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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1661 headlines: *DX and station news about: Alaska, Albania, Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bolivia, China, Cuba, Easter Island, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan non Korea North and non, Kuwait, Mexico, Oklahoma, Palau, Peru, Romania, Russia, Suriname, Tunisia, UK and non, USA SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1661, March 21-27, 2013 Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [repeated 1660 this week] Thu 2100 WTWW 9479 [confirmed] Fri 0328v WWRB 3195 [confirmed from 0332] Sat 0130v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 [confirmed from 0134] Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1500 WRMI 9955 Sun 0400 WTWW 5830 Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or maybe 1662 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/98/10:00:00UTC/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/ ** ALASKA. Presumed HAARP heard with 50 kHz-wide pulses, centered on about 8625 & 9322 kHz, UT-date March 15 at roughly 0415. Source signals surmised by way of freqs posted in DXLD 13-10, 8605 & 9305 kHz. No deleterious effects noted, except for this new arm growing out of my forehead; 8625-approx suddenly off at 0434; quick turn to 9322- approx, also off. Heard via the trusty Yaesu FRG-7700, attached to a 100' E-W unterminated wire run thru an FRT-7700 tuning unit (GREG HARDISON, West San Fernando Valley of the Jolly Little Green Men, WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. UNIDENTIFIED. Chinese program, with music, not CNR1 nor CNR2, on 11715. Poor modulation. 16 Mar 2013, 0750 UTC. Still checking. 73, (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, Perseus SDR + DX-10 Pro Active Antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) This is CRI, parallel to 11855 kHz, where it is very strong via the Albania relay. Possibly a spurious emission from Cerrik? 73, (Eike, 0757 UT, ibid.) It's a leapfrog. It's quite strong on DL3KR's Perseus in northern Germany, and there's a second weak audio in the background, // 11785 English CRI via Cerrik. And 11855 (Chinese) - 11785 (English) = 70, and 11785-70=11715! Is there 11855+70=11925? Yes, with English audio dominating, interfering with Voice of Turkey. 73, (Eike, 0808 UT, ibid.) WORLD OF RADIO 1661, That's right (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, ibid.) Hi Eike, Not heard in Jo'burg, not even a carrier, at 0757 on March 16. Regards, (Bill Bingham, ibid.) Might have just turned off (gh) 6020, 17/Mar 0432, UNID in English. Several mentions of China. CRI in English? Yes CRI, at 0451 ID by OM. Nothing in the lists HFCC, Aoki and EIBI. 35433. Abrupt end of transmission at 0457. At 0458, interval signal VOA. At 0500 VOA in Hausa (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) There's China Radio International in English via Cerrik, Albania (300 kW) between 0000-0200. Maybe transmitter staff error? (Georgi Bancov, Bulgaria, ibid.) Part of B-12 schedule of China Radio International via Cerrik 0000-0157 on 6020 CER 300*kW / 305 deg to NoAm in English 0000-0157 on 9570 CER 300*kW / 305 deg to NoAm in English 0200-0357 on 6020 CER 300*kW / 305 deg to NoAm in Chinese 0200-0357 on 9570 CER 300*kW / 305 deg to NoAm in Chinese 0400-0457 transmitters pause. Probable mistake of transmitter staff and both transmitters continue the previous frequencies 0400-0457 on 6020 CER 300*kW / 305 deg to NoAm in English 0400-0457 on 9570 CER 300*kW / 305 deg to NoAm in English 0500-0657 on 5985 CER 150 kW / 240 deg to NWAf in Arabic 0500-0657 on 7210 CER 150 kW / 240 deg to NWAf in Arabic 0500-0557 on 7220 CER 150 kW / 140 deg to N/ME in English 0500-0657 on 9590 CER 150 kW / 140 deg to N/ME in Arabic 0600-0657 on 11750 CER 150 kW / 140 deg to N/ME in English * 2 x 150 kW in parallel (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) ** ARGENTINA. Estimados: en la mañana de hoy, viajando por el oeste del AMBA (Area Metropolitana Buenos Aires) por razones laborales, pude captar una nueva emisora en 1670 kHz con música litoraleña (chamamé) en forma ininterrumpida. No hay anuncios ni mucho menos identificaciones. La sintonicé con muy potente señal en la radio del auto desde Morón a San Justo inclusive. Consulté por SMS a Marcelo Cornachioni, seguramente quien más conoce de radios "truchas" del conurbano bonaerense y coincide conmigo en que podría tratarse de una nueva estación (Arnaldo Slaen, March 15, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DXLD) Anteayer estuve escuchandola a eso de las 2330-0000 UT y me superó el chamamé de continuo. No se identificó nunca. Para mí también es un misterio. Y apareció efectivamente, hace pocos días, porque no venía escuchando nada en esa frecuencia. 73 desde Montevideo (Rodolfo Tizzi, Uruguay, March 15, ibid.) La X band evidentemente es provechosa para Uds! No creo que tenga una potencia apreciable. Estimo que debe estar en pruebas y en cualquier momento larga (Arnaldo Slaen, ibid.) Es una emisión de prueba; lo va diciendo cada tanto y se presenta como radio Rubi, desde Rafael Castillo la matanza (Leonel Da Silva, ibid.) Gracias por el dato, Leonel!!! Voy a ver si encuentro algo en la web y lo comparto (Slaen, ibid.) [and non]. Hoy de madrugada, frente al reconstruido Hotel Carrasco de Montevideo. A pesar que el tiempo estaba inestable, no habia estáticos, lo que permitió escuchar varias cosas con señales decentes, como podrá comprobarse. Incluye una identificación de Radio Rubi, La Matanza, Buenos Aires (1670 kHz) en su transmision de prueba, y también un segmento del Servicio Mundial de la BBC retransmitido por la FIRS de Port Stanley en 530 kHz. Paradójicamente sobremodulado, en forma absolutamente casual, por el Himno Nacional de la República Argentina, que difundía La Voz de las Madres, en la misma frecuencia. http://youtu.be/mmxdOWKCCts (Rodolfo Tizzi, Uruguay, March 18, condiglist yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DXLD) Ahora sí, pude grabarle una identificacion [1670]: http://youtu.be/bgd7SFxAUzM 73 desde Montevideo (Tizzi, ibid.) ** ARGENTINA [and non]. Buona domenica: 13363.6, LTA Argentina Armed Forces, Buenos Aires, 2155 13 Mar, LSB mode program relay, 2219 "informativo sur PAPA Francesco", 33333 (Giroletti ) 13362, AFRTS, GUAM, Barrigada, 2155 13 Mar, program relay USB mode, 33333. Ciao e buoni DX 73! (Mauro Giroletti, Swl 1510, IK2GFT, playdx yg via DXLD) 13363.5-LSB, UT Friday March 15 at 0048, LTA is detectable with broadcast relay in Spanish but not readable, seems like lo-fi audio feed and hard to tune it accurately. This is more active on weekends with silly ballgames (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ASCENSION. 7305, March 17 at 0527, the BaBcoCk music loop is playing and again with skips like I heard March 16 at 2100-2101:50* on 15480, AWR via SOUTH AFRICA. Therefore, I conclude the defective loop is being sent out that way from London master control without anyone caring or noticing. On 7305 this precedes BBC Hausa which opens at 0529 mentioning bbchausa.com Quick check of 6175, end of Vietnam relay, but at 0528 it`s already shifted to WHRI promotional PS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 2368.48, Radio Symban, 1310-1403, March 17. Mostly easy listening music and songs (non-descriptive – did not particularly sound like the distinctive Pacific songs recently heard); after 1351 mostly talking in assume Pacific vernacular; poor; reception was best before my local sunrise (1414) (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn: I’ve been a fan of yours since the 70s. I had a couple nice catches this morning. I mainly do tropical band DXing. Today, with a SW Ewe, and an SDR-IQ I found these. March 17, 1030, 2368.48, R Symban, Peats Ridge--Gosford NSW, Australia, 23232. Continuous Greek Men's Choral Choir music (Tennant Creek on 2325 peaking at same time). QRN static crashes. 1058 man announcing next song, fading. Time blip at 1100, signal in the mud/more choral music (Mike Gilchrist, Disruptive Technologist, Advanced Wireless Express P.O. Box 255 Toledo, IA 52342 Mike's Weekly Column http://www.tamatoledonews.com/page/category.detail/nav/5001/Local-Columns.html WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 4910, VL8T, Tennant Creek, 0810 to 0825 March 18 poor to fair with some audio at 0825. 4835, VL8A, Alice Springs, NT, 0835 to 0840 March 18 (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Flórida, Drake R7, 60 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. DRM from Shepparton on behalf of Bureau of Meteorology My personal take: it is a utility as it is data only and not voice or music -- Robin VK7RH (taken from VK1WIA Newstext): The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has a DRM test underway from a site in Victoria. They`re running a useful DRM mode called Journaline which is a non-telephony mode for text & images meant to provide news, e.g. a crawler on the screen while you are listening to a radio program. I think Radio NZ International use Journaline along with their audio. The technical details are: Freq: 5960 kHz Mode: C/10 kHz SDC/MSC: 4 QAM Data: 8.64 kb/sec The opening screen identifies the service as `BOM Data`. Going into Journaline mode opens up a series of pages with full identification and a `Geoscience Test` where real-time data on seismic activity around the Pacific and south-east Asia is presented. I`m seeing pages of text describing the position, magnitude and depth of seismic activity for the Vanuatu Islands, New Britain region, south coast of PNG, Java, Philippine Islands and the Fiji Islands. Now Newcastle (NSW) and Koorda (WA) get an entry. There is a strong possibility that the source of these signals is the Broadcast Australia site (previously Radio Australia) at Shepparton Victoria (via Robin Harwood, Tasmania, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Why do you think there is a `strong possibility` it is from Shep, when as in extensive info about this in DXLD 13-09 it is exactly here in Broadmeadows? Viz: The license is here http://web.acma.gov.au/pls/radcom/registration_search.lookup?pACCESS_ID=1837539&pDEVICE_ID=2252611 (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) VK1WIA news text said it was a strong possibility it was from Shepparton, not me. Broadmeadows makes sense and only rated 1 kW also rules out the above (Robin VK7RH, ibid.) From what I have been hearing from Nigel Holmes, this is likely not Shepparton (Christopher Rumbaugh, ibid.) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. Beijing Jamming Radio Australia [re 13-11] http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/beijing-jamming-radio-australia-20130314-2g3ml.html Rgds, (Craig Seager, Bathurst NSW, March 15, ARDXC via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 21740, March 17 at 2140, no signal from R. Australia which normally inbooms starting at 2100. That`s because of a geostorm with K = 6 at 2100, per WWV: ``Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 17 March follow. Solar flux 126 and estimated planetary A-index 46. The estimated planetary K-index at 2100 UTC on 17 March was 6. Space weather for the past 24 hours has been moderate. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G2 level occurred. Solar radiation storms reaching the S1 level occurred. Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be moderate. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G2 level are expected.`` But 15m was open at least from Nicaragua, YN3M circa 21345-USB. At 0051 March 18, still no 21740, but 19000 was poorly audible instead of usual good signal. If aurora reached this far south it was behind the clouds. 21740, March 18 at 2316, R. Australia is back with good signal, some fading, rather than very good, so not completely recovered from yesterday`s geomag storm. Slightly worse on // 19000 but both sufficient. K index at 21 UT was 2. 17750, March 20 at 0541, pleased to hear at least a weak signal on 16m at this hour on (almost) the equinox, i.e. R. Australia. Too poor to copy but not // much better RA English frequencies 15515, 15240, 13630 and even 15415 which are // each other. 17750 must be on the Asian stream, i.e. `Bush Telegraph` scheduled, while the others are `Pacific Beat`, about coping with crime in PNG. HFCC shows 17750 is 2330-0700 on 329 degree beam from Shepparton to CIRAF 44S, 50, 51W, 54E, i.e. Indonesia, Philippines, eastern China. HFCC shows 15415 is 2200-0700 on 355 degree beam from Shepparton to CIRAF 45, 51, 64, i.e. Papua New Guinea to Japan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA. Mon-Sat ORF/ORS outlet via LONG PATH to Pacific at 0800- 0835 UT at 58-60 zones 100 kW 265 degrees azimuth HAS BEEN DELETED now (Wolfgang Büschel, March 18, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 19 via DXLD) WTFK? In B-12 was on 18910 and one hour later (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** AZERBAIJAN. 9677.7, Ädalätin Säsi Radiosu (R Voice of Justice), Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh, observed Mar 09-14 with very old known schedule Tue and Fri only 1400-1425, repeated on Wed and Sat at 0600- 0625. The circulated schedule with broadcasts in all weekdays is non- correct. Main news for this station is that since Mar 13 R Voice of Justice has new transmitter and new studio with clear speaking in Azeri; it is for the first time in their history (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, DSWCI DX Window March 20 via WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DXLD) Also heard on 9677.42 at *1400-1410, Tue Mar 19, I/S, Azeri talk, heard on both AOR and RadioJet, 24333 (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, ibid.) ** BAHAMAS. [re 13-11] When I lived at my old QTH, I used to occasionally hear ZNS1. I remember them still using that "Wake up in the morning, Zed N S One, Radio Bahamas! Only the sun covers the Bahamas better than Radio Bahamas!" interval signal that they used way back before I was born. Were they actually still using that into the 21st century or did I just hear some special broadcast out of them? (narvorr, ABDX via DXLD) ** BANGLADESH. 4750.00, Bangladesh Betar – Home Service from 1213 to 1300 (March 18-Monday). Heard again after an absence of over two weeks; reciting from the Qur’an; subcontinent music; 1236 start of the news in English, so assume the Monday weekly SAARC news bulletin; only able to make out a few words due to RRI QRM; IDing this based solely on program content that I have heard many times before in the past; RRI Makassar just too strong to dig out a spoken ID; no CNR1 QRM (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Bangladesh Home Service on 7250 kHz --- With a tip from Salahuddin Dolar, Rajsahi, Bangladesh: Just noted Bangladesh Betar Home Service on 7250 kHz now at 15 UT with 44344 reception, ID, program info, listeners letters and special programs of tomorrow (Partha Sarathi Goswami, Siliguri, WB, India, March 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yesterday 1600 UT onwards, Bangladesh Betar erratically aired Home Service and external service both on same frequency 7250 kHz and made a huge QRM on each other; this is very rare and funny that a station carrying two different program from two transmitters from the same area (Goswami, March 17, ibid., WORLD OF RADIO 1661) BANGLA DESH / INDIA, 7249.979, 3 transmitters mess here? Sorry, on remote net Perseus units in Nagoya-JPN, Moscow, Greece and Germany, I 'see' only - as usual - the odd frequency AIR Hindi service from Goa Panaji at 1630 UT March 17, latter scheduled 1600-1730 UT and Malayalam from 1730 to 1830 UT, next to even 7250.0 kHz Dhaka Bangla Desh service (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 17, ibid.) ** BANGLADESH. 15505, March 18 at 1359, BB has come on with IS, poor with flutter, some hum, 1400 accurate timesignal which is presumably coincidental, and opening Urdu. 15505, March 19 at 1359, humless open carrier with flutter past 1400; finally at 1400:45 cuts on hum and simultaneously the BB Urdu service already in progress, 1401:45 ID and news. 1430 modulation and hum stop, carrier off a few sex later. 15505, March 20 at 1358, BB is already on with hummy IS, 1400 timesignal about 1 second early, and opening Urdu. Except for Cuba, one of the best signals on 19m now, with north-south terminators, much better than 15610 WEWN or 15825 WWCR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. Intressant med den starka övertonen från Radio Belarus 1170 x 2 kHz. Jag skrev ett meddelande till teknikerna i Sasnovoye, Larisa Suarez som är min personliga vän på radion har översatt det från engelska till ryska och skickat idag med sin direktions välsignelse till teknikerna. Vi får väl se vad det leder till. Jag har också uppmanat Radio Belarus att ha en repris av engelska sändningen nästa dag 0900-1100 på 11730 kHz, då hörbarheten kvällstid är mycket dålig i regel. Hur det går med det förslaget är oklart. Vill bara tipsa er om Radio Belarus på webben http://www.radiobelarus.tvr.by/live/br.asx där Larisa i "Letters to editor" tar upp frågan om övertonen från 1170 kHz. Sent meddelat men jag tar chansen... annars går det sista gången i radion på 6155 kHz, kl 22.20 samt på 1170 kHz MV, men mycket svårhört i regel. 73, (Ullmar Qvick, SW Bulletin March 17 via DXLD) Interesting with the strong overtone [harmonic] of Radio Belarus 1170 kHz x 2. I wrote a message to the technicians of Sasnovoye. Larisa Suárez who is my personal friend on the station has translated from English into Russian and sent today with the Director’s blessing the information to the technicians. We'll see what it leads to. I have also asked Radio Belarus to repeat the English broadcast the next day 0900-1100 on 11730 kHz, because audibility in the evenings is very poor in general. How it goes with the proposal is unclear. Just want to tell you about Radio Belarus on the Web http://www.radiobelarus.tvr.by/live/br.asx where Larisa in the "Letters to Editor" addresses the issue of the harmonic from 1170 kHz. Late notice but I'll take the chance; otherwise the last time on radio is at 6155 kHz, at 2220 and at 1170 kHz MW, but very difficult to hear normally. 73, (Ullmar Qvick, Sweden, SW Bulletin March 17, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) Extended schedule of Radio Belarus, Minsk, French, Spanish: 1940-2000 6155 MNS 125 kW / 255 deg French Sat/Sun/Mon/Thu* exSat/Sun 1940-2000 11730 MNS 100 kW / 252 deg French Sat/Sun/Mon/Thu* exSat/Sun 2000-2020 6155 MNS 125 kW / 255 deg Spanish Sat/Sun/Mon^, ex Sun only 2000-2020 11730 MNS 100 kW / 252 deg Spanish Sat/Sun/Mon^, ex Sun only * all other days in German ^ all other days in English (DX RE MIX NEWS #772 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 18, 2013, via DXLD) ** BELGIUM [non]. BRB (ex TDP) A13 Shortwave Radio Broadcast Schedule Effective 31st March 2013 PROGRAM UTC FREQ(kHz)DAYS LANGUAGE TARGET AREA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Radio Miraya 0300-0600 11560 AM mtwtfss Arab/Engl Africa Denge Kurdistan 0300-1900 11510 AM mtwtfss Kurdish Middle East 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 mtwtf-- Khmer Asia KPPM Radio 1200-1300 9960 AM -----ss Khmer Asia The Disco Palace 1530-1630 15775 DRM mtwtfss English Asia/MidEast Radio Xoriyo 1600-1630 17870 AMm ---f-- Somali Africa Radio Assenna 1700-1800 15245 AM m-w-f-- Tigrinya Africa ESAT Radio 1700-1800 15370 AM mtwtfss Amharic Africa Suab Xaa Moo Zoo 2230-2300 7530 AM mtwtfss Hmong Asia Broadcast Belgium P.O. Box 1 2310 Rijkevorsel BELGIUM E-mail: info at broadcast.be Web: http://www.broadcast.be (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, dxldyg via DXLD) /USA [non, BULGARIA/FRANCE/MOLDOVA/PALAU/TAIWAN] Airtime {former TDP FMO} - Shortwave - Schedule. Program and frequency Schedule A-13 (Summer 2013) PROGRAM TIME FREQUENCY AM/ DAYS LANGUAGE TARGET UTC kHz DRM mtwtfss [site added] Radio Miraya 0300-0600 11560 AM mtwtfss Ar/En Africa Kostinbrod-SOF ex9940 Denge Kurdistan 0300-1900 11510 AM mtwtfss Kurdish Mid East Grigoriopol Moldova Suab Xaa Moo Zoo 1130-1200 11570 AM mtwtfss Hmong Asia Taipei-TWN Que Me 1200-1230 9930 AM ....f.. Vietnam. Asia HBN Palau The Khmer Post R 1200-1300 9960 AM mtwtf.. Khmer Asia HBN Palau KPPM Radio 1200-1300 9960 AM .....ss Khmer Asia HBN Palau The Disco Palace 1530-1630 15775 DRM mtwtfss English Asia/ME Issoudun-F ex12115drm Radio Xoriyo 1600-1630 17870 AM m...f.. Somali Africa probably Issoudun-F Radio Assenna 1700-1800 15245 AM m.w.f.. Tigrinya Africa probably Kostinbrod-SOF ESAT Radio 1700-1800 15370 AM mtwtfss Amharic Africa probably Kostinbrod-SOF Suab Xaa Moo Zoo 2230-2300 7530 AM mtwtfss Hmong Asia Taipei-TWN Alyx & Yeyi, LLC - 5201 Blue Lagoon Drive, 8th Floor, Miami, FL 33126 - U.S.A. Phone [1] (305) 572-8070 e-mail Airtime FMO brokery - TDP new link (A-13) (March 16; site comments by wb. - tentatively - DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 3310.00, R. Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba, 5/03 1015-1050 33333, px News varias en quechua a veces español mxf y advs, ID "Radio Mosoj Chasqui" (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Chasqui DX March 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4716.6, Radio Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura noted from 1030 to 1045, last to sign on usually with 4699.9 Radio San Miguel and Radio Lípez much earlier. 16 March, also 14 and 15 March (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, Sixty meter dipole, MW Antenna; and MR, Vero Beach, South Florida, Sony 2010, NRD 515, Drake R8B, ANC-4; and XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A -E-5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4795.87, Radio Lípez, Uyuni, noted on as early as 0900 on 16 March. Was broadcasting last March and left the air after a week so if in need of QSL, the time may be now. Steady signal in Florida (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, Sixty meter dipole, MW Antenna; and MR, Vero Beach, South Florida, Sony 2010, NRD 515, Drake R8B, ANC-4; and XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A -E-5, via Wilkner, WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4795.8, Radio Lípez, Uyuni, 0836 to 0840 March 18 (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Flórida, Drake R7, 60 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4799.9, Radio San Miguel, Riberalta, 0903 March 18 with music, vocalist to 0915 (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Flórida, Drake R7, 60 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.40, March 16 at 0056, fair signal in Spanish, R. Pio Doce holding its own well against the Cuban jamming centered on 5955; still no sign of a R. República just above 5954, at least not around this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6024.94, R. Patria Nueva, La Paz, 8/03 2330-0002, 33333, news varias y advs, ID "Bolivia al día por radio Patria Nueva", px Bolivia al día, comentan sobre el estado climático en la zona y sobre el día de la mujer px en español, y quechua (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Chasqui DX March 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6054.48, Mar 13 2100. A weak carrier noted here for about half an hour. Also on 6055.0 a carrier (maybe R Nikkei?) is noted very often but always very weak. R Juan 23 was heard in Argentina (a YouTube clip) on 6054-6055 lately, but no definite frequency given in the clip. This frequency needs more investigation. See screenshot from my Perseus below. TN (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin March 17 via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 6154.9, Radio Fides, La Paz 0710 March 18 (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Flórida, Drake R7, 60 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. BOLÍVIA, 3310, R. Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba, 2318-2329, 14/3, quíchua, texto, certamente, propag. relig.; 35342. 4699.9, R. San Miguel, Riberalta, 2257-2314, 16/3, castelhano, anúncios de programação, anúncios comerciais, música pop' índia, canções ligeiras em castelhano; 34332. Melhor sinal captado em 17/2, pelas 2230. 4716.7, R. Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura, 2255-2309, 16/3, quíchua ou aimara, texto; 25331. 5952.4, R. Pio XII, Siglo XX, 2244-2256, 15/3, castelhano, noticiário; 45422. 6134.8, R. Santa Cruz, St.ª Cruz de la Sierra, 2241-..., 16/3, castelhano, texto; 23431, QRM adj. e no mesmo canal. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, March 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4754.9, Brasil, Rádio Imaculada Conceição, Campo Grande, MS, 0845 to 0910 locutor em português, strong signal using the new Drake R7. Forgotten the excellent audio of this now vintage radio. 16 March (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, Sixty meter dipole, MW Antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4824.98 approx., March 17 at 0055, singing and praising, same at 0102 after my TOH Chaski-check, which may be why I still haven`t caught an ID from whichever ZY this be (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4824.95, Mar 14 0158, R. Educadora de Bragança heard with a clear ID at 0158z. Decent signal. TN (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin March 17 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4876.7, Brasil, Rdif Roraima, Boa Vista RR, 0245 March 18 (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Flórida, Drake R7, 60 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4876.838, ZYG810, Rádio Difusora Roraima, Boa Vista, RR, very odd frequency, noted with English song at 0348 UT March 19. S=9+5 to +10dB. One of the best modulated Brazilian programs these days! Excellent audio (Wolfgang Büschel, March 19, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4885.016, UNIDentified Brazilian station in Portuguese, at 0348 UT March 19. Two Brazilians requested [sic] here on this channel: ZYG362, Rádio Clube do Pará, Belém, PA, and ZYF201, Rádio Difusora Acreana, Rio Branco, AC - A Voz das Selvas. Talk feature by male and female about industry production in Asia. Fair signal S=8 level (Wolfgang Büschel, March 19, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DXLD) 4885, Brasil, Rádio Clube do Pará, Belém, PA, 0650 March 18 Brasil pops, good signal (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Flórida, Drake R7, 60 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4885.00, BRASIL, R. Difusora Acreana, Acre, 20/03 0858-0915, 33333++, mx, advs, Faltan 4 minutos para las 4 de la mañana, mx ID “ZYH200 1400 kHz y ZY201 4885, Rádio Difusora Acreana. La Voz de la Selva” [Spanish??] (escuchar grabación) (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Chasqui DX March 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4905, R. Relógio, 0035, 232, mx gospel (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brazil, 19 March, RECPTOR TECSUN PL 660 ANTENNA LONG WAY 7 METERS, http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Has anyone heard this in N America? ** BRAZIL. 4915, Brasil, Radiodifusora Macapá, Macapá, AP, 0820 to 0835 March 18, one quick mention of Macapá, good signal (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Flórida, Drake R7, 60 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4914.907, Portuguese Brazilian song, just on poor tiny threshold level, S=3 only. CODAR transmission interfered at 4885 to 4916 kHz range nearby. Could be ZYF360 Rádio Difusora de Macapá, Amapá AP (Wolfgang Büschel, March 19, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4965, tentative, Brasil, Rádio Alvorada, Parintins, 0910 to 0918 March 18 in Portuguese (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Flórida, Drake R7, 60 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 6000, R. Guaíba, 0024, 453, ann churrascaria barranco (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brazil, 19 March, RECPTOR TECSUN PL 660 ANTENNA LONG WAY 7 METERS, http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 6059.9, Tentative Brasil, Super R Deus é Amor, Curitiba, 0655-0659 March 18 in Portuguese, signal killed by Cuba sign on at 0700 with strong signal (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Flórida, Drake R7, 60 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL, 3355, R. Educadora 6 de Agoso, Xapuri AC, 2315- 2327, 14/3, relato de partida de futebol; 15331. 3365, R. Cultura, Araraquara SP, 2306-2314, 16/3, texto, presumìvelmente, relato de jogo de futebol; 25321. 4765, R. Rural, Santarém PA, 2250-2302, 16/3, info. acerca de um encontro relig., canções a condizer, anúncios comerciais; 25321. 4805, R.Dif.ª do Amazonas, Manaus AM, 2234-2252, 15/3, rubrica Notícias do Amazonas, anúncios comerciais, anúncio de programação; 34432, QRM de CODAR. 4815, R. Dif.ª, Londrina PR, 2235-2248, 17/3, progr. da IPDA, embora não em simultâneo com a SRDA; 34432, QRM adjac. de emissora de ponto a ponto. 4845.2, R. Cultura Ondas Tropicais, Manaus AM, 2230-2245, 15/3, canções; 44433, QRM de CODAR e, por vezes, de outro sinal de ponto a ponto, áudio pobre, como se de linha telefónica se tratasse. O mais certo é a ligação entre os estúdios e o tx ser *mesmo* por linha telefópnica, o que não é, de todo, inédito, bem pelo contrário, mas a qualidade é francamente má. 4865. R. Verdes Florestas, Cruz.º do Sul AC, 2312-2322, 14/3, padre estrangeiro com propag. relig.; 34442, QRN adj. de sinal de emissora de ponto a ponto. 4876, R. Dif.ª de Roraima, Boa Vista RR, 2229-2243, 15/3, A Voz do Brasil, 2.ª parte; 44433, boa modulação, QRM de CODAR. Observada em 4876.2 em 17/3, e com pior modulação. 4885, R. Dif.ª Acreana, Rio Branco AC, 2223-2234, 14/3, texto; 22431, QRM do R. Club do Pará, B. 4895, R. Novo Tempo, Cp.º Grande MS, 2236-2251, 15/3, canções, anúncios informativos; 35432. 4914.97, R. Daqui, Goiânia GO, 2159-2216, 17/3, canções e propag. relig.; 44432, QRM da R.Dif.ª de Macapá, B. 4915, R. Dif.ª, Macapá AP, 2306-2318, 14/3, texto; 23431, QRM da R. Daqui, B. Melhor captação em 17/3, 2210. 4925.2, R. Educação Rural, Tefé AM, 2303-2317, 14/3, texto; 35331, modulação fraca. 4975, R. Iguatemi, Osasco SP, 2256-2309, 14/3, texto; 24331. Caramba, pior do que a captação em // 1370.03, no dia 17/3, 2344-2353, SINPO 24432. 4985, R. Brasil Central, Goiânia GO, 2237-..., 17/3, texto e música, totalmente imperceptíveis; 32431, QRM de sinal de teletipo. Sinal ausente em 11815. 5035, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 2239-2253, 15/3, A Voz do Brasil, 2.ª parte; 35432. 5035, R. Educação Rural, Coari AM, 2157-2206, 17/3, texto; 13431, QRM da R. Aparecida, B. 5970, R. Itatiaia, Belo Horizonte MG, 2230-2247, 16/3, conversa sobre futebol, provàvelmente a rubrica Apito Final; 33432, QRM adj. da CHINA, em 5965. 6010.4, R. Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte MG, 2246-..., 15/3, A Voz do Brasil, 2.ª parte; 24421; // 15189.88, com modulação que já conheceu melhores dias. 6070, R. Capital, Rio de Jan.º RJ, 2235-2244, 16/3, retransm. da SRDA; 23431, QRM por espalhamento do sinal iraniano em 6060 (// 765 Chah Bahar). 6080, R. Marumby (p), Curitiba PR, 2238-..., 16/3, texto; 22431, QRM da CHINA. 9565.05, SRDA, Curitiba PR, 1950-2005, 15/3, entrevistas sobre testemunhos de curas... - simplesmente patético; 33432, QRM adjacente. 9629.9, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 1940-2012, 15/3, canções, saudações aos ouvintes, tudo no progr. Cantinho Sertanejo, anúncios comerciais, ident. completa da emissora, às 2003; 44443, QRM adjacente. 9645.4, R. Bandeirantes, São Paulo SP, 2323-..., 14/3, anúncios comerciais, canções; 35433, QRM intensa a partir das 2330. 9664.86, R. Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, 1955-2016, 17/3, propag. relig., info. acerca da estação, anúncio sobre encontro dos Gideões...; 35433. 9819.2, R. 9 de Julho, São Paulo SP, 1942-2006, 15/3, propag. relig., missa; 35432, QRM adj. , às 2000. 11735, R. Transmundial, St.ª M.ª RS, 1831-1917, 17/3, propag. relig., infos. acerca da emissora, às 1900, anúncios para publicações da RTM, anúncio das frequências, às 1903; 23431, e em ascensão. 11735 idem, 1100-desvan. total 1145, 18/3, identificação completa, anúno das freqs., progr. de propag. relig.; 24431, QRM adjacente. 11764.9, SRDA, Curitiba PR, 1736-1832, 17/3, propag. relig. com texto cujas frases são traduzidas regularmente p/ castelhano; 25332, mas 35433, pelas 1830. 11830, R. Daqui, Goiânia GO, 1057-desvan. total 1135, 18/3, progr. musical "(...) Sertanejo"; 25431. À noite, o sinal está ausente. Qual o horário presente desta emissora, nos 25 m? 11854.97, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 1945-2019, 17/3, canções, anúncios de programação (por ex., Caminho da Fé), mais canções populares; 25432. Situação nos 25 m: 11780, R. Nacional_sinal razoável~forte, como sempre, à noite. 11805, R. Brasil Central_sinal *ausente*, à noite. 11830, R. Daqui_sinal *ausente*, há muito tempo, à noite. 11890, R. Boa Vontade_sinal não detectado. 11915, R. Guaíba_sinal detectável, mas sempre sob forte QRM da Arábia Saudita. 11925.2, R. Bandeirantes_sinal franco~razoável, mas sempre sob QRM. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, March 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Brasil Central 25 Metros --- Amigos, a única rádio que me responde no Facebook é a Brasil Central de Goiânia, mas deixo claro que só os ouço na onda curta de 60m, 25m e nos 1270 kHz; abaixo a resposta sobre a onda curta de 25 metros: ``estamos com um sério problema no transmissor de ondas curtas, ele está tendo que ser desligado de vez em quando, pois está entrando em outras frequências e gerando sinais espúrios. Por essa razão está sendo desligado até possamos repara-lo`` (Neto Silva, Brasilia DF, March 18, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Good, they are doing the right thing by taking 11815 off and trying to fix it; see previous reports of big dirty spur around 11895, heard even here (gh, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 15189.90, March 18 at 2321, Brazilian very poor with flutter, so R. Inconfidência is on the low side of 15190 for a change (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CAMBODIA [and non]. Mam Sonando, director of RFA and VOA FM outlet in Cambodia, freed from prison. Posted: 16 Mar 2013 Broadcasting Board of Governors press release, 15 Mar 2013: "The Broadcasting Board of Governors welcomed the news that Cambodian activist and independent radio executive Mam Sonando was freed from prison today. 'This courageous advocate for a more open society was jailed on trumped-up charges, but at least he is now free,' said Michael Meehan, a member of the BBG’s governing board and chairman of the board of directors for Radio Free Asia (RFA). 'Mam Sonando has championed the principle of speaking truth to power and paid an egregiously unfair price. We encourage him to carry on his important mission with the support of our broadcasters.' Sonando is director of Beehive Radio, a popular chain of independent FM stations based in Phnom Penh. He was convicted last fall on charges of instigating insurrection and sentenced in October to 20 years in prison. A Cambodian appeals court on Thursday quashed that ruling, dropped most of the charges, reduced the sentence to time served and ordered his release. Beehive Radio carries news and information programs from two BBG broadcasters, RFA and Voice of America." Radio Free Asia, 15 Mar 2013: "Mam Sonando ... said that he hopes to increase the range of his radio station to reach more remote areas of the country, although the Ministry of Information has so far prevented him from doing so." (kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) ** CANADA. 860, March 17 at 0613 UT, French Canadian accented talk from the northeast, i.e. CJBC Toronto. Always nice to hear this overriding nearby KKOW KS. 740 also had some music mixing with talk, presumably CFZM/KRMG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. CBC takes more AM stations off the air in Alberta CBC Radio One is switching from AM to FM in five Alberta towns http://www.cbc.ca/edmonton/community/mt/2013/03/am-to-fm-conversions.html Overview: CBC Edmonton has received approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to replace their CBC Radio One AM transmitters with FM transmitters in the five Alberta towns of: Edson, Fort Vermilion, Grande Cache, High Level, and Rainbow Lake. Why: CBC is converting the transmitters as the FM signal offers better sound quality with less noise interference and will prevent needed and costly repairs on the AM transmitters. When: There is no hard-date for the conversions as weather and resources impact when we can convert the transmitters; however, we will update this website and our radio promos as soon as the dates are known. After the conversion service will no longer be available on the AM dial and listeners must switch to their new FM frequency to continue to receive CBC Radio One. New Frequencies: To report reception issues please call: 1-866-306-4636 Town Call Letters AM Frequency New FM Frequency Date of Conversion Edson CBXD 1540AM 95.3FM TBC Fort Vermilion CBKC 1460AM 105.1FM TBC Grande Cache CBWI 1450AM 92.3FM TBC High Level CBKD 1560AM 99.5FM TBC Rainbow Lake CBXX 1240AM 101.5FM TBC (via Dan Say, alt.radio.networks.cbc 18 Mar, via Mike Cooper, DXLD) I assume all those AMs are LPRTs of 40 watts, tho unchecked (gh, DXLD) ** CANADA. 7850/RCUSB CHU Ottawa time -- I was playing with digital modes and adjusting FLDIGI which needs a time signal station to fully align, so I decided to pop open the olde CHU decoder in MultiMode and see what it did --- CHU Day: 69 Hour: 21 Min: 36 Sec: 37 CHU Year: 2013 DUT1: 0.2 TAI-UTC: 35 DST: 5 One leap second will be added. CHU Day: 69 Hour: 21 Min: 37 Sec: 36 ... CHU Year: 2013 DUT1: 0.2 TAI-UTC: 35 DST: 5 One leap second will be added. CHU Day: 69 Hour: 21 Min: 51 Sec: 38 CHU Year: 2013 DUT1: 0.2 TAI-UTC: 35 DST: 5 One leap second will be added. CHU Day: 69 Hour: 21 Min: 55 Sec: 39 According to timeanddate.com TAI and UTC are indeed 35 secs apart, but there will NOT be a leap second added in June of this year. Software glitch or is CHU messing up? I have noted in the past that MultiMode wanted to subtract a second when CHU was sending code that one would be added, so who knows what's really up. In well with just a litte fading, 3+5443+, 2130-2200 10/Mar (Ken Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet March 15 via DXLD) ** CANADA. Weather at Canadian airports, 15033 USB at 2120 UT --- still having fun in Louisiana with my Grundig G3 Globe Traveler, and I picked this up this afternoon. I only had time to listen for a couple of minutes, and the cities included Winnipeg and Montreal. Does anyone know what station this was? (Thomas Horton, March 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ``Trenton Military``, from base in Ontario. You will hear ID if you listen long enough. Call is CHR, but I don`t think they ever use it. Also on some other aero bands. Should be 15034-USB. Such utility broadcasts are included in the EiBi list: http://eibispace.de/dx/freq-b12.txt 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Thanks, that's the one. Here's what it sounds like in case someone else is curious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCRL64Zsmzo (Horton, ibid.) Yes, I hear Trenton military often on 15034 USB here in Montreal. I also have a recording of it on my youtube channel somewhere. Heard them a few days ago on 6754 USB also. 73 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal Canada, http://www.youtube.com/officialswlchannel ibid.) ** CHAD. 6164.954, Mar 11 2215, R. Tchad quite strong here but disturbed by a Chinese with nice music // 9730. TN (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin March 17 via DXLD) CHADE, 6165, RD. Nationale Tchadienne, Gredia, 17/3: 1907-1933, francês, noticiário, música pop' africana, texto; 53442, forte QRM adjacente; 2205-2236, francês, noticiário, progr. de música pop', particularmente, africana; 54444, QRM adjacente. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, March 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. S. Hasegawa, reporting to the DXLD Yahoo! group, 9 Mar 2013, writes: "I cannot confirm the fact [Chinese jamming of RA English] with our monitor. We confirm jamming for the English broadcast of AIR [India] instead." I also cannot hear jamming of RA English from various Southeast Asian monitoring locations of the IBB RMS. See previous post about jamming. (Kim Andrew Elliott, 16 March, kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) ** CHINA. Domenica 10 marzo 2013, 0957 - 16100, FIREDRAKE + 16250. SF- BN (Luca Botto Fiora, G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, playdxyg via DXLD) Firedrake March 15, before 1300: 11500, very good at 1251 with flutter; none in the 10s, 12s, 13s, 14s Circa 1430: 12230, very good at 1433 13530, very good at 1433 with flutter 14700, very poor at 1435; none in the 16s 14800, fair at 1435 15870, poor at 1429 with flutter 17535, very good at 1436 with flutter; none in the 18s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1339-1348 // and in audio sync with each other - 14980 good-excellent, 16360 Poor signal, 16920 JBA signal and 17450 fair signal. Nothing heard above or below frequencies listed on 3/16/13. 1417-1429 // and in audio sync with each other 11500-JBA-poor, 15800 good, 15870 fair-good and 17450 good. Nothing heard above or below frequencies listed on 3/16/13. 1433-1437 // and in audio sync with each other - 14750 good signal, 15800 fair signal, 15870 fair-good signal, 17450 good signal and 17535 good signal. At also heard 11500 with poor signal but at re-checks from 1436 onward 11500 not heard. Didn't get a chance to see if 11500 was in sync with the others at 1433. Nothing heard above or below frequencies listed, 3/16/13 (Steve Handler, IL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 11965, March 16 at 1822, CNR1 jammer VG with dramatic Chinese talk and music, also on weaker // 11945 and weakest // 11790, all vs R. Free Asia in Mandarin, via Tinian, Tajikistan, Saipan respectively. At this hour it seems the only band propagating this stuff is 25m, not 22 or 31. 11925, March 16 at 2220, poor in Chinese, probably CNR1 against VOA Chinese via Tinang. At 2247 a LAH had been added to the jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CHINA/KOREA D.P.R/TAIWAN SOH Sound of Hope Taiwan/ CNR1 program talk jamming, and Firedrake jamming roundup. Crash & Bang Chinese Opera Music Jammer, Chinese Opera Music Jammer. Checked on March 17 at 0630- 0730 UT. [OPERA requires VOICES, of which there are NONE in Firedrake --- gh] Also some harmonics of typical North Korean NOISE jamming heard. 10960 11500 Firedrake mx 12116-12124 Korean noise jammer like harmonic ? 12230 12320 12370 Firedrake mx 12500 12670 12717-12723 Korean noise jammer like harmonic ? 12800 12870 12956-12964 Korean noise jammer like harmonic ? 12980 13130 13270 13350 13430 13480 13530 13775 13820 13850 13920 13970 - also CODAR signal on 13910-13970 kHz 14370 14400 14483-14494 Korean noise jammer like harmonic ? 14518-14527 Korean noise jammer like harmonic ? 14626-14636 Korean noise jammer like harmonic ? 14750 14800 14870 14980 15400 noise jammer 15800 15870 15940 15970 16100 16160 16250 16360 16600 16800 to 16820 OTHR 16850 16920 17080 17170 17250 SOH flute mx 17300 Firedrake mx 17370 17450 17900 18180 18250 18970 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 17, dxldyg via DXLD) CHINA/MARIANA ISLS/PHILIPPINES/TAIWAN/UAE Some RFA Mandarin and Tibetan services jammed also this morning in 06-07 UT slot March 17. Talk CNR1 program jamming against 11980 15150 15665 21540, and 21610. Both combined, Firedrake Chinese Opera music and CNR1 program jamming against RFA on various channels 13710 17515 17675 17880 21695 kHz. (Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Mar 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake March 17 before 1400: 11500, good at 1331 with flutter 13920, fair at 1341 with flutter; none in the 12s, 14s, 15s, 16s, 17s CNR1 mostly jammers with a major violin concerto in Sunday-night classical music show, March 17 at 1323: best on 9810, also // 9825, 9780, 9705, 9530, 9500, 9390 – and that`s just the 31m band. 12045 also with same // 9810 at 1333-1334. 15375, March 17 at 1345, ``Triumphal March from Aïda``, so first thought is another secret test by IRRS, but doesn`t stop after the march, continues with choral portion; poor with flutter and worsening, talk starts at 1348.6, seems Chinese, but way out of synch with 9810. Probably the CNR1 show too, jamming R. Free Asia, Tibetan via Tajikistan. Firedrake March 18: 12230, fair at 1352 with flutter; none in the 11s 12370, fair at 1352 with flutter; none in the 13s 14700, fair at 1354 with flutter, also ute QRM? None in the 15s, 16s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Only limited time to check Firedrake this morning and so only one log of 1229 GMT on 13530 and nothing found above or below (Steve Handler, IL, March 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake March 19 circa 1330: 11500, very good at 1325; none in the 14s, 15s 12670, fair at 1323 13530, good at 1323 with flutter March 19 before 1400: 15515, good at 1359-1400* with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) From 1221-1225 GMT the following 11500, 11970, 13970 and 16100 nothing above or below. At 1308 on 15510 targeting VOT. Nothing above or below at that time but assume the SoH jammers not yet back on after the ToH break. Good DX (Steve Handler, March 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake, March 20 before 1330: 11500, very poor at 1322; none in the 12s 13530, poor-fair at 1325 13920, poor-fair at 1325; none in the 13s 15515, poor at 1323 with flutter; none in the 16s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6035.00, PBS Yunnan, 1200, March 15. Brief check to still find they use their English ID (“This is the Voice of Shangri-La, brought to you by Yunnan Radio”). Have not heard BBS/ Bhutan recently, which so far this year has been observed by myself and others on the unique frequency of 6035.04; that is when they have occasionally been broadcasting with an extended schedule (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 11910, March 17 at 1356-1357:05*, REE IS, tail of 2-hour Spain relay via Beijing, which is appropriate, so this spurs me to check the 7 MHz channels which pick up the REE IS inappropriately prior to the CRI Nepali service via Kunming: at *1358 JBA on 7435, and even less audible but detectable on 7220 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. 809.97, Caracol Radio, Bogotá, 5/03 0500-0530, 22222, advs La Bio medicina alemana, en Colombia, ID "El fenómeno del futbol de Caracol, presenta: El mejor fútbol del mundo, Caracol, más compañía", mx, "En el entretenimiento, Caracol radio, más compañía" (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Chasqui DX March 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. We were in Colombia last week. We spent three nights in Bogota and four nights in Cartagena. Not much on shortwave in Colombia these days, but it was fun to hear some of the AM stations that I heard in the 1970s and early 1980s. When conditions were right, stations from Barranquilla and Cartagena used to really come in here in Chicago. 73 & best wishes, (Karl Forth, March 15, DX LISENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. 5909.917, Alcaraván Radio, powerful S=9+10dB signal at 0328 UT March 19. many station ID's at 0328-0329 UT. Followed by very nice Andean music canciones from Ecuador? (Wolfgang Büschel, March 19, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DXLD) ** CUBA. MAR 9, 1000 - Het against 1180 R. Rebelde and WHAM, measured 1179.000 kHz; presumed an off-frequency R. Rebelde per Hauser/DXLD logs (Bruce Conti, WPC1CAT, Nashua NH; WiNRADiO Excalibur, MWDX-5 phasing unit, 15 x 23-m variable termination SuperLoop antennas 60 northeast and 180 south, NRC IDXD March 15 via DXLD) ** CUBA [and non]. Giovedì 14 marzo 2013: 0736 - 9955, B. STAIR - WRMI + JAMMER. SF 0744 - 9565, JAMMER in // to 9955!!! (Luca Botto Fiora, G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, playdxyg via DXLD) 9565 jam of course is left over from the afternoon when R. Martí is on there (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** CUBA. 11880, March 14 at 2231 RHC is going from French to Portuguese and at 2301 into English, i.e. the one-hour-later schedule which started March 10, and not on the air before 2200 with additional languages as it was March 13. What next? 15230, March 14 at 2303, RHC is again in Spanish like yesterday, // 11680 and 17705. What happened to the Portuguese hour? It`s still on the outdated schedule http://www.radiohc.cu/pt/destaques/frequencias.html Here we are March 15, six days into the new DST scheduling, and RHC still hasn`t updated their online schedules, e.g. Spanish still shown as starting at 12 and ending at 06, instead of 11 and 05: http://www.radiohc.cu/index.php/de-interes/frecuencias.html Also out of date, English, old times on 5040 and 11760: http://www.radiohc.cu/ing/of-interest/frequencies.html this ``hedule`` also with a big typo prolonged, 5040 at ``00-07`` instead of 06-07, now 05-06 or sometimes 05-07. Half the French broadcasts are shown at the wrong time now: http://www.radiohc.cu/fr/dinteret/frequences.html As for Kriyol, heard at 2301 March 14 on 15370, but there is no webpage at RHC showing when it is/was supposed to be, altho this accords with WRTH {15370 previously and maybe still also carries French, Portuguese and Quechua, all on a 130 degree beam per Aoki. Haiti and Bolivia-Perú are not really on the same azimuth} 11840, March 15 at 2145 check, RHC Spanish with very low modulation, and buzzes come and go around 11830 and 11850. 15230, the RHC Portuguese hour is still missing, March 15 at 2354 check, Spanish song // 11680, 11840, 17705. 13780, March 16 at 1411, is this morning`s AWOL RHC frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15230, 16/Mar 2250, R Habana Cuba in Portuguese. YL talks about cancer treatments in Cuba. 35443. In // 11880 44444. Full ID at 2253. After 2300, several interruptions in the signal on 11880. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, Degen 1103 - All listening in mode of filter Narrow the 3 kHz.Dipole antenna, 16 meters - east/west Escutas (listening, my blog): http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006 dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RHC chex Saturday afternoon March 16, bound to find some anomalies: 15340 at 2102, signing on the bihour `Revista Iberoamericana`, also // 11840 where modulation has dropped to very low level, but not the buzz, which is on and off plus/minus 20 kHz or so; // 17705. 15230 at 2158 is open carrier, and at 2202 in Portuguese, so now I know what became of the 23-24 Portuguese on 15230 --- moved it an hour earlier, even tho that makes no sense for Brasil. Furthermore, it`s now // but an echo apart from 11880 at 2200+, which was originally French at 2100, Portuguese at 2230 before shifting an hour *later* for DST. Further2more, at 2234, both are still in Portuguese, so forget French to Africa on 11880, but it is on 15370 as usual (except Sundays pre-empted for Esperanto). Next check at 2305, now 11880 has lost English which had been on here for about 5 days as it now stays in Spanish // 15230 and all the other frequencies for the mostly-music- fill hour, also 17705, 11840, 9810, 6120; but 5040 keeps English at 23-24. At 0111 UT March 17 check I find that 11880 is *still* on the air in Spanish instead of closing at 2400, // 17705, 15230, 11760, 9810, 6120, 6060, 5040 --- and JBM 11840 which is now making a big buzz between 11785 and 11865 or so. Did they put the wrong program feed line on 11880 and/or the wrong transmitter? Or is it the latest tweak to try to get things in some semblance of order a week after the DST shifts? Maybe by next week, Arnie will be ready to circulate a theoretical new schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CUBA with very hefty sooooft 'Brazilian like' accent: the Spanish NUMBER lady from Cuba in full action with her unmistakable voice, on 5855 kHz at S=9+20dB level heard at 0502 UT March 17. Few minutes break in their transmissions on few frequencies around 0455-0502 UT: Noted nothing on 6000 kHz at 0450 anymore, few minutes later on air on 6010 kHz. Also 6120/6125 total empty channel. Later after 0510 UT RHC noted on 5040 6010 6060 6125 6165 all in English, all with more or less of 60 Hertz BUZZ tone accompanied. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6010, Radio Habana Cuba. 0724 March 17, 2013. Accidentally caught the tail end of their Esperanto program (Sundays only) with male and female hosts, ID and mentions of Esperanto, RHC URL. Abruptly into interval signal 0727, then opening of English with Ed Newman, mentioning “… Saturday, March 16 [sic – it’s Sunday now but they run yesterday’s crap well past local midnight -- tlk], sunny but kinda cool here in Havana…” Well it was 47-degrees here in Clearwater when Ed said that on the replay. Reactivated Radio Mil, Mexico doesn’t have a chance with RHC hogging the channel so often and showing no respect for their Latin American near-neighbors (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD- 535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11880, March 17 at 0302, RHC Spanish is *still* on this frequency 3+ hours after it had been closing as explained in last report, and also on 11840 which by now is JBA/JBM. What will happen on 11880 today? 13780, March 17 at 1403, RHC is AWOL here; had been on before 1400 including `En Contacto` at 1335 which had one birthday greeting, then an interview by Manolo with a Cuban who had returned from Nebraska where he listened to 11760; then Pedro Sedano`s monthly media report, including R. Moldova Internacional QRT even as a webcaster. After all the anomalies on Saturday, I recheck RHC on Sunday afternoon March 17, and find it more or less back to `normal`: 11880, at 2224 is back in French instead of Portuguese, but at 2230 goes into Portuguese. Portuguese has already been running on 15230 from 2200, but re-opened at 2229 with IS and ID. I then find the same program is on 11880, but 65 seconds behind 15230 rather than synchronized as happened before. Does the one-hour Portuguese broadcast, whenever and wherever it may be, always consist of one same semi-hour repeated? Spanish frequencies with music around 2230: 11840, 15340, 15230. 15370 at 2231, this being Sunday, opens Esperanto instead of French. 11880 at 2300 March 17, is back in English instead of Spanish yesterday. 5040, OTOH, at 0550 UT March 18, is in Spanish instead of English, which continued on the overkill 49m channels. Now what? 13740, March 18 at 1351, RHC Spanish is here // 13780, instead of usual dead-air warm-up to CRI English. Still RHC SS at 1358 as I amuse myself listening to outdated frequency announcement not including the one I am listening to! 17580, 17730, 15230, 15340, 9540, 13780, 11760, 11860, 11690, 11750 and he keeps saying most of them will be on until 1600, ignorant of the timeshift a week ago until 1500* It is not until 1400:30 that 13740 is suddenly switched to CRI English, joined in progress. Refund a few yuan? One of SW`s great mysteries is why RHC has never been relayed in exchange via China. Just no interest in reaching Asia? Trying to get thru to the RHC Spanish program schedule at http://www.radiohc.cu/index.php/de-interes/frecuencias.html I keep getting 404s, but finally connect at 1625 UT March 18 --- it has just been updated, a week too late. Now the Spanish times are starting at 11 instead of 12, until 15 instead of 16, and evening ending at 05 instead of 06; looks like no frequency changes, just timeshifts, and Aló Presidente still has a heading, but details deleted just like Hugo. The English `hedule` has also been timeshifted, http://www.radiohc.cu/ing/of-interest/frequencies.html adding errors such as ``1880`` instead of 11880 at 23-24 (same error for Portuguese at 2230); and English 6000 as 01-07, which surely is supposed to be 01-05, as 6010 still starts at 05. RHC`s DST-shifted schedule as first posted March 18, copied for the record in case it`s changed or cleaned up later. This is the most user-unfriendly presentation possible, in which you have to match up the frequency before or after or between the /s with the time. SPANISH. Buenos Aires 15230/17580 19/16 23-05 y 11-15/11-15 UTC Nueva York 9550/11860/6060 31/25/49 11-13/13-15/00-05 UTC San Francisco 13780 22 13-15 UTC Chicago 15340/9850 19/31 13-15/11-13 UTC América del Sur 17730 16 11–15 UTC Banda Tropical 5040 60 21–23 y 01-05 UTC América Central 11750/9810 25/31 13-15/21-05 UTC Europa 15340 19 19:30-23 UTC Norte Centro Suramérica 11760/6150 25/49 11-15 y 00-05/11-13 UTC Caribe 6120/9710/11690 49/31/25 23-04/21-23/11-15 UTC América del Sur 11840/11680 25 21-05/23-04 UTC MESA REDONDA (Lunes a Viernes y días especiales) América del Norte 6000/9640 49/31 23-00 UTC ENGLISH HEDULE: Banda Tropical 5040 60 23-00/05-06 UTC América Central 11760 25 19-20 UTC América del Norte 6165/6000/6060/6125 49 01-07/01-07/05-07/05-07 UTC [sic: 6000 really runs at 01-05] Norte Centro y Suramérica 6125 49 05-07 UTC San Francisco 6010 49 05-07 UTC Africa 1880 [sic] 25 23-00 UTC [really 11880] (via Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11685-11965 or so, March 18 at 2330, big buzz tearing up the 25m band is back from the 11840 RHC transmitter which itself is undermodulated, and also accompanied by even lower // Spanish modulation spurs on 11840 and 11850 --- and below those I could hear crosstalk from RHC in English // 11880! The buzz is loudest just below 11840 and above 11850 in clear spots. 5040, March 19 at 0540, RHC is in English this hour today, unlike Spanish yesterday, also // 4 x 49m channels. Per new hedule, the nominal English times on 5040 are now 23-24 and 05-06 only. 11770-11920, March 20 at 0104, approx. range of big buzz again from the RHC 11840 transmitter in the middle of this. This time, no // weaker audio spurs on 11830 or 11850 are audible, just the noise which as always is strongest in clear areas closest to 11840 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Escutas de hoje, postadas no Enigma 2000: HM01 9240 kHz 0900z 18/03 9155 kHz 1000z 18/03 and 5855 khz 1000z 11435 kHz 1600z 18/03 11530 kHz 1700z 18/03 11635 kHz 2100z 18/03 10715 kHz 2200z 18/03 11530 kHz 2300z 18/03 voice > RDFT (decoded with DIGTRX, encrypted file) 38831 > 85244373.TXT 955 bytes 63373 > 23553578.TXT 960 bytes 35403 > 60357534.TXT 961 bytes 52561 > 28144785.TXT 991 bytes 83065 > 72210411.TXT 971 bytes 65052 > 12243711.TXT 985 bytes Transmissions were the same as those from 17/03, 16/03, 15/03, 14/03 and 13/03 ! 73 de (Roland, PY4ZYZ, Brasil, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** CYPRUS. BBC Cyprus --- Can anyone direct me to a current schedule of the remaining broadcasts from this relay? (Stephen Wood, Harwich, Mass., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The webpage http://www.short-wave.info/index.php has the B-12 listing for Limassol CYP. Just enter BBC and "Any Language" in the dropdown boxes (Paul S. in CT, ibid.) Or look for Limassol here: http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=B12&broadc=BBC (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** DIEGO GARCIA. 12759-USB, March 16 at 0059, very poor signal with some music, got to be AFN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4319 USB, AFN. Briefly noted in the clear with pop songs and no QRM (unusual!) on March 17 at 1404 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ILHAS CHAGOS, 4319, AFN, Diogo Garcia, 1749-1821, 17/3, música pop'; 24331, QRM adj. de estação de ponto a ponto, mas o sinal melhorou bastante, e pelas 1930, atribuí 34433. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, March 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12759-USB, March 20 at 0115, music audible on very poor signal, i.e. AFN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 7250, March 18 at 0103, something in Chinese. I was expecting to hear Russia, as ``Armavir`` is still registered for VOR at 22-04 to N America, but not really any more since 2012y began. Instead it`s CRI via Urumqi during this hour only. Also // 7300, which is Kashgar. The domestic services from E.T. I used to get around 0100 on 60m are no longer making it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EASTER ISLAND. XR0, EASTER ISLAND (Reminder). Just a reminder that a UK DXpedition team will be active as XR0YG from Easter Island (SA- 001) between March 20-27th (see OPDX.1090). Activity will be on all bands 160-10 meters, mainly CW. Even though the operations will be on the HF bands, they also plan to work challenging paths on the low bands and with an emphasis on Europe. ClubLog and LoTW uploads will occur daily. The log search on ClubLog will be available at: https://secure.clublog.org/charts/?c=XR0YG There will also be OQRS available. QSL via G3TXF and LoTW. Visit their Web page at: http://xr0yg.com (Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 1104, March 18, Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio) via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DXLD) {hard to find specific frequencies, but is CW ONLY, QSY from 160 to 80 m at 0100 UT March 25, so one band at a time?} ** ECUADOR. 749.97, R. Caravana, Guayaquil, 26/02, 0615-0640, 33333, advs, anuncian venta de entradas en el Estadio Monumental, partido del Barcelona; advs Claro pre pago, ahorra en tus llamadas, ID "Los comentaristas por Radio Caravana, Radio Caravana" px Los Comentaristas, news deportivas (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Chasqui DX March 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 4781.57, R. Oriental, Napo, 6/03 1115-1035, 33333+, hablan sobre el fallecimiento y trayectoria de vida de Hugo Chávez, mejor lo escucho en USB; en AM la escucho con dificulta (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Chasqui DX March 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4781.76 approx., March 15 at 0111, in Spanish, presumably R. Oriental, Tena, Napo. (Even tho I am measuring to two decimal places, the last digit is not precise, since I am counting the 40-Hz clix on the DX-398 and the real frequency could be somewhere between them. I do get a closer reading with my bass-boost headphones) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. -Frecuencia Al Día- Estimados amigos: Para compartir con ustedes la noticia de que se une a nuestra cadena radial la famosa Radio Cairo desde Egipto cada día lunes a las 2240 UT por los 15480 kHz. Agradeceré sobremanera sus informes de recepción a esta transmisión semanal (Dino Bloise, Frecuencia Al Día, A la Vanguardia de las Comunicaciones!!! March 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15480, Monday March 18 at 2248, JBA carrier from presumed R. Cairo in Spanish. I had just received notice from Dino Bloise that R. Cairo is now carrying his `Frecuencia al Día` DX program Mondays at 2240 on 15480. Full half hour? Surely if it had been propagating, it would have had barely audible or distorted modulation. And not on any other Spanish transmission? I know that English programs of R. Cairo, when they sent out schedules, were not the same on different transmissions even of the same sesquihour length (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hola Dino, La emisión en 15480 es en portugués, no español, según WRTH etc. 2215-2330. Estás seguro?? Ayer sólo llegó una portadora, y de costumbre el sonido es pésimo si exista. 73, (Glenn to Dino, via DXLD) Hola Glenn, Te cuento que un amigo en la sección para Brasil me propuso transmitir un segmento - resumen de 10 minutos de FAD en la emisión de los lunes y sabádos en los 15480 kHz. Yo no escuché nada aquí e incluso traté desde el SDR de Holanda y no había propagación para esa banda a ese horario. Quizás algún oyente en Brasil tenga mejor suerte. Saludos. Gracias por tu correo (Dino to Glenn, ibid.) ** EGYPT. Winter [sic] B-12 of Radio Cairo: 0400-0600 on 15610 ABZ 250 kW / 170 deg to CEAf Swahili 0700-1100 on 17510 ABZ 100 kW / 250 deg to WeAf Arabic GS 1015-1215 on 17480 ABZ 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Arabic 1215-1330 on 17870 ABZ 250 kW / 090 deg to SoAs English 1230-1400 on 15710 ABS 250 kW / 106 deg to SEAs Indonesian 1300-1600 on 15800 ABS 250 kW / 241 deg to WeAf Arabic 1330-1400 on 15365 ABZ 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Dari 1330-1530 on 15245 ABZ 100 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Farsi 1400-1600 on 15545 ABZ 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Pashto 1500-1600 on 13580 ABS 250 kW / 315 deg to EaEu Albanian 1500-1600 on 15160 ABS 250 kW / 061 deg to CeAs Uzbek 1530-1730 on 17810 ABZ 250 kW / 170 deg to CEAf Swahili 1600-1700 on 15450 ABZ 100 kW / 160 deg to ECAf Afar 1600-1800 on 15345 ABS 150 kW / 196 deg to CSAf English 1600-1800 on 17585 ABZ 250 kW / 090 deg to SoAs Urdu 1700-1730 on 15285 ABZ 100 kW / 160 deg to ECAf Somali 1700-1900 on 9280 ABS 250 kW / 005 deg to N/ME Turkish 1730-1900 on 15285 ABZ 100 kW / 160 deg to ECAf Amharic 1800-1900 on 9655 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Italian 1800-2100 on 9990 ABS 250 kW / 241 deg to WeAf Hausa 1845-2000 on 17625 ABZ 250 kW / 245 deg to WeAf Fulfulde 1900-2000 on 9885 ABS 250 kW / 005 deg to EaEu Russian 1900-2000 on 11560 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu German 1900-2030 on 15290 ABZ 250 kW / 250 deg to WeAf English 1900-0030 on 11540 ABZ 100 kW / 160 deg to CEAf Arabic V of Arabs 2000-2115 on 11560 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu French 2000-2200 on 9855 ABZ 250 kW / 110 deg to AUS Arabic 2100-2300 on 15205 ABS 250 kW / 241 deg to WeAf French 2115-2245 on 11890 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu English 2215-2330 on 15480 ABZ 250 kW / 245 deg to SoAm Portuguese 2300-0030 on 9965 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg to NEAm English 2330-0045 on 15480 ABZ 250 kW / 245 deg to SoAm Arabic 2330-0045 on 13855 ABS 250 kW / 286 deg to CeAm Arabic 0030-0430 on 9965 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg to NEAm Arabic 0045-0200 on 9720 ABZ 250 kW / 330 deg to NoAm Spanish 0045-0200 on 13620 ABS 250 kW / 241 deg to SoAm Spanish 0045-0200 on 13855 ABS 250 kW / 286 deg to CeAm Spanish 0200-0330 on 9720 ABZ 250 kW / 330 deg to NoAm English 0200-0700 on 9905 ABS 250 kW / 315 deg to NoAm Arabic GS Note: of these frequencies, most have severe technical problems such as extreme distortion and/or undermodulation.(DX RE MIX NEWS #772 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 18, 2013, via DXLD) ** ERITREA. 4700.010, Mar 10 *0356-, Voice of Broad Masses. HOA sounding station noted here weak on March 9. As I hadn’t noticed that Voice of Broad Masses has been heard here, I sent a quite weak recording from March 9 to Glenn Hauser and to Henrik Klemetz and also published the recording one day later on REALDX. Jarmo Savolainen suggested a HOA station and pointed out that Voice of Broad Masses has been heard here. On a following recording from March 10 I found a // frequency, 5670 with strong signal and also found a good ID. Both Henrik and Jarmo has confirmed this one. Thanks a lot all of you for helping out finding the solution. TN (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin March 17 via DXLD) 5670 is the news, no other reports of such a frequency for VOBME (gh, DXLD) ** ERITREA [non]. 11620, Sunrise R. via Bulgaria, Mar 15 *1600-1606 25322 Arabic, 1600 sign on with opening music, Opening announce, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, 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) ** ERITREA [non]. 11810, R. EYSC via Germany, Mar 15 *1730-1740, 25322 Tigrigna, 1730 sign on with opening music, ID, Opening announce, Talk and Eritrean pop (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, 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) ** ERITREA [non]. 11560, Dimtse R. Erena, via Madagascar, Mar 14 *1700-1715, 35333-35443, Tigrigna, 1700 sign on with opening music, ID, Opening announce, Talk and Eritrean pop, ID at 1700 and 1704. 11560, Dimtse R. Erena, via Madagascar, Mar 18 *1700-1715, 35333 Tigrigna, 1700 sign on with opening music, ID, Opening announce, Talk, ID at 1700 and 1703 and 1713 (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, 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) ** ESTONIA. QSL: Radio Eli / Family Radio Estonia, 1035, full data paper card QSL in 507 days for English Airmail report and 2 IRCs, follow-up via International Priority Mail with US $3. QSL received in 23 days after last follow-up. No V/S. Also sent three station leaflets listing frequencies. This was from a reception whilst in Europe on business (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, March 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. ETIÓPIA, 1359 kHz, R. Voz da Revolução do Tigrê, Mekelle, 1846-1854, 17/3, dialecto local, texto; 23431, QRM adj. e no mesmo canal; // 5950. 5950 idem, Geja Dera (ou Geja Jawe?), 1842-1857, 17/3, cf. // 1359 supra; 43432, QRM adjacente. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, March 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5950, Voice of the Tigray Revolution heard at 0345 GMT. talks in listed Tigrinya and HOA music. Very good and clear signal quality. 3/16/13 (Bob Brossel, Pewaukee WI, JRC NRD-545, Eton E1, Sony ICF SW- 77, Grundig S450 DLX, CCrane SW and Tecsun PL -600, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** EUROPE. 10-3, 15885.05-USB, pirate: Space shuttle, operator in English asking listeners about the singers/songs, 25323 with deep fades (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, 20 March [10 days later], DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FALKLAND ISLANDS. FIRS, 530 kHz: Juan López y John Ward... http://youtu.be/djziE3Z8yo0 73 desde Montevideo (Rodolfo Tizzi, March 18, condiglist yg via DXLD) See also ARGENTINA [and non] ** FRANCE. The following are results of reception of DRM transmissions in St. Petersburg. Receiver: Morphy Richards, antenna: Delta Loop 160 m in perimeter and 25 m above the ground. % shows the part of observation time during which audio signal has been heard (SINPO 55555 in any case). Texts in quotes are DRM service labels transmitted together with audio signal. 12115, TDP, Issoudun, 1620-1630, Mar 09, no audio, ”The Disco Palace”. (Alexander Beryozkin, DSWCI DX Window March 20 via DXLD) ** FRANCE. 17850, March 16 at 1739, RFI good signal in French, but heavy accent; almost seemed Kriyol as in Haitian, but I suppose it was just African-influenced. This Issoudun transmitter also squeals (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GABON. 9580, R. Afrique #1, Moyabi, 2128-2150, March 18 English / French; Familiar format of Motown music with brief zingers between selections; fair in ECCS-USB to avoid 9579v Morocco (Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Any English talk or just music? (gh) ** GERMANY. WIEDERAU, WILSDRUFF, REICHENBACH CLOSE APRIL 30 [MW] I just saw it reported that MDR Info, the program carried on the Wiederau, Wilsdruff and Reichenbach transmitters on 783, 1044 and 1188 kHz, respectively, today let the cat out of the bag and started to advise about the closure of these transmitters on April 30. Actually the planned, now broken communications strategy was to sneak this fact into a big PR puff about the addition of further DAB transmitters. Background is that the responsible body called KEF does not acknowledge a budget for the operation of these transmitters anymore, effective 2014. Now MDR choose to use the money left for the remaining months of this year for the mentioned further DAB transmitters instead. I don't know about the situation for the AM transmitters of other public broadcasting organizations in Germany, but it could be that more closures are around the corner (Kai Ludwig, March 20, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Meanwhile it emerged that the closure advise, as posted at http://youtu.be/chjXISDoWjI is inserted on mediumwave only, superseding other trailers there. This is no engineering challenge; the MW transmitters are fed through dedicated mono circuits, independent from the FM feeds, anyway. And in the studio facilities separate playouts to different outputs are an established practice, otherwise used routinely for local news etc. This also makes it a not too remote possibility that the advise started playing already before yesterday and just has not been noted/reported before. Today I used the opportunity to check out how these doomed transmitters perform at Berlin: 783 was quite disappointing, being about on a par with 1044, only a little bit stronger than 639 and considerably fainter than 756. One would expect some decibels more from the Wiederau facility than it produces at Berlin. On this occasion it also came to my attention that the long delay on 177 is gone and the modulation has improved. So DRM is also equipment- wise gone here and the modulator has been replaced by a conventional one. In case you note that 990 is still slightly ahead: It is because there are exclusive connections for plain PCM audio between the Hans- Rosenthal-Platz studio building and the Britz transmitter site (Kai Ludwig, March 21, ibid.) ** GERMANY. BNL Rock Radio in English is no longer on short waves: 2300-0500 on 3985 KLL 001 kW / non-dir to CeEu eff. from March 9 GERMANY Special broadcast of DeLuxe FM in German on short waves: 2000-0100 on 3985 KLL 001 kW / non-dir to CeEu only Sat, March 16. -- 73! (Ivo, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, March 15, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Checked for DeLuxe FM on 3985 kHz at 2000 UT on Saturday 16 March. Fair signal but Radio 700 was on there at that hour, forgot to check again later. Is the "2000" a typo, I wonder? (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Again no show of Hamburger Lokalradio in German on Sat, March 16: 0600-0800 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu USB+carrier, incl. WOR 0630 0800-1100 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu USB+carrier 1100-1500 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu USB+carrier, incl. WOR 1430 Also no show on Sat March 9 & Wed March 13. What's the problem, the reason? Probably will not be on air broadcasts via MVBaltic Radio on Sun, March 17: 0800-0900 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu USB+carrier as scheduled 0800-0900 3rd Sun European Music Radio English, please check 0900-1200 9480 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu USB+carrier as scheduled 0900-1000 3rd Sun European Music Radio English, please check 1000-1200 3rd Sun Radio Geronimo English, please check 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, March 16, Equipment: Sony ICF- 2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Michael, I have reports that HLR has been off the air since early March. Is this correct? I wonder what the problem is and when you will be back, on same schedule? 73, (Glenn Hauser, March 17, to Michael Kittner, HLR, via DXLD) Hi Glenn, HLR has been off the air only 03.09, 03.13, 03.16! (Technical problems) HLR is back, UT: 2013.03.20 Wednesday 0600-0800 UTC 7265 kHz (0600-0700 ENGLISH - 0630 UTC - WOR) 0800-1100 UTC 6190 kHz GERMAN 1100-1500 UTC 7265 kHz (1400-1500 ENGLISH - 1430 UTC - WOR) 2013.03.23 Saturday 0600-0800 UTC 7265 kHz (0600-0700 ENGLISH - 0630 UTC - WOR) 0800-1100 UTC 6190 kHz GERMAN 1100-1500 UTC 7265 kHz (1400-1500 ENGLISH - 1430 UTC - WOR) Special Program: 2013.03.29 Good Friday 0600-1500 UTC 6190 kHz German program 2013.03.30 Saturday 0600-0800 UTC 7265 kHz (06.00-07.00 ENGLISH - 0630 UTC - WOR) 0800-1100 UTC 6190 kHz GERMAN 1100-1500 UTC 7265 kHz (14.00-15.00 ENGLISH - 1430 UTC - WOR) 2013.03.31 Eastern 0600-1500 UTC 6190 kHz German program 2013.04.01 Easter Monday 0600-1500 UTC 6190 kHz German program vy73 (Michael Kittner, HLR, March 17, WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) HLR confirmed back on at 0935 March 20 with talk in German on 6190. Seem weaker than when I last heard them here and on the Twente online receiver but that may be conditions (Mike Barraclough, Letchworth Garden City, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) In Sofia macht man sich Gedanken über fehlende Aussendungen aus Gohren. Seid Ihr durch den Wintereinfall und die schweren Schneefälle betroffen? Oder welche technische Gruende sind ausschlaggebend? Gruss aus Stuttgart, 73 (Wolfgang df5sx Büschel, 16 March, via DXLD) Hallo Wolfgang, es gibt keine technischen Probleme, aber manchmal Dinge die Vorrang haben. Ab heute, dem 17. März läuft alles wieder wie normal. Die schweren Schneefälle bereiten der Antenne keine Probleme. Die heftigen Stürme in dieser Gegend sind schon ein anderes Thema. Viele Grüße nach Stuttgart, Roland, "MV Baltic Radio" (via Büschel, DXLD) Hello Wolfgang, there are no technical problems, but sometimes things take priority. As of today, Sunday the 17th March all comes back as normal. The heavy snowfall caused the antenna no problems. The violent storms in the area are already another topic. Greetings to Stuttgart. Roland (via Büschel, DXLD) ** GERMANY. 6105, TWR Europe, Wertachtal. 0812-0850:07* UK-accented gospel program, UK address. Into “The Hour Of Decision” with Billy Graham, billygraham.org pimping, into preaching. Clear, very good at start, weaker by closing. Listed as 0800-0850, 100 kW at 300 degrees. So, boom that’s the reason! But why is it “The Hour of Decision” if this is only 0816-0849? Quick ID by man, off (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ- 180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Deutsche Welle. Der Sat.1-Nachrichtenmann Peter Limbourg wird neuer Intendant. {wen interessiert das noch ? wb.} Was geruechteweise in den letzten Wochen unterwegs und auch in dieser Zeitung zu lesen war, hat sich am Freitag bewahrheitet: Der Sat.1-Mann Peter Limbourg wird neuer Intendant der Deutschen Welle (DW) mit Studios in Bonn und Berlin. Der 52-Jaehrige soll Ende dieses Jahres die Nachfolge von Erik Bettermann (68) antreten, der seit 2001 Intendant ist und am 30. September in den Ruhestand geht. Wie der Vorsitzende des Rundfunkrates, Valentin Schmidt, gestern nach der Sitzung des Aufsichtsgremiums in Berlin bekannt gab, ist der 17- koepfige Rundfunkrat der DW dem Vorschlag der Findungskommission gefolgt. Limbourg konnte sich im ersten Wahlgang mit grosser Mehrheit (14 Ja-Stimmen, eine Nein-Stimme, zwei Enthaltungen) durchsetzen. Schmidt: "Peter Limbourg bringt beste Voraussetzungen mit, die Deutsche Welle als modernes Multimediaunternehmen weiter zu staerken und damit die internationale Medienpraesenz Deutschlands zu verbessern. Er ist nicht nur ein erstklassiger Journalist mit internationalem Hintergrund und ausgezeichneten Sprachkenntnissen, sondern auch ein ausgewiesener Medienmanager." Limbourg dankte dem Rundfunkrat fuer das grosse Vertrauen, wie es in einer Mitteilung der DW heisst: "Die Programme der Deutschen Welle gehoeren seit meiner Jugend, die ich im Ausland verbracht habe, zu meinem Erfahrungsschatz". Limbourg nannte auch erste Ziele seiner Intendanz. So will er "das journalistische Profil, die Sprachenvielfalt und Multimedialitaet des Senders weiterentwickeln". Ferner solle, so Limbourg, die die Zusammenarbeit mit den ARD- Landesrundfunkanstalten und dem ZDF intensiviert werden. Der gebuertige Bonner Diplomatensohn studierte in seiner Heimatstadt Rechtswissenschaften. Von 1988 bis 1989 volontierte Limbourg bei der Deutschen Fernsehnachrichten Agentur (DFA) in Bonn und London. Nach einer Station als Reporter in der DDR mit Sitz in Leipzig war er seit 1990 als Europa- und NATO-Korrespondent fuer die DFA und Sat.1 in Bruessel taetig. 1996 uebernahm er das Bonner Buero von ProSieben, 1999 wurde er zum Co-Chefredakteur von N24 und Politikchef von ProSieben berufen, 2001 zusaetzlich auch von Sat.1. Zwischen 2008 und 2010 verantwortete er als alleiniger Chefredakteur das Programm von N24. Seit 2008 ist er Hauptmoderator der Sat.1-Nachrichten, seit 2010 Informationsdirektor von ProSiebenSat.1 TV Deutschland. Limbourg ist Vorsitzender der Jury des Medienpreises des Deutschen Bundestages, Jurymitglied des Axel Springer Preises fuer junge Journalisten, Berater in der publizistischen Kommission der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz und Mitglied in der Dioezesanleitung der Malteser. Der kultur- und medienpolitische Sprecher der CDU/CSU- Bundestagsfraktion, Wolfgang Boernsen, begruesste die Entscheidung des Rundfunkrates: "Als Journalist und Nachrichtenmann durch und durch, der ueber eine grosse Auslandserfahrung verfuegt, ist Limbourg fuer die Intendanz der 'Welle' passgenau geeignet." Der Bundesvorsitzende des Deutschen Journalisten Verbandes, Michael Konken, stellte gleich Forderungen an den neuen Intendanten: "Die Programmangebote - auch in deutscher Sprache - muessen finanziell und personell angemessen ausgestattet werden. Die schleichende Auszehrung der Deutschen Welle seit mehr als zehn Jahren muss ein Ende haben", forderte er. "Gerade in unserer globalisierten Welt braucht Deutschland einen schlagkraeftigen und kompetenten Auslandssender mit einer regionalen Expertise." Kulturstaatsminister Neumann begruesste die Entscheidung des Rundfunkrats. Mit Peter Limbourg erhalte die DW einen Intendanten mit einem ausgewiesenen journalistischen Profil, der umfangreiche Medien- und Auslandserfahrung in einer Person vereine, hiess es in einer Stellungnahme. Auf den SPD-Mann Bettermann folgt nun also der CDU-nahe Journalist Limbourg. "Der jeweilige Intendant passt 'farblich' zur jeweiligen Bundesregierung", schrieb unlaengst der Tagesspiegel, dessen Chefredakteur Andreas Casdorff zu den Favoriten fuer die DW-Intendanz gehoerte, aber noch vor der gestrigen Wahl abwinkte. Laut Informationen der Frankfurter Rundschau lief in den vergangenen Wochen alles auf Limbourg zu. Er habe als einziger eine ueberzeugende Praesentation abgeliefert. Das Blatt moniert, dass sich die Findungskommission nicht um weitere Kandidaten bemueht habe. Der Rundfunkrat habe letztlich keine echte "Wahl" gehabt. Mit Argwohn betrachtet die FR die klerikale Schlagseite: Limbourg gilt als Kandidat des Leiters des Katholischen Bueros in Berlin, Praelat Karl Juesten. Der ist Mitglied der Findungskommission, des Rundfunkrates, und soll Ambitionen auf dessen Vorsitz haben, wenn Schmidt Ende des Jahres geht. Limbourg duerfte der Wechsel zur DW leicht fallen, denn der Privatsender ProSieben-Sat.1 ist zuletzt nicht gerade nett mit dem Anchorman umgegangen: Seinen Part beim Kanzlerduell musste er an den Entertainer Stefan Raab abgeben, und als er am Mittwoch aus Rom von der Papstwahl berichtete, wurde er ruede aus den Sat-1-News gekickt, gerade als Franziskus erschien (Bonner_General-Anzeiger, 16.03.2013, von Thomas_Kliemann; via D. Hallmann-D rmrc / wwdxc HQ March 16 via DXLD) ** GERMANY. New Photo album #75: Nauen March 2013 I've uploaded the first batch of pictures of my recent visit to Nauen. 70 Photo'va be found in an album called : #75 Nauen March 2013. Also a new video has been uploaded to Youtube. It's about the presen steering of the old RBI rotatable antenna. This is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI_Q3qCXJH8 Enjoy and should any questions arise please contact me (Jan Oosterveen, March 14, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) Have they indeed secured a second transmitter from Jülich, as the main control screen suggests? And has perhaps the audio processing for the ex-Jülich transmitter( s) been moved to the sub-site itself, it seems that only four Optimods are left in the control room racks? For comparison: http://senderfotos-bb.de/bilder/nauen30.jpg http://senderfotos-bb.de/bilder/nauen31.jpg http://senderfotos-bb.de/bilder/nauen32.jpg (Kai Ludwig, ibid.) Hello Kai, The situation for Nauen now is: 4 X S4105 each one inside the Antenna building. The Optimod processing is in the control room. 1 X S4001 Ex Juelich transmitter, The processing is done by an Optimod inside the transmittercabinet. 1 X S4001 This transmitter was obtained from Flevoland whre it was the reserve and DRM transmitter. Also this transmitter has a built in Optimod. Both S4001’s are in the building that is close to the “Drehstand Antenne” (Ex RBI) which is at a distance of about 2 kilometers from the main control room. Both the transmitters use the same antenna via a small matrix switch inside the building. Here also is an artificial antenna for testing. The official address of this place is Drechtower Damm 66. The ex flevo transmitter is being rebuilt at the moment. So in the near future Nauen is DRM capable. Regards, (Jan Oosterveen, ibid.) Hello Kai, Media Broadcast is reconsidering it’s startegies at the moment. Fact is that MBR lost some big clients such as RNW and YFR. That means that a lot of other broadcasts will be transferred from Wertachtal to Nauen for the A13 season. Reason is that Nauen can operate more efficiently, more reliably and cheaper than Wertachtal. The transmitters cost less to operate and the Alliss antennas as well as the Drehstand antenna (ex RBI) are almost maintenance-free so cheaper to operate. Although not said by MBR, I have a suspicious feeling that this could be the end for Wertachtal in the not to distant future. The radio station I work for, Transportradio will also transmit from Nauen in A13. Within the next 2 weeks we will do a last test from Nauen before our final decision. Then I’m going again to Nauen. If you like to accompany me, feel free to contact me. Regards, (Jan Oosterveen, ibid.) Hi Jan, Wow. Thanks so much for all the wonderful photos, videos & information. Super effort. Very much appreciated. That Drehstand antenna (ex RBI) does fascinate me (Ian Baxter, NSW, ibid.) Friend, A new Video has been uploaded to YouTube. You can see the rotating one of the Alliss Antennas from a close distance. The link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANzregUEuhY&feature=youtu.be Enjoy (Jan Oosterveen, ibid.) ** GREECE. 11645, March 15 at 0525, Cuban music, but not RHC! It`s V. of Greece, // 7475 and best 9420, so all three transmitters running; soon Greek announcement and more Cuban music. At 0530 it quite resembles what is playing on RHC English frequencies. 9420 // weaker 7475 and weakest 11645, March 17 at 0515, ERT with Greek Orthodox singing, more harmonious than usual, and never a female voice as those must be banned. Is this from Mount Athos, or what? It`s beyond me how any religion which puts down women can still have any women members. Brainwashing? Presumably responding to my remark about Greek Orthodox singing on ERT, John Babbis refers to this interesting background about ``Byzantine chanting`` in America: http://www.pravmir.com/english-text-and-byzantine-chant-some-problems-and-issues/ altho it only touches on the gender issue: ``The scope of this education poses serious challenges – most of our choir directors do not have the time or resources to devote to four years at Holy Cross, or a long-term stay on Mt. Athos. Nevertheless, our new chanters, often converts and often women, need more tools than their willingness to do the job`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WOMEN AS CHANTERS --- Hi Glenn: When I was in the choir at Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Washington, DC., it consisted of girls as sopranos and altos; the boys did the tenor and bass. On the high holidays, Mr Theoharris came in and did the Byzantine chanting in a rich deep voice. I seriously doubt whether any woman would have that deep a voice to compete with his Byzantine chanting. Perhaps an ex-cigarette-smoking woman? (John Babbis, MD, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Well, the whole thing could be transposed or harmonicized an octave or two higher, but just would not be the same (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** GUAM [and non]. Buona domenica: 13362, AFRTS, GUAM, Barrigada, 2155 13 Mar, program relay USB mode, 33333. 13363.6, LTA Argentina Armed Forces, Buenos Aires, 2155 13 Mar, LSB mode program relay, 2219 "informativo sur PAPA Francesco", 33333. Ciao e buoni DX 73! (Mauro Giroletti, Swl 1510, IK2GFT, bclnews yg via DXLD) 5765-USB, AFN Barrigada 0910 to 0913 discussion touching of sentencing guidelines. 16 March (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, Sixty meter dipole, MW Antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. KTWR A13 Effective Date: March 31, 2013 UTC Days Freq Language Target --------------------------------------- 1330-1400 Mon-Fri 9940 Cantonese China 1330-1400 Sat-Sun 9940 Hui China 1000-1015 Sun 15235 Mandarin China 1000-1100 Mon-Sat 15235 Mandarin China 1130-1200 Mon-Fri 11580 Mandarin China 1100-1230 Daily 9910 Mandarin China 1100-1145 Daily 12120 Mandarin China 1215-1245 Mon-Fri 9975 Mandarin China 1300-1345 Sun-Fri 9975 Mandarin China 1345-1445 Daily 9975 Mandarin China 1445-1500 Mon-Fri 9975 Mandarin China 1200-1215 Daily 11580 Nosu Yi China 1345-1500 Mon-Fri 11580 Korean Korea 1345-1415 Sat 11580 Korean Korea 1345-1445 Sun 11580 Korean Korea 0930-1000 Sat 15200 Balinese Indonesia 0945-1000 Sun 15200 Balinese Indonesia 0930-1000 Mon-Fri 15200 Madurese Indonesia 0930-0945 Sun 15200 Madurese Indonesia 1000-1030 Sun-Fri 15200 Indonesian Indonesia 1000-1030 Sat 15200 Javanese Indonesia 1030-1100 Daily 15200 Sudanese Indonesia 1200-1245 Mon-Thu 15390 Burmese Myanmar 1200-1300 Fri-Sun 15390 Burmese Myanmar 1300-1330 Daily 15390 Sgaw Karen Myanmar 1245-1330 Sun-Fri 11580 Vietnamese Vietnam 1245-1345 Sat 11580 Vietnamese Vietnam 1230-1300 Mon-Fri 15240 Kokborok South Asia 1245-1300 Sun 15240 Kokborok South Asia 1300-1315 Daily 15240 Santhali South Asia 1315-1330 Sun 15225 Santhali South Asia 1315-1345 Sun-Fri 15225 Assamese South Asia 1330-1345 Sun 15225 Manipuri South Asia 1400-1435 Sun,Wed 15190 English South Asia 1400-1430 Thu 15190 English South Asia 1400-1425 Mo,Tu,Fr15190 English South Asia 1000-1018 Mon-Fri 11840 English South Pacific 1000-1030 Sat 11840 English South Pacific 0850-0930 Mon-Fri 15200 English SE Asia Trans World Radio - Guam P.O. Box 8780, Agat, Guam 96928 USA Reports at: http://www.twr.asia/online-qsl-form --- (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GUATEMALA. 4054.98, R. Verdad, Chiquimula, 6/03 1040-1112, 33333++, px en inglés religioso, mx himnos religiosos (1010) después a las 1106 inician locución en bilingüe español inglés, advs gracias a zapatería, px también de carácter religioso (inician nuevamente en inglés), px por Alejandro Talledo, mx religiosa. ID (escuchar grabación adjunta (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Chasqui DX March 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUIANA FRENCH. 9490, before and after 0100 UT March 19, NHK in Japanese, instead of Radio República in Spanish, a little mixup at MSY? About equal to the jamming level. Last night it was hardly audible vs jamming, presumably because of geomag storm affecting even such a southerly path? Normally it`s above the jamming until later in the bihour fading down (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also JAPAN [non] ** HAWAII. 8828-USB, Hawaii Volmet "This is for all stations" 0707 March 18 (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Flórida, Drake R7, 60 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ICELAND. ISLÂNDIA, 207 RÚV, Eiðar, 1516-1550, 18/3, música pop'; 14341, QRM da DEUTSCHLAND. // 180 Gufuskálar com sinal sofrível, QRM adjac. da D em 183 e de MRC em 171. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, March 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 4990, AIR Itanagar, 1415-1423*, March 14. News in Hindi; 1420 local ID and news in English till audio ended at 1423; open carrier still on at 1428 tune out. Normally they wait till the end of the news in English at 1425 before cutting off the audio. Is a shame they do that, as the transmitter usually continues on and they could just as easily broadcast the audio as not! 4990, AIR Itanagar, 1335-1440, March 19. One of their best ever receptions; 1400-1410 interesting segment about the North East region of India; 1415-1425 news in Hindi and repeated in English; after 1431 political speech in English (need for more police stations, etc.). Very entertaining! Six minute audio at https://www.box.com/s/ys8b10mu0p0knqy4wgsm My local sunrise was at 1411 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AIR Vividh Bharati --- This was observed via Global Tuners Rimini with fair reception from 0022 UT 20 March on 9870 kHz. No sign- on procedure as such (Vividh Bharati is a 24-hour service on FM), just "faded up" mid-song then gave a Hindi announcement mentioning shortwave at 0028. This was followed by a 5-minute news bulletin (presumed Hindi) at 0030. Anyone have an up to date SW schedule for this service? (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, March 20, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) From http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm 9870 500 kW Bengaluru (Vividh Bharati) 0025-0435 UT 0900-1200 UT 1245-1740 UT 73, (Alokesh Gupta, ibid.) Thanks very much, Alokesh! Also, forgot to mention in previous post that there's an unofficial online audio stream of Vividh Bharati (and three other AIR services) at http://www.voicevibes.net (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, ibid.) ** INDIA. 9425 AIR National Channel via Delhi Khampur, 1435-1511, March 20 – Wednesday; // 9470 via Aligarh; “Vividha” program in English; full National Channel ID with frequencies; EZL music; talk given on electrical power production in India; many PSAs in Hindi; 1500 “India has come of age” and talk on the Indian economy; 1512 tone for the start of the audio feed from New Delhi; both slightly better than poor. Have not listened to this show in a long time. Years ago I was a regular listener to this Mon-Wed-Fri show in English. Back then they had a very nice YL who chatted about interesting things happening in India, whereas now the OM announcer only does the brief intro and closing announcements. https://www.box.com/s/tsa6o3ldhw4x0um9hbci is a recording of what “Vividha” sound like back in the good old days when it was via the powerhouse Bengaluru station (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. The following are results of reception of DRM transmissions in St. Petersburg. Receiver: Morphy Richards, antenna: Delta Loop 160 m in perimeter and 25 m above the ground. % shows the part of observation time during which audio signal has been heard (SINPO 55555 in any case). Texts in quotes are DRM service labels transmitted together with audio signal. 9950, AIR, Khampur, 1920-1930, Mar 04, no audio, ”GOS IV”; 1817-1830, Mar 07, Indian songs, 10%, ”HPT AIR KHAMPUR”. (Beryozkin) 15050, AIR, Khampur, 1343-1440, Mar 04 and 09, no audio, ”SINHALA SERVICE”. (Beryozkin) 15140, AIR, Khampur, 1920-1930, Mar 04, Russian, 30%, ”RUSSIAN SERVICE” (Alexander Beryozkin, DSWCI DX Window March 20 via DXLD) Seems like DRM from the #1 country snowed by its hype is not working so well (gh, DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 4789.972, Mar 10 2125, RRI Fak Fak also noted here in Engelholm after seeing Ron Howard’s log. Weak but clear signal. TN (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin March 17 via DXLD) 4789.97, RRI-Fak Fak, Mar 14 1154-1238, 45444, Indonesian, Music, 1200 Jakarta news relay, ID at 1229 and 1130 (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, 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) 4790-, March 15 at 1240 past 1259 chex, no signal from RRI Fak2, just CODAR, tho RRI Makassar 4750 has sufficient signal. Atsunori Ishida was hearing 4790 today from 1000, with Jakarta news at 1201, but apparently off before I tune in. 4790, March 18 at 1225, again no signal from RRI Fak Fak, but a double-carrier on 4750, i.e. RRI Makassar, and as Ron Howard confirms, reactivated Bangladesh (presumably; the two ChiComs aren`t much of a factor here). Still nothing but CODAR sweeping 4790 at 1317. Atsunori Ishida has not heard Fak2 at all since March 15; gone again (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 4869.92, RRI-Wamena, Mar 18 1322-1339, 24432-35433, Indonesian, Music, ID at 1322 and 1335 (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, 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) ** INTERNATIONAL. Caribbean Bandscan by Shawn Axelrod, Marigot, St. Martin Island; Eton E-10 receiver. February 27 to March 4, 2013; all daytime - no after sunset listening: 550 WPAB Ponce PR 555 ZIZ Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis 580 WKAQ San Juan PR 600 WYEL Mayagüez PR 610 WEXS Patillas PR 630 WUNO San Juan PR 640 Guadeloupe Première, Point-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe 680 WAPA San Juan PR 710 WKJB Mayagüez PR 730 TBC Port of Spain, Trinidad 740 WIAC San Juan PR 780 ZBVI Tortola, British Virgin Islands 810 WKVM San Juan PR 820 R. Paradise, Charlestown, St. Kitts and Nevis 840 WXEW Yabucoa PR 860 Voice of Nevis, Charlestown, St. Kitts and Nevis 870 WQBS San Juan PR 890 R. Progreso, Chambas, Cuba 910 WPRP Ponce PR 940 WIPR San Juan PR 970 WSTX St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands 1000 WVWI St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands 1020 WOQI Adjuntas PR 1030 WOSO San Juan PR 1060 WCGB Juana Díaz PR 1070 WMIA Arecibo PR 1110 WVJP Caguas PR 1120 WMSW Hatillo PR 1130 WOIZ Guayanilla PR 1140 WQII San Juan PR 1160 Caribbean Radio Lighthouse, St. John's, Antigua 1190 WBMJ San Juan PR 1210 WHOY Salinas PR 1240 WALO Homacao PR 1280 WCMN Arecibo PR 1300 PJD-2 Philipsburg, St. Maarten 1320 WSKN San Juan PR 1340 WSTA St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands 1340 WWNA Aguadilla PR 1370 WIVV Vieques PR 1380 WOLA Barranquitas PR 1400 Harbour Light of the Windwards, Carriacou, Grenada 1430 WNEL Caguas PR 1480 WMDD Fajardo PR 1490 WDEP Ponce PR 1500 WMNT Manatí PR 1520 WVOZ San Juan PR 1550 WKFE Yauco PR 1560 WRSJ Bayamón PR 1570 WPPC Penuelas PR 1580 WEKO Morovis PR 1590 WXRF Guayama PR 1610 Caribbean Beacon, The Valley, Anguilla 1700 R. Eternidad, Sto Domingo, Dominican Rep Not Heard: 690 Caribbean Beacon, Anguilla 700 NBCSVG St. Vincent 1120 PJE-3 St. Eustatius 73 and Good DX! (NRC IDXD March 15 via DXLD) ** IRAN. 9710, 16/Mar 0325, UNID. Speech in unidentified language. At 0328 Interval signal from Voice of Iran the same frequency. From SDR, Twente in the background of the Voice of Iran is another OM speaking in Arabic. The 0336 and the 0337, a quick interruption of the signal and the two transmissions disappear. Possibly an overlay in the modulation in the transmitter. Very weak signal in my QTH (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, Degen 1103 - All listening in mode of filter Narrow the 3 kHz. Dipole antenna, 16 meters - east/west. Escutas (listening, my blog): http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006 dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) March 20, 2013 0410 UT on 9710 kHz: I'm hearing an Arabic language program co-channel with the Voice of Iran's English program aimed at North America. No listings in the latest database from hfskeds for this Arabic station. SOLVED! Just checked 9740 and 9895 kHz where Iran is scheduled with its Arabic language broadcasts. Same program is on 9710 - so Iran is interfering with itself. And then I heard an ID at 0415 UT. Both left the air at the same moment at 0427 UT (Bruce Fisher (Massachusetts, USA), dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 12085, March 20 at 1356, poor signal with Qur`an, soon announcements in unknown language past 1400. Must be from some theocracy. Yes: HFCC shows VIRI Dari service at 12-15, 500 kW, 85 degrees from Kamalabad. BTW, Syria is still HFCC-registered with 500 kW on 12085 all the way from 1600 to 0040, including English at 20-22; don`t you believe it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. VOA MARKS NOWRUZ HOLIDAY 20.03.2013 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Voice of America is celebrating the Persian New Year with 14 hours of special Nowruz programing, including a holiday message from President Barack Obama, live musical performances and a screening of the film, America So Beautiful. . . http://www.insidevoa.com/content/voa-marks-nowruz-holiday/1625445.html (via DXLD) This PR has a really nice illo; view it (gh, DXLD) ** IRAN [non]. 7460, OPPOSITION. Radio Pyam e-Doost – Grigoriopol, MDA, 0241, 3/17/13, in Farsi. Program of female and male announcers alternating with items between short musical bridges (including “Jeepers creepers where’d you get those peepers”), ending with more extended section by woman, ID, continuing with longer sections by man and woman with musical bridges between each section. Good (Mark Taylor, Madison WI, Microtelecom Perseus, WinRadio g313e, Eton e1, Grunding G5 & Satellit 800; EWE, Flextenna, 40 meters dipole, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** IRELAND. Steve Conway has just posted these pictures of the old Atlantic 252 transmission site. http://steveconway.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/lw-252-tower-ireland-pics/ (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ISRAEL. Sabato 16 marzo 2013, 1757 - 6885, GALEI ZAHAL in portante muta. MB-BN (Luca Botto Fiora, G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, playdxyg via DXLD) open carrier ** ITALY. Lettere aperte sulle onde medie chiuse Radiopassioni Andrea Lawendel 18 marzo 2013 La pubblicazione del piano di ristrutturazione degli impianti di diffusione radiofonica in onde medie della RAI sull'annuario tecnico del suo braccio infrastrutturale RaiWay, "Comunicare Digitale multilinguaggi & multischermi" diventa lo spunto per il sindacato UIL Comunicazione per scrivere una lunga lettera aperta alla stessa RaiWay per lamentare il drastico sfrondamento di quello che nell'epoca d'oro della modulazione d'ampiezza era un glorioso network di decine di impianti - alcuni dei quali molto potenti - distribuiti su tre canali nazionali. . . http://radiolawendel.blogspot.it/2013/03/lettere-aperte-sulle-onde-medie-chiuse.html (via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** ITALY [non]. Studio DX??? Portante senza modulazione per RVS/AWR sui 9610 kHz. Niente Studio DX questa mattina. Roby (Roberto Rizzardi, SWL I/0216/GR, Porto S. Stefano (GR) Italy, playdx yg via DXLD) Il 31 torniamo a Issoudun, il problema è che sia Nauen che issoudun non sono presidiati da personale ma comandati in remoto da Wertachtal, stamattina non è partito il file dell'RVS Magazine, come sempre consegnato abbondantemente in anticipo, la risposta ufficiale dai tecnici MB non è ancora arrivata ma è già successo altre volte (Roberto Scaglione, Studio DX, ibid.) Media Broadcast ci ha spiegato cos'è successo domenica, per l'ennesima volta, un malfunzionamento al sistema di modulazione che purtroppo trattandosi di un impianto senza personale (di domenica) non é stato segnalato direttamente, ecco perche si poteva ricevere la portante in pieno ma purtroppo senza segnale di modulazione; negli impianti di questo genere dove l´alta potenza e cambio continuo di antenne potenza e frequenze velocemente succede che salta qualcosa, oltre la trasmissione in lingua italiana di AWR, domenica, ne sono saltate altre due; confidiamo in una maggiore attenzione domenica prossima e in una maggiore affidabilità dell'impianto francese di Issoudun che utilizzeremo a partire dal giorno di Pasqua sempre alle 11 ora italiana ma su 9790 kHz (Roberto Scaglione, March 19, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** ITALY. Sabato 16 marzo 2013, 1047 - 10000 kHz, ASSOCIAZIONE AMICI DI ITALCABLE - Viareggio-LU (Italia), Musica e annunci orari OM-PC. Segnale buono-sufficiente. Quando l'avevo ascoltata con il sottofondo di WWV+WWVH erano tutte perfettamente sincronizzate, stessa cosa oggi con la vicinanza di RWM. E' possibile, però, che in alcune postazioni d'ascolto, a seconda del percorso dei segnali, si verifichino degli sfasamenti. Come l'effetto eco quando si capta un segnale proveniente da due direzioni opposte (Luca Botto Fiora, G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, playdxyg via DXLD) ** JAPAN. 3945, Radio Nikkei-2, Tokyo. 0844 March 17, 2013. Good with nice Japanese mellow vocals. Nikkei-1 on 3925 same level (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 11815, March 16 at 1328, E Asian reception is hot this morning, with NHK inbooming in Japanese service; if REE/CR is also on, it`s buried. Variety show with rock music, surprisingly inserting an English announcement at 1329, ``Ladies & gentlemen --- Saturday night show``, back to Japanese banter, laughter, ``Mission: Impossible`` theme (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. 15720, March 16 at 1752, open carrier past 1754. Too early for NZ; 1818 Japanese music, 1825 in English about recipe songs. Sufficient signal, 295 degrees from MADAGASCAR at 1800-1830. After NHK abandons English to North America in a biweek, hope we can still hear it? No, this relay to be canceled too. 11740, March 17 at 0508 and 0523 chex, NO signal from NHK English to North America via GUIANA FRENCH! Hope they haven`t decided to kill it early a biweek before they have to. But audible well on 9770, which is 500 kW, 155 degrees from FRANCE intended for Africa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) NHK's usual 1200-1230 English broadcast on 15190 is nowhere to be found this morning. I wonder if they've already pulled the North American plug. 73, (Jim K5JG, Carrollton, TX, March 17, ptsw yg via DXLD) I'm pretty concerned since as I've said before NHK World is my favorite English-language shortwave broadcaster alongside Radio Romania International. What's going to happen to the people who work on the English service? I haven't really heard whether they are keeping these transmissions outside of North America. Now, I believe that same relay transmitted programs that I occasionally receive in Japanese. Are those going to be shutting down as well? I didn't hear anything on the most recent transmissions from NHK and I haven't seen anything on their website either can't tell if Radio Japan is simply being negligent at this point or not. I would have said so from what you wrote, but at the same time I'm wondering if they're pulling out all the stops to attract listeners. On March 23, they replayed a highly popular broadcast of an interview with the Japanese celebrity Aya Hirano. I've said before that I'm a big anime fan, so I made sure to catch that one. She's very popular with western fans of Japanese popular culture, so I have to assume they were trying to get some listeners back over here. That being said, they do have votes on what people consider the best shows. I was hoping to hear a rebroadcast of the series on the Secret World of Arrietty (narvorr, ptsw yg via DXLD) 11740, March 18 at 0505 check, NHKWRJ is back, whew, after missing last night its 0500-0530 English to N America via GUIANA FRENCH, with less than two weeks left till oblivion. 11740, March 19 at 0528 check just in time to reconfirm that doomed NHK English to NAm at 0500 via doomed GUIANA FRENCH is still funxional today. NHK WORLD RADIO JAPAN, A-13 ENGLISH. This is extracted from HFCC. I won`t specify the targets, as R. Japan is forcing listeners elsewhere to try to hear them off-beam. Effective March 31: 0500, 5975-Woofferton UK, 11970-Issoudun, France 1000, 9625-Yamata, 9695-Singapore 1100, 9760-Woofferton UK but DRM 1200, 9695-Singapore, [OR, same parameters:] 11740 1300, 15735-Tashkent, Uzbekistan 1400, 11705-Palau, 15735-Tashkent 1800, 9590-Meyerton, South Africa [OR, same parameters:] 11885 It shows NO broadcasts any more for N America. There have been only two left in B-12, 0500 on 11740 and 1200 on 15190, both via GUIANA FRENCH. That site is closing down, and nothing is replacing these broadcasts. Possibly they will surprise us and come up with some site instead of these two GUF transmissions, but don`t count on it. NHK LISTENERS SHOULD BE BOMBARDING THEM WITH QUESTIONS AND COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE TERMINATION OF ENGLISH TO NORTH AMERICA. AFAIK, R. Japan has made no formal announcement on the air or on the website about abandoning its North American listeners in English, tho I can`t say I have heard or seen everything which may be out there. Besides starting a new SWBC season at the end of March, the beginning of April is a new fiscal year in Japan, when NHK normally makes some programming and personnel changes. Of the above transmissions, best chance to be heard in NAm should be: 0500 on 11970, especially in the east; 1200 on 9695/11740, 1400 on 11705, especially in the west (Glenn Hauser, March 20, WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Message left on the NHK World Radio form website: https://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/contact/index.html ``Please continue in English on shortwave to North America!! It appears that you are terminating your last shortwave transmissions in English to North America with the closure of French Guiana relay. Please do not do this! There are other alternatives to broadcast to North America. WHRI which you already use can be heard well inside the continent, for example. I have been listening to Radio Japan for some 55 years, and continue to do so despite the inconvenient times you have chosen, midnight and 7 am my local time (Central). This will only be possible for one more week, is that correct?`` No answer, yet? (Glenn Hauser, OK, via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH. 2850, Korean Central Broadcasting, 1000 to 1030 with audio on 17 March (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Flórida, Drake R7, 60 meter dipole, and XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A - E-5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6101v, March 15 at 1248, no carrier and no big het from KCBS Pyongyang, unlike yesterday 6101.6 --- o, per Aoki that`s because it doesn`t start until 1300. So 6100, CRI Russian from Beijing until 1300 is unhetted; after 1300 the hettee must be CRI Mongolian from Urumqi. 6101.12, March 16 at 1347, KCBS still off-frequency and about to fade out, as evidenced by nothing but the het it makes. This time compared to my keyboard, it`s closest to D#6/Eb6 = 1245 Hz. Perhaps more remarkable is that something else on 6100.0 is still cooperatively propagating, which per HFCC can only be CRI in Mongolian, 100 kW due east from Urumqi --- altho Aoki offers another: 500 watts from R. Rossii, Kyzyl, which must be getting creamed in its region. I wonder if the Juche are by mistake running another, new transmitter on 6100 without deleting the old one off-channel? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) March 19 and 20 finally noted back on 6100.00 about 1320 and // 2850 and 9665 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6135, March 15 at 1331, Sea Breeze again in English this Friday, usual format starting with YL giving all kinds of contact info serenaded by piano music, but she doesn`t know squat about URLs, omitting any punxuation between http and www. Just try to get anywhere without it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency change of Shiokaze Sea Breeze in various languages: 2000-2100 NF 5955 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE, x 5910 Japanese Mon/Wed/Thu; Chinese/Korean Tue; English Fri; Korean/Japanese Sat and Japanese/Korean Sun (DX RE MIX NEWS #772 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 18, 2013, via WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 6360, March 15 at 1246, YL in Korean with Juche noise jamming similar to 6348, but // 5150 clear of jamming, poor signals, i.e. MND Radio, from the South about to close its final broadcast of the day, with a traditional song; Japanese monitors have figured out exactly which songs apply to each broadcast`s opening and closing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 4900, 'Tanshim' Korean Numbers Station V24, *1300, March 14. Open carrier noted at 1254; 1300 on with classical music and then into numbers in Korean; fair. More information at: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/shortwave-listener-qsl-reports/Weeh8x6nQMU https://www.box.com/s/tbnlfuvd9sngymyc4whf MP3 recording of the start of today’s broadcast. 6015, KBS Hanminjok Bangsong 1 (presumed), 1055-1110, March 14. In the clear with good reception till jamming started at 1110; good signal; pop songs; 1100 pips; in Korean. MP3 recording at https://www.box.com/s/kxlljaj5o19glsnwevei (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, March 17 circa 1353, KBSWR music, presumably K- pop in English hour on Sunday; 1404 in Korean, good with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. KBS "PARALYSED" BY COMPUTER OUTAGE "Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- South Korean police said Wednesday they are investigating a computer outage that is affecting servers at three leading television broadcasters and a large bank. One television station, YTN, reported that 500 of its computers had been disabled by the outage. Another, KBS, said that its internal networks had been "paralyzed," but that the problem didn't prevent it from broadcasting live." More at http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/20/world/asia/south-korea-computer-outage/index.html On checking at 0718 gmt, the KBS website cannot be accessed at all - not able to check how this might be affecting its radio and TV services, but it might be an interesting time to monitor them (Stephen Howie, UK, 0720 UT March 20, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) KBS World HD on Hotbird is still broadcasting but the SD version seems to be off. (However maybe transponder has changed as I don't normally monitor the SD version). Regards, (Gareth [Foster?] Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange, 1024 UT March 20, ibid.) ** KUWAIT. 17550, March 14 at 2014 as I reported, R. Kuwait audible again in Arabic to C & W North America, very poor; but by next check at 2233, has built up to good strength signal, but with heavy flutter. Supposed to be on the air until 2400, one of the oddest transmissions on the air, proving the need on hi-latitude paths for at least two seasonal frequency changes per year in keeping with propagation 101, i.e. transmit *below*, not *above* the prevailing MUF --- which R. Kuwait fails to do. Anyhow, the season when this worx is coming back, after wasting their watts all winter, riding the MUF today (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I noted tonight (15 March on 15540 kHz) that Radio Kuwait has a regular feature at 1930 UT (not sure if this is every day) called "A Short Story from Kuwait". Tonight's story was about a woman in a mental hospital, and was somewhat impenetrable (at least to me) - however I'm always pleased to hear stories or plays on shortwave: there's far to few such programmes about these days (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15540, March 16 at 2057, R. Kuwait, ME rock music, 2059 about to close English and I want to copy the frequency announcement, but too poor by now to be sure: almost sounded like he said ``15540 on the 25 meter band``; after quick military band NA, 2100 switch to Arabic news opening which I know will be cut off shortly and unceremoniously. 17550 is not propagating today to continue in Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, I was listening to what I thought was Radio Kuwait today and at 1900 ToH the ID was for "the International English Broadcasting Radio of the State of Kuwait". There was no mention of Radio Kuwait. I was listening yesterday and their 2000 GMT was clearly Radio Kuwait. Have they changed their name? (Steve Handler, IL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Maybe it`s just an informal long-version ID. Further monitoring will show which is used or both (Glenn to Steve, via DXLD) The ID at 2002 GMT was back to the normal Radio Kuwait. Any ideas why they used "the International English Broadcasting Radio of the State of Kuwait" instead of Radio Kuwait at 1900? (Steve Handler, March 16, ibid.) They've added more programming on Islam, as well. It's probably oil dollars paying for a few more staff so that they don't have to rely on a relay of the pop music from their FM station. But it does make it more interesting to listen to them (Mark Coady, ODXA yg via DXLD) Winter [sic] B-12 SW schedule of Radio Kuwait: 0200-0900 on 5960 KBD 250 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic General Service 0500-0900 on 15515 KBD 250 kW / 059 deg to EaAs Arabic Holy Qura'n 0800-1000 on 7250 KBD 500 kW / non-dir to WeAs Farsi 0930-1600 on 11630 KBD 250 kW / 230 deg to CeAf Arabic Holy Qura'n 1000-1800 on 21540 KBD 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic General Service 1000-1200 on 15540 KBD 250 kW / 084 deg to EaAs Filipino 1100-1600 on 9750 KBD 300 kW / 286 deg to NEAf Arabic General Service 1600-1800 on 15540 KBD 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Urdu 1600-2100 on 6050 KBD 500 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic General Service 1800-2000 on 13650 KBD 500 kW / 350 deg to NoAm Arabic General Service 1800-2100 on 15540 KBD 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English 2000-2400 on 17550 KBD 500 kW / 350 deg to NoAm Arabic General Service (DX RE MIX NEWS #772 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 18, 2013, via DXLD) About Qura'n see LANGUAGE LESSONS ** KYRGYZSTAN. 5130, ShortWave Relay Service, Bishkek (presumed), 1750, Mar 08, reactivated, religious music, low modulated carrier, 22222 (Mauro Giroletti, Milano, Italy, DSWCI DX Window March 20 via DXLD) Schedule in WRTH 2013: 1500-1800 in Farsi (Anker Petersen, Ed., ibid.) ** LIBYA. New schedule of Radio Libya from March 18: 1500-2100 on 11600 UNIDentified tx site to NoAf Arabic, ex 1600-2200 (DX RE MIX NEWS #772 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 18, 2013, via DXLD) Is that when Libya went on DST? (gh, DXLD) ** LUXEMBOURG. Happy Birthday Radio Luxembourg (Well, yesterday) 80 years ago, Radio Luxembourg addressed the world on long wave On 15 March 1933, Radio Luxembourg began its first regular broadcasts on long wave – after its launch had been delayed several times... There is a great article here: http://www.rtlgroup.com/www/htm/home_news.aspx?ID=A5350DC73CFF4CE2A201B19E8CDCA6AD RIP "The Station of the Stars" (Mike Terry, March 16, dxldyg via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. 6135.00, R Madagasikara, 0246:09, March 15, sizeable carrier came on, completely in the clear as R Santa Cruz had already closed early. No definite audio though, bothered by BBC on 6140 at 0259, presumed. 6135.00, R Madagasikara, 1659:30, March 19, Malagasy, considerable carrier but audio seemed undermodulated, in the clear to 1710:34 abruptly off. Again March 20, noted with talk & pop songs to late 1731:53 finally off. Monitoring this station remains an interesting challenge, especially now with extended transmission schedule on this frequency (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands, TenTec RX340, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. Former RNW Madagascar Relay Station - Radio Interview For those that haven't caught the latest edition of Keith Perron's 'Media Network Plus' radio program on either SW or the Internet; you may be interested in a radio interview by Jeff White of RMI fame. Jeff Interviewed the manager of the new private company that now operates the Talata-Volonondry SW Txion centre, previously owned by RNW. Go to: http://www.pcjmedia.com/medianetworkplus and select the March 16th edition. Always something of interest on the program for DX folk. 73's (Ian Baxter, March 17, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** MALAYSIA. 6050.0, Salam FM via RTM, via Kajang, 1501-1544, March 19. Choral National Anthem (Negaraku – Lagu Kebangsaan Malaysia); Islamic programming; many “Salam FM” jingles; fair, but bothered by almost a white noise QRM. MP3 recording at https://www.box.com/s/dz2vue9qi3rabalrs41q (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. 5995, R. Mali, Kati, 2232-2254, 16/3, dialecto local, música ligeira; 54433. 9635 idem, 1112-1321, 18/3, dialecto local, cânticos,..., música pop',..., noticiário, em francês, às 1300, música; 35444. Modulação de qualidade e intensidade variáveis. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, March 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5995, Mostly 2 Hertz on the upper side: ORTM Radio Mali from Bamako, undoubted ly very early on air around 0537 UT, but scheduled from 0600 UT. Maybe carrier and very low modulation WARM-UP. Only 1% modulation in background. Similar signal heard later this morning around 0620 UT March 17 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 19 via DXLD) 5995, R. Malienne Bamako 2206-2220 March 18 French; continuous "tinny" strings with M announcer talk over; weak but clear (Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 540, March 18 at 0601 UT, ``Soy Soldado`` super-patriotic recitation, 0602 ID mentioning 540 and FM 106.9? I was expecting usually dominant XETX, but its FM is 90.5, while XEWA SLP has 103.9, presumably what I was hearing, as 3 and 6 sound almost alike in Spanish. Then into choral NA. XEWA has become a rarity, can`t be 150 kW non-direxional any more. 540, March 20 at 0510-0520 UT, `Los 40 Principales` slogans and pop music, YL DJ, i.e. current format of XEWA San Luis Potosí, SLP. Lots of QRM but this signal stays marginally atop with receiver aimed N/S; I still can`t believe it`s anywhere near the nominal 150 kW. Slogan is a cumbersome translation of English ``Top 40``, but now widespread in Mexico, one in every market, it seems. In this case, I wonder if frequency 5-40 has anything to do with decision to put it on XEWA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 570, March 17 at 0546 UT, ``Noti-radio quinientos setenta``, ``más informes, más música`` and indeed followed by music rather than information; also mentioned México, and next break repeated the slogan which is not in any of the references: Cantú, IRCA Log or WRTH. So which XE is it? Per huge accessible Facebook page, it`s XEBJB Monterrey NL: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Notiradio-570/373206279441128 including lots of photos including this one of Heidi Klum: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=412989452129477&set=a.373408386087584.90804.373206279441128&type=1&relevant_count=1 among other celebrities, plus some cabina shots. The listings show XEBJB as merely ``Radio 570``, 5/0.5 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 620, March 17 at 0552 UT, official PSAs for Cámera de Senadores and then Cámera de Diputados about what great work the pols are doing in vague generalities, then ``La Norteñita, Chihuahua`` jingle, i.e. XEBU, Chihuahua city (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 660, March 17 at 0554 UT, Spanish pastor closing with address in NL, full legal ID for ABC Radio, 660, XEFZ, 10,000 watts, street address in Monterrey, 0555 choral NA. Monterrey is far enough from the border not to be influenced by early start of DST in El Norte (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 730, March 19 at 0547 UT, XE choral NA playing at odd time on weak signal under Spanish talker, latter presumed XEX. That narrows it down to one of the octet of other Mexican 730s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Re: ``UNIDENTIFIED. 1160, March 12 at 0611 UT Mexican music in KSL null, making slow 48/minute or 0.8 Hz SAH; unfortunately not in the null of KFAQ 1157 IBOC. 0612 adstring, but losing out to KSL with Jim Bohannon. Of the 5 XEs on 1160 in IRCA Log, four have nite powers of 100 or 250 watts. WRTH agrees only on two of them being 100 watts. We should be able to look up which one is 0.8 Hz from KSL! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` XEQIN is listed as 1160.0009 kHz (1160.0008 - 1160.001) in the latest mwoffsets data (Bruce Conti, NH, ibid.) And supposedly a daytimer (gh) ** MEXICO. 1480, March 17 at 0600 UT, reconfirming that the KBXD DX test in not happening, instead I get something in Spanish, ID sounds like ``La Fogata Norteña``, into choral NA. It must have been short version as retuned at 0602 I had already missed a more specific ID. No such slogan listed anywhere for a Mexican 1480 station; searching on it leads only to a restaurant in México DF! Fogata means bonfire: LA FOGATA NORTEÑA AV. INSURGENTES CENTRO COL. SAN RAFAEL C.P. 06470 DELEGACION CUAUHTEMOC Of the 1480s listed, most likely one of: Monterrey, Monclova, Delicias. But is it really a new station slogan or another restaurant? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Definitivamente "La Fogata Norteña" es un restaurante cerca del centro de la Ciudad de México y no una estación de radio. Saludos, (Julián Santiago Díez de Bonilla, DF, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. UNIDENTIFIED. March 17, 1110, 2909.989, unknown Central American, 23232, Spanish EL music, fading by 1150. 3rd harmonic of 970. The unknown is either a CA station, or a Mexican. Gray line and sunrise in SA eliminate them. Heard any reports on that frequency? Friendly Regards, (Mike Gilchrist, Disruptive Technologist, Advanced Wireless Express P.O. Box 255, Toledo, IA 52342 Mike's Weekly Column http://www.tamatoledonews.com/page/category.detail/nav/5001/Local-Columns.html WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Mike, Thanks for the report. Still no luck with Symban here. Your 2910 is XEVT, Villahermosa, Tabasco, which I have reported many times the last few months. I haven`t seen reports from anyone else until now. 73, (Glenn to Mike, via DXLD) Glenn: I found a boatload of references to XEVT in your hand. Bravo. I am glad to be another reporter of the harmonic. Google searches on 2910 kHz, or 2909.989 find nothing. So much comes from you, it is hard to keep up with all of it. I have been chasing all three of these signals for a few days. I was surprised to find the bands a bit better this morning. This winter has been a disappointment. Perhaps a little idealistic, but have been gearing to recapture a piece of my youth and listen to some Papuan stations. Solomon Islands is easy for me, as are the Aussie domestic services. I am only having minimal success. I live in such a quiet location way out in the sticks, but the EWE antennas are so quiet, and the nulls let me hear things like that Peruvian under CHU. I have been playing with SDR radios, and love the visual cues the waterfalls give for band conditions and ferreting out those rare finds. I can tell the band condition before even donning headphones. I am building a really cheap SDR using one of the RTL dongles and an up converter. Cheap SDR DX machines for the masses are on the horizon, Glenn. Cool stuff and it is breathing new life into an old hobby for me. I calibrate my SDR-IQ against WWV looking at an audio spectrum display, and compensate the oscillator for drift while centering the peak of a 100 Hz heterodyne. If I pay attention, I can resolve frequencies down to a single Hertz. The SDRs are drop dead selective, and through pass band filtering, I can make them really sensitive too. The function surpasses the best old DX machines. March 19, 1048, 2909.993 XEVT, Villahermosa, Tabasco, (assumed) 12331. 1048 transmitter switched on 2909.993. 1059 National Anthem, faded. 1102 guitar music.1105 man talking, stutter/flutter to signal, suspect geomagnetic activity. 2909.987 at 1125 with very low audio. Faded by 1138 (Mike Gilchrist, EC Iowa, WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 6009.975, Mar 14 0622, Tentative XEOI Radio Mil with weak signal and music noted here. Also disturbing stations noted on 6010.05 and 6010.091 at the same time. TN (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin March 17 via DXLD) 6010, March 15 at 1242, R. Mil with M & W morning news discussion; her voice is more readable. Poor signal but no CCCCI (Chinese Communist co-channel interference, scheduled in Tibetan westward from Beijing). (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6010, Radio Mil, México City, 1000 with music, good signal, 6k filter on R7. Tried for // on 1000 kHz but never was certain. 16 March (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, Sixty meter dipole, MW Antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6010, March 17 at 0256, one Spanish station atop the heap of LAHs, talking about Mexico, so probably R. Mil itself. 6010, March 18 at 1227, XEOI is fair and readable with no QRM, news about the explosion in a Mexican Jesus-town, something on El Salvador. About the best time of day to hear R. Mil here, before sunrise which today was 1238 UT, heading for, of course, 1232 on the Equinox (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6184.992, Radio Educación, Mexico City, very low tiny S=4 signal, modulation just readable on threshold level. at 0335 UT March 19 (Wolfgang Büschel, March 19, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DXLD) ** MEXICO. BREAKING UP MEXICAN MONOPOLIES The monopoly powers of two of Mexico's richest businessmen are coming under fire with a broad set of new laws that aim to open up the telecommunications and television businesses (e.g. Grupo Televisa and TV Azteca) to competition. Wall Street Journal subscription required for the first URL: http://tinyurl.com/MonopolyArticle-WSJ http://tinyurl.com/MonopolyArticle-Yahoo (CGC Communicator March 19 via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) ** MEXICO. TOWARD ELIMINATING INEPT ENGLISH ADS FROM MEXICO CGC #1190 carried the following story: ``Inept spoken advertisements [in English] have been coming from south of the U.S./Mexican border, a strange and bizarre situation that tarnishes the image of Mexico: http://tinyurl.com/IneptAds The following Spanish language document sets out to fix the problem. The first URL is the original Spanish version of the document, the second is Google's automated English translation of same: http://earthsignals.com/add_CGC/INIC.REFOR.ART.doc http://earthsignals.com/add_CGC/Eng_xlation.doc (CGC Communicator March 19 via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) ** MICRONESIA. 4755.55, PMA The Cross, Kolonia, Pohnpei. 0734 March 17, 2013. Clear, even weak to fair audio at times with soft Christian vocals, female briefly at 0734 in definite English (US-accented seemingly) but nothing really understood (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF- 7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONGOLIA. MONGÓLIA, 4895 Mongoliin R, Murun, 2310-2324, 14/3, mongol, texto; 34432. 12085, Voz da Mongólia, Khonkhor, 1015-1053, 18/3, mandarim, canções; progr. em inglês, às 1030; 35433, mas em perda acelerada. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, March 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO. 171, Medi 1, 0650 March 18 using the NRD 535D (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Flórida, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 5985.81 kHz, 1120-1215, presumed the one here with music, what could have been news in Burmese at BOH (which is their TOH), and then a call-in program, apparently a request show, with a female taking calls and then playing pop music. Fair to poor. Audio still present an hour after my local SR, but pretty ragged by the end. 3/17/13. Oldie but goodie: In 1988, I bought a Kenwood R5000. When it developed a bad case of key-bounce, I put it on the shelf. And since that time, I've tried just about every other radio out there. Last week,I took the R5000 off the shelf, fixed the key-bounce and made a couple of simple mods. And lo and behold, it remains a fine radio with outstanding audio, that holds its own against all the others (Art Delibert, North Bethesda, MD, Kenwood R5000, Pennant antenna with DX Engineering Amp, HCDX via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Brief 10 second audio clip of the ute under the Mighty KBC during the March 17, 2013 broadcast 0000-0200 UT 7375 kHz. Recorded just after the Mighty KBC program ended. http://misc.kg4lac.com\2013-3-17-7375kHz-0200UTC-UTE.wav 73, Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS. Nuevo edificio de RNW. Fotos del equipo en español. Sergio Acosta, uno de los integrantes del equipo productor de RNW en lengua castellana, publica hoy en el muro de la emisora en Facebook lo siguiente: "A partir de hoy, 18 de marzo de 2013, Radio Nederland funciona desde este edificio, donde antes estuvo alojado el centro de formación de periodistas. Es mucho más pequeño que la sede anterior, pero mucho más funcional y acogedor. Y, sobre todo, un cambio que todos vivimos con ilusión." [image: Imagen integrada 2] Hace unas semanas hicimos una visita para asegurarnos que todo iba bien. [image: Imagen integrada 9] Ésta es la entrada al edificio [image: Imagen integrada 10] Y hoy al llegar nos lo encontramos todo listo para empezar una nueva etapa. [image: Imagen integrada 11] En Holanda siempre hay torta para cualquier pequeño o gran acontecimiento, y hoy no podía faltar. [image: Imagen integrada 12] Y vino espumoso. Quizás era un poco temprano para beber, pero un día es un día. [image: Imagen integrada 13] El equipo de Radio Nederland en español brinda también con ustedes. [image: Imagen integrada 3] Y después de las celebraciones, ya era hora de ponerse con la reunión editorial de la mañana. [image: Imagen integrada 4] (Sergio Acosta, Radio Nederland Internacional, Facebook, Mar 18 2013 via Horacio Nigro, CX3BZ, "La Galena del Sur" Montevideo, Uruguay, condiglista yg via DXLD) What`s left of RNW has been moved out of its building to a much smaller location. So what`s the link to this? (gh, DXLD) Dos sensaciones: * De nostalgia: A una gran distancia - la que va aumentando con el paso del tiempo - quedó la querida Radio Nederland de Edward Startz, Paco Bonello, Thom Mejer, Alfredo Hoffman Reyes, Jorge Valdés, Pancho Ibañez, Nestor Hugo Cárcamo, Alfonso Montealegre, Jaime Báguena y tantos otros. * De esperanza: La nueva Radio Nederland es un pequeño soplo de ilusión y, mientras se siga llamando así, la recordaremos como era y la seguiremos buscando por aire (Rubén G. Margenet, Argentina, ibid.) ** NICARAGUA. 8989-USB, "El Pescador Preacher" 2310-2325 with locutor en español seemingly aimed at fishing boats. Good signal heard in Europe, 15 March (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, Sixty meter dipole, MW Antenna; and XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A -E-5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) NICARÁGUA, 8989 BLS, El Buen Pastor, O Bom Pastor, localiz. ?, 2215- 2229, 17/3, castelhano, texto; 15331. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, March 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [and non]. 15120, March 16 at 1751, very poor signal with music in AM, much weaker than 15125 REE/CR. HFCC doesn`t know of anything after 1600 on 15120, but the rest of us do: as in EiBi & Aoki, VON in Arabic at 1730-1830. However at next check 1815, nothing is audible. 15115-15120-15125, March 19 at 1942, VON is on in DRM, most obvious by the QRDRM it puts on 15125-AM, REE via COSTA RICA, rather than on its proper center frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Winter [sic] B-12 SW schedule of Voice of Nigeria: 0500-0700 on 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf English 0700-0800 on 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf French 0800-0900 on 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf English 0800-0900 on 9690 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf Hausa 0900-1500 on 9690 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf English 1500-1600 on 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf English 1600-1630 on 9690 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to ECAf Swahili 1630-1700 on 9690 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf Yoruba 1700-1730 on 9690 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf Igbo 1730-1800 on 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf Arabic Sat/Sun 1730-1830 on 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf Arabic Mon-Fri 1830-2000 on 15120 AJA 100 kW / 007 deg to NoAf English Mon-Fri DRM 1800-2000 on 7255 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WeAf English Sat/Sun 2000-2100 on 7255 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WeAf French 2100-2200 on 7255 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WeAf Fulfulde 2200-2300 on 7255 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WeAf Hausa (DX RE MIX NEWS #772 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 18, 2013, via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. eQSL: received March 16, 2013: ``Thank you for your reception report. I have confirmed your report and have attached Your QSL card and a program log for your reference. I apologize for the extended delay in getting these out. All the best, +-Redhat, X-FM Shortwave`` Thank you, Redhat. Here it is: http://www.w4uvh.net/X-FM347.jpg also added to my Gallery via http://www.worldofradio.com/QSL.html Text on the card reads: ``BBQ`d X anyone? This is to confirm reception of X-FM`s Thanksgiving show on 11-24-2012 at 0633 UTC on 6925 KHZ AM Stereo by Glenn Hauser. QSL # 347 Thanks for Listening!`` With photo of guy in a cover-the-head helmet and sunglasses underneath, with Pirate Radio shirt, in front of a pristine oven. Here was my original log and report: ```6925+, AM, strongest signal heard from a pirate in a long time, steady S9+18 and very little fading, but with BFO, carrier slightly unstable and on the hi side; and VG modulation too, Nov 24 at 0612, claims to be broadcasting in C- Quam stereo --- really? But who has a C-Quam SW radio? Professional- sounding DJ, ex-FM? with produced IDs, slogans, ``music to the power of X``. Back-announces a few songs at a time. 0617 hello to Skeezix (?) and to Blue Ocean Radio; address xfmshortwave@gmail.com offering QSLs ASAP, but is behind since it`s time-consuming to check the reports against logs, listen to clips, which he prefers to get. 0623 stage-whispered IDs as XFM. 0633 says tune ``Saved by Zero`` will be next, 6:33 timecheck so apparently live, ``XFM, the power of X``; 0641 ``Music to the power of X``. I doze but still going at 0712 inviting reports also to be posted at FRC, FRN or HF Underground. 0714 saying goodnight, then something by Incubus; finished at 0721, ID again mentioning C-Quam, ``music to the power of X``, and carrier cut immediately.``` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. FCC RESCINDS LICENSE OF KEIF-LP, ENID [these FCC notices replete with footnotes and formatting are best read in the original form; see linx below] Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 March 18, 2013 DA 13-453 Released: March 18, 2013 In Reply Refer to: 1800B3-TSN CERTIFIED MAIL – RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED Enid Public Radio Association 114 East Broadway Suite 1312 Enid, Oklahoma 73701 In re: KEIF-LP, Enid, Oklahoma Enid Public Radio Association Facility ID No. 124554 File No. BRL-20050131AAR Application for Renewal of License File No. BSTA-20101018AAW Notification of Modification of Facilities/Request for STA File No. BRL-20130227AHT Application for Renewal of License Notification of License Expiration and Deletion of Call Letters Dear Licensee: In this Order, we rescind the conditional grant of renewal of the license of Enid Public Radio Association (“Licensee”) for low-power FM radio station KEIF-LP, Enid, Oklahoma (“Station”), based upon Licensee’s failure to comply with the conditions of its license renewal set forth in the Memorandum Opinion and Order and Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture released July 13, 2010. Background. In the KEIF Renewal Order, the Media Bureau (“Bureau”) issued a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (“NAL”) in the amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) to Licensee for willfully violating Sections 73.503(d) and 73.811 of the Rules, as well as Section 399B of the [[footnotes:] 1 Enid Public Radio Association, Memorandum Opinion and Order and Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture, 25 FCC Rcd 9138 (MB 2010) (“KEIF Renewal Order”). The Station’s license renewal application was conditionally granted for a period of six years from expiration of Station’s prior license. 25 FCC Rcd at 9145-46. 2 47 C.F.R. §§ 73.503(d), 73.811. 2Communications Act. 3 As noted in the KEIF Renewal Order, Chisholm Trail Broadcasting Co. (“Chisholm Trail”), in its petition to deny Licensee’s renewal ] application, demonstrated that Licensee was operating with an antenna higher than authorized, and further that Licensee was willfully and repeatedly broadcasting unauthorized commercial announcements, in violation of the Commission’s enhanced underwriting rules. A copy of the KEIF Renewal Order was sent to Licensee on or about July 13, 2010, by Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested. The Return Receipt was signed by Carol Clark on July 23, 2010. Licensee filed no response to the KEIF Renewal Order. The KEIF Renewal Order also granted Licensee’s application for renewal of the Station license, for a period of six years from June 1, 2005. However, the renewal was conditioned on Licensee’s filing, within 90 days of the date of the KEIF Renewal Order, a report demonstrating that the Station antenna had been lowered to its authorized height of 33 meters above average terrain. The KEIF Renewal Order also directed the Licensee to submit operating logs indicating that the Station is otherwise operating in compliance with its authorization and all applicable Commission technical rules. Grant of license renewal was further conditioned on Licensee’s filing with the Media Bureau, Audio Division, 180 days from the date of the KEIF Renewal Order, and every 180 days thereafter until grant of the Station’s next license renewal, a report containing (a) a list of all program underwriters and other persons or entities whose donations, payments, or contributions have been acknowledged on- air during the 180-day period of the report; (b) a list of the times and dates of all on-air announcements acknowledging donations, program underwriting, or other receipts of goods, services, or other consideration by Licensee; (c) the text of all on-air announcements listed in response to item (b); and (d) operating logs indicating that the Station has been operating at all times in compliance with its authorization and all applicable Commission technical rules. To date, Licensee has submitted none of the reports upon the filing of which grant of renewal of the Station license was conditioned. On October 18, 2010, Licensee requested Special Temporary Authorization (“STA”) to operate with temporary antenna facilities following a lightning strike to its existing facilities. As part of the request for STA, Licensee acknowledged that the KEIF Renewal Order directed it to “lower [its] antenna to 33 meters to be in compliance with the license.” After detailing difficulties with complying with its license at the authorized coordinates, Licensee stated that it found an apparently suitable tower, but its current facilities were damaged before it could prepare to move to the new site. The STA that was granted to Licensee on October 19, 2010, was for a temporary antenna on the new tower Licensee identified, at reduced power. Licensee stated in its October 18, 2010, STA request that it “will follow with a construction permit (sic) to permanently be licensed at this new location.” Although STA for the Station expired on April 19, 2011, Licensee never filed an application for [[footnotes] 3 47 U.S.C. § 399B. 4 File No. BRL-20050131AAR. 5 See KEIF Renewal Order, 25 FCC Rcd at 9139. 6 Id. at 9145-46. 7 On April 8, 2011, the Media Bureau released a Forfeiture Order, noting that Licensee had not responded to the KEIF Renewal Order, and therefore ordering a forfeiture in the full amount of $10,000. Enid Public Radio Association, Forfeiture Order, 26 FCC Rcd 5205 (MB 2011). 8 File No. BSTA-20101018AAW. 9 Norman S. Clark, Letter (MB Oct. 19, 2010).]] modification to its licensed facilities, nor did it request further STA. On February 27, 2013, Licensee filed an application for renewal of its license, which was to have been filed no later than June 1, 2011. Discussion. Licensee, as indicated above, has failed to file any reports with the Bureau, and the renewal of the Station license was expressly conditioned upon the timely filing of the specified reports. We are not aware of any reason for Licensee’s failure to comply with the reporting conditions attached to the Station license renewal. Further, Licensee failed either to request extension of STA to operate with reduced facilities, or to apply for modification of its license to operate with new facilities. Finally, Licensee failed timely to file an application for renewal of its conditionally renewed license by June 1, 2011. For these reasons, and based on the information before us, we hereby rescind the conditional grant of renewal of the Station license set forth in the KEIF Renewal Order. Conclusion. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED, pursuant to Sections 301 and 309(k) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and Section 0.283 of the Commission’s Rules, that the conditional grant of renewal of the license of station KEIF-LP, Enid, Oklahoma, IS HEREBY RESCINDED. The Commission's public and internal databases will be modified to indicate that the broadcast license for the referenced station EXPIRED as a matter of law, at 12:01 a.m. on June 1, 2011, and WE HEREBY DELETE the Station's call sign KEIF-LP. Additionally, WE HEREBY DISMISS as moot the Station’s pending application for Renewal of License. Finally, we note that it is imperative to the safety of air navigation that any prescribed painting and illumination of the station's tower be maintained until the tower is dismantled. Accordingly, the owner of the tower where the referenced station's transmitting antenna is located is required, pursuant to Section 303(q) of the Act, to maintain the tower in the manner prescribed by our rules and the terms of the cancelled license. Sincerely, Peter H. Doyle Chief, Audio Division Media Bureau cc: Andrew S. Kersting, Esq. (Counsel for Chisholm Trail Broadcasting Co.) [[Footnotes:] 10 File No. BRL-20130227AHT. 11 See Glendale Electronics, Inc., Memorandum Opinion and Order, 19 FCC Rcd 2540, 2544 (2004) (“[A] license that cancels for failure to satisfy a license condition is not revoked and does not trigger a hearing requirement.”). 12 47 U.S.C. §§ 301, 309(k); 47 C.F.R. § 0.283. 13 BLL-20021114ABH, as most recently renewed by BRL-20050131AAR. 14 File No. BRL-20130227AHT. 15 See 47 U.S.C. §303(q). See also 47 C.F.R. §§ 17.1 et seq. and 73.1213; Streamlining the Commission’s Antenna Structure Clearance Procedure, WT Docket No. 95-5, 11 FCC Rcd 4272 (1995). (from FCC pdf as below via Benn Kobb, WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DXLD) 104.7, KEIF-LP Enid has had its license canceled! Tnx to FCC-watcher Benn Kobb who forwarded this notice dated March 18: ENID PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION. Rescinded the conditional renewal of Enid Public Radio Association's license for low-power FM station KEIF- LP, for failure to satisfy conditions of its 2010 limited renewal or timely file renewal application. Action by: Chief, Audio Division, Media Bureau by LETTER. (DA No. 13-453). MB http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-13-453A1.docx http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-13-453A1.pdf http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-13-453A1.txt It was never a ``public radio`` station in the usual sense. ``The Rocket`` has been in trouble for years, and the FCC finally stomped them for: running advertising, and antenna too high per LP regs, which brought a complaint two+ years ago from legit Enid commercial broadcaster Chisholm Trail Broadcasting (KNID, KXLS, KCRC, etc.). Since antenna is atop the Broadway Tower building in downtown Enid, it`s not feasible to lower it without chopping off the top few stories of the building. Thus a complete change of site would be required. So I immediately tuned in 104.7, and it`s still on the air March 18 at 1800 UT. Recorded several hours as a collector`s item. I rarely listen to it otherwise, but some of the tunes like ``Dust in the Wind`` by Kansas, and ``I Fought the Law and I Won`` seem to allude to its predicament. Altho immediately online, the FCC notice goes to KEIF by certified mail, return receipt requested, so KEIF may pretend not to be notified for a few days until the hard copy arrive, and it`s still on the air March 19 past 1630 UT. Contacted one of their DJs who thought the matter was still in ``mediation``; he`s apparently in denial, or in the dark. Judging from history of illegal parameters from its founding, refusal to coöperate, pay fines, or even respond to the FCC, I won`t be surprised if it tries to stay on the air as a pirate, altho online- only would be the way to go. The mastermind behind it is Scott Clark, who has vowed it will never go off the air. Wikipedia is right up to date with the latest developments: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KEIF-LP but not stating explicitly that it is still on the air. However, the website it linx to, http://www.enidradio.org/ is ``not yet configured``. And the Listen Live doesn`t work either: http://76.215.189.134:8006/ Another infraxion might be failing to legally ID as KEIF; at least all I ever hear even around hourtops is ``The Rocket``. See my previous reports about KEIF-LP, 104.7 Enid, ``The Rocket`` having its license canceled by FCC. Finally on March 20, the Enid News & Eagle runs a story about it on the front page, based mostly on the FCC notice: http://enidnews.com/localnews/x2000916241/FCC-rescinds-radio-KEIF-LP-s-license At the KEIF listing via FCC FM Query, http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=124554 there is another letter of March 18 with further details about the case: http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=39887 Meanwhile, despite Scott Clark`s threats, by 1435 UT check March 20, The Rocket is OFF THE AIR! However, easily on caradio, and with careful positioning of indoor whips, we still hear something on 104.7, ``The new Sunny 104.7`` with rock music. This is the station in nearby Ponca City which The Rocket managed to override around Enid with its alleged 82 watts, KQSN with 25 kW. It has a rudimentary website http://www.sunny1047.com/ FCC shows KQSN`s 60 dbu service contour from a site N of Ponca City reaches only halfway to Enid. The same for KEIF barely covered the city of Enid, not including Vance AFB and Woodring Airport on the outskirts; surely an underestimate. There is one other Okie on 104.7, KSLE Wewoka with 1.7 kW, per FCC FM Query, which has yet to add a D to the KEIF listing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. New additional hour for evening transmission of Radio Pakistan: 1600-1700 9560 ISL 250 kW / 313 deg WeEu Urdu. First noted on Mar.16 1600-1700 11570 ISL 250 kW / 313 deg WeEu Urdu. First noted on Mar.16 1700-1900 9560 ISL 250 kW / 313 deg WeEu Urdu, no En news 1700-1710! 1700-1900 11570 ISL 250 kW / 313 deg WeEu Urdu, no En news 1700-1710! -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PALAU. 9930, Saturday March 16 at 1335, aged gospel huxter struggling to read his script about how important Jews and Israel are, but don`t get no respect; constant crackling imposed, maybe bad audio source. Aoki shows each program on HBN = T8WH, with 9930 allegedly on the air during this quarter-hour only on Sat & Sun: Sat, it`s `Message from Donald Raymo---`; Sunday will be `Bread of Life Victory Hou-` 10000, March 17 at 1320, Chinese music over WWV/H!! Soon found // 9965 R. Australia relay, and same also on 9930, the other T8WH frequency, so the 9930 and 9965 transmitters are interacting producing this horrible leapfrog. 9930 is supposed to be carrying various WHR gospel programming in English. Audio source confirmed as RA, since it`s // 9475 Shep which is several seconds ahead of the others. 1327 Chinese announcement. At 1329 found another weaker spur 35 kHz higher on 10035. This requires immediate attention! Not sure who`s in charge of spurs at South Bend or Koror, but I`ve notified Nigel Holmes at RA. 9930, Monday March 18 at 1238, T8WH is off the air, and remains so past 1400. My message about yesterday`s disastrous spurring atop WWVH 10000, leapfrogging over 9965 must have got thru to someone? Not necessarily: per Aoki, 9930 is on the air at 12-14 only on weekends with one exception. So will this happen again on Sat & Sun? 9965 comes on at *1300 March 18 with R. Australia in Chinese, but without 9930 there is no RA on that frequency next to it, and no mix on 10000, 10035. At 1357 everything still OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3259.985, Mar 13 *1859-, NBC Madang with sign on at this time. Seems to be very regular with sign on times. TN 3345.03, Mar 7 -1744*, NBC R Northern very strong with a sudden sign off at 1744. // 3365 but weaker here. Also noted very strong on March 4 at 1900. On March 9 heard again // 3365. The transmitter was switched off at 1754 while 3365 continued. TN 3364.990, Mar 13 1815, R Milne Bay already here at this time. Has been // to 3345 lately. TN 3905, Mar 10 *1843-, NBC New Ireland with sign on at this time, Often quite strong but irregular. TN (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin March 17 via DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, NBC Madang on March 17 suddenly off in mid- song at 1212. 3905, NBC New Ireland, 1213-1303, March 17 Strongest NBC station heard; DJ in Tok Pisin with phone calls and pop songs; many time checks (off by 2-3 minutes!); 1231 PSAs (“HIV testing”, etc.); IDs; “Sunday night, NBC New Ireland”. Seemed appropriate to listen to this on St. Patrick’s Day! Was named “New Ireland” while under Australian control. Formerly was New Mecklenburg during colonization by Germans (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. CHASQUI DX PFA – MARZO 2013 --- CQ, CQ, CQ; Aquí Pedro F. Arrunátegui para compartir algo con los que disfrutan y aman el DX latinoamericano. Todas las horas son UT, desde la tierra de los incas, les informo mediante este Quipus lo siguiente: La recepción la he efectuado del 26/02 al 20/03 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una antena de hilo largo de 20 metros y una antena loop. 710.25, PERÚ, R. RPP, Ica, 26/02, 0550-0615, 22222, news px, Un Día Como Hoy, ID "Por RPP" ID "amigos de RPP, estamos entrevistando al sicólogo sobre la características de la gente`` en // con RPP Lima 730.00, ID ``1 y 10 de la madrugada, RPP contesta" 869.98, R, Huancayo, Huancayo, Junín, 28/02 0445-0515, 22222++, mx romántica LA, saludos para mi amiga Mariela; mejor lo escucho en LSB. Px Directo Al Corazón, mx romántica, ID "Anda al colegio con Radio Huancayo", ID "Tienes que estar atento a la programación de Radio Huancayo... vamos al cole con Radio Huancayo" NOTA: Durante años esta estación transmitía en 5955 kHz, Slogan “OAX4P Radio Huancayo, la voz del centro del Perú, surcado los cielos de América”…aquellos tiempos http://www.radiohuancayo.com.pe 1049.97, R. Bendición Cristiana, Chiclayo, 5/03 0435-0502, 22222, px religioso, se cruza con R. Campesina por momentos, ID "Radio Bendición Cristiana" 1060.00, R. Éxito, Lima, 19/03 0230-0300, mx, ID "La mejor programación la tiene Radio Éxito, llegando a todo Lima con el mejor formato musical en cumbia y folclor. Éxito, mx, en este momentos, nuestros técnicos ponen el mejor sonido de la ciudad de Lima, siente la diferencia, aquí solo ponemos éxitos," mx 1219.96, Univ Nac. San Antonio Abad, Cusco, 20/05, 0750-0820, 33333++, mx tropical cumbia, ID "Radio Universidad a través de los 1220, la Voz de San Antonio Abad desde Cusco, una radio para todos" http://abel-ww.wix.com/radiouniversidad-unsaac-cusco 1320.00, R. La Crónica, Lima, 27/02 2320-2345, 44444, mx romántica LA, por los Panchos, ID "Radio la Crónica", mx romántica varias 1480.00, R. San Ana, Cutervo, Cajamarca, 28/02 0000-0040, 22222, mx romántica, advs Defensa Civil, en caso de terremoto, mantén la calma ante una emergencia, usa mejor tu celular, Santa Ana Record, somos especialistas en la producción del sonido, mx px Camino a Casa, ID "Somos Santa Ana desde Cutervo, Cajamarca", ID "Este es un consejo de Radio Santa Anta" mx pasillos. http://www.radiosantaana.com 1540.48, R, Turbumix, Cajamarca, 28/02, 0410-0435, 44444, mxf huayno, ID "Un saludos a todos los amigos de Radio Turbomix", saludos para todos los amigos de Chota, px Ruta Campesina, mxf, ID “La nueva potencia en todo el norte peruano, Radio Turbomix 1540…" advs Bazar papelería Rodríguez, Caja Nuestra Gente. ID “La potente 1540 Radio Turbomix”, ID “Ahora y siempre Radio Turbomix Desde Cajamarca, Turbomix, atrévete" http://www.turbomix.com.pe 4747.05, R. Huanta 2000, Huarí, 18/03 2310-2345, 44444+, px Una Salud de Esperanza por la Reyna del Curanderismo, al costado de la RENIE, frente a caja Jr. San Martín 443, advs JUNTOS ayuda a los padres en su educación de sus hijo, mensualmente te alcanzara 300 mensuales si tu hijo está en tercio superior, Gobierno regional de Ayacucho ID "Por Radio Huanta 2000" 4789.87, R. Visión, Chiclayo, 20/05 0825-0855, 33333+, mx pasillo, ID "Radio Visión para el Perú y el mundo", advs Iglesia Pentecostal la Cosecha en Chiclayo, ID “Radio Visión 4790 kHz", mx Huaylas. 4826.60, R. Sicuani, Sicuani, 6/03 1112-1146, 44444+, advs La Universidad Andina le ofrece las carreras… Inst. Superior Vilcanota le da oportunidad de continuar sus estudios, librería El Educando, El Ministerio de Educación en Sicuani le informa…. ID “6 y 30 de la mañana, la hora exacta en los estudios de Radio Sicuani" news locales 4974.95, Pacífico Radio, 0020-0050 no hay señal alguna de la radio, aparentemente están en prueba, pues no coincide con lo manifestado por David Nieves (ver 9674.80 kHz). 15/03 2300-2347, no hay señal de la estación. 18/03 2305-0010 no hay señal alguna. Me comunico telefónicamente con el señor David Nieves, le informo los días que nos le he escuchado, verifica y me informa que ayer sí salieron, pero que tienen problemas con el amplificador de potencia y están saliendo en forma alternativa (0010 UTC). 20/03 0918-0930, no hay señal alguna de la radio" 9674.80, Pacifico Radio, 14/03 1515-1605, 44444, px religioso, advs Clínica dental cristina, costado al R. Del Pacifico, otros, este domingo 17 tu voto es importante para el futuro de Lima, ID "10 y 30 en Pacifico Radio" px Familia con propósito, ID A continuación presentamos el reporte policial y después salud total por Pacifico Radio" px Reporte Policial. NOTA: en el Chasqui DX de Febrero, informe 4975 el 7/02: A solicitud de Rafael Perry, me he comunicado al 4337879 de Pacifico Radio; me pasaron al área técnica donde me informaron que por ahora ellos no están saliendo en los 4975 kHz. Pregunto cuándo reinician sus trasmisiones; me responden: que ellos no lo podían precisar, que dependía de la jefatura de la radio, que no tienen fecha del re lanzamiento. Hoy 14/03 me informan que aparentemente la información de ese momento no es correcta, pues están escuchando la radio, me comunico con ellos, al tef. 4337879, no pudieron informarme al no estar el técnico David Nieves, me dan su celular, lo llamo al tef. 998741941, quien me informa que hace aproximadamente un mes están saliendo al aire en los 9675 kHz de 8AM a 6PM (1300 a 2300 TU) durante el día y en la noche de 6 PM a 8 PM (2300 a 0100 TU) en los 4975 kHz, que salen los 7 días de la semana. Le informe que daré su teléfono para que si algunos colegas si lo desean lo llamen y dio su conformidad. La información inicial es correcta; creo que en la interpretación al traducirse el primer informe capaz no se entendió bien "Pregunto cuando reinician sus trasmisiones... me responden: que ellos no lo podían precisar, que dependía de la jefatura de la radio, que no tienen fecha del re lanzamiento.", buena suerte con la captación de esta radio. (tnx Ralph Perry). NOTA: 4880.00 PERÚ, R. JPJ, Lima, ACTUALMENTE ESTA ESTACIÓN ESTA INACTIVA EN LA ONDA CORTA: El 2/03 0045 logré comunicarme con el doctor Jesús Parraga (JPJ) y me informó que sufrió un engaño con la antena y posteriormente sufrió robo de los cables de comunicación; solo se quedó con la antena para los 4880 (ver foto que me pasó de la antena en el cerro Tinaja), que dentro de poco estará iniciando nuevamente la estación. Muchos 128´s PFA, -- Vivo en una casa muy pequeña, pero, sus ventanas se abren hacia un mundo muy grande (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Chasqui DX March 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Now all other Peruvian logs restart in frequency, then chrono order: ** PERU. 3329.5, Perú, Ondas del Huallaga, Huánuco, 1005 to 1030 using the notch on the R7, OM chat, difficult signal in Florida. Alas there every day same time. 15 March (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, Sixty meter dipole, MW Antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) March 17, 1118, 3330, Ondas del Huallaga, Huánuco, 22232. Surprised to hear Peruvian under, sometimes over CHU at Peruvian sunrise. Very hard to measure frequency, but think it is about 110 Hz low based on visible audio heterodyne spike. March 19, 0933, 3329.62, Ondas del Huallaga (assumed) under CHU 3330: Station is reported to begin broadcasting at 0930, so I began monitoring about 40 minutes prior to that. 0933 watched the carrier come online as the transmitter was switched on 3329.62 weak and no audio discernible. 3329.610 at 0945, still no readable copy but signal growing stronger. 3329.583 at 0958 and still no copy. 1004 began to detect some audio. 3329.581 at 1026 with barely discernable flute music. 3329.574 at 1110. Since sunrise is similar for both sites now, I suspect in a month or so an ID might be possible as Canadian sunrise gains on Peru (Mike Gilchrist, Disruptive Technologist Advanced Wireless Express P.O. Box 255 Toledo, IA 52342 Mike's Weekly Column http://www.tamatoledonews.com/page/category.detail/nav/5001/Local-Columns.html WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4789.9, Perú, Radio Visión, Chiclayo, 0650 March 18 (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Flórida, Drake R7, 60 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4789, R Visión, Chiclayo, still scheduled 24 h at http://www.visionradioperu.com/radio.php (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window March 20 via DXLD) That`s the player, nothing about schedule on that page. Looking elsewhere on the site, I don`t see anything explicit about the SW being 24h, altho its Cadena has a block schedule from 3 am to 3 am: http://www.visionradioperu.com/programacion.php BTW, the E.I.R.L. abbr in its corporate name means: Empresas Individuales de Responsabilidad Limitada (Individual Limited Liability Corporations = LLC (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4810.00, Radio Logos, 1100-1115 March 15, Noted a male and female presenting news and comments in Spanish Language. Heard mentions of "Lima" during the news segment. Signal started out as a poor, but quickly faded to threshold as the minutes passed by (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston FL, NRD545, 26N 081W, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4810, Perú, Radio Logos, Chazuta, Tarapoto, 0915-0920 March 18, time check ".. cinco y .. minutos" (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Flórida, Drake R7, 60 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4826.5, Perú, Radio Sicuani, Sicuani, Cusco, 0845 with om chat, first Peruvian as usual 16 March. 4826.5, Perú, Radio Sicuani, Sicuani, Cusco, 0230 to 0245 March 18 (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Flórida, Drake R7, 60 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4940, R. San Antonio (a ID soou diferente), Villa Atalaya, 2339-2353, 14/3, castelhano, canções, infos. horárias, progr. de propag. relig.; 45433. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, March 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4939.9, Perú, Radio San Antonio de Atalaya, 0000 to 0100 great signal with locutor con la identificación twice, excellent music and good steady signal with the R7 here. Music was fantastic (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, Sixty meter dipole, MW Antenna; and XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A -E-5, via Wilkner, WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) date? Circa 16 march (gh) ** PERU. The Mission ”Chaski” --- A new station in South America is always a challenging DX-target. When I got the information that a new Peruvian on 5980 was heard by TN in January I did some IQ-recordings with my SDR-IQ at home where the local man made noise is pretty bad. I did got something which I first thought to be the Brazilian on the frequency. Later on I was told it was not active now, so this could have been R Chaski as well. I heard some speech before 23 UT. Unfortunately I deleted the Iq recording later on. In February I did some recordings around 2230-2300 and indeed there was a religious “bible reading” programme which later on was identified to be a daily (Mon-Fri) Bible programme of the station. And finally when I realized to make a recording at about 01 UT the closing announcement of the station was heard. Best signals noted at my home- QTH (as well at my rural QTH) on March 5th when the whole closing ceremony with the ID (with a religious hymn also known in Finland) and some speech & music until the c/d 0107. Later in March it seems the station has done something to the closing ceremonies (or the clock) as it seems to be closing down around 0100…0101 and it is audible not so long. The IQ-analysis in March shows the carriers of the stations on the channels: Chaski starting the evening transmissions after 22 UT (sometimes around 2210-2215, later on around 22 which is 17 [local]); after 2300 BBC until 2400 and after 00 usually CRI (and another carrier) and finally after 01 R Chaski a while until the close down. A picture of the analysis below (on March 4-5) and thanks to Bruce Maddux of the organization behind the station a picture of the transmitter and a view of Urubamba from the antennas of the station. IQ-analysis (Tarmo Kontro, Finland, SW Bulletin March 17 via DXLD) Senaste uppgifter om sändningstiderna är 0500-1000 och 1700-2000 lokal tid. = 1000-1500 och 2200-0100 UT. Detta stämmer väl bättre med din fade in observation. 0100 stämmer också med din sign off tid. Detta förklarar också driften på som syns vid 2200 på din IQ analys. /TN Latest information about broadcast times are 0500-1000 and 1700-2000 local time. = 1000-1500 and 2200-0100 UT. This corresponds much better with your fade in observation. 0100 also corresponds with your sign off time. This also explains the drift at sign on visible at 2200 on your IQ analysis. / TN (Thomas Nilsson translated, Sweden, SW Bulletin March 17 via DXLD) 5980.02, R Chaski, Urubamba (tentative), 2250-2300, Mar 12, Spanish talk, 25131. From *2300 QRM from BBC World Service in English (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window March 20 via DXLD) See also UNIDENTIFIED 5980.0, March 15 at 0058, ``inspirational`` music, no CNR1 jamming QRM any more by this time, and the Cubans relent too; continues past 0100, then the usual sounder at 0100:30, but cut off the air at 0100:48* which is four seconds later than last night, from R. Chaski, Urubamba, Cuzco. As usual, signal is improving marginally when they turn it off. 5980, March 16 at 0046, music audible, maybe mixing with something, splash from 5990 CUBA. Retune at 0100 as 5990 is going off, too poor to copy much on 5980, but with BFO I time the R. Chaski cutoff tonight at 0100:52* which is 4 sex later than last night. [and non]. 5980, March 17 at 0057, mishmash of noise partly from 5990 CRI CUBA splash, which again runs slightly past 0100 as it`s misopening in English. Meanwhile at 0059, 5980 is hit by a big open carrier with some clix; at least it dampens the noise level and I can hear the Chaski music better under it; I suspect it is Greenville-B tuning up for the 0700 R. Martí broadcast way early. I`ve never heard anything like this before around my 0100 monitoring. Fortunately this too goes off at 0100 uncovering the Chaski hymn; 0100:40, usual sounder, and cut off the air at 0100:57* = 5 sex later than last night. The geostorms might have enhanced S American reception, but instead it`s subnormal: At 0057 March 18, not much on 60m, can`t even hear BOLIVIA on 5952+, and JBA on 6135-, boding ill for today`s Chaski- check: 5980, March 18 at 0057, I do still get a carrier, and Cuba 5990 is off by 0059, so I can copy the instant that R. Chaski turns itself off: 0101:03* which amounts to an unusual 6 sex later than last night. 5980, March 19 at 0059.5*, CubaRM from 5990 CRI relay goes off, but band still so noisy that I can only resort to BFO to time the cutoff of R. Chaski carrier from 5980: 0101:07.5* which is 4.5 seconds later than last night. 5980, March 20 at 0100, with Cuba 5990 barely off in time, there is still far too much noise on the band to copy anything but the R. Chaski carrier with BFO, timing its cutoff now at 0101:12* which is 4.5 sex later than last night (these semi-second readings are just an estimate, i.e. somewhere between 1-second steps on my digital watch, as corrected each time compared to WWV). (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 15190, March 16 at 1750, R. Pilipinas in Tagalog, good with no het, no sign of R. Africa or Inconfidência; 1814 check she is mixing in English phrases and words (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 11870, March 16 at 2248 RRI Spanish probably mailbag but strangely mentioning Steven Handler as a listener in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) We are sorry to announce that Radio Romania International will be leaving the World Radio Network at the end of March. If you would like to contact Radio Romania International, you can email them here: eng @ rri.ro http://www.wrn.org/ (WRN Newsletter 15 March 2013 via Mike Terry, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DXLD) Something more to this than RRI just leaving WRN? SW cuts coming? The Romanian government has had its share of budget headaches recently, so can't help but wonder if a familiar story is playing out here (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It is unfortunate; I enjoy listening to WRN over my iphone when I'm going to work. Radio Romania has been talking about their future in the past few years; no decision has been taken, but I feel there is some kind of tension on the staff of Radio Romania when they talk about it. I guess they are slowly seeing it coming. That's why we have to keep sending our letters and emails, to let them know we are listening. 73 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, ibid.) We'll find out in the last moment, I suppose. :( (Georgi Bancov, Bulgaria, ibid.) Two points: They're not the first ones who leave WRN. Here the question is what will become of the concept of the shared satellite channels. I know about opinions that WRN Deutsch is meanwhile not appealing anymore. On the other hand Radio Romania International probably still exists only because Romanian politics since last year completely got lost in scandal and corruption. There already was a bill about closing Radio Romania International. It sparked a controversy, but only about keeping compatriots abroad informed. Nobody cared about programs in foreign languages anymore (Kai Ludwig, March 20, ibid.) However RRI still have a very extensive shortwave schedule for next season starting 31st March (Alan Pennington, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) RADIO ROMANIA INTERNATIONAL A-13 From March 31st RRI will broadcast on new SW frequencies. Please check them out: UTC Frequencies (kHz) Area 0000–0100 9700, 11955 USA (East Coast) 0300–0400 7350, 9645 USA (West Coast) 0300–0400 15340, 17830 INDIA 0530–0600 9700, 11875 DRM WESTERN EUROPE 0530–0600 17760, 21500 AUSTRALIA 1100–1200 15210, 17510 WESTERN EUROPE 1100–1200 15430, 17670 SOUTH-EAST AFRICA 1700–1800 9535 DRM, 11740 WESTERN EUROPE 2030–2100 9800 DRM, 11975 WESTERN EUROPE 2030–2100 11745, 13800 USA (East Coast) 2200–2300 7430, 9540 WESTERN EUROPE 2200–2300 9790, 11940 JAPAN RRI DIGITAL RRI’s English morning programme airing at 0530 UT is transmitted simultaneously to Western Europe in the DRM system on 11875 kHz and in analogue system on 9700 kHz. Our English language show to Western Europe airing at 1700 hours UTC Summer Time [sic] is transmitted simultaneously by RADIOCOM in DRM (Digital 2 Radio Mondiale) system on 9535 kHz and in analogue system on 11740 kHz. RRI’s English programme airing at 2030 UT is transmitted simultaneously to Western Europe in DRM on 9800 kHz and in analogue system on 11975 kHz. (via Radio Romania International News Letter No. 62) 73 (Prithwiraj Purkayastha, Jorhat, Assam, India, March 15, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DXLD) ROMANIA A-13 SCHEDULE OF RADIO ROMANIA INTERNATIONAL: ARABIC 0630-0656 9770GAL 11790GAL 15400TIG 17575TIG 1400-1456 9830TIG 11945GAL 15160GAL 17800TIG AROMANIAN 1430-1456 ^5910SAF, not Macedonian 1630-1656 ^5910SAF, not Macedonian 1830-1856 ^5910SAF, not Macedonian CHINESE 0400-0426 17780TIG *21540TIG 1300-1326 15435TIG 17860TIG ENGLISH 0000-0056 9700TIG 11955TIG 0300-0356 7350TIG 9645TIG *15340GAL 17830GAL 0530-0556 9700GAL *11875TIG 17760GAL 21500TIG 1100-1156 15210TIG 15430GAL 17510TIG 17670GAL 1700-1756 *9535TIG 11740TIG 2030-2056 *9800GAL 11745TIG 11975GAL 13800TIG 2200-2256 7430GAL 9540GAL 9790TIG 11940TIG FRENCH 0100-0156 9700TIG 11955TIG 0500-0526 9700GAL *11830GAL 15340TIG 17770TIG 1000-1056 15240GAL 15380TIG 17785TIG 17795GAL 1600-1656 9810TIG 11950TIG 2000-2026 *9800GAL 11975GAL GERMAN 0600-0626 *7435TIG 9700TIG 1200-1256 9675GAL 11875GAL 1800-1856 *5920TIG 7425TIG ITALIAN 1400-1426 ^9800SAF 1600-1626 ^5910SAF 1800-1826 *^5910SAF ROMANIAN 0000-0156 7335GAL 9525GAL 0400-0456 7350GAL 9770GAL 0700-0756 13750TIG 15260GAL 15760TIG 17720GAL "Curierul romanesc" Sun 0800-0856 13750TIG 15450GAL 15700TIG 17860GAL "Curierul romanesc" Sun 0900-0956 15240GAL 15380TIG 17600TIG 17860GAL "Curierul romanesc" Sun 1200-1256 ^9410SAF-100kW 13820TIG 15135TIG 1300-1356 11700GAL 15135GAL 1500-1556 11910GAL 15130GAL 1600-1656 * 7315GAL 9810GAL 1700-1756 9500GAL 11975GAL 1800-1856 9500GAL 11975GAL 1900-1956 9500GAL 11975GAL RUSSIAN 0430-0456 *7390TIG 9800TIG 1330-1356 13640TIG 15160TIG 1500-1556 9690TIG *11620TIG SERBIAN 1530-1556 ^5910SAF 1730-1756 ^5910SAF 1930-1956 ^5910SAF SPANISH 0200-0256 9520GAL 9645TIG 11945GAL 11955TIG 1900-1956 9665TIG 11795TIG 2100-2156 15300TIG 17745TIG 2300-2356 9655GAL 9740TIG 11795GAL 11955TIG UKRAINIAN 1500-1526 ^5910SAF 1700-1726 ^5910SAF 1900-1926 ^5910SAF ^ Saftica 100 kW, all other Galbeni and Tiganesti 300 kW. * DRM via Saftica 100 kW; Galbeni or Tiganesti 300 kW. IRRS relays - former A-12 / B-12 schedules - updated - though ... ARABIC to Sudan 1300-1500 daily 15190TIG 1500-1515 Fri 15190TIG 1500-1530 Sun 15190TIG 1500-1700 Sat 17770TIG [the 17770 was Brother Scare in SC English, long gone --- gh] ENGLISH 0800-0815 Wed 11910TIG 0800-0900 Sat 9510SAF 0930-1200 Sun 9510SAF 1730-1800 Sun 7290SAF 1800-1900 Fr-Su 7290SAF (RRI-RRO schedule; IRRS Milano-Italy broker schedule via Radiocom facilities at Saftica and Tiganesti; via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 15, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Members, This has just come through Mediumwave Info originally as an entry on WRTH's Facebook site. I hope that it is fully reliable since I do not want to spread inaccurate rumours! `All R. Mayak LW/MW transmitters except Kyzyl 828 kHz and Makhachkala 918 kHz are expected to close on 14th March. Mayak will continue on lower FM band (66-74 MHz) in Moscow and 51 other centres and on higher FM band (87.5-108 MHz) as previously.` The closures will presumably take place over the many midnights tonight across Russia. Could Mauno and others with access to remote receivers able to monitor this dramatic development please watch frequencies such as 549, Pedaselga 765 and Volgograd 810 to see if this actually takes place over the next 24 hours. I am not sure where Nicholas Hardyman has himself found out this news from. The report goes directly against the view of many experts who expected a slow and partial shutdown. 73's and 88's (Dan Goldfarb, March 14, mwmasts yg via DXLD) Hi Dan, IIRC, you have listened at least to my remote receiver yourself? I can confirm that 549 kHz is off now. 765 kHz is R Rossii. 73, (Mauno Ritola, WRTH, ibid.) It's really happened. On a number of forums listeners from all over the country report the absence of Mayak on medium waves (Aleksandr Diadischev, Ukraine, March 14, ibid.) Members, I am grateful for the chance to "jump onto" Mauno's SDR receiver for a quick check after Alexandr's confirmation. There are still a number of Radio Rossii stations on low frequencies but otherwise less Russian stations are on MW today. The reach of Deutschlandfunk 549 eastwards will be dramatically improved at night. A sad day indeed. 73's and 88's (Dan Goldfarb, England, ibid.) "LIGHTHOUSE" OFF THE AIR OUTSIDE OF THE MAJOR CITIES. March 14 radio station "Mayak" stopped broadcasting on the bands longwave, medium- and ultra-short waves across Russia. On it informs RIA Novosti quoted a source close to the management of the "Russian teleradiotranslyatsionnoy network" (RTRS). Broadcast of "Mayak" on medium wave continues in only two cities, Makhachkala, and Kyzyl, in the UHF range - in Moscow and Sochi. As a result, the station will be available only in them and 54 other cities, where RTR transmits "Mayak" through its FM-transmitters. Because of the low power FM and VHF transmitters to hear the "Lighthouse" will be available only in cities. The use of medium and long waves allows radio stations to broadcast almost the entire country, including remote villages and roads between cities. As has found out RIA Novosti, March 13 RTRS has sent a circular to its branches, which says to stop broadcasting "Mayak" from 6 am on March 14. In RTR agency confirmed the rejection of broadcasting on the frequency. With the proposal to revise the decision to leave "Lighthouse" with long and medium waves in February, the Minister of communication Nikolai Nikiforov. He emphasized that due to the cessation of broadcasting "Mayak" and "Voice of Russia" RTRS, providing the network, would wipe half a billion rubles. This, in turn, would force the company to disable some of their transmitters used including the state needs. That RTR decided to stop broadcasting "Mayak" in the long and medium waves, it was reported in November 2012. Previously, the newspaper "Izvestia" reported that the station had left the specified ranges from 1 Jan 2013. (Published on 15 March 2013 city - OnAir.ru, via RUSdx March 16 via BC-DX March 19 via DXLD) Lighthouse will remain only on FM, exception - 2 NE frequency (Dagestan, Tuva), and VHF in 52 cities, where still no FM broadcasting, unless nothing has changed in the last moment - an hour from us, it will be possible to check 198 and 549 kHz (Mikhail Timofeev-RUSSUA, "open_dx" via RUSdx March 17 via BC-DX March 19 via DXLD) Radiostation MAYAK --- From 06.00 14.03.2013 radiostation Mayak stopped broadcasting in St. Petersburg and Leningrad region, remains in the the work of only one frequency - 107 MHz (LRTVPTs, St. Petersburg). At 2100 UT, finally and irrevocably gone from the airwaves our transmitter RV-855 to 549 kHz (Krasnoy Bor), as well as Olga district RV-53 (198 kHz). (Mikhail Timofeyev, Saint-Petersburg, Russia / “open_dx” via RusDX via DXLD) «Mayak» stopped broadcasting outside of major cities --- on March 14, the radio station «Mayak» has stopped broadcasting on the long, medium and ultra-short waves on the whole territory of Russia. On it informs RIA Novosti news Agency referring to a source close to the management of «the Russian tv-radio radio broadcast network» (RTRS). Broadcast «Mayak» on medium waves will remain only in the two cities, the city of Makhachkala and Kyzyl, and in the VHF-band - in Moscow and Sochi. As a result, the radio station will be available only in them, and still 54 cities, where VGTRK transmits a signal of «Mayak» with the help of their FM transmitters. Because of the low power FM and VHF transmitters to hear the «Mayak» will be available only in cities. The use of medium and long waves allowed radio stations broadcast practically on the whole territory of the country, including remote village and the road between the settlements. As it turned out RIA Novosti news Agency, on March 13, the company sent its affiliates circular, which refers to the termination of broadcasting of the «Lighthouse» from 6 o'clock in the morning on March 14. In VGTRK the Agency confirmed the refusal to broadcast on these frequencies. With a proposal to reconsider the decision on the care of the «Mayak» with the long and medium waves in February was made by the Minister for communications Nikolai Nikiforov. He stressed that, due to the cessation of the broadcasting of the «Mayak» and «Voice of Russia» RTRS, providing the work of the network, meaning one and a half billion rubles. This, in turn, will force the company to disable a part of their transmitters used in including in state needs. That VGTRK decided to stop broadcasting of the «Lighthouse» in the long and medium waves, it became known in November 2012. Earlier the newspaper «Izvestiya» reported that the radio has gone from the specified ranges from 1 January 2013. lenta.ru (OnAir.ru, ibid.) Radiostation Mayak will remain only on FM, the exception - 2 MW frequency (Dagestan and Tyva), as well as VHF in 52 cities, where there is as yet no FM broadcasting, if only nothing has changed in the last moment - an hour at us it is possible to check the (198 and 549 kHz)... (Mikhail Timofeev, Saint-Petersburg, Russia / “open_dx”, ibid.) Kyzyl 828 kHz, Makhackala 918 kHz. http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=521193861252285&id=208899345815073 (Alexander Diadischev, Ukraine / “open_dx”, ibid.) Confirm that the Novosibirsk transmitter "Mayak" on the MW 576 kHz is also stopped. Broadcast "Mayak" in Novosibirsk continues on the frequencies of VHF 69.26 MHz and FM 100.0 MHz, with the inclusions. Apparently, the "Mayak" has completely gone from the middle and long waves (Igor Yaremenko, Novosibirsk, Russia / “deneb-radio-dx” via Rus DX 17 March via DXLD) [Summarised on WORLD OF RADIO 1661] ** RUSSIA. 5930 and weaker // 5940, March 15 at 1241, jazz piano, then string bass, R. Rossii, Pet/Kam and Magadan respectively, now both in the clear with 5935 WWCR off an hour earlier for DST, and the Russians close at 1300. Also // 7320 Pet/Kam, better than both at 1250 with jazz drumming. No time or frequency changes for these are expected in A-13, but our earlier summer sunrises`ll get`em. 7320, March 17 at 0621, undermodulated YL in Russian, i.e. R. Rossii, which as Ron Howard reminds me, is not via Pet/Kam as in my recent report, but via Magadan [not ``Okhotsk`` as in HFCC disinfo]. 5930, March 20 at 1250, folk song in English, announcement in Russian, fair signal from R. Rossii, Pet/Kam. It`s normally // but weaker on Magadan 5940, but there is only a JBA carrier. Does being somewhat further north make all the difference? Then check other Magadan channel 7320 and it`s a bit better, // but not synch with 5930. All of them go off at 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [non]. 4960.07, VOR via Dushanbe-TJK, 1413, March 17. In English; // 6235 also via Dushanbe-TJK and // 7260 VOR via Vladivostok (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 9740drm mode. HELP, Armavir DRM label searched ... QRT at 0646 UT March 19 (Wolfgang Büschel, March 19, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DXLD) Uebrigens die technischen DRM Daten um 0646 UT waren nicht so gut: "Label Service 0 aac Mono", 1156 kbps EEP, SNR 5.5dB, 9.8 kHz bandwidth. Help DRM Armavir, hat ein Mitleser die DRM Labelangaben aus Armavir Krasnodar zur Hand? Ich bin zu faul den AOR7030 an den DREAM anzustecken, oder die SDR console ueber VAC anzudocken. Joerg Klingenfuss sandte mir heute frueh einen Screenshot von 9740 kHz um 0646 UT March 16. Subject: Re: 9740 kHz QRT 0646 UT. Hi Joerg, im Sommer ist das eine 'DRM Testfrequenz' von VOR/RRS Moskau aus Koenigsberg [KALININGRAD][ und/oder Armavir Krasnodar. Das kann ein Test sein, ob die PC DRM Encodierung und auch die SWR standing wave ratio Antennen-Anpassung spielt, im Hinblick auf die kuenftige Nutzung im 31 meterband in der A-13 Saison. Musst mal die technischen DRM Parameter checken, mit den Registrierungen on air ARM Armavir registriert in B-12 7300 1600 1900 27,28 ARM 30 284 N=DRM RUS VOR GFC 9790 0800 1400 29NW ARM 30 327 N=DRM RUS RRS GFC ARM Armavir registriert in A-13 6160 1500-2100 29NW ARM 30 327 206 1234567 N Test RUS RRS GFC 6200 2100-1500 29NW ARM 30 327 206 1234567 N Test RUS RRS GFC 7370 1700-0500 29NW ARM 30 327 206 1234567 N Test RUS RRS GFC 7430 0500-1700 29NW ARM 30 327 206 1234567 N Test RUS RRS GFC 9740 0200-1700 29NW ARM 30 327 206 1234567 N Test RUS RRS GFC 9820 1700-0200 29NW ARM 30 327 206 1234567 N Test RUS RRS GFC (Wolfgang Büschel, March 19, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DXLD) Re: 9740 kHz QRT 0646 UT. Habe gerade mal die von Dir genannten Frequenzen durchprobiert: Absolut nichts. Auf 9625 habe ich gerade ein Bomben-DRM-Signal mit zwei Programmen, SNR 32 bis 33 dB: Label "DRM RUVR 3A", V of Russia in English, 12.58 kbps, Mono, ID: 3EB Label "DRM RUVR 3B", V of Russia in Russisch, 8.38 kbps, Mono, ID: 3F6 (Tschuess, Martin DD9MW A-DX March 19 via Büschel, ibid.) 1200-1300 English 9625 DRM ch#1A Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 15 EUR Russian (GR) 9625 DRM ch#1B Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 15 EUR 1300-1400 English 9625 DRM ch#1A Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 15 EUR Hindi 7315 DRM ch#2A Irkutsk 15 AS Russian (GR) 9625 DRM ch#1B Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 15 EUR 1400-1500 Urdu 7315 DRM ch#2A Irkutsk 15 AS (Wolfgang Büschel, March 19, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [and non]. 6115, March 20 at 1259, VOR IS, then Chinese. Listed 11-14, 250 kW, 152 degrees from Irkutsk. No jamming audible, nor have there been any reports of the ChiCom jamming Russia, why not? For old times` sake. 12075, March 30 at 1331 after `News in Brief`, VOR with `Folk Box`, which I gather is about the Sami in extreme northern European Russia, and their neat music. Fair at best with heavy flutter impeding comprehension. Whenever I hear such a tantalizing signal from VOR, my resentment surges against their abandoning North America. HFCC shows 12075, 12-15, 500 kW, 155 degrees from Dushanbe, TAJIKISTAN, and in this case is probably not disinformation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RWANDA. 6055, March 17 at 0256, heavy self-imposed echo on enthusiastic unknown language talk, presumably RRR which has been widely reported in NAm at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RWANDA. 15275, March 16 at 1825, DW Hausa good signal but another squealy transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SARAWAK [non]. 11600, March 15 at 1255, conversation in presumed Iban, but at 1256.5 one of them mentions Radio Free Sarawak. Modulation cut at 1256.9 after another ``Radio Free ---``, and carrier off a few sex later. At London(?) studio they still haven`t figured out that transmission must end 3 minutes early on SW. Ivo Ivanov points out that the MBR schedule now shows the site as Trincomalee, SRI LANKA, as he figured. Also, HFCC as of March 12 reveals: 11600 1100 1258 54 TRM 125 105 15 217 1234567 100213 300313 D 13700 CLN WRN MBR 20117 A.borma 11600 1200 1230 54 TRM 250 105 15 217 6 080213 080213 D 13700 CLN WRN MBR 20118 Z.borma Apparently the 8 Feb one was a test. Who are these Bormas? Will Malaysia protest to Sri Lanka? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 9555, March 15 at 2148, ME pop music, good signal, sounds quite secular, i.e. BSKSA General program I, 500 kW, 295 degrees from Riyadh at 1755-2257 per Aoki. 11815, March 16 at 2250, BSKSA Qur`an good with reverb, // weaker 11915. The Word of God is so much more appealing if you can`t understand it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Winter B-12 SW schedule of BSKSA Radio Riyadh: 0300-0555 on 15170 RIY 500 kW / 355 deg to WeAs Arabic Holy Qura'n 0300-0755 on 17895 RIY 500 kW / 040 deg to CeAs Arabic Holy Qura'n 0300-0955 on 9715vRIY ??? unregistered to N/ME Arabic Holy Qura'n 0400-0655 on 15285 RIY 500 kW / 190 deg to CSAf Swahili 0600-0855 on 15380 RIY 500 kW / 310 deg to N/ME Arabic Holy Qura'n 0600-0855 on 17730 RIY 500 kW / 295 deg to NEAf Arabic General Program 0600-0855 on 17740 RIY 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic General Program 0800-0955 on 17785 RIY 500 kW / 270 deg to WCAf French 0900-1155 on 11935 RIY 500 kW / 310 deg to N/ME Arabic Holy Qura'n 0900-1155 on 15490 RIY 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic General Program 0900-1155 on 17570 RIY 500 kW / 070 deg to SEAs Arabic Holy Qura'n 0900-1155 on 17615 RIY 500 kW / 100 deg to SEAs Arabic Holy Qura'n 0900-1155 on 17805 RIY 500 kW / 295 deg to NEAf Arabic General Program 0900-1155 on 21670 RIY 500 kW / 100 deg to SEAs Indonesian 0930-1225 on 15250 RIY 500 kW / 250 deg to WCAf English 1200-1355 on 15380 RIY 500 kW / 310 deg to N/ME Arabic Holy Qura'n 1200-1355 on 17625 RIY 500 kW / 100 deg to SEAs Arabic Holy Qura'n 1200-1455 on 13775 RIY 500 kW / 070 deg to SoAs Urdu 1200-1455 on 15120 RIY 500 kW / 070 deg to SoAs Bengali 1200-1455 on 17705 RIY 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic General Program 1200-1455 on 17895 RIY 500 kW / 295 deg to NEAf Arabic Holy Qura'n 1200-1455 on 21505 RIY 500 kW / 295 deg to NEAf Arabic General Program 1300-1555 on 17615 RIY 500 kW / 190 deg to CSAf Arabic Holy Qura'n 1400-1555 on 17660 RIY 500 kW / 270 deg to WCAf French 1500-1700 on 15225 RIY 500 kW / 295 deg to NEAf Arabic "Call of Islam" 1500-1700 on 15435 RIY 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic "Call of Islam" 1500-1755 on 7240 RIY 500 kW / 040 deg to WeAs Farsi 1500-1755 on 9885 RIY 500 kW / 040 deg to CeAs Turkmen/Uzbek/Tajik 1500-1755 on 13710 RIY 500 kW / 295 deg to NEAf Arabic Holy Qura'n 1600-1755 on 15205 RIY 500 kW / 320 deg to WeEu Arabic Holy Qura'n 1600-1755 on 17560 RIY 500 kW / 270 deg to WCAf Arabic Holy Qura'n 1700-1755 on 15225 RIY 500 kW / 295 deg to NEAf Arabic General Program 1700-1755 on 15435 RIY 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic General Program 1800-2055 on 9675 RIY 500 kW / 340 deg to N/ME Turkish 1800-2255 on 9555 RIY 500 kW / 295 deg to NEAf Arabic General Program 1800-2255 on 9870 RIY 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic General Program 1800-2255 on 11820 RIY 500 kW / 320 deg to WeEu Arabic Holy Qura'n 1800-2255 on 11915 RIY 500 kW / 295 deg to NEAf Arabic Holy Qura'n 1800-2255 on 11930 RIY 500 kW / 270 deg to WCAf Arabic Holy Qura'n (DX RE MIX NEWS #772 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 18, 2013, via DXLD) Re Qura'n - see LANGUAGE LESSONS ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5019.9, SIBC, 0910-0930 with Havana powered down 16 March (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, Sixty meter dipole, MW Antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5019.88, SIBC, Honiara. 0735 March 17, 2013. Soft vocals, weak but in there via LSB to partially avoid 5025 Rebelde (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ- 180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. 7120, Radio Hargeisa at 0340 GMT heard at an excellent level with talks in presumed Somali. 3/16/13 (Bob Brossel, Pewaukee WI, JRC NRD-545, Eton E1, Sony ICF SW-77, Grundig S450 DLX, CCrane SW and Tecsun PL -600, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) 7120, R. Hargeisa, Mar 17 1850-1900*, 35333, Somali, Talk, ID at 1855 and 1858, 1858 Closing music, 1900 sign off. 7120, R. Hargeisa, Mar 18 1850-1900*, 34333-35333, Somali, Talk, ID at 1850 and 1858 and 1859, 1859 Closing music, 1900 sign off (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, 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) ** SOUTH AFRICA. BBC WS relay, 6190 Meyerton. Mar 19, 2013, Tuesday. 1755-1810. Went off-air at 1800 for a 4 minute transmitter change. I was about to report they had gone off-air early, but they came back at 1804 for end of the news, and into “World Have Your Say”. Good. Jo'burg sunset 1620. Regards, (Bill Bingham, RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sentech seems to have problems with getting transmitters up on time. I've noticed many BBCWS transmissions from Meyerton often start several minutes late (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, Mar 19, ibid.) 15480, March 16 at 2100, BaBcoCk fill music loop but badly skipping every few sex until mercifully cut off late at 2101:50*. This appended to the AWR Arabic bihour via Meyerton. BTW, HFCC does not show BAB in the FMO column for this transmission, but there it was. And Harold Frodge, MI, reported this was in non-Arabic March 2 before 2001 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. B-12 SW schedule of Channel Africa: 0300-0355 on 3345 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg to SoAf English Mon-Fri 0300-0355 on 6155 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg to ECAf English Mon-Fri 0400-0700 on 7230 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg to SoAf English Mon-Fri 0600-0655 on 15255 MEY 250 kW / 328 deg to WeAf English Mon-Fri 0700-1200 on 9625 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg to SoAf English Mon-Fri 1200-1300 on 9625 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg to SoAf Nyanja Mon-Fri 1300-1400 on 9625 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg to SoAf Lozi Mon-Fri 1400-1500 on 9625 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg to SoAf Portuguese Mon-Fri 1500-1600 on 9625 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg to SoAf English Mon-Fri 1500-1555 on 17770 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg to ECAf Swahili Mon-Fri 1600-1655 on 15235 MEY 250 kW / 340 deg to WeAf French Mon-Fri 1700-1755 on 15235 MEY 250 kW / 340 deg to WeAf English Mon-Fri (DX RE MIX NEWS #772 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 18, 2013, via DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. B-12 SW schedule of SA Radio League: 0800-0900 on 7205 MEY 100 kW / non-dir to SoAf English Sun 0800-0900 on 17760 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg to EaAf English Sun 1630-1730 on 4895 MEY 100 kW / non-dir to SoAf English Mon B-12 SW schedule of Radio Sonder Grense: 0500-0700 on 7285 MEY 100 kW / 275 deg to SoAf Afrikaans 0700-1800 on 9650 MEY 100 kW / 275 deg to SoAf Afrikaans 1800-0500 on 3320 MEY 100 kW / 275 deg to SoAf Afrikaans (DX RE MIX NEWS #772 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 18, 2013, via DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Crisis at the SABC --- Hi all, Looks like years of drama about political interference at the SABC might be entering (yet another) new phase. SABC SHAMBLES: AND THEN THERE WERE NONE In an utterly farcical day’s proceedings, the board of the SABC was dissolved and the process to appoint an interim board begun. The individuals who will sit on this temporary body cannot be envied: what Tuesday’s events made clear was just how chaotic dynamics have become among the state broadcaster’s top leadership, and in particular their relationship with Communications Minister Dina Pule. By REBECCA DAVIS. http://emma.thedailymaverick.co.za/servlet/link/3890/229496/32116434/1346360 PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE ANNOUNCES INTERIM SABC BOARD 19 Mar 2013 19:21 - Andisiwe Makinana Parliament has disbanded the board following weeks of upheaval at the broadcaster and a slew of resignations over the past two weeks. Our Coverage Parliament committee expected to dissolve SABC board Six more resignations from SABC board Dina Pule's furious letter to SABC board The acrimonious relationship between the South African Broadcasting Corporation board and Communications Minister Dina Pule played itself out in Parliament a few minutes before the parliamentary committee dissolved the SABC board on Tuesday. An interim board made up of five members was appointed although the opposition didn’t support the appointment of this interim. The acting board will be chaired by Ellen Zandile Tshabalala. Other members are Noluthando Gosa who resigned from the board early this week, former ANC MPL Vusumuzi Mavuso, economist Iraj Abedian and Ronnie Lubisi. . . http://newsletters2.mg.co.za/servlet/link/6026/229002/6505046/1346575 Regards, (via Bill Bingham, RSA, March 20, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9370, March 18 at 1348 and still 1402, open carrier/dead air from WWRB instead of Brother Scare, quite an improvement. However, until attenuated, could hear a weak BS on 9370, which was cross-modulation from super-signal of 9980 WWCR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Updated B-12 Brother Stair TOM from March 10: 0000-0300 on 7490 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English Sun-Thu [sic*] 0000-1300 on 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 0100-0300 on 7490 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English Fri [sic*] 0300-1200 on 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to NEAm English Mon-Fri 0400-0500 on 9955 RMI 050 kW / 160 deg to Cuba English Sun/Mon 0400-1100 on 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to NEAm English Sat/Sun 0500-1200 on 9955 RMI 050 kW / 160 deg to Cuba English Mon-Sat 0600-1100 on 9955 RMI 050 kW / 160 deg to Cuba English Sun 1200-2000 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to NEAm English Mon-Fri 1300-1400 on 15370 TRM 250 kW / 060 deg to SEAs English 1300-1400 on 9955 RMI 050 kW / 160 deg to Cuba English 1300-2400 on 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 1400-1500 on 15420 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English Sat 1400-1600 on 9460 WER 100 kW / non-dir to WeEu English 1400-1700 on 9700 SOF 050 kW / 126 deg to N/ME English 1400-1600 on 13810 WER 100 kW / 120 deg to N&ME English 1400-2200 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to NEAm English Sat/Sun 1500-1600 on 9955 RMI 050 kW / 160 deg to Cuba English Sat 1500-2400 on 9955 RMI 050 kW / 160 deg to Cuba English Mon-Fri 1600-1700 on 15420 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English Sat 1700-2000 on 9955 RMI 050 kW / 160 deg to Cuba English Sun 1700-2200 on 9955 RMI 050 kW / 160 deg to Cuba English Sat 1800-2100 on 11650 SOF 050 kW / 090 deg to SoAs English 1800-2100 on 11685 SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to ECAf English 2000-2300 on 7400 SOF 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English 2100-2300 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to NEAm English Mon-Fri (DX RE MIX NEWS #772 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 18, 2013, via DXLD) *UT days are Mon-Fri 00-03, Sat 01-03 (gh, DXLD) ** SPAIN. FORMULARIO DE PARTICIPACIÓN RADIO EXTERIOR DE ESPAÑA Hola, Ante la queja de lo que está pasando en REE, la defensora del oyente me contesta el correo (que mando más abajo) en el que reproduce lo que le dice REE, que hace caso omiso a mi queja --- increíble ¡esto es España, señores! Por cierto, las preguntas/quejas a la defensora apenas te dejan escribir texto, por lo que te obliga a resumir mucho. Un saludo (Pedro Sedano, Madrid, España, noticias dx yg via DXLD) Viz: From: DEFENSORA DEL ESPECTADOR Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 12:06 PM To: Pedro Sedano Ruano Subject: Re: Formulario de participación Radio Exterior de Espaa Estimado señor Sedano: Gracias por dirigirse a la defensora con su escrito sobre la emisiones en onda corta de Radio Exterior. Como el asunto queda fuera de las atribuciones de la defensora, hemos trasladado su queja a la dirección de la cadena para que conozca su opinión y la valore adecuadamente. Según nos ha explicado el director de REE, Juan Carlos Roldán, “la emisión diaria para Europa es de 8 horas diarias en DRM, de lunes a domingo, de 06,00 a 14,00 horas: los sábados, en onda corta analógica de 17,00 a 24 horas, y los domingos, en onda corta analógica, de 16,00 a 24 horas. En el caso de América del Norte, la emisión de lunes a domingos es de 01,00 a 03,00 horas por DRM y de 00,00 a 06,00 horas por onda corta analógica. Además, también para América del Norte, emitimos la señal en francés e inglés de 00,00 a 02,00 horas de lunes a domingos, y en onda corta analógica los domingos de 20,00 a 24,00 horas”. Apreciamos el interés que demuestra en nuestras emisiones y la confianza depositada en nosotros. Reciba un cordial saludo, Oficina de la defensora. --- he replies on the form: De: Pedro Sedano Ruano Para: defensora@rtve.es Fecha: 15/02/2013 19:15 Asunto: Formulario de participación Radio Exterior de Espaa ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - Asunto RNE Programa Radio Exterior de España Fecha y hora de emisión 24 horas al día Escribe aquí tu queja o sugerencia Estimada Sra. Las emisiones de REE por OC para Europa y América de norte han cesado y solamente se hacen en DRM. Este cierre no debería producirse ya que esas emisiones son una medio para difundir la cultura y el pensamiento de España en el mundo. Además, estas transmisiones en español son, para millones de personas, el contacto con su lengua materna y el acceso a una información veraz, rápida y sencilla al día a día del país. La onda corta, en este momento, no tiene competidor alguno. Y por ello no debemos rescindir ese vínculo directo hacia cualquier geografía y en cualquier idioma. Le ruego, por tanto, traslade mi queja a la persona, u órgano, responsable de tomar la decisión de limitar o cortar las transmisiones de REE en onda corta. Un cordial saludo. Datos personales Nombre Pedro Apellidos Sedano Ruano Sexo Masculino Edad 55 Correo electrónico psedano@ono.com Localidad Madrid Provincia Madrid Envía tu videopregunta a 'RTVE Responde' Archivos enviados --- No ha enviado ningún fichero adjunto Corporación RTVE - http://www.rtve.es (via Pedro Sedano, March 14, noticiasdx yg via DXLD) ** SPAIN [and non]. 11625, Saturday March 16 at 2159, REE IS, 2200 joining music // 15125 Costa Rica, about 6 sex ahead of it. Didn`t realize REE was on 11625; Aoki shows Sat & Sun only at 22-23 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also NIGERIA ** SRI LANKA [and non]. TRIBUTE TO EKALA Adventist World Radio - News Release The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation has announced that they plan to close their historic shortwave station located at Ekala, a dozen miles north of Colombo in Sri Lanka. In view of the close association of Adventist World Radio with SLBC and their Ekala shortwave station over a long period of time beginning back in 1951, we are planning to honor the occasion with a special edition of the AWR DX program Wavescan, under the title "Tribute to Ekala". We plan to broadcast this special edition of Wavescan under the old title from around 40 years ago, "Radio Monitors International". At this stage, the closure date for SLBC Ekala is not yet finally confirmed, though it is our intent to place this special program on the air in the regular scheduling of Wavescan to co-incide with their last week on the air. SLBC plans to transfer their shortwave planning to the ex-Deutsche Welle station located near Trincomalee on the east coast of the island. A special one time only QSL card will be prepared, based on the early QSL cards issued in Poona, India for the broadcasts from AWR-Asia and Radio Monitors International. All reception reports for this one particular edition of Wavescan-Radio Monitors International will be verified with this special card, and the reception reports can be for any of the broadcasts of this program over any station that carries the program. Postal mail reception reports are preferred, with return postage, though in some cases email reports will be verified. The only address for this special QSL card "Tribute to Ekala", is:- Adventist World Radio Box 29235 Indianapolis Indiana 46229 USA Wavescan Scheduling: A13 Period, March 31, - October 26, 2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Day UT Call kHz kW Station Location Country ------------------------------------------------------------------ Sun 1030 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA 1530 AWR 15335 250 Media Broadcast Nauen Germany 1600 KSDA 15360 100 Adventist World Radio Agat Guam 1600 KSDA 15670 100 Adventist World Radio Agat Guam 2230 KSDA 15320 100 Adventist World Radio Agat Guam 2330 KSDA 17650 100 Adventist World Radio Agat Guam Mon 1100 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA Wed MN00 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA 1100 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA 2000 WINB 13570 50 World International Red Lion Pennsylvania USA [NO, WINB time has already shifted to 1900 as confirmed March 20 – gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1661] Thu 0300 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA Fri 0315 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA Sat 1100 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA 1300 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA 1530 WWCR2 12160 100 Worldwide Christian Nashville Tennessee USA 2230 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA Internet Stream AWR.org WRMI.net WWCR.com WINB.com Telephone Feed WINB at 1 415 655 0846 (Dr. Adrian M. Peterson, Co-ordinator - International Relations & DX Editor, Adventist World Radio, N9GWY - Ex KA9YPQ, Board of Directors NASB National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters USA Radio Heritage New Zealand Board of Directors Emeritus - Adventist World Radio wavescan @ awr.org adrian.m.peterson @ gmail.com Adventist World Radio Box 29235 Indianapolis Indiana 46229 USA 317 891 8540 March 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. 11940, March 15 at 0520, ME pop music with fair signal, I noted, but it`s really R. Dabanga, 250 kW, 325 degrees from MADAGASCAR at 0429-0557, following R. Tamazuj at 0400, per Aoki; while HFCC merely shows the parent organization PNW. I had not noticed this before, since // 7315 from VATICAN has been so loud & clear all winter. 7315, March 18 at 0552, R. Dabanga music, back tonight with usual incredibly good signal from VATICAN, way over here in deep North America, after dead air and then even no carrier last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. 9940, 16/Mar 0308, BULGARIA (Relay), Miraya FM in English. OM talk. At 0309 music. At 0311 ID, then YL talk. Very weak signal with buzz at the reception. No buzz in SDR, Twente. At 0315 African music. 23332 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, Degen 1103 - All listening in mode of filter Narrow the 3 kHz. Dipole antenna, 16 meters - east/west Escutas (listening, my blog): http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006 dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9940, March 20 at 0552, no signal from Miraya FM via BULGARIA (not imaginary ``Simferopol, Ukraine`` as in HFCC) contrary to previous nights, and since nearby Egypt 9905, Greece 9420, and even Turkey 9700 with a more northerly path to here than Sofia are well audible, it`s hard to believe Spaceline Kostinbrod is even on the air. Meanwhile the Sudanese and we can hear the inbooming R. Dabanga via Vatican on 7315 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SURINAME. 4990 R.Apintie (p), Paramaribo, 2239-..., 17/3, canções; 14331, QRM adj. de sinal de emissora de ponto a ponto. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, March 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4990, R. Apintie, Paramaribo, 0814-0835 March 19; M announcer in listed Dutch; ballads & talk thru BoH; weak but clear (Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [non]. Keith Perron writes on Facebook: This week on Media Network +: Paulette is back from the land of Don Ho. The future of the former Radio Netherlands relay in Madagascar. Kim Andrew Elliott from the Voice of America joins us to talk about the new VOA Radiogram program. We will also broadcast a short radiogram in the show. So try to decode it and you will get a small gift. And Dan Hensley will as always tell us what we can expect from propagation for the next seven days (via MIke Terry, March 16, dxldyg via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. 9970, SHO xi wang zhi sheng 0016, 453, YL // 18250, R. SHO xi wang zhi sheng, 0017, 252 om/yl/px/ mandarim (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brazil, 19 March, RECPTOR TECSUN PL 660 ANTENNA LONG WAY 7 METERS, http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11500, 16/Mar 2130, SOH in Chinese. OM and YL talk. Weak signal with good modulation. No signal from firedrake (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, Degen 1103 - All listening in mode of filter Narrow the 3 kHz. Dipole antenna, 16 meters - east/west. Escutas (listening, my blog): http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006 dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAJIKISTAN. 7245, 20/Mar 0218, TADJIKISTAN, R Tajik in Tajik. Tajik music. At 0220 OM and YL talk. At 0222 QRM from ham radio. 34333 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, Degen 1103 - All listening in mode of filter Narrow the 3 kHz. Dipole antenna, 16 meters - east/west, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TATARSTAN [non]. RUSSIA. B-12 schedule of Tatarstan Wave with new transmitter sites: 0410-0500 on 11895 NVS 250 kW / 085 deg to FERu Tatar/Russian, ex SAM 0610-0700 on 9410 NVS 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tatar/Russian, ex SAM 0810-0900 on 11610 ARM 100 kW / 327 deg to WeEu Tatar/Russian, ex SAM (DX RE MIX NEWS #772 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 18, 2013, via DXLD) Novosibirsk, Armavir, Samara ** TIBET [non]. New B-12 schedule of Voice of Tibet as of March 16: 1200-1230 on 11527 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese [Dushanbe] 1230-1245 NF 15503 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15502 1245-1305 on 15512 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1300-1330 on 11527 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1305-1330 NF 15513 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15518 1330-1340 NF 15602 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 7557 1330-1345 NF 15518 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 11517 1340-1400 NF 15603 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 7547 1345-1405 NF 15517 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 11517 1405-1430 NF 15523 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 11527 1400-1430 on 15400 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan [Madagascar] 1430-1500 on 17535 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1530-1600 on 15485 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, March 16, Equipment: Sony ICF- 2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TUNISIA. 7275, March 15 at 0536, IWT is missing; normally comes on a few minutes before 0400; didn`t stay up to check whether 7335 would come on around 0600. Hope it`s not another sudden SW closedown. What about 17735, scheduled 1600-2010? Yes, it`s there, fair signal at 1732 March 15. Don`t you believe HFCC, where the confused Carthaginians keep registering their times one hour later than reality. I urged Jeff White to get them to correct this in Tunis where they hosted HFCC again for A-13, but am not counting on any such implementation. 7275 & 7335, March 16 at 0609, both frequencies are missing! What has happened to IWT? I did still hear 17735 yesterday afternoon. Need to check out the complete former(?) schedule, per WRTH 2013: 0300-0510 12005 17735 0400-0625 7275 0600-0810 7335 1600-2000 12005 1600-2010 17735 1700-2110 7225 1900-2310 7345 That reminds me, I was also not hearing 7345 late in the day March 15. These times are rounded off, usually starting a few minutes before and maybe lasting a few minutes after. 17735, March 16 at 1738, IWT is still active here, fair signal in Arabic, except I could swear the announcer mentioned ``primero de agosto``, i.e. Spanish for August 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, I believe I am hearing Tunisia on 7225, although no ID heard. IWT Tunisia, 7225 Sfax. Mar 16, 2013 Saturday. 1820-1840. Arabic, OM's talking. At 1822 Arabic (Tunisian?) music and song, right through BOH. Followed by OM and YL talking, then another Arabic song from 1839. No ID heard, but I'm fairly confident it`s Tunisia. Fair signal but much atmospheric QRN. Jo'burg sunset 1623. Regards, (Bill Bingham, RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) At 1905 UT all three on air, very powerful signal as usual. 1600-2010 17735 1700-2110 7225 1900-2310 7345 > 1600-2000 12005 seems end at 1900 UT ? 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, March 16 Frequency 12005 disappeared from the air in August 2012. A12 sked: 0200-0610 on 12005 SFA 500 kW / 100 deg to N/ME Arabic RT Tunisia 1600-2010 on 12005 SFA 500 kW / 100 deg to N/ME Arabic RT Tunisia (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) Same here at 1930 UT, all three channels very strong 7225 +70dB / 0dBm 7345 +60dB / -5dBm 17735 +50dB / -20dBm 73 (Tony Molloy, UK, ibid.) 7345, 16/Mar 2115, RTV Tunisia in Arabic. OM talk. Moderate QRM from CRI on 7350. 43443 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, Degen 1103 - All listening in mode of filter Narrow the 3 kHz. Dipole antenna, 16 meters - east/west Escutas (listening, my blog): http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006 dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7275 from IWT still absent, March 17 at 0513, 0523, 0622, and 7335 also missing at the latter time after it should have started just before 0600. Occasionally before, IWT has put its evening frequencies on by mistake in the morning, but nothing from it either now on 7225 or 7345. Wolfgang Büschel in Germany agrees the 7 MHz are missing in the mornings, but he and others still hear it later in the day on 17735, 7345, 7225, but not 12005, which Ivo Ivanov says has been off the air since August altho still in the schedule references. BTW, in absence of IWT on 7275, I am not hearing anything from Nigeria, which was always weak and very undermodulated. 7275, March 18 at 0552, IWT is still AWOL. 7275, March 19 at 0539, IWT still missing from morning broadcast. It`s about time to suspend these non-logs, hoping for a revival which will then be newsworthy. Sad, as this and 7335 from 0600 had been a favorite source for our slumber serenading (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Maybe could be a break in transmission, due of unexpected antenna or main power connection maintenance replacement? 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, BC-DX March 19 via DXLD) ** TURKEY. Domenica 10 marzo 2013, 1008 - 13128-Usb. TURK R. ISTAMBUL, EE, wx OM (not PC). BN-SF (Luca Botto Fiora, G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, playdxyg via DXLD) ** TURKEY. 6000, Voice of Turkey, Emirler. 0150 March 16, 2013. English Service of Radio Havana Cuba suddenly took a big power hit at 0150, allowing Turkey to come in nicely with traditional Turkish vocals under Cuba. VoT listed as 0100-0300 to Central Asia in the WRTVH-2013 (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 17755, March 20 at 1327, VOT IS and English ID, raising hopes that once again the Emirler engineer will forget to change frequency following this German service, and audiblize English on the band it should be using at 1330 --- dashed, as soon cut off the air. 12035, March 20 at 1329, VOT IS is JBA, and there seems to be CCI from something else talking; nothing but timesignal copiable from VOT at 1330. Yes, HFCC shows the collisions: NHK Bengali via Singapore at 1300-1345 since 15 Jan, and also BBC Bengali via Singapore at 14-15, but only on Sundays and Tuesdays, since 18 November, why? Both these came up after start of B-12 season, ignoring Turkey, presumably no collisions predicted in target areas. In A-13, as usual VOT goes back to 15450 for English an hour earlier at 1230 on 310 degree beam for Europe, and this will carry on to N America somewhat better than 12035, but they should still be on 16 meters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UGANDA. 4976, R. Uganda, Kampala, 2254-2317, 14/3, inglês, conversa e música, música pop' africana; 35332; melhor em 15/3, pelas 1850. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, March 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Very late for that to be on, special event? (gh, DXLD) ** U K. Re: BBC A13 vs B12, ``The main casualties are English and, especially, Arabic`` --- Actually Arabic was supposed to go off shortwave altogether. I assume the remaining transmissions will be no general programming anymore but something special, meant for a defined target area. As said: The details behind these dry figures will be interesting (Kai Ludwig, March 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I seem to recall that previous announcements about BBC Arabic said that Arabic to Sudan would continue on SW. 73s (Dave Kenny, UK, ibid.) 5875 0300-0400 47E,48NW WOF 250 140 Arabic G 6005 1800-1830 48 DHA 250 215 Somali UAE 9410 1800-1830 48 MEY 250 32 Somali AFS 11820 0300-0400 47E,48NW WOF 300 137 Arabic G 11820 0400-0500 47E,48NW WOF 300 137 Arabic G 11845 1800-1830 48 MEY 100 30 Somali AFS 11995 0400-0430 48 ASC 250 85 Somali G 15420 1300-1500 48 SEY 250 285 Somali SEY 15480 1700-2000 47E,48NW DHA 250 255 Arabic UAE 15480 2000-2100 47E,48NW SLA 250 260 Arabic OMA 15490 0400-0430 48 MDC 250 000 Somali MDG 15530 1100-1130 48 DHA 250 205 Somali UAE 17780 1100-1130 48 SEY 250 295 Somali SEY 17830 1300-1500 48 SEY 250 295 Somali SEY 17830 1400-1600 48 MEY 250 32 Somali AFS Sat only {Premier League?} 17880 0500-0700 47E,48NW SLA 250 260 Arabic OMA 21470 1300-1500 48 DHA 250 225 Somali UAE 21470 1500-1600 48 ASC 250 85 Somali G Sat only (via Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** U K [and non]. BBCWS English into NA for A-13 --- Going to be much tougher to hear BBCWS on SW in NA. The relatively easy to hear frequencies from Ascension and Meyerton have been cut back to after midnight local time in eastern/central NA, but the are some midday options still around. Looks like best chances are: 0000 on 15335, 15755, 17685 0500 on 5875, 6005, 7355 0600 on 5875, 6005, 7355, 9410, 12095 0700 on 11770, 12095, 13660 1000-1400 on 9740 1200 also on 5875, 11750 1600 on 17640, 17830 1700-2100 on 15400 1700 also on 17795, 17830 Refer to the HFCC site for transmitter locations. Other time and frequencies are unlikely in NA due to unfavorable frequency usage, but there might be a few surprises in store (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, March 18, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. "AM RADIO ON THE WAY OUT IN THE UK" Southgate March 16, 2013 http://www.southgatearc.org/news/march2013/am_radio_on_the_way_out_in_the_uk.htm UK Government reports indicate an intention to abandon AM broadcast radio for emergency communications and to phase-out AM broadcasting from 2016. The report Impact of a Radio Switchover on the Government’s Emergency Communications Policy says: The coverage of AM services are near universal across the UK, delivered by a small number of transmitters which could more easily be restored in the in the event of a national disaster. However, while AM services are universally available, the number of households which both have access to and choose to access such services is on the decline. ... The declining value of the AM platform is best displayed in the case of the National Attack Warning System (NAWS). The use of the BBC Radio 4 LW frequency to broadcast emergency information nationally in the case of a nuclear attack or similar disaster was formalised through the NAWS arrangements between the BBC and the Cabinet Office. However, as a result of the limitations of this system in the present day, from the falling numbers of LW receivers in homes, to the delay incurred from having to restore transmitters following an attack, the Cabinet Office has since cancelled their NAWS arrangements with the BBC. ... While a radio switchover will result in the closure of AM services, which had historically been important to the Government’s protocols in this area, the diminishing value of this platform means it is increasingly less relevant as a universal communication platform. Impact of a Radio Switchover on the Government’s Emergency Communications Policy https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/136351/Emergency_Communications_1_.pdf A separate paper Switchover Communications Plan indicates that the radio switchover will commence in 2016. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/136359/Switchover_Communications_plan.pdf Digital Radio Action Plan reports 2013 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/digital-radio-action-plan-reports-2013 (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) This is not Government policy just Departmental reports, the dates in the report are estimated or indicative. Ofcom has stated that they will be advertising AM Community licences later this year and have been renewing current AM licences until 31 December 2019 using the digital rollover clauses. Nor does digital switchover apply to small scale commercial and community radio licences anyway, they will stay on analogue and more will be available. There will be the option for AM community licences to transfer over to FM if they wish to. The Government says it will be announcing "a direction of travel" at the end of this year. Any date for switchover will only be considered once various criteria are met (Mike Barraclough, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. Information on how to decode the text transmissions from VOA Radiogram, The Mighty KBC, WRMI, etc., is now available at http://VOARadiogram.net See also kimandrewelliott.com, 15 Mar 2013: http://kimelli.nfshost.com/index.php?id=14179 (Kim Elliott, March 15, dxldyg via DXLD) The new VOA Radiogramm with Kim Andrew Elliott on March 16: 1600-1630 on 17860 GB 080 kW / 045 deg to WeEu VOA Radiogramm Sat Good and clear reception in Sofia, Bulgaria. SINPO: 45544 - 45444. -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Shux, if it`s that good, might as well be AM only (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 17860, Saturday March 16 at 1559, open carrier, 1600 ethereal electronic music, Kim Elliott with the first `VOA Radiogram` experimental broadcast, with lots of examples of digital text as he explains it all. Surprisingly, reception was less than solid, which he will no doubt rationalize as additional proof of how robust these modes are. Off at 1630 after some music fill. This is HFCC-registered as 80 kW, 45 degrees from Greenville. Is it some old standby transmitter which won`t run more than that, or deliberately QRP? The northeastward beam is also historic, as Greenville hasn`t aimed anything at Europe for more than a decade. Details at http://voaradiogram.net Repeats of this semihour ``soft launch`` are UT Sunday: 0230 on 5745, 1300 on 6095, 1930 on 15670. The lower frequencies are on 190 degree beam, the higher ones on 45 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) A huge 9+20 dB signal here in Germany on 17860 kHz AM from 1600 till 1630 UT. Also a huge interfering signal (hf radar?) towards the end of the broadcast, ending shortly after VOA. A coincidence or part of the test? 73 (Harald Kuhl, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Mighty KBC March 17, 2013, 0000 UT results --- As I previously wrote, a ute on 7373 was causing QRM and I beleive causing audio distortion to the Mighty KBC during the 0000-0200 UT broadcast on 7375 kHz. I believe the ute QRM is clearly heard at 0143 UT when Eric is giving "This Day in History" information. Here is an audio clip. misc.kg4lac.com\2013-3-17-MightyKBC-7375kHz-0143UTC.wav Even with the ute QRM, Mighty KBC SIO is 444. Results of digital text modes. 100% with 0130 UTC MSFK64 centered on 2000 Hz, 0159 UTC MT63-1000 long interleave centered on 1000 Hz and the image 0159 UTC MSFK32 centered on 2500 Hz wasn't too bad. [sic, to show errors as received, except spaces condensed --- gh] **************************************************** 2013-3-17 0130 UTC PSKR250 centered on 1000 Hz Hello Eric and shortwave listexd PtoddSxe week we transmitted MFSK64 centered on 1000 Hertz, and PSKR250 on 2000 Hertz. Most of you had more success decoding the MFSK64. Buh¥ iGre? evo p=iSuxfrequ:cy? t©Nsfi»nd out by flipU;ImbexKR250 is now transmitting on 1000 Hz, and MFSK64 on 2000 Hz. Thanks to... +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ `sHd |T|H|E| |M|I|G|H|T|Y| |K|B|C| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ **************************************************** 2013-3-17 0130 UTC MSFK64 centered on 2000 Hz Hello Eric and shortwave listeners. Last week we transmitted MFSK64 centered on 1000 Hertz, and PSKR250 on 2000 Hertz. Most of you had more success decoding the MFSK64. But was it the mode, or the audio frequency? Let's find out by flipping the modes. PSKR250 is now transmitting on 1000 Hz, and MFSK64 on 2000 Hz. Thanks to... +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |T|H|E| |M|I|G|H|T|Y| |K|B|C| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ **************************************************** 2013-3-17 0159 UTC MT63-1000 long interleave centered on 1000 Hz ... start [WRAP:beg][WRAP:lf][WRAP:fn KBC_170313_0200.b2s]1.1.29 :hdr_fm:21 KD9XB 20131303093418 :hdr_ed:21 KD9XB 20131303093418 :mg:285

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[WRAP:chksum B7CE][WRAP:end] ... end see webpage here misc.kg4lac.com\2013-3-17-MightyKBC-7375kHz-0159UTC-MT63-1000.htm **************************************************** 2013-3-17 0159 UTC MSFK32 centered on 2500 Hz Sending Pic:330x40C; Image of "We Want What You Want" slogan. see image here http://misc.kg4lac.com\2013-3-17-MightyKBC-7375kHz-0159UTC-MSFK32.jpg 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America, dxldyg via DX LISTENNING DIGEST) I was able to receive the 0230 broadcast on 5745 this evening in Seattle. Going from memory, I was able to decode most of the BPSK31 QPSK31/63/125 and PSK63F using the Multipsk software. I was also able to decode BPSK31 and QPSK31/63 with TrueTTY and BPSK/QPSK31 with MixW. None of the programs I used supported the nigher speeds that were used during the latter part of the broadcast. FLDIGI gave me an error message when I tried using it. Signal strength was good, with the carrier about 50 db above the noise floor. The messages were received somewhat clearly, but I had occasional dropouts due to signal fluctuations. There was some local electrical noise present during the voice portions of the broadcast, but I'm not sure what effect they may have had on the digital portions of the broadcast (Bruce Portzer, UT March 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tuned in tonight to hear Kim Andrew Elliott's Radiogram feature on the VOA from the Greenville transmitter site *0227-0300* (March 17). The transmission began with an open carrier until music at 0230 when the Radiogram program started with Kim hosting. He talked about digital transmission modes and software. Also, various digital transmission modes used by amateurs were broadcast. A male announcer gave the e- mail address as radiogram @ voanews.com. Good signal. It will be interesting to see what kind of feedback Kim gets from listeners trying to decode the transmissions. 73, (Rich D`Angelo, PA, NASWA yg via DXLD) The third airplay of VOA Radiogram is coming soon, at 1300, on 6095. Another, directed to Europe, will be at 1930 on 15670. Thanks to the many listeners throughout Europe, North America, and even in Asia, who have sent reports, audio, screenshots, spectrum displays, etc. After the last transmission today, I will summarize the results at http://voaradiogram.net WRMI, Radio Miami International, 9955, is transmitting IDs in the Olivia 8-1000 mode until 0400 UTC Monday (midnight EDT). These are centered on 1300 and 2500 Hz. Don`t be discouraged by the low signal level of WRMI, or by the Cuban jamming on the frequency. You might get a good decode of Olivia 8-1000 anyway (Kim, March 17, dxldyg via DXLD) Had a chance to listen to the broadcast. Unfortunately, unless testing for what doesn't work, I'd say the test was a bust. From 1600 to 1619 UT, SIO 353. Did not get 100% on any of the digital mode tests. From 1619 UT, SIO 311 with severe QRM from 17860 thru 17875. Here is an image of the QRM. http://misc.kg4lac.com\2013-3-16-VOARadioGram-QRM-from-17860-past-17875-1626UTC.jpg Test 5. The VOA Radiogram website indicates BPSK63 at 2000 Hz. Kim says BPSK125 at 2000 Hz. Test 6. The VOA Radiogram website indicates PSKR1000 1500 Hz. Kim says 1700 Hz. Test 7. The VOA Radiogram website indicates BPSK500 2200 Hz. Kim says 2600 Hz. Here are my results . . [detailed copies with all the errors] (Kraig Krist, VA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Well, we learn from our "busts." I had similar problems in yesterday's 1600 and 0230 broadcasts. Today at 1300, however, I had near 100% copy, including actual 100% copy with the super fast PSKR500 and PSKR1000 modes. Frequency was 6095. I think using SignaLink as my receive soundcard this time helped. Below is the Flmasg-formatted VOA news item. A 50-year-old transmitter in Greenville caused this new window to pop up on my browser (the hyperlinks, by the way, work): [image of perfect copy of VOA News story, ``NASA Satellite System to Get Upgrade``] More robust modes, and one-mode-at-a-time, in future weekends should help improve performance (Kim Elliott, ibid.) Kraig and others, Not to say some folks didn't have success, but I thought many of the modes worked remarkably well! All things considered, AM (if audible to the point of being comfortable to listen to) delivered some of the PSK type data modes quite well. That being said, I myself am more a fan of the MFSK and OFDM modes. I anticipate when VOA Radiogram moves into these (often slower but providing more frequency and time diversity) we will see even better copy. Dr. Elliott has a vision here that will pay dividends. HF data modes have proven themselves worldwide for hams, maritime, military and other utilities for many years, requiring specialized receivers and hardware. With the advent of free software and the ubiquity of off-the-shelf AM SW receivers, VOA Radiogram's time is now. Look at it this way, these signals may not be printable by everybody everywhere, but many copied with good to excellent print in all corners of the globe. With the tests on KBC, WBCQ, WRMI and now VOA, undoubtedly Dr. Elliott is getting closer to knowing what works where. For crazy, anorak radio enthusiasts, these tests are a dream come true. I look forward to more experimenting with the ultimate goal of textual news delivery where situations prohibit or impede Internet traffic. Maybe I'm biased, but I love this stuff! Viva la digital! (Christopher / K6FIB / "Fibber" , ibid.) Tried for the 1930 to 2000 broadcast on 15670. Unfortunately, couldn't hear anything at all digital, so switched to AM and could hear weak music at 1957 onwards, with the carrier cutting off at exactly 2000. So was I supposed to be listening in USB, LSB, RTTY or what to decode? My MixW failed to decode anything (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, ibid.) The digital segments were short except one, which was five minutes. AM worked fine yesterday for fldigi here. Just listen to announcements to check the mode and centre frequency. Probably you also had some auroral attenuation today in the signal? Right now here the most spectacular aurora borealis that I have seen in this QTH (13 years)! (Mauno Ritola, Joensuu, Finland, ibid.) Fair reception of 15670 here in Houston during the 1930 transmission March 17, but much weaker than other 19 meter Greenville frequencies around the same time. I'm currently not set up to receive the text, but wanted to check the transmission anyway (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, ibid.) As far as the IDs are concerned, through 0103 UT nothing has made it through the Cuban jamming on 9955. This afternoon's 1930 broadcast came through very nicely with only a few dropped words on only one mode. Otherwise, perfect (John Figliozzi, Sarasota, FL, Eton E1-XM using internal antenna, Sent from my iPad, ibid.) Vejam a minha recepção do VOA Radiogram aqui: http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/voa.htm 73 de (Roland, PY4ZBZ, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Tony, Thanks for your report. The VOA Radiogram of March 23 and 24 will again feature PSK modes, but only one mode will be transmitted at a time. This will increase the signal-to-noise ratio and should improve decoding performance. If the decoding this weekend is not satisfactory, we will include other, more robust modes in future programs, including MFSK on March 30 and 31. More information at http://voaradiogram.net Many listeners in Europe and North America heard interfering noise during the Saturday 1600-1630 UT broadcast. This may have been over- the-horizon radar. For the QSL card, please allow us a few weeks to have them printed (Kim Andrew Elliott, VOA Radiogram, March 20, to and via Tony Ashar, Indonesia, DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. 15620, March 16 at 1353, Horn of Africa music, 1355 M&W mentioning Washington, 1359 VOA theme, standard sign-off ``This program has come to you from Voice of America, Washington``. Following immediately without a beat, ``Jesus Saves`` IS from FEBC, 1400 gamelan and opening in Indonesish. The signals so perfectly matched in reception and in timing that one would have believed they emanated from the same relay transmitter, but no, not at all! Aoki and HFCC show what really happens: 1300-1400, VOA Somali, 100 kW, 10 degrees from BOTSWANA 1400-1430, FEBC Javanese, 100 kW, 200 degrees from Bocaue, PHILIPPINES I expect the latter carries on well to Somalia as well as to Oklahoma. There was also a squishy het on the lo side from the WEWN 15610 spur circa 15619, but fortunately only a weak signal from that so far. 17655, March 16 at 1741, rock song in English, VG signal from VOA Greenville, Portuguese to Africa backward. Also splattering roughly 17590-17680; main victim RFI on 17620. 15570, March 19 at 1958, good & steady open carrier, but cuts off around 1959.5. Then on 15580 there is same open carrier mixing with VOA English to Africa; shortly the previous 15580 carrier goes off and modulation starts on the new one. Here`s what happened: scheduled at 2000 is handover from Botswana to Greenville for one hour only, `African Beat`. GB was warming up 10 kHz away and then jumped to 15580 for a crash-start as BOT dropped- carrier-immediately. Mutual QRM was thus mostly avoided except for a brief overlap. This is not always the case with the far-too-frequent site changes IBB schedules (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12000, WEWN, 2352, 454, YL/entrevista Spanish (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brazil, 19 March, RECPTOR TECSUN PL 660 ANTENNA LONG WAY 7 METERS, http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) No, 12000 is VOA; WEWN is on 12050 (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1660 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 via WBCQ, 5110v-CUSB, UT Saturday March 16 starting just after 0131. Saturday 1500 on WRMI 9955: checked at 1510, only two JBA carriers on slightly different frequencies and maybe a bit of jamming. The other one would be IBB Tibetan via Tinian, and/or the ChiCom jamming which that surely attracts. Next: Saturday 1730 on WRN via SiriusXM 120; UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW 5830. All are one UT hour earlier than last week, so we may pretend they are at the ``same`` local time after DST imposition. WORLD OF RADIO 1661: first SW airing to be Thursday March 21 at 2100+ on WTWW-1 9479. Then: UT Friday 0330v on WWRB 3195 (and maybe 5050?); UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB; Saturday 1500 on WRMI 9955; Saturday 1730 on WRN via SiriusXM 120; UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW-1 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9930, March 16 at 2206, WTWW-2 is on, guy talking about how shortwave radio worx, but not Ted. Says he is in Pinetown(??), Mexico (or did he say Pie Town, New Mexico? I bet that`s it, uncomfortably close to Fence Lake. He said ``good luck finding it on a map``), being SW broadcast from Murfreesboro [sic], Tennessee. But this is just a prologue to a monologue for an hour about religion. I couldn`t listen straight thru and figure out where he is really coming from, but we`re in trouble with paganism, even the Lutherans don`t follow the scriptures, which are not the Word of God --- only Jesus is, per him. Still going at 2300 about Job; hour must have started a bit late, as music comes up, and he is wrapping, ``bye bye till next week``, with no name or program name, geez. 2303 ID and `Moments of Inspiration` starts, to be 15 minutes, its address a P O Box in Ballinger TX, recorded at KRUN 1400. 2317.5 dead air; 2318.5 start country gospel music with ``When you can`t find a friend, you`ve still got the radio``, segué to another. As for quality, when I tuned in at 2206, the 9930 transmission had a really heavy wobble, worst I`ve heard it yet, with BFO, but also audible on the modulation without BFO. By 2317.5 I notice that the carrier is now stable. At the outset there was also a noise/spur field out to 9955 and 9905, but not bothering BBC 9915. Don`t know how long 9930 stayed on, but not followed by 5085 later this evening UT March 17 at 0052 --- neither of them on. Maybe one or both will be on Sunday/UT Monday. 9930, Sunday March 17 at 2144, WTWW-2 is on again this afternoon like Saturday, music, distorted, wobble on carrier, with main spur circa 9905, but also traced on 9860, 9800, 9740, i.e. approx. 60-kHz intervals, and probably on 9955 under the jamming. It seems this transmitter needs a settling-in period, as by 2236 the spurs had relented, tho still some buzz around 9905. At 2237, it`s the same guy as yesterday, even tho he said then, ``back next week``, with one long monolog, at the moment about seat belts. Maybe today he will outro with some ID: yes, at 2258, show has been `The Red Letter Edition Rewind`, (which alludes to certain versions of the Bible which print alleged words of JC himself in red, altho he certainly spoke no English), http://www.thinkredink.com and ``back tomorrow``, he now says. Indeed website leads to addresses in Pie Town, New Mexico, which, yes, got its name originally as a source of pies. He`s modest about proclaiming his name on the air, Don Harris. Website indicates he`s quite a character with his bus and remote lifestyle. 2259 into another same show as yesterday, 15-minute `Moments of Inspiration`. By next check 0026 UT Monday March 18, WTWW-2 has switched to 5085 (probably at 0000), despite assumption be DX Re Mix News March 11 that the QSY would be at 2300. Now it`s Ted Randall taking musical requests. Again distorted modulation with ripple/wobble on the carrier. At 0052 I also find the recurrent spurs circa 12.5 kHz above and below 5085 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9930 & 5085, Monday March 18 at 2324 check, both WTWW-2 frequencies are off, altho they were on Saturday and Sunday + UT Monday. I checked too late to tell whether red-ink guy Don Harris` promise to be back ``tomorrow`` was fulfilled before 2300 but doubt it. 12105, March 20 at 1403, despite strong signal from WTWW with dramatized Bible stories in Russian, overridden briefly by ``running water`` utility (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7490-AM, March 16 around 0050, WBCQ with `Allan Weiner Worldwide`, in full double sideband AM. Misinformation is circulating that this frequency is upper sideband reduced-carrier, or full carrier upper-sideband only. No, it sounds like full AM, and switching between LSB and USB on the DX-398 confirms that is exactly what it is as usual. Anyone could tell this if they bothered to listen to 7490. The other WBCQ frequencies are all reduced carrier USB, sometimes with a bit of LSB bleed, and slightly off-frequency. WBCQ likes to call it ``compatible USB``, meaning there`s enough carrier so you don`t need a BFO, which is very debatable. `AWWW` may be live, but as usual not synchronized, several sex apart on the // 5110v and 9330v, even tho the transmitters must be next to each other, a neat trick. 7489.967, Tentative WBCQ, The Planet, in English, S=7 only at 0322 UT March 19. Feature about wine market in Eurozone (Wolfgang Büschel, March 19, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DXLD) So 33 Hz low ** U S A. 5050-AM, March 16 at 2314, WWRB is active today, some preacher; usually runs // 3215 or 3195, but none of the 3 MHz channels audible this early. At 0053 March 17 medical discussion with hum; 0104 big band music fill on both 5050 and 3195. At 0249 both with distorted piano hymn (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3185, WWRB The Overcomer Ministry, 2358, 353 music gospel/om 3215, WWRB The Overcomer Ministry, 2359, 252 om // (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brazil, 19 March, RECPTOR TECSUN PL 660 ANTENNA LONG WAY 7 METERS, http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Overcomer is the only programming ever on 3185, and is not normally on the other WWRB frequency, 3215 (which changes to 3195 at 0100 when WWCR starts 3215) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7506.54, March 17 at 0057, WRNO is on a few minutes early if presumably still nominal 01-04 UT only. 7506.72, March 18 at 0104, WRNO VG signal as local YL asks for reports, into `Hour of Decision` with Billy Graham. My previous measurement found WRNO even higher than usual, so I count the clix again on the DX-398, coming up with this. 7506.38, March 20 at 0109 is the closest I can measure WRNO this time, during gospel huxter with lite buzz, as it continues to transmit far beyond the legal FCC frequency tolerance from 7505.000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7506.420, WRNO New Orleans proper signal of S=9+20dB at 0318 UT March 19. Report feature from India in heavily subcontinental accented English. About producing "Original Ideas" and agriculture market and poor people bank houses (Wolfgang Büschel, March 19, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DXLD) Probably DW programming segment (gh) ** U S A. 5890, March 15 at 0526, WWCR-4 is back here with Brother Scare, so last night`s 7520 instead was an anomaly. 15825, March 19 at 1940, WWCR is JBA, while 15610 WEWN is very good along with its spurs. The two are almost the same one-megameter distance in somewhat different direxions. Suspect WWCR-1 is way under- powered below 100 kW. Do customers get a discount by the appropriate percentage? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 6175, March 15 at 0528 tune-in to V. of the Martyrs ad, persecution.com, WHRI ID, cut to dead air at 0529 and off the air at 0530.5* This is the relay of V. of Vietnam`s Vietnamese hour (but with lessons for English speakers) which must have just ended circa 0527, and instead of playing BaBcoCk fill music loop as used to be standard via Sackville, WHRI cut to its own programming! HFCC has duplicate registrations for this from 0430: BaBcoCk says until 0528, FCC says until 0530, otherwise agreeable. 6175, March 16 at 0527 I remember just in time to recheck what WHRI is doing at the end of the V. of Vietnam relay in Vietnamese: hear a few sex of the BaBcoCk music fill loop before cutting to WHR promo for new business, then full WHRI ID with `Onward Christian Soldiers`` before going off, which might cause a bit of consternation in Hanoi if they ever monitor their own relays (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 21630, March 16 at 1744, WHRI gospel huxter concluding with address in Oklahoma 73082 or 3. Made me feel right at home. 9490, March 17 at 2148, `Pirating with Cumbre` in progress, so the Sunday 2130 airing has resumed, even tho a gospel huxter replaced it last week on WHRI. 9895, UT Monday March 18 at 0059, WHRI ID with VG signal, a surprise since as reconfirmed on their website schedule, this frequency is supposedly in use only UT Tue-Sat at 0000-0030 for the last remaining legacy SW broadcast of R. Nederland, in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13570, March 17 at 1342, very poor and undermodulated talk, can it be WINB? On Sundays only, it is supposed to be on this early, and a bit better after 1400. Carrier does not seem to be wobbling. Must be, as VOA doesn`t collide until 1500. This morning, all US signals above 11 MHz are abnormally weak, e.g. 12105 WTWW Russian too. {No wonder; WWV reports: ``The estimated planetary K-index at 1200 UTC on 17 March was 5. The estimated planetary K-index at 1500 UTC on 17 March was 5. Space weather for the past 24 hours has been moderate. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G2 level occurred. Solar radiation storms reaching the S1 level occurred.``} Checking HFCC, I see that the WINB azimuth on 13570 is 242 degrees, almost the same as WBCQ`s 245 which unavoidably crosses the USA on the way to Nuevo Laredo. 13570 CIRAF targets, however, are 10, 11, 27, 28, 37, 46 = Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, W & C Europe, W Africa. While on 9265 it`s just CIRAF 10 & 11 in the western hemisphere. 13570, March 20 at 1925, `AWR Wavescan` finishing DX report from Philippines, Jeff White wrapping up show. Just as I expected, its sole time on WINB is now one UT hour earlier, Wednesdays at 1900-1930 UT, contrary to the A-13 schedule Adrian Peterson has sent out, anticipating his special repeat of an old `Radio Monitors International` show about Ekala, in tribute to that Sri Lanka site about to be closed, date for that not yet set. This airing is probably the best chance to hear WS in N America, beyond the skip zone from Red Lion; altho KSDA Guam, UT Sundays at 2230 on 15320 often comes in surprisingly well (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11715, March 16 circa 1325 no signal from KJES tho it now supposedly starts at 1300; but at 1414, KJES is inbooming tho undermodulated with English catechisms about Yahweh. That may be one of the nine giganames of God but hardly in orthodox Roman Catholicism, yet KJES claims to the Catholic, from Our Lady`s Youth Center in El Paso TX. Here`s a biobit about the founder, who was a Jesuit! http://www.fatherrickthomas.com/about/ Wolfgang Büschel found this low-res Bing view of the Vado NM site: http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=32.134064~-106.596250&lvl=20&dir=0&sty=h&where1=32,1340638888889%20-106,59625&form=LMLTCC which BTW I visited on the ground many years ago and saw the rotatable LP antenna, but there was no one around to talk to. I also dropped in to their HQ in EP, where again there was no one around, but picked up some lit; IIRC that`s where I first became acquainted with The Catholic Worker. 15385, March 16 at 1817, still no signal from KJES during the alleged 1800-1930 transmission, which hasn`t been heard for months despite remaining in several references (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. A13 AWR Short Wave Broadcast Schedule. [AUSTRIA/FRANCE/GERMANY/GUAM/MADAGASCAR/SOUTH AFRICA/SRI LANKA/TAIWAN] (2013-03-31 to 2013-10-26) first and last day of transmission. All Regions - Version 02/2013-03-19/pub Time sorted Site StartStop Language Service Area kHz kW Days SDA 0000-0200 Mandarin C/N-China 17880 100 1234567 SDA 0000-0030 Burmese Myanmar 17650 100 1234567 SDA 0000-0200 Mandarin NE-China 12025 100 1234567 SDA 0030-0100 Karen Myanmar,THA,CHN 17650 100 1234567 SDA 0100-0200 Mandarin S-China 17650 100 1234567 TAI 0100-0200 Vietnamese Vietnam 15445 100 ......7 MOS 0200-0230 Urdu Pakistan 9690 300 1234567 MOS 0230-0300 Panjabi Pakistan 9690 300 1234567 MDC 0230-0330 Malagasy Madagascar 3215 50 1234567 NAU 0300-0330 Oromo S-Ethiopia 11610 250 1234567 SDA 0300-0330 Russian E-Russia 17645 100 1234567 WER 0300-0330 Tigrinya Eritrea 9530 250 1234567 MOS 0330-0430 Farsi Iran 9505 300 1234567 NAU 0330-0400 Amharic Ethiopia 11610 250 1234567 WER 0400-0600 Arabic EGY,IRQ,ARS,YEM 15225 250 1234567 NAU 0400-0430 Bulgarian Bulgaria 6020 100 1234567 MOS 0430-0500 French Morocco,ALG 6155 300 1234567 MOS 0500-0530 Hausa WeAF, Nigeria 11955 300 1234567 NAU 0700-0800 Arabic Morocco,ALG 15225 100 1234567 NAU 0800-0830 French Morocco,ALG 15140 100 1234567 WER 0800-0830 Kabyle Morocco,ALG 15225 100 1234567 NAU 0830-0900 Tachelhit Morocco,ALG 15225 100 1234567 ISS 0900-1000 Italian Italy 9790 100 1...... SDA 1000-1100 Cantonese C/N-China 12010 100 1.....7 SDA 1000-1100 Mandarin C/N-China 12010 100 23456. SDA 1000-1100 Cantonese S-China 17520 100 1.....7 SDA 1000-1100 Mandarin S-China 17520 100 23456. SDA 1030-1100 Tagalog Philippines 17550 100 ...45.. SDA 1030-1100 Tagalog Philippines 17550 100 .23...7 SDA 1030-1100 Ilocano Philippines 17550 100 1....6. SDA 1100-1130 Indonesian W-Indonesia 15620 100 1234567 SDA 1100-1200 Mandarin S-China 15515 100 1234567 SDA 1100-1200 Mandarin NE-China 11775 100 1234567 SDA 1100-1200 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 100 1234567 SDA 1130-1200 Javanese INS,MLA 15620 100 .2.4.6. SDA 1130-1200 Sundanese INS,MLA 15620 100 1.3.5.7 TRM 1130-1200 Shan Myanmar,THA,CHN 15605 125 1234567 TRM 1200-1230 Mon Myanmar,THA,CHN 11800 125 1234567 SDA 1200-1230 Min Nan Ch S-China 15515 100 12345.. SDA 1200-1230 Min Nan Ch C/N-China 12105 100 12345.. SDA 1200-1230 Min Nan Ch NE-China 9800 100 12345.. SDA 1200-1230 Mandarin S-China 15515 100 .....67 SDA 1200-1230 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 100 .....67 SDA 1200-1230 Mandarin NE-China 9800 100 .....67 SDA 1200-1300 Korean Korea 9880 100 1234567 TRM 1230-1300 Meitei NE-India 12085 125 1..4.6. SDA 1230-1300 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 100 1234567 SDA 1230-1300 Mandarin S-China 15515 100 1234567 SDA 1230-1300 Mandarin NE-China 9800 100 1234567 TRM 1230-1300 Bangla NE-India, BGD 12085 125 .23.5.7 SDA 1300-1400 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 100 1234567 NAU 1300-1330 Uighur We-China 17810 250 1.....7 NAU 1300-1330 Mandarin We-China 17810 250 .23456. MDC 1300-1400 Vietnamese Vietnam 17670 250 1234567 SDA 1300-1330 Khmer CMB,VTN,THA,LAO 15320 100 1..4567 SDA 1300-1330 Khmer CMB,VTN,THA,LAO 15320 100 .23.... SDA 1300-1330 Kachin Myanmar 15445 100 1234567 SDA 1300-1330 Bangla Bangladesh 15215 100 1234567 NAU 1330-1500 Mandarin W-China 17810 250 1.....7 SDA 1330-1400 Malay Malaysia 15660 100 .23...7 SDA 1330-1400 Thai CMB,VTN,THA,LAO 15430 100 .234.6. SDA 1330-1400 Lao CMB,VTN,THA,LAO 15430 100 5.7 SDA 1330-1400 Khmer CMB,VTN,THA,LAO 15320 100 1...... SDA 1330-1400 Hmong Thailand 15660 100 ....56. SDA 1330-1400 Assamese NE-India 15660 100 1..4... SDA 1330-1400 Russian E-Russia 9720 100 1234567 NAU 1330-1500 Mandarin W-China 17810 250 1234567 SDA 1400-1430 Asho Chin Myanmar 15375 100 1234567 SDA 1400-1500 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 100 1234567 SDA 1400-1500 Mandarin S-China 22mb 13575 100 1234567 SDA 1400-1430 Sinhalese Sri Lanka 15165 100 1234567 MOS 1400-1430 Urdu Pakistan 15440 300 1234567 SDA 1430-1500 Burmese Myanmar 15715 100 1234567 SDA 1430-1500 PWO W Karen Myanmar,THA,CHN 15150 100 1234567 MOS 1430-1500 Afar DJI,NE-ETH,SOM 17605 300 1234567 MDC 1430-1530 Malagasy Madagascar 6155 50 1234567 SDA 1500-1530 Mizo NE-India 15690 100 1234567 SDA 1500-1530 Tamil S-India 15680 100 1234567 SDA 1500-1530 Karen Myanmar,THA,CHN 11995 100 1234567 NAU 1500-1530 Nepali Nepal 15735 250 1234567 MOS 1500-1530 Turkish Turkey 11940 300 1234567 SDA 1500-1530 Telugu S-India 15605 100 1234567 NAU 1500-1530 Panjabi N-India 15265 250 1234567 MOS 1530-1600 Panjabi Pakistan 15290 300 1234567 SDA 1530-1600 Marathi C-India 11995 100 1234567 SDA 1530-1600 Kannada S-India 15620 100 1234567 NAU 1530-1600 Tibetan Nepal, Tibet 15335 250 ....56. SDA 1530-1600 Malayalam S-India 15680 100 1234567 SDA 1530-1600 Hindi C-India 15605 100 1234567 NAU 1530-1600 English Nepal, Tibet 15335 250 1234..7 NAU 1530-1600 Hindi N-India 15265 250 1234567 MOS 1600-1630 Urdu Pakistan 15260 300 1234567 SDA 1600-1630 Urdu N-India 15285 100 1234567 WER 1600-1630 Bulgarian Bulgaria 9830 100 1234567 SDA 1600-1630 English S-India 15670 100 1234567 SDA 1600-1630 English C-India 15360 100 1234567 WER 1630-1700 Somali Somalia 17575 250 1234567 SDA 1630-1700 Sindhi S-Pakistan 15360 100 1 3 5 7 SDA 1630-1700 English N-India 15360 100 2 4 6 MOS 1630-1730 Farsi Iran 15150 300 1234567 MEY 1700-1730 Kiswahili TZA,KEN,UGA 9600 250 1234567 MEY 1730-1800 Masai TZA,KEN,UGA 9600 250 1234567 NAU 1730-1800 Oromo S-Ethiopia 15155 250 1234567 WER 1730-1800 Kabyle Morocco,ALG 15170 100 1234567 MEY 1830-1900 English E-Africa 11840 250 1234567 MOS 1830-1900 Arabic Libya 11660 300 1234567 NAU 1900-1930 Fulfulde CMB,GHA,SEN 15205 100 1234567 WER 1900-1930 Arabic Morocco,ALG 9610 100 1234567 MOS 1900-1930 Hausa Nigeria 11955 300 1234567 NAU 1900-2000 Arabic Morocco,ALG 15260 100 1234567 WER 1900-2100 Arabic EGY,IRQ,ARS,YEM 11610 250 1234567 WER 1900-1930 Wolof Senegal, Gambia 11945 250 1234567 MOS 1930-2000 French C-Africa 15220 300 1234567 WER 1930-2000 Tachelhit Morocco,ALG 9610 100 1234567 WER 1930-2000 Ibo E-Nigeria 15205 250 1234567 MOS 2000-2030 Dyula BFA,CTI,MLA 11955 300 1234567 NAU 2000-2030 French Morocco,ALG 9610 100 1234567 WER 2000-2030 French Cameroon, Niger 17610 100 1234567 MOS 2030-2100 French W-Africa 15155 300 1234567 WER 2030-2100 Yoruba Nigeria 11755 100 1234567 MOS 2100-2130 English W-Africa 11955 300 1234567 SDA 2100-2200 Mandarin C/N-China 11750 100 .23456. SDA 2100-2200 Cantonese C/N-China 11750 100 1.....7 SDA 2100-2200 Korean Korea 11790 100 1234567 SDA 2100-2200 Cantonese W-Japan,S-China 15420 100 1.....7 SDA 2100-2200 Mandarin W-Japan,S-China 15420 100 .23456. SDA 2200-2300 Mandarin NE-China 12120 100 1234567 SDA 2200-2230 Sundanese W-Indonesia 15435 100 .2.4.67 SDA 2200-2300 Mandarin C/N-China 15215 100 1234567 SDA 2200-2230 Indonesian W-Indonesia 15320 100 1234567 SDA 2200-2230 Javanese W-Indonesia 15435 100 1.3.5.. SDA 2230-2300 English W-Indonesia 15320 100 1234567 SDA 2300-2400 Vietnamese Vietnam 17650 100 .23456. SDA 2300-2330 Vietnamese Vietnam 17650 100 1.....7 SDA 2300-2400 Mandarin NE-China 12120 100 1234567 SDA 2300-2400 Mandarin C/N-China 17520 100 1234567 SDA 2330-2400 English Vietnam 17650 100 1.....7 Frequency sorted kHz Site StartStop Language Service Area kW Days MDC 0230-0330 Malagasy Madagascar 3215 50 1234567 NAU 0400-0430 Bulgarian Bulgaria 6020 100 1234567 MOS 0430-0500 French Morocco,ALG 6155 300 1234567 MDC 1430-1530 Malagasy Madagascar 6155 50 1234567 MOS 0330-0430 Farsi Iran 9505 300 1234567 WER 0300-0330 Tigrinya Eritrea 9530 250 1234567 MEY 1700-1730 Kiswahili TZA,KEN,UGA 9600 250 1234567 MEY 1730-1800 Masai TZA,KEN,UGA 9600 250 1234567 WER 1900-1930 Arabic Morocco,ALG 9610 100 1234567 WER 1930-2000 Tachelhit Morocco,ALG 9610 100 1234567 NAU 2000-2030 French Morocco,ALG 9610 100 1234567 MOS 0200-0230 Urdu Pakistan 9690 300 1234567 MOS 0230-0300 Panjabi Pakistan 9690 300 1234567 SDA 1330-1400 Russian E-Russia 9720 100 1234567 ISS 0900-1000 Italian Italy 9790 100 1...... SDA 1200-1230 Mandarin NE-China 9800 100 .....67 SDA 1200-1230 Min Nan Ch NE-China 9800 100 12345.. SDA 1230-1300 Mandarin NE-China 9800 100 1234567 WER 1600-1630 Bulgarian Bulgaria 9830 100 1234567 SDA 1200-1300 Korean Korea 9880 100 1234567 NAU 0300-0330 Oromo S-Ethiopia 11610 250 1234567 NAU 0330-0400 Amharic Ethiopia 11610 250 1234567 WER 1900-2100 Arabic EGY,IRQ,ARS,YEM 11610 250 1234567 MOS 1830-1900 Arabic Libya 11660 300 1234567 SDA 2100-2200 Cantonese C/N-China 11750 100 1.....7 SDA 2100-2200 Mandarin C/N-China 11750 100 .23456. WER 2030-2100 Yoruba Nigeria 11755 100 1234567 SDA 1100-1200 Mandarin NE-China 11775 100 1234567 SDA 2100-2200 Korean Korea 11790 100 1234567 TRM 1200-1230 Mon Myanmar,THA,CHN 11800 125 1234567 MEY 1830-1900 English E-Africa 11840 250 1234567 MOS 1500-1530 Turkish Turkey 11940 300 1234567 WER 1900-1930 Wolof Senegal, Gambia 11945 250 1234567 MOS 0500-0530 Hausa WeAF, Nigeria 11955 300 1234567 MOS 1900-1930 Hausa Nigeria 11955 300 1234567 MOS 2000-2030 Dyula BFA,CTI,MLA 11955 300 1234567 MOS 2100-2130 English W-Africa 11955 300 1234567 SDA 1500-1530 Karen Myanmar,THA,CHN 11995 100 1234567 SDA 1530-1600 Marathi C-India 11995 100 1234567 SDA 1000-1100 Cantonese C/N-China 12010 100 1.....7 SDA 1000-1100 Mandarin C/N-China 12010 100 23456. SDA 0000-0200 Mandarin NE-China 12025 100 1234567 TRM 1230-1300 Meitei NE-India 12085 125 1..4.6. TRM 1230-1300 Bangla NE-India, BGD 12085 125 .23.5.7 SDA 1100-1200 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 100 1234567 SDA 1200-1230 Min Nan Ch C/N-China 12105 100 12345.. SDA 1200-1230 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 100 .....67 SDA 1230-1300 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 100 1234567 SDA 1300-1400 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 100 1234567 SDA 1400-1500 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 100 1234567 SDA 2200-2300 Mandarin NE-China 12120 100 1234567 SDA 2300-2400 Mandarin NE-China 12120 100 1234567 SDA 1400-1500 Mandarin S-China 22mb 13575 100 1234567 NAU 0800-0830 French Morocco,ALG 15140 100 1234567 SDA 1430-1500 PWO W Karen Myanmar,THA,CHN 15150 100 1234567 MOS 1630-1730 Farsi Iran 15150 300 1234567 NAU 1730-1800 Oromo S-Ethiopia 15155 250 1234567 MOS 2030-2100 French W-Africa 15155 300 1234567 SDA 1400-1430 Sinhalese Sri Lanka 15165 100 1234567 WER 1730-1800 Kabyle Morocco,ALG 15170 100 1234567 NAU 1900-1930 Fulfulde CMB,GHA,SEN 15205 100 1234567 WER 1930-2000 Ibo E-Nigeria 15205 250 1234567 SDA 1300-1330 Bangla Bangladesh 15215 100 1234567 SDA 2200-2300 Mandarin C/N-China 15215 100 1234567 MOS 1930-2000 French C-Africa 15220 300 1234567 WER 0400-0600 Arabic EGY,IRQ,ARS,YEM 15225 250 1234567 NAU 0700-0800 Arabic Morocco,ALG 15225 100 1234567 WER 0800-0830 Kabyle Morocco,ALG 15225 100 1234567 NAU 0830-0900 Tachelhit Morocco,ALG 15225 100 1234567 MOS 1600-1630 Urdu Pakistan 15260 300 1234567 NAU 1900-2000 Arabic Morocco,ALG 15260 100 1234567 NAU 1500-1530 Panjabi N-India 15265 250 1234567 NAU 1530-1600 Hindi N-India 15265 250 1234567 SDA 1600-1630 Urdu N-India 15285 100 1234567 MOS 1530-1600 Panjabi Pakistan 15290 300 1234567 SDA 1300-1330 Khmer CMB,VTN,THA,LAO 15320 100 1..4567 SDA 1300-1330 Khmer CMB,VTN,THA,LAO 15320 100 .23.... SDA 1330-1400 Khmer CMB,VTN,THA,LAO 15320 100 1...... SDA 2200-2230 Indonesian W-Indonesia 15320 100 1234567 SDA 2230-2300 English W-Indonesia 15320 100 1234567 NAU 1530-1600 Tibetan Nepal, Tibet 15335 250 ....56. NAU 1530-1600 English Nepal, Tibet 15335 250 1234..7 SDA 1600-1630 English C-India 15360 100 1234567 SDA 1630-1700 English N-India 15360 100 2 4 6 SDA 1630-1700 Sindhi S-Pakistan 15360 100 1 3 5 7 SDA 1400-1430 Asho Chin Myanmar 15375 100 1234567 SDA 2100-2200 Cantonese W-Japan,S-China 15420 100 1.....7 SDA 2100-2200 Mandarin W-Japan,S-China 15420 100 .23456. SDA 1330-1400 Thai CMB,VTN,THA,LAO 15430 100 .234.6. SDA 1330-1400 Lao CMB,VTN,THA,LAO 15430 100 5.7 SDA 2200-2230 Sundanese W-Indonesia 15435 100 .2.4.67 SDA 2200-2230 Javanese W-Indonesia 15435 100 1.3.5.. MOS 1400-1430 Urdu Pakistan 15440 300 1234567 TAI 0100-0200 Vietnamese Vietnam 15445 100 ......7 SDA 1300-1330 Kachin Myanmar 15445 100 1234567 SDA 1100-1200 Mandarin S-China 15515 100 1234567 SDA 1200-1230 Min Nan Ch S-China 15515 100 12345.. SDA 1200-1230 Mandarin S-China 15515 100 .....67 SDA 1230-1300 Mandarin S-China 15515 100 1234567 TRM 1130-1200 Shan Myanmar,THA,CHN 15605 125 1234567 SDA 1500-1530 Telugu S-India 15605 100 1234567 SDA 1530-1600 Hindi C-India 15605 100 1234567 SDA 1100-1130 Indonesian W-Indonesia 15620 100 1234567 SDA 1130-1200 Javanese INS,MLA 15620 100 .2.4.6. SDA 1130-1200 Sundanese INS,MLA 15620 100 1.3.5.7 SDA 1530-1600 Kannada S-India 15620 100 1234567 SDA 1330-1400 Malay Malaysia 15660 100 .23...7 SDA 1330-1400 Hmong Thailand 15660 100 ....56. SDA 1330-1400 Assamese NE-India 15660 100 1..4... SDA 1600-1630 English S-India 15670 100 1234567 SDA 1500-1530 Tamil S-India 15680 100 1234567 SDA 1530-1600 Malayalam S-India 15680 100 1234567 SDA 1500-1530 Mizo NE-India 15690 100 1234567 SDA 1430-1500 Burmese Myanmar 15715 100 1234567 NAU 1500-1530 Nepali Nepal 15735 250 1234567 SDA 1000-1100 Mandarin S-China 17520 100 23456. SDA 1000-1100 Cantonese S-China 17520 100 1.....7 SDA 2300-2400 Mandarin C/N-China 17520 100 1234567 SDA 1030-1100 Tagalog Philippines 17550 100 .23...7 SDA 1030-1100 Ilocano Philippines 17550 100 1....6. SDA 1030-1100 Tagalog Philippines 17550 100 ...45.. WER 1630-1700 Somali Somalia 17575 250 1234567 MOS 1430-1500 Afar DJI,NE-ETH,SOM 17605 300 1234567 WER 2000-2030 French Cameroon, Niger 17610 100 1234567 SDA 0300-0330 Russian E-Russia 17645 100 1234567 SDA 0000-0030 Burmese Myanmar 17650 100 1234567 SDA 0030-0100 Karen Myanmar,THA,CHN 17650 100 1234567 SDA 0100-0200 Mandarin S-China 17650 100 1234567 SDA 2300-2330 Vietnamese Vietnam 17650 100 1.....7 SDA 2300-2400 Vietnamese Vietnam 17650 100 .23456. SDA 2330-2400 English Vietnam 17650 100 1.....7 MDC 1300-1400 Vietnamese Vietnam 17670 250 1234567 NAU 1300-1330 Mandarin We-China 17810 250 .23456. NAU 1300-1330 Uighur We-China 17810 250 1.....7 NAU 1330-1500 Mandarin W-China 17810 250 1234567 SDA 0000-0200 Mandarin C/N-China 17880 100 1234567 Site sorted kHz Site StartStop Language Service Area kW Days ISS 0900-1000 Italian Italy 9790 100 1...... MDC 0230-0330 Malagasy Madagascar 3215 50 1234567 MDC 1430-1530 Malagasy Madagascar 6155 50 1234567 MDC 1300-1400 Vietnamese Vietnam 17670 250 1234567 MEY 1700-1730 Kiswahili TZA,KEN,UGA 9600 250 1234567 MEY 1730-1800 Masai TZA,KEN,UGA 9600 250 1234567 MEY 1830-1900 English E-Africa 11840 250 1234567 MOS 0430-0500 French Morocco,ALG 6155 300 1234567 MOS 0330-0430 Farsi Iran 9505 300 1234567 MOS 0200-0230 Urdu Pakistan 9690 300 1234567 MOS 0230-0300 Panjabi Pakistan 9690 300 1234567 MOS 1830-1900 Arabic Libya 11660 300 1234567 MOS 1500-1530 Turkish Turkey 11940 300 1234567 MOS 0500-0530 Hausa WeAF, Nigeria 11955 300 1234567 MOS 1900-1930 Hausa Nigeria 11955 300 1234567 MOS 2000-2030 Dyula BFA,CTI,MLA 11955 300 1234567 MOS 2100-2130 English W-Africa 11955 300 1234567 MOS 1630-1730 Farsi Iran 15150 300 1234567 MOS 2030-2100 French W-Africa 15155 300 1234567 MOS 1930-2000 French C-Africa 15220 300 1234567 MOS 1600-1630 Urdu Pakistan 15260 300 1234567 MOS 1530-1600 Panjabi Pakistan 15290 300 1234567 MOS 1400-1430 Urdu Pakistan 15440 300 1234567 MOS 1430-1500 Afar DJI,NE-ETH,SOM 17605 300 1234567 NAU 0400-0430 Bulgarian Bulgaria 6020 100 1234567 NAU 2000-2030 French Morocco,ALG 9610 100 1234567 NAU 0300-0330 Oromo S-Ethiopia 11610 250 1234567 NAU 0330-0400 Amharic Ethiopia 11610 250 1234567 NAU 0800-0830 French Morocco,ALG 15140 100 1234567 NAU 1730-1800 Oromo S-Ethiopia 15155 250 1234567 NAU 1900-1930 Fulfulde CMB,GHA,SEN 15205 100 1234567 NAU 0700-0800 Arabic Morocco,ALG 15225 100 1234567 NAU 0830-0900 Tachelhit Morocco,ALG 15225 100 1234567 NAU 1900-2000 Arabic Morocco,ALG 15260 100 1234567 NAU 1500-1530 Panjabi N-India 15265 250 1234567 NAU 1530-1600 Hindi N-India 15265 250 1234567 NAU 1530-1600 English Nepal, Tibet 15335 250 1234..7 NAU 1530-1600 Tibetan Nepal, Tibet 15335 250 ....56. NAU 1500-1530 Nepali Nepal 15735 250 1234567 NAU 1300-1330 Mandarin We-China 17810 250 .23456. NAU 1300-1330 Uighur We-China 17810 250 1.....7 NAU 1330-1500 Mandarin W-China 17810 250 1234567 SDA 1330-1400 Russian E-Russia 9720 100 1234567 SDA 1200-1230 Min Nan Ch NE-China 9800 100 12345.. SDA 1200-1230 Mandarin NE-China 9800 100 .....67 SDA 1230-1300 Mandarin NE-China 9800 100 1234567 SDA 1200-1300 Korean Korea 9880 100 1234567 SDA 2100-2200 Mandarin C/N-China 11750 100 .23456. SDA 2100-2200 Cantonese C/N-China 11750 100 1.....7 SDA 1100-1200 Mandarin NE-China 11775 100 1234567 SDA 2100-2200 Korean Korea 11790 100 1234567 SDA 1500-1530 Karen Myanmar,THA,CHN 11995 100 1234567 SDA 1530-1600 Marathi C-India 11995 100 1234567 SDA 1000-1100 Mandarin C/N-China 12010 100 23456. SDA 1000-1100 Cantonese C/N-China 12010 100 1.....7 SDA 0000-0200 Mandarin NE-China 12025 100 1234567 SDA 1100-1200 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 100 1234567 SDA 1200-1230 Min Nan Ch C/N-China 12105 100 12345.. SDA 1200-1230 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 100 .....67 SDA 1230-1300 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 100 1234567 SDA 1300-1400 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 100 1234567 SDA 1400-1500 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 100 1234567 SDA 2200-2300 Mandarin NE-China 12120 100 1234567 SDA 2300-2400 Mandarin NE-China 12120 100 1234567 SDA 1400-1500 Mandarin S-China 22mb 13575 100 1234567 SDA 1430-1500 PWO W Karen Myanmar,THA,CHN 15150 100 1234567 SDA 1400-1430 Sinhalese Sri Lanka 15165 100 1234567 SDA 1300-1330 Bangla Bangladesh 15215 100 1234567 SDA 2200-2300 Mandarin C/N-China 15215 100 1234567 SDA 1600-1630 Urdu N-India 15285 100 1234567 SDA 1300-1330 Khmer CMB,VTN,THA,LAO 15320 100 .23.... SDA 1300-1330 Khmer CMB,VTN,THA,LAO 15320 100 1..4567 SDA 1330-1400 Khmer CMB,VTN,THA,LAO 15320 100 1...... SDA 2200-2230 Indonesian W-Indonesia 15320 100 1234567 SDA 2230-2300 English W-Indonesia 15320 100 1234567 SDA 1600-1630 English C-India 15360 100 1234567 SDA 1630-1700 English N-India 15360 100 2 4 6 SDA 1630-1700 Sindhi S-Pakistan 15360 100 1 3 5 7 SDA 1400-1430 Asho Chin Myanmar 15375 100 1234567 SDA 2100-2200 Cantonese W-Japan,S-China 15420 100 1.....7 SDA 2100-2200 Mandarin W-Japan,S-China 15420 100 .23456. SDA 1330-1400 Thai CMB,VTN,THA,LAO 15430 100 .234.6. SDA 1330-1400 Lao CMB,VTN,THA,LAO 15430 100 5.7 SDA 2200-2230 Javanese W-Indonesia 15435 100 1.3.5.. SDA 2200-2230 Sundanese W-Indonesia 15435 100 .2.4.67 SDA 1300-1330 Kachin Myanmar 15445 100 1234567 SDA 1100-1200 Mandarin S-China 15515 100 1234567 SDA 1200-1230 Min Nan Ch S-China 15515 100 12345.. SDA 1200-1230 Mandarin S-China 15515 100 .....67 SDA 1230-1300 Mandarin S-China 15515 100 1234567 SDA 1500-1530 Telugu S-India 15605 100 1234567 SDA 1530-1600 Hindi C-India 15605 100 1234567 SDA 1100-1130 Indonesian W-Indonesia 15620 100 1234567 SDA 1130-1200 Sundanese INS,MLA 15620 100 1.3.5.7 SDA 1130-1200 Javanese INS,MLA 15620 100 .2.4.6. SDA 1530-1600 Kannada S-India 15620 100 1234567 SDA 1330-1400 Malay Malaysia 15660 100 .23...7 SDA 1330-1400 Assamese NE-India 15660 100 1..4... SDA 1330-1400 Hmong Thailand 15660 100 ....56. SDA 1600-1630 English S-India 15670 100 1234567 SDA 1500-1530 Tamil S-India 15680 100 1234567 SDA 1530-1600 Malayalam S-India 15680 100 1234567 SDA 1500-1530 Mizo NE-India 15690 100 1234567 SDA 1430-1500 Burmese Myanmar 15715 100 1234567 SDA 1000-1100 Mandarin S-China 17520 100 23456. SDA 1000-1100 Cantonese S-China 17520 100 1.....7 SDA 2300-2400 Mandarin C/N-China 17520 100 1234567 SDA 1030-1100 Ilocano Philippines 17550 100 1....6. SDA 1030-1100 Tagalog Philippines 17550 100 ...45.. SDA 1030-1100 Tagalog Philippines 17550 100 .23...7 SDA 0300-0330 Russian E-Russia 17645 100 1234567 SDA 0000-0030 Burmese Myanmar 17650 100 1234567 SDA 0030-0100 Karen Myanmar,THA,CHN 17650 100 1234567 SDA 0100-0200 Mandarin S-China 17650 100 1234567 SDA 2300-2330 Vietnamese Vietnam 17650 100 1.....7 SDA 2300-2400 Vietnamese Vietnam 17650 100 .23456. SDA 2330-2400 English Vietnam 17650 100 1.....7 SDA 0000-0200 Mandarin C/N-China 17880 100 1234567 TAI 0100-0200 Vietnamese Vietnam 15445 100 ......7 TRM 1200-1230 Mon Myanmar,THA,CHN 11800 125 1234567 TRM 1230-1300 Bangla NE-India, BGD 12085 125 .23.5.7 TRM 1230-1300 Meitei NE-India 12085 125 1..4.6. TRM 1130-1200 Shan Myanmar,THA,CHN 15605 125 1234567 WER 0300-0330 Tigrinya Eritrea 9530 250 1234567 WER 1900-1930 Arabic Morocco,ALG 9610 100 1234567 WER 1930-2000 Tachelhit Morocco,ALG 9610 100 1234567 WER 1600-1630 Bulgarian Bulgaria 9830 100 1234567 WER 1900-2100 Arabic EGY,IRQ,ARS,YEM 11610 250 1234567 WER 2030-2100 Yoruba Nigeria 11755 100 1234567 WER 1900-1930 Wolof Senegal, Gambia 11945 250 1234567 WER 1730-1800 Kabyle Morocco,ALG 15170 100 1234567 WER 1930-2000 Ibo E-Nigeria 15205 250 1234567 WER 0400-0600 Arabic EGY,IRQ,ARS,YEM 15225 250 1234567 WER 0800-0830 Kabyle Morocco,ALG 15225 100 1234567 WER 1630-1700 Somali Somalia 17575 250 1234567 WER 2000-2030 French Cameroon, Niger 17610 100 1234567 Site: Days: ISS=Issoudun F SDA=Agat MRA 1=Sunday 5=Thursday MDC=Madagascar MDG TAI=Taipei TWN 2=Monday 6=Friday MEY=Meyerton AFS TRM=Trincomalee CLN 3=Tuesday 7=Saturday MOS=Moosbrunn AUT WER=Wertachtal D 4=Wednesday NAU=Nauen D AWR Frequency Management Office Sandwiesenstr. 35, 64665 Alsbach, Germany Phone +49 6257 9440969, Fax +49 6257 9440985 E-mail: Claudio Dedio sent A-13 AWR schedule in PDF.format to ADDX Germany, via Andreas Volk, Munich, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews transformed on March 19 PS: no Mandarin language service via Trincomalee Sri Lanka to western China anymore (via Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. Subject: Re: WGN & Milt Rosenberg Glenn: I saw your report of WGN in a recent DXN. The last program of Milt Rosenberg's Extension 720 was Dec. 20. WGN had announced the change only a couple of days earlier, with very little fanfare. They had a retrospective show from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. that last night. It seemed hastily put together. Taped interviews included everyone from Salman Rushdie to Howard Cosell and Henry Kissinger. But the ending took place with little preparation. They spoke about archiving older stories, but I didn't see anything about it on WGN's website earlier. They seemed to want to move on. Anyway, a low-key ending to a program that had lasted almost 40 years! I listened to part of the program on my HQ-160 (I know you're familiar with that model!). I had first purchased my HQ-160 in December 1972. Still works pretty well, but I normally don't have it connected. I haven't been an active DXer for quite a while, but I have enjoyed ultralight listening the past five years or so. It's good to read your reports in the bulletins. 73 & best wishes, (Karl Forth, IL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Karl, Nice to hear from you. Tnx for the background on Milt. Do you ever hear him on WGN any more like they said he would be showing up? (Glenn to Karl via DXLD) I'm sure WGN has cut the cord with Milt. That was just something they said as they moved him out the door. They're going for a young, professional audience. They've mostly lost their older audience (on purpose) but I can't picture a young professional woman living in a loft downtown listening to WGN. It was fun to hear some of the Colombian stations again. The way the band is now there are very few foreign stations that make it through the clutter. I've only heard three or four Mexican stations on the ultralight radio (Karl Forth, ibid.) ** U S A. THE NEW KBRT IS ON THE AIR --- KBRT, 740 kHz, Costa Mesa, is now on the air full time from its new Oak Flat transmitter site in the Santa Ana Mountains; "fulltime" ; means with night service which is something new for the station. Although night coverage is limited, it is certainly better than no night coverage at all. In response to an inquiry from CGC, Cris Alexander, KBRT's Director of Engineering, adds: "We are indeed running KBRT at night with 205 watts input power. Amazingly we provide interference-free night coverage to all of Corona and a good bit of Irvine and Anaheim. Of course, this is bound to be highly variable as skywave propagation of KCBS is up and down, but so far, so good, much better than I expected!" > http://tinyurl.com/KBRT-Inaugurates-Oak-Flat DOCUMENTING THE KBRT MOVE Moving KBRT(AM)' s transmitter from Catalina Island to Oak Flat on the mainland was a monumental undertaking. Now, Cris Alexander has added two new offerings on the station' s photo gallery page. First is a written account of the move; second is a radio interview where he and Don Crawford (owner of KBRT) discuss the project from beginning to end (the audio file has been broken into 12 minute segments with breaks for ease of listening). http://www.crawford broadcasting.com/oakflat_gallery/ (CGC Communicator March 19 via Kevin Redding, ABDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DXLD) Interesting comment on KBRT-740. Their night operations mix with KCBS to make both unlistenable now. I'm just south of Irvine where they say they have good coverage so I'm just out of their sweet spot. I need to send them a reception report (Martin Foltz, Mission Viejo CA, ibid.) ** U S A. 790, March 15 at 1325 UT, KXXX (``K-triple-X``), Colby KS with series of ads for farm & ranch real estate auxions in CO and KS, specifying date and timezone for each; in null of KURM Rogers AR doing tradio, but KXXX is stronger at the moment. In NW corner of KS, used to be listenable on groundwave here until KQCV 800 OKC upped power and splatter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1030, March 17 at 0612 UT, ``10-30, The Light, and KCWJ.org``, into ``Amen`` hymn, i.e. 5/0.5 kW Blue Springs MO. When hearing religion on 1030 now in the nightmiddle, must be careful not to suspect 50 kW daytimer KCTA cheating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. SPECIAL MW DX TEST: 1230, KSEY, TX, Seymour, Sunday March 24 – 0000-0200 CDT (Saturday night into Sunday morning) [0500-0700 UT Sunday March 24] Testing with its regular full-time 1,000-watt non-directional power and pattern. Morse code, sweep tones, sound effects, odd music and other easily identifiable content. KSEY's format is western swing and classic country. KSEY is located 50 miles southwest of Wichita Falls TX, 75 miles north-northeast of Abilene and 140 miles northwest of Fort Worth. Arranged by Paul Walker QSL: Info TBA. END (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD 13-11, WORLD OF RADIO 1661) ** U S A. L.A. Radio --- Addressing several misconceptions about Los Angeles radio, noted in DXLD 13-10: The multi-tower KBLA array is not now and never has been located in Santa Mónica. Correct location is 1700 N. Alvarado St., very close indeed to Dodger Stadium. If I'm not mistaken, KYPA/1230 is already transmitting from the same site, denoted as a CP in the FCC AM-Query section, after spending many decades beaming from a classic "hammock"-longwire setup, atop the Odd Fellows Bldg., at Washington & Oak in Downtown L.A. AM 1230 was never known as "KJLH"; the original call letters dating back to 1926 were KGFJ ("Keeping Good Folks Joyful"). KJLH has always been FM 102.3, here in the City of the Lost, originally licensed to Long Beach until circa 1969. A bit of irony noted in the 1230 tower move, as KGFJ/1230 and the old KDAY/1580 were R&B dial-rivals, in the early '70s. KGFJ won out, as KDAY transformed to Rap/Hip-Hop in the mid '80s; KGFJ continued with the great old R&B selections until circa 1992, in AM Stereo. That CD collection then made its way to the former KACE/103.9 FM, which proudly carried the R&B banner until it was sold by Cox, February 28, 2000. That transaction included the co-owned simulcaster on FM 98.3 in West Covina (Jim Hilliker will no doubt remember the call letters, whereas I do not!), which itself began life as 808-watt KBOB, named after its builder, Bob Burdette (Greg Hardison, CA, March 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1300, March 15 at 1312 UT, dominant signal is all about Austin TX, mentions SXSW, rodeoaustin.com tickets March 8-23, Austin Infiniti; so KVET. Tune-out before they get back to sports talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1320, March 15 at 1310 UT, after the Spanish fades (XECPN?), ``Newstalk 1320 and 107.9, KELO.com``, TC for 10 past 8, cloudy, 35 degrees, ad for siouxlandoralsurgery.com Not that there`s any doubt, but 35 chex with NWS for Sioux Falls SD 8 am temp. Must be on 5 kW non-direxional day pattern now, as nite aims NW and minor SE. Yes, FCC shows March SR 1245 UT, gaining a full hour in April to 1145. The FM may be a recent addition, not mentioned in NRC AM Log. FCC shows it`s KELQ, 21 kW at Flandreau (which IIRC is mispronounced Flan- drew``). Yes, FCC call sign changes shows: KELQ 3/01/2013 KXQL 8/17/2006 i.e. KELQ just started a fortnight ago, and there were several other calls before KXQL. To me, KELO meant first the TV station on channel 11 that I DXed by tropo several times in the 60s, as well as its relays, also by sporadic E on 3 and 6. KELO DTV is still on channel 11, after transitioning on 32 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1350, March 17 at 1311 UT, religious event announcements from Iowa, mentioning KRNT, gospel song. Hope this is just a Sunday- morning aberration and KRNT Des Moines hasn`t abandoned its talk/nostalgia format (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. QSL: WPOP 1410, Hartford CT, 5 kW. Date/frequency QSL card with a drawing of Hartford's skyline and station logo in 145 days for English email report and follow-up via email in English. QSL arrived two days after follow-up! V/s Richard Waegl, CE (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, Microtelecom Perseus / Wellbrook ALA1530P active loop, March 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, English works well, hi (gh) ** U S A. 1430, re 13-11: I should point out that the new Catholic calls in Houston, KSHJ, surely stand for Sacred Heart of Jesus (gh) ** U S A. KHBM-AM 1430, K255AM 98.9 Monticello AR KHBM-AM 1430 (legacy sister station to KHBM-FM 93.7) Monticello AR in neighboring Drew County is still on the air despite not being heard in the Star City AR area. KHBM 1430 is licensed for 1 kW daytime, but its signal isn't pickup truck radio audible well until 10-8 miles north of Monticello AR. The power and format (Bird fed Standards with some older soft AC and oldies) are unchanged. I did not observe any local ads, PSA's, promos, liners, or even a legal ID (at 1 pm CDT/1800 UT) from the station. The station appears to be operated on its 30 watts nighttime power on autopilot (but that last statement is speculation based on listening). However, Pines Broadcasting (the locally owned Cluster which owns KHBM AM/FM, KWRF AM/FM, KXSA, and KGPQ) has reactivated their dormant translator -- K255AM on 98.9 -- which is now // with KHBM-AM 1430. Coverage for the somewhat directional K255AM favors beaming 45 degrees which covers the areas NE of Monticello well, although it`s missing the populated areas NW of the towns center and north on US 425. I checked the 98.9 translator on "Five Mile Hill" and coverage started to fade away after that. The transmitter site for K255AM is the KHBM- AM transmitting tower at the KHBM studios per the coverage map shown on the FCC FM query. The FM translator is broadcasting in stereo, but the AM programming is fed one channel and that is evident on some older 60's music where the vocals are non-existent (Y adapter anyone?). http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=84627 (Fritze H. Prentice, Jr, KC5KBV, Star City AR EM43aw, twitter.com/fritzehp facebook.com/SoutheastArkansasDXAndMediaReport March 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Hi Glenn, Hope you`re well. Just wondering, did you happen to hear the KBXD test on 1480, 0000-0200 CDT (0500-0700 UT) last night 17 MAR? It was a complete nil heard here, and I'm sure at least some of the tones or Morse would have come through, especially with this loop. I haven't seen anyone reporting having heard it, and I know you're close, so was wondering if you bothered to listen and whether you heard it. Thanks and 73 (Al Muick, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1480, March 17 at 0501 UT, much publicized 50 kW day-pattern DX test from KBXD Dallas, supposed to be tones, etc., on the hour and half- hour between 05 and 07 UT, but all I can hear for a moment in the heavy QRM is Brother Scare, who has been on KBXD for quite some time, presumably his only 1480 station. I don`t `need` KBXD since I have been hearing it since its first on- air tests after reconstruxion months ago. But also checked 0530-0532, again nothing like a DX test, and at 0532 the hoarsevoice of BS audible. Again at 0559 a bit of BS dominant for a moment, then gone. This did lead me to another intriguing log of an unID from MEXICO, q.v. 1480, after nothing out of the ordinary heard from KBXD Dallas TX during its DX test from 0500 UT March 17, got this reply from Jerry Kiefer, also to organizer Paul B Walker: ``Paul, Just got back to town. Yes we did the test last night with the tones etc but a staff screw up kept us at regular night power last night. Your call, do you want to reschedule another test in a few weeks? I apologize for the screw up as I know there was a lot of interest. Jerry`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. [Florida low-power report from mobile monitoring:] 1620, FLORIDA (PIRATE), Radyo Keenanm, Orlando. Excellent, slightly over-driven audio as always, while between the South Orange Blossom Trail, West Kaley Ave., and FL-408. Telco audio, Haitian Kreyòl political babble. Heard on the car radio, so unable to measure to confirm if the primary or the occasional secondary transmitter. 1650, FLORIDA, WQQJ297, Florida Dept. of Transportation, Tampa Exit 39 (site 1). Definitely not active yet, as per listening to 1650 while passing to/from Orlando on I-275 March 17, 2013. 1650, FLORIDA, WQQJ297, Florida Dept. of Transportation, Tampa, Exit 44 (site 2). Ditto (as in not active yet). 1650, FLORIDA (TIS), WQEL638, City of Orlando. The usual loops (with NOAA Weather Radio, Melbourne between) on the car radio while in the Orlando area. See 33.420 MHz log. Why must the FCC change the freakin’ call signs of all these MIS/TIS things with each license renewal? This is now the current one. 1690, FLORIDA (MIS), WQKP882 / WQKP883 (multiple sites), Pinellas County. After ages of mostly carrier blobs and sometimes over- modulated stale US-19 construction/motorcycle safety loops, or otherwise no audio except for distorted canned ID’s looping every few minutes (as seems to be the current mode as of early evening local observation on March 15 -- from either the Largo or Clearwater/49th Street site), I finally decided to ask what the County has to say about this malfunctioning network. I contacted the Pinellas County Emergency Management division via email. A few days later, I received this insightful reply (very slightly abridged) from Tom Iovino, Public Information Specialist, Pinellas County Communications: “Thank you for your e-mail regarding the status of the 1690 AM signal. “The short answer to your inquiry is that the system experienced a malfunction and the vendor is expected to evaluate the system and make any repairs – if possible – in mid-April. “The longer answer covers many of the emergency notification questions raised in your email. This transmitter used to be part of the 940 AM WEOC broadcasting system the county promoted back in the early 2000s as the official source for information on disaster preparedness and response. Using it for that application posed a number of challenges. Chiefly, the system is a low-powered line-of-sight transmitter, which makes it great for deploying on roadsides for localized traffic updates, but as soon as motorists move away from the signal, they will receive nothing but static. “Since the purchase of additional units to sufficiently cover the county was cost-prohibitive and the same information could easily be relayed via commercial radio stations with significantly larger transmitters, the plans for a county operated system were ended and the transmitters were transferred to the Department of Environment and Infrastructure’s transportation division for their most effective use – traffic information. “While there would be some limited utility in having this system available, the best bet during a time of emergency is to tune in to any commercial radio station still transmitting. Many of them either employ their own news staff or simulcast the local TV stations providing up to the minute information collected from the public information function within the county’s emergency operations center.” So, hopefully if the repairs are deemed not financially feasible in a month or so, the two or three semi-functioning transmitters (eight are registered on the FCC’s Wireless Telecomm site) running mostly blobs will be shut down permanently so I can DX 1690 kHz once again. My email reply suggestions to Mr. Iovino are to: A) parts salvage the transmitters into a couple of functional ones and return them to portable status for future road/bridge construction and weather disaster use. B) reactivate the network with three transmitters (Palm Harbor, Largo, St. Petersburg). C) donate all the transmitting equipment to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department for potential portable use (I have a communications equipment repair contact there who would likely be glad to accept the gear). It’s amazing how much money municipalities spend on these TIS/MIS things, only to have them function properly for a short period of time, and also never promote their existence with road signage and postings on the municipal websites. Follow-up: on March 18, Mr. Iovino e-mail replied that he would pass along my suggestions to the repair contractors. 1700, FLORIDA (TIS), WQFQ448, Orlando International Airport Travel Information Station. 1745 March 17, 2013. Male airport parking etc. loop. This thing is really weak. Audible barely on Bumby Ave. at the FL-408 Toll junction in Orlando, as heard on the car radio. 33,420 (MIS), FLORIDA, WQIN663 City of Orlando. 110 N Andes Ave. The audio feed for the four MIS stations on 1650 (four licensed sites, though I question if any more than two if not just one is actually functioning). Heard extremely weak in Casselberry mid-local morning on the handheld PRO-60 scanner, but no trace of this at Bumby Ave. at FL- 408 which is not far west of the transmitter site. Not sure why. Between brief looped announcements, this relays NOAA Weather Radio, Melbourne, which is sometime erroneously reported as an unidentified feeder from Melbourne by those who fail to online research. Seems some confusion with recent non-Florida logs of this, thinking it may be in the Melbourne area. A simple Google research would have cleared that up for those who jump to conclusions. **************************************** Florida Low Power Radio Stations: https://sites.google.com/site/floridadxn/florida-low-power-radio-stations (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. QSL: WPTX 1690, Mechanicsville MD, 1 kW night time power, no date thank you email and station coverage map in 158 days for English email report and English email follow-up. Verie arrived 2 hours after follow-up. V/s Sharon Robertson (no title), sharon(at)somdradio(dot)com. Most US mediumwave stations are becoming tough verifiers, so any little victory is cause for a celebration in my book! 73 (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, Microtelecom Perseus / Wellbrook ALA1530P active loop, March 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Possible Pirate on 1710 in the Annapolis MD area? Hi, all, I was driving in Annapolis MD today and had a unidentified station on 1710, playing nothing but Spanish ballads. No announcements as I lost the signal by the time I had crossed the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, driving unto the Eastern Shore of Maryland, so I would assume it is relatively low power. Anything additional on this from anyone? (John Cereghin WDX3IAO, Smyrna DE, March 14, ABDX via DXLD) This has been on for a while, often times has what sounds like preaching also. Have also heard what seems to be ads at times, but nothing like an ID. Strongest on the west side of Annapolis, around the mall area (Dave Braun, Wyoming, DE, March 15, ibid.) ** URUGUAY. Official station lists: Página central operadores. (Unidad Reguladora del Servicio de Comunicaciones, Uruguay): http://www.ursec.gub.uy/scripts/templates/portada.asp?nota=Contenidos/operadores/Radiodifusion/AM%20-%20FM%20/*&COLUMNAS=1&ORDEN=ORDEN Emissoras por Departamento: http://www.ursec.gub.uy/scripts/locallib/imagenes/Emisoras_por_Departamento.xls Emissoras AM por fq: http://www.ursec.gub.uy/scripts/locallib/imagenes/DATOS%20TECNICOS%20EMISORAS.xls 73 (Horacio Nigro, Uruguay, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** VANUATU. 3945, Mar 8 *1822-, Tentative R Vanuatu noted several times with sign on exactly at this time. Unfortunately very low audio so not possible to get any details. TN (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin March 17 via DXLD) ** VATICAN. But nothing heard to pray the rosary on 3975 6075 7250 9755 kHz to Europe, tonight March 13, at 1940-2000 UT: LA PREGHIERA DEL ROSARIO IN LATINO --- End of the day, at 20:40 LT, a clear commitment of Vatican Radio and the evening telecast of S. Rosary in Latin, usually involving more than fifteen groups between religious and secular schools of Rome, which often are associated or replace groups of pilgrims from many Western and Eastern European countries (Wolfgang Büschel, March 13, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 19 March via DXLD) 15570, March 16 at 1748, VR good in English with very heavy African accent --- does that really make him easier for Africans to understand than speaking `standard` English? Vice versa for the rest of us. About Christians being persecuted in Libya, Egypt; Kenyan politix; still VG at 1818 when in Portuguese. Another signal with great coverage in the wrong direxion. 7315, March 17 at 0532 open carrier with some hum, when SMG is supposed to be broadcasting R. Dabanga to Sudan; by 0542 the carrier has been turned off. This transmission is supposed to run 0400-0600, the first semihour being R. Tamazuj. What happened? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) On Sunday, March 17 from St. Peter's Square Pope Francis presides at the recitation of the Angelus. Live broadcast will start at 1050 UT: 1100-1130 on 6075 SMG 100 kW / 330 deg to CeEu 1100-1130 on 7250 SMG 250 kw / 004 deg to CeEu 1100-1130 on 9645 SMG 250 kW / 326 deg to WeEu 1100-1130 on 11740 SMG 100 kW / 310 deg to WeEu 1100-1130 on 11740 SMG 250 kW / 058 deg to EaEu 1100-1130 on 15595 SMG 250 kW / 107 deg to N/ME 1100-1130 on 17590 SMG 250 kW / 224 deg to WeAf 1100-1130 on 21680 SMG 250 kW / 185 deg to SoAf -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, March 16, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Here we go again. Despite new Pope from Argentina, still doing his stuff mainly in the local mornings, or noon, guaranteeing a minimal audience in the Americas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VENEZUELA. 1020.00, R. Alegría, Chivacoa, 11/03 0604-0635, 22222, ID "presento, avance informativo de Alegría 1020 AM" advs, con ustedes La mejor publicidad, mejores canciones a través de su programa Recuerdos 1020, la emisora más querida de…., Alegría 1020 AM" (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Chasqui DX March 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. CLANDESTINA --- Argélia, 1550, Frente POLISARIO, Rabouni, ALG, 1148-1300*, 17/3, árabe, texto, canções, progr. em castelhano, às 1200, canções nesta língua, texto, música pop', fecho c/ anúncios inform. e marcha; 25342. 1550 idem, *1704-1812, 17/3, abertura de emissão algo atrasada..., oração, como habitualmente, progr. em castelhano, pelas 1716, progr. em árabe, às 1800 e até ao fecho, às 2330v. Tx desligado por algum tempo, após as 1800; 55444. Em 10/3, a emissão vespertina, pelo menos, saíu em 702 em vez dos habituais 1550; 24432, QRM da ALG. Em 11/3, regressaram aos 1550. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, March 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. CLANDESTINAS -- África do Sul: 4880, SW R. Africa, Meyerton, AFS, 1834-1908* (v. nota), 17/3, progr. em inglês dirigido ao Zimbabué, música pop' africana, música ligeira; 45433, áudio de má qualidade; NB: a programação terminou pelas 1900, mas a portadora continuou no ar, e alguns mins. mais tarde, escutou-se o progr. em português do Canal África, até que deram pelo erro, e desligaram o tx. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, March 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1320, March 15 at 1307 UT, Spanish timecheck for 8:08, temperatura tope 12 grados, I thought they said, meaning predicted hi, somewhere in the CDT zone. I thought I had KRDD Roswell NM as DF seemed ENE/WSW, but that`s in MDT. Heavy CCI; then I am still getting it with a SSE/NNW peak, so points to KXYZ Houston, which is CDT, but today`s hi per NWS there will be 78 degrees F = 25 C. Maybe it was really the current temp. Wish we had a schedule of what times KXYZ is SS rather than Chinese or others. Hmmm, I should be looking at Tejas-border Mexicans, which observe CDT already unlike most of México and would routinely temp in Celsius, i.e. XECPN Piedras Negras, 20 kW day power with news format per IRCA Log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1490, March 19 at 0132 UT, dutifully trying for the WVBG Vicksburg MS DX test, where the only advantage is the Morse code and anything else that might cut thru the QRM, since as a graveyarder it is on the same power and tower 24 hours. One earphone from the DX-398, the other from the FRG-7 with E-W longwire, producing ``stereo`` QRM effect. Probably better results on the latter. Right away I can almost imagine I am hearing in the pileup some hi- pitched code, but too slow to recognize as Morse; just as likely could be bits of music highs from who knows what. Also maybe at 0144; gave up at 0147. Meanwhile, thinking of what I would need to recognize as the ID, I realize that in Morse, WVBG is a palindrome! So this was not a pointless exercise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1490, March 19 at 0600 UT, barely above the pileup heard phone 1-800-438-1430 mentioned. This allows me to rail against the reverse-lookup sites, which when searching on this keep bringing up nearby numbers, and/or require payment for the answer. Searching on an unique phone number ought to lead directly to the owner without all this hassle (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 3928-LSB, March 16 at 0533, some SSB music stix out sorely, including bits of Kurt Weill, 0536 ``Good, Bad, Ugly``, with cuts and pauses, not heard after 0539; no announcements. So is it a pirate, or merely a ham with a fuzzy understanding of the rules? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4700: Assunto: RE: [radioescutas] transmissão/ recepção digital - DAB HD --- Neste momento às 18:26 horas local SP Capital zona norte [2126 UT] estou ouvindo um sinal na freq. 4700 em 60 M; é um bip sequencial. Eu pergunto alguem sabe o que venha ser isto? (J. Carlos, pu2olt, 14 March, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Também tenho sintonizado há dias este sinal. Está em 4700 kHz e é um bip creio que a cada segundo. A princípio, pensei fosse minha cerca elétrica. Desativei-a e o sinal permaneceu. Nã o tenho a menor ideia do que seja. Se alguém puder ajudar a decifrar o enigma, o grupo agradece. 73, (Giuseppe Settimi Cysneiros, ibid.) Agora são 22:30 h e o sinal continua em 4700 kHz. Na verdade, abrange a faixa de 4690 até 4710 kHz. Não dá nem para desconfiar o que seja. 73, (Giuseppe, hora local, ibid.) Amigos da lista: Com relacao aos amigos que relatam ter captado um sinal ocupando uma banda passante larga, no inicio da faixa de 60 metros, trata-se do CODAR, que é uma espécie de radar para medição das ondas dos oceanos e opera em segmentos do HF. Aqui na região onde moro, ouco constantemente o CODAR nos 60 metros das Ondas Tropicais. 73 e boas escutas! (Michel Viani - Osasco - SP, http://www.transglobe.com.br Membro do DXCB, http://www.ondascurtas.com ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 4700, March 15 at 0113, I am still getting a LAH (low audible heterodyne) between a carrier on the lo side, presumably the Bolivian, and one close to 4700.00, where no other deliberate broadcaster is known at this hour (too early for Eritrea to be on), so maybe an harmonic of 940 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4825-, March 15 at 0053, very poor talk vs CODAR, 0102 perceptibly Portuguese, 0103 hymn. Slightly on the lo side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See BRAZIL UNIDENTIFIED. 4974.68, 2325 to 0000 solid carrier but poor audio on 17 March (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Flórida, Drake R7, 60 meter dipole, and XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A -E-5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Greetings from South Florida. [Re 13-11, PERU] Please change the 12 March 2013 log to read: 4974.92 Unid. 0907 to 1000 om en español with some music on 12 March (Wilkner & XM) original log: 4974.92 Perú, Radio Pacifico Lima, noted from time to time, from 0907 to 1000 on 12 March and other days recently (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Flórida, Drake R7, 60 meter dipole, and XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A -E-5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4974.94, 2330 to 0000 carrier but poor to fair audio on 17 March (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Flórida, Drake R7, 60 meter dipole, and XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A -E-5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) also noted in Vero Beach Other DXers contacted reported high band noise. Rlw (Wilkner, ibid.) 4974.9, 0630 to 0645, no second signal March 18 (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Flórida, Drake R7, 60 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5024.90, Carrier with Havana powered down, never going to hear Peru so close to Havana :-( 16 march (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, Sixty meter dipole, MW Antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Time c. 0910-0930? (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. 5980, while looking for Radio Chaski, Urubamba, Cusco, 0000 to 0010 om en español, weak 15 March (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, Sixty meter dipole, MW Antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) what else? (gh) Family R is scheduled in Spanish 0000-0100 (Anker Petersen, Ed., ibid.) WYFR? No, it isn`t (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. NÃO IDENTIFICADA, 6970 2212-..., 17/3, mandarim, texto; 25432, QRM ocasional de operadores brasileiros em BLI, presumìvelmente, estações ilegais. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, March 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) A Firedrake frequency and consequently a Sound of Hope channel (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 9425.44, March 18 at 1317, fair and steady open carrier, at first assumed 9425.0 until a weak het appeared at 1320 and then measured. The het must have been AIR National Channel coming on at usual time on proper frequency, the 9425.44 something much closer. 9425.48 approx., March 18 at 2327, the open carrier I was hearing hours ago is still here, with some fading so not local, and again with a very lite het, perhaps India on 9425.0. 9425.4, March 19 at 0535, the mystery open carrier heard earlier in the daytime is still here, lite fades so not local, hetting 9420 Greece. But not heard around 1330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9505.01, 0634-0645 fade out, Mar 01, nice instrumentals and songs, maybe originating from NE Africa, followed by some English (American accented) talks, 25544 (Johann Wiespointner, Schörfling, Austria, DSWCI DX Window March 20 via DXLD) Surely Omdurman, SUDAN, often heard here altho usually not that late, and only in Arabic; would be interesting if they have a regular English segment from the former Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Scheduled supposedly until 1000 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Re: UNID on 11587: ``11587, 18/Fev 2347-0001 UNID. Carrier without modulation and moderate fading. I initially thought of noise in my electric grid, butï the signal appears on the graphic from Twente SDR. Moderate signal in my Degen, very weak signal in SDR from Twente (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana Bahia, Brasil`` Jorge and others, caught this at 0415-0420 UT this morning. I put the Grundig g5 on this in SSB mode and indeed, it is an AM carrier signal without any apparent audio. SSB tones +/- 1 kHz slightly off so +/- 40 Hz. A fair signal here in CT, USA (E. Coast). At 0437 UT three dots followed by a signal of 2 secs (Paul S. in CT, March 15, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15000-USB, March 18 at 2319 I was checking WWVH for the offset correxion on the porch DX-398 for later frequency measurements, when I was startled to hear override by YL military traffic controller, calling Echo Charlie, could not understand her own ID or location, but said ``on 5 and 8 Megs`` (not exactly!), and also mentioned ``Air Station Elizabeth City`` before wishing a good evening, and out. I could not hear other side of contact, but she could, so they must have known she was on 15000, or as implied, on duplicate channel(s). Recheck at 2322 there was some ``running water`` ute noise atop WWVH. What in the world are they doing on this standard frequency? Finger slipped on the frequency-puncher, and/or causing it to default to an even MHz? Elizabeth City is in northeast North Carolina, and that is a Coast Guard facility: http://www.uscg.mil/d5/airstaelizabethcity/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15553-SSB, March 19 at 1329, 2-way in colloquial Spanish, one much stronger with background noise, the other coughing. Tuning by, this caught my attention as WJHR USB 15550 does not start until 1400, regardless of DST (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Re 13-11, 27070: David is in Scotland, and not member of the group; I fwd'ed from VHFskiplist. Seems like someone playing music over a CB. 27070 is a Polish Channel, fwiw (Tim Bucknall, harmonics yg via DXLD) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1661: Many thanks to Gerald T. Pollard, Raleigh NC, for an equinoxial check to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702. TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: Thanks to William Hassig, Mount Prospect IL, for a contribution in observance of the Spring Equinox, to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702. Thanks to Jan R. Schrader, Nixa MO, for a contribution to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702. PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ HFCC A-13 schedules now online No clickable link yet, but the HFCC A-13 schedules are now available at http://www.hfcc.org/data/a13/index.phtml I don't see Montsinery, Skelton or Cyprus listed anywhere at a quick glance, so it appears they are really gone. Significant BBCWS English cuts as well (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, March 18, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) QSL WINDOW MARCH 2013 https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2iEncNE25rNRnNLeDdkcnhFZTA/edit?pli=1 (Rudolf Grimm, ( http://dxways-br.blogspot.com ), March 16, radioescutas yg via DXLD) By country listing of P and e mail addresses; embedded pdf starts out blurry, then sharpens (gh, DXLD) WEBSITE SHOWCASING NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD DEBUTS TODAY March 18, 2013 Washington, DC - Breaking international news gathered by one of the world's most extensive networks of journalists can now be found in one place thanks to a new online initiative by the Broadcasting Board of Governors. Today marks the launch of the BBG's Global News Dashboard, which pulls together the English-language news from the more than 50 bureaus, production centers and offices supported by the agency's staff journalists and more than 1500 stringers around the globe. "This site showcases the depth and reach of the high-quality journalism that the BBG produces," said Richard M. Lobo, director of the BBG's International Broadcasting Bureau. "There are millions of English-speakers worldwide who get their news from the individual websites of our broadcasters. It makes sense to pool our resources and put them to work to serve our audiences even better." The new site's English-language content will come from Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and Radio Free Asia. Users who access stories will be directed to the original content on the sites of the three broadcasters. The Global News Dashboard also will include links to original content in Spanish of Radio/TV Martí and the Arabic-language online offerings of the Middle East Broadcasting Networks. Before development of the Dashboard, people interested in the work of the BBG would have to visit the websites of five separate broadcasters. This tool, built on the Pangea content management system developed by RFE/RL and used by the majority of BBG's broadcasters to power their websites, makes that search easier. http://www.bbg.gov/highlight/voa-english-website-gets-new-look/ "It's such a simple tool, but it will have a resounding effect," said Robert Bole, director of BBG's Office of Digital and Design Innovation. "Bringing all these sources of information together makes a powerful statement about this agency and the way we do business. We're so much greater than just the sum of our parts." The Global News Dashboard can be found at http://www.globalnewsdashboard.com (BBG PR via Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ QUR`AN Those willing to mess with glottal stop renderings from Arabic, please note where it goes, not QURA`N and not QU`RAN (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ And something to remind yourself as we try to adjust to DST: Remember, UT does not change with 'summer time' the way ELT does. And the date changes at Midnight in the time zone you are using. For example, 0000 Wednesday the 2nd is the same as 7 PM Tuesday the 1st in Eastern Standard time, and also the same as 8 PM Tuesday the first in Eastern DAYLIGHT Time. If you remember that EST is five hours BEHIND UT and EDT is 4 hours BEHIND then you will do a lot better – note that it is our time that is behind, not UT that is 'ahead'. It sounds like a distinction without a difference, but honest -- it matters as soon as you try to figure out what day and time it is in Australia or India! Do yourself a favor -- just keep a clock set to UT that you don't monkey with in your radio area, and don't keep trying to switch back and forth. Those MW DXers get themselves ALL confuseled by trying to report things in ELT and can never figure out when the date changes, so by sticking to UT you can avoid all that silly conversion and switching! (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, MARE TIPSHEET March 15 via DXLD) Amen & amen (gh) TINY TRAP +++++++++ CYPRUS, all over the news, is being referred to as ``tiny``, by clueless unthinking ignorami. The area of the Greek portion is 3600 square miles --- larger than Delaware, smaller than Connecticut, which no one would ever label ``tiny``. Compare it to a truly tiny country, Monaco with 0.75 sq mi = Cyprus Greekish is 4800 x larger, and even 180 times larger than San Marino with 30 sq mi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ABANDONING IBOC FOR AM STEREO Nos EUA algumas estações estao deixando o IBOC e voltando o Am Stereo, pois em testes o som do Iboc é pior que um Bom Am Stereo, vejam aqui uma comparação Am Stereo VS Fm Stereo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=o6FzkeQY2uU (Neto Silva, Brasília DF, Mar 14, radioescutas yg via DXLD) The number of people reached by HD Radio remains small: http://tinyurl.com/HD-ListeningData AM HD RADIO WHERE THE HD STANDS FOR 'HIGHLY DISAPPOINTING&# 39; Concerning AM HD Radio, the HD sidebands junk-up the band as many of you know, and nighttime operation is really plagued when skywave comes alive (which it does every night). Today's AM HD Radio is "highly disappointing radio" because it is a far cry from the interference- free system we were promised decades ago. In the following article, AM HD problems are clearly elucidated. It is rare to see such a frank discussion in a sponsor-driven journal (perhaps that's why the comments appeared in a TV magazine). Skip down to the Conclusions section if you are in a hurry, and don't forget to shut off your AM HD exciter before leaving the building. Be 'green` and help clean up the AM band. http://tinyurl.com/AM-HD-Update TESTING AM RADIO IN THE ALL-DIGITAL MODE Initial field tests have been completed by operating WBCN, 1660 kHz, Charlotte, N.C. in the 'all digital' mode. Judging from the group of engineers in attendance, the testing was done for one and only one digital system -- HD Radio. The results have yet to be announced but a paper is planned for the NAB Show in April. The WBCN test was apparently a simple test in the quiet part of the AM band (1610-1700 kHz) and the station was non-directional (eliminating a number of problems associated with directional arrays). Obviously there wasn't any co-channel interference from other all-digital HD stations because there are no other all-digital AM HDs in the U.S. Hopefully digital modes other than HD Radio were tested but there is no evidence that this was so. Modes such as DRM were not even mentioned in the article that is cited below. DRM has had fabulous success and widespread adoption in other parts of the world [sic] and is a candidate to become the U.S. all-digital standard -- if tested. If DRM wasn't tested at WBCN, everyone will wonder why. That would remind us of how the U.S. killed COFDM as the HDTV modulation standard by making sure COFDM was never tested on U.S. soil. Hopefully future tests will be fair and all-inclusive. http://tinyurl.com/Digital-AM-Testing (CGC Communicator March 19 via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) This is a total guess, but maybe some advertisers have a certain view of what demographics would listen to HD radio feeds. I have to assume if they do imagine that HD demographics are interesting in any particular way, they wouldn't exactly be accurate. On the other hand, I wonder if people are allowed to advertise things on HD that they wouldn't otherwise be permitted to on regular broadcast radio. Would that attract some advertisers over to HD? Then again, I haven't really had an opportunity to listen. When I've tried to use HD radios in stores they were never able to pick up a usable signal at all (narvorr, ABDX via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See also AUSTRALIA; BELGIUM non; FRANCE; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ GERMANY; INDIA; JAPAN; NIGERIA; ROMANIA; RUSSIA; SPAIN; IBOC above; PROPAGATION below NXP SUCCESSFULLY TEST DRIVES DIGITAL RADIO MONDIALE IN INDIA March 14, 2013 As India rolls out DRM, NXP is first to complete live in-car demo, supporting all major digital terrestrial radio standards on a single automotive co-processor: http://www.nxp.com/news/press-releases/2013/03/nxp-successfully-test-drives-digital-radio-mondiale-in-india.html (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, March 14, dx_india yg via DXLD) I don't really know how many people listen to DRM, but I am very appreciative of ANY MOVE to give more coverage on shortwave. As far as I know I am the only person listening to DRM from Sri Lanka but if the station had the budget I am not worried as it is not my problem! I like the AIR Sinhala on 15050 1300-1500 UTC which comes in pretty well with hardly any droputs now with a good antenna, although with a bad hum which I keep highlighting to the DRM engineers at Khampur; and also Vatican Radio 1530-1550 English on 15775 kHz which is one of the best DRM Broadcasts I can get. We remember how crowded the Short Wave bands were during the height of Short Wave usage. We heard very few frequencies above 15450 and below 15100 just to take the 19 m.b. as an example. Then the spectrum was expanded and today we have stations using frequencies as high as 15880. However, many stations have also left the SW bands and it is a crime to have DRM interfering far beyond even its own target with analog broadcasts. I am contacting the HFCC Steering Committee to take up DRM and special band coverage for it. There is more than ample frequency spectrum for both to coexist without interfering (Victor Goonetilleke, Sri Lanka, March 15, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ Re 13-11: AM & FM to be eliminated from auto dash http://www.radioink.com/Article.asp?id=2629509&spid=24698 Follow up article now posted: "My editorial about AM/FM removal from cars has caused great concern in the radio industry. My mistake is that I put something in quotes from my recollections of the panel and the discussions afterward and my quote was inaccurate. Furthermore, my mistake was that I did not verify what was said by contacting the car companies directly for confirmation before running the story. As I received concerns from within the industry I looked at the video and learned my quote was inaccurate. My editorial stated two inaccuracies: I quoted, "AM and FM are being eliminated from the dash of two car companies within two years and will be eliminated from the dash of all cars within five years." The fact is, my recollection was incorrect and this was not said on stage as I reported. So that I can abide by my history of journalistic integrity, here is exact and explicit documentation of what was said, where I thought I heard that quote, which I pulled from the video of the session." (via Mike Barraclough, March 16, dxldyg via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ Any broadcasts on the 11 mb this sun cycle? I remember the sunspot peak of thirty-odd years ago (late 1970s, early '80s) when a small number of broadcasters were using the 11 mb for "experimental" services. For a couple of years in that cycle, there was some reliability with tiny transmitters. HCJB's transmitter, broadcasting on 26010 with a hundred watts (like a light bulb!) from Ecuador, came in here in Newfoundland like a local station. Deutsche Welle, if I remember correctly, was also using the 11 metre band with among others, their English service. DW produced beautiful sound here, too. I think even the BBCWS was using it for a time. I've been away from shortwave for a long time and, now that I'm back, I keep scanning the 11 mb in hopes of catching someone trying it out. It seems to my aging brain a much more worthwhile "experimental" thing for broadcasters to do than trying digital bc'g on the lower bands (Philip Hiscock, Nfld, March 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The only listing I've seen is: 26060 Raiway Roma(DRM) 0000-2400 1234567 Italian(Digital) 0.2 ND Vatican City CVA RR --- via AOKI (Dave Hughes, KCMO, ibid.) :) Ain't that ironic -- it *would* be DRM! Thanks (Philip Hiscock, ibid.) As posted here in the last week: "Test DRM transmissions were conducted in Moscow on February 27th and 28th 2013. The test focused on tuning aspects. Some of the measurements were of the SFN transmission in DRM in the range of 26 MHz. The approximate time of the Transmission was 0900-1500 MSK (0500- 1100 UT), channel 25900 kHz." (Christopher Rumbaugh, ibid.) Philip, There are zero conventional full-power analog SW broadcasts on 11m this cycle, nor do I think there were any around the previous peak. This would obviously work on good days when there are 1 kW or less hams all over the 10 meter band from other continents, but no broadcaster finds 11m worth the trouble. Besides the low-power DRM experiments here and there, broadcast auxiliaries in the US are often heard from a few stations (hundreds are licensed for occasional use), such as 25950 Denver, 25910 & 25990 Dallas, 26110 Stockton, as have been reported in DXLD (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) That's excellent news which I missed when reported in DXLD. Thanks, Glenn. I'll keep tuned to it in hopes of hearing them (Philip Hiscock, ibid.) I should add that the aux transmitters are in the narrowband FM mode, altho can usually copy them in AM by slope-tuning (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) CYCLE 24 PEAKS IN 2013 & 2015??? In recent online articles about a possible two-peak Cycle 24, they were talking about the peak in late 2011 and another in 2013. But I noticed recently that solar physicist Dean Pesnell of NASA is suggesting a peak in late 2013 and another in 2015. Check the last line of the first paragraph of this article posted yesterday on the ARRL website: http://www.arrl.org/news/solar-cycle-24-may-have-double-peaks-says-nasa-solar-physicist (QST de W1AW, Propagation Forecast Bulletin 11 ARLP011, From Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, WA March 15, 2013, To all radio amateurs, via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) PROPAGATION REPORT FROM SOUTH AFRICA 17 March, 2013 Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is expected to continue at low levels but there is a good chance that it may pick up in the near future. There remains a chance for M-class Solar flares. If you want to do your own frequency predictions, the expected effective sunspot number for the week will be around 64. All the bands from 20 to 10 m will provide lots of DX fun with 15 m providing the best openings with 20 m not far behind. There will also be 10 m openings on sunlit paths in the afternoons. Please visit http://www.spaceweather.co.za/ for further information. (South African Radio League) • All propagation reports can be found at: http://www.southgatearc.org/propagation (via Mie Terry, March 17, dxldyg via DXLD) SIGNIFICANT GEOMAGNETIC STORM UNDERWAY Sun Mar 17, 2013 3:53 pm (PDT) For my amateur radio operator and SWL friends around the world. A significant geomagnetic storm began at approximately 0600 UT this morning and continues at 2230. The Kp (planetary) index has reached a level of 7, which is strong geomagnetic storming. At the mid latitudes the K has reached a 6, which is moderate geomagnetic storming, at high latitudes an 8, which is severe geomagnetic storming. If you live in the northern U.S. or any latitude north of 40 deg north and have clear skies you may see some visible aurora tonight. asically LF, MF and HF radio wave propagation has been wrecked, while VHF radio wave propagation has been enhanced. 73 & GUD DX, (Thomas F. Giella, W4HM, Lakeland, FL, USA 2253 UT March 17, ABDX vi DXLD) MF wrecked?? MW DXers love auroral conditions, wiping out northern stations and bringing in southern stations (gh, DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2013 Mar 18 0210 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/weekly.html # # Weekly Highlights and Forecasts # Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 11 - 17 March 2013 Solar activity was low to moderate. Low activity dominated the week with only low level C-class events observed on 11-14 and 16-17 March. A long duration C2/1f flare associated with a filament eruption near N20E05 occurred at around 12/1107 UTC. An associated asymmetric full halo was assessed to be Earth-directed with a velocity in the low 700 km/s range at departure. Activity increased to moderate levels on 15 March when Region 1692 (N09, L=077, class/area Hhx/250 on 09 March) produced an M1/1f long duration flare at 15/0658 UTC. This flare appeared in H-alpha imagery to erupt along a NE to SW oriented filament channel and partially through Region 1692 beginning at 15/0615 UTC. Associated with this flare were a 150 sfu Tenflare, a Type IV radio sweep, and an asymmetrical full-halo CME (estimated plane-of-sky speed of 1399 km/s). The CME first appeared in SOHO/LASCO C2 imagery at 15/0712 UTC. A greater than 10 MeV proton event associated with the 15 March CME began at 16/1940 UTC, reached a maximum flux of 16 pfu at 17/0700 UTC, and ended at 17/0825 UTC. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal to moderate levels throughout the period. Geomagnetic field activity was quiet from 11-14 March. Activity increased slightly to yield a few isolated unsettled periods on 15-16 March due to weak effects from the 12 March CME. The geomagnetic field began at quiet levels on 17 March. At 17/0601 UTC, a geomagnetic Sudden Impulse (41 nT on the Boulder magnetometer) was observed as the 15 March CME became geoeffective. Minor to major storm periods were subsequently observed with major to severe storm periods at high latitudes for the 17/0900-2100 UTC periods. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 18 MARCH - 13 APRIL 2013 Solar activity is expected to be low throughout the period. A slight chance for M-class activity exists through 20 March while Regions 1696 (N04, L=095, class/area Eai/190 on 16 March) and 1698 (S19, L=118, class/area Eao/200 on 17 March) remain on the disk, and again from 01-13 April when the two regions are expected to return to the visible disk. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to begin the period at moderate levels but rise to high levels from 19-24 March due to effects from the 15 March CME. A decrease to normal to moderate levels is then expected through 28 March. High levels are expected from 29 March-04 April due to effects from a recurrent coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). A return to normal to moderate levels is expected for the remainder of the period. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet to minor storm levels on 18 March due to continued effects from the 15 March CME. Quiet to unsettled levels are expected to prevail throughout the remainder of the period with the exception of possible active periods on 28 March due to CH HSS effects. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2013 Mar 18 0210 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 2013-03-18 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2013 Mar 18 120 20 5 2013 Mar 19 115 8 3 2013 Mar 20 110 5 2 2013 Mar 21 105 8 3 2013 Mar 22 105 5 2 2013 Mar 23 100 5 2 2013 Mar 24 95 5 2 2013 Mar 25 90 5 2 2013 Mar 26 90 5 2 2013 Mar 27 90 5 2 2013 Mar 28 95 18 4 2013 Mar 29 100 10 3 2013 Mar 30 100 5 2 2013 Mar 31 105 5 2 2013 Apr 01 110 5 2 2013 Apr 02 120 5 2 2013 Apr 03 125 5 2 2013 Apr 04 125 5 2 2013 Apr 05 125 5 2 2013 Apr 06 125 5 2 2013 Apr 07 120 5 2 2013 Apr 08 120 5 2 2013 Apr 09 115 5 2 2013 Apr 10 110 5 2 2013 Apr 11 110 5 2 2013 Apr 12 105 5 2 2013 Apr 13 105 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1661, DXLD) ###