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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1641 HEADLINES: *DX and station news about: Bonaire, Bulgaria, Canada, Cuba, Cyprus, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Europe, Germany non, India, International Vacuum/Peru, Iran, Israel, Japan, Korea North, Korea South, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, Russia, Serbia non, Somaliland, South Africa, Sudan non, Tajikistan, Thailand, UK, USA SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1641, November 1-7, 2012 Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [replayed 1640 this week] Thu 2100 WTWW 9479 [confirmed] Fri 0329v WWRB 3195 & 5051 [confirmed] Sat 0130v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 [confirmed at 0137] Sat 0630 HLR 7265 Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 0800 WRMI 9955 Sat 1500 WRMI 9955 Sat 1630 HLR 7265 Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1730 WRMI 9955 Sun 0200 WTWW 5085 [or 0130? not on air this week] Sun 0400 WTWW 5745 [confirmed] [De-DST timeshifts began here:] Sun 0900 WRMI 9955 Sun 1630 WRMI 9955 Mon 0530 WRMI 9955 [new time] Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [or maybe 1642 if ready in time] Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WRN ON DEMAND: http://www.wrn.org/listeners/#world-of-radio WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN: http://www.wrn.org/listeners/customize-panel/addToPlaylist/98/09:00:00UTC/English OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser DXLD YAHOOGROUP: Why wait for DXLD? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our yg without delay. When applying, please identify yourself with your real name and location, and say something about why you want to join. Those who do not, unless I recognize them, will be prompted once to do so and no action will be taken otherwise. Here`s where to sign up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/ ** AFGHANISTAN. Afghan Military Stations on BBC Breakfast --- Quick alert to anybody who sees this in time that there is going to be a feature about local radio stations set up by the forces in Afghanistan on BBC Breakfast on BBC One/BBC News Channel in the next hour (09.00 - 10.00 BST Saturday). For those that miss it, this programme is not featured on the i-player and other catch up services, but much of the programme is available on their Facebook page (Mark Savage, Feltham, UK, Oct 27, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) British psy-ops station in Afghanistan --- Radio Tamadoun - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-20096416 (Chris Greenway, Oct 27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) There was a report on it a few minutes ago on BBC World Briefing. I guess it`s an FM job (G. Victor A. Goonetilleke 4S7VK, Piliyandala, Sri Lanka, 1416 UT Oct 27, ibid.) There was also a report about this station on the BBC news channel this morning. Incredibly, the officer in charge was adamant that his station had nothing to do with propaganda. It seems that, these days, nobody wants to use the 'p' word. However, 'propaganda', properly understood, is actually an ethically neutral term dating back to the seventeenth century, when it was first used by the Roman Catholic church to describe the propagation of the faith. Like it or not, stations such as the psy-ops station in Afghanistan, as well as international broadcasters such as the BBC, VOA, Voice of Russia and China Radio International are propaganda stations. Some, of course, are better than others in the dissemination of relaible news (e.g. the BBC), but if there was no ideology or perceived national interest to promote, there would be no governmental, or semi- governmental, international broadcasting and no need, on any side, for psy-op stations such as the one in Afghanistan (Roger Tidy, (London, UK), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. 7425, Oct 27 at 0129, R. Tirana IS about to open the only remaining English to North America. Note that for B-12, it changes to 0230-0300 on 6100, except UT Mondays, so might start UT Oct 28 or 30. The only other English, to Europe and onward to E NAm will be at 2100 except Sundays on 7465. 7425, Oct 28 at 0233 open carrier, dead air, no doubt R. Tirana, one of many stations unable to coordinate a smooth transition from A- to B-season scheduling. English to NAm for B-12 is at 0230 on 6100, but not there. Instead they kept 7425 from A-12 on the air but moved it one hour later, and there was no programming being fed from studio. Maybe that was still done at 0130, when I believe neither frequency was on the air. [and non]. 7465, Oct 29 at 0025, new frequency and time for R. Tirana, Albanian to NAm, 0000-0100, ex 2300-2400 on 7425. Fair signal and in the clear, as it would not have been if stayed on 7425, where CRI English from Kashgar is co-channel and indeed audible here on the opposite worldside; in B-11 they kept colliding. 6100, Oct 29 at 0218, 0230 and 0243, R. Tirana`s new English frequency at new time 0230 is not on tonight, but will start UT Oct 30, so I check it anyway for any QRM problems: not from any legitimate broadcaster, but Cuban pulse jamming is running against nothing, perhaps Arnie`s little jab as a spoiler to an ex-Communist country. There is nothing on 6100 at any hour of the day in HFCC B-12 (or A-12) which could possibly require jamming from Cuba. 6100, Oct 30 at 0227, R. Tirana IS on new frequency for B-12, only fair signal but no jamming or other QRM. 0230 opening announcement still gives A-12 times and frequencies: seasonal changes always seem to take the studio by surprise. Program preview includes news, cultural activities of the week, sports. SINPO 35433 altho local noise level holds it down, which a much stronger signal like Anguilla 6090 could overcome. Greece still audible as well on 7475, but we hope the 6 MHz channel will penetrate better thru the darkest winter nights to come. 6100, Oct 31 at 0227, night two of the new time and frequency in English to NAm: R. Tirana IS, 0230 Klara`s sign-on announcement has been changed from the defunct A-12 one aired 24 hours earlier, but it`s wrong! She says the English schedule is to UK at 21-22 on 7465 Mon-Sat, and to USA, 02-03 on 6100 Mon-Sun --- as if the broadcasts had been expanded to a full hour, and the 6100 is of course only UT Tue-Sun. Sufficient reception, no jamming. 7465, Oct 31 at 2100 trying to hear R. Tirana`s sign-on announcement in English but still too weak here against the noise level. Should improve on the average as we approach Solstice, and also should be better further east. 6100, Nov 1 at 0224 tune-in, R. Tirana is already on the air with music, 0227 IS and 0230 opening English. Poor signal tonight but I could barely tell that Klara was still saying this starts at ``2 o`clock`` --- well, maybe it did! Altho scheduled only from 0230. It`s happened before that the broadcast has come on early, perhaps as warmup, with the Albanian HS, or perhaps even a preplay of English available on the program feed line (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. WINTER B-12 SCHEDULE OF RADIO TIRANA: Albanian Daily 0000-0100 on 7465 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg to NoAm 0800-1000 on 7390 SHI 100 kW / non-dir to WeEu 0901-1000 on 1395vFLA 500 kW / 033 deg to EaEu 1500-1630 on 1458vFLA 500 kW / non-dir to WeEu English Mon-Sat 2100-2130 on 7465 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg to U.K. English Tue-Sun 0230-0300 on 6100 SHI 100 kW / 300 deg to NoAm German Mon-Sat 2031-2100 on 7465 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg to Germany Greek Mon-Sat 1645-1700 on 1458vFLA 500 kW / non-dir to Greece French Mon-Sat 1830-1900 on 7465 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg to France Italian Mon-Sat 1800-1830 on 6040 SHI 100 kW / non-dir to Italy Serbian Mon-Sat 2115-2130 on 1458vFLA 500 kW / 004 deg to Serbia Turkish Mon-Sat 1930-2000 on 1458vFLA 500 kW / non-dir to Turkey (DX Re Mix News, Bulgaria, 01 November via DXLD) ** ALGERIA [non]. 5865, Oct 28 at 0511, Qur`an on RTA`s new / reactivated B-12 frequency via FRANCE, ex-9535; 7295 remains on air with non // Qur`an, from two different networks (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5865, Radio Algerienne via Issoudun, powerful S=9+45dB powerhouse, nice NoAF music at 0407 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476, Oct 25 at 1408, pro-forma non-log of LRA36 on another Thursday a year after last heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 6215, 27/10/2012 2330-2335, Radio Baluarte, Puerto Iguazu, Argentina, Spanish, Mx fv singing na opera. 15221 (Tota Garcia, PR7BCP – PY7024SWL, João Pessoa – PB HI22nv, 31 Oct, ICOM IC R-1500 Antenas 2 elem 40/10 e 3 elem 20/15/10, radioescutas yg via DXLD) This pirate hasn`t been reported in a long time, sure? (gh) ** ARGENTINA. 11711v, Oct 25 at 0217, all I am hearing from RAE during its English hour is noise, and same at 0330 recheck during French. Maybe like an open FM studio-transmitter link; isn`t anyone paying attention at General Pacheco? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15344.85, RAE, 2346-2356*, Oct 25. Talk show in Spanish; 2355 IS and “RAE” IDs; fair. 11710.70v, RAE, *0000, Oct 26. Time pips; poor with QRM (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Alinco DX-R8T and Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11710.705, RAE Buenos Aires with some features in French language. Strong S=9+5 dB signal at 0312-0316 UT Oct 26. Featured future tourism developments in Argentina and Brazil, and on University Nacional. And at 0330-0340 UT too (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26, dxldyg via DXLD) NOVEDADES DE RADIODIFUSION ARGENTINA AL EXTERIOR Quiero compartir con ustedes esta noticia referida a nuestra Radiodifusión Argentina al Exterior. A partir del proximo 01 de Noviembre de 2012, se introducirán las siguientes modificaciones en el esquema de transmisiones de RAE: Entre las 10 y las 15 UT, los programas en Japonés, Portugués y Español se difundirán por las frecuencias de 6060 Kh/z [sic] (banda de 49 mts) y 15345 Kh/z (banda de 19 mts.). - Esto implica que la emisión en Español añadirá en su emisión la frecuencia de 6060, en tanto que las transmisiones en Japonés, Portugués y Español cambiarán la frecuencia de 11710 Khz en las que transmiten en la actualidad por la de 15345 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, Oct 27, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. 13363.5 LSB, unidentified Argentine Feeder, 2350- 0010, Oct 25-26, Spanish talk. Ads, jingles, promos. Spanish ballads. US pop ballads by George Michael, Stevie Wonder. Fair to good. 13363.5 LSB, unidentified Argentine Feeder, 2130-2240+, Oct 28, Spanish talk. Spanish play-by-play futbol coverage. Weak at tune-in, but improved to a fair level by 2225. Gone at 2258 check (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** ARGENTINA [and non]. LOL, 10000 kHz --- Ahora mismo (1411 UTC), LOL, Observatorio Naval, Buenos Aires, con señales de tiempo, sin identificación escuchada. QSB. 73 desde Montevideo (Rodolfo Tizzi, Uruguay, Oct 25, condiglista yg via DXLD) So if there is no ID at all, it`s LOL (and this is the one hour a day it was last listed active), rather than PPE and WWV/H which of course do ID?? Were the timesignals in any way numbered, as UT-3? Brazil is now on DST of UT-2 in the east/southeast (gh, DXLD) Por acá en 10000 kHz a las 0029 UT está USA, voz masculina con alertas y dando la hora; creo que es Fort Collins. Siempre me confundo una con otra (Ernesto Paulero, Argentina, UT Oct 26, ibid.) Buen dia! Me parece que el LOL no está más en el aire. Otra cosa. La WWV (Boulder, Colorado) es que tiene anuncios por OM. La WWVH (Kekaha, Hawaii) tiene anuncios por YL. 73's (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, Enviado desde mi BlackBerry de Personal, ibid.) Yo diría que sí, ya que esto no es PPE ni ninguna de las otras. Es LOL, solo que le falta la identificación verbal o en CW. Y la escuché como 20 minutos para salir de dudas. La lista de Eibi, con los errores que pueda tener, la da como activa de lunes a viernes de 1400 a 1500. http://youtu.be/m2GielGo91U 73 desde (Montevideo, Rodolfo Tizzi, ibid.) Es entonces esa una excelente noticia, Rodolfo! Ya lo daba al LOL por fenecido. Me reavivas las ganas de ir al Observatorio Naval que esta en la Costanera Sur, precisamente al sureste de la ciudad y sacar algunas fotos al muy lindo edificio que tiene. Gracias! 73 (Arnaldo Slaen, ibid.) Yo también la pensaba difunta, pero parecería que no. Ahora, en un rato (escribo esto a las 1248 UT) veremos si está sólo en 10000 o en alguna frecuencia más. 73! (Tizzi, ibid.) Mmmm, huele a LOL, sí, sin ID. No es Brasil, y a esta hora la señal es bastante estable. Además el tono de audio de 1000 Hz, también era de ella, si mal no recuerdo (Horacio Nigro, Uruguay, ibid.) Horacio, PPE hace días que la noto fuera del aire. Lógicamente, ni idea por qué. Dicho sea de paso, PPE transmite en VHF, en paralelo con 10000, en 171.13 MHz. Quizás algún colega brasilero de la lista pueda decirnos si sigue transmitiendo en esa frecuencia al menos. http://youtu.be/Df5Y4KX1Ky4 73 desde (Montevideo, Tizzi, ibid.) Ahí está de nuevo (1400 UT). Sin identificación de ninguna especie. Sólo en 10000 kHz. En 5000 y en 15000, nada. 73 desde Montevideo (Tizzi, ibid.) Y como es que no aparece PPE?, que era la dominante en la frecuencia. HAN (Nigro, Uruguay, ibid.) Rodolfo, te recomiendo testear en 5000 Khz. 73 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, ibid.) Yo creo estar casi seguro que LOL no está más en el aire pero habría que tratar de verificarlo (Ernesto Paulero, Argentina, ibid.) ** ARMENIA. 9395, V of Russia, Spanish via Gavar ARM S=9+35db powerful 0427 UT. 9765, another V of Russia Spanish outlet of Yerevan Gavar site, but less strong compared to 9395 kHz, S=9+15dB at 0450 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARMENIA. 9400, Overcomer Ministry; 2125, 26-Oct; Unusually calm B.S., SIO=2+52+; not // 9370 (WWRB, very tinny, almost distorted). (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, MARE DXpedition #103 anear Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 300 ft. NEish unterminated bev, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 4910, VL8T Tennant Creek, 0800 with audio from 0810, CODAR on top improving till 0830* 24 October; 0800 to 0830 difficult as stops just as it fades in, audio from 0820, 25 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 8113-USB, VMW, Australia Weather 0930 "forecast for Saturday..." by om 26 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. HCJB Australia B-12 schedule. Version 1.0 http://www.hcjb.org.au/docs/B12_Schedule_HCJB_Australia_20121028-20130330.pdf (62 kB) -- (Aleksandr Diadischev, Ukraine, Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA. 6155, Oct 28 at 0538, no signal from Ö1, when we used to hear nice classical music; now the only remaining transmission we can hear from Vienna shifts one UT hour later to 0600-0715, too late this week until we`re back on standard time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BAHAMAS. 810, ZNS, 2330 to 2350 mixing with Cuban station, evacuation notice for islands, emergency shelter announcements, // 1540 on 25 October. 0850-0900 report on Hurricane Sandy, location of shelters 26 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 810, Radio Bahamas, Freeport, Grand Bahama. Somewhat muddy audio with excited local church preacher, audio may have just been the result of the feed. Local programming, not parallel 1540 Oct 21. 5. [LKSP] 1540, Radio Bahamas, Nassau, New Providence. Local gospel vocals, not parallel 810 Freeport, which was airing local church service. 4. [LKSP] Oct 21, presumably about same time as above (gh) 1710 GMT Oct 23, results from Bahamas Police Force traffic trap yesterday from 10 a.m. till noon on West Bay Street with 78 violations; local and world news items, including several on Cuba; Charles Fisher with a sports round-up; Commonwealth Bank ad; “Zed-N-S 13” TV program promo. Then, the first [then] Tropical Storm Sandy alert, with the storm “600 miles SSW of Ragged Island.” Into public service announcements, mostly for broken water lines repairs around Nassau and temporary collection points across many islands for September late payments that may be due to the Bahamas Electricity Corporation. 5. [FTZA] LKSP = Long Key State Park, Layton, Long Key, Florida (middle-Keys) FTZA = Ft. Zachary Taylor State Park, Key West, FL KEYW = Room 228 and poolside, Best Western Hibiscus, Key West, FL HMSD = Homestead, FL (hotel room) Loggings are divided into two segments: Section 1: Non-U.S., and Section 2: U.S. All logs are listed by-frequency. Times and dates are in GMT. All frequencies in kilocycles unless otherwise indicated in MHz. Signal strength for each log is indicated with a 1 through 5 ranking, 5 being local or near local level (Terry Krueger, FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See DX-PEDITIONS for full report link, mainly Cuba and Florida (gh) ** BAHAMAS. 4045-USB, Berry Island, 1100 weather report regarding Hurricane Sandy. 27 October. 4045-USB, Georgetown, Great Exuma, 1033 boat traffic and weather inquiry 26 October. 4045-USB, Long Island 1105 with emergency storm information 25 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BAHRAIN. Anyone getting a hint of 6010 R Bahrain? It used to be fairly regular here albeit very weak? Wonder if the lads at Sheigra [DXpedition in Scotland] can try if they are receiving mails? (Mark Davies, Anglesey, UK, 2028 UT Oct 17, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) No sign of it here in Finland, either. 73, (Mauno Ritola, 2031 UT Oct 25 ibid.) ** BANGLADESH. 15105, Bangladesh Betar, Dhaka-Khabirpur, *1228 Oct 23, distinctive IS into English program that was unintelligible; very weak (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15105, Oct 25 at 1258, big hum with music, YL in English sign-off of BB to dear listeners saying next broadcast will be on 41.3 m band, 7250. Not sure if she was referring to Nepali at 1315, or next English broadcast at 1745; after brief tone, cut off the air taking the big hum with it. 15505, carrier and IS already on at 1357 Oct 25, timesignal ending 17 sex early at 1359:43, opening Urdu, but I am distracted by what`s going on 15510; see UNIDENTIFIED (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15105, Bangladesh Betar, *1228-1300*, Oct 25, sign on with IS. 6 time pips and opening English announcements at 1230. English talk and subcont music. 5 second test tone at sign off. Fair signal strength but poor muffled audio with hum. 15505, Bangladesh Betar, *1357-1401+, Oct 25, sign on with IS. 6 time pips and opening announcements in listed Urdu. Subcont music and Urdu talk. At 1426 check I only heard an open carrier with hum. Some talk at 1429 and off. Strong carrier but poor audio with hum. 15505, Bangladesh Betar, 1529, Oct 25, noted in passing with listed Hindi talk and subcont music. Strong carrier but hum in audio (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) 15105, Oct 26 at 1259, Bangladesh Betar is signing off, this time the OM announcer, asking for listener correspondence to the Director, referring to 41.3 mb, 7.250 MHz, and off at 1300*. Does he think this very transmission is on that frequency? 15505, Oct 26 at 1357, BB is on with IS, heavy flutter; timesignal ends at 1359:43, 17 sex early today, opening Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15105, Bangladesh Betar, *1232:25-1300*, Oct 27, carrier on prior to 1229 but no audio until 1232:25. Abrupt sign on with English news until 1238. Subcont music and editorial comments after 1238. Sign off with test tone. Good signal. Nice understandable audio for a change (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) 15105, Bangladesh Betar; *1232:18-1259:58*, 27-Oct; English s/on with sked; ID at 1244 ID "This is the (External Service) of Bangladesh (Betar)"; news mixed with Sub-Continental music; 1249 feature on a Bangladesh religious festival then a feature on the significance of evil; closing at 1259. Tone till 1301:46 after s/off. SIO=332 with chatter QRM (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, MARE DXpedition #103 anear Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 300 ft. NEish unterminated bev, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) You two really need to synchronize your clox, hi (gh) 15105, Oct 27 at 1258, BB in English with a song in Bangla for Dear Listeners, but soon fade it out for sign-off, also addressed to Dear Listeners, with p- and e-mail addresses, 1300 tone test still on past 1301. 15505, Oct 27 at 1357, BB open carrier with flutter, 1358 IS starts, timesignal ends at 1359:47. At least their wrong-time has been fairly consistent lately. 15505, Oct 28 at 1356, hi-pitch tone and flutter and hum from BB past 1400, no IS, and TS comes 69 seconds late! Then opening Urdu. Reset your clox! 15105, Oct 29 at 1259, S Asian music, hum, Bangladesh Betar sign-off in English; poor. 15505, Oct 29 at 1359, very poor with hum, 1400 music to open Urdu, but so poor I cannot detect an inaccurate timesignal today, shux (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15505, Bangladesh Betar, *1513-1545*, Oct 29, sign on with IS. 6 time pips and programming in listed Hindi at 1515. Subcont music. Poor. Weak at sign on. Deteriorated to a barely audible level by sign off (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) Monitored winter B-12 of Bangladesh Betar: 1230-1300 on 15105 DKA 250 kW / 140 deg to SEAs English 1315-1345 on 7250 DKA 250 kW / 320 deg to SoAs Nepali 1400-1430 on 15505 DKA 250 kW / 290 deg to WeAs Urdu 1515-1545 on 15505 DKA 250 kW / 305 deg to SoAs Hindi 1600-1630 on 7250#DKA 250 kW / 290 deg to N/ME Arabic 1630-1730 on 7250#DKA 250 kW / 290 deg to N/ME Bangla 1745-1900 on 7250*DKA 250 kW / 320 deg to WeEu English 1915-2000 on 7250^DKA 250 kW / 320 deg to WeEu Bangla # co-ch All India Radio in Persian to N/ME 1615-1730 * co-ch All India Radio in Malayalam to N/ME til 1830 ^ very, very strong co-ch Voice of Russia in Russian (DX Re Mix News, Bulgaria, 01 November via DXLD) ** BELGIUM [non]. BRB B12 (ex TDP) Shortwave Radio Broadcast Schedule Effective 28 Oct 2012 – 30 March 2013 PROGRAM TIME (UTC) FREQ AM/DRM DAYS LANGUAGE TARGET AREA ------------------------------------------------------------------ Radio Miraya 0300-0600 9940 AM mtwtfss Arab/Engl Africa Denge Kurdistan 0400-2000 11510 AM mtwtfss Kurdish Middle E Suab Xaa Moo Zoo 1130-1200 11570 AM mtwtfss Hmong Asia Que Me 1200-1230 9930 AM ----f-- Vietnamese Asia The Khmer Post Radio 1200-1300 9960 AM -twtf-- Khmer Asia KPPM Radio 1200-1300 9960 AM m----ss Khmer Asia The Disco Palace 1530-1630 12115 DRM mtwtfss English Asia/Middle E Radio Xoriyo 1600-1630 17870 AM m---f-- Somali Africa Radio Assenna 1700-1800 15245 AM m-w-f-- Tigrinya Africa ESAT Radio 1700-1800 15370 AM mtwtfss Amharic Africa The Disco Palace 2000-2100 17875 DRM mtwtfss English N America Suab Xaa Moo Zoo 2230-2300 7530 AM mtwtfss Hmong Asia (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, dxldyg via DXLD) Compare, with sites: Winter B-12 schedule of BRB stations: Radio Miraya in English/Arabic: 0300-0600 on 9940 SOF 070 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish: 0400-1600 on 11510 KCH 250 kW / 116 deg to WeAs 1600-2000 on 11510 SOF 070 kW / 126 deg to WeAs Suab Xaa Moo Zoo in Hmong: 1130-1200 on 11570 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs 2230-2300 on 7530 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Que Me in Vietnamese 1200-1230 on 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg to EaAs Fri Khmer Post Radio in Khmer: 1200-1300 on 9960 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Tue-Fri Khmer People Power Movement in Khmer: 1200-1300 on 9960 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Sat-Mon The Disco Palace in DRM: 1530-1630 on 12115 ISS 100 kW / 079 deg to SoAs 2000-2100 on 17875 GUF 100 kW / 311 deg to NoAm Radio Xoriyo in Somali: 1600-1630 on 17870 SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAF Mon&Fri Jammed by ETHIOPIA with WHITE NOISE broadband like DRM sound Voice of Assenna in Tigrinya: 1700-1800 on 15245 SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Mon/Wed/Fri E-SAT Radio in Amharic: 1700-1800 on 15355#SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Mon 1700-1800 on 15360#SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Tue 1700-1800 on 15365#SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Wed 1700-1800 on 15360#SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Thu 1700-1800 on 15380#SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Fri 1700-1800 on 15375#SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Sat 1700-1800 on 15370#SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Sun 1700-1800 on 15385*SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Mon 1700-1800 on 15365*SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Tue 1700-1800 on 15395*SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Wed 1700-1800 on 15390*SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Thu 1700-1800 on 15380*SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Fri 1700-1800 on 15375*SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Sat 1700-1800 on 15370*SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Sun # first and third week of the month; * second and fourth week of the month. And for fifth week of October 29-31: Mon on 15360; Tue on 15360; Wed 15380. Transmissions are jammed by ETHIOPIA with WHITE NOISE broadband like DRM sound (DX Re Mix News, Bulgaria, 01 November via DXLD) ** BIAFRA [non]. via GERMANY. 11870, Radio Biafra, London, 2045-2100*, Oct 27, tune-in to Vernacular and English talk. ID. Sign off with African music. Good. Thur, Sat only (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** BOLIVIA. 3310, Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba, 0850 to 0945 YL in believed Quechua with ments de "Chaski", 0925 music 26 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4451.1, Radio Santa Ana, Santa Ana de Yacuma, 2330 to 0000 on 22 October, same time 24 October, difficult signal with deep fade (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4699.6, Radio San Miguel, Riberalta, 0855 percussion music, 0920 time check by om followed to 0950, 26 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5580.2, Radio San José, San José de Chiquitos, 2320 to 2357 with om and music 21 October; noted 2340 on 25 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, and XM - Cedar Key - South Florida, NRD 525D - R8A -E-5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.51, Radio Pio Doce, 0014 to 0229*, Oct 26. Poor to almost fair; mostly talk shows and coverage of live event with a lot of background sounds/voices; ads; did not start a segment of their nice local music till 0215. I listened to this for so long as to check out the current sign off format. Yes, at 0227 they started the usual distinctive whistling “Colonel Bogey March” (also known as the River Kwai March); nice to find they still play this unique and easily identified sign off piece (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Alinco DX-R8T and Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6134.8, Radio Santa Cruz; 0203-0215+, 27-Oct; Excited M in Spanish with ID at 0215; camp'o & Andean tunes. Poor with occasional fair peak; need USB to avoid pulser QRM (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, MARE DXpedition #103 anear Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 300 ft. NEish unterminated bev, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO SANTA CRUZ CELEBRA SU 60 ANIVERSARIO http://gruporadioescuchaargentino.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/bolivia-radio-santa-cruz-celebra-su-60-aniversario/ (GRA blog via DXLD) Senadores reconocen 60 años de destacada labor de Radio Santa Cruz. EL DEBER Digital --- FUENTE: http://www.eldeber.com.bo/senadores-reconocen-60-anos-de-destacada-labor-de-radio-santa-cruz/121025120053 (Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) ** BONAIRE. Adiós al centro repetidor en Onda Corta en Bonaire, Antillas Holandesas --- Mañana, viernes 26 de Octubre, cerrarán para siempre, por parte de Radio Nederland, sus transmisiones a través del propio transmisor repetidor ubicado en la isla de Bonaire. http://lagalenadelsur.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/adios-al-centro-repetidor-en-onda-corta-en-bonaire-antillas-holandesas/ (Horacio Nigro Geolkiewsky, Montevideo, Uruguay, condiglista yg via DXLD) NHK deja también Bonaire --- Agrego a lo expuesto por Horacio, que NHK deja Bonaire este fin de semana por Guyana Francesa. Podemos escuchar por última vez esta estación repetidora este 26 y mañana 27, por los 15265, de 2200 a 0000 UT en japonés; 11935 de 0200 a 0400 japonés. De igual manera desde las 0800 a 0900 UT, por 5970, también en japones mañana 27. Por último, mañana 27 en español, de 0400 a 0430 UT, por los conocidos 6195 y 6080 de 0930 a 1000 UT (CE3BBC, Hugo López C., Santiago de Chile, condiglist via Nigro, dxldyg via DXLD) RNW AND NHK LEAVE BONAIRE RNW last SW program via Bonaire was this morning from 0930 via 6020 in Dutch. Also in Spanish they ended with the last "La Matinal" news program, which lasted for 23 years. The Radio Netherlands shortwave broadcasts in Spanish will be using World Harvest Radio (WHRI) transmitter in Cypress Creek, SC. The new program called "El Toque" ("The Touch"), will be featured from Oct 29 on 9895, Monday to Friday from 0000-0030. Hopefully they could be received well by the listeners in Venezuela and the Caribbean, as emissions were practically inaudible in the morning morning except Cuba, a Venezuelan DXers comments. NHK last Bonaire broadcasts will be tomorrow, Oct 27, in Spanish, from 0400 to 0430 via 6195 and 6080 from 0930 to 1000 (various sources in FB and CE3BBC, Hugo López C., Santiago de Chile via Nigro, Uruguay, Oct 26, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Check 15265 Oct 27 at 22-24, for NHK in Japanese. If it`s still on, that may well be the final broadcast via Bonaire in the last hours of A-12. Nothing is scheduled to replace this transmission on any frequency from any other relay (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) NHK via Bonaire was indeed on for 2200-0000 on October 27. Listened from 2330 to end of transmission; mostly classical music, including Sibelius 5th Symphony. Solid signal into Houston. Will check 11935 on the later NHK transmission; Bonaire has a certain audio processing regardless of program originator, so I'll listen for any audible difference. Hearing nothing on 15470 after 0030 October 28; this had been Vatican Radio via Bonaire for A-12, so this transmission, and presumably 0100 on 9610 are both gone (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15265, Oct 27 at 2230, NHK Japanese relay is still going; would this be final broadcast from Bonaire? 2359 IDs and closing transmission, 3 pips of time signal until cut off at 2400* (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CANADA; JAPAN ** BRAZIL. DÚVIDAS SOBRE NÚMERO DE EMISSORAS OC NO BRASIL Boa tarde! Faz tempo que não escrevo. Gostaria de saber se algum amigo da lista já fez algum levantamento para saber quais (e quantas) emissoras nacionais pararam de transmitir em Ondas Curtas nos últimos anos (Vale qualquer tipo de emissão em ondas curtas, desde que a emissora seja oficializada, não seja uma pirata). Suponhamos, no último ano, quantas deixaram de transmitir em OC no Brasil? ou nos últimos 5, 10 anos ou mais... se existirem esses dados. Alguém da lista tem conhecimento sobre algum estudo nesse sentido? pode ser autônomo, de alguma entidade ou órgão governamental, etc. Também me interesso em saber daquelas emissoras que antes transmitiam, fizeram uma pausa (seja pequena, média ou longa - sem contar aquelas forçadas por falhas técnicas, mas que tenha sido feita por decisão econômica, ou de outra ordem política etc), mas que voltaram a operar em OC nos últimos anos. Basicamente emissoras que estavam paradas, que reformaram ou trocaram transmissores, e que voltaram a emitir regularmente. Também estou com dificuldades para encontrar no site da Anatel quantas emissoras em OC existem ativas no Brasil, mas acho que com um pouco mais de persistência vou encontrar. Sei que as dúvidas são espécíficas, mas é que estou tentando escrever um artigo sobre ondas curtas e esses dados me ajudariam a aprofundá-lo um pouco mais, inserindo números e não apenas afirmações infundadas ou meras suposições. Obrigado a todos. 73! (Rodrigo de Araujo, Belo Horizonte - MG, SWARL: PY4004SWL re, Oct 25, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Rodrigo, Achei o site da Anatel, que voce pode ter as informações. http://sistemas.anatel.gov.br/siscom/consulta/default.asp http://sistemas.anatel.gov.br/siscom/consulta/default.asp?SISQSmodulo=2604 Coloque o estado e tipo de faixa de onda. 73 (Pedro Araujo, ibid.) Rodrigo, Acho que fontes oficiais como a Anatel e até mesmo voltadas a hobbystas como o WRTH não são totalmente confiáveis para o propósito que você busca. Algo que eu creio que fica mais próximo do seu objetivo é a publicação "Domestic Broadcasting Survey", do Danish Shortwave Club International. Experimente entrar em contato com o referido clube por meio do seu site: http://www.dswci.org/ 73 (Ivan Dias Jr. - Sorocaba/SP, ibid.) Rodrigo e demais, Eu também tenho esta mesma ``curiosidade``: saber quais as emissoras brasileiras que ainda utilizam as OC. Onde resido consigo captar as ``figurinhas fáceis`` que operam em São Paulo, Minas, Goiás, Paraná, Santa Catarina e Mato Grosso do Sul. Uma vez, e só uma vez, consegui escutar uma emissora do Pará e outra de Tocantins que eu já nem sei se ainda continua operante. Eu acompanho sempre os logs de nossos colegas de Portugal (Carlos Gonçalves), Espanha (Manuel Méndez) e EEUU (Glenn Hauser), entre outros, e aí em consigo saber que muitas emissoras da região norte estão ativas. Mas, infelizmente onde me encontro fisicamente não consigo captar nenhum sinal dessas emissoras. Com certeza minha posição geográfica não é a mais propícia, já que equipamento não é o problema. Outra coisa: o site da Anatel indicado por alguns colegas nunca é atualizado. Portanto, nada confiável. Devem ter carência de funcionários. Mas o que sei é que das 74 frequências listadas por mim a partir do WRTH somente umas 30 ou 35 estão em operação. Ou seja, a maior parte está inativa. Temos colegas na lista que moram na região norte --- Acre, Rondônia, Amazonas, entre outros e que poderiam colaborar informando a situação das emissoras. Seria uma ajuda de grande valor. Quem sabe eles não poderiam ajudar enviando estas informações? Forte 73 a todos e votos de um excelente final de semana com boas escutas. (Giuseppe Settimi Cysneiros - DXCB 089 PU4 GSC PY4 005 SWL Santa Rita do Sapucaí - MG Alt. 810m Lat. 22 15'15"S Long. 45 41'42"W Grid Locator GG77ds Receptor ICOM IC-R75 + antena Metaltec RC3-FM, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 3375.1, Brasil, Radio Municipal, São Gabriel da Cachoeira 1000 to 1020 with music on 24 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4785, Brasil, Radio Caiari, Porto Velho, RO, 0920 to 0925 noted in Portuguese with strong signal, 26 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4815 tentative, Brasil, Rádio Difusora, Londrina, 0800 to 0815 portuguese om, weak 24 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4885, ZYG362, R Clube do Pará, Belém, 0220 Oct 27, Portuguese by man and woman with frequent mentions of “Pará”; best signal level here so far: S3-4; RCP is usually the loudest Latin here other than Cuba (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4895, Brasil, Rádio Novo Tempo, Campo Grande PR, 0800 to 0830, om with music, good signal 24 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4915, Brasil, Radiodifusora Macapá, Macapá, AP, 0812 to 0840, without CODAR which was noted on VLT8 same time, 24 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 5035, Brasil, Rádio Aparecida, Aparecida, 0850 with om yl format, no Cuban interference on 25 October, 0950 to 1023 yl and om chat in Portuguese, "Bom Dia", improved signal but splatter from local Havana on 5025, 26 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5035, Radio Aparecida, 2310-2330, Oct 29, inspirational music. Portuguese talk. // 6135.12, 9629.93, 11854.94. All frequencies weak (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** BRAZIL. 5990, 21/10/2012, 2153, R ?????, Portuguese, transmitindo futebol ponte preta x santos, ann casa bahia, OBS: acredito que seja Rádio Senado transmitindo programa da Rádio Bandeirantes, 22222 - FPM (Faustino Prado Moreira, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Olá Faustino, A Rádio Senado está fora do ar. E já tem um bom tempo. O que você ouviu, o que ouço por aqui também, Espúrio da Rádio Bandeirantes 6090 em 5990. Abraço, (Cássio Santos, ibid.) Prezado Cassio, Bom dia! Pela minha listagem de emissoras, consta como sendo a Radio Senado. Porém achei estranho que esta emissora estaria transmitindo em cadeia com a Rádio Bandeirantes - 6090 esta programação (Esportes). Agradeço sua gentileza em responder prontamente esta escuta que fiz no 1º DIA DA ESCUTA no qual foi tirada esta dúvida. Abraços (Faustino Prado - PY2021SWL / PY2VOA, ibid.) ** BRAZIL. 6009.91, Radio Inconfidência, 2235-2300, Oct 25, Portuguese talk. Jingles. Promos. Frequency not usually this low. // 15191.40. Both frequencies poor to fair in noisy conditions (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** BRAZIL. 6059.95, Brasil, Super R Deus é Amor, Curitiba, 0850 to 0905 constant mentions de Cristo in religious broadcast 24 October; 0730-0740 impassioned preacher with a few Amens, good signal 25 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D - 746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Re absence of R Nacional - today back on 6180.010 kHz S=9+25 strong ! \\ 11780.000 kHz. 3-5 UT Oct 26 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, 0443 UT Oct 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6180, Oct 28 at 0224, RNB missing again, so no ACI for BaBcoCk music loop on 6175 or more varied music on XEPPM 6185. 6180, Oct 29 at 0219, RNB is missing again, undetectable between Sackville 6175 and México 6185 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Em 7145 kHz há portadora sem modulação. Em 7170 kHz há sequência musical (aliás de boa qualidade) Sinal forte chegando a Limeira sp --- Não se sabe a procedência. Solicito aos colegas que chequem. 73 (Luiz Chaine Neto, Limeira sp, 24-10-2012, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Olá Luíz, Existem duas rádios livres, uma em 7155/60 que de vez em quando retransmite sinal/áudio de TV (Parabólica) e a outra é em 7170/1 que transmite uma bela programação 24 horas por dia, com músicas de alta qualidade. Abraço, (Cássio Santos, Oct 29, ibid.) ** BRAZIL. 9645.4, ZYE957 R Bandeirantes, São Paulo; 0040 Oct 25, energetic Portuguese announcer during some sort of sports event; ID 0041; S7 level (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Super signal from Super Rádio [Deus] é Amor, Portuguese sermon 11764.900 kHz. S=9+20dB level in Germany unbelievable (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 11854.97, ZYE954, R Aparecida; 2230-2236 Oct 23, Portuguese promos or ads mentioning the station with proper ID 2232 into a program of light music; poor-fair (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Estranho eu tentar quase que diariamente captar a Gazeta nas 3 frequências de Ondas Curtas (49 metros 5955 kHz, 31 metros 9685 e 15325 kHz 19 metros) e NADA desde meados de abril. Moro em Novo Hamburgo na grande Porto Alegre e a mesma sempre chegava aqui de dia com sinal fraco em 49 metros e bom a noite, e esporadicamente de dia em 19 metros. Uso o receptor Degen DE 1103 com antena RGP 34 (Edison Bocorny Jr., Novo Hamburgo - RS, Oct 23, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Olá Edison, Ouço a Gazeta bem melhor em 19m, 15325 só que a 100 km de Goiânia, zona rural com um antena Long Wire de aproximadamente 150 metros. Raramente a ouço em 5955, mas mesmo assim, ela chega, mas com uma sinal bem mias fraco. O Horário é sempre o mesmo, 16:30 as 18:00 (BR) depois ela some completamente. Vou monitorá-la para ver se consigo captá-la aqui no centro de Goiânia. Abraço, (Cássio Santos - Goiânia - Goiás Oct 29, radioescutas yg via DXLD) It`s been years since there were any reports from abroad that 15325 was active, but he says he hears it best there (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** BULGARIA [and non]. [Re 12-43:] Re Sofia Kostinbrod relay transmissions. Comments on SOF Kostinbrod relay concerning limited activities by SPACELINE ... that were sent to me by Mrs. Teodora Stefanova from Spaceline Sofia. Are the contributions under SOFIA (Kostinbrod) - except the three named below - so far wrong entries? Again, only these three starting from Sofia. Test transmissions: 1800-2000 5900 SOF 070 kW 306 deg to WeEUR RTR-2 POWER STATION Sept 22 0000-0200 9400 SOF 070 kW 306 deg to NoAM Mighty KBC Radio Oct 07 0000-0200 9500 SOF 070 kW 306 deg to NoAM Mighty KBC Radio Oct 21 Subject: BULGARIA Schedule Dear Wolfgang, Regarding the recent publication(s) in wwdxc, and specially the items listed under Bulgaria wich all all wrong, we can not undesrtand why someone would speculate with Spaceline Ltd's, Bulgaria current schedule. Maybe it is some kind of advertising for our stations that we can not understand, as we can not imagine a famous dx-er to go confused of what is currently being aired from the blgarian HF transmitter sites and publish that under his name and on behalf of his competences. So, big thanks to him, everyone would be pleassed to have such a scehdule as mentioned by Mr. Ivanov from Kostinbrod, Bulgaria, BUT the reality is: The only broadcasts we to be originating from Kostinbrod transmitter site, as we ran these, are The Mighty KBC test transmissions, and RTR2 radio transmission on 9400 / 9500 kHz, and 5900 kHz respectively, both proven very efficient for our "very very old transmitters" as Mr. Ivanov states, although he surely knows that most of the transmitters we operate there are renovated by our company and equipped with latest technology. These were been kept from closing as the only remaining outlet(s) from Bulgaria available worldwide with good quality. But we will leave the results of our transmission(s) as a subject to listeners reports judgment, which we believe will come over and will be published along with this posting in the next issue of wwdxc. We want to be correct, so it would be wrong to the leave dx community with wrong imaginations about the origin of the broadcasts we currently operate. The others, which we do not know about - hopefully, this message puts at least a candle of light of what is definitely right from the first hand and what's wrong from second. Surely, the ones listed under Bulgaria/Other listed as SOF in wwdxc's last posting are not correct besides the ones mentioned afore and that is going to be proven with the time and circumstances. We remain open for your questions, and we will keep you updated about Spaceline Ltd. regular B12 transmission schedule as soon, as it is available. More is coming. We keep rising partners oprating thernamsitters [sic] worldwide, and surely we will expand, and you will be amongst the first ones to know about. With Respect and 73 Teodora Stefanova - SpaceLine Ltd. Sofia, BULGARIA web: Tedy S., F&S Manager e-mail: "Ventsislav Georgiev" (Via Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 22, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 27 via DXLD) Therefore, Spaceline is denying these B-12 transmissions are from them: R. Miraya on 9940, Denge Kurdistan on 11510, R. Xoriyo on 17870, V Asena on 15245, E-SAT Radio on 15355-15395 in complicated schedule. So WHERE ARE THEY FROM?? These are either missing from HFCC, or shown as SMF = UKRAINE which supposedly closed all SW. Ivo replies that he is certain, as he is only 20 km from that transmitter site (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As previously listed by DX Re Mix News: (gh, DXLD) 0300-0600 9940 SOF 070 kW / 195 deg EaAf Radio Miraya English/Arabic 0400-1600 11510 BIJ 250 kW / 130 deg WeAs Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish 1600-2000 11510 SOF 070 kW / 126 deg WeAs Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish 1600-1630 17870 SOF 050 kW / 195 deg EaAF Mon/Fri Radio Xoriyo Somali 1700-1800 15245 SOF 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Mo/We/Fr VoAssenna Tigrinya 1700-1800 15355#SOF 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Mon E-SAT Radio in Amharic 1700-1800 15360#SOF 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Tue E-SAT Radio in Amharic 1700-1800 15365#SOF 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Wed E-SAT Radio in Amharic 1700-1800 15360#SOF 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Thu E-SAT Radio in Amharic 1700-1800 15380#SOF 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Fri E-SAT Radio in Amharic 1700-1800 15375#SOF 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Sat E-SAT Radio in Amharic 1700-1800 15370#SOF 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Sun E-SAT Radio in Amharic 1700-1800 15385*SOF 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Mon E-SAT Radio in Amharic 1700-1800 15365*SOF 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Tue E-SAT Radio in Amharic 1700-1800 15395*SOF 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Wed E-SAT Radio in Amharic 1700-1800 15390*SOF 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Thu E-SAT Radio in Amharic 1700-1800 15380*SOF 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Fri E-SAT Radio in Amharic 1700-1800 15375*SOF 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Sat E-SAT Radio in Amharic 1700-1800 15370*SOF 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Sun E-SAT Radio in Amharic # first and third week of the month; * second and fourth week of the month --- Transmissions of Radio Xoriyo & E-SAT Radio are jammed by strong DRM noise (DX Re Mix News, Bulgaria, 21 Oct via DXLD) Ivo, Have you seen this in BC-DX, where Teodora Stefanova denies that most of your SPC info is correct? (Glenn to Ivo Ivanov, via DXLD) Yes, Glenn, I'm sure that all transmissions are from Kostinbrod. But there's more: Brother Stair. More info tommorow! 73! (Ivo Ivanov, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I ASKED SOMEBODY IN UKRAINE TO PHONE the director of the Luch transmitter site, TO CONFIRM whether the site has been closed on shortwave transmission service as mentioned on August 31, 2012. SMF - Mykolaiev Luch station remains only via few MW services now. I checked the 9 MHz outlet of Polish Radio in Belarus etc. tonight. Signal was weak in Athens and near Vienna, but was very strong in Kiew, and Moscow like. 9755 1630-1900 29,30 SOF 50kW 30deg Mul BUL NEW SPC HFCC Request No. of today is very high and actual! 17080 I was so often in Lampertheim and Biblis, in Wertachtal and Ismaning at the fence of the Installation: With a short wave radio in the hand gets to me, I do trust to make out the expertise that the transmission is locally, like some only 20 kms from the Sofia Kostinbrod site. vy 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, BC DX via DXLD) More transmissions from tx site Kostinbrod, Bulgaria --- Surprise: Polish Radio External Sce effective Oct. 28 is from Bulgaria 1400-1430 on 12095 SOF 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu in Russian 1430-1500 on 12095 SOF 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu in Belorussian 1500-1600 on 12095 SOF 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu in Polish 1630-1730 on 9755 SOF 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu in Polish 1730-1830 on 9755 SOF 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu in Belorussian 1830-1900 on 9755 SOF 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu in Russian POWERFUL SIGNAL on 12095 & GOOD SIGNAL on 9755 here in Sofia. The distance from the town of Kostinbrod to my home is less than 20 kilometres. [see also POLAND [non]] Due to a technical problem at the transmitter site Kostinbrod no test transmission of The Mighty KBC on Sun Oct. 28, 2012: 0000-0200 on 9500 The Mighty KBC will run another test on Sunday Nov. 4, 2012: 0000-0200 on 9500 SOF 070 kW / 306 deg to NoAm. But on same 9500 is CNR-1! Surprise: Brother Stair TOM in English from Oct. 28 also from BUL 1900-2200 on 9700 SOF 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu, VERY GOOD SIGNAL in SOFIA! 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Oct 31, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. QSL: Netherlands, 9500, The Mighty KBC via Kostinbrod transmitter. Full data e-mail QSL with cover letter (site indicated on e-mail). Mentioned he remembered me from a previous report. Replied in 3 hours after posting my report to 'themightykbc@gmail.com' v/s Eric von Willegen (Edward Kusalik, Alberta, Canada, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Next to no audio again on CJRN -- A month before they have to close [because of licence non-compliance], there is hardly any audio on 710 CJRN. Virtually just open carrier (Andy Reid, Ont., 1348 UT Oct 27, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** CANADA [and non]. Following is a more or less chronological log of the last few days of Sackville, mixing CBCNQ with other relays (gh) 9555, Oct 25 at 0520, good signal from Sackville`s Voice of Vietnam relay in Vietnamese music and talk; 0528 heard no BaBcoCk music loop, but RCI IS and ID before 0529*. 11795, Oct 25 at 1156, KBS World Radio in Spanish talk but voiceovering an English clip, fair signal, usual characteristic ``clacking`` on feed from Soul to Sackville. No known replacement for this come Oct 28, tho they could try to broadcast direct. 11655, Oct 27 at 1308, NHK R. Japan relay via Sackville for the last time at this hour, 13-15, with nothing scheduled to replace it tomorrow from B-12. The final NHK relays via Sackville may already have happened as it`ll officially be Oct 28 = B-12 when the 02-05 Japanese on 5960 or the 0500-0530 English on 6110 would occur. It may not be easy to tell whether Guiana French has taken over 5960, except the new schedule will be 02-04 only, // 11935 also GUF ex-Bonaire; and English at 0500- 0530 moves to 11740 from Guiana French. We are eager to find out how well the replacement for Sackville 6120 in English at 1200-1230 works from Oct 28: 15190 and/or 6120 via GUF. 9625, Oct 27 at 1405, lo het as evidence that CBCNQ is still there underneath RTI in Vietnamese this hour only. 0505* UT Sunday Oct 28 could be the final QRT, or unlike the external relays, might keep on until monthend as some reports have it. See also KOREA SOUTH [and non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, Though not an earth shattering catch but CBC Northern Service 10/27/2012 on 9625 at 1631 UT with program on sea mammals and getting caught in fishing gear. It`s nice to hear them still on the air but not sure for how much longer. Does anyone know if they send QSL cards out any longer? Very nice signal here in NC. S9+20/260 uv on a Winradio Excalibur and and dipole for 31 meters (Glenn Swiderski, W7GS/4, Washington NC, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hoje recebi mais alguns eQSL de Ham e um eQSL de uma emissora ouvida durante o primeiro Dia da escuta. Trata-se de um eQSL da CBC Nord Quebec, Canadá, ouvida em 9625 kHz. As imagens já estão em meu blog. http://www.dxreunion-br.blogspot.com.br/2012/10/confirmacaorecebida-eqsl-9.html 9625, CBC Nord Quebec - Toronto - CAN - Recebido eQSL. 8 dias. V/S: Patrick Nagle. Informe enviado pelo site da emissora: http://www.cbc.ca/north/contact/ QTH: CBC North, P.O. Box 490, Iqaluit, Nunavut, X0A 0H0 Canada (Rubens Ferraz Pedroso; Bandeirantes - PR - Brasil, (PY5-007 SWl), radioescutas yg via DXLD) 6175, feeder fault on first day, BBC / Babcock endless CELLO pause music, ex 0400-0430 VOV Sackville. But two feeds overlapping this morning, SAC with pause music, but accompanied a n d WHRI VOV new Spanish program relay heard here (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6175, Oct 28 at 0224, BaBcoCk music fill loop playing continuously on what had been the relay of Voice of Vietnam. So much for turning off Sackville after A-12 is over! Transmitter is still on air, but program feed has been removed. Continues all evening and even QSY to 9555 for more of same when checked at 0459. Notice some tape snags (?) in the loop around 0522; automatically off at 0529* after RCI IS & IDs. See also VIETNAM [non]; JAPAN [non]. 9625, Oct 28 at 0504, CBCNQ with CBC News in English, report from Windsor, close enough to the World Series & Detroit Tigers. News ends at 0504:30, right into YL in Inuktituk, apparent sign-off pronouncing address in English rather than French, but no full sign-off in discarded English, followed at 0506 by sign-off in French, to return at 6:55 am ET, ``bonne nuit``, 0507-0508* ``O, Canada``. So was this the final final of CBCNQ and/or Sackville? No, 9625 again heard, but very poor, Oct 28 at 1332 with `The Sunday Edition` on plot to overthrow Mossadeq (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: Magnitude 7.7 quake strikes off western Canada Hi everyone, My first thought when I awoke this morning and heard the 30 seconds of news about the quake on our local Talk Radio 702, was to tune into Radio Canada International for decent news about the event and its consequences. Sadly, I could not, because RCI is no longer on shortwave. So whilst the quake may be a big story in Canada, here on the southern tip of Africa it merits 30 seconds or less in the hourly 5 minute TOH news bulletin. Hopefully a sobering lesson for the Canadian government, in the midst of destroying their only shortwave outlet. Regards, (Bill Bingham, RSA, 0947 UT Oct 28, dxldyg via DXLD) I pulled up the story about this earthquake and tsunami on http://www.cbc.ca The earthquake was felt as far away as Edmonton, Alberta and as far north as the Yukon Territory. It was felt in all of North Central British Columbia. No word whether the Earthquake was felt in Vancouver or Victoria B.C. As for Southeastern Alaska, you may not get any news on the effects for several days other than the AP story you quoted. A good place to check is ADN.com and the Alaska Newsreader at ADN.com which lists some of the local media where appropriate (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ironically, the lead news story on the 0500 NHK English transmission on 6110 via Sackville (the final foreign relay via that facility) was, you guessed it, the British Columbia earthquake. Of course, the Japanese are more sensitive to such seismic events. Nothing said about the quake during my check of CKZU around 0545 (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, ibid.) We haven`t heard from Walt Salmaniw since the quake near his DX retreat in the Queen Charlotte Islands. Apparently he was home in Victoria at the time, and we hope everything will be OK in both locations (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Hi Glenn, Last night about 0430 UT I emailed Walt inquiring if all was well with him regarding the quake. He quickly responded: "Didn't feel a thing here in Victoria, Ron. Thanks for asking. The epicentre was some 86 miles south of Masset. Too close for comfort for sure. Walt" (Ron Howard, CA, ibid.) Yup, I'm still here at home in Victoria. Masset made it through, although everyone was evacuated to higher ground until after midnight (Walt Salmaniw, ibid.) CBC Northern Quebec Service --- Still going strong tonight (Monday 10/29 UT) on 9625: from 0120 tune-in it's the CBC Radio One show Inside the Music: My Playlist hosted by Dan Hill with a great selection of music ranging from Canadian singer-songwriters Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young to the Beatles and Prince. 0159 EE ID for SW shortwave service mentioning Sackville and giving phone numbers for feedback that was repeated in a First Nations language, then English CBC news at 0200, leading with Hurricane Sandy and the British Columbia earthquake. How long will it last... 73, (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan USA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9625, Oct 29 at 0224, CBC NQ is still on with jazz piano, now with ACI from Spain on only one side, 9620 direct, since CR relay has moved to 9675; however, the REE 00-02 DRM bihour remains on 9625-9630-9635 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SACKVILLE, THE HAUNTED TRANSMITTER PLANT Note this from Steve Luce: "Also at 0300: On 5960 TWO transmitters with NHK in Japanese, equally decent strength, audios about a second apart. Old Sackville A-12 and new Montsinery B-12 on at the same time?" and from Wolfy: "6175 feeder fault on first day, BBC / Babcock endless CELLO pause music, ex 4-430 VoVTN Sackville. But two feeds overlapping this morning, SAC with pause mx, but accompanied a n d HRI VoVTN new Spanisch program relay heard here." So at least until 0500 UT Sackville still turned on transmitters it was not supposed to turn on anymore, ruining the moved transmissions of its former customers. And Babcock London of course no longer fed Voice of Vietnam to the CBC and instead put on this circuit their fill loop as they, as I understand it, do with all unused outputs. I guess CBC Montreal master control still inserted the RCI IS/ID recording at the beginning and end of this non-slot. Like the beheaded chicken, running over the farm. This is more than an amusing anecdote not only due to the interference the CBC caused with its sloppiness, also because it raises the question if 9625, which was still on air after midnight UT as well, is supposed to be still on air at all. Anyway it appears that nobody at the CBC cares at all, allowing the automated systems to do whatever they do. I suspect that nobody is on-site at Sackville anymore (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: > So was this the final final of CBCNQ and/or Sackville? > No, 9625 again heard, but very poor, Oct 28 at 1332 Still the question is whether it was supposed to come back on air at all, considering your observation that the ex-A12 ghost transmissions still continued after 1400. I imagine someone driving out tomorrow morning to kill the damned thing by his own hands (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Earlier after 0330: For the second night we have NHK vs. NHK on 5960, with Montsinery and the supposedly retired Sackville facility on at the same time, audio again about a second apart. Obviously Sackville is on full automation with no humans present, and the computers don't know about the end of A-12. But same situation at Montsinery, where the endless NHK IS loop is going on 11935, also for the second night in a row. How is it that the correct feed is on 5960 but not on 11935? I should be getting some sleep, but I have the feeling that Sackville will power up on 6110 at 0500 with the supposed-to-be-cancelled NHK English transmission. Perhaps the situation will be fixed tomorrow when the dismantling crew continues its work (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, 0446 UT Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) And did Sackville come up with NHK English on 6110 at 0500 October 29? Yes!!! The computers are in charge! Meanwhile on 11740 the correct NHK English feed is present, after last night`s error with the Spanish language feed. I did notice earlier that the music loop on 6175 was back again this evening, filling time for the now-cancelled Voice of Vietnam via Sackville. As the old Windows 95 operating system used to prompt: "It is now safe to turn off your computer." Hello, Sackville engineering staff? Anyone home? Hello? (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, 0515 UT Oct 29, ibid.) See VIETNAM [non]; JAPAN [non]; KOREA SOUTH [non] CBC NQ 9625. Heard this Monday with its regular Monday-to-Friday French programming at 1100. Good reception via a web controlled radio in Canada. Expected to be definitely switched off on Nov 1? Regards (JM Aubier, France, 1107 UT Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) CBC Northern Service still lives --- The CBC Northern Quebec Shortwave service on 9625 is still ON as I write this at 1211 UT October 29th. So, perhaps it will stay until Hallowe'en. Even if they close Sackville, the CBC has enough mediumwave sites (especially ones where they have moved their local service to FM) with ample room for a 31 metre dipole antenna and could, if they wanted or were directed to, move a 50 kW transmitter from Sackville to one of these sites to keep this service on the air. – (Mark Coady, Peterborough, ON K9J 6X3, NASWA yg via DXLD) The rationalization of CBC's resources continues. That they would start up a new site is (IMHO) unlikely as there is still a major cost factor involved. It would be nice but don't count on it. The CBC bean counters are looking for every penny. Here in Windsor they moved their 1550 kHz signal to 97.5 FM. A for sale sign went up in front of the building in spite of the fact that just a few years ago they did some major work on the towers at considerable expense. Then somebody realized that the towers of the 540 kHz CBEF French language sender were about to fall over and that it would cost major coin to rebuild them. So to save the better part of a million loonies (to fund the PM's pension no doubt), they got the CRTC to agree to shut down the 540 sender and bring the 1.55 MHz signal back into use. On the other hand, the soon to be former 540 site is next to a recently filled up subdivision with some high end homes. The hundred or so acres of property that will soon be RF-free will no doubt be sold at a nice profit to Her Majesty. But it would be nice to see NQS stay alive and thus the potential for a future return to SW (Bill Leal, VE3ES, ODXA yg via DXLD) 6120, Oct 29 at 1227, NHK English relay continues, `R. Japan Focus` concludes, 1229 full English schedule announced not including 6120! Off at 1230* after some Sakura, but no RCI IS or ID. Was also audible on replacement 15190 via GUIANA FRENCH. 11655, Oct 29 at 1313 check, NHK Japanese Sackville relay is still going too. 9650, Oct 29 at 1240, KBS World relay transmission is still going, despite nothing but tone mixed with clacking, same as on 9560 at 0200. 9625, Oct 29 at 1240, CBCNQS very poor signal in apparent Inuktituk, much weaker than the pointless KBS relay on 9650. As the Sackville deathwatch is prolonged. Doubt there has been a reprieve, but as Kai Ludwig speculates, the site is abandoned and the automation just keeps mindlessly running what had been scheduled whether there is any correct program input or not. At least on the weekend, but now it`s 9:40 am Monday in NB. Maybe it`s all destined to turn off Oct 31, end of month rather than Oct 27, end of A-12 season? 5960, Oct 30 at 0239, Sackville just won`t let go of this ex-NHK Japanese relay frequency, but instead of R. Japan they are playing a C&W song in English, then a song in French! These are way atop what sounds like Japanese talk, and then a Japanese song, no doubt the proper NHK relay via Guiana French. Last night they were both with R. Japan an echo apart. 6110, Oct 30 at 0508, Sackville keeps this frequency on but without NHK any more, which lasted thru Oct 29. Now playing novelty song in French, obviously local fill, as they had been earlier on 5960. See also JAPAN [non] 9555, Oct 30 at 0509 check, Sackville has finally turned off this ex- VOV frequency, like 6175 earlier. See also VIETNAM [non]: 7345 9650, Oct 30 at 1255, SAC also keeps this ex-KBSWR English frequency on air, with local music fill instead of tones and clacking; 1259 RCI IS & IDs and cut off. Further chex of the doomed ``CKCX`` SW station: 9560, Oct 31 at 0205 and 0229, tone test upon what was KBSWR in Spanish, and now without the clacking! It would be incredibly ironic if KBS has finally fixed the clacking problem now that they have no programming to send. More likely, the tone is now originating from Sackville, maybe Montreal or London. 6175, Oct 31 at 0205, ex-VOV relay remains off the air. See VIETNAM 5960, Oct 31 at 0229, music fill instead of NHK Japanese, but that can be heard underneath from GUF. 6110, Oct 31 at 0511, VG ex-NHK English relay is still on, now with fill music from Sackville (or Montreal? As the songs are just as likely to be in French as in English). See JAPAN [non]. 9650, Oct 31 at 1259 tuned in just in time to hear RCI IS & ID and off, so they were still filling this ex-KBSWR English hour. 11655, Oct 31 at 1310, the NHK Japanese service frequency which had lasted long via Sackville, has now been replaced by music fill, mostly soft jazz. Still at 1411 recheck, and now it`s // on: 9650, Oct 31 at 1411 past 1420, ex-KBSWR in Korean hour, no more tones and clacking, but soft jazz music fill, and // 11655 ex-Japan relay. Today Oct 31 is apparently the final final day for Sackville! As the CRTC has granted CBC`s request to revoke the license for CKCX as of November 1, referring to the CBCNQ service on 9625. Tnx to Andy Reid who tipped us on this Oct 30: ``PERMISSION GRANTED TO CLOSE "CKCX-SW" SACKVILLE --- Buried in this decision from the CRTC is the word on Sackville's Northern Quebec Relay: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2012/2012-602.htm "It indicated that the new transmitters will ensure that the population of the aforementioned locations continues to be served by the news and regional information programming of its Radio One service when CKCX-SW Sackville ceases operation. "Commission revokes the broadcasting licence for CKCX-SW Sackville effective 1 November 2012."`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CBC'S INTERNATIONAL RADIO TRANSMITTERS IN NEW BRUNSWICK TO SHUT DOWN By: The Canadian Press Posted: 10/30/2012 2:01 PM The Canadian Press - ONLINE EDITION http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/cbcs-international-radio-transmitters-in-new-brunswick-to-shut-down-176462941.html SACKVILLE, N.B. - The high-power shortwave transmitters used to broadcast CBC's international radio service to the world will be permanently shut down on Wednesday. The Radio Canada International station in Sackville, N.B., has been in operation since 1944. The collection of large towers that surround the station is a well- known landmark along a section of the Trans-Canada Highway that links New Brunswick with Nova Scotia. The shortwave service was discontinued on June 24, but some employees at the station remained at the site to wrap up some international broadcast contracts. The service has been largely replaced by the rapid growth of the Internet and other wireless technologies (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) The remaining question is whether the CBCNQ service will stay on until its usual sign-off at 0506 UT, which is 2+ hours past local midnight. I was barely hearing it during the daytime on 9625. Or for the pointless NHK non-relay on 6110 until 0529 UT (gh, DXLD) Right now CBC Nord-Quebec brings a strong signal into Germany on 9625 kHz. 31 Oct 2012, 2000 [sic] UT CBC jingle and news, then program about Halloween and pumpkin carving, all in Inuit language. SINPO 45433. 73, (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig, 2118 UT Oct 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sad to see Sackville disappear; was a great relay for North America. Guess they really wanted this site to go as fast as possible so RCI can’t get back on air. I’ve posted a small video on my youtube channel of 4 minutes of broadcast around 2025 UT today; just click on the link below my signature. 73 (Gilles Letourneau, Montréal, Canada, Oct 31, http://www.youtube.com/officialswlchannel ibid.) Very strong reception of CBCNQ Service with ID and contact information, including 9625 via Sackville ID at 0005 UT 1 Nov 2012. Presumably the last few hours of broadcast. Using LSB to avoid 9630 DRM from REE via Costa Rica. CBC seemed to be absent just before 0000, presumably a glitch? (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, ibid.) 9625 on now at 0105 UT [Oct. 31] but barely audible - drowning in some sort of white noise (Andy Reid, Ont., ibid.) Andy, that's REE Costa Rica in DRM centered on 9630. Use LSB to avoid the noise! (Walt Salmaniw, ibid.) Final moments of RCI Sackville --- Listening to 9625 to past 0500 UT. First was the news (before that the CBC North Quebec service full ID with 9625 announcement). Then sign off announcement in French, then Oh Canada. Dead air, then a tone for several minutes until the transmitter cut, presumably forever just after 0509 UT. That's it, folks. Sorry to see Sackville gone forever (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, 0512 UT Nov 1, ibid.) Listened to the last 15 minutes of CBC Sackville on 9625 starting at 0450 November 1. Reception actually quite good, much better than normal for this service into Texas. Last part of "As It Happens Midnight Edition," then usual English ID and address announcement at 0459:30, CBC News at 0500, then usual closing announcement in French, followed by "O Canada." Tone came up afterwards, carrier off at 0509:15. And just like that, 68 years of transmissions from this facility come to an end. I first heard it in the mid-1960's, when all it had were the old 50 kW RCA units, and just one program feed. It was a pretty big deal when the five 250 kW Collins units were added in the early 1970's. The RCA units were replaced by 100 kW Harris transmitters in the mid 1980's, and the Collins were replaced by ABB units during the 90's, IIRC. No zombie transmissions on 5960 or 6110 tonight. Guess humans finally wrested control of the transmitters from the computers. Goodbye Sackville, and thank you. As with RNW, good memories, although the final few years of RCI left much to be desired. Anyone need some used shortwave transmitters? Between Sackville and Bonaire, there are a dozen up for grabs. :-) (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, ibid.) Recording of the last few minutes from Sackville: http://www.eibispace.de/dx/cbc.html Good reception here in Leipzig/Germany, also better than normal. PC and Perseus ran overnight to save the record. 73, (Eike Bierwirth, ibid.) The world moves on but sometimes change for change's sake may not be the correct course of action. 73s (Mike Terry, UK, ibid.) SACKVILLE SHORTWAVE TRANSMISSION SITE CLOSES Courtesy of CIDX member Mike Brooker, here is what CBC head Hubert Lacroix has to day on the closing of Sackville today, posted on the CBC blog http://cbcrcblog.com/people/sackville-shortwave-transmission-site-closes/?lang=en (Sheldon Harvey, via Artie Bigley, DXLD) CBC NORTHERN SERVICE LIVES --- FOR NOW? It's November 1st, Hallowe'en is over, and the CBC Northern Quebec service is STILL ON on 9625 in the Cree language at 1230 UT. So, what gives with this? It would be nice if, after closing Sackville, the CBC were to relocate a transmitter for the service but I doubt it. Perhaps the Sackville employees are doing this in spite of CBC management (Mark Coady, Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield, ON K9J 0C6, 1237 UT Nov 1, ODXA yg via DXLD) Thomas Witherspoon, on Facebook, has let me know that the manager at Sackville says they are keeping it on the air hopefully until the replacement FM transmitters are in place but that the plug could be pulled on it at any time. -- (Mark Coady, 1307 UT, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, ibid.) Glenn, CBC Northern Service still on the air on 9625 as we speak, nice signal here into NC. Since they no longer have a license are they now the world`s most powerful pirate? Now that I think of it, VOA doesn`t have a license either. 73 (Glenn Swiderski, 1300 UT Nov 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I'm hearing it, too, now at 1240 UT (Kim Andrew Elliott, Nov 1, kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) PETITION TO SAVE RCI SACKVILLE FROM BEING DISMANTLED Now 425 signatures and "75 needed". http://www.change.org/petitions/ministers-of-heritage-public-safety-and-the-cbc-stop-dismantling-canada-s-only-int-l-broadcasting-site-rci-sackville?utm_campaign=mailto_link&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition Interesting supporter comments, some familiar names (Mike Terry, UK, Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGESET) Any idea if anybody other than DX'ers, SWL's and a few fans of the Cree language are actually listening in the intended target area?? I wonder what the cost would be to set up a SW transmitter for this service and perhaps something for a North American service relaying the regular CBC radio broadcasts with perhaps a show or two being produced by what`s left of the RCI? A couple of 50 or 100 kW transmitters that they have 'laying around' should do it. The costs offset by the vastly reduced operating cost and the sale (IF?) of the current RCI site. The current CBEF 540 site down here near Windsor will soon be vacant and might be a good site for such. BL - Windsor (Bill Leal, Nov 1, ODXA yg via DXLD) If you read the CRTC application the contained the petition for Sackville shutdown, the CBC requested licenses for several LPFM signals on 103.5 to serve a series of communities; it would appear that's the intended method to serve many (most?) of those who were in the target area of the 9625 kHz service. As to the value of the 540 kHz CBEF transmitter site vs. the value of the Sackville site, I would estimate (dangerous, I know) that the CBEF site is probably worth more, but I am not a Real Estate agent. The best person to ask regarding maintaining a SW service as a "labor of love" would be the ODXA's Steve Canney -- it's been his efforts - for a whole bunch of years -- that have encouraged The Powers That Be to keep CFRX available on shortwave, despite what I would assume is little interest (read: ratings) other than to us hobbyists. In these days of more conservative governments - on a global basis - I think it would be a real tough sell for finding fans of SW within the Canadian government; which is unfortunate (Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA, ibid.) Aren't there any indegenous people, native Cree speakers, who listen to the broadcasts on 9625? I think it is a good and sometimes the only source of information for people in the Northern Territories, since such large land can't be covered by local AM and FM transmitters. 73, (Georgi Bancov, http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com ibid.) It took until UT Nov 1 for Sackville to turn off all the relay transmitters even tho they were no longer serving any purpose with tones, fill music or clashing programming: 6175 ex-Vietnam was already off, and now at 0223 check, 5960 ex-Japan and 9560 ex-Korea South are also gone. After 0500, 6110 ex-Japan also off. 9625, CBC NQ continues on air but with heavy flutter at 0223 and bothered by ACI from Spain 9620. Since upon CBC request, CRTC has revoked the license of what they call ``CKCX``, effective Nov 1, this should be the final broadcast of CBCNQ and of Sackville itself. So we make a point of listening and taping the final few minutes: at 0455 a report on the late Letitia Baldridge, etiquette experte, concluding `As It Happens, Midnite Edition` by replaying a 1979y interview with her by Barbara Frum. 0459 AIH theme; 0459:30 ID in English for CBCNQ mentioning 9625, Sackville, address and phone in Montreal; 0500 CBC News, which now lasts only three sesquiminutes; 0504:30 NQ sign-off only in French, as far as I can tell the same canned one as always, nothing special; ``Oh, Canada`` 0506:30 but carrier stays on and then tone test added to 0509:16*. Gone forever? No! 9625 is on again at 1352 check Nov 1, seems Inuk., heavy flutter. This rebirth was also noted by Glenn Swiderski in NC who wonders if it`s now a powerful unlicensed pirate; Kim Elliott in DC; Mark Coady in Ont. who reports that Thomas Witherspoon`s blog says that two transmitters are being maintained (one as backup) to keep the NQ service only on the SW air a bit longer until all the FM relays are funxional in northern Quebec. So whenever that happens, the plug will be pulled without further notice. Thus we are deprived of closure from Sackville, but take what we can get. BTW, the 0500 Nov 1 CBC News on 9625 was // and almost synchronized with 6160.9, CKZN, if we put up with that annoying het (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. A reminder that Canada is not completely gone from SW: CFRX with a decent signal on 6070 at 0535, and presumed CKZU with fair reception on 6160 just a few minutes later (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, Oct 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [non]. CANADA: Bible Voice Broadcasting Winter 2012 Schedule [but see below for wb`s corrected version] Amharic 1630-1800 eAf 15335iss sa,su 1700-1730 eAf 15335iss fr (music) 1700-1800 eAf 15335iss tu,th 1730-1800 eAf 15335iss mo,we,fr Arabic 0300-0315 ME 7325we daily 0430-0445 ME 5980we daily 0500-0515 ME 9450we fr 0500-0530 ME 9450we th 0600-0615 nAf 9440we daily 0900-1000 Egypt 17545we fr 1700-1720 ME 11915we mo,tu,th,fr 1700-1730 ME 9440we daily 1700-1735 ME 11915we we 1700-1800 ME 11700we tu,th 1715-1800 ME 11700we mo,we,fr 2000-2015 ME 5940we daily 2030-2045 nAf 9515we daily Cantonese 1100-1115 China 15390tr tu-fr Dinka 1700-1730 Sudan 11875we daily English 0100-0115 India 7395we sa,su 0800-0830 wEu 5945we su 0800-0845 wEu 5945we sa 1100-1130 China 15390tr sa,su 1115-1130 China 15390tr fr 1400-1500 India 15470we su 1430-1500 India 15470we sa 1500-1530 India 13740iss su 1515-1530 India 13740iss sa 1530-1600 India 13740iss th 1645-1700 ME 9715we mo,we 1645-1715 ME 9715we fr 1645-1745 ME 9715we th 1645-1800 ME 9715we tu 1645-1900 ME 9715we sa,su 1800-1815 Iran 7365we sa 1800-1900 eEu 6030we su 1800-1900 ME 9470we sa 1815-1845 eEu 6030we sa 1815-1845 ME 9470we su Farsi 0330-0345 Iran 6095we we-su 1530-1730 Iran 9925we daily 1600-1615 Iran 9665we we,th,fr,su 1800-1830 Iran 7365we fr 1800-1900 Iran 7365we tu,th 1830-1900 Iran 7365we su Hebrew 1700-1730 ME 9715we mo,we Japanese* 1230-1300 Japan 15620ta su Korean 1230-1400 Korea 15180tr daily Luri 0400-0430 Iran 5950we mo,sa,su Mandarin 1100-1130 China 15390tr mo Nuer 1630-1700 Sudan 11875we daily Oromo 1600-1630 eAf 15335iss mo,th,fr,su Punjabi 1515-1530 India 13740iss fr Russian 1800-1815 eEu 6030we fr 1800-1830 eEu 6030we tu Somali 1800-1830 eAf 15335iss fr-su Tamil 1630-1645 India 15215we su Tigringa 1700-1730 eAf 15335iss mo,we Ukrainian 1800-1815 eEu 6030we th Urdu 1530-1600 India 13740iss we,fr * Web Schedule shows Japanese still as "Summer 2012" Transmitters: iss = Issoudun ta = Tashkent tr = Trincomalee we = Wertachtal (BVB Website via Alan Roe, dxldyg via DXLD Re: CANADA: BVB Schedule B-12 Thanks Alan, as always the BVB website mentioned some mistakes on their relays. So, I'll compare and update to M&B schedule and HFCC entries soon. For example 13740 outlet is only on Sundays via Issoudun, but remaining weekdays via Nauen site (Büschel, ibid.) FRANCE/GERMANY/SRI LANKA/UGANDA/UZBEKISTAN BVB - BIBLE VOICE BROADCASTING from Canada in B-12 program schedule Dunamis Shortwave 4750 kHz - 60 mb 0600-1000 p.m. local Uganda time! 1500-1900 UT, Broadcasting from Mukono, Uganda. MIDDLE EAST All times in UTC (Universal Time) ... Local times... Jerusalem +2 W +3 S Amman +2 W +3 S Cairo +2 W +3 S Ar Riyad +3 W/S Damascus +2 W +3 S Dubai +4 W/S Tehran +3.5 W +4.5 S Addis Ababa +3 W/S Baghdad +3 W +4 S Asmera +3 W/S MIDDLE EAST 1 9715 kHz; 31 mb; 100 kW 120 degr; Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Sunday 1745-2000 English Monday 1745-1800 English 1800-1830 Hebrew Tuesday 1745-1900 English Wednesday 1745-1800 English 1800-1830 Hebrew Thursday 1745-1845 English Friday 1745-1815 English Saturday 1745-2000 English MIDDLE EAST 2 9470 kHz; 31 mb; 250 kW 125 degr; Nauen Germany, not Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Sunday 1915-1945 English Saturday 1900-2000 English MIDDLE EAST 3 - delete No bcast on Middle East 3 anymore. (wb) MIDDLE EAST 4 9450 kHz; 31 mb; 250 kW 120 degr; Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Thursday 0500-0530 Arabic Friday 0500-0515 Arabic MIDDLE EAST 5 11700 kHz; 25 mb; 100 kW 120 degr; Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Monday 1715-1800 Arabic NEW TIMES Tuesday 1700-1800 Arabic Wednesday 1715-1800 Arabic Thursday 1700-1800 Arabic Friday 1715-1800 Arabic MIDDLE EAST 6 11915 kHz; 25 mb; 250 kW 115 degr; Issoudun France, not Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Monday 1700-1720 Arabic Tuesday 1700-1720 Arabic Wednesday 1700-1735 Arabic Thursday 1700-1720 Arabic Friday 1700-1720 Arabic No bcast on Middle East 7 anymore. (wb) MIDDLE EAST 8 7325 kHz; 41 mb; 250 kW 124 degr; Nauen Germany, not Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Monday 0300-0315 Arabic Tuesday 0300-0315 Arabic Wednesday 0300-0315 Arabic Thursday 0300-0315 Arabic Friday 0300-0315 Arabic Saturday 0300-0315 Arabic Sunday 0300-0315 Arabic MIDDLE EAST 9 9440 kHz; 31 mb; 125 kW 120 degr; Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Monday 1700-1730 Arabic Tuesday 1700-1730 Arabic Wednesday 1700-1730 Arabic Thursday 1700-1730 Arabic Friday 1700-1730 Arabic Saturday 1700-1730 Arabic Sunday 1700-1730 Arabic MIDDLE EAST 10 5980 kHz; 49 mb; 125 kW 120 degr; Nauen Germany, not Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Monday 0430-0445 Arabic Tuesday 0430-0445 Arabic Wednesday 0430-0445 Arabic Thursday 0430-0445 Arabic Friday 0430-0445 Arabic Saturday 0430-0445 Arabic Sunday 0430-0445 Arabic MIDDLE EAST 11 5940 kHz; 49 mb; 250 kW 120 degr; Nauen Germany, not Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Monday 2000-2015 Arabic Tuesday 2000-2015 Arabic Wednesday 2000-2015 Arabic Thursday 2000-2015 Arabic Friday 2000-2015 Arabic Saturday 2000-2015 Arabic Sunday 2000-2015 Arabic IRAN All times in UTC (Universal Time) ... Local times... Tehran +3.5 W +4.5 S IRAN 1 7365 kHz; 41 mb; 100 kW 105 degr; Nauen Germany, not Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Sunday 1830-1900 Farsi Monday delete Tuesday 1800-1900 Farsi Wednesday delete Thursday 1800-1900 Farsi Friday 1800-1830 Farsi Saturday 1800-1815 English IRAN 2 9925 kHz; 31 mb; 100 kW 105 degr; Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Sunday 1630-1830 Farsi Monday 1630-1830 Farsi Tuesday 1630-1830 Farsi Wednesday 1630-1830 Farsi Thursday 1630-1830 Farsi Friday 1630-1830 Farsi Saturday 1630-1830 Farsi IRAN 3 - delete No bcast on Iran 3 Sunday 1530-1545 UT anymore. (wb) IRAN 4 5950 kHz: 49 mb: 100 kW 110 degr: Nauen Germany, not Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Sunday 0400-0430 Luri Monday 0400-0430 Luri Tuesday Farsi deleted Wednesday Farsi deleted Thursday Farsi deleted Friday Farsi deleted Saturday 0400-0430 Luri IRAN 5 - NEW 6095 kHz: 49 mb: 125 kW 105 degr: Nauen Germany Day Time Language Sunday 0330-0345 Farsi Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday 0330-0345 Farsi Thursday 0330-0345 Farsi Friday 0330-0345 Farsi Saturday 0330-0345 Farsi IRAN 6 - NEW 9665 kHz: 31 mb: 150 kW 105 degr: Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Sunday 1600-1615 Farsi Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday 1600-1615 Farsi Thursday 1600-1615 Farsi Friday 1600-1615 Farsi Saturday 1600-1615 Farsi EAST AFRICA All times in UTC (Universal Time) ... Local times... Addis Ababa +3 W/S Asmera +3 W/S Khartoum +3 W/S EAST AFRICA 1b 15335 kHz; 19 mb; 100 kW 150 degr; Nauen Germany, not Issoudun France Day Time Language Sunday 1600-1630 Oromo NEW Times 1630-1800 Amharic 1800-1830 Somali Monday 1600-1630 Oromo 1700-1730 Tigringa 1730-1800 Amharic Tuesday 1700-1800 Amharic Wednesday 1700-1730 Tigringa 1730-1800 Amharic Thursday 1600-1630 Oromo 1700-1730 Amharic Friday 1600-1630 Oromo 1700-1730 Amharic Music 1730-1800 Amharic 1800-1830 Somali 1830-1900 Amharic deleted Saturday 1630-1800 Amharic 1745-1730 English deleted 1800-1830 Somali EGYPT All times in UTC (Universal Time) ... Local times... Cairo +2 W +3 S Tehran +2 W +3 S Egypt 1 17545 kHz; 16 mb; 125 kW 135 degr; Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Friday 0900-1000 Arabic INDIAN SUBCONTINENT All times in UTC (Universal Time) ...Local times... Delhi +5.5 W/S Karachi +5 W/S Kolkata +5.5 W/S Kabul +4.5 W/S Dhaka +6 W/S Kathmandu +5.75 W/S INDIA 1 15470 kHz; 19 mb; 250 kW 90 degr; Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Sunday 1400-1500 English Saturday 1430-1500 English INDIA 2 - additional 15215 kHz; 19 mb; 125 kW 105 degr; Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Sunday 1630-1645 Tamil INDIA 3 - delete No bcast on India 3 Sunday 1500-1515 UT anymore. (wb) INDIA 4 7395 kHz; 31 mb; 250 kW 90 degr; Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Sunday 0030-0100 English deleted 0100-0115 English Monday 0030-0100 Hindi deleted Tuesday 0030-0100 Hindi deleted Wednesday 0030-0100 Hindi deleted Thursday 0030-0100 Hindi deleted Friday 0030-0100 English deleted Saturday 0030-0100 English deleted 0100-0115 English INDIA 5 13740 kHz; 22 mb; 100 kW 95 degr; Nauen Germany, not Issoudun France Day Time Language Sunday 1500-1530 English Wednesday 1530-1600 Urdu Thursday 1530-1600 English Friday 1515-1530 Punjabi 1530-1600 Urdu Saturday 1515-1530 English [later inserted:] Attention - Very Special: INDIA 5 13740 kHz; 22 mb; 100 kW 95 degr; Nauen Germany, but only Sundays via Issoudun France <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Day Time Language Sunday 1500-1530 English via Issoudun Wednesday 1530-1600 Urdu Thursday 1530-1600 English Friday 1515-1530 Punjabi 1530-1600 Urdu Saturday 1515-1530 English WEST EUROPE All times in UTC (Universal Time) Local times... London 0 W +1 S Stockholm +1 W +2 S Lisbon 0 W +1 S Oslo +1 W +2 S Paris +1W +2 S WEST EUROPE 1/UK 5945 kHz; 49 mb; 100 kW non-dir; Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Sunday 0800-0830 English Saturday 0800-0845 English (! wrong UT time ! on website) EAST EUROPE/RUSSIA All times in UTC (Universal Time) Local times... Moscow +3W/+4S Warsaw +1W/+2S Prague +1W/+2S Kiev +2W/+3S Budapest +1W/+2S EAST EUROPE 1/RUSSIA 6030 kHz; 49 mb; 100 kW 60 degr; Nauen Germany, not Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Sunday 1800-1900 English Tuesday 1800-1830 Russian Thursday 1800-1815 Ukrainian Friday 1800-1815 Russian Saturday 1815-1845 English [reply later:] It looks as though the HFCC & MBR schedule has the BVB transmission on 6030 kHz one hour later at 1900-2000, but BVB is listing it at 1800-1900, I wonder which is correct? 73s (Dave Kenny, DXLD) Hi Dave, was also at 19 UT in previous B-11 and B-10, but 18 UT in A- 12, refers TARGET STANDARD TIME change, but difference appeared due of VERY LATE standard time selection change on Moscow/Russia parliament during October, after Putin was re-election-ed. Correction for this previous stupid time change under premier minister Medvedev. EAST EUROPE 1/RUSSIA 6.030 Khz; 49 meter band; 100 Kw; Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Sunday 1900-2000 English Tuesday 1900-1930 Russian Thursday 1900-1915 Ukrainian Friday 1900-1915 Russian Saturday 1915-1945 English I GUESS, BVB website remained on older summer time selection. 73 wb (Büschel, ibid.) CHINA All times in UTC (Universal Time) Local times... Beijing +8W/S Shanghai +8W/S Hong Kong +8W/S Seoul +9W/S CHINA 1 15390 kHz; 19 mb; 125 kW 45 degr; Trincomalee, Sri Lanka 1100-1130 UT instead Day Time Language Sunday 1100-1130 English Monday 1100-1130 Mandarin Tuesday 1100-1115 Cantonese Wednesday 1100-1115 Cantonese Thursday 1100-1115 Cantonese Friday 1100-1115 Cantonese 1115-1130 English Saturday 1100-1130 English ID and address given at 1114 UT, POB 425, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. KOREA 1 program re-appeared. KOREA 1 15180 kHz; 19 mb; 250 kW 45 degr; Trincomalee, Sri Lanka Day Time Language Sunday 1230-1400 Korean Monday 1300-1400 Korean Tuesday 1300-1400 Korean Wednesday 1300-1400 Korean Thursday 1300-1400 Korean Friday 1300-1400 Korean Saturday 1300-1400 Korean JAPAN 1 15620 kHz; 19 mb; 100 kW 70 degr; Tashkent, Uzbekistan Day Time Language Sunday 1230-1300 Japanese JAPAN 2 - delete No bcast on Japan 2 1300-1400 UT anymore. (wb) North Africa Winter 2012 North Africa 1 9440 kHz; 31 mb; 125 kW 180 degr; Nauen Germany, not Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Sunday 0600-0615 Arabic Monday 0600-0615 Arabic Tuesday 0600-0615 Arabic Wednesday 0600-0615 Arabic Thursday 0600-0615 Arabic Friday 0600-0615 Arabic Saturday 0600-0615 Arabic North Africa 2 9515 kHz; 31 mb; 250 kW 180 degr; Nauen Germany, not Wertachtal Day Time Language Sunday 2030-2045 Arabic Monday 2030-2045 Arabic Tuesday 2030-2045 Arabic Wednesday 2030-2045 Arabic Thursday 2030-2045 Arabic Friday 2030-2045 Arabic Saturday 2030-2045 Arabic SUDAN All times in UTC (Universal Time) ... Local times ... Khartoum +3 W/S SUDAN 1 11875 kHz; 25 mb; 100 kW 165 degr; Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Sunday 1630-1700 Nuer 1700-1730 Dinka Monday 1630-1700 Nuer 1700-1730 Dinka Tuesday 1630-1700 Nuer 1700-1730 Dinka Wednesday 1630-1700 Nuer 1700-1730 Dinka Thursday 1630-1700 Nuer 1700-1730 Dinka Friday 1630-1700 Nuer 1700-1730 Dinka Saturday 1630-1700 Nuer 1700-1730 Dinka WEST AFRICA All times in UTC (Universal Time) ... Local times...Lagos +1 W/S WEST AFRICA 1 - Sats 1930-2000 deleted already in B-11. WEST AFRICA 3 - daily Arabic 0500-0530 deleted now. WEST AFRICA 4 - daily Arabic 1900-1930 deleted now All our Shortwave Programs are available for internet listening at (Select Listen and then Language and/or the Broadcaster Name). Programmers love to hear from you directly! Send your reports to or mail to: BVB P.O.Box 425, Station E Toronto, Ontario Canada M6H 4E3 (BVB Canada, transformed and updated by wb wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26, via DXLD) BVB B-12 schedule - more very special questions: 9440 kHz 1700-1715{MBR} / 1730{BVB website} UT ? I guess 15 mins only. In summer A-12 schedule on 13670 kHz only 30 mins registered til 30 Apr 2012, then from 1 May 2012 o n l y 15 min by MBR registration. 13670 1700 1715 39SWER 125 120 0 217 2307-271012 MBR A.sape 13670 1700 1715 39SWER 125 120 -30 217 0105-220712 MBR Z.sape 13670 1700 1730 39SWER 125 135 -15 217 2503-300412 MBR Z.sape MIDDLE EAST 9 9440 kHz; 31 mb; 125 kW 120 degr; Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Monday 1700-1730*Arabic Tuesday 1700-1730*Arabic Wednesday 1700-1730*Arabic Thursday 1700-1730*Arabic Friday 1700-1730*Arabic Saturday 1700-1730*Arabic Sunday 1700-1730*Arabic * M&B mentions only 15 mins 1700-1715 UT, since 1 May 2012 ex13670 ! INDIA 1 15470 kHz; 19 mb; 250 kW 90 degr; Wertachtal Germany Day Time Language Sunday 1430-1500 English, ONLY 1st Sunday extended 1400-1500 UT. Saturday 1430-1500 English 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I admire your dedication to sorting out schedules of these confused gospel huxters who can`t even convey their own schedules accurately, and which no one is really going to listen to, least of all SWLs outside the targets (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** CHAD. 6164.96, RNT, 0446-0503*, *0513-0550+, Oct 25, tune-in to French talk African choral music. African hi-life music. Weak under Japan, but in the clear with a good signal when Japan signed off at 0459. Abruptly cut programming at 0503 mid-song and turned off transmitter at 0505. Back on the air at 0513 with hi-life music. French talk. Promos. Children talking. 6164.96, RNT, 2120-2200*, Oct 25, continuous French talk. Afro-pop music and Euro-pop music after 2136. Very poor signal. Weak in noisy conditions but signal slowly improved after 2130. 6164.96, RNT, 2010-2129*, Oct 26, French talk. Afro-pop music. African hi-life music. Abrupt sign off. Very weak at 2010 tune-in, but improved to a poor to fair condition by 2100 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) 6165, Radiodiffusion Nationale Tchadienne, N'Djamena-Gredia; 0444-0511 Oct 28; "hi-life" style music, then a Western rap-influenced number and back to more traditional fare, all with brief announcements by a man in apparent vernacular; mention of Chad at 0500 and then a full French ID by a man at 0511; good (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHAD. 6164.96, RNT, *0454-0600, Oct 29, sign on with French talk. African hi-life music. Local drums at 0529. Good (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** CHILE. QSL: 11920, HCJB, in Kulina/Portuguese to Brazil via Calera de Tango (Santiago) Transmitter. Full data CVC Transmitter site photos (with site) card, with an apology statement of my report being misplaced. Report sent direct to Quito. v/s: nil Total time 9 months (Edward Kusalik, Alberta, Canada, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHILE. 6130, R. Japan via Santiago, Portuguese discussion at 0927, 10/10. Fair signal strength with slight noise and fading (Dennis Allen, Milperra NSW (Icom R75, Realistic DX160, Longwire), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) I can`t believe news of permanent closure of ``Santiago`` in August still has not reached everyone. {09-10 on 6130 moved to GUIANA FRENCH on Aug 18, e.g. in Aoki} (gh, DXLD) ** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 25: no thoro search today but noted: 9680, very good at 1151 with Chinese CCI and a fast SAH, but no RRI 15515, fair at 1356 with het Firedrake Oct 26 circa 1330, all with flutter: 12230, good at 1330 12670, fair at 1330 15495, fair at 1330, het on hi side 15900, good at 1333 16980, good at 1333 17450, very good at 1335; none in the 18s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Add this too, Glenn. 21590 at 1333 UT. http://youtu.be/xgIPdgknqYs 73 from Montevideo (Rodolfo Tizzi, Uruguay, Oct 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Against nothing, but on late after BBC Uzbek via Cyprus 21590 at 1300- 1330 as I have heard a number of times, usually with CNR1 jamming. Still on the B-12 schedule (gh, DXLD) EAST JAMMERSTAN: 9455, Crash & Bang music jammer; 2123, 26-Oct; weak under LL [unknown language] audio. (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, MARE DXpedition #103 anear Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 300 ft. NEish unterminated bev, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake, Oct 26 before 2400: 15390, poor at 2357; Aoki and HFCC have no possible target, except CNR13 service in Uighur from Lingshi is supposed to start at 2355 15585, poor at 2354 mixing with Chinese, i.e. RFA Mandarin via TINIAN 16980, poor at 2354 with heavy flutter // 15585 Oct 27, after 1400: 9680, mixed Chinese, either CNR1 jamming or Taiwan or both, not RRI? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12230, Crash & Bang music jammer; 1241-1253, 28-Oct; // 13970, 14700, 15555 & 16980 (strongest). No others heard previously reported during 1200. 15485, Crash & Bang music jammer; 1314, 28-Oct; Jammer stopped at 1315, leaving weak audio which went off at 1315+ (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, MARE DXpedition #103 anear Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 300 ft. NEish unterminated bev, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5965, Oct 28 at 1235 Firedrake against nothing, but could not find any usual FD frequency propagating 12-18 MHz to compare. At 1243, back on 5965, now it`s in Korean, so it was NOT FD, but something within the CRI Korean service now scheduled 11-15 via Xi`an. Firedrake Oct 28 after 1300: 15570, fair at 1313 15485, poor at 1313, het on hi side 12980, very poor at 1317 After 1400: 15570, poor at 1403 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Also heard some Firedrakes at 01-02 UT Oct 29: 12370 16920 16980 18200 kHz. Two VERY strong Firedrakes heard on Tokyo sdr receiver: 9880 S=9+10dB at 0126 UT, similar 15800 kHz at 0150 UT. as well as SOH: 12500 12670 12800 12870 12980 13270 13350 13430 13530 14400 14600-very strong in Nagoya!!! 14700 14750 14800 14870 14980 16361-odd 17250 17370 17450 18250 18970 kHz. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) 9880 strong Chinese Firedrake music noted at 0125 UT S=9+5dB on remote unit in Tokyo Japan. Against whom? (Büschel, UT Oct 29, dxldyg via DXLD) Firedrake, Oct 31 circa 1330: 12230, fair at 1326 with flutter 12500, fair at 1326 with flutter 12870, poor at 1326 None in the 13s, 14s, 15s, 16s, 17s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6030, 6045, 6085, 6125, 6150, 6175, 7295, 7310, 7365, 7385, 7445, noted all these CNR1 frequencies with same music, and most of them as jammers, Oct 28 at 1322-1325. Only 7385 had significant QRM ** CHINA. OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, covers wide areas: 5750-5850 at 1310 Oct 26, main peak is around 5800; above 5820 the pitch is different than below 5820, two of them abutting? 5875-5910 at 1311 Oct 26 with BBC 5875 on the edge 6760-7000 at 1312 Oct 26, several different peaks, avoids 40m hamband 7850-7930 at 1324 Oct 26, CHU 7850 on the edge (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CYPRUS ** CHINA [and non]. It appears that with B-12, the 8-kHz carrier constellation is no longer surrounding 11760 from the defective CNR1 jammer transmitter at 13-15. At least on Oct 31, I can`t hear any of them, except 11775 PMS has an extremely weak het, so weak that I can`t detect whether it is on 11776 (where it used to be) or 11774. There is also significant CCI on 11775.0, i.e. per HFCC B-12, AIR Tibetan/Nepali services at 1200-1430, 250 kW, 25 degrees from Panaji, GOA. 11736, 11744, 11752, 11768, 11776, 11784, the 8-kHz spur field from 11760 CNR1 jammer is still here, all barely detectable at 1356 Nov 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO. 6115, Radio Congo, Brazzaville. ID 1749, 5/10, ID in French. Observed close down often is at 1823, but sometimes when the direct soccer play reportage there is, s/off is at 1850 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi ant 16 m 300 ohm ribbon cable), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD). ** CONGO DR [non]. 11690, R. Okapi in vernacular and French, daily 4-5 UT, today S=9+25dB suuuper signal from Meyerton AFS, at 0407 UT Oct 26 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 11795.037 R Okapi UAE Al Dhabbaya 16-17 UT, ID and TX off at 1659:45, after 5 seconds FEBA IS til 1700:20 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Sunday, October 28, 2012, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CROATIA. Winter B-12 schedule of Croatian Radio HS-1 in Croatian 0558-1657 on 7370 DEA 100 kW / 000 deg to WeEu/NoAF 1658-0557 on 3985 DEA 100 kW / 000 deg to WeEu/NoAF (DX Re Mix News, Bulgaria, 01 November via DXLD) [non]. 7375, Oct 28 at 0514, CRZ with Croatian rock music now extending one hour later via GERMANY until 0600. HFCC shows that for B-12, site has also changed from Wertachtal to 100 kW Nauen, viz.: 23-04 255 degrees to SAm 00-02 300 degrees to ENAm 02-04 315 degrees to CNAm 04-06 325 degrees to WNAm So the overlaps with two transmitters are different now. English segment should now be at 0300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SINGAPORE: 17860, V. of Croatia via Singapore, Oct 30 *0700-0712, 35333-35443, English and Croatian, 0700 sign on with ID, English news, Talk and music, English ID at 0700 and 0703, (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, My RX and ANT: IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 1080, Oct 25 at 0525, Spanish talk looping SE, and SAHing KRLD at the rate of 80 per minute, same rate as in previous Oct 14 log when I thought I heard a ``Radio Ciudad de la Habana`` ID instead of listed Radio Cadena Habana, so I am hoping to confirm that. The CM conveniently fades up but inconveniently starts playing music, past 0530 when KRLD is regaining (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Listening to RadCadHab on 1080 as I type, strong back home. One "Cadena Habana 99.9 FM" live ID at 1850 and a minute later, same announcer IDed as "Radio Cadena Habana." My guess is, since this is one of the Ciudad de la Habana province stations, you heard a link-up by some or all of the provincial stations. This happens often, for instance look at my 820/910/980 logs from Long Key earlier this week. And from that we certainly know RadCadHab still exists (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, Oct 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See DX-PEDITIONS ** CUBA [and non]. 9955, Oct 25 at 1155, wall-of-noise jamming with WRMI inaudible. CBS News at 1200 reported widespread power outages in eastern Cuba due to hurricane, but no reduxion in jamming noticeable, mostly from western Cuba, I suppose, and RHC seemed to be as normal as it ever gets on all frequencies. 15215-15245, Oct 25 at 1256, the RHC 15230 transmitter has matching big buzzy noise fields extending out 15 kHz either side peaking around 15220 and 15240. Cleared up by an hour later. 15140, Oct 26 at 2352, music from RHC on the `Mesa Redonda` TV talkshow simulcast frequency, and guess what, it is not separate from all the other frequencies checked, but // 17705, 15230, 11840, 11680, 6000, 5040. 6000 is also supposed to be on M.R. breakaway. 23-24 is apparently the fill-music hour which Grayson Watson, Dallas, enjoys so much. BTW, DISREGARD RHC`s own website schedule in Spanish, which is way out of date: http://www.radiohc.cu/index.php/de-interes/frecuencias.html Looks like they never changed it from last winter! In fact some of the frequencies on it are hoarier than that, like 12020. Maybe some of those will come back this winter. Look for Arnie to juggle the RHC schedule around November 5, once everyone else has settled into B-12 a week earlier. However, timeanddate.com says DST in Cuba ends November 11, a week later than the USA & Canada, which could complicate things. 15200-15260, Oct 27 at 1258, RHC`s usually innocuous and not very strong 15230 transmitter is again surrounded by a buzzfield out to 30 kHz either side. 15205, CRI French via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN can overcome it. 15205-15255, Oct 29 at 0027, RHC 15230 is again accompanied by buzz field out to 25 kHz away. 6000 and 6050, Oct 29 at 0103, the only two RHC English frequencies scheduled from 0100 are still in Spanish // all the others checked: 5040, 6060, 9710, 9810, 11690, 11760, 11840. See also ALBANIA 6010 and much weaker 6060, Oct 29 at 0544, incompetent RHC has their feeds mixed up again, as both these are in Spanish, leaving English only on 6050 and 6125. In fact, Spanish is supposed to be on zero frequencies after 0500. 15510 approx., Oct 29 at 1358 as I am tuning in Bangladesh on 15505, a distorted spur from RHC no doubt coming from very strong 15340. The new RHC B-12 schedule has come out, effective Nov 1, apparently when Cuba goes off DST, as Spanish programming starts at 1200 instead of 1100 UT and ends at 0600 instead of 0500. Notably, 6050 is no longer on the schedule at all, 01-07 English replaced by 6140. Good news for HCJB, which RHC has blocked for a couple of years. As usual, two English broadcasts shift one UT hour later, 20 ex-19 on 11760, and 00 ex-23 on 5040. Still on the schedule is the imaginary ``Aló Presidente`` at 14-18 on 5 frequencies, not specified as Sundays only. 6000 and 6010, Oct 31 at 0510, RHC English is on both as 6000 has not gone off at 0500, and they are an echo apart. This means 6125 is not yet on the air: yes, nothing there, so I set a receiver with BFO on 6126 and wait for it to come on: the RadioCuba operator finally wakes up and on it comes at *0521, at first unmmodulated, 0522:38 fade in the English programming. // English was already on 6050, 6060. The dozing operator at RadioCuba also failed to turn off the 9790 CRI relay at 0500: huge open carrier there at 0515, but off at 0521, rechecked once 6125 RHC had come up. New RHC schedule, fixed to time order, effective Nov 1 shows English: América Central 11760 kHz /25 m 2000-2100 Banda Tropical 5040 kHz /60 m 0000-0100 Wáshington 6000 kHz /49 m 0100-0500 Chicago 6140 kHz /49 m 0100-0700 [ex-6050] Norte, Centro y Sudamérica 6125 kHz /49 m 0500-0700 New York 6060 kHz /49 m 0500-0700 San Francisco 6010 kHz /49 m 0500-0700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tnx to George Thurman for forwarding this. Have not analyzed it thoroly yet but I notice that RHC is finally off 6050, good news for HCJB after years of blockage. Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO HABANA CUBA HORARIOS, BANDAS Y FRECUENCIAS EN ESPAÑOL (Del 1ro. de noviembre del 2012 al 31 de marzo del 2013) ZONAS GEOGRÁFICAS FRECUENCIAS HORARIOS - UT Norte, Centro y Sudamérica 6150 1200-1300 11760 1200-1600 0000-0500 Nueva York 6060 0000-0500 9550 1200-1300 11860 1200-1600 San Francisco 13780 1300-1600 Chicago 9850 1200-1300 15340 1300-1600 América Central 9540 1200-1600 9810 2200-0600 11750 1300-1600 Antillas 6120 0000-0600 9710 2200-2400 11690 1200-1600 Río de Janeiro 11680 0000-0500 17730 1200-1600 Buenos Aires 15230 1200-1600 0000-0600 17580 1200-1600 17705 2200-0600 Chile 11840 2200-0600 Europa 15340 2200-2400 BANDA TROPICAL Cuba, Caribe, Sur de Estados Unidos, México, América Central, Norte de Sudamérica 5040 2200-2400 0200-0600 ALÓ PRESIDENTE [sic; suspended, was Sunday only c. 1530-1900+ --- gh] Chicago 15340 1400-1800 Centro América 13680 1400-1800 Antillas 11690 1400-1800 Buenos Aires 15370 1400-1800 Río de Janeiro 17750 1400-1800 MESA REDONDA [irregular, weekdays, TV soundtrack, time vary or // RHC] Washington 6000 0000-0100 Chicago 9640 0030-0100 TRANSMISIONES EN IDIOMA INGLÉS (ENGLISH) Norte, Centro y Sudamérica 6125 0500-0700 América Central 11760 2000-2100 New York 6060 0500-0700 San Francisco 6010 0500-0700 Chicago 6140 0100-0700 Washington 6000 0100-0500 Banda Tropical 5040 0000-0100 TRANSMISIONES EN IDIOMA FRANCÉS (FRANÇAIS) Europa 15340 1930-2000 América Central 11760 2100-2130 Sudamérica 15370 2230-2300 Banda Tropical 5040 0130-0200 TRANSMISIONES EN IDIOMA PORTUGUÉS Río de Janeiro 15370 2330-0000 Buenos Aires 15230 2300-0000 Europa 15340 2000-2030 TRANSMISIONES EN IDIOMA ÁRABE Europa 15340 2030-2100 TRANSMISIONES EN IDIOMA ESPERANTO San Francisco 6010 0700-0730 Norte, Centro y Sudamérica 11760 1600-1630 Sudamérica 15370 2230-2300 TRANSMISIONES EN IDIOMA CREOLE Buenos Aires [sic] 15370 2300-2330 Banda Tropical 5040 0100-0130 TRANSMISIONES EN IDIOMA QUECHUA Buenos Aires [sic] 15370 0000-0030 (RHC Correspondence Dept. via George Thurman and Juan Franco Crespo, Oct 30, tidied up by Glenn Hauser, for WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) *Nov 4 ** CUBA. 6050, UT Nov 1 at 0225, RHC English is still here with bigsig, can`t even detect HCJB underneath, despite published new schedule showing 6140 replacing it from this date. Of course it`s not yet Nov 1 in Cuba, so maybe from UT Nov 2? On the new UT-5 schedule, the morning transmission is supposed to be at 12-16 UT, but just before 1500, 17580 and 17730 were dead air and soon turned off, i.e. still signing off as per A-12 summer schedule. And a partial frequency announcement heard around 1400 sounded like the old one. The 11760 English broadcast is in progress at 1937 Nov 1, so it hasn`t yet shifted to 2000 as in the new schedule. Listened to R. Reloj online, and at 1930 UT it announced 3:30 --- so Cuba is still on UT -4, despite website displaying: ``La hora exacta en Cuba --- Thursday 01 Nov 2012 14:27:29pm -0500 America/Havana CST``. What confusion! Havana is never on CST and if it were the time would be 13:27+. To run its website clock, also detects my computer set to UT = Azores DST. I can`t get any hits on the R. Reloj or R. Rebelde websites about ``hora de invierno`` or ``hora de verano``. Timeanddate.com still says Nov 11 is the date for DST to end in Cuba, so we may be in for a dekaday of confusion, or until Cuba can be confirmed to have deset their clox (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 5025, Oct 30 at 0234, R. Rebelde, plus considerable RTTY QRM. A few nights ago, R.R. was off and we were only hearing the RTTY, which we had never noted QRMing the station, perhaps because we are not usually tuning around at this hour. R.R. may well have gone off to try to identify the source, so whence is it? Something new? 5025, Oct 30 at 0523, R. Rebelde is still bothered by RTTY CCI. A shame, since they play some great music and believe it or not, devote less time to ruthless propaganda than RHC. Cuba`s #1 domestic service on relay, and also no English, an advantage for those who don`t understand Spanish anyway. Arnie may be looking for a new frequency. Why would any RTTY service pick this frequency already occupied by a strong broadcaster? Subtle retaliation for Cuban jamming? Will the RTTY decode with all this AM QRM? I understand that most RTTY is encrypted these days (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. 9825, Oct 29 at 0221, R. Martí with Serie Mundial coverage, at first seems atop jamming, then seems that noise is just from the crowd in the ballpark. 15330, Oct 29 at 1955, R. Martí back on this B-season-only frequency, so now the jamming Cuba has been running all summer is doing some ``good``, altho certainly ramped up to full bore now. But RM goes off at 2000 and moves to also jammed 9565, while // 11930 and 13820 continue. 5980, Oct 31 at 0508, VG signal with tone test, open carrier and off at 0508:50*. Surely Greenville-B tuning up for the R. Martí 07-13 UT broadcast on same. 11930, Oct 31 at 1324, R. Martí with no jamming audible. I suppose the DentroCuban Jamming Command has not yet synched up exactly with the new B-12 RM schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CYPRUS. Cyprus SW relay to close. Cyprus MW to continue, but for reduced hours. BBC Arabic on shortwave to close, except to Sudan. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/20082294 (Chris Greenway, UT Oct 25, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) A bit more detailed, clarifying that English to Africa will indeed be cut to six hours per day as well ("across all regions") and that Zygi will be closed completely, i.e. also the 1323 kHz transmitter there ("English medium wave service to Israel, Lebanon and Jordan [...] will be broadcast on a new frequency"): http://kimelli.nfshost.com/index.php?id=13853 (Kai Ludwig, dxldyg via DXLD) See UK [non] Members, In fact this post is not related directly to the photos of Cape Greco. The latest DXLD from Glenn points to the closure of the SW transmitters at Zygi and the reduction in hours of the MW station there or perhaps at Zakaki as well. This is supposed to take place from April 2013. No details at all have come to light about what effect will take place to 639 Zakaki World Service in English, 720 Zakaki BBC in Arabic, and 1323 Zygi World Service in English. Should I learn more I will let you know. Should any ex BBC staff or Babcock staff be able to give better information, please feel to post the details. 73's and 88's (Dan Goldfarb, UK, Oct 25, mwmasts yg via DXLD) Bye Bye BBC Cyprus I found out, thanks to Keith Perron of PCJ Media, that the BBC Cyprus relay site will close in April. The Arabic service is being cut and English is being reduced from between 7 and 19 hours daily to just 6 hours. Since the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation relies on this site for their own weekend transmissions this means we are losing another radio country. -- (Mark Coady, Ont., Oct 25, dxingwithcumbre yg via DXLD) 9760, CyBC, *2215:30-2244:30*, Oct 26, sign on with usual theme music and into Greek talk. // 5925, 7220 - all frequencies good. Fri, Sat, Sun only, but irregular (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** CYPRUS. OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, invading the 15m hamband: 21250-21275, Oct 26 at 1307. See also CHINA for more OTHR of different pitches, wider bandwidth on lower frequencies. 21180-21205, Oct 27 at 1407, OTH radar pulsing presumed from here, invading the 15m hamband; 40, 17, 15, 12 and 10 m are full of SSB contesters and probably 20m too, unchecked (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DJIBOUTI. 4780, Radiodiffusion Télévision de Djibouti, Dorale; *0300-0310 Oct 26, guttural announcements by man at sign-on followed by continuous chanting that, if recitation of the Qur`an, was very different in style than that usually heard; poor-to-fair level at first but rapidly faded into the noise floor (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 4781.6, HCLE7, R Oriental, Tena; 1058 Oct 24, likely the one here with music and unintelligible male announcer in Spanish; very weak (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 4814.95, Radio El Buen Pastor, Saraguro, Loma Loja, good signal fading out. 1100 to 1115, 26 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9305, Oct 27 at 0205, Radio Cairo apparently, with lone male voice vocalizing singing-prayer, to male Arabic talk at 0223. Reception was fair and fluttery, with signal in the clear, and modulation sounding about right, but singing much clearer than talking. Returned to singing-prayer at 0225. Carriers on 9315 and 9965 sounded dead, with occasional hints of modulation. Now if only their English broadcasts were modulatively comparable to 9305's prayer- singing, we'd be in business (Eric Bryan, WA, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX Listener's Digest) 17725, Oct 27 at 1304, buzzing transmitter with no intelligible audio, and this is not coming from adjacent RHC 17730. HFCC shows R. Cairo, Dari, 250 kW, 70 degrees from Abu Zabaal at 13-14; the world champion of totally useless and clueless broadcasting. If it were before 1300, it could be a nearly equivalent mess from Islamabad, Pakistan in Chinese on 17725 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9905, Egyptian Abis terrible audio at 0457 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I'm hearing a program in English on 9720 kHz, from about 0255 to 0328 sudden s/off. Arabic music; male announcer sounded like one I've heard before on R. Cairo. New frequency for the new broadcast season? Poor reception. Replacing 9315 kHz?, which was also checked and nothing found there. However, there wasn't a news summary at 0315 which I believe is usually broadcast by R. Cairo. No clear ID's were heard (Bruce Fisher, New York, USA, UT Oct 29, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) EGYPT, 9720 registered 0045-0330 UT to zones 6,7 via Abu Zabaal, 250 kW, 330 degrees, Spanish till 0200, English 0200-0330 UT (Wolgang Büschel, ibid.) 9720, Oct 29 at 0223, fair signal but JBM; bet it`s also Cairo, which listed this frequency in last half of A-12 but never used it for English to North America at 0200-0330. At 0235 with phones I strain to hear it, and then can tell the M&W conversation is indeed in accented English; the A-12 frequency for this, 9315, is no longer on. 9965, Oct 29 at 0220, open carrier, dead air with some hum 9905, Oct 29 at 0220, DA but then distorted Qur`an and cutting out, i.e. modulating on peaks; meanwhile propeller noise is continuous. 6855, Oct 29 at 0235, open carrier, fair signal. Could this be Cairo too? They have appeared in this area in past. Checking HFCC B-12, 6860 is scheduled earlier in the day but not 6855. It shows the 9 MHz ones: 9720 0045 0330 6,7 ABZ 250 330 0 800 1234567 281012 310313 D Spa, Eng 9905 0200 0700 8,9,27,28 ABS 250 315 0 216 1234567 281012 310313 D Ara 9965 2300 0430 8,9 ABS 200 325 0 211 1234567 281012 310313 D Eng, Ara 9905 is ex-9305 where not heard, altho it is still on the schedule with exactly same parameters, alternate (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) R. Cairo check Oct 30 at 0235 finds some differences from last night: 9905 is missing, and so is ex-9305, the extremely distorted Arabics 9965 is also missing, the undermodulated/distorted one but it can`t be due to propagation since: 9720 is still there with JBM English, ex-9315 9905, Oct 30 at 0513, tho missing earlier, R. Cairo is on now with buzz, distorted and suppressed Arabic modulation. Seems sporadic but they should turn it off permanently if they can`t or won`t fix it. Yet they make seasonal frequency changes (ex-9305) as if nothing is wrong, nobody notices. 11560, Oct 31 at 2007, ME music on poor signal. Modulation seemed OK so did not occur to me it could be R. Cairo until uplooked in HFCC: 1900-2115 in German and French, 200 kW, 325 degrees from Abis so also USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, 21/10/2012, 1955, R. África, Bata-Guinea [sic], Locutor comentando de noticias da África central e ao fundo a Radio Inconfidência com interferência, as vezes alternando uma e outra, 33333, VMP (VACIL MARCELO PERA, PY2AE, ID DXCB Nr 205, Escutas realizadas em VALINHOS/SP, Radio: ICOM 756 PRO III; Antenas: Yagi 4 elementos --- Marca KLM modelo KT34, Dipolo rígida rotativa 40metros PP5UA a 15 metros de altura, Dipolo Morgain 40/80 metros, radioescutas yg via DXLD) That`s very unusual. We never hear any local news about Central Africa on this American-controlled gospel-huxter station, tho once there was a mailbag from some preacher acknowledging listeners in Africa (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 15190, Radio Africa, 0552-0603, Oct 25, US produced English religious programming. Surprised to hear a rare “Radio Africa” ID announcement at 0557 with Radio Africa IDs along with email address and contact information in Zimbabwe. Irregular. Fair to good (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) 15190, once I have recorded WOR 1640 saying R. Africa has been missing, we get a report from Brian Alexander that it was on again as of Oct 25. Also heard here Oct 26 at 1928 with lo-key but non-Alamo preacher in English, 1930 hymn, 1933 `Let the Bible Speak` show with Northern Ireland address, sounds like closing, but then ``What a Friend`` hymn, seems same preacher, 1936 about Adam & Eve. Fair signal with more fading than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15190, Radio Africa (presumed); 1920, 26-Oct; English religious program; right into a new one at 1923. Not there at 2050 check. SIO=3+52+ 1601, 27-Oct; English huxter; fair at best --nothing heard on 15190 prior to 1600. 1901, 27-Oct English huxter, SIO=352; 1443, 28-Oct; English huxter, SIO=252 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, MARE DXpedition #103 anear Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 300 ft. NEish unterminated bev, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15190, Radio Africa, 0706-0716, 28-10, English, male with religious comments. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15190, Radio Africa, 1558, Oct 29. Better than normal reception; start of Tony Alamo’s program #446 (recorded Sept 25, 2007, per his website); reading testimonial letter; he was still rambling along at 1636. https://www.box.com/s/bbtmy3u71cjq9v24d2vt contains an MP3 recording (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15190, Radio Africa, 1800-1855, Oct 29, US produced English religious programming. Radio Africa ID announcement at 1822 along with email address and address in Ghana. And another Radio Africa ID announcement at 1852 with contact information. “Hour of Decision” religious program at 1853. Fair signal strength but poor, somewhat muffled audio (Brian Alexander, PA, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX Listening Digest) [and non]. 15190, Oct 29 at 1957, R. Africa, fair signal with gospel huxter; off the air at next check 2007; meanwhile YFR English via Ascension is still on 15195 from 20 to 22 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15190, Oct 31 at 1957, tuned in R. Africa just in time to hear a country music hymn cut off the air at 1957.6* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA. 7185, Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea, *0256-0325, Oct 25, sign on with IS. Vernacular talk at 0301. Horn of Africa music at 0306. // 9715.03 - both frequencies weak at sign on, but impoved to a fair level by 0325 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) 7205, Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea-Program 1, Asmara-Selai Dairo; 0348-0352 Oct 28, vernacular announcements by a woman and a man interspersed with "Horn of Africa" music; poor in ham contest QRM (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. 6110, R. Fana, Geja Jawe (or Geja Dera?), 1745-1810, 27/10, Oromiffa (listed), local songs, talks; 44422, stronger adjacent QRM after 1800. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. 9715, usual Ethiopian DRM like noise jamming, 20 kHz wide, 0440 UT, Oct 30. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. Euronews TV Starts Radio Service For now it's available in six languages, including English http://www.euronewsradio.com/ (Sergei S., Oct 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ``Radio`` without transmitters, apparently (gh, DXLD) As far as I can tell they are mostly playing the sound from the Euronews TV channel news stories. Including the ambient noise from the video recordings, including voices of people whose names appear on screen but obviously we can't see them on "radio". The truth is I've never liked Euronews TV. To me it feels like a station run by robots (Tudor Vedeanu, Romania, ibid.) ** EUROPE. Irish Music Radio (IMR) being received with good signal and audio quality on new 6937.5 ex 6930/6940 kHz. Regards & 73's (John Hoadd, Faversham Kent, JRC NRD-515 + Wellbrook ALA1530 Active Loop, Oct 26, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** EUROPE. FRSH on the air next Sun October 28th 2012 -------- Mensaje original -------- Asunto: FRSH on the air next Sun October 28th 2012 Fecha: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:40:35 +0200 De: Naud Nelissen Para: FRS-Holland Dear FRS Friends, Sunday October 28th --- Summer has gone and autumn is ruling. Propagation conditions have improved during day time. Time to expand some activity. We have planned a full almost 6 hour broadcast upcoming Sunday October 28th. In preparation to that, we tested on 7600 kHz Sunday October 14th. Although conditions weren't satisfactory, results were satisfactory and we are confident next Sunday a good signal will be aired over the European air waves. Sunday October 28th FRS-Holland will be on air between 0852-1430 UT/ 09:52-15:30 CET. Remember next Sunday winter time comes into force!! The broadcast is on 5800//7600 kHz. Programme line-up includes all FRS presenters (except Paul Graham) and consists of FRS Magazine, the German Service, FRS Goes DX, Radio Waves and the FRS Golden Show. Ingredients: great music, DX News, letters, the day calendar and a number of radio related items. Radio entertainment on a Sunday. And, FRS has become 32 years. FRS-Holland brings true free radio into your receiver! Tune in.... Internet Stream That same day between 1452-2030 UT/15:52-21.30 CET will see a full repeat on the Internet. Check on your computer < http://nednl.net:8000/frsh.m3u > Alternatively you can use : helios.cloudnl.net:8000/frsh.m3u For mobile devices there is a 24 kbps mono stream: helios.cloudnl.net:8000/frsh24.m3u or http://nednl.net:8000/frsh24.m3u Still available: FRS News #36 special 30th Anniversary edition FRS News #36 is all about our 30th anniversary. In contains no less than 24 pages in colour. In the past months FRS-Holland has been working very hard to produce this booklet covering 30 Years of FRS-Holland. It contains several photos and of course much information: Memories on 30 Years of FRS-Holland from both former presenters and listeners; a Number of Fact Files (Special moments to Remember, FRS Presenters 1980-2010, The Beginning); Reflections on 30 Years of FRS-Holland; The 1983 Raid; Mailbox 2702 including the Anniversary mail; How the 30th Anniversary broadcasts came about; Last but not least a potted history 1980- 2010 !! This is a true collector's item and no doubt it makes an interesting read! We never produced something similar in the past. In case you are interested …you can obtain a hard-copy of our specially produced 30 Years of FRS-Holland booklet for 5 euro/ 7 US dollars in cash. Send your order to FRSH, POBox 2702, 6049 BE Herten, the Netherlands. In the mean time FRS-Holland has become 32 years.... Email address: Please only use frs @ frsholland.nl for your mails. The other mail address will disappear within a short period. Good listening next Sunday! We count on your support. 73s, Peter Verbruggen on behalf of the FRS Team (via Manuel Méndez, Spain, Oct 26, dxldyg via DXLD) ** EUROPE. HOLLAND/GERMANY, 7600, FRS Holland, *0852-0910, 28-10, initiating transmission with a song, tuning music, at 0859 identification: "Free Radio, FRS Holland, in Dutch, German and English, FRS Holland on short wave, 7600 and 5800 kHz". Pop music and comments. 34333. 5800, FRS Holland, *0852-0910, 28-10, parallel with 7600, very weak signal. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. 15520-AM, Oct 28 at 1245, poor signal with some fadeups, electronic music, and DJ talking over from time to time, with hotmail address; says he will be returning a bit later today, but keeps going for now. 1250 hard-beat music continues; DJ says ``we have to go``; 1251 ``got to go, closing down after this``. 1253 acknowledges e-mail from Adolf in Austria, will answer him. 1254 ``You are listening to –- -- over Europe `` but again I can`t catch the ID! 1255 vocal music, 1257 finally: ``borderhunterradio@hotmail.com`` and off at 1300* Then I check Georgi Bancov`s Pirate Radio Weekend roster: Borderhunter is on there, but not at this time or frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) EUROPirates_HF --- 21520, R. Borderhunter, HOL, 1505-.., 28/10, Dutch/English, music; 35443. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. Just saw that the item about alleged plans to close 1278 kHz from the Sélestat transmitter south of Strasbourg had been included also in DXLD 12-42: This appears to be a misinterpretation of the circumstance that recently a bunch of Radio France local services has been put on satellite, badly filling up the station list of a receiver. This also includes France Bleu Alsace, but the French-only FM version. There are no plans to close 1278 kHz, instead "Paris" just allocated the funds for its operation for another five years. Here's the website (livestream available) of France Bleu Elsass, using German for Alsace as differentiation in the name: http://sites.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-bleu/?nr=c451fcb00c158aa127c755c696064103 (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 7265, Hamburger LokalRadio, 0522-0555, 27-10, comments in Portuguese by male: "A Rádio Nacional de Cabo Verde", songs in Portuguese and Spanish, at 0553 comments in Spanish, female and male: "Deutsche Welle Podcast, novedades del mundo de la ciencia y de la técnica, en el mundo hay más de 3 millones de personas con diabetes". 44444 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 9580, Radio Gloria International, 1054-1100*, 28-10, English pop music. 45444 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [and non]. Re: ``11740, Oct 28 at 0459, NHK [...] Spanish news about death of composer Hans-Werner Henze.`` Interesting that even they reported it. It happened in Dresden to where he had travelled for the first night of a new production of his We come to the river, see picture under Sep 14 at https://www.facebook.com/semperoper (the one on top is older, from 2010). A local newspaper had condemned this staging; see http://www.semperoper.de/river --- before anyone saw it, one could even get the impression that they tried to fabricate an eclat. Without any success. Otherwise one would have to be concerned (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, just in case you want to keep it for the record: Actually in September Henze left once more and came back to Dresden for the very last time about two weeks ago, for a symphony concert with his works: http://www.musik-in-dresden.de/2012/10/28/hans-werner-henze-1926-2012 Wondered if it was perhaps even Tokyo where most members of Staatskapelle Dresden had to learn the news: No, it was Taipei. http://www.musik-in-dresden.de/2012/10/28/christian-thielemann-staatskapelle-dresden (Kai Ludwig, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. Just a couple more observations: Deutsche Welle 11800 good signal in English via Kigali at 0530. Forgot to check the new 0400 frequencies. Further checks on DW into Central North America October 28: At 1900: 11800 and 12070 just a faint flutter, no audio. Poor to fair signal on 15275. At 2000: Faint flutter on 9655, no audio. Faint audio on 11800 and 12070. At 2100: 9655 poor to fair on peaks, 11800 slightly weaker than 9655, but solid signal on 12070. Earlier at 0600: Faint flutter on 12045 and 13780, no signal on 17800 (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, Oct 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Only DW English hour I missed earlier: At 0400 5905 poor, but strong signals on 7285 and 9470. Big collision with Greece on 9420; guess DW didn't expect them there at this hour. So it appears best times/frequencies for DW English into NA are: 0400 7285, 9470 0500 11800 2100 12070 (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, 0446 UT Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I warned of the impending 9420 collision last week, last DXLD (gh) 15275, Oct 29 at 1956, DW in English, VG signal discussing spacesuits, rudely cut off the air at 1957. Well, that`s what the schedule calls for, 1900-1957, 250 kW non-direxional from RWANDA. This transmitter has a squeal on it like on one of the WEWNs and several others around the world. 15275 is used at many various hours from DW Kigali starting at 0630, but only this last 0.95 hour in English. Someone please tell the studio to wrap it up by :57! 9655, Oct 29 at 2005, here`s DW English again, with `Africa Link`, not as strong but has same squeal as 15275; bet it`s exactly the same Kigali transmitter. This one is in English at 2000-2057 and 2100-2200 at 295 degrees USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 6230, Voice of Greece. 1155, 14/10, s/on with IS and ID in Greek, // 9420, 15630. 6230=15650-9420 and when they are using 9420 and 15630, heard on 6210. 11645, R. Filia, Avlis, 0530, 14/10, in Spanish // MW 666. They are superstitious and said “665 kHz“ instead in their ID (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi ant 16 m 300 ohm ribbon cable), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD). 7475, V of Greece // 9420 and 11645 at 04-06 UT, latter increasing from S=7 to S=9+40dB at 0520 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7475 // stronger 9420, Oct 28 at 0514, VOG with Greek talk; the Sunday Orthodox service will now be starting an UT hour later circa 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7475 VoGRC // 9420 and 11645 at 04-0555 UT, latter increasing from S=7 to S=9+40dB at 0520 UT. Pause TX off. But again 6-7 UT 7475 S=9+15, 9420 S=9+25, and 11645 S=9+10dB, Greek mass. Not on 15630/15650 kHz! 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Sunday Oct 28, DXLD) Thanks Wolfy: I tried VOG's frequencies at 1352 UTC but nothing here. No response from Apodimos yet about my request for the new Voice of Greece B-12 Transmission Schedule. Perhaps they are on a 40-hour week and not working on Saturday and Sunday. I hope they will send me their new schedule on Monday. Regards, (John Babbis, MD, Oct 28, ibid.) GRC from 1700 UT onwards Oct 28 - ERT on 9420, -- 7450 ERA Thessaloniki Macedonia. Nothing on 15630 / 15650. GRC from 1800-1900 UT onwards - ERT on 9420 and 15630, -- 7450 ERA Thessaloniki Macedonia. wb (Büschel, 1839 UT, ibid.) 0300-0500 11645/182º/af 7475/285º/eu/at/na 9420/323º/eu/at/na VoGreece 03-05 UT in Germany on 7475, 9420, and 11645! kHz, 7475 and 9420 both S=9+35 11645 S=9+10dB in Germany. regards de Wolfy R Filia Albanian heard on 7475 kHz from 0600 UT 0300-0600 11645/182º/af 7475/285º/eu/at/na 9420/323º/eu/at/na 0600-0800 11645/182º/af 7475/285º/eu/at/na 9420/323º/eu/at/na V of Greece 05-07 UT in Germany on 7475, 9420, and 11645 ! kHz, 7475 9420 11645 kHz, all three S=9+35 dB in Germany. But surprisingly 7475 kHz had R Filia morning news bulletin broadcast in Albanian language at 0600 UT instead. Followed by tourist program in Albanian and much Greek folk music. Political international morning News at 0650-0656 UT in Albanian again. Weather report europeanwide. From 0700 UT all frequencies again Voice of Greece GREEK program. At 0700 UT 9420 on S=9+20dB level, 7475 and 11645 kHz both decreased to S=9+5 dB in Germany. Shortwave is 34 seconds AHEAD of livestream audio via web at Surprise, all three Avlis Greece frequencies heard on GREAT Perseus unit in Australia at 0705 UT across Azores, Colombia, Easter Island and southern Pacific. 73 wolfy 0800-0810 7475/285º/eu/at/na 9420/323º/eu/at/na only two channels on air like antenna feed connection change on 11645? 0810-0900 11645/182º/af 7475/285º/eu/at/na 9420/323º/eu/at/na V of Greece Greek program and live phone in talks, mostly by men. 0810-0900 UT in Germany on 7475, 9420, and 11645 ! kHz, 7475 9420 kHz, all two S=9+15 dB in Germany. 11645 only S=8-9 in Germany. 1300-1700 #9935/285º/eu 15630/105º/au/me 9420/323º/eu/as V of Greece 13-14 UT in Germany on 9420 and 15630 kHz, 9420 S=9+30 15630 S=9+15dB in Germany. ERT-3 Radiophonikos Stathmos Makedonias (Thessaloniki) 9935 at 1305 UT Oct 30 S=9+20 dB 73 wolfy 1300-1800 #9935/285o/eu 15630/105o/au/me 9420/323o/eu/as VoGreece 13-14 UT on 9420 and 15630 kHz, 9420 S=9+30 15630 S=9+15dB in Germany. ERT-3 Radiophonikos Stathmos Makedonias (Thessaloniki) 9935 at 1305 UT Oct 30, S=9+20 dB signal. Sudden transmitter off on 9935 kHz at 1749:40 UT Oct 30. TX on 7450 kHz at 1752:25 UT; music start at 1753:35 UT. 1800-1900 #7450/323º/eu *15630/???º 9420/323º/eu V of Greece 18-19 UT Oct 29 in Germany on 9420 and 15630 kHz, ALL THREE S=9+20 to +25dB. ERT-3 Radiophonikos Stathmos Makedonias (Thessaloniki) 7450 suffers heavy by 3 programms on adjacent 7445 kHz. CRI Chinese powerhouse 500 kW from Urumchi, China. Underneath 7445 kHz also some FIREDRAKE jamming and RFA Chinese. 1900-2200 #7450/323º/eu 15650/260º/eu/at/sa 9420/323º/eu/at VoGreece 19-20 UT on 9420 and 15650 ! kHz, 9420 S=9+30, 15650 S=8 in Germany. ERT-3 Radiophonikos Stathmos Makedonias (Thessaloniki) 7450 superstrong at 1935 UT S=9+45 dB powerhouse. V of Greece 21-22 UT in Germany on 9420 and 15650! kHz, 9420 S=9+35 15650 S=8 in Germany. ERT-3 Radiophonikos Stathmos Makedonias (Thessaloniki) 7450 superstrong at 2128 UT S=9+45 dB powerhouse. Oct 29 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 30, DXLD) So, I checked the end of morning broadcast at 9 UT. V of Greece program ends on full hour! 73 (Wolfy Oct 31, ibid.) 11645, Voice of Greece in 03-05 UT slot strong signal at S=9+25dB level, but produces two spurious signals with peaks on 11609 and 11681 kHz, in ranges 11598-11615 and 11677-11687 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) At 0730 check 11645 was on air and in Greek // 9420, and still on 7475 too. Perhaps no engineer was available to change this frequency??? (Noel R. Green (NW England), ibid.) 7475 // 9420, Oct 30 at 0518, VOG with VG signals instead of Greek music playing American big band standards such as ``Melancholy Baby``. We`re sure glad to have them back on the air after 0200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 11850, KSDA-AWR, Agat, Facpi Point; 2220-2229 Oct 22, talk by woman (Javanese/Sundanese listed) then rather exotic flute tune to English ID: “This is Adventist World Radio, the Voice of Hope…” and carrier off; weak (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. KTWR B12 Trans World Radio. Effective Date: October 28 To China Cantonese 1330-1400 Mon-Fri 11675 / 25 Hui 1330-1400 Sat-Sun 11675 / 25 Mandarin 0945-1100 Mon-Sat 15235 / 19 Mandarin 1045-1200 Mon-Sat 11580 / 25 Mandarin 1100-1230 Daily 9910 / 31 Mandarin 1100-1145 Daily 13765 / 22 Mandarin 1215-1245 Mon-Fri 9975 / 31 Mandarin 1330-1430 Mon-Fri 9975 / 31 Mandarin 1430-1500 Daily 9975 / 31 Nosu Yi 1200-1215 Daily 11580 / 25 To Korea Korean 1345-1500 Mon-Fri 11580 / 25 Korean 1345-1430 Sun 11580 / 25 Korean 1345-1445 Sat 11580 / 25 To South Asia English 1400-1435 Su,We,Sa 15225 / 19 English 1400-1425 Mo,Tu,Th,Fr 15225 / 19 To South Pacific English 1000-1018 Mon-Fri 11840 / 25 English 1000-1030 Sat 11840 / 25 To SE Asia English 0850-0930 Mon-Fri 15200 / 19 To Indonesia Balinese 0930-1000 Sat 15200 / 19 Balinese 0930-0945 Sun 15200 / 19 Madurese 0930-1000 Mon-Fri 15200 / 19 Indonesian 1000-1030 Sun-Fri 15200 / 19 Javanese 1000-1030 Sat 15200 / 19 Sundanese 1030-1100 Daily 15200 / 19 To Myanmar Burmese 1200-1245 Mon-Thu 15390 / 19 Burmese 1200-1300 Fri-Sun 15390 / 19 Sgaw Karen 1300-1330 Daily 15390 / 19 To Vietnam Vietnamese 1245-1330 Sun-Fri 15550 / 19 Vietnamese 1245-1345 Sat 15550 / 19 To South Asia Kokborok 1230-1300 Mon-Fri 15240 / 19 Kokborok 1245-1300 Sun 15240 / 19 Mus/Beng 1230-1245 Sat-Sun 15240 / 19 Santhali 1300-1315 Daily 15240 / 19 Santhali 1315-1330 Sun 15240 / 19 Assamese 1315-1345 Sun-Fri 15265 / 19 Manipuri 1330-1345 Sun 15240 / 19 Trans World Radio - Guam P.O Box 8780, Agat, Guam 96928 USA (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, dxldyg via DXLD) Where would we be without all these stations` schedules telling us which meterband each frequency is on?? (gh, DXLD) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, Radio Verdad, *0952-1015, Oct 26, sign on with 6 note IS on electronic keyboard. Long choral National Anthem at 0955:40. Opening multi-lingual ID announcements at 1001. Spanish talk at 1004. Religious music at 1010. Fair signal at sign on but quickly deteriorated into a high noise level (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) 4055, Radio Verdad, 1023 religious choral music, FM quality as local signal 26 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUIANA FRENCH. 11995, Oct 25 at 0515, characteristic carrier with hum is still/again audible, but very poor strength tonight at first seemed missing till it faded up a bit. 11995, Oct 27 at 0438, JBA carrier presumed from Montsinéry. Weaker lately, maybe propagation, or could they have reduced power to waste less than 500 kW? 11995, Nov 1 at 0513, no carrier with hum detectable; seems I have not been hearing it since B-12 began, tho the original 02-03 relay of Taiwan in Spanish is still there. 11740 was propagating OK with the new R. Japan relay in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CANADA [and non]; JAPAN [non]; KOREA SOUTH [non] ** GUINEA. Hi DXers, I have two updates for the excellent BDXC "Africa on Shortwave": [see also RWANDA] Radio Familia (ex-4900 kHz & FM) ceased operations in February 2011 after a dispute between manager and director. The 1 kW transmitter still is inside the country, but will not be reactivated there. There are plans for shipping it to a neighbouring country, but nothing definite yet. This according to direct communications with the former management of Radio Familia. 73 and many thanks to Tony Rogers for compiling "Africa on Shortwave" (Harald Kuhl, Germany, Oct 26, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) 'Africa on Shortwave' is on the BDXC website http://www.bdxc.org.uk/ - on home page click on 'Articles Index' (BDXC-UK yg moderator, ibid.) ** HONG KONG. 8828-USB, Cape d'Aguilar, 1045 weather on 26 October; 1116 with weather report 27 October. Reminiscent of the boat race broadcasts years ago (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, and XM - Cedar Key - South Florida, NRD 525D - R8A -E-5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. I&B MINISTER AMBIKA SONI RESIGNS By exchange4media News Service Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 Minister for Information & Broadcasting Ambika Soni has resigned on October 27 after meeting Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh in the morning. She has said that she will continue to work for the Congress party. The development comes just four days ahead of the digitisation deadline on October 31. It remains to be seen who gets the Information & Broadcasting portfolio in the Cabinet reshuffle scheduled for October 28 and how it will impact the digitisation process. http://www.exchange 4media.com/48549_ib-minister-ambika-soni-resigns.html (via Alokesh Gupta, Oct 26, dx_india yg via DXLD) MANISH TEWARI IS NEW I & B MINISTER http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k12/oct/oct286.php NEW DELHI: Manish Tewari, until now national spokesperson for the Congress party, has become the new Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Minister as Minister of State with independent charge. The new I&B Minister will hardly have time to settle down as the four metros of India move nearer to the digitisation deadline of 31 October. Tewari will have to be firm as several local cable operators have sounded a possible law and order problem with a large number of consumer homes still not having digital set top boxes (STBs). They have been asking for an extension of the deadline but the government has resisted claiming that the STB penetration has touched as high as 85 per cent, a figure various industry experts have found hard to digest (via Alokesh Gupta, Oct 29, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. 4850, AIR-Kohima, Oct 30 1221-1309, 35333 Hindi, Talk and music, ID at 1302, (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, My RX and ANT: IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) AIR SHIMLA CHANGING TO 4860 FROM TOMORROW --- Hello friends, AIR Shimla 50 kW tx was noted testing last night (26 Oct 12) on 4860 at around 1800 to 1828 UT. Fair signal noted at my location. 4860 will replace their morning/evening/night time frequency of 4965 kHz from tomorrow (starting of B 12 season). The sked is 0025- 0200 1235v-1730(Sat, Sun 1741). Look out on 4860 for tests today 27 Oct 12 also at around 1745 to 1830. Reports may be sent to Mr. Sunil Bhatia, Director (Engineering) at the following email: shimla @ air.org.in Full data verification letters will be sent by post. Mr. Sunil Bhatia also welcomes listeners to visit his station and other stations in Himachal Pradesh, North India and offers free guest house facility. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India Mobile: +91 94416 96043, http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos dx_india yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DXLD; also via Ron Howard dxldyg via DXLD) Why move? To get away from AIR Shillong 4970, I suppose. Why were they ever assigned 5 kHz apart in the first place? (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DXLD) Oct 27 at 1427 heard 4965 with AIR news; 1430 ad; subcontinent music. Nothing on 4860. An excellent time period today for reception from India. Could not hear anything on 4760 from AIR Port Blair. As usual AIR Kohima on 4850 still off the air. Most of the usual AIR stations heard, with AIR Aizawl almost as strong as BBR/China on 5050 (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) AIR Shimla is on as reported from the morning of the 28th but Modulation is barely giving any audio. Right now at 1330 Kohima is on 4850 and Shimla very weak audio but stronger carrier than 4835 Gangtok, which has readable audio. – (G. Victor A. Goonetilleke 4S7VK, "Shangri-la"' 298 Madapatha Road, Piliyandala. Sri Lanka, Oct 29, dxldyg via DXLD) And Shimla frequency is? 4860, presumably (gh) 4850, AIR Kohima, 1333-1400*, Oct 29. Chanting/singing in vernacular; local IDs; 1340 to 1400 with news first in Hindi and repeated again in English (item about India Red Cross, meeting held in Kohima, etc.). Off the air yesterday. MP3 recording at https://www.box.com/s/xeyctmfrvjz4mol57ubh 4860, AIR Shimla (presumed), on both Oct 28 and 29 only able to hear a decent signal with open carrier; never any audio coming through; ex 4965. With such a nice signal strength, hope they can boost the modulation. Oct 28 noted the open carrier at tune in at 1303. [WORLD OF RADIO 1641] 4970, AIR Shillong, 1435, Oct 29. Sports news in English (cricket news, India wins the world billiards championship, youth record set at Lucknow with disc hurled 49.51m, etc.); local ID. https://www.box.com/s/h5ytzuztts7c3wmciqqi contains an MP3 recording. 4990, AIR Itanagar, 1230-1332*, Oct 29. Many local IDs; news; subcontinent music; later heard on air again but only with open carrier. Oct 28, after the news in English, 1425*. This past week they have been doing well here! MP3 audio at https://www.box.com/s/9s6iz0m3dp1bq9mt07x0 5050, AIR Aizawl, 1531, Oct 29. Relay of the New Delhi news in English; mixing badly with equal strength BBR/China (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also KASHMIR: 4660 4850, AIR Kohima, 1148-1600*, Oct 30. Currently my favorite station; today with the longest broadcast I have heard from them (normally off about 1400) and one of their better receptions. Segments in vernacular, Hindi and English; often fair. Unusual to find them broadcasting for two consecutive days. Highlights: 1148-1200: Religious sounding songs. 1200: ID and news in Hindi and back to songs. 1231: ID; program about the “New and Renewable Energy Department”. 1300-1304: Today’s and tomorrow’s program schedule; first in Hindi and repeated again in English. 1304-1315: local singers; “Well listeners, in our local talent program . .”; “This is All India Radio Kohima”. 1315-1330: In vernacular(?) with drama and information about HIV/AIDS/SDS and condom use; sponsored by the “Nagaland State AIDS Society”. MP3 audio at https://www.box.com/s/49j0nrgy2mi879ej988g . 1340-1400: News in Hindi, followed by repeat in English (items about solar and wind power, the cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, voter registration, etc.). 1400-1440: YL DJ in English playing pop songs and reading dedications for her “Especially For You” music show; mostly dedications from listeners in Kohima; one dedication for “clean election next week” in Kohima, “free from corruption”; dedication for the students at the Government High School in Kohima. MP3 audio at https://www.box.com/s/0alzm80hskkykgsphath 1440-1450: Talk in English about “World Savings Day or World Thrift Day”; was established back on October 31, 1924. In India, World Thrift Day had been celebrated on October 31, but after the death of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on the same day in 1984, it is since celebrated on October 30. Clear reception! MP3 audio at https://www.box.com/s/brlse729zhu97884jtz0 1450-1513: Subcontinent music. 1513: Starts carrying the audio feed from Delhi with ads followed by news in Hindi at 1515 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4990, AIR Itanagar, 1406, Oct 26. Much better than normal reception; ad in Hindi; sports news in English (item about Serena Williams, etc.); 1410 subcontinent music; 1415 to 1425 news first in Hindi and then in English; recently they have often signed off at 1425, but today still going after 1502. My local sunrise was at 1425 UT (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Alinco DX-R8T and Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AIR EMERGENCY BROADCASTS NOTED LAST NIGHT The following AIR stations of Andhra Pradesh was noted with special emergency broadcasts continously throughout last night with information the cyclone active in the area. Hyderabad 738 kHz (200 kW), 4800 (50 kW), Visakhapatnam 927 kHz (100 kW) Seperate programs were broadcast by these stations which included lot of music programs. If the situtation demands, they will operate tonight also. A report on the cyclone is as follows: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/cyclone-alert-in-tamil-nadu-andhra-schools-closed/1/226797.html Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, Oct 29, dx_india yg via DXLD) AIR Emergency broadcasts tonight also --- According to announcements monitored just now on AIR Hyderabad, tonight also they will be on air continously with emergency broadcasts in view of the cyclone "Neelam" in the area. So look out on the following frequencies: Hyderabad 738 kHz (200 kW), 4800 (50 kW); Visakhapatnam 927 kHz (100 kW) More details on cyclone "Neelam" at: http://www.imd.gov.in/section/nhac/dynamic/cyclone.htm Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, Oct 30, ibid.) Dear DX-friends, Thanks to Jose Jacob, I have been able this evening (European time!) to hear All India Radio, Hyderabad on 4800 kHz with excellent reception during its emergency broadcasts due to cyclone "Neelam". I heard it from 1855 till 2220 UT mostly with sad Indian songs. At 1930 there was ID: "... Akashvani.." , a jingle and news in presumed Telegu. At 1934 another jingle, announcement and more songs with talk in between by the female singer. SINPO was 45344 until China on 4800 kHz signed on at *1955, after which the SINPO was reduced to 43343. I hope the damages in Andra Pradesh were limited! Best 73, (Anker Petersen, Denmark, Oct 30, ibid.) AIR Chennai 7270 off air --- Cyclone Nilam active in Chennai area now. AIR Chennai not heard on 7270 now 1045 UT. Latest info on Cyclone Nilam at: http://www.imd.gov.in/section/nhac/dynamic/cyclone.htm Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, Oct 31, ibid.) Half an hour back, AIR Chennai noted sign on at 1200 UT on 4920 & 720 with special newscast on cyclone in Tamil. Their External service on 7270 still off air. Sked on 7270 (100 kW) beamed to Sri Lanka from AIR Chennai is: 0000-0045 Tamil, 0045-0115 Sinhala Lanka, 0130-0430 HS 1000-1100 English, 1115-1215 Tamil, 1300-1500 Sinhala. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, Oct 31, ibid.) AIR Chennai running on Generators now --- Information from AIR Chennai is that their Home Service channels 720, 783, 1017 & 4920 are now running on Diesel Generators due to interruption of normal power supply cut due to cyclone Nilam which is hitting the area now. The 100 kW SW transmitter on 7270 used for External Service to Sri Lanka is off air as no generator is available for it. According to reports from Amateur Radio friends in Chennai, normal power supply has been interrupted in Chennai city due to cyclone. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, 1454 UT Oct 31, dx_india yg via DXLD) AIR Chennai back on 7270 today --- AIR Chennai 100 W tx is noted back on 7270 this morning after being off year last evening & night due to cyclone Nilam. Last night only one station was noted with continuous emergency broadcast, viz.: AIR Vijayawada located not far off from cyclone area was noted on 837 kHz (100 kW) continuously last night with emergency broadcasts about the cyclone. Their signals were very weak at my location. According to information from the station, they operated on the previous night also similarly. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, 0015 UT Nov 1, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. Excellent article on AIR Guwahati, thanks to Rupam Sarma for the link: Aakashbani Guwahati : Nibha Rani Rai http://enajori.com/this-is-all-india-radio-guwahati-nibha-rani-rai/ Follow the links at the bottom of the article for 3 more articles on AIR in Assamese. --- (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. 9704.97, AIR, 2257-2310, Oct 26, looking for Niger but hear India instead. Tune-in to local music. English programming with ID at 2300 and news. Weak but readable (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** INDIA [and non]. 11711, RAE has heavy noise QRM, Oct 26 at 0125 but unlike last night, this time it`s really coming from DRM centred on 11715, which must be India`s Nepali service. (Wow, Nepal must be a really modern country full of DRM receivers!!), as scheduled in Aoki: 11715 ALL INDIA RADIO(DRM) 0130-0230 1234567 Nepali(Digital) 250 124 Delhi (Khampur) IND 07709E2850N AIR a12 Strangely enough, HFCC has this transmission starting at 0115 but claims it is not in DRM. 124 degrees is a bit too far south as Nepal is east of Delhi. 95 degrees would be about right (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11710-11715-11720, Oct 27 at 0132, DRM noise from AIR Nepali service is blasting in, should decode way over here amid the opposite worldside, and QRMs RAE Argentina 11711 analog in Japanese. They should vary to 11709 instead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AIR B12 - HFCC VERSION: http://hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=B12&broadc=AIR --- (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, dx_india yg via DXLD) And does it show 15045 instead of 15040? Not at all (gh, DXLD) 15045, Oct 25 at 1257, very poor carrier, just barely modulated. Suspected to be AIR Delhi/Khampur Burmese service up from now vacant but listed 15040. On second radio I compare to very poor but slightly better signal on listed // 11620, and by 1301 conclude that they are a match. Fortunately the 15040-15045-15050 DRM was late to cut on after *1303. So AIR is QRMing itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15040, Oct 31 at 1300, weak carrier here instead of 15045, so Delhi- Khampur has finally put the AIR Burmese service back on proper frequency, and again far enough away from the *1300 DRM on 15050. But it may not be far enough away in the targets (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The AIR Burmese Service noted on 15045 via Delhi at 1215 to 1315 for many weeks now has changed to their normal channel of 15040 from today. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, 1454 UT Oct 31, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. All India Radio External Service B-12 Changes from 27 Oct 2012 UTC Language kHz 0215-0300 Telugu 13605 (ex 11985) B 0315-0415 Hindi DRM 17715 (ex 15185) 0400-0430 Persian 11670 A (ex 17845) 0430-0530 Arabic 11670 A (ex 17845) 0530-0600 Urdu Hajj Service 11670 A (ex 17845) 1000-1100 English 13605 (ex 17800) B 1000-1100 English 15030 A (ex 15020 P) 1115-1215 Tamil 17510 (ex 17860) 1145-1315 Chinese 13605 (ex 17705) B 1330-1500 English Add 9690 B 1515-1600 Gujarati 13640 (ex 13645) B 1615-1730 Persian 13640 B 1615-1730 Hindi 9445 Kh (ex 15120) 1615-1730 Hindi 13605 B 1945-2030 French 11710 (ex 9445) Kh 1745-1945 English 17670 (ex 7400, 9415) Kh 2045-2230 English 11740 P (ex 11715) 2245-0045 English 9690 B Home Service AIR Shimla 4860 (ex 4965) A=Aligarh B=Bengaluru Kh=Delhi Khampur P=Panaji [Goa] Special thanks to Alokesh Gupta. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS. National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, dx_india yg via DXLD) Some more changes of AIR External Service B-12 as follows: 1115-1200 Thai 11670 (ex 17740) B 1315-1415 Dari 11670 P 1415-1530 Pushtu 11670 P 1430-1930 Urdu 6155 B 1615-1730 Hindi 7250 P 1615-1730 Hindi 13605 (ex 7410) B 1615-1730 Persian 13640 B (ex 7250 P) 2245-0045 English 11710 Kh (ex 11670) 2245-0045 English 9690 B (ex 9950) AIR Home Service: AIR Shimla changed to 4860 from 4965 today morning noted at 0025.Last night they tested on 4860 at around 1735 -1740 only. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, ibid.) ** INDIA [non]. UZBEKISTAN, B-12 for CVC The Voice Asia via TAC=Tashkent: Hindi to India 0000-0400 on 6260 TAC 100 kW / 153 deg 0400-1100 on 13630 TAC 100 kW / 153 deg 1100-1400 on 9500 TAC 100 kW / 153 deg 1400-2000 on 6260 TAC 100 kW / 153 deg Hindi to South Asia 0100-0400 on 9975 TAC 100 kW / 186 deg (DX Re Mix News, Bulgaria, 01 November via DXLD) ** INDIA [non]. TRANS WORLD RADIO INDIA BROADCAST SCHEDULE FOR B12 LOC FREQ START STOP CIRAF PWR AZI SLEW ANT DAYS LANGUAGE IRK 11965 0030 0045 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 123456 BENGALI IRK 11965 0045 0115 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 1 HINDI IRK 11965 0045 0115 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 23456 BHOJPURI IRK 11965 0045 0115 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 7 NEPALI IRK 11965 0115 0130 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 1234 DZONKHA TAC 7505 1315 1330 41 100 131+10 0 2/4/0.5 23456 DOGRI TAC 7505 1315 1430 41 100 131+10 0 2/4/0.5 1 7 HINDI TAC 7505 1330 1400 41 100 131+10 0 2/4/0.5 23456 HINDI TAC 7505 1400 1415 41 100 131+10 0 2/4/0.5 2 456 HINDI TAC 7505 1400 1415 41 100 131+10 0 2/4/0.5 3 AWADHI TAC 7505 1415 1430 41 100 131+10 0 2/4/0.5 23456 GARHWALI TAC 7505 1430 1445 41 100 131+10 0 2/4/0.5 1234567 HINDI TAC 7505 1445 1515 41 100 131+10 0 2/4/0.5 1 PUNJABI TAC 7505 1445 1515 41 100 131+10 0 2/4/0.5 234567 HINDI TAC 7505 1515 1545 41 100 131+10 0 2/4/0.5 1 7 PUNJABI TAC 7505 1515 1615 41 100 131+10 0 2/4/0.5 23456 PUNJABI IRK 5930 1245 1300 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 1 SANTHALI IRK 5930 1245 1300 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 7 KUI IRK 5930 1300 1315 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 1 KUMAONI IRK 5930 1300 1315 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 7 HO IRK 5930 1315 1330 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 123 MARWARI IRK 5930 1315 1330 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 45 MEWADI IRK 5930 1315 1330 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 6 BRAJ BHASHA IRK 5930 1315 1330 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 7 BENGALI IRK 5930 1330 1345 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 1 BONDO IRK 5930 1330 1345 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 23 MAITHILI IRK 5930 1330 1345 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 4 KASHMIRI IRK 5930 1330 1345 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 5 TIBETAN IRK 5930 1330 1345 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 6 HARYANVI IRK 5930 1330 1345 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 7 GARHWALI IRK 5930 1345 1400 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 1 KURUKH IRK 5930 1345 1415 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 23456 MAITHILI IRK 5930 1345 1415 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 7 BUNDELI IRK 5930 1400 1415 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 1 KHARIA IRK 5930 1415 1430 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 12 MAGHI IRK 5930 1415 1430 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 34 MUNDARI IRK 5930 1415 1430 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 567 KURUKH IRK 5930 1430 1445 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 1 7 SADARI IRK 5930 1430 1500 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 23456 SINDHI IRK 5930 1445 1500 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 1 7 CHODRI IRK 5930 1500 1515 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 1 7 BHILI IRK 5930 1500 1515 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 234 GAMITH IRK 5930 1500 1515 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 56 VASAVI IRK 5930 1515 1530 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 23 MOUCHI IRK 5930 1515 1530 41 250 224 0 4/4/1 45 DHODIA SAM 6115 1500 1530 41 250 140 0 2/4/1 1234567 URDU SAM 7285 1600 1615 40 250 140 0 2/4/1 1234567 PASHTO SAM 7285 1615 1630 40 250 140 0 2/4/1 23456 PASHTO SAM 7285 1615 1630 40 250 140 0 2/4/1 7 DARI IRK - Irkutsk RUS 52N18 104E18 TAC - Tashkent UZB 41N19 069E17 SAM - Samara RUS 53N20 050E10 Submit reports at : http://www.twr.in/technical_info.htm OR info at twr dot in -- (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, Oct 27, dxldyg via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 4749.9, RRI Makassar, Sulawesi; 1218 Oct 24, presumably the one here with fair carrier but barely detectable audio (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4749.95, RRI Makassar, 0950 to 1110 with music, good audio, 26 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525.9, Voice of Indonesia, Jakarta-Cimanggis; 1120 Oct 24, assumed the one here doing a Marcel Marceau act with open or barely modulated carrier at good level (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9525.91, heard 1059-1103 making the transition from English to Chinese. Modulation seemed to be at a decent level, with snatches of the English readable, even though overall it does not seem to be a great morning from SE Asia into ECNA. Oct. 26 (Art Delibert, N. Bethesda, MD, NRD 535D and Sherwood SE-3, Pennant antenna with DX Engineering amp, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 9526-, Oct 26 at 1326, VOI English but as always very undermodulated, with hum, heavy flutter. All I can make out is something about ``25 km from the city`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9525.9, V of Indonesia, Cimanggis, 1754-1851, 27/10, Castilian (dreadful), songs, frequency & address announcement; German (also dreadful) program at 1801, news, infos., traditional & pop music from Indonesia; 55433, the audio should be improved. In both languages, the frequency announcement mentioned "9525, 11785 & 15150", but no signal from RRI besides 9525.9. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 9526-, Oct 28 at 1330 not even a carrier where VOI English had been active for a couple weeks; now if it comes back, has heavy ACI from 9530 VOA Chinese via Philippines and jamming. 9526-, Oct 29 at 1242, VOI missing for the second day, no carrier at all vs China radio war on 9530. Atsunori Ishida shows nothing heard today or since the start of the 1200 Japanese broadcast Oct 28. 9526-, Oct 31 at 1338, still zero signal from VOI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM/PERU. Glenn, Has anyone sent you a report of Radio Cajamarca Viva (Cajamarca, Bambamarca, Peru) on 268.440 MHz, an "accidental" relay likely coming from satellite UFO 6 at 105.5w? Getting this on an R-7000. If not - I can write up a little report. (Jay Novello, Wake Forest NC, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Jay, no, please do. Sounds like an interesting novelty (gh, ibid.) Glenn, OK, will do, It's been there for at least a month, and likely significantly longer. For the moment, here's a 77 minute time capsule: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5146413/RadioCajamarcaViva-268440-20121025-1815.mp3 73 (Jay Novello, ibid.) Radio Cajamarca Viva, Cajamarca, Bambamarca. 268.450 MHz NFM, October 25 at 2215 and every time checked since September 25, likely 24 hours. Entertaining listening; not many ads; plenty of IDs enthusiastically shouted over traditional and modern Peruvian songs, and also parallel to webstream at http://radiocajamarcaviva.com/ This is an "accidental" relay, likely on geostationary milsat UFO 6 at 105.5 west longitude, and probably leveraging the same technology Brazilian freebanders use on this and similar satellites to chat over long distances, plentiful in the 240-270 MHz UHF band. Strong and clear signal, only marred by some chirping (data?) on the same transponder. The Cajamarca Viva signal is centered at about 268.451 MHz, with the chirping just above (or perhaps underneath). Equipment used is an Icom R-7000 and Trivec Avant AV-2040-1 UHF satcom antenna. The antenna requires no precise aiming as with C- or Ku-band dishes; it only needs to be pointed in the general direction of the satellite. Also easily received using same antenna on a $19 Realtek RTL2832 E4000 DVB-T USB tuner and the free SDR# software. More info on this sort of reception can be found at http://uhf-satcom.com http://usa-satcom.com and http://www.crypto.com/misc/uhf-sats/ (Jay Novello, Wake Forest NC, Oct 27, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL WATERS [and non]. Hurricane update --- Interesting listening on the National Hurricane net. Good examples of message handling and reporting in general. Bob KE4JLL http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at3+shtml/?tswind120#contents http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at3+shtml/?tswind120#contents [Image of probabilities of tropical storm force winds] http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at3+shtml/?tswind120#contents (Bob Herrin, Athens Radio Club via Ira Elbert New III, GA, Oct 26, NRC-AM via DXLD) For those not close to an HF rig, you can go to http://www.hwn.org/ and listen online. (Todd KK4DNN, ibid.) Hurricane Sandy info is under U S A below ** INTERNATIONAL WATERS [non?]. Practical Wireless issues online/390 + Essex prosecution article There are six issues of Practical Wireless, earliest August 1964, latest August 1973, available for download on the Internet Archive. The editor W.N. Stevens was strongly against pirate radio. The April 1966 issue has an editorial "Law of the Jungle" ending with advice to the Postmaster General "Let him no longer tolerate the law of the jungle". The February 1967 edition editorial is entitled Troubled Waters and deals with the prosecutions of Radio 390 and Radio Essex. There is also a detailed 2 page account of the court cases, particularly 390's on page 740 and 741 of the same issue. In the Sinclair Radionics advert on page 379 of the August 1964 issue there's a report that T.F.C, Windsor among many others are picking up Caroline and Atlanta on their Micro-6 radios headlined Brings In Pirates! http://archive.org/search.php?query=%22practical%20wireless%22 (Mike Barraclough, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** IRAN. 936 QSL, and apologies to Rhode Island --- QSL received today from IRIB, Urumiyeh, Iran, 936 kHz. This was a broadcast heard OCT 7 2010, and I sent a follow-up in July of this year, along with one IRC. The large envelope was badly damaged, but bagged by the USPS along the way. In addition to the QSL (mis-dated OCT 7 2012) I received a 2012 calendar, two magazines, English language shortwave schedule, a Facebook invitation, and a hardcover edition of "The Life of Imam Khomeini". For those who need it, here is the return adddress information from the package label: Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting IRIB World Service Public Relations Tehran-I.R. of Iran Valiasr Ave. jam e jam St. P.O.BOX: 19395/6767 Fax (09821)22044287 E-mail: prworld@irib.ir Web site: http://www.worldservice.ir For those eager to friend IRIB, here is the Facebook address: http://www.facebook.com/IRIB-English-Radio This is Medium Wave Verified Country #58 (of 76 heard). As usual, I am still way behind Ben Dangerfield. My best hope now is that someone will invent some new countries so I can pad these totals and catch up with Ben! How about the People's Jamahiriya of Rhode Island? (Jim Renfrew, Holley NY, Oct 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) You could always split Rhode Island into Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and count it as 2 states, since technically the official name of the state includes both. Bill H. – (William R Hepburn (VEM3ONT22), Grimsby ON CAN 43 10 58.7 -79 33 34.1 wtfda-am via DXLD) ** IRAN. 9710, Oct 28 at 0415 Oct 28, V. of Justice on new B-12 frequency to NAm from 0330, fair here but very poor on // 11770 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) New frequency for Iran's "Voice of Justice" broadcast to North America --- Kor`an recitation heard at 0335 tune-in on 9710 kHz, followed by clear English ID for this broadcast, and then news. Good reception (Bruce Fisher (New York, USA), UT Oct 29, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9895, Oct 29 at 0238, music and YL narration, Farsi? 0239 into Qur`an, slightly distorted modulation. Can`t be Farsi, maybe Farsi-accented Arabic which is now scheduled 0230-0530 from IRIB, 500 kW, 289 degrees from Zahedan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 17650, Oct 29 at 1314, CRI French via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN, again in huge collision with signal of equal level in Arabic, mentions Amerikiyah, M&W talking, not VOA format; 1319 music is considerably distorted and with BFO the carrier is even unstable. Suspect IRIB, and searching for //s, none found on 19m, but bingo on 22m, 13750, except it`s running behind 17650 by about three seconds. I must have overlooked Iran line in HFCC B-12 for 17650, so certainly not VOA via Vatican, as speculated yesterday, but Zahedan, Kamalabad: 17650 0530 1430 38,39 ZAH 500 289 0 145 1234567 281012 300313 D ARABIC 13750 0830 1430 39 KAM 500 178 0 146 1234567 281012 300313 D ARABIC 17650, Oct 30 at 1328, VIRI Arabic with distorted Qur`an, way atop CRI French via EAST TURKISTAN. I imagine this collision is intolerable in the target areas of each (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. Tentative B-12 for The Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran (VOIROI / IRIB) ALBANIAN 0630-0727 13810kam 15500sir 1830-1927 6040sir 9605kam 2030-2127 6165sir 9605kam ARABIC 0230-0527 7350kam 9740kam 9895zah "Al-Quds TV" 0530-0827 13690kam 0530-1027 17820sir 0530-1427 17650zah 0830-1027 15400sir 0830-1427 13750kam 1030-1127 11925ahw 13725kam 1030-1627 17550kam 1430-1727 9515kam 1630-0227 6060zah 1730-2027 7285kam ARMENIAN 0300-0327 5915sir 7300sir 0930-0957 11820sir 15220sir 1630-1727 6090kam 7230sir AZERI 0330-0527 7335sir 1430-1657 12015zah BENGALI 1430-1527 7320kam 9630kam 11805kam 1630-1700 7335kam 9785kam BOSNIAN 0530-0627 15500kam 17560sir [Se-Cr] 1730-1827 6080sir 9850kam 2130-2227 5950sir 9710kam CHINESE 1200-1257 15150kam 15360sir 15525kam 17560sir 2330-0027 5915sir 6110sir 7325kam DARI 0300-0627 9570kam 11860ahw 0830-1157 15170kam 0830-1427 15300ahw 1200-1457 12085kam ENGLISH 0330-0427 9710kam 11770sir "Voice of Justice" 1030-1127 21575kam 21610kam 1530-1627 13785sir 15525kam 1930-2027 6040kam 7345sir 13670sir 15450kam FRENCH 0630-0727 17560kam 17865kam 1830-1927 6085kam 7380sir 13650kam GERMAN 0730-0827 17690kam 21500sir 1730-1827 6205sir 7420kam HAUSA 0600-0657 17810sir 1830-1927 9570kam 13730sir HEBREW 0430-0457 9755kam 11870sir 1200-1227 13740sir 15515kam HINDI 0200-0257 9510sir 11820sir 1430-1527 11700kam 13750sir ITALIAN 0630-0727 15085kam 17600sir 1930-1957 6085kam 7385sir JAPANESE 1330-1427 9540kam 9785sir 2100-2157 6145sir 7395sir KAZAKH 0130-0227 6040sir 7205sir 1530-1627 7380kam 9850sir KURDISH 0430-0527 7370kam 9610sir Sorrani dialect 1330-1627 5920kam Kirmanji dialect MALAY 1230-1327 15450kam 17715sir 2230-2327 9775kam 11800sir PASHTO 0230-0327 5950sir 6095kam {0730-0827 13720 15440 deleted in B-12, acc hfcc file} 1230-1327 7435sir 9725zah 1430-1527 5965-m Mashhad progr via Sirjan site. 1630-1727 6005sir 7345ahw RUSSIAN 0300-0327 9510sir 11925kam 0500-0527 12025kam 13680sir 17680sir 21600sir 1430-1527 7285kam 9685kam 11860sir 1700-1757 3965kam 5920ahw 1800-1857 6140kam 7350sir 1930-2027 4005kam 7205sir SPANISH 0030-0227 6010kam 7420kam 0230-0327 6010kam 0530-0627 15330sir 15550kam 2030-2127 6080kam 9630sir SWAHILI 0400-0457 13680sir 15260sir 0830-0927 21510kam 21640sir 1730-1827 9665kam 11830sir TAJIK 0100-0227 5950sir 7435kam 1600-1727 5995sir 7435kam TURKISH 0430-0557 6085kam 7270kam 1600-1727 6175kam 7315kam URDU 0130-0227 3965zah 6100kam 6185ahw 1300-1427 9715sir 11685kam 11720kam 1530-1727 5940-m Mashhad program via Sirjan site. UZBEK 0230-0257 6175kam 7300sir 1500-1557 5995kam 7395sir Saut Falestin -- "Voice of Islamic Palestinian Revolution" ARABIC 0330-0427 7295kam 9500sir IRIB German service site shows still the summer schedule. IRIB Russian, I note the present B-12 winter time schedule IRIB Spanish, website has wrong link and huge worldwide Satellite Network on various satellites (IRIB via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26 via DXLD) ** IRELAND. Hi Glenn! Some WPAS Logs from the weekend: 27/10 [Saturday] 27605 kHz Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Newcaslte West, Co. Limerick, 1100 UT, funeral mass 27725 kHz St. Patrick´s Church, Fermoy, Co. Cork, 1128 UT, funeral mass 28/10 [Sunday] 27601 kHz UNID city of Limerick or nearby 1119 UT 27601 kHz UNID Diocese of Kerry or Diocese of Waterford & Lismore ("Benedict our pope and William our bishop") 1223 UT 27605 kHz St. Mary´s Church Ballyheigue, Co. Kerry 0945 & 1100 UT 27651 kHz Church of Most Holy Rosary Midleton, Co. Cork 1033 UT 27711 kHz UNID 1011 UT, might be a chance to identify 27735 kHz St. John the Baptist Croagh, Co. Limerick 1132 UT 27765 kHz St. Muchin´s Church Rockhill, Co. Limerick 1144 UT 27791 kHz St. John the Baptist Kinsale, Co. Cork 1220 UT 27811 kHz UNID 1035 UTC, might be a chance to identify 27941 kHz UNID Diocese of Dromore 1103 UT (where was Bishop John McAreavy today?) [Later Oct 29:] Info from the Diocesan secretary: St. Patrick´s Church in Mayobridge, Co. Down. Mass for the 150th anniversary of the church. My frequency list updated Oct 27th, 2012 can be found at http://www.udxf.nl/ute-info.html 73, (Patrick Robic, Austria, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. [A-DX] Log: 10341, UNID, 1910 UT --- Hallo Liste, wer macht denn da aktuell auf 10341 kHz Radioprogramm in Hebräisch, testet womöglich Galei Zalal neue QRGs (nachdem auf 6885 nichts zu hören ist)? Hier O=3 (Christian Reiber, Oct 27 A-DX via Robic via Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) Ja. Ist // zu Livestream von Galei Zahal. 73, (Patrick Robic, Oct 27, A-DX via Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DXLD) Galei Zahal on 10341 instead. \\ 15850 kHz. From A-DX ng 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) 10340.95, Galei Zahal, 2101-2140, Oct 27, New Frequency. ex-6885. Hebrew talk. Local pop ballads. Fair to good. Very weak // 15850. Thanks to Wolfgang Bueschel tip. 6884.97, Galei Zahal, 2115-2130, Oct 28, noted back close to 6885 after being heard yesterday on 10340.95. Hebrew talk. Lite instrumental music. Local pop ballads. // 15850 - both frequencies weak but readable. 6884.97 also heard Oct 29 at 0020-0030 with a good signal (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA, Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 10340.948, odd signal from Israel Army Radio Galei Zahal, S=9+10dB in Germany, but hit occasionally by ute STANAG signal next door 10345 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) O, time missing ** ITALY [non]. On this weekend, there will be two additional transmission slots for "Radio City" via Nexus / IRRS (via transmitter in Romania): Saturday, October 27, 2012, 0800-0900 UT, 9510 kHz Saturday, October 27, 2012, 1800-1900 UT, 7290 kHz Usually, "Radio City" is on the air on the 3rd Saturday of every month. The slots mentioned here are a one-off for a failed programme playout during the usual slot on October 20, 2012 (Thomas Völkner, Germany, Oct 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sorry, I did not get this on the dxldyg in time. People are welcome to join and post such timely info directly to the group (gh) ** ITALY [non]. ITALY/RUMANIA, 7190 [sic], Radio City via IRSS Milano, *1800-1815, 27-10, tuning music, identification in various languages: "Radio City, the station of the cars, Radio Ciudad, la estación de los coches, ...", comments in English, pop music. 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Probably typo for 7290 ** JAMAICA. 7029-LSB, Oct 27 at 0525, 6Y9X making rapid contest contacts including an HB9, mentions ``this frequency and 234`` meaning he (or cohort?) is also monitoring 7234. Jamaica was originally 6Y5 only; does the -9- signify something in particular? QRZ.com says he`s Paul J. Young, K1XM who uses 6Y9X during contests, but no specific location on the island given. At 0530 working VP5T in Turks & Caicos, also heard but 6Y9X had a hard time copying his call (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. Re JSWC specials Saturday Nov 3, DXLD 12-43: Those appear to be specially booked one-time-only transmissions, no connexion with NHK (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1640, DX LISTENING DIGEST) You are right Glenn! These are the one-time-only transmissions, brokered by Mr. Ludo Maes, Broadcast Belgium (Takahito Akabayashi, Japan, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 9595, JOZ3, R. Nikkei, Nagara, Chiba; 1210 Oct 23, Japanese discussion by two men; fair (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 6055, Oct 29 at 1231, formerly clear signal from R. Nikkei now has CCI! Despite being properly registered as 24 hours in HFCC by NHK on behalf of ``NSB``, the ChiCom have usurped the frequency 6055: 12-13, CNR Mongolian, 100 kW, 15 degrees from Beijing site; and also 14-15, CRI Khmer, 100 kW, 200 degrees from Nanning site. Take that, you island-grabbing enemy! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. Madagascar, 13730, NHK/Radio Japan, Swahili to East Africa via Talata-Volondry. Oct. 27 *1729-1759*. Noted with a variety program with local entertainment and hosted by male and female announcers, many mentions of NHK, and noted their website for correspondence, off in mid-sentence (Edward Kusalik, Alberta, Canada, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. At 0300 UT Oct 28: On 5960 TWO transmitters with NHK in Japanese, equally decent strength, audios about a second apart. Old Sackville A-12 and new Montsinery B-12 on at the same time? I suppose this will clear up in 24 hours. Also NHK Radio Japan interval signal looping endlessly on 11935, very poor signal, last gasp from Bonaire on wrong feed? NHK on 5960 around 0425, now just one signal, audio processing sounds like Sackville; presumably Montsinery closed at 0400. Nothing heard on 6195 at 0420 check, so appears NHK Spanish via Bonaire now gone. At 0500: NHK on new B-12 11740 Montsinery on early with IS, English opening announcement. Quickly switched over to 6110 and found NHK English via Sackville still on for the last time in A-12. However a check of 11740 after 0510 had NHK Spanish now on the frequency; did audio feed get changed by mistake early in the transmission? Down on 6195 found NHK Spanish on correct B-12 frequency. NHK schedule has this as "USA" relay; via WHRI? Nothing on 6080, which had been NHK Spanish via Bonaire for A-12, so it appears that this RNW facility is now officially history after 43 years on the air. Makes me feel a little old as I recall hearing the original test transmissions from the new Bonaire station in March, 1969. (Also recall the RNW relays via TWR Bonaire before that!) (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, UT Oct 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) NHK B-12 transition from A-12 is a royal mess: 5960, Oct 28 at 0210 has NHK music, extremely strong. This was supposed to switch from CANADA to GUIANA FRENCH, but has it? At 0221 there is a SAH and some CCI but can`t tell from what. 5960 remains on air past 0400, which was the old Sackville scheduling, while GUF in B- 12 is only until 0400. 11935, Oct 28 at 0210, JBA carrier, surely not NHK as now scheduled via GUIANA FRENCH instead of Bonaire; bothered even by runover Cuban jamming from 11930. However, at 0231, NHK World Radio Japan, Tokyo IDs in English and Japanese, and Sakura IS loop is playing over and over on 11935. Well, that`s a start. At 0239 still doing this, while 5960 is continuing with NHK programming. 11740, Oct 28 at 0459, NHK IS, only fair signal on GUF replacement for English on 6110 via Sackville; sign on and starts news at 0501 with earthquake in Queen Charlotte Islands, but at 0502:41 someone cuts the NHK feed from English to Spanish!! Now the news is about an agreement with Mozambique over natural gas. 0508 still in Spanish; then I check 6195, which is almost synchronized with 11740, Spanish news about death of composer Hans-Werner Henze. 6195 is the new relay via WHRI for NHK Spanish at 0500, (also at 0930), but NHK Spanish at 0400 on 6195 is via GUF, unchecked. While 11740 stays in wrong language Spanish, I check 6110 and find bigsig from Sackville is still on! in English, item about archery. 9770, Oct 28 at 0518, NHK English is also audible here, NF via FRANCE, ex-11970. 15190, Oct 28 at 1227, sufficient NHK English on NF via GUIANA FRENCH to replace 6120 Sackville: I set the alarm to check this just in time. But 6120 is also still on, at 1228 about one second ahead of 15190. HFCC B-12 has both 6120 and 15190 registered for GUF, but today 6120 must still be Sackville, slow to QRT itself. Off at 1230* without any RCI IS/ID, however. During the final minute at 1229, NHK announcer recites the entire NHK English schedule with new B-12 frequencies, NOT including 6120 at 12, but adding 11730, (which is via Uzbekistan). 11655, furthermore, supposed to end with A-12, is still on the air with NHK Japanese via Sackville, Oct 28 at 1404. 11925 is very poor vs R. Martí 11930, and 11695 is JBA at 1405, the new English frequencies at 1400, via Palau & Uzbekistan respectively. See also BONAIRE, CANADA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11740, GUF, NHK Radio Japan via Montsinery have got the wrong feed line the first day in B-12. Instead of scheduled English service heard the Spanish service at S=9+15db level, \\ Greenville relay 6195 kHz proper signal on S=9+25 dB level. NHK English heard instead at 0509 UT via 9770ISS and 17660UAE loud and clear. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I was also monitoring. It started out in English, then switched to Spanish a couple minutes in; as above (gh, DXLD) See CANADA [and non] Like last night, the NHK relays are still messed up by Sackville staying on the air despite new relays in place: 5960, Oct 29 at 0216, I can hear NHK Japanese twice, the echo much weaker about one second behind the first one, and still so at 0242. I think the first and stronger one is Sackville, mostly covering up the second, weaker and now correct one via Guiana French. But the other GUF frequency, 11935 at 0215 and still at 0242, which would be in the clear, is again only running the NHK IS and IDs over and over. If NHK feed gets to GUF for 5960, why not for 11935 too? 6110, NHK English is still going on very strong Sackville at 0505 check, also weaker // 11740 new via GUF manages to stay in English instead of Spanish tonight, and also audible via FRANCE on 9770. 6195, meanwhile at 0506 has NHK Spanish playing exactly the same liner heard a few sex earlier on 6110 during English news. This is via WHRI, unlike 0400 Spanish on 6195 via GUF. 11935, Oct 30 at 0239, after hearing the mess on 5960, see CANADA, what`s going on here? Still for another night playing nothing but the NHK IS and IDs in English in Japanese, while 5960 under Sackville appears to have NHK Japanese programming. How much longer will it take to get all this straightened out?? 11740, Oct 30 at 0508, NHK in correct English on new GUIANA FRENCH relay back to WNAm, replacing CANADA 6110, which is still on the air but without NHK. Altho significantly weaker than 6110, 11740 is very good, best yet, so we can only hope the winter night MUF from the tropix will hold up thru B12. NHK English also audible on weaker // 9770 via FRANCE. Steve Luce in Houston TX says 11740 came on two minutes late (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) GUF/NHK F__/NHK both 11740GUF and 9770ISS, En 0500-0530 S=8-9 into Germany, fine signal. 0500 UT Oct 30. 17660UAE at S=9+10 level increasing. Sidelobe of 6195 kHz RJ Spanish only S=4-5 at 0515 UT Oct 30, fluttery here in Germany, coming from HRI site Furman-South Carolina, USA. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11935, Oct 31 at 0243, NHK is programming Japanese at last, the first night they have attained this instead of continuous IS and IDs in English and Japanese. This is new GUIANA FRENCH relay scheduled at 0200-0400. And it is // synchronized 5960 under Sackville music fill. Since until now 5960 and 11935 were not both with NHK programming, there was some suspicion 11935 was still coming from almost-defunct BONAIRE. Now 5960 and 11935 are so close as to produce a `stereo` effect, as they fade independently (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CANADA NHK/Montsinery/Sackville mess continues --- The clash continues on 5960 during NA evenings: Montsinery with correct NHK Japanese programming between 0200 and 0400 October 30, but as Glenn also reported, Sackville is still on the frequency with music fill. At least they finally killed the NHK feed -- the music seems to be there just to confirm the audio circuit is active; no announcements, long pauses between songs. Montsinery signoff at 0400, leaving Sackville by itself. Transmitter finally off at 0459:10 as expected. Just had to check 6110 at 0500, and guess what -- Sackville powers back up at 0500:40 with the same music fill. Guess they don't care about the power bill. At least the 6175 ex-VOV transmitter is finally gone. Maybe all this won't be gone until CBCNQ finally goes silent after October 31? On correct NHK frequencies: 6195 had dead air when checked around 0410, but audio restored by 0420, so still issues at Montsinery. Forgot to check 11935 earlier. At 0500, NHK Spanish on 6195 via WHRI hit on time. However English on 11740 Montsinéry powered up two minutes late, but at least with the correct feed (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, 0518 UT Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) NHK at 0530 UT Oct 30: 11760 terrible mixture of both co-ch BBC WS En 11760 S=9+10dB 4-6, and NHK RJ Russian from Yamata underneath. Also RJ French 11730ISS in French S=8-9 in dead nearby zone - too close to Germany, 13840MDG only weak tiny S=3 French signal, azimuth is 295 degrees, only sidelobe into Germany though. 73 wb (Wolfgang Buschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5960, Nov 1 at 0223, NHK Japanese relay via new GUIANA FRENCH is finally in the clear, as Sackville has finally turned off the fill music and the transmitter which had collided with it every night since the end of A-12; somewhat stronger than // 11935 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [and non]. B-Version, corrected, thanks to Glenn Hauser NHK World - Radio Japan - B-12 winter season file 28 Oct 2012 - 30 March 2013 [ARMENIA/FRANCE/FRENCH GUIANA/GERMANY/LITHUANIA/MADAGASCAR/PALAU/ RUSSIA/SINGAPORE/TAJIKISTAN/UAE/U.K./USA/UZBEKISTAN] Arabic 0600-0630 NE/ME 11975iss 2000-2030 NE/ME MW1350yer Jenin 89.3 + 87.8 MHz Ramallah in Palestine. Bengali 1300-1345 swAS 12035sng 1500-1545 swAS 97.6 MHz Dhaka + 6 other cities in Bangla Desh. Burmese 1030-1100 seAS 11740sng 1430-1500 seAS 11740sng 2340-2400 seAS 13650 Chinese 0900-0930 AS 6090 1200-1230 AS 6090 1300-1330 AS/seAS 6190 1400-1430 AS 6190 1600-1630 seAS 9655 2230-2250 AS 9560 English 0500-0530 AF/EU 17660uae 0500-0530 NoWeAM 11740guf 0500-0530 SoAM 9770iss 1000-1030 OC/Hawaii 9625 1000-1030 seAS 11740sng 1100-1130 EUR 9760wof, Fridays only in DRM mode 1200-1230 NoEaAM 15190guf 1200-1230 seAS 11740sng 1300-1330 AS 11730uzb 1400-1430 seAS 11925pal {alternate 11705} 1400-1430 AS 11695uzb 1800-1830 EU/CeAF 15720mdg French 0530-0600 WeAF 11730iss 0530-0600 CeAF 13840mdg 2030-2100 WeAF 11850mdg Hindi 0130-0200 swAS 9785uzb 1430-1515 swAS 15720mdg Indonesian 0945-1030 seAS 6140sng 1315-1400 seAS 11925pal {alternate 11705} 1406-1451 INS 89.2 MHz Jakarta, + 34 other cities in Indonesia. 2300-2330 seAS 11665 Japanese 0200-0300 seAS 11860sng 0200-0400 Ce/SoAM 5960guf 0200-0400 SoAM 11935guf 0200-0500 AS 15195 0200-0500 ME/NE/NoAF 9620wer 0200-0500 WeAS 15325 0300-0500 seAS 17810 0700-0800 AS 6165 0800-0900 SoAM 5970guf 0800-1000 seAS 11740sng 0800-1000 We/CeAF 15290iss 0800-1700 AS 9750 0900-1500 seAS 11815 1500-1700 AF/swAS/SoAS 12045sng 1500-1700 EU/CeAF 17735iss 1700-1900 AF/NE/ME 15445wer 1700-1900 EU/SoAF 11945iss 1900-2200 NE/ME/NoAF 9670 2000-2100 OC 9625 2100-2200 AS 6075 2100-2400 CeAS/ME 11910 2200-2300 NoAF/NE/ME 9620wer 2200-2300 AS 11665 Korean 0915-0945 EaAS 9700 1130-1200 EaAS 6090 1230-1300 EaAS 6190 1330-1400 EaAS 6190 1430-1500 EaAS 6190 2209-2230 EaAS 9560 Persian 0400-0430 NE/ME 11730uzb 1430-1500 NE/ME 13725iss 88.0 MHz Kabul and Herat, Afghanistan. 1630-1700 NE/ME MW927tjk Portuguese 0900-0930 SoAM 6130guf 2130-2200 SoAM 11880guf Russian 0330-0400 EU MW738msk MW1386sit 0430-0500 EU 6115sit 0530-0600 EaAS 11760 0800-0830 EaAS 6165 1100-1130 AS 6090 1130-1200 EU 9760wof, Fridays only in DRM mode. 1600-1630 EU/ME MW738msk MW927tjk Spanish 0400-0430 SoAM 6195guf 0500-0530 Ce-SoAM 6195usa 0930-1000 Ce-SoAM 6195usa {alternate 6145} 0930-1000 Ce-SoAM 9795guf Swahili 0315-0400 EaAF 7395mdg 1729-1800 EaAF 13730mdg 1730-1800 EaAF Dar es Salaam 94.6 MHz + 22 other cities in Tanzania Thai 1130-1200 seAS 11740sng 1230-1300 seAs 11740sng 2259-2320 seAS 13650 Urdu 1515-1600 swAS 13870uae 1700-1745 swAS MW927tjk Vietnamese 1100-1130 seAS 11740sng 1300-1330 seAS 11740sng 2320-2340 seAS 13650 Relays: guf Montsinery, French Guiana iss Issoudun, France mdg Madagascar msk Moscow, Russia pal Palau, Pacific {HBN site} sit Sitkunai, Lithuania sng Kranji, Singapore tjk Dushanbe, Tajikistan uae Al Dhabbaya, UAE usa Furman, SC-USA {HRI site} uzb Tashkent, Uzbekistan wer Wertachtal, Germany wof Woofferton UK yer Gavar Yerevan, Armenia URL: (NHK Radio Japan, via Aleksandr Diadischev-UKR, updated and transformed by wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews corrected Oct 30 via DXLD) Link to NHK PDF file works correct today. http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/radio/shortwave/frequencies.pdf thanks again, vy73 (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KASHMIR. INDIA. 4660, AIR Leh (in the state of Jammu and Kashmir) (presumed), am still only hearing on open carrier here as of Oct 29; never any audio (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KAZAKHSTAN [non]. 15525, Oct 31 at 1335, assertive singing by OM, alternating with strumming; occasionally the strumming accompanies the singing; enjoying the music, trying to figure out the language: something `central` Asian. 1345 announcement mentions Kazakhstan --- but one thing for sure, it must be into rather than out of Kazakhstan, which has eliminated SWBC completely, even relays. More such singing and strumming follows, except now mostly by YL, and she is very rudely cut off in mid-note at 1358*. Uplooked later in HFCC, we find that it`s IBB in Kazakh, i.e. R. Liberty, 100 kW, 77 degrees from Lampertheim, GERMANY at ``1300-1400``. Make that -1358! Yet another station with total disconnect between studio and transmitter about when the transmission really ends (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 2850, North Korea, Korean Central Broadcasting, 1120 with good audio, band indicator, 22 October; 0925 voice ute on top of signal 26 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 13650, V. of Korea, Kujang. S/on in English at 1000, 6/10, with an ID and choral marching song. Seems they transmit at any time or frequency that suits them! (Dennis Allen, Milperra NSW (Icom R75, Realistic DX160, Longwire), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) 13760, V of Korea, 1400, 8/10, again here after week of silence on 9325, 12015, 15245 and maybe more. Technical problems? But their Home service on 6250, 6400, 9665, 11680 were on the air (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi ant 16 m 300 ohm ribbon cable), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD). 11710, Oct 25 at 1157, open carrier from VOK between broadcasts, except for bleedover noise from jamming transmitter next to it at Kujang. Not to be confused with louder noise from ARGENTINA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) B12 WINTER SCHEDULE OF THE VOICE OF KOREA, Pyongyang, DPR Korea (North) effective Sunday, 28 October 2012, 03:00 UTC Hello! On Sunday, 28 October 2012, 0300 UT, VOICE OF KOREA, the official external broadcasting service of the DPR Korea (North) from Pyongyang, introduced the B12 Winter schedule. There are a few changes to the B11 Winter schedule. According to the freq anns. completely new is the use of 6170 kHz at certain times, replacing 6185 & 6285 kHz simultaneously. VOICE OF KOREA are anxious to get reception reports and letters from their listeners. Please send them to VOICE OF KOREA PYONGYANG DPR KOREA (NORTH) eMail: VOK@star-co.net.kp (NEW!!!) introduced this Summer Internet: http://www.vok.rep.kp/CBC/english.php Some might incur difficulties in using the above eMail address as I was told by a few that it always bounces back as undeliverable. This may be the case as they seem to use a positive list. This is normal with North Korean eMail addresses. You have to be introduced by an already listed user. If you are not listed, your eMails will bounce. Mine never bounce as I have sent them my business card on several occasions stating my eMail address. However, using a different eMail address will not work then. ******* If you wish to play any of the files on their homepage with their own multi-media player (HMS Player) I advise CAUTION!!! My German anti-virus programme Avira reported the downloaded file as being infested with TR/Drop.Yraple.A. ******* The Korean programme Joson Jungang Pangsong (Korean Central Broadcasting Station - ??????) can also be found on the internet: http://175.45.176.14/krt/index.php or http://www.naenara.com.kp/krt/index.php Please ask if you wish to receive MS Word files with all my schedules for VOICE OF KOREA. I can, however, only provide them upon completing my monitoring. '73s, (OM Arnulf Piontek, Berlin, Oct 28, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello there! I have now completed editing my VOICE OF KOREA Word files and hope they are to your liking. I cannot provide accurate information on some of the frequencies (marked in red ?3250 and ?7580) simply because 3 of their external services frequencies are not active each hour. And the sw- announcements are not very clear. One remarkable fact is that they are now using new 6170 kHz simultaneously for different directions. Whereas this poses no problem for the 1000-1250 UT transmissions to SE Asia and Latin America because they air the same programming, they may cause self imposed interference to the 1300 and 1400 UT programmes to SE Asia and Europe because of different programming. Strange indeed. You may publish the schedules with due reference to me, of course. Happy listening and best regards, (Arnulf Piontek, Berlin, Germany, Oct 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Here is one of the four versions he sent, the one by language. All have been distributed to the DXLD yg (gh) Arabic 1500 9990 11545 Near & Middle East, North Africa 1700 9990 11545 Near & Middle East, North Africa Chinese 0300 13650 15100 Southeast Asia 0500 7220 9345 9730 Northeast China 0600 13650 15100 Southeast Asia 0800 7220 9345 Northeast China 1100 7220 9345 China 1300 6170 9850 Southeast Asia 2100 7235 9345 Northeast China 2100 9975 11535 China 2200 7235 9345 Northeast China 2200 9975 11535 China German 1600 6170 9325 Europe 1800 6170 9325 Europe 1900 6170 9325 Europe English 0400 7220 9345 9730 Northeast Asia 0400 11735 13760 15180 Central & South America 0500 13650 15100 Southeast Asia 0600 7220 9345 9730 Northeast Asia 1000 6170 9335 Central & South America 1000 6170 9850 Southeast Asia 1300 7570 12015 Western Europe 1300 9335 11710 North America 1500 7570 12015 Western Europe 1500 9335 11710 North America 1600 9990 11545 Near & Middle East, North Africa 1800 7570 12015 Western Europe 1900 7210 11910 Southern Africa 1900 9975 11535 Near & Middle East, North Africa 2100 7570 12015 Western Europe French 0400 13650 15100 Southeast Asia 0600 11735 13760 15180 Central & South America 1100 6170 9335 Central & South America 1100 6170 9850 Southeast Asia 1400 7570 12015 Western Europe 1400 9335 11710 North America 1600 7570 12015 Western Europe 1600 9335 11710 North America 1800 7210 11910 Southern Africa 1800 9975 11535 Near & Middle East, North Africa 2000 7570 12015 Western Europe Japanese 0700 621 ?3250 ?7580 9650 Japan 0800 621 ?3250 ?7580 9650 Japan 0900 621 ?3250 6070 ?7580 9650 Japan 1000 621 ?3250 6070 ?7580 9650 Japan 1100 621 ?3250 6070 ?7580 9650 Japan 1200 621 ?3250 6070 ?7580 9650 Japan 2100 621 ?3250 ?7580 9650 Japan 2200 621 ?3250 ?7580 9650 Japan 2300 621 ?3250 ?7580 9650 Japan Korean 0300 (PBS) 7220 9345 9730 Northeast China 0700 (PBS) 7220 9345 Northeast China 0900 (KCBS) 7220 9345 Northeast China 0900 (PBS) 13760 15245 Europe 0900 (PBS) 9975 11735 Far Eastern Russia 1000 (PBS) 7220 9345 Northeast China 1200 (KCBS) 6170 9335 Central & South America 1200 (KCBS) 6170 9850 Southeast Asia 1200 (PBS) 7220 9345 Northeast China 1300 (PBS) 6170 9325 Europe 1400 (KCBS) 6170 9850 Southeast Asia 1700 (KCBS) 7570 12015 Western Europe 1700 (KCBS) 9335 11710 North America 2000 (KCBS) 7210 11910 Southern Africa 2000 (KCBS) 6170 9325 Europe 2000 (KCBS) 9975 11535 Near & Middle East, North Africa 2300 (KCBS) 7235 9345 Northeast China 2300 (KCBS) 7570 12015 Western Europe 2300 (KCBS) 9975 11535 China Russian 0700 13760 15245 Europe 0700 9975 11735 Far Eastern Russia 0800 13760 15245 Europe 0800 9975 11735 Far Eastern Russia 1400 6170 9325 Europe 1500 6170 9325 Europe 1700 6170 9325 Europe Spanish 0300 11735 13760 15180 Central & South America 0500 11735 13760 15180 Central & South America 1900 7570 12015 Western Europe 2200 7570 12015 Western Europe (via DXLD) FYI --- NOTICE > We had WISPERING yesterday night on A-DX newsgroup of Christoph Ratzer. Only half of the INTERNATIONAL txs of VoKorea Pyongyang Kujang heard lately. Today 14 UT checked: today ONLY 1400- 1450 UT French 7570 11710, Korean 6185 and 9850 kHz. Installation of the Korean service new TX equipment from China took 10 months from May 2011 til March 2012, after training in China firm branch. Maybe Koreans bought some more new TXs again in China, and are at present under construction work at the station Kujang for the international service? 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) North Korean Shortwave Getting Stronger The North Korean authorities are in the process of replacing their existing shortwave radio transmitters, Daily NK has learned. The measure appears designed to both allow better broadcasts targeting South Korea and stop outside shortwave broadcasts entering. According to the Northeast Asian Broadcasting Institute (NABI), the authorities made their first move in March this year, replacing the shortwave transmission equipment at Kanggye Transmission Station in Jagang Province with modern equipment made by Beijing BBEF Electronics Group Co. Kanggye Transmission Station is one of three high output shortwave transmission facilities in North Korea, with the other two being at Pyongyang and in Gujang County, North Pyongan Province. More at ... http://tinyurl.com/8sbfaw5 --- (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, dxldyg via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH. 11680, KCBS, Kanggye; 2145 Oct 22, choral-orchestral music with brief announcements by man; very weak with polar flutter (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, Friday Oct 26 at 1336, Sea Breeze in English via JAPAN, YL with headlines and datelines from September about events concerning North Korea, stingers between them. So it`s now ``in season`` for us to hear this late, English on Fridays. Constant het on hi side from Myanmar, which my keyboard places at C6 = 1046 Hz, but it`s usually measured direct around 5985.8, such as 5985.812 by Wolfgang Büschel Oct 7; 5985.828 on Sept 24, 5985.808 on Sept 25. By Ralph Perry, 5985.86 on Oct. 6 5985, Oct 28 at 1336, no signal from Shiokaze via JAPAN, where it has been for a few weeks; maybe the poor signal on 5910 is its alternate replacement; not on 6135 either, just bonking. 5910, Oct 29 at 1330, piano theme and Shiokaze opening in Japanese, definitely here ex-5985 as presumed from yesterday; poor signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 5150, MND Radio, Chuncheon. Fair in Korean at 1015 on 16/10, Jammer present (John Adams, Beech Forest, Vic (JRC NRD-535 Ewe and Folded Dipole), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. KBS B12 Arabic 2000-2100 ME/Af 9840 (Dhabaya) Chinese 1130-1230 China 6095 1130-1230 seAs 9770 1300-1400 As 1170(MW), 7275 2200-2300 China 7275 2300-2400 seAs 9805 English 1 0200-0300 SAm 9580 0800-0900 seAs 9570 1200-1300 Nam 15575 1300-1400 seAs 9570 1600-1700 seAs 9640 1600-1700 Eu 9515 1800-1900 Eu 7275 English 2 1100-1130 Eu (Sat only) 9760 (DRM) 2200-2230 Eu 3955 (Skelton) English 3 0200-0300 seAs 9640 1230-1330 China 6095 1400-1500 seAs 9640 French 2000-2100 ME/Af 5950 (Issoudun) 2100-2200 Eu 3995 (Skelton) German 2000-2100 Eu 3955 (Skelton) Indonesian 1200-1300 seAs 9570 1400-1500 seAs 9570 2200-2300 seAs 9805 Japanese 0100-0200 Japan 9580 0200-0300 Japan 11810 0800-0900 Japan 6155, 7275 0900-1100 Japan 9805 1100-1300 NonDir 1170 (MW) Korean 1 0900-1100 As 7275 1000-1100 NonDir 1170 (MW) 1600-1800 ME/Af 9740 1600-1800 Eu 7275 1700-1900 Eu 9515 Korean 2 0300-0400 SAm 11810 0700-0800 Eu 6045 (Woofferton) 0900-1000 ME/Af 15160 0900-1100 seAs 9570 1000-1100 NonDir 1170 (MW) 1200-1300 As 7275 1400-1500 Nam 15575 Russian 1800-1900 Eu 7235 (Woofferton) 2030-2100 Moscow 738 (MW) Spanish 0100-0200 SAm 11810, 11635(Montsinery) 0200-0230 Nam 15575 0600-0700 Eu 6045 1100-1200 SAm 11795 Vietnamese 0100-0200 seAs 9690 1030-1130 seAs 9770 1500-1600 seAs 9640 --- (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, Oct 27, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DXLD) Glenn, Just a quick tip. KBS World Radio updated their schedule on their site. It's interesting they are using 15575 at 13 hours UT to North America. If it`s originating from Korea, then that's a terrible morning frequency. Should be around 9 MHz or 11 at most. 15 MHz would be good if traveling in daylight from point A to B. It'll be interesting to see. They are using Montsinery site in [French] Guyana for one of their South American broadcasts. http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/about/about_time.htm Regards, (Kevin O'Donovan, Farmington NM, Sent from my iPhone, Oct 27, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. 9650, Oct 27 at 1405, KBS World Radio in Korean via Sackville for the last time at this hour. And true to form, to the very end, they have done nothing to get rid of the constant clacking noise as fed from Seoul. Just in time, the KBSWR B-12 schedule has emerged, via Alokesh Gupta, showing both 9650 Sackville North American transmissions, Korean at 14-15 and English at 12-13 are being replaced by 15575 direct! Lots of luck, propagating that across the winter darkside. KBS is still boycotting HFCC, so who cares if both these collide with others in B- 12? 15575, 10-14, BBC English east from Cyprus; and 14-16, BSKSA Pashto NE from Riyadh. We might have better luck with KBS English to SE Asia off the back, on 9640 at 14, 16 and even 02, QRM permitting. At least we can expect the direct broadcasts to abolish the clacking once and for all. 15575, Oct 28 at 1244 checking for KBSWR direct replacement in English to NAm at 12-13 as on their new schedule, ex-9650 Sackville: JBA carrier, could be colliding station as previously outpointed. 15575 also sked for Korean at 14-15: nothing at 1403, aside Firedrake on 15570, so something is propagating from E Asia. 9650, however, is still on from Sackville, at 1407 check, VG signal, but only with tone test and clacking, no programming. More mixups 9560, Oct 29 at 0225, Sackville is still transmitting the KBS Spanish relay at 0200-0230, VG signal except there is nothing but tone disrupted by the clacking. B-12 HFCC shows TDF with KBS Spanish is now 0300-0400 on 15400 via GUIANA FRENCH, unchecked but KBS` own schedule at http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/about/about_time.htm shows instead 0100-0200 on 11635, not checked here yet. 11635, Oct 30 at 0110, KBS World Radio, Spanish relay confirmed at new time 01-02 and new frequency via GUIANA FRENCH, only fair signal here aimed toward S America. TDF thought it was going to be at 03-04 on 15400. No sign of that at 0332 check. Sackville may have turned off the ex-Vietnam frequency 6175, but the ex-Korea frequency 9560 is still on with tone and clacking, Oct 30 at 0228, i.e. ex-Spanish at 0200-0230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CANADA ** KURDISTAN [non]. It appears that Bijeljina/Jabanusa still transmits Denge Kurdistan on 11510. Had no time for any further observations so far (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11510, came across empty carrier at 0343 UT, S=9+15dB basic signal, then silent, started again with 1026 Hertz signal tones and at 0400 UT with Kurdish National Anthem played by brass band. 9940 Radio Miraya FM [for SUDAN] still on air, program in progress, compared to 11510 Kurdish station with muffled audio, seemingly total different{!!} TX centers in use. Only fluttery S=6 signal. (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ivo Ivanov had previously pinned these on Bijeljina, SERBIA; see BULGARIA (gh, DXLD) ** KUWAIT. SURPRISE from Radio Kuwait in the last day of summer season: 1000-1500 NF 13650*KBD 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic GS, ex 21540!!! * strong co-ch 11-13 CRI English via CER and 13-15 CRI Chinese via URU. Please check tommorow Sun Oct. 28, first day of new Winter B-12 season! 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 21540, Oct 28 at 1305, R. Kuwait is still on this unregistered frequency in B-12, Arabic music atop REE in Spanish. It looked promising on Oct 27, when Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria found RK on surprise 13650 at 10-15 instead of 21540, but it collided with others on 13650. In HFCC, RK continues to pretend it is on 21520 at 1005-1500, instead of 21540, meanwhile prolonging the totally unnecessary collision with Spain (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15515, R. Kuwait, Oct 30 0510-0535, 34433 Arabic, Talk and Arabic music, ID at 0517 (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, My RX and ANT: IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 9535, Oct 30 at 0512, mixture of Slavic and west Asian language, i.e. Tatar-Bashkir as now scheduled for R. Liberty, 250 kW, 355 degrees from Kuwait so rather USward too; replaces Algeria via France which was on 9535 this hour in A-12, moved to 5865 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KYRGYZSTAN. 5130, Hit SW/Maranatha Radio. 1556 close/down, 5/10, break and again on the air from 1601 in Tajik or Farsi(?), talks and songs – there is not the words “Hit shortwaves” or “Maranatha” in their ID as I heard. So there are two SW stations with the name Maranatha: from Kyrgyzstan and via WRNO on 7506 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi ant 16 m 300 ohm ribbon cable), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) See 12-43; as usual we have to piece together Rumen`s observations from several different sources (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** LAOS [non]. TAIWAN: 7530, Suab Xaa Moo Zoo via Taiwan Oct 30 *2230- 2241 35333 Hmong, 2230 sign on with opening music, Opening announce, Music and talk. 11570, Suab Xaa Moo Zoo via Taiwan, Oct 30 *1130-1137, 35333, Hmong, 1130 sign on with opening music, Opening announce, Music and talk (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, My RX and ANT: IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD- 525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MACEDONIA. 2430 harmonic, Macedonian Radio. 3rd harmonic from MW 810, 1745 and often, 5/10, native folk songs and talks in Macedonian, from 0900 FS in Bulgarian (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi ant 16 m 300 ohm ribbon cable), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) ** MALAYSIA. 5964.71, Oct 29 at 1234, het on lo side of CRI Korean on presumed 5965.00, at approximate D4-pitch note per my keyboard, which is 294 Hz. Yesterday was not hearing the het at all. Ron Howard says R. Klasik is normally on 5964.71 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, I happened to tune in to check Radio Klasik (Malaysia) on 5964.71 at 1234, only to find what you also heard. Like you I first thought it must be a Firedrake. Certainly sounded like FD. Went looking for a known FD frequency to confirm it was //, but instead found it was not //, which I thought strange. When I again went back to 5965 I heard Korean, so just like you I knew it was in fact not a Firedrake at all; just sounded very much like they would. BTW - CRI totally covers Radio Klasik with their very strong signal! Reception for me will now have to wait till after 1500 (Ron Howard, CA, Oct 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. 9635, RTVM, *0800-0830, Oct 26, sign on with flute IS followed by short announcement and into continuous local rustic tribal music at 0801. Vernacular talk at 0817 and back to more local music at 0818. Very weak modulation at sign on but became stronger after several minutes. But still an overall poor signal due to a high noise level (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** MEXICO. 540, Oct 25 at 1227, YL DJ with ID as ``La Ranchera de Paquimé``, i.e. per Cantú: 540 XETX La Ranchera de Paquimé + FM 90.5 Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chih. 1,000 250 As this little station again dominates the channel in just the right pre-sunrise conditions. What or where is Paquimé? It`s an archaeological zone around NCG; interesting illustrated article: http://www.desertusa.com/mag00/aug/stories/paquime.html So another DX log turns into a learning experience (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 540, Oct 26 at 0514, amid CCI I catch a mention in Spanish of ``90.5 FM`` from the west, i.e. it`s a match for XETX again, Cantú: 540 XETX La Ranchera de Paquimé + FM 90.5 Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chih. 1,000 250. The main CCI was C&W music, presumably KWMT Fort Dodge IA again with its resurgent night signal. On daytime groundwave, it`s under KDFT with a 1.5 Hz SAH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 570, Oct 30 at 0535 UT tune in, full ID at odd time from XEBJB with address, etc., mixing with C2C on presumed KLIF (which at mid-hour has a musical break, now ``Time After Time``). Per Cantú: 570 XEBJB Radio 570 Monterrey, N.L. 5,000 500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 710, Oct 31 at 1244 UT, 16 para las 6, TC on La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc, XEDP, so this part of Chihuahua is back on UT-7 since Oct 28 (while Juárez and other border areas keep UT-6 along with USA for another week). Usual dominant signal just before sunrise here, so can`t be sunrise yet there, nor can it be night power of 100 watts as in WRTH. Furthermore it`s hard to believe that day power is only 7000 watts; anyhow, it really gets out on skywave. Just before this, I heard a 720 station in Spanish talk programming auto-proclaim the time at 1240 UT as 6:40, so probably XEJCC in Ciudad Juárez, on the border and hostage to US DST dates (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 720, Oct 27 at 1250 UT, discussing and playing music of Guadalajara. Altho there are 2 or 3 other XEs I`ve heard on 720, I am tempted to pick this one from Cantú which is in Jalisco, and obviously musical: 720 XEQZ Ritmo 720 San Juan de los Lagos, Jal. 1,000 400. Guadalajara sunrise 1254, Enid SR right now, 1250 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 880, Oct 27 at 0513 UT from southwest, Spanish educational or at least so during PSAs about patrimonio cultural, hidografía, on to music, dominating frequency but SAH. It`s likely one of these three as heard before, per Cantú: 880 XEV Radio Fórmula + FM 101.7 Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 250 880 XETC Kiuu + FM 91.1 Torreón, Coah. 10,000 1,000 880 XEPNK Milenio Radio + FM 103.5 Los Mochis, Sin. 10,000 2,000 880, Oct 27 at 1225 UT, discussion about la guerra para la paz, Albert Einstein revealed he didn`t believe in god; mentions Coahuila, Torreón. Not necessarily the same one heard earlier, but now it`s surely XETC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, I enjoy your Mexican DX reports. What are you going to do when most of the Mexican AMers go to FM? (renton481, MWDX yg via DXLD) DX them on FM; And get some more sleep since FM DX occurs mostly in the summer in the daytime. Meanwhile, the getting is good on AM (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) See PUBLICATIONS: NEW IRCA MEXICAN LOG JUST PUBLISHED ** MEXICO. 6184.989, Tiny Mexican station XEPPM Radio Educación, 0434 UT Oct 26 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 6185, Oct 29 at 0546, ``Take 5`` on piccolo! from XEPPM. Tnx to central Mexico`s slightly more sensible termination of DST a week earlier than along the border and El Norte, R. Educación is now on the air one UT hour longer until 0600, and in the clear with nothing on 6180 or 6190, which is helpful since their modulation is under. I suppose it is also starting one hour later, 00 instead of 23 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONGOLIA. Getting Voice of Mongolia again with SIO 433. No Chinese interference with the start of B12 season on 12085 (Avijit Mondal, West Bengal, India. Receiver - Degen DE1103. Antenna - telescopic, 1042 UT Oct 28, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12085, Voice of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar; *1029 Oct 23, IS then English ID by woman; fair level but severe long-path echo hindered intelligibility (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO [and non]. 9579.12, Oct 25 at 0521, Médi Un in Arabic, big het with Africa No. Un in French on 9580.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9579.140, Radio Medi 1; S=9+35db powerhouse (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. Re SOMALILAND: And there was no carrier at all today from 7110 Myanmar`s very different transpolar path (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, You are correct, Myanmar on 7110 was off the air on Oct 26 during checks made starting at 1230 (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via DXLD) It appears that the transmitter complex in Pyin U Lwin is off the air since yesterday. Nothing heard on 6030, 7110, 9460 and 9590 as well as 7345 kHz. Defense Forces station on 5770 kHz has been off for at least a month or more. Myanmar Radio continues as usual though on 5915, 5985, 5985.68, also 7200 and 9730.85. Must be a power problem in Pyin U Lwin. – (G. Victor A. Goonetilleke 4S7VK, "Shangri-la"' 298 Madapatha Road, Piliyandala. Sri Lanka, ibid.) Hi Victor, Oct 27 had 7110 off the air just like yesterday. Also noted I was not hearing Myanmar on 7345 as usual. Their power supply is certainly a concern, per this: "JAPANESE INVESTORS WORRIED ABOUT POWER BLACKOUTS" http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/17440 "He cautioned that one of the major problems raised by potential investors is the shortage of electricity in the country. They were concerned about the effect of blackouts on business activity and the apparent need to install expensive alternatives such as diesel generators and whether there would be sufficient diesel fuel available when needed." (Ron Howard, ibid.) Thazin Radio off-air because of this major event? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20110150 BURMA ACKNOWLEDGES MASS BURNINGS IN RAKHINE UNREST There have been incidents of whole villages and parts of the towns being burnt down in Rakhine state," Thein Sein's spokesman told the BBC. I think Thazin is in Rakhine State and would explain why the transmitters at Yangon are still operational (Robin VK7RH Harwood, Norwood, Tasmania 7250, Oct 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 7110, as I mentioned in my yesterday`s report about SOMALILAND 7120, no signal from Thazin Radio, and still nothing Oct 27 around 1329. Ron Howard, California confirms it was off the air Oct 26. He and Victor Goonetilleke, Sri Lanka, also confirm this and other Pyin U Lwin frequencies were still missing today, perhaps due to power problems, which have been reported around the new capital. 5985.8, Oct 27 at 1334, G5-note het upon JSR Tokyo, Shiokaze in Korean this Saturday, which is presumably very close to proper 5985.00. It`s not exactly G5 = 784 Hz, but closer than Gb or G#, and so closer to its usual offset than yesterday from Yangon, still powered (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6030 back on air 0030-0130 but nothing from 7110 yet. Probably a power problem (Victor Goonetilleke, Sri Lanka, 0117 UT Oct 28, ibid.) 7110 kHz, Fair at 1100 UT (S. Hasegawa, Japan, Oct 28, ibid.) MYANMAR, 7110.0, 1123-1131, noted back on this morning, with everyone's favorite catchy tune, into piano music IS at 1129:30, and then female announcer. Fair signal 10/28/12. Waiting to see if Hurricane Sandy blows down all my antennas. Hoping at least that the support trees stay vertical this time! (Art Delibert, N. Bethesda, MD, NRD 535D Pennant antenna with DX Engineering amp, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Just got down from the roof rigging back my North/South 40m dipole I took off for the JOTA last week. Yes, 7110 back with the usual signal at 1145, also Thazin Radio normal level on 7345 also. So the two day power outage seems restored. I am sure the daytime 9460 and 9590 would have returned, like the 6030 in the morning to 0130. So business as usual, but 5770 is still off. 73, enjoy the new season! (Victor G., Sri Lanka, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7110, Oct 28 at 1227, Thazin Radio is back on after missing a couple of days due to civil strife and/or power outages; music audible at 1324 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7110, Thazin Radio, 1430, Oct 28. Returned after being off the air for two days; in English; pop songs; “It’s time for the local news”; international news; local weather; all in rapid-fire English that was hard to follow; QRM ham making noises. MP3 audio at https://www.box.com/s/psosg8x45xzefpfy0di7 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Greetings from Sri Lanka, my friend. Listening on a stormy rain drenched morning here in Sri Lanka with a cyclone blowing in the bay of Bengal. Myanmar back in full on all frequencies. 0430-0630 service on 9460 and 9590 back with nice music (Victor Goonetilleke, Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS. AFTER THEIR FINAL WEEK, 250 RADIO NETHERLANDS EMPLOYEES SAY GOODBYE WITH A "BORREL" Critical Distance Weblog By Jonathan Marks 27 October 2012 "This week was the final week for more than 250 employees at Radio Netherlands. They held a final 'borrel' (drinks reception) in the entrance hall of the building in the Witte Kruislaan 55, in Hilversum. A simple gathering without speeches, pomp and circumstance. Now after years of being open 24 hrs a day, the door closes on Holland's external broadcasting service, at least in the form that most of us knew it. I still maintain that Radio Nederland Wereldomroep was actually one of the world's first social networks, even though the back channel was via letter (and phone from about 1981 onwards)." 25 October 2012 "Now, there were a lot of things wrong with Radio Netherlands towards the end, but credibility and editorial independence was never an issue. A glance at the Dutch government website reveals that the English language website runs office hours, usually a day behind what the Dutch language site is saying. Does anyone read this? Maybe we should put in a freedom of information request to find out the official figures and the cost per reader? The Netherlands used to have influence in foreign media well beyond the size of the country. But that's rapidly disappeared because now 'we have the Internet'." (Critical Distance blog via Kim Andrew Elliott http://kimelli.nfshost.com/index.php?id=13863 both via Mike Terry, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. New RNW "El Toque" broadcast --- Hearing the very first "El Toque" broadcast from Radio Netherlands at 0000 October 30; 9895 via WHRI. Strong signal into Houston. Explanation about the new show, plus material with partner broadcasters. New music package as well. Sounds like they will emphasize social media to interact with listeners. Carrier came on at 2358:45, then WHRI's "Onward Christian Soldiers" tuning music at 2359. WHRI English ID at 2359:50, including a frequency announcement for "7385 kHz" (nothing heard on that frequency on a quick check; announcement pulled from elsewhere?) Actual RNW broadcast opened at 0000 including announcement of correct 9895. No sign of jamming. On a related note, I guess the final broadcast from Bonaire was indeed the NHK Japanese transmission at 2200 October 27. Wonder what will happen to the transmitters when the site is dismantled? While the ABB unit might be scrapped or used for parts after 24 years of service, the two Thomson units are only five years old, just youngsters in the SW world (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, UT Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. No sign of the Mighty KBC via Bulgaria tonight on 9500. Someone is on frequency, but too weak to be able to tell who. This is unlike last transmission which came in really well here on the WCNA (Walt Salmaniw, BC, 0018 UT Oct 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Made the same non-event observation via several remote receivers in Europe myself :-( (Ian Baxter, NSW, 0028 UT, ibid.) 9500, Oct 28 at 0037 and later chex, no signal from Mighty KBC Radio which said it would be testing again this week via BULGARIA to North America. Later info came that a microprocessor failed, and they will try again next week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: KBC test didn't happen re this post on The Mighty KBC Facebook page this morning: "Due to a technical problem at the TX site we could not do the test last night to the USA, one of the microprocessor boards at the transmitter did not run for some reason....we have to focus on next week for another musical adventure to the USA!" (via Facebook via Alan Pennington, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD)) ** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, RNZI, S=9+10dB via long path Pacific, Colombia, Azores into Germany, S=9+10dB (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5950, Oct 28 at 1321, RNZI is back on its B-season frequency ex-6170, Oct 28 at 1321 about geothermal energy. Had not seen a full B-12 sked from them but here it is: http://www.rnzi.com/pages/listen.php including 5950 at 1300-1550 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Our direct broadcasts can be heard on short-wave as follows : 27 Oct 2012 - 24 Mar 2013 UTC kHz Target Days 0459-0650 11725 AM 13730 DRM Pacific Daily 0651-0758 11725 AM 11675 DRM Tonga Daily 0759-1058 9765 AM 9870 DRM Pacific Daily 1059-1258 17675 AM 9870 DRM Timor AM NW Pacific DRM Daily 1300-1550 5950 AM Pacific Daily 1551-1750 9765 AM 9890 DRM Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga Daily 1751-1950 11725 AM 9890 DRM Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga Daily 1951-2050 15720 AM 17675 DRM Samoa, Niue, Tonga Daily 2051-2150 17675 AM 15720 DRM Solomon Islands Daily 2151-0458 15720 AM 17675 DRM Pacific Daily (via DXLD) 5950, Monday Oct 29 at 1330, RNZI Mailbox is already underway with Bryan Clark`s DX report, his first since July; habitually starts two or three minutes early. Fair reception, but I recommend listening online to hear well his several clips of DX catches, including XEARZ 1650; R. Guaráni [sic], Argentina on 1650.13; Hargeisa 7120; Bangladesh 7250; Libya active on 11600 in Arabic at 2000, sometimes as late as 2100; Salem Stereo 14950.8, but not since Sept. 30. He also mentions R. Túvalù reactivated on 621 which he can hear on the coast under a co-channel NZer. Bryan will be back in two weeks. This time must have started up to 4 minutes early, as playback begins with some Marshallese music which was long over by 1330. The latest RNZI Mailbox is always at this URL for a biweek: http://www.rnzi.com/audio/mailbox.mp3 then replaced by a new one, and the previous one moved to this URL: http://www.rnzi.com/audio/mailbox2.mp3 EXCEPT: Oct 29 at 1620 when I play back the previous one, it`s the same as the new one! And in fact both are labeled as such. {or rather both updated on the same date, except one incorrectl.} Followed at 1341 by Mike Bird propagation report, 1343.5 the real mailbox segment mainly about 11725 reception (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 6676-USB, Auckland Volmet, 1025 ID by Om 24 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 8828-USB, ZKAK Auckland, 1121 27 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, and XM - Cedar Key - South Florida, NRD 525D - R8A -E-5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NICARAGUA. 8989-USB, "El Pescador Preacher" 2330 om with mentions of Cuba, Nicaragua and Honduras, very strong signal 25 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, and Marc, Plantation S Florida, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NICARAGUA [non?]. OTHERNESS: 8989/USB, Nicaraguan Pescador Preacher (presumed); 2326, 26-Oct; M in Spanish with religious talk. Fair despite clatter QRM (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, MARE DXpedition #103 anear Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 300 ft. NEish unterminated bev, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) 8989-USB, Radio El Buen Pescador, 2322 Oct 27, Spanish, man preaching with passion, same at 2355 check. Poor (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, listening from my car with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. R Nigeria, Kaduna on 6089.853 kHz at 0420 UT Oct 26 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** NIGERIA. 9689.92, Voice of Nigeria, *0757-0810, Oct 26, sign on with IS. Talk in listed Hausa at 0800. Fair (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) 7255, Voice of Nigeria, Ikorudu; 2146-2206 Oct 26, lengthy traditional song by man with percussion and stringed instrument at tune-in, followed by a bouncier number by an ensemble that included an electric guitarist reminiscent of the late, great Ali Farka Touré of Mali, ID 2203 mentioning Nigeria several times; Fulfulde service listed 2100- 2200 with Hausa after; S9+20db (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15120, V. of Nigeria, Oct 30 0758-0806, 35333-33333, English, IS from 0758, ID at 0800, Opening announce, News (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, My RX and ANT: IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. Glenn, Hope things have been well with you. Listening to the SDR capture of October 26/27 from 2100-0700 UT. Around 0342 UT broadcast began on 6899.5 USB. Mixing audio, but part of it was the beginning to "World of Radio". Then, GH is saying "2 sesqui weeks of confusion, confusion, confusion, confusion station, confusion". I don't know the pirate name at this point. I will write later with the info. Glenn, Station turned out to be "Radio Free Mount Airy FM 87 dot 9" on 6899.5 kHz. Interesting how they took the audio from "World of Radio", changed it so you were saying "This is World of Pop 1480". 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, Oct 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. NORTH WOODS RADIO: 6950/USB, 2335-2346+, 27-Oct; Jack Pine Savage with Canadian drinkin' & huntin' songs. SIO=354 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, MARE DXpedition #103 anear Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 300 ft. NEish unterminated bev, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello everyone, Pirate radio station right now on 6950 Khz USB at 2358 UT Oct 27 weak here in Montreal; could barely notice AC/DC music at 2357 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Quebec http://www.youtube.com/officialswlchannel dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Gilles: This was Northwoods Radio. I caught its signature "Call of the Loon" ID at 0026 then off the air. Signal was fair here but bothered by intermittent digital crud. 73, (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, ibid.) viz.: Northwoods Radio, 6950; USB, 0018 Oct 28, rock music to "Call of the Loon" ID and off 0026; fair (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6970-AM, Oct 28 at 0042, rock music from pirate with good signal, but could not pull ID at 0043 thru the noise level. Andy Robins, MI, got the ID: XFM Shortwave (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn: The pirate is XFM. The op admitted that his frequency is "way up here in the boondocks". Gave e-mail address as xfmshortwave@gmail.com Says he's using C-QUAM stereo. Peaking here at S7 but with deep fades. Audio is a bit bassy. 73, (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: XFM Shortwave, 6970; AM, 0055-0102 Oct 28, rock music to announcements by op, including an admission that his frequency was "way up here in the boondocks"; full ID 0102: "Broadcasting in C-QUAM stereo, this is XFM Shortwave: music to the power of X"; gave e-mail address as: xfmshortwave@gmail.com; peaking S7 but with deep fades; had moved to 6965 by 0208 recheck (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) XFM: 6970/AM, 0056-0104+, 28-Oct; XFM SW the Power of X; taking requests for rock tunes; said having tech problems, is in stereo & is on 6970 because of sigs on 6925 & 6950 at the same time. UTs at 0101 & 0103; QSL via xfmshortwave@gmail.com SIO=3+53 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, MARE DXpedition #103 anear Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 300 ft. NEish unterminated bev, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello again, really good night for pirates; something weak on 6925 USB. Fair to good one still Unid on 6965 Khz AM mode at 0225 UT, electronic music (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Quebec http://www.youtube.com/officialswlchannel 0230 UT Oct 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Gilles, I'm hearing the same 6965 in AM at 0330 at poor level on the west coast. Apparently XFM (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria BC, ibid.) ** NORTH AMERICA. Hi all, another pirate station at 0120 UT here Pirate Radio Boston, very strong in Montreal on 6950 AM mode. Pirate Radio Boston with very strong signal now started new program on 6950 Khz USB at 0150 UT. Special 20th anniversary broadcast with special QSL to anyone who sends report. pirateradioboston@gmail.com (Gilles Letourneau, montreal, Quebec, UT Oct 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Pirate Radio Boston, 6925; AM, 0246-0300 Oct 27, “Charlie Loudenboomer” and “Mr. X” reading listener comments during the station’s “20th Anniversary Broadcast”, then an ID as “a station run by DXers for DXers” into an early Alice Cooper song; S9+10db at peaks with some fading (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Did it sound like Chris Lobdell? (gh) PIRATE RADIO BOSTON: 6925/AM, 0244-0252+, 27-Oct; 20th Anniversary program with Charlie Loudenboomer & Mr. Excellence; read reception report from Harry Smith. SIO=3+53. 6925/USB, 0425, 27-Oct; Repeat 20th Anniversary program? SIO=3+54- 6925/AM, 2106-2108*, *2110-2117+, 27-Oct; Lite rock tune & abruptly off and back up with 20th anniversary program repeat; mentioned first broadcast in 5/92 by CSIC. QSL via pirateradioboston@gmail.com or Belfast NY drop. SIO=2+52+ before 2108, the SIO=343 with buzz burst. (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, MARE DXpedition #103 anear Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 300 ft. NEish unterminated bev, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) DX Tip: 1710 kHz, station "Pirate Radio Boston" on the air now 1710 KHz AM, 0414 UT, pirate station "Pirate Radio Boston" just signed on the air with 20th anniversary program featuring music, station history, etc. Weak to fair on the fade-ups here with some competition from Radio Celestial and the NJ TIS station. 73, (Tim Tromp, West Michigan, Perseus SDR + phased BOGs, Oct 28, IRCA via DXLD) Thanks for the tip, Tim, hearing it here in Alberta with a fair signal, as they're reading some reports from their last broadcast. Same program as heard on 6950 earlier tonight. 73, (Nigel Pimblett, Dunmore, AB, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook array 0435 UT Oct 28, ibid.) ** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6925 USB, Rave on Radio, 2310-2350, Oct 29, SSTV signal heard at 2310, 2324 and 2342. Stevie Wonder tune. ID. “2012 Halloween Show”. Poor in noisy conditions (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** NORTH AMERICA. WOLVERINE RADIO: 6950/USB, 2117-2139+, 27-Oct; Bluesy guitar rock tunes; ID at 2122+. SIO=454 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, MARE DXpedition #103 anear Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 300 ft. NEish unterminated bev, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Pirate]. 6925 USB, Wolverine Radio, 0105-0130, Oct 30, lite bluesy style music related to stormy weather conditions. IDs. “Stormy Weather” song, SSTV at 0129. Poor to fair in noisy band conditions (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** NORTH AMERICA. QSL, one that sort of that got me back into the hobby: PIRATE, 6930 AM, Blue Ocean Radio, received back an e-mail verie letter and a nice e-mail photo QSL of a girl and her dog on a shore playing ball. Reply in 12 hours. v/s Johnny Oaktree (Edward Kusalik, Alberta, Canada, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, UT Thursday Oct 25 at 0500-0505, local KGWA`s dead-air Fox-hole again causes me to null the remaining strong carrier, and strain to hear anything else: quite a mix of signals, but one slightly dominant is bluesy music, presumably WABG in Mississippi. 960, UT Friday Oct 26 at 0500-0505 another deadair Fox-hole from KGWA Enid, during which nulling its strong local carrier, I hear mostly blues music dominating, presumed WABG Greenwood MS; 0503, 800-299-8255 phone number probably during a break in ABC news from WERC or KMA. Any phone number ending in 8255 means ``TALK``, i.e. for call-ins. I find it amazing how unhelpful the dozens of reverse-phone number lookup sites are. About 15 sex before KGWA blasts back on at 0505 with a local ad, the understation starts a political ad with a black accent, probably WABG, but can`t copy any clue. 960, UT Sat Oct 27 at 0500-0505, tonight`s KGWA Fox-hole jumble is mainly occupied by a Mexican song; one ear on this and the other on 6899.4 pirate, see UNIDENTIFIED. 960, UT Sunday Oct 28 at 0500, KGWA maintains modulation with sports scores, running late this Saturday night, so no Fox hole. 960, UT Monday Oct 29 at 0500, KGWA dead air is filled when nulled by pileup of other stations making heavy SAHs, but heard at first atop is definite Spanish, ``Qué tal, amigos otro --- musical``. Null on this one fits for XEK Nuevo Laredo. Then I am hearing blues music, especially shrill harmonica {not harmonic as I hastily wrote originally} at 0503, presumed WABG in Mississippi. 960, UT Tue Oct 30 at 0500, KGWA fails to quit modulation so no understation DX tonight. 960, UT Wed Oct 31 at 0500, KGWA Enid fails for the second night in a row to unmodulate, so not audiblizing understation DX. We have high hopes they will resume doing so unpredictably. 960, UT Thu Nov 1 at 0500, KGWA dead air again, but I can`t DX it tonight with CBCNQ Sackville about to close down (not); see CANADA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1120, KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa observations: on the air Oct 26 at 1857 UT with banda music, 1900 segué with no ID. We have never heard them ID in latest reactivation. 1917 recheck off the air, or maybe carrier is still on; hard to tell on caradio. 1939 on receiver with BFO, carrier is definitely off. Nothing heard around 1300 or 1700 UT Oct 27. This correlates with Bruce Winkelman`s notes at local range in Tulsa: ``Just tuned past 1120 and there is Spanish language vocal music from presumed KEOR-1120! 1247Z 26OCT12. 1305-1335Z 26OCT12 Spanish language vocal music, with no announcements or other identifying "talk" between selections. Quick check of 1120 this morning 1232-1240Z 27OCT12 shows no OC from presumed KEOR, only a faint KMOX`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn et al., A look at the Silent STA filing at the FCC says that the reason the station went silent back in June was "technical". Maybe they replace a part or two, run a few tests and then shut it off and try to find another way to fix it, 73 (Wayne Heinen, Editor NRC AM Radio Log, Oct 25, NRC-AM via DXLD) Maybe, but as I said before, if it was ever on the air this past June, we missed it completely, and/or it was very brief; as it had also been off the air for many months before that. 1120, Oct 28 at 1950 UT, KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa is back on with continuous Mexican music, well audible via caradio on another expedition north of Enid to Squirrel Haven; however, asphalt portions of US 81/64/60 where we are simultaneously northbound, westbound and eastbound, produce heavy tire static, while concrete portions much less so. I stop at a pulloff by a celltower with no visible means of electrical support; powerlines are poler, but on other side of highway. Do these things run on batteries or own generators even when powerlines are handy? At least they put out no RFI on MW. During all this recent KEOR reactivity, tho I have not listened for hours at a time straight, I have never caught any announcement, let alone a slogan, or legal ID, so I make sure to listen at the next hourtop, 1959: No, just segué to more music. Seems they don`t think they need to ID legally. Still on at 2019 with music introducing itself as cumbia! 1120, Oct 29 at 1930 UT, KEOR is not on the air (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1430, Oct 28 at 2006 UT, near Squirrel Haven about 10 miles north of Enid, I am parked and bandscanning on the caradio. I especially want a definite log of nearby KALV, which is hard to hear dentro-Enid due to its null protecting KTBZ Tulsa. Out here we are just far enough away from the null to hear it weakly atop KTBZ and making a SAH of about 8 Hz. ``Your host for Northwestern Rangers [a silly ballteam] in Alva, 1430 AM stereo, KALV`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. I worked in Tahlequah yesterday and checked 1490 both ways --- no sign of KBIX either around 0800CDT 31OCT12 or around 1930CDT 31OCT12. My route on the Muskogee Turnpike to State Highway 62 takes me within 4-5 miles of the KBIX transmitter site per RadioLocator so surely 450 watts would be heard. I'll keep checking 1490 periodically from here in Tulsa as well as on future trips to the 'quah but it looks like it's silent (Bruce Winkelman, Tulsa, OK, Nov 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1500, Oct 28 at 2001 UT, Fox Sports Radio. Would expect this to be nearest groundwave station, KPGM in Pawhuska, rather than KSTP, a bit early for skywave from St Paul, and that`s ESPN, right? Unlike ESPN Deportes, Fox Sports Radio has a user-friendly website with all affiliates on one page http://www.foxsportsradio.com/pages/allstations.html or, one may click on a state-by-state map, but the only one they know about on 1500 is WSEM in Donalsonville GA. A recent change? NRC AM Log 2012 shows KPGM as RELigious. Sports is the religion in OK; but I go direct to KPGM: http://www.bartlesvilleradio.com/pages/kpgm-1500-am which shows it is now primarily sports talk, and explains that on weekends they are with FSR, much but not all of the rest of the time with The Sports Animal OKC, KWPN-640, which is all-ESPN, right? Plus they have local talk shows, and even a minute-by-minute schedule: http://www.bartlesvilleradio.com/pages/kpgm-programming-schedule setting an example followed by too few radio stations (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1610, the hum-only carrier heard before N of Enid is still there Oct 28 at 1958 UT, presumably Great Salt Plains TIS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Oct 29 at 1420 UT, a little area tropo from OKC visiblizes KOCY-LP ch 48 which is *still* in analog with Estrella TV, and signs of NTSC on ch 19, which is KUOT-CA. Soon fading out, much weaker 19 going first (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. First tropo into New Mexico --- I've been TV DXing in eastern Kansas for most of the time between 1953 and now. (Exceptions were a couple of years in Kentucky and one in Alaska) but this morning produced the first tropo from New Mexico. At 0800 CDT KENW-32 from Portales, NM decoded. Also new were KACV-9 from Amarillo and an Oklahoma Educational Television Authority translator on channel 48 from Buffalo, OK. A second Amarillo station (KCIT-14) was seen for the second time. One mystery is a channel 25 from Oklahoma City. KTUZ was in around 0845 with the Zenith box showing the PSIP as channel 30- 1. There is a KTUZ in Oklahoma City but information I could find shows it as operating on channel 29. I suspect my information is incorrect and it is indeed KTUZ-25. Glenn probably has the proper information. Also KAKE-TV in Wichita was in on channels 10 and 21. Channel 21 DX is rare due to KTAJ-TV in Kansas City, MO (licensed to St. Joseph, MO) which puts a very strong signal into Topeka (Dave Pomeroy, Topeka, Kansas, Oct 24, WTFDA via DXLD) Dave, I had tropo from NM long ago in the analog era from Clovis, Roswell, quite a number of times, but never Albuquerque. There is no RF 25 in OKC. I just rechecked; of course could be a low power I can`t see in Enid, but none in the W9Wi.com listings. The only explanation for this I can see is that you had [W9WI.com] Tulsa OK KUTU-CD 7.900 0.00 N 36-9-0.70N 95-59-25.10W DC-LIC Univision Which maybe relays KUOK out of OKC/Woodward, and the PSIP is set up to be as confusing as it is in OKC, where KTUZ is certainly on RF 29, as 30-1, Telemundo. The very same transmitter on RF 29 carries: KUOK, as 36-1 --- But you can`t get from one to the other by tuning to RF 29, remapping, and then stepping up. I guess this gives the competing networks some deniability that they are in league with each other in this market. As I have also pointed out, there is a low power DTV on 36 in OKC which is KUOK`s original channel, and is really a translator of their ``main`` one on 35 in Woodward. I assume local viewers in OKC who can get KUOK on RF 36 are ``forwarded`` to the high-power signal on RF 29 without knowing it. However, were you really seeing KTUZ with Telemundo programming, or KUOK with Univisión programming? There are a few ch 25 translators in western OK, but W9WI.com does not show any connexions with KTUZ, KUOK, Telemundo or Univisión. Could one of them be relaying the wrong station due to tropo? It happens in analog. I haven`t investigated the possible input channels. Is this confusing enough? Perhaps Doug or Trip will help unravel it. Unfortunately I missed this latest tropo opening into TX and NM. 73, (Glenn Hauser, Enid, ibid.) Dave, I'm not entirely sure what you're indicating you saw here. Did you see the KTUZ PSIP *on RF channel 25*? Or did you see Oklahoma City advertising on RF channel 25 at the same time KTUZ was coming in on RF channel 29? KTUZ is on RF-29 and has never been authorized to operate in digital on any other channel. To my knowledge it has no translators, and I don't see any channel 29 station anywhere else in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, or north Texas that's likely to be translated (so I doubt it's a translator not intended to relay KTUZ but temporarily relaying the wrong station). I think Glenn is on the right track suggesting KUTU-CD Tulsa. This station *is* on RF 25. However, I would expect it to use PSIP 25-1 (their website specifically directs viewers to that virtual channel). And, KUTU is a Univisión affiliate -- KTUZ is Telemundo. If you saw KTUZ PSIP on RF-25, I'm thinking there was some kind of technical mixup that temporarily routed the KTUZ bitstream to the KUTU transmitter. The stations *are* co-owned and some elements of KUTU programming originate in OKC. – (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN, EM66, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PALAU. 9955, T8WH (presumed); 1351-1401+, 27-Oct; Same English religious program as on 9930 1200-1230. At 1359 WRMI IS came up and signed on at 1359+ covering the frequency. SIO=2+32+ with blaat bursts till WRMI s/on (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, MARE DXpedition #103 anear Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 300 ft. NEish unterminated bev, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 3329.53, Perú, Ondas del Huallaga, Huánuco, 1007-1015 with om and yl, no music, 24 October, 2330 weak with audio unusual for local evening 25 October. 1030 with music, strong audio, CHU present, to 1050 27 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, and XM - Cedar Key - South Florida, NRD 525D - R8A -E-5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4747, Perú, Radio Huanta 2000, Huanta, Ayacucho, 0920 to 1010 om chat with very strong signal 26 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, and XM - Cedar Key - South Florida, NRD 525D - R8A -E-5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4774.9, Perú, Radio Tarma, Tarma, 0920 to 1000, excellent Peru music with strong signal, 26 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4789, Perú, Radio Visión, Chiclayo, 0730 with distorted signal on 24 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PERÚ, 4789.9, R Visión, Chiclayo; 1038 Oct 24, presumed the one with church congregation singing interspersed with talk by man (the preacher, I assume); intonation sounded Spanish rather than Quechua; occasionally fair level but mostly poor with some CODAR QRM; back in the mud by 1055 (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4826.5, Perú, Radio Sicuani, Sicuani, Cusco 0800 on 24 October, seems on early regular basis (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, and XM - Cedar Key - South Florida, NRD 525D - R8A -E-5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5039.22, Perú, Radio Libertad de Junín, Junín, 1020 to 1040 with om and music, strong signal 26 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5120, Ondas del Suroriente, Quillabamba, 2300-2310 chorale inspirational music, not National Anthem, 22 October, 1030 noted 27 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D - 746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, and XM - Cedar Key - South Florida, NRD 525D - R8A -E-5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5921.20, Perú, Radio Bethel, Arequipa, 2300 with om en español, deep fades on 22 October. Noted same time other days (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 6173.9, Perú, Radio Tawantinsuyo, Cusco, 2340 to 0000 with om in long talk, narrow bandwidth as co channel murdering the signal 25 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D - 746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [non]. See INTERNATIONAL VACUUM ** PHILIPPINES. 7105-LSB, Oct 27 at 1330, DU1UG with quick contest contacts. QRZ.com gets no results for this call, but I`m sure I copied it correctly from fonetix (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 11650, R. Teos via Philippines, Oct 30 1511-1529, 35443, Russian, Talk, ID at 1528 (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, My RX and ANT: IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD- 515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** POLAND [non]. BULGARIA, Surprise 1: Polish Radio External Service from Oct. 28 is from BULGARIA: 1400-1430 on 12095 SOF 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu in Russian 1430-1500 on 12095 SOF 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu in Belorussian 1500-1600 on 12095 SOF 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu in Polish 1630-1730 on 9755 SOF 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu in Polish 1730-1830 on 9755 SOF 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu in Belorussian 1830-1900 on 9755 SOF 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu in Russian POWERFUL SIGNAL on 12095 & GOOD SIGNAL on 9755 here in Sofia. The distance from the town of Kostinbrod to capital Sofia is less than 20 km (Ivo Ivanov, DX Re Mix News, Bulgaria, 01 November via DXLD) Polskie Radio replaces Woofferton by Kostinbrod Cf. http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.de/2012/10/observations_30.html Checking shortly after 1300 I could not trace any signal on 15560 or 17860, as still shown at http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=B12&broadc=PRW So apparently those who market the revived Kostinbrod facility have taken away that customer from Babcock. It should be no wild guess that they proactively approached Polskie Radio and sell the 50 kW from Kostinbrod cheaper than Babcock did with the now lost 125 kW business from Woofferton. Clear signs for a meanwhile predatory type of competition, I'd say (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Realized after posting this that the existing HFCC coordinations are apparently an UT hour too early, perhaps proceeding from the assumption that Polskie Radio would avoid changes in regard to local time in Russia and Belarus. But that's not the case. So another check at 1400. But no, also now no trace of any carrier on 15560 while 17860 has something very faint which is not //, presumably DW to 'stans from Al-Dhabbaya. At the same time 12095 is pretty strong here. Modulation uncut at 1359 into music fill after whatever other preceding broadcast Polskie Radio distributes only via Hotbird and webstream anymore. At 1400 programme in Russian opened, with quite bombastic on-air design. And I have no doubt that this is indeed Kostinbrod (Kai Ludwig, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, ibid.) Whatever is on 17860 is also extremely weak here in Jo'burg at 1415- 1425, mostly below noise level. Sounds like talk, but I can't make out the language. 12095 is fair in English at 1427-1430, BBC WS from Meyerton (with BBC ID). (Bill Bingham, RSA, ibid.) ** PRIDNESTROVYE. [NOTE: there are several variations in spelling this transliterated to Roman; this is the one I always use for headers to facilitate future searches --- gh] e.g.: MOLDOVA {separated PREDNESTROVIE} PMR Tiraspol B-12 schedule ---- Original Message ----- Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 Subject: Radio PMR B12 via open_dx: http://www.radiopmr.org/about/27/Cetka-veshhaniya 7290 18-23 UT Monday-Friday, Ru, En, Fr, Ge 1900, 2100 Russian 1800, 2000, 2200 English 1930, 2130 French 1830, 2030, 2230 German 1815 1845 1945 2015 2045 2145 2215 2245 Music 999 03-05 UT Monday-Friday: Russian Russian, Ukrainian, Moldavian 621 17-22 UT Monday-Friday FM everyday 04-22 UT 74, 100.1, 100.7, 103.4, 104.0, 105.0, 106., 106.4, 106.5 MHz 73 wb, open-dx, (via wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29 via DXLD) Surely the last part of this is as usual UT Sunday-Thursday, after local midnight, whenever that is now, 2100? 2200 UT? (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Is this a preserved audio? of Friday afternoon recording? Never heard such stupid bcast schedule. Locally schedule should be Mon-Fri at 20 hrs eastern European standard time tilL 01 hrs in the morning on Tuesday til Saturday. Anything else would be stupid. 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I confirmed Radio PMR yesterday (Sunday) on 7290 kHz signing on at 2200 UT. It carried Russian at 2200-2230 and English at 2230-2300 before switching to Voice of Russia in English at 2300. So the schedule is probably UT 1800-2200 Mon-Fri and 2200-2300 Sun-Thurs, as in A12. The original source gives the time as 2000-0100 East European time. 73s (Dave Kenny, dxldyg via DXLD) So you can`t depend on them to follow the published language rotation either (gh, DXLD) Thanks Dave, that seems likely a WARMING UP HOUR EVEN ON SUNDAYS for the main purpose of five hours V of Russia service 7290 kHz on 2300 til 0400 UT hours. What happens at Friday UTC/Saturday EET time at 2300-0000 - only silent carrier? What happens at Saturday UTC/Sunday EET time at 2300-0000 - only silent carrier ? Usually these RUS/CIS tx need 12 to 10 minutes warming up start procedure. 73 wolfy (Buschel, ibid.) On Fri/Sat the 7290 transmitter does not come on the air until just before 2300 for Voice of Russia (maybe 2250 with carrier/tones). Radio PMR broadcasts from 2000 to 0100 local PMR time Monday to Friday by their local clock, but the 0000-0100 portion becomes Thursday to Sunday by UT. The same pattern has been observed for some years but every season there is confusion about this! 73s (Dave Kenny, ibid.) Speaking of confusion --- If local midnight is at 2200 UT: What I have observed from numerous monitoring reports in past seasons is that they start the week`s broadcasts at 2200 UT Sunday, and end them at 2200 UT Friday. (If on UT+2). So on Sundays there are no broadcasts before 2200 and on Fridays no broadcasts after 2200, while Mon-Thu they are on for the entire span continuously. (Or if on UT +3, change both to 2100 UT = local midnight. Thus the 21- 23 portion is Sun-Thu (not Thu-Sun) and the 18-21 portion M-F both in terms of UT and locally.) This does not really affect the VOR relays on the same frequency, which start after PMR is finished, on the days it is really on the air. As to which day`s programs are heard in the incomplete transmissions, it hardly matters as they are repetitious propaganda. Does anyone ever hear any timely news? I agree it`s stupid, but it is what it is. You will see in WRTH 2012 page 464 that the 2200-2230 and 2230-2300 broadcasts for B-11 are shown as Sun-Thu while the earlier ones are M- F, as I have been describing. In other words, they start their broadcast week just as Monday starts local time, even tho there is only one hour of the cycle left to transmit. And end the week just as Friday is ending local time, dispensing with the last hour on that day. This is complicated by what ``local PMR time`` really is, whether they go with Russia`s DST changes (and whether or not to observe double DST), or go with Ukraine and the rest of Moldova. Timeanddate.com currently shows Moldova on UT+2 and Moscow still on UT+4. I see that the schedule page originally linked, does imply that there are continuous 5-hour broadcasts all five weekdays, all in EET without explaining its correct and current relation to UT. But we are assuming it`s +2 hours. Apparently UT+2 is correct, as at 2214 UT Monday I am hearing English on 7290, which corresponds to the 0000 EET listing with the wrong summer frequency 9665. Possibly they have now done away with the anomalies I have been describing, so monitor what really happen on 7290, Friday and Sunday before and after 2200 UT. 73, (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7290, Oct 29 at 2214, fair signal in English from Radio PMR on B- season channel, ex-9665. Their undated schedule page http://www.radiopmr.org/about/27/Cetka-veshhaniya shows 7290 at the top, 9665 at the bottom, and times in EET which apparently = UT +2 with English starting at 18, 20 and 22 UT M-F. Except their usual pattern is to run the 22 UT broadcasts on Sun-Thu, since by local time, those are also M-F at midnite; need to reconfirm that they start at 2200 Sunday and stop at 2200 Friday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 5975, Oct 28 at 0223, RRI in French, with het, from what? ``Pictures at an Exhibition`` on piano. At 0236 on // 7325 which is stronger, during mailbag greeting listeners in Québec. 5910, Oct 28 at 0229, HJDH has some heavy QRM atop making fast SAH, in Romanian so must be RRI, and at 0237 found better // 7340 with violin concerto. Both are to E NAm at 01-03. 17530, Oct 28 at 1240 RRI in English is the SSOB except for Cuba, far exceeding anything else from Europe or Mideast on 16m; talk about a town in Transylvania where musical instruments are made. New B-12 schedule moves this English hour one UT hour later to 12-13, but after this Week of Confusion, when we are back on UT -6, it will resume being too early for us before 7 am CST, even if propagating. 17530 is TIG, while // 15460 is GAL, both to WEu and hence NAm. // to elsewhere are 17765 GAL and 21570 TIG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA [and non]. 7220, Nov 1 at 0514, RRI in Romanian has considerable CCI; what could it be? CRI in English via ALBANIA, as in HFCC during same hour, 150 kW at 140 degrees, while Galbeni is 300 kW, 285 degrees. Can`t expect Cërrik to be unidirexional! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. After yesterday's QSL from Iran, today's mail brought a QSL for Radio Romania Actualitati 1152 Cluj Romania. Like Iran, this reception was also two years ago, October 11, 2010. I sent a follow-up in July, 2012 to Radio Romania International instead of Radio Romania Actualitatsi and this seemed to work. They sent a Radio Romania International QSL (with correct information written in) and also sent back my prepared card signed. Also included: an RRI sticker, a 2012 calendar, and attractive stamps on the letter itself. A cover letter was signed by Lacramioara Simion and Diana Vijeu, Coordinators of the English Service. The address is: SOCIETATEA ROMANA DE RADIODIFUZIONE Strada General Berthelot, Nr. 60-64 RO-010165, Bucaresti, Romania E-mail may be sent to engl @ rri.ro or a message may be left on the website http://www.rr.ro clicking on the "Reception Report" tab. This does not add to my MW Country verified #58 total, because they sent me an e-verification two weeks ago so it was already counted (Jim Renfrew, Holley NY, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. V Of Russia: English B12 frequency schedule http://english.ruvr.ru/engradio/ (via Jean-Michel Aubier, France, Oct 26, dxldyg via DXLD) Viz.: VOICE OF RUSSIA WORLD SERVICE Frequency schedule October 28, 2012 – March 30, 2013 AFRICA 1700-1800 9735 1800-1900 11985, 9735 ASIA 0100-0200 801 0700-0900 21820, 21800, 15745 0900-1000 21820, 21800, 15745, 7205 1000-1100 15745, 11680, 7260, 7205 1100-1200 15740, 11680, 11640* 9560, 7260, 7205 1200-1300 12075, 9560, 5885 1300-1400 12075, 9560, 7260, 7205 1400-1500 12075, 7260, 4780 1500-1600 9880, 4780 1600-1700 9880, 5955, 5885, 4780, 801 1700-1800 9880, 7240, 4780, 801 AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND 0600-1000 21820, 21800 MIDDLE EAST 0100-0200 927, 801, 648 0200-0300 1377, 972, 927, 648 0300-0400 1377, 1314, 972, 927, 648 0400-0500 1314 1200-1300 972 1300-1400 927 1400-1500 13790, 4780, 648 1500-1600 11985, 9735, 4780, 927 1600-1700 9735, 4780, 801 1700-1800 9735, 4780, 801, 648 1800-1900 11985, 9735, 4780, 927, 801, 648 EUROPE 0500-0600 1323 0600-0800 11635*, 1323 0800-0900 11635*, 9625*, 1323 0900-1400 9625* 1700-2100 7330 2100-2200 5940 NORTH AMERICA 2200-2300 11830, 7250 2300-0200 7290, 7250 0200-0400 17690, 17665, 15630 0400-0600 15630, 9830 LATIN AMERICA 2200-2300 7250 2300-0400 7290, 7250 * - DRM broadcast --- This schedule is subject to change without prior notice (tidied up by gh, such as removing totally useless meter band clutter, for DX LISTENING DIGEST) Taking a look at the B-12 VOR schedule which J-M Aubier pointed to, http://english.ruvr.ru/engradio/ I am surprised to see 15 and 17 MHz frequencies in the evening to North America --- higher than in the summer, and must be hitting us from E Asia, not Europe. Will they work? They sure do tonight, Oct 30 at 0237 check with `In Between` conversation: 17665 and 15630 are very good, in fact the SSOBs! And 17690 is there but considerably weaker. What are the spex? HFCC shows 15630 0200 0600 1,2,6 P.K 250 67 0 288 17665 0200 0400 1,2,6 P.K 250 61 0 288 17690 0200 0400 1,2,6 VLD 500 50 0 218 Pet/Kam always does better here than Vladivostok for some reason, considerably further away, despite twice the power. 15630, Oct 30 at 0515, the VOR Pet/Kam frequency which was inbooming earlier at 0237, is now inaudible, tho scheduled until 0600. But that`s OK; from 0400 we have 9830 instead of 17665 for English to W NAm. 17500, Oct 30 at 1354, typical Russian tones on and off in warmup procedure, 1400 VOR starting Russian news, but marred by whistling Spanish 2-way SSB CCI, plus intermittent ``running water`` QRM. 1403 mid-news ID as ``Golos Rossii, novosti``. HFCC shows 200 kW, 190 degrees from a Moskva site (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15630 at 0520 UT Oct 30 from P-K works well into Europe. S=8 echo like two way signal getting from different paths (Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) Juan Franco Crespo also forwarded the B-12 VOR English program grid -- - first thing we looked for was Moscow Mailbag, to update our DX/SWL/Media Programs listing --- but it`s not there, anywhere. The show had survived Joe Adamov for a number of years, but no more (gh) 5940 in B-11 and before was VOR Portuguese, now B-12 VOR English 21-22 UT powerhouse Samara 250 kW, S=9+35dB here in Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, Monday, October 29, 2012 2138 UT, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hearing Voice of Russia English on B-12 frequencies of 7250 and 7290 after 0000 October 28, both about equal decent strength. What sounds like the Russian service beam to Central America is on 7260 at the same time, but didn't listen long enough to confirm (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 7290, Oct 28 at 0208, VOR English very good, somewhat stronger than // 7250 in new B-12 scheduling. 7290 is 500 kW, 309 degrees from KCH, MDA at 23-04, = Grigoriopol, PRIDNESTROVYE. 7250 is 500 kW, 315 degrees from ``ARMavir``, Russia at 22-04, per HFCC. These spans are not necessarily entirely in use or entirely English. AM hams in North America can kiss their favorite 40m frequency 7290 goodbye. 9840, Oct 28 at 0518, Russian from R. Rossii, propeller-buzz transmitter is back here, ex 12+ MHz something, from Moskva/Taldom. Can`t they tell how defective it is? But whoopee! This winter unlike the last couple, they are not colliding 9840 with VOR from DVR to WNAm. 5930, Oct 28 at 1320, JBA signal, so not R. Rossii, Pet/Kam? We were wondering if local time would go off DST and hence prolong the broadcast another hour past 1300? Apparently not, still in HFCC to close at 1300. TWR via Irkutsk is also registered here 1245-1530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7290, MOLDOVA, Voice of Russia, 0028 Oct 28, English, woman with recipe, 0030 “News In Brief”. Fair, and Good on //7250 via Russia. VOR has returned to the same frequencies as used last year for the B season (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, listening from my car with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, Editor of World English Survey and Target Listening, available at http://www.odxa.on.ca dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: ``9840, Oct 28 at 0518, Russian from R. Rossii, propeller-buzz transmitter is back here, ex 12+ MHz something, from Moskva/Taldom. Can`t they tell how defective it is?`` There is also an opinion that bureaucrats do not allow them to simply use another transmitter by way of specifying a certain one in the licence for the shortwave relay. And I hear that today DRM neither from Taldom nor from Bolshakovo could be traced. Would not hurt to look into this (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9680, BUZZY carrier of opening Samara Russia site, 5-8 UT scheduled, S=9+45dB at 0444 UT. 50 Hertz peaks visible on screen, plus/minus 750 Hertz wide, like fence about 28 x peaks each side (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9840, Terrible BUZZy signal of Radio Rossii morning service from Taldom Moscow. 4-7 UT, children`s hour radio play at 0455 UT. 100 Hertz peaks like a garden fence seen, on 4 kHz wide, 40 x peaks, 20 x each band side. S=9+45 dB powerhouse. But Rossii program, different program compared to 12070 VOR Russian service (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9830, Oct 29 at 0540, VOR starting `This is Russia` show, very good new frequency, ex-13775, fine modulation unlike neighboring R. Rossii, 9840 buzzer from Taldom. 9830 is 250 kW, 64 degrees from Pet/Kam to WNAm including Alaska at 04-06. Last winter the two collided on 9840; they finally got the message and avoided that problem. I hope the RTTY infesting 9830 all day earlier will not be a hazard now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: Subject: 9840 R Rossii Taldom very bad audio BUZZ. 4-7 UTC Terrible BUZZ hum tone signal, Oct 30. 73 wb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Radiocenter-3" To: "Wolfgang Bueschel" Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 12:18 PM Subject: Re: 9840 R Rossii Taldom very bad audio BUZZ. Dear Wolfgang, thanks for your messages, it is really bad signal at the places of receiving in Europe. Sorry for the delay - I was unable to do anything. Now the exciter is exchanged - please, what could you say about our signal today? Best regards, Andrey Shaydurov I've forgot to look at frequencies besides of 9840 kHz: 12075 at 0730-1200 UT, 7310 at 1230-1500 UT and 5905 at 1530-2100 UT. Thank you in advance (Andrey Shaydurov, Raciocenter-3 via wb, DXLD) Re: 9840 R Rossii Taldom very bad audio BUZZ. 4-7 UTC Terrible BUZZ hum tone signal, Oct 30. 7310 kHz at 1236 UT Nov 1, S=9+15dB, later the day increasing signal. Audio quality is very good now! Listen to Recording. Kind regards de (Wolfy df5sx wwdxc Germany, via DXLD) See also SWITZERLAND ** RUSSIA. 6160, Radio Rossii via Arkhangelsk-Murmansk in Russian at 0412 UT. S=9+5dB here in Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. [Extracts from previous R. Rossii schedule:] 6005 1700-1900 29 Armavir 45N28 040E06 188 100 9410 0600-0700 30 Samara 53N16 050E14 58 250 11610 0800-0900 29 Samara 53N16 050E14 294 250 11895 0400-0500 32 Samara 53N16 050E14 58 250 (RUSdx Oct 21) Three frequencies: 9410, 11610 and 11895 clearly do not apply to "Radio of Russia", most likely, this is "The Voice of Tatarstan" relay through Samara. And the frequency of 6005, presumably, this is "the Adygei radio" with the programmes of the Adyghe language (Vasily Gulyaev, Astrakhan, Russia / “deneb-radio-dx” via RusDX 28 Oct via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. TENTATIVE Saint-Petersburg Regional Centre B12 SW schedule As of October 23, 2012 0455 UT. Valid Oct 28, 2012 till March 30, 2013 kHz / UTC / Relay program / Language 6015 / 1500-1700 / Voice of Russia / Persian 6015 / 1700-1800 / Voice of Russia / Arabic 6135 / 0000-0300 / Voice of Russia / Spanish 7205 / 1500-1700 / Voice of Russia / Persian 9825 / 1600-2100 / Voice of Russia / Arabic 11830 / 1400-1500 / Voice of Russia / Russian 11830 / 1500-1600 / Voice of Russia / Kurdish 11830 / 1600-1700 / Voice of Russia / Russian 11895 / 1400-1600 / Voice of Russia / Turkish Our postal address: Saint-Petersburg Regional Center, 3 Akademika Pavlova St., St. Petersburg, 197022, Russia (please also mark on the envelope PTO SPBRC) http://www.spb.rtrn.ru/info.asp?view=7007 (via Editor Anatoly Klepov, RusDX 28 Oct via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. TWR India via Novosibirsk, 11930, full data letter on TWR India letterhead (PDF) and full data eQSL of Bonaire mediumwave towers in 829 days! This started off with an English airmail report to their India address with US $2 return postage, with a follow-up in English with US $5 via registered email, and three (!) follow-ups via email to TWR HQ with the QSLs finally arriving via email 24 hours after my last email follow-up. V/s S. Franklin Abraham (fabraham(at)twrindia(dot)org). Many, many thanks to Bob Hall at TWR HQ in Cary NC who was instrumental in pushing this through (bhall(at)twr(dot)org). I guess in the long run, perseverance does pay off with QSLs. I am astounded that it took so long for the TWR India office to cough up this QSL. I had also filed numerous reports on their online form on their website without result. 73 (Al Muick, Williamsport PA USA, Oct 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RWANDA. Hi DXers, I have two updates for the excellent BDXC "Africa on Shortwave": [see also GUINEA] Radio Rwanda´s DRM transmission on 25740 kHz (800 W) ended on 25 December 2011. There are no plans for a reactivation. This according to direct communications with Deutsche Welle relay station in Rwanda. 73 and many thanks to Tony Rogers for compiling "Africa on Shortwave". (Harald Kuhl, Germany, Oct 26, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) 'Africa on Shortwave' is on the BDXC website http://www.bdxc.org.uk/ - on home page click on 'Articles Index' (BDXC-UK yg moderator, ibid.) ** SARAWAK [non]. PALAU: 15420, R. Free Sarawak via Palau, Oct 30 1110-1124, 35433, Iban, Talk, ID at 1123 (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, My RX and ANT: IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 17615 // 17625, Oct 30 at 1350, BSKSA HQS now has equally good modulation on both; for a long time, 17625 was inferior with hum. Also much weaker // 17895 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA [non]. 6190, Oct 29 at 0105 fair in Serbian. IRS has made seasonal change from 9685 to N America, tho they won`t tell HFCC about it. Still going at 0214. Presumably this and the English times have all been latened by one hour. It had not been yesterday, but now the ``program schedule`` which is really a transmission schedule lacking any info about program titles or content, is up for B-12: http://voiceofserbia.org/program-schedule Showing English on 6190 250 kW is at 0130-0200 except Sun & Mon. To Europe: daily 1930-2000 and 2200-2230 on 6100 with 250 kW, and 1400- 1430 daily on 9635 with 10 kW (from inside Serbia)(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) There is no trace of listed English at 1400-1430 on 9635 today the 29th. Instead I am hearing Vietnamese at fair strength - I assume this to be the domestic service one of Voice of Vietnam from Son Tay. ALL transmissions from Serbia on 9635 were reported to be cancelled (by Ivo Ivanov I think) earlier in October, so this still seems to be the case. It was via Stubline 10 kW (Noel R. Green (NW England), dxldyg via DXLD) Someone should tell their webmaster/Beograd (gh) ** SERBIA. 28923-USB, Oct 27 at 1408, YT7AW working contest. That`s what it takes to force 10m hams to venture above 28.6, but there were still none to be heard above 29.0 MHz. QRZ.com shows: YT7AW, GORAN HAJOSEVIC, Focanska 133, Smederevo, Serbia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5019.88, SIBC, Oct 30 0821-0838, 35433, Pidgin, Talk, ID at 0827 (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, My RX and ANT: IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. R. Hargeisa on 7120 kHz, Sign off TIME: Sep 19 1859* Sep 20 1902* Sep 23 1902* Sep 24 1902* Sep 25 1902* Sep 26 1901* Sep 27 1903* Sep 30 1857* Oct 01 1904* Oct 02 1902* Oct 03 1901* Oct 04 1902* Oct 05 1903* Oct 06 1902* Oct 07 1901* Oct 08 1901* Oct 09 1901* Oct 10 1858* Oct 11 1859* Oct 12 1901* Oct 13 1900* Oct 18 1901* Oct 19 1902* Oct 20 1902* Oct 21 1901* Oct 22 1856* Oct 23 1858* Oct 24 1900* Oct 25 1902* Oct 27 1901* Oct 28 1902* Oct 29 1859* Oct 30 1902* Oct 31 1902* (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, My RX and ANT: IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD- 525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7120, Radio Hargeisa, 0334-0410+, Oct 25, tune-in to talk. Local music noted at 0427 check. Fair (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) 7120, Radio Hargaysa, 1310-1400* and *1501, Oct 25. Am now able to definitely confirm they have an English program; probably started in English at 1320, but I was unable to confirm English till 1328 with YL; after 1330 OM still in English; 1336 announcement for the end of the program; played filler pop song (not HOA type music) till 1340; ended English segment with an IS type music that I have heard before on their English audio streaming at their website; 1340 clearly switched over to what sounded like Somali language with local news (many mentions of “Somaliland”) and international news (several mentions of President “Obama”) till 1350; followed by HOA music; 1359 ID still for “Radio Hargaysa” (so no name change yet!); started out poor with intermittent QRM from strong OTH radar and improved to almost fair by sign off. Another sign on noted at 1501 with HOA music; weak; 1504 a big boost to the audio output with reciting from the Qur’an (qira’ut). With better conditions it might be possible to actually hear some specific details of their English program. Was interested to hear from Dave Valko from the east coast. He was also able to hear them today; his reception started at 1301; which tends to indicate they broadcast from 1300 to 1400 and again starting at about 1500 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Alinco DX-R8T and Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Interesting that Ron is hearing them OK. Up here in Victoria, not even a trace of a carrier :-( (Walt Salmaniw, BC, Oct 25, ibid.) working links: 4Mb 17Mb with a "motherf.-song" of 2PAC, "Pac's life".... 4Mb 4Mb 4Mb 4Mb 17Mb Where is the best sounding Mariam? ...... Help !!!! 18Mb 4MB SINPO 45333; Lightning storm on the internet (Roger, Germany, ibid.) 7120, Radio Hargesia, Oct. 26, 2012, *0300-0325. Noted with carrier prior to 0300, opened with interval signal, male speaker in Somalia, did note 'democratica' & al Hargeisa', followed with a program of local music, instrumental Horn of Africa, till the signal was hit with local power line noise. Re-tuned at 0333 and noted Koran recitations, but signal had dropped to s3 by now. One of the best appearances of this station (Edward Kusalik, Alberta, Canada, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7120, Radio Hargaysa, 0320-0355, Oct 26, already on the air at 0320 tune-in with local chants. Local music at 0321. Arabic talk at 0329. Qur`an at 0330. Arabic talk at 0333. Indigenous vocals. Good. Programming a little different than what I have heard here before (Brian Alexander, PA, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX Listening Digest) (SOMALIA), 7120, R Hargeisa; 0335-0348 Oct 26, announcements by man followed by a cappella “Horn of Africa” vocal music; best signal level noted here so far: S7-9; no trace of a signal the next evening but back on Oct 28 (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7120, Oct 26 at 1315, JBA carrier, upon which an intermittent SSB ham is saying ``hello test, 1, 2, 3`` until 1319. Was not expecting to be hearing R. Hargeisa, long path this early, as has been easy for Ron Howard, California. Still there at 1340, now with some CW QRhaM. 1347 trace of music, less CW QRM. 1357 the signal is a bit better and can make out some HoA music vs CW QRM on hi side. 1357 an announcement, 1358 seems dead air, 1400 talk, but gone by 1404. This matches recent observations by Ron Howard, that they have this earlier transmission now, take a break and resume around 1500. And on Oct 25 he says there was even English, probably at 1320-1340, definitely from 1328. Sunset today at Hargeisa is 1442 UT. The long path traverses the Indian Ocean south of Australia and NZ, up across the Pacific, total water path after Africa until hitting North America. And there was no carrier at all today from 7110 Myanmar`s very different transpolar path (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7120, Radio Hargaysa, 1401*, Oct 26. ID and anthem/marching music (National Anthem?). Not as good a reception as yesterday; was unable to confirm today that 1320 to 1340 was in English (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Alinco DX-R8T and Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7120, looking for R. Hargeisa longpath, as barely heard yesterday: Oct 27 at 1336 a carrier begins to be JBA; strengthens to BA at 1356 and gone at 1402. All the contest-enhanced QRhaM did not help. Ron Howard says it went off at 1401* Oct 26, and unlike Oct 25 he could not be sure there was English at 1320-1340 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7120.00, 1810-1901* 27.10, R. Hargeisa, Somaliland, Somali programme, Horn of Africa songs, female host with listeners phoning-in, news and maybe football news, 1900 national hymn by choir, 43433, much ham QRM AP-DNK Best 73, (Anker Petersen, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) [and non]. 7120, Oct 28 at 1328, JBA carrier presumed R. Hargeisa starting to show via long-path; more of a signal from LSB VE7BC close by (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7120, Radio Hargaysa, *0330-0400, Oct 29, sign on with IS. Talk at 0331. Qur`an at 0332. Talk at 0337. Some Horn of Africa style music and talk after 0349. Good (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) 7120, Oct 29 at 1354, presumed R. Hargeisa source of JBA carrier, eclipsed by a stronger carrier around 7119, presumably a ham which then went off, but then CW QRM mainly from hand-keyed AE0SL who per QRZ.com is Stanley D Leeson, 6337 152nd St, Hugo, MN 55038, USA and who, it is safe to say, is not interested in monitoring an AMBC from Hargeisa by long-path, but who includes family and wedding pictures on his QRZ.com site. But we digress (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hargeisha 7120 http://soundcloud.com/victor-4s7vk/r-hargeisha-7120-10-30-2012-13 English news at 1322 for about 7 minutes, back to Somali and close at 1359. Carrier off at 1401 (G. Victor A. Goonetilleke 4S7VK, "Shangri- la"' 298 Madapatha Road, Piliyandala, Sri Lanka, Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) SOMALIA {SOMALILAND], QSL, 7120, Hargeisa, Somaliland 50 kW, - or with reduced 10 kW? Baldur DJ6SI ist wieder frei, und fertigt Hargeisa Somaliland Kuuuhhhsels aus. "SOMALILAND" 7120, QSL, R. Hargeisa, nice "Rep. of Somaliland-R. Hargeisa" card from their consulate in Germany, same address that was QSLing during 2001-2006, then mostly on 7530; I checked the QIP pages and was surprised to see that they QSLed for someone as recently as 2009, so I gave them a try. This is the same card that was used then. Studio photo on front; date, fqy, "Rep. of Somaliland" handstamp, signature, details about Somaliland on back, where power is shown as 10 kW, a holdover from the old days. Frequencies printed on the card: 6390, 6860, 7120 (underlined), 7530, 11640 kHz. Received in one month by postal mail for a postal report, US$1 and audio CD of my reception. Address I used is the same as before: Konsularische Vertretung Somaliland Zedernweg 6 D-50127 Bergheim Germany and V/S is the same as well: Baldur Drobnica [title looks like "Consultant" rather than Consul], whose name is also in the envelope's return address. I QSLed Hargeisa direct back in 1977, but it's still nice to have this, and probably the only way we are going to get a postal reply in the foreseeable future (Jerry Berg-MA-USA, DXplorer Oct 26 via BCDX 27 Oct via DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Re: MORE BBC CUTS - CYPRUS SW RELAY STATION TO CLOSE Hi everyone, This will leave an awe inspiring hole in the Meyerton shortwave site schedules. Currently the BBC WS is running some 19 hours of English daily on 3255 and / or 6190, and assorted extra time on another seven frequencies. They are without doubt Sentech's largest foreign shortwave client, by far. It is difficult to see how Meyerton can continue with Channel Africa and Radio Sonder Grense (both cash- strapped SABC) as its main customers. The other users remaining are a handful of international broadcasters for a few hours a day each, and a handfull of stations specifically targetting Zimbabwe or other countries further north. Regards, (Bill Bingham, RSA, Oct 26, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sentech will have increased competition from alternate sites/providers who also have bigger holes in their transmission schedules. Could we see some serious airtime price competition? I'm sure the new MGLOB owners in nearby Madagascar will aggressively pursue clients for their operation (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, ibid.) AFS - Count 119 tx hours daily {I don't know alternates though}, but minus 19 hrs, not on Sat/Sun, 73 wb df5sx (Büschel, ibid.) Based upon the October 19 issue of EiBi, I calculate (approximately) the following: Excluding Sentech's SABC transmissions (i.e., Channel Africa and Radio Sonder Grense) which I assume are at least partly subsidized by Sentech's foreign shortwave clients, Meyerton currently puts out 66 transmitter hours each day. Of these, 42 transmitter hours are of BBC WS English on various frequencies (including 19 hours on 3255 and / or 6190). Of course, we do not yet know which of these various frequencies will be affected by the proposed cuts and consequently how the remaining 6 hours daily will translate to transmitter hours. But however it works out, I believe a reduction to 6 hours each day could cause substantial funding problems for Sentech, which describes itself as a "State owned, fully commercial enterprise" and is expected to make a profit. My figures may look quite different to those produced by Wolfy, but the difference is not as marked as it seems. Sonder Grense is a 24 hour station, bringing my daily total up to 90 transmitter hours, on top of which we have to add Channel Africa on various frequencies. Regards, (Bill Bingham, RSA, ibid.) SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT PLANS INTERNET RADIO STATION TO "COMMUNICATE ITS FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITIES " TO "JUST ABOUT ANYONE." Posted: 28 Oct The Star (Johannesburg), 25 Oct 2012, Louise Flanagan: South Africa's government "is going ahead with plans for a state-owned and controlled internet radio station which will be available around the world, and is looking for radio experts to set it up and run it – on government instruction. The station is a Department of International Relations and Co-operation (Dirco) project. ... Effectively, this makes it government propaganda." Department spokesman Nelson Kgwete said, "'Editorially, the station will provide a platform from which the South African government can communicate its foreign policy priorities and programme, including achievements and challenges, to a wide international audience.' ... Broadcasts will be in English, and the target audience is just about anyone." Critical Distance Weblog, 25 Oct 2012, Jonathan Marks: "[W]hy is this disappointing? Because all the independent evidence from the recent past shows that governments, especially public diplomacy departments, make really lousy broadcasters. They are shouting into the Internet, when the world has moved on to conversations and debate. I'm sure someone will make money training these government officials to present. But it's doomed to fail because they have forgotten one thing - how will they be credible when they haven't defined the audience? One look at the government website gives you some idea of the exciting stuff we can expect." (kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) Indeed, prospects for the success of this project are dim. First, it's radio, which lately is not competing well with television and the internet for global audiences. Further, it's internet radio, which is still far from the most popular way to receive radio. And then there is the content. Reliable news about South Africa? No. Music of South Africa? No. It will instead communicate South Africa's foreign policy priorities. In other words, an infomercial. I don't think families around the world will be huddling around their internet radios for such stuff. The South African government would be better off buying ads on television stations and newspapers that reach the countries they are interested in. Presumably, Channel Africa, South Africa's international radio station, will continue. Where does it fit in? Will it be positioned as a more independent source of news about South Africa. Maybe, although the station's mandate seems a mixed bag (Kim Andrew Elliott, ibid.) ** SOUTH AFRICA. 15480, Oct 29 at 1958, guitar and flute hymn audio is cutting off and on, 2000 AWR theme, ID and Voice of Hope in English, introducing Arabic. Still cutting out past 2008, a shame with some more neat music. I had no idea what the site would be until uplooked: Meyerton at 19-21 in Arabic. Looks like SENTECH has big problems; or AWR does in getting the audio in from Battle Creek or wherever. 11755, Oct 31 at 2009, French competes with somewhat stronger but undermodulated 11760, RHC French to Central America (where there are no French-speaking countries), and then ID as Radio Mondiale Adventiste. HFCC shows 250 kW, 328 degrees from Meyerton at 2000-2030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9980, Oct 25 at 1153, Brother Scare is already on WWCR-4, presumably now from *1100. Sufficient signal almost an hour before sunrise, but not yet at daytime blast level. 9370, Oct 31 at 1310, Brother Scare via WWRB has a pronounced echo, mimicking long-path; maybe some kind of feedback loop at WWRB, as there is no such echo via non-synchronized WWCR 9980. I must say that the Last Day Prophet of God is a bit self-centered (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Bad mixture, both WER and ISS at 19-20 UT. Issoudun in Russian towards RUS/CIS, but Brother Stair or something like towards NE/ME/NoEaAF and East Africa. BOTH 500 kW. 73 wb (Büschel, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, there they are right next to each other in B-12 HFCC. Despite TDF and MBR being under same ownership/management now, frequencies must be managed separately --- and since there is no overlap in official CIRAF targets, alarm bells did not go off in Paris coordination sessions! 9835 1900 2000 28W,29S,30W,39N ISS 500 80 0 146 1234567 281012 300313 D 12100 Rus F RFI TDF 12087 russ 9835 1900 2000 37,38,46E,47,48,52,53,57 WER 500 165 15 217 1234567 281012 300313 D 8400 D TOM MBR 17176 A.afnes [sic] (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [and non]. 9630, Oct 28 at 0516, REE Spanish via COSTA RICA has heavy Christian-sounding CCI in language with music. HFCC shows it`s now AWR in Hausa, 300 kW, 190 degrees from AUSTRIA, but it`s almost equal level to REE! This should go away from Oct 29, as B-12 REE schedule shows them on 9675 instead at 02-06 to NAm, while 9630 was the A-12 frequency. Complete B-12 REE is in latest DXLD 12-43, but HFCC still doesn`t have it, just relisting old B-11 info. 17595, Sunday Oct 28 at 1310, REE has started `Mundofonías` world- music show with Perú, so it remains at the same UT as in A-12 until new program schedule effective Nov 12, but now on the B-12 frequencies, also new very strong 15170 ex-11880 via CR, and weaker 15125. 15170 is best, but a trace of an understation. Can it be RRI as per last winter`s collision revived? Yes, Romanian 13-15, 290 degrees from Galbeni. 9675, Oct 29 at 0223, REE via CR is now here as expected, ex-9630, and // 9765, much weaker 3350; see also CANADA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) REE B12 --- Frecuencias B12 (Del 28 de octubre 2012 al 31 de marzo 2013) / B12 frequencies (from 28 October 2012 to 31 March 2013) http://programasdx.com/principal_archivos/frecuenciasreeb12.pdf Parrilla programación (Hasta 12 noviembre 2012) / Parrilla programming (Until November 12, 2012) http://programasdx.com/principal_archivos/parrillareeb12.pdf A partir del 12 de noviembre 2012 se cambiará a la nueva programación elaborada por la nueva Dirección de REE. / As of November 12, 2012 will be changed to the new schedule prepared by new REE Directorate. Traductor/ translator: http://translate.google.es/?hl=es&tab=wT (José Bueno, Córdoba, España, Oct 26, dxldyg via DXLD) 15125, Oct 29 at 1958, REE COSTA RICA winter frequency is on, but in the meantime, NIGERIA has started regular DRM broadcasts centered on 15120, causing QRDRM to REE/CR --- serves them right for QRDRMing neighbors of 9630 in the evenings. The 15125 collision is timed just right on M-F at 18-20, but longer hours on weekends per REE B-12 schedule, all to S America and not strong here in NAm --- Sat 16-23, Sun 12-23 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN. 9505, V of Sudan. Pleased with this abrupt on at 0428 with French ID “La Voix du Sudan, Radio National du Sudan”, good with continuous music, abrupt off in unID language at 0517 recheck on 24/10 (John Adams, Beech Forest, Vic (JRC NRD-535 Ewe and Folded Dipole), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) 7200, SRTC, 0218-0401*, Oct 25, tune-in to local chants. Arabic talk at 0241. Wide variety of local folk music, Horn of Africa music, local pop music, and indigenous vocals. Poor to fair in noisy conditions and HAM QRM (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA, Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 9505, Oct 25 at 0519, poor signal with almost HOA music, presumed Voix du Soudan, with some splatter from much stronger Arabic on 9515, CRI via Albania (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7200, SRTC/”Radio Omdurman”, Khartoum-Al Aitahab; 0218-0231 Oct 26, Qur`an recitation at tune-in then announcements by man, the latter at very low audio level, followed by chanting vocal music; fair-to-good level; not heard the next night but back at reduced strength Oct 28 (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9505, Oct 27 at 0442, Hornish of Africa music, fair signal, presumed R. Omdurman, a.k.a. La Voix du Soudan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9505, ID of "Sudania" Omdurman at 04-10 UT, young boy chorus, S=9+10 signal level but low smooth modulation at 0440 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SUDAN, 9505.000 heard already before 0500 UT Oct 30. Noted with very fun upbeat music from West Africa in 0445-0459 UT slot. ID by woman 'Sudania ...'at 0501 UT and HOA drums Africa mx 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. UAE: 13720, Sudan R. Service via UAE, Oct 30 0436- 0446, 33433 Arabic, Talk and music, ID at 0438, etc. (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, My RX and ANT: IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. 7315, R Dabanga to Sudan, powerhouse S=9+50db 0400- 0559 UT via Vatican SMG relay (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7315, Oct 28 at 0534, VG signal, but lo-fi audio, interview in Arabic. Tired of waiting for a Radio Dabanga singing ID to be interjected, but surely this is it as now scheduled in B-12 at 04-06 via VATICAN (hope possible collisions with WHRI have been worked out). 7315 is ex-11650. The other new frequency in HFCC is unchecked 11940 via MADAGASCAR, ex- 15400 (fortunately, as 19m is dead); also on unchecked UAE 13800. 7315 and something on 7325 squeeze out much weaker Magadan on 7320 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. 7315, Oct 30 at 0521, Radio Dabanga singing IDs immediately upon tune-in, compensating for a long ID-less spell 48 hours earlier; VG signal via VATICAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13800, R. Tamazuj via UAE, Oct 30 0400-0428*, 35433, Arabic, Talk, ID at 0400, etc. 13800, R. Dabanga via UAE, Oct 30 *0428-0436, 35433, Arabic, 0428 sign on with SJ, Opening announce, 0430 IS and SJ and ID, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, My RX and ANT: IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD- 9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. UKRAINE [sic]: 9940, Radio Miraya; 0426-0431+, 28-Oct; W in English reading messages from folks trying to make contact with relatives & friends in South Sudan. ID & news promo in English at BoH into M in LL. SIO=454. B12 site per HFCC (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, MARE DXpedition #103 anear Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 300 ft. NEish unterminated bev, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) But unbelievable (gh) 9940, Miraya FM from Sofia Kostinbrod site? Veiled information as always by TDP/BRB Ludos Florida branch company. 3-6 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SURINAME. 4990 tentative, Radio Apintie, Paramaribo, 0850 with weak audio, looking for other reports of Apintie, 26 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWAZILAND. 5995, TWR Manzini 0400-0445 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWITZERLAND. Voice of Russia abandons 558 kHz Voice of Russia will apparently cancel its use of 558 kHz in Switzerland after less than two years. http://german.ruvr.ru/frequenzen/ shows for this frequency now an end date of 31 Dec 2012, mentioned in on-air announcements as well. These transmissions started on 1 April 2011 after Voice of Russia was the only broadcasting organization interested in mediumwave frequencies in Switzerland at all. They originate with a power of 200 kW from the Cima di Dentro facility, abandoned by SRG in 2008. http://www.giangrandi.ch/electronics/broadcast/ceneri.html Note how the equipment is installed in an underground shelter here as well, like it was the case at Sarnen and Lenk, too. Wonder if it is still the transmitter inaugurated in 1979, guess it is indeed. Note also the aux antenna, which I already saw confused for a dipole for 1566 kHz, which it not is. (Hammock-type antennas are often confused for dipoles.) (Kai Ludwig, Oct 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAHITI. Surprised to receive Tahiti Radio Polynesie this evening at 0523 UT Oct 28 with nearly fair signal at times. Matched live stream with music being played. At this location there is moderate KCBS 740 splatter, but Tahiti at times over rides the splatter. Good luck in trying for it. Live stream link below. http://radioradio7.com/radio/French-Polynesia-RFO-Polynesie-RFO-Polynesie-952-FM.html Best regards, (Dennis Vroom, Kalama, WA, JRC NRD 545, W-SW ewe, IRCA mailing list via DXLD) Tahiti is in the UT - 10 zone, same as Hawaii, in the tropix, approx sunset would be 0400 UT, so why not, that early? (gh, DXLD) ** TAIWAN [non]. 5950, Oct 28 at 0200 and later, WYFR is gone and with it the RTI English relays. New and only one is now 22-23 on 15440 and 6115. 15440, Oct 28 at 2210, the new and only RTI relay time in English via WYFR, 22-23 UT, excellent signal, as was the case before when not in English. Feels like it`s on their 315 antenna but supposedly 285, while // 6115 is much weaker, listed as 355 degrees, so that should be much better in the east (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UAE, 9895.044, RTI TWN French via UAE Al Dhabbaya relay 19-20 UT, S=9+25dB in Germany (Sunday, October 28, 2012 1928 UT, Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAJIKISTAN. Voice of Russia gone from 4975 kHz --- Checking on 4975 kHz today (Oct. 29) I noticed Voice of Russia in English (TX Dushanbe- Yangiyul) is no more on that frequency. VoR website says the new frequency is 4780 kHz, and indeed at 1608 UT I can hear the same buzzing I used to hear on 4975 (probably an old TX malfunction) but only a faint trace of modulation (Tudor Vedeanu, (Gura Humorului, Romania), Oct 29, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, seemingly replacement to 4780 kHz for Yangi Yul broadcast, due of China 4980 kHz from Urumchi location. 4780 1200-1900 39-41 DB 100kW 180degr TJK VOR 73 wb (Büschel, ibid.) But checking last night 1700 UT and later observe VOR English on 4950 kHz, and nothing on 4975. I suppose this is Dushanbe ex 4975? Nothing for 4950 in HFCC. Yes HFCC lists 4780 but only DJI heard there. 4780 1200 1900 39-41 DB 100 180 0 101 1234567 281012 310313 D TJK VOR VOR 8118 (Victor Goonetileke, Sri Lanka, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) If anyone likes to listen to some DX audio clips on Sound Cloud you may access my account there. Anyway this is what the V of Russia sounded like on 4950 kHz at 1800 in English. Low het from Angola. Bad frequency for VOR. I am recommending 4960/65 as if they would want!!!! http://soundcloud.com/user6004348/voice-o-russia-4950-10-29-2012 73 (Victor in Sri Lanka, Oct 30, ibid.) TAJIKISTAN, 4950, Noted fade-in of VoRussia Yangi-Yul near Dushanbe. Pashto/Dari 12-14 UT, En 14-19 UT, S=4-5 when fade-in. Thanks Victor for enlighten. (Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, ibid.) Is some 1-2 Hertz less frequency, BUT suffers by near-by ute RTTY ditter on 4950.050, and two side peaks on 4949.950 and 4950.150 kHz. Registered 4780 kHz on HFCC conference instead, but see comment below. (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 30 via DXLD) I think it is AIR Srinagar that is a few Hz below. VOR on 4950.06 kHz with ±100 Hz spurs. And apparently V of Pujiang on exact nominal. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) That is correct Mauno! (Victor, ibid.) I don't know how VoR sounds like on 4950 kHz in the target areas, but here in Romania it sounds awful, with utility RTTY and AIR Srinagar on the same frequency. 4975 kHz used to be fair to good at my QTH in the evenings. Yesterday the Dushanbe TX humming was audible on 4780 kHz, today only Djibouti can be heard there (Tudor Vedeanu, 1551 UT Oct 30, ibid.) ** TAJIKISTAN. 7245, Voice of Tajik Radio. 1301, 10/10, ID in English and program with songs and comments with bad audio, almost nothing to understand, at 1354 a time and frequency and end with songs (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi ant 16 m 300 ohm ribbon cable), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD) ** THAILAND. Radio Thailand B-12 schedule til March 30, 2013 0000-0030 English 13745 US-East *Live 0030-0100 English 13745 US-West *Live 0100-0200 Thai 13745 US-West 0200-0230 English 13745 US-East 0230-0330 Thai 13745 US-East 0530-0600 English 12015 Eastern Europe/Russia *Live 1000-1100 Thai 17630 Middle East 1030-1100 Thai 1575 SoEaAS 1100-1130 Thai 1575 SoEaAS Mon-Fri only 1100-1115 Vietnamese 5875 Asia-Pacific 1115-1130 Khmer 5875 Asia-Pacific 1130-1145 Lao 5875 Asia-Pacific 1145-1200 Burmese 5875 Asia-Pacific 1200-1230 Thai 1575 SoEaAS Mon-Fri only 1200-1215 Malaysian 11870 Asia-Pacific 1230-1300 English 9720 Asia-Pacific 1300-1315 Japanese 7465 Asia-Pacific 1315-1330 Mandarin 7465 Asia-Pacific 1330-1400 Thai 7465 Asia-Pacific 1400-1430 English 9950 Asia-Pacific 1800-1900 Thai 9585 Europe 1900-2000 English 9585 Europe 2000-2015 German 9535 Europe 2030-2045 English 9535 Europe 2045-2115 Thai 9535 Europe 2230-2400 Thai 1575 SoEaAS Sun-Thur only. Radio Thailand, World Services (HSK9), Public Relations Department, Royal Thai Government, 236 Vibhavadi Rangsit Road, Din Daeng, Bangkok 10400 Thailand, Tel +662 6919917, Fax +662 2776139 (via Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 25, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 27, [English] via WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DXLD) 13745 NF, Radio Thailand, 0019-0035, Oct 29, New Frequency. ex-15275. Tune-in to English “Morning News Hour”. IDs. Promos for traveling to Asia. Ad for Bangkok Airways. Fair to good. Reduced signal strength to a weak but readable level at 0030 when they switch their antenna beam headings from eastern to western North America. 9535 NF, Radio Thailand, *2000-2015*, Oct 29, New Frequency. ex-9680. Opening English ID announcements at 2000 and into German programming at 2001. Fair. 9535 NF, Radio Thailand, *2030-2115*, Oct 29, New Frequency. ex-9680. Sign on with English ID announcements and into “Radio Thailand’s News Hour” program. Chimes at 2045 and into Thai programming at 2046-2115*. Fair (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** TURKEY. 6040, Oct 27 at 0448, music sounds like TRT, and by golly it is // 11980: the latter is commonly audible, but haven`t had VOT on 6040 before. On last day of A-12, HFCC shows 6040 is 500 kW, 138 degrees from Emirler at 04-06; 11980 is 500 kW, 310 degrees USward during same hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 9655, Oct 28 at 0415, VOT on new B-12 frequency for English to NAm, ex-9515 at 0300; during DX Corner, fair with flutter. 15350, Oct 28 at 1303 news in Turkish enumerating US swing states; VOT Turkish now here at 07-14, 500 kW, 310 degrees from Emirler for WEu and thence NAm. Would be good if it weren`t for RHC 15340 splatter plus/minus 20-25 kHz! At least Morocco continues to be long gone from 15349.1. 17755, Oct 28 at 1307, Turkish music, better signal than non-// Turkish service on 15350; as in previous B-seasons, this is VOT German service from 1230, 500 kW, 310 degrees from Emirler and also USward. 12035, Oct 28 at 1356, no signal at all from VOT, supposed to be B-12 replacement for 1330 English, ex-1230 on 15450, which was fairly reliable for a semiyear. Is 12035 really on the air? 9700, Oct 29 at 0539 Turkish music, ex-11980, and 9700 is ex-RRI, Romania which had similar good signals here all summer in morning Eurolangs including English. Now RRI has abandoned 9700 completely which it ``inherited`` from defunct neighbor R. Bulgaria. TRT now has 9700 at 0500-0700 in Turkish, 500 kW, 310 degrees from Emirler to W Europe and USward too. Interesting to contrast the always minor-key sad-sounding music from Turkey with the happy more major-key music from Greece on 9420, which continues to be reactivated during this timespan, // 7475 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. MORE BBC CUTS - CYPRUS SW RELAY STATION TO CLOSE Cyprus MW to continue, but for reduced hours. BBC Arabic on shortwave to close, except to Sudan. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/20082294 (via Chris Greenway, Oct 25, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) "World Service English short wave transmissions will also be reduced, falling from seven to 19 hours each day to six for the loss of 1.5m listeners." What does this mean? Very confusing paragraph! (Stephen Cooper, BDXC- UK yg via DXLD) I think they mean that WS English output is currently between 7 and 19 hours depending on the region, but will be reduced to only six hours per region. If so, that would be a very substantial cut to Africa but less of a cut to other regions. 73s (Dave Kenny, ibid.) Might mean a "three hours morning, three hours evening" schedule, instead of the two-hour blocks I had speculated upon in an earlier post. Didn't see the Cyprus demise coming; I had thought Seychelles would be a more likely candidate for closure. But the BBCWS still has other facilities in the region such as A'Seela and Dhabayya. The Thailand relay is also available for South Asia. The MGLOB facility in Madagascar (ex-RNW) is another possibility as an alternate site. At a glance, it appears these changes happen for A- 13...? (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, dxldyg via DXLD) Yes, for A-13. The BBC's financial year begins in April (Chris Greenway, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, ibid.) ** U K. GREAT BRITAIN: 11680 BBC; 1706, 27-Oct; "This is the BBC; there are no programs on this channel at present..." repeating loop. SIO=344- (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, MARE DXpedition #103 anear Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 300 ft. NEish unterminated bev, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5985, Oct 28 at 0239, fair signal in Farsi. It`s new B-12 channel for BBCWS, due east from Woofferton at 0230-0330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non]. At 0300: BBCWS 6140 Meyerton poor, 7255 Ascension fair to poor with slopover from VOR 5kHz down. 9410 Cyprus very poor, 5940 Cyrpus unlistenable. However 7435 Ascension actually quite good, but some other station underneath, not identified. After 0400: BBCWS 7255 Ascension slightly better than an hour ago, with VOR gone from 7250. 12015 Meyerton quite good, but 12035 Cyprus and 12095 Seychelles unheard. At 0500: BBCWS 7255 Ascension better than previous two hours, but 15400 Meyerton and 17640 Seychelles unheard (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, UT Oct 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11890, Oct 29 at 1306, BBCWS starting `World Briefing` with reports from US about H. Sandy, initially how George Stephanololopolous alarmingly headlined it on GMA. Fair but sufficient signal, so note this for us Americans not supposed to hear BBC on SW: 13-15, 250 kW, 25 degrees from THAILAND for E Asia, but also USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6140, Nov 1 at 0349, English from BBC is sufficient here; but we shall lose it once RHC moves from 6050 to 6140, maybe strong enough to cover it, 0300-0400, 100 kW, 330 degrees from Meyerton, SOUTH AFRICA. BBC is also on 6140 at 02-03 from Oman to Afghanistan, but that should be sharable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [and non]. BBC English B12 schedules taken from the BBC site. Full schedules: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/schedules/frequencies/ West and Central Africa Frequency Chart: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/schedules/frequencies/wafr.htm East Africa Frequency Chart: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/schedules/frequencies/eastafr.htm Southern Africa Frequency Chart: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/schedules/frequencies/safr.htm South Asia Frequency Chart: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/schedules/frequencies/ass.htm East Asia Frequency Chart: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/schedules/frequencies/ase.htm South East Asia Frequency Chart: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/schedules/frequencies/aspac.htm Middle East and Gulf Frequency Chart: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/schedules/frequencies/mideast.htm Afghanistan and Iran Frequency Chart: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/schedules/frequencies/afg.htm (via Ste Cooper, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U K [and non]. BBC B12 http://tinyurl.com/9qdv2vt --- (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, dxldyg via DXLD) Leads to a pdf on his blog, sorted 1) by language, 2) by site, 3) by time, so if you want to look up a frequency, use search (gh) Or this: UK: BBC WS B-12 Schedule from 28 October 2012 Arabic 0300-0400 [dly] 5790wo 6040cy 6065cy 5875cy 6040sk 0300-2100 [dly] 720cy 0329-0330 [dly] 639cy 0330-2100 [dly] 639cy 0400-0500 [dly] 5790wo 5875cy 9915cy 11820om 5790wo 7325wo 7325cy 0400-0600 [dly] 5915sk 0500-0600 [dly] 7325cy 13660cy 15790om 7325wo 15790cy 0500-0700 [dly] 5790wo 0600-0700 [dly] 9915cy 13660cy 15790cy 7325wo 13660cy 15790cy 0700-0800 [dly] 11680sk 17885cy 1500-2100 [dly] 702om 1700-1800 [dly] 9915sk 5790sk 9915cy 1700-1900 [dly] 6110wo 1700-2000 [dly] 7375cy 1700-2100 [dly] 6195om 1800-2100 [dly] 5790sk 9915cy 1900-2000 [dly] 6170wo 2000-2100 [dly] 7375cy 5875wo 5875cy Bengali 0030-0100 [dly] 7325ns 9510kr 12025kr 0130-0200 [dly] 9510ns 15270kr 1330-1400 [dly] 5865ns 9510om 11850kr 1630-1700 [dly] 5865ns 7465kr 9650kr Burmese 0000-0030 [dly] 5875ns 9510kr 12025kr 0200-0230 [dly] 9460ns 11975ns 11995kr 1345-1430 [dly] 7400kr 9900kr 11685kr Dari 0030-0100 [dly] 5875cy 7435wo 1413om 0130-0200 [dly] 5875cy 6195cy 7445wo 0230-0300 [dly] 6140om 6195cy 7445cy 0930-1030 [dly] 15710om 17720ns 1400-1500 [dly] 9810om 11950cy 15710cy 1700-1730 [dly] 5865ns 5875cy 5910om 1800-1830 [dly] 5865ns 5910cy 7505ns 1800-1900 [dly] 1413om 1830-1900 [dly] 5865ns 5910cy 7505ns Farsi 0230-0300 [dly] 1413om 0230-0330 [dly] 5985wo 6165dh 7410cy 9800ta 0330-0430 [dly] 7445cy 9695cy 11925om 1600-1700 [dly] 5875cy 6155om English 0000-0100 AS [dly] 5970om 7360cy 9410ns 12095kr 12095ns 0000-0100 FE [dly] 13725ns 0000-0100 wAS [dly] 6195kr 11750kr 0000-0200 eAs [dly] 15335kr 0000-0200 FE [dly] 15755ns 0100-0200 AS [dly] 5970om 12095ns 0100-0200 EU [dly] 5940cy 0100-0200 FE [dly] 17685kr 0100-0200 sAs [dly] 11750kr 0100-0200 wAS [dly] 11750kr 0100-0300 AS [dly] 15310ns 0200-0300 AS [dly] 1413om(-0230) 12095om 0200-0300 eAF [dly] 7435sy 0200-0300 EU [dly] 5875cy 5940cy 0200-0729 EU [.mtwtf.] 1323cy 0200-2300 EU [s.....s] 1323cy 0300-0329 EU [dly] 639cy 0300-0400 cAF [dly] 6140me 9460sy 12035sy 0300-0400 EU [dly] 5940cy 5940sk 9410cy 12095om 0300-0400 ME [dly] 1413om 0300-0400 sAF [dly] 7435as 0300-0400 wAF [dly] 7255as 0300-0600 AS [dly] 15310om 17790ns 0300-0600 sAF [dly] 3255me 6190me 0400-0500 cAF [dly] 12015me 0400-0500 eAF [dly] 12035cy 12095sy 0400-0500 EU [dly] 9410cy 11760cy 0400-0500 wAF [dly] 6005as 0400-0600 cAF [dly] 7255as 0500-0600 eAF [s.....s] 12095sy 15420cy 0500-0600 eAF [.mtwtf.] 12095sy 15420sy 0500-0600 EU [dly] 3955sk 11760cy 15360om 0500-0700 cAF [dly] 15400me 0500-0700 eAF [dly] 17640cy 0500-0700 wAF [dly] 6005as 0600-0700 AS [dly] 17790ns 0600-0700 cAF [dly] 9410as 0600-0700 eAF [.mtwtf.] 15420cy 0600-0700 eAF [s.....s] 15420sy 0600-0700 EU [dly] 3955sk 15360cy 0600-0700 sAF [dly] 12095me 0600-0700 wAF [dly] 9460as 0600-1200 AS [dly] 15310ns 0600-1400 sAF [dly] 6190me 0700-0800 cAF [dly] 17830me 0700-0800 eAF [.mtwtf.] 17640cy 0700-0800 eAF [s.....s] 17640sy 0700-0800 EU [dly] 5875wo 7355au 15575om 17660cy 0700-0800 sAF [dly] 12095me 0700-0800 wAF [dly] 11770as 13820as 15400as 0700-1200 AS [dly] 17790om 0800-0900 cAF [dly] 17830as 0800-0900 EU [dly] 5875wo 7355au 0800-0900 sAF [dly] 12095me 0800-1000 EU [dly] 15575om 17660cy 0800-1000 wAF [dly] 15400as 0800-1400 eAF [dly] 17640sy 0800-1400 sAF [dly] 21470sy 0900-1000 cAF [dly] 17830as 0900-1000 e,sAs [dly] 9740kr 0900-1000 wAS [dly] 9740ns 0900-1100 eAs [dly] 15285kr 0900-1100 FE [dly] 11895ns 17760ns 0900-1100 sAs [dly] 6195kr 0900-1200 wAS [dly] 6195kr 0900-1400 sAF [dly] 12095me 0900-2300 MF [.mtwtf.] 1323cy 1000-1100 cAF [s.....s] 17830as 1000-1100 e,sAs [dly] 9740kr 1000-1100 wAS [dly] 9740ns 1000-1130 wAF [s.....s] 15400as 1000-1400 EU [dly] 11760om(-1300) 15575cy 1100-1130 wAF [.mtwtf.] 15400as 1100-1200 FE [dly] 11895ns 15285kr 1100-1500 cAF [dly] 17830as 1100-1600 eAs [dly] 9740kr 1100-1600 sAs [dly] 6195kr 9740kr 1200-1300 AS [dly] 17790om 1200-1300 FE [dly] 11895ns 1200-1400 AS [dly] 15310ns 1200-1600 FE [dly] 5875ns 1200-1600 wAS [dly] 6195kr 1300-1400 AS [dly] 1413om 9410om 1300-1400 EU [dly] 11760om 1300-1500 FE [dly] 11890ns 1400-1500 eAF [dly] 17640cy 1400-1500 sAF [dly] 12095me 1400-1600 EU [dly] 11760cy 1400-1600 sAF [dly] 6190me 1400-1700 AS [dly] 5975kr 9410om 1400-1700 sAF [dly] 21470cy 1400-1800 sAs [dly] 5845ns 1430-1500 swAS [dly] 1413om 1500-1600 sAF [dly] 9490me 1500-1700 AS [dly] 9505cy 1500-1700 cAF [dly] 17830as 1500-1700 eAF [dly] 12095sy 17640cy 1500-2000 wAF [dly] 15400as 1600-1700 EU [dly] 9915cy 1600-1700 wAF [dly] 21660wo 1600-1800 sAF [dly] 3255me 6190me 1630-1800 AS [dly] 1413om 7600ns(1700-) 1700-1800 cAF [dly] 17830as 1700-1800 eAF [dly] 12095sy 15420cy 1700-1800 wAF [dly] 21660wo 1700-1830 AS [dly] 5975om 9505kr 1700-1900 eAF [dly] 17640me 1800-1830 AS [dly] 7600ns 1800-1900 eAF [dly] 12095cy 1800-2000 cAF [dly] 11810as 1800-2000 EU [dly] 5875cy 5945om 1800-2000 wAF [dly] 9430wo 1800-2200 sAF [dly] 3255me 6190me 1830-2100 eAF [dly] 6005sy(1900-) 9410sy 1900-2100 ME [dly] 1413om 1900-2100 sAF [dly] 12095cy 2000-2100 cAF [dly] 11810as 2000-2100 wAF [dly] 9430wo 15400as 2100-2200 cAF [dly] 9410sy 2100-2200 FE [dly] 5875ns 5905om 2100-2200 sAF [dly] 5955sy 2100-2300 sAs [dly] 3915kr 6195ns(-2200) 2100-2300 wAF [dly] 9915as 12095as 2200-2400 FE [dly] 6135ki 7490ns 2200-2400 wAS [dly] 6195kr 2200-2300 cAF [dly] 5885me 2200-2300 eAs [dly] 6195kr 2200-2300 As/FE [dly] 5875ns 5905om 6195kr 2300-2400 eAs [dly] 5875ns 2300-2400 FE [dly] 5980om 2300-2400 sAs [dly] 3915kr 11955kr 2300-0100 sAs [dly] 6195kr 2300-0200 e,sAs [dly] 9740kr French 0430-0500 [dly] 6135as 7415as 15490sy 0600-0629 [dly] 11800as 6055sk 7350wo 6135as 0700-0729 [dly] 15105as 11800as 1200-1230 [dly] 21630as 21720wo 17780as 1800-1830 [dly] 13790as 9605sk 7465me 15105as 17885wo Hausa 0529-0600 [dly] 5975wo 6135as 7305as 0629-0700 [dly] 9440as 9870wo 11800as 1400-1430 [dly] 15105wo 17780as 21630as 1430-1700 [......s] 17780as 1930-2000 [dly] 11890as 15105as 17885as 2000-2030 [.....f.] 11890as 15105as 17885as Hindi 0100-0130 [dly] 1413om 6165om 7285cy 11995ns 15510kr 0230-0300 [dly] 9560cy 11995om 15510ns 7510ns 1400-1430 [dly] 1413om 5865ns 7600ns 9510om 12065kr 13865cy 1600-1630 [dly] 5865ns 9790kr 13695cy 15710cy 1413om Kirwanda/Kirundi 0500-0600 [......s] 11925sy(-0559) 15490cy 0529-0600 [s......] 11925sy(-0559) 15490cy 1630-1700 [.mtwtf.] 11860sy 15790cy 1830-1900 [.mtwtf.] 6140sy 7425cy 9815cy Pashto 0100-0130 [dly] 5875cy 6195om 7445wo 0200-0230 [dly] 6140om 6195cy 7445cy 0300-0330 [dly] 7445wo 9820cy 11970om 0830-0900 [dly] 15710om 17720ns 0900-0930 [dly] 15710om 17720ns 1030-1130 [dly] 15710om 17720ns 1500-1600 [dly] 7360cy 9810cy 15710cy 1730-1800 [dly] 5865ns 5875cy 5910om Sinhala 1630-1700 [dly] 6135kr 7600ns 9615om Somali 0400-0430 [dly] 9815cy(-0429) 15490sy 1100-1130 [dly] 17780cy1595dh 1300-1700 [......s] 15510cy 1400-1500 [smtwtf.] 12045sy 15150sy 17870cy 1800-1830 [dly] 6140sy 9410sy 9815cy Tamil 1545-1615 [dly] 6135kr 7600ns 9855om 11965sk Urdu 0130-0200 [dly] 1413om 5980om 7285cy 15510ns 6165om 0300-0330 [dly] 9695cy 11995dh 17510ns 17760ns 1500-1600 [dly] 7600ns(-1545) 1413om 6175om 9920ns 12065cy Uzbek [jammed by CHINA with CNR1 or Firedrake --- gh] 1300-1330 [dly] 13865om 17790cy 21590cy Transmitters: as = Ascension au = Moosbrunn cy = Cyprus dh = Dhabayya ki = Kimjae kr = Kranji me = Meyerton ns = Nakhon Sawan om = A'seela sk = Skelton sy = Seychelles ta = Tashkent wo = Woofferton (via Alokesh Gupta , dxldyg, extracted from pdf file and re-arranged by Alan Roe, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U K. Letter from America --- The BBC now has available online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f6hbp Alistair Cooke’s weekly talks on American life, history and politics, as broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 1946 to 2004. The oldest is from 12 January 1947 and it`s a fragment preserved from Cooke's talk, reflecting on the importance of democratic capitalism and a free economy to Americans at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00yrd7d "In Alistair Cooke’s Footsteps" Tuesday 6 November, 9.30-9.45 am, BBC RADIO 4 Alvin Hall reassesses Alistair Cooke’s Letter From America, Cooke's weekly radio broadcast that ran continually for 58 years on the BBC, from 1946 to 2004. Cooke had set himself a challenge that seemed deceptively simple: to explain the United States to Britain and the world. His Letters achieved that and more. He was an acute observer, a marvellous storyteller, a man who loved America but saw it in intensely clear terms - a country that was both great and sometimes terribly flawed in its greatness. But eight years after his death are the Letters still relevant? For Alvin Hall, the answer is emphatically yes. Criss-crossing America Alvin tests the insights and observations of Cooke on subjects as diverse as desegregation and jazz, the American Dream and immigration. The BBC will be making available Cooke’s archive - over 950 programmes - on the Radio 4 website, from 1 November. Presenter/Alvin Hall, Producer/Bill Law for the BBC (BBC Radio 4 Publicity) http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2012/45/alistair-cook-wk45.html (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) The Alistair Cooke archive has gone live, although the downloadable podcasts aren't working yet, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f6hbp (Sandy Finlayson, Oct 27, internetradio via DXLD) BBC : The Listeners' Archive: What we have so far --- (A special programme is to be broadcast on the 90th anniversary of BBC radio on November 14th - Mike) BBC Blog, By Will Jackson Project manager, 19 October 2012 A week on from the successful Listeners’ Archive open days, and the boxes of cassettes and reels of tape (and one minidisc!) are starting to arrive at our digitisation centre at the BBC’s historic Maida Vale studios. We’re enormously grateful to listeners and colleagues across the BBC for their help with the project to date. Now, in a windowless room packed with equipment including some vintage reel-to-reel machines, our team are setting to work reviewing audio and starting the process of transferring it to digital. We already know we’ve ticked a few things off our “wants” list. We’ve found everything from “Have A Go” from the Light Programme in the late 50s, to “Out On Blue Six”, Mark Radcliffe’s first shows on national radio. As I type, one workstation is playing out Steve Wright on the Radio 1 roadshow in Bournemouth from 1993; another is running Alan Freeman and Kenny Everett recordings. We also have an astonishing discovery of one man’s extensive collection of recordings of BBC radio in the late 50s and early 60s, now held by the British Library. It includes editions of “Skiffle Club” from 1958 and “Sing Something Simple” from 1960. We’ll feature this in our programme to be broadcast on the 90th anniversary of BBC radio on November 14th. Trevor Dann is on the case, speaking to the collector’s relatives and neighbours. And we’re following up leads on significant collections of Goons shows, Peel sessions, “Music While You Work”, Charlie Chester, and an entire archive of Benny Green jazz shows. But we’re still happy to hear from you if you’ve just dusted off a recording we might be interested in. Email us at listenersarchive@bbc.co.uk or we’re on Twitter @BBCListeners. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio/posts/The-Listeners-Archive-What-we-have-so-far (via Mike Terry, Oct 25, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U K. Archive on 4: TUNING IN, HISTORY OF EARLY RADIO IN BRITAIN Part of the BBC at 90 series: Saturday November 3, 2000, Radio 4 The press fulminated, the enthusiasts were frustrated, and the radio manufacturers fumed. Despite the fact that Marconi had invented radio before Queen Victoria had celebrated her Diamond Jubilee in 1897, radio in Britain took another 25 years to begin an official service to listeners. But when, on November 14th 1922 the British Broadcasting Company's station at Marconi House radiated to an awaiting nation "This is 2LO calling" for the first time under the company's name, it marked the start of the first and most distinguished public-service radio station in the world. As part of the celebrations to mark nine decades of the BBC, historian Dominic Sandbrook explores the long and involved pre-BBC history of radio in Britain, how Britain's broadcaster got going and developed into an institution dedicated to entertainment, education and information, discovers why Australian diva Dame Nellie Melba was involved, and how the improbably-named Captain Plugge made his first British commercial broadcast from the roof of Selfridges department store in London. From Marconi to Savoy Hill via an old army hut in Essex, the story of the early radio in Britain. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nnw8t (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U K. BBC Essex/Hereford & Worcester join MW switch off trial The BBC is running a further trial commencing on the 30th October - 6th November 2012 to switch off existing MW services at two more local radio stations, Radio Essex and Radio Hereford & Worcester. While extending the trail for Radio Nottingham and Radio Kent MW frequency (1602 MW). http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/mwtrial/ Just checked Essex on 765 and it's running a loop tape (Mike Barraclough, 1739 UT Oct 30, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Can confirm all BBC Essex MF carrying loop. 765, 729, & 1530. Regards (Gareth, Westfield, Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange, ibid.) ** U S A [non]. 7520, Oct 28 at 1327, wild fiddling, ex-7575, 1330 ID as VOA `Jazz America`, also on poor 9640. 7520 is on air during the 13-14 hour only on weekends, 250 kW, 332 degrees via Tinang, PHILIPPINES, while 9640 is likewise at 270 degrees. 9800, Oct 28 at 1333, good signal in Korean but some CCI; is VOA, 250 kW, 21 degrees also USward from Tinang, PHILIPPINES, at 12-15, ex- 15775 in A-12. No CCI in HFCC, just Pakistan at 1230-1330. See also INDONESIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) VOA: A Feast of Music Each Afternoon on 15580 kHz Had a wonderful Tuesday afternoon listening to the great music offered on VOA. Tuned 15580 kHz from 2000 to 2130 GMT for two great and very different music programs: (1) "African Beat" at 2000 GMT presenting pop music from various African cultures; & (2) the exceptional "Roots and Branches" which runs from 2100 to 2200 GMT, featuring great music peculiar to the American historical experience. I consider the latter one of the very best programs offered anywhere on shortwave radio. And both are in English! My signal meter registered a steady, clear signal for both programs, showing a relative "8 to 9 out of 10" consistently. It's the kind of musical programming daily that makes shortwave listening a magical experience for which I am grateful (Grayson Watson; Dallas, TX; using a Sangean 909x with an Apex 700DTA active antenna. Oct 30, NASWA yg via DXLD) Current transmitter sites on 15580: Greenville 94 degrees at 20-21, Botswana 350 degrees at 21-22 (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 26/10/12: 25910, WBAP, Ft Worth, 1400, never better than poor, not close to levels of 2000 (Tim Bucknall, Congleton, RDR54D1 +CLP5130, harmonics yg via DXLD) ** U S A. 5745, which both WTWW and R. Martí planned to be using, is occupied by neither, Oct 29 at 1235 check, just OTH radar probably from China covering 5730-5770. But at 1351 I can barely hear R. Martí and make it // 11930 as the OTHR continues with added SSB QRM to one side, and apparently no jamming unlike 11930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5745, WTWW, Lebanon. 0400, 7 & 21/10, World of Radio by Glenn Hauser, weak signal (at the same time on 9825 is DXing with Cumbre via WHRI, but for example on 21/10 was aired an edition #735 recorded on 4/10 and only with Chris Lobdell’s news about pirates on SW) (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi ant 16 m 300 ohm ribbon cable), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD). ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1640: ready for first airing UT Thursday Oct 25 at 0330 on WRMI 9955: confirmed on webcast. Further repeats are: Sat 0800, 1500, 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730; Mon 0500; Tue 1100. On WTWW: Thu 2100 on 9479, UT Sat 0130 or 0200 or ???? on 5085, UT Sun 0400 on 5745. On WWRB: UT Fri 0330 on 5050 and/or 3195 On Area 51 via WBCQ: UT Sat 0130v on 5110v-CUSB On HLR: Sat 0630 & 1630 on 7265 On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830 Also on numerous webcasting stations as in full schedule: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Which has direct audio linx, including to new affiliate, WGXC 90.7, Acra NY in the Hudson Valley, Sat 1000 UT, and associated webcaster free103point9. WORLD OF RADIO 1640 monitoring: confirmed Thursday October 25 on WTWW 9479, excellent signal. They are still running the announcement that 5755 ``will`` change to 5745, which is interrupted by canned ID, then WOR starts intact. WWRB is on both 5050 and // 3195 at 0125 Oct 26, so WORLD OF RADIO at 0330 probably will be too this week (Glenn Hauser, OK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1640 monitoring: Maybe so, but I start listening to the webcast at 0329. ``Amen & amen`` SC preacher ends at 0330 (he interjects more amens every few sex during his sermon, an extremely annoying tic), and deadair/noise level rises; 42 seconds later just silence; 54 seconds after that, hum and noise start up; 2+ minutes after that, Dave comes on and says he`s very sorry, but can`t get WORLD OF RADIO to play tonight; knows we are disappointed, but will have to fill with something else. Me too; wish I knew how to fix his computer problem. WWRB gets the same mp3 file other stations have no problems playing. Better chances to hear WOR 1640: UT Sat Oct 27 at 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; UT Sun 0400 on WTWW 5745. Maybe also at 0130 or 0200 or ???? UT Sun on WTWW 5085, if on the air this week. Circa Europe, UT Sat 0630 & 1630 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265. In Latin America, Sat 0800, 1500, 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730, Mon 0500, Tue 1100 on WRMI 9955. Also Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830 on WRN via SiriusXM 120. WORLD OF RADIO 1640 monitoring: 5109.8-CUSB, UT Sat Oct 27 starting at 0131:51 on Area 51 via WBCQ. Had some lite SSB 2-way QRM on one side or the other. Remaining repeats: UT Sun 0130 or 0200 or ???? IF WTWW-2 is on 5085. UT Sun 0400 on WTWW-1 5745. Sun 1730 (for the last time) on WRMI 9955. Mon 0500, Tue 1100. WRN via Sirius XM 120: Sun 0830 & 1730 (for the last time, then from Nov 4 only at 1830 Saturdays, Nov 3 still 1730 UT) WORLD OF RADIO 1641 monitoring: first airing confirmed on WTWW 9479, Thursday Nov 1 at 2101; next is UT Sunday 0400 on 5745. Also UT Fri 0330v on WWRB 3195 and/or 5050 UT Sat 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Sat 0630 & 1630 on HLR, Germany, 7265 [no UT time shift] Sat 0800, 1500, 1730, Sun 0900, 1630, Mon 0600, Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955 [with standard timeshift starting Sunday] On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat 1730 [and no longer on Sundays] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5745, WTWW GH's WoR in progress S=9+10 at 0410 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, UT Sun Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WTWW in Portuguese at 0350 UT Oct 26. Radio Play like opera on Pilatus and Barabas bible feature. 12104.978 kHz, S=8 in Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) [and non]. 9479, Oct 26 at 1950, WTWW-1 has a considerable het from some station on 9480. Most of the time, in North America with its super-signal, WTWW gets away with this deliberate off-frequency operation which was authorized in order to move a high-order harmonic of 9480 off a nearby VHF 2-way frequency for school bus communications. But HFCC A-12 shows at 18-20, CRI French via Albania is on 9480 beaming 310 degrees also USward. Other clashes registered: 1330-1700 R. Rossii, 200 kW, 260 from Moskva; 2000-2100, IBB English via Thailand; 2155-0100 CNR Tibetan from Beijing. Not to mention the 1 kW German registered 0800-1600. Initial B-12 HFCC shows following conflicts: WTWW (as ``9480``), 11-01 at 50 degrees vs: 0800-1400 GOH, Germany, 1 kW 0800-1605 CNR Tibetan via Beijing site, 100 kW 1500-1800 VOR from Moskva 2000-2100 IBB from Lampertheim in English, 120 degrees opposite 2100-2400 GOH, Germany, 1 kW, tentative 2155-0100 CNR Tibetan via Beijing 9990, Oct 28 at 0037, WTWW-2 is blasting in, on air for weekly Saturday evening broadcast with Ted Randall. Presumed QSY to 5085 circa 0100; no WORLD OF RADIO at 0130 or 0200 as in previous weeks. 0200-0300 running Rod Hembree stuff; 0300 starts playing back an old QSO show; 0510 check off the air, unlike last week when stayed on a couple hours more. 11490, Oct 28 at 0212, very poor signal from PPP = // 2 x 5745 WTWW-1. Never noted this harmonic before, but may well be in this case DX-398 receiver overload rather than transmitted. 5745, Oct 28 at 0400, WORLD OF RADIO 1640 airs as scheduled UT Sundays. Also next week, but after that due to end of DST, will appear at 0500 UT Sundays starting Nov 11. 5745 has been in use by WTWW-1 for a few weeks ex-5755, but what about B-12 when OCB/R. Martí was already registered for its usual winter usage at 11-14? HFCC shows RM has been cut back to 13-14 only so there is no collision, but I`m still hearing a weak signal from it and no jamming yet at 1319 Oct 28, while WTWW-1 is already on 9479 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. Both WWRB outlets very tiny here Germany this morning. Noted on little ODD 5049.995 and even 3195.0 kHz, latter little stronger S=7 of "wonderful lights of live ... heard of God", mentioned "...listen from Tullahoma, Tennessee ....". Tiny level compared against RHC 5040 kHz next door, which did broadcast an extended speech to crowd in Spanish // 6000 kHz, or R Rebelde 5025 kHz which propagate well into Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26, dxldyg via DXLD) WWRB looks like they've moved down the dial back to 3195 from 5050 with poor reception here in South Carolina, just like their old 5050 frequency was. WWRB-overcomer on 3185 coming in very strong here. 5085 booming signal on WTWW (Pat Blakely, 0211 UT Oct 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I was hearing WWRB on 5050 just after 0100 Oct. 28. Fair signal into Houston (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, ibid.) At 0415, 3195 right now is WWCR, who normally is on 3215 st this time. However at 0200, 3215 was WWCR, and 3195 was certainly WWRB confirmed via their online podcast. The signal on 3195 right now is booming playing music from WWCR. 5085 WTWW-2 continues to transmit at 0400 UT+ but the signal is starting to fade at times. WWCR back on 3215 at 0500 from 3195 at 0400, same show playing older songs. Weird they are moving around like this (Pat Blakely, SC, UT Oct 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3195, Oct 28 at 0214, gospel music, presumed WWRB which past week in transition period has been running // 5050, but no 5050 now. Note that per updated transmitter schedule at http://www.wwcr.com/transmitter-sched.html WWCR-1 is also on 3195 part of the time: 22-01 3195, 01-09 3215 this week, and from Nov 4: 23-02 3195, 02-10 3215 Contrariwise, WWRB is on 3215 until 01, then 3195 until 04, presumably also changing to switchover at 0200 once DST is over and then running until 0500 including WORLD OF RADIO UT Fridays at 0430 on 3195 if they can manage to play it. 5050, Oct 30 at 0110, WWRB with remote report about the storm --- could it be live? But then cut back to studio for preacher with I- told-you-so rant correlating it with prophecy. 3195 is not on at this time. Next check at 0233, both are on in // with Martha-like hymnbelter before preacher takes over. 5050, Oct 29 at 0102, WWRB with KJVB readings, and also // 3195, so they haven`t phased out the higher frequency yet, altho it isn`t always on too. Both still on at 0240 with g.h. on world devastation prophesied. Note: before 0100 the US station on 3195 is WWCR while WWRB is on 3215, then they swap (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Later: WWRB shifted to 5051, why?? (gh) ** U S A. Re: World of Radio problems --- Greetings!!! Think we found the problem! A relay had pitted contacts from lightning damage. The relay would test good with ohmmeter, but under audio levels some time OK, then some times not OK! Just a hum or something! So we should be good to go! [UT Friday 0330v this week] We are now broadcasting our programming on two frequencies! 3215 & 5050 kHz. We are offering our clients 200 kW of broadcast power, 100 kW each transmitter! 5050 is now on our Southern beam to all points south of Florida; 3215 & 3195 are for North America. Great coverage at a GREAT price. Did you get the PDF on our new Instrument approach for our Runway: ILS Runway 28. Our ILS has been upgraded to a state of the art four (antennas) bay corner reflector antenna(s) called a 'non imaging' system! It works great; the Glide slope is smooth as silk, rain or shine We are doing lots of night operations here so we turned LYQ beacon back on: 529 kHz, so we have our ADF approach as a back up if the ILS goes down. Reception reports are WELCOME, via WWRB web site. Our VORTAC frequency is 108.650 but I don't expect any reception reports for it. It will reach out to 300 NM at 41,000 feet. The DME portion works to 270 NM at 41,000 feet. The TACAN portion works to 200 NM (Captain David L. Frantz, Chief Pilot, Airline Transport Communications, Inc., Oct 30, to gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13750, WWCR Nashville TN; 2106...2201+, 25-Oct; 2x harmonic of 6875; Spanish Salvation Army progoram into La Verdad del Mundo Spanish religious program at 2130+. Spanish ad/PSA string 2156 to Spanish & English IDs at 2159; 2200 into English Rick Wildes program True News. 13750 weak, but can tell it's // 6875, SIO=544+ with studio bleed? in English before 2200. Jumping the gun on B12? Nothing on 3x = 20625 (Harold Frodge, MI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9350, Oct 29 at 2006, tuning across I note that VG signal from WWCR in Bible reading has modulation problems, hitting on peaks only; unlistenable. Is no one noticing at 1300 WWCR Avenue? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9954.957, WRMI weak under threshold these days. 0501 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5109.7, WBCQ, Monticello ME; 2355-2407+, 26/27-Oct; OC up suddenly at 2355 with subdued audio -- not //7490, might have been // 9330, then up suddenly at 2357+ with WBCQ spot over other audio till 2400. Lone Ranger theme to Allen Weiner (?) commenting about Frankenstorm Sandy and lamenting about i-phone interference. SIO=4+54; // 7490 after 2400 & 37 sec. ahead of 5110! (How much offset is "allowed" before you can't declare them to be //?) (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, MARE DXpedition #103 anear Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 300 ft. NEish unterminated bev, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) Apparently the feed on 5110 goes from Maine to Area 51 studios in Maryland, and back to the transmitter in Maine, via internet? (gh) 15419.865, WBCQ English, sermon by female at 1842 UT Oct 28. S=5 in Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WRNO is back on, 7506.4, Oct 26 at 0124, strong signal with gospel huxter, very distorted modulation. Latest absence still did not improve anything (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7506.379, But heard with pop music instead, no religious matter. WRNO distorted audio at 0300-0305 UT Oct 26, on S=8 level here in Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26, dxldyg via DXLD) 7506.4, Oct 27 at 0133 check, WRNO is on, very good signal and distorted modulation. By 0338 recheck, there is only a very poor signal with flutter, undermodulated. At first I figured it was something else until matched the off-frequency. Propagation had dropped out. Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, measured this on 7506.379, Oct 26 at 0300. 7506.4, Oct 29 at 0215, WRNO gospel huxter with suppressed modulation; 0233 starting another one, `Truth That Changes Lives` more distorted and even worse during music. 7506.4, Oct 30 at 0111 check, WRNO with usual very strong signal and heavy distortion on gospel huxter modulation no one in his right mind would listen to. Hmmm, nor would anyone in his right mind if it were perfectly modulated. Wrong minds, yes. 7506.4, Oct 31 at 0229, very poor signal, sounds like woman talking, must still be WRNO on unique off-frequency. Other US signals seem normal, so doubt this can be blamed on propagation. Maybe they sometimes default to exciter only, making it a real DX catch. 7506.4, Nov 1 at 0226, WRNO is back up to full strength tonight, with distorted music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5920, Oct 28 at 0218 `Pirating with Cumbre`, so `DXing with Cumbre` is here at 0200 UT Sunday. 7520, ex-9825, PWC on DWC is also heard at 0415 UT Sunday. But may change next week or two with DST ending. 7335, UT Monday Oct 29 at 0058, `Voice of Martyrs` concludes and WHRI announces frequency change from 7385 to 9605; trouble is, this is 7335. Goes off and 9605 does come up at 0059, and there is another WHRI on 7385 with separate programming, `Waters of Life`, but after OCS IS, 7385 continues past 0100, into `DXing with Cumbre`, AAMOF, #736 produced Oct 25, so Marie got one done this week. And there it goes again on a real SW frequency, 5920 at 0200 UT Monday, in progress at 0219 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15610, Oct 28 at 1301, WEWN announces this hour on 15610, and joining program (mass) in progress, as happens so often --- will they ever get their act together? Anyhow, in B-12 no longer shifting to 15615 for the first bihour of English on 19m. 15615, Oct 30 at 1318, open carrier except for some slight swooshing sounds also audible around the plus/minus 9 kHz spurs, i.e. WEWN is back here as in A-12 instead of 15610, where they were at the beginning of B-12 from 1300. Dead air continues past 1325, but WEWN English programming had started by 1336 recheck. Why they are avoiding 15610 or 15605 is known only to Glen Tapley. B-12 HFCC shows 13-24 on 15610 only. Or maybe today they forgot that they are no longer supposed to be on 15615. 15610, Oct 31 at 1303, WEWN English is back here, ex-15615 yesterday, and even manages to modulate during the first half hour! Yet it`s weak enough not to bother yet Greece on 15630. By 1407 it has built up and does shove its 15628 spur against Greece (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13570, WINB Red Lion PA; 1943-2002+, 26-Oct; B.S. waxing about Daniel & Ezekiel on Armageddon stuff; Said SW broadcasting was costing him 100 K$ a month (about a week ago I heard him say it cost about 24 K$ a month). Lapsed into glossalalia at 1952 & gasping. At 1957:22, B.S. rudely interrupted himself with an Overcomer spot. Alexander Scourby Bible reading at 2000, into more B.S. at 2002. SIO=4+43+ with trill QRM till up suddenly at about 1950 to S30. Not // 9370 (WWRB) or 9980 (WWCR). (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, MARE DXpedition #103 anear Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 300 ft. NEish unterminated bev, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13570, WINB, Red Lion PA; 1922-1931+, 27-Oct; English, The Essentials of Life & Wellness with Dr. Wong. Get your glucosamine from a horse feed store because it's purer! WINB ID at 1929+ into Bible Studies Broadcast. SIO=4+44- with trill QRM and xmtr? hum (Frodge-LHMI) [sic; I suppose he meant PHMI as in above and all other credits in report] ** U S A [non]. 9630, Oct 30 at 0510, folk music in presumed Hausa, AWR at 0500-0530, 300 kW, 190 degrees from AUSTRIA, now good signal in the clear with REE/CR`s move to 9675. AWR plays a lot of interesting music and in so many incomprehensible languages that we are not in danger of being converted. Is some of their music non-religious to pull in the unwary, or all with a message for those who can understand it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 529, Oct 31 at 0538, LYQ beacon ID repeated in Morse, copiable aside Cuba 530. Capt. David Frantz, Chief Pilot of ATC, notified me that this had just been reactivated as backup to their ILS due to night flights. It`s at the WWRB site, Manchester TN, and reports are welcome via the WWRB website (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Later: off again? ** U S A. Hi Glenn, I'm curious how well you can hear KWMT-540 from Ft Dodge IA. Last night they were easily the loudest signal on the band, and as I type this they are louder than practically everybody else except for WHB-810 or WIBW-580 - the latter only because I live 3 miles from their transmitter. Your thoughts? (Todd Brandenburg, K0KAN, Silver Lake KS, Oct 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I checked it out this afternoon on the caradio while driving around Enid. Seemed to be the usual daytime/groundwave situation, KDFT Spanish from The Metroplex on top of KWMT, just causing a SAH of 1.5 Hz (Glenn to Todd, ibid.) Hi Glenn, Last night it was 50's and early 60's country- Hank Sr, Patsy Cline, etc. Today they are almost the loudest signal on the dial - S-8 on my Kenwood R-1000, and stronger than all but one station in Kansas City. They've always been a regular daytime catch no matter what radio I've used, but never this loud. I asked Rick Dau in Omaha about this. He advised that KWMT has been having trouble with their antenna system (Todd Brandenburg, ibid.) ** U S A. Great if you`re in the area or up for a trip: WSM Tower / Transmitter Site Saturday, November 10, 2012 12:00pm - 2:00pm Tour the historic transmitter facility, meet the WSM air personalities, and purchase lunch to have on the grounds. Join us Saturday, November 10 as we celebrate the 80th anniversary of our famous Blaw-Knox tower with a public open house event from our transmitter site in Brentwood, Tennessee! WSM Tower/Transmitter Site 8012 Concord Road Brentwood, TN 37027 http://www.wsmonline.com/events/wsm-tower-open-house/ (I`m gona try and go depending on weather, etc) (Amateur Radio Operator Duane Whittingham - N9SSN, NRC AM via DXLD) It is a beauty to behold. Driving down the highway approaching it, it's like having Godzilla standing there (or something out of Star Wars). It would be fun hooking a Perseus up to that (with WSM off, of course). (Pete Taylor, Tacoma, WA, ibid.) ** U S A. 880, Oct 25 at 1206 UT, Spanish with several AC 713 phone numbers, loops somewhat east of south, vs KRVN. So it`s KJOZ Conroe TX, religious rimshotter into Houston (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 940, Sat Oct 27 at 1236 UT from SW/NE, ``Band of Gold`` nostalgia song, then ``Tnx for the Memories`` but not by Bob Hope, plug 515-964-8947 to order CDs, ``Music & Memories show on your favorite radio station`` from the 1940s. This leads to only one: http://tunein.com/radio/options/Music-and-Memories-p230604/ Praise 940 in Des Moines IA, Saturdays at 7-8 am [CT], which fits, i.e. KPSZ, which NRC AM Log classifies as REL:AC but at the moment is really NOS if not REL:NOS. Apparently it`s the ONLY station carrying this show, as also seems local with 515 AC. Remember when 940 Des Moines was KIOA? That perfect call ended 11/18/1996 when it became KTXK; and then from 09/03/2002 KPSZ. 10 kW day pattern from 1230 UT in Oct has a broad major lobe centered on 260 degrees, but still plenty toward Enid, all per FCC AM Query (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 950, Oct 25 at 1212 UT, local news, at least three mentions of Jefferson City, including ``here in Jefferson City`` so I`m confident it`s KWOS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. I have some bad news about KNX newsradio 1070 in Los Angeles, CA. I submitted a report in October of last year with return postage since I had picked them up while on a trip to Nevada. After several email follow-ups and promises of looking into the matter, I finally received an email from a gentleman named Steve Niemczyk (spniemczyk(at)sbc(dot)com) informing me "KNX dropped the QSL program. Sorry." I has also asked if they would consider doing eQSLs which would cut down on man-hours required, postage, etc., but received no answer to that. So it seems that one of our AM broadcasters has followed the path of a lot of the internationals who now refuse to verify transmissions. 73 (Al Muick, Williamsport PA USA, Oct 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1180, Oct 25 at 1216 UT, Spanish sports discussing European fútbol, so likely ESPN Deportes network, loops NNW/SSE, and surely the only one listed in NRC AM Log, KGOL in Humble TX (Houston market), 50/3 kW, but must have just surged to day power at official October sunrise 1215 (November: 1245). Had SAH and CCI from hard to null Yahoo Sports Radio ``48 hours a day`` in English from opposite KZOT Nebraska (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1430, Oct 27 at 1256 UT, full ID for KZQZ St Louis, NBC News Radio 2-minute capsule with optional cutaway in the middle for stations which find two minutes too much. This IDs my unID of Oct 15 at same time. Network info that it`s funxional M-F only obviously outdated, as this was Saturday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1540, Oct 28 at 2002 UT on caradio a bit N of Enid, dominant station has ABC news, 2005 ID as ``Talk Radio 1540 KNGL``, gratuitous anti-Liberal promo, Mike Gallagher Show promo or start. This is 250 watts in McPherson KS, not yet overridden by KXEL skywave (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. ---EAR, 1710, WQFG689, Hudson County NJ; 0034...0242, 27- Oct; 2 min. 33 sec. long loop with hurricane prep info & ID; on top at times, mixing with French music station (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, MARE DXpedition #103 anear Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 300 ft. NEish unterminated bev, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WVUM, UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI RADIO STATION, GETS POWER INCREASE The Huffington Post | By Joey Francilus Posted: 10/29/2012 4:01 pm EDT Updated: 10/29/2012 4:01 pm EDT http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/29/wvum-university-of-miami-power-increase_n_2040025.html If you're one of those people too hip to listen to "mainstream" radio, your FM dial is soon to get a noticeable change courtesy of The U. The antenna for WVUM, the beloved campus radio station of the University of Miami, has finally received a much-needed upgrade that means a stronger signal and expanded viewership throughout greater Miami. "This doesn't change much as far as how we operate, other than that we now have the honor of serving parts of the Broward County community in addition to the community here in Miami-Dade," remarked station news director and spokesman Hyan Freitas. Prior to the increase, the station antenna atop UM's Hecht residential tower only reached as far as Downtown Miami and Kendall, becoming spotty in areas like Miami Beach and Wynwood. The new signal now guarantees the "Voice of the University of Miami" will reach as far south as Florida City and as far north as Fort Lauderdale, adding an estimated 1.5 million listeners, according to The Miami Hurricane. "Our signal strength is now more consistent than ever before, which in turn strengthens our ability to be the alternative voice not just for UM, but for Miami as a whole. We pride ourselves on that," Freitas continued. WVUM began as a pirate campus radio station in 1967, first licensed and sanctioned by UM in 1968. It won last year's Woodie Award, given annually by MTVu to the nation's best college radio station (via Blaine Thompson, IN, ABDX via DXLD) From what to what? Joey needs some instruxion in journalism, like including the essential info implied in the headline. I suppose they have been more than 10 watts for a good while, but as I recall I managed to DX it long ago when they were 10 watts, by sporadic E to Von Ormy TX. Ah yes, here`s my v/l signed by one Dave Alpert, who went on to a career with ABC News. I heard WVUM on 11 May 1972 at 1805 CST. ERP 34.8 watts, and mine was the furthest reception to date, eclipsing that of Astronaut James Aldrin near Cape Kennedy. And What`s The Frequency, Kenneth? Neither of us mentioned that: Taking another look at the QSL letter from Dave Alpert, he doesn`t mention it either. In fact, the QSL was unsolicited, as he saw my report of it in the July 1972 VHF-UHF Digest, which I don`t have handy now, nor my logbook of the era. But I recall it was 90.5. The last FM Atlas of 2010 had it on 90.5 with 5900 watts ERP by then. It`s easy for student stations to lose track of their history with a complete staff turnover every few years, but WVUM has this: http://wvum.org/index.php/blog/article/history/ Strangely, it does not mention my record-breaking DX report. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) [Hurricane Sandy related items; see also INTERNATIONAL WATERS]: ** U S A. Here are links to the Philadelphia TV stations covering Sandy full time. NBC10, ABC6, FOX29, CBS3 http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/index http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/ http://www.myfoxphilly.com/ http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/station/cbs-3/ (Leonard J. Rooney, Delaware County, Springfield PA, Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thank you, Leonard, am seeing pictures on Fox of a crane collapse near the World Trade Center. Fox reporting that Sandy picked up speed as it prepared to make landfall in New Jersey. Fox 5 meteorologist Nick Gregory said the storm, with a record low level of 940 pressure, could make landfall just south of Atlantic City at about 5 p.m. New Jersey has not experienced a hurricane for over 100 years. http://www.myfoxny.com/#ixzz2AiQEmk13 (Mike Terry, UK, ibid.) Qui invece si possono seguire i collegamenti radio dei servizi di pronto intervento nello stato di New York: http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?mid=21 Molti link sono offline per i danneggiamenti provocati dall'uragano, ma diversi sono ancora attivi. Roby (Roberto Rizzardi, Italy, Oct 30, playdx yg via DXLD) US amateur communications during Hurricane Sandy can be heard via the WX_TALK net at the following stream: http://myradiostream.com/gem (Mike Terry, ibid.) I have been monitoring KYW Newsradio 1060 streaming on the computer. Being through Katrina I can tell you that being an all news station this is the best coverage in the Philadelphia and the Delaware valley. I think WPHT may be the best to DX, however, I think this the coverage on WPHT may be a joke though. You may stream KYW at http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com If you can DX KYW-AM it will be worthwhile. There are reports that WWIQ-FM is also going wall to wall. You can get this on the internet at http://www.iq1069.com (Rich Lewis, ibid.) ** U S A. 5696 USB, US Coast Guard, 1940-1955+, Oct 29, Coast Guard Search and Rescue operation during Hurricane Sandy (Brian Alexander Mechanicsburg, PA, USA, Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) It`s the prime USCG SW frequency (gh) ** U S A. Listening to the 'net feed from 1010 WINS in NYC Monday evening, they mentioned they were simulcasting (not really simul-) on WCBS-FM 101.1, as "our AM signal was damaged by Sandy" (Chuck Albertson, Seattle, Wash., 0558 UT Oct 30, Sent via BlackBerry, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Listening online to WKXW-FM 101.5 Trenton, New Jersey live overnight show from a studio with emergency lighting. The FM transmitter is off and the engineer out at the site just phoned in to explain that the generator and diesel back up have failed, despite checks earlier this week. They have many listeners online and on mobiles, emails not working but putting phone calls from listeners on air and asking for calls from anywhere in the world. It seems weatherwise the worst is over after a very dangerous few hours (Mike Terry, 0634 UT Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I just retuned. Matters have got worse at the station as phone lines have now gone down, no internet, they managed to relay ABC news with no jingles, radio transmitter still off. Some presenters have no idea yet if their homes are flooded. Loads of road closures, the message is don't go out unless you have to. Huge doemstic TV coverage here in the UK, also CNN, Fox etc so we may know more about things than some of those in the north US! (Mike Terry, 0913 UT, ibid.) Switched to 77 WABC online but not for long as they block the adverts (and there are many ad breaks), I know its about copyright but its crazy - why can't the world receive all US stations without this interference, I doubt many of the products advertised are available in other countries anyway so I cannot understand the logic! (Mike, 0938 UT, ibid.) Our power went out just before 2000 UT, for about 40 minutes. 3 more outages of only seconds. KYW 1060 reported 2 million without power in the area. As of 0950 Tuesday, both FM101.5 and 106.9 are off air (Leonard J. Rooney, Delaware County, Springfield PA, 1004 UT, ibid.) Up here in Williamsport, Lycoming County, the power blinked every so slightly several times during the night, but everything is standing and the power is going strong. I hope it continues (Al Muick, Williamsport PA USA, 1010 UT, ibid.) New York City 1010 WINS off air --- Only CFRB 1010 at 0950 check. (Leonard J. Rooney, Delaware County, Springfield PA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Must have meant 1050 UT, when this was posted (gh) Updates on stations off, flooded circa NYC http://www.fybush.com/nerw-10292012/ (via Russ Edmunds, IRCA) e.g.: WEDNESDAY UPDATE: We have the first confirmed report of a tower down because of the storm. WRCR (1300 Spring Valley) lost the top of its center tower to Sandy’s winds. The station reportedly remains on the air at reduced power. Meanwhile, WINS (1010) is now back on the air at full power, ending its simulcast on WXRK (92.3), which is back to top-40 as “92.3 NOW.” We’re still awaiting word on the fate of WINS’ neighbor, WLIB (1190), which remains off the air, as do WMCA (570)/WNYC (820), which share an especially low-lying site in Kearny, where flooding was severe. And there’s non-Sandy news today as well: WRKO (680 Boston) has once again flipped its morning show, sending Michele McPhee and Todd Feinburg packing and installing fill-in host Jeff Kuhner in the slot. More in the next NERW… (NERW via DXLD) News station 1010WINS was forced off AM radio, but it has been simulcasting on the frequency of another station The Hollywood Reporter October 30, 2012 With Hurricane Sandy wiping out cable TV and power in many boroughs of New York City, many in the Big Apple have turned to cell phones, Twitter and Facebook. But traditional radio has also played a key role in keeping people informed. Some in the radio industry though are also dealing with hurricane damage. Popular New York news station 1010 WINS, part of CBS Radio, overnight reported damage to its equipment and has been broadcasting with continuing Sandy coverage on a different frequency with the help of emergency power. "Sandy has forced 1010WINS off AM radio," the station tweeted in the early Tuesday morning hours. "We are now simulcasting on WCBS-FM 101.1 continuing storm coverage at http://newyork.cbslocal.com%22/;; "We are not quite sure when we will have it back," a host told 1010WINS listeners about the station's usual frequency early Tuesday. Other stations were also expected to face power and equipment issues as 6 million were reported to be without electricity Tuesday morning in the New York City area. Trade publication Radio Ink reported that CBS radio affiliate WTOP in Washington, D.C. saw its web site log more than 2 million page views and 280,000 unique users ahead of the storm's arrival as many stations' sites drew higher than usual traffic. It didn't detail how big an increase over typical traffic levels that represented for the station. Radio Ink also quoted an interview with Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Craig Fugate who urged people to turn to traditional radio in case other media fail. "One of the things you don't really think about anymore is having a battery-powered radio or hand-cranked radio to get news from local broadcasters," he said. "The Internet may go out, cell phones will be congested, radio is oftentimes the way to get those important messages about what's going on in the local community." Meanwhile, satellite radio giant Sirius XM Radio has been offering Hurricane Sandy coverage by airing the Weather Channel nonstop on Sirius channel 184 and XM channel 1. Advisories with extended coverage have also been airing hourly on Sirius XM's First Traffic and Weather channels. National Association of Broadcasters president and CEO Gordon Smith said: "I salute the remarkable work of our radio and TV station colleagues now putting themselves in harm's way to keep millions of people safe and informed on the devastation of this deadly storm." Twitter: @georgszalai http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hurricane-sandy-cbs-radio-station-1010wins-401031 (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) Virtually all of the CBS owned All News and News/Talk outlets in New York have an HD subchannel in one of their sister FM stations. So 1010 WINS on AM keeps going strong. This is also the case with WCBS in New York. The reason for this is because both stations have IBOC on their AM signal and in some areas of their coverage area it has gotten a little harder to receive on AM. Directv has also started to air stations primarily in New York to give out emergency information (Rich Lewis, ibid.) The NEW Radioinfo.com ignoring Sandy « on: Today at 12:18:07 PM » http://radiodiscussions.com/smf/index.php?topic=222422.msg1999700#msg1999700 I sent this email to all of the addresses listed on the contact page for the new radioinfo.com: I just have to say how disappointed I am in the new radioinfo.com. The biggest radio broadcast story since 9/11 and you have one story about Z100. What about: • The engineers who spent the night in their transmitter buildings (especially in the NJ Meadowlands) to keep their stations on the air? • The transmitter buildings that were flooded? • The reporters in the field while the hurricane hit? • All of the stations that have lost their facilities in NJ? • All of the stations in CT are off the air? • Half of the stations in NYC were off the air during the height of Sandy? • The Long Island station that kept broadcasting as water gut up their ankles in the control room? • 1010 WINS losing their 50kw transmitter? • The formats playing musical chairs on all of the stations in NYC? • The Boston stations feeling embarrassed about going 24/7 news coverage of an event that did not happen in their area? • Legal editor covering all of the insurance issues for stations? • Legal editor giving advice on liability issues for damage to other property by floating propane tanks, falling towers, etc.? • What is this going to do to the business of the bottom line for the broadcasters? I could keep going. There are so many things to cover. All of the stations that you are reporting on seemed to be able to do 24/7 coverage. Radioinfo.com could only spare time to get a consultant to write an article. It seems you have a lot of email addresses for “staff”, so why was this event covered by a “phone in” story from a consultant? It should be all hands on deck to cover this event… even sales folks can contribute during an emergency… ask any small market radio station. I expected at least ten stories today on what has to be the biggest broadcast challenge to station owners since Katrina/Rita. To be honest, if I worked there, I would be embarrassed. Very disappointed (BarryATL, radiodiscussions.com Oct 30 via Artie Bigley, DXLD) I assume you are merely venting your frustrations about RadioInfo. I also assume you know that Radio Discussions has absolutely nothing to do with RadioInfo. The owners of Radio-Info sold everything, except these message boards, to Talkers magazine a couple of months back. Talkers magazine renamed it RadioInfo. These boards, still owned by the Fleming family, were renamed Radio Discussions. So, if you think complaining here will get RadioInfo to do something, think again. Then again, if you already know all this, never mind (WMC2006, ibid.) Re: The NEW Radioinfo.com ignoring Sandy « Reply #2 on: October 31, 2012, 01:05:27 PM » I do already know this. I referred to the site as "the new radioinfo.com" specifically to differentiate between radiodiscussions.com and radioinfo.com. The Flemming owned radio- info.com would have been all over this story. Yes, I am disappointed in the new company that is running the radioinfo.com site. Radiodiscussions.com is still the great product it was when the boards were under radio-info.com (BarryATL , ibid.) Re: Sandy --- 1010 WINS was operating at reduced power for a while (probably non-directional into one tower) but they are now up to full power, and thus the simulcast on 92.3 FM has ended. As of noon today, 540 WLIE, 570 WMCA, 600 WICC, 820 WNYC, 1190 WLIB, 1530 WJDM, and 1600 WWRL were still off the air. 850 WAXB is now back on the air and 1380 WKDM and 1660 WWRU were on the air but weak (probably reduced power, non-directional). In NJ, daytimers 1070 WKMB and 1170 WWTR are off, and will remain off until power is restored to their transmitter sites. On 820 kHz I heard WWFD "Federal News Radio" from Frederick, MD. I could also hear 1090 WBAL from Baltimore and 1180 WFYL from King of Prussia, PA. Some good chances for daytime DXing! (satech, Oct 31, and more on this thread:) http://radiodiscussions.com/smf/index.php?topic=222210.msg1999777#msg1999777 (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) In Sandy`s Wake --- It may go without saying, but should be said: We hope all our DXLD yg members are well and without great losses. No doubt many are still powerless. Please check in here when you can and tell us what has happened in your situation (Glenn Hauser, Oct 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Williamsport PA: Lots of wind and rain. We never lost power, although the office closed yesterday and I was able to telecommute. I fared much, much better than those towards the coast. In Whitehall PA, my home was fine, my mother's retirement home lost power overnight but otherwise everything there was fine. I hope everyone else is OK. 73 (Al Muick, Williamsport PA USA, ibid.) ** VATICAN [and non]. VATICAN RADIO B12 http://tinyurl.com/9xzqqdh --- (Alokesh Gupta, New delhi, dxldyg via DXLD) Leads to a spreadsheet .xls via his blog. Here`s a station which claims to broadcast via Sofia, Bulgaria, a bit: 7410, 0025-0040 UT Mon & Thu only in Urdu. But 7410 daily at 0040-0200 in other S Asian languages is via Tashkent (gh) 7305, Oct 28 at 0210, no signal from Vatican Radio, which has registered a surprise new relay via Greenville and retimed Spanish to 0200-0245. Presumably will really start UT Oct 29. Also scheduled 1130-1200 on 7305, both daily. 21680, Oct 28 at 1306, PBXVI clip and news in Italian about BC quake, poor signal from VR, 1300-1320 daily in Italian, 250 kW, 185 degrees from SMG. 17650, Oct 28 at 1308, big collision between French and Arabish? French is certainly CRI via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN and is // 15205, but the other? Nothing in B-12 HFCC. A12 Aoki, however, had VOA Somali via VATICAN at 13-14, so suspect SMG has failed to change/delete this transmission. Check tomorrow --- NO, it`s IRAN, q.v. 7305, Oct 29 at 0232, open carrier, fair but not solid signal, presumably Greenville standing by for Vatican Radio to feed them their Spanish service now scheduled at 0200-0245; ¿Mañana? 7305, Oct 31 at 0205 and 0230 chex, no signal from VR which in B-12 is scheduled here for its only remaining broadcast to the W Hemisphere, Spanish at 0200-0245 via Greenville. What happened? Missed checking this UT Oct 30, but on Oct 29 there was a carrier with no programming; and on UT Oct 28 not yet anything. 9645, Oct 30 at 0510, poor signal in Arabic with het, no doubt VR vs Bandeirantes, Brasil on 9645.4. HFCC show VR in Arabic at 0500-0530 daily on 9645 and 11715, the latter inaudible, not propagating. The question is, whether the V. of Charity relay from Lebanon in Arabic which on winter timing would be at 0530, is still on any Vatican SW frequency? Apparently it was dropped earlier in A12 when it would have been at 0430 on one or the other. 7305, Nov 1 at 1155 check, poor signal in Spanish about a virgen, so new Vatican relay at 1130-1200 via Greenville, replacing Sackville, must be in play; still haven`t heard the other scheduled broadcast at 0200-0245 altho did not check it Nov 1. 15495, Nov 1 at 1348 piano music reminiscent of Shiokaze, and Vietnamese talk; 1358 VR IS and now with SAH CCI until Vatican off at 1400* and the understation turned out to be AWR Guam theme, ID in English, and introducing Mandarin. VR here is via TINIAN at 1315-1400, but at 1228-1315 15495 Vatican Chinese comes via RVA Philippines (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, I have received a reply today, 30 October 2012 concerning reception of the African Service of Radio Vaticana, from Mr. Sergio Salvatori, Frequency Management. On Saturday, 27 October, I forwarded him another set of 10 data points for reception conditions in the 2000 UTC time slot in English to Africa. He writes: Thank you for the set of reports, I’ll pass it to the Engineering Department. As a matter of fact, despite the results given by propagation calculation software, there is a phenomena, not considered in those software, that makes the reception possible. I’ll investigate further on this. He also mentioned the following: As for Cuba we have started regular broadcasts in Spanish on 7305 kHz at 0200-0245 and 1130-1200 UT from Greenville, 250 kW, 184 . Tonight, 31 October 2012 at 0200 UT, I checked for Vatican Radio and it was not on 7305 kHz at 0200 as noted above; perhaps they are still coordinating signals with the Greenville transmitter site? PS - We survived Superstorm Sandy here in northern New Jersey. The winds peaked at 70 mph last evening, almost incessantly all night long, but the rainfall was a saving grace (about one inch, so the trees weren't uprooted too much) However, one fell in my neighbor's back yard and I lost my longwire antenna in this tree, as it snapped in two like a toothpick. It wasn't diseased; a healthy mature oak of the kind that I never like to see fall or be cut down. My plan was to erect an attic antenna for the winter DX season, so now I have a reason! 73's, (Ed Insinger, Summit, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM [non]. 9640, Oct 28 at 0226-0228* something in Vietnamese, so no KBS English direct from Korea South. 9640 is the replacement for Sackville 6175, with VOV scheduled now 250 kW, 294 degrees via Woofferton UK to CIRAF 8 = E NAm: 01-03 English, 0330-0400 English. Since they never had two hours straight of English, I assume this really includes Vietnamese at 0130-0230; did it come back on at 0230? See CANADA, where old 6175 stayed on the air with BaBcoCk music fill loop all evening and even on 9555 after 0430; 6175 is still on the new VOV schedule, but only for Spanish at 0300-0328 and 0400-0428 via WHRI. I may not have checked during those hours, but it could have been a big collision. The replacement for Sackville 9555 in Vietnamese at 0430-0528 is supposed to be 7345, 250 kW, 310 degrees from Woofferton to W NAm, which is an even worse substitute for Sackville. It aims across Greenland and Utah to Los Angeles (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CANADA 7345, V of Vietnam via WOF-UK 0430-0528 to zone 6 NoAM S=9+20dB (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) For the second night, Sackville is keeping ex-VOV relay frequency 6175 on the air with nothing but BaBcoCk fill music loop, with that glitch/tape snag every minute, as noted Oct 29 at 0105, VG signal but pointless. Meanwhile, VOV`s replacement for Sackville, 9640 via Woofferton is also on with real programming in Vietnamese, at 0214 Oct 29, fair signal, no comparison to Sackville. At 0223 reciting Vietnamese words with bell cues between, presumably language lesson for Anglos. At 0231 check, the all-English broadcast has started, presumably repeating the 0100. Tonight I make a point of rechecking 6175 after 0300 UT Oct 29, when that frequency is scheduled in B-12 for VOV Spanish via WHRI: yup, there it is about 4 Hz apart, and underneath CANADA. So RCI is spoiling replacement transmission by its former longtime client. Presumably same happens at 0400-0430. 9555, BabCoCk music loop is still here tonight, Oct 29 at 0459 check till 0529 during abandoned VOV Vietnamese via Sackville from 0430. 9640, Oct 30 at 0110 during English, VOV`s new North American service via UK replacing Sackville, not only is on too high a band for winter, but this particular frequency is a bad choice, only 10 kHz from 9630 REE/CR QRDRM which until 0200 is covering up to 9645 at least. 0229 check, 9640 is off the air, but back on at 0232 for next English, poor with fading, 25432. They must be making a beam change before 0230. But none shown in HFCC, just continuous 294 degrees from Woofferton to E North America at 0100-0300 and 0330-0400. Meanwhile, Sackville has finally turned off VOV`s former frequency 6175, at 0228 check; last two nights they had kept running it with BabCoCk music for hours and hours. 9640, Oct 31 at 0205, VOV via Woofferton UK to ENAm, in Vietnamese with good signal tonight. Quality will vary a lot more than it used to from single-hop Sackville on 49m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6175.004, V of Vietnam in Spanish, totally bad Spanish language accentuation. News til 0414 UT Oct 31, via Cypress Creek Furman-SC relay site. S=9+10dB in Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9640, Nov 1 at 0222 check, VOV in Vietnamese via Woofferton with good signal tonight. English should be at 0100-0130, 0230-0300, 0330-0400. 7345, Oct 30 at 0527 talk in Vietnamese, cut off abruptly at 0527:45*. Was hearing a strong signal earlier in the hour with music which did not strike me as Vietnamese, and had forgotten that this was the replacement for 9555 via Sackville, VOV`s final hour to WNAm. HFCC confirms it`s 250 kW, 310 degrees from Woofferton at 0430-0528 to CIRAF 6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Prezados colegas radio escutas e dxistas, alguém sabe me dizer se a rádio VOICE OF VIETNAM ainda transmite em espanhol? Segundo o site http://www.short-wave.info ainda transmite na frequêencia de 6175 khz entre entre 0300 e 0430 utc mais não tenho tido sucesso; também não sei se este site está atualizado. Algum colega tem escutado A RADIO VOICE OF VIETNAM nestas frequencias em espanhol?? Antecipadamente, obrigado a quem me ajudar nesta duvida (Paulo Michelon (pm), porto alegre rs, radio escuta swl 056, pu3 ppm, receptor tecsun pl 660 radioescutas yg Oct 30 via DXLD) ** YEMEN. 6135, R. Sana’a, Yemen. 1315, 12/10, songs and tunes in Arabic, at 1401 ID “Huna Sana’a nachshati akhbar”/ news in Arabic, 1415 political comment and s/off at 1457. Nothing from them all day on 9780 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi ant 16 m 300 ohm ribbon cable), Nov Australian DX News via DXLD). ** ZAMBIA. 9505 / 13590 from Makeni ranch site probably to be ceased from B-12 season. The sad news came from one RADIO AFRICA - CVC INTERNATIONAL: CVC Media is a new season. We stop all our HF broadcasts to promote the new platform. Due to changes in the use of media in Africa, would require more space for the rapidly growing digital broadcasts (Shukhrat Rakhmatullaev, open_dx via midxb Oct 23 via BCDX 27 Oct via DXLD) CVC still on air 13590 at 1639 UT Oct 28 (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) B-12 of CVC International, 1 Africa via LUS=Lusaka: English to West Africa and Nigeria 0600-2200 on 13590 LUS 100 kW / 315 deg (DX Re Mix News, Bulgaria, 01 November via DXLD) ** ZAMBIA. 6165, ZNBC Radio 2, Lusaka; 0244-0255 Oct 26, “Call of the Fish Eagle” IS to 0250 when apparent national anthem followed by some sort of musical program; poor level but better than usual here (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZANZIBAR. 11735, 1530 to 1535 impressive fade in and quick fade out at neighbor's pier, using the portable Sony 2010XA, 19 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, and Marc, Plantation, S Florida, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11735, ZBC, 2015-2046*, Oct 26, local pop music. Mid-East style music. Swahili talk. Pulled plug mid-song at 2046. Good. I noticed they have been signing off early lately: around 2040-2050 (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA, Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11735, Zanzibar - terrible audio. Defect transmitter modulator 11735 kHz Oct 28 at 18-20 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, 1912 UT Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11735, Oct 31 at 2008, vocal music with flutter, no doubt RTZ/ZBC starting to show up here again; modulation sounded OK, unlike some other recent reports (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE. Voice of Zimbabwe, 999 Location ?? (not in any of my lists). Oct. 31, 2012. Wednesday. 1858-1903. Afro music, with talk in English. Still not listed by the EuroAfrican Medium Wave Guide, but presumed from Gweru. Very weak and poor, mostly unreadable tonight. Jo'burg sunset 1624. Regards, (Bill Bingham, RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. MADAGASCAR: 12115, Zimbabwe Community Radio; 1602- 1630+, 27-Oct; Alternating commentaries in English & LL spaced with Afro music. IDs at 1610+, 1620 & 1624+. Fair with continuous buzz QRM (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, MARE DXpedition #103 anear Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 300 ft. NEish unterminated bev, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 560, UNID, Guyana?, 2301-2308, 29/10, Hindustani songs; 23441, adjacent QRM, then dominated by R. Educadora do Maranhão, São Luís do Maranhão MA, BRASIL. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. TP carrier search, Oct 31 at 1248-1252 UT: JBA on 774, 828, 882, 1008, 1098, 1566. 1566 was strongest, and hoped for some audio; 1098 suspected to be a receiver birdie or local source instead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 930, Nov 1 at 0529 UT, something is occupying the null of Spanish WKY OKC: promo for Rush at 9 am, then temps but no local refs caught; and into Yahoo Sportsradio.com, slogan something like ``Sportstalk 930``. A strange combination, both Rush and YSR? Or maybe the Rush promo was for a sibling station. 9 am means MST or PDT for live airing, but there are no such 930 stations on the Rush affiliate list. The only 930 stations on the YSR affiliate list: Jacksonville FL WFXJ-AM 930 AM Battle Creek MI WBCK-AM 930 AM Jackson MS WSFZ-AM 930 AM Greenville NC WDLX-AM 930 AM None of these have favorable night patterns for us, but Jackson MS is closest. WSFZ website says it`s Super Sport 930. But Rush couldn`t be on at 9 am in that market, not starting until 11 am CT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1440, Oct 25 at 0538 UT, sports talk with an echo, the main station looping NE/SW and surely WGEM Quincy IL, and it is same as on KSTP 1500, i.e. ESPN. There are more than half a dozen affiliates elsewhere in the NRC AM Log, from CA, to TX to OH, PA, NY, MA and ME, none of which look very likely, many with very low nite powers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4773.8, unID Latin 0910-0925, 25 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 - Sony 2010XA - Sony 7600GR, noise reducing antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4895, 0041-0044 a couple of songs in English, sounded like Christian praise songs, male announcer briefly between songs but couldn’t be certain of his language. Couldn’t stay with it any longer, to get more details, due to a commitment. Poor with some CODAR QRM. Suggestions welcome. Oct 28 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, listening from my car with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Right now here in Romania I can hear a strong station on 5975 kHz playing symphonic music. Went off at 1040 UT, then back on a few minutes later. Off air again at 1052 UT. Does anybody know what station could it be? (Tudor Vedeanu, (Gura Humorului, Romania) Nov 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6045, Nov 1 at 0336, huge distorted FMy blob with talk, nothing scheduled here, so a spur or some station very out of order. By slope tuning, the intonation sounds English. Try to match it to other 49m signals: No match to RHC English 6050 or Spanish, nor to WWCR. Seems like there is a weaker one like it around 5925, but not sure. 0345 a bit of music, also at 0352. I am listening very carefully up to hourtop hoping for something recognizable; there is some repetitive beat music and cut off the air at 0400:25* Not much to go on: sure hope they do it again the next night and we have better luck tracing it. For now, what station-frequencies are in English until 0400 on 49m in HFCC? 5920 WHRI 5940 BBC Cyprus & Skelton 6020 CRI Albania 6115 WYFR 6140 BBC South Africa 6155 Channel Africa Some good prospects there, tho it was not typical BBC behavior. Times in HFCC are often rounded off or approx. so I also looked for endings at 0359, 0358, 0357, 0356, but nothing more. If it wasn`t English there are lots more possibilities (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Subsequently seems same thing on 5994 and 6076 approx. --- that eventually traced to NHK via GUF transmitter on 5960 (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED [non]. Unid en Arabe en 6060 --- Siendo las 2330 UT en el rx webSDR holandés en 6060 kHz hay una emisora en árabe con locución por YL. No consigo identificarla. Frecuente mención a Iranía" pero no es el estilo de IRIB. Y ciertamente no es RAE :-) ¿Qué puede ser? Terrible señal, 30 dB sobre 9 (Moisés Knochen, Uruguay, 27 Oct, condiglist yg via DXLD) Siendo 0105 UT del lunes, la emisora no identificada en árabe sigue en 6060 kHz siempre con locución femenina, con QRM de RHC en español. Y me refiero por supuesto al receptor web-SDR holandés. 0107 empieza lo que parecen lecturas del Corán, lo que de ser así descartaría que sea una emisora "occidental" transmitiendo en árabe. Nada en las listas consultadas. Tal vez consecuencia del cambio A -> B del 2012. 73 (Moisés Knochen, Uruguay, UT Oct 29, condiglista yg via DXLD) 6060 1630 0230 37-39 ZAH 500 289 0 145 1234567 281012 300313 D ARABIC IRN IRB IRB 12081 1A101 (HFCC B-12 via DXLD) For such 10-hour spans, be sure to luck further down the list for the start time than just after 0000 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Puede ser, hasta ayer no había nada en las listas, pero hoy ya aparece en http://www.shortwaveschedule.com: 6060 Voice Of Islamic Republic of Iran Arabic 16:30 02:30 TTTTTTT Zahedan Power 500 KW Puede que hayan adelantado el cambio estacional de frecuencias que supuestamente se hacía hoy. Si me da la paciencia esperaré a ver si corta 0230 UT o si escucho alguna identificación. En todo caso Iran es consistente con las frecuentes menciones a "Iranía" 73 (Moisés Knochen, ibid.) Poco antes de las 0120 UT pasaron una versión cantada de lo que juraría que es el viejo himno iraní "Ey Iran". Después de eso casi no me quedan dudas de que es VOIRI. 73 (Moisés, ibid.) Sí, es VOIRI, están mencionando Irán y hablando sobre el Talibán; no cabe duda es de Irán en 6060 kHz; ahora están las Suras (Ernesto Paulero, Argentina, 0137 UT, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. Euro pirate? 6282 - Un-ID station playing classic rock tunes, U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday & Pink Floyd's The Wall. Possible ID under severe static at 2125. Signal fair but as I said static is preventing any ID as of yet. Some unknown music and into eerie Halloween(?) electronic sound effects then into Led Zeppelin. Slight improvement on signal by 2140 but static bursts still heavy. OM announcer at 2144 in English, tentative R. Caroline but static just too difficult to get much of anything definite. Anyone else have this? (Steve Wood, Harwich, Mass., Oct 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) S=3 here, now Light my Fire. Announcement "from the eastern part of the Netherlands", but ID just dropped into the noise. 31 Oct 2012, 2150 UT. 73, (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, ibid.) It`s Radio Borderhunter on that frequency I think (Mark Davies, Anglesey, Wales, ibid.) Also heard Doors tune. Still going now with Beatles, While my guitar gently weeps. OM announcer mentioning 6284 & e-mail but still couldn't pull out ID (Steve Wood, Harwich, Mass., 2202 UT, ibid.) Logged as Radio Tipp and Elvis in Ireland http://irishpaulsradioblog.blogspot.co.uk Email address is t.eshow@hotmail.com per this address list http://www.freewebs.com/ukdxer/addresses.htm (Mike Barraclough, Nov 1, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 6899.4, Oct 27 at 0454, pirate on AM is occasionally fading up vs utehash on lo side with music, 0458 announcement, 0502 fade-in better with narrative story with SFX about Gregory Peccary; 0506 jazz/big band music; 0508 resumes story; 0519 music. Never got ID. Googling reveals that, preferably spelt ``Greggery Peccary``, it`s a Frank Zappa thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Greggery_Peccary But whence on this frequency? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6925-SSB, Oct 27 at 0533, stream-of-consciousness tale, Dr Benway? 0535 mentions Palomar Observatory, 0539 Dr Peters and a strange glowing polyhedron; dozzzed off until 0619 when it sounded like Chris Lobdell with reception reports, mentioning Winterfest, Pirate Radio Boston. So is that the proper ID for this transmission, or a vintage/relay? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. For the very first time I hear a Horn of Africa music station on 9715 kHz around 0400-0500 UT. Noted three signals from TUNE IN at 0415 UT: Started first with 9714.983 BSKSA Riyadh non-directional HQ service for NE/ME. 9715.031, UNKNOWN HoA music station, most probably from Eritrea. Music program was nice sounding, but much overmodulated. At 0430-0431 UT heard station announcement in vernacular of ERI/ETH area. Shortly after that, the Ethiopian White Noise jamming action of 20 kHz wide jamming signal started right as 3rd accompaniment. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 10000/AM, WWV plus music!; 0419-0425+, 28-Oct; Instrumental music played during WWV pips, but stopped when WWV ancr came on. Not on 2500 or 5000 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, MARE DXpedition #103 anear Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 300 ft. NEish unterminated bev, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) Italcable, the pirate pseudotimesigs from Italy? UNIDENTIFIED. 11912: No blob tonite UT Oct 25 around 0216, but I notice a bigsig from NHK Japanese via Bonaire on 11935, and I have a sneaking suspicion it was missing last night while the FMy distortionblob was centered on 11912; the times 02-04 UT fit for that transmission. Did anyone else notice for sure if 11935 was not on? Should it happen again the next few nights before both Sackville and Bonaire are kaput, check for // 5960 Sackville, tho probably not in synch. From B-12 Oct 28, 5960 and 11935 are to continue at 02-04, but then both via Guiana French (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1650 UT measurement tones of 800 - 900 Hertz on 13700 kHz, possible Bangla Desh from 17 UT. S=9+20dB (Wolfgang Büschel, Sunday, October 28, 2012, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15510-LSB, Oct 25 at 1357 as I am tuning to 15505 for another Betar check, something very strange: VOR carrier via Samara mixing with American military accented transmission, always with ICAO fonetix, ``O2X, out``. At 1400 he`s ``in`` for another transmission, and by now VOA Kurdish via Wertachtal provides the BFO. Perfectly zero beat, he could pass for AM instead of SSB, but why pick such an occupied broadcast frequency? I copied one of his encrypted series: ``VHLMY27WXMRRG4BQLSBK7KUG2GB`` No guarantees I got every character right; strong enough signal but some fading/distortion. ``This completes --- 28 characters, O2X, out``. Well, I must have missed one, only 27 above. Message intro by repetition at least thrice, ``VH76ST [?] stand by; 22 characters follow``. 1407 ``this completes __ characters, this is O2X, out`` at 1408. Time for breakfast but rechecked at 1427 he`s still going with another (same?) 28 characters and now his signal is so much stronger than the VOA BFO that it sounds more like SSB, i.e. insufficient carrier insertion. ``O2X, out``. No significant hits searching 15510 and 15.510 in the 44,593 posts so far in the UDXF yg. Nor does O2X appear anywhere as a callsign, and just once coincidentally embedded inside a huge PGP message. Nor is O2X to be found in this huge database of military callsigns: http://www.udxf.nl/MCL.pdf But it deals with word-name calls rather than random alfanumerix Or course as a tactical call it may be used only once or often changed Nor anything near 15510 in this list: http://www.shortwavewatch.com/15-30.htm Nor in Klingenfuss` 2002 book (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This area of your newsletter this time is very interesting for me... I had heard numerous things over years ago (using number code sequences) has ALWAYS intrigued me. What are they & what audience are they trying to contact? Thanks for listening :-) (Robin Springer, San Francisco CA USA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hard to say; could be military training exercise, in cryptography (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. 15595, Oct 31 at 1409, open carrier, a bit of noise and off before the minute is over. Greenville again warming up for later? No, per HFCC it`s likely TINIAN, which is now relaying VATICAN at 1430-1600 to S Asia, except on Sundays and this Wednesday adding on Urdu from 1415 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 16207, Oct 26 at 1335, the frying-sound transmitter is in again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. [INTRUDER ALERT] 21000 - grunt --- 21000.0 - A3E, carrier and both sidebands modulated by a grunt noise - continuous transmission since Oct. 25th - detected by HB9CET (thanks Peter for your attention!) Location Far East, perhaps Kazakhstan or China, very strong audible in Japan, too. soundfile: http://www.iarums-r1.org/iarums/sound/21000-grunt.wav attach: screenshot by DK2OM with Wavecom W-Code. 73 de Wolf, DK2OM, Oct 26, INTRUDERALERT mailing list (via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 26/10/12, 28890, Unid BC Harmonic, low audio, loud hum (Tim Bucknall, Congleton, RDR54D1 +CLP5130, harmonics yg via DXLD) 28890 = 3 x 9630. No time but apparently between 14 and 15 UT. HFCC A12 shows VOR on 9630 at 14-17, 250 kW, 190 degrees from Samara, but may be wooden, as not in Aoki, but both have CNR8 Lingshi in Kazakh at 14-15, 100 kW, 298 degrees (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 26/10/12: 29140, unID Russian broadcast, kept cutting out, 4 x 7285? g pks (Tim Bucknall, Congleton, RDR54D1 +CLP5130, harmonics yg via DXLD) No time, but apparently between 14 and 15 UT. If so, HFCC A-12 and Aoki show VOR in Russian from Moskva site, 100 kW, 190 degrees (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Pretty much a re-run of Saturday, reasonable MUF to the east although no great distances apart from Japan on 33.00 and the fishermen on 30-31 MHz. 1203, 30300, HF spur 2 x 15150. Vo Islamic Rep. Iran? 1206, 31420, HF spur 2 x 15710. CNR Beijing? SW broadcast listing suggests this should be Iran but in Arabic so not sure about the Chinese sounding service towards the end? http://www.ukdx.org.uk/tv/audio/30300_281012.mp3 Same schedule site has a CNR station on this frequency but not at this time. http://www.ukdx.org.uk/tv/audio/31420_281012.mp3 (Paul Farley, Oct 29, http://www.ukdx.org.uk http://www.youtube.com/Aceblaggard vhfskip yg via Tim Bucknall, harmonics yg via DXLD) Great log, Paul. Re: 30300, there`s an ID in Chinese at the end which I can't understand. If it isn't Iran, then could it be CNR 8 or 13 (with Xinjiang program) being aired on 15150 or 7575 to jam RFA or 6060 to jam VOA? Would they air overtly religious music, probably not, but not sure how else to explain the odd combination (Tim Bucknall, UK, ibid.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED on WORLD OF RADIO 1641: Thanks to David Cole, back in Goodwell OK for a generous check (gh) TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: Thanks to another, anonymous via PayPal, to woradio at yahoo.com (gh) Glenn --- please accept this as a far-too-small ``thank you`` for all of your hard work on WOR, DXLD, etc., now and in years past. 73 (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo MI, check to Box 1684) Glenn, After twenty-odd years of not finding the time to listen to SWL and, especially, WOR, I've started listening again. It is good to hear your voice, which I regularly listened to thirty years ago, when I subscribed to WOR the journal. This gift is a token of my appreciation (Philip Hiscock, Canada, with contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ PPC --- PREPARED CARDS QSL DESIGNING SERVICE Hi Glenn, How you're doing? I'm just dropping a line to inform that from now on I am open to receive requests for PPCs. As you know, I already have a blog with hundreds of PPCs, but I'd like to create PPCs for friends from all over, MW, SW, FM, utility stations, NDBs, whatsoever. Requests may be made directly as a comment in my blog http://ppcdx.blogspot.com.br/ Thanks and 73 (Fabricio A. Silva, Tubarão - SC, Brazil, Oct 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Amigos, Acabo de disponibilizar mais alguns PPCs no blog. Reforço que, se precisarem de PPC de alguma estação, favor comunicar, que procurarei fazê-lo, com prazer. PPCs de hoje: Radio Caaguazú - Coronel Oviedo, Paraguay Free North Korea Radio - Various locations Atlântida FM - Tramandaí/RS, Brazil Rádio Gazeta - São Paulo/SP, Brazil Rádio Amorim FM - Sombrio/SC, Brazil Rádio Clube - Itajaí/SC, Brazil Rádio Litoral JP - Imbé/RS, Brazil Rádio Transamérica Pop - Balneário Camboriú/SC, Brazil Lanzhou Meteo - Lanzhou, China North Korea Diplo - Pyongyang, North Korea Forte 73 (Fabricio Silva, Oct 30, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ********* IRCA Mexican Log, 17th Edition (Winter 2012) ********* ********* JUST RELEASED ********* The IRCA MEXICAN LOG lists all AM stations in Mexico by frequency, including call letters, state, city, day/night power, slogans, schedule in UTC/GMT, formats, networks and notes. The call letter index gives call, frequency, city and state. The city index (listed by state, then city) includes frequency, call and day/night power. The transmitter site index (listed by state, then city) tabulates the latitude and longitude of transmitter sites. This is an indispensable reference for anyone who hears Mexican radio stations. Size is 8 1/2" x 11". Prices: IRCA/NRC members ? $9.50 (US/Canada/sea mail), $11.50 (México), $12.50 (rest of the world). Non-IRCA/NRC members add $2.00. To order from the IRCA Bookstore, send the correct amount to: IRCA BOOKSTORE, 9705 MARY NW, SEATTLE WA 98117-2334 PayPal [add $1.00] email: phil_tekno @ yahoo.com Please state club affiliation when ordering (Phil Bytheway, IRCA Goodie Factory, Seattle, Oct 27, IRCA via DXLD) DOMESTIC BROADCASTING SURVEY / TROPICAL BANDS MONITOR Question for Glenn. Hi Glenn. Do you happen to know of a web site that has a current listings of Tropical Band DX stations? I have found a couple but they are way out of date. Really quiet down there now days. Thanks for your help. [taglines:] "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” 73 & good DX (Gary W. Froemming, CTC, WB7CAG / W7GWF, Glendale, AZ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Gary, This is probably what you are looking for, but will cost you $7 or $13, and includes monthly updates. http://www.dswci.org/ Click on the menu at the left, publications: DBS and TBM. You can look at previous editions for free (Glenn to Gary, via DXLD) PREFIX map amateur radio You just work the DX, but you don't know where they are on the map. Well this will solve the issue http://www.mapability.com/ei8ic/maps/prefix/index.php Enjoy and bookmark :) (Trevor Taylor, VE3TLT, ODXA yg via DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ FLORIDA KEYS BAND SCANS The following logs are the result of an extensive series of band scans – mostly medium wave, but a little long wave and broadcast band FM – made primarily from the middle and lower Florida Keys between October 20-24, 2012. In addition, rather extensive TIS/MIS mobile observations along the west coast of Florida through the Miami-Dade and Broward counties area were made. Equipment used: Sangean PR-D5 (AM/FM) and Sony ICF-7600GR (LW/AM/SW/FM) portables; stock Hyundai Sonata car radio; bamboo Lazy Susan turntable. Locations (appended to the end of each log – entries not appended were made while mobile) are: LKSP = Long Key State Park, Layton, Long Key, Florida (middle-Keys) FTZA = Ft. Zachary Taylor State Park, Key West, FL KEYW = Room 228 and poolside, Best Western Hibiscus, Key West, FL HMSD = Homestead, FL (hotel room) Loggings are divided into two segments: Section 1: Non-U.S., and Section 2: U.S. All logs are listed by-frequency. Times and dates are in GMT. All frequencies in kilocycles unless otherwise indicated in MHz. Signal strength for each log is indicated with a 1 through 5 ranking, 5 being local or near local level. Cuba sites are merely estimated, based on the 2009 EcuRed list, my historical logs, and an occasional combination of signal strength and very rough DFing. The Long Key State Park scan was made daytime, between 1500-1930 GMT (1100-0330 local Eastern Standard Time) October 21, 2012. The Ft. Zachary Taylor State Park scan was made between 1430-1730 GMT (1030-0130 local Eastern Standard Time) October 23, 2012. A .pdf version of this report, along with extensive photos and captions, is available at: https://sites.google.com/site/floridadxn/florida-low-power-radio-stations Go to the "Florida Keys Band Scans, October 2012" link on the left and open/view the .pdf file (Terry Krueger, FL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See OKLAHOMA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See BELGIUM; BULGARIA; CANADA; ETHIOPIA; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ INDIA; JAPAN; KOREA SOUTH; NEW ZEALAND; RUSSIA; SPAIN; VIETNAM DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ MEXICO: RADIO DIGITAL AMENAZA A LA TRADICIONAL AM. Un estudio de Ipsos-Bimsa, reveló que los fabricantes de receptores fijos y móviles ya no incluyen la banda de AM y lo mismo hacen con los equipos de audio de los vehículos. Cofetel dijo que los jóvenes ya escuchan radio en dispositivos móviles que carecen de estaciones de AM pues tendrían que contar con largas antenas Ciudad de México.- Los radiodifusores de Amplitud Modulada (AM) enfrentan un gran reto ente el cambio digital; no perder radioescuchas. El incremento en el número de receptores de radio digital que no incluyen a AM hace que los radiodifusores que aun utilizan este espectro para transmitir su señal teman que dejen de ser escuchados por un grupo de sus usuarios. Aunque la migración de AM y FM hacia el estándar digital IBOC dependerá de la penetración de los radioreceptores y no es obligatoria, los empresarios de AM que seguirán en este cuadrante enfrentan el riesgo de perder radioescuchas y ganancias con el incremento de receptores que no sintonizan esa frecuencia. . . FUENTE: http://economia.terra.com.mx/noticias/noticia.aspx?idNoticia=201210261241_REF_81701719 (Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ OPEN SOURCE RADIO SOFTWARE AIRTIME 2.2 RELEASED WITH DYNAMIC PLAYLISTS AND LIVE ASSIST MODES Dear Glenn, press release about today’s launch of Airtime 2.2, the open radio software from Sourcefabric used by independent media all over the world. Hope it is of interest. These might be useful... Homepage: http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/airtime Features: http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/airtime/features/ Screencast guide to Airtime 2.2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbhsjNoK3_o Screenshots: Airtime 2.2 Screenshots Press pics: Stations using Airtime Thanks for your time! Best, (Adam Thomas, Germany, Oct 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ Re: Correlating Reception Conditions with Dst [continued] Martin, Thanks for providing those links, I've been looking for a good long-term archive of past indices. Going back through my log, I don't see much correlation between a high Dst and good propagation on more northerly trans-Atlantic paths. Taking a few specific dates when midwest/Prairies/ Rockies stations were audible here: 13 Jan 2006 - Dst around zero and fairly steady 23 & 24 Jan 2009 - slightly negative, near zero 7 Nov 2009 - positive, within a double peak 10 Nov 2009 - slightly negative, recovering from a sudden dip that followed a peak on the 7th 30 Dec 2011 - slightly negative, a day or two after a peak I would say that's inconclusive beyond suggesting that a strongly negative Dst does seem to be bad news. Indices such as A, K and Dst - not forgetting Bz and potentially the impact of sudden stratospheric warming events - clearly do have some correlation to MF propagation, but it's such a complex multi-factorial relationship that I don't believe we're anywhere near to being able to say with any certainty that tonight, let alone some night next week, will be good or bad for any particular target area. Actually, I'm not sure that it matters so much any more. In the days when I had to decide whether to stay up late and/or get up early to twiddle the knobs, I would have loved to know if it would be worth losing sleep for. Now, using an SDR that can record the whole band overnight, I don't really care what the indices say because it costs almost nothing to make the recording (once you've invested in the equipment, of course) and I can check it at my leisure. Our ability to make reliable predictions is so poor that really the only way to know what propagation will be like tonight is to listen. This is emphasised by an important point you made yesterday - that rare DX can sometimes appear precisely when propagation seems poor. This past month has been unusually poor, and yet on 30 Sep I heard a good clear ID from 1590 WGBW in Denmark WI, even though very little else was audible from North America that night. On 22 Dec 2011, overall propagation was also poor, but I heard a number of rare stations from Mexico City. This raises the question of what constitutes good propagation. I would rate those two nights as good because I heard something new and rare. Others might dismiss them as poor because there were very few DX signals. Trying to understand how propagation works is fascinating, if often frustrating, but trusting the crystal ball of indices is a sure way to miss some good DX (Jack, Welwyn, Hertfordshire MWCircle yg via DXLD) MW PROPAGATION The late Bob Brown NM7M was an expert on Top Band (160m propagation) . This obviously has a lot in common with MW propagation. He wrote a book entitled "NM7M The Big Gun's Guide to Low-Band Propagation" . This is now available as a free download on Carl K9LA's site, courtesy of Bob's family. Just go to http://myplace.frontier.com/~k9la/html/160m.html (Steve (G0KYA), Oct 29, MWCircle yg via DXLD) Geomagnetic field activity was at quiet levels throughout the period. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 29 OCT - 24 NOV 2012 Solar activity is expected to be low during the period with a slight chance for M-class flares during 29 October - 02 November and 15 - 24 November. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal to moderate levels during 29 October - 04 November. High flux levels are expected during 05 - 24 November. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet levels during 29 - 30 October. An increase to quiet to unsettled levels is expected late on 31 October, with a chance for active levels, due to the arrival of the CMEs observed on 27 October. A further increase to active levels is expected on 01 November, with a chance for minor storm periods, as CME effects continue. Field activity is expected to decrease to unsetttled to active levels on 02 November as CME effects gradually subside and a coronal hole high-speed stream (CH HSS) begins to disturb the field. Activity is expected to decrease to quiet to unsettled levels on 03 November as CH HSS effects subside. Quiet conditions are expected during 04 - 07 November. An increase to unsettled levels is predicted for 08 November, due to a solar sector boundary crossing followed by a co-rotating interaction region in advance of a CH HSS. A further increase to active levels is expected on 09 November, with a chance for minor storm periods, due to a CH HSS. Activity is expected to decrease to quiet to active levels on 10 November as CH HSS effects subside. Quiet levels are expected during 11 - 24 November. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2012 Oct 29 0547 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # Product description and SWPC contact on the Web # http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wwire.html # # 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table # Issued 2012-10-29 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2012 Oct 29 115 5 2 2012 Oct 30 115 5 2 2012 Oct 31 110 12 3 2012 Nov 01 105 22 5 2012 Nov 02 100 18 4 2012 Nov 03 100 8 3 2012 Nov 04 100 5 2 2012 Nov 05 105 5 2 2012 Nov 06 110 5 2 2012 Nov 07 115 5 2 2012 Nov 08 120 10 3 2012 Nov 09 120 20 4 2012 Nov 10 120 15 4 2012 Nov 11 120 5 2 2012 Nov 12 125 5 2 2012 Nov 13 125 5 2 2012 Nov 14 130 5 2 2012 Nov 15 135 5 2 2012 Nov 16 135 5 2 2012 Nov 17 135 5 2 2012 Nov 18 135 5 2 2012 Nov 19 135 5 2 2012 Nov 20 135 5 2 2012 Nov 21 130 5 2 2012 Nov 22 125 5 2 2012 Nov 23 120 5 2 2012 Nov 24 115 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1641, DXLD) ###