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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1695: *DX and station news about: Alaska, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, East Turkistan, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Europe, Greece, Guam, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Juan Fernandez, Kyrgyzstan, Micronesia, Myanmar, Netherlands non, New Zealand, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Slovakia non, Spain, Ukraine non, USA SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1695, November 14-20, 2013 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [replayed 1694 this week] Thu 2201 WTWW 9475 [confirmed; ex-9479] Fri 0426v WWRB 3195 and 5050-USB [both confirmed] Sat 0300v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1600 WRMI 9955 Sun 0030 WTWW 5085 [confirmed] Sun 0501 WTWW 5830 [confirmed] Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 Wed 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [or maybe 1696 if ready in time] Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WRN ON DEMAND: http://www.wrn.org/listeners/#world-of-radio WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN: http://www.wrn.org/listeners/customize-panel/addToPlaylist/98/10:00:00UTC/English OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser DXLD YAHOOGROUP: Why wait for DXLD? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our yg without delay. When applying, please identify yourself with your real name and location, and say something about why you want to join. Those who do not, unless I recognize them, will be prompted once to do so and no action will be taken otherwise. Here`s where to sign up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/ ** ALASKA. KBBI, 890, Homer very strong! Like it was next door at S9+20 with album rock. Audible off every antenna but the Eastern Beverage, with ID in between sets at 0003 EDT [sic] 11/7 with young male announcer "You're listening to KBBI Homer" Back into album rock. Probably the strongest I have ever heard them! I could even detect the transmitter hum during dead air! Also decent signal on several barefoot portables. Drake R8, NW EWE (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, IRCA via DXLD) There was no EDT on Nov 7, so does he mean EST? If the log were in UT in the first place there could be no confusion (gh, DXLD) 640, KYUK, Bethel AK, topping KFI easily with 60s oldies and weather for Bethel at 0031 EST [sic = 0531 UT] 11/7. Drake R8, NW EWE (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, ibid.) Patrick, I'm hearing a station under KFI 640 playing music off the NW ewe. Just to weak under KFI's S-9+25 db signal. Would be great to catch a KYUK ID, it would be a new station here. Best regards, (Dennis Vroom, Kalama, WA, 0610 UT Nov 7, ibid.) [and non]. If you never heard a long wave station, tonight would be a good night to try for one. After reading Patrick's report on Alaska 890 I decided to give the Alaskan weather stations a try. Very surprised to hear two Radio Rossii long waves this early. 153, RUSSIA, Komosomolsk, Radio Rossii, 0550 weak signal with music. NW ewe. 11/06/2013 180, RUSSIA, Yelizovo, Radio Rossii, 0544 very weak signal with music and man in Russian. NW ewe. 11/06/2013 209, ALASKA, Yakataga, CYT, 0551 weak signal with weather forecast. NW ewe. 11/06/2013 358, ALASKA, 0553 very weak with weather forecast. NW ewe. 11/06/2013 379, ALASKA, 0555 weak with weather forecast. NW ewe. 11/06/2013 394, ALASKA, Kodiak, KAK20, 0556 fair signal with weather forecast. NW ewe. 11/06/2013 411, ALASKA, KAI-82, Ilamna, 0557 weak with weather forecast. NW ewe. 11/06/2013 529, ALASKA, Level Island, 0557 good with weather forecast. NW ewe. 11/06/2013 (Dennis Vroom, Kalama, WA, JRC NRD 545, NW ewe + Active whip, IRCA via DXLD) His times must be UT but his dates must be local, following Martin`s report; really UT Nov 7 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** ALASKA. 4125 USB NWS Kodiak AK? 11/7 7:03 PM PST tuned in to very weak marine weather by a man, mentioned winds in knots and waves in feet. Gone sometime around 7:20. Another one to keep after. NWS Kodiak AK, KWL38, 4125-USB, KWL38, National Weather Service, 11/9 0300-0311, nice ID by man and into marine weather forecast, also small craft advisories, fair-good signal. Very happy to hear this one and hope they QSL (Martin Foltz, Mission Viejo CA, ABDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DXLD) ** ALASKA [non]. 29760, Tentative, KNLS, 4 x 9920 --- very poor, monitored until 1330 when a datawell buoy fired up on the channel and wiped it out! -- (Tim Bucknall, Congleton, UK, Twitter #KresySiberia http://www.fmlist.org, Nov 7, harmonics yg via DXLD) I`d say that`s very unlikely considering a transpolar night route. Even more so that KNLS is not scheduled now on 9920 at all, but this in HFCC B-13, FEBC in Iba, Philippines, mostly day path: 9920 1200 1330 49 IBA 100 270 0 146 1234567 271013 290314 D 9920 Mul PHL FEC FEC 4967. And Aoki says the language is Koho, while KNLS would be in Russian, Chinese, or maybe English (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Thanks Glenn, can disregard KNLS them, but was listening to 9920 and 29760 carrier continued after 9920 had gone. Jurgen Bartels has had an unID broadcast harmonic on this frequency (29760); I`ll ask him if he managed to get any programme detail (Bucknall, ibid.) Later follow-up: it was V. of Russia, 4960 X 6! Via TAJIKISTAN, per Aoki English at 14-19 due south from Dushanbe (gh, DXLD) ** ALBANIA. Winter B-13 shortwave schedule of Radio Tirana: 0000-0100 on 7465 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg NoAm Albanian 0230-0300 NF 7425 SHI 100 kW / 300 deg NoAm English Tue-Sun, ex 7465 0800-1000 on 7390 SHI 100 kW / non-dir WeEu Albanian 1800-1830 NF 7490 SHI 100 kW / 000 deg SoEu Italian Mon-Sat, ex 6040 [not non-dir, rather proper 310 degree antenna matrix access. wb.] 1830-1900 on 7465 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg WeEu French Mon-Sat 2031-2100 on 7465 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg WeEu German Mon-Sat 2100-2130 on 7465 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg U.K. English Mon-Sat (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX RE MIX NEWS #803 November 9, 2013, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. CHINA(non) Winter B-13 schedule of China Radio International via Cërrik: 0000-0157 on 6020 CER 300 kW / 305 deg to NoAm in English 0000-0157 on 9570 CER 300 kW / 305 deg to NoAm in English 0200-0357 on 6020 CER 300 kW / 305 deg to NoAm in Chinese 0200-0357 on 9570 CER 300 kW / 305 deg to NoAm in Chinese 0500-0657 on 5985 CER 150 kW / 240 deg to NWAf in Arabic 0500-0657 on 7210 CER 150 kW / 240 deg to NWAf in Arabic 0500-0557 on 7220 CER 150 kW / 140 deg to N/ME in English 0500-0657 on 9590 CER 150 kW / 140 deg to N/ME in Arabic 0600-0657 on 11750 CER 150 kW / 140 deg to N/ME in English 0700-0857 on 11785 CER 150 kW / 310 deg to WeEu in English 0700-0857 on 11855 CER 150 kW / 310 deg to WeEu in Chinese 0900-0957 on 7285 CER 150 kW / non-dir to SEEu in Romanian 0900-0957 on 9460 CER 150 kW / non-dir to SEEu in Romanian 1100-1157 on 7220 CER 150 kW / non-dir to SEEu in Bulgarian 1100-1257 on 13665 CER 150 kW / 310 deg to WeEu in English 1200-1257 on 7345 CER 150 kW / non-dir to SEEu in Serbian 1400-1557 on 11920 CER 150 kW / 240 deg to NWAf in French 1400-1557 on 13670 CER 150 kW / 240 deg to NWAf in French 1500-1557 on 7230 CER 150 kW / non-dir to SEEu in Turkish 1500-1557 on 9565 CER 150 kW / non-dir to SEEu in Turkish 1600-1757 on 5970 CER 150 kW / 330 deg to WeEu in German 1600-1757 on 7380 CER 150 kW / 330 deg to WeEu in German 1600-1757 on 9555 CER 150 kW / 140 deg to N/ME in Arabic 1600-1757 on 11725 CER 150 kW / 240 deg to NWAf in Arabic 1800-1957 on 5970 CER 150 kW / 310 deg to WeEu in French 1800-1957 on 6055 CER 150 kW / 240 deg to NWAf in French 1800-1957 on 7360 CER 150 kW / 310 deg to WeEu in French 1800-1957 on 7385 CER 150 kW / 240 deg to NWAf in French 2000-2157 on 5960 CER 150 kW / 310 deg to WeEu in English 2000-2157 on 7285 CER 150 kW / 310 deg to WeEu in English 2000-2157 on 6185 CER 150 kW / 193 deg to EaAf in Arabic 2000-2157 on 7215 CER 150 kW / 140 deg to N/ME in Arabic 2200-2257 on 6175 CER 150 kW / 280 deg to SoEu in Portuguese 2300-2357 on 6175 CER 150 kW / 280 deg to SoEu in Spanish 2200-2357 on 7210 CER 150 kW / 280 deg to SoEu in Spanish (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX RE MIX NEWS #803 November 9, 2013, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALGERIA [non]. FRANCE: 9395, Radio Algerienne (list log); 2139- 2200*, 7-Nov; M commentary in Arabic; sked at 2154 & off with music; never heard any clear mention of Algeria. Not listed in 11-7 Aoki, but listed by Hauser in 10-30 DXLD. SIO=454 till 2155:41 when V of Russia came up abruptly. R.A. went off before 2200 (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) ** ALGERIA [non non]. Future SW sites in Algeria, Ourgla and Bechar registrations: 5925 0400 0600 37SE,38SW,46E,47NW BEC 300 135 0 146 FRA ALG TDA 5995 0400 0600 46 ORG 300 206 0 146 FRA ALG TDA 7250 0200 0400 46 ORG 300 206 0 146 FRA ALG TDA 7265 0200 0400 37SE,38SW,46E,47NW BEC 300 135 0 146 FRA ALG TDA 7265 0400 0600 46 ORG 300 206 0 146 FRA ALG TDA 7335 0600 0700 37SE,38SW,46E,47NW BEC 300 135 0 146 FRA ALG TDA 7340 0400 0600 37SE,38SW,46E,47NW BEC 300 135 0 146 FRA ALG TDA 9490 0600 0700 46 ORG 300 206 0 146 FRA ALG TDA 9600 0000 0200 37SE,38SW,46E,47NW BEC 300 135 0 146 FRA ALG TDA 9815 0600 0700 37SE,38SW,46E,47NW BEC 300 135 0 146 FRA ALG TDA 11650 1900 0200 37SE,38SW,46E,47NW BEC 300 135 0 146 FRA ALG TDA 11655 1900 0200 37SE,38SW,46E,47NW BEC 300 135 0 146 FRA ALG TDA 11690 1800 1900 37SE,38SW,46E,47NW BEC 300 135 0 146 FRA ALG TDA 11715 1800 1900 46 ORG 300 206 0 146 FRA ALG TDA 11770 1900 2300 46 ORG 300 206 0 146 FRA ALG TDA 11830 0700 0900 46 ORG 300 206 0 146 FRA ALG TDA 11965 1900 0200 46 ORG 300 206 0 146 FRA ALG TDA 15220 0700 0900 37SE,38SW,46E,47NW BEC 300 135 0 146 FRA ALG TDA (via Wolfgang Büschel, Nov 3, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 8 via DXLD) ** ANGUILLA. 11775, Nov 9 at 2215, DGS is still on past usual 2200 close, VG signal, way above 11780 Brasil. No DST shift, just normal sloppiness before switch to 6090 night channel (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. Al mejorar las condiciones de propagación he vuelto a escuchar, con señales de S9 a LRA36 en mi Icom IC 751. Desde Buenos Aires (LU2BAM (Dante) 07/11/2013, GRA blog comment 2010 UT Nov 7 via DXLD) [non-log], 15476.0, LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel. Checking on Nov 8 from 1930 to 1945; impossible to make out anything due to very strong signal from assume Adventist World Radio in Arabic on 15480. The heavy QRM totally blocked any chance for LRA 36 reception (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ron, Today, no signal here at my QTH and not in SDR Twente. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil 2052 UT Nov 8, ibid.) ** ARGENTINA. 6060, RNA, 10/11 0111 UT. Transmisión del partido en Rosario con Newell's y San Lorenzo, aparte que hablan sobre los problemas técnicos que tiene la imagen de la televisión pública. SINPO: 54554 (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, hilo largo de 25 metros, Sector sur de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** AUSTRIA. 9830, Nov 10 at 2056, something in French, with African music, is oblivious to the heavy RTTY infesting 9830; address in Côte d`Ivoire. Maybe it`s clear over there. HFCC shows AWR, 300 kW, 210 degrees from Moosbrunn daily, and followed by another semihour in English. We know that the African service of AWR cannot spare any time for `Wavescan` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH, 4750.0, 1150-1212. Presumed to be the one here with talk, a few bits of music around TOH. No clear ID heard, but a couple mentions of "Bangladesh" just before TOH. Fair signal. Unlike RRI Makassar (which was not heard at all today, even as a het), this one is pretty much right on 4750.00, or maybe 4749.99. When the magnetic field is disturbed, as it is today, propagation at my local SR moves from the area of PNG and Indonesia farther westward, toward the Indian subcontinent (Art Delibert, N. Bethesda, MD, 11/10/13, AOR AR-7030, Pennant antenna facing NW, with DX Engineering pre-amp, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 4750, Bangladesh Betar, Nov 08 1244-1256, 33443, Bengali, Koran and talk, ID at 1255 and 1256. 15105, Bangladesh Betar, Nov 08 1230-1241, 25332, English, Opening music, Opening announce, 1232 ID, News (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, Japan, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15505, Nov 9 at 1358, the Bangladesh Betar IS is JBA, and just too weak to tell whether there is a timesignal when it stops at 1400. It`s no longer showing up any better (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. Radio Belarus. B13. From 27.10.2013 on 30.03.2014: In the SW band: 1100-2300 UT on 11730 kHz 1705-2300 UT on 6155 kHz In the MW-band: 1600-1800 UT on 1170 kHz FM-transmitters and frequencies: Brest - 96.4 MHz Grodno - 96.9 MHz Svislach - 100.8 MHz Geraneny - 99.9 MHz Braslaw - 106.6 MHz Myadel - 102.0 MHz http://www.radiobelarus.tvr.by/ (Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX Nov 10 via DXLD) Good reception Radio Belarus in Belarusian language on 11730 around 1300 UT. 1300 passed such songs Soviet youth. At 1300 the news. Modulation shallow background with AC. Slight interference with 11740 kHz. SINPO 34543 (Alexander Egorov, Kiev, Ukraine / "deneb-radio-dx", ibid.) Winter B-13 shortwave transmissions from Belarus: Radio 1, including relays of R. Stalitza, R. Grodno, R. Culture 0400-0700 on 7255 MNS 125 kW / 072 deg to EaEu Belarussian 1500-1700 on 7255*MNS 125 kW / 072 deg to EaEu Belarussian 1500-2100 on 6080#MNS 100 kW / 127 deg to N/ME Belarussian * co-ch CRI in Chinese/English # co-ch VOA in English and VOIRI in French 1823-1920 Radio Belarus Minsk [ENGLISH: WORLD OF RADIO 1695] 1100-1400 on 11730 MNS 100 kW / 246 deg to WeEu Belarussian 1400-1600 on 11730&MNS 100 kW / 246 deg to WeEu Russian 1600-1800 on 11730&MNS 100 kW / 246 deg to WeEu Polish 1705-1800 on 6155^MNS 125 kW / 252 deg to WeEu Polish 1800-1940 on 6155^MNS 125 kW / 252 deg to WeEu German 1800-1940 on 11730&MNS 100 kW / 246 deg to WeEu German 1940-2000 on 6155^MNS 125 kW / 252 deg to WeEu German Tue/Wed/Fri 1940-2000 on 11730 MNS 100 kW / 246 deg to WeEu German Tue/Wed/Fri 1940-2000 on 6155^MNS 125 kW / 252 deg to WeEu French Sat-Mon/Thu 1940-2000 on 11730 MNS 100 kW / 246 deg to WeEu French Sat-Mon/Thu 2000-2020 on 6155^MNS 125 kW / 252 deg to WeEu Spanish Sat-Mon/Thu 2000-2020 on 11730 MNS 100 kW / 246 deg to WeEu Spanish Sat-Mon/Thu 2000-2020 on 6155^MNS 125 kW / 252 deg to WeEu English Tue/Wed/Fri 2000-2020 on 11730 MNS 100 kW / 246 deg to WeEu English Tue/Wed/Fri 2020-2200 on 6155^MNS 125 kW / 252 deg to WeEu English 2020-2200 on 11730 MNS 100 kW / 246 deg to WeEu English 2200-2300 on 6155 MNS 125 kW / 252 deg to WeEu Russian 2200-2300 on 11730 MNS 100 kW / 246 deg to WeEu Russian & co-ch AWR KSDA in Chinese 1400-1500, Voice of Turkey in English 1730-1825 ^ co-ch AIR in Urdu till 1930, CRI in Russian 2000-2100 (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, DX Re Mix News Nov 11 via DXLD) ** BELGIUM [non]. Winter B-13 schedule of BRB stations: Radio Miraya: 0300-0600 on 9940 secret / hidden site to EaAf English/Arabic Denge Kurdistan: 0400-1600 on 11510 KCH 250 kW / 116 deg WeAs Kurdish (11600 Oct 28-31) 1600-2000 on 11510 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg WeAs Kurdish (11600 Oct 28-31) Suab Xaa Moo Zoo, Voice of Hope: 1130-1200 on 11570 TSH 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Hmong 2230-2300 on 7530 TSH 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Hmong Que Me: 1200-1230 on 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg to EaAs Vietnamese Fri Khmer Post Radio: 1200-1300 on 9960 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Khmer The Disco Palace: 1530-1630 on 12115 ISS 100 kW / 079 deg to SoAs Music in DRM Radio Xoriyo: 1600-1630 on 17870 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Somali Mon/Fri Transmissions jammed by Ethiopia with broadband DRM-like white noise Radio Assenna: 1700-1800 on 15245 secret / hidden site to EaAf Tigrinya Mon/Wed/Fri Transmissions jammed by Ethiopia with broadband DRM-like white noise Voice of the Forum of Eritreans: 1700-1800 on 15245 secret / hidden site to EaAf Tigrinya Tue/Thu/Sat/Sun Transmissions jammed by Ethiopia with broadband DRM-like white noise E-SAT Radio, new frequencies day by day from 15360 to 15390, ex 15355- 15385 1700-1800 on 15380 secret / hidden site to EaAf Amharic Mon 1700-1800 on 15365 secret / hidden site to EaAf Amharic Tue 1700-1800 on 15385 secret / hidden site to EaAf Amharic Wed 1700-1800 on 15370 secret / hidden site to EaAf Amharic Thu 1700-1800 on 15390 secret / hidden site to EaAf Amharic Fri 1700-1800 on 15375 secret / hidden site to EaAf Amharic Sat 1700-1800 on 15360 secret / hidden site to EaAf Amharic Sun All frequencies jammed by Ethiopia with broadband DRM-like white noise Radio Inyabutatu: 1700-1800 on 17870 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Kinyarwanda Sat (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, DX Re Mix News Nov 11 via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA [and non]. 6135-, Nov 9 at 0054, music playing here sounds like that on 11855, i.e. R. Aparecida, BRAZIL which also has a 6135 transmitter --- but instead it`s R. Santa Cruz, since offset to the lo side, and there is no het at all from the ZY; furthermore, at 0059 they are definitely not //, one talking, one musicking. BTW, I am still often hearing, including tonight, R. Pio Doce, Bolivia on 5952.4v, but both of them are a lot weaker than they were in our summer, when in their winter the signals were getting a better head- start northward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 9620 [sic], Radio Fedes [sic], at 0230, on 11/10, males speaking in Spanish along with musical interludes of a short duration and then returning to talking again. Good (John Cooper, PA, WinRadio- G33DDC Excalibur Pro, RF Space SDR-IQ, Grundig Satellit-750, Tecsun PL-660, Wellbrook ALA 1530+ Imperium, All Band Tuned Super Sloper. PARS SWL End Fed Sloper, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ?? R. Fides is on 9625, and a tough catch; 9620 is occupied by R. Exterior de España at this hour (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL: 4775, ZYG207, Rádio Congonhas; 2238-2246+, 5-Nov; Portuguese baladas; one-word "Congonhas" ID at 2245. SIO=2+52+ (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) ** BRAZIL. 4865.06, R. Verdes Florestas, Cruz.º do Sul AC, 2309-2319, 07/11, propaganda religiosa por padre; 33431. QRM R. Alvorada (p) e CODAR. 4875.05, R. Dif.ª de Roraima, Boa Vista RR, 2307-23178, 07/11, canções; 44433, QRM CODAR. Melhor sinal em 08/11, 2215, programa musical. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4915, ZYF691, Rádio Daqui: 2235, 5-Nov; Portuguese baladas with RD ID between. SIO=443 with minor swiper splash from down- frequency. Best 60 m station below 5 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) 4915, Nov 8 at 0653, LAH from two stations on slightly different frequencies, one with music, both vs CODAR. Even tho it`s the madrugada, no doubt the Brazilian pair, Rdif. Macapá and R. Daqui, Goiânia. Brazil must be the only Latin American country piling more than one station on a single tropical band frequency. Stronger here than 4885 at the moment, also 24 hours from Pará (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 5035, Rádio Educação Rural at 2212 in Portuguese with a man with soft talk then a woman with talk and ranchero-like male vocals at 2214 - Fair Nov 10 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, ON, Alinco DX-70, Drake SPR-4, inverted vee or delta loop, ODXA YRX via DXLD) Without an ID, how do you know this was R Educação Rural rather than Rádio Aparecida? We have numerous reports of the latter, altho possibly RER is also active (gh, DXLD) Viz.: 5035, ZYG853, Rádio Aparecida; 2248-2301+, 5-Nov; Low-key Portuguese religious program. Lengthy Aparecida ID promo from 2257+ past ToH. SIO=333- in LSB needed to minimize splash from 5040 RHC (presimed) in Spanish (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) 5035.00, 0250-0310 07.11, R Aparecida, Aparecida, SP, Portuguese religious talk, music, hymn 35232 (Anker Petersen, heard on the AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres longwire in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) 5035, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 2253-2309, 07/11, canções, programa Com a Mãe Aparecida; 45433. // 6134.9, 9629.8, 11855. 6134.9, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 2300-2314, 07/11, programa Com a Mãe Aparecida, refs. à Campanha dos Devotos; 44432. 9629.75, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 1924-1950, 08/11, programa Cantinho Sertanejo, revista de notícias Jornal dos Jornais, ás 1930; 33432, mas em ascensão, apesar da QRM adjacente. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6134.96, R Aparecida, 2034, Nov 7, Port TC, sung ID, sertaneja, in the clear between 2030 co/channel VOV Russian carrier off and 2058 CRI Croatian carrier on. Unusually early, slightly off frequency, // 11855; beware R Madagasikara not heard here lately (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 10000, Nov 10 at 0144, YL voice with ``Observatório Nacional, 23 horas, 44 minutos, 40 segundos``, etc., and pips every dekasecond, mixing with equally weak WWV and WWVH. During the 0145 minute has to combat the unreadable WWVH propagation report. And vs NIST tone after 0146. Obviously giving local DST of UT- 2 now rather than UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11940, Rádio Voa Vontande [sic] – Puerto [sic] Alegre (Presumed), 2114, 11/9/13, in Portuguese. Man talking with another man – seemed color to a soccer game. Good (Mark Taylor, Madison WI, Perseus, WinRadio g313e, Eton e1, Grundig G5, Tecsun PL 660; EWE, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ?? Assume you mean R. Boa Vontade, but it`s unknown to use this frequency; where did you find that listed? Not even Aoki. REE Spain is on 11940 weekends at 19-23, and that was a Saturday. And only in Spanish. They do have Portuguese at 21-22, but it is supposedly only M-F and on 11680. There is a ZY on 5970, R. Itatiaia which could possible harmonicize on 11940 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL AUTORIZA LA MIGRACIÓN DE RADIOS AM A FM Con un acto solemne en el Palacio Planalto, la presidente de Brasil firmó este jueves un decreto que autorizará a las emisoras de radio migrar sus señales de AM a FM, una frecuencia donde ganarán en calidad de audio, competitividad y alcance, a través de los teléfonos celulares. "La migración que acabamos de autorizar es la base para mejorar la cualidad de las transmisiones, permitiendo mejoras en las relación con los anunciantes" , ha dicho Rousseff durante el lanzamiento. "Quería decir que durante mis años de prisión las noticias llegaban por la radio. Era uno de los instrumentos del contacto con el mundo", ha contado la mandataria para remarcar la importancia de la radio. La decisión del Gobierno fue una respuesta a una vieja demanda de la Asociación Brasileña de Emisoras de Radio y Televisión (Abert), que ha denunciado desde hace años las dificultades de emisión que enfrenta en las grandes ciudades para distribuir su señal en Amplitud Modulada. "Es una excelente noticia para toda la radiodifusión nacional, no solamente porque atiende los deseos y expectativas de los radiodifusores. El decreto también establece un nuevo marco de inversiones y de innovaciones en el sector, impulsando a la radio a tornarse más competitivas para atender mejor a sus oyentes y al mercado", ha dicho el presidente de Abert, Márcio Villela. La Asociación estima que el 90% de las 1784 emisoras de AM que operan en Brasil se pasarán a la banda de FM. El ministro de Comunicaciones, Paulo Bernardo, ha aclarado que el traspaso será opcional. Aclaró, además, que el Gobierno ya no dará licencias de AM, con el objetivo de sustituir poco a poco todas las frecuencias existentes. "La radio AM está perdiendo calidad, es una frecuencia muy difícil" , ha dicho el ministro. "En las grandes ciudades, principalmente, es muy difícil que usted pueda sintonizar una radio AM. A las radios de los automóviles, por ejemplo, se les hace muy complicado sintonizarlas" , agregó el funcionario, que estará presente en el acto de firma del decreto presidencial (infobae via Arnaldo Slaen, Nov 7, condiglista yg via DXLD) A FAMOSA MIGRAÇÃO DAS EMISSORAS AM Amigos, tudo que ouví non últimos dias na mídia sobre o assunto da migração das emissoras AM para FM so' demonstra o mais completo desconhecimento da situação por parte de políticos e ate alguns técnicos. A partir da Presidência da Republica. Aqui vai a minha humilde opinião e fico curioso em ouvir as suas. Parece claro que a decisão se sustenta sobre dois pontos. a) A crise estrutural das ondas medias, baixa audiência, interferências e tal b) A grande demanda de estações que querem migrar para FM (o governo diz 80 por cento!) Eu quero acreditar que seja assim. O primeiro ponto è fora de discussão, o segundo porem me deixa muitas duvidas. E' evidente, também se não declarado, que o ponto principal é outro. Depois que o mundo se encheu a boca durante anos sobre a digitalizaçao da banda AM e até das ondas curtas, ficou demonstrado que trata-se de uma coisa impossível. Os testes DRM/IBOC provaram aqui, come nos EEUU e na Europa, que as perspetivas e o retorno econômico não compensariam os custos. Tecnicamente o AM digital também não funciona (ruídos e interferênciasgolpei am no digital até mais que no analógico), e não existe nem no primeiro mundo um exercito de consumidores prontos a comprar novos receptores. Quando a Apple foi questionada sobre a decisão de não colocar um simples chipinho para radio nos IPhones (que ja existia nos celulares mais baratos) a resposta foi que o digital passa pelas rede IP, não pelas ondas hertzianas. Eles tinham razão. O problema é que o governo brasileiro se inventou agora uma solução improvável tanto quanto. Eles dizem que nas regiões do Pais onde já tem disponibilidade de frequências a migração vai para a atual banda FM (88-108); nas outras tem que esperar que se liberem os dois canais da tv analógica. o que criaria a nova banda FM (76-88 Mhz ) Será? As áreas do Brasil onde a banda FM não esta' completamente cheias de sinais são as mesmas aonde a AM continua viva e razoavelmente saudável. Estamos falando de regiões com menor densidade habitacional, cidades pequenas o bem afastadas uma da outra, áreas rurais, norte e centro oeste do Brasil. A primeira fase da migração estaria então autorizada aonde menos precisa! E aonde as emissoras são menores e dispõem de menos recursos para arcar os custos de equipamentos novos, antenas, publicidade etc. A segunda parte da migração, na nova banda FM, é também bastante imaginaria. Teoricamente interessa as áreas urbanas, aonde as emissoras AM não teriam "vagas" na atual banda, já congestionada demais. Mas o que é hoje a AM nas grandes cidades tipo Rio, São Paolo, BH, Porto Alegre? A grandes emissoras/redes tipo Globo, Tupi, Itatiaia, Gaucha etc jà ganharam freqüências FM nos últimos anos e estão bastante satisfeitas com a nova audiência. Um dia podem decidir de desligar os transmissores AM para poupar dinheiro na conta de luz... O resto é pouca coisa: emissoras moribundas, sem audiência e recursos, que quase todas vivem alugando horários para as igrejas evangélicas. Quem vai bancar a migração, o pastor? E sinceramente: quantos cariocas ou paulistanos estão aguardando ansiosos que a própria emissora AM de coração passe para FM? Quem ainda escuta AM no Brasil, tirando nos amadores de plantão, são pessoas que usam receptores antigos e baratos. Será que eles iriam comprar os novos rádios, que ainda não existem, com as duas bandas FM? Concluindo: esta coisa não vai dar em nada. Eles não sabem do que estão falando. Eu não digo que a AM tenha um grande futuro, è possível que esteja mesmo nos seus últimos anos de vida. Mas esta solução não funcionará. Tem toda a cara da típica lei cheia de boas intenções que a final é fora da realidade. Depois todo mundo chora que "não pegou" (Rocco Cotroneo, Rio de Janeiro, Nov 8, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Rocco, concordo com teu ponto de vista. Obrigado por teus comentários. Gostaria de trazer a luz outros aspectos da migração, de forma descompromissada (ou seja: não citarei fontes, apenas darei uma opinião) == a pressão política == Possivelmente, há pressão intensa de parlamentares e entidades por novos concessões de rádio. E é provável que eles exijam canais FM por sua disponibilidade em celulares e menor custo de ativação. O governo costurou um comprimisso: melhora a cobertura das emissoras ABERT sem exigir investimento em equipamentos digitais. Libera canais para todas as concessões que estão na fila. == os desafios técnicos == o Brasil vai ser o primeiro pais a ter uma banda FM entre 76 até 108 MHz. Não há receptores baratos e funcionais com esta ampla cobertura de banda! Os testes (como os que a Jovem Pan vai começar) vão ter resulado previsíveis. Cobertura muito boa... se você tiver um bom receptor! Receptores comuns, com circuito tradicional são incapazes de sintonizar sinais abaixo de 88 MHz livre de interferências. Ao sintonizar 76.1, você escutará a emissora em em 97.5 MHz! Por que isto acontece? Dois motivos: a) receptores simples possuem apenas uma FI de 10.7MHz b) receptores simples não possuem fron-end sintonizado (como geralmente ocorre em OM). Felizmente, os últimos 5 anos trouxeram novidades importantes para receptores economicos. Chips como o Silicon Labs Si43x usam um FI de 0 KHz ou um valor muito pequeno e são imunes ao problema descrito acima. A banda extendida entre 76MHz e 88MHz vai funcionar, mas depende de novos receptores, usando um novo tipo de circuito. O que me leva ao terceiro ponto. == Bolsa Minha Estação == Sim, já tem dono de rádio querendo que o governo patrocine na transição dos equipamentos e introdução de novos receptores. Minha opinião sobre isso é impublicável. Todos vão concordar que o governo prioridades mais importantes do que ajudar empresários incapazes de gerir um negócio sustentável. (Huelbe Garcia, ibid.) Rocco e Michel [sic], Vocês já falaram praticamente tudo sobre mais esta bobagem que estão fazendo com o rádio no Brasil. Apenas para resumir uma situação que acredito aconteça na grande maioria das cidades brasileiras, estou no interior em uma cidade com porte médio, tenho atualmente problemas de ruídos, causados por tudo que a gente conhece que tem por aí. No entanto, não é um problema crítico e não afeta as três emissoras AM da cidade, não há razão alguma para estas emissoras migrarem para a banda de FM, isto deve ocorrer em praticamente todo o interior do Brasil. Enfim, parece que o interesse é politico, seriam várias e várias concessões para FM em uma caneta só. 73 (Samuel Cássio, ibid.) Pessoal, O problema de interferências na faixa de AM ocorre em grandes cidades, e não é porque em pequenas cidades não ocorre o problemas que irão deixar como está. As transmissões estão em fase de mudança. As transmissões digitais irão substituir as transmissões analógicas e com vários benefícios em questão de economia de energia, largura de faixa e muitas outras. A telefonia celular começou no Brasil em 1993 com equipamentos analógicos e atualmente estão digitais em todo o Brasil. Isso aconteceu gradativamente e hoje não se vê mais telefone celular analógico em funcionamento. A TV digital no Brasil, começou a poucos anos, e hoje a maioria dos lares brasileiros os aparelhos de TV são digital com recepção digital. Há conversores a venda para os aparelhos analógicos e se não me engano, vi conversor a venda por R$ 60,00. Em minha cidade, todas as EMISSORAS ou geradoras de programação LOCAIS já transmitem no modo digital, e continua as transmissões analógicas. Somente as REPETIDORAS de TV ainda continuam somente no modo analógico, mas nas cidades onde a programação é GERADA o sinal já é digital. Para que as emissões sejam 100% digital, deverão ser substituídas APENAS as repetidoras. Quanto a migração das rádios AM para a mesma frequencia dos canais 2 a 5 dos televisores, esta será GRADATIVA. As transmissões de TV existente neste canais terão de ser interrompidas para que as rádios AM sejam comecem, e para a recepção dessa faixa de frequência novos aparelhos de FM deverão ser produzidos e vendidos no mercado, nem que sejam aparelhos com duas faixas de FM (52 - 87 e 87 a 108 MHz por exemplo). Isso ocorre também nas emissões comerciais de VHF, quando em 2022 a ANATEL não mais emitirá licença para operação de estação que tenha transmissão analógica - rádio e repetidora. Para se ter uma idéia, as polícias de vários Estados brasileiros já trocaram seus rádios VHF analógico para digital. Imagine quantos rádios VHF analógicos funcionando cairão em desuso. Isso tudo faz parte da evolução, e os únicos que continuarão com as emissões analógicas serão os radioamadores. Vejo que não é outro motivo que não a evolução, mudança das transmissões e não outra coisa. Se mudarem a transmissãio para AM digital, tero rádio para [sic, cut off incomplete] (CÉSAR AUGUSTO MERLIN, Nov 9, ibid.) Cesar, ninguém aquì é contra a evolução, apesar de um certo (legitimo) saudosismo de muitos de nos. E' que o AM digital, depois de dez anos de testes no mundo inteiro, està saindo do cenário. Aquì estamos discutindo das medidas alternativas que o governo vai adotando. A migração para FM não significa passar do analogico para digital (Rocco Cotroneo, ibid.) Vocês já imaginaram, assim que as transmissões de AM passarem para o FM, a qualidade de nosso dx em AM? Conseguiremos captar muitas estações estrangeiras, antes encobertas por fortes transmissões locais. Estarei falando bobagem? Ou realmente será algo diferente em dx em AM? Abraços a todos os radioescutas (João Araújo, São Paulo - SP, ibid.) João, Não é apenas aqui que o AM está em decadência. Portanto, se a migração demorar pode ser que já não exista muita coisa para ouvir. Torço para estar errado. Já a faixa de FM, se boa parte não ocupar as frequências que ficarão vagas dos canais analógicos de TV, creio que reinará o caos. Quanto a qualidade da programação... 73 (Ivan Dias Jr., - Sorocaba/SP, ibid.) Acho que continuará um lixo. Hoje ficamos felizes quando captamos uma estação distante: Falamos: -Puxa, captei uma estação lá da ponta do pais, em Roraima ou outros. Dai respondemos: -Puxa, que legal, o que você ouviu?? Dai a pessoa responde: Melhor não falar! (puro lixo). Raras as estações que transmitem conteúdo bom, ex: Bandeirantes SP, Rádio Aparecida, SP, Rádio Cultura de Araraquara, SP Rádio Guaíba, RS, Rádio Nacional da Amazônia, DF, Rádio CBN, Rádio Itatiaia, MG, e mais umas 10 ou 15 no máximo, com bom conteúdo. Quanto as utilitárias, estamos bem felizes! Tem muita coisa pra ouvir e decodificar! (João Araujo, São Paulo - SP, ibid.) Amigos, Essa migração me preocupa em alguns pontos: 1 - Temos algumas estações FM que trabalham apenas com informes de trânsito, como a Sulamérica Trânsito. Já acho uma tremenda burrice essas emissoras operarem apenas em FM, pois, muitas vezes, noticiam situações de rodovias em pontos que simplesmente estão fora do alcance da emissora. Operando na faixa de AM o alcance delas seria consideravelmente maior. A não ser que façam como a rádio CCR Nova Dutra, cujo sinal cobre toda a extensão da rodovia. Sem contar os rincões do território nacional onde mal chegam as ondas curtas... 2 - Nos rádios FM que já possuem sintonia FM abaixo de 88 MHz (banda de áudio de TV), é comum sintonizarmos nessas faixas sinais de emissoras cuja frequêcia está bem mais acima. A Band News FM (96.9 MHz) pode ser ouvida por volta dos 76 MHz, bem como a Tupi FM, Rádio Estadão, dentre outras. As novas emissoras teriam que lidar com esse problema. Obtive esses resultados em dois receptores analógicos (Toshiba 4 faixas e Philco PH60). 73's (Erick Tamberg, Guarulhos - SP, ibid.) Amigos, Se me permitem a modesta opinião, já afirmei aqui que a "morte" do AM no Brasil é apenas questão de tempo. A geração de nossos filhos, na média, mal sabem que o AM existe. O próprio FM está aos poucos cada vez mais migrando para o interior dos veículos, que é onde se lembra que o rádio existe. Na Europa, o AM já caminha para a extinção. O rádio vai continuar a existir, mas cada vez mais acessado através de aplicativos como o "Tune In", instalado nos celulares, com o som trafegando via Bluetooth para caixas de som possantes ou do próprio carro (sempre ele, por isso as cidades estão paradas, mas essa é outra discussão). Para o nosso hobby, acho que teríamos um ganho com a migração, porque nossas escutas noturnas ganhariam novas fronteiras. Países hoje difíceis da vizinhança continetal se tornariam corriqueiros e, quero crer, os colegas do litoral conseguiriam acessar a África, quando as condições permitissem. Quanto à migração propriamente dita, posso cravar que não acontecerá, pelo menos da forma que foi concebida, a não ser que ocorra um acesso coletivo de insanidade nos donos das AMs para que esses aceitem gastar rios de dinheiro para uma adaptação que colocará suas rádios em uma faixa de frequência que os aparelhos atuais não sintonizam. O que deve acontecer é a continuidade do movimento atual. Quem tiver dinheiro e espaço locará um canal tradicional de FM e migrará aos poucos suas operações. É o que penso. 73 (Arthur Antonio Raimundo, Manaus AM Brasil, 03º05'41"S, 60º01'57"W, FI96XV, ibid.) Acabo de ouvir a presidenta Dilma na Voz do Brasil, dizendo que as novas emissoras em FM vão ser ouvidas em celulares e tablets. Tablets? Repito: não sabe do que está falando (Rocco Cotroneo, Nov 11, ibid.) Rocco, Não conheço os tablets em geral, mas eu tenho um tablet até bem vagabundinho que pega FM. Talvez o tablet da presidentêêêê tem FM também! (Aluizio Antonio dos Santos, 12 Nov, ibid.) Tablets também pegam FM! Pelo menos os lá de casa pegam ... Ipad e SAMSUNG (Lourival, ibid.) Pessoal, que eu saiba tablet sintoniza FM através de um software dedicado e não diretamente da antena da emissora. Pelo menos meu Samsung funciona assim. Mas que ela é burra, quanto a isto eu tenho certeza (G S Cysneiros, ibid.) Mas se é para sintonizar as emissoras em celular, tablet, etc., não precisa migração nenhuma; muitas e muitas emissoras podem ser ouvidas pela internet seja AM ou FM há muito tempo, acaba de uma vêz com a transmissão de rádio e segue pela internet, afinal o que tem a sintonia por tablet com recepção de rádio via ondas hertzianas diretas dos transmissores? (Samuel Cássio, São Carlos SP, iid.) Cassio, O meu tablet vagabundinho recebe FM via ondas hertezianas direta dos transmissores! (Aluizio, ibid.) Sim, mas aí é rádio, um tablet com um receptor de rádio integrado, como celulares, etc. A idéia, como entendi, é que grande maioria das emissoras de ondas médias, fora dos grandes centros portanto, migrem para a banda oficial de FM no Brasil 88 a 108 MHz, como serão estas transmissões - em AM ou FM? E nestes casos, as emissoras fora dos grandes centros, emissoras que transmitem em ondas médias não têm tanto problema assim para mudarem de banda, por mais ruído de toda espécie que se possa ter, os sinais locais não sofrem com isso e durante o dia não têm a concorrência de emissoras mais distantes; então os motivos alegados não são apenas os problemas de recepção em ondas médias. Como já foi dito aqui, ah, mas as coisas evoluem, bom então transmitam pela Internet e pronto ou decretem de uma vez o fim do rádio em HF e que fique só em VHF no modo FM. A propósito não conheço ninguem que ouça rádio e as emissoras locais de AM em celular, tablet, pelo menos aqui onde moro. Quanto a se ouvir as emissoras pela internet e faço isto bastante tambem, a maioria que conheço ouve rádios musicais, normalmente webradios. Bem, o rádio enfrenta um problema díficil, a concorrência é muito grande, o conteúdo de programação é ruim na maioria dos casos e nuna se protegeu as ondas de rádio em seu estado mais natural, as consequências chegaram. 73 (Samuel Cássio, ibid.) Frequência de 76 a 88 MHz e não 88 a 108 MHz, OK (Ariovaldo Lobrito, ibid.) Tablets têm chips para rádio FM? O Ipad com certeza não. Existem várias apps que pegam emissoras na Internet, claro (Rocco Cotroneo, ibid.) Pois então veja aí: -- O ministro das Comunicações, Paulo Bernardo, disse que os interessados na migração poderão protocolar requerimento no ministério a partir de 1º de janeiro de 2014. Quem quiser permanecer na AM poderá manifestar interesse em ampliar a cobertura nessa faixa. Segundo Bernardo, durante certo tempo, será permitido que as rádios transmitam em AM e FM, para que haja a migração da audiência "sem sobressaltos" . "Na hipótese de não haver canal de rádio FM disponível na localidade, serão usadas as frequências ocupadas atualmente pelos canais 5 e 6 de televisão, após finalizado o processo de digitalização da televisão" , disse o ministro.- A maioria vai para o FM mesmo, entre 88 e 108 MHz, a maioria das rádios em ondas médias no Brasil não estão nas grandes capitais, o Brasil é muito grande, OK? (Cássio, ibid.) Tablet e celulares com receptor FM real integrado já vi aos montes. Nunca vi celular nem tablet com receptor físico integrado AM; alguém sabe se existe? Ariovaldo, 76 a 88 será usado nos grandes centros onde não ha vaga para novas emissoras na faixa de 88 a 108. Em pequenas cidades com muitas frequencias disponiveis migrarão sim para 88 a 108 (Aluizio Antonio dos Santos, 13 Nov, ibid.) Pessoal, Francamente. .. além de nós radioescutas, alguém mais conhece quem escuta ondas médias? Só conheço pessoas que escutam FM. No início do FM, as músicas que tocavam eram só orquestradas. Hoje temos todo tipo de lixo musical, até aquelas que "vão descendo até o chão". E particularmente, algumas AM são melhores que certas FMs (César Augusto Merlin, ibid.) César, Aparentemente você vive numa grande cidade. Em Porto Alegre, a emissora mais popular (Farroupilha) está presente apenas em AM. E vai muito bem há 50 anos. Sistema 'duplex&# 39;, onde a emissora possui emissão simultânea em AM e FM, é algo exclusivo em capitais ou cidade muito grandes. Todas as demais emissoras AM de cidades pequenas ou médias estão apenas em AM. Embora as emissoras dos grandes centros urbanos tenham milhões de ouvintes, elas são relativamente poucas. O maior número de emissoras está localizado no interior. Uma conversa com amigos nascidos fora da capital mostra um comportamento interessante: todos estão felizes que as emissoras de sua cidade Natal estão disponíveis na web. Isso mostra, também, como a população é arraigada ao local. A massificação, pasteurização e impessoalidade do conteúdo sao fenômenos, aparentemente, urbanos e modernos nas emissoras de radio. E como a população da cidade grande re-encontra o local? Lendo! Vários jornais baratos e de foco comunitário surgiram nos últimos anos: Extra, Diário Gaúcho, Metro, Super Noticia (Huelbe Garcia, ibid.) Olá César, Eu não poderia deixar de responder essa: Vamos lá: Pessoas que "conheço", "não são radioescutas", e ouvem "Ondas Médias" A minha mãe, o meu paí, minha tia, minha avó, meu avó (viciado), o porteiro do prédio onde moro, o locutor da rádio 730 que mora aqui no meu prédio, o Senhor que vigia carros numa garagem aqui ao lado, os alfaiates que trabalham aqui perto da minha casa, o meu amigo Pedrão, da eletrônica do Pedrão, o Sebastião (tião) que tem uma lojinha aqui perto que vende créditos para celulares, as amigas da minha tia (muitas delas) as amigas da minha avó (dezenas delas) "vários amigos meus", colegas com quem trabalho que ouvem todos os dias os programas de esportes pelas rádios Difusora, 730, Bandeirantes e RBC, o caseiro do meu paí, vários caseiros das fazendas vizinhas, um senhor que não conheço, mas está todos os dias com um radinho na mão na avenida Goiás no centro de Goiânia, passo por ele todos os dias, no camelódrmo de Goiânia, tem um senhor que vende rádios, 24 horas sintonizado na rádio 730. Como sou viciado em rádio, ouço todos os dias "dezenas de recados" para pessoas de diversos setores de Goiânia, que não são radioescutas; mencionadas diariamente pelos locutores. Eu só citei menos 1% das pessoas que ficam perto de em? Fora as que não conheçoe as milhares e milhares de pessoas que ouvem diariamente ondas médias nesse universo que não é nem um pouco pequeno. Essa lista pode acabar, os membros dessa lista vão morrer, mas o rádio nunca vaí acabar, nunca vai morrer, sempre haverá uma pessoa ou grupo para transmitir em qualquer onda herteziana que seja...e sempre haverá alguem que irão ouví-los. Seja oficial, ou clandestinamente (Cássio Santos - Goiânia-Goiás, ibid.) Bom dia César, Moro em Florianópolis e as rádios CBN Diário 740 e a Guarujá 1420, além de outras, tem uma audiência fantástica na região. 73 (Marcos Antonio Pacheco, ibid.) Caro colega, não é bem assim. Aqui em PE, a rádio jornal AM possui uma audiência avassaladora. Os motivos técnicos alegados para esta migração não me convenceram. Era mais fácil explicar que em algumas grandes cidades a faixa de FM está cheia e como a pressão e o lobby das empresas de comunicação é enorme, é necessário disponibilizar novas faixas de FM para elas (Chicao Valadares, ibid.) O meu vagabundinho tem chip para FM, inclusive se for tentado sintonia sem o fone de ouvido ele manda a mensagem: COLOQUE O FONE QUE OUVIDO POIS ELE FUNCIONA COM ANTENA. Tem um tablet vendido na americana.com que tem sintonia de FM real e sintonia de TV digital tambem com sintonial real e não via soft internet, dados de celular ou coisa que o valha! Em tempo nunca diga ao possuidor de Ipad que o dispositivo dele é um tablet, isso é pior que falar mal da mãe dele!!!!!!!!! (Aluzio Antonio dos Santos, ibid.) Via the ADX list, via http://arcticradioclub.blogspot.no/2013/11/brazilian-am-stations-about-to-switch.html Hello! According to the TV news, president Dilma has signed a decree which enables all Brazilian MW/AM stations to switch over to FM. As of January 1, 2014 the stations can apply for switching to FM. Associação Brasileira de Rádios e Televisão believes that around 90% of the 1784 stations currently broadcasting on MW/AM in Brazil will be switching over to FM. Initially, the stations will be able to broadcast both on AM/MW and FM. After five years the stations must decide whether to switch to FM permanently or to continue on FM. They may also decide to stay on MW/AM and are allowed to expand their prescence in this band. Some of the motives for the decree is better audio quality and less interference plus the fact that FM transmissions, contrary to AM/MW radio, can be received on cellular phones. Tough for AM/MW buffs, indeed! Greetings fom Brazil, (Nils Olsson, formerly of ARC, via Bengt Ericsson, ARC via Max Van Arnhem, MWCircle yg via DXLD RADIO WORLD: BRAZIL BROADCASTERS PUSH AM MIGRATION http://www.radioworld.com/article/brazil-broadcasters-push-am-migration/222179 ABERT President Daniel Slaviero [caption] The U.S. radio industry is not the only one exploring ways to help AM broadcasters. Brazil radio observers expect their government to publish a decree in November detailing an optional migration process for AM radio to the FM band. In cities where the FM spectrum can’t accommodate new channels, it will be necessary to extend the spectrum using television Channels 5 and 6. Brazil — the largest country in South America and home to the world’s fifth-largest population — has about 1,800 AM stations. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff okayed the migration concept in June, and the Ministry of Communications formulated an outline this summer and early fall. Rousseff was expected to sign off on the actual plan in November. As we’ve reported, Brazil sought to settle the AM migration issue before deciding on a digital radio standard or standards for shortwave, AM and FM. In pursuing this plan, the nation follows partially in the footsteps of Mexico, which approved a voluntary AM migration plan this year. Approximately 540 AMs there plan to migrate to FM. Daniel Slaviero, president of the Brazilian Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters (ABERT), talked with RWI freelancer Carlos Eduardo Behrensdorf about what led to the AM migration decision and how the moves would proceed. RW: What do proponents say are the advantages of migration? Slaviero: ABERT and the state associations of broadcasters view the migration as critical to the future of AM radio. On the FM band, [AM] broadcasters will gain transmission quality. Being located in a lower position in the spectrum, the AM band is very susceptible to noise and interference, which increases with the urbanization. Also, the mechanical noise caused by electrical networks and factories, for example, generates spectral “noise” in the frequency bands, and AM radio is the first to be affected, followed by shortwave. The interference also affects other bands used for broadcasting, but with less intensity. The migration will also enable broadcasters to get better integrated in the current context of technological convergence. The technical characteristics of signal reception, especially the need to use large antennas to capture the signal, have hindered the reach of AM radio. For example, cell phones have FM reception. But many vehicles leave the factory already without a medium-wave receiver. RW: How many broadcasters would move and what is the timeframe? Slaviero: Since the migration is optional and costly, we don’t have a ballpark figure of how many broadcasters will move. The government estimates that the decree, containing the rules for the reallocation, will be published this month. Therefore, the migration could be expected to begin in early 2014. In small towns where there is space on the dial, the AM stations will immediately move to frequency modulation. But in large cities, where the spectrum is crowded, it will be necessary to extend the spectrum of the FM band to television Channels 5 and 6. In this case, the migration will take place gradually as these channels get released after the analog television signal is turned off, which will occur between 2015 and 2018. RW: Who conceived and led this effort and how did they win the support of broadcasters? Slaviero: Given the problems that AM radio faces, ABERT and the state broadcasting entities agreed that the best solution for the AM is migration. We proposed the migration to the government, which is now responding favorably to the petition of the broadcasting industry. RW: Was migration a contentious issue? Slaviero: No. There is a consensus that the most important thing is to rescue the AM radio and to ensure the provision of services, with more quality to the listeners. The migration will strengthen the radio industry as new media emerge and begin to take away attention from the traditional media. RW: How will AM stations pay for the costs of the transition? Is the government offering a subsidy? Slaviero: The government is not offering a subsidy. ABERT supports access to financing options, but we have not gotten a reply from the government regarding this issue yet. There is a clear indication that the broadcasters will have to pay the price difference between the basic AM or FM license, established according to the station power, coverage area, etc. We are talking about the minimum cost of the license, set in the previous ordinance. RW: Besides cost, what other obstacles will individual stations face? Slaviero: The broadcasters will have to pay for the costs incurred from any technological change. Basically the stations will need to invest in order to adapt their transmission systems. RW: Are there sufficient receivers in the marketplace for stations to be heard? Will there be a campaign to expand the number of FM receivers capable of receiving these stations? Slaviero: In the cities where there is no need to expand the dial, listeners will receive the signal in their current receiver. On the other hand, in cities where the television Channels 5 and 6 will be used, it will be necessary to increase the number of receivers. There are already receivers in the market capable of receiving the signal. Some new equipment will only require a software upgrade — for example, some new cell phones. This will be a gradual change and the manufacturers will have to adapt to the frequency spectrum. That’s why there will be a simulcasting period when broadcasters will operate in AM and FM simultaneously. RW: What will happen to the vacated AM spectrum? Slaviero: The vacated spectrum will be returned to the government and they will conduct the appropriate research on new uses for the band. But since the migration is optional, and not all broadcasters will make the transition, this spectrum will continue to be used for the AM band. RW: For countries that may be considering such a migration, what do broadcasters and regulators need to know or be aware of? Slaviero: It is crucial to examine the regulations and to talk extensively about the issue with every party involved. You should be aware that the FM spectrum may not be sufficient to accommodate the migration, so it will be necessary to make some changes, as is the case of Brazil, which will extend the range of frequency modulation to the TV Channels 5 and 6. In Mexico, for example, the migration took place only in the cities where it was possible to do it on the dial. In the cities where there was no space, the change was not implemented and they have no plans for the near future. We can say that in Mexico only one part of the process was finished. RW: Would you like to add anything else? Slaviero: Hopefully this semester the Congress will review the government’s proposal and will publish a law. The migration is very important for Brazilian radio. We are [talking about] a robust market, with more than 4,500 commercial radio stations — from these, 1,800 are AMs — and 200 million conventional receivers. Radio in Brazil reaches approximately 50 million households (88.9 percent) and, contrary to what one might think, its presence in day- to-day lives grows, favored by the Internet and various devices such as computers, cell phones, iPods, MP4s and tablets. These devices are helping to expand the reach of radio, which now can be heard in new ways. Once the quality of the sound and the scope of the reach are guaranteed, our stations should constantly strive to improve their content and therefore maintain the relevance of the media (via Kevin Redding, ABDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DXLD) ** CANADA. For “financial and strategic” reasons, the new AM stations in Montreal on 600 (NWS/TLK in English) and 940 (NWS/TLK in French) that were supposed to sign on this fall will now launch in the summer or fall of 2014. The new 850 SPT station in French will sign on at the same time, giving the common owner of the three licenses more flexibility to obtain financing and sell advertising with all three signals rather than just two. (La Presse, Montréal, via Dan Sys via Shawn Axelrod) Dan Sys also reports on the November 6 CRTC hearing on the license of CJMS-1040. Apparently the station owner testified that he thought his father had mailed in all the CRTC filings and responses to CRTC inquiries over the past year, but he has now understood that his father is suffering from dementia. And he’s found a buyer for the station. But the CRTC doesn’t generally allow license sales when a station has had significant compliance issues, which has been the case for CJMS for a number of years. CRTC decisions usually follow a month or two after hearings, so we should get word by the end of the year (AM Switch NRC DX News Nov 18 via DXLD) ** CANADA. 740, Nov 10 at 0218 UT, atop KRMG OK is an ad for something in Cambridge, 519-area code, therefore CFZM Toronto with its 50 kW U1 advantage via CBL transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LITENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Middle-Eastern on 1450 kHz 0100-0200 UT --- I've been hearing this tonite on the PL-310 for a steady hour. A lookup indicates only one ethnic station, WCEV Cicero IL. However, there is also noted international 1449 R. Free Libya rated 500 kW omni- directional. The 2100-2200 EST time-frame is still night at that location. Is anyone else hearing this through the clutter? (Paul S. in CT, UT Nov 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) An update here, my copy of AMLOGBOOK was deficient, and did not contain CFAB or CHOU. The latter is the source of the Arabic music / song heard. Consider this a closed case. Thanks (Paul S. in CT, ibid.) ** CANADA. Steve Canney posted to Ontario DX Association [Facebook? Date?]: ``Not much of an update but I was at the CFRB tx site yesterday and the CFRX transmitter was sitting on a desk looking like it was waiting for an engineer to put in the new components to get it back up and running again. Let's hope they get to the site soon so it can make listening on 6.070 MHz interesting indeed, especially at night. I'll keep you posted`` (via Sudipta Ghose, -- One of those, India, Nov 13, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Meanwhile RHC took over 6070 (gh) Use it or lose it --- from tonight, Radio Habana Cuba has taken over 6070, in Spanish, apparently ex-6100. Please inform CFRB/CFRX. 73, (Glenn Hauser, Nov 11, ODXA yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DXLD) I've passed this along via [to?] Steve Canney, the QSL signer. He also has heard RHC there. He says the transmitter for CFRX is still on the bench and the engineer was vague as to when they would get it fixed. However, Steve said he could tell that some work had been done on it. I guess it's a case of low priority (Harold Sellers, Nov 12, ODXA yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DXLD) ** CANADA. 6160 & 6160, Nov 14 at 0101, CBC news and CCI, unseems echoing as CKZU and CKZN apparently not // at this hour. Incomparably stronger 6165 Cuba has not yet started modulating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. [TAIWAN tentatively] 5010 kHz? Hearing something on 5010, beginning at 2235 tune-in, still going as I type this. Way down in the noise. Definitely not any MARS stations that usually hang out around 5009.5 USB at night. Lots of talk by various announcers & music bits. My gut reaction has me thinking China. Anyone else hearing this? (Scott R. Barbour-NH-USA, Oct 30, DXplorer via BC-DX Nov 8 via DXLD) I tried 5010 tonight (Nov 1). There was nothing at 2135 UT (except Equatorial Guinea with a weak signal on 5005.02 kHz). But on recheck at 2148-2155 UT I heard CNR-1 program on 5010.00 with a new Chinese transmitter, maybe replacing 4750 kHz? It was clearly // CNR-1, Golmud, on 4800 kHz (heard with SINPO 45344), but 5010 kHz was about 2 seconds behind, so it must be a regional transmitter. It was heard here with SINPO 34343 with slight CWQRM. A man and a woman were talking in Mandarin, mentioning Shanghai (Anker Petersen, Denmark, Nov 1, ibid.) CNR1 could also be a jammer against Taiwan SOH on 60 meter band? (Wolfgang Büschel, Nov 3, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 8 via DXLD) It seems that RTI has started using 5010 kHz in B13 and China is jamming them, typically with not just one transmitter. At 2300 there seem to be two transmitters, the other delayed by about one second. Also one transmitter is on 5010.000 kHz exact, the other 5 Hz above (Mauno Ritola, Finland, Nov 4, DXplorer via BC-DX Nov 8 via DXLD) TAIWAN: 5010, Radio Taiwan Int'l (list log), 2246, 5-Nov; M&W alternating in Mandarin Chinese. SIO=3+53; still there at 2310. Not in 10/31 Aoki, but in 11/5 update (Harold Frodge, MI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Or CNR1 jammer which is what everyone was reporting here first (gh) Double CNR carriers have been heard on 9 and 10 /11 on 5010; therefore acting as jammers. I have not heard anything other in this frequency to identify who is jammed. Any ideas? (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) R. Taiwan International, 2200-2400 (Mauno Ritola, Finland, HCDX via DXLD) [other miscellaneous reports of ChiCom jamming, in chrono order:] ** CHINA [and non]. 3/11, 9835, RFA Tibetan 2208 today is stronger than CNR jammer with S8 signal (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7495, Nov 6, 2015, Firedrake, China, Jamming RFA, strong (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia, playdx yg via DXLD) Firedrake [non] CNR1 jamming search Nov 7 after 1430: 14980, good but with heavy flutter at 1435 No others found in the 12s, 13s, 15s, 16s, 17s See also CUBA Firedrake, Nov 8 after 1400: 6145, good at 1408 jamming Taiwan; seems the most reliable spot lately 6125, however is in CNR1 jamming at same time --- oh, per Aoki, this frequency is not a jammer: imagine that! Standard remark about CNR1`s PR problem, as if they cared. Intentional search for CNR1 or Firedrake, 1425-1429 Nov 8, found none from 12 to 18 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9420-9448 approx., Nov 9 at 1424, extremely distorted FMy blob, like I have been attributing to 9430 FEBC Philippines transmitter, which has certainly acted up before --- but now I can still detect the latter with weak signal amid this mess. Then at 1428 I find that the blob modulation matches CNR1 jammers on 9605 and 9530 vs VOA, and, out-of-synch, also 9450 CNR1 jammer vs Sound of Hope. Aoki shows nothing to explain the blob, no non-jam CNR1 services listed in the range. Remember that the CNR5 9410 transmitter used to go haywire but remained around its nominal frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CNR-1 change service time --- CNR-1 delayed s/on and s/off for 30 minutes from November 5 (Beijing Time). Now operating at 2025-1805 UT (ex 1955-1735 UT) de Hiroshi (S. Hasegawa, Japan, Nov 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 4940, Voice of Strait. Saturday (Nov 9) with "Focus on China" from 1500 to 1530. In English with news (long item about China's high speed railway system; 32nd International Istanbul Book Fair recently opened and Chinese calligrapher Pang Zhonghua will lecture about calligraphy; etc.) and tourist info about the town of Jimei, the hometown of the late Mr. Tan Kah Kee, who was a notable philanthropist; no less than 14 IDs; ends with "This is the Voice of Taiwan Strait News Radio." Program has become very westernized, with many speakers of native English. Fair-good. 6185, CHBC (presumed), 1543-1601* on Nov 9 with non-stop EZL music; no announcements; fair. Can only be heard well after VOK signs off (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. 9570, Sat Nov 9 at 1210, Cantonese hour of CRI, VG via CUBA has some really beautiful music, soprano with full orchestra, an opera? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA [and non]. 5910, Nov 8 at 0650, TWR in Polish via AUSTRIA with LAH from/to as conveniently IDing just now, ``música 100% colombiana, 5910 onda corta, Alcaraván Radio``. HJDH gets no protexion or consideration from the Big Guns, as it and the Colombian government do not even bother to register its frequencies with HFCC. In B-13 the following occupy 5910 at night and surely QRM HJDH even nearby to it: 0100-0300 RRI in Romanian; 0400-0430 NHK Spanish via France; 0430-0500 NHK Russian via Lithuania; 0641-0659 TWR Polish via Austria; 0900-1200 VOR English via Vladivostok (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CORSICA [and non]. Re: AUDIOLIP: MEDITERRADIO 1494 KHz, 1130-1200, "Mediterradio`` via Radio France Bleu/Radio Corsa Frquenza Mora. Bilingual transmission in Italian and Corsican language coproduced by RAI Siclia, RAI Sardegna and Radio Corsa Frequenza Mora. The transmission is broadcast every Friday on 1062, 1116, 1494 kHz. The audioclip is available here: http://blog.libero.it/radioascolto/12463560.html (Francesco Cecconi, QTH: CENTRAL ITALY, RX: DEGEN 1103, Nov 1, condiglista yg via DXLD) Mediterradio is a joint project of French and Italian broadcasters facilitated through their membership at the Permanent Conference of the Mediterranean Audiovisual Operaters http://www.copeam.org/index.aspx?ln=en member stations http://www.copeam.org/pag.aspx?ln=en&id=25 http://www.copeam.org/proj.aspx?ln=en&id=41&p=187 In October 2012, a new version of the radio magazine Mediterradio was launched through the intermediary of COPEAM. Relying on a new and ambitious partnership between RAI and Radio France, Mediterradio evolved in a weekly news programme devoted to the Western islands of the Mediterranean Sea: Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily. The originality of this programme was made possible thanks to the audacious use of the languages based on the inter-comprehension of Corse and Italian. Produced and actuated by France Bleu RCFM along with the Sardinian and Sicilian stations of Radio Rai, Mediterradio is intended to deal with current affairs and to create relations between economic, social and cultural actors, relying on the common insular reality in the Mediterranean of today. In a 27 minute format, the three stations illustrate current affairs through short reportages. Music, a cultural agenda and a feature on the weekly news contribute to the improvement of the mutual understanding of the three islands. Priority is given to the reportage, so to deeply and comprehensively deal with the subjects. Special editions were realised on the occasion of an event at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, in November 2012, and in the framework of COPEAM Conference in Cagliari, in March. Another joint programme produced by other stations in Kantara http://www.copeam.org/proj.aspx?ln=en&id=41&p=24 Kantara: Another idea of the Mediterranean Kantara is a weekly radio magazine in French which brings together, all around the Mediterranean basin, the public radio broadcasters France Bleu RCFM, Chaîne Inter in Morocco, Alger Chaîne 3, Radio Cairo, Radio Tunis Chaîne Internationale and Spanish External Radio, all members of COPEAM. Created in 1999, Kantara wants to be the echo of the reality in a common and shared Mediterranean world. Every week, reports and/or invitees from both Mediterranean sides deal with society and current affairs. The year 2012-1013 was characterized by important steps for the development and the future sustainability of the magazine. One of the main progresses is the effective setting up of the rotating production. In fact, from September 2012, the partner channels ensure in succession this function, making thus possible the involvement and the reinforcement of the professionals of all the concerned radios. Moreover, during the all year and with the view of enhancing the visibility of the magazine at both regional and international levels, a number of specific actions were undertaken: a promotional brochure conceived by Radio France, a partnership agreement with IMA (Arab World Institute) and some special episodes realized in Cagliari, in Sardinia, on the occasion of COPEAM annual Conference or at the official opening of the Villa Méditerranée in Marseille (via Dr. Hansjörg Biener, Nov 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 4765, Nov 9 at 0130, open carrier from R. Progreso, adding music in progress at 0131:20, so signing on an hour later than before. Presumably off circa 0500, as gone by 0505 check. Haven`t run across it on any RHC frequencies yet again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. Poor RHC, getting QRM because Arnie refuses to participate in HFCC, so other stations would at least know where it`s operating, (rather than consulting the real world of DX reports, or even turning on a radio). Will Arnie ever make any adjustments? 17580, Nov 7 at 1406, RHC is about equal to the clash from IBB making a SAH, i.e. R. Azadi via Biblis at 1330-1430. Meanwhile there are plenty of open channels for either on 16m. 11760, Nov 7 at 1433, RHC is buried by heavy CCCCCCI, as their good friends the ChiCom are intent on jamming Sound of Hope, Taiwan, at 1300-1500. Iran in Bengali is also on there from 1420, per Aoki. Some further chex of RHC in B-13, as they *still* as of Nov 8 have not put up their new website schedules, just blank pages: 17720, Nov 8 at 2115 has VG signal but open carrier/dead air. This must be because the European service in Spanish bihour has moved a unihour later to 22-24 instead of 21-23, while the preceding languages, 1930-2100 in French/Portuguese/Arabic, have stayed at the same UT; explain that? Leaves a one-hour gap at 21-22 with nothing for the 17720 transmitter to do. Well, it could duplicate the other French broadcast on 11760, which has moved an hour later from 2000-2030 to 2100-2130 and // on 11880 to Africa now an hour earlier at 2100-2130 instead of 2200-2230. 17720 is in fact the SSOB, and nearly the OSOB as 16m is of little interest to any broadcaster: just 17850 Spain, fair signal; and barely audible 17675 DRM from NZ. At 2129, guess what, if I turn the volume way up on 17720, I can barely hear traces of French bleeding thru, enough to match it // 11880. Well, that`s a start. 11600, Nov 9 at 0055, somewhat distorted music, immediately nailed as yet another RHC leapfrog mixing product, matching 11760 over 11680 another 80 kHz below. Don`t recall catching it here before. 11760, Nov 9 at 0503, RHC English is here, presumably late turning off transmitter after Spanish to 0500; could cut off at any moment. 6125 not yet on at 0503, or maybe a carrier mixing with Spain for another hour. 6165 and 6060 on in English, nothing audible on 6000, yet. Spanish audible at 0504 on 6100, not on 9810 and higher bands are dead. 5990, Nov 9 at 0100, CRI English relay is opening, undermodulated, as RadioCuba is late again turning off the transmitter after Spanish. 9965, Nov 9 at 0630, pulse jamming here, against nothing but a JBA carrier. Could it be R. República, Costa Rica(?) teeny transmitter reactivated after years? Doubt it, but the DentroCuban Jamming Command is not taking any chances. Still pulsing against nothing at 1208. Aoki B-13 has nothing on 9965 at either time; HFCC shows ``HBN`` Palau could be on 9965 any time between 13 and 10 UT, but that would have no bearing whatsoever upon Cuba. 6000, Nov 9 at 1348, no RHC audible, but a JBA carrier which could be CNR1; mainly QRDRM from 5995 Australia, which doesn`t convert to AM until 1400. So evidently RHC is running 6000 for only one hour in the mornings now, at 12-13. I see that B13 Aoki, now fully available at http://www.geocities.jp/binewsjp/ia/bib13.txt still has RHC on 6150 instead of 6000, despite having moved belatedly months ago to avoid Australia, as I reported immediately. 17580, 15340, 13780, 11860, 11760, 11750, 11690, Sat Nov 9 at 1533 music show from RHC sounds like favorite, `Cancionero Iberoamericano`, but missed opening. I want to check their program schedule, even if outdated, but can`t reach it via http://www.radiohc.cu We do get very different results using Firefox and IE. On Firefox there are linx to INTERESANTES pages, like frecuencias, programacion, but they lead to blank pages. On IE, there`s a lot more to be seen on the primary language pages, but the links don`t show up at all within the black bar just below the title. What a mess, just like their SW transmissions. 17720, Nov 9 at 2104, what`s become of RHC`s frequency to Europe? Not checked before 2100 when it was trilingual for a sesquihour, but yesterday it stayed on past 2104 with dead air, traces of French. No propagation problem now, as the hybrid numbers/digital transmitter is VG, blasting in on 17480 with carrier, then YL numbers and bursts, in fact the SSOB, virtually the OSOB. Surely 17720 will be back on after 2200 at new 22-24 UT timing? NO, it isn`t. Hunting around for a replacement, none found on 17 or lower bands, 15 or 13 MHz. Only regular frequencies: at 2217 in Spanish, 11840, an echo apart from 9810 & 9710. 11880 in English. 6060, 6100, 9810, 11760, 11840, Nov 10 at 0054, RHC Spanish music fill hour is playing the song in English ``Tie a Yellow Ribbon``, which they probably view as critical of Yanqui imperialist foreign policy. 6100 modulation is distorted; and 6060 has heavy CCI, as also on it at this time are: Iran, Sichuan, Brasil, Argentina: could not match it to 15345v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11860, RHC, 10/11 2244 UT. Hombre habla sobre Sudamérica en inglés con SINPO: 44444 (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, hilo largo de 25 metros, Sector sur de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) [The one date it was on 11860 by mistake instead of 11880, as below]: 17720, Nov 10 at 2026, RHC is back on this frequency today which was missing yesterday, now with music, 2033 recheck in Arabic. 2059 it`s dead air already, and turned off at 2102. Today there is no numbers transmitter on 17480, which may have needed the same unit yesterday. 17720 must have come back on circa 2200, as at 2227 it`s running in Spanish, but only poor-fair strength now, and // 11840, 9810 and 9710 (but no 15230 now or lately). 11840 has good strength, but suppressed and distorted modulation, as often the case lately. And it`s still like that at recheck 0207 UT Nov 11. Checking others after 2200: 11880 is OFF, at 2215, which had been the English-to-Africa for the past week at 22-23, ex 23-24. But there is a strong dead carrier with lite whine on 11860, and that comes to life at 2217 with a bit of Spanish, then cut to English amid DXers Unlimited. Arnie has nothing at all to say about RHC schedule changes until he`s finished at 2225. So has English deliberately moved from 11880 to 11860, or is this just another mistake, as 11860 is already in use at other times? No visible reason to change it. In fact there is good reason not to change to 11860, as at 2240 I hear some CCI, which per HFCC would be VOA English via THAILAND, UT Sun-Thu only. 15370, Sunday Nov 10 at 2226, open carrier; 2229 RHC IS and theme, opening Esperanto a bit early, with theme song, schedule still claiming to be Sundays at 07 on 6010, 15 on 11760, 2230 on 15370. The 15 should have shifted to 16, but unconfirmed yet; the 07 would normally be tacked on to one of the English frequencies just finished, which no longer includes 6010, so really on 6000, or maybe 6060? 9580, Nov 11 at 0203, CRI Chinese relay with very heavy wobble on the carrier and modulation, while // 9570 via ALBANIA is steady. Two+ weeks after B-13 officially began, and one+ week after DST ended in areas under Yankee influence, RHC characteristically begins adjusting its frequencies, having refused to cooperate with most other countries in advance HFCC planning. Observations November 11: 17720 is now gone, nothing at 2033 Nov 11; had been for Europe at 1930-2100, and sporadically after 2200 in Spanish. 13680 is the replacement for 17720, in Arabic at 2033 Nov 11, news about Cuba. I figured it would drop to the 13 MHz band like most winters. 13680 is an old RHC frequency revived, once used in the mornings, but not at all in A-13. So this should apply to 1930 French, 2000 Portuguese, 2030 Arabic --- and 22-24 Spanish? Not exactly --- 13680 is off at 2102 check, and still off at 2252. See below. 11880 is in French at 2109 Nov 11, as previously, except yesterday when 11860 was employed instead, also for English after 2200. Recheck 2240, yes also back on 11880 today in English. 11860 evidently was a mistake. 15370 is still the French frequency (except Esperanto Sundays) at 2230, confirmed at 2252 Nov 11, only fair. Where`s the European broadcast in Spanish at 22-24, ex-17720? At 2252 I find Spanish on 11840, still suppressed modulation, 9810, 9710 and 5040. Nothing on the 17 MHz band. 13860! At 2302 Nov 11, VG signal, opening ``última hora`` de la `Revista Iberoamericana`, i.e. second hour, so may have started at 2200 without my noticing. Gives schedule as 5-7 pm Cuban standard time = 22-24 UT, on *13680*, 13740, 11840, 9710, 9810, 5040 in typical Soviet-style disorder. So 13860 must be *today`s wrong frequency*, mis-punch for 13680 where we may expect to hear it subsequently. 13740, however, is vacant at 2302, but the others are confirmed. 15230, open carrier at 2252; 2259 IS and opening French, undermodulated. 13780 and 6000, Nov 12 at 0038 are carrying the separate `Mesa Redonda` TV soundtrack, which is a sporadic, non-daily service. VG signal on 13780, and neither // to 11840. 13860 is off by now. 6070, Nov 12 at 0049 past 0104, RHC Spanish mainstream on NEW FREQUENCY, left vacant by CFRX. Use it or lose it! As I informed the ODXA ASAP. (Altho IIRC vaguely, in a previous season RHC showed up on 6070 despite CFRX.) This is much stronger than and an echo apart from // 6060. 6070 apparently replaces 6100, and it`s still on at 0418. What was wrong with 6100? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6000, Nov 12 at 1316, RHC is still on here, squeezed between Australia 5990-6000 QRDRM, and N Korean jamming noise quite like DRM, centered on 6003. Couldn`t happen to a nicer station. Continues to weaken during this hour well post-sunrise. RHC finally issued new B-13 schedule effective Nov 11; I had already discovered most of it by monitoring Nov 11 as in previous report. 6000 is scheduled from 12 to 14. Full sked has been posted to the DXLD yg (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And here: RADIO HABANA CUBA HORARIOS, BANDAS Y FRECUENCIAS EN VARIOS IDIOMAS PERIODO DEL 11 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2013 AL 31 DE MARZO DE 2014 ZONAS GEOGRÁFICAS FRECUENCIAS HORARIOS - UT TRANSMISIONES EN IDIOMA INGLÉS (ENGLISH) Norte, Centro y Sudamérica 6125 - 0500-0700 América Central 11760 - 2000-2100 New York 6060 - 0500-0700 San Francisco 6000 - 0500-0700 Chicago 6165 - 0100-0700 Washington 6000 - 0100-0500 Banda Tropical 5040 - 2400-0100 0600-0700 Africa 11880 - 2200-2300 TRANSMISIONES EN IDIOMA FRANCÉS (FRANÇAIS) Europa 13680 - 1930-2000 América Central 11760 - 2100-2130 Sudamérica 15370 - 2230-2300 [exc. Sun, Esperanto!] Africa 11880 - 2100-2130 Banda Tropical 5040 - 0130-0200 TRANSMISIONES EN IDIOMA PORTUGUÉS Río de Janeiro 15370 - 2330-2400 Buenos Aires 15230 - 2300-2400 Africa 11880 - 2130-2200 Europa 13680 - 2000-2030 TRANSMISIONES EN IDIOMA ÁRABE Europa 13680 - 2030-2100 TRANSMISIONES EN IDIOMA ESPERANTO [Sundays only!] San Francisco 6000 - 0700-0730 Norte, Centro y Sudamérica 11760 - 1600-1630 Sudamérica 15370 - 2230-2300 TRANSMISIONES EN IDIOMA CREOLE Buenos Aires 15370 - 2300-2330 Banda Tropical 5040 - 0100-0130 TRANSMISIONES EN IDIOMA QUECHUA Buenos Aires 15370 - 0000-0030 RADIO HABANA CUBA HORARIOS, BANDAS Y FRECUENCIAS EN ESPAÑOL PERIODO DEL 11 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2013 AL 31 DE MARZO DE 2014 Norte, Centro y Sudamérica 6000 - 1200-1400 11760 - 1200-1600 0000-0500 Nueva York 6060 - 0000-0500 9550 - 1200-1400 11860 - 1200-1600 San Francisco 13780 - 1400-1600 Chicago 9850 - 1200-1400 15340 - 1400-1600 América Central 9540 - 1200-1600 9810 - 2200-0600 11750 - 1400-1600 Antillas 6070 - 0000-0600 9710 - 2200-2400 11690 - 1200-1600 Río de Janeiro 11670 - 0000-0500 17730 - 1200-1600 Buenos Aires 15230 - 1200-1600 0000-0600 17580 - 1200-1600 13740 - 2200-0500 Chile 11840 - 0000-0600 Europa 13680 - 2200-2400 BANDA TROPICAL Cuba 5040 - 2200-2400 Caribe Sur de Estados Unidos México 0200-0600 América Central Norte de Sudamérica MESA REDONDA [irregular, Usually UT Tue-Sat] Washington 6000 - 0000-0100 Chicago 13780 - 0000-0100 (from xls via Alan Pennington, BDXC-UK yg; reformatted to text with clutter removed and annotated by gh for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15230, RHC, 13/11 0535 UT. Noticias acerca de Chile y de las elecciones presidenciales del día domingo 17 de noviembre como un informe ampliado. Señal SINPO: 55454 // 11840 con SINPO: 55555 // 9810 con SINPO: 33333 // 6100 ¿fuera del aire? // 5040 ¿Inglés o Español? No es posible identificar por el ruido marcado en frecuencia. (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 25 metros, QTH: Sector sur de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 15230, Nov 13 at 1355-1358 as I tune across RHC, Arnie Coro is doing a non-DX spot within the morning magazine in Spanish, talking about their SW frequencies: still on 11760 where RHC has been since it started with 1 kW as ``Onda Corta Experimental Cubana`` in 1961. New in the evening to the Caribe is 6070, omni-direxional, right next to 6060 direxional to N America. Also he says 5040 works very well in the evenings with no QRM. 11840, Nov 14 at 1342, today`s RHC frequency screwup as Arnie is talking about the typhoon, weaker than // 11860; also on 11760 and 11690. Not sure what frequency is missing as a result; 11840 is supposed to run only at 00-06 UT for Chile (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Unknown Spanish broadcast station 29130 For the past few days I have heard this Spanish speaking broadcast station on 29130, which is clearly not in the broadcast but amateur band. I have not heard a station ID but have heard mentions of news, and Cuba. Possible it is a wayward Cuban station?? (Ray, W5XE, wpe4avy-1958, Nov 11, SWL at qth.net via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DXLD) Aoki shows Havana on 9710 (x 3 = 29130) at 2100-2300 in Spanish. EiBi shows it at 2200-2400 (Dan Ferguson, ibid.) Thanks, Dan - the 2200-2300 time frame fits for the Cuban station on 29130 (Ray. W5XE, ibid.) ** CYPRUS. 29165, Akrotiri OTHR, 20 kHz BW, 40ms PRF from Cyprus. S9 +20dB in Maine (Mike Chace-Ortiz-USA, intruder alert Nov 7 via BC-DX Nov 8 via DXLD) 9297-9323, Nov 10 at 0105, low-pitched OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here in typical 25+ kHz bandwidth. Exactly same sound also heard at 0142 on 9918-9943, when the lower one has gone. 9322-9349, Nov 11 at 0205, heavy OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, really QRMing 9330 WBCQ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DENMARK. DINAMARCA, 242, Danmarks R, Kalundborg, 1101-1120*, 11/11, notícias; 25341. O tx está, portanto, novamente activo. --- 1 gravação anexa ---. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DENMARK. Danmarks Radio and its interval signal machine --- Dutch DXer Rudy van Dalen sent me a link to an interesting article about Danmarks Radio 1st Programme interval signal, and the machine used to produce it. It's a mechanical xylophone and seems quite a large and elaborate machine just to produce a 15-second melody, which has been in use since 1931. I wonder how easy it would be to change the tune? The article and accompanying 6-minute video are in Danish: http://www.dr.dk/P1/P1Nyt/Artikler/2011/08/23103100.htm (David Kernick, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. The Radio Norway interval signal -- best of all the shortwave broadcast interval signals in my opinion -- was also played on a similar machine much like a music box. The reason is that playing the IS over and over would soon wear out a phonograph record. This was back in the days before magnetic tape, and even tape had a limited lifespan. The Radio Norway IS is from Eivind Groven's Towards the Mountains symphony. Or from the folk song that informed that symphony. To hear a sample of the original, click on Andante quasi cantabile on this page: http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/BIS/BISCD1312 (Kim Elliott, Nov 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 4850, PBS Xinjiang seems to have returned again; first day here Nov 12; first heard at 1245 through 1400; started at below threshold level and very slowly improved to poor; 1332 to 1358 non-stop singing; at both 1300 & 1400 time pips; not able to make out language, but possibly their Kazakh service as heard in past years here. So is this replacing 6015? Am positive was not AIR Kohima! An unfortunate development, as I am expecting AIR Kohima to be on the air here with coverage of the major event of the year for them, the Hornbill Festival, which takes place in Nagaland from Dec 1 to 10. Website at http://www.hornbillfestival.com/ With PBS Xinjiang here, it will make for difficult reception of Kohima. As this year is AIR Kohima's Golden Jubilee, surely they will be broadcasting the festival via SW, as they have done in past years. BTW - The state of Nagaland was formally inaugurated on December 1, 1963, another important reason for Kohima being on the air Dec 1. https://app.box.com/s/gwp7o30yiwl24h5tsa1s contains a recording of a typical reception of AIR Kohima during the Hornbill Festival (2012 - "Festival of Festivals") (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Aoki new update - November 13, 2013, 0200 UT: [all 1234567] 3950 PBS Xinjiang 1205-1800 Chinese 100 ND Urumqi TKS ... b13 Nov. 12 3950 PBS Xinjiang 2310-0300 Chinese 100 ND Urumqi TKS ... b13(=7260) 4850 PBS Xinjiang 1155-1400 Kazakh 100 ND Urumqi TKS ... b13 Nov.12 4850 PBS Xinjiang (CNR8) 1400-1500 Kazakh 100 ND Urumqi TKS ... b13 4850 PBS Xinjiang 1500-1800 Kazakh 100 ND Urumqi TKS ... b13 4850 PBS Xinjiang 2340-0325 Kazakh 100 ND Urumqi TKS ... b13=7340 (via Ron Howard, ibid.) ** EAST TURKISTAN [and non]. 9420, Nov 9 at 0108, CRI English has strong signal but seems very undermodulated --- NO! It`s merely suppressed underneath an open carrier from GREECE; and // weaker but louder 9410 in the clear. HFCC shows both are via Kashgar at 308 and 174 degrees respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 4920, Radio Quito at 1145 in Spanish with two men with religious talk with mentions of "Jesus Christo" [sic] to 1150 and a man and woman with brief talk over music and into a man with talk with mentions of "Quito" - Poor Nov 5 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, ON, Alinco DX- 70, Drake SPR-4, inverted vee or delta loop, ODXA YRX via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DXLD) ?? That would be a rare and probably temporary reactivation for a day or two, but gone again by now. Unfortunately, Mark does not post his logs timely to his own club`s yg. Was it really below 4919- as usual? Lacking a definite ID, that would help to firm this up. But frequencies tend to be rounded off anyway in his column (gh, DXLD) ** EGYPT [and non]. 09/11, 9720, ERU, 0123 UT. Sólo se escucha la portadora abierta, además de la modulación de CNR-2 // 11760 con RHC con mucho QRN o QRM ¿Radio Cairo? // 12080 ¿Radio Australia o R. Cairo? Solamente una portadora con muy baja modulación // 13620 se escucha una portadora abierta con 3 voces distintas, dos de ellas son CNR-1 Jammer versus RFA 4 y la otra es Cairo que se escucha muy débilmente // (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, hilo largo de 25 metros, Sector sur de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 12080, Nov 14 at 0108, fair signal with open-carrier/dead-air --- must be Cairo! Yes, B-13 scheduled 0045-0200, 250 kW, 241 degrees from Abis in Spanish. No more Iran on 12080v since A-13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17870, R. Cairo, Nov 10 1243-1258, 35433, English, Talk and arabic music, ID at 1255 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD- 9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, Japan, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. GUINÉ EQUATORIAL, 5005, RNGE, Bata, 1921-1945, 08/11, dialecto local, texto, música pop' africana; 45433. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5005, Radio Nacional, Bata, now on air whit good signal, 1800, Oct 12 [sic: must mean Nov 12], male with Vernacular comments and African music. Good. Listened all days between 1800-2100, vernacular and Spanish program, some days weak, but today good signal. Enviado desde Smartphone BlackBerry (Manuel Mendez, Log in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, Radio Africa, 1601, Nov 6. On Nov 7 serious transmitter problems; tuned in at 1455 to hear preaching in English with good audio; 1503 suddenly had very garbled audio that quickly went to unintelligible; 1505 to tune out at 1522 mostly dead air - just open carrier, with a few unsuccessful attempt to bring back audio (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nov 8, checking 15190 to see if they corrected yesterday's transmitter problems. NO! At 1517 & 1532 only heard good strength open carrier with no trace of any audio (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Africa, 15190, Bata. Nov 8, 2013 Friday. 1710-1715. Open carrier only, very weak and with no audible modulation. Jo'burg sunset 1630 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Bill, After Radio Pilipinas went off the air at 1930*, again was hearing a decent open carrier on 15190 with no audio, from assume Radio Africa with tx problems. A waste of air time! (Ron Howard, Nov 8, ibid.) [non-log]. 15190, Radio Africa at 1608 on Nov 9. Nothing heard; no open carrier (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. I suspect that the 15190 kHz transmissions from Equatorial Guinea could be about to end. Note the mention of "Pan American Broadcasting's Radio Africa network" in the announcement of the Radio Miami International arrangement for the ex-WYFR facility and how the FCC already allocated 15190 to it (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Nov 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) That certainly looks related, but old WYFR used 15190 for a while to Brasil, oblivious of Equatorial Guinea and Rádio Inconfidência (gh, DXLD) Nov 11, Radio Africa has fixed their transmitter problems! Heard 1514 to 1548 with 15 minute segments of religious programming; 1533 "Fields of Faith" (?) with Niagara Falls, NY address; 1547 the same program repeated again; no local ID; poor to almost fair. Good audio! [and non] BTW - Radio Santec (IRRS via Tiganesti) [also 15190] https://app.box.com/s/kajk4a0fh4814c3ze2ym audio of Sunday (Nov 10) program; in English at 1511 to 1530 with double audio (echo); unique program about “animal cannibalism,” plants and animals are in constant contact with God, society is egomaniacs; off with Radio Santec German address and IRRS Italy address. 1530 into Swahili; not English as listed by Aoki (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15190, Nov 11 at 2020, poor signal with gospel huxter in English, and het on hi side from Brasil, so R. Africa is back after some transmitter problems. Still not up to snuff, at 2052 undermodulated, some hum, almost readable, no het. 15190, Nov 11 at 2256, open carrier with good signal past 2305. I did not notice this a few minutes before, but probably R. Africa. However, as Kai Ludwig points out, among the WYFR frequencies to become WRMI is 15190 on the 87-degree African beam at 20-23, and Jeff`s press release says one of their clients will be Pan American Broadcasting, so it looks like Okeechobee will replace the Bata transmitter for this service, and likely do a much more reliable job of it. (The other 87 degree regs are 21525 at 14-20, and with different CIRAFs, 9355 at 04-08) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15190, Radio Africa, 0630, Oct 12 [sic, must mean Nov 12], listened all days in the morning with religious English program. Good. Enviado desde Smartphone BlackBerry (Manuel Mendez, Log in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. 13810, V. of Oromo Liberation via Germany, Nov 06 *1700-1705, 25332-25221, Oromo, 1700 sign on with opening music, ID, Opening announce, Talk, No Jamming (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC- R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, Japan, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. 6205.4, R. Tanto [sic: Tango?] Italia, I, 2239-..., 08/11, italiano/castelhano/inglês, música e canções argentinas; 45433. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. RADIO WAVES INTERNATION 30TH BIRTHDAY ON THE AIRWAVES The complete & updated infos are available from our web-site at http://www.wrwi.fr Thanks a lot for your supports. Special QSL cards available 73's Good Dxs FFFR ! Your Country Music Station. http://www.wrwi.fr contact: Radio Waves International BP 130 92504 RUEIL Cedex (France) rwaves @ free.fr On the Air since 1983. The week end sounds on shortwaves Peter HILLS & Philippe "The terrible twins" (via Roberto Scaglione, Nov 9, shortwave yg via DXLD) Listening to Radio Waves International 30th birthday transmission on 5990 (2100-2300 UT). Their schedule says they are being relayed via Ulbroka [LATVIA]. I thought that closed down years ago. According to their schedule two more transmissions from there tomorrow (Nov 10) on 7210 from 0200-0400 and 11700 from 1330 to 1500 UT (although RWI adds that broadcast might be earlier). Their website is http://www.wrwi.fr SINPO 54444 via Twente SDR receiver (paulw63uk, 2238 UT Nov 9, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) The HFCC registrations, updated on Friday, have 100 kW registrations from Sitkunia [sic], Lithuania on 5990 2100-2300 Friday and Saturday, 7210 0200-0400 Saturday and Sunday. The 11700 frequency is registered at 1430-1630 Sunday (Mike Barraclough, Mov 10, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** EUROPE. PIRATE, 11700, R. Waves Int. via Ubroka [sic], Nov 10 1335- 1501*, 45444-35433, English, Music program, ID at 1335, etc, ID frequently, 1501 sign off. Thanks for information from NAKANAKA (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, Japan, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As of Nov 12 update they now say `LITUANIA`, not LATVIA or Ulbroka. Obviously mixed up with Sitkunai, the site in Lithuania. Hardly first time that Lat and Lith have been confused. When establishing these countries, they should have chosen different first letters, like Estonia! But can you remember their order, north to south? (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DXLD) Welcome to our 30th Birthday’s schedule on the airwaves during November 2013 Previous schedule (ed 04) update November 12th --- Reports already come from Canada, Spain, Poland, The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Norway. Date Channel time transmitter power location November 9th 48 or 41 mb Afternoon & Evening own TX 25w (France) November 9th 26mb 11401 khz Afternoon & Evening own TX 25w (France) November 10th 48 or 41 mb All day own TX 25w (France) November 10th 26mb 11401 khz All day own TX 25w (France) November 11th 48 or 41 mb Morning own TX 25w (France) November 11th 26mb 11401 khz Morning own TX 25w (France) Via Relay: November 9th 5990 khz 2100 2300 Relay 100 kW Lituania November 10th 7210 khz 0200 0400 Relay 100 kW Lituania November 10th 11700 khz 1330 1500 Relay 100 kW Lituania * perhaps 1 or 2 hours earlier ??? November 16th 48 or 41 mb Afternoon & Evening own TX 25w (France) November 16th 26 mb 11401 khz Afternoon & Evening own TX 25w (France) November 17th 48 or 41 mb Morning own TX 25w (France) November 17th 26 mb 11401 khz Morning own TX 25w (France) Via Relay: November 23rd 6140 khz 1300 1400 Relay 100 kW (France) November 24th 7300 khz 0000 0100 Relay 100 kW (Germany) November 24th 17540 khz 1330 1430 Relay 100 kW (Germany) November 30th 48 or 41 mb Afternoon & Evening own TX 25w (France) November 30th 26 mb 11401 khz Afternoon & Evening own TX 25w (France) (via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DXLD) Radio Waves International 30th birthday LITHUANIA, 5990: Listening to Radio Waves International 30th birthday transmission on 5990 kHz (2100-2300 UT). Their schedule says they are being relayed via Ulbroka. I thought that closed down years ago. According to their schedule two more transmissions from there tomorrow (Nov 10) on 7210 kHz from 0200-0400 UT and 11700 kHz from 1330-1500 UT (although RWI adds that broadcast might be earlier). Their website is SINPO 54444 via Twente SDR receiver (paulw63uk, BrDXC-UK ng Nov 10) The HFCC registrations, updated on Friday, have 100 kW registrations from Sitkunai, Lithuania on 5990 kHz at 2100-2300 Friday and Saturday, 7210 kHz at 0200-0400 UT Saturday and Sunday. The 11700 kHz frequency is registered at 1430-1630 UT Sunday (Mike Barraclough-UK, BrDXC-UK ng Nov 10) LITHUANIA R. Waves Intl on 7210 kHz. French pirate, R. Waves Intl, one of their special planned November "30 Year Birthday Party" broadcasts, 0200 UT Nov 10 on 7210 kHz via Ulbroka Latvia [sic, rather via Sitkunai, Lithuania transmitting site. Ulbroka ceased and dismantled/scrapped in autumn 2008 already, various broadcasts moved to Sitkunai-LTU or Rimavska Sobota-SLK instead on Christmas 2008, wb.] 100 kW, strong signal. Carrier on air at 0158 UT, program started 0159 UT, supposed to be on until 0400 UT. Full sked of planned broadcasts at IDs in English and other languages, pop mx. (Jerry Berg-MA-USA, DXplorer Nov 10) LITHUANIA Three photos of the radio station Sitkunai (Lithuania) from Rimantas Pleykis: (Dmitry Mezin-RUS, "open_dx", RUSdx Nov 10) ALL via (Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) ** FRANCE. Ciao a tutti. Anche a Rapallo, più o meno dalla settimana scorsa, mi sono accorto che su 1350 Radio Orient non c'era più. La sentivo anche di giorno. Istintivamente, anche ieri sera, ho monitorato pure i 1602 kHz e si sentono soltanto due SER (Ontynient più una che potrebbe essere Cartagena ma non ne sono certo) e, forse, della musica che potrebbe provenire - se non è spenta - da Radio Seagull. D'altronde, ma è solo un'opinione personale, se Radio Orient ha chiuso per ragioni economiche deve avere per forza disattivato anche i 1602 (Luca Botto Fiora, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, Nov 9, playdx yg via DXLD) [Re 13-45:] ``FRANCE [and non]. [Re 13-44:] Radio Orient 1350 kHz off air --- That'll be the end of Radio Orient. Not only will they lose their listenership in France, where digital radio is highly unlikely ever to take off, but they will also lose their North-African audience. OK, digital radio starts in December in Nice, Marseille and Paris. But do they figure people will rush to stores to buy new radios when there are lots of radio stations to choose from on the FM band? It's like R. Orient decided to commit suicide. In France NO ONE has ever heard about DAB and the likes. The upcoming launch of digital radio in 3 cities is bound to be the greatest flop in French radio history! Anyway that'll make yet another clear channel on the MW band (Rémy Friess, ibid.)`` I don't think that Radio Orient's leaving medium wave is like committing suicide. First of all, Radio Orient is a multi-platform service including FM in France and - Lebanon, which might suggest that they didn't look for an audience in North Africa anyway. One should also remember that the licencing of private medium wave stations was done in the hope that DRM would at some point take over and lead to a revival of the band. As we all know this did not happen (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, Nov 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: ``C. GHIBAUDO: 1350 kHz RADIO ORIENT IS CLOSED. Our contact friend in Nice report the 1350 kHz operated from Fontbonne has been closed down for economic problems!`` As a reminder: Towards the end of last year it had been reported that both 1350 and 1557 moved again to the Col de la Madone facility while the Fontbonne site closed altogether and was dismantled afterwards, as a result of the cessation of all shortwave activities. And the real Nice mediumwave site, to which both frequencies still had been attached, has been closed and shortly afterwards demolished already in 2003, cf. http://tvignaud.pagesperso-orange.fr/galerie/am/06nice.htm > The other frequency in Nimes 1602 kHz it seems is active?? This one: http://tvignaud.pagesperso-orange.fr/galerie/am/30nimes-les_capitelles.htm Reminds of various installations for the short-lived Megaradio money wash here in Germany, such as 1116 kHz which has been reactivated with a mere wire, mounted on the Geyer FM/TV tower. And this was even a 5 kW (but unsurprisingly a poorly working one). (Kai Ludwig, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. 3965, Issoudun, RFI, NOV 5 0042 - Listed at only 1 kW. Hard to believe, but about 50% copy with an English interview being translated into French earlier. Once over 13 dB SNR, almost 100% copy. (Walt Salmaniw, PEI DXpedition via DXLD) 7390, Nov 10 at 0630, RFI French has a fast rippling SAH from another stronger signal, open carrier? Albania doesn`t start 7390 until 0800. More likely a second transmitter at Issoudun: such TDF self-collision mixups have happened before. 15395, Nov 13 at 1436, fair signal in Farsi. Only thing in HFCC B-13 on 15395 is 1530-1630 RFI Issoudun in Pst, meaning Pashto? Ivo Ivanov just explained this in the Nov 9 issue of DX Re Mix News, which he has fortunately continued to publish rather than retiring: 1430-1500 15395 ISS 500 kW / 085 deg to WeAs Persian, not 1530 on same 1430-1500 17850 ISS 500 kW / 084 deg to WeAs Persian, wooden frequency 1430-1500 15360 ISS 500 kW / 085 deg to WeAs Persian, wooden frequency These are among several other Russian and Persian broadcasts from RFI which are appearing an hour earlier than planned, apparently confusion about standard vs summer time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Unscheduled transmission of Radio France Internationale on Nov. 6: 1330-1500 on 15530 ISS 500 kW / 080 deg to CeAs French with powerful signal (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX RE MIX NEWS #803 November 9, 2013, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I also heard this Nov 6 after 1400 (gh) 15530 28E,29S,30W ISS 500kW 80deg Russian F RFI TDF 11860 19,29,30 ISS 500kW 55deg Russian F RFI TDF [as registered] (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) Part of winter B-13 schedule of Radio France Internationale: 1300-1330 11860 ISS 500 kW / 055 deg to EaEu Russian, not 1400 same 1300-1330 15530 ISS 500 kW / 080 deg to CeAs Russian, not 1400 same 1430-1500 13690 ISS 500 kW / 084 deg to WeAs Persian, not 1530 same 1430-1500 15395 ISS 500 kW / 085 deg to WeAs Persian, not 1530 same 1430-1500 17850 ISS 500 kW / 084 deg to WeAs Persian, wooden frequency 1430-1500 15360 ISS 500 kW / 085 deg to WeAs Persian, wooden frequency 1500-1530 11935 ISS 500 kW / 055 deg to EaEu Russian, not 1600 11670 1500-1530 13750 ISS 500 kW / 080 deg to CeAs Russian, not 1600 13650 1700-1800 11955 ISS 500 kW / 085 deg to WeAs Persian, as scheduled 1800-1900 5890 ISS 500 kW / 055 deg to EaEu Russian. not 1900 5915 1800-1900 9465 ISS 500 kW / 080 deg to CeAs Russian. not 1900 9805 Due to standard time against UT, meaning in Russia and Iran (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** GERMANY. Local tribute to the Muehlacker station --- On the occasion of the dismantling of another mast of the former Muehlacker medium wave station, a local newspaper asked its readership to send in photos of the mast. A selection of the pictures along with a short SWR video (unrelated to the actual dismantling) can be found at http://muehlacker-tagblatt.de/dossiers/goodbye-kleiner-sender/ (Dr. Hansjoerg Biener, Nov 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Radio Andernach, DRM shortwave schedule to German forces in NE/ME/Indian Ocean, NE Horn of Africa area. 1200-1330 UT 21590 kHz, 2200-2330 UT 9620 kHz. Via M&B Nauen site, probably in 60 to 100 kW of power range (Wolfgang Büschel, Nov 4, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 8 via DXLD) What should be noted: Legally this is no broadcasting, thus the audio signal is encrypted. The legal status is the same than for the satellite channels of the press office of the federal government (Bundespresseamt) which are encrypted as well, with Media Broadcast handling the decoder stuff (Kai Ludwig, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Winter B-13 of Radio Andernach in DRM mode: 1130-1330 on 21590 NAU 100 kW / 122 deg to SEEu German 2130-2330 on 9620*NAU 100 kW / 122 deg to SEEu German * co-ch till 2200 VOA in Bambara Mon-Fri and REE in Spanish from 2300 (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, DX Re Mix News Nov 11 via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Re: ``5975, RFE/Radio Liberty, at 0311 UT and still going at 0352 UT on Oct 28. Non-stop loop in English "Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty, Praha," along with beeps; signal improving. [...] 5975 0300-0400 29SE NAU 250 65 0 216 daily Adygey D IBB (Glenn Hauser, ibid.)`` ``Already asked MBR Cologne headquarter staff, to trace reason for this wrong endless Prague feed outlet to MBR Nauen transmitting site. Maybe N_S_A set the wrong espionage feed line to Angela Merkel PM? 73 (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 3)`` Provided that it was no failure already within RFE/RL: Reason is that the satellite receiver at Nauen was set to the wrong piece from the mess shown at http://de.kingofsat.net/tp.php?tp=1157 where it should be noted how many of these channels have two audio IDs: These ones are not stereo but contain two independent mono feeds instead, so the number of channels is even greater. And if the wrong channel has been specified to them the Nauen staff has hardly any chance to sort it out: How should one find certain programming in a hardly identifiable language in such a big bunch? Reminds me of a case from the last decade: A transmission provider that belongs to an armaments trust fed wrong audio to a third-party transmitter operator, in particular TV audio from Israel instead of the scheduled Voice of Vietnam. Attempts to alarm their customer, specifically its control room (of course at this time still the one in a building that is no longer a radio house anymore) remained futile for weeks if I recall correct (Kai Ludwig, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 15235, Nov 7 at 1403, S Asian song, with gospel lilt, much better than adjacent 15230 Cuba. HFCC shows Islamabad, Pakistan at 1330-1530, surely imaginary, and MBR at 1330-1530, 250 kW, 85 degrees from Nauen. But what? For that, consult Aoki: at 1400-1415 Thursdays (and Fridays), it`s Athmeeya Yatra Radio (Gospel for Asia) in Kar, presumably meaning the Burma minority language Karen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. 12070, Nov 8 at 2118, VG signal from Deutsche Welle in English, via RWANDA, of course. This 21-22 broadcast aims 295 degrees from Kigali, close enough to USward; earlier 12070 English at 1900-1930 & 2000-2057 is at 210 degrees, further southward. This may well be our best bet for DW, but it`s marred by continuous lite squealing, the pitch varying depending on the modulation, but becoming steady during very brief pauses, which proves it`s coming out of the same transmitter: DW need to swap out some ailing modulator cards. 11800, Nov 11 at 2103, DW news in English via RWANDA, where else? good signal, but weaker than // 12070. OTOH, 11800 is not squealing. 11800 is non-direxional, vs 295 degrees on 12070, which explains the disparity (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. POLICE CLEARING ERT BROADCAST CENTER? On its 0500 news Thursday November 7, BBCWS is reporting that Greek police have been sent into the (former) ERT studios to remove the fired employees that have been operating the rogue service the past few months. A quick check at 0505 has a good signal from ERT with music on 9420, but not heard on the other usual frequencies. What's left of ERT might be gone later today (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RIOT POLICE LAUNCH EARLY MORNING RAID ON OCCUPIED GREEK BROADCASTER Euronews 7 November 2013 Greek riot police have raided the headquarters of ERT, the occupied public broadcaster which was officially closed by the government in June. The police operation began at around 4am local time, when witnesses said six riot police vans stationed themselves outside the entrance. Social media accounts claim the sacked employees who have continued to operate via internet and satellite were given a matter of minutes to vacate the building. ERT’s headquarters have been the site of numerous protests in recent months, not just against the shutdown of the broadcast company, but also against the government and its austerity policies. http://www.euronews.com/2013/11/07/riot-police-launch-early-morning-raid-on-occupied-greek-broadcaster/ (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DXLD) Story is trending on Twitter. Reports of dramatic broadcast in Greek on 9420 kHz (Mike Terry, 0740 UT Nov 7, ibid.) http://www.eurovisionary.com/eurovision-news/greek-police-raids-headquarters-former-state-broadcaster-ert Posted 7 November, 2013 - 19:38 by Theo Vatmanidis ERT_Novermber 2013 police operation © real.gr At 04:15 am this morning, riot police raided the ERT building in Athens. Since the closure of the former state broadcaster in June, sacked ERT employees had defiantly carried on broadcasting from the premises. Greek Eurovision participation still not secured. During its long history as the Greek state broadcaster, the Elliniki Radiofonia Tileorasi (literally Hellenic Radio-Television) had been a national institution. Apart from being the official broadcaster of the 2004 Olympic Games, ERT also hosted the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest in Athens. In June, citing budget management issues, the Greek government decided to shut down the company and replace it with a sanitized smaller broadcaster. The shock closure of ERT resulted in over 2,500 employees being made redundant and heavy criticism for the government. There has been an interim broadcaster, Dimosia Tileorasi (Public Television), put in place until ERT’s proper replacement, NERIT (New Hellenic Radio Internet and Television S.A.), is launched. Indeed, it has been argued that repossessing the ERT headquarters was vital in order to make NERIT operationally viable. It is not known when NERIT will go on air; its launching appears to be crucial for a possible Greek participation in the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest to be considered by the EBU (via Zacharias Liangas, DXLD) GREEK POLICE OUST WORKERS OCCUPYING HEADQUARTERS OF DEFUNCT STATE BROADCASTER Posted: November 7, 2013 | Author: SOZ | Filed under: Uncategorized By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press November 07 http://greekleftreview.wordpress.com/2013/11/07/greek-police-oust-workers-occupying-headquarters-of-defunct-state-broadcaster/ ATHENS, Greece — In a pre-dawn swoop Thursday, Greek riot police ended a nearly five-month protest by sacked workers broadcasting from what was once the headquarters of the defunct ERT state broadcaster, removing a few dozen people occupying the complex. Police said four people were briefly detained during the operation in the northern Athens suburb of Agia Paraskevi. About 50 people were removed from the building, which will be handed over to ERT’s successor that is now broadcasting from cramped studios in another part of Athens. Among the detainees was radio journalist Nikos Tsimbidas, who was broadcasting live as police entered the studio. “Believe me, it’s a shocking experience to be on the mic with two platoons of riot police surrounding the live broadcasting booth,” he said on air. “We are being removed, I’ve just been informed that it appears orders have been given for me to stop talking.” The evacuation was peaceful, although police later used tear gas to push back a crowd of about 200 who turned up outside the complex to support the former ERT workers. The main opposition Syriza radical left coalition protested the “illegal” police operation, with several Syriza lawmakers joining protesters outside the building. PHOTO: Parliament Member of Syriza, main opposition party Nikos Voutsis scuffles with police as he tries to pass from a block near ERT's headquarters in the northern Athens suburb of Agia Paraskevi, Greece early Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013. Greek police said they have removed the remaining former workers from what used to be the headquarters of the now-defunct ERT state broadcaster. The building had been occupied by the protesting ex- employees for the past five months. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) “The government … has created a black page in the history of state television and democracy in our country,” a party statement said. Government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou said the evacuation was to “restore the rule of law.” The complex had been occupied by the protesting ex-employees since June 11, when Greece’s conservative-led government abruptly closed ERT and fired all 2,700 staff, citing the need to cut costs due to the country’s severe financial crisis. They continued to produce unauthorized broadcasts online, including airing news reports and documentaries. These ended Thursday, although regional former ERT branches were still broadcasting their own unauthorized programs. “The broadcasting complex had been illegally occupied, and that resulted in daily financial losses for the Greek state,” Kedikoglou said. “The (police) intervention was carried out in the presence of a prosecutor.” ERT’s abrupt closure triggered a political crisis that prompted a junior left-wing ally to walk out of the governing coalition, amid daily protests in Greece and international condemnation. The former workers had turned down repeated government calls to leave the ERT headquarters so that full-scale state broadcasts can resume from the complex. However, the bulk of ERT’s journalists and many other staff, despite initial vows to fight the broadcaster’s closure, were eventually rehired by DT, ERT’s successor. Former ERT staff have called for a protest near the Agia Paraskevi building later Thursday (via Zacharias Liangas, DXLD) Padlock ERT, shrinking in Neritan http://www.typologies.gr A few hours after the evacuation of Radiomegarou ERT, the Deputy Public Broadcasting, Pantelis Kapsis, heralds, speaking at Step FM, shrinking the future of public broadcasting speaking "for this moment for two channels" and radio stations "that will not be all "! The former director of the "New" and "Step" told George Papachristou and Claus Chian, he claimed, he was informed about the intervention of riot by the Minister of Citizen Protection, although it was he who publicly called for the intervention Radiomegaro. Interview k. Kapsi is as follows: google translation http://translate.google.gr/translate?sl=el&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=el&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdimosiografoiert.blogspot.gr%2F2013%2F11%2Fblog-post_897.html (via Zacharias Liangas, DXLD) 9420, Nov 7 at 0703, animated Greek talk, fair with deep fades. Sure wish I understood Greek, as press reports about now that riot police raided ERT HQ building to expel the occupiers, but a rather chaotic situation. Here`s one story about it via Mike Terry: http://www.euronews.com/2013/11/07/riot-police-launch-early-morning-raid-on-occupied-greek-broadcaster/ So will we hear anything further on the Avlis SW frequencies? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tarmo Tanilsoo posted this on Facebook PCJ group about an hour ago: http://www.ertopen.com/ - Looks like police forgot to turn off the transmission. NET is broadcasting just empty chairs, and an open mic. So nobody is left there, but transmission is still on. ET3 is still broadcasting from Thessaloniki. As I write (0749) BBC Radio 4 is covering the story and interviewing an ERT journalist in the building who states they want to resume broadcasts. Police have control of the building but seem unaware of the journalist's presence there (Mike Terry, Nov 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) BBC Radio 4 reporting again at 0854. Unlikely the station will return to the air, the journalist may have been the only left one in the building (Mike, ibid.) Observed via the live streams on the Press Project website [thepressproject.gr] at 0900 UT 7 Nov: ERA 1st Programme [radio] and ERT Athens broadcasting an announcement on a loop, in Greek of course. ET3 [Thessaloniki TV] carrying coverage of these events in Athens, ERA 3rd Programme [radio] carrying normal classical music programming, ERA Thessaloniki radio carrying a studio discussion (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, 0917 UT, ibid.) Log: Ellinki Radiophonia Thessaloniki 1511.97 kHz, 1710 UT Hallo! Nach Räumung des Athener Funkhauses kommt jetzt um 1710 UT auf 1511.97 kHz (Chania) ein Programm von "Elliniki Radiophonia Thessaloniki". Ich vermute daß es sich hierbei nach wie vor um ein "Rebellen"-Programm handelt. 73, (Patrick Robic, Austria, Diese Mail wurde ueber die A-DX Mailing-Liste gesendet, via Kai Ludwig, dxldyg via DXLD) Thessaloniki Program on shortwave --- The Chalkis-Avlida shortwave site transmits on 9420 kHz now a program from Thessaloniki, which, besides the rather obvious references to the location, identifies as "ERT 3", so is clearly not the Kapsis operation. The enclosed message suggests that this program now goes out via the 1512 kHz Chania transmitter, too. See http://www.thegreekradio.com/node/3886 and the related recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=176EuJdhZNE ... and yes, presumably this went out on 9420 kHz and possible parallels, too (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7450 has been taken by IRIB [IRAN], obviously assuming that no station in Europe will use this frequency anymore. Tonight around 1930 I heard here only some other station which I did not bother to identify once it was obvious that the programming is not in Greek, but it must have been IRIB with listed Italian 1920-1950, and they're supposed to be on this frequency 2020-2120 in Spanish, too. It's possible that no signal from the Chalkis-Avlida transmitters went out on 7450 at 1930, but now, shortly after 2200, it does, // 9420 and certainly still with programming from Thessaloniki as clearly identified around 1930. Guess what: IRIB is now also scheduled for 9420, for Europe as well, with Albanian 1820-1920. And in the Ukraine the shortwave zombie still goes around, with a 9420 registration for the Western Siberia service NRKU has terminated just like all other shortwave transmissions. Here's audio of the last minutes from Athens: http://soundcloud.com/openertnow/ekpompi_ert A summary of today's events [with several video linx]: http://www.thepressproject.net/article/50464/Police-raid-occupied-former-public-broadcasters-HQ And an interesting judgement: http://www.thepressproject.net/article/50544/Analysis-What-lurks-beneath-the-closure-of-ERT (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Nov 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz the last one: THE REAL REASONS BEHIND THE ERT SHUTDOWN, THE 300 MILLION THE STATE LOST, AND WHO BENEFITS FROM IT. The eviction of the remaining staff from former public television’s (ERT) building last night in Athens was a bitter showdown of an unequal brinkmanship. The picture of handcuffs used as a padlock at building’s gate has already become one of historical value. It is a picture from the future of Europe. But there’s a story behind the picture: Back on June 11th,with no prior notice, the Greek government shut down ERT, suggesting that urgent austerity reforms have been the reason for its decision. But Nikos Mihalitsis, former director of the technical department of ERT, has analyzed thoroughly that the public broadcaster’s shutdown occurred for other reasons. “One is that the government was going to apply, like it finally did, similar measures to other public organizations and shut down schools and hospitals. So it needed a trial case to measure reaction” and second and most important that private television owners in cooperation with politicians in power are trying to control the future TV market and as a result what information reaches to the public. “The time of the closure is not accidental. ERT was shut down right before the beginning of a tender [which has eventually been postponed for the end of 2014, something that might to an extent be connected to the prolonged standoff with ERT ex-workers] for the establishment of HD networks throughout the country. There are terms in this tender that clearly point to a Greek company that represents the interests of five private TV entrepreneurs, and make sure that no international player would consider bringing an offer” said Mihalitsis. In Europe, and in most of the world, TV producers are prohibited from owning the distribution networks themselves, as a safeguard of independent broadcasting. Greek law, however, predicts that a TV producer could own a minimum percentage in such a company. This has created leeway for the afforementioned five to create a consortium and claim the tender for HD infrastructure. The consortium (Digea) has already won a tender to establish a smaller HD network covering only key points in Greece. Absence of ERT means not only lack of a privileged public entity that would affect how HD broadcasting networks are distributed for the benefit of the public but also that a consortium of private actors, in coordination with its political partners, will be able to attempt to control anything broadcasted in the country. Contrary to benefiting the public by saving it from an ineffective public organization burdened of personnel appointed as a political clientele, which has been partly true, the closure has been estimated to reach over 300 million in losses of rights and compensations for incomplete projects. The importance of this case was demonstrated by the anxiety of the Ministry of Finance, to which all ERT’s property belongs after its closure, to silence ERT workers that stayed in the premises and kept broadcasting since the 11th of June. Something it failed to do until last night. While criticism regarding pulling the plug of a public TV overnight started pouring in throughout Europe on June 12th, the European Broadcasters Union (EBU) stepped in and provided a sattelite uplink in order to keep it going. On June 14th its president Jean Paul Fillipot flew to Athens, to warn that the move constitutes an act against democracy, and met with government officials asking them to backtrack on their decision. EBU Head of Institutional Relations Giacomo Mazzone told me in an email exchange at the time that EBU’s intervention was a committed one “because EBU is convinced that public service broadcasting is a primary right of the European citizens and nobody cannot prevented to access such service even for a single day”. According to Panos Haritos, former ERT’s correspondent in the Middle East based in Jerusalem, a day after EBU’s visit to Athens the Minister of Finance asked from the Greek ambassador in Israel to contact the satellite provider company RRSAT and request ERT off its satellites, through which EBU transmitted its uplink. “The Israeli company accepted the request after the Greek side threatened to move legally against it” Haritos said. Minister of Finance Giannis Stournaras had also threatened to take legal action against whoever reproduced signal with ERT’s brand while workers of ERT remained in the HQ of ERT and kept broadcasting on a daily. EBU maintained ERT's TV and radio frequencies via a live stream on its website. EBU interrupted ERT’s streaming on August 20th after the Greek government's interim “Public Television” (DT), for which it hired a couple of hundred of ERT personnel and transferred its signal and rights, launched it first news bulletin. Some ERT workers stayed in the old headquarters and went on streaming online (with the help of ThePressProject). Initially DT broadcasting was made possible from private studios linked to some of the biggest private stake holders in Greek television. The methods employed in eliminating ERT have caused severe political as well as legal criticism and appear to be full of irregularities. For one, the closure has circumvented the parliament and was implemented through a ministerial decree issued jointly by the Minister of Finance and Deputy PM Simos Kedikoglou, ratified only by some of the ministers. Second, according to Mazzone “some strange movements from the portfolio of rights of ERT on sport contracts to some commercial televisions occurred without any transparency and accountable decision”. Finally the ex CEO, and then appointed trustee of ERT, responsible for the broadcaster’s liquidation, Gikas Manalis has sent letters to all workers informing them they are fired since 11th of June. The letters were mailed unsigned and unstamped, and have been characterized as bearing no legal substance from expert constitutional lawyers. In June the irregularities of the handling of ERT’s case had thrown PM Samaras government into a temporary existential crisis. The PM ignored an order by the Council of State to immediately restore public broadcasting. The government interpreted this decision in accordance with its actions and refused to open ERT, causing a cabinet reshuffling after the third partner of the coalition government, DIMAR, walked off. The new cabinet included a deputy Minister for ERT’s renewal who entered negotiations with workers regarding the future of the organization and the building, failing to create any consensus over the issue. The closure of ERT by the government of New Democracy and PASOK underlines the nature of the governance with which the country was led through a severe austerity that has lasted already four years. Now based almost entirely on televised manipulation of public opinion, this is a government that takes down yet another opposition voice. Meanwhile it accuses everyone that talks against it of trying to obstruct the process of seeing the country out of this crisis, a moment supposedly close. Meanwhile, the country’s creditors that are in Athens these days are preparing another bitter pill of austerity. Apostolis Fotiadis (via DXLD) ERA Thessaloniki has been audible on 9420 kHz this evening in Europe. (Mike Terry, 2342 UT Nov 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Observed (via Global Tuners Rimini receiver) with good reception on 7450 kHz at 2350 UT on 7 Nov, transmitter going off abruptly at 2358 then appearing on 7475 kHz at 0004. Programming was an all-female studio chat interspersed with music. "Tsopanakos Imouna" (i.e. the long-standing ERA/Voice of Greece IS) at 0005 followed by "Edisis" (news). 9420 kHz was heard in parallel and with fair reception throughout this period, and both SW frequencies were 15 seconds behind the web stream (thepressproject.gr). (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, 0019 UT Nov 8, ibid.) I've been listening to 9420 for the past 1/2 hour. No talk, and lots of dead air. Otherwise all music. Also very strong, and even more so than 7475 here in Eastern Canada. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, PEI, 0049 UT Nov 8, ibid.) 9420 also very strong and clear here, just automation playout of (very nice) music. 7475 also audible but poor strength and fading 73 (Tony Molloy, Winter Hill, NW UK IO83ro, CCW SDR 4+ and CCW HF Active Antenna 0103 UT Nov 8, ibid.) Both 9420 & 7475 putting very good signals into Southeastern Massachusetts at 0145. Music only (Stephen Wood, Harwich, Mass., ibid.) ‘THE VOICE OF GREEK RADIO FALLS SILENT’ http://www.thenation.com/blog/177049/voice-greek-radio-falls-silent Greek riot police block the main entrance of the former state broadcaster ERT in Athens. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) “Even words lose their meanings,” says the disembodied voice. It’s speaking to fill the space before the silence, to be present. “Are these your orders? Yes, those are my things….Somewhere here we close, dear listeners. The voice of Greek radio falls silent. Good luck to everyone. We’ll find each other, we’ll meet again. These microphones are shutting down. Deep soul.” Early this morning riot police broke into the Athens headquarters of ERT, Greek Radio and Television, which was officially closed by ministerial decree on June 11 but whose journalists and technicians have continued to broadcast over the Internet. After dispersing protesters outside with teargas, armoured police cleared the building room by room. Union representative Nikos Tsimpidas was last at the microphone, calling for a “magnificent demonstration, not just for ERT, not for our jobs, but for democracy itself, against…this virulent repression, this rewind through decades, for all the things we should have stood up for but couldn’t…” Even words lose their meanings. Increasingly, a mark of the Greek crisis (not so much a crisis now as a condition) is the fragmenting of perceived reality, along with a desperate struggle to control the story of what’s happening. I imagine it’s always like this with authoritarian regimes — for Greece is clearly now an authoritarian regime masquerading as a democracy — but I’ve never seen it from close up before. We’re living (as well as everything else) a war of words, a propaganda campaign designed to drown out dissenting voices — even moderate ones. Questions about whether ERT was wasteful, or padded with cronies, or captured by special interests — questions that might have been addressed in a functioning democracy — became irrelevant the day the broadcaster was shut down by fiat. This morning the other shoe dropped. The image is the message: platoons of armoured representatives of the state evicting a few dozen journalists and locking the doors with handcuffs. As always in Greece, the message is two-faced, one visage for foreign consumption, the other for domestic. What it’s supposed to say to representatives of the Troika who are, once again, in Athens (if they’re stupid enough to buy it, or diplomats enough to pretend they have) is that everything’s under control: we’re meeting our obligations, turning around the economy, cracking down on lawlessness, breaking the unions. (The original shutdown of ERT was ostensibly designed to meet the Troika’s demand for public sector lay-offs.) The message to Greeks is this: You may see a government that’s scrambling to appease its creditors without upsetting its cronies, that’s lost control of the streets and its own half-tamed heavies, that has no idea how to get out of the maze; you may be jobless, hungry, disoriented and lost, looking ahead at a winter without heat or hope; you may think some kind of resistance is still possible. But the evidence of your senses is false, or at least irrelevant. Look! We’re installling free WiFi all across the country! Greece is a success story! And if you won’t line up behind our version of reality, we have the power to persuade you. Against the voice of a man in a room with a microphone, we play helmeted troops with teargas and batons. Of course, people won’t be silenced, especially not now. (A few days ago, a bunch of Dogberries from the Greek police turned up at Radiobubble, a citizen radio station run out of a café in Athens, and threatened to prosecute because people were “talking too loudly” in the street outside. Perhaps they had read about it in The New York Times.) But (let them eat WiFi notwithstanding) most Greeks get their news from private television stations owned by politically well- connected oligarchs—which were given control of the digital airwaves by a vote in parliament hours before this morning’s raid on ERT. And the cacophony of unsourced hysteria and conspiracy theories that has long filled much of the Greek media, across the political spectrum, doesn’t help the quest for a coherent, usable description of what’s happening. The moment when stories fragment and words lose their meanings is also one of possibility, when different futures and arrangements might emerge. The nexus of oligarchs, financial interests and politicians ruling Greece (in symbiotic struggle with its creditors) now seems determined at all costs to close that down. The sense of repression is palpable; the scary thing is how quickly you get used to it. Two weeks ago I went out to dinner with friends in Athens. As we left the taverna—almost empty on a Friday night—a heavily armoured Delta police patrol roared by, eight or ten men in black, on motorbikes, two abreast. No one even turned to look. On the other hand, as I write, the left party, Syriza — some of whose MPs were violently prevented from entering ERT’s headquarters this morning — is tabling a motion of no confidence in the government, to be debated tomorrow. The ruling coalition has a majority of only five MPs, some of whom blocked a motion to impose a new property tax a few days ago; of course, the pressure on them to conform will be immense. The private channels will broadcast this — with dire predictions of catastrophe — as another “thriller.” Meanwhile, protesters have gathered outside ERT’s headquarters in Athens and Salonika; one banner reads, “Deep Soul.” And ERT journalists and musicians are still broadcasting on the internet, from the street (via Kevin Redding, Nov 8, ABDX via DXLD) POLICE STORM EX-GREEK STATE BROADCASTER ERT, BREAK UP SIT-IN Athens: Riot police stormed the former Greek state television headquarters in Athens on Thursday and evicted dozens of journalists who were fired five months ago, ending a protracted sit-in against the broadcaster's closure. The government took ERT off the air in June to meet a target for public sector job cuts set by foreign lenders, triggering a political crisis that prompted one party to quit the ruling coalition. Police carried out the pre-dawn eviction as inspectors from European Union and International Monetary Fund lenders were in Athens reviewing the progress it made in meeting the targets of its multi-billion bailout before disbursing more funds. "I was on air when riot police stormed into the studio and ordered me to shut the microphones and leave," said Nikos Tsibidas, spokesman for ERT's radio workers union. "I've never seen anything like this before; it's barbaric and indicative of the kind of democracy we have in this country." Greece's anti-bailout opposition denounced the police raid and forced a vote of confidence against the government. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's government is expected to win the vote, which will be held late on Sunday, without much trouble. Minor scuffles broke out between some protesters and riot police, who had cordoned off the area and blocked the entrance to the building that has been draped for months with banners reading "ERT Open" and "No to layoffs". Police fired a few rounds of tear gas to disperse small groups of protesters and briefly detained four people for resisting authorities during the raid, officials said. Some of the journalists, who have kept ERT alive with an illegal news feed over the Internet for five months, refused to leave the yard of the building, where hundreds of chanting ERT supporters rallied. More rallies were planned for later in the day. "This is how fascism works, slyly and in darkness," said Adrianna Bili, a former ERT employee, after she and other protesters were evicted from the building. "I feel like they have raped me, like they have violated my home, they have violated my life, democracy. They have destroyed everything." On Thursday, the channel showed footage of an empty newsroom and images of the headquarters with the text "ERT belongs to all Greeks" running across it. Delirium The government said the police operation shortly after 4am (0200 GMT) was carried out to "apply the law and restore legality." Government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou, a former ERT journalist himself, said ERT was "under illegal occupation". Inside the building, police checked in the presence of a prosecutor whether facilities and equipment had been damaged since the broadcaster's closure. "The government has reached such a point of delirium that it is staging a coup against itself," said Zoe Konstantopoulou, a senior lawmaker from the leftist opposition Syriza party, who rushed to the building in solidarity with ERT workers. "Some people will be held accountable before history and future generations," she said. Under lender pressure, the government singled out ERT as a paragon of public waste and mismanagement in Greece. Still, the decision to silence ERT and fire its 2,600 employees to please EU/IMF lenders shocked many in Greece and reduced Samaras's majority in the 300-seat parliament to five. The Democratic Left party, which quit the coalition in protest, accused the government on Thursday of being "autocratic" in implementing reforms and of "violently restructuring state TV". The government has since launched a new television channel called Public TV, or DT, in which about 600 people have been hired, many of them from the defunct ERT. A message on ERT's Facebook page calling for people to protest in solidarity read: "It's time to act. Rally now!" The main opposition Syriza party denounced the police raid as authoritarian and said it was just a precursor for the tough, new austerity measures the government was preparing. "You break into state television headquarters in the middle of the night to do the same (later) to indebted people's homes and put them up for auction," said Syriza chief Alexis Tsipras. Samaras's government said it was not worried about the confidence vote. "You have given the government a very good opportunity to prove that its majority is strong and cohesive," Administration Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in reply to Tsipras. Reuters Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/police-storm-exgreek-state-broadcaster-ert-break-up-sitin-20131108-2x4x5.html#ixzz2k2Zm1bWK (via Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Nov 8, DXLD) RIOT POLICE REMOVES FORMER ERT EMPLOYEES FROM DEFUNCT STATE BROADCASTER'S HEADQUARTERS An Athens prosecutor ordered riot police officers to enter the headquarters of the now defunct state broadcaster ERT in the early hours of Thursday. According to early reports, riot police units asked former ERT employees who were broadcasting from the building to leave the premises in the northern suburb of Agia Paraskevi. Protesters subsequently gathered outside the building at 6 a.m. Traffic was interrupted on Mesogheion Avenue early on Thursday. “The battle for democracy and social justice which ERT workers have been fighting for more than four months, has reached its most crucial moment,” read a message on ERT's Facebook page calling for people to protest in solidarity. “It's time to act, rally now!” Reports suggested that four former ERT employees were detained by police for questioning. A group of 10 SYRIZA MPs who attempted to enter the premises were reportedly stopped by police forces. In comments made on Thursday, Pantelis Kapsis, the deputy minister for public radio and television denied knowledge of plans to raid the building, saying the operation was organized by the Ministry of Public Order. Government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou said the operation marked “the end of an illegal occupation.” “The authorities have implemented the law,” Kedikoglou told Skai radio. The government's decision to close down the media network last June citing the need for cost-cutting measures due to the ongoing debt crisis drew international criticism, while a number of laid-off ERT employees continued to produce programs streamed online. Meanwhile, an interim network replacing ERT started broadcasts in July (source?? via Zacharias Liangas, Nov 8, DXLD) OPPOSITION PARTIES SLAM GOVERNMENT OVER ERT RAID http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_07/11/2013_526680 Greek opposition parties on Thursday slammed a government decision to remove the remaining ex-ERT employees from the state broadcaster's headquarters. SYRIZA MP Zoe Konstantopoulou was among a group of leftist deputies who attempted to enter the premises in the northern Athens suburb of Aghia Paraskevi early on Thursday, a few hours after police stormed into the building. “The government... has carried out a coup against itself and against legality,” Konstantopoulou told journalists after police stopped them from entering the site. The police used a pair of handcuffs to lock the main entrance to the site. Images of the handcuffs went viral on Greek social media, before police replaced them with a lock. Fellow SYRIZA MP Dimitris Stratoulis described the night-time operation as an “illegal, coup-like act.” The decision also drew criticism from the right wing populist Independent Greeks party as well as the Greek Communist Party (KKE). Independent Greeks leader Pannos Kammenos tweeted that “occupation forces have swept the ERT building.” “After the ERT shutdown and the mass layoffs, we have once more seen the face of state violence and terror,” said Communist Party deputy Diamanto Manolakou. Greek riot police stormed into ERT headquarters in the early hours of Thursday and evicted dozens of protesters occupying it since June when the government shut abruptly the state broadcaster. Scuffles broke out between some of the protesters and riot police, who had cordoned off the area and blocked the entrance to the building. Police fired small rounds of teargas to disperse some of the protesters and briefly detained two former workers and two unionists for resisting authorities, the officials said. Crowds of supporters started rallying outside the main ERT building. A public rally has been called for 4 p.m. on Thursday. Coalition partners PASOK defended the move. “The restoration of legality, the free and full operation of public radio and television is necessary... to protect the public interest,” the socialists said in a statement. “No one should be allowed to stop the modernization of public radio and television in the name of populism and opportunism,” it said. Democratic Left, which left the coalition after disagreements in the government handling of the ERT case, attacked the administration's intransigence. “The past few months have highlighted the impasse of the government's policies. This was to be expected given the absence of any meaningful negotiations, MP Dimitris Hatzisokratis told Mega TV (via Zacharias Liangas, Nov 8, DXLD) Hello all: At 2021 UT, 15630 and 9420 sound like they are still on the air. Where is the signal coming from? Are they broadcasting from the transmitter site, or where, after the ERT raid earlier? (JOHN BABBIS, Nov 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This is interesting reading from Wikipedia about Greek Radio. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenic_Broadcasting_Corporation (via John Babbis, Nov 9, ibid.) ** GREECE. 9420, Nov 8 at 2112, something is still here in Greek talk, and he`s rather calm; fair signal. Next check at 0108 Nov 9, it`s open carrier/dead air, audiblizing CRI English underneath; see EAST TURKISTAN. By 0118, Greece is modulating music on 9420 and // weaker 7475 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9420, Nov 10 at 0626, good signal from Avlis, despite all the disruptions, riot police raiding HQ building, etc., still doing the EPT Sunday-morning thing of Byzantine chant; also with recitations by female voices (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Heard some programmes still on Avlis TX site on 9420 and 15630 kHz, but not on 41 mb. Unidentified programm, not Greek union rebells program -- I guess, rather some new public alternative program heard this morning. No Greek language culture feeling though - at 0400-0600 UT, rather international smooth UK, US, Italian(Milva) and West African pop music, and after my breakfast logged in again, and heard Sunday Greek mass live transmission broadcast at 07-08 UT. Nov 10. vy73 (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The Thessaloniki program with V Of Greece IS, ERT3 ID, various audio snippets, some Metallica, some Greek folk music, is currently observed on 9420 (strong), 11645 (weak), 15630 (strong). 8 seconds delay to the audiostream ERA Thessaloniki on http://thepressproject.gr The IS seems to come a few minutes after ToH and BoH. 10 November 2013, 0907-1003 UT. 73, (Eike Bierwirth, Wiesbaden, Germany, Perseus SDR + DX-10 Pro active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Logs for Saturday 9/11: From now on, all ERA frequencies carry ERA 3 from Thessaloniki (Zacharias Liangas, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As the police raided the central building of ERA in Athens, ERA 3 Thessaloniki is relayed from all transmitters. Yesterday 10/11 at 11xx, 9420 /11645 and 15630 were on and relaying ERA (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GRENADA. Programming on Klassic 540 Tonight 11/9/13 My friend down at Grenada's Klassic 540 has told me about some interesting programming tonight, I'll be listening and I encourage everyone else to tune in. Here's what's going on... The Klassic Radio Announcers play whatever music they want. One of their announcers, Godfrey has gotten really cocky and thinks he is king music and everybody loves his choices. So a few weeks ago another announcer, Andre challenged his selections and lost. On two consecutive Saturdays. So, my friend at Klassic 540 who is the Sales Manager has challenged him this week. They have to play music from 4 categories: Regional, International, Country and Christmas. They will go tune for tune and the has to public call and vote for which song they prefer. This takes place TONIGHT (Saturday 11/9/13) from 5 to 9 pm Eastern time which is 6 to 10 pm in Grenada. You can listen online by going to http://www.klassicgrenada.com or searching Klassic 540 on the Tunein App. I helped my friend Janelle, the Klassic 540 Sales Manager by giving her a few classic country titles she should play. You can call in and vote for her selections as the better ones by calling (473) 435 2041 (~~PAUL Walker Jr, PA, Nov 9, IRCA via DXLD) ** GUAM. Further correspondence with AFN HQ in LA regarding the missing USB transmissions from Guam on 5765 and 13362: while investigating the technical reasons for the program feed not being `decoded` for transmission, the question arose whether there should be any such emissions, since Guam is after all US territory and AFN must not compete with local stations. I tried to point out that HF is not intended nor suitable for local reception, and that Guam is merely a convenient base for reaching ships at sea and other remote outposts, but the impetus seems to be to let it stay off (Glenn Hauser, Nov 14, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. re KTWR DRM 15445 kHz outlet. Just checked, and as expected, nil from KTWR on the east coast. BSKSA on 15435 is very strong and splatters over to past 15440. Buzzy too, which is not too unusual. Perhaps the lower frequency for later in the week might propagate, but I still doubt it (Walter Salmaniw, PEI, Nov 5, DXplorer via BC-DX Nov 8 via DXLD) ** GUAM. KTWR B-13 winter schedule. Trans World Radio, Guam. Eff Oct 27, 2013 To China Cantonese 1330-1400 Mon-Fri 9940 Hui 1330-1400 Sat-Sun 9940 Mandarin 1000-1015 Daily 15235 Mandarin 1015-1100 Mon-Sat 15235 Mandarin 1100-1230 Mon-Sat 9910 Mandarin 1130-1230 Suns 9910 Mandarin 1115-1145 Mon-Fri 12105 Mandarin 1115-1200 Mon-Sat 12105 Mandarin 1200-1215 Daily 11580 Mandarin 1215-1245 MoTuThFr 9975 Mandarin 1245-1330 Sun-Fri 11580 Mandarin 1245-1415 Sat 11580 Mandarin 1330-1345 Mon-Sat 9975 Mandarin 1330-1430 Mon-Sat 9940 Mandarin 1345-1445 Daily 9975 Mandarin 1345-1430 Sun 11580 Mandarin 1345-1500 Mon-Fri 11580 Mandarin 1445-1500 Non-Fri 9975 Nosu Yi 1200-1215 Daily 11580 To Korea Korean 1345-1415 Sat 11580 Korean 1345-1430 Sun 11580 Korean 1345-1500 Mon-Fri 11580 To South Asia English 1400-1423 MoTuFr 15190 English 1400-1430 Thurs 15190 English 1400-1435 SunWed 15190 To South Pacific English 1000-1019 Mon-Fri 11840 English 1000-1030 Sat 11840 To SoEaAsia English 0850-0930 Tue-Fri 15200 English 0900-0930 Mon 15200 To Indonesia Balinese 0930-1000 Sat 15200 Balinese 0945-1000 Sun 15200 Madurese 0930-0945 Mon-Sat 15200 Madurese 0945-1000 Daily 15200 Indonesian 1000-1030 Daily 15200 Sundanese 1030-1100 Daily 15200 To Myanmar Burmese 1200-1245 Mon-Fri 15390 Burmese 1200-1300 Sat-Sun 15390 Sgaw Karen 1300-1330 Daily 15390 To Vietnam Vietnamese 1245-1330 Sun-Fri 11580 Vietnamese 1245-1345 Sat 11580 To South Asia Kokborok 1230-1300 Mon-Fri 15240 Kokborok 1245-1300 Sun 15240 Santhali 1300-1315 Daily 15240 Assamese 1315-1345 Sun-Fri 15225 Manipuri 1315-1345 Sat 15225 Trans World Radio, P. O. Box 8780, Agat, Guam 96928, USA (HFCC/KTWR, Nov 3 via BC-DX Nov 8 via DXLD) ** GUAM. 9650, Nov 13 at 1341, good signal from YL in Russian, with Bible lesson (urok); thought it might be KNLS, but 1346 IDs in passing as Golos Nadezhdiy, along with some hymn music mixing in now. It`s KSDA, scheduled here only at 1330-1400, 100 kW, 345 degrees from Agat in Russian, with the Adventist catch-slogan ``Voice of Hope``. (KNLS is listed on 9655 but not at this time nor in this language.) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, Nov 9 at 1157, good signal from R. Verdad --- in Japanese with dramatic music background past 1201; weakening by 1217. Sounds like the same kind of program heard in Chinese around 1130, maybe same source. TGAV no doubt has had DX reports from Japan, and concludes it really has an audience there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 4775.01, 0040-0050 06.11, AIR Imphal, vernacular talk, music, 15221 (Anker Petersen, heard on the AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres longwire in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) 4775, Nov 11 at 1253, JBA carrier, likely AIR Imphal, only thing listed on air now; 60m very unproductive from Asia lately, beyond 4940 China and 4750 Indonesia/? This 4775 is even weaker than 4750. Also a carrier on 4800, maybe Hyderabad if not Geermu, China (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [and non]. 4840, Nov 10 at 0046, JBA carrier, presumably AIR Mumbai, 50 kW ND, which starts at 2355 per Aoki --- now possible because WWCR is not opening here until 0100 instead of 0000 during DST (even tho propagationally it would make more sense to open it *earlier* in the winter rather than later). Next check at 0136, WWCR is on, presumably from about 0100. No Latin American broadcasters nor anything else are known in the world on 4840 but AIR and WWCR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AIR KOHIMA - 50 YEARS OF BROADCASTING --- All India Radio (AIR), Kohima, today [Nov 7] celebrated 50 years of public service broadcasting in Nagaland. The celebration was marked by unveiling of monolith at the AIR Kohima station by state Governor Ashwani Kumar in presence of Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar and other officials. AIR Kohima was commissioned on January 4, 1963 as the 36th station in the country amidst political unrest in Naga inhabited areas at a makeshift hill type rented house. At present, it has a full-fledged office complex and runs 16 news bulletins, including 14 in local dialect, English and Nagamese news, besides several local programmes and music. In his address, the Governor said AIR Kohima has been instrumental in preserving and promoting the art and culture of Nagaland as well as strengthening the unity and integrity of the state. On behalf of the state government, he congratulated all present and past staff of AIR Kohima for working cohesively to bring AIR Kohima to the present position. Sircar in his address said an FM radio station could be established in Kohima by March next year. A cultural programme presented by 15 different tribes of Nagaland enthralled the gathering. http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/air-kohima-celebrates-50-years-113110700924_1.html Also see http://iprnagaland.gov.in/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=2565:air-station-kohima-50-years-on-7th-november-2013&Itemid=380 Unfortunately 4850 kHz (AIR Kohima) was silent today on this special occasion. Celebrations were carried via 103 MHz FM, which I guess is a sign of the times. FM more prevalent than SW. Also "Listeners can tune of this programme on their mobile handset also." (Ron Howard, California, Nov 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) AIR KOHIMA GOLDEN JUBILEE --- AIR KOHIMA`S GOLDEN JUBILEE MONOLITH http://airddfamily.blogspot.in/2013/11/air-kohimas-golden-jubilee-monolith.html AIR KOHIMA GOLDEN JUBILEE FUNCTION 7 NOV. EVE http://airddfamily.blogspot.in/2013/11/air-kohima-golden-jublee-function-7-nov.html --- (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, dx_india yg via DXLD) 4850, PBS Xinjiang seems to have returned again; first day here Nov 12; first heard at 1245 through 1400; started at below threshold level and very slowly improved to poor; 1332 to 1358 non-stop singing; at both 1300 & 1400 time pips; not able to make out language, but possibly their Kazakh service as heard in past years here. So is this replacing 6015? Am positive was not AIR Kohima! An unfortunate development, as I am expecting AIR Kohima to be on the air here with coverage of the major event of the year for them, the Hornbill Festival, which takes place in Nagaland from Dec 1 to 10. Website at http://www.hornbillfestival.com/ With PBS Xinjiang here, it will make for difficult reception of Kohima. As this year is AIR Kohima's Golden Jubilee, surely they will be broadcasting the festival via SW, as they have done in past years. BTW - The state of Nagaland was formally inaugurated on December 1, 1963, another important reason for Kohima being on the air Dec 1. https://app.box.com/s/gwp7o30yiwl24h5tsa1s contains a recording of a typical reception of AIR Kohima during the Hornbill Festival (2012 - "Festival of Festivals") (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 4895.00, *0053-0100 06.11, AIR Kurseong, AIR IS, 0055 ann, "Vande Mataram" hymn, Nepali ann, song 34233 - stronger than Mongoliin [sic] R underneath (Anker Petersen, heard on the AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres longwire in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) WRTH spells it with i-umlaut: Mongolïn ** INDIA. 4990, AIR Itanagar, 1420-1425, Nov 6. In English; local ID; news (item about local 5.5 earthquake, etc.); running well past their normal sign off time; still heard at 1514 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 5010.00, 0025-0105 06.11, AIR Thiruvananthapuram, Malayalam talk, short Indian music, 0030 Hindi news, 0035 English news, 0040 Malayalam talk 35232 - China not interfering at this hour (Anker Petersen, heard on the AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres longwire in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. 9445, Nov 8 at 2111, AIR GOS with commentary in S Asian accent, fair signal, weaker than // 11620. At 2136 I find a third, 7550, weakest at this hour. At 2136 they are playing Indian classical music and on two receivers, 7550 has strengthened, producing a stereo effect with 9445 as they are slightly unsynchronized. At this hour in A13 per Aoki, 7550 was Delhi-Khampur and 9445 Bengaluru, probably still the case. At 2137 there`s a fourth, 11670 which is much better than 11620 except for ACI from 11665 Japan and 11670 also has a transmission break as I tune in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ROMANIA [and non] 11670, Nov 11 at 2107, AIR with news in English about Kuwait business, good signal, with some flutter, but undermodulated and with lite whine, // fair 9445 with exactly same pitch whine (both listed Bengaluru site) and // 7550 too poor to evaluate its whine if any (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. All India Radio, GOS, 11935 Mumbai. Nov 11, 2013 Monday. 1825-1842. Classical music (sarod and tabla). ID at 1830 “You are listening to the General Overseas Service of All India Radio”, into “Faithfully Yours”. Fair-good. To East Africa (EiBi). Jo'burg sunset 1632. All India Radio, GOS? 11580, Aligarh. NOT // 11935. Nov 11, 2013 Monday. 1851-1908. Language?? Song with tabla accompaniment, followed by several other Indian songs. NOT English as listed by EiBi and Aoki, and HFCC denies all knowledge of it as usual. Good. To West Africa (EiBi). Jo'burg sunset 1632. 11580, Aligarh. But // 11670 (Bengaluru) after 1945. Nov 11, 2013 Monday. 1851-2020. Language?? Song with tabla accompaniment, followed by several other Indian songs. NOT English as listed by EiBi and Aoki, and HFCC denies all knowledge of it. Cut off in mid song at 1940*. Came back at *1945 in an Indian dialect; NOT French as per Aoki. Several IDs for All India Radio General Overseas Service. Found to be // 11670 to UK and W. Europe, which is in Hindi according to DX India. Good. To West Africa (EiBi). Jo'burg sunset 1632. GOS, 11580 Aligarh. Nov 12, 2013 Tuesday. 1740-1755* Language?? Indian songs, light melodies. But not English as listed by DX India, Aoki and EiBi. Suddenly off in mid-song at 1755*, although all three say it stays on air until 1945. At 1802-1804 it came back in the middle of a slow classical song with tabla accompaniment. Clearly different programming, and, I suspect, different antenna azimuth, to the 1740- 1755 time slot, but for only two minutes. Suddenly off again in mid song at 1804*, and has not returned by 1955. Good reception, Jo'burg sunset 1632. AIR to West Africa --- Following my post last night re All India Radio GOS on 11580, thanks to Alokesh Gupta for suggesting I refer to the DX India web site for further information. I did so, but it did not help; seems that AIR are doing their own thing on this frequency, and that "thing" does not correspond to the information supplied by DX India, Aoki, or EiBi. And of course India seems to have dropped out of HFCC. According to DX India, EiBi and Aoki, 1745-1945 on 11580 should be English. To West Africa, according to EiBi and DX India. Not what I found last night and tonight. Yet another variation for AIR on 11580. That is three consecutive nights with three different presentations (or lack of). GOS, 11580 Aligarh. Nov 13, 2013 Wednesday. 1640-1820. Nothing heard. AWOL, no carrier. Lots of lightning QRN due to a local thunderstorm in Jo'burg. Jo'burg sunset 1633 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [and non]. 11740, Nov 10 at 0100, 5+1 timesignal, last pitch higher, and off. I was tuning in for AIR Sinhala service via GOA as in A-13, so is it still here or not, lacking a B-13 schedule from them? Per Aoki and HFCC, the 11740 transmitter closing at 0100 is CNR at Lingshi 725 site. This does uncover a much weaker signal which could be AIR. What about 11985 Delhi/Khampur which was supposedly // 11740? Better signal there with S Asian music, which could really be the Sinhala service for once. Aoki now claims to have B-13 info for AIR which does show both of them, same as in A-13. But I think such Aoki labels are often assumptions, projexions. 11985, Nov 12 at 0058, there it is again! That mysterious multi-note interval signal from AIR Khampur and once again I don`t have my recorder handy. Poor signal, undermodulated and flutter. Still going past 0105, instead of Sinhala service. Previously heard Oct 24, as in DXLD 13-44, 36 or 37 notes on keyboard. But what is this signifying? The Sindhi service should have started at 0100 if that were it; its listed 5990 was still covered by China/Cuba at 0059. Jose Jacob tells me Nov 12: Dear Glenn, Yes, lot of mysterious things (feeds) observed on AIR frequency 11985, especially at 0045-0115 Sinhala schedule. The info is that AIR now using new satellite feeds which is yet to stabilise may be. Lot of wrong feeds are observed lately! Please note that my site is already updated based upon my monitoring etc. Not many changes are observed from A-13 period. Please see External Service Time Wise: http://qsl.net/vu2jos/es/time.htm External Service Language Wise: http://qsl.net/vu2jos/es/Language.htm AIR Complete SW schedule: http://qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm --- Tnx, Jose, especially still lacking any official skeds from AIR! 11740, Goa site, supposed to be // 11985 for 0045-0115 Sinhala: at 0058 dominated by China CCI, and can`t hear the mystery IS; at 0102 AIR in clear, definitely with different music (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11985, Nov 14 at 0056, very poor signal with talk, presumed Sinhala with AIR really running that language as scheduled, so no mystery IS tonight, now that I have my recorder handy. Nominal // 11740 is even worse with the CCCCCCI which goes off at 0100 after its timesignal; now the two seem // in music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) AIR's shortwave transmitters on their way out? Quoting ET .... Terrestrial transmitters cannot be completely done away with in the North East but ''we shall concentrate in increasing satellite transmission in the region``, he said. In case of AIR, short wave transmitters were on its way out due to its crackling sound and ''where it is of no use it might as well be closed'`, he said. 'Our focus was now on increasing the reach of FM radio as it had the added advantage of being received on telephones which ensures that it will reach a wider audience'', the CEO said. Read more at: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/media/entertainment/media/prasar-bharti-to-enhance-dds-satellite-and-airs-fm-reach/articleshow/25647641.cms Copyright © Economic Times (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, dx_india yb via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. RADIO BRANDING STICKERS & PHOTOS RADIO FROM INDONESIA Ricky Hermawan BLOG Report from Indonesian Radio Stations http://radiobrandingmaterials.blogspot.it/ (playdx yg via DXLD) Any of them shortwave? Haven`t gone all the way thru it (gh, DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 4869.90v, RRI Wamena, 1238, Nov 7 (Thursday). For the past two Thursdays, I had unusable reception of KGI, but not so today! Ana and Greg together; many mentions of Indonesia and Australia; 1246 KGI contact info; read letter from listener; 1253 "Thanks for listening." For a while Atsunori Ishida, at his website http://rri.jpn.org/ had been indicating these KGI Thurs. programs, but not this one for some reason (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525.88, VOI, 1347 on Nov 6 in English; back after a short absence. Also on Nov 7 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Indonesia on in the afternoon --- Hi Glen[n], Hope you are well. We are getting a rare treat here in New England with B-13 and all: VOI shows up daily on 9526 with English news and commentary at 1900 UT. Nice clear and fat signal the way shortwave used to be. Best, (Mark Carlsen, Nov 11, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9526, Voice Of Indonesia, 1855-2005+, 11-10-13, many IDs around 1900, freqs announced, into news and features. Signal much improved by 1930 so I could copy programs, into mailbag and musical request show “English Mailbag”. YL read letters and email from listeners. Played two songs by Indonesian female pop star Anggun - “Mimpi” and “Bayang- Bayang Iiusi” [music ID’d by iPhone app Shazam]. IDs and email info until into French at 2001 Indonesia is a rarity up here in Mass and this was the best I’ve ever heard them! (Chris Lobdell, MA, NASWA Flashsheet via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DXLD) ** IRAN. VIRI English to South Asia --- VIRI in Italian observed with good reception (via Global Tuners Rimini receiver) at 1015 UT 8 Nov on 21640 kHz, signing off then going into Vangelis music at 1020, when 21510 kHz joined in parallel with similar reception. Italian not listed in current WRTH at this time, though IRIB website has it listed 0920-1020 on 99.5 FM (Tehran), satellite and internet. English started at 1023, opening announcement giving this as the 1030 UT transmission on 21575 and 21610 kHz, whilst the announced web stream actually carried the audio from Press TV at this time - wrong on all counts! (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7325, Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran, at 2011, on 11/9. Male talking in English with musical interlude at 2016 for 10 seconds followed by male speaking again. Station announcer mentioned nuclear program and USA sanctions. Female then came on and gave a station ID at 2018 also shared frequency lists and where to send in reports on reception. Station went off at 2059. Good (John Cooper, PA, WinRadio- G33DDC Excalibur Pro, RF Space SDR-IQ, Grundig Satellit- 750, Tecsun PL-660, Wellbrook ALA 1530+ Imperium, All Band Tuned Super Sloper. PARS SWL End Fed Sloper, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) [and non]. 5920, Nov 12 at 1325, fair signal with Qur`an, 1328 talk in unID language; 1330 three chimes, mention Iran, IRIB news theme including vocalising. HFCC shows this is VIRI`s Kurdish service, 500 kW non-direxional from Kamalabad at 1320-1620. Along grayline, this could be short path more likely than long path this time of year. {now moving all transmissions 7 minutes earlier starts to make some sense: in order to get all the mandatory preliminaries out of the way and start the news exactly on the hour/half hour} 17840, Nov 12 at 1351, Qur`an atop Romania[n] with variable SAH of about 5 Hz, and // 17500 in clear. At 1450 RRI in the clear on 17840, since the IRIB Arabic collision is over at 1420, 500 kW, 289 degrees from Zahedan, after a 9-hour span from 0520; while 17500 lasts only 6 hours until 1620, 500 kW, 259 degrees from Kamalabad. How much longer will it take RRI to move? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRELAND. Re: DXLD 1345, Hi Glenn! ``27631 NFM, St. Joseph´s Church Glenville, Co. Cork, 1010-1016, Nov 1, mass, 34433. [WORLD OF RADIO 1694, apparently Krueger`s catch]`` Not for sure. There are 5 churches identified on this frequency, and at least 2 others unidentified. Because of the time he mentioned (1406 UT) it looks like, that it was a special occasion mass like wedding, baptism, funeral (okay with laughters I think we can exclude the last one). ``[note besides Sunday Nov 3, some logs on Fri Nov 1 == All Souls, and even Sat Nov 2, Boxing All Souls? --- gh]`` Nov 1: All Saints --- Nov 2: All Souls. 73, (Patrick Robic, Austria, Nov 11, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn! Some logs from this morning. 27735 NFM, St. John the Baptist Church Croagh, Co. Limerick, 1210- 1230, Nov 9, funeral mass, 32432. 27745 NFM, Church of St. Mary & St. Michael New Ross, Co. Wexford, 1125-1200, Nov 9, funeral mass, 33433. 27795 NFM, SS Peter & Paul Church Clarecastle, Co. Clare, *1000-1010, Nov 9, mass, 33433. 27811 NFM, St. Anne´s Church Portmarnock, Co. Dubin, 1010-1030, Nov 9, funeral mass, 23322. 27891 NFM, St. Cronan´s Church Swords, Co. Dublin, 1010-1020, Nov 9, mass, 34333. 73, (Patrick Robic, Austria, Nov 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 27651 NFM, Church of St. Patrick & St. Brigid Clane, Co. Kildare, 1135-1155, Nov 10, mass, 23432. 27765 NFM, Church of Immaculate Conception Bruree, Co. Limerick (tent.), 1135-1200, Nov 10, mass, 34433 (Patrick Robic, Austria, ibid.) ** IRELAND and NORTHERN. Irish churches frequency list --- Hi Glenn! My updated frequency list for Irish churches can be found at: http://www.udxf.nl/WPAS%20List%20November%202013.pdf 73, (Patrick Robic, Austria, Nov 8, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) LOTS of `em – 8 page pdf, by frequency and by location (gh) ** IRELAND NORTHERN. UK, 27801 NFM, St. Patrick´s Church Belfast, 1225-1235, Nov 10, mass, 23332. And here´s another log from Nov. 10 (Northern Ireland): 27691 NFM, Our Lady of Lourdes Church Steelstown/Derry, Co. Derry, *1215-1235, Nov 10, mass, 34333. 73, (Patrick Robic, Austria, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. 6885, Nov 12 at 0035, music amid SSB and CW QRM, presumed Galei Zahal, best heard in a long time. No pirates around (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15850, Galei Zahal, Nov 10 1214-1305, 25322-35333, Hebrew, Talk and music and news, ID at 1259, SJ at 1303 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, Japan, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 11665, Nov 8 at 2137, NHK in Japanese surprisingly good despite being beamed oppositeward from Yamata, 235 degrees at 21-23. Perhaps this will still include western classical music on weekends, such as local Sunday morning (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 6055, Nov 7 at 1345, it`s Thursday and R. Nikkei 1 is teaching English; American-accented OM reads passage mentioning Obama and CSIS; then Japanese YL explains the terms; much better on // 9595 at 1348, explaining ``come to a standstill`` as pronounced both in American and British accents. It was also audible a bit earlier on 3925 vs QRhaM. [and non]. 9595-9605, Nov 8 at 0647, R. Nikkei 1 has heavy QRDRM centered on 9600. I bet it`s Romania. Yes, per HFCC, RRI in English, 0630-0700, 300 kW, 300 degrees for W Europe (but also US!) from Galbeni. If I wanted to hear that, I would listen to AM on 7345 from Tiganeshti! 6115, Nov 11 at 0650, poor signal with jazz, and not much beyond Cuba on 49m. Must be R. Nikkei 2, 50 kW, 50 degrees from Nagano which is favorable for us; // is 9760 tho not propagating now, as it sometimes is. 0650 UT = 1550 JST, close enough to sundown now for 49m. See also RUSSIA 6115 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JUAN FERNANDEZ. 21265-USB, Nov 10 at 2041, weak station called XR0ZR occasionally. Does not say ``this is``, but when saying only that call and not another, I assume it means his own. Mostly in clear but sometimes interrupted by co-channel callers, whistles, hets. Others come on and say ``split 5 up``. That`s where the pileups are that I first encountered, not only 5 up, but just about every kHz from 21270 to 21280, countless stations spouting nothing but their own calls, which we can only assume are meant to be attempts to contact XR0ZR. Here`s the DXpedition page all about it and their strict QSLing rules: http://www.qrz.com/db/XR0ZR I was looking for Wake Island`s K9W DXpedition on nominal 21285, but unfound on ``15`` m. 21270-USB, Nov 11 at 2055, ID for XR0ZR, as the Robinson Crusoe DXpedition continues. Pileups are a few kHz higher (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: XR0, JUAN FERNANDEZ. By the time you read this, operators Fabrizio/IW3SQY, Franco/IZ8GCE, Josep/EA3AKY, Art/WA7NB, Les/SP3DOI, Paolo/IV3DSH and Dino/CE3PG should be active as XR0ZR from Robinson Crusoe Island (SA-005, DICE ICE-004, WLOTA 0153, WWFF CEFF-003) until November 20th. Activity will be on 160-6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY, with four stations on the air. QSL via IV3DSH, direct or by the Bureau. ClubLog' s OQRS will be available (preferred QSLing). Log will be uploaded to LoTW after 6 months. For more details, visit the XR0ZR Web page or the following media links at: Website: http://www.juanfernandez2013.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/xr0zr/ Twitter: @xr0zr (Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 1136, November 11, 2013, Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio), via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. CLANDESTINAS: 3480, Voz do Povo, Goyang, Coreia do Sul, 2220-2230, 08/11, emissão em coreano dirigida à Coreia do Norte, radioteatro (?); 33442, sinal empastelado pela C. do Norte; // 3912, 4450, 4557, 6518, 6600. 4557 idem, 2225-2239, 08/11, cf. // 3480; emissão empastelada pela C. do Norte; 43432. 6600 idem, 2242-2252, 08/11, texto; 33431, emissão empastelada pela C. do Norte. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9775, Nov 7 at 1354 tune-in, no open carrier but cuts on at *1354.6, much later than previously, prior to R. Free Chosun at 1400. This signal displays no transpolar fading as would be expected from alleged Tajikistan site; instead it`s strong and steady, almost as good at 9800 VOA Korean, 250 kW, 21 degrees from Tinang, Philippines, which aims that also right onward toward US. So I continue to suspect this is no Tajikistan, but either Tinang or Tinian, as this station altho based in Seoul is funded by the US government anyway. How covert is that? It`s explicit in the WRTH 2013 which also listed Dushanbe sites for it. Unfortunately, website http://www.rfchosun.org is all in Korean. This 9775 is not in HFCC B-13, where instead you come up with two bogus listings at this time on 9775, no trace of either heard: CNR, 0900-1605, 150 kW, 270 degrees from Beijing in Chinese; and SLBC, 1230-1630, 300 kW, 350 degrees from defunct Ekala, Sri Lanka in English! 9775, Nov 8 at 1504, R. Free Chosun starting its second hour in Korean, with VG signal, now equivalent to 9760 VOA English which is 21 degrees also USward via Tinang, Philippines. Chosun continues unbelievable via Aoki-listed site Tajikistan, and unlisted in HFCC. About time the USG/IBB came clean about broadcasting such clandestines from Tinang or Tinian, if they are. What does it take, an FOIA request? 9775, Nov 10 at 1333, big open carrier for R. Free Chosun at 1400 is already on way early again; still very good signal during show at 1450, equivalent to 9800 VOA Korean Tinang. No way, I say again, that this is from listed Tajikistan site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9775, Nov 12 at 1357, R. Free Chosun open carrier was not on much earlier today, and now it`s fluttery, and not comparable to stronger and steadier VOA Korean Tinang on 9800. 1400 sign-on with theme, Korean, still flutter. So is it really from Tajikistan site today, or at least something further west, more trans-polar than Philippines? 9775, Nov 13 at 1336, R. Free Chosun carrier is once again on, way early before program at 1400; good with some flutter, Tajikistan or not? 9775, Nov 14 at 1357 seems missing but there is a JBA carrier past 1400, while 9800 Tinang VOA Korean is still very good (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5910, Nov 12 at 1329 open carrier, 1330 Shiokaze via JAPAN opening in Chinese this Tuesday. ID sounds like ``shi-yang guangbo dientai`` but WRTH 2013 quotes Chinese ID as ``Zheshi Shiokaze, Chaofeng Bosong``. Also says a QSL card costs a $10 donation. Hmmm, maybe WORLD OF RADIO could raise some funding that way (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. [Re 13-45, Chris Kadlec on MND Radio] ``A friend brought a shortwave radio here from the US and all North Korean stations are wide open here - no jamming at all by the south.`` What about medium wave? Does South Korea still jam 1053 kHz etc.? 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) It`s still reported frequently as a routine log on west coast N America. Occasionally have heard carrier here, but can`t tell if it`s really the jammer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The South Korea government jams most mediumwave frequencies used by North Korea. The effectiveness of the jamming depends on location, but it's generally very disruptive noise jamming. As Chris mentioned, FM from North Korea is also jammed, but I managed to find a way around some of that. Shortwave is left wide open, leaving me to conclude that the government's policy is jamming of mediumwave because so many people have receivers at homes and cars, but leaving shortwave open because it's not worth the effort versus the number of listeners (Martyn Williams, CA, [North Korea Tech], dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. GREAT BRITAIN: 3955, KBS South Korea (presumed); 2203, 6-Nov; M&W in English; buried so can only pick up a word here & there, including "wartime history". Ham whistler apparently trying to get their attention (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) Winter schedule of KBS Seoul in B-13 season. [BULGARIA/FRANCE/RUSSIA/UAE/U.K./USA] Arabic 2000-2100 NE/ME/AF 9840 (Al Dhabaya-UAE) Chinese 1130-1230 China 6095 1130-1230 seAS 9770 1300-1400 AS 1170 (MW) 7275 2200-2300 China 7275 2300-2400 seAS 9805 English 1 0200-0300 SoAM 9580 0800-0900 seAS 9570 1300-1400 seAS 9570 1300-1400 NoAM 15575 1600-1700 EUR 9515 1600-1700 seAS 9640 1800-1900 EUR 7275 2200-2300 EUR 11810 English 2 [English 1 programs edited down for half-hours --- gh] 1100-1130 EUR (Sat only) 9760 (DRM mode; Woofferton-UK) 2200-2230 EUR 3955 (Woofferton-UK) 2200-2300 EUR 11810 English 3 [with different programs than English 1 --- gh] 0200-0300 seAS 9690 1230-1330 China 6095 1400-1500 seAS 9640 French 2000-2100 NE/ME/AF 5950 (Issoudun-F) 2100-2200 EUR 3955 (Woofferton-UK) German 1900-2000 EUR 5885 (Kostinbrod-BUL) 1900-2000 EUR 5875 (DRM mode; Kostinbrod-BUL) 2000-2100 EUR 3955 (Woofferton-UK) Indonesian 1200-1300 seAS 9570 1400-1500 seAS 9570 1600-1700 seAS 9805 2200-2300 seAS 9805 Japanese 0100-0200 Japan 9580 0200-0300 Japan 11810 0800-0900 Japan 6155 0800-0900 Japan 7275 0900-1100 Japan 9805 1100-1300 NonDir 1170 (MW) Korean 1 0900-1100 AS 7275 1000-1100 NonDir 1170 (MW) 1600-1800 EUR 7275 1600-1800 NE/ME/AF 9740 1700-1900 EUR 9515 Korean 2 0300-0400 SoAM 11810 0700-0800 EUR 6045 (Woofferton-UK) 0900-1000 NE/ME/AF 15160 0900-1100 SoEaAS 9570 1000-1100 NonDir 1170 (MW) 1200-1300 AS 7275 1400-1500 NoAM 15575 Russian 1800-1900 EUR 7235 (Woofferton-UK) 0100-0130, 0530-0600, 0930-1000, 1300-1330, 1630-1700, 1900-1930, 2030-2100 Moscow 738 (MW) Spanish 0100-0200 SoAM 9605 (HRI Cypress Creek SC-USA) 0100-0200 NoAM 11810 0200-0300 NoAM 15575 1100-1200 SoAM 11795 1800-1900 SoAM 9740 Vietnamese 0100-0200 seAS 9690 1030-1130 seAS 9770 1500-1600 seAS 9640 (KBS, Nov 3 via BC-DX nov 8 via DXLD) 11810, KBS 10/11 2232 UT. Servicio en inglés para Europa con música en coreano. Señal con SINPO: 55444 (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, hilo largo de 25 metros, Sector sur de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) Joe Hanlon was also hearing this in NJ, but hardly a signal here (gh, OK, DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11510, V. of Kurdistan: Nov 03 1155-1211 35333-35433 Kurdish, Music and talk, ID at 1200 Nov 10 1153-1214 35433-45433 Kurdish, Local music and talk, ID at 1159, etc, (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD- 515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, Japan, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11510, Nov 9 at 1415-1420, fair signal with great Kurdish music tnx to the PKK terrorists via PRIDNESTROVYE, but marred by IADs several times per minute. IADs (intermittent audio dropouts) aren`t nearly as bad as IEDs. Aoki shows this switching from Grigoriopol to Kostinbrod (Bulgaria) at 1600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) But Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria says it switches to FRANCE (gh, DXLD) 11510, 10/Nov 1843-1903, BULGARIA (Relay [sic]), Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish. Sequence of local music. At 1854 what seems to be a song of the Qur`an(?) and at 1859 a recitation. At 1900 OM of hoarse voice and paused talk. Today, with a reception unrivaled, good signal. 35443 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, Degen 1103 - All listening in mode of filter Narrow the 4 kHz. Dipole antenna, 25 meters - east/west, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 15515, R. Kuwait, Nov 09 0504-0515, 34433, Arabic, News, ID at 0513 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, Japan, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KYRGYZSTAN. 1287 - ex-1467 - new[?] TWR Bishkek outlet. Bisher wurden noch keine neuen TWR Programme Richtung Afghanistan / Pakistan berichtet, und die TWR Central Asia Programme laufen jetzt auf 1287 statt 1467 kHz. Da koennte man nur heftig spekulieren, ob vielleicht der 500 kW Sender speziell fuer 1467 kHz geplant ist (und spaeter dort auf die neue 4- Mast Sidefire Antenne geschaltet wird) und der 150 kW Sender auf 1287 kHz parallel laufen soll, oder die 1287 Hz Aussendung sind bereits der 500 kW Sender (nur via die alte Soviet-USSR non-directional Antenne fuer Central Asia) ... Das ist noch ein Stochern im Nebel, kann auch sein, dass Bishkek das alte 150 kW Soviet Schaetzchen von 1467 kHz nach 1287 kHz gemovt/frei gemacht hat, der starke neue TWR Sender fuer AFG und PAK ueber die - im Google Earth - sichtbare neu gebaute 4-Mast Sidefire Antenne in Bishkek dann auf 1467 kHz aufscheint. Ich bin nicht zuhause, und kann z.Zt. nicht auf Alan Davies' exzellente MW Liste zugreifen, um mal die Moeglichkeiten fuer TWR Mittelwellen Empfang in AFG und PAK auf 1287 und 1467 kHz abzuschaetzen. Lassen wir uns mal ueberraschen. Die TWR CeAS Aussendungen via Bishkek und Gavar sind seit einem Jahrzehnt schon immer etwas 'veiled' abgelaufen, -- das ist ein sehr, sehr schwieriges Feld fuer die evangelische Missionierung (Wolfgang Büschel, Nov 1, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 8 via DXLD) Kirgisien, ex 1467. Passt auch wunderbar zu der IS um 1715 UT da auch auf 1467 kHz die IS alle 15 Minuten zum Start einer neuen Sprache gesendet wurde. Und erklaert mir auch warum ich auf 1467 kHz in den letzten Wochen kein TWR Signal mehr hoeren konnte. Handelt sich wohl um den neuen TWR Sender nahe Bishkek. Danke fuer deine Einschaetzung, Wolfgang. Die gewaltig umfangreiche Pacific Asian Log Liste meldet auf 1467 kHz einen 100 kW Sender in Bangkok und einen in Jeypore, danach waere der 75 kW Sender in Bishkek schon der staerkste. Auf 1287 nur AIR aus Goa mit 100 kW - und eben Bishkek mit gelisteten 150 kW, das sollte schon zu hoeren sein (Christoph Ratzer, Austria, OE2CRM, A-DX Nov 3, ibid.) Auf 1287 kHz nur AIR aus Goa mit 100 kW - und eben Bishkek mit gelisteten 150 kW, das sollte schon zu hoeren sein. TWR hat doch einen 500 kW Sender in Kirgistan in Betrieb genommen, um damit in den moslemischen Staaten wie Iran, Afghanistan und Pakistan so richtig schoen zuendeln zu koennen. So richtig schoen Benzin ins Feuer giessen. Vergiss 150 kW, das auf 1287 kHz ist mit Sicherheit die brandneue 500 kW Anlage. Uebrigens meine ich, nach dem unverkennbaren TWR- Pausenzeichen eine ID als "Radio Diamant" vernommen zu haben (Martin Elbe-D, A-DX Nov 3, ibid.) To provide a translation of this (I think it makes not so much sense to do so also with all the other reflections whether 1287 and 1467 are 150 or 500 kW): "But TWR put a 500 kW transmitter in operation in Kyrgyzstan, to nicely ignite the Islamic countries such as Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Nicely putting petrol into the fire. Forget 150 kW, this on 1287 kHz is certainly the very new 500 kW facility. Btw, I think I heard after the unmistakable TWR interval signal an ID that went like 'Radio Diamond'". (Kai Ludwig, Germany, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TWR had previously bragged about its new high-power MW to Central Asia without specifying frequency or site! (gh, DXLD) ** KYRGYZSTAN. 4010, 0040-0050 06.11, Kyrgyz R, Krasnaya Rechka, Bishkek. Kyrgyz ann, folksongs 45333 // 4795 (35232) (Anker Petersen, heard on the AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres longwire in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** LITHUANIA. See EUROPE ** MALI. 9635, R. Mali, Kati, 1306-1322, 08/11, francês, noticiário; 25442, modulação fraca. 5995 idem, 2256-..., 09/11, onde está o áudio? 54433, QRM adjacente. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1180, Nov 9 at 0148 UT, Spanish from NE/SW, and no Cuba/Martí problem from the SE. ``Los 40 Principales y La Ke Buena``, plug event ``domingo 17 de noviembre a las 8 pm, en el centro de la ciudad``; fortunately the next ad for a mueblería mentions what city: Delicias. So it`s per current Cantú: 1180 XEJK Ke buena + FM 95.3 Cd. Delicias, Chih. 5,000 1,500 But XEDCH in WRTH 2013 and IRCA 2012, latter with 250 night power. I assume the ref to Top 40 was about joint sponsorship by sibling station XEBZ 1590 as in Cantú (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6185-, Nov 8 at 2152, there is already a JBA carrier here, at the typical lo-side offset of XEPPM, which supposedly does not start until 0000 UT, when we recently heard a sign-on anthem. Can`t tell yet whether it`s modulating, but why not? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 24960-USB, Nov 12 at 1455, here`s a hot DX spot working mostly Europeans, such as HA0NAR in Hungary who tried again and again; and only occasionally giving his own call, which I still can`t copy for sure after listening over half an hour! Mostly in heavily accented English talking too fast, occasionally Spanish if the contactee should understand it. Seems all simplex, calling on same frequency with the intermittent pileups. Most of the time, the callers only utter their own indicativo, and so does the DX station, theirs, not his! Often he asks for ``only 3`` or some other number in their callsigns to lessen the pileups. His signal is stronger than most of them, surely not far from here. Eventually I build up a partial call, X#1P. So it`s probably Chile or Mexico. Then I search thru recent ham DX bulletins, and finally find this in ICPO of Nov 8-15: ``09/11/2013: Manuel XE2HUQ, Saul XE2HQI, Craig XE2HWJ and Felix XE2I will be active as XF1P from Isla Partida (NA-124) on 9-16 November. They plan to operate SSB and CW on 160-10 metres. QSL via XE2HUQ (direct only). [425 DX News]`` Here`s their website, with aerial shot of this uninhabited (except for seals), internetless island in the Gulf of California: http://www.qrz.com/db/XF1P PARTIDA Island, NA-124, Group Name: Baja California Sur State South East group (11 islands), Located in the Gulf of California, 24 32'1''N, 110 22' 10'W (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Radio estudiantil. Etimado Sr. Hauser: Platicando con el Ing. Dídier Barrera Novelo, director del plantel (escuela) Cobay (Colegio de Bachilleres de Yucatán) de la localidad de Calotmul, me platicó sobre la creación de una estación de radio estudiantil con fines educativos y sin afán de lucro . Por el momento será del ámbito escolar, posterioremente irán al internet y luego esperan gestionar una frecuencia. Esperemos que las autoridades competentes (léase Secretaría de Comunicaciones) no pongan objeciones, debido al grado de control de la información que surca el éter en México. Aquí la nota: http://yucatan.com.mx/yucatan/alumnos-del-cobay-calotmul-con-radio?utm_source=dlvr.it Atte: (Ing. Israel González Ahumada, M.I., Yucatán, Nov 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MICRONESIA. 4755.54, Cross R., Nov 10 0740-0803, 34443, English, Talk, URL announce at 0741 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD- 525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, Japan, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONGOLIA. 12085, 09/Nov 1025, Voice of Mongolia in Mongolian. YL talk then local music. At 1028 ID. At 1029 interval signal, at 1030 beginning of the program in Japanese with ID by YL. 25432 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 5985.78v, Myanmar Radio, 1543-1557, Nov 6 (Wednesday). Another "VOA Special English" Wed. program; very readable; followed by "Welcome to our music show presented by Myanmar Radio." http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/is-eating-like-our-ancestors-good-for-us/1543395.html contains a transcript of today’s VOA program. 6165, Thazin Radio, 1435, Nov 6. News in English; poor underneath CNR6. I very much miss their former clear reception on ex 7110 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Update on Jerry Cowan --- I just want to inform everyone here who remembers Jerry Cowan. Information that was given to me 2 years ago from someone was inaccurate on what they know about Jerry. I managed to contact him a few days ago and he is doing fine and enjoying retirement on the West Coast of Canada. His health is fine (Keith Perron, Taiwan, Nov 11, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nice to have an update on Jerry Cowan, one of the finest voices that ever bounced off the ionosphere. Hard to believe it's been around 30 years since we last heard him on Radio Netherlands. Never heard anything about his post-RNW career; do you have more info? Perhaps any wrong info on Jerry could have to do with the misinformation some years ago regarding ex-wife Dody Cowan, who was reported in some DX circles to have died, until resurfacing in 2008 as author/blogger Deborah Rey (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. The Mighty KBC Short Wave "Giant Jukebox" Hi all, The AM tie in? Well known DXer, and NRC webmaster, Kraig Krist has a guest segment weekly on this show. Give a listen on Mighty KBC broadcast Saturday's 0000-0200 UT [Sunday! gh], 7375 kHz via Nauen, Germany. Kraig is also an IRCA member if someone wants to post it to that list also. 73 (Wayne Heinen, Nov 9, NRC-AM via DXLD) Around what time, Kraig? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 0145/0200 ** NEW ZEALAND. 6170, Nov 8 at 1406, fair signal, YL ending news with sports scores, program preview on Radio New Zealand National, then NZ weather. RNZ International has done it again! Gone back to ex-A-13 frequency instead of 5950 for B-13. Why does this keep happening? Lack of oversight vs the computer-controlled transmitting schedule? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. RNZI music block at 1006 UT --- Sometimes early on weekday mornings I hear great blues, jazz, and rock music on Radio New Zealand, and I never really tried to establish if this was a regular feature, or just an occasional feature - like their Sounds of the Pacific programming, which is fantastic Polynesian music that they only seem to play when they need to fill time. I've looked at the RNZI website, but I can't make sense of it, but I'm fairly confident that this is a regular weekday program at 10 UT. After the 5 minutes of news, they fill the hour with an eclectic mix of blues, jazz, and rock, either in the form of recorded concerts or canned documentary-type programming featuring various artists or groups. For anybody who likes blues, jazz, or rock it is well worth checking out. All the best, (Kent D Murphy, WV, Nov 5, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Current frequency during the 10 UT hour is 9765 AM; and 9870 DRM. RNZ International schedule shows `Late Edition` news magazine at 11 pm local. BUT, they must not really be doing it, tho a bit early to be off for summer holidays; instead defaulting to the RNZ National schedule, which shows e.g. for the week of Nov 11-17: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/schedules Mon 11:06 PM Full-Time Blues Radio 6 of 12 from PRX [USA] Tue 11:06 PM WOMAD Taranaki 2013 --- Highlights from this year's WOMAD Festival in Taranaki (8 of 13, RNZ) Wed 11:06 PM Jazz Time -- Latin & Afro Cuban Jazz (4 of 10, PRX) Thu 11:06 PM The Music Mix --- Nick Atkinson presents a contemporary music magazine with interviews and music from NZ and overseas artists, coverage of new releases, tours, live sessions, music festivals and events (RNZ) Fri 11:06 PM The Last Year in the Life of The Beatles (4 of 5, PRI) Sat 11:06 PM The Last Year in the Life of The Beatles (5 of 5, PRI) Sun 10:45 PM Wayne's Music --- Wayne Mowat presents a selection of tunes too good to be forgotten (RNZ) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency change of Radio New Zealand International in DRM: 1551-1650 NF 9630 RAN 025 kW / 035 deg to Cook Isl, Samoa, Tonga, ex 7285 (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX RE MIX NEWS #803 November 9, 2013, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. NIGÉRIA, 6089.9, R. Nigeria, Kaduna, 2237-2251, 08/11, dialecto local, texto, refs. a Kaduna, cânticos; 54433. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [and non]. 9690-, Nov 8 at 2107 is the first time I have rechecked the V. of Nigeria Hausa collision with VOA Hausa, as I discovered on November 4, registered until 2100 via France, from 2100 via UK. Now I am only hearing VON on its signature off-frequency 9689.9, so has VOA moved by now, or is Europe just not propagating? Somewhat: Greece is fair on 9420; India better on 9445. I look around the 31m band for a new VOA Hausa channel; nothing obvious. 9800 has DW English via Rwanda rather poorly; 9815 has a poor signal from algo --- that`s listed as VOA French M-F until 2130 via São Tomé, but also in Hausa at 2030-2100 on Saturdays only. The Nov 8 HFCC still has VOA Hausa on 9690 at 2030-2130 M-F. Maybe by Monday Nov 11? Or they could have just deleted 9690 without replacing it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also U S A ** NIGERIA. 15120, V. of Nigeria: Nov 08 0810-0828, 35333, English, Talk, ID at 0812 and 0823 Nov 10 1547-1558*, 35333, English, Talk, ID at 1556, Closing announce at 1557, IS from 1558, 1558 sign off (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC- R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, Japan, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6935-AM, Nov 9 at 0121, very poor signal with music, right on frequency compared to 6115 WWCR, and adjacent to the only other pirate activity, also in AM on 6940. 0126, some pulsing dance music on 6935, now a bit stronger than 6940. Maybe Liquid Radio, on from 2241 Nov 8 per this thread, but could be something else now: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,13706.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6940+AM, Nov 9 at 0121 very poor signal with music, slightly on the hi side, and adjacent to the only other pirate activity, also in AM on 6935. At 0125 an announcement on 6940, mentions ``90s to the 70s``. This thread IDs it as Radio True North: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,13714.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORWAY. LLE3 - 5895 kHz - Bergen Kringkaster - Erdal, Askoy Is. (NOR) - QSL. Salen con sólo 50 W. en onda corta y, flojito, pero llegan! La capté el pasado 15 de octubre entre las 0700 y las 0800Z. Lo más fácil de oír era el código morse, pero también algunas frases de la identificación de vez en cuando. Envié el informe por correo-e y esta mañana he recibido una carta-QSL con mucha información sobre la estación y varias fotos. Tienen una tarjeta QSL física que se puede obtener enviando los informes de recepción por correo postal, adjuntando sellos noruegos o 3$. Las emisiones se anuncian en diferentes grupos DX cada semana (suelen ser los martes y miércoles por la mañana y los jueves por la tarde) y las direcciones a las que dirigir los informes de recepción son: Box 100, N5331 RONG, NORWAY o report@... [truncated, big help] (Info TNX Mauricio Molano, Spain. http://moladx.blogspot.it 2 Nov via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) q.v. for many other illustrated QSL reports; see also DENMARK ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 800, Nov 8 circa 0410 UT, on I-35 near Edmond, I find that KQCV OKC English religion is getting buried by XEROK Ciudad Juárez in Spanish. This is not too surprising, considering that XEROK is 150 kW ND, while KQCV is 1 kW at night direxional protecting XEROK. Yet as far away as Enid I can pick either one by nulling the other, but no way to do that on the caradio. At least they are close to zero-beat (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1590, Nov 7 at 1849 UT, KWEY Weatherford barely audible with local mention. This was around Okarche OK on the road. I can`t hear it in Enid, and had suspected it was off the air, so was tuned to 1590 as heading south on US 81; once KVGB Great Bend KS could no longer be heard on groundwave, still nothing for a while. And shortly after exiting Okarche, which is NW of OKC, on SH 3 toward OKC, losing KWEY again. That`s because of their efficient 2-tower direxional pattern: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/314389-23611.pdf which has nulls toward 00-05, and 75 degrees, but a very broad pattern covering from NW to SE, peaking at 220 degrees. 1 kW day, 32 watts night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1640, Nov 8 circa 0410-0420 UT on I-35 between Edmond and Guthrie, KZLS ``Hennessey-OKC`` with True Oldies suffers heavy rapid SAH and QRM from presumed WTNI in Biloxi MS, which must still be on day power of 10 kW instead of 1 kW. It wouldn`t be nearly so bad if the two stations could be zero-beat. (As far as I can tell, KZLS is on-frequency, or very close, compared to other carriers in the daytime.) KZLS has the same problem along US 81 on the other side of OKC, despite its unusual direxional pattern with a lobe toward OKC. Altho that is legal, perhaps WTNI is illegally retaliating for KZLS causing them more QRM than it would otherwise near Biloxi. 1640, Nov 14 at 0620 UT, open carrier/dead air from KZLS, so I can hear ``ESPN 98.7`` thru it, I think that being their New York frequency altho this is certainly WTNI in Biloxi MS. Unknown for how long dead, as it`s late, and leaving the volume up would be risky (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. RF32, WQOS306, the TV-OK intercity relay transmitter at the same downtown Enid location as RF31, KXOK-LD, has been missing for a few days, as of Nov 12 at 1554 UT check. It `looked like` a regular ATSC DTV transmission with same stuff as on RF 31 but noticeably weaker signal. This was explained in DXLD 13-21: ``The RF32 signal is as you suggest, an STL licensed as a relay rather than broadcast. Its call sign is WQOS306. It's a very narrow-beam antenna, vertically polarized, aimed straight at the Lamont K35JY-D transmitter site (Trip Ericson, http://www.rabbitears.info ibid.)`` RF31 continues with TV-OK, Retro TV on main channel 31-1; 31-2 still constant full color bars only with PSIP as M-FOX; and 31-3 still black and silent with PSIP as Azteca. So KXOK has shrunk from six distinct program transmissions to one. RF32 was the original NTSC analog channel of KXOK, and I have wondered whether they also fired up the 32 DTV as ``protexion`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 15140, Nov 8 at 1429, rock music, better signal than usual, then Radio Sultanate of Oman ID, intro News, then Big-Ben type chimes appropriate for top of hour, 16 of them, rather than bottom of hour where there should be only 8, and furthermore, only one bong to follow. I think their original significance has been lost; time check, news theme and news. Recheck 1455 YL still/again in English. (BTW, I can`t believe how often I see SULTANATE misspellt, like Sultinate or Sultantate) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3905, NBC New Ireland, 1404*, Nov 6. Ham QRM, who mentioned there was music on the frequency and asked if he should join in singing? Off with usual children singing Anthem. Also heard Nov 7 before 1400 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3905, NBC New Ireland, 1329 & 1402*, Nov 8. DJ in Tok Pisin/Pidgin playing pop and C&W songs in English. Nice to find this is not on an automated shut down system; sign off time does vary and they always go off after anthem is sung by children, so must be done manually (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4774.90, Nov 3, 2301, R Tarma amazingly clear with two full IDs within 3 minutes giving the fqs for MW-SW-FM and also their website http://www.radiotarma.com Some 35 minutes later I checked again but the station was gone. The coming nights the signal has been heard as early as 2145. JOE (John Ekwall, Sweden, SW Bulletin Nov 10 via DXLD) Also excellent signal on Nov 9 at 2200 (Thomas Nilsson, ed., ibid.) ** PERU. 4985.5, Nov 9, 0058, R Visión Cristiana reactivated. Checked this frequency when I saw Dave’s log of a station here. Only noted a S4-5 carrier here Nov 9 at 0100 with very weak audio, making it almost impossible to get any details. But on Nov 9 at 2240 there was enough audio to compare with the webstream at http://www.radiovozcristianaperu.com/ and the religious program is the same from both channels. Some traces of Radio Brazil Central with football [4985.0?]. (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin Nov 10 via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DXLD) Off since July 2013 (Anker Petersen, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) ** PERU. 5980, Nov 9 at 0053, enough carrier to make out some modulation, probably R. Chaski; and certainly R. Chaski by the time it cuts off at 0103:25.5*, which is 16 seconds later than last check three days before. Meanwhile, Ian Baxter of shortwavesites says ``I found the approximate TX location of: Radio Chasqui, SW: 5980 kHz, here at: -13.359307 -72.111240`` --- ``Approximate`` --- to six decimal places?? BTW, as of tonite with colder weather, I am moving my evening monitoring on the portable DX-398, off the porch to inside, but as far from household noise sources as possible, with the main computer off; also a different short random wire running north-south but higher off ground that the usual one. The S/N level turns out to be better on some bands, worse on others. [non]. 5980, Nov 11 at 0101, my usual DX-398 setup is inconvenient, so I try to hear R. Chaski on the main FRG-7 and longwire. Heavy pulse jamming, tnx a lot, Arnie, but a JBA carrier under it; however, it`s still on at 0104 and probably result of overload by something else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, R. CHASKI, 08/11 2331 UT. Portadora con sobremodulación pero con mucho QRN de fondo, pero mejorando cerca de las 2342 en adelante cuando se escuchan himnos cantados coralmente más aviso de la emisora. Señal con SINPO: 33333. 5980, R. CHASKI, 10/11 2328 UT. Himno “Alma bendice al Señor”, interpretado de manera coral con identificación de la emisora. Señal con algo de sobremodulación y QRN con SINPO: 44343. 5980, R. CHASKI, 11/11 0028 UT. Música instrumental con algo de sobremodulación y SINPO: 43343 con QRM de otra emisora que toca música oriental ¿Voa o CNR-1 como jammer? (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 25 metros, QTH: Sector sur de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 5980, Nov 12 at 0048, very poor carrier with some modulation, no jamming tonight, until Chaski cut-off at 0103:41.5* which is 16 seconds later than 3 nights ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, R. CHASKI, 13/11 0102 UT. Aviso de la emisora con sobremodulación y muchísimo QRN con SINPO: 22222 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 25 metros, QTH: Sector sur de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 5980, Nov 13 at 0057, R. Chaski carrier is very poor but some modulation detectable; cut off at 0103:53* which is 11.5 seconds later than two nights ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. Pleased to see that Radio Pilipinas appears to have survived the typhoon. Radio Pilipinas, 15190, Tinang. Nov 8, 2013 Friday. *1728-1735. Came on air with sine wave at 1727-1728, music and song at 1728. Anthem music? 1731, ID “Radio Pilipinias” at 1732. Into other music and several more IDs. Fair. // 11890 and 9825 also on air, and much better reception. Jo'burg sunset 1630 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Bill, Nov 8, was expecting some special coverage of super typhoon Haiyan from Radio Pilipinas on 9825 // 11890 // 15190, while listening from 1831 to off at 1930*, but nothing special noted. Sounded rather ordinary. Was it because it was pre-recorded? Perhaps Radio Pilipinas at 0200 UT (Nov 9) will carry special coverage on 15285 //17820? Worth checking (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DXLD) R. Pilipinas: From West Indonesia, Nov. 9, 2013, first 20 minutes, 17820 //17700 heard poor but steadier than 15640 which was strong up to 0215 only before decreasing. ID, choir "we were united - anywhere in the world - seven thousand five hundred islands - one in heart - PBS". Speech on behalf of President Aquino wishing all the best to Filipino workers in all parts of the world. News read by OM Santos. Regards, (Tony Ashar, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DXLD) 17700, 09/Nov 0224, R Pilipinas in English. OM talk. At 0226 local pop music. 25332. At 0231 back OM, yet in English. Until at 0245 regular programming: OM talk and music. // 17820 very weak signal (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11890, 9/11 1730, R. Pilipinas - Manila Filippino, ID e NX su uragano in // a 15190, buono (Roberto Pavanello, Vercelli / Italia, via Roberto Scaglione, shortwave yg via DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. 9530, VOA (via Tinang) NOV 8, 1545. Hard to tell if VoA on or not with Chi-Comm jamming. Very loud strong signal, likely CNR-1, but covering F in Chinese underneath. At ToH, pips. Loud station off here and //s 9605 and 9825, but Yankee Doodle Dandy clearly heard, but at much less level than (presumed) CNR had been. 9605 left the air right off, 9530 remained on with OC. I'm calling it: Philippine site on. From what I could see on the wx reports, the eye would have passed well to the south of the relay site and, sadly, would have hit hardest slightly south of Tacloban City, Leyte, where my brother's wife is from (and where we still have a lot of family). (Rick Barton, AZ, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15155, 09/Nov 0056, PHILIPPINES (relay) VOA in English. OM Talk. At 0059 ID by YL and at 0100 time off. No signal of jammer Chinese in my QTH. 35433 (Jorge Freitas-B) 15205, 09/Nov 0104, PHILIPPINES (Relay), USA in English. OM talk. At 0105 OM and YL talk animatedly. No signal of jammer Chinese in my QTH. 35333. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. Radio Veritas Asia, Philippines also noted as usual at 0100 on 15530 in Telugu -- Thanking you, Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, UT Nov 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 9520, Nov 11 at 1327, English hymn gives way to ID loop at least thrice, in English with jazz music, from Radio Veritas Asia, Quezon City, stay tuned for the Sinhala broadcast at 1330 on 9520; good signal with a fast SAH. Squeezed between this and the China radio war on 9530 is a JBA carrier from 9526 INDONESIA. RVA has no use for English except as a continuity language. Obviously business as usual in the QC area while much of the country is suffering. 9520, Nov 12 at 1341, JBA carrier, still R. Veritas Asia in Sinhala? Yesterday it was in well. Still next to 9526- VOI also JBA carrier, which is still overrun by the 9530 China radio war even on `Exotic Indonesia` Tuesdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) /VATICAN STATE, RVA Manila B-13 schedule. Radio Veritas Asia - SHORTWAVE TRANSMISSION SCHEDULE, 27 October 2013 to 30 March 2014 Bengali 0030-0057 15265 1400-1430 11870 Myanmar 2330-2357 9720 1130-1157 15450 Filipino 2300-2327 15355 1500-1553 15320 [via CVA - Santa Maria de Galeria, Vatican state] Hindi 0030-0100 15280 1330-1400 11870 Hmong 1200-1227 11935 Kachin 2330-2357 9645 1230-1257 15225 Karen 0000-0030 11935 1200-1230 15225 Khmer 1000-1030 11850 Mandarin 2100-2257 6115 1000-1157 11945 Sinhala 0000-0027 11855 0000-0027 15460 1330-1400 9520 Tamil 0030-0057 11855 1400-1427 9520 Telugu 0100-0130 15530 1430-1500 11750 Urdu 0100-0127 15280 0100-0127 17860 1430-1457 15330 [via CVA - Santa Maria de Galeria, Vatican state] Vietnamese 2330-2357 9670 0130-0227 15530 1030-1127 11850 1300-1327 11850 Chin 0130-0157 15255 1430-1500 11870 (RVA Technical Dept, Nov 3 via BC-DX Nov 8 via DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. 15435, 09/Nov 0111, FEBC Manila (PRESUMED) in Chin- Thado (listed Aoki). YL talk. At 0113 gospel music. Many QRN and QRM unidentified. Does not seems to be my power grid. At 0116 possible start the program in Meitei, according list Aoki. Very weak signal, but I hear voices and music. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9425-9445, Nov 8 at 1424, extremely distorted FMy Chinese, as the FEBC 9430 transmitter is out of whack again. At 1502 the mess is narrower, closer to 9430. This does not happen every day; it was back in whack last few days after last blobbization heard on Nov 3. Can`t they tell this at Bocaue? Not correlated with typhoons, I think (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) But see also CHINA 9465, R. Teos via [FEBC Bocaue] Philippines, Nov 08 1501-1511, 34433, Russian, 1501 sign on with ID, Opening announce, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, Japan, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA [and non]. 7340, Nov 9 at 0119, RRI Romanian bihour to E North America has a LAH [low audible heterodyne]; now what could that be? Possibly a ute, and nothing else scheduled in HFCC, but Aoki shows AIR Urdu service from Mumbai at 0015-0430, which is certainly capable of being off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) v JAPAN ** RUSSIA. 6085, Radio Rossii via Krasnoyarsk (city in Siberia), 1305, Nov 8. News in Russian; 1310 "Radio Rossii" IDs; poor. Thanks to Dave Valko for the tip (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 7320, Nov 13 at 0625, good carrier but very undermodulated music, some flutter, 0626 Russian announcement. It`s R. Rossii, Magadan, 100 kW due northeast and also toward us. 5930, R. Rossii, Pet/Kam, Nov 13 at 0629 I check for // to 7320, but it`s not. At 0630, maybe it is, but not synchronized (which is the usual situation when both sites on same network feed 6 hours later on 5930, 5940). ACI to 7320 from 7325 increases circa 0629 as BBC switches from Woofferton to Ascension (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 5900, Nov 12 at 1326, open carrier, then talk in uncertain Asian language, 1329 VOR announcement and IS. HFCC shows Mongolian this hour, 100 kW due west from Vladivostok. Other VOR usage of 5900: 10-13 Mandarin, 14-15 English; plus Irkutsk English at 15-18. Don`t you believe SLBC defunct Ekala still listed with B-13 dates thru March 2014y, 35 kW at 1230-1630! I don`t think they *ever* used 5900 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [non]. ARMENIA: 9395, Voice of Russia; *2155:41-2209+, 7- Nov; Up abruptly mixing with Radio Algerienne (presumed) still on. On with English news in progress to VoR spot at 2158+ and again after ToH pips. "American Edition" headlines to 2205, then news commentary. SIO=4+54 after 2200. VoR in English via Armenia on 11985 at 1500 & 1800 there but not copyable -- could only catch an English word here & there (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) I noted over the weekend a change in ID announcements from Voice of Russia. I don't know whether this is to be a complete change but I repeatedly heard Radio VR as their identity. I wonder whether this will be adopted on all broadcasts? 73's (Dan Goldfarb, England, Nov 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) They were still saying "Voice of Russia" (two different presenters) at 1630 GMT today, at which time they were broadcasting from their London studios. But a change from Voice of Russia to VR would be in line with the change a few years ago from "Russia Today" to "RT" for the TV channel (Chris Greenway, Nov 11, ibid.) The Radio VR identification has been used from at least September 12. I did a talk on the history of the Voice of Russian for the Reading International Radio Group September 14, taped a part of their morning show from the DAB service in the UK and they were using it then (Mike Barraclough, England, ibid.) I heard the radio VR ID on Sept. 4. http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,12440.0.html I think this was also the last time VOR was heard on 9665 via Moldova (Dave Hughes, Nov 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6115, Nov 11 at 1258, a bit of jazz, but this time it`s not Nikkei as heard 6 hours earlier, see JAPAN; that supposedly stops at 1000. Then Chinese ID mentioning RUVR, IS, good with flutter, maybe some CCI. HFCC shows VOR, 11-14, 250 kW, 152 degrees from Irkutsk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Dan, Thanks for the alert. Rare that I actually listen to Russia, but did so Nov 13. Heard on 6115, via Vladivostok, from 1416 to 1457, in English and // to weaker 4960 via Dushanbe. Can indeed confirm your observations! It was obvious that the primary ID used was "Radio VR," much more so than the few "Voice of Russia" IDs. At 1425 “Burning Point” show (Ron Howard, California, ibid.) Not all VoR services have changed their ID's, not yet anyway. As a random check, I listened to some of today's on-demand audio files of their Portuguese, Russian and Turkish services - all still ID in their language equivalents as "Voice of Russia" (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, England, Nov 14, ibid.) ** RUSSIA. Letter from "Samara radio television transmitting center": Hello, Alexander, Sorry for the late reply to your question on the Wave of Tatarstan. And radio broadcasts from Krasnodar is temporary difficulties at the time of license renewal, broadcast from Novosibirsk should be carried out, although there is a similar problem. Indeed, on 27 Oct 2013 after the switch to winter schedule these sessions have moved to our colleagues in Krasnodar and Novosibirsk. Sincerely, Marat Yusupov Rinatovich, chief engineer Branch "RTRS" "Samara radio television transmitting center" ul. Soviet Army 205 443011, Samara, Russia. phone (846) 200-20-80, 231-01-99 fax. (846) 926-10-30 mob. 8-902-372-83-87 e-mail web (Alexander Golovihin-RUS, "open_dx" & "deneb-radio-dx", RUSdx Nov 3 via BC-DX Nov 8 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Exactly 70 years ago, completed the construction in Krasnodar regional radio stations. Very modern at the moment object created by its own platoon of the military draft. Praised the work perfectly. The Admissions Committee then stated that the transmitter broadcasts almost the whole region. The station became the foundation of today's broadcast. Fully Kuban radio waves covered about 50 years ago. Then the edge radio station replaced the Krasnodar radioteleperedayuschy center. Its location provides a 180-meter tower. These appeared in the major cities of province, says Victor Efimtsev. He came to work here 40 years ago, communication technician. Now - deputy head of department. - At the present time, several generations of radio equipment. Through this equipment, we passed a signal at the first radio link Krasnodar - Kanev. While the engineers, mechanics and electricians due KRTPTS have imposed frequency in the province, the Tbilisi district built a more powerful radio center. In Soviet times, such in the country was only 11. Nearly 600 acres of land here is lined with antennas. The complex can transmit information anywhere in the world: Africa, Europe, North America and even Antarctica. "This is Antarctica . It was during the Soviet era, when the expeditions which were from the Soviet Union ensured broadcasting in Russian from here, from this radio center ", - said Viktor Mokhov , deputy section chief of the branch KRTPTS. A total of 16 transmitters radio center. They receive programs via a satellite, and then the signal supplied to the antennas. They send information to hundreds of thousands of kilometers to consumers. All the work stations is a so -called chain. Some other signal points is transmitted, and thus it covers a large area. Each radio tower broadcasts a radius of 70 kilometers. And the rhythm control room. It is KRTPTS, here and there handing out programs. - Can control the "first radio", "Kazakh FM», the rest of the program. Even the TV volume control, for example, "the Ninth Channel." During the decades of broadcasting Kuban engulfed not only the territory of the region. Today, the radio sounds a lot better. In addition to regional stations on the radio market Kuban and federal work, although it may not be the limit. The new digital format will bypass and broadcasting. However, when it moves, it is not known. (Author: Angelica Efimova , 05.11.2013, http://9tv.ru/news/item/43426 via Moscow Information DX Bulletin, Weekly electronic publication # 866, November 5, 2013, The editor of the current issue: Alexander Dementyev, via RusDX via DXLD) ** RWANDA. 6055, Radio Rwanda, 1500-1507, Nov 6. Series of four languages with news headlines; today in vernacular / French / vernacular / English - so not always the same language order! Five East African Community states have ranked Rwanda the least corrupt country in the region, peacekeeping troops head to Mali, etc. Very nice to be able to occasionally have decent reception for this news segment! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RE: Radio Rwanda news headlines - After more monitoring, believe I can safely say the four languages used at 1500 for the new headlines, separated by unique theme music, are Kinyarwanda, French, English and Swahili, but not always in that order. Also I noted these news headlines on Sunday (Nov 10) at 1500 (item about the peace negotiations in the Congo with the UN special envoy, etc.), so in fact they do have some news on the weekend. The only question now is do they have headlines on Saturday? I believe that day is devoted to sports coverage, but is that always the case? (Ron Howard, California, Nov 11, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAN ANDRES. 18146-USB, Nov 10 at 2046, 5J0R with quick contacts; calling different continents, Oceania, Africa, South America, VK/ZL, no takers so back to the N American pileups. This may be paired with the piles on 18130, but it`s hard to tell since the pileuppers spout nothing but their own callsigns hoping to override the QRM. There`s another pileup on 18155-USB, for what? Hey, I`m beginning to think this is no fun at all! I was looking for the Wake Island K9W DXpedition on nominal 18140, but unfound on ``17`` meters. QRZ.com: 5J0R San Andrés Island Dxpedition IOTA NA-033 QSL via EA5RM San Andrés and Providencia All about this DX-pedition ending Nov 11: http://www.dxfriends.com/SanAndres2013/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LI STENING DIGEST) 5J0, SAN ANDRES ISLAND. By the time you read this, members of the "DX Friends" from San Andres Island (NA-033) as 5J0R should be going QRT. As of 0212z on November 10th, they made 70049 QSOs with 20509 Unique callsigns. QSL via EA5RM direct (see Web page). You can use the OQRS (see Web page) for direct and Bureau cards. Visit their Web page at: http://www.dxfriends.com/SanAndres2013 (Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 1136, November 11, 2013, Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio), via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** SARAWAK [non]. 2/11, 9835, RTM at 19xx with again nice Malay top hits (Ramlah Ram, Iwan, Ella, Visa). In finally best reception (and clear) is between 1900-2100 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11665, 09/Nov 1037, MALAYSIA, RTM WAI FM in Malay. Local pop music. At 1041 YL talk. At 1044 ID vignetting, then. Good signal, 45444. 9835, 09/Nov 1046, MALAYSIA, RTM Sarawak FM in Malay. Local pop music. At 1049 OM talk, then more local pop music. 35433 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Intruder list for RTM Sarawak 9835 UTC 9830 9835 9840 1600 CNR (poor) RTM R Liberty Russian 1630 AWR Tajik (strong) RTM 1700 CNR 1 NHK + RTM 1730 - NHK + RTM 1800 - RTM R Liberty BLR 1830 - RTM 1900 - RTM WHRI Eng – poor 1930 - RTM 2000 CNR 1 RTM KBS Arabic (strong)+ a poor 2030 AWR French RTM KBS Arabic (strong)+ a poor 2100 AWR English RTM - 2130 CNR RTM - 2200 CNR CNR (strong /jammer) & RFA Tibetan - (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, Nov 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SARAWAK [non]. 15420, R. Free Sarawak via Taiwan, Nov 08 1222- 1230*, 35433 English, Talk, ID at 1229, 1230 sign off (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, Japan, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 9675, Nov 11 at 2042, fair signal with Turkish talk, and 2044 music mixed, so is it TRT? No, HFCC shows BSKSA in Turkish here at 1800-2100, 500 kW, 340 degrees from Riyadh, so also USward. Off at 2108 check. Encountered when I was hunting for VOA Hausa new frequency. 9555, Nov 11 at 2109, poor-fair in Arabic with music background. Aoki shows R. Riyadh, General first program, at 1755-2300, 500 kW, 295 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SLOVAKIA [non]. WRN tell me: On Nov 14, 15, 16 we will test drm/am simulcast 1830-1900 UT for Radio Slovakia in German 5810 kHz DRM and 5820 kHz AM (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SLOVENIA. 21300-USB, Nov 9 at 1525, Mike, near Ljubljana, says it`s a special event call, but never pronounced slowly and clearly: sounded like S560R, i.e. with three numbers in the middle. Leads nowhere in QRZ.com nor other permutations tried. Ideas? Said he was going QRT for an hour. 425 DX News has previously reported such format calls for special events in Slovenia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020, Nov 9 at 1159, pulling a JBA carrier aside 5025 Cuba, just in time to hear it cut off at 1200:00* sharp, i.e. SIBC autotimer. No time to confirm it`s on the lo side of 5020. Two minutes earlier tried to do the same on Micronesia 4755.5, but missed it, or still inactive. Otherwise, Pacific signals on 60, 75 and 90 metres have been pitiful. Nothing detected on 90m from PNG (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. 7120-, Nov 14 at 1346 VP carrier maybe with some music; as an also very weak LSB ham is right on the same frequency. The AM carrier, presumed R. Hargeisa by long-path is slightly low compared to 1120 KMOX. Cuts off the air at 1359:50* as usual close to 1400 for a one-hour break (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Sentech B-13 from Oct 27, 2013, til 30 March, 2014. 3255 0500 0600 52SE,53SW,57N 100 0 1234567 Eng AFS BBC BAB ENAFE_S 3255 1600 2000 52SE,53SW,57N 100 0 1234567 Eng AFS BBC BAB ENAFE_S 3320 1800 0400 57NW 100 275 1234567 Afr AFS SAB SNT 3345 0300 0400 52SE,53W,57N 100 5 .23456. Eng AFS CAF SNT 4880 1700 1859 53SW 100 5 1.....7 Und AFS BAB BAB 4880 1700 1859 53SW 100 5 .23456. Und AFS BAB BAB 4895 1630 1730 57N,53SW 100 0 .2..... Eng AFS SRL SNT 5820 1930 2000 46,47,48,5253 100 0 12345.. eng AFS RTE WRN 6155 0300 0400 48,53NW,52E,47250 19 .23456. Eng AFS CAF SNT 6180 1900 1933 46S,47S,52 250 320 1234567 Por AFS RFI TDF 6190 0500 0600 52SE,53SW,57N 100 15 1234567 Eng AFS BBC BAB ENAFE_S 6190 0600 0800 52SE,53SW,57N 100 0 1234567 Eng AFS BBC BAB ENAFE_S 6190 1600 2000 52SE,53SW,57N 100 15 1234567 Eng AFS BBC BAB ENAFE_S 7205 0800 0900 57N,53SW 100 0 1...... Eng AFS SRL SNT 7230 0400 0700 52SE,53W,57N 100 5 .23456. Eng AFS CAF SNT 7285 0400 0700 57NW 100 275 1234567 Afr AFS SAB SNT 7465 1800 1830 53S 250 76 1234567 Fra AFS BBC BAB FRENA_S 9410 1800 1830 48 250 32 1234567 Som AFS BBC BAB SOMLA 9625 0700 1200 52SE,53W,57N 100 5 .23456. Eng AFS CAF SNT 9625 1200 1300 52SE,53W,57N 100 5 .23456. Nya AFS CAF SNT 9625 1300 1400 52SE,53W,57N 100 5 .23456. Loz AFS CAF SNT 9625 1400 1500 52SE,53W,57N 100 5 .23456. Por AFS CAF SNT 9625 1500 1600 52SE,53W,57N 100 5 .23456. Eng AFS CAF SNT 9650 0700 1800 57NW 100 275 1234567 Afr AFS SAB SNT 9665 0430 0500 47E,48S,52E,53500 19 1234567 Swa AFS RFI TDF 9755 1700 1730 52 250 328 1234567 Por AFS RFI TDF 9860 0600 0800 52SE,53SW,57N 100 15 1234567 Eng AFS BBC BAB ENAFE_S 9870 1700 1730 52 250 328 1234567 Por AFS RFI TDF 11605 0500 0600 46SE,47,52 100 345 1234567 Fra AFS RFI TDF 11605 0600 0700 46SE,47,52 100 345 1234567 Fra AFS RFI TDF 11610 1730 1800 48E,48SW 100 35 1234567 Som AFS IBR BAB FE02 11740 1730 1800 48E,48SW 100 35 1234567 Som AFS IBR BAB 11750 1930 2000 46SE 250 328 1234567 Ibo AFS AWR AWR 11755 2000 2030 46E,47W 250 328 1234567 Fra AFS AWR AWR 11755 2030 2100 46SE 250 328 1234567 Yor AFS AWR AWR 11770 1700 1730 48SW,53NW 250 19 1234567 Swa AFS AWR AWR 11770 1730 1800 48SW,53NW 250 19 1234567 Mas AFS AWR AWR 11780 1800 1830 47,52 250 328 1234567 Eng AFS NHK NHK 11790 0530 0600 47E,48S,52E,53100 15 1234567 Swa AFS RFI TDF -22 Feb 11800 1800 1830 46E,47W 250 328 1234567 Eng AFS NHK BAB 11800 1800 1830 47,52 250 328 1234567 Eng AFS NHK NHK 11830 1830 1900 48SW,52E,53NW 250 19 1234567 Eng AFS AWR AWR 11845 1800 1830 48 100 30 1234567 Som AFS BBC BAB SOMLA 11925 0500 0600 48SW,53NW 250 7 ......7 Kin AFS BBC BAB KRWNA 11925 0529 0600 48SW,53NW 250 7 1...... Kin AFS BBC BAB KRWNA 12095 0600 0700 47SW,52 100 335 1234567 Eng AFS BBC BAB ENAFW_C 15160 0530 0600 47E,48S,52E,53100 15 1234567 Swa AFS RFI TDF Feb 23- 15170 0600 0700 46SE,47,52 100 340 1234567 Fra AFS RFI TDF 15170 0700 0800 46SE,47SW,52 250 328 1234567 Fra AFS RFI TDF 15235 1600 1700 46,47,52 250 340 .23456. Fre AFS CAF SNT 15235 1700 1800 46,47,52 250 340 .23456. Eng AFS CAF SNT 15255 0600 0700 46,47,52 250 328 .23456. Eng AFS CAF SNT 15260 1930 2000 46S 250 315 1234567 Ful AFS AWR AWR 15360 1500 1600 47E,48S,52E,53250 7 1234567 Swa AFS RFI TDF 15480 0400 0600 38E,39,47N,48N250 19 1234567 Ara AFS AWR AWR 15490 0500 0600 48SW,53NW 250 5 ......7 Kin AFS BBC BAB KRWNA 15490 0529 0600 48SW,53NW 250 5 1...... Kin AFS BBC BAB KRWNA 15790 1630 1700 48SW,53NW 250 7 .23456. Kin AFS BBC BAB KRWNA 15790 1830 1900 48SW,53NW 250 7 .23456. Kin AFS BBC BAB KRWNA 17660 1200 1300 46SE,47,52N 250 342 1234567 Fra AFS RFI TDF 17690 1500 1700 48 250 32 ......7 Som AFS BBC BAB SOMLA 17710 1000 1100 46S-48S,52-53W,57 250 1234567 Swa AFS DWL DWL 17760 0800 0900 48,53W 250 19 1...... Eng AFS SRL SNT 17770 1500 1600 48,47E,52E,53W250 19 .23456. Swa AFS CAF SNT 17830 0700 0800 47SW,52 250 328 1234567 Eng AFS BBC BAB ENAFW_C 17870 1630 1700 48SW,53NW 100 7 .23456. Kin AFS BBC BAB KRWNA 17880 0700 0729 47S,52N,52SE 250 342 1234567 Fra AFS BBC BAB FRENA_C (hfcc B-13 Sentec entries, Nov 3, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 8 via DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. GERMANY(non) Brother Stair, instead of Pan American Broadcasting via MBR: 1500-1600 on 15260 ISS 100 kW / 085 deg to WeAs English Sunday, November 3 (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX RE MIX NEWS #803 November 9, 2013, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Cancelled transmissions of Brother Stair via Media Broadcast 1200-1400 on 15325 NAU 100 kW / 085 deg to EaEu English 1200-1400 on 17690 NAU 100 kW / 090 deg to N/ME English Mon-Fri 1200-1400 on 17690 ISS 100 kW / 077 deg to N/ME English Sat/Sun 2000-2200 on 9490 NAU 100 kW / 175 deg to NoAf English 2100-2300 on 9465 NAU 125 kW / 299 deg to NoAm English 2100-2300 on 11955 NAU 125 kW / 250 deg to SoAm English Current schedule of Brother Stair TOM via Media Broadcast: 1400-1600 on 9460 NAU 100 kW / 270 deg to WeEu English Mon-Fri 1400-1600 on 9460 MOS 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu English Sat/Sun 1400-1600 on 13810 ISS 100 kW / 120 deg to N/ME English (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, DX Re Mix News Nov 11 via DXLD) ** SPAIN. RNE: REG/LOCAL schedule in UT, winter time. M-F: 0625-0630 REG RN // R5 0650-0700 REG RN // R5 0745-0800 LOCAL R5 0805-0910 REG R5 0830-0845 LOCAL R5 1125-1130 REG R5 1210-1300 REG RN // R5 1830-1900 REG R5 Sa-Su: 0805-0815 REG R5 1230-1300 REG RN // R5 CEUTA & MELILLA: They produce M-F the RN blocks and the 0745 and 0830 ones on R5 73! (Mauricio Molano, Salamanca, ESPAÑA - SPAIN RX site: Aldea del Cano, Cáceres. LAT: 39º17'09.70 N LONG: 6º19'00 W RX: PERSEUS. ANT: WELLBROOK ALA1530S+ http://moladx.blogspot.com/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 6065, Radio Exterior España, at 2005, on 11/9. Male announcer speaking in English to 2 people who produced films. One of the films had a title of “Beam me Up!” Good (John Cooper, PA, WinRadio-G33DDC Excalibur Pro, RF Space SDR-IQ, Grundig Satellit- 750, Tecsun PL-660, Wellbrook ALA 1530+ Imperium, All Band Tuned Super Sloper. PARS SWL End Fed Sloper, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ?? Not scheduled on 6065 at all. Did you perhaps mean 6055 at 0005 UT? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 11680, poor Nov 11 at 2105, REE`s Brazilian-accented YL in Portuguese service, with clips of someone in Castilian. HFCC shows this hour only in Spanish. Aoki is correct with Portuguese, 21-22 M-F (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 21630, Nov 9 after 1400, REE is still here on ill-chosen new frequency, colliding with BBC Hausa via ASCENSION until 1430. At 1509, now it`s colliding with WHRI, gospel huxter in English! and making a SAH. REE supposedly stops 21630 at 1600, and on weekends only, WHRI starts 21630 at 1500 instead of 1600. 21630 is carrying a silly ballgame, // 17595, but at 1511, 21610 is NOT --- instead alternative programming with a YL talking about YL affairs. (21540 is just Kuwait; Spain`s other collision would have closed at 1500.) SBG still going on 17595 at 1535 check. 21630, Nov 10 at 1401, REE is still here despite collision with ASCENSION, BBC Hausa. After `Amigos de la Onda Corta`, which I was listening to on better 17595, at 1355 they announced there would be a frequency change from 21630 to 21640 at 13-17 for listeners in Central America, so they are doing something about this clash, but not yet today. Recheck 1446 Nov 10, still on 21630 as well as 21610. This also resolves the collision with WHRI after 1500 weekends on 21630, which I still heard yesterday. NOW: how about getting off 21540 vs Kuwait? 21630, Nov 11 at 1359, REE is still here, // 21610, and colliding with Ascension BBC Hausa from 1400 on 21630; despite announcement yesterday that would move to 21640; like when? 21630, Nov 12 at 1353, REE is still here // 21610, and at 1355 once again canned announcement that 21630 is moving to 21640, but when? Madrid, please tell Noblejas about it! 21630 is still heard at 1452; and the third REE 13m channel remains on 21540 colliding with Kuwait. HFCC Nov 11 now shows both 21630 and 21640 with identical parameters at 13-17, and both for the entire B-13 datespan. 21630, Nov 13 at 1411, BBC Hausa via ASCENSION still has CCI from REE which stupidly moved onto this frequency for B-13, and despite announcement they have been running the last few days circa 1355 about an imminent switch to 21640 at 13-17. Still nothing there! And 21540 is still mixing with KUWAIT producing a SAH; while 21610 remains the only REE 13m channel in the clear. Checked again Nov 14 at 1355, better heard on 17595: same canned announcement, says lunes a viernes para Centroamérica at 13-17 will be on new 21640 instead of 21630; more info at radioexterior.es --- Going there leads to an unfound but http://www.radioexterior.es forwards to http://www.rtve.es/radio/radio-exterior/ where there is a link to Nuevas Frecuencias para América y África: http://www.rtve.es/radio/20131022/nuevas-frecuencias-para-america-africa/772240.shtml but clicking on that also leads to ``not available``. Looks like REE`s web is just as screwed up as their broadcasting, as 21630 continues on air yet another day colliding with BBC Ascension from 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. Cancelled broadcasts of Sudan Radio Service from November 1: 0400-0530 13720 DHA 250 kW / 255 deg to NEAf Arabic EDC Darfur Program 1600-1730 17745 WOF 250 kW / 135 deg to NEAf Arabic EDC Darfur Program (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX RE MIX NEWS #803 November 9, 2013, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. 15550.10, R. Tamazuj via UAE, Nov 10 0427-0430*, 43443, Arabic, ID at 0427, Closing announce, 0430 sign off. 15550.10, R. Dabanga via UAE, Nov 10 *0430-0437, 43443, Arabic, 0430 sign on with IS, IS and SJ and ID, Opening announce, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, Japan, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. 5010, Radio Taiwan International (list log), 2246, 5-Nov; M&W alternating in Mandarin Chinese. SIO=3+53; still there at2310. Not in 10/31 Aoki, but in 11/5 update (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) Or CNR1 jammer which is what everyone was reporting here first. When Taiwan is involved, *always* assume first what you are hearing is most likely a ChiCom jammer, u.o.s.! (gh, DXLD) see CHINA for more 5010, RTI presumed the one in Mandarin at 2217 with a man and woman with excited talk then a fanfare at 2218 and a number of promos with a woman with talk over light music - Fair Nov 10 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, ON, Alinco DX-70, Drake SPR-4, inverted vee or delta loop, ODXA YRX via DXLD) ?? Why assume it was RTI rather than CNR1 jamming which is likely to dominate and has been reported by several others? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. Critical Distance - March 2013 - Taiwan PaLi Always lots of interesting material on Jonathan's Blog http://criticaldistance.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/radio-liberty-relayed-via-taiwan.html Which leads to this site: http://coldwarradios.blogspot.de/2010/12/voice-from-east-radio-liberty_22.html Unfortunately the two YouTube Videos are no longer accessible. None-the-less that material is of interest, particularly the early photograph of the PaLi SW TX site. I've a special interest in this early SW TX site having visited there in the past (after the site closed). I noted earlier this year that more of the buildings have been removed along with the surrounding security wall of the site - according to recent GE & SV imagery. Would love to procure more earlier imagery material of this site. I have met one of the engineers who used to work there. Unfortunately he didn't have any photographs of the site or any historical material. I understand that RTI doesn't retain any either. Requests to BCC (owner of the site) via RTI resulted in a non-cooperation stance on the part of the BCC, now a private commercial broadcast entity (Ian Baxter, Nov 10, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** TAIWAN [non]. Frequency change of PCJ Radio International from Nov 3: 1330-1430 NF 11990 TRM 125 kW / 045 deg to EaAs English Sun, ex 11835 (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX RE MIX NEWS #803 November 9, 2013, DX LISTENING DIGEST) But changed again on short notice to: 9705 (gh) ** TAJIKISTAN. Radio Free Asia on strange frequency via Dushanbe: 1500-1600 NF 5832 DB 200 kW / 125 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex nom. 5825 (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX RE MIX NEWS #803 November 9, 2013, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Same site habitually puts V. of Tibet on split frequencies, so why not RFA? Helps evade jamming? (gh, DXLD) ** TATARSTAN. Kazan. 7 November 0410 on 11790 kHz accept the Na Volne Tatarstana. Transfer anniversary is in Russian. Began with a story about the academic history of the Tatar people. Since 0440 is a musical show with stories about the history of radio in Tatarstan. Transmission began with a weak signal. SINPO - 35333. Signal began to rise. in 0415, in 0440 SINPO - 55444. Complete the transfer in 0459. (Alexander Golovihin, Tolyatti, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX 10 Nov via DXLD) See also RUSSIA ** THAILAND. Radio Thailand B-13 schedule till March 30, 2014 0000-0030 English 13745 US-East *Live 0030-0100 English 13745 US-West *Live 0100-0200 Thai 13745 US-West 0200-0230 English 13745 US-East 0230-0330 Thai 13745 US-East 0530-0600 English 12015 Eastern Europe/Russia *Live 1000-1100 Thai 17630 Middle East 1030-1100 Thai 1575 SoEaAS 1100-1130 Thai 1575 SoEaAS Mon-Fri only 1100-1115 Vietnamese 5875 Asia-Pacific 1115-1130 Khmer 5875 Asia-Pacific 1130-1145 Lao 5875 Asia-Pacific 1145-1200 Burmese 5875 Asia-Pacific 1200-1230 Thai 1575 SoEaAS Mon-Fri only 1200-1215 Malaysian 9390 Asia-Pacific 1230-1300 English 9390 Asia-Pacific 1300-1315 Japanese 9390 Asia-Pacific 1315-1330 Mandarin 9390 Asia-Pacific 1330-1400 Thai 9390 Asia-Pacific 1400-1430 English 9390 Asia-Pacific 1800-1900 Thai 9940 Europe 1900-2000 English 9965 Europe 2000-2015 German 9535 Europe 2030-2045 English 9535 Europe 2045-2115 Thai 9535 Europe 2230-2400 Thai 1575 SoEaAS Sun-Thur only. Radio Thailand, World Services (HSK9), Public Relations Department, Royal Thai Government 236 Vibhavadi Rangsit Road, Din Daeng, Bangkok 10400, Thailand Tel +662 6919917 Fax +662 2776139 e-mail (via Wolfgang Büschel, Nov 3, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 8 via DXLD) 2/11, 9940, V of Thailand, 1845 with traditional Thai song, then talks in Thai, S10 max with sudden signoff 9965, V of Thailand, 1900 with program in English and ID at 1901 with news (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. 15520, Nov 9 at 1400, fair signal in presumed Tibetan, as in Aoki, VOT via MADAGASCAR at 1400-1428; not in HFCC B-13, nor on former 15525; no jamming audible but probably just not propagating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UGANDA. 4976, R. Uganda, Kampala, 1922-1939, 08/11, inglês, texto, entrevistas; 45332, modulação pouco clara e algo débil. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE [non]. 3985, Nov 6 2115, R Ukraina Int. many IDs, schedules, in German, songs. Via Kall, Germany presumed, fair (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DXLD) 20 kW per HFCC (gh, DXLD) ** UKRAINE. Re: ``Brovarskiy radio center. In October, was demolished 260-foot radio tower (built in 1972), which prior to 1 January 2013 on 549 kHz broadcast UR-2 ("Promin"), and before that - the UR-1 to 207 kHz.`` This was the last antenna for high power LW/MW broadcasting there, after a 180 metres mediumwave mast had already been demolished in June, as the photos on the referenced page show (the ShARRT-257 antenna is featured only still intact, anything else on this page is "this reminds of"). So essentially no AM broadcasting facilities exist in Kiev area anymore (Kai Ludwig, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. Keith Perron posted in the PCJ Media and PCJ Radio Facebook group: November 13 2013 --- In the wake of Typhoon Haiyan the BBC World Service has extended some of its hours on shortwave until next week. 0900 to 1500 UT 0000 to 0200 UT 11825 kHz 12010 kHz 17790 kHz What I find very annoying is that let's say you were listening on air, you would hear no mention of it in Newshour or any of the other current affairs programs. They post it online, but since the internet is down in the area they are trying to reach how is someone going to find out. Why not mention it in their programs? (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. 15255, Nov 8 at 2131, fair signal with flutter in Bambara --- this must be one of VOA`s B13 frequencies for their newest language, to Mali. One can make out some French words mixed in. I soon find it`s // inbooming 13670 which was also the A-13 frequency for this via Greenville; yet it`s not strong enough to muscle aside the TADIL-A bonker which has invaded the 22m SWBC broadcast band on the lo side of 13670. Continuing my all-bandscan, at 2134 I come across another VOA Bambara on 9620. Now comparing the DX-398 and the G-8 easily tuned to Greenville, I find none of them are synchronized: 9620 is 3 seconds behind 13670, while 15255 is 4 seconds behind 13670. Looked up later, HFCC confirms these: 15255 via Ascension, 9620 via São Tomé, and 13670 via Greenville. There are very few Bam entries in HFCC B-13, but one more for this M-F only at 2130-2200 from VOA is 7325 via Ascension; that one should match the 15255 delay. In fact the *only* other Bambara broadcast is Saudi Arabia on 17650 at 16-18, which needs to be confirmed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also NIGERIA [and non] re 9690 et al. VOA Radiogram this weekend (9-10 November) will include a transmission in Thor100, in addition to the usual MFSK modes. There will also be more tests of the new long-interleave modes MFSK64L and MFSK128L. Details here: voaradiogram.net/post/66367923964/voa-radiogram-9-10-november-will- include-thor100 (Kim Elliott, dxldyg via DXLD) Today there was noise interference from a jammer on 17870 kHz. This affected particularly the upper sideband of VOA broadcasts. Nevertheless, even with SAM-USB there were no errors in the fast modes. Therefore: The first winner is the SAM-mode in STUDIO1! Only in the AM mode, there were mistakes that allowed a comparison of the three fast modes. The clear winner here: MFSK 128L. So, not only my ears but also FLDIGI feels better with "SAM" of STUDIO1...... http://www.rhci-online.de/VoA_Radiogram_2013-11-09.htm (roger, Germany, ibid.) ** U S A [and non]. 9790, Nov 11 at 0157, VOA finishing `Today in History`, poor with flutter, and mixed with `Soviet`? tune-up tones. Then an editorial ``reflecting American ideals and institutions``, about natch, Veterans` Day. Exactly same wording for outro, *no longer* refers to being official views from the US Government!!! But of course, it is; now listeners are supposed to find these mandated editorials more friendly, acceptable? They were usually pretty bland and generic, anyway. Outro cut short, for loop IDs as ``RFE/RL, Praha`` a few times, and off, uncovering the weaker pre-beeping signal. HFCC as of today claims IBB used 9790, 250 kW, 300 degrees from Udorn, THAILAND, for the Week of Confusion only, ending 02 November! But here it is nine days later. As for the understation, HFCC shows VOR in Russian, 02-04, 250 kW, 117 degrees from Moskva site, thru the entire B-13 season (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 9689.1, Nov 11 at 2041, one station in Hausa, and it`s off-frequency V. of Nigeria, as now for sure, VOA has vacated 9690 which it started using B-13 at 2030-2130 M-F via France and UK, also in Hausa! Until we exposed this horrible collision last week. Still no replacement found on 31m for VOA. (Today`s Nov 11 HFCC still shows VOA Hausa 2030-2100 on 9690 via Issoudun, but followed at 2100-2130 in French instead of Hausa, via Woofferton. But not heard at 2108 either, VON still sole (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO ON INTERNET --- Glenn, since you gave the latest schedule for WOR on SW, I thought some updates about WOR on internet might be valuable. Both of these sites use Eastern time, but, for the convenience of everyone, I am using UT times and days. WOR on ACB Radio: In previous years, I think I remember that ACB Radio did not change its schedule when we changed the time. This year seems to be different, programs are one hour later. Thus, the daily cycle starts at 02:00 UT, and repeats every four hours. Note: I am not sure if it is a four hour rotation every day. It is so on Friday. World of Radio is heard at 0200 Friday, and repeated every four hours that day. Note: they seem to fade down WOR during the last minute, which, thus, is not heard. Also, ACB Radio sometimes has a little dead air between programs, do not think your computer has dropped off. http://www.acbradio.org From this site, one can download the ACB Radio Tuner, which gives access to all five channels with a simple keyboard command. Geneva Community Radio, from Geneva, New York. I do not know how long this has been going, I found out about it a few days ago, because Marion Webster, of Marion's Attic, mentioned it. One might think this is a LPFM, but, from the I.D. it seems to be internet only. http://www.loudcity.com/stations/genevacommunityradio World of Radio: Mon. UT, 0000 This is followed by what appear to be a few other programs with radio- related content, but, I have not heard them yet. 73, (Tim Hendel, AL, Nov 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tnx Tim, that confirms some of the listings at http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1694 monitoring: confirmed first airing Thursday November 7 at 2201:41 on WTWW-1 9479 (its last day before moving to 9475 Nov 8); confirmed NOT on the air at 0430v UT Friday Nov 8 from WWRB 3195, as Dave apologized saying their internet-via- microwave-link connexion was out of order again, so filled with jazz music instead. Try again next Thursday night. Next: UT Saturday 0300v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB; Saturday 1600 on WRMI 9955; UT Sunday 0030v on WTWW-2 5085; UT Sunday 0501v on WTWW-1 5830; perhaps UT Monday 0030v on WTWW-2 5085 as reported last week when it was on 9930 at 2330 Sunday (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1694 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 webcast, UT Saturday Nov 9 at shifted time of 0302, after a bit of entertainment concerning Mister Ed; and presumably on 5110v-CUSB, which was certainly on a bihour earlier. Next WOR chances: Sat 0730 & 1530 on HLR 7265-CUSB Sat 1600 on WRMI 9955 Sun 0030v on WTWW 5085 (or maybe 9930) Sun 0501v on WTWW 5830 Mon 0030v on WTWW 5085 (or maybe 9930) (maybe) WORLD OF RADIO 1694 monitoring: confirmed at new time and frequency from WTWW-2, UT Sunday Nov 10 at 0030 on 5085, ex-Sat 2330 on 9930. Maybe repeats UT Monday like last week. Also confirmed on WTWW-1 at new time UT Sunday Nov 10 at 0501, still on 5830. Following at 0100+ Nov 10 on 5085 was Amateur Radio Newsline, including a report from NZ at 0106 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1695: ready for first airing Thursday Nov 14 at 2201 on WTWW-1 9475; then, UT Friday 0428v on WWRB 3195 (we hope; their internet was out last week; also check in case of // on 5050-USB); UT Saturday 0300v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB; Saturday 1600 on WRMI 9955; UT Sunday 0030 on WTWW-2 5085; UT Sunday 0501 on WTWW-1 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12105, Nov 7 at 1434, no signal from WTWW-3. It seems quite often at least one of the three transmitters is down for some maintenance. 9475, Nov 8 at 1423, WTWW-1 on new frequency, ex-9479, upon request of VOA to avoid QRMing 9480. R. Australia barely detectable underneath. Why was WTWW ever on the odd frequency 9479? Originally supposed to be 9480, but it turned out that the sixteenth harmonic of 9480 near the transmitter site was QRMing the 2-way frequency of a local school bus. So shifting 1 kHz down shifted the harmonic 16 kHz down, enough to solve that problem. Meanwhile it produced a 1 kHz het with all the other SW stations on 9480. The evening shift from 9475 to 5830 is also supposed to change at 0000 UT instead of 0100. 12105, Nov 8 circa 1430, weak open carrier, WTWW? (13845 WWCR blasting in). Or RFA Burmese via SAIPAN which ends at 1430. 9904 & 9956 approx., November 8 at 2007, JBA hum spurs at same pitch as on 9930 along with Brother Scare, equidistant from WTWW-2. 12105, Nov 8 at 2015, open carrier, poor level like around 1430, not what you would expect from WTWW-3 in the daytime, yet nothing else scheduled. Yet2, neighbor 12160 WWCR is blasting in at 2015 as usual. Same at 2115, 2128. Suspect only the exciter of the WTWW-3 transmitter is on, or testing at much reduced power for some reason. It`s also weak enough that fading is noticeable. QSY to nite-band time has been 0100 UT, but Nov 9 at 0109, 9475 is still on; 9930 is *much* weaker with something else? No, it too is WTWW in the Brother Scare service as soon heard after a clip of some other voice. Neither 5830 nor 5085 is on yet. 9930 is so weak compared to 9475, that I think it too like 12105 must be on exciter-only or drastically reduced for some reason. By next check 0135, both have made the switch, and are at usual very strong levels on 5085 and 5830. I`m told the plan is to move the QSY time to 0000 UT for both; maybe from tomorrow, and that will affect whether WORLD OF RADIO 1694 is heard on 9930 or 5085 at the expected shifted time of 0030v UT Sunday (and maybe Monday). 5085, Nov 9 at 0636 check, WTWW-2 is off, but 5830 WTWW-1 is on. 5830, Nov 10 at 1256, WTWW-1 is in open carrier/dead air; still/again OC/DA after switch to 9475 at 1408; SFAW had resumed by 1447 check. 5085, UT Monday Nov 11 at 0030, WTWW-2 is in country music as usual on Sunday evenings, rather than an extra airing of WORLD OF RADIO as one reported last week when it was an hour earlier on 9930. I wasn`t listening carefully, but it seemed like 5085 cut on and off the air at *0022-0025*, *0026-. 5830, Nov 14 at 1200, WTWW-1 in open carrier/dead air and again/still so at next check 1340 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) New 24 hours schedule of WTWW-3 from November 3: 0000-0300 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to NEAm Spanish Sat-Wed 0300-0500 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to NEAm Portuguese Sat-Wed 0500-0600 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to NEAm Portuguese Sat-Wed, addit 0600-0900 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to NEAm Yoruba Sat-Wed, addit 0900-1200 12105*TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to NEAm Chinese Sat-Wed, addit 1200-1400 12105#TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to NEAm Russian Sat-Wed, addit 1400-1500 12105#TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to NEAm Russian Fri-Tue 1500-2100 12105^TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to NEAm Arabic Fri-Tue 2100-2400 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to NEAm French Fri-Tue * co-ch KTWR Agana also in Chinese 1115-1200 # co-ch Radio Free Asia in Burmese 1230-1430 ^ co-ch R.Dialogue En/Shona/Ndebele 1600-1700 Changes between languages vary from 3 to 6 minutes (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX RE MIX NEWS #803 November 9, 2013, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I`ll believe Yoruba and Chinese when I or someone axually hear them (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Unscheduled test transmissions of WTWW-3 on Nov. 3-6 0500-1400 UT 0500-0600 on 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to NEAm Portuguese 0600-0900 on 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to NEAm Yoruba 0900-1200 on 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to NEAm Chinese 1200-1400 on 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to NEAm Russian Current schedule of WTWW-3 as of HFCC timetable 1400-0500 UT: 1400-1500 on 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to NEAm Russian Fri-Tue 1500-2100 on 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to NEAm Arabic Fri-Tue 2100-2400 on 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to NEAm French Fri-Tue 0000-0300 on 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to NEAm Spanish Sat-Wed 0300-0500 on 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to NEAm Portuguese Sat-Wed Changes between languages vary from 3 to 6 min. (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, DX Re Mix News Nov 11 via DXLD) Frequency change of WTWW-1 effective from November 8: 1400-2400 NF 9475*TWW 100 kW / 050 deg to NEAm English, ex 9479 *co-ch R. Australia in English till 1900 and TWR Africa in Swahili 1700-1745 (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX RE MIX NEWS #803 November 9, 2013, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 3215, Nov 9 at 0058, The Dave Frantz Show again on WWRB; now he`s pointing out that lots of missionary broadcasters want to reach Europe, Mideast, Africa, and other US SW stations will say, sure we can do it, when they really can`t, reliably, because of the noise level. When they approach WWRB, Dave says he tells them to buy time on closer transmitters, such as `DTK` or BaBcoCk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Live on-air rant on WWRB --- Heard UTC early hours 9 Nov [North America late eve]. Do you think some preachers owe him for tx time? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sohsUKCS8zg (Brian Gilbert, Roseburg, OR, Nov 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5050-USB, Nov 12 at 0045, Bible reading or story, // 3215 AM but much stronger on 5050; so WWRB is again trying the pure USB mode on 5050. Last time I heard this was Feb 22 as in DXLD 13-09. Dave was plugging for clients to double their power with 200,000 watts by buying both 3215/3195 for the east and 5050 for the west, but I wonder if one did now specifying USB? 5050-USB, Nov 14 at 0059, WWRB again in pure USB, no carrier, // weaker AM on 3215 with preacher (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7490, UT Sat Nov 9 at 0113, it`s time for `Allan Weiner Worldwide` but sounds a lot different than usual with other voices and reverb. Mentions Area 51 and recalls that Johnny Lightning has been on A51 or WBCQ since 2007y. They can`t hear 9330-CUSB and wonder if it is on the air? Maybe skipping over. I *am* hearing it and time the delay after 7490 as 30 seconds later. Also // 5110v-CUSB, the Area 51 frequency; it`s about one word behind 9330. Asks for contacts to radio @ zappahead.net (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3885-AM, Nov 13 at 0636, the TimTron, WA1HLR immediately recognizable upon tune-in as he belches right away. Discussing some construxion project with another weaker AM ham. VG signal, as if using a WBCQ high-gain broadcast antenna, which is fine with the FCC, as long as his transmitter power is within proper limits (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A 12050, WEWN, 09/11 0012 UT. Programa de jóvenes católicas hablando de las diversas difamaciones en contra del Papá y la Iglesia en el internet y los diversos grupos que se preocupan de propagar aquello. Señal con SINPO: 55343 // 13830 con SINPO: 55555. Llama la atención que no exista cambio de frecuencia a las 00 horas, como es acostumbrado (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, hilo largo de 25 metros, Sector sur de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 11870, Nov 9 at 2217, seems WEWN Spanish is already on here with squeal and R. Vaticano relay, including its own RV IDs in passing. In A-13, 11870 did not switch from 13830 until 0000 UT. Would you believe that WEWN *still* hasn`t posted a B-13 schedule at own website, still A-13 dates? http://www.ewtn.com/radio/freq.htm Also linx to ``shortwave update`` popup, undated but probably elderly: http://www.ewtn.com/radio/freq.htm ``In keeping with Mother Angelica's vision of spreading the Good News to the corners of the world, EWTN Radio reconfigured its shortwave radio service to better accomplish this goal. In addition to Europe and Africa, EWTN Radio is now reaching into India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia - plus increased coverage (in Spanish) to Cuba, South America, Mexico and the Caribbean, praise God! EWTN Shortwave radio broadcasts (WEWN) are not available to most people in North America.`` Then goes on to explain about affiliates, satellite, and online access. Guess what: EWTN Radio *is* available to ``most people in North America``: all they need to do is turn on a SW radio! HFCC as of Nov 8 and FCC B-13 registrations show 11870 WEWN at 0000- 1000 UT only! Wait a minute: Romania in Spanish to S America is on 11870 at 22-23, and that should put in a signal like this here. I assumed the R. Vaticano IDs would be from WEWN which does relay RV at 2200-2230 but that`s M-F only and this is Saturday. OTOH, the ``WEWN squeal`` is on this 11870 signal, and no CCI from another station; unlikely RRI would be talking about Radio Vaticano, let alone relaying it. This needs rechecking and also whether 13830, 12050 are still on and //. 11870, Nov 10 at 2215, no signal from WEWN Spanish, unlike 24 hours earlier, which must have been a fluke. Now it`s still on squealless 12050 and squealing 13830. (Nor is there any sign of Romania Spanish on 11870 as scheduled now to S America; is that really on?) [and non]. 12050, Nov 13 at 1351, WEWN is still suffering co-channel interference from the China radio war, tnx to the USG`s IBB having chosen to broadcast Tibetan from TINIAN at 12-14 on a frequency long in use by a private US SW station. Probably mainly CNR1 jamming under WEWN but impossible to tell which is stronger (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9975, KVOH, 09/11 0220 UT. Avisos de la emisora en español, además de clásicos de la música cristiana interpretadas por grupos de rondallas y mariachis. SINPO: 54454. 9975, KVOH, 10/11 0247 UT. Programa “Frecuencia al día” con reporte de Gustavo Luna acerca del uso de Internet móvil en Colombia. SINPO: 55454 (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, hilo largo de 25 metros, Sector sur de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) [and non]. 9975, Nov 11 at 0200, no KVOH, just weak presumed CVC as still scheduled via UZBEKISTAN at 01-04, 186 degrees from Tashkent, which means it`s also USward, across one pole or another. Finally KVOH cuts on at *0202 with VG signal, joining Spanish praise music in progress. Presumably the sign-on aired only on the STL; 0205 ID in passing. It`s somewhat overmodulated and distorted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. [Re 13-45:] Re: Big Florida Shortwave Station to Reopen In the early 80s, when Jeff White was doing shows on a Latin American station, I would never have imagined that he'd control WYFR. Good for Jeff White, and good for the short-wave radio biz. And it sounds like it's a positive development for many entities, including Family Radio. This is great news. Maybe everybody wins with this one (Rick Lewis, Nov 7, ABDX via DXLD) ** U S A. Jeff, So I am wondering how many, which of the 12 other frequencies registered will really resume carrying FR programming rather than WRMI? The times do resemble what FR/WYFR was doing until the end. Will you be able to bring Taiwan relays back, any others which have been off for a while? KBS World Radio and Radio Japan should be among them, but probably not interested? (Glenn to Jeff White, WRMI, via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn: For your information, I am attaching the anticipated initial schedule as of December 1. There could still be some changes in this, and there are several pending possible clients that could cause further changes. The two Family Radio programs will be in Spanish (probably the same program on 2 frequencies). We have had positive conversations with RTI, but nothing definite yet. Other similar international broadcasters have shown interest as well. We'll have to wait and see (Jeff to Glenn, Nov 10, ibid.) Summarizing: RMI on 9955 only: 11-14 & 22-04 on 160 degrees; 14-15 a different transmitter at 315 degrees. Family Radio, ONLY this: 23-24 on 13695, 9495. Radio Africa: 14-20 on 21525, 20-23 on 15190. Many other blox will initially carry The Overcomer Ministry, up to four frequencies at once, on 7570, 9355, 9495, 9690, 9955, 11565, 11730, 13695, 15440, adding up to 48 frequency-hours per day (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 580, Sunday Nov 10 at 1305-1308 UT, after CBS news and WIBW Topeka ID, President`s weekly address, about honoring veterans. Traces of XEMU Spanish in background. Followed by ad, not Republican rebuttal, tho WIBW surely runs that at some other time. Finding Presidential address is tough as it`s so short, presumably originally airing about 24 hours earlier on Saturdays, up to every station`s scheduling whims. Maybe different networks re-availablize it at different times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 650, Nov 11 at 0215 UT, hardly any signal from WSM, instead XETNT, Radio K, mentioning Guasave and Los Mochis, and also when nulled, English talk, probably KGAB WY. Seems more than just a temp fade from WSM; something wrong there? Or strange propagation, not exactly auroral as further north stations such as CFZM 740 are in well (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 660, Nov 11 at 1316 UT, C&W music from N/S, whence? It was ``After the War`` from 1993y, really the Mark Davis show, says he recorded it himself at an event, followed by cheers, so not just a talkshow; then DFW traffic from ``660 AM The Answer`` = KSKY The Metroplex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 710-WOR --- usually off Monday mornings? Midnight heard it off and a strong Spanish station with talk/music ("internet terminal" zz4a, location: sw connecticut 0523 UT Nov 11, ABDX via DXLD) ** U S A. 790, Nov 8 at 0706 UT, trying to pull something out of the pileup, including someone asserting ``Oklahoma is finished`` (i.e. in football? I hope, since that is inconsequential), ID in passing from another sounds like WGYY. Make that a probable WAYY in Eau Claire WI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 830, Nov 11 at 1312 UT, country music, plug searching for Y105-5 on some smartphone app, from east/west. No doubt it`s the recent move-in to Memphis TN, now known as WUMY; http://y1055.com/ mentions they are also on AM 830. 105.5 is the tail wagging the dog, really just a translator per NRC AM Log, W288BJ, with the 830 address still way off in Poplar Bluff MO, not even adjacent AR. Yet they are calling 105.5 ``WUMY`` with a coverage map which is really pretty small: http://y1055.com/advertise/ Another search on the WUMY brand at the y1055.com website leads to ``WUMY-FM (the “Station”) owned and operated by Mighty Media, LP, 230-2 Goodman Road East, Suite 202, Southaven, MS 38671``. So it`s multi-state (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 940, Nov 11 at 0220 UT, New Orleans Advocate ad, apparently black newspaper; Crimestoppers PSA on a specific murder; ad for the Audubon Insectarium, providing various bugs for cuisine. Is this a put-on? Maybe not for Cajuns, hi. I thought they said ``Ottoman``! See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audubon_Butterfly_Garden_and_Insectarium Then mentions am940.com --- wow, they got the most generic URL, leading to ``WYLD for Jesus``, which per NRC AM Log is 10000/500 watts U4, ``Amen 940``. Both day and nite patterns have lobes to the northwest. Dominant signal now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WWRC, Washington DC, 1260, full data email verification in 379 days for email English report to comments at 1260wrc dot com (which failed although still listed on their website) and a follow up to Bob Jones, Broadcast Operations Director at bobj at wava dot com. Thereupon we had an exchange of emails with Bob verifying with a personal email 14 days after my initial follow-up. 73 (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WRNI - 1290 kHz - Providence, RI (USA) - QSL: En sólo 8 minutos he recibido una entusiasta respuesta del ingeniero de "Rhode Island Public Radio", los licenciatarios y dueños de esta emisora. La tienen alquilada a "Latino Public Radio", quienes difunden una programación dirigida al público hispano. Escribí a: engineer@... [truncated]. El ingeniero de la emisora, Aaron Read, tiene un "rincón del ingeniero" dentro de la web de la Institución, donde va contando sus vicisitudes al frente de la técnica: http://ripr.org/category/engineers-corner (Info TNX Mauricio Molano, Spain. http://moladx.blogspot.it 2 Nov via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** U S A. 1300, WFFG Marathon FL – Format to SS (ex-NWS/TLK); slogan to “Radio Martí,” delete nets (NRC DX News 81/08 via ARC mv-eko Nov 10 via DXLD) Wait a minute --- not the whole station, just a few hours of R. Marti (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1430, Nov 8 at 0412 UT, ``Indian Lake`` tune, 0414 KZQZ 1430 ID, St Louis MO. This was on the caradio, I-35 near Edmond OK, KZQZ remarkably able to dominate the frequency on whip car antenna, unlike the other regional channels 1250 and up, masses of skywave QRM from all direxions. Oh, oh, no way KZQZ could do this on 5 kW night pattern: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1513373-119319.pdf which has deep null toward us, major lobe to the NNW, minor to the SSE. But look at the 50 kW day pattern: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1513373-119318.pdf which has broad lobes ENE/WSW. 1430, Nov 9 at 0153 UT, KZQZ St Louis is again dominating this crowded regional channel with classic rock from the northeast, like it was last night on the caradio; surely still on 50 kW day pattern favoring us, rather than 5 kW nite pattern with a null toward us. 1430, Nov 12 at 0110 UT, KZQZ St Louis is still VG and managing to dominate the crowded regional channel with classic rock, surely on 50 kW day pattern aimed at us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Another new catch tonight on AM: 1430 - KZQZ - St. Louis, Missouri with jingle ID then song by Grass Roots - Heaven Knows and China Grove by the Doobie Brothers, Legal ID by man "KZQZ 14-30 AM". Also Everly Brothers - "Until I Kissed You". AM station # 1331 overall & Ultralight Station # 1211 heard from Newfoundland. Hearing this still at 0015 UT bouncing in and out occasionally. Good DX (Allen Willie, Carbonear, Newfoundland, UT Nov 13, IRCA via DXLD) Re: [IRCA] 1430 KZQZ St. Louis with oldies into Newfoundland tonight: Has been huge into Burnt River ON tonight and last couple nights. Often over the Toronto station (Saul Chernos, Burnt River ON, ibid.) ** U S A. 1510, Nov 7 at 1327 UT, car care ad in rapid Spanish, roughly E/W; 1330 IDs in passing as ``La Ke Buena 1,510 de AM``, 1331 music. Can`t catch any local references, but sounds like a US rather than Mexican station. Nothing fits in 2013 NRC AM Log, altho there are several SS on 1510, as close as KS and TX. Then I Google on the slogan, “la ke buena 1510 am``, being sure to misspell ``que``, and that leads right to https://www.facebook.com/pages/La-Ke-Buena-1510-Am/536340043087287 which turns out to be WQQW in St. Louis MO. Joined FB only on August 27, 2013. That was after the NRC AM Log was printed, where WQQW Highland IL was ``Madison County`s Hometown Station`` in English, C&W and talk, 1 kW direxional daytimer, address in Belleville IL. (At first I thought it must be ex-KMRF in Marshfield MO since their address is in St Louis -- - but Marshfield is really way off near Springfield in SW MO.) FCC AM Query shows the WQQW pattern aims toward the southwest, just right for us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1530, Nov 8 at 2140 UT, ``Downtown`` by Petula is playing; what`s this? Don`t normally hear music in English here. Loops roughly east-west, mixing with sports about Cincinnati --- wait: at 2143 into a country-rock tune, and it`s ``ESPN Radio`` which is playing songs, i.e. WCKY! What`s this? It`s a lot easier to find cheesecake than a plain old program schedule at http://www.espn1530.com Anyhow, the hi- band mid-afternoon skywave is ramping up as Sol sinx closer to the horizon (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. KCNZ, Cedar Falls IA, 1650. Date/frequency confirmation letter via email in 343 days for English report and audio CD via first-class mail with 2 first-class stamps as return postage, follow- up fax to station fax line, and finally a follow-up via email to station GM with copy of the report and audio MP3. Verification came 3 days after last follow up. V/s: Janelle Rench, Office Manager. Janelle at 935themix dot com. Station address: 721 Shirley St., Cedar Falls, IA 50613. 73 (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Classical KUHA (formerly KTRU) in Houston just followed in KPAC's footsteps. via the radio-info San Antonio board: http://blog.chron.com/rantandrave/2013/11/kuha-classical-station-says-staff-cuts-will-lead-to-more-arts-coverage/?cmpid=hpbn (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) ** U S A. Nov05 18:16 images of demolition - de WA5IYX http://www.ksat.com/news/images-univision-demolition/-/478452/22806540/-/15r2c1xz/-/index.html Nov05 18:09 some background - they got a TRO to stop it (in progress) this morning - de WA5IYX http://forums.tvnewstalk.net/index.php?/topic/13009-kwex-new-building/ Nov05 18:07 meanwhile this is causing a minor local furor - de WA5IYX https://twitter.com/PatricioEspnoza/status/376451385891368961 (Pat Dyer, San Antonio, TV-FM Skip log via Artie Bigley, DXLD) EIGHT ARRESTED TRYING TO HALT KWEX UNIVISION BUILDING DEMOLITION Texas Public Radio-8 hours ago Update (5:00 p.m.): A total of eight people were arrested in today's events at the site of the original home of KWEX TV Univision in San Antonio ... http://tpr.org/post/eight-arrested-trying-halt-kwex-univision-building-demolition JUDGE APPROVES DEMOLITION OF FIRST SPANISH-LANGUAGE TV STATION ... Fronteras: The Changing America Desk-33 minutes ago all 4 news sources » http://www.fronterasdesk.org/content/9234/judge-approves-demolition-first-spanish-language-tv-station-building KWEX-TV First Spanish-Speaking TV Station Demolished Latin Post-Nov 12, 2013 That radio shows belonged to KWEX-DT, channel 41, widely known as the first commercially based Spanish-language station in the United ... WOAI 8 ARRESTED PROTESTING UNIVISION DEMOLITION San Antonio Express-Nov 12, 2013 ... the 1955 Univision building, 411 E. César E. Chávez Boulevard, last home to KWEX-TV. The peaceful standoff started soon after Judge Janet... http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/8-arrested-protesting-Univision-demolition-4977991.php BLOCK THE BULLDOZER: LOCALS ATTEMPT TO STOP DEMOLITION OF UNIVISION KENS 5 TV-Nov 12, 2013 SAN ANTONIO -- A judge's ruling to proceed with the demolition of the KWEX/Univision building in the 400 block of E. César E. Chávez Blvd. http://www.kens5.com/news/local/Block-the-bulldozer-Locals-attempt-to-stop-demolition-of-Univision-building-231608691.html (all via Artie Bigley, ex-TX, Nov 13, DXLD) ** U S A. KJWP ON AND TESTING --- KJWP RF2 Wilmington, DE (Philadelphia transmitter) on with color bars on 2.1 (John F Zeis, 2123 UT Nov 11, WTFDA via DXLD) That`s the station ``moved`` from Jackson WY due to strange FCC rules explained here previously (gh, DXLD) It's mapping to 2-1? And what's the PSIP call sign for it? I wonder how hard it would be to complain about the 2-1 mapping and try to push for something like 59-1 or even 1-1. - (Trip Ericson, http://www.rabbitears.info ibid.) PSIP was KJWP. 2.1 only subchannel. Did not note format. No longer transmitting at current time (John Zeis, 2218 UT, ibid.) I guess I'd think 2 would be the correct major channel? I suppose it's a collision in central NJ but it's unique in Philly (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, ibid.) Well, it's "correct" but the collision with Baltimore and New York should raise enough of a problem to get it changed. The channel 5 allocation in Seaford is required to map to 36-1 based on Fox's complaints (Trip, ibid.) Is a TV station allowed to map to 37-1? I would think so, but I'm not aware of any. It would be unique with no "collision". By the way, a couple of years ago in the NYC ADI, both WXTV DT-40 and WNJJ DT-41 mapped to 41. And not only were they in the same market, they were both licensed to Paterson, NJ. WNJJ has since changed to map to 40.1. (Chris Lucas - Poughkeepsie, NY - FN31bs, ibid.) KSLM-LD in Salem OR maps one of their channels to 37-1, but I don't think it's been formally approved. It's the only one I know of. And only KAXT-CD in San Jose CA has been approved to map to 1-1. Both would work really well on the east coast! (Trip Ericson, http://www.rabbitears.info ibid.) Yes and no. There is no technical reason why it wouldn't work. Indeed, 37 would probably be a good choice for a station like KJWP as you could guarantee it wouldn't collide with anything else! In (legal) theory it's not permissible. For a station that's never held an analog license, the major channel is supposed to be their digital RF channel - which cannot be 37. For a station that once held an analog license, the major channel is supposed to be their old analog RF channel - which cannot be 37 either. But the purpose of the rules is to prevent collisions and since 37 can't collide with anything, it seems a pretty good choice from here. You would theoretically need some kind of waiver from the FCC as stations are supposed to use the major channels specified in the ATSC standard. == (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, ibid.) Here's the bigger issue: would a station on "37.x" get cable must- carry on channel 37, or on channel 2? KJWP exists, of course, not so much to be seen over the air as to assert must-carry on cable systems throughout the Philadelphia ADI - and that's a more valuable proposition on "2" than on "37." FWIW, I got to see the KJWP antenna and transmitter last week. It's a massive six-bay/four-around panel affair just beneath the FM master antenna, just beneath the candelabra on the big ATC tower at the Roxborough site. The transmitter is a used Harris Platinum. Not sure what station it came from. All the radio engineers I talked to in Philly think the whole thing is crazy. We'll see. s (Scott Fybush, NY, ibid.) KJWP is transmitting tonight around 20:30 EST with the color bars and the scrolling message "KJWP 2.1 Wilmington". Their signal using the Zenith box is around 70% at my location, it is slightly stronger than WHYY DT-12. WPVI is near the top of the meter, around 95% (Bob Seaman, Hazleton, PA, 0142 UT Nov 13, ibid.) ** U S A [and non]. 7160-LSB, Nov 9 at 1435, W6H calling ``CQ Japan JIDX`` several times, finally working JA4JBQ at 1438, with a 5903 signal report. Special call W6H sounds familiar – o yes, per QRZ.com it was for the Route 66 On the Air event a bimonth ago, from several ops at unknown locations in New Mexico. Yes, log shows someone is using it again today and working mostly Japan, http://www.qrz.com/db/W6H altho JA4JBQ is not listed. Hmm, FCC call lookup via ARRL does NOT find any W6H, currently. (Can such one-by-one special calls be reassigned to totally different stations once an event be over??) I was really hunting around for the Wake Island DXpedition, but didn`t try 7082 as uplooked later, their nominal 40m LSB frequency. See http://wake2013.org/pages/bandplan.html and note their no-nonsense guidelines which all should observe. Earlier at 1352 Nov 9, there was a pileup of US stations on 7179-LSB, exclaiming nothing but their own callsigns, so wonder if that was paired with K9W? After a few minutes they all stopped, maybe ordered to QSY or QRT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7190-LSB, Nov 7 at 0705, Triple-H net for WAS (working all states), trying to respond to a call from CO5MZ, but continuous QRM from a station sending Tarzan yodel-yells over and over, and other rude noises, music. N4EDN call heard from someone in the net, asking for DX check-ins only; refers to ``trash`` on the frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VANUATU. 3945, Nov 7, 1813, Possibly Radio Vanuatu running very late on 3945 kHz?? Heard station hovering around threshold level at 1433. At 1445 hams came on frequency and mentioned the presents of "foreign broadacst on frequency." Note Super Typhoon Haiyan moving toward Philippines!!! (Ron Howard, CA, SW Bulletin Nov 10 via DXLD) --------------------------- Thanks Victor (Victor A. Goonetilleke), who wrote - "Happy to hear Port Vila 3945.00," "My Log (UTC) audio clip from them is 15 minutes long. P. Vila was running all night due to the Typhoon." /Victor --------------------------- Nov 7 & 8, I could only hear an open carrier after 1400 UT, which I thought might be them. /Ron Howard -------------------------- I heard them from 1229 UT (Nov 8) with lovely mx, deep voiced English announcer, into Beatles I want to Hold your hand at 1231 and much music till past 1302 when the signal started getting lost in the noise. 1229 was almost sunset here. Some one says, or wanders if it was NSB Nikkei instead. Bah as if I am in the baby class of DXing, though haven't got a PHD!!!! /Victor ----------------------------- Hi Victor, You are indeed fortunate at your QTH to hear Vanuatu. Here in California, 3945 is totally covered by RN2 till 1400 UT, with pop music and many announcements / IDs by native speakers of English. Website - http://www.radionikkei.jp/rn2/ Typical audio level for me, starting with "RN2" ID, at - https://app.box.com/s/y2dt163bqjkt47jhllor BTW - RN2 is only on till 1400 UT from Mon-Fri. The weekend is the best time to check out Vanuatu. /Ron Howard (all SW Bulletin via DXLD) ** VATICAN [and non]. 15110, Nov 9 at 1529, VR IS, good signal, ``L.I.C.`` and YL opening English as about to broadcast holy mass live to Asia and Middle East, stay tuned on 7545, 15110 and DRM 15775. HFCC shows 15110 is relay via IBB Tinang, PHILIPPINES, so violating Separation of Church and State. 7545, unchecked, is Tashkent, violating separation of church and mosque. 15775 is SMG direct, JBA noise with BFO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3975, Sunday Nov 10 at 0636, no signal from VR when Latin mass is scheduled daily, and heard previously; yet DRM noise from BBC Woofferton 3950-3955-3960 is quite audible and propagating. VR is heard on 6075 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN STATE [non]. Frequency changes of Vatican Radio from Nov 4: 1430-1450 NF 7550 TAC 100 kW / 163 deg SoAs Hindi, ex 7545 // 15110 1450-1510 NF 7550 TAC 100 kW / 163 deg SoAs Tamil, ex 7545 // 15110 1510-1530 NF 7550 TAC 100 kW / 163 deg SoAs Malayalam ex 7545 // 15110 1530-1550 NF 7550 TAC 100 kW / 163 deg SoAs English, ex 7545 // 15110 (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX RE MIX NEWS #803 November 9, 2013, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I just heard them today on 15110 announce also 7545, unchecked (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) [and non]. Cancelled transmissions: 0025-0040 on 7410 SMG 250 kW / 087 deg to SoAs Urdu Mon/Thu 0025-0040 on 9560 SMG 250 kW / 086 deg to SoAs Urdu Mon/Thu 1415-1430 on 7545 TAC 100 kW / 163 deg to SoAs Urdu Wed/Sun 1415-1430 on 15110 PHT 250 kW / 283 deg to SoAs Urdu Wed/Sun (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX RE MIX NEWS #803 November 9, 2013, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RCC has given up on making Pakis into Cathis? (gh) ** VENEZUELA. Critical Distance - Dec 2012 Article: SW TX Sites http://criticaldistance.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/venezuela-bucks-trend-but-why.html (Ian Baxter, Nov 10, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** VIETNAM [non]. 5930, ENGLAND, Voice of Vietnam at 2210 in Vietnamese with a woman with talk with traditional music bridges - Good Nov 4 (Joe Robinson, Scarborough, ON Sony ICF-2010 and 150' perimeter antenna, ODXA YRX via DXLD) ** VIETNAM [non]. CLANDESTINE, 9930, Que Me via Palau, Nov 08 *1200- 1214, 45444, Vietnamese, 1200 sign on with opening music, Opening announce, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, Japan, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Fridays only --- gh ** WAKE ISLAND. 18140-USB, Nov 10 at 0124, very poor signal from somestation making very quick contacts with 5-9 signal reports, mostly US stations. I listen until 0130 and *never* hear this station`s call nor a mention of Wake, just the calls of stations contacted, and 5-9s. 18140 is a nominal frequency for the current K9W DXpedition until Nov 15. I`ve been checking all their frequencies from 80 to 10 meters, at various times, (3790, 5403.5, 7082, 14185, 21285, 24955, 28485), hearing no sign of them until now, and often other QSOs in progress. There ought to be a rule: no single ham contact is complete, verifiable and eligible for any contest or DXCC, without at the very least, both stations speaking the call of the station contacted AND THEIR OWN CALL, preceded by ``this is`` or ``from``, at least once! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) KH9, WAKE ISLAND. The "K9W Wake Atoll Commemorative DXpedition" continues to be active until November 15th (Wake Island time). The log is being posted on the Web page below and on the ClubLog Web page at: https://secure.clublog.org/charts/?c=K9W The log shows as of 1752z, November 9th, that they have worked a total of 66414 QSOs and 17236 Unique Callsigns. Breakdown is 36491/CW, 27384/SSB and 2539/RTTY. Breakdown by Continent is 441/AF, 3/AN, 23113/AS, 15794/EU, 23532/NA, 2336/OC and 1195/SA. An OQRS will be available by ClubLog (Highly Recommended). This is the preferred method to use for your QSL confirmation. After the DXpedition ends you can order either a direct or Bureau QSL card using the OQRS online QSL service provided by ClubLog. For sending direct QSL requests, the mailing address is: Wake Island DXpedition, P.O. Box 5005, Lake Wylie, SC 29710 USA (See detail on their Web page). QSLing by the Bureau is via AA4NN. Logs will be posted on LoTW 6 months after the conclusion of the DXpedition. NO eQSL. For more details and updates, visit the K9W Web page at: http://www.wake2013.org (Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 1136, November 11, 2013, Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio), via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 1550, Saharawi Arab Dem Rep National Radio, Rabouni NOV 3, 2228 - Good, with no sign of North American domestics; man talking fast in Arabic through the bottom of the hour. Still listening at 2300, and station rolled through the hour with music, but then aired time pips at 2302, and segued into tribal 'pluck and sing' music familiar to those who have ever tuned Mauritania. [Taylor] NOV 3, 2231 - Very strong signal with non-stop Arabic talk. Thought I'd look at the frequency, since I hear a het on 1550.028 kHz, but I think this station is closer to the fundamental. 1550 itself is a jumble of many stations smeared across the channel, so impossible to be sure. Man with an echo in his voice (or speaking from an echoey location at 22:38). 2254 hoping for an ID at 23:00, but instead kept playing Arabic music until 23:02, at which time there were time pips, then some dead air, and into more of the same music. Very strong and enjoyable, especially with the SAM engaged, and the bandwidth opened on the Perseus SDR. There's definitely an African flare to this music. [Salmaniw] NOV 3, 2310 - Sahwari music similar to what you would hear on Mauritania, group of people singing with some kind of stringed instrument, possibly a xalam. Went off at 2333 after anthem. Their clocks are a few minutes slow, as I heard time pips at 2303 on both Nov 2 and Nov 3. [Wolfish] (PEI DXPedition report via DXLD) CLANDESTINAS, 1550, Frente POLISARIO, Rabouni, Argélia, 1155-1302*, resto do programa em árabe, emissão em castelhano, cerca das 1200, com temas variados, inclusive "Espacio Científico", fecho com o hino; 35342. --- 2 gravações anexas ---. [date missing] A emissão vespertina continua a ser pelas 1700, começando de imediato com a oração corânica, até cerca das 1715, hora a que tem início uma rubrica de 45 minutos em castelhano; das 1800 às 2330, a emissão é em árabe. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZAMBIA. 5915, 09/Nov 0335, Zambia BC in Swahili. OM talk. At 0336 African pop music. At 0341 OM back to talk. At 0342 Listener on the phone. 25432. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, Degen 1103 - All listening in mode of filter Narrow the 4 kHz, Dipole antenna, 25 meters - east/west, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Jorge, This would not have been Swahili; it is not spoken in that part of the world. EiBi lists that time slot on Saturdays as Nyanja, which is mostly spoken in Malawi and eastern Zambia. Also amongst the many Malawian migrants in Zambia. Regards, (Bill Bingham, RSA, ibid.) 5915, Zambia Nat. B.C., Nov 10 1600-1614, 23432, vernacular, Fish eagle IS, Repeated blows of the drum, Local music and talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, Japan, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZANZIBAR. 6015, 09/Nov 0305, TANZANIA, Zanzibar Radio (PRESUMED) in Swahili (listed Aoki). Prayer and reading of the Qur`an, then Om talk. At 0311 some speeches exalted of OM. At 0315 quick local music. 24432 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, Degen 1103 - All listening in mode of filter Narrow the 4 kHz, Dipole antenna, 25 meters - east/west, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZANZIBAR. 11735, Nov 8 at 2016, vocal music on fair signal from ZBC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TANZANIA, 11735, Zanzibar B.C., Nov 10 1509-1544, 35433, Swahili, News and local music and koran, ID at 1522 as "ZBC" (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, Japan, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11735, Nov 10 at 2055, ZBC music good but heavy flutter, already off at 2059. 11735, Nov 11 at 2104, ZBC nice music, fair with flutter, and still on at 2105, but off by 2110 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ZBC Radio, 11735 Dole. Nov 11, 2013 Monday. 1755-1812. Afro music and song, then ID at 1759 “ZBC” and drums. At 1800, 5+1 time pips, into news in English, much of it local news about Zanzibar and its surrounds. Also a long item about the typhoon in the Philippines and Vietnam. At 1810, back to Swahili. Standard jingle at 1812 (as often heard in the early mornings on 6015), followed by a song about Zanzibar. Mostly quite readable, unusual for me to be able to listen to an evening news bulletin from Zanzibar. Jo'burg sunset 1632 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE. Voice of Zim - a rare appearance. Voice of Zimbabwe on 999 is present tonight, although it came on late. Nothing heard on 4828, and both were missing last night (Nov 10). Voice of Zimbabwe, 999 Gweru. Nov 11, 2013 Monday. 1727-1735. Mostly unreadable, but YL mentioned "Harare" at 1731. Afro music at 1732. Very weak and poor, a lot of lightning QRN in Jo'burg. And AWOL at slightly earlier check, 1710. Jo'burg sunset 1632 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. TA carrier search looping NE/SW, Nov 9: 549 at 0144; 882, 945, 954, 1053 at 0145-0146; 1215 at 0150; 1512 at 0151. TA carrier search Nov 10 at 0109: only one I can detect, JBA, is 693 kHz. TA carriers JBA Nov 12: 1521 het on 1520 KOKC SB game at 0109; 882 at 0120; no others noticed in non-exhaustive search. TA carrier search Nov 14 at 0117: none lower than 783, which is about ENE = Mauritania, and a weaker one on 882; nothing further up to 1215 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 960, Nov 12 at 0113 UT, I find I can almost totally null local KGWA tnx to a stronger than usual signal at that critical point --- sports talk mentioning TCU football, call from a coach, 866-485- 7042, which I took to be the toll-free call-in number for this show, but searching on that leads to nothing but a 2005 page for Golf Gifts Fore U in Lagrange IN. As it faded into the QRM before ads, gave some network ID. Doesn`t fit with KGKL San Angelo programming, altho a Texan would be most likely. KMA Shenandoah IA at least has a program schedule, http://www.kmaland.com/site/broadcast_schedule.html with minute-by-minute details --- until 6:30 pm when it becomes vague (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Unidentified 960, Web searches indicate that TCU only recognizes WBAP 820 as the English station. Cannot find a network list. The Univision radio station on 1270 in DFW carries the games in Spanish. The other two stations mentioned are FM (KTCU 88.7, KTFW 92.1). With WBAP they should not need anything else, but that doesn't stop the Longhorns and the Aggies. None of these transmitters are in close proximity to each other so I doubt that it is mixing, but you're a better expert on that (David Block, TX, ptsw yg via DXLD) I think it was only a mention of TCU in sports talk, not game coverage (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 1100, Nov 11 at 1303 UT, road work reports concerning Decatur Drive, Lakeshore Drive, Martin Luther King Drive, in Bloomington, also mentions counties: DeWitt, Livingston, McLean. 1305 into Christian song. Those streets and especially counties lead not to Chicago, but to the Bloomington, Illinois area. Trouble is, there is no 1100 station anywhere around there (nor Bloomington IN). Loops about east/west. Suspect it is just my nearest 1100, KKLL in Webb City (Joplin) MO, somehow relaying off-topic programming from the IL city. I`ve yet to find any connexion confirming this. KKLL is owned by the New Life Evangelistic Center, address in St Louis MO, and their closest IL station is WINU 870 in Shelbyville, a bit too far from Bloomington. No NLEC listed at FCC as licensee of any Bloomington IL AM or FM station. If it weren`t for the three counties, I would go hunting at several other Bloomingtons in the USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1300, 26.10 0540, OID som id:ade ”Radio Trece” vid denna tid, så kanske ändå stn i México City. Får kolla mer (RÅ, ARC MV-eko Oct 29 via DXLD) The Radio Trece in México DF is on 1290! On 1300 a Radio Trece is XEP in Juárez, a regular here, but there could obviously be others, altho none listed by that slogan in IRCA (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 3995 on Nov 8 at 1325 & 1403 found decent strength open carrier. Checked it today due to alert from Atsunori Ishida http://rri.jpn.org/ Would be great if it's reactivation of RRI Kendari, but so far no hint of audio. Testing the tx? Interesting that Atsunori indicates "weak carrier," while I would say I was hearing a carrier that was stronger than the RRI Kendari signal I have heard in the past. So something new? Can only hope whoever it is will soon provide some audio so we know for sure who this is. Worth monitoring (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Could also be N Korea, which has jumped around to 4000, 4005 (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 4845, 0210 07.11, UNID playing non-stop Spanish songs was NOT heard tonight! The conditions are still very poor for Latin America, but better for Asia (Anker Petersen, heard on the AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres longwire in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Heard a station this morning from 1102 past 1125 UTC on 4985.5. Definite man announcer, possibly preaching, with music on occasion. Faded out as the late Latin Americans do at this time here. I checked my recordings and the man announcer does sound similar to the one on R. Voz Christiana [sic] that was heard on 4985 last year. I haven't seen any loggings of it lately. Is R. Voz Christiana on 4985.5 now?? Here is a link for a recording from this morning, 1103- 1104 UT. https://app.box.com/s/8fgidhi3sl29zcgjzfxm 73 (Dave Valko, PA, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) In Spanish there is no H in Cristiana, FYI. He doesn`t even mention a country, but it was PERU, as in WRTH 2013: ``4987, R. Voz Critiana [sic] (R. Manantial), Huancayo``. Manantial [wellspring] was its original name, and not clear whether it really changed or R-V-C- was programming source/name (Glenn Hauser, OK DX LISTENING DIGEST) No carrier visible today at 2300. Maybe they are on weekends only? 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, Nov 12, HCDX via DXLD) ID as PERU: q.v. UNIDENTIFIED. 6915-RCLSB, Nov 12 at 0123, looking for North American pirates, but all I find is the very bass voice Spanish guy here saying ``Hola qué tal hola`` over and over, and sometimes counting uno-dos- tres. Yes, it seems like he has a reduced carrier plus LSB, no USB; quite strong signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 17680-USB, Nov 10 at 2028, 2-way in Romance language, eventually recognized as Spanish; one of them has background noise as from an engine. A far cry from CVC La Voz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. I still check analog channel 2 TV frequently, often turning it on in the mid-mornings and evenings, in case there be an off-season sporadic E opening from Canada, Mexico or beyond. Finally, Nov 13 at 1611 UT, something shows up! It`s a large-font graphic saying 2344 KILLED --- not sure of the number, but probably refers to the Philippine typhoon death toll at the moment? Anyhow it`s in English, which makes Mexico unlikely. Antenna is southward in usual resting position; I rotate north and still see it, but no stronger than south --- of course the signal itself from wherever could have faded during those few seconds. There should be a few Canadian analog TVs left on channel 2, e.g. Ontario. At 1612 there is also some video showing on channel 3. The first thing I do in such cases is compare to cable channels 2 and 3 here on another monitor, as cable radiation can be a problem, and they do NOT match cable, so real DX! Both are gone within a couple of minutes. Nothing significant showing on 50 MHz Es maps, and hardly anything on 28 MHz; altho there have been some recent reports of F2 propagation getting up to 35 or 40 MHz. It`s yet a big leap to 56 or 62 MHz, so I would still say a bit of sporadic E is more likely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1695: Hi Glenn, Thanks for all the great work! As usual keep it anonymous (from Quebec with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) One may also contribute by US$ check or MO on a US bank to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 Obrigado por sua lista dxld, por seu boletim, por suas pacientes respostas. Obrigado por manter o dx ainda vivo mesmo com tantas emissoras saindo de HF, os ruídos elétricos nas cidades e a baixa propagação que não quer mais ir embora. Um grande abraço, (Jorge Freitas, Local time -3 UT, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil) Number stations on the Coast to Coast radio show! Glenn, They were talking about Number stations on the Coast to Coast radio show. A topic I have not much interest in. At about 3:15 AM CST on Sat. morning, a person called in and said that a numbers station was mentioned "on Glenn Hauser's World of Radio program". Glenn, Just in case you you have not heard about this. Are you ever going to be a guest? (Artie Bigley, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ NORTHERN BAY NEWFOUNDLAND MEDIUM WAVE RADIO DXPEDITION WEBPAGE Hello to All, The web page for the Northern Bay Newfoundland Medium Wave Radio Dxpedition held during the month of October 2013 is now completed with photos, logs and other related information http://nldxers.000a.biz/northernbay.htm Good DX (Allen Willie VOPC1AA, Carbonear, Newfoundland, Nov 7 ABDX via DXLD) DXPEDITION TO PEI 2 TO 9 NOVEMBER 2013 (long) Below, you will find a lengthy DXpedition report of my loggings made at Murray Harbour North, Prince Edward Island. Although primarily a MW DXpedition, there are some excellent SW loggings as well. Primary antennas used were a 1200' Beverage aimed 60 degrees to Europe, and a large Delta loop, aimed N/S. [attached to the dxldyg but this document is an image and can`t be copied in text so cannot publish excerpts of it here! What`s wrong with plain text in the first place for nothing but text?? Anyhow, saves me a lot of editing trouble --- gh] To see the "official" report prepared by Bruce Conti, click on this link: http://www.bamlog.com/2013peidxped.htm Sorry for the length of the report, but the results were excellent! 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, Nov 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) CHINESE MEDIA ATTENTION FOCUSES ON A DXPEDITION IN ARCTIC FINLAND Nihao! A news crew from the Chinese news agency Xinhua traveled 1,200 kilometers from Helsinki to Aihkiniemi in Finnish Lapland to shoot a report on AM DXing. What did they find? - A total of 14 Beverage antennas (each 3,000 ft./1 km) spread out in the wilderness, probably a world record. - DXers spending afternoons trying to identify mostly Chinese AM stations. - Reindeer, hundreds of them, and indigenous Sami people rounding up the reindeer, as part of an age-old tradition that is still very much alive. And we were present when the highlight of the year for reindeer herders arrived. The 29th DXpedition to Aihkiniemi ended last weekend, and now you can read a comprehensive report about it at http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/aih29rep.dx Propagation conditions ranged from fairly good to rock bottom. However, for at least one week out of the three-week DXpedition there were decent conditions to North America and the Far East. Lots of photos in the report, and a few MP3 clips, more to come later. And the logs? Yes, as soon as we've reviewed at least 10TB of recordings. A few highlights can be found in the report, but detailed logs will take years to compile. In Aihkiniemi, you just can't avoid catching a motherload of interesting stations. 73's (Mika Makelainen, Nov 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ PRESERVING CHANGING DIALECTS OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR Online database records regional language patterns CBC News Last Updated: Oct 25, 2013 1:23 PM NT The online dialect atlas from Memorial University has samplings of speech from different areas of the province. (CBC) The Dialect Atlas of Newfoundland and Labrador Nothing else sounds like the language found across Newfoundland and Labrador, and researchers at Memorial University in St. John's are working hard to preserve the unique dialects found in different areas of the province. A new online dialect atlas launched by Memorial features audio clips decades old, as well as more recent samplings of speech from different regions. . . http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/preserving-changing-dialects-of-newfoundland-and-labrador-1.2251509 (via Gerald T Pollard, NC, DXLD) MUSEA +++++ MGM 1939 film: Radio Hams / More than a Hobby A mildly entertaining look at radio hams, those amateurs sending and receiving coded messages during the late thirties when films first dealt with the subject of "radio hams." In this case, the ham operators manage to be helpful during situations of stress, using their abilities with code to help someone in distress and to seek aid for pilots flying a missing plane. The humorous ending has the family gathered around the radio listening to someone speaking Chinese while the narrator tells us how impressed the family was to be hearing someone across the world on their radio set. "Radio Hams" do more than play with their machines. They are also invaluable in relaying vital information during times of tragedy and disaster. This little vintage film, a rather more serious film than many of Pete Smith's other presentations, takes a look at how ham radios can become priceless aids during emergencies. The two stories shown, one dealing with sickness, the other with a missing plane, are bookended by a humorous look at a typical three-generation family's fascination with their ham radio. Of course, amateur radio, or "ham radio", is alive and doing very well, in our modern times. Using satellites, moon-bounce communications, repeater networks, as well as shortwave, mediumwave, and longwave telecommunications technology, amateur radio continues to provide emergency services in times of need, from hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and even during such times as the infamous 9/11 atrocity. But, amateur radio also breeds invention and experimentation, always at the cutting edge of science. It is a hobby worth investigating, having room for a wide-range of interests. Preppers, science lovers, experimenters, and those with a passion to meet people from all over the world by way of radio waves, all together make up the radio hobby of amateur radio. Clayton Moore, later famous as the Lone Ranger, appears uncredited as a ship radio operator. http://g.nw7us.us/1ezmy3D (via Tomas Hood, Nov 10, DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IBiquity Illuminates License Fees http://radioworld.com/article/ibiquity-illuminates-license-fees/222209 Sent from my iPad (Dennis Gibson, WB6TNB, Nov 8, ABDX via DXLD) COUNTERPOINT: ALL-DIGITAL HD RADIO ON AM STILL ON THE TABLE AT FCC http://radiosurvivor.com/2013/11/06/counterpoint-all-digital-hd-radio-on-am-still-on-the-table-at-fcc/ My friend John Anderson wrote his dissertation on the complex policy machinations behind HD Radio becoming the digital radio standard, and now he has a book coming out telling the story. He knows more about the topic than just about anyone else. So when he says that the all- digital option for AM revitalization is very much on the table at the FCC, I listen. Last Thursday I raced to read and understand the FCC’s notice of proposed rule making. I noted that the all-digital option was “notably absent from the FCC’s specific proposals,” even though it is mentioned amongst the ideas that have been suggested. John argues that we shouldn’t be too quick to interpret that the Commission is minimizing that option. As someone who has exhaustively reviewed the policy record, John has learned that these little suggestions are often the seeds that grow into policy. “Policy studies necessitate close reading,” he counsels. John reads that the FCC “acknowledges that an all-digital transition doesn’t fit the bill as a ‘concrete’ proposal ‘that can be implemented expeditiously’ ; rather, it is a ‘complex’ idea that ‘would require additional comment, research, and analysis.’” He argues “That’s all the green-light action that HD Radio proponents need to start the regulatory campaign toward an all-digital transition.” Read his full argument at DIYMedia.net (via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See BELGIUM; BRAZIL; CUBA; GERMANY; GUAM; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ KOREA SOUTH; NEW ZEALAND; SLOVAKIA; VATICAN DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ NPR SAYS TV REPACKING WILL IMPACT FM BROADCASTERS http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/npr-says-tv-repacking-will-impact-fm-broadcasters-/222222 (Dennis Gibson, WB6TNB, Nov 7, Sent from my iPad, ABDX via DXLD) INCLUDING: NPR also noted that it appreciated the FCC’s inviting comment to identify additional expense categories, but argued: “An equally direct cost, but one not reflected in the proposed Catalog, concerns the dislocation of radio station transmitting antennas and related hardware as a result of the television station reassignment. NPR therefore urges the Commission to provide reasonable reimbursement for such expenses and incidental service costs pursuant to the Spectrum Act.” NPR further argued: “The direct causal link between the television spectrum reassignment and the costs of relocating radio station transmitting antennas is far from conjectural.” - See more at: http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/npr-says-tv-repacking-will-impact-fm-broadcasters-/222222#sthash.90vEoIl1.dpuf (via gh, DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ END OF AN ERA FOR PLASMA TV AND RELATED QRN? Here is hoping... -- (Colin Newell, BC, Nov 7, IRCA via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ GEOMAGNETIC INDICES Compiled by: Phil Bytheway E-mail: phil_tekno@yahoo.com Geomagnetic Summary October 1 2013 through October 31 2013 Tabulated from email status daily (K at 0000 UT) Flux A K Space Wx 1 107 5 2 moderate, S2 2 108 39 4 moderate, G2, S1 3 114 6 0 no storms 4 109 2 0 no storms 5 106 1 0 no storms 6 107 2 1 no storms 7 112 6 1 no storms 8 112 16 5 minor, G1 9 113 24 3 minor, G1 10 121 9 1 no storms 11 129 5 1 minor, R1 12 128 5 2 no storms 13 129 2 0 minor, R1 14 125 13 3 no storms 15 125 14 3 minor, R1 16 128 9 2 no storms 17 136 9 1 minor, R1 18 140 3 0 no storms 19 133 3 0 no storms 20 133 3 1 no storms 21 136 2 0 no storms 22 146 5 2 minor, R1 23 153 4 0 minor, R1 24 161 3 0 moderate, R2 25 161 3 1 strong, R3 26 165 3 1 minor, R1 27 167 3 0 minor, R1 28 160 3 0 strong, R3 29 153 6 2 strong, R3 30 142 12 3 no storms 31 143 6 2 minor, R1 Sx – Solar Radiation Storm Level Gx – Geomagnetic Storm Level Rx – Radio Blackouts Level (IRCA DX Monitor Nov 9 via DXLD) SATELLITE SKIP REPORTED IN FINLAND A forwarded message of interest: Satellite reflections Posted by: "ilkka suni" is.sit@pp.inet.fi Fri Nov 8, 2013 8:16 am Hi folks, I DO HAVE TO emphasise, I am no expert in any field of life. Let alone in what comes to the possibility of FM-QSOs via satellite reflections. Now, have I sounded obsessed with this satellite GOCE? I suppose I have. And, I am fool enough to state that, at 0716 UT today I got a QSO reflected by the very satellite. Please, folks, do enlighten me: could this be for real or am I just wishfully dreaming? THE SATELLITE GOCE, as I have gathered, is about to crash. She is running out of fuel, as expected by the European Space Administration. I am having the satellite on live tracking, thanks to the fabulous site n2yo.com (I am not connected with the site in any way whatsoever). And, I've been waiting for the chance to either QSO via the satellite or, eye-witness the satellite burning up in the atmosphere. THIS MORNING, at around 0713 UT, the GOCE passed over Northern Finland, at the altitude of some 190 km/118 mi. The satellite traveled S/SW. As she passed eastern Sweden, no echoes. But when she got over Denmark and Northern Germany, my tuner on 92.4 MHz started mumbling. Three stations in some 4 seconds; one of the stations definitely was SWR1 Baden-Württemberg. I also got the incident on video. Unfortunately, I wasn't prepared well enough and all I had was this tiny Minolta Dimage Xt (320 x 240 pixels video) hand-held, capturing the satellite live tracking screen simultaneously as my tuner's monitor loudspeaker spoke up. SHORT STORY of the morning, or at least an attempt. Keep DXing! 73, Ilkka Suni, [FIN-Joutseno] (via Curtis Sadowski, IL, Nov 8, WTFDA via DXLD) SOLAR FLARE IN THE PRESS Southgate November 8, 2013 The Daily Mail newspaper reports Sun unleashes its most powerful solar flare of the year - just days after it sent 28 flares erupting through space in a week. They say the The powerful X3.3 flare peaked at 10:12pm GMT on Tuesday causing a wide-area blackout of high frequency signal. Read the story at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2491191/Sun-unleashes-powerful-solar-flare-year--just-days-sent-28-flares-erupting-space-week.html * The flare peaked at 10:12pm GMT on Tuesday and was classified an X3.3 * X-class solar flarescan pose a threat to satellites and astronauts in orbit * This particular flare is not a major concern for Earth, officials have said * It follows over two dozen solar flares that have occurred since October 21 (See pictures and video). http://www.southgatearc.org/news/november2013 (via Mike Terry, Nov 10, dxldyg via DXLD) SUMMARY: X-Ray Event exceeded X1 (R3) Space Weather Message Code: SUMX01 Serial Number: 94 Issue Time: 2013 Nov 10 0524 UTC SUMMARY: X-ray Event exceeded X1 Begin Time: 2013 Nov 10 0508 UTC Maximum Time: 2013 Nov 10 0514 UTC End Time: 2013 Nov 10 0518 UTC X-ray Class: X1.1 Optical Class: 2b Location: S14W13 NOAA Scale: R3 - Strong NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Area of impact consists of large portions of the sunlit side of Earth, strongest at the sub-solar point. Radio - Wide area blackout of HF (high frequency) radio communication for about an hour (SWPC Nov 10 via DXLD) LOW-BAND VHF F2 DX TO NORTHERN GERMANY, 9 NOV From: Jurgen Bartels Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 11:35:44 +0100 Very different conditions. Afternoon: The paths were more to the south and did not move up to NE-USA, Orlando weather station came in strong, the usual NE USA signals were absent or buried in noise or suffered extreme multipath distortions Instead Brasil came in mid afternoon on 39.x, very weak with a few short peaks. Never had them on 39.x before. Also a number of Chinese were heard at the same time, thus from the same region. A few Arabic were heard also, tentatively Africa A puzzle was 39.245 in AM with Arabic programming, I did not find a fitting fundamental. It faded up & down only for 7 minutes, so no ID. Since it was recorded, it could have been the alias of 40.755, (Perseus max range ends at 40 MHz) OTOH it also appears to be a mixing of 2 programs, but I am not sure http://dx.3sdesign.de/unid/39245-AM-harmonic-131109.mp3 [could be the sum of two frequencies e.g. in the 17 and 21 MHz bands, such as Saudi Arabia; it would sure help to know the TIME this was heard --- gh] 30.620 USA PL=210,7 WPSD819 - Chattanooga TN, Millenium Taxi Servic 30.625 Chinese (evenings) 30.640 USA PL=82,5 KJQ231 Amagansett Long Isl. NY WF Mc Coy Petrole 30.690 ARG Radio Argentina Exterior, Buenos Aires, 30.880 USA PL=114,8 EE weak 30.980 PL=82,5 Puertorican accent 31.275 Chinese afternoons 31.275 Chinese afternoons 31.280 USA PL=179,9 WQBF550 Crittenden Co, AR, Robert Pollard Fa 31.520 USA PL=82,5 WNLY925 Dunkirk MD, Howlin Concrete 31.680 USA PL=67,0 southern accent 31.760 USA PL=146,2 very bad accent, trucks 33.600 B in AM, Itabuna, Bahia state, taxi 33.600 Chinese, evenings, with Bahia Brasil 33.675 Chinese late afternoons 33.720 PL=141,3 SS with Costa Rica 33.980 DPL=? unid language 34.040 PL=127,3 Turrialba in Costa Rica 34.480 B DPL=? Sao Paulo, taxi 34.520 B PL=77,0 weak 34.819 B Macapá Amapá state 34.840 Brasil DPL=? 34.900 arabic ? 38.660 B PL=173,8 taxi 39.010 B very weak 39.125 Pager (with Brasil) 39.245 AM radio harmonic, arabic 39.300 B with DTMF, very weak 39.900 B?? PL=151,4 25 kHz wide 39.900 french / arabic tent. Africa, with Brasil 41.400 RUS Jurgen Bartels Suellwarden, N. Germany, 1035 UT 10 Nov; Ant. hor: 29-45MHz 7-el, 45-87MHz 11-el, FM 15.11, Band-3:13-el, UHF:48-el TV: Winradio G305 / Fly2000 + video noise filter & variable IF BW FM: Downconverter + Perseus + Speclab as WFM demod. MW: 30 x 4m EWE 320 with JB-terminator, Winradio & Perseus http://zeiterfassung.3sdesign.de/station_list.htm http://dx.3sdesign.de/tv_offset_list.htm (vhfskip group via Tim Bucknall, harmonics yg via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2013 Nov 11 0707 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 04 - 10 November 2013 Solar activity ranged from low to high levels with the majority of the major flare activity from Region 1890 (S11, L=170, class/area Ekc/950 on 05 November). The period began at low levels on 04 November with only low level C-class flares observed. By 05 November, solar activity increased to high levels as a pair of M-class flares and an X3/1b flare was observed from Region 1890. The X-flare, observed at 05/2212 UTC, had associated Type II (1380 km/s) and Type IV radio sweeps along with a 400 sfu Tenflare and a non-Earth directed coronal mass ejection (CME). Moderate levels were observed on 06-07 November as both Regions 1890 and 1882 (S08, L=292, class/area Dkc/390 on 27 October) produced M-class flare activity. None of the associated CMEs were determined to be Earth-directed, however. By 08 November, solar activity increased to high levels again as Region 1890 produced an X1/2b flare at 08/0426 UTC and Region 1891 (S18, L=205, class/area Dai/120 on 08 November) produced an M2/1b at 08/0928 UTC. The X1 flare had associated Type II (834 km/s) and Type IV radio sweeps, a 1000 sfu Tenflare, discreet radio bursts of 65,000 sfu at 245 MHz and 130,000 sfu at 410 MHz, and a non-Earth directed CME. Low levels were observed on 09 Nov with another increase to high levels on 10 November as Region 1890 produced another X1/2b flare at 10/0514 UTC. This X1 flare also had associated Type II (1012 km/s) and Type IV radio sweeps, a 360 sfu Tenflare, discreet radio bursts of 130,000 sfu at 245 MHz and 30,000 sfu at 410 MHz, and another CME with the majority of the ejecta directed south of the ecliptic. The greater than 10 MeV proton flux at geosynchronous orbit was enhanced but below the 10 pfu threshold (S1-Minor) from 07-10 November. An initial enhancement was observed from approximately 07/0130 UTC to 07/1600 UTC, with a peak flux of 6.6 pfu at 07/0435 UTC. The initial enhancement was likely due to an M1 flare that occurred at 07/0002 UTC from Region 1882 from beyond the west limb. Two further enhancements were observed from approximately 08/1200 UTC through the end of the period with a peak flux of 1.6 pfu at 09/1115 UTC likely associated with both X1 flares from Region 1890. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal to moderate levels. Moderate levels were observed on 04-06 November and again on 10 November. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to active levels with minor to major storm periods observed at higher latitudes. The period began with quiet levels that persisted through 06 November. On 07 November, at approximately 0630 UTC, phi angle moved from a positive (away) sector to a negative (towards) sector with an increase in total field from 5 nT to 13 nT and a prolonged period of southward Bz near - 9 nT. Solar wind showed a small increase from approximately 350 km/s to 380 km/s likely indicative of a solar sector boundary crossing followed by a weak negative polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). The geomagnetic field responded with unsettled to active periods with active to major storm periods observed at higher latitudes. The geomagnetic field was at quiet levels again on 08 November. By late on 08 November, total field measurements increased from 2 nT to 15 nT with the Bz component turning southward to -14 nT followed by an increase in temperature and solar wind speed from 400 km/s to a maximum of 662 km/s indicative of a co-rotating interaction region followed by a positive polarity coronal hole high speed stream. The geomagnetic field responded with quiet to active levels with minor to major storm levels observed at higher latitudes on 09 November. Coronal hole high speed stream influence continued through the end of the period with quiet to unsettled levels observed on 10 November. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 11 NOVEMBER-7 DECEMBER 2013 Solar activity is likely to be at moderate levels with a chance for X- class flare activity from 11-24 November due to potential flare activity from Region 1890 and the return of old Region 1875 (N07, L=030). From 25 November until the end of the forecast period, solar activity is expected to be at very low to low levels. There is a chance for a greater than 10 MeV proton event at geosynchronous orbit from 11 November until 16 November when Region 1890 rotates off the visible disk. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal to moderate levels with high levels expected from 13-18 November due to CH HSS activity. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to range from quiet to active levels. Active periods are expected on 11 November and 06 December due to CH HSS activity. Quiet to unsettled periods are expected on 13 November due to a potential shock enhancement in the geomagnetic field from the CME associated with the 10 November X-flare. Quiet to unsettled periods are also expected on 15-16 November, 04 December, and 07 December due to CH HSS activity. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2013 Nov 11 0707 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 2013-11-11 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2013 Nov 11 155 15 4 2013 Nov 12 155 5 2 2013 Nov 13 155 10 3 2013 Nov 14 145 5 2 2013 Nov 15 145 8 3 2013 Nov 16 150 8 3 2013 Nov 17 150 5 2 2013 Nov 18 155 5 2 2013 Nov 19 155 5 2 2013 Nov 20 150 5 2 2013 Nov 21 150 5 2 2013 Nov 22 150 5 2 2013 Nov 23 145 5 2 2013 Nov 24 140 5 2 2013 Nov 25 135 5 2 2013 Nov 26 130 5 2 2013 Nov 27 130 5 2 2013 Nov 28 135 5 2 2013 Nov 29 140 5 2 2013 Nov 30 140 5 2 2013 Dec 01 135 5 2 2013 Dec 02 135 5 2 2013 Dec 03 135 5 2 2013 Dec 04 130 8 3 2013 Dec 05 135 5 2 2013 Dec 06 135 12 4 2013 Dec 07 130 10 3 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1695, DXLD) ###