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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1667 headlines: *DX and station news about: Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Israel, Korea North, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Netherlands non, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Sarawak non, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Taiwan, Tannu Tuva, USA SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1667, May 2-8, 2013 Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 2100 WTWW 9479 [confirmed] Fri 0328v WWRB 3195 [confirmed] Sat 0130v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1500 WRMI 9955 Sat 2330v WTWW 9930 [aired 1666 instead at 2305] Sun 0400 WTWW 5830 [confirmed] Sun 2330v WTWW 9930 [aired 1666 instead] Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or maybe 1668 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 ORLD 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/ ** ALBANIA. Hello everyone, Radio Tirana with excellent signal and modulation to North America tonight at 0130 UT in English on 9850; really nice to hear them with such a good signal. Hope the modulation and signal keeps up! Interval signal, ID by woman and then news read by a man. 73 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, UT April 27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALGERIA. Bechar site news --- Re: Google Earth new SW installation at RTA Bechar site next to 153 kHz LW site at 2 x 600 kW = 1200 kW: SW erected now, as explained on their website. ALG Bechar MW 576 kHz 837 kHz 400d / 90n kW n20kW 130m mass SW Bechar 135 degree image of 18 February 2013 31 33'42.39"N 02 20'16.66"W either MW 837 kHz or 3 mast SW mast to have 135 degree direction equipment? Nothing visible at Qargla 206 degrees installation - yet. 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, April 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALGERIA [non]. 7295, April 25 at 0503-0505, rather repetitive martial music is playing from RTA via FRANCE, suspect national anthem; 0505 on to other programming, just one audio for a change (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ALGERIA (via France), S/on of Koran program 0400 4/28 on 7295, time pips, National Anthem and then into morning prayer call in Arabic. Also heard 4/29 at same time, but weaker (Chuck Albertson, Seattle, Wash., Sony ICF-2010 and squalid apartment balcony long-wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. Feedback en Youtube --- Pequeñas satisfacciones que aporta el tener un canal dedicado al DX en Youtube. http://cx2abp.blogspot.com/2013/05/feedback-interesante-en-youtube.html (Rodolfo Tizzi, http://cx2abp.blogspot.com/ May 1, condiglista yg via DXLD) Mirta también escribió en comentarios de la página correspondiente a Arcángel San gabriel, en mi blog le hicimos repreguntas, pero nunca más contestó. Escribí a la Fundación Marambio, hace unas semanas, por si tenían alguna novedad sobre LRA36, y hasta ahora nada (Horacio Nigro. Montevideo, Uruguay, ibid.) Good article and follows-up but nothing recently new there (gh) Yo mandé consultas también a la Fundación Marambio y me contestaron, pero sin decirme nada preciso. Aparentemente el repuesto que le hace falta a LRA36 nunca llegó (Arnaldo Slaen, ibid.) Apparently the replacement part needed never arrived, he says (gh) Recuerdo que en su momento se habló algo al respecto de un repuesto para la emisora pero luego aparentemente todo se dejó caer y quedó en la cuenta del olvido (Rodolfo Tizzi, ibid.) Fell into oblivion ** ARGENTINA. 15344.72, RAE, General Pacheco. Portuguese programming with songs and chats 1115, fair. Also noted at 2048, although very weak at this time. 1/4 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, Vic (Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Double Bazooka antennas for 80 and 40 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), May Australian DX News via DXLD) 15345, Radio al Exterior; 2149-2202+, 24-Apr; Tune in to Spanish balada; RAE & noticias promos at 2155, into Spanish news; Full ID at 2200+ and continued in Spanish. SIO=2+52+; may be slightly below 15345 (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) 11710.732, Very ODD frequency signal of RAE Buenos Aires in French language about South American culture feature report, S=9 strength here in southern Germany at 0357 UT Apr 26. \\ co-channel IRIB Kamalabad in Spanish, and - tentatively Chinese sounded radio program (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 26 via DXLD) Odd, but RAE is always off-frequency around 11710.7 (gh, DXLD) ** ASCENSION. BBC & RENEWABLE POWER [wind replacing diesel]: http://www.ricardo-aea.com/cms/assets/SIRS/BBC-Renewable-Power-on-Ascension-Island.pdf (Olaf Biese, Germany, A-DX Apr 2 via BC-DX 26 April via DXLD) ** ASIA [non]. More and more frequency changes of IBB, all NFs: Radio Free Asia [note: this is all about making the schedule extremely complex in Chinese and Tibetan, depending on day of week, presumably to avoid jamming: but by publishing the exact details, all the ChiCom have to do is go by it --- unless it is disinformation. It would be much more effective to switch around randomly, tho bad for listeners, gh] 0100-0200 17505 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg CeAs Tibetan Mon, ex daily 0100-0200 17510 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg CeAs Tibetan Fri, ex 17505 0100-0200 17515 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg CeAs Tibetan Tue, ex 17505 0100-0200 17520 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg CeAs Tibetan Sat, ex 17505 0100-0200 17525 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg CeAs Tibetan Wed, ex 17505 0100-0200 17530 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg CeAs Tibetan Sun, ex 17505 0100-0200 17535 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg CeAs Tibetan Thu, ex 17505 0300-0400 17490 TIN 250 kW / 279 deg EaAs Chinese Mon, ex 17485 0300-0400 17495 TIN 250 kW / 279 deg EaAs Chinese Fri, ex 17485 0300-0400 17500 TIN 250 kW / 279 deg EaAs Chinese Tue, ex 17485 0300-0400 17520 TIN 250 kW / 279 deg EaAs Chinese Wed, ex 17485 0300-0400 17525 TIN 250 kW / 279 deg EaAs Chinese Sat, ex 17485 0300-0400 17530 TIN 250 kW / 279 deg EaAs Chinese Thu, ex 17485 0300-0400 17615 TIN 250 kW / 279 deg EaAs Chinese Sun, ex 17485 0400-0500 21455 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg EaAs Chinese Mon, ex 21480 0400-0500 21465 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg EaAs Chinese Wed, ex 21480 0400-0500 21475 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg EaAs Chinese Tue, ex 21480 0400-0500 21485 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg EaAs Chinese Thu, ex 21480 0400-0500 21495 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg EaAs Chinese Sat, ex 21480 0400-0500 21505 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg EaAs Chinese Fri, ex 21480 0400-0500 21520 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg EaAs Chinese Sun, ex 21480 0500-0600 21460 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg EaAs Chinese Mon, ex 21710 0500-0600 21470 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg EaAs Chinese Tue, ex 21710 0500-0600 21480 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg EaAs Chinese Wed, ex 21710 0500-0600 21510 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg EaAs Chinese Thu, ex 21710 0500-0600 21530 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg EaAs Chinese Fri, ex 21710 0500-0600 21540 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg EaAs Chinese Sun, ex 21710 0500-0600 21550 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg EaAs Chinese Sat, ex 21710 0600-0700 17790 SAI 100 kW / 310 deg EaAs Chinese Mon/Wed/Fri ex 17855 0600-0700 17795 SAI 100 kW / 310 deg EaAs Chinese Sat, ex 17855 0600-0700 17805 SAI 100 kW / 310 deg EaAs Chinese Tue/Thu, ex 17855 0600-0700 17810 SAI 100 kW / 310 deg EaAs Chinese Sun, ex 17855 0600-0700 21500 TIN 250 kW / 297 deg CeAs Tibetan Mon, ex daily 0600-0700 21515 TIN 250 kW / 297 deg CeAs Tibetan Tue, ex 21500 0600-0700 21530 TIN 250 kW / 297 deg CeAs Tibetan Wed, ex 21500 0600-0700 21540 TIN 250 kW / 297 deg CeAs Tibetan Thu, ex 21500 0600-0700 21550 TIN 250 kW / 297 deg CeAs Tibetan Fri, ex 21500 0600-0700 21565 TIN 250 kW / 297 deg CeAs Tibetan Sat, ex 21500 0600-0700 21575 TIN 250 kW / 297 deg CeAs Tibetan Sun, ex 21500 1000-1100 15320 TIN 250 kW / 297 deg CeAs Tibetan Mon, ex 15435 1000-1100 15330 TIN 250 kW / 297 deg CeAs Tibetan Tue, ex 15435 1000-1100 15340 TIN 250 kW / 297 deg CeAs Tibetan Wed, ex 15435 1000-1100 15600 TIN 250 kW / 297 deg CeAs Tibetan Thu/Sun, ex 15435 1000-1100 15620 TIN 250 kW / 297 deg CeAs Tibetan Fri, ex 15435 1000-1100 15650 TIN 250 kW / 297 deg CeAs Tibetan Sat, ex 15435 1400-1500 11520 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg EaAs Cantonese Thu, ex 11715 1400-1500 11590 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg EaAs Cantonese Fri/Sun, ex 11715 1400-1500 11715 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg EaAs Cantonese Wed, ex daily 1400-1500 12095 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg EaAs Cantonese Mon/Sat, ex 11715 1400-1500 12140 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg EaAs Cantonese Tue, ex 11715 1500-1600 13790 TIN 250 kW / 303 deg EaAs Chinese Sat, ex 13855 1500-1600 13795 TIN 250 kW / 303 deg EaAs Chinese Tue/Thu, ex 13855 1500-1600 13805 TIN 250 kW / 303 deg EaAs Chinese Mon/Wed/Fri ex 13855 1500-1600 13805 TIN 250 kW / 303 deg EaAs Chinese Sun, ex 13855 1600-1700 15340 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg EaAs Chinese Tue, ex 15435 1600-1700 15380 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg EaAs Chinese Mon, ex 15435 1600-1700 15385 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg EaAs Chinese Wed, ex 15435 1600-1700 15390 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg EaAs Chinese Fri, ex 15435 1600-1700 15395 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg EaAs Chinese Sun, ex 15435 1600-1700 15405 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg EaAs Chinese Thu, ex 15435 1600-1700 15410 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg EaAs Chinese Sat, ex 15435 1800-1900 11555 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg EaAs Chinese Mon/Wed/Fri ex 11545 1800-1900 11590 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg EaAs Chinese Tue/Thu, ex 11545 1800-1900 11600 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg EaAs Chinese Sat, ex 11545 1800-1900 11605 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg EaAs Chinese Sun, ex 11545 1900-2000 9745 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg EaAs Chinese Sat, ex daily 1900-2000 9775 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg EaAs Chinese Mon/Wed/Fri, ex 9745 1900-2000 9780 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg EaAs Chinese Tue/Thu, ex 9745 1900-2000 9825 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg EaAs Chinese Sun, ex 9745 2200-2300 9345 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg CeAs Tibetan Sun, ex 9880 2200-2300 9360 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg CeAs Tibetan Sat, ex 9880 2200-2300 9370 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg CeAs Tibetan Fri, ex 9880 2200-2300 9510 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg CeAs Tibetan Thu, ex 9880 2200-2300 9625 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg CeAs Tibetan Wed, ex 9880 2200-2300 9720 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg CeAs Tibetan Tue, ex 9880 2200-2300 9735 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg CeAs Tibetan Mon, ex 9880 2200-2300 15110 TIN 250 kW / 280 deg EaAs Cantonese Thu, ex 15290 2200-2300 15120 TIN 250 kW / 280 deg EaAs Cantonese Fri, ex 15290 2200-2300 15130 TIN 250 kW / 280 deg EaAs Cantonese Sat, ex 15290 2200-2300 15140 TIN 250 kW / 280 deg EaAs Cantonese Sun, ex 15290 2200-2300 15150 TIN 250 kW / 280 deg EaAs Cantonese Mon, ex 15290 2200-2300 15160 TIN 250 kW / 280 deg EaAs Cantonese Tue, ex 15290 2200-2300 15170 TIN 250 kW / 280 deg EaAs Cantonese Wed, ex 15290 2300-2400 15535 TIN 250 kW / 321 deg EaAs Chinese Mon, ex 15430 2300-2400 15545 TIN 250 kW / 321 deg EaAs Chinese Wed, ex 15430 2300-2400 15555 TIN 250 kW / 321 deg EaAs Chinese Tue, ex 15430 2300-2400 15570 TIN 250 kW / 321 deg EaAs Chinese Fri, ex 15430 2300-2400 15580 TIN 250 kW / 321 deg EaAs Chinese Sat, ex 15430 2300-2400 15590 TIN 250 kW / 321 deg EaAs Chinese Thu, ex 15430 2300-2400 15610 TIN 250 kW / 321 deg EaAs Chinese Sun, ex 15430 2315-2400 9335 KWT 250 kW / 080 deg CeAs Tibetan Mon/Wed/Fri, ex 9900 2315-2400 9355 KWT 250 kW / 080 deg CeAs Tibetan Tue/Thu, ex 9900 2315-2400 9930 KWT 250 kW / 080 deg CeAs Tibetan Sun, ex 9900 2315-2400 9945 KWT 250 kW / 080 deg CeAs Tibetan Sat, ex 9900 (DX RE MIX NEWS #778 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 30, 2013 via DXLD) Hi all, RFA is happy to announce our next QSL card. This is the second card in our series on IBB relay site used by RFA. This card highlights IBB Saipan. Please see the attached .DOCX or .PDF for more details Radio Free Asia (RFA) announces the release of the second QSL card in the series highlighting the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) transmitter sites used for RFA programming. RFA programs are broadcast from the following IBB sites: Biblis, Iranawilla, Kuwait, Lampertheim, Saipan and Tinian. The 7.4 acre Saipan site has three curtain antennas with main beam bore sights of 195, 270 and 340 degrees. These antennas can be electronically slewed horizontally. IBB Saipan is equipped with 3 high-power shortwave transmitters that carry RFA’s programming to China, Korea, Southeast Asia, and Tibet. This is RFA’s 50th QSL overall and will be used to confirm all valid RFA reception reports from May 1-August 31, 2013 (RFA mailing list via Juan Franco Crespo, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. AUSTRÁLIA, 2325, VL8T, Tennant Creek, Territ.º do Norte, 2108-2130*, 25/4, inglês, canções, texto; 25331. Emissão não // com a VL8K, em 2485, mas sim não com a VL8A, em 4835, que há já longos meses não surge em 2310 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2325, April 30 at 1138, music audible at very poor level, but anything at all from VL8T is welcome one minute before sunrise here: no way Radio Symban with 1/50 the power is going to make it on 2368.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) VL8K, 2325 kHz, 1045 UT May 1. OM announcer playing pop music, including China Grove and John Lennon's Watching the Wheels. Parallel to 2485 and 4835, the latter of the three being the best signal here in central Iowa in spite of WWCR on 4840. 2485 was audible, but suffered from a progressively worsening QRM (Tim in Luther IA, Rahto, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 2368.5, R. Symban, Peats Ridge. Appear to have fixed their transmitter problems! Noted back here with a strong signal at 1900 with Pacific Island languages programming. 30/3 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, Vic (Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Double Bazooka antennas for 80 and 40 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), May Australian DX News via DXLD) 2368.48, Radio Symban. What a difference 24 hours makes! April 25 only heard with below threshold level open carrier. This needs to be checked daily to catch those special days when the propagation is just right for decent reception. Certainly not heard every day! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2368.477, R Symban (presumed), April 26, 2013 at 1110, Carrier peaking, able to accurately measure frequency. While I could hear music and talking, there was not enough coherence to log program details or make an ID. Static crashes and atmospheric noise. Many peaks, deep fades. Interestingly, the Aussie domestic services were listenable, except ABC NT, which was banging in. Carrier faded at my sunrise (Mike Gilchrist in rural EC Iowa, April 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 2485, ABC Northern Territory, 33232, In Aussie, Friday night cricket. If it weren't for severe static crashes, this would be like listening to a semi-local station here. Continued after my sunrise, which is a typical winter event here (Mike Gilchrist in rural EC Iowa, April 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 4835, VL8A Alice Springs, 1230-1300+ Apr 25 - ABC National News to 1235, then chat segment going past ToH. Fair signal at 1230 but fading away by 1300 (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, dxingwithcumbre yg via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 9475, April 25 at 1029, drumming from RA, Tok Pisin timechex for Cook Islands and 8:30 in PNG, numbers pronounced in English, news theme and news, something about Gallipoli in 1915y. It`s always fun to try to understand TP with all its `blongs`. VG signal here on 30 degree beam from Shep, much better than // 9710 which is 353. Aoki shows both run Pidgin at 09-10 daily, and 10-11 M-F, weekends in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 25 April: Anzac Day, DU's commemoration of war dead, on date of the initial landings at Gallipoli in 1915 (Theo Donnelly, New Zealand And Canada, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11665, Radio Australia; *1259-1301+, 25-Apr; On suddenly with English ID and Summer in Australia spot; into Chinese at 1300. SIO=3+43+ Covered Malaysia? (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! WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 11665, May 1 at 1310, CCI between Chinese and presumed Malay, as for A-13, RA moved its 1300-1430 Chinese service (and English 1430-1530) from 11660 to 11665 (presumably because CRI is now registered on 11660), but what about poor MALAYSIA, which has been on 11665 up to 24 hours a day with the Wai and Sarawak FM relays from the peninsular mainland back to Borneo? RA`s move-in would surely cause a collision not only here but in the SE Asian target area. Compared to RA Chinese via PALAU on 9965, which is clear and a few seconds behind 11665 from Shepparton. Not sure if the Malaysian 11665 transmitter is // 9835, but a similar-sounding song was playing. I think they are normally different networks, Sarawak FM on 9835 and Wai FM on 11665 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 15340, April 30 at 1217, HCJB is very good with gospel rock song, 1220 Indonesian talk, as confirmed in Aoki, daily 1145-1230 except Sundays 1200-1230 in Malayalam (which has nothing to do with Malay or Malaya or Malaysia, despite the scheduling). 15400 not yet on, until *1225:15 with ``programmes on this frequency will commence shortly`` loop, and a variety of music. It seems that like its progenitor in Ecuador, HCJB Australia isn`t interested in establishing a particular oft-played interval signal (how about ``Tie Me Kangaroo Down``? Perhaps too light for the serious business of convincing heathen Asians that their original religions are nonsense). 1230 official sign-on of S Asian service, starting with English. This is the semi-hour proving that two transmitters are operational in Kununurra, and habitually both heard very well now, longpath? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. UNIDENTIFIED. 5755.0, April 25 at 1152, as I am tuning up by MHz to compare the offset of MICRONESIA 4755+, I cross a very weak carrier here. Could be an OOB broadcast station, but none currently listed in HFCC or Aoki; however, EiBi who also includes some utilities, has: 5755 1100-1715 AUS VMW Wiluna Met Fax Oc w Did not hear any faxy sounds, just steady carrier, so maybe between weather map transmissions. 5755, April 26 at 1224, now fax sounds are audible, so VMW Wiluna WA as in EiBi. 12365-USB, May 1 at 1348, poor signal with marine weather in Aussie robo-accent; altho well-enunciated, never can copy names of locations, but frequent references to knots. Even weaker signal with same voice but not // on 12362-USB causes QRM to 12365 on the FRG-7`s wide bandwidth. At 1355, 12362 apparently IDs and gives schedule with times and kHz, and both stop. Then 12365 resumes with a different voice. EiBi shows 12365 is VMC Charleville, Queensland, while 12362 is VMW [not VLW as typoed in original report], its sibling station from Wiluna, Western Australia (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Australia 1988, Queensland AM Retro Radio Dial Radio Heritage Foundation http://www.radioheritage.com April 27 2013 Media Release ____________________ A fascinating look back 25 years ago to 1988 and radio stations that could be heard in Queensland Australia has just been released by the Radio Heritage Foundation at http://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 Queensland 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 also includes features exploring radio as early as 1928 in California, Japan and Shanghai in 1941, Hawaii in 1961, Idaho and Texas in 1963, ACT/NSW and Victoria/Tasmania Australia in 1988 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 http://www.radioheritage.com is free. Come along and visit the Queensland 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, http://www.radioheritage.com The Global Radio Memories Project 'where today's people connect with yesterdays radio' May 1 2013 Media Release Australia 1988 South Australia/Northern Territory AM Retro Radio Dial ____________________ A fascinating look back 25 years ago to 1988 and radio stations that could be heard in SA/NT Australia has just been released by the Radio Heritage Foundation at http://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 SA/NT 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 also includes features exploring radio as early as 1928 in California, Japan and Shanghai in 1941, Hawaii in 1961, Idaho and Texas in 1963, ACT/NSW, Victoria/Tasmania & Queensland Australia in 1988 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 http://www.radioheritage.com is free. Come along and visit the SA/NT 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 http://www.radioheritage.com The Global Radio Memories Project 'where today's people connect with yesterday`s radio' (David Ricquish, RHF PR via DXLD) ** AZERBAIJAN. 9677, V Talishistan, poor carrier at 0900 but no content! (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 1, R75 with 2x16inv V and HF150 with 16 m horizontal antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AZERBAIJAN [and non]. US-FUNDED RFE/RL ALLEGES "THREATS" AGAINST AZERI REPORTERS | Text of report by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty website on 26 April Washington: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reports persistent campaigns of intimidation against two of its Radio Azadliq journalists, Xadica Ismayilova and Yafiz Hasanov, in retaliation for their reporting. The threats to these Azerbaijan Service reporters come days before a UN-mandated review of Azerbaijan's human rights performance and months ahead of presidential elections that President Ilham Aliyev has pledged will be free and fair. In a return to the defamation tactics that targeted Ismayilova in March 2012, on 25 April, a pro-government website posted a pornographic video that was fabricated to portray Ismayilova engaging in sexual acts. Ismayilova's investigative reports for RFE/RL, which earned her the 2012 International Women's Media Foundation's "Courage in Journalism" award, have implicated the president's family in financial activities and arrangements worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Over the past two weeks, Hasanov, who was abducted and threatened in [the autonomous Azeri exclave of] Naxcivan in August 2011 following his investigation into the death of Turac Zeynalov and who was threatened by text, email and social media in November 2012, has been targeted in new incidents that he believes are intended to silence him. On April 4, a package was sent to Hasanov's home with documents that suggested he was having illicit relationships with several women. Soon after, Hasanov received a call from a man who identified himself as an agent of the Naxcivan Ministry of National Security (MNS), who recited orders from Naxcivan regional governor Vasif Talibov to cooperate with MNS. The caller also warned that if Hasanov reported on Naxcivan again he would be "exposed" and his life and the lives of his family members would be in danger. On 19 April, the pro-government internet TV station "Ses" aired recordings of cellphone conversations between Hasanov and residents of Naxcivan that Azerbaijan's Media Rights Institution told the website contact.az could only have been obtained from the country's security services. In addition, three close relatives of Radio Azadliq's Baku Bureau chief Babek Bakirov were dismissed from their jobs on 11 April, an act Bagirov said was reprisal for his work and as an effort to intimidate him and other bureau employees. Azerbaijan Service director Kenan Aliyev called these latest attacks shameful and said, "An attack against Xadica and Yafiz and any of our journalists is an attack against the entire Radio Azadliq staff and an attack against all independent voices in Azerbaijan." "These are actions of a deliberate and serious nature that the Azeri authorities must take very seriously, especially since many directly or indirectly suggest the involvement or endorsement of official Azeri entities and agents," said Kevin Klose, acting president and CEO of RFE/RL. "Yafiz and Xadica are exercising their rights and professional duties as journalists and, as a journalists, their well-being is a matter of public and societal concern. I urge the Azeri authorities and President Aliyev personally to take steps immediately to stop the threats." Naxcivan, an autonomous republic of Azerbaijan, is an exclave bordered by Iran to the west and Armenia to the east, and Radio Azadliq is one of the only media organizations reporting on the region. Azerbaijan will hold presidential elections in October in which President Ilham Aliyev will run for a third consecutive term. A joint statement issued in March by the Committee to Protect Journalists and leading international press freedom and human rights groups condemns the recent imprisonment of at least seven journalists in Azerbaijan, criticizes recent government attempts to restrict local press freedom groups and on-line expression and warns that such a crackdown threatens the integrity of the October polls. Freedom House characterizes Azerbaijan as "not free" and ranked it 172 out of 197 countries surveyed in its 2012 Freedom of the Press Index. The Reporters Without Borders 2013 Press Freedom Index placed Azerbaijan at 156 on a scale of 179 countries. Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty website, Washington D.C., in English 0000 gmt 26 Apr 13 (via BBCM via DXLD) ** BAHRAIN. 9745, R. Bahrain. Arabic at 0135 on 16/4 with pop songs in Arabic, but seems there is not on 6010 already English program (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF 2001D ant Folded Marconi own made), May Australian DX News via DXLD) 30 April 2013, 2243: Radio Bahrain on 9745, Carrier+USB, with Arab popmusic, no announcement, pretty good today (35322). (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, Perseus SDR + DX-10 Pro active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 15505, Bangladesh Betar *1512-1545* Apr 23 Open carrier at 1511, then 2 minutes of IS, s/on in listed Hindi, then usual mix of talk and music. Closedown and off at 1545. Good (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, dxingwithcumbre yg via DXLD) 15505, April 25 at 1357:25 tune-in, BB already on with hum and tone; 1358:40 IS with hum; timesignal ends at 1359:39, opening Urdu, poor- fair today but better than most other 19m weaksigs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15505, 25/Apr 1407, Bangladesh Betar in Urdu. OM talk. At 1410 quick local music, then YL talk. Good signal, but like Glenn, modulation with strong hum. Listening in SDR, Twente. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15505, April 26 at 1359 tune-in, just in time to hear a few iterations of the BB IS, and timesignal ending at 1359:40.5, opening Urdu; very poor, but somewhat impressive considering very degraded hi-latitude propagation conditions; even lo-latitude HCJB Australia 15400 was quite weaker than usual. 15505, April 27 at *1359:24, Bangladesh Betar carrier on late, no time for tone or IS, or even TS, 1359:46 joining sign-on announcement in Urdu; fair with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) NOT 1559+ as in original report 15505, Bangladesh Betar, *1359-1430* Apr 27 - Short IS, talk in listed Urdu, then music for last half of transmission. Good signal (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, dxingwithcumbre yg via DXLD) 15505, April 28 at 1358, no signal from BB, nor at 1400, but at 1407 can detect a JBA carrier; bad propagation today, maybe combined with late opening. 15500 new SAUDI [q.v.] frequency not strong enough to bother here, but there? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15105, 29/Apr 1239, Bangladesh Betar in English. YL talk. At 1244 local music. Yes, a morning of good propagation! Very weak signal in my QTH, but, audible modulation. The signal is degrading. 25332. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15505, April 29 at *1356 approx., BB carrier with tone, 1358 IS, poor with flutter, timesignal ending at 1359:39, opening Urdu. 15505, April 30 waiting for BB to come on: *1359:01, leaving time for only one play of the IS before too-early timesignal ending at 1359:40.5, then opening Urdu; very poor signal, so it`s hard to hear it, but I think there is still some hum (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 30 April 2013, 1537: Bangladesh Betar in Hindi on 15505. Strong signal with regional music but totally distorted audio. 55442 (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, Perseus SDR + DX-10 Pro active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15505, May 1 at 1358, open carrier with flutter, 1359 BB IS is JBA, timesignal at imagination level maybe ending at 1359:38 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4716.7, April 26 at 0058, Yura with music, back on the low side of 4717 instead of 4717.15 previously (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5952, Emisoras Pio XII (5 kW, Siglo Veinte) 0135 UT el 1 de mayo. Música en quechua y español. A las 0037 UT comienzan los avisos comerciales en español y quechua como los de centros médicos, instituciones de créditos y almacenes varios. Además se avisa del aniversario de la emisora. SINPO: 45544 (Claudio Galaz, realizo mis escuchas casi siempre desde Ovalle, u otros lugares aledaños. Rx: Tecsun PL-660Antena: Cable de cobre de 5 metros unido a coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros. QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglist yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 6054.48, Apr 17, 2204 tentative Radio Juan 23 again on Apr 17 with some audio. The recording was sent to Henrik Klemetz who managed to extract some of the contents. He says: ``I think the conversation - the interview? - is about "economía" and perhaps some political edge in any direction because I heard the word "camaradas" shortly afterwards. It is used in Spanish only when speaking of communists / socialists. Otherwise, it was a quick and baffled sign off. No station name mentioned but I can well imagine that this is R Juan 23.`` /HK Henrik, thanks a lot for your comments. I will follow this frequency the coming weeks to see if audio improves. Also heard with audio again on Apr 22 and 24, sign off as usual at ~2205 (Thomas Nilsson, SW Bulletin April 28 via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4754.9, April 26 at 0059 music, presumed the only American station known circa 4755, Radio Immaculate Conception, Big Field, Thick Bush. (Since Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, translates names of stations never broadcasting in Portuguese, into Portuguese, I am no less justified in translating Brazilian names to English, hi) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. A Rádio Caiari, 4785, de Porto Velho - RO, chega aqui em São José do Povo, interior do Mato Grosso. Quase sempre sem aproveitamento, ontem foi uma excessão, consegui ouvir-lá por vários minutos com meu Motoglobe, em alto e bom som, estava sendo apresentado o programa "canta Brasil". Ouvi por meia hora, 2100 às 2130 UT (José Raimundo, Brasil, April 30, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4885.015, Clube do Pará, April 25, 2013 at 0751, "Pará" ID 0756 "Pará Música". Bold Portuguese man, cuckoo clock sound effects. Lots of talking, reading ads. 0758 Brazilian Pop song (Mike Gilchrist in rural EC Iowa, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL, 4905, R. Relógio Federal (*) (presumed), Rio de Jna.º RJ, 2130-..., 25/4, canções anúncios comerciais; 32331, QRM da CHINA. *) Tenho visto refs. a uma certa "R. Nova Relógio", nesta freq., mas será, julgo, um equívoco, pois um nome assim faz pouco ou nenhum sentido. Algum dos colegas brasileiros poderá explicar, inequìvocamente, o que se passa em torno do nome? (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Como sempre os seus logs são ricos e de extremo DX. A Rádio Relógio não é mais do governo federal e a sua licença foi comprada pela Igreja Internacional da Graça de Deus do missionário R. R. Soares. Assim, seu nome foi mudado para Nova Rádio Relógio. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, ibid.) Caro Jorge: Grato pelas suas palavras e bem assim a ajuda quanto à ex- R. Relógio Federal. Assim, sim, "R. Nova Relógio" já é algo que faz sentido, não só linguìsticamente como pela decorrer da evolução que a emissora sofreu, com a compra, etc. Depreendo que o tal nome estropiado de "R. Nova Relógio" terá sido invenção, enfim, corruptela gerada por estrangeiros não lusófonos, que se terão contentado alegremente com tal nome sem nexo. Enfim... Vou passar a sua info. ao seu Colega Fabrício Andrade Silva, de Tubarão SC, que me enviou uma mensagem privada a este respeito. Melhores 73 e bons DX! (Carlos Gonçalves, ibid.) ** BRAZIL. 4915, April 26 at 0100, Brazilian music vs CODAR, 0101 TC as ``dez horas`` and ID as R. Daqui, best ZY on band. Any station might utter ``daqui`` as it merely means ``from here``, but only ZYF691 in Goiânia turns the expression into a proper name. Perhaps at founding they had a hard time thinking of a more original, less generic name (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 5035, R Aparecida, April 25, 2013 at 0913, Portuguese man, bird call sound effects. At their sunrise. Just outside Rebelde splash. Usually an evening catch for me. Fair signal. 0918 Braz pop song. 0924 ballad (Mike Gilchrist in rural EC Iowa, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 6010.114, Apr 25 0056, R Inconfidência completely alone on 6010. No sign of any R Mil or LV de tu Conciencia at this time (Thomas Nilsson, SW Bulletin April 28 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6105, R. Filadélfia, Foz do Iguaçu PR, 2202-2217, 25/4, noticiário A Voz do Brasil, 1.ª parte; 33431, QRM adj. e na mesma freq (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6105.073, Apr 15 2256, R Filadélfia drifting upwards. But weak most times I have noted them (Thomas Nilsson, SW Bulletin April 28 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 9565.05, SRDA, Curitiba PR, 2114-2124, 27/4, pregador [David Miranda] com voz deliberadamente trémula, como é habitual...; 34432, QRM da R. Martí e do respect.º sinal de empastelamento cubano (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Degen DE15 - gravação horário pelo Observatório Nacional: [PPE, 10000 kHz] Gravação feita em 26 de abril 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzwQIdt8ERs&list=UUzOvFuG_XaG5-K_dnPIS76w (Heracles Abramides, April 30, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 30 April 2013, 2221: "Voz do Brasil" network heard on 11765 (SRDA, 45131), 11780 (RNA, 45232) and 11855 (Aparecida, 25322). First two channels with strong noise blob of unknown origin (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, Perseus SDR + DX-10 Pro active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL, 15190, Rádio Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte, 0937-9955, 27- 04, Brazilian songs, male, female, "6 horas 43 minutos, Trem Caipira". 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15189.9, R. Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte MG, 1652-1740, 28/4, canções, comunicado do departamento estadual de saúde, anúncio das freqs., e programa Desportos sem Barreiras; 35433, QRM após as 1800 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [non]. 9510.00, 20 04, 0800, R. City, English, rock ballad, ID; Take away, rock and roll oldies, pops, Cara amica mia, email, 34433. 73's (SILVERI GOMEZ, FRAGA - PONENT CATALAN, [SPAIN], ATS 909 & DEGEN 1103, ANTENA : 16 mt hilo externo, playdx yg via DXLD) ** CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC. Death of Another Family Member Rattles Agency in Central African Republic [illustrated] http://www.hcjb.org/hcjb-global-news/sub-saharan-africa/death-of-another-family-member-rattles-agency-in-central-african-republic.html?print=1&tmpl=component The son of ICDI staff member Albert Yahimi was recently shot to death by Séléka troops in the Central African Republic. [caption] (April 26, 2013 - by Ralph Kurtenbach and Harold Goerzen) His radio station is still off the air with plans delayed for his return to help the Central African Republic staff get it up and running. Could the news get any worse for Jim Hocking of Integrated Community Development International? In fact, it could. On Tuesday, April 23, Hocking’s son, Jay, learned via telephone of the death of the son of Albert Yahimi, an ICDI well driller in the town of Bocaranga, a city in the northwestern part of the country. “We’ve now had two staff members lose their sons—both shot by Séléka troops—as well as the young nephew of a staff member who became ill and died, most likely due to the fact that the hospitals were closed,” said Jay, who serves as communications director for ICDI. Hocking, the agency’s executive director, founded the faith-based organization in the African country, a nation the size of France, where he grew up as a son of evangelical missionaries. Independent since 1960, CAR has struggled through a series of civil and military governments. Late last month a coup by Séléka rebels unseated President François Bozizé and placed Michel Djotodia in leadership. He has promised to hold elections in 18 months. “We [normally] broadcast the gospel in four languages,” said Hocking, referring to the country’s official languages of French and Sango along with Fulbe and Bayaka. Contrasting the continued off-air status with what influence Radio ICDI could be having, he said, “We can’t have any impact without the radio station.” Restoring the signal, however, “would add a sense of stability in the country that is in turmoil and help people know things are going a bit better.” Engineers from the HCJB Global Technology Center in Elkhart, Ind., have helped Hocking assemble the necessary equipment such as a mixing board, cassette and compact disk decks, three computers and software. Hocking, optimistic about local workers’ abilities to help him put the low-power shortwave station back on the air, said, “Our guys have done it before, and I’m confident they can put it together.” Séléka troops continue to cause havoc in the Central African Republic (AFP photo). [caption] As Séléka troops moved on the capital, Bangui, staff at Radio ICDI attempted to safeguard the broadcast equipment ahead of the advance, but wound up losing equipment anyway. In the ensuing weeks, the Central Africans have endured a host of challenges, including two deaths directly related to the fighting and aftermath, and four families’ homes and offices being looted and agency vehicle thefts, causing $300,000 in losses. So far donors have given about $100,000 beyond their normal giving to help restore the outreach. Hocking is kept abreast of events from Warsaw, Ind., where he and his wife, Faye, have lived since 2002 after spending more than 15 years as a family in CAR. “It’s been very hard to hear from my friends who are struggling through this and have fear in their voices when things aren’t going well,” Hocking said. “They want me to come when the time is right.” Plans had been in place for him to rendezvous with ICDI’s Rich Klopp, based in France, for an April 23 trip to Bangui with equipment needed to get Radio ICDI back on the air. Now delayed by a week, the trip is “contingent on things settling down,” Hocking said. Edmond, ICDI's lead orphan care manager [caption] Whether or not they go will hinge on the arrival of 1,500 to 2,000 troops from a multinational peacekeeping force from CAR’s neighbors. “If the African security forces arrive we’ll be OK,” he explained. The term “OK” is relative as hostage taking has entered the post-coup scenario in CAR. Conscious of risks he may confront, Hocking balances the concerns with his desire to join workers. “The national staff members have been risking their lives in many ways,” he said. “The least I can do is encourage them and hear their stories and be a part of what they are going through. We want to show solidarity so the national staff won’t bear all the risk.” ICDI’s personnel at Bangui, Berberati and other locations haven’t endured any kidnappings yet, but Hocking describes staffing levels as minimal. “We just have enough people onsite to maintain a presence,” he said. Twenty-five to 30 percent of staff members have fled their homes, living in lean-tos or shacks out in the bush where Séléka troops won’t find them. A vehicle with a "camouflage" paint job by Séléka troops was returned to ICDI, but it wasn't in running condition [caption] “None of our staff has moved to another country,” he continued. “But more than 50,000 refugees have left CAR.” He urged Christ-followers to pray for his team to persevere amid the difficulties. “Pray for protection for their families and for the government of CAR to establish a base of operations and to be a functioning government,” he implored. “It’s hard. It’s a country I love and grew up in. The Lord is getting us through, and we must seek His face.” In other developments, one of the six vehicles stolen from ICDI has been retrieved, but it no longer runs. Three other vehicles haven’t been seen; two others are back at the ICDI compound, but under the control of the new government. “The Séléka won’t let us use them. They have the keys,” Hocking said. “I really want to thank everyone for their prayers,” he added. “We do see the results and we see our staff continuing to be sustained through difficult times. I hope people see the value of that.” Source: HCJB Global (via DXLD) ** CHECHNYA. RUSSIA --- April 17 this year marks 85 years since the first radio call sounded in the Chechen Republic in the Chechen language. The first airing of Grozny broadcast station PB-23 [probably means RV- 23 in Roman --- gh] was held April 17, 1928. She worked as a station on the wave of 380 meters with 500 watts. November 20, 1936 radio station was an independent organization with a staff of 6 people. Less than a year later PB-23 already had a radio unit for receiving the circular [network?] radio messages from the city of Pyatigorsk and radio coverage of Grozny to the remote mountain regions of the country. At the birth of the Chechen radio were such luminaries as Chechen journalists Saidy Hasanov, Mahammad Mamakayev, Arby Mamakayev, Andarbek Shamilev and others. RTPTS (Broadcasting House) Chechnya - this is one of the first stations of the North Caucasus. In 1944, after the expulsion of the Chechens and Ingush, radio work was stopped. But in spite of the difficult years of deportation in 1955 to Kazakhstan, representatives of creative intelligentsia resumed work Chechen Broadcasting, which was continued after returning to their historic homeland in 1957. During this period, were actively involved in the work journalists Andarbek Shamilev, Shama Tsakayev, Khamzat Sarakaev, Salman Aiskhanov, Shaid Deegan and others. Broadcasting was conducted in three languages - Chechen, Ingush and Russian. In autumn 1958 began construction of a television center in Grozny, and from November 7, 1959, opened an experimental television broadcast on TVK 3, 2 kW. May 1, 1961 the Grozny television station building was completed, was made official the facility into operation. Back in 1943 the staff of the Chechen radio and RTPTS ensure uninterrupted broadcasting and radio communications during air strikes on Grozny and massive fires in oil wells of the city. It took 49 years, and again RTPTS the Chechen Republic was in the maelstrom of war. In the early 90's radio work was again suspended. July 1st, 1992 at 1:00, 50 minutes on VHF station in Grozny was all about. As a result of a terrorist act tragically killed the watchman Zabnin B. and M. Piminova operator, was completely destroyed by an orudovanie trunk signaling TV and radio programs are incapacitated all feeder line transmitters. Employees RTPTS made great efforts to restore equipment, and July 16 broadcast of all programs again been continued as usual. As a result of the fighting in the period from December 1994 to February 1995 infrastructure RTPTS CR was significantly destroyed, completely destroyed by two powerful radio center and a powerful VHF station. In 1995, the efforts of the Beslan Haladova and other journalists it was renewed. The same structure also contributed to the revival of the regular broadcasting in 2000. Since 2001, the restoration of the network broadcasting the beginning of the line provided by the federal target program "Restoring the economy and social sphere of the Chechen Republic." May 27, 2001 by Ter ridge in the Mount Hawk was commissioned television and radio transmitters power of 1 to 5 kW. During 2002 to 2006, renovated and restored in broadcasting Nadterechniy, Naur, Shelkovskom, Gudermes, Grozny districts, established distribution network of satellite television and radio programs STRC "Vainakh" restored television broadcasting on a temporary basis in the mountain villages Greyhound Chatou and Kharachoy. Today, the airwaves is represented mainly by two major radio channels from Chechen broadcasters - RTR "Vainakh" and CGTRK "Terrible". Television and Radio Broadcasting "Grozny" is working in satellite mode and packet-switched networks (computer networks - the Internet radio). In December 2008 RTRS FSUE «Chechen RTPTS" together with "Telecom-project-5" assembled and installed equipment transmitting and receiving control and satellite TV stations broadcasting in the city of Grozny. A little earlier in Grozny assembled and erected a 120-meter radio and television tower on the mountain hawk-like. In addition, at about the same time earned three relay and the administration building radioteleperedayuschego center CR. The country achieved expansion of the zone of federal television channels and distribution teleradiosignala in mining and in the plains. Radio is now very much in demand in the country, especially among young people. Every day, watching as public transport youth listening to music on headphones. Basically - it is the students, high school students. Also, it's interesting to know the latest news on the go, which keeps you informed of new developments. Radio has become an integral part of society. http://www.grozny-inform.ru/main.mhtml?Part=26&PubID=41537 (via Moscow Information DX Bulletin Weekly electronic publication # 838, April 23, 2013, The editor of the current issue: Alexander Dementyev, via RUSDX 28 APRIL via DXLD) ** CHINA. EASTERN JAMMERSTAN: Which is the reason we find CNR1 program on the frequencies of BBC in Uzbek and VOA in Uzbek but CNR 1 (or Fire Drake) is not over Radio Liberty in Uzbek as was observed on 7 and 12 April 2013 as follows: 1300-1330 15330, 17510, 17735 CNR1 + Fire Drake (pseudo opera music) over BBC in Uzbek 1500-1530 9540, 9580, 11920, 15100 CNR1 over VOA in Uzbek Without CNR or FD were Liberty in Uzbek: 1400-1500 on 13615 and 15480 and 1600-1700 7555 and 11780 With kindest regards, (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria on 27 April 2013, DX LISTENING DIGEST) EAST JAMMERSTAN: 13795, Crash & Bang Chinese music jammer; 1321, 25- Apr; no other audio detected; no others found 11.7-14 MHz (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) Firedrake [non], April 25 before 1400: again no real FD, but CNR1 audio appearing on former FD OOB outlets, compared to CNR1 jammer on 11785: 13530, good at 1347 // synch with 13920 13920, fair at 1345, a few seconds behind 11785 14700, poor at 1347, synch with 11785, not 13920 14980, fair at 1348, slight echo with 11785 15970, good at 1349, echo with 11785; all have some flutter 16360, poor at 1350, synch with 11785; none in the 17s, 18s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake Lives! Firedrake has been on against RFA Tibetan this morning. I heard them starting at 1250 GMT on 13795 kHz and it is now 1303 and they are still going strong. No s/off at ToH (Steve Handler, IL, April 26, WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, 1420-1425 No Firedrake heard but CNR-1 heard on the following traditional Firedrake frequencies: 13130, 13920, 15560, 15800, 15870, 15900, 16100, 16160 and 17300 kHz, all SoH targeting except 15560 targeting VOT (Steve Handler, IL, April 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello all, Thought you would like to know that Firedrake is back, at least for today. Heard them on 13575 and 13795 in the 1230-1300 time slot and on 13795 in the 1330-1359 time slot. CNR-1 is on many of the traditional Firedrake frequencies today including 11970, 12230, 12370, 13130, 13920, 13970, 15565, 15560, 15565, 15800, 15870, 15900, 16100, 16160, and 17300 (Steve Handler, April 26, NASWA yg WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DXLD) Firedrake April 26 before 1300: 13795, poor at 1245 vs R. Free Asia Tibetan via Kuwait, and very poor an hour later at 1350. All the other traditional FD frequencies audible are still occupied instead by CNR1 jamming: 12230, poor at 1242 12370, fair at 1242, not synchronized with 12230 13970, poor at 1245; none in the 14s, 15s, 16s, 17s; in fact the 16m band was totally dead, not even Cuba, and 19m had only a few weakies Before 1400: 13970, CNR1 very poor at 1348; none in the 12s, 14s, 15s Firedrake, April 27 before 1300: 13795, fair at 1257, FD doggedly sticking to this frequency only while all the others remain replaced by CNR1 audio jamming: 16100, fair at 1251; none higher 15970, poor at 1251 15560, poor at 1251 // 16100 14700, poor at 1251 13830, fair at 1257; none in the 12s except: 12000, poor at 1258, not synch with 16100, and 1300 timesignal is 3 seconds late, now with CCI, Vietnam? This is presumably the earthquake emergency radio service rather than as jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Crash & Bang Chinese Music Jammer, a.k.a. Firedrake, a.k.a. Chinese Opera Music Jammer From A13 (beginning 31-Mar-13) posted logs (various sources); during the UT hours noted; may not run through the full hour. All broadcasts originate from East Jammerstan (a.k.a. The People's Republic of You're Not Allowed Listen to This) Transmissions will typically change frequency and time often, as the jammer's target moves. * Not reported on this frequency during B12. MANY additions this time thanks to Harry Smith DXing in China, reporting via Glenn Hauser's DXLD. [Note: some of these may actually be CNR jamming and not Firedrake. Firedrake and CNR have been known to "trade off" occasionally. It also appears that use of Firedrake may being replaced in many cases by CNR programming. Listen and report what you hear.] 5925* 11 6030 11, 13 6055* 11 6110* 11 12 6115* 11 6125 11 6135* 11 6155* 11 6165* 11 6175 11 6185* 11 6220* 11 6240 11 6345* 11 6400* 11 6970 21 7230* 11 7250* 12 7280* 11 7345* 11 7470* 13 9280* 11 9325* 11 9410* 11 9420* 11 9430* 11 9445* 11 9500 11 9515* 11 9540* 11 9550* 11 9620* 11 9645* 11 9660* 11 9680 11 9830* 11 9845* 11 9910* 11 9970* 09 11500 11, 12, 13, 14 11640 11 11680* 11 11735* 11 11750* 11 11760 11 11765* 21 11775 11 11785* 11 11790 19 11800* 11 11825* 11, 12 11835* 11 11875* 11 11945 11 11954* 11 11962* 11 11970 12, 13, 16 12055* 11 12105* 11 12120* 11 12230 10, 12, 13, 14 12320 12, 13 12370 10, 12, 13 12500 12 12670 12, 13 12870 12, 13 13130 12, 13 13430 12 13530 12, 13, 14 13580* 11 13605* 10 13610* 11 13620* 10 13680* 10 13700* 11 13740* 10 13790* 06 13795* 12, 13 13805* 10 13820 11, 12 13830* 12 13850 11, 12 13920 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 13970 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 13980 12 14370 12 14400 10, 11 14700 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 14750 11, 12, 13, 14 14800 12, 13, 14 14980 12, 13, 14 15160* 10 15195* 11 15250* 10, 11 15400 10, 11 15435* 10 15440* 10, 11 15480* 10 15515 13 15525* 14 15535* 13 15560* 12, 13 15565 13 15570 13, 14 15595* 13 15605 12, 13 15610 13 15800 12, 13 15870 12, 13 15900 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 15970 13 16100 10, 11, 12, 13 16160 01, 10, 11, 12, 13 16250 12, 13 16360 11, 12, 13 16850* 10, 11 16920 11, 12, 13 16980 12 17080 11, 12, 13 17170 12, 13 17250 10, 11, 12, 13 17300 10, 11, 12, 13 17370 12 17450 12, 13 17645 00 17740* 14 18180 12, 13 18790* 12 21710* 05 --Updated 28-April-13 (Harold Frodge, DX LISTENING DIGEST) and since: 15385, Firedrake Jammer. Apr 28, 0035. Crashing and banging, presumably, over VOA in Chinese via Philippine relay site. Very Good. Uh, the signal level, that is to say. No //s noted in quick bandsweep. 17300, CNR 1 (Tentative) Apr 28, 0150. F in Chinese and with // on 16360. Both poor and fair on peaks. Both disappeared on the hour (Rick Barton, Arizona, Drake R8, Hammarlund HQ-120X; R.W. and Slinky, ABDX April 30 via DXLD) Heard Firedrake 13795 on and off frpm 1200+ to 1359 GMT today. Also, many CNR-1 frequencies using former Firedrake frequencies including 18970 CNR-1 and not Firedrake at 1356 with a good signal targeting SoH on 4/28/13 (Steve Handler, IL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake jamming, April 28 before 1300: 13795, very poor at 1245, continues to be the only FD frequency found for what has become a rarity. All others are CNR1, with serious if not ``classical`` music, including ex-Firedrake channels: 13920, fair at 1245 14700, poor at 1245 15250, fair at 1245 (longtime CNR1 jammer, not FD) 15560, poor at 1249 with flutter 16160, very poor at 1249, also CODAR, unusual here 16250, fair-good at 1249 with flutter; none in 17s or 18s altho CRI Kashgar in well on 17560, 17630, 17650 After 1300: 11990, fair at 1313, CNR1 now serious orchestral/choral music 12000, fair at 1313, a couple seconds behind 11990, emergency net? Usual CNR1 jammers also good on 11805, 11785 15115, good at 1324, 15195 very poor, 15265 poor, usual non-FD CNR1 jammers 16160, very poor at 1323 17250, good at 1321 with flutter, now with opera, i.e. singing 17370, good at 1321 Firedrake April 29 before 1300: 13795, poor at 1336 with CCI, continues to be the only one left. All the other former FD frequencies heard are occupied by CNR1 jamming: 12230, fair at 1234 13130, poor at 1238 with CCI 13830, poor at 1234 13850, poor-fair at 1234 13920, fair-good at 1234 14700, poor at 1240 15800, fair at 1242, not synch 16360, poor at 1245 17080, fair at 1249 17170, very poor at 1249 17300, poor at 1249; none in the 18s That`s a total of 11 transmitters at once Before 1400 April 29: 11500, poor at 1341 13830, fair at 1348; echo apart from 14700 13970, good at 1348 14700, fair at 1347 14980, very poor at 1347 15970, poor at 1343 16360, very poor at 1344 16920, fair at 1344 Firedrake April 30, circa 1230: 13795, fair at 1224, again the only one with all other frequencies still overtaken by CNR1 audio jamming instead: 17170, fair at 1235 16100, very good at 1228; none in the 17s yet 14980, poor at 1227 14750, fair at 1227 14700, poor at 1228 13970, good at 1223 13920, good at 1223 13850, fair at 1223 13830, fair at 1223; none in the 12s Before 1400 April 30: 17370, poor at 1347 mixed with utebeeps 17170, very good at 1347 with flutter 16920, fair at 1347 16360, poor at 1347 16100, poor at 1349 None in the upper 15s, just usuals in the lowers 14700, poor at 1351 13830, very poor at 1352, not synch with 17170 13920, poor at 1352, ditto 12670, poor at 1352, ditto 11990, fair at 1354, ditto Also usual inbanders on 11785, and with heavy CCI on 11805 at 1355, i.e. VOA Mandarin via SAIPAN this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 30 April 2013, 2231: CNR1 on unlisted 9440, 25332. Also heard on regular 9455-Lingshi (44433), 9500-Shijiazhuang (25332), 9520-Hohhot (25322) and jammer channel 11630 (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, Perseus SDR + DX-10 Pro active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9440 - CNR1 jamming of Radio Free Asia? (Ron Howard, CA, ibid.) 13795, May 1 at 1306, Firedrake very poor but only audible here. Still at 1344, with CCI from RFA Tibetan via KUWAIT. CNR1 jamming instead of Firedrake, before 1400: 13830, very poor at 1344 13920, fair at 1344 with flutter Cursory search 12-18 MHz did not find any others, with subnormal propagation today (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 11752, 11768, etc., April 29 at 1342, despite sufficient east Asian propagation today, the 8-kHz spur field from 11760 CNR1 jammer is inaudible, as it has been since last heard April 22, so apparently repaired again and/or moved elsewhere (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. RE: email - China Huayi BC - Jonathan Short Hi Glenn, Received the following additional email April 27. Is great to have someone like Jonathan Short in China who knows about SWL/DXing and is indeed active himself. His email address: dxswl <2883752 @ 163.com> "Hi Ron, I never expected that you will send me another airmail. It has arrived today, thank you for your kind reply. As I think we contacted each other during 2008 or so, and I think you also send me a reception report and I answered a blue QSL to you via snail mail. Also I remember you sent me a personal photo, with Mao Ze'dong pics on the wall. And thank you for telling other DXers about my little e-qsl service of CHBC, as I see it on WWDXC. If you have any other need on DXing Chinese stations, I would like to be of some help. My personal DX web-page is: http://jshort.blog.163.com/ Now I use an English name as Jonathan Short when I contact foreign stations or DXers. 73, Jonathan Short " (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6060, Sichuan PBS-2, minority service via Chengdu. April 25 continues to be completely free from the N. Korea jamming of the past year; 1318 with fair to poor reception. Back in 2008, after their big quake, in addition to the usual Sichuan PBS-2 on 6060 // 7225, their Sichuan PBS-1 started broadcasting on both 9740 and 12015. Have recently been checking these frequencies, but find no PBS activity now after their most recent quake (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Some frequencies of CNR-1 relays "Lushan Emergency Radio-Lushan ying ji guang bo" for 24 hours on 5945, 6125, 7230, 7290 and 9710 kHz. de Hiroshi (S. Hasegawa, Japan, Apr 25, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Have also been hearing unID Chinese on 6065 on April 23, 24, 25 from 1800 tune-in to past 1900. No // frequencies found, 5945 & 6125 audible as well but carried different programming. So what station does this CNR-2 outlet relay? Sei-ichi can you help? (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear Martien, According to Hiroshi, CNR-2 on 6065 started 24 hours service from Apr. 22. The parallel frequency is not yet found. CNR-2 FM always 24 hours service (S. Hasegawa, Japan, April 26, ibid.) Lushan Emergency Radio Live streaming; http://bfq.cnr.cn/zhibo/index_yjgb.html de K. Inoue // 9800, 12000 kHz (S. Hasegawa, April 29, ibid.) 12000, Lushan Emergency Radio (presumed), 0956, April 29. Heard with non-CNR1 programming; played a more subdued music than CNR1; gave phone numbers; sometime around 1007 switched over to CNR1 programming; // 9800; at 1158 also noted non-CNR1; instead had children singing; 1200 QRM and seemed to switch back to CNR1. So it looks as if before the ToH they are carrying the actual "Lushan Emergency Radio" programming. Needs more monitoring! (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9800, Lushan Emergency Radio (LER) (presumed), 1101-1108, April 30. The scheduling of the non-CNR1 programming is rather fluid; this segment not // CNR1 (6125) and sounded appropriate for the post earthquake emergency broadcasting; gave out phone numbers; at 1108 switched over to CNR1 programming. Noted 1136 to 1200 with LER coverage; YL announcer with background piano music; played a lot of EZL songs. 1200 QRM and again switch back to CNR1 programs; // 12000. MP3 audio at https://www.box.com/s/f9p19dalw1ukqttt9956 (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Monitoring May 1 randomly from 1005 to 1115 on 9800 // 12000. Times that I heard Lushan Emergency Radio (presumed), i.e. non-CNR1 programming (not // CNR1): 1005-1007; 1016-1018; 1029; 1101-1107 and 1114-1115. Times carrying CNR1 programming (// CNR1): 1007; 1018; 1107 and 1115. Clearly they are frequently switching back and forth between their own Lushan Emergency Radio programming (usually either woman announcer with background piano music or playing EZL music) or carrying the normal CNR1 programs (Ron Howard, San Francisco, WORLD OF RADIO 1667, ibid.) Dear Ron, The ID of LER is "Zhe li shi Goujia yingji guang bo he Lushan kang zhen jiuzai yingji diantai - This is National Urgent Radio, Lushan Earthquake Rescue and Emargency Radio". The phone number during a program is a contribution offer (S. Hasegawa, May 1, ibid.) 9800, CNR1 National Emergency Channel, Shijiazhuang. Earthquake reports 24/4 at 2200+. Also // 9810 (stronger signal here) and 6065. 12000, CNR1 National Emergency Channel - Shijiazhuang. Earthquake reports and passing of traffic first noted at 2245, very strong signal, Apr 24 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, Vic (Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Double Bazooka antennas for 80 and 40 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ- 1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), May Australian DX News via DXLD) April 27 - A day of mourning for Lushan quake victims --- Hi Glenn, Look for possible special programming on stations from China tomorrow (Saturday - April 27). “CHENGDU, April 26 (Xinhua) -- A period of public mourning will be observed on Saturday for those who died in a 7.0-magnitude quake that jolted Lushan County in Sichuan Province on April 20. The provincial government issued a notice that all entertainment activities throughout the province would be halted in public places on Saturday. The public mourning will begin with all transportation vehicles sounding their sirens at 8:02 a.m., the time the devastating earthquake hit. A silent tribute will follow and last 3 minutes, according to the notice. The strong earthquake has claimed nearly 200 lives and destroyed about 126,000 homes, according to official figures.” http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-04/26/c_132342023.htm Updated information and photos of the Lushan (Sichuan Province) earthquake at the following website: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/special/earthquake20130420/index.htm (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, April 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Regarding the TN log on 6105, Apr 5 at 2159 of CNR1: ``"Zhongguo Guoji Guangbo Diantai" is CRI in Chinese, not CNR. Guoji means international, guo means land, kingdom, state. The specified call is used as an introduction to all international broadcasts on at least almost every language from Beijing. The key domestic programs call "Zhongyang Renmin Guangbo Diantai" [ZRGD] = "Central People's Broadcasting Station" just as it has always done since the Mao era. The individual channel is defined by an extension, such as Zhongguo zhi Sheng = Voice of China. When listening to "renmin" it should be remembered that the “r” practically is pronounced as a voiced sh- sound. When something is disturbed by CNR1 you usually also hear an echo from several parallel jammers with slightly different delay, which reveals what it is. CRI is never used as jammer, but if they show up at an undesired station frequency it is a technical and not a political collision. Taiwan chih Yin literally means Voice of Taiwan (or word for word "Taiwan's Voice"). Regards Olle Alm`` Olle, Thanks a lot for the explanation which I didn’t know of. I checked my recording once more and I am now quite certain they say “renmin” instead of “guoji” which I thought it first sounded like (Thomas Nilsson, SW Bulletin April 28 via DXLD) ** CHINA. CNR-2/China Business Radio, at 1210, April 26. Comedy / variety “Haiyang live show”; in Chinese; 6065 // with 6155, 7315, 7375, 9755, 9775 (strong het produced by Taiwan’s Fu Hsing BS on 9774) and 9810 (suddenly off 1229*; conforms to schedule). Several program IDs in English; “Ladies and gentlemen - Haiyang live show”, per attached audio. At 1230 additional frequency of 7265 and also heard 6090 (which earlier was blocked by R. Japan in Chinese); continuing with the “Haiyang live show”. 1300 heard 6065 // with 6090, 6155, 7245, 7265, 7315, 7375, 7425, 9755, 9775 (no het - Fu Hsing BS signed off 1300*) and 9820 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 11760, May 1 at 1308, the only signal mixing with RHC Spanish is CRI English, which has always been scheduled at 12-14 via Kunming, but had been covered by CNR1 jamming vs Sound of Hope, Taiwan, at 13-15, that CNR1 jammitter also the source of the 8-kHz constellation of spurs we heard until a week+ ago. The ChiCom even jam their own transmissions if something else ``happens`` to be on same frequency. Therefore this SOH broadcast, which was a 300 kW Tanshui site transmitter, is off. Falung Gong`s Epoch Times recently revealed that due to ChiCom pressure, Taiwan is closing down some SW transmitter sites, and canceling relays of SOH among others. The article even said that RTI would be going off SW, but this has been explicitly denied by Paula at RTI to monitor Don Rhodes, Australia. Keith Perron explains in the next DXLD [this one: TAIWAN] that there is a lot more to this than meets the eye; but in any event, there may be less SOH on high-power Taiwan transmitters and consequently less need for ChiCom jamming of one kind or another (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. 15120, CUBA, CRI (via Habana site) Apr 28, 0030. F in Spanish, Chinese classical music. At first thought reactivated Firedrake, but, no, just a music program reminiscent of RTI's Jade Bells and Bamboo Pipes. Ironically, would find newly reactivated Firedrake moments later just up the dial (Rick Barton, Arizona, Drake R8, Hammarlund HQ-120X; R.W. and Slinky, ABDX April 30 via DXLD) ** COSTA RICA. 5965, April 30 at 0539, REE relay is back on proper frequency after excursion to 5995, 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn: Interesting about the REE relay on 5965. From my logs; on February 28, 2013 and for a couple more days, the REE relay usually on 3350 had moved up 900 Hz to 3350.9. This day I logged it at 0300. (Mike Gilchrist, IA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 13780, R. Havana. Spanish 2300-2400, NF, 3/4 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, Vic (Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Double Bazooka antennas for 80 and 40 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), May Australian DX News via DXLD) This is the separate `Mesa Redonda` TV simulcast; 13780 is not new in the mornings (gh) ** CUBA. 11680, April 25 at 1135, RHC on wrong frequency again, by lysdexic punchupper instead of missing 11860, altho 11680 is an intentional channel in the tarde. 11680 is an echo apart from // 11690, so different sites. 1402 frequency list on 17580 et al. still claims 11860 until 1500. 11680 not there at 1405 recheck, figured they`d fixed it, but 11680 cuts back on kovering Korean music, commies vs commies; then modulation cuts off and on, and the carrier drops out too, not correlating with times of modcuts. SNAFU 11760, April 26 at 0056 surprised (not really) to find RHC in wrong language, French, which is supposed to be on 5040 only, with 11760 in Spanish. Probably was also in Kriyol at 0000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 11680, Terrible mixture signal of NHK Radio Japan World Tokyo via MBR FMO provider with 250 kW of power at Nauen Germany in Japanisch, RHC Cuba in Spanish, and CNR Shijiazhuang #723 site in Chinese logged all Co-CHANNEL at 0352 UT Apr 26, S=8-9 signal in southern Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 26 via DXLD) 5040, April 27 at 0534, today`s anomaly #1 is absence of the RHC tropical frequency during English hour; still overkill on 6010, 6060, 6125, 6165. Anomaly #2: 15482 approx., April 27 at 1400, RHC riff as I tune by, that weak distorted spur again. 17580, RHC, Apr 27, 1025. F in Spanish, barely above threshold level. Not usually heard here this hour, as well before local daybreak (Rick Barton, Arizona, Drake R8, Hammarlund HQ-120X; R.W. and Slinky, ABDX April 30 via DXLD) And not usually transmitting either, before 1100, but anything is possible at RHC; I assume you are sure of the time? (gh, DXLD) 17730, Radio Habana Cuba. 1122 April 28, 2013. Clear, fair and no skip flutter, in Spanish. Surprised more of this wasn’t skipping over west- central Florida (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD- 535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I wouldn`t be too surprised if and when it finally activates, the new Venezuelan SW site at Calaboose starts relaying RHC without notice, at least as a test. They owe the Cubans a lot (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RHC anomalies: 15200-15260, April 28 at 1306, the weakish 15230 transmitter is again emitting a buzzy field above and below, loudest circa 15220. 11750, April 28 at 1315 check is in English! about Cuban stamps, but cut off the air at 1316; should be in Spanish, of course. Then surveyed all other frequencies at 1318, with // music in Spanish service: 9540, 11690, 11760, 11860, 13780, 15230, 15340, 17580, 17730 15482, April 28 at 1319, weak distorted spur // 15340 et al. 17580, April 28 at 1410, carrier cuts off and on, then stays on but no modulation. Then found others only with open carrier: 13780, 11760, while at 1411 the rest nominal Spanish modulation: 17730, 15340, 15230, 11860, 11750, 11690; and 9540 too weak to tell, maybe not on. 13740, April 28 at 1411, CRI English relay is quite undermodulated, but sufficient if volume turned up. 6165 & 6000, April 30 at 0103, both RHC English frequencies are in dead air. I have better things to do than wait to find out how late they will be coming up. 5040, unlike 24 hours earlier, is on and modulating English at 0539 April 30. 6165, May 1 at 0058, RHC is already on prior to scheduled 0100 English, but now with Spanish undermodulation // 6100. Same at 0103, no English yet unlike 6010. One can only envisage a mess of patchcords on the distribution panel always getting misplaced. 13740, May 1 at 1401, CRI English relay is supposed to be underway, but dead air until JIP at 1401:50 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 12180, (Presumed), Numbers station broadcast. Apr 27, 1030. Found on sweep of band for Firedrakes / CNR 1 (none found). Noted a // signal on 11635, but this one devoid of any adequate modulation. Usual mix of female / Spanish and digital sounds (Rick Barton, Arizona, Drake R8, Hammarlund HQ-120X; R.W. and Slinky, ABDX April 30 via DXLD) 9155, 01/May 1004, Cuban Spy Numbers. 25332 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, Degen 1103 - All listening in mode of narrow filter at 4 kHz. Dipole antenna, 16 meters - east/west, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Cubana numbers lady --- For those who want to hear, the Spanish numbers lady is on 10715 right now, at 2225 UT Tuesday 1 May. Clear but somewhat weak modulation in St. John's, Newfoundland (Philip Hiscock, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, Here signal almost local and end of transmission at 2254. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, ibid.) And she's off air at 2253 UT. Five numbers in each sequence with those fax-line sounds in between. I didn't time them but three or four sequences per minute (Philip Hiscock, ibid.) Also on 11530 at 2301, here signal almost local. 73 (Jorge Freitas, ibid.) Jorge, at 2305, here in St John's, I'm getting a strong but empty carrier on 11530. The schedule for HM01 as the Cuban number station is known, and some info on decoding the digital component of the transmissions is here: http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/en.htm#k (Dave Hughes, MO, ibid.) ** CYPRUS TURKISH. [NORTHERN TURKISH occupied zone] 6150, Radio Bayrak verified with a full data personal letter and full data card ("The best station in the nation") with a big envelope of goodies in 472 days from initial report and 152 days from a follow up report from v/s Mustafa Tosun, Department Head of Transmissions. His letter was dated November 27th so there was quite a delay in getting the package to me. Among the items in the package were several tourist booklets in English, several local magazines in Turkish, a booklet about Myths and Legends in English, several city maps Gazimagusa, Girne, Iskele and Lefkosa, other road maps of North Cyprus, half dozen tourist things to do? brochures and two tote bags. I presume the late November posting was by surface mail and the size and weight of the package made the postal trip a long one (Rich D'Angelo-PA-USA, DXplorer Apr 22 via BC-DX 26 April via DXLD) ** CZECHIA. 18 DE MAYO SE CELEBRA EL NOVENTA ANIVERSARIO DE LA RADIODIFUSIÓN Amigos Dxistas atención para esta información de Radio Praga: Oyentes de Radio Praga, queremos informarles que el día 18 de mayo se celebra el noventa aniversario de la Radiodifusión Checa, y es por ello que queremos celebrarlo con todos nuestros oyentes de una manera muy especial. Desde Radio Praga, mandaremos una tarjeta QSL especial, que conmemora este noventa aniversario de la Radio Checa, a todos los que nos envíen el informe de recepción del día 18 de mayo. Así que, si desean obtener un bonito recuerdo de esta ocasión especial, no duden en escucharnos en la fecha del aniversario de la Radiodifusión Checa (via Antônio Avelino da Silva, Universal DX Club, página en FB via Horacio Nigro Geolkiewsky, Montevideo, Uruguay, Mi blog: "La Galena del Sur" condiglista yg April 24 via DXLD) Deleted own shortwave, but still via WRMI; I suppose they liberally supply QSLs for webcast listeners. Following the Brother Scare onslaught, only surviving R. Prague relay via WRMI in English is UT Tue-Fri 0100-0130, but May 18 is Saturday! (following Slovakia 0030 UT Tue-Sat); R. Praga in Spanish is only 0200-0230 UT daily, followed by Eslovaquia, just like in the olden days, never Slovakoczechia (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DENMARK. DR Kalundborg 243 kHz will make a special transmission on Saturday May 4th 2013 between 20:03-21:00 [1803-1900 UT], simulcast with DR P5 DAB, to commemorate the liberty message from BBC's Danish Service on that date in 1945, marking the end of Denmark being occupied by Nazi Germany during World War 2. 73 (Ydun/mediumwave.info, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Comment from Sergio Nuzzi from Sicily: 1803–1900 UT, all Europe is under daylight! How can them expect to have DX reports ??? (Sergio via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DXLD) LW has pretty good groundwave range even in daytime, but this is only 50 kW now per WRTH (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DXLD) Reception reports should be sent to info at teracom.dk BTW DR Kalundborg 243 kHz schedule is Local time (UT +1, UT +2 during summer) - all programs in Danish: 05.45-05.51 Weather forecast 06.00-06.07 News in parallel with P4 08.00-08.03 News 08.03-08.30 Morning prayer/service (not Sunday) 08.30-08.40 Gymnastics 08.45-09.00 Weather forecast 09.00-09.07 News in parallel with P4 11.45-12.00 Weather forecast 12.00-12.30 News in parallel with P4 17.45-18.00 Weather forecast 18.00-18-03 News in parallel with P4 18.03-18.19 Shipping info for Danish waters 73s (Ydun/mediumwave.info May 1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DXLD) Long Wave transmitter on 243 kHz is switched off between these times (Alan Pennington, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** DEUTSCHES REICH. The latest episode of PBS` `Secrets of the Dead` has some radio angles: ``BUGGING HITLER’S SOLDIERS premieres Wednesday, May 1, 10-11 pm ET on PBS (check local listings). About This Episode Spied upon by MI19 in a bugging operation of unprecedented scale and cunning, 4,000 German POW’s revealed their inner thoughts about the Third Reich and let slip military secrets that helped the Allies win WWII. Based on groundbreaking research conducted by a German historian, the film tells the story of how those conversations were recorded and how they can now reveal, in more shocking detail than ever before, the hearts and minds of the German fighter. In total, more than 100,000 hours of these secret recordings were made. Only now have they all been declassified, researched and cross referenced. They represent a startling new body of evidence with which to revisit events of the war and they show the political divisions between those top generals who supported the Nazi ideology and those that did not. They also demonstrate the complicity of the rank-and-file soldiers in taking part in Nazi war crimes. Now, 60 years later the chilling and totally uncensored thoughts of the Nazi elite will be heard. The documentary includes intense, full-dialogue dramatic reconstructions that use the verbatim transcripts of these bugged conversations to reveal the dark heart of the Nazi regime as never before. Hearing these shocking conversations will be like taking a time machine back into psyche of Hitler’s Germany.`` I believe that like previous eps, this one will later be viewable online (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DIEGO GARCIA. ARQUIPÉLAGO DAS CHAGOS, 4319bls, AFN, Diogo Garcia, 2221-2230, 26/4, música pop'; 34231, QRM adj. de estação de ponto a ponto (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 7270, CHINA, China Radio International, Ürümqi. 2315 April 25, 2013. Spanish, with idle bantering, into Chinese lessons with male and female taking on both mutually-unintelligible languages in the translations. Clear and very good. USB to avoid pig QRM. Presumed site (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR- D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 11560, R. Cairo, Abu Zaabal. Disgraceful audio quality was a feature of this French transmission to Europe at 2005. I just love the "under-water" sound of Egyptian songs and warbling announcements. A wonderful advertisement for deserting SW and listening online! For God's sake!! 31/3 12050, R. Cairo, Abis. 2000-2115 in French with crappy audio, NF ex 11560 and collides with WEWN. 6/4 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, Vic (Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Double Bazooka antennas for 80 and 40 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), May Australian DX News via DXLD) Hello everyone, Radio Cairo in English on 9720 with surprisingly good modulation tonight with English program at 0200 UT. Signal is fair to good; ID and program details by woman. It's been a very long time since I've heard them well enough to actually understand the program! 73 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, UT April 27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, I was listening during that hour also, quite good RX here in CT, USA (450 km South). Semi-auroral conditions in our neck of the woods being close to the "area". Signal strength 40-48 db-micro here; usually in the mid 30's and in the noise-field. Also of note in this time-frame 02-03 UT was RHC putting out a monster 68-72db-micro signal in Chinese on 9580 kHz with low modulation in the North direction (Paul S. in CT, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) OTOH: Radio Cairo: Ciao a tutti, sono un nuovo iscritto al gruppo; mi chiamo Francesco Morsilli e scrivo da Terni in Umbria. Sono un semplice appassionato di Radioascolto dal 1997, soprattutto di quelle in lingua italiana, anche se negli ultimi anni non sempre sono riuscito a seguire tutte le trasmissioni, causa impegni vari e famiglia. Una delle mie radio preferite è la famosa Radio Cairo che ogni giorno CERCA di trasmettere sulle onde corte, sui 9490. Scrivo così perchè è sempre un terno a lotto poterla ascoltare, causa la pessima modulazione del trasmettitore che non funziona a dovere. Ho notato dall`inizio di aprile (da quando ho ripreso a riascoltare le onde corte) che sono più i giorni che non si sente di quelli percettibili. Fino al 2011 almeno si aveva anche la possibilità di ascoltarli via satellite, che per fortuna funzionava a dovere, ora neanche più quello. Ricordo poi quando c`era la mitica Concetta Corselli (a proposito, nessuno ha un suo indirizzo mail o su FB? mi piacerebbe tanto poterla salutare), che ci diceva che i tecnici stavano cercando di aggiustare la modulazione. Insomma dopo tutti sti anni siamo sempre allo stesso punto??? Ma come è possibile, perchè non cercano di arginare il problema? Magari in attesa potrebbero fare uno streaming internet oppure fare come fa il servizio spagnolo che inserisce tutte le sue trasmissioni su youtube, o quello inglese che è presente sul sito WRN. Se non fanno qualcosa nessuno più riuscirà a sentirli. A febbraio avevano attivato una pagina facebook, ma ora neanche più quella è aggiornata!! Voi che mi dite? Qualcuno ha contatti più diretti con loro e magari ha notizie particolari? Io ho provato a scrivergli dicendogli del problema, ma non hanno risposto. Grazie mille e scusatemi per questo sfogo! (Francesco Morsilli, Italy, April 28, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) 15535, R Cairo (by frequency scan veried by DX Remix), 1327 with talks in Arabic then typical Arabic pop song. Garbled modulation (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 1, R75 with 2x16inv V and HF150 with 16 m horizontal antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA. 4700, Common IS and IDs in 4 languages, including Arabic at 0256 on 13/4 // 7180, 7205, 9705. From 0300 news in Arabic on 4700/7180/9705 and music program on 7205 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF 2001D ant Folded Marconi own made), May Australian DX News via DXLD). ** EUROPE. Domenica 28 aprile 2013, 0623 - 12257, WRECKIN' R. INT., Music rock. SF-IN (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, playdx yg via DXLD) ** EUROPE. 7610.00, 28 04, 2010, North Pole R. Int, English, Koto, Man of action, dance, ID, greets listeners, 24322. 73's (SILVERI GOMEZ, FRAGA - PONENT CATALAN, [SPAIN], ATS 909 & DEGEN 1103, ANTENA : 16 mt hilo externo, playdx yg via DXLD) ** EUROPE. 11401.00, 27 04, 1515, R. Waves International, English, French, ballads, pops, jingle, ID, I'm not in love, 34433. 73's (SILVERI GOMEZ, FRAGA - PONENT CATALAN, [SPAIN], ATS 909 & DEGEN 1103, ANTENA : 16 mt hilo externo, playdx yg via DXLD) ** EUROPE. Good morning --- Radio Spaceshuttle has made lots of calculations (= drinked few beers), more massive investigations (= much more beeeeer, hic)... and has got strange results.... 1. We are working to have more radio propagation tests and have learned that our 19mb frequency is quite good in many cases for longer skips. Most tests might be realized on SSB mode 2. But wishing we can have few transmissions also a bit higher bands (during May and June). That means perhaps tests on 15 or 16 mb (17.5 or 19 MHz area). So we are building a new antenna somewhere of these areas. 3. Propagation also changes, so results are different in May and in June. 4. Our wish is to reach better results in Oceanian area - main target Australia, but also in all Far-East area. (Japan and New-Zealand seems to be a challenge to us that time, but would like to have listeners also there, please!). So more activity from listeners in whole Far- East area and ALL COUNTRIES there is wanted - Please tell us if you can try to listen R Spaceshuttle. 5. We did see we might have propagation also in different parts of AFRICA in some times. But now I would like to know if there is any listeners to try us? (In different parts of the continent) Please tell me if you are interested try to listen us in there? 6. We have found best times to reach South and Central-American areas as well, but mostly our signal will be quite weak in there. (Best chances might be June than on May). But wishing also know persons who are willing try to listen us also in that area! 7. North-America might be even more challenge during these months to us. We studied that there might be some hours when it might be worth of try WESTERN and SOUTHERN parts of USA. So, if you are that area, please give us info if you could try our signals in there. 8. All remarks of Europe (especially its eastern side and south), Mediterranean area are of course ALWAYS very wanted! Tell your possibilities to try and report our tests, please! 9. Our near area service shall return as well soon, perhaps on 48 mb, but might be 41 mb as well. (And to 31 mb occasional transmissions). So, please drop few lines of your interests to our e-mail spaceshuttleradio @ yahoo.com please! Best greetings, Dick and test-comity of Radio Spaceshuttle PS. We shall send our test plans for your area after your contacts. Our motto is "Please tell your friend that Radio Spaceshuttle is back on air again" (Dick Spacewalker, April 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Spaceshuttle Radio 15880 kHz in Usb 0715-0746* weak to fair signal with deep slow fading. Songs, talks, IDs. Off at 0746 27/4 (Giampiero Bernardini, Italy, playdx yg via DXLD) 15880.00, 27 04, 1500, R. Spaceshuttle International, English, pop dance, jingle, Roxette, ID, email, box Herten, asking for reports, 35433. 73's (SILVERI GOMEZ, FRAGA - PONENT CATALAN, [SPAIN], ATS 909 & DEGEN 1103, ANTENA : 16 mt hilo externo, playdx yg via DXLD) Spaceshuttle Radio on 15880 kHz this afternoon (1520 UTC 28-April). Good reception here. (Thanks to Tony Ashar for tip on WRTH FB page) About to close down now I think at 1537 UT (Alan Pennington, Caversham, UK, AOR 7030+, ALA 1530 loop, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** FINLAND. SWR 3-4 May - but no 25 mb frequencies --- We can now confirm our transmission hours for the 3/4th May. The schedule can be found at:- http://www.swradio.net/schedule.htm Regretfully we are unable to confirm when our 25m transmissions will be back on the air; if there is change we will post it on here (Scandinavian Weekend Radio (Finland) Facebook page 28 April via Alan Pennington, April 28, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) 2100 Friday 3rd May - 2100 Saturday 4th May - shortwave 6170 alternating with 5980 kHz - note to schedule says: "Note: No broadcast on 25 freqs!" (Pennington, ibid.) ** FRANCE. 30 April 2013, 1533: The Disco Palace puts DRM noise on 15775 at S=3, but DREAM can't decode anything, not even a label (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, Perseus SDR + DX-10 Pro active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GABON [and non]. 30 April 2013, 2236: Africa No 1 still active on 9580, French talk bothered by Medi-1 on 9579.15. 42442 (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, Perseus SDR + DX-10 Pro active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 1 May 2013, 1841: MDR Info is still on air with the loop that advises listeners about the MW closure - please change to digital radio! Strong on 783 (55555), medium strength on 1044 (45343) and now that it's getting dark also on 1188 (45322). In the daytime, 783 and 1044 are the same as now, 1188 JBA (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, Perseus SDR + DX-10 Pro active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. MDR-Info MWs off the air since midnight --- As announced in the "WRTHmonitor" (2013-04-05) the MW-QRGs 783 (Leipzig-Wiederau), 1044 (Dresden-Wilsdruff) and 1188 (Görlitz-Reichenbach) kHz of "Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk" (MDR) having aired the "MDR Info" 24 h news programme until the end of April are now off the air except for a repeated announcement referring to the DAB+ airing. The low power FM transmitters are not affected. -- (Harry Niebuhr, Klein Hehlen, Bonifatiusstraße 5, 29223 Celle, Tel (p): 05141 53848, Tel (d): 05141 9939483, Mobil: 0162 7168189, 2013-05-01, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) 784/1044/1188 transmitters --- In case you have not read it elsewhere yet: The brainwashing loop currently airing on 783/1044/1188 replaced MDR Info on April 30 at 0400 UT. It is understood that the transmitters will be finally turned off next Monday in the morning ("between 0400 and 0600 UT"; apparently in practice = when the maintenance crews arrive at the sites to throw the switch). (Kai Ludwig, May 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Kai: Yes I also hear the final sign of life of MDR Info on all three frequencies. They used to have a useful format and I did tune in at times. We don`t hear or read much about the happenings in Germany over here in Sweden (Olle Alm, Sweden, ibid.) Re: ``1 May 2013, 1841: MDR Info is still on air with the loop that advises listeners about the MW closure`` They (= MDR radio headquarters at Halle/Saale) made the switch from MDR Info to this loop on April 30 at 0400 UT, causing problems due to a combination of a pretty high audio level and their typical overproduced style, with every gap between words being filled by this oh-so dramatic and emotional bumper bed (as they would use it to produce promos with hooks from reports about someone's death, as done in 2005, driving me finally and definitely away after I found this too disgusting) with its distinctive bass component. It brought them very soon a phone call, urging them to reduce the audio level. Vague but plausible word is that the transmitters will be finally turned off on Monday in the morning ("between 6 AM and 8 AM"), when maintenance staff is at work again and will drive out to kill these babies. Here are a recording of the switch-over and two so far unseen video clips from the Wilsdruff transmitter, with the second one from June 30 1993 showing the original, 1953 vintage 250 kW transmitter on its last day of regular operation (it has been turned on again only one more time, 2.5 months later for presentation on an open house day): http://www.wwwagner.tv/?p=21450 (Kai Ludwig, May 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. /USA, Compliance Follow-up Review, of the International Broadcasting Bureau Germany Transmitting Stations [Biblis and Lampertheim]. Posted on March 26, 2013 most interesting item: One Foreign Service officer serves as the station manager, and there are 19 locally employed staff members at two functioning sites, Lampertheim and Bib1is, both located in the Consulate General Frankfurt consular district. The IBB Germany Transmitting Station sold the property at Erching, a third nonfunctioning site (March 28) (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 26 [sic], BC-DX 26 April via DXLD) ** GERMANY. 9480.00, 21 04, 0850, EMR, English, Jerry Raferty, reading reports, rock, 24222. 73's (SILVERI GOMEZ, FRAGA - PONENT CATALAN, [SPAIN], ATS 909 & DEGEN 1103, ANTENA : 16 mt hilo externo, playdx yg via DXLD) ** GERMANY. 13820, Kall, 0812 on 13/4 with song of Adamo, // 7310 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF 2001D ant Folded Marconi own made), May Australian DX News via DXLD). 13820, KLL, 0907 song ‘chary chery lady’ and signal S3 max. At 1057 talks by man in German. At 1100 there was the German version of ‘easy rider’ (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 1, R75 with 2x16inv V and HF150 with 16 m horizontal antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Domenica 28 aprile 2013: 0708 - 7310, Kall Krekel (D) in portante muta. SF-BN 0710 - 6005, Kall Krekel (D) in portante muta. SF-IN (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, playdx yg via DXLD) silent carrier ** GERMANY. Upcoming frequency change of HCJB via Weenermoor: 0000-2400 on 3995 WNM 1.5 kW / non-dir to CeEu till Apr 30 0000-2400 NF 7365 WNM 1.5 kW / 145 deg to CeEu from May 01 (DX RE MIX NEWS #778 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 30, 2013 via DXLD) 3995 and soon also on 7365 kHz from May 1. "Missionswerk Voice of Hope" ab sofort Dienstags auf Radio HCJB um 1630 UT. / Tuesdays at 1630 UT (not AWR V of Hope ...) Hallo zusammen, ab sofort laeuft jeden Dienstag ein einstuendiges Programm des "Missionswerkes Voice of Hope e.V." (nicht zu verwechseln mit dem gleichnamigen AWR-Programm). Zeit: 16.30 UTC, Frequenz 3995 kHz (demnaechst auch \\ 7365 kHz) from Weenermoor. Adresse muesste lauten (wird aber sicher auch am Ende der Sendung angesagt): Missionswerk Voice of Hope e.V. Eckenhagener Str. 21 51580 Reichshof Germany Man freut sich dort ueber Empfangsberichte. (Stephan Schaa-D, A-DX Apr 2 via BC-DX 26 April via DXLD) ** GERMANY. 7265, Radio Gloria International, *0600-0610, 28-04, tuning music, identification: "Radio Gloria International", pop music. 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) On a Sunday 7265, HLR at 1333 found with sub-marginal signal (S1 with preamp!) 1 sec fades!! (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 1, R75 with 2x16inv V and HF150 with 16 m horizontal antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [and non]. AUSTRIA/BULGARIA/FRANCE/GERMANY/MADAGASCAR MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH (formerly T-SYSTEMS - DTK) A-13 operational MBR/DTK schedule of April 15th, 2013. Times are in UTC. A-13 period (31/03/2013 - 26/10/2013) sorted by broadcaster frq startstop ciraf loc pow azi day from to broad 6020 0400-0430 28SE NAU 100 130 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 9530 0300-0330 48 ISS 250 125 1234567 110413-261013 AWR 9610 1900-1930 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 110413-261013 AWR 9610 1930-2000 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 110413-261013 AWR 9610 2000-2030 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 120413-261013 AWR 9790 0900-1000 28W NAU 100 180 1...... 310313-261013 AWR 9830 1600-1630 28SE NAU 100 133 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 11610 0300-0330 48 NAU 250 140 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 11610 0330-0400 48 NAU 250 140 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 11610 1900-2100 38E,39 NAU 250 130 1234567 110413-261013 AWR 11755 2030-2100 46SE,47W NAU 100 180 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 11945 1900-1930 46W ISS 250 200 1234567 110413-261013 AWR 15140 0800-0830 37,38W NAU 100 205 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15155 1730-1800 48 NAU 250 140 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15170 1730-1800 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 050413-261013 AWR 15205 1900-1930 46S,47SW NAU 100 195 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15205 1930-2000 46SE,47W NAU 250 180 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15225 0400-0600 38E,39 NAU 250 130 1234567 120413-261013 AWR 15225 0700-0800 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15225 0800-0830 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15225 0830-0900 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15260 1900-2000 37,38W NAU 100 215 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15265 1500-1530 41N NAU 250 90 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15265 1530-1600 41N NAU 250 90 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15335 1530-1600 41N NAU 250 75 ....56. 310313-261013 AWR 15335 1530-1600 41N NAU 250 75 1234..7 310313-261013 AWR 15735 1500-1530 41N NAU 250 80 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 17575 1630-1700 48 ISS 250 125 1234567 110413-261013 AWR 17610 2000-2030 46E,47W NAU 100 180 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 17810 1300-1330 42,43W NAU 250 70 1.....7 310313-261013 AWR 17810 1300-1330 42,43W NAU 250 70 .23456. 310313-261013 AWR 17810 1330-1500 42,43W NAU 250 70 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 5930 2000-2015 39N NAU 250 120 1234567 310313-261013 BVB 5945 0700-0730 27,28N NAU 100 222 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 5945 0700-0745 27,28N NAU 100 222 ......7 310313-261013 BVB 6130 1800-1815 28,29 NAU 100 90 ....56. 050413-261013 BVB 6130 1830-1845 28,29 NAU 100 90 ......7 050413-261013 BVB 6130 1800-1830 28,29 NAU 100 90 ..3.... 050413-261013 BVB 6130 1800-1900 28,29 NAU 100 90 1...... 050413-261013 BVB 7310 0300-0315 39S NAU 250 124 1234567 310313-261013 BVB 9410 0400-0430 39NE,40 NAU 100 110 12....7 050413-261013 BVB 9430 1800-1830 39,40 MOS 300 ND 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 9430 1800-1815 39,40 MOS 300 ND ......7 310313-261013 BVB 9440 0330-0345 40 NAU 125 105 1234567 310313-261013 BVB 9460 0430-0445 39N NAU 125 120 1.....7 050413-261013 BVB 9460 0430-0450 39N NAU 125 120 .23456. 050413-261013 BVB 9490 0100-0115 41 NAU 250 90 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 9515 2030-2045 46N,47NW ISS 250 180 1234567 310313-261013 BVB 9635 1830-1915 39 SOF 100 126 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 9735 0500-0515 39,40 NAU 250 120 .....6. 310313-261013 BVB 9735 0500-0530 39,40 NAU 250 120 ....5.. 310313-261013 BVB 11655 0600-0615 46N,47NW NAU 125 180 .234567 070413-261013 BVB 11655 0600-0630 46N,47NW NAU 125 180 1...... 070413-261013 BVB 11855 1815-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 1...... 050413-261013 BVB 11855 1800-1830 39,40 NAU 100 105 .....6. 050413-261013 BVB 11855 1830-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 ..3.... 050413-261013 BVB 11855 1800-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 ....5.. 050413-261013 BVB 13580 1700-1715 39,40 MOS 300 125 .23.56. 080413-261013 BVB 13580 1700-1730 39,40 MOS 300 115 ...4... 310313-261013 BVB 13810 1700-1800 38E,39,40WISS 100 120 .2.456. 070413-261013 BVB 13810 1700-1745 38E,39,40WISS 100 120 1.3.... 070413-261013 BVB 13810 1700-1715 38E,39,40WISS 100 120 ......7 310313-261013 BVB 15160 1630-1730 47,48 NAU 100 150 1234567 310313-261013 BVB 15215 1700-1900 39 MOS 100 115 1.....7 310313-261013 BVB 15215 1700-1715 39 MOS 100 115 ..3..6. 310313-261013 BVB 15215 1700-1730 39 MOS 100 115 ....5.. 310313-261013 BVB 15215 1630-1645 41S MOS 125 115 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 15215 1630-1645 41S MOS 125 115 .....6. 310313-261013 BVB 15320 1600-1615 40 ISS 250 105 1234567 310313-261013 BVB 17495 1400-1430 41 ISS 250 83 1...... 310313-261013 BVB* 17495 1430-1500 41 NAU 250 95 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 17495 1430-1500 41 NAU 250 95 ......7 310313-261013 BVB 17515 1600-1900 38S,39S,47NAU 100 142 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 17515 1600-1900 38S,39S,47NAU 100 142 .....6. 310313-261013 BVB 17515 1700-1845 38S,39S,47NAU 100 142 ......7 310313-261013 BVB 17515 1630-1830 38S,39S,47NAU 100 142 ..3.... 310313-261013 BVB 17515 1630-1830 38S,39S,47NAU 100 142 ...4... 310313-261013 BVB 17515 1600-1800 38S,39S,47NAU 100 142 .2..... 310313-261013 BVB 17515 1600-1830 38S,39S,47NAU 100 142 ....5.. 310313-261013 BVB 17535 0830-1000 38,39 NAU 125 140 .....6. 310313-261013 BVB 17600 1515-1530 40,41 NAU 100 95 ......7 310313-261013 BVB 17600 1530-1559 40,41 NAU 100 95 .....6. 310313-261013 BVB 17650 1300-1330 44E,45W NAU 250 48 .234567 310313-261013 BVB 17650 1300-1400 44E,45W NAU 250 48 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 21460 1500-1515 41,49NW WER 250 75 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 21480 1115-1157 43S,44S MDC 125 45 1...... 140413-261013 BVB 21480 1100-1130 43S,44S MDC 125 45 ......7 140413-261013 BVB 21480 1115-1130 43S,44S MDC 125 45 .2..... 140413-261013 BVB 21480 1100-1115 43S,44S MDC 125 45 ..345.. 140413-261013 BVB 9585 1800-1900 28E,29 NAU 100 90 ......7 310313-261013 CHW 6055 1030-1100 27,28 NAU 125 222 1.....7 310313-261013 EMG 11695 1500-1530 29,30 ISS 250 60 ......7 310313-261013 EMG 13710 1100-1130 19,20,21 NAU 250 45 ......7 310313-261013 EMG 15310 1730-1800 48N ISS 100 125 ..3..6. 090413-261013 EYS 9520 0030-0130 40E,41NW NAU 250 100 1234567 310313-261013 GFA 9520 2330-0030 41NE,43S NAU 250 85 1234567 310313-261013 GFA 15215 1530-1630 40E,41NW NAU 250 99 1234567 310313-261013 GFA 15350 1230-1500 41 NAU 250 89 1234567 310313-261013 GFA 15390 1330-1530 41NE,43S NAU 250 85 1234567 310313-261013 GFA 13800 1530-1630 29S NAU 100 95 ......7 310313-261013 HCJ 5930 1700-1800 28E,29W NAU 250 90 1234567 050413-261013 IBB 5995 1600-1700 29,30 NAU 250 60 1234567 010413-261013 IBB 7280 0030-0400 40 NAU 250 105 1234567 310313-261013 IBB 9490 1630-1700 47,48 NAU 250 150 .23456. 310313-261013 IBB 9600 1900-1930 47,48 WER 250 150 1234567 310313-310313 IBB 9600 1900-1930 47,48 ISS 250 150 1234567 010413-261013 IBB 9645 1800-1830 47,48 WER 250 160 1234567 310313-310313 IBB 9645 1800-1830 47,48 ISS 250 160 1234567 010413-261013 IBB 9780 1700-1800 40E,41NW WER 250 90 1234567 310313-310313 IBB 9780 1700-1800 40E,41NW ISS 250 90 1234567 010413-261013 IBB 9815 0300-0330 47,48 WER 250 160 1234567 310313-310313 IBB 9815 0300-0330 47,48 ISS 250 160 1234567 010413-261013 IBB 9815 2030-2100 46,47 NAU 250 190 .23456. 310313-261013 IBB 11655 1630-1700 47,48 WER 250 150 .23456. 310313-310313 IBB 11655 1630-1700 47,48 ISS 250 150 .23456. 010413-261013 IBB 11925 1800-1900 48 ISS 250 130 1234567 090413-261013 IBB 11925 1900-1930 48 ISS 250 130 .23456. 090413-261013 IBB 13615 1500-1600 29SE NAU 250 90 1234567 310313-261013 IBB 13870 1630-1700 47,48 WER 250 150 .23456. 310313-310313 IBB 13870 1630-1700 47,48 ISS 250 140 .23456. 010413-261013 IBB 13870 1800-1900 48 NAU 250 140 1234567 310313-261013 IBB 13870 1900-1930 48 NAU 250 140 .23456. 310313-261013 IBB 15180 1400-1500 30S WER 250 75 1234567 310313-310313 IBB 15180 1500-1600 30S WER 250 75 1234567 310313-310313 IBB 15180 1400-1500 30S ISS 250 75 1234567 010413-261013 IBB 15180 1500-1600 30S ISS 250 75 1234567 010413-261013 IBB 15360 0600-0900 40E,41NW NAU 250 90 1234567 310313-261013 IBB 15470 1600-1700 40 NAU 250 105 1234567 310313-261013 IBB 15560 0400-0600 40E,41NW NAU 250 90 1234567 310313-261013 IBB 15620 1800-1900 48 ISS 250 130 1234567 090413-261013 IBB 7330 1000-1100 27,28 ISS 100 60 1...... 310313-261013 JOY* 6095 0800-1500 18SW,27,28NAU 100 240 1.....7 310313-261013 KBC 7375 0000-0200 2,3,4,6,7 NAU 125 300 1...... 310313-300413 KBC 7375 0000-0200 2,3,4,6,7 NAU 125 300 1...... 010913-261013 KBC 9925 0000-0200 2,3,4,6,7 NAU 125 300 1...... 050513-300813 KBC 9655 1830-1900 46S,47SE WER 500 180 1234567 310313-261013 LWF 15315 1830-1900 46S,47SE ISS 500 180 1234567 310313-261013 LWF 6115 2000-2200 37,38W WER 250 210 1234567 310313-261013 MBR AR 7420 2200-2300 37,38W WER 250 210 1234567 310313-261013 MBR AR 9595 2000-2100 37,46 WER 500 210 1234567 310313-261013 MBR FR 9715 2100-2200 46E,47,52NWER 500 180 1234567 310313-261013 MBR FR 11600 1700-1900 29,30 WER 250 60 1234567 310313-261013 MBR RU 11840 1900-2000 37,46 WER 500 210 1234567 310313-261013 MBR FR 13750 1800-1900 46SE WER 500 180 1234567 310313-261013 MBR EN 13840 1700-1800 37,38 WER 100 180 1234567 310313-261013 MBR AR 6045 0900-1000 27E,28 NAU 100 275 1...... 310313-261013 MSM# 5945 1100-1115 27,28 NAU 250 222 1...... 310313-261013 MWA 11680 0200-0400 38,39,40 NAU 250 140 1234567 310313-261013 NHK 15445 1700-1900 38,39,40 NAU 250 140 1234567 310313-261013 NHK 17630 1600-1630 47E,48 ISS 500 130 ..3...7 310313-261013 OGM 9515 1930-2000 37,38 NAU 250 155 1...... 310313-261013 PAB 15205 1400-1430 41 ISS 100 90 1...... 310313-261013 PAB 15205 1415-1430 41 ISS 100 90 .234567 310313-261013 PAB 15205 1430-1445 41 ISS 250 90 1...... 310313-261013 PAB 9610 0530-0600 46SE NAU 100 180 .23456. 310313-261013 RMI& 11945 1930-2000 46SE WER 100 180 1234567 310313-261013 RMI [Jeff White has recently confirmed to us that these are NOT on the air currently; how many other entries are likewise??? -gh] 13830 1700-1800 38E,39S,48ISS 100 125 1..4... 090413-261013 SBO 9450 1400-1600 18,27,28 WER 100 300 1234567 310313-261013 TOM 9655 1400-1600 18,27,28 NAU 100 275 .2345.. 310313-261013 TOM 9655 1400-1600 18,27,28 MOS 100 285 1....67 310313-261013 TOM 13810 1400-1600 28,29W,38EISS 100 120 1234567 310313-261013 TOM 6095 0800-1000 18SW,27,28NAU 100 230 .23456. 310313-261013 TRS 6105 0657-0750 27 NAU 100 285 .234567 310313-271013 TWR 6105 0657-0720 27 NAU 100 285 1...... 310313-271013 TWR 7215 0827-0900 28 NAU 100 135 1234567 310313-271013 TWR 7215 1400-1428 28,29,30 NAU 100 65 .2..... 310313-271013 TWR 7215 1400-1428 28,29,30 NAU 100 65 1.34567 310313-271013 TWR 9835 2300-2330 12,13,14 NAU 100 240 1234567 310313-261013 VZM 11920 2300-0045 12,13,14 NAU 100 240 1234567 310313-261013 VZM 11840 1900-2000 46E WER 125 180 ....5.7 310313-261013 WRN sorted by frequency:: frq startstop ciraf loc pow azi day from to broad 5930 1700-1800 28E,29W NAU 250 90 1234567 050413-261013 IBB 5930 2000-2015 39N NAU 250 120 1234567 310313-261013 BVB 5945 0700-0730 27,28N NAU 100 222 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 5945 0700-0745 27,28N NAU 100 222 ......7 310313-261013 BVB 5945 1100-1115 27,28 NAU 250 222 1...... 310313-261013 MWA 5995 1600-1700 29,30 NAU 250 60 1234567 010413-261013 IBB 6020 0400-0430 28SE NAU 100 130 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 6045 0900-1000 27E,28 NAU 100 275 1...... 310313-261013 MSM# 6055 1030-1100 27,28 NAU 125 222 1.....7 310313-261013 EMG 6095 0800-1000 18SW,27,28NAU 100 230 .23456. 310313-261013 TRS 6095 0800-1500 18SW,27,28NAU 100 240 1.....7 310313-261013 KBC 6105 0657-0720 27 NAU 100 285 1...... 310313-271013 TWR 6105 0657-0750 27 NAU 100 285 .234567 310313-271013 TWR 6115 2000-2200 37,38W WER 250 210 1234567 310313-261013 MBR AR 6130 1800-1815 28,29 NAU 100 90 ....56. 050413-261013 BVB 6130 1800-1830 28,29 NAU 100 90 ..3.... 050413-261013 BVB 6130 1800-1900 28,29 NAU 100 90 1...... 050413-261013 BVB 6130 1830-1845 28,29 NAU 100 90 ......7 050413-261013 BVB 7215 0827-0900 28 NAU 100 135 1234567 310313-271013 TWR 7215 1400-1428 28,29,30 NAU 100 65 1.34567 310313-271013 TWR 7215 1400-1428 28,29,30 NAU 100 65 .2..... 310313-271013 TWR 7280 0030-0400 40 NAU 250 105 1234567 310313-261013 IBB 7310 0300-0315 39S NAU 250 124 1234567 310313-261013 BVB 7330 1000-1100 27,28 ISS 100 60 1...... 310313-261013 JOY* 7375 0000-0200 2,3,4,6,7 NAU 125 300 1...... 010913-261013 KBC 7375 0000-0200 2,3,4,6,7 NAU 125 300 1...... 310313-300413 KBC 7420 2200-2300 37,38W WER 250 210 1234567 310313-261013 MBR AR 9410 0400-0430 39NE,40 NAU 100 110 12....7 050413-261013 BVB 9430 1800-1815 39,40 MOS 300 ND ......7 310313-261013 BVB 9430 1800-1830 39,40 MOS 300 ND 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 9440 0330-0345 40 NAU 125 105 1234567 310313-261013 BVB 9450 1400-1600 18,27,28 WER 100 300 1234567 310313-261013 TOM 9460 0430-0445 39N NAU 125 120 1.....7 050413-261013 BVB 9460 0430-0450 39N NAU 125 120 .23456. 050413-261013 BVB 9490 0100-0115 41 NAU 250 90 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 9490 1630-1700 47,48 NAU 250 150 .23456. 310313-261013 IBB 9515 1930-2000 37,38 NAU 250 155 1...... 310313-261013 PAB 9515 2030-2045 46N,47NW ISS 250 180 1234567 310313-261013 BVB 9520 0030-0130 40E,41NW NAU 250 100 1234567 310313-261013 GFA 9520 2330-0030 41NE,43S NAU 250 85 1234567 310313-261013 GFA 9530 0300-0330 48 ISS 250 125 1234567 110413-261013 AWR 9585 1800-1900 28E,29 NAU 100 90 ......7 310313-261013 CHW 9595 2000-2100 37,46 WER 500 210 1234567 310313-261013 MBR FR 9600 1900-1930 47,48 ISS 250 150 1234567 010413-261013 IBB 9600 1900-1930 47,48 WER 250 150 1234567 310313-310313 IBB 9610 0530-0600 46SE NAU 100 180 .23456. 310313-261013 RMI& 9610 1900-1930 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 110413-261013 AWR 9610 1930-2000 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 110413-261013 AWR 9610 2000-2030 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 120413-261013 AWR 9635 1830-1915 39 SOF 100 126 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 9645 1800-1830 47,48 ISS 250 160 1234567 010413-261013 IBB 9645 1800-1830 47,48 WER 250 160 1234567 310313-310313 IBB 9655 1400-1600 18,27,28 MOS 100 285 1....67 310313-261013 TOM 9655 1400-1600 18,27,28 NAU 100 275 .2345.. 310313-261013 TOM 9655 1830-1900 46S,47SE WER 500 180 1234567 310313-261013 LWF 9715 2100-2200 46E,47,52NWER 500 180 1234567 310313-261013 MBR FR 9735 0500-0515 39,40 NAU 250 120 .....6. 310313-261013 BVB 9735 0500-0530 39,40 NAU 250 120 ....5.. 310313-261013 BVB 9780 1700-1800 40E,41NW ISS 250 90 1234567 010413-261013 IBB 9780 1700-1800 40E,41NW WER 250 90 1234567 310313-310313 IBB 9790 0900-1000 28W NAU 100 180 1...... 310313-261013 AWR 9815 0300-0330 47,48 ISS 250 160 1234567 010413-261013 IBB 9815 0300-0330 47,48 WER 250 160 1234567 310313-310313 IBB 9815 2030-2100 46,47 NAU 250 190 .23456. 310313-261013 IBB 9830 1600-1630 28SE NAU 100 133 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 9835 2300-2330 12,13,14 NAU 100 240 1234567 310313-261013 VZM 9925 0000-0200 2,3,4,6,7 NAU 125 300 1...... 050513-300813 KBC 11600 1700-1900 29,30 WER 250 60 1234567 310313-261013 MBR RU 11610 0300-0330 48 NAU 250 140 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 11610 0330-0400 48 NAU 250 140 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 11610 1900-2100 38E,39 NAU 250 130 1234567 110413-261013 AWR 11655 0600-0615 46N,47NW NAU 125 180 .234567 070413-261013 BVB 11655 0600-0630 46N,47NW NAU 125 180 1...... 070413-261013 BVB 11655 1630-1700 47,48 ISS 250 150 .23456. 010413-261013 IBB 11655 1630-1700 47,48 WER 250 150 .23456. 310313-310313 IBB 11680 0200-0400 38,39,40 NAU 250 140 1234567 310313-261013 NHK 11695 1500-1530 29,30 ISS 250 60 ......7 310313-261013 EMG 11755 2030-2100 46SE,47W NAU 100 180 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 11840 1900-2000 37,46 WER 500 210 1234567 310313-261013 MBR FR 11840 1900-2000 46E WER 125 180 ....5.7 310313-261013 WRN 11855 1800-1830 39,40 NAU 100 105 .....6. 050413-261013 BVB 11855 1800-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 ....5.. 050413-261013 BVB 11855 1815-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 1...... 050413-261013 BVB 11855 1830-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 ..3.... 050413-261013 BVB 11920 2300-0045 12,13,14 NAU 100 240 1234567 310313-261013 VZM 11925 1800-1900 48 ISS 250 130 1234567 090413-261013 IBB 11925 1900-1930 48 ISS 250 130 .23456. 090413-261013 IBB 11945 1900-1930 46W ISS 250 200 1234567 110413-261013 AWR 11945 1930-2000 46SE WER 100 180 1234567 310313-261013 RMI 13580 1700-1715 39,40 MOS 300 125 .23.56. 080413-261013 BVB 13580 1700-1730 39,40 MOS 300 115 ...4... 310313-261013 BVB 13615 1500-1600 29SE NAU 250 90 1234567 310313-261013 IBB 13710 1100-1130 19,20,21 NAU 250 45 ......7 310313-261013 EMG 13750 1800-1900 46SE WER 500 180 1234567 310313-261013 MBR EN 13800 1530-1630 29S NAU 100 95 ......7 310313-261013 HCJ 13810 1400-1600 28,29W,38EISS 100 120 1234567 310313-261013 TOM 13810 1700-1715 38E,39,40WISS 100 120 ......7 310313-261013 BVB 13810 1700-1745 38E,39,40WISS 100 120 1.3.... 070413-261013 BVB 13810 1700-1800 38E,39,40WISS 100 120 .2.456. 070413-261013 BVB 13830 1700-1800 38E,39S,48ISS 100 125 1..4... 090413-261013 SBO 13840 1700-1800 37,38 WER 100 180 1234567 310313-261013 MBR AR 13870 1630-1700 47,48 ISS 250 140 .23456. 010413-261013 IBB 13870 1630-1700 47,48 WER 250 150 .23456. 310313-310313 IBB 13870 1800-1900 48 NAU 250 140 1234567 310313-261013 IBB 13870 1900-1930 48 NAU 250 140 .23456. 310313-261013 IBB 15140 0800-0830 37,38W NAU 100 205 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15155 1730-1800 48 NAU 250 140 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15160 1630-1730 47,48 NAU 100 150 1234567 310313-261013 BVB 15170 1730-1800 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 050413-261013 AWR 15180 1400-1500 30S ISS 250 75 1234567 010413-261013 IBB 15180 1400-1500 30S WER 250 75 1234567 310313-310313 IBB 15180 1500-1600 30S ISS 250 75 1234567 010413-261013 IBB 15180 1500-1600 30S WER 250 75 1234567 310313-310313 IBB 15205 1400-1430 41 ISS 100 90 1...... 310313-261013 PAB 15205 1415-1430 41 ISS 100 90 .234567 310313-261013 PAB 15205 1430-1445 41 ISS 250 90 1...... 310313-261013 PAB 15205 1900-1930 46S,47SW NAU 100 195 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15205 1930-2000 46SE,47W NAU 250 180 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15215 1530-1630 40E,41NW NAU 250 99 1234567 310313-261013 GFA 15215 1630-1645 41S MOS 125 115 .....6. 310313-261013 BVB 15215 1630-1645 41S MOS 125 115 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 15215 1700-1715 39 MOS 100 115 ..3..6. 310313-261013 BVB 15215 1700-1730 39 MOS 100 115 ....5.. 310313-261013 BVB 15215 1700-1900 39 MOS 100 115 1.....7 310313-261013 BVB 15225 0400-0600 38E,39 NAU 250 130 1234567 120413-261013 AWR 15225 0700-0800 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15225 0800-0830 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15225 0830-0900 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15260 1900-2000 37,38W NAU 100 215 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15265 1500-1530 41N NAU 250 90 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15265 1530-1600 41N NAU 250 90 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15310 1730-1800 48N ISS 100 125 ..3..6. 090413-261013 EYS 15315 1830-1900 46S,47SE ISS 500 180 1234567 310313-261013 LWF 15320 1600-1615 40 ISS 250 105 1234567 310313-261013 BVB 15335 1530-1600 41N NAU 250 75 ....56. 310313-261013 AWR 15335 1530-1600 41N NAU 250 75 1234..7 310313-261013 AWR 15350 1230-1500 41 NAU 250 89 1234567 310313-261013 GFA 15360 0600-0900 40E,41NW NAU 250 90 1234567 310313-261013 IBB 15390 1330-1530 41NE,43S NAU 250 85 1234567 310313-261013 GFA 15445 1700-1900 38,39,40 NAU 250 140 1234567 310313-261013 NHK 15470 1600-1700 40 NAU 250 105 1234567 310313-261013 IBB 15560 0400-0600 40E,41NW NAU 250 90 1234567 310313-261013 IBB 15620 1800-1900 48 ISS 250 130 1234567 090413-261013 IBB 15735 1500-1530 41N NAU 250 80 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 17495 1400-1430 41 ISS 250 83 1...... 310313-261013 BVB* 17495 1430-1500 41 NAU 250 95 ......7 310313-261013 BVB 17495 1430-1500 41 NAU 250 95 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 17515 1600-1800 38S,39S,47NAU 100 142 .2..... 310313-261013 BVB 17515 1600-1830 38S,39S,47NAU 100 142 ....5.. 310313-261013 BVB 17515 1600-1900 38S,39S,47NAU 100 142 .....6. 310313-261013 BVB 17515 1600-1900 38S,39S,47NAU 100 142 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 17515 1630-1830 38S,39S,47NAU 100 142 ...4... 310313-261013 BVB 17515 1630-1830 38S,39S,47NAU 100 142 ..3.... 310313-261013 BVB 17515 1700-1845 38S,39S,47NAU 100 142 ......7 310313-261013 BVB 17535 0830-1000 38,39 NAU 125 140 .....6. 310313-261013 BVB 17575 1630-1700 48 ISS 250 125 1234567 110413-261013 AWR 17600 1515-1530 40,41 NAU 100 95 ......7 310313-261013 BVB 17600 1530-1559 40,41 NAU 100 95 .....6. 310313-261013 BVB 17610 2000-2030 46E,47W NAU 100 180 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 17630 1600-1630 47E,48 ISS 500 130 ..3...7 310313-261013 OGM 17650 1300-1330 44E,45W NAU 250 48 .234567 310313-261013 BVB 17650 1300-1400 44E,45W NAU 250 48 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 17810 1300-1330 42,43W NAU 250 70 1.....7 310313-261013 AWR 17810 1300-1330 42,43W NAU 250 70 .23456. 310313-261013 AWR 17810 1330-1500 42,43W NAU 250 70 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 21460 1500-1515 41,49NW WER 250 75 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 21480 1100-1115 43S,44S MDC 125 45 ..345.. 140413-261013 BVB 21480 1100-1130 43S,44S MDC 125 45 ......7 140413-261013 BVB 21480 1115-1130 43S,44S MDC 125 45 .2..... 140413-261013 BVB 21480 1115-1157 43S,44S MDC 125 45 1...... 140413-261013 BVB sorted by transmitter site:: frq startstop ciraf loc pow azi day from to broad 7330 1000-1100 27,28 ISS 100 60 1...... 310313-261013 JOY* 9515 2030-2045 46N,47NW ISS 250 180 1234567 310313-261013 BVB 9530 0300-0330 48 ISS 250 125 1234567 110413-261013 AWR 9600 1900-1930 47,48 ISS 250 150 1234567 010413-261013 IBB 9645 1800-1830 47,48 ISS 250 160 1234567 010413-261013 IBB 9780 1700-1800 40E,41NW ISS 250 90 1234567 010413-261013 IBB 9815 0300-0330 47,48 ISS 250 160 1234567 010413-261013 IBB 11655 1630-1700 47,48 ISS 250 150 .23456. 010413-261013 IBB 11695 1500-1530 29,30 ISS 250 60 ......7 310313-261013 EMG 11925 1800-1900 48 ISS 250 130 1234567 090413-261013 IBB 11925 1900-1930 48 ISS 250 130 .23456. 090413-261013 IBB 11945 1900-1930 46W ISS 250 200 1234567 110413-261013 AWR 13810 1400-1600 28,29W,38EISS 100 120 1234567 310313-261013 TOM 13810 1700-1715 38E,39,40WISS 100 120 ......7 310313-261013 BVB 13810 1700-1745 38E,39,40WISS 100 120 1.3.... 070413-261013 BVB 13810 1700-1800 38E,39,40WISS 100 120 .2.456. 070413-261013 BVB 13830 1700-1800 38E,39S,48ISS 100 125 1..4... 090413-261013 SBO 13870 1630-1700 47,48 ISS 250 140 .23456. 010413-261013 IBB 15180 1400-1500 30S ISS 250 75 1234567 010413-261013 IBB 15180 1500-1600 30S ISS 250 75 1234567 010413-261013 IBB 15205 1400-1430 41 ISS 100 90 1...... 310313-261013 PAB 15205 1415-1430 41 ISS 100 90 .234567 310313-261013 PAB 15205 1430-1445 41 ISS 250 90 1...... 310313-261013 PAB 15310 1730-1800 48N ISS 100 125 ..3..6. 090413-261013 EYS 15315 1830-1900 46S,47SE ISS 500 180 1234567 310313-261013 LWF 15320 1600-1615 40 ISS 250 105 1234567 310313-261013 BVB 15620 1800-1900 48 ISS 250 130 1234567 090413-261013 IBB 17495 1400-1430 41 ISS 250 83 1...... 310313-261013 BVB* 17575 1630-1700 48 ISS 250 125 1234567 110413-261013 AWR 17630 1600-1630 47E,48 ISS 500 130 ..3...7 310313-261013 OGM 21480 1100-1115 43S,44S MDC 125 45 ..345.. 140413-261013 BVB 21480 1100-1130 43S,44S MDC 125 45 ......7 140413-261013 BVB 21480 1115-1130 43S,44S MDC 125 45 .2..... 140413-261013 BVB 21480 1115-1157 43S,44S MDC 125 45 1...... 140413-261013 BVB 9430 1800-1815 39,40 MOS 300 ND ......7 310313-261013 BVB 9430 1800-1830 39,40 MOS 300 ND 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 9655 1400-1600 18,27,28 MOS 100 285 1....67 310313-261013 TOM 13580 1700-1715 39,40 MOS 300 125 .23.56. 080413-261013 BVB 13580 1700-1730 39,40 MOS 300 115 ...4... 310313-261013 BVB 15215 1630-1645 41S MOS 125 115 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 15215 1630-1645 41S MOS 125 115 .....6. 310313-261013 BVB 15215 1700-1715 39 MOS 100 115 ..3..6. 310313-261013 BVB 15215 1700-1730 39 MOS 100 115 ....5.. 310313-261013 BVB 15215 1700-1900 39 MOS 100 115 1.....7 310313-261013 BVB 5930 1700-1800 28E,29W NAU 250 90 1234567 050413-261013 IBB 5930 2000-2015 39N NAU 250 120 1234567 310313-261013 BVB 5945 0700-0730 27,28N NAU 100 222 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 5945 0700-0745 27,28N NAU 100 222 ......7 310313-261013 BVB 5945 1100-1115 27,28 NAU 250 222 1...... 310313-261013 MWA 5995 1600-1700 29,30 NAU 250 60 1234567 010413-261013 IBB 6020 0400-0430 28SE NAU 100 130 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 6045 0900-1000 27E,28 NAU 100 275 1...... 310313-261013 MSM# 6055 1030-1100 27,28 NAU 125 222 1.....7 310313-261013 EMG 6095 0800-1000 18SW,27,28NAU 100 230 .23456. 310313-261013 TRS 6095 0800-1500 18SW,27,28NAU 100 240 1.....7 310313-261013 KBC 6105 0657-0720 27 NAU 100 285 1...... 310313-271013 TWR 6105 0657-0750 27 NAU 100 285 .234567 310313-271013 TWR 6130 1800-1815 28,29 NAU 100 90 ....56. 050413-261013 BVB 6130 1800-1830 28,29 NAU 100 90 ..3.... 050413-261013 BVB 6130 1800-1900 28,29 NAU 100 90 1...... 050413-261013 BVB 6130 1830-1845 28,29 NAU 100 90 ......7 050413-261013 BVB 7215 0827-0900 28 NAU 100 135 1234567 310313-271013 TWR 7215 1400-1428 28,29,30 NAU 100 65 1.34567 310313-271013 TWR 7215 1400-1428 28,29,30 NAU 100 65 .2..... 310313-271013 TWR 7280 0030-0400 40 NAU 250 105 1234567 310313-261013 IBB 7310 0300-0315 39S NAU 250 124 1234567 310313-261013 BVB 7375 0000-0200 2,3,4,6,7 NAU 125 300 1...... 310313-300413 KBC 7375 0000-0200 2,3,4,6,7 NAU 125 300 1...... 010913-261013 KBC 9410 0400-0430 39NE,40 NAU 100 110 12....7 050413-261013 BVB 9440 0330-0345 40 NAU 125 105 1234567 310313-261013 BVB 9460 0430-0445 39N NAU 125 120 1.....7 050413-261013 BVB 9460 0430-0450 39N NAU 125 120 .23456. 050413-261013 BVB 9490 0100-0115 41 NAU 250 90 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 9490 1630-1700 47,48 NAU 250 150 .23456. 310313-261013 IBB 9515 1930-2000 37,38 NAU 250 155 1...... 310313-261013 PAB 9520 0030-0130 40E,41NW NAU 250 100 1234567 310313-261013 GFA 9520 2330-0030 41NE,43S NAU 250 85 1234567 310313-261013 GFA 9585 1800-1900 28E,29 NAU 100 90 ......7 310313-261013 CHW 9610 0530-0600 46SE NAU 100 180 .23456. 310313-261013 RMI& 9610 1900-1930 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 110413-261013 AWR 9610 1930-2000 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 110413-261013 AWR 9610 2000-2030 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 120413-261013 AWR 9655 1400-1600 18,27,28 NAU 100 275 .2345.. 310313-261013 TOM 9735 0500-0515 39,40 NAU 250 120 .....6. 310313-261013 BVB 9735 0500-0530 39,40 NAU 250 120 ....5.. 310313-261013 BVB 9790 0900-1000 28W NAU 100 180 1...... 310313-261013 AWR 9815 2030-2100 46,47 NAU 250 190 .23456. 310313-261013 IBB 9830 1600-1630 28SE NAU 100 133 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 9835 2300-2330 12,13,14 NAU 100 240 1234567 310313-261013 VZM 9925 0000-0200 2,3,4,6,7 NAU 125 300 1...... 050513-300813 KBC 11610 0300-0330 48 NAU 250 140 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 11610 0330-0400 48 NAU 250 140 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 11610 1900-2100 38E,39 NAU 250 130 1234567 110413-261013 AWR 11655 0600-0615 46N,47NW NAU 125 180 .234567 070413-261013 BVB 11655 0600-0630 46N,47NW NAU 125 180 1...... 070413-261013 BVB 11680 0200-0400 38,39,40 NAU 250 140 1234567 310313-261013 NHK 11755 2030-2100 46SE,47W NAU 100 180 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 11855 1800-1830 39,40 NAU 100 105 .....6. 050413-261013 BVB 11855 1800-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 ....5.. 050413-261013 BVB 11855 1815-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 1...... 050413-261013 BVB 11855 1830-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 ..3.... 050413-261013 BVB 11920 2300-0045 12,13,14 NAU 100 240 1234567 310313-261013 VZM 13615 1500-1600 29SE NAU 250 90 1234567 310313-261013 IBB 13710 1100-1130 19,20,21 NAU 250 45 ......7 310313-261013 EMG 13800 1530-1630 29S NAU 100 95 ......7 310313-261013 HCJ 13870 1800-1900 48 NAU 250 140 1234567 310313-261013 IBB 13870 1900-1930 48 NAU 250 140 .23456. 310313-261013 IBB 15140 0800-0830 37,38W NAU 100 205 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15155 1730-1800 48 NAU 250 140 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15160 1630-1730 47,48 NAU 100 150 1234567 310313-261013 BVB 15170 1730-1800 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 050413-261013 AWR 15205 1900-1930 46S,47SW NAU 100 195 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15205 1930-2000 46SE,47W NAU 250 180 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15215 1530-1630 40E,41NW NAU 250 99 1234567 310313-261013 GFA 15225 0400-0600 38E,39 NAU 250 130 1234567 120413-261013 AWR 15225 0700-0800 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15225 0800-0830 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15225 0830-0900 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15260 1900-2000 37,38W NAU 100 215 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15265 1500-1530 41N NAU 250 90 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15265 1530-1600 41N NAU 250 90 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 15335 1530-1600 41N NAU 250 75 1234..7 310313-261013 AWR 15335 1530-1600 41N NAU 250 75 ....56. 310313-261013 AWR 15350 1230-1500 41 NAU 250 89 1234567 310313-261013 GFA 15360 0600-0900 40E,41NW NAU 250 90 1234567 310313-261013 IBB 15390 1330-1530 41NE,43S NAU 250 85 1234567 310313-261013 GFA 15445 1700-1900 38,39,40 NAU 250 140 1234567 310313-261013 NHK 15470 1600-1700 40 NAU 250 105 1234567 310313-261013 IBB 15560 0400-0600 40E,41NW NAU 250 90 1234567 310313-261013 IBB 15735 1500-1530 41N NAU 250 80 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 17495 1430-1500 41 NAU 250 95 ......7 310313-261013 BVB 17495 1430-1500 41 NAU 250 95 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 17515 1600-1800 38S,39S,47NAU 100 142 .2..... 310313-261013 BVB 17515 1600-1830 38S,39S,47NAU 100 142 ....5.. 310313-261013 BVB 17515 1600-1900 38S,39S,47NAU 100 142 .....6. 310313-261013 BVB 17515 1600-1900 38S,39S,47NAU 100 142 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 17515 1630-1830 38S,39S,47NAU 100 142 ..3.... 310313-261013 BVB 17515 1630-1830 38S,39S,47NAU 100 142 ...4... 310313-261013 BVB 17515 1700-1845 38S,39S,47NAU 100 142 ......7 310313-261013 BVB 17535 0830-1000 38,39 NAU 125 140 .....6. 310313-261013 BVB 17600 1515-1530 40,41 NAU 100 95 ......7 310313-261013 BVB 17600 1530-1559 40,41 NAU 100 95 .....6. 310313-261013 BVB 17610 2000-2030 46E,47W NAU 100 180 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 17650 1300-1330 44E,45W NAU 250 48 .234567 310313-261013 BVB 17650 1300-1400 44E,45W NAU 250 48 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 17810 1300-1330 42,43W NAU 250 70 .23456. 310313-261013 AWR 17810 1300-1330 42,43W NAU 250 70 1.....7 310313-261013 AWR 17810 1330-1500 42,43W NAU 250 70 1234567 310313-261013 AWR 9635 1830-1915 39 SOF 100 126 1...... 310313-261013 BVB 6115 2000-2200 37,38W WER 250 210 1234567 310313-261013 MBR AR 7420 2200-2300 37,38W WER 250 210 1234567 310313-261013 MBR AR 9450 1400-1600 18,27,28 WER 100 300 1234567 310313-261013 TOM 9595 2000-2100 37,46 WER 500 210 1234567 310313-261013 MBR FR 9600 1900-1930 47,48 WER 250 150 1234567 310313-310313 IBB 9645 1800-1830 47,48 WER 250 160 1234567 310313-310313 IBB 9655 1830-1900 46S,47SE WER 500 180 1234567 310313-261013 LWF 9715 2100-2200 46E,47,52NWER 500 180 1234567 310313-261013 MBR FR 9780 1700-1800 40E,41NW WER 250 90 1234567 310313-310313 IBB 9815 0300-0330 47,48 WER 250 160 1234567 310313-310313 IBB 11600 1700-1900 29,30 WER 250 60 1234567 310313-261013 MBR RU 11655 1630-1700 47,48 WER 250 150 .23456. 310313-310313 IBB 11840 1900-2000 37,46 WER 500 210 1234567 310313-261013 MBR FR 11840 1900-2000 46E WER 125 180 ....5.7 310313-261013 WRN 11945 1930-2000 46SE WER 100 180 1234567 310313-261013 RMI 13750 1800-1900 46SE WER 500 180 1234567 310313-261013 MBR EN 13840 1700-1800 37,38 WER 100 180 1234567 310313-261013 MBR AR 13870 1630-1700 47,48 WER 250 150 .23456. 310313-310313 IBB 15180 1400-1500 30S WER 250 75 1234567 310313-310313 IBB 15180 1500-1600 30S WER 250 75 1234567 310313-310313 IBB 21460 1500-1515 41,49NW WER 250 75 1...... 310313-261013 BVB # (per RA) * = 1st Sunday of the month Day 1 = Sunday ... Day 7 = Saturday List of Broadcasters using MEDIA BROADCAST technical equipment: ADM internal name (not "Abu Dhabi Media Company") AWR Adventist World Radio BVB High Adventure Gospel - Bible Voice Broadcasting CHW Christliche Wissenschaft EMG Evangelische Missionsgemeinden in Deutschland EYS MBR internal customer name GFA Gospel for Asia HCJ Voice of the Andes IBB International Broadcasting Bureau, USA JOY MBR internal customer name KBC§ Mighty KBC Radio LWF Lutheran World Federation MBR MEDIA BROADCAST (ex Deutsche Telekom, DTK), comment by wb.: TENTATIVELY - in HFCC list requested under YFR Ar, En, Fr languages [see below] MSM% XVRB Radio 3rd Sun and Radio Iceman 4th Sun (wb.) MWA Missionswerk Arche NHK Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Radio Japan Tokyo OGM NGO [RHU Radio Huriyo Xoriyo Ogaden] PAB Pan Am Broadcasting RMI Radio Miami International RMI& [Hamada Radio International], not in MBR schedule, but HFCC file SBO Sagalee Bilisummaa Oromoo, Voice of Oromo Liberation TOM The Overcomer Ministry TRS Transport Radio Mon-Fri; KBC Mighty KBC Radio, Sat/Sun TWR Trans World Radio VZM [HCJB transmissions, Spanish, German, Kulina, Portuguese] WRN World Radio Network [Radio Biafra London] [long inactive -- gh] § For reception reports please mail to or write to The Mighty KBC Argonstraat 6 6718 WT Ede The Netherlands, Europe Website: % XVRB Radio - It's The Music Museum Website: E-mail: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Puetz MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH Order Management & Backoffice Josef-Lammerting-Allee 8-10 D-50933 Cologne, Germany Please send your inquiries and reception reports to: E-Mail: Internet: (MBR via WORLDWIDE DX CLUB, transformed and condensed to 71 column by Michael Bethge-D, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Apr 28 via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DXLD) Perhaps I missed it, but in case it has not been gathered from all the clutter yet: No use of Trincomalee by Media Broadcast anymore, so apparently the Germans have finally withdrawn and SLBC is on its own with this facility now. Placements at Moosbrunn have revived, and for the first time bookings have been placed at Kostinbrod and Talata Volonondry, both for Bible Voice Broadcasting. But by far the biggest bummer: Wertachtal has essentially been withdrawn, almost all transmissions have been transferred to other sites in at least three steps during April. Have VOA and RFE/RL ever used Issoudun before April 1st? (As far as I know: No.) Still scheduled for Wertachtal are Brother Scare 1400-1600 on 9450, Lutheran World Federation 1830-1900 on 9655 and, if this transmission exists at all, WRMI with what? 1930-2000 on 11945. On Thu and Sat there is also Radio Biafra London 1900-2000 on 11840 and only on Sat Bible Voice Broadcasting 1500-1515 on 21460. That's all now. [Like I said, the RMI bookings are NOT currently active; both 0530 and 1930 were once Hamada Radio International, I believe; nor RBL, but you may want to check --- gh] Reminds me badly of the final weeks/months of Jülich, when only two transmissions in a very limited time frame remained to facilitate maintaining the equipment in operational condition. I suspect that's also the state in which the Wertachtal plant is now, for the time being, until a final closure at a not too distant point in future if not something completely unexpected will happen (Kai Ludwig, WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: MBR MEDIA BROADCAST (ex Deutsche Telekom, DTK), comment by wb.: TENTATIVELY - in HFCC list requested under YFR Ar, En, Fr languages. I.e. merely wishful thinking. Is Harold Camping still able and, more importantly, willing to grasp that he has killed his life's work himself, even hit more than just the final nail into the coffin of the largest shortwave plant in Central Europe? What a tragic figure (Kai Ludwig, May 1, ibid.) Not looking good for Wertachtal. Perhaps corporate cousin TDF Issoudun provides enough capacity along with Nauen. I recall hearing the original test transmissions from Wertachtal in the early 1970's. Big improvement over Jülich for DW reception. Speaking of Madagascar and BVB, I notice that tdp.info shows the two Thomson transmitters from Bonaire being moved to the MGLOB facility. I think there were three units moved from Hörby. Could MGLOB have as many as six transmitters operating, assuming the electrical supply will handle it? Might be as many as seven if the old "third" (ABB?) 250 kW unit is also still running? I assume the original two Philips from 1972 were scrapped (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Obviously Nauen and Issoudun can fulfill the remaining demand after RNW and Family Radio went away. It is also worth it to check out what is broadcast in detail. If IBB goes away, too, as explicitly announced in the latest BBG budget request, very little secular broadcasts will remain. The start and end dates show in detail how transmissions have been withdrawn from the Wertachtal plant. It happened in a couple of steps, starting on April 1 (thus the list is such a clutter, with a number of transmissions being listed for Wertachtal from March 31 to March 31). Looks like being decided at rather short notice after earlier plans were to reduce the transmissions, but not to such a very basic limit to merely keep the equipment alive. The question is how well it works to replace the Wertachtal HQ antennas by transmissions through the ALLISS and DuS systems at Nauen. Right now I cannot even detect the transmission on 6095 here indoors, or is it simply not on air right now? Talata Volonondry: I doubt that they really have use for all the ex- Hörby and ex-Bonaire transmitters. It is a matter of the antennas, including the matrix switch and diplexing capabilities, if existing there at all. Probably the transmitters have simply moved in to avoid the Sines approach (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) ** GERMANY [non]. When checking China mainland jamming this morning, also observed these two log entries [see also RUSSIA 21820]: 21780.013, DWL Bonn TV {and still small mini radio program} operation in Hausa seldom heard these days after their self-mutilation in past three operation years: Hausa morning service to West Africa at 0630- 0700 UT via Babcock brokered transmission center from Al Dhabbaya-UAE, little odd frequency operation, sidelobe signal into southern Germany at S=9+5dB level (Wolfgang Büschel, April 27, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) DEUTSCHE WELLE --- Dear Friends of the DW, Deutsche Welle is celebrating its 60th birthday this year. On May 3, 1953, Germany’s international broadcaster went on air with its first radio broadcast. In 1992 Deutsche Welle added international television programs, and in 1994 launched its first website. Since then much has changed from the media landscape and the technical possibilities for receiving DW content to the diversity of language programs - even Deutsche Welle itself has changed locations. Join DW as it looks back at more than a half century of broadcasting history. That’s 60 years in dialogue with the world - all the reason to celebrate! Great prizes for the best presents Birthdays mean presents. So to celebrate DW’s anniversary, we’re asking all fans to send us photos with pictures showing their birthday greetings - from cakes and cards to creative surprises. Show us your support; we’re looking forward to your photos. The more creative the pictures are, the better. Virtual birthday table You can upload photos of your birthday present here until May 30, 2013. Starting in June you can help us select the best photos. For the winners, we’re offering one SLR-digital camera and five digital cameras. The most original photos will be published on our virtual birthday table on My DW. See for linx: http://nl.dw.de/HM?a=FtX7Cqg1pi9G8SA9MKJVuwvnGHxKLJ38AwjtS5kGaOAz0bBhOG5mpqVsje_Hhe-g20uW Best Wishes From the DW Team mydw@dw.de http://www.dw.de/dw-anniversary http://www.dw.de/top-stories/60-years-dw/s-100254 (DW mailing list via gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DXLD) On May 3 Deutsche Welle is celebrating its 60th anniiversary. Here is a link to the special English Webpage detailing DW history http://www.dw.de/top-stories/60-years-dw/s-100254 I am wondering what their Audience Figures are these days (Art Preis, Canada, swprograms via DXLD) DW is turning 60 – Celebrate with us! EDXC News By OH6001SWL 27 April 2013 Deutsche Welle has its 60th anniversary! [as above; except:] Virtual birthday table: You can upload photos of your birthday present here http://www7.dw-world.de/Kundenservice/upload/?lang=en until May 30, 2013. Starting in June you can help us select the best photos. For the winners, we’re offering one SLR-digital camera and five digital cameras. The most original photos will be published on our virtual birthday table on My DW here http://www.dw.de/about-dw/stories/s-100300 Best Wishes From the DW Team mydw@dw.de http://www.dw.de/dw-anniversary (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) A grave singing: I've been an avid listener of DW from Osterloog in 1953 til mid nineties. http://www.fdeiters.de/Kustenfunk/Norddeich_Radio/Bilder_Utlandshorn/Bilder_Osterloog_I/Dan_02a.jpg [Not Found when I tried --- gh] But DWL is a dead radio station now. Is more of a TV station branch at Berlin, played out any arbitrariness, as like thousands of other TV programs worldwide also. The program and the station staff were ruined in past decade. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. Interesting. I was listening to WRNO and they ID'd at 0311 UT followed by DW news in English. First I've heard of this. All this on about 7506.403 kHz. Excellent reception, UT 26 April, 2013. 73 (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Have been doing it for quite a while, at odd times and only briefly, it seems (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: 9955, Rhein-Main-Radio- Club, via WRMI, Florida. In a special broadcast at 0200-0300 on Jun 01, Nick Barker informs us in English about: RMRC and its activities: Visits, meetings, actual loggings, SW-transmissions, QSL-Calendar, DX- Camps and much more. The target area is South/Central and North America. But also DX-ers in Europe should have the possibility to receive it (RMRC-Aktuell 2/2013, via Harald Gabler, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) ** GREECE. 15630, April 30 at 0526, VOG has quite good signal with Greek music, a sign of summer MUFs, while there is not much else from Europe on 19m, until VATICAN shows up, q.v. 15630 should also be good for Byzantine chanting on Sunday mornings, a.k.a. `Divine Liturgy` at 05-08 as in John Babbis` program schedule in DXLD 13-17, which also shows the Tuesday 0503-0600 show translates to `Let Us Go As Before` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 15190, Trans-World Radio; 1424-1429:37*, 25-Apr; Aussie- accented New Testament English huxter program; TWR/15190 ID at close. SIO=2+53-; nothing there after s/off (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) ** GUATEMALA. 4054.996, R Verdad, April 26, 2013 at 0238. Man talking over soft flute music. Strong steady different times of night. Difficult to ID but characteristic "beautiful" religious music and soft spoken announcers, usually men. Has always been in the clear (Mike Gilchrist in rural EC Iowa, April 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4055, Saturday April 27 at 1126 in assertive Chinese! presumably preaching, with `inspirational` music background, fair signal at S9+18, from TGAV, Radio Verdad, whose SW license may have only a month or two left. Program schedule http://www.radioverdad.org/programaci%C3%B3n mentions nothing in chino, but it`s one of several unexpected languages they really insert, a 700-watt station which may axually have been DXed in China (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) At least by webcast: http://jshort.blog.163.com/blog/static/20971528920132224194196/ Views of all the stuff they sent him (via Ron Howard, WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DXLD) 4055, Radio Verdad, Chiquimula. 1036 April 29, 2013. Excellent with US-accented male canned preacher. Still there almost as strong 1112 with US English gospel vocals and preacher (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ- 180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AIR external service MW transmitter at Mogra, testing on 594 kHz === AIR Mogra testing their brand new transmitter. Noted with excellent modulation, not the usual AIR MW grubby audio. 44444 at 0525 UT today 27.4.2013. Abrupt s/off at 0535. Tip via Sudipto Ghosh(SG) and Babul Gupta (BG). SG adds that they are only testing the antenna systems today. Relaying FM service Rainbow Service of AIR, ID as "Akashvani FM Rainbow". News at 0530 UT. Full power transmitter testing is scheduled for Sunday 28th April (Supratik Sanatani, Kolkata, India, April 27, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The 10 kW simulcast DRM on 604 -- One of those (Sudipta Ghose, ibid.) All India Radio, Chinsurah (near Kolkata) is testing its new 1000 kW DRM compatible transmitter on 594 kHz. Test transmission carrying FM Rainbow program noted in AM mode around 10.30 IST (0500 UT). (Sudipta Ghose, Kolkata via Alokesh Gupta, April 27, dx_sasia yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DXLD) ** INDIA. 7550, All India Radio; 2207-2213+, 24-Apr; 2W in English with Asian news. SIO=2+22 with wavering hissing--sounding a lot like a jammer; none of the usual targets listed here this time. // 11670, SIO=3+43, no jamming, just a bit of ute rattle (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) [and non]. 9870+, April 25 at 0105, there is some DRM-like noise 9872- 9875 on the hi side of Romania in Spanish, but not on the lo side, so is it semi-DRM? Presumably not ready for full DRM yet. More likely some unrelated utenoise. So is AIR still in AM under RRI? Maybe, trace of something (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9950 26/Apr 0147, UNID, Indian music. At 0151 YL talk in Asian language, then more Indian music. Follows sequence of YL talk and music. 35433. The signal is degrading. https://www.box.com/s/h6bnbz2otv7qyu3afane (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Jose Jacob: ``I also noticed it. It was AIR Urdu Service (// 6155, 11620). Usual frequency of 9595 was missing and 9950 was heard." 73 (via Jorge Freitas, ibid.) 30 April 2013, 1643: AIR Khampur with DRM noise at S=4. DREAM translates this into a label "RUSSIAN SERVICE", but 6-8 dB aren't enough to produce any audio (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, Perseus SDR + DX-10 Pro active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) A good example of why I prefer to put the frequency first, after the country header, less likely to omit it by mistake: I had to search thru the EiBi list to find that this must have been 15140 at 1615-1715 (gh, DXLD) 1 May 2013, 1830: AIR GOS Arabic program on 11710-Khampur (53443), 13640-Bangalore (45433), and 11580-Aligarh (55333). English program on 7550-Bangalore (55544), 11670-Bangalore (55444), 11935-Mumbai (23322), 13695-Bangalore (33322), 9445-Khampur (45322), 9620-Aligarh (43443). Apparently Aligarh mixed up the feeds for 9620 and 11580, or a slight change (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, Perseus SDR + DX-10 Pro active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15410, All India Radio, Bengaluru. 1040 April 29, 2013. English with man and woman, clear and good, parallel slightly weaker 15030 Aligargh very poor 13605 Bengaluru. All presumed sites (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ- 180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. GOVT TO HONE PRASAR BHARATI FOR PROPAGANDA WAR An inter-ministerial group is likely to be constituted soon to guide the country’s national broadcaster, Prasar Bharati, to take on propaganda emanating from its neighbouring countries. Several ministries, including those of defence, home affairs and information and broadcasting, will hold consultations on the issue next month. The Asian Age story at .... http://www.asianage.com/india/govt-hone-prasar-propaganda-war-280 (via Alokesh Gupta, dx_india yg via DXLD) concluding with: ``“As the defence and home ministries deal with the subject, their inputs will be sought to set up transmitters in bordering areas. Their help will also be sought in content evolution in the propaganda war against the country’s enemies and extremist elements,” Mr Varma added. The bordering areas to be chosen for strengthening of coverage are those along Pakistan, China, Nepal and Bangladesh. Doordarshan is expected to set up at least 10 high-power transmitters along the international border and upgrade and set up 25 low-power transmitters. All-India Radio is expected to set up 72 FM transmitters. It is understood that the a meeting of the inter-ministerial consultative panel will be held soon where a detailed presentation will be made by the I&B ministry.`` So not concerning SW, apparently (gh, DXLD) NOW, INDIA TO BATTLE CHINA’S RADIO INCURSION Zia Haq, Hindustan Times New Delhi, April 28, 2013 http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Now-India-to-battle-China-s-radio-incursion/Article1-1051838.aspx (via Alokesh Gupta, dx_india yg via DXLD) Viz.: First Published: 23:05 IST(28/4/2013) | Last Updated: 23:07 IST (28/4/2013) Between 5.45 pm and 11.45 pm everyday, Chinese radio hosts broadcast a rich blend of multi-lingual news, political commentary, cultural talk shows and Mandarin classes across Nepal, which ripple into Indian homes along the border, from Ladakh in the north to Bihar’s Sitamarhi in the east. The programmes have heightened concerns in Delhi, as India remains locked in a territorial standoff with China in eastern Ladakh, prompting the I&B ministry to urgently recast programmes by All-India Radio and enhancing their reach. In pockets with weak Indian signals, listeners are greeted by Chinese radio with its growing Nepali network. Along a nebulous border, Chinese radio and television could do the job of enhancing China’s influence, India fears. After high-level discussions last week between information secretary Uday Kumar Varma, officials from the National Security Adviser’s office and the home ministry, it was decided that a “course correction” was needed to match the broadcast blizzard. An inter- ministerial panel will oversee the plans. Apart from reshaping content, in line with India’s national ethos, the I&B ministry will install several more high-power transmitters for wider reach. The ministry has nearly Rs. 400 crore to jack up networks, Varma said. Amid growing Chinese engagement with Nepal’s ruling elite, its China Radio International (CRI), three years ago, acquired “downlink” permission to rebroadcast its programmes across Nepal, in Nepali, Chinese and English. CRI now has a Kathmandu bureau staffed by locals, its programmes re-relayed by over 200 smaller Nepali FM stations (via DXLD) ** INDIA [non]. 12055, TWR India via Irkutsk. Obscure Indian dialect, Maithili listed, talks. Good on this NF, 26/4. My curiosity got the better of me, so I looked up Maithili and it turns out to be the second most popular language spoken in Nepal, and also northern India. The term “Maithili” comes from the ancient independent state of Milhila, where the Hindu goddess Sita was supposedly born. Wikipedia to the rescue, and the Shortwave Trail continues its unheralded role as a selfimprovement tool! (Craig Seager, Bathurst NSW (Icom R75, Racal RA-6790/GM, Yaesu FRG7700, Loop Skywire, amplified 1m rotatable loop), May Australian DX Nes via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 4749.96, RRI Makassar, 1240-1256, April 30. Since last August I have been enjoying tuning in on Tuesdays to listen to the half an hour Kang Guru Indonesia (KGI) program in English, but looks like that show has now been dropped. Last Tuesday (23rd) heard a shorter segment in English which did not sound anything like the usual KGI, but I was not sure what had happened. Today I am positive the new segment in English is definitely not KGI. Intro and closing announcements mentioned “information program” and seemed to be a local Makassar production; show had only one woman announcer; unable to make out much of what was said; played some pop songs (“You Had a Bad Day” by Daniel Powter and “Love You Like a Love Song” by Selema Gomez); as usual moderate QRM from stations on 4750.0 Will miss Kevin and Ana presenting KGI (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Eton E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525.88, Voice of Indonesia. April 25 with better than normal reception; 1341 in English telling about the life of an Indonesian composer and playing some of his music; fair to good (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9526-, April 27 at 1303, VOI open carrier/dead air with flutter; 1304 join in progress news in English, undermodulated. Had noticed some special Japanese during previous hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) INDONÉSIA, 9525.9, Voz da Indonésia, Cimanggis, 1607-1703, 27/4, castelhano, notícias,..., música, anúncio das (!) freqs. (só uma é captada) e dos endereços electr.º e postal; progr. em alemão, às 1701; 44433, QRM adj., mas sinal em franca ascensão no decurso de 1 hora. 9680.03, RRI, Cimanggis, 1000-desvan. total 1145, 28/4, indonésio, conversa com ouvintes, canções; 35433 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9526-, April 30 at 1306, VOI is on but so undermodulated that it`s another total waste of the presumed Tuesday linkup with RRI Banjarmasin (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) April 30 (Tuesday) on 9525.90 at 1040 chatting about the use of coconut butter; 1053 closing announcement for "Exotic Indonesia"; during the entire time never any mention of distinctive "Banjarmasin" or "South Kalimantan", but did mention "from Bali", so assume during 1000 to 1100 is actually VOI and 100.9 Paradise FM/RRI Denpasar producing "Exotic Indonesia". It was just last year that I also noted the same thing during that time period. Today I checked back at 1300 to find the usual "Exotic Indonesia" with chatting between Jakarta and Banjarmasin. So it looks as if on Tuesday they run two different versions of "Exotic Indonesia"? (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9525.9, 01/May 1018, JBA with very weak modulation, what can be the Voice of Indonesia in English (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, Degen 1103 - All listening in mode of narrow filter at 4 kHz. Dipole antenna, 16 meters - east/west, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9680, May 1 at 1315, open carrier/dead air is atop the China radio war, i.e. RRI; 1316 Indonesian audio cuts on. 1342 check, dead air again. What a messed up station. They are oblivious to heavy co- channel QRM, and can`t keep their own modulation going either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. Live broadcast [sic] of Hamvention --- April 30, 2013 It's time again for the W5KUB.com world wide broadcast of Hamvention This is our 11th year to broadcast. After 34 years outside in the fleamarket, W5KUB.COM had moved inside the building for Hamvention. Space SA302. Our live broadcast begins on Wed May 15th at 8:00 AM Central time as we broadcast the 550 Mile drive from Memphis to Dayton live. The broadcast will be up Thurs as we show various vendors setting up. Then the show Friday-Sunday. As in the past, we will be giving out thousands of dollars of ham prizes to our viewers. Join in on the fun at W5KUB.Com chat room and talk directly to us or other hams around the world. Last year we have 47,300 viewers follow us during this trip. See you soon when the fun starts. Tom W5KUB (via Southgate http://www.southgatearc.org/news/may2013/live_broadcast_of_hamvention.htm via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. Schedule Inaccuracy --- Glen[n]: C-Joy is not airing WOR now (Des Preston, Sent from my iPhone, 2007 UT Saturday April 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Had been at 2000 UT Saturdays. Current program schedule on website lists only religious programs, but there is a gap Saturdays at 2000- 2130 UT; maybe somewhen in there? Please monitor. They have not replied to my inquiry but WOR is still linked elsewhere on site (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. Sirius/XM Drops WRN on Channel 120 As of April 25, 2013, Sirius/XM satellite radio has dropped World Radio Network (WRN), formerly on channel 120, from its line-up of offerings. As is always the case with Sirius/XM, the act was accompanied by no explanation or justification. WRN had informed its listeners that such an eventuality was imminent in a posting earlier in the month on its web page. There, too however, there was no explanation forthcoming. This seems a curious move by Sirius/XM. Radio is becoming increasingly a niche medium and serving those many niches would appear to be the preferred strategy for attracting and retaining subscribers to a satellite delivery service. Music radio is in some jeopardy, given the competition posed to it by services such as Spotify, Pandora, etc., and its future as a prime program source would seem less than secure. WRN is definitely a niche service with interest to the relatively small community of listeners seeking international news accompanied by international perspectives on that news. Stating to listeners who complain (as I did) that they still have BBC World Service on channel 118 is a rather insulting response in that it implies that such listeners should be satisfied with one alternative on a distribution platform with over 200 channels. “Spoken word” programming on Siriius/XM are accorded very limited bandwidth as evidenced by the satellite provider’s poor audio quality on those channels. Little is saved in this regard or available for other services by dropping WRN. It’s possible that a dispute over costs or full time availability could be the genesis of this act, but that is only speculation. I have contacted both WRN and Sirius/XM for their perspectives, explanations and justifications; but I’m not at all sanguine about receiving an acknowledgement of my correspondence, let alone any useful details. WRN remains available via other platforms, including via internet-delivered audio, the Tune-In app for Mac and Android and partially via WRMI, Miami on 9955 kHz. shortwave. The latter has indicated that it may increase its carriage of WRN as a result of Sirius/XM’s decision. (John Figliozzi, The Worldwide Listening Guide http://www.wwlgonline.com April 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Subscribers who have expressed displeasure about the removal of WRN on Sirius/XM have received a basic return email stating that BBCWS should be able to provide all the international news one could possibly need. (Paul Demsky, swprograms via DXLD) What new owners of SXM know about radio would fill a thimble in comparison, a BB in a boxcar (Bill Eckart, Sent from my iPhone, ibid.) So what have they replaced WRN with on channel 120? I`ve always wondered who was paying whom for WRN on SXM, or was it quid-pro-quo? WRMI planned to end the 110 hours/week of Brother Scare contract at Mayend, and then could presumably resume filling a lot of time with WRN. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Right now they're playing a loop that essentially says "SiriusXM is no longer carrying WRN. You 'may' enjoy BBC World Service on channel 118." No mention of what's coming next (Bill Mead, Harrisburg, PA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn asked what has replaced WRN on Sirius 120. Well, I checked a couple of hours ago and it was a repeated announcement that WRN could no longer be heard on Sirius XM but that, if the listener was interested in world stuff, they could retune to the BBC WS on another channel. Repeated over and over. Sirius XM keeps digging holes for itself to fall into (Philip Hiscock, ibid.) Nothing, right now they are playing a loop saying WRN is no longer available on SiriusXM ch 120 and to tune to the BBC WS on ch. 118 (Chris Lobdell, MA, NASWA yg via DXLD) There will be a few channel updates on May 9th including CBC finally being available on the XM service since the Canadian merger. Certainly no replacement for WRN but at least another international news source will be on XM once again besides just the BBC. http://www.siriusxm.ca/Spruce-It-Up/Canada-Update.aspx (Travers, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. Glenn, In DXLD 13-17 you wrote: ``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)`` I worked with the NASA Applications Technology Satellites #1 and #3 from 1969 to 1975. These satellites had transponders in the vicinity of 149 MHz uplink and 137 MHz downlink. We often heard delivery services in Canada and remote special event broadcasts in Spanish when the transponder was not occupied by a deliberate user. These transponders were used by NASA and others for a variety of purposes including communications between Apollo recovery ships and doctors in NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston and medical technicians living in remote Alaskan villages and doctors at a hospital in Tanana, Alaska. The stations in Alaska used converted taxi-cab type radios and home made helical beams. There are US military satellites operating in the part of the spectrum logged (Joe Buch, N2JB, Florida, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. Domenica 28 aprile 2013, 0603 - 17630v35 + 17765v70 kHz. Spurie di IRIB in Spanish (da 17700 o 17530 kHz). La solita intermodulazione tra due impianti vicini. (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, playdx yg via DXLD) 30 April 2013, 2226: IRIB in Arabic on 12080 via Zahedan. Song. Audio distorted so one would first guess that this is Egypt. No, others can do it, too (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, Perseus SDR + DX-10 Pro active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13785, April 29 at 1237, Arabic modulation is distorted and suppressed compared to carrier level, worthy of Cairo, but instead per Aoki & EiBi, it`s IRIB, 0530-1427, 500 kW, 178 degrees from Kamalabad. Atop a weak Chinese? signal, nonesuch scheduled. 1348 recheck, Arabic music and talk, modulation much better now but overshadowed by Habana 13780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Some changes of VIORI/IRIB from May 5: 0730-0827 11810 SIR 500 kW / 060 deg to WeAs Pashto, new transmission 0730-0827 13730 SIR 500 kW / 065 deg to WeAs Pashto, new transmission 1430-1527 5890 SIR 500 kW / 065 deg to WeAs Pashto, cancelled 1530-1627 6060 SIR 500 kW / 090 deg to SoAs Urdu, ex 1530-1727 (DX RE MIX NEWS #778 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 30, 2013 via DXLD) ** ISRAEL. Summer A-13 SW schedule of Kol Israel from April 28: 1400-1500 NF 13850vISR 250 kW / 090 deg WeAs Persian Fri/Sat, ex 11595 1400-1500 NF 15760 ISR 250 kW / 090 deg WeAs Persian Fri/Sat, ex 9985 1400-1530 NF 13850vISR 250 kW / 090 deg WeAs Persian Sun-Thu, ex 11595 1400-1530 NF 15760 ISR 250 kW / 090 deg WeAs Persian Sun-Thu, ex 9985 (DX RE MIX NEWS #778 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 30, 2013 via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DXLD) ** ITALY [non]. ROMANIA: 15190 IRRS; 1525-1529:45*, 21-Apr; "Radio Sentec [sic = Santec] a public wave" English feature on farming in harmony with nature. IRRS/Nexus ID at close. SIO=243, sounded like weak co-channel QRM, but nothing there after s/off (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) Sundays only (gh) Hi Glenn, I sent a reception report to IRRS at the following address on 12 February 2013: IRRS NEXUS - IBA P.O. Box 10980 I-20110 Milano Italy It was returned to me today as "Undeliverable As Addressed - Unable To Forward." This address was taken from the 2012 WRTH, having not purchased the 2013 Edition. Has their postal address changed, or was there a disconnect along the delivery process? 73's, (Ed Insinger, Summit, NJ, April 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ed, Same address in the 2013 WRTH. Website gives only e-mail addresses: http://www.nexus.org/contact.htm Why don`t you ask them about their p-mail address, or just e-mail your report? (Glenn to Ed, via DXLD) Thanks, Glenn. I actually did a postal and e-mail address reception report. The e-mail was answered in their usual manner: "Thank you for contacting us. A human person will be in touch." What that actually means is that if your reception report is of special value to IRRS, they will reply. Per your suggestion, I will e-mail them and request a clarification as to why my letter was returned. 73's, (Ed, ibid.) ** JAPAN. 9595, Tuesday April 30 at 1307, R. Nikkei poor in Japanese talk with occasional German words, presumably a lecture on vocabulary or grammar rather than an on-air lesson as there are no pauses for listener participation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non?]. 15290, LOCATION UNKNOWN. NHK's Interval signal first noted 1043 and played continuously to past 1210! No programming heard throughout this period. Obviously testing, maybe something will develop. Needs further checking. 2/4 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, Vic (Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Double Bazooka antennas for 80 and 40 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), May Australian DX News via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH. 6600, (Presumed), jamming. Apr 25, 1020. Likely over Voice of the People (Presumed), barely heard under. Found similar jamming sounds on 6510 (target unknown) and 6400 (used by Pyongyang; jamming themselves?). (Rick Barton, Arizona, Drake R8, Hammarlund HQ- 120X; R.W. and Slinky, ABDX April 30 via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH. 9335, Voice of Korea, Apr 24, 1550. All male military chorus, VG. Also good // 11710 (Rick Barton, Arizona, Drake R8, Hammarlund HQ-120X; R.W. and Slinky, ABDX April 30 via DXLD) So this one had not, yet, shifted to 9435? (gh, DXLD) 9435, Voice of Korea, Apr 25, 1540. Military chorus. Male in unidentifiable language, audio too muddy to make out. Noted nothing heard on 9335. Frequency swap? 9435, Voice of Korea, Apr 27, 1540. Good with piano music, F[emale?] in Korean. Noted good // 11710 to confirm, but no // on 9335, so this could be something new. Noted that I have fallen behind on checking my own updates, I now see that Glenn H. has caught this already and reported via ABDX, et al., so no big rush getting this out (Rick Barton, Arizona, Drake R8, Hammarlund HQ-120X; R.W. and Slinky, ABDX April 30 via DXLD) 13760, April 28 at 1311, VOK in extremely stilted English, and heavy cross talk from Chinese service plus Juche jamming noise. Same mixture on // 11710 at 1317. It seems their new ChiCom transmitters have been installed incompetently, insufficiently isolated from each other. They wouldn`t let Chinese engineers do it at top-secret location, instead supposedly trained their own (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 30 April 2013, 2210: Spanish program on 13760 is subject to self-QRM with the audio mixing with the Chinese program, weak in the background // 11635; also noise in the audio, mixing with jammer feed?? 44333 (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, Perseus SDR + DX-10 Pro active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re noisy vs. clean signals from VOK. During peak propagation from East Asia in the European evening I have been able to pick up all of the eight SW transmitters listed as KUJ. As far as I can hear, six of these have the noisy background, while two (12015, 9425, from 2100 on 9650, 11865) are perfectly clean. The noise on the noisy ones, as far as I can hear, is synchronous on all six units. When both the noisy and the clean ones have Korean there is a slight but clear delay difference between the noisy and the clean signals. An educated guess then would be that the noisy transmitters are located at a distance from Pyongyang and have to rely on the faulty satellite signals, while the clean signals originate from a second site closer to Pyongyang and are fed by a terrestrial link. 3250 is too weak for reliable measurements here, but appears to be close to the clean "KUJ" units. (Olle Alm, Sweden, 30 April, WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I prefer my theory that the noise is simply bleedthru due to insufficient isolation among neighboring transmitters/antennas (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) These station intermodulations have nothing to do with the new BBEF Beijing transmitter delivery, which were erected and put into service between February and mid March 2013. I suppose all - former old - as new BBEF TX - are hidden inside the mountain hillock. See enclosed screenshot. These 9425/12015 kHz, 325 degr and 9650/11865 kHz, 109 degr outlets are protected / attenuated away against direct nearby intermodulation into feeder line TX house to antenna installations due of the small lower mountain hillock. vy73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) I overlooked one point in what I wrote. Since the delay difference between the two groups, when airing the same programme, is small all must be fed by the same kind of circuit, satellite OR terrestrial. However, since the noise reportedly is already on the satellite feed the noise free transmitters must have a separate, clean feed. From Wolfgang's map research it seems likely that there is just a Kujang A and a Kujang B site. But why are the North Koreans putting all eggs in one basket (all transmitters and one site)? Security considerations would seem to call for two or more sites at different locations. We already know what happens when there is a major blackout in the Kujang area. Even the jammers go dark (Olle Alm, ibid.) I don't think that the Thaicom signal can be the signal source for the shortwave transmitters. It is shown as carrying only two audio signals, the TV sound on APID 256 and a single radio channel on APID 257. But as well known, they run up to three different program streams already as foreign service on shortwave. Yes, recordings of this Thaicom signal show bleed-in of other program audio, but the ones I heard have it only in the background. Here it should be considered that the problem may very well be the same on the satellite signal and the feeds to the shortwave transmitters, emanating from an earlier point in the circuits. One possibility: The shortwave transmissions use now a very hard dynamics compression that sucks up the background audio to the prominent appearance found at present. The other possibility: The mixing heard on shortwave is another problem, unrelated to the unclean feeds and indeed the result of RF penetrating the program audio inputs of the transmitters. Hasn't it been found that the bleed-in contains also noise jamming? If so it must be local RF stray-in; there are certainly no program audio circuits with jamming racket in place. Has it been determined if the serious mixing started at the same time the frequencies were suddenly spot-on, as it has been reported? It would have to be so if it is related to new transmission equipment. Concerning all eggs being put in one basket: Remember how you found already back in the late nineties that almost all foreign service transmissions must originate from a single location in some distance from Pyongyang, with the apparent Swiss transmitters in use elsewhere on 6070/6100 being the most notable exception? Already back then I was quite surprised about this circumstance (Kai Ludwig, ibid.) Thank you, Kai, for your additional information. My first thought when I noted the background noise problem was that it would have to be an internal bleed-through at the transmitter site, and considering Kai's additional information I think we can now conclude that this is what really happens. Wolfgang's findings provide the explanation to why not all transmitters are affected. I recall that in the early 1970s I used to hear a neighbourhood ham on my tape recorder or stereo amplifier when he was transmitting. So that is the technical state of the art in today's North Korea (Olle Alm, ibid.) ** KOREA SOUTH. 4925, MND Radio, Chuncheon. S/on 0954 with a song, into announcements 0958 and long talks. Noted with a fair signal while waiting in hope for a glimpse of Brazil on 4925.2. Also noted the Brazilian het start up at 0959 at their scheduled s/on but no audio from them on this evening. 23/4 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, Vic (Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Double Bazooka antennas for 80 and 40 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), May Australian DX News via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, April 28 before 1248, KBSWR carrier is again on way early, foretelling good reception today for the 1300 English to ``North`` America, unlike yesterday when it was unreadable for Saturday`s `Listeners Lounge`. Indeed it is: 1258 with IS and IDs in English and Korean, 1300 opening English and news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 15540, Sunday April 28 at 2050, R. Kuwait English pauses for token news headlines; these had been missing on several recent chex; better than nothing, as I am seldom listening for the somewhat longer but still insufficient newscast at 1830. 17550, April 28 at 2303, R. Kuwait in Arabic akhbar (or is news = akbar; never can remember which), good signal with flutter on strange service to us from 2 am there, possibly propagating only in lighter/warmer months. In fact, it`s the second SSOB after Habana 17705 and nothing else of any significance on 16m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 30 April 2013, 2208: Radio Kuwait, Arabic, strong on 17550 (45444). (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, Perseus SDR + DX-10 Pro active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LITHUANIA. The transmitting station Vilnius (Viršuliskes) has been closed. The frequency 612 kHz was transferred to Sitkunai, the power is 75 kW. Also 1386 kHz from Sitkunai is transmitted with 75 kW. These are the two blocks of a 150 kW Shtorm transmitter, fed independently into different antennas. The 500 kW transmitter is still there, but currently not in use (Bernd Trutenau, Lithuania, via ARC mv-eko 15 April via DXLD) ** MALAYSIA. 7295, Traxx FM, 1150, April 25. Tuned in to their religious Islamic program in English called “Reflections”; “brought to you by the Radio Broadcasting Department of Islamic Development Malaysia, JAKIM”; http://www.islam.gov.my/en/about-jakim ; ID “Traxx FM Travel n’ Music”; into pop songs; fair. Dan Sheedy (So. Calif.) has also been noting Traxx FM with better than normal reception. Website at http://traxxfm.rtm.gov.my/traxxfm/ with audio streaming (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7295, Traxx FM, 1300-1309 Apr 25 - Two time pips, then presumed news in English. No QRM but poor conditions and poor copy (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, dxingwithcumbre yg via DXLD) MALÁSIA, 9835, Sarawak FM via RTM, Kajang, 1001-desvan. total 1155, 28/4, malaio, notícias, canções; 35433 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9835, 01/May 1040, MALAYSIA, RTM Sarawak FM in Vernacular. Local pop music and Yl talk. At 1041 Call to the Koran. 44444 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, Degen 1103 - All listening in mode of narrow filter at 4 kHz. Dipole antenna, 16 meters - east/west, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11665, collision with AUSTRALIA: q.v. [WORLD OF RADIO 1667] ** MALI. 9635, Radio Mali, Bamako, 0915-0923, 27-04, French, male and female, comments about Mali. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9635, R. Mali, Kati, 1101-1209, 27/4, dialecto local, canções tribais,..., sinais de ID, pelo meio-dia, e progr. em francês, com o noticiário; 25432, em perda (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. 15505, April 28 at 2233, open carrier/dead air with flutter, as I am checking 15500 for Cumbre, where there is zilch. What`s this? O yes, HFCC reminds us that CRI Bamako relay is scheduled during this semihour only, in Chinese. So apparently it still exists, totally pointlessly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, All transmissions via Mali, have modulation inaudible or almost inaudible, here at my QTH. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MARIANAS [and non]. 1 May 2013, 1613: Radio Free Asia via Tinian in Uyghur, interview, no jamming, 45333. The Chinese CNR jammer is playing strong on 12140, bothering nobody. Alas, the Chicoms noticed and at 1619 the CNR jammer switched to 12130. RFA now rated 42332 (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, Perseus SDR + DX-10 Pro active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So 12130 was original kHz. We don`t usually file under this header, instead TINIAN, or SAIPAN, or NORTHERN MARIANAS, or ASIA [non]. In this case it`s more about the jamming from CHINA than the victim (gh, DXLD) ** MAURITANIA. MAURITÂNIA, 7245, R. Mauritânia, Nuaquechote. Continua ausente; apenas captável nos 783 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 540, April 30 at 0600 UT at tune-in, immediate ID for ``La Ranchera de Paquimé`` and into NA; i.e. XETX, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua at local midnite (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 620, April 27 at 0540 UT, Spanish ad for an event mentioning 93.3, apparently an FM sponsor of it; hoped I had something other than XEBU Chihuahua city, since its own FM is 91.7, but after some federal PSAs for Diputados, Suprema Corte, ID as Chihuahua, La Rancherita. The 93.7 there per Cantú is XHBW, Magia Digital, whose AM is 1280. Maybe they are same group? Or just a crossover commercial (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 650, April 25 at 1112 UT, XETNT Los Mochis, Sinaloa with 5:12 TC, unique show ``Buenos Días, Yarderos``. 650, April 27 at 1155 UT, Mexican music, fading at 1156 during Radio 65 sung ID, polca. Tuning down the band, XETNT Los Mochis, Sinaloa, is the only XE still audible on lowband here, 12 minutes after our sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 660, April 25 from 0455 UT, I am switching back and forth with 690 KGGF, here trying to nail down which XE is the one switching to a big hum heard several nights after NA finished at 0500. But now there are two or three stations mixing. Initially Mexican music is atop, not NA starting before hourtop. 0500 full ID for ``La Mexicana, 12 en punto`` and then short choral NA, 0501 another slogan ID. That`s XEAR in Tampico, Tamaulipas, 5/1 kW, listed as 24 hours by IRCA. I can barely hear some hum in the background from the other mystery station. 660, April 25 at 0504 UT, another station which is not the hummer, ID as La Lupe, i.e. XEACB, Ciudad Delicias, Chihuahua, 5/1 kW, still on tho listed as sign-off at 0600 which would be 0500 during DST. 660, April 26 at 0452 UT, choral NA is already playing early, maybe the station which will cut to big hum afterwards, but by 0454 losing out to other Mexican music stations, so all unID now. 660, April 27 at 0452 UT, early NA already playing on unID station, presumably the one which has been followed by big hum; but losing out by 0454 to `The Answer`, KSKY The Metroplex. Some chex after 0500 did not detect the hum, maybe no longer in effect? 660, April 28 tuning in even earlier at 0449 UT trying to sort out the one about to hum: initially preacher in Spanish on top; 0450 music station takes over, 0457 mentions 98.9 so that`s XEACB, La Lupe in Ciudad Delicias, Chihuahua; only now do I hear an XE NA weakly underneath and no hum after 0500; probably from the preaching one earlier. 660, UT Monday April 29, I tune in even earlier at 0450 UT to hear Spanish preacher finishing with Monterrey address, 0451 ID for Radio ABC, XEFZ in Monterrey and into choral multiverse NA. Mixing with others and they overtake by 0456, but this virtually confirms it`s the station which had been broadcasting a big hum after the NA finished around 0500, but which is no longer heard. 660, April 30 at 0501 UT, probably XEACB Delicias, Chih, main signal of Mexican music looping SW, but in its null toward the SE, can hear some hum, which fits for post-midnite XEFZ Monterrey NL, which is considerably further east (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 660, April 25 at 1109 UT, NA is ending late, in mix of several stations, then full sign-on by an IMER station with 5-letter call, also mentioning its HD channel, i.e. on FM. This has to be XEDTL, Radio Ciudadana in México DF, 50/1 kW (remember when it was commercial XERPM? That call is no longer in use anywhere per IRCA cross-reference). IRCA and Cantú do not list an FM for it, but probably refers to 660 programming being simulcast on one of their FM IBOC subchannels. Yes, explained here: http://imer.gob.mx/imerdigital/ with Ciudadana on 107.9 HD2. Looks like they have some good cultural programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 690, April 27 at 0642 UT, international exchange rates in Spanish, 0644 news about Tabasco. Main signal, with KTSM El Paso and KGGF Coffeyville OC more or less nulled, and peaks further east than most Mexicans I get. All adds up to presumed XEN, México DF with its news/talk format. There is only one XE further east than that, in Veracruz but it`s a Ke Buena, likely musical --- or not? IRCA shows XEAFA in Coatzacoalcos as News & Ranchera. Still, XEN most likely, especially if running 50 kW nites as claimed instead of 5. (IIRC, 690 used to be a major frequency from Cuba, but not any more.) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 700, April 25 at 1045 UT, ID for Radio Red on 1110, and FM. XEDKR, Guadalajara relay of XERED DF on 1110, per Cantú 10000/150 watts, but nevertheless the default station at night with WLW nulled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 700, April 25 at 1108 UT, dominant signal now with FM frequency 102.5, ``Noticias MBF`` (or NDF? Or some combination of similar sounding letters). Cantú and IRCA show no 700 with an FM on 102.5, nor XERED 1110 either. However, Cantú does list in the DF: `` 102.5 Noticias MVS, Noticias, programas hablados. XHMVS 80,100 watts. Grupo MVS Radio.`` So the question is, which XE on 700 would be relaying this? As far as I can tell from their website with lots of news and visuals, http://www.noticiasmvs.com/#!/home it`s an independent company, and no affiliate list to be found. Search site on 700 and you get loads of news stories mentioning this figure. By now, it has 700 to itself, WLW faded out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 710, April 27 at 0546 UT, béisbol with crowd noise, presumably a live late game if in Mexico too they are open-ended; loops SW and soon mentions Cuauhtémoc as one of the teams, so usual XEDP Chihuahua, breaking away from ranchera format. It`s almost local midnite in the UT-6 zone. Surely more nite games to come when it`s cooler around the diamond (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 720, April 27 at 0549, timecheck as ``48`` and temp as 18 grados, back to music; typical automated time & temp format at every break of XEDE Saltillo, Coahuila. Altho 50 kW WGN has as strong a signal as 250-watt(?) XEDE, WGN is totally nullable, avoiding slow SAH; not too far from collinear either, e.g. around Dallas, where listening to WGN must be quite a problem (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 830, April 28 at 1215 UT, Spanish weather in C, mentions 100.9 FM; 1216 TC for 7:17. No doubt it`s XEIK Piedras Negras, Coahuila, a semihour after sunrise here and soon to fade out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 1570, April 27 at 1142 UT, XERF with 6:42 timecheck on ``La Poderosa``, brief Efemérides = day in history with Col. Bogey whistling theme, 1144 federal and Coahuila state PSAs; 1145 Spanish music CCI grows apparently as KZLI Tulsa icoses its 50 watt PSRA per NRC AM Log to 1000 watts day at official sunrise there; but I can still hear at 1145 XERF mentioning some cumpleaños and at 1146 an instrumental-only version of ``Mañanitas``, unlike last time. Anyhow this seems to be a regular morning ritual for them. But in May, KZLI goes to day power at 1115 UT, and in June, 1100. Never mind the 50 watts: FCC AM Query shows PSRA is only 8 watts, limited by XERF every month except June when unneeded. Can anyone in Tulsa or even Catoosa really hear them on 8 watts atop XERF? 1570, April 30 at 1151 UT, probably just finished `Mañanitas`, XERF now in ``Servicio Social`` with missing-person ``avisos personales`` requests, including those last known to be in Coahuila, Chihuahua, phone numbers to be contacted. Have also heard this at other times on XERF. Good for a broad-coverage public radio AM station like this, and something you don`t hear elsewhere on either side of la frontera. 1208, XERF still in with stox in pesos, other Mexican tipoffs instead of SS KZLI Tulsa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 2910, April 25 at 1034, weak talk and music vs storm noise level, presumably XEVT 970 x 3 from Villahermosa, Tabasco, as previously IDed. In winter it was signing on at 1059, off at 0600, so now should be 0959-0500 UT with carrier on a few minutes earlier. 2910, April 27 at 1118 UT, YL giving phone number, ``pide que se comunique``, missing person perhaps; then about something happening ``hoy a las 8 de la mañana``, brief bits audible at peaks between lightning crashes, typical morning news format of 970 x 3, XEVT, Villahermosa, Tabasco. Their sunrise today 1147, almost same as here, but they will lose only a dekaminute of darkness by June (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6010 is Mil-less at 1222 April 29, just CRI English JBA. However, Julián Santiago in the DF told me April 27: ``efectivamente XEOI está fuera del aire debido a una avería en el transmisor, misma que, el Ing. Rodríguez está reparando. Esperemos que pronto vuelva al aire`` --- transmitter breakdown which the engineer is repairing, and we hope will be back on air shortly (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6185, April 29 at 0514, XEPPM, R. Educación is still not only on the air with carrier, but modulating it with news in Spanish; suspect it`s the relay of RFI which normally is suppressed from their SW transmitter after 0500, only on MW 1060; first heard report about eradicating malaria and its mosquitoes in Africa including Burkina Faso; next report from ``aquí en París``. And it`s still/again on at 1222 when I awaken, Spanish talk and singing, story-telling? making fast SAH with Chinese; which one will fade out first? Hope it`s a new expanded all-night schedule like they used to do, but may have just forgotten to turn off the SW. 6185, April 30 at 0538 check, XEPPM is not only not modulating but not transmitting at all; nor around 1145, so it`s back to usual silent period unlike 24 hours earlier. 6185, May 1 at 0510, XEPPM carrier is still on but no modulation when they might as well let RFI news relay be heard in the western hemisphere (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MICRONESIA. 4755.513, PMA Cross Radio April 25, 2013 at 0838, Christian music and announcers in English. The Cross continues its drift up in frequency. I don't usually look this early for them and was surprised. My logs show off at 1200. Always in the clear and a fairly easy catch (Mike Gilchrist in rural EC Iowa, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4755.5, April 25 at 1151 some weak music, no doubt PMA The Cross, as usual somewhat on the hi side, compared to a 9755 station; automatic closedown tones at 1159:14 and cut carrier at 1159:16*. If I were up every day at this time, I certainly hope not, it would be interesting to time variations in cutoff times like with Chaski in the evenings. 4755+, April 27 at 1159 I monitor the carrier from PMA The Cross, which goes off about 1159:20* without any DTMF [dual tone multi- frequency] signaling tones being heard. Is it precessing two seconds later each night? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PMA, Cross Radio, 4755 kHz, 1050 UT May 1. Pop sounding music and an OM announcer, but way down in the mud. Not a lot of recoverable audio here (Tim in Luther IA, Rahto, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONGOLIA. 12085, Voice of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, 0904-0920, 27-04, English program, female, news about Mongolia, Mongolian songs, identification: "Voice of Mongolia". 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOZAMBIQUE. Radio Mozambique medium wave trawl, Monday April 29, 2013, 1753-1815. All stations in // with Portuguese talk. Jo'burg sunset 1539. E Nacionale, 738 Maputo. Fair. EP Nampula, 765 Nampula. Poor. EP Gaza, 810 Xai-Xai. Good. Delagacao de Beira, 873 Sofala. Fair, some co-channel QRM. EP Tete, 963 Tete. Nothing heard. EI Maputo & Gaza, 1008 Maputo. Very good. EP Manica, 1026 Chimoyo. Good. EP Zambezia, 1179 Quelimane. Very weak and poor. E Nacional, 1206 Inhambane. Good. EP de Cabo Delgado, 1224 Pemba. Poor. Severe co-channel QRM. EP de Niassa, 1260 Lichinga. Poor. Severe co-channel QRM. (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 7200.10, Myanmar Radio. April 25 still heard with two noticeable audio feeds at 1257 along with spur on 7185.82; surprised to find // to 5985.82 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9730.000, Myanmar Radio, Rangoon: But when checked this channel before CRI starts at 1200 UT: At 1055-1105 UT Apr 28 heard undoubtedly Myanmar Radio phone in program - today on different new unit on EVEN 9730.000 kHz - by female announcer in 'singing' Burmese tonality, to male in-caller. Poor signal on remote SDR unit at Brisbane AUSTRALIA (Wolfgang Büschel,, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Apr 28, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DXLD) Thanks, Wolfy for the tip. April 30 also heard on 9730.00 at 1123; ex- 9730.83; poor in vernacular (Ron Howard, San Francisco, ibid.) Hi Wolfy, Please check this out! May 1 at 1023 heard the Myanmar tx on 9730.81, but by my next check made at 1119, had switched tx to the one with exact frequency (9730.00). This is the identical situation that Myanmar used with their tx's some years ago on another frequency. An hour or two before they ended their broadcasting day they, for some reason that I never figured out, would stop using the off frequency tx (5985.83) and started transmitting with a tx with the exact frequency of 5985.00. Needs more monitoring to confirm this is what is happening with 9730.81/9730.00. The switch perhaps is happening around 1030 or so? (Ron Howard, San Francisco, ibid., WORLD OF RADIO 1667 via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [and non]. Em OMédia, bastantes obs. desta classe de emissoras... mas apenas dois países na amostra, a Grécia e a Holanda, que continuam a ser os "campioníssimos" da pirataria da rádio, talvez com a característica de os gregos poderem chamar a si a maior quantidade em emissoras OM, logo seguidos dos holandeses, enquanto estes últimos também operam em OC. E no que a pirataria diz respeito... bom, quanto aos gregos, não sei, mas, da Holanda, em termos de pirataria pura e simples, sabe-se que foi bem preenchida, demasiadamente prolífica no ramo naval dessa actividade, tal como a dos vizinhos do outro lado do Canal da Mancha. Genético? (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Here is the text to this "fax modem sounds": ====================================================================== @01.33utc on 7375 kHz/Thor50x2 on 1500 Hz: ====================================================================== This is a Mighty KBC digital text transmission in the Thor50x2 mode, which is about 180 words per minute and, as you can see, takes up 1800 Hertz of bandwidth. NEW FREQUENCY NEXT WEEKEND Effective next weekend, May 5th, the Mighty KBC will transmit on a new frequency, 9925 kHz, for its North America broadcast, Sundays 0000- 0200 UTC. (Saturday evening 8 to 10 pm EDT.) On September 1st, the frequency will return to 7375 kHz. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |T|H|E| |M|I|G|H|T|Y| |K|B|C| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ====================================================================== @01.58utc on 7375 kHz/MFSK32 text on 1000 Hz: ====================================================================== The North America broadcast of The Mighty KBC will return next Sunday, May 5, 0000-0200 UTC, on a new frequency of 9925 kHz. More digital text a half hour from now on VOA Radiogram, at 0230 UTC on 5745 kHz, via North Carolina. 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 ====================================================================== @01.58utc on 7375 kHz/MFSK32 image on 2000 Hz: ??? Looked like a chameleon in a pile of confetti, no idea what this should mean.... ;-) (roger, from the south of Saxony-Anhalt, April 28, dxldyg via DXLD) The Mighty KBC, April 28, 2013 broadcast on 7375 kHz via Nauen, Germany began ontime at 0000 UT. Program ended at 0200. SIO 444 with QRM from R. Martí on 7365 kHz via Greenville, NC. "Giant Jukebox", complaint from a listener about needing a bathroom break, listeners are told of the switch to 9925 kHz on May 5, 2013, Eric's special diet, holidays in May, "A Day in History", "Dutch News", "Hello to Listeners" and digital text Digital text results. **************************************************** 2013-4-28 0133 UTC THOR50x2 centered on 1500 Hz. Fldigi picks 1496 Hz as the sweet spot This is a Mighty KBC digital text transmission in the Thor50x2 mode, which is about 180 words per minute and, as you can see, takes up 1800 Hertz of bandwidth. NEW FREQUENCY NEXT WEEKEND Effective next weekend, May 5th, the Mighty KBC will transmit on a new frequency, 9925 kHz, for its North America broadcast, Sundays 0000- 0200 UTC. (Saturday evening 8 to 10 pm EDT.) WORLD OF RADIO 1667, On September 1st, the frequency will return to 7375 kHz. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |T|H|E| |M|I|G|H|T|Y| |K|B|C| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ **************************************************** 2013-4-28 0159 UTC MSFK32 centered on 1000 Hz. Fldigi picks 995 Hz as the sweet spot The North America broadcast of The Mighty KBC will return next Sunday, May 5, 0000-0200 UTC, on a new frequency of 9925 kHz. More digital text a half hour from now on VOA Radiogram, at 0230 UTC on 5745 kHz, via North Carolina. 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 **************************************************** 2013-4-28 0159 UTC MSFK32 centered on 2000 Hz Sending Pic:330x40C; KBC logo "We Want What You Want" see image here misc.kg4lac.com\2013-4-28-MightyKBC-7375kHz-0159UTC-MSFK32.jpg **************************************************** Thanks for another fun and interesting broadcast. 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America, ibid.) Thanks for the information about the image. With the text I had no problems - just the image here was a colorful disaster (roger, ibid.) Roger, Maybe too close to the transmitter in Nauen, Germany? Signal skipping over your location. 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, ibid.) Yes, such a thing can be a problem. My position to Nauen: Nauen ===> Petersberg (near Halle) 207 135 km/84 miles But the signal was still relatively good. MSFK32 text @1000 Hz and image @2000 Hz came simultaneously --- Text was good - image was bad. The image transfers seem to be problematic, not much better than normal SSTV. But I think next week on 9925 kHz the signal will definitely skipping me here at my location. And the groundwave I can only receive when Nauen is beaming in my direction, but this is not the case. Recordings for later-decoding of data-signals am I doing here always as 24 kHz IF-recording, never as pure audio recording (roger, ibid.) Roger, In general I have the same problem with VOA Radiogram digital images on 17860 kHz via Greenville, North Carolina. I'm further away than 135 km/84 miles, but still have problems with being too close and the images. 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, ibid.) ** NEW ZEALAND. 9700, April 25 at 1032, C&W music segués with VG signal, reminding us that this is now the RNZI channel from 0759 to 1058; also DRM noise circa 9890 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency change of Radio New Zealand International from May 1 1059-1259 NF 9700 RAN 100 kW / 325 deg to Timor, NW Pacific, ex 9655 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. Martin Greer Launceston Tasmania 7250 AUSTRALIA FM - TV DX SEASON in TASMANIA 2013 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launceston,_Tasmania Receivers: Digitech AR 1747 and a Digitor-by Sangean PR-D3L Television is a HMV brand (analogue) The antenna I use a VHF Phased Array fixed to due North East. Hello DXers, listed below are some FM And TV DX for Summer-2013. All dates and times are UT. + 10 Hours = Local time in Tasmania. [skipping the relatively close tropo] ESPORADIC TV The TV DX news is that I received via Sporadic on 26/11/2012 from 6:55 until 8:04 TV ONE from Hedgehope New Zealand; also on the same day from 7:50 till 8:00 was TV ONE from Dunedin. This is the only Sporadic E reception noted all Summer. The other news is that on coming 9th April 2013 all analogue TV goes off in Tasmania. All the Best from Martin Greer in Launceston. Launceston Tasmania 7250 AUSTRALIA 800 km distance Tasmania to Melbourne area. 1400 km distance Tasmania to New Zealand area (via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** NIGER. NÍGER, 9705, A Voz do Sahel, Goudel. Continua sem sinal (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) unheard ** NIGERIA. 9689.92, V of Nigeria, Ikorodu. Sudden s/on 0759 with ID, then News at 0800 in Hausa. Started out very weakly then a big boost to the signal at 0804 (almost as if they had turned on the "afterburners"). 16/4 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, Vic (Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Double Bazooka antennas for 80 and 40 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), May Australian DX News via DXLD) Domenica 28 aprile 2013, 0619 - 15120 V of NIGERIA, overmodulated. MB (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, playdx yg via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. April 27 at 1833-1845 UT, right at local mean noon, a MW bandscan while visiting squirrel haven, some 10 miles north of Enid, on caradio with vertical antenna, so no DFing or nulling. Skipping many normal signals, just some of the mostly weak ones of interest by groundwave in a low-noise area away from powerlines. Axually done from top down, reversed here for convenience: 530, far enough away from Vance on the south side, to hear some CCI under ``K530AM``, no doubt the HAR near South Haven just across the KS border operated by the Kansas Turnpike Authority 540, alabanza music over C&W, i.e. KDFT Dallas over KWMT Iowa 570, slow SAH, CCI audible under KLIF Dallas, i.e. WNAX South Dakota 670, weak religious discussion, or self-help? Also thought I heard Waziristan mentioned. Anyhow, it`s not WSCR Chicago (sportstalk, which is possible), but KLTT Denver 700, romantic music in Spanish, KHSE Dallas, ex-Asian 840, weak C&W, must be KTIC West Point, Nebraska, 5 kW daytimer at the margin of its range; but also a fast SAH: second closest is KWDF Ball, central Louisiana, 8 kW daytimer. I also had it more definitely around sunrise last November, in DXLD 12-48 850, weak Spanish, so KJON Dallas, rather than KOA Denver, which is also possible, and might be there without KJON or if I could null it 890, KTLR OKC & 910, without KVIS Miami OK, both suffer from IBOC noise out of 900 KSGL Wichita, 250 watts nostalgia when not huxtering 1090, RCC programming obviously, so 8 kW daytimer KEXS Excelsior Springs (KC) MO, with EWTN 1100, gospel music in English, very poor, KKLL Webb City (Joplin), Missouri, 5 kW daytimer 1120, alabanza music, so KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa OK is back on after missing since April 16 1190, weak CCI, SAH, one mentioning Irving, so 50 kW KFXR Dallas; no higher Metroplexers were making it for sure except 1700. Other 1190 could be AR, KS or MO 1310, JBA carrier, could be Joplin MO, Beloit KS or Dallas TX 1350, fast SAH. I would gladly take either rare Okie, KTLQ Tahlequah or KPNS Duncan 1370, too much splatter and desensitization from local KCRC 1390 on north side of Enid, to hear KGNO Dodge City which I know starts making it somewhat further north. Forget 1380 and 1400 1420, ad for BancFirst somewhere in Oklahoma, so KTJS Hobart 1430, weak CCI music & talk, i.e. KALV Alva in its null toward KTBZ Tulsa 1450, heavy CCI, one music, another ballgame, i.e. KGFF Shawnee and KSIW Woodward respectively; maybe a third? Could be KWBW Hutchinson KS or KWHW Altus OK 1470, JBA carrier with SAH, suppose KGND Vinita in northeast OK with one of the Kansans, all really too far, KSMM Liberal or KAIR Atchison 1480, KQAM Wichita KS has NO CCI from 50 kW KBXD Dallas, but wait till some skywave kix in 1490, notable by its absence: KMFS Guthrie OK, Jimmy Swaggart`s station. Must check whether that`s temporary. Last we heard from Bruce Winkelman, KBIX Muskogee was silent. Leaves JBA carriers, SAH; two Kansans: KKAN Phillipsburg, KTOP Topeka 1510, alabanza music, fair vs KOKC 1520; as previously tracked down, KNSS Larned KS, ex-ESPN 1570, alabanza music, KZLI Tulsa with no XERF for a change 1610, nothing but quite a hum from WQCL720, Great Salt Plains State Park OK 1700, comedy JBA, no doubt 10 kW KKLF Dallas/Richardson; at top end one might still wonder if it could be skywave (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 930, April 28 at 1206, WKY should be in weekly English pubaffs show, but instead adstring in Spanish mixed with a couple in English; finally at 1211 played *outro* for Sunday Morning Magazine, more ads, and 1212 back to Indomable music. SMM must have lasted 6 minutes at most instead of 30, or the automation screwed up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1120, April 27 circa 1837 UT in daytime bandscan, KEOR Sperry/Catoosa/Tulsa is on the air again with what else but alabanza = praise music in Spanish. Not on circa 1200 UT April 28, when it could be, well after sunrise, but it is on at 1453 check. I`ve yet to catch when they come on, if the time is even fixed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1490, April 27 circa 1835 UT, notable by its absence: KMFS Guthrie OK, Jimmy Swaggart`s station. Still maybe off circa sunset when logged others on 1490, see UNIDENTIFIED. But back on with gospel huxter April 28 at 1516 check. Last we heard from Bruce Winkelman, the other 1490 Okie from Muskogee, KBIX, was silent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. KZLI, 1570, PSRA etc.: see MEXICO: XERF ** OKLAHOMA. WTFK? Six new wireless mikes have been donated by a benefactor to the drama department at Enid High School, and made good use of in a produxion of ``The Wiz``, UT Saturday April 27 at 0030v, which caused me to miss a Chaski-check this date. I understand that FCC is being pressured to assign some WL mike frequencies to other users, which could result in QRM at concentrated theatre districts, such as Broadway; no chance of that in Enid. EHS is eight blox from Broadway. Need to bring scanner to performances (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. 17520, 25/Apr, 1359, R Pakistan in Urdu, or what should be. Only carrier without modulation audible, also on 15235. Listening on SDR, Twente. 11570, 25/Apr, 1730 R Pakistan in Urdu. OM talk. Modulation totally distorted. Listening in SDR, Twente. 15490, 01/Mai, 0052, R Pakistan in Urdu. Prayer of the Qur`an. At 0054 OM talk. At 0100 beep signal and OM presents newscast. At 0118 Qur`an. 25332. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency change of Radio Pakistan: 0045-0215 NF 15490 ISL 250 kW / 118 deg to SoAs Urdu, ex 17710 // 11580. 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF- 2001D 30 m. long wire, May 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15275, 0535 rather poor at S1 mean with S3 while 17830 is just marginal. 15720 (S4) and 17720 (S1), Pakistan in Chinese program with Qur`anic sermons like program on 1210. Clock (!) then man with news. Both with garbled modulation (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 1, R75 with 2x16inv V and HF150 with 16 m horizontal antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PALAU. 9965, April 25 at 1312, R. Australia Chinese relay has big problems again: instead hearing tones changing pitch slightly like Doppler from an airplane flying over (e.g. the Vance jet trainers all the time atop Enid), then cutting off after making a big noise, resuming; carrier also cuts off at end of at least one cycle; then at 1313 Chinese audio mixes in with the tone; 1315 tone off and on, noise bursts, but in a few minutes clears up with Chinese audio only. Feed circuit problem and/or transmitter problem at T8WH. One might mistake this for external jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also AUSTRALIA ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3384.997, NBC affiliate April 25, 2013 at 1122, Typical programming in Pidgin, was surprised to hear at 1125 English Christian motivational PSA in English. Other NBC outlets also fair to strong this morning. 3205v still struggling with whatever it is happening on 3185 that continues to QRM over 50 kHz of the band, 3260v fair, 3365v poor. 3905 is still missing (Mike Gilchrist in rural EC Iowa, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) More below April 25 from just before sunrise 1145 UT I search for NBC signals on 90m, finding, all too weak vs noise level: 3205, Vanimo, is second best at 1141 with talk; 1202 still a carrier, but open? 1204, no it`s JBM, and 1209 can make out some music still past 1218 when I quit. [more below] 3260, Madang, 1141 carrier, 1149 music and talk, 1203 weaker than 3205 but modulating better, bit of music at 1209* before carrier cut. 3325 & 3365, from 1141, weaker carriers so I concentrate on the others 3385, Rabaul, best signal at 1142 with talk, could be in English; 1146 music with a beat; 1159 still on, but off at next check 1202. 3905, also checked at some point but nothing audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3204.96, R. Sandaun (presumed), 1203-1230+ Apr 25 - Sounded like English news // 3260, which left the air at 1209; Sandaun continued with talk past BoH; still there at 1300 re-check, although very weak by then. Signal had been fairly good earlier, almost even with local band noise (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, dxingwithcumbre yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. WRL, 7324.963, April 24, 2013 at 0925, Fair signal with open carrier on 7325. Usual religious programming in Pidgin. 0931 Signal suddenly degraded with modulation on 7325. 1042 when I rechecked the signal on 7325 was gone and WRL was alone with a fair signal. April 25, 2013 at 0930, fair signal with open carrier on 7325, usual programming 1000 open carrier on 7325 1030 open carrier suddenly off with no modulation at all this morning 1100 still in the clear, stunning signal 1139 still in the clear and strong! Well past my 1114 sunrise. 1147 a USB convo in Spanish on 7325.360 (short lived) 1200 still in the clear and absolutely listenable 1203 carrier came up on 7325 for several seconds and then off 1215 still in clear, going strong, one hour after my sunrise! 1 kW??? 1220 starting to fade The engineers must be testing the [Chinese] transmitter. I suspect we may lose the opportunity for this DX station soon (Mike Gilchrist in rural EC Iowa, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7324.96, Wantok Radio Light, 1231, April 25 with the start of “Back to the Bible” with Tami; weaker than usual (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7325, April 27 at 1157, Wantok Radio Light still in the clear but weak; stronger Magadan 7320 no problem. Talk and hymn, 1201 hymn, 1203 strange SFX, 1206 ``Old Rugged Cross`` but not to usual tune; 1215 sounds like a children`s drama (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Saturday (April 27) WRL noted with a different program schedule than during weekdays. No "Back to the Bible" around 1230. Instead, as you reported, they had a radio dramatization; "Unshackled" presented by Pacific Garden Mission. Noted from tune in at 1215 to past 1235 (Ron Howard, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DXing in my preferred bands has been horrible for a few days because of summer storms. WRL still strong here on the low side of 7325 most mornings. There is a carrier that has been present, without modulation, which I presume is CRI on 7325. Here are some of those observations. It may be getting ready to come back on line with programming after the upgrades to the transmitter site. I would be curious if anybody farther west is seeing this carrier later. My sunrise is of course coming earlier and earlier. 130428, 1020 check open carrier, strong on 7325 1030 suddenly off 130429, 0930 other carrier on, at least as strong as WRL but unmodulated 130429, 1000 “ ” 130429, 1030 carrier off (Mike Gilchrist, EC Iowa, dxldyg via DXLD) Wantok Radio Light, 7325 kHz, 1125 UT May 1. Two OM announcers with religious programming in English along with country sounding hymns (Tim in Luther IA, Rahto, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 1499.85, Radio Santa Rosa, Lima; nice ID + something strange: they also announced "onda corta 555.." the last cipher I could not understand. Are they back on SW on a strange frequency? Can anybody confirm this? 73 (Max van Arnhem, The Netherlands, April 29, MWCircle yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DXLD) time????? Conditions were generally poor yesterday, dominated by NA, but noting Max's log of 1500 R Santa Rosa I found a very good short opening to Peru with strong signals lasting from 0415 to 0425. Clip of R Santa Rosa followed by Callao Super Radio. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mwcircle/files/Paul_Crankshaw_-_audio_files/peru.mp3 1499.83, OBX4I, R Santa Rosa, Lima; “Radio Santa Rosa, positivamente superior” F/G, 0424 29/04 PC 1400, OBX4W, Callao Super Radio, Callao; “Golazo de Callao Super Radio”, F/G, 0421 29/04 PC 1540.5, OCU2X, R Turbomix, Cajamarca; “Turbo Mix AM” ID between tracks, F, 0423 29/04 PC 1360, OAX4I, R Nueva Q, Lima, “Nueva Q” ID with echo effects, F, 0421 29/04 PC 1250, OA4L [sic], R Miraflores. Promo for talks by visiting pastors “en Cono Norte, Cono Sur, Cono Este” (districts of Lima) HK adds “there is the mention of Pastor Antonio Osmar de Oliveira at sec. 30. He is the "Responsable Nacional" of the IPDA church in Peru.” Personal First, W/F, 0419 29/04 (Paul Crankshaw, Troon, Scotland, ibid.) Paul, very similar trend here in my Italian QTH (just arrived..) Short but great OA opening at 0355-0410, I also have a good Miraflores 1250 (presumed) recording with the same religious promo from IPDA. Greatest signal however here was Milenia 1530, a first for me and for Italy, I suppose (Rocco Cotroneo, L'Ago - Liguria, Italy, ibid.) ** PERU [and non]. 4789.886, Radio Visión on April 25, 2013 at 0814; Besides having to contend with the obnoxious CODAR windshield wiper QRM, now it seems the frequency is being jammed by a signal stronger on a SW heading/lesser on SE heading. Typical religious programming with music audible underneath the mess (Mike Gilchrist in rural EC Iowa, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4810.00, Radio Logos, 0920-0945 April 26. Starting out with a threshold signal and plenty of noise, heard a steady stream of music. As the minutes passed however, the signal improved as traditional Peruvian ballads were heard. Settings used on the NRD545 to pull in the signal better were, ATT, notch, LSB (030 Khz), Narrow Filter, BWC (180 Khz). At 0936 music is interrupted as a male comments in Spanish language. Noise is too pronounced to hear details of his comments. By 0937 music continues as the signal loses some of its strength. At 0940, more comments by the male are heard which sound like regular news. Back to music at 0949. Signal has degraded to a threshold quality at this point (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston FL, 26N 081W, NRD545, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5024.908, Apr 24, 2302, R Quillabamba stronger than Habana Cuba this early. Nice ID (Thomas Nilsson, SW Bulletin April 28 via DXLD) ** PERU. 5980, April 25 at 0058, R. Chaski is audible with Spanish in the noise, and carrier cutoff timed at 0104:21* which is about 6 seconds later than last night. 5980, April 26 at 0053, R. Chaski carrier audible as usual with BFO vs the pervasive local and band noise level; automatic cutoff at 0104:26*, five seconds later than last nite. 5980, April 28 at 0100, R. Chaski carrier as usual audible with BFO amid the hash of local and propagated noise; cut off at 0104:13.5* [sic] which is 10.5 seconds later than two nights ago. 5980, April 29 at 0053, R. Chaski carrier audible in hash with BFO; by 0103 can make out some talk before cutoff at 0104:41*. A pleasant 75 degrees on the porch with DX-398, but we have another cold snap coming. Yesterday`s reported timing was incorrect; should have been 0104:36.5*, as I forgot to add the 23-second correxion factor to my watch reading. 5980, April 30 at 0104, tune in R. Chaski in time to find weak carrier in the noise, but some modulation detectable, and it cuts off at 0104:47* amounting to six seconds later than last night. Hold on to your chair; patron HCJB provides this shot of R. Chaski: http://www.hcjb.org/images/stories/news-stories/Peru_radio_station_lr.jpg accompanying a story alleging that R. Chaski persuaded someone not to commit suicide. I for one should have something to live for from day to day, just to time its ever-latening cutoff, as no one else seems to bother. Last time it approached 0105 weeks ago, timer was reset closer to 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) We all count on you to do your Chaski chasing, Glenn. My “seconds” reconciliation would be suspect anyway because of the delay in the receiver/audio chain in my SDR setup. I do regularly check there, and hope to make a positive ID. If I do, I’ll let you know (Mike Gilchrist, IA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, May 1 at 0053 carrier is audible from R. Chaski; some modulation audible after 0100 until cut off in mid-word at 0104:53* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, R. Chasqui (Urubamba, Perú), 2305 UT primero de mayo. ID de la emisora como Radio Integridad y comienzo de reflexiones cristianas en español. SINPO: 33333 (Claudio Galaz, realizo mis escuchas casi siempre desde Ovalle, u otros lugares aledaños. Rx: Tecsun PL- 660Antena: Cable de cobre de 5 metros unido a coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros. QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglist yg via DXLD) Radio Chasqui --- está en 5980 kHz con desvanecimientos importantes y apenas puedo escuchar algunas palabras; presumo que es Radio Chasqui, (publicada por el colega chileno Claudio) (Ernesto Paulero, Argentina, UT 2338 May 1, condiglista yg via DXLD) Hola Colega: Efectivamente es Chasqui, aunque se identifica como Radio Integridad, ya que la transmite por onda corta. Además de ello, después del arreglo del transmisor de la semana pasada, parece que bajaron un poco la potencia o tiene un problema con la modulación. Saludos ! (Claudio Galaz, Chile, ibid.) ** PERU. 9674.85, R. Del Pacificó, Lima. Adverts and canned announcements 0740, then a pop ballad at 0746. ID at 0752 and thanking listeners for listening. Fair signal and at equal level to the plasma TV signal from next door! Best heard in LSB. 16/4 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, Vic (Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Double Bazooka antennas for 80 and 40 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), May Australian DX News via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DXLD) Same fair in Spanish on 11/5 at 0650 (John Adams, Beech Forest Vic (JRC NRD-535 Ewe and Folded Dipole), ibid.) ** PHILIPPINES. 9400, 01/May 1006, FEBC Radio in Chinese. OM talk. 35333 (Jorge Freitas-B) 9430, 01/May 1009, FEBC Radio in Chinese. YL interview a man by phone. A different schedule for two transmissions of the same language and almost the same direction. 35433 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, Degen 1103 - All listening in mode of narrow filter at 4 kHz. Dipole antenna, 16 meters - east/west, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 12095, May 1 at 1233, gospel harmonies from FEBC, no sign of the distorted blob 12097-12098 heard 48 hours earlier, and not checked 24 hours earlier; 12105 KSDA is a lot stronger on the other side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See SRI LANKA; UNIDENTIFIED Logs 27/4 Using 1102 and mag loop (sorted ) not filled with Eibi listing 12095, 1347, two mixed signals poor Hmong? FEBC in Hmong 12095, 1402, talks in Cantonese fair - not listed - (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 1 May 2013, 1743: Radyo Filipinas not in English, rather Tagalog with a few English words here and there. 11720 43333, 9915 45433, 15190 45333 (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, Perseus SDR + DX-10 Pro active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 17510, April 30 at 1135, serious music, then English opening ``RRI Encyclopedia`` segment, something about Jews. Good signal a bit before sunrise here, only exceeded on 16m by RHC. // 15430 much weaker, but can`t hear any CCI from R. Free Sarawak, q.v. which now appears to be on 15460 instead, as well as 17840 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 21540?? RRI, Tiganeshti. Chinese service 0409 in DRM mode, but not enough signal to resolve even though the white noise was pretty evident. Interestingly, not audible at all on my main wire antenna, but very much there on my loop and Bulgarian amplifier, indicative of relative resonant frequencies, 27/4 (Craig Seager, Bathurst NSW (Icom R75, Racal RA-6790/GM, Yaesu FRG7700, Loop Skywire, amplified 1m rotatable loop), May Australian DX Nes via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Frequency changes of Voice of Russia from April 30: 1300-1600 NF 7505 DB 100 kW / 137 deg to SoAs Hindi/Urdu/Hindi, ex 7585 -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF- 2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. Something big is brewing! at 0349 UT [May 1] the Iranian Radar is already up to 36 MHz and I have R Rossii 24140, 2 x 12070! -- (Tim Bucknall, Congleton, UK, RDR54D1 + CLP5130, harmonics yg via DXLD) Sporadic E? ** RUSSIA. 25900, Moscow Technical University. 1300 on 12/4, featuring discussions in studio and playing songs. It seems is on the air only on Fridays. With 0.4 KW transmitter (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF 2001D ant Folded Marconi own made), May Australian DX News via DXLD). ** RUSSIA. When checking China mainland jamming this morning, also observed these two log entries [see also GERMANY [non] UAE 21780]: 21820.007, Very seldom noted ODD FREQUENCY operation of an ex-Soviet radiocenter. Novosibirsk outlet some 7 Hertz less in 13mb, at 0650 UT Apr 27, against [on other frequencies] RA SHP, CHN jamming stns in 13mb and VOR Irkutsk 21800 even transmission. S=9 signal in Tokyo Japan (Wolfgang Büschel, April 27, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Buryatia --- 22.04.2013, Radio Buryatii by Russian and Buryat from 2220 to 2300 UT on 6195 kHz, regional news and other notes. At 2243 transmission began in the Buryat language, Buryat song. SINPO: 33333. Website GTRK "Buryatia": http://bgtrk.ru/ Here you can see photos of employees GTRK "Buryatia": http://bgtrk.ru/materialyi-o-bgtrk/2010-08-03-09-26-34/radio.html I know that in the first photo - Lyudmila Moses, she had confirmed reports about receiving an e-mail. Admission to the village - 150 km Southeast of Ryazan. Receiver: Degen 1103, Antenna: Telescopic (Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX 28 April via DXLD) See also CHECHNYA; TANNU TUVA; TATARSTAN ** SARAWAK [non]. 15400, Kenyalang is blocked (?) by the local FDM like beacons of signal S4 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 1, R75 with 2x16inv V and HF150 with 16 m horizontal antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Time? presumably 09-10 UT ** SARAWAK [non]. 15420, R. Free Sarawak via Taipei. NF ex 11600. Good level signal and readable, speakers in listed Iban easy to follow. Improved reception compared with previous transmitter site (Sri Lanka?). Also heard well on 17/4 1105 15/4 (Charles Jones, Castle Hill NSW (JRC NRD-535D with 7m. vertical antenna), May Australian DX News via DXLD) 15430, R. Free Sarawak. Moved from 11600 to 15430 at the start of A13 on Mar 31, then to 15425 on 5/4, possibly to avoid Romania co-channel, then down to 15420 on 8/4 from 1100. Now noted on Apr 19 back here on 15430 at 1155. Then on Apr 20, the transmission did not get started till 1115, very weakly at first but then increasing in strength within three minutes. Occasionally subject to variety of deliberate jamming noises. I cannot confirm the transmitter site – rumours have Sri Lanka, Taiwan or Palau. I have it on good authority from Victor Goonetilleke 4S7VK that it's certainly not Trincomalee (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, Vic (Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Double Bazooka antennas for 80 and 40 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), May Australian DX News via DXLD) 17840, April 29 at 1246, surprised to find a new signal here, and promptly IDed in passing as Radio Free Sarawak during otherwise YL talk in presumed Iban, fairly sufficient signal, from where? Kashgar is in well on 16m, 17560, 17630, 17650, so could be as far as central Asia, unlikely Taiwan. Listened continuously and at 1252 OM speech to enthusiastic crowd inserting some English words, democracy, television control, Malaysia, ``you are disqualified as a democratic country``; 1254 dramatic music bit and other announcements, cut off the air in mid-sentence at 1258:20* without any further clews. They are still clueless in the studio that they should wrap it up by 1258. Presumably now on here from 11 to 13, which could be a problem for BBC French via Ascension as scheduled in Aoki 1200-1230, before I intuned; or not: since that is not in EiBi or HFCC. Presumably ex-15420/15430 where it had been this month, unchecked today. However, today`s Aoki has replaced those with: 15460 Radio Free Sarawak 1100-1300 1234567 Iban 250 45 Trincomalee CLN 08108E 0844N RFS a13 Apr. 28 [i.e. effective yesterday]. HFCC and EiBi do not show that 15460. I certainly did not notice it today either when tuning around. As usual, own website is wrong, http://radiofreesarawak.org/ still showing long-gone 11600 in the title line, and 15430 at the top of the page. 17840, April 30 at 1214, poor signal in presumed Iban talk from R. Free Sarawak on new frequency from secret site at 11-13 UT, better before axually cut off again a few secs past 1258*. Apparently an additional rather than replacement frequency, because of jamming, as the lengthy elexion campaign is coming to a head on May 5, after which these clandestines are likely to reduce if not cease. Also something on 15460, probably this, and should be checked for // or offset audio; nothing on ex-15430 (which at 1137 was occupied by ROMANIA, q.v.). RFS website http://radiofreesarawak.org/ still claims it`s on 15430 if not 11600 in the title, nothing about 15460 or 17840: perhaps that`s deliberate disinformation, but no good info for friendly would-be listeners (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Free Sarawak received at two frequency. On Apr. 28 and 29 at 1100-1300 UT 15430 // 15460 kHz. On Apr. 30 at 1100-1300 15460 // 17430 kHz. [sic, 15430??] I can't confirm the transmitting site. de Hiroshi (S. Hasegawa, May 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency change of Radio Free Sarawak from April 28: 1100-1300 NF 15460 TAI 100 kW / 200 deg to SEAs Iban, ex 15430/15420/15425 (DX RE MIX NEWS #778 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 30, 2013 via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DXLD) Missed 17840 I reported (gh) 15430, RF Sarawak, 1118 heard under Romania. Both have same center carrier frequency so that someone could suppose that RFS is transmitted together with RRI! Program: discussions in Malay at 1157 tune in, found RRI off the frequency, leaving RFS in the clear with S5 max signal (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 1, R75 with 2x16inv V and HF150 with 16 m horizontal antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17840, May 1 at 1205, trying to sort out what`s happening with R. Free Sarawak during what may be its final days leading up to the elexion May 5: 17840 is weak but stronger than 15430 and 15460 which also have signals, upon all of which RFS has been reported recently, but nothing on the fourth alleged channel, 17430 (a typo for 15430??). Almost all talk in presumed Iban; checked periodically the rest of the hour, as signals improved marginally, but all too weak to evaluate synchrony adequately, except they sound similar but don`t match exactly. Also bothered by local line noise level coming and going. Altho DX Re Mix News` latest schedule missed 17840 completely, it is best here, then 15430, then 15460. At 1253, 15460 seems to be closer to 17840; 17840 cuts off at 1258:48* after a bit of music which revealed 17840 was a few seconds behind 15430, which then cut off at about 1259:25*. HFCC May 1 now accounts for 15430: ``15430 1100 1300 51W,54 DHA 500 105 15 218 14567 010513 271013 D 20600 Iban UAE BAB BAB 18683`` Note the effective date is only today while 15430 has been heard previously. And note the limited days of week: Wednesday thru Sunday, perhaps alluding to termination after May 5, elexion day, despite the default end-date of 27 October. But what if the RFS side loses --- are they just going to give up broadcasts and everything? Nothing about this in HFCC on 15460, supposedly with NHK Japanese from Yamata at 12-14; and nothing on 17840. 15430 is the only entry in the entire HFCC roster specifying Iban language, tho many lack any language info (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Present footprints today are: 15430.000, suffers by minus 60 Hertz whistle tone in Tokoy though, but latter not heard in Europe, and 17840.006 kHz. On various remote units near Tokyo Japan the 15430 kHz signal is poor S=4-5, but little stronger on 17840 kHz. Both heard stronger in Europe than in Japan. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Buschel, 1258 UT May 1 dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) According to Hiroshi, Radio Free Sarawak broadcasts at three frequency when he checks data of the SDR. Apr .29 to May 1 on 17840 // 15460 // 15430 kHz (S. Hasegawa, Japan, May 1, ibid.) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 15500, new frequency from BSKSA, first heard today April 28 at 1248 in Arabic vocal music with long pauses, reverent but unsounds like normal Qur`an recitation; 1252 YL with Saudi ID; still on at 1304, and 1358 past 1400. Good modulation, not // 17705. Maybe one of their new transmitters? Not in Aoki or HFCC, 15500 an open frequency after 1200/1157. Fair signal while 17705 is JBA today. Sure I would have noticed 15500 if it were on, in daily chex for Bangladesh 15505 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. Hello everyone, I have just come across Radio Riyad, English language. Is this a new broadcast? Really strong into Montreal on 15500 at 1915 UT April 28, multiple ID's as Radio Riyad English service and now it's sports. 73 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hearing this with very strong signal in Teddington, UK with "SportsWorld" programme since 1922 tune-in on 15500 28 April. ID sounded like Radio Riyadh, and football talk is about Saudi Arabian football teams. HFCC shows 15500 registered via Issoudun 1700-2000 brokered by MBR. Nothing in EiBi or AOKI (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, ibid.) Gilles: Yes, I detect English as per your tip, intuned and there they were in progress with an interview with YM and OM talking about something to do with topical issues. Thanks for the tip. Received at my QTH on 15500 in English at 1940 UT Sunday, April 28, 2013, Radio Ryadh. 73's, (Noble West, WA2048SWL, Clinton,Tenn., USA, Tecsun PL380 DSP Receiver, Built In Metal Rod Type Telescopic Whip Antenna, ibid.) Radio Riyadh is also a very strong signal here in NW England. I also found it at the same time as Gilles and with a lengthy sports programme - Sportsworld it's called with interviews etc. At end of programme said "see you next Tuesday". Very up-beat western 'music' between items and at end. ID and programme title at 1943. Six pips at 1945 - last one extended - then "News Brief at 1045". Sounds like a rebroadcast of a domestic service. At 1948 a programme about blues music, including Count Basie to begin with (Noel R. Green, ibid.) Very strong here as well at the Winter Hill basecamp, +70dB/-5dBm at peak but with some QSB now starting. Even on the Tecsun PL-380 with just the short whip, it's 50dBµ with 20 dB S/N. 73 (Tony Molloy, UK, CCW SDR-4+ and CCW HF Active Antenna, Tecsun PL-380 DSP, @swlistener http://swlistener.wordpress.com ibid.) That's interesting. Riyadh sometimes accidentally runs the wrong feed. That's my suspicion, but nothing listed for BSKSA in any of my listings. Hmmm. That would be nice! I remember attending a SW conference (Challenges, I think it was called) for international broadcasters sponsored by the now defunct RCI in Vancouver back in the early/mid 90s. I remember speaking with a rep from BSKSA who was adamant that there was an English North American service from them (and of course, there wasn't)(Walt Salmaniw, Victoria BC, ibid.) It is possible that it was a feed error. But would sure be Nice to have an English broadcast! (Gilles, ibid.) It's now 2005 UT, and the Blues/Jazz programme continues (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) This could be way off, but - I just saw all the messages about this station. I didn't hear it; but I couldn't help recalling that the word for "sports" in Arabic is almost identical to the city named "Riyadh". My dictionary transcribes it as "riyada" where the "d" is emphasized. Could this mean anything??? (Bruce Fisher, NY, USA, ibid.) Hi Bruce, Thanks for the idea - but this was definitely a relay of Radio Riyadh IDing as "Radio Riyadh English Service" and frequency of FM frequency 97.7 (& others) with a sports programme in English followed by a music programming until abrupt off at 2035 (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, ibid.) This transmission went off suddenly around 2039 today. I, too, heard an ID for what sounded like "Radio Riyadh" at about 2009 after the close of a documentary music program and then into more of a contemporary pop music program with a DJ. BSKSA does have a Foreign Language network that has English listed from 1600-2100. Two of the frequencies listed are Jeddah on 96.2 FM and Riyadh on 97.7 FM. During the ID there was mention of two FM frequencies for these cities, but I failed to make proper note. If someone else did or recorded the broadcast, there may be a clue to proper ID there (John Figliozzi, Halfmoon, NY, ibid.) Since no one has cited my earlier report today of this new frequency (or even read it?), here it is: 15500, new frequency from BSKSA, first heard today April 28 at 1248 in Arabic vocal music with long pauses, reverent but unsounds like normal Qur`an recitation; 1252 YL with Saudi ID; still on at 1304, and 1358 past 1400. Good modulation, not // 17705. Maybe one of their new transmitters? Not in Aoki or HFCC, 15500 an open frequency after 1200/1157. Fair signal while 17705 is JBA today. Sure I would have noticed 15500 if it were on, in daily chex for Bangladesh 15505 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good Morning, SAUDI ARABIA, any strange ideas? New built Jeddah 250 kW shortwave site finished on new location some two years ago, when played Yugoslav CD music on their tests from 41 to 13 mband on same tremendous signals. But BSKSA came never real on air in past two years. We had these WOODEN REQUESTS at 1600-2100 UT on HFCC group conference in A-13 yet: 7260 1600 2100 27,28,37N JED 250 310 ENGLISH ARS 9710 1600 2100 47,52 JED 250 220 ENGLISH ARS 9840 1600 2100 47,52 JED 250 220 ENGLISH ARS - - - Jeddah shortwave site technical data: ARS new Jeddah Algwizain PC22711 postal code, "Al Kurnayash South" SW site TX house dimmly cross-dipole non-dir antenna HQ ant ITU #925 6 Jan 2012 image at 21 14'49.81"N 39 09'45.29"E image STILL DIMMED on Google and Bing maps ! G.E. time slide pool deleted some excellent images of this cross- dipole antenna area a year ago. ARS new Jeddah TCI ants, 255deg (220-270deg) to No+WeAF/Sahel Zone, SDN, TCD, CAF, MLI, CTI, LIB 21 14'55.01"N 39 09'59.52"E http://goo.gl/maps/1ScKN http://bit.ly/129t2eo ARS new Jeddah TCI antennas 315degr (300-340degr) 21 14'42.58"N 39 09'55.96"E http://goo.gl/maps/qCPlF http://bit.ly/129titQ History of June 2010: Continental Electronics will supply a quantity of 4 each 250 kW HF DRM-ready transmitters and associated equipment to the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Information (MOI) ... The new high-power HF DRM-ready transmitters will enhance the Saudi MOI's digital broadcast capabilities and can reach targeted audiences at long distance ranges with a clear, high quality signal. The DRM-ready transmitters are similar to those recently supplied to Broadcast Australia and to Radio-TV Malaysia (David Sharp-NSW-AUS, dxld June 26, 2010) [continues with much more stuff from DXLD in June, 2010, q.v., and tone tests widely heard in May-June, 2011; back to the present]: Radio Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is currently on 15500 kHz with what seems to be a new SW broadcast in English - or maybe a test. Heard here from tune-in since 1925 UT with sports news, now at 1950 with Jazz music. Massive signal (SIO 555!) here (thanks to initial tip from Gilles Letourneau in Canada via dxld yg) Went off abruptly at 2035 UT. Probably Saudi Arabia testing a new transmitter? Back in the 1990s they used to have an English service to Europe on SW at 1600-2100 UT - also a relay of their domestic service if I recall. But in recent years they have only had English on SW to Africa (Dave Kenny, Caversham Berks, AOR 7030+ 25m Longwire, April 28, 2013, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) 15500, after my first log yesterday of this new frequency for BSKSA in Arabic from 1248 past 1400, several DXLD yg members were hearing it in English after 1600 almost until 2100: those are hours when BSKSA has long provided English on a domestic service, but refused to put it on even one SW transmitter. As we suspected, must have been test of possible new transmitter as several are being installed, since absent next day April 29 at 1245, 1344, 1400 and 1626 chex. We can only hope such a 5-hour English service on SW will eventually be permanentized (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello everyone, Since I was not working today, kept an eye on 15500 for Radio Riyadh in case it was back: nothing heard; it's now 1935 UT and will keep an eye on the frequency up to 2000. Either it was a mistake or a test. If I don`t hear it this week, I'll try again next Sunday. Was fun; would be cool if they had such a service. They have so many frequencies going at the same time; would not cost anything more to just choose one frequency and put English on it! 73 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, April 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear Glenn, Japanese many DXer received "Call of Islam" in Arabic of new frequency for BSKSA on 7500 kHz from past 1400-2036 UT s/off on Apr. 28. http://ani.atz.jp/FBDX/LogBBS/img/3398.mp3 by Amano, at 1900, 1905 and 1939 UT. As ID "Idhaat Nidda al Islam min Makka al Mukaram". I was not able to receive this broadcast on Apr. 29. Would this be some kind of tests with 7500 and 15500 kHz? (S. Hasegawa, Japan, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15500, again April 30 before and after 1349 chex, no signal from BSKSA, which so far has appeared only on April 28, including English after 1600. During the same hours, 1400-2036* on that date, S. Hasegawa tells me that many Japanese DXers were hearing the ``Call of Islam`` Arabic service on another new test frequency, 7500; but not on April 29 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA [non]. 9685, April 28 at 0103, IRS is off the air already, instead of extending a semihour for English as sometimes happens on UT Sundays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALIA. Return to sender? Maybe not as Somalia to restart mail 22 years on http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE93P0QF20130426?irpc=932 GENEVA (Reuters) - Somalis may soon be receiving letters from abroad for the first time in more than 20 years after a deal was struck with the United Nations' postal agency, the latest step towards ending Somalia's isolation following two decades of civil conflict. But the challenges to bringing the Horn of Africa country back into the global postal community are manifold - there are no functioning post offices, only the main roads are named and most houses do not have a number. Add to that the ongoing struggle with al Qaeda-linked insurgents, who still control much of the countryside, and parts of the coastline infested with pirates, and it is clear the U.N.'s Universal Postal Union (UPU) and its partners have their work cut out. The Swiss-based UPU said in a statement on Friday that international postal services could start operating again in Somalia within the next few months. Somalia's Minister of Information and Communication Abdullahi Hirsi signed a memorandum of understanding with Emirates Post Group this week for Dubai to act as a hub for handling mail destined for Somalia, it said. The UPU, which brokered the deal, said its 192 member countries could resume sending mail to Somalia once the arrangements were finalized. About 2 million Somalis live abroad and 9.9 million in Somalia, served by a postal network that is "basically inexistant", the UPU said, having dwindled from 100 post offices in 1991. UPU spokesman Rheal LeBlanc said Somalia had created an office at the airport to handle mail moving in and out of the country, initially to service the government, embassies and universities, "but they seem to have plans to phase in postal services across the country over the next few months and years". Hirsi said his country would need help getting the post going again. "We ask for all means of assistance as we have to start from ground zero," the UPU statement quoted him as saying. In the latest sign of optimism that Somalia was emerging from its violent recent past, Britain opened an embassy at Mogadishu airport on Thursday after its previous mission closed in 1991 as civil war broke out (Reporting by Tom Miles; editing by Mike Collett-White) (via Ulis Fleming, K3LU, Maryland USA, via Joe Talbot, AB, DXLD) ** SOMALIA [non]. My most awaited catch: 11610, Sharooqa finally heard!!! 1610 YL with stringed instrument, S6-7, ID by OM and echoed (not clear with many talks in Arabic). Program seems religious (?? Catholic?) as ‘al kitab’ was mentioned several times. Then HOA songs were aired. Therefore I can suppose that the program is aimed towards Somalia (??). Question: I read that Sharooqa means sunrise. Is this station related to R Sunrise of UK? AFAIK in older times was a possibly successful Indian song station. Is far as I can remember it was transmitted on 1458 and via satellite (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No ** SOMALILAND. SOMALIA, R. Hargeisa on 7120kHz, Times of sign off: Apr 01 1859* Apr 02 1859* Apr 03 1900* Apr 04 1859* Apr 05 1900* Apr 06 1859* Apr 07 1859* Apr 08 1859* Apr 09 1859* Apr 10 1901* Apr 11 1859* Apr 12 1900* Apr 13 1858* Apr 14 1901* Apr 15 1900* Apr 16 1900* Apr 17 1859* Apr 18 1859* Apr 19 1859* Apr 20 1900* Apr 21 1858* Apr 22 1859* Apr 24 1901* Apr 25 1859* Apr 26 1904* Apr 27 1900* Apr 28 1902* Apr 29 1900* (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. On the subject of missing stations, note that here in South Africa we are being threatened with rolling power cuts during the coming winter. Due to government and parastatal (Eskom) incompetence over the past many years, the country has virtually no reserves of electricity-generation capacity to cope with even minor emergencies. I mention this because power cuts played havoc with transmissions from Meyerton earlier this year, and the same problem may soon be encountered again when the cold weather hits us. During the 2008 winter season, Eskom's solution was simply to initiate rolling blackouts of four or five hours duration on a daily basis to ensure reduced electricity consumption (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, April 27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I didn`t realize Jo`burg is (more than) a mile-high city; here`s a page about its climate showing the average minimum in June/July is 4 degrees, and there is hardly any frost. Latitude is only 26, like Miami, but there the similarity ends at altitude and also inland. But then beyond Cape Town, there is nothing but ocean to Antarctica. Does this make for a milder or harsher climate than at the same latitude north in America with large land masses toward the pole? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Radio Pulpit, 729 Klipheuwel, near Stellenbosch. Apr 29, 2013 Monday. 1903-2005. African choir and other vocalists singing hymns. Initially too poor to get an id, but the sound seemed consistent with their internet stream, although definitely not synchronized with it. Finally got a full id at 2000, “729 Cape Pulpit, your daily companion”. This is a newish religious station on that frequency, I have never heard it before. 729 has always been a clear frequency here in Jo'burg. Poor. Jo'burg sunset 1539 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Is it all in English? Locations look Afrikaans (gh, DXLD) Hi Glenn, Reception was generally poor but the bits I could make out last night were all in English. The Western Cape is home to a massive English speaking population. Having said that, I am hearing them tonight as well, but much better, and it is a YL talking in what sounds like isiXhosa, the main indiginous language in that area. 729 Cape Pulpit. 729 Klipheuwel, near Stellenbosch. Apr 30, 2013 Tuesday. 1802-1830. isiXhosa, YL introducing religious songs sung in both English and isiXhosa. At 1807 “Your daily companion”, at 1812 “729 Cape Pulpit, your daily companion”. At about 800 miles, reception is surprisingly good, far better than the Voice of Zimbabwe on 999 from the somewhat closer Gweru. At least it was until 1826 when someone around here switched on an appliance, which has decimated reception. Jo'burg sunset 1539. So it could well be multilingual, but I'll keep an eye on it. 729 Cape Pulpit. 729 Klipheuwel, near Stellenbosch. Apr 30, 2013 Tuesday. 1900-1922. English, a different YL introducing more religious songs, still sung in both languages. At 1900 ID “729 Cape Pulpit, your daily companion”. At 1907 ID “729 Cape Pulpit, radio with heart and soul”. Noted that this station is quite different programming from the current transmission of Radio Pulpit on 657 from Meyerton. I don't know if there is any connection between the two. Very good now a neighbour's appliance has been turned off. Jo'burg sunset 1539 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. 3319.996, Radio Sonder Grense, 32333, Idling ute on low side, SSB on high side. American show tune. Afrikaans male announcer. Well before sunrise in SA. 0215 Johnny Mathis song. Cow sound over song. Usually I hear cow sounds and rooster crows on this one. Might be considered a signature of sorts. 0223 into another song with no talk between (Mike Gilchrist in rural EC Iowa, April 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7230, May 1 at 0513, Channel Africa with English news about Angola, poor signal. Don`t hear this much, while domestic R. Sonder Grense also via Meyerton on 7285 is regular. 7230 is 100 kW at 5 degrees and M-F only; 7285 is 100 kW at 275 degrees, which happens to be much more favorable USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. Radio Vitoria apaga su onda media. Programa especial Radio Vitoria al igual que Radio Euskadi y Euskadi Irratia del grupo eitb, va a dejar de emitir en onda media. Este 30 de abril a las 00 horas finalizarán nuestras emisiones en onda media. En el caso de Radio Vitoria, tras 80 años de emisiones, finalizará con un programa especial dedicado a nostálgicos y diexistas. Será una hora y media en la que se emitirán partes de programas, sintonías, indicativos, promociones y voces que han sonado a lo largo de estos 80 años. Para la ocasión habrá una QSL que se enviará via e-mail a los informes de recepción que llegue a la dirección de correo radio_vitoria@ eitb.com. Radio Vitoria seguirá emitiendo a través de su red de FM y a través de internet y todos los dispositivos móviles. El programa especial dedicado a nostálgicos y diexistas será de 22:30 a 00:00 (2030-2230 UT) del 30 de abril por la frecuencia de 1602 kHz. Web de la emisora: http://www.eitb.com/es/radio/radio-vitoria/ (Información recibida de Francisco Txabi Matxain) 73 (José Bueno, Spain, April 26, condiglista yg via DXLD) Radio Vitoria 1602 kHz - special final MW broadcast on 30 April Radio Vitoria like Radio Euskadi / Euskadi Irratia EITB group, will stop broadcasting on medium wave. This 30 April at midnight our broadcasts on medium wave end. In the case of Radio Vitoria, after 80 years of broadcasting, we end with a special program devoted to nostalgia and DXers. It will be an hour and a half including examples of programmes, promotions and voices that have been heard over the past 80 years. For the occasion there will be a QSL sent via e-mail for reception reports sent to radio_vitoria@eitb.com mailing address. Radio Vitoria continue to emit through its network of FM and via the internet and all mobile devices. The special program devoted to nostalgia and DXers will be from 22:30 to 00:00 (2030 to 2230 UT) on 30 April on the 1602 kHz frequency. Station Web: http://www.eitb.com/es/radio/radio-vitoria/ (Information received from Francisco Txabi Matxain via Jose Bueno, mwdx yg. Translated from Spanish via Google (via Dave Kenny, April 26, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Thx Jose, I was aware that Euskadi was leaving AM but unaware that Vitoria was. Vitoria on 1602 could sometimes make it into the US Midwest during good TA cx. These departures will open up some channels for DXers here. Perhaps Newfoundland Canada is far enough east and dark enough to catch some of the special program. 73 KAZ Barrington IL, USA, (Neil Kazaross, mwdx yg via DXLD) Radio Vitoria, Radio Euskadi and Euskadi Irratia last hours: MW stations switch off today 30 April 2013 at 24:00 Spanish time. [2200* UT] These stations remain on the internet and FM: Euskadi Irratia: 1197, 1386, 1476 Radio Euskadi: 756, 819, 963 Radio Vitoria 1602 A special program can be heard via Radio Vitoria (1602 kHz) 2030-2200 UT and reception reports are welcome radio_vitoria @ eitb.com A special e-QSL for this event will send to correct reports. (Juan Antonio Arranz Sanz, http://jaarranzs.blogspot.com/ http://www.jaarranzs.com dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Euskadi Irratia: 1197, 1386, 1476 was still going strong at 0400 UT this morning as was Radio Euskadi on 756, 819, and 963. I could hear R Vitoria weakly at 2200 utc with a closedown announcement, "última emisión de Radio Vitoria en onda media" (Paul Crankshaw, Troon, Scotland, May 1, MWCircle yg via DXLD) It seems Euskadi Irratia stations are still on. Reception quality of the closing down Radio Vitoria on MW was moderate here. Nice announcement at the end mentioning in all years they received reception reports mostly from Scandinavia, Germany, Italy, France and Great Britain, but also from Japan. And they sent greetings to all listeners who were now listening to this last transmission. Also many times I heard the old announcement with callsign EAJ62. They asked for reception reports to radio_vitoria @ eitb.com (Max van Arnhem, The Netherlands. 2015 UT May 1, ibid.) 2015 UT check on Twente SDR shows Euskadi Irratia still on 1386 & 1476. Radio Euskadi is still on 819 & 963 also DH KCMO (Dave Hughes, Kansas City MO, May 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Euscadi Irratia was still active in the evening of May 1st, but today on the 2nd, 1386 and 1476 (the only channels usually audible here) seem to be gone. I did tune in at times just to enjoy this unusual language. The intonation was much like Spanish, but the difference was that it was hard to understand even a single word (Olle Alm, Sweden, ibid.) ** SPAIN [and non]. 30 April 2013, 1454: Just tuned into REE Spanish service on 21610 to hear their IS and an announcement saying that on Thursday some frequencies for Central America will be off due to maintenance works at Cariari. Alas, I missed which ones. 55544, // 21515 (55555). (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, Perseus SDR + DX-10 Pro active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) If I caught it right (lots of local noise) REE is announcing that there will be maintenance at the Cariari, Costa Rica relay transmission site from 18 to 19 UT on Thursday, May 2. Their frequencies for C. America (9765) and S. America (11815) will be off the air for one hour (David Williams, ibid.) teamwork 5995, April 29 at 0520, REE COSTA RICA relay is again on wrong frequency after 0400 instead of vacant 5965. Seems this happens about once a week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also COSTA RICA ** SRI LANKA. Iranawila transmitter for VoA Kurdish, 11985 kHz (55555 at 1725 UT), creates spurs on +/- 103.8 kHz: it is also on 12088.85 (carrier wobbling around 100 Hz, decent audio, SINPO 43333) and on 11881.2, also decent audio, with QRM from CRI 11875. 73, (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig, Germany, Perseus SDR+DX-10 Pro Active antenna, May 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1 May 2013, 1725: Iranawila is producing spurs! Heard children screaming on 12088.8, so looked for possible sources and quickly found same program on strong 11985, VoA Kurdish Iranawila. Also heard mirror spur on 11881.2. The spurs had actually pretty decent audio, just a wobbly carrier (moving within 100 Hz or so). (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, Perseus SDR + DX-10 Pro active antenna, ibid.) Maybe related to the spur 12097-12098 I heard? See UNIDENTIFIED, PHILIPPINES. But 11985 fundamental not on the air at that hour, circa 1230. IRA is listed on 12005 at 11-17 and 12130 at 12-13 (gh, DXLD) ** SUDAN. 7205, Radio Omdurman. 0303-0325 21/4, news in Arabic followed by music program. Poor signal and mainly covered by heavy amateur radio operator contest QRM (Richard A. D’Angelo, Wyomissing, PA, U.S.A. (Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R-8B, Eton E1, Eton E5, Alpha Delta DX Sloper, RF Systems Mini-Windom, Datong FL3, JPS ANC-4), May Australian DX News via DXLD) Same, S/on at 0227 on 13/4, ex 7200 with program in Arabic, but mixed with Eritrea from around 0254 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF 2001D ant Folded Marconi own made), May Australian DX News via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DXLD) ** TAIWAN. Keith Perron writes today on the PCJ Media and PCJ Radio Facebook group: PCJ Domestic is dropping all remaining BBC WS programs from May 1st, 2013. In it's place will be increased hours for Radio Australia and Radio New Zealand International. This decision has to do with the fact the BBC World Service programs have no relevance to listens in Taiwan. RA and RNZI have excellent international news coverage and excellent coverage of news in the Asia Pacific (via Mike Terry, April 24, dxldyg via DXLD) What`s PCJ Domestic? On the air or just on the web? Which reminds me, are any of those new PCJ SW transmitters on the air yet in regular service or even testing? (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** TAIWAN. UNKNOWNISTAN: 12500, Sound of Hope, Taiwan (list log); 1323, 25-Apr; 2M in Chinese talking. Poor at QRN level, but no jamming evident (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) So it`s not CNR1 jamming by itself? (gh, DXLD) 14400, TAIWAN: Sound of Hope Radio International, Xi Wang Zhi Sheng, ??, Chinese, 26.04 2240. OM/YL: Talk, talk, and talk, 2300 UT, time signal, a estação deu sign-off nas transmissões, 25422. Rx: Kenwood R- 1000, Ant.: PA0RDT Mini-Whip, 73, (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP, http://dxways.blogspot.com http://www.ondascurtas.com radioescutas yg via DXLD) Unless you are fluent in Chinese and/or check // frequencies carefully, you should not assume you are hearing SOH instead of CNR1 or other ChiCom jamming!!! I have to say this over and over. The timesignal at TOH sign-off is a signature of CNR1 jamming. Does SOH ever do timesignals itself??? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 14700, Sound of Hope TWN, 1150 27 Apr, px loc + jamming, 23333 16920, Sound of Hope TWN, 1220 27 Apr, px loc + jamming, 23333 (Mauro Giroletti, -Swl 1510- -IK2GFT- -JRC525Nrd - Lowe HF150- Filter PAR Electronics - BCST-LPF + BCST-HPF- DSP 9 -Eavesdropper SWL Sloper 11mt to 120mt Band- Loop ALA 100 M -Lat. 45 25'0" N Long. 9 7'0" E -Locator grid. Jn 45 Nk- playdx yg via DXLD) What kind of jamming??? (gh, DXLD) See also CHINA for FD and non jam ** TAIWAN. INDEPENDENT RADIO BROADCASTERS AT PERIL IN TAIWAN http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wBxvidde-68/UXlFpwutt1I/AAAAAAAAOmw/ZcuWJL28mAc/s1600/1304210957131770-676x406.jpg Radio Taiwan International (RTI) substation in Tianma has 20 antennas, each 75 meters high, forming a circle. Its coverage area is no. 1 in the world. RTI is planning to shut down its substations and end its contracts with Sound of Hope Radio and Radio Free Asia, which have been broadcasting uncensored news to the mainland. (Li Yuan/The Epoch Times) [caption] By Li Miaoren/Epoch Times Staff - April 25, 2013 Media freedom in Taiwan is again under attack by political forces from mainland China, resulting in a sudden decision by Radio Taiwan International (RTI) to dismantle two of its substations. Among RTI’s customers who will lose their contracts are Sound of Hope Radio and Radio Free Asia, which have played an important role in broadcasting uncensored news to the mainland. Earlier this month, RTI’s largest customer, Sound of Hope Radio (SOH), received a notice that the Huwei substation in Yunlin County will be dismantled beginning June 1. The eight radio antennas pointing towards China will be removed ahead of schedule, and the broadcasting business will also stop at the end of May. Tainan, another RTI substation in Tianma, will also be dismantled in a few months’ time, according to an insider. This has caused great concern at SOH headquarters in California. SOH has worked with RTI for over nine years, utilizing RTI’s shortwave spectrum to broadcast independent newsprograms from the West into mainland China. According to insider information, RTI high-level executives visited mainland China at the end of February. Soon after, RTI announced its intention to take down the two substations. Following the removal of the substations, RTI will terminate all its rebroadcasting customers and also stop its own shortwave broadcasting, and develop a mobile platform and Internet broadcasting instead, the insider said. Zeng (Allen) Yong, President of SOH, told The Epoch Times he had rushed to Taiwan as he was very concerned about RTI’s move to terminate its main customers in the name of consolidating substations and eventually ending shortwave broadcasting into China–a matter of great concern to the Communist Party, which censors media in the mainland. SOH has been doing business with RTI since 2004. At the end of 2009, due to pressure from the Party, RIT wanted to reduce SOH’s time slots by 50 percent. This move alerted the European Parliament and the U.S. Congress. A number of Congressmen publicly spoke out on the matter, forcing the Taiwanese government to step in. Coupled with pressure byTaiwan media, the cutback plan was withdrawn. “We hope this matter is not a repeat of 2009,” Zeng said. “The Republic of China is a free and democratic country. Free media broadcasting into China plays a big role in bringing truthful information to mainland Chinese. It should be protected and encouraged, rather than suppressed and eradicated.” Zeng appealed to Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou to pay attention to the matter, saying SOH Radio, Free Asia Radio, and others have played a positive role in broadcasting free information to mainlanders. RTI’s plan to dismantle its substations looks like “some black box operation,” using shortwave radio as a bargaining chip in exchange for political interests on the other side of strait. Written by Li Miaoren. Translation by John Wang. Written in English by Gisela Sommer. SOURCE http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/24271-independent-radio-broadcasters-at-peril-in-taiwan/ Publicado http://yimber-gaviria.blogspot.com/2013/04/taiwan-independent-radio-broadcasters.html (Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) Hi Glenn, I heard strong rumours some months ago that Huwei & Tainan were to close. Mind you digging through my archives, an announcement about Huwei closure occurred as far back as 2009 after a meeting, along with two MW sites. The official line is that RTI will remain on SW. The Taiwanese KMT government has always been more China friendly than the DPP, but I don't know if the downsizing decision is an economic one or a political one. Either way one shouldn't be surprised at SW TXion downsizing these days. An interesting article - thanks for sharing. Regards (Ian Baxter, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) This story published by Epoch Times is a piece of Falun Gong propaganda. Epoch Times is leaving vital information out and has created much of the information in its story. First Epoch Times is funded by Falun Gong, just as New Tang Dynasty Television. While it's true that the Huwei station is being taken off line, there is a good reason. First: This site is one of the older ones in Taiwan and has many technical issues. Second: These antennas and this site is and was used for targeting South East Asia. Never China. Third: The other site they mention is in the same position as the Huwei site. And broadcasts from these two relays will be moved to the more modern stations. Fourth: RTI managers have met with CRI managers many times before. Fifth: The meeting that took place was at a meeting of Asia broadcasters. Other broadcasters were there. Sixth: These two sites were slated to be cut years ago. Epoch Times is very pro-Democratic Progressive Party or PAN GREENS. Ever since Ma Ying Jeou was elected as President of Taiwan, Epoch Times and New Tang Dynasty Television have been on a all out attack against the Kuomintang or PAN BLUES. This story is nothing more than political propaganda against the Ma government. It increased when the former DPP and President Chen Shibien was sentenced to 20 years in prison over corruption. The DPP and Falun Gong keep saying these charges are all fake. This is despite the fact that the US Government has seized property worth 30 million USD, The Swiss Government returned to Taiwan over 20 million in Swiss Bank accounts. Chen's children who fled Taiwan have an arrest warrant against them for making a transfer of Taiwan state funds to Singapore worth 2 million (Keith Perron, Taiwan, April 27, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Keith, rather EXTENSION work on Paochung SW. Recent Google Earth image of Paochung SW site tells the true story, some new Thomson RIGID antenna refurbishing work is underway at present on Paochung SW site. 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) RTI (Taiwan) SW transmitter Site News 2013-Apr-11: As I expected RTI finally officially announced that the Huwei transmitter will close in the near future. Also new from my observations; I note new (just released) GE imagery of the Kouhu & Paochung SW site. Kouhu appears to still have the two SW 'net style LP antennas, as previously in other imagery. Of particular interest to me is the very recent imagery of the Paochung SW site. At the northern section of this site there "appears" to be new SW antenna mast sections (lying on the ground) ready for assembly of a possible new SW curtain array at this site. It could 'possibly' be that the mast sections are from a disassembled curtain array from one of the long since unused arrays at either Huwei or Tainan - we need confirmation of this (Ian Baxter, Australia, SWsites Apr 11 via BC-DX April 26 via DXLD) Ian, I guess Taiwan is awaiting new Thomcast ant and TX equipment soon, right? (Wolfgang Büschel, April 18, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Apr 26 via DXLD) Re: Kouhu site location ? Hi Wolfy, The SW antennas easily seen here: 23.534195 N 120.167644 E The MW antennas found a long time ago (re Alan's notes). the SW antennas only very recently seen in GE with the new higher resolution imagery. Maybe Keith Perron knows more about the Thomcast Txers etc. I suspect those plans were cancelled, if RTI was the client? RTI doesn't claim to know anything about new SW DRM transmitters. Could this leave one of the two other Taiwanese SW broadcasters? I don't know (Ian Baxter-AUS, SW TX site Apr 19, ibid.) This is your e-mail of 2010, see also the log-periodics ? both antennas at Kouhu ARE HORIZONTAL LOG PERIODICS at Kouhu - Hukou Village. Here's a new Panoramio image of a net style LOG periodic at or near the RTI Kouhu site. I didn't know RTI utilised any log periodics SW antennas at any of its sites?? Perhaps this antenna is used by a different organisation adjacent to the RTI site?? I'm really not sure - more investigation needed. Below is the link to the previously seen RTI MW antenna at Kouhu. (Ian Baxter-AUS, SW TXsite Jan 17, 2010, via ibid.) Ian, according to Ampegon/Thomson prospectus - the easy RIGID antenna is NOT of revolving type, - but can be slewed +/-30 degrees, - revolving unit of RIGID type, but called Ampegon RCA 2/2 or 4/4 dipole element are revolving types though (Büschel, April 20, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Apr 26 via DXLD) Re: TWN_PAO Pao-Chung Bau Jong_new Thomcast antennas 23Feb2013 Hi Wolfy, Thanks for the information. You may well be correct with your thoughts re *Bau Jong & *Thomson Ampegon antennas. Time will tell, I guess. I'll keep an eye on that. Also perhaps a new electricity substation added there recently or so it appears? I found an email item today from a year ago that Huwei TX site would close. That decision was made back in 2009 apparently! Also seemingly that either a 90 or 75mb outlet SW antenna removed from Kouhu site some time ago (assume many years ago now), but I find no early imagery to confirm that. New land clearing around the old PaLi site. But the disused PaLi site remains (Ian Baxter-AUS, SW TXsite Apr 20, ibid.) Re: TWN_PAO Pao-Chung Bau Jong_new Thomcast antennas 23Feb2013 Hi Wolfy, Thanks for the information. You may well be correct with your thoughts re *Bau Jong & *Thomson Ampegon antennas. Time will tell I guess. I'll keep an eye on that. Also perhaps a new electricity substation added there recently or so it appears? I found an email item today from a year ago that Huwei TX site would close. That decision was made back in 2009 apparently! Also seemingly that either a 90 or 75mb outlet SW antenna removed from Kouhu site some time ago (assume many years ago now), but I find no early imagery to confirm that. New land clearing around the old PaLi site. But the disused PaLi site remains (Ian Baxter-AUS, SW TXsite Apr 20) See my finding in BING, seen is an easy Dipole two mast in 267 and 310 degree direction. Kouhu appears to still have the two SW 'net style LP antennas, as previously in other imagery. G.E. image of 23 Febr 2013 New Thomcast RCA / RIGID antennas on CBS / RTI site ? TWN _ PAO Pao-Chung / Bau Jong, new Thomcast antennas, image of 23 Febr 2013, seemingly two revolving RIGID type antennas, like at Sines Portugal 23 43 38.83 N 120 18 02.96 E see older Terraserver image of 21 May 2012 but probably also remove of the older easy dipole masts and will be replaced by another Thomcast antenna ?? RCA 2x2 / 4x4 dipoles, or RIGID antenna. The tx building site is being cleared? at: 23 43 38.68 N 120 17 57.70 E probably dipole antennas and the four poles to be removed, and replaced by revolving RIGID ANTENNA unit (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) You have to understand there are a number of "sleeper sites" as they are called in Chinese, located in Taiwan that RTI would not know anything about. And discussing about these sites in an open forum such as this one --- I know for a fact that China checks out, just passes along information that should not be known. Taiwan is not the only place to do this. Israel also does the same (Keith Perron, Taiwan, April 28, dxldyg via DXLD) ** TAJIKISTAN. 1251, BBC WS is on new 1251 kHz from 1630 to 1800 UT. Transmitter site is Dushanbe/Yangiyul 38 28 44 N, 68 28 20 E, 1630- 1700 interval signals, 1700-1730 English, 1730-1800 Russian (Christian Bruelhart via Ydun’s Medium Wave Info 5.4.2013 via ARC mv-eko 15 April via DXLD) ** TAJIKISTAN. 11530, April 26 at 1234, nothing but big hum and flutter, no modulation, as Voice of Russia is wasting its relay rubles on this site; the hum is always there even when modulating. Was it thus for the entire scheduled 5-hour span, 10-15 UT in English except 13-14 Hindi? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TANNU TUVA. 22.04.2013, took Tuvinskoye Radio in Russian from 2310 to 2333 UTC on 6100 kHz frequency. At 2310 identification "says Kyzyl." [Govorit Kyzyl] Then the news in Russian. Unfortunately audibility was very bad and the interference created Radio Havana Cuba in Spanish. SINPO: 22332. Receiver: Degen 1103, Antenna: Telescopic (Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DXLD) ** THAILAND. 6765.1-USB, Bangkok Meteorological Radio heard 4/21 from 1200 tune with man and woman with typical weather forecasts and the musical interlude between weather reports. Thai and English, but more of the former than the latter. From 1200 to 1300 the reception was overall poor, but improved in the 1300-1400 hour to fair with some adjacent channel ute QRM and a noisy channel. Nothing heard in this time period from the 8743 USB channel - this is nominally a 10 kW transmitter while the 6765.1 USB channel is 1 kW (per their QSL card), so I'm assuming the 8743 frequency is not being used for some reason (Bruce Churchill via DXPlorer via SW Bulletin April 28 via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. 15525, 25/Apr 1420, MADAGASCAR (Relay), Voice of Tibet (PRESUMED) in Tibetan. Animated chat between OM and YL. Very weak signal and degrading in my QTH, but modulation audible. Good signal in SDR, Twente, Chinese jammer audible and continues after the end of transmission. At 1430 end of transmission. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [and non]. TAJIKISTAN/CHINA/UNIDENTIFIED, 15568 kHz, V of Tibet in Tibetan via Yangi Yul-Dushanbe TJK at 1305 UT May 1, at S=9+5dB level also heard here in central Europe. NO JAMMING nearby. 15608 kHz Chinese Unidentified odd frequency broadcast, at 1308-1315 UT heard on May 1. Noted nearby CNR{probably as jamming program} on 15610 kHz and co-channel US WEWN English underneath. AOKI list shows 15608/15607 also V of Tibet shortwave broadcast, but in Chinese language, also from Yangi Yul-TJK at 1200-1230, 1300-1335, and 1333-1400 UT. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) ** TUNISIA. [Re 13-17:] Checking here, in Massachusetts, at 2110 no sign of Tunisia on either frequency. Normally these are quite good here at this time. Currently hearing CRI on both 7225 (Croatian with poor signal) & 7345 (Italian with good signal). (Stephen C Wood, Harwich, Mass. Perseus SDR with 25 x 50 Northeast terminated superloop antenna, April 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7275, April 25 at 0454, IWT is still missing for a second day. Next news will be if and when it come back (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Tunis seems is on the air only from 0300 on 17735, from 0400 on 7275 and from 0600 on 7335 but not in their evening from 1600 on 17735. But only on April 22 was heard 1800-1900 on 7225, 17735, MWs 585 and 684 - all in Arabic. With kindest regards, (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria on 27 April 2013, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7275, still nothing from IWT April 27 circa 0530. However, Rumen Pankov in Sofia, Bulgaria reports today: [as above] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TUNISIA [not], RTT Sfax WAS NOT ON AIR on various checks on Apr 26, and also EMPTY channels on Apr 27 morning on 17735, 7275, and 7335 kHz. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7275, April 28 at 0447, IWT still absent. Wolfgang Büschel says it is missing from all frequencies, contrary to Rumen Pankov`s observations I quoted yesterday. 7275, April 30 at 0539, 7275 is still off, and at 0600 so is 7335, since IWT vanished last week. BTW, I see others still like to call this RTT, abbreviation for its French name, even tho on SW it only broadcast in Arabic! IWT abbreviates the Arabic ID listed in WRTH: ``Idha`atu-l-Wataniya at-Tunisiya``. Soon to be moot if it never come back (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. Uebrigens meldet Vlad aus der Ukraine, dass Istanbul Catalca 702 kHz wieder im alten Sendeplan sendet. Schedule OBSERVED at *0258-2202* UT by Vlad. 702 kHz Istanbul Catalca Izzettin, 1200 kW (2 x 600 kW) 41 11 03.30 N 28 30 44.21 E 2nd most active mediumwave broadcaster in Turkey Antalya Aksu Gücünde 891 kHz 600 kW. (Wolfgang Büschel, April 21, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Apr 26 via DXLD) Btw, Wolfy, may be this is news to you: I've noted TUR-702 kHz active full day now, heard them as late as ~20z, s/on *0258- UT, have to check sign-off time (presumed -23* UT) - 73, (Vlad Titarev, Ukraine, April 21, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Apr 26 via DXLD) TRT MW schedules had been drastically curtailed last year(?) (gh) ** TURKEY. Voice of Turkey on 13510 --- Heard via Twente sdr at 1220- 1230 UT, not very strong. Sounded like the end of English program, into VOT IS and off at 1230. Not found in Aoki or EiBi. Leapfrog? DH KCMO (Dave Hughes, Missouri, April 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes; that would be the beginning of the English program at 1230 which is supposed to be on 15450; typical sloppiness, changing frequency too late while the program feed goes on inexorably from the studio at proper timing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Easy INTERMODULATION formula task at the TX center EMIRLER: 13635 0600-1300 EMR 500kW 310deg TURKISH EUR/AM 13760 1130-1230 EMR 500kW 310deg GERMAN EUR 13635 x 2 = 27270 minus 13760 = 13510 kHz German px symmetrically maybe COULD also be on 13885 kHz, Turkish px. 37 wb df5sx wwdxc, (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Thank you WB. I am at work & I sneak in a little DX'ing via Twente in the morning but I didn't have a chance to "run the numbers" & figure that one out. regards, (DH KCMO, ibid.) Since 27270 is just an interim figure in the computation, where no signal necessarily appears, it`s even easier to subtract 13635 from 13760, and then subtract the difference again (125 in this case) to get the leapfrog spur; or vice versa. Much easier to visualize this way (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UGANDA. 4976 UBC, Kampala. Very poor in EE on 1905, 16/4 (John Adams, Beech Forest Vic (JRC NRD-535 Ewe and Folded Dipole), May Australian DX News via DXLD) This signal has been variable here over the past couple of months, but today it was strong and clear. However, the audio often appears to be low even when the carrier is strong. Preserving the transmitter valves?? ;-) African pops with English announcements at 2015, and a quick ID at 2030. 30/3 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, Vic (Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Double Bazooka antennas for 80 and 40 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), May Australian DX News via DXLD) ** UKRAINE. Domenica 28 aprile 2013, 0625 - 11980, R. DNIPROVSKA HVYLYA (AM reduced). SF (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, playdx yg via DXLD) ** U K. QSL: RAF Volmet, 11253, date/frequency/"time slot" letter in 35 days for English airmail report and US $2 return postage (returned). V/s Squadron Leader John A Lawson, BEng RAF, john dot lawson748 at mod dot uk. For anyone who is interested, Squadron Leader is equivalent to the US rank of Major. 73, (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, Microtelecom Perseus / Wellbrook ALA1530P active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good idea to write in English, hi (gh, DXLD) ** U K [and non]. Upcoming changes of BBC from May 5: 0300-0400 11820 WOF 300 kW / 137 deg CEAf Arabic, additional 0600-0700 7355 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg WeAf English, ex 9410 0600-0700 9410 WOF 300 kW / 170 deg WeAf English new site, ex ASC 1345-1430 5890 SNG 100 kW / 340 deg SEAs Burmese, ex 7465 from Apr 22 2000-2100 12095 WOF 250 kW / 170 deg WeAf English, ex 9915 (DX RE MIX NEWS #778 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 30, 2013 via DXLD) ** U S A. BBG Expands Its Reach With SoundCloud May 1, 2013 WASHINGTON - The Broadcasting Board of Governors today announced a new strategic partnership with leading audio platform SoundCloud, adding hundreds of hours of audio programming weekly for users to access worldwide. The move is expected to expand the BBG's online audience by introducing its radio broadcasts to a new, widely- available mobile platform and to content-sharing through social media. "Audio programming is the lifeblood of our broadcasters' connection to much of their worldwide audiences," said Syndication Product Lead Addie Nascimento with the BBG's Office of Digital and Design Innovation. "Reinventing that experience through the SoundCloud platform and allowing for audio to become a social experience will revitalize our audio content in a powerful way." From Khmer to Kurdish, content in more than 40 languages from all five broadcasters of the BBG will be made available through the platform. Each of the broadcasters has multiple accounts based on the language services it provides, and there is flexibility to add more accounts based on user demand. Users will be able to find BBG content by searching SoundCloud for either their favorite program or a broadcaster's name. Listeners will also be able to connect directly on SoundCloud's waveform with other users who share similar interests. SoundCloud provides an easy way to share audio programming on the web, as it lets users distribute content seamlessly across numerous social channels. BBG content uploaded to SoundCloud may be posted to Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler and Pinterest, appearing on the user's profiles via SoundCloud's HTML5 widget, thereby increasing audience reach for the BBG. "SoundCloud is thrilled to be working with BBG to share their expansive, multi-lingual content across the web," said SoundCloud Head of Audio Manolo Espinosa. "Collaborating with the BBG enriches our community with their global audio programming and offers an opportunity for the BBG to expand their online growth and secure new listeners." The partnership between the BBG and SoundCloud provides more comprehensive access than an individual membership would in order for BBG to centrally manage multiple language profiles, through automated feeds or manual uploads. SoundCloud is available as an app for both iOS and Android, and is available online at http://www.soundcloud.com (Letitia King, BBG PR via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD) ** U S A. 5745-AM, VoA Radiogram with lots of THOR mode tests contrasted with MFSK. This transmission was a bit different in that it had little human voice audio, and was mostly digital mode. The 'continuity' announcements were all done in MFSK 16 rather than voice audio, so if you weren't set up to decode, you would not be able to follow what was happening well. They did have ONE 'spectrum' picture: [attached in original] and a couple of VoA Radiogram graphics which were no different than the ones we've printed in TipSheets in the past, so I won't send those again. THOR worked OK at slower modes, but at THOR 50 and THOR 100 it broke down due to noise. They tried a FLMSG formatted web page at THOR 100 but it was too noisy even with the great reception at this time to work so there were a lot of error messages rather than a 'clean' decode. Heard *0230-0300* at 554+4+4+ but as usual the audio was a bit more muffled than the digital tones. Still perfectly readable. 21/Apr (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet 26 April via DXLD) VOA Radiogram 02h40 28Apr2013 MFSK32 text and image 5745 kHz.JPG VOA Radiogram 02h40 28Apr2013 MFSK32 text and image 5745 kHz.JPG Monitored tonight at 0230 to 0300 UTC with perfect copy of the MFSK 32 and 64 texts, and images. Less so using PSK 63F with quite a few errors. No luck at all decoding the THORs digital, nor the Flamp digital. I did download FLamp, but nothing happened, so perhaps I didn't configure it properly. Any ideas how it's supposed to work? Does it work with the Fldigi? Also, FLdigi doesn't support the THOR transmissions that Kim added. Anyway, here's what part of the transmission looked like tonight. All on 5745 kHz from Greenville: Inline image 1 --- 73, from (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Walter, on _5745_kHz_ I also had many errors in PSK63F. MSFK128 was catastrophic, also not helped more: FLAMP........ The rest worked o.k., with my equipment Better was the radio broadcast on _17860_kHz_. Everything seemed to be perfect. Even the MFSK128 transfer worked in the 1st Pass. The second transmission-correction for FLAMP was not necessary for me. QTH is in D-06193 Petersberg/Germany Ant. Dipol for the 40mBand My signal transmission chain/way: ICOM IC-R75 ====> IF mixer (DRM) 455kHz ===> 12kHz ===> PC sound card AC97 MIC in ===> Decoding IF with STUDIO1 ===> Audio via SPDIF to the 2nd Soundcard (Soundbaster Live!) for FLDIGI. During the IF-demodulation of AM-signals I always use only one side of the AM signal (LSB or USB separately, not the entire sum of the audio signal) (roger, ibid.) [See also NETHERLANDS [non]] Receiving/Decoding of the radiograms on 15670 kHz at 1930z without problems. Here, for example MFSK128 Flamp X2 - again already on the first pass 100% of the data, no restoration / correction required. http://www.rhci-online.de/15670kHz_VoA_Radiogram_MFSK128_FlampX2.gif (roger, from Saxony-Anhalt, "Land of the Early Risers" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxony-Anhalt April 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 17530, April 27 at 1332, fair signal with HOA music is VOA Somali via VATICAN this hour only. Aoki shows 17530 keeps switching sites and languages later: 14-15 English via Botswana; 1600- 1630 Sat Kinyarwanda via São Tomé; 1830-1930 French via ST; 1930-2030 French via Bonaire [what??? As A13!]; 2030-2100 Sat Hausa via Greenville. Better check HFCC instead which shows 17530, daily u.o.s.: 1300-1400 Somali via Vatican; and no English at 14-15 1600-1630 Sat Kinyarwanda via ST 1630-1700 Fri Portuguese via Greenville since April 12 1700-1800 Portuguese via Greenville, ditto 1830-1930 French via ST 1930-2030 French via Greenville since April 18; and no Hausa Sat (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) More and more frequency changes of IBB, all NFs: Voice of America 1400-1500 12120 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg SoAs English Mon-Fri, ex 7540 1430-1500 12075 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg SEAs Burmese, ex 12120 1500-1600 6140 UDO 250 kW / 284 deg SoAs English-Special, ex 9760 1500-1600 12120 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg SoAs English, ex 6140 1630-1700 15115 GB 250 kW / 094 deg CSAf Portuguese Fri, ex 17530 1700-1730 15115 GB 250 kW / 094 deg CSAf Portuguese, ex 17530 1730-1800 12005 SAO 100 kW / 076 deg EaAf Oromo Mon-Fri, ex 15620 1730-1800 15115 GB 250 kW / 094 deg CSAf Portuguese, ex 17530 1800-1830 13630 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg CSAf Portuguese Mon-Fri, ex 9825 1800-1830 15115 IRA 250 kW / 255 deg CSAf Portuguese Mon-Fri, x 13630 1800-1900 12005 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Amharic, ex 15620 WER 1900-1930 12005 BOT 100 kW / 010 deg EaAf Tigrigna Mon-Fri, ex 15620 2200-2230 5905 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg SEAs Khmer, ex 6060 (DX RE MIX NEWS #778 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 30, 2013 via DXLD) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1666: confirmed on webcast, first airing on WRMI 9955, UT Thursday April 25 at 0331. Next: Thursday 2100 on WTWW-1 9479; UT Friday 0330v on WWRB 3195 (and we hope they bring back up // 5050 for the summer); UT Saturday O130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB. Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB; Saturday 1500 on WRMI 9955; Saturday 2330v on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW-1 5830; Sunday 2330v on WTWW-2 9930. WORLD OF RADIO 1666 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1, 9479, Thursday April 25 after 2100. Next airing 0330v on WWRB: confirmed first on webcast, predecessor ending with ``let`s bow our heads`` at 0327, background noise level surges, Dave IDs, false restart of that (?), and then WOR from 0328, later confirmed also on 3195, no 5050. Next: 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-2 9930; UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW-1 5830; Sunday 2330v on WTWW-2 9930. Larry Will of Area 51 informs us about WORLD OF RADIO via 5110v-CUSB: ``Glenn, Allan went very long tonight, until 0156, so we're going to re-schedule World of Radio to 0200 UT Sunday on WBCQ. Happy DXing.`` Also: Saturday & Sunday 2330v on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW-1 5830. WORLD OF RADIO 1666 monitoring: started a bit late on WTWW-2, 9930, Saturday April 27 at 2331:07, but completed at 2400:03, followed by QSY announcement to 5085, and off, so all is well-coördinated now. 5085 may have been on for an hour, not at 0102 check. Confirmed on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB UT Sunday April 28 at 0200, but this was a one-time substitute for usual UT Saturday 0130v since AWWW ran almost until 0200 then. WOR 1666 also confirmed on WTWW-1, 5830, UT Sunday April 28 at 0400.5. Next: Sunday 2330v on WTWW-2, 9930. 5830, April 28 at 0446, open carrier/dead air from WTWW-1 instead of SFAW/PPP (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9930, WTWW, Apr 28, 2230. Huge collision or audio feed mixup. Went thru the hour with good ID and more of religious program mixing with a weekend Amateur Radio show (Rick Barton, Arizona, Drake R8, Hammarlund HQ-120X; R.W. and Slinky, ABDX April 30 via DXLD) WORLD OF RADIO 1666 monitoring: WTWW-2, 9930, Sunday April 28 at 2329, oh, oh, double audio, a Ted Randall `QSO` show playback mixed equally with ``Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport``, some fill music which frequently shows up on the WTWW playlist. No WOR at 2330, but mixture continues with other music; finally after canned ID, WOR 1666 starts at 2337, but is useless with the double audio feed thruout; also cuts off by 0001 April 29, and then 5085 exhibits the same mixture; this is also happening on the webcast. Once WOR finishes at 0006, only single audio. I wasn`t able to reach anyone at WTWW in time to fix it, but later learned that Ted is in the hospital, and the computer decided to play two programs at once. Get well, Ted! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** USA [and non]. 30 April 2013, 2232: WTWW with sermon in English on 9479, 33322, same strength as CNR 11 from China in Tibetan on 9480. Not usable without good filters (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, Perseus SDR + DX-10 Pro active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5085, UT Wednesday May 1 at 0055, WTWW-2 is on with another `QSO` show playback, ham ISS interview about EVA; probably only until 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9330, WBCQ, Monticello ME. Old rock songs with no announcements at 1030+. If there was anyone was actually in the studio, they had probably passed out on the floor in a purple haze!! 16/4 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, Vic (Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Double Bazooka antennas for 80 and 40 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), May Australian DX News via DXLD) 9330, April 24 at 1918, no signal from WBCQ which is nominally 24 hours on this frequency only; there is some propagation disturbance attenuating hi latitude paths, Monticello ME is the northernmost conterminoUS SW station, and is almost three times as far as the Tennesseans, which are inbooming as usual on 9370, 9479 and 9980, but I would still expect some trace of a signal from WBCQ if it were on the air at all. WBCQ, 15420-CUSB is audible at 1917 April 24, with usual BBC collision, which is now westward from Seychelles at 1300-2000 UT, covering the entire span when WBCQ may also be using it. Who`s doing their frequency mismanagement? 9330, April 25 at 1352 check, over full daytime path, still no sign of WBCQ, tho there is a JBA carrier a couple kHz below; 9370 WWRB is very good. 9330-CUSB, April 27 at 1349, no signal traceable from WBCQ, tho 9370 WWRB is strong enough. Still no 9330 at 1402, but 15420-CUSB is poorly audible with Saturday-only Brother Scare primitive organ music opening. 1626, now 9330-CUSB is audible with Brother Hembree, who is no less certain of his wacky beliefs than BS {tho Rod is incomparably glibber} but quite weak compared to 9370 and 15420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Domenica 28 aprile 2013, 0713 - 9330, WBCQ? EiBi+HFCC s/off 0600. SF- BN (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, playdx yg via DXLD) Hmmm, I had not noticed that registration shows only 18 hours a day instead of 24, and so does FCC, even for last A-12 season. That could explain why sometimes I do not hear it, but here`s why I thought it was 24 hours: WBCQ`s own schedule shows GFRN at 23-22 UT, with some exceptions: http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=9330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5050, April 28 at 0102, WWRB is on with big band music, Dave`s favorite filler; presumably just having completed the Saturday- UT Sunday-only paid sesquihour simulcast from 2330, also on 3215. Most nights it remains absent from 5050, but it ought to be the primary frequency in summer instead of 90m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9955, UT Sunday April 28 at 0106, WRMI with kid singing ``God Bless America``, and no jamming audible. I see WRMI has just updated its program schedule grid (in UT -4), as of April 26 via http://www.wrmi.net/pb/wp_d12a1732/wp_d12a1732.html showing this is `Tell the World Ministries`, a quarter-hour of English amid Spanish. Not sure what changes have been made; there are still gobs of Overcomer hours for another month. Radio Libertad is scheduled M-F 23-24 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. April 28, checked the latest WHR online program schedule by searching on ``Marie Lamb`` as program host, to bring up all the alleged times for `DXing with Cumbre` (which are constantly changing), and noticed that it supposedly airs every half hour on one frequency or another between 2100 and 2330 Sundays! So I decided to check them all out: 2100 on 17540 – NOT ON AIR 2130 on 17510 – confirmed, but it`s last week`s show #750 from April 18. Marie is too busy at WAER/WCNY to do anything herself, just turns it over to some downunderite and Chris Lobdell; apparently none produced this week, as she has not announced a 751 on the DWC yg 2200 on 15180 AND 11775 – NOT ON AIR 2230 on 15500 T8WH – inaudible; but KSDA 15320 is not either for AWRWS 2300 on 17510 NOT ON AIR That is typically what happens. Are all those imaginary frequencies on the WHR program schedule designed to fool paying clients? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7506.4, WRNO New Orleans LA (presumed); *0059-0105+, 24-Apr; On suddenly in mid-huxter. S30 with slight transmitter buzz; OC had been up for quite a long time; noticeable splash before s/on from WBCQ (presumed) on 7489.9 also with English huxter, but splash totally covered by WRNO audio (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) 7506.4, April 29 at 0057, WRNO open carrier is on with VG signal, but still dead air at 0106 check. Congratulations, anyway on what sounds like a nice clean signal as long as it is unmodulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7520, WWCR, TN, Nashville, with an Australian chickie from an outfit called ‘stemcellworx’ (I’m NOT going to the website!) talking about quack nutrition info and taking supplements sub- lingually because of ‘leaky gut’ issues on the ‘GPN Radio Network’ (GCN?) with a chickie with a thick southern (US) drawl. Odd stuff. At :33 into ads for ‘blockitpocket’ device to stop cell phones from working, “utopia silver” colloidal silver snake oil, (hard to tell where the program starts and the ads end but for the ‘we’re back’ announcement!). Then at :35 back to the two chickies talking about all the serious illnesses like Parkinson’s and broken bones that this snake oil will cure. Then into “Pastor Butch” taking calls about how Sandy Hook and the Boston bombing were both created by ‘big brother’ and ‘ads’ for things like the conspiracy to increase utility costs by banning coal (is it my imagination or have electricity rates actually been going down lately?) and other ‘conspiracy’ things with Pastor Butch. This is like a car wreck -- hard not to keep listening! 0159 ID over steel drums and urging to retune to 5890 & abruptly off at :59. 55555 (impressive!) 0130-0159* 25/Apr (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet 26 April via DXLD) 9980, WWCR Nashville TN (presumed); 1303, 25-Apr; Fire & brimstone, burn-in-hell huxter; tuned in to hear "whorish Christian activities" (wish I'd heard the leadup to that!) and panned TV evangelists. S30 over ute clatter -- LSB took it out (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. 11715, KJES Vado NM (presumed); 1331-1340+, 25-Apr; W in English with non-Biblical reading over piano tinkle; "Who endowed the cock with foreknowledge?" (Who indeed? Is there a ceremony for having your foreknowledge removed?) S20 peaks (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) KJES, Vado New Mexico 7555, finally got a response for a postcard and 2 USD's, air in 5 months. Card shows antennae in Vado. FD on reverse, also a letter thanking me for the report from Australia (John Wright, Peakhurst NSW (ICOM R75 and EWE antennae with a Tony Magon preamp), May Australian DX News via DXLD) And not even for their Oz service missing from 15385 (gh, DXLD) ** U S A [non]. U.K.(non) Frequency change of Adventist World Radio Europe/Africa: 2000-2030 NF 11830 ISS 250 kW / 180 deg to NoAf French, ex 17610 WER (DX RE MIX NEWS #778 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 30, 2013 via DXLD) ** U S A [non]. A-13 Schedule of TWR AUSTRIA/GERMANY/GUAM/RUSSIA/RWANDA/SWAZILAND/UAE/UZBEKISTAN Freq StartStop CIRAF FMO LanguageTransmitter Beam kW op Days Notes 3200 0255-0325 53,57 TWR NEL/ENG Manzini 3 50 1234567 3200 0330-0600 57 TWR GER/ENG Manzini 233 50 1234567 3200 0430-0500 57 TWR GER Manzini 233 25 1.....7 3200 1545-1659 53W TWR TSC/TSO Manzini 3 50 1234567 NDC 3200 1745-2000 57 TWR ENG Manzini 233 50 1234567 3240 0255-0340 53 TWR SHD/NDC Manzini 3 50 1234567 4775 0342-0358 53SW TWR NGL Manzini 3 50 1234567 4775 0400-0800 57 TWR GER/ENG Manzini 233 50 1234567 5910 0544-0559 28 TWR POL Moosbrunn 30 100 .23456. 5995 0400-0445 53W TWR NYJ Manzini 5 100 1.....7 6025 1425-1625 53SW TWR ENG/SHD Manzini 3 100 1234567 NEL 6105 0700-0750 27 TWR ENG Nauen 285 100 1234567 6120 0601-0800 57 TWR ENG Manzini 233 50 1234567 6120 1800-1845 48W BAB Non-SpecDhabayya 225 250 1234567 6130 1750-2005 52 TWR Umb/CJK Manzini 312 100 1234567 MNF/KON [additional languages in above block??] 7215 0830-0900 28 TWR HUN Nauen 135 100 1234567 7215 1400-1428 28,29,30TWR BEL/RUS Nauen 65 100 1234567 7225 0544-0559 28 TWR POL Moosbrunn 300 100 .23456. 7300 1500-1530 41NW GFC Novosibirsk 195 250 1234567 7300 1600-1630 40E,41NWGFC Novosibirsk 195 250 1234567 7300 1705-1735 53W TWR Yaw Manzini 3 100 1234567 7315 1355-1555 53W TWR Mak/POR Manzini 5 50 1234567 NGL 7400 0700-0750 27 TWR ENG Moosbrunn 300 100 1234567 9475 1700-1815 48SW,53NTWR SWA Manzini 5 100 1234567 9500 1800-1900 48,53NW TWR ENG Manzini 13 100 1234567 9530 0330-0345 48 TWR Sid/AMH Manzini 12 100 123456. GAZ 9585 1455-1525 53SE TWR MAL/FRA Manzini 64 100 1234567 9725 1400-1428 28,29,30TWR BEL/RUS Moosbrunn 55 100 1234567 9910 1100-1230 42-44 FCC Cmn Agana, Guam 305 200 1234567 9940 1330-1400 42-44 FCC Yue Agana, Guam 315 100 123456 9940 1905-2020 47S,52 TWR LIN/FRA Manzini 343 100 1234567 9975 1215-1245 42-44 FCC Cmn Agana, Guam 320 100 .23456. 9975 1330-1345 42-44 FCC Cmn Agana, Guam 320 100 123456. 9975 1345-1445 42-44 FCC Cmn Agana, Guam 320 100 1234567 9975 1445-1500 42-44 FCC Cmn Agana, Guam 320 100 .23456. 11580 1130-1200 42-44 FCC Cmn Agana, Guam 315 100 .23456. 11580 1200-1215 43,44 FCC Cmn Agana, Guam 308 100 1234567 11580 1245-1330 49 FCC Vie Agana, Guam 278 100 123456. 11580 1245-1345 49 FCC Vie Agana, Guam 278 100 ......7 11580 1345-1415 44-45 FCC Kor Agana, Guam 335 100 ......7 11580 1345-1445 44-45 FCC Kor Agana, Guam 335 100 1...... 11580 1345-1500 44-45 FCC Kor Agana, Guam 335 100 .23456. 11635 1630-1700 48E,48SWBAB Somali Dhabayya 215 250 1234567 11725 1630-1800 48,53NW TWR AMH/Oro Manzini 13 100 1234567 GAZ/Had [sic, additional languages in above block?] 11840 1000-1019 51,55,56FCC Eng Agana, Guam 165 100 .23456. 11840 1000-1030 51,55,56FCC Eng Agana, Guam 165 100 ......7 11930 1315-1615 41 RAM Tashkent 131 100 1234567 11965 0030-0130 41 RAM Tashkent 131 100 1234567 12055 1245-1530 41 GFC Irkutsk 224 250 1234567 12120 1100-1145 42-44 FCC Cmn Agana, Guam 320 100 1234567 12120 1145-1200 42-44 FCC Cmn Agana, Guam 320 100 .234567 13660 1300-1315 48W BAB Afar Kigali 30 250 1...567 15105 1557-1627 53W TWR Kir Manzini 13 100 .23456. 15190 1400-1423 41,49,50FCC Eng Agana, Guam 285 100 .23..6. 15190 1400-1430 41,49,50FCC Eng Agana, Guam 285 100 ....5 15190 1400-1435 41,49,50FCC Eng Agana, Guam 285 100 1..4... 15200 0850-0930 49,50,54FCC Eng Agana, Guam 263 100 123456. 15200 0930-1000 54 FCC Mad Agana, Guam 248 100 1234567 15200 1000-1030 54 FCC Ind Agana, Guam 248 100 1234567 15200 1030-1100 54 FCC Sun Agana, Guam 248 100 1234567 15225 1315-1345 41 FCC Asm Agana, Guam 290 100 123456. 15235 1000-1015 42-44 FCC Cmn Agana, Guam 305 200 1234567 15235 1015-1100 42-44 FCC Cmn Agana, Guam 305 200 .234567 15240 1230-1245 41 FCC Trp Agana, Guam 290 100 .23456. 15240 1245-1300 41 FCC Trp Agana, Guam 290 100 123456. 15240 1300-1315 41 FCC Sat Agana, Guam 290 100 1234567 15360 1400-1415 40SE,41NTWR URD Manzini 43 100 1234567 15390 1200-1245 41,49 FCC Mya Agana, Guam 285 100 .23456. 15390 1200-1300 41,49 FCC Mya Agana, Guam 285 100 1.....7 15390 1300-1330 49 FCC KsW Agana, Guam 285 100 1234567 (HFCC April 22 via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 26 via DXLD) ** U S A. 690, April 25 at 0452 UT I tune in even earlier to hear what KGGF Coffeyville KS is doing: last part of Jim Bohannon Show; kudos to KGGF for still carrying him, the closest station around here, but unfortunately not with a solidly listenable signal at night. JimBo is that rare breed of a middle-of-the-road talkshow with a wide variety of guests and topix, rather than a far-right hate agenda. As in previous log, KGGF was already dead air by 0456 last night, but this time continues with JimBo wrapup, 0458 quick sign-off announcement giving day/night powers of 10/5 kW, ``join us again tomorrow for another day of broadcasting; good night``, and plays taps rather than SSB. If anyone hankers to hear KGGF further away, the taps at local midnight would be a good tipoff. Then dead air, carrier stays on as usual. I am unavoidably awake too early by 1043 UT, so check 690 again: still open carrier, so figure they will sign on just before 1100 = 6 am local CDT. But recheck at 1057, already on with talkshow discussing Facebook; was it JIP? It seems both their sign-off and -on timings are flexible. 690, April 26 at 0450 UT, KGGF Coffeyville KS is already in open carrier/dead air, instead of Jim Bohannon. My kudos to them for carrying his tri-hour talkshow are tempered by KGGF`s totally unprofessional behavior in stopping and starting modulation at unpredictable times. I suspect anyhuman on duty is paying primary attention to their FM outlet, turning KGGF audio on and off whenever convenient. Who listens to AM, anyway? Meanwhile KTSM El Paso was making it thru the OC with local ID and ads. 690, UT Saturday April 27, KGGF Coffeyville KS allows Jim Bohannon to finish, then sign-off announcement after 0458 mentioning serving 4- state area (but not corners), goodnight until tomorrow, but when? They don`t say when will come back, because it varies. Taps start just before 0459 and end at 0500:10, then open carrier dead air presumably all-night. Live performances typically include at least one sour note --- it must be tremendously difficult to play, or maybe it`s just the pressure at a funeral or commemoration, but this is a perfect tear-jerking performance. Wonder how many takes it took; not just one trumpet but joined by a second toward the end for the echo-effect. Hope this does not imply that KGGF itself is dying. 690, UT Sunday April 28 at 0449 UT, Fox Sports Radio, dominant signal typical of KGGF Coffeyville KS, quite contrary to Jim Bohannon talkshow on weeknights; NRC AM Log does list FSR as the last of several KGGF affiliations. Usual slow SAH of 144/minute = 2.4 Hz against KTSM El Paso TX, 0459 ID as AM 690, KGGF, Coffeyville- Independence, and standard sign-off until tomorrow, ``good night`` and taps start at 0500.5. Listening more closely, it is *not* a perfect performance, a wrong note heard, and second-trumpet backup before the finale; then open carrier presumed all-night. 690, UT Monday April 29 at 0500, KGGF Coffeyville KS sign-off, 0500.5 taps start(s) (is that singular or plural? One never hears of a single tap), to be followed by dead air all night tho unchecked. Don`t know what programming preceded it on a Sunday night, but on weeknights it`ll be back to JimBo unless they turn him off early. 690, May 1 at 0459 UT, Health Care 411 PSA, pause lacking any ID before 0500 Fox `news`. Usual SAH from open carrier, so KGGF KS evidently closed early again, no taps, ceding the channel to KTSM El Paso TX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 730, April 27 at 0510-0513 UT, YL talking in Korean, dominating XEX et al. for a while, i.e. has to be KKDA The Metroplex TX in recently flipped format; after some music, more Korean but mixing at 0518 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 790, April 30 at 0519 UT, double-take as station in the QRM mentions ``Newsradio 740, KTRH``. Yes, I am on 790 for sure. But it`s KBME Houston, which is jointly owned with KTRH by Texas Licenses LLC according to FCC AM Query. KBME is in fact with FSR sports talk. Remember when the 790 in Houston was KULF? That ended in 1982 when it became KKBQ for a sesquidecade (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. From Tom Taylor's Radio newsletter: A Modesto AM falls silent again, as Pappas Telecasting`s deal to LMA KMPH (840) to Texas- based Christian broadcaster Paulino Bernal Evangelism went finito last Friday. That`s the dialogue on the Central California Board of RadioDiscussions.com. At first, one poster thought KMPH was co- identifying with another station and that it was on the air, but using different programming. Then Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame`s David Jackson checked in to report that 840`s been off since Friday afternoon. KMPH was a replacement station that Pappas Telecasting put on the air in 2006, after moving KTRB (860) into San Francisco. 50,000-watt KTRB is currently in the hands of receiver Susan Uecker. While Modesto`s KMPH fell silent in August 2010, before the LMA to Paulino Bernal (via Paul B Walker, Jr., April 25, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** U S A. 930, April 30 at 1155 UT with WKY nulled, occupant says ``like us on Facebook, 930 KWOC``, i.e. Poplar Bluff MO due east from here but still propagating after sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 960, UT Saturday April 27 in KGWA Fox-hole 0500-0505: something different than usual, no ABC news heard from KMA and/or KGKL, but IRN-USA news mentioned at least thrice at 0501, 0503 and 0505 just before KGWA blasted back on. Meanwhile, at 0504 ID for ``AM 960 --- Mississippi Delta``, so at last a definite ID for WABG Greenwood MS, which I have presumably logged many times based on its blues music format, often with harmonica. There was CCI, so am not yet positive whether WABG was the same one with IRN-USA news which would be a change for them, and cause them to insert an ID during the window. 960, April 29 at 0500-0505 UT, KGWA Fox-hole, now occupied mostly by weak echoing ABC News, i.e. presumed KMA IA and KGKL TX on proper night parameters. No sign of USA-IRN news or WABG MS; was that a fluke? 960, May 1 at 0501-0505 UT, KGWA Fox-hole audiblizes weak ABC news echoing, and then blues music, i.e. KMA, KGKL and WABG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1080, April 29 at 0524 UT, some music making slow SAH with KRLD nulled as much as possible, and ``AM 10-80`` ID. Meanwhile I have to listen to `Texas Overnight with Charlie Jones` lamenting that some major TX newspapers are losing circulation not because of the web, but because they are ``too much like NPR``, i.e. too liberal for him. What bilge. KRLD is trying to out-right the `Redeye` competition on WBAP. Let CBS never be accused of liberalism! Back to the unID: close to a right angle from Dallas, I suspect KGVY Green Valley AZ, (Tucson market with a webcam on Mt Lemmon) nostalgia, except it`s a 1 kW daytimer. I also had a tentative log of it before sunrise at 1223 UT September 23, 2011 as in DXLD 11-39. Website http://www.kgvy1080.com/ says streaming is under construxion, so cannot check whether ``AM 1080`` is a typical non-ID for them, as it could be for any 1080. Note: we already know it is in AM and on 1080! What we need are call letters or something else unique, duh (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1190, April 27 at 1151 UT, ``11-90 KQQZ`` singing ID, country gospel music, from NE/SW, i.e. DeSoto MO = St Louis market (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1220, FLORIDA, WJAX, Jacksonville. 1048 April 28, 2013. Bubbling up over several, including someone Spanish, with presumably male canned, “WJAX, 12-20 AM…” into “Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You” by Frankie Valli and signal lost. Listed 1000/36 watts, or more likely 111.8 watts PSA on this log if anyone here is following the rules (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. DX TEST NEXT WEEKEND - 1450 WKAL NY Rome --- is 1 kW full- time, non-directional. It's currently on the air doing engineering tests. Airing the 1920s Radio Network until the main format is put into place. Big band type music from the 1900s through 1950. Music that will cut through the graveyard channel noise. A jingle and ID at the top and bottom of every hour. On Saturday night, which will actually be Sunday morning here in the eastern time zone, May 5 at 0000 until 0030 and again at 0100 until 0130, WKAL will insert CW [sic = Morse code] IDs, alternating between 1000 khz [sic = Hz] and 400 Hz tones. [UT: 0400— 0430, 0500-0530 === gh] This is from Bob Carter, the engineer there. He welcomes reception reports but asks that these be via email only. Reports may be emailed to WKAL @ midatlanticengineeringservice.com Our thanks to Bob for including the CW component into the test and for alerting us. Please pass word along to DXers you know who aren't on these lists (Saul Chernos, Burnt River ON, April 28, ABDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DXLD) ** U S A. 1460, April 30 at 1203 UT, TSN Texas news, ad, then more news not about Texas, 1205 anti-fire PSA, ``Big Country``. Neither own website http://www.tsnradio.com nor Wikipedia provide an affiliate list, but of the four Texans on 1460, NRC AM Log shows one which fits: KCLE Burleson, 11 kW day power, obviously named for its studio address in Cleburne, both south of Fort Worth on I35W; and station`s own website which is more about sports than music, confirms the slogan: http://www.bigcountrykcle.com/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, April 30 at 1206 UT, `KBXD weather center``, ``North Texas` spiritual power station with 50,000 watts`` slogan, still skywaving in over KQAM Wichita groundwave, after Enid sunrise at 1139. BTW, nothing yet about rescheduling the KBXD DX test; maybe waiting now till fall? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1590, April 28 at 1229 UT, ``AM 15-90, WAIK`` and ABC News update until 1231; 1232 another ID. I was surprised to hear any W-call half a sesquihour after Enid sunrise, but definitely Galesburg in NW IL, still skywaving with a favorable pattern to the south (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. QSL: WPLA, Dry Branch GA, 1670 1 kW, frequency-only email in 138 days for English report via first-class mail with audio CD and US $1 return postage + follow-up via email. eQSL came 15 days after follow-up. V/s James Gay, Director of Engineering. JamesGay at Clearchannel dot com. Mr. Gay stated: "Please accept my apologies for the tardiness of this confirmation. We get lots of these and the stack has been growing for quite a while with no one to mind it." eQSL has a form part written by Richard W. Hamilton, Transmitter Engineer, which lists all the particulars of the station, but gives its programming as "Regional Mexican Music." I think this is a little outdated as WPLA is a Fox Sports Station! 73, (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, Microtelecom Perseus / Wellbrook ALA1530P active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. TWO TRIBES MOVE CLOSER TO SECURING FM RADIO STATIONS [(Farmington, New Mexico) Daily Times] Flagstaff, Arizona — Two Southwest tribes are moving closer to securing radio stations that others in Indian Country have turned to for emergency alerts, health tips, the latest rodeo news, traditional stories and language lessons. American Indian tribes hold less than one percent of the roughly 15,200 radio station licenses issued by the Federal Communications Commission, a figure the commission has been trying to boost through a rule it approved in 2010 to give federally recognized tribes priority in the application process, and help preserve language and culture. Earlier this month, the FCC set aside the first two FM allotments under its Tribal Radio Priority for the Hualapai Tribe in northwestern Arizona and Navajo Technical College in northwestern New Mexico. The tribe and the college owned by the Navajo Nation are now waiting for the FCC to open a filing window so they can secure construction permits and build their stations. Applicants who want to be considered under the tribal priority must be a federally recognized tribe or an entity, like the college, that is majority-owned by a tribe and propose to cover at least 50 percent tribal land. Successful applications are processed without going through an auction. The Hualapai Tribe already has been using the Internet to broadcast morning blessings, results of tribal elections, a radio drama aimed at improving health, traditional Hualapai music and community service announcements. The FM radio station would allow anyone within a 30- mile radius of the station to tune in, particularly those who can't access the Internet. "Once we get our FM frequency on, it's really going to build a lot of interest," said tribal member Candida Hunter. The spread of information on the reservation otherwise comes through fliers posted at government offices, a tribal newsletter or word of mouth. Terri Hutchens, project coordinator, said tribal members could have benefited last year from an announcement over the radio about water contamination, which led to a temporary school closure. She said some people received fliers but others didn't find out until days later when the problem was fixed. For now, community members are encouraging each other to listen to the Internet broadcast and volunteers are pitching in to provide content in the Hualapai language (via May WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) ** U S A. TV show about Marfa, Texas FM station --- Glenn, This report makes a trip to Marfa`s only radio station. You have expressed interest in that station in the past you should find this of interest in case you have not seen it: (Artie Bigley, DX LISTENING DIGEST) KRTS, the public radio station set up a few years ago and went on the air before authorized by FCC; yes, I saw it on 60 Minutes -- (gh) Viz: Marfa, Texas: The capital of quirkiness CBS News-Apr 15, 2013 by cjosse April 21, 2013 6:11 PM EDT: Marfa, TX has been known for its unusual "lights" display for years and has had scientific studies ... http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50144819n 60 Minutes: Marfa, Texas - the capital of quirkiness KHOU-Apr 15, 2013 http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/60-Minutes--203029461.html (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) ** U S A. Re: [Tvfmdx] FM translator weirdness --- 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? (Doug Smith, April 24, WTFDA via DXLD) Here's what I *think* is happening with some of these goofy apps (and that's far from the only one!) The current filing window for what I'm dubbing the "translator thaw" runs until next Monday, and the only thing it's asking right now from applicants is to make a showing that at their proposed transmitter site, their proposed operation will not preclude the licensing of additional LPFM service when *that* window opens, maybe as soon as later this year. There's nothing else that applicants need to show at this step --- which means that at least in theory, an applicant can propose something completely technically infeasible right now (like the 98.5 St. Paul app) and then file a minor modification app down the line when the FCC allows it. In some cases, this allows for an "IF channel" move to a channel 10.6 or 10.8 MHz away, which is what I think some of these applicants ultimately have in mind; but 98.5 isn't a good channel to go to in that case, since its IF channels are both outside the FM band. I wonder if the goal in this case is to slide down to 97.9 or 98.1. You can't do that in one minor-change hop from 98.9 --- but you can do it from 98.5. s (Scott Fybush, NY. April 24, WTFDA via DXLD) ** URUGUAY. Libro digitalizado, "Historias del SODRE", Eduardo Casanova --- En la web, acabo de encontrar la edición digitalizada de* “Historias del SODRE, narradas por Eduardo Casanova Delfino y escritas por Miguel Ángel Campodónico. *(ISBN: 978-9974-98- 443-1), 1ª. Ed. Setiembre de 2011, coordinada editorialmente por *pozodeagua televisión*, iniciativa y producción de *Macarena Montañez* y diseño de portada de *Pincho Casanova*. Este libro fue un proyecto premiado por los *Fondos Concursables del Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, edición 2010, en el área Memoria y Tradiciones.* Anteriormente, hice dos entradas a este libro aquí en “La Galena del Sur”: “Historias del SODRE”, un libro que aún no se puede comprar. (Publicado en octubre 2, 2011 Publicado en octubre 2, 2011 “Historias del SODRE”, un libro que YA se puede comprar. Publicado en octubre 17, 2011). Ciertamente, esta publicación ahora digitalizada ha sido publicada por la misma editorial… http://issuu.com/pozodeagua/docs/sodre_2__1_ 73 (Horacio Nigro Geolkiewsky, Montevideo, Uruguay, condiglista yg via DXLD) Aunque la publicación digital no incluye imágenes, es muy bueno el hallazgo, Horacio! Gracias. RGM (Rubén Guillermo Margenet, ibid.) Las incluye sí, en las páginas finales. Falta la tapa, no más (Horacio, ibid.) ** URUGUAY. QSL: CWA Cerrito Radio, 12750, full data English letter in 21 days for Spanish airmail report and US $2 return postage. V/s Ing. José Luís Rodríguez. Address: Villaderbo 1500, Piso 1, Montevideo. My first QSL from Uruguay! 73, (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, Microtelecom Perseus / Wellbrook ALA1530P active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. 15595, April 30 at 0527 looking for other Eurosigs after hearing Greece on 15630, here is soft jazz music, from what? Soon answered at 0529 by Vatican bells, 0530 multilingual opening of mass // much stronger 9645, but which is a sesquisecond ahead of 15595, why?? 0532 during Gregorian chant, we listened to both, the echo adding to the mystique. 15570, meanwhile, has come on at 0529 with much stronger VG signal than 15595, not // but playing VR IS and opening Portuguese. Why is there such a disparity between the two? HFCC shows 15570 is 250 kW, 175 degrees from SMG, while 15595 is 100 kW at 121 degrees from SMG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM. 7210, VOV 1, Buon Ma Thuot heard from 0930 UT with man and woman in Vietnamese language and various types of background music in domestic service. Faded in circa 0915 UT and at 0930, SINPO 24542. Trending up in signal strength after 0930 UT (SINPO 35443 by 0955 UT) and dominating the channel over what was presumed AIR Kolkata. By 1025 tune out, SINPO was 45544. Slight transmitter hum but not bothersome. Buon Ma Thuot is in the Central Highlands of the former South Vietnam. New transmitter site for me in Vietnam (Bruce W. Churchill-CA-USA, DXplorer Apr 20 via BC-DX 26 April via DXLD) Most of his DX is by remote receivers, so was this, perhaps originally specified as such? Those who do so need to make clear which logs are *not* remote (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** VIETNAM. 7280, V of Vietnam. 1800 on 13/4 with program in Spanish and not in English as is in their schedule. It is a mistake for decades in printed schedule of VOV English Service. // 9730 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF 2001D ant Folded Marconi own made), May Australian DX News via DXLD) ** VIETNAM. 9840, Voice of Vietnam at 1300 with sign on music and into Turkish - Fair Apr 24 (Steven Handler, Buffalo Grove, IL, Icom R-75 Tecsun PL-660 and 10 meter indoor dipole, Sangean ANT-60, ODXA Your Reports via DXLD) ?? VOV doesn`t broadcast in Turkish; scheduled Indonesian now (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** VIETNAM [and non]. Voice of Vietnam/CNR-Urgent Radio/unknown interference, 12000 kHz, 1155 UT. VoV with another Chinese program underneath, presumed to be the emergency National Urgent Radio station in China. Louder than both of these was what sounded like Spanish "amateurs" operating out of band in AM mode. I don't remember hearing OOB operators on 12 MHz before, but then again I've never listened for them either. Interesting that they'd use AM instead of SSB (Tim in Luther IA, Rahto, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Could they have been SSB but masquerading as AM tnx to other stations` carriers? (gh, DXLD) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. CLANDESTINAS, 1550, Frente POLISARIO, Rabouni, Argélia, 1704-1812, 28/4, árabe, oração corânica, programa em castelhano, às 1735 (!)... e emissão novamente em árabe, cerca das 1750, para mais orações; de resto, neste dia, a emissão foi muito estranha: por vezes, o programa em árabe, normal, seguido de longos minutos de oração. Ontem, 29/4, a emissão vespertina, observada já à noite, seguiu o mesmo padrão. 45444. Further to my earlier report today, I believe I can say the Polisario Front has gone one big step forward into Islamism. If not, why then the need for frequent prayer?! Or is this simply related to some local event that "requires" it? Any ideas? I don't recall hearing them with frequent prayer segments that are now often prolonged beyond the usual, what, 10~13 minutes' time only used at the start of each broadcast period, typically in the morning & in the late afternoon/early evening. Only this evening for instance, prayer was injected from time to time. As I write, it's on right after a short march and some talks at 2300. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** YEMEN. 6135, Yemen Republic R, Sana’a, 0500-0800*, Apr 14-24, Arabic is regularly observed (mainly under BBC) and at 1200-1500*. The parallel 9780 at *1401 usually till 1500*. It seems before 1401 they are using another frequency, maybe 6005? (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) ** ZAMBIA. Pleased to note the re-appearance of Zambia in the latest HFCC listings, on 5915 and 6165. But just because it is listed doesn't mean it is there; ZNBC1 on 5915 is present, but ZNBC2 on 6165 is still AWOL as of May 1 at 1745 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi all, Apologies are due. I was not looking at the HFCC list, I was looking at Aoki. In fact Zambia is still missing from HFCC, and to make matters worse, ZNBC2 now also appears to be missing from EiBi. Regards, (Bill Bingham, ibid.) Re ZNB frequency management organization. ZMB/ZNB requests via "CVC_CVI FMO" on HFCC has been ended in B-12 season when CVI stepped down. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Bill, It is missing from my list because you have consistently reported it to be AWOL ;) It is still in the csv but marked inactive ('8'), so it doesn't get copied into the freq and bc files by the script that creates the freq-a13.txt and bc-a13.txt from the csv. As soon as you, or anybody else, hears them again, I just have to change the 8 to a 1 and it will return to the lists. Especially with domestic stations, the entries in my listings largely depend on what is reported by fellow listeners on this and other mailing lists. So please keep reporting, it is highly appreciated! 73, (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, ibid.) ** ZIMBABWE. Hi everyone, It's another quiet night from Zimbabwe. However, last night (April 26) Voice of Zim on 4828 was present at around 1800 - I did not log it, but it was definitely present. Tonight it is represented by a buzzy carrier only. Radio Zimbabwe, 6045, Gweru. Apr 27, 2013 Saturday. 1700-1750. AWOL. Voice of Zimbabwe, 999, Gweru. Apr 27, 2013 Saturday. 1700-1750. AWOL. Voice of Zimbabwe, 4828, Gweru. Apr 27, 2013 Saturday. 1700-1750. AWOL But there is a strong and buzzy carrier. Jo'burg sunset 1541 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST). Voice of Zimbabwe 4828: Hi all, Seems that although Voice of Zimbabwe on 4828 may often be absent in their (and our) local evenings, its early morning programme may still be present: Voice of Zimbabwe, 4828, Gweru. Apr 28, 2013, Sunday. 1830-1835. AWOL. Jo'burg sunset 1540 (Bingham, ibid.) And at the same time and date: ZIMBABUÉ, 4828, Voz do Zimbabué (?), Guineafowl, 1834-..., 28/4, portadora vazia; 35333. Poderá não tratar-se desta emissora, mas o sinal provinha de sudeste, e a freq. coincide. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Zimbabwe, 4828, Gweru. Apr 29, 2013, Monday. 0413-0704*. Programme is “Zimbabwe This Week”. ID at 0413 and several times thereafter “This is the Voice of Zimbabwe”, with local news and “We are broadcasting live from Gweru”. YL talking through BOH, so it does not go off at 0430* as listed by EiBi. At 0450, time check and ID “Ten minutes to seven on this station, The Voice of Zimbabwe”, into afro music through TOH. More news from 0506 but getting progressively unreadable although with occasional very clear patches. Unable to monitor continuously after this time, but noted afro music at 0535. At 0540 sounded like “You have been in touch with the Voice of Zimbabwe” soon followed by “The time is exactly 19 minutes to 8 o'clock” and into “Sportsline”, so it also does not go off at 0530* as listed by Aoki. Then at about 0550 back to music through TOH. Barely readable announcements from 0604, then sounded like more local news. Barely readable frequency announcements at 0616 giving already known 4828, 5975 and 999, but a quick check at 0620 showed that the daytime 5975 was inaudible here in Jo'burg, as usual (and 999 had faded out by 0440 with the arrival of our local dawn). 4828 still on air at 0630, but now mostly at or below noise level. Went off air in mid-tune at 0704*. Fair to begin, but deteriorated to poor and finally unreadable. Jo'burg sunrise 0431. Voice of Zimbabwe, 999, Gweru. Apr 29, 2013, Monday. 0425-0440. Just audible and // to 4828 (thanks to YL's voice) but unreadable. Very poor, faded out completely by 0440. Jo'burg sunrise 0431 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi all, Voice of Zim chasers can be assured that it is on-air tonight; just listen for the buzz on 4828. Voice of Zimbabwe, 999 Gweru. Apr 29, 2013 Monday. 1725-1740. Present but barely readable. Clearly // 4828, but modulation level is inconsistent with carrier strength. Very poor. Jo'burg sunset 1539. Zimbabwe. Voice of Zimbabwe, 4828 Gweru. Apr 29, 2013 Monday. 1725- 1740. OM with sports news. At 1732 afro music, then id at 1736 “The Voice of Zimbabwe broadcasting live from Gweru”. Then a report on the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair and its opening by the President of Malawi. Poor, more transmitter or studio buzz than human voice. Which convinces me that the buzz I so often hear on this frequency (in the absence of any other modulation) really is from the Voice of Zim. Jo'burg sunset 1539 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Zimbabwe. Voice of Zimbabwe, 4828 Gweru. Apr 30, 2013 Tuesday. 0430- 0440. Present but poor, still with buzz. Still present at later check, 0540, but unlike yesterday (April 29) at this time, it is already at noise level. Voice of Zimbabwe, 5975 Gweru. Apr 30, 2013 Tuesday. 0540-0545. Nothing heard, not even a carrier on this daytime frequency, as usual. Voice of Zimbabwe, 999 Gweru. Apr 30, 2013 Tuesday. 0430-0440. Present and // to 4828 but, like last night (April 29), the reasonable- strength carrier was barely modulated. Jo'burg sunrise 0431. Radio Zimbabwe, 6045 Gweru. Apr 30, 2013 Tuesday. 0430-0440. AWOL, not even a carrier. Still missing at later check, 0547. Should be a 24h station. Jo'burg sunrise 0431 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. 12105, R Dialogue, 1616 ID by YL and mentioning election time. Hilife songs in English, S10 QRMed by 12110 of S20 signal (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 1, R75 with 2x16inv V and HF150 with 16 m horizontal antenna, all my pages: http://delicious.com/gr_greek1/zak DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 940, April 28 at 1222 UT, ``Sportsradio`` ID (would that be the new NBC subnetwork?), good signal, what I would expect after sunrise from KIXZ Amarillo, also looping east/west, but supposedly news/talk and schedule at http://voiceofamarillo.com/shows/sunday/ shows `Legends of Success with John Resnick`, not about sports, at 12- 14 UT Sundays. Surely not Des Moines either which is religious. Only other likely around here is KSWM Aurora in SW Missouri; finally found its program schedule under a different primary station: http://www.krmo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=104 showing instead `National Geographic Weekend` Sundays at 11-13 UT! So who`s wrong? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1420+, May 1 at 1219 UT, somestation is off-frequency to hi side, causing a LAH; to be checked further (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1490, April 28 at 0058 UT, checking this frequency since KMFS Guthrie OK was off the air earlier at midday April 27: dominant signal is nostalgia music, into ``It Was Fascination``, and at 0100 someone with a CBS bong; a lot of CCI as skywave is kicking in, but probably not any further than same or neighboring state. Two NOS likelies per NRC AM Log are KDMO Carthage MO, and KKAN Phillipsburg KS. Closest CBS are KDRO Sedalia MO and KQTY Borger TX. Of course, shortly before sundown here, the eastward ones are more likely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1520, April 25 at 0508 UT, KOKC has QRM from vocal ballad Mexican music. Unfortunately, unlike other OKC signals I can`t completely null KOKC so have to put up with the nonsense from Redeye Radio while trying to ID the QRM, from which I have yet to copy any announcement. At least I get a pretty good DF on it, SSW or maybe NNE, which if correct rules out the Californians as Greg Hardison helpfully suggested. There it is again at 1053, music making fast SAH with KOKC. I think we can also rule out KSIB in Creston IA, our closest 1520 to the NNE since it`s a daytimer and still active in English per website. Based on proximity and direxion, the most likely one in Cantú is: 1520 XEVUC La Norteñita Allende, Coah. 1,000 D with one little problem: listed as a daytimer, but as we know, that doesn`t necessarily stop USA or USM stations from running all night. The IRCA Log 2012 has this one on 1050 instead, as ``La Gigante``, so recently moved? I can see how they would want to get off XEG`s frequency, and maybe really operate at night on the new channel. WRTH 2013 also has this La Norteñita on 1520, as 1 kW fulltime, i.e. no ``d`` indicating a daytimer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4830 kHz --- Son las 0701 UT en el momento que escribo este mensaje, y desde hace unos 20 minutos vengo escuchando en 4830 kHz en USB una retransmisión de una emisora española con los "40 principales" o algo por el estilo. Los anuncios de la hora en ese programa coincidirían con el horario UT, por lo que deduzco que no es un programa pre grabado. Si bien la señal fluctua, nunca es menos a S7. No puedo identificar de qué se trata, pero si tuviera que arriesgar algo, por las señales de las emisoras brasileras que se pueden escuchar en la banda, muy ruidosa por cierto (4825, 4905, 4985, 5035), apostaría al transmisor de Radio Sarandí que estuviera al aire un tiempo (en junio de 2012) por 6045 kHz LSB. La escucho con el Kenwood TS-50 con el dipolo para 40 metros, pero también con el Sony ICF7600D con su antena telescópica, aunque mucho peor. Quizás esten probando para ponerlo nuevamente en funcionamiento? O será alguien que no tiene nada más que hacer en la madrugada uruguaya que algo así? Tengo mucho ruido electrico en la frecuencia, pero intentaré hacer alguna grabación más o menos decente y subirla a Youtube. 73! -- (Rodolfo Tizzi, Montevideo, Uruguay, April 26, http://cx2abp.blogspot.com/ condiglista yg via DXLD) How about 3 x 1610 harmonic? I don`t see how you connect this frequency with R. Sarandí (gh, DXLD) Aqui está una grabación de lo que escuché a eso de las 0645-0715 UT por 4830 kHz. La calidad del audio no es muy buena porque tuve que usar un filtrado agresivo para eliminar la polución eléctrica que era considerable a esas horas. http://youtu.be/cVZsLZrteHE Aclaro que en estos momentos son las 1505 UT y no escucho nada en 4830 ni en 6045 kHz. 73 desde Montevideo (Rodolfo Tizzi, condgilista ibid.) Hola Rodolfo, Cordial saludo, me parece que puede tratarse de un armonico 1610 x 3 = 4830 Khz (Rafael Rodríguez, Colombia, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 4925v, April 25 at 1020, nothing much extracontinental on 60m except a big het here, presumably MND Radio from Korea South as scheduled, vs. R. Educação Rural, Tefé, Brasil as logged by Dave Valko PA, April 8 on 4924.98 and 4925.24 respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7270, 2355 April 25, 2013. While sitting on the channel, this suddenly popped up at 2355. No discernible time sounders at 0000 (China) or 0030 (India), and by 0030, the signal had faded badly. Lots of unidentified language non-Chinese/non-Hindi talk, also lots of vocals and local filler music. Nothing Hindi music-sounding, more central Asian. Unable to pull listed parallels for either in the local QRM, which would have sealed it. Checking April 26 and 27, something there but the signal was much weaker. Aoki shows Nei Menggu and Voice of China (check) before 0000, no others on 7270. VoC goes off at that hour, theoretically leaving Nei Menggu and AIR. April 29: still hearing something that sounds domestic on 7270 2355-ish past 0030, vaguely subcontinental. No time sounders top-of-hour noted. No sounders 0030 but female(?) talk after the vocal right at 0030 followed by man, back to Asian music. Thinking AIR still, but inconclusive (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7280, 1106-1135 April 28, 2013. Presume either Sound of Hope, Tanshui, Taiwan or a mainland Chinese blocker with Chinese male and female constant talk. Then one short, one long time sounders at 1130, orchestral fanfare, back to talk. Clear and fair (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED [non]. 7365, Apr 25, 1030. From the things that go bump in the night department, strange buzzing noises in rapid sequence similar to the "raspers" or "bonker" transmissions, with dot dot dash patern. Went on most of the hour on rechecks (Rick Barton, Arizona, Drake R8, Hammarlund HQ-120X; R.W. and Slinky, ABDX April 30 via DXLD) It`s just a Cuban jammer against nothing since R. Martí is on this frequency at other dayparts only. Maybe only one transmitter so you can hear the individual pulses, instead of the wall of noise when many of them pile on (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9405.60, (ute) Apr 30, 1700. Another from the "things- that-go-bump`` dept. Strange loud buzzing dashes modulated over an AM carrier, very very strong here at mid/late local morning. Was gone at 1730 (Rick Barton, Arizona, Drake R8, Hammarlund HQ-120X; R.W. and Slinky, ABDX April 30 via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 9544.5-USB, April 29 at 0108, some weak 2-way intruder in Spanish. Picked a good spot with no broadcaster on 9545 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 12097-12098, Monday April 29 at 1228, extremely distorted FMy Asian language, not // CNR1 jammer on 11825; not KSDA which is OK far enough away on 12105 (and WTWW not on yet); also atop a very weak carrier on 12095, but prime suspect is FEBC Bocaue, PHILIPPINES, nominal 12095, scheduled in Iu Mien daily until 1230, and Achang at 1230-1245 except Thursdays. EiBi [not Aoki] shows: MIE Mien / Iu Mien: S China (0.5m), Vietnam (0.3m) ACH Achang / Ngac'ang: Myanmar, South China (30,000) Unfortunately I did not note whether this went off at 1245; next check at 1303 it was gone. If not, it would have to be a spur/mistune from further afield (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See PHILIPPINES; SRI LANKA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1667: Many thanks to Greg Hardison, Tarzana CA for a generous check in the mail to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (gh) One may also contribute, not necessarily in US funds, via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com When I was last active in SWL in the 70s-early 80s, I followed your info and reports very closely. Although SW has radically changed from those days, it is nice to see that you are still going strong and providing valuable assistance to SWLers. All the best (Paul Kinder, shortwavelistening yg via DXLD) Grato Glenn, por mais uma edição de seu boletim que nos trás uma infinidade de úteis informações atualizadas e precisas no mundo SW. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ THE NUMBERS STATION DRAWS SOULFUL PERFORMANCES FROM JOHN CUSACK AND MALIN AKERMAN By Chuck Wilson published: April 24, 2013 The Numbers Station Directed by Kasper Barfoed Image Entertainment A thriller that focuses on only two key characters shouldn't be hard to explain, yet the plot specifics of the unexciting but sweetly old- fashioned The Numbers Station are hard to nail down. John Cusack stars as Emerson, a CIA hit man suffering a midlife crisis. To give him a rest, the bosses send him to England to guard a WWII bunker from which coded radio messages are sent to U.S. spies. Yes, shortwave radio! It's still around! Emerson spends three days guarding Katherine (Malin Akerman), a gorgeous young cryptologist who sends number-coded assignments to secret agents the world over. All is well until the bunker's other two agents are attacked and forced to send out 15 rogue assassination assignments. Don't ask how, but Emerson and Katherine end up trapped in the bunker, desperately trying to find the code that will reverse those orders. Onscreen, all this makes sense (mostly), thanks to first-timer F. Scott Frazier's well-written script. There are some decent shootouts, but the movie's strongest assets are the soulful performances Danish director Kasper Barfoed, making his American debut, draws from Cusack and Akerman, a Swedish-born newcomer with half a dozen films in the pipeline and stardom waiting just around the corner (source? via Brock Whaley, Afghanistan, dxldyg via DXLD) I watched yesterday and found the weak plot. Totally out of the safety standards for an operation so secret. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana Bahia, April 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The Numbers Station (2013) Movie Review | Film School Rejects Yes, its peripheral to DXing but off topic. I am sure however we have all heard a numbers station at some point. http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/reviews/review-the-numbers-station.php Review: ‘The Numbers Station’ Suffers From a By-the-Numbers Plot, Is a Zero Sum Game and Just Doesn’t Add Up Two men sit in a car having a seemingly casual chat, but while Grey (Liam Cunningham) rambles on about the dollar value associated with all of the various minerals in a human body, Emerson (John Cusack) is recording numbers being spoken on the radio. He writes them down, enters a bar and kills the three people inside. They’re wet work agents tasked with cleanup duty, but when their latest hit goes awry Emerson is reassigned to an underground Numbers Station in England to babysit a civilian named Katherine (Malin Akerman), whose sole job is to transmit numerically coded messages over the shortwave radio to agents in the field. She doesn’t know exactly what’s in them, but she trusts they’re helping in the war on terror. Emerson knows otherwise, and his growing angst and existential concerns are what landed him this temporary demotion to a boring post in the middle of nowhere. The tedium doesn’t last long though, as a group of assassins have found the bunker, and they won’t stop until they accomplish their own mission. Why doesn’t John Cusack play characters who get to smile anymore? The Numbers Station opens with text stating that governments have used these untraceable shortwave codes since WWII and that while they deny they’re still in existence, the numbers can still be heard occasionally on shortwave radios today. It’s unclear if that’s actually true, but the simplicity of the system on the surface belies a complexity in its execution that the script by F. Scott Frazier only hints at. Veracity aside, it allows for a setup that echoes (in minor ways) the classic and far more thrilling Three Days of the Condor. It lacks that film’s personality, and while director Kasper Barfoed proves capable of shooting some solid (if small) action sequences, the energy suffers elsewhere. The film’s biggest single issue is scale and location as most of the run-time takes place in the underground bunker. Ideally it would serve to build a claustrophobic tension, but instead it just bores with a repetitive series of poorly-lit rooms. The film tries to break things up with audio recordings of other characters brought to life through flashbacks, but they still take place in the same damn bunker. It’s a budgetary issue to be sure, but the locale doesn’t necessitate a lack of excitement as evidenced by the slightly better Crawlspace (which looks to have been shot in the same bunker). The script isn’t quite as generic as the setting, thankfully, but it still doesn’t bring much originality to the table. The revelations and plot turns are expected if not obvious to some degree, and while a small surprise factors into the ending, the whole thing concludes quite light on thrills overall. Cusack seems to be enjoying (?) a new career as a direct-to-DVD star, and that’s unfortunate. The matter is worsened by the fact that his film choices have been so dull and drab. Did he simply have his fill of rom-coms and decide to go dark? That would be understandable, but ideally he’d find better material to satisfy his desire for low budget intrigue and action. All that said, he does well with the little he’s given here and maintains a flat, emotionless tone until his character is called upon to feel something. Akerman shows some spunk, but it’s a thankless role all around. The Numbers Station tries to compensate for its budget and scale with recognizable faces and some minor excitement, but it never succeeds in passing the flat-line of mediocrity. The acting and script are competent enough, but the film lacks anything resembling energy. Ultimately, much like most of the math I learned in school, the movie is doomed to be quickly forgotten. The Upside: Cusack and Akerman give it their best; some small but well-staged action sequences; short run time The Downside: Single location works against the possibility of suspense or thrills, and the script doesn’t compensate; by-the-numbers plot On the Side: Per IMDB, John Cusack currently has at least ten films (including this one) in various stages of production for release in 2013 (via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS [and non] ++++++++++++++++++++++ DX weekend, 20-21 de abril 2013 Una cronica de mi ultimo DX weekend que incluye varios videos de Youtube con las escuchas de una noche interesante. http://cx2abp.blogspot.com/2013/04/dx-weekend-20-21-de-abril-2013.html 73 desde Montevideo – (Rodolfo Tizzi, condiglista yg via DXLD) June DXpedition on NV/UT border On this year's vacation I'll be staying at the Border Inn (Hwy 6/50 right on the NV/UT border) for one night (all the wife can stand) one Saturday night in June. This location has tremendous potential as a beverage site. You can run wires in a straight line for MILES along the highway (E) or through very easy-to-navigate sparse brush (ESE or SE). The closest stations are KELY-1230 (about 50 miles away IIRC) and KNAK-540 (about 80 miles away). I have DXed here before (about a decade ago) with maybe 1200- 1700 feet of wire to the E and SE (roughly) and set several GYDX records DXing from the comfort of my car. They have a restaurant, gas station and small convenience store. Great Basin NP is only about a dozen miles SW (good cave tour and day hikes). If anyone wants to join in, please e-mail me off list for the date. I don't want to publish the date here, since these email threads make their way onto the Internet... If it's still as good a site as it used to be, I'll plan to come back here frequently after I retire, so Lord willing there will be many future opportunities for longer DXpeditions. 73 (Tim Hall, CA, Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry, April 27, ABDX via DXLD) MUSEA +++++ BOSTON AM RADIO MOMENT OF SILENCE Thanks to server support from Craig Healy (NG1U), I have uploaded a Perseus file of the 22 APR 2013 Boston AM Radio Moment of Silence for victims of the Marathon bombings a week earlier. Capture was made 2:49-2:52 p.m. EDT (1849-1852 UT) at my former QTH in Billerica, MA (15 miles / 24 km NW of Boston) so most metro-area stations are local-grade strength. Antenna: temporary mini-SuperLoop 2.5 m vertical by 5 m horizontal. You will have to be patient for a long download time of the approximately 1.8 GB file. Perseus receiver software must be installed on your computer to play the file. File path = http://chowdanet.com/markc/20130422_1850z_moment_of_silence.wav (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, April 25, NRC-AM via DXLD) "A Modern Aladdin' s Lamp" is a neat old film covering the miracle of the vacuum tube. From AT&T Archives: http://tinyurl.com/ModernAladdinsLamp 128 YEAR OLD VOICE RECORDING OF ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL We had no idea what Alexander Graham Bell sounded like. Until now. Here is a miraculous wax-and-cardboard disc recording from 1885 (first URL) brought back to life in 2012. Listen as he says, "Hear my voice, Alexander Graham Bell." Background info is at the second URL. This is really neat: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/audio/204505151.html http://tinyurl.com/GrahamBellsVoice (both: CGC Communicator April 30 via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ODD SUB-CHANNELS? An email from Cal Glover asked me a question I can’t answer. Maybe you can. Cal wrote, “Did a rescan with my Magnavox DTV converter this (Saturday), and it added some very odd DTV sub-channels: 3.11; 10. 11; 13.11; and 15.11. On these channels are programs that are also showing on the regular HamptonRoads/Norfolk channels, but the signals on the .11 suffix are a bit stronger. On some of the .11 channels, the color is not 100% stable, and the sound is a little “boomy.” I am wondering if these odd channels are from a repeater somewhere that is mapping some of the Norfolk area channels. And possibly a satellite is feeding the repeater? Or this might be some sort of test, because the signal comes and goes? I’m getting a 16-20 percent signal strength right now. There are quite a few dormant TV transmitters down here on the Outer Banks. I’m wondering if one of the enterprising channel owners has set up some sort of repeating deal with some of the channels up Norfolk— which are just a bit beyond the reach of reliable reception, thanks to the “cliff effect.” I’m also wondering if you have heard of such a repeater service operating elsewhere in the country. The .11 suffix leads me to think that Manteo’s channel 11 might be back on the air. But then again, the .11 suffix might be reserved for repeaters and translators? If this is the case, this would be most welcome. At the moment, there are no alternatives to cable or satellite down here. Have you heard of any similar situations?” (May WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See FRANCE; INDIA; NEW ZEALAND; ROMANIA; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SAUDI ARABIA; TAIWAN; USA-Radiogram; REF RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ SDR FAQ Taking a chance you guys might like to see what’s happening regarding the changes coming in cheap consumer rigs. A dongle and an upconverter, and you can have a very nice new radio for under $100.00 http://www.qsl.net/4/4x1zq/4all/ham/Welcome%20to%20the%20$20%20SDR%20Receiver_UPDATED%203_2013.pdf Friendly Regards, (Mike Gilchrist, Disruptive Technologist, Advanced Wireless Express, P.O. Box 255, Toledo, IA 52342, April 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) SILICON LABS UNVEILS COMPLETE ‘RADIO-ON-A-CHIP’ TV Technology By Doug Lung New York April 26, 2013 The announcement by Silicon Labs of a complex radio receiver in a single chip that could—depending on model—provide an audio output from AM, FM or digital signals in the various broadcast and shortwave bands had me looking back on how far radio receivers have come since I once worked on AM car radios that used low-voltage tubes, tuned RF stages and a mechanical pushbutton system for storing station frequencies. The Silicon Labs announcement revealed the new monolithic Si468x receiver I.C.s use software-defined-radio technology to provide an antenna input-to-audio output digital radio system capable of receiving FM, HD Radio, and DAB/DAB+ broadcasts for a wide range of audio applications ranging from inexpensive tabletop/clock radios to radios in mobile phones, tablets and personal navigation devices. The Si468x data page has details. While it notes that: “The family offers all-in-one, ultra-low power, multi-band digital broadcast receivers to support global analog and digital radio standards including AM, SW, LW, FM, FM RDS, HD, DAB, DAB+, DMB, and DRM(30),” I only saw VHF inputs on the block diagram, and AM was not mentioned in the Si468x specifications. (AM/SW reception is available in the Si477x line of ICs.) Samples and production quantities of the Si468x digital radio receivers are available, beginning at $5.62 in 10,000 unit quantities. An evaluation kit is available for $550. Based on the evaluation kit’s manual, it appears it could be useful as a way to monitor radio reception parameters that are not available on conventional receivers. Distributors include DigiKey and Arrow Electronics. http://www.tvtechnology.com/distribution/0099/silicon-labs-unveils-complete-‘radio-on-a-chip/219120 (via Mike Terry, April 27, dxldyg via DXLD) Yes, these are interesting devices. Their purpose is NOT a stand-alone radio receiver, like previous incantations of the 47xx series, Instead these chips are intended to be imbedded into other devices, like celphones, tablets, MP3 players, chromebooks, etc. Note the "Flash Interface", this requires the device to have such capatability (or memory-card slot). No amplitude modulation reception, just FM stereo with DAB-band (Paul S. in CT, ibid.) New Chip for FM receivers [same as above, including SW; diagram] http://www.silabs.com/products/audiovideo/amfmreceivers/Pages/si468x.aspx (via Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT, Tvfmdx mailing list via DXLD) That's great, but what does this do for us hobbyists when there are no applications to build a FM tuner or SW receiver? We need something that we can use to improve our knowledge. How are we supposed to use this chip into building a tuner? Someone needs to come up with a public domain application for us to experiment with. Also is this chip only for China to use or can we get this from a electronic distributor? (Adam Ebel, Virginia Beach, VA, ibid.) Keep an eye on http://www.sparkfun.com They've put together breakout boards for some of the Si chips. You will need some embedded programming experience to get them to work; I've been playing with a now-obsolete breakout board. – (Doug Smith, W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, ibid.) Doug, what kind of programming experience and also what kit do I need to get started on to getting this chip to work? I found this tutorial here on what embedded programming is. http://www.scriptoriumdesigns.com/embedded/ (Adam Ebel, Virginia Beach, Virginia, ibid.) WILL RADIO SURVIVE COMPETITION OF DIGITAL TECH? About.com Guide Opinion By Corey Deitz April 26, 2013 A friend asked me today if radio would survive the digital competition and choices people now have. What he was really asking me was if old school, over-the-air, AM and FM would survive. I said, "Yes." Why so cocky? Well, it's neither arrogance or wishful thinking. Rather, I think AM and FM will survive for a number of reasons. First of all, it has re-birthed itself into a new generation of audio streams. Every time an AM and FM's content is cloned onto the Internet, it reinforces the station's name and brand. Plus, traditional radio stations have learned the value of bonus online content and social media. You can teach an old dog new tricks. Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full: I know some will argue that all these options and choices are diluting radio. But, I don't see it that way. If a station or group of stations has lost money over the past 10 years due to sagging on-air listenership and diminishing advertising sales then you're seeing only half the glass. The other half of the glass means the stations have new advertising inventory opportunities in their online stream and podcasts. Now, are the demographics changing? Sure. Are people listening to more online radio than they used to? You bet. Have wireless data plans which deliver streaming audio given commercial radio executives big headaches? Yep. It's tougher out there than ever. The competition is fierce for listenership and while some titans of commercial broadcasting have leveraged the online world in a big way (like Clear Channel's iHeartRadio) there is still this matter of hundreds - no thousands - of radio stations that somebody paid good money for. Transmitters vs. Servers: The radio execs have known for some time now that the difference in cost between running a traditional radio operation and an Internet radio streams is - ridiculous. Making it worse is the fact that a traditional radio station is confined to a defined and usually local area. Internet streams are global. It's almost some sort of sick joke that a 22-year-old Internet maven could technically reach more people with a powerful computer server in his bedroom than some local radio stations can with their clunky old transmitters and pricey equipment- bloated studios. The cost ratio vs. potential listenership between a small FM and a large computer server is unnerving. The Big Sell Off and Buy In: That's why radio suits know that eventually the best hand at the card game will be a combination of powerful commercial properties (that have excellent reach either because of power of population density) balanced out by an online presence. For a portfolio that delivers saleable content, the big companies with hundreds of stations, are going to have to lighten their load big time. That means there are going to be many stations sold in the future. I believe some large radio companies will sell off most of their properties above the Top 50 markets. The big sell off will once again give smaller players an opportunity to grab valuable licenses. That means new competitors will have an incentive to shatter the status quo. They may have to. To be profitable, the little guy might have to take more chances and risks to be a game changer. This will mean hiring good people, more people, and doing a better job of promoting their brand - their radio station. Radio will get a lot better with more people operating radio stations. It will infuse a new excitement into an industry which has been burdened over the past 15 years with a slow progression toward mediocrity. That's why I think radio will survive - at least in the near future - and how some of this will unfold. Of course, nothing lasts forever and technology is constantly moving the bar. I'm sure someday people will be lamenting and wondering if Internet Radio will survive because of a completely different threat which hasn't even been invented yet. We'll see. http://radio.about.com/od/opinionpieces/a/Will-Radio-Survive-Competition-Of-Digital-Tech.htm (via Mike Terry, April 27, dxldyg via DXLD) SAVING AM: TIME FOR RADICAL CHANGE? Michael LeClair,04/23/ 2013 The author is technical editor of Radio World Engineering Extra. I’m encouraged by the recent groundswell of concern for the AM radio band. Every year seems to make the operating conditions for AM stations a little worse. Each year the land required for an AM directional antenna field gets more expensive to acquire or maintain. Each year electromagnetic noise grows a bit more, especially in desirable urban areas. Each year it seems the receivers get worse. Every year the cost of electricity gets a bit higher while the reliable coverage area shrinks. Every year it seems fewer people take AM seriously, as owners, listeners and radio suppliers. New portable electronic devices that sometimes feature FM radios rarely, if ever, offer AM tuners. NOT WISELY BUT TOO WELL The problems of AM can only be described as structural and fundamental to the band itself. Key to today’s challenges are the overly optimistic allocation policies of the post-World War II FCC in its mission to bring radio to everyone. In the process, stations were created that were crippled from the beginning: daytime-only or so completely interference- limited that service could only be expected to carry about 8 miles at best. As if this wasn’t enough, the widespread use of very expensive and complex directional arrays created a tier of stations that could scarcely afford to operate, let alone legally maintain their limited patterns. Everyone knows a painful example of one of those. This “allocate at all costs” approach worked until real competition came along with the growth of FM. Today it is hard not to see the underlying flaws of creating a system that mixed a few very powerful stations with thousands of severely limited signals in a hierarchy that worked only for the largest players. THE INTERFERENCE SPIRAL Then there were the attempts to increase audio bandwidth to compete with FM. This virtually guaranteed that stations would interfere with their first- and second-adjacent neighbors, again due to a defective allocation scheme that placed stations within 5 and 10 kHz of their neighbors. The adoption of the first bandwidth limiting NRSC standard in 1988 further demonstrated that AM is often its own worst enemy, with stations now encouraged to use vicious amounts of pre-emphasis as long as they complied with an overall bandwidth limit of 10 kHz. Radio manufacturers countered with ever-reduced quality in AM radios, noting that listeners dislike interference more than they wanted high- frequency response. Subsequent revisions to the NRSC, including the recent NRSC-2-B in September of 2012, have tried to refine and improve the bandwidth mask in the hope that it will encourage receiver manufacturers to make better receivers. Interestingly, a simultaneous standard, NRSC-G100-A, began finally to address the problem of encouraging structural interference by exploring the quality improvements that could be met by limiting bandwidths below 10 kHz. Unfortunately I haven’t yet seen the discussion move to what is an obvious solution: Get rid of the pre- emphasis curves and remove all that extra energy from exactly where it does the most interference damage, right on top of adjacent stations. At least the conversation is proceeding in a rational direction with the realization that all you are going to get is 2–3 kHz of audio bandwidth unless AM stations themselves stop creating all this unnecessary interference. A frequency response of 5–7 kHz can actually sound quite good. It’s sad to observe that it has taken nearly 25 years to see the first inkling of this understanding. Meanwhile AM radios remain uniformly dismal. STILL IN DEMAND If AM is so fundamentally flawed, why try to save it at all? It’s a reasonable question and sometimes it feels as if we have reached a de facto consensus to just let AM crumble away and die from neglect. Personally, having grown up listening to AM radio in the 1960s, and having worked for many years at AM stations, I feel there is still something there worth keeping. One advantage of good AM is that all it requires is a simple and inexpensive tuner and transmitter design. This makes it a perfect free consumer technology. AM offers advantages in coverage compared to FM when it isn’t so severely interference limited. There’s no multipath or terrain shielding. And there are still so many voices that strive for broadcast coverage, as witnessed by the number of applicants for new licenses that occur at every FCC window. Why not keep AM alive to serve the many that want to become broadcasters but don’t have the money to compete for FM licenses with huge corporations like Clear Channel or Cumulus? RADICAL CHANGES Given the number of structural problems faced by the AM band, perhaps it’s time to consider more radical solutions than we’ve seen in the last 25 years. I recall 20 years ago it was sometimes joked that the way to fix AM was to eliminate all daytimers, DAs with more than two towers and stations with less than 5,000 watts. Perhaps there is truth in that old chestnut, and the only way forward is to come up with a method to reduce the structural defects of too many allocations. The trick is to come up with the method of doing so that shares the pain and the cost amongst the winners. I’m guessing the FCC would be open to just about any approach and might be able to offer some incentives. While we’re at it, is there really a justification for the remains of clear-channel allocations clogging up the band? Regional service is pretty neat, especially in the wide open parts of the country. But in densely populated areas allocating just a few stations with signals that reach many millions delivers a solid benefit to just a small group of owners. Those owners are especially motivated to keep AM profitable, but if AM disappears they will suffer with the rest. Some might say these stations are the only ones with the resources to save AM. Further work remains to be done to improve receiver bandwidth. If there are fewer allocations this will be easier. Digital AM has some promise in the long run, though it has been criticized by many as a cause of even more interference to the existing allocation scheme. I also like the ideas proposed by Ron Rackley and Ben Dawson recently in the pages of RW (see www.radioworld. com/freshlook) . For example, if we eliminate the minimum efficiency and ground system requirements for AM antennas, it would make it far simpler to “repack” the AM band in such a way that separations can be increased in a meaningful way. Currently this is impossible; the technical standards meant to maintain AM “quality” are a lead weight clamped on a lifeline. It would also greatly reduce the cost of operating AMs in terms of land and local regulatory burdens. We should take a page from the DTV band repacking and see what would happen if we actually started to eliminate some channels and move the others around with the antenna burdens removed. We have already tried the small stuff. For AM it’s time to consider just about any idea (via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) Here we go again. Someone at Radio World thinks it's a good idea to limit AM bandwidth. From the article: "A frequency response of 5–7 kHz can actually sound quite good. It’s sad to observe that it has taken nearly 25 years to see the first inkling of this understanding. Meanwhile AM radios remain uniformly dismal." A bandwidth of 5 kHz sounds flat. That is why I invested in AM tuners that have a response out to 10 kHz and higher. Limiting bandwidth plays into the hands of the AMHD promoters. If someone at Radio World was really interested in AM's problems they would try to outlaw the outrage known as IBOC. Thankfully most stations running AMHD are finally seeing the folly of their operations and slowly turning IBOC off. First mandate turning off ALL AMHD stations, then we can talk about what else we can do to improve AM. Limiting bandwidth to 5 kHz or less should be off the table, period. 73 - (Todd WD4NGG Roberts, ABDX via DXLD) After IBOC is cleaned up, let`s clean up the whole band and make it look like it did in the v50s and 60s. Let`s support analog AM stereo. In fact, mandate its use. Bandwidth at least 10 kHz and support AMAZ standard. This is backward compatible with all existing AM radios (Starship20012001 ibid.) Since 2011, I've noticed two big clear channel stations drop IBOC, KFAB 1110, and KOA 850. Also of note, this is more recent, KKZN 760 Thornton [CO, Denver] seems to have dropped IBOC as well. Locally (well semi-semi-locally) KJCR 1240 from Billings dropped IBOC. I suspect it was due to interfering with KHDN 1230, only 40 some odd miles to the east. WCCO and KSL still have IBOC on at night, as do KFAQ and KMOX I believe. They are dropping like flies though. I say, let them go. The Sony XDR-F1HD performs better without them anyway. I do wish this radio could decode AM stereo (Justin - Dn64, ibid.) I proposed that to the FCC 10 years ago: all FM stereo radios have to offer AM stereo and AMAX - minimum AM receiver standards. They did it for UHF with VHF, they can do it for AM with FM (Sam Quantum Leap" toledohamradio, ibid.) Of course, the most fundamental problem with AM - the CONTENT - wasn't touched on once. AM will die if content isn't improved RADICALLY (Darwin Long, Buras, LA, ibid.) That is exactly correct. Despite all the technical problems and the many policy errors over the years, the greatest problem has always been content. Radio`s greatest asset over other types of communication (such as satellite, etc.) has been the fact that it is local. It has an advantage that no other type of audio media has, because it can actually connect with local people, but it has chosen instead to relegate itself to being a re-translator of non-local franchised programming. Back when AM Stereo and AMAX standards were proposed, although the industry temporarily went along with AM Stereo, it failed to mandate AMS receivers. It also failed to incorporate AMAX standards, as being cost prohibitive. These features alone would have made it more possible for AM to compete with FM as far as music goes, but the investment was deemed not worth it. So radio did what it seems to do best --- incorporate cost-cutting measures, eliminating local talent, and rely on franchised programming that may target a small but loyal group of listeners (Dick W., ibid.) Michael LeClair - I reference your 04/23/2013 Radio World Engineering Extra article "Saving AM: Time for Radical Change?" You said in your article that "For AM it’s time to consider just about any idea". How about an idea you never touched on once in your article, the idea of fixing the most broken, dilapidated aspect of AM Radio - the CONTENT? It's just so interesting how today's broadcasters can sit around and philosophize about what can be done to "save AM Radio", but few ever notice the obvious elephant sitting in the room right before their eyes. The "talk-radiozation" era that began in the late 1980's through the 1990's is precisely what sparked the biggest decline of AM Radio listenership, not a lack of technical bells and whistles. Broadcasters themselves killed AM Radio with a manufactured "AM = Talk Signal" mentality imposed on listeners (not asked for by listeners), shoving music programming over to the FM dial, and packing the AM band with syndicated talk programming such that you could tune from one end of the AM dial to the other (at midday, mind you) and hear 12 "Rush" programs, 8 "Hannity" programs, 4 Dr. Laura programs, and several simultaneously-syndicated sports-politics networks all redundantly clogging the band with little diversity or local content to be found. Smart listeners, of course, tuned away from AM and went to FM. And today's younger listeners hardly even know the existence of the AM Band because AM broadcasters have not reached out to that new up-and- coming demographic raised on iPods and music downloads to entice their listenership. This is what actually has precipitated the collective death-knell of AM Radio, not just a lack of technical upgrades to AM broadcasting. AM sounded FAR BETTER in the 1950s through the 1980s because of a wider NRSC curve, fewer stations on the air banging their sidebands into each other, and far better receivers. Plus, before the "talk radio disease" began ruining the diversity of content on AM Radio, many AM stations offered stereo in one of three systems, and were programmed to sound just like their major-market FM competitors. During those years, AM Radio was something most anyone WANTED to listen to and to stay engaged with. A 5 to 7 kHz bandwidth sounds great --- if you're tone-deaf, while a 10-12 kHz bandwidth is far more natural-sounding and easier to listen to, and more suitable for variety programming. DSP can solve many technical problems for AM Radio on the receiver side (cheaply, effectively, and all in a single chip) - pulse noise reduction, decoding of any stereo modulation system, heterodyne reduction, and sliding-bandwidth control - and can be easily integrated into low-cost, mass-produced receivers. Yes, we should also employ better technical AM broadcast standards, and work with the FCC to ensure reduction of co-channel interference, along with healthy enforcement of Part-15 rules and holding the power industry responsible for reducing man-made electrical interference to the AM band. But throwing a bunch of technical wizardry and interference- mitigation measures at today's ailing AM band will do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to revitalize it. The bottom line is that the same "gobbelty- gook" talk programming of washed-up conspiracy theorists, sports politics, and infomercials is not going to magically become more palatable to the listening public. It will just make the problem sound... much clearer (Darwin Long, RW reader, Buras LA, via ibid.) The trend toward low-profile receiving antennas in cars, combined with increased computer hash from the car's electronics, is creating the perfect storm for diminished radio reception, especially AM: http://tinyurl.com/DimpleDuckAndBlade Frightened by changes in the car dashboard? Lots of radio people are. No one has figured it out but here is what seems to be happening: http://tinyurl.com/TheEvolvingCarRadio (both: CGC Communicator April 30 via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ NASA has a new video of the Sun showing three years of continuous images. In that time, if the Sun rotates relative to Earth about every 27.5 days, then this video should show 398 rotations of the Sun, in less than 4 minutes. Watch it at, http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/news/first-light-3rd.html (QST de W1AW, Propagation Forecast Bulletin 17 ARLP017, From Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, WA April 26, 2013, To all radio amateurs via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) Propagation de K7RA Solar activity quieted this week. The average daily sunspot number declined nearly 23 points to 90.6. Average daily solar flux values were down nearly 13 points to 109.1. The most active day was April 24, with a planetary A index of 19 and mid-latitude A index of 15. Full report here http://www.arrl.org/ (Mike Terry, April 27, dxldyg via DXLD) SUNSPOT COUNT FOR APRIL 2013 The average sunspot count for April was 72.4, not sufficient to be called a second peak but also indicating that we may not yet be in the final decline for this cycle. The minimum between this cycle and the next should occur around 2017 or 2018, which will then be followed by two more similarly low sunspot cycles and then a third with almost no activity during a phase reversal. A chart displaying the measured sunspot activity since the early 17th century and my calculated prediction is available at: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~christrask/Solar%20Activity%201600-2100.pdf (Chris Trask, N7ZWY / WDX3HLB http://www.home.earthlink.net/~christrask/ swl at qth.net via DXLD) SOUNDING ROCKET MISSION TO STUDY WHAT DISRUPTS RADIO WAVES April 25th, 2013 in Space & Earth / Space Exploration In the Marshall Islands at a range in Kwajalein, the EVEX (Equatorial Vortex Experiment) team readies the launcher. The mission consists of two sounding rockets to study the ionosphere that will launch minutes apart during a launch window of April 27 to May 10, 2013. Credit: NASA/ John Hickman [caption] (Phys.org) — A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission will launch from an atoll in the Pacific in the next few weeks to help scientists better understand and predict the electrical storms in Earth's upper atmosphere These storms can interfere with satellite communication and global positioning signals. The mission, called EVEX, for the Equatorial Vortex Experiment, will launch two rockets for a twelve-minute journey through the equatorial ionosphere above the South Pacific. The launch window for the mission from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands is from April 27 to May 10, 2013. The ionosphere is a crucial layer of charged particles surrounding our planet. This layer serves as the medium through which high frequen cy radio waves – such as those sent down to the ground by global positioning system (GPS) satellites or, indeed, any satellite communicating with Earth – travel. The ionosphere begins about 60 miles above the ground and is filled with electrons and ions, alongside the more familiar extension of our electrically neutral atmosphere. Governed by Earth's magnetic field, high-altitude winds, and incoming material and energy from the sun, the ionosphere can be calm in certain places or times of day, and quite turbulent at others. This area of the ionosphere is known for calm days and tempestuous nights, times when the ionosphere becomes rippled like a funhouse mirror, disturbing radio signals, and introducing GPS errors of a half mile or more. The two rockets will measure events in two separate regions of the ionosphere to see how they work together to drive the ionosphere from placid and smooth to violently disturbed. Such information could ultimately lead to the ability to accurately forecast this important aspect of space weather. "We're looking at the two highest regions of the equatorial ionosphere, called the E- and F-regions," says Erhan Kudeki, the principal investigator for the mission at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. "Violent ionospheric storms can occur in the equatorial F-region a few hours after sunset and if we can better understand what causes these storms, we'll be able to better mitigate their effects on communication and navigation systems." The mission team will wait for the first signs of turbulence developing before launching both rockets. The research goal is to study whether turbulence at sunset in the E-region of the ionosphere could serve as a warning of storms in the higher F-region an hour or two later, so the team plans to launch on an evening when ground based radar shows the necessary turbulence in the E-region. When high frequency radio waves, such as those used [SIC] for the Global Positioning System travel through a disturbed layer of Earth's electrically charged atmosphere, the ionosphere, they can be disrupted. A sounding rocket mission called EVEX (Equatorial Vortex Experiment) launching in Spring 2013 will search for answers to what disturbs the ionosphere. Credit: AFRL [caption] When the conditions are just right, the team will launch a rocket to travel up to a height of 220 miles. They will launch the second rocket two minutes later that will travel up to 120 miles. By staggering the timing of the launches, the two rockets will be able to gather data simultaneously at two altitudes through the ionosphere as they travel their independent trajectories. Before they splash down into the ocean, the two rockets will record data about the electric fields and the density of the charged particles in the region. Each rocket will also release a stream of lithium or trimethylaluminum (TMA) that can be seen from the ground. When TMA is exposed to the air it turns into aluminum oxide, carbon dioxide and water vapor, all three of which occur naturally in the atmosphere. Groups of scientists at various locations on the atoll will observe the lithium and TMA as it blows in the wind. Together, the observations can be triangulated to show how the neutral wind moved during the flight. "Neutral winds are one of the hardest things to study," says Doug Rowland, an EVEX team member at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "One can't physically see the wind, and it is difficult to measure from the ground, so we use the TMA as a tracer." The neutral winds are believed to be an important part of what causes the ionosphere storms. A mission called EQUIS-2 (Equatorial Ionospheric Study) held in Kwajalein in 2004, gathered data that hinted at a correlation be ween these neutral winds and the upper ionosphere. The theory is that near sunset, strong eastward neutral winds through the F-region, which begins at 120 miles up, may cause fine scale turbulence in the E-reg on as well as a strong current and vortex-like circulation in the F-region, leading one to two hours later to a kind of ionospheric storm called "spread F." The movement of spread F throughout the charged ionosphere involves bubbles of material rising up through the atmosphere, not unlike the way colored blobs move upward through a lava lamp due to differences in heat and density. It is just these moving blobs that can disrupt communications from satellites, so scientists would like to find a simple advance warning in the atmosphere that can be detected from the ground. Vortexes in the E-region can be spotted with the radar and could serve as an efficient telltale for radio-disturbing turbulence above – if observations from a mission like EVEX show that they are, in fact, correlated. "Using radar and sounding rockets simultaneously as in this mission is the only way to gather complete information needed to understand the conjectured couplings of perturbations in these two regions of the equator ial ionosphere," says Kudecki. "There are plenty of radar data about these types of ionospheric storms, but the additional in-situ data to be provided by the EVEX rockets will be crucial in sorting out which theoretical models work best to explain what is really going on during these ionospheric storms." With two sounding rockets, a multitude of ground radar sites, and instruments to measure a suite of information about both charged and neutral particles, scientists using EVEX data will be able to study the equatorial ionosphere as a system — understanding how on e characteristic effects another – in a way that has never been done before. Provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: "Sounding rocket mission to study what disrupts radio waves." April 25th, 2013. http://phys.org/news/2013-04-rocket-mission-disrupts-radio.html (via May WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2013 Apr 29 0434 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 22 - 28 April 2013 Solar activity was at low to moderate levels during the period. The period began at very low levels, but quickly rose to moderate levels as an impulsive M1 flare and associated Type IV radio sweep occurred at 22/1029 UTC from Region 1726 (N13, L=331, class/area Fkc/1000 on 25 Apr). An associated coronal mass ejection (CME) was observed in LASCO C2 imagery off the west limb at 21/1036 UTC, but was only partially Earth-directed and did not result in noticeable impacts. Activity returned to low levels following the M1 flare, but remained fairly active throughout the period, producing over 60 C-class flares. The most active region was Region 1726, which produced over 33 C-class flares on its own. As soon as Region 1726 rotated off the visible disk on 25 Apr, Region 1731 (N09, L=187, class/area Dkc/420 on 28 Apr) emerged and quickly became the area of interest, producing a total of 12 C-class flares. Region 1733 (S17, L=254, class/area Cso/30 on 28 Apr) produced a C4/1n flare associated with Type II (576 km/s) and Type IV radio emissions at the end of the forecast period, and had an associated potentially Earth-directed CME. Further analysis is pending. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was normal to moderate levels from 22 Apr to 26 Apr. Flux values increased to high levels on 27 Apr, reaching a max of 2920 pfu at 27/1625 UTC, and remained at moderate to high levels until late on 28 Apr as a result of effects from coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) activity. Geomagnetic field activity was at quiet to unsettled levels on 22-23 Apr. Activity increased to unsettled to active levels on 24 Apr due to effects from a favorably positioned CH HSS. Solar wind speeds increased to near 430 km/s, the total interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) reached a maximum 23.4 nT, and the Bz component dropped to -18.9 nT. Solar wind speed continued to increase on 25 Apr to the 500 km/s range, total fields decreased to approximately 5 nT, and the Bz component of the IMF was variable between +/- 3 nT. The ionosphere responded with a short-lived G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm early on 26 Apr, but conditions quickly returned to unsettled levels for the remainder of the day. Quiet levels returned by 27 Apr and remained there through the end of the period as CH HSS effects diminished. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 29 APRIL - 25 MAY 2013 Solar activity is expected to be low with a chance for M-class flares through 07 May as Region 1731 remains on the visible disk. Activity is expected to decrease to very low to low levels through 08 May. Activity will likely increase to low with M-class flares likely when we see Region 1726 return on 09 May. Region 1731 returns on 20 May, keeping levels low with M-class flares likely through the end of the forecast period. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at moderate to high levels through 02 May due to CH HSS effects. Values should decrease to normal to moderate levels from 03 May through 21 May. Another increase to moderate to high levels in response to recurrent CH HSS effects is expected from 22 to 25 May. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be mostly quiet through 20 May. Conditions should increase to unsettled to active with isolated periods of minor storming possible from 21-23 in response to recurrent CH HSS effects. Mostly quiet levels should return on 24 and 25 May. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2013 Apr 29 0434 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 2013-04-29 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2013 Apr 29 130 5 2 2013 Apr 30 130 5 2 2013 May 01 130 5 2 2013 May 02 135 5 2 2013 May 03 135 5 2 2013 May 04 140 5 2 2013 May 05 135 5 2 2013 May 06 130 5 2 2013 May 07 130 5 2 2013 May 08 125 5 2 2013 May 09 125 5 2 2013 May 10 125 5 2 2013 May 11 125 5 2 2013 May 12 120 5 2 2013 May 13 125 5 2 2013 May 14 125 5 2 2013 May 15 125 5 2 2013 May 16 120 5 2 2013 May 17 120 5 2 2013 May 18 125 5 2 2013 May 19 130 5 2 2013 May 20 130 5 2 2013 May 21 135 15 4 2013 May 22 135 10 3 2013 May 23 130 15 4 2013 May 24 130 5 2 2013 May 25 135 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1667, DXLD) Ondrejov: Weekly forecasts from Ondrejov for the period May 3 - 9, 2013 === Solar activity forecast for the period May 3 - 9, 2013 Activity level: mostly low X-ray background flux (1.0-8.0 A): in the range B2.0-B9.5 Radio flux (10.7 cm): a fluctuation in the range 115-175 f.u. Events: class C (0-15/day), class M (0-5/period), class X (0- 1/period), proton (0-1/period) Relative sunspot number (Ri): in the range 50-130 Astronomical Institute, Solar Dept., Ondrejov, Czech Republic e-mail: sunwatch(at)asu.cas.cz (RWC Prague) ______________________________ Geomagnetic activity forecast for the period May 3 - 19, 2013 Geomagnetic field will be: quiet to unsettled on May 3 - 10, 13 - 19, quiet to active on May 11 - 12. High probability of changes in solar wind which may cause changes in magnetosphere and ionosphere is expected on May 4, 9 - 14, (17 - 18). 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) ###