' Forslund
11 March:
"The medium wave transmitter is now being assembled at Kvarnberget and
we expect to begin testing in the afternoon today, Friday 11. Power is
1 kW. A detailed programme schedule will be published as soon as we
have maximum signal and the station will be on the air overnight until
the regular programmes start tomorrow. Happy listening on 1512 kHz!"
http://radionordrevival.blogspot.com/2011/03/medium-wave-transmitter-is-now-being.html
[the 1512 kHz transmission earlier this week (8-Mar) was only low-
power 60 watts PEP from the same site as the 6060 kHz shortwave
(Sala), not from the site originally planned south east of Vallentuna
which is what they'll be using today and tomorrow. Worth trying for in
the UK with the higher power, especially if you have a directional
aerial to null out TCR. Alan] (Alan Pennington, March 11, BDXC-UK yg
via DXLD)
Update: we are continuing overnight on 1512 kHz and you should
experience a better signal in the morning [Sunday] as the interference
from Iran and Saudi Arabia disappears (Ronny Forslund on Facebook)
[only been able to hear IRIB Iran and TCR, N Ireland on 1512 here.
Hopefully no Dutch pirate comes up on 1512 as they sometimes do early
Sunday mornings;-) - Alan] (BDXC-UK yg 2220 UT March 12, via DXLD)
R. Nord, Sweden 3rd harmonic 4536 kHz noticed by Anders Hultqvist.
73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, 1416 UT March 13, harmonics yg via WORLD
OF RADIO 1556, DXLD)
4536 --- 3:rd overtone of 1512 - R Nord Revival in Swedish, strong
signal just now! 73 (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, 1530 UT March 13, dxldyg
via WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Thanks for a tip, Thomas. Nicely audible also here 13 March 1555 UT
(Jari Savolainen, Finland, ibid.)
Also audible here in UK on 4536 kHz (3 x 1512) at 1800 UT. Quite weak
but hopefully will get stronger as sunset approaches! Thanks for the
tip Thomas and Jari! (Alan Pennington, Caversham, UK. AOR 7030+ /
K9AY, WORLD OF RADIO 1556, ibid.)
Faded up 1829 for a clear identification in English, now has some
utility interference making whooping noise every few seconds, best to
use LSB (Mike Barraclough, Letchworth Garden City, UK, ibid.)
Thanks to tip from Thomas Nilsson earlier on DXLD, Radio Nord audible
now on 4536 kHz (i.e. 3 x 1512). Seems to be getting stronger as
sunset approaches here.
Radio Nord is continuing broadcasts tonight until Monday morning on
1512 as propagation was poor last night according to Ronny Forslund on
Radio Nord Revival blogspot (Alan Pennington, Caversham, UK, AOR 7030+
/ K9AY, 1756 UT March 13, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD)
** SWITZERLAND. Re: 1566 Radio Gloria Schweiz Empfangsbericht
17.02.2011 1700-1715 UT 1566 kHz SINFO: 14422
Testsendung 250 Watt TX nahe Luzern, Schweiz
IS Radio Vatikan; Uebernahme des Radio Vatikan Programms
PSE QSL - Bitte mit einer QSL-Karte bestaetigen. Vielen herzlichen
Dank (Siegbert Gerhard-D, A-DX Mar 8 via BC-DX via DXLD)
Lieber Siegbert Gerhard, vielen Dank fuer den korrekten Bericht. Gerne
stellen wir Ihnen im Maerz eine QSL-Karte per Post zu. Wir haben viele
Empfangsberichte erhalten aus der Schweiz, Deutschland, Oesterreich,
Norditalien, Frankreich, Schweden und von Tschechien. Wobei klar das
Signal schwach bis kaum hoerbar war. Die Versorgung soll in erster
Linie auch die Zentralschweiz garantieren und nicht das Ausland. Zudem
ist die Leistung von nur 250 W wenig und der Dipol haengt horizontal
und relativ tief ab Boden. Die Endloesung soll eine kurze vertikale
mit rund 1 kW sein. Zuerst muss aber ein Baugesuch eingereicht werden
und dies koennte wieder Zeit beanspruchen ...
Nochmals vielen Dank und guten Empfang! 73 de Peter Galliker, Radio
Gloria, Radio Gloria, Postfach 540, CH-6281
Hochdorf, Switzerland. (Mar 9) (via BC-DX March 11 via DXLD)
** TAHITI. 738, 0606-, RFO, Mar 13, Definitely a strong night to the
south with good reception of RFO in French with strong modulation (for
a change) (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. 7460, I-Kuan Tao program via RTI, *1100 and 1157*, March
15. Checking sign on and sign off times for this religious program in
Chinese; on with Chinese song and YL introduction atop the song; alike
http://ani.atz.jp/DX/mp3/20100529_2000_7460kHz.mp3 as posted to dxldyg
back on May 29, 2010 by Sei-ichi Hasegawa (Japan); into lecture by OM;
signed off suddenly in midsentence; strong signal. Their website
is at http://www.ikttv.org/html/front/bin/home.phtml
9774.0, Fu Hsing BS, 1142, March 15. One of their better receptions;
in Chinese; best in LSB; clearly // 9410 (under QRM); nice that this
is off frequency enough to have almost fair reception (Ron Howard, San
Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. 7105, Sound of Hope, Taiwan, 2221-2230, Feb 27, long
commentary in Mandarin, good signal (Edward Wlodarski, Andover, NJ,
U.S.A., DSWCI DX Window March 9 via DXLD)
7310, Sound of Hope, via Tashkent (presumed), 1450-1455, Feb 27,
Chinese, 25334-2. (Mille)
11765, Sound of Hope, via Tashkent (presumed), *1600-1605, Feb 26,
Chinese, 35333 (Bernard Mille, Bailleul, France, DSWCI DX Window March
9 via DXLD)
The last two are reported with I=5, no interference at all, so the
first presumption should be they are the CNR1 jamming rather than SOH,
lacking specific IDs. 7105 mentions no QRM either.
I am getting rather tired of having to point this out over and over
about unwarranted assumptions of hearing victims rather than ChiCom
jamming! (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
** THAILAND. 9720, R Thailand via Udon Thani, English OM and YL with a
REALLY CASUAL delivery of news. Item re missing weapons in the Thai
army, Monks being shot in the S of the Country and the US Ambassador
to Thailand being detained at the airport when returning from a
conference in Singapore because her diplomatic visa "confused" the
border agent who thought since she didn't have a departure date she
must be trying to stay in the country illegally! Ad for the Bangkok
Ramada, Bangkok Air & ID as RT at :54. In well, 444, & off abruptly at
:00 then someone else (DW?) coming on in German (Dutch?) -- no clear
ID on that one. 1239-1300 6/Mar (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Brighton MI
DXpedition, MARE Tipsheet March 11 via DXLD) NHK in Bengali via
Tashkent is scheduled from 1300 on 9720 (gh)
13745, 0028-, Radio Thailand Mar 13 Good to very good reception with
ads for Sheraton Bangkok hotel, and into special report. Off in mid-
sentence at 0029:30. Back at 0030 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) Making beam switch from E to W NAm; in A-11 back to
15275 (gh, DXLD)
Hi Glenn, 3-11-11 --- Just wanted to give a reception report for Voice
of Thailand on 7255 at 1100 gmt. Very strong signal, bells followed by
male announcer giving station ID, going into Thai but giving station
ID in English very clearly at 1115 and 1130 sign-off. 73's (Larry
Beth, Bryant, AR, Icom R75, 15 ft. wire antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
For full English broadcasts, listen at 1230-1300 on 9720, 1400-1430 on
9725 when reception will probably be inferior. I shouldn`t say `full`,
either, as they dip in and out of domestic service relays including
commercials.
BTW, the tentative A-11, R. Thailand / HSK9 English schedule:
0000-0100 15275
0200-0230 15275
0530-0600 17655
1230-1300 9890
1400-1430 9575
1900-2000 7205
2030-2045 9680
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. Summer A-11 schedule for Voice of Turkey:
Shortwave Broadcasting Schedule of VOICE OF TURKEY Radio
between 27.03.2011 - 30.10.2011 dates
kHz UTC tx kW deg language target
5960 1600-2100 EMR 500 150 TURKISH AF/AS
6040 0400-0600 EMR 500 138 TURKISH AS
6165 0300-0400 EMR 250 138 ENGLISH AS
7205 2030-2130 EMR 500 105 ENGLISH AS/AUS/NZL
7210 1100-1130 EMR 250 290 BULGARIAN EUR
7260 0000-0200 EMR 500 72 TURKISH AS
9460 1600-2100 EMR 500 310 TURKISH EUR
9465 0200-0300 EMR 500 72 UYGHUR AS
9515 0300-0400 EMR 500 325 ENGLIS AMs/EUR
9530 1530-1630 EMR 500 95 AZERBAIJAN AS
9535 2030-2130 EMR 500 247 FRENCH AF/EUR
9540 1400-1500 EMR 500 150 ARABIC AF/AS
9610 1500-1530 EMR 500 290 ITALIAN EUR
9635 1930-2030 EMR 500 300 FRENCH EUR
9655 1000-1100 EMR 500 72 GEORGIAN AS
9765 1500-1600 EMR 250 105 PERSIAN AS
9770 0100-0200 EMR 500 290 SPANISH NoWeAF/AMs/SoEUR
9785 1830-1930 EMR 500 310 ENGLISH EUR
9830 2200-2300 EMR 500 310 ENGLISH AMs/EUR
9840 1300-1600 EMR 500 310 TURKISH EUR/AM
9855 1000-1030 EMR 500 32 TATAR AS
9870 0100-0200 EMR 500 270 SPANISH AMs/SoEUR
11600 1030-1100 EMR 500 62 UZBEK AS
11690 1830-1930 EMR 500 200 ARABIC AF/NE/ME
11700 1230-1330 EMR 250 72 UYGHUR AS
11730 0700-0800 EMR 500 95 AZERBAIJAN AS
11750 0600-0900 EMR 500 97 TURKISH AS
11750 0900-1000 EMR 250 150 ARABIC AF/AS
11765 1500-1630 EMR 500 72 DARI-PASHT AS
UZBEK
11795 0830-1000 EMR 500 95 PERSIAN AS
11825 1200-1230 EMR 500 90 TURKMEN AS
11835 1730-1830 EMR 500 310 GERMAN EUR
11880 1330-1400 EMR 500 62 KAZAKH AS
11930 1630-1730 EMR 500 270 SPANISH AF/EUR
11955 0600-1300 EMR 500 150 TURKISH AF/AS
11965 1300-1400 EMR 500 20 RUSSIAN AS/EUR
11980 0400-0600 EMR 500 310 TURKISH EUR/AM
13635 0600 1300 EMR 500 310 TURKISH EUR/AM
13710 1400 1500 EMR 500 92 URDU AS
13760 1130 1230 EMR 500 310 GERMAN EUR
15240 1100 1200 EMR 500 62 CHINESE AS
15450 1230 1330 EMR 500 310 ENGLISH EUR/AM
15520 1630 1730 EMR 500 95 ENGLISH AS
17770 1400 1500 EMR 500 252 ARABIC AF/SoEUR
Only TRT transmissions via Emirler site at present, seemingly Cakirlar
site at Ankara area is under repair now? (TRT xls transformed to
frequency sorted form file by (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Mar 10, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** UGANDA. Hi Everyone, One from last night; was hoping to get it with
an ID tonight but not a hint of it! 4750, Dunamis Broadcasting,
Kampala, 1830 UT. 11/3/11. This is what I heard:
http://www.box.net/shared/6ovokzxui1
(Mark Davies, Anglesey, Wales, March 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** UGANDA [non]. Note the very first item in the A-11 MBR schedule
under GERMANY, ABA: means R. Y`abaganda, Saturdays only, will be
moving from 17725 to 15410 starting in April:
15410 1700-1715 48SW 140 217 7 2703-291011 ISS 250 ABA
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. BBC WORLD SERVICE ARABIC CUTS NOT AS 'SEVERE AS PLANNED'
Guardian.co.uk By John Plunkett 9 March 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/09/bbc-world-service-cuts
The BBC's global news director Peter Horrocks has indicated a further
U-turn over planned cuts to the BBC World Service in response to the
political crises in Africa and the Middle East.
The BBC Arabic service was due to bear a large proportion of the cuts
aimed at saving £46m a year following a 16% reduction in the World
Service's funding by the government.
Horrocks told MPs that reductions in the distribution of the Arabic
service would not be as severe as originally planned.
But he ruled out a wholesale reversal of the changes to its Arabic
operations which will see the loss of 60 jobs and an estimated 5.7
million listeners.
"We are sustaining our short- and medium-wave [broadcasts] in the
Arabic region more than we originally intended," Horrocks told the
House of Commons foreign affairs select committee on Wednesday.
"Clearly if political circumstances change we respond to them," said
Horrocks. But he warned: "There isn't significant room for further
flexibility within the resources we have available."
The BBC has already granted a temporary reprieve to short-wave
broadcasts of its BBC Hindi service, which were due to be axed.
A one-hour Hindi shortwave news programme will be funded and broadcast
by the corporation for the next 12 months while it looks to conclude a
deal with a commercial operator to continue the service on a long-term
basis.
Horrocks has also indicated that the BBC could reinstate axed short-
wave broadcasts on a short-term basis to regions where major events
were taking place.
Around 60 jobs will go from the BBC Arabic service out of total job
losses of 650 as a result of the cuts announced in January this year.
Horrocks said World Service journalists had contributed "brilliantly"
to coverage of the crises in the Middle East. "Of course losing that
large number of journalists means we are less able to cover that
story," he said.
"But if I was to say we will rescind all of those losses in the Arabic
service I would have to find another 60 jobs across the piece."
Horrocks said the BBC would soon be announcing new technology to help
World Service online users to bypass blocking of the World Service
website by foreign governments in an initiative funded by the US
government.
BBC director general Mark Thompson, who also gave evidence to MPs on
the committee, described the World Service as a "lifeline" and "one of
the most precious things the BBC does".
He said the responsibility for the cuts lay with the government and
said the broadcaster's future would be better safeguarded when
responsibility for its funding was taken over by the BBC from 2014.
"The headline level of these cuts means we are facing very deep and
difficult decisions across our service," said Thompson.
The director general moved to allay MPs' fears that the World Service
budget would be raided by corporation management to pay for other
services beyond 2014.
Thompson said: "The direction of travel is to spend more money on
things like the World Service and less on things like mainstream
entertainment." (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DXLD)
The key phrase is here:
"But if I was to say we will rescind all of those losses in the Arabic
service I would have to find another 60 jobs across the piece."
The BBC might be able to save some services, but it will mean deeper
cuts to other services. A zero sum. The money still isn't there
(Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. BBC DG Mark Thompson transcript of speech to the Financial
Times Digital Media and Broadcasting Conference: "It's important to
say that the choice now available in digital platforms does not mean
that traditional shortwave radio services have had their day yet – we
profoundly regret the current wave of BBC World Service closures which
are the result of the Government's Comprehensive Spending Review..."
Full report at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/speeches/stories/thompson_ft_2011.shtml
(via Mike Terry, England, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Video of the Foreign Affairs Committee inquiry on BBC WS cuts is
online. Yesterday`s meeting is at the link below, starts with a 5
minute discussion on shortwave, MP asking the questions is Bob
Ainsworth, former Labour defence minister, witnesses are Luke Crawley,
Assistant General Secretary, BECTU and Jeremy Dear, General Secretary,
National Union of Journalists
http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=7916
[requires/prefers Microsoft Silverlight player]
(Mike Barraclough, UK, March 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. BBC WORLD SERVICE: THE CLOSURE OF 648 KHZ MEDIUM WAVE
The BBC is ceasing its 648 kHz transmissions of World Service English
language radio on 27 March, 2011.
We have had to make some difficult decisions about the distribution of
BBC World Service radio around the world, as a result of the Spending
Review settlement that BBC World Service received at the end of 2010.
Closure of the 648 kHz service and medium wave frequencies to Russia,
continues the process of withdrawing from direct broadcasts to Europe
in response to a declining number of direct listeners.
However BBC World Service continues to be available in Europe by
satellite, cable and online.
In the UK it is available on dedicated channels across the whole of
the UK on DAB, online and on all digital TV platforms. This is in
addition to overnight transmissions of BBC World Service on Radio 4
frequencies (BBC WS Website via Jaisakthivel, India, dxldyg via DXLD)
Orfordness Visit Video Posted
Being [sic] playing around with some old video I made at Orfordness as
a tribute to the work done to keep BBC 648 kHz on the air from the
building on the marshes that once housed Cobra Mist.
http://www.vimeo.com/20996209
Hope you enjoy it (Jonathan Marks, March 14, shortwavesites yg via
DXLD)
Video: A Visit to BBC Orfordness 648/1296 --- 17 minute video just
uploaded by Jonathan Marks shot at Orfordness in 2003 where he
interviews and is shown round by engineer Andy Matheson.
There are also references to Crowborough where Andy worked and the
Aspidistra transmitter, parts of which are preserved at Orfordness.
Andy also mentions the 50 kW transmitter, originally intended for the
Mi Amigo which instead went at short notice to Bechuanaland during the
Rhodesia crisis, then to Crowborough, later used at Canewdon to jam
RNI, taken back to Crowborough and ended up at Orfordness.
Entitled Tribute to BBC 648 kHz Orfordness - The Geeks Version it goes
into some detail about the antennas and transmitters used.
http://vimeo.com/20996209
(Mike Barraclough, dxldyg via DXLD)
** U K. 15575, BBCWS in English, March 10 at 1354 with flutter and
long/short path echo. At 13-14 only, it`s 300 kW, 90 degrees from
Skelton (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Dear GH: My best frequency at Noon/1600 UT -- lunch break -- for BBC
World Service is 11830, the London/Delhi produced news hour. However
trying the get the latest news from Japan isn't as easy as it should
be with co-channel interference from WYFR. I'd respectfully ask the
Oakland-based outfit to move down the band. Sincerely: (Mark James,
March 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
BBC at 15-17 is 95 degrees from Rampisham, intended for Europe and
beyond. Yet another example of fine back-radiation from that UK site.
WYFR at 13-17 is 315 degrees for western Canada, yeah right. I doubt
that any degree of respectfulness would get them to move (gh, DXLD)
** U K [non]. In one of the snarkiest bits of broadcasting I ever
heard, at 1005-1100 UT on March 8 on 9765 there was a music program on
Radio New Zealand International - I never got the name of the program.
The theme was music from places (and origins of languages) the BBC
will no longer broadcast. You really had to be a shortwave fan to
appreciate the humor of the wide variety of music. 73's - (Dean
Bonanno, Durham, CT, march 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
The RNZ National schedule for Tuesday March 8 at 11:06 pm local shows:
11:06 World of Music with Mark Coles (BBC)
So it was a programme from BBC itself --- Unfortunately, the one-week
audio availability of the 05/03 edition is already over, but read
about it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00f1l7f
``This week Mark Coles celebrates music from regions of the world that
will soon be losing their BBC World Service radio langauge services.
We 'big up' the vibrant thrilling music from Russia, Albania,
Macedonia, Portuguese speaking Africa, Hindi, English speaking
Caribbean, Turkey and China that deserves to reach the widest possible
listenership. Join us in helping them to go out with a fanfare and in
a spirit of celebration.``
The following and latest edition is here, also starts by mentioning
``the end may be near, but ---`` and plays Cambodia Space Project:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0086vxp
Available two more days, until Sunday. Playlist:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00f5w1g#segments
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. "BBC may replace local radio with 5 Live broadcasts"
(The BBC Radio 4 Today programme has just referred to a Daily
Telegraph article today which states that all but a few local
programmes on its 40 local radio stations could be axed! I could not
find it online but here's the Guardian's take on the story)
John Plunkett Guardian.co.uk 10 March 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/10/bbc-local-radio-5-live
Trade union leaders have condemned proposals being considered by the
BBC to axe much of its local radio output, claiming it could lead to
the loss of more than 700 jobs.
The BBC, which is seeking savings of more than £400m following last
year's licence fee freeze, is looking at cutting all of its local
radio programmes, apart from the breakfast and drivetime shows, and
replacing them with content from national news and sport station, BBC
Radio 5 Live.
The National Union of Journalists said the proposals would "spell the
death of local radio" and called on the corporation to "step back from
the brink".
Jeremy Dear, the NUJ's general secretary, said: "Local radio plays a
crucial role in keeping local communities informed. These proposals
would rip the heart out of local programming and effectively sound the
death knell for local radio.
"The BBC's plans would be a blow to quality journalism at the BBC and
fly in the face of public commitments to localism and transparency.
Local radio programmes are produced by local people for local
audiences yet these decisions are being taken far away from
communities and behind closed doors.
"The BBC must step back from the brink and protect local radio
services. If they do not we will actively resist plans which threaten
to inflict such devastating damage to local radio services."
The corporation has around 40 local radio stations with an average
weekly audience of 7.4 million listeners.
But numbers have declined in recent years and in a report last year
the BBC management called on local stations to improve the "quality
and originality" of their journalism. The corporation began
syndicating content between neighbouring local radio stations last
year.
The NUJ said the plans - still believed to be at an early stage and
put forward as part of BBC director general Mark Thompson's
"delivering quality first" consultation - would lead to the loss of at
least 700 jobs and the possible closure of some stations.
A BBC spokesman said: "No decisions have been made so it would be
wrong to speculate. It is of course only right that BBC staff have an
opportunity to input ideas about shaping the BBC's future.
"The [delivering quality first] sessions are designed to provoke
discussion among staff about the way the BBC works and any decisions
coming out of the process would be subject to approval by the BBC
Trust."
But one former 5 Live executive described the proposals as a "big bad
idea".
Bill Rogers, the launch editor of the 5 Live breakfast programme and
now a radio consultant, said: "If this is a float to demonstrate
they're prepared to consider radical stuff, then somebody warn them
off. If it's a serious float, it needs sinking fast. Both services
lose. The local radio audience is old, tending downmarket, 5 Live is
fighting to stay younger than Radio 4."
The NUJ said BBC staff would be briefed about the changes on Friday.
But a BBC spokesperson said : "It is not true that any decisions have
been made so there are no plans to inform staff of any changes
tomorrow." Such a radical change to the BBC's local radio output would
require the approval of the BBC Trust, which oversees the corporation
and last year rejected management's plans to close the digital music
station BBC 6 Music. The proposals come as the big commercial radio
groups move away from local content in favour of well-known nationwide
brands, including Heart and Capital Radio (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via
DXLD)
** U S A. Re: VOA FREQUENCIES --- The former link
http://author.voanews.com/English/about/frequenciesAtoZ_a.cfm
doesn't work anymore. Any suggestions of how to find their fq's?
73, (Erik Koie, Copenhagen, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
It appears to be impossible. The webpage:
http://www.insidevoa.com/about/frequencies/
advises you to click on each target area, which takes you to a list of
programmes for each language service and target area, very few of whom
have frequencies listed.
Nor can you search the HFCC listings as you can for some broadcasters
as the frequencies used have no indication of what language they
transmit. Perhaps something will change when the new season gets
underway, or perhaps not (Mike Barraclough, UK, ibid.)
Well, I just sent a msg via their website asking where the SW
frequency schedule is on website. If enough folk do likewise, perhaps
they'll do something (Ian Baxter, NSW, March 14, ibid.)
** U S A. WRONG SIGNAL --- ACTIVISTS URGE SCHIFF TO HELP KEEP VOICE OF
AMERICA BROADCASTING IN CHINA --- By André Coleman 03/10/2011
http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/cms/story/detail/wrong_signal/9885/
A letter to Pasadena Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff and members of
the House Appropriations Committee from area human rights activists
expressed grave concerns about proposed cuts to Voice of America
broadcasts to Communist China.
The letter from Ann Lau, president of the Visual Arts Guild, and Joe
Brown, head of the NAACP Pasadena Branch, decries $8 million in cuts
to VOA’s $206 million annual budget being proposed by the Broadcast
Board of Governors, an independent agency responsible for all non-
military international broadcasting sponsored by the US government.
If approved, the cuts would eliminate radio and television broadcasts
to China and result in the dismissal of 45 Chinese broadcasters, 38
from the Mandarin-language service.
“Young people throughout the world are risking their lives for basic
human rights, freedom and the right to participate in governing
themselves,” states the letter from Lau and Brown. “They look to our
country for inspiration, and their stories deserve to be shared.
Shuttering Voice of America’s Chinese services will stifle their
struggles.”
If Congress approves the Broadcast Board’s budget, all Voice of
America radio transmissions and television broadcasts to China will
cease on Oct. 1. Voice of America is part of a congressional mandate
to provide news broadcasts that promote freedom and democracy in other
countries.
In an email, Schiff noted that access to uncensored information “is a
serious problem in the People’s Republic of China.
“If this change is being driven by greater opportunities and
efficiencies in new media and its potential to reach a broader
audience, that would be one thing. If, on the other hand, it
represents a decision to retreat from our commitment to disseminate
good information about freedom and human rights, that would be
tragically shortsighted — particularly at a time of revolutionary
change in the world,” Schiff wrote. (via Alokesh Gupta, India, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. Frequency changes of IBB:
1600-1700 NF 9940#PHT 250 kW / 283 deg to SoAs, ex 9340 VOA in Bangla
1900-2000 NF 9595 BIB 100 kW / 063 deg to RUSS, ex 9430* RL Russian
# co-ch FEBA Radio in Amharic and Guragena
* to avoid R. Dardasha 7 in Arabic til 1930
(DX Mix News, Bulgaria, 9 March via DXLD)
** U S A [and non]. 9545, PHILIPPINES, VoA, Tinang. 2205 March 11,
2011. Mandarin, good with slight flutter, and another Chinese mixing
in under (ChiCom deliberate QRM, or someone else?). (Terry L Krueger,
Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9545, March 12 at 2246, a bit of Chinese(?) but mostly a roaring
noise, with very fast flutter. I was tempted to blame it just on very
disturbed propagation, Doppler effect, until I looked it up and found
VOA Chinese via Tinang, PHILIPPINES is scheduled during this hour, so
it must have been a form of jamming by the ChiCom. Some other 31m
signals from the W Pacific/E Asia were in, but not with this effect.
17740, March 10 at 1407 strong open carrier, usual IBB Greenville
tuneup two sesquihours before real VOA transmission at 1700.
Notable by its absence is VOA Spanish in the mornings, which had been
at 1230-1400 all winter, but now nothing on 9885, 13750 or 15590 when
I tune around after 1300 --- because it`s shifted one UT hour earlier
due to DST in Wáshington, nowhere in Latin America, except Mexican
border cities, i.e. 1130-1300. I assume the same frequencies are still
in use, but unconfirmed. Evening transmissions also do such a
nonsensical timeshift (Glenn Hauser, OK, March 15, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. HIGH MUF --- Hello everyone, a quick note to let you know
that I can hear at the moment:
WBAP Fort Worth, TX, with excellent signal on 25910 in FM mode with ID
at 1957 UT. Also heard:
KSCS, Fort Worth, TX, excellent signal, country music and ID at 2000
UT on 25990 also in FM mode (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada,
March 9, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WBCQ started playing last week`s WOR 1554 at 2216 March 9 on
7415, but restarted with new 1555 at 2221. How is reception where you
are? (Glenn Hauser, 2223 UT Wednesday March 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Great in the Buffalo area (as you'd expect :-)); had to shut off the
preamp! Very 73 de (Anne Fanelli in rainy Elma NY, ibid.)
Came in loud and clear here in Mid-North Indiana (John Carver, ibid.)
Re: WOR 1555 now on WBCQ --- What confused me was that re-start at
2238 UT, because then the mid-way point was aired at 2245 and the
program wrapped up normally just before 2300. Then, it re-started from
the beginning but was chopped off and they did a sign-off and went
off-air. Why on Earth they didn't let this particular instance run to
completion during that otherwise-off-air period when 7415 is taken
down mystified me.
But something had to have been done to the first half of WoR, because
there wasn't enough time to get the full 14-15 minutes of gh's
speaking between 2238 and 2245. So what was missing? I'll be listening
to the program tonight on WWRB and maybe I'll catch what I missed
yesterday. Reception here in St. Louis on 7415 was fine, by the way.
73, (Will Martin, MO, March 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi! Just to follow up, WoR on WWRB last night was fine on 2390 kHz
here in St. Louis, and was complete. Still confused about those
missing 7 minutes from the WBCQ transmission yesterday.
By the way, WBCQ has FINALLY updated their on-line program schedule,
after many months of letting it be wrong and my pestering them now and
then. However, after tomorrow, the UT times shown won't be right
unless they update it again ASAP. 73, Will Martin, MO, March 11,
ibid.) They did (gh)
Not even a carrier noticed on 2390 at 0040, March 06, but WWRB heard
on 5050 as usual in English (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, DSWCI
DX Window March 9 via DXLD)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1555 monitoring: UT Friday March 11 started
on WWRB 2390 at 0433, but this week, not on 5050, which continued
running WWRB sales promo loop. Before WOR, a different and live Dave
Frantz asked for reception reports. See also LYQ.
9955, WRMI, Friday March 11 at 1530, WOR confirmed, poor signal but
just a bit of jamming bleeding from 9965. Next WRMI airings: Saturday
0900, 1500, 1830; after DST shift, Sunday: 0800, 1530, 1730.
WWCR airings: Friday 2130 on 7465; Saturday 1700 on 12160; Sunday 0730
or 0630 on 3215.
NEXUS/IBA/IRRS/IPAR, Saturday 1900 on 6090, 1566, 1368 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
WORLD OF RADIO 1555 monitoring: confirmed loud & clear on WWCR-1,
7465, Friday March 11 at 2130, and WWCR-2, 12160, Saturday March 12 at
1700. Remember, from next week due to stupid DST, 2130 moves to 2030
UT, and presumably back to 15825 for the rest of the year until
November, altho WWCR does not post its new transmitter schedules even
one day in advance; and 1700 shifts to 1600 UT, still on 12160. Final
repeat at ``1:30 am`` CT Sunday on 3215 is in that grey zone when CST
is officially in effect until 2 am = 0800 UT, so should be at 0730 UT
one more time before shifting to 0630 next week.
On WRMI 9955: just barely audible at 1525 Saturday March 12, sounds
like me; not jammed but very weak signal.
9955, while the DentroCuban Jamming Command is normally blasting WRMI
away during the 22 UT hour on weekdays, including WORLD OF RADIO on
Thursdays, once again this Saturday March 12 at 2210 during AWR
Wavescan, the jamming is off. I will restrain myself from speculating
on why this may be. Jeff is narrating a feature sparked by the
Christchurch earthquake, now already old hat.
WORLD OF RADIO 1555 monitoring: 9955, WRMI, Sunday March 13 at 1530,
ex-1630 due to overall DST-shift, poor signal with SAH from Taiwan,
but no jamming. Further repeats on WRMI as timeshifted: Sunday 1730,
Monday 1130, 2130, Tue 1530, Wed 0100, 1530.
It looks like I assumed incorrectly that after the DST timechange,
WWCR-1 would be on 15825 starting at 2000 UT instead of 7465. March 13
at 2034 check, 7465 is already on, so presumably started at hourtop
2000. This is counterintuitive, since it`s getting further into
daylight, when a higher frequency should be called for, not a lower
one.
On the morning of March 13, WWCR had still not posted its new
schedules after the old ones expiring March 12, but at 2140 UT, the
new ones are up, valid for two weeks but already mislabeled as A-11. I
have changed all the MHz to kHz to keep the numbers searchable.
WWCR A11 Schedule March 13, 2011 to March 26, 2011
CDT UT
Transmitter #1 - 100 KW - 46 Degrees
12:00 AM-04:00 AM 0500-0900 3215
04:00 AM-06:00 AM 0900-1100 9985
06:00 AM-03:00 PM 1100-2000 15825
03:00 PM-05:00 PM 2000-2200 7465
05:00 PM-08:00 PM 2200-0100 3195
08:00 PM-12:00 AM 0100-0500 3215
Transmitter #2 - 100 KW - 85 Degrees
12:00 AM-07:00 AM 0500-1200 5935
07:00 AM-10:00 AM 1200-1500 7490
10:00 AM-03:00 PM 1500-2000 12160
03:00 PM-05:00 PM 2000-2200 9350
05:00 PM-07:00 PM 2200-0000 5070
07:00 PM-12:00 AM 0000-0500 5935
Transmitter #3 - 100 KW - 40 Degrees
12:00 AM-07:00 AM 0500-1200 4840
07:00 AM-07:00 PM 1200-0000 13845
07:00 PM-12:00 AM 0000-0500 4840
Transmitter #4 - 100 KW - 90 Degrees
12:00 AM-07:00 AM 0500-1200 5890
07:00 AM-09:00 PM 1200-0200 9980
09:00 PM-12:00 AM 0200-0500 5890
Presumably, 15825 will get its usual extension to 2100 UT when A-11
really starts on March 27. Until then, WORLD OF RADIO, Fridays now at
2030 will remain on 7465. Program schedule has also been updated March
13 for DST, and reconfirms the three WORLD OF RADIO airings, one UT
hour earlier.
I don`t see any other surprises in the above schedules, but new 3195,
which started Feb 28, has finally been integrated, and moves one UT
hour earlier to start at 2200, which is awfully early for 90 meters,
currently two hours before local sunset, and counting. Checking for it
at 2205 UT March 13, nothing is audible on 3195, nor is WWCR on
7465/7490 which it supposedly replaces/succeeds.
Unfortunately, starting 7465 a real hour earlier makes it collide with
Radio Tirana`s French broadcast to Europe, also aimed at North
America, Monday-Saturday on 7465; its time change to 1900 will not go
into effect for another two weeks. In A-11, R. Tirana English to
Europe will then be at 2000-2030 Mon-Sat on 7465, and WWCR will not be
on it until 2100, as planned (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1556,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. One of several webcasting stations carrying WORLD OF RADIO
is Radio for Life, now scheduled UT Fridays at 00, Saturdays 18, ajnd
accessible via http://www.radioforlife.net (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF
RADIO 1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9955, March 15 at 1443, a bit startling to hear an
ID from R. Verdad, Guatemala, but it`s merely being featured on the
Spanish DX program `Frecuencia al Día`, Tuesdays at 1430 on WRMI among
several other times. Fair signal, not much jamming, but weaker than
adjacent 9950 Furusato no Kaze via PALAU.
BTW, `FAD` is carried on R. Verdad itself, UT Saturdays 0200-0230 on
4052.5-, among an ever-growing affiliate list, mostly non-SW, at
http://programasdx.com/frecuencialdia_corresponsales.htm
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WTJC, 9370v modulation has been dropping and dropping, but
at least it`s not spurring or splattering lately. March 12 at 2213,
for instance, it`s a strain to hear anything on it, pale by comparison
to nearby WINB, WBCQ, WWCR, WWRB and WTWW which are all fully- or even
overly-modulated and inbooming on 9265, 9330, 9350, 9385, 9479. I
assume people who contribute to FBN don`t axually try to listen to
this exotic ``short wave`` service for heathens abroad (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17680, pleased to hear dead air on CVC La Voz, Miami
via CHILE, March 12 at 2240 which lasted almost two minutes before YL
in Spanish re Jesús cut back on. No telling how long it was silent
before then (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Propagation conditions were quite degraded March 12 around
0641 from North America. Signals OK on 90m, but these were very poor
from WWCR, WTWW: 4840, 5755, 5890, 5935. WWV reported:
# Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 11 March follow.
Solar flux 123 and mid-latitude A-index 25.
The mid-latitude K-index at 0600 UTC on 12 March was 2 (14 nT).
Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level occurred.
Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level occurred.
Space weather for the next 24 hours is expected to be minor.
Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level are expected.``
At 0300 the K-index had been 4, and conditions after 0600 seemed more
like that than 2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. On 9480 right now, radical right wing, anti immigrant talk
radio. Including very cheesy fake Mexican accent. (WTWW?) Best
regards, (Brian, AE7BP, 2055 UT March 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Brian, Yes, it has to be WTWW (9479 really) with its (almost) one and
only client, Pastor Pete Peters, of Scriptures for America (Glenn to
Brian, ibid.)
I looked him up on the internet after I emailed you, there is a lot of
info there. Best regards, (Brian, ibid.)
** U S A. America`s two SSB SW stations were both in well, March 12
around 1700: WBCQ 15420, USB + carrier; and WJHR 15550-USB with no
carrier, both gospel-huxtering (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15550, 1510-, WJHR, Milton FL, Mar 12, Good to very good reception
with the usual canned religious preaching. I wonder whether they've
boosted power? (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. Additional transmissions of WYFR Family Radio via
BABCOCK:
1500-1600 11610 DHA 250 kW / 100 deg to SoAs in English
2000-2100 9885 WOF 300 kW / 182 deg to WCAf in Bambara // 9830 NAU
(MBR) (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, 9 March via DXLD)
15280, yet another new frequency for Harold Camping, unlisted in HFCC,
Aoki or EiBi, March 12 at 2132, has constant hum and flutter, running
2 or 3 words behind // WYFR 17535, 17555. At 2157 the `Open Forum`
discussion was cut short for a canned closing announcement by a much-
younger sounding Camping, 2158 FR publication plug, 2159 ``Ehre``
theme to 2200*, and the hum goes off too, uncovering a very poor
signal from RN in Dutch via Saipan just starting on 15280. Propagation
is still degraded, as this RN relay is often quite good here.
Besides the hum, modulation quality on FR was not typical of German
relays, more like something from the CIS. One suspects HC is in a
hurry to spend out his bulging bank account before Rapture-Day May 21,
adding more and more relays wherever they can be set up without
notice. But where is he getting all this dough, and will the donors be
suing for fraud May 22, demanding restitution as the world goes on?
Gotcha! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Re: Apocalypse Now! (The Harold Camping Edition)
Matthew 24: 36-39:
Mt 24:36 “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in
heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
Mt 24:37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of
the Son of Man.
Mt 24:38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered
the ark;
Mt 24:39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood
came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of
the Son of Man.
Not even Harold Camping knows the date or hour; he only thinks he
knows. Maybe he should read his Bible. Note that even Jesus (the Son)
doesn't know (Colin Miller, Canada, March 10, ODXA yg via DXLD)
It's amazing how long Harold has been on the radio. He sounds very old
and very tired. Maybe his predicted date is more a desire on his part
to leave this planet, himself (M W Bryant, ibid.)
He's in his mid-90s I believe. Time to hang up his mike and shut up
(Mark Coady, ibid.)
His speech has certainly slurred over the years. He's like the Brett
Favre of international broadcasters. And kudos to Colin for the
scripture quotes. It always amazes me when folks think they've solved
the puzzle but forget what Jesus said about it (Richard Cuff /
Allentown, PA, ibid.)
If only the good die young, this should tell you something (Kevin
Redding, Crump, TN, ibid.)
Considering Rev. 22:18, 19:
^18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the
prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God
shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
^19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of
this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life,
and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in
this book.
Maybe Harold should consider whether predicting dates would be
included in "adding unto ...". And unquestionably Harold should listen
to himself on tape at least once, for surely he would then find
someone else to read the script. df (Dan Ferguson, SC, ibid.)
ROAD TRIP TO THE END OF THE WORLD [in 8 parts]
http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/03/06/judgment.day.caravan/index.html
(CNN Living [sic] via Horacio A. Nigro, Montevideo, Uruguay, ODXA yg
via DXLD) Scavenging after Campingists could be profitable (gh, DXLD)
** U S A. 15610, WEWN English, March 12 at 2133 with VG signal,
perhaps HF sporadic-E enhanced, only a megameter away, but distorted
with crackling overmodulation. Is anyone paying attention at Vandiver?
Apparently not, as same crackle at 2201 plus crosstalk, discussing
Operation Ricebowl, and still at 2301 on topic A - abortion (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Thom Price is working on the problem. 73, (Kevin Raper, KJ4HYD, CE
WCKI WQIZ WLTQ, There is no limitation to the fidelity of AM radio.
From a mathematical standpoint, AM does better in frequency response
than FM. - Leonard Kahn [tagline], ABDX via DXLD)
** U S A. DXing with Cumbre heard in progress at tune-in 0750 until
0800 on Sunday 13 March via WHRI on 11565. Pirating Cumbre segment
heard (with pirate logs from February) then handed back to Marie Lamb
to end programme (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO
1556, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Search on her full name under `program host` at the WHR website,
http://www.whr.org/Program-Schedules.cfm#DETAILED_SCHEDULE_SEARCH
to find all the alleged times, most of which will not really be on SW,
just webcast, even tho displaying SW frequencies (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
** U S A [and non]. 9405, WINB, March 10 at 0637 with signal about
equal to BBC Ascension 9410, so separable, but WINB`s modulation is
embarrassingly lousy compared to BBC`s. O, WINB has no shame insofar
as its technical or programming standards (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 2097/cw, HiFer "A", long pauses, 35443+, 0205 6/Mar (Kenneth
Vito Zichi, Brighton MI DXpedition, MARE Tipsheet March 11 via DXLD)
Re 2097: ``A``, that`s it, that`s the complete callsign, .- but why
would this be on USB rather than plain CW? (gh, DXLD)
All these are one or two letters. Heard it in USB & CW, but noticeably
stronger in USB. I suspect most of these run off some sort of stored
media. See reported high frequency beacon list:
http://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/High_Frequency_Beacons
(via Harold Frodge, MI, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 529, beacon LYQ at WWRB, Manchester TN, appears
off air, as we could enjoy nice hetless EZL instrumental music from
Radio Enciclopedia, Cuba on 530, March 11 around 0520-0600 UT (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WYTH 1250 GEORGIA DX TEST EARLY SATURDAY MARCH 19
*** PLEASE GIVE THIS INFORMATION THE WIDEST POSSIBLE DISSEMINATION ***
Craig Baker was so pleased with the results from last weekend’s WKVQ
DX Test, he’s offered to run another early test for European DXers in
hopes that they will hear WYTH too. Here are the details:
WYTH, 1250 kHz, 1 KW, Madison, GA will test on March 19, 2011 from
1:00 to 1:30 AM Eastern Daylight Shifting Time (0500-0530 UT). Test
may include Morse code IDs, voice IDs, special music, and sweep tones.
WYTH, 1250 kHz, 1 KW, Madison, GA will test on March 19, 2011 from
2:00 to 2:30 AM Eastern Daylight Shifting Time (0600-0630 UT). Test
may include Morse code IDs, voice IDs, special music, and sweep tones.
Reception reports may be sent to starstation[at]bellsouth[dot]net
which will be acknowledged with an eQSL or snail mail reports which
will be acknowledged with a traditional QSL card. Please be sure to
include return postage if sending a postal reception report.
WYTH Radio,
Attn: DX Test
P. O. Box 3965
Eatonton, GA 31024-3965
During the test, phone calls will also be accepted at 706-485-8792.
Special thanks to Chief Engineer Craig Baker, for making this test
possible (Jim Pogue, KH2AR, March 15, WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1280, March 11 at 0122 UT on caradio, Crimestoppers PSA with
phone 822-1111, then ``Gospel 1280`` slogan. Google on phone number
goes right to New Orleans LA, and slogan chex in NRC AM Log for WODT
New Orleans (originally WDSU) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. KBRB-1400's frequency check --- Didn't try for WKVQ during
the first half hour, as I was sitting on 1400 in hopes of hearing
KBRB's monthly frequency check (which wasn't heard, so it may be a
thing of the past now). Will try for WKVQ again at 0200 ELT. 73, (Rick
Dau, South Omaha, NE, Sony ICF-2010 + Quantum Loop, ABDX via DXLD)
Rick, Is *anyone* doing monthly frequency checks any more? Were you
referring to a very old schedule of those, or what? 73, (Glenn Hauser,
ibid.)
Glenn, As of October 2002 (per a visit to the station and chat with CE
Randy Brudigan), KBRB was still running a 10-minute frequency check on
the 2nd Saturday of every month in the window from Midnight to 0030 CLT
(0010 to 0020, if memory serves me correctly). I do recall hearing it
at least once not long after that, but I haven't tried for it in the
past 7 years. It could be history by now for all I know. 73, (Rick
Dau, March 13, South Omaha, NE (where KREF [Norman OK] has become a
pest on 1400 most evenings during this season!), ibid.)
** U S A. 1540, figured I should have a good chance at the WKVQ DX
test, 10 kW daytimer in Eatonton, Georgia (midway between Athens and
Macon, ESE of Atlanta), with my FRG-7 longwire aimed E-W already, and
there it was, March 12 at 0612 UT, announcing mailing address, but
always underneath dominant 1540 talk station // KOKC 1520, and with
multiple SAHs from numerous other signals. WKVQ played various Xmas
music, such as ``Winter Wonderland`` heard first, 0615 ``Let it Snow``
on piano, 0618 ``Sleigh Ride``, 0622 ``Santa Claus is Comin` to
Town``, 0629 ``Sleigh Ride`` again.
These alternated with code IDs, each twice, as WKVQ, and it sounded
like the tones employed were not a pure single tone, at 0615, 0622,
0629, 0630; plus voice IDs but I could never copy a complete
announcement due to QRM, at 0612, 0618, 0627, 0630. I tried the DX-398
but could not get any significant improvement trying to null the other
station, which turned out to be KXEL on the Midnight Radio Network as
IDed at 0626 when it came in stronger.
Tune-out after 0630, assuming the test part I was over. The 0600-0630
DX test was supposed to be for Europe before sunrise, in addition to
originally scheduled 0700-0730 for North America, but hardly necessary
to stay up for that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Later sent
this report to WKVQ and got e-QSL within an hour (gh)
There followed many other reports of this from North America, which I
am not going to copy here, but might if any were sent to me directly
(gh)
WKVQ test made it to UK. Noted in Euro slot just after 0100 EST with
Morse ID dot dah dah?? dah dot dah?? dot dot dot dah?? dah dah dot
dah. Head better here by tuning to 1540.06. My problem on this side of
the pond was ZNS1 Nassau. I'll put an mp3 together and try for the
QSL. Certainly a first for me not sure yet if a UK first. Thanks to
Jim Pogue and the team for organising the test. Glad to report the
signal made the 4,000 mile journey across the pond to the UK. A first
for me and the UK by all accounts! Report QSLed by Craig in about 30
minutes!? Best wishes (Barry :-) Davies, UK, March 12, IRCA via DXLD)
The WKVQ test was heard here in Scotland at 0627 UT with details about
reception reports and morse ids. I heard "Sleigh Ride" playing in the
background but am not sure if it was WKVQ. Bahamas was dominant at
0600 UT (Paul Crankshaw, Troon, Scotland, March 13, ibid.)
** U S A. 1640+, March 11 at 0119 UT, I notice that KFXY Faith 1640,
Enid OK, has a fast SAH of some 20 Hz, within its nighttime direxional
coverage area in OKC. Is it off-frequency, or is WTNI? At 1653 UT in
Enid, I find that 1640 is not offset compared to numerous other
groundwave carriers 1390-1600 kHz.
Yes, WTNI in Mississippi is reported as 17-19 Hz high, as recently as
Jan 13, 2011, at http://www.mwlist.org/mwoffset.php?khz=1640
where as usual KFXY does not even make a showing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
1640.03, WTNI Biloxi MS; “Sports Radio 14-90, WXBD Biloxi, 16-40 WTNI
Biloxi” & ESPN sports W/F 0700 11/2 (Barry Davies, Carlisle, Cumbria,
UK. Perseus, 3.7m x 10.0m Flag + FLG100 amp, March Mediumwave News via
DXLD)
** U S A. Re the `official` FCC silent AM list: ``I see they don`t
have KEOR Catoosa-Sperry-Tulsa OK, which has been silent for more than
a month. WTFK? The FCC doesn`t care, so why should we, hi. 73, Glenn
Hauser, Enid OK``
Glenn, I`ve been told by commission staff, that the FCC depends on
records and information from the licensee regarding silent status. If
the station doesn't file, the FCC won't record it. If they`ve been off
air less then 30 days, they don't have to file anything (Paul Walker,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
All the more reason to consult `unofficial` lists compiled by actually
monitoring DX listeners. KEOR must be off 30+ days now, unless they
turned it on briefly unnoticed (gh, DXLD)
** U S A. SCHILLER OUSTED AS CEO OF NPR --- NPR President and CEO
Vivian Schiller resigned yesterday after NPR's board of directors
decided that she could no longer effectively lead the organization.
This followed Tuesday's news that an NPR fundraiser, Ron Schiller (no
relation), was videotaped criticizing conservatives and questioning
whether NPR needs federal funding during a lunch with men posing as
members of a Muslim organization. The bogus donors were working with
political activist James O'Keefe on a "sting".
For more background on these developments, NPR's Two-Way blog has
compiled a number of resources, plus comments from the NPR listening
community and others. [recommended! gh]
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/03/10/134388981/npr-ceo-vivian-schiller-resigns?ps=cprs
The topic was also covered extensively on The Diane Rehm Show and Talk
of the Nation yesterday; you can listen to those programs from the
links here (KGOU E-Newsletter March 10 via DXLD)
** URUGUAY. Uruguay returns to UT-3 (from UT-2 DST) at 0400 UT this
Sunday (Horacio A. Nigro, Montevideo, Uruguay, March 12, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** UZBEKISTAN [non]. 17790 in Chinese at 1318 UT, Mar 6. 30 kHz wide
jammer. Not ? 17790 1300-1330 UT G BBC Uzbek CeAS Oder wird der
massiv gejammt ? Das Signal belegt 16 kHz, in Spitzen 30 kHz. S/off um
1330 UT. Also doch Jammer? (Guenter Lorenz-D, A-DX Mar 6 via BC-DX
March 11 via DXLD)
Aus AOKI Liste, der * Stern zeigt uebliches Jamming an.
"17790*BBC 1300-1330 Uzbek 500 76 Rampisham G BBC"
Chinesisches Jamming wegen den 14 Millionen Uzbeken, die ueber 3-4
Laender verteilt auch in Ost-Turkmenistan siedeln, also auch im
westlichen China.
1251 1300 1400 Duchanbe 100 0 Uzbek CeAS MF
1251 1630 1700 Duchanbe 100 0 Uzbek CeAS MF
6115 1600 1630 Cyprus 250 77 Uzbek CeAS HR 2/2/0.5
6180 1600 1630 Armavir 200 104 Uzbek CeAS HR 4/4/1
9495 1600 1630 Nakhon Sawan250 325 Uzbek CeAS HR 4/3/0.5 S25
11730 1300 1330 Cyprus 250 50 Uzbek CeAS HR 2/2/0.5
11795 1600 1630 Woofferton 300 82 Uzbek CeAS HR 4/4/1 S12
13865 1300 1330 Cyprus 300 57 Uzbek CeAS HR 3/2/0.5 S340
17790 1300 1330 Rampisham 500 76 Uzbek CeAS HR 4/4/0.5 S14
(Wolfgang Büschel, Mar 6, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Mar 11 via DXLD)
** VANUATU. 3945, presumed R. Vanuatu, Port Vila, 1110-1127, March 6,
Tok Pisin. W announcer with talk and music bits; announcement of sorts
over music at 1114 and horn/conch shell blast; W at 1115 into anthem;
dead air at 1118; back at 1121 with island music; abruptly lost under
band noise at 1127; poor in ECCS-LSB with no sign of the perpetual ham
net on 3947-LSB; maybe they sleep in Sunday mornings? (Scott R.
Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m
dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VANUATU. 3945, R. Vanuatu. Regarding yesterday`s extended schedule;
I heard from Sei-ichi Hasegawa (Japan) on March 8: “I can receive
island music at 1745 UT on 3945 kHz. Probably I think that it is
Vanuatu, but cannot confirm it from North Korean jamming”; on March 9
he notes: “3945 signed off at 1448”; I appreciate his checking on
this.
3945, R. Vanuatu, 1210, March 10. Island music; 1212 ID and National
Anthem till 1213* (a false sign off); open carrier/dead air; *1217-
1225* suddenly the audio came back on again with island songs till
transmitter off at 1225. Same National Anthem as heard on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPfqh7qGKj0
3945, R. Vanuatu, 1119-1121*, March 13. ID and National Anthem;
transmitter off at 1125; poor. Today they did not re-start their audio
again after the NA as they recently did (Ron Howard, San Francisco
at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [and non]. ITALIAN COURT UPHOLDS FINES ON VATICAN RADIO FOR
EXCESS ELECTROMAGNETIC EMISSIONS
Italy's highest court has confirmed a judgment against Vatican Radio
for violating legal standards governing the emission of
electromagnetic radiation. The court upheld a decision requiring
Vatican Radio to pay damages to the town of Cesano, located near the
broadcaster’s transmission facility outside Rome. However, the court
also overturned a criminal conviction and 10-day suspended sentence
that a lower court had imposed on Cardinal Roberto Tucci, the former
chairman of the Vatican Radio board.
The case against Vatican Radio became a hot political topic in 2001,
when local authorities in the area of Santa Maria in Galeria, on the
outskirts of Rome, charged that electromagnetic impulses from the main
Vatican Radio broadcasting antenna there were causing an elevated
incidence of leukemia in the neighborhood. Although authorities could
not demonstrate any scientific link between the disease and the radio
transmissions, prosecutors charged that Vatican Radio was exceeding
the legal limits for electromagnetic emissions.
In their defence against the charges, Vatican Radio officials also
pointed out that the broadcast facility had been in line with European
standards regarding electromagnetic emissions. At the time Italy had
only recently adopted more stringent standards. After negotiations
with the government and changes to the broadcast equipment, Vatican
Radio announced later in 2001 that it was now fully compliant with the
new Italian standards for emissions (Catholic Culture via March MW
News via DXLD)
VATICAN RADIO ORDERED TO PAY DAMAGES
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- An Italian court has ruled Vatican
Radio must pay damages to a small town near Rome for electromagnetic
pollution created by its transmitters.
Italy's Supreme Court upheld an order for damages in a case that began
in 2001 when so-called electrosmog levels produced by Vatican Radio
transmitters near the town of Cesano were found to exceed levels
allowed by law, Italian news agency ANSA reported Friday.
The station quickly reduced the strength of its signals, but the case
went to court amid news reports of a regional health authority study
that found children in the Cesano area were six times more likely to
develop leukemia than their peers elsewhere.
A group backing the Cesano residents' claims hailed the court's
decision.
''It's a great victory. Finally justice is done and the people of
Cesano will be able to have the compensation they are rightfully due,"
said Carlo Rienzi, president of the Codacons consumer association.
''We're satisfied. Now we'll see what happens with the other more
serious question of the increase in mortality for leukemia among
Cesano inhabitants, " he said.
Vatican Radio denied its transmitters were causing health problems and
said it had always abided by international treaties on emission
limits.
''This sentence comes at the end of a long, stormy trial process which
has seen the pontifical broadcaster subject to unjust accusations, ''
a Vatican Radio statement said. UPI (via Steve White, Feb 26, MWCircle
yg via DXLD)
** VENEZUELA [non]. As in my earlier report on CUBA, it looked as if
there would be no `Aló, Presidente` this Sunday March 13, nothing on
the usual RHC relay frequencies as late as 1605 UT. But when I turned
on the radio again at 1916, I was surprised to hear Cuban traditional
music, probably replay of `Cuba Campesina` show, on 11690 vs the RTTY
on low side, and also on fair 13680, not the big signal we get from
another transmitter/antenna in the mornings. These two frequencies
used to be on in the daytime before RHC stopped broadcasting in
Spanish between 1600 and 2200 as of February 1. But they are also
officially scheduled for `Aló, Presidente` on Sundays only, nominally
from 1400 UT.
So I checked the other three A,P channels, and there was El Hugazo,
who has shown up after all; the start must have been much later than
usual. 13750 was best by far with VG signal, 17750 next, would have
been equivalent if the modulation were not way down, and only fair on
15370. I also checked all the other RHC daytime frequencies on 11, 13
and 15 MHz, but none of them were on. It looks as if 13680 and 11690
were on the air only because of El Hugazo, yet carrying the wrong
programming, RHC. At next check 2030, 17750, 15370 and 13750 were all
off the air again.
That doesn`t mean the show was over, as far as Radio Nacional de
Venezuela is concerned, as El Hugazo will go on and on for hours as
long as he likes, and indeed `Alo, Presidente` is still running En
Vivo via http://www.alopresidente.gob.ve/ at 2120 UT with clock
showing 4:50 pm, but can`t find any info on this homepage after the
fact about what time it really started. By 2155 El Hugazo is no longer
seen tho the live video is still running (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. Sahara back to 1550 kHz --- A huge signal
tonight at 2020 UT on approx. 1550 kHz, seems to be RASD back here
from 700/702 kHz (pending ID but Arabic discussion talk mentions
Morocco & Sahara). Frequencys eems to be 1550.05 kHz. 73s (Steve
Whitt, UK, 2027 UT March 7, MWCircle yg via DXLD)
Yes, good signal here too, thanks for the tip. Their SW signal is
missing. 73 (Harald Kühl, Germany, 2050 UT March 7, ibid.)
Polisario Front 1550 / 6297. --- They're still well audible on 1550
evenings while the parallel 6297 remains silent, or at least inaudible
whenever I try them on HF. Silent [HF] as I write, 1913 UT, 10 MAR.
However, 6297.15 was heard today at s/off, around 1258. Up here in
Lisboa, // 1550 is inaudible at such time. Power supply difficulties?
73, (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, 1913 UT March 10, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
6297.1, SASASAM is back, March 12 at 0710 with usual chanting, fair
signal. Carlos Gonçalves in Portugal has been hearing it on MW 1550,
but SW missing for several days (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** YEMEN. 9780.12, 1152/12.3 with poor signal S1-2, and talks in
Arabic. Martial music at 1200 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki,
Greece, ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40, heads Sennheiser, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ZIMBABWE [non]. via MADAGASCAR. 11610, Radio Voice of the People,
0425-0447, March 12, vernacular talk. English at 0436 with IDs and
contact information. English talk about the Zimbabwe people. Poor in
noisy conditions and difficult to understand due to accents. Station
lost in the noise at 0447 (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA,
Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. During the mild auroral conditions of the past couple of
nights I've been hearing a Spanish language station on 1710 (well,
actually about 1709.91), and last night I finally heard an ID as
"Radio Luz de Vida" (with thanks to the guys on RealDX for confirming
that). Can anyone tell me where it might be located? 73, (Nigel
Pimblett, Dunmore, AB, March 12, IRCA via DXLD)
Nigel, there is an Ecuadorian by that name on 90 m (Walt Salmaniw, BC,
ibid.)
You must be thinking of Honduras` 3250, which is Radio Luz Y Vida, but
could easily be misheard; no connexion with 1710, tho (gh, DXLD)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5050, March 10 at 0954 check, weak unstable carrier
detectable, and about the same at 1320. The unnamed Sydney NSW station
has been reported by numerous DU listeners as testing on this
frequency instead of 3210, apparently with the same transmitter ARDS
used on 5050 from the NT. Have they noticed carrier instability? China
and India are also on this frequency, of course, as well as WWRB, but
the latter not at these hours. Isn`t it about time the NSW station got
a name, or at least a callsign, if it is licenced? (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7755, Re 11-10: Hi Keith, A Utility HF group (UDXF)
suggests it's a Chinese airforce broadcast (I also posted it on their
yahoo group) - very curious however to get a region as it could help
to distinguish it's usage. Some past transmission reported on UDXF
were the same but slower (Robb Wise, Tasmania, March 8, ODXA yg via
DXLD)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9392.65 Un-ID Mar 08 1440-1507 35333-34333 Burmese,
Burmese talk (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, Japan Premium March 11 via DXLD)
No Burmese scheduled on 9390 or 9395, in case this was a variant, but
1440 is prime time for several Burmese services (gh, DXLD)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9615, March 10 at 1345 very distorted/overmodulated
talk, poor signal, until it stopped at 1348:50*. Nothing listed at
this time; could be a spur but no // audio found 9300-9800 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9695, noise blob 9690-9700, March 15 at 1442, hard to
tell if DRM or jamming, they sound so much alike. Per Aoki, RFE Tajik
via Lampertheim, Germany, is scheduled 14-17; and Eibi, HFCC also have
Saudi Arabia in Pashto at 14-16, neither a likely jamming target, so
could be a malfunxioning transmitter. No DRM scheduled here, the
closest being 9700 Bulgaria but not at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11815, strange tones at 1415-1417+ March 14: one lower
pitch, one an octave higher, alternating, at the rate of 14 per minute
each. This frequency suffers from the usual 3-way collision among: REE
via Costa Rica, which had the dominant Spanish audio; Turkey in
Turkish, mostly music; and Japan in Japanese, mostly talk, also
producing subaudible heterodynes. R. Brasil Central is likely buried
in there too, often heard in the clear elsewhen and probably active 24
hours. It`s impossible to tell where the tones are coming from. Does
anyone recognize that pattern? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13650, March 14 at 1410-1413*, open carrier at S9+18.
Per Aoki, only thing scheduled this hour is R. Kuwait, 500 kW, 350
degrees USward from Sulaibiyah at 14-17, also 18-21. However, EiBi and
HFCC have only the latter. Could also have been one of the other 13650
occupants tuning up for later broadcast, such as Rampisham or
Sackville. Urumqi is also on 13650 until 1400, and possibly ran over,
but too good a good signal and unlike CRI to be so sloppy (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15185, March 14 at 1406, no signal from Family Radio in
English, which was here last week during this hour. Mystery relay,
gone again? Numerous European signals were audible at this time on 19m
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. ** U S A [and Unidentified]. 17760, March 10 at 1440,
50/50 mix of Harold Camping's ceaseless droning from WYFR and some
instrumental jazz (almost easy listening but a little bit livelier).
Initially guessed it was a studio-transmitter patch error, but the
funny thing is, the two audio levels did vary considerably, sounded
like due to propagation, indicating different transmitter sites.
Nobody else listed at this time. Surreal effect, Harold talking about
the May 21 end of the world over light jazz (Earl Higgins, Ten-Tec
RX-321 with random length of wire draped around room, St. Louis,
Missouri USA, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
I often tune across 17760 around then, but never caught this. A
possible scenario: IBB Greenville sometimes tests with jazz music, and
is often running open carrier on 17740. Maybe on 17760 by mistake one
day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. While scanning for 31m harmonics, 18-20K, found the
following 2203-19, 12-Mar
18057.6, just a het, no audio, 3 x 6019.2 Peru?
18087/U, Percolator
18366/U, light saber fight
18450/U, "Esta es Señor", Spanish 2-way -- other side weak (God
calling?)
USB Chirpers at 19685, 19705, 19730, 19740, 19764, 19786 & 19835
(frequencies may be off a kHz or so); all in bursts except 19835 which
was continuous; 19740 & 19764 were much stronger than the others; 2
were on 19786. USB Fast Clickers on 19844, 19876 & 19955 (Harold
Frodge, MI, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS
++++++++++++++++++++++++
Frank Katzele, for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com
(from 11-10, WORLD OF RADIO 1556)
I must say I find your World of Radio website extremely interesting
and useful. I don't know how you manage to find the time to do it all!
(Bill Bingham, South Africa, March 14)
LANGUAGE LESSONS
++++++++++++++++
RADIO OR RADIO RELATED STREET NAMES.
Glenn, Henrik, À propos DXLD dated 02MAR:
"Travessa da Baquelite"
http://www.portugalio.com/leiria/leiria/marrazes/travessa_da_baquelite/
"Rua do Emissor"
(defunct Emissores do Norte Reunidos, later RDP, later pviv.
R.Comercial, Canidelo site)
http://codigopostal.ciberforma.pt/codigo_postal.asp?n=190859
"Rua do Emissor Regional do Sul"
(former site of Emissor Regional do Sul (EN/RDP/RTP), Faro)
http://www.portugalio.com/faro/faro/sao_pedro/rua_emissor_regional_do_sul/
73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, March 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM
+++++++++++++++++++++
Sangean ATS-909X
By now, most readers will know that the long awaited Sangean ATS-909X
is available from a variety of online sources, selling at
approximately 40% +/- off the list price of $450.
See http://www.universal-radio.com or http://www.amazon.com
Three reviews on Amazon.com have given it a five star rating; two of
these reviews were quite comprehensive. I stopped by a local Radio
Shack store and was able to see one on display. Interestingly, neither
the box, manual nor radio itself had a listing of the country of
origin. Hopefully, this new portable will fill the void left by the
discontinuation of the Eton e1. I can say that this model is truly a
portable in size. There is a rotary dial in place of a tuning knob
(for manual tuning) that does not protrude enough to be tuned; tuning
is done by rotating the face “dimples” with your thumb or index finger
(Ed Insinger, Summit, NJ, March 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
The only problem is the price. There are a few ebay sellers based in
Taiwan, who are selling at a more realistic price. There is one seller
in Taipei I came across his ebay shop and he has it for 199. If you
speak or write Chinese you will be able to find it. It's in Ebay
Taiwan (Keith Perron, Taiwan, March 15, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Favorite receivers:
My first: Heathkit GR-81- a total whistle box that my Dad and I built
when I was about 13, but my first DX machine. I later graduated to a
DX-100 (Realistic or similar, I can't remember), then the Sony 2001
(until the buttons gave out), and then the Sony 2010 (button problems
there, too)
Most impressive: Hammarlund HQ-180 - after having read in DX News for
years that the most prolific DXers used this, I finally bought one
around 1983. Probably the finest analog DX machine ever. This is one
hefty unit (though not nearly the poundage of the HQ-150 I once had!),
not easily transported to other locations, warms up the room with all
the tubes, and for the first time gave me the opportunity to fine tune
splits with the Q-Muliplier.
Most Useful: Drake R-8B is my current receiver. 10 Khz to 30 MHz
range, 1000 memories, passband, notch, USB/LSB, tunes to the hundredth
kHz, and did I mention the 1000 memories? The Drake R8 I bought from
Mark Connelly is still on hand, but not as useful with "only" 100
memories. I have set up the R8B so I can easily tune through 10 kHz
and 9 Khz channels with the step button. One memory button allows a
quick toggle between two frequencies, which really helps comparison
with parallels. It's a tabletop receiver, but much easier to transport
than the old Hammarlund, so it goes with me to Newfoundland in a metal
case each time.
Beyond Impressive: Perseus SDR - this is an incredible unit. About
the size of a paperback book, and negligible weight. It doesn't look
like a radio, but when you add an antenna and attach it to a computer,
all the controls are on the computer screen. All kinds of bells and
whistles to play with to separate weak signals from the QRM. Read out
is to the one thousandth kHz. The "waterfall" feature shows signals as
bright lines, and you can "zoom" to see a visible separation between
dominant and off-channel weak signals. Aside from being an incredible
receiver, it also has the capacity to record 1600 kHz wide files that
can be reviewed later - allowing the user to tune up and down the
entire LW and MW dial within that saved file at a later time.
It can also be used for shortwave, and with an additional unit can do
the same 1600 kHz width on FM (that's about 6 FM channels). In
reviewing just a few of these files from Newfoundland I was able to
find at least 30 new Iranian stations by nailing the interval signal
that would have escaped me in real time, and I'm looking forward to
reviewing the files that cover the Indian sign-on and late morning
TPs. The downside to the Perseus' recording ability is that it takes
forever to go through these files, so not the best option for daily
DXing, but a gold mine for reviewing material after a DXpedition to
some exotic locale (Jim Renfrew, NY, 8 March, NRC-AM via DXLD)
ANTIPODE MAP
This is kind of neat, but I still like my globe with holes drilled at
my location and the antipode. Makes it easy to see the path from me
to any other location. Of course, there's plenty of software that will
do that.
http://www.antipodemap.com/
(Dan Ferguson, NASWA yg via DXLD)
FCC Does It Again - Bend Over
The FCC tried to wipe out SW broadcasting to the USA by authorizing
BPL. Luckily it died of its own incompetent concept. So the FCC is now
going to try to mess up satellite navigation services. Will they never
learn or be fired?
http://www.gpsdaily.com/reports/Coalition_To_Save_Our_GPS_Launched_999.html
(Joe Buch, March 10, Swprograms mailing list via DXLD) Viz.:
COALITION TO SAVE OUR GPS LAUNCHED
File image. by Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Mar 11, 2011
Representatives from a wide variety of industries and companies have
announced that they have joined together to form the "Coalition to
Save Our GPS" to resolve a serious threat to the Global Positioning
System (GPS) - a national utility upon which millions of Americans
rely every day.
The threat stems from a recent highly unusual decision by the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) to grant a conditional waiver allowing
the dramatic expansion of terrestrial use of the satellite spectrum
immediately neighboring that of GPS, potentially causing severe
interference to millions of GPS receivers. The conditional waiver was
granted to a company called LightSquared.
A representative of one of the founding members of the coalition,
Trimble Vice President and General Counsel Jim Kirkland, will testify
on this issue on Friday, March 11 before the Subcommittee on Commerce,
Justice and Science of the House Appropriations Committee.
"GPS is essential to Americans every day - it's in our cars, the
airplanes in which we fly and the ambulances, police cars and fire
trucks that help keep us safe. It's also used in many industrial
applications and even synchronizes our wireless, computer and utility
networks," the group said in a statement. "LightSquared's plans to
build up to 40,000 ground stations transmitting radio signals one
billion times more powerful than GPS signals as received on earth
could mean 40,000 'dead spots' - each miles in diameter - disrupting
the vitally important services GPS provides."
The "Coalition to Save our GPS" includes representatives from a broad
range of industries, including, aviation, agriculture, transportation,
construction, engineering, surveying and GPS-based equipment
manufacturers and service providers. Washington, D.C.-based Akin Gump
Strauss Hauer and Feld is leading the government relations effort. The
Coalition's website is www.SaveOurGPS.org.
Initial members of the Coalition are the Aeronautical Repair Stations
Association, Air Transport Association, Aircraft Owners and Pilots
Association, American Association of State Highway and Transportation
Officials, American Rental Association, Associated Equipment
Distributors, Association of Equipment Manufacturers, Case New
Holland, Caterpillar Inc., Edison Electric Institute, Esri, Garmin,
General Aviation Manufacturers Association, Deere and Company,
National Association of Manufacturers, OmniSTAR, and Trimble.
Additional members are expected to join in the near future.
The unusual waiver granted in January to LightSquared by the FCC
allows it to use its satellite spectrum for high-powered ground-based
broadband transmissions if the company can demonstrate that harmful
interference could be avoided. The usual FCC process of conducting
extensive testing followed by approvals was not followed in this
instance. Instead, the process was approve first, then test.
Additional safeguards are needed, so the Coalition recommends:
The FCC must make clear, and the NTIA must ensure, that LightSquared's
license modification is contingent on the outcome of the mandated
study. The study must be comprehensive, objective, and based on
correct assumptions about existing GPS uses rather than theoretical
possibilities. The views of LightSquared, as an interested party, are
entitled to no special weight in this process.
The FCC should make clear that LightSquared and their investors should
not proceed to make any investment in operating facilities prior to a
final FCC decision (or at least make it explicit that they do so at
their own risk). While this is the FCC's established policy, it failed
to make this explicit in its order.
Further, the FCC's, and NTIA's, finding that "harmful interference
concerns have been resolved" must mean "resolved to the satisfaction
of preexisting GPS providers and users."
Resolution of interference has to be the obligation of LightSquared,
not the extensive GPS user community of millions of citizens.
LightSquared must bear the costs of preventing interference of any
kind resulting from operations on LightSquared's frequencies. GPS
users or providers should not have to bear any of the consequences of
LightSquared's actions.
This is a matter of critical national interest. There must be a
reasonable opportunity for public comment of at least 45 days on the
report produced by the working group (GPS daily via DXLD)
SHOWER-POWERED FM RADIO LAUNCHED
BBC News March 9, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12686128
A water-powered radio will be music to the ears of those who enjoy a
spot of singing in the shower. The FM shower radio is powered by the
motion of water flowing through a micro turbine which in turn drives a
generator that creates the energy to power the device.
The invention comes from the team behind the wind-up radio. Their
company had previously appeared on the BBC's, Dragon's Den, where the
celebrity investors failed to back it.
The shower-powered radio is fitted in-line between the water supply
and shower hose. The man behind the H2O, Vivian Blick, previously
worked with the English inventor Trevor Baylis on his Freeplay wind-up
radio.
That invention proved to be a particularly successful in Africa, where
the cost of batteries or electricity put traditional radio out of the
reach of many.
"Having seen huge success with the commercialisation of the wind-up
radio, we're constantly looking into new ways that further innovations
in the radio sector could be made," said Mr Blick, who is managing
director of Tango Group, which owns H2O. "We hope to encourage singing
in the shower all around the UK," he added (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via
DXLD)
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See ANTARCTICA; POLAND; ROMANIA; RUSSIA;
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ UNIDENTIFIED 9695 and BELOW
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC vs DRM
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
IN LATIN AMERICA, THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL RADIO IS A MURKY ONE
Radio World By Jorge J. Basilago March 11, 2011
The online version of this article has been updated to reflect the
most recent IBOC developments in Mexico.
Buenos Aires, Argentina - More than 20 years after the emergence of
digital radio, its fate in Latin America remains uncertain. Most
countries of this region have not demonstrated a preference as to
which system to adopt. At the same time, digital's progress in some
countries has been slow, though technology studies and trial
broadcasts have been going on since the mid-1990s.
"The discussion on digital radio is spreading throughout Latin
American countries, but the obstacle blocking the implementation and
subsequent transition to this technology continues to be more
economical than technological," said Pedro González Castellanos, a
research engineer for the National Institute of Metrology,
Normalization and Industrial Quality (INMETRO) of Brazil.
Undecided:
However, regional decision-making about radio digitalization remains
limited. The leading countries in Latin America have still not chosen
systems or set dates for doing so.
An exception is Mexico - the second-largest economy in the region and
11th largest in the world - which allows use of AM and FM HD Radio
within about 200 miles of its northern border. The Mexican government
is now considering extending optional commercial radio use of HD Radio
to the entire country; some broadcasters support the move while
various academic, social and community sectors are critical.
At the end of February, after the preparation of the print version of
this article, Mexico's telecom regulator gave its thumbs up to HD
Radio and IBOC for the entire country, and laid out a proposed plan
for a voluntary transition to that technology. The recommendation goes
on to a regulatory agency that will hold a public comment period.
Advocates hope this will be a precedent-setting decision.
The Mexico decision had been expected. Meanwhile, commenting before
that development, broadcasters and the governments in Brazil and
Argentina remained hopeful of making a decision someday. But those
countries have seen different degrees of activity.
In Brazil, as Radio World has reported, a work group coordinated by
the Ministry of Communications has been carrying out field research in
various cities on the iBiquity Digital HD Radio and Digital Radio
Mondiale systems. The tests are for both AM and FM. HD Radio tests
started in 2005; DRM tests began in 2007.
This commission, composed of researchers from the National
Telecommunications Agency and INMETRO, is working on the final draft
of a report; there is no set date for its presentation. Brazil will be
watched closely because it is the world's seventh-largest economy in
terms of GDP, and the second-largest in the Americas behind the United
States.
In Argentina, AM HD Radio tests sponsored by the Association of
Private Argentine Broadcasters, ARPA, were carried out with HD Radio
in 2004. But the government currently does not include radio
digitalization among its priorities; it is focused on its TV digital
transition. The International Telecommunications Union is encouraging
all nations to complete their migration to digital television by year-
end 2015.
One source said another complicating factor is the presence of
thousands of unlicensed broadcasters operating on uncoordinated
frequencies in Argentina; it would be difficult to make any in-band
digital radio technology work reliably on the existing AM and FM
bands.
Luis Lázzaro, general coordinator for the country's Federal Authority
of Audiovisual Communication Services, said, "Unfortunately, current
conditions do not favor more rapid advances; but we are very aware of
all scientific research and techniques taking place at the national
universities and being carried out in the MERCOSUR," which is the
Southern Common Market, a trade and political pact among Brazil,
Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay... Article continues here
http://www.rwonline.com/article/115210
(via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD)
PROPAGATION
+++++++++++
SPACE SHUTTLE SKIP, DAYTIME MWDX OPENING??
Here`s the latest on imminent Discovery landing March 9 (which was
delayed a day from the original March 8 I mentioned on WORLD OF
RADIO):
DISCOVERY DEORBIT BURN 15:52 UT
KSC LANDING 16:57 UT
Discovery Given "Go" for Deorbit Burn
Wed, 09 Mar 2011 02:30:56 PM GMT-0100
Mission Control Capcom Charlie Hobaugh gave space shuttle Discovery
Commander Steve Lindsey a "go" for the deorbit burn. The shuttle?s two
Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) engines will fire at 10:52 a.m. EST
for two minutes, 31 seconds and slow Discovery by 188 miles per hour.
Landing is expected at 11:57 a.m. at NASA's Kennedy Space Center,
runway 15.
Weather is observed and forecast ``go.``
Map of the landing path shows approaching from the SSW, across
Guatemala/El Salvador/Belize, up the Quintana Roo coast, west of Cuba,
across central Florida.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html
So we are out of luck in North America for a possible repeat of the
night-like MW propagation I observed during the day in April 2009 when
another STS landing path crossed over the entire continent from the
west coast.
However, the same effect might be observed in Central
America/Mexico/Cuba today if anyone is looking for it! It could last a
few hours after Discovery passes thru the D-layer.
Check normally open MW frequencies for stations beyond your normal
groundwave range in the daytime, and/or unusual interference on
occupied channels. 73, (Glenn Hauser, 1537 UT March 9, dxldyg and
numerous MW lists via DXLD) No replies whatsoever
LONG-HAUL TRANS-EQUATORIAL FM DX, CARIBBEAN TO SOUTHERN BRASIL
Logs de carnaval --- Amigos: peço licença aos moderadores, ja que os
logs são somente de FM Como eu tinha dito antes do carnaval, eu tirei
o feriado para fazer algumas escutas. Segue os logs abaixo. As horas
estão de Brasília e a ordem dos logs estão em ordem cronologia de
tempo, ou seja ia escutando e anotando.
[times are Brasília; add 3 hours for UT; in chrono order more or less]
89.9- UNID (ingles) 2148 04/03 Mx caribenha
92.9- Voice of Barbados- Barbados 2150 04/03 Mx caribenha
93.3- UNID (ingles) 2153 04/03 Mx e voz masc.
89.7- UNID 2210 04/03 Mx caribenha
90.1- UNID 2212 04/03 Locutor em FF voz Masc.
91.1- Observer- Antigua Barbudas 2214 04/03 Locutor voz masc.
91.3- WIPR- Porto Rico 2216 04/03 Mx instrumental
91.2- RCI- Martinica- 2221 04/03 Voz fem.
91.5- Fame- Jamaica 2223 04/03 Mx caribenha
92.7- Fame- Jamaica 2225 04/03 Mx caribenha. Tx diferente da 91.5
95.1- UNID- 2231 04/03 Mx caribenha e locutor voz masc.
88.3- Medie 250- Martinica 2025 05/03 Mx caribenha e voz masc. em FF
88.5- UNID- 2027 05/03 Conversa de 2 homens em SS
88.7//93.1// 107.9- Kairi- Dominica 2230 05/03 Mx caribenha. as 3
frequencias em paralelo
89.5- R. Frequence caraibes- Martinica 2033 05/03 Mx caribenha
89.8- Haute Tension- Guadaloupe 2035 05/03 Mx em idioma FF
91.5- Fame- Jamaica 2046 05/03 Locutor voz masc anunciando uma mx
95.3- Hott fm- Barbados 2057 05/03 Mx caribenha
97.5- Gospel fm- Barbados 2103 05/03 Voz masc
97.9- WGOD- Ilhas virgens americana 2106 05/03 Px religioso
104.6- RCI- Martinica 2111 05/03 Mx caribenha
89.8- UNID- 2126 05/03 Tx em FF com sinal fraco captado pela primeira
vez
94.3- RFO- Martinica 2130 05/03 Fim da Mx e locutor voz masc.
97.3- Radio Santa lucia- Santa lucia 2235 06/03 Locutora voz feminina
em FF
94.7- CBC- Barbados 2239 06/03 Locutor voz masc e Id
Agradeço a todos que corresponderam ao meu chamado de fazer escutas no
carnaval e enviar os logs. --
minha pagina: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/124523
meu blog: http://www.ipernity.com/blog/124523
(Anderson José Torquato, Garopaba-SC, Brasil, 9 March, radioescutas yg
via DXLD)
TE logs excerpted from his full list including nearby Brazilians
mostly in SC and RS (gh, DXLD)
AUDIOS CARIBENHOS DE RUBENS FERRAZ PEDROSO
Amigos: Enquanto o nosso amigo Rubens ferraz pedroso de bandeirantes-
PR proucura o melhor lugar para ele disponobilizar seus belos audios
caribenhos, eu coloquei na minha pagina para todos aqueles que
quiserem ouvi-las. Foram feitas algumas gravações. são elas
WE FM- 99.9 MHz
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/124523/10169448/
The Observer- 91.1 MHz
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/124523/10169447/
Radio Sanit Lucia- 97.3 MHz
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/124523/10169446/
Radio Anguilla- 95.5 MHz
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/124523/10169430/
Praise Fm- 105.7 MHz
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/124523/10169429/
Nice Fm- 96.7 MHz
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/124523/10169428/
Hitz Fm- 91.9 MHz
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/124523/10169427/
ABS Radio- 90.5 MHz
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/124523/10169426/
Parabens pelos audios Rubens. ficou muito bom, e sempre que precisar
pode contar comigo (Anderson José Torquato, Garopaba-SC, radioescutas
yg via DXLD)
TE and F2, F2F2 and F2-F2
March 3 I heard my first LU on 6 meters since Aug 2005 (was an Es link
to F2 the weekend that Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans). The 5w
LU7YS beacon on 50.085 MHz was about 539 at 2215z. The LU7YS op
himself made some TX and XE2 QSOs, but his CW signal had too much QSB
on it here for me to try a call.
"March 2 we had a lot of midday-early afternoon 6 meter Es to the
southeast, and there had been hope that would link into the F2
that's been creeping ever closer recently (YS, XE1) as the rising
solar flux and season get more favorable. A rule-of-thumb here has
been solar flux of 120-130 is a good level for 6 meter LUs in March-
April. There was no direct evidence of any Es involved in the March 3
event, though there IS a lot of water in that direction for a linking
hop to land in. March is statistically the worst month of the year for
VHF Es here so that linkage is far more common in April as that season
awakens.
"Now, one of my pet peeves regarding the liberal use of TE/TEP to
describe these modes: Our daytime 6 meter paths to LU are usually
the result of a chordal F2 hop (no 1-hop ground reflection), exhibit
normal QSB, and are designated F2F2 (vs. F2-F2). The after-dark
('classical TE') is caused by a scatter mechanism in the F2 layer
and is distinctive in its multi-path and flutter sound. One only
has to hear the same-path stations by each mode to appreciate the
difference. (Much pioneer work on this was done in Cycle 19 with
ZE2JV documenting it in QST articles.) (Pat Dyer, WA5IYX of San
Antonio, Texas, QST de W1AW, Propagation Forecast Bulletin From Tad
Cook, K7RA, Seattle, WA March 11, 2011, To all radio amateurs, via
Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD)
TRANS-ATLANTIC FM DX TARGETS?
I've also been working on my FM DX set-up for Europe. I've refurbished
an old Finco FM-5 10 element beam and have it up 20 feet (effectively
1,020 ASL). I still have to run the cable when the weather permits. I
going to use a Yaesu FRG-9600 for a receiver. I would appreciate
viable FM frequencies for Madeira Island, Azores, Canaries, and
western Portugal if any of your readers can help. Thanks, (Bill W1OW
Smith, March 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 07 - 13 March 2011
Solar activity ranged from low to high levels during the period. Early
on 07 March, activity levels increased rapidly from low to high
levels. Regions 1164 (N24, L=164, class/area Ekc/760 on 07 March),
1165 (S20, L=184, class/area Fko/420 on 07 March) and 1166 (N09,
L=092, class/area Ekc/750 on 10 March) produced a total of seven M-
class events on the 07 March, the largest was an M3.7 X-ray event from
Region 1164 observed at 07/2012Z. Associated with this event was a
Type II Sweep (1133 km/s), a large 10cm Burst (23,000 sfu) and a full-
halo CME with an estimated plane-of-sky velocity of 2180 km/s. Earlier
on 07 March, Region 1166 produced an M1.9/Sf with associated Type II
(1320 km/s) and Type IV Sweep signatures and a partial-halo CME with
an estimated plane-of-sky velocity of 634 km/s. Activity levels
remained high on 08 March due to an M5.3/1f flare observed from Region
1165 at 08/1044Z. High levels persisted on 09 March when Region 1166
produced a X1.5/2b flare at 09/2323Z. Activity decayed to moderate
levels on 10 March due to a single M1.1 at 10/2241Z, most likely from
Region 1166. By 11 March, levels decayed further to low levels as C-
class activity was observed, all from Region 1166. Moderate levels
returned on 12 March due to an M1.3/1n observed from Region 1166 at
12/0443Z with an associated Type II Sweep (454 km/s). Later on the
12th, Region 1166 produced a C9.6/1f flare with another Type II Sweep
(954 km/s). On 13 March, levels decreased again to low levels with
Region 1166 and Region 1169 (N20, L=060, class/area Cro/290 on 13
March) producing C-class events.
A greater than 10 MeV proton event, at geosynchronous orbit, was
observed from 8-10 March due to the M3.7 event from 07/2012Z from
Region 1164. The event began at 08/0105Z, reached a maximum flux of
50 pfu on 08/0800Z, and ended at 10/1210Z.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at
high levels from 07-09 March. Mostly moderate levels were observed
until March 13, when a return to high levels was observed.
Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to minor storm levels
with isolated major to severe storm periods observed at high
latitudes. From 07 March through early on 10 March, the geomagnetic
field was at quiet to unsettled levels with isolated high latitude
active periods. At about 10/0600Z, the ACE spacecraft observed a
shock which was most likely the result of the arrival of the 07 March
CME activity. Wind speeds increased from about 300 km/s to near 375
km/s while the Bz component of the IMF turned south to about -9 nT.
The geomagnetic field responded with unsettled to active conditions,
with major to severe storm levels observed at high latitudes. These
conditions persisted through the remainder of the summary period. At
about 11/1400Z, density, temperature, and wind speed began to rise
while the Bz component indicated fluctuations between +/- 10 nT. These
signatures were consistent with a co-rotating interaction region (CIR)
in advance of a recurrent coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS).
Solar wind velocities continued a gradual rise through the remainder
of 11 March into 12 March and peaked near 600 km/s at 12/0858Z. On 13
March, a gradual decrease in solar wind velocity was observed with
velocities holding steady near 550 km/s
FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 16 MARCH - 11 APRIL 2011
Solar activity is expected to be at very low levels with a chance for
C-class events from 16-24 March. An increase to low to moderate levels
is expected for the remainder of the period with the return of old
Regions 1165 and 1164 on 25 March and old Region 1169 on 31 March.
No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is
expected to be at moderate levels from 16 - 19 March. Normal
background levels are expected to prevail during 20 - 28 March. High
levels are expected to return from 29 March - 05 April and then a
decrease to normal background levels is expected for the remainder
of the period.
Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at mostly quiet levels
from 16 - 27 March. An increase to active to minor storm levels is
expected from 28 -31 March in response to a recurrent CH HSS. A return
to mostly quiet levels is expected from 01 - 06 April. Quiet to
unsettled conditions with a chance for an isolated active period from
07 - 10 April is expected in response to another recurrent CH HSS. A
return to quiet levels is expected for the remainder of the period.
:Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt
:Issued: 2011 Mar 15 2010 UTC
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# 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table
# Issued 2011-03-15
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# UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest
# Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index
2011 Mar 16 100 5 2
2011 Mar 17 100 10 3
2011 Mar 18 100 8 3
2011 Mar 19 95 5 2
2011 Mar 20 90 5 2
2011 Mar 21 85 5 2
2011 Mar 22 80 5 2
2011 Mar 23 80 5 2
2011 Mar 24 85 5 2
2011 Mar 25 90 5 2
2011 Mar 26 90 5 2
2011 Mar 27 95 5 2
2011 Mar 28 95 18 4
2011 Mar 29 100 15 3
2011 Mar 30 100 10 3
2011 Mar 31 110 8 3
2011 Apr 01 110 5 2
2011 Apr 02 110 5 2
2011 Apr 03 110 5 2
2011 Apr 04 110 5 2
2011 Apr 05 110 5 2
2011 Apr 06 110 5 2
2011 Apr 07 105 7 2
2011 Apr 08 105 7 2
2011 Apr 09 100 7 2
2011 Apr 10 100 5 2
2011 Apr 11 95 5 2
(SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1556, DXLD) ###