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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1666 headlines: *DX and station news about: Algeria non, Australia, Bolivia, China, Colombia, Congo DR non, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea non, France, Germany, Greece, India, International Internet, International Vacuum, Korea South non, Kurdistan non, Kuwait, Libya, Mexico, Nigeria, North America, Pakistan, Pridnestrovye, Puntland, Sarawak non, Somaliland, Taiwan, Tunisia, USA, Vanuatu SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1666, April 25-May 1, 2013 Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed on webcast] Thu 2100 WTWW 9479 [confirmed] Fri 0328v WWRB 3195 [confirmed] Sat 0130v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 [POSTPONED this week to: Sun 0200] Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1500 WRMI 9955 Sat 2330v WTWW 9930 Sun 0200v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 [this week only] Sun 0400 WTWW 5830 Sun 2330v WTWW 9930 Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or maybe 1667 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/ ** ABKHAZIA. Radio Abkhazia (Apsua Radio): 0700-0800 on 9535 SUK 005 kW / non-dir to CeAs Abkhaz Mon/Wed/Fri 0800-0830von 9535 SUK 005 kW / non-dir to CeAs Russian Mon/Wed/Fri But much to my surprise there was no broadcast on April 10, 17 & 22 (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) ** ALBANIA. 9850, 23/Apr 2303, R Tirana, OM speaks emphatically, interviews recorded. Modulation very low compared to the signal strength in my QTH. 45332. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALGERIA [non]. 7295, April 24 at 0519, Issoudun, FRANCE does it again! Mixture, double audio feed of RTA Qur`an service and Arabish talking on the other at equal levels. 9535 is // with Qur`an only (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. The identification announcement for Radio America / Melody on 1629.83 (heard in NZ last year – ed Briain Clark) is “Desde la cuna de la colonización entrerriana, transmite Radio Melody LRM991, San José, Entre Ríos, Argentina”. LRM991 is the call sign of Radio Melody, the FM station operating on 105.3 MHz. The AM station on 1630 is called “AM AMérica” but they fill many hours rebroadcasting Melody and Melody relaying Cadena 3 at night (M. Molano & H. Klemetz via Real DX Yahoo Group via April NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. 15344.96, R. Nacional, 0123, April 22. The usual Monday (UT) radio play/drama; 0231 list of actors and people involved in the production; singing “Radio Nacional” jingle and several “Radio Nacional” IDs; mostly fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RAE with interval signal and multilingual ID on 11710.70 heard with better than usual signal into Montreal at 0158 UT. English program starting at 0202. Modulation is a little low, but I can get most of the broadcast. Seems to have some white noise interference with the signal. 73 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, UT April 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Australia 1988, ACT/NSW AM, Retro Radio Dial Radio Heritage Foundation http://www.radioheritage.com April 22 2013 ____________________ A fascinating look back 25 years ago to 1988 and radio stations that could be heard in ACT/NSW Australia just been released by the Radio Heritage Foundation at www.radioheritage.com. As well as a complete list of AM stations along the dial, the new feature includes the name of the radio station owners of that era, nearly all of which were local corporations and individuals in the days before mergers and acquisitions led to big changes in what Australians could listen to. Retro Radio Dial ACT/NSW Australia 1988-2013 is the latest of a new series exploring all Australian & US states in the coming months, as well as other parts of the world. The feature includes the Top 20 music Hits of 1988, popular movies and books and other aspects of popular culture that add to the flavor of the AM & FM radio dials of the past 25-50 years. The Retro Radio Dial series includes features exploring radio as early as 1928 in California, Japan and Shanghai in 1941, Hawaii in 1961, Idaho and Texas in 1963 and many new titles are currently in preparation. The Radio Heritage Foundation is an independent non-profit organization with no connections to the broadcasting industry or any government agency, and is supported by people worldwide who think it's important to protect radio memories for the future. Content at www.radioheritage.com is free. Come along and visit the ACT/NSW Australia AM radio dials in 1988 with us. There's even a place for you to share your own radio memories of those times. Radio Heritage Foundation www.radioheritage.com The Global Radio Memories Project 'where today's people connect with yesterdays radio' (David Ricquish, RHF, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 5940//5995//9475//9580//12065, April 19 at 1430, very good signals from Shepparton on multiple frequencies from R. Australia. A friendly voice to start the day. Australia. 5940//6150//9580//12065, April 22 at 1315, very good signals from Shepparton on multiple frequencies from R. Australia. Excellent start to the day with my morning coffee (David Williams, Sacramento, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi David, Here on the central coast of California also with good reception. 2325 // 2485 // 4835 all doing well today just after my sunrise, so went to check out Radio Symban on 2368.48 kHz. Yes, heard EZL songs about 1333 (faint!), clearly non-Greek! (Ron Howard, while listening at Asilomar State Beach, April 22, ibid.) Desperately seeking Symban --- Have you ever had a striper on the hook and had it almost to the boat when it tail dances and throws the hook, yet you are so excited to ALMOST catch a striper? Yeah, me either. Such was the case in my ongoing quest to ID Symban. I do however have some observations to possibly help other DXers in the quest for this elusive catch. Out of habit I begin my DXing using a LSB filter. I go through a bunch of frequencies I have in memories. One of them is (was) 2368.48 LSB. At 1035 I noticed a carrier a bit lower in frequency. It turned out to be a utility peaking on 2368.09. It was stronger than the Symban carrier. So I believe to catch Symban, you need to be using an USB setting on your rig. The Aussie domestic services on 2325 and 2485 were booming in this morning. This always gives me hope for catching Symban. Bah. At 1140 it was peaking, and there was enough coherence to tell the music was EL instrumental, and not Greek music, as reported by Ron Howard yesterday. By 1200, when I had hoped to ID, it had faded away. It might be too late in the season for me to catch this one (Mike Gilchrist, Toledo IA, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, ibid.) Just completed recording my DX report for next Monday's airing of Mailbox on Radio NZ International, which contains my latest observations on these stations. Regarding 2368.5. In recent weeks I have been hearing broadcasts in Samoan on this frequency, with plenty of Pacific Island melodies, as monitored during our local evening ie 0800 to 1030 UT. Haven't been able to check later or in our early morning, but I had the impression around 2000 UT that the format at that time might be Greek - reception almost at 'imagination level'. The broadcasts in Samoan have modulation problems which doesn`t help in tryng to pick out any programme name or title. I have some enquiries out to the Samoan community in Australia to see if I can track the origin of these broadcasts (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, New Zealand, AOR7030+ and EWEs to the Americas, April 24, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2368.48, Radio Symban, 1224-1335, April 24. Extraordinary reception! In a Pacific vernacular with distinctive Pacific region singing; certainly the strongest I have ever heard them. A most pleasant hour of listening! My local sunrise at 1321. https://www.box.com/s/oinnce5jmdp930lpqgwl contains MP3 audio (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 9475, RA, 19 April at 1554 with talks and songs, S3 QRM by DRM on 9480 S7 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ?? HFCC and Aoki have nothing in DRM on 9480, altho RA itself could be after 1700 on 9475, but not really (gh, DXLD) 21725, April 24 at 0518, RA, poor signal, but // inbooming 15515. OSOB at this very late hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Collision with SPAIN: q.v. Having received - during a period of 50 years - several hundred proper verification cards from Radio Australia, it is a gesture of good will to fulfill a collector’s special request to take care and give complete and correct details on the verification. (After) polite reminders to verify the last frequencies used by Darwin, it did not make me happy to receive a note saying ‘If you have not received these QSLs then they are not coming’. So I had no other choice but to use another way of getting the following verifications now: Radio Australia via Darwin (11865 and 11980), Shepparton (11945) and via Palau (9890 kHz). Thank you very much indeed, John Westland (Günter Jacob in Passau, Germany, April NZ DX Times via DXLD) Well, Günter, having been in the situation of issuing QSL’s, it does take time and money, even for a major international broadcaster. As funding decreases, the focus surely must go to programming and transmission. Our DX interest becomes a sideline, unfortunately (Theo Donnelly, ed., ibid.) Chutzpah ** AZERBAIJAN. Voice of Justice: 0600-0630 on 9677.5vSPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Wed/Sat 1400-1430 on 9677.5vSPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Tue/Fri (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) ** AZERBAIJAN. Voice of Talyshistan: 0900-1000 on 9677.5vSPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Talysh 1200-1300 on 9677.5vSPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Talysh 1500-1600 on 9677.5vSPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Talysh (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) 9677, V Talisitan, 19 April at 1514 with music, overloaded with bad modulation and S7 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BAHRAIN. 9745, R. Bahrain. From 2238 nonstop Arabic music. Nice peak at 2253. Could hear audio better in USB, although it was audible in AM mode as well. But the Perseus showed it was plainly lacking the LSB. M announcer very briefly over beginning of next Arabic Pop song at 2259. 0011:55 very short M ID announcement "?? point 4 Shabab". Peaking 0018. 0020:05 M again with ID "98.4 Shabab". Still getting Arabic music at 0121 check. Better on the Welbrook. (11-12 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** BANGLADESH. Radio Bangladesh or Bangladesh Betar monitored schedule Here is the monitored sked of Radio Bangladesh till 1815 hours. The 1815 and 1900 transmissions could not be monitored. 1230-1300 English 15105 kHz to South & SE Asia 1315-1345 Nepali 7250 kHz to South Asia 1400-1430 Urdu 15505 kHz to South Asia 1515-1545 Hindi 15505 kHz to South Asia 1600-1630 Arabic 7250 kHz to Middle East 1630-1730 Bengali 7250 kHz to Middle East 1745-1815 V. of Islam (English) 7250 kHz to Europe 1815-1900 English 7250 kHz to Europe (tent) 1915-2000 Bengali 7250 kHz to Europe (tent) (Alok Dasgupta, India, Apr 13, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 19 via DXLD) ** BANGLADESH. 15105, Bangladesh Betar; *1230-1300*, 17-Apr; IS on at 1257:11; English s/on 11 seconds early after pips/tone. News to 1237 "Comment" on Pakistan. 1242:50 ID into program about Bangladesh history. Close with ID & e-mail; off at 1259:45. SIO=332+ in AM; LSB helps with Chinese on 15110, SIO=243. Just barely audible the previous day (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15505, April 18 I tune in early at 1352 to find when BB may come on: *1353:30 carrier on and immediately also hum plus tone test; 1357:30 change to hum plus Bangladesh Betar interval signal; hum plus timesignal ending 17 seconds early at 1359:43, then hum and usual theme and opening Urdu service; hum and a bit of music circa 1410, more hum and talk; after 1415 hum and mostly music; 1429:30 hum and announcement; 1430 hum and parasitic noise circa plus/minus 4.4 kHz stop at the same time, so they come from the modulation input, while now clean carrier stays on a few sex longer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15505, Bangladesh Betar. On April 18 at *1357 test tone went off and started IS; pips; ID; briefly with subcontinent music and into the news in Urdu; strong signal. As Glenn has been reporting, the very strong hum makes for unpleasant listening here (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello, Here, in France, very good signal from Radio Bangladesh Betar on 15505 today at 1515-1544. Opening music, ID, news in Hindi (?), beautiful music and songs, SINPO 44444 (Nicolas Delaunoy, Location 20 km south east of Paris (France), RX Kenwood R600, Antenna long wire 10 meter, April 18, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15505, April 20 I am waiting earlier for BB carrier to come on, but today not until *1359:00, adding hum and IS about 10 sex later, timesignal fast again ending at 1359:46, usual theme and Urdu opening; fair. 15505, April 21 from *1356:25 carrier; 1356:50 add hum and tone test; 1357:16 switch to Bangladesh Betar interval signal; 1359:42 end of ``1400`` timesignal; very poor signal today. 15505, another check for BB April 22: nothing on until *1357:26 carrier, soon applying hum and interval signal; timesignal ending at 1359:39 and opening Urdu, poor signal. 15505, April 23 at *1356:19, BB carrier on and quickly adding hum and tone; 1357:12 switch to IS which we get to hear longer than usual today for 2+ minutes; mis-timesignal ends at 1359:47.5, opening Urdu. Poor with heavy flutter. 15505, April 24 at *1358:15, BB carrier on, very poor with IS and hum, timesignal ending at 1359:42. At least manages to propagate a bit transpolar despite degraded conditions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. 11730, Radio Belarus; 2050-2200+, 16-Apr; Presume them in English at 2000 s/on, but too buried to copy much--slightly better at time noted. Lite pop music to English close at 2157+ with ID and sked. Brief IS & continued in presume listed Russian. SIO=2+52, SSB helps. Nothing on listed // 7255 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11730, R. Belarus. Poor for first 25 minutes of English broadcast, then suddenly picked up from 2025 to 2033 "Made in Belarus Project" program with M host ending with program outro and ID "...stay tuned to R. Belarus". Instrumental music bridge, 2040:20 ID by M and into next feature. 2040-2050 feature "Belarus Economic Opportunities" by different M presenter. 2054-2056 short talk by W over lively instrumental music seemingly on a Belarus city. 2056-2059 pop/dance song by a regional W vocal artist. 2100 English ID/promo by M "You're listening to Radio station Belarus...". (17 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 11730, R. BELARUS (150 kW, Minsk-Kalodzicy), 2141 UT. English programme, announced by a woman. Close of English programme at 2157. Very low audio, probably modulation problem. SINPO: 44343 (Eduardo PEÑAILILLO, Receiver: Brigmton BT-360; Antenna: wire antenna, 7 meter (approx.) QTH: North zone of Santiago, residential area, Chile, April 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 11930, April 18 at 0523, BR 1 music is underneath pulse jamming from the stupid Cubans when R. Martí is never on this frequency, Commies vs pseudo-Commies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. Onda Corta, en cambio, estaba imposible. En 60 metros quise chequear las dos frecuencias supuestamente reactivadas desde Bolivia, pero la banda estaba cerrada como con un candado. Desde hace dias la madrugada en las frecuencias bajas está totalmente mustia, ignoro por qué. He estado leyendo algo sobre esa mancha magnética que hay sobre Sudamérica, pero no sé si achacarle la culpa a eso. 73 desde Montevideo (Rodolfo Tizzi http://cx2abp.blogspot.com/ condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 4699.96, R. San Miguel, Riberalta, 31/03 2345-0046, 22222+, px religioso trasmisión de la Santa Misa, mx religiosa, continúan con mx religiosa, avisos parroquiales. Durante todo ese tiempo de escucha, no dieron el ID (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Perú, Chasqui DX Abril, 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, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4717.15 approx., April 24 at 0059, Andeanish vocal music with shouted interjexions, right thru hourtop past 0103, as Radio Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura is on the hi side of 4717 instead of usual considerably to the lo side. Also best signal from them in some time, even tho our sunsets are latening, now 0113 UT, but it`s already some three hours after sunset in Bolivia. 0106 M&M about ``la virgen``, must be secs-talk show, or ??? 0108 sounds like a produced exhortative commercial. I am now avoiding the x-word, even in abbreviating seconds, since I suspect that triggers yahoomail rejexions. If so, grow up! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) En 4716.85, LLega muy bien por Buenos Aires, 0048 UT (Ernesto Paulero, UT April 25, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.52, R. Pio XII, Siglo XX, 4/04 1125-1205, 44444. Como siempre, lo mantenemos informado a través del px El Noticiero, Bolivia al día, news, ID "Por Pio XII”, advs en español y quechua, ID “La mejor programación de mi pueblo Pio XII.. Pio XII”; px en quechua (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Perú, Chasqui DX Abril, 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, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non log]. 5952.43v, Radio Pio Doce. April 22 audio off early by 0225 (normally 0230*), but prominent open carrier noted till past 0258 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6024.94, R. Patria Nueva, La Paz, 14/04 2225-2245, 44444+, advs El Banco Nacional le ayuda con su ahorro, El gobierno con la central obrera boliviana con el Misterio de Salud y Deporte; px Radio Deporte, news deportivas, ID “Lo mejor del deporte con Radio Patria que la sintoniza”, advs Casa Real, partido de Bolívar con la Paz fútbol (3 a 1), transmisiones de primera para football de primera, slogan “La radio que quiere escuchar Patria Nueva” (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Perú, Chasqui DX Abril, 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, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6134.90, R. Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, 14/04 2253-2315, 44444+, mx tropical cumbia (ojitos de agua), mx en forma continua, ID “960 kHz Onda Media, 6135 kHz Onda Corta, 92.3 FM, trasmite Radio Santa Cruz, desde Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia”, advs Cruz Roja boliviana con el apoyo de Radio Santa Cruz (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Perú, Chasqui DX Abril, 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, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BONAIRE. Trans World Radio inaugurated a 500 kW Continental medium wave transmitter on 15 May 1964. On 13 August of that year they inaugurated SW transmissions using two Continental transmitters, one with 50 kW and the other with 260 kW (not 250). There was an agreement to relay some Radio Nederland transmissions on the 260 kW SW and 500 kW MW transmitters, using 800, 9590 and 15220 kHz until the RNW station was inaugurated on 4 March 1968 (Colin Miller, VE3CMT, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4785.00, BRASIL, R. Caiari, Porto Velho, 2/04 1044-1156, 22222 ++, advs, mx tropical, ID “6 y 42 en Radio Caiari”, mx y advs “Radio Caiari”, de un momento a otro la señal queda cubierta por Radio Oriental. (ver 4781.70) (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Perú, Chasqui DX Abril, 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, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4785, R. Caiari, 0925-0925 "And I Love Her" by W vocalist, 0927 quick ID jingle by M with stutter effect. 0927-0930 ZY ballad by W. 0930 two canned announcements both by M. 0931 short announcement by live studio M announcer, then ad/promo block including mention of Bom Dia and a program promo, and ending with nice jingle ID. 0933-0937 back to ZY contemporary pop song with M vocalist. 0937-0940 another remake. 0940 same ID jingle with stuttering "Caiari". 0940-0942 a short ZY Pop song. 0942 possible promo with bom dia and Amazonas, then nice ID with frequency by M over soft instrumental music. 0943-1000 some sort of feature with long talk by M but couldn't decipher the subject. Possibly religious/inspirational. Did hear mentions of Brasil. 1000 soft instrumental music and feature outro by M with ID and mention of Marie, then ad/promo block including a full ID by W with frequency. over music and ID jingle by M. CODAR QRM. Thunderstorm static crashes. Fading of course. (20 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4805, R. Difusoras [sic] do Amazonas, 0931-0932 promo mentioning Amazonas, another with one frequency and mention of Manaus, then full ID by W as Difusoras do Amazonas, and ID/promo by M mentioning Difusoras and ending in jingle before going back to music. (14 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4885.01, R. Difusora Acreana, 0914 definite choral music weakly underneath 4885.02 Clube do Pará. Would be virtually impossible to ID with Pará at this time. 0926 getting stronger and starting to compete with Pará. Noted pop-like music. W announcer at 0929. There's also a 3rd station there on 4884.994. 0948 this had taken over completely and could easily recognize Portuguese talk by M. 0959 M finally finished, then instrumental music with clear ID by M 0959:40, followed by full canned ID announcement 1000, and another canned ID. Makes sense that this would be Acreana as Rio Branco is due north of La Paz and still in darkness while Belém and Anápolis are in daylight at 0948. (14 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 4825.24 [sic, should be 4925.24], R. Educação Rural. Could see the signal from MND Radio [Korea South] on 4924.98 at 0955 but couldn't detect any audio. R. Educação Rural came on 4925.24 at 0956 with low power followed by a sudden power increase at 0957, and then the audio on at 0958 with the full canned ID announcement. (8 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Recomento ouvirem o programa "Encontro DX" tradicional programa dedicado aos Radioescutas, Dexistas e amantes do radio em geral. Produção e apresentação do Cassiano Alves Macedo e José Moura. O Programa "Encontro DX" É transmitido aos Sábados das 22h às 23h UT Pela Rádio Aparecida Nas seguintes freqüências: 5035 kHz - 60 metros 6135 kHz - 49 metros 9630 kHz - 31 metros 11855 kHz - 25 metros QRV (Ulysses Galletti, April 24, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6010, R. INCONFIDENCIA (5 kW, Belo Horizonte), 0013 UT. Beautiful selection of orchestral music. Close to 0030, some announcements in Portuguese. SINPO: 34333 (Eduardo PEÑAILILLO, Receiver: Brigmton BT-360; Antenna: wire antenna, 7 meter (approx.) QTH: North zone of Santiago, residential area, Chile, April 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Usually classical music this hour on 15190v (gh) ** BRAZIL. 11815, Rádio Brasil Central, 0234-0311, Apr 20. Brasilian pop music program hosted by a male announcer with Portuguese talks, ID, jingles, etc. Woman announcer with news at 0256. Fair. Checked 4985 which was covered by some sort of noise pollution (Rich D'Angelo, 2216 Burkey Drive, Wyomissing PA 19610, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R-8B, Eton E1, Eton E5, Alpha Delta DX Sloper, RF Systems Mini-Windom, Datong FL3, JPS ANC-4, NASWA Flashsheet April 21 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 11925a, 0527, Rádio Bandeirantes, getting close to nominal frequency, now 11925.04 with Portuguese commercial program, fair // 9645.39, very good level 10/3. But drifted back on 11925.2 when checked at 0000 on 3 April (Bryan Clark, MANGAWHAI BROADCAST TRAIL, NZ, with AOR7030+ and EWE antennas to North, Central & South America, April NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 15191.26, R. Inconfidência, 2326:50 jingle then M with list of 36 network stations!! (17 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 15191.263, Rádio Inconfidência. This night on UPPER side around 2145 UT, was last week lower than 15190 kHz even (Wolfgang Büschel, April 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15190.26, R. Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte MG, 0140-0208, April 22. In Portuguese; older pop hit songs in English (Elton John, Joe Cocker, Rick Astley, etc.); between songs said “Inconfidência”; poor (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. Re 13-16: ``Summer A-13 of Brother Stair from Kostinbrod 1800-1900 on 11685 SOF 070 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English 1900-2100 on 7400 SOF 100 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English All other transmissions from Kostinbrod are cancelled!!`` Brother Scare from Kostinbrod now cancelled as well? No signals here tonight on 11685 and later on 7400 (Kai Ludwig, Germany, April 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes Kai, Brother Stair from Kostinbrod was been cancelled from April 22 (Ivo Ivanov, April 24, ibid.) See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non] ** BURMA [non]. Democratic Voice of Burma: 1430-1530 on 11560 DB 100 kW / 125 deg to SEAs Burmese 2330-0030 on 11595 DB 100 kW / 125 deg to SEAs Burmese (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) ** CAMBODIA [non]. Khmer Post Radio: 1200-1300 on 9960 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Khmer (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) ** CAMEROON [non]. Lutheran World Federation, Voice of Gospel (Sawtu Linjilia), 1830-1900 on 15315 WER 500 kW / 180 deg to WCAf Fulfulde (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) Not really clandestine but gets inlumped (gh) ** CANADA. Mystery 690 Canada (new) --- 690, C??? Montreal QC between ~9:00 PM ~ 9:40 PM [EDT?] battle for the channel trading with another carrying ESPN. Taking turns owning the channel. Mystery Montreal catch kept mentioning Montreal and TSN network. This could possibly be CKGM as during the session ~9:25 PM EDT I matched up bits and pieces to the CKGM webstream. However, what is making this difficult is radio- locator has 3 different stations listed for this channel, all in Montreal! Add in Murphy`s law, every time I tried to catch calls it would jump to the ESPN station so fast you didn't know it switched! I also cannot rule out a third station that may have popped in once during this; however the two dominates were the ESPN UNID and the TSN from Montreal. A low power 10 watt local pest occupied 690 making DX on this channel difficult was absent. 4/19/2013 (starship20012001, Heard on Grundig S350DL, Warwick R.I., ABDX via DXLD) The TSN station IS CKGM. They moved down to 690 from 990 a LONNNNG time ago. http://topazdesigns.com/ambc shows CKGM as the ONLY 690 on the air in Montreal, so I have no idea why radio-locator.com would show otherwise. As for the unID, the only ESPN station on 690 that I see is in Colorado, but I highly doubt that's a reasonable catch from Rhode Island, so my hunch would be that someone on 690 has made a recent format switch. 73, (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, ibid.) Radio-Locator should never be relied on for Canada - according to Radio-Locator, 1410 CIGO is still on the air, even though CIGO flipped to 101.5 FM 13 years ago! Radio-Locator may be quite useful for USA stations, but for Canada it is a joke. I think it was back in early fall 2012 that CKGM took over 690 and my dreams of DXing CBU out in Vancouver BC was dashed. 940 will be going back to Montreal too, so my days of DXing 940 CJGX Yorkton SK will be numbered and I really should record some audio sometime. 1410 Montreal is on the air I believe and beating up on WPOP in Hartford CT. Lack of FM frequencies is forcing AM to come back to life in Montreal (Phil rafuse, VY2PR, Stratford PE Canada, ibid.) Time for my semi-annual "Radio- Locator and Canada" post: All of the technical data that appears on radio-locator comes straight from a single source: the FCC's Consolidated Database System (CDBS). It's important to understand what the purpose of CDBS is. It's a strictly US-based system designed specifically to serve US broadcast licensees and applicants. For stations licensed within the US, CDBS is - and must be - a very reliable primary source as to what facilities are licensed to broadcast. That's why radio-locator uses it, and why just about any other reliable directory of US broadcast stations also depends on CDBS-based data. (That's where we got the technical information from in my days with 100000watts. com, for instance.) But CDBS was never designed to be a reliable primary source as to what's on the air outside the US. The only reason non-US facilities appear in CDBS is because US-based licensees have to protect those non-US facilities. And here's the key point: *The facilities US licensees have to protect are not necessarily the actual facilities on the air in Canada or elsewhere.* Canada, in particular, continues to "notify" the US of Canadian AM facilities long after those AM facilities have gone off the air. As long as Canada keeps notifying them, they must continue to be listed in CDBS, because they must continue to be protected by US licensees as though they were really on the air. (That's a matter of international treaty.) The people behind Radio-Locator are smart people. They know, I'm sure, that the data they're using for Canadian facilities are not meant to reflect actual on-air Canadian operations. I do not know why they persist in presenting that data in a way that makes it look otherwise. (I also don't know why they persist in linking their underlying data to callsigns and not purging format/contact info when a callsign moves to a different facility, but that's another story.) In any event, the point I'm really trying to make here is this: THERE ARE BETTER SOURCES FOR CANADIAN DATA. Industry Canada is the Canadian regulator that deals with the technical side of broadcasting, and it maintains its own database of Canadian broadcast facilities. Barry McLarnon' s list at http://topazdesigns.com/ambc/ draws on Industry Canada data and the work of DXers to present a much more accurate picture of what's really on the air. Same thing for the NRC's AM Log. And while the Industry Canada data is difficult to work with directly, RECNet downloads that data weekly and offers a search function that provides free access to that Industry Canada data. It's at http://cdbs.recnet.net:8080/fmq.php? Radio-Locator is a useful site for many things. I refer to it many times a day and would find it hard to replace if it went away. But it's run essentially as an automated service - and that creates some serious limitations that must be understood before one treats the information there as gospel. s (Scott Fybush, ABDX via DXLD) ** CANADA. 6159.978, CKZU, Vancouver, April 22, at 1111, while listening to the R Australia feed familiar here mornings, in Aussie, talking about the recent earthquake in China, a second audio feed came on line with a Buick ad, and then into a second feed different from the primary one, but louder. This continued until 1113:30. Strange (Mike Gilchrist in rural EC Iowa, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Mike, indeed strange, since the CBC does not air commercials. Perhaps it was the program, "The Age of Persuasion" which deals with this subject? 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, ibid.) Walt, Good call. I went searching, and found this on: http://www.cbc.ca/ageofpersuasion/ ``Saturday March 9, 2013 -- The Age Of Persuasion ends, and the era of Influence begins. For AOP fans: The Age of Persuasion radio series has been retired, and replaced with a new show called Under The Influence. The latest, Advertisers as Censors, seems to contain the Buick ad I heard. It did sound like old time radio, by the way. The story explains the relationship between sponsorship and censorship.`` I was scrambling to figure out what was going on and did not tape this short segment, but there appears to be a logical explanation (Mike Gilchrist in Iowa, ibid.) ** CHAD. 6165, R. NATIONALE TCHADIENNE (250 kW, N'Djamena), 2138 UT. Programme announced by a man, in French, with some songs of Africa- style. At 2152 the announcer mentioned N'Djamena, Chad's capital city. SINPO: 43333 (Eduardo PEÑAILILLO, Receiver: Brigmton BT-360; Antenna: wire antenna, 7 meter (approx.) QTH: North zone of Santiago, residential area, Chile, April 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Hi Glenn, Among the usual Firedrake fare this morning [April 18] was 18180 fair-good at 1259-1300 s/off at which time possible SOH underneath (Steve Handler, IL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake April 18, before 1330: 11500, good at 1329; none lower 12670, very good at 1326 12870, very good at 1326 13795, poor at 1326 13920, fair at 1326 14700, very good at 1324 14750, very good at 1324 15565, poor at 1322, het on hi side, also propeller noise 15605, poor at 1322 with het on hi side, RTTY on lo side 15970, very good at 1324; none in the 16s That makes a dizaine at once (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) April 18: 6970, Firedrake 2150 against SOH???? First time heard them in this band!!!! (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake April 19 circa 0130: 16160, very poor at 0131. Unusual time; no others found 11-19 MHz in complete scan until 0136 Firedrake April 19 before 1300, much more productive: 17450, very poor at 1242 17080, poor at 1242 16920, fair at 1243 16360, very poor at 1243 16160, very good at 1243 16100, very good at 1243 15900, very good at 1243 14700, good at 1247 13850, good at 1247 13820, poor at 1247 under R. Martí open carrier 13795, poor at 1247 12500, poor at 1247 11500, very poor at 11247; none in the 10s That`s a total of 13 transmitters at once. Firedrake April 19 after 1300: 15565, fair at 1319 - no further search as paying attention to events in Boston, OKC bombing commemoration (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13740, CHINA Firedrake music jammer. Apr 20, 1030. Check for //s showed some other CNR broadcasts, no crash-bang music. Oddly, this sounds like CNR1 on what are usually the Firedrake frequencies. 14750, CHINA, CNR1, Apr 20, 1030. M in Chinese, very strong, with //s 14700, 13920, 13850, 13530. 73 and best wishes for Good Listening! (Rick Barton, El Mirage, AZ, Hammarlund HQ-120X, Drake R-8, Slinky and random wire, ABDX via DXLD) Firedrake April 20 before 1300: NOT: instead, all the usual OOB FD frequencies are on the air with CNR1 program jamming instead, why? Compared to usual inband CNR1 jammer on 11785. The Hong Kong Firedrake orchestra is getting a well-deserved night off! 12230, fair at 1233 12670, good at 1233 with flutter 12870, poor at 1253 13530, fair at 1251 with CODAR 14700, fair-good at 1249 13750, poor at 1249 15560, poor at 1241, het on hi side 15800, fair at 1241 15870, good at 1241 15900, good at 1241 16100, very good at 1245 16360, poor-fair at 1245 16920, good at 1245 16980, poor at 1245 with ute 17300, good at 1247 18180, poor at 1247 That`s 16 at once, and I am not including many more usual inband CNR1 jammers, just mostly OOB frequencies where Firedrake normally appears. Firedrake [non] April 20 after 1300, still CNR1 audio instead: 14700, fair at 1326; none in the 13s or 12s 14750, very poor at 1326, not synch with 18970 either 15565, very poor at 1321; het on hi side 16100, fair at 1319 16160, very poor at 1319 16360, very por at 1319 17250, poor at 1322 18180, very poor at 1323, an echo apart from: 18970, very good at 1323! Unusual way up here, tho I must admit I don`t always tune all the way up to 19 MHz searching for FD. Now I tune all the way up to 21 MHz, but no others. I also usually don`t take the trouble to compare any non-synchrony among Firedrake frequencies, but I do note now that 18970 CNR1 is a few sex behind, e.g. 14700. 18970 still going at 1354-1400* off after timesignal, but not back before or after 1500 by 1517 quit. Note: in no case was there any trace of Sound of Hope, so I hope that no one reports any of these CNR1s as SOH. See also INDIA Again today April 21 before 1300, most but not all `Firedrake` frequencies are carrying CNR1 modulation instead, u.o.s.: 11500, poor at 1253; none in the 10s 12230, poor at 1237 12670, very poor at 1237 13130, very good at 1236 13430, very poor at 1235 with CODAR QRM 13795, poor at 1232, FD mixed with algo: RFA Tibetan via Kuwait 13830, very good at 1231 13920, good at 1231 13970, very good at 1231 14700, poor at 1238 with het 15560, very poor at 1240, het on hi side 16160, very poor at 1240; none in the 17s 16360, poor at 1240 18970, very poor at 1244 11825, good at 1251: echo CNR1 mixed with FD After 1300: 15610, fair at 1308, CNR1 plus propeller noise under WEWN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake Logs from Shanghai, China, April 21, 2013 --- I brought along my Sony SW77 on this trip to Shanghai, China and I was able to log the following Firedrake signals from my hotel. I did not really realize how many Firedrake signals are present at one time until I started to log them all! I just let the SW77 scan up the dial and quickly noted the frequency which was Chinese and had CNR programming (so some of these may be "legit" frequencies mixed in with intended jammers). All frequencies had Chinese talk or music except the ones noted with buzz jamming. 1050-1100 UT, April 21, 2013 (above 12 MHz logs): 12230, strong 12370, weak 13605, weak 13620, moderate 13680, moderate 13740, multiple signals, moderate 13805, weak 13850, weak 13920, weak 13970, strong 14400, strong 14700, weak 15160, strong 15250, strong 15400, strong 15435, moderate 15440, moderate 15480, weak 15900, weak 16100, strong 16160, strong 16850, weak 17250, weak 17300, weak 1100-1130 UT, April 21, 2013 (all bands): 5840, buzz jamming 5925, strong 6005, buzz jamming 6015, buzz jamming 6030, strong 6055, moderate 6110, moderate 6115, moderate 6125, moderate 6135, moderate 6155, moderate 6165, moderate 6175, moderate 6185, moderate 6220, moderate 6240, moderate 6270, buzz jamming 6275, buzz jamming 6345, weak 6350, buzz jamming 6360, buzz jamming 6400, strong 6480, buzz jamming 6520, buzz jamming 6600, buzz jamming 7230, strong 7280. moderate 7345, strong 7385, moderate 7390, strong 7435, strong 9280, moderate 9325, moderate 9410, strong 9420, moderate 9430, moderate 9445, strong 9500, strong 9515, strong 9540, strong 9550, strong 9620, strong 9645, moderate 9660, moderate 9680, strong 9830, strong 9845, strong 9910, strong 11640, weak 11680, strong 11735, strong 11720, weak 11750, strong 11760, strong 11775, moderate 11785, weak 11800, strong 11825, strong 11835, moderate 11875, weak 11945, strong 12055, weak 12105, strong 12120, strong 13580, weak 13610, weak 13920, weak 13970, strong 14700, weak 15195, weak 15250, strong 15400, strong 15440, moderate 15900, weak 16100, strong 16160, strong 16360, strong 16920, strong 16850, weak 17250, weak 17300, weak (Harry Smith, Shanghai, China, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6005, buzz jamming, it's 6003 kHz in fact, against Echo of Hope from South Korea 6015, buzz jamming, against KBS Hanminjok Bangsong 1, but there's a Chinese station on 6015 kHz too. It's PBS Xinjiang. 6350, buzz jamming, against God knows what (if a jammer at all, I suppose it may be a utility station of a STANAG 4285 or Link-11 type) 6360, buzz jamming, against MND Radio, but it's 24/7 250kW (MND Radio is not) 6480, buzz jamming, against MND Radio, but it's 24/7 250kW (MND Radio is not) 6520, buzz jamming, it's 6518kHz in fact, against Voice of the People from South Korea 6600, buzz jamming, against Voice of the People from South Korea There is Pyongyang Broadcasting Station on 6400kHz, but you have heard a Chinese station, right? (Georgi Bancov, Bulgaria, ibid.) Checked 6400 kHz at 1320 and the station is in fact in Korean at this time (though modulation was cutting in and out). Still strong. Thanks for the correction (Harry Smith, Shanghai, China, ibid.) Harry, Quite a list. The term ``Firedrake`` applies only to the raucous instrumental music modulation, not to CNR1 programming. But apparently you did not note which frequency had which? Just yesterday and today a lot of the traditional Firedrake frequencies have been occupied by CNR1 modulation instead, to confuse matters further. No doubt the same transmitters/sites, just different modulation input (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** CHINA. Firedrake changing habits or reduced use? "Token" , in the Mojave Desert, posted this earlier today to the shortwave-radio yahoo group and mentioned it also in the "#swl" chatroom on StarChat (Dan Ferguson, April 21, NASWA yg via DXLD) viz.: Hello all, Over the last couple of days I have noticed that many time slots and frequencies that are normally the Firedrake Jammer have switched audio to CNR 1. For example, at 1340 UT today (April 21, 2013) the frequencies of 14700, 15115, 16160, and 16920 all had CNR 1 audio on them, but normally they have Firedrake in this time slot. Not only is the CNR 1 audio being used on these frequencies instead of Firedrake, but the way they came online to cover the stations they were jamming is the same way Firedrake does it. For those not familiar, Firedrake has 2 basic modes of operation, "on at the top of the hour" and "on later". In the "on at the top of the hour" mode Firedrake typically comes on like any other SW station at the top of the hour or slightly before. In the "on later" mode Firedrake comes on sometime after the station to be jammed starts, typically Firedrake audio starts anything from 5 to 40 minutes after the hour, with about 10 to 20 minutes after the top of the hour being average. For the last few days I have seen the CNR 1 audio start displaying the "on later" habits of Firedrake and on frequencies that Firedrake has normally hit. In the last 12 hours I have found NO Firedrakes active, and normally I find them at will. In the 1400 UTC time slot only two CNR 1 audio jammers appear to be active at this time (1445 UTC), on 12230 and 12370 kHz, both regular Firedrake targets. All other outlets of Sound of Hope and other regular Firedrake targets are in the clear and have been for the entire hour. Could the Chinese, in response to the recently publicized jamming articles and complaints, have reduced usage of Firedrake? I suppose they could be having technical issues. T! Mojave Desert, California, USA (via Dan Ferguson, NASWA yg via DXLD) Hi Dan, As I have written in the past, Firedrake and CNR-1 appear to have the same point of control as well as some commonality in transmitter sites and transmitter feed sourcing. It has not been uncommon for CNR-1 and Firedrake, on different days, or even on the same day at different times, to be targeting the same frequency. I did not monitor Firedrake Saturday or Sunday due to other commitments. However, I did monitor them on Monday through Friday last week and Firedrake was heard on over a dozen frequencies with nothing that I would consider to be a major deviation. During my listening times of 1130-1530 GMT daily, Firedrake was heard primarily targeting the Sound of Hope, and secondarily targeting the Voice of Tibet, and to a much smaller degree, Radio Free Asia. Again, it is not usual that CNR-1 and Firedrake change off day to day, and sometimes even hour to hour against specific frequencies. Also be aware that CNR-1 and Firedrake are NOT the only Chinese jammers. There are other "systems" in use, including, but not limited to the propeller jammer (so named because it sounds like an airplane propeller). Also be aware, that for what I assume are "high value" target broadcasts, the Chinese sometimes "double team" a frequency, using more than one jammer on the same frequency at the same time. For example using both Firedrake and CNR-1 or both Firedrake and Propeller. Please understand that I am not saying that there hasn't been a change. What I am saying is that a few days, does not a trend make. A lengthy study, perhaps a month or two would need to be done. At least one such study is in progress. The results of a lengthy study should allow perhaps five hundred or more jamming intercepts to be made and compared to prior Firedrake/CNR frequency usage. That should provide an answer, with some degree of certainty, as to whether the Chinese have made an actual strategy change or whether it is simply part of the normal Chinese rotation of their various jammers (Steve Handler, ibid.) We don`t need 500 intercepts to conclude that there has been a drastic reduxion/replacement of FD audio by CNR1 audio. This is probably less significant than it may seem, perhaps even ad-hoc punching in a different audio circuit at master control on a whim, and could easily shift back to FD audio any day now. We prefer FD because it`s so easy to spot in bandscanning, and has to be for jamming, rather than CNR1 which on some frequencies is legit (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. At 2145-2230 UT Apr 21, on the Iceland remote post: 15290, RFA Tinian + Chinese Firedrake jamming S=9+15Db. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Here is today's Chinese Jamming Report for April 22, 2013 Covering 1220-1300 GMT. The following frequencies were heard in use by China National Radio One (CNR-1) on April 22, 2013. Each of these frequencies has recently been used by Firedrake until April 21, 2013 when CNR-1 began broadcasting in an apparent attempt to jam the Sound of Hope in Mandarin which also uses each of these frequencies. 12370 Good signal 1139 12500 Good signal 1224 and fair to good signal at 1256 12670 Fair signal 1140 13970 Fair signal 1226 and 1255 14400 Poor signal 1141 16160 Poor signal 1228 16360 Fair signal 1229 and a good signal at 1256 17170 Good signal at 1257 17300 Good signal at 1257 with sign off at ToH 1300 The following frequencies were heard in use by China National Radio One (CNR-1) on April 22, 2013. Each of these frequencies has recently been used by Firedrake until April 21, 2013 when CNR-1 began broadcasting in an apparent attempt to jam the Voice of Tibet which also uses adjacent frequencies. 15565 Fair signal 1255 15610 Fair signal 1228 The following frequencies were heard in use by China National Radio One (CNR-1) on April 22, 2013. Each of these frequencies has recently been used by both CNR-1 and Firedrake, depending on the day, in an apparent attempt to jam Radio Free Asia which uses this frequency. 13830 Fair signal 1258 (Steve Handler, IL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake, April 22: 11825, poor at 1253 in heavy mix with CNR1 jamming and VOA Chinese via Philippines. All off after 1300. NO OTHER Firedrake heard on traditional FD frequencies, but instead CNR1 program audio as jamming, as has been the case also the past two days. As before, I am not including mostly inband frequencies which were already occupied by CNR1 jamming, Before 1300: 16360, very poor at 1243, initial catch confirmed by // 11785 CNR1 jamming, but not in synch with it. Note that propagation is below par this morning, and local line noise level is above par! 16250, very poor at 1243; none in the 17s, 18s, 15s, 14s 13970, fair at 1249 13830, poor at 1249 12500, fair at 1249 12370, very poor at 1249 Before 1400, still CNR1 rather than FD, not a full search: 15970, very poor at 1357 16160, very poor at 1358 After 1400: 13850, fair at 1423; none in the 12s 15525, fair at 1420; none in the 14s 15570, fair at 1420 15870, good at 1420 15900, very good at 1420 16160, good at 1421 17370, good at 1422 with utebeeps; none in the 18s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 14980, CHINA, CNR 1, Apr 23, 1045. VG with programming in Chinese. Noted equally good //s on 14750, 14700, 13970, 13740, 11640, 9500, 11965. Noted that 13740 // was only fair, with Firedrake music over/under. That one was only one with FD music present. Heard by first sweeping band from 8.4 to 18.2 MHz with the HQ-120X, then filling in the blanks. 73 and best wishes for Good Listening! (Rick Barton, El Mirage, AZ, Hammarlund HQ-120X, Drake R-8, Slinky and random wire, ABDX via DXLD) Firedrake, April 23 circa 1330, except there is no Firedrake jamming heard on its traditional mostly OOB frequencies but instead still CNR1 modulation: 13920, very good at 1328; none in the 12s 14700, poor at 1330 with flutter 14980, very good at 1330 15195, fair at 1335: vs RFA Tibetan via Tajikistan at 11-14 15610, poor at 1333 under WEWN, plus propeller noise 15800, good at 1332 16100, very good at 1335, reverb apart from 14980 16160, fair at 1335, no reverb vs 14980 16920, good at 1337, reverb apart from 14980 17250, JBA at 1338; none in the 18s, 10s 17450, fair at 1337 After 1400, not a complete search, more CNR1 jamming: 15525, fair at 1422 15570, good at 1422 with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) With propagation so poor today, don`t expect much in the way of Firedrake (non), and I just find CNR1 jammers, none higher than: 12500, very poor at 1343 12870, very poor at 1343 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 11954, Firedrake Jammers. There was already an OC on 11954 at 1120. At 1123:17 another carrier showed up on 11962 and immediately both it and 11954 went in parallel with Firedrake jamming traditional Chinese music. 11962 was stronger than 11954. At 1125:27, CRIs OC came on 11955 with the program starting at 1130. Now why on earth would there be 2 jammers flanking CRI?? Could there have been a V. of Tibet or R. Taiwan International on 11955 underneath CRI?? Strange. (9 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) Obviously the 8-kHz-multiple spur transmitter we have also been hearing centered on 11760 after 1300. In this case probably originating on 11970 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11768 & 11744, April 18 at 1331, weak Chinese audible, // 11785 CNR1 jammer fundamental, but the fundamental for these 8-kHz-separated spurs is 11760, under Habana; also detectable as hets or JBA carriers on 11728, 11736, 11744, 11752, 11776, 11784, 11792. 8-kHz spur observations April 20 at 1256: detectable hets or JBA carriers on 11744, 11752, 11768, 11776, i.e. emanating from 11760 fundamental; at 1407 also on 11744, 11752, 11768, 11776. Normally before 1300 the fundamental is 11720, but today must have already switched to 11760 at 1256, as 11720 source would not normally reach up to 11776. 8-kHz spur field check, April 21 at 1252 out of 11760 or 11720: none found. But at 1303, now I have hets or JBA carriers on 11736, 11744, 11752, 11768, 11776 so out of 11760. Maybe there`s a different fundamental now before 1300? 11736, 11744, 11752, 11768, 11776, 11784, April 22 at 1304, JBA carriers/hets are back here, 8-kHz-multiple spurs out of CNR1 jammer on 11760 under Cuba. These were not audible before 1300, nor anywhere else on the 25m band. I was checking 11954 and 11962, where Dave Valko heard Firedrake carriers April 9 from 1120, but unknown why: to me, that means the 8- kHz-spur-producer was on 11970 at that time, and there probably would have been more of them also on the hi side. 11760, April 24 at 1341, heavy CCI to RHC, presumably the China radio war, CNR1 vs SOH, but no sign of the 8-kHz spur constellation around it, maybe due to degraded propagation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6020, April 18 at 1122, Korean, 1127 music, poor signal, per Aoki the CNR8 service this hour, 100 kW, 63 degrees from Beijing 491 site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6020, CNR8. After 1200 have recently been occasionally hearing IDs in ENGLISH; “China National Radio Mongolian Service”, given by a native speaker of English; very pleased to find this and hope to shortly have a recording of it to post. April 22. 6020, CNR8 – Mongolian Service. April 24 finally recorded a decent copy of their ID in English; “This is China National Radio, Mongolian Service, Beijing” and also in English “w-w-w dot mongol c-n-r dot c-n” ( http://www.mongolcnr.cn/ ). Very nice to find these occasional IDs after 1200; fair to good till Shiokaze (broadcasting from Japan to North Korea) signs on at 1330; light QRM from assume Voice of Vietnam 4 underneath. MP3 recording at https://www.box.com/s/uyjb257duch9mxzc00p4 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CNR 8 Mongolian is reported on 9615 kHz 1200-1400, ex 7445 kHz 1300- 1400 (WRTH National Radio Update 22 April via DXLD) ** CHINA. 6060, Sichuan PBS-2, minority service via Chengdu. For over a year now we have been enduring the non-stop jamming here from North Korea targeting VOA. April 20 at 1302 was very pleased to again hear Sichuan in the clear! No jamming! Nice to also find them still on the air April 21 at 1251, as they had a strong earthquake in Sichuan province yesterday; // 7225 (poor/QRM from VOA). They broadcast in Tibetan (Khams), Tibetan (Amdo dialect), Yui [this must be the Yi language] and Chinese, per Aoki. Schedule and station info at their website (cut & paste into Google translate), but their schedule has not changed any over the years, so must be outdated by now. Note audio streaming. http://www.iloveradio.me/diantai4709.html?wodaole Years ago this station use to carry a nice program ID in English for “This is the Voice of Golden Bridge” (per attached audio), but imagine they have long since dropped it (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6117.55, Voice of Strait. Thanks to the timely alert on April 22 from Dave Valko (PA), which I received just before heading off to the beach to listen, was also able to catch them off frequency; first time I recall this happening; nothing on ex-6115; heard just as Mike Gilchrist (Iowa) and Robin Harwood (Tasmania) have reported in dxldyg (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6117.553, Voice of Strait // 4940, April 22 at 1139 I was preparing my logs for this morning when I discovered an email from Ron Howard to be on the lookout for Strait off frequency; perfect for an anomaly morning. At 1140 a strong carrier came up on 6115. I checked and it was a religious broadcaster in English. No ID was heard and it disappeared entirely at 1145. Strong signal here. 1150 musical interlude and into news? 1155 child singing interlude, and then man talking over soft flute music. 1200, as the signal was fading, (It's been almost 45 minutes since my 1123 sunrise), time pips and what I assume was an ID. I didn't understand any of it, but did record it. Another strange one, thanks Ron (Mike Gilchrist in rural EC Iowa, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Mike and Ron, I can confirm reception of the station on 6117.5. It certainly was out of place as it stood out as propagation last night was lousy. I heard it later around 1220 and my first thoughts it was Thai being spoken by a Chinese but when a w/a came on it was definitely Chinese. Seemed to be a news bulletin with mentions of Pakistan, ASEAN, and Beijing. I initially thought it was CRI off- channel (Robin L. Harwood VK7RH/VK7OO2SWL, Norwood, Tasmania 7250, April 23, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9820, Beibu Bay R., 1100 time ticks, M with English time announcement and ID, then Coocoo clock SFX, then promo/ID mentioning "BBR". (17 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** CHINA [and non]. 11990, April 22 at 1254, something new here: carrier with tones on and off, typical tune-up procedure from Russia/CIS transmitters, so I stay with it to hear what develop by 1300? 1256, CNR1 jammer comes on making fast SAH. Tones stop circa 1259.5 to music, but can`t copy what, as too much jamming, after 1300 timesignal with ZRGD/CJKT ID. Nothing in today`s Aoki update to account for this either; however HFCC as of April 22 shows: 11990 1300 1500 44 NVS 250 120 0 216 1234567 310313 271013 D RUS IBB GFC 7237 I.e. a US government transmission via Novosibirsk, RUSSIA to CIRAF 44 = the eastern third of China. So it`s probably VOA in Mandarin (as this timeblock is for VOA not RFA), and not Tibetan. 11990, April 23 at 1257 like yesterday, Russian tune-up tones, prior to VOA Chinese via Novosibirsk, along with fast SAH, no doubt from ChiCom jammer about to pounce but no modulation yet. 1300, 5+1 timesignal and add CCCCCCI [Chinese Communist Chinese language co- channel interference] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CNR1 jamming on a strange frequency, April 22: 12000, poor at 1251, mixing with presumed V. of Vietnam, only thing scheduled here, going from Russian to Chinese at 1300. Did SOH also show up on 12000, or are the ChiCom also afraid of what fellow Commies in Vietnam have to say, or mistaking it for a greater enemy? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CNR started a National Urgent Radio with an earthquake of Lushan, Ya- an, Sichuan. National Urgent Radio-Lushan Emergency Radio, 24 hours on 9800 kHz, 12000 kHz and FM 92.7 MHz. Ya-an CNR1 24 hours on 639 kHz and FM 99.1 MHz. This broadcast is coproduction of CNR, Sichuan TV & Radio, Ya-an PBS and Lushan TV & Radio (S. Hasegawa, Japan, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Noted 9800 and 12000 kHz, 0537 UT April 23 with reports in Chinese on remote SDR unit in Nagoya Japan, asked by woman announcer and answered by male reporter, S=7 signal. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) 12000, April 23 at 1257, mix of Chinese and a song; the Chinese is CNR1 since it`s // 11825 jammer in the mix. As noted yesterday, V. of Vietnam is also here alternating Chinese and Russian until 1330, and it seemed strange that CNR1 jamming was running against VOV in either language. At 1300, CNR1 programming is atop 12000 with some hum. At 1418 recheck, 12000 poor in Chinese not // 11990 CNR1 jammer. At 1422, noted the CNR1 jammers on 15525 and 15570 were not // 12000 or maybe way out of synch with it. I was also checking 9800 a few minutes before 1300, but could not pull anything between WHRI 9795 bigsig, and Cuban jamming on 9805. WHRI off after 1300, and at 1303 all I can get on 9800 is a poor carrier with no modulation audible; still some jamming on 9805, and 9795 now bears a much weaker signal in Japanese, i.e. Radio Thailand. These have already been added to Aoki as of April 23, with my comments: What is the ID of NUR in Chinese? Or is it just CNR1 as implied by new Aoki entries: 9800 CNR 1 National emergency broad 0000-2400 1234567 Chinese 100 217 12000 CNR 1 National emergency broad 0000-2400 1234567 Chinese 100 217 [both:] Shijiazhuang 723 CHN 11428E 3804N CNR1 a13 Apr. 22- And that answers my next question about transmitter site. But why? CNR1 is already ubiquitous, to say the least, all over China and most of the world. There is no point in adding these unless there is special programming on them. Maybe part of the time it`s Lushan Emergency Radio (and how is that ID in Chinese?), or the other co- producers, filling the rest with CNR1? Wolfgang Büschel explains: ``From Shijiazhuang towards Lushan, Ya-an, Sichuan, distance is 1370 kilometers at 230 degree angle. Azimuth from Shijiazhuang is real 217 degrees. Propagation distance would fit with good volume in 31 and 25 mb`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Listening via Twente SDR from 1730 to 1810 UT, I am hearing presumed "CNR National Urgent Radio" on 12000 and now that Romania has vacated 9800, it is audible there too. 12000 is super strong 30-40 over S9 & 9800 is good but not quite as strong. Both frequencies have a little ACI but are well heard (Dave Hughes, KCMO, April 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12000, 23/Apr 2237, CNR 1 National emergency broadcast in Chinese. OM and YL seem to present news. Reviews, interviews recorded, outside commentators. 35433. // 9800 with less noise and at 2258 start strong QRM from CRI in Spanish. During listening the same programming of CNR 1 in other frequencies. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Some frequency of CNR-1 relays "Lushan Emergency Radio-Lushan ying ji guang bo" for 24 hrs on 5945, 6125, 7230, 7290 and 9710 kHz. de Hiroshi (S. Hasegawa, April 25, ibid.) ** CHINA. Re Voice of the South China Sea, 1008 kHz: Alan Davies' Liste zeigte bisher einen 200 kW Sender von CNR in Kunming. 2000-1735 (off air Tues 0600-0850) UT. SARFT Transmitting Station 501 Pingdingshan Siyicun Anning Kunming area Yunnan Province China Irgendwo bei 24 52 34.50 N 102 29 17.20 E oder einer der vier 4-Mast Anlagen. (Wolfgang Büschel, April 12, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Apr 19 via DXLD) ** CHINA [non]. Sound of Hope: 2200-2300 on 6280 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese Fri/Sat 2200-2300 on 7105 TSH 100 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese 2200-2300 on 9635 TSH 100 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese 2300-2400 on 6280 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese Fri/Sat 2300-2400 on 7310 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese 0900-1100 on 9540 TSH 100 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese Sat/Sun 0900-1100 on 11760 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese Sat/Sun 1100-1300 on 7280 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese 1300-1400 on 6030 TSH 100 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese 1300-1400 on 6240 BAO 100 kW / 310 deg to EaAs Chinese 1300-1400 on 7310 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese 1300-1400 on 11760 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese 1400-1500 on 9450 PAO 100 kW / 335 deg to EaAs Chinese 1400-1500 on 11760 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese 1500-1600 on 9450 PAO 100 kW / 335 deg to EaAs Chinese 1600-1700 on 11765 TSH 100 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) I.e. from two or three TAIWAN sites; not including numerous low-power out of band nuisance frequencies to attract jammers. See also TAIWAN for logs of this (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. 1000.00, R. Vida, San José de Guaviare, 21/04, 0505-0525, 22222, ID "Radio Vida desde San José de Guaviare”, px La Voz del Manantial (mensaje religioso), mx con temas religiosos, ID “En el día y en la noches, escucha Radio Vida…" Escuchado también en USB y LSB para conformar la frecuencia; px Luis Palao Responde. ID “Radio Vida, 24 horas” (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Perú, Chasqui DX Abril, 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, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA [and non]. 6009.9v, LV de tu Conciencia, 0924 apparent English / Spanish religious program including W relating a personal story taking place in a restaurant in Colombia (W dumped a plate of spaghetti) in English with M translating in Spanish after every sentence, then more of the same with M in English. Signal suddenly took off up to 6010.1 at 0930, then came back down and settled almost exactly on top of R. Mil, then moved back up. M talking about suicide at 0943. (8 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 6010+, April 20 at 0457, Spanish talk about cristianos, 0458 ACI from RHC sounder on 6000; *0459 RHC carrier on 6010 but the first station still audible under at first with slight het; 0500 RHC English modulation on and off and on, putting an end to the competition. My assumption yesterday before 0500 that the 6010+ station was R. Mil is apparently wrong. In fact, XEOI must be off the air again, since I am only hearing one SS station on 6010. As for the frequency precision, Ron Howard found out from Dave Valko, that LV de tu Conciencia drifts 0.2 kHz both sides of 6010.0, while Mil is steady on 6009.96. Mike Gilchrist had an unID on 6010.226; Ralph Perry says that`s also HJDH (all these at other times, however). See also MEXICO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Mike and Glenn, I asked Ralph Perry about UNID on 6010.226. His response follows (Ron Howard, California, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: "Indeed, it's LV Conciencia, the HJ, running much higher split frequency than in the past. (Usually was stable at a few Hz above 6010, with the XE a few hz below . . .) We've been noticing this new pattern, most of the week. Cheers, Ralph" (via Ron Howard, DXLD) Hi, Received this from Dave. Interesting to actually "see" the drifting of Conciencia (Ron Howard, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: - - - from Dave Valko: ``After getting Ron's question, I looked back and discovered I had made a few screenshots when Conciencia was really drifting around. I hadn't stitched them together yet because I was in the process of fixing the computer. So here it is from 0924-0953 on 8 April. R. Mil is the steady signal on 6009.96, and Inconfidência is the one fading out on 6010.11. Conciencia is the one all over the place from nearly 6009.8 up to nearly 6010.2. Reminds me of the 9553 R. Ethiopia transmitter.`` (via Ron Howard, ibid.) With poor band conditions this morning, I decided instead to look for anomalies. Unknown, 6010vvv, April 22 at 1020, the station variously identified as HJDH—Conciencia was observed this morning with the frequency varying widely. The carrier still appears to be centered on 6010.226 and varies either way. I was able to detect audio, and could tell between speech and music. The carrier appears to be “FMing,” in that the deviation is most pronounced when music is being played. Unlike during the evening hours, when two carriers have been present, this is the only one today, which is well after sunrise in Brazil, and the Mexican R Mil is still absent. 5909.920, Alcaraván Radio, April 22 at 1038, interestingly, when I observe very closely, with fine granularity on the SDR waterfall, this transmitter can be observed with similar “FMing.” The effects are not nearly as severe as 6010vvv but obvious none-the-less. Strange (Mike Gilchrist in rural EC Iowa, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO DR. Tan solo un susurro [nothing but a whisper] Las grandes emisoras internacionales han desaparecido de la onda corta o están en eso, salvo honrosas excepciones. Eso deja muchas partes del espectro libres como para que se reciban otras emisoras locales, mas débiles, o mas exóticas. Una de ellas, que hasta ahora solo estaba en mis sueños, como dice un amigo alemán en Youtube, es Radio Candip, de Bunia, en la República Democrática del Congo, no lejos de la frontera con Ruanda, en el corazón mismo de África. El otro día, en 5066 kHz, tan solo era un susurro lo que se oía. No se entendía nada. Tan solo una palabra cada tanto, o una ráfaga de algo que parecía musica autóctona. Era una nada, o menos que la nada. Un capricho de la propagación traía la señal en cuentagotas. No me atribuyo "haber escuchado" a Bunia, pero quienes somos adictos a esta afición increíble sabemos que tras esa nada, volátil y fugaz que alguna vez llega hasta nuestros equipos, está "eso" que perseguimos. http://youtu.be/Kd9Az3tPC0s (Rodolfo Tizzi http://cx2abp.blogspot.com/ April 23, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** CONGO DR [non]. Radio Okapi, currently inactive, maybe will be resumed from May 1: 0400-0500 on 11690 MEY 250 kW / 340 deg to CeAf French/Lingala (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD) ** COSTA RICA [and non]. 5954+, April 21 at 2356, nothing detectable from R. República, altho there is some Cuban jamming noise around 5955. Since R.R. has had the bigsig on 9490 via GUF and now ISS at 00- 02 daily, there is not much need for this little CR transmitter, and not reported lately, so had assumed it was out of service. However, Giampiero Bernardini & Dario Monferini from their coastal DXpedition in Italy reported it April 9 at 2352 on 5953.9, Spanish fair signal, low modulation, but any ID? It used to be steady on the hi side of 5954 circa 5954.3 as heard last year. Maybe I tuned in too late at 2356, as even if active they would go off by 0000, which is now more than an hour before sunset here. Of course, don`t confuse it with Bolivia`s Radio Pio XII nearby on 5952.40v as easily heard here around 0100, and logged by Ron Howard April 17 until 0230* with the Col. Bogey/River Kwai whistling march (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11720 (nf?), Radio Havana Cuba, at 2015 on 4/12. Powerful in Portuguese. W sounded a little like Sue, Bob's and my favorite at Mars Restaurant/Resort (Gerry Dexter, Lake Geneva WI, TenTech 340, "Parker" balanced doublet, NASWA Flashsheet April 21 via DXLD) ?? Another typo by you or them? New frequency for this is 17720, not 11720 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13820, Cuban pulse jamming, 1139. This frequency is scheduled to be used by Radio Martí starting at 1300. The jamming appears to be centered on 13820 kHz. 11 kHz wide from 13814.5 kHz to 13825.5 kHz on 4/15/13 (Steve Handler, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Icom IC-7200, Tecsun PL-660, wire antennas, NASWA Flashsheet April 21 via DXLD) 17580, April 18 at 1238, surprised to find RHC in English! plugging their misnamed ``Real Audio`` webcast starting at 9 pm, EDT presumably. I then check all other frequencies and find // English on 9850 and 6150 (mixed with Australian English!), while all the others continue in Spanish: 17730, 15230, 11860, 11760, 11690, 9550, 9540. 1242 on to `Mid-week Mailbag` i.e. Wednesday programming replayed on Thursday morning, then a cultural report. 1300 back to Spanish? NO, reopens English hour on 17580, but 9850 and 6150 have gone off as scheduled, replaced by 13780 and 11750 which are now in English. Missed checking whether there was yet more English after 1400. So what is going on? Wrong playback feed? Experiment? Permanent change? What do you bet it`s all back to Spanish tomorrow morning. English in the AM has happened rarely before. The anomalies today are not over: 15482 approx., April 18 at 1316, very weak and distorted RHC Spanish spur as I tune by, instantly recognizing an RHC riff; fades down as I start to check whether it`s coming from 15340 or 15230, which themselves are an echo apart, so from different sites. At 1319, 15482 fades in enough to tell it matches 15340, not 15230. Previously have had such spurs around 15510. 6165, April 19 at 0451, RHC in wrong language, Spanish instead of English which is only on 6000 at this time. Spanish also on 6060, 5040; neither 6100 nor 6125 is on the air now. Just as I expected, despite at least two hours of English yesterday morning on three frequencies, on April 19, RHC is back in correct language Spanish, at 1230 check news break in Spanish on all: 17730, 17580, 15230, 11860, 11760, 11690, 9850, 9550, 6150=mixing with RA in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6000, April 20 at 0459, RHC English is still on here, while *0459 open carrier on 6010, so two separate transmitters, not a 10-kHz shift by one. I was checking out the Colombia/Mexico situation on 6010, q.v. 0500 RHC modulation cuts on and off and on to stay on 6010; initial squeal is still audible at 0532 check. 9770-9820, April 20 at 1238, approx. range of pulsing bleeding from jammers on 9805 against Martí, as the Cubans have no compunxion about collateral damage. 15340, Sunday April 21 at 1309, RHC is missing, but on at 1411 check starting the philatelic show in Spanish. Next anomaly: 11760, April 21 at 1411, open carrier/dead air, while nominal on 11690, 11860 et al. [and non]. 6010, April 22 at 0522, RHC English is severely disrupted, audible only at distorted modulation peaks, while normal on 5040, 6060, 6125 and 6165. Wiggle that patchcord! Meanwhile, we can enjoy the big het this makes with presumed COLOMBIA, not MEXICO, q.v. 11860, April 23 at 1301, RHC Spanish is just barely modulated, while 11760 is at normal level, but with squeal. 1417 recheck, now 11860 is OK. Never a new day without some new anomaly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Article Discusses Cuban Number Station use by former USA Spy I read an article on a US cuban spy in the Washington Post online news site today and I thought some SWLer's would like to read it since it mentions spy stations. -- Best Regards, (Keith, http://home.comcast.net/kilowattradio/ April 22, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Quite a story: recommended! And don`t delude yourself that on shortwave we have any ``friends in Havana`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Does anyone have a list of Cuban spy station frequencies and times. I'm here in W. Oregon USA so I don't hear them much (Keith, ibid.) Keith, More info than you could ever need about Cuban and other spy stations: check the latest newsletter from: http://www.numbersoddities.nl/ 73, (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) You'll find an accurate schedule for HM01, the Cuban spy station, on the last page of the most recent enigma newsletter. http://www.brogers.dsl.pipex.com/enigma2000/newsletters/CEN.pdf There's a "prediction schedule" of many common number stations also starting on page 88. DH KCMO (Dave Hughes, Kansas City, ibid.) Cuban spy interference --- Hello everyone, I am listening to Voice of Russia, French on 11635 at 1800 UT and noticed that the Cuban spy is there in the background with usual numbers by lady in Spanish and digital transmission. It's not strong enough to interfere with Voice of Russia, but I imagine that depending on propagation conditions, it can become a problem. 73 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, April 22, http://www.youtube.com/officialswlchannel ibid.) Later in the afternoon 11635 spynumbers (Españúmeros as I used to call it) is in the clear (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** CUBA [non]. MARTÍ RADIO, TV AND WEB TRANSMISSIONS TO CUBA CONTINUE AFTER NEWSROOM FIRE April 22, 2013 --- A firefighter looks at the smoke and fire damage to OCB headquarters in Miami. [caption] Miami, FL, April 22, 2013 - U.S. government broadcasts to Cuba continued Monday after a trashcan fire forced the temporary evacuation of the headquarters of the Office of Cuba Broadcasting in Miami Sunday afternoon. The building housing Radio and Television Martí and the Martinoticias.com website, on NW 77th Avenue in Miami, sustained damage due to an accidental fire caused by a lighted cigarette left in a container in a designated smoking area outside the building. Heat from the blaze caused windows to break in the Martí newsroom. Smoke entered the building and automatically set off building sprinklers. No one was injured. "We are grateful to the firefighters and other officials who responded so quickly to the situation," said Carlos García Pérez, Director of the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB). "We are also grateful to our dedicated team of federal employees and contractors, who ensured that programming continued and who today are working in cramped conditions on broadcasts for Cuba while the damage is being repaired." In Miami, representatives of the OCB and the General Services Administration are working with the building's landlord to mitigate the fire damage and verify air quality safety. They say it could be a week or more before employees can return to the central newsroom, which sustained most of the damage. The disruption comes at a busy time for Martí journalists. They are mobilizing for live coverage Tuesday morning from Brussels of the long-delayed presentation of the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to "The Ladies in White," an opposition movement in Cuba consisting of wives and other female supporters of jailed dissidents. The Prize was awarded in 2005, but the Cuban government denied the women the right to receive the award. Representatives of the group are traveling to Brussels this week, the first time many have been allowed outside of Cuba. "In the absence of a free press in Cuba, Radio and TV Martí and martinoticias.com report on stories Cuban media does not cover," García Pérez said. "The Martis' coverage of issues relevant to the daily lives of Cubans, including human rights, will continue." Radio Martí is available throughout much of Cuba on 1080 AM and Radio Caracol on 1260 AM. TV Martí is available in Cuba on Channels 13 and 20 as well as Mega TV through the Direct TV satellite. Aside from the usual Internet access, Martinoticias is available through proxy sites and via file sharing on the island (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD) Geez, it`s 1180, not 1080, Letitia! [who sends the BBG PR] (gh, DXLD) Above that: Isn't "available throughout much of Cuba" a bit exaggerated? Looking at frequency lists one would assume that the Marathon signal is essentially everywhere in Cuba blocked, nowhere being more than a whisper behind Radio Rebelde. And note that shortwave is no longer mentioned amongst the distribution platforms at all. I take this as indication that by now they still keep it merely for political reasons, which means that it could quickly go away when no longer considered appropriate (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. Radio República: 0000-0200 on 9490 ISS 250 kW / 215 deg to Cuba Spanish (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) ** CYPRUS. Interesting article detailing the author`s history over the past decades listening to the BBC on SW and Medium Wave in the Middle East, culminating in the closure of the Cyprus relay station. http://gulftoday.ae/portal/59d2e473-83ec-487e-b077-d6ef0b52ae1d.aspx (via Art Preis, Canada, swprograms via DXLD) Viz.: Michael Jansen: BEEB: SOUND OF SILENCE April 08, 2013 Exclusive to The Gulf Today For as long as I can remember the BBC World Service has been a daily part of life with news broadcasts on medium wave every hour on the hour throughout the day and late into the night. I became a devotee – and later an addict – of BBC broadcasts from the Cyprus relay station while living in Beirut in the early 1960s. I met my first avid listener in 1961 in Gaza. He was an elderly Palestinian bedouin shaikh who discussed world affairs with me over tea while we sat under the grape vine in the tiny garden of his 10x10 metre square cement house in a refugee camp. He listened in both Arabic and English on a beat-up transistor radio and received a rounded education while keeping up to date on international affairs. I thought of him a couple of years ago when I paid a visit to the Palestinian West Bank village of Walaja, now surrounded by Israel’s wall and fence complex. The municipal official who took me round, Sherin al-Araj, spoke excellent English. “Where did you study?” I asked. “I listen to the BBC,” she replied. She was not the only one. How many young Arabs are going to miss the opportunity to have a window open to the world by the BBC because of penny pinching politicians in London? The shaikh and Sherin caught the BBC’s medium wave broadcasts from the relay station in Cyprus. The tool they used was the revolutionary transistor radio, small, affordable, portable. Short-wave, where schedules are complicated and weather can hinder reception, is no replacement. Although the full service can be accessed on computers, they are beyond the reach of many listeners and potential listeners. Transistor radios are cheap, effective and handy. I learnt of the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy on November 23, 1963, the morning after he was shot in Dallas, Texas. When I reached the campus of the American University shortly after hearing the news, I found my Arab friends in tears. “The president is dead,” Mona, a young Lebanese, whispered. “We wouldn’t have been so shocked or sad if it had been our president.” Over the years the BBC reported many deaths: Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1970, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984, and Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nayhan in 2004 were among the many. The BBC also gave blow by blow, bomb by bomb, accounts of the many wars inflicted on this region. The first I experienced was Israel’s aggression against Egypt, Jordan and Syria in 1967. A Lebanese friend rang up early on June 5 and told my husband and me to turn on the BBC. Little did we know that Israel had won that war before Egypt had even fired a shot — by bombing Egypt’s military airfields before dawn. I was visiting an irrigation project in the town of Zarka in Jordan in October 1973 when Egypt and Syria launched the sole Arab attack on Israel. My driver paused at a kiosk to buy some cigarettes and learnt the news from BBC Arabic relayed from Cyprus. During 1975-76, we sat in our beautiful house in our 11th-century mountain village and kept up with daily events in Lebanon’s civil war by listening to the BBC. Once a week we braved the bombs and bullets in Beirut and kidnappers on checkpoints so my husband could file his articles to The Economist in London via the Reuters telex, the sole surviving connection. Yasser, my charming rogue driver in Baghdad after George W. Bush’s 2003 war, used to listen to the BBC in English as well as broadcasts in French on his car radio, because he liked the sound of the languages although he understood little. The BBC gave inspiring coverage of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in 1990 and his election to the presidency of South Africa in 1994. The BBC relayed happy, inspiring and cheerful news as well as programmes on science, business, music, sports and other topics of general interest. Last weekend the BBC closed its medium and shortwave transmissions from its relay station in Cyprus, cutting off transistor listeners to both English and Arabic broadcasts to the Levant region. The Arabic services radio audience was ten million strong while I and my family and friends were among the millions listening to the English broadcasts. These days Arabic medium wave is continuing to certain parts of the area while English is being relayed for two hours daily and two hours in the middle of the night (why then?). Rural areas in Africa, not served by the Cyprus facility, are also being reduced by dramatic cuts while the continental European service and another five foreign language services were shut down two years ago. It is ironic that the BBC should shut down shortly after calling itself the “World’s Radio Station.” It appears that the decision to make such cuts was taken by Peter Horrocks, head of global news, who has used a good deal of the World Service’s £200 million budget to make television programmes which are gifted to local stations in Africa and India. Horrocks, who made his career in television rather than radio, justifies this shift by claiming it reflects “listening trends,” particularly away from shortwave. However, he admits that more listeners rely on medium wave and FM radio as well as television. If that is the case, why is he cutting the medium and FM radio services? Cost, is the answer. The government set the BBC savings target of £42 million by April 2014. Some £30 million have already been cut, so £12 million is still to be slashed. The BBC set up its East Mediterranean relay station in 1957, following the 1956 Suez debacle when London, reviled for joining France and Israel in a brutal attack on Egypt, thought it should try to promote its point of view in this region. During the Cold War, BBC broadcasts served as a corrective to the propaganda put out by Moscow, on the one hand, and the US, on the other. BBC broadcasts earned a reputation for “reporting” rather than skewing the news. BBC World radio has been a far better source of comprehensive coverage than BBC World television, Al Jazeera English and CNN put together. The absence of medium wave broadcasts leaves a huge gap. It is unbelievable that a Conservative government should turn off a service which gave present-day Britain a greater international profile and presence and greater influence than anything else the British government does outside the confines of the British isles. Having lost its empire long ago, Britannia no longer rules the air waves. ____________________________________________ The author, a well-respected observer of Middle East affairs, has three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict (via Preis, swprograms, via DXLD) This conveniently ignores the fact that BBC Arabic television has shown rapid growth and has a much higher audience than radio. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2011/12/arab_spring_helps_bbc_arabic_a.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2012/06/new_audience_figures_for_bbc_g.html (Mike Barraclough, swprograms via DXLD) ** DIEGO GARCIA. 12759-USB, April 23 at 0058, JBA music no doubt from AFN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 4781.70, R. Oriental, Napo, 2/04 1056-1123, 33333+, cuando estaba escuchando R. Caiari de un momento a otro, a las 1059 entró en las frecuencia Radio Oriental, cubriendo a la estación. Advs Comercial en Ferretero, Comercial Moscoso, el quintal de fierro, ID “Por Radio Oriental”; mx San Juanito, estamos con la información con Ecuavisa. (En AM La puedo escuchar entre 4779.70 a 4785.00) ID “A través de Oriental”, advs Casa Ramírez. A las 1118, fue necesario escucharla en USB pues entre R. Tarma y ellos se cruzan las señales en AM (de fondo) news deportivas. Imposible de escuchar después. (Escuchar grabación adjunta) (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Perú, Chasqui DX Abril, 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, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9720, R Cairo, English YL/OM talks and solicitation of comments to postal address after news, and into Press Review in English. After Harold and my berating them last week for their unintelligibility, they were actually understandable tonight. They mentioned this was the WCNA service, and it was head and shoulders better than I've heard in I can't remember how long: 54+554 with just some splatter and an HF Het. The modulation was not perfect, but compared to what they were like just a couple days ago; 0225-0230 14/Apr (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD) 11890, R. Cairo, 2157 outro by M program host in English but couldn't copy the program name. Instrumental music, then W with next program intro. ID "R. Cairo presents ??". I didn't think it was possible but R. Cairo's modulation is more distorted than R. Pakistan's!!! (16 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) [and non]. 13850, Einen Hoergenuss der besonderen technischen Art bietet das Radio Cairo 'El-Bernameg Al-Aam' program in Arabisch, taeglich 02-07 UT aus Abis. S=9+20dB hier in Stuttgart. Auch nach dieser sogenannten muslimischen "Revolution" sitzen immer noch die unfaehigen Techniker auf der Grosssendeanlage und senden solch ein klaegliches Signal in die Welt hinaus. A listening experience of the specific technical nature, the Radio Cairo, "El-Bernameg Al-Aam" program in Arabic, terribel signal every day from 02-07 UT via Abis site. S=9+20 dB signal strength here in Stuttgart. Even after these so-called Muslim "revolution" still sitting incompetent technicians on the large end resort and send such a pitiful Signal out to the world. 13850, Radio Cairo in Arabic, "El-Bernameg Al-Aam" program, 02-07 UT, S=9+20dB at 0520 UT Apr 12. Terrible awful audio quality. At same time AWR Arabic via Wertachtal 15225 kHz entirely different kind of very good audio quality at 0545 UT (Wolfgang Buschel, April 12, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Apr 19 via DXLD) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [non]. 15190, April 22 at 1410, gospel huxter in English, presumed KTWR GUAM as scheduled until 1430 give or take, which raises the question, is anyone still hearing R. Africa on 15190 at any time?? I have not for some weeks, but better chances here were around 0600 or 1900 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The last presumed & preserved log of it in DXLD was by Harold Frodge, MI, Feb 19 at 1835 (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD) ** ERITREA [non]. 11610, R Sharooqa stopped in this frequency???? Nothing found April 19!! (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Presumably during the scheduled 16-17 UT hour M-F, as in Aoki, Arabic via BULGARIA to Eritrea. Apr 19 was Fri (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Viz.: Radio Shorouq/Radio Sunrise: 1600-1700 on 11610 SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Arabic Mon-Fri (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD) ** ERITREA [non]. Radio EYSC - Eritrean Youth Solidarity for Change 1730-1800 on 15310 WER 100 kW / 135 deg to EaAf Tigrigna Tue/Fri (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) ** ERITREA [non]. Voice of Assenna: 1700-1800 on 15245 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Mon/Wed/Fri Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with broadband DRM-like white noise (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) Is the Ethiopia/Eritrea stuff, as listed in # 777, really still on air there or is it perhaps indeed CANCEL ALL now? (Kai Ludwig, April 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Radio Xoriyo: 1600-1630 on 17630 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Somali Tue/Sat 1600-1630 on 17870 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Somali Mon/Fri Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with broadband DRM-like white noise (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. E-SAT Radio: 1700-1800 on 15xxx*SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Amharic 1st/3rd Mon *15355-15390 different frequencies in different days and different weeks. All frequencies are jammed by Ethiopia with broadband DRM-like white noise (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Dimtse Radio Erena: 1700-1730 on 11560 SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Afar/Oromo (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Voice of Oromo Liberation: 1700-1800 on 13810 WER 100 kW / 135 deg to EaAf Oromo/Amharic Sun/Wed (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) ** EUROPE. PIRATE, 6289.96, Mustang R. 2304 live music by Pink Floyd. "Good Golly Miss Molly" by what sounded like CCR at 2314. 2323 announcements, "good morning", mention of the Eagles, greetings to listeners, and ID at 2325:50. 2335:50 acknowledged my SINPO. 2343 ID over "More Than a Feeling" by Boston. (record) Into "Light My Fire" by The Doors. (13 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** EUROPE. PIRATE, 6374.04, Black Bandit R. 2304 fairly strong with music. Audio disappeared for around at 2316. 2326:20 "Hello" and blowing into the mic!! 2327:30 announcement "...Radio, transmitting... low power". Then off at 2328:48. "The Man" in Ianns chat said it was Black Bandit R. Came back on at 2333 and heard music. 2337 C&W. Nice ID at 2339:40 (record) Into Reggae. "Rock'n Me" by Steve Miller Band at 2343. 2347 Polka. (13 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** EUROPE. 15810 pirate playing XEDU 860 now at 1840, probably from Central Europe. Thanks Alpo Heinonen for the tip. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, April 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DGIEST) Artem's World Music programme audible on 15810 kHz (1920 UT) in English (with Russian accent) - relay via Radio Spaceshuttle. Before 1900 was carrying a relay of LA station in Spanish. Spaceshuttle IDs etc at 1930 UT (Alan Pennington, Caversham, UK, AOR 7030+ ALA 1530 loop, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** GABON. Another Nice Surprise: Finally Moyabi {close to Djoutou}, Gabon reveals itself. New Google Earth imagery (dated 29 March 2011, but just released) now exposes the Moyabi SW site to the public. Lots of curtain arrays. Yay :-) (Ian Baxter, Australia, April 11, SW TXsite via BC DX April 19 via DXLD) Did waiting many years for a sharp image of former TDF Moyabi site. Only visible at 01 40 33.32 S 13 17 58.29 E when using the time slide function. At least 18 curtains seen, and probably some quadrant non-dir antennas close to the TX house. But the image is still too dimly. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** GERMANY. HFCC registrations for HCJB Weenermoor according to http://hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A13&broadc=HCJ 7365 0000-2400 Weenermoor 145 10 1234567 01-May-2013 27-Oct-2013 3995 2300-2200 Weenermoor 0 10 1234567 31-Mar-2013 27-Oct-2013 (Dr. Hansjörg Biener, April 21, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. European Music Radio Relays European Music Radio is on this Sunday: 0700 to 0800 UT on 7265 KHz 0800 to 0900 UT on 6005 & 9480 KHz 1500 to 1600 UT on 7265 KHz All reports to: studio@emr.org.uk Thank you! EMR's internet broadcasts are at the following times: 0800, 1300, 1800, 1900 on Sunday & Monday: Please visit http://www.emr.org.uk and click on the "EMR internet radio" button which you will find throughout the website (see the menu on the left). Good Listening! 73s (Tom Taylor, Europe, April 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GHANA [non]. 11955, AUSTRIA, AWR at 2101 with a woman mentioning "I am your presenter" and into a female choral version of "Jacob's Ladder" and a children's choral version of "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands", then an "Adventist World Radio Ghana" ID at 2104 - Good Apr 21 (Mark Coady Selwyn, ON, Alinco DXR8T, Eton E-1 and loaded inverted vee, compact loaded delta loop, or 60' wire, ODXA Your Reports via DXLD) ** GREECE. Hi Glenn: I took the A-13 Program Schedule of The Voice of Greece printed in Greek that Apodimos recently sent to me and put it through Google Translate into English. From that, I have set up the below Program Schedule in English. Regards, John Babbis GREECE: VOICE OF GREECE A-13 PROGRAM SCHEDULE (Effective March 31 to October 26, 2013) --Greek unless otherwise specified-- UTC MONDAY PROGRAM (Greece Time +3 Hours) 0500-0503 From Where And Why 0503-0600 The Songs Of The Voice Of Greece 0600-0750 Greek Coffee (Broadcast Media-Greece, Diaspora) 0750-0800 Diaspora News 0800-1400 SILENT 1400-1405 News In Greek 1405-1500 Let Us Go As Before 1500-1505 News In Greek 1505-1600 Interview Of The Week 1600-1605 News In Greek 1605-1700 Culture Praise (Events in Greece, Diaspora) 1700-1705 News In Greek 1705-1800 Sports News 1800-1805 News In Greek 1805-1900 Network Without Borders (Homogeneity With Microphone) 1900-1905 News In Greek 1905-2100 Map (Greek Gastronomy in Greece and Abroad) 2100-2105 News In Greek 2105-2300 Greek Coffee (Broadcast Media-Greece, Diaspora) 2300-2400 Culture Praise (Events in Greece, Diaspora) 0000-0100 Network Without Borders (Homogeneity With Microphone) 0100-0200 The News From The Diaspora 0200-0300 News From Home (Large and Small Occurrences) 0300-0305 News In Greek 0305-0400 Journal Deck (On Marine and Tourism) 0400-0405 News In Greek 0405-0500 Interview Of The Week UTC TUESDAY PROGRAM (Greece Time +3 Hours) 0500-0503 From Where And Why 0503-0600 Let Us Go As Before 0600-0750 Greek Coffee (Broadcast Media-Greece, Diaspora) 0750-0800 Diaspora News 0800-1200 SILENT 1200-1205 Diaspora News 1205-1300 Journal Deck (On Marine and Tourism) 1300-1305 News In Greek 1305-1400 News From Home (Large and Small Occurrences) 1400-1405 News In Greek 1405-1500 Musical Strutting 1500-1505 News In Greek 1505-1600 Theatrofono (View Greek Theater and Diaspora) 1600-1605 News In Greek 1605-1700 Culture Praise (Events in Greece, Diaspora) 1700-1705 News In Greek 1705-1800 Sports News 1800-1805 News In Greek 1805-1900 Network Without Borders (Homogeneity With Microphone) 1900-1905 News In Greek 1905-2000 Hello Compatriots (Music and Listener Contact) 2000-2100 Invisible Harmony 2100-2105 News In Greek 2105-2300 Greek Coffee (Broadcast Media-Greece, Diaspora) 2300-2400 Culture Praise (Events in Greece, Diaspora) 0000-0100 Network Without Borders (Homogeneity With Microphone) 0100-0200 Faces Of The Diaspora 0200-0300 News From Home (Large and Small Occurrences) 0300-0305 News In Greek 0305-0400 Journal Deck (On Marine and Tourism) 0400-0405 News In Greek 0405-0500 Musical Strutting UTC WEDNESDAY PROGRAM (Greece Time +3 Hours) 0500-0503 From Where And Why 0503-0600 Hello Countrymen (Music and Listener Contact) 0600-0750 Greek Coffee (Broadcast Media-Greece, Diaspora) 0750-0800 Diaspora News 0800-1200 SILENT 1200-1205 Diaspora News 1205-1300 Journal Deck (On Marine and Tourism) 1300-1305 News In Greek 1305-1400 News From Home (Large and Small Occurrences) 1400-1405 News In Greek 1405-1500 Musical Strutting 1500-1505 News In Greek 1505-1600 Film Diaries 1600-1605 News In Greek 1605-1700 Culture Praise (Events in Greece, Diaspora) 1700-1705 News In Greek 1705-1800 Sports News 1800-1805 News In Greek 1805-1900 Network Without Borders (Homogeneity With Microphone) 1900-1905 News In Greek 1905-2000 Hello Compatriots (Music and Listener Contact) 2000-2100 Invisible Harmony 2100-2105 News In Greek 2105-2300 Greek Coffee (Broadcast Media-Greece, Diaspora) 2300-2400 Culture Praise (Events in Greece, Diaspora) 0000-0100 Network Without Borders (Homogeneity With Microphone) 0100-0200 Invest In Greece 0200-0300 News From Home (Political and Social News) 0300-0305 News In Greek 0305-0400 Journal Deck (On Marine and Tourism) 0400-0405 News In Greek 0405-0500 Musical Strutting UTC THURSDAY PROGRAM (Greece Time +3 Hours) 0500-0503 From Where And Why 0503-0600 Hello Countrymen (Music and Listener Contact) 0600-0750 Greek Coffee (Broadcast Media-Greece, Diaspora) 0750-0800 Diaspora News 0800-1200 SILENT 1200-1205 Diaspora News 1205-1300 Journal Deck (On Marine and Tourism) 1300-1305 News In Greek 1305-1400 News From Home (Political and Social News) 1400-1405 News In Greek 1405-1500 I'll Tell You In A Song 1500-1505 News In Greek 1505-1600 Byzantine Culture Studies and Research 1600-1605 News In Greek 1605-1700 The Breath Of The Earth 1700-1705 News In Greek 1705-1800 Sports News 1800-1805 News In Greek 1805-1900 Network Without Borders (Homogeneity With Microphone) 1900-1905 News In Greek 1905-2000 Hello Compatriots (Music and Listener Contact) 2000-2100 The Greek Jazzmen Of The Voice Of Greece 2100-2105 News In Greek 2105-2300 Greek Coffee (Broadcast Media-Greece, Diaspora) 2300-2400 The Breath Of The Earth (Interviews) 0000-0100 Network Without Borders (Homogeneity With Microphone) 0100-0200 Postman (Contact with Greeks of the Diaspora) 0200-0300 News From Home (Political and Social News) 0300-0305 News In Greek 0305-0400 Journal Deck (On Marine and Tourism) 0400-0405 News In Greek 0405-0500 I'll Tell You In A Song UTC FRIDAY PROGRAM (Greece Time +3 Hours) 0500-0503 From Where And Why 0503-0600 Hello Countrymen (Music and Listener Contact) 0600-0750 Greek Coffee (Broadcast Media-Greece, Diaspora) 0750-0800 Diaspora News 0800-1200 SILENT 1200-1205 Diaspora News 1205-1300 Journal Deck (On Marine and Tourism) 1300-1305 News In Greek 1305-1400 News From Home (In the Greek Market) 1400-1405 News In Greek 1405-1500 The Folk Song Of The Voice Of Greece 1500-1505 News In Greek 1505-1600 The Book Of The Voice Of Greece 1600-1605 News In Greek 1605-1700 The Breath Of The Earth 1700-1705 News In Greek 1705-1900 Map (Greek Gastronomy in Greece and Abroad) 1900-1905 News In Greek 1905-2000 Hello Compatriots (Music and Listener Contact) 2000-2100 I'll Tell You My Song 2100-2105 News In Greek 2105-2300 Greek Coffee (Broadcast Media-Greece, Diaspora) 2300-2400 The Breath Of The Earth (Interviews) 0000-0100 Musical Strutting 0100-0200 Cultural Activities Of The Diaspora 0200-0300 News From Home (In the Greek Market) 0300-0305 News In Greek 0305-0400 Journal Deck (On Marine and Tourism) 0400-0405 News In Greek 0405-0500 I'll Tell You In A Song UTC SATURDAY PROGRAM (Greece Time +3 Hours) 0500-0600 Departures 0600-0605 News In Greek 0605-0608 Diaspora News Bulletin 0608-0630 Ecological Pages 0630-0700 The Songs Of The Voice Of Greece 0700-0800 Story Of A Week 0800-1200 SILENT 1200-1400 Connect With NET 1400-1900 Connect With ERA SPORT 1900-1905 News In Greek 1905-2200 Live Line (With G. Tzouanopoulos) 2200-2300 Hello Compatriots (Music and Listener Contact) 2300-2400 Traveling With Art 0000-0100 Culture Praise (Events in Greece, Diaspora) 0100-0200 Postman 0200-0300 The Book Of The Voice Of Greece 0300-0400 Singing The Tradition 0400-0430 Good Word 0430-0500 Pleasant Psalter UTC SUNDAY PROGRAM (Greece Time +3 Hours) 0500-0800 Divine Liturgy (Connect with NET) 0800-1200 SILENT 1200-1400 Singing The Tradition 1400-2000 Connect With ERA SPORT 2000-2200 Live Line (With G. Tzouanopoulos) 2200-2300 The Folk Song Of The Voice Of Greece 2300-2400 Metallinou 0000-0100 Musical Strutting 0100-0200 The Greek Jazzmen Of The Voice Of Greece 0200-0300 Interview Of The Week 0300-0305 News In Greek 0305-0400 The Songs Of The Voice Of Greece 0400-0405 News In Greek 0405-0500 The Songs Of The Voice Of Greece (Compiled by John Babbis, Silver Spring, MD, April 20, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Changes in the ERA A13 program 1) The frequency 15.630 MHz, time UTC 23:00 – 24:00, change 7.475 MHz. 2) The frequency 15.630 MHz, time UTC 03:00 – 04:00, change 7.475 MHz. Best regards Ch. Charalampopoulos 31/03/13 to 26/10/13 00:00 UTC VOICE OF GREECE (ERA-5) Shortwave Schedule Effective from 03/31/13 to 10/28/13 00:00 UTC UTC Avlis1/f/az Avlis2f/az Avlis3f/az 0000-0100 15650/226 7475/285 9420/323 0100-0200 15650/226 7475/285 9420/323 0200-0300 15650/226 7475/285 9420/323 0300-0400 *15650/226 *7475/285 9420/323 0400-0500 11645/182 15630/285 9420/323 0500-0600 11645/182 15630/285 9420/323 0600-0700 11645/182 15630/285 9420/323 0700-0800 11645/182 15630/285 9420/323 0800-0900 SILENT 0900-1000 SILENT 1000-1100 SILENT 1100-1200 SILENT 1200-1300 #9935/285 15630/285 9420/323 1300-1400 #9935/285 *15630/285 9420/323 1400-1500 #9935/285 15650/105 9420/323 1500-1600 #9935/285 15650/105 9420/323 1600-1700 *#9935/285 15650/105 9420/323 1700-1800 #7450/323 15650/105 9420/323 1800-1900 #7450/323 *15650/105 9420/323 1900-2000 #7450/323 15630/285 9420/323 2000-2100 #7450/323 15630/285 9420/323 2100-2200 #7450/323 15630/285 9420/323 2200-2300 *#7450/323 *15630/285 9420/323 2300-2400 15650/226 7475/285 9420/323 *Transmission ends 10 minutes earlier Weekly maintenance every Monday at 0800-1400 UT Daily maintenance at 0800-1200 UT SW-MACEDONIA RADIO STATION Time UTC f/az/Main Coverage Area Greece Time: UT +3 ERA3 1200-1650 9935/285 Europe ERA3 1700-2250 7450/323 Europe e-mail: bcharalabopoulos @ yahoo.gr (John Babbis, MD, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 13362-USB, April 20 at 1251, AFN sufficient on day frequency at night again instead of 5765-USB: stuff about America`s navy, learn submarine electronics, computers, more USN promotion; instead of NPR Weekend Edition Saturday. 5765-USB, April 21 at 1220, item about social media from ``Today on NBC`` via AFN, commercials replaced by promos for AFN Sunday night baseball, water, special warfare careers; back on night frequency instead of 13362-USB 23.5 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 11580, April 21 at 1306, sermon in English, with consecutive translation sentence by sentence into Vietnamese. Still seemed nonsensical to me. KTWR scheduled in Vietnamese, not English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 17650, April 21 at 2340, JBA carrier, maybe KSDA. I was trying to confirm whether AWR Wavescan is on now as allegedly scheduled at 2330 UT Sundays. Usually more reliable at 2230 on 15320, unchecked lately. 9880, April 24 at 1218, operatish arias interrupted by Korean announcement at 1219; still Korean past 1232. HFCC shows it`s merely KSDA during this hour, so the music must have been Christian-religious (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HAWAII. 1370, KUPA, Pearl City with rock music 0847 30/3, ident 0856 as “KUPA AM 13-70 and K256AS, 99.1 FM Pearl City Honolulu” then English news “provided by GMEC”. The Chinese accented format similar to CRI pointed me to GMEC being a Hong Kong-based electronic content provider with this stock market identifier. Spanish religious format under or mixed. Rock music feature resumed after news. New format ex Sports (Bryan Clark, MANGAWHAI BROADCAST TRAIL, NZ, AOR7030+ and EWE antennas to North, Central & South America, Apr NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** INDIA [and non] logs. 4660, AIR Leh [KASHMIR] (presumed). Am still hearing a decent signal with only open carrier; never any audio; through April 18. 4775, AIR Imphal continues silent through April 18. 4990, AIR Itanagar, 1307-1344, April 18. Strongest AIR heard; the often enjoyed regional/indigenous chanting/singing from the state of Arunachal Pradesh; non-stop till BoH A.I.R. IDs; news in Hindi till 1335; nice subcontinent music. 5050, AIR Aizawl, 1306, April 18. A brief check found them mixing with BBR (China). Still no trace of the low powered Ozy Radio yet (am also checking 3210 for their expected return) 4850, AIR Kohima, 1325-1358*, April 19. My local sunrise was at 1328 UT; Kohima had a strong signal before my sunrise and then slowly faded down; 1340 the usual news in Hindi with items about “Nagaland” (“security forces”, “consumer protection”, “reconstructive surgery”, etc.); 1350 “This is All India Radio Kohima”; repeated the news in English; “This news comes to you from All India Radio Kohima”; light QRM from Xinjiang PBS. Kohima last heard about Feb 18, just before the Nagaland elections were held. Very nice to hear them again, especially with such a strong signal (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. All India Radio, GOS. 6045, Delhi. Apr 19, 2013, Friday. 1703-1714. Presumed Urdu, YL singing light vocal to 1707 then OM talks, into OM singing at 1709. Poor, too much lightning QRN local to Joburg. Jo'burg sunset 1548 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) no ZIMBABWE, q.v. ** INDIA. 9870 kHz, AIR Bengaluru --- Dear friends, AIR Bengaluru is interested is reception reports at various timings of their Vividh Bharati Service on 9870 kHz which uses 500 kW transmitter for coming few days. The schedule is: 0025-0435 0900-1200 1245-1740 Reports may be addressed to Mr. T. Rajendiran Suptg. Engineer AIR, Super Power Transmitter Bengaluru Email ids: rajendiran37 @ yahoo.com [corrected below] sptairynk @ rediffmail.com Watch out on this channel from next week for tests in DRM mode of their new 500 kW transmitter for this service! Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India Mobile: +91 94416 96043, http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos April 18, dx_india yg via DXLD) 9870, AIR - Vividh Bharati service with sign on at *1240 (April 19) with EZL instrumental music; in Hindi with ID and SW frequency; program of subcontinent music; strong signal. Sent off a reception report via email to “Mr. T. Rajendiran, Suptg. Engineer” at Bengaluru, who was looking for reports, but no response yet (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 9870, April 21 at 0100, timesignal and La Voz de Turquía opening Spanish hour with schedule, well atop All India Radio Vividh Bharati Service. 9870, April 21 at 1257, AIR VBS music fair with flutter, no CCI, but at 1301 recheck now CRI English is atop. Jose Jacob report that AIR wants reception reports of 9870 which is scheduled 0025-0435, 0900-1200, 1245-1740 and look out for new DRM tests this week on this service. That`ll show the colliders! HFCC currently shows all this competition on 9870 during those hours; 0100-0200 Turkey Spanish 1300-1600 China English 1330-1630 Iran Kurdish 1700-1733 RFI Portuguese via South Africa Maybe AIR should start with getting rid of those or changing frequency itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) AIR Bengaluru on the road to DRM MUMBAI: With digital stated to be as the future of radio, most stations of All India Radio are aiming to rope in Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) transmitters to improve its transmission and content quality. After successfully testing the signals as part of a live in- car demo, the DRM signals will now be tested in AIR Bengaluru to monitor the quality of broadcast. AIR Bengaluru will be testing DRM signals for the entire week commencing Monday, using a 500 kW transmitter for their Vividh Bharati Service on 9870 kHz More at : http://www.radioandmusic.com/content/editorial/news/air-bengaluru-road-drm ---- (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, April 23, dx_indiayg via DXLD) Viz.: ALL INDIA RADIO TESTS DIGITAL SHORTWAVE TRANSMITTER Text of report by Radioandmusic.com website, maintained by Indian broadcast industry website Indiantelevision.com, on 22 April Mumbai: With digital stated to be as the future of radio, most stations of [public] All India Radio are aiming to rope in Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) transmitters to improve its transmission and content quality. After successfully testing the signals as part of a live in-car demo, the DRM signals will now be tested in AIR Bengaluru to monitor the quality of broadcast. AIR Bengaluru will be testing DRM signals for the entire week commencing Monday [22 April], using a 500 kW transmitter for their Vividh Bharati Service on 9870 kHz. The schedule for broadcast will be in three segments; from 5.55- 10.05a.m., 2.30-5.30 p.m. and 6.15-11.10 p.m. [UT +5.5] The transmission will be monitored by National Institute of Amateur Radio Hyderabad assistant director Jose Jacob, who will monitor the broadcast and send reports to AIR on the same. Speaking with Radioandmusic.com, Jacob said, "AIR which is now in AM mode has got a new transmitter to go digital. The testing is going to commence from next week and since I have been involved in testing and monitoring procedures before, I will be sending out reports of the quality to AIR. Being a new transmitter, there may be some hiccups during broadcast, so our focus will remain on that." As reported by Radioandmusic.com earlier, All India Radio has around 100 per cent coverage across the country on mediumwave broadcasting and they use shortwave for external transmissions. But due to industrialization, the transmission quality is getting deteriorated. There are a lot of noise issues and listeners are not happy with the analogue as far as the domestic coverage is concerned, while on the shortwave the signal is not available frequently. There are different systems on digital and AIR has adopted the system known as DRM, which is being used for external broadcast service by most of the country. Moreover with AIR Bengaluru having 90 per cent of external broadcast services, the DRM transmitters will be a move to the positive side for them. The shortwave DRM transmitter has already been implemented in Delhi, and Bengaluru seems to be next on the cards. "Although there are a lot of benefits of DRM transmitters, the receiver is a problem as we are yet to fully understand it. There are a lot of things that still need to be looked into, but I am sure that once this system starts to get in place, the transmitter and receiver problems will be sorted out too," he added. The DRM transmitters are stated to bring with it many advantages including access to more content choice with improved sound quality, along with access to digital features like text news, sports results and automatic disaster warning in multiple languages amongst others. Source: Radioandmusic.com, Mumbai, in English 22 Apr 13 (via BBCM via DXLD) ``Update: The new 500 kW AM/DRM transmitter from Riz is under final stage of installation & DRM tests expected by next month. Also the correct email ID to send reception reports for 9870 kHz AM is: rajendiran45 at yahoo dot com`` ---- (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, April 23, dx_indiayg via DXLD) 9870, April 24 at 1307, AIR VBS with vocal pop music, over CCI from CRI for a change, but there should not be any such collision; no switch to DRM yet. It seems the previous news about DRM this week jumped the gun. Alokesh Gupta reports April 23 in dx_india yg: ``Update: The new 500 kW AM/DRM transmitter from Riz is under final stage of installation & DRM tests expected by next month. Also the correct email ID to send reception reports for 9870 kHz AM is: rajendiran45 at yahoo dot com`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9470, AIR National Channel via Aligarh. From 1350 to 1413 on April 23 with live cricket coverage in English and Hindi of the match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Pune Warriors; mostly fair. (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [and non]. 13710, April 20 at 1404, CRI English is mixing with AIR GOS music // 9690 at 1409 which is poor but at least clear. Bullies: CRI and domestic CNR treat India as if it doesn`t exist (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AIR Chennai C has started its DRM test transmission this week on 793 Khz according to Arun Kumar Narasimhan in facebook Please see: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151601519252392&set=o.108126332541150&type=1&theater (Jose Jacob, April 22, dx_india yg via DXLD) Shouldn`t that be 792 kHz? Of course with DRM there is no conventional carrier to pinpoint to an accuracy of 1 kHz (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Update : - Transmission in simulcast mode with analog channel on 783 kHz & DRM channel on 793 kHz (500 watts) - DRM channel is carrying Vividh Bharati program. - Tentative test schedule (this is not a fixed schd) : [UT +5.5] 0730-1030 IST 1630-1930 IST Regards (Alokesh Gupta, April 24, dx_india yg via DXLD) So with this ``simulcast`` adjacent channel thing, maybe they have to be 10 kHz apart rather than 9? 783 is a proper channel (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. Latest list of All stations of AIR --- Hello Friends, The latest list of All stations of All India Radio including frequencies as on 10 Apr 2013 is now available in the official website as follows: http://allindiaradio.gov.in/allindiaradio/AIRstationslist.pdf Total stations: 376 Total Transmitters: 548 Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India Mobile: +91 94416 96043 http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos April 22, dx_india yg via DXLD ** INDIA [non]. 15390, April 23 at 1344, gospel harmony in unknown language, 1345 announcement and more; fair signal but declining. Aoki shows it`s Athmeeya Yatra Radio (Gospel for Asia), 250 kW, 85 degrees from Nauen, GERMANY, with huge selexion of obscure minority languages whose speakers are targeted for Christianization, i.e. Tuesdays 1330- 1345 Nockte, 1345-1400 Kokborok. From EiBi`s exhaustive readme list of langs: NOC Nocte / Nockte (India - Assam, Arunachal Pr.: 35,000) KBO Kok Borok/Tripuri: India (0.7m) Are these unchurched heathens snowed by anyone bothering to broadcast to them? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [non]. 12160, April 24 at 1346 good signal with flutter, S Asian singing, but some crackle on the carrier; 1357 announcements, 1358 mentions TWR India address. Aoki shows this semihour is Hindi daily, extended earlier and/or later on certain days, 100 kW, 131 degrees from Tashkent, UZBEKISTAN. I`d much rather hear R. Tashkent with such a signal, but the Uzbekibekibekis are more interested in foreign exchange, even from heathen Christians, than propagating their own propaganda (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 3325, RRI Palangkaraya noted off this morning (April 22) in the 1200-1300 time frame (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Dxingwithcumbre yg via DXLD) 3325, RRI Palangkaraya. April 22 anomaly; not heard at 1209 or 1259; Atsunori Ishida explains: very late sign on at *1320 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. See UNIDENTIFIED 7275 ** INDONESIA [and non]. The voice sends a strong signal to 9525.9 kHz, but not in the correct languages ?? To specify, 18 UT clock, instead ran Chinese was Spanish, and now that German would be it, it sounds more like Japanese language. I do not understand a word except "Kyoto" and "Indonesia". On the new relay frequency 3985 kHz I see a carrier with S=3-4, but somehow missing modulation. Against 3995 kHz Weenermoor rich program (Eike Bierwirth-D, A-DX Apr 13) google automatc translation. Michael Grabovski-D reported that on April 10 also. RRI Jakarta schedule German English Showing the colorful table. Only that sent English LIVE at 13-14 UT. Everything else is recorded Preserve. In any case, at present they bring the audio without errors to Cimanggis TX site, compared to the Muslim world broadcast terrible signals from Cairo, Dhaka, Islamabad, or remember Damascus with their devilish signals (Wolfgang Büschel, April 13, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 19 via DXLD) 9525.89, V. of Indonesia, 1057 end of song then canned announcement by W giving contact info including website and mailing address, and into more music. Most audio I've heard from this in months. Still very weak. (13 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 9526-, April 18 at 1335, NO signal at all from VOI during scheduled English hour. Atsunori Ishida shows it was last heard April 16 at 1910, nothing on April 17 or 18. 9526-, April 19 at 1314, VOI carrier is back on after missing a few days, JBA music modulation. Ishida does not yet have an entry up for this date as of 1449 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, We were listening at the same time! 1314 end of the news in English; "Commentary" about Boston bombing and Texas explosion; ID and info on audio streaming; "Today in History" (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9526-, April 21 at 1256, poor signal with music from VOI, also undermodulated, end of Japanese hour. Atsunori Ishida shows it was missing UT April 17 and 18 but back starting April 19 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Indonesia, 9526, was putting a good signal into British Columbia this morning, April 21st. Although weak at the beginning of English at 1300, it quickly rose in strength. Following opening announcements of ID, frequencies, website, world news began at 1301:45. When this concluded at 1310 a man began "news from across the country". Unfortunately, his accent hindered intelligibility (Harold Sellers, Vernon, B.C., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Harold, Also with a decent signal here in California on 9525.90 kHz and fairly readable with their mailbag program at 1334. Brief audio at https://www.box.com/s/kp8v7wizrbjpyqn5kfjj Did the announcer twice say "2014"? (Ron Howard, ibid.) 9525, 21/Apr 1700, Voice of Indonesia in Spanish. ID by OM. OM presents the day's schedule and starts with the week's news. Good signal in SDR, Twente. Good modulation. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Jorge, Was it really on 9525 instead of 9526 (9525.9)? That along with good modulation might imply they were using a different transmitter than we hear earlier (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Foi em 9525.9. Eu não tenho experiência em SDR e não sei como precisar uma frequência neles, assim informei a frequência das listas. Mas a modulação estava perfeita, sem distorção e sem zumbidos. Ouvi todo o programa em espanhol e o sinal em Twente se manteve estável. A escuta foi toda feita pelo SDR de Twente, como informado no log. Esse SDR de Twente realmente tem a melhor recepção de todos os rádios remotos que eu acesso em diversas partes do mundo. Só não é bom nas bandas acima dos 49 metros, infelizmente. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, ibid.) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. Back on World Radio Network (WRN) : Radio Damascus : http://www.wrn.org/listeners/radio-damascus Radio Cairo : http://www.wrn.org/listeners/radio-cairo New on World Radio Network : Voice of Nigeria : http://www.wrn.org/listeners/voice-of-nigeria (Kris Janssen, Belgium, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM [and non]. Awful HF condx 20/4/13 --- Ionosounder stuck at 25600 kHz for ages this morning; finally at around 10 UT the MUF briefly reached the CB band and I heard a single Russian Taxi dispatcher very weakly on 27155 (not the usual Rus volmet). Local CB'er 26TM426 in Manchester was talking to South Africa at 0940 but the South African wasn't audible here. 23739.7 ?? unid off at 0955, Harmonic? nothing heard on 11870 but noise was bad 23790 CYP/TUR Radar 0955 25525 CHN Radar So I went to another band; hope you'll forgive the slightly OT Satcom logs. I know a few of you follow these [MHz:] 254.75, IRAN IRIB (presumed) muezzin mix then blank carrier from 1230 UT, deep tropo type qsb 255.55, BRAZIL, Brazilian truckers, 1210 255.80, PAKISTAN, TV Audio, very strong but horribly distorted due to the narrow bandwidth of Satcoms uplink rx 268.44, PERU R Cajamarca Viva, sign on 1100 269.65, PHILIPPINES I-93.9, Manila (ex Smile FM) 1045 usual soft music 269.75, CHINA TV Audio, film sounded very exciting, lots of train noises! fade in or sign on 1100, ad mentioned Shanghai 1302 UT -- (Tim Bucknall, Congleton, UK, RDR54D1 + CLP5130, IC-R9500, 1306 UT April 20, harmonics yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD) What`s this about? Old satellite transponder pix up terrestrial signals in a certain nearby VHF band occupied in some countries by broadcast station studio-transmitter-linx (or 2-way) and rebroadcasts them as above. IIRC you don`t need a dish to get this (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD) ** IRAN. Voice of Justice on 13650 --- First time I've remembered to tune in to their new summer frequency 13650. Coming in very well now S9+10 on Icom R 75. Also heard on // 15470 at S7. DH KCMO (Dave Hughes, Kansas City MO, UT April 20, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13650, 20/Apr 0346, Voice of Iran "Voice of Justice" in English. YL talk. Modulation very low compared to the signal. 45432. // 15470 with Very weak signal. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, ibid.) Heard VOIRI/V. of Justice tonight at sign-on 0330 4/21 on both 15470 and 13650. 15470 the stronger signal, but it again had problems with the transmitter cutting out; not so 13650 (Chuck Albertson, Seattle, Wash., Sony ICF-2010 and squalid apartment balcony long-wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 21505, V. of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1125 W giving sked and contact info in English. Surprised this was propagating at this time. Poor and fady but there. (13 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** IRAN [non]. Radio Payem e-Doost: 0230-0315 on 7460 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi till April 30? 0230-0315 on 11710 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg to WeAs Farsi from May 1 1800-1845 on 5900 DHA 250 kW / 035 deg to WeAs Farsi from May 1 1800-1845 on 7480 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi till April 30? (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) ** IRAN [non]. Radio Ranginkaman/Radio Rainbow: 1600-1630 on 7550 KCH 100 kW / 100 deg to WeAs Farsi Mon/Fri not 1700-1730 (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) ** ISRAEL. Galei Zahal noted today after 2130 UT on 15850 with song and telephone talk with listeners, at 2000 UTC it was not there (Partha Sarathi Goswami, WB, India, April 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Both transmitters of Galei Zahal are REALLY on air at 2155 UT April 21. Heard both outlets on air in \\ 6884.964 very odd, S=9+20dB in Iceland SDR remote unit, and 15850.005 kHz weak only S=3-4 just on threshold in Iceland, but further south at Isle of Wight low noise remote unit S=8 signal strength. G.Z. noted back on air on both txs from April 15 onwards, and reported also positively in Austrian newsgroup A-DX. Sarathi - there is no propagation this night on 19 meterband from ISRAEL to INDIA (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Galei Zahal at 2207 UT Apr 21 heard on 15850 kHz also on three PERSEUS remote posts in Japan. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** ITALY. PIRATE (EUROPE), 9999.995, ItalyCable, (time station Pirate) 0010-0300 Usual instrumental MOR music, CW just before the minute, time ticks, M announcement, and more music. At :00, :15, :30, and :45 had a longer announcement followed by CW that appeared to give a website as www.associazioniitalycable.it But that didn't work when I tried it. Sometime peaking at a good level. (15 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) Try spelling it right: http://www.associazioneitalcable.it --- Acknowledges they are on both 10 and 15 MHz (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** JAPAN. QSL: Tokyo VOLMET, 13282, full data form letter in 14 days for English airmail report and US $2 (returned). Also sent very nice cover letter. V/s in Japanese and not able to be read by myself (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, April 20, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KIRIBATI. A ham expedition went to Kanton (central Kiribati*) a couple of years ago, (T31A) which was the site of WXLE 1385, heard by some DXers in the 1970-era (I had weak carrier a few times then). I mention this because they had a web site with a good number of photographs of abandoned buildings, one of which presumptively was the old 1385 station location. Kanton today has a small resident indigenous population, none of whom seem willing to resurrect 1385.... *kiribati is pronounced ki-ree-bas which is roughly what comes out when they try to say "gilberts" ;; the islands used to be the Gilbert and Ellice island colony. 73 (Bob Foxworth, ABDX via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH. 11710, V. of Korea, 1051 editorial by W in English in which she continually called South Korea the "South Korean Warmongers". (17 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH. Re KOREA D.P.R. 6101.23v, KCBS, Pyongyang, at 1333 UT on Apr 02, after briefly returning to the exact frequency, they have again gone off frequency; in Korean with hum \\ 9665.000 kHz (Ron Howard-CA-USA, dswci DXW Apr 17) 6100.000, Symphonic music, violin concert \\ 9665.000 kHz, exact frequency, when used the new transmitters at Kujang tx site, where new Chinese txs made by BBEF company has been erected. Scheduled 1300- 1800, 2000-0835 UT. KRE - Voice of Korea Kujang, Main power / frequency accuracy seems improved during Korean night at least, many exact even xxx.000 kHz settings now. Is my strong guess, according extensive monitoring during Febr/March 2013 of new 9 to 10 tx units, that D.P.R.'s Kim Jong-Un government bought new BBEF Chinese transmitters equipment from Beijing China, and installed/connected at Kujang transmission center site in past 5 weeks since Febr 1st til March 15 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 20, dxldyg via DXLD) Wolfy, Did you happen to see the following story from LAST YEAR? Engineers from Beijing BBEF Science and Technology were NOT allowed to go to DPRK to install the new transmitters, but DPRK engineers instead went to China to train on how to install and operate the transmitters. BBEF website does not show any new information about their activities in 2013. http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/04/25/dprk-radio-transmitters-a-national-secret/ (Ron Howard, California, ibid.) Thanks Ron, yes, we reported about various activities of Chinese firm BBEF Beijing few times in the past. We heard and reported a BBEF item on 16 Aug 2008, about the new SW txs at Cerrik and Shijak Albania in November 2004. BBEF also involved in delivery of MW and SW txs at NAYPYIDAW in Myanmar, completed in March 2010. We at wwdxc had reported already on 24 Jan 2012 the BBEF delivery story to foreign countries like CUBA/ETHIOPIA/KOREA DPR/MYANMAR/SOMALIA/VENEZUELA/VIETNAM and new Semi jamming on 1170 kHz just happened to be co-channel with VOA transmissions to China via Poro-PHL, against VOA Poro as 600 kW MW transmitter in Jiangxi log before North Korea Tech featured the same story. Projects in North Korea - D.P.R. "our company supplies North Korea with 10 kW TV transmitter, 20 / 50 / 100 / 150 kW SW radio transmitters, 600 kW MW radio transmitter, together with the accessories." BUT the website in Chinese language brought the MAIN INTERESTING ITEM of the SECRET behaviour of the North Koreans, belonging erecting new BBEF hardware {6 - 7 SW units, I guess} at Korean domestic service Kanggye site in 2011 {and at least 9 - 10 units at foreign and jamming station Kujang in Febr 2013 now}. "will be installed is a state secret..." see below. Automatic translation Chinese - English: "From 1-27 June 2011 a delegation of eight technicians from KPPTC, North Korea, joined a training programme at the company, centred on the current SW transmitter contract and the previous MW contract. "Due to political factors on the North Korean side, the site where the shortwave transmitter(s) will be installed is a state secret, so the installation and set-up of the 100 kW shortwave transmitter(s) will have to be solved entirely by North Korean technicians and it will be impossible for technicians from our company to visit North Korea to inspect. Meanwhile the installation of the shortwave transmitter(s) is taking place in (a) tunnel(s), and there are a huge number of technical problems to be overcome." North Korean trainee project. North Korea SW Project Technical Training was Rounded off [completed?] 100 kW SW Project in Vietnam mentions BBEF 500 / 600 kW in 2009 and 2010, unfortunately Chinese text is an image, and could not be translated by Google Chinese / English translator. Similar training have done also for the Ethiopian engineering staff. http://www.bbef-en.com/new_show.aspx?type=14&id=130 "The training lasted for one month. And the courses were designed according to the equipments, including dual-cast transmitter [AM and digital WHITE NOISE jamming, wb.}, FM transmitter system and relevant apparatus, which would be exported to Ethiopia. Various teaching forms, such as lectures, real machine operation and resolving doubts, were adopted during the training. Ethiopian cadets enriched their knowledge and made progress through the discussion and interaction with BBEF technicians." vy73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) re: ``Sometimes this secondary audio can be very strong. So strong, it interferes with the main program. This is especially noticeable when, say, the Chinese service ends news and begins broadcasting music while the English service is still reading the news. It sounds like a musical bed has been brought up to accompany the news item. Any theories on why this has started? I seem to recall that it wasn't there a couple of years ago. Martyn`` I have just been asked if I'm aware of a possible other, clean frequency for Voice of Korea that is not interfered by another station. Concerning the cause of the problem: It appears that at the time the bad leaking started also the carriers started to be precisely on the nominal frequency. If so it would be safe to assume that new transmitters have now also been installed at the Kujang plant, as done before at transmitter sites near Kanggye and Pyongyang, and that they messed up the new installation pretty badly (Kai Ludwig, April 24, ibid.) On that subject, can anyone tell me more about the Kanggye transmitters? I've never been able to find anything close to a shortwave transmitter site on Google Earth, just the occasional likely local transmitter, and colleagues have also come up with nothing. in contrast, Kujang is easy to spot and a substantial operation. Is it possible this doesn't exist, or did exist but has been dismantled? It's certainly become part of the accepted truth about Voice of Korea, but I wonder where it first started being reported. Does VoK claim this in anything published? Any insight into the Kanggye transmitter would be most welcome. As for clean VoK frequencies, the best I can suggest is the Thaicom 5 channel, although that is only covering Asia and requires a pretty substantial dish. They sometimes use 3250 kHz too, but that seems to be as-required and doesn't travel far beyond the country. When I was living in Tokyo, it was always one of the stronger and better frequencies, if in use (Martyn Williams, CA, ibid.) Basically this transmitter site information originates from sources in Japan, as reflected in this article: http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk00400&num=9974 I never saw it explained how these sources get to know, also in regard of schedules with exact parameters (power, azimuth). But interestingly it turned out that Kujang was a correct information. Frequencies currently associated with Kanggye are 3960, 6070, 6100, 6400 and 11680 kHz, all basically non-directional operations. So I would not expect large curtain antennas there at all, rather simple dipoles/HQs/cages, too inconspicuous to spot on the satellite images available via Google. You could stare around the mediumwave transmitter there, if it has already been spotted. The interesting story here are 6070 and 6100 kHz, used alternately. They appeared out of nowhere during the nineties, with accurate carrier frequencies plus softer and cleaner audio than the other North Korean shortwave outlets, and they had been found as obviously not being co-located with all the other foreign service outlets which appeared to be concentrated at a single location in some distance from Pyongyang (as monitoring revealed -- no word about Kujang at this time yet). It should be safe to assume that these were the transmitters sold from Switzerland to North Korea in 1995, two ones each from Beromünster and Schwarzenburg. I suspect they were part of the same package than the 18 narrow-gauge tram cars from Zürich (Kai Ludwig, ibid.) I have just arrived back from a few weeks in North Korea and about 10 days ago I drove through Kanggye (twice) [corrected below] and guess what I made a video as I passed the antenna farm! Also I have gathered a lot of other content (hours of received off the air domestic radio audio, photos and video) that may be of interest. I will pass this to Martyn for use on his DPRK Tech Blog and also will put links to the content here. I will start sorting through the content on the weekend as I haven't even unpacked yet. As for the other conversation here on DXLD in the last few days: Secondary audio that can be heard behind Voice of Korea programming. I have many high quality examples of this which I have recorded directly off the Thaicom 5 Voice of Korea distribution circuits. Sometimes the bleed through audio is another VOK language program, other times it is Pyongyang Pangsong and also at times Joson Jang-ang Pangsong. Basically I can confirm that this unintended secondary audio not only can be heard on actual shortwave transmissions but also on the satellite circuits. So just a guess - it may be bleeding in back near the programming source in the Pyongyang studio and switching? Cheers, (Mark Fahey, Sydney, Australia, ibid.) CORRECTION: Please forgive me for my error. I'm tired after 3 days of travel from Pyongyang to Sydney in the same clothes and without a bed! The site I traveled past and videoed was near Kujang - not Kanggye. The antennas I videoed were tall verticals but the site was not this one on Martyn's blog: http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/04/29/kujang-shortwave-transmitter-site/ So for now I am going to shut up, find the video in the next few days and post it for the antenna experts to examine! Cheers, (Mark Fahey, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. P5, NORTH KOREA --- PRESS RELEASE (Announcing the P5 Project - IDXC 2013 Convention in Visalia, April 20th, 2013), received from Paul, N6PSE: "P5, North Korea is the most wanted DXCC entity world-wide. Today, the Intrepid-DX Group, in partnership with the World-Wide DX Group, is announcing our sustained and ongoing effort to activate North Korea. For the past four years, we have been working with professionals in the business and tourism industries who are actively doing business in North Korea. We are leveraging their ideas and contacts towards our goal of a major Dxpedition over a four week period from within the DPRK. We are using the same techniques that were successful in opening up Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) South Sudan and Yemen to Dxpedition activity. We have prepared a comprehensive, multi-faceted proposal, and we have delivered it to the DPRK officials via our Chinese emissary. Several members of our leadership and advisory team have made multiple visits to the DPRK and are advising us accordingly. We are making further plans to visit the DPRK in the coming months to further bolster our business contacts and to research and assess various venues. We expect this ongoing project to require a sustained effort. We are committed to work as hard and as long as it takes to activate this rare and much needed entity. We will continue negotiating and flying into and out of the DPRK as needed during this process to lay the groundwork and to build the trust to ensure that a favorable outcome can be created. We want the DX community to be aware and to understand that a sustained effort is being made to activate this rare and important entity. Thank you, N6PSE AH6HY YT1AD K3LP -- The Intrepid-DX Group" ADDED NOTE: The Intrepid-DX Group has set up a Web page which is still under construction at: http://www.intrepid-dx.com/p5/index.php (Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 1109, April 22, 2013, Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio), via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) Tsk2, hams aren`t content with *hearing* broadcasts out of N Korea, of which there are plenty! But have to go to all this trouble (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. MND Radio: 0400-0455 on 5150 JNG 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean 0400-0455 on 6360 CHC 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean 0500-0550 on 4925 JNG 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean 0500-0550 on 6550 CHC 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean 0600-0635 on 6270 JNG 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean 0600-0635 on 6480 CHC 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean 0700-0735 on 5290 JNG 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean 0700-0735 on 6435 CHC 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean 1000-1050 on 4925 JNG 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean 1000-1050 on 6550 CHC 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean 1100-1150 on 6270 JNG 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean 1100-1150 on 6480 CHC 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean 1200-1255 on 5150 JNG 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean 1200-1255 on 6360 CHC 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. CLANDESTINE: 17650, V. of the Wilderness (via Germany) 1300 opening with wind blowing SFX and W in Korean. Mixing with China. Found // 11860 (Sri Lanka) at 1303 with soft W vocal music. Cuba is supposed to be there and was probably the signal that I noted going off and on a few times. (13 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) See sked below ** KOREA NORTH [non]. Voice of Martyrs: 1600-1730 on 7515 TAC 100 kW / 065 deg to KRE Korean Radio Free Chosun: 1200-1400 on 11540 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean 1200-1400 on 15720 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean 2000-2100 on 7505 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean Open Radio North Korea: 1230-1430 on 11550 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean 1230-1430 on 15700 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean 2100-2200 on 7480 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean Voice of Wilderness (BVB): 1300-1330 on 17650 NAU 250 kW / 048 deg to KRE Korean Mon-Sat 1300-1400 on 11860 TRM 250 kW / 045 deg to KRE Korean Mon-Sat 1300-1400 on 17650 NAU 250 kW / 048 deg to KRE Korean Sun 1300-1430 on 11860 TRM 250 kW / 045 deg to KRE Korean Sun 1900-2000 on 7375 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean Mon-Sat 1900-2030 on 7375 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean Sun Nippon no Kaze: 1300-1330 on 9950 TAI 100 kW / 002 deg to NEAs Korean 1500-1530 on 9975 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Korean 1530-1600 on 9965 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Korean Furusato no Kaze: 1330-1400 on 9950 TAI 100 kW / 002 deg to NEAs Japanese 1430-1500 on 9960 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Japanese 1600-1630 on 9780 TAI 250 kW / 045 deg to NEAs Japanese JSR Shiokaze Sea Breeze: 1330-1430 on 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE various Japanese Mon/Wed/Thu; Chinese/Korean Tue; English Fri; Korean/Japanese Sat and Japanese/Korean Sun 2000-2100 on 6075 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE various Japanese Mon/Wed/Thu; Chinese/Korean Tue; English Fri; Korean/Japanese Sat and Japanese/Korean Sun North Korea Reform Radio: 1400-1600 on 7590 TAC 200 kW / 070 deg to KRE Korean, ex 1500-1700 Radio Free North Korea: 1430-1630 on 11570 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean, ex 1200-1400 Voice of Martyrs: 1600-1730 on 7515 TAC 100 kW / 065 deg to KRE Korean (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, April 20 at 1240, KBS open carrier is *not* on this early for a change prior to 1300 English. {The opening newscast at 1300, mostly about NK and Boston; signal has degraded quite a bit by 1355.} I don`t get back to it until 1355, just in time for Kevin O`Donovan in Farmington NM, this week with SW info on Pakistan, Indonesia, SWPC propagation outlook, reminder that after April 25, SiriusXM is removing WRN and along with it KBS; but this 15575 transmission is now heard well some days, other days almost non- existent. ACI from 15580 *1358 VOA carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello everyone, really good signal out of South Korea KBS World Radio at 1300 UT is booming in Montreal 15575; my new favorite for morning listening here. Hope the signal stays good through the summer! 73 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, April 20, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non]. 3955, KBS World Radio via Woofferton blasting-in with excellent signal with English program at new time (to me) of 2100-2130 today 21 April. This transmission doesn't show up on the KBS web site, but is on HFCC and on EiBi since 15 April (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN. IRAQ/IRAN, eQSL Voice of Iranian Kurdistan 4870 kHz. Von der Voice of Iranian Kurdistan 4870v kHz kam heute nach 23 Tagen eine undetaillierte e-mail-Bestaetigung via address (Patrick Robic, Austria, April 11, A-DX via BC-DX April 19 via DXLD) CLANDESTINE, 4959.77, V. of Iranian Kurdistan. Signal on the air at 0224:57 on 4959.77, then drifted up rapidly and consistently. Flute IS started at 0225:30. Just about the best I've heard this yet. The jammer came on 4960.09 at 0230. At 0236, VOIK suddenly took off for 4870.07 leaving the jammer behind. Jammer followed at 0246 on 4870.09. Noticed this while reviewing for the 4930 sub-harmonic of WHRI 9860. (8 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. Denge Kurdistan 0300-1500 on 11510 KCH 250 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Kurdish 1500-1900 on 11510 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) 11510, April 24 at 1339, Denge Kurdistan is poor but propagating well enough to enjoy the wailing rather than talk after 1400. Today`s Aoki shows site as PRIDNESTROVYE until 1500 with 100 kW, then Bulgaria with 50 kW until 1900. But latest DX Re Mix News, Bulgaria, April 23 shows a.k.a. KCH with 250 kW until 1500, then Issoudun, France with 250 kW. Anyhow, I`m never listening after 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I just, at 1705-1710, checked 11510 and have no doubt that it indeed originates from Issoudun now. Which could be a precedent, with more and more transmission facilities in former Comecon countries perishing. Btw, the transmitters at present used in Pridnestrovye are one 1000 kW and two 2000 kW units. They may consist of coupled PA stages, but still I doubt that it makes sense to use them at much below 300 kW. It would be possible but only result in wasting more power as heat (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 15540, Radio Kuwait, 1800-1801, sign on and ID in English. The beginning of the transmission apparently was still using the HFCC listed 300 kW transmitter beamed 100 degrees for the Urdu language program that ends at 1759:59 GMT and you can hear the switch between 1800:58 and 1801:15 GMT to the HFCC listed 500 kW transmitter beaming 310 degrees. At 1845 male with the ID as the "International English Broadcasting Radio of the State of Kuwait." 4/17/13 (Steve Handler, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Icom IC-7200, Tecsun PL-660, wire antennas, NASWA Flashsheet April 21 via DXLD) 15540, Radio Kuwait heard at 1930 GMT, program entitled "Events that swayed the course of human events and changed history." 4/17/13 (Bob Brossell, Pewaukee WI, JRC NRD-545; Eton E1; Sony SW-77, NASWA Flashsheet April 21 via DXLD) 21580, Radio Kuwait at 1950 on 4/19. Good with W in English interpreting the Koran for you. Not shown in EiBi at this hour, // 15540. 1955 with M giving broadcast wrap-up with address, phone number and fax number to use for reception reports. Very modern-sounding announcer (Gerry Dexter, Lake Geneva WI, TenTech 340, "Parker" balanced doublet, NASWA Flashsheet April 21 via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD) Suspect transmission mixup, but worth further checking. Wrap up at 1955? I wonder if his times are off as wrapup should be one hour later (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Kuwait. 15540, fair in listed Urdu 1724 on 20 April, subcontinent music alternating with jovial group of men and women. Anthem 1759, then opening announcement for English service, suddenly disappeared a minute or two later, came back on after a few secs, stayed on for a couple of sentences, dropped for a bit, came back for a few seconds, then off again, this time for quite some time. Obviously having technical problems. Noted back on at 1820 recheck, noticeably weaker, though that was likely due to propagation (Bruce Portzer, Seattle, WA, Winradio Excalibur with K9AY antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) another log at same date and time: 15540, 20/Apr 1759, R Kuwait in Urdu. YL talk. At 1800 start program in English by OM. At 1800 full ID by OM, then out of the air for a few seconds. Out of the air again at 1802. At 1804 the only carrier. Until 1810 constant carrier without modulation and soon after goes down. At 1809 back with Om talk. 35433 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See earlier entry above from Handler about presumed switch of transmitter and antenna circa 1800 (gh) 13650, April 20 at 1828 music, 1829 Arabic announcement, then more music sounded Christianish, but must not be, as R. Kuwait is here 17- 20 UT. 17550, April 20 after 2000, R. Kuwait`s next frequency is quite poor, but by 2032 it`s much better at good level, in fact quite stronger than English on 15540 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LAOS [non]. Suab Xaa Moo Zoo, Voice of Hope: 1130-1200 on 11570 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Hmong 2230-2300 on 7530 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Hmong (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) ** LIBYA. 11600, R Libya with ID before 1642 April 19, S9 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11600, 20/Apr 1830, R Libye in Arabic. OM talk, with pause of instrumental music. At 1833 ID by OM. Back, with very good signal, almost local. At 1834 ID by YL. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LITHUANIA. 9400, Radio Free Asia; 0159-0200:57*, 16-Apr; Just caught end of program (sked in Uighur); "You have been listening to Radio Free Asia; the following program is in Uighur", and off. Good (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not much else from this site (gh) ** MALAYSIA. 9835, Sarawak FM. Break between pop songs with studio W announcer, mention of two websites at 1118:15 and ending with ID before going back to music. (12 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 9835, RTM 19 April at 1544 with traditional dances S4 11665 with a different program, negaraku at 1600 with S7. That time 9835 is blocked by 9830 RL ???? of a S20 signal (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. QSL: Voice of Malaysia, 15295, full data email and promise of printed QSL to be sent in the mail in 608 days for English airmail report and 2 IRCs, with a follow-up via registered airmail to their PO box which was never picked up and returned, a further follow- up via registered airmail with 2 IRCs which was delivered, a follow-up with the Malaysian Embassy, and finally a follow-up with copies of everything to Mr. Zulkifli Ab Rahim, Sr. Asst. Director of Measurements. eQSL and promise of printed QSL arrived 20 days after email follow-up. V/s Mr. Zulkifli Ab Rahim. The Malaysia QSL was literally a Labor of Hercules! Mr. Ab Rahim further clarifies what happened with RTV Malaysia: "First and foremost please accept our apologies there has been no response from RTM to your previous letters. Request for QSL verification were previously handled by our colleagues in the programme department. Around the year 2008 there was a major revamp and restructuring of our organisational structure that left many staff confused of what they were actually supposed to do. So late last year - 2012, our Deputy Director Generale for technical services decided replies to QSL request be handled by RTM's Technical Department." Another QSL that I am extremely grateful for! Now if the Maldives and Radio Vila Verde in Macao would only come through, but I think those are write-offs (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, April 20, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) VOM external service no longer exists on SW (gh) I also received a QSL from Malaysia recently (Last Week) Which can be seen here http://www.dxinginfo.com/qsl/miscellaneous-gallery or directly at following URL http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s720x720/17203_10151559623704038_1685845053_n.jpg (Partha Sarathi Goswami, W.B., ibid.) ** MALI. At 2145-2230 UT Apr 21, on the Iceland remote post: 15505, CRI, Bamako MALI, Chinese, low modulation S=8. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 560, April 23 at 0554 UT after music, ID as ``La Tremenda``, dominant unless nulled when US stations can be heard, i.e. XESRD, Santiago Papasquiaro, Durango, 10/1 kW per Cantú. I was wondering about the derivation of this strange name; no info on that in Wikipedia, but I do learn it is a town about the same size as Enid but four times as high; many emigrants from there are in Chicago. In the news lately for kidnapping. Googling, I don`t find the name Papasquiaro applying to anyplace or anyone else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 580, April 23 at 0549 UT, promo for ``Noticias Rancherita del Aire``, singing ID for same, live DJ with timecheck and 26 degrees; often dominant over opposite WIBW Topeka KS with which it makes a 2 Hz SAH, i.e. XEMU, Piedras Negras, Coahuila, 5/2.5 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 660, April 23 at 0500 UT the Mexican NA is playing, followed by dead air, open carrier with background hum surging to foreground. So we know the big hum being heard here is from a United States of Mexican rather than United States of American. Next will have to tune in a few minutes earlier to determine which one. Apparently they leave on not only the carrier after sign-off, but also the Optimod which stupidly brings up the hum on the circuit. Tonight it`s worse than usual, with slow pulsing too. 0548 recheck I think it is off, but fades back in along with another Spanish station still modulating. My hunch is that the hummer is XEFZ in Monterrey NL, which is usually the dominant Mexican on this frequency; but based solely on the schedule hours in the 2012 IRCA Mexican Log, which cannot remain totally accurate after publication: it`s 24 hours as are XEEY Aguascalientes and XEAR Tampico, while these close at 0600: XEACB Ciudad Delicias (which I have also heard before), XEWX Durango; while the others sign off at some other time. However altho presented in UT, those schedule times probably apply to winter non-DST rather than now. UNIDENTIFIED. 660, April 24 at 0455 UT tuning in early trying to nail down the hummer post-0500: dominant is lively Mexican music, but by 0456 an understation is playing choral Mexican NA, and that`s likely to be the hummer; yes: 0500 NA stops and hum surges. (Every station signing off with an anthem, anywhere, should be required to insert a quick legal ID *after* it!) 660, April 24 at 0524 & 0536 UT, IDs in passing for 98.9, La Lupe, mixing with others, so that`s XEACB, Ciudad Delicias, Chih., not the hummer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. A longtime mystery here is a station on MW 800 often heard with extremely distorted modulation. I`m fairly sure it is one of the two in NE Mexico near you. Wonder in you could hear it on groundwave in the daytime and get a fix on it or ID? Listed names: XEDD in Montemorelos NL, La Tremenda XEZR in Zaragoza, Coahuila, La Traviesa 73, (Glenn to Jerry Ervine, via DXLD) At 1306 4/23, La Tremenda was announced, and later Montemorelos, NL. Very clear and readable. It does become a bit raspy around 1355. At 1402, lots of MX and ID of station name, etc, but no clear call, XEDD. A mix of talk and MX. Hope this helps. 73, (Jerry Ervine, Mission, RGV, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Bet that`s it, rasp coming & going (gh) ** MEXICO. 1570, April 18 at 1145 UT, Spanish station playing ``Mañanitas`` soulful song customary among Mexicans (and other Latinos?) to greet the day, especially for those celebrating births. How closely do stations coördinate this with local sunrise? It so happens that today`s SR in Tulsa OK is 1146 UT, but I really doubt that KZLI would be doing this, altho could have just bumped up to day power. Strong and steady signal, the only Spanish audible, surely XERF still skywaving, so when is sunrise there? Gaisma.com lists many smaller towns, but not Ciudad Acuña! Fortunately it does list Del Rio TX: 1214 UT. Here are the lyrix of Mañanitas, plus translation, and quite a different performance than the one I just heard: http://www.cancionfeliz.com/mananitas.php You might want to Google up a more traditional version (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 2910, April 18 at 1135 UT, can make out a carrier vs band noise, presumably still third harmonic of XEVT, 970, Villahermosa, Tabasco. DXing MW harmonix on the 2 MHz band with their very weak signals is rather out of the question in the stormy months, but best chances with least noise before sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 6010-, April 18 at 1118, R. Mil morning news show with W&M anchors, Obama clip in English as I tune in, voiced-over to Spanish. A het on hi side, perhaps HJDH Colombia not faded out yet? Too late for Brasil. Altho they vary somewhat, Thomas Nilsson, SW Bulletin, Sweden measured these as follows, April 13 at 0230: Colombia 6009.87 Mexico 6009.96 Brasil 6010.096 Altho the last two were tentative. The het I am hearing is above, not below Mexico, so maybe something Asian close to 6010.0. Per Aoki, the only other thing on at this time is 20 kW, ND R. Rossii, Blagovestchensk/Yakutsk RUSSIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6010+, April 19 at 0448-0453+, Spanish discussion about crime, presumed R. Mil. At this time, no hets from other stations; is Colombia off? XEOI is usually reported on the lo side of 6010, but compared to 1010 signals, this is slightly on the hi side. Encroaching from above is bleed from the 6030 jammer pileup; on the lo side, splash from incomparably stronger 6000 RHC English. 6010 itself is about to be creamed directly by RHC English moving there from 0500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Regarding this post of yours from this morning. Unknown, 6010.226, Spanish announcer with news of South America. Peaking barely above the noise on a quiet morning. I don't believe it was the regularly present Colombian I see on 6010.126. There was another carrier about 100 Hz lower with no discernible audio, which might have been the Colombian. Radio Mil, the Mexican station audible here regularly lately on 6009.096v was not present this morning; beginning around 0930 (Mike Gilchrist, April 19, DXLD) 6010, April 20 at 0457, only one signal in Spanish, and it`s talking about cristianos, so presumed COLOMBIA, q.v., contrary to my assumption yesterday that it was XEOI. Radio Mil must be off the air again, hope not completely; but no signal either at 1158, just open carrier from CRI English which brings up audio closing Chinese lesson a few sex before 1200. Before 1157 had been the best shot for XEOI QRM-free. 6010, yes, XEOI Radio Mil is definitely off the air again. April 22 set alarm to get me up by 1147 to check for any signal, and nothing there between the Juche jammers. I had discovered it back on the air March 8, as in DXLD 13-11, and it was gone by April 19. Will it be away again for another year, or forever? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MICRONESIA. 4755.52, PMA-The Cross Radio, 1159:15*, April 18; fair; off after DTMF tones (dual-tone multi-frequency signaling). Back on Feb 24 had tx automatically off at 1159:40*. So probably a daily change in their sign off time? (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MIDWAY ISLAND. Did anyone ever hear KMTH-AM 900 Midway Island? Since my parents passed away, I have been hoping to visit Midway Island. (These days the island is rarely open to visitors, but I keep making inquiries with the groups who are occasionally allowed to take people there). In addition to the obvious DXing potential of a remote and essentially uninhabited island with long stretches of uncrowded beaches and presumably very little electrical noise, the island is significant to our family history. My mom worked as a teacher for the US Navy on Midway 1959-1960 (can you imagine the DX potential back then?), and my dad would volunteer to fly the mail runs from the USS Kearsarge on his WestPac cruise so he could see her. About a year earlier, my wife's father (one of the original UDT/SEALs) was stationed there briefly to expand the harbor. Also, one of my wife's cousins who passed away two years ago at age 89 was a WWII veteran who survived the bloody Battle of Midway. In researching (nice word for daydreaming about) this potential future trip, I see that there used to be an armed forces radio station on Midway, KMTH, which apparently operated at various times on 900 AM and 94.0(!) FM. Did any of our older members ever log this station? http://s230.photobucket.com/user/Flaggster/media/Kmthlogo_350.jpg.html#/user/Flaggster/media/Kmthlogo_350.jpg.html?&_suid=1366778860062043766508578563806 73 (Tim Hall, Chula Vista, CA, April 23, ABDX via DXLD) Both the photo before and the one after are good as well (Dennis Gibson, ibid.) I have two connections to Midway. In 1950 when the Korean war began, my dad (an airline pilot) volunteered to fly supply missions for time- critical cargo from SFO to Haneda, Tokyo Japan. He made six such round trips in a DC6 with other crew, stopping in Hawaii, Midway and Wake. I was 7 then. That whole detail lasted about 2 months, then we all drove back to the NY area, my parents, 3 small kids all in a 1946 Caddy. (!) We made that whole trip both ways in maybe 6 days, each way, when there were no interstates. Newark was his "home" base. In 1964 I was a student on the Univ. of the 7 seas and part of that experience was sailing on a 490-foot steamship from Yokohama to HNL and at one point we went past Midway, in the daytime, and on a "small" Sony transistor set ("small" was about the size of a brick) I was able to hear KMTH well enough to copy, maybe s-4, for a short while while on "break" from shipboard classwork. At the end of that Fall 64 semester we arrived in SFO and I was able to meet up with Pete Taylor one evening for a visit and one thing I remember was hearing ZCO Tonga 1020 from his place, mixed with KDKA who apparently were semi-regular reception in Ca-li. That is one of my fondest memories. 73 (Bob Foxworth, ibid.) There's some further info on KMTH at http://www.radioheritage.net/Story19.asp My only connection with Midway Island is that it was my very first DX contact outside of continental North America back when I was a young ham (VE6AJC) in high school in Edmonton, Alberta. This was in the early to mid 60's, and the contact was with KM6CE on 40m CW - what a thrill! I think I still have the QSL card in a drawer somewhere. I should scan some of those old cards sometime, just for the memories... (Barry McLarnon, VE3JF, Ottawa, ON, ibid.) I did work KM6AX in the late 50's. Midway was fairly easy to work then as there were a lot of Navy personnel stationed there, and the one I contacted was at a recreation club station. A number of these places have become much more difficult to get on the ham bands as these places were moved from Dept of Defense control, to the dept of the interior, who placed a lot of red tapein the way of going there, and this reduction in resident population surely helped lead to the closure of the broadcast stations such as KMTH, and others such as WXLG Kwajalein 1220. 73 (Bob Foxworth, ABDX via DXLD) ** MONGOLIA. 12085, V. of Mongolia. English here with news by W in progress at 0902. ID ending the news at 0908 and into Chinese-like music. 0928 W returned after song with mention of end of the English program, ID, said another English broadcast at 1530 on 12015, website, and final ID, then IS. Weak but there with 12080 Australia QRM. Had to use USB as usual. (11 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 12085, 0905, VOM, Ulan Bator, vgd 21/3 but over-modulated in English with news. Quite readable in AM mode and tuned off frequency (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai (Northland), New Zealand, with Drake SPR4, AOR7030+, EWEs to North, Central & South America, 100m BOG to NE and Alpha Delta Sloper antennas, April NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 7200.10, Myanmar Radio. April 18 heard with two noticeable audio feeds at 1142; spurs on 7185.82 (almost as strong as primary frequency) and faintly on 7214.38. Checked just before 1349* sign off and 7200.10 still with two audios; strongest being a lecture in vernacular (distance learning service) and weaker music audio; whereas the spur on 7185.82 was just the opposite with stronger audio of the music. Running somewhat pass their normal 1330* 7200.10, Myanmar Radio. April 22 still heard with two noticeable audio feeds at 1310; spur on 7185.82 heard, but spur on 7214.38 covered by QRM (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 7210.09, R. Myanmar. W announcer with presumed news to 1112, then percussion with short announcement by M, and into pleasant Asian Pop song. Same W announcer returned at 1116-1120, then another slower song with M vocal, and W again 1125. Still going at 1136 with W between songs again amid adjacent ham QRM that started a few minutes previous. 1137 sounded like two women talking, and again at 1144. Still going at 1200 with talk by M then W. Odd that this stayed on so late. Was very slowly drifting down but stabilized before it reached 7210.08. 9730.8 not on. Too bad Thazin is gone. (20 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 7345, BURMA, Thazin Radio – Naaypyidaw (Presumed), 1123, 4/20/13, in listed Kayah. Woman, man, second man, woman and 2nd man continue alternating. Poor (Mark Taylor, Madison WI, Microtelecom Perseus, WinRadio g313e, Eton e1, Grunding G5 & Satellit 800; EWE, Flextenna, 40 meters dipole, NASWA Flashsheet April 21 via DXLD) 7345 is listed as Rakhine Broadcasting Station (not Thazin). Thazin Radio formerly was on 7110 from 0930 to 1500, but that broadcast has been missing since early this year (probably still off due to tx problems, per an email from Thazin Radio). Mark's log seems unusual to me in that he does not mention QRM from CNR1 (1100-1735). If he did hear Rakhine B.S., I would think it would have been underneath CNR1, as it's 100KW vs. 50KW. He makes no mention of that. If he was ONLY hearing one station, then most likely it was CNR1, which could have been confirmed by checking for //. I do regularly hear Myanmar here in Calif. on 7345 mixing with CNR1. Some days Myanmar holds their own against China. Can tell it is them by their distinctive sign off indigenous instrumental theme music played just before 1330* (they are very regular with their sign off time). Hope this helps (Ron Howard, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 9730.855, R. Myanmar, 1110 definite talk by W, in music at 1111. W returned at 1118:50. Stronger than noted the other day and actually fairly strong carrier, but audio level barely there. Slightly stronger on the Wellbrook but also higher noise. Easy-listening M vocal subcontinental music at 1218. Soft-spoken W at 1222 briefly, then back to music. W announcer again at 1225. Suddenly off at 1227:45. Severe QRM from 9730 CRI after 1200 but able to notch it out. Actually both were about equal. Had Myanmar's audio level been up to 100%, it would have been IDable. (8 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9895, R. NEDERLAND (250 kW, Cypress Creek, U.S.A.), 0000 UT. Announcement of WHRI in English, then Spanish ID of Radio Nederland and beggining of "El Toque". SINPO: 55555 (Eduardo PEÑAILILLO, Receiver: Brigmton BT-360; Antenna: wire antenna, 7 meter (approx.) QTH: North zone of Santiago, residential area, Chile, April 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Mighty KBC April 21, 2013 summary Mighty KBC April 21, 2013 0000-0200 UTC 7375 kHz via Nauen, Germany. SIO 433 with QRM from utility on 7373 kHz and Radio Marti on 7365 kHz via Greenville, North Carolina. Program consisted of the "Giant Jukebox", "Pink Ronny", digital text, "A Day in History", "Dutch News" and "Hello to Listeners". Results of digital text. **************************************************** 2013-4-21 0129 UTC THOR22 centered on 1000 Hz Hello Eric and shortwave listeners, On The Mighty KBC, we have tried just about every digital text mode. Soon we must make a decision about which mode is best suited for use with shortwave broadcasting. When that mode is selected, it will be time to think about developing software applications (apps) to simplify decoding of the mode on PCs and on mobile devices. Thanks to The Mighty KBC. **************************************************** 2013-4-21 0129 UTC MSFK22 centered on 2000 Hz Hello Eric and shortwave listeners, On The Mighty KBC, we have tried just about every digital text mode. Soon we must make a decision about which mode is best suited for use with shortwave broadcasting. When that mode is selected, it will be time to think about developing software applications (apps) to simplify decoding of the mode on PCs and on mobile devices. Thanks to The Mighty KBC. **************************************************** 2013-4-21 0159 UTC MSFK32 centered on 1000 Hz The Mighty KBC is signing off now, but VOA Radiogram will be on the air soon, at 0230 UTC, on 5745 kHz, via North Carolina. On this weekend's VOA Radiogram, the featured mode is THOR, especially its faster versions. They can be decoded using Fldigi from w1hkj.com. Here is the VOA Radiogram schedule: (all days and times UTC) Sat 1600-1630 17860 kHz Sun 0230-0300 5745 kHz Sun 1300-1330 6095 kHz Sun 1930-2000 15670 kHz And please visit voaradiogram.net Thanks to The Mighty KBC **************************************************** 2013-4-21 0159 UTC MSFK32 centered on 2000 Hz Sending Pic:135x79C; with white KBC letters on blue background see image here http://misc.kg4lac.com\2013-4-21-MightyKBC-7375kHz-0159UTC-MSFK32.jpg **************************************************** 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America, April 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. VOICE OF NIGERIA, 14.04.2013, 190,0 15120 kHz, E-PARL OTTIMO, Minuti totali di trasmissione in DRM: 16226 in netto calo. La stazione che va per la maggiore in questo periodo è Radio Nigeria ricevibile, secondo i tips sopra trascritti, con segnale ottimo. (Ascolti DRM di Giovanni Lorenzi – IT9TZZ, QTH: Messina - Italy 38.11 N 15.32 E, Locator JM78SE, Ant: Longwire 25 m / Dipole, Down converter per DRM: homebrewing Website: http://www.webalice .it/it9tzz Ham info: www.qrz.com/ db/it9tzz bclnews.it yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD) 15120-AM, April 24 at 0516, VON with hum and some distortion, YL talking about women & girls in technology; S9+10 peaks (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 15120, Ein bisserl audio-technisch besser, wenn auch mit minus/plus 50 Hertz Toenen verbrummten Traegern hoert sich Voice of Nigeria aus Ikorodu an. Eine sehr professionelle weibliche Ansagerin fordert mich auf, bei schoener westafrikanischer Musik zu relaxen. S=9+5dB nicht sehr starkes Signal fuer Equinox zur Tag-und-Nach- Gleiche, gehoert um 0536 UT Apr 12. Im Hintergrund des Kanals muesste AIR Bangalore laengst den Hindi Dienst beendet haben. Jetzt hoert man im Hintergrund auch CRI Peking in Englisch. Ein 'unschoener Dreiklang'. 15120, V of Nigera BUZZY signal. One hears on 15120 kHz buzzy audio technically a little better than R Cairo 13850, but with minus / plus 50 Hz BUZZ tone carriers of Voice of Nigeria from Ikorodu. A very professional friendly female announcer asks me to relax with nicer West African music this early morning. S=9+5 dB is not very strong signal for Equinox Day-and-After-week, same belongs to 0536 UT April 12th. In the background of the channel would have to have already completed the AIR Hindi Bangalore service. Now you can hear in the background even CRI Beijing in English. An 'ugly triad' (Wolfgang Büschel, April 12, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Apr 19 via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. 1710 kHz, The Big Q ***farewell broadcast?*** - 0516 UT 4/14/2013 - Usual good signal but horrible t-storm static. Oldies and AM nostalgia by "The Midnight Man" but mentioned several times throughout the broadcast that this season would be the final season for The Big Q due to "life changing events" taking place. The announcer also said this might very well be his final broadcast. Sad news; I really enjoyed catching this one. Thanked several listeners by name for wading through the fades and staying up late (Tim TROMP, MI, MARE Tipsheet via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6930, 0705, HOBBY PIRATE, Grizzly Bear Shortwave at poor-fair level talking about listener in Hawaii, ident and email address for reports 30/3. Still audible at 0810 recheck (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai (Northland), New Zealand, with Drake SPR4, AOR7030+, EWEs to North, Central & South America, 100m BOG to NE and Alpha Delta Sloper antennas, April NZ DX Times via DXLD) Late hour and making it so far across Pacific implies west coast QTH? (gh, DXLD) 6930, PIRATE, Grizzly Bear Shortwave 0150 with a song about Grizzly Bear, I assume this is their signature song, other Blues tunes, “I’m in the mood for Blues.”, occasional IDs. Strong Apr 20 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening in my car with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna. Editor of World English Survey and Target Listening, available at http://www.odxa.on.ca dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6930-AM, April 20 at 0536, very poor signal vs noise level, can tell there is an AM pirate with music, slightly on lo side compared to MW 930; poor at peaks, seems nostalgic music. Per HF Underground, this was Grizzly Bear Radio, as IDed during this hour by Harry L Smith, Springfield OH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. Mike Rohde, Hilliard OH, busted for operating 6925 pirate Radio Ronin: see U S A ** OKLAHOMA. 530, fake callsign ``K530AM``, Vance AFB has been on the air continuously since first discovered in February {except for that ice-storm power outage we noted, when they couldn`t even come up with 10 watts of backup battery power}. And there has still never been any mention of Enid`s newest radio station in Scoop, the weekly base newspaper published by the Eagle, nor in the Eagle itself. Allegedly 10 watts, on caradio it`s quite good all over Enid in the daytime. The KTA TIS in southern KS is covered up. At night it`s weak enough to be nullable for Cuba on the DX-398. April 22 at 1648-1651 UT, I take three minutes to copy the PSA/ID loop to see if there have been any changes: Wireless Amber alerts, Ad Council Internet risky for kids, ncpc.org USDOJ and Ad Council Vance AFB Harrison Gate is open 24 hpd; Baker 0630-0900 M-F excluding federal holidays Crimestoppers on Vance: call hotline 580-213-7200; or emergency 911 Large commercial vehicles go to Search gate: open M-F 0630-1830; Sat 0630-1430 or call if needed elsewhen FEMA`s new Guide to Preparedness, fema.gov or 800-480-2520 ID: ``This is K530AM ---`` but cut off for another ID but with background noise, why? ``K530AM, operated by Vance Air Force Base`` Amber alert, again --- Previously there were a few other PSAs in rotation which might still appear at other dayparts (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1120, April 22 at 1447 and 1647 UT, KEOR Catoosa / Sperry / Tulsa remains absent, as it has been for a few days now. When it came back as ``Radio Victoria`` with praise music in Spanish, we expected it to stay, but no (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1520, April 18 at 0530 UT, KOKC `Redeye Radio` pauses for one-minute CBS news special report on West TX explosion; and again with heavy QRM from unknown source Mexican music, making fast SAH (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1610, April 22 and for weeks now, no trace in Enid of the TIS at Great Salt Plains State Park, suspect off the air. WQCL720 had been JBA on caradio at quiet spots in Enid outskirts, and easily audible a few miles north on US 81/60/64, but lastly with nothing but hum, previously with NWS relay, and before that with axual info about the area, including selenite crystal-digging. Must check for sure next time I head northward. 1610, April 22 at 1921 UT at a quiet location with caradio inside Enid, I can still hear a weak hum, no doubt from WQCL720 at Great Salt Plains State Park, contrary to yesterday`s assumption that they had finally turned it off. What a waste (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 13600, 0306, Radio Sultanate of Oman, Muscat, good 2 April with English news headlines, short anthem and into Breakfast Show. Now heard regularly with pops, headlines from Muscat newspapers, listener competitions till closing abruptly around 0400 (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai (Northland), New Zealand, with Drake SPR4, AOR7030+, EWEs to North, Central & South America, 100m BOG to NE and Alpha Delta Sloper antennas, April NZ DX Times via DXLD) 15595, Radio Sultanate of Oman, Thumryat (presumed), 2055-2105. Talk in Arabic by a man followed by music. Possible few bars of music at 2100, then talk in Arabic by a man, probably news. Very weak, threshold level signal with lots of noise and some fading. Audible about 50% of the time on an afternoon with enhanced Middle Eastern reception. 4/15/2013 (Jim Evans Germantown TN, Perseus, IC-R75, RX- 340, ALA100M Loop, Eavesdropper Dipole, Random Wire (90'), NASWA Flashsheet April 21 via DXLD) ** PAKISTAN. 15265, R. Pakistan. Carrier was already on along with VOA at 1633. IS start at 1655:48 over top of VOA!! 1659 M vocal very briefly, M with short announcement followed by another M with ID in pres. Urdu. Deadair, fanfare, 3 time ticks, then W with ID and giving her name at 1700, news headlines and in detail to 1710 and ending with website. M announcer with ID in English "R. Pakistan External Service" and frequency given, then into presumed Urdu. (8 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 15265, 20/Apr 1742, R Pakistan in Urdu. Local pop music. At 1749 Om quick talk and more music. Very weak signal, much fading, better when music 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15730, April 19 at 1244, distorted music and announcements fading out and in. Can`t recognize the language, but HFCC, Aoki and EiBi all agree it can only be R. Pakistan, Chinese service at 1200-1300, 250 kW, 70 degrees from API-6 Islamabad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WELCOME TO THE 21ST CENTURY: RADIO PAKISTAN CONTINUES DRIVE INTO DIGITAL AGE --- Express Tribune April 23, 2013 Islamabad Radio Pakistan, which has embraced web technology over the past five years, made not one but three new technological leaps on Monday. Radio Pakistan Director-General Murtaza Solangi inaugurated three projects which would allow the country’s national radio service to report better from outdoor locations, broadcast its world services via the web, and interactively update the public on the upcoming elections. The projects — a satellite communication system, internet streaming of the radio’s International Services and a dedicated elections website — were launched at the National Broadcasting House in Islamabad. The satellite communication system includes an earth station located inside the Radio Pakistan building and a digital satellite news gathering (DSNG) mobile van, capable of bidirectional communication and editing. Ghulam Mujaddid, technical adviser to the director-general, said the DSNG van will improve Radio Pakistan’s reporting from outlying areas. “Before this, we used to use standard telephony for outdoor communications,” Mujaddid said. “Satellite communication will improve the quality of signals received from the field.” The DSNG is also capable of sending audio and video feeds from the field directly to a control room in the radio’s headquarters, he said. Earlier, the international services, which include broadcasts in 11 world languages and an Urdu World Service, were only available on shortwave radio. Now, thanks to satellite transmission, people in 38 countries from South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe can use receivers to tune in to these services. The services are also available on the internet, where listeners can stream and listen, just like radio stations in the West. Solangi said the satellite communication system would help Radio Pakistan save Rs7 million of its costs of running generators for shortwave communications and of leasing broadcast media from the Pakistan Television. Radio Pakistan’s dedicated elections website will provide interactive constituency maps, election-related news, code of conducts and elections results among other things, Solangi said. “The elections web portal will serve as a resource for journalists and researchers reporting on and monitoring the elections,” he said. During his address, Solangi also listed the achievements of the radio service. digitised old radio archives and established a web presence through its website. “Today, we have listeners of Radio Pakistan, readers who visit our website and even viewers who watch our online video content,” Solangi said. “We are not traditional radio anymore, now we are emerging as a multimedia company.” http://tribune.com.pk/story/539047/welcome-to-the-21st-century-radio-pakistan-continues-drive-into-digital-age/ Published in The Express Tribune, April 23rd, 2013 (via Jaisakthivel, ADXC, Tirunelveli, India, and via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) So the implication is that satellite will replace shortwave with its expensive generators? (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD) Two internet streams for the Radio Pakistan external service are now available at: http://www.radio.gov.pk/externalworldservice "World Service" is the stream which should carry news in English at 0905-0910, 1100-1105 and 1700-1710. This stream confirmed signing on at 0830 this morning in Urdu with fairly good audio, whereas audio on the parallel shortwave frequencies 15725 and 17720 was extremely distorted - almost unintelligible. 73s (Dave Kenny, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA [and non log]. 3204.96, NBC Sandaun. April 17 noted 1307*; had been silent for a while; another erratic NBC station. April 18 had much better reception; here for two consecutive days! 3260, NBC Madang. April 18 at 1208 with “NBC National Radio 90.7 FM” ID; into a quiz for listeners to call in and answer some questions; went off the air about 1228; later than their normal 1210*. 3915, Radio Fly still silent, along with 5960, as of April 18 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3204.968, NBC Sandaun, West Sepik, Man in Pidgin // 3384.998 with a few ms delay between the two. 1127 taking a phone-in call. Peaking at my sunrise. Weaker carrier, but stronger audio. Stronger modulation obvious on visible waterfall on SDR with 2 VFOs active. Song with voice over. Same song as 3385v which did not have the voice over. 1149 fading, but 3385v peaking. Apr 20. 3384.997, April 20 at 1150, NBC R East New Britain, 33233, See beginning notes on 3205v, other NBC outlet. 1152 local ads and telephone numbers. 1152 into another song with voice over. 1155 studio dead air for several seconds. 1156, he takes a phone in from a local woman. His audio is strong, the caller's not. 1158 Strong peaks, deep fades, asking callers to call in and giving number. 1158:15 baby crying sound effect. May be an ad for baby products, "baby, papa" Off at 1201:20 during start of song and strong peak. 3205v still on but no audio discernible. As is 3260v, and 3365v, but still no sign of 3905. My sunrise this morning was 1121 (Mike Gilchrist in rural EC Iowa, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3260, NBC Madang (presumed), 1150-1208 April 22. Island music, M announcer in Pidgin, I believe; seemed to switch to English around 1201, with possibly news; mention of "NBC"; brief YL announcement at 1208 and off at 1208:45. Fairly good signal but minimal readability due to usual high noise level. Other PNG signals noted on 3385 and 3365; 3260 was the "best" of the lot. 3385, R. East New Britain (presumed), 1143-1201* April 21. YL talking; one or two selections of vocal music; 1200 choral music (anthem?) and off at 1201. Fair signal but no match for the noise (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Dxingwithcumbre yg via DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7324.96, Wantok R. Light. Discovered it was over the Chinese at 1023 and fairly readable, so stuck with it. End of religious program. Was shocked to find the Chinese go off at 1030 leaving Wantok totally in the clear!! Local studio M announcer came with program intro, and into "The Lighthouse Messenger" program with W host giving English PSA/messages. Unfortunately her audio was a little muffled. 1040 beautiful ID and outro for "The Lighthouse Messenger". 1040-1043 choral religious music, then nice ID by studio M at 1043 and continued talk in Tok Pisin. His audio was better than the W previously. 1044:35 M announcer gave his name. 1048:35 possibly another ID. 1050 more soft religious music. 1051 M back mention of tonight, inspiration, and religious talk over ToH. Still no Chinese. Finally back to music at 1106. 1107 Ad for "Michael & Michael" heavy machinery including an ID. 1110 W announcer returned but difficult muffled audio again, then a lively island song. 1114 "The Nightlife Edition"(??) program and ID at 1115:15. (15 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 7324.96, Wantok Radio Light on April 18 at 1202 with information about the just concluded Ravi Zacharias program; W.R.L. ID; better than yesterday`s reception (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7325-, April 18 1109, can`t sleep so might as well try for Wantok Radio Light, currently unimpeded by the ChiComs since their 7325 transmitter site carrying CRI Japanese at 10-13 is down for maintenance, as reported by Hiroshi Inoue and Sei-ichi Hasegawa to the DXLD yg. Now problem is the bigsig on adjacent 7320 from R. Rossii, Magadan, RUSSIA, 100 kW aimed USward at 45 degrees. But I can detect the WRL carrier, and as Ron Howard reports it on 7324.96, it is indeed slightly on the lo side, compared to 9325 RFA Saipan. 1130 it`s a little stronger, as I make out a fanfare perhaps introducing some program; 1158 some talk past 1200, meanwhile with timepips from 7320 audible about a dekasecond late. After more music, at 1230 going into talk, perhaps `Back to the Bible` as Ron has logged, if it`s on daily. Now the signal has surged to very poor. BTW, Aoki shows the off-period for the Jinhua-Youbu 831 site of CRI 7325 at 10-13 UT is April 15 to May 25. Meanwhile more 7325 CRI Japanese from 13 to 14 UT continues from a different site, Xi`an, but note this: Aoki already shows it will be off from June 17 to July 29. In mid-summer that will probably be too late for WRL propagation to here, but helpful further west; the continuous hiatus 1400-1430 is already way too late for us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Yes, it seems "Back to the Bible" is a daily show. April 19 noted 1231 with today's program presented by Woodrow Kroll and Tami Weissert. Also the Ravi Zacharias program daily seems to end about 1202, followed by singing till the start of the "Back to the Bible" show (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7325, April 20 at 1225-1233+ very poor, narration in English with music bits; not much ACI from 7320 Russia; presumed Wantok Radio Light. 7325, April 21 at 1213, very poor signal with English talk, 1216 music, presumed Wantok Radio Light. Are they ever in Tok Pisin or other PNG languages? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7324.96, Wantok Radio Light, 1210-1245 April 22. Lite vocals, occasional M announcer; 1229 bird call, flute, and ID; 1230 sounded like a brokered religious program, beginning with music and followed by talk in US-accented English; noted YL with 1-800 phone number at 1243. Peaked around 1230 with a fair signal and went downhill after that. Slight splatter from 7320 but otherwise QRM-free (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Dxingwithcumbre yg via DXLD) 7325, April 22 at 1217, Wantok Radio Light still very weak but clear of CRI QRM during its maintenance period; and not much ACI from Magadan 7320. Vocal music, probably hymn; 1222 announcements, 1225 more music; 1229 announcement with yelping, praise song; 1233 still no recognizable `Back to the Bible` nominally from 1230, as Ron Howard says it is scheduled; but at 1235 ``Welcome to Back to the Bible`` --- the only clear and definite English copy I have had from WRL. Mike Gilchrist replies to my query about whether they use other languages: ``Usually in Pidgin before 11 or so. Sometimes TOH and other times 1115 when English syndicated programs start`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7324.96, Wantok Radio Light. April 22 at 1134 preaching in Tok Pisin/Pidgin, but Bible verses were in English. Regarding “Back to the Bible” programs - Was not heard around 1230 on Sunday (April 21), so apparently only on during weekdays. Start up times vary, as Glenn noted April 22; started at 1235 with clear ID “Back to the Bible with Tami Weissert” with show about “Daniel in the lion's den” (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7325, April 23 at 1249, not even a carrier from Wantok Radio Light. While it may be too much to expect something from its 1 kW every day even with no CCCCI, I still wonder if it`s off the air today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, April 23 did hear WRL sometime before 1200, but was certainly off the air sometime after that, just as you noted. Fortunately was not too serious a problem, as they were again heard with decent signal at 1417 with organ music, during their half hour open window for reception (Ron Howard, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glad that Glenn checked. I had set my timer to pick this one up this morning, as absolutely nothing here between 1200 and 1300, with the very strong CRI signing-on just before 1300. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, ibid.) 7325, April 24 at 1200, JBA carrier, presumed Wantok Radio Light. Ron Howard and Walt Salmaniw confirm it was off the air during this hour yesterday, but was on earlier and later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 4960, Received the following QSL e-mail from Father Paul Kote, Director of Radio Maria, a Catholic FM network in PNG in response to a recording I sent him of the Catholic Radio Network broadcast on 4960 kHz on Jan 3, 2006 from 1201 to 1331 UT. [later] "Dear Bruce, Elizta, the audio technician has verified the recording as from St. Gabriel radio from Vanimo (PNG). This radio station is now operated by Radio Maria. We are transmitting through 103.5 FM. Many greetings and have blessed day. Thanks Fr. Paul Kote" WRTH never identified this station as St. Gabriel Radio in its 2006- 2008 editions nor did it have any address for sending reports. Apparently CRN had some problems and Radio Maria was established in 2006 as a new Catholic broadcasting network in PNG. Both organizations were headquartered in Boroko while the St. Gabriel Radio transmitter was in Vanimo as indicated above. Very pleased to get this, especially from a station no longer operating. This was always a tough catch on WCNA even though it had as much power as Wantok R. Light and R. Fly (Bruce W. Churchill, CA, Apr 17, DXplorer via BC-DX April 19 via DXLD) ** PERU. CHASQUI DX PFA – ABRIL 2013 --- CQ, CQ, CQ…Aquí Pedro F. Arrunátegui para compartir algo con los que disfrutan y aman el DX latinoamericano, todas las horas son UTC, desde la tierra de los incas, les informo mediante este Quipus lo siguiente: 3329.54, PERÚ, R. Ondas del Huallaga, Huánuco, 16/04 1055-1115, 33333+, mxf, ID "Yo escucho Ondas del Huallaga", advs Respete la señal de tránsito y evitemos accidentes de tránsito, fue un mensaje del Gobierno Regional, Centro San Martin, Ahora en Huánuco, Conduce Perú, la primera escuela de choferes; mx varias 4774.95, PERÚ, R. Tarma, Tarma, 16/04 1120-1150, 44444+, px Noticiero El Demoledor, news, ID "Por Radio Tarma Internacional" informan sobre las explosiones en Boston, advs Choli gas, el mejor distribuidor de gas en Tarma, ID "Muy buenos días, amigos de Radio Tarma Internacional, ahora las noticias deportivas en el Año de la Fe" 4955.00, PERÚ, R. Cultural Amauta, Huanta, 8/04 118 [sic]-1145, 44444++, px en quechua, advs iglesia Evangélica Presbiteriana, mxf con temas religiosos, ID "Radio Cultural Amauta" 4984.20, PERÚ, R. Voz Cristiana, Chilca, Huancayo, 17/05 1110-1140, 44444++, ID "Estamos cumpliendo una gran comisión, trasmite Radio Voz Cristina para el Perú y el Mundo”. Frecuencia comprobada en LSB y USB; px Siempre en Conexión con Dios, advs, escuche el magazín de las mañana todos los jueves y viernes, mxf huayno con temas religiosos. ID "Radio Voz Cristiana" Nota.- cada 5 minutos aproximadamente están dando su ID grabado. 5024.98, PERÚ, R. Quillabamba, Quillabamba, 14/04 2155-2220, 44444, px deportivo, partido de fútbol desde Madadura, Copa Perú Maco Segundo vs Enaco, ID "Por Radio Quillabamba" 5039.20, PERÚ, R. Libertad, Junín, 2/04 1135-1210, 44444, px medicina natural cubana en esta ciudad de Junín, Jr. Simón Bolívar en esta ciudad de Junín; mxf huaylas, advs orquesta Fenomenales de Junín, Panadería Terrer en esta ciudad de Junin, advs Aplique Ecortizan en su ganado, jugo Noni para el tratamiento Noni para toda la familia, px Noticiero Libertad (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Perú, Chasqui DX Abril, 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, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980.00, PERÚ, R. Chaski, Juliaca, 7/04 1134-1202, 44444++, px religioso sobre el Salmo 110. Con la Semántica grabación de R. Trans Mundial, mx religiosa himnos, ID " Escuche la palabra de Dios en la región Cusco a través de Radio Chaski, 630 kHz.." (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Perú, Chasqui DX Abril, 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, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, April 18 at 0056, despite heavy storm noise from further south in OK, even tornados (only lite rain here), R. Chaski carrier is still detectable with BFO; 5990 CRI/Cuba splash is off by 0100, and Chaski cutoff timed at 0103:44, which is 5.5 sex later than last nite. 5980, April 19 at 0038, carrier from R. Chaski, Urubamba, is detectable on the FRG-7, so this evening I decide to monitor it on the main rig, rather than going out to the cold, damp porch with the DX- 398 as usual. Some but not all the household noise sources are off. Carrier cuts off at 0103:49* which is 5 sex later than last nite (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) From 0030 tune-in the carrier was fairly strong with fairly weak audio. I am attaching a recording: 5980, R Chaski (presumed), 0030 on April 20, Within .5 Hz of 5980. Man in Spanish, piano music. Using LSB and a 3 kHz filter, no splash from 5990 even visible in waterfall. 0050-0055 recording. 0053 musical interlude the female announcer. 0055 Champaign music. 0058- recording, song still playing. 0101:31 song fades, with man in Spanish over song 0103 carrier off. Left recording going to show noise level. Friendly Regards, (Mike Gilchrist, Disruptive Technologist, Advanced Wireless Express, P.O. Box 255, Toledo, IA 52342, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, April 20 at 0100, I was out at a big-band concert, so had to miss a nightly Chaski-check. However, I am glad to see some others reporting this now: Mike Gilchrist in IA, presumed, 0030-0103* April 20 within 0.5 Hz of 5980; Chuck Bolland FL, an hour earlier at 2347- 2359 April 19, tentatively threshold on 5980.048, as I hope his precise frequency readings are now accurate. 5980, April 21 at 0053, R. Chaski carrier is detectable in hi noise level (back to the porch at 66 degrees F with the DX-398), and cut off the air at 0103:59.5* which is 10.5 seconds later than two nites ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, I chased the presumed Chaski signal again tonight. I carefully calibrated my oscillator and measured the frequency as 5980.004, at least tonight. The carrier was stronger tonight and could barely make out some words. I did record it. I believe the signal is undermodulated. There is another weaker carrier on 5983.929 which is stronger on a SW bearing as opposed to the SE bearing for Chaski. I will check again tomorrow if I am able. I listened from 0030 to 0104 off (Mike Gilchrist, Toledo, IA 52342, UT April 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, April 22 at 0056, R. Chaski carrier is audible in noise level and splash from CRI/Cuba 5990. As expected, carrier cut at 0104:05*, which is 5.5 seconds later than last night. Will this precession ever reach 0105 this cycle before resetting the timer back to 0100+? 5980, April 23 [not 22 as in original report] at 0057, R. Chaski carrier as usual detectable weakly in the noise level, including storms in the next county to the north, Grant. At 0100 can tell it`s Spanish; 0101 music while 5990-CRI Cuba English splash is still overrunning; 0101:45 the sounder we have heard so many times, then Spanish talk somewhat muffled; 0102:50 fanfare and presumed devotional capsule --- but I missed the turnoff, tuning around elsewhere, got back too late at 0104:40 when it was already off, which should have occurred at approximately 0104:10. Our streetlite fires on at 0107, earlier than it would have if the sunset were clear instead of clouded. 5980, April 24 at 0058, R. Chaski carrier is audible as I bundle up to brave the 36-degree porch, as we are having record low temps. Definite abrupt cutoff at 0104:15*. (My previous report also mentioning the streetlite firing at 0107, had the wrong UT date on it, April 22 instead of 23; sigh) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 9675a, 0357, Radio Pacífico, Lima, being regularly heard late March, good at this time 1/4 with advts, station promos in Spanish mentioning Pacífico Radio, voz cristiana and la voz de la amistad. Clear on measured 9674.85 past 0500 (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai (Northland), New Zealand, with Drake SPR4, AOR7030+, EWEs to North, Central & South America, 100m BOG to NE and Alpha Delta Sloper antennas, April NZ DX Times via DXLD) Also reported last week; so far unheard here, irregular or limited schedule? (gh, OK, DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. 11650, R Teos, 19 April at 1515 with OM talking in Russian and QRM from 11645 many mentions of Christos, ID 1531 with meter band (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Via FEBC, Bocaue (gh) ** PHILIPPINES. 11825, VOA relay heard at 1248 GMT, talks in listed Mandarin. 4/19/13 (Bob Brossell, Pewaukee WI, JRC NRD-545; Eton E1; Sony SW-77, NASWA Flashsheet April 21 via DXLD) I always hear a pileup here with CNR1 jamming usually on top, sometimes also Firedrake. Are you sure you were hearing only VOA? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PORTUGAL. The following R. Renascença transmitters are reported inactive: Braga 576 kHz, Évora 927 kHz and Valongo & Viseu 1251 kHz (WRTH National Radio Update 22 April via DXLD) ** PORTUGAL. RDPi - R. Portugal: a question of semantics. I decided to enquire about the actual fate of our HF site at São Gabriel, and even before going into details, the RTP official on the phone explained that - contrary to recent news on the issue, i.e. the suspension and later suppression of HF broadcasts -, strictly speaking, there is no suppression... yet. In a parliamentary inquiry, the RTP administration recently confirmed the suspension, not suppression, but added "there are no plans to reactivate RDPi on HF due to a number of reasons." This means the licence for HF use is still in their hands, and if is not renewed, than one simply can't expect any private broadcaster here will eventually fill the gap by being licensed to "replace" the RDPi. That's sheer utopia. If such a reply from the administration isn't devious, than I don't know what is. Like many things in this country, there seems to be a difference between A and B, only simple mortals can't find it. Whether it is too soon to speculate on the fate of the HF site, needless to say the RTP person I spoke with simply couldn't say a word about it, and I'm sure there would be no premature disclosure to me about the whole business either, if this official knew something about it. So, who knows, maybe, just maybe São Gabriel's waves are heard once more in the future. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, April 22, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PRIDNESTROVYE. 9665, UT Sunday April 21 at 2339, Radio PMR is on, in German, music; 2358 ID, usual het from off-frequency Brazilian: great frequency choice! Just before 2400, another clear ID for Radio Pridnestrovye, and seamless transition without any break to V of Russia, Chariots-of-Fire and opening English to ``Latin`` America. Ever since someone discovered that Radio PMR had been rescheduled from 21-22 UT in B-12 to 23-24 UT in A-13, allegedly Monday-Friday, I have been suspecting the TRUE UT days are Sunday-Thursday, following their previous strange practice of saying ``Monday-Friday`` along with UT times, except the days of the week apply to local time where it is after midnite. Thus we may also confidently expect that this will NOT be on the air UT Friday as well as Saturday. The misassumption that it is M-F has been widely quoted without comment (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Strangely enough, this broadcast is missing completely from EiBi and Aoki (gh, DXLD) ** PUNTLAND. History: Radio Sahan is a public affairs radio station committed promoting government accountability and strengthen civil society through programming that focuses on democracy, human rights, peace building, health and education. The station will serve as a crucial source of information for Puntland citizens, and will work to promote active, responsible citizenship through involvement in advocacy and public policy. Radio Sahan (RS) serves as a platform to promote information sharing on various pressing topics for Somali communities, including social justice, youth empowerment, human rights, good governance, and the marginalization of women and girls. In particular, the project will engage marginalized groups such as pastoral nomads, women and youth. Radio Sahan engages nomadic communities by designing programs that respond to their specific needs and providing a platform to voice their vision for Puntland. Radio Sahan provides women and youth with the space to project their voices and highlight community-related issues that matter most to them. It engages in a close working relationship with the Ministry of Women and Family Affairs, the Ministry of Sports and the Ministry of Education. The station organizes debates and discussions aimed at raising awareness about the unique concerns of and challenges for Somali women and youth, as well as at promoting mutual respect and understanding. Radio Sahan is committed giving member of, Puntland’s parliament, ministries and various councils and committees the space to discuss their responsibilities and the benefits of their work. The station will also provide citizens with the opportunity to pose questions to local, regional and national government officials. These dialogues will enhances Puntland citizens’ understanding of governmental responsibility and help clarify the constraints often faced by nascent, democratic institutions and the limited resources with which they must operate (About-us page from Radio Sahan website, via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD) Re: Puntland --- I've just webtuned to the Univ of Twente web SDR rx a few minutes ago, before and at 1400. I observed a carrier in the waterfall, and some tone as modulation, currently showing, but OC only. I enclose waterfall screenprint: http://static.dyp.im/SoatQX7rgz/9e21a10937026e6dbace36d2e82ed963.jpg (Horacio Nigro Geolkiewsky, Montevideo, Uruguay, April 19, via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) IRAN/SOMALIA. Nothing anymore at 1440 UT, when 13800 kHz channel is covered by 500 kW powerhouse IRIB Tehran in Russian via Sirjan, scheduled 1430-1527 UT. Strong S=9+35dB signal here in Stuttgart Germany. vy73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, April 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PUNTLAND. Log: Radio Puntland, Somalia, 13800 kHz, 1400 UT, Apr 17, SIO 252. Folgende Information erhielt ich soeben von der Station: Der Testbetrieb von Radio Puntland auf 13800 kHz lief heute mit nur 50 (!) Watt, da es Intermodulationsprobleme am Sender gibt. Deswegen wurde auch die Bandbreite auf 6 kHz begrenzt, was die momentan geringe Signalstaerke des 25 kW Senders erklaert. 50 Watt AM, einer meiner schoensten Empfaenge der letzten Jahre! (Christoph Ratzer, Austria, April 17, A-DX via BC-DX April 19 via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD) ** PUNTLAND. SOMALIA. R. Puntland is testing on shortwave with temporary transmitter of 100 W. Variable test schedule: 0300-0700 & 1500-1800 on 6140 kHz, 0700-1500 on 13800 kHz. The main transmitter of 25 kW is planned to start in June with regular programming on the same frequencies (WRTH National Radio Update 22 April via DXLD) Re: New SW station in Puntland / Somalia StarAfrica.com April 24 http://en.starafrica.com/news/puntland-15-4x4s-for-local-police-and-short-wave-radio-station.html Puntland: 15 4x4s for local police and short-wave radio station The short-wave radio set up in Garowe has a frequency of 6.16 Mhz (nighttime) and 13.8 Mhz (daytime) and 200W of power, with regional coverage that will vary depending on the time of day and weather conditions (as far as the Middle East and Europe during the night). A temporary transmitter has been set up in advance of the permanent one, to be installed within the year, which will have worldwide reach. The radio will be used to broadcast informative, educational and entertainment programming and will involve local associations and the various civil society components of Puntland (via Mike Barraclough, April 24, dxldydg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD) ** ROMANIA. Cambio frecuencia --- Estimados amigos, Os informo que, para no afectar el trafico aéreo, la frecuencia de 11795 de las 1900 UT ha sido reemplazada por la frecuencia de 11985 kHz. Un cordial saludo, (Victoria Sepciu, RRI, via José Bueno, April 18, DXLD) Air traffic? Presumably a higher harmonic on VHF of 11795 was the problem. Is there an airport or glide path close to which transmitter site? Wait a minute, HFCC as of April 19 does not show any 11985 for RRI, but 11795 was scheduled in Spanish via Galbeni at 23-24, not 1900. However, the April 15 HFCC did have Tiganeshti in Spanish at 19- 20 on 11795, but it was completely removed later rather than showing a TDATE, and not (yet?) replaced with 11985 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Maybe another new frequency 11985 in Spanish 1900-1956, ex 11805, re- ex 11795. 1900-1956 on 11805 in Spanish, very good reception in Sofia on April 15 (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11805: Yes, noted RRI Bucharest Spanish service when checked on Apr 22 at 1945-1955 UT, signal at S=9+25dB level in western Europe, but a lot stronger on \\ 9665 kHz S=9+45dB powerhouse, covered totally REE English co-channel (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. Fantastic NEW close-up Street View imagery of the Galbeni SW transmitter site here: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=46+45+06N+%0926+51+20E&hl=en&ll=46.745765,26.854983&spn=0.024173,0.066047&sll=47.589549,19.840321&sspn=0.09563,0.264187&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=46.745765,26.854983&panoid=AANgn64938gHkU4ItxYWtA&cbp=12,347.52,,0,-5.09 (Ian Baxter, SWSites YG via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Krasnoyarskiy krai. Krasnoyarsk. April 16 took early in the morning 2340-0000 UT, 6085 khz, SIO = 444, STRC Krasnoyarsk with a very good signal and an internal broadcast to Krasnoyarska. Kuda can send a report and someone got confirmation in electronic or paper versions, thanks in advance (Shukhrat Rakhmatullaev, Tashkent, Uzbekistan / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX April 21 via DXLD) Recently, a report that's sent to them at this address: newsradio @ kgtrk.ru Received a confirmation letter from them in 1997. Then they were called Krasnoyarsk radio - "Center of Russia" and broadcast on the frequency of 5290 kHz. 16.04.2013 from 2335 to 2400 UT took Radio Russia - Krasnoyarsk to regional broadcasting on frequency 6085 kGts. SINPO: 34333. (Receiver: Degen 1103. Antenna: Telescopic (Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", via RusDX April 21 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [non]. 11530, April 22 at 1252, VOR in English with QRM from WEWN English 11520 squishy spur circa 11529; in addition to the perpetual humroar out of this transmitter in TAJIKISTAN. VOR knows how to pick `em for their legacy service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 12030, April 24 at 1338, very poor signal mainly exhibiting big hum; per Aoki, it`s the Vladivostok-Rasdolnoy site of VOR in English, 500 kW, 230 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [non]. 12060, V. OF RUSSIA (500 kW, Yerevan-Gavar, Armenia), 2245 UT. Programme with informations about sports, economy and culture, in Portuguese. SINPO: 55555 (Eduardo PEÑAILILLO, Receiver: Brigmton BT-360; Antenna: wire antenna, 7 meter (approx.) QTH: North zone of Santiago, residential area, Chile, April 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. Hello everyone, signal from Voice of Russia is heavily interferenced in Montreal by some station on a lightly lower frequency, giving a low frequency het. The other station seems on 9664.8 or about, when I tune LSB, and difficult to copy, but seems like Portuguese. This is heard at 0150 and still going on at 0200 UT. 73 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Surely R. Voz Missionária, Brasil, which you may hear without VOR later at night, always off-frequency like so many Brazilians (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. BROADCASTING IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE ================================== QSL-policies of radio stations broadcasting in Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian languages: From my own observations and sending messages deneb-radio-dx. 1. The radio station "Belarus": Reports confirms Larisa Suárez, address: radiostation-belarus@tvr.by Is not responsible for all the reports. 2. Belarusian radio. First National Channel. Reports sent by e-mail confirm el.QSL-mail. Meets the chief of the first channel Vasyukevich AB Address: radio1@tvr.by 3. "The Voice of Vietnam." Regularly confirm the reports sent to the e-mail address: golosvietnama@mail.ru. In Russian edition of three types of QSL-cards. 4. Cairo radio. Address for reports in English: freqmeg@yahoo.com. Confirm the QSL- cards. 5. All India Radio. Address Russian edition: air.esdrus @ gmail.com. Reports confirm irregularly. 6. "Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran." Address for reports: rusradio@irib.ir. QSL-cards series of 10 prints. 7. International Spanish radio. The reports should be submitted in English at: ree@rtve.es. Also, messages can be sent for admission to Svetlana Demidova: ruso@rtve.es but lately Svetlana asked not to disturb her reports. In the future plan el.raporty confirm el.QSL. [sic] 8. China Radio International. The latest series of QSL-cards "People's China" is composed of 56 pieces. Reports can be sent to e-mail: rus@cri.com.cn, rusnet@cri.com.cn, crirus@mail.ru 9. "Voice of Korea". Their email: VOK@star-co.net.kp. But while the reports on receipt of confirmation of the reports sent to that address was not. Reports can be sent by regular mail to the address: "The Voice of Korea," Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic. 10. KBS World Radio. Reports on admission confirmed QSL-cards. Each quarter of the year there is a new QSL. Address: russian@kbs.co.kr and kbsrussian@yahoo.com 11. Radio Pridnestrovie. Reports sent by e-mail confirm el.QSL. Address: radio1pmr@gmail.com 12. "Voice of Mongolia". Broadcast through the "Voice of Russia". Reports are readily confirm homemade QSL-cards. The data confirm the printer and print out kleyut a postcard. Address for reports: vom.russian @ yahoo.com 13. Polish Radio. Reports are readily confirm QSL-cards. Address Russian service: ru@radio.com.pl. In the Belarusian version of the Polish Radio case with acknowledgments are worse, here's the address of the Belarusian service: by@polskieradio.pl "Modern" addresses the Russian service of Polish Radio: ru@polskieradio.pl radioporusski@yandex.ru 14. "Voice of Russia". The reports confirm the QSL-cards. The series consists of 12 QSL is devoted to the fiftieth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight into space. Address for reports: postru@ruvr.ru 15. Interradio Romania. Russian edition confirms reports on the admission of a new card every month. Reports are sent in the first week of the new season confirmed cards with a special stamp. Address Russian edition: rusa@rri.ro. Address Ukrainian edition: ucra@rri.ro. Ukrainian Service of RRI does not support the card with a special stamp. 16. International Radio of Serbia. Address for reports: radioju@sbb.rs. Confirm irregularly. But if confirmed, the card with a view of the building of the International Serbian radio. 17. Radio Damascus. Reports have confirmed QSL-cards. Now unknown. Shortwave broadcasts stopped. Address Russian edition: germanlangdpt@rtv.gov.sy 18. International Radio Slovakia. Confirm the reports sent to the e-mail address: RSI_russian@slovakradio.sk. Broadcast via WRN at a frequency of 738 kHz and a segment on the waves of Russian life REE. 19. "Radio Liberty". Reports should be sent by ordinary mail to the address in Prague. 20. International Radio Taiwan. Address Russian edition: russ@rti.org.tw. Each month there is a new QSL. 21. "Voice of Turkey". Address Russian edition: russian@trt.net.tr. QSL updated frequently. 22. Radio France Internationale. No data on confirmations. 23. Radio Prague. Each year, releasing a series of 8 cards. Address for reports: rusky@radio.cz. Broadcast via WRN at a frequency of 738 kHz and a segment on the waves of Russian life REE. 24. Radio Japan. Well prove it. Reports are asked to send a form on the website: https://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/russian/contact/index.html Russian edition of Radio Japan asks to send them messages and reports through form on their website. R. Japan always confirms nhkworld@nhk.jp 25. "Voice of Greece" - "Radio of the branch." Reports should be sent preferably in English: era5@ert.gr. Confirm regularly. 26. Trans World Radio (TWR-Europe): Reports confirms Kalman Dobos, address: kdobos@twr.org. Messages must composes in English. For reports sent by e-mail come E-QSL. 27. KNLS. Alaska. Address for reports in Russian: questions@knls.net Confirm new QSL (dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the radio station). 28. Vatican Radio. Different editions have your email. Accordingly, each edition send QSL-cards. Address Russian edition: rus@vatiradio.va, address Ukrainian edition: ukr@vatiradio.va, address Belarusian edition: bela@vatiradio.va Vatican Radio frequently updates its QSL-cards. 29. Missionswerk Friedensstimme. Responsible for receiving reports about the QSL-cards. Address for reports: Missionswerk Friedensstimme, Postfach 100638, 51606 Gummersbach, Deutschland. The report can be both in English and in Russian. Recently received a QSL from Missionswerk Friedensstimme for a report sent to the e-mail address of the Media Broadcast: QSL- shortwave@media-broadcast.com, 30. Bible Voice Broadcasting. Address for reports: mail@biblevoice.org report on the need to create a compelling cost English. Address for paper reports: BVB P O Box 425, Station E Toronto, Ontario Canada M6H 4E3 31. Radiostantsiya HLAZ from South Korea. FEBC radio station is owned and maintained by religious programs including on Russian language. Reports on admission confirmed QSL- cards. Address raprtov: febcadm@febc.net Cards are basically of two types with a photo of the building and the building HLAZ FEBC in Korea. 32. FEBC. Philippines. Address for reports: info@febc.org.ph. Confirm irregularly. Reports should composes in English. 33. AWR. The station confirmed reports about the reception QSL-cards. Address for reports, English only: wavescan@awr.org. You can get a QSL from Tula, address: golosnadezhdi@gmail.com 34. Herald of Christian Science. Religious radio program is in Russian. Address for reports: csradio.D @ gmx.de Lately not confirm this. 35. WWCR. Radio Station of the United States is religious broadcasts in Russian: Reports on admission confirmed QSL-cards. Postal address: WWCR Shortwave 1300 WWCR Avenue Nashville, TN 37218 USA There are also e-mail: rickwwcr@hotmail.com QSL received from them for the reports sent by e-mail. 36. Radio Eli - "Tartu Family Radio." Reports confirm, but you have to pay back. Mailing address: Radio Eli, a / I 1282 20501 Narva, Estonia. E-mail: am1035@bk.ru Electronic reports confirm el.QSL. 37. WYFR - "Family Radio." Reports confirm reception of a "Radio Center" on 1503 kHz. Address Russian Department: russian@familyradio.com, public address: international@familyradio.org 38. "The Voice of Orthodoxy." No longer broadcasts on shortwave. Address: voix.orthodoxie @ wanadoo.fr 39. "Voice of the Andes." Reports about the reception of programs supported by Russian QSL-cards from Voronezh. This studio is located in "Revelation," which prepares part of the program for the "Voices of the Andes." Address for reports: eacc@hcjb.ru and hcjbrussia@gmail.com 40. WHRI The religious radio station broadcasting from the United States in Russian on Saturdays. Reports in English can be sent from the site radio station, filling out the form: http://www.whr.org/Reception-Report.cfm There is information about getting QSL cards for reports sent by regular mail. Location: World Harvest Radio, 61300, Ironwood Rd, South Bend, IN 46614, USA (Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", via RusDX April 21 via DXLD) ** RWANDA. Radio Ruanda, 6055 kHz -- Desde hace unos dias llegando muy fuerte en 6055 kHz. En este video, a las 0257 UT del 20 de abril. http://youtu.be/1BfjPvmb95M (Rodolfo Tizzi, Uruguay, http://cx2abp.blogspot.com/ condiglista yg via DXLD) 6055, 20/Apr 0326, R Rwanda in French. Local pop music. At 0327 quick talk by OM, then more local pop music. Modulation very bass. 24332 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SARAWAK [non]. 15430.04, Radio Free Sarawak (site?), 1237-1300*, April 18. In assume Iban; several IDs; fair to good with strong signal; a longer than usual program today, as no ID at 1300, but off in mid-sentence. Frequency seemed slightly higher than heard before (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15430, April 19 at 1232, R. Free Sarawak presumed, usual exposition in Iban. Had been on 15420 for about a week, but yesterday Ron Howard reported it back on 15430, and so it is today, nothing heard on 15420. Today`s Aoki & EiBi both have it still on 15420: EiBi with site Taiwan, but Aoki still shows Trinco, Sri Lanka, which has been denied by Victor Goonetilleke. HFCC has neither for this veiled service, but shows 15430 would clash with Romania in English at 11-12 to CIRAF 48 = East Africa from Sudan to Kenya. Is RRI still there? Has made some other frequency changes. Perhaps it was easier for RFS to change the frequency on the transmitter than on the website which kept showing 15430, as it does today, and furthermore they have finally changed the title from long-gone 11600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Free Sarawak again on 15430 - history of changes: 1100-1300 on 15430 TAI 100 kW / 200 deg to SEAs Iban March 31, April 1/2/3/4/6/18/19 1100-1300 on 15425 TAI 100 kW / 200 deg to SEAs Iban April 5 only 1100-1300 on 15420 TAI 100 kW / 200 deg to SEAs Iban April 7-17, the best frequency! -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, April 20, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Free Sarawak: 1100-1300 on 15420 TAI 100 kW / 200 deg to SEAs Iban till April 17 1100-1300 on 15430 TAI 100 kW / 200 deg to SEAs Iban from April 18 (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22 via DXLD) TAIWAN/ROMANIA: 15430.009. Today April 20 at 1100 UT Radio Free Sarawak ONLY heard on remote SDR units in Far East. In Moscow and Germany powerhouse RRI Galbeni in English service with backlobe signal of C&E African service, but still S=9 signal. Weather report and news from Romania started 1102 UT. Radio Free Sarawak in Bahasa Malay or tentat Iban(?) language, but not in English, at 1110 UT Apr 20, S=8-9 signal in Tokyo on back/sidelobe signal at 47 degrees azimuth towards JPN, see 200 degr item of Ivo towards MLA. Usual odd frequency Taiwanese signal, some 9 Hertz higher than even RRI Galbeni 15430.000 kHz. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15430, 20/Apr 1125, TAIWAN (Relay), R Free Sarawak in Iban. OM conversation with a man by phone. Quick instrumental music between the talk. At 1129 new interview by phone. 25432. R Free Sarawak, sorry about my electrical noise. https://www.box.com/files/0/f/0/1/f_7623493290 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGESTE) ** SARAWAK [non]. Radio Free Kenyalang: 0900-1000 on 15400 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Iban, ex 15360 (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. Hello Glenn, It has been quite awhile since I have contacted you. I hope all is well with you. I am hearing Arabic on 11820 around 2100 on. It comes in fairly well at times here in the RGV. Would you please give me a clew? I've been monitoring SW, but have become a bit slow to report. I hope that I can get it going again. Thank you for any help (Jerry Ervine, Mission, Texas, April 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Jerry, Good to hear from you. That would be Saudi Arabia, as in the HFCC schedule: 11820 1800 2300 27,28,37N RIY 500 320 25 216 1234567 310313 271013 D ARABIC ARS ARS ARS 2395 You can find links to this and other comprehensive current SW schedules on my home page; look for A-13. (HFCC requires unzipping, unlike the others). http://www.worldofradio.com (Glenn to Jerry, via DXLD) 21505, April 20 at 1411, BSKSA Arabic, poor signal but with big buzz; can hardly wait till they get their new DRM transmitters going with nothing but noise! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. new Saudi Radio website Re K-29 transmitting station. "km 29" is the former combined MW and SW station Jeddah, which has been refurbished and transformed to MW station since 2010-2012. Jeddah Bahrah Badawi SW and MW 1512+648 kHz reserve site. { 21 22 59.13 N 39 25 21.48 E } "Rkib radio antennas Posts sending station as km-29 in Jeddah. Installation of new antennas for medium wave transmitters kilometer-29 station in Jeddah. To shoot videos by camera engineer - Mohammed Bably" The video recording is shot from the south here, so the location of the mast structure ARS MW Jeddah mast 21 22 43.06 N 39 25 31.37 E There the tree line on the street fits from the transmitter building to the east, but also the boundary wall behind the southeastern MW antenna / road. Old shortwave radio antennas from Saudi Radio corporation I did not expect more in the video, when you compare GE image of 2006-2010 with the latest picture of 28 January 2012, where appear STILL only 3 MW antennas. In minutes you can see at the 1.31min transmitter house in the video. Die Videoaufnahme ist vom Sueden her geschossen, also vom Mastaufbau der location ARS MW Jeddah mast 21 22 43.06 N 39 25 31.37 E her. Dort passt die Baumreihe vom Senderhaus nach Osten, aber auch die Begrenzungsmauer hinter der suedoestlichen MW Antenne/Strasse. Alte Kurzwellenantennen von Saudi Radio im Video erwartete ich nicht mehr, wenn man das GE image aus 2006-2010 mit dem neuesten Bild vom 28. Jan 2012 vergleicht, wo NUR NOCH lediglich die 3 MW Antennen aufscheinen. Bei Minute 1.31min sieht man das Sendergebaeude im Video. See also video Beacon red light in K-29 radio station Jeddah, this video in K-29 radio station in Jeddah to test beacon and warning red led-lights for mediumwave antenna. Shortwave installations moved from Jeddah Bahrah Badawi at K-29 transmitting station "km 29" to new SW location Jeddah has been built up at Jeddah, near Al-Khumra. New Jeddah Algwizain PC22711, "Al Kurnayash South" SW site, TX house at 21 14 40.01 N 39 09 43.69 E and some TCI high-gain antennas around azimuth at 255 and 315 degrees, as well as cross-dipole non-directional HQ Quadrant antenna. 27 km north of Jeddah Taiba another older three MW masts array visible, much hilly area. Maybe was a former Maritime Radio station, which was visible on images taken between Dec 2, 2002 and til Sept 2011. 21 45 58.88 N 39 09 56.96 E MW masts 21 45 58.99 N 39 10 01.49 E 21 45 56.48 N 39 09 59.24 E 21 45 58.09 N 39 09 50.79 E After that all, installations are torn from February 2012. 1 MW mast is now left on left westerly side. To see in addition to the construction of sports hall yet. And the new image photos show the founding / establishment of a large sports arena, whether by the 'stadium' is still a hall built over? The photos say called "King Abdullah Sports City". 280 m wide in diameter (Wolfgang Büschel, April 11, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 19 via DXLD) ** SEYCHELLES. 12035, 0348, BBC, Fair in English, Loop: “There are no programs on this channel at present. Details of all our services are at bbcworldservice.com”. Normal program this freq at 0400 from Cyprus – 24/3 (Kelvin Brayshaw, Levin, New Zealand, DR-31, ATS-909, Tecsun PL-390 Coax Loop, April NZ DX Times via DXLD) So how do you know site was Seychelles at 0348? Because SEY in HFCC B-12 at 03-04 (gh, DXLD) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020-, April 18 at 1125, JBA carrier detectable in sidesplash from Cuba 5025; and it`s slightly on lo side as SIBC is measured by others. 1158 still the same (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALIA [non]. Radio Damal, currently inactive, maybe will be resumed from May 1: 0400-0700 on 15700 DHA 250 kW / 205 deg to EaAf Somali 1830-1930 on 11980 WOF 300 kW / 122 deg to EaAf Somali 1930-2130 on 11980 DHA 250 kW / 205 deg to EaAf Somali (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) ** SOMALIA [non]. Radio ERGO: 0830-0930 on 13685 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Somali (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) ** SOMALILAND. 7120, Radio Hargaysa on April 20 at 1320 with the start of the segment in English with their usual theme music; only able to make out a few words clearly; played some pop songs; “and that’s today’s English program … this is Radio Hargaysa”; 1339 into assume Somali language with “Radio Hargaysa” ID and repeat of the theme music for the English segment; 1357 National Anthem till 1359*. My local sunrise was at 1326 UT. Was very poor at 1320, but improved after that; ham QRM (or should I say causing QRM for hams?). https://www.box.com/s/8evxofkql46b6o0ontlr contains audio of a portion of today’s reception (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Confirmação recebida - Broadcasting Caros amigos, Seguem os dados da última confirmação recebida: 7120 - Radio Hargeysa - Hargeysa - SOM - Recebido cartão QSL. 120 dias. V/S: Baldur Drobnica (Consultant). Enviado 1 IRC. QTH: Konsularische Vertretung of the Republic of Somaliland, Zedernweg 6, D-50127 Bergheim, Alemanha. Conforme informado no QSL, a emissora está localizada na República da Somalilândia, território que declarou independência em 1991, mas que é reconhecido apenas por alguns poucos países (a Alemanha é um deles). A região goza de uma estabilidade muito superior a do restante do território da Somália pelo que pude ler no interessante livro "Pé na África" (Fábio Zanini). Por conta de não ser um território amplamente reconhecido e por critérios meramente pessoais considero a escuta como de uma emissora da Somália mesmo. Independente disso este foi meu 114º país confirmado. A imagem da confirmação estará disponível em breve em meu blog. 73 (Ivan Dias Jr. - Sorocaba/SP, April 24, http://ivandias.wordpress.com radioescutas yg via DXLD ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 11685, 20/Apr 1826, BULGARIA (Relay), The Overcomer Ministry in English. Religious preaching, with occasional exaltations. QRM from strong signal CRI on 11695. 33433 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Brother Scare cancelled from: BULGARIA, q.v. ** SPAIN. Re: Radio Euskadi - Euskadi Irratia, last days! - Radio Vitoria 1602 kHz --- Radio Vitoria, which is run by the same group that operates Radio Euskadi/Euskadi Irratia, is also closing it MW 1602 kHz (25 kW) transmitter at the end of April according to the EITB web site. Until recently Radio Vitoria completed dominated 1602 kHz at night here, but currently (2015 UT on Sunday 21 April) I can hear Radio Seagull from the Netherlands with quite good reception. It seems that Radio Vitoria may already have reduced transmitter power on 1602. 73s (Dave Kenny, April 21, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) No, I don't think they have already reduced power. Yesterday night at 2300 UT while I was driving around near Strasbourg, I checked 1386 & 1602 kHz. 1386 Euskadi Irratia was very good and 1602 Radio Vitoria came in like a ton of bricks. So they are definitely on full power. 73s, (Rémy Friess, April 22, ibid.) Members, Recently the `Vitoria - Estíbaliz` news (from Mauricio Molano and Dave Kenny) is that 1602 will also close. This means that the entire triplex serving 819, 1197, and 1602 will fall silent at the end of this month. I have also established that what I call "Ganguren B" carrying 756 and 1386 will also become an Inactive site. As previously stated, in San Sebastian, Biribilondo will reduce from a tetraplex to a diplex at the end of the month. 73's and 88's (Dan Goldfarb, mwmasts yg via DXLD) The following MW transmitters will be closed in the beginning of May: R. Euskadi: Bilbao 756 kHz, Vitoria 819 kHz, San Sebastián 963 kHz, Euskadi Irratia: Vitoria 1197 kHz, Bilbao 1386 kHz, San Sebastián 1476 kHz and Radio Vitoria 1602 kHz (WRTH National Radio Update 22 April via DXLD) ** SPAIN [and non]. 5965, April 18 at 0529, REE COSTA RICA relay is on correct frequency tonight, unlike 5995 two nights ago; not noted which, one night ago. 15160, April 19 at 0118, collision about equal level between R. Australia in English, and REE in Spanish. This has been going on for years at least in the A-seasons, currently a one-hour overlap with Spain on until 0200, Australia starting at 0100, per Aoki. Apologists for easily avoidable interference will say, fine! Two different target areas, not including where you are, so you have no standing in this matter. I say: why use the same frequency when there are dozens of open frequencies nearby, so each station could be totally in the clear even in neighboring target areas?? Per Aoki, Australia is at 85 degrees across México, and Spain is at 242 degrees centered on southern Perú around Arequipa, but at those distances the signals spread out a lot, both towards the Americas from opposite direxions. Or they could split the difference at 0130 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Exterior de España e CW sui 15585 kHz --- Segnalo spettacolare intensità del segnale per Radio Exterior de España nella mezz'ora del sabato (15 UT) in lingua Catalana ed in Galiziano e pure ora nei quindici miniti [sic] che precedono Tablero Deportivo: con tre metri di filo alla finestra il mio Tecsun pl380 ha toccato dapprima i 92 e quindi i 98 ! dBµV, in tal caso il segnale si saturava e dovevo scollegare il filo. Idem col Sangean ATS909X levando un po' di rf gain. (per la cronaca abito a 15 km da Siziano che mi arriva al massimo ad 81 dBµV) Altra cosa, già lo scorso sabato avevo notato che su quella frequenza si sente del CW ma non sono riuscito a decifrare ne tantomeno capire di cosa si trattasse, ne sapete qualcosa? Buona domenica (Matteo, 1556 UT April 20, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) Radio Exterior de España and CW on 15585 --- Stumble spectacular signal strength for Radio Exterior de Espana in half an hour on Saturday (15 UT) in Catalan and Galician language and even now in the fifteen preceding minutes Tablero Deportivo with three feet of wire to the window my Tecsun PL380 reached first 92 and then 98! dBµV. In this case the signal was saturated and had to disconnect the wire. Ditto with the Sangean ATS909X raising a little RF gain. (for the record I live 15 km from Siziano which arrives at 81 dB microvolts maximum) [meaning a nearby transmitter site?] Another thing, last Saturday I had already noticed that you hear on that frequency CW but I could not decipher it nor understand what it was, you know something? Good Sunday, Matthew (Matteo, 1556 UT April 20, bclnews.it yg via Google translate improved by gh for DX LISTENING DIGEST) I.e. confirming the Catalan (not Basque?) and Galician weekly segment Saturdays at 15 UT (gh) ** SRI LANKA [non]. Voice of the Tigers: 1530-1630 on 11550 TAC 100 kW / 163 deg to CLN Tamil Sat (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) ** SUDAN [non]. EDC Sudan Radio Service Darfur Program: 0400-0530 on 13720 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to NEAf Arabic 1600-1730 on 17745 WOF 300 kW / 135 deg to NEAf Arabic (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) ** SUDAN [non]. Radio Tamazuj: 0400-0430 on 11650 SMG 200 kW / 145 deg to EaAf Arabic 0400-0430 on 15400 MDC 250 kW / 335 deg to EaAf Arabic 0400-0430 on 15500 DHA 250 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Arabic 1500-1530 on 15150 MDC 250 kW / 335 deg to EaAf Arabic 1500-1530 on 15725 SMG 200 kW / 139 deg to EaAf Arabic Radio Dabanga: 0430-0600 on 11650 SMG 200 kW / 145 deg to EaAf Arabic 0430-0600 on 15400 MDC 250 kW / 335 deg to EaAf Arabic 0430-0600 on 15500 DHA 250 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Arabic 1530-1630 on 15150 MDC 250 kW / 335 deg to EaAf Arabic 1530-1630 on 15725 SMG 200 kW / 139 deg to EaAf Arabic (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) 15725, OPPOSITION, Radio Dabanga via Santa Maria Galeria, the Vatican, beamed to the Darfur region of Africa, 1615-1626:56. Sign off in Arabic with excellent signal on 4/17/13 (Steve Handler, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Icom IC-7200, Tecsun PL-660, wire antennas, NASWA Flashsheet April 21 via DXLD) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. Radio Miraya, 11560, fair *0300-0350+ on 21 April, Mix of afro-pop/reggae music alternating with public affairs type features hosted by woman DJ. Mostly in English except for a couple of items in Arabic. "Miraya Breakfast Show" was mentioned several times (Bruce Portzer, Seattle, WA, Winradio Excalibur with K9AY antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11560, April 22 at 0510, clip in English as I tune in, soon voiced- over in Arabish; fair with deep fades, then mentions ``Miraya`` and ``Sudaniya``. Per Aoki, this is the Arabic/English R. Miraya FM transmission at 0300-0600, 50 kW, 195 degrees from Kostinbrod, BULGARIA (which we also heard well in B-12 on ex-9940). However, Ivo Ivanov & Georgi Bancov reported April 16 in DX Re-Mix News: ``All other transmissions from Kostinbrod are cancelled!!`` except for two Brother Scare broadcasts. So is Miraya now from somewhere else, or Bulgaria again? Only Ludo Maes knows for sure? However2, on April 22, DX Re Mix reports Radio Miraya: 0300-0600 on 11560 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf English/Arabic SCB means ``SecretBrod`` site, as opposed to SOF = Sofia for sure (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11560, 20/Apr 0312, BULGARIA (Relay), R Miraya FM in Arabic. YL talk, then pop music. At 0315 YL talk. At 0316 YL says "Radio Miraya". 35433 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Miraya: 0300-0600 on 11560 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf English/Arabic (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, via DXLD) ** SWAZILAND. Trans World Radio, 5995, Manzini, Apr 20, 2013, Saturday, 0415-0445*. Chichewa, a programme of Central African music and song. Didn't sound particularly religious, and no sign of preaching up to 0430. Then OM started a monologe, begining with a mention of “Chapter seven”. At 0440, postal (PO Box) addresses in Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique, then male choir singing. Suddenly off at 0445* after one cycle of the TWR music box. Carrier off at 0446. To Malawi, Saturdays and Sundays only (EiBi). Fair despite lightning QRN local to Jo'burg. Jo'burg sunrise 0426 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SYRIA. See USA: WBCQ absent from 9330: Now`s our chance to hear SYRIA?? R. Damascus allegedly scheduled 16-20 UT, one hour each in Turkish, Russian, German, French; after break, 21-22 English but aimed eastward unlike the other languages; and 22-23 Spanish reversed toward the west. But is this still on the air at all, 2+ years into the civil war? Even so it had been just-barely-modulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. 9745, Voice of Han, Kuanyin, 0958-1002. Talk in Chinese by a woman. Slow instrumental music at 0959. Talk by a woman at 1000. Poor to moderate signal strength with some fading. 4/13/2013 (Jim Evans, Germantown TN, Perseus, IC-R75, RX-340, ALA100M Loop, Eavesdropper Dipole, Random Wire (90'), NASWA Flashsheet April 21 via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. Fu Hsing BC, Kuanyin is reported inactive on 9410 and 15375 kHz, only 9774 kHz is in operation (WRTH National Radio Update 22 April via DXLD) ** TAIWAN [and non]. or FRANCE, 15290, Yuye Taiwan Fisheries Station or NHK World (via France), 0835 interview of M by M program host. Sounds like Japanese, so would be NHK then. 0848 W over music. But at 0852, it sounded like the music and M and W talk were separate indicating both stations were there. (10 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 11550, Yuye Taiwan Fisheries Station. Already on with healthy carrier at 0855 tune-in. 0900 program start with pleasant instrumental music and W announcer with fairly short voice-over announcement from the back of the room. Then more music with talk by different W announcer in Mandarin, and Chinese vocal music at 0903. Back to W announcer at 0906. 0909 instrumental rock music, but then M vocals began at 0911- 0914. 0914 two W talking briefly over music, then another softer pop ballad by W vocalist 0914-0919. W returned over music at 0919 briefly and another pop ballad by M 0919-0924. 0924 W again. 0925-0930 pleasant instrumental music on flute. 0928:50 suddenly went off for 20 seconds, and continuation of instrumental song. 0930 instrumental music and 2 women briefly, then W over flute music (same as at 0900 s/on??). 2 different half hour programs?? 0931-0933 talk by W program host. 0933-09 M vocal Chinese Pop song. Went off in mid-flute instrumental music (same as at 0930) at 0958:30. Only fair signal but best heard yet. (10 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD) See Aoki, most Wednesdays only; altho 300 kW, easy to overlook in the middle of the night once a week: 11550 Yuye guangbo diantai 0900-0930 ...4... Amoy(Hokkein) 300 205 11550 Yuye guangbo diantai 0930-1000 ...4... Amoy(Hokkein) 300 205 15290 Yuye guangbo diantai 0800-0830 ...4... Amoy(Hokkein) 300 205 15290 Yuye guangbo diantai 0830-0900 ...4... Amoy(Hokkein) 300 205 Tainan TWN 12010E 2302N FRS a13 exc last Wed [all] (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. 15970, 0025, Soh Xi Wang Zhi Sheng, poor, very faint with music, // 16360, 16920, 17250 (Measured frequency 15970.14) – 14/3 (Phil Van de Paverd, Howick IC-76E. 15 EWE, April NZ DX Times via DXLD) You mean music was *not* Firedrake, i.e. jamming instead? (gh) 11765, Sound of Hope heard at 1625 GMT, talks and songs in listed Mandarin. 4/17/13 (Bob Brossell, Pewaukee WI, JRC NRD-545; Eton E1; Sony SW-77, NASWA Flashsheet April 21 via DXLD) Could be, a 300 kW transmitter, but did you rule out a CNR1 jammer, by perhaps comparing with other listed frequencies? Was there no interference? Aoki says SOH uses 11765* during this hour only (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9450, TAIWAN, Sound of Hope (Xi Wang Zhi Sheng) presumed the one at 1430 in Chinese with time pips and a woman with talk introducing program - Good Apr 19 (Robinson-ON, ODXA Your Reports via DXLD) ?? Why assume it was SOH when more likely or at least as likely is the ChiCom jamming against it, with CNR1 programming? Yes, Aoki does have SOH on 9450 at 1400-1600, 100 kW, 335 degrees from Paochung, Taiwan, but it also has a very important * after 9450 denoting it is jammed. And does SOH run timesignals, even on the half hour? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. 9680, TAIWAN, RTI at 1415 in Chinese with a man and woman with talk - Fair Apr 19 (Robinson-ON, ODXA Your Reports via DXLD) Essentially the same problem: altho this is a 300 kW transmitter for RTI, it would be a rare day indeed if it were free of CNR1 jamming, not to mention RRIndonesia also co-channel. Altho omitted from the credit list, that would be Joe Robinson (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. 12370, 20/Apr 2213, SOH in Chinese. YL talks to a man by phone. Outside commentators. 25332 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) At 2145-2230 UT Apr 21, on the Iceland remote post: 15800. SOH Taiwan weak S=5. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) SOH complains that Taiwan, pressured by the ChiCom, have announced they will be dismantling two major SW transmitter sites by end of May, putting SOH and Radio Free Asia relays off the air, perhaps even RTI itself. Full story already in the dxldyg; in next week`s DXLD (gh) ** TAIWAN [non?]. TAIWAN/CHINA, 28980.0, broadcast harmonic of fundamental 9660 kHz, on 16 Apr at 1000 UT. Via Japan on 9660 kHz rather powerful loud. Your idea? 73 de Wolf DK2OM, (DARC / IARU Bandwatch Apr 16, via BC-DX April 19 via DXLD) Hi Wolf and Peter, the transmitter CBSC Radio Taiwan International is listed on Aoki Nagoya list from Japan under 9660 kHz. * The asterisk denotes co-channel jamming, naturally against radiation of mainland reception in China. 9660 kHz * R. TAIWAN INT. 1000-1400 UT daily Chinese 100 kW 267 degrees Kouhu in Yunlin province TWN CBSC there are also 2 x strong 250/300 kW MW stations, each with multiple MW masts visible, see image TWN_Kouhu RTI CBS 1098 kHz 250 kW 23 32 14.40 N 120 09 49.55 E TWN_Kouhu TWR 1557 kHz 250 kW 23 32 13.46 N 120 10 28.23 E The short-wave was only poor in recent years, stn are available here is now stronger on 100 kW of power, expanded the antennas. Earlier there were only there from the 3335 kHz. TWN_Kouhu SW 6075 6105 6150 7385 9660 11640 kHz, antenna 267 and 310 degrees 23 32 04.41 N 120 10 04.87 E see rather better image at BING Maps vy73 Wolfy df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Re: Which organization produce the harmonic 28980.0 kHz? Taiwan or China jammer? If the TWN and CHN 9660 kHz transmitter are not identifiable of exact differ 'foot print' show frequency in 31 mb (multiple on 28 MHz); it could also be the Chinese jammer on 9660 kHz, which were often noticed on exact frequency. Actually, the Taiwanese channels are always read for a frequency inaccuracy of 10 to 100 Hertz! (Wolfgang Büschel, April 16, ibid.) ** TAIWAN [non]. Listening to the end of the broadcast of Radio Taiwan International from WYFR tonight from 03-04 and the audio is muffled and choppy. What in the world is going on in Okeechobee? It is not the transmitter but the relay feed itself because the ID at 0400 was clear with good audio quality (Ryan Ellegood - KG4ZDF, Union City, TN, UT April 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So maybe not WYFR`s fault ** TAJIKISTAN. 15760.080, Voice of Russia's Kurdish morning service via new 500 kW unit at Dushanbe Yangi-Yul site {Aoki lists wrongly Orzu}, as usual a little odd frequency. Moscow chimes at 0558-0600 UT, disrupted in between by switches to Tajik national radio channel, at 0600 UT Tajik program was heard for 2-3 seconds, before TX off (Wolfgang Büschel, April 12, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Apr 19 via DXLD) ** TATARSTAN [non]. RUSSIA. 15195, Tatarstan Wave, carrier as early as 0801. 0810 start of broadcast with usual IS-like melody twice and ID announcements by M and W. 0815 found here with pleasant vocal by W. Talk by M with instrumental music bridge. Into soft vocal music at 0814. M announcer at 0818. (12 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. Voice of Tibet: 1200-1230 on 15607 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1230-1300 on 15562 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1300-1330 on 15563 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1300-1330 on 15607 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1330-1400 on 15568 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1330-1400 on 15608 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1400-1430 on 15567 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1400-1430 on 15525 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1430-1500 on 17535 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1530-1600 on 15485 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan Changes between each frequencies varied from 3 to 5 min (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) 15525, April 24 at 1359 good open carrier, 1400 cut on a few secs late theme and announcement, presumably V. of Tibet as scheduled via MADAGASCAR. No doubt jammed, but none heard as this transequatorial path has great propagational advantage here vs degraded hi-latitude conditions, tho Talata aims NE instead of NW toward us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TUNISIA. 7275, April 24 at 0512, IWT is gone again, altho 7285 S Africa and 7295 Algeria via France are in normally. Not on 7225 either, night frequency which is sometimes on by mistake. Will it be off for another week like the recent hiatus? How about the other transmissions? Check 17735 at 1600-2010v* if you can get it, or 7225 at 1655-2110, or 7345 at 1900-2310 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Or 7335 0557v-0810v In South Africa, nothing heard on either 17735 or 7225, at 1700-1710 on April 24 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) At 1737 BOTH scheduled broadcasts from RTT Sfax ARE OFF at present. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UGANDA [and non]. 4750, Dunamis SW, Mukono (tentative),1530-1600, Apr 01, Christian songs. Very hard interference from R Bangladesh on the same frequency. Very poor, 22131. After 1600 I could not hear the station, because was not any signal at all. The next few days I tried to listen again to the station, but there was not any signal at all (Kyriakos Dritsas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DSWCI DX Window April 17 via DXLD) May be testing after silent period (Anker Petersen, ed., ibid.) ** U K. ** Warning over World Service budget ** Uncertainty about the BBC World Service budget as the corporation prepares to take on full funding of the service is ``unacceptable`` a group of MPs warns. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/entertainment-arts-22208426 (via Ed Gardner, CA, DXLD) Viz.: BBC WORLD SERVICE BUDGET UNCERTAINTY 'UNACCEPTABLE' 18 April 2013 Last updated at 20:43 ET Uncertainty about the BBC World Service budget as the corporation prepares to take on full funding of the service is "unacceptable", MPs have warned. Foreign Office funding for the service will stop in April 2014 when it will be paid for out of the licence fee. The Foreign Affairs Committee said the World Service could not "plan properly" because the BBC had yet to issue an operating licence to define its budget. The BBC Trust said it had shared a draft licence with the service. A World Service spokesman said the change in funding next April, when it will be integrated with the BBC's domestic news services, "provides certainty and stability". But the committee of MPs said it did not see how the World Service could prepare when it would not know "either the priorities, targets or characteristics which have been set for it, or its budget" until a few months before the change came into force. "We do not see how the BBC World Service can plan properly how to reflect its new priorities, pursue its new objectives or shape its output... given the short lead-in time," the report said. 'Direct conflict' The BBC Trust said in a statement: "We are in regular, ongoing discussions with the World Service about the transition to licence fee funding from 2014 to ensure that this transition is as smooth as possible, and we are already delivering on a number of the committee's recommendations." It said it had "already consulted the World Service on the draft operating licence" and would publish the draft for wider public consultation in the summer "as has always been our intention". “The World Service must continue to take into account significant audiences in certain parts of the world, such as rural India and Africa, who currently rely on shortwave radio” Foreign Affairs Committee There had been regular discussions with the World Service about the draft since February, it added. The committee has also called for "some form of direct representation" from the World Service on the BBC's executive board, instead of by the director of news. The report said World Service interests would be "in direct conflict" with those of other departments. In October, the World Service announced it was to lose a further 73 jobs as part of the latest round of cutbacks to save £42m, with 25 jobs going in the English-language service. Savings of £30m have already been made following its reduction in funding by the government in 2010. The committee also warned that, while it was logical to withdraw shortwave radio in dwindling markets where audiences had access to the internet and TV, such services still had a place. "The World Service must continue to take into account significant audiences in certain parts of the world, such as rural India and Africa, who currently rely on shortwave radio," it added. The committee's report, which also covers the work of the Foreign Office and the British Council, also warns that the UK risks losing credibility if more senior diplomats are not fluent in a range of languages. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22180613 (via DXLD) See also CYPRUS FOREIGN OFFICE FACES PROPERTY SALE DEFICIT - UK - Scotsman.com Some MPs aren't happy with the funding conversion process for the World Service. . . http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/foreign-office-faces-property-sale-deficit-1-2901917 (via Richard Cuff, April 19, Swprograms mailing list via DXLD) ** U S A. 5745, VoA (Radiogram) programme 4 with Olivia and MFSK modes tests, including one where they intentionally played music over the top of the Olivia transmission, and reduced the level of the digital transmission all to simulate QRM -- (I told Kim Elliot they should have used Firedrake to make it more realistic!) and it worked (sort of) even with the 'challenges' and the fact that I decoded it by putting the wireless headphones next to the microphone of the laptop! They also had a sort of 'psudo-hellschreiber' thing in the waterfall display showing modes. Just 'way cool' stuff! In well, 5554+4+ *0230- 0300* 14/Apr (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet April 19 via DXLD) [and non]. Thor versus MFSK this weekend on VOA Radiogram VOA Radiogram will feature Thor digital text modes this weekend, with MFSK modes also transmitted for comparison. Details here: http://voaradiogram.net/post/48358773399/voa-radiogram-april-20-21-will-feature-thor-modes The Mighty KBC will also compare Thor and KBC with a simultaneous transmission. More information: http://voaradiogram.net/post/48432804632/thor22-versus-mfsk22-this-weekend-on-the-mighty-kbc (Kim Elliott, KD9XB, April 20, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17860, April 20 at 1322-1323*, big open carrier with some hum, atop weak music, then that`s in the clear. Must have been another IBB Greenville tuneup for the Saturday-only Radiogram transmission not until 1600 on 17860; and meanwhile blocking Romania in Chinese. With this reminder, I delay completing this report to monitor the weekly Radiogram broadcast, 17860 sufficient from tune-in 1607 Saturday April 20. Axually, I take it as a new-music concert of multiple tones, since VOA absolutely refuses to broadcast any classical music (AFAIK, in English or any other language I run across, and that also goes for any of the other BBG substations). 1617 pause for a brief announcement by non-Kim, but with unnecessary conventional music background; more intoning until 1626.4 music and then Kim announcement asking for reports; 1627.4 more tones, 1629.4 music past 1630, carrier to 1631*. He did not announce the complete schedule for this, which might have been helpful, so I will: repeats are UT Sundays 0230 on 5745, 1300 on 6095, 1930 on 15670. Altho I myself have not been sufficiently motivated to try to decode it, if Radiograms will help to preserve Greenville and even SWBC itself, more power to Kim. I wonder when real current news will be transmitted rather than NASA test material. I also lamented that his excellent blog aggregating media news interspersed with his comments, http://www.kimandrewelliott.com has stalled: As of April 20, still nothing new since his last Radiogram promo on March 30! Kim hopes to reactivate it, but says this Radiogram business has been consuming his free time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Finally, April 23, one new entry since March 30 by Kim with his extensive remarx: ** U S A. IN USIB, IT'S NOT DUPLICATION, IT'S "PARALLAX." IN THAT CASE, NO NEED FOR REFORM. Posted: 23 Apr 2013 Broadcasting Board of Governors press release, 9 Apr 2013: "BBG Board member Dennis Mulhaupt today informed the White House and his colleagues that he is leaving the Board. Mulhaupt had been serving as alternate presiding governor, chair of the BBG Governance Committee and chair of the board of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty." From Mr. Mulhaupt's letter of resignation to President Obama: "Over my tenure I, along with some of my board colleagues, have consistently advocated for necessary and far-reaching reform of the governance structure and organization of U. S. international broadcasting (USIB). My belief in the importance and need for these reforms has only grown stronger the longer I have served. I hope that the administration and Congress will address soon the urgent issues facing USIB and the BBG, the components of which do such vital work advancing freedom and human rights in many countries throughout the world." (kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) Mr. Mulhaupt did not provide a reason for his resignation, but he did address the need for reform USIB, suggesting that he may have been frustrated by the lack of movement in that direction. BBG members Susan McCue and Victor Ashe take over as chair and vice chair of the RFE/RL board. The Board itself is now down to four members in addition to the ex officio Secretary of State. Acting RFE/RL president Kevin Klose was one of the USIB entity heads who spoke at the April 11 meeting of the BBG. He is clearly not of the side of the reforms mentioned by Mr. Mulhaupt. He noted he was deeply interested in collaboration with the other entities, the names all of which he could not remember. (There really are too many of them for most people to remember.) But he also spoke of the "rubric" of "overlap and duplication." Noting that cars and trucks have two headlights, he said "we need parallax." "I don't buy it that there is duplication and that there is overlap... . We accept that there are differences" between RFE/RL and VOA, but "we need to emphasize our common strengths and not get into a dialogue with anybody about overlap and duplication because we don't do that." Mr. Klose mentioned "parallax" and "depth perception." This website has documented many instances of duplication and overlap in USIB. It did not take much depth perception to do so. In USIB, one cannot swing a cat without hitting an instance of duplication. A casual perusal of the USIB websites provides the evidence. Duplication is a significant form of waste in federal spending. There is never a legitimate excuse to waste the taxpayers' money. Mr. Klose no doubt thought he was giving a passionate defense of his entity and of the jobs of his entity's employees. What entity heads, who spend so much of their energy trying to preserve their entities (and their own jobs), don't seem to realize is that USIB, if its limited budget continues to be drained by duplication, and if its scarce resources are divided among competing entities, has no chance of competing with the real competition out there in the real world. And that will be to the detriment of all the entities and all their employees. I give Mr. Klose credit, however, for coining "parallax" as a surrogate (if you will) term for "duplication." I think members of Congress, journalists, senior distinguished think tank fellows, and other Washington types will swallow it. I think the "parallax" concept will ensure that USIB continues to fall short of its potential. In a recent national survey in Cambodia, respondents were asked how many minutes of a newscast from the United States should be about Cambodia, about the United States, and about the rest of the world. Ethics regulations prevent me from providing the three numbers here (although the BBG could make them public), but suffice it to say that the result is more news about Cambodia than VOA can do well, and more US and world news than RFA can do at all. In the present structure of USIB, the one that the entity heads are trying so hard to preserve, there is no provision for a station that provides news in the proportions that audiences in Cambodia and elsewhere want. Listeners in Cambodia and elsewhere must do their part for the parallax concept, and for the maintenance of five senior management suites, through the inconvenience of tuning to two USIB stations at two different times to get complete news coverage. Data from comScore, which employs representative panels of internet users, shows the number of visitors to the RFE/RL, VOA, and BBC websites in Russia. Again, I can't provide the numbers, but can note that RFE/RL and VOA are fighting it out rather far below the BBC Russian website, which is soaring. Keep in mind that the UK spends less on international broadcasting than the United States. The BBC World Service, however, has the advantage of not frittering much of its budget on duplicated, sorry, parallaxed efforts, and not dividing scarce resources among competing entities. ComScore shows a similar situation in Vietnam between the VOA and RFA websites versus a considerably more successful BBC Vietnamese website. Television is playing a greater role in US international broadcasting. For example: VOA is developing television services for Burma. RFA is developing television services for Burma. There are several other instances where more than one entity is increasing its television products for a single target country. When radio prevailed, the taxpayers might have been able to afford duplicated efforts of two entities. The entities might have been able to divide talent and other scarce resources between them. In television, however, the days of profligacy are over. As the entire federal government looks to reduce spending, duplicated television services can neither be justified nor afforded. And there is not enough talent, not enough outlets in target countries, not enough of other resources to divide between entities. In the television age, preservation of multiple USIB entities is folly (Kim Andrew Elliott, ibid.) And another one on April 24 R. Marti fire: see CUBA [non] ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1665: confirmed first airing on WRMI webcast, UT Thursday April 18 after 0330. Next: Thursday 2100 on WTWW 9479; 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 2330v on WTWW 9930; UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW 5830; Sunday 2330v on WTWW 9930. WORLD OF RADIO 1665 monitoring: confirmed Thursday April 18 at 2100.5 on 9479, WTWW-1. Also confirmed UT Friday April 19 just ending at 0357 on 3195, WWRB. So would have started early about 0328. After a pause, Dave came on live, referring listeners to 3185 before turning off 3195. BTW, as usual, 3185 has a considerably stronger signal than 3195. Next WOR airings: 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 (for the last time!). Saturday 2330v on WTWW 9930; UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW 5830; Sunday 2330v on WTWW 9930. WORLD OF RADIO 1665 monitoring: 5110v-CUSB, Area 51 via WBCQ, confirmed at 0154 UT Saturday April 20 with the Puntland item, which means it started on time at 0130. Next: Saturday 1730 on WRN via SiriusXM channel 120, for the last time. Saturday 2330v on WTWW 9930, UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW 5830, Sunday 2330v on 9930. WORLD OF RADIO 1665 monitoring: Saturday April 20 on WTWW-2, 9930, does not start until 2332:30 at the end of a piece of music, and unfortunately due to lack of coördination or attention at the transmitter site, cut off the air at 0000:40* or so before I had finished, about KVOH: ``Ray says ---``. May have concluded on 5085 after break, unchecked. Hope they get it together for expected replay at 2330v Sunday; meanwhile, unscathed at regular time on other WTWW-1, 5830, UT Sunday April 21 after 0400. WORLD OF RADIO 1665 monitoring: Starts at 2328:42 UT Sunday April 21 on WTWW-2 9930, early enough to end well before 2400, i.e. 2358:42, *then* off the air promptly. QSY to 5085 which was still on the air an hour later this UT Monday with music. Next for WOR: Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955; also UT Thursday 0330 unless new 1666 is ready by then, both always jammed; tnx a lot, Arnie! But if awake Tuesday at 1100, please check. Also Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB, if on the air (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9930, WTWW Lebanon TN; 1742-1800+, 16-Apr; Ted Randall program from the Dayton Hamvention interviewing a Cleveland broadcaster reminiscing; interviewee got in a word every now and then. Ted sed he was on 9990 (not) and not sure if he was on 9930. Break-in ID at ToH over Ted who continued after ToH. SIO=454-, fady (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) WTWW QSO show on 9930 kHz 1930 UT Monday, April 22, 2013 --- As I was walking my dog minutes ago, tuning my Tecsun PL360, I found the QSO program on WTWW 9930. Mostly about ham radio but I was amused to hear the host say that he is always confused converting to UTC: "...the next thing I know I'm getting e-mail from Glenn Hauser telling me that I messed up on my times..." DH KCMO (Dave Hughes, Kansas City, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Old show remark keeps getting repeated (gh) 12105, WWTW (40 kW, Lebanon, U.S.A.), 2305 UT. Spanish programme, with readings and comments about Holy Bible. SINPO: 44333 (Eduardo PEÑAILILLO, Receiver: Brigmton BT-360; Antenna: wire antenna, 7 meter (approx.) QTH: North zone of Santiago, residential area, Chile, April 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 40 is the azimuth, not the kW ** U S A. 3185, WWRB, April 22 at 1050, when scanning the tropical bands this morning, I noticed The Overcomer Ministry hogging a huge portion of spectrum with a severely overmodulated signal, 3157–3212 kHz. Or is this frequency being jammed for some reason? At the top of the hour, 1100, ministry audio was cut when a canned station ID was heard, and the “spread” appeared less. WWRB is in effect jamming the band this morning. NBC Sandaun, 3205v is lost in the QRM, although the carrier is visible. Strange (Mike Gilchrist in rural EC Iowa, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3185, April 18 at 1110, no signal from WWRB which ought to be propagating this early if on the air; nor on 9370, the nite & day frequencies dedicated exclusively to Brother Scare. By 1337, 9370 is on with distorted modulation, edited clips (from Weather Channel?) of tornado warnings to countless counties in IN, TN, MS. By 1341 it`s clearly a survivalist show, and NOT // Brother Scare on 9980 WWCR --- not merely out of synch, but totally different. So WWRB has departed from The Overcomer Ministry! Which is obsessed with *not* surviving as soon as possible (on this Earth). 1735 recheck, 9370 is awfully weak, but on fade-ins still seems survivalist, and not // 9980 BS, neighbor WWCR inbooming as usual. Homepage http://www.overcomerministry.org/ still shows both WWRB frequencies Further observations of WWRB not carrying Brother Scare: 9370, April 18 at 2104 dead air, then exposition about jet streams, climate changing, etc., eventually program ID as `Planet X`. This has been scheduled elsewhen on WWRB for a long time, so apparently such programing is being plugged into the transmitter which is normally exclusively for BS: contract closed, or just lost feed from Walterboro? 3185, April 19 at 0137, BS is back on now, altho not synch with 7490 WBCQ (it never is, but within a minute). 9370, April 19 at 1237, BS is also back here. Apparently it was a protracted feed outage yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5050-AM, UT Sunday April 21 at 0057, WWRB extra frequency is on again, as programmer mentions origination at WHKW Radio, also on 3215 & 5050 every Saturday night at 7:30-9 [EDT = UT Sat 2330-0100 Sun]. But what is it? Rather than prolong my monitoring since Chaski is imminent, looking up later, the outdated schedule for Global I of WWRB claims 5050 is always the frequency until 0400, not 3215 http://www.wwrb.org/schedule/global_1/combined.pdf not starting until 0000 (assuming the times are EDT) with `Back to the 80s` and `Unshackled`. WHKW is the big 1220 in Cleveland OH. Trouble is, their own Saturday program schedule shows two different ones in this block: 7:30 PM Jay Sekulow Weekend 8:00 PM Townhall Weekend Journal So maybe the WWRB sesquihour is really elsewhen on WHKW 5050, UT Monday April 22 at 0056, WWRB is not on the air, unlike 24 hours earlier; seems it depends on business, which client wants the extra frequency, so maybe on Saturday nights only? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And not on April 23 either at same time ** U S A [and non]. 15420, WBCQ, Monticello ME; 2042...2100:50*, 12- Apr; English Agressive Christianity huxtress -- if she emitted a high- pitched whine, she could be a Euro police siren! ToH ID & off leaving Chinese audio --- maybe AWR Guam. SIO=4+54 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9330-CUSB, noticed NO signal from WBCQ circa 0500 UT April 22, but could be `long` propagation, with e.g. Greece 9420 in well. However at 1236 over day path, still no trace of a 9330 signal, when e.g. 9370 WWRB is in well. Nor at 1407. So conclude 9330 transmitter, nominally 24 hours, is really off the air. WBCQ still missing at 1646, but 9370 WWRB is weak, and 9479 WTWW attenuated; must be propagation disturbance too. WWV reported at 1500: ``Geophysical Alert Message Solar-terrestrial indices for 21 April follow. Solar flux 109 and estimated planetary A-index 3. The estimated planetary K-index at 1500 UTC on 22 April was 1. Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor. Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level occurred. No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours.`` Now`s our chance to hear SYRIA?? q.v. 9330-CUSB, April 22 at 1902 check, WBCQ is now on after absence earlier in the day, who else but Rod Hembree promoting, who else, but Jesus Christ; 15420-CUSB also on and stronger with the androgynous anapaestic preachperson from Fence Lake NM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. Hi Jeff, I find the following currently in HFCC for RMI. Are any of these besides 9490 on the air now, and what are they? Tnx, Glenn 9490 0000 0200 11 ISS 250 275 0 216 1234567 310313 261013 D 8500 Spa F RMI TDF 10272 9610 0530 0600 46SE NAU 100 180 0 216 23456 310313 261013 D 9600 Mul D RMI MBR 16123 X.18 11945 1930 2000 46SE WER 100 180 -30 217 1234567 310313 261013 D 14800 Mul D RMI MBR 4971 X.18 13810 1600 1630 47E,48 WER 125 135 -15 217 1 310313 261013 D 17650 Mul D RMI MBR 16150 X.318 15170 1700 1730 47E,48 WER 125 135 -15 217 1 310313 261013 D 17650 Mul D RMI MBR 16157 X.318 (Glenn to Jeff White, via DXLD) Glenn: No, we don't have anything on MBR at the moment. I'm not sure what those listings were for (Jeff White, RMI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. [Re 13-16] UNIDENTIFIED. I can hear something on 4930 via the Perseus site near Detroit – and weaker here in Southern California from 0227 tune. The Botswana transmitter would do a better job than this, especially after 0230. I can hear VOA Botswana even here in California quite well after *0300. Tried several European Perseus sites, but nothing registers on 4930, even from excellent LA/African DXing sites in C. Germany, Netherlands and Austria. The Detroit signal is not much over audibility, but better than the Boston Perseus site. Tonight the Botswana transmitter signed on before the UNID left the air (Bruce W. Churchill, Fallbrook, CA, U.S.A., in DXplorer, April 15, via DSWCI DX Window April 17 via DXLD) All he had to do was look for a match on 9860 from WHRI, of which 4930 is a semiharmonic. Some hard-core DXers don`t want anything to do with bands above tropical, even if it means relying on remote receivers (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 5920, UT Monday April 22 after 0000, WHRI is on the air, but not DXing with Cumbre; 7385 is not on the air at all. At 0056, 7315 is on the air with praise music. At 0452, 11635 is on with only fair signal, music, not DWC, and off the air after 0500. I was checking for real SW airings of DWC vis-à-vis previous and alleged scheduling, but none found this Sunday evening. However, it might have been on some frequency at 0100 or 0200. Marie makes no effort whatsoever to research and publish when she is really on the *air* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11830, WEWN, at 2055 on 4/15, apparently a late addition to the EiBi list here in Spanish. Only at a fair level; continued in Spanish past 2100 (Gerry Dexter, Lake Geneva WI, TenTech 340, "Parker" balanced doublet, NASWA Flashsheet April 21 via DXLD) Apparently you typoed this for 13830, the real WEWN frequency, or they did? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA ``11720`` ** U S A. 6970, WWCR Nashville TN; 2256, 17-Apr; 13845-6875 mixing product; stronger than usual & can hear both clearly. Dead Dr. Gene on 13845 and English huxter on 6875 relating the Bible to aliens (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 6823-USB, April 18 at 1343, Army MARS net, discussing Field Day (two months ahead?); strongest signal requiring some attenuation is the NCS, AAM6TTX (often just ``TTX``), also AAR6UD, and AA#6GJ, AA#6UK --- assuming I missed a third letter in those prefixes. 1345 goes into ``comments period``, i.e. less formal part of net. Would you believe that AAM6TTX gets about 65,000 Google hits? Where to start? Near the top. Not surprisingly, it`s Texas Army MARS, also involved with TX Emergency Management. One site shows ``Training: AAM6TTX: Scott Hamende``. It would take a lot more digging, possibly pointless, to find his location. AAR6UD comes up as a password rather than a callsign (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 21430- in AM, slightly on lo side, April 20 at 2005, WA1HLR again, instantly recognizable TimTron (Tim Smith) monolog about equipment, etc., mentions he was into pirate radio in the 80s, and now doing `Radio TimTron Worldwide` (legally) on WBCQ; finally call ID, over to contact who is much weaker. Again not much else audible on 15m, certainly not in AM, so essentially the OSOB (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I omitted his call on WOR ** U S A. Special News: One less station to listen to. The FCC has issued a NOTICE OF UNLICENSED OPERATION for radio transmissions on 6925 kHz to a station located in Ohio. It seems that the FCC is now looking for HF Free Radio stations. Details are available at the FCC enforcement web site (Free Radio Weekly April 19 via DXLD) Viz.: PIRATE ON 6925, RADIO RONIN, BUSTED --- http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/2003/DOC-320165A1.html http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2013/db0415/DOC-320165A1.txt NOTICE: This document was converted from Microsoft Word. Content from the original version of the document such as headers, footers, footnotes, endnotes, graphics, and page numbers will not show up in this text version. All text attributes such as bold, italic, underlining, etc. from the original document will not show up in this text version. Features of the original document layout such as columns, tables, line and letter spacing, pagination, and margins will not be preserved in the text version. If you need the complete document, download the Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat version. ***************************************************************** FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION ENFORCEMENT BUREAU Northeast Region Detroit Office 24897 Hathaway St. Farmington Hills, MI 48335-1552 April 11, 2013 (Sent via Certified Return Receipt Requested and First Class US Mail) Michael E. Rohde Hilliard, Ohio NOTICE OF UNLICENSED OPERATION Case Number: EB-FIELDNER-13-00007831 Document Number: W201332360005 The Detroit Office received information that an unlicensed broadcast radio station on 6925 kHz was allegedly operating in Hilliard, Ohio. On April 2, 2013, an agent from this office confirmed by direction finding techniques that radio signals on frequency 6925 kHz were emanating from your residence in Hilliard, Ohio. Although Commission records show that you are the licensee of Amateur Station KD8MVH, the Commission's records show that no license was issued for operation of a broadcast station on 6925 kHz at your residence in Hilliard, Ohio. Radio stations must be licensed by the FCC pursuant to 47 U.S.C. S 301. The only exception to this licensing requirement is for certain transmitters using or operating at a power level or mode of operation that complies with the standards established in Part 15 of the Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R. SS 15.1 et seq. Based on the distance from which the signal could be received in the FCC's radio direction finding vehicles, agents concluded that the field strength of the signal on frequency 6925 kHz exceeds the maximum permitted established in Section 15.209 of the Rules (See 47 C.F.R. S 15.209(a)). Thus, this station is operating in violation of 47 U.S.C. S 301. You are hereby warned that operation of radio transmitting equipment without a valid radio station authorization constitutes a violation of the Federal laws cited above and could subject the operator to severe penalties, including, but not limited to, substantial monetary fines, in rem arrest action against the offending radio equipment, and criminal sanctions including imprisonment. (see 47 U.S.C. SS 401, 501, 503 and 510). UNLICENSED OPERATION OF THIS RADIO STATION MUST BE DISCONTINUED IMMEDIATELY. You have ten (10) days from the date of this notice to respond with any evidence that you have authority to operate granted by the FCC. Your response should be sent to the address in the letterhead and reference the listed case and document number. Under the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. S 552a(e)(3), we are informing you that the Commission's staff will use all relevant material information before it to determine what, if any, enforcement action is required to ensure your compliance with FCC Rules. This will include any information that you disclose in your reply. You may contact this office if you have any questions. James A. Bridgewater District Director Detroit Office Attachments: Excerpts from the Communications Act of 1934, As Amended Enforcement Bureau, "Inspection Fact Sheet", March 2005 (FCC via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD) Mike Rohde, editor of the Pirate Radio Report column in the NASWA Journal --- who`da thunk it that he himself might be a pirate?? I don`t think I ever heard Radio Ronin, probably because he operated earlier in the evening than I usually do --- there were three logs of him from others in his April column. It looks like this first step constitutes a warning rather than a Notice of Violation, so maybe OK if he complies. altho his ham license may be in danger. Expect other 42-mb SW pirates to lie low for a while (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Ronin Shortwave Sign-Off Published on Apr 2, 2013 Ronin sign-off around 20:40 EDT April 2 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUEFM_BnEWU (W1FVB via DXLD) Sounds like it was recorded previously, but that was the date of the bust (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) TIME TO SET THINGS STRAIGHT « on: April 19, 2013, 0056 UTC » Sorry, guys this is going to be a bit long. Go get a beer and kick back while you read this. I am talking to you from an account name that I have always used on this board. I am the operator responsible for Radio Ronin Shortwave. As most know I did get the knock from our friendly federal civil servants a few weeks ago. I have received many emails from friends and listeners which were all supportive. Thank you very much! Some just expressed sadness of my demise while others did the same and suggested that a fellow operator dropped a dime on me that resulted on my knock. Others asked what was my “hunch” on how it all came down. I disseminated some limited and general information within my close circle of trusted people with the expressed request that the information be treated with confidentiality. Well, some of that information has now appeared on a blog. Two things have resulted from that first, my circle of friends has gotten smaller. Second, it has fired up people on that blog site. I attempted to cool things down last night by posting an anonymous comment there. I should have known better than to think that would be well received there considering past history and past accusations. For my trouble I was called among other things a Moron. Thanks, that was real nice but, as I said, maybe I asked for it unintentionally. OK, so here is the deal, so I got the knock. Even to my most trusted friends only segments of the information acquired during this process with our federal friends was revealed to them. But is seems that even with that very incomplete information set some people have drawn the conclusion that another op MUST have dropped a dime on me resulting in my knock. First, let me say that I am sure that the feds may choose to use deception when they feel that is to their advantage. Also, that the first sentence of the NOUO can, off the top of my head be interpreted in at least six different manners, only one of which involves a dime dropped on me by anther op. As I said in the blog last night “The operator of RRS he has NO indication or information that would lead him to believe that any op dropped a dime on him”. Of course everyone is free to think, write, and, say what they want. My purpose here is the answer the question “I wonder what the op thinks happened”. Keeping in mind the only other person that knows more about this other than myself is the friendly federal civil servant that knocked on my door. Also I have had over two weeks to think about and analyze the situation. Think what you like, but now you know both my public and private position on the matter. If someone wants to think or call me a fool or moron so be it. We live the USA and despite the position of our federal government in the last couple of administrations, this is still the “land of innocent until proven guilty”. If you have accusations then show us the evidence. I have always attempted to promote good will in the community, including across both sides of the divide that we now seem to be living with. In closing, I have few regrets; I really liked what I did and how I did it. If that exposed me more to our federal friends so be it! I have always believed that it is important to live life big as doing otherwise was like not living at all. My intension is to continue to participate in the community in several capacities as I have in the past. Long Live Free Radio!! (RRS, HF Underground forum via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD) Further comments on this thread: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=10916.0 Awesome recording of Radio Ronin, which some very good audio quality for a pirate operator! Mar 23, 2013 – Though many had great signals, the strongest was Radio Ronin Shortwave on 6925 (AM). Ronin's broadcast started around 2215 UT. The SWLing Post » Radio Ronin Shortwave http://swling.com/blog/tag/radio-ronin-shortwave/feed/ (via DXLD) ** U S A. PASSING OF LONGTIME DXER BILL NITTLER Had not seen anything on any of the discussion lists that I belong to, so I was rather surprised to get this in my inbox just a few minutes ago. I had the opportunity to visit with Bill on at least one occasion (the 2011 NRC convention in Omaha) and possibly another (I THINK he attended the 1995 NRC convention in Aurora, CO). His contributions to the DXing hobby were many, and he will be sorely missed. Here's a link to his obit: http://www.cortezjournal.com/article/20130415/NEWS07/130419873/0/SEARCH/Maurice-'Bill'-Nittler? 73, (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, April 23, IRCA via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD) Viz., with portrait: Maurice 'Bill' Nittler Article Last Updated: Monday, April 15, 2013 5:24pm Maurice "Bill" Nittler, age 78, a resident of Belen, passed away on Wednesday, April 10, 2013. He was born December 24, 1934, in Shickley, Neb., to Rose and Frank Nittler. He was a member of Our Lady of Belen and of the Knights of Columbus. Bill and Sally moved to Belen, N.M., in 2004 after his retirement from the first National Bank in Cortez. Bill devoted 50 years to a career in banking. He was always involved in the community in which he lived and joined service oriented clubs: The Jaycees in Denver and The Lions Club in Mancos, his home before moving to Belen. As a teenager, Bill began radio DX-ing with his brother, Francis, and he continued to enjoy the hobby throughout his entire life. He and friends started a DX club and published news letters on the subject. He also enjoyed stamp collecting, and recently, he and his wife Sally joined the geo-caching community, an organization of people who enjoyed finding caches hidden by other members using GPS coordinates to find the site of the hidden caches. He was preceded in death by his parents, Rose and Frank Nittler; brothers, Francis Nittler, Leroy Nittler; sisters, Rosella Graham and Mildred Viola; and grandson, Toby Jones. Bill is survived by his beloved bride of nearly 56 years, Sally; children and spouses, Tammy Hettchen and husband Bob, Robin Nittler, Jennifer Nittler, Andrea Stevens, Matthew Nittler and wife, Brandy, Lesley Davis and husband, Greg, Ethan Nittler and wife, Kimberly; grandchildren, Matthew, Corey, Emilee, Kristopher and spouse, Kimberly, Kelton, Mackenzie, Brandon and spouse, Katie, Caitlin, Paige, Summer, Harley, Cody, and Dylan; great grandchildren, Samantha, Nathan, Hailey, Emma Leigh, and Miley Raye; and numerous nieces and nephews. Memorial contributions to the Belen Knights of Columbus 121 S. 9th St., Belen, N.M., or Catholic Daughters, 101 A. N 10th St., Belen, NM. Services will be held at Our Lady of Belen Catholic Church, Wednesday, April 17, beginning with a Rosary at 11:30 a.m., followed by the Mass at 12 p.m. Interment will be private. Serving as pallbearers will be Ethan Nittler, Matthew Nittler, Robert Hettchen and Greg Davis. Honorary pallbearers will be Kristopher Nittler, Matthew Hettchen, Corey Hettchen and Kelton Stevens. Arrangements are being handled by the caring professionals at the Noblin Funeral Service Belen Chapel, 418 W. Reinken Ave., (505) 864- 4448, where an online guest register is available at http://www.noblinfuneralservice.com (via DXLD) Really sad. He attended the Albuquerque IRCA convention in 2009. One of the original charter members that started the IRCA in 1964. A very active QSLer through the years too. We lost two greats of late, Don Kaskey and Bill Nittler. 73, (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, IRCA via DXLD) I'm sorry to hear about Bill Nittler. I had the opportunity to meet him 3 or 4 times at conventions, the most recent being Seaside in 2010. He was one of the IRCA's founders and was part of the DX Monitor publishing team during the club's very early days. Bill was my first contact with the IRCA. I wrote to the club in 1966 asking for a sample bulletin, and received a friendly letter from him along with a copy of DXM. I was impressed by the reply and joined IRCA soon thereafter. He will definitely be missed (Bruce Portzer, WA, ibid.) Thank you for passing this on, Rick. I met him only once, at the Calgary convention, where we somehow ended up being the co- auctioneers. He had a fine sense of humor, and was a worthy replacement for Mr. Bytheway. And as Bruce mentioned, he was a major force in the early days of the club. And in recent years, still a supporter of the club. He presented the elections committee report for me a couple of years back in Colorado Springs, and always voted in the elections. Best wishes, (Nick Hall-Patch, ibid.) ** U S A. 690, April 22 at 0532 UT, open carrier/dead air, no doubt from KGGF Coffeyville KS, as happens frequently (always?) after local midnite, making slow SAH with presumed KTSM El Paso underneath. What does the KGGF program schedule show? Who knows? Cannot find any website. I should listen at 0500, when I am instead trying the 960 Fox-hole. 690, April 23 tune-in just before 0500, KGGF Coffeyville KS is playing taps, and then dead air, open carrier, making slow SAH with news understation presumably KTSM. So this indicates KGGF is deliberately signing off at local midnite, but not turning off the carrier. Since they are licensed for fulltime, why not burn up 5 kWh for 5 hours or however long it takes before resuming programming? But what a waste: they could be modulating at no extra cost with *something*. Next I will have to tune in a few minutes earlier than that for what they say at closing. 690, April 24 at 0456 UT, tuning in early to hear KGGF sign-off, it`s already in open carrier, vs KTSM El Paso, and no taps tonite around 0500, altho a Mexican NA could be heard weakly mixing. At 0459 KTSM ran a TX DOT seat-belts PSA, 0500 Fox ``news``, 0506 C2CAM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 930, April 18 at 1211 UT, checking inhabitant with WKY OKC nulled --- it`s still WTAD Quincy IL, with river levels at Quincy & Hannibal; it seems there is some flooding. Now WTAD is legitimately on non-direxional day pattern since 1130 UT in April (1045 in May), but we also hear it at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 960, April 19 at 0503 UT during KGWA Fox-hole, harmonica blues music is dominating rather than ABC News, indicating KGKL San Angelo TX has stopped running ND day pattern at nite, but WABG Greenwood MS may have resumed doing so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Bet on WABG, Glenn. I live somewhat close and I got them pretty good with this format (Kevin Redding, Crump, TN, ABDX via DXLD) 960, April 20 at 0503 UT during KGWA Fox-hole, dominated by bluesy music, not ABC news, which again points to WABG Mississippi, no more KGKL Texas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1020, April 18 at 1215 UT, with semi-local KOKP Perry nulled, Spanish suddenly switches to heavily-accented English for legal ID at odd time: ``KMMQ, Plattsmouth-Omaha, la estación oficial de la celebración del 5 de mayo en Ómaja``. How could you say Plattsmouth in Spanish? It refers to the Platte River flowing into the Missouri, but I wouldn`t call that a boca (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1420, April 18 at 1141, UT M&M DJs talking about Merle Haggard`s appearance sometime in June at the Civic Center Theater; TC for 6:41, then `This Day in History` capsule introduced by Rocky the Flying Squirrel, starting with Paul Revere in 1775y. Checking the tour dates for Merle at http://www.songkick.com/artists/366005-merle-haggard/calendar?page=2 he`s all over Canada in April-May, resuming USA in June-July and this is the match but maintaining Canadian orthography: http://www.songkick.com/venues/101646-memorial-civic-centre-arena i.e., Lubbock TX on 19 June. Therefore this station is: KJDL, non-direxional 500/140/191 watts per NRC AM Log. It`s after 6 am CDT, so the PSRA power should be in effect. However FCC info at http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=4210 shows KJDL PSRA starting at 6 am local every month is only 147 watts, except for June bumped up to a hefty 168 watts, the ``limiting station`` in all cases being XEF in Juárez (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Maybe also the earlier 1420 UNIDENTIFIED, q.v. ** U S A. 1440, April 20 at 1216 UT, ID in passing as WGEM, back to ESPN; Quincy IL, difficult versus much stronger 50 kW Spanish religion from KTNO TX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1560, April 18 at 0553 UT tune-in, ID immediately as ``KLTI, Today`s True Country``. Slogan confirmed at http://www.kltiradio.com/ rather than (former?) ``Real Country``, as in NRC-AM Log; i.e. Macon MO, non-direxional 1000 watts day, 41 watts night: wonder which I was really hearing? Macon is west of Hannibal, south of Kirksville, but address is in Brookfield, some 38 miles further west where I daresay the 41 watts night are not going to reach; so where is the transmitter site? Own coverage map (from Radio Locator for day signal) shows right in Macon, and even then, Brookfield is beyond the ``local`` contour. Topo map at FCC shows a radio tower 3 km south of Macon, but is it KLTI`s? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1650 AM The Buzz --- While going to Walmart today I saw a sign for "1650 AM The Buzz" and it was on the air with "Arizona's Real Rock Radio". They cover all of Prescott Valley with a good signal and they have ads. Not sure when they came on the air (Bill Block, Prescott Valley, AZ, April 23, IRCA via DXLD) The Buzz-1650 is heard in all parts of Prescott Valley with good signals but is not heard in Prescott. Arizona has had several of these low power stations one of them is KBXZ-1650 in Flagstaff which has been in trouble with the FCC. We went by KBXZ in 2008 during IRCA convention. Also their was a low power station at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott for around 2 years but is now off. (Bill Block, Prescott Valley, AZ. April 24, ibid.) I remember KBXZ 1650 during the Flagstaff convention. I believe they were broadcasting ESPN programming or something similar. I think we got a few photos of their antenna and studios from the outside. 'Would sure be nice to have another convention in that town again someday (Mike Sanburn, ibid.) KBXZ is Fox Sports. The last time I was in Flagstaff last fall they were still on the air (Bill Block, Prescott Valley, AZ, ibid.) As of 1730 EDT The Buzz is off the air with a OC (Bill Block, Prescott Valley, AZ, April 24, IRCA via DXLD) ** U S A. Iowa TIS's on 1680 --- For the past couple years on western antennas I've commonly noted the Iowa TIS's in the mix on 1680, but nothing like I heard yesterday evening between about 6:45 and 7 pm CDT [UT -5]. X-banders commonly skip in rather early, and I had WQHC968 (ID's as Quad Cities) almost all alone and very clear for a while. There was sometimes QRM from WQHC967 (ID's as Iowa City) and by 7 pm Bloomberg Radio WRJO was starting to QRM them. These TIS's use computized female voices for traffic info and ID frequently. I've had the one in Soiux City a few times but still need Council Bluffs which is the newest of the 4. There's also one in Des Moines on 1670 that can get thru WOZN. 1680 can be quite wide open in this part of the midwest if you can get rid of WPRR, so these may be good targets for other DXers. No trace of WPRR was noted whatsoever during this time frame in the back null of my just installed (for tests and mods) Double KAZ antenna aimed due west. 73 KAZ Barrington IL (Neil Kazaross, April 22, IRCA via DXLD) ** U S A. QSL: WQFG689, Hudson County Office of Emergency Management, Jersey City, NJ, 1710, date/time letter in 133 days for English report via first-class mail and US $1.00 return postage, plus follow-up in English via fax to 201-369-5204. QSL arrived 8 days after fax follow- up. V/s James Woods, Coordinator. Mr. Woods apologized for the great delay in answering and stated that they were still busy cleaning up after "Super Storm Sandy." This is an Emergency Radio Station and is the only one of its class licensed on 1710 kHz by the FCC, running 10 watts (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, April 20, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. FCC fines WOBO-FM $3,000 04/23/13 at 2:48pm by John Kiesewetter 0 Comments The Federal Communication Commission Monday fined Batavia’s non- commercial WOBO-FM (88.7) for being too commercial. The FCC said WOBO-FM “willfully and repeatedly violated” federal rules “by airing commercial announcements on a noncommercial educational FM station,” after reviewing the station’s license renewal. It cited underwriting announcements aired last year for: –The Years of Farming Bluegrass show featuring “Canada’s #1 bluegrass band” in Flemingsburg, Ky. . . http://cincinnati.com/blogs/tv/2013/04/23/fcc-fines-wobo-fm-3000/ Details: http://www.fcc.gov/document/notice-apparent-liability-wobofm-batavia-ohio (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) ** U S A. FM translator weirdness --- So, after resolving the LPFM vs. translator thing, the FCC has been accepting amendments to the thousands of FM translator applications filed in 2003. The idea is that if your translator would preclude LPFM service, you can amend your translator application to allow it to co-exist with LPFM service. Or, if your translator application is mutually exclusive with another one & you don't want to have to go to auction with the other guy, you can amend yours so that *both* applications can be granted & nobody has to try to outbid anyone. You're going to see a TON of these. Some of them seem a bit technically questionable. For example, Refuge Media Group, a religious broadcaster in Minnesota, had a translator application on file specifying 98.9 from a site in St. Paul. This application has been amended to change the site *slightly* and to change frequency to 98.5. 98.5? 100,000-watt KTIS-FM has been operating on 98.5 for years. Licensed to Minneapolis, the KTIS-FM site is only a few miles (five or six) from the translator site. Another questionable one I saw this morning specified 97.5 at Pine Bluff, Arkansas. That's maybe not quite as close to KQUS Hot Springs, but still seems awfully unlikely to coexist. I think I also saw two translators trying to use the same frequency in Milwaukee County (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, April 24, WTFDA via DXLD) The FCC is determined to turn FM into the new AM: overcrowded frequencies, too many translators, and QRM. This 97.5 translator in Pine Bluff AR is pointless. I pulled up that "new" assignment via the FCC FM query and it proposes to retransmit KUAP (a station that has a 50 KW signal *in* Pine Bluff). http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=156465 LPFM could easily be done in this country today if the FCC had not been bullied by the "non-commercial" religious broadcasting lobby in the 1990's (aided of course by the 1996 Telecommunications Act) to permit bird-fed translators on every street corner (especially in the Southern states). Now with K-LOVE, AFR, Air 1, Calvary Chapel, Smile FM (now moving into AR) bogarding every third frequency plus every other viable AM station getting a translator on the air to broadcast on the FM dial, and of course IBOC/HD Radio, the FM dial is getting more and more crowded in larger areas. I hate to imagine the situation for the DX'er in Southern New England, but the dials are getting crowded even here in rural Southeast Arkansas (Fritze H. Prentice, Jr., KC5KBV, Star City AR EM43aw twitter.com/fritzehp http://facebook.com/SoutheastArkansasDXAndMediaReport ibid.) I can understand allowing a one-time opportunity to update the applications since they are 10 years old. After that, the FCC needs to deny (without an opportunity to revise) any application that has clerical or technical errors (Neil Griffin, Spartanburg, SC, ibid.) ** UZBEKISTAN [non]. 17510, April 23 at 1309 W&M in Turkic language, fair signal, gone at 1337 recheck. Aoki shows it`s BBC Uzbek via OMAN. Normally jammed by the ChiCom but apparently not propagating today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VANUATU. Just completed recording my DX report for next Monday's airing of Mailbox on Radio NZ International, which contains my latest observations on these stations. Radio Vanuatu is missing from shortwave at present. Adrian Sainsbury from RNZI tells me that both SW transmitters are off air awaiting spare parts. Radio NZ Transmission Engineer Steve White is due back in Vanuatu next month, so hopefully the transmitters will be back in operation soon (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, New Zealand, AOR7030+ and EWEs to the Americas, April 24, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN CITY EXTRA-TERRITORIAL AREA. 15595, Vatican Radio, *1600- 1630*, 13-Apr; On with "Vatican Radio news, French & English Edition", into French news; 1615:20 "Vatican Radio World News". French & English segments very different. French segment focused on places where people are killing each other or threatening to kill each other. English segment opened with 7 minute feature on Vatican activities & history. 1622 brief mention of N Korea, Serbia & Croatia attempt to become EEU, then feature on stem cells. No mention of Syria or any 'stans as there was during the French segment. (What's the Vatican hiding from us?) Off after only partial VR bells IS (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non] [Re 13-16:] As of today, 22 April, Vatican Radio to LatAm at 0200 UT on 7305 kHz is supposed to have "adjusted" the schedule, though I will have to listen in order to determine what has changed, if indeed anything. Please let me know if you notice anything other than 0200 Spanish and 0230 French. I never logged any English in the 0200 to 0245 time slot, though I wrote to Sergio Salvatori, Frequency Management, and suggested either English or Portuguese to LatAm at 0150 to 0200, since the Greenville carrier is on and this is open air time. Unless they are making transmitter adjustments/fine tuning. 73's, (Ed Insinger, Summit, NJ, April 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7305, April 23 at 0150, the Greenville carrier is on prior to Vatican Radio relay; 0209 check in Spanish, only fair signal; 0232 check in French! Spanish supposedly is half a sesquihour until 0245. Ed Insinger in NJ had noted this previously and contacted VR about the anomaly. Reply explaining how a substitute satellite stream has to be picked up for this was in DXLD 13-16. Sergio Salvatore of VR frequency management also said after 0230 it could be in English, Armenian or Russian which we have not heard yet. It seems what they need to do is run the Spanish service intact at original timing of 0145-0230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM. Received preliminary replies from both VISHIPEL GMDSS Director (Vu Thi Phuong Nhung) and Asst. Director of Hai Phong Radio (Nguyen Thi Thanh Huyen) for March 23, 2012 and April 4, 2013 receptions respectively of Vietnam's VISHIPEL coastal radio sites from 1020 to 1415 UT. All stations were heard Poor to Good with Ho Chi Minh Radio the best and Hai Phong Radio the worst in signal strength. In 2012, Ho Chi Minh Radio used English during its transmission - not so in 2013. Thanks to Ron Howard for the heads up on these stations in 2012 (and again this year) and to T. Breyel in Malaysia for ID and contact info of VISHIPEL personnel. Have not received veries yet but one can only hope! The GMDSS head seemed to want to know more information about who I was, what company I worked for, what business was I in and so forth. Interesting (Bruce W. Churchill-CA-USA, DXplorer Apr 17 via BC-DX April 19 via DXLD) ?? Ron Howard and I heard 7906 in English on March 13, 2013 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM. 12000, April 18 at 1327 something in Chinese with big hum, 1328 just hum until off at 1329:05*. Aoki shows it`s the end of VOV`s alternating Russian/Chinese services, 100 kW, 27 degrees from Hanoi- Sontay site, so also USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non]. 6175, April 18 at 0526, VOV via WHRI with traditional instruments and wailing; wish I had intuned earlier. 0527:45 cut to BaBcoCk music loop for less than a quarter-minute, 0528 WHR promotion which they tack on to relay clients. Usual VG signal eclipsing even Brasília 6180. Yet for English earlier in the evening, VOV makes us listen to Woofferton 12005 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12019.3 approx., Wednesday April 24 at 1245, ``VOV Letterbox`` replying to Richard that they will not abandon shortwave; also has new QSL design since last year. Next reply to a Nigerian about whether Vietnam has diplomatic relations with. YL with considerable accent but still mostly readable on fair signal with flutter; 1257 says ``goodbye till next time`` and no other sign-off, dead air until 1300 opening Indonesian with Vietnamese accent too. Aoki shows 177 degrees on 12020. A major drawback of the otherwise excellent Aoki list is that nominal/rounded frequencies are shown, not perpetual off-frequencies like this which could be very helpful to identification; but would take up at least two scarce columns in the listings. HFCC does not either; EiBi has room for decimal frequencies in some entries, yet shows this also just as 12020. VOV is far enough above RTTY on lo side to avoid it, and fortunately nothing on 12020.0 to make a het, fooling casual listeners into believing VOV is really on 12020 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM [non]. Que Me: 1200-1230 on 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg to EaAs Vietnamese Fri (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 1550.03 | ALGERIA | RASD Clandestine, Rabouni, APR 15 2317 - North African vocal, plucked string instrument; usually over WSDK. + APR 15 2330 - Arabic vocal & orchestration; good. (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, Orleans, Cape Cod, MA, USA, (GC= 41.8072 N / 69.9537 W) (= 41? 48.43' N / 69? 57.22' W) (beach area: northeast end of Tonset Road, near Weeset Road); Receiver: Microtelecom Perseus. Antenna: cardioid-pattern Micro-SuperLoop on car roof, square, 2 m per side, with Clifton Laboratories Z10130A amp on east bottom corner to speaker wire to 2:1 transformer to W7IUV amp, and 9:1 transformer on west corner to speaker wire to 500 ohm null-adjust potentiometer, NRC- AM via DXLD) ** ZAMBIA [and non]. ZNBC1 5915 on air one hour late today, ZNBC2 6165 still missing. ZNBC1, 5915 Lusaka. Apr 22, 2013 Monday. *0358-0410. Lunyaneka (listed). Suddenly on at *0358, late. ID at 0400 “Zambia Broadcasting Corporation” and at 0403 “ZNBC Radio One”, repeated at 0405. At 0404, song with drumming and whistles, to telephone interview with OM. Jo'burg sunrise 0427. ZNBC2, 6165 Lusaka. Apr 22, 2013 Monday. 0345-0410. AWOL. Instead, Chad in French is clearly readable on this frequency, at least after improving substantially at around 0400. Jo'burg sunrise 0427 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ZNBC1, 5915 Lusaka. Apr 24, 2013 Wednesday. 1803-1807. News in English. At 1806, ID “ZNBC News in Lusaka”. Good. Jo'burg sunset 1543 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZANZIBAR [non log]. 6015, ZBC Radio. April 22 yet another day with no broadcast here with checking from 0259 to 0330. Thanks to Bill Bingham (RSA) for checking last week and confirming he also noted their continued absence (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Also think absent from 11735 (gh) ** ZIMBABWE. Radio Zimbabwe, 6045 Gweru. Apr 19, 2013 Friday. 1703- 1714. AWOL. Lots of lightning QRN local to Jo'burg. Voice of Zimbabwe, 999 and 4828 both Gweru. Apr 19, 2013 Friday. 1703- 1714. AWOL. Lots of lightning QRN local to Jo'burg. Sunset 1548. Radio Zim on SW is AWOL tonight, but present on MW: Radio Zimbabwe, 6045 Gweru. Apr 23, 2013 Tuesday. 1715-1725. AWOL. I am hearing AIR GOS in Urdu instead, with fair reception. Jo'burg sunset 1544. Radio Zimbabwe, 999 Gweru. Apr 23, 2013 Tuesday. 1715-1725. Present but barely readable. Afro music introduced by YL and OM. Poor. Jo'burg sunset 1544 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE [and non]. BOTSWANA, 12025, VOA English from Botswana, hit by an exact annoying 625 Hertz whistle tone on upper side flank. At 0512 UT Apr 12, of same powerful signal S=9+25dB level, maybe interference from Zimbabwe? (Wolfgang Büsschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Apr 19 via DXLD) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. SW Radio Africa: 1700-1900 on 4880 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg to SoAf English Radio Voice of The People: 1800-1900 on 9345 MDC 250 kW / 265 deg to ZWE English/Shona/Ndebele Radio Dialogue FM: 1600-1700 on 12105 MDC 250 kW / 265 deg to ZWE English/Shona/Ndebele (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD) 12105, Dialogue, 19 April at 1602 with introductory messages, ID and comments (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) English? PROSECUTORS REFUSE TO PUT RADIO DIALOGUE BOSS BEFORE COURT http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/news/zimbabwe/65111/prosecutors-refuse-to-put-radio.html State prosecutors yesterday refused to put Radio Dialogue manager Zenzele Ndebele before the magistrate court and returned the docket to police saying the charges are not clear. 18.04.1306:43am by Gladys Ncube Ndebele was arrested last month on allegations of distributing SW and AM radios after police raided Bulawayo based community radio station, Radio Dialogue’s Ingwe studios in Hillside suburb and confiscated 180 SW and AM radios. Then police did not take him to court saying were still investigating the case. However yesterday police summoned Ndebele to appear in court but state prosecutors at Tredigold magistrate court in Bulawayo refused to prosecute saying police charges against Ndebele were not clear. “My client did not appear in court because the prosecutor referred the docket back to the police to clarify the charges,” said Ndebele lawyer Kucaca Phulu Last month police went on rampage ransacking several non- governmental organisations (NGOs) around the country accusing them of distributing the SW and AM radios. The NGOs which were raided over these radios include Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) the country’s biggest independent elections watchdog group and Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) and National Youth Development (NYDT) searching for the same radios. Many villagers already own the radios and have in the past been harassed by war veterans and Zanu PF militia who confiscated the gadgets in volatile areas such as Mutoko during the bloody 2008 presidential election run-off period. Recently police spokesperson Charity Charamba announced the ban and warned that people who received the radios would also be arrested together with organizations which distribute the gadgets. This sets the stage for a massive crackdown likely to affect rural people who rely on the radios to listen to popular short wave stations such as Studio 7 and SW Radio Africa. The short wave radio stations have become a hit in rural areas, not only because ZBC has poor transmission there but also because they have shied away from rabid propaganda broadcast on State-owned stations (via Zacharias Liangas, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. TP carrier search low part of band, April 18 at 1153 UT finds JBA ones on 702, 728, 882, probably Pacific rather than Asian. Our sunrise in Enid: 1154 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 660, April 18 at 0549 UT, open carrier with hum, roughly SSW/NNE. Same as I had Feb 21 at 0656 when I thought KSKY TX most likely, but could also be any of several Mexicans. Is it a station not 24 hours but leaving the carrier on; or a 24-hour station failing to modulate? 660, UT Monday April 22 at 0531, dead air except for big hum here again from somestation in US or Mexico; loops NNE/SSW. I should listen at 0500, when I am instead trying the 960 Fox-hole (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 730, April 18 at 1150 UT, open carrier with hum, suspect a Mexican; XEDP Chihuahua is still in on 710, and so should be XEHB on 730 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 870, April 18 at 1152 UT, open carrier with no hum; surely XETAR in Chihuahua, daytimer which signs on at 1200. However, by 1206 UT recheck something in English within the WWL 870 null with funeral notices, so must be a small town, and low temps. Bet it`s KAAN, Bethany MO, population 3060 on I-35 near the IA border (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1420, April 18 at 0558 UT, somestation in heavy QRM mentions ``Santa Rosa`` in English --- conjuring up long-gone KSYX, first radio station in my old New Mexico hometown (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Maybe Lubbock TX, see U S A UNIDENTIFIED. 1520, RE 13-16, Spanish QRM to KOKC: April 13 at 0555 -- - Odds are this is KUNX in Port Hueneme, having traded slots with KVTA, which itself is now News/Talk on 1590. All the same ownership; 1520 was known to cheat now & then in daytime mode, during its KVTA incarnation. Many 73z – (GREG HARDISON, West San Fernando Valley, April 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Greg, It looks like even the day pattern of 1520 has a deep null toward OKC. It would have to be ND for me to be getting that much from it, I think (Glenn to Greg, via DXLD) Glenn: -- Pattern-wise, it would look like KMPG: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/544959-71767.pdf They used to cheat regularly at, and even before 6 AM PT. Maybe they're pursuing a new audience? -- G H of L.A. (Hardison, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 1520, April 20 at 1218 UT, KOKC OKC has CCI from sports talk in English, making slow SAH of about 84/minute = 1.4 Hz. Strongly suspect KOLM Rochester MN with ESPN which is U8 10000/800 watts, tho there is another ESPN at KMSR Mayville ND, only 1300 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7275, possibly RRI Serui at 1148 in possible Indonesian (definitely not Korean or Chinese) with a man and woman talking to a man on the telephone - Very weak with ham QRM Apr 15. Most lists show CNR1 and KBS in Mandarin but only the HFCC list for A13 has RRI Serui listed from 1100 to 1430. Rob Wagner, an Australian DXer, has let me know that he is hearing a possible Indonesian under CNR1 and PBS Xinjiang. On April 18th at 1100 I caught what sounded like a "Radio Republik Indonesia" ID but I could not be sure. We need more research (Mark Coady, Ont., ODXA Your Reports via DXLD) ?? HFCC is replete with imaginary wooden registrations for domestic RRI stations --- just in case? I would not use HFCC as my primary resource for such info (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) - - - posted to Cumbre DX Facebook: 7275 INDONESIA RRI Serui tentatively at 1148 in presumed Indonesian with a man and woman talking to a man on the telephone - Very weak with HAM QRM Apr 15 Coady-ON - only the HFCC list for A13 has this listed from 1100 – 1430 and also: With a tip of the hat to Ron Howard for his thoughts, when this log appears in my column this week it will go in as UNIDENTIFIED as only the HFCC list has it. What I heard was definitely not Chinese or Mandarin which is listed from KBS and CNR1 at the time. This morning (Apr 16th) at 0950 I did log KBS in Korean but this was also not the language I heard yesterday. It begs of more research and perhaps those of you closer to the scene can monitor the frequency in the 1100 to 1215 time frame. - - - email sent to Mark Coady (April 15): Hi Mark, Could you please double check your RRI Serui log! RRI Serui was last heard on 4604.9 kHz (2010) and was running 1 KW. Scheduled now on 7275: 100 KW CNR1 scheduled 1100-1735 in Chinese and 250 KW KBS World Radio scheduled from 0900-1300 in Korean. RRI Serui last heard in 2010: INDONESIA. 4604.90, RRI Serui, 1204-1228, August 9. Back on the air again. Jakarta news relay and National Anthem (choral); // 3325 (RRI Palangkaraya), 3344.96 (RRI Ternate), 3995 (RRI Kendari), 4749.94 (RRI Makassar), 4789.96 (RRI Fak Fak – interesting that they would also resume broadcasting again on the same day that Serui returned) and 9680 (RRI Jakarta). After 1228 no longer //. 1239-1300 C&W songs in English; 1300-1305 SCI, Jakarta news relay and National Anthem (choral) which was // 3325 (RRI Palangkaraya) (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Also note - http://rri.jpn.org/ with "silent stations" at the bottom of the page. He monitors Indonesia daily. With all due respect Mark, based on the above information, I have to question if you did hear RRI Serui, even as a tentative log (Ron Howard, California, via DXLD) Also, some downunderite thought he had RRI Serui January 28, 2011 at 0335 on 7290 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 15103.8, another spur 4/15 at 1728 // 15160 with program in Portuguese till 1729 then sign off. Heard no ID (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nothing scheduled on 15160 then in Aoki or EiBi, but HFCC has an unknown MBR registration from Wertachtal until 1730 (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 15420 approx., April 24 at 1224, weak SSB scratching from an intruder, maybe Spanish; notable in that it`s the only signal propagating on the 19m broadcast band, with 16 and 13m also dead almost half a sesquihour after sunrise here at 1146; much degraded propagation with K-index of 3 at 1200, but ``no storms`` per WWV. Grew to K=4 by 1500. An hour later at 1336, 13 and 16m are still dead, not even RHC, but some signals on 19m, notably low-latitude 15400 HCJB Australia and 15340 Cuba, little else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 19640 kHz, 1447 UT, 4 x 4910 or 2 x 9820, way too weak to ID language, sorry. Sorry, more very weak unids! 19130 & 19170 at 1455 UT 23/4 -- (Tim Bucknall, Congleton, UK, RDR54D1 + CLP5130, April 23, harmonics yg via DXLD) = 2 x 9565, 2 x 9585 (gh) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1666: Michael Rutkaus, for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com One may also contribute by check or MO in US funds to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 Dear Mr. Hauser, Congratulations for your great digest. I read it all the time. I hope have some luck (until now I has not been able to listen it) to hear WOR by radio. Here I am sending some logs from Santiago, Chile. If they are useful to the digest, I'll be delighted that you publish it. Best wishes, (Mr. Eduardo PEÑAILILLO Barra, Santiago, Chile) Who has now joined the dxld yg PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ ShortWaveMusic https://soundcloud.com/shortwavemusic/sets/shortwavemusic-2012-timbuktu-2 (Zacharias Liangas, Hard-Core-DX mailing list) That`s Myke Weiskopf`s site with lots besides Timbuktu (gh, DXLD) H-Net Review Publication: Watson on Potter, 'BROADCASTING EMPIRE: THE BBC AND THE BRITISH WORLD, 1922-1970' ---- Simon James Potter. Broadcasting Empire: The BBC and the British World, 1922-1970. Oxford Oxford University Press, 2012. 261 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-956896-3. Reviewed by Joe Watson (Baker University) Published on Jhistory (April, 2013) Commissioned by Heidi Tworek How the British Broadcasting Corporation Shaped an Empire Since its debut on November 14, 1922, the British Broadcasting Corporation has held an esteemed place in the hearts of English- speaking broadcasters. The BBC's commitment to a public broadcasting model that emphasizes quality and impartiality stands in stark contrast to many commercial broadcasters around the world. Their philosophies make the BBC an admired and valuable contributor to modern broadcast production. The organization's path to its current place in the media landscape, however, has not always been smooth. Many books explore the British Broadcasting Corporation's history, but Simon Potter has produced what may be among the most defining efforts to document the BBC's past, particularly its influence on other broadcasting entities within the British Empire. With impressive detail, Potter explores behind-the-scenes efforts by BBC executives to create a global radio -- and later television -- power by influencing fledgling broadcast industries around the British Commonwealth and in dominion nations like Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada. As with all new radio systems in the 1920s, those who launched the British Broadcasting Corporation sought to determine what it could and should be. Potter explains how BBC leaders debated the value of a public broadcasting model versus a commercial one, ultimately embracing the former. The BBC was seen as a means by which British culture could be promoted and preserved, an essential value to the middle- and upper-class men who led the new network. But the launch of the BBC was more than just a foray into the radio age. Early on, BBC managers recognized the power of radio to unite countries in the empire. Radio offered not only a unique outreach opportunity but a powerful propaganda tool that could promote imperial ideals, particularly among the commonwealth's white populations. Central figures are skillfully developed in Potter's work, providing one of the book's primary strengths: well-crafted biographical profiles of the characters that add a sense of authenticity and drama to what could otherwise be dry historical prose. By painting vivid portraits of people like Sir John Reith, the British Broadcasting Corporation's first director general, and H. P. Brown, who led emerging radio efforts in Australia, conflicts and struggles to define early radio come to life. Reith saw the BBC as an antidote to what he believed was the cultural decay of the era. He believed such power should be exported to countries with British connections. Brown, on the other hand, frequently resisted Reith lest he have too much influence over Australia's evolving radio structure. It was not just Australia where conflict occurred. A central theme of Potter's book focuses on the growing pains experienced by the BBC as it tried to export its ideals and its programs. Quite often, broadcasters in Australia and Canada chose not to rebroadcast BBC content. That thwarted many of the BBC's empire-building ambitions. Indeed, early on, the dominions were not unlike children coming of age and trying to find themselves. In the shadow of an overbearing BBC parent, some countries, like New Zealand, often acquiesced and did what was expected. Others, like Canada, were akin to rebellious teenagers fighting back hard against home office expectations. With the United States right next door, Canadian broadcasters struggled to ensure they had options should a commercial broadcasting system be needed to compete with America's powerful entertainment offerings. The 1950s produced more conflict, especially when commercial broadcasting systems became necessary to fund television's growth in Great Britain and the commonwealth. The effort by dominions to maintain national identities through broadcasting and the clashes it produced with the BBC remain a central part of the book right up to where it ends in 1970. Yet there were moments when imperial broadcasters came together in a spirit of cooperation that made radio and television stronger throughout the commonwealth. World War II provided an opportunity for the BBC to "convince audiences around the empire that they were part of a single great collaborative venture" (p. 124). The war forced broadcasters with ties to the United Kingdom to work together, ultimately making commonwealth broadcasting stronger. Additionally, royal events like the abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936, the death of King George VI in 1952, and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 tugged at patriotic heartstrings around the empire. Coverage of the monarchy ensured that broadcasters had large audiences, which made everyone happy. The British Broadcasting Corporation eventually developed greater respect for broadcasters not only in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, but also in African and Asian nations of the commonwealth. By the 1960s, under the leadership of director general Hugh Carlton Greene, the BBC embraced a more direct approach to competing with commercial rivals. Even for Canadians, who had grown ambivalent about their British roots, a connection to the BBC remained. Events like the annual Commonwealth Broadcasting Conference allowed nations of the empire to feel valued by London, which spoke to the real progress that had been made in forging relationships. Indeed, Potter effectively maps out the evolution of the British Broadcasting Corporation from a near-dictatorial entity to a leader of commonwealth partners. The book's level of detail, although largely beneficial, can be overwhelming in some passages, especially when exploring technical obstacles faced by the BBC. Furthermore, while Potter does a fine job introducing the people who played a role in the network's early days, there are times when it can be difficult to keep track of the sheer number of secondary players. Lastly, even though it is not central to Potter's effort, there are times when greater acknowledgement of the audience, as opposed to broadcasting executives, could have added valuable context to help the reader understand important events and why certain decisions were made. Even today, the BBC struggles to maintain its public broadcasting model amid threats of commercial competition. Potter demonstrates that this has been, in fact, a component of the BBC landscape since day one. In many ways, modern-day challenges are no different from ones broadcasters faced more than half a century ago. The case of the British Broadcasting Corporation, as portrayed by Potter, hints that the more things change, the more they stay the same. That is, after all, the remarkable thing about studying history: one realizes that there are few new problems. Most, if not all, of the major challenges facing current journalists and media organizations have been experienced by those who came before. By studying the successes and failures of the BBC's development in the twentieth century, modern broadcasters may find a valuable road map to help them maneuver twenty-first-century dilemmas. Citation: Joe Watson. Review of Potter, Simon James, _Broadcasting Empire: The BBC and the British World, 1922-1970_. Jhistory, H-Net Reviews. April, 2013. URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=38757 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.h-net.org/~jhistory (via Kit Rushing, DXLD) SENDER UND FREQUENZEN 2013 A-13 2ND UPDATE Subject: 2. Nachtrag Sender und Frequenzen Seit gestern hier erhältlich: http://www.vth.de/fileadmin/shopdownloads/sf-2013-n2.pdf (via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) 40-page issue packed with info, altho presented in German is easily referenced. Starts with exhaustive listing by time of broadcasts in German not only on SW, but many more on webcasting domestic radio stations all over the world. Then another schedule by time of English broadcasts mostly on SW audible in Europe --- but beware, includes some imaginary stuff like KVOH on 9975 at 0100-0700; outdated winter times for WWRB ending at 0500 instead of 0400 UT, etc. These skeds are in UT, while the shorter list of recommended programs in German at the end are in MESZ (UT+2). In between there is a roundup of DX news and schedules by country, including a few citations of DXLD (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ WHAT IS A RELAY? This may seem like splitting hairs, and it is certainly not said by Jorge alone, but the term ``relay`` originally meant a rebroadcast of a station already broadcasting from somewhere else. But these are the only/original transmissions, so they are not really ``relayed`` -- except in the sense that just about any broadcast is a relay by the transmitter site from wherever the studio may be, nearby or on the other worldside (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Concordo com a sua descrição do que seja Relay, que também é a mesma na linguagem técnica aqui no Brasil. Lendo diversos logs no decorrer dos anos eu percebi que a indicação de "Relay" se dá por uma transmissão de rádio de um determinado ponto que não é a sua origem. Assim como a DW transmitindo desde Ruanda seria descrita como um "Relay", pois a DW tem por origem a Alemanha. Como você mesmo diz a utilização desse termo como descrito nos meus logs também é utilizada por muitos outros dexistas e possui o mesmo significado de [and non] que você mais precisamente faz. Apesar de eu acreditar que a maioria dos dexistas tenham entendido o significado de "Relay" dentro de meus e de outros logs, eu agradeço a explicação que pode esclarecer melhor o assunto especialmente para os novos. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, DX LISTENING DIGEST) COMPRENDER vs ENTENDER in SPANISH From DXLD 13-16: ``If I understood Tibetan, I could understand the Tibetan despite this jamming, and wish the same for the dentro- Tibetans (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` The ``understood`` and ``understand`` might seem strange above, but in traditional Spanish there would be two different words --- comprender meaning of course to comprehend in the first instance, and entender, meaning being able simply to hear it, audibly in the second. Except comprender seems to have fallen out of fashion, as a bit too rude for polite speech. Especially as a question. ¿Comprende? Instead you tone it down by asking ¿Entiende? Then if one truly did not comprehend something, one can blame it on reception conditions rather than ignorance (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGESTE) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ JOINT DX CONVENTION IN BLOOMINGTON, MINNESOTA, AUGUST 1-4, 2013 CONVENTION AGENDA The program agenda for the combined 2013 DX Convention is taking shape. This year`s event is called `Learning and Sharing 2013` and we have a lot of both for you. Folks from the National Radio Club, the IRCA and the Minnesota DX Club will keep your attention through the three days of the get-together. [WTFDA is also participating --- gh] Here`s a partial list of topics: `Interference workshop` (DX-ing in noisy environments, how to enlist the help of the power company for electrical noise; how to quiet down smaller antennas). We`ll hear about Nick`s `DXFISHBARREL` and share a session on using the Grey-Line. There`ll be updates on what`s going on these days from Long-Wave to 10 gigahertz. Sessions on Ultralights and SDRs. Antenna design sessions will include short verticals for MW, antenna advancements by Kaz; the quest for the `perfect` loop antenna, and the latest on the FSL antenna. Thursday night we`re trying to put together a DX-Pedition with a Beverage antenna on an abandoned railroad bed. We also hope to set up an antenna at the hotel for your use in capturing signals in the Minneapolis area. As a bonus, we`ve added a Friday lunch to the schedule, featuring a fascinating presentation by the IEEE on state-of-the-art antenna advancements. Friday night at the Museum we`ll enjoy a Pizza-Fest, `Show-and-Tell` from members and we`ll block out time for separate club business meetings, followed by discussions of general interest. (Among topics will be `the aging of the clubs,` how to attract new members, what services club members would like.) The world-famous auction will also be held at the Museum Friday night, and this year we anticipate some very nice radio gear going on the block. Saturday evening`s banquet will feature Dean Sorenson, long-time radio broadcaster and a DX Audio Service member who?ll share a fascinating look at what it`s like to build and manage radio stations. The banquet will be followed by the DX Quiz The agenda continues under construction and may include Sunday-morning sessions. If you haven`t registered, please get it done now because the hotel is filling up. Registration information is found at http://www.nrcdxas.org/ Regards, (Mark Durenberger, IRCA via DXLD) By the way -- if anyone out there wants to do a roadtrip through northern and east-central Minnesota (in a Roseau-to-International Falls-to-Grand Rapids-to-Minneapolis line) in the days either immediately before or immediately after the convention, feel free to e-mail me off-list. This ties in with another hobby of mine (one which some of you on these listservers share), and I'm hoping for the opportunity to add to my totals while I'm in the area. 73, (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, ibid.) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See AUSTRALIA; ERITREA; ETHIOPIA; INDIA; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ NIGERIA; SAUDI ARABIA; DBC IBOC below DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ A PUSH TO TURN OFF AM ANALOG AND GO ALL-DIGITAL Glynn Walden (and Ben Downs) pushed hard at the NAB Show for the FCC to establish an "AM Sunset and All-Digital Sunrise" date for the AM broadcast band. They also want the FCC to mandate that all radio receivers sold in the U.S. have all-digital receiving capability built-in (for HD Radio of course). Not a word was said about testing DRM or any other all-digital broadcasting technology. What these gentlemen failed to say is that the AM band is already partially digital -- especially in major markets -- and the public isn't demanding digital receivers. So now they want the FCC to force digital receivers on everyone -- a very sweet deal indeed for iBiquity, the parent of HD Radio. We appreciate that Glynn Walden believes 110% in AM digital broadcasting. His heart is in the right place. However, the AM HD technology currently deployed by iBiquity is seriously flawed -- as we have said repeatedly -- and helps contaminate the AM band. Glynn even mentioned the self-inflicted interference in his remarks during Commissioner Pai's panel. So, if the AM band ever does go all-digital, it would be wise to consider all options before taking the leap. Let's not blindly trust iBiquity which has done such a poor job with AM so far. http://tinyurl.com/Wants-AM-All-Digital http://tinyurl.com/CommentsOnMaking-AM-AllDigital http://tinyurl.com/DIY-Media-Comments http://tinyurl.com/Is-AM-Worth-Revitalizing http://tinyurl.com/Clays-Alternative P.S. Another major AM station has shut off AM HD at night and there have been no listener complaints. (Private communication to the CGC Communicator at the NAB Show.) P.S.2. Riddle: What happens when AM stations use FM translators? It gives the public yet another reason not to listen to AM (CGC Communicator April 22 via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ "The FCC has denied ARRL's request for reconsideration of the Broadband-over-Power-Line (BPL) rules. We can hear you asking, 'What, again?'" http://www.commlawblog.com/2013/04/articles/unlicensed-operations-and-emer/fcc-reaffirms-broadbandoverpowerline-rules/index.html (via Benn Kobb, DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ DISCONNECT AND GROUND ANTENNAS When the antenna is disconnected for storm activity, it should be grounded. I use a knife switch, an old Radio Shack DPDT (double pole, double throw) one with the antenna (and counterpoise) attached at the center terminals, and the antenna connected to the upper ones. The lower terminals are direct to earth ground, and short as possible with heavy gauge wire. The switch is in the upper, active position only when I am listening, and in the lower position otherwise. This keeps the antenna grounded to keep any electrical currents shorted to ground, protecting my radios whether I am there or not. This works best with twin lead type lines, and grounding systems for coax leads can also be as inexpensive with a bit to web searching to find switch arrangements for coax cable. Without grounding the antenna, and in electrical storm activity nearby, the disconnected antenna lead-in can arc to whatever is near, and can cause some damage to sensitive equipment that may be nearby. -- (Bart VanAllen, KA7ZFD, PTSW yg via DXLD) LISTENER "CALLSIGNS" ``Everyone knows your name`` --- so why does anyone need or want a series of made-up alfanumeric characters with no meaning except an amateur radio prefix and a sequential number before ``SWL``? 3000+ plus do so far since 2002y. They are accumulating a database which could be used for commercial or nefarious purposes. I have looked at their website and not found the NAME of the individual(s) behind this (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) There is another way: get your ham ticket (which you'll be granted after studying radio related issues pertaining amateur radio). Study for the exam according to the category, then enjoy the huge bouquet of activities ham radio offers today, and the best that suits your abilities. Then after the callsign you can add a slash and three letters (/SWL). Eg.: CX3BZ/SWL. The ham call is recognized officially (FCC or each telecom body in any country) issues it. Exception are those countries where AROs are forbidden (Horacio Nigro Geolkiewsky, CX3BZ/SWL, Montevideo, Uruguay, ibid.) Horacio, Great idea! Here in the USA, the entry-level amateur radio license is the "Technician" license. Most every local amateur club (at least the clubs in my QTH) offer Technician license exams one Saturday every month. Plus, the Morse Code requirement has been dropped from all 3 license classes (Technician/General/Extra). 73 & Good DX, (Steve Ponder, N5WBI, Sent from my iPhone, ibid.) Never seen the need for a listener call-sign, despite my almost 50 years of listening. What does a call-sign prove? At least with an amateur call-sign, I can look it up on QRZ.com, and read more info on the amateur. These so-called "listener" calls seem very awkward to me, compared to amateur call-signs. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, BC, ibid.) The SWL callsigns are accepted by some DX Cluster-type applications where a call sign of some sort is required to log in (Andy K3UK O`Brien, ibid.) Ugh. Where do I start? If you want a "callsign," get a license. These things are nothing more than numbers and letters thrown together to make them look official. I agree with Walt Salminiw and others in saying that these things are of little use, as a hobbyist or professionally. OK, it's nice to hang upon the wall and have your friends and neighbors oooh and ah over, but eventually, the excitement just fades away. I honestly thought these things had gone the way of pet rocks, but I guess I'm sadly mistaken. Don't our various governments give us enough numbers and letters to remember? Social security numbers, weapons serial numbers, passport numbers, drivers' license numbers, license plate numbers, real callsigns, etc.? It's hard enough to remember all that! I don,t think stations would really care about them either, if you were writing for a QSL. The only plus side I see to all of this, is that it makes someone's job somewhere much easier when they can search a database of alphanumerics for your name, address and other biographical data. That, in and of itself, should be scary enough to give pause to anyone considering getting themselves assigned any more alphanumerics than they really need! 73 (Al Muick, KD3WU, ibid.) BAD LINE NOISE KICKED UP - SOLVED Hi All, I ran into a recent problem with line noise in the house that was really interfering with AM band reception. It seemed to start up about a week ago but I didn't notice anything out of order in the home. I took a Panasonic RF2200 tuned to 530 kHz and walked around the house, turning light switches on and off and noting any changes. The noise seemed strongest in one bathroom where I have two CFL lamps in the ceiling and I usually leave one running all the time for a night light. Sure enough when I turned off the one ceiling lamp running all the time the noise vanished. I never noticed any bad noise coming from a CFL lamp before but something must have degraded over time. The lamp looked to be normal brightness. I replaced it with a 60 W incandescent lamp and everything is fine now. The noise sounded like a raw switching power supply - really bad. Just goes to show don't overlook anything in the home when trying to trace a noise problem! I have also noticed noise coming from one of the newer LED bulbs before but it didn't spread into the whole house. Probably best to stick with incandescent lamps over CFLs for quietest AM band reception or else be aware the CFL lamps can go bad even if they seem quiet at first. 73 - (Todd WD4NGG Roberts, April 17, ABDX via DXLD) It must be nice to have an RF-2200! It has an excellent reputation. Has anyone ever put one up against a stock Sony ICF-2010? That would be interesting. 73 de WB6TNB (Dennis Gibson, ibid.) Glad you fixed your problem Todd. Line noise is so bad in my house as to render all my AM radios useless, and I still haven't found the source (John Cereghin WDX3IAO, Smyrna DE, ibid.) Interference can be a crazy thing. At least 25 years ago an elderly lady friend of mine had terrible crosshatching interference on her ancient vacuum tube TV. This was a UHF religious station way before cable, digital, satellite, etc. We're talking basic rabbit ears here! Since this was her favorite station she was beside herself because she could not watch the channel without horrible diagonal lines. Since the interference was solely limited to this one TV video signal I said it had to be a resonant source that was causing the problem. The apartment was fused and I unscrewed each fuse until the lines disappeared. I then disconnected every light and appliance on that circuit until the crosshatching went away. Turned out to be a chandelier in her dining room with multiple small night-light style bulbs in the fixture. After removing and replacing each in turn the culprit bulb reared it's head! After changing it out, no more interference! One stupid night-light bulb caused crazy UHF RF problems! I still shake my head! (toptyp19, ibid.) Have you tried turning off one circuit breaker at a time? That could help point you in the right direction (Dennis Gibson, ibid.) Hope you can fix your noise problem, John. There must be an explanation. Have you checked everything that is plugged in or turned on in your house? Bad street light? Have you tried walking around with a portable radio? Something coming from down the street somewhere or only in your house? 73 - (Todd WD4NGG Roberts, ibid.) Glad you fixed your problem Todd. Line noise is so bad in my house as to render all my AM radios useless, and I still haven't found the source (John Cereghin WDX3IAO, Smyrna DE, April 17, ibid.) I remember having to purge all the CFL lamps out of my old house. It wasn't easy, there were several in sneaky places like forgotten closets and attics. It took days to track them all down and replace with good old reliable incandescents. Now that the government is outlawing incandescents from higher wattages down, I am having to replace with high priced LED bulbs. No mercury filled, radio jamming CFL's in THIS house! (Bruce Carter, ibid.) I've never had RFI problems with CFL bulbs. But I'm gradually phasing them out in favor of incandescents because I have yet to find a brand of CFL that lasts anywhere near the advertised life span (Tim Kridel, ibid.) On the new LED bulbs - is it just a very local interference, or does it radiate father away, like the CFL's do as they age? J ("Sam Quantum Leap" toledohamradio, ibid.) Don't forget the LED lamps have switching supplies in them. I got an expensive Sylvania, and upon turning the lamp on FM reception went away. So did the AM. Though my CFLs make noise, but not as bad as these. I don't consider incandescent lighting reliable with bulbs made in China. There's Halogen to replace them, but don't ever leave them unattended. At End-of-Life they CAN explode and if they do, it can cause a fire. See warning on the box the lamps came in. The BETTER quality CFLs don't usually cause interference down the line. I have 3 that do, but they don't radiate in the air. One of them is my 85 watt (yes, it takes 85 watts ) 6700 lumen porch lamp. It is bright as a SuperNova. Two in my small bedroom were very noisy, but they are Sunbeam or Honeywell and that means they won't last long. And if I am in that room, I have on the incandescent over the NC-188 receiver. Linear fluorescents can get noisy as they age. If it is in a preheat (starter to start lamp) make sure the starter has a capacitor in it, as that will filter the line. Some instant start lamps with solid state ballasts can be noisy due to improperly filtered line inputs. The manual preheat as in desk lamps where you press a button to start the lamp can be a problem. A .01 at 600 volts or higher ceramic capacitor across the AC line will take care of that noise. Incandescent lighting is going away. Halogen lamps are the stop gap, but as I mentioned earlier, they run VERY hot and when they fail they can explode and therefore present a fire hazard as stated on the box. The new fad is LED lighting. To get them as bright as incandescent or CFL lighting they use switching power supplies in them and use higher wattage multiple LEDs and drive them VERY hard. These are noisy, and due to capacitors and other parts, they won't come close to rated hours. To get better CFL life they should never be in enclosed fixtures. Burning them base down gives the best life. GE and Sylvania ones give me the best life. I just retired a Sylvania CFL that had done over 30,000 hours. It was on the fixture off the back steps, mostly exposed to cold and the hot afternoon sun shone on it. It was on 24/7. It still worked. The plastic had degraded. I could not put an incandescent that bright in that fixture and not burn up the thing. If you have a fixture that is switched on and off on a frequent basis, a Halogen or incandescent (while you can get them) should be used. Since CFL lamps have a solid state "instant start" ballast, frequent switching will substantially reduce life of said lamps. I don't know about LED lamps, but they also run warm to hot so should not be in enclosed fixtures. At one time GE had a CFL that you could use in enclosed fixtures, but I have not seen these for some time. I expect it was too expensive, and everyone wants the CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAP bulbs, then whine and whine when they don't last. The 3 "U' shaped Philips lamps SL and SLS series (not made in China) lasted forever. Now they have Chinese made swirl lamps (Powell E Way III, ibid.) The newer LED bulb I tried was a 40W equivalent from Home Depot, Philips brand Made in China. Actual draw 10.5W. I use it in my garage door opener. I can hear a buzz from the lamp when I pull the car in the garage but it is only within a few feet of the lamp. It does not seem to get into the house wiring though. I figured it must have some kind of power supply inside to power the LEDs with DC. 73 - (Todd WD4NGG Roberts, ibid.) My $39 Sylvania covered the entire bedroom. I had put it in the lamp that sits across the National RX and yuck. The CFL never did that. So, I have a 43 watt Halogen in it. GE and VERY poor construction. I saw some clear ones where the Halogen capsule was leaning on the outer glass. That would be very festive shortly after it got hot! (Powell E Way, ibid.) I'm using incandescent in the shack, but a long term solution may be an LED lamp powered by the 12v shack supply through a simple circuit (I use an Alinco supply that is rf quiet). I'm guessing this would have to be homebrewed. I have a simple battery powered LED reading lamp that produces no interference. It wouldn't be bright enough for everyday use (Ef Johnson, ibid.) John - I have a similar situation. I traced the noise to the cable TV system. It's all over the cable to the TVs and the Modem. Also present on the telephone wires. Fortunately it all ends 2 feet outside the walls. Inside AM is not good at all, but in the shed and garage it's fine. I tried reporting this to the cable company and got as far as someone that reminded of "Peggy" in the credit card commercial (Mike AD1OS, ibid.) A lot of good info here, thanks Powell! Fact of the matter is that we need energy efficiency, we need safety, we need to reduce pollution of all kinds including RFI. The old 'lights of America' 1.5 watt LED bulbs I got a few years back from Walmart - [there are still some in stock at my local store] equal in light output to a 15 to 25 watt incadescent - created no noise whatsoever. I suspect they just had a resistor inside. I've had mixed reliability results with them - but a couple strong explanations - base up and enclosed fixture are bad for LED bulb life - and same goes with CFLs. No bulb wants to run hot but if there is no choice in the matter, your best bet are old fashioned incadescent bulbs. The guts that can get fried are in the base and heat rises, so that's why base down is good and base up is bad. The newer, high brightness LED bulbs I have - along with good quality CFLs - create lots of noise close in to the bulb but that noise dissapers once you get a radio about 3 feet away. To me, that's the sign of a good bulb - RFI is a necessary evil but good filters have been designed and implemented to keep the plague of RFI from traveling through the wiring. The only CFLs I've experienced that were truly bad were the one's used in hotel rooms - one would blanket the room. Of course, that also tends to be with desk and floor lamps with 2 wire wiring. Incadescent bulbs can cause interference too if they go bad or are defective. Whether CFL or LED - here are a few pointers: 1. try to buy quality - even if it costs a bit more - every time we buy a cheap poor quality product we are encouraging the making of junk. 2. make use of the warranty - that encourages quality - an avalanche of returned bulbs encourages making them better 3. base down whenever possible - base to the side is OK too 4. open fixtures - may need to get rid of some old enclosed fixtures in favour of newer fixtures that happen to be open - I've changed a few in our house 5. try to limit daily use of a particular LED bulb to no more than 3 to 4 hours continuous use - e.g. try to avoid letting it run 24/7 or all night. 6. keep tabs on your bulbs - LED, CFL and incadescent can start off good but sometimes go bad interference wise. 7. CFLs hate being turned on for 5 minutes then being turned off. Maybe another reason why hotel CFLs always make a mess of RFI. I think LED bulbs can be more tolerant of on/off cycles - given the use in vehicles for brake ligths, turn signal lights etc. Some other RFI tips: 1. try to encourage family members to unplug their chargers - phones, ipods, laptops etc. once the device is fully charged - not just for RFI - but for fire safety and longevity of the device. Some of these devices are RFI ok until some capacitor gets fried from too much heat and then they become a mini USSR style cold war jammer. 2. make sure fancy TVs and all their associated hardware etc. are plugged into good power bars with filtering etc. and are switched off when not in use - this saves electricity, makes the device last way longer, and reduces RFI. For things that have to run 24/7 like PVRs etc. have a switched and an unswitched power bar system. 3. today's bizarre RFI could be tomorrows' device burn out or even a fire - a few years back we had a ceiling fan that went wonky RFI wise. Bought a new fan, but before I put the new one in some smoke started coming from the old. Once the new one went in, the RGI and the smoke went away. 4. watch for bad wiring - including poorly wired fixtures, switches and sockets. Watch for bad wire nuts. Watch for aluminum wire not connected with the correct connectors. Once again, today's RFI at a connection spot could be tomorrow' s fire. My wife still thinks I'm a geek when I sniff around wiring with a pocket radio but she realizes that while very geeky, its a noble geekiness that not only spares me some RFI but could prevent a fire. Keep in mind that most incadescent bulbs will be phased out pretty soon. There will need to be some exceptions - the biggest one that comes to mind are oven lights!!! No LED or CFL can ever be used in an oven!!! Finally, the very best CFL is ... drumroll please - the Canadian Football League :) (Phil 'the RFI crusader' Rafuse, VY2PR, Stratford PE Canada, ibid.) Some of this is due to poor quality switching power supply 'bricks` used for modems, cable set boxes etc. The RFI then is carried along both the house wiring and the coax. Had lots of this in my crusade to tame Bell Aliant Fibre-Op 2.0. There are actually some good switching bricks out there among the turkeys. Slap on filters sometimes help - but both the AC input and the DC ouput of the brick needs filtering if the brick lacks good internal filtering or a filter cap is fried open. And, linear power supplies are good, but you gotta get the voltage right and they should always be over-rated amp wise. The goal of RFI reduction is - well - reduction. All too often it can't be eliminated - but when you can get the RFI down enough to DX again - you have every right to smile! (Phil Rafuse, ibid.) CommRadio CR-1 Has anyone run this CommRadio CR-1 radio? Looks like it has some potential and I might buy one. http://www.commradio.com/cr-1-communications-receiver/ (Craig Healy, Providence, RI, IRCA via DXLD) Subject: [IRCA] Fwd: [MDXC] CR-1 set up acct today, get $40 off Mon Craig, this might be of interest to you. (Todd Skaine, Woodbury, MN, ibid.) I guess I'll be ordering it in a few days. Coupon for free battery & free shipping, so only $500 total, go to commradio.com & sign up for newsletter to get the coupon. Coupon can be used starting Monday until 5/6. I called for clarification after getting the e-mail. Don is working on the manual. He's going to give me a couple BNC/PL-259 adapters & a pigtail. Foreign orders accepted starting 5/1 & price increase 5/31, $690 with battery & shipping. There's a very lengthy thread about this radio at radioreference.com/ under SDRs. They worked very hard to get the bugs out, so just about everything is as it should be. There will be free software upgrades. If you sign up for the newsletter today, you might get a coupon Monday for free battery & free shipping. He said to me in an e-mail we are having a special but I didn't notice it on the site, so I *hope* it is for all. commradio.com is the website. Don said the coupon is good until May 6th. Even if you don't get a coupon, it's $150 cheaper now than in June & Don will likely advertise the radio in QST. Don is selling them on eBay & through Universal Radio. I've been in contact with Don, I wrote him couple months ago requesting LW & a filter narrower than 1 kHz, so it has the 500 Hz filter & LW now (but no preselector for LW). A truly portable mini- communications receiver with 7 selectivities, only 1.75 lbs, internal battery is rechargable hundreds of times. Imagine taking this radio to a place with no noise, setting up antenna, selecting 500 Hz DSP IF filter LSB or USB and tuning in 10 Hz steps for traces of some very weak & distant stations (TAs, TPs). The MW sensitivity is not reduced compared to HF/SW, minimum discernible signal -125 dBm. I can't imagine anyone wanting to return it, but there is a 30 day return privilege, less shipping. Also nice it has FM BCB, NOAA weather, 2m & 440 MHz ham bands, though less sensitive -95 dBm on VHF/UHF. It should be lots of fun & I'm sure many will be sharing? their experiences. If anyone wants to call the owner, Don Moore 1-303-279- 3671, he's a great guy & will answer if he's there & also answers e- mails. He said he would also supply me with 2 BNC to PL-259 adapters & a pigtail, so I'll have no problem connecting my Quantum loops. It's for sale to buyers outside US beginning 5/1 & likely price increase to $690 including battery and shipping 5/31 (George Sherman, ibid.) RADIO DIRECTION FINDERS I always had a certain fascination for the marine radio direction finders. It is a technology which had a window of usefulness, from the late 1920's until the advent and proliferation of GPS in the 1980's and 1990's gradually made them obsolete. By the year 2000 the last marine radio beacons were decommissioned, and the radio direction finder became a piece of maritime electronic history. The only operating radio beacons are the ones still working out of airports. These will be phased out by about 2015, so enjoy them while they last. I am still able to clearly receive about 6 aero beacons from my home in Putnam County, NY, about 50 miles above NYC. After they are gone, it's AM Broadcast or nothing. There is a very concise list of them here. http://www.dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm There are a few manufacturers of RDF's today. Some are used as a hobby/sport, known as "Fox Hunting". Others are used in "man overboard" systems, where crew carry small transmitters on their person. Vecta makes such a unit today. But here is one which I find interesting, the Vector Finder, by National RF. It can be purchased in different frequency ranges, including the old marine radio beacon band! Below are some of the RDF's from my collection, grouped by major type. Some images are linked to a larger view. . . http://www.angelfire.com/space/proto57/rdf.html (via Terry L Krueger, FL, DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ LIGHTNING SCATTER PROPAGATION Bored? No E-skip? No tropo? Need something to do? Why not try Lightning Scatter? What you'll need: A good UHF antenna with a rotator. A receiver capable of tuning the upper UHF channels (frequencies) in SSB or CW mode. Another receiver to monitor for lightning events (an analog TV, tuned to channel 2, or a broadcast band radio, tuned to an open frequency, will work). A cluster of thunderstorms about 150 to 200 miles from you. A fairly high powered, upper UHF channel, DTV (or, if you're lucky, analog) station, 300 to 500 miles from you, in the same direction as the thunderstorms. Here's what I've been doing: As I type, I have the antennas aimed at KGAN 51/2 Cedar Rapids, IA. (420 miles) through a cluster of storms in eastern MO. Using the Icom R-7000 receiver, in SSB mode, I'm tuned to the DTV channel 51 pilot carrier frequency of 692.31. I also have the analog TV parked on channel 2 so I can watch the picture jump when lightning events occur. Via normal tropo scatter, I can hear a very weak carrier on the Icom receiver. During lightning events (as monitored with the analog TV) I hear a rapid, fluttery, enhancement of the DTV pilot signal. I've moved the antennas towards KPXE 51/50 Kansas City (365 miles) and I'm getting similar results (it's a large line of thunderstorms). A few weeks ago I did this with the antennas aimed through a cluster of storms in eastern TN. During the lightning events I could hear a chorus of channel 51 DTV pilot signals. Back in the days when there were plenty of high-powered UHF analog transmitters I'd actually get bursts of picture by using the Lightning Scatter mode. WGBO channel 66 near Chicago (350 mi) was my favorite Lightning Scatter, "guinea pig." I've tried this same Chicago path using WPWR 51/50 as the signal source and the Zenith DTT-901 DTV box as a receiver. I've seen the signal, "meter," on the DTT-901, jump to 1/3 scale during lightning events but have yet to get a decode out of it. I'll keep trying, though. Why the upper UHF channels? I've had the best luck with them over the years. Will this work with FM? Yes, so I've been told. (I don't pay any attention to FM). There's no shortage of thunderstorms this time of year so why not have some fun with them. Try it and see what happens. Share your results. 73, (Ed NN2E Phelps, Owner / Operator - Murphy's Law Test Site & Thunderstorm Proving Grounds, [Benton KY], WTFDA via DXLD) I've IDed two stations by LS on FM, one tentatively, from Burnt River ON. 104.9 yielded a clear JR-FM burst for CJKR Brockville ON as a storm was pretty well underway here. That's about 150 KM and it popped in and out very suddenly - in fact timing with a long sheet of lightning. I was using an indoor dipole. 106.9 - I don't think it's in my log but I recall being pretty sure I nailed Muskegon WMUS with a local reference or something. That's about 400 miles. It was also sudden and during a storm with same indoor antenna. I wasn't deliberately trying for LS - I think the radio just happened to be on an empty channel - probably taping for MS at the time - I often leave the radio on in the background while I'm doing other things and if I hear something I check the tape to see if it contains something IDable (Saul Chernos, Ont., ibid.) [vhfskip] RECENT F2 DX Hi folks, One new transmitter heard via F2 here is the 3rd harmonic of the KVM70 NOAA HF weather fax n Hawaii [ref 1], on 33.271 [11090+ kHz x 3. I wonder if that was the QRM we used to get to Radio Saint Helena Day? --- gh]. It's in most days, usually very weak, as early as 23 UT until as late as 0630 UT (then with eTEP qsb). The distance is about 6800 miles, similar to Cyprus, whose "jumpers" from 31 to 35 MHz are received here for hours in the last few weeks. On one afternoon I was able to receive both the 3rd harmonic and fundamental, and heard them both go off for 1 minute (and return). The frequency of the upper carrier in idle mode, 33.271083, is within 3 Hz of that calculated by multiplication from the fundamental. Also, on 38.9 there was a Chinese meteor radar using 500 Hz combs instead of the usual 430 or 440 Hz. It was in with Beijing's radar on 35.00 (440 Hz), so could be the new installation at 53N. The meteor radar at Biak, Indonesia (1S, 136E), 33.32, fades in around 0100 UT. Its frequency combs are the standard 2144 Hz spacing. This transmitter is also received well in Sydney at the same distance. The F2 conditions we have are such that the 24/7 carrier from Cooma, VK2 on 35.06996 (1900 miles) can only be received for short periods. So far I've heard nothing this cycle above this frequency via F2 from the east (or west). Regards, Tony Mann, 32S, 116E [Western Australia] ref 1: http://goughlui.com/?p=1638 -- (via Tim Bucknall, Congleton, UK, harmonics yg via DXLD) See also INTERNATIONAL VACUUM Propagation outlook from PIG F. K. Janda, OK1HH: Weekly forecasts from Ondrejov for the period April 19 - May 13, 2013 Solar activity forecast for the period April 19 - 25, 2013 Activity level: mostly very low to low X-ray background flux (1.0-8.0 A): in the range B1.0-B4.0 Radio flux (10.7 cm): a fluctuation in the range 90-120 f.u. Events: class C (0-8/day), class M (0-2/period), class X (0/period), proton (0-1/period) Relative sunspot number (Ri): in the range 25-75 Astronomical Institute, Solar Dept., Ondrejov, Czech Republic e-mail: sunwatch(at)asu.cas.cz (RWC Prague) ______________________________ Geomagnetic activity forecast for the period April 19 - May 13, 2013 Geomagnetic field will be: quiet on April 20, May 1 - 4, 6 - 7, 9, mostly quiet on April 21, 29 - 30, May 5, 8, 10, May 13, quiet to unsettled on April 19, 22, 27 - 28, May 11 - 12 quiet to active on April 23, 25 active to disturbed on April 24, 26 High probability of changes in solar wind which may cause changes in magnetosphere and ionosphere is expected on April 20 - 21, 24 - 27 (max. on 26), May 4, 9 - 14 (max. on 11). Remarks: - Parenthesis means lower probability of activity enhancement. - If during present year solar activity will not reach a similar or higher level as in November 2011, then 2012 will remain to be the maximum of 24 cycle (R = 70) - and vice versa. F. K. Janda, OK1HH, Czech Propagation Interest Group (OK1HH & OK1MGW, weekly forecasts since 1978) e-mail: ok1hh(at)rsys.cz (via Dario Monferini, DXLD) SOLAR MAX PROGRAMME ON BBC RADIO 4 Next TUESDAY (23rd April at 11.00am) Repeated THURSDAY (25th April at 9.00pm) [TIMES BST] SOLAR MAX Programme about Maximum Sunspot period by Astronomer Lucie Green - Astronomer{Just under 30 Minutes} BBC Radio 4 All Normal Wavelengths and I presume BBC iPlayer for 7 Days thereafter Source:- Radio Times Dated 20th to 26th April 2013 (Ken Fletcher, P-Code CH43 5RG, BDXC UK yg via DXLD) There was a really interesting programme yesterday which almost passed un-noticed. It was at 11 am and was called "Solar Max": "As we approach 'solar max', when the sun is at its most active and ferocious, astronomer Lucie Green investigates the hidden dangers our nearest star poses to us on Earth. "In March 1989, a solar superstorm brought down Quebec's power grid. Six million people were without light and heat, as outside temperatures sank to -15C. After the winter sunrise, subway trains sat still, traffic lights went off and petrol pumps stopped delivering fuel. "Two days earlier, a giant bubble of plasma had burst from the surface of Sun traveling at millions of miles per hour. It hit the Earth and disrupted our magnetic field, creating electric currents which knocked out power grids in Canada for nine hours and even damaged two transformers here in the UK. "Now, almost a quarter of a century later, our reliance on technology that's vulnerable to solar attack is even higher, from GPS to satellites. 'Severe space weather' is the newest threat to be added to the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies. The potential impacts of solar superstorm could be far-ranging, causing national blackouts, shutting airspace and interrupting financial transactions. "Lucie Green looks at what UK industry is doing to minimise the risks from solar superstorms. She visits the newly opened Space Weather Forecasting area at the Met Office and talks to engineers at the National Grid to find out how they are preparing for 'the big one'. "But with so many national hazards to deal with, from flooding to pandemic flu, how much importance should we place on solar storms?" If you are interested in hearing it, go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s09z3 (Andrew Tett, April 24, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Re: Listen to BBC Radio 4 programme about solar superstorms This might also be of interest: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s09zw - a little bit on early radio. 73, (Martin A Hall, Scotland, MWCircle yg via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2013 Apr 22 0431 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 15 - 21 April 2013 Solar activity was at low levels during the period. The first half of the period (15 - 18 April) was dominated with mostly low-level C-class activity from Regions 1719 (N11, L=077, class/area Eki/290 on 12 April) and 1723 (S18, L=001, class/area Dai/200 on 17 April). The largest event during this time frame was a long duration C6 at 18/1823 UTC from Region 1719. Associated with the event was a Type II signature with an estimated plane-of-sky speed of 1273 km/s and a coronal mass ejection (CME) observed off the west limb. The remainder of the period (19 - 21 April) witnessed the rapid emergence on the disk of Region 1726 (N12, L=326, class/area Ekc/260 on 21 April). During this time frame, Region 1726 produced a total of 20 C-class flares. The largest flare was a C4/Sf at 21/1838 UTC. At the time of this report, Region 1726 was continuing its growth phase and maintaining its complex beta-gamma-delta magnetic configuration. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. However, the greater than 10 MeV proton flux increased slightly above background levels beginning at about 21/1005 UTC and peaked at about 3 pfu at 21/1640 UTC. The enhancement was likely triggered by activity beyond the west limb from old Region 1719 (N11, L=077). The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal to moderate levels. Geomagnetic field activity was at predominately quiet levels with an isolated unsettled reading observed during the period 15/1800 - 2100 UTC. The period began under the waning influence of a weak CME. Solar wind speeds were at mostly nominal levels, beginning the period near 450 km/s and exhibited a steady decline to end the period at about 285 km/s. Total interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) readings ranged from a high of 12 nT early on 15 April, declined to 4 nT by early on 16 April and varied between 4 - 6 nT for the remainder of the period. The Bz component of the IMF ranged from +11 nT early on 15 April and declined to about +5 nT by midday on 15 April. Through the remainder of the period, Bz did not vary much beyond +/-4 nT. The Phi angle was in a negative (toward) orientation through early on 16 April and switched to a predominately positive (away) orientation through about 20/1900 UTC when it became variable through the remainder of the period. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 22 APRIL - 18 MAY 2013 Solar activity is expected to be at predominately low levels through the outlook period. A chance for M-class activity and a slight chance for x-class activity exists due to active regions that currently populate the visible disk and active regions due to rotate onto the disk throughout the outlook period. A slight chance for a 10 MeV proton event at geosynchronous orbit is possible due to active regions that currently populate the visible disk and active regions due to rotate onto the disk throughout the outlook period.. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at moderate to high levels from 24 April - 02 May in the wake of a coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). Normal to moderate levels will predominate from 03 - 18 May. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels on 22 April in response to a possible glancing blow from the 18 April CME. Mostly unsettled to active levels with isolated minor storm periods are possible from 23 - 26 April due to recurrent (CH HSS) effects. Predominately quiet levels are expected from 27 April - 18 May. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2013 Apr 22 0431 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 2013-04-22 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2013 Apr 22 110 8 3 2013 Apr 23 120 12 4 2013 Apr 24 115 12 4 2013 Apr 25 120 15 4 2013 Apr 26 110 12 4 2013 Apr 27 110 5 2 2013 Apr 28 110 5 2 2013 Apr 29 115 5 2 2013 Apr 30 115 5 2 2013 May 01 120 5 2 2013 May 02 125 5 2 2013 May 03 125 5 2 2013 May 04 125 5 2 2013 May 05 125 5 2 2013 May 06 120 5 2 2013 May 07 115 5 2 2013 May 08 115 5 2 2013 May 09 120 5 2 2013 May 10 120 5 2 2013 May 11 120 5 2 2013 May 12 115 5 2 2013 May 13 115 5 2 2013 May 14 110 5 2 2013 May 15 110 5 2 2013 May 16 105 5 2 2013 May 17 105 5 2 2013 May 18 105 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD) SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: SPACE WEATHER IMPACTS SURVEY The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has been asked to make you aware of a space weather survey being conducted by the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Lab (LMSAL). By participating in this survey, you can provide valuable feedback that may enhance space weather information and services and improve civil society's long-term resilience to the impacts of the space environment. This survey will help LMSAL evaluate which sectors of society are impacted by space weather and how severe the impacts are. LMSAL will provide the results to anyone who requests them and will publish the key findings of the survey for general use and make it publicly available to assist in assessing the value and importance of space weather services. SWPC has not sponsored this survey nor is it involved in any way other than to provide notice of its existence. The survey is completely anonymous - no respondent information will be tracked - and will be used only to assess the impacts of space weather. You can access the survey by visiting http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1207430/impacts-of-space-weather (SWPC mailing list April 23 via DXLD) ###