DX LISTENING DIGEST 14-02, January 8, 2014 Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING edited by Glenn Hauser, http://www.worldofradio.com Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. Materials taken from Arctic or originating from Olle Alm and not having a commercial copyright are exempt from all restrictions of noncommercial, noncopyrighted reusage except for full credits For restrixions and searchable 2014 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html For restrixions and searchable 2014 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid13.html [also linx to previous years] NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1703: *DX and station news about: Chile, China, Croatia, Cuba, Diego Garcia, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia non, Finland, Germany, India, Inernational Vacuum, Italy, Korea North non, Liberia, Macedonia, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, North America, Perú, Russia, Sarawak non, Sri Lanka, Taiwan non, USA SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1703, January 9-15, 2014 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [replayed 1702] Thu 1330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed but truncated] Thu 2201 WTWW 9475 [confirmed] Fri 0426v WWRB 3195 [confirmed at 0429; do tune in early] Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 2130 WRMI 7730 [special maybe temporary; confirmed] Sun 0030 WRMI 9495 [special maybe temporary; confirmed] Sun 0030 WTWW 5085 [confirmed] Sun 0501 WTWW 5830 [confirmed, but poor propagation here] Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 [confirmed; NEW ex- Sat 0300v] Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 [now better via Okeechobee] Wed 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [or 1704 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: [no longer available] WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN: [no longer available; shall we set up our own podcasting?] OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser DXLD YAHOOGROUP: Why wait for DXLD? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our yg without delay. When applying, please identify yourself with your real name and location, and say something about why you want to join. Those who do not, unless I recognize them, will be prompted once to do so and no action will be taken otherwise. Here`s where to sign up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/ ** ABKHAZIA. Abkhazia Apsua Radio (in Abkhazian) or Abkhazkaye Radio (in Russian) monitored on 1350 (1349.95) - co-channel Voice of Russia in Turkish via Gavar, Armenia. It is on the air daily from s/on around 0340, next at 0400 is Nat Anthem, ID, news in Abkhazian, music and Mon-Sat (and irreg on Sun) 0430-0440 news in Russian. Next programme is in Abkhazian to fade out around 0525. Afternoon: s/on around 1350 UT, 1400 ID in Abkazian then news Mon-Fri in Abkhazian, Sat-Sun in Russian, all 1415-1435v (Rumen Pankov, 22 December, Jan BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) GEORGIA, 1350 MW, Apsua R, Abkhaz State R, Sokhumi, in the morning, Jan 04, an interesting sample of reception made by Karel Honzik via SDR receiver in Amberg. The recording has three parts: IDs in the part 1 and 2, a sample of Abkhazian language in part 3. Audio at http://snd.sc/1lGrqTJ (Karel Honzík via Jaroslav Bohac, Usti nad Laben, Czech Republic, DSWCI DX Window Jan 8 via DXLD) ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. KUWAIT. 12140, Azadi Radio em 29/12 de 0927- 1000. Em idioma Pashto com noticias internacionais e ID às 1000. No WRTH constam as emissoras R Free Afghanistan e VOA Ashana Radio, entretanto na identificação ouvi nitidamente “Azadi Radio”. SINPO 45444 (Sérgio Dória Partamian em DX Pedition ã cidade de Itatiaiuçu- MG, Brasil entre 26 e 29 de dezembro de 2013, Receptor Drake R8, Antena Kaaz [sic], DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Free Afghanistan is merely its name in English. In Dari & Pashto IDs on air, it`s Azadi. BTW, neither this nor any of the IBB surrogate services qualify as ``Clandestine & Target Broadcasts`` in WRTH; why not? They are listed under USA (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA. 580, 2345-, KRSA, Jan 1. Noted the absence of this station, which is usually one of the regulars, and heard just about all year around with the car radio. Not on since I've been in Masset this time. ?Gone for good, or moved to FM? [5/5 kW U3, Petersburg, silent since 1/13 -- NRC AM Log 2013] 780, 1542-, KNOM, Dec 30. Excellent reception. Heavily modulated. Local Nome information at 1543 (pool is closed), then back into modern music 'I was a dinosaur'. 850, 0527-, KICY [Nome], Dec 30. Old time radio with local announcements 'telegraph messages'. Always fun to listen to this rather than the usual network programming on so many frequencies! Local ID only at 0602, and into network news. 1080, 1834-, KUDO [Anchorage], Dec 30. Massively strong, but with a transmitter problem. Clear modulation, but a regular broad band noise pulse, about once per second. Not sure of the cause otherwise. PSA against smoking pot. 1170, 0606-, KJNP [North Pole = Fairbanx suburb], Dec 30. Excellent reception with weather forecast and advisory not to travel the Dalton Highway after dark. Into Voice of Hope program. KPUG Bellingham, occasionally fades up cochannel, but otherwise KJNP totally dominates the frequency on the North mini-Beverage (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA [and non]. 9655, 1503-, KNLS, Jan 3. Normally KNLS totally dominates here in Masset, but for the last few days, Radio Romania International in Arabic dominates the channel! We must be getting the back end of the antenna beam from Romania to the middle east. Both are quite strong, and listenable if you ignore the other language (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9615, KNLS 1435, Jan 4, Chinese, man singing hymn “Blessed Assurance”, alternating between English and Chinese, 1438 host speaking in Chinese. Fair (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening in my car, parked by the lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. 7245, 0232-, Radio Tirana, Dec 27. Open carrier at 0229 UT. I had just set up my ALA 100 loop antenna after arriving a few hours late. Three missed approaches to Masset airport resulted us in diverting to Sandspit, and from there 2 vans, a ferry and about 2 extra hours to get to the cottage. Glad to be here! Excellent reception, with a mild transmitter hum (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See DX-PEDITIONS ** ALGERIA. Sometimes there are broadcasters such as Radio Algerienne International that have English language content as part of a multilingual international service. For example, RAI has a 5-minute English language news summary at 1630 UT (not sure if weekdays or all 7 days) and a 30-minute news report at 1900 UT. There may be other times as well. Best wishes for a happy, healthy, prosperous 2014! (Rich Cuff / Allentown, PA USA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) on webcast The Algerian regional outlets on 693 (Radio Adrar - Reggane), 927 (Radio Adrar - Timimoun), 1089 (Radio Adrar - Adrar) and 1161 kHz (Radio Tamanrasset - In Salah) have been observed for several months in parallel relaying during the evening Radio Algiers nternational and then, RTA Koran, in the following schedule: 1930-1959 RAI Spanish, 2000-2029 RAI Arabic, 2030-2059 RAI French 2100-2129 RAI Arabic, 2130-2159 RAI English, 2200-2229 RAI Spanish 2230-2259 RAI Arabic, 2300-???? RTA Koran (at least until 0200 UT). (Guillermo, Valencia, 3 Dec via mediumwave.info via Jan BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) DXers in Italy also confirm hearing from Radio Algiers International on 927 // 1089 kHz as per the above schedule, also at 1900-1930 in English (BOC 31 23-26 November = Giampiero Bernardini, Bocca di Magra, Liguria, Italy, Perseus, Eton E1 == via PlayDX via Jan BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** AMSTERDAM ISLAND. >>> FT5ZM <<< latest Press Release, sent on 3 January by K0IR & the Amsterdam Island DXpedition Team: We are now 6 days from departure from the U.S. The Braveheart is making its way across the Great Australian Bight and the North Corridor Radio Group of Western Australia has a stockpile of supplies queued up and waiting for us. Momentum has taken over now and there is no turning back. Upon arrival in Fremantle, the Braveheart will re- provision and refuel to 90,000 to 100,000 liters of fuel. We will load the materials we've obtained from the NCRG, do a little shopping for personal supplies, set up our maritime mobile station, take our sea sickness pills and patches, and be prepared to sail on January 15th. We'll be passing through some rare grids on the way to Amsterdam Island and we are anxious to hand out QSO's from them. Be sure to look for us on the bands and track us on our website in near real time. Landing on Amsterdam can be "exciting. " Wish us good luck with this. We'll have some heavy work to do upon landing and expect our set up time to take at least a full day. We'll let you know when we get there. This will be our last press release. It has been a long time of preparation and a great deal of work, but that is behind us now. The next time you hear from us, it will be a signal from the Braveheart or from Amsterdam Island. As you can see from our financial status on our home page http://www.amsterdamdx.org we still need help. If you haven't helped us yet, please consider doing so. If you've supported us, thank you - you've kept us afloat to date (04 January 2014 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 1183 via ============ ========= ====== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** DX INFORMATION **** ============ ========= ====== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH, Direttore Responsabile I2VGW via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS. INDIA, 4760, 1729-, AIR Port Blair, Dec 28. Very good reception with a network program from Delhi in Hindi, and then in English at conclusion of the music program. Then a woman came in with further announcements. Not sure whether local Port Blair, or still via Delhi. Transmitter cut just after 1731 UT. No sign of ELWA for the 2nd day. Seems like a number of broadcasters left at 1730 including 4750 (China). 4765 Tajik Radio remains, just above (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGOLA. 4950, 1753-, Rádio Nacional Angola, Dec 28. Reasonable carrier, but nothing audible. Measured at 4949.755 kHz. 4949.757, 1739-, Radio Nacional Angola, Jan 1. Best I've heard them so far on this DXpedition with low level, but clear music. No one else on this frequency. Portuguese DJ at 1741. Very lively programming! 4950, 1751-, Rádio Nacional Angola, Jan 2. About to report that there were no signs of Angola today, when it suddenly popped up, with its characteristic low modulation and off channel, measured today on 4949.754 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGUILLA. 11775, Jan 6 at 1446, and still 1530, The Valley is AWOL. I assume it`s a bit warmer there than here, 1.6 degrees F at 1425 per my outside thermometer. A good day for staying inside to DX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. On Jan 2nd around 2215 til 2250 UT noted at Lexington KY remote SDR: 15344.958, RAE Buenos Aires, Spanish, 2245 UT, S=7-8 fluttery. vy73 (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15345, RNA, 04/01 2138 UT. Programa “Postales Argentinas” en conexión con 860 [sic] AM, en donde se trata el tema del teatro experimental y de buena calidad. SINPO: 55444 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 20 metros, QTH: Sector sur de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) Quiere decir 870 AM ? (gh) 15345, RNA, [Sunday] 05/01 2004 UT. Comienzo del programa “En mi propia lengua” con lecturas de poesías y de cuentos cortos. SINPO: 55444. 15345, RAE, 07/01 1904 UT. Comienzo del servicio en idioma italiano, con una locutora relatando noticias. Señal con SINPO: 33333 debido al R3 Radio blackout en señales HF publicado en el facebook de HFRadio.org (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 20 metros, QTH: Sector sur de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 4835, 1744-, ABC Northern Territory Service, Dec 28. Very good reception with a talk show (call-in). Intermittent ute interference on high side of the frequency (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 2325, 1609-, ABC Northern Territorial Service, Dec 31. Excellent reception, interviewing a pop group performer. 2485, Katherine is even better, and 4835 Alice Springs at armchair level. Nothing from Radio Symban since I've arrived. A fair amount of presumed power line noise this morning, too. Also static on the tropical bands. Noted that Nick in Sydney confirmed that Radio Symban is back, which is why I was down in the area, but absolutely nothing propagating this way. The two 120 m Northern Service frequencies were coming in well, though (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) As he logged THAILAND, q.v. 2965, 1443 Dec 29 2368, 1518-, Radio Symban, Jan 1. Just barely able to make out a carrier slightly off frequency on 2368.471. Presuming this is Symban, but far too weak to hear any audio. First sign of them I've seen during this stay. Australians on 2325 and 2485 are particularly strong today. No one else on 120 meters this morning except for 2850 North Korea. 4835, 1536-, ABC Northern Territorial Service, Jan 1. Extremely strong, armchair copy with Nightline program talking about marijuana use in Colorado (move to legalize recreational sales). 1 300 800 222 is the number to call (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Subject: Re: RA & Solomon Islands - SIBC on 6080 kHz. Dear Gary, Indeed, I found SIBC today on 9545 kHz. for the first time, ex-6080 kHz., so I assume RA will remain on 6080 kHz. from 0900 UTC onward, with no change? Happy New Year! (Ron Howard, California, USA, Jan 1, to Gary Baxter, RA frequency manager, via DXLD) Hi Ron, Thanks for the update. Yes, Radio Australia does intend to remain on 6080 kHz with no change to the current schedule. Regards, (Gary, Jan 5, via Ron Howard, DXLD) 12065, Jan 3 at 1527, just as I tune in R. Australia it cuts off the air amid program; how rude! 1530 I find it instead on weaker 11880, maybe same transmitter. 1530 is supposedly the stop/start time for these (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 9475, Tue Jan 7 at 1422, WTWW cuts off, uncovering R. Australia during a `Conversation` hour about the horrors of Scientology, back on at *1423.5. Meanwhile I`m listening mainly on 9580, and at 1426 also time the delay on 9965 via PALAU as 7 seconds. That`s far too much to be explained by a satellite feed alone, and probably too little for an internet feed. Is the transmitter site running it thru a deliberate digital delay for some reason? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Might it be that they are using a DRM feed which would also introduce a delay? Depending on the 'horsepower' of the computer converting the bits to audio, it could take 5-10 seconds to resolve sound from data. Can someone who has knowledge about DRM and/or R Australia's relay schemes chime in? Is this possibly the correct explanation? (Kenneth V Zichi, D<== I'm not with stupid ==> R, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ken, That`s an idea, but the ``DRM feed`` would have to be top-secret, as RA has been denied the use of DRM from Shepparton, and the DRM from Brandon, only 10 kW, is not on the air at this hour (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) 9965 via PALAU entry in HFCC table shows BAB Babcock as FMO provider for Palau. Maybe the program feed goes through internal net in broadcast-house Melbourne, to an uplink somewhere in Australia, then via Pacific / Indian Ocean / Atlantic satellites to London Babcock control room, and back to Palau same way and hops? 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) A seven second delay of Radio Australia transmissions via Palau is no surprise, assuming that they are routed through World Harvest Radio headquarters in South Bend, as the "Angels" stuff explicitly implies (Kai Ludwig, ibid.) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 15490, Jan 2 at 0731, poor signal with religion in English: it`s HCJB, now on this frequency only at 0730- 0830, on 80-degree beam, toward Honiara, Palmyra and México DF but for CIRAF 51, 55, 56, 59 and 60 = from New Guinea to New Zealand including the eastern two thirds of Australia itself. 15340, Jan 2 at 1407, no signal despite RHC not up here yet, see CUBA; yet when RHC is going at 1427 recheck, there is heavy CCI with S Asian music past 1430, no doubt HCJB, which operates from 1230 to 1530 on 310 degree beam. Perhaps long-path was awaiting MUF buildup for the last leg from the east after Enid sunrise at 1343 (latest of the year in a few days reaches 1344 UT). Yet by 1521, RHC is CCIless. HCJB should of course have kept this transmission on 15490 as well, with no QRM from anywhere (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA. 7355, 0720-, BBC World Service, Dec 27. Again, not quite enough oomph to decode. Listed as either 40 or 100 kW directed 300 degrees to the UK. The most DRM signals at the same time as I've seen in a long time! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) with ROMANIA, RUSSIA, UK ** AUSTRIA. 6155, 0611-, Radio Oesterreich International, Jan 1. What a pleasure to hear Austria again with a concert of Bach. German, of course, but a wonderful signal from the heart of Europe (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AZERBAIJAN. 9678, 0800, V of Talyshistan (tentative), Stepanakert. Croaking sounds. On air Sundays! (also heard 0900-1205 on 17/12) 555 15/12 RP (Rumen Pankov, Jan BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** BANGLADESH. 7250, 1344-, Bangladesh Betar, Dec 27. Listed in Nepali, although what sounded like Kor`an recitations continued through 1345. Signal would be quite good except for extreme splatter from China 5 kHz above. Very good at recheck 1450, in the clear. Not 100% sure of the language, though. ?Bangla (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4750, Bangladesh Betar, Shavar; 1254 light music and short announcements by a woman to ID by male announcer at 1300; unusually strong signal and good audio level, 12/29 (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo MI, MARE Tipsheet 3 Jan via DXLD) [and non]. 4750, 1701-, Bangladesh Betar, Jan 2. Nice reception with time pips, and an ID, well over CNR 1 China, for a change. RRI Makassar had signed off already. Both seem to be on frequency, compared to RRI which is always low. I'm not able to differentiate the two transmitters with the zoom function of the Perseus. BB left the air at a few seconds past 1705, leaving CNR 1 as the sole occupant of the channel. 4750, 1541-, Bangladesh Betar, Jan 3. English news with BB dominating the frequency well over the Chinese and RRI, with RRI being second best, and the Chinese speaker weakest (for a change). Good/very good reception (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4750, Bangladesh Betar - HS, 1252, Jan 5. Their usual daily spot in English with the weather, temperatures, etc.; 1530 news in English which was all about election results of today's elections; today preempted "News Commentary," so after the news (1540) went into Bangla; poor with QRM (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Pradip Kundu, Agartala, India reports that all Bangladesh Betar stations are busy with broadcasting Parliament election result. Likely to continue whole night. Golden chance of logging BB stations!! Alokesh Gupta, Delhi, India has already noted 4750 kHz on extended transmission (Sudipta Ghose, Kolkata, India, 1845 UT Jan 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) BB English service on 7250 just signed off and cleared frequency as normal at 1900 UT. 73 (Tony Molloy, Winter Hill, UK IO83ro, CCW SDR4+ & CCW HF Active Antenna, @swlistener, http://swlistener.wordpress.com/ ibid.) But that`s the external service (gh) 4750, Bangladesh Betar - HS, 1530, Jan 6. In English with news / sports / weather (Prime Minister Hasina holds first post-election meeting at her residence in Dkaha to address national concerns; "at least 10 people, including children, have been killed in a blast in the house in Pakistan's NW Tirah tribal area"; etc.); "News Commentary" back on today; even with QRM is fairly readable (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15105, Bangladesh Betar, Jan 03 *1227-1240, 25442, English, 1227 sign on with IS, Opening music, Opening announce, News (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BARBADOS. Relatório de Escuta TEP 03/01/2014 --- Hoje a Caribenha BBS 90.7 MHz se fez novamente presente; foi entre 23:27 e 23:53 local ou entre 0127 e 0153 UT, foi só esse período mas a intensidade de sinal foi boa, ficou todo tempo o S meter do Sony marcando 1 risco vertical. Segue um pequeno trecho da abertura de hoje: http://youtu.be/VqCAj-dx7hc 73´s (Fran Jr, São Paulo SP, UT Jan 4, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** BELARUS. 7255, 0600-, Belaruskaye Radio, Dec 28. Poor/fair reception with time pips and ID in Belarussian (I'm pretty sure they said 'Horizont'. A tough catch at this time of the night (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. On the air now: 4451.1, Radio Santa Ana, Santa Ana de Yacuma, 2330 Jan 2, deep fades, some Spanish. 5580.2, Radio San José, San José de Chiquitos, 2345-2350 Jan 2, this not heard in a while. 73 (Bob Wilkner, Pompano Beach, Florida, 746Pro, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.42, R. Pio Doce, 0839-0841 religious talk by M, then campo music. 0846 canned exchange between lady and child, and more pleasant campo music. 0849 child bracketed by M announcer. More music, nice flutes, then 0854 alternating M and W. Finally an ID at 0901. Poor at this time but was much much better, and actually nice, at 0945. Had drifted up to 5952.46 as well. (30 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) 5952.4, EMISORA PIO XII, 03/01 0050 UT. Música folklórica altiplánica con avisos en idioma quechua por parte de una mujer. SINPO: 45544 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 20 metros, QTH: Sector sur de Ovalle, condiglista yg via DXLD) 5952, Siglo Veinte. "Radio Pio XII", 0027 UT 07/01. ID Red Pio XII "Red Aymara Internacional", mencionan ERBOL Bolivia, y anuncio "una pausa en Informativo en Aymara". Anuncio en aymara sobre la violencia física y sicológica, anuncio en español de la basura y lo importante de preocuparse de esto y otros anuncios en español y música en aymara; después se escucha locutor hablando sobre proyectos nuevos a desarrollarse en el departamento de La Paz, SINPO: 35223 (Marcos Cox, Vicuña, Chile, Receptor: DEGEN DE1103, Antena: Cable Largo 3 Metros, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 6025, Radio Patria Nueva ran all night on New Years Eve with lively music program, different to what I usually hear. Noted 0718 with Spanish idents for “Patria Nueva, 24 horas” over music, followed past 0900 1 Jan, fair at best (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai 0540, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, Google Earth: 36.07.07 S, 174.36.09 E, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOTSWANA. 4930, 1751-, VOA, Dec 28 Fair/good reception with listed Shona language (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL. 2380 kHz, R. Educadora, Limeira SP em 28/12/13, às 0505 UTC, em português com ouvintes pelo telefone reclamando de serviços públicos da cidade, SINPO 43333 (Sérgio Dória Partamian em DX Pedition ã cidade de Itatiaiuçu-MG, Brasil entre 26 e 29 de dezembro de 2013, Receptor Drake R8, Antena Kaaz [sic]. Infelizmente nesta época do ano (verão no Brasil) os ruídos estáticos são internsos, com muitas chuvas e trovoadas que, em diversos momentos, me abrigaram a desconectar a antena e desligar o receptor. Também a propagação não esteve boa. Mesmo assim, consegui fazer algumas escutas interessantes, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4885.02, R. Clube do Pará, 0203 playing "Silent Night" mixed with church bells. Brief announcement 0204 and ZY Pops. 0213 "White Christmas", "Silent Night" in Portuguese at 0234. (25 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4965.01, R. Alvorada, 0948 talk by M in Portuguese over music ending with mention of Brasil. "Bom dia", SFX, and religious talk by soft-spoken M over somber instrumental music to 0955, then lively canned announcements. // to their webstream which seemed to be about 15 seconds behind. Oddly, it wasn't // after 1000. (30 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 5939.81, Voz Missionária, 0138 talk by M in Portuguese with mention of Missionária and São Paulo. Another ID at 0141. Fair strength but severe QRM from 5940. Was // to clearer 9665.45. 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) Date missing but must have been 25 Dec judging from adjacent logs (gh) 5940, R. VOZ MISSIONÁRIA, 03/01 0025 UT. Música Cristiana en portugués y aviso de un congreso de los Gedeones misionarios de la última hora con SINPO: 45444 // 9665 con SINPO: 55444 y sin QRM de otras emisoras como es típico (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 20 metros, QTH: Sector sur de Ovalle, condiglista yg via DXLD) Usual audible het here, presumably off-frequency like almost all Brazilians (gh, DXLD) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 6010.04, R. Inconfidência, 0830 morning M DJ hosting pleasant ZY pop music program. Many many "bom dia"s. 0841 nice short ID and TC by M after song. Weaker than Conciencia up on the usual 6010.21 creating a het. (30 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6079.89, R. Marumby, 0840 soft music which sounded // 9545 at first but of course not. 0859 canned announcement by M ending with M definitely //9514.97. This frequency fair and 9514.97 good. No sign of 6080 SIBC. (31 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Interferência provocada [jamming] pela QRG 6090 kHz da Bandeirantes SP --- Já faz tempo que a frequência de 6090 kHz da rádio Bandeirantes SP provoca espúrio severo entre as QRGs 5900 e 6010 kHz. Acima de 6190 kHz percebem-se também espúrios da Bandeirantes SP. Por mais que a gente alerte sobre tal interferência, a emissora ignora. A Rádio Inconfidência é a mais prejudicada; pelos menos aqui no meu QTH, a recepção é péssima. A Bandeirantes é uma das poucas emissoras de rádio no Brasil que mantêm três ondas curtas. 73 (Luiz Chaine Neto, ``12:25 pm`` 6-1-2014, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 9585, S. R. DEUS É AMOR, 08/01 0301 UT. Himnos evangélicos clásicos cantados en portugués i.e.: Gloria, gloria aleluya, et. al. Y comienzo de transmisión de una campaña por parte de David Miranda desde las 0305 y promoción de la iglesia pentecostal. SINPO: 44444 // 6070 con RHC dominando el canal // 6120 con mucho QRM desde 6125 de REE // 9565 SINPO: 53453 con QRM de CNR-2 desde 9570 // 11765 con SINPO: 55454 // 11805 con QRM de Radio Rumanía Internacional y que no permite escuchar nada (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Noticed quite a few ZYs on 31mb at 0905-0920: 9514.968, R. Marumby (weak but readable, similar to Bandeirantes) 9529.940, R. Transmundial (very weak but // 11734.970) 9565.058, Super R. Deus é Amor (at readable level, // 6059.787) 9629.747, R. Aparecida (good, // 11855 but which of 3 signals I can't tell) 9645.385, R. Bandeirantes (at readable level) 9665.130, Voz Missionária (good) 9818.958, R. 9 de Julho (barely) (30 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 9629.71, R. Aparecida, 2321 "Angels We Have Heard on High" by choir during church service. // 5034.99, and 11954.92 [must mean 11854.92 --- gh] both poor. This frequency was good. (31 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 9645.38, R. Bandeirantes, 2318 end of Bluesy ZY pop song, and into another song. // 11925.18 which was very choppy and poorer. (31 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 11780v, Rádio Nacional Brasília noted to have wandered off nominal 11780 since 26 Dec. Checks over subsequent days shows it to vary between 11780.11 and 11780.15. Good to very good with great music offerings and Portuguese announcements in my late afternoons (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai 0540, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, Google Earth: 36.07.07 S, 174.36.09 E, Jan 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11780+, Jan 6 at 0503, RNB is slightly on the hi side and also slightly unstable, when compared with BFO to WBBM 780. I had not paid attention to its exact frequency, normally nothing to het it obviously, but checking following Bryan Clark`s Jan 6 report from NZ that since 26 Dec it`s been varying 11780.11 to 11780.15. But my reading would be more like 11780.011+. Let`s see how it compare to the collision from Sephardic Spain, UT Tuesday only 0115-0145 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 11780, Brasília was OFF on Monday Jan 6th morning in 07-08 UT slot. Only CNR8 Mongolian service heard on this channel at 0730 UT via Beijing TX center #491, according Aoki/Nagoya list from Japan. But \\ 6180.006 kHz was on air at 0748 UT Jan 6, only fluttery S=6 signal in Germany. 11780v, Rádio Nacional Brasília, was not on air this morning Jan 6th in 07-09 UT slot, but heard now 2120 UT on SDR remote unit at Ceylon on 11780.104 kHz. S=6 signal in Portuguese language by two men. This 100 Hertz oddity is very seldom on RNB 25 mb channel; in past month usually on even 11780 kHz, but 49 mb unit is always some 6 Hertz higher on 6180.006 kHz. Looks like the 3rd reserve BBC-SUI unit is used now in Brasília instead. 4824.938, R. Educadora de Bragança, Pará at 0800 tiny S=3 4885.015, probably R. Clube do Pará, talk by men in Port, sermon? Probably two Brazilian on channel, exact freq questionable, maybe vv?: 4914.913, R. Difusora de Macapá 4915.012, R. Daqui-Brazil \\ ? 6080 ? 5939.828, R. Voz Missionária 5969.978, R. Itatiaia 9565.085, SRDA Super Deus é Amor program 9644.981, R. Bandeirantes program UNID Brazilian Portuguese on VERY ODD channel 9662.377, !!! R. Voz Missionária - SC at 0820 UT. 11764.761, SRDA, Super Deus é Amor, fair signal of pastor sermon continuously. 11925, NIL of R Bandeirantes, but instead even 11925.0 Chinese station and TRT Emirler little odd on 11925.034 kHz at 0850 UT, bad mixture More Brazilians this morning, at 0905-0950 UT: 4885.021 probably - sermon of R. A Voz do Coração Imaculado (R. Maria) Anapolis-GO vice versa, see above: and now I separated the two 4915 co-channels ? 4915.012, R Difusora Macapá, Macapá-AP 24 h P, ID: "Rádio Difusora de Macapá, Amapá". 4914.913, R. Daqui-Brazil, phone-in religious ? 6059.788, SRDA Super Deus é Amor program at 0922 UT Jan 6. Probably tiny 9694.386 kHz Rádio Rio Mar, Manuas, Amazonas at 0948 UT. 11925.178, Rádio Bandeirantes in Portuguese on threshold level in remote unit at Ceylon. At 2135 UT Jan 6 (Wolfgang Büschel, Jan 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Ondas curtas da Rádio Gaúcha, 25m --- Tenho sintonizado diariamente a Rádio Gaúcha e a qualidade de som é muito boa. A frequência é de 11915 kHz ondas curtas de 25m. A propagação costuma abrir-se às 9h, todos os dias. 73 (Luiz Chaine Neto, somewhere in Brasil, 2-1-2014, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** BULGARIA [and non]. 7535, 1633-, Radio Dreamland, Dec 28. Very good reception here in Masset, from 1623 tune-in with mostly modern American, especially by Afro-American female singers. German announcements in between. Diana Ross with 'Tell me that you love me' to 1653, then a song that has something to do with radio (as announced by DJ). Occasional ute interference, but switching from USB/LSB often solves this. Presumably Met Fax from VMW Wiluna Australia. Continued to check from time to time, and continues at good level at 1830 recheck, with VMW continuing to send weather faxes (which I'm also copying on a different laptop, and different antenna beam!). Starting to fade a bit as we're several hours after LSR here in Masset. Carrier cut at 1900:25 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 834, 2022-, 1U, Dec 28. Beacon weakly heard is actually the aeronautical beacon at 3 x 278 kHz, and measured on 834.007, so ever so slightly off. Nothing noted on 2 x 278, nor 4 x 278. Airport is located about 10 km to my west (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Heard in a Ford E350 work van with all the rattly noises, the cheapest possible radio and a 31' whip traveling on TN 199 between the main office in Henderson, TN and headed towards the satellite office in Savannah, TN: 1610, CHHA Toronto, ON, 1/2 1700 [CST] blast furnace, earth toasting loud and totally in the clear with Voces Latino, la voz de nuestro communidad [sic]. And then slow Say Achi Achi Ah. Must be legal to use any language to ID in Canada. Not new but never as strong and clear as this. Rare (Kevin Redding, Crump, TN, Jan 2, ABDX via DXLD) CHHA also ID's in English but never at the same time. They alternate between the English and Spanish ID. They're also the only station I'm aware of that plays the Canadian National Anthem (O Canada) at midnight and 6 AM (Justin Nielsen, neofoodog, ibid.) 0500 & 1100 UT ** CANADA. Another station gone, and I didn`t see anything about it although I may have missed it, is CFRX, 6020 [sic], Toronto. Sometime ago, I remember it was off for a long while, but it was repaired and back on the air. At the time, the government said that when it failed again, that was it, no more repairs. I often hear it on 1010 dukeing it out with WINS, but that is of no help (Bob Fraser, Belfast ME, Musings, Jan NASWA Journal via DXLD) ?? No other reports of such a government edict; where did he hear that? In fact as recently reported here, the license was recently renewed, tho it remains off the air; it`s up to the new owners whether to bother with 6070 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 6160, Jan 8 at 0706, after RHC 6165 ACI is gone, one CBC station in the clear, sufficient signal with discussion of Winnipeg weather, cold and windy as it may be, still being better than Mars; at least the air is breathable. Very slight SAH at times from the other CBC. I suppose CKZU Vancouver is more likely to be propagating to here, but usually in the nightmiddle they are more equal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHILE. Radio experimental RCW desde Chile Hola amigos: Viendo un foro de radio encontré con el siguiente aviso: Estimados. Hoy a las 21:00, Hora chilena (04 enero a 00 UT), por la frecuencia de 7290 kHz y por internet através de ustream, se efectuará la primera transmisión de prueba de la RCW Radio Compañía Worldwide. Dicha transmisión será con una potencia de 50 vatios y recalcamos… *será de carácter experimental*, a pesar que las condiciones de propagación no han estado muy buenas. Esperamos que no existan inconvenientes a esa hora que impidan hacer esa prueba, no por ello, se seguirán efectuando a futuro para mejorar las condiciones de emisión. RCW es un experimento que nace de un grupo de personas amantes de la radio de onda corta producto de la constante desaparición de muchas emisoras internacionales, entre ellas la antigua Radio Nederland Wereldomroep que ha sido el punto de inspiración y creación de este experimento radial. Esperamos que todo salga bien. Fuente: http://www.radiomaniacos.cl/foros/index.php?showtopic=3624 (Via Claudio Galaz, Chile, Jan 3, condiglista yg via DXLD) Some of the replies: Es un emisor FACILITADO y hecho en casa, a válvulas, fabricado por una gran persona y técnico nacional (no lo nombraremos por lógicas razones). Una 6DQ6 modulada por un par de 807. Y así es Chuki, los elementos son muy difíciles de encontrar, sobre todo al aumentar las potencias. Mil gracias por responder y así como a Claudio. Un abrazao`` Para mí fue la otra prueba que se llevó a cabo; creo que fue la segunda. La primera fue por allá por Junio si mal no recuerdo en los 7215 KHz o será esta noche? (Ernesto Paulero, Argentina, ibid.) Hola Ernesto: Efectivamente es la segunda prueba de esta emisora. No obstante, es la primera que se intenta en AM, la anterior (28 de junio) fue en USB o LSB si mal no recuerdo. Y aquella vez me pidieron a mi que confirmara. Ahora el mail es: rcwprensa@gmail.com Saludos! (Claudio Galaz, ibid.) Good luck; it seems there is no QRMoscow on 7290, but it`s a favorite hangout for North AMerican hAMs. For how long? Aoki shows these broadcast competitors: until 0130: CNR1, 100 kW from Beijing from 0200: CRI, 100 kW in Urdu from Kashgar, East Turkistan from 0230: Air Chennai, 50 kW from Thiruvananthapuram (Glenn Hauser, ibid. via DX LISTENING DIGEST) On the condiglista, Claudio Galaz posted news from a Chilean forum http://www.radiomaniacos.cl/foros/index.php?showtopic=3624 that RCW Radio Compañía Worldwide, would carry out a test broadcast at 0000 UT Jan 4 on 7290 in the AM mode, 50 watts; duration not given. I pointed out that there might be QRM from CNR1 scheduled on 7290 before and after that hour from Beijing; and also 7290 is a prime hangout for North American hams in the AM mode. With the computer off and out of contact, I started monitoring at 0000 on 7290, and indeed heard a weak signal, probably China. Meanwhile, RCW had discovered that was big QRM down there, so said they would use 7550 instead starting at 0050, but I didn`t know that until afterwards. I probably tuned across 7550 without noticing anything. The radio maniacs forum shortwave sexion is worth keeping an eye on, as that`s also where news first appeared of the Cooperativa fútbol relay on 12365-USB last (and every?) October (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: Radio experimental RCW desde Chile --- Los 7550 llega bien, una emisora que pasan noticias. RCW se acaba de ID. SINPO: 45333 (ce3BBC, Hugo López C., Santiago de Chile, 0011 UT Jan 4, condiglista yg via DXLD) 7550, RCW, 0013 UT, "Historia de Radio con Daniel Camporini. Historia de La Voz de Chile" SINPO: 45333 (ce3BBC, Hugo López C., Santiago de Chile, ibid.) Por Ovalle con SINPO: 35232 (Claudio Galaz, Chile, 0017 UT Jan 4, ibid.) Como informé durante la TX, su escucha por el centro de Chile fue aceptable, con fading por momentos que dejaba paso al ruido de la banda. Retransmitieron programas de onda corta: "Historias de Radio, Camporini", "Frecuencia al Día" y "60 años de RNW". Se nota una buena producción radial, identificaciones en voz femenina en otros idiomas, señal de intervalo, etc. La frecuencia fue 7550. Con 50 watt que por lo menos llegó a Santiago. Felicitaciones a quienes están detrás de este proyecto; se ve gente que estima y lleva la onda corta en su sangre. En su Facebook se informa: ``Buenas noches a todos quienes escucharon las emisiones de prueba de RCW. La próxima semana nuevamente otra emisión de prueba... avisaremos oportunamente. Saludos cordiales desde Chile.`` https://www.facebook.com/pages/RCW-Radio-Compa%C3%B1%C3%ADa-Worldwide/578178758867184 (ce3BBC, Hugo López C., Santiago de Chile, ibid.) 7550, RCW, 04/01 0001 UT. Con 50 watts, desde la Región metropolitana de Chile. ID de la emisora y a continuación noticias en español desde Radio Francia Internacional, y una nueva ID a las 0111. Señal con SINPO: 25232. También captada por Alberto Silva desde Concepción con SIO: 333 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 20 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** CHINA. 9400-9450, Jan 2 at 1440, the big dirty blob of distorted FM CNR1 programming is back, and matches clear modulation on 9450 jammer, whence possibly it emanate, but doubt it as nothing on the other side. 6145, Jan 2 at 1526, Firedrake still audible poorly, yet by now attains SSOB status. 9450-9470, Jan 3 at 1532, filthy FMy distorted blob of CNR1 programming is now on the hi side of 9450 jammer, suspected of being the source transmitter. On 9450 itself, the carrier is somewhat but much less distorted and unstably wobbling with BFO engaged. At least this leaves 9430 FEBC Chinese undisturbed today. 15150, Jan 4 at 0629, OSOB is Chinese with fair signal, 0630 two-pip timesignal, and ``Chung-guo chi-sheng`` ID, which I think means CPBS = CNR1 = Voice of China, no doubt here as a jammer against VOA Chinese, via Tinian during this hour only. EiBi does list 15150 as a Firedrake / CNR1 jammer during this hour along with ten higher frequencies. 9455-9485, Jan 4 at 1405, FMy distorted spurblob with CNR1 modulation matching 9450 which may be the source of it, again today on the hi side, so VOK 9435 is clear; and 9475 WTWW is still not on by 1421. 9815-9835, Jan 4 at 1424, now this 9825 CNR1 jammer too is putting out scratchy sideband spurs, but apparently still no Malaysia on 9835 to suffer them. [and non]. 12045, Jan 5 at 1432, Firedrake good with flutter, CCI, against VOA Chinese via Tinian; no thoro search, but noticed one other FD as usual during this hour, 6145, plus lots of stronger CNR1 jammers at the usual spots on 9 and 7 MHz bands. 9315, Jan 6 at 1434, Firedrake with poor-fair signal, vs.? Aoki shows nothing but V. of Tibet, Tajikistan on 9317 at 1300-1315 only. But HFCC shows IBB in bod dialect of Tibetan this hour only, 1400-1500 via Thailand. FD is good as usual, simultaneously on 6145. Complete OOB scan from 10 to 18 MHz, Jan 6 at 1445-1457 finds zero CNR1 or FD jammers. 9450-9470, Jan 7 at 1421, CNR1 distorted spurblob is centered about 9460 today, with mix of signals on 9450. 9315, Jan 7 at 1425, Firedrake is poorly audible here, no het, but against unheard IBB Tibetan via Thailand; and also on usual 6145. 11635, Jan 7 at 2250, mix of music and Chinese with LAH (low audible heterodyne) from something off-frequency. Per Aoki, the pileup here consists of ChiCom jamming inspired by R. Taiwan International at 22- 24, 100 kW via Paochung; but also scheduled is V. of Korea [North], 200 kW from Kujang until 2257 in Russian, 2300 onward in Korean. Cuban Spy Numbers finish 11635 at 2155 on Sun, Mon, Wed, Fri, and this was Tuesday anyway. 6075, Jan 8 at 1418, Firedrake mixing with Chinese = either CNR1 additional jamming or less likely the target RTI, while as usual on // 6145 Firedrake only is audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 1098, 1034- [sic], Guangzhou Diantai Fengyun Tai, Dec 28. Tentative logging. Excellent reception in Chinese. Did mention Guangzhou, so it's my presumed logging. Amazing, since it's 11:30 AM local time! Being deep in the winter sure helps! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So I guess the correct UT should have been 1934! Right? Next report in the original log in time order was for a 1943 UT check for LW 279, RUSSIA (gh) 1251, 1954-, CNR 1, Jan 1. Quite something. Why I enjoy DXing from Masset in the depths of winter. 11:55 AM local, and I'm hearing Chinese at good level on this frequency. Neat! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) But whence? That`s sorta like saying I heard the USA on a MW frequency. WRTH 2014 shows the only big gun on 1251, 200 kW, is at Xining, Qinghai (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGSET) 1593, 1740-, CNR 1, Jan 2. Not signing off at 1735, it seems. Still quite strong, although starting to fade now. // to 6125 and hundreds of others!! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Must be the 600 kW at Changzhou, JS (WRTH 2014) ** CHINA. 4940, Voice of the Strait, Fuzhou with tuning signal 0942 as per http://www.intervalsignals.net at strong level, then opening in Chinese 27 Dec (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai 0540, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, Google Earth: 36.07.07 S, 174.36.09 E, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 5990, Jan 4 at 0003 I notice that CRI Spanish relay via CUBA is again late coming up (tho already running on 15120), with 5990 bearing instead a very poor signal in Russian. I`d rather hear that anyway, since Aoki shows it too is CRI, but 100 kW, 345 degrees from Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. Recheck at 0028, now Habana is on. 9750, Jan 4 at 0047 sounds like Japanese songs, fair with deep fades, and I figure it`s NHK which is on 9750 for long hours --- but not this long. Aoki shows it must also have been Hohhot, PBS Nei Menggu, in Mongolian, 50 kW, 36 degrees USward; among more E Asian signals on 31m than European or American (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 11927, CNR1, 0007 probable news by M in Chinese with soundbites. Strong off frequency. // 15550, 11960, 7290, 7275, 7230, and 11925, so 11927 is not 11925 off frequency. Wonder what's going on here. (1 Jan. 2014) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DXLD) China Radio International on strange frequency: 0830-0927 on 17707 in Indonesian // 15135 KUN, 17735 KUN -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This morning Jan 5th are extreme WELL SW PROPAGATION conditions. 17707.5 is an intermodulation signal from Kunming site? Fundamentals 17680 and 17735 kHz both originate from Kunming. 100kW 175 degrees, Indonesian 0830-0927, Malaysian 0930-1027, 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17707.5 (was it .5?) is halfway between 17680 and 17735, but that`s not the way intermodulation usually works, leapfrogging (gh, DXLD) Another strange frequency of China Radio International in Indonesian 0830-0927 15135 KUN 500 kW / 177 deg SEAs + 15115.0, nothing on 15155 0830-0927 17735 KUN 100 kW / 175 deg SEAs + 17707.0, nothing on 17763 -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, Jan 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No, - I guess - this IS NOT an intermodulation product. I did now monitor all Chinese (CRI / CNR) Services at 0830 to 1000 UT on Jan 8 downunder in Colombo, Japan and Brisbane Queensland. 17707 was a very strong FUNDAMENTAL signal of up to S=9+35 dBm signal strength. This is a wild speculation? A few days ago Kunming was two days totally off air, the oddity frequency has to do with an exceptional event at the transmitting station? Or maybe modifying their shortwave transmitter on xx7 and xx2 for odd frequency alignment possibility, in order to jam Voice of Tibet, RFA IBB and others on odd channel properly? CHINA CRI and CNR sw channels in 0830-1000 UT in 19 and 16mb. 15115 S=9+15dB ?KUN? Unknown site 15135 S=9+15dB KUN 15185 S=4 KAS 15210 S=9+25dB KUN 15250 S=9+15dB KUN 15335 S=4 KAS Ru 15340 S=9 XIA 15350 S=3 KAS Ru 15370 S=6 SZG #723 15380 S=4 BEI #572 15390 S=3 LIN 15415 S=4 BEI #491 15440 S=9+30dB KUN 15500 S=6 BEI #572 15525 S=5 URU 15565 S=9+15dB BEI #491 15665 S=4 KAS Ru 15770 S=3 LIN #725 17490 S=7 KAS 17550 S=4 BEI #572 17560 S=6 XIA 17570 S=8 KAS 17580 S=3 LIN #725 17595 S=3 SZG #723 17605 S=4 BEI #572 17650 S=6 KAS 17670 S=9+25dB KUN 17680 S=8-9 KUN 17690 S=9+15dB JIN #831 17707 S=9+35dB ?KUN? Unknown site 17735 S=9+25dB KUN 17890 S=8-9 BEI #572. vy73 (Wolfgang Büschel, Jan 8, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DXLD) ** CHINA. 15390, CNR-13, 06/01 0351 UT. Música y avisos en idioma uigur con SINPO: 32232 // 13700 SINPO: 22222 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 20 metros, QTH: Sector sur de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** CHINA. 17495, Jan 4 at 0007, Chinese, really CRI Cantonese scheduled, 500 kW, 193 degrees from Beijing site. Tuning down the 16m band I about concluded it was totally dead & empty until I got to this, making it the OSOB and the SSOB; also with echo, long/short path? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. China R International. I've been missing Listener's Garden recently on China Radio International. Today I found this announcement at the end of Listener's Garden for the weekend of 14/15 December 2013. "B: Before we conclude today's show, here's a little announcement. A: Listeners' Garden is a long-time program of China Radio International and has been on the air for many years. But I'm afraid that today's show will be the last episode, which means that Listeners' Garden will no longer exist from now on. It will be replaced by some other new and fascinating shows on CRI. We hope you keep listening and enjoy the programs. B: It's hard to say goodbye to a show that is so popular among the listeners. But, we still welcome our listeners' to write to CRI any time you like. A: That's right! As we have done on Listeners' Garden, listeners' letters will be answered and read on air on other related programs regularly. So you can still hear your own letters read on air here at CRI. B: That's right. And we would also like to thank our listeners' for tuning in to Listeners' Garden over the past years and writing to us with great comments and feedbacks about our programs. It's been great to be with you and read your letters. A: Before we end today's show, let's enjoy a song sung by a group of children in China in both Chinese and English. It's Auld Lang Syne. B: With that, we come to the end of this edition of Listeners' Garden. We hope you enjoyed it." I'm sorry to see the end of Listener's Garden - it was always a relaxed and informative program. Also, I must say that it seems rather illogical to me "to say goodbye to a show that is so popular among the listeners." (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, Jan 4, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I'm not surprised it ended. In 2004 there was talk about ending the show at CRI. The reason was, when they looked over a one-year period they found it was the same people that wrote in over and over and over. Also within CRI, if someone was asked to produce the show, it was seen as a demotion. No one really wanted to do it. I remember discussion I had with the then head of the English Service Li Ping. I told her the problem was the show was too scripted and was dull. I worked with Stuart Parkins, a Brit who was there at the time, and we did a pilot on a new exciting version of the show. Everyone who heard it said it was much better than Listeners Gerden, but the censors and the leadership at CRI didn't understand it, so it never went to air. The script was written by someone in the letters department, and when I say scripted, everything was. What you hear on air is exactly what you see on paper. The show needed to be off the cuff and improvised (Keith Perron, Taiwan, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 5000, BPM, Heard CW IDs at 1229 under WWVH which was under WWV. (25 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** CHINA [non]. USA(non), Frequency changes of Radio Free Asia: 1400-1500 13655 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg EaAs Cantonese Mon, ex 13690 Mon 1400-1500 13675 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg EaAs Cantonese Sat, ex 13690 Sat 1400-1500 13635 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg EaAs Cantonese Sun, ex 13690 Sun (Ivo Ivanov, DX RE MIX NEWS #831 January 3, 2014, via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. 1170, Caracol, Cartagena, Bolívar. 1148 January 2, 2014. Rapid news by man, Caracol IDs (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, JRC NRD-535; JRC-NRD-515; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF- 7600GR; RadioShack DX-399; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; custom active portable loop; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CROATIA. 1134 kHz off and silent --- The last AM transmitter in Croatia, Zadar-Nin on 1134 kHz, is no longer in use since New Year's Day. Hrvatski Radio did not bother to communicate this at all; all one finds on their website is the old stuff about the termination of the shortwave transmissions a year ago. Only the transmitter operator finally posted a small announcement four days after: http://www.oiv.hr/tvrtka/vijesti/vijest_en.aspx?id=1218 (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Jan 6, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FYI, taken from German A-DX ng by Hubert Kubi? http://www.oiv.hr/tvrtka/vijesti/vijest_en.aspx?id=1218 http://www.hrt.hr/sateliti/frekvencije-glasa-hrvatske-2 picture access of 2007 has now been broken: http://www.oiv.hr/Download/2007/05/21/ZadarSV1024x768.jpg END OF MEDIUM WAVE TRANSMISSION --- Voice of Croatia broadcast on medium wave ended on January 1st 2014, as HRT decided. This program was transmitted from transmitter site Zadar on MW (medium wave), covering Europe in time 18:00 - 00:45 (CET) every day. The programme can still be followed via satellite and the Internet (more information on HRT site). On Jan 1st Croatian Radio MW powerhouse Zadar 1134 kHz 315 degrees has been gone forever? Is a remaining 4-mast array of 600 kW powerhouse, directed towards former Yugoslav national workers audience in western Europe. HRV 1134 kHz MW Zadar Nin Rasinovac 2 x 600 kW. Gossip said in 2008/2009 a new DRM mode 600 kW tx by RIZ Zagreb firm has been erected? [HISTORY:] mostly 1730-2330 UT, summer 1630-2230 UT. In 2011 1700-2345 UT, before 2009 at 1400-0630 UT . 44 13'54.08"N 15 14'16.16"E http://goo.gl/maps/Sxm9l http://binged.it/1i9Hf5q From March 2010 a schedule cut happened: 1134, As of March 01, 2010 Zadar MW transmitter, carrying Voice of Croatia on 1134 kHz instead of 1400-0630 UT now operates only between 1600 and 2300 UT summer, 1700-2345 UT in winter! (Dragan Lekic-SRB, dxld March 4, 2010) Zadar MW site, bombed at 16 Sept 1991 by Yugoslav National Airforce. ----- Original Message ----- From: Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 1:53 AM Subject: Re: [A-DX] 1134 kHz Kroatien ? Hallo A-DXer, dieser Meldung nach hat am 1.Jan.2014 tatsaechlich die Stimme Kroatiens die Nutzung der Mittelwelle beendet: http://www.oiv.hr/tvrtka/vijesti/vijest_hr.aspx?id=1217 http://www.oiv.hr/tvrtka/vijesti/vijesti_hr.aspx = Meldung vom 05.01.2014 : Kraj odasiljanja na srednjem valu Es wird auf die Programmverbreitung ueber Satellit und im Internet verwiesen. Jetzt muss ich noch bei naechster Gelegenheit (d. h. wenn ich daran denke) um 20:00 Uhr MEZ die UKW-Frequenz 102.4 MHz einstellen; hier sollten im 1. HR-Prgr. nach den Nachrichten auf kroatisch auch englische News kommen - ich habe dies im Sommer beobachtet, ob dies das ganze Jahr ueber geschieht weiss ich (noch) nicht. 73, Hubert (all via wb, WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DXLD) VOICE OF CROATIA ENDED ITS MEDIUMWAVE BROADCASTS SWL DX-ing 7 January 2014 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/broadcast/ Voice of Croatia broadcast on medium wave ended on January 1st 2014, as HRT decided. This program was transmitted from transmitter site Zadar on MW (medium wave), covering Europe in time 18:00 - 00:45 (CET) every day. The programme can still be followed via satellite and the Internet. (Wiki at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_Croatia requires updating). (Mike Terry, 8 Jan, dxldyg via DXLD) WTFK? See above ** CUBA. 960, Radio Reloj, Guantánamo. 0520 January 2, 2014. Weak under WFIR. Interestingly, running chimes instead of RR's again, a Thursday. 980, Radio COCO, Ciudad de la Habana. 1725 January 1, 2014. Tune-in to Mexi-tunes program until abruptly dumping into Noticiero Nacional de Radio at 1800. Seemingly titled "Melodías Mexicanas" and apparently locally generated, as one clear mention of 91.7 FM. And their website appears to be stupid with no current listing of programming. 1100, Radio Angulo, Mayarí, Holguín. 0607 January 2, 2014. ID and mention of programa especial which was some cocktail jazz female vocals in Spanish. Poor, parallel better 1110. 1140, Radio Mayabeque (and others). 0458 January 2, 2014. Male ID 0458, with someone into Cuban anthem 0459, another beginning the anthem at 0500 and yet another closer to 0501. Musical Nacional faded up a little later parallel 590 (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, JRC NRD-535; JRC-NRD-515; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF- 7600GR; RadioShack DX-399; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; custom active portable loop; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) David Crawford's (Titusville, FL) synopsis of the Cuba logjam on 1140 kHz. Reception conditions on his east coast vs. my west coast of Florida to Cuba are always quite different. So far we have confirmed active on 1140: R. Rebelde (2x), R. Bayamo, R. Musical Nacional, R. Mayabeque, and R. Surco. "Ecos de Mexico" is a program on R.Surco. If you hear ranchera on 1140 outside of the scheduled program, after 0130 UT (not sure when it starts and their website is down just now), it could be something else. So far unconfirmed: R. Ciudad Bandera web scrub shows nominal sked is 0600-0100 local, i.e. 1100-0600 UT. It begins Mo-Sa with a program "Mañanitas Mexicanas", i.e. yet another XE music program, that might stand out in the pileup, but an 0600 signoff might stand out also. Matanzas would be an easier shot from the west coast in general, of course. R. Camagüey web scrub shows nominal sked is 0659-1300 local, i.e. 1159-1800 UT. Sign-on would be the only way to catch this probably. This is probably a better shot from the east coast here. The 0700 local start along with me hearing an unID anthem at the odd time of 0000 UC, i.e. 7 p.m., has me wondering if the programming block might be repeated 12 hours later. R. Cadena Habana presumably replaced by Mayabeque. R. Rebelde no. 3 conjectural based on varying relative audio delays, haven't heard 3 at same time thus far, though (via Terry Krueger, Clearwater FL, NRC IDXD Jan 3 via DXLD) ** CUBA. 4765, R. Progreso, La Habana, em 28/12/13 de 0415 a 0510 UT, em espanhol com musica instrumental, "Resumen Noticioso de R Progreso", noticiário em cadeia nacional, hino nacional e programa "Nocturno". As 0510 abruptamente desligado o áudio, mas a portadora continuou no ar. R Progreso é uma emissora local de La Habana, não é comum que transmita em Ondas Curtas, provavelmente foi um teste dos cubanos. SINPO 22222 (Sérgio Dória Partamian em DX Pedition ã cidade de Itatiaiuçu-MG, Brasil entre 26 e 29 de dezembro de 2013, Receptor Drake R8, Antena Kaaz [sic], DX LISTENING DIGEST) It`s not local only in Habana, but one of the nationwide networks. Has been on this SW frequency for several months now, reported numerous times in DXLD (gh) ** CUBA. 5025, Jan 2 at 0736, R. Rebelde music with good strength but undermodulated; no wobbling but squealing. I think I also heard it around 1315 on 5025, not logged, tho Ivo Ivanov with remote receivers reported it on alternate, erroneous? 5050 instead at 1130 again today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Rebelde in Spanish on Jan. 2 at 1130 UT on new 5050, ex 5025. Used several remote receivers in Canada and USA, very strong signal -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5025, Jan 5 at 1152, R. Rebelde stable transmitter now with ranchera music, and not on alternate 5050 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15340 and 13780, Jan 2 at 1407, still no signals from RHC but overlong on 9550 and 9850, as the RadioCuba operators doze. By 1427 the QSYs have been made, and now 15340 has heavy CCI from HCJB AUSTRALIA, q.v. which was not there earlier. At 1429 I`m waiting for another frequency listing, whether they mess it up again, but none today; instead live YL announcer messes up the timecheck at 1429 as ``9:30``. By 1521, when HCJB should still be on, RHC is CCIless. 11750, Jan 2 at 1519, Raúl`s Voice of the Revolution is just barely modulated, and/or is it suppressed now by some open carrier zero-beat? Hard to tell. Only other thing scheduled this semihour is VOA Hausa via São Tomé, none of that heard. 15230 RHC is definitely undermodulated. 11845, Jan 2 at 1515, at least two pulse jammers are still running here against nothing, long ago vacated by R. Martí. More nonsense from the incompetent DentroCuban Jamming Command polluting our airwaves (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Rebelde 5025.0 kHz at 20 UT Dec 2 heard in Florida USA, S=9+20dB signal 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 13740, Jan 3 at 0113, RHC with very poor signal // 11760, but enough to QRM even weaker R. Thailand to North America on 13745. My previous log of RHC going off a few minutes after 0000 must have been a fluke since WRTH 2014 and Aoki show 13740 on air continuously from 22 to 05 for South America. This is bad news for HSK9 trying to reach us directly from Udorn between 0000 and 0330. RHC Spanish page for frequencies http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/frecuencias is *still* blank when reached in Firefox; how about IE? It looks quite different with other stuff, but still, no frequencies! Going back to the homepage in IE, the black bar below the title does not even display the drop-down menus which should lead from interesantes to frecuencias. RHC website is as big a mess as their broadcasts. 15120, Jan 4 at 0003, checking CRI Spanish relay which is missing from // 5990, I hear not only a hum but an echo on 15120; could it be long/short path? It`s a long way around from Habana, some 38 megameters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11860, Jan 4 at 1428, I tune across RHC in time to catch their canned frequency announcement, to be sure I heard correctly last time a totally imaginary and obviously incorrect frequency. Yes, the last of the four 25 metros frequencies is pronounced as ``y mil setecientos noventa kHz`` = 1,790. Which to anyone with a semibrain would obviously be an impossible 25m frequency. And it`s not just a matter of dropping the first digit, as the correct frequency is not 11790, but 11750 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11880, RHC, 04/11 2244 UT. Canción de John Lennon: “Give Peace a Chance” como parte del espacio ”Music with a Message” en el cual el locutor habla en inglés sobre los álbumes, canciones y la vida de Lennon con los Beatles, Yoko Ono y su carrera solista hasta las 2258, en que se despide el programa y a las 23 sale del aire. SINPO: 55444 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 20 metros, QTH: Sector sur de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) Same:: 11880, Jan 4 at 2245, ``Ed Newman`` on RHC, `Music with a Message` presenting two (obscure?) protest songs by John Lennon, ``Women, Niggers of the World``, i.e. treated like slaves; and ``Gimme Some Truth``. At least I had never heard of them. Hard to make out the lyrix beyond the titles. Closing 2258, says this alternates weekly with `Jazz Place` on Saturdays, part 2 this week and part 3 in two weeks. 11860, Jan 4 at 1421, brief check of RHC down from 11880 PCJ WRMI, surprised to hear Ed Newman again, in English, intro, cut to outro of mailbag // 11750, turns out just to be a promo within RHC Spanish for its other language services, Portuguese also mentioned, back to philately. 6100, Jan 6 at 0507, no signal from RHC English here, supposed to start at 0500, just on 6000, 6060 and 6165; meanwhile, Spanish is still running on 5040, at 0507 and 0517 // 6070. 5040 in B-13 was originally supposed to be in Spanish until 0600, but mostly has been switching to English at 0500, ad hoc? By 0516, 6100 has come on during DXUL as Arnie is talking about making radios from CFL circuit boards, or is it LEDs? 5980, Jan 6 at 0510, wall-of-noise jamming, despite the fact that R. Martí does not start until 0700, except on UT Mondays, which this is, when it does not start until 1000! More Cuban SW pollution. 13780 & 15340, RHC`s best two morning frequencies, are both missing Jan 6 at 1453, 1527, while much inferior ones on 15230, 17580, 17730 remain. Lots of missing RHC transmitters lately: English absent from 6060 and 6100, Jan 7 at 0646, and consequently also missing from leapfrog on 6270 of 6060 over 6165, tho 6165, 6000 and 5040 are still going. 13780 and 17580, RHC Spanish are missing Jan 7 at 1429 and 1515, while 15340 and 17730 are audible; at 1515 also no carrier on 15230, and on 17580 a very weak signal in the clear unseems RHC, but from something else: Aoki has nothing after the 1330-1430 broadcast of R. Azadi in Pashto & Dari, 100 kW, 85 degrees via Biblis, GERMANY. However HFCC shows an additional hour of same (``Pst, Prs``) until 1530 supposedly expired on Dec 19; maybe it`s back (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6165, RHC, 08/01 0501 UT. Aviso del comienzo de un nuevo ciclo en la programación en idioma inglés con informaciones internacionales, especialmente sobre Cuba y Medio Oriente con SINPO: 54454, sorpresivamente a las 0505 queda sólo la portadora al aire // 6100 con SINPO: 55555 // 6060 con SINPO: 53343 con QRM de otras emisoras // 6000 con la portadora al aire y con un leve siseo de la BBC en 6005. Además 5040 está con programación en idioma español (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 15340, Jan 8 at 1459, tune across RHC to find another canned frequency announcement playing, so I stay with it: yes, exactly the same one heard other days circa 1429, wackily claiming the last of the four 25m frequencies is ``1,790``. If the announcer can`t recognize such an obvious error, can`t anyone else at the station? Maybe nobody pays any attention to it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non] 5980, R. MARTI, 06/01 1005 UT. Noticia sobre las damas de blanco. Asimismo de los problemas energéticos en Argentina. Además se habla del fallecimiento de Nelson Ned con dato biográficos y la canción: “Happy Birthday, My Darling” SINPO: 55454 // 6030 con SINPO: 54343 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 20 metros, QTH: Sector sur de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** CUBA [non]. What I thought was a Cuban on 107.9 in the lower Keys on my car radio was actually Radio Martí. I thought to myself, what about WMFM in Key West? Well, turns out that WMFM & Marti must have some kind of LMA deal or other, similar to what WPIK 102.5 had a few years back. So, beware, if you catch Spanish on 107.9 come Es season! When Martí was on 94.7, they ran only from 7 to 9:30 pm nightly. This was out of that time frame. BTW, no idea how much power WMFM is running; can't be the 100 kW they're allowed. By Mile Marker 25, West Palm Beach was coming in to battle it (Chris Dunne, FL, Jan WTFDA VHF- UHF Digest via DXLD) ** DIEGO GARCIA. 4319-[USB], 1310-, AFRTS, Dec 27. Wasn't sure when AFN switched to 4319. But, there it is at weak strength, but with the ute adjacent. Perhaps 1300? Rechecked at 1722, and it's much stronger. Good with rap music. Rechecked the next evening, and 4319 still in use at 0049 28/12 at poor level. But on 12759-USB at 0130 recheck. So likely 0100 change over (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4319-USB, AFRTS feeder, 2010 30 Dic, px mx, 33333 (Mauro Giroletti, Italy, playdx yg via DXLD) Feeding what? 4319, 1627-, AFN, Dec 31. Almost good reception this morning, and the best I've heard them recently. Non-stop music. Rechecked the following evening at 0200 and they're quite strong on 12759-USB at that time (2 Jan 2014). Already on this channel when checked at 0137 UT 3 January, 2014 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4319-USB, AFN. My Jan 1 comment - "Clear frequency with no signal. New Year's Day military holiday, so shutdown for the day?" was wrong, was not a holiday, but down for maintenance. Per AFN DG Facebook - "AFN is currently down for end of month maintenance. Sorry for any inconvenience and we'll get those channels up as soon as we can. Posted by MC1(SW) Williams." Jan 4 still off the air at 1433. Jan 5 back on the air at 1340; Sunday music show; "Today's best hits on AFN"; "AFN Update" about the extremely cold weather in parts of the USA; almost fair. Still no AFN Guam (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4319-USB, AFN, 2357 with pop mock music YL ID on hour. 0000 increased ute but still in well 0005. 73 (Bob Wilkner, Pompano Beach, Florida, UT January 6-7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DJIBOUTI. 4780, R. TV Djibouti. Carrier with tone at 0256, and immediately into instrumental NA starting at 0300:02 for less than a minute. 0301 opening announcement by M. HoA flute music bridge, then M again. Into the Kor`an at 0303. Great vocal with echo at 0308 recheck. Fair signal and better than usual. (1 Jan) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** EAST TURKISTAN. CHINA, 4850, 0057-, PBS Xinjiang, Dec 28. Very powerful in Kazakh. A language not like anything I've heard. Not at all close to Chinese in any way. Did hear them say 'Beijing' at the TOH. Most powerful station on 60 meter band at this time (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) CHINA, 4850, 1745-, PBS Xinjiang, Dec 28. Kazakh service listed. Very strong reception with presumably a Kazakh male vocalist (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4980, 1758-, PBS Xinjiang, Dec 28. Fair reception of the Uighur service. Also listed as CNR 13. Transmitter cut at 1800:50 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT [and non]. SOUTH AFRICA/EGYPT, At 19-20 UT noted on 9885 kHz two odd frequency programs. R Cairo Abis in DISTORTED AUDIO RUSSIAN [at same time German on 9410 kHz], and a strong French program signal too. Cairo Abis on 9885.037 kHz, and UNID French RFI? \\ 9790 kHz on odd 9885.026 kHz, some annoying buzzy 11 Hertz apart. Asked now Jean-Michel in France to get the present RFI schedule ... 9885v RFI MEY AFS closed now, I guess schedule is 18-20 UT time slot. RFI has a lot of AFS relays in the UT morning (Wolfgang Büschel, 2030 UT Jan 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) see FRANCE [non] ** EGYPT [and non]. 9720, R. CAIRO. 07/01 0122 UT. Supuestamente el servicio en castellano para Norteamérica, siendo que sólo se escucha CNR-2 en la frecuencia // 11760 servicio para Centroamérica, dominada por RHC en español para Sudamérica. // 12080 se escucha un leve murmullo ¿servicio para Sudamérica? // 13620 solamente ruido de estática // 13855 sin transmisiones ¿Problemas de propagación? ¿Existen emisiones en onda corta desde Egipto para América Central y Sur de manera efectiva? Según los grados publicados en Aoki, estos son correctos con la correspondencia geográfica, por lo tanto el problema sería potencia, propagación y no el acimutal como podría pensarse. Inclusive 12080 y 13620 con 241º vía Abis están dirigidas hacia Argentina y Chile: http://goo.gl/EBkwjZ según un mapa de acimutal (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 20 metros, QTH: Sector sur de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 11905, Jan 8 at 0638, Arabic in somewhat distorted and suppressed modulation, but should be readable to a native. Poor-fair with slow fades, music interludes, 0646 phone interview, fading down by 0700 when I can`t pull any ID. Modulation certainly worthy of Cairo, and per Aoki that`s exactly what it is: ``11905 R. CAIRO 'El-Bernameg Al-Aam' 0200-0700 1234567 Arabic 250 315 Abis EGY 3110N 03005E ERU b13 GS`` I tune across here almost every night during this hour and never heard this before. Nothing else is making it on 25m from Europe, ME or Africa, nor on 13, 17, 21 MHz, but see NIGERIA on 15120. Maybe this is a consequence of the big leap in solar activity. WWV reported at 0600/0618 on the air: ``Geophysical Alert Message Solar-terrestrial indices for 07 January follow. Solar flux 237 and estimated planetary A-index 8. The estimated planetary K-index at 0600 UTC on 08 January was 3. Space weather for the past 24 hours has been strong. Solar radiation storms reaching the S2 level occurred. Radio blackouts reaching the R3 level occurred. Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be moderate. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G2 level are expected. Solar radiation storms reaching the S2 level are expected. Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level are expected.`` Note the SF way above 200 which we haven`t seen in ages. But I`ve yet to find any improvement on the higher bands in the daytime, still only weak, marginal signals above 15 MHz, which were generally much better last fall with lower flux (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Dec 31, 2159, R Bata, a rare guest in Austria nowadays. A nice and clear recording can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/christophdx/bata-311213-2159-ratzer (Christoph Ratzer, Austria, SW Bulletin Jan 5 via DXLD) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. Radio Africa Network. Radio Africa via WRMI, Okeechobee on 17790 kHz. English programme. QSL card received in 10 days for online report at http://www.radiopanam.com Also included a letter which says, firstly and incorrectly, that I heard the Radio Africa Network from Equatorial Guinea, and secondly and also incorrectly, that I heard Radio East Africa. (Has anyone heard a Radio East Africa ID any time in recent years?) (Alan Roe, Teddington, Middx, England, UK, Eton G3 with 10m indoor wire, Jan BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) 15190, Jan 2 at 0730, fair signal from R. Africa direct, gospel huxter reading letter from Zimbabwe. Propagation has really improved; see also SOUTH AFRICA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17790, Jan 2 at 1403, RAN via WRMI has just opened, and it`s --- Brother Scare! Not // 9690 or not synchro with TOM via WRMI without the intervention of RAN. By 1434, 17790 is no longer BS but other music. Seems RAN plugs him in at odd times to fill. I`ve heard The Last Day Prophet of God, who says he doesn`t know the hour, but does know the day, assert that he prefers each SW transmission to be at least two hours long. The SW schedule on the Overcomer Ministry homepage, and the ``complete`` one linked at an ftp page, continue to be worse than useless, with errors and outdated info, still nothing about being on any R. Africa frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15190.02, Radio Africa last noted here at 0722 on 2 Jan ending "The Gospel of the Kingdom" program, then announced "Thank you for listening to Radio Africa" and advising that this programme will air in future on 17790 kHz at 1500 UT on 1Thursdays [sic, you mean first Thursdays, or typo?]. Fair reception. No trace of Bata since this time (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai 0540, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, Google Earth: 36.07.07 S, 174.36.09 E, January 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15190, Jan 2 at 2153, again I am only hearing one signal here, and it`s WRMI with R. Africa Network, which like now, is spending quite a bit of time with music fill; sounds jazzy, secular? But 2157 it`s vocal gospel rock. As a propagation check, 15580 is in well enough from VOA Botswana. 15190, Jan 3 at 1911, JBA carrier, probably V. of Philippines rather than R. Africa, which remains unheard here in 2014y; has anyone, even at other dayparts? Long before the advent of RAN/WRMI, Bata would disappear for months at a time, breakdowns or out of funding? 15190, Jan 4 at 1943, I am checking for R. Africa, Bata, during the hole 1930-2000 when neither Philippines for WRMI should be on frequency: nothing, except at 1955 I detect a JBA carrier on the hi side, presumably Brasil. At *2000:11, WRMI cuts on with opening music from its R. Africa Network (altho it was inaudible/unpropagable at 1955 check on 17790). Afroprop is OK with DRM noise as usual from Nigeria 15115-15125, and BBC 15420 is even atop WBCQ. Don`t you believe my previous remark that Bata had not been heard on 15190 this year: I myself picked it up Jan 2 at 0730 during an unusual night opening from Africa; but indeed not heard so far in the 19-23 period (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15190, Radio Africa. Not heard at the following times. Jan 1 at 1555. Jan 4 at 1623. Jan 5 did hear Radio Santec (IRRS via Tiganesti) with their animal rights Sunday show in English as it went off the air from 1526* to back on at *1527; no signal at all from Radio Africa; still silent at 1609 after Santec off (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15190.02, Radio Africa not on air in 07-08 UT slot (Wolfgang Büschel, Jan 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15190, Jan 6 at 2057, R. Africa Network via WRMI with sermon in French, as also caught a few times before, excessively assertive as only the totally self-deluded can be. Continues right thru hourtop until cut off abruptly at 2102:40 for RAN ID in English, right into next huxter with poor modulation in English; in fact, the preceding French was more comprehensible. It seems RAN always breaks a couple minutes after the hours. Again, no sign of RAN Bata colliding any more. 15190, Jan 7 at 2244 tune-in, dead air from R. Africa Network via WRMI. Continued so until 2300* after a few uncopied words were blurted before cutoff (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15190, Jan 8 at 2026 check, R. Africa Network via WRMI has good signal level but very undermodulated. The mod level on this is never up to par, nor on the preceding frequency before 2000, 17790. WRMI sked shows it`s transmitter #7; its only other use is also on the 87 degree antenna toward Bata, on 9840 at 04-08, when it`s running Brother Scare. On that service, I have noticed no undermodulation problem, so it looks like RAN is responsible for it on the feed coming out of California (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15190, R. AFRICA, 08/01 2120 UT. Via WRMI. Hombre habla en inglés sobre la Biblia y cuestiones espirituales con SINPO: 33333 con un fading un poco permanente (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** ERITREA [non]. 11610 BULGARIA. R. Al-Shorouq - Kostinbrod. a.k.a. Radio Sunrise. Arabic programming with talk at 1635, an echo annct at 1639 then a song with an electronically treated vocal (obviously not recorded and produced in downtown Asmara!!). ID at 1645 as "Idhaat al Shorouq" (or similar). A fair signal strength on Jan 6. (Rob Wagner VK3BVW, ARDXC mailing list via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA. Observed s/on of ETH radios 0250-0310: at 0255 different IS on 5950, 6030 and 6110 only. No signals were heard here on 6090 (oftenly their s/on is at 0400 and Nigeria from 0420) - only Anguilla // 5935; 7210, 7236, 9565. January 6 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. 15380, BULGARIA. ESAT Radio - Kostinbrod. Noted in the clear at 1711 in Amharic with a good signal. Then at 1715, suddenly broad banded hash jamming was switched on, rendering 15375- 15385 useless except for ESAT occasionally peeping through, Jan 6. On this freq on Mondays (Rob Wagner VK3BVW, ARDXC mailing list via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Re: Oromo Voice launch failure === Oromo Voice Radio have just replied to my e-mail to them on Wednesday at ovr @ oromovoice.org as follows: "Thank you so much for trying to listen to this radio. Yes, we had technical problem on that day. Please try again on Saturday or Monday again at the same time. The known issue has been corrected. Best Regards, Oromo Voice Radio." So, they should be on air next on Saturday 4 January at 1600 UT on 17850 kHz for their launch programme (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, Jan 3, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17850, Oromo Voice Radio (via Issoudun), *1600-1630* 1/4/6 Jan. First day of operation didn't go well -- bits of (presumed) RFI French programming mixed with IADs. On the 4th, everything went smoothly with opening march tune, several IDs with march outro into (presumed) Oromo program of news/reports, partial website heard as "oromovoice.org", a few HOA music bridges, closed with march tune. On the 6th, very similar programming, except closed down in the middle of Oromo chat (Dan Sheedy, Swami's Beach, CA PL380/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17850, Saturday Jan 4 at 1600 carrier, 1600:20 music and Oromo Voice opening, but ID starts with ``Radio Seda-ye`` which sure sounds like Farsi, but then also mentions Oromo. So a successful launch today, instead of Jan 1, when their audio never made it on air, instead bits and pieces of RFI in French. I listen to most of the half-hour, and never hear any English, tho original report about this said would be in Afaan Oromo and English. Mostly talk with brief music breaks, reception deteriorating as the semihour progresses, stops at 1630 and carrier shortly off*. Site is reported as Issoudun, FRANCE, scheduled Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays only. Back at 1558 I was hearing nothing on 17850, but an OC on 17860, which turned out to be VOA Radiogram, Saturdays only via Greenville at 1600-1630. Oromo Voice started out stronger than VOA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Oromo Voice Radio --- Strong and clear here at 1600z sign on 1-4-13, 17850 kHz - YL at sign on in Oromo with ID. Many mentions of "Oromo". S9 here on Wellsbrook 330S loop and Watkins Johnson HF1000. Thx for the heads up, Glen[n]. (Rich Ray, Burr Ridge, IL USA, Recording available, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Very good copy in Sydney, solid S8 on 3el yagi, short path to Europe. Two male, mentioning Oromo five times per minute :-) 73 (Nick VK2DX Hacko, NSW, 1627 UT Jan 4 = middle of a summer night, ibid.) And very good here in Victoria, BC (Walt Salmaniw, 1629 UT ibid.) Closed at 1630 sharp. WRTH 2013 page 503 lists two clandestines: Voice of Oromo Liberation and Voice of Oromo Liberation Front [Saturday only, 16-16:00] So I guess that was the second one, right? 73 (Nick VK2DX Hacko, ibid.) Not necessarily, Nick, there are several similarly-named clandestines. Their website {oromovoice.org) has it as 'Oromo Voice Radio' (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, ibid.) This one is too new to have made it even into the WRTH 2014, going to press in November (gh, DXLD) 17850, FRANCE. Oromo Voice Radio - Issoudun. New station aimed at Horn of Africa states. Some great East African music noted at 1620, then a rattlingly fast ID and talk in Afaan Oromo from 1626 until suddenly off mid-sentence at 1629. No English heard on this occasion and a fair signal on Monday, Jan 6. More background details on the station are at my blog: http://medxr.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/new-broadcast-oromo-voice-radio.html 73, (Rob Wagner VK3BVW, ARDXC via WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DXLD) 17850, Jan 6 at 1619, quick check confirms that Oromo Voice made it to air again today, fair signal via FRANCE, for the Mon/Wed/Sat 1600-1630 broadcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) QSL? See FRANCE below ** EUROPE. Loggings Over the Holidays, 24 Dec. - 2 Jan. PIRATE, 6304.945, R. Marabu 0143 talk by M announcer but couldn't copy. Music at 0146. 0150 W vocalist. Lucky to get an ID at 0152, then into "Last Christmas" by George Michael. Before I caught the ID, confirmed it was Marabu by Dr. Tim. Some nice peaks during the night. "Europe`s alternative music" jingle at 0834, and a canned ID at 0840 between songs. (25 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) PIRATE (EUROPE), 6285.14, R. Focus International. Only wisps of audio with pop music at times from 0721 recording start. M announcer at 0744 with a nice brief peak, then "Who's Crying Now" by Journey. 0749 song announcement saying they were "on many radio stations". 0755 songs announcements with mention of "3 in a row", then talk and mention of off-shore radio and R. Caroline. Faded after that. 0827 sounded like a phone number given. Very very fady. (25 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) PIRATE (EUROPE), 6199.57, R. Action. Signal here from 0721 start. Definite music at 0731-0732 but just couldn't recognize it. Rock music coming up a little at 0742, 0744. Sound like M announcer at 0753. Definite M announcer at 0803. A little more music rising up again slightly at 0835. Mostly right at threshold. Those brief peaks were only just a little above, so nothing really substantial. QRM from the annoying machine gun ute, and then blasted out at 0900 by 6195. Could still see the signal though at 0930 during a brief break from 6195. ID per the blogs. (25 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) PIRATE (EUROPE), 6244.94, R. Ronex. Signal came on at 0842:59. Some strains of music right at threshold at 0846-0848. Totally hammered by the machine gun ute for a long time later. Still barely visible with the recording stopped at 0955. (25 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) PIRATE (EUROPE), 6209.97, R. Luxembourg. Seemed to come on with low power at 0913:33. Went off at 0924:04, but came back on at 0926:06. Easily the strongest pirate on the band, but the modulation was very low. Finally positive music at 0926 on return. Modulation still too low to recognize. The horrible 6195 Cypress Creek SC slop didn't help either. 0933:36 canned jingle. They have to be running around 500w as it was as strong as R. Mistletoe. Still there at 0955. (25 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) PIRATE (EUROPE), 6295, R. Mistletoe. IS, "Man of Action", and right into "Santa Claus' Party", 0935 announcement with "R. Mistletoe Christmas show", and more Christmas music. 1015 strongest signal on the band at this time. Could hear some music and possibly talk at times, but just too late. "So This is Christmas" per chat at 1031, and was able to hear the chorus. 1033:40 start of final announcement. From the chat, it looks like R. Verona came on after Mistletoe closedown. (25 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) PIRATE (EUROPE), 6240.02, Black Bandit R. Signal showing up at 2007. I couldn't get any audio then. Others were hearing him. Strains of audio by 2030, music at 2032, and announcement at 2033, but not good enough to copy. 2036 another announcement with mention of "...closing down.", and off at 2036:35. A bit too early. Confirmed it was BBR by others in the chat. (25 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Europirate, 6299.98 UNID. Only peaking above the noise floor about 70% of the time from 2028. No chance for audio. This went off at 2055:32. One of the guys in the chat said he thought it was Omejan. (25 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) PIRATE (EUROPE), 6300, R. Boomerang. Humongous signal at 2204 with nonstop unrecognized pop music. 2215 played his old "reveille" instrumental, then a polka. 2240 short closing ID announcement, more rock music, and off at 2244:17. (25 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) PIRATE (EUROPE), 6260, Cupid R. 2206 playing Pink Floyd. 2210 announcements mixed with music but difficult to copy. Went off at 2212:21. (25 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) PIRATE (EUROPE), 6238, Black Bandit R. Was noted here sometime in the 2100-2200 hour but I didn't record it. There was audio there too. (25 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) PIRATE (EUROPE), 3900, R. Mistletoe. 2316 end of Donna Summer, announcement, and next song started 2317. 2324 "Little Saint Nick" by the Beach Boys. 2326 repeating e-mail address. End of closing announcement at 2334. A lot of ham QRM and difficult reception but it did get a little better towards closedown. (25 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) PIRATE (EUROPE), 6208.91, CWR Signal here at 2342 but not strong enough for audio. (see below) (25-26 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) PIRATE (EUROPE), 6299.99, R. Powerliner International. 2345 sounded like a pleasant Dutch song. Then some awful local noise started. (see below) (25-26 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) PIRATE (EUROPE), 6290, R. Mistletoe. End of IS at 0009:35 and start of the annual program. (see below) (26 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) EUROPE. 26 December 2013: Since I was getting a lot of local noise in the 48m Pirate band which started around 0000, I decided to take the Eton E1 and do a quick micro-DXpedition as an experiment to see how reception differed. Used 315' of old wire clipped to the whip, and recorded on the Sharp MD recorder. Laid the wire out along the road which was 355 . Not exactly in line with Europe, but that’s the best I could do on short order. The quiet location really helped. There was a big difference on CVC/The Voice Asia and Powerliner. Conditions improved too after about 0120. I was even able to get a little audio from CWR before they went off. It got cold and was downright brutal when outside rolling up the wire at the end. It was a good confirmation as to how much local noise I've been getting over the holiday. RX: Eton E1 ANT: 315' Beverage (BOG) at 355 QTH: Reclaimed surface mine Duration: 0040-0200 UTC Solar Indices: Solar Flux = 123 A Index = 7 K Index = 1 No storms. X- Ray Flux was B5. WX: Mostly cloudy, windy, 20 degrees F. PIRATE (EUROPE), 6290, R. Mistletoe “I Like Christmas” by Ali Lohan at 0042 start of recording, 0045 song announcement and mention of R. Borderhunter, then “Santa’s Got a Brand New Bag”. 0100 ID and list of stns on the naughty/nice list, into “Little Saint Nick”. Closing announcement at 0110, church bells, and off. Very fady. (26 Dec.) PIRATE (EUROPE), 6299.99, R. Powerliner International. Polka at 0047 followed by “Happy Birthday” polka at 0048. 0050 announcement over polka music acknowledging report, “Happy holidays”, and said was closing down, ID. 0052 continued announcement with holiday greetings and ID. Nice peak at 0055. 0107 “Little Saint Nick” by The Beach Boys. Nice ID again with holiday greetings, “Ho Ho Ho” at 0129. More closing announcements over music from 0146-0151. One of the best receptions of PL ever. Fady though. (26 Dec.) PIRATE (EUROPE), 6305, R. Marabu, 0115 caught mention of Marabu during German talk by M. Very fady. (26 Dec.) PIRATE (EUROPE), 6208.91, CWR, 0126 M announcer then into music on peak. Very weak and barely able to get any audio. (26 Dec.) UNID. Europirate, 6305.7. Found a signal here creating a het with Marabu around 0128. Sounded like a Dutch Pop song, and caught short announcements at 0130 and 0131 but just couldn’t copy. Went off shortly after that, probably because he realized Marabu was very near by. (26 Dec.) (Dave Valko, DXpedition to a reclaimed surface mine near Dunlo PA, RX: Eton E1; ANT: 315' Beverage (BOG) at 355 , Cumbre DX via DXLD) PIRATE (EUROPE), 9935-LSB, Baltic Sea R. Found they were on here from the chat, tuned in, and could barely hear music at 1321. Sounded like announcement at 1323 before I tuned away. Much much too weak, but definitely there. (26 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) PIRATE (EUROPE), 21455, R. Borderhunter, 1547 greetings. 1600 great peak when acknowledged e-mail from John Herkimer. Was getting S5 local noise which ruined reception. Mentioned upcoming low power test. Started at 1621 cutting the power down to 150w. Over the next 20 minute went all the way down to 500mw but could only copy it down to 2 watts. Switched to 13960 at 1657 and did another test, although this frequency was weaker and didn't have as much success here. Went into a QSO with Dr. Benway at 1742. (27 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) UNID. Europirate, 6304.994. Noticed it at 2217 but no audio detected. Although strong enough, never did get any audio. (28 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) EUROPE --- This was probably the worst holiday season for Europirates ever. Except for Marabu, Focus, Borderhunter, and Mistletoe, I didn't get any others at a readable level. I set the Perseus to record last night too and got nothing at all. (1 Jan) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** EUROPE. NETHERLANDS: 21455, Radio Borderhunter; 1617 song Smoke on the Water, then announcement by male that this was a special "low- power test". This first part was presumably at the station's reported usual power of 300 watts. Didn't budge the S-meter but the audio was loud & clear. A few minutes later he cut the power to 150 watts, at which point the signal got somewhat noisier but was still fully readable. Eventually, according to the operator, the power dropped to a mere 500 milliwatts; during that time the carrier was easily detectable but only brief snatches of audio were heard. He cranked it up to full power again at the end and announced a QSY to 13960 kHz at 1656. The signal there was much weaker than 21 MHz. 12/27 (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo MI, MARE Tipsheet 3 Jan via DXLD) Was there e-mail tip that 21455 would be forthcoming? (gh) ** FINLAND. 25000, MIKES Time signal January 7, 2014 between 09 and 11 UT and also on January 8 around 0740 UT. Unfortunately I was so excited about this very first reception that I forgot to record it. However I was able to pull six "pips" after the band closed well after the local sunset. The pips are 1000 Hz of the main carrier, on both side bands. Audio recording and spectral snapshot at http://nickvk2dx.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/time-signal-25-mhz-mikes-finland.html MIKES is listed as 100W transmitter, vertical dipole (Nick Hacko, Sydney, AUSTRALIA, Perseus/3el yagi, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DXLD) ** FRANCE [non]. SOUTH AFRICA/EGYPT, At 19-20 UT noted on 9885 kHz two odd frequency programs. R Cairo Abis in DISTORTED AUDIO RUSSIAN [at same time German on 9410 kHz], and a strong French program signal too. Cairo Abis on 9885.037 kHz, and UNID French RFI? \\ 9790 kHz on odd 9885.026 kHz, some annoying buzzy 11 Hertz apart. Asked now Jean-Michel in France to get the present RFI schedule ... 9885v RFI MEY AFS closed now, I guess schedule is 18-20 UT time slot. RFI has a lot of AFS relays in the UT morning (Wolfgang Büschel, 2030 UT Jan 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Additional frequencies of Radio France Internationale in French from Jan. 1, all via Meyerton: 0400-0500 on 11750 1700-1800 on 11660 1800-1900 on 9810 1900-2000 on 9885 (Ivo Ivanov, Jan 3, ibid.) Additional frequency of Radio France Internationale in Vietnamese: 1500-1600 9700 UNID tx, probably ISSoudun, very strong in Sofia, SINPO 55544 --- Typical sound of Issoudun tx // 9565 TSH/TWN via remote receiver Hong Kong. Additional frequencies of R France Internationale via Meyerton Jan. 1: 0400-0458 on 11750 MEY 100 kW / 345 deg to WeAf French 1700-1758 on 11660 MEY 100 kW / 345 deg to WeAf French 1800-1858 on 9810 MEY 100 kW / 345 deg to WeAf French 1900-1958 on 9885 MEY 100 kW / 345 deg to WeAf French (Ivo Ivanov, DX RE MIX NEWS #831 January 3, 2014, via DXLD) ** FRANCE. Oromo Voice QSL --- FRANCE (presumably): OROMO VOICE via ISSOUDUN 17850. Brief e-mail from Fekadu stating my report was valuable to them and requesting future reports. This was received 21 minutes after I sent a report of their January 8 broadcast to info@oromovoice.org About 20 minutes after the end of their January 4 broadcast I sent a report to ovr@oromovoice.org but so far have had no response. These broadcasts surely must be via Issoudun, although some have suggested Kostinbrod. Not only because of the French (RFI?) heard when they were having problems on January 1, but SINFO was 55555 today and signal strength for all 3 broadcasts was excellent — a huge signal actually. For comfortable listening on either speaker or headphones I had to turn the volume almost all the way down. And at my location very strong signals are the usual for broadcasts to the Horn of Africa from France as well as Germany (Wendel Craighead, Prairie Village, Kansas, USA, Jan 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GEORGIA. See ABKHAZIA; not always cross-referenced thus ** GERMANY. Radio Rossii and Berlin mediumwave history This: >>> they have some excellent music programmes that you can enjoy without knowing the language ... "Aerostat"; "Exotica"; "Music Hall"; "Phonograph" all spring immediately to mind <<< reminds of the closure of Radio Volga, the Soviet/Russian forces station in Germany, on 31 July 1994. They had aired a last live program during the afternoon, the rest was Radio Rossii relay, and it so happened that the mentioned "Exotica" program was the last audio that went on air from their Potsdam studios, followed only by two cracks and subsequent hum, indicating that the big main switch has been immediately thrown. It is almost forgotten that for about three years there was also a straight relay of Radio Rossii in Berlin area, on 891 kHz. It was not audible 120 km south of Berlin but was in 60 km distance. It had the typical audio processing of East German AM transmitters and used a clean signal source, as opposed to the distorted and pumping Radio Volga relay (beyond their generally poor audio) that obviously originated from a poor satellite sub-carrier source. Only a few lists showed this Radio Rossii relay at all, and those few ones went like "Zossen, 2 kW". Obviously the huge Vyunsdorf (i.e. Wünsdorf, also known as "Klein Moskau" at this time) garrison was believed to be the target, and this may very well be true, but has really a new transmitter been installed there in 1991? I believe that Radio Rossii simply used the existing transmitter in Berlin, an old 5 kW Lorenz it seems. Any further information is missing: Who paid for this transmission? What was the audio source? The only other fact I have is that the transmitter was off by spring 1994. Already almost forgotten is also the further story of the East Berlin mediumwave outlets in the nineties, and I think most of it also never made it into WRTH. An attempt to round it up: 603 kHz: Königs Wusterhausen 40 kW til 1990 Sender Potsdam 04-13 and Radio DDR 1 13-24, 1990-1991 Radio DDR 1 / Radio Aktuell. Königs Wusterhausen 20 kW: Late 1993 til 1995 RTL Radio (// satellite, at times also 1440). Uhlenhorst 5 kW: 1995-1996 Jazzradio Berlin (moved in 1996 to FM). Zehlendorf 20 kW: 2000-2008 Voice of Russia, late 2009 til early 2011 Oldiestar (now as Radio B2 on FM). 693 kHz: Uhlenhorst 250 kW til 1990 Berliner Rundfunk, 1990-1991 Antenne Brandenburg. Königs Wusterhausen 40 kW: 1992-1993 Antenne Brandenburg. Uhlenhorst 5 kW: 1993-1995 Radioropa (// 5975/5980), 1996-2001 Voice of Russia (// 1323; indeed initially simply the audio from the existing feed circuit had been put on air, thus besides German also irrelevant programming in English and French went out but nothing in Russian). Zehlendorf 250 kW: 2001-2003 Megaradio (// 630, 1431, 1575), 2003 DRM test with HECA encryption as now used for Radio Andernach, 2004-2008 long-term test of analogue-digital DRM hybrid mode with Voice of Russia as program audio, 2008-2013 regular AM transmission of Voice of Russia. 891 kHz: -1990 Stimme der DDR (// 177, 783 and others, at times also 6115), 1990-1991 Radio DDR 1 (later renamed Radio Aktuell), til spring 1994 Radio Rossii, late 1994 til 1996 (?) RTL Radio. These all Uhlenhorst 5 kW with a possible exception for Radio Rossii as discussed above. 1359 kHz: Uhlenhorst 250 kW -1990 4-19 Radio DDR 1 and 19-24 Radio Berlin International, in 1990 4-19 Antenne Brandenburg and 19-24 Radio Berlin International, late 1990 til April 1993 19-04 only Deutschlandfunk. With only 5 kW: November 1993 til November 1994 a promo version of Starsat Radio with frequent spots that advised to by satellite equipment of the operator (Technisat, who also run Radioropa) to really enjoy it. Frequency never used again after 1994. Gossip has it that Evangeliums-Rundfunk considered using it and test transmissions were already planned until Berlin authorities prohibited further operation of the 250 kW equipment. Uhlenhorst describes the transmitter site often listed as Berlin- Köpenick, also known as "Funkamt Köpenick" (radio office), located in the Dammheide forest between Uhlenhorst and Mahlsdorf Süd. It has been permanently closed in 2001 and demolished afterwards, its 248 metres tall main antenna has been blown up in late 2002. In 1994 also the West Berlin frequency 810 kHz (SFB transmitter, used until 1988 by the BBC and 1988-1993 by Deutschlandfunk) has been used here for first digital tests, not yet the DRM system. Zehlendorf not refers to the district of Berlin but the transmitter site in the past paraphrased as Oranienburg and used since 1958 on longwave (now 177 kHz). It had been choosen as substitute for Uhlenhorst after Nauen was considered as well, equipped with a cage antenna and multiplexer plus TRAM transmitters of 250 and 50 kW, respectively (the transmitters have been put into the room of the already existing 500 kW longwave rig). So much for this, to prevent it from falling into oblivion completely (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Jan 4, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 6095, Transport R. *0900 in the middle of "Sleigh Ride", old R. Netherlands bell IS, M countdown, then SFX and ID by M in German "Hier ist Transport R....". Good in USB to avoid 6090 slopover QRM. (25 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Hamburger Lokalradio (HLR) introduces an additional SW transmission slot via Goehren, starting January 12, 2014: Sundays, 1200-1400 UT, 9480 kHz. HLR is very interested in reception reports for this new slot & frequency and will confirm correct reports with a special QSL card. Postal address: Hamburger Lokalradio, c/o Kulturzentrum LOLA, 21031 Hamburg, Germany. (Return postage, e.g. 1 US-Dollar, is appreciated) (Thomas Völkner, Germany, Jan 7, WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SWEDEN [non] Every Saturday and Wednesday the programs of HLR: 06 - 09 UT, program in Spanish, English, German on 7265 09 - 12 UT, program in German on 6190 12 - 16 UT, program in German, Spanish, English on 7265 13 - 14 UT Radio City Programme on 7265 (4th Saturday only) Good Listening! 73s (Tom Taylor, Jan 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 7375, 0042-, The Mighty KBC, Dec 28. Superb reception in northern BC compared to Victoria, which is often hit or miss. Strong S9 + 10 strength, and no cochannel bother, although both 7365 (Radio Marti, Greenville, and only minimal jamming) and 7385 (WHRI). 7375, 0000-, The Mighty KBC, Dec 29. I was wondering what would happen at 0000, as CNR2 was still very strong right up to the second of the TOH, when they left the air, leaving it wide open for The Mighty KBC. Once again, excellent reception tonight. There is, however, some RTTY type interference 2 kHz low. Best heard on a due North mini-Beverage, about 400' long, terminated into the ocean! Uncle Eric IDing, 'We are the legendary KBC, rocking over the ocean' at 0005. Thanks, Eric! Not sure what happened, but a real nose-dive occurred, and by 0030, reception is rather poor. ? A sudden coronal mass ejection? Not nice! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [and non]. 6125, NDR (Nauen) Annual special Christmas Eve broadcast. This year they have 3 different transmitters relaying them. 1941 talk by M and W hosts in German with W giving "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year". Mentioned Hamburg several times. Played a traditional German oldie, and also a German Blues song, and "Feliz Navidad" at 2000. ID by M at 2002. 2017 "Silent Night". This frequency fairly good and about equal to 11955 (Issoudun, France). 9885 (Moosbrunn Austria) was also in but weaker. 9925 (Issoudun) there but QRM from adjacent 9930, and 9460 (Nauen) barely audible but there. (24 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. BULGARIA, 7535, RTR-2 (via Bulgaria). Signal here from 1545 to 1548, then went off. Maybe checking the transmitter before the transmission. Ivo said it was on earlier than I had it. Signal back on 1558, 1559 M announcer, and 1600 program start. Barely any audio in that first hour. Audio right at or just above threshold but useless. Music program hosted by M announcer. Got a prolonged period of local noise that totally destroyed the band from 1709-1751. Finally a little more audio by 1755. M announcer mixed with music and what sounded like a mention of Hamburg. 1800 possible canned echo ID by M. Noise returned from 1805-1822. 1882 much much stronger with music, and interview like "Storytellers", then "To All the Girls I've Loved Before". Noise again from 1828 to 1845, and 1848 to 1853. 1853 to 1857 "It Never Rains in Southern California". 1857 M announcer host in German with mention of "Songbooks" and "SRS ??". 1858 canned talk by M over flute music with mention of Deutschland. 1900 canned echo ID by M then off in the middle. (28 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. Good reception in Sofia of Radio Joystick on Jan. 5: 1100-1200 on 7330 ISS 100 kW / 060 deg to CeEu German 1st Sun -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. 15275, Jan 6 at 2055, when will I ever learn not to get into something DW is covering in English? Because they will chop it off in progress at 2057* on this and many other frequencies, failing to coördinate transmission with programming. It`s no help that some of their schedules specify which frequencies cut off early. Just don`t do it! This is about the only foreign station left with a good SW signal in English during this hour, via RWANDA, of course (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) GERMANY [non]. See USA: WRNO ** GREECE. This is my reception report for Wednesday and Thursday, January 2, 2014 WEDNESDAY 1/1 | THURSDAY 1/2 1900 2000 2100 2200 2300| 0000 0100 0200 kHz Az kW Stn ERXX 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 7450 323 100 AVL1 T3 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 15630 285 100 AVL2 T5 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000|00000 00000 00000 9420 323 170 AVL3 A5 XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX|00000 00000 00000 15650 226 100 AVL1 A5 XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX|00000 00000 00000 7475 285 100 AVL2 A5 This is my reception report for Thursday and Friday, January 3, 2014: THURSDAY 1/2 | FRIDAY 1/3 00000 00000 00000 00000 XXXXX|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 7450 323 100 AVL1 ERT 00000 00000 00000 00000 XXXXX|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 15630 285 100 AVL2 ERA 00000 00000 35333 35343 35243|35344 35344 45244 9420 323 170 AVL3 ERA XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 00000|00000 00000 00000 15650 226 100 AVL1 ERA XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 35233|25242 25232 25332 7475 285 100 AVL2 ERA (John Babbis, MD, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Shortwave transmissions from Greece on Jan. 3 from 0730 7475 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg NoAf Greek, not // on 9420, 15650 from 0730 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg NoAm Greek, // on 15650 from 0730 15650*AVL 100 kW / 285 deg WeEu Greek, instead of 11645 *co-ch Radio Farda in Farsi, scheduled till 0830 via IRA, from 0830 via BIB (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear Costa and Zach, may you can translate the news btw. station ID at 0831 UT this morning Jan 3rd on 7475 kHz. Listen to attached recording. Thanks. (wb) FYI - some 7475 kHz mp3 nx at 0830 UT identified by Costa in Cyprus and Zacharias in Thessaloniki, this morning. - - - OM talking about the newspapers headlines local and international news. The ID is EPT 3 third program from the station. I will listen more but today I have too much QRM on the frequency 7475 kHz. 73,s (Costa Constantinides_actual-CYPRUS, Jan 3 via Büschel, DXLD) Hello Wolf, as Costas heard on the start was monetary news followed by internatioal news. And finally OM gave an ID from the ERA (as the workers ERT3 on 102 95.8 + SW freqs) and that the program followed is with classical music (this is if you are interested in more detail). (Zacharias Liangas, https://www.facebook.com/zachliang ibid.) from 1430 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg WeEu Greek // 15630 from 1430 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg WeEu Greek, not // on 9420, 15630 from 1430 15630 AVL 100 kW / 105 deg to SoAs Greek, off air at 1437 (Ivo Ivanov, Jan 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radiophonikos Stathmos Rhodos ID and program at 0704 on Jan 3rd on 7475 // MW 1260, Radiophonikos Stathmos Komotine at 1440 ID and program on 9935 // MW 1404 on Jan 3rd, on 9420 // MW 1512 at 1445 ID was "Kania radio" (registered as Chania in Crete) on Jan 3rd. But mainly the program is common with ID "Elliniki Radio Phonias" (ERP). For example on Jan 5th at 1610 there was a symphony concert on 9420 // 9935 // 15630 // MWs 1260, 1404 and 1512. Non stop pop music on 1044 and carrier on 729 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This is my reception report for Friday and Saturday, January, 2014 FRIDAY 1/3 | SATURDAY 1/4 1900 2000 2100 2200 2300| 0000 0100 0200 kHz Az kW Stn ER## 00000 00000 00000 15241 15241|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 7450 323 100 AVL1 T3 00000 00000 00000 15241 15241|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 15630 285 100 AVL2 T5 00000 15241 35243 15241 45344|55455 45444 15241 9420 323 170 AVL3 A5 XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX|00000 00000 00000 15650 226 100 AVL1 A5 XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX|15241 15241 25242 7475 285 100 AVL2 A5 (John Babbis, MD, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7475 & 9420, Jan 4 at 0626 both on from Avlis with different music. 7475 has stronger signal, weaker modulation, less Greekish. 9420 has weaker signal, stronger modulation, more Greekish. Or, since they are often not //, could one of them not be from Avlis? Someone speculated the maritime site SVO might be pressed into use (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) from 1530 7475*AVL 100 kW / 285 deg WeEu Greek instead of 9935 Jan. 3 from 1530 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg WeEu Greek // 15630, not on 7475 from 1530 15630 AVL 100 kW / 105 deg SoAs Greek // 9420, not on 7475 * strong co-ch Radio Liberty in Tajik -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Jan 4, ibid.) All 3 frequencies are in parallel on Jan. 5: from 0800 on 7475 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek from 0800 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek from 0800 on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek 73! (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) This is my reception report for Sunday and Monday, January 6, 2014 SUNDAY 1/5 | MONDAY 1/6 1900 2000 2100 2200 2300| 0000 0100 0200 kHz Az kW Stn ER## 00000 00000 25242 25242 15241|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 7450 323 100 AVL1 T3 15241 15241 15241 15241 25242|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 15630 285 100 AVL2 A5 25342 35343 35243 45334 25242|25243 25242 25242 9420 323 170 AVL3 A5 XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX|00000 00000 00000 15650 226 100 AVL1 A5 XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX|15241 15241 15241 7475 285 100 AVL2 A5 (John Babbis, MD, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7450, Jan 6 at 0457, good signal from HR, song with guitar, crowd cheering; no 9420 audible. But at next check 0524, it`s on 7475 instead, good signal with vocal music, piano, and now 9420 is audible poorly and parallel for a change (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This is my reception report for Monday and Tuesday, January 7, 2014 MONDAY 1/6 | TUESDAY 1/7 1900 2000 2100 2200 2300| 0000 0100 0200 kHz Az kW Stn ER## 00000 00000 25242 25242 15241|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 7450 323 100 AVL1 T3 15241 15241 15241 15241 15241|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 15630 285 100 AVL2 RT 15241 15241 15241 25242 25242|25242 35343 35343 9420 323 170 AVL3 RA XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX|00000 00000 00000 15650 226 100 AVL1 RA XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX|15241 15241 15241 7475 285 100 AVL2 RA This is my reception report for Tuesday and Wednesday, January 8, 2014 TUESDAY 1/7 | WEDNESDAY 1/8 00000 25242 25242 35243 XXXXX|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 7450 323 100 AVL1 ERT3 15241 15241 15241 15241 XXXXX|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 15630 285 100 AVL2 ERT 25342 35243 35243 45444 25242|45343 15241 15241 9420 323 170 AVL3 ERA XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 00000|00000 00000 00000 15650 226 100 AVL1 ERA XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 45444|45444 25242 25242 7475 285 100 AVL2 ERA (John Babbis, MD, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7475 not // 9420, Jan 8 at 0628 with separate pop musix (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 15660, Jan 4 at 1431, Doxology and harmonious hymn in uncertain language, with Hammond organ, but talk following at 1436 is certainly Burmese. It`s always easier to ID languages in talk than in music. So KSDA as scheduled daily at 1430-1500, 285 degrees from Agat. Fair signal with deep fades. Or should I file this as INDONESIA [non], since WRTH puts AWR Asia/Pacific HQ there, with Guam only as one transmitter site? No (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 15190, KTWR, 04/01 1226 UT. Cánticos en inglés con avisos de contacto de la estación con algunas palabras mezcladas. Así como alusión a la isla de Guam por parte de una voz femenina. SINPO: 55454 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 20 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, TGAV, Radio Verdad, Spanish music programmes, in better than usual, lots of Christmas music in and several pauses for Bible reading and laid back preaching. ID and address at 0503 in English, and then switching to English with more Christmas and other religious music, Bible reading and laid back preaching by preachers with American accents. At 0553 they started to get ready to go off the air by reciting the Lord’s Prayer in English by a Spanish-accented OM, then Spanish ID by OM at :55. English ID also by OM at :5, then a variety of IDs some with addresses including German, Portuguese, Japanese & Italian. Actual s/off with “Buenas Noches” and “Good Night” and National Anthem sung by children at 0602. In well, 34+4+53+. 0433- 0606* 28/Dec (Ken Zichi, Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet 3 Jan via DXLD) Ken, it`s can be confusing when you give only minutes and not full times in reports, saving the entire span for the very end. I try to change them to full four-digit times (gh, DXLD) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, Sunday Jan 5 at 1148, R. Verdad already on in Spanish, very poor signal. Used to sign on later on Sundays, and their program schedule © 2009 *still* hasn`t been updated: http://www.radioverdad.org/programaci%C3%B3n showing Sundays from *1255, weekdays from *1100, despite opening circa 0930 for more than a year now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HAWAII. FORMAT, SLOGAN AND SILENT STATUS CHANGES FREQ CALL CITY OF LICENSE NEW INFORMATION 550 KNUI Wailuku, HI old slogan: “ESPN 550”, new: “The Talk of Maui” 550 KNUI Wailuku, HI was ESPN sports, now Talk 900 KMVI Kahului, HI old slogan: “The Talk of Maui”, new: “ESPN Maui” 900 KMVI Kahului, HI was News/Talk, now ESPN Radio network (IRCA DX Monitor Jan 4 via DXLD) ** ICELAND. 189, 2337-, Rikisutvarpid Ras, Jan 1. Nice signal at 3:30 PM in the local afternoon. Several other LW stations from Europe are just at threshold, but only on my due North Beverage. First Icelandic reception on this DXpedition. Checking later after 0115, I hear a number of LW, but all just barely (except for Iceland): 153, 162 (fair level), 171, 177,198, 207 (fair, if not for aero beacons), (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. FYI - For your consideration. - - - per DXingInfo Facebook: Partha Sarathi Goswami wrote - I am not getting AIR Leh 4660 [he does not say about 4760! Ron] or Sri Nagar 4950 recently, also 4840 Guwahati is gone and 4850 Kohima is rare. 4775 Imphal is irregular too. I think Guwahati won't return anymore as Ranchi, Mumbai putting a fair signal in early morning, AIR Shimla is no show too. Ron wrote - AIR Shimla?? Thought that was what I was regularly hearing? Noted today [Jan 7] on 4860 at the switch over to Delhi audio feed at 1512 with series of advertisments and // 4760 (doing very well today!) // 4775 // 4810 // 4880 (OTH radar QRM) // 5040. Partha Sarathi Goswami wrote Jan 7 - Ron what I get currently at 4860 is a spur from kurseong - + - 35 kHz of 4895 so same will be at 4930. I will check again for shimla. Perhaps I am wrong, but do not recall a spur ever being on an exact frequency before? Strange! Station does not sound like a spur at all to me! (Ron Howard, Monterey CA, Jan 8, via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 4810, 1735-, AIR Bhopal, Dec 28. End of English news, and then back into Hindi. Good reception. Noted 'Bhopal', and mentions of 'kHz' at 1737, so probable sign-off imminent? Transmitter cut at 1741:00 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [and non]. 4880, AIR Lucknow. Carrier with tone from at least 1210, then IS start at 1213. Also got strains of audio from 4775 Imphal and 4970.02 Shillong. 4750 Bangladesh was pretty good. (2 Jan) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** INDIA [and non]. 4990, 1507-, AIR Itanagar, Dec 29. About the strongest Indian on 60 meters this morning with very phone-like audio, though, with the usual exotic Indian stringed instrument and male vocal. Hindi ads at 1512. Into English news at 1530. Parallels noted were: 4760 (?Open carrier strong, with weak AIR English news underneath, so wonder whether both AIR stations on the air, with one having tech issues?), 4800 (Hyderabad weakly under much stronger CNR1), 4810 AIR Bhopal (fair), 4835 (AIR Gangtok under cochannel Alice Springs), Loud buzzing from 4850 to 4910 ruins that portion of the band. Seems like OTH radar, but not intermittent. I hope it's nothing at my end! Several stations in this range, just audible through the noise. 4920 AIR Chennai under Lhasa. 4970 AIR Shillong also quite strong. 5010 AIR Thiruvananthapuram seems to have a different feed, and cochannel with Madagascar on 5010.396. AIR Jeypore on 5040 fair with some CODAR interference. Headlines at 1544. To 1545. Tone, then into an ad. Further commentary about India/Pakistan relations continues on most of the frequencies (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 4970.02, AIR Shillong, 1129 talk by W announcer, 1130 some sort of tick mixed with subcontinental music, then M announcer with news to 1135. 1135 W announcer returned to 1140 apparently regional news. 1140 several canned announcements. Music after 1143 but not modulated as much. Studio W announcer came back briefly at 1149 but it faded some by then. (31 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** INDIA. 4970, AIR Shillong, 1452, Jan 6. "the North Eastern Service of All India Radio in our program western music Star Power featuring Billy Joel," playing many of his songs and giving info about him; 1510 "North Eastern Service of All India Radio broadcasting from Shillong. This is the evening news headlines" (Assam government urged to investigate killing of 9 persons in Dimapur of Nagaland, etc.); 1512 "link Delhi," when they carrry audio feed from New Delhi with series of ads till 1515 news in Hindi and 1530 with news in English ("News at 9"). Quite readable and very enjoyable music program. Audio posted at https://app.box.com/s/u9oyrg0mgkllzb1r1oe4 [WORLD OF RADIO 1703] 4990, AIR Itanagar. On Jan 5 after 1400 suddenly heard with tx problems; very distorted audio; 1416 audio off, but back on for the news in English at 1420 with decent audio. Jan 6 off the air at 1448 check (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4990, AIR-Itanagar, Jan 03 1339-1405, 35333-45433, Hindi, Talk and India music, ID at 1400 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD- 525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. Delhi on 9835 instead of 9595 now --- AIR Delhi noted on 9835 (instead of 9595) today 0700-0800 Nepali 0830-1130 Urdu in progress Must be some error. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, Mobile: +91 94416 96043 http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos Jan 2, dx_india yg via DXLD) But 9835 in Nepali, Pashto, Dari scheduled at previous nighttime schedule from Aligarh, may be latter moved also to Delhi site instead? Help. Dear Jose, please explain, is latest AIR schedule correct? - from engineering dept. at New Delhi. latest registration. 0130-0230 9810 ALG 250 kW 065 deg to CeAS Nepali, inactive 0215-0300 9835 ALG 250 kW 312 deg to WeAS Pashto, inactive 0300-0345 9835 ALG 250 kW 312 deg to WeAS Dari, inactive (Wolfgang Büschel, via DXLD) AIR Delhi noted back on scheduled 9595 today 3 Jan 2013. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, 1217 UT, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. 9870, 0124-, AIR Vividh Bharati, Jan 3. Hindi service with superb reception, and lovely Indian music. At first I thought it was a DRM transmission due to the strength, but no, it's just very powerful! Such lovely music, I could listen to it for hours and hours! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. INDIA GETS ITS SECOND TIME ZONE AS ASSAM TURNS ITS CLOCK AHEAD BY AN HOUR Guwahati: After 66 years of being on the Indian Standard Time or IST, Assam has decided to follow garden time or a daylight-saving schedule British tea planters introduced more than 150 years ago. More at : http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/india-gets-its-second-time-zone-as-assam-turns-its-clock-ahead-by-an-hour-466326 --- (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, Jan 2, dx_india yg via DXLD) This article, still dated Jan 3 is as of Jan 7 instead headlined ``India could get second time zone with Assam one hour ahead`` so it`s only a proposal; was the story amended, backed off, after this post? Lots of comments appended. See WORLD OF HOROLOGY (gh, DXLD) ** INDIA. GOVERNMENT MAY LIFT BAN ON PRIVATE AND COMMUNITY RADIO NEWS Times of India New Delhi January 5, 2014 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Govt-may-lift-ban-on-private-and-community-radio-news/articleshow/28415712.cms The ban on news on private and community radio channels could be lifted soon. The information & broadcasting ministry is learned to be reconsidering its stand that insists on a government monopoly on radio news. Commercial and community radio are currently not allowed to broadcast news or current affairs. Ministry sources say the re-think is because of a combination of reasons. For one, the Supreme Court recently issued a notice to the Centre after NGO Common Cause filed a PIL asking why news was not allowed on private radio channels, necessitating a relook on the matter. The ministry recently allocated about Rs 90 crore for infrastructure to monitor radio stations which could address security establishment concerns. I&B secretary Bimal Julka said: "We have prepared a concept note and will seek the views of the defence and home affairs ministries. A policy decision will be taken only after that. We will then approach the Cabinet for approval." The government has so far maintained there is no monitoring mechanism for radio stations making it difficult to keep tab on content. The government has also said NGO-run community radio stations in remote areas faced a security risk and could be used to incite the community. Both private radio operators and community radio stations say these arguments are specious. They contend there is no precedence of radio stations "inciting crowds" or causing law and order problems. In fact, they could play a useful role in relaying important messages and information in times of distress or emergencies. I&B sources said the issue of monitoring radio channels was being dealt with. "The ministry has dedicated about Rs 90 crore in the 12th Plan to create infrastructure to monitor radio channels. So this very important concern will be addressed," a senior official said. Officials also admit that of the country's 750 TV channels only about 300 were monitored by I&B ministry's Electronic Media Monitoring Centre (EMMC). So, the excuse that a monitoring mechanism was mandatory was weak. Times View: Opening up news broadcasting to private and community radio channels is the logical thing to do. When private TV channels are allowed to do so, what sense does it make to bar radio channels from also doing the same? Even today, radio has access to certain segments that satellite TV does not quite reach. Continuing to ban news on private radio channels can only mean that governments do not want these sections to gain access to news and information not controlled by them. At a time when transparency and open access to information is the mantra in all other spheres, this is a jarring exception, one that should end, the sooner the better (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DXLD) ** INDIA. 13710, Jan 2 at 1409, Indian classical music, fair with flutter, and CCI. At least AIR GOS frequency at 1330-1500 is not blocked like // 9690 by the BS from WRMI, but until 1420, Iran is the QRM in Dari, and then from 1455 it`s Saudi Arabic HQS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also MALAYSIA ** INDIA [non]. QSL: Indian DX Report via AWR Nauen 15335, F/D eQSL from Prithwiraj Purkayastha after 22 days, report sent to indiandxreport at gmail.com (Bruce Portzer, WA, Jan 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 3325, 1523-, RRI Palangkaraya. Jan 1. Particularly strong today, and all alone on frequency. Interesting local music that I'd find hard to place. Lone male vocalist and unusual stringed instrument. Some splatter from too close North Korea on 3320. [and non]. 3325, 1645-, RRI Palangkaraya, Jan 2. Surprised at the dawn enhancement, which really improved the signal which earlier had been quite mediocre. Same for 3365, Radio Milne Bay which was only poor/fair earlier, but quite listenable now (08:45 AM local, and just starting to light up outside). The latter has been using 'The Voice of PNG, 90.7' IDs (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3325, RRI, Palangkaraya 1452, Jan 4, Indonesian, songs, song interrupted at 1456 as host went to telephone to speak to a couple of men, 1500 back to Indo music. Fair (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening in my car, parked by the lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525.88, V. of Indonesia, Jan 03 1240-1301, 32332-33333, Japanese, Music pro, ID and URL announce at 1300 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9680, 1348-, RRI Jakarta, Dec 27. Good/very good level noted on tune-in. I was expecting Chinese from KNLS, but no sign of them, although there are some weak cochannels present. Frequency seems a bit wobbly, but centered on 9680.026. Indonesian. A lovely sing-song language (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL. L'ONA CURTA AMB MÚSICA Nº 66, HIVERN'13/14 Salut companys del Play-dx, s faig arribar els meus llistats de programes per a aquest hivern. Bon any a tothom. DISSABTE 0900 R. CITY via IRRS –Repetició– 9510 0900 EUROPEAN MUSIC R. via IRRS –Repetició– 9510 0900 KBC RADIO 6095 1500 VOA “MUSIC TIME IN AFRICA” –REPETICIÓ– 15580 17895 1605 MEDI 1 “RITMO LATINO” 9575 1900 IRRS “16 GWENDOLINE STREET” (3r DISSABTE DE MES) 7290 1900 VOA “R&B ET ROCK” 15225 11840 2000 VOA “MUSIC TIME IN AFRICA” –REPETICIÓ– (4940) 6080 15580 DIUMENGE 0700 R. GLORIA INTL (4rt DUMENGE DE MES) 7265 0800 EUROPEAN MUSIC R. (3r DIUMENGE DE MES) 7265 0900 EUROPEAN MUSIC R. (3r DIUMENGE DE MES) 6045 9480 0900 KBC RADIO 6095 0912 R. ROSSII “AEROSTAT” 12075 1000 MV BALTIC RADIO (1r DIUMENGE DE MES) 9480 1000 R. GLORIA INTL (4t DIUMENGE DE MES) 6005 7310 9480 1000 SHORTWAVE ROCK (4rt DIUMENGE DE MES) 6045 1100 R. JOYSTICK (1r DIUMENGE DE MES) 7330 1500 VOA “MUSIC TIME IN AFRICA” 15580 17895 1505 VOICE OF NIGERIA “MUSICAL HERITAGE” 15120 1707 R. LIBERTY “JAZZ TIME” 9435 11850 12060 1900 VOA “SOUL USA” 15225 11840 2000 VOA “DU BLUES AU JAZZ” 9480 9815 15225 2000 VOA “MUSIC TIME IN AFRICA” (4940) 6080 15580 2010 R. ROSSII “EXOTICA” 5905 2010 RFI AFRIQUE “L'ÉPOPÉE DES MUSIQUES NOIRES” 7205 9790 11995 2215 MEDI 1 "JAZZ SESSION" 9575 DILLUNS 2000 VOA “AFRICAN BEAT” (DILLUNS A DIVENDRES) 4940 15580 2010 RFI “COULEURS TROPICALES” (DILLUNS A DIVENDRES) 7205 9790 11995 2105 VOA “AMERICAN GOLD” 6080 15580 DIMARTS 2010 R. ROSSII “DOCTOR BLUES” 5905 2105 VOA “ROOTS & BRANCHES” 6080 15580 DIMECRES 1735 R.TAIWAN INTL “JADE BELLS & BAMBOO PIPES” 15690 1835 R.TAIWAN INTL “JADE BELLS & BAMBOO PIPES” –Repetició– 3965 2010 R. ROSSII “AEROSTAT” –Repetició– 5905 2105 VOA “CLASSIC ROCK SHOW” 6080 15580 DIVENDRES 0830 VOICE OF NIGERIA “TIME FOR HIGHLIFE” 15120 1900 R. CITY via IRRS (3r DIVENDRES DE MES) 7290 1900 EUROPEAN MUSIC R. via IRRS (4rt DIVENDRES DE MES) 7290 2010 R. ROSSII “ENDLESS APROXIMATION” 5905 2105 VOA “MUSIC TIME IN AFRICA” –REPETICIÓ– 6080 15580 DIES I HORES UTC. LA SELECCIÓ DE PROGRAMES ÉS TOTALMENT PERSONAL I SUBJECTIVA Moltes emissores emeten via satèl lit i alguns programes es poden escoltar als seus webs o descarregar el podcast (Rafael Martínez, Barcelona, Catalunya, via Dario Monferini, DXLD) He also compiles separate schedules for FM and LW stations (gh) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. France RFI --- At the beginning of the year, Radio France Internationale disappeared from Galaxy 19 (Ku band) and Anik F1R (C band) where they were available free-to-air (meaning unscrambled or unencrypted). Sorry to see them go (Mike Cooper, Jan 6, WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL WATERS. The Voice of Peace documentary is now available on demand http://www.daserste.de/information/reportage-dokumentation/dokus/sendung/ndr/the-voice-of-peace-100.html Both Don Stevens and Robbie Owen, two of the broadcasters interviewed, have said on social media that the director wishes to make an English version. All depends on whether ARD can be persuaded that there is a market for it (Mike Barraclough, Jan 8, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) It will be available online till 14 January 2014 (Harald Kuhl, Germany, ibid.) ** IRAN. 7350, V.I.R.I., Kalamabad 0423, Jan 4, Kurdish (sign-on listed as 0420), anthem by male chorus, 0424 Islamic recitation, 0427 woman in Kurdish. Fair (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening in my car, parked by the lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non]. 11790, Jan 2 at 1518, ME pop music, fair signal, sounds like R. Farda fare; yes, // 15410 but not synchronized at 1523 check; 15410 is a few seconds behind 11790. Aoki shows 11790 is Nauen, GERMANY for a sesqihour from 15, while 15410 is Woofferton UK at 14-16 (after Biblis, Germany at 12-14) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY. NEW PROGRAM ON 1476 & 1386 kHz for MILANO area Hi! novità sulla Onda Media in zona Milano, da ieri 06 gennaio sulle frequenze di 1476 kHz (per Milano città) in // con 1386 kHz (per la provincia di Milano ed il nord Italia) viene trasmessa una colonna musicale di oldies funky pop esteri con annunci originali della indimenticata Radio Milano International One o One stereo. Fino al 05 gennaio era diffusa Radio AN One. Nessuna idea di chi ci sia dietro a questa iniziativa che dopo la fine di Radio Milano International vuol far credere che rinasca dalle sue ceneri.... sulle Onde Medie ??? Controllate le frequenze 1476 kHz e 1386 kHz le sorprese potrebbero non essere finite. Per il momento non vengono dati recapiti ed email per eventuali contatti. Buoni monitoraggi, Dario, info@playdx.com From yesterday 06 january on MW 1476 kHz (for Milano area) in // 1386 kHz (for the north province Milano & north Italy) is operating a new program with funky pop oldies and original Jingles from Radio Milano International One o One Radio. Till 05 january on the two frequencies was the program called AN One Radio. No adress or contact email has been given, no ideas whois behind these broadcasts but indeed the return of the unforgotten Radio Milano International on the MW of Italy should be a great surprise. Let`s monitorate the situation. 73s (Dario, info@playdx.com, Jan 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Apparently off already at 2100; checking via various north Italy transmitters. [receivers?] 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, playdxyg via DXLD Hi Mauno, the TESTS with Radio Milano International jingles on 1476 kHz are already finished. hi! I will inform you if there are new devellopping. 73s (Dario Monferini, ibid.) ** ITALY. Hello Glenn, I was quite surprised to hear Associazine amici di ITALCABLE at morning time 0813-0820 UT, 05-01-2014 on 15000 kHz with sinpo 34333, instrumental music and full ID at 0815, OM talk in Italian, then CW signal, several "pips" and again instrumental or classical music is playing. On their site is announced only 90 watts, so really DX station for me! (Location: Lviv, Ukraine, RX: Degen-1121, ANT.: Degen-31MS). Kindest regards from Ukraine, (Ihor Karivets', WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15000, 1203, Italcable, Italy. Music segment then digital burst & OM Italian comments, 333, 27/12 (Michael L Ford, Newcastle-u-Lyme, Staffs, UK, NRD515, NCM515, NRD545, 85' lw, Wellbrook 330ALA loop, Jan BDXC-UK Communication via WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DXLD) ** ITALY [non]. 9510, EMR (via IRRS [via ROMANIA --- gh]), 0859 Italian NA, then into the program with jingles, IDs, contact info, acknowledged listeners, and music by CCR and Aerosmith to start. Poor to fair with heavy QSB. (28 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** JAPAN. 5006, 1801-, JG2XA, Dec 28. Pretty strong carrier, and very weak CW audible at the top of each minute. // 8006 as well. Tried various modes to hear the CW better, but to no avail (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 9760, Jan 2 around 0730, continuous pop music, good signal with nothing much from Asia on 31m, but must be R. Nikkei 2, yet 9595 R. Nikkei 1 is a lot weaker. Both are supposedly 50 kW, from Chiba- Nagara, 54 and 60 degrees respectively per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency 9760 is always stronger than 9595 at my location around this same time too. And similarly, 6115 is always stronger than 6055. If they are all 50 kW and from the same site then it must have something to do with the antennas (Noel R. Green (NW England), Jan 3, ibid.) ** JAPAN. 828, 1550-, JOBB, Dec 31. Just happened to be listening to JOBB when they ID'd at 1550, and went into their usual sign-off procedure. Very good reception, but not at the same level as yesterday's excellent levels. A lot of domestic splatter this morning, it seems. Cochannel station(s) are heard weakly beneath. 828, 1557-, Osaka, Jan 2. Conditions not that great this morning, so I parked on 828 and noted Russian music, something I normally never hear on Japanese stations. No language lessons this morning, but instead a concert of some sort. Also noted that the NHK2 network did not sign- off at the normal time (by 1600), as it's still going at 1601. Signals not particularly strong today, but these first tier stations [500 kW] get through no matter what, at excellent levels. At 1607 there were in fact Russian lessons, but these seem locally produced, and nothing like the other more traditional language lessons. 693, 1620-, JOAB, Jan 2. Signed off this morning at 1620. Excellent level, of course. Also heard 702, 774 (but not 747!), 828, 873, 909, 1017, 1089, 1125, 1377, 1386, and 1467 before the prolonged sign-off completed. One of the few times that one can hear the call letters on some of these stations (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. SOUTH AFRICA, 11800, 1813-, Radio Japan, Dec 28. Excellent reception in English with the best songs of 2013. So few English programs from NHK anymore. SOUTH AFRICA, 11800, 1759-, Radio Japan, Dec 31. Excellent reception of English program. Transmitter came on just before 1759, obliterating an otherwise strong Radio Liberty in Russian from Biblis. Nice to hear them at armchair level. After news, mostly reading letters and correcting African students learning Japanese. Transmitter cut out just before 1829, before the ending of the show. Not very professional (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non non] 11910, NHK, 02/01 2130 UT. Comienzo de un programa infantil en japonés, con cantos corales y una práctica de escalas y tonadas de música clásica guida por un adulto hasta las 2139 cuando acaba con una cortina musical. SINPO: 45444. [non]. 17540, NHK, 02/01 2146 UT. J-POP presentada en portugués, por un varón y una mujer. Así como de noticias sobre las estrategias culturales del gobierno japonés. SINPO: 55555 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 20 metros, QTH: Sector sur de Ovalle, condiglista yg via DXLD) This is via WHRI! (gh, DXLD) 11695, Jan 3 at 1403, poor signal with news in English, M&W alternating, stuff about Japan; a new format for NHK World Radio? Haven`t listened to them in English for months, in keeping with their desire not to be heard in North America, but unfortunately ran across this which is via UZBEKISTAN to S Asia; I`d rather hear R. Tashkent. Nothing noticed on listed NHK // 11925 via Palau. See also MALAYSIA [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non]. QSL: Radio Japan Spanish service via Cypress Creek 6195, sent QSL card, postcard, and program schedule in 13 days for report sent to nhkworld at nhk.jp. Card was F/D except for tx site, with confirmation message in Spanish (Bruce Portzer, WA, Jan 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. Frequency changes of Shiokaze (Sea-breeze) from Dec. 26: 1330-1430 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 6140 Korean/Japanese Sat 1330-1430 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 6140 Japanese/Korean Sun 1330-1430 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 6140 Korean Mon/Thu/Fri 1330-1430 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 6140 Japanese Tue 1330-1430 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 6140 Chinese/Korean Wed 1600-1700 5975 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 5910 Korean/Japanese Sat 1600-1700 5975 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 5910 Japanese/Korean Sun 1600-1700 5975 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 5910 Korean Mon/Thu/Fri 1600-1700 5975 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 5910 Japanese Tue 1600-1700 5975 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 5910 Chinese/Korean Wed (Ivo Ivanov, DX RE MIX NEWS #831 January 3, 2014, via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. JAPAN. 5975, 1608-, Shiokaze, Dec 27. Checking 5910, with jamming and nothing else, I checked Shiokaze's previous frequency to hear them loud and clear, without jamming. Not in English, but sounds Japanese instead of the listed English [Friday]. A very different program compared to the 1330 to 1430 program. Much less monotonous, without the names being read, etc., that one hears earlier. 5910, 1347-, Shiokaze, Dec 29. Shiokaze confirmed along with the North Korean jammer. Good reception, with the jammer being just a nuisance (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5910, Jan 4 at 1427, poor signal but typical sad piano music theme of Shiokaze about to close; announcement sounds more like Korean than Japanese which is supposed to be the tongue during the second half of Saturday broadcasts per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. CLANDESTINE, 7470, Open R. for North Korea (via Tashkent) 2052-2057 alternating talk by M and W in Korean, instrumental music, then M at 2059 ending with fanfare. Weak and kind of fluttery. (24 Dec), 7470, Open R. for North Korea (via Tashkent), 2005 surprised to find this was already coming in and audible. Talk by M in Korean and occasionally by W. Definite mention of Pyongyang at 2007. 2012 instrumental music then W announcer. W over instrumental music 2016- 2018. Instrumental music at 2019 and into next segment by M and W with soundbites. 2037 Pop ballad song, then W returned at 2038. (26 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. CLANDESTINE, 9380, North Korea Reform R. (via Tajikistan) *1300 opening announcement by W over music. (record) (25 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9775, 1428, R Free Chosun via Taiwan. YL with Korean talk, 1400-1500, 343, 24/12 (Michael L Ford, Newcastle-u-Lyme, Staffs, UK, NRD515, NCM515, NRD545, 85' lw, Wellbrook 330ALA loop, Jan BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) A log of 9775 in January BDXC-UK Communication for 24/12 at 1400-1500 by Michael L Ford, England, says it`s via Taiwan. Source? How does he know that for sure? No explanations possible in a one-liner. Today`s Aoki still shows Tajikistan, also as if there`s no doubt about it. But these good steady signals are not trans-polar, instead more or less aimed USward beyond Korea, i.e. from SE Asian region. 9775, Jan 2 at 1353, R. Free Chosun is on with very good open carrier, some hum; by 1357 playing the same song in English as every day, before opening in Korean at 1400. Today`s reception is like-a-local, very little fading, and equivalent to 9800 VOA Korean via Philippines. Plays lots of music. At 1453 in English lesson, taking at least 3 minutes to explain the expression ``what`s done is done``; 1457 spelling website www.rfchosun.org and into a talk featuring explosions. BTW, I *never* hear any hint of Juche jamming on this frequency; is tolerated, or overlooked? One may learn more about RFC by having Google translate the website http://www.rfchosun.org/index.php Tho I haven`t yet found anything explicit about who`s really behind it, let alone the true transmitter site! I do find this: ``Broadcasting and frequency, website revamp guide Name: Korean Broadcasting Freedom 2014-01-02 13:13:23 | Viewed 17 Korean Broadcasting Freedom affection always haejusi Thank you to the listeners. Korean Broadcasting Freedom 2014 right below the broadcast time and program restructuring. Broadcasting reform - Due to reduced frequency of time the existing broadcasting three hours per day from January 1, 2014 reduced to two hours a day. - Part 1 As a result, today and tomorrow of Korea, Part 2 Social Education Broadcasting, Part 3 MBC TV program overhaul operated by the release. 2 Frequency change - Free Korean broadcast from January 1, 2014 every evening, 11:00 to 1:00 a.m. You can listen to short-wave 9775 kHz. 3 Main reorganization Reorganized to meet new website now while it reorganized. Updated accordingly home for the next two weeks so smoothly yirwojiji say to the point of apology. Homepage as soon as possible to complete the work will be reorganized. New and beneficial than we will do our best to make broadcasts. Continue to ask for constant love and attention, thank you.`` That means the broadcast we have been hearing will continue as the only one, 14-16 UT on 9775. Others have reported, and WRTH 2014 shows the other one was 13-14 on 9300 via Tashkent. And WRTH still says: ``On SW since 5 Dec 2005. Produced by the NGO ``Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights`` (Nknet). The project is funded through U S Government / US Congress grants``. So that means I am helping pay for it. That should entitle me at least to know the transmitter site! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Some changes of clandestine broadcasts: Radio Free Chosun: 1300-1400 on 9300 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean, cancelled (Ivo Ivanov, DX RE MIX NEWS #832, January 04, 2014 via DXLD) I guess he heard about it from my report above with a translation of their website, but never credited (gh, DXLD) 9775, Jan 4 at 1358, VG signal from R. Free Chosun prélude; and believe they have now changed music, but still YL singer in English. Need to check as early as 1350. 9775, Jan 7 at *1352, R. Free Chosun cuts on with same prélude of love songs in English they were running before changing to Xmas tunes: YM crooner with ``I`m Staying for the Long Run``; 1356 to YL ``Remember the Old Song``, but it`s cut short for 1357 ``At 17``, originally by Janis Ian. So far I`ve had no luck tracking down who sings these versions. By 1400 she isn`t quite finished when cut to fanfare and RFC opening in Korean. Usual good signal equivalent to 9800 VOA Korean via Philippines. A log of 9775 in January BDXC-UK Communication for 24/12 at 1400-1500 by Michael L Ford, England, says it`s via Taiwan. Source? How does he know that for sure? No explanations possible in a one-liner. Today`s Aoki still shows Tajikistan, also as if there`s no doubt about it. But these good steady signals are not trans-polar, instead more or less aimed USward beyond Korea, i.e. from SE Asian region. 9775, Jan 8 at 1352, R. Free Chosun is on again with English love song prélude, the same three as always, good signal. BTW, I *never* have heard any sign of Juche jamming on this; why not? Inconsequential to Un? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 1566, 1742-, HLAZ, Dec 27. Fair reception, still, with English lessons noted. 1566, 1906-, HLAZ, Dec 28. Excellent reception with hymn 'Holy, Holy, Holy'. Still S6 to S7 signal, but with no QRM, it sounds like a local! Korean (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) HLAZ heard on MW 1566. 1730-1800 in Russian with tiny signal, probably the program was compiled by Radio Teos (as 1500-1600 on 9465). Better signal there was past 1800 in Korean on 2 Jan 2014 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. Some changes of clandestine broadcasts: Denge Kurdistan from Jan. 3: 1600-1800 NF 7390 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish, ex 11510 0400-1600 on 11510 KCH 250 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Kurdish unchanged 1800-2000 on 7390 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish unchanged (Ivo Ivanov, DX RE MIX NEWS #832, January 04, 2014 via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. 15515, R. Kuwait, Jan 05 0529-0602, 34443-35433, Arabic, Arabic music and talk, ID at 0600 and 0601 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBERIA. Svar från ELWA 4760 per mail: Your information is correct. Thank you for the reception report. We are on a test broadcast up to December 31. Our regular broadcast will begin on January 1, 2014. Glad to know that you listened to our shortwave broadcast /Moses Nyantee (via Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin Jan 5 via DXLD) Radio ELWA building progress --- 13 September 2013 When the rainy season finishes in October, phase two of the building of the new radio studio will begin. Thank God with us for this progress! The new short-wave antenna has arrived and the short-wave should be up and running by the end of November. We pray that we will soon be broadcasting the gospel further into Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire and Sierra Leone. http://www.sim.org/index.php/content/radio-elwa-building-progress http://www.elwaministries.org/AreasofMinistry/RadioStation/tabid/60/Default.aspx Radio ELWA Restoration THE HISTORY — Eternal Love Wining Africa, ELWA Radio, began in 1954 and over the following 35 years grew into a well-respected Christian radio, broadcasting God’s Word into the unreached areas of much of West and North Africa. During the 14-year civil war in Liberia, the radio station was bombed and looted. Since the end of the war, the radio has been relocated to an old ELWA garage building. Sadly, in November 2011, this was completely burnt down and at present the station is working from a temporary building. THE VISION — To restore ELWA Radio and enable all the people of Liberia, and countries further afield through internet radio, satellite and other technologies to hear the Gospel, be discipled and see their lives transformed. THE NEED — We need to construct a new studio. Equipment, such as the computers, microphones and the main sound board need to be replaced. We wish to provide a newsroom, studios and control rooms for live programs and the facility to record in a number of different languages. Rough estimate $300,000. We have the technical advice, a construction manager and $132,000 already raised to start construction in November 2012. Would you be willing to come alongside our Liberian colleagues and support this opportunity to reach those who have not heard the gospel? If you would like to give towards rebuilding the station, please contact your nearest SIM office or give online to project 95107. Thank you and God bless! From http://www.sim.org/index.php/project/95107 ---------------------------------------- Received today a „QSL“ from Moses Nyantee: Thanks a million for your reception report. Your report is correct. We are on a test broadcast on a one Kilo Watt transmitter. The test broadcast will go up to December 31. Thank you (Christoph Ratzer, Austria, SW Bulletin Jan 5 via DXLD) 4760, 0654-, ? ELWA, Dec 27. A tentative logging at very weak level, but seemingly English religious programming. I don't know who else it could possibly be but ELWA. American accented preaching at 0657. Nothing noted at the top of the hour. Monrovia is in daylight just now, so I'll need to check again a bit earlier tomorrow! Fair at times. Possible ID at 0702:30 after some piano music. No sign of them up to 0545 on the 28th (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4760, ELWA, 2209 staying on the air late [sic]. M in what sounded like a speech. Was still on at 2315 recheck, but I missed their midnight. Weak. (31 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) No sign of ELWA for many days now, despite frequent checks (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, Jan 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4760, Jan 2, 2334, ELWA, Liberia, 2334 UT, SIO 343 (Christoph Ratzer, Austria, SW Bulletin Jan 5 via DXLD) 4760, Jan 4 at 0619 check, still no trace of ELWA, which reactivated Dec 20, and was widely reported thru Dec 25, but not yet by me; Dave Valko, PA in cumbredx also heard ELWA on late for NYE, Dec 31 past 2315, but has anyone heard it in 2014y? Their official relaunch was supposed to be Jan 1. BTW as I am searching my mail for 4760, Yahoo desperately puts an ad at the top reading ``Appliance Parts Today - Get parts for 4760 fast. Ready to ship`` --- huhhhh? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) On Jan 4 at 2120 a weak signal is detectable but with very little audio. S3-4. At 2356 also a signal is noted, maybe AIR Port Blair at this time?? /TN (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin Jan 5 via WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DXLD) 4760, ELWA Radio, 0634-0702 Jan. 7, English with several Christian messages and Bible teachings, 0638 and 0647 mention of “Back to the Bible”, 0701 invitation to download the preceding message from website. Very poor (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia. Listening in my car, by the lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LITHUANIA [and non]. 9875, 2300-, Radio Free Asia, Dec 29. What a mess of a frequency for me. There are 3 stations all at once. First, I'm hearing the Voice of Korea with its prolonged signing-on process. Then, there's the CNR 1 Jammer, very loud, and finally RFA weakly. A terrible mess, but fun to test the various antennae I've erected. First there's my 700' BOG aimed north-west. Very strong Beijing pick- up! Then the ALA-100 LN aimed North/South, also very good, and better at picking up some of RFA, then a newly erected Eavesdropper (given to me new some years ago by Nick Hall-Patch: thanks, Nick!) which is reasonably good, but clearly not in the same league as my ALA 100, but still pretty decent, but deaf on frequencies outside the Broadcast SW bands, and finally a North directed mini-Beverage of about 450' and terminated directly into the ocean (Dixon Entrance) without any resistance. The last 100' are buried an inch or so into the sand. It's the weakest of the lot, but has done well for stations in Alaska, with excellent back end rejection. Fun! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LUXEMBOURG. RTL on 1440 kHz --- anthuk2003@yahoo.co.uk posted this on great-208@yahoogroups.com 8 January 2014 1440 kHz MW starts up in the morning on the UK night antenna at 600 kW round 0350 UK with 10 minutes of the famous RTL interval signal, then dips to 300 kW for the RTL Radio Nachrichten at 0400 UK, then goes up to 600 kW for the commercial break and drops to 300 kW for the music slot, then between 0410 and 0415 UK it ups to 600 kW for the German religious programming and goes back down to 300 kW for RTL Radio and just before 5 am UK, the night antenna is disconnected switching to the 45 degree day antenna and at 0650 UK the power is increased to 600 kW and the night antenna is reconnected for a 5 hour China Radio International slot in German and at 1200pm UK the power is reduced again to 300 kW until 1700 when the night antenna is reconnected and tx power increased to 600 kW around 1710 for the religious slot, then back to 300 kW until 1830U K when it goes back to 600 kW until 2300 UK when the power is once again dropped to 300 kW and BCE strangely increase the power to 600 kW for the instrumental piece and Luxembourg national anthem at closedown. If MW 1440kHz is disappear this year then why is BCE keeping it running with wild power levels that rise and fall at different times of the day? (via Mike Terry, Jan 8, dxldyg via DXLD) Has anyone any information about the possible closure on 1440 kHz? (Mike Terry, ibid.) How can he tell about the power jumps? Inside info, or obvious from signal meter? (gh, DXLD) ** MACEDONIA. Macedonian Radio news in English is observed Monday to Friday only (despite announcing Monday to Saturday) at 0802-0805, 1302-1307, 1604-1610 and 1845-1851 (all times vary). Frequencies 810 and 1242 are announced but only 810 is observed here. IDs in English also heard at 1831 and 1834 (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, 1-15 Dec, Jan BDXC-UK Communication via WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. 5011.2v, R. Madagascara [sic], 0243 Afro Hi-life music. 0245 deep-voiced M announcer very briefly and immediately back to music. W announcer at 0249-0253. Dropped down by 0300 but never did hear an IS and went over ToH with music. Looks like more audio on the LSB in the display. Very fady and noisy. (24 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** MALAYSIA. 7295, Traxx FM, 1748, Jan 4, English, pop, rock and rap songs, British (?) DJ commenting between songs about “Saturday night” (this was a Saturday here) and “music all weekend”. Poor (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening in my car, parked by the lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA [and non]. RTM`s highest frequencies 9835 and 11665 never provide much of a signal here, but Jan 2 at 1349 and in the following hour there is zero on 9835; on Dec 24 at 1357, I had a 1 kHz tone on 9835. The Sarawak FM relay on 9835 back to Borneo, supposedly 24 hours eastward from Kajang in the Peninsula, was also reported by Dan Sheedy, upon Swami`s Beach, California, to have been absent on Dec 25- 28 and 30 when he checked; but was heard Dec 21 at 1457 by Harold Sellers by the lake in Vernon, BC. We hope it`s only a holiday break, but you never know. RTM previously canceled the SW external service without notice. Another thing: in dx_india, Jose Jacob reported that AIR Delhi was on 9835 instead of 9595, January 2 at 0700-0800 Nepali, and 0830-1130+ Urdu, ``must be some error``, but could also be moving onto an enticing frequency emptied by KL. What about 11665 with Wai FM back to Borneo? Jan 2 at 1410 I am hearing some pop music on very poor signal, 1412 announcement maybe in Malay, more music until cut off at 1423*. Aoki shows this at 22-17 UT, but also CRI English westward from Urumqi, East Turkistan at 14-15 --- no sign of that now. WRTH 2014 however, shows both 9835 and 11665 at 22-16 UT, and an irregular channel 11630 --- which I haven`t seen reported at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1702, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11665, Jan 2 at 2203, NHK in Japanese direct from Yamata with usual good signal, and no sign of RTM back to Sarawak, supposedly scheduled from 2200; irregular or off? Not that it was usually heard at this daypart (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11665, Wai FM (via RTM-Kajang) 2300-2330 31 Dec. After NHK closes at 2300, it was nice to find Wai FM weak/clear with berita (items from Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia in general), "berita Wai FM" at 2309, Malay pop bridge with Wai FM jingle tag & ad with website/phone #, clear "Hello, Wai FM" for listener's call, Malay pop/romantic songs segued until CNR2-11670 opened at 2330 & moshed Wai FM flat [WORLD OF RADIO 1703] 5965a, Klasik Nasional (via RTM-Kajang) 1557-1615+ 1, 3, 4 Jan. After CRI's Russian program closes, Klasik has been heard with a fair signal; just before TOH they have qira'ut + commentary, a nice long "Radio Klasik --- Nasional" singing jingle then Negara Ku at TOH followed by another singing jingle, M DJ with chat/Malay pop (Dan Sheedy, Swami's Beach, CA PL380/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I've noticed 9835 Sarawak FM has been off for about 2 weeks now. (2 Jan) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** MALI. On Jan 2nd around 2215 till 2250 UT noted at Lexington KY remote SDR: 15505, carrier up to S=7, but no modulation of CRI Bamako MLI. vy73 (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 590, XEPH, Sabrosita 590, México DF. 1218 January 1, 2014. Kiddie talk, commercials, male slogan ID. Briefly over Radio Musical Nacional [Cuba] (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, JRC NRD-535; JRC-NRD-515; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; RadioShack DX-399; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; custom active portable loop; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1170, XEZS Radio Hit, Coatzacoalcos. 1154 January 2, 2014. Mexi-tunes, slogan and mention of Veracruz and FM frequency, power both not copies, then national anthem from 1157. Some days there's another XE also here, starting the anthem consistently at 1200. (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, JRC NRD-535; JRC-NRD-515; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; RadioShack DX-399; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; custom active portable loop; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. [Re 14-01, 1470, ``La Consentida``:] You were misinformed about the meaning of "consentida". It means the favorite one, the favored one, or the preferred one. The meanings you were given derive from the basic meaning, for example, the teacher's pet is "la consentida del maestro", a child is spoiled because she is "la consentida" of her parents. (Even then, it means more pampered than spoiled). There is nothing risqué about the word. It has nothing to do with "mistress" unless the man prefers the mistress to his wife (Shondir Burns, Jan 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MICRONESIA. QSL received from the good people of PMA --- A proper, full-data card with a lovely stamps arrived today from The Cross Radio, V6MP. 3 weeks turnaround time. Scan: http://nickvk2dx.blogspot.com.au/ (Nick VK2DX Hacko, Sydney NSW, Jan 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4755.51, PMA-The Cross Radio. Jan 5 noted as late as 1604 with religious songs. Should have automatically signed off earlier, so DTMF tones not working correctly today? (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONGOLIA. 4830, 0056-, Mongolian Radio, Dec 28. Good/very good reception in presumed Mongolian with only slight CODAR interference (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO. On December 29th at 0550 on exact 9575 carrier followed by instrumental music. Checked at 0730: news in French, ID Medi 1 // LW 171. I heard them before months on odd 9580. So, they are back on the air? (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes 9575, 1821-, Medi-Un (tentative), Dec 28. Exactly on frequency in Arabic. Not sure who else this might be. Into 'Please don't go'. Takes me back to my teen years! Fair reception (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9575, R. Medi Un, Jan 03 0726-0738, 45444, French, Music and news, ID at 0730 and 0733 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9575, Radio Medi Un, Nador, 2337-2345. Middle Eastern vocal music. Very weak signal, just above the noise, but with little fading. 1/3/2014 (Jim Evans, Germantown TN, Perseus, IC-R75, Wellbrook Loop, Eavesdropper Dipole, Random Wire, NASWA Flashsheet via WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 5985.00, Myanmar Radio, 1449, Jan 6. Today with the newer tx, which I believe has better reception than the older off frequency tx (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) In Nara Japan sehe ich einen String auf 5985.799 kHz at 1323 UT Jan 7. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) 5985.834, 1518-, Myanma Radio, Dec 31. A very difficult channel here with too much splatter to comfortably listen. If they were in the clear, they would be at a comfortable level, but as it stands, there's splatter from CRI Russian (Huhhot), and CRI Xian in Japanese (exceptionally strong). Western music only during my listening period. The woman announcer has a very soft voice (like what Holy Tibet used to sound like) which also makes it very difficult for me to follow. Transmitter seems a bit unstable, with the signal smeared over the Perseus waterfall between 5985.819 and .849 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 6165, 1414-, Thazin Radio, Dec 27. Good reception with local EZL vocals. Slightly on high side of the frequency, measuring 6165.010. Best using LSB to avoid slight splatter from Voice of Korea in Russian 5 kHz higher. Hoping for the scheduled English program at 1430, but the same music continued past 1433. I see CNR 6 listed as well, so it could very well be this station possibly? (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6165, Thazin Radio, 1430, Jan 4, signature type of music on percussion instrument(s), woman with launch of English program, ID, frequency, “Good evening listeners.”, into English song. Poor, QRM from CNR6 China (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening in my car, parked by the lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS. Vahon Hindustani Radio, Den Haag, has moved to 1566 kHz (ex 1557) for a three-month trial from 15 December until mid- March. The move in conjunction with the Telecom Agency is to try and avoid night-time interference from France on 1557. The 1 kW transmitter currently at Stompwijk is due to be re-located to Nootdorp in early 2014 (Nick Rank, Russ Cummings, Alan Pennington mediamagzine.nl, Jan BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 7375, Mighty KBC: see GERMANY ** NEWFOUNDLAND. CANADA, 6159.983, CKZN, 1051 playing a remake of "Mele Kalikimaka" by "The Good Lovelies". (25 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** NEWFOUNDLAND. CBC NFLD including CKZN 6160 Special Coverage -- Much of Newfoundland is without power tonight. CKZN 6160 was relaying CBC TV News from 2300 - 2330 Jan 4th and then more radio coverage of the outage. Also might be audible on the medium wave frequencies also. Fair signal with whip antenna on Grundig S450DLX (Wade Smith, VE9WGS, New Brunswick, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CANADA itself ** NEW ZEALAND. 17675, 0253-, RNZI, Dec 27. 100% copy with DRM service. Playing 'Spinning Wheel' at 0254, which happened to be the first 45 I ever bought! SNR 9f 21.5 dB (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency changes of R New Zealand International DRM: 1551-1650 9630 RAN 025 kW / 035 deg Cooks/Samoa/Niue/Tonga, ex 11900 1651-1850 11690 RAN 025 kW / 035 deg Cooks/Samoa/Niue/Tonga, ex 11900 1851-1950 11690 RAN 025 kW / 035 deg Cooks/Samoa/Niue/Tonga, ex 11675 (Ivo Ivanov, DX RE MIX NEWS #831 January 3, 2014, via DXLD) Ancora Radio New Zealand --- Ciao a tutti. Evidentemente l'anno nuovo ha portato grossi cambiamenti nel palinsesto di Radioi New Zealand. Ascoltata in DRM oggi, 6 gennaio 2014, alle ore 1710 UT su 9630 kHz in luogo dei 9890 kHz come riportato dallo schedule rilasciato da http://www.drm.org Segnale insufficiente: si riceve lo screenshhot muto (Giovanni Lorenzi, ITALIAN AMATEUR RADIO STATION IT9TZZ ESCLUSIVAMENTE IN TELEGRAFIA Sito web> http://www.webalice.it/it9tzz [1] QRZ.com page> http://www.qrz.com/db/it9tzz [2] bclnews.it yg via DXLD) Il loro sito è aggiornato: UTC kHz Target Days 0459 - 0650 11725 AM 13730 DRM Pacific Daily 0651 - 0758 11725 AM 11690 DRM Tonga Daily 0759 - 1058 9765 AM 9870 DRM Pacific Daily 1059 - 1158 13840 AM 9870 DRM NW Pacific, PNG, Timor Daily 1159 - 1258 13840 AM NW Pacific, PNG, Timor Daily 1300 - 1550 5950 AM Pacific Daily 1551 - 1650 9765 AM 9630 DRM Cook Islands, Samoa, Niue, Tonga Daily 1651 - 1850 9765 AM 11690 DRM Cook Islands, Samoa, Niue, Tonga Daily 1851 - 1950 11725 AM 11690 DRM Samoa, Niue, Tonga Daily 1951 - 2050 11725 AM 15720 DRM Samoa, Niue, Tonga Daily 2051 - 2150 11725 AM 17675 DRM Solomon Islands Daily 2151 - 0458 15720 AM 17675 DRM Pacific Daily (via Roberto Scaglione, Jan 7, Sicilia, ibid.) ** NIGERIA. 9690, Voice of Nigeria, Ikorudu; 1959 interval signal to enthusiastic ID by male announcer 2000 "Nigeriaaaah!"; lots of great music which was much better modulated than the "live" announcements; exceptionally good level at S9+20db at peaks. 12/25 (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo MI, MARE Tipsheet 3 Jan via DXLD) V of Nigeria at 0837 UT on odd 9689.895 kHz, tiny S=3 in Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, Jan 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15120, 1951-, Voice of Nigeria, Dec 28. DRM 100% copy, but as usual, audio is not very clear. DReaM shows: 'New transmitting station in Abuja. TSW2300D. 100 kW with curtain antenna.'. Only 9.18 kbps, in Mono. 15.8 dB SNR here. Business news, and then into sports news. Then this day in African history (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11769.9, Voice of Nigeria – Ikorodu, 2120-2159*, Jan 3. Man announcer with Arabic language talk, some music but mainly talks. Light instrumental music after closedown announcements until carrier was terminated. Poor to fair (Rich D'Angelo, 2216 Burkey Drive, Wyomissing PA 19610, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R-8B, Eton E1, Eton E5, Alpha Delta DX Sloper, RF Systems Mini-Windom, Datong FL3, JPS ANC-4, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) 11769.872, Hausa language service of Voice of Nigeria Ikorodu towards whole W Africa at 21-22 UT. At backlobe only S=5 signal (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hausa of course, but Abuja! It's my impression that all transmissions on offset frequencies except the English news segment 1900-2000 on 7254.9 // DRM? are Hausa (though some confusion was caused by various wrong assumptions on languages). But we currently have 7254.9 *0728-0800*, 9689.9 *08-09*, 9689.9 *20- 21*, 11769.9 *21-22*). Transmission blocks usually start about 2 minutes before the hours with VON IS, usually followed by characteristic, almost sung "Nigeriaah" (we can easily hear that in Europe at 0730 on 41m, though quite weak), and identify as Voice of Nigeria Abuja. It seems to me the Abuja site is currently used only for the one English newscast and Hausa. The opportunity of the new transmitters is not used for blasting more English into the world as they did with the new Ikorodu transmitters in the early 2000s. Building up a higher quality and quantity Hausa service may simply have higher "political" priority. A newspaper article published and discussed on DX websites several years ago (I cannot find it though - but an interesting scientific article on Radio Nigeria`s Hausa service as a field of political conflict: http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CE0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abu.edu.ng%2Fpublications%2F2009-06-22-151717_5715.doc&ei=62XMUtz8BseJhQfq24AI&usg=AFQjCNHirVVmYed32hnulRw1vS3fT_zm9g&bvm=bv.58187178,d.ZG4&cad=rja ) gave a picture of the situation: Radio Kaduna Hausa there was considered as a highly popular service (40m listeners I think was the figure), though in technically precarious conditions - and situated in the politically unstable far north of Nigeria. If strengthening / installing an "anti-Islamistic" voice towards northern Nigeria and beyond has a high strategic relevance for the Nigerian government, as one might assume, installing such a voice a bit further away from the conflict zone and under control of central government seems to be more rational then leaving it to a regional station in the north. This might be the explanation at least for this priority (not for the generally still minimal use of the Abuja site). On the other hand, considering the large population and potential listenership in the region, the Hausa service at VON Lagos for a long time had a relatively marginal position with only two daily hours at 0800 and 2200 - and certainly no chance to gain a lot of listeners, considering the quality and reliability of transmissions. The morning section has been taken over from Abuja instead of Lagos some time in 2012 (studios and personnel certainly, but most certainly also transmitter) - one can hear the difference! I did not listen to the 2200 hours segment recently however. The other offset transmissions are "new" timeslots, and are the only extension of VON broadcasting hours in the past few years, except one English hour at 0800 of mostly taped programming, filling the gap when the morning segment in Hausa was taken over by the Abuja studios. It is confusing however that there seem to be two transmitters slightly off-channel and drifting, though almost "new", sounding better and broadcasting more regular than IKO did for many years: One around 60-90 Hz to the low side (considering recent logs: mostly 41m mornings/evenings + 31m mornings), the other roughly 110-140 Hz (25m + 31m evenings). Interesting to re-read this little log dating most likely March 8 or 9, 2012: ``Abuja-AM on 15119.86 kHz and 7254.93 kHz at 1940. Ikorodu-AM on 15200.00 [sic] kHz at 1540. (S. Hasegawa, Japan, dxldyg via DX LISTENNING DIGEST)`` 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Münster, Germany, http://www.muenster.org/uwz/ms-alt/africalist dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15120, Jan 8 at 0642, VON with good signal instead of no signal propagating, bad modulation as usual, YL speaker briefly much more comprehensible than OMs. 0644 JBM ID as ``English service of Voice of Nigeria``. It`s the SSOB, virtually the OSOB with only a few other weak signals on 19m; not including 15190, where R. Africa is apparently not on yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. Is Hamada really back at 0530-0600 on 7350? I couldn`t hear it last nite, but maybe tuned in too late before 0600, or bad propagation from Europe. 73, (Glenn to Jeff White, UT Jan 8, via DXLD) Hamada was back for a while, but off again. May come back later this month, but nothing definite (Jeff White, RMI, Jan 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST ** NORTH AMERICA. Box 293 Merlin, Ontario, N0P 1W0 Oct 31, 1990 – Oct 31, 2013. After being a fan of shortwave pirate radio for several years, I saw the need for a Canadian-based maildrop. P.O. Box 293 opened for business on October 31 1990 and was designed to mediate between pirate / free radio stations and their listeners. Over the years, Box 293 was used by 150 or more European and North and South American based stations. I forwarded thousands of reception reports and other communications, while keeping all station operator’s names and other details totally confidential. The first client of Box 293 was Radio Beaver. Radio Beaver broadcast a programme of then current popular music and random thoughts supposedly from the Big Nickel in Sudbury Ontario. Most of the clientele were U.S. operations. Two of which were Altered States radio (long ago defunct) and more recently the super powered Undercover Radio who still is logged occasionally. However the most active pirate over the years by far was the Euro- pirate Radio Gemini which later changed its name to and is currently called Laser Hot Hits. When incoming reports arrived I would open them and re-package the contents into a larger envelope for forwarding. Therefore I ended up with thousands of empty envelopes with exotic postmarks. From Winona, Minnesota to Moscow, USSR and from Guantánamo, Cuba to Osaka, Japan. However, Box 293, was doomed to a short life from the beginning. Soon after Box 293 opened, the availability of the internet and with it, e- mail, snail mail soon became the second choice for messaging. By the turn of the century, listeners reporting via the written message was becoming rare. Through the 2000s, business continued to slow. Also the price of securing the P.O Box on a yearly basis skyrocketed from $60 in 1990 to $170 in 2013. It just didn’t make sense to keep things going for the trickle of mail that was arriving. I decided to cease operations of Box 293 as of Oct 31, 2013. It was not an easy decision. I made many friends over the years and the entire process was a labor of love. I wish I could do it all over again but I fear the pen and the postage stamp and maybe even shortwave radio has run its course. 73s and FFFR (The Operator of Box 293, Jan 3, WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. PIRATE (NA), 6925.1, Channel Z, 1309 "Channel Z" by The B52's, and into "Mary`s Boy Child". 1317 ID with mention of "Channel Z Christmas Special". (25 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. PIRATE, 6977, 2253-, CW321, Dec 29. Using USB, I noticed this presumed intruder with a call CW321. Back and forth bantering. Seems semi-legit and said, 'nothing further here, CW321 clear', and left the air. Mean anything to you? Sounds like he was using a remote receiver in Maine as well (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. PIRATE, 3255, 0206-, YHWH, Dec 31. Presumably them, and thanks to Ron Howard for posting earlier today. Only very poorly heard in Masset so far. Will see if they get any stronger. I haven't heard them before. Tweaking further at 0219, I can make out the fellow and most of his words, with concentration. Kind of monotonous delivery, though. Mentions of Yahweh. Fair now. I have to admit that my 7030+ has the edge in those really difficult in the mud stations (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. PIRATES: Several New Year's eve pirates. Jan 1: Finally a pirate to hear on this visit, and yes, there's a pirate on 6960 in AM at 0619 Jan 1. He just mentioned that he didn't think he'd make it out to the west coast, but he's wrong! Hearing him at fair level with some pretty deep fades. Mentions of HF Underground. Several other pirates have popped up as well, including 6940 with an Allen Maxwell re-broadcast. Interesting, this pirate just mentioned him at 0625:45 UT. There's a big blob centered on 6953 which is producing a lot of noise. Another pirate just showed up on 6925-USB. He's the strongest of the lot so far. 6960 is measuring about 20 Hz high. Turtlehead Radio left the air at 0645 UT with their email address: turtleheadradio@gmail.com Thanks for the broadcast! The Allen Maxwell pirate left the air at 0648 to be replaced with a utility burst. That just leaves the 6960 pirate going, but he's in the big blob I'm getting between 6946.35 and 6960.75. Yuk! 6960 was actually coming up a bit before he signed off at 0728:30. Happy New Year! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. USA, HOBBY PIRATE, X-FM Shortwave, fair in AM mode, 1 January at 0626 with usual quality audio and presentation, contemporary music, frequent idents and email address till closing at 0706. Quickly confirmed I was their first reporter from NZ, transmitting from southern US location through a vertical antenna trimmed for 43 meters, and run C-QUAM AM Stereo at about 100 W carrier level. Also heard KIPM on 6940 at same time, plus UNID on 6925 USB (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai 0540, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, Google Earth: 36.07.07 S, 174.36.09 E, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6949, USA (PIRATE), Pirate Radio Boston. 1238 January 1, 2014. Tune in to weak signal in AM mode with slow vocals, female and male announcements but too weak to ID. Off just past 1255. Chris Smolinski on HF Underground's pirate blog was listening at the same time and noted the transmitter off at the same time, thus my confirmation (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, JRC NRD-535; JRC- NRD-515; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; RadioShack DX-399; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; custom active portable loop; Terk Advantage non- active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. PIRATE, 6925, 2328-, Radio True North, Jan 1. Huge signal, so the first big signal pirate I've heard this time in Masset. Measured on 6924.723. Typical off-channel and strength for BOR [Blue Ocean Radio] or Radio True North. No ID yet. Returned at 0034 to hear Radio True North booming in on 6944.918. Checked the tape, and at about 0019, he was asked to move away from 6925 to this frequency, which he proceeded to do. Transmitter is slowly drifting upward. Now on .922 at 0040. Very strong! Heard in Germany and the Czech Republic. Ran down to the beach to email them, and noted acknowledgement just before 0100. Thanks! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. PIRATE, 6925, 0224-, Undercover Radio, Jan 2. Rechecked the pirate band, and noted 6925 in AM active again. This time, it's Undercover Radio. The band has suddenly gotten noisy, and more difficult to follow programming. The transmitter must be having a problem, as Dr. Benway sounds like he's in side band, but the signal is in AM. Acknowledging several reports. Checked WWV at 18 minutes past the hour and noted: SF: 160 A: 12, and K at 0000 was 3. Past 24 hours saw moderate activity with R2 blackouts, while the next 24 hours are predicting minor events with G1 geomagnetic storms and R1 radio blackouts, so interesting times. Dr. Benway announced his email address at 0229, then went off the air, and when he came back he announced 'way lower power' and corresponding more in the mud here. Gave address as undercoverradio@gmail.com I think he knows he's having problems. He's running 100 watts peak now (0231). Another pirate came on just now on 6945 in AM. Dr. Benway seems to have increased his power again, as he's way back up at 0234. He mentions FM mode, so perhaps that's why he sounds strange. Sure enough narrow FM is possible, but he's too weak to do him justice. Nice ID at 0237. Left the air at 0239:05 UT. Nope, I think he's back a few seconds later with music. Nope, my narrow FM simply won't work with the weak signal. AM sounds quite OK (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. PIRATE, 6940, 0617-, Radio True North, Jan 2. Unidentified station on measured 6939.934 kHz. Very professional sounding, like an international broadcaster, but who? January 10th and January 13th. Then went into Russian. Hold it, I can hear a well known Ukrainian Christmas carol. 'Oy Radushia zemle, sin Bozhyi narodyvsia', which translates, 'Let the world rejoice, the Son of God is born'. Then went back into English (a Bible reading). Very weak. At 0625, 'Oh Holy Night'. You are listening to 'Radio True North' ID, darn! I guess they were relaying something from ?Moscow, as I heard mention of Moscow as well. Oh well (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. QSL: PIRATE: Radio Free Whatever, 6925 sent brief email reply in 2 days. Report was sent to dickweeddj at gmail.com but reply came from radiofreewhatever2014 at gmail.com (Bruce Portzer, WA, Jan 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORWAY [and non]. 5895, There was just a short 2 minute clear window from 2200 when 5890 WWCR went off and before 5895 DRM started at 2202, but nothing was heard or seen of the sked LLE-3 transmission from Norway. (26 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) 5895, Dec 31, 0812, R. Northern Star test transmission heard from Perseus site in Iceland with very nice signal at SINPO 45434 with noticeable fading pattern. In ECNA locations, Brother Stair on 5890 [WWCR] and USN HF data link transmissions make reception very difficult if not unusable. Tuned on 12/31 at 0812 and again at 0837 with many different R. Northern Star jingles, ID and announcements by two men for test transmissioin, address for reports (P.O. Box 100, N5331 Rong, Norway), location in Lat/Long (60deg50min N, 05deg12min W), and some short music segments, mostly in English with some Norwegian announcements by both man and woman. Some jingles heard today were "This is your "radio heartland of music", "Radio Northern Star, where we play the great music of our time...", "...this is your star station, the rhythm of the North Atlantic...", "This is Radio Northern Star from Western Norway"... This should be a fun station to listen to when they get a full broadcasting license. The musical jingles were also heard at threshold levels from Perseus site in Rochester NY at 0855 tune; however, only some announcements were weakly audible - this with a 2.4 KHz USB bandwidth to notch out the Brother Stair QRM (Bruce Churchill via DXPlorer via SW Bulletin Jan 5 via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. FORMAT, SLOGAN AND SILENT STATUS CHANGES 750, KSEO Durant, OK new: “Texoma Talk 750” 750, KSEO Durant, OK old slogan: “The Rock, 750 AM KSEO” 750, KSEO Durant, OK was Salem Today’s Christian Music, now Talk (IRCA DX Monitor Jan 4 via DXLD) Further evidence KSEO exist, despite my unhearing it from the other stateside, except maybe SAH on KMMJ (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1220, Jan 4 at 1353 UT, Allstate and Gospel World local ads with Del City addresses, and 405- phones, then live DJ and timecheck, so KTLV Midwest City, with a little help from skywave shortly after sunrise, as on groundwave it`s JBA during the daytime (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1570, Jan 3 at 1952 UT on caradio, some classical music catches my ear, a rarity on AM, and even FM radio; soon segué to a kid choir in Spanish. Must be the Tulsa market station which recently converted to Radio Católica Mundial, where some liturgical music crosses the classical barrier, and yes, // KTLR 890 OKC with much stronger signal. Here`s how the flips were reported in IRCA and NRC last month/year: ``1530 KXTD Wagoner, OK old slogan: “La Luz AM 1530”, new: “Qué Buena” 1530 KXTD Wagoner, OK was Spanish Christian, now Regional Mexican 1570 KZLI Catoosa, OK old slogan: “Mega 1570”, new: “La Luz 1570” 1570 KZLI Catoosa, OK was Spanish (BROADCASTING INFORMATION, Robert J. Wien (KG6RJW/3) - DATE OF COLUMN: DECEMBER 14, 2013, Column data span: November 30, 2013-December 14, 2013, Data courtesy of Stationintel.com, FCC database and member contributions, IRCA DX Monitor Dec 21 via DXLD) 1530, KXTD, Wagoner – Format to SS:MEX (ex-SS:SPT), slogan to “Que Buena,” drop network ESPD; delete // KZLI-1570. 1570, KZLI, Catoosa – Delete // KXTD-1530 (AM Switch, NRC DX News Dec 23 via DXLD)`` However, the flip had already happened last March as noted by Bruce Winkelman in Tulsa: ``KZLI-1570 Catoosa/Tulsa noted running Spanish religious programming this afternoon while running errands 1800-1900Z so apparently no longer // KXTD-1530. Heard a soft voiced female announcer at 1855Z with "Esta es La Luz" slogan(?) between Spanish religious vocal music songs. KXTD still ESPN Desportes during that time frame. Bruce Winkelman AA5CO Tulsa, OK`` I can no longer find a Spanish affiliate list on the EWTN website. But this is on the KTLR site at http://www.ktlr.com/engine/emw.exe/*qshome=home ``Today AM 1570 K Z L I in Tulsa joins our broadcasts and together AM 890 KTLR and AM 1570 KZLI become COMMUNITY TALK RADIO FOR OKLAHOMA La Estacion Católica de Oklahoma presenta ahora EWTN en Español a partir de la 1 pm entre semana en Community Talk AM 890 - KTLR`` That is, joining RCM at 1900 UT M-F, and with some other Spanish gospel huxters earlier and on weekends. This page gives sked for both stations, so 100% parallel? http://www.ktlr.com/engine/emw.exe/*qshome=home&st=561&rec=4&kw=news&parm=4&trec=2&lktype=6&snum=1 BTW, a weekend host on KTLR/KZLI is Milton Winkelman; any relation? I know KTLR is partly in English, so apparently KZLI must be too: This appears to be current, even includes SR/SS times for each month with January hilited. Of course, Tulsa and OKC, some 100 miles apart, will not necessarily be the same every month (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 88.3, Jan 3 at 1956 UT, I`m doing a non-commercial bandscan on the caradio, and pleased to find local KEAR (Family Radio) translator K202BY missing. I hope it`s gone for good along with Harold Camping, but probably just another temporary breakdown. That makes 88.3 one of the `openest` frequencies for DX, just as the Quadrantids meteor shower is peaking; see UNIDENTIFIED. Just barely audible: some clicking which may be what`s left of the K202BY transmitter. I see in the WTFDA FM database that it`s 250 watts, vertical only; one of the weaker translators here, from a tower site west of Enid = 4 miles east and 2 miles north of Lahoma, and FCC map shows its 60 dbu contour doesn`t quite reach downtown Enid itself. While waiting for meteor bursts, at 1959 UT Jan 3, I also get an airplane-scatter burst, with rapid Doppler fading and KOSU calendar promo, so that`s their 1.2 kW fill-in relay back in hometown Stillwater, KOSR, necessary because their bigsig on 91.7 moved too far away, almost to OKC. Even after pulling into the garage, I keep listening for more MS DX, but also hear some other weak gospel-huxtering fading slowly in and out, so probably other OK or KS low-power stations. One had Alex Scourby Bible readings at 2010 UT, then a hymn (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) K202BY remained off the air! [Noted back on Jan 12] ** OKLAHOMA. Mary Francis started a quest some 6 years ago, went thru all the steps to get a non-profit community radio station on the air in Norman; now has a CP from FCC, to be on the air as soon as they get the tower up for 2400 watts (Ted Streuli, editor, The Journal Record, OETA Oklahoma News Report Jan 11 via DXLD) Here`s the story behind a paywall: http://journalrecord.com/2014/01/09/fcc-approves-new-community-radio-station-in-norman-general-news/ If any reader may read that, please send us the pertinent details. Searching FCC FM Query on Norman OK, APP possibilities but no CPs, and no such power shown so maybe none of these, which are all LPFMs: Call | Channel | Service | Class | Frequency | Status | File Number | Facility ID | kW ERP | HAAT | Licensee/Permittee NEW 230 L1 FL 93.9 MHz APP BNPL-20131114BBA - 196827 0.1 -6.4 m COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, INC NEW 257 L1 FL 99.3 MHz APP BNPL-20131112BHU - 194372 0.0094 94.7 m SOUTH OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY RADIO NEW 296 L1 FL 107.1 MHz APP BNPL-20131108ACN - 195139 0.1 17. m CALVARY CHAPEL OF NORMAN, INCORPORATED NEW 296 L1 FL 107.1 MHz APP BNPL-20131112BXJ - 195935 0.0431 45.2 m UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA Disregarding religious outlets, which this apparently is not, that leaves S OKC Community Radio, more likely, and OU I think is to be a student training station, unlike professional KGOU public radio. No correspondence available for most of them but REC Networks filed informal objections to hundreds(?) of LPFM Apps accusing them of not really being local but national entities really behind them, including against the 99.3 one above, which seems unfair (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. FCC News: Ringwood, 104.9, KEUC, New Class A station signs on with 400 W-H/78 m at 36-23-19/98-18-00 (Jan WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) Ringwood is not far from Enid. Not heard yet here, just Wild 104-9, which is KWKD in further Bethany, OKC westburb (gh) ** OMAN. 13600, R. Sultanate of Oman, Jan 05 0504-0527, 35333, Arabic, Arabic music and talk, ID at 0524 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN [and non]. 6195, BBC (Oman relay), 1705 English news by M with actualities. This and 6155 AIR Bengaluru the strongest of only 5 or 6 signals on the band at this time. (26 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** PALAU. QSL: Nippon No Kaze via T8WH. 9975, F/D World Harvest Radio 20th anniversary card in 277 days for postal report + $2 sent to South Bend address (Bruce Portzer, WA, Jan 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PALESTINE [non]. IRAN, 9550, VOICE OF PALESTINIAN [sic], 06/01 0331 UT. Hombre entrega información en árabe. Señal con SINPO: 43444 con leve siseo de TOM en 9495 [WRMI] // 7220 no se escucha (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 20 metros, QTH: Sector sur de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3365, 1605-, Radio Milne Bay, Dec 31. Still going and improving as we approach LSR. Good reception. Not much else to be heard from PNG, if anyone else at all. Western music only. 3365, 1527-, Radio Milne Bay, Jan 1. Very nice reception as well from PNG on this lone channel. NBC ID at 1527, 'The Voice of PNG'. About the strongest I've heard them in years. Interesting bit at 1606, with 'NBC National Radio. Celebrating 40 years of broadcasting', and they played a tape from lowering the colonial flag for the last time. Excellent reception. [and non]. 3325, 1645-, RRI Palangkaraya, Jan 2. Surprised at the dawn enhancement, which really improved the signal which earlier had been quite mediocre. Same for 3365, Radio Milne Bay which was only poor/fair earlier, but quite listenable now (08:45 AM local, and just starting to light up outside). The latter has been using 'The Voice of PNG, 90.7' IDs (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3365: Christoph Ratzer says: Ich habe mir das mal hier angesehen: Auf 3365 ist abends schon seit Monaten unregelmäßig irgend ein harmonisches Signal zu hören, erkennbar an dem langsamen ein und ausfaden, solche Dinge erkennt man erst seseit der Verwendung von SDRs so gut. Auch daran erkennbar dass es schon am späten Nachmittag hier zu finden ist. Dieses Signal ist auf 3364.85 zu finden, aktuell mit S3/5, Audio unverständlich. Und daneben, exakt (soweit mein Excalibur eben stimmt) auf 3365, vermute ich aus Alotau (SW Bulletin Jan 5 via DXLD) 3365, NBC Milne Bay, 1519 + 1543, Jan 6. Off the air. No longer 24 hours? (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3905, 1400-, NBC New Ireland, Dec 27. Good reception with sign-off announcements. Mentioned PNG and Merry Christmas, then into a child choir's rendition of assumed National Anthem until 1402:40. Open carrier remained but off when rechecked at 1414 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4755 [sic; must mean 4775 --- gh] Tarma. "Radio Tarma", 0131 UT 07/01. Anuncio de local de comidas que vende hamburguesas y más comidas, noticias cortas, musica de Nelson Ned con "Déjenme si estoy llorando" y varias canciones de este cantante, parte de programa con música romántica en español con un homenaje especial a Nelson Ned, ID radio y anuncio de término de transmisiones del día y finaliza la location programación a las 0205 UT, SINPO: 35323 (Marcos Cox, Vicuña, Chile, Receptor: DEGEN DE1103, Antena: Cable Largo 3 Metros, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** PERU. 4790, R. VISION, 08/01 0410 UT. Portadora abierta sin ningún tipo de modulación, al igual que hace semanas. Sin embargo, al volver a monitorear la frecuencia a las 07 UT se escucha una débil modulación debajo del ruido de la portadora (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** PERU. On the air now: 4824.49, Perú, La Voz de la Selva, Iquitos with alto vocal, 2340 Jan 2. 73 (Bob Wilkner, Pompano Beach, Florida, 746Pro, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4824.53, Perú, La Voz de la Selva, Iquitos, 2350 to 0000 with strong signal. 73 (Bob Wilkner, Pompano Beach, Florida, UT January 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4939.97, R. San Antonio (presumed), 0205 talk by M. Music at 0208 but couldn't tell what type. 0243 talk by M from across the room. Just too weak. (25 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** PERU. 4955, Huanta. "Radio Cultural Amauta", 0002 UT 07/01. Anuncio de Medicina Vegetal Cubana en Huanta, y sigue programa en idioma quechua con locutor hablando sobre una invitacion de Iglesia Evangelica Presbiteriana y una fiesta religiosa que realizarán, y otros anuncios de Huanta y ciudades cercanas, mención de nombre de programa "Chaski Willay", Municipalidad Provincial de Huanta y proyectos a realizarse, anuncios publicitarios en quechua y español como Cooperativa de Crédito y Ahorro Bella Esmeralda, ID de R.C.A. con FREQ en FM y OC, SINPO: 45444 (Marcos Cox, Vicuña, Chile, Receptor: DEGEN DE1103, Antena: Cable Largo 3 Metros, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** PERU. 4985.5, R. Voz Cristiana, 1100 already on at tune-in with usual many canned announcements including a possible ID at 1101. Into music at 1103, probable program intro. then usual M preaching. Fading. (25 Dec) 4985.5, R. Voz Cristiana. Fortunately the double RTTY that was here went off at 1051. This suddenly came on at 1059:25 with canned announcement by W already in progress. Then another canned announcement by M including an ID. A couple more canned announcements. Possibly religious song at 1103 to open the next program with M preaching. Still barely able to hear music at 1124. Fading right from sign on. (30 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** PERU. 5024.93, R. Quillabamba (presumed), 0255 brief announcement but way too weak. Still going at 0302. Been watching this most of the evening as Rebelde has been off. Hope Rebelde stays off through tomorrow morning. (25 Dec). 5024.94, R. Quillabamba. Rebelde was on earlier but noticed it had gone off by 1001. Stayed on the frequency and found Quillabamba come on at 1003:30, but it was very weak. 1005 pleasant tinkly campo music with cow mooing at one point. Drifting down and getting stronger, apparently as the transmitter warmed up. Really picked up by 1010. 1010 long talk with mention of Quillabamba and nice ID over music including Horse whinnying. Buenos días. 1013:55 nice TC and ID. 1014 shouting and start of "Happy Birthday", then more campo music. 1018:25 more really nice clear IDs and mention of Quillabamba, mention of amanecer, gloria, and Ayacucho at 1020 end. More campo music, 1024 M DJ returned starting with TC, mention of Quillabamba, FM, onda media, and onda corta. Horse SFX again. 1026:00 another ID and TC, then sked of something. 1029:30 nice canned ID by M, then echo intro by M for the daily talk segment by 2 men hosts. Mentioned onda corta during the discussion at 1042. Fading starting to chop up the signal by 1045, but still nearly 100% copy. The discussion continued all the way until Rebelde signed on at 1058:48. Nice of them to stay off during peak Quillabamba time today. (30 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** PERU. 5980, Jan 4 at 0059, JBA carrier from R. Chaski until cut off at 0102:33* which is 22 seconds later than last log 4 nights ago = still averaging 5.5 seconds later per 24 hours (China via Cuba overrun splashing from 5990 misopening English lasted only until 0101*). (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, R. CHASKI, 04/01 2343 UT. Sonido de portadora y ruido por parte del transmisor (?). Nuevamente el mismo problema que se reporta cada cierto tiempo, debido a la sobremodulación, los cortes en la transmisión o el uso de otras emisoras o de programación propia. 5980, R. CHASKI, 06/01 0043 UT. Se escucha una modulación debajo de un ruido de portadora parecido a aquel que surge a veces como problemas con el transmisor. 5980, R. CHASKI, 07/01 0055 UT. Final del programa “El amor que vale” con direcciones de contacto como parte de la retransmisión de Red Radio Integridad, para pasar a las 0057 a dar música clásica i.e.: Concierto para piano de Beethoven. SINPO: 43343 sin QRM desde la mixtura de CNR/VOA. Además que después de las 0057 mejora a SINPO: 44444. Sale del aire a las 0102 aprox. 5980, R. CHASKI, 08/01 0055 UT. Final del programa “El amor que vale” con avisos de contacto, de compra de la emisión y de la serie de mensajes de Dr Adrian Rogers. Señal con SINPO: 55454 con poquísimo QRM de la mixtura CNR-1 JAMMER/VOA. La emisora sale del aire a las 0102, cuando están dando avisos de Red Radio Integridad (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 5980, Jan 8 at 0100, JBA carrier from R. Chaski, enough to tell when autotimer cuts it off, at 0102:55.5*, which is 22.5 seconds later than last check four nights ago = averaging 5.625 seconds per 24 hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 9825, 1731-, Radio Pilipinas, Dec 27. ID'd as 'PBS, Radyo Pilipinas', at very good level, but with phone quality audio feed. // 11890 just audible, and 15190 is just an open carrier (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15190, Radyo Pilipinas, 1833 BeeGees song, woman in Filipino, 1839, Jan 4, mentions of Twelve Days of Christmas, The Magi, the Three Kings, so possibly a piece on Christmas traditions. 1843 another English song. Fair. 11890, Radyo Pilipinas 1851, Jan 4, Filipino, woman talking and using many English words, such as “assistance program”, “integration program”, “300,000 US dollars”, “employee of the year”; at 1856 a Radyo Pilipinas mention. Fair, // 15190 which was now weak (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening in my car, parked by the lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [non]. 15320, VATICAN, Radio Veritas Asia, 1553, Jan 4, Filipino, woman closing 1500-1553 broadcast with ID “Radio Veritas Asia Filipino Service” and phone number in English, and off. Good (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening in my car, parked by the lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [and non]. 9545, Jan 7 at 2252, FEBC ``Jesus Saves`` IS repeating under but almost equal to VOA Chinese, fair with flutter, from different Philippine sites, a fine example of coördination! Or is that really ChiCom jamming I am hearing? It`s surely applied to VOA. FEBC should crash-start its Hmong at *2300, if they have to be on the same frequency. Just one would be plenty to block Solomon Islands, which unfortunately is also trying to use 9545. Minor stations like SIBC need to be frequency-flexible, to avoid the big-guns, but seldom are due to red tape, as administrations, ignorant of the dynamix of SW, assign only certain frequencies and expect them to stay there just like on MW, no matter what the QRM to be suffered (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIG DIGEST) QSL: FEBC, 15560, sent an email reply from Norie Estabilio after 641 days. Attached a cover letter and scans of the front and back of a "Monkey-eating Eagle" QSL card, with full confirmation details filled in by hand. I had sent a postal report+MS in December 2011 and a follow up in May 2012. Mailing address on the letter is Far East Broadcasting Company, PO Box 14205, Ortigas Center, Pasig City 1605 Philippines (Bruce Portzer, WA, Jan 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** REUNION. I have noticed that in Réunion there seem to be a great number of stations, but at a closer sight most of them originate in – and are streaming from – France. Bibass Radio is one of the stations that seem really to be situated in Reunion. You can find it on the following address: http://www.bibass-radio.com/ The station plays a lot of different music from the African, the Arabic and the Indian areas. And the language both on the station’s homepage and in many of the programmes is the - for us here in Europe – charming Creole language (Kurt, Dec DSWCI SW News via WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DXLD) ** ROMANIA. 9450, 0715-, Radio Romania International, Dec 27. Almost able to copy. DRM software shows 'SNR Tiganesti E1'. Listed in German. 300 kW listed to W. Europe at 307 degrees (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6020, R Romania International via Galbeni with news items re Pope Francis and protests in the Ukraine and Syrian conflict, etc. ID at :08 into Traveler’s Guide tourist programme. Then “Hit of the Day” with a Romanian song about Santa Claus at :14 into more traditional New Year’s Eve music. At :31 ID into tx with Romanian painter now living in France. At :35 into Listener’s Letterbox with lots of letters from the USA & the UK where nobody listens to shortwave, but apparently these folks do as they all mentioned the fact, as well as Japan and India where the experts say people do listen to SW, but apparently they don’t because one Indian writer said he only listened to them on the Internet. In remarkably well, 4+4+54+4+ (a very slight het easily notched) 0402-0456* 27/Dec (Ken Zichi, Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet 3 Jan via DXLD) 7395, 2323-, Radio Romania International, Dec 29. Superb reception, answering listeners questions and comments. I believe this is beamed to Japan? Listeners' Letterbox program. // 7220 (good, with cochannel presumed CRI) to Europe, 9620 (excellent, also to Japan, way over REE Noblejas in Spanish). Program finished at 2335, followed by 'All that Jazz' (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Both 7395 & 9620 are 52 degrees to CIRAF 45 (gh) ** RUSSIA. 279, 1943-, Radio Rossii, Dec 28. A bad sign, but I haven't seen a peep from any of the Russian LW stations over the past several days. I will keep checking, but there's a chance that they've pulled the plug on them, leaving nothing at all to hear in the mornings. They should be relatively easy catches in Masset. Well, thankfully, I checked at 1325 on 29 Dec, and sure enough, at least 153, 189, and 279 are back. [and non]. 180, 1504-, Radio Rossii, Dec 31. Perhaps a last hurrah, as 6 Russian LW are heard this morning. Will they be there tomorrow? 153: Komsomolsk/Khabarovsk 1200 kW at fair/good level, 171 Yakutsk with 150 or 500 kW at fair level, 180 Petropavlosk-Kamchatskiy at excellent level (C Novom Godom! just as I'm tuning at 1510 UT) listed with 150 kW. 189 Belogorsk with 1200 kW at good/very good level, 234 Magadan with 1000 kW at good level, and finally 279 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk with 500 kW at very good level, except for Aerobeacon cochannels which are very plentiful in this area. That makes for 6 Russian LW channels on the same time which is very unusual. On top of that, Mongolian Radio on 164 was heard before 1500 at fair level in addition, and very weak when rechecked at 1522. The surprise of the morning, which generally was below average was the longevity of the LW channels. At 1727, 153 and 180 are going strong, but with different feeds. 180 is // to 7320 and 5930 and 234. 153 is // to 189 and 279 with a rock music show. 171 seems to be very undermodulated, but is also // to the rock music show. The show was announced at 1844 as EZ Tops, 'Live from Texas'! Interesting, indeed! Still at good level on 189 at 1845 (10:45 AM local time). 189, 2033-, Radio Rossii, Dec 31. Still going strong at fair/good level, and I can also still hear 153 (poor), 171 (threshold), 234 (poor). Despite reports that Magadan is gone, I'm still hearing audio, so perhaps it's the other listed transmitter in Angarsk, Irkutsk? (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 648, 1736-, Radio Free Asia, Jan 2. Excellent reception of RFA in Korean. Domestic splatter is pretty much gone, and signal is very strong. Not often heard here due to strong 650 KENI Anchorage splatter (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Site? See next, some bedfellows (gh, DXLD) QSL: VoR via Ussuriysk, 648, sent QSL card for email report + MP3 file. Card was F/D except for tx site. Received 20 days after sending report to world at ruvr.ru (Bruce Portzer, WA, Jan 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA (non [sic; it`s all from within Russia now --- gh]) Winter B-13 SW schedule of Radio Voice of Russia from Jan. 1: 0600-0700 on 21800 IRK 250 kW / 152 deg to AUS English 0700-0800 on 11635 MSK 040 kW / 260 deg to WeEu English DRM 0700-0800 on 21800 IRK 250 kW / 152 deg to AUS English 0800-0900 on 9625 KLG 015 kW / 220 deg to WeEu English DRM Ch1 0800-0900 on 9625 KLG 015 kW / 220 deg to WeEu Russian DRM Ch2 0800-0900 on 11635 MSK 040 kW / 260 deg to WeEu English DRM 0800-0900 on 21800 IRK 250 kW / 152 deg to AUS English 0900-1000 on 9625 KLG 015 kW / 220 deg to WeEu German DRM Ch1 0900-1000 on 9625 KLG 015 kW / 220 deg to WeEu English DRM Ch2 0900-1000 on 11635 MSK 040 kW / 260 deg to WeEu English DRM 1000-1200 on 5900 IRK 250 kW / 152 deg to EaAs Chinese 1000-1200 on 9560 IRK 250 kW / 180 deg to SEAs English 1000-1200 on 9625 KLG 015 kW / 220 deg to WeEu German DRM Ch1 1000-1200 on 9625 KLG 015 kW / 220 deg to WeEu English DRM Ch2 1000-1200 on 12035 IRK 015 kW / 224 deg to SoAs English DRM 1200-1300 on 5900 IRK 250 kW / 152 deg to EaAs Chinese 1200-1300 on 5980 IRK 100 kW / 110 deg to EaAs Japanese 1200-1300 on 9560 IRK 250 kW / 180 deg to SEAs Vietnamese 1200-1300 on 9625 KLG 015 kW / 220 deg to WeEu English DRM Ch1 1200-1300 on 9625 KLG 015 kW / 220 deg to WeEu Russian DRM Ch2 1300-1400 on 5900 IRK 250 kW / 152 deg to EaAs Chinese 1300-1400 on 5980 IRK 100 kW / 110 deg to EaAs Japanese 1300-1400 on 7400 IRK 015 kW / 224 deg to SoAs Hindi DRM 1300-1400 on 9560 IRK 250 kW / 180 deg to SEAs English 1300-1400 on 9625 KLG 015 kW / 220 deg to WeEu English DRM Ch1 1300-1400 on 9625 KLG 015 kW / 220 deg to WeEu Russian DRM Ch2 1400-1500 on 7400 IRK 015 kW / 224 deg to SoAs Urdu DRM 1400-1500 on 9625 KLG 015 kW / 220 deg to WeEu English DRM Ch1 1400-1500 on 9625 KLG 015 kW / 220 deg to WeEu Russian DRM Ch2 1500-1700 on 5900 IRK 250 kW / 180 deg to SEAs English 1500-1700 on 9680 MSK 040 kW / 260 deg to WeEu German DRM 1700-1900 on 6110 MSK 040 kW / 260 deg to WeEu German DRM 1700-1900 on 6125 KLG 015 kW / 220 deg to WeEu French DRM 1900-2000 on 6125 KLG 015 kW / 220 deg to WeEu French DRM 2000-2100 on 6000 MSK 040 kW / 260 deg to SoEu Spanish DRM 2100-2200 on 6000 MSK 040 kW / 260 deg to SoEu English DRM (Ivo Ivanov, DX RE MIX NEWS #832, January 04, 2014 via DXLD) 5900, 1316-, Voice of Russia, Dec 27. One of the languages being cut is Mongolian. Excellent reception, with listed 100 kW aimed 270 degrees, so must be getting the back end here. 1300 to 1400 listed [and non]. 11635, 0712-, Voice of Russia, Dec 27. Listed in English with DRM. Clearly seen on waterfall on the Perseus, but too weak to demodulate anything. RNZI also noted higher on 11690, but with a rapidly falling MUF, no chance to demodulate anything. 11635 DRM, 0810-, Voice of Russia, Jan 1. Clearly visible on the Perseus waterfall, but unable to decode anything other than 'DRM RUVR 2A. English Russian Federation. 13.60 kbps EEP. aac+ Mono. + MM (0.96 kbps). It did flip to Japanese for a second. I'm also seeing Kaliningrad but it's much weaker. 15 kW and 220 deg beam here. Interesting that there are several other 31 meter DRM transmissions on now. 9780 has REE from Noblejas, Spain with 50 kW beamed 50 degrees, but too weak to decode, while RNZI is very strong on 9870, but still having some drop-outs with listed 25 kW (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non]. ARMENIA, 9395, 2342-, Voice of Russia, Dec 29. Excellent reception of the almost to be gone English service from the Voice of Russia. Highlights of 2013 including Obamacare, Khodorovsky release, Radio VR mentioned frequently. S9 + 10, and in the clear. Travel Russia at 2349. Describing Voronezh, near the Ukrainian border, where the first Japanese VCR clone was made. Radio VR, with FM/MW in US mentioned at 2359. Continued into English news at 0000 until 0000:55, when switched to Spanish (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ARMENIA: 9395, Radio VR/Voice of Russia (they used both names interchangeably) with news to :04 and then into “Red Line” features about recent news developments, including tx [transmitters? Guess it mean talks in this case --- gh] re Edward Snowden, the Russian prisoner pardons, Mikhail Kalashnikov’s death at 94, and an item about the American Affordable Care Act. News was aired every 20 minutes and again at the ToH, including an item about a Russian ship stuck in the Antarctic ice that a Chinese icebreaker is trying to help, but can’t because of bad weather. ID & news at 2300, and then into “From Moscow with Love” with discussion of the future of SW radio from Russia. (Vasily S essentially said anyone who is upset about the loss of SW broadcast stations ‘needs a life’ -- they teach you to mock and berate & belittle your audience in Washington or Moscow broadcast school, Vasily?). Into Spanish at 0000. 34443+ at first, improving to 444+44 by 2245 and starting to fade a bit by 0000 - -back to O=3+; 2200-2400 28/Dec (Ken Zichi, Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet 3 Jan via DXLD) 9395, V Russia missing on 31/Dec -- apparently they meant they would changing the schedule to eliminate this broadcast (the only one easily heard in Michigan) on 31 Dec THEIR LOCAL time (Ken Zichi, Williamston MI, ibid.) 5900, 1613-, VOR, Jan 1. Good reception in English, but needing to use USB to avoid the DRM signal centered on 5895 from Bulgaria! Interview about the amnesty of Khorodovsky with Boris Makarov. Next on the program was: 'Eric Snowden, what is next?', and Kalashnikov. Sure enough, nothing at all from the previous 4960. 'Radio VR, news' at 1620 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5900, RUSSIA (ASIATIC), Voice of Russia, Irkutsk, 1508, Jan 4, with the last remaining English broadcast on analog shortwave; woman doing an interview about Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood. Poor (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening in my car, parked by the lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, Editor of World English Survey and Target Listening, available at http://www.odxa.on.ca dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I note some changes in the style and content of programming on the Voice of Russia English-language service available on Galaxy 19 Ku- band satellite. The station is now calling itself "Radio VR," though still also mentioning "Voice of Russia." During the 1500 UT hour today, which had been part of a block of programming aimed at local U.S. radio stations relaying it, there was no more of the dual-anchor style, with one announcer in the U.S. and another in Moscow. Today's programming was entirely from Moscow, though with a token look at weather in Washington and New York City. There is a heavier use of sounders and music, sounding more like a rolling all-news station. Reporting included an interview with a woman in Ohio about the cold weather, conducted by an American-sounding woman in Washington. So the Voice of Russia apparently maintains some sort of presence in the U.S., but programming now seems a little less tailored to the U.S. audience. Previously, Voice of Russia had included a lot of AP Radio correspondent reports. These seem to be gone (Mike Cooper, GA, Jan 8, WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And for the part of Voice of Russia the changes reported by Mike Cooper very much look like ordinary cost saving measures. During the last year also the German service has sounded like a mere collection of podcasts, hardly resembling real radio anymore. Well, now it remains to be seen what will become of all this anyway (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 5930, 0612-, Radio Rossii, Dec 27. Tuned in at 0612 to hear indigenous language, rather than [Russian] language. Lots of mentions of 'Kamchatskiy Krai'. Excellent reception. S9 + 10. Checked 7320 just in case to hear a very strong carrier, but barely any audio and network Radio Rossii programming. Certain Russian words like 31st of December noted. 'Radio Rossii, Kamchatka pogoda' (weather) at 0624, back into Russian. 'Muzyka' at 0625:30, and into a popular Russian vocal. Local ID in Russian with time check for 1930. No English noted (which used to be used at the BOH). Seems to be back into network Radio Rossii programming. 5930, 1324-, Radio Rossii, Dec 27. Fair reception in definite Russian, so presumed Monchegorsk. Perhaps a local program at 1410? Worth checking! 5930, 1757-, Radio Rossii, Dec 27. Multiple Radio Rossii IDs, then into the Russian anthem. Very good reception. Time pips at TOH (about 6 sec late), then time check for Moscow, and into news. No local programming at 1810. Instead a program about Mary Poppins. 5930, 0105-, Radio Rossii, Dec 28. I can definitely hear two streams of Russian, so one is P-K, while the other must be Monchegorsk. Thanks to Glenn Hauser for pointing this out recently. Transmitter hum too (from the 5930 transmitter, presumably). 5930, 0400-, Radio Rossii, Dec 28. Interesting at 0400. Dead air at the TOH with loud hum (the P-K transmitter). Cochannel weaker Radio Rossii ID (from Monchegorsk), and then P-K came on with local programming, but no fanfare, nor IS. Just directly into local programming. Worth waiting for! UT Saturday. Normally these local programs are heard starting at 10 minutes past the hour (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5922, 0541-, Radio Rossii, Dec 28. Ron Howard mentioned this spur, and here it is in all of its glory. Ugly, and a good S9 signal strength with a loud buzz, and centered on 5922.258 and spread over about 400 Hz. Ugly! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Walt, A great selection of stations. Especially enjoyed your Russian local ID logs! Thank you very much for confirming the 5922 spur and the good frequency measurement of it. Wolfy checked a few times for me, but did not hear it. Is always good to get a solid confirmation that I was not imagining things. Wish you all the best in 2014! (Ron Howard, California, to Walt, cc to DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6085, 0123-, Radio Rossii, Dec 28. Possibly a local program in Russian. Call in program, possibly a fund raiser, since they mentioned invalids and veterans. Svetlana Fedorova is the MC. Radio Rossii network ID at 0126. Into ads at 0128. As I continue to listen, I'm now thinking it's just a network program. Nothing local heard (at least after the ads). Rechecked at 0211, and sure enough, local programming. 'Novosti Krasnoyarsk' at 0213. Excellent reception. Local weather when I first tuned back again. Luckily, I'm recording the 49 meter band on Perseus just now. At 0219 further weather, and Radio Rossii Krasnoyarsk ID at 0219:35 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7320, 1703-, Radio Rossii, Dec 27. Pretty much an open carrier, with only a hint of modulation. S7 signal. Definitely having transmitter issues at Magadan (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 5930, 0304-, Radio Rossii, 49 and 41 meter channels Dec 30. Checked the various Radio Rossii transmitters tonight. 5930 very good with hum. // 5940 (Magadan) excellent! 6085 Krasnoyarsk, very good. 6100 (Kyzyl, Tuva poor. Left program feed after 0310), 6160 Archangelsk often over CBC, or is this Monchegorsk? Nothing heard on 6195 for certain (Ulan Ude). 7230 Yakutsk (excellent). 7325 Magadan (excellent), By 0325, 5930, 5940, 7230, and 7320 all in //. 6085 clearly not, while the others were too weak to be sure. Checked after 0410, and only 7230 is with a local program. 'Sakha' heard at 0412, and when tuned in, they were not in Russian. Again at 0414 not in Russian. I'm assuming it's in Yakutian. Sounds kind of Scandinavian to me, although with some Russian sounding words, and of course Russian names. Weak co-channel also there, which is most likely CNR, although Channel Africa is also listed. 'Visti Sakha' at 0420 and back into Russian. Nice Radio Yakutia ID at 0425. Excellent reception. 'Radio Rossii Sakha pogoda' (weather) at 0427, but in Yakutian. Repeated in Russian at 0428:30. Minus 31 deg C noted! Brrr! Into local Yakutian vocal ballad at 0430. Rechecked at 0436 and they had returned to the network program (// to 5930, 5940 and 7320. Krasnoyarsk again went into local programming at 0510 on 6085 'Radio Rossii Krasnoyarsk'. Ulan Ude on 6195 audible at 0513 check, very weakly. Rechecked Krasnoyarsk on 6085, and they continued local programming to 0600 with Radio Rossii Krasnoyarsk ID just before the TOH. TC for 20:00 and Radio Rossii ID (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 6100, 0119-, Radio Rossii, Dec 31. OK, there's a question. At 0100, I'm hearing Radio Rossii quite well, parallel to other Radio Rossii transmitters, including 6085 from Krasnoyarsk. I was hoping this was from Kyzyl (a place I visited a couple of summers ago), but I also see Krasnoyarsk listed. Is there a way to tell the two apart? Reception was fair/good, while 6085 is much stronger. Searching through Stationlist, I see that Kyzyl is just 500 w, while Krasnoyarsk is 5 kW. Pretty good catch in either case. Krasnoyarsk 6085 is listed as 50 kW, which makes sense. I suspect that I'm hearing Krasnoyarsk, and not Kyzyl. I'll need to listen for local programming on 6085 to be sure, I suppose. As for Ulan Ude, it's listed as ND with 50 kW and was well heard up to 0100 when BBC Oman comes on and spoils things! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7230, 0200-, Radio Sakha, Dec 31. Fun to listen to the various Russian SW sites. Yakutia seems to have the highest number of local programs, including from 0110 to 0200, with a local ID right before the TOH. Back into network news a second or two later. Included presumed Yakutian as well as Russian during these 50 minutes. Very good reception. No local programming at 0210 noted. 5940, 1910-, Radio Rossii, Dec 31. I was checking for local Magadan programming as listed, but nothing but normal Radio Rossii programming at this time, // to 5930 and 7320. All very strong. Might just be due to the holiday? 7320, 1814-, Radio Rossii, Jan 2. Setting up a timed recording, when I noticed that Radio Rossii was playing an English version of 'New York, New York', sung by a Russian speaker with a heavy accent. Unusual to say the least! These are sick transmitters with loud persistent hum, and the same for the 5930, and 5940 transmitters, with the Magadan transmitters worst, while 5930 has a blob on 5928 which doesn't make for nice listening. All otherwise exceptionally strong (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also GERMANY 4 January 2014: RADIO ROSSII STILL ON THE AIR ON LONG-, MEDIUM- AND SHORTWAVE Radio Rossii is still active on long- and mediumwave although a few months ago VGTRK announced that they will cancel all AM broadcasts by the end of 2013. By 2000 UT on 3 January 2014, the situation is the following: * the longwave broadcasts from European Russia are still active: 171 kHz (Bolshakovo/75 kW) and 261 kHz (Taldom/250 kW) * the mediumwave transmitters on 873 kHz (Lesnoy/250 kW, Samara/100 kW, St. Petersburg/75 kW, Kaliningrad/50 kW) are active, too. I can clearly hear them under Radio Moldova Actualitatsi, which is pretty strong at my location. The audio of the transmitters is not synchronized and is causing strong echo. * the mediumwave transmitter in Grozny on 1287 kHz is active too, but it's carrying different program, most likely GTRK "Vaynah". Its power is rated at 50kW and provides good reception at my location. Radio Rossii regional broadcasts on shortwave as well as the European broadcasts on 5905, 6095, 7310 and 12075 kHz are still on the air too (SWL DX-ing, Bulgaria via Mike Terry, Jan 5, dxldyg via DXLD) The cuts are not due to take place until 9 January when Radio Rossii LW transmitters are expected to close. It`s not yet clear which Radio Rossii MW transmitters will close or whether all of the SW relays will stop from 9 January. I expect the SW relays via Russian regional stations may continue (Dave Kenny, Jan 5, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 6020, 1800, Adygey R. Adygeyan, CRI off until 1820, 454 15/12 RP (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, Jan BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Moscow on 6095 kHz today [when was that?? gh] pass only opened at 0530. Usually around 0500. Perhaps because of the magnetic storm. It is remarkable that these days there is no advertising on R. Rossii very good pitches all the time. Type "can not breath enough before death." (Alexander Yegorov, Kiev, Ukraine / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX Jan 5 via DXLD) As usual this could have benefited from a better translation (gh) ** RUSSIA. Re: [dxld] Radio Rossii cancelled LW and SW (!), effective Jan 9 Thu --- I will be sorry to see R Rossii leave Shortwave - I'm not a Russian speaker, but they have some excellent music programmes that you can enjoy without knowing the language ... "Aerostat"; "Exotica"; "Music Hall"; "Phonograph" all spring immediately to mind, and all of which I regularly listen to (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Radio Rossii continues to broadcast some excellent music programmes via shortwave. Highly recommended is the programme ???????? [cyrillic for Aerostat]. Google always translates this as “Balloon”, and this is how I have referred to this program in the past. However, I now feel that the more accurate translation is AEROSTAT. You will find playlists at http://www.aquarium.ru/misc/aerostat/index.html If you run that link via Google, you can see a reasonable English translation, and can access the script of the programme. Podcasts of all previous episodes can be found at http://aerostat.rpod.ru/ The programme is presented by Boris Grebenshikov. Each week is themed – you can never know what to expect. On 1 December I listened from 0915 UT on 12075 kHz for a short while, and later listened to the full broadcast via podcast. The theme this week was “God Knows What”, and featured a strange selection of songs starting with Procol Harum “Luskus Delph” and then talked about the film “The Hobbitt”, and played a song (which I assume was played in the film) written by Neil Finn, who is “leader of one of the great bands of the last thirty years - Crowded House”. The song was “Song Of The Lonely Mountain”, which Boris adds is “now published as a single. Probably the first time in the history of mankind a gnomes' song is released as a single.” Boris this week then meanders through talk of a Russian church built with only an axe and not a single nail, through to Tibetan monasteries and the phrase: "The unity and struggle of opposites." He continues: “Indeed, the world is dark and light, male and female, have the yin and yang, there is heaven and earth. They do not exist by themselves, they exist only contradicting each other and complement each other.“ Somehow, he ends with a short extract from Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique and finally with The Beatles` Hey Jude. I’m not sure that I quite understood this week’s programme(!) – but never-the-less a great listen. Much easier to understand was his program on 27 October when he played the whole of Mike Oldfield’s Ommadawn (Parts 1 and 2). Now – when was the last time that you ever heard even an extract of Ommadawn on any station, let alone on shortwave, and the whole album at that? Aerostat is scheduled Sundays at 0910 and repeated Wednesdays at 2010. Have I said before that outside of radio I enjoy musical theatre? Maybe. Anyway because of this, I often listen to Music Hall on Radio Rossii on Sundays at 1330 UT on 7310 kHz, presented by Michael Baptist. The edition of 10 November featured the music of Phantom of the Opera, and (with the usual help of Google translate) I find that Phantom is due to be staged at the Palace of Youth in Moscow next Autumn – would have been fun to have been there next year to see this in Russian. However, as next best, I was able to enjoy the final song in this week’s Music Hall – the title song Phantom of the Opera sung in Russian with Christine’s part sounding more operatic than we are used to, whilst the Phantom’s part sounded much harsher as if sung by a rock/heavy metal singer. Fantastic! Another Radio Rossii programme worth a mention is called Kalina Krasnaya. I last heard this on Sunday 8 December on 12075 kHz at 0820 UT (and is scheduled Sundays only at 0810). This programme consisted of mostly unremarkable ballads, and an occasional more traditional Russian song or more modern light pop. However, I am fascinated by the fact that the programme is described as a “music program for prisoners and their families”, which I guess is programme of requests and dedications, although I can’t say that I noted many names mentioned during this broadcast. Amusingly, the picture on the Radio Rossii website accompanying this programme is a picture showing barbed wire and high walls. One final programme to mention this month is the weekly programme Phonograph, scheduled Saturdays at 1440 and Mondays 1940 UT, and is described as “the program [that] remembers the great performers and musical masterpieces of past centuries”. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be either any on-line scripts or any on-demand offering for this programme. I listened via online stream to the Saturday airing on 14 December. This week’s programme was devoted to male voice Russian ballads. The recordings didn’t seem so old on this occasion and rather difficult to date – unlike an edition I heard a few weeks ago which featured music recordings which probably originated in the 1920’s or 1930’s (Alan Roe, Jan BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Now one will have to listen online or maybe MW; no SW or LW (gh, DXLD) A reminder that today (8 January) is the last day of the Russian New Year and Christmas holidays, so may also be the last day for Radio Rossii on longwave. When checked just now (1345 GMT), 171 Bolshakovo was there as usual, in parallel (no audio delay) with 7310 Taldom (actually on 7310.03 or so). Let's have intense monitoring early tomorrow, please, to check the status of Radio Rossii on all wavebands! (Chris Greenway, 1359 UT Jan 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks, Chris. Yes, it's back now [what?]. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, BC< 1519 UT Jan 8 , ibid.) 873 kHz (St. Petersburg) will remain on the air after January 9, Mikhail Timofeyev (RTRN St. Petersburg regional branch) writes in open_dx yg. – (Aleksandr Diadischev, Ukraine, Jan 8, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I’ve been monitoring Radio Rossii Bolshakovo on 171 kHz all day as it is rumored that all Russian long and medium wave stations will close down for good tonight. An excellent signal even when they went from 150 to 75 kW at 1600 GMT. Morocco underneath as usual. I imagine this will affect the Far East powerhouses such as 180 and 279 kHz as well. But will the Chechnya service also on 171 with 1,200 KW also disappear? They would/will sign on at 0300. Bolshakovo has a regular sign off at 2100 GMT. To return, maybe, at 0100 (Brock Whaley, Holycross, Bruff, Co. Limerick, Ireland, 1736 UT Jan 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Brock, Radio Rossii is funded by VGTRK (the domestic broadcasting organisation) while Radio Kavkaz is funded by Voice of Russia, and the two organizations don't necessarily have to do their switch-offs at the same time! I'm expected the 171 service for the Caucasus to continue, at least for the time being. There's an interesting interview from November 2012 with the deputy head of VGTRK at http://izvestia.ru/news/539714 He said that only 13 per cent (and falling) of listeners use SW or LW, and wanted to use the "billions of roubles" spent ("money down the drain" as he put it) each year on those bands on extending FM networks. Radio Rossii has an older listener profile than the average, and such listeners may be more likely to use LW. But, they are also probably less likely to take to the internet tomorrow to complain - if the switch off goes ahead! (Chris Greenway, UK, 1757 UT Jan 8, ibid.) Radio Rossii leaves LW, SW, and partly MW frequencies on January 9, 2014. 5930 kHz and 7320 kHz from the Far East are already in silence right now starting from 1700 UT. 73! (Mikhail Timmofeyev, St Petersburg, Hard-Core-DX mailing list Jan 8 via DXLD) The LW of R. Rossii --- I can't receive Magadan, Kamchatka at *1700 UT and Far East at *1900 UT. It is thought all QRT. MW 810 kHz continues on Jan. 9. The SW of R. Rossii, 5940, 7230 and 7320 all QRT at 2100 UT on Jan. 8 (Jan. 9 local time). 6085 Krasnoyarsk and 6195 Selenginsk QRT at 2100 UT on Jan. 8 (S. Hasegawa, Japan, UT Jan 8, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Russia-Bolshakovo 171 kHz sign off for good 2100 Jan. 8. Played the former U.S.S.R. national anthem with vocal chorus followed by three time pips. The carrier was cut during the third pip. Medi Un Morocco in French left on the frequency, and is still all alone on 171 at 0800 on Jan. 9 (Brock Whaley, Ireland for DXLD) Short log at 0121 UT 585 RUS - Radio Rossii, Perm 657 RUS - Kavkaz R, Grozny 765 RUS - Radio Rossii / Radio Karelii, Pedaselga 828 RUS - Radiogazeta Slovo / Pravoslavnoe Radio, St-Petersburg 873 RUS - Radio Rossii, Olgino 1035 EST - Radio Eli, Tartu (200 kW) - 24h in Russian (Tartuiskoye Semeinoye Radio) S=9+35dB 1053 RUS - Radio Mariya, Sankt-Petersburg (10 kW), S=9+20dB 1080 RUS - Radio Rossii / Radio Mordovii, Kovylkino 100kW 1287 RUS - Grozny? / or KGZ in Russian 1395 ARM - Radio Rossii, Gavar Gloomy now in Russia - no LW service at present on air anymore, only Belarus on 279 kHz. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Jan 9, WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: `So it appears that anything [sic] has been turned off at midnight Moscow time, also the transmitters in Siberia and the Far East.` Just went through the DXLD Yahoo Group postings: Obviously the situation is such that all affected transmitters have not been turned on again in the local morning of Jan 9, so went off for good at the time of their scheduled overnight breaks (which in the case of the transmitters in European Russia was 2100, so this was nothing special in this regard). And on 873 kHz the Olgino transmitter has confirmed as being still on air. Maybe in fact all that was left of this synchro network until yesterday is still on air, i.e. also Kaliningrad (not Bolshakovo, unless they moved it recently), Lesnoy (so only a lone mediumwave outlet left at this huge plant; if so, for how long?) and Samara/Mekhsavod. Btw, if I'm not terribly wrong, Radio Rossii has a five pip time signal, so it was still 2059 when the Bolshakovo longwave outlet left the air. I think RTRS rather recently introduced the operational practice to cut the carrier more or less sharply at the scheduled sign-off time rather than removing the modulation and switching the carrier off later, related to simplifying the audio feeds I think. Well, now it remains to be seen what will become of all this anyway (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RWANDA. 6055, R. Rwanda. Apparently staying on late for Christmas Eve. 2102 M and W announcers hosting. Some laughing. 2104:40 "Jingle Bells" on organ and vocal by M and chorus presumably in Kinyarwanda!! 2108 M and W returned. Still going at 2142 with incredibly strong signal. W announcer singing and giggling/laughing. 2153 several IDs and mention of "Internet". 2200 shouting, heavy breathing, shouted Rwanda many times. Baby crying. Then everyone in the studio singing "Happy Birthday". Sounded like they had too much egg nog. Finally they calmed down a little by at 2202 and they took several phone callers. (24 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) 6055, 0256-, Radio Rwanda, Dec 27. Open carrier, then must have joined a network with music in progress, but switched to a vocal national anthem at 0258 to 0300:15. High life music, and an indecipherable woman, then a male with muffly audio, so can't be sure of the language (although not English). Music is very enjoyable! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6055, R. Rwanda, 2101:30 everyone in the studio singing Happy Birthday to a phone caller. Stayed on late of course. 2158 mention of celebration, "December time", and then some shouting by all in the studio and immediately into live speech. Someone came on the frequency with a huge signal for about 45 seconds. (31 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) 6055, Radio Rwanda 0250, Jan 4, national anthem followed by choir, then a male chorus at 0257, 0300 woman and man signing on in vernacular, echo effect. Fair (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening in my car, parked by the lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAINT KITTS & NEVIS. 2014 WRTH lists 820, R. Paradise as inactive, and expected to return in 2014. TBN donated the station to Flowing Streams Church last April. 73 and Good DX! (Bruce Conti, NRC IDXD Jan 3 via DXLD) ** SARAWAK [non]. Radio Free Sarawak is not on the air from December 23, 2013: 1100-1230 on 15420 PAO 100 kW / 208 deg to SEAs Iban Mon-Sat till January 4 (Ivo Ivanov, DX RE MIX NEWS #831 January 3, 2014, via WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DXLD) PAO = Paochung, TAIWAN site ** SAUDI ARABIA. 9675, Jan 8 at 2031, poor signal in uncertain language, slow deliberate talk as if not a native-speaker. Once again it must be Turkish, as scheduled from R. Riyadh until 2100, inadvertently aimed USward as well, making for this odd reception. Cut off already at 2053* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA [non]. 6190, BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA. Radio Serbia, Bijeljina, 2140-2147. Talk in French by man. Occasionally joined by a woman. Initially weak signal, improving over time, with minor fading. 1/5/2014 (Jim Evans, Germantown TN, Perseus, IC-R75, Wellbrook Loop, Eavesdropper Dipole, Random Wire, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ?? 6190 is their inactive frequency to NAm at 0100-0230; before 2230 to Europe it`s supposed to be on 6100, where I recently heard them in English after 2200. Your mistake or theirs? (gh, DXLD) ** SLOVAKIA. No signal from Radio Slovakia International via Rimavská Sobota: 0100-0127 on 6040 RSO 150 kW / 305 deg to NoAm English 0100-0127 on 9440 RSO 150 kW / 245 deg to SoAm English 0130-0157 on 6040 RSO 150 kW / 305 deg to NoAm Slovak 0130-0157 on 9440 RSO 150 kW / 245 deg to SoAm Slovak 0200-0227 on 6040 RSO 150 kW / 305 deg to NoAm French 0200-0227 on 9440 RSO 150 kW / 245 deg to SoAm French 0230-0257 on 6080 RSO 150 kW / 265 deg to CeAm Spanish 0230-0257 on 9440 RSO 150 kW / 245 deg to SoAm Spanish 0700-0727 on 13715 RSO 150 kW / 075 deg to SoAs English 0700-0727 on 15460 RSO 150 kW / 085 deg to SEAs English 0730-0757 on 13715 RSO 150 kW / 075 deg to SoAs Slovak 0730-0757 on 15460 RSO 150 kW / 085 deg to SEAs Slovak 0800-0827 on 5915 RSO 150 kW / 275 deg to CeEu German 0800-0827 on 6055 RSO 150 kW / 305 deg to WeEu German 1400-1427 on 9540 RSO 150 kW / 065 deg to CeAs Russian 1400-1427 on 13625 RSO 150 kW / 050 deg to EaEu Russian 1430-1457 on 6055 RSO 150 kW / 305 deg to WeEu German 1430-1457 on 7345 RSO 150 kW / 285 deg to CeEu German 1530-1557 on 9445 RSO 150 kW / 265 deg to SoEu Spanish 1530-1557 on 11600 RSO 150 kW / 245 deg to SoEu Spanish 1600-1627 on 6190 RSO 150 kW / 065 deg to CeAs Russian 1600-1627 on 7240 RSO 150 kW / 050 deg to EaEu Russian 1630-1657 on 5915 RSO 150 kW / 275 deg to CeEu Slovak 1630-1657 on 6055 RSO 150 kW / 285 deg to CeEu Slovak 1700-1727 on 5915 RSO 150 kW / 275 deg to CeEu German 1700-1727 on 6010 RSO 150 kW / 285 deg to CeEu German 1730-1757 on 5915 RSO 150 kW / 275 deg to CeEu English 1730-1757 on 6010 RSO 150 kW / 285 deg to CeEu English 1800-1827 on 5915 RSO 150 kW / 275 deg to CeEu French 1800-1827 on 6055 RSO 150 kW / 285 deg to CeEu French 1830-1857 on 5915 RSO 150 kW / 050 deg to EaEu Russian 1830-1857 on 9485 RSO 150 kW / 065 deg to CeAs Russian 1900-1927 on 5915 RSO 150 kW / 275 deg to CeEu German 1900-1927 on 7345 RSO 150 kW / 285 deg to CeEu German 1930-1957 on 5915 RSO 150 kW / 275 deg to CeEu English 1930-1957 on 7345 RSO 150 kW / 285 deg to CeEu English 2000-2027 on 5915 RSO 150 kW / 275 deg to CeEu Slovak 2000-2027 on 7345 RSO 150 kW / 285 deg to CeEu Slovak 2030-2057 on 5915 RSO 150 kW / 275 deg to CeEu French 2030-2057 on 7345 RSO 150 kW / 285 deg to CeEu French 2100-2127 on 9460 RSO 150 kW / 245 deg to SoAm Spanish 2100-2127 on 11610 RSO 150 kW / 245 deg to SoAm Spanish (Ivo Ivanov, DX RE MIX NEWS #832, January 04, 2014 via DXLD) Above schedule had been registered on a contingency basis in case could restart SW this year, as rumored --- apparently not. It does of course continue to be on via WRMI, and much better so from Okeechobee (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 6040, 0100-, Radio Slovakia International, Jan 2. Just for completeness, checked the frequencies of the supposed return to SW of RSI. Not a peep so far, especially on 6040 and 9440 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non]. U S A, 9955, WRMI, 04/01 0340 UT. Radio Eslovaquia Internacional, servicio en castellano, con recuento de los 20 años de la emisora al aire con pequeñas entrevistas y testimonios de redactores de los distintos servicios. SINPO: 54444 con otra portadora por debajo ¿Cuban noise jammer? (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 20 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5019.88, Dec 23, 1859, Solomon Island BC, Honiara, 1859 UT, SIO 242. Pünktlich um 1859 beginnt der Trommelschlag aus Honiara, begleitet von Fernschreibstörungen +/- 1.5 kHz. 73 (Christoph Ratzer, Austria, SW Bulletin Jan 5 via DXLD) 6080, 0706-, SIBC, Dec 27. Fair reception from 0630 tune-in, and gradually growing in strength as darkness nears the Solomon Islands. English news at this time (?relay of Radio Australia?) (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6080, SIBC/R. Happy Isles, 0843 C&W music. 0845 ad (2) block right after song, and immediately back to Reggae music at 0847. W then M announcer, and R. Australia came on at 0900. (30 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) 9545, SIBC/R. Happy Islands [sic]. First noted at 0840. Soft pops and island music. Went over 0900 ToH with island music, then one ad at 0901 by M starting with conch shell blowing and back to pop music. 0904 studio M announcer mentioning "...for the past week..." but couldn't copy much more. M returned at 0909 mentioned "thank you for your company". 0911 "Feliz Navidad" 0915 studio M again very briefly. Music intro, then religious segment with talk by M mentioning God many times and "amen"s. 0927 outro with mention of Solomon Islands and same religious music. Promo with mention of R. Happy Isles and phone # at 0928, then program promo. Holiday greeting from a religious store. 0930:25 nice ID and mention of national radio and upcoming "Countdown" by live studio M DJ. Getting very fady after 0920. 0952-1000 good and nearly 100% copy with New Years Eve lottery program with Joan and Paul hosts, conch shell blowing and ID announcement, then into news. Still going after 1100 but 5940 China causes some slopover QRM at that time. Much better on the Delta Loop than the Wellbrook. (31 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) 9545, Dec 31, 1535, SIBC with nice signal. As soon as Dave Valko’s log appeared at 1533 in my mailbox I moved to 9545 and there was a quite strong signal with what seemed to be a New Year’s Eve continuation with a phone in program and music such as ABBA’s Happy New Year, etc. At 1600 the signal has decreased and the surrounding stations were too strong to get a clean signal. I checked the frequency again at 1030 on Jan 1 and SIBC was strong and clear with English news followed by enumerating a lot of honourable persons. Also checked 6080 for a signal but only R Australia and nothing at all on 5020. Thanks Dave for a very nice log and the tip just in time for us to catch their New Year’s Eve broadcast (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin Jan 5 via DXLD) Gar keine Ahnung ob es SIBC ist, aber ich höre jetzt schwach Musik und Ansagen auf 9545 khz (1540 UT). (Max van Arnhem Holland via A-DX, ibid.) Date? Und japanische DXer berichteten dass eine Spende aus Japan die Anschaffung von zwei neuen Sendern und deren kürzliche Errichtung auf 6080 und 9545 kHz ermöglicht hat. Die alten Schätzchen (5020) wurden ja vorher meist von australischen oder RNZI Technikern repariert und gewartet. Ich höre soeben 1605 UT rap Musik genau auf exakt 9545.000 kHz mit eingestreuten 'Happy New Years' Interviews per Telefon, drunten in Brisbane mit S=9+5dB und daneben 9540.0 R Liberty Russisch aus Lampertheim und 9550.0 V of Vietnam, beide muss ich 'wegdrücken', beide stören auch dort 'in der Nähe' doch stark. 73 (Wolfgang Bueschel via A-DX, ibid.) 9545, A definite signal here at 2035. Nothing else is listed. Will have to camp on this frequency before 2000 to see if SIBC signs on then. (31 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) On 1st Jan SIBC unmodulated carrier was continuously monitored from 13z, with good to moderate audio around 21z. 73 and HNY (Andy Lawendel, Italy, Jan 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9545, 1948-, SIBC, Jan 1. I'm figuring this is the SIBC. Open carrier, and a rather broad carrier, centered on 9545.018 kHz. S 3.5 signal. Minimal splatter from BSKSA on 9555 (at good/very good level). I saw the same carrier last night, and didn't put two and two together, so thanks to the folks at DXLD who solved the mystery (I wondered why I didn't hear anything on 6080 overnight). On UT January 3rd, I checked again at 0455 and confirm that the transmitter is right on 9545.000, at a time when there shouldn't be anyone else on this frequency. Signal is too weak to ascertain any audio, though (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9545, SIBC, Jan 02 0646-0703, 35443, Pidgin, Music, ID and IS at 0701, News. (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) There is a weak and very fluttery carrier audible with me on 9545 at 1045 UT, but I cannot hear any audio. I wonder what that could be!!!!!! Completely clear sidebands until 1100 when CRI in Cantonese appeared on 9540 and in Vietnamese on 9550 (Noel R. Green (NW England), Jan 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Moderate audio at 1100z ID on 9544.989 here in Northern Italy. close to La Spezia. ID at 02':35" https://app.box.com/s/jffpgteh2xiax02gr7b8 73 and HNY (Andy Lawendel, Jan 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Andrea, please align your rx properly. All three channels of 9540 CRI Cantonese 9545 SIBC 9550 CRI Vietnamese are exact xxx.000 kHz at 1140 UT Jan 2. No oddity. New Japanese aid transmitter on air made it in previous days even to Europe, usual propagation from downunder in Nov till Feb northern winter season. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ... precise measurement of broadcaster's frequencies on shortwave depends on many factors. Quite obviously, a reliable and stable oscillator of the receiver is prevalent. I am using an SDR-IP with a GPS-disciplined oscillator. But even with this setup, some effects like phase noise of transmitter, doppler effects, multipath, scatter etc. do limit precision to about plus/minus 1 Hz on shortwave. On medium wave, they usually are much better. Having said this, I today measures SIBC's frequency from 0700 UT (fade-in here) to 1520. Signal started on 9544.996 kHz and slowly went upwards to never more than +3 Hz. It never reached 9545.000 kHz. Especially during "greyline enhancement" (hence, best reception!), doppler and multipath usually make exact measurements even more difficult (plus/minus 2 to 3 Hz is a nice figure). Precisely measured frequencies can figure out even two GPS-disciplined transmitters (the majority of them seem not) on one channel due to their different paths and different doppler effect/deviation from their frequency. With some training, you can also see sunrise/sunset at a glance. Also, you can follow the regulation of a transmitter's oscillator by watching a sinus or, more often, a zig-zag-like curve. One sinus can be very slow, e.g. one or two hours. So be patient. 73 (Nils, DK8OK, Schiffhauer, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I don't know why/how they were -5 / -11 Hz lower and drifting result earlier, but at least yesterday around 1900 and today now around 0700, monitoring both times for more than an hour, they have been steadily on 9545.000 kHz ±1 Hz. I checked both here in Finland and via Neil Findlay's (calibrated) remote receiver in Brisbane AUS. As usual on SW, also in this case there was some deviation to be observed, but totally regardless of the reasons including fade-out and in it was less than 1 Hz. I agree: patience is a virtue in this matter. Best regards, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, 2003 UT Jan 3, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9545, Jan 2 at 1315, a weak open carrier squeezed between RHC and RHC, presumed SIBC, as S. Hasegawa and R. Howard think they leave the carrier on 24 hours, tho normal programming modulation runs 19-12 UT only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: ``Years ago they left their tx on for a very long time after their audio ended. Seems they are doing the same thing again.`` Yes Ron, seems is still on air continuously till daily program start at 19 UT or 06am local time? Honiara carrier signal in 15-18 UT today Jan 2 range still on 9545.000 to 9545.0005 - like MW measure, noted downunder direct at VE6JY Queensland unit [VE6JY is in Alberta! gh] Only two stronger units heard nearby BBC Oman 9505 and CRI Cerrik Albania Arabic 9555 kHz on 31 mb. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. Nothing seen of carrier on 9545 kHz at 19 UT anymore, QRT at SLM? [Later:] SLM is on air again, noted in Queensland with discussion on marihuana on Saturday morning. Is exact 9545.0005 kHz, 2020 UT Jan 2. And next channel downwards V of Indonesia, French, 9525.891 kHz also on S=9+10dB in QL. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, 2030 UT Jan 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9545, 0454-, SIBC, Jan 3. Very weak audio, just above threshold, but seemingly improving. Perhaps as Honiara gets to LSS, some greyline enhancement just might occur. Only heard on my BOG, which should cover the South Pacific well. Wish I could listen to an internet audio feed to confirm! Measured exactly on frequency (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9545, SIBC, Jan 03 0631-0641, 35443, Pidgin, ID at 0631, Music (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9545, Jan 3, 0810, Just listened to SIBC on 9545 kHz and at 0810 they mentioned receiving reports from all over the world, including Europe, esp. Sweden and mentioned one listener name, but I didn't catch it. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, SW Bulletin Jan 5 via DXLD) Frequency 9545 is much better today at 1015 UT tune in, and even improving by 1045+. I can hear a male voice, and tentatively a female voice from time to time, and musical items. I cannot identify the language - it could be heavily accented English or something local. The music and song also sounds to be "Pacific style". Transmission continued through the hour without announcement, and now with splatter on both sides from CRI. The signal is peaking to 4+ on the meter but with flutter (very similar to RNZealand 9765 and R. Australia 9580 / 9560) which seems to indicate a similar path (Noel R. Green (NW England), Jan 3, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tuned Fri Jan 3 from 1007 to 1021, OM talking in presumed Tok Pisin with many times "long", and mentioning some English words. Also heard chorus by male group, ended by OM said thank you, thank you. Conversation followed, in which the other man answered in some English words. No interference from adjacent frequencies (Tony Ashar, West Java, Indonesia, ibid.) 9545, 1502-, SIBC, Jan 3. Quite strong open carrier when first checked at 1455. Continued to be there, but faded gradually. I was hoping for some content at 1900, but still an OC, so likely 2000 start up, but I have to shut down (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non]. 9545, Jan 4 at 0049, Chinese with an echo, plus some CCI, i.e. CNR1 jamming vs VOA Chinese via THAILAND at 00-01. So another time we can forget about hearing SIBC. Aoki shows however only three non-SIBC transmissions on 9545: 2200-2300 Jamming plus VOA Chinese via Philippines 2300-2330 FEBC Philippines in different Hmong dialects, M-F vs Sat/Sun 0000-0100 Jamming plus VOA Chinese via Thailand Philippine if not ChiCom signals are likely to be a big QRM problem for these 2.5 hours in the Solomons. Between 22 and 01, SIBC could use 6080 without QRMelbourne, but that too would confront two Chinese domestic services; 9 am-noon local time, maybe not so bad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9545, Jan 4, 0935 Solomon Island SIBS heard well here in over one hour. Discusses the children studies in school. First time I heard Solomon Island. DOÖ (Dan Olsson? SW Bulletin Jan 5 via DXLD) ** SOMALILAND. SOMALIA, 7120, R. Hargeisa (presumed) 1847 strength right at threshold. Possible music at 1856, and 1901. Went off at 1902:14 (31 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) 7120, 0350-, Radio Hargeisa, Jan 3. I haven't been trying for Hargeisa since coming to Masset, but on my last evening, there they are at fair strength. Just past LSR, so I should have checked at sign-on. Mostly talk in Somali, of course (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. 3320, 0306-, Radio Sonder Grense, Jan 1. About the best I've ever heard them at good level. Earlier, I was hearing quite a lot of English, despite this being an Afrikaans service. Dawn approaching South Africa just now. Despite their strength, 3345, Channel Africa in English is only fair at best (but 100 kW beamed 5 degrees). 6155, however, is heard very well with a story about Nelson Mandela (250 kW/19 degrees). A nice way to round out 2013! Interesting that after an ID for Channel Africa and the purpose of the station, they went into multilingual IDs, including Portuguese and several others. Gongs at 0323 followed by a speech by Nelson Mandela. Started to fade a bit towards 0330, with a lot of splatter from super powerful [500 watts?] CKZU on 6160 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. 17760, 0807, Amateur R Today, S/on 0807, announcing 7205, 7082 USB, English. 353 01/12 RP (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, Jan BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) On the schedule to start at 0800 on 17760 and the two 7 MHz frequencies, the lower one of which is obviously just a ham transmitter; late start that day? (gh, DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. 15235, 1708-, Channel Africa, Dec 27. Excellent reception, with slight long path/short path echo. English. Talking about climate change (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15255, Channel Africa, Jan 03 *0555-0606, 35333, English, 0555 sign on with ID, Music, ID and opening music at 0600, Opening announce, News (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD- 345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. 17830, Jan 2 at 0734, English audible, very poor, but no doubt BBCWS, Ascension? No, that`s later. During this hour only, it`s Meyerton. I dared to check 16m in the nightmiddle after hearing Africans on 19m, e.g. EQUATORIAL GUINEA. Probably would also have heard DW/Rwanda before 0700* on 17800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. USA (non [sic]) Updated B-13 shortwave schedule of Brother Stair TOM from Jan. 1: 0000-0100 on 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 0000-0100 on 5110vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English CUSB Tue-Sat 0000-0100 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 0000-0100 on 11565 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to BRAS English 0000-0100 on 13695 YFR 100 kW / 151 deg to NSAm English 0100-0200 on 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 0100-0200 on 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 0100-0200 on 5110vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English CUSB Tue-Sat 0100-0200 on 7490vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English Mon-Fri 0100-0200 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 0100-0200 on 11565 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to BRAS English 0100-0200 on 13695 YFR 100 kW / 151 deg to NSAm English 0200-0300 on 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 0200-0300 on 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 0200-0300 on 5110vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English CUSB Tue-Sat 0200-0300 on 7490vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English Mon-Sat 0200-0300 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 0200-0300 on 11565 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to BRAS English 0200-0300 on 13695 YFR 100 kW / 151 deg to NSAm English 0300-0400 on 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 0300-0400 on 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 0300-0400 on 5110vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English CUSB Tue-Sat 0300-0400 on 7490vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English Mon-Sat 0300-0400 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 0300-0400 on 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg to CARR English 0300-0400 on 11565 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to BRAS English 0400-0500 on 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 0400-0500 on 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 0400-0500 on 5110vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English CUSB 0400-0500 on 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to NEAm English Tue-Sat 0400-0500 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 0400-0500 on 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg to CARR English 0400-0500 on 9840 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg to NCAf English 0400-0500 on 11565 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to BRAS English 0500-0600 on 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 0500-0600 on 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 0500-0600 on 5110vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English CUSB 0500-0600 on 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to NEAm English 0500-0600 on 7490vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English 0500-0600 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 0500-0600 on 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg to CARR English 0500-0600 on 9840 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg to NCAf English 0500-0600 on 11565 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to BRAS English 0600-0800 on 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 0600-0800 on 3215 WCR 100 kW / 046 deg to WeEu English Mon-Sat 0600-0800 on 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 0600-0800 on 5110vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English CUSB 0600-0800 on 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to NEAm English 0600-0800 on 7490vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English 0600-0800 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 0600-0800 on 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg to CARR English 0600-0800 on 9840 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg to NCAf English 0600-0800 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English 0800-1000 on 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 0800-1000 on 3215 WCR 100 kW / 046 deg to WeEu English Mon-Sat 0800-1000 on 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 0800-1000 on 5110vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English CUSB 0800-1000 on 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to NEAm English 0800-1000 on 7490vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English 0800-1000 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 0800-1000 on 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg to CARR English 0800-1000 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English 1000-1100 on 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 1000-1100 on 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 1000-1100 on 5110vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English CUSB 1000-1100 on 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to NEAm English 1000-1100 on 7490vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English 1000-1100 on 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg to CARR English 1000-1100 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English 1000-1100 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to BRAS English 1100-1200 on 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 1100-1200 on 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 1100-1200 on 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to NEAm English 1100-1200 on 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg to CARR English 1100-1200 on 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm English 1100-1200 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to BRAS English 1200-1300 on 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 1200-1300 on 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 1200-1300 on 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to NEAm English Tue-Sat 1200-1300 on 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg to CARR English 1200-1300 on 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm English 1200-1300 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to BRAS English 1300-1400 on 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 1300-1400 on 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 1300-1400 on 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm English 1300-1400 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to NEAm English Mon-Fri 1300-1400 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to BRAS English 1400-1500 on 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 1400-1500 on 9460 NAU 100 kW / 270 deg to WeEu English Mon-Fri 1400-1500 on 9460 MOS 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu English Sat/Sun 1400-1500 on 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm English 1400-1500 on 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 1400-1500 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to NEAm English Mon-Fri 1400-1500 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to BRAS English 1400-1500 on 13810 ISS 100 kW / 120 deg to N/ME English 1500-1600 on 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 1500-1600 on 9460 NAU 100 kW / 270 deg to WeEu English Mon-Fri 1500-1600 on 9460 MOS 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu English Sat/Sun 1500-1600 on 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm English 1500-1600 on 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 1500-1600 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1500-1600 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to NEAm English 1500-1600 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to BRAS English 1500-1600 on 13810 ISS 100 kW / 120 deg to N/ME English 1500-1600 on 15420 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English CUSB 1600-1700 on 5895 SOF 050 kW / 306 deg to CeEu English DRM 1600-1700 on 6000 SOF 100 kW / 306 deg to CeEu English 1600-1700 on 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 1600-1700 on 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm English 1600-1700 on 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 1600-1700 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1600-1700 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to NEAm English 1600-1700 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to BRAS English 1600-1700 on 15420 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English CUSB 1700-1800 on 5895 SOF 050 kW / 306 deg to CeEu English DRM 1700-1800 on 6000 SOF 100 kW / 306 deg to CeEu English 1700-1800 on 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 1700-1800 on 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm English 1700-1800 on 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 1700-1800 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1700-1800 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to NEAm English 1700-1800 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to BRAS English 1700-1800 on 15420 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English CUSB 1800-1900 on 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 1800-1900 on 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm English 1800-1900 on 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 1800-1900 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1800-1900 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to NEAm English 1800-1900 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to BRAS English 1900-2000 on 7730 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 1900-2000 on 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 1900-2000 on 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm English 1900-2000 on 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 1900-2000 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1900-2000 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to NEAm English 1900-2000 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to BRAS English 2000-2100 on 5895 SOF 100 kW / 306 deg to CeEu English 2000-2100 on 7730 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 2000-2100 on 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 2000-2100 on 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm English 2000-2100 on 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 2000-2100 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 2000-2100 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to NEAm English 2000-2100 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to BRAS English 2100-2200 on 5895 SOF 100 kW / 306 deg to CeEu English 2100-2200 on 7730 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English [or WRMI pgms] 2100-2200 on 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 2100-2200 on 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 2100-2200 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 2100-2200 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to NEAm English Sat/Sun 2100-2200 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to BRAS English 2200-2300 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 2200-2300 on 7730 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English Mon-Fri 2200-2300 on 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 2200-2300 on 9690 YFR 100 kW / 222 deg to CARB English 2200-2300 on 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 2200-2300 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English Mon-Fri 2200-2300 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to NEAm English Mon-Fri 2300-2400 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 2300-2400 on 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to NEAm English 2300-2400 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to NEAm English Mon-Fri 5110v=5109.7-5109.8 7490v=7490.1-7490.2 (Ivo Ivanov, DX RE MIX NEWS #831 January 3, 2014, via DXLD) 9930, Jan 3 at 1907, WTWW-2 is off; thank Yahweh for a few other frequencies Brother Scare is still on! 9370-WWRB, 9690-WRMI, 9980- WWCR, 11825-WRMI. Can you hear he now? Meanwhile the other two WTWWs remain on, 9475 with SFAW, 12105 back with Arabible; and by 2117 recheck, 9930 is back on too. 3215, Jan 4 at 0622, as I tune across WWCR, Brother Scare is talking about his times and frequencies (seems he spends great gobs of airtime doing this rather than preaching; OK). At this point he mentions 10 am to 2 pm on 9265, and also from 10 am daily on 9265; added an hour on 9385; 13570 at 2-3 pm, 10-11 am on 13810; 11 am-noon on 7435; 10 am- noon on 6110. Those would be Eastern times, altho the last three refer to Germany (and/or Bulgaria?). Also says he is overnight on AM stations, including Orlando, Phoenix, Tulsa, and KCKN Roswell. 9265 & 13570 of course can be nothing else than WINB, where he has been previously but not lately, and still nowhere on WINB`s currently posted schedule probably outdated, as of Nov 17. Is he back? Not around 1559 and 1620 chex on 13570. WWRB glommed onto 9370 long ago, once WTJC had crashed on 9385. BS is stupidly playing an old tape with totally misleading specific outdated info about his own schedule! On AM, KCKN went Spanish long ago, and I was not aware of him being on any Tulsa station. Which was that? His own AM schedule now at ftp://www.overcomerministry.org/RadioSchedule/AM%20Radio%20Stations.ht m shows none from Orlando, Phoenix, Tulsa or Roswell. Altho TOM`s own website station info is also notoriously incorrect (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Did WRMI forget to turn off the transmitter for 7570 kHz after 0600 UT today (01/4/2014)? Seems to have: While I was unsuccessful earlier in getting a transmission from HM01 (more on that later), I found the following on the 49 meter band: 1) 7555 -- WEWN in Spanish (allegedly for Mexico, but quite loud in NYC) at 0510 UT to start, with squeals and possible jamming (is Cuba trying to claim this frequency as their own? Note that I have received some reports of Numbers Station activity on this frequency as well as 7554 kHz (the latter from M08[a]) via UDXF in recent months, thus the possibility of a Cuban "claim" on it. 2) 7570 -- the ubiquitous Brother Stair. I went back to this band around 0740 UT (after finding Cuban activity around 13435 kHz) and rediscovered the WEWN signal above AND Brother Stair still right above WEWN on my radio! Finally went to sleep a little after 0800 UT (3 AM Eastern Time) before I could confirm both WEWN and WRMI by station IDs -- but they seemed in the right place on the dial, and in the place of Brother Stair, at the wrong time (last I looked 7570 cut off abruptly at 06 UT). It looks like Brother Stair has bought more time on transmitter 11 (the one used for 7570 kHz). Note that the NEW WRMI B13 Guide is online at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtF_YVDtCVlNdDJma2Jham9mYVlNQldpUWNiR1hYa2c&usp=drive_web#gid=0 which shows transmitter 11 -- The Overcomer Ministry -- on 7570 from 22 UT to 24 UT and from 24 UT to 10 UT. Now BS has 12 hours a day on 7570 kHz -- can ANYONE out there 'overcome' 1/2 a day of The Overcomer Ministry???? (Shawn Fahrer, Jan 4, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also! USA: WBCQ, WRMI 9955, WRMI, 06/01 0545 UT. Comienzo de la lectura de cartas de oyentes de Radio Eslovaquia Internacional, además de saludos y respuestas por parte de la redacción hasta las 0556, desde las 0557 en adelante se da música típica hasta las 0559, cuando se la ID de WRMI en inglés y el comienzo de TOM a las 06. La señal tiene el SINPO: 45444 desde las 0545 hasta las 0559, desde las 06 tiene un SINPO: 44444 siendo un poco mayor el ruido ¿Cambio de ángulo de acimutal o propagación? Se monitorea, nuevamente, a las 1040 UT aún permanece TOM en el aire con un SINPO: 44444 variable a veces a 44333 en algunos periodos cortos. A las 11 UT comienza Radio Praga con SINPO: 44444. 11565, TOM, 06/11 0310 UT. Coros evangélicos y mensajes sobre la Biblia, específicamente sobre el libro de Revelación o Apocalipsis capítulo III en inglés. Señal con SINPO: 45444 // 7570 no se escucha // 9495 con SINPO: 54444 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 20 metros, QTH: Sector sur de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 5110v-CUSB, UT Monday Jan 6 at 0505, Brother Scare here contrary to WBCQ schedule which shows 00-11 UT Tue-Sat only [tho surely delayed on Sats until 0200 for AWWW //]. At 0521 check Jan 6, BS also on 7490.1, an echo apart from // 5110; scheduled to restart at 0500 daily on 7490 until 1100. 5110, Jan 6 at 0647, I time the delay on this BS to be 57 seconds! behind 5085 WTWW, whose overload one must attenuate even on 5110. 9370, Jan 6 at 1532, WWRB`s 100% BS daytime frequency is missing, so we shall have to make do with 9690, 9930, 9955, 9980, 11825, 13810, and 15420. One wonders with the advent of WRMI, whether TLDPOG will eventually drop some of the other stations if funding permit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BROTHER STAIR IS THE NEW RADIO MOSCOW --- Shades of decades ago: The Overcomer Ministry is on 9690, 9930, 9955 and 9980 kHz on 31 meters alone at 1637 GMT! And he just said he will be on through six different stations/transmitters no less than 24/7 with at least two of these in operation at all times. Wish he'd throw in a few secular shows now and then. :) (John Figliozzi, Sarasota, FL, Sent from my iPad, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) if Yahoo groups were FaceBook, I would be clicking the "Like" tab for John Figliozzi's comment. I myself have noticed that every week I stumble across his raspy voice on yet another frequency. And that is just on shortwave. He is on local stations here overnight on FM. I think last week I logged him while DXing the MW band. He was on 1430 KLO from northern Utah. ay, 'os mio! (Rick Barton, AZ, Jan 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9690, Jan 7 at 1402, open carrier/dead air from TOM via WRMI, audiblizing signs of AIR GOS in English that it is covering up; then Alex Scourby modulation cuts on, and off again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) On January 1, Brother Scare on WRMI expanded from 48 transmitter-hours a day to 72, and Jeff White says that will be in effect indefinitely. There`s a lot more green on the graphic frequency schedule, and a lot more green pouring into station coffers, not just this one. If you think Brother Scare is the ``new Radio Moscow`` now, gobbling up SW frequencies, just wait until Saturday January 11. I heard him after 2315 UT January 7 on WWCR 9980 et al., talking about his new plans: going on the six transmitters of World Harvest Radio! Just sixty miles from Walterboro. Says he tried to get on WHRI before but was rebuffed, and this time they invited him on. The contract has been signed and he has sent the largest amount of money yet to a SW station. Will be 24 hours per day on at least 12 frequencies, mostly 2 hours each, the minimum span he insists on. Two of those transmitters are presumably really PALAU; as we`ve explained before, the Angels 1 thru 6 really refer to `program services` not specific transmitter units. Ivo Ivanov calculates that the six WHR transmitters total 80 hours per day of unused airtime. So it looks like WHR will be fitting him into lots of previously unsold airtime which is obvious from their schedules vs registrations. This will mean much more SW transmission, as a lot of the filler LeSEA programming was only on webcasts despite SW schedule registrations. Cost is higher than most, but BS thinx it`s worth it (and no doubt divinely inspired) since the transmitters are named ``Angels``, and ``World Harvest`` refers to The End Of The World. Not so happy about one named Six, however; he may encourage them to reactivate another old unit to make it Seven. No doubt he will be playing these comments over and over. Where does he get all that money, while rational broadcasters are cut back further and further? Nick VK2DX Hacko, NSW, explains: ``Glenn, I am surprised that you are surprised! A luke-warm congregation of 400 members can easily support $125K ministry on an annual basis. Double the amount if church is run by an enthusiastic and / or charismatic pastor. And triple if it is run by an extremist. While a rational secular listener will quickly dismiss Bro S`s message, it will also naïvely underestimate his professionalism: B Stair is specifically asking for amounts over $10K; and he is a professional who knows how to excite his audience. I am sure you are aware of Judeo-Christian Protestant congregations whose members happily contribute 10% of income to evangelism. A church of 10 mil members world-wide can easily buy as much on-air time as it wants - which is far more that most governments could afford. Personally, I am not against religious broadcast if it is done in a correct, tolerant and intelligent way. But most of the stuff originating from South US is plain nonsense, embarrassment and insult to both religious and secular listeners. As such, it should be limited to domestic audience only [MW] and removed from SW``. That would of course now have a devastating economic effect on more and more US SW stations becoming dependent on the LDPOG, such as WBCQ 7490-, which at 0630 Jan 8 I found to be running 54 seconds behind 7570 WRMI. Yes, this time, WBCQ very slightly on the lo side of 7490v compared to the 1490 pileup. At 0634 BS is saying he`s on at least 25 transmitters and frequencies targeting the entire world. But I think that may have been recorded before the WHR deal came out (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WHRI Angel 1,2,4,5 [sic] and T8WH Angel 3,4 have total about 80 free hrs per day! -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Jan 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And WHR will now also try to escape the decline of shortwave broadcasting by way of leasing huge amounts of airtime to R. G. Stair? What will become of the scene of private shortwave stations in the USA if this ministry suddenly goes away? Would it be exaggerated to assume the scenario of a sudden collapse? I must say that in my opinion this practice is only prone to accelerate the decline further. Which serious programmer would consider it an option to have its offerings surrounded by this ridiculous trash? And why all the fuss about reactivating the Okeechobee facility when you have to take a magnifying glass to take out the transmissions that contain programming of any value? I think it's really better to give this Brother Scare stuff not too much publicity, to avoid damaging the reputation of the medium even further (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) News is news (g) TOM very strong on 7570 kHz WRMI Okeechobee site, but also another TOM on odd 7489.950 kHz [WBCQ] less strong at 0935 UT Jan 6. And also \\ on 9955 kHz at S=9 level, but latter suffered by Cuban noise jammer shrap, shrap, shrap, at 0940. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 15385, Jan 2 at 1520, drumming at first sounds Firedrakey, then mixed with other music and at 1522 singing; poor-fair. Only thing scheduled is REE, so probably some ethnic musical feature. 6055, UT Sat Jan 4 at 0029, REE English is amid mailbag with a letter from Libya; surely pre-recorded but sounds live as host is having trouble making out the handwriting. Also with sound-effect of crumpling paper or tearing open envelope, like Keith Glover used to employ on Radio Australia before each letter; remember? Automatic half-hour timesignal of 5+1 is accurate since this is no relay as it would have been delayed via Costa Rica, which never condescended to broadcast in English anyway. 9665, Jan 8 at 2053 poor signal with music, French announcement, REE sign-off 2056 with uncopied frequencies, IS briefly. According to EiBi, the 20-21 French service M-F is supposed to be on 9570 and 9605, while the 18-19 French is listed on 9665; are they confused? 9665 is also registered after 1900 for Spanish on weekends. EiBi shows 9665 currently for English M-F at 19-20, along with 9605 for Africa. So maybe they failed to change this transmitter from 9665 to 9570 at 2000 today? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. QSL: Athmik Yathra via SLBC 1548, F/D eQSL in about a day for email report + MP3 file sent to Victor Goonetilleke. Reception was during October 19 DXpedition at Grayland, WA (Bruce Portzer, WA, Jan 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA [and non]. 11905, 0138-, SLBC, Dec 28. Transmitter issues, as the very powerful SLBC with south Asian music keeps cutting out. No English heard, just presumed Hindi. Cochannel CNR 6 from Beijing in listed Amoy is clearly heard cochannel and quite strong when SLBC cuts out. Seems to have fixed the problem, since no further drop outs after a few minutes. 11905, 0114-, SLBC, Jan 2. Carrier came on at 0114:15, then an Arabic sounding IS at 0114:45 in presumed Hindi. Cochannel CNR 6 is a minor nuisance only, and overwhelmed by the strong SLBC signal. Victor Goonetileke is pleased to provide verification to victor.goonetileke @ gmail.com I'll do so once back in Victoria. Strong reception, even a hint of short/long path propagation. Radio Ceylon mentioned at 0144. Still not a word of English noted. Rechecked at 0245, and it's now in English with an American accented religious program. Superb reception the next night (UT 3 January), with just minimal co-channel interference from China, for a change! Tuned in at 0120 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 5805, Jan 4 at 0025, fair signal interview in tonal Asian language, not Mandarin; unusual to hear anything lower than 5830 WTWW outside this band {except 5810 WEWN later!}. Aoki has the answer: since Dec 25, VOA Tibetan via Iranawila, 250 kW at 20 degrees, has been using 5805 on Saturdays only, jumping to three other frequencies depending on day of week: 5760 on Sunday, 5750 on M/W/F, 5770 on Tue & Thu. This will supposedly confuse or evade the ChiCom jammers, at least until they read about it here or in Aoki; none heard so far (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN. 9505, Sudan National Broadcasting Corp/Voice of Africa, Al- Aitahab; 1820 English drama or dramatic reading, then music to English ID by a male announcer at 1826; S3-5; this one seldom has usable audio here. 12/29 (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo MI, MARE Tipsheet 3 Jan via DXLD) [and non]. 9505, 1646-, Voice of Africa, Dec 27. Both BBC WS from Oman, and Sudan are here cochannel, and about equal in strength (fair). African/Horn of Africa music cochannel with BBC WS English talk. 9505, 1817-, Voice of Africa, Dec 28. Poor/fair reception in English, but too much splatter from Radio Australia on 9500 and cochannel TWR Swaziland! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [and non]. CLANDESTINE: 15550.00, R. Dabanga via UAE, Jan 03 0500-0516, 33443, Arabic, Local music and talk, ID at 0512. 15550.00, R. Dabanga via UAE, Jan 05 0450-0502, 33443, Arabic, Talk, SJ and ID at 0459 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD- 9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7315, Jan 6 at 0451, R. Dabanga via VATICAN, usual good signal even way over here, with jammer het on hi side; beats with B5 below C6 on my keyboard, = 988 Hz, close enough to 1 kHz, i.e. on 7316. Pitch wavers very slightly. Still same at 0520 check. 15535, Jan 6 at 1526, R. Tamazuj is VG with music, also via VATICAN, and no tone jamming; but by 1536, after R. Dabanga has succeeded it at 1529, now there is tone jamming, and still at 1617. So the Sudanese regime likes Tamazuj better than Dabanga? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Netherlands: A letter sent to Radio Dabanga at the old Radio Netherlands address (Witte Kruislaan 55, Hilversum) was returned with the address crossed out. (H. Barnett, 27 November, Jan BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Radio Dabanga and Radio Tamazuj which broadcast to Sudan are part of an organisation called Free Press Unlimited (ex Press Now), it seems they have vacated the old Radio Netherlands building in Hilversum. Their web site http://www.freepressunlimited.org gives this address: Free Press Unlimited, Weesperstraat 3, 1018 DN Amsterdam, Postbank 7676, The Netherlands (Dave Kenny, ed., ibid.) ** SUDAN SOUTH. EYE RADIO IS A "MUST-LISTEN" IN CRISIS-HIT SOUTH SUDAN | Text of report by website of US-based media advocacy organization Internews on 7 January Local journalists in South Sudan, amid hope for negotiated peace and fear of ongoing conflict, have rallied to provide daily coverage that addresses both the major national issues and the impact of the conflict on their local communities. "In such an unstable and rapidly changing situation, I cannot overstate the value that these radio stations have for their communities. Calm, fact-based information is critical," said Deborah Ensor, Internews chief of party in South Sudan. "The work of our South Sudanese colleagues in providing this service is extraordinary." Eye Radio, in Juba, has broadcast daily live and recorded interviews with officials and international representatives, and has become a "must-listen" and "must-follow" source of news on the radio and on Twitter. Eye Radio's two daily news programmes, "The Dawn" (7.30-9.30 a.m.), and "The Sundown Show" (3-5pm) have featured interviews with officials including: US Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan Donald Booth; the UN's Humanitarian Coordinator Toby Lanzer; South Sudan Information Minister Michael Makuei; rebel spokesman Moses Ruai Lat, in his first interview with a South Sudanese media outlet; as well as representatives from ICRC, WHO and other international and UN agencies. Eye Radio also has one of its own reporters in Addis Ababa, sending live updates from the peace negotiations. Between newscasts, peace messages, PSAs [public service announcements], music, pre-recorded dramas and other regular programming continues to be broadcast. Internews research - the first national audience survey in South Sudan - before the recent conflict showed that radio was beyond compare in reach, popularity and trust as an information source. Listeners are appreciative of the coverage, and the stations receive calls, notes and texts expressing thanks for the journalists' work, such as this note to Eye Radio last week: "Fantastic coverage of the sad events... I was proud of having the privilege to know many of the men and women who literally dodged the bullets to make it to the studio and tell the world what was happening." Eye Radio's Twitter followers have grown to more than 1,200, with posts being re-tweeted locally and internationally. Follow Eye Radio at @eyeradiojuba. Internews' community radio stations in Leer, Turalei, Nasir, and Malualkon continue to report on all aspects of the conflict, as well as ongoing coverage of local news not related to the security situation, and national news from Juba. They have added programming hours to meet the demand from their listeners for more information. After a special weekend news programme, listeners to Nhomlaau FM thanked the station for what one called "fantastic live reporting from Addis Ababa" on the peace talks. Two of the community stations are in areas claimed to be held by anti- government forces. One station reported how foreign oil workers fleeing fighting had been made welcome in their town. Another station found itself in the middle of fighting. Project director Nigel Ballard said the reporters and managers showed tremendous courage. "They kept the station on air and are working extra hours to keep people informed about what is happening in their town and across the country. They are helping diffuse tension and are keeping people calm." Since the conflict started December 15, Internews programming has continued uninterrupted, and broadcasting has been maintained or ramped up at the five stations Internews operates. The community stations, Naath FM in Leer, Mayardit FM in Turalei, Sobat FM in Nasir, and Nhomlaau FM in Malualkon, were established by Internews beginning in 2007. Internews also manages Eye Radio 98.6 FM, a Juba-based 24-hour hour radio station, in partnership with Eye Media of South Sudan. Internews' work in South Sudan is funded by the United States Agency for International Development. Source: Internews website, in English 7 Jan 14 (via BBCM via DXLD) ** SURINAME. 4990, R Apintie, Paramaribo, 29/12/13, 2243-2303, com musica sacra de coral, ID em holandês por voz feminina, 2300. Sinal regular e áudio baixo. SINPO 33333 (Sérgio Dória Partamian em DX Pedition ã cidade de Itatiaiuçu-MG, Brasil entre 26 e 29 de dezembro de 2013, Receptor Drake R8, Antena Kaaz [sic], DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4990, Radio Apintie, Paramaribo, logged 0902 on 1 Jan till past 1000, announcements in Dutch, New Year Greetings, ident with website, poor but surprisingly readable this day (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai 0540, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, Google Earth: 36.07.07 S, 174.36.09 E, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non] NIL, but heard China on channel on odd 4989.987 PBS Hunan from Xiangtan, tiny signal Chinese music (Wolfgang Büschel, circa 0840+ UT Jan 6, ibid.) ** SWAZILAND. 4760, 1649-, TWR, Dec 27. Presumably them with African singing at fair level. Perhaps a hint of Port Blair in the backgound. Program off at 1700, so matches TWR (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) And before ELWA opens (gh) 9939.989, TWR Manzini in Lingala, powerful S=9+20dB mid winter prop signal, and a garden like Fence of 50 Hertz BUZZ, like a Zeppelin engine. 7 peaks seen each sideband. 1905 UT Jan 2 (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN. SAQ transmission 2013-12-24 --- Here is a Preliminary Summary Report of the Christmas Eve transmission with the Alexanderson alternator on VLF 17.2 kHz. This time we received 50 more reports than before. This transmission was one of the best received ever. Also listen to a recording from Connecticut in USA. An up-dated version of the Summary Report can be seen on our website http://www.alexander.n.se/ later on. Regards (SM6NM/Lars Kålland, Jan 5, via Mike Terry, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** SWEDEN [non]. 9635, ENGLAND, IBRA Radio / Radio Ibrahim via Wooferton 1826, Jan 4, North African-sounding music and language, 1829 music bridge and talk, including spelling of I-B-R-A, to 1830:30 then another bridge and speaker. Baja language is listed to 1830, then Fur. Fair (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening in my car, parked by the lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN [non]. The first radio program in a series of three, produced by SDXF - Sveriges DX-Förbund, will air via Hamburger Lokalradio (transmitter Goehren, Germany) on Saturday, January 11, 2014, from 1200 to 1300 UT on 7265 kHz. More information can be found on the SDXF website at: http://www.sdxf.se/WP/?p=2446 (Thomas Völkner, Germany, Jan 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. QSL: Music Interactive Network, 1557, sent email reply in Chinese for report in Chinese. Partial Google translation: "Thank you very much for your letter and listen to the report! Very pleased to know that we have listeners from the United States, but unfortunately you do not have to listen to the signal is very clear. Next time we would recommend that you use the network to listen to Online Listen http://www.rti.org.tw/ajax/2013/1557music/cbs4.html " Received 6 days after sending report+MP3 to ilovemusic1557 at gmail.com (Bruce Portzer, WA, Jan 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. 17080, 1332, V [sic] of Hope, O/Ms [??? OMs?] Chinese arguments and talks. // 17300, 343, 15/12 (Michael L Ford, Newcastle- u-Lyme, Staffs, UK, NRD515, NCM515, NRD545, 85' lw, Wellbrook 330ALA loop, Jan BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ? What is your basis for this ID, instead of CNR1 jamming? (gh, DXLD) 11765, Sound of Hope. 1614 January 1, 2014. Female Chinese inspirational vocal, female Chinese announcer from 1618 with clear mention of Xi Wang Zhi Sheng. Very good with slight but rapid flutter (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, JRC NRD-535; JRC-NRD-515; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; RadioShack DX-399; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; custom active portable loop; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [non]. SRI LANKA, 9335, 0336- [sic; must mean 1336! gh], PCJ Radio International, Dec 29. Live broadcast with IS and the last show for 2013. Good reception, surprisingly at this early hour with S7 signal strengh. Nothing heard from 5995 Nauen. 11880 from Okeechobee is weaker, despite going out to North America. MUF is a bit too low for 11880 to propagate well out to the north west coast. Sri Lanka is slightly off frequency on 9334.924. Oops, just lost the link for almost a minute at 1415, but back at 1416:30. Whew! Interviewing Tom Meyer. Now at 1421, the phone rang!!! I won the subscription to the Spectrum Monitor. A fascinating story for this one. Listening at the beginning of the program, I heard about the contest. What to do? No internet service here, and no cell service either, but my truck has a cell booster which connects to cell service, just. I have a new iPhone 5s for the last couple of weeks, which I can tether to my iPad mini. Out I went to the car at 6:00 AM and emailed Keith. Lucky! Interesting that conditions deteriorated towards the end compared to the first 30 minutes. Down to S4 to S5 via Sri Lanka, and maybe a little stronger now on 11880 (about S6). Transmitter cut a few seconds after 1430 for SL, while 11880 continued with an ID for WRMI, and into something else, but now too weak to be sure (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Kuwait U S A. 9955, WRMI, 04/01 0244 UT. Programa PCJ Media en inglés con el tema del diexismo presentado como “Open forum chat”. SINPO: 55454 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 20 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) Another test of PCJ Radio International via WRMI Okeechobee: 1330-1430 11880 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg to ENAm English on Sunday Jan 5 1330-1430 9335 TRM 125 kW / 045 deg to EaAs English Sun as scheduled (Ivo Ivanov, DX RE MIX NEWS #831 January 3, 2014, via DXLD) ** TAIWAN [non]. Dear Friends, This Sunday January 5th 2014 the relay from PCJ Radio International will be again. This week we go back to our regular schedule. 1330 UT – Focus Asia Pacific with Andy Sennitt 1345 UT – Happy Station Show Frequencies at our website: http://www.pcjmedia.com Regards, (Keith Perron, Jan 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11880, Sunday Jan 5 at 1327, PCJ 6-note IS, about to start another broadcast via WRMI (as well as 9335 via Sri Lanka, but apparently not any more 5995 via Germany); opening music is the old WYFR theme! Keith says this time also on R. Australia`s FM frequency in Port Moresby, 101.9 where it`s after midnite (not really, UT +10). Right into `Focus Asia Pacific`, Andy Sennitt introducing several correspondent reports; are these specials to PCJ or rounded up from various other sources? 1344 only commercial of the hour, for China Airlines. 1345 into `Happy Station`, which is another live edition since Keith Perron enjoyed so much doing it live last week. This time to give away a C Crane CCSW pocket radio to someone who e-mails phone number and answers it later in hour. Mailbag acknowledges several writers, without specific replies, including people in Lexington USA, and Lebanon USA. Like a true non-American, Keith ignores states, which are essential to identifying US locations, as there are several Lexingtons and Lebanons (and I would be hard-pressed to decide which ones are biggest, primaries worthy of state being assumed; at least I happen to know which states these L & L individuals are in. {Well, KY`s must be the biggest Lex, but not the one in this case.} There are even a few Enids, but our Oklahoman is certainly the greatest Enid of all.) A couple of music breaks, including Everly Brothers, and again the low bitrate is showing (and the opening timesignal was several seconds late again, delayed due to internet feed). Larry Zamora in DFW answered his phone just in time to win the radio. QSLs for reports to pcjqsl @ pcjmedia.com --- I still haven`t received an e-reply for the last two weeks, mis-sent? directly to Victor G. (BTW, Victor says he`ll cover postage costs for those really wanting a tangible QSL.) Keith says he`ll be back again next week on 11880 with another live show, so maybe this will become a weekly regular. Reception sufficient, but not completely solid, like BS was on 11825, 9690; some fading, and lite CCI after 1400 from IBB. I wonder which antenna azimuth is on 11880. 1430 closed with WYFR theme again until off at 1431.5* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11880, PCJ HAPPY STATION, 05/01 1350 UT. Vía WRMI con 100 kW. Se escucha un leve murmullo con música, el cual es tapado completamente por la mixtura entre CNR-1 Jammer/VOA desde las 14 en adelante // 9335, vía (según EiBi es Puttalam y Aoki es Trincomalee), Sri Lanka y con 125 kW con SINPO: 22222 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 20 metros, QTH: Sector sur de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) Extended LIVE tests to North America --- As you might be aware on December we did our first global live transmission. Now that we have access to more power in terms of kilowatts in the US via the Okeechobee relay in Florida USA, we want to collect data on how many listeners we can get for this region. We have added a second to North America on Saturday January 11 from 1330 to 1430 UT. Details are below. Just want to announce that January 11th and 12th there will be two transmissions to North America. [Sat] January 11 2014 from 1330 to 1430 UT FREQUENCY: 11880 kHz, Target: North America; Schedule: 1330 - Focus Asia Pacific (PCJ's flagship current affairs program) 1345 - Media Network Plus (LIVE) 1415 - Switzerland In Sound with Bob Zanotti [Sun] January 12 2014 from 1330 to 1430 UT FREQUENCY: 9335 kHz ASIA, 11880 kHz North America; Schedule: 1330 - Focus Asia Pacific 1345 - The Happy Station Show (LIVE) Media Network Plus will be live; Happy Station Show will be live If you have any questions let me know. Regards, (Keith Perron, WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Keith Perron writes on Facebook: ``On this Sunday`s transmission of Focus Asia Pacific and The Happy Station Show on 9335 and 11880 we are giving away a new Tecsun PL-880. Listen in for details to win`` (via Mike Terry, Jan 8, dxldyg via DXLD) PL-880 frequency readout: see RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM ** TAJIKISTAN. 4960, 1756-, Voice of Russia WS, Dec 28. English broadcast, which will come to an end at the end of the year. Fair reception (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAJIKISTAN. 4765, 0052-, Radio Tajikistan, Dec 28. Domestic service at very good level on off-channel (as always) 4765.064. Strange Jews Harp music and presumed Tajik (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4765.07, Tajik Radio: Jan 01, 1325-1340, 34433-35433, Tajik, Music and talk, ID at 1335 and 1339. Jan 03 1408-1419, 35443, Tajik, Music and talk, ID at 1410 and 1418 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD- 525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7245, 0202-, Voice of Tajikistan, Dec 28. National anthem at the top of the hour, followed by IDs in presumed Tajik, but also a brief Russian ID. A tone is audible both on USB and LSB, so this spoils an otherwise powerful signal. Best in AM, so I switched to that. S9 signal. 7245, 0155-, Voice of Tajikistan, Jan 2. Open carrier with hum noted on tune-in. At exactly 0200, started with music, then at 0201 the Tajik National Anthem until 0203, then into Tajik, with a short Russian ID. 'Salem Aleichum' heard as well. Marred tonight by hams on frequency. Fair to good only (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TANZANIA. 5985, ??? R Tanzania TZA???, 1630 4 Jan, px mx, 33333 (Mauro Giroletti, Italy, playdx yg via DXLD) I vaguely recall that was a Tanzanian frequency sesquidecades ago. But now it could be CRI in Swahili from Beijing site (gh, DXLD) ** TATARSTAN [non]. RUSSIA, 9895, Tatarstan Wave, Jan 03 *0610-0621, 35333-35433, Tatar, 0610 sign on with IS, IS and ID, Opening announce, Talk and music (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RUSSIA, 11790, 0410-, Radio Tatarstan, Dec 28. Fair level with usual ID. MUF is too low to hear very well, compared to the summer. RUSSIA. 12095, 0824-, Radio Tatarstan, Jan 1. Very good reception, besides a medium pitched hum. Surprised to hear them on such a high frequency in the middle of winter. In Tatar at tune-in. RUSSIA. 11790, 0610-, Radio Tatarstan, Jan 2. Kai Ludwig asks whether 11790 at 0410 and 9895 at 0610 are still on (UT January 2, 2014). I can confirm that 11790 came on at 0410, and as I type this, there's an open carrier on 9895. At 0610, the identical transmission began. Interesting, though, is that they always ID'd in Russian, but both of these transmissions were identical, and no Russian noted at the beginning of the transmission. Not sure the significance of this, if any. Mentions of Tatarstan at 0611:45. Good reception for both. The 0410 was again confirmed on on January 3rd (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12095, Armavir Krasnodar site? Tatar Radio Kazan relay, S=9+20dB powerful in Germany at 0840 UT. wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Jan 6, ibid.) ** THAILAND. 2965, 1443-, Bangkok VOLMET, Dec 29. Very good reception with local aviation forecasts including Yangon, and Bangkok. 'Bangkok VOLMET out' at 1445. Surprised to hear them so well (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND. 9390, R. Thailand, 1243 "Make a Wish" ad by W over Christmas music. (25 Dec). 9535, R. Thailand, 2031 alternating M and W with English press stories in detail in progress. Sounded like the same announcers that are on at 1230. Usual Bangkok Airways ad at 2039. ID by M "You're listening to R. Thailand". 2043 promo for Celebration 2014. Phone number for contact, then live M with ID and closing. Off at 2044:32, but then right back on, deadair, then bells, and into Thai. Fair but a lot of local noise on 31m. (31 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) 9390, Jan 8 at 1406, poor signal from Udorn, instead of English broadcast, loop with chimes IS repeating ``This is HSK9, Radio Thailand World Service, broadcasting from the Public Relations Department in Bangkok``. Over and over, still at 1419 but now very poor with flutter. What happened to the English semi-hour? Site lost feed from studio? Studio on strike or unavailable due to strife? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET. 4920, 1600-, Holy Tibet, Dec 27. Superb reception, with IDing as Holy Tibet. Very good modulation, and much easier to follow compared to the past. I can actually follow the accent, with many different presenters. // include 4905 (excellent), 6110 (good/very good), 6200 (good, with a cochannel: VOIRI listed). 'China Tibet Broadcasting company, Holy Tibet', is the ID. Weather for Tibet at 1620. [and non]. 4820, 1742-, PBS Xizang, Dec 28. Superb reception with Chinese traditional instrumental music. Just a hint of a cochannel, so presumably AIR Kolkata. 4905, 1749-, PBS Xizang, Dec 28. Tibetan service of CNR at excellent level with piano recital. Interesting to watch the Perseus waterfall with // 4920 exactly in parallel. Also equally strong (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4905, CHINA (TIBET), Xizang PBS, Lhasa 1600, Jan 4, going from Chinese into English with Holy Tibet program, repeated IDs as “This is Holy Tibet... China Tibet Broadcasting.”, welcome by woman, schedule of broadcast. Poor, //4920, 6110, 6200 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening in my car, parked by the lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non] Hi Harold, Nice to find you were also listening at the same time. Attached brief audio of intro ID to Holy Tibet. Also // 7255, but I think 4905 is the best frequency. My ocean side reception was probably somewhat better than yours by the lake. Jan 4 also enjoyed the "Focus on China" Saturday program via Voice of Strait (China) on 4940, from 1500 to 1530. My local sunrise was 1520 UT. Brief ID attached. To continue with English on Jan 4, at 1530 switched to 4750 for Bangladesh Betar (HS) with extensive news about the upcoming elections tomorrow (Sunday) and about the violence going on in the capital regarding the elections (Ron Howard, California, ibid.) Hi Ron: Yes, I agree your oceanside location gives you an edge. Signals were not particularly great today, in my opinion. I checked 4750 but found it too weak to pick out any details. For Tibet, I found 7255 to have heavy QRM. Cheers! (Harold Sellers, ibid.) ** TIBET [non]. CLANDESTINE, 9317, V. of Tibet (via Tajikistan), *1300 usual s/on routine. (25 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) Some changes of clandestine broadcasts: Voice of Tibet: 1200-1215 on 15542 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese no change 1215-1230 NF 15548 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15537 1230-1245 NF 15568 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15588 1245-1300 NF 15562 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15582 1300-1315 on 9317 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese no change 1300-1315 NF 15562 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15582 1315-1345 on 9322 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese no change 1315-1345 NF 11517 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15557 1345-1400 NF 9328 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 9322 1345-1400 NF 11522 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 11517 1400-1415 NF 11528 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 11522 1400-1415 on 15520 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan no change 1415-1430 NF 11528 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 11522 1415-1430 on 15515 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan no change Changes between frequencies vary from 3 to 5 minutes (Ivo Ivanov, DX RE MIX NEWS #832, January 04, 2014 via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. USA(non) Frequency changes of Voice of America Tibetan to Central Asia, made from Dec. 25 to Dec. 31 0000-0100 5750 IRA 250 kW / 020 deg Mon, ex 5980 Daily 0000-0100 5770 IRA 250 kW / 020 deg Tue, ex 5980 Daily 0000-0100 5770 IRA 250 kW / 020 deg Wed, ex 5980 Daily 0000-0100 5770 IRA 250 kW / 020 deg Thu, ex 5980 Daily 0000-0100 5750 IRA 250 kW / 020 deg Fri, ex 5980 Daily 0000-0100 5805 IRA 250 kW / 020 deg Sat, ex 5980 Daily 0000-0100 5760 IRA 250 kW / 020 deg Sun, ex 5980 Daily [tnx, replacing 5980 opens up for R. Chaski, Perú, and ChiCom jamming removed too; but still Cuban jamming much of the time --- gh] 0000-0100 7580 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg Mon, ex 7255 Daily 0000-0100 7595 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg Tue, ex 7255 Daily 0000-0100 7580 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg Wed, ex 7255 Daily 0000-0100 7595 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg Thu, ex 7255 Daily 0000-0100 7580 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg Fri, ex 7255 Daily 0000-0100 7595 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg Sat, ex 7255 Daily 0000-0100 7595 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg Sun, ex 7255 Daily 0300-0400 21745 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Mon, ex 15560 Daily 0300-0400 21755 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Tue, ex 15560 Daily 0300-0400 21765 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Wed, ex 15560 Daily 0300-0400 21775 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Thu, ex 15560 Daily 0300-0400 21785 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Fri, ex 15560 Daily 0300-0400 21795 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Sat, ex 15560 Daily 0300-0400 21735 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Sun, ex 15560 Daily 0300-0400 21615 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Mon, ex 21570 Daily 0300-0400 21630 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Tue, ex 21570 Daily 0300-0400 21615 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Wed, ex 21570 Daily 0300-0400 21630 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Thu, ex 21570 Daily 0300-0400 21615 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Fri, ex 21570 Daily 0300-0400 21600 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Sat, ex 21570 Daily 0300-0400 21585 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Sun, ex 21570 Daily 0400-0500 21610 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Mon, ex 21570 Daily 0400-0500 21620 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Tue, ex 21570 Daily 0400-0500 21610 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Wed, ex 21570 Daily 0400-0500 21620 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Thu, ex 21570 Daily 0400-0500 21610 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Fri, ex 21570 Daily 0400-0500 21640 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Sat, ex 21570 Daily 0400-0500 21595 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Sun, ex 21570 Daily 0500-0600 21780 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Mon, ex 21570 Daily 0500-0600 21770 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Tue, ex 21570 Daily 0500-0600 21760 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Wed, ex 21570 Daily 0500-0600 21750 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Thu, ex 21570 Daily 0500-0600 21735 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Fri, ex 21570 Daily 0500-0600 21670 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Sat, ex 21570 Daily 0500-0600 21790 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Sun, ex 21570 Daily 1400-1500 11890 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg Mon, ex 7255 Daily 1400-1500 11910 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg Tue, ex 7255 Daily 1400-1500 11890 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg Wed, ex 7255 Daily 1400-1500 11910 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg Thu, ex 7255 Daily 1400-1500 11890 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg Fri, ex 7255 Daily 1400-1500 11880 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg Sat, ex 7255 Daily 1400-1500 11880 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg Sun, ex 7255 Daily 1400-1500 15680 UDO 250 kW / 316 deg Mon, ex 9315 Daily 1400-1500 15670 UDO 250 kW / 316 deg Tue, ex 9315 Daily 1400-1500 15605 UDO 250 kW / 316 deg Wed, ex 9315 Daily 1400-1500 15590 UDO 250 kW / 316 deg Thu, ex 9315 Daily 1400-1500 15785 UDO 250 kW / 316 deg Fri, ex 9315 Daily 1400-1500 15745 UDO 250 kW / 316 deg Sat, ex 9315 Daily 1400-1500 15705 UDO 250 kW / 316 deg Sun, ex 9315 Daily 1400-1500 17770 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg Mon, ex 7530 Daily 1400-1500 17790 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg Tue, ex 7530 Daily 1400-1500 17810 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg Wed, ex 7530 Daily 1400-1500 17830 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg Thu, ex 7530 Daily 1400-1500 17860 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg Fri, ex 7530 Daily 1400-1500 17880 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg Sat, ex 7530 Daily 1400-1500 17755 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg Sun, ex 7530 Daily 1600-1700 11880 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Mon, ex 11920 Daily 1600-1700 11860 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Tue, ex 11920 Daily 1600-1700 11880 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Wed, ex 11920 Daily 1600-1700 11860 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Thu, ex 11920 Daily 1600-1700 11880 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Fri, ex 11920 Daily 1600-1700 11720 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Sat, ex 11920 Daily 1600-1700 11850 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg Sun, ex 11920 Daily (Ivo Ivanov, DX RE MIX NEWS #831 January 3, 2014, via DXLD) Is all this trouble worth it, changing frequency every day, confusing would-be listeners more than ChiCom jammers??? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** TIMOR LESTE. (East Timor): New website for public broadcaster: Radio [and TV] Timor-Leste has a new URL and website at http://www.rttlep.tl presented in Tetum, English and Lorem Ipsum (the presence of the latter suggests the site is still under development). No live audio or video streams are offered, just a few old on-demand audio and video files. RTL broadcasts on 684 kHz mediumwave and several FM frequencies (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, Jan 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TUNISIA. 7335, Rdiff. TV Tunisienne, Jan 03 *0701-0710, 34332, Arabic, 0701 sign on with Arabic music, Announce by man and woman, Piano theme music at 0703, Arabic music (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non]. 7275, Jan 6 at 0519 and later, IWT is AWOL again from the only hour this frequency remains scheduled. 7285, Sonder Grense, RSA has a poor signal, and 7295, Algeria via France, good (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UGANDA. Dunamis Broadcasting, Mukano, 4750 kHz. QSL card received in post from HAGCM in Canada in 26 days for email report with MP3 recording sent to Heather Paterson heather@biblevoice.org (after original email sent to dunamis4.750@hotmail.com bounced "mailbox unavailable"). Card has photo of transmitter site plus map with Ugandan flag. Heather forwarded my report to the main presenter at the station in Uganda and 2 weeks later I also received an unsigned email from dunashortwave@outlook.com : "Alan thanks so much for listening, it was dunamis shortwave, am so happy and saprised. Glory be to God and may God bless you!" (Heard on Sheigra DXpedition, Oct-2013) (Alan Pennington, UK, Jan BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** UKRAINE. 7545, 0017-, TWR, Dec 30. Open carrier with a bit of polar flutter. Otherwise strong. Could this actually be the Ukrainian transmitter warming up near Mykolayiv, and listed erroneously as Simferopol? But, the carrier cut at 0019 again. Listed to India, and there's no one else at this time, so is it from TWR, and is it still from Ukraine, where SW seems to have gone the way of the Dodo bird! Carrier returned at 0027:30. Crash start into TWR programming at 0030:45 without any ID or IS. Very good reception (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) All Ukrainian government SW transmitters supposedly closed down. HFCC also has 7545 (or 7550) as Uzbekistan for Vatican relay at 1430-1600 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. RADIO UKRAINE INTERNATIONAL ONLINE --- Radio Ukraine International seems to be a government station. However they do air the views of the pro European opposition. One hour English broadcasts can be found at: http://www.nrcu.gov.ua/en/157/ at 0000, 0300, 0800, 1000, 1300, 2000 and 2200 UT. One point of interest to me is that they still use the interval signal from the USSR days (Reggie Strummer, UK?, Jan 4, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** U K. Mystery as BBC Radio 4's six o'clock news 'vanishes' - forcing presenter to ad-lib for EIGHT minutes Arlene Fleming apologised to listeners for 'technical problems' Big Ben chimes that usually herald headlines followed by ominous silence Despite glitch, the entire segment was uploaded on to the BBC iPlayer By William Turvill and Mail On Sunday Reporter PUBLISHED: 10:56 GMT, 5 January 2014 | UPDATED: 11:04 GMT, 5 January 2014 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2534047/Mystery-BBC-Radio-4s-six-oclock-news-vanishes-forcing-presenter-ad-lib-EIGHT-minutes.html (via Brock Whaley, Ireland, dxldyg via DXLD) The Mail thinks that even the mildest technical hitch at the BBC has "sinister overtones" or similar. There's a 5 and a half minute Audioboo edit of the continuity here. https://audioboo.fm/boos/1831087-radio-4-mammoth-continuity-in-extremis-arlene-fleming (Mike Barraclough, ibid.) ** U K. OUTRAGE OVER COMMERCIALISATION PLANS FOR BBC WORLD SERVICE The Independent 6 January 2013 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/outrage-over-commercialisation-plans-for-bbc-world-service-9039198.html The BBC has sparked anger with plans to commercialise the 80-year-old World Service, and to downplay the coverage of politics in its global television news output. The changes, which one MP warned could jeopardise the future of the licence fee, are being lined up as the broadcaster prepares to take over funding of the World Service, previously paid for by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Reforms could include having advertising on the service. In a letter sent to a member of the House of Lords, the Director of the World Service, Peter Horrocks, has also revealed plans to use private funding to support the prestigious radio network which began as the British Empire Service in 1932. "The BBC Trust is considering proposals for a wider commercialisation of World Service, which might involve launching new language services, if they could be commercially self-sustaining," he told Lord Alton of Liverpool. Defenders of the service's traditions are alarmed at the potential implications. John Tusa, former managing director of the World Service, said: "It's breathtaking and reckless. It would really alter the basis on which the World Service has existed for 80 years. Anything as radical as this needs to be openly and publicly debated with all the implications fully stated." In a different part of the BBC empire, The Independent on Sunday has seen an internal BBC communication which encourages journalists working on the BBC World News global television operation to follow a supposedly more female-friendly news agenda, with more stories on "fashion" and fewer on "politics". In a newsletter to staff Mr Horrocks said: "This is not just about stories about women and for women. There are also many men who don't always fully connect with an agenda that can sometimes be too dominated by conflict or politics." Staff believe that the shift in emphasis is partly designed to attract more advertising clients to the BBC, which relies on commercials on its television channel and website outside the UK. Latest accounts show that BBC Global News Ltd made a loss of £800,000 last year, with £21m of losses incurred by the UK operation being mostly offset by advertising and sponsorship revenues made overseas. Details of the proposed "feminisation" of the World News output follow research carried out by the BBC's "audience team" to mark International Women's Day. In a memo written to staff on 26 November, Zoe Porter, editor of BBC World News, gave a summary of women's feedback on the output. It called for more coverage of "young presenters, women field reporters and fashion". Respondents called for less emphasis on "formality, formal suits, male presenters, politics, cars and weather". Mr Tusa said: "I think this development is deeply disturbing and could be terribly destructive. If they want to reshape editorial lines in this way then they should put it all on the table and say it won't deal with hard politics it will be frothy, fluffy and pleasant." Paul Farrelly MP, a member of the Commons select committee on Culture, Media and Sport, said he would be raising the issue when the committee holds an inquiry into the future of the BBC later this month. "The BBC should be a journal of record and we would all hate to see any dumbing down of coverage simply to jump to the tune of advertisers," he said. "When the BBC runs adverts abroad it has got to be very careful that it does not set dangerous precedents when it comes to fending off calls for the licence fee to be abolished." Sue Harris, NUJ national broadcasting organiser, said: "The ambition to bring diversity on screen at world news should not be compromised by making them [women reporters] cover fluffy fashion stories. "They should be allocated serious news items." The BBC Trust is currently drawing up the final operating licence for the World Service ahead of its transfer to licence fee funding in April. The BBC has been experimenting with advertising on the Berlin FM radio output of the World Service. It said it had not received complaints from that network's audience that the commercials impinged on the quality of the output. Advertising has also been introduced into the Spanish, Arabic and Russian language editions of the BBC website. A BBC spokesperson said: "The BBC's reputation for providing impartial and independent news will always take precedence over wider commercial goals. Our experience with World News, bbc.com and some limited World Service commercial activity shows that these forms of funding are generally accepted by audiences outside the UK, and that editorial standards and public service priorities can be maintained." Shadow culture minister Helen Goodman said: "The proposed drift away from the core purpose of the World Service is precisely what people feared when this Government said that the Foreign Office would no longer finance it. It's really important that the World Service stays on mission as a reliable, truthful broadcaster of important news to people in places where this is not otherwise available." (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) A quote from John Tusa hardly represents widespread outrage; he's just an establishment rent-a-quote, in my opinion. The website advertising and limited adverts on the BBC Berlin channel was announced a year ago: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/16432292 As to commercialisation as the Ariel article says: "follows the target for BBC World Service to raise £3m in commercial revenue by 2013, set last year in the government's Comprehensive Spending Review`` And who pops up being outraged: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16449608 As of 2013/14 the BBC World Service is financed by licence fee payers, John Tusa is only one of them. As has been said by a contributor to Digital Spy: "Looking at the Independent's finances, it is hard to think of a worst [sic] place to get advice on the running of an organisation unless the BBC can find a Russian billionnaire to solve its financial problems." (Mike Barraclough, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST Well, while Tusa may hold no credibility with you, Mike, he does for some (many?) like myself who are dismayed by what seems to be an alarming trend of the BBC abandoning or muting public service broadcasting principles and values for commercial ones. The two are largely incompatible and several of the recent BBC "scandals" (e.g.: payments to executives "going away") would seem to have their roots in this growing commercial ethos. While the BBC World News television channel is still head and shoulders better than any of the domestic choices here in the U.S. (CNNI excepting, perhaps), its focus is already softer than Aljazeera America. In my opinion, it should be moving more in that direction rather than aping CNN, HLN, ABC, NBC, etc. (John Figliozzi, Sent from my iPad, Sarasota FL, ibid.) Please note that the just posted "Independent" article is in fact exactly a year old. I think we already back then discussed the matter, including the nice detail that the BBC may have revealed its plans to insert advertisements on their Berlin FM outlet to "its people" in the UK itself only at this point but sought the grant of the Berlin media regulator already three years (or thereabouts) ago, raising some discussions here in Germany which fortunately (for the BBC and its strategic games) nobody in the UK had noted. (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) Those subscribing to news aggregating services must beware that they sometimes pull up stories exactly one year old! (gh, DXLD) It would be nice to even be able to receive the BBC World News channel! I understand it is now available on some cable systems in the States, but not yet on DirecTV, the satellite provider I use (Ray Robinson, Los Angeles, ibid.) I'm talking about the World Service, not BBC domestic issues that you've raised. As pointed out by Ariel the BBC WS was set a target by the Coalition Government, who until the next financial year supported the service through Grant In Aid, to raise £3 million in commercial revenue. So whatever beef you have take it up with them. If that £3 million was not there what services would you have cut in the current financial year? One of Tusa's more ridiculous rants was informing all and sundry a year ago that he wasn't taking up his invitation to the BBC WS party because the invitation list was restricted http://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/17025537 As someone who pays for the service, I want the money spent on other things than large jollies for the great and good who left the service years ago, particularly those who have done nothing since than launch bitter emotive rants in the "I am right and everyone else is wrong and not only that I'll throw in words like "abject" and "should be ashamed" to go with it, not that I have any real idea of how this has been done" vein and not only that I'll circulate this to all my friends in the press on the grounds that if I am outraged, obviously a significant number of other people must be. As someone who lives in the UK, I can find no evidence of this. Can you? A comment from January 2012 about Mr. Tusa's outburst and his support for commercialisation in 1988 when he was managing director: http://jonathanmarks.libsyn.com/mn-22-01-1988-john-tusa-on-advertising-on-world-service (Mike Barraclough, England, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The BBC World Service is not aimed at the UK. BBC WS English is included in RAJAR figures with a weekly UK reach of 1.46 million, not sure whether that includes Radio 4 between 1 a.m. and 5.30 a.m. but even if it does the majority of that figure will be DAB, internet and DTT. Looking back 10 years, though I'm not sure which year the emphasis on international news became more prominent in the output, the global audience for 2012/13 was 192 million as opposed to 150 million in 2002/3, a 28% increase. Can't find anything online about what types of adverts have been carried on the Berlin FM frequency or on the Russian, Arabic and Spanish websites during the 12 month trial. Can't find a figure for 2012/2013 but in 2002/3 only 30% of that audience was to the English broadcasts. I've no idea whether the English target audience finds the programmes boring or not as I'm not part of it and clearly can't make a judgement of non English services which make the majority of the audience. I find the BBC World Service news a good resource with the domestic bulletins being too concerned in my opinion with domestic affairs and Westminster gossip (Mike Barraclough, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) One has to query their claimed audience figure; 192 million seems unbelievable. How did they dream up that number, another bit of propaganda? While no longer directly the mouthpiece of the Foreign Office, the World Service remains under the firm control of Government who determine the BBC's income and have a right of veto over all senior BBC management positions. A decade ago the BBC dared to challenge the Government view; what happened to the then Director-General and Board of Governors? (Trevor M5AKA, ibid.) My point has been missed somehow; of course the BBC WS international news is very important and some current affairs - but not ALL. In the old days of the Overseas Service of the BBC and BBC European Service, listeners also heard such as 'My Word' 'Just A Minute' and 'The Petticoat Line' which being based on speaking good English (mostly) were welcomed by overseas listeners; whilst VOA and Radio Moscow put out east west propaganda, the BBC actually entertained, educated and informed. Many ex-pats in Spain, USA and Australia also back in the 1950's and 1960's really enjoyed such as Victor Silvester - but relied upon the news from London rather than where they lived. After listening to the BBC programmes for abroad for 45 years and regretting the way the men at the top have turned a World Service into simply a news after news separated only by news features, I feel rather than commercials or women`s features, perhaps the Trust should ask their listeners (not just the ladies) what THEY want. Whilst listening figures seem questionable - 28% increase over 10 years seems difficult to take in - the recent changes including closing important transmitters and ending short wave schedules are bound to reduce actual listeners tuning in to the WS, even if their local FM station carries some programmes which seem now to be rolling news and simply that! Also, might I suggest if we the UK licence payers, as opposed to we the UK tax payers as before, WE should in UK be able to tune our radios (normal ones) to BBC WS to expect to provide a decent service - we are part of the World, but what do the BBC do - close the Medium Wave frequency. Perhaps it wouldn't be so bad if the government allowed another international radio station to transmit its programmes from Britain but the BBC still has a monopoly on this (Rog Parsons, (BDXC 782), Hinckley, LE10 0NJ, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** UNITED KINGDOM. 3955 DRM, 0646-, BBC World Service, Dec 27. Can't quite demodulate the signal, although Dream software clearly shows the title and also BBC WS News on the second data stream (labelled Journaline 0.54 kbps), although nothing seems to be coming through at my end (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) GREAT BRITAIN: 5875/drm, BBC WS with English programming and digital data in nice & strong, but decoding poorly due to various technical issues with my set-up. I will be doing an article about this test in a coming GLM [Great Lakes Monitor], so 'stay tuned' as they say. The bottom line was, it really needed a STEADY 30 dB S/N ratio to decode well and this was bouncing from 25-35 dB meaning I got bits & snips of audio as attached, but no solid decode. The screen showed a positive ID, though and the snippets were definitely BBC WS. Heard from 0701 to 0858* 55x41 (there needs to be a column in SINPO for digital signals about the stability of the decode!) 30/Dec (Ken Zichi, Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet 3 Jan via DXLD) Frequency change of BBC: 0230-0330 7230 WOF 300 kW / 086 deg to WeAs Farsi, ex 11895 KIG 250 kW (Ivo Ivanov, DX RE MIX NEWS #831 January 3, 2014, via DXLD) [non]. 15420, Jan 4 at 1943, BBCWS, `Science in Axion` about space, is atop CCI from WBCQ with off-frequency het, and most of `Global Spirit Proclamation` gone if listening on LSB only. // 12095 is good & clear, both a lot better than Dec 30 when I was trying to monitor myself on `World Business Report`. At 1950, 12095 still good and I compare it to 11735 Zanzibar, finding that to be very poor with flutter; at least ZBC is on the air today. There are too many variables to be certain, but improved signals on 12095 & 15420 make me wonder if these are still from doomed SEYCHELLES site, especially since neighbor Zanzibar is incoming so poorly. Altho official shutoff of the IORS is not until Marchend, could they already be transferring some services to other sites, like Rwanda, South Africa or Ascension, normally propagating better to here? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) bbcworldbusiness Audioboo - The long term survival of short wave radio [specific clip of the item on Romania, and interviewing gh:] https://audioboo.fm/boos/1823789-the-long-term-survival-of-short-wave-radio 73, (via Tony Molloy, Winter Hill, UK IO83ro, Jan 4, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. Hi Glenn, Happy New Year. Well done on your recent contribution on the BBC World Service. I enjoyed hearing it and I saved the show as a podcast. Your defence of shortwave was very well said. This is my new website and radio station which will include world of radio and already has a link to it http://great878.bravesites.com/ A proper URL will be registered soon and more info revealed. No live stream yet but a link to another stations borrowed stream to enjoy while the site is being built. You may include the test address in your own web page links if you so wish. New Year - New Concept. 73 (Gary Drew, Jan 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) as in 87.8 MHz FM (gh) ** U A E. 1575, 0049-, Radio Farda, Jan 1. Finally! After doing my antenna repairs (it's now 4:50 PM local), I'm hearing reasonable audio from UAE Dubai. First TA recorded since UT 27 Dec 2013. Good audio, but only on my due north mini-Beverage. With each low tide, I have to go out and retrieve the wire that's under the sand, and usually skewed at right angles to the direction it's supposed to be. Now playing the Men from Down Under (at 0052:45). Happy New Year to all! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. ?INTRUDER, 3242, 0207-, MMT and MT Net, Jan 2, Two ham- sounding fellas. One MT and the other MMT. A MARS network? They mentioned a net, but I only hear 2 fellas. Clearly radio amateurs rather than true intruders. They know what they're talking about. Mentioned the air force station in WA, so must be an official network. Well heard (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15016/USB, “Mainsail” Offutt/Andrews AFB (or maybe both?) with human OM voiced coded messages: ZMIE2Y(header) JRNHZICKP7RDMPVA2K6NC6U5 ending at :08 SMDHEK(header) ZMDHEKEJUL5JB6L33SQGMIVXD6XWAP then dead air & “Correction” QB6L33SQGMIVXD6XWAP & full message SMDHEKZMDHEKEJUL5QB6L33SQGMIVXD6XWAP repeated before “Mainsail out” at :13. The header for both was repeated 3 times and full message repeated two times for the first message and the ‘error’ in the second one messed up the ‘pattern’. There was a HUGE echo making me think this was coming from more than one transmitter, but perhaps this is just their audio processing? Hard to know. My decoder ring says this message means “It is your turn to bring the Champagne & girls to the New Year’s party this year.” 2305-2313* 29/Dec (Ken Zichi, Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet 3 Jan via DXLD) ** U S A. 5745, 0257-, VOA Radiogram, Dec 29. Superb reception tonight with lovely copy. Being in an absolutely quiet area sure has its advantages. Crystal clear images and 100% copy. I noted that Kim Elliot finished a few minutes early, and had fill music, compared to other weeks, which went right up to the TOH. Thanks, Kim! 15670, 1930-, VOA Radiogram, Dec 29. Another excellent decode for the late morning transmission. 100% copy and good decode of the images, as well as Flmsg. About equal to last night's 5745 results. Thanks, and Happy New Year, Kim! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. The broadcast from 0930 to 1000z on 5745 kHz had quite a DX character. Here in Germany that means 1 hours before noon. It is already quite bright. When using pure language, I would not understand any word, but the MFSK16 and MFSK32 signals came over with useful fragments. Here my "reconstruction" of greetings to the friends of the DX in Venezuela [MFSK32/Flmsg-Format wrap ===> html] It is understandable that there was here a large error in the checksum ..... and a "badfile.html" But better than nothing ... http://www.rhci-online.de/badfile.html (roger, Jan 4, ibidf.) During the radio broadcast on January 4th 2014 on 17860 kHz at 1600z the transatlantic connection was good as usual: http://www.rhci-online.de/VoA_Radiogram_2014-01-04.htm The first 3 minutes of the third radio broadcast from 5th January 2014 were necessary, because I was a little late at the receiver to the second radiogram. I had only noticed there was an end of a transmission before the preview. Now I wanted to know what this was. Obviously a picture to calibrate the sound card was sent. The conditions on the 5745 kHz here in Europe were difficult. USB sideband was completely overlapped by a digital STANAG (?) signal. Also in LSB, there were impairments of the speech range. But the 1500 Hz-data area was useful. Images were just so-so, but the text was perfect (roger, ibid.) ** U S A [and non]. 12125, Jan 3 at 1528, very poor signal in English, soon recognizable as VOA`s Learning-English exaggerated intonation. Aoki shows at 15-16 only, this is due west from Tinang, PHILIPPINES. 13570, Jan 4 at 1559, WINB ID atop VOA signing-on with Yankee Doodle Dandy, the evitable daily collision facilitated by FCC and IBB. They are a fast SAH apart. VOA site is São Tomé, this hour only in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency changes of Voice of America: 2230-2300 5810 UDO 250 kW / 030 deg to EaAs Learning English, ex 5820 2230-2300 9905 PHT 250 kW / 283 deg to EaAs Learning English, ex 9490 2300-2400 5810 UDO 250 kW / 030 deg to EaAs Learning English, ex 5820 2300-2400 9900 PHT 250 kW / 332 deg to EaAs Learning English, ex 9490 (Ivo Ivanov, DX RE MIX NEWS #832, January 04, 2014 via DXLD) 11840, Jan 8 at 2029, VOA French on fair signal via BOTSWANA, cut off in mid-word at 2030* as scheduled; but why doesn`t the programming make a natural break? Geez, how rude. Sans au-revoir! But Francophones may then tune up 10 kHz to 11850 for NHK opening French via MADAGASCAR with better signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO monitoring. 1702 not finished yet, so 1701 played UT Thursday Jan 2 at 0430 on WRMI. Often has been barely- or in-audible, but tonight at 0445 check, fairly good signal on 9955! First broadcast of #1702 is for 1330 Thursday Jan 2 on 9955. Tuning in early at 1313, piano music turns out to be a R. Prague feature on composer Bohuslav Martinu with a circle over the U. There is still pulse jamming, tnx a lot Arnie! which axually worsens as 1330 approaches. Last bit talking about Martinu with a circle over the U finishes by 1329, more music, maybe fill, until 1330:10 Andy Sennitt WRMI ID for a semiminute, delaying WOR start until 1330:40. Besides the jamming, there is evitable ACI from 9950 Furusato no Kaze, scheduled until 1357, 100 kW, 2 degrees from Taiwan. Otherwise OK until 1355:12 when the other WRMI transmitter overrides 9955 with carrier test for about a dekasecond, during clip of the BBCWS interview with me. WOR is cut off at 1358:44 after I say, ``I am not impressed ---`` Well, that makes for a teaser, anyway, for untruncated repeats, as I am about to review Spectrum Monitor. Then `WRMI Scoreboard`, 1359:35 flip from the 160 to the 315 antenna and transmitter with much stronger signal, Zanotti ID and into next preacher. Further WORLD OF RADIO 1702 airings: Thu 2201 on WTWW-1 9475 UT Fri 0430v on WWRB 3195 Sat 0730 & 1530 on HLR 7265-CUSB UT Sun 0030 on WTWW-2 5085 UT Sun 0501 on WTWW-1 5830 UT Mon 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB [NEW, ex Sat 0300v] Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0730 & 1530 on HLR 7265-CUSB [BTW we were not pre-empted after all on Wed Jan 1, but monitored in Europe on 6190 instead] WORLD OF RADIO 1702 monitoring: confirmed Thursday January 2 from 2200:58 on WTWW-1, 9475. On WWRB 3195: tune-in at 0422 UT Friday Jan 3 to find dead air; then WOR starts early at 0426:15, and cut off the air immediately it`s over after 0455*. No 5050 //. Next: Saturday 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio, Germany, 7265-CUSB UT Sunday 0030v on WTWW-2, 5085 UT Sunday 0501v on WTWW-1, 5830 UT Monday 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ, 5110v-CUSB [new time] Tuesday 1200 on WRMI, 9955 Wednesday 0730 & 1530 on HLR, 7265-CUSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3195, 0430-, WWRB, Jan 3. Checked for WOR, and Glenn was already in progress at 0430, but must have just started, as he was only on Angola. Good with lots of static crashes. Of course, my antennae are not aimed to the US at all. A higher frequency would work better for us, even 60 meters. Concluded at 0456, with the transmitter cutting off a few seconds later without any ID (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) World of Radio, 0730 04 January [Sat]. Good signals. Very readable on 7265 in USB from HLR in Hamburg. Mentions of Russia long wave status at 0749 (Brock Whaley, Holycross, Bruff, Ireland dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn: We ran WOR today Saturday at 2130 UT on 7730 and 0030 (UT Sunday) on 9495, in case someone mentions it (Jeff White, WRMI, Jan 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1702 monitoring: confirmed from 0029:44 UT Sunday January 5 on WTWW-2, 5085, usual excellent signal; next airing at 0501 Jan 5 on WTWW-1, 5830 also confirmed, but propagation dropping out here; how was it further west? By 0634 check, 5830 back up to very good signal. Jeff White told me later that WRMI ran WOR at two additional times: Sat 2130 on 7730, and UT Sun 0030 on 9495; these may or may not continue following weeks. Current graphic frequency schedule shows these two blox are color-coded as RMI programming rather than TOM: 21- 22 on 7730, 44 degrees toward Europe; and 00-01 on 9495, 181 degrees toward S America. Next known WOR airings: UT Monday 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB (hoping no internet outage this week); Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955; Wed 0730 & 1530 on HLR 7265-CUSB. WORLD OF RADIO 1702 monitoring: confirmed at new time on Area 51 webcast, UT Monday Jan 6 at 0401; then at 0410 also confirmed with sufficient fully readable signal on WBCQ 5110v-CUSB. See also USA: WBCQ. Jeff White tells me that WRMI aired WOR 1702 at two additional times Jan 4-5: Sat 2130 on 7730 toward Europe; and UT Sun 0030 on 9495 toward S America; these may or may not continue. Those two hours are on schedule as for unspecified RMI programming rather than Brother Scare. Next: Tuesday 1200 on 9955; Wednesday 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. B-13 WRMI, Brother Stair, R Africa, Family R from January 1: 0000-0100 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#11 0000-0100 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR Various WRMI programs tx#14 0000-0100 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Various WRMI programs tx#10 0000-0100 11565 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg BRAS English Brother Stair tx#12 0000-0100 13695 YFR 100 kW / 151 deg NSAm English Brother Stair tx#09 0100-0400 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#11 0100-0400 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Various WRMI programs tx#10 0100-0400 11565 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg BRAS English Brother Stair tx#12 0100-0400 13695 YFR 100 kW / 151 deg NSAm English Brother Stair tx#09 0400-0600 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#11 0400-0600 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English Brother Stair tx#14 0400-0600 9840 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg NCAf English Brother Stair tx#07 0400-0600 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Various WRMI programs tx#10 0400-0600 11565 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg BRAS English Brother Stair tx#12 0600-0800 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#11 0600-0800 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English Brother Stair tx#14 0600-0800 9840 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg NCAf English Brother Stair tx#07 0600-0800 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#10 0800-1000 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#11 0800-1000 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English Brother Stair tx#14 0800-1000 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#10 1000-1100 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English Brother Stair tx#14 1000-1100 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Brother Stair tx#10 1000-1100 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg BRAS English Brother Stair tx#12 1100-1300 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English Brother Stair tx#14 1100-1300 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#13 1100-1300 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Various WRMI programs tx#10 1100-1300 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg BRAS English Brother Stair tx#12 1300-1400 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#13 1300-1400 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Various WRMI programs tx#10 1300-1400 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg BRAS English Brother Stair tx#12 1400-1500 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#13 1400-1500 9955 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm Various WRMI programs tx#11 1400-1500 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg BRAS English Brother Stair tx#12 1400-1500 17790 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg NCAf English Radio Africa tx#07 1500-1900 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#13 1500-1900 9955 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#11 1500-1900 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg BRAS English Brother Stair tx#12 1500-1900 17790 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg NCAf English Radio Africa tx#07 1900-2000 7730 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu English Brother Stair tx#01 1900-2000 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#13 1900-2000 9955 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#11 1900-2000 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg BRAS English Brother Stair tx#12 1900-2000 17790 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg NCAf English Radio Africa tx#07 2000-2100 7730 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu English Brother Stair tx#01 2000-2100 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#13 2000-2100 9955 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#11 2000-2100 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg BRAS English Brother Stair tx#12 2000-2100 15190 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg NCAf English Radio Africa tx#07 2100-2200 7730 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu English Brother Stair tx#01 2100-2200 9955 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#11 2100-2200 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg BRAS English Brother Stair tx#12 2100-2200 15190 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg NCAf English Radio Africa tx#07 2200-2300 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#11 2200-2300 7730 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu English B Stair tx#01 M-F 2200-2300 7730 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu Var WRMI pgms tx#01 Sat/Sun 2200-2300 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English B Stair tx#10 M-F 2200-2300 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Var WRMI pgms tx#10 Sat/Sun 2200-2300 15190 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg NCAf English Radio Africa tx#07 2300-2400 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair tx#11 2300-2400 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR Spanish Family Radio tx#14 2300-2400 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Spanish Family R tx#10 M-F 2300-2400 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm Var WRMI pgms tx#10 Sat/Sun 2300-2400 13695 YFR 100 kW / 151 deg NSAm Spanish Family Radio tx#09 The transmissions of Brother Stair are increased from 44 to 80 hrs per day! (Ivo Ivanov, DX RE MIX NEWS #831 January 3, 2014, via DXLD) 9955, 1442-, WRMI, Dec 31. Harry Robbins, chief engineer of WYFR and now WRMI interviewed by Jeff White on tune-in. Excellent reception. ID at 1444:50. with email address of info@wrmi.net. Moments in Bible Prophecy follows. Nice to hear them well after a lot of years! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7730, Jan 2 at 2154, WRMI is very poor but recognizable with Brother Scare; not heard after 2200. Contradictory schedule indicated this ran until 2300. Is on a 44 degree antenna toward Europe, close to 90 degrees away from OK, so minimal signal this way. Jeff White requests, ``Glenn: We are doing a broadcast on 7730 kHz from 1800 to 2200 UT daily. I'm interested to hear what reception is like in Eastern North America during those hours. Any listener observations will be much appreciated. Jeff White WRMI Radio Miami International 175 Fontainebleau Blvd., Suite 1N4 Miami, Florida 33172 USA E-mail: radiomiami9@cs.com http://www.wrmi.net Tel +1-305-559-9764 Fax +1-305-559-8186``. 9955, Friday Jan 3 at 1400, WRMI goes from `Wavescan` vs pulse jamming, and `Scoreboard` to Brother Scare, instead of scheduled `Words of Life`, fill or mistake? By 1454 it`s not BS but presumably the scheduled `Moments in Bible Prophecy` and then BS after 1500 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also EQUATORIAL GUINEA [non] At 1935 UT Jan 3 heard TOM Overcomer, as well as the addresses of this service: 7730 kHz S=9+20dB in FL S=8 in MA S=5 in KY, noisy scratch portion S=7-8 in NY Rochester S=5-6 in Detroit Nothing heard westwards at locations in CA, WA, and Vancouver Island, Alberta. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9955, WRMI, 04/01 0400 UT. Programa “Historias de Radio” con Daniel Camporini sobre la radiodifusión en el Paraguay y acompañada con música folklórica. SINPO: 54454 con leve ruido atmosférico durante pequeñas secciones de tiempo, además de que prosigue el Cuban Noise Jammer (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 20 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 9955, Jan 4 at 1952, WRMI seems off, unless it`s the JBA carrier, unlike the BS on 9930 and 9980; the carrier could also be a jamming pilot. At 1955 also no signals on 17790, just not propagating, nor on 7730, while 11825 with BS has only a fair signal instead of usual VG one (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7570 and less --- Jeff, Being the lowest and on the NW antenna, 7570 is by far your best frequency at night here (and now extended all night). A pity no RMI programming on that, just BS. RMI (non-exile! non-BS) programming on that or a similar 7 MHz frequency on a west, NW or N antenna would be a great improvement over 9955; or partially duplicating it. Even 7570 can fade down a bit, late, so I wonder why you haven`t gone to any 5 or 6 MHz frequency yet? Here in the dead of winter (remember, it is north of FL ---) 73. (Glenn to Jeff White, Jan 5, via DXLD) 9955, WRMI, 04/01 2302 UT. Comentario bíblico en inglés acerca de la maldad del ser humano y la salvación en Jesucristo y de los atributos de este. SINPO: 54454 con poco QRM de RFI en chino. Cabe notar que no está transmitiendo el programa de Family Radio en español los fines de semana desde el cambio de programación el 03/01. 13695, FAMILY RADIO, 04/01 2316 UT. Vía WRMI. Estudio bíblico de la familia con citas al libro de Rut. SINPO: 45454 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 20 metros, QTH: Sector sur de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) QSL: PCJ Radio International via WRMI 11880, F/D eQSL in 2 days from Victor Goonetilleke for report sent to pcjqsl at pcjmedia.com (Bruce Portzer, WA, Jan 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7730, Sun Jan 5 at 2139, very poor signal from WRMI aimed toward Europe; not with Brother Scare who is apparently here at 18-21, then unspecified RMI programming 21-22. See also USA: WORLD OF RADIO. 15190, Jan 5 at 2142, only one fair Radio Africa signal audible, i.e. from WRMI, with lite het on hi side from presumed Brasil; so Equatorial Guinea continues off during this period, as it should be (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EQUATORIAL GUINEA 9955, WRMI, 06/01 0006 UT. Programa “Trova libre” con Michael Méndez quien hace una revisión a las canciones más pedidas en el año 2013 y que no sólo sonaron en Cuba, sino en otros lugares de Hispanoamérica. SINPO: 54454 con el cuban noise jammer presente sobre la frecuencia y que aminora después de las 0031 cuando inicia “Christ Gospel BC” dando un SINPO: 55454 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 20 metros, QTH: Sector sur de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) I`m wondering why WRMI hasn`t tried any frequencies lower than 7570, here in the dead of winter, encroaching even unto Florida. The only one which is registered and available is 5850 at 2200-1100. WYFR had also registered with HFCC, 6875 at 0200-0600, which might be transferable; no longer wanted by WWCR since they glommed onto WYFR`s 6115 before WRMI had a chance. At least tonight, UT Wednesday January 8 at 0105, Radio Miami International programming is on 7570 // 9955, but on the NW antenna, much stronger here than 9955 toward the SSE, plus the lower-band advantage. Wavescan until 0130, then R. Slovakia International. 0158 program promo, before 0159 `WRMI Scoreboard`, Allen Graham ID from Quito, 0200 into Spanish with an Italian accent, natch, from R. Vaticano relay; unseems // Vaticana via VOA on 7305, violating Separation of Church and State, no doubt separate feeds/playouts. 0230 on 7570, back to English religion, presumably `Bible Commentary` as sked on 9955. How much more? No more; by 0245 switch back to BS on 7570, as 9955 is scheduled for `Viva Miami`. And BS remains on 7570 at several later spotchex. Graphic frequency schedule still shows TOM on 7570 all evening. Hope this is the start of more audible RMI programming in North America as I have suggested to Jeff would be a good idea. Unknown if this was an experiment or a mistake in program feeds. Jeff White has no comment on it. What will happen following nights? Hope R. Libertad before 0100 does not also show up on 7570 as that will only draw more jamming. Any exile programming should be kept on 9955 only, or frequencies totally separate from English and other programming. Program schedule for 9955 to compare: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AivhtkIEGb3_dENObnZrMkt1YmtUWGxkbkd3TGNzOXc&hl=en#gid=0 I don`t find any separate schedules yet for RMI itself on other frequencies. What about anything lower than 7570 for WRMI? Jeff tells me that ``5850 will be on beginning February 17``. It`s registered for 22-11 UT, but might not be on entire span. Program source unknown. 9955, Jan 8 before and after 1400, like last Wednesday, `AWR Wavescan` is playing twice back to back, with `Scoreboard` in between. However today the transmitter/antenna switch from SSE to NW at 1359 blox the sports show, overriding it before its ``quickest minute`` can finish. It`s still the first WS for 2014, repeated from last week including JSWC logs toward the end, altho we are now in the second week. I`ve been wondering which of the multiple repeats of WS is normally the first to première a new episode? BTW, Family Radio was supposedly going to park the WYFR callsign on one of its domestic stations, but separate searches Jan 8 of FCC AM, FM and TV Queries find it nowhere, so appears to be up for grabs, should anyone really want it. Or maybe a ship? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7570, before 2400 UT Jan 8 and after 0000 UT Jan 9, past 0300, it`s nothing but Brother Scare on WRMI, not RMI programming as heard in the 0100-0245 period the day before. So much for a northward RMI frequency in prime time. Do the programs in English really prefer to be aimed southward instead of northward? But carrying on from the days of the single Wilkinson at Hialeah, English and Spanish are all mixed in together, even tho 13 different transmitters are now available (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EQUATORIAL GUINEA; USA: WOR Excellent article in Radio World on WRMI http://www.radioworld.com/article/wrmi-beefs-up-big-time/223029 (Bob LaRose, Sent from my iPad, Jan 5, dxldyg via DXLD) Viz.: Many international broadcasters have scaled back their shortwave operations, citing changes in consumer habits, costs of operation and the revolutionary changes brought by the Internet. So I was interested to learn that the former WYFR in Okeechobee, Fla., described as the largest shortwave facility in the Western Hemisphere, would reopen, as we reported at http://www.radioworld.com/wyfr Master control of WYFR, now WRMI, where all of the audio is distributed and computers control transmitters, frequency and antenna changes. credit: Photo by Thais White, WRMI [caption] I reached out to several people involved to learn more. The first is Jeff White, general manager of Radio Miami International, which has bought the big station from Family Radio and is moving programming and call letters of shortwave station WRMI from Miami to take advantage of Okeechobee`s bigger, more powerful signals. Family Radio was co-founded by Harold Camping, a prominent radio evangelist known to many in the public for his headline-making predictions of Judgment Day. The organization had shuttered WYFR earlier this year in an apparent cost-cutting move. Camping died in December. White declined to discuss the purchase details but said Family Radio had been "very generous with us." I asked how his four staff in Miami would be affected when WRMI's 50,000-watt Wilkinson AM50,000B transmitter was turned off. "Our office in Miami will remain open for the foreseeable future. In Okeechobee, we will be employing at least two full-time engineers who have worked with WYFR for nearly 30 years, and probably several other part-time engineers who also worked for WYFR for many years before being laid off in recent months." The Okeechobee facility has 13 transmitters, including a dozen 100 kW systems and one 50 kW. It uses 23 antennas that serve the Americas, Europe and Africa. Quite a step up from WRMI's 50 kW main signal. White notes that since 1994, WRMI's primary target areas have been Latin America and North America. "With the Okeechobee facility, we will provide significantly better coverage of these targets due to the more sophisticated antennas - log periodics and double rhomboids with higher gain - and due of course to the higher-powered transmitters. And now we will have the opportunity to broadcast to other parts of the world such as Europe and Africa, which we have never been able to do in a serious way before." WRMI originates some of its own programming, including "Viva Miami," heard in English and Spanish; but most of its airtime is sold to outside organizations. Part of the sale agreement is that the new station will provide Family Radio airtime to transmit programming to the Caribbean and South America. Still, most content will be brought over from existing WRMI. "The station call letters will change from WYFR to WRMI, and the new facility will air essentially all of the programming currently on WRMI's transmitter site in Miami," White said. "This is a diverse mixture of political, religious, musical and cultural programming in English and Spanish, including a number of DX programs intended especially for shortwave listeners. Transmission lines running from the transmitter building to some of the 23 antennas. Beside the transmitter building, a cow relaxes beside a pond, which it shares with a few alligators. credit: Photo by Thais White, WRMI [caption] "We expect that two hours per day will be Spanish-language programming from Family Radio. About nine hours per day will be English-language religious programming from the Radio Africa network operated by Pan American Broadcasting, based in Pleasanton, Calif. In addition, we will make airtime available to other organizations, including religious organizations. " White provided me with a historical and technical overview of WYFR that I recommend; I've posted it at http://bit.ly/ 17J3i1Y It explores the station history dating to the late 1920s and call sign W1XAL, its growth based in New England, its handoff to Family Radio, and a lengthy period of transition to Florida starting in 1977. It also gives technical details about Okeechobee`s high-level plate- modulated transmitters and complex antenna arrays. GATORS AND SCORPIONS Jeff White told me he appreciated the help of Dan Elyea, longtime WYFR station engineering manager, now retired, in the agreement. "Dan presented us to Family Radio Vice President Tom Evans. Tom and the Family Radio board have given us their confidence, and we will do our best to keep this station going for many years to come." (Evans did not respond to questions I submitted to him for this story.) So then I touched base with Elyea. He told me he was present at both the birth and demise of WYFR as it existed under those call letters. "Back in 1973, after serving with radio station ELWA (medium-wave and shortwave) near Monrovia, Liberia, I joined the staff of Family Radio in preparation for the upcoming purchase of WNYW (later to take the call letters WYFR) in Scituate, Mass.," Elyea wrote me. "At that time WNYW operated four transmitters and nine reversible rhombic antennas. The property was small, the antennas were marginal; there was no room for expansion. The management of Family Radio located a rural property in Okeechobee County, Fla., that would address numerous shortcomings of the Massachusetts site. In Scituate, I served as chief operator for the station. In October of 1976, I moved to Okeechobee to represent engineering aspects during the construction of the Florida site." When operations commenced from Okeechobee, he was appointed engineering manager. Elyea told me that the site, approximately a mile square, is visited regularly by tropical weather and lightning, while icing, another concern of many an engineer, is not a factor. Interference is another story. "A large operation like WYFR draws various complaints of interference, " he wrote, "some legitimate; many not. For a while we were plagued by calls from fire and police departments regarding interference to their walkie-talkie units. These complaints were from out-of-state. "The comm equipment operated in the VHF range - propagation would not support such a frequency from Okeechobee, yet the complaints kept rolling in. After doing some research, we discovered that the units used an intermediate frequency around 17.8 MHz. And the cases were made of plastic. Our legitimate shortwave transmission was going right through the case and into the IF circuitry. Bad design. Our solution was to declare a range of those frequencies as off-limits for us (based on the IF bandwidth of the units)." Because Family Radio distributes programming to many locations by satellite, he said, it's easy to misidentify a source of interference. "One day in 2008, I got a call from the FCC monitoring station in Vero Beach, Fla. They felt that a potentially interfering transmission was coming from WYFR. It was definitely Family Radio programming. Turns out it was a station in Germany that was carrying Family Radio programming to India. Several times, that same mode brought puzzling accusations that were related to other overseas relay sites. "Twice FAA engineers descended on our site with vans full of equipment, attempting to identify interfering signals (to aircraft) that they suspected to be WYFR. Many hours of testing later, in each case it was determined that it was another site (once in West Palm Beach, once in Pennsylvania) that was the actual source of the interference. " Same programming, but wrong location source. You can tell Elyea loves the site. He told me about the creatures that have been seen there. Among them: anhingas, doves, egrets, starlings, sand hill cranes, eagles, hawks, burrowing owls, swifts, quail, rabbits, turtles, ibis, gold silk spiders, black widow spiders, jumping spiders, scorpion, raccoons, armadillo, opossum, foxes, snakes, skunks, alligators, feral pigs, deer and vultures. He worked there until this summer, when Family Radio shut the doors. "The closing of WYFR disappointed me greatly," he reflected. "In many ways my own life was poured into this station for 40 years. Sort of a death-in-the- family feeling. When the possibility for the site to be brought back online by Jeff opened up, I was delighted, and I have been cooperating with Jeff in every way that I can, to assist in making this return to life a reality." 'BOLD INITIATIVES` The buyer, Radio Miami International, was founded in 1989 by Jeff White and the late Kiko Espinosa, its chief engineer. At first it broadcast via hired airtime but went on the air with its own FCC license in 1994. WRMI currently has a corner reflector antenna beaming 160 degrees toward the Caribbean and Latin America. A yagi- style log periodic antenna beaming 317 degrees toward North America is currently not used. Both of those likely will be scrapped. White, a former radio news correspondent, also has managed commercial shortwave radio projects Radio Earth in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles; and Radio Discovery in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is active in the international shortwave community, currently as secretary- treasurer of the National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters. He called WYFR an important part of the heritage of shortwave broadcasting. He told me the decision to invest in the facility "is an indication that we believe that shortwave still has a bright future. Things are indeed changing. The major players on the shortwave bands are changing. But that offers new opportunities. And the shortwave receivers and listeners are still there. They have told us that. And they are waiting for bold new programming initiatives, which will be a big challenge for us and everyone else who remains committed to shortwave broadcasting." (via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) [Re: OKLAHOMA, 14-01, Enid 88.3 FR translator off:] Harold Camping passed away a few weeks ago. I don't know what's going to happen to Family Radio, but all of his low power TV stations here on the West Coat that used to carry his sermons have been sold (Larry Kenney, San Francisco, Jan 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) His 88.1 in Rochester NY ended up as K-Love (even though a nearby 104.9 has the same, and both are relatively high-powered). (Saul Chernos, Toronto, ibid.) ** U S A. 12105, Jan 6 at 1529 and 1618, WTWW-2 is off. Ivo Ivanov issues schedules for this showing the days off are Wed & Thu, into UT Thu & Fri, and so does EiBi, but usage is much more sporadic. I wonder where they got that? WTWW itself does not specify and day-of-week variations: http://wtww.us/pages/schedule.php Anyhow, opens 12105 today for the clandestine to ZIMBABWE, q.v. 12105, Jan 7 at 1513, WTWW-3 is missing again, no Russian Bible, and it`s a Tuesday, not Wednesday or Thursday. There was also at least a sesquiminute break on WTWW-1 9475 at 1422 uncovering R. Australia, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) #3 is down NOW due to the extremely cold weather. I am not sure how the transmitter would respond. With our water leak of last week, I have been to the site every day. I will have Ted bring up # 3 when the temperature goes up today (George McClintock, WTWW, 1759 UT Jan 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12105, Wed Jan 8 at 2027, WTWW-3 is back on, with Arabible, VG signal; also Thu Jan 9 at 1404 in Russian. This transmitter had been absent earlier on Jan 8 and also on Jan 7 and 6 as I previously noted, which were Mon-Tue-Wed, not the alleged two-days-off per Ivo Ivanov`s schedules of Wed & Thu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WBCQ: Thomas Witherspoon in his excellent online blog “The SWLing Post” has alerted me to some excellent programmes via WBCQ. I don’t have much luck hearing this station at my location on shortwave, so have tended to overlook the programmes available on this station. However, Thomas has recently posted a couple of recordings in his blog of WBCQ programs which has caused me to re-think my listening routine and to consider listening to the online stream. The most recent recording posted was Behavior Night, dedicated to showcasing music from the first four decades of the 20th Century. The posted show was recorded on 7490 kHz at 2200 UT on 8 December. Another recent posting was a recording of Marion’s Attic. Thomas writes: “If you’ve never heard Marion’s Attic on WBCQ, you don’t know what you’ve been missing – especially if you love early music recordings.” At http://www.marionsattic.net the programme is described as “an eclectic radio program which plays original cylinder and disc records from the late 1890’s to the mid 1930’s. Having a library containing thousands of standard size cylinder records, dozens of 5 inch Concert Cylinders and an unknown amount of 78’s allows us to share unusual and forgotten music that you cannot hear anywhere else. What makes this special radio program unique is I play original records on the original phonographs when possible; many of which are over 100 years old. The theme varies from week to week; a show may feature popular songs from the early 1900’s one week, wild dance music from the roaring 20’s the next week.” I very much enjoyed both programmes, so I have updated my personal programme hitlist as a reminder to try and listen to these programmes – either live, or more likely via live stream. Marion’s Attic: Sundays at 2200 UT on 7490 kHz, and Mondays at 0200 UT on 5110 kHz [the latter, not any more; Overcome --- gh] Behavior Night: Fridays at 2200 on 7490 (Alan Roe, Jan BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) We`ve previously recommended these two in logs, DXLD (gh) 5110, Jan 3 at 0106 I cannot detect WBCQ which is supposedly on since 0000 with Brother Scare; WTWW is no help with huge BS signal on 5085 which desensitizes the area, and makes the WBCQ transmission totally unnecessary anyway. Still no 5110 at 0132 check. 7491.1, Jan 3 at 0108, no BS here either, supposedly scheduled from 0100, as WBCQ is off-frequency again. Instead, rock music. 0120 announcement as ``Heart and Soul of America Music``; 0122 modulation cuts off and on and off and on. So this has no relation to the `Heart & Soul of America`` religious broadcast which WBCQ has also carried on 5110 and still on 7490 Saturday nights. Replying to my previous log, April TimeLady explained: ``Dear Glenn, Without having heard a recording of what you heard, I can very reasonably guess that, for whatever reason, WBCQ was relaying on SW, AM 950, WHVW Hyde Park NY, owned by the guy who calls himself "Pirate Joe" and has been a long term friend of Allan Weiner and co. It's frequently heard on their webstream of 7490 when WBCQ itself is not active. The slogan of the station is "The Heart and Soul of American Music" and usually plays old pre-1960 music, some on 78 rpm records. Per the WBCQ 7490 programming schedule at http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=7490 it's also officially carried at 20-21 hours UTC as the "Pirate Joe Extravaganza." Whether this was an actual relay or a recording of that program is anyone's guess, but during Jewish holy days I've heard the WHVW classical music program relayed instead of "World Jewish News with Rabbi Yaakov Spivak". Now why WHVW was being played instead of BS, I certainly can't reasonably guess. Thank you for reading this, and have a good night (or day)`` Pirate Joe at 20-21 is Tuesdays, the only day of week when 7490 comes on that early. Can`t find anything about that `Heart & Soul` show on the WBCQ website! However there is a link on the WBCQ homepage about WHVW: ``WHVW AM 950 --- We are pleased to bring you a new internet webcast, from one of the country’s most unique and eclectic radio stations. We’re now hosting internet streaming services for WHVW, AM 950 in Hyde Park, New York. WHVW features a mix of old-fashioned blues, jazz, country and Americana music. Their website is http://www.whvw.net and the webcast can be found at http://www.splatterbox.us:6950 24 January 2013 by cosmikdebris`` By 0622 check Jan 3, 7491 is now with Brother Scare, fair signal, but eclipsed by huge signal from WRMI on 7570, plus several other overkill duplicates. 7490.0, Jan 4 at 0044, WBCQ back on frequency with music, intro two rock songs with AC-DC flavor. This would be the `Fred Flintstone` show which precedes AWWW on UT Saturdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5110v-CUSB, UT Monday Jan 6 at 0437, WBCQ is still on here after WORLD OF RADIO finished at 0430 --- `Outer Limits` opening clip, ``we control`` this & that, 0440 `Alan Maxwell` fantasy monolog, which originates with pirate KIPM. 0505 check, Brother Scare now on 5110, contrary to http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=5110 which shows him at 00-11 UT Tue-Sat only, and nothing after 0400 UT Mondays. See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Anyhow, Maxwell must have been a filler anticipating continuing 5110 on air after 0500 with BS. 7490.1, UT Monday Jan 6 at 0454, WBCQ concluding `Herald of Truth` from Kingdom Identity Ministries [white supremacist], Harrison AR, as scheduled now 04-05 UT. Used to be a daily quarter-hour show. Only slightly off-frequency this time. 0521 check now with Brother Scare; see SOUTH CAROLINA [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7385, 0002-, WHRI, Dec 30. Just happened to come across [some downunderite] with his ADX Report. This is on UT Monday at midnite UT. Might this be Cumbre DX? It's been many months since I've heard this program, and had assumed that it was no longer being produced. Excellent, of course. Went on until 0013, and switched to Pirating with Cumbre. Pretty much all there is to Cumbre DX for some time now have been these 2 segments. At least it's a current program. Finished at 0025 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also SOUTH CAROLINA [and non] ** U S A. 15550, 2020-, WJHR, Dec 28. Quite good reception with usual preaching. Pure USB. I wonder what the power is? Must just be a few hundred watts, in my opinion (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Claims to be 50 kW, which is the legal minimum requirement by FCC. See http://transition.fcc.gov/ib/sand/neg/hf_web/B13FCC01.TXT which does not specify any mode, so all presumed to be DSB AM. And WJHR own license page if you can find it. Such deceit, as would be easily confirmable by FCC monitoring in the local area, like they do vs FM pirates, should be plenty to pull the license. Fudging: could be 50 kW PEP, the SSB measure, which IIRC converts to about 12.5 kW AM, still not enough. Another thing: station could claim to have 50 kW capability, but unable to reach it, ``temporarily``, for some excuse, which no doubt is the case with certain other US SW stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15550-USB, Jan 3 at 1409, `Rock of Ages` is playing, so WJHR must be running late again: yes, soon with sign-on announcement, then more ROA theme, this time on banjo; 1412 prayer by unID preacher who thinx it is nighttime, into sermon based on Psalms LXXII: 17-20 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re: ``15610, Jan 1 at 2105, WEWN English is AWOL, tho squealing away as usual in Spanish on 13830, 12050.`` [gh] That was about one hour after I paid a spontaneous visit to Vandiver. I had parked the car a few hundred meters downhill from the WEWN gates, where I heard Spanish with a hiss on 13830 and 12050. I had assumed the hiss to be due to the close proximity. No signal on the 2x harmonics which is good, but neither on 15610. Upon walking uphill toward the fence around the txers, the Spanish (!) program also appeared on 15610, weak at first, up to S=3-4 in peaks and not stable. I had assumed the signal with a wrong feed would be skipping right overhead, undetectable on the ground underneath. Now that Glenn reports 15610 AWOL from a distance, maybe I should have checked other random frequencies for rx overload which this might have been instead. This was just a travel SW/FM radio, the Degen 1103. WEWN is tucked away in the forest; it's hard to see anything from the outside but a glimpse of one antenna between the tops of two masts. There's more to see on Google Earth, actually. Too bad I couldn't be here for the NASB tour recently. Vandiver is a cool place if you like rural America. Otherwise, you wanna get out of there. A few scattered houses, a low-notch gas station, and a couple of pick-up trucks and a random vintage car in mediocre condition standing around. Few people to be seen, but the mandatory dog that tells everybody hell breaks loose when a stranger walks down the county road to get a distant view of WEWN. 73, (Eike Bierwirth, Birmingham, AL (for one more day before flying home to Germany), Jan 3, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15610, Jan 3 at 1455, WEWN English transmitter is still missing, while 12050 & 11550 Spanish are squealing as usual; other US stations on 19m are propagating, 15550 WJHR [q.v.] and 15825 WWCR. 15610, Jan 3 at 1912, WEWN English service is back on with VG signal, after missing earlier today, and along with it the spurs circa plus/minus 9 kHz. Night English frequency 11520 also active 0045 Jan 4. Eike Bierwirth has been visiting Birmingham, and went out to see WEWN on Jan 1 [as above] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Did WRMI forget to turn off the transmitter for 7570 kHz after 0600 UT today (01/4/2014)? Seems to have: While I was unsuccessful earlier in getting a transmission from HM01 (more on that later), I found the following on the 49 meter band: 7555 kHz-- WEWN in Spanish (allegedly for Mexico, but quite loud in NYC) at 0510 UT to start, with squeals and possible jamming (is Cuba trying to claim this frequency as their own? Note that I have received some reports of Numbers Station activity on this frequency as well as 7554 kHz (the latter from M08[a]) via UDXF in recent months, thus the possibility of a Cuban "claim" on it (Shawn Fahrer, Jan 4, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11715, NEW MEXICO, KJES, Vado. 1545 January 1, 2014. Mentality unstable preacher, kiddie ID in English, then another robot kiddie ID in Spanish at 1559, into dual female Spanish preaching. Hey, at least they are finally not off-channel. Very good signal (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, JRC NRD-535; JRC-NRD-515; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; RadioShack DX-399; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; custom active portable loop; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7555, KJES, 08/01 0241 UT. Mujer habla en español sobre Jesús como el príncipe de la paz y otros asuntos sacados de la biblia. Nombra además “en esta tarde…” ¿transmisión de alguna reunión? Probablemente. SINPO: 43343 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** U S A. 7506.6, Jan 6 at 0456, Deutsche Welle news in English, undermodulated but not too distorted, the only worthwhile programming WRNO provides. And the *only* ``North American service`` of DW remaining, tho I doubt it was their idea. These are always only brief, 5 minutes? shortly before sign-off. Yes, frequency has drifted further upward, slightly closer to 7507 than 7506 instead of licensed 7505 with a much smaller tolerance (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9975, Jan 6 at 0459, KVOH with poor signal, fading, closing English with QSL address, ``give you peace`` benedixion. Now scheduled UT Sun & Mon only at 0300-0500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17775, KVOH, 08/01 1940 UT. Música cristiana tropical y mariachi con saludos a los radioescuchas de Cuba, por parte del locutor Lorenzo Martínez. Desde las 1955 hasta las 1959 se da un devocional con el “hermano Pablo”. SINPO: 45544 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** U S A. 670, Jan 5 at 1159 UT, WSCR Chicago ID as also on ``104.3 HD2 in FM quality``. That would be WJMK, K-Hits, a.k.a. Jack FM, with only 4.1 kW total H & V, per WTFDA FM database. Minuscule coverage compared to 50 kW U1 on 670, big deal. 670 is also running IBOC noise, but I don`t hear them promoting that! Merely QRMs 655-685 here and it must be awful in Chicago, also from WBBM 780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. [810, correxion]: Glenn: -- Evidently, I jumped the gun in referring to WYRE's audio (14-01) as "Christian" rock. A more detailed look at their website < http://www.khztv.com >, and greater sampling of Audio content, reveals a wholly secular approach to programming (no pun intended). The "quality" of what I heard originally was bad enough to be quickly judged as "Christian" rock; subsequent listening revealed, for example, several horrendous cover versions of mediocre Adult Contemporary "hits" from recent years. At least they are (apparently) sticking to local programming, thus avoiding satellite- sameness otherwise heard all over the U.S. AM & FM radio dials. 73zzz de (GREG HARDISON, CA, Jan 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. What even sadder is that the current owners of KAAY have never replaced the Heliax that was stolen by copper thieves so the three tower configuration after dark doesn't work. They have sounded like a graveyard station for many years and now I know why. Best regards, (Paul W0AD Staupe, Jan 8, MDXC yg via DXLD) 1090 Little Rock ** U S A. 1150, KTLK, Los Angeles noted 0700 on 3 Jan announcing new callsign KEIB and carrying NBC Sports Radio format overnight (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai 0540, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, Google Earth: 36.07.07 S, 174.36.09 E, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) EIB? As in Rush Limbaugh`s phony `network`? (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 1220, Jan 2 at 1336 UT, S Asian language stands out here, news? from N/S, no doubt The Metroplex TX outlet heard before, KZEE Weatherford but street address in North Richland Hills, P O Box in Hurst, ``South Asian Radio``, ``Hot Pepper 1220``, 1600/200 watts U4, all per NRC AM Log 2013. That means different direxional patterns day and night, despite NRC Pattern Book 2013 showing it ND day and night. FCC AM Query shows day pattern has main blob from NNE to ESE, a notch but not a deep one at 335 degrees, and not much further north toward Enid. Despite lower power, night pattern is better for us, a broad cardioid with null to its southwest. But it should now be on day pattern, official January sunrise 1330 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1440, FLORIDA, WPRD, Winter Park. 0542 January 2, 2014. Presumed the one in Haitian Kreyol talk, pointing E/W. Listed as Spanish but presume brokered Kreyol here as well (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, JRC NRD-535; JRC-NRD-515; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; RadioShack DX-399; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; custom active portable loop; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1510, WLAC, Nashville TN, 0435-0500 30-Dec, I heard song She's a Lady - Tom Jones followed by Eldon Thacker; this guy is a Hoot. I have to give credit to Larry Russell he told me about this guy. The Eldon Thacker Show is well worth listening to. It's only on Sunday night. The Station IDed as WLAC (Gary Vance, Grand Ledge MI, MARE Tipsheet 3 Jan via DXLD) ** UZBEKISTAN. 6260, CVC/The Voice Asia (via Tashkent). Nice signal and near 100% copy. 0117 end of subcontinental music, then M announcer in Hindi. Came back later was taking many many phone calls in the second half hour. 0158 M caller started with ”Halleluiah…good morning…”. The announcer also answered Halleluiah but didn’t seem to share the enthusiasm. Hard to believe this used to be so difficult and could never get a readable copy. (26 Dec.) 73 (Dave Valko, DXpedition to a reclaimed surface mine near Dunlo PA, [see EUROPE: pirates], RX: Eton E1; ANT: 315' Beverage (BOG) at 355 , Cumbre DX via DXLD) 9975, 0332-, CVC Voice Asia, Dec 29. Expecting to hear KVOH, instead I'm hearing Hindi at good level, which turns out to be CVC from Tashkent! Not a bad signal at all. 'Voice Asia' in English at 0335 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) KVOH on 9975 is now UT Sun/Mon only at 03-05 --- but Dec 29 was UT Sunday; KVOH at 100 degrees azimuth just not propagating up to there? (gh, DXLD) ** VATICAN. Piccola notizia, la Radio Vaticana pare abbia cambiato leggermente lo storico segnale di intervallo, comunque sempre sul tema del Christus Vincit. Ciao (Matteo, Jan 5, Italia? Bclnews.it yg via DXLD) 3975, 0637-, Vatican Radio, Dec 27. Very good reception with Latin Mass. Surprised with the strength noted (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Always good here in OK (gh, DXLD) ** VATICAN [non]. USA, 7205 [sic: should be 7305], Vatican R. (via Greenville) 0236 "Feliz Navidad". Good. (25 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) 7305, 05/01 0220 UT. Vía Greenville, USA. Entrevista simulada al Apóstol Pablo y desde las 0225 comienzo de noticias sobre el Papa Francisco, nombrado reiteradamente: “Obispo de Roma”. SINPO: 55444 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 20 metros, QTH: Sector sur de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** VATICAN [non]. USA, 13830, WEWN, 08/01 2200 UT. Comienzo del programa hispanoamericano de Radio Vaticano, perteneciente al 8 de Enero con noticias sobre el Papa y su mensaje del perdón cristiano. Señal con SINPO: 55555 // 12050 SINPO: 43333 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** VIETNAM. 675, 1700-, Voice of Vietnam 1, Jan 1. Very nice reception this morning. Left the air at 1700 without any sign off procedure. I suspect there were several other Vietnamese stations on today as well (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM. 7220.815, V. of Vietnam, 1232 talk by W in what may have been Russian. Didn't sound like Mandarin. 1235 M very briefly, then back to W. 1242 music briefly, then same W again joined by different W came on. // 12000. (31 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) ** VIETNAM [non]. 6175, Jan 6 at 0528, commercial for World Vision in English, tacked on by WHRI to the VOV Vietnamese relay from 0430; does VOV acquiesce to this reversion to religion, or even know about it? HFCC has dual registrations: the one from FCC shows until 0530, while BaBcoCk`s has VOV accurately only until 0528, but inaccurately with nothing at 0528-0530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM [and non]. 9920, VIETNAM jammer. 1257 January 1, 2014. The always cool police car siren jammer here with a nice signal and unidentified language presumed target under, FEBC I suppose. Recheck 1304, jammer off and just the other station here (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, JRC NRD-535; JRC-NRD-515; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; RadioShack DX-399; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; custom active portable loop; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZAMBIA. 5915, R. One/ZNBC, 0303 nice African choral songs. Best heard in a while but already fading by 0312 tune-out. (24 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) 5915, Zambia Nat. B.C., Jan 02 1600-1611, 23332, vernacular, Fish eagle IS, Announce by man, 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, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZANZIBAR. 11735, Spice FM (via ZBC), 2100 some promos, then long rap to 2103 with mentions of Spice and Internet, then siren and M DJ with mention of "Tanzaniaiaia" and Spice at 2103:45. And off at 2104. (26 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) 11735, 1809-, Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation, Dec 28. Fair to good reception. Not on the air for the last day or two, but back with ID at the end of the news in English. No more 'Spice Radio' IDs, but rather Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation. 11735, 2056-, Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation, Dec 31. Excellent reception. Earlier, I think they had some transmitter issues, but all normal now. At 2058 I'm sure I was listening to a New Year's count down, 2 minutes early??? Very enjoyable east African music. Continued until 2100:25 when transmitter cut suddenly (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZANZIBAR. ZBC Radio. Review of my monitoring of the popular, often played "Zanzibar" song. Audio clip at https://app.box.com/s/bpgqnbnl3obltmitk98g 6015 at 0355 on both Jan 1 and 4. A regular feature now at that time? 11735 at 1627 on Jan 5. A very distinctive song and an easy way to ID the station, which clearly likes to play this particular song! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE [and non] SOUTH AFRICA, 4880, 1715-, SW Radio Africa, Dec 27. AIR Lucknow dominates, but there is cochannel talk as well as a grinding jammer. Fair. SOUTH AFRICA, 4880, 1746-, SW Radio Africa, Dec 28. Fair reception, with very noisy Chinese supplied Zimbabwe tone jammer. Take them away, and reception would be fairly good. Seems in English. 4880, 1732-, SW Radio Africa, Jan 1. Good reception this morning with heavily accented English. Weak cochannel which may be AIR Lucknow. At 1736 announced that this was the New Year's Special, and gave internet address at SWRadio.com. No sign of ELWA on 4760 this morning. VOA Botswana was also very strong on 4930. Angola was audible with music as well on 4949.758, weak but in the clear (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. 12105, Jan 6 at 1618, WTWW-2 is off this Monday as it can be unpredictably, but all I hear instead is very weak carrier with unreadable modulation. I was expecting better from R. Dialogue, clandestine via Madagascar, 250 kW, 265 degrees scheduled at 1600- 1700. Is it still on daily? HFCC also has a conflicting registration for PRW, Poland via Bulgaria on 12105 at 1530-1830 thru 30 March, but that was really dropped quite a while ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic carrier search January 4 at 0054-0058 UT: checking 1520 KOKC for 1521 het, and there it is, surely 2000 kW Saudi, so worth 9-kHz stepping quickly thru entire band, but first, go directly to 891 --- Yes, het there too, probably Algeria. Other JBA carriers: 783 at 0055, probably Mauritania; 1053 at 0057, UK? 1512 at 0058, probably another Saudi with only 1000 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED [non]. SW conditions from E Asia are much improved today, but not MW. Nothing to show from a 9-kHz TP carrier search 531-999 kHz at 1333-1335 January 2. I`ll have to settle for 1220 from DFW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4005, Jan 4 at 0012 and many other times, hi-speed RTTY. Probably same transmitter I recently heard with open carrier only for protracted period, nothing to send but not turned off. But what is it? With the RTTY FSK going it`s hard to pinpoint the center frequency, which when unmodulated was off to the low side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. ESTAÇÕES NÃO IDENTIFICADAS. 4808 kHz ouvida em 28/12/2013, 0155-0210 Estação Não Identificada com musica indiana em idioma desconhecido. As 0200 comentários por OM. Seria All India Radio, Bophal (4810 kHz) fora de freqüência? (Sérgio Dória Partamian em DX Pedition ã cidade de Itatiaiuçu-MG, Brasil entre 26 e 29 de dezembro de 2013, Receptor Drake R8, Antena Kaaz [sic], DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5051, Jan 6 at 0447, open carrier; possibly WWRB, but not very strong, and may be a ute which once hetted 5050 WWRB. In 2011y, however, WWRB itself was modulating 5051 for a while (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Interesting that this carrier is audible Stateside. It's been on 5051 for what seems a very long time now, and always there whenever I tune that way. I have yet to hear modulation of any kind though. The signal is very strong at "night" but less strong during daylight hours, which seems to preclude anything out of the nearby Inskip station (Noel R. Green (NW England), Jan 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6000, Jan 4 at 0100 during RHC open carrier before IS opening English, I hear a 5?-pip timesignal ending a few seconds late. 0100 is when CNR1 Beijing finishes, and TRT Turkey starts 6000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6225. Noticed an OC here at 2027. Aired different pitch test tones after 2036 until it went off at 2046. Wonder who this was. (25 Dec) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbredx via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 7255, Jan 4 at 0034 after checking again for the Chilean pirate on 7290 (not), I hear some music here in LSB, no doubt a North American ham playing around breaking the rules. Other hams pile on making crude comments about the music-player`s sexual habits; also CW QRM in a non-CW part of the band. Then music stops; 0038 a bit more music, and one detractor gives call as KI6KY, probably phony. No, that`s in ARRL/FCC lookup as ``Browne, John K, KI6KY, Davis, CA 95616``. But don`t blame him necessarily in case miscopied, or fraudulently uttered (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED [non]. UNIDENTIFIED. 9705, 1800-, VOA, Jan 2. I was looking for the recently reported Eritrean back on 9705 to 1800. But, instead, I heard at 1800, a VOA ID and sign-off, with transmitter cutting at 1800:45. Nothing in my current lists (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9705, unID (tentative Eritrea), 9705, -1800* Jan 3. Ich konnte die Station heute identifizieren: Es ist kein Exot vom schwarzen Kontinent auf 9705, sondern die Voice of America in Kurdisch von 17-18 Uhr UT, Standort unbekannt. Das Signal bietet von S5 bis S9+ alles in einer Sendung, also auch echtes DX… 73 (Christoph Ratzer, Austria, SW Bulletin Jan 5 via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 11610, Jan 6 at 1448, two tones wavering a bit on poor signal, as if jamming, but only things here in HFCC at 14-15 are two registrations for CRI, in Chinese from Urumqi, and in Bengali from Kunming. Ditto in Aoki and EiBi. Perhaps some jamming-magnet has also jumped onto 11610 (Glenn Hasuer, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 13600, Jan 6 at 1452, tone jamming like on 11610, but with propeller-noise added here. Only thing scheduled in HFCC and EiBi, but missing from Aoki, is NHK Burmese via Singapore. Again, perhaps a jamming-worthy target has jumped in here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 88.3, Jan 3 at 1956 UT, with local translator K202BY absent [see OKLAHOMA] I have a shot at some Quadrantid meteor scatter DX as 88.3 only has weak marginal signals, and not much ACI either, unlike every other channel below 92 MHz and most of them above. So on caradio I park and listen as hourtop approaches. Several MS bursts/pings are indeed heard during the next quarter-hour, some with Doppler fading like airplane scatter, but nothing IDable: at 2007 `Science Friday` opening is audible from some NPR station (long ago dropped by KOSU/KOSR, even the first hour which is all they carried). By this time I have pulled into the garage, but keep listening until 2015. After a while interior car lites won`t switch on while the radio runs; hmmm. Meanwhile I check some other nearby frequencies and find some more intriguing MS unIDs: At 2002 there is a burst of Spanish both on 87.9 and 87.7. Suspect it`s a Mexican TV station on 87.75 (plus or minus .01 MHz), like XET in Monterrey NL, but per WTFDA FM database, it could also be one of at least 8 Franken-FMs in Spanish around the US, analog channel 6 LPTV stations funxioning as radio stations. At 2012 UT, another burst on 87.7 with music. Checking skyandtelescope.com later, 1930 UT Jan 3 was predicted to be the peak of the brief Quadrantid shower! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1703: Thanks Glenn for your continuing very hard and thorough work with WoR! (Steve McGreevy - N6NKS with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com One may also contribute by check or MO in US$ on a US bank to P O Box 1684, Enid OK, 73702 (gh) Amateur radio callsign is KK4ETK. Just got done listening to World of Radio 1701. Mr. Hauser, your work brings much joy to my life via SWL. Thank you. Dec 26, 2013 (Jeffrey L Murri, Augusta, GA, new member of the DXLD yg) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ Updated: World of Radio schedule: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html DX/SWL/Media Programs: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html Alan Roe`s SW Station Hitlist: http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm Re: Spectrum Monitor Ignorant about Shortwave Broadcasting --- Has anybody downloaded The Spectrum Monitor yet? I paid to become a charter member and my CC statement says I have despite website stating it was declined. Glenn's review of the January issue was an eye- opener. Should I bother any further? (Robin L. Harwood, VK7RH, Norwood Tasmania 7250, Jan 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, I have downloaded it. Glenn's comments are valid, but still, it's quite slick, and an enjoyable read. Since there's virtually nothing else available anymore, I'll take it. Plus, I won a free year's subscription courtesy of PCJ Media after calling in during their recent 1330 to 1430 broadcast via Sri Lanka. So I now have a 2 year subscription! 73, (Walt Salmaniw, BC, ibid.) MY POPCOMM SUBSCRIPTION, TOO Hi, Glenn! I was about to write you to see if you, too, have had problems with getting the mailed copies of PopComm, assuming that you, too, had a subscription. But I had the sense to check DXLD first and found the discussion of the issue there. So obviously I'm just one of the (abandoned) herd. I had also noticed the later-and-later arrivals, and had called for a replacement of the missing September issue when I got the late-arriving October issue, and they *did* send me one of those in an envelope after quite a delay, but then no sign of November or any subsequent issue. I had just called them this morning and just got an answering machine (but figured their office might be closed due to the snowstorm in their area); left a message IDing myself and requesting mailed copies of any issues I had missed. We'll see if they actually send me any. So I gather that they actually DID produce/print/process November and later print copies? But, if so, how could it be that those issues were not actually mailed? Maybe they ran out of money to pay the USPS for their monthly mailing cost? Must have a warehouse piled high with issues, or maybe they owe their printer for those production runs and that firm isn't letting them go until they're paid (When I spoke with the lady in their office back in October, she had alluded to "a new printer" or "problems with the printer" or something like that.) Unfortunately, my frugality in getting multi-year subscriptions bites me when something like this happens with a magazine. Sometimes refunds DO come; MT had solicited a renewal from me the issue before they announced their termination, but they *were* prompt in issuing a credit-card refund of what I had paid for a three-year renewal, less the cost of the remaining three issues. They were honorable in that, at least (despite screwing you with your column's cancellation back when that happened...). So I have a PopComm subscription thru February 2016; guess I'll just put up with this new CQ spinoff until that runs out. 73 and keep warm! (Will Martin, MO, Jan 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Will, I never subscribed to PopComm. The occasional issue I saw in the library, newsstand or somewhere did not impress me either, especially the way Gerry Dexter mishandled SWBC logs and info. And it was so out of date by the time it was in print, which seemed to take a two or three months longer even than MT. Best, Glenn (to Will via DXLD) POPCOMM CAN'T EVEN KEEP ITS OWN STORY STRAIGHT NOW Just got off the phone with a very pleasant but rather helpless person answering the phone at CQ Communications, as I continue to try to at least track down my November PopComm and hopefully a printed version of the December issue. They were supposed to have mailed out a "replacement`` copy of the November issue to me in mid-December, and of course that hasn't arrived yet. At that point, before they had finally acknowledged the demise of PopComm, they said they'd also mail me a "replacement`` December issue. Needless to say, a month has gone by with no sign of either. Now she says: (a) she'll mail me the November issue (b) they either never printed the December issue (!) or printed only a few of them (her story went back and forth on this and I couldn't pin her down, except to the extent that they don't have any print copies of December there) and don't have enough to send out to subscribers and (c) they WILL refund subscribers for unmailed issues of PopComm. All in all, as I told her, while it's understandable that magazines may fold in this economy, the way they're handling it has been atrocious. Just communicate clearly with all of us and let us know what they're doing, when they're doing it and what we can expect or not expect. If I were a CQ subscriber, I certainly wouldn't count on seeing any more print issues of that, either. I asked to speak to the publisher and was told he wasn't in. I'll be calling them daily at this point until I can get him on the phone. Sheesh (Scott Fybush, Jan 7, ABDX via DXLD) DXING HORIZONS, et al. What is Bob Cooper doing these days? Well, he writes: “I am nearly completed with copying DXing Horizons issues and they will be posted where already exist CATJ, CSD, SatFACTS and more. Also 99.9% completed is “Who invented CATV?” and it is at http://theoldcatvequipmentmuseum.org/220/226/index.html The same site address ending in .org will take you to a “Coop” selection within which you will find the aforementioned publications and when ready, DXing Horizons as well. Many (most?) group members will probably find value here” (Jan WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ DXPEDITION TO MASSET, [HAIDA GWAII] 26 DEC 2013 TO 3 JANUARY, 2014 I have just spent the above period at my DX cottage near Masset, BC on the remote islands off of the north-west coast of British Columbia on Canada’s west coast. [MW & LW] Conditions, for the most part were not particularly good, with a total absence, almost of any TA activity. There were a couple of good mornings for TP activity, especially the morning of December 30th, and to a lesser extent January 1, 2014. With conditions not up to par, I did venture much more than normal into the shortwave, especially tropical bands for some pretty good DX. With the near absence of any local noise, there were many stations heard that would never be possible in an urban environment, such as my home in Victoria, BC. The weather was particularly mild, and often quite nice with blue skies and starry nights occasionally being seen. The average temperatures were in the 7 to 9 degree C range. This compares to other years where I have experienced – 15 to – 20 deg C temperatures, during the same period of time! The normal would be in the – 5 to + 3 deg C. No complaints from me, especially since I took part in the local polar bear swim on January 1st! One advantage of sub-standard conditions is that it allows for other activities, such as erecting different antennae, or making repairs. I erected 4 antennae for this DXpedition. My stalwart is always the NW BOG, about 700’ long and aimed about 300 degrees, perfect for Asia. It was my go to antenna for almost all of my serious TP DX. My reference antenna, and quickest to erect is a double large diameter loop aimed NE/SW ALA 100LN, an excellent antenna for all frequencies from LW to the top of the MW band. I cannot recommend this antenna highly enough. Nick Hall-Patch gave me an Eavesdropper antenna a few years ago, and on my second day, I erected it about 40 feet high between a couple of evergreens near my cottage. In the past, I would climb these trees to attach the supports, and this would have taken many hours (and place myself at risk), but this time, I used the antenna sling-shot device which I purchased a few years ago on eBay, but have never used. Such simplicity! It worked the first time for both trees, and within minutes, the antenna was exactly where it was supposed to be! The results of this antenna in almost all cases were inferior to the ALA 100LN, and next to useless for anything but the SW broadcast bands (after all, it is a trap dipole). How technology has changed! I don’t even know if this antenna is still commercially available. To fill out the other antennae, I resurrected a previous favourite, a mini-Beverage which runs along the property line, due north. I was hoping for more TA activity, which never really materialized, although in many circumstances, it was a good performer for the LW band, and for some Alaskans (for instance KBRW 680 Barrow often was heard with this antenna, and absent or mixed with other domestics on the others). The length was about 450’, with the last 150’ running along the beach and buried in the sand to anchor the antenna. At high tide (and they were very high during this visit), it would be totally submerged, and usually buried by a few inches of sand, and often displaced by the currents. At low tides, I would repair the antenna, and place it on top of the sand, in line with the rest of the antenna. On at least one occasion, someone “kindly” gathered up the beach antenna into a ball, which took me a few minutes to untangle! An advantage of my cottage, especially this time of the year, is that virtually no one is around, so the antenna tangle surprised me! For the future, I brought up my newly purchased from eBay 4 antenna Wellbrook array, which should be fun to try out for it’s 360 degree capabilities. In the winter, I have to contend with a lot of domestic splatter from the lower 48 states and Canada. Next time! Before I start into the loggings section, I should mention the adventure of just getting here. We flew on Pacific Coastal Airlines from Vancouver aboard their very small 9 or 10 seat Beech 1900C twin engine aircraft. These are fine for very short haul flights, but not so for longer flights, like to Masset. Normally these are about 2 hours (and usually using a much larger Saab 340 aircraft). The flight was fine until just before touch down, when it was noted that the airport in Masset was enveloped in a very thick blanket of fog. The pilots attempted to land three times, twice from the south, and once from the north, but each time we could not see the airport in time to land. We finally diverted to Sandspit, where conditions were marginally better, after 3 hours in a tiny airplane (and no bathroom!!). I was happy to see the ground. Some negotiations followed for transport to Masset, and thankfully, a van was arranged for transport (Sandspit is a very sleepy little town, with just a few hundred people). 2 ½ hours later and one ferry trip from Moresby to Graham Island, and I finally made it to Masset. That first evening, I just quickly laid out the coax to the ALA 100, and started things from there. One of the first things that I couldn’t get over, was the total domination of China on the SW bands. Just terrible, and no reason for it, IMHO. They ruin so many other stations to be heard. Also there’s a big increase in intrusions into the SW bands from OTH radars which continuously pollute the bands. The world has changed, and not for the better. Before I post the loggings, I’d like to give you a morning’s worth of TP DX recorded on January 3, 2014. It was a particularly good morning for Asian MW DX, and so I recorded over an hour of Perseus SDR wav files for future reference. I’d be happy to share them with anyone. Just drop me a line at canswl@gmail.com and I’m sure we can arrange either a USB stick or a hard drive transfer to you. You would just have to send me the hardware and postage, and I’d take care of the rest! Here goes: I monitored between 1450 and 1830 UT. Primarily used my 700’ BOG to the NW, and my Perseus SDR, although I also have an AOR 7030+, and a NRD 535D as well. The Solar Indices were not promising: SF: 161, A: 20, K (15:00): 3, with geomagnetic storms, and blackouts occurring. I still like to use the 10 point scale, with 10 being absolutely armchair, and 1 just a very weak het. 5 is barely audible, without content, and so forth. LW: The Russian Longwave stations continue, at least for now with 3 on this morning, compared to the 31st, when there were 6 on the air (153, 189, and 279 compared to 153, 171, 180, 189, 234, and 279). All very strong! 9 levels. MW: 531: JOQG Morioka 7 with cochannel music. 549: 7 level, not NHK1 558: 8.5 level Probably HLQH with music. 567: JOIK Sapporo, at 9 level. 576: NHK 1, 3 listed but JOHG Kagoshima has 10 kW 7 level. 585: // to above most likely JOPG Kushiro at 8 level. Other cochannels too. 594: JOAK Tokyo, 9 level, but also some good strength cochannels. 603: JOOG Obihiro over HLSA at 9 level. 612: JOLK Fukuoka at 8 level at 1509 621: Earlier Pyongyang Bangsong, at 8 level. At 1525, echo +++, so now probable Heilongjiang RGD, China. 639: 8 level CNR 1, then later at 1626, JOIP Oita, // to 594 and 567. 648: 6.5 level 657: 8 level Pyongyang Pangsong. // 3250. Not as strong as in past years, it seems. 666: JOBK Osaka, 9 level, plus others. 675: 8 level Voice of Vietnam My Van 684: 8 level (no comment added) 693: 9 level JOAB Tokyo 702: 8.5 level KCBS, Chongjin. Off frequency. 711: 9 level HLKA, plus pulse jammer at 1511 720: 8 level Strong Chinese at 1532. May be CNR 2. Multiple stations earlier. ?KOTZ with open carrier this morning? 729: JOCK at 7 level, but a lot of 730 Vancouver splatter! 738: 8 level 2 cochannels at 1534. Didn’t stay to see who they were. 747: 9 level JOIB Sapporo 756: 8 level with a lot of splatter. At 1540 echo +++ CNR 1 774: JOUB Akita at 9 level. Also cochannel at 1541. After NHK2 sign- off, noted American oldies at 1700, followed by an English ID for DWWW, Quezon City, Philippines! A real highlight for me, and the first Filipino heard this DXpedition. 783: 8 level Chinese echo ++, so presumed Hebei RGD at 1548 792: 8 level Chinese at 1551 819: 9 level KCBS, // 2850 828: 9 level JOBB Osaka 837: 9 level NHK 1 station (2 listed, 10 kW JOQK Niigata, but a 1 kW closer station in Nayoro, Hokkaido), much stronger than CC cochannel at 1557. 846: 7 level NHK 1 (Many listed between 0.1 and 5 kW) 873: JOGB, Kumamoto 8 level, with cochannels at 1558 882: 7.5 level Chinese station plus het from 882.428, presumed North Korea 891: 7.5 level JOHK Sendai 909: 8 level JOCB Nagoya (NHK2) over JOVX Abashiri (STV), but equal at 1610 918: 6.5 level 945: 9 level CNR 1, but at 1610, NHK 1 (?JOIQ Muroran, Hokkaido) stronger than CNR 1 954: JOKR Tokyo at 9 level at 1612 963: 7 level NHK 1 (5 between 1 and 5 kW) at 1612 972: 9 level HLCA Dangjin, and CC cochannel at 1615 981: CNR 1 at 9 level 990: 9 level JORK Kochi 999: 8 level NHK 1 at 1618 (7 outlets between 0.1 and 1 kW) at 1618 1008: 9 level JONR Osaka 1017: JOLB Fukuoka 9 level, with NHK 2 sign-off at 1620 1035: 8 level NHK 2 (7 outlets 0.1 to 1 kW) and CNR 1 1044: 7 level KBS 1 (2 - 10 kW outlets) // 711 at 1624 1053: JOAR Nagoya 9 level, // 720 1062: HLKQ Cheongju at 7 level // 711 at 1631 1071: JOFK Hiroshima (NHK 1) at 9 level at 1632 (and not JOWM Obihiro, Hokkaido) 1089: 8 level Chinese echos, presumed Liaoning RGD 1098: 8 level Japanese. Didn’t wait to figure out which (8 different transmitters and different networks) 1107: 7 level Japanese at 1751 1125: 8 level at 1640. ? further info. 1134: 8 level JOQR Tokyo, but faded and a Chinese sounding music (not CNR 1) became dominant. 1143: 7 level JOBR Kyoto, // 1485 1161: 8 level with call-in show, I think NHK 1 (many 0.1 kW transmitters), and way over CNR 1 1170: 9 level HLSR Gimje, way over KJNP, // 972 at 1653 1179: 9 level JOOR Osaka 1188: 9 level JOKP Kitami 1197: 7 level Japanese, not // to 1440 1206: 6.5 level 1215: 7 level, // 1143, so either JOBW Hirnoe, or JOBO Maisuru 1224: 7 level with EZL music 1233: 7 level Japanese at 17:06 (5 transmitters 0.1 to 5 kW) 1242: 8 level JOLF Tokyo at 17:50 1269: Measured frequency and noted the following transmitters: 1269.000, .004, .008, .111. // to 1287, and music with the off-channel station. JOHW Obihiro or JOFM Esashi, both on Hokkaido 1278: 7 level JOFR Fukuoka // 1287 1287: 9 level JOHR Sapporo, and 1 cochannel at 1742 1296: 7 level with several CC, as well as JOTK Matsue (NHK1 with 10 kW) 1305: 6.5 level ? CC 1314: 9 level JOUF Osaka at 1738 1323: KBS 1 (2 transmitters here). At 17:22 recheck KBS 1 plus another cochannel 1332: 9 level JOSF Nagoya 1341: 7 level NHK 1 station (23 transmitters, all 100 watts only!) 1350: 9 level JOER Hiroshima 1359: 7 level CNR 1 1368: 9 level 1 cochannels at 17:33: NHK 1 (12 transmitters 0.1 to 5 kW) and also JOTS Wakkanai with HBC network // 1287) 1386: 7 level CC vocal, not CNR 1 1395: 7 level CC and cochannel 1404: 9 level JOQL Kushiro, // 1413, and 1287 at 1728, later not in // 1413: 8 level JOIF Fukuoka, // 1485 1422: 7 level 2 cochannels 1431: 7 level JJ 1440: JOWF Sapporo 9 level at 1724 1449: 9 level JOQM Abashiri (and only 5 kW), // 1287 1467: 9 level HLKN Mokpo // 711 1485: 8 level no info recorded 1494: 8 level live concert at 17:17, not //1287 ? JOYR Okayama 1503: 9 level NHK 1 JOUK Akita at 1715 1539: Open carrier 1714. NHK 2 (17 – 100w transmitters) 1557: 7 level big carrier, but no or little modulation 1566: HLAZ Jeju always 9 level! 1575: 8 level AFN with music. Only heard a single station. Other days could hear 2 separate AFN feeds, at much better levels. Do we know which station carries which feed? 1584: 8 level NHK 1 at 1709 (28 – 100 watt transmitters) 1593: 8 level CNR 1 at 1708 1602: 8 level NHK 2 OC at 1707 (28 – 0.1 to 1 kW transmitters) No X-band activity this morning. Conditions took a sudden dive at 1815 UT. That’s a taste of what was heard on a single morning. Of course, there will be a lot to mine from the Perseus wav files! Now on to the loggings for the period: (Walt Salmaniw, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) All his SW logs and a few more MW/LW, are above, country by country in this issue, one reason it is late being finished, as each had to be edited and placed, even more so Valko`s (gh) One of my dream trips is to go a little further up the coast into Alaska and bring my Kaito KA-1103 with me. The reception you got in Masset, BC, is this typical of places across the inlet like Prince of Wales Island and other secluded area in far SE Alaska? Or do you know? (Rich Lewis, MS, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Rich, it should be, as Prince of Wales Island is just north from Masset, but, remember, I'm using a 700' Beverage on the Ground, so one couldn't expect the same with a portable. That being said, no reason why one couldn't hear all sorts of neat stuff. Another but, if you travel in summer, you'd be getting up at 04:00 local to hear anything! 73, (Walt Salmaniw, ibid.) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ QUESTION RE: TOK PISIN HI GLENN - wishing you the best in the coming year. You're the only person I can think of at the moment who would know the answer to this question. Do you know what the "pidgin" word that sounds like "long" means? One way I quickly identify the language is by hearing very English sounding words sprinkled with "long", that is, "long rain, long hurricane season, long.....". and so on (Rick Barton, AZ, Jan 3, DX LISTENING DIGESET) Hi Rick, Yes, it`s really ``bilong`` I think they spell it, i.e. belong. It indicates possessive, like Maus Bilong Sepik, one of the station slogans in WRTH. I guess Maus = mouth, so it`s the Voice of Sepik, or Sepik`s voice. However from the examples you mention, its meaning may be a bit broader. Also spelt blong, or b`long. The b tends to get swallowed. Best to you in 2014 too (Glenn to Rick, via DXLD) Thank you Glenn on all counts! :)) (Rick Barton, ibid.) WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ INDIA COULD GET SECOND TIME ZONE WITH ASSAM ONE HOUR AHEAD All India | Written by Alok Pandey (With input from agencies) | Updated: January 03, 2014 10:49 IST Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi is campaigning to scrap India's single time zone, which causes problems for easterners who face summer sunrise as early as 4:30am. Despite India's vast size, it has one time of +5:30 from Greenwich Mean Time for its 1.2-billion population, spread from points further east than Bangladesh to the western Arabian Sea. At this time of year the sun rises in the east shortly before 6am, more than 90 minutes earlier than in the west, while daybreak in the east comes as early as 4:30am around the summer solstice. "We need a local time for Assam and the other northeastern states which will be ahead of the Indian Standard Time (IST) by at least an hour to 90 minutes," said Mr Gogoi. "We have an early daybreak in the northeast compared to other parts of India and if we have a separate time zone then it would undoubtedly be very productive for all of us and would also help in saving energy," he added. He plans to lobby in New Delhi for a change, renewing a campaign which last gathered momentum in 2010. Mr Gogoi says sticking to Indian Standard Time means a loss of daylight hours and an attendant decrease in productivity for his state. For instance, a farmer in Assam can start work one hour before her or his counterpart in a state like Gujarat He points out that tea gardens in Assam have for years set their clocks an hour ahead of the rest of the country. The proposal for a different time zone will have to be cleared by the Centre (NDTV.com via DXLD) See INDIA for link VOA 2103 ON PINTEREST Dear Friends of VOA, As we head into the New Year, we thought it would be nice to take a look back at some of our accomplishments in 2013. We hope you will enjoy this Pinterest page display http://www.pinterest.com/voabuzz/2013-in-review/ that highlights many of the new radio, television, mobile and Internet programs we added in the past 12 months, as well as some of the awards and milestones that made it a memorable year. Find us on Pinterest --- Around the world in 45 languages, VOA now reaches more than 164 million people every week, and we thank you for your continued support. Happy New Year from the entire staff at the Voice of America (VOA PR via DXLD) Just a roundup of press releases DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IBOC Updates, Part 2 Thanks to all who responded to my request for info on the IBOC status of certain stations a few weeks back. I still have a substantial list of stations that I have reason to believe may have dropped IBOC, but lack a definitive answer on their current status. Here's the remaining list: 580 WTAG Worcester MA 650 KENI Anchorage AK 670 KDLG Dillingham AK 790 WQXI Atlanta GA 860 KMVP Phoenix AZ 920 KARN Little Rock AR 930 KNSA Unala[k]leet AK 990 WMYM Miami FL 990 KATD Pittsburg CA 1070 WNCT Greenville NC 1230 WYTS Columbus OH 1260 WSUA Miami FL 1270 WCGC Belmont NC 1300 WAVZ New Haven CT 1310 WGSP Charlotte NC 1310 WTLC Indianapolis IN 1380 WMYF Portsmouth NH 1400 WGIN Biddeford ME 1450 WOL Washington DC 1470 KIID Sacramento CA 1480 WGFY Charlotte NC 1480 WGVU Kentwood MI 1630 WRDW Augusta GA My request to KDLG/KNSA for info on their status went unanswered. I haven't attempted to contact any of the other listed stations yet. If anyone reading this is in a position to check any of them out directly, please do so and let me know what you find out. Thanks, (Barry McLarnon Ottawa, ON, Jan 2, ABDX yg via DXLD) And of course yahoogroups digest will not display his e-mail address (gh) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See AUSTRALIA; AUSTRIA; CROATIA; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ EQUATORIAL GUINEA; GERMANY; NEW ZEALAND; NIGERIA; NORWAY; ROMANIA; RUSSIA; SOUTH CAROLINA; UK DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- EVERYTHING +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ A slew of news on digital radio today at radiomagonline.com: New Siano chip supports both mobile TV and digital radio (DAB, DRM, DVB, etc): http://tinyurl.com/qbv4zpy Ibiquity claims big growth in sales and listening (umm, divide this by the 315 million population in the US and it’s not as impressive): http://tinyurl.com/mttlgfg Frontier Silicon announces 4th generation radio chip (DRM, DAB, IBOC, etc): http://tinyurl.com/lup5xhz And more... such is CES week. – (-Rob de Santos, K8RKD, Horizons Columnist, CQ Plus Magazine, Jan 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ SIGNALS WHICH AREN`T THERE, BUT QUIRX TO BE AWARE OF ON THE DX-398: 5211-RCUSB, Jan 4 at 0017 political monolog sounds like a broadcast rather than a ham, about psychological profiling; then another voice on the same carrier, poor-fair. Bingo, it`s the same as on very strong 6115 WWCR, which in the AM mode puts a 2 x 450 IF receiver image on 5215, but when tuned in USB it`s on 5211. And when tuned in LSB, it`s on 5219, i.e. 4 kHz offset oppositely. If one switches to the opposite sideband on either, nothing is heard, nor is the image audible on 5215 while in the USB or LSB tuning modes. The same thing applies to bigsig 5830 WTWW: main image in AM is on 4930, which I am well aware of and avoid, but in USB it`s on 4926, and in LSB on 4934. One could easily assume these are real feeders or something. Bigsigs from anything else overloading on 49m such as RHC would behave same way (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DO YOU STILL LISTEN TO BASEBALL ON THE RADIO? http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ABDX/conversations/topics/63666 (via DXLD) CES 2014: ETÓN CORPORATION ANNOUNCES NEW WORLD TRAVELER RADIOS (LAS VEGAS, NV – Booth #31247, South Hall 3 – January 7, 2014) – Etón Corporation (www.etoncorp.com), a leading creator of high-performance, eco-minded consumer products, announces four additions to the Etón radio line at CES 2014. New models include the Etón Field, Etón Mini, the Etón Traveler III and the Etón Satellit, all of which celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Satellit radio. All feature AM, FM and Shortwave radio and multiple power options, making them the perfect option to use at home and for travelers looking to stay tuned in while on the go. Each of the radios will make their debut at Etón's booth, #31247, in South Hall 3. Etón Satellit – Paying homage to the features that have made Satellit radios the top performers in radio reception and audio quality for the past 50 years, the Etón Satellit receives every radio wavelength – AM(MW), FM with RDS, Longwave and Shortwave - at home and abroad, making it the ultimate travel companion. Take the news of the world wherever you go. Features include: Single Sideband (SSB) and VHF aircraft band A PLL dual synthesized conversion receiver so your AM signal comes in strong and clear RDS for FM which enables users to see your favorite stations' call letters, style of music and song title A Sync Detector, which lowers distortion and fading Ability to store up to 700 stations Line input to plug-in your favorite device Local and world time settings Rich orange LCD display Alarm clock, sleep timer and time backup Specs & pics at: http://www.etoncorp.com/en/productdisplay/satellit Etón Field – Featuring AM(MW), FM with RDS and Shortwave radio features, the Etón Field boasts high-sensitivity, strong anti- interference and fine-tuning of stations, so they come in loud in clear, with low background noise and distortion. This portable radio, complete with carrying strap, has local and world time settings, alarm clock and sleep timer. The Etón Field even displays the temperature on its rich orange LCD display, ensuring you are always prepared while in the field. Specs & pics at: http://www.etoncorp.com/en/productdisplay/field Etón Mini – This compact radio gives you access to news and music from across the globe, right in your pocket, whether on an AM, FM or Shortwave frequency. The Mini's built-in digital tuner and internal and telescoping antennas easily identify stations, which can be viewed on the high-contrast digital display. The radio also features an alarm clock, sleep timer and earphone jack. Perfect to listen to the radio broadcast at your favorite sporting events. Specs & pics at: http://www.etoncorp.com/en/productdisplay/mini Etón Traveler III – The Etón Traveler III receives a multitude of radio wavelengths – AM(MW), FM with RDS, Longwave and Shortwave. Providing four options to tune the radio including auto, manual and Auto Tuning Storage (ATS), the Etón Traveler III also boasts internal and telescoping antennas to ensure your reception is clear and crisp. The Etón Traveler III can store up to 500 stations in the memory and the rich, orange LCD display allows you to see temperature and time. The perfect travel companion, the Traveler III also features an alarm clock and sleep timer. Specs & pics at: http://www.etoncorp.com/en/productdisplay/traveler-iii "We are proud to have been designing and selling shortwave radios in the United States for the past 30 years," said Esmail Hozour of Etón Corporation. "Celebrating the 50-year anniversary of Satellit is a testament to the quality of the technology and we are excited to bring these new products to the passionate radio fans around the world." The Etón Satellit ($229.99), Etón Field ($149.99), Etón Mini ($44.99) and Etón Traveler III ($69.99) are all expected to be available in Q2 of 2014. To learn more about Etón and their products, please visit http://www.etoncorp.com (Etón Corporation Press Release) --- (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, Jan 7, DXLD) Hey Gang, has anyone seen the new Radios Eton has? http://www.etoncorp.com/en/productdisplay/satellit http://www.etoncorp.com/en/productdisplay/traveler-iii http://www.etoncorp.com/en/productdisplay/mini http://www.etoncorp.com/en/productdisplay/field I am kind of digging the Traveler III (neonmako, ptsw yg via DXLD) TECSUN PL-880 FREQUENCY READOUT Hi all, nobody knew this had hidden features & that they could be manually over-ridden. Now that we know, tuning in 0.5 & 1.2 kHz is possible by turning off DNR & having SYNC on. But I don't know yet if there is a hidden fix for frequency display being wrong. I used YPL 382 [MW beacon] for my main test. First on 382.0 USB like it should be. Tune away from it & come back, now it's on 383.0! Again tune away & come back, now it's on 381.5! I have also noted the frequency change when I did not tune away from station, but just approaching the tune in slowly. I got the radio ordered 12/8 & received 12/13, so my time to get a refund is running out, but might rather them repair or replace with the 1 year warranty as it does show some promise. I just hope it doesn't take 3-4 tries to get it right. I had a few TA carriers on MW, including Spain (?) on 999 kHz. 73, (George Sherman, MN, Jan 7, MDXC yg via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ GEOMAGNETIC INDICES Compiled by: Phil Bytheway E-mail: phil_tekno @ yahoo.com Geomagnetic Summary December 1 2013 through December 31 2013 Tabulated from email status daily (K @ 0000 UTC.) Flux A K Space Wx 1 131 10 1 no storms 2 134 2 0 no storms 3 136 7 2 no storms 4 138 4 1 no storms 5 150 5 1 no storms 6 151 4 1 no storms 7 157 6 3 minor, R1 8 166 26 2 moderate, G2 9 168 5 1 no storms 10 175 5 1 no storms 11 171 4 1 no storms 12 165 3 1 no storms 13 163 3 1 no storms 14 164 16 3 no storms 15 156 7 1 no storms 16 154 7 2 no storms 17 154 7 0 no storms 18 156 4 2 no storms 19 153 5 2 minor, R1 20 149 6 1 minor, R1 21 144 4 0 no storms 22 138 3 0 minor, R1 23 136 3 1 minor, R1 24 128 2 1 no storms 25 123 7 1 no storms 26 125 3 0 no storms 27 131 3 1 no storms 28 135 3 1 minor, S1 29 137 5 1 minor, S1, R1 30 143 3 1 no storms 31 145 6 1 moderate, R2 Sx – Solar Radiation Storm Level Gx – Geomagnetic Storm Level Rx – Radio Blackouts Level (IRCA DX Monitor Jan 4 via DXLD) SUN EMITTED TWO SOLAR FLARES SAYING GOODBYE TO 2013 AND HELLO TO 2014 Red Orbit January 3, 2014 The sun ushered out 2013 and welcomed 2014 with two mid-level flares on Dec. 31, 2013 and Jan. 1, 2014. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however — when intense enough — they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel. This disrupts the radio signals for as long as the flare is ongoing, anywhere from minutes to hours. To see how this event may impact Earth, please visit NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ the U.S. government’s official source for space weather forecasts, alerts, watches and warnings. The first flare was categorized as an M6.4 and it peaked at 4:58 p.m EST on Dec. 31. The second (above) was categorized as an M9.9 and peaked at 1:52 p.m. EST on Jan. 1. Both flares emerged from the same active region on the sun, AR1936. Imagery of the flares was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which keeps a constant watch on the sun, collecting new data every 12 seconds. http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1113038342/two-solar-flares-welcome-the-new-year-010314/ (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) Randy Crews, W7TJ of Spokane, Washington sent in an observation on the current solar cycle: "The year 2013 will have the highest average Solar Flux of Cycle 24, 123 vs. 120 approximately for 2012. Fourth Quarter of 2011 was still the highest quarter of Solar activity in Cycle 24 with an average SF of 147.7 vs. 142.7 for the fourth quarter of 2013. It looks as if we will see a carry over effect into the New Year. "The big difference has been the SIZE of sunspots, not the number. Comparatively, we have had the same number of sunspots each month of this year. (Usually about 10-15 spots per day.) In October, November and December there was a dramatic increase in the size of the sunspots, raising the solar flux to values in the 160 to 175 range and igniting 10 and 12 meters. Currently there is a very large sunspot rotating into view on the left side of the Sun. "Sunspots are important, however as this cycle has demonstrated - size does matter. Twenty small sunspots can be present, however if they are small, increases in solar flux will be anemic, and the higher bands will suffer. The key is solar flux, and CERTAINLY NOT the lagging indicator of smoothed sunspot numbers which will show a peak long after it occurs. Kind of like showing up for the Rose Bowl in Pasadena two months after it's played or put another way, you can be running Europeans on 10 Meters with a SF of 175, and the Solar Cycle peak might be 'officially&# 39; noted as happening three months later when the Solar Flux is 95, and your sweating talking to Europeans on 15 meters - hardly an accurate depiction and certainly having no bearing on amateur' s operating plans for either contests or DXing." (QST de W1AW, Propagation Forecast Bulletin 1 ARLP001, From Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, WA January 3, 2014, To all radio amateurs, via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) GIANT SUNSPOT Southgate January 4, 2014 Space weather report sunspot AR1944, which appeared on January 1st, is one of the largest sunspots of the current solar cycle. It's so big, people are noticing it as a naked-eye blemish on the solar disk. Although the sunspot has been relatively quiet and stable since it first appeared on New Year's Day, a region of this size has the potential to produce significant activity. Indeed, NOAA forecasters, who say they are keeping a close eye on this behemoth, estimate a 75% chance of M-flares and a 30% chance of X-flares on Jan. 4th. Space Weather http://spaceweather.com/ http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2014/january/giant_sunspot.htm#.UsmnVDaYbDc (via Mike Terry, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) !! NEVER LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN WITH YOUR ``NAKED EYE``! Even if near sunset or obscured by clouds. What they really mean is that the spot is so large that no magnification would be needed to see it. Project it or use standard eclipse-viewing gear such as a welder`s helmet. Even cheap binoculars can be used to safely project the sun onto a shaded card (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2014 Jan 06 0453 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 30 December - 05 January 2014 Solar activity was at low levels on 30 December and 05 January. Between 31 December through 04 January, solar activity reached moderate levels due to multiple M-class flares from both Regions 1936 (S16, L=225, class/area Eac/280 on 31 December) and 1944 (S09, L=099, class/area Fkc/1480 on 05 January). Region 1936 produced M-class flares on 31 December, 01 January, and 04 January. It also produced the largest flare of the period, an M9/2b at 01/1852 UTC along with a non-Earth directed coronal mass ejection (CME). On 01 January, Region 1944 rotated onto the southeast limb as one of the largest sunspot groups of solar cycle 24. During the period it produced a total of six M-class flares. The largest of these was a long duration M4 at 04/1946. The source of the flare was actually slightly westward of the sunspots, however extreme ultraviolet imagery showed that the flare loops were connected to the larger leader spot. A Type IV radio sweep and a 550 sfu Tenflare was associated with this flare along with an asymmetric full halo CME (approximate speed of 811 km/s). The CME was first observed in SOHO/LASCO C2 imagery at 04/2148 UTC with the majority of the ejecta slightly south of the ecliptic, however an Earth-directed component was determined to be very likely. The period started off with the greater than 10 MeV proton flux at geosynchronous orbit enhanced but in decline below the 10 pfu threshold on 30 December which originated from backsided activity on 28 December. By 31 December, proton flux levels had returned to near background levels. Conditions continued at background levels until another enhancement below the 10 pfu threshold was observed beginning at 05/0115 UTC, likely associated with the M4 flare from Region 1944 late on 04 January. Proton flux levels peaked at 0.8 pfu at 05/1405 UTC before beginning to slowly decline by the end of the period. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at low levels from 30 December through 01 January. High levels were observed on 02 January with a peak flux of 1780 pfu at 02/1950 UTC. From 03 January through the end of the period, the electron flux continuously reached moderate levels. Moderate to high levels were in response to coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) influence. Geomagnetic field activity was at quiet levels on 30-31 December and again on 04-05 January. On 01 January, total field began to rise to near 17 nT with the Bz component between +9 nT and -14 nT by mid-day on 01 January followed by an increase in solar wind speed and temperature indicative of a co-rotating interaction region followed by a positive polarity CH HSS. Solar wind speed rose to a maximum near 670 km/s by 02/2100 UTC before slowly declining towards background levels through the end of the period. The geomagnetic field responded with quiet to active levels on 01 January, quiet to minor storm levels on 02 January, and quiet to unsettled levels on 03 January. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 06 JANUARY-01 FEBRUARY 2014 Solar activity is expected to be at moderate levels with a chance for high levels through 15 January when Region 1944 rounds the west limb. Moderate to high levels of activity are again possible after 28 January with the anticipated return of Region 1944. For the remainder of the period, activity is expected to be low with a chance for moderate levels. There is an increasing chance for proton events at geosynchronous orbit, particularly between 08-15 January as Region 1944 crosses the central meridian and moves towards an ever more favoarable position. The threat decreases after 15 January as Region 1944 rounds the west limb. The remainder of the period should see a low potential for proton events in the absence of any new large region development. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal to moderate levels during the forecast period. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to reach active to minor storm levels, with a slight chance for major storm levels early in the period for 07-08 January as a coronal mass ejection observed on 04 January is expected to arrive at Earth. Unsettled to active conditions associated with recurrent coronal hole high speed streams are possible 10-11, 23-24, and 28-30 January. The remainder of the forecast period is expected to see quiet to unsettled conditions in the absence of any other transient features. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2014 Jan 06 0453 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 2014-01-06 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2014 Jan 06 220 5 2 2014 Jan 07 220 15 5 2014 Jan 08 215 18 4 2014 Jan 09 215 5 2 2014 Jan 10 215 12 3 2014 Jan 11 205 8 3 2014 Jan 12 200 5 2 2014 Jan 13 200 5 2 2014 Jan 14 195 5 2 2014 Jan 15 175 5 2 2014 Jan 16 155 5 2 2014 Jan 17 150 5 2 2014 Jan 18 150 5 2 2014 Jan 19 150 5 2 2014 Jan 20 155 5 2 2014 Jan 21 160 5 2 2014 Jan 22 160 5 2 2014 Jan 23 160 10 3 2014 Jan 24 165 8 3 2014 Jan 25 165 5 2 2014 Jan 26 165 5 2 2014 Jan 27 170 5 2 2014 Jan 28 185 10 3 2014 Jan 29 190 18 4 2014 Jan 30 190 8 3 2014 Jan 31 190 5 2 2014 Feb 01 190 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1703, DXLD) BBC 2 DOCUMENTARY AURORA Today 7-1-2014 at 2000 UT on BBC 2 TV a documentary about Aurora in N Norway, UK listeners must be able to watch a repeat on the net. I think BBC will run it again as a repeat over the following week. 73's (Rudy van Dalen, Netherlands, Jan 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The BBC 2 TV programme is called Stargazing Live, and it is being broadcast over three days at 2000-2100 UT followed by 30 minutes of discussion. That's on Tuesday to Thursday. The Aurora in Norway is only one of the items included. I haven't looked, but it will probably be available on the BBC iPlayer. The large CME was shown and discussed, and it may, or may not, cause the Aurora to be seen in parts of the UK, and enhance that already on show as a green band of light in Norway (Noel R. Green (NW England - where it's still cloudy), Jan 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) HUGE SUNSPOT ERUPTS Space Weather News for Jan. 7, 2014 http://spaceweather.com/ STRONG SOLAR ACTIVITY: One of the largest sunspots in years, AR1944, has turned toward Earth and it is crackling with strong flares. So far on Jan. 7th, the active region has produced M7- and X1-class eruptions, and more appear to be in the offing. As this alert is being issued, analysts are waiting for more data from solar observatories to clarify the possibility of CME impacts and geomagnetic storms in the days ahead. For updates, stay tuned to http://spaceweather.com/ See http://www.radio-electronics.com/info/propagation/ionospheric/solar-flares.php for more details: Effect of solar flares: For most solar flares, the main effect felt on Earth is an increase in the level of solar radiation. This radiation covers the whole electromagnetic spectrum and elements such as the ultra-violet, X-rays and the like will affect the levels of ionisation in the ionosphere and hence it has an effect on radio communications via the ionosphere. Often an enhancement in ionospheric HF propagation is noticed as the higher layers of the ionosphere have increased levels of iononisation. However if the levels of ionisation in the lower elvels start to rise then this can result in higher levels of attenuation of the radio communications signals and poor conditions may be experienced. Additionally an increase in the level of background noise at VHF can also be detected easily (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) Yesterday (Tuesday 7 Jan) there was a complete blackout at my QTH in San Diego starting at around 1817 UT. I had just finished a 10M QSO with the East Coast and then went to check the SWBC bands and everything was gone. Within about a half hour higher frequencies gradually came back but lower frequencies (e.g. usually strong WWCR and WTWW on 31 MB) were still way down, even a hour afterward. (Bob LaRose, W6ACU, Jan 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Jan 8, 3:40 PM EST NORTHERN LIGHTS MAY EXPAND SOUTH NEXT COUPLE DAYS WASHINGTON (AP) -- Northerners thawing out from a bitter freeze may get rewarded with shimmering northern lights the next couple days. Federal space weather forecaster Joe Kunches said the sun shot out a strong solar flare late Tuesday, which should arrive at Earth early Thursday. It should shake up Earth's magnetic field and expand the Aurora Borealis south, possibly as far south as Colorado and central Illinois. He said best viewing would probably be Thursday evening, weather permitting. The University of Alaska's Geophysical Institute predicts much of Canada and the northern fringes of the U.S. should see the northern lights. Chicago, Boston, Cleveland, Seattle and Des Moines might see the shimmering colors low on the horizon. The solar storm is already diverting airline flights around the poles and may disrupt GPS devices Thursday (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ###