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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1717: *DX and station news about: Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, Germany, India, International Vacuum, Ireland non, Korea North non, Malaysia, Nigeria, North America, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Taiwan, USA, Uzbekistan SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1717, April 17-23, 2014 Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [replayed 1716] Thu 1230 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 2101 WTWW 9475 [confirmed] Fri 0326v WWRB 5050 [confirmed] Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [silent this week] Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [silent this week] Sat 2330v WTWW 9930 [off the air; to be added somewhen compensating] Sun 0030 WRMI 9495 [confirmed] Sun 0401 WTWW 5830 [confirmed] Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1300 WRMI 9955 [on northwest antenna] Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1718 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 WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS HAVE RESUMED starting with #1701: Tnx to Dr Harald Gabler and the Rhein-Main Radio Club. http://www.rmrc.de/index.php?option=com_podcast&view=feed&format=raw&Itemid=156&lang=de 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/ ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. SRI LANKA {UNIDENTIFIED}, 13840, Unid station program in Dari/Persian? Noted around 0210 to 0225 UT April 12. Talk by two men and a woman, followed by ME like AFG music. Is now Iranawila outlet of VoA Deewa radio. 01-04 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA. AIR FORCE PREDICTS SUMMER SHUTDOWN FOR POWERFUL HAARP TRANSMITTER IN ALASKA --- Dermot Cole April 9, 2014 The end could be near for the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program near Glennallen unless the Air Force finds an organization to run the facility. The Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks hopes to put together a plan to take on the task. HAARP photo [caption of antenna view] http://www.alaskadispatch.com/sites/default/files/styles/ad_slideshow_940/public/images/topic/features/haarp-1.jpg?itok=N1IEdZUO [but this leads to no slideshow, just this single impressive photo] FAIRBANKS -- The U.S. Air Force says time is running out on the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program near Glennallen, the most powerful transmitter of its kind in the world. "If no transition organization is identified, the Air Force plans to decommission the research site and initiate divestiture in June," Air Force spokesman Ed Gulick said in an email. Gulick said the Air Force Research Laboratory would like to see HAARP survive, but only if someone else pays the bills, estimated at about $5 million a year. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy organized a meeting Feb. 26 of federal agencies with an interest in ionospheric research, hoping to develop options to save HAARP. The 30-acre field of antennas, power plant and associated buildings is about 15 miles from Glennallen along the Tok Cutoff near Gakona. Mixed signals emerged from that February session. At first, it appeared that research agencies might have two or three years to develop a business plan. But then the Air Force said it wanted to cut the power when a final research project wraps up next month. Important for studying ionosphere Robert McCoy, director of the University of Alaska Geophysical Institute, is trying to organize a campaign to keep HAARP running. He and other researchers in Alaska and elsewhere see the facility as one of the premier institutions in the world for studying the ionosphere, the atmospheric region that begins about 55 miles above Earth and ends about 370 miles up. "We are holding our breath to hear what the federal government wants to do with HAARP," he said in an email. McCoy said researchers are working under the assumption that there is a willingness to keep HAARP together long enough to create a business plan for the future. "We are reaching out to the U.S. scientific community to build partnerships and identify funding sources that we can pursue jointly," he said. In addition, proponents are working on ways to publicize the scientific work that can be performed at the site and mobilize researchers. "As soon as we know there is a way forward and a mechanism, we will start contacting international experimenters and funding organizations to see how much international funding for HAARP could be found," McCoy said. "Since we don’t own the facility or have any control over it, all we can do is plan and work to increase awareness." 180 antennas spread across 30 acres The HAARP project flourished when Sen. Ted Stevens was in office, but it no longer enjoys the financial support he aimed at the project for more than 15 years. Built at a cost of more than $290 million, it uses electric power generated on the site to power 180 antennas spread across 30 acres that are used to heat electrons in the ionosphere and monitor changes. Construction on HAARP, funded by earmarks from Stevens, began two decades ago. It went to full power in 2007. The equipment does not heat the atmosphere and it is not a mind-control machine or a weather- control machine, though claims to the contrary have become part of the conspiracy culture over the last 20 years. The Air Force says the final research experiments are to take place this month and next, part of the Basic Research on Ionospheric Characteristics and Effects (BRIOCHE) campaign funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. "During the BRIOCHE campaign the facility will be inventoried and evaluated to determine if equipment can be provided to other agencies and inputs to remediation costs. Providing excess instruments can save the government millions of dollars in procurements and support other scientific and engineering activities. Thus HAARP will remain active only through May 2014 unless a transition organization is found," Gulick said. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency describes the BRIOCHE program as one to explore "ionospheric phenomena and its impact on communications and space weather. This research focuses on the underlying physics of ionospheric storms ... and other ionospheric effects over a broad range of optical and radio frequencies." "People are interested in ionospheric modification because they are interested in radio wave propagation -- to facilitate or disrupt communications. And to study basic plasma physics," researcher Herbert Carlson of Utah State University told the publication Physics Today for its April edition. The publication quoted Brett Isham of Interamerican University in Puerto Rico as saying that HAARP is the most powerful facility of its type. He said HAARP has been able to create artificial plasma layers, which came as a surprise. "People had thought of this, but didn’t expect that HAARP’s energy density would be enough. It has potential for controlling the ionosphere for applications such as enhanced over- the-horizon radar and tailored radio communication links," Isham said. $6,000 an hour One option mentioned as a way to improve the capability of HAARP has been to move a National Science Foundation radar system from Poker Flat north of Fairbanks to the HAARP site for a year or so. Physics Today quoted a foundation executive as saying that a longer move is unlikely because other sites need the equipment as well. Robert Robinson said the foundation doesn’t have the money to support HAARP operations, but "we are interested in it as a scientific research facility." McCoy, the Geophysical Institute director, told Physics Today that this is not an Air Force question, "it’s a national question." He said Japan, Russia and Sweden may be willing to buy time at HAARP, paying $6,000 an hour to run ionospheric experiments. Related: Air Force plans to pull plug on Alaska's controversial HAARP facility http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20140127/air-force-plans-pull-plug-alaskas-controversial-haarp-facility Alaska's HAARP blamed for 'snoring' skies in Malaysia http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/alaskas-haarp-blamed-snoring-skies-malaysia -- (Alaska Dispatch via David R. Alpert, 818-588-NEWS, Twitter: twitter.com/DaveAlpert http://www.newsjunkiepro.com DXLD) ** ALBANIA. 9845, April 11 at 0126 tune in to R. Tirana IS, but cuts off the air, and then repeated carriers on-and-off mostly without the IS, until finally by 0129 comes on and stays on for the 0130 English opening. Couldn`t hang around to confirm if it remained on for the rest of the broadcast. The 23-24 Albanian service on 9850 was again noticeably weaker on April 10. 9845, April 15 at 0118, R. Tirana is on way early playing IS on fair- good signal prior to 0130 English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. Extra broadcast from China last night --- From 0200 to 0400 UT early this morning (last night) there was a broadcast on 6020 about the opening day of the Bo'ao Forum in China about East Asia economics. They kept saying it was a live broadcast of the Today program. Excellent reception of the broadcast here in North Carolina USA. Probably from Cerrik which is normally only on from 0000 to 0200 with regular CRI programming (Peter Hansen, On vacation in New Bern, NC, USA, April 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The engineer in Cërrik forgot to switch from English to Mandarin service at 02-04 UT range, probably ? Cerrik 6020 kHz, 2 x 150 kW combined transmitter is scheduled 00-04 UT regularly. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Cërrik is probably automated at that hour, so perhaps no human error; could have been satellite feed error originating in Beijing (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, ibid.) ** ALGERIA [non]. FRANCE, 11985, R. Algerienne, Apr 11 0605-0659*, 25332-25333 Arabic, Koran and music and talk, Frequency announce at 0654, ID at 0657, 0659 sign off (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121, Ant 110m Sloper wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGOLA. 4949.5, S3 but no audio 2220 April 8 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. 15475.972, Antarctis Argentina noted on April 7, around 1950 UT. Seit einigen Wochen mal wieder ein Antarctis Signal auf 15476 gemeldet. Ich sehe den Peak bei genau 15475.972 kHz, aber wirklich nur den Traeger bei S=4 und -96dBm im Perseus. Aber kein Hauch von einem Programm zu hoeren. Geschweige stn ID. Also nur was fuer die Porsche Antennen User (Wolfgang Büschel, April 7, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 11 via via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DXLD) Hier auf Menorca, Spain mit -80 dbm und gut zu verstehen (Michael Haun-ESP, A-DX April 7, ibid.) S=5-7, allerdings fast keine Modulation. Das Musikprogramm mit kurzen Ansagen ist schon sehr, sehr duenn. 15476.978 kHz in Salzburg, Austria. (Christoph Ratzer-AUT, OE2CRM, A-DX April 7, ibid.) 15476.978, Apr 7, 2000, LRA36. S5-7, allerdings fast keine Modulation. Das Musikprogramm mit kurzen Ansagen ist schon sehr, sehr dünn. 73 (Christoph Ratzer, Austria, Shortwave Bulletin April 13 via via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DXLD) LRA 36 on Twente again. I still can't get even so much as a carrier at the wishful thinking threshold from my QTH but they are visible / audible on Twente at 2035-2045. I check daily but they seem to come on later than 1900. There was no sign of their carrier at 2000 but it was there at 2034 UT. I would have missed it but I was checking to see how long the noise jammer on 15485 would remain on air. The presumed target was RTI in English via Issoudun but they were off air at 1700, yet the jammer remains. I was disheartened when I mentioned it in the Twente chat but nobody cared as they were all concerned with recording silly number stations. DH KCMO (Dave Hughes, Kansas City MO, April 16, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 1650, R. Antares, 13/04 0320 UT. Historia sobre la Virgen del Pilar y origen de su veneración. SINFO 35343 (Claudio Galaz, RX: Golon RX-221UAR, Antena: Mini Loop, QTH: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DXLD) Excelente escucha! Me hace pensar que esta emisora tiene más potencia que otras argentinas de la XBand. De hecho, tiene autorización oficial para transmitir. Felicitaciones por la captación! Enviado desde mi BlackBerry de Personal (Arnaldo Slaen, ibid. via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DXLD) Hola Mr Slaen: Para mí es difícil captarla por acá. Y más con un receptor analógico. Aparte que en aquel momento había mucho ruido en el resto de las frecuencias de la X-Band. Aunque hoy en la madrugada no pude captar más que un pitido en aquella frecuencia; cosas de la propagación (Claudio Galaz, April 14, ibid.) Felicitaciones de nuevo! Más merito aun al lograr la escucha. 73s (Slaen, Enviado desde mi BlackBerry de Personal, ibid.) ** ARGENTINA. 11710.722, RAE Buenos Aires in English, but heard only Spanish languange Latin American music songs, very smooth music. At 0210 UT April 12 (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15345.30, RAE, Apr 15 1338-1350, 35332, Spanish, Talk, ID at 1340 and 1346 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121, Ant 110m Sloper wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 1683, 7.2 1930, Greek R, Melbourne. Haven't seen loggings for this in Europe. Easily discernible with SSB from older sister station in Sydney, which is 230 Hz higher and also due to feed difference of about 10 seconds. At 1900 Sydney was stronger with CyBC news relay [Cyprus], at 1920 both were heard and at 1930 Melbourne became stronger, when Sydney faded away with sunrise (Mauno Ritola, Finland, ARC mv-eko March 17 via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 3210, Vintage FM relay (presumed), 1335, April 11. Bits and pieces of music heard; unusable, but certainly they are on the air (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. ABC Emergency Broadcasts --- A heads up - in around 10 hours from now at 1400 UT Severe Tropical Cyclone Ita will hit Far North Queensland, Australia. The cyclone is rated a strength 5, which is the highest rating, so massive destruction is expected. The emergency broadcasts have started and also In the last few minutes the ABC have tweeted than some of the ABC transmitters in The Far North (i.e. MW & FM) are dropping in and out. As yet the ABC haven't announced any shortwave frequencies have been deployed, but previously 9710 and 6080 have been utilised for emergency broadcasting when cyclones hit this area of Australia. These frequencies would be worth checking, particularly over the next few days, particularly if the MW and FM broadcasting infrastructure is damaged. Much further south, here in Sydney it is a perfect, warm autumn day, but not so for my brothers and sisters in the Australian tropics. So best of luck in riding this storm out. Cheers, (Mark Fahey, Sydney, Australia, Sent from my iPad, 0215 UT April 11, dxldyg via via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The ABC has just contacted me to let me know that they now have commenced emergency programming for Far North Australia: 0800 EST to 1900 EST on 15240 kHz 1900 EST to 0800 EST on 6150 Now I know most of my DXLD friends are American, so I guess I should spell out to you that EST is not New York time - it`s Eastern Standard Time for us here in Australia i.e. Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne time, UTC + 10 hours. So... 2200 to 0900 UT on 15240 0900 to 2200 UT on 6150 Cheers, (Mark Fahey, Sydney, 0655 UT April 11, ibid.) Solid ABC signals on 6150 kHz at 1110 with special English bulletins about the storms. YL gave out emergency phone number for updates from listeners and interviewed several listeners while I was tuned in -- thanks for the heads up, Mark, and stay safe. I was listening to Radio Havana last night and they had a special report on torrential rains and mudslides in Argentina. We had similarly crazy weather in Illinois last spring (Mike Nikolich - N9OVQ, Perseus SDR & Wellbrook ALA1530AL- 2 antenna, April 11, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Australia on 6150 carrying live coverage from local ABC Radio. Heard on 4/11/14. 1208-1237 UT. ABC Far North programming with wall- to-wall coverage of Tropical Cyclone ITA -- a Category 4 storm located in Northern Queensland near Cooktown. The host took phone calls from residents in the affected area to find out their situations and any damages. The host provided shout outs from relatives to their family members in the affected storm path. Glenn, I assume 6150 normally carries the same programming as 9580, and it was a deviation in order to provide emergency services. I made a check of 9580 and it had the usual international programming at the time. Have a good weekend. 73's (Larry Zamora, TX, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6150, ABC Far North relayed via RA, 1304-1332, April 11. Special live info about the cyclone near Cooktown; reading messages from Sweden, RSA, etc.; many IDs for "ABC Far North" and one for "ABC Local Radio Queensland emergency information"; interview with Deputy Mayor of Cooktown from an evacuation center; fair. http://www.abc.net.au/farnorth/ (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ABC have commenced emergency broadcasts with special bulletins about the storms. Will be using transmitter A of Radio Australia as follows: 2200-0900 on 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to Far North AUS unchanged 0900-1400 on 6150 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to Far North AUS unchanged 1400-1800 NF 6150 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to Far North AUS, ex 5995 1800-2000 NF 6150 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to Far North AUS, ex 9710 2000-2200 NF 6150 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to Far North AUS, ex 11650 Here the video recording at 1400 UT via SDR receiver in Sydney, Australia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gapr4ikMom0&list=UUOkdLTbNeM6g6w8oqkXYtsw Attention: The clock on the SDR is ahead by 1 minute and 50 seconds http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/abc-have-commenced-emergency-broadcasts.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) Radio Australia. 6150 Shepparton ??? Apr 11, 2014 Friday. 1703-1716. News about the Oscar Pistorius trial in Pretoria, followed by weather news. At 1705 "This is ABC local news", followed by more weather, talking about wind gusts to be expected. At 1713 ID "...Local Radio, Queensland", followed by more warnings about weather, power lines, structural damage to buildings. Suggestion to "check on your neighbours". Mostly fair, quite usable signal in RSA. Jo'burg sunset 1556 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA. Sony ICF2001D. dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15240, ABC Local Radio Queensland via RA, 0150-0236, April 12. Many IDs for "ABC Local Radio Queensland" (no IDs for "ABC Far North," as heard this morning on 6150); fair to good; many people calling in to report on their local conditions; many places with flood warnings. Audio at https://app.box.com/s/cchzmu5fvqj04lx79ekz 15300 // 17750 // 17840, Radio Australia, 0420 on April 12 with live coverage of the AFL game between Port Adelaide and Brisbane; mostly fair to good (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15240, April 12 at 0533, separate service from RA Shepparton, not // 15300 or 13630. Discussing cyclone-related problems with callers to 1- 300-801-222, and its ``phugoid`` motion, i.e. wandering back and forth, normally applied to aircraft. Some flights to Cai[r]ns have been diverted or canceled; someone reports a live (presumably) power line down on a road which hasn`t been dealt with, so her neighbors are out warning people away from it. 0538 ID as ``ABC Far North``, more calls; 0600 newscast mentions 120 kph winds, 100 ml of rain. From which studio does this originate?? {Can you imagine any circumstance by which Greenville would/could ever do likewise for inside-USA??} Like previous cyclone-hits to Queensland, RA has dedicated a SW transmitter and 30-degree antenna at Shepparton to relaying local services back to the area, due to [real or expected?] outages of ABC FM/AM transmitters. Per Ivo Ivanov, 15240 is scheduled 22-09 UT, and 6150 at 09-22, which others first heard on April 11. 6150, April 12 at 1239, is still not // 9580, but in another country music show and discussion rather than cyclone coverage at the moment. 15240, April 13 at 0525, RA with silly ballgame // 15300, so back to normal programming with the cyclone emergency in Far North Queensland apparently over. Also 6150 // 9580 around 1230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17840, April 14 at 0453, RA with fair signal, the OSOB except NZ DRM noise on 17670-17680; // better 15300, 15240, 15160, not yet 13630. Aoki shows 17840 about to close at 0458 after 355 beam to Asia from 0300, while at 01-03 it`s 70 degrees USward, after 17860 at 21-01 same, ex-21740 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 15105, Bangladesh Betar, Apr 08 1227-1243, 34443, English, IS, Opening music, ID, Opening announce, News (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121, Ant 110m Sloper wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15505, April 10 at 1359:44, JBA timesignal ending from Bangladesh Betar opening Urdu service. 15505, April 12 at 1358, very poor carrier with flutter from BB, can`t make out a tone or IS, but just barely detect the mistimesignal ending at 1359:43.5 today. Gentlemen, set your clox! 15105, April 14 at 1227, tone from Bangladesh Betar, 1228 IS, and mistimesignal ending at 1229:39.5 before English service. It`s a very poor signal but in fact one of the best on a mostly dead band. 15505, April 15 at 1359, BB IS is JBA, and as I strain to hear the timesignal, possibly only one second early but just too weak to be sure (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BERMUDA. 2582-USB, St. George's Harbour Radio, 0035, sign on at scheduled 0035 and into weather; could determine it was a forecast for about 30 to 45 seconds, then signal badly deteriorated, and I lost it completely by 0037 1 April (XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E5 via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. Band scan La Paz/El Alto - late January 2014 --- Stig Hartvig Nielsen, La Paz, Bolivia. Rx: Perseus SDR, aerial: Wellbrook loop. Reception downtown La Paz, Bolivia. Daytime only; DX-stations not included. All stations ID'ed unless otherwise stated. Some stations with limited schedule (i.e. Sundays only, weekdays only etc.) - and many stations close down quite early evenings local time. A few stations with more or less distorted modulation. RDS is generally not used on FM. 580, Radio Panamericana, La Paz 620, Radio San Gabriel, El Alto 650, Radiodif. Integración, El Alto 680, Andina, La Paz 700, Radio Pacha Kamasa, El Alto 720, Radio La Cruz del Sur. "Las buenas nuevas de salvación – somos Radio La Cruz del Sur" 739.85, NEW: Radio Pueblo de Dios 760, Radio Fides, La Paz 800, NEW: Radio Play, La Paz. "107.5 - Radio Play" 820, Radio Altiplano Advenir, La Paz. "Radio Altiplano Advenir 820 AM. Sintonía de esperanza" 840, Radio Atipiri, El Alto. Quite rare - seldom heard. 880.1, NEW: Nueva Radio Jacha, La Paz. S/off noted at 0200 UT. 900, La Popular, La Paz. "La programación más estelar del 2014 - la de La Gente 88.9 y La Popular, 900 de amplitud modulada" 920, Radio Bartolina Sisa, El Alto. Probably weekdays only. 940, Radio Metropolitana, La Paz 961.4, NEW: Unid. Noted with s/on 0930 UT. Mostly religious screaming. Sometimes relay of Radio Taypi (1000 kHz). 980, Radio Mar, La Paz. "Más música, más diversión, más notícias, sintoniza Radio Mar - más radio" 1000, Radio Taypi, La Paz. "Radio Taypi - Radio Taypi - La Mil AM" 1020, Red Patria Nueva, La Paz. (Please note correct name: RED Patria Nueva - and not "Radio") 1059.9, NEW: Radio Presencia de Dios - Ministerio de Evangelismo. 1100, NEW: Universal Radio Continia. "Transmite Universal Radio Continia en 1100 amplitud modulada" (Not 100% sure of "Continia") 1120.05, Radio Celestial, El Alto 1160, Radio Continental, La Paz. Announces 2160 kHz (sic!): "Están escuchando Continental. La radio que nos informa, que nos alegra, y mobiliza .. es tu radio sindical, trabaja en onda media en 2160 kHz Radio Continental. Tu compañía permanente, transmite desde La Paz, República de Bolivia, Corazón de Suramérica" 1180, NEW: Radio La Voz de Dios. Religious screaming and crying. (ID's very rare) 1200, NEW: Radio Carlos Palenque, La Paz. "La voz de los sindos. La voz de los que gallan por miedo. Radio red - transmitiendo 1200 de amplitude modulada. Palenque de communicaciones. La radio que sintoniza el pensamiento - la voz y sentimiento del pueblo". 1220, NEW NAME: Radio Nueva Splendid, La Paz. "Nueva Splendid – una emisora informativa, cultural, educativa y musical" 1260.1, NEW: Emisora Sonido do Carrodetupeca (rather uncertain about this ID, but I don't think the ID was Radioemisoras Unidas! 1300, Radio Sol - Poder de Dios, El Alto. 1360, NEW: Radio Cordiale, La Paz. "Desde la capital revolucionaria del mundo, cada [sic] sindical de communicaciones. La voz de trabajadores, Radio Cordiale 13-60 amplitud modulada" 1400, Radio Nacional de Bolivia. Probably weekdays only. 1420.3, NEW: Unidentified religious. (Several recordings but no ID) 1440, Radio Batallón Colorados, La Paz. (ID's are rare) 1480.05, Radio Amor de Diós, El Alto 1520.3, Radio La Luz del Tiempo, El Alto. (ID's are rare) 1540.25, Radio Bendita Trinidad y Espírito Santo, El Alto 1559.55, NEW: Radio Luz de Mundo. "..de la señala en camino de la salvación 1560 en amplitude modulada". (Continuous preaching; ID's are rare) 1580, Radio El Fuego del Espíritu Santo, El Alto 1600.1, La Voz del Espíritu Santo, El Alto (ARC mv-eko 17 March via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 4699.9, Radio San Miguel, Riberalta, 2350 with weak signal in Spanish, noted 0930 on 11 April. Since return has produced weak signals (XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E5 via Bob Wilkner; and Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, NRD535D, Sony 2010XA, ICF 5900w - wire antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4716.65, Radio Yura, Yura, noted with fair signal 0000 to 0025, always stronger than Radio San Miguel, 5 April (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, NRD535D, Sony 2010XA, ICF 5900w - wire antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA [and non]. 6134.84, Radio Santa Cruz, 2353 ute on top of signal and using LSB, numerous IDs as Radio Santa Cruz; "Programa información.... Santa Cruz", laser sounds and rooster crow 0000. Second station on 6135 Brasil? using 1.3 filter, 11 April (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, NRD535D, Sony 2010XA, ICF 5900w - wire antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6135, Radio Santa Cruz, Bolivia and Aparecida, Brasil mixing it up with each other at 0004. Santa cruz usually but not always the stronger; at 0204 found only Santa Cruz audible here, gave a clear ID 5 April (XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E5 via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. Heard last night, Radio Fides on 9624.910 at 2317 UT with poor Spanish talks, splatter from Spain 9620. Band was noisy. 73, (Maurits Van Driessche, Belgium, 2319 UT April 10, HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DXLD) So how about tonight at same time? I never hear any sign of it when I start after 0030, off? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Gente, está llegando muy bien Radio Fides, La Paz, en 9624.85 variables. En las mañanas del Rio de la Plata entra bien y fue reportada por colegas de Europa inclusive sobre las 23 UT. Es una de las pocas emisoras bolivianas en OC y la única que subsiste en 31 metros. 73s (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, April 11, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DXLD) Heard, Radio Fides, La Paz, on 9624.906 at 2246 UT 14-4 with Spanish talks by female; signal was good and also the audio. 73, (Maurits, Belgium, Hard-Core-DX mailing list WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DXLD) ** BRAZIL [and non]. Re: ``4815, April 9 at 0051, R. Difusora Londrina, Brazuguese sermon, fair vs CODAR, but certainly the BBOB tonight --- best Brazilian on band, only one listenable, vs several weaker carriers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` Ah, so that's likely what I heard while 'cruising' on the Golden Princess ~0030 UT Wed 5 Mar/21h30 Argentine time Tues 4 Mar as the ship approached Puerto Madryn. On my Tecsun PL-380, it was the solo South American signal heard -- only other stuff was WWCR/4840 and the Cubans. Quite surprised the likes of Angola/4950 didn't appear. Aparecida on both 6135 and 11855 was gangbusters at the time; ditto Greece 9420 and AIR Vividh Bharati 9870 (Theo Donnelly, BC, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 6148-6170, April 10 at 2327, as I notice RHC [see CUBA] on 6165 now for the `Mesa Redonda` breakaway, there is also heavy interference from some extremely out-of-whack signal making rapid pulses across this range, and strong enough to QRM Cuba on 6165 itself. Could it be RHC`s own transmitter doing this? A ute, a radar? No, recheck at 0053 April 11 as RHC is off again, and now I can hear bits of speech modulation in the pulses; worst of it is centred about 6160. RNB/RNA is still missing from 6180, so could this be what`s become of it? Yes! The modulation peaks match what I hear on their other frequency, 11780. Cuba apparently put 6165 on because of the other RNB making a big het with otherwise OK modulation from 5999.6 onto RHC 6000.0, and now Brazil is gettin` `em on the new frequency too, ha2. The heavy pulsing QRM continues at 0105 as RHC is now in English back on 6165, and still with the heavy het on 6000 too, the only other English frequency until The Cuban Five overkill at 0500. Recheck at 0252, no change, still pulsing and hetting both. RNB`s 250 kW transmitters periodically go out of whack and it takes a while to get them back in whack. Doesn`t anyone around Rodeador Park turn on a radio and listen to their own output? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EAST TURKISTAN; MEXICO Glenn, Enviei esse e-mail para a EBC, a empresa que controla as rádios estatais brasileiras. Também enviei mensagens na sua página do Facebook. Aqui a QRM é intensa e forte e a nova frequência da RNA está sobrepondo o sinal da Rádio Guaíba em 6000 kHz. Realmente muito lamentável. Um abraço, (Jorge Freitas, Local time -3 UT, Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brasil, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz: Enviada em: sexta-feira, 11 de abril de 2014 12:58 Para: 'centraldoouvinte@ebc.com.br' Assunto: RNA em nova frequência Prezados Senhores. Gostaria de saber por que a Rádio Nacional da Amazônia saiu da sua frequência de 6180 kHz e foi para 6000 kHz bem em cima da Rádio Guaíba. Pior, gerando uma ampla faixa de sinais espúrios por volta dos 6155 kHz e interferindo em outras emissoras não apenas no Brasil, mas em todo o continente americano e até mesmo na Europa. Segue um e-mail de Glenn Hauser, o maior monitor de emissoras em HF do mundo sobre a inconveniente interferência de sinais espúrios gerados pela RNA. Aguardo resposta. Atenciosamente, Jorge Freitas Local time -3 UT Feira de Santana Bahia 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil (via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Re ``5999.6, April 9 at 0519, RNB still here causing lite het to RHC, and still missing from 6180. Recheck at 2350 April 9, again hetting RHC 6000, and no 6180 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1716, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` And also the same here at 0630 UT today. Other tentative Brazilians heard at weak strength on 5940, 5965, 5970 and 6080. As someone else remarked, 6090 has a "Squeal" on the low side - could it rather be a heterodyne? (Noel R. Green (NW England), April 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5999.6, RNB, at 0010 10 April 2014. Strong signal here last evening from Brazil totally dominating Cuba on 6000. Also observed, as you noted, nothing on 6180 (Stephen Wood, Harwich, Mass., ibid.) RNB program around 0615 UT April 11 is on footprint exact 5999.604 kHz, but hit heavily by nearby adjacent RHC powerhouse on 6000 kHz, latter S=9+30dB or -37dBm tremendous signal. RNB WAS NOT on 6180 kHz, channel is empty. See below of 6155 kHz distorted signal instead. Heard very well too, on 11780.005 kHz at 0620 UT on S=9+15dB or -59dBm level. Distorted like FM modulation scratchy signal on fundamental 6155 kHz comes definitely from RNB program \\ 11780 kHz outlet, very same program on wideband range 6144 to 6166 kHz. S=9+20dB or - 55dBm, noted on remote SDR units in Canada and western USA (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6160, April 11 at 0526, severely out of whack RNB transmitter supposed to be on 6180, is still cutting on and off multiple times per second with bits of modulation, and still spreading out to 6148 and 6170 or so. I meant to mention in the original report that the center of the mess was and is about 6160. Jorge Freitas has forwarded my report to EBC, so perhaps something will be done about it now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 6180, April 11 at 2343, RNA is back on frequency and back in whack, normal clear modulation, after being totally out of whack for a few days putting extremely distorted pulsing on 6160 and spreading to at least four adjacent channels. This follows Jorge Freitas forwarding my previous report about this to EBC. So the Canadians on 6160 are again unblocked, and no pulsing QRM to RHC 6165. Furthermore, I am hearing no het or CCI on 6000 RHC, so the other transmitter is either off or adjusted. See CANADA, CUBA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, boa noite, As 0008 de 12/Abr a Rádio Nacional da Amazônia está de volta a sua frequência de 6180 kHz. A modulação está boa e o sinal chega bom aqui em meu QTH. Não encontrei sinais espúrios nos 49 metros, nem o sinal da RNA em 6000 kHz. Espero que tenham regularizado a situação, Um abraço (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil Degen 1103 - All listening in mode of filter Narrow the 4 kHz. Dipole antenna, 16 meters - east/west Escutas (listening, my blog): http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006 The best of Brazilian music: http://www.novabrasilfm.com.br/ A bit of my city: http:///www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1443186 Yes, something has been done; they have returned to 6180, So it is now evident that the transmission on 5999.6 *is* the same unit that normally is heard on 6180. The noise that Glenn refers to was also heard here on Friday, and it completely covered CKZN. Aoki shows......... 6180 R.Nacional Amazonia 0800-1500 1234567 Portuguese 250 344 Brasilia 6180 R.Nacional Amazonia 1500-1630 .234567 Portuguese 250 344 Brasilia 6180 R.Nacional Amazonia 1630-2300 .23456. Portuguese 250 344 Brasilia 6180 R.Nacional Brazilia 1500-1630 1...... Portuguese 250 344 Brasilia 6180 R.Nacional Brazilia 1630-2300 1.....7 Portuguese 250 344 Brasilia 6180 R.Nacional Brazilia 2300-0800 1234567 Portuguese 250 344 Brasilia 1546S 04755W RNAMA (Noel R. Green (NW England), 0940 UT April 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST 6150-6170, April 16 at 0115, suspicious pulsing atop CBC on 6160, rather like what the RNA 6180 transmitter was doing last week, but not overwhelming, and 6180 is normal, so elsewhence? No match on the other side of 6180 either. Maybe it`s the other RNA transmitter which has been missing from 5999.6. Expedited by the absence of RHC from 6165 tonight. 6180 & 11780 unusually both RNAs are off the air April 16 at 0630 (and so is Cuba still from 6165). All are back at next check 2325 April 16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 9629.975, ZYE954, Rádio Aparecida, Aparecida SP, nice smooth songs program. BUT DISTORTED OVERMODULATED function of scratchy transmitter unit! 9645.384, ZYE957, Rádio Bandeirantes, São Paulo SP, some social radioplay at 0137 UT April 12, S=7 or -86dBm strength in NY-USA. \\ ZYE958 on 25 mb 11925.174 kHz at 0205 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 9664.5, BR, 2157 April 10, OM with talks in Portuguese with info or adverts. At 2159:50 with full canned ID mentioning also frequencies, then a short jingle, then music. Best in LSB or tune off by -2.7 kHz; signal S1 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9664.369 Oddity, but station ZYE890 Voz Missionária, Marumby, Canboria [sic] SC, wandered some 10 to 20 Hertz up and down, S=8, -81dBm strength in NY-USA, 0130 UT April 12. Light music programm, - I liked it (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9664.36 approx., April 16 at 0125, ``seu amigo pastor`` with timecheck, R. Voz Missionária ID, Santa Catarina with frequencies 9665 [sic] and 5940; fair signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11855.24 approx., April 16 at 0124, R. Aparecida ID in passing, host and callers trading Rosary and Lord`s Prayer citations in a show of piety. So is trying (or randomly varying?) to get back closer to proper frequency after several days more than 1 kHz even higher than this. As I understand it, the very name of the station refers to some alleged ``apparition`` of B. V. Mary. Usual good signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BURMA [non]. 9335, April 11 at 1328, nice IS of bells, unique to this service? Occasional IDs in English ``This is Radio Free Asia``; good with flutter; 1330 sign-on Burmese service in English, then into Burmese. It`s at 1230-1430 via TINIAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 2749-USB, April 12 at 0146, I am enjoying an unusually low local noise level for some reason except for occasional storm crashes, audiblizing marine weather around Nova Scotia by YL who sounds human; if not, well-disguised. Hard to catch locations cited, but winds are in knots, seas are in feet and visibilities are in miles (who cares about ceilings?). 0147 goes into forecasts from Saturday into Monday, back to conditions as of 1930 local time; partial ID mentions ``Coast Guard Radio Station, Bay of Fundy``. Then navigational warnings with coordinates of obstruxions, etc., in southwest Nova Scotia, then SE coast of NS; 0151 into French by same announceress. This source: http://dxinfocentre.com/mb.htm shows it`s VAR-3, ``Fundy``, but where is it really? There are lots of towns along the Fundy Bay coast, but I don`t see any named Fundy. VAR- 3 broadcasts start at :40 or sometimes :10 past certain hours including 0140; alternates with three other stations on 2749-USB, VCO in Sydney, VCS-2 in Halifax also at :40 or :10 past, and VCN, Rivière- au-Renard QC at odder times, :37, :47, :07, or :17 past hours not occupied by the first three. VCN also is bilingual but not VCO or VCS- 2. Nothing heard now on 2598-USB, the NL/QC frequency for more of this, altho VOK from Labrador, or VOK-4 from Hopedale, should have started at 0137 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 6070, CFRX Toronto ON (Mississauga xmtr); 1735, 8-Apr; Off the air. "In-depth Radio News-Talk 10-10" CFRB is on (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) MAREite Gary Vance, first noticed, and Harold Frodge and Ken Zichi, all noted that CFRX 6070 kHz was off the air starting Tuesday this week. Ken Zichi noted it on Monday night as he scanned 49 metres the night before, but some reports imply they were also off on Sunday for a time. Confirmation from the http://cfrx.webs.com website: "Ooops... CFRX is off again. I'm just trying to find out why... updated April 8, 2014" Stay tuned as they say, and report what you hear (or don't) to the MARE TipSheet! (MARE Tipsheet April 11 via DXLD) For at least the last two days I haven't been hearing anything on 6070. Has CFRX gone off air again? CKZN was at useable strength today on 6160 at 0630+ so there should be a path (Noel R. Green (NW England), April 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6070, April 10 at 0637, no signal from CFRX. Even after QubaRM is over. Hope it`s not another protracted or final breakdown (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CFRX also missing April 10 at 1745 check. They are generally a decent signal here in western TN 24/7 unless there is a co-channel station. 73, (Brandon Jordan, Fayette County, TN, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) CFRX/CFRB Website. CFRX is still off as you have no doubt noticed. I haven't heard anything official as to why it`s off but I'll keep trying. Also, with the large increases in postage, especially for international listeners wanting a QSL card, the inclusion of 2 U.S. dollars would be greatly appreciated. Sending cards to the U.S. has also increased, adding 1 U.S. dollar with your report would really help me out. Thanks, Steve Canney - CFRB/CFRX QSL Manager. Updated: April 16, 2014 (above site via gh, April 18, DXLD) ** CANADA. 6160, April 12 at 0130, CBC discussion in English, more likely CKZN than CKZU this early, now out from total annihilation by Brazil off-frequency from 6180 and putting out huge pulsing mess for a few days; but still plenty of ACI splash from 6165 Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Re: CBC may cut roughly 600 positions on Thursday, lobby group says --- Announcement was that 657 jobs would be cut. No more bidding on professional sports, plus various program cuts. Plenty of coverage on the CBC, CTV, and Global news sites. Read the comments sections; sharply divided opinions--the CBC is not the universally beloved institution many think it to be. Those still fantasizing about a return of RCI on SW: Time to move on (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, April 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Who`s doing that? It`s dead, Jim (GH, DXLD) Yes; just like here, there is a contingent of people who feel that public broadcasting is a waste of resources and that commercial media meet all the needs of all. They are as wrong as wrong can be of course, but their attitudes seem to hold sway though all scientific polling in countries with such public institutions finds that they are a rather small minority and further find that these institutions are held in high regard and carry a high degree of public trust. (Certainly, far higher than the politicians and political institutions that make and carry out decisions like the ones potentially affecting the CBC. Makes one speculate on whose bidding these office holders are performing, actually.) Comments to a website mean virtually nothing. It's a well known fact that much of that prattle comes from people and organized groups who have an agenda and are so proud of their opinions they hide their identities. Sound and fury signifying nothing, to coin a phrase (John Figliozzi, FL/NY, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. HOW WOULD YOU REIMAGINE THE CBC? The Globe and Mail Published Friday, Apr. 11 2014, 11:11 PM EDT The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on Thursday announced it was "out of the business" of competing with private broadcasters for professional sports, and cutting 657 positions in the face of a $130- million revenue shortfall projected for the 2014-15 broadcast year. It is a truly pivotal moment for the national broadcaster. So The Globe reached out to creative and cultural thinkers across the country and asked them, how would you re-imagine the CBC? http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/how-would-you-re-imagine-the-cbc/article17949114/comments/?ord=3D0 (via Dan Say, alt.radio.networks.cbc via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** CANADA. Canadian lowband TV? Are there any analogs still left on 2- 6? (Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT, March 16, WTFDA via DXLD) Yes, but a whole lot fewer than there used to be. Not counting stations of class LP (most of which are between 5 and 10 watts): NS Inverness CJCB-TV-1 6 9,400 310 NS Sydney CJCB-TV 4 180,000 98 NS Port Hawkesbury CJCB-TV-6 3 15,000 90 NS Sheet Harbour CJCH-TV-5 2 1,500 71 NS Caledonia CJCH-TV-6 6 100,000 193 NB Florenceville CKLT-TV-1 3 35,000 195 PE St. Edward CKCW-TV-2 5 1,100 104 QC Sept-Iles CFER-TV-2 5 100,000 284 QC Bearn/Fabre CKRN-TV-3 3 3,640 166 ON Sault Ste. Marie CHBX-TV 2 100,000 183 ON Pembroke CHRO-TV 5 100,000 163 ON Elliot Lake CICI-TV-1 3 19,000 123 ON Sudbury CICI-TV 5 100,000 324 ON Hearst CITO-TV-3 4 7,110 165 ON Timmins CITO-TV 3 100,000 148 ON Deseronto CJOH-TV-6 6 100,000 205 ON Wiarton CKCO-TV-2 2 100,000 286 MB Minnedosa CKND-TV-2 2 100,000 396 MB Brandon CKYB-TV 4 100,000 407 SK Stranraer CFQC-TV-1 3 100,000 268 SK North Battleford CFQC-TV-2 6 30,300 178 SK Melfort CKBQ-TV 2 15,500 150 SK Willow Bunch CKCK-TV-2 6 52,700 263 AB Oyen CFCN-TV-16 2 710 111 AB Burmis CFCN-TV-4 5 382 134 AB Peace River CFRN-TV-2 3 4,300 170 AB Lac La Biche CFRN-TV-5 2 8,656 104 AB Slave Lake CFRN-TV-9 4 840 336 AB Pivot CHAT-TV-1 4 4,900 191 AB Medicine Hat CHAT-TV 6 58,000 203 AB Burmis CISA-TV-1 3 409 128 AB Red Deer CKEM-TV-1 4 7,000 230 BC Cranbrook CFCN-TV-9 5 446 1,040 BC Kamloops CFJC-TV 4 3,700 153 BC 100 Mile House CFJC-TV-6 5 980 570 BC Prince Rupert CFTK-TV-1 6 2,440 594 BC Terrace CFTK-TV 3 13,800 454 BC 100 Mile House CITM-TV 3 1,300 584 BC Dawson Creek CJDC-TV 5 9,500 313 BC Oliver/Osoyoos CKKM-TV 3 930 964 BC Prince George CKPG-TV 2 8,300 330 BC Nelson CKTN-TV-3 3 330 -569 == (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, March 17, ibid.) CIII the Global Channel 2 in Bancroft, Ontario, is still there. Watching it now (Rich McVicar, ibid.) No changes over the winter - same status since the end of last summer's Es. Wrh (William R Hepburn (VEM3ONT22), Grimsby ON CAN 43 10 59.5, -79 33 34.3, DX PIX: http://dxinfocentre.com/hepburn/ ibid.) ** CANARY ISLANDS [non]. 6205, Horizon FM, Tenerife, 0550-0615, 13-04, English pop music, English, identification "Horizon FM, 102.5 and 104.5", advertisements, mentioned "Tenerife" and telephone numbers of Tenerife, also mentioned "Isla de la Palma", at 0600 "Sky News" and more music. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Sony ICF SW 7600 G, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Noted Horizon FM relay on 6205 kHz at 0609 UT, SIO 443. Sent from my iPad 73's (John Hoad, Faversham, Kent UK, JRC NRD-515 / ALA1530LF, 0621 UT Apr 13, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC [non]. 17500, R. Ndeke Luka via UK: Apr 06 *1700-1709, 25332, French, 1700 sign on with ID, Talk, SJ at 1703 and 1708. Apr 08 *1700-1710, 25432, French, 1700 sign on with ID, Opening announce, Talk, SJ at 1704. Apr 11 *1700-1714, 35333-35443, French, 1700 sign on with talk, SJ at 1707 and 1711 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 110m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17500, April 10 at 1723, something with poor signal, presumably R. Ndeke Luka (lucky bird), the Hirondelle station in Bangui broadcasting back to the CAR, now via Woofferton UK as in A-14 HFCC instead of UAE as in B-13. WOF can come in a lot better here than Dhabbaya, but not yet, only a little better (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Dongfang in the Hainan Island seems to be a preferred location for Chinese jammers. I have found three separate jammer sites at a small distance from each other near the western end of the island. The northwest site at 18 54'14.8"N, 108 39'38.7"E with 12 curtain masts must be a pure jamming site, as no normal SW broadcasts are listed for DOF. The southwest site at 18 53'24.6"N, 108 39'39.6"E has only six curtain masts but also houses the giant MW arrays for 603/684 kHz. The third site at 18 52'20.5"N, 108 40'49.2"E is the big one with 23 masts, again only for jamming. The modern Chinese "masts" for curtains actually consist of two parallel masts with crossbars between them. (Olle Alm, Sweden, April 10, 2014, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EAST TURKISTAN. And here comes a lot of their output: [and non] 9680, Firedrake and CNR1 jamming together at 1136 on April 8, found very much blocking RRI Jakarta. Same heard 1152, April 9 (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Betreff: intruder --- Guten Morgen, Wolf! Habe auf 18080 in A3A um 0600 UTC wieder die Chinesische BC Station (und leise darunter eine zweite) empfangen. Da sich das täglich wiederholt habe ich unsere Behörde informiert - die bestätigen den Empfang. Beste 73 de (Gerd, OE3GSA, OEVSV, Austria, 0827 UT April 10, via DK2OM via Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) Good morning, re 18080.002 kHz around 0650 UT April 11. CHINA / TAIWAN --- 0700-0757 UT, CRI China Radio International in Chinese language. 17740 Xian, 17650 Kashgar - most strongest powerhouse, 17615 Kunming, 17520 Kashgar, 11875 Nanning, 9655 Nanning. Belongs in parallel to intruder in ham radio band on 18080.002 kHz heard up to 0650 UT, and to check again to 0725 UT, for SWL listener weak at - 88dBm, or S = 5-6 signal at 0702 UT April 11. Seemingly approx. 06-09 UT regularly daily on air. Subject of transmission by mainland China jamming, is likely to be addressed an underlying exposed SOH Sound of Hope signal from Taiwan. Similar signals also early today morning: 18370.546, 18500.045, 18870.135, 18970.027, 19969.876 kHz and between 0500 and 0730 UT. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) CNR1 jamming survey, no Firedrake to be heard: 9680, April 10 at 1428, CNR1 jammer with CCI, behind 16100 9845, April 10 at 1432, CNR1 jammer, fair with CCI, echo with 16100 10960, April 10 at 1428, CNR1 jammer, fair, ~2 seconds behind 16100 11615, April 10 at 1427, CNR1 jammer with heavy victim CCI 15535, April 10 at 1313, CNR1 jammer + grinder + het on hi side 15565, April 10 until 1305* open carrier with flutter, lite het 15800, April 10 at 1422, CNR1 jammer, good 15940, April 10 at 1422, CNR1 jammer, VG with flutter, echo 16100 16100, April 10 at 1421, CNR1 jammer, good 16920, April 10 at 1434, CNR1 jammer, poor, an echo apart from 16100 17740, April 10 at 1424, CNR1 jammer, with CCI, echo apart from 16100 none in the 19s, 18s, 14s, 13s, 12s circa 1425 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5010 // 4800, April 10 [no time] CNR as jammer is with delay of ca 400 ms of 4800 kHz (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5010 kHz jamming against Radio Taiwan International, probably via Xinzhaicun true north-south direction: CHN_SARFT 761_Sanxing Village, Xiaotao, Yong'an City, Fujian, China 16 masts jamming station rather at 25 44'25.05"N, 117 10'45.48"E than east-west antenna azimuth pattern 25 44'46.38"N, 117 10'51.28"E http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/terrestrial/docs/monitoring/files/pdffiles/341.pdf 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) 9805, April 10 at 2351, Firedrake, yay, seldom heard any more, fair signal atop victim, which per Aoki is: RFA in Tibetan via UAE this hour only. 11640, April 11 at 1250, Firedrake music jamming, fair-good mixing with target which per Aoki is: RTI in Chinese at 10-14. 12910, April 11 at 1338, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter 13795, April 11 at 1337, CNR1 jammer, fair, vs RFA Tibetan via Kuwait 13830, April 11 at 1337, CNR1 jammer, good 15115, April 11 at 1336, CNR1 jammer, good with CCI from target 15195, April 11 at 1336, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter = 15265 15265, April 11 at 1336, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter 16100, April 11 at 1333, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter None in the 17s, 18s, 14s. 17560, April 11 at 2350, fair signal with flutter in Chinese, eclipsed by the bigsig from 17550 Kuwait. Nothing scheduled now, but apparently CNR1 jammer getting a headstart on the VOA Mandarin transmission from 0000 via Tinang (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake music jamming at 0408, April 12: 15210, good against VOA (scheduled in Tibetan). 15615, fair-good against RFA (scheduled in Chinese). 17735, poor against VOA (scheduled in Tibetan). (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Morning survey of CNR1 jamming: 12910, April 12 at 1355, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter 13795, April 12 at 1354, CNR1 jammer, very poor 13830, April 12 at 1353, CNR1 jammer, poor, seems Firedrake mixed 15115, 15195, 15265, April 12 at 1352, usual inband CNR1 jammers 15580, April 12 at 1349, CNR1 jammer, very poor, het 15582 V of Tibet 16100, April 12 at 1348, CNR1 jammer, JBA [usually best of the bunch] 16360, April 12 at 1348, CNR1 jammer, very poor 16920, April 12 at 1348, CNR1 jammer, very poor-poor 17300, April 12 at 1349, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter; no 18s, 14s CNR1 jammers morning of April 14, during degraded propagation: 12190, April 14 at 1234, CNR1 jammer, very poor with flutter vs CODAR 12230, April 14 at 1234, CNR1 jammer, poor but not with flutter 12910, April 14 at 1235, CNR1 jammer, just barely audible (JBA) 13795, April 14 at 1238, CNR1 jammer, JBA but // others 13820, April 14 at 1235, CNR1 jammer, fair; unusual here, but Aoki shows target is 0.1 kW Sound of Hope nuisance from Taiwan at 2130-1700 but surely not jammed, or active, the entire span 13830, April 14 at 1238, CNR1 jammer, // 13820 but weaker 15340, April 14 at 1243, CNR1 jammer, fair // 12230. Aoki shows target is a 0.1 kW Sound of Hope nuisance from Taiwan at 2330-1530, but surely not jammed, or active, the entire span. No Cuba yet on 15340; no jammers audible in the 16s, 17s, 14s 13755, April 14 at 1240, similar Chinese talk to the CNR1 jammers but not //, since this is CRI southward from Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN 13830, April 15 at 1355, Firedrake, very poor mixed with CNR1 jamming and/or target; none in the 12s, 14s or 16s, and in the 15s only the usual inbanders 15115, 15195, 15265. 17740, April 15 at 1402, CNR1 jammer with sounder, very poor, vs VOA Tibetan via Thailand this hour only. CNR1 jamming search April 16 turns up: 17300, April 16 at 1256, CNR1 jammer, fair; none in 18s, 16s, 12s 17080, April 16 at 1256, CNR1 jammer, very good 14750, April 16 at 1256, CNR1 jammer, fair 13830, April 16 at 1256, CNR1 jammer, fair-good 15175, April 16 at 1302, extremely distorted Chinese-intoned talk covering roughly 15160-15190. No time to compare it to CNR1 for within a minute, it`s off and OK CNR1 modulation appears on 15195, so was tuneup thence? ** CHINA [and non]. [CNR1 logs, jammers, in reverse chrono order:] 13675, APR 16, 1555. M in Chinese. Listed as RFA via Tajikistan, but pips at ToH and man clearly saying "Beijing", followed by usual CNR ID. Excellent signal level; no sign of RFA. 12190, APR 15, 1145. W in Chinese. Poor. No other //s heard. 14980, APR 15, 1045. M and W in Chinese. Good. // 12910 (good), and in huge collision with VoA on 13745, with both CNR and Chinese crash and bang opera music. 17560, APR 12, 0030. W in Chinese with ID just after BoH. VG, (VOA for China and via Tinang Philippines is listed ). 12500, APR 12, 1315. M and W co-hosts in Chinese over musical background. VG, with fair-good //s on 14750, 10960, and 16360. 13670, APR 11, 1530. M in Chinese, pips, to W in Chinese ID at H+34.. VG. The PRC not listed for this hour here, this should have been RFA via Tajikistan. 14920, APR 9, 1140. M and W in Chinese. Fair. // on 13970 (fair). 12190 (VG), 12190(poor). 14870, 1040. M and W in Chinese, good. 12910, APR 8, 1145. Dialogue two M in Chinese. Fair. No //s noted. 12230, APR 8, 1030. Dialogue with M and W, Good. Noted //s 12190 (VG), 10960 (VG). 13970, APR 7, 1115. Dialogue in Chinese with M and W, VG. 14600, APR 2, 1130 monologue with M in Chinese, pips at BoH. Fair. // 13850 (Armchair), 12190 ( Excellent), 10960 (Excellent). 11685, MAR 30, 1645. M over soft music. // 13675. Pips at ToH, ID by M in Chinese, and off. 15670, MAR 29, 1030. W in Chinese, likely deliberately over VoA/Chinese via Thailand. VG. 14980, MAR 29, 1030. W in Chinese (Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona, Drake R8, Grundig Satellit 750, random wire and Slinky, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) And now on to some legitimate China broadcasts: ** CHINA [non]. 9580, CRI English service via Cuba relay, some light BUZZ tone of main power heard underneath. Powerhouse -35dBm or S=9+40dB in NY-USA area. Program "The world of according the words". 0147 UT. Next channel 9570 kHz is same strongful program heard from Cërrik Albania 2 x 150 kW relay (Wolfgang Büschel, log at 0100 UT, April 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9690, April 14 at 0355, CRI relay via SPAIN is all in Chinese, while 9790 via Cuba is not //, in English mixed with Chinese lesson at hourend. 9690 does default to English at 0358 to pronounce ``triple double-you dot chineseradio dot cee enn``. Has Spain put on the wrong feed? Apparently not, but intentional A-14 replacement of 0300 English by Mandarin, as Aoki now shows both hours in Chinese at 02-04; while HFCC and EiBi still have English at 03-04 on 9690. Too bad, as this was CRI`s best signal left in English to North America --- Cuba 9790 still plenty strong, but better modulation was via Spain. Only the ChiCom get to register Habana relay frequencies with HFCC, as Arnie is just too anti-American, tsk2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [But later, English resumed during this hour on 9690!] ** CHINA [non]. 1520, April 12 at 1257 UT, Chinese lesson in English, typical CRI filler in last 5 minutes of hours, roughly equal level to KOKC and cannot separate them, also virtually zero-beat with an occasional fade. ID should come shortly! At 1300 UT three similar announcements including ``programming provided by G&E [GNE?] Studios``, comments to 1-877-913-xx89, or a gmail address. 1301 ID for KGBC, and into non-Chinese news, but 1309 recheck, now it`s the well- known voice of the CRI native announcer talking about missing plane. This is not // CRI English on 9570 via Cuba. 1520 is not KGBC, which is 1540 Galveston, but its sister station KYND Cypress TX, both of which relay CRI as both are considered necessary to cover most of the Houston metro area --- and conveniently second- adjacent. NRC AM Log 2013 shows KYND has a CP to increase day power from 3 to 25 kW and it sure sounds like this in now accomplished. Yes: FCC AM Query now shows licensed for 25 kW day, 18 kW critical hours, nothing about a CP any more. Oh oh, look at this now licensed day pattern: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1568756-122038.pdf big circular lobe to the ESE, tiny lobe and/or nulls toward the NNW, i.e. OK-ward. The 3-tower CH pattern is the same but filed separately: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1568756-122040.pdf What I am hearing does NOT correspond to these; non-direxional now? And/or KOKC is again on reduced power, as overcoming it here should be quite a feat. Both are in almost the same direxion from Enid, so no nulling one or the other (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Perhaps you're referring to http://gestudio.us/ : "G&E Studio develops more than ten radio stations across the United States, Canada and Mexico, producing more than 100 hours of Chinese and English local radio programs per week." The station you're receiving appears to be in the Houston area as you note: see this page: http://gestudio.us/index.php/en/houston (which lists 1540, 1520, and 1320 AM). Now try for that QSL as a birthday present for yourself, Glenn. Seriously, Happy Birthday!!! (Shawn From Flushing NY Fahrer, (the HM01 guy), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1520, April 13 at 1201 UT, I catch partial ID again for wrong station ``KGBC, Galveston-Houston`` which is 1540 also relaying China Radio International (1540 here is likely to be blocked by The Metroplex station, but this 1520 one manages to overcome KOKC at least briefly, which is in CBS News); then ``The Hourly News``, but by the CRI native announcer. On 1520 it`s really KYND, Cypress TX. Shawn Fahrer found the corporate source for all this following my yesterday`s log, obviously a ChiCom subsidiary allowed in the US [as above]; can you imagine such a reciprocal arrangement for USG broadcasts within China? Why don`t we insist on it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CRI's "V. of South China Sea" service to SEAs in English with fair signal that deteriorated over time, 0640 4/10 on 17710 until 0700*. Program featured interviews with overseas Chinese. Tuned into this on a whim after running across the listing in WRTH (Chuck Albertson, Seattle, Wash., Sent via BlackBerry, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6060, Sichuan PBS-2, 1200, April 9. They continue to have recorded ID in English; "Nationality Channel. This is the People’s Radio Station. SW 6060, 7225, FM 88.1." 6185, CHBC (presumed), 1203, April 9. With the A14 schedule this is now in the clear with fair reception, without Korea being here (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. See my last article about our beautiful travel across NINGXIA, with some photos. http://www.natureduca.com/radioblog/diario-del-viaje-china-concurso-percibir-china-ningxia-2013-9/ CORDIALES SALUDOS / GOOD LUCK / (JUAN FRANCO CRESPO * STAMP JOURNALIST (AIPET), SÀLVIA 8 (MAS CLARIANA), E-43800 VALLS-TARRAGONA (ESPAÑA- SPAIN-ESPAGNE-SPANIEN), April 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA [and non]. Slogans från stationer i Colombia och Venezuela Yimber Gaviria. Samtliga stationer loggade i slutet av februari eller början av mars: [gh had to add a lot of accents] 620, R Fe y Alegría, Guasdualito, Venezuela, ID "Somos la Red de Radio Fe y Alegria". 660, R Auténtica, Cali, Colombia, ID por un niño... "te invito a que escuches Auténtica 660 AM Cali". 720, Transmisora Quindío, Armenia, Colombia. Slogan "Transmisora Quindío, la más popular". 740, R Guatapurí, Valledupar, Colombia, “Noticiero Nueve en Punto de Radio Guatapurí". 750, RCR 750 AM, Caracas, Venezuela, ID "Radio Caracas Radio 750 AM", también "RCR 750 AM". Sked. 0930-0430 UT. 780, AM R Coro 780 AM, Coro, Venezuela, "Ruta Musical 780.. .por la AM Radio Coro 780". Teléfono 251 2009. 800, RCN Bucaramanga. Colombia, “Publicidad de Política, ID como RCN Bucaramanga". 870, Unión Radio, Barquisimeto, Venezuela. Slogan "Unión Radio 90.3, todo el tiempo en todas partes". 900, Fiesta 900 AM, Cúcuta, Colombia. Slogan "Fiesta Cúcuta 900 AM, alegra tu vida...RCN, la radio". New stn name! 940, Frecuencia U, Medellín, Colombia, ID por OM "Frecuencia U 940 AM... Escuchas la Emisora Universitaria de Medellín -Frecuencia U". 1040, R Tropical, Barranquilla, Colombia, slogan "En R Tropical trabajamos para nuestros oyentes". 1060, RCN Caldas, Manizales, Colombia, slogan "RCN, la radio, nuestra radio". 1070, Emisora Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia. Slogan "Emisora Atlántico, espectacular, emisora grande de Barranquilla". 1070, Q´hubo Radio de Radio Santafé, Bogotá, Colombia. NOTA: se ha visto el cambio desde cuando lo reporté por primea vez (((Radio Santafe Qhubo Radio))) ahora como Q´hubo Radio de Radio Santafé, perteneciente a Caracol Radio. 1080, La Voz de la Nostalgia, Medellín, Colombia, slogan "la radio de Hoy, con la música de siempre, 1 080 AM, La Voz de la Nostalgia, simplemente, la voz de los éxitos". 1090, Caracol Radio, Cúcuta, Colombia, ID como Caracol Radio en Cucuta, slogan "Caracol Radio, más compañía". 1110, RCN, Villavicencio, Colombia, "Antena 2" 1120, Oxígeno 1 1 20, Bucaramanga, Colombia. Slogan "Estás escuchando Oxígeno 1120, la emisora de la cumbia". 1120, Bésame Tunja 1120 AM, Tunja, Colombia, sung ID "Bésame, toda la noche.." 1130, R Popular, Barquisimeto, Venezuela, TC "La Hora Popular, 3-13 minutos". 1150, Ondas del Caribe 1150 AM, Punto Fijo, Venezuela, TC "La hora de Venezuela, 3-18 minutos", slogan "Donde vayas, te acompaña Caribe 1150 AM". 1220, Em 1220, Barranquilla, Colombia. Slogan "1220, una emisora como usted la quería". 1290, LV de la Estrella, Medellín, Colombia, slogan "Las mejores baladas están aquí en 1290 La Voz de la Estrella". 1360, Oxígeno 1360 AM, Cartagena, Colombia, ID Cantado "En el taxi, en la buseta...siempre escucho Oxígeno". 1450, La Cariñosa, Manizales, Colombia, slogan "La emisora del pueblo, la Cariñosa Manizales, número Uno". 1470, R Popular, Medellín, Colombia, ID "Radio Popular de Todelar", slogan "Cuando hablamos de Guasca, somos Radio Popular". 1490, Emisora Punto Cinco, Bogotá, Colombia, full ID, “Emisora Punto Cinco, HJBS, 1490 AM", luego con programa Integrantes de la Casa Guadalupe". 1490, La Dinámica, Caracas. Venezuela, TC y URL de la emisora... "1 1 -28 ...www.ladinamica.com.ve". 1490, R Mérida, Mérida, Venezuela. Slogan "La emisora diferente... Radio Mérida" 1510, La Voz de la Unión, La Unión, Colombia. ID por OM como "La Voz de la Unión 1510". 1520, R Minuto, Barranquilla, Colombia, ID "Radio Minuto, la radio de príncipe de Paz"...La siembra de la semilla de oro.” 1530, La Voz de Jesucristo, Medellín, Colombia, ID "Yesua, La Voz de Jesuscristo 1530 AM desde Medellín para el Mundo". 1550, R El Sol, Barranquilla, Colombia. Slogan "RCN R El Sol - La Cariñosa 1550 AM, RCN, la radio". otra "Radio El Sol, está en todas partes" (ARC mv-eko 31 March via DXLD) ** CRIMEA [and non]. CRIMEA & DXCC --- Upon request of the CEO, the ARRL Awards committee evaluated the situation at present in Crimea against the DXCC rules. As the interpreter of the rules, the following is the Awards Committee's decision on how to "count" QSOs with stations operating from Crimea. Crimea is not a DXCC entity. Neither Russia nor Ukraine is a rare entity and the vast majority of confirmations used for DXCC credit for either entity do not involve Crimea. DXCC Rule 4 reads: "4. Confirmation data for two-way communications must include the call signs of both stations, the entity name as shown in the DXCC List, mode, date, time and band. Except as permitted in Rule 1, cross-mode contacts are not permitted for DXCC credits. Confirmations not containing all required information may be rejected." A QSL with a call sign issued by the administration of Ukraine and showing the entity name as Ukraine counts as Ukraine. A QSL with a call sign issued by the administration of Russia and showing the entity name as Russia counts as Russia. A QSL that satisfies neither condition does not count for either entity. 73 es DX! Bill Moore NC1L, Awards Branch Manager (via I.C.P.O. Bulletin (11-18 April 2014), "Islands, Castles & Portable Operations" via editor Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** CUBA. 570, April 13 at 0541-0542 UT, R. Reloj can be detected once LAH to the S/SW is nulled (XEBJB/KGRT?), with minutely timesignals, which shockingly come 9 seconds later than WWV, and then the ``RR`` Morse identifiers. At least time has not stood still for 55 years like so much else in Cuba. This is 25 kW from Santa Clara, says WRTH. Conditions somewhat auroral (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 1140, Radio Mayabeque, La Salud, Mayabeque. 1450 April 13, 2014. A trio of Shakira songs, "You Don't Care About Me" then "Broken Record" into "Nunca Me Acuerdo de Olvidarte" followed by female ID at 1459. Fair with at Rebelde weaker co-channel (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Hi Glenn, Working the bands tonight I ran across something very strange. R. Progreso with a 5/9 signal on 14295 kHz from about 0254 UT and continuing. I have never heard them here on the 20m Ham band before and I work 20m most every night that the band is open. Wonder if this is a spur or a harmonic? By the way, it was ONLY on USB; I didn't make it out on LSB or on AM. Take care, (John Carson, KD5SRW, Norman, OK, UT April 16, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi John, 14295 is exactly 3 x 4765 which is R. Progreso, Cuba at 0030- 0400 UT only, but full AM as far as know, so surely its harmonic. You can compare them. 73, (Glenn to John, via DXLD) ** CUBA. 6070, Radio Habana Cuba; 2336-2349+, 8-April; M&W in Spanish with ID & folksy ballads. SIO=453-; // 11670 S10 peaks; // 15230 SIO=453- with some distortion. All other Aoki RHC listings in Spanish at this time were missing. CFRX off (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) Strangely enough, I didn`t log any missteps from RHC today (because I didn`t look for them), but they have finally put up their full A-14 transmission schedule (which will still need some changes to avoid collisions Arnie should have known about); thanks to José Bueno, Spain, for the link: http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/estaticas/frecuencias (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5010.000, R Rebelde/RHC -69dBm S=9 signal of intermodulation on fundamentals origin of 5040/5025 kHz, of the Cuban Quivicán transmission installations heard exact at 0200 UT April 5, when Spanish noticias service of RHC 5040 kHz opened. S=9+40dB -35dBm noted on s-meter window on both 5025 / 5040 kHz from Quivicán Cuba. Intermodulation signal on 5055 kHz is much weaker like approx. S=6 at -90dBm level, than symmetrical lower side of 5010 kHz. All heard tonight on NY-US remote SDR unit (Wolfgang Büschel, April 5, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 11 via DXLD) 5025, April 10 at 0630, R. Rebelde is still on, and 5040 RHC off. 6000, April 10 at 1238, RHC confirmed still here in the 11-13 period, altho not mentioned in morning frequency announcements after 1300. 17730, April 10 until 1307* carrier only, back on at *1308, still no modulation. Recheck at 1351 it`s now RHC. 9550, April 10 at 1320, RHC is audible vs CRI in Vietnamese, Commies for Commies, vs Commies. At 1436, 9550 is still on with CCI, synched with 17730 and an echo apart from 17580. 9830, April 10 at 1320, can`t hear anything but RTTY on new RHC frequency; at 1437, now I can barely make out RHC vs RTTY and other CCI, and match it to other frequencies. This is a very weak outlet. 6165, April 10 at 2327, RHC is on this frequency at unscheduled time - -- it`s the `Mesa Redonda` TV simulcast, // 6000, which has that nasty Brazilian het on it, so apparently the reason for adding 6165. This hour is separate from other RHC Spanish not // on 11670, 15230, and an echo apart on 6070. But BRAZIL, q.v., gets RHC on 6165 too!! 15370, April 10 at 2331, RHC Portuguese with modulation somewhat suppressed and distorted, but good signal level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Before 0600 UT heard both Rebelde 5025 and RHC 5040 kHz in 60 mband. S=9+35dB like -45dBm strength signal. After 0600 UT only Radio Rebelde remained on 5025 kHz. RHC from 0600 UT April 11: 6000 kHz S=9+30dB -47dBm 6165 kHz S=9+35dB -42dBm - but lower modulation, compared than 6000, 6060, and 6100 kHz. 6060 kHz S=9+35dB -42dBm - clean audio feed, but some 100 Hertz BUZZ 6100 kHz S=9+30dB -47dBm - but sratchy audio feed, somewhat distorted feed line. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5010, 0220 Apr 12, mixing product of RHC 5040 in Spanish and Radio Rebelde 5025, RHC dominant but Rebelde weak in background. Fair. (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening in my car by the lake with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6000, April 12 at 0131, RHC English is hetless as BRAZIL [q.v.] has either turned off or fixed its off-frequency from 5999.6; however I don`t hear any other modulation, but I do hear some crackling pulsing QRM to RHC --- could that be Brasil? If so, nowhere near as bad as it had been on 6148-6170, so // 6165 is also clear. Have noted this before on RHC 6000 and figured it was probably one of their own countless transmission problems. 5025, April 12 at 0525, R. Rebelde is off, but 5040 RHC is still on. 6165, April 12 at 0527, RHC English is seriously undermodulated here, and almost as low on 6100, 6060; while OK modulation during music on 6000, 5040 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Anomalies of Radio Habana Cuba on April 12: from 1925 on 11840*HAB 100 kW / 053 deg to WeEu French, unscheduled broadcast 1930-2000 on 11840*HAB 100 kW / 053 deg to WeEu Portuguese, instead in French 2000-2030 on 11840 HAB 100 kW / 053 deg to WeEu Arabic, instead in Portuguese * over AWR in Arabic Using remote SDR receiver in Toronto Canada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO42W8JIwo4&feature=youtu.be Attention: The clock on the SDR is ahead by 1 minute and 50 seconds More videos of Radio Habana Cuba from remote SDR receiver in Toronto Canada: 12.04.2014 Radio Habana Cuba at 1958 in Portuguese, instead French and 2000 in Arabic, instead Portuguese on 11840 La Habana, Bauta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO42W8JIwo4&list=UUOkdLTbNeM6g6w8oqkXYtsw 12.04.2014 Radio Habana Cuba in Arabic and Spanish at 2058 on various freqs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpJwphjwX3g&list=UUOkdLTbNeM6g6w8oqkXYtsw 13.04.2014 Radio Habana Cuba in Esperanto 0726 on 6000 La Habana, Bauta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAtoIXXZB0g&list=UUOkdLTbNeM6g6w8oqkXYtsw 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) More and more frequency changes of Radio Habana Cuba for A-14: 2100-0500 on 11760 HAB 250 kW / 160 deg to SoAm Spanish, not 9550 <<<< 2100-2300 NF 11670 HAB 100 kW / 053 deg to WeEu Spanish, ex 17720 A-13 2300-0400 NF 11670 HAB 100 kW / non-dir to CeAm Spanish, ex 11680 A-13 * according: http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/estaticas/frecuencias Página de RHC: http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/estaticas/frecuencias Página Programas DX: http://programasdx.com/rhca14.htm http://programasdx.com/principal_archivos/rhca14_enlac_trans_ant.pdf (José Bueno, Spain, dxldyg via DXLD) On the progamasdx page, the link to the gráfica on the left appears to be current (altho with anomalies vs monitoring), while the right gráfica link goes to a VERY OLD schedule, many years out of date, obviously from the long-gone frequencies and target areas. So Arnie has sent this out now as if correct??? An interesting historical document, anyway (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: [dxld] RHC-A14 --- Odd that when you open up in Adobe Acrobat Pro the created date shows as 13th April 2014 11:28. Screenshot of the data here - http://www.shortwave.am/audio/rhc.png (Stephen Cooper, England, April 16, ibid.) Show rather much older RHC La Habana schedule of 2001 / 2002year season schedule, acc compared to older WRTH 2002 listing, see USB transmissions, and especially Radio Rebelde 6140 kHz entry. Comment: page 2 - seemingly 10 to 15 years old schedule - mentioned also older USB outlets of ancient tx gear, Bejucal is not anymore on air for RHC worldwide broadcasts: dnd - non-directional Roma = Europe and some USB mode outlets too: history of 2001. Checked it against WRTH listings, originate from Nov 2000 to spring 2001 year. http://programasdx.com/principal_archivos/rhca14_enlac_trans_ant.pdf (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) 11840, April 14 at 0450, RHC still on here with `la Cultura en Cuba`, the OCOB = only Cuban on band; also poor on 9810. At 0455 the only other Spanish frequencies I find are 6060 and 5040; 6070 off already but still no CFRX to uncover. 6070 is now scheduled until 0400 only, and 9550 a new evening frequency is supposed to run at 21-05. 6000, I am monitoring from *0457 April 14 when RHC English is hit by a strong carrier suppressing audio somewhat and making a 4 Hz subaudible heterodyne: this means RHC has turned on another transmitter on the same frequency, QRMing itself! In less than a minute by 0458, Spanish audio comes up on the second transmitter to mix with English for another minute, but 0459 that stops, still SAH with two carriers, 0500 first carrier is off and RHC English continues on the second transmitter. (Anyhow, no more het or modulation from Brasil 5999.6). Typical very rough transition for RHC. 9830, April 14 at 1250, RHC under heavy RTTY QRM, and an echo apart from // 9850 and 9550 out of the other site. Arnie warns of a change coming to 9820 due to the RTTY he did not know about --- well, he should have, if he had turned on a radio before choosing new 9830, or noticed my frequent complaints about it, or rather about other broadcast stations clueless enough to try to broadcast on 9830, notably Turkey every summer for several years, 22-23 in English to North America. (BTW, the April 14 Aoki list shows 9830 also used by Turkey in Spanish from April 7 at 0100, with 9770 deleted, // 9870; something I had not yet noticed. 9870 is the one which should have been deleted, clashing with India!) What about 9820 for RHC? There is something Asian there which will also QRM the weak RHC signal if it move. Aoki shows there are already 3 stations before 1300! AIR in Sinhala 250 kW via GOA; CNR1 in Chinese, 150 kW from Xianyang 594 site; and Voice of Beibu Bay Radio in Vietnamese/Chinese, 15 kW from Nanning 954 site. I am still hearing whichever 9820 Asian signal after 1300 April 14, but not after 1400. RHC sked shows 9830 in use at 11-15 UT, not just 11-13 as in Aoki, and I am still detecting it JBA at 1417 // others, still vs RTTY. You`re welcome, Arnie, for all my free advice. 11760 RHC is off at 1416 check April 14, with the only Cubans on band being 11860 and 12010. 11760 per RHC website is supposed to be on at 11-15 for Spanish (plus 1500-1530 Sunday Esperanto; 1900-2030 English & French; but not at all after that, when we have in fact heard it.) 9550 RHC is still on at 1417 April 14, // but much weaker than 15340, with usual Vietnamese CCI. RHC website claims 9550 is on only at 11-13 and new 21-05. In other words: SNAFU (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. I had a look at the Bauta and Quivicán SW sites in Google Maps. Bauta as could be expected is equipped with Chinese type antennas. Two groups of three low masts, each group arranged in a triangular pattern, appear be the NVIS tropical band arrays. Quivicán really surprised me. The antenna arrays (at 22 49'38.3"N, 82 17'35.1"W) are of the Soviet folded dipole wall type (VGDzh in Russian), which also was built in the early 1970s at Plovdiv-Padarsko [BULGARIA] (entire SW site, around 42 22'45.2"N 24 51'28.2"E), Grigoriopol [PRIDNESTROVYE] (most SW arrays, an intact array with 3 x 4 towers shown at 47 16'26.0"N, 29 24'18.0"E), Tbilisskaya [RUSSIA] (two arrays at 45 29'08.9"N, 40 06'32.8"E, and 45 28'02.6"N 40 07'01.6"E) and Chernobyl [UKRAINE], (the giant Woodpecker array, at 51 18'19.8"N 30 03'57.2"E with 15 + 9 towers). This type saves much space, but apparently also has serious drawbacks like wind and icing sensitivity, since no more ones as far as I know were built. The standard array has four big (lowband) towers and four small (highband) towers side by side, each tower having eight pairs of stacked folded tube dipoles, so that four towers together form an 8 by 8 array. In the Google imagery Quivicán also has one triangular mast group (NVIS, apparently the non-directional antenna installed by a Chinese firm in the 1990s), and two square mast arrays. One mast in the taller square array has been removed with only the base left. These look like MW directional arrays, but WB says that they are quadrant antennas for SW. The R Moscow signal on 600 kHz was beamed from a different site with two rows of six towers (one starts at 22 59'59.5"N 80 54'35.2"W). Among the RHC frequencies audible at my place there are usually two that have a marked delay in relation to the others. I suppose these are from Quivicán. They include 6070, 9710, 9810, 12010, 17580 (March frequencies). So far I have not noted 5040 with this delay (Olle Alm, Sweden, April 10, 2014, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: CUBA Quivicán really surprised me. The antenna arrays are of the Soviet folded dipole wall type, which also was built in the early 1970s at Plovdiv-Padarsko (entire site), Grigoriopol (most SW arrays), Tbilisskaya (two arrays) and Chernobyl (the giant Woodpecker array). WB: Last week Arnie Coro sent an Excel file of 2001year Schedule, with three SW txing sites mentioned. 1 - Bauta, 2 - Bejucal at least 9x transmitter - old USSR design of 1965 built up erected. USSR Radio Moscow relay, + RHC Bejucal, built in 1965; tx house at 22 52 03.79 N 82 20 05.68 W and remained 13 SW and 48 years old antenna masts of 1965 Russian design at 22 51'55.24"N 82 20'11.10"W 3 - Titán Quivicán - new powerful site, which showed 3 x 250 kW txs at RHC schedule, I guess the 4th transmitter of 250 kW power unit is now used for regular CRI Beijing relay. This type saves much space, but apparently also has serious drawbacks like wind and icing sensitivity, since no more ones as far as I know were built. The standard array has four big (lowband) towers and four small (highband) towers side by side, each tower having eight pairs of stacked folded tube dipoles, so that the four towers together form an 8 by 8 array. In the Google imagery, Quivicán also has one triangular mast group (NVIS, installed by a Chinese firm in the 1990s) and two square MW mast arrays. One mast in the taller array has been removed with only the base left. There is little doubt that it was from here we could hear R Moscow on 600 kHz. re 600 kHz relay: MW Cuba to USA 350 degr Miami, Chicago target was on 23 00 06.00 N 80 54 51.00 W 2 x 6 masts directional and a 2 mast east-western pattern jamming installation. and CUB_Chambas MW site 340deg, 220 km distance to R Marti location 22 degr 22'31.52"N, 78 degr 53'13.83"W 2 x 6 masts directional 340 degrees and 2 x 2 mast east-western pattern jamming installation. WB: "triangular mast group" - Titan Quivican 2 x NVIS 5025 / 5040 kHz antennas, but NVIS on the left side contained 4 masts too in 2002 to 2010y images, but lost the outer northwesterly 4th mast due of hurricane gale winds?? Move the G.E. time slider timer to 2006 historical image and see the difference. https:\\support.google.com/earth/answer/148094?topic=2376751&ctx=topic (all of wb comment marked as WB: to Olle Alm-SWE, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 14), via DXLD) Another presentation of our A 14 schedule with 9830 to 9820 correction Español Radio Habana Cuba HORARIOS, BANDAS Y FRECUENCIAS EN ESPAÑOL PERIODO ABRIL 2014 / OCTUBRE 2014 Idioma Español zona-geografica frecuencias (KHZ) banda(M) horarios Buenos Aires 15230 19 11:00 - 15:00 UTC 23:00 - 04:00 UTC 9550 31 11:00 - 13:00 UTC 17580 16 11:00 - 15:00 UTC 13740 22 21:00 - 04:00 UTC Nueva York 6060 49 00:00 - 05:00 UTC 11860 25 11:00 - 15:00 UTC San Francisco 15370 19 13:00 -15:00 UTC Chicago 9850 31 11:00 -13:00 UTC 15340 19 13:00 -15:00 UTC Chile 11840 25 21:00 - 05:00 UTC América Central 9820 31 11:00 - 15:00 UTC 9810 31 21:00 - 05:00 UTC 11760 25 13:00 - 15:00 UTC 9550 31 21:00 - 05:00 UTC Norte Centro Suramérica 11760 25 11:00 - 13:00 UTC 6000 49 11:00 - 15:00 UTC Antillas 6070 49 23:00 - 04:00 UTC 9710 31 21:00 - 23:00 UTC 12010 25 11:00 - 15:00 UTC Río de Janeiro 11670 25 23:00 - 04:00 UTC 17730 16 11:00 - 15:00 UTC Banda Tropical Cuba 5040 60 21:00 - 23:00 UTC Caribe Sur de Estados Unidos Mexico 01:00 - 05:00 UTC América Central Norte de Sudamérica Europa Europa 11670 25 21:00 - 23:00 UTC MESA REDONDA (Lunes a Viernes y días especiales) Washington 6000 49 23:00 - 00:00 UTC Chicago 6165 49 23:00 - 00:00 UTC HORARIOS, BANDAS Y FRECUENCIAS EN VARIOS IDIOMAS PERIODO ABRIL 2014 / OCTUBRE 2014 Idioma INGLÉS zona-geografica frecuencias (KHZ) banda(M) horarios Norte Centro y Sudamerica 6100 49 5:00 - 7:00 UTC América Central 11760 25 19:00 - 20:00 UTC New York 6060 49 05:00 - 07:00 UTC San Francisco 6000 49 05:00 -07:00 UTC Chicago 6165 49 01:00 -07:00 UTC Washington 6000 49 01:00 -05:00 UTC Banda Tropical 5040 60 23:00 - 24:00 UTC 05:00 - 06:00 UTC Africa 11880 25 23:00 - 24:00 UTC Idioma Francés Europa 11840 25 19:30 - 20:00 UTC América Central 11760 25 20:00 - 20:30 UTC Sudamérica 15370 19 22:30 - 23:00 UTC Africa 11880 25 22:30 - 23:00 UTC Banda Tropical 5040 60 24:30 - 01:00 UTC Idioma Portugués Rio de Janeiro 15370 19 23:30 - 24:00 UTC Buenos Aires 15230 19 22:00 - 23:00 UTC África 11880 25 22:30 - 23:00 UTC Europa 11840 25 20:00 - 20:30 UTC Idioma Árabe Europa 11840 25 20:30 - 21:00 UTC Idioma Esperanto San Francisco 6000 49 07:00 - 07:30 UTC (Domingos) Norte Centro y Sudamerica 11760 25 15:00 - 15:30 UTC (Domingos) Sudamerica 15370 19 22:30 - 23:00 UTC (Domingos) Idioma Creole Buenos Aires 15370 19 23:00 - 23:30 UTC Banda Tropical 5040 60 24:00 - 24:30 UTC Idioma Quechua Buenos Aires 15370 19 24:00 - 24:30 UTC Audio Real [sic] Director General: Isidro Fardales González Copyright © 2014 Radio Habana Cuba. (via José Bueno, April 13, condiglista yg via DXLD) 9550, April 15 at 0101 and later, no signal from RHC which per its own A-14 website schedule is supposed to be on in the evenings from 21 to 05 UT; OTOH, 11760, no longer listed during this time block, *is* on the air with VG signal // 11670 & 11840. Another excellent reason for a ``don`t you believe`` label on RHC schedule: http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/estaticas/frecuencias Perhaps Arnie had planned to move 11760 to 9550 due to the B-13 horrible QRM from Cairo, but which is no longer there. Another imaginary listing is for 13740 at 21-04. 5040, April 15 at 0104, RHC Spanish with big hum --- wiggle that patchcord! No such hum on // 6060, 6070, 9810-weak, 11670, 11760, 11840. 11840, speaking of which: April 15 at 0533, big open carrier/dead air, must be RadioCuba having failed to turn off this RHC transmitter, and *still* on at 0613, 0710 as I am up late for the Lunar eclipse. Supposed to run 21-05 to Chile, after 1930-2100 to Europe (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9550, April 16 at 0106 check, still no RHC here despite own schedule claming it`s now on from 21 to 05 UT. 5040, April 16 at 0109, RHC Spanish marred by big hum, which is also audible on the much weaker leapfrog mixing product over 5025 Rebelde, landing on 5010. 5040 hum same as 24 hours earlier, so they still haven`t wiggled that patchcord! RHC is its own worst enemy. Or blame it on transmitter agency RadioCuba. 11670, April 16 at 0111, VG signal from RHC on now // 11760 and 11840. Circa 21 UT April 15, 11670 was off after having started operating much earlier and blocking India, leading to hopes that Arnie had heard the pleas of AIR listeners. But April 16 at 2137 check, RHC is back, totally blocking India on 11670. Arnie never makes a frequency move to help any other station out, only his own. 6000, April 16 at 0114, RHC English is very undermodulated on one frequency, and 6165, the other frequency, is absent. What are we going to do?? At least Brazil, q.v., is still off 5999.6, so RHC is hetless. 6165, April 16 at 0630, RHC English is still absent from here, leaving nothing but The Cuban Three, on 6000, 6060 and 6100 with music at the moment. Too bad 6165 CHAD has been inactive for months now. It seems that at least one major RHC transmitter is down, which vacates various frequencies at different dayparts. 9850 is the absentee April 16 at 1242; I can barely make out the weak 9830 signal under RTTY // 9550. After 1301 April 16, today`s missing channel is 15370, still gone at 1334 and 1406, but // 15340 is more than sufficient. [15370 & 15340 are both on, April 17 at 1307] By 2137 April 16, RHC is back on 11670, after missing yesterday; and still on at 2325 along with 11760, but still NOT 9550. Also during this `Mesa Redonda` hour of alternate TV programming, April 16 at 2325, extra frequency 6165 is still running along with 6000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11670 All India R back in the clear at 2100 --- I'm daring to hope that this is permanent but with Havana, you never know. If you've moved, Arnie, thank you and 73 de (Anne Fanelli in back-to-winter Elma NY, 2103 ut April 15, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Of course not! RHC is back today April 16 at 2137 check, no India audible. At least one RHC transmitter had been down the past 24 hours missing from one frequency or another (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 12180, HM-01 numbers station, APR 8, 1040. Already in progress with unusual mix with one set of numbers alternating with data and sometimes data and vox mixed together. Good signal and closing suddenly at 1054 (Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona, Drake R8, Grundig Satellit 750, random wire and Slinky, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Co-channel HM01 from Cuba and S06s from Russia 0801 on 11635 via SDR receiver in Valladolid, Spain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FHX4AYWq24&list=UUOkdLTbNeM6g6w8oqkXYtsw (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Apr 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 13605, April 12 at 1413, R. Martí with VG signal atop the jamming, while // 11930 is maybe JBA beneath the wall of noise. 13605 sounds like they have jacked up the power to full 250 kW today, rather than one-third or so, in a death-wish? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9490, April 14 at 0353, surprised to find wall-of-noise jamming here, as R. República via FRANCE ends at 0300 --- but I can almost hear something under the jamming, so could RR have been extended? However, not unusual at all for the DentroCuban Jamming Command to jam nothing, such as on 6030 at 0455, despite R. Martí`s Monday morning rest stop. 9490 accompanied by pulsing spurs plus/minus 10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. CHINA. It was mentioned several years ago that SARFT had purchased 13 ALLISS units or possibly the rights to clone them. So far only one unit of this kind has been known to exist, near Qiqihar at 47 20'47.2"N, 124 16'07.3"E (southeast of a jamming station), while two rotatable arrays near Jinhua at 29 06'58.9"N, 119 18'39.6"E and 29 07'03.9"N, 119 18'49.2"E are reported to be from another manufacturer and built before the ALLISS era. Now I saw a mention that Kashi/Kashgar also was in the plans, so I went there in Google Maps and swept a wide loop around the "old" CRI site, and west of the old site I spotted a neatly arranged group of three rotatable antennas. The arrays seem to be incomplete, so maybe they were under construction at the time of the imaging. The coordinates are 39 21'20.3"N, 75 42'52.7"E; 39 21'49.9"N, 75 42'34.7"E and 39 22'22.3"N, 75 42'46.7"E, with a building in the center of the area. A road leads there from the big main site (Olle Alm, Sweden, April 10, 2014, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6180, April 11 at 0106, poor signal sounds like CRI English, and so it is, scheduled from Kashgar southwards, audiblized by the absence of BRAZIL, q.v. 15410, April 12 at 1406, Chinese fair signal with heavy flutter, English clip, and 1409 few notes of a hymn tune, which was very misleading since this is listed as CRI Chinese service via Kashgar to Europe this hour only; already found it not // 9845 CNR1 jammer and/or VOA Thailand (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR [non]. Special logs (and sorry for errata): 7300, Akhbar Mufriha (correct name) has again been heard on 10/4 with s/on at 2059 and also verified by my TRaxx intruder list on my radio page on Google site. Language has the same scheme: First ‘Tamazight‘ then Arabic The log has been already corrected in my logs page Audio has been uploaded there : http://www.ipernity.com/doc/zliangas/31806549 BTW Although I suspect this is a AWR program (as also Tarek) in Eibi is mentioned as V of Andes. Which is correct? Look also http://www.akhbarmufriha.com/ The site shows Tachelhit till 2115 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9965, April 15 at 0112 *no* signal from Cairo. Arabic service with various whines and modulation defects has always had a bigsig here. It`s registered for 2300-2430 English, 0030-0430 Arabic from Abis. I figured there would be a wooden alternative in HFCC: http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbyfmo.php?seas=A14&fmor=ERU but there is not for this transmission. We`ll see if 9965 come back. 9315, April 15 at 0112 meanwhile is still audible with good signal but suppressed modulation, supposedly Spanish, but sounds Arabic to me; and duplicate registration for 9720 is still absent after having been used all B-13, both also for 0200 sesquihour in suppressed English. 11710+ Cairo is still on making its big het with 11711- Argentina, April 15 at 0123 check. v CUBA 9965, April 16 at 0112, R. Cairo is back on with big carrier, little modulation under humwhine, after being off the air 24 hours earlier. Were they fixing the transmitter? Of course not! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. CLANDESTINE, 15245, R. Assenna, Apr 07 *1700-1709, 23332-25332, Tigrigna, 1700 sign on with ID, Eritrean pop, Opening announce, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121, Ant 110m Sloper wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. CLANDESTINE, 15515, R. Warra Wangeelaa, Apr 05, *1500-1513 25322-25422 Oromo, 1500 sign on with opening music, ID, Opening announce, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD- 525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121, Ant 110m Sloper wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. CLANDESTINE, 17850, Oromo Voice: Apr 05 *1600-1616, 35443, Oromo; 1600 sign on with opening music, ID, Opening announce, Talk and Local music. Apr 09 *1600-1610, 25432-24432, Oromo; 1600 sign on with ID, Opening announce, Opening music, Talk, Jamming from 1601 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121, Ant 110m Sloper wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. FRANCE [to ETHIOPIA/SOMALIA/HoA], 17630 from 1600 UT on April 15. On Tues/Sats service only, mentioned in Aoki/Nagoya frequency list as "Radio Xoriyo Ogaden" in Somali language via Issoudun bcasting center. Signal strength here in Germany as -55dBm or S=9+20dB on SDR rx unit. Brokered by OGM / MBR Media Broadcast Cologne, Germany. Mentioned often Syria politics matter. Just after program start at 1600 UT, the accompanied HoA jammer on broadband scratchy digital noise audio started in range 17625.7 to 17634.5 kHz range, even in peaks up to 17619 - 17641 kHz wideband range jamming (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 15, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. Noted yesterday AM and confirmed this morning from tune in at 0605 UT Laser Hot Hits are now on new 4025 ex-4029 kHz. SIO 443 Also noted over a few mornings, Laser closes around 0625 UT Monday to Friday. Sent from my iPad 73's (John Hoad, Faversham, Kent UK, JRC NRD-515 / ALA1530LF, 0621 UT Apr 13, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** EUROPE. 13910 AM, PIRATE, Borderhunter Radio-Holland, 1728-1740+, 04-06-14. SIO: 333. Station Op Frans playing music by Rush, Motley Crue, etc. (Chris Lobdell, Stoneham, MA 02180, USA, Eton E1, JRC NRD- 545; G5RV, 40 Meter Dipole, NASWA Flashsheet April 13 via DXLD) ** EUROPE. Radio Spaceshuttle taking part to Pirate Contest! [too bad on 76m only; Spaceshuttle used to employ 15 MHz frequencies, possiblizing transoceanic DX == gh] Strange, but last weekend of Radio Spaceshuttle is starting today. We shall have few transmissions during weekend of 11-13 April 2014. Most sure are transmissions during Friday evening-following night. All transmissions will be aired on our 76 mb frequencies. 3905 kHz (or 3900, 3927 kHz) We moved time of taking our antennas down because of Pirate Contest organized By Norrköpings distanslyssnare starting 11th April. So listeners will have a little change to hear last programes from Radio Spaceshuttle! We promise to have some special content in our last tarnsmissions! I wish you will like'em. Each transmissions will last 0.5-1 hour. First tests perhaps around 18 UT (= 21 in Eastern Europe, 20 Central Europe, 19 in UK). And after that irregular times during the night And Special Pirate Contest/ Last Radio Spaceshuttle transmission QSL have been designed and is available for everyone sending correct reception reports from our tx. Please send your reports to, Radio Spaceshuttle International P. O. Box 2702 6049 ZG HERTEN The Netherlands spaceshuttleradio@yahoo.com Best listening, Dick and horny spacegirls army ;) "NDL has for several years been thinking about a DX listener contest – and now is the time. The contest begins Friday April 11, 2014 at. 1200 UTC and ends on Monday, April 21, 2014 at. 2400 UTC. Frequencies: short and medium wave. Listen to as many pirate stations as possible. Send reports and count the responses received. The competition is primarily designed for the Scandinavian countries, but also participants from other countries are welcome. For the Nordic participants apply the competition as SM and NM, individually and in teams. Easter is one of those times of year that pirate radio transmissions are most intense. Here are rules and more information: http://piratjakten.ndl-dx.se/ A warm welcome NDL-gang _.___ (via Alokesh Gupta, cumbredx yg via DXLD) ** FRANCE. New A-14 schedule of R. France Internationale in Russian: 1500-1600 on 13630 ISS 500 kW / 055 deg to EaEu, ex 1500-1530 1500-1600 on 15215 ISS 500 kW / 080 deg to CeAs, ex 1500-1530 1800-1900 on 11795 ISS 500 kW / 055 deg to EaEu, no change 1800-1900 on 13620 ISS 500 kW / 080 deg to CeAs, no change 1300-1330 on 15160 ISS 500 kW / 055 deg to EaEu, cancelled 1300-1330 on 17850 ISS 500 kW / 080 deg to CeAs, cancelled http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/new-summer-14-schedule-of-radio-france.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) 17850, April 16 at 0728, poor signal in French when I was not expecting to hear anything on 16m, but up unreasonably late to get WOR 1717 finished. Per HFCC, it`s RFI, 500 kW from Issoudun at 07-09, with a slight beam change at 08 from 160 to 153 degrees, why? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GABON. Moyabi shortwave site in Gabon - Africa 1 --- Hello, I have just found a very nice photo set of Moyabi shortwave site in Gabon here: [inactive] https://www.flickr.com/photos/jbdodane/11966637395 Best Wishes, (Andrea Borgnino IW0HK, 0800 UT April 17, shortwavesites yg via DXLD ** GERMANY. Relays from City - HLR - EMR & Geronimo Radio City Easter, Friday April 18th at 18 - 19 GMT on 7290 and 1368 kHz, with a repeat on Saturday April 19th at 08 - 09 GMT on 9510 kHz. As usual there is a weekly transmission every Saturday evening via Radio Merkurs, Riga, Latvia on 1485 kHz at 19 - 20 GMT. The transmission via Hamburger Lokalradio is next Saturday, April 26th at 12 - 13 GMT on 7265 kHz. The address is still citymorecars@yahoo.ca European Music Radio on 20th April: 7265 between 07.00 & 08.00 UTC 9485 & 6045 between 08.00 & 09.00 UTC Radio Geronimo on 20th April: 9485 between 09.00 & 11.00 UTC Hamburger Lokal Radio: 18.04.2014 - Karfreitag: (Good Friday) 08.00 - 12.00 Uhr CET - (0600-1000 UT) - 7265 kHz - Deutsch - German 12.00 - 14.00 Uhr CET - (1000-1200 UT) - 6190 kHz - Deutsch - German 14.00 - 16.00 Uhr CET - (1200-1400 UT) - 9485 kHz - Deutsch - German 19.04.2014 - Samstag: - Reguläres Programm - (Saturday program) 20.04.2014 - Oestersonntag: (Easter Sunday) 13.00 - 15.00 Uhr CET - (1100-1300 UT) - 9485 kHz - Deutsch - German 15.00 - 16.00 Uhr CET - (1300-1400 UT) - 9485 kHz - Englisch - English 16.00 - 17.00 Uhr CET - (1400-1500 UT) - 9485 kHz - Spanisch - Spanish 21.04.2014 - Ostermontag: (Easter Monday) 08.00 - 12.00 Uhr CET - (0600-1000 UT) - 9485 kHz - Deutsch - German 12.00 - 14.00 Uhr CET - (1000-1200 UT) - 9485 kHz - Englisch - English 14.00 - 16.00 Uhr CET - (1200-1400 UT) - 9485 kHz - Deutsch - German Good Listening & A Happy Easter 73s (Tom Taylor, April 16, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) and also in advance on the dxldyg ** GREECE. 9420 > 7475 > 15630, April 11 at 0112, the triad of HR frequencies in descending strength order from VG to P, Greek music. 9420 enough to blot out Iran collision (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Eliniki Radiophonia on Sat, April 12 on three frequencies in // from 0600 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek, continues at 0945 from 0600 11645#AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek, continues at 0945 from 0600 15630*AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek, continues at 0945 # QRM from Radio Romania International in Arabic 0630-0656 on 11650 * co-ch new Dari sce of Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran 0623-0820 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/eliniki-radiophonia-on-sat-april-12-on.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) 7475 // 9420, April 14 at 0342, HR is back in Greek with good/very good signals, but no 11645 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Eliniki Radiophonia on April 14 only on two frequencies in //: from 1115 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek, continues at 1415 from 1115 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek and closed at 1323 from 1328 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek, continues at 1415 from 1115 15630 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek or 15650 were off. http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/eliniki-radiophonia-on-april-14-only-on.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) Government removed the shingle of ERT from Hellenic Radio Building --- translate from the news http://www.ertopen.com/eidiseis/item/18769-kyriakh-twn-baiwn-xhlwsan-thn-istorikh - epigrafh-ths-ert#.U0zCxtJ_s51 (Zacharias Lilangas, Apr 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dave Kernick reports on the WRTH Facebook group: 15 April 2014 Greece's new public broadcaster NERIT has already established a web presence at http://www.nerit.gr/ No live streaming or other audio/video content yet of course; broadcasting is due to launch on 27 April (via Mike Terry, April 16, dxldyg via DXLD) ** HONG KONG. 8828-USB, Cape d'Aguilar, 1145 Hong Kong ID, 3 April (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, NRD535D, Sony 2010XA, ICF 5900w - wire antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. All India Radio on SW in frequency order Home & External Services - A-14 schedule of 8 Apr 2014 kHz kW Station UTC (Target Area) 3945* 50 Gorakhpur 0130-0230 Nepali (NPL), 0230-0300 HS, 1330-1430 Nepali (NPL), 1430-1735 Urdu (PAK) (Off Air) 4760 7 Leh s0130/w0213-0430 1130-1630 4760 8.5 Port Blair 2355-0300 1030-1700 (Sat, Sun 1730) 4775 50 Imphal s0000/w0030-0215 1030-1700/1730 (Irregular) 4800 50 Hyderabad 0020-0215 1130-1744 4810 50 Bhopal 0025-0215 1130-1742 4820 50 Kolkata 0025-0215 1130-1745 v 4830* 50 Jammu 0025-0445/Sun 0450 1030-1741 (Off Air) 4835 10 Gangtok 0100-0500 1030-1600 4840 50 Mumbai 2355-0400 1230-1730 4850 50 Kohima 0000-0415 1000-1600/1630/1700 (Irregular) 4860 50 Shimla 0025-0200 1300-1741 4870 100 Delhi Kingsway 0230-0330, 1330-1415 Nepali, 1430-1530 4880 50 Lucknow 0025-0430 (Sun 0415v), 1215-1741 4895 50 Kurseong 0055-0400 (Sat Sun 0430) 1130-1700(Sat Sun 1741) 4910 50 Jaipur 0025 0430 (Sun 0530) 1130-1741 4920 50 Chennai 0015-0245 1200-1739 4940* 50 Guwahati s0000/w0025-0415 1135v-1700(Sat 1741) (Off Air) 4950* 50 Srinagar s0030/w0120-0215 1120-1743, (2130-2245v for Ramzan Special broadcasts) (Off Air) 4960* 50 Ranchi 0025-0445 1100(Sun 1130)-1741 (Off Air) 4970 50 Shillong 0025-0400 1056-1630 4990 50 Itanagar 0020-0400 1000-1630 (Irregular) 5010 50 Thiruvananthapuram 0020-0215 1130-1745 5040 50 Jeypore 0025-0445, 1130-1741 5050 10 Aizawl 0025-0400 1130-1630 5965* 50 Jammu 0630-0930 (Off air) 5985* 50 Ranchi 0630-1000 (Off air) 5990 250 Delhi Khampur 0100-0200 Sindhi (PAK) 6000 7 Leh 0700 (Sun 0630)-0930 6020 50 Shimla 0215-0410, 0700-0930 (Sun 0415-1000) 1130-1230 6030 250 Delhi Khampur 0200-0228,1215-1430 (Uttarakhand program) 6040 50 Jeypore 0446-0915 6045 100 Delhi Kingsway 1430-1930 Urdu (PAK) 6065 50 Kohima 0430-0510 0700-0900 (Irregular) 6085 10 Gangtok For special broadcasts in day time 6100 250 Delhi Khampur 0730-0830 6100 50 Delhi Khampur 0900-1200 (Vividh Bharati, $ DRM NVIS ant) 6110* 50 Srinagar 0225-0501 (Sun 1115), 0600-1115 6150 50 Itanagar 0700-0900 (Irregular) 6155 250 Aligarh 0015-0430 Urdu (PAK) 6155 500 Bengaluru 1430-1930 Urdu (PAK) 6165 250 Delhi Khampur 1230-1500 Sindhi, 1500-1600 Baluchi (PAK) 7210 50 Kolkata 0230-0400, 0730 (Sun 0700)-1001 7225 250 Aligarh 0215-0300 Pushtu, 0300-0345 Dari (AFG, PAK) 7230 50 Kurseong 0620-1030 7240 50 Mumbai 0430 (Sat, Sun) /0530-0930 7250 50 Gorakhpur * 0700-0800 Nepali (NPL), 0830-1130 Urdu (PAK) 1130-1140 HS(Off Air) 7250 250 Panaji 1615-1730 Hindi, 1730-1830 Malayalam (ME) 7270 100 Chennai 0000-0045 Tamil, 0045-0115 Sinhala (Sri Lanka) 0130-0430 HS 1000-1100 English 1115-1215 Tamil 1300-1500 Sinhala (Sri Lanka) 7280* 50 Guwahati 0600 (Sun 0530)-0930 0945-1130 (Off Air) 7290 50 Thiruvananthapuram 0230-1000 (Sat, Sun 1030) 7295 10 Aizawl 0700-1000 7315 50 Shillong 0656-0931 7325 50 Jaipur 0630-0931 7335 50 Imphal 0225-0400 (Sun 0430), 0630(Sun 0600)-1000 7340 100 Mumbai 0015-0430 Urdu, 0830-1130 Urdu, 1130-1140 HS, 1230-1500 Sindhi, 1500-1600 Baluchi (PAK) 7370 100 Delhi Kingsway 0100-0200 Sindhi (PAK) 7380 50 Chennai 0300-0930 (Sun 1130) 7390 8.5 Port Blair 0315-0400 (Sat 0415, Sun 0500), 0700-0900 (Sun 0930) 7420 50 Guwahati * 0130-0230 Nepali, 0230-0300 HS, 0300-0430 Bangla 0700-0800 Nepali, 0800-1100 Bangla, 1215-1330 Tibetan, 1330-1430 Nepali, 1445-1515 Bangla, 1515-1600 HS, 1600-1730 Bangla 7420 50 Hyderabad 0220-0930 (Sun 1030) 7430 50 Bhopal 0225-0932 7440 50 Lucknow 0700 (Sun 0430)-1000, 1005-1006 7550 500 Bengaluru 1745-1945 English, 1945-2045 Hindi, 2045-2230 English (WeEUR) 9425 250 Delhi Khampur 1320-0043 (National Channel) 9445 250 Delhi Khampur 1615-1730 Hindi (ME), 1745-1945 English (We.NoWeAF) 9445 500 Bengaluru 2045-2230 English (WeEUR) 9470 250 Aligarh 1320-0043 (National Channel) 9575 500 Bengaluru 1215-1330 Tibetan (Tibet) 9595 250 Delhi Khampur 0015-0430 Urdu (PAK), irr. sometimes on 9950 9595 100 Delhi Kingsway 0700-0800 Nepali (NPL), 0830-1130 Urdu (PAK) 9620 500 Bengaluru 1615-1715 Russian (EaEUR) 9620 250 Aligarh 0100-0200 & 1230-1500 Sindhi, 1500-1600 Baluchi (PAK), 1615-1730 Persian, 1730-1945 Arabic (WeAS), 1945-2030 French (We.NoWeAF) 9635 250 Aligarh 0100-0200 Sindhi (PAK) 9690 500 Bengaluru 1330-1500 English, 2245-0045 English (EaSoEaAS) 9705 250 Panaji 2245-0045 English (EaSoEaAS) 9810 250 Delhi Khampur 0130-0230 Nepali (NPL) 9810 250 Panaji 1115-1215 Tamil, 1215-1245 Telugu (SoEaAS) 9820 250 Delhi Khampur 1300-1500 Sinhala (Sri Lanka) 9835 100 Delhi Kingsway 0000-0045 Tamil (Sri Lanka) 9870 500 Bengaluru 0025-0435 0900-1200 1245-1740 (Vividh Bharati) 9910 250 Delhi Khampur 0215-0300 Pushtu, 0300-0345 Dari (AFG, PAK) 9910 250 Aligarh 1315-1415 Dari, 1415-1530 Pushtu, 1530-1545 English (AFG, PAK), 2045-2230 English (AUS NZL), 2300-0000 Hindi, 0000-0045 Tamil (SoEaAS) 9950 250 Delhi Khampur 1515-1615 Swahili, 1615-1730 Hindi (EaAF, MAU) 9950 50 Delhi Khampur DRM mode: 1745-1945 English, 1945-2045 Hindi, 2045-2230 English (WeEUR) 11580 250 Aligarh 1745-1945 English (We.NoWeAF) 11620 500 Bengaluru 0015-0430 Urdu (PAK) 11620 250 Delhi Khampur 0830-1130 Urdu (PAK), 1130-1140 HS, 1330-1500 English (EaSoEaAS), 1515-1600 Gujarathi (EaAF) 11620 500 Bengaluru 1615-1715 Russin (EaEUR) 11620 500 Begaluru $ DRM mode: 2045-2230 English (AUS NZL) 11645 50 Delhi Khampur $ DRM mode: 2245-0045 English (NoEaAS) 11670 250 Aligarh 0400-0430 Persian, 0430-0530 Arabic (ME) 11670 250 Aligarh 0530-0600 (Urdu) (Haj Service to Saudi Arabia) 11670 500 Bengaluru 1115-1200 Thai (SoEaAS), 1745-1945 English, 1945-2045 Hindi, 2045-2230 English (EUR) 11710 250 Delhi Khampur 1215-1315 Burmese (Myanmar), 1615-1730 Persian, 1730-1945 Arabic (ME) 1945-2030 French (WeNoWeAF), 2245-0045 English (EaSoEaAS NoEaAS) 11715 50 Delhi Khampur $ DRM mode: 0130-0230 Nepali (NPL) 11740 250 Aligarh 0215-0300 Pushtu, 0300-0345 Dari (PAK AFG) 11740 250 Panaji # 1315-1415 Dari, 1415-1530 Pushtu (AFG, PAK) (ex via Bengaluru) 11740 250 Panaji 2045-2230 English (AUS NZL), 2300-2400 Hindi, 0000-0045 Tamil (SoEaAS), 0045-0115 Sinhala (Sri Lanka) 11775 250 Panaji 1215-1330 Tibetan (Tibet), 1330-1430 Nepali (NPL) 11840 250 Delhi Khampur 0315-0415 Hindi (WeAS), 1145-1315 Chinese (NoEaAS) 11850 100 DelhiKingsway 0700-0800 Nepali (NPL) 11935 100 Mumbai 1745-1945 English (EaAF) 11985 250 Delhi Khampur 0000-0045 Tamil, 0045-0115 Sinhala (Sri Lanka) 11985 500 Bengaluru # 0215-0300 Kannada (ME) (ex 13695) 12025 250 Panaji 1615-1730 Hindi, 1730-1830 Malayalam (ME) 13605 500 Bengaluru 1000-1100 English, 1145-1315 Chinese (NoEaAS), 1515-1615 Swahili, 1615-1730 Hindi (EaAF) 13605 500 Bengalurur $ DRM mode: 2245-0045 English (EaSoEaAS NoEaAS) 13640 500 Bengaluru 1515-1600 Gujarati (EaAF), 1615-1730 Persian, 1730-1945 Arabic (ME), 1945-2030 French (WeNoWeAF) 13645 250 Aligarh 1115-1200 Thai (SoEaAS) 13695 500 Bengaluru 0315-0415 Hindi (ME), 1000-1100 English (AUS NZL), 1115-1215 Tamil, 1215-1245 Telugu (SoEaAS), 1745-1945 English (EaAF) 13710 500 Bengaluru 1330-1500 English (EaSoEaAS) 13795 500 Bengaluru 0000-0045 Tamil, 2300-2400 Hindi (SoEaAS) 15030 250 Aligarh 1000-1100 English (NoEaAS) 15040 500 Bengaluru 1215-1315 Burmese (Myanmar) 15050 For special broadcasts 15050 250 Delhi Khampur 1115-1215 Tamil, 1300-1500 Sinhala (Sri Lanka) 15120 500 Bengaluru 0215-0300 Kannada, 0315-0415 Hindi, 0415-0430 Gujarati, 0430-0530 Hindi (ME) 0315-0415 Hindi (ME) 15140 50 Delhi Khampur $ DRM mode: 1615-1715 Russian (EaEUR) 15175 250 Panaji 1515-1600 Gujarati (EaAF) 15185 250 Panaji 0315-0415 Hindi, 0415-0430 Gujarati, 0430-0530 Hindi (EaAF, Mauritius) 15210 250 Panaji 0400-0430 Persian, 0430-0530 Arabic (ME) 0530-0600 (Urdu) (Haj Service to Saudi Arabia Sept-Oct 2013) 15410 500 Bengaluru 1000-1100 English (NoEaAS) 15410 250 Panaji 1115-1200 Thai (SoEaAS) 15770 250 Delhi Khampur 0400-0430 Persian, 0430-0530 Arabic (ME) 15770 250 Delhi Khampur 0530-0600 (Urdu) (Haj Service to Saudi Arabia) 15770 250 Aligarh 0845-0945 Indonesian, 1115-1215 Tamil, 1215-1245 Telugu (SoEaAS) 15795 500 Bengaluru $ DRM mode: 1145-1315 Chinese (NoEaAS) 17510 250 Delhi Khampur 0845-0945 Indonesian (SoEaAS) 1000-1100 English (AUS NZL), 1115-1215 Tamil (Sri Lanka) 17670 250 Delhi Khampur 1515-1615 Swahili, 1615-1730 Hindi, 1745-1945 English (EaAF) 17715 50 Delhi Khampur $ DRM mode: 0315-0415 Hindi, 0415-0430 Gujarati, 0430-0530 Hindi (EaAF, Mauritius) 17875 500 Bengaluru 0845-0945 Indonesian (SoEaAS) 17895 500 Bengaluru $ DRM mode: 1000-1100 English (AUS NZL) HS = Home Service, S = Summer, W = Winter, V = Varies, * Off Air # Entries [originally] in Red are latest changes for A-14 $ DRM mode: Digital Radio Mondial (Jose Jacob, India, VU2JOS, DXindia April 8 via BCDX 11 Apr via DXLD) ** INDIA. 4970 AIR-Shillong, Apr 15 1404-1444, 45444, English, India music, etc, ID at 1440. 4990, AIR-Itanagar, Apr 15 1352-1404, 44433, Hindi and English, Local music and news, ID at 1359 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD- 525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121, Ant 110m Sloper wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 7340.097, Odd channel of AIR Urdu service from Bombay, at 0045 UT April 12, weak in New York remote post. And suffered heavily by adjacent channel RRI Galbeni in Romanian on 7335 kH. S=9+20dB - 58dBm (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) AIR Urdu Service noted today morning from my tune in from around 0130 on 9950 instead of 9595. On 1 Apr 2014 also same error was noted. The schedule is 0015-0430. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, April 10, dx_india yg via DXLD) 13710, April 11 fair at 1338, AIR GOS news in English concluding with a sports item and something about China; 1339 ``main points again`` in ancient BBC style; 1340 Comméntary about Ukraine, with credit to writer and reader. Same audible underneath WRMI`s Brother Scare on 9690, but nothing heard on third // 11620. 13710 is Bengaluru, to be QRMed by CRI English Kashgar by 1400. 11985, April 13 at 0110, AIR is yet again messing up its Sinhala service from Delhi-Khampur site: just a big hum with flutter, while // 11740 via GOA succeeds in transmitting music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11670 All India R back in the clear at 2100 --- I'm daring to hope that this is permanent but with Havana, you never know. If you've moved, Arnie, thank you and 73 de (Anne Fanelli in back-to-winter Elma NY, April 15, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No thanks; next day RHC was back: see CUBA ** INDONESIA. 3325, RRI (Palangka Raya) APR 5, 1315. Long talk by W over music soundbed. Good (Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona, Drake R8, Grundig Satellit 750, random wire and Slinky, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525.90, V. of Indonesia: Apr 08 1204-1214, 33443, Japanese, News, ID and URL announce at 1212. Apr 09 1251-1259, 43443, Japanese, Music, ID at 1253 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121, Ant 110m Sloper wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9525.968, Voice of Indonesia, 1128-1145, Noted a very weak signal here as a female comments in possibly Chinese which is schedule for this hour. Can't pull out the exact language since the signal is very weak at this time. Not much left of the station at 1145 (Chuck Bolland, April 11, 2014) Clewiston FL, Excalibur, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Charles, your Excalibur seems once again "misaligned". For some weeks or months now VOI Cimanggis is mostly lower frequency on 9525.891 kHz [not 9525.968]. At present in Indonesian also at 1400 UT April 11. Or better tell the hcdx ng even pure vague 9526 kHz frequency instead. Check your 31 mb screen against ready even broadcaster like RA SHP 9475, CRI Russian 9525.000, and WWVH 10.000 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENINIG DIGEST) Such advice goes for anyone attempting to report frequencies to two or three decimal places with Excalibur (gh, DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. WRN Broadcast Maintenance Notification - (ref 173) Sky transponder migration 2014 Dear All, I’m writing to you inform you that on 14th April there will be a change of transponder and frequency for WRN English for Europe, which is currently on the Astra 2F satellite. This channel will now be moving back to Eutelsat 28A and consequently, the service will have a different frequency for reception on non-Sky receivers (where tuning is carried out manually by frequency). For Sky receivers the service will continue to appear on the same channel number and no action is required by the audience. For homes that use a generic receiver (largely those located outside of the UK and Ireland), it will be necessary to re-tune from the existing frequency to the following: Eutelsat 28A D/L frequency: 11680.77 MHz D/L polarity: Vertical Symbol rate: 27.5 MSymb/sec FEC: 2/3 DVBS We will be dual illuminating the service until 22nd April to allow listeners time to gradually migrate across to the new frequency, and Sky will make the switch on this date. Please don’t hesitate to let me know if you have any questions, Many Thanks, Kosh (Kosh Hussain, Client Services Executive, http://www.wrnbroadcast.com April 11, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) More info from attached pdf: Planned Maintenance Notification Reference: WRNB 173 Issue date: 11/04/14 Date of planned work: 22/04/14 Time: 0900 – 1000GMT Services affected: WRN English Europe Details: The above service will be moving transponders on the Sky platform. Impact on Service: There will be no impact on service to Sky listeners. A "technical fault" message or similar may appear if an affected service is being viewed at the time of EPG transition. Listeners downlinking the service outside the Sky platform on free to air receivers will experience an interruption to service. They will need to re-tune their equipment to the following parameters: D/L frequency: 11680.77 MHz D/L polarity: Vertical Symbol rate: 27.5 MSymb/sec FEC: 2/3 DVBS Although no downtime is anticipated to Sky listeners, the possibility of interruption during this transition cannot be entirely ruled out. Contingency: In the unlikely event of major problems which cannot be resolved interim capacity has been allocated for use. Should you require any further information please do not hesitate make contact. Kind Regards, Mike Ward Head of Broadcast Services WRN Broadcast michael.ward@wrnbroadcast.com (WRN via DXLD) This affects WORLD OF RADIO, Saturdays at 0900 UT (Glenn Hauser) ** INTERNATIONAL WATERS. [Re DXLD 14-15:] Commercial aircraft *are* required to carry ELTs by ICAO regs, and transmit on 406 MHz. The Ethiopian Airlines 787 fire at Heathrow last July was caused [by?] the plane's ELT (and the aircraft was parked in the same bay when I went through there in January -- those repairs to composite fuselages seem to take a long time). (Chuck Albertson, Seattle, Wash., Sent via BlackBerry, April 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) emergency location transmitters? ** INTERNATIONAL WATERS [non?]. Captados os sinais em CW de A8BN8 em 1650 kHz em LSB. Pesquisado este código A8BN8 no Google, encontramos a informação de que se trata de uma transmissão oriunda de um navio de nome ‘Noble Leo Segerius’, de bandeira da Libéria. Vejam as referencias no link: http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1456300 Só não foi possível estimar a localização deste navio no momento em que a frequência acima mencionada foi sintonizada, se está de passagem pelo Atlântico ou se está ancorado em algum porto brasileiro. 73, (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP, April 16, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** IRAN. 999, 29.1 1720, IRIB, UNID QTH, DRM. Tnx to Mauno Ritola for contacting IRIB – they informed they are using this channel with DRM, but did not say anything about QTH (Tarmo Kontro, ARC mv-eko March 17 via DXLD) ** IRAN. 9860, April 15 at 0119, poor signal in Spanish as I am hunting for Turkey, q.v. in Spanish supposed to be on 9870 and 9830 or 9770. It`s all about los Estados Unidos and Obama, mentioning the renuncia of the Secretaria de Salud, demonstrations in 40 US cities about immigration; refers several times to ``nuestro país`` without naming which. Certainly not VOA or R. Martí! Or RHC which is often obsessed with spinning news negatively about US. Clear enunciation. 0127 break for announcements and music, 0130 VIRI chimes and news theme, Spanish news finally about Iran instead. This is the three-hour Spanish transmission from 0020 via Kamalabad, thus no IS or Qur`an before this hourbottom (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. CLANDESTINE, Summer A-14 of Radio Ranginkaman/Radio Rainbow [i.e. gay]: 1600-1630 7575 KCH 100 kW / 100 deg to WeAs Farsi Mon/Fri till Sept 26 1700-1730 7575 KCH 100 kW / 100 deg to WeAs Farsi Mon/Fri from Sept 29 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/summer-14-schedule-of-radio.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. CLANDESTINE, 15680, R. Mehr Iranian: Apr 07 *1630-1641, 32432-33433, Farsi; 1630 sign on with opening music, ID, Opening announce, Talk. Apr 14 *1630-1640 33433-32432 Farsi, 1630 sign on with opening music, ID, Opening announce, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD- 525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121, Ant 110m Sloper wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRELAND. On BBC Radio 4's "Archive on 4" this week, "Atlantic Crossing" is the story of Shanwick Radio and Shannon Airport, as well as a history of trans-Atlantic air travel after the war. Suss the ID of the female announcer doing the Shanwick VOLMET broadcasts. Available here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0414b1m until 4/26 or so (Chuck Albertson, Seattle, WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRELAND [non]. RTÉ (Ireland) still has its English shortwave broadcast in the A14 season, though it doesn't seem to be listed in the HFCC schedules. Broadcast is on 5820 kHz (weekdays only re the WRN Africa schedule) from 1930 to 2000 UT, presumably via Meyerton, South Africa. As it's a relay of WRN Africa you also get a WRN ID and maybe a snippet of the preceding WRN programme (Radio Slovakia Int). Fair clear reception here in Caversham this evening (SIO 354). 73 (Alan Pennington, AOR 7030plus, longwire, Caversham, UK, April 10, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DXLD) Was registered in mid January already, Mon-Fri til 12 March issue, b u t after that from HFCC issue March 19 dis-appeared from the file: 5820 1930 2000 46,47,48,52,53 MEY 100kW 0=true North slewed -30degrees ant#216 23456=Mon-Fri 300314-251014 eng AFS RTE WRN #11001 I know, - from time to time WRN delete all WRN entries, due to veil and protect a lot of WRN brokered Clandestines, i.e. like Asian / Korean / China belongings. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. D.P.R. Assumption by Y.T. - what happened in Kim Jong- un land? From many years of experience with the Pyongyang-KRE Korea shortwave radio signals worldwide received on all continents, as seems currently main power shortage happen in this country of ruler Kim Jong-un? For some days now of extensive monitoring, all Kujang transmitter power on all channels and all meterbands out of Far East Asia area reveal like transmitter power reduction from 200 kW to a reduced to a quarter 50 kW for example. Last week 15160 kHz Kimje-southern KOR program heard powerful as usual here in Europe, but 15245 kHz from Kujang-northern KRE in Russian suffered much compared to former usual signal strength. In Feb/March 2013 new 10 tx units bought and erected by D.P.R.'s Kim Jong-Un government of BBEF Chinese transmitter equipment factory from Beijing China, installed/connected at Kujang transmission center site since Febr 1st til March 15, 2013 (Wolfgang Büschel, April 5, 2014, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 11 via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH. 15245, April 12 at 1754, open carrier except for lite grinding noise, i.e. the typical Juche jamming bleeding into Voice of Korea from the transmitters next to it: scheduled here, the break between KCBS in Korean and VOK in English on same 325 degree beam to Europe. 11735, 13650, 13760, April 16 at 1254, all with Juche jamming noise bleeding in to entertain us during open carrier between Voice of Korea transmissions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985.0, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze via Yamata, 1410, April 11. A surprising Friday with no English (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldy via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. Frequency change of V. of Martyrs from April 10: 1600-1730 NF 7505 TAC 100 kW / 065 deg to KRE Korean, ex 7525. Now 2nd harmonic is 15010 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/frequency-change-of-voice-of-martyrs.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Apr 14, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As under UZBEKISTAN last week ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9780, TAIWAN, Furosato no Kaze (via Tainan) MAR 30, 1620. Pop vocal music to W in Japanese speaking over soft music soundbed. As usual, went to music only until close at BoH. VG (Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona, Drake R8, Grundig Satellit 750, random wire and Slinky, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREAS. The North Korean stations have a pretty infamous reputation among the west coast DXers, with angry tirades, bizarre martial music and dirty-sounding carriers (although 657-Pyongyang seems to have cleaned up its act, in this aspect). The going joke is that the North Korean "programming" is on the same intellectual level as that of the 1053-Jammer in South Korea. 73, (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA), NRC-AM via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, April 12 at 1351, KBSWR is JBA, useless during mailbag/DX show this Saturday --- more evidence that KBS is not serious about broadcasting to North America, and/or clueless about propagation. Direct service remains quite iffy, as G1 level geomag storms occurred in past 24 hours with solar flux at 138, and K indices at 1200 & 1500 April 12 were 3. Plenty of bigsig relay airtime is available on WRMI, WHRI, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 17550, April 11 at 2348, R. Kuwait in Arabic to C&W North America, VG strength but extremely heavy flutter; in fact, the SSOB, exceeding 17860 Australia by a wide margin. This transmission at 20-24 UT, i.e. starting out at 23 hours local time, 300 kW at 350 degrees is more like a propagational experiment. It can ``ride the MUF`` on a good night, but on a bad one it will be above it, inaudible. This is the case most of the winter seasons when the transmission still exists, apparently, burning countless megawatthours for nothing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17550, R Kuwait, APR 16, 2345, M in Arabic, some ME music. VG (Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona, Drake R8, Grundig Satellit 750, random wire and Slinky, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Picking up Radio Kuwait here on 15540, East Coast USA from 1800 to now after 2000. Schedule says this is supposed to be English programming but it appears to be in Arabic (or something else not English). Are they not supposed to be broadcasting English Programming at that time? Thanks! (B-T-M, April 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, but not unusual for them to mix up feeds, frequencies (gh, ibid.) ** KYRGYZSTAN. 1467, 17.12 1325, TWR Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan sände paussignalen i många minuter, men 1330 startade de med ett TWR-ID. Sedan lokalspråk. Centralasien är ju target. Mycket bra signal, som senare stördes av Iran. 1600 åter bra mottagning fram till cd 1630. Tack MR för fin hjälp! BE (Bengt Ericsson, Sweden, Arctic Radio Club mv-eko Feb 3 via DXLD) 1467, 17.12 1326, TWR Bishkek med sina PANI sändningar. Jättestark och kommer förmodligen att helt blockera denna frekvens. IS fram till 1330. Lite störningar från Iran. Mauno Ritola rapporterade denna för första gången med testsändning den 16.12 kl 1100. TN (Thomas Nilsson, ibid.) 1467, Trans World Radio at Krasnaya Rechka outside the capital Bishkek started tests from the 500 kW transmitter (omnidirectional) in the morning of December 16th. The ARC-member Maunto Ritola in Finland was the first outside KGZ to hear the test around 11 AM UT. The signal was good and the test consisted of TWR intervalsignal with identification in English and local language. The languages used will be: Dari, Farsi, Pashto, Punjabi, Sindhi and Urdu. The transmissions will be beamed to PANI (Pakistan, Afghanistan and Northern India) and the main lobe is 210 degrees. Just now the sign off at night is 1630 UT with the last 30 minutes in Pashto. During the last hour reception in Växjö, southern Sweden is excellent. However the transmissions are still irregular. (18.12.2013 several sources, Bengt Ericson, ARC, ibid.) We have already had several items about this from other sources. With my apologies, I have had to `triage` MW DX news the last few months with priority to shortwave, in order to barely keep up with the flow of news. Now I`m catching up on back-issues of mv-eko (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KYRGYZSTAN. 5130, R. Sadaye Zindagi via R. Maranatha, Apr 10 1606- 1646, 33443-32442, Dari, Talk and music, IS and ID and URL announce at 1628 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121, Ant 110m Sloper wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBERIA. 4760, ELWA Monrovia, 2353+, with religious music, poor in QRN, gone after 0000 and presumed s/off, 4 April (XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E5 via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LUXEMBOURG. According to the German newspaper Tagesblatt, RTL will move its studios and offices from Luxemburg to Berlin in 2016. The staff of 5-8 people has been offered jobs in the Berlin office. Today China Radio International uses mot of the time of transmissions from Luxemburg and the German transmissions are only a few hours a day. The environmental certificate of the 1440 transmitter is only valid until the end of 2014 (9.2.2014 Tagesblatt via Bengt Ericson via ARC mv-eko 17 Feb via DXLD) ** MALAYSIA. 6049.98, Asyki FM via RTM, Apr 09 1305-1332, 33443 Malaysian, Music and talk, SJ at 1328. 7295, Traxx FM via RTM, Apr 09 1405-1440, 33432, Malaysian, Music, ID at 1436. 9835, Sarawak FM via RTM, Apr 09 1332-1353, 43443, Malaysian, Music, ID at 1350. 11665.02, Wai FM via RTM, Apr 09 1353-1405, 45444-43443, Malaysian, Music and news, SJ at 1401 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD- 525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121, Ant 110m Sloper wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9835, April 14 at 1258, poor-fair with Qur`an: sounds like a mezzo- soprano, or must it be a testicled tenor? Continues past 1300, but 1301 announcement in Malay(?); 1302 next cantor is a baritone; more Qur`an bits by different voices, with announcements, suspect one of those competitions, but no audience noise or applause, unseemly? Not // 11665 with other talk. 9835 Qur`aning still going at 1339 but fading to very poor. Is RTM Sarawak FM, relayed back to Borneo from peninsular Kajang near KL. (Why doesn`t Sabah get its own SW relay service too?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9835, Sarawak FM via Kajang, 1244-1403, April 13. Long introductory speeches in vernacular before the start of the local Sarawak Qur'an recitation competition (Tilawah Al-Qur’an); competition with series of 10 minute reciting; 1300 national news preempted (see Radio Kalsik and Wai FM); 1354 series of interviews at the competition; 1400 local headlines in vernacular and back to normal music programming; fair to good. 5964.68v, Radio Klasik // 11665, Wai FM with the national news in vernacular at 1302; out of sync by several seconds. 6050, Asyik FM at 1303 with music. 7295, Traxx FM at 1304 with news in English (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ron Howard, CA, confirms that my April 14 log of 9835 Sarawak FM was also what he was hearing on April 13: ``local Sarawak Qur'an recitation competition (Tilawah Al-Qur’an); competition with series of 10 minute reciting`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. 17630, CHINA RADIO INTL. (via Bamako), MAR 31, 1445. W and M in current events discussion, ID after. Fair (Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona, Drake R8, Grundig Satellit 750, random wire and Slinky, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) How do you know it wasn`t EAST TURKISTAN? (gh, DXLD) ** MEXICO. 580, April 15 at 0602 UT, Mexican NA in progress, multiverse choral version but softer, less strident than the usual ``MGG``. I was looking for one from the UT-6 zone and soon found this tuning up from 540; under WIBW CBS news, and with heavy 2 Hz SAH almost matching the beat of the music. Normally XEMU in Tamaulipas is the dominant signal, but it`s UT -5 and would have anthemed an hour earlier at its local midnight. Maybe XEMU is still an open carrier causing the SAH. 0606 NA finally ends, but now WIBW is restarting C2CAM with Willie Nelson musically blocking the full ID, yet I do manage to pull out an ``XEFI``, as expected, since it`s the only 580 XE currently in UT -6. http://www.worldtimezone.com/time-mexico12.php XEFI supposedly 700 watts at night from Chihuahua, Chihuahua (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 660, XEACB, Ciudad Delicias, Chihuahua. 1059 April 13, 2014. National anthem in progress, male "XEACB..." at 1103. No slogan caught, though I see "La Lupe" on some pages now. Heard before here but generally not the dominant one on 660 (XEDTL and XEAR more often). (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 780, XEZN, EXA FM, Celaya, Guanajuato. 0748 April 14, 2014. Nonstop Spanish romantic ballads, then male canned "EXA FM... XEZN" at 0757. AM calls thus confirming this one, and not the "other" EXA FM on 780. Very good with WBBM nulled (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1650, XEARZ, ZER Radio, México DF. 1057 April 15, 2014. Tune-in to instrumental jazz piano solo, fast male canned calls/slogan ID into national anthem from 1100:28. Some English talk co-channel, probably KYHN at this hour and direction. Always worth checking 1700 kHz at the same time, though nothing heard that would indicate the potentially new Mexican was there (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: ** MEXICO. 1700, XEFCSM, Mérida, Yucatán a new station (CP) with ranchera music. Data according to IFT (formerly Cofetel: 1700 kHz with 50/1 kW, belongs to “Fundación Cultural para la Sociedad Mexicana A.C.” (Héctor García Bojorge via Mauno Ritola, ARC mv-eko 31 March via DXLD) We already had news about this following my hearing the Mexican NA on 1700 one morning at 1245 UT, but nothing since, and not heard locally in Mérida either. How do you know it`s ranchera if it`s not regular yet? It would appear to be covertly religious (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6185, April 11 at 0106, XEPPM in the clear! No ACI with BRAZIL q.v. gone from 6180, instead making big mess from 6148 to 6170. Undermodulated but sufficiently readable fair signal, YL talking about pueblos indígenas, e-mail I think went ondacorta@radioeducacion.com.mx so it`s still separate during the evening from MW 1060 XEEP (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Mexican DTV Transition - Now you get a free DTV Instead of a Box! The deadline for the transition from the analog to the digital system in Mexico is set on December 31st, 2015. So far, the only city that has done the switch off has been Tijuana. The next estimated dates are on May 2014, for Monterrey, Matamoros, Ciudad Juárez, Nuevo Laredo and Reynosa; November 14th for the central region of the country; and November 2015 for the South of the Mexican territory.** Two links... 1. http://www.dtcreports.com/weeklyriff/2014/03/18/mexicos-turbulent-digital-tv-transition/ 2. http://nextvlatam.com/mexico-to-distribute-14-million-digital-tvs-for-the-analog-switch-off/?lang=en (Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT USA, April 6, WTFDA via DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 9730.0, Myanmar Radio, 1103-1115, April 9. Wednesday edition of ABC "Lesson 14 The Tour Guide"; in English and vernacular; starts and ends with same theme music; poor with heavy ACI (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. stfradio - Test #2 / Round #2 http://stfradio.com/ "......We received this very thorough reception report on Test #2 from Roger in Germany showing his decoded results, and a nicely-labeled waterfall screencap. ~~~ however there are a couple others he hasn’t had time to identify….good luck with the rest! :) ...." ====================================================================== With a little more time, more resolution and more imagination I could decode a further four information tracks. ;-) They were coded in very archaic modes: 2 x CW and 2 x HELL. The latter has a very high redundancy and has been used already in the WWII. Now updated: http://www.rhci-online.de/KBC+STF-Radiogram_2014-04-05.htm (roger, April 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. GERMANY(non) Updated summer A-14 schedule of Mighty KBC Radio: from March 30 till Oct. 19: 0800-1500 on 6095 NAU 100 kW / 240 deg to WeEu English Sat/Sun till Apr. 27 and from Sep. 7: 0000-0200 on 7375 NAU 125 kW / 300 deg to NoAm English Sun from May 04 till August 31: 0000-0200 on 9925 NAU 125 kW / 300 deg to NoAm English Sun http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/updated-summer-14-schedule-of-mighty.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, April 11, dxldyg via DXLD) ** NEWFOUNDLAND. 2598-USB, Canada, St. John's, Newfoundland, 0007 to 0012 Weather report 11 April (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, NRD535D, Sony 2010XA, ICF 5900w - wire antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CANADA ** NICARAGUA. Hello Glenn. Our neighboring country, Nicaragua, is on red alert for seismic/volcanic activity. Several earthquakes have shaken the land since last Thursday. As of this moment, authorities have issued red alerts and advise the people to stay out of their homes. Many earthquake replicas are occurring and there is no telling what will happen next. At this moment I can not monitor the MW frequencies, but I am looking for broadcasts on the internet. Radio Corporación is on an extraordinary broadcast with very limited staff and resources. They are having difficulties in getting information as the phone lines are overloaded and faulty. I will try to give a better report if/when I get some news (Elmer D. Escoto R., Honduras, 0636 UT April 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) R. Corporacion is 25 kW on 540 per WRTH 2013 (gh, DXLD) 539.858 | NICARAGUA | YNOW, R. Corporacion, Managua, APR 10 0100 - Bits of Spanish talk; occasionally splittable from 540.0 mess. [Connelly*Y-MA] = (Mark Connelly, South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA, USA, (GC= 41.6931 N / 70.1912 W) (= 41 41.59' N / 70 11.47' W). Receiver: Microtelecom Perseus; Antennas: two dual-feed cardioid-pattern SuperLoops: 8m by 15m (75-255 deg.) and 10m by 11m (165-345 deg.), ABDX via DXLD) ** NICARAGUA. 600, La Nueva Radio Ya, Managua. 0720 April 14, 2014. Very good with studio man, remote other in sports discussion on Nicaraguan teams, several "La Nueva Radio Ya" and "Radio Ya" mentions (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NICARAGUA. Here's a bit of good news for those of you who are country counters. We can definitely count Nicaragua when logging the preacher on 8989 USB that we call El Buen Pescador. Through a Canadian missionary priest based in Nicaragua I found out that the government gives him tacit permission to use the coastal radio system. Thus this is a UTE [sic] relaying a legitimate broadcast (Mark Coady, Ont., ODXA Apr 13 via DXLD) But what coastal station is it, and where is it exactly? And what is the legitimate broadcast station being relayed?? Further, 8989 is in the aeronautical, not marine band! Why do people keep all-capitalizing ute? It`s not an initialism, just short for utility (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 8989-USB, "El Pescador Preacher" 2350 in rather excited Spanish over high noise level. 10 April. Seem to sign off 0000 usually (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, NRD535D, Sony 2010XA, ICF 5900w - wire antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. Re: Voice of Nigeria, 15120 AM has been on air for a week or so with relatively strong modulation and good overall readability. On thursday april 3rd morning broadcast was noted with *0545. Today, friday 4th it was not yet on air at 0620, but heard at 0740. Morning sign-off seems to be at 1000* most days. 15120 DRM started early on both occasions I tried: Sunday march 30 at 1758 crashing into ongoing arabic service, no sign-on observed today, friday 4th, but already there at 1815 (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, April 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) My week with Voice of Nigeria (Follow-up to the message above) Last weekend started with a nice signal on 15120 April 5th. But this was the last time I heard regular programming with good modulation (except evening Hausa on odd frequencies) until now (April 13). Last Sunday/Monday 15120 (except DRM) was mostly silent, then returned with low modulation and regular programming for a few days (with a little whistle also observed the week before, and not the continuous hum often heard in the past). On several occasions however there were taped English languages musical programmes instead (without the whistle, distorted on Friday afternoon, with very good audio on Saturday afternoon, also on 9690 after 1630, somewhat overmodulated on Sunday morning until break at 0700, back to off-schedule taped English programming at 0915, but with lower audio level). And, the livestream was active again! But completely distorted. Currently (April 13) it seems not to carry anything, neither the unscheduled English as on 15120, nor the regular French service. The Website was redesigned recently, but does not include any schedule (instead of an outdated one). 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Münster, Germany, http://www.muenster.org/uwz/ms-alt/africalist/ dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Thorsten, And what's their URL? http://www.voiceofnigeria.org is no longer valid. Thanks (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, ibid.) Thorsten/all, This morning (13 April) I was hearing back to back random editions of "Making Waves - Nigerian Popular Music" in English on 15120 kHz from 0615 UT tune-in. No announcements between editions - just dead air. At 0655 UT "Theatre of the Air" started until TX off at around 0703 UT. Check again at 0730 and another random edition of "Nigerian Popular Music" is on air - no sign of the scheduled French programme. Checked again at 0810 and found "The Science Programme" (I think that's what it's called) until 0815 a few more minutes of dead air again until yet another "Making Waves Nigerian Popular Music" edition has just started at 0820 (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DXLD) Jean-Michel, VoN is still at http://www.voiceofnigeria.org - just re- checked now and confirmed (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, ibid.) Thanks, Alan; Still ko (404). The reason is probably that this URL is automatically changed into http://www.voiceofnigeria.org/index.php/fr/ (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, ibid.) Jean-Michel, Maybe a local cache on your computer - perhaps clearing local history may help. Or you could try this link: http://www.voiceofnigeria.org/index.php/africa (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, ibid.) Many thanks, Alan, no more problems! Have a nice Sunday (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, ibid.) 15120-AM, April 14 at 0452 an unusually active day for VON, now with hilife musical prélude to English broadcast, somewhat distorted modulation but good signal. Wish I had stayed with it. 15120-AM, April 15 at 0536, fair signal but dead air or possibly just barely modulated V. of Nigeria in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. YHWH: 4/7, 1213, 6793.15/AM; Religious message, mentioning "YHWH" (phonetically spelled). 1215, a different sounding voice says "Thank you for listening to radio station YHWH" and some scary music. "Thank you for listening" again and off at 1215. Fair signal, s7. Off-air recording here: http://radionewyorkinternational.com/archives/pirate/off-air/2014-0407-1213-6973-yhwh.mp3 (Larry Will, Mount Airy, MD, Free Radio Weekly via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6150 AM, PIRATE, Channel Z, 0010-0206*, 04-09-14. SIO: 344. Programs produced by English pirate DJ Andy Walker called "Before They Were Famous", parts 2 and 3. Various tunes by R. Dean Taylor, David Gates, Beach Boys, Bob Welch, etc. Great audio, well produced. ID prior to close down (Chris Lobdell, Stoneham, MA 02180, USA, Eton E1, JRC NRD-545; G5RV, 40 Meter Dipole, NASWA Flashsheet April 13 via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. 18050-USB, PIRATE, Blue Ocean Radio-BOR, 2003-2033, 04-05-14. SIO: 343. Relay of Moscow based Artem's "Music For The World Program". Heard "Eye Of The Tiger" and other tunes (Chris Lobdell, Stoneham, MA 02180, USA, Eton E1, JRC NRD-545; G5RV, 40 Meter Dipole, NASWA Flashsheet April 13 via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6850.65, April 11 at 0101, pirate music here, poor signal, then kid dialog, 0103 e-mail but missed it, Tarzan yell, ``operator of The Crystal Ship`` mentioned, music; 0114 ``the Bubblegum Express``, more such music; 0124 ``Why aren`t you a Democrat?``, ``The-Crystal-Ship`` ID by roboyl. TCS was on 48 hours earlier with advance notice, but none tonight. Looks like we`ll have to bandscan down to here not to miss a pirate below 7 MHz. I was tuning on USB, but then found it just as readable on LSB, so maybe it was AM, but seemed like the carrier was somewhat reduced. More matching logs of this; original subject typo says 6859.5 AM: http://freeradiocafe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4495 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6940-USB, UT Sunday April 13 at 0101, pirate music, fair signal, blues to honky-tonk segués. Smax of Wolverine Radio, and that`s exactly the quick two-word ID I hear between songs at 0107.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, April 15 at 0540, poor signal with pirate saying we are also observing Passover tonight, Pepsi(?) ad, OTR clip of ``American Jewish Hour presents Yiddish melodies in swing``, neat but not much music; 0543 ``this is Eclipse Radio`` and next number, ``Moonlight over Naples``, will be the last, before he ``goes out to get hammered and watch the eclipse``. 0545 talking over that music with another ID, mentioning Chris Smolinski, 0547 ``this has been Eclipse Radio, perhaps again during the next eclipse``, and off. Please QSL. Chris in Maryland and Joe Farley near Chicago did hear it too: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=16615.0 The Eclipse officially started at 0520 UT; I stayed up until 0707 when totality began after a small sliver of light left on the edge; below freezing temp at Earth level. SW propagation has been better than usual, but doubt it has anything to do with the eclipse, altho any full Moon would possibly tidally disturb the ionosphere, pulling it higher; right, Chuck? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6930-USB, April 16 at 0116, jazz/swing pirate music, 0121 long pause and clear ID as ``X-L-R-8``, another long pause and 0122 more music. Amid, visual non-DX was the firing up of my streetlight at 0117-0118 UT April 16, latening every spring evening, other things being equal such as clear sky at sunset (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1470, 4 January, 0700, KGND, Vinita OK with the KYAL studio phone number (a 918 area code makes your ears sharpen on any frequency) and then full ID. They transmit from a single, omnidirectal tower with 500 watts. Heard a few times later this winter as well by this day. OJS/K (ARC mv-eko 14 April via DXLD) Två QSL från JOB:s samling. Ovan WVAL Sauk Rapids MN-800 kHz och nedan. KYAL Sapulpa OK-1550 kHz. Tack för bidragen Jan! Dear Jan, Thank you for your notification and successful reception of our station, KYAL AM 1550. The station is a 3 tower "clover leaf" array power by 2500 watts daytime and 450 watts nighttime... The transmitter is a Harris SX2500. Your RX set up sounds very nice. I have read about the perseus receiver but I've not had an opportunity to "play" with one. Let me wish you the best of luck on you future DXing. If you ever receive AM 1490 KBIX in Muskogee Oklahoma, please let me know. Thanks, Joe Hancock CE (via JOB – Jan Oscarsson, ARC mv- eko 14 April via DXLD) Which would be a neat trick, AFAIK KBIX is long silent. But if it did come back, he or someone in Scandinavia would probably hear it quickly – well, maybe not in summer. Several other Okies even I have trouble hearing are reported from there in ARC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Sunday April 13 at 1216 UT, KZLS Enid with talk show about branding cattle and horses, and this time I check sibling station 99.7 KNAH Mustang (of course!), and by golly they are // now, except 1640 is about one second behind 99.7. I think they are also // during some music segments (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN [and non]. Transmitter problem on 17550, 1430 UT, but for which station? Hello, Around 1430 I noticed a faint reception of R. Pakistan in Urdu, but around 1435 a stronger station dominated the frequency with a few words in English mentioning UK, then off the air, on again with music, then off again! Now 1440 UT only R. Pakistan on the frequency. Any ideas? Best 73 (Tarek Zeidan, Cairo, Sent from my iPad, Apr 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) That is Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran in Arabic: 0523-1620 on 17550 KAM 500 kW / 259 deg to EaAf (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) I've also been observing this situation, and it is indeed R. Pakistan's 1330-1530 service to the Gulf & ME // 15235. However, Iran has also been using 17550 for their Arabic service at 1020-1620. But it seems they had no audio today and were radiating only an unmodulated carrier when I found them. Now, at 1505 Iran has acquired programming - in Arabic - and is dominating the frequency (Noel R. Green, (NW England), ibid.) ** PALAU. All transmissions of Brother Stair TOM via Palau has been cancelled from April 12. These changes are not mentioned in the website 0100-0300 15660 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs English nothing from Apr 12 0700-0800 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg EaAs English nothing from Apr 12 0700-1100 9965 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg NEAs English nothing from Apr 12 1500-1800 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg EaAs English nothing from Apr 12 1600-1900 9950 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs English nothing from Apr 12 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/all-transmissions-of-brother-stair-tom.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Apr 14, dxldyg via DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3204.96, NBC Sandaun, 0950-1216, April 10. Had been absent for about 8 months. First noted as just an open carrier below threshold level; by 1017 started to get bits of audio; 1101 positive distinctive PNG birdcall and into news in Tok Pisin; played some Pacific Islands pop songs; 1200 into news in English (probably was the usual "News in Brief," but too weak to confirm); much stronger than NBC New Ireland on 3905. Great to hear this one again, as it is one of my favorite NBC stations! 3204.96, NBC Sandaun, 1200, April 11. PNG bird call and into the "News In Brief" till 1206; unusual for them to start news exactly at ToH, usually 1 to 2 minutes late starting; sign off at 1406*. Perhaps will now be on the air regularly, as heard for two consecutive days? (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7324.96, Apr 6, 2028, Wantok Radio Light aus Papua sendet wieder auf 7324.96. Nachdem China um 2028 UT on April 6 abgeschaltet hat besteht wohl ein Empfangsfenster bis gegen 2058 UT. Das Signal ist extrem schwach, aber eine weitere Beobachtung lohnt sicher. Ein japanisches Video vom Empfang gibt es auf unserer Facebookseite zu sehen. Danke an Achim Brückner und Hans-Joachim Brustmann für den Hinweis auf das Video. Zwischen 18 und 19 UT ist die Frequenz 7325 auch frei, allerdings nichts von Wantok zu hören, auch nichts davon zu sehen. Das Fenster nach 2030 UT scheint mehr Erfolg zu bringen. Wieder etwas gelernt: Wantok 2030-2100 UT nur Samstags und Sonntag geöffnet, Wochentags Hausa der VoA aus Sao Tome. Auch nett, aber doch anders. Und heute Apr 12- da Wochenende - ist Wantok Radio Light gegen 1840 UT wieder schwach auf 7325 kHz zu hören. Um 1900 UT war der Spaß auch schon wieder vorbei. Taiwan in französisch war dann zu hören. 73 (Christoph Ratzer, Austria, Shortwave Bulletin April 13 via DXLD) 7325 WRL: Ich habe jetzt hier ein schwaches Signal mit S7, Signal etwa 10-15 db ueber dem Rauschen. Wieder Unterhaltung zwischen einer Frau und einem Mann, Sprache moeglicherweise (spekulativ) Englisch. Und jetzt Musik, 1853 UT April 7 (Michael Haun-ESP, A-DX via BCDX April 11 via DXLD) [non log]. 7324.95, Wantok Radio Light. After seeing the logs of the reactivation of WRL, I checked April 8 and 9 during an unblocked time of 0900 to 0930, but had no trace of a carrier; no hint of WRL; *0930 covered by strong RFI in Chinese. 7324.95, Wantok Radio Light. After being on the air for April 6 and 7, seems off again. On April 11 checked at 1408 when 7325 was totally clear of other stations and heard nothing at all; no trace of an open carrier (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4810, Perú, Radio Logos, Chazuta, Tarapoto 1051 vocalist with strong signal, tenor into flauta andina 1053 on 3 April, similar 8 April (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, NRD535D, Sony 2010XA, ICF 5900w - wire antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4835, Perú, Ondas del Suroriente, Quillabamba, 2330-2345 in Spanish with weak signal, narrow filter needed 3 April same on 7 April (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, NRD535D, Sony 2010XA, ICF 5900w - wire antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, April 11 at 0058, R. Chaski carrier, I monitor continuously on the PL-880 in case they have reset to cut off circa 0100, but keeps right on going while I check other stuff on the porch with the DX-398. Cutoff as expected, 0107:58*, a new record, 11 seconds later than one binite ago, and now 8 minutes ahead of my clear-sky-at-sunset streetlight firing up. 5980, April 13 at 0056, JBA carrier from R. Chaski vs splash from 5990 China/Cuba, but that`s off after 0100 while 5980 is still on. Until cutoff at 0108:09*, which is 11 seconds later than one binite ago. 5980, April 15 at 0059, JBA carrier from R. Chaski still running well past 0100 until cutoff at 0108:21* which is 12 seconds later than 48 hours ago; today`s timing may not be precise as the signal was fading up and down a lot. 5980, April 16 at 0106, R. Chaski carrier with some modulation presumably from Red Radio Integridad relay, until cutoff at 0108:34*. 24 hours earlier I had timed it until 0108:21, so that makes 13 seconds difference instead of the average 5.5; I`ve double-checked my notes and this seems to be correct. We`re still awaiting a major traditional timer reset to close down nearer 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. [re 7325 possible QRM to PNG:] Von 17-19 UT hoert man Radio Maykop mit Adygeyan Radio Nationalprogramm, ueber den Sender aus Armavir Tbilisskaya in Russia suedwaerts. Im Winter auf 6020 kHz. Nur So/Mo/Fr fuer die Nachkommen der Vertriebenen/Ausgewanderten in Richtung frueheres Gross-Armenien, Tuerkei, Syrien Gebiete des Osmanischen Reichs etc. ganz interessante und traurige Geschichte des Tscherkessen Volkes. Im 19. Jahrhundert gelang es den russischen Truppen, nach einem langen und unbarmherzig gefuehrten Krieg, am 21. Mai 1864 die Tscherkessen als letztes der nordkaukasischen Voelker zu bezwingen. Hunderttausende wurden in der Folge in das Osmanische Reich vertrieben, dabei kamen zahlreiche Tscherkessen ums Leben. Diese Vertreibung muendete im Genozid der Tscherkessen (Wolfgang Büschel, April 7, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 11 via DXLD) So does one really hear it now, not theoretically, one SW transmitter in Russia still on air?? (gh, DXLD) ** RUSSIA [and non]. MOSCOW TURNS OFF VOICE OF AMERICA RADIO By Kathy Lally, Published: April 10 http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/moscow-turns-off-voice-of-america-radio/2014/04/10/9c184fd8-8362-43fd-9dc0-26a80f849a0e_story.html MOSCOW – In an unusually sharp and public rebuke, the U.S. Embassy criticized Russia Thursday for cutting off Voice of America radio transmissions in Moscow, which it described as part of an effort to limit independent media here. The refusal to renew an AM broadcasting license for VOA comes as Russia has been assailed by officials in neighboring Ukraine for using state-controlled media to present what they say is inflammatory and distorted coverage of the new government there. Voice of America, financed by the U.S. Congress and overseen by an agency called the Broadcasting Board of Governors, was forced off the air at the end of March after Dmitry Kiselyov, the head of Rossiya Sevodnya (Russia Today) Information Agency, wrote a terse refusal to a request for a license renewal saying, "We are not going to cooperate." Kiselyov also has a Sunday evening television show recapping the week’s news that has presented Ukraine as overrun by Fascists bent on the destruction of Russian speakers in the eastern part of the country, where small but well-organized groups of pro-Russian protesters have taken over government buildings in three cities this week. He also has described Russia as the only country capable of reducing the United States to "radioactive ash." In March he was put on a sanctions list, barring him from travel in European Union countries, because of what the EU called his role in "the government propaganda supporting the deployment of Russian forces in Ukraine." VOA had been broadcasting news in Russian and English lessons on 810 AM in Moscow. It plans to continue operating digitally and by satellite. In 2012, the other U.S.-financed station, Radio Liberty, lost its AM license. It also broadcasts by satellite and on the Internet now. "In the last year, the Russian Government has passed laws imposing unprecedented censorship and restrictions on media and online publications," the U.S. Embassy statement said, adding that the Kremlin had turned "the respected news wire service Ria Novosti into a propaganda service." Jeff Shell, chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, pointed out that Russia Today, a Russian government-financed television station under Kiselyov’s agency, broadcasts without restriction in the United States. "We’re asking for an even playing field," he said. In recent days, Russian media has offered sympathetic reporting on the occupation of eastern Ukrainian government buildings by pro-Russians. When the Kiev government gave protesters 48 hours to leave the buildings, Russia’s Channel one television news reported it as: "In 48 hours, Kiev will order to shoot." Numerous clips of distraught protesters were shown. "We are Ukrainians speaking Russian and they want to kill us!" one protester told the Wednesday news program. "They are lying. These are all lies," an elderly woman said about the government in Kiev. "They are bandits and criminals, a junta at power!" Another protester cried, "They just want other people think that we are bloodthirsty." A dispatch from Kharkiv showed a tearful woman railing against the government. "Why are they doing it? Why — they were bombing in Kiev and now our children are their enemies." Both Channel One and Rossiya 1 television reported that U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry had denied reports that Greystone, a private U.S. security firm, was operating in Ukraine – a denial that Russian officials accepted. Still, Rossiya 1 reported Donetsk residents had found proof of Greystone’s presence, as had people in Kharkiv. Rossiya 1 also said the Kiev government had not been investigating reports about snipers because they were occupied trying to find "a way to avoid paying for Russian gas." Regarding VOA, a member of a Kremlin advisory group blamed the U.S. government for loss of the radio license. "Russian officials were not proactive in this situation," said Igor Borisov, a member of the Human Rights Council. "In this information war, which hasn't been unleashed by Russia, it's Moscow that's been behaving in a gentlemanly way, and all its actions have been in tune with modern forms of behavior in such situations." (via Greg Hardison, DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Radio Magic Eye, 25900. Fair at 1315 on 11 April tune-in. Signal building to very good at times by 1330. Tracking the AC/DC album "Back in Black" at 1315. Short announcement by M in Russian at 1327, then another AC/DC song. More speech at 1332 and then more AC/DC music. Russian hams noted on 12 meters this same time. No sign of WWV on 25 MHz, if it is on, but 20 MHz is booming in (Brock Whaley, Ireland for DX LISTENING DIGEST) 25900, April 11 at 1526, poor choppy signal with deep fades, but music definitely there from Radio Magic Eyes, Moscow on its Friday-only broadcast; long talk segment between W&M from 1528, back to music at 1540.5; to reduce local noise level on the porch, I go inside and find a power strip to turn off, which helps a bit; 1548.5 resumes talking, 1556 song. Really more readable in AM mode than with SSB. Even a native would have trouble making out the Russian, and I don`t recognize the music. Anyway, it`s still active on the same frequency, contrary to earlier plans. On the DX-398 with offset BFO, MTUCI again seems very slightly on the hi side of 25900 compared to WWV 5, 10 or 15 MHz; but matches WWV on 20 MHz, so such assumptions are questionable, as WWV is surely exactly on each frequency, whatever the receiver may think. Also matches JBA signal on 25000, maybe the reactivated WWV if not MIKES (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. SHUKHOV TOWER: THE EIFFEL OF THE EAST Southgate April 9, 2014 The proposed demolition of a rusting Soviet radio tower in Moscow has ignited a passionate, international conservation campaign. Why? The slender, steel frame of the Shabolovka Tower rises above the rooftops of Moscow. At 160m (525ft) high, it is a single exclamation mark in an otherwise dense urban landscape. Its filigree design gives it a delicate and ephemeral quality, but the radio tower has been a fixture of the skyline since 1922. Commissioned by Lenin in 1919, the tower is commonly referred to as the Shukhov Tower after its designer - leading engineer Vladimir Shukhov, whose pioneering architectural vision first brought news of the modern world to the Soviet people. "Communication and radio was the new thing, the latest technology at the time. Shukhov's tower was spreading the word of the new age," says Richard Pare, who first photographed the tower in 1993. "It is a transcendent structure. The sensation of standing underneath it is so uplifting, it makes you feel weightless. It soars upwards." Pare is the co-author of an open letter to President Vladimir Putin, signed by a number of renowned architects, urging that the tower be preserved. But in February, Russia's State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting declared the structure unsound and proposed to dismantle it. Campaigners now await an official decision. "In terms of its engineering, its symbolic significance, the urban landscape - it would be such a catastrophic loss," Pare says. Read the full BBC News story, with pictures, at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26876243 Our thanks to David, G3ZPF for spotting this item http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2014/april/shukhov_tower.htm (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Mysterious radio --- Radio signal at a frequency of 4625 kHz is in the air presumably late 70s. The earliest available record dates back to 1982m broadcast year. Since the discovery by amateurs, this signal is continually broadcasts buzzing. Every few years, the buzzing stops and the voice on the Russian mixture of numbers and read Russian imen. Vot example message broadcast in late December 1997: "I UVB-76, I-76 UVB. 180 08 74 27 99 Broman 14. Boris, Roman, Olga, Michael, Anna, Larisa 7 4 2 7 9 9 1 4 ? Instead stop airing the collapse of the USSR, UVB-76 has become more active. Since the beginning of the new century, the broadcast voice became increasingly chastymi [frequent?] Pervoe that comes to mind - is that broadcasting is a kind of message that was once recorded and played with those every time. However, UVB-76 listeners fairly quickly determined that each new message is a copy of the previous one. Buzz is created every time vruchnuyu. Sovremennomu interest UVB-76 is primarily obliged Forchanu and board / x /. This is the place to discuss all the mystical and paranormal. It comes out most of the information about UVB-76 in external internety. V 2010 volume increased online discussions broadcast repeatedly. This was due to the fact that UVB-76 began to give messages almost every month. Piece of Swan Lake, the leading female voice countdown from 1 to 9, the question mark in Morse code and strange phone calls - all this can be heard at a frequency of 4625 kHz. Recording broadcasts from Swan Lake in 2010 All this activity took place just before the most significant event in the history of observations UVB-76 with 70s, when it was first discovered. In October 2010, the station changed its location. It seems that the increased activity and drive were connected. At the new location, Broadcast callsign changed to - MDZHB. Previous attempts to find the location of the transmitter led to the Russian military base near the village Povarovo in 19ti km from Moscow. After the signal has changed location, several groups of researchers and people interested in UVB-76 tried to get into the bunker from which the signal was broadcast 30 years. When they arrived in the village, one of the local told a story about a storm in 2010. One night, a very dense fog covered the village and all the staff was evacuated military base within 90 minutes. Once investigators got to the base area, they found that it was completely abandoned. Everywhere were scattered personal belongings and equipment, and the bunker was filled with water. One group of researchers described the bunker as "quiet and dark place, like a maze with lots of corridors and rooms." Was found in the book which was conducted log all broadcasts UVB-76. Mystical signal that surprised the whole world for over 30 years, has now received physical evidence and confirmed his relationship with the Russian army. However, the secret signal is not solved until now. Periodically, this frequency appear at various messages. Students around the world set up their receivers, or listen online signal every day. Along with the increased interest in the translations themselves, and did not stop attempts to find a new transmitter location. However, judging by the latest research now signal transmitted from several locations on the territory of Russia. Here are three of the most possible out of them: The small village has Kirsino official population of 39 people. One of the signals coming from here. The most likely candidate is the Pskov region Multiple attempts to detect the signal led syuda. Poyavilas is also a new theory of people interested in UVB-76. Is it possible that the signal is somehow connected with the state radio station Voice of Russia? One possible source of UVB-76 signal was detected from the antenna is very close to the south-east of Kolpino. This equipment is used by the Russian government to broadcast radio across the country. One of the first posts UVB-76, after the move was a piece of Swan Lake. At the same time, the instrumental part of Swan Lake is loved by the Voice of Russia [and by all Russians? gh] Approximate location of the signal from the transmitter near the Voice of Russia. Despite the fact that the old location of the signal was found and investigated, the goal of this translation is unknown. And as with any mystical things - is fertile ground for a variety of theories zagovora. Navernoe most formal of all ever received an explanation - it is a scientific paper published Geophysical Observatory "Borok". This government agency is a branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. They explain that the signal is an observatory, which uses the frequency 4625 kHz for measuring changes in the ionosphere of the planet. Source http://vk.com/wall-54286589_5714?z=photo-54286589_325734348%2Falbum-54286589_00%2Frev (sent Sergei Sosedkin, USA, via RusDX 13 April via DXLD) A Russian enigma --- James Cook on the most mysterious radio transmission in the world. James Cook, Deputy Editor, UVB-76 detail from Wikipedia, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 Volume dials were turned up, computers began recording, forum posts were hastily typed. Something big was happening. "OBYaVLENIYA KOMANDA 135" For the first time in a history that stretches back nearly forty years, the mysterious Russian radio signal popularly known as UVB-76 had issued an order. On the 24th of January 2013, it was heard clearly by its legion of fans: Command 135 initiated UVB-76 Temporary Internet Repeater at RadioForest.net [link] The radio signal that occupies 4625 kHz has reportedly been broadcasting since the late 1970s. The earliest known recording of it is dated 1982. Ever since curious owners of shortwave radios first discovered the signal, it has broadcast a repeating buzzing noise. Every few years, the buzzer stops, and a Russian voice reads a mixture of numbers and Russian names. . . http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/features/report/4716/a-russian-enigma/# (via W0WOI DXLD) ** RUSSIA [and non]. The Cold War at Radio Liberty, a story Giovanni Bensi, a journalist in charge for many years with Radio Liberty writes about his experience in Cold War years on Short Wave on Italian newspaper Avvenire. You can find the story also on line at the direct link: http://www.avvenire.it/Mondo/Pagine/la-russia-sta-gia-vincendo-la-guerra-fredda-della-radio-etere.aspx And you can also find a short comment about the role of Short Waves by me at this link: http://www.avvenire.it/Mondo/Pagine/la-rivincita-delle-onde-corte-nuova-guerra-fredda-russia-usa-voa-radio-liberty.aspx They are written in Italian so, if you are interested, you need Google translator. Have nice time (Giampiero Bernardini, Milan, Italy, Apr 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RWANDA [non]. 17540, April 10 at 1723-1727+ open carrier/dead air, presumably MADAGASCAR failing to modulate R. Impala/Mara; fair signal, sometimes a trace of modulation but may have been cross overload from 17610 WHRI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RWANDA [non]. CLANDESTINE, 17870, R. Inyabutatu, Apr 05 *1600-1615, 34433, Kinyarwanda; 1600 sign on with opening music, OPening announce, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121, Ant 110m Sloper wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SARAWAK [non]. CLANDESTINE, 15420, R. Free Sarawak via Taiwan, Apr 08 1124-12104, 44444-43443, Iban, Talk, ID at 1157 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121, Ant 110m Sloper wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [sic --- above is via RVA Palauig, PHILIPPINES, I say again and again --- gh] ** SEYCHELLES [non]. 7300, FEBA, *1704 13-4 with 4 iterations of IS, then program in an African language [Eibi shows TWR in Yao ] signed off 1734. Audio for this is uploaded here http://www.ipernity.com/doc/zliangas/31961795 This is again in contrast to the Eibi listing TWR (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS [non log]. 9545, SIBC. After seeing the recent logs of their return, I checked April 8 and 9, but no trace of any carrier from SIBC; started checking about 0800 onward and also again when clear of ACI from 1157 to 1158, but no hint of SIBC; April 8 heard 5019.85 off at 1158* after NA. Believe if they had been broadcasting I would have heard them, based upon my past good receptions (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9545, SIBC. April 13 special broadcast; 1337 first noted decent open carrier; 1408-1414 with pop Pacific Island songs; 1414-1425 emergency information about local conditions; mentioned - earthquake, tsunami, longitude and latitude, Honiara, safety measures, etc.; 1425 back to more music; poor with strong ACI; open carrier on 5019.8, but unable to make out audio (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALIA [non]. CLANDESTINE, 17870, R. Freedom, Apr 11 *1600-1611, 25332, Somali; 1600 sign on with opening music, ID, Opening announce, Kor`an, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121, Ant 110m Sloper wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. 7120, April 14 at 0344, R. Hargeisa, poor talk in presumed Somali, vs LSB QRhaM and lightning crashes east of here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. State-monitoring of SABC news. http://newsletters2.mg.co.za/servlet/link/6026/372653/6505046/2009427 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Article on political bias at the SABC: HE WHO CONTROLS THE SABC, CONTROLS MUCH OF THE COUNTRY http://emma.thedailymaverick.co.za/servlet/link/3890/375091/32116434/2021414 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. 9625, Channel Africa, Apr 15 1518-1534, 33333-33332, English, Talk and news, Theme music at 1527 and 1531 and 1532. 15660, Channel Africa, Apr 15 1502-1517, 35333, Swahili, News, Theme music at 1505, ID at 1515 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD- 525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121, Ant 110m Sloper wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [and non]. 15770, WRMI Radio Miami International (presumed); 1440, 5-Apr; B.S. said he used to be on WQIZ and owned it for a while. WQIZ is 810 St. George SC and is now Catholic. Sounds like 3 or 4 ameners in the audience. S25 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7490, WBCQ with Fred Astaire [sic] pontificating about the second coming and how our cell phone numbers are the 'mark of the beast' that will be used to condemn us, and how World Wars I and II were just the opening act for the 3 year tribulation of WW III that we're gearing up for, and how he can't prove truth, only preach it. Ah, now I understand the anti-science stuff -- they pretend to be able to prove things, and he just explains you can't -- you can only believe things! Whew, NOW it makes sense. Included a long 'invitation' to share passover with him and people who will be all around the world by their radios, telephones (what -- and risk being marked by the beast!?) satellite dishes, and internet to have a worldwide celebration of Passover at 0000. (I got 4 questions for YOU, Brother Scare!) I suppose you can find this on the Internet, but the fading and static add gravitas to the Brother's gravelly tones, don't you think? 4544+4 0115-0145 8/Apr (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, Mare Tipsheet April 11 via DXLD) Unscheduled broadcast of Brother Stair on April 10 via Secretbrod from 1505 on 9400*secret / hidden transmitter English, probably 1300- 1600 UT * strong co-ch Voice of America Learning English http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/unscheduled-broadcast-of-brother-stair.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Brother Stair is still on 9400 at 1633 UT (10 Apr 2014) with a strong signal on the Twenthe/Netherlands web rx, with a big hum on the audio. Also on 11590 (Bulgaria-strong), 9930 (strong-Palau and/or WTWW?), 9950 (Palau-fair with AIR in the background), and 15770 (Okeechobee- weak with severe RTTY QRM). The 9400 program was the same as the one on 9930, but delayed by a minute or so. Didn't check the others. 73, (Eike Bierwirth, Germany, ibid.) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [and non]. 21600, April 10 at 1907, JBA signal here, WHRI with Brother Scare? Yesterday first day on this new frequency ex- 17730, it was blasting in. I assumed it was on NW antenna and maybe it was then, but registered eastward toward Africa. Still, should be more signal than this: maybe propagation disturbance has cut down the first-hop MUF, so I check other mostly US frequencies, finding: missing from 15825, 15610; poor on 17850-Spain, 17790, 15770; fair on 15550, 11760-Cuba; good on 13830, 13605 vs jamming, 12160; very good on 13845, 12105, 12050. Ergo: shorter distances, lower frequencies survive such an event best even at midday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Updated A-14 schedule BBC Somali, without collision with Brother Stair 1130-1300 on 17870 SLA 250 kW / 220 deg to EaAf Sat 1130-1300 on 21660 DHA 250 kW / 205 deg to EaAf Sat 1300-1400 on 17870 MDC 250 kW / 032 deg to EaAf Sat 1300-1400 on 21660 DHA 250 kW / 205 deg to EaAf Sat 1400-1500 on 11805 MDC 250 kW / 000 deg to EaAf Daily 1400-1500 on 15420 MDC 250 kW / 032 deg to EaAf Sun-Fri 1400-1500 on 17830 MDC 250 kW / 032 deg to EaAf Sat 1400-1500 on 21470 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Daily Brother Stair TOM in English via WBCQ The Planet from Monticello 1400-1700 on 15420 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to ENAm Sat CUSB -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, April 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15420.1-CUSB, April 12 at *1355.6, WBCQ prélude ID and IS loop from ``The Planet`` mixing with BBC Somali via SOUTH AFRICA on 15420.0, meaning that the additional carrier from BBC makes the pitch of WBCQ music sound way sour, off-key --- even worse the Brother Scare opening organ music from 1400, but BBC goes off at 1401.2*. It almost seems like WBCQ and BBC are finally coördinating, with BBC Somali daily at 1400-1500 except Saturday at 1300-1400 instead, per Aoki, not HFCC --- Saturday being the only day `BCQ comes on this early due to the live Sabbath service at TOM Tabernacle off I-95. But it`s probably only coincidental, since BBC shuttered Seychelles, and now relies on the slopperators at SENTECH who should have turned this off before 1400. 15770, April 12 at 1411, BS via WRMI has fair signal but barely modulated; while blasting away on 9980, 9930, sufficient on 9955, 9370, 9690? But there`s never enough BS to go around (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SECRETLAND, Unscheduled broadcasts of Brother Stair via Secretbrod, updated, power/azimuth are tentative: 0700-1256 on 11600 SCB 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu English 1300-1656 on 9400*SCB 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu English 1600-1656 on 11590 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English * strong co-ch Voice of America, Learning English + Chinese jammer 1500-1600. http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/unscheduled-broadcasts-of-brother-stair.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, April 11, dxldyg via DXLD) Hi, Listening to 9400 kHz, 1440 UT in Cairo, with SIO 333. Best 73 (Tarek Zeidan, Sent from my iPad, Egypt, ibid.) SECRETLAND, For the second Saturday will no broadcast of Brother Stair: 0700-1256 11600 SCB 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu English. Also check today 1300-1656 9400 SCB 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu English, probably Sun-Fri 1600-1656 11590 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English, probably Sun-Fri http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/for-second-saturday-will-no-broadcast.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, 0733 UT Saturday April 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So is this a prediction or an observation? (gh, DXLD) PALAU, Surprisingly no broadcast of Brother Stair via Palau April 12: 0100-0300 15660 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs English via T8WH Angel 4 0700-0800 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg to EaAs English via T8WH Angel 3 0700-1100 9965 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs English via T8WH Angel 5 Probably those broadcasts are terminated, but check back later today: 1500-1800 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg to EaAs English via T8WH Angel 3 1600-1900 9950 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs English via T8WH Angel 4 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/surprisingly-no-broadcast-of-brother.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, April 12, dxldyg via DXLD) Ivo finally acknowledges that Angel 5 is T8WH, not WHRI. See also PALAU (gh, DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9955, April 16 at 0626, I notice VG signal from WRMI with fill-music loop atop pulse jamming, instead of Brother Scare, who does continue on 7570 WRMI. By 0632 he`s back on both, explaining how this and further 2014 eclipses obviously are signs that the end of the world is nigh. But not this year --- more likely Jesus will Come Back September 28, 2015 or 2017. Of course! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [non]. 11910, April 13 at 1222, Spanish talk, the Beijing relay of REE making it poorly with flutter, but better than anything direct from Spain with bands above 14 MHz essentially dead, and lower bands attenuated; K-index at 12 was 3, and altho WWV reports ``no spaceweather storms in past 24 hours``, the ionosphere has obviously still not recovered from the last one. I also logged 11910, April 11 at 1253 and 1326 with heavy flutter, but overlooked reporting it. Then I could compare it to 17715 and 21610 direct and found 11910 running a few words behind them, and echoey (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, April 11 at 0114, SLBC carrier is on and I stand by for the off-timesignal and sign-on, but remains nothing but dead air past 0125+. Wake up and add the modulation. 11905, April 15 at 0114 open carrier, poor-fair, 0114:47 music starts, 2+1 mistimesignal ends at 0115:23 and SLBC sign-on in Hindi. It seems SLBC is always slow and Bangladesh is always fast, so they sort of average out for India? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. 11650, April 15 at 0532, R. Dabanga ID in passing as soon as I tune in, good Arabish signal with whine/tone jamming from Sudan or collaborator. 145 degrees via VATICAN, so close to directly off the back reliably USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15550, VATICAN STATE (allegedly - via Listings), R Dabanga, APR 16, 1615. M host with phone-ins, music. Excellent! Off right at 1627, as per sked (Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona, Drake R8, Grundig Satellit 750, random wire and Slinky, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN [non]. Specialsändningar från SDXF --- Ytterligare tre sändningar från SDXF är planerade nu under våren. De kan höras kl. 1100 UTC på 7265 kHz USB, lördagarna 19 april, 17 maj och 14 juni. I programmet den 19 april intervjuas Jan Mosander av Ronny Forslund, Moritz Saarmann håller i Brevlådan och själv levererar jag diverse DX nyheter. Lyssna gärna och sänd rapporter och synpunkter på programmen till SDXF, Box 1097, 405 23 Göteborg. Förbundet besvarar rapporter med ett trevligt QSL-kort (Christer Brunström, Shortwave Bulletin April 13 via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. 9774, Fu Hsing BS, 0936, April 9. About the strongest reception I have ever had; // 9410 with both fair; noted 1000*. 10960, Sound of Hope, 1212, April 9. Distinctive ID in English; spelled out their website and said "Sound of Hope", all with soft background religious singing; given during the usual news segment with musical bridges between items; not a low powered SOH. Recently have found a number of times this frequency was jammed by CNR1 programming (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. In the evening of April 4 around 2200 I had extremely good reception of SOH stations from Taiwan in the 11500 to 15000 kHz interval and heard them on many frequencies not noted by me before. 11500, 11970, 12370, 13530, 14750 all syncro; 12870 same program with delay; 13775 same program with much delay. Seems to be a "main program". 12230, 13130 both syncro having another program 13430, 14870 both syncro having yet another program 12560, 13270, 13350, 13430, 13480, 13530 no detectable parallels, but when there are long delays and fading parallels are hard to confirm. Frequent SOH IDs in Chinese during this period. And not one single jammer heard. For some reason the jammers against SOH are usually not very alert at this time. 11500 as a rule is first out to be crushed when the jammers wake up (Olle Alm, Sweden, April 10, 2014, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [non]. PCJ Radio: On - Off - On!! 13720, SRI LANKA, PCJ Radio - Trincomalee. First tuned into the now-regular Sunday night show at 1240 to what was the best signal in ages. I also had running the Hong Kong remote, where Keith P. was text-chatting with other listeners while the program was on-air. Then at 1300, suddenly the signal was gone. Phone calls between Keith, Victor Goonetilleke and the duty engineer at Trincomalee established that during a huge storm a lightening bolt had taken out power in a 20km radius around Trinco. Within a few minutes, the massive old German-made Deutsche Welle standby generator was pressed into service and, after a reboot of various systems, the transmitter was back on-air at 1309 - with only 9 minutes lost. The running commentary of the problem from Keith on the Global Tuners HK remote, and comments between Victor and myself on Facebook's "India DXing Cooperation Forum" at the same time made for some fun…..although I expect the Trinco engineer was cursing!! Apr 13. 73's everyone, (Rob Wagner VK3BVW, ARDXC via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. 15530, April 10 at 1421, fair signal from presumed VOT via MADAGASCAR, sounds more like Chinese than Tibetan (and VOT does broadcast partly in Chinese), but not // CNR1 jammer frequencies. Presumably VOT started the semihour on 15525. 15525, April 12 at 1404, V. of Tibet via MADAGASCAR is fair, so I stand by for the jump to 15530, which happens at *1408:07. Can`t make out any ChiCom jammers on or around, but likely funxioning, and left behind (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency changes of Voice of Tibet: 1200-1215 NF 15548 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15563 1215-1230 NF 15542 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15568 1230-1245 NF 15577 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15568 1245-1300 NF 15583 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15562 1300-1315 NF 15547 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15542 1300-1315 NF 15588 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15568 1315-1330 NF 15542 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15548 1315-1330 NF 15588 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15568 1330-1345 NF 15542 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15548 1330-1345 NF 15588 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15568 1345-1400 NF 15537 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15542 1345-1400 NF 15582 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15562 1400-1415 on 15525 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan no change 1400-1415 NF 15588 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15568 1415-1430 on 15530 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan no change 1415-1430 NF 15588 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15568 All frequencies are jammed by China on xxxx0 / xxxx5 Changes between frequencies vary from 3 to 5 minutes http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/frequency-changes-of-voice-of-tibet.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Apr 14, dxldyg via DXLD) 15525, April 15 at 1405, Voice of Tibet via MADAGASCAR, fair and jumps to 15530 at 1407 sharp. No jammer audible on either frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 9870, April 12 until 0156* tune in just in time to hear a bit of the VOT IS played after Spanish service; quick retune to 9770 finds that running just a little longer, then both are off. 9770 // 9870, April 16 at 0106, Voz de Turquía in Spanish is back on both frequencies presumably from before 0100, instead of missing the first half of the hour yesterday. 11835, April 12 at 1803, no news on the hour, but instead YL with DX tips in German! Good signal with flutter. At first not sure whence. Items include schedules from Japan, Iran, Spain in English, Russia, and about Luxembourg ex-6090; 1812 mentions Türkisch, 1813 into Turkish music. Yes, the VOT German service at 1730-1825, 500 kW, 310 degrees from Emirler, and thus also USward. I suspect this reception is anomalous, following some propagation disturbance. I missed today`s English broadcast, but suspecting the German service DX corner had the same material translated from English, I find that as of 1430 UT April 13, the previous day`s audio is still available: http://www.trt-world.com/trtworld/Galeri/Media.aspx?MedyaKodu=b2b913c0-e8ac-4c1d-b193-8b0f6c65e711&KategoriKodu=d2b66127-a908-46d0-9f57-38d404a5dca1&dil=en This is reached from a podcast and on-demand page: http://www.trt-world.com/trtworld/Galeri/Podcast.aspx?dil=en but the April 12 opening program summary mentions `Letterbox`, not DX Corner, so English is at least a week out of synch with German. After some slow loading, you can advance the playback 10 minutes into the hour file to confirm it`s Letterbox: first one from David Crystal in Israel taking TRT to task for allowing the B13 frequency for English at 1730 to be blocked by something else. (Looking at Aoki, that would have been 11680, also with KCBS domestic service from North Korea until 1800.) Host also mentions that Mr Ozman (sp?), head of English service, is retiring this week. I notice that the first quarter program schedule in English still shows Letterbox on Wednesdays rather than alternating with DX Corner on Saturdays which started this year. So is that program schedule, http://www.trt-world.com/trtworld/Generic/SayfaTasarimiGoster.aspx?TaslakKodu=4e127f36-756b-4a65-b6bf-47443fdeddc6&dil=en undated, really from a previous year? Yes, it certainly is, showing the I broadcast at 1530 UT, an old timing, instead of 1730! So don`t you believe it. Hope the new English head gets the website up to date. [and non]. 9830, April 15 at 0101, I am looking for the new frequency still listed by the April 14 edition of Aoki as effective April 7 for Voice of Turkey in Spanish --- no sign of it (nor RTTY at this darkening hour). Furthermore, no sign of 9870 or the frequency Aoki dropped, 9770, but which had been the two VOT SS channels. Totally off the air, as surely would have been propagating, like VG Romania in French on 9700. I keep checking all three frequencies, and still nothing until 0129, when 9870 and 9770 are suddenly on in // with Turkish music. So no change, yet? to 9830. Big power failure at Emirler? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [and non]. The work clearly continues, as Droitwich [198] is off again today. With 183 also off, and 270 on its low power, the LW band is feeling rather empty! (Chris Greenway, England, 1227 UT April 12, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) NATION'S LONG WAVE SIGNAL BEING UPDATED VIA DROITWICH ANTENNA Droitwich Spa Advertiser 16 April 2014 Listeners to Radio 4’s long wave transmission might well have noticed that it’s currently out of service every day between 10am and 5.30pm, but what they might not know, is that the national signal shutdown, is due to work being done on the Droitwich transmitters. Droitwich is host to the long wave antenna and two 700ft masts, which transmit the long wave radio signal over the majority of the UK. Engineering work is currently taking place to refurbish the long wave antenna and the masts, to inspect and then paint them, and to grease the stays that support them, which means the signal is being shut-down daily until summer 2014. In addition to the work, which needs to take place every 10 years or so, engineers are also taking the opportunity to undertake some upgrades to the transmitter itself. The work affects Radio 4 LW and reduces the power of Radio 4 MW for listeners, and in the meantime, the programming will be available through the iPlayer and freesat television. http://www.droitwichadvertiser.co.uk/news/local/11152766.Nation__39_s_long_wave_signal_being_updated_via_Droitwich_antenna/?ref=nt (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) I need to thank Professor Alwyn Seeds for digging out the 1979 BBC research report on the synchronization of the three transmitters on 198 kHz. He gives the following which I am grateful to him for. "I tracked down the BBC Research Report about synchronising Westerglen and Burghead to Droitwich - BBC RD 1979/27. Very interesting reading, a nice piece of engineering. The technique then was to have rubidium standards at the three stations and offset the ones at Westerglen and Burghead to follow Droitwich, using comparison receivers at Pontop Pike (for Westerglen) and Aberdeen (for Burghead). These receivers sent adjustment signals by line to their controlled transmitters. NPL used to monitor Droitwich and publish the measured frequency offsets from the NPL caesium standards. I am not sure whether the system described in the Research Report is still in use - an NPL contact recently told me that Droitwich now uses a GPS locked rubidium standard. Whether the standards at Westerglen and Burghead have also been changed or are still locked to Droitwich by off-air reception I do not know. We have done a quick check on the Droitwich locked standard mentioned below and it is within 1 part in 10^9 of GPS (1 second averaging, measurement limit) when Droitwich is on. When Droitwich is off the standard remains locked, presumably to Westerglen, and stability is similar, with occasional wanders to 2 parts in 10^8 (that's about 4 thousandths of a Hertz error) perhaps due to the weaker signal- though signal strength meter is still at 50% of FSD. No low signal or unlock alarms. Regards, Alwyn" The mention of "we" refers to his pupils at the Engineering Department of University College London. Obviously this is a current topic in view of the recent prolonged maintenance shutdowns at Droitwich. 73's and 88's (Dan Goldfarb, mwmasts yg via DXLD) ** U K [non]. 15420, Thursday April 10 at 1300, BBCWS news in English, good signal! At last a decent frequency for us --- too good to be true as cut off abruptly at 1304* before the news is over. A runover from the previous hour? No, the only BBC usage left of 15420 in A-14 is Somali at 1400-1500 via SOUTH AFRICA, plus Saturdays from 1300, per Aoki (EiBi implies the 14-15 hour is Sun-Fri only and so does HFCC, but doesn`t show anything on Saturdays). Anyhow, this too was probably Meyerton with a pre-transmission test, or just a mistake. At 1420 check April 10 now in Somali with crowd roaring (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Updated A-14 schedule BBC Somali, without collision with Brother Stair 1130-1300 on 17870 SLA 250 kW / 220 deg to EaAf Sat 1130-1300 on 21660 DHA 250 kW / 205 deg to EaAf Sat 1300-1400 on 17870 MDC 250 kW / 032 deg to EaAf Sat 1300-1400 on 21660 DHA 250 kW / 205 deg to EaAf Sat 1400-1500 on 11805 MDC 250 kW / 000 deg to EaAf Daily 1400-1500 on 15420 MDC 250 kW / 032 deg to EaAf Sun-Fri 1400-1500 on 17830 MDC 250 kW / 032 deg to EaAf Sat 1400-1500 on 21470 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Daily Brother Stair TOM in English via WBCQ The Planet from Montecello 1400-1700 on 15420 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to ENAm Sat CUSB -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, April 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. BBC PIRATE RADIO DOCS/BBC R NORFOLK PIRATE RADIO DAY BBC Radio 2 has a 2 part documentary, They Didn't Fade Away - 50 Years of the Pirates, Easter Monday and Monday April 28 10 p.m to 11 p.m. Part One details: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/pro...es-monday.html The second part of the Radio 2 documentary is called Blind Faith, many of the interviews are with blind people who were teenagers in the 1960's, more details http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/pro...es-monday.html Paul Rowley has produced a documentary for BBC local radio, Pirates at 50, looking at the period 1964-68 with some new interviews, schedule is: Thursday April 17 BBC Radio Lincolnshire - 1200 Good Friday April 18: BBC Radio Suffolk - 1205 BBC Radio Cornwall - 1300 BBC Radio Gloucestershire - 1800 BBC Radio Shropshire - 1800 BBC Radio Wiltshire - 1800 Easter Monday April 21 BBC Radio Essex - 1800 BBC Radio Norfolk - 1800 BBC Radio Sussex - 1800 BBC Radio Surrey - 1800 BBC Radio Lancashire - 1800 BBC Radio Jersey - 1805 Others say they plan to use it on later Bank Holidays. The documentary is the final part of BBC Radio Norfolk's pirate radio day on Easter Monday schedule for which is 7 to 9 Ray Clark. 9 to 11 Andy Archer. 11 to 13 Tom Edwards 13 to 16 Keith Skues. 16 to 18 Colin Berry. (Mike Barraclough, April 13, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** U S A. WWV has resumed broadcasting on 25 MHz on a limited, experimental basis NIST NOTICE: Experimental 25 MHz WWV Broadcast As of Friday, April 4, 2014 WWV has resumed broadcasting on 25 MHz on a limited, experimental basis. The broadcast consists of the normal WWV signal heard on all other WWV frequencies, at the same level of accuracy. Current 25 MHz Broadcast Specifications (subject to change): Schedule: variable; as an experimental broadcast, the 25 MHz signal is not continuous. It will typically be on the air from approximately 1500 – 2100 UTC Mondays through Fridays, but may operate outside these hours as well. The broadcast may be interrupted or suspended without notice. Radiated Power: varies; no more than 2500 W Antenna: broadband monopole, coordinates: 40 deg. 40' 50.8"N, 105 deg. 02' 32.6" W Listener comments and reception reports may be emailed to: wwv@nist.gov or sent via postal mail to: National Institute of Standards and Technology Radio Station WWV 2000 E. County Rd. 58 Fort Collins, CO 80524 NIST radio station WWV broadcasts time and frequency information 24 hours per day, 7 days per week to millions of listeners worldwide. WWV is located in Fort Collins, Colorado, about 100 kilometers north of Denver. The broadcast information includes time announcements, standard time intervals, standard frequencies, UT1 time corrections, a BCD time code, geophysical alerts and marine storm warnings. Broadcast Frequencies: WWV operates in the high frequency (HF) portion of the radio spectrum. The station radiates 10,000 W on 5, 10, and 15 MHz; and 2500 W on 2.5 and 20 MHz. Each frequency is broadcast from a separate transmitter. Although each frequency carries the same information, multiple frequencies are used because the quality of HF reception depends on many factors such as location, time of year, time of day, the frequency being used, and atmospheric and ionospheric propagation conditions. The variety of frequencies makes it likely that at least one frequency will be usable at all times. Antennas: The WWV antennas are half-wave vertical antennas that radiate omnidirectional patterns. There are actually five antennas at the station site, one for each frequency. Each antenna is connected to a single transmitter using a rigid coaxial line, and the site is designed so that no two coaxial lines cross. Each antenna is mounted on a tower that is approximately one half-wavelength tall. The tallest tower, for 2.5 MHz, is about 60 m tall. The shortest tower, for 20 MHz, is about 7.5 m tall. The top half of each antenna is a quarter- wavelength radiating element. The bottom half of each antenna consists of nine quarter-wavelength wires that connect to the center of the tower and slope downwards to the ground at a 45 degree angle. This sloping skirt functions as the lower half of the radiating system and also guys the antenna. More information at http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/wwv.cfm (via Mike Terry, UK, April 10, dxldyg via DXLD) Response from my report to WWV: ``Thanks for your email, and your reception report of the WWV experimental broadcast at 25 MHz. WWV first began broadcasting on 25 MHz in 1946, but the broadcast was suspended in 1977. Due to listener interest and changes in broadcasting technology, NIST is pleased to be able to provide this service on a limited basis once again. At present, the broadcast is carried on a base-fed broadband monopole antenna. All normal WWV frequencies operate on a center-fed half-wave dipole antenna, with a dedicated backup transmitter that will come online automatically should the main transmitter fail. The 25 MHz broadcast does not have this capability at this time. Please note that the experimental 25 MHz broadcast may be interrupted without notice at any time. For the latest status in the 25 MHz broadcast, refer to the NIST Radio Station WWV web site. http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/wwv.cfm Due to the number of QSL requests to this experimental broadcast, it may take more time to respond to your QSL request. Thank you for your continued interest and support. Staff of Radio WWV`` 73, (Brandon Jordan, Fayette County, TN, April 10, dxldyg via DXLD) 25000, WWV, Fort Collins CO (presumed); 1728, 8-Apr; Tnx to Ken Zichi for tip on this test. I can only hear the ToM tones and not the 1 second pips; also can only hear in USB, mainly due to a continuous buzz. I'm assuming this is WWV and not Mikes time station in Espoo, Finland, which I have never heard. 1954, 8-Apr; I can still get the ToM tones but not the pips; there was some mumbling before ToM. Same at 2349; 1408, 9-Apr same plus hear mumblage after ToM while 15K was running marine weather. 10000/AM, WWV Fort Collins CO, USA; 1827, 10-Apr; Very weak; 15K & 20K strong; don't hear the 25K ToM tones, so maybe that test is over (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) 25000, WWV, 0030, the usual tones and announcements, nice to hear them on this frequency, 11 April (XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E5 via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I can hear WWV here in Germany today (11 April) on 25000 kHz at 1500 UTC with time pips and the typical male announcer. Full ID announcement at 1500. Not too strong at S4 but good enough for getting the ID and time announcements. 73 (Harald Kuhl, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) A very challenging catch for us. In recent weeks I’ve heard the Finish MIKES station on 25 MHz in our evenings, though. Regards (Craig Seager, NSW, April 12, ARDXC via DXLD) 25000, WWV - Fort Collins CO. Peeping through with a weak but clear signal at 2140, audible only on one of my three antennas, Apr 11. Nothing noted at the same time on Apr 12. So --- it's do-able, but will be harder as we get into the winter months. Also, remember that this schedule is not "hard-and-fast". It's likely to be variable - it's a bit of a "project"! ;-) 73's (Rob VK3BVW Wagner, Victoria, ARDXC mailing list via DXLD) 25000, COLORADO WWV, Ft. Collins. Heard at various times, some outside of announced though disclaimer as nominal hours/days. 0002 April 9, excellent. 2109 April 9, excellent. 2358 April 10, excellent. April 13 (Sunday) 1446, weak. It would be fun if they could reactivate the very long-defunct 30 and 35 MHz channels next (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 26110/FM, KMK282, KOVR-TV Sacramento CA studio relay (presumed); 1651, 5-Apr; Remote from a parade with usual chit-chatty W. Very scratchy with fair peaks to complete dropouts. Not there at 1430 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. BBG ANNOUNCES 2014 BURKE AWARD WINNERS April 11, 2014 At its meeting today, the Broadcasting Board of Governors announced the winners of the 2014 David Burke Distinguished Journalism Awards for exceptional integrity, bravery, and originality in reporting. The 2014 winners represent each of the BBG networks and have tackled topics ranging from ethnic conflict in the Central African Republic to violence in Ukraine with reporting from some of the most dangerous locations on Earth. "These brave men and women represent the best of U.S. international media," said BBG Chairman Jeff Shell. "Their dedication to excellence, unrelenting determination and resolute courage exemplify the finest of what we do. Our audiences are better off because of the substance and impact of their work." This year`s winners are [with portraits; the Cuban inside a CAMBIO T-shirt]: http://www.bbg.gov/?p=18186 (BBG PR via Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD) ** U S A. BBG REVIEWS ITS OPERATIONS IN ASIA, DISCUSSES FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITY ITEMS --- April 11, 2014 WASHINGTON (April 11, 2014) -- At its April meeting, the Broadcasting Board of Governors took an in-depth look at the activities and accomplishments of Radio Free Asia, examining its impact and discussing RFA's role in U.S. international media. The BBG also discussed its networks' response to the crisis in Ukraine, Internet anti-censorship initiatives, and its strategy toward Iran. http://www.bbg.gov/?p=18224 (BBG PR via Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD) ** U S A. VOA Radiogram for the weekend of April 12-13 will feature MFSK32 centered on 1500 Hz, and a mystery mode on 2300 Hz. Details at: http://voaradiogram.net/post/82296611562/voa-radiogram-12-13-april-2014-includes-mystery-mode VOA Radiogram transmission schedule (all days and times UTC) Sat 0930-1000 5745 kHz Sat 1600-1630 17860 kHz Sun 0230-0300 5745 kHz Sun 1930-2000 15670 kHz All via the Edward R. Murrow transmitting station in North Carolina (Kim Elliott, April 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Here is my report: http://www.rhci-online.de/VoA_Radiogram_2014-04-12.htm at the end, as usual, a few nice Easypal images by a Scottish radio amateur, this time something Radio Nostalgia (roger, ibid.) ** U S A [non]. IBB changes: VOA Deewa Radio from April 8 0100-0400 NF 13840 IRA 250 kW / 315 deg to WeAs Pashto, ex 9370 Voice of America from April 13 1400-1500 NF 12110 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to SoAs English, ex 12150 M-F 1500-1600 NF 12110 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to SoAs English, ex 12150 Radio Liberty from April 8/12 1500-1600 NF 13745 LAM 100 kW / 068 deg to EaEu Russian, ex 7270 1600-1700 NF 13745 LAM 100 kW / 068 deg to EaEu Russian, ex 7270 Radio Free Asia from April 8 2330-0030 NF 13835 SAI 100 kW / 285 deg to SEAs Vietnamese, ex 13850 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/ibb-changes.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. Dear frequency Manager, Here is my first reception report of your transmission on SW: Listener - Nino Marabello, QTH - Treviso (Italy) RX: SONY ICF SW7600G ANT: VHF outdoor antenna azimuth 230 WTWW 5830 kHz - Lebanon AL [sic], 0400-0425 UTC, 13 April 2014, SINPO 45444. I listened at 0400 full info Station ID in English, then a special program of DX and station news in English, that is "World of Radio 1716". I have attached an audio clip MP3 of 356 KB. I hope to receive from you an E-QSL. 73 from N. Marabello Treviso, (IT) http://acquamarina.blogspot.com (cc to gh, via DXLD) Clip has a lot of distortion on it that I don`t hear (gh, DXLD) WORLD OF RADIO 1716 monitoring: confirmed first airing Thursday April 10 at 1230 on WRMI, 9955; sufficient atop pulse jamming. WRMI repeats: UT Sunday 0030 on 9495 (tho often it`s previous show); Tuesday 1100, Wednesday 1300 on 9955; UT Thursday 0330 on 9955 (or first airing of 1717 if ready in time.) On WTWW: Thu 2101 on 9475, Sat 2330 on 9930, UT Sun 0401 on 5830. On WWRB: UT Fri 0327v on 5050. On Area 51 via WBCQ: UT Mon 0300 on 5110v-CUSB. Hamburger Lokalradio is supposed to be silent this Saturday. WORLD OF RADIO 1716 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW, 9475, Thursday April 10 at 2101. Next: UT Friday 0327v on WWRB, 5050 (stay tuned: was 9 minutes late last week); Saturday 2330 on WTWW, 9930; UT Sunday 0401 on WTWW, 5830; UT Monday 0300 on Area 51 via WBCQ, 5110v-CUSB; Tuesday 1100, Wednesday 1300 on WRMI, 9955. WORLD OF RADIO 1716 monitoring: confirmed on WWRB, 5050 (AM and not 3195), UT Friday April 11 starting at 0329:15; the preceding preacher stopped at 0328:40 followed by a quick live ID by Dave, and respectful silence for about a semiminute until WOR was again upcut with the billboard in progress, and initially overmodulated but soon turned down. Also once again the webstream was at a very low level but usable with the volume turned way up. Next: Saturday 2330 on WTWW, 9930; UT Sunday 0030 on WRMI, 9495 – but usually previous edition; UT Sunday 0401 on WTWW, 5830 (with dropoffs the last two weeks); UT Monday 0300 on Area 51 via WBCQ, 5110v-CUSB; Tuesday 1100 & Wednesday 1300 on WRMI, 9955. WORLD OF RADIO 1716 monitoring: missed checking April 12, Sat 2330 on WTWW-2, 9930, but presumably happened, as at 0055 UT Sunday April 13 on 5085, Ted Randall`s subsequent `QSO` show was on. UT Sunday April 13 at 0030, on WRMI-14, 9495, but not checked until 0057, it`s very poor but I can make out that it`s last week`s 1715. Confirmed WOR 1716, UT Sunday April 13 from 0400:53 on WTWW-1, 5830. This week I catch only one transmitter dropout, at 0403:37*-*0404:45. Why does this keep happening during the 5830 WOR broadcast? Next: UT Monday 0300 on Area 51 via WBCQ, 5110v-CUSB Tuesday 1100 & Wednesday 1300 on WRMI, 9955 Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Try for World of Radio until 0430 today on 5830 WTWW. Maybe too late into daytime now. 73, (Glenn, OK, April 13, dxldyg via DXLD) Yippee!! First time I've heard World of Radio live on air! Sunday, at 0418 on 5830. Good reception too. Jo'burg sunrise 0423 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA. Sony ICF2001D. dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) YUP, I can hear you on 5830 kHz while writing this report. I picked WTWW around 0330 UT and reception was good SIO 343; now as we had sunshine almost 30 minutes ago, reception is getting weaker but still audible here in Cairo Glenn, Here's the last minutes of WOR received in Cairo. Had to try LSB and USB to get a better audio http://soundcloud.com/mr-dxer/world-of-radio-on-wtww-5830/s-FNsMH7 All the best (Tarek Zeidan, Egypt, Sent from my iPad, 0425 UT, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1716 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 webcast, UT Monday April 14 at 0300; 5110v-CUSB WBCQ not checked until 0340, at least to confirm something audible there vs noise level. Next WORs: Tuesday 1100 on WRMI-10, 9955 Wednesday 1300 on WRMI-11, 9955 Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB. Full sked: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html WORLD OF RADIO 1716 monitoring: confirmed on WRMI-11, the only one on the NW antenna, and atop jamming, Wednesday April 16 at 1300; following gh`s WRMI ID at 1259.5 which cut short the 1259 WRMI Scoreboard. Next WOR 1717 airings: Thu 2101 on WTWW-1, 9475 UT Fri 0327v on WWRB-1, 5050 Sat 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB Sat 2330 on WTWW-2, 9930 UT Sun 0030 on WRMI-14, 9495 (probably previous edition) UT Sun 0401 on WTWW-1, 5830 UT Mon 0300 on Area 51 via WBCQ-3, 5110v-CUSB Tue 1100 on WRMI-10, 9955 Wed 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB Wed 1300 on WRMI-11, 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK,DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5085 & 5830, April 14 at 1346, WTWW night frequencies are still on instead of 9930 & 9475, but not 12105. Same at 1414, despite nominal *1300 switchover time. Not checked again until 1612, when 9475, 9930 and 12105 are all on, probably from much earlier but still starting late. 5830, April 16 at 1249, something amiss at WTWW: only poor carrier and low distorted modulation at peaks only, unreadable. Will the same apply to day frequency 9475? Still not on at 1407, but at 1620 recheck, SFAW is back on old offset frequency 9479! 9930 missing, so I surmise the #1 transmitter is down for maintenance, and the lower- priority Brother Scare service has ceded #2 transmitter to #1 SFAW service, but #2 still has the old 9479 frequency programmed into it. By 2325 next check, corrected to 9475, but 9930 is still off, while 12105 #3 is also on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15190, WRMI with The Overcomer Ministry, 0403, April 12. Brother Stair and the The Overcomer Ministry with fair to good reception (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9955, Wednesday April 16 at 1330, immediately following WORLD OF RADIO, WRMI plays `Ask WWCR` ---- huh? Substituting in a `Viva Miami` slot featuring the two guys who banned WOR from WWCR, starting to gab about liposuxion and baseball --- double huh? But then about NASB, so Jeff, also involved in that, has deliberately put this on WRMI as leading up to the NASB meeting in May at the apparently doomed Greenville VOA site. If you`ve never visited GB, this may be your last chance to see it in operation, as part of the meeting is open to the public. (They don`t say this; I do) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The Shortwave Shindig is a live multi-hour immersion into the wavering, noisy sonics of the shortwave radio spectrum. Everyday, we stride through a stew of signals, our bodies humming imperceptibly along to a riot of ouds, harmoniums, preachers, propaganda, secret messages, squawks, tones, and beeps. We lack only only the transistors and diodes to be able to decode them. A bank of receivers and reels of archival audio are on hand, deciphering the distant, elusive sounds of the shortwave bands. Extended, multi-layered audio mixes combine real time and archival shortwave sounds that take the listener on a guided tour through the atmospheric neighborhoods where shortwave stations cluster. For information about hosting a Shindig contact shortwaveology@mac.com http://www.shortwaveology.net/shortwave-shindig/ April 14, 2014 The SWLing Post Posted by Thomas This just in from David Goren at Shortwaveology: Shortwave Shindig rebroadcast! The show originally broadcast on 3/14 will be heard again on WRMI: Friday, April 18, at 6-7 pm ET (2200-2300 UT) and Saturday, April 19 at 11 pm-12 midnight ET (0300-0400 UT April 20) — both on 9955 kHz from Okeechobee (via Mike Terry, Apr 14, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. STF Radio 1-hour Show April 20, 2014! Hello Glenn, Here is our announcement for the big show. Lots of music, some more information about STF, and a few images and text sent by digital modes. Hope you'll tune in! :) ***ANNOUNCEMENT*** STF Radio International 1-hour Million-Watt Special April 20, 2014 0400 UTC --Frequency List-- 5050 (The Americas) Saturday Night 5110 (N+C. America) " 7490 (N+C. America) " 7570 (N. America) " 7730 (Mex/C. America) " 9925 (N. America) " 9955 (Carribean) " 6025 (EU) Sunday Morning 17630* DRM (EU, alternate program) " 17760 (Asia) Sunday Afternoon 21490 (Pacific Aus/NZ) " Music Voice Digital Mode Text+Images Internet Hyperlinks ....and more! Best Regards, (STF, April 14, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) First three frequencies no shows; more next week ** U S A. 7489.6v, WBCQ noted on a steady much wideband WANDERING RANGE, never seen such 110 Hertz wide path in approx. 7489.790 to 7489.900 kHz channel. Alan Weiner presenter tried phone-out to listeners by telephone connect, at 0055-0105 UT -53dBm or S=9+20dB strength. 9329.943. Also WBCQ H3E cusb mode with English sermon heard around 0156 UT. Wandered up and down at approx. 9329.935 to 9329.950 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, April 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5110v-CUSB, UT Tuesday April 15 at 0104, another `Allan Weiner Worldwide` rerun has started, despite WBCQ still failing to show any activity on this frequency on weekdays: http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=5110 5110v-CUSB, April 16 at 0110, another secret `Allan Weiner Worldwide` repeat from WBCQ --- must be from 2013y, as refers to RCI having gone off SW ``last September, 2012`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, April 14 as late as 1419, JBA carrier only, presumed KVOH Los Ángeles on it weekday schedule. Usually has faded in during previous hour. Much better signal e.g. from East Turkistan on 17630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5920, April 12 at 0133, TruNews interviewing estranged son of late evil huxter Fred Phelps, // synched with 7385, i.e. both WHRI. Same show roughly a minute behind (not timed) on 5850 // 7455 WRMI. Like Brother Scare, Wiles wastes his resources by duplicating coverage on [only] two SW stations, apparently not understanding the broad coverage of each, and even on the same two bands! BTW, on the DX-398 I am hearing a weak mixture of 7385 and 5085 WTWW BS on 2300 kHz, which is the difference between the two, obviously a receiver-produced image. I get lots more of these especially on 120m; the PL-880 is even worse with ghosts on other bands if there is any overload from an external antenna (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7506.6, April 11 at 0110 check, tally another non-broadcast of WRNO. But 7555 is on tonight from KJES (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non log]. 7506.57, WRNO, still not heard as of April 11 at 0240 check and subsequent checking (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldy via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7506v, WRNO not on air, channel is totally empty (Wolfgang Büschel, log at 0100 UT, April 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7506.6, April 15 at 0104, WRNO still no show. 7506+, April 16 at 0107 check, zilch continues to emanate from WRNO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11715, April 10 at 1427, nothing from KJES, nor in previous hour. When on between 13 and 16, it`s a bigsig here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7555 cusb mode upper side band flank. Heavily disturbed by some strange scratchy ute service in range 7552 to 7558 kHz. KJES Vado, Spanish sermon and praying crowd group at 0105 UT April 12. S=9+10dB -62dBm (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) CUSB? I don`t think so, just AM. The ``scratchy`` has been discussed previously, concluding that it is some military transmitter in France. It is worse here after 0400 when WEWN is on 7555 (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 640, April 13 at 1208 UT, `NPR Weekend Edition Sunday` themesong, so has to be WOI Ames IA. (Since OU was stupid enough to sell off WNAD sesquidecades ago.) Stronger CCI from a preacher apparently originating in Singapore about how a huge percentage of world`s young people are within a radius from it (well, yeah, China and India). Would guess KFI, but its `Jesus Christ Show` is not on schedule until 6-9 am PDT Sundays = 13-16 UT, with `Coast to Coast AM` running until 1300 UT. So maybe it`s really WCRV Collierville TN (Memphis mkt), gospel huxter certainly on 50 kW day power now. KWPN Moore OK is a poor third for time being (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 660, April 13 at 1206 UT, Navajo chants unmistakably, so KTNN Window Rock AZ, but well before sunrise when supposed to be direxional away from us; official April SR is 1245 UT, May 1215 UT, and not until June can it legally be non-direxional from 1200 UT. And there is no PSRA in its Correspondence file at FCC AM Query (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 690, April 14 at 0503 UT, KGGF Coffeyville KS is playing the ``Battle Hymn of the Republic``, then into Taps at sign-off. Always Taps, and a few other patriotic songs alternate before it --- but I`ve never heard them play `Dixie`, so we know which side of the Missouri Compromise KGGF is on! 36-30 North is marked on US 81 a few miles north of Enid = the AR/MO boundary extended while the KS/OK boundary is 37-00. Some traitorous Confederate stations still proudly play `Dixie` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WQRM --- I notice that the 850 in Duluth has changed its call sign to WQRM. I wonder if they are broadcasting Hash Digitale. (Mike Westfall, Los Alamos, NM, US AM Database, updated daily: http://mesamike.org/radio/cdbs/amdb.mvc My Logbooks: http://dxlogbook.gentoo.net/?account=mikew Reception report and QSL manager for KRSN 1490, April 15, ABDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DXLD) THAT would be funny J Of course only ham operators and people like us would get the joke! MJR in WYO (Michael J Richard, Wvanston, ibid.) That could be very possible. Their audio has been weaker since the switch. Thought at first they were running with lower power (Todd Skaine, Woodbury, MN, 2010 or car radio, ibid.) ** U S A. FYI, starting Tuesday 15 April 2014 thru Monday 21 April 2014 if you go to http://nostalgiadigest.com then click on "Those Were The Days - Nostalgia Digest" then click on the picture of the Zenith radio dial, you can hear the Saturday 12 April 2014 broadcast of "those were the days" which features the 90th anniversary of WLS. It includes a speed corrected playing of the 6 May 1937 broadcast of the Hindenburg crash at Lakehurst NJ, a half hour of programming from "the new" WLS after going top forty in 1960, an interview of one of the DJ's from the 1960's, etc. (William Hassig, IL, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1000, April 11 at 1220-1223 UT, `Mike & Mike` on ESPN Radio, quite audible with KTOK OKC nulled, and slow SAH. Usually this points to KKIM gospel huxter in Albuquerque, but not today (yet), instead WMVP in Chicago; others thence still propagating such as the 1200 Spanish. WMVP day pattern goes mostly east, but with lesser lobe to the west unlike at night. 1000, April 14 at 1208 UT, ESPN`s `Mike & Mike` heatedly discussing the NCAA-pay-your-athletes issue, making slow SAH of 28/minute = 0.47 Hz with KTOK OKC mostly nulled. So again suspect it`s WMVP Chicago (ex-WLUP, ex-WCFL), which with its direxional pattern mostly eastward is not usually audible here. After my previous log, I found a thread on IRCA March 30 discussing WMVP also being heard westward into Nigel Pimblett`s Alberta, extremely rare; Dennis Gibson points out they have a CP for a 12 kW ND auxiliary at the WLS site which they could be testing (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Not sure if it's just conditions, or whether something's not quite right with their night pattern, but WMVP from Chicago on 1000 khz, which is normally a very rare visitor here, has been heard 3 nights in a row. It's generally not dominant, but is consistently in the mix, which is not normally the case. Might be a good opportunity for those out west (and not too close to KOMO) to log this one. 73, (Nigel Pimblett, Dunmore, Alberta, UT March 30, IRCA mailing list via DXLD) Even back in the days when KOMO Seattle had a regular silent period every Monday morning, I'd try like crazy at 4 AM to log WCFL 1000 Chicago here in SoCal, never with any luck. I was taunted by the fact that I could hear WMAQ, WGN, WBBM, and WLS all at armchair level. ms (Mike Sanburn, ibid.) And normally their null out west is very effective. It took me about 20 years to hear them for the first time, which is why it was so odd to hear them regularly this past week (Nigel Pimblett, Dunmore, Alberta, ibid., WORLD OF RADIO 1717) I just noticed that it has a CP for a 12 kW day auxiliary antenna at WLS, which is nondirectional. Maybe it's been testing it. https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101526721&qnum=5120©num=1&exhcnum=1 Sent from my iPad (Dennis Gibson, March 30, ibid.) That would be interesting if they were doing that after midnight or whenever they choose to test. They would be a lot stronger here if they were testing their 12 kW ND auxiliary site (Todd Skaine, Woodbury, MN, 2010 or car radio, ibid.) I wonder if a really late night proof of performance transmitter test could be in order for WMVP 1000? (Sanburn, ibid.) I suspect it's testing the 12 KW auxiliary antenna. It's nondirectional. WMVP is a DA-2 with a massive null to the west to protect KOMO. Sent from my iPhone (Gibson, ibid.) If that could segue into an actual scheduled DX test some night, I think a lot of DXers would be happy campers. Perhaps the station could even benefit from some of the data it receives in the form of reception reports or MP3 files (Sanburn, ibid.) ** U S A. 1050, April 11 at 1223 UT, YL with calendar of events in Sedalia, atop the QRM, i.e. KSIS in MO, non-direxional with 1 kW day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1140, April 11 at 1226 UT, `La Que Buena`` slogan by SHVA, Mexican music. Is this KCXL Liberty MO during its sunrise Spanish service? Or is it KLTK Centerton AR, previously heard in Spanish with slogans ``La Más Mexicana`` and ``Radio Las Américas``? Suspect the former, based on following: Searching on ke buena ktlk leads to a yellowpages.com listing for 105.5 in Rogers AR, but the WTFDA FM Database has no 105.5 in Rogers itself, nor any Arkansawyer with such a slogan; and none of the 11 AR stations (including 5 translators) are in the NW corner near Rogers. Of course, it could really be across a border in MO or OK. KLTK`s website, not easily found, but locatored as http://www.lasamericas1140am.com/ does not include Ke Buena or Que Buena among its slogans. Autolaunches audio so I let it run a while, and at 1740 UT hear an ID for ``1380- AM, Radio Las Américas, para todo Tulsa``, also something about perros. 1747 UT alternate ID as ``Radio Las Américas, 11-40``. The website has nothing visible about 1380 or Oklahoma, but months ago we were also hearing 1380 mentioned on 1140, so must be simulcast on KMUS as suspected. Yes, found website of the same design for that also with a doggy subtext: http://www.lasamericas1380am.com/ which also autolaunches audio, and where there must be such supermarkets too. Yes: four of them in Tulsa, and one in Rogers: tail wagging the dog? (Is there a 105.5 around Tulsa or Muskogee? NO.) At 1801 legal ID in accented English for ``KMUS, Sperry-Tulsa, Oklahoma``. Then local news headlines for Tulsa, and for Arkansas by same announcer, Carlos Raúl Paredes. But I digress. Back to regional- Mexican-music at 1804. YP info could well be outdated too. Wikipedia is way outdated for KLTK 1140, indicating it`s newstalk in English. Radiolocator.com shows studio address not in Rogers or COL Centerville, but on Walton Blvd in Bentonville AR. 1140, April 14 at 0524 UT, with XEMR nulled, ID for ``Radio Las Américas 11-40``, which we know from easier listening after sunrise is KLTK Centerton/Rogers/Bentonville AR, the station named for a supermarket, but not Walmart. Trouble is, KLTK is licensed as a 5 kW ND DAYTIMER ONLY, and this is about as far from daytime as possible (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Another Radio Disney station is being sold --- Radio Disney has applied to sell KPHN-1190 in Kansas City, Missouri to Catholic Radio Network Inc. for $700,000. It has been dark since July 31, 2013. Sent from my iPhone (Dennis Gibson, Aprii 14, ABDX via DXLD) Very close to the same time. The STA says KWDZ went dark on August 17, 2013 (Gibson, ibid.) All of those Disney stations that went dark last August were put up for sale. It's reasonable to expect that Disney will get out of the AM game completely at some point before long. They're a content provider that used AM when it was the best way to reach an audience inexpensively. And abandoned AM (and broadcast radio) when better ways to reach their audience came along. My daughter has pretty much outgrown RD at this point, but when she was in their target audience, she listened on an iPod Touch (or by borrowing my smartphone), not over the air. That technology didn't exist when RD started almost two decades ago (Scott Fybush, NY, ibid.) ** U S A. 1500, Alabama, WQCR Alabaster, 1040-1100, this was doing a near perfect imitation of a 50 kW XE, with XE music, slogans, anuncios, acting like it had a clear channel, and almost no fading, very clear English call-letter ID at 1100, first time in here, 4 April (XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E5 via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1520, KYND, Cypress TX, relaying CHINA: q.v. ** U S A. Denver area AM changes --- I have been off the list for a couple of months, so please excuse any duplication of info that might have been posted earlier by somebody else. 1510, KCKK (Littleton, CO) has returned to music! The station was recently sold, and the format was changed to Oldies, Classic Hits, or whatever anyone wants to call it. They seem to target the 70s, but also play Top 40 hits from the 60s and 80s as well. It is live and local during the day. The station is also heard on a 99 watt translator on Lookout Mountain that operates on 93.7 and pretty well covers the Denver market. Other than their legal ID, you won't likely hear their call sign since they are going by "93.7, The Rock." They do occasionally mention 1510 during the hour. The AM signal is 10 KW day, and 25 KW night in a fairly tight figure 8 pattern oriented NNE-SSW. 1550, KDCO (Golden, CO) is a new station that has just been built and authorized to conduct test programming. I haven't heard it on the air yet, but the towers are up. Daytime power is 990 watts non- directional, and night power is 350 watts directional, using a two tower array. The night pattern is a dog leg pointing NNE and a little more SW than just SSW. The towers are located along Hwy. 93 about halfway between Golden and Boulder. By the way, the station is for sale in case anyone is interested. 73, (Kit W5KAT, April 16, ABDX via DXLD) ** U S A. 1700, April 12 at 1305 UT, two sports talk stations in English, i.e. KBGG Des Moines IA and KVNS Brownsville TX, but *no* Tejano music, so much closer KKLF Richardson TX whose format recently flipped to that, must be off the air. In fact, I think I was not hearing it for a day or two. 1700, April 14 at 0529 UT, Tejano music, so KKLF Richardson TX is back on the air after a few days off; also heard around 1200 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. We have already had several items about this. With my apologies, I have had to `triage` DX news sources the last few months with priority to shortwave, in order to barely keep up with the flow of news. Now I`m catching up on back-issues of mv-eko and others (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1710, 1 Feb, 0656, WQFG869 [sic], Jersey City NJ gick svagt med en testslinga "You are listening to a test broadcast on Traveler Information Radio Station, this radio station broadcasting 24 hours a day on a special AM Frequency..." Alltså en TIS station med ynka 10 Watt i effekt! Tidvis störde en annan musikstation som hade samma fade tempo, troligen någon av piraterna i Boston eller N.Y. som finns på frekvensen. BIH (Bernt-Ivan Holmberg, [Sweden?], ARC Mv-eko 3 Feb via DXLD) 1710, 1.2 0656, CANCEL? WQFG689 Jersey City NJ (BIH) Jag ringde upp stationen angående avlyssningen och stationsansvarig, James Wood, blev exalterad när han hörde om mottagningen och passade på att slå på sin radio på kontoret. Då hörde jag en del av den nämnda slingan direkt i telefonluren samtidigt som James klagade över den dåliga mottagningen … MEN, dagen efter så får jag ett email där samme James tyvärr inte kan verifiera att de kör den testslingan..! Mystiskt. Antingen så finns det en TIS station till som testsänder och hörs under samma typ av konditioner eller så kör WQFG689 ett test med ytterligare en sändare parallellt med den ordinarie sändaren men att olika program går ut över de bägge sändarna. Flera rapporter från bla USA och Skottland visar på det sistnämnda. Jag tror att James har fått kalla fötter och inte vill veta av att testprogrammet hörs ända uppe i Sverige/Finland. Orsak? Jo, i en ansökan jag hittat hos FCC som James skickat till FCC om att få köra 100 Watt STA “Special Temporary Authority” för att de hörs dåligt i delar av County´t Förmodligen så har han nu fått tillstånd att testa med en högre effekt och att då offentligt erkänna att de hörs långt bort i Sverige skulle säkerligen förstöra möjligheterna att få fortsätta sända med den högre effekten. I ansökan så har James gett fler exempel på då FCC tillåtit en större täckningsarea. Med hans beräknade täckningområde med 2mV/m (100 Watt) skulle man inte kunna störa den planerade eventuella kommersiella stationen WRCR – 1700 som ska ligga norr om WQFG689 uppe i Rockford. Ur brevet framgår också att man tydligen har tillstånd för sändare på fyra andra platser men kostnaderna för att sätta upp dessa skulle bli 100 000-160 000 Dollar och vill istället ha en sändare på 100 Watt istället. Man har lagt ned mycket arbete,beräkningar och säkert många dollar på täckningskartorna som FCC skulle kunna förkasta som felaktiga om våra rapporter på testsändningen blev officiell. Men som sagt detta är bara spekulationer från min sida. Roligt är ju också att James skriver i sin ansökan att det INTE finns någon fler TIS station i fastlands USA på 1710kHz annat än WQFG689! Jag svarade förresten på James emailsvar och tackade honom för att han tagit sin tid med min inspelning och passade på att fråga hur det gått med den ansökta effektökningen men han önskade att inte kommentera det.Jag tänker inte dra detta längre utan nöjer mig med att veta att jag förmodligen hört dem! (Bernt-Ivan Holmberg, ARC mv-eko 17 Feb via DXLD) 1710, 1.2 0619, WQFG689, NJ, “WQFG689 owned and operated by Hudson County, New Jersey”. Ett telefonnr rabblades också upp vid ett tillfälle. Samtidigt kordes ocksa den slinga som BIH citerade i Eko 54-14. Kan alltså ha varit samma station med tvfa sandare – en med 10 w och en med 100 w. Min rapport med clip innehallande id, besvarades med korrekt verifikation. Tack till BIH för tipset! (TJ, ARC mv-eko 3 March via DXLD) ** U S A. `Mad About Music`, no longer airing on WQXR or WNYC, was a long-running interview by Gilbert Kaplan with celebrities, not all of them with an obvious musical connexion, and playing some of their favorite music, not all of it classical. Sort of like BBC`s `Desert Island Discs`. Now it`s being syndicated by WFMT (for more than 13 weeks, we hope), with Alan Alda the guest on April 13, as heard on KUCO, 90.1, OK, Sunday at 21-22 UT. Here`s the archive info: http://www.wqxr.org/#!/programs/mam/2012/dec/ but no audio linx. Last new show apparently was December 30, 2012 with Renée Fleming. Recommended if you can find it on a serious music station; or perhaps http://www.publicradiofan.com will be adding it. Kevin Kelly tells me he`s found only one other outlet so far, YPR (KEMC) at 1700 UT Mondays, when I have also heard it, Alda again April 14. It`s also the spring 13-week season for the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, via WFMT syndication. PRF already has found 11 airings of it including KUCO (ex KCSCFM), Sundays at 15-16 UT: http://www.publicradiofan.com/cgibin/program.pl?programid=4777 This leads up to the new Festival in July-August (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. This isn't final --- Dear Glenn, Hours ago, the House of Representatives passed their budget. Ultimately, public media funding was eliminated. Glenn, don’t be discouraged. This isn’t final. There will be more opportunities for you to help protect public media. This was just the first step in this year’s budget process. Soon, the spending committees in both the House and Senate will take a closer look and make final funding decisions for public media. We’ll let you know when these important discussions take place. Most importantly, thanks to you, a strong message was delivered to Congress: "Protect my local stations and the programs I love." In fact, you helped send over 25,000 messages to Congress in less than one week. And, we’re so grateful that you turned up the volume and told your Member of Congress just how important your local stations are to you. It’s not over. In fact, it’s just the beginning. Together, we’re going to keep telling Congress that cutting funding for public media is off limits. Again, thank you for taking a stand. Stay tuned, (Stacey Karp and Colleen Vivori, Protect My Public Media mailing list, April 10, via DXLD) ** U S A. FCC AND FEDERAL MARSHALS SEIZED PIRATE RADIO STATIONS IN NEW YORK CITY --- Radio Survivor April 15, 2014 By Paul Riismandel On Monday the FCC announced the unsealing of two complaints against unlicensed broadcasters operating in the New York City borough of The Bronx. The Commission and US Attorney’s Office also said that "on April 2, 2014, FCC agents and Deputy U.S. Marshals, pursuant to warrants, seized the radio transmission and production equipment identified in the two complaints." The station, identified as "Rika FM," was allegedly operating out of a commercial space in The Bronx on 94.5 and 94.9 FM. Another location in Manhattan was apparently broadcasting on 95.3 and 100.1 FM. It’s a rare occurrence that the US Attorney is willing to get involved with an unlicensed station. Using Federal Marshals is usually reserved for very high profile cases and/or those with prolonged activity despite multiple notices or fines from the FCC. There are few hints in the press release as to why this case required this escalation. All we have is a quote from FCC Acting Enforcement Bureau Chief Travis LeBlanc, who said, "As alleged, these pirate radio stations were for-profit businesses that broke the law to line their own pockets while disrupting legitimate broadcasters. They should be out of business and off the air." A quick internet search for "Rika FM" turned up a Spanish language site for what looks pretty much like a typical commercial station. There is a live internet player, but nothing was playing on Monday night. The most recent "news" posts seem to be from January. No radio frequencies are listed in text, though there is a banner ad for an event that was broadcast live last December on 94.5 FM–one of the frequencies named by the FCC–along with two others not included. Rika FM also proclaims in a banner at the top of the page, in English, "FCC part 15 radio station." If true, that means the station or stations are operating at a low enough power that no license is necessary. If this is the same Rika FM that just got busted, it would appear that the Commission does not agree with this designation. I found a number of YouTube videos that seem like they were recorded in the the Rika FM 94.5 studios. Several were posted as recently as last year. The studios seen in these videos certainly look like professional operations. If they indeed were operating as commercial stations above part 15 limits and also causing interference, as alleged, then it’s clearer why the Commission was able to get the States Attorney’s cooperation to shut them down. I have found no previous notices or citations for the station in the FCC’s enforcement actions for the last few years. However I did find one report on a Spanish language news site called Diario Horizonte dated April 14. That report says the station was operated by Dominicans and was first contacted by the FCC in December, 2011, with follow-ups in March, 2012 and February, 2013. http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2014/04/15/fcc-federal-marshals-seized-pirate-radio-stations-new-york-city/ (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. MANHATTAN U.S. ATTORNEY ANNOUNCES SEIZURE OF RADIO EQUIPMENT FROM PIRATE RADIO STATIONS Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Travis LeBlanc, Acting Enforcement Bureau Chief of the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC"), announced the unsealing of two complaints seeking the forfeiture of radio transmission and production equipment allegedly used in the illegal broadcast of pirate radio stations on a total of four different FM frequencies, and further announced that on April 2, 2014, FCC agents and Deputy U.S. Marshals, pursuant to warrants, seized he radio transmission and production equipment identified in the two complaints. The Communications Act of 1934 makes it unlawful to operate radio broadcasting equipment above certain low-intensity thresholds without having a license issued by the FCC, and authorizes the seizure and forfeiture of any equipment used with willful and knowing intent to broadcast without an FCC license. FCC Acting Enforcement Bureau Chief Travis LeBlanc said: "As alleged, these pirate radio stations were for-profit businesses that broke the law to line their own pockets while disrupting legitimate broadcasters. They should be out of business and off the air." According to the two Complaints unsealed in Manhattan federal court, and various unsealed documents associated with the two warrants executed on April 2: FCC agents identified a commercial space at 80 - 84 West 181st Street in the Bronx as the production studio for "Rika FM, " which illegally broadcasts its programming on 94.5 and 94.9 MHZ. FCC agents also identified a residence at 1370 St. Nicholas Avenue in Manhattan as the location of the radio transmission equipment by means of which "Rika FM" was illegally broadcast. FCC agents also identified radio transmission equipment at a second residence at 1370 St. Nicholas Avenue in Manhattan that was being used to illegally broadcast on 95.3 MHZ and 100.1 MHZ. Mr. Bharara praised the investigative work of the Federal Communications Commission and also thanked the United States Marshals Service for its assistance. Assistant United States Attorney Arastu K. Chaudhury is in charge of these cases. 14 - 107 # # (via Benn Kobb, DXLD) ** U S A. I have returned from 4 days in Key West where I was on a short honeymoon. My new bride and I had a great time and I was able to do a little DTV DXing. Yes, sounds very risky, but Kim understands my hobby and was quite accepting of a little DX activity. I brought my little Auvio 16-972 pocket DTV and tried it out with the built in whip antenna. I tried in our third floor room hotel and I could only get two locals: WGEN 8/8 WCAY 36/36 One day while sight seeing on foot we decided to check out the old Key West Lighthouse. We climbed up to the observation deck to look around. Fortunately, I had my Auvio with me and decided this was a great place to do a little DX. It is about 75 feet up and afforded a great view in all directions. The reception was much better. Key West: WSBS 3/22 WGEN 8/8 W12DI 12/8 WCAY 36/36 I was also able to get these Ft Myers/Naples stations at 155 miles: WBBH 15/20 WRXY 33/49 WFTX 35/36 WZVN 41/26 WXCW 45/46 This was in the late morning and the path was over the Gulf. All in all some nice catches for a tiny TV. Maybe this will start something, Lighthouse DX! (Mike Glass N9BNN, Indianapolis, Indiana USA, March 21, WTFDA via DXLD) ** UZBKISTAN. 15630, Radio Free Chosun at 1306 in Korean with two men with talk – Poor Apr 13 Wardale-ENGLAND – due to his location Charlie is assuming this is via Uzbekistan rather than the Philippines - ed (ODXA Apr 13 via DXLD) No assumptions are necessary since I already confirmed and reported it`s Uzbekistan (gh, DXLD) ** UZBEKISTAN. 6260, CVC Hindi, 1839 April 9, still this time that proves that CVC is not stopping this time (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CVC Voice Asia, Tashkent. 0010 April 11, 2014. Clear, fair and presume the one in Hindi or similar sounding language with Subcontinental fill music, female talk. Parallel 9975 from 0100 opening but weaker. Still listed on their website, though some interweb pages claim it was to cease March 31 (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UZBEKISTAN. 9900, April 15 at 0114, poor signal with South Asian language, music, address ending in .in. First I check Aoki which has nothing around this time! Then HFCC A-14 shows: 9900 0030 0130 41 TAC 100 131 0 156 1234567 300314 261014 D Mul UZB NEW RAM 2501 Then to EiBi for the full answer: TWR to India at 0030-0130 in 5 different languages, on UT Tuesdays at 0115 going from BJ to DZ, which means Bhojpuri (spoken in Bihar) to Dzongkha (Bhutanese) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [non]. 7305, April 12 at 0159, no signal from Greenville-B, so I wonder if the VR relay still exist. Comes on a bit late, 0201 VR IS plays, 0202 opening Spanish; as IBB continues to violate Separation of Church & State. But wait, there`s more: 15470, April 12 at 1347, Vietnamese spoken clearly one-syllable-at-a- time, by fluent but non-native reading script? Good signal from VR as scheduled 1315-1400 westward via TINIAN. If the Holy See can use USG facilities, why not our very own gospel huxters? God forbid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VENEZUELA. MW station slogans: see COLOMBIA [and non] ** VIETNAM. 7435.54v, Voice of Vietnam-1, 1146, April 8. // 7210 // 9635.00, with 5975 blocked by strong CNR8; the same heard April 9 at 1149 (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** YEMEN. 14.04.2014, R. Sanaa in English 1820 on 6135 via SDR Valladolid, Spain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roOGrrfF8JA&list=UUOkdLTbNeM6g6w8oqkXYtsw Much stronger and better signal in Sofia, SINPO 45554. -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, Apr 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZANZIBAR. 6015, ZBC Radio. April 12 with late sign on sometime between 0314 and 0317 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 730, April 14 at 0511 UT, station in English, seems news discussion, rough bearing ENE/WSW. Too many US stations are allowed here with reduced power at night despite XEX and CKAC. Soon losing to romantic music from south, and then Korean talk, KKDA The Metroplex which gets to run 500 watts. Might have been 50 kW CHMJ Vancouver but for the bearing, and was not ``all-traffic`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED [non]. Station in Arabic or Sudanese Arabic was observed on April 14: 1700-1730 on 11520, very weak signal here in Sofia, SINPO 25532. Any ideas? http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/unidentified-station-in-arabic-or.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) Intermodulation between 2 transmissions which are broadcast via Secretbrod: 1700-1730 11560 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Oromo Dimtse Radio Erena 1700-1800 11600 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Farsi Bible Voice 11600 minus 11560 = 40; 11560 minus 40 = 11520, like a CRI in En/Ch in B-13 0700-0900 on 11785 CER 150 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English 0700-0900 on 11855 CER 150 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Chinese 11855 minus 11785 = 70; 11785 minus 70 = 11715 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/unidentified-station-in-arabic-or.html (Ivo Ivanov, April 16, ibid.) 11520, yes very tiny signal, not easy to copy in Europe yesterday on April 15. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15430/USB, Unknown Spanish 2-way; 2006-2009*, 4-Apr; M&W in Spanish; could not get the gist; M said "muy bien" & 'muy bueno" a lot & only he said "cambio" (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 17975/AM, 2022-2047:09*, 4-Apr; Repeating loop of JFK & FDR speech excerpts. Off abruptly in mid-FDR. SIO=243 on peaks With fades to zilch; covered by brief ute trills. Just guessing it's a Euro-pirate (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow- tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1717: Thanks to Kevin Crouch, Northridge CA, for a check in the mail to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (gh) TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: Will Martin, St Louis MO, supporting WOR and DXLD with a check in the mail to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702. Fritz Anderson, for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com Martin H Gallas, Springfield IL, for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ FM INVENTOR RECOGNIZED IN YONKERS == EMPIRE OF THE AIR The author's name should look familiar. If you're interested in the history of AM and FM broadcasting I highly recommend 'Empire of the Air - The Men Who Made Radio' by Ken Burns. Recently I bought the DVD on Amazon for around $14.00. http://www.radioworld.com/article/fm-inventor-recognized-in-yonkers-/269953 Sent from my iPhone (Dennis Gibson, CA, April 16, ABDX via DXLD) It is truly a great program. I taped it off the air when it was on ETV back in 1992 (Robert Smoak, ibid.) At the risk of being a curmudgeon, a couple of comments. Yes, Empire of the Air was certainly well-made, but I was disappointed that it only covered the major corporations like RCA, Westinghouse and GE, said little or nothing about local and regional entrepreneurs like Boston's John Shepard 3rd and the Yankee Network; and it totally ignored the early contributions of women and minorities, as well as the role of the amateurs (many of whom kept the early commercial stations on the air). It also accepted some corporate myths, like the "fact" that KDKA was first to have a broadcasting license (it was not). I agree the battles between Sarnoff and Armstrong were noteworthy, I agree that Sarnoff, Armstrong and DeForest were very important, but framing radio history as something that was basically created by three white men and a couple of corporations seems a bit of an oversimplification to me. [rant mode off] (Donna Halper, ibid.) WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ Found this link showing time stations around the world (Scott Blixt, A Minnesota MadMan, MDXC yug via DXLD) Including distances from Salt Lake City; who cares? AND including several defunct stations without saying so, such as ATA, YVTO, HD2IOA, BSF, HLA, IAM, LDS (???? no, it means Leeds University in England --- when was there ever an HF timesignal from there??) Yet it`s (c) 2014 at bottom of page (gh, DXLD) MUSEA ++++++ Spain (Pirenaica) Hi Glenn, Hope all is well. A new book is just out about the letters written to anti-Franco clandestine "La Pirenaica" during the dictatorship. This is the story that appeared in El País English edition. 73s, Marty Delfín, Madrid, Spain http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/04/09/inenglish/1397054286_582336.html THE VOICE OF THE VANQUISHED For 40 years, clandestine radio station La Pirenaica provided a forum for anti-Francoist dissidents. A new book analyzes more than 15,000 letters that were sent to the broadcaster. In them, listeners put the genocide of the dictatorship on the record for the first time NATALIA JUNQUERA Madrid 12 ABR 2014 - 14:04 CET For the 40 years of its existence, prisoners on death row, orphans, widows, exiles, the starving and the desperate all wrote thousands of letters to La Pirenaica, the radio station that provided the sole voice for those on the losing side of the Civil War. Many of the messages were lost, intercepted or for some other reason never reached the clandestine station, which was founded in Moscow in 1941. But more than 15,500, from around 33 countries, ended up at the Spanish Communist Party’s Historical Archive (AHPCE). Many passed by them without realizing their value. "Nobody pays it much attention, but you might be interested in seeing this," the archivist told writer Rosario Fontova, who had come to the AHPCE in search of something else entirely: letters written by inmates of Barcelona’s Modelo jail for a book about the prison. "I realized straight away that they were valuable," she recalls. "Writing to La Pirenaica was for many years the only form of anti- Francoist militancy available to two generations of Spaniards, for whom everything was closed off – access to education, work… – simply because they were reds." Fontova called Armand Balsebre, professor of communication at Barcelona Autónoma University, and together, working every day over five months, they took 38,000 photographs of the letters. They have now brought together their findings in a book, Las cartas de la Pirenaica. Memoria del antifranquismo (or, La Pirenaica letters: memories of anti-Francoism), a project made possible with some of the last funds awarded through Spain’s historical memory law, which the Rajoy government has all but revoked, having withdrawn the funding that made it possible. "In these pages to La Pirenaica, the victims spoke about what, out of fear, they didn’t tell their own children," Balsabre explains. The 15,500 letters put the Francoist genocide, among other subjects, on the record for the first time. Below is a selection of those letters, in which the vanquished share their pain, fear, frustration and desire for freedom. "The world would shudder." On January 24, 1964, a "Catholic worker from Zumárraga" in Gipuzkoa sent a particularly striking letter – both because of what it said and of what it predicted. It is an open letter addressed to the abbot at the Valley of the Fallen, Justo Pérez de Urbel, former religious advisor to the woman’s section of the Falange, in which he anticipates the movement by the grandchildren of those who had been shot to recover the remains of their relatives that emerged in 2000, 36 years after he wrote his lines. "I have seen how they killed men and women who did not correspond to the model that you formed on roads, mountains and in doorways," he writes. "I have family members buried on the slopes of a mountain. They shot them and left them in the sun […]. I kiss that ground that covers the remains of my father and 11 more men and I pray for all those who, as they did, refused them even a place in a cemetery. If the day comes when statistics are drawn up of these crimes and how they were committed, the world would shudder. It will traverse every province and ask widows where their husbands are buried; and orphans where their fathers are buried, and fathers, their sons." "They continued shooting in cold blood for two years." Many La Pirenaica listeners’ letters pointed out the locations of the graves into which their family members had been thrown. In 1963, one man, who signed his letter "Malagueño 41," wrote from France: "They made 70 men kneel down, unjustly shot them against the walls of the San Rafael cemetery […] and continued shooting in cold blood and without trial for two years, among them minors. Their one crime was being loyal to the Republic." The remains of almost 3,000 people have been found in the San Rafael cemetery in Málaga, the largest collection of mass graves in Spain. "I never seen anything but fear in my home." "For almost as long as I can remember, I have never seen in my home anything but fear that the Civil Guard might come at any moment," wrote one Asturian refugee living in Germany. His father was let out of prison at the age of 65, but left deaf as a result of the beatings he suffered. "He didn’t know us, neither did we know him. I don’t want my children to grow up with the terror that my mother felt." "I am writing with gloves on." Many listeners wrote about the fear they felt at putting pen to paper. "I ask you to forgive my handwriting, done with the aim of avoiding possible identification through my identity card [which carries a fingerprint]. Even though they would have to compare it with every identity card in Spain, I believe them capable of everything. And I am writing with gloves on," explained X-J-1 from Barcelona. Some letters were written in five different types of handwriting and others in invisible ink. "Forgive my grammar." "When I was 11, I stopped going to school," wrote N. R. P. in 1963 in a letter riddled with errors. "Forgive my grammar," the writer adds in a postscript. Many of the letters to La Pirenaica were full of mistakes, showing that many of its listeners had hardly been able to attend school as a result of the Civil War. The broadcaster also carried out educational work and popularized, among others, the then-banned poetry of Miguel Hernández and Federico García Lorca (via Marty Delfin, Madrid, April 13, DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See also AUSTRALIA; INDIA; IRAN; NIGERIA; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ USA [and non] STF "DIGITAL SHORTWAVE: A RADIO REVOLUTION" (Comment resisted!) [by Mike Terry] AudioBoo 14 April 2014 More than eighty years ago, the BBC began transmitting its first international radio broadcasts - on what was then known as the Empire Service. These days of course, we call it the World Service, and you're listening to it now. What made the first international broadcasts possible was shortwave - a set of radio frequencies which allowed signals to travel very long distances - even if the end results could sound a little bit, well, odd. These days, though far fewer broadcasters focus on shortwave. Here at the BBC, even, our transmissions have been heavily cut back. Instead, we use the internet, as well as relying on local FM broadcasters. But could shortwave - or a version of it - be about to make a comeback? Here's Mark Whittaker with news of what could be a radio revolution. And you may like to know that the BBC is already broadcasting in digital short wave for 5 hours a day to India and India's domestic radio station is currently building one digital medium wave transmitter every two weeks. A new wave of cheaper DRM receivers are expected to be on the market in the coming months. bbcworldbusiness http://audioboo.fm/boos/2075026-digital-shortwave-a-radio-revolution Comments from The SWLing Post: "BBC World Service features DRM" By Thomas April 15, 2014 In this BBC World Service report, Mark Whittaker explores Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) and, especially, its potential in India. Use the embedded player or link below to listen: listen to ‘Digital Shortwave: a radio revolution ’ on Audioboo http://audioboo.fm/boos/2075026-digital-shortwave-a-radio-revolution (Source: Audioboo via Tarmo Tanilsoo on Facebook) You'll note the BBC World Service fails to mention that DRM has been in use now for over a decade. Whittaker ends the report by saying that low cost portable DRM receivers will be on the market in a few months. Even if they DRM radios start appearing, whether or not they'll be effective and inexpensive remains to be seen. So far, portable DRM radios have been mediocre performers (at best) and relatively expensive. Don't get me wrong: I would love to see DRM take hold, I just have my doubts. DRM might stand a chance if a manufacturer like Tecsun were to build an inexpensive portable radio, with a form factor much like that of their other portables. If they made a DRM version of the PL-380, for example, it could be a winner. By the way, if you've never heard what DRM sounds like over shortwave, I just posted a fifty eight minute recording of All India Radio on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive. Contributor, Mark Fahey, recorded the broadcast from his home in Australia. I've embedded a link to the audio below, but you can listen to the broadcast and read Mark's notes on the shortwave archive: http://shortwavearchive.com/archive/c6hlohac9ejafb4ddpkah85v237rz3 (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) Newsletter, April 2014 - highlights DRM PhD thesis with concrete measurements --- Friederike Maier of the University of Hannover recently published PhD paper on DRM measurements online. News from around the Web: - How DRM can help in overcoming North Korea's information blockade Software-defined radio might prove valuable for increasing information flows into and out of N. Korea Upcoming events: Southern African Broadcasters Association (SABA) Digital Broadcasting Summit 22nd-24th April, Southern African Broadcasters Association (SABA) Digital Broadcasting Summit (Cape Town,South Africa). 90-minute DRM Workshop on April 23rd (via Drita Çiço, Albania, DXLD) Viz.: LIVE DRM BROADCAST TO FEATURE AT THIS MONTH’S SOUTH AFRICAN BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE The DRM Consortium is a Sector Partner at The Southern African Broadcasting Association (SABA), Digital Radio Broadcasting Summit in Cape Town from 22nd – 24th April. The event will include a presentation by the DRM Chair, Ruxandra Obreja, on April 22nd at 11.50am and a dedicated DRM workshop on the 23rd April, from 4.00pm to 5.30pm under the title "The DRM Platform: A detailed and practical look at its superior functionalities and flexibility". The workshop will offer a live demonstration of DRM30 with a two-hour BBC broadcast, from Ascension Island – a site managed by DRM member, Babcock – to Southern Africa carrying BBC World Service English from 1330 to 1530 GMT/UTC (114 degrees) 21735 kHz. During and after the workshop DRM representatives and South African DRM supporters will be available to meet you and explain the features and to answer any questions. The DRM Consortium has already been present at SABA events in Johannesburg and in Arusha (Tanzania) last year. The DRM standard is the only global standard which can be used in all radio frequency bands and is ideal for the large countries of Southern Africa. From national networks and regional stations to smaller commercial and community stations, all are able to broadcast their digital radio programmes with enhanced content and in excellent sound quality to everyone in their respective countries, regardless of whether people live in large cities, in small towns or villages. http://www.drm.org/?p=3012 (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See also: MEXICO; U S A Key West ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ WHEELER`S FCC CHANNEL SHARING I know that some stations have been broadcasting two HD programs, but how does that impact channel sharing. If two stations share a frequency, can they actually then run four HD programs? That doesn't seem likely to me. Locally KPXE-51 airs ION on virtual 50.1 in 720p and five other programs on 50.2 to 50.6--the same as other ION stations. Channel 51.1 looks OK but the others are somewhat fuzzy. Channel 51.2 which is Qubo for children looked pretty good before two more programs were added. Now it also looks bad. I'm no broadcast engineer, but I just don't see how two stations could share a channel and still provide the same level of service (picture quality and program quantity) that they do now unless two stations broadcasting only one program stream now combined (Dave Pomeroy, Topeka, Kansas Feb 12, WTFDA via DXLD) These stations may make a lot more money leasing their sub channels to another station instead of offering free programs. Sent from my iPhone (Mike G., ibid.) I notice the same thing on the channels here. The more sub-channels there are, the worse the quality is. Our CBS and CW stations (both CBS owned) have no sub-channels and you can see the difference in their quality vs the other stations with two, three or more sub-channels. Their picture is much sharper. They're using the entire 19 Mhz for just the one channel instead of splitting it up over several. Our ABC station, ABC-Disney owned, has two HD channels plus an SD channel. The two HD channels share 17 MHz on a varying basis. 7.1 has priority, but if it's not using the bandwidth 7.2 will use it. As a result, watching 7.2 you can see the quality varying from good to so- so depending on how much bandwidth it has. We have one station here that has 12 SD video channels plus 8 audio channels using their 19 Mhz bandwidth. They must set the quality for each channel as some look okay and others look like old analog quality (Larry Kenney, San Francisco, ibid.) Channel sharing is partially an FCC pipe dream, partially a ploy to move OTA TV to more modern technology. The fixed factor here is the 6 MHz of RF. Within that 6 MHz, the current ATSC technology allows for 19.39 megabits/second of data. How that 19.39 Mbps is divided is up to the station, and up to the level of encoding technology they want to employ. Early encoders weren't especially good at the job, but more modern encoding technology has improved the quality of multicasting to the point where it's possible to do multiple 720p HD streams on one signal. If it takes 11 Mbps or so for a decent 720p signal, how is that possible? Through the use of dynamic encoders that don't always give the same amount of data throughput to the same streams: if 12.1 is showing a relatively static image (say, a talking-head newscast) and 12.2 is showing a sports event, 12.2 will get more bandwidth and 12.1 will get less. But instead of doing this by the show, the best new encoders can do this by the second, or even less. Moving to a more efficient encoding algorithm - say, MPEG4 or H.264 - would allow for even more streams to fit in that 19.39 Mbps, at the expense of reverse-compatibility with existing receivers. That may or may not be a pipe dream. But here's the key: the whole "two stations sharing a channel" is a purely regulatory matter, not a technical matter. Consider Elmira, New York, for instance: WENY-TV (RF 36) runs three streams of programming right now on its 19.39 Mbps of throughput. There's ABC on 36.1, CBS on 36.2 (downconverted from 1080i to either 720p or 480p, not sure which) and CW on 36.3 in SD. A few miles away, WETM (RF 18) runs two streams - NBC on 18.1 in 1080i and independent "WETM2" in SD on 18.2. Now imagine that the third station in town, WYDC (RF 50/virtual 48), decides to give up its RF channel to auction and enters into a sharing agreement with WETM. Now WETM has NBC on 18.1, WETM2 on 18.2 and WYDC's Fox programming on 48.1. From a technical standpoint, again, there is NO difference between the three streams of video coming out of WENY-TV's transmitter on 36 and the three streams of video that would be coming out of WETM's transmitter on 18. It's only from a regulatory point of view that they're any different - WYDC would continue to be responsible for all of the programming requirements that attach to its portion of the stream, including children's programming and EAS. But as DXers, channel sharing per se shouldn't really have any effect on us. So what if KLCS, for instance, is now broadcasting some streams that are "58.x" and operated by KLCS and others that are "57.x" and operated by KJLA? As it stands, we can already receive transmitters that are broadcasting multiple streams with different major channel numbers (e.g. "9.2" alongside "5.1" on WNYW RF 44 and "5.2" alongside "9.1" and "9.3" on WWOR RF 38 in New York). The only difference between those situations and, say, KJLA/KLCS is that WNYW and WWOR have common ownership. (What channel sharing WOULD do to make our lives more complicated, in the event that the FCC's complicated reverse-auction system ever actually achieves what it's designed to do, is to further congest an even more limited UHF spectrum - more locals and fewer open DX channels. But that's the FCC's goal right now regardless of whether channel sharing works.) That make any sense? s (Scott Fybush, ibid.) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ HIGH POWERED HISTORY; RADIO HISTORY BY THE BAY This is the history of AM directional antennas. http://www.thebdr.net/articles/prof/history/HPH-WFLA-WSUN.pdf (via Dennis Gibson, April 13, ABDX via DXLD) Very well worth a read. An excellent piece of radio history preserved. (Kevin Redding, TN, ibid.) Tampa Bay, that is One of the apparent long-lasting effects of that experiment has been that all of the nighttime Tampa area AM stations are required to throw their signals to the south at night, with the result that the northern suburbs don`t get any local AM reception, but the areas down the coast to the south get lots of signal (Dick W., ibid.) RADIO WORLD: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE CFA? The April 9th print edition of Radio World contains a commentary piece by Robert E. Richer about the Crossed Field Antenna (CFA) and how it fits into the FCC's vision for revitalizing the AM Band. He mentions that his company lacks only one more investor willing to help complete work on the New Jersey test site CFA so that results can be submitted to the FCC and the broadcast community. He talks about the reluctance of some engineers to accept the radical design ideas of the antenna. I'm certainly not an expert, but I've heard many who are level a lot of criticism towards the antenna design. The only example that seems to have performed as claimed is the original installation in Egypt (where the antenna was placed on top of an elevated, copper clad building). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossed_field_antenna As a DX'er, I'd like to see the test site facility come online. It would be a great catch (if possible, the antenna claims to reduce skywave emissions) and an interesting bit of broadcast history. I do wonder why an amateur radio operator with a bit of land hasn't built the design and tested in on either LF or 160 Meters. It would seem to be a fascinating project and make for a nice QEX article. -- 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, Maylene, AL, EM63, Member NRC, IRCA, & Medium Wave DX Circle, Former CPC Chairman for NRC/IRCA; Perseus SDR, SDR-IQ,Funcube Pro, Wellbrooke ALA-1530+ loop, LF Engineering Active Whips, Quantum Phaser, Kiwa Loop, Palstar MW Pre- Selector, ABDX via DXLD) So far, the claims of the antenna' s efficiency remain unverified by independent parties. Until they are, and it doesn't appear likely that they will at this point, you won't see much interest from either hams or commercial broadcasters. 73, (Mike, NM7X, ibid.) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2014 Apr 14 0224 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 07 - 13 April 2014 Solar activity was low. The largest flare of the week was a C9, with no optical counterpart, produced by Region 2035 (S18, L=222, class/area=Eai/210 on 13 Apr) on 11 Apr at 1124 UTC. The same region produced a C5 flare at 11/1501 UTC. A small CME, most likely associated with the C9 event, was visible in LASCO C2 coronagraph imagery at 11/1212 UTC but was directed well south and east of the ecliptic plane. A much larger CME associated with the C5 flare was observed in LASCO C2 imagery at 11/1448 UTC. The CME was also on the east limb and the majority of the ejecta was directed away from Earth. Region 2035 began as a plage area on 09 Apr and by the 11th had grown to a Dao Beta-type group with 2 spots. It developed a beta-gamma magnetic configuration on the 12th. In addition to CMEs associated with the week`s largest flares, others accompanied filament eruptions. A 9 degree filament eruption was observed near S23E25 at 10/0004 UTC. An associated CME occurred off the southeast limb with an estimated speed of 298 km/s. Around the same time, Region 2031 (N03, L=30, class/area=Dao/50 on 08 April) produced a C1/Sf flare at 10/0013 UTC and a slow, westward- directed coronal mass ejection (CME) with coronal dimming visible in SDO/AIA imagery. Analysis suggested a speed near 330 km/s. A Type II radio sweep (1109 km/s) was also observed between 10/0010-0022 UTC . A 14 degree filament centered near S35W48 disappeared at 10/0622 UTC with no apparent CME in LASCO imagery. Neither these CMEs, nor others occurring throughout the week, were judged to be particularly geoeffective. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit, however, the week began with slightly elevated flux levels (<1 pfu) in the wake of an M6 flare the previous week. By 09 April, flux had returned to background levels. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was normal to moderate throughout the week. Geomagnetic field activity began the week at unsettled to active levels on 07 April attributed to the muted effects of transient features. Activity remained at quiet levels from 08 April through late on 11 April. Late on the 10th, around 1928 UTC, there was a modest increase in solar wind speed from 350-400 km/s. The brief episode of increased winds was followed by a jump in density and accompanied by fluctuations in Phi angle. Over the next 36 hours, Phi exhibited a smooth rotation from a positive to a negative orientation. Bz began to plunge southward around 11/0940 UTC, reaching a minimum of about -10 nT by 12/0800 UTC. Bt reached a maximum near 12 nT by 12/1406 UTC. Throughout the 11th and 12th, solar wind speed continued to decline, reaching a minimum of 316 km/s at 12/1331 UTC. The planetary geomagnetic field responded to the nearly 24 hours of southward Bz with minor storm conditions (Kp=5) from 00-09 UTC on 12 April and a major storm period observed at College (Fairbanks), AK. The remainder of the 12th saw quiet to unsettled conditions. Late on the 12th, temperature and wind speed began to rise signaling the end of the transient feature and the beginning of the influence of a weak negative polarity cornal hole high speed stream. Active conditions returned for the first two synoptic periods of the 13th followed by quiet to unsettled levels of activity. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 14 APRIL - 10 MAY 2014 Solar activity is expected to be low with a chance for moderate events throughout the forecast period. There is a chance for high levels of activity on 25 April through 08 May with the return of Old Region 2027. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal to moderate levels. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels, in the absence of any transient features, throughout the forecast period. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2014 Apr 14 0224 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 2014-04-14 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2014 Apr 14 140 8 3 2014 Apr 15 145 8 3 2014 Apr 16 145 5 2 2014 Apr 17 145 5 2 2014 Apr 18 145 5 2 2014 Apr 19 145 5 2 2014 Apr 20 145 5 2 2014 Apr 21 145 5 2 2014 Apr 22 145 5 2 2014 Apr 23 140 5 2 2014 Apr 24 140 5 2 2014 Apr 25 140 5 2 2014 Apr 26 140 5 2 2014 Apr 27 140 5 2 2014 Apr 28 130 5 2 2014 Apr 29 130 5 2 2014 Apr 30 125 5 2 2014 May 01 120 5 2 2014 May 02 120 5 2 2014 May 03 125 5 2 2014 May 04 125 5 2 2014 May 05 125 5 2 2014 May 06 130 5 2 2014 May 07 130 5 2 2014 May 08 130 5 2 2014 May 09 130 5 2 2014 May 10 130 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DXLD) ###