DX LISTENING DIGEST 14-18, April 30, 2014 Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING edited by Glenn Hauser, http://www.worldofradio.com Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. Materials taken from Arctic or originating from Olle Alm and not having a commercial copyright are exempt from all restrictions of noncommercial, noncopyrighted reusage except for full credits For restrixions and searchable 2014 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html For restrixions and searchable 2013 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid13.html [also linx to previous years] NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1719 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Antarctica, Australia, Belarus, Cambodia non, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Iran, Korea North non, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands non, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Romania and non, Russia non, Sarawak non, Tibet non, UK, USA, Uzbekistan, Zimbabwe and non SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1719, May 1-7, 2014 Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 0530 WTWW 12105 [ad-hoc, may have been 1718] Thu 1230 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 1530 WTWW 12105 [confirmed, ad-hoc] Thu 2101 WTWW 9475 [confirmed] Fri 0326v WWRB 5050 [confirmed at 0328:22] Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 2330v WTWW 9930 [confirmed at 2330:15] Sun 0030 WRMI 9495 Sun 0401 WTWW 5830 Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 [on northwest antenna] Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1720 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/ ** ALASKA. 9655, April 24 at 1020, bit from `Focus on the Family - Australia`, and then from Dobson himself on `FOTF` (USA); 1023 KNLS offering free Bible (but which version?) from Anchor Point address; 1024, Olivia Newton-John song from the 1980s. Good signal altho squeezed by Asians on both sides. So the 10-11 UT hour in English is confirmed here; seldom a chance to hear it but I am unavoidably awake this morning. Harold Sellers, BC, reports the 12-13 English is still on 7355, now inaudible here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. 9845, April 29 I am waiting for R. Tirana to come on, as sometimes it`s much earlier, but today not until *0124:39 with IS in progress; usual, good clear signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Summer A-14 shortwave schedule of Radio Tirana: 0130-0200 on 9845 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg to NoAm English Tue-Sun 0700-0900 on 7390 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Albanian 1700-1730 on 7465 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg to SoEu Italian Mon-Sat 1730-1800 on 7465 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg to WeEu French Mon-Sat 1931-2000 on 7465 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg to WeEu German Mon-Sat 2000-2030 on 7465 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg to U.K. English Mon-Sat 2300-2400 on 9850 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg to NoAm Albanian (DX RE MIX NEWS #849 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov. Date April 26, 2014, via DXLD) ** ANTARCTICA. 15475.982, Apr 21 1955, LRA36 also good in Salzburg (Christoph Ratzer, Austria, SW Bulletin April 27 via DXLD) 15475.985, Apr 21 2100, LRA36 with music at this time, deep fades and quite weak signal (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, ibid.) Shortly after WOR 1718 was finished, we heard from Horacio Nigro that according to the station`s Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/operador.emisora?fref=pb&hc_location=friends_tab since April 22 schedule is now 1830-2130 UT, still M-F only. Its FB had been inactive since November 29, but now the 2014 Dotación [crew] is in place, with a new logo (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15476, R Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel ATA, Base Esperanza, 1935 23 Apr, px mx + ID, 23333 (Mauro Giroletti, Italy, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) 15476, LRA36. April 24 again heard an open carrier with no audio, but weaker than yesterday`s decent signal strength; heard as early as 1258 and still on at 1435. Believe my reception on 23rd was strong enough that if they had audio I would have had some trace of it, so this is just a case of the transmitter being on for an extended time? April 25 no carrier heard, with propagation that seemed normal; checked at 1306 and 1334 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15476, LRA36 tuned at 2042 UT April 24 from Perseus site in Amberg Germany (using the ALA-100 antenna - other 2 receivers here (crossed loops and beverages) produced no carrier indication) with a decent carrier signal and discernible audio - woman announcer to 2049 UT followed by Argentinian vocal/instrumental music. Woman heard again at 2100 UT followed by more vocal/instrumental music at 2105 UT. Woman at 2117 UT. Big signal jump at 2123 UT to S2+ to S3 when very nice instrumental music started again. At 2134 UT woman came on again until the carrier disappeared sometime between 2138 and 2140 UT (I lost connection with the Amberg ALA-100 around 2139 UT). In moving the mode from AM to USB, the frequency seemed to be right on 15476 kHz. SINPO 1/25432 improving to S2/3 after 2100 UT. Also tried Stockholm site and got a carrier indication but no audio - nothing seen from Karelia MW DX site in Eastern Finland. - Thanks to Ron for the heads-up on this one! Sign-off was at (or near) 2139 UT - they were still playing nice instrumental music at 2130 to about 2134 UT at a good S3 level (Bruce W. Churchill-CA-USA, DXplorer April 24 via BC-DX April 28 via DXLD) Re LRA36 15476 kHz, dear Bruce, remote posts in central and eastern Europe 'across in-land' as well as Sweden/Finland deliver mostly poor tiny signals, or just a poor string on screen only. Not bad are the U.K. remote station reception posts, which get propagation across the Atlantic Ocean. Best remote post to listen too was always of Thorvaldur Stefansson in Iceland TF4M; he gave me the permit password in May 2013. But unfortunately TF4M sold all his SDR gear like Perseus and HDSDR etc. etc. recently and stopped using Perseus net too. That's a pity. My wish would be Perseus remote units in access, permanently in Perseus net like from SP Brazil, western South America Bolivia / Peru, western and south Africa, and south Asia too. All they have a white spot on the map unfortunately (Wolfgang Büschel, April 24, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 28 via DXLD) E-mail address for QSLing LRA36 R Nac Arcángel San Gabriel is lra36@hotmail.com also via private message in their FB page "Esperanza San Gabriel". https://www.facebook.com/operador.emisora?fref=ufi (Santiago San Gil, Venezuela; Horacio Nigro, Uruguay, Apr 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Checking for LRA36 via Twente before I leave work & I find it weak but audible at 1930. They remain my "white whale" from my QTH. DH KCMO (Dave Hughes, Kansas City MO, April 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. LV19, R. Malargüe historia, por ellos mismos. Hola amigos: Hace unos pocos segundos, LV19 puso en su sitio una pequeña reseña histórica sobre ellos: http://www.nacionalmalargue.com.ar/?p=1164 (Claudio Galaz, April 30, condiglist yg via DXLD) formerly on SW ** AUSTRALIA. Ozyradio was supposed to up its power to 500 W earlier in the week, but still around 100 W [3210, relaying Vintage FM]. Symban [2368] heard better here during the day. 73 (Ian Baxter, Sydney NSW, April 26, WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3210, Vintage FM relay (presumed). April 30 - Have been looking for the anticipated increase in power as recently mentioned in WOR and today seemed to be the day Craig did it. Now 500 watts? For a long time now all I have heard here is below threshold level carrier (no audio), but today clearly hearing songs that I couldn't ID, as they all seemed to be pre-1950s and were non-stop from 1326 to 1355 with QRN. My local sun rise was at 1315 UT. Brief segment with poor audio: https://app.box.com/s/ovk4z3zek4pirho3qw50 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good morning Ron, Yes much stronger [3210] - thanks for the heads-up. I'm now hearing it with the portable whip antenna during daylight hours now, which is still a bit stronger than was the case even at night with 100 Watts, so an assumption of 500 W would probably be a fair bet at this stage :-) Thanks for the update (Ian [Australia] Baxter, May 1, via Ron Howard, DXLD) [later:] Email from Craig today indicates power now at 300 watts, so not as much as I thought (Ron Howard, April 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 12080, April 24 at 1030, RA news theme and news in Tok Pisin, starting with something about ``U.S. President Barack Obama``; 1034 mentioning Solomon Islands about a tropical depression. Better than // 9475, and that`s better than // 9710 on respective azimuths of 80, 30 and 353 degrees, but 12080 is only 10 kW bilong Brandon; while 9580, 12065 remain in regular Strine. But it`s more fun to try to understand the Pidgin English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 9580, April 28 at 1333, R. Australia is *missing* from its best frequency in North America, leaving a yawning gap on the dial, and remains missing the rest of the hour; fortunately the #2 frequency for us, 12065 is good as usual; and also audible on weak signals to Asia on 12085, and via Palau 9965. 9580 is scheduled from Shepparton at 1000-1500 (make that 1458*) on 70 degree beam which is aimed right at Enid; also at 08-10 on 80 degrees; and at 17-21 in our daytime when it doesn`t make it here, also 70 degrees. Hope it`s just a temporary outage! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) News reports out of Australia several months ago suggested that some government decisions about the future of that country's international broadcasting would be made this May. Have any of our Australian friends heard anything more? Most speculation dealt with the Australia Network television service, but it also appeared Radio Australia's output was facing cuts (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Steve, on the second Tuesday in May the Australian Government announces their financial budget for the coming year. The present Australian government is right wing - they are called the Liberal Party but are not liberal in the way the term is used in the USA. Funding cuts are expected as typically the right wing support base in Australia don't value public broadcasting. Cheers, (Mark Fahey, Australia, April 29, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9580, April 29 at 1314, R. Australia is back on here after absence 24 hours earlier, which must have been an anomaly. RA amid TV news relay, soundtrack only, interviewing someone in Nigeria about Boko Haram; 1328 wrapping up as ``The World, from Australia Net`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Have not heard anything specific to Radio Australia, only vague comments of 'possible' budget cuts to the ABC. One thing is for sure that due to federal deficit blow-out, mainly thanks to previous government's monetary incompetence, most Australians will be financially effected negatively with the May budget. Hopefully the ABC isn't effected (as a regular listener/viewer). We'll know more by mid May (Ian Baxter, NSW, April 30, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 15400, April 29 at 1256, HCJB hymn, version of ``Old Rugged Cross`` has CCI from slightly weaker RHC leapfrog mixing product, since 15340 and 15370 are already on early. ``HCJB Australia`` still not renaming itself ``Reach Beyond`` signs off in English at 1300, having been Southeast Asian service originally heard on same at 2345 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BAHRAIN. 9744.99, 27/4 0132, Radio Bahrain, Arabic slow songs, USB modulated, fair (Giampiero Bernardini, Avvenire - Redazione Internet http://www.avvenire.it ascolto con il nuovo Elad FDM-S2 e il software Studio 1: http://air-radiorama.blogspot.it/2014/04/elad-fdm-s2-con-il-software-studio-1.html playdxyg via DXLD) ** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 24 at 1358, BB IS, JBA, but the mistimesigal cuts thru, ending at 1359:36. 15505, April 27 at 1358, IS from BB, once again, just barely audible but enough to make out the 5+1 timesignal ending early at 1359:37.5. 15505, April 28 at 1359, Bangladesh Betar IS is JBA, and so is the mistimesignal until 1359:38.5. 15505, April 29 at 1357, BB is JBA with tone, 1359 IS, mistimesignal ending at 1359:37 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. Summer A-14 shortwave transmissions Belarussian Radio 1 (including relay Radio Stalitza, Radio Grodno) 0400-0700 11930 MNS 125 kW 072 deg to EaEUR Belarussian 1500-1700 7255 MNS 125 kW 072 deg to EaEUR Belarussian 1500-2100 6080 MNS 100 kW 127 deg to NE/ME Belarussian Radio Belarus Minsk 1100-1400 11730 MNS 100 kW 246 deg to WeEUR Belarussian 1400-1600 11730 MNS 100 kW 246 deg to WeEUR Russian 1600-1800 11730 MNS 100 kW 246 deg to WeEUR Polish 1705-1800 7255 MNS 125 kW 252 deg to WeEUR Polish 1800-1940 7255 MNS 125 kW 252 deg to WeEUR German 1800-1940 11730 MNS 100 kW 246 deg to WeEUR German 1940-2000 7255 MNS 125 kW 252 deg to WeEUR German Tue/Wed/Fri 1940-2000 11730 MNS 100 kW 246 deg to WeEUR German Tue/Wed/Fri 1940-2000 7255 MNS 125 kW 252 deg to WeEUR French Sat-Mon/Thu 1940-2000 11730 MNS 100 kW 246 deg to WeEUR French Sat-Mon/Thu 2000-2020 7255 MNS 125 kW 252 deg to WeEUR Spanish Sat-Mon/Thu 2000-2020 11730 MNS 100 kW 246 deg to WeEUR Spanish Sat-Mon/Thu 2000-2020 7255 MNS 125 kW 252 deg to WeEUR English Tue/Wed/Fri 2000-2020 11730 MNS 100 kW 246 deg to WeEUR English Tue/Wed/Fri 2020-2200 7255 MNS 125 kW 252 deg to WeEUR English 2020-2200 11730 MNS 100 kW 246 deg to WeEUR English 2200-2300 7255 MNS 125 kW 252 deg to WeEUR Russian 2200-2300 11730 MNS 100 kW 246 deg to WeEUR Russian (unid via RUSdx April 20 via BC-DX April 28 via DXLD) English portion on: WORLD OF RADIO 1719 ** BERMUDA. Chris Dunne sent an email advising that anyone who thinks they hear ZBM 89.1 in Bermuda this season can check ZBM’s webstream at http://power95.bm to verify it. You can check both stations there (89.1 and 94.9). (May WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 922, R. Encuentro, Sucre, Bolivia (posible), 1025 UT. Se escuchaba mejor en esta frecuencia por un fuerte heterodino en 920, estimo producido por R. Nacional de Paraguay. Noticias de Bolivia y canciones para las trabajadoras del hogar (estimo que es esta emisora porque en la programación disponible en internet nombra en este horario a las trabajadoras del hogar). 22311. 73's (Miguel Castellino, Argentina, April 30, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 3310, Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba, 2335 yl in Q[uechua]. into music with yl back 2338 and 2340 more music, flauta andina with om vocalist, 2344 yl DJ again alternating with music and announcements to 0028 22/23 April (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro Modified, Drake R8, Sony 2010XA, 120 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4451.1 tentative, Radio Santa Ana, Santa Ana de Yacuma, noted 2336 to 2346 in Spanish with no possible ID. 19 [April] (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro Modified, Drake R8, Sony 2010XA, 120 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4699.9, Radio San Miguel, Riberalta, 0900 to 0910 with music and usual weak signal; again 1025 music still weak. 24 April (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro Modified, Drake R8, Sony 2010XA, 120 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Noted 1000 and 2330 every day for last week (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro Modified, Drake R8, Sony 2010XA, 120 meter dipole, and XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D - R8A - E5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4716.65, Radio Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura, 0020 to 0025 lively vocal 25 April (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro Modified, Drake R8, Sony 2010XA, 120 meter dipole, and XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D - R8A - E5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sometimes silent 1000 to 1100 recently - rlw. ** BOLIVIA. 5952.47, 26/4 2330, Emisora Pio XII, emphatic talks, weak (Giampiero Bernardini, Avvenire - Redazione Internet http://www.avvenire.it ascolto con il nuovo Elad FDM-S2 e il software Studio 1: http://air-radiorama.blogspot.it/2014/04/elad-fdm-s2-con-il-software-studio-1.html playdxyg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 6134.76, Radio Santa Cruz, 0945 solo flauta andina instrumental. 1005 "Transmite Radio Santa Cruz desde S. C. Bolivia". 24 April (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro Modified, Drake R8, Sony 2010XA, 120 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 6134.81, 26/4 2349, Radio Santa Cruz, talks, music, fair, LSB to avoid Aparecida 6135.26, 26/4 2346, Rádio Aparecida, Brazil, talks, fair, USB to avoid S. Cruz (Giampiero Bernardini, Avvenire - Redazione Internet http://www.avvenire.it ascolto con il nuovo Elad FDM-S2 e il software Studio 1: http://air-radiorama.blogspot.it/2014/04/elad-fdm-s2-con-il-software-studio-1.html playdxyg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 3364.84, Brasil, Rádio Cultura, Araraquara, SP, 2333 fading in, 2341 vocalist in Portuguese followed by 2346 Joplin'esque singer, sounded similar to Janis, 2350 om dj briefly over music. Same om breaking in at 2352 and 2358 then blues like vocal, at 0002 into pop rock music and at 0027 alto female vocalist with fading signal. 22/23 April (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro Modified, Drake R8, Sony 2010XA, 120 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 3375.1, Brasil, Radio Municipal São Gabriel da Cachoeira, 0935 om in Portuguese 0940 music, fair signal with some fading and QRN. 24 April (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro Modified, Drake R8, Sony 2010XA, 120 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 6134.81, 26/4 2349, Radio Santa Cruz, talks, music, fair, LSB to avoid Aparecida 6135.26, 26/4 2346, Rádio Aparecida, Brazil, talks, fair, USB to avoid S. Cruz (Giampiero Bernardini, Avvenire - Redazione Internet http://www.avvenire.it ascolto con il nuovo Elad FDM-S2 e il software Studio 1: http://air-radiorama.blogspot.it/2014/04/elad-fdm-s2-con-il-software-studio-1.html playdxyg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 5939.87, 26/4 2335, Voz Missionária, Camboriù, talks, songs, weak/fair 6010.05, 27/4 [no time], Rádio Inconfidencia, talks, in LSB to avoid QRM, weak/fair 9629.96, 27/4 0120, R. Aparecida, songs, talks, fair/good 9645.38, 27/4 0124, R. Bandeirantes, sport live, fair/good // 11925.2 9665.2, 27/4 0128, Voz Missionária, Florianópolis, talks mentioning Camboriù, good 9818.79, 27/4 0140, R 9 de Julho, relay Aparecida // 11855.1, fair 11855.1, 27/4 0015, Rádio Aparecida, Brazil, talks Santuário Aparecida, good 11925.2, 27/4 0022, Rádio Bandeirantes, SP, Brazil, sport live, fair in USB to avoid QRM (Giampiero Bernardini, Avvenire - Redazione Internet http://www.avvenire.it ascolto con il nuovo Elad FDM-S2 e il software Studio 1: http://air-radiorama.blogspot.it/2014/04/elad-fdm-s2-con-il-software-studio-1.html playdxyg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Checking how off-frequency some Brazilians are April 25: 11855.1, April 25 at 0113, R. Aparecida, good in Brazuguese 11925.25, April 25 at 0117, fair in Brazuguese; R. Bandeirantes seldom audible, maybe not always on at this hour? 9645.4, April 25 at 0117, R. Bandeirantes // 11925.25 9664.7, April 25 at 0119, Voz Missionária with screaming preacher 9629.9, April 25 at 0120, R. Aparecida mentions ``senhora Aparecida`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) That ~11855 Aparecida transmitter has to be running a higher power than the listed 1 kW, or have I missed some re-assignment of the stn's line-up? Their website makes mention of new equipment in 2013, though my Portuguese isn't too great, and a Google translate tends to muddy the interpretation. Reception in Metro Vancouver pretty much has it matching Deus é Amor / 11765 which is usually good on the Eton E1, Degen 1103, or Tecsun 380. And while cruising in the South Atlantic back in mid-March, 11855 and 6135 were both powerhouses on the PL-380. TD (Theo Donnelly, BC, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 9645.4, 0018 26 ABR - RÁDIO BANDEIRANTES, SP (BRAZIL) in PORTUGUÊS from SÃO PAULO - RADIO BANDEIRANTES, SP. SINPO = 44444. 49m, DE1103, LW 12m - Programa de esporte. Received at Brasil, 2034 KM from transmitter at São Paulo - Rádio Bandeirantes, SP. Local time: 21:17. Audio: http://9645-4.khz.mobi 11925.2, 0814 25 ABR - RÁDIO BANDEIRANTES, SP (BRAZIL) in PORTUGUÊS from SÃO PAULO - RÁDIO BANDEIRANTES, SP. SINPO = 23333. 25m, DE1103, LW 12m - sinal fraco mais bem audivel. Received at Brasil, 2034 KM from transmitter at Sao Paulo - Rádio Bandeirantes, SP. Local time: 5:14. 6090, 0626 25 ABR - RÁDIO BANDEIRANTES, SP (BRAZIL) in PORTUGUÊS from SÃO PAULO - RÁDIO BANDEIRANTES, SP. SINPO = 33323. 25 m, DE1103, LW 12m - escutando muito bem. Received at Brasil, 2034 KM from transmitter at São Paulo - Radio Bandeirantes, SP. Local time: 3:26. Radios RM-PF121AA e DE1103, LW 12m (Vpan - Sousa - PB - BRAZIL, nviado do Yahoo Mail no Android, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 11780, April 27 at 0520, open carrier/dead air from RNB; by 0522 I`m trying // 6180 and by then, both are resuming with music, ID, as if there was simply no audio from the studio until then. Huge transmitters deserve more professional handling (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11855.12 approx., April 29 at 0108, R. Aparecida is getting closer to nominal, in Brazuguese with phone caller (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. QSLs: Rádio Aparecida, 6135, QSL-card in 45 days for reception report to Rádio Aparecida, Caixa Postal 02, Aparecida-SP, 12570-970, BRASIL with 1 IRC + 1 US$. Rádio Itatiaia, 5970, QSL-card, stickers in 73 days for reception report with recording to itatiaia@itatiaia.com.br and to Rádio Itatiaia, Rua Itatiaia 117, Bonfim, Belo Horizonte, MG 31210-170, BRASIL with 1 IRC. VS: Fabiana Souza. Rádio Nove de Julho, 9820, QSL letter in 54 days for reception report with recording to radio@radio9dejulho.com.br and to Radio 9 de Julho, Rua Manoel de Arzão, 85, Freguesia do Ó, São Paulo, Brasil with 1 IRC + 1 US$. VS: José Renato Ferreira, Diretor Geral (Kurt Enders, Bickenbach, Germany, April 14 and 19, not distributed by Hard-Core-DX mailing list until April 28, via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. REPORTAGEM 1973 ONDAS CURTAS --- texto de uma publicação no dia 30 de maio de 1973 --- Ondas oficiais Haverá ou não estatização das emissoras de ondas curtas? A polêmica continua: oficialmente, o governo garante que não há perigo; as emissoras de rádio temem que sim. E na quinta-feira passada, enquanto o ministro das Comunicações, Hygino Corsetti, desmentia mais uma vez qualquer intenção estatizante por parte do governo, Luiz Brunini, da Rádio Globo, reiterava sua desconfiança à Portaria 333, de 27 de abril passado, que disciplina sobre o problema. Segundo a portaria, "não serão abertos editais para a instalação de novas emissoras (em ondas curtas) para fins comerciais em todo o país". Além disso, a portaria determina que as emissoras de ondas curtas deverão, em princípio, transmitir para o exterior programas de interesse nacional. Estabelece, ainda, Brunini: temendo a estatização que as rádios não pertencentes a órgãos ou entidades do governo federal terão revistas suas concessões --- mediante acordo com os concessionários, haverá o cancelamento das concessões em vigor que "não mais preencham as finalidades originais". Como cabe ao governo não apenas a tarefa de autorizar ou cassar concessões de canais de TV e emissoras de rádio mas também a de fixar o critério das "finalidades`` a serem preenchidas pelas concessionárias, há sinais de que a desconfiança de Brunini tem algum fundamento. Os perigos das ondas curtas --- Para o Ministério das Comunicações, as emissoras de ondas curtas, ao serem implantadas no Brasil, tinham a finalidade de transmitir programações que cobrissem todo o território nacional, graças à sua capacidade de comunicação em longo alcance. Mas, segundo as mesmas fontes do Ministério, as 97 emissoras de rádio que ganharam concessão para operarem ondas curtas estão funcionando de maneira ineficiente. Algumas não transmitem no horário mínimo determinado, outras passam até mesmo dias sem ir ao ar e algumas sequer usam o sistema de ondas curtas, embora tenham concessão para tal. Com isso, segundo o major-engenheiro Jorge Vieira, subsecretário de radiodifusão do Ministério, as regiões norte e nordeste do Brasil, principalmente, ficaram vulneráveis às transmissões de rádios de ondas curtas estrangeiras — entre elas as rádios de Pequim e Havana, consideradas extremamente nocivas pelo governo brasileiro. "Em determinados locais do norte e nordeste só são sintonizadas emissoras estrangeiras", acrescenta o major Vieira. A reconquista nacional --- Isto, mais a intenção do governo em transmitir para o exterior programas em línguas estrangeiras que modifiquem possíveis "imagens deturpadas do Brasil", passaram a fazer parte da lista dos problemas que afligem a segurança nacional. "Afinal, um grupo de terroristas pode invadir uma dessas emissoras e mandar uma senha comunista para o exterior, e não se sabem as consequências que isto poderia acarretar para o país", comentava um funcionário do Ministério das Comunicações. A expansão da Rádio Nacional de Brasília, por exemplo, faz parte deste programa de reconquista da audiência nacional e expansão ideológica internacional. Subordinada à Superintendência das Empresas Incorporadas ao Patrimônio Nacional, a rádio, que até pouco tempo pagava seus funcionários com vales dos seus anunciantes, abriu concorrência pública internacional para a compra de equipamentos transmissores que, sozinhos, somam mais do que todo o atual potencial nacional. Dos doze novos transmissores a serem comprados, nove serão de ondas curtas: sete de 250 kW e dois de 100 kW. Com eles, a Nacional poderá cobrir não apenas todo o Brasil como as três Américas, a Europa ocidental e a África. Diante disso, e dos volumosos investimentos que a Nacional promete fazer em sua programação a partir de abril de 1974, as emissoras que operam atualmente em ondas curtas certamente encontrarão dificuldades para continuar operando nesta faixa. Quando muito --- conforme previsões que burlam o silêncio mantido nos corredores do Ministério das Comunicações --- elas deverão entrar numa linha de programação feita de acordo com o governo e a Nacional (via Rudolf Rozek, April 30, 2014, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Rudolf, que beleza. Este texto, resgata a história da ditadura militar envolvida com a história do rádio. Muito interessante a ambição do governo e suas prerrogativas para fazê-lo. Ainda não existia nesta época, mas o material é muito legal, para conhecer o que se passava. 73 (Alexandre Deves Sailer, ibid.) ** BULGARIA. QSL: 11600, Bible Voice Broadcasting Persian / Farsi to Asia via Kostinbrod. Full data (With site indicated) “reaching Nations-one person, at a time``, multi-colour QSL card for a e-mail report. Initially, I sent a postal report to their Toronto address, but it came back marked as “Undeliverable - Moved”. So I sent an e- mail report, received a reply, that all future reception reports are to be sent to this address: H.A.G.C.M., P.O. Box 95561, Newmarket, Ontario, L3Y 8J8. Total time of 28 days, 10 days after sending the e-mail report. V/S Joan Shorthouse. (Edward Kusalik-Alberta, Canada, April 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BURMA [non]. 12115, April 29 at 0112, poor signal in Burmese, but would not have guessed the site until uplooked in Aoki: RFA via KUWAIT at 0030-0130 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CAMBODIA [non]. I was able to received new clandestine station of CMN Radio-Cambodia Media Net Work Radio on 9940 kHz in Khmer at *2300- 2330* on Apr. 29, unknown TX site. de Hiroshi (S. Hasegawa, Japan, April 29, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Web of CMN Radio http://www.cmnkhmer.org/index.html (S. Hasegawa, WORLD OF RADIO 1719, ibid.) Appears to originate in USA --- US flag, anyway, along with Cambodian. ``License`` link shows incorporated in the Commonwealth (a.k.a. State) of Virginia. And helpfully gives the wavelength in feet: ``Short Wave 31 Meters about 102 feet 9940 KHz; 6 AM-PP Time M-W-F, Cambodia, Vietnam, Lao, Thailand, Singapore, and Malaysia`` (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [non]. USA, 7570, STF Radio International (via WRMI) *0400- 0445 20 April. Thanks to tips from gh on the ABDX yg & poster "STF_RI" on the hf underground site, found this "Million-Watt Special" doing well from Okeecho-whosis // 7730 / 9955. Also heard less well on 6025/9925 (presumed MBR site of Nauen) with digital text messages / techno-electronic tunes, IDs by M/W with QSL address given as qsl@stfradio.com. Scheduled on WWRB 5050 & WBCQ 5110/7490 but not on (however, thanks again to "STF_RI" on hf underground, found 'BCQ running the test broadcast on 21 April at 0410--JBA/very poor compared to signals on the 20th. According to "STF_RI" 'BCQ "seem to have trouble with UTC time/dates", fo' reals, brah). (the EU DRM test on 17630 & the Asia (17760)/OZ-NZ (21490) test frequencies didn't propagate here on the 20th). (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA G5/PL380 + 6m X wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7570, April 20 at 0400-0500, STF Radio International special, as previously reported: I have now posted my recording of the entire hour via WRMI, 57 MB, at http://www.w4uvh.net/STFRadio.mp3 We learned later that STF is based in Toronto; and WBCQ ran it by mistake 24 hours later, while WWRB did not get their CD in time. [later:] E-QSL received April 26 from STF Radio International; it`s an animated .gif, neat, with view of some of the radiogrammic content shimmering in the æther: http://www.w4uvh.net/STF_Program01_026_GlennH.gif and #68 via http://www.worldofradio.com/QSL.html Only from the `card` do we learn the transmitter site for the April 20, 04-05 special on 17630, 17760 and 21490: Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. While 9925 and 6025 were indeed Nauen, Germany. Accompanying e-mail from Jason/6955: ``Hi Glenn, Thanks so much for tuning in to the show, and your thorough logging of the show. I hope you enjoyed it! It was a real treat to put it all together. So, here's what happened with the no- shows: 5050 (WWRB) - I had to mail a CD(!), sent it Express, didn't arrive. I got a call yesterday from FedEx. I needed to fill out a special customs form including a synopsis of the program since it was being mailed to a radio station. Amazing. 5110/7490 (WBCQ) - a misunderstanding of when April 20 0400 UT is. I should have stuck to Eastern time in the correspondence with them. :/ I had them air it the following evening anyways. There were also some mix-ups on other freqs: 17630 was supposed to be a DRM broadcast of an alternate "Music From Toronto" program; it went out on 17760 as a regular AM broadcast, and 17630 played the STF program, also in AM mode. Still unsure what went wrong there. ------ 9925 was like a local here in Toronto, it was quite impressive. WRMI was really solid up here as well. A few good reports on the Asia freqs, some fantastic youtube videos, one in West Bengal, the other in seaside Hokkaido, both picking up 17760. :) West Bengal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8z-lPtCWro Hokkaido: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7mgeE3iDvc I am happy to send you eQSL card #026 confirming your report, featuring different decodings of one of the images sent by MFSK64. We will be printing real QSL cards soon, and we'll send them along to the address you provided. Here's a rough remix of one of the quieter tracks from the show, using recordings from 3 different transmitters and a bit of the studio version underneath. Enjoy! http://soundcloud.com/6955s/ap-3ptrn-swmix-rough Thanks again for tuning in the show! Jason/6955 STF Radio International PS. If you had a recording of the program (wav, mp3, SDR), I'd love to get it from you!`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Referred him to my website where posted earlier today ** CANADA. Saving the CBC from the People Who Want to Save the CBC http://irawagman.wordpress.com/ Haven't we been here before? The CBC gets a fiscal shave and starts cutting jobs and slashing budgets. Then the amateur barbers come out to suggest new hairstyles based on the latest trends. Even with the best intentions these advisors only reveal how much we misunderstand this institution. If we really want to address the future of the CBC we should first rescue it from those offering salvation. The model for CBC pontificating is always the same. Take someone with some or no experience in public broadcasting, give them a license to paint the CBC in the simplest terms, and then let them talk about something neat going on in "the media" as a possible solution. When advice is offered in English it rarely acknowledges the existence of a French service, or there are such things as audience figures, or that the CBC in engaged in more activities that providing a platform for Rick Mercer. Yet it continues anyway. Within hours of the cuts The Globe and Mail's TV critic, John Doyle, had the chutzpah to say that the CBC should learn to "to do more with less". Then he suggested that they concentrate their efforts to make cheap cool programs, like Trailer Park Boys. I would like to know how he would respond to being given similar advice. Maybe he could get a Kickstarter going to fund his reviews. Now that would be cool. Another voice from behind the technologically avant-garde paywalls of Canadian newspapers is former CBC executive Jeffrey Dvorkin. In an article published in the National Post Dvorkin wants the CBC go off the air altogether so that it can become like a Canadian Netflix. Forget about the fact that most Canadians still watch television on television -- this is a trivial matter. The idea of using a for-profit subscription service model as the panacea of publicly funded freely available national broadcasting seems to have caught on: The Post's Scott Stinson wants a Canadian version of AMC so we can have more shows like Murdoch Mysteries. Here is the tally so far: Be cheap, be like Netflix, make shows like Trailer Park Boys, be like AMC but Can adian. Thanks. If these fixers can be sloughed off there are others who have been actually been hired. They were brought on to address the CBC's problems -- its tenuous financial situation, its lack of scintillating programming, and of course, its "elitism". On with the experiments: The many shades of Strombo; those feisty political panels, Lang and O'Leary, Battle of the Blades, those bloggers. Of course some things have worked, others haven't. However in the media industries failure is part of the business. Yet when we talk about the CBC failure is presented as justification to overhaul its operations. No one has worked harder to erase the distinctive advantage of Canada's public broadcaster than the senior executives tasked with directing its recent efforts. Faced with cutbacks from government they helped to turn the CBC against itself. Moves intended to discipline the CBC have aided those people who argue against it. If they can sell some advertising on radio, why couldn't they get more? If they make television like the private networks, why fund them? Why should our tax dollars go to the NHL? Seen this way, they have a point. But why was the institution put in that position in the first place? A major part of that has been a constant state of panic the institution has been put under by its political masters and a steep decline in its funding without an adjustment to its mandate. A lack of imagination about what to do with those pressures is the cross the upper administration has to bear. Enter the new head of English-language programming, Heather Conway. She announced that more branded entertainment, an emphasis on shows with "margins" and maybe some partnerships with the kids over at that Vice website will save the CBC. Clearly this is what's missing. Now that the CBC has plundered MuchMusic and CityTV for hipsters in search of unionized employment and good benefits now its Vice's turn to inspire CBC's audiences starved for thatedgy vibe. The CBC's problem is similar to that of many liberal institutions in Canada. They are attacked on the grounds that they are elitists or out of step with the times. Then they have the funding cut off or redirected to things that are politically expedient. Then the doors swing open for "change agents" who come from outside, use "straight talk" and try to bring these slow, plodding bureaucracies to heel. Anyone who has worked in these institutions - universities, say -- knows what happens next. The immediate impulse is to make those institutions like the ones in the private sector because those ones "work". They speak management-ese meant to obfuscate so that they can turn these institutions away from the things they do best and towards things they do poorly. They erode morale, rather than inspiring it. Instead of looking to the peddlers of trendy ideas perhaps the answers can be found from within. Even as a skeleton outfit what remains of the CBC is an institution of highly educated and intelligent people who are committed to the mandate of public broadcasting. They may quixotically believe that public broadcasting serves a purpose that is important and unique. They see other public broadcasters trying new and innovative things that the saviours appear to miss. They may even have some idea of what they are doing. Wouldn't it be nice for them to act without being scared out of their wits over every decision? Perhaps we should ask for their opinion before telling them what to do. Maybe they would say the following: We exist to represent the country to Canadians. Our job is to be accessible wherever Canadians are and to showcase the country's diversity of voices. Our journalists win many awards for their work, and much of what we offer would be largely ignored by the private sector because of its poor margins. To accomplish this our programming will occasionally be of little interest. But there are other times you will appreciate us. We are easily mocked but this is the cost of doing our business. Living in the age of abundant media means you now have more choices than ever to pursue the content you desire. We will be here if and when you need us. In return for taking that stance Canadians must give the CBC the respect it too quickly surrendered. We must recognize they have a tough job to do. We may not agree with them on every decision they make; but we respect them for their efforts despite operating with their hands tied behind their backs and forever answerable to those critics who claim to know better but in reality know very little. This may not stop the bloodletting and it certainly will not spare us those trying to save the CBC. However even a modicum of respect for this most bullied of institutions might at the very least send the false prophets to the intellectual penalty box to serve the infraction best described in French as "deux minutes pour la rudesse". April 18, 2014irawagman (via Dan Say, alt.tv.networks.cbc via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** CANADA [and non]. CJLO 1690 AM wants 107.9 FM Concordia University student radio CJLO 1690 AM in Montreal has applied for a 100 watt retransmitter on 107.9 FM from an antenna on the "Henry F. Hall Building" downtown. Many are already up in arms about this, 107.9 being the frequency of WVPS in Burlington VT (Vermont Public Radio), with transmitter on Mount Mansfield (48 KW) which can be heard very easily in and around Montreal. I was under the impression that there were no more available frequencies in Montreal, well, according to CRTC rules. Also, does the principle of protecting border stations still exist? Should be interesting to follow this application. In any case, I should be able to continue to listen to WVPS thanks to IBOC and a good antenna setup. Well, I hope so. -------------- TV-FM antenna: Channel Master 3671 @ 35 feet AG FM receiver: SANGEAN HDT-1 TV: ZENITH DTT-901 + SONY HDTV Scanner Antenna: Diamond Discone D130J @ 25 feet AG Scanner: Uniden BC370CRS All Band Receiver: ICOM R-8500 ------------- http://www.meteo-brossard.com 73, (Charles Gauthier, Brossard, QC (FN35 GL), WTFDA via DXLD) There is no cross-border protection for FM signals presently. As long as the CJLO booster doesn't interfere with WVPS on US soil (and it won't), whatever happens on Canadian soil is purely a Canadian matter. We have a similar situation here - there's a niche audience in Rochester and vicinity for classical CFMX 103.1 from Cobourg, Ontario, which has a quite listenable signal here. If WCIK 103.1 is granted its proposed move from Bath to Savona, it would create new interference in areas that currently get clean CFMX reception. There's little or nothing CFMX can do about that. The wild card here is politics: if the CRTC gets lots of complaints from Canadians who want to continue to hear VPR, it might find a reason to rule against CJLO. But if it does so. it will be for political reasons, not technical. If you get WVPS in HD now, you'll continue to get it over CJLO, since the WVPS HD carriers are actually on the frequencies adjacent to 107.9, not on 107.9 itself. s (Scott Fybush, Rochester NY, ibid.) ** CANADA. I'm not a TV watcher, so with the DX season fast approaching I turned the set on in downtown Toronto to see if my DTV box is in good order and noticed the Star Ray pirate that was on 15 analog is now DTV on 22, with a very huge reliable signal here. So I would think it'd carry. Programs ranging from the Littlest Hobo (60s series about a dog) to kiddie programs (on now at 07:45 local time), to documentaries about esoteric subjects like local Toronto transportation. If the transmitter is where the analog one was - the analog signal was barely watchable here - I'd think this signal will carry somewhat (Saul Chernos, Ont., April 26, WTFDA via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DXLD) Star Ray TV, 22, Toronto --- Makes it in here all the time Saul, but analog 22 Oshawa can wipe it out when the lake inversion tropo strengthens it. wrh (Wm R Hepburn, Grimsby ON, ibid.) Information on the Web suggests this has been operating in DTV since last December. == (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, ibid.) My autolog first saw it on Dec 31: http://dxinfocentre.com/hepburn/logs/dxtv_2013.htm but it was probably operating a few days before that - as I need to rotate the antenna away from its usual Buffalo direction to pick it up. wrh (Hepburn, ibid.) The Littlest Hobo... Just for running that bad Canadian show (real bad), they should be forced to shut down! (Charles Gauthier, QC, ibid.) Why hasn`t this very visible pirate been busted long ago? (gh) ** CHILE. Cambio de Hora en Chile. Hola, un detalle muy importante para mis colegas corresponsales de Radios del Mundo (de los cinco continentes): hoy día 27 de Abril del 2014 se ha atrasado una hora en el territorio Chileno, lo que significa que en el Horario UTC quedamos a -4 horas, para así informar y no haya incorrecciones en informes de recepción a las diferentes radios, les saluda desde Chile Héctor Pino. A su vez, se reanudará el horario de verano la medianoche del sábado 6 de septiembre. Ese día, los relojes deberán adelantarse en 60 minutos, esto es, siendo las 23:59 horas con 59 segundos, en vez de pasar a las 00:00 horas, deberá ajustarse la hora para que sean las 01:00 horas del día 7 de septiembre (Héctor Enrique Pino Pino, April 28, playdx yg via DXLD) ** CHILE. RCW al aire el 2 de Mayo. Vi hace unas horas lo siguiente, vía Facebook: Esta es RCW desde Chile en Sudamérica. Este fin de semana no emitimos por descanso al equipo humano de esta emisora. Esperamos emitir el viernes 2 a las 0200 UT (22 horas de Chile) por los 7550 kHz AM y por internet en alguno de nuestros canales de Ustream o Listen2myradio, confirmando esta emisión en el transcurso de la semana. Esperamos tener suerte por Ondas Cortas ya que hoy las condiciones de propagación han estado muy malas a mediana y corta distancia. Buenas noches a todos desde Chile 73`s (via Claudio Galaz, Chile, April 28, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DXLD) I suspect they mean 0200 UT Saturday May 3, but check 24 hours earlier too; around here this will be uncomfortably close to 7555 KJES until 0230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7550, RCW, Radio Compañía Worldwide, is conducting test from 10 April. Reported in Chile. Address cartasrcw@gmail.com === live web stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rcw Power 50 watts (Max Pino, Chile via Santiago San Gil, Venezuela, Play-DX paper 27 April via PDF, retyped by gh for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammers, April 24 after 1300: 13130, April 24 at 1317, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter; it turns out this one is running a couple seconds behind all the others; no 12s 13970, April 24 at 1317, CNR1 jammer, fair 14920, April 24 at 1319, CNR1 jammer, fair 14980, April 24 at 1319, CNR1 jammer, fair; no OOBs in the 15s 16360, April 24 at 1321, CNR1 jammer, poor; none in the 17s, 18s Firedrake and CNR1 jammer monitoring April 25 before 1330: 13830, April 25 at 1321, Firedrake is fair over CCI, probably CNR1 jammer; none in the 12s or 14s 15115, 15195, 15265, April 25 at 1322, usual trio of in-band 19m CNR1 jammers; 15265 also has Firedrake mixed in, and tone/off-carrier jam 15540, April 25 at 1327, CNR1 jammer, very poor with VOT het hi side 16100, April 25 at 1327, poor open carrier, but no doubt a CNR1; none in the 17s. 13830, April 26 at 1318, Firedrake is mainly the jamming to be heard here, fair-good; bandscan to 1335 finds no others or CNR1 jammers 12- 18 MHz except the three 15-MHz inbanders on 15115, 15195, 15265. CNR1 jamming morning of April 27: 12370, April 27 at 1218, CNR1 jammer, good with hyper drama in Chinese 13480, April 27 at 1222, CNR1 jammer, very poor // 12370 13795, April 27 at 1221, CNR1 jammer, very poor 13830, April 27 at 1220, CNR1 jammer, poor 15115, April 27 at 1223, CNR1 jammer, very poor 15195, April 27 at 1223, CNR1 jammer, fair 15250, April 27 at 1223, CNR1 jammer, fair 16750, April 27 at 1342, CNR1 jammer, poor-fair, // 11785; not // 15115, which means the jamming target is stronger there now. No others this hour from 12 to 18 MHz. CNR1 jammers, April 28: 13130, April 28 at 1338, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter; none in 12s 13795, April 28 at 1338, CNR1 jammer, poor 13830, April 28 at 1338, CNR1 jammer, very poor, and also Firedrake? 16100, April 28 at 1341, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter; none in the 17s, nor 15s except the usual inbanders 15115, 15195, 15265. 11555, April 28 at 1805, sounds like shofar, so is it Brother Scare on an obscure new frequency? Not // 9370 WWRB; since I haven`t heard it in ages, it takes a moment for me to realize that this is the clarion call from the Firedrake; per Aoki here blocking RFA Chinese via Saipan at 18-19 only. 16920, April 29 at 0122, very poor broadcast signal, presumed CNR1 jammer. ChiCom jammer survey morning of April 29: 15265, April 29 at 1349, CNR1 and usual het, but also Firedrake JBA 16100, April 29 at 1350, CNR1 jammer, poor-fair 16300, April 29 at 1350, CNR1 jammer, fair 16450, April 29 at 1350, CNR1 jammer, very poor 16920, April 29 at 1351, CNR1 jammer, fair-good; no others 12-19 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 17605, April 24 at 1038, very poor fluttery signal with talk; nothing much on 19m at this hour, but checking 16m anyway just in case, and was about to award this OSOB status, but tuning with BFO found a few other JBA carriers, so make it SSOB. Anyhow, Aoki shows 17605 at 1030-1127 is CRI in Indonesian, southward from Kunming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Summer A-14 unregistered frequencies of China Radio International: 0201-0257 on 17505 KUN 500 kW / 234 deg to SoAs Tamil 0701-0757 on 17875 KUN 500 kW / 175 deg to SEAs Cantonese 0831-0927 on 15115 KUN 100 kW / 175 deg to SEAs Indonesian 0831-0927 on 17705 KUN 500 kW / 177 deg to SEAs Indonesian (DX RE MIX NEWS #850 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 30, 2014, via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. 5910.04, 27/4 0146, R. Alcaraván [sic], nice songs, fair (Giampiero Bernardini, Avvenire - Redazione Internet http://www.avvenire.it ascolto con il nuovo Elad FDM-S2 e il software Studio 1: http://air-radiorama.blogspot.it/2014/04/elad-fdm-s2-con-il-software-studio-1.html playdxyg via DXLD) 5910.060 ... x.070, Alcaraván Rádio, Lomalinda, Puerto Lleras, Meta, nice trumpet music at 1022 UT April 28, logged on remote unit in Edmonton-Alberta-CANADA. Transmitter is NOT stable, frequency hopping 10-15 Hertz up and down. Dulces canciones (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC- DX TopNews April 27/28 via DXLD) Recently the Colombian postal service (Red 4-72) closed many offices where were located the "Apartados" (P. O. Box) and moves others; now the complete address to send reception reports is: Alcaraván Radio (or as appropriate) La Voz de tu Conciencia, c/o Rafael Rodríguez R., Apartado No. 67751, (oficina Red 4-72 Unicentro), Bogotá D.C. - Colombia. Please spread this information. Reception reports via e-mail continue without problems in this e-mail rafaelcoldx@yahoo.com Thanks, (Rafael Rodríguez R., QSL Manager, SW Bulletin April 27 via DXLD) ** CUBA. 530, Radio Rebelde. 0720 April 27, 2014. ID, "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water" by Andy Gibb, into his "Shadow Dancing" so apparently all Cubans got their Andy fix if they stayed up or got up at this hour. No trace of Enciclopedia, though on at mid-morning re- check. Suspect this is the westernmost of the two Rebelde transmitters on 530, as quite strong (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, NRD-535, IC- R75, roof dipole, active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 1350, Radio Ciudad del Mar, Palmira, Cienfuegos. 0758 April 27, 2014. Segment on tourism in Cuba, ID and time check 0801 into soft Spanish vocal. Very good. Parallel threshold 1340 kHz which was only barely audible under my local WTAN, Clearwater during brief silent periods between words (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, NRD-535, IC- R75, roof dipole, active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 4709 approx., April 26 at 0055, extremely distorted Spanish giving a website; no specific carrier frequency, but somewhere around 4708-4709. Much too strong to be anything from South America, and quickly matched to R. Progreso, 4765, as a parasitic spur about 56 kHz below, and yes, matched by another one roughly as strong circa 4821. I had also noticed the blob around 4710 a night or two before, but weaker then and unID. 4709, April 27 at 0103, R. Progreso spur again tonight, very distorted but easily matchable to audio on fundamental 4765 which sounds OK; and also 56 kHz on the plus side, 4821, both approx. with no carrier to pinpoint. But wait, there`s more: 4737 & 4793, April 27 at 0117, two weaker semi-spurs at half the displacement, wobbling 28 kHz above and below 4765: only way to match these to fundamental is by the beat of the music and the pauses; song in English at the moment. 4765, April 28 at 0129, don`t notice any spurs around 4709, 4737, 4793, 4821 at 28 kHz intervals from R. Progreso; may have just been suppressed below hi noise level rather than eliminated. Arnie probably found out about them by reading my previous log reports, but which he will never acknowledge as the prime monitoring source of info about the multitude of Cuban transmission problems (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5025, April 26 at 0544, R. Rebelde is off. Also off April 27 at 0120 check, with the 5040 leapfrogs. 5025, April 28 at 0130 and 0540, R. Rebelde is off again, and with it the leapfrogs on 5010, 5055 5025, April 29 at 0056, R. Rebelde is off again; 4765, April 29 around 0100, R. Progreso is on, but again can`t hear the four spurs around it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Rebelde, Cuba, has been absent from 5025 kHz until 0600 UT. Presume the two are connected, as when 5040 transmitter closed at 0600, a few seconds later Rebelde on 5025 fired up. RHC on 5040 did have a transmitter problem a week ago when I checked (21 April) with poor audio, so presume this transmitter is out of action, and 5040 and 5025 are sharing the one transmitter at present? 73 (Alan Pennington, Caversham, UK, Sony 7600GR +telescopic, April 29, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) 5025, April 30 at 0548, R. Rebelde is on with music, and so is 5040, RHC English, plus the Cuban Four on 49m. You never know whether 5025 will be running or not, but when not, it`s assumed to be because the same transmitter and/or allegedly NVIS antenna is needed for RHC 15 kHz away (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) For the moment. This situation keeps happening unpredictably (gh, DXLD) Since 2013 RHC has many breaks on 60 mb bcast outlets, suffers every second month now via Quivican Titan broadcasting site. When on air on 5025 and 5040 kHz you can hear also intermodulations on symmetrical 5010 and 5055 kHz, 15 kHz each distance away. Dirección de Radio Comunicaciones del MINCOM (Ministerio de Comunicaciones) is difficult in need without further reserve transmitter in Quivicán San Felipe. Maybe transmitter and antenna installation have been damaged previously on usual hurricane season gale winds and lightnings. The 4th mast of a 60mb steep angle NVIS antenna lost/missed on G.E. image since 2010 year. When a break occurs again MINCOM switches to a single transmitter in Bauta site, the alternate single is then in usage at various time of the day on 5025 kHz around 06-21 UT; and 5040 UT 21-06 UT in use. (summer). 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** CUBA. 15340, April 24 at 1403, RHC with misfrequency announcement in Spanish I was expecting since a change has been in effect only since April 22: 17580, 17730 until 15; 15230 until 15; 13-15 on 15340, 15370; until 15 on 11760, 11860, 12010; 9830 [sic]; 13-15 on 9550. At 1405-1407, I try to hear 15230, NEW 9820 and 9550, and at first cannot, suspecting them off, but they are just very weak, and do make a detectable // to 15340 etc. 9550 has CCI and SAH from China. 15400, April 25 at 1326, RHC leapfrog mixing product is poorly audible, tnx to bigsigs from 15340 and 15370 fundamentals each 30 kHz apart. 11670, April 25 at 2122, RHC is still on here, totally blocking All India Radio General Overseas Service; stronger than // 11760 which is stronger than // 11840. Also on now is 13740, which has been on the belated RHC A-14 schedule but was not immediately in use. 13740 is still going at 0050 recheck April 26. 6000, April 26 at 0542, this RHC English frequency is off, so they have to struggle along with only four bigsigs on 49 and 59 meters. Collaterally, this clears up 6005 for BBC, tsk2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Habana Cuba in Spanish on all 10 frequencies: 1200-1300 on 6000, 9550, 9820, 9850, 11760, 11860, 12010, 15230, 17580, 17730. Using SDR receiver in Kensigton, NH, USA. Here the video from today. Note: The clock of SDR is ahead 2 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vB-rYmOu6Y&list=UUOkdLTbNeM6g6w8oqkXYtsw (DX RE MIX NEWS #849 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov. April 26, 2014, via DXLD) 11670, 11760, 11840, 13740, April 27 at 0132 check, RHC Spanish with VG signals on all, as well as 6060, 6070; and weak ones on 15230, 9810. 11760 still used evenings, not 9550 as on RHC schedule at 21-05! http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/estaticas/frecuencias 15400, April 28 at 1416, RHC leapfrog is VP here, 15340 over 15370, while a match on 15310, 15370 over 15340, is not audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Havana Cuba on 5040 kHz has been in Spanish, rather than scheduled English the last two mornings at 0500 UT (28 and 29 April). Best frequencies here for RHC English therefore 6060 from 0500 (and 6000 before 0500). Arnie Coro announced on DXers Unlimited (28 April) that Radio Havana would be on FM in the Cuban capital (102.5 MHz) for the first time from 1st May. Programming would be in Spanish and foreign languages. 73 (Alan Pennington, Caversham, UK, Sony 7600GR +telescopic, April 29, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) 6000, April 29 at 0545 and still 0548, RHC dead air instead of English, which still survives on 6060, 6100, 6165 with varying levels of modulation. 5040, which had been in English during the 05-06 hour, is now in Spanish at 0545 check, with multi-lingual ID, then news. 5025, meanwhile, R. Rebelde is still missing at 0545, presumably having to share transmitter/antenna again with the 5040 RHC service, whatever it may be. Maybe 5025 is back on overnight. [and non]. 15400, April 29 at 1256, RHC leapfrog is QRMing HCJB Australia and making a SAH, as its fundamentals, 15340 and 15370 are already on earlier than 1300. 9550, April 29 at 1320, CRI Vietnamese has CCI from open carrier, suspect RHC not turned off at 1300 as scheduled; previously had stayed on with modulation too. 9820, April 29 at 1336, RHC barely audible here, while ex-9830 is again infested with RTTY QRMing China (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Both 5025 (R Rebelde) and 5040 (RHC) were on air (in Spanish) when checked around 0450 UTC this morning (30 April). And the English hour on RHC began as scheduled at 0500 UTC on 5040, so presume the transmitter problem has been fixed. 73, Alan Pennington, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** CYPRUS. 17487-17512, April 29 at 0121, very heavy continuous OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, only broadcast victim being something covered on 17495, which would be CRI Amoy from Beijing site aimed 193 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CYPRUS [non]. 9955, April 28 at 1330 amid `Wavescan` Jeff White mentions that European News Network is new on WRMI, Wednesdays at 1300, and also repeated UT Thursdays at 0145 also on 9955. It website http://news-network.eu/frequencies.html has been updated to add the 0145 time, but on the wrong day, ``Wednesday``. Altho still misdated March 30 and as ``B-13``, the online WRMI program grid has in fact been updated to show both those times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT [and non]. 11710.06 approx., April 27 at 0131, open carrier with good signal, and clearly unmodulated, i.e. R. Cairo, and this being a weekend, no Argentina to het it, that transmitter still on 15345v with R. Nacional (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9965, Radio Cairo, 0003 Apr 27, English, man and woman with news, no distortion, clean audio, but weak. Poor (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening in my car, by Kalamalka Lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna. Editor of World English Survey and Target Listening, available at http://www.odxa.on.ca dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENIING DIGEST) 11710.04 approx., April 28 at 0125, R. Cairo manages to achieve some Spanish modulation today, and again hetless since Argentina is away on UT Mondays. But this undermodulation is distorted making it almost readable. Checking the //s: 12070, April 28 at 0126, much stronger and louder, but extremely distorted, hum; I can make out ``Radio El Cairo presenta ---``. 9315, April 28 at 0127, now in // music, undermodulated and distorted, but all things considered, the best of the trio, still woefully inadequate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENNG DIGEST) 13850.070, Radio Cairo fundamental and totally distorted audio quality; it's not easy to follow the Arabic program content. ID and IS at 0435 UT April 28. S=9+20dM or -54dBm. And ADDITIONAL broadband spurious and distortion peaks on 13835 to 13865 kHz this morning here in SDR unit in southern Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 28, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA. 1359, Voice of Tigray Revolution, Addis Ababa, 1920 21 Apr, px mx local // 5950, 33333 (Mauro Giroletti, Italy, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** GERMANY. QSL: 11920, HCJB, Global Voice, Portuguese to Brazil via Nauen. Full data (with site, power & azimuth), Media Broadcast .pdf E- mail QSL response with accompanying cover letter for an e-mail report to Media Broadcast. This for an e-mail report, reply in 34 days. V/s: Walter Browdowsky (Edward Kusalik-Alberta, Canada, April 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. QSL: 13590, IBB/VOA Deewa Radio, Pashtu to Asia via Nauen. Full data (with site, power & azimuth), Media Broadcast .pdf E-mail QSL Response with accompanying cover letter for an e-mail report to Media Broadcast. This for an e-mail report, reply in 34 days. V/s: Walter Browdowsky (Edward Kusalik-Alberta, Canada, April 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. 17860, April 28 at 1759, open carrier, good signal, 1800 DW ID, jingle, opening in Hausa. Same MADAGASCAR parameters as until 1757 on 17540 for R. Impala, so probably same transmitter with no antenna change required; see RWANDA [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GOA. INDIA. 15184.958, Another odd frequency service from AIR Goa Panaji site, and usual very bad audio too, some transmitter whistly and heterodyne audio signal heard - terrible performance on this channel. AIR Panaji in Persian/Arabic on 15210 kHz at same hour has much better audio on air. At 0413 UT April 28 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 28, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GREECE. 9420, April 25 at 0121, Helleniki Radiophonia is active again after missing this frequency for several days whenever checked. No Iran QRM audible. Good with Greek music // 7475 almost as good and // 15630 much weaker. 7475 // slightly weaker 9420 and much weaker 15630, April 26 at 0110, Greek Music from HR, active on all three Avlis transmitters at the moment. 9420, April 27 at 0125, Greek vocal music, VG signal and this time no signals on any of the other ex-ERT frequencies. This is the date for the new NERIT to be inaugurated, so will this regularize, or abolish, shortwave? 9420, April 29 at 0055, very good signal with Greek song, 0100 timecheck, haunting Voice of Greece IS (maybe for the last time?), ending with cowbells, clear ID as Elleniki Radiophonia, then opening a drama(?) with ``pizza, pizza`` repeated a few times, and ``fortunately, we deliver``, otherwise in Greek. I kid you not. So this station does broadcast in English. None of the other frequencies were audible on 7, 9, 11 or 15 MHz. In the previous hour, 2348 UT April 28, Greece-watcher John Babbis wrote me: ``Glenn: I just heard on the 2300 UT News in Greek on ERT Open 9420: "The Greek Government has decided to close ERT." I don't know yet how this will affect ERT Open or Greek short wave``. Well, they`ve been deciding to close it since last summer, and April 27 was supposedly the target date for NERIT to replace it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) My reception report for Tuesday and Wednesday, April 29-30, 2014: TUESDAY 4/29 | WEDNESDAY 4/30 1900 2000 2100 2200 2300| 0000 0100 0200 kHz Az. kW Station 00000 15241 15241 15241 15241|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 7450 323 100 1 15241 25242 25242 25242 25242|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 15630 285 100 2 XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX|00000 00000 00000 7475 285 100 1 XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX|00000 00000 00000 15650 226 100 2 15241 25342 25342 25342 35333|45444 55455 55455 9420 323 170 3 (John Babbis, Silver Spring MD, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [and non]. 5009.857, Most probably wandering signal of R Magasikara Tananarivo MDG. Wandered some 20-30 Hertz up and down. And hit by approx. 150 Hertz interference BUZZ tone too, from 5010.008, AIR Thiruvananthapuram from Madras site. Latter Tamil language poor signal at 1630 UT April 21 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC- DX TopNews April 28 via DXLD) ** INDIA. 13710, April 25 at 1322, fair open carrier, no doubt AIR prior to 1330 GOS in English; 1325 music starts, but *not* their wonderful IS; 1327 it`s south Asian vocal music, with flutter; 1329 non-English announcement --- this is presumably the Tibetan service, coming in on same program feed line to Bengaluru, the only language scheduled to end at 1330, but on other frequencies. 1330 opening GOS in English claiming 9690, 11620 and 13710, right into news, 1340 commentary, but as always without perfect reception it`s hard to understand. 1346 into vocal music show which you don`t need to understand to enjoy. 1357 CCI starts from CRI on 13710, 1400 CRI English is too much QRM. As usual, no AIR signal audible on 11620 for this (unlike evening in the Urdu service), but at 1329, 9690 is clearly // 13710, or rather unclearly since it`s as always, underneath the BS from Miami also making a fast SAH; which one is further off-frequency? 11620, April 26 at 0052, AIR Urdu service is fair with flutter as usual around sunset here; while same frequency for the 1330 AIR GOS in English is inaudible, altho // 9690 and 13710 make it as in April 25 log. But at 1330, Aoki listed 11620 site is Delhi (Khampur), while at 0015 it`s Bengaluru, with azimuths only 5 degrees different, 245 vs 240 respectively, neither anywhere near USward; in fact close to off the sides (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA: 11670 Summer A-14 shortwave schedule of All India Radio: 0000-0045 on 7270 CNI 100 kW / non-dir to SoAs Tamil 0000-0045 on 9835 DEL 100 kW / 174 deg to SoAs Tamil 0000-0045 on 9910 ALG 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs Tamil 0000-0045 on 11740 PAN 250 kW / 120 deg to SoAs Tamil 0000-0045 on 11985 DEL 250 kW / 174 deg to SoAs Tamil 0000-0045 on 13795 BGL 500 kW / 108 deg to SEAs Tamil 0015-0430 on 6155 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to SEAs Urdu 0015-0430 on 7340 MUM 100 kW / 010 deg to SoAs Urdu 0015-0430 on 9595 DEL 250 kW / 334 deg to SoAs Urdu 0015-0430 on 11620 BGL 500 kW / 320 deg to SoAs Urdu 0045-0115 on 7270 CNI 100 kW / non-dir to SoAs Sinhala 0045-0115 on 11740 PAN 250 kW / 120 deg to SoAs Sinhala 0045-0115 on 11985 DEL 250 kW / 174 deg to SoAs Sinhala 0100-0200 on 5990 DEL 250 kW / 334 deg to SoAs Sindhi 0100-0200 on 7370 DEL 100 kW / 282 deg to SoAs Sindhi 0100-0200 on 9635 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to SoAs Sindhi 0130-0230 on 9810 ALG 250 kW / 065 deg to CeAs Nepali 0130-0230 on 11715 ALG 250 kW / 065 deg to CeAs Nepali DRM 0215-0300 on 7225 ALG 250 kW / 312 deg to WeAs Pashto 0215-0300 on 9910 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Pashto 0215-0300 on 11740 PAN 250 kW / 330 deg to WeAs Pashto 0215-0300 on 11985 BGL 500 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Kannada 0215-0300 on 15120 BGL 500 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Kannada 0300-0345 on 7225 ALG 250 kW / 312 deg to WeAs Dari 0300-0345 on 9910 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Dari 0300-0345 on 11740 PAN 250 kW / 330 deg to WeAs Dari 0315-0415 on 11840 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to N/ME Hindi 0315-0415 on 13695 BGL 500 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Hindi 0315-0415 on 15120 BGL 500 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Hindi 0315-0415 on 15120 BGL 500 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Hindi 0315-0415 on 15185 PAN 250 kW / 205 deg to EaAf Hindi 0315-0415 on 17715 DEL 250 kW / 245 deg to EaAf Hindi DRM 0400-0430 on 11670 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Farsi 0400-0430 on 15210 PAN 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Farsi 0400-0430 on 15770 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Farsi 0415-0430 on 15120 BGL 500 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Gujarati 0415-0430 on 15185 PAN 250 kW / 205 deg to EaAf Gujarati 0415-0430 on 17715 DEL 250 kW / 245 deg to EaAf Gujarati DRM 0430-0530 on 11670 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to N/ME Arabic 0430-0530 on 15120 BGL 500 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Hindi 0430-0530 on 15185 PAN 250 kW / 205 deg to EaAf Hindi 0430-0530 on 15210 PAN 250 kW / 300 deg to N/ME Arabic 0430-0530 on 15770 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to N/ME Arabic 0430-0530 on 17715 DEL 250 kW / 245 deg to EaAf Hindi DRM 0700-0800 on 9595 DEL 100 kW / 342 deg to SoAs Nepali 0700-0800 on 11850 DEL 100 kW / 102 deg to CeAs Nepali 0830-1130 on 7340 MUM 100 kW / 010 deg to SoAs Urdu 0830-1130 on 9595 DEL 100 kW / 342 deg to SoAs Urdu 0830-1130 on 11620 DEL 250 kW / 334 deg to SoAs Urdu 0845-0945 on 15770 ALG 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs Indonesian 0845-0945 on 17510 DEL 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs Indonesian 0845-0945 on 17875 BGL 500 kW / 120 deg to SEAs Indonesian 1000-1100 on 7270 CNI 100 kW / non-dir to SoAs Tamil 1000-1100 on 13605 BGL 500 kW / 058 deg to NEAs English 1000-1100 on 13695 BGL 500 kW / 120 deg to AUS English 1000-1100 on 15030 ALG 250 kW / 065 deg to EaAs English 1000-1100 on 15410 BGL 500 kW / 060 deg to EaAs English 1000-1100 on 17510 DEL 250 kW / 132 deg to AUS English 1000-1100 on 17895 BGL 500 kW / 120 deg to AUS English DRM 1115-1200 on 11670 BGL 500 kW / 000 deg to SEAs Thai 1115-1200 on 13645 ALG 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs Thai 1115-1200 on 15410 PAN 250 kW / 120 deg to SEAs Thai 1115-1215 on 7270 CNI 100 kW / non-dir to SoAs Tamil 1115-1215 on 9810 PAN 250 kW / 120 deg to SoAs Tamil 1115-1215 on 13695 BGL 500 kW / 108 deg to SEAs Tamil 1115-1215 on 15050 DEL 250 kW / 174 deg to SoAs Tamil 1115-1215 on 15770 ALG 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs Tamil 1115-1215 on 17510 DEL 250 kW / 174 deg to SoAs Tamil 1145-1315 on 11840 DEL 250 kW / 065 deg to EaAs Chinese 1145-1315 on 13605 BGL 500 kW / 058 deg to EaAs Chinese 1145-1315 on 15795 BGL 500 kW / 035 deg to EaAs Chinese DRM 1215-1245 on 9810 PAN 250 kW / 120 deg to SoAs Telugu 1215-1245 on 13695 BGL 500 kW / 108 deg to SEAs Telugu 1215-1245 on 15770 ALG 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs Telugu 1215-1315 on 11710 DEL 050 kW / 102 deg to SEAs Burmese 1215-1315 on 15040 BGL 500 kW / 060 deg to SEAs Burmese 1215-1330 on 9575 BGL 500 kW / 038 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1215-1330 on 11775 PAN 250 kW / 025 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1230-1500 on 6165 DEL 250 kW / 334 deg to SoAs Sindhi 1230-1500 on 7340 MUM 100 kW / 010 deg to SoAs Sindhi 1230-1500 on 9620 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Sindhi 1300-1500 on 7270 CNI 100 kW / non-dir to SoAs Sinhala 1300-1500 on 9820 DEL 100 kW / 174 deg to SoAs Sinhala 1300-1500 on 15050 DEL 100 kW / 174 deg to SoAs Sinhala DRM 1315-1415 on 9910 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Dari 1315-1415 on 11740 PAN 500 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Dari 1330-1430 on 4870 DEL 100 kW / non-dir to SoAs Nepali 1330-1430 on 11775 PAN 250 kW / 025 deg to CeAs Nepali 1330-1500 on 9690 BGL 500 kW / 090 deg to SEAs English 1330-1500 on 11620 DEL 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs English 1330-1500 on 13710 BGL 500 kW / 108 deg to SEAs English 1415-1530 on 9910 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Pashto 1415-1530 on 11740 PAN 500 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Pashto 1430-1600 on 6045 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to SoAs Urdu 1430-1600 on 6155 BGL 500 kW / 320 deg to EaAs Urdu 1500-1600 on 6165 DEL 250 kW / 334 deg to SoAs Baluchi 1500-1600 on 7340 MUM 100 kW / 010 deg to SoAs Baluchi 1500-1600 on 9620 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Baluchi 1515-1600 on 11620 BGL 500 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Gujarati 1515-1600 on 13640 BGL 500 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Gujarati 1515-1600 on 15175 PAN 250 kW / 205 deg to EaAf Gujarati 1515-1615 on 9950 DEL 250 kW / 245 deg to EaAf Swahili 1515-1615 on 13605 BGL 500 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Swahili 1515-1615 on 17670 DEL 250 kW / 245 deg to EaAf Swahili 1600-1730 on 6045 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to SoAs Urdu 1600-1730 on 6155 BGL 500 kW / 120 deg to EaAs Urdu 1615-1715 on 9595 BGL 500 kW / 335 deg to EaEu Russian 1615-1715 on 11620 BGL 500 kW / 335 deg to EaEu Russian 1615-1715 on 15140 ALG 250 kW / 312 deg to EaEu Russian DRM 1615-1730 on 7250 PAN 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Hindi 1615-1730 on 9445 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Hindi 1615-1730 on 9620 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Farsi 1615-1730 on 9950 DEL 250 kW / 245 deg to EaAf Hindi 1615-1730 on 11710 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Farsi 1615-1730 on 12025 PAN 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Hindi 1615-1730 on 13605 BGL 500 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Hindi 1615-1730 on 13640 BGL 500 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Farsi 1615-1730 on 17670 DEL 250 kW / 245 deg to EaAf Hindi 1730-1830 on 7250 PAN 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Malayalam 1730-1830 on 12025 PAN 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Malayalam 1730-1930 on 6045 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to SoAs Urdu 1730-1930 on 6155 BGL 500 kW / 120 deg to EaAs Urdu 1730-1945 on 9620 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to N/ME Arabic 1730-1945 on 11710 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to N/ME Arabic 1730-1945 on 13640 BGL 500 kW / 300 deg to N/ME Arabic 1745-1945 on 7550 BGL 500 kW / 320 deg to WeEu English 1745-1945 on 9445 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to NEAf English 1745-1945 on 9950 ALG 250 kW / 312 deg to WeEu English DRM 1745-1945 on 11580 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to NoAf English 1745-1945 on 11670 BGL 500 kW / 325 deg to WeEu English 1745-1945 on 11935 MUM 100 kW / 240 deg to CEAf English 1745-1945 on 13695 BGL 500 kW / 240 deg to EaAf English 1745-1945 on 17670 DEL 250 kW / 245 deg to EaAf English 1945-2030 on 9620 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to NWAf French 1945-2030 on 11710 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to NWAf French 1945-2030 on 13640 BGL 500 kW / 300 deg to NWAf French 1945-2045 on 7550 BGL 500 kW / 320 deg to WeEu Hindi 1945-2045 on 9950 ALG 250 kW / 312 deg to WeEu Hindi DRM 1945-2045 on 11670 BGL 500 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Hindi 2045-2230 on 7550 BGL 500 kW / 320 deg to WeEu English 2045-2230 on 9445 BGL 500 kW / 325 deg to WeEu English 2045-2230 on 9910 ALG 250 kW / 132 deg to AUS English 2045-2230 on 9950 ALG 250 kW / 312 deg to WeEu English DRM 2045-2230 on 11620 BGL 500 kW / 120 deg to AUS English DRM 2045-2230 on 11670 BGL 500 kW / 325 deg to WeEu English 2045-2230 on 11740 PAN 250 kW / 120 deg to SEAs English 2245-0045 on 9690 BGL 500 kW / 090 deg to SEAs English 2245-0045 on 9705 PAN 250 kW / 120 deg to SEAs English 2245-0045 on 11645 DEL 100 kW / 065 deg to EaAs English DRM 2245-0045 on 11710 ALG 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs English 2245-0045 on 13605 BGL 500 kW / 058 deg to NEAs English DRM 2300-2400 on 9910 ALG 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs Hindi 2300-2400 on 11740 PAN 250 kW / 120 deg to SEAs Hindi 2300-2400 on 13795 BGL 500 kW / 108 deg to SEAs Hindi AIR Vividh Bharati 0030-0430 on 9870 BGL 500 kW / 035 deg to SoAs Hindi 0900-1200 on 6100 DEL 250 kW / 134 deg to SoAs Hindi DRM 0900-1200 on 9870 BGL 500 kW / 035 deg to SoAs Hindi 1230-1730 on 9870 BGL 500 kW / 035 deg to SoAs Hindi AIR National Channel 1315-0045 on 9425 DEL 250 kW / 334 deg to SoAs Hindi 1315-0045 on 9470 ALG 250 kW / 188 deg to SoAs Hindi (DX RE MIX NEWS #849 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov. Date April 26, 2014, via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 9525.87, Voice of Indonesia. April 22, Tuesday's weekly program “Exotic Indonesia”; 1303 chatting between Jakarta and Banjarmasin; news-commentary-"Today in History"-"Focus"; poor-fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 9525.9, April 25 at 1357, VOI English hour has as usual been unlistenable beyond its off-frequency and low-modulated carrier, despite lack of QRM until just now when CRI Russian 9525.0 carrier comes on, so I amuse myself at 1402 by matching the het pitch on my keyboard to a few Hz above A5 = 880 Hz. 9526-, with VOI is active, April 28 at 1334, poor signal with flutter and undermodulated, but English intonation detectable; and no het since nothing is on 9530 now. 9526-, April 29 at 1330, VOI English is too weak and undermodulated to be of any use for this Tuesday`s presumed RRI Banjarmasin hookup (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525.88-.90v, VOI on April 30 with anomaly - 1142 tuned in to special programming all in English; 1159 VOI news; pop songs; 1213-1237 seemed reports from a festival(?); 1240-1307 interview with OM talking about his father; 1308 VOI news-commentary - "Today in History"; poor (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA [and non]. 9680, April 28 at 1332, no Indonesian to be heard, just the Chinese radio war, also at 1423 making a SAH with each other. As Ron Howard reminds us, per http://rri.jpn.org/ RRI has not been heard on 9680 since April 3. 9680, April 29 at 1331, I`m hearing Indonesian in the mix with the China radio war, unlike yesterday, and Atsunori Ishida, http://rri.jpn.org agrees that RRI 9680 is back on air April 29, after a long gap from April 4 to 28 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. (hams) YG3BPL (Surabaya, E. Java) 7168L 1345 18 April. Op Rokhim chatting with a W6. YB8EK (Wajo, Sulawesi Selatan) 7130L 1340 22 April. Calling CQ DX with no repsonse (Dan Sheedy, Swami's Beach, CA G5/6m X wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. ELIZABETH WARREN BLASTS THE FCC'S NET NEUTRALITY PLAN --- Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) blasted the Federal Communication Commission's recent proposal to let internet service providers charge for access to their customers THE HUFFINGTON POST|BY MATT SLEDGE http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/30/elizabeth-warren-net-neutrality_n_5242629.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013 She called it "just one more way the playing field is tilted for the rich and powerful who have already made it." Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D- Mass.) blasted the Federal Communication Commission's recent proposal to let internet service providers charge for access to their customers, saying it would "gut" the principle of net neutrality. "We don’t know who is going to have the next big idea in this country, but we’re pretty sure they’re going to need to get online to do it," Warren wrote on her Facebook page Wednesday. "Reports that the FCC may gut net neutrality are disturbing, and would be just one more way the playing field is tilted for the rich and powerful who have already made it." Last week the FCC announced that it was essentially backing down on plans to force big internet providers to treat everybody alike in their access to internet users. Under the FCC's new position, big data sources like Netflix could be forced to pay for access to customers of ISPs like Verizon. Warren's voice is the latest to join a chorus of Democratic lawmakers like Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) who aren't happy with the FCC proposal, which represents a reversal from President Barack Obama's previous position on net neutrality. But her statement goes a bit further in tying the potential end of net neutrality to her trademark theme of an America rigged against the middle class and for big business. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, who himself once served as CEO of Comcast, claimed in a blog post last week that the critics of the FCC's new stance were "misinformed." Critics of the agency argue it could do far more to enforce net neutrality. One option would be to essentially treat internet companies as "common carriers" like telephone companies, reclassifying them under a different area of the agency's powers. But a move like that could face a court challenge. "Our regulators already have all the tools they need to protect a free and open Internet -- where a handful of companies cannot block or filter or charge access fees for what we do online," Warren said in her statement, apparently hinting at that power. "They should stand up and use them" (via Drita Lekbello Çiço, Albania, DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL WATERS. The Voice of Peace -- Abie Nathan, German TV movie; download OR store via http://media.ndr.de/progressive/2014/0424/TV-20140424-1230-2542.hq.mp4 198 MB, play time 1hr:29min:17sec 73, wb (Wolfgang Büschel, April 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 9790, V.I.R.I., 0124 Apr 27, sounded like anthem by chorus, followed by woman in Central Asian language, Kazakh listed, 0125 Islamic prayer, found //11820. Fair (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening in my car, by Kalamalka Lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENIING DIGEST) 9790, April 27 at 0127, Qur`an, fair with flutter but weaker than 9770 Turkey. EiBi shows 9790 at 0120-0220 is IRIB via Sirjan in Kazakh. 11820, April 28 at 0123, NA, 0124 announcement, good signal, lite flutter. Is VIRI Kazakh service at 0120-0220, 500 kW, 5 degrees from Sirjan, which I also happened to log yesterday on 9790. 11820 not to be confused with BSKSA in Arabic occupying 11820 at 18-23, 320 degrees toward W Europe and consequently also USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) V Of IRIB, Dari, 0250-0620 UT, 12070kam 13740ahw service, noted on 25 mb from Kamalabad fundamental 12070 kHz, around 0445 UT April 28 with a broadband spurious outlet on UPPER side flank only of 12126 to 12154 kHz range. Another IRIB Kamalabad spurious signal sent out by Turkish language service on 22 mb at 0440 UT April 28. Distortion heard on both sides 13638 - 13646, and 13772 - 13782 kHz. Fundamental is 13710 kHz, but 20 kHz wideband signal logged on 13700-13720 kHz. S=9+10dB or -62dBm signal strength measured in southern Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 28, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DXLD) ** ITALY. 10000, Italcable, 1627 27 Apr, music and time signal, 333 Ciao e buona settimana, 73! (Mauro Giroletti, Italy, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** JAPAN. 9625, April 24 at 1014, R. Japan ID in English, 1015 on to `Focus`, this time about how Japan handles foreign workers needed to build infrastruxure for the 2020y Olympix. Good with flutter; nice to hear the *only* NHK English broadcast remaining direct from Yamata! I thought it was for Hawaii, at local midnight, but not any more: official CIRAF targets are PNG, Australia and NZ, at 175 degree azimuth (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. Thursday, April 24 heard Shiokaze again in English, but now on the alternate frequency of 6135 kHz; heard at 1346 and 1430*. Ex-5985 today had heavy jamming from North Korea starting as early as 1137; seemed to be testing their jamming as it did not stay on for very long; noted non-stop jamming after 1250 and still going at 1434. Of course today the only station actually jammed was Myanmar Radio, as Shiokaze had moved up to 6135 (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) JAPAN Frequency changes of Shiokaze Sea Breeze from April 24: 1330-1430 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 5985 Japanese Mon/Wed 1330-1430 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 5985 Chinese/Korean Tue 1330-1430 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 5985 English Thu 1330-1430 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 5985 Korean Fri 1330-1430 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 5985 Korean/Japanese Sat 1330-1430 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 5985 Japanese/Korean Sun alternative: 5910/5985/6020/6120/6175 1600-1700 6090 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 6165 Japanese Mon/Wed 1600-1700 6090 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 6165 Chinese/Korean Tue 1600-1700 6090 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 6165 English Thu 1600-1700 6090 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 6165 Korean Fri 1600-1700 6090 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 6165 Korean/Japanese Sat 1600-1700 6090 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 6165 Japanese/Korean Sun alternative: 5910/6020/6075/6135/6165 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/frequency-changes-of-shiokaze-sea-breeze.html (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DXLD) 5985, the jamming continued April 25 at 1340 and blocking Myanmar, while Shiokaze is now up on 6135 in the clear (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. Korea South - 6003.1, 1835 Apr 28, Echo of Hope, Hwaseong - Korean talk with nice local song, SIO: 343 but at 1855 very strong jamming from North Korea, // 6250 (Franck Baste -F4LKC. Rx: SDR Perseus. Ant: Loop ALA 1530, Center France, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. I received a nice calendar from Radio Kuwait earlier this week. It was similar in style to prior calendars that they have sent before. A little late perhaps but something that can be useful over the last eight months of the calendar year. I am always curious as to how stations make decisions of what promotional material to send out to listeners and when. Clearly, a calendar is more useful if received before the year starts rather than a 1/3 through the year. There was no note in the envelope so the only way of knowing where it came from was to look at the envelope (Rich D`Angelo, PA, NASWA Flashsheet April 27 via DXLD) ** LUXEMBOURG. 234 kHz, RTL, 0018 mellow music, om to 0020 music bridge, 0030 slow vocal, 23 April (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro Modified, Drake R8, Sony 2010XA, 120 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR [and non]. 5009.857, Most probably wandering signal of R Magasikara Tananarivo MDG. Wandered some 20-30 Hertz up and down. And hit by approx. 150 Hertz interference BUZZ tone too, from 5010.008, AIR Thiruvananthapuram from Madras site. Latter Tamil language poor signal at 1630 UT April 21 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC- DX TopNews April 28 via DXLD) ** MALAYSIA. SARAWAK (non/non-log), 9835, Sarawak FM (via RTM-Kajang) Unheard during checks at 1300-1500 on 17-24 April (Dan Sheedy, Swami's Beach, CA G5/6m X wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 540, XEWA, W Radio, Monterrey, Nuevo León (or) Los 40 Principales, San Luis Potosí? 1057 April 20, 2014. Promo for fútbol event "... en W Radio" into anthem from 1058, another W Radio ID coming out of. So am I really hearing the 1,500 watt Monterrey W Radio listed and not the XEWA San Luis Potosí powerhouse that supposedly always carries Los 40 Principales (or do they sometimes feed W Radio)? (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, NRD-535, IC-R75, roof dipole, active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 960, April 28 at 0502 UT, during KGWA Fox-hole of dead air, with its hummy carrier nulled, the dominant inhabitant tonight is XEK, as I immediately hear the `XEW` chimes that XEK plays as IS, 4 notes downward, probably C-G-E-C, tho my pitch is imperfect and don`t have the keyboard handy to match them. Then NA in choral version; 0504 UT full ID as XEK, Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, ``desde 1937``, and then playing ``Cielito Lindo``, another kind of anthem, while KGWA blasts back on with modulation at 0505 UT. Confirmed here it was founded on 17 May 1937: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEK-AM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1320, April 26 at 0515 UT, dominant signal roughly from the south is Mexican music; automated IDs between every song, 101.7 FM and something on AM, with a variety of slogans mostly uncopiable by super- hype voice actor (SHVA) except always ending with primary one, ``La Poderosa``; 0522 the song is in English, ``Stand By Me``; 0531 a fuller ID mentions Coahuila, and Piedras Negras. Of course, I figured it would be XECPN, but don`t you believe it`s on night power of 100 watts, as in IRCA, WRTH and also Cantú: 1320 XECPN La Poderosa + FM 101.7 Piedras Negras, Coah. 10,000 100 IRCA disagrees on day power, of 20,000 watts. Could be. Can hardly claim the ``powerful`` slogan without cheating at night! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Tropo FL->Mexico [sic] Right now here in Panama City Beach, 106.9 XHQT Veracruz "La Poderosa" and 101.7 XHPR Veracruz "Soy FM" are in with remarkably good signals, particularly 101.7. This is with just a Tecsun PL-398BT, from the 23rd floor of the Calypso right on the Gulf. They are an estimated 995 miles. I believe I had both of these signals in last night as well, but they are much stronger tonight. I don't foresee much sleep happening tonight! (Nick Langan, Panama City Beach, FL, 0412 UT April 27, WTFDA via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DXLD) I captured some videos of the Mexican tropo from FL on my phone, in case anyone might be interested: http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?8798-Gulf-Tropo-from-Panama-City-Beach-FL-4-26-4-28&p=30009#post30009 (Nick Langan, Florence, NJ, My DX page: http://www.wnjl.com/dx/ ibid.) ** MEXICO. MEXICO’S TURBULENT DIGITAL TV TRANSITION The Weekly Riff March 18, 2014 by Greg Scoblete Analog TV shut-offs tend to be complicated and bumpy affairs under the best of circumstances. The transition in Mexico, however, has seen more than its fair share of turbulence and false-starts. The original analog shut-off (ASO) was slated for 2021, but the previous president, Philippe [sic] Calderón decided to dramatically accelerate the change, bringing the ASO to 2015. To meet such an ambitious goal, the government planned to subsidize and install converter set-top boxes and antennas for poorer households starting in Tijuana, the first city to switch off its analog broadcasts. While the schedule was ambitious, Tijuana residents who couldn’t afford them were provided with converter boxes and when the government was confident that roughly 93 percent of the city’s households had access to digital signals, it prepared to end analog broadcasts. Unfortunately, the shutdown happened to coincide with a local election and quickly became a lightning rod for controversy. The city’s mayor pleaded for a delay as did other officials and interest groups. Having briefly shut down analog signals, the government relented, reversing course briefly to allow the election to proceed while eliciting howls of protest that it was carrying water for the country’s monopolistic broadcasters. The next round of switch-offs are due in November of this year, where at least 15 cities will convert to digital. Only now, it seems, they’ll be doing so without subsidized converter boxes. According to a statement released by the Ministry of Communications and Transport, Mexico would stop installing decoder boxes and instead subsidize and install 24-inch televisions, despite the huge cost differential (the boxes are said to cost between $48 and $90 while the TVs range from $218 to $436). Two local manufacturers, Diamond Electronics and Foxconn Electronics, were tapped for an initial order of 120,000 units for a pilot run in the cities of Nuevo Laredo and Reynosa, but the country will need millions more if it plans to finish out its transition relying on TVs instead of converter boxes. Such a change raises a host of questions about the feasibility of Mexico’s shut off timeline — namely, how a program of such importance can unfold with seemingly so little strategic forethought. Ironically, while the transition veers its way toward an uncertain conclusion, other facets of Mexico’s telecommunications market seem to be improving. As part of President Enrique Peña Nieto’s comprehensive push to reign [sic] in monopolistic sectors of Mexico’s economy, regulators have ruled that, among other changes, incumbent telecom providers must open up their last mile connections to competitors. Regulatory reforms may spur long overdue competition and investment in the country’s digital infrastructure. Together with the freeing up of analog TV spectrum for better [sic] wireless services, Mexico may be on the cusp of pushing its economy deeper into the information age. It just won’t be an easy ride (via May VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) NOTICE: MEXICAN ANALOG BORDER TV SHUTS DOWN AT THE END OF MAY. GET ‘EM OR FORGET ‘EM! (ibid.) Or not: Mexico Digital Conversion Delay --- I think this means that those who were to convert in May now have until November. https://twitter.com/Notimex/status/461149939779661827 (This was posted on the WTFDA Forums by Chris Dunne) -- (Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT USA, April 29, WTFDA via DXLD) Good, thanks for letting us know, Mike. This gives us one last summer for these stations (Saul Chernos, Ont., ibid.) ** MICRONESIA. [FSM - Federated States of Micronesia] 4755.558, Pacific Missionary Aviation, Cross Radio, Pohnpei footprint at 0920 UT April 27, weak tiny S=5 signal logged on remote SDR unit in Edmonton- Alberta, Canada (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 28 via DXLD) ** MONGOLIA [and non]. 12085, April 24 at 1031, something with heavy flutter, ACI from 12080 AUSTRALIA, carrier off at 1032 and back on. 1030 is supposed to be the time for VOM to switch from Chinese to Japanese, but on same 116 degree azimuth from UB. However, Aoki puts an x by the frequency for 0900 English, 0928 Mongolian and 1000 Chinese, meaning those broadcasts are off the air. Not to worry: Douglas Kähler tells us that podcasts are now available via http://www.radio360.eu not only of VOM but: ``Podcasts in English | Albania Argentina Asia Calling Cuba Czech Republic Focus Asia Pacific Mongolia Myanmar Poland Slovakia Slovenia Switzerland Taiwan Tajikistan`` Plus more in German, and one in French. One can also `listen now` without messing with subscribing. And I am hearing the 23 April broadcast as I type (three are axually available at the moment). Sign-on believes this and the other English broadcast at 1530 on 12015 (not 12105) are still on SW. Only five minutes of opening news, music break, to be followed by `Expatriates` Hour` concerning Mexico. But first, 9 minutes in: quiz, ``Who Knows Mongolia Better?`` with five questions to PO Box or e-mail; nothing said about prizes, let alone a trip to Mongolia. 11 minutes in: throat-singing introduces `Expatriates Hour` with a Filipina`s impressions at first, but really guest Rafael Vargas from México, who is enjoying his year-long internship altho not much Mexican food, fresh vegetables to be had. That interview takes the rest of the semihour. Next I try Tajikistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12084.8, Apr 27 0940, Radio Ulan Bator, Mongolei, 0940 UT SIO 252. Ulan Bator ist seit 09 UT wieder auf 12085 zu hören, gegen 0940 in Mongolisch, nachdem die letzten Wochen erst um 1030 UT mit dem japanischen Programm begonnen wurde. Das Signal ist aber sehr schwach. 73 Christoph Ratzer, Austria, SW Bulletin April 27 via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DXLD) So if back on at 0900 that would be in English (gh, ibid.) ** MYANMAR. 5985.82, 26/4 2320, Padauk Myay R., Myanmar, slow songs, talks, fair (Giampiero Bernardini, Avvenire - Redazione Internet http://www.avvenire.it ascolto con il nuovo Elad FDM-S2 e il software Studio 1: http://air-radiorama.blogspot.it/2014/04/elad-fdm-s2-con-il-software-studio-1.html playdxyg via DXLD) 7344.993, Slight odd frequency of Pwo Kayin Thazin Radio Regional Service from Pyin U Lwin, Myanmar site. Nice smooth music heard in western Canada and in Queensland Australia at 1045 UT on April 28. S=8-9 or -76dBm signal strength. Nice open window before 1100 UT, from 11 UT covered by CNR1 Mandarin co-channel. 6165, Burmese Thazin Radio General Service, from Pyin U Lwin, Myanmar site, is totally covered by CNR6 Taiwanese service powerhouse at 1058 UT. 5915.000, Myanmar Radio from Naypyidaw site, very poor heard in downunder remote unit at Queensland-AUS, \\ 9730.000 kHz much stronger on arm chair reception downunder at S=9+5dB or -70dBm, and \\ much weaker Rangoon relay outlet of 5985.788 kHz at 1125 UT on April 28. 5915.000, Surprise, surprise, at 1100 UT on April 28. S=6 at -90dBm tiny level. And found also co-channel 5915 kHz some light QRM of Radio Australia English news program of Kranji relay [spur], see SINGAPORE entry, 1100-1200 UT. Nothing heard at this time slot on v7200 kHz, but Vietnam, Vietnamese relay on nearby 7210 kHz even channel (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 28 via DXLD) 9730.0, Myanmar Radio, 1104, April 30 theme music for the start of the ABC/Radio Australia segment; Wednesday edition (only on Mon. & Wed.) with "Lesson 17 - Out on the Ferry" ("watch your step," etc.); in English and vernacular; poor with heavy ACI (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEPAL. The Beautiful Radio Station Broadcasting From Nepal's 'Hidden Kingdom' Mustang is one of the most remote parts of Nepal: Nestled on the border of Tibet, it was one of the last parts of the country to encounter Westerners. It’s been described as a “hidden kingdom” that’s been “virtually unchanged since the 15th century”, but modern technology — like radio — is coming. Diesen Sender muß man im Bild gesehen haben: Noch dazu in Mustang, Nepal. http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/04/the-beautiful-radio-station-broadcastingfrom-nepals-hidden-kingdom/ 73 (Christoph Ratzer via A-DX via SW Bulletin April 27 via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Be sure to listen to the Mighty KBC in May for a major announcement! Also remember the April 27, 2014 broadcast at 0000-0200 UT is the final 7375 kHz. Beginning May 4, 2014 the Mighty KBC is using 9925 kHz during 0000-0200 UT. OK to contact me directly with impressions, thoughts, suggestions, etc. for the "Forgotten Song" segment of the Mighty KBC broadcast. 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, April 25, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Keeping shortwave alive on 6095 AM Weekdays are filled with a unique live show from Mr. Bob van Beeten himself between 10 am & 12 noon CET [08-10 UT]. The Mighty 6095 sets about keeping shortwave alive with a special programme for Dutch truck drivers (Transportradio Onderweg). While most of Europe’s radio stations play music selected by computers, The Mighty 6095 brings out its star Bob van Beeten to entertain listeners throughout the morning hours. We also keep in mind our fleets of truckers, who thunder along Europe’s roads. The truckers` own show pops up live every morning when Bob van Beeten takes care of traffic news and matters of concern to the professional road users. The legendary, Brooklyn-born, Wolfman Jack, with his outrageous catchphrases and unique style, has left a legacy of some of the best shows ever recorded for radio. The Mighty KBC is proud to keep the memory and music of the Wolfman alive on 6095. The Wolf will make his return on AM 6095. If the Wolfman was the USA’s biggest star, there’s no doubt that Emperor Rosko is Europe’s. The witty, multilingual, fast-talking, American son of the famous Hollywood movie producer Joe Pasternak, was influenced by the Wolfman in his teens and became a big star on British radio, first on pirate station Radio Caroline, then Luxembourg and then the BBC. The Emperor Rosko Show is an entertaining and up to the minute show that is produced especially for The Mighty KBC in his studios in California and can be heard on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday morning the Emperor Rosko kicks things off with Coast To Coast Country, and the afternoon is rocking with Dave Mason and Peter Quinn. At 1300 UT it's Mike Marwick with Rock “N” Roll Saturday. Sunday brings party time to Europe between 0800 and 1500 UT. Stan Campbell and Tim Dennis gets things rolling with Trucker Radio. At 1000 UT we have 3 hours of The LA Connection presented by Emperor Rosko and the last 2 hours are rocking with Ron O'Quinn. The Giant Jukebox presented by Eric van Willegen is "Rocking Over The Ocean" to Canada, USA and South America on Sunday morning on 7375 kHz between 0000-0200 UTC. The Mighty KBC – keeping shortwave alive on 6095. http://www.kbcradio.eu/ (via Mike Terry, April 26, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DXLD) Radiogram for The Mighty KBC & VoA: http://www.rhci-online.de/VoA_Radiogram_2014-04-26.htm KBC repeated the radiogram of the last week. But this time it was not necessary to correct the extreme slant of the transmitted image (roger, Germany, dxldyg via DXLD) See also USA: VOA ** NEWFOUNDLAND. 2598-USB, Canada, St. John's, 0008 to 0015* om with weather advisories, 23 April (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro Modified, Drake R8, Sony 2010XA, 120 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NICARAGUA. 539.848, Radio Corporación, Managua. 1056 April 27, 2014. Once again caught the Sunday variable sign on with carrier up at 1056 mid-song. Measured on the IC-R75 (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, NRD-535, IC-R75, roof dipole, active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Further afield, listen for that telltale het of 152 Hz against 540.000 stations (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NICARAGUA. 600, la Nueva Radio Ya, Managua. 0735 April 27, 2014. Male DJ introduced female for a quick weather synopsis, mentioning "Instituto Meteorológico" then DJ intro'ed an smooth jazz instrumental Santana cover (mentioning Santana) of "Flor d'Luna" which upon locating Live Stream was still playing, then mention of church- sponsored event later in the morning in San Plaza San Pedro seemingly tied to The Vatican's Canonization of John Paul II and John XXIII this day. The Live Stream site was pretty cool, with a camera on the DJ in studio live. Occasional WBOB "The Answer" slogan talk format, Jacksonville, FL co-channel (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, NRD-535, IC-R75, roof dipole, active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NICARAGUA. 8989-USB, "El Pescador Preacher", 2330 "Para poder de Dios en el dia ...en las palabras de Dios..." good signal on 19 April (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro Modified, Drake R8, Sony 2010XA, 120 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 9730, R/S YHWH (religious pirate) 0209+ 21 April. Weak on a noisy band with usual spiel. Also heard on 5865 at 0432 22 April (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA G5/6m X wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9775, April 26 at 0104, bandscanning catches YHWH pirate preacher back on this frequency, poor-fair with noise, deep fading, and cuts off the air abruptly at 0105:10; still off when I quit monitoring at 0111. Was slightly weaker than 9770 Turkey. 9775 is the frequency where I first heard YHWH, also at 0105 UT, October 8, 2013 as in DXLD 13-41, and WORLD OF RADIO 1690. 9800-AM, April 27 at 0127, I encounter Station YHWH as I am bandscanning, now easy to recognize by voice and monomaniacal subject; citing or debunking Ezekiel XXVIII. Only poor signal, declining to very poor at 0141 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7330-AM, "Radio Station YHWH" (religious pirate), 0250-0315*, April 30. Usual format on another new unique frequency; fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6950.5-AM, April 27 at 0100, pirate with big band music; 0103 outro as Glenn Miller, ``Pennsylvania 6-5000``. ``This is James Stewart on M-A-C Shortwave Radio; will be back again``. Reports to MACshortwaveradio@gmail.com. This was The Jimmy Stewart Show, in a vocal simulation, ``let us know if you enjoyed it; it`s 1:05 UTC, ending with more of a mood song``, 0106 ``Love Is Blue``, hard to follow the lyrix, but maybe not the standard ones. 0108 last few notes of `Star-Spangled Banner`, raucous laughter to 0109 open carrier for a bit. After that was not listening carefully, but something was speaking on USB --- peskies? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, April 27 at 0101, another pirate going here while MAC is on 6950; I`m running both the DX-398 and the PL-880 on the porch. Vocal music, weaker signal. 0111 after 6950 and 5980 are off, fuller attention to this one: announcing the music; 0118 ``Radio Free Whatever`` ID; next check at 0128 it`s off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6945-USB, April 27 at 0141, best sig from a fourth pirate on now which was not on when 6950.5 and 6925 were being monitored. Playing ``Crazy`` by Patsy Cline, 0143 segué another crazy love song, with a soul sound; 0145 ``Wolverine Radio`` ID, and another song, ``Gimme Love, Love, Love, Crazy Love`` so we see what the theme is tonight. By chance the exact frequency falls between the 40-Hz tuning steps on the DX-398, so the music never sounds quite right until I switch to the PL-880 with 10-Hz steps (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. QSL: PIRATE, 6925-USB, Hot Radio Special Easter Music broadcast via Blue Ocean Radio. Full data (with details & relay name) attractive busted woman QSL letter with cover letter thanking for my audio file attachement and details. E-mail report to hotradio@outlook.com Reply within 48 hrs. v/s: nil (Edward Kusalik- Alberta, Canada, April 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Stations informing the FCC that they are silent: 1340, KJMU, OK, Sand Springs – Silent 3/14 to replace equipment. (AM Switch, NRC DX News March 31 via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1640, Sunday April 27 at 1228 UT, KZLS again with `Cowboy Corner`, and same topic but not synchronized, on rival 960 KGWA, both Enid. But at 1230 UT, KZLS breaks in for a couple minutes of ``news`` from Blaze Radio, then cuts back to C.C. still in progress, how ragged, while KGWA stays with it. Here`s the affiliate list for ``Red Steagall`s Cowboy Corner``: http://www.cowboycorner.com/stations.html where OK is second only to TX (by far) in number of affiliates. Red doesn`t know that his OKC affiliate, KNAH 99.7 means he`s also on its sibling station KZLS 1640; meanwhile the Enid ones listed are not only KGWA 960 (also for ``northern OKC``, ha2) but its own sibling, KOFM 103.1 in Enid (which is blocked in OKC by the KOKC translator). Both are too lazy to program separately on sleepy Sunday morning ghettos/ghettoes [depending on your spell-checker]. KBXD 1480 Dallas is also on there correctly for 24 hours earlier on Saturday mornings, as heard yesterday. Red often mentions the Cowboy museum in OKC as one of his sponsors, and is about to make an appearance there. BTW, this C.C. has nothing to do with some business near Sixth & Duck in Stillwater OK, despite what Google may ``think``: its web prefaces with ``the``; nor one in northern Arizona, -az (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Re 14-17, discussion of MW transmitters across state lines and the case of KYHN ``Fort Smith AR``, really from Sallisaw OK; I told Dan Goldfarb of MWmasts about this and he replies: ``I know that my database could really help resolve NRC / MWC discussion. My entries for transmitter site work on the basis that my first place is the city served, then I give the precise town where the transmitter is, and in brackets I give the State where that small town lies. My database as you know will not (in present plans) give stations which fail to reach 1 kW. At present my threshold is excluding all stations (of which there are huge numbers) which are 1 kW Day and x hundred W Night. I have only reached 710 kHz so far and I am some way away from completing the task. Nevertheless I think that my database could eventually be useful. By the way, Phil from New Jersey had a hand in ensuring that all of the Kearney and Lyndhurst stations are allocated to New Jersey state`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. Radio Pakistan on air! A14 period, Radio Pakistan Radio is good signal and propagation here in my area, reason for making a Reception Report (RR). Try in their areas and carry the signal. The program is in Urdu language and the RR can be done in English to fmcell@radio.gov.pk (WRTVH note). The QSL card is very difficult. JRX Logs April 23-25, 2014. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- kHz, Date, UT, Station, Location/Relay, Programme, SINPO ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15730, 04/26/2014, 0106, R. Pakistan, Islamabad, UR, program in Urdu language, mv. Presents Holy Qur`an song, ID. Fair log, 45433; // log 17830, mv presents Qur`an text; 0114 news and comments about India, 0120 Qur`an song, good signal here in my area, 45444. mv = male voice Schedule: 0045-0215 d 15730isl 17830isl R. Pakistan Urdu language. (SWL: José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Receiver(s): Degen DE1101, Antenna: Longwire, Location logs: Cabedelo - Brazil, April 26, Hard-Core-DX mailing list April 28 via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DXLD) 17830, April 29 at 0119, South Asian talk, then male soloist but unseems Qur`an; fair signal. Aoki shows this must be PBC, Islamabad, 250 kW, 118 degrees in Urdu at 0045-0215. Aoki agrees, adding the callsign API-6 and the name Radio Pakistan. Only thing listed in either (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3204.96, NBC Sandaun. After being off the air for about a week, heard again April 23, 24 and 25; end of news at 1206. 3905, NBC New Ireland, 1405*, April 24, but not broadcasting at all the next day. 3905, NBC New Ireland, 1345-1403*, April 26. Pop songs in English; in Tok Pisin/Pidgin except for promo in English; off with the usual children singing Anthem; poor. My local sunrise was at 1320 UT. 7324.95, Wantok Radio Light (presumed). Earlier this month, several reports of the reactivation of WRL, but during my recent monitoring in the 1400 to 1430 time period (a time when there are no other stations on 7325, so there is a good window of opportunity to catch WRL if they are on the air), I had not even a hint of a faint open carrier, but April 26 finally had success. Tuned in at 1409 to clearly hear non- stop Christian songs with no announcements on their usual unique frequency until covered at 1424 by tx turned on for the CRI programs that started at *1430. Has been a long time since I last heard WRL, so am rather pleased to catch them again (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4810, R Logos, 1000 to 1020 with usual good signal mixing music and religion. 24 April (XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D - R8A - E5, via Wilkner, and Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro Modified, Drake R8, Sony 2010XA, 120 meter dipole, and DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4985.5, Perú, Radio Voz Cristiana, Huancayo, 0025 to 0033 in Spanish, major interference by rtty station on 4985. Narrow filter 1.2k usb needed. 24 April (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro Modified, Drake R8, Sony 2010XA, 120 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5024.915, Apr 26 2304, R Quillabamba weak here. R Rebelde off at this time and still off at 0026 (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin April 27 via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DXLD) ** PERU. 5980, April 25 at 0106, R. Chaski carrier until 0109:19* cutoff, still going later and later with no reset. 5980, April 26 at 0051, R. Chaski with JBA carrier vs 5990 CRI/CUBA splash; at 0059 that splash is off, but now there is rather heavy pulse jamming on 5980 itself as the Chaski carrier is still on past 0100. Unfortunately I was distracted and missed timing its exact cutoff tonight, but which projected 5.5 seconds later than last night, would have been at 0109:24.5. 5980, April 27 at 0057, R. Chaski carrier with severe splash from 5990 Cuba; then clear for a yet later cutoff at approx. 0109:30.5* which is 11.5 seconds later than two nights ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Mix, Urubamba, was heard on Radio Chaski’s SW frequency of 5980 on April 20 around midnight. An audio clip was sent to me by Mike Shcherbakov. The phone number, web address and postal address of the station were given on the air along with Andean cumbias and ads for establishments in Urubamba, one them for solar panels with further info available at the Radio Mix studios. Pedro F. Arrunátegui in Lima noted Radio Mix again on April 22 at 1114. Programming with relays of Radio Red Integridad and Radio Trans Mundial is now reportedly back to normal. Radio Mix seems to be a new name and format for previous Radio Fortaleza and Radio Stereo Sur, also listed on 96.3 FM. One will have to ask the studio operator for an explanation. Did he listen to the new Radio Mix while inadvertently feeding their audio into the Chaski SW transmitter at the same time? (Henrik Klemetz, Sweden, April 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hola: Son los típicos problemas de enlace que tiene Chaski. Pasa los fines de semana. 73 (Claudio Galaz, Chile, April 30, conidiglista yg via DXLD) 5980, no check UT April 28 around 0109 for Chaski cutoff as I was busy lawnmowing, but filling the gap is this from Henrik Klemetz [above] 5980, April 29 at 0058, JBA carrier from R. Chaski until cutoff at 0109:42*, which is 11.5 seconds later than one binite ago. When will they ever reset it? But will never catch up with my latening sunset, 0117 UT, followed by streetlight from *0131.3 with a clear sky at sunset. (Those wondering: Enid has been well to the west of all the tornadism.) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PUERTO RICO. 680, San Juan, 2350 to 0000 with IDs by om. 19 April (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro Modified, Drake R8, Sony 2010XA, 120 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WAPA ** ROMANIA [and non]. 9520, April 29 at 0053, RRI VG signal in Romanian, 300 kW, 310 degrees to N America, yet has continuous CCI underneath from talk in Asian language, still at 0107, 0115, but gone at 0131. Altho CNR1 via PBS Nei Menggu is also scheduled here with 50 kW at 36 degree beam from Hohhot 839 site, favorable for North America, until 0200 per Aoki; it`s obviously the other collider, Gospel For Asia huxters targeting vulnerable minorities in a whole bunch of obscure languages, at 0030-0130, 250 kW, 100 degrees from Nauen, GERMANY: Tuesday at 0045 Rajasthani, 0100 Marwari, 0115 Kukna. Directly off the back from that would be 280 degrees, while directly off the back from Tiganeshti would be 130 degrees, far too much overlap from European sites not that far apart (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. RUSSIAN FEDERATION, The only shortwave station (except the 1st of April Pomore radio on 5930 kHz ?) from RF seems is Radio Maykop of Adygey Republic heard 16-23 April on 7325 kHz via Krasnodar Armavir Tbilliskaya transmitter site, on Fridays 1700-1800 and Sundays 1800- 1900 UT in Adygeyan, and Mondays 1700-1800 UT in Adygeyan, Arabic, Turkish (and some items also translated in Kurdish). (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, April 27, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 28 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Due to a number of complaints received by the Administration of Tomsk region on the termination of the broadcasts of "Radio Russia", "Mayak" and "Voice of Russia" in the region, the Department of Transport, road and communication activities of the Tomsk region reports. According to the Office Roskomnadzora Tomsk Region , Federal State Unitary Enterprise "All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company " (RTR) from 01.01.2014 refused to use and payment of all radio stations to broadcast "Radio Russia", "Mayak" and "Voice of Russia" transmitters longwave (LW), medium wave (MW) and short (SW) ranges within range of VHF transmitters (hereinafter - VHF) range. Tomsk Oblast Administration in February appealed to RTR to consider the possibility of restoring broadcasting LW, MW and SW ranges in the region. However, RTR reported that radio broadcasting above the Siberian region terminated in connection with a reduction in funding from the federal budget cost of broadcasting, the high cost of electricity for transmission equipment, the low quality of the transmitted signal, limited fleet receivers specified RANGES! ones in the population. Recovery is not possible to broadcast. Thus, at present, by the decision of RTR, in Tomsk region continues broadcasting in VHF radio: - "Mayak" - the territory of Tomsk (68.78 MHz); - "Radio Russia" with knockouts programs STRC "Tomsk" - 46 transmitters, providing an opportunity to take a specified radio program, 82 % of the population of Tomsk Oblast. According RTR further increase coverage to 98% of radio programs "Radio Russia" and "Mayak", while improving the quality of the broadcast will be achieved with the transition to digital broadcasting http://www.seversknet.ru/news/post/2014/4/16/13817 (via Moscow Information DX Bulletin, Weekly electronic publication #890 April 22, 2014, Editor of the current issue: Alexander Dementyev, Russia, via RusDX April 27 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [non]. 25900, April 25 at 1540, it`s another Friday, so time to check for R. Magic Eyes, Moscow. With the PL-880 on the porch and reel-out antenna, a JBA carrier at 1542 and then trace of modulation; 1543:40 music starts, 1545 now talk in English! mentioning some dot- org. 1547 fade in stronger, YL hosting talk show; 1547 ad for ``all your dairy supplies`` via 1-800-306-8937. Fades in even stronger now with mixture of some other talk audio. This is getting rather suspicious, so on the DX-398 I look for strong signals on lower bands, and find a match on 12160 = WWCR, altho it seems a reverb apart so possibly from some other affiliate? No, the other audio matches 13740, the CRI relay via CUBA about to close, so this is a receiver-produced mixing product of 12160 + 13740 = 25900! I`ve never had these previous weeks during MTUCI monitoring, but beware! Those signals today exceed the image-rejexion threshold. So far, just after 1600 I don`t see reports of anyone else hearing Moskva this Friday (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RWANDA [non]. MADAGASCAR: RADIO IMPALA via TALATA, 17540. *1700- 1733, April 24. Mostly African music with IDs in English, French, and presumed Kinyarwanda. Good signal as usual. This appeared to be the same program as the one I logged on March 7. Timings of the various program elements were identical, and the music selections were as I had described in my earlier log — slow ballad, guitar, etc. (Wendel Craighead, Prairie Village, Kansas, USA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17540, April 28 at 1753, fair signal level but just barely modulated, going from talk to music. Must be R. Impala, 250 kW, 310 degrees from MADAGASCAR, where you would think they could modulate properly. Recheck 1757.5, it`s already off. Compared to 17560, SAUDI, q.v. Same transmitter probably picks up on 17860; see GERMANY [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SARAWAK [non]. PHILIPPINES, Frequency change of Radio Free Sarawak from April 18: 1100-1230 NF 15430 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Iban Mon-Sat, ex 15420 Here reception on April 19 at 1207 UT via SDR receiver in Hong Kong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVqIJQtESNU&list=UUOkdLTbNeM6g6w8oqkXYtsw From April 24 Radio Free Sarawak again was back to the previous 15420 (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Ivo, The RFS move to 15430 did not last long. April 24 moved back again to 15420. Heard from 1133 to 1153 and noted 1230* (Ron Howard, California, DX LISTENING DIGEST 14-17 via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST 14-18) PHILIPPINES, New frequency of Radio Free Sarawak from April 28: 1100-1230 NF 15460 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Iban Mon-Sat, ex 15420 Alternative frequencies for the next days: 15410, 15420, 15430, 15490. (DX RE MIX NEWS #850 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 30, 2014, via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DXLD) Hi Ivo, Indeed it seems RFS is in a state of flux recently with these many frequency changes. April 28 did hear RFS on new 15460 from 1149 to 1156 in vernacular with usual format and one item about President Obama in Malaysia; noted 1230*; fair reception (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. Observed on 18-22 April: till 1450 UT their main first program in Arabic was noted on 17705 (clear signal) and 21505 kHz (buzz/buzy sound) and from 1450 UT also on 15225 kHz (blocking RTI in Russian). At 1450-1457 UT main program was on 15225 17705 21505 kHz. At 1458 UT the faulty transmitter of 21505 kHz was switched to 15435 kHz, \\ 15225 too. Many bzz spurs were heard in ranges 15402- 15411 and 15463-15468 kHz with week "buzz' and 15417-15422 and 15448-15453 kHz with strong "buzz" (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, April 27, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 28 via DXLD) 15169.962, Odd frequency BSKSA HQ program surprised with rather political report program in Arabic at 0407 UT April 28. No HQ prayer heard. S=9+30dB or -48dBm strength signal here in southern Germany. 15284.982, BSKSA Riyadh Swahili prayer, but very bad audio feed later one. Distorted from microphone room, buzzy audio and distortion to transmission feederline. At 0417 UT April 28 limited strength due of sidelobe azimuth into Germany, S=9+25dB or - 49dBm strength (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 28, dxldyg via DXLD) 17560, April 28 at 1753, about same signal level as 17540 R. Impala (see RWANDA [non]), but unlike it, this is sufficiently modulated; has more fading than 17540. At 1757.5 in Qur`an, 1758.5 to dead air and shortly off*. Is BSKSA HQS due west from Riyadh; I was hoping for another clandestine until checking HFCC and Aoki. 17615, April 29 at 1302, weak modulated signal from presumed BSKSA is overcome by much stronger open carrier which cuts off and on several times past 1314. Sometimes produces whine/beep when cuts on at first. No more of that by 1333 check. Seems most likely explanation is two transmitters from Riyadh itself, supposedly scheduled 09-12 at 100 degrees, and 13-16 at 190 degrees per HFCC, while Aoki refines the off/on times to 1157*-*1250, but suspect they are overlapping today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SEYCHELLES. 12095, BBC Mahé (BBC Indian Ocean Relay Station) verified a postal reception report with a frequency only letter Word document reply from v/s Jose Tambara, Senior Engineer at Babcock International Group PLC in 48 days In his letter Jose notes, "We have two Marconi 250kW B6132 transmitters using Pulse Width Modulation. Antenna systems are six Marconi 4 band arrays strung across four towers. We broadcast real time programs received from London via satellite. Please note that the BBC Indian Ocean Relay Station in Seychelles will cease all operations as from end of March 2014" (Rich D'Angelo-PA-USA, DXplorer April 21 via BC-DX April 28 via DXLD) ** SINGAPORE. 5915/6365 kHz, suffered two slight spurious signals symmetrically of fundamental 6140 kHz Radio Australia news, scheduled via Kranji-SNG at 11-12 UT in A-14 season. See slight QRM on Myanmar Radio Naypyidaw on 5915 kHz: And found also co-channel some light QRM of Radio Australia English news program of Kranji relay, 11-12 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 28 via DXLD) ** SOMALILAND. QSL: Radio Hargeisa, 7120, QSL-card in 4 days for reception report to Konsularische Vertretung der Republik Somaliland, Herr Baldur Drobnica, Zedernweg 6, 50127 Bergheim, Germany with SASE (Kurt Enders, Bickenbach, Germany, April 14 and 19, not distributed by Hard-Core-DX mailing list until April 28, via DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. 7360, Confirm recent 5 kHz up of BBC Meyerton WS English relay daily at 04-05 UT, ex 7355 kHz. Was early on air and program - approx. 0358 UT, report of tornado occurred? in OK/MI-USA and hit Arkansas too? Followed by political and espionage observers on Ukraine clashes around 0401 UT. Signal S=9 -70dBm here in Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 28, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9370, April 24 at 0533, WWRB is again running Brother Scare at night on its day frequency, which is registered for 13-24 UT only; and also on much weaker night frequency 3185, registered for 00-13 UT, as if they were the same transmitter. But WWRB has senders to spare. At 1013 recheck, propagation has dropped out on 9370, but still very poorly audible. By 1050 already it has resurged to VG and still // 3185. At this moment, The Last Day Prophet of God is rerererepeating his assertion that ``there were no dinosaurs`` since some museum admitted ``making the bones``. What rot. I assume they might have been talking about completing missing parts of a particular fossil (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [and non]. 17850, April 28 at 1859, REE IS, Spanish broadcast with CCI, 1800 timesignal and still CCI somewhat weaker than REE. This monumental failure of frequency coördination continues, as both Spain and FRANCE are registered on 17850: per HFCC, RFI in French at 17-20, and REE at 15-23, both daily. Aoki shows Spain on weekends only at 17- 23, weekdays at 19-22, certainly not correct as this is Monday. Meanwhile there are plenty of open frequencies on the 16m band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 15430, April 24 at 1401-1401:18* open carrier and off. Aoki indicates it`s AWR in Laotian, 125 kW, 75 degrees via Trincomalee, supposed to end at 1357. In Laotian on Thursdays and Saturdays, other days in Isan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, April 26 at 0114, open carrier from SLBC, but another late start with no music before 0115 and no mistimesignal after, tsk2. 11905, April 27 at *0114:15 open carrier on with flutter, poor signal; 0114:46 SLBC music starts --- mostly drumming this time; it`s not always the same. 2+1 mistimesignal ends at 0115:19, opening Hindi. 11905, April 29 at 0114, SLBC OC is on, tho missed the precise moment it started; 0114:47 music starting, timesignal ending at 0115:11, opening Hindi; poor signal with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SURINAME. 4990, Radio Apintie, Paramaribo, 0907 pop rock singer, 0912 om in Dutch followed to 0920 24 April (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro Modified, Drake R8, Sony 2010XA, 120 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWAZILAND. Recebi um eQSL da TWR África (Suazilândia) e alguns eQSLs de Ham. As imagens estão em meu blog: http://www.dxreunion-br.blogspot.com.br OC, 9940, TWR Africa - Manzini - SWZ - Recebido eQSL. Algumas horas. V/S: Lorraine Stavropoulos (QSL Engineering). Informe enviado por e- mail: lsatvrop @ twr.org.sz QTH: P.O. 4232, Kempton Park, 1.620 - South Africa - 73! (Rubens Ferraz Pedroso (PY5-007SWL), Bandeirantes - PR, Brasil, April 28, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** TAIWAN [non]. 9955, UT Saturday April 26 at 0103, WRMI with PCJ Radio International, supposed to be replay of last Sunday`s hour-long discussion of the future of shortwave radio, as aired originally on webcaster, Global Voice Radio, and publicized on WORLD OF RADIO. BUT, too much jamming, unreadable; tnx a lot, Arnie. Cuban jamming normally diminishes during the hour, but too much else going on, so one more thing I`ll have to try to find time for later listening ondemand online (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND. QSL: BBG (VoA) Udon Thani, 15125, QSL-card in 15 days for reception report to manager_thailand @ tha.ibb.gov (Kurt Enders, Bickenbach, Germany, April 14 and 19, not distributed by Hard-Core-DX mailing list until April 28, via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. New frequency of RFA Tibetan on 18980 from Kuwait(?) RFA Tibetan on Apr. 25. 0100-0200 17685, 17730, 11695, 9885, 9680 0200-0300 21595, 17730, 11745, 11695, 9885 0600-0700 21690, 21550, 17635, 17510 1000-1100 21475, 15620, 13680 1100-1200 18980, 15195, 13830, 7470 1200-1300 18990, 15195, 13830, 11605, 7470 1300-1400 18980, 15195, 13830, 11605, 7470 1500-1600 13615 (ex 11580), 11795, 9370 2200-2300 12035, 9370, 7505 2300-2400 9875, 9805, 6075 de Hiroshi (S. Hasegawa, Japan, April 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RFA-Tibetan via Kuwait of 15mb changes the frequency every day. Sunday to Saturday: 1100-1200 19010-18930-18940-18950-18960-18980-18990 1200-1300 18930-18940-18950-18960-18980-18990-19000 1300-1400 19010-18930-18940-18950-18960-18980-18990 (S. Hasegawa, Japan, April 26, ibid.) Frequency changes of Radio Free Asia effective April 23: 0100-0200 NF 17685 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Mon, ex 17510 0100-0200 NF ..... TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Tue, ex 17510 0100-0200 NF ..... TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Wed, ex 17510 0100-0200 NF 17635 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Thu, ex 17510 0100-0200 NF 17685 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Fri, ex 17510 0100-0200 NF 17665 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sat, ex 17510 0100-0200 NF 17700 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sun, ex 17510 0200-0300 NF 21550 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Mon, ex 21540 0200-0300 NF ..... TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Tue, ex 21540 0200-0300 NF ..... TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Wed, ex 21540 0200-0300 NF 21585 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Thu, ex 21540 0200-0300 NF 21595 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Fri, ex 21540 0200-0300 NF 21610 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sat, ex 21540 0200-0300 NF 21620 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sun, ex 21540 0600-0700 NF 17635 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Mon, ex 17490 0600-0700 NF 17700 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Tue, ex 17490 0600-0700 NF 17635 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Wed, ex 17490 0600-0700 NF 17700 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Thu, ex 17490 0600-0700 NF 17635 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Fri, ex 17490 0600-0700 NF 17700 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sat, ex 17490 0600-0700 NF 17700 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sun, ex 17490 1000-1100 NF 21525 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Mon, ex 17495 1000-1100 NF ..... TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Tue, ex 17495 1000-1100 NF 18950 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Wed, ex 17495 1000-1100 NF 18960 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Thu, ex 17495 1000-1100 NF 21475 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Fri, ex 17495 1000-1100 NF 21465 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sat, ex 17495 1000-1100 NF 21455 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sun, ex 17495 1100-1200 NF 18930 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Mon, ex 17495 1100-1200 NF 18940 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Tue, ex 17495 1100-1200 NF 18950 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Wed, ex 17495 1100-1200 NF 18960 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Thu, ex 17495 1100-1200 NF 18980 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Fri, ex 17495 1100-1200 NF 18990 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sat, ex 17495 1100-1200 NF 19010 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sun, ex 17495 1200-1300 NF 18940 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Mon, ex 13795 1200-1300 NF 18950 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Tue, ex 13795 1200-1300 NF 18960 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Wed, ex 13795 1200-1300 NF 18980 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Thu, ex 13795 1200-1300 NF 18990 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Fri, ex 13795 1200-1300 NF 19000 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sat, ex 13795 1200-1300 NF 18930 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sun, ex 13795 1300-1400 NF 18930 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Mon, ex 13795 1300-1400 NF 18940 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Tue, ex 13795 1300-1400 NF 18950 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Wed, ex 13795 1300-1400 NF 18960 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Thu, ex 13795 1300-1400 NF 18980 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Fri, ex 13795 1300-1400 NF 18990 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sat, ex 13795 1300-1400 NF 19010 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sun, ex 13795 1500-1600 NF 13615 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Mon, ex 11580 1500-1600 NF 13735 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Tue, ex 11580 1500-1600 NF 13615 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Wed, ex 11580 1500-1600 NF 13735 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Thu, ex 11580 1500-1600 NF 13615 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Fri, ex 11580 1500-1600 NF 13735 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sat, ex 11580 1500-1600 NF 13735 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sun, ex 11580 2200-2300 NF ..... KWT 250 kW / 080 deg to CeAs Tibetan Mon, ex 9815 2200-2300 NF ..... KWT 250 kW / 080 deg to CeAs Tibetan Tue, ex 9815 2200-2300 NF 11965 KWT 250 kW / 080 deg to CeAs Tibetan Wed, ex 9815 2200-2300 NF 11995 KWT 250 kW / 080 deg to CeAs Tibetan Thu, ex 9815 2200-2300 NF 12035 KWT 250 kW / 080 deg to CeAs Tibetan Fri, ex 9815 2200-2300 NF 12045 KWT 250 kW / 080 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sat, ex 9815 2200-2300 NF 12125 KWT 250 kW / 080 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sun, ex 9815 ..... subject to monitoring on April 28, 29 and 30 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/frequency-changes-of-radio-free-asia.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, April 28, dxldyg via DXLD) I saw this while I was on the bus and using the newly installed bus wifi, I checked the Twente receiver and found RFA Tibetan on 18930 & CNR1 jammer on the old frequency 17495 (Dave Hughes, KCMO, April 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 18980, April 29 at 1353-1359*, Radio Free Asia conversation in presumed Tibetan, poor fading to very poor, but no jamming audible. As in Aoki, this neglected band is suddenly full of signals! Not really, only one signal on multiple frequencies depending on which hour between 1100 and 1400, and upon which day of week, in a very complex schedule to avoid jamming (but if they stick to it, rather than jump around randomly, what`s the point? All SARFT has to do is follow the schedule too!). Well, what I heard is already off-schedule, as Tuesdays at 13-14 it`s ``supposed`` to be on 18940. Aoki says this started April 25, 250 kW at 78 degrees from KUWAIT, using every frequency in 10 kHz steps between 18930 and 19010 at one time or another (except 18970 deferring to Sound of Hope/CNR1). 18980`s day for the 13-14 hour is allegedly Fridays, where it really was on April 25, as originally reported by Hiroshi and S. Hasegawa. Ivo Ivanov says the 18 MHz Kuwait frequencies replace 13795 (only) at 12-14, and 17495 (only) at 11-12: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/frequency-changes-of-radio-free-asia.html Or put another way by S. Hasegawa more succinctly: RFA-Tibetan via Kuwait of 15mb changes the frequency every day. ``Sunday to Saturday 1100-1200 UT 19010-18930-18940-18950-18960-18980-18990 1200-1300 UT 18930-18940-18950-18960-18980-18990-19000 1300-1400 UT 19010-18930-18940-18950-18960-18980-18990`` HFCC continues to know *nothing* about anything on the 18 MHz band. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. Frequency changes of Voice of America effective Apr 23 0300-0400 NF 21600 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Mon, ex 21500 0300-0400 NF 21610 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Tue, ex 21500 0300-0400 NF 21620 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Wed, ex 21500 0300-0400 NF 21630 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Thu, ex 21500 0300-0400 NF 21640 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Fri, ex 21500 0300-0400 NF 21650 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sat, ex 21500 0300-0400 NF 21660 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sun, ex 21500 0400-0500 NF 21610 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Mon, ex 21530 0400-0500 NF 21620 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Tue, ex 21530 0400-0500 NF 21630 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Wed, ex 21530 0400-0500 NF 21640 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Thu, ex 21530 0400-0500 NF 21650 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Fri, ex 21530 0400-0500 NF 21660 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sat, ex 21530 0400-0500 NF 21600 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sun, ex 21530 0500-0600 NF 21620 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Mon, ex 21510 0500-0600 NF 21630 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Tue, ex 21510 0500-0600 NF 21640 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Wed, ex 21510 0500-0600 NF 21650 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Thu, ex 21510 0500-0600 NF 21660 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Fri, ex 21510 0500-0600 NF 21600 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sat, ex 21510 0500-0600 NF 21610 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sun, ex 21510 1400-1500 NF 17485 UDO 250 kW / 321 deg to CeAs Tibetan Mon, ex 17740 1400-1500 NF 17515 UDO 250 kW / 321 deg to CeAs Tibetan Tue, ex 17740 1400-1500 NF 17485 UDO 250 kW / 321 deg to CeAs Tibetan Wed, ex 17740 1400-1500 NF 17515 UDO 250 kW / 321 deg to CeAs Tibetan Thu, ex 17740 1400-1500 NF 17485 UDO 250 kW / 321 deg to CeAs Tibetan Fri, ex 17740 1400-1500 NF 17515 UDO 250 kW / 321 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sat, ex 17740 1400-1500 NF 17515 UDO 250 kW / 321 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sun, ex 17740 1600-1700 NF 15495 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAs Tibetan Mon, ex 15115 1600-1700 NF 15505 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAs Tibetan Tue, ex 15115 1600-1700 NF 15495 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAs Tibetan Wed, ex 15115 1600-1700 NF 15505 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAs Tibetan Thu, ex 15115 1600-1700 NF 15495 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAs Tibetan Fri, ex 15115 1600-1700 NF 15505 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sat, ex 15115 1600-1700 NF 15505 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sun, ex 15115 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/frequency-changes-of-radio-free-asia.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, April 28, dxldyg via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. TAJIKISTAN/CHINA and the small V of Tibet from Yangi Yul TJK at 1240-1304 UT on 15557 kHz. China mainland jamming started and signed-in then at 1247-1248 two kHz lower on 15555 kHz. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, April 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) More and more frequency changes for Voice of Tibet: 1200-1215 NF 15543 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15548 1215-1230 NF 15537 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15542 1230-1245 NF 15557 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15577 1245-1300 NF 15563 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15583 1300-1315 NF 15538 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15547 1300-1315 NF 15568 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15563 1315-1330 NF 15543 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15542 1315-1330 NF 15568 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15588 1330-1345 NF 15543 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15542 1330-1345 NF 15568 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15588 1345-1400 NF 15537 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15537 1345-1400 NF 15562 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15582 1400-1415 on 15525 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan no change 1400-1415 NF 15568 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15588 1415-1430 on 15530 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan no change 1415-1430 NF 15568 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15588 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-for-voice-of-tibet.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, April 27, dxldyg via DXLD) ** TURKEY. 11980, TRT Emirler in Turkish presented a powerhouse distorted signal in 11966 to 11994 kHz range. S=9+30dB or -41dBm here in southern Germany. 0456 UT April 28 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 28 via DXLD) ** UKRAINE [and non]. UKRAINE / RUSSIA === In Crimea, Ukrainian FM- station was replaced by Russian. State Special Communication Service of Ukraine will complain to the International Telecommunication Union. Instead Ukrainian radio stations began broadcasting in the Russian Crimea. In the FM-band radio Russia appeared such as "Vesti FM», «Europe Plus", "Russkoe Radio", "Autoradio», Energy, found "Capital" promonitoriv range radio ether. "You listen to us online?" - Asked yesterday leading radio "News" from the caller to the radio listener from Sevastopol, not knowing that they are already on the air. On the radio goes both local and Russian advertising. In addition, in the Crimean air continue to broadcast local radio stations such as, for example, Leader FM. General Director of "Kiss FM" Anton Tseslik says that "for good" must be issued new licenses for broadcasting (new Crimean regulator or Russian). But such information, he said, have neither the Crimean local broadcasters or Ukrainian. Official information on tenders for radio frequencies under the FM- radio station in site Minkomsvyazi Rossii these did not appear. Minister of Information and Communications of Crimea By Dmitry Polonskiy on a business trip, said yesterday his assistant. At the request of the Ministry by e-mail yesterday, no response. Recall that in early April in the Crimea from ether lost a number of Ukrainian radio stations. 6 In particular broadcasters 'Taurus Media" - Russian radio, Hit FM, Kiss FM, Radio Roks, Relax, Radio Melody, as well as holding UMH - Autoradio, our radio, Europa Plus, etc." Radio Chanson" and "Favorite Radio" (Jukebox), are included in the Business Radio Group, and were forced to stop broadcasting in the Crimea on the background of the situation, said yesterday, "Capital" in the source group. According to research company «GFK Ukraine", in the southern region of Ukraine (including Odessa, Nikolaev and Kherson) at the end of the first quarter of 2014, there were about 1.4 million listeners aged 12 to 65 years. According to the director, "Taurus Media" Igor Chernyshev, their partners in the Crimea forced to disable the radio. Press secretary UMH Julia Vasilenko added that further radio group is not technically feasible. Yesterday, representatives of the media groups noted that the situation in Crimea has not changed. Sales Representative Europa Plus (Ukraine) said that some residents of Crimea listen radio online mode call and participate in quizzes. Head of Administration of State Special Communication Service Vladimir Zverev notes that in the Crimea from the Russian broadcasters (including television) not included in the broadcast rights, as radio frequency assignment of equipment, and the equipment itself is the property of Ukraine. On this issue, the agency appealed to the International Telecommunication Union and finds this flagrant violation of their rights. FM-wave in close proximity to the warm sea can be spread over long distances and interfere with communications of other states, if their use is not pre-harmonized at the international level. Press secretary Roskomnadzora Vadim Ampelonskiy said he had no information on the use of radiofrequency one in the Crimea, and added that such data can only clarify a few days. capital.ua (OnAir.ru via RusDX April 27 via DXLD) ** UKRAINE. SEPARATISTS SEIZE DONETSK BROADCASTING CENTRE http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/27/ukraine-crisis-donetsk-tv-idUSL6N0NJ0P020140427 Although the above only mentions TV, other reports make clear that this is the building on Kuibyshev Street that houses both TV and radio. WRTH page 387 says the Donetsk regional broadcasting company has two local radio stations: Radio Donechyna on 711 and Radio Tsentr on 1359 (Chris Greenway, England, April 27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Donetsk Oblast [State] Radio & TV streams audio and video live online from its website at http://k61.dn.ua/ (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, ibid.) David, this is from Ukrainian television. Note the logo on the upper right, which means "Ukraine United". I'm not at all sure what's being broadcast over the air, however on TV or via radio. 73, (Volodya Salmaniw, BC, ibid.) Here's an excellent link by Paul Goble who's critical of the west's premature cessation of free media to the states of the FSU, and the resultant misinformation battles. I kept thinking about the abandonment of SW and the closure of so many language services of the VOA, RFE/RL, RCI, DW, the BBC, etc., as I read this article. By the way, trying to watch Donetsk TV live keeps failing, so I'm assuming that the separatists/Russian special forces have turned this off. Should be interesting to see over the next few hours what replaces it! http://euromaidanpr.com/2014/04/27/the-west-must-help-post-soviet-countries-counter-moscow-television/ 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC 1635 UT April 27, ibid.) The Donetsk Oblast Radio live audio stream is relaying Ukrainian Radio 1st Programme at the moment (1645 UT). (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, April 27, ibid.) [and non]. At least VOA and RFE/RL are still broadcasting in Ukrainian. VOA has the larger audience because of its television content placed on Ukrainian television stations. The VOA TV content is no longer available on TV stations in Crimea or parts of eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russians. That leaves content via websites. Probably not many Ukrainians tuning to shortwave for news these day. But if the Internet is blocked, maybe shortwave will again be needed. Paul Goble suggests that the West start a Russian-language satellite channel. Satellite TV in Russia mainly uses systems such as Tricolor and NTV_Plus, which are like DISH and DirecTV in the USA: domestic and regulated. A US channel would probably not be welcomed on cable/DTH systems in Russia. In countries adjacent to Russia, maybe (Kim Elliott, DC, April 27, ibid.) Kim, but only via local transmitters on AM and FM. I'm glad that we have shortwave as a back-up, at least. It's too easy to pull the plug on local transmissions, as has been demonstrated in Donetsk, where the "little green men" have replaced Ukrainian media with feeds from Moscow. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, ibid.) ** U A E. 15420.125, BBCWS English via Al Dhabbaya-UAE relay station very odd frequency this morning on April 28 at 0425 UT. News report of Taliban and president elections in all Afghanistan, report from Kabul (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 28, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U A E. QSL: 11635, TransWorld Radio, Somali to East Africa via Dhabbaya. Full data (but no site indicated, dispite a request), TWR speaking Hope to the World .pdf E-mail QSL Reply, with accompanying cover letter apologizing for the oversight and delay for replying to my request. E-mail report to twr-sa@iafrica with reply from lstavrop@twr.org v/s Mrs. Lorraine Stavropoulos, TWR-Manzini(Edward Kusalik-Alberta, Canada, April 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. 198 kHz, BBC, 0023 "Can't vocalize these things in public" om and yl into a discussion of Google and Face book to 0026. 23 April (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro Modified, Drake R8, Sony 2010XA, 120 meter dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. Re: Frequency change of BBC from April 23: 0400-0500 NF 7360 MEY 100 kW / 020 deg to SoAf English, ex 7355* * to avoid Radio Romania International in Romanian on 7350 (DX Re Mix News, Bulgaria) Having listened to BBC WS on 7355, and the empty channel it left behind, I must say I have never noticed interference from Romania at my Jo'burg location. I wonder if this decision was made by BBC or Sentech, and was it based upon theory or monitoring with a real radio? (Bill Bingham, RSA, Sony ICF2001D. dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. IS SHORTWAVE RADIO DOOMED? W82FAST April 28, 2014 Shortwave radio was the technology which first made international broadcasting over huge distances possible. It was used for decades by the BBC World Service, the Voice of America and Radio Moscow. Nowadays, its rather fallen out of fashion, with many broadcasters having drastically cut back their shortwave transmissions or abandoned them altogether. So is it doomed to disappear altogether, or does it have a future in the digital era? To find out, we sent our reporter Lucy Burton to visit Radio Romania - which still broadcasts on shortwave. Lucy Burton is a BBC Business journalist working for the World Service. http://mygreenmustang.com/radio/forum/index.php/topic/310-is-shortwave-radio-doomed/ (I think that this programme was recorded a while ago but its still very interesting - Mike) [Later:] Actually I have heard it before as of course it`s the programme that includes an interview with Glenn! (Mike Terry, April 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. BBC News 'can feel distant', says Trust report 29 April 2014 Last updated at 09:54 ET Comments (886) BBC Newsroom at New Broadcasting House An aerial view of the BBC Newsroom at New Broadcasting House in London [captions] BBC Trust to examine star salaries A review of the BBC's news output has found it to be "trusted and highly regarded by audiences" but suggests some viewers can find it "distant". Conducted by the BBC Trust, the review also expresses concern that "younger audiences' use of broadcast news is continuing to decline". It says "there is a risk that they may not turn to the BBC as they get older, as has traditionally been the case." More than 9,000 people were consulted as part of the review. The BBC's governing body looked at the performance of all of the corporation's UK network news and current affairs across TV, radio and online before drawing its conclusions. The main points of the report are. . . http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27201397 (via Gerald T Pollard, NC, DXLD) No mention of SW ** U K. Ofcom's Interactive Spectrum Map is an easy way to browse and search how different spectrum bands are used in the United Kingdom. Use the dashboard to find out how spectrum is being used, by sector and by product/application. The map covers spectrum from 8.3 kHz to 275 GHz. http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/spectrum/map.html ---- (Trevor M5AKA, AMSAT-UK Website http://amsat-uk.org/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/amsatuk Twitter https://twitter.com/AMSAT_UK April 30, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DXLD) Like countless other hams, since he has a call, Trevor thinx he doesn`t need a surname, altho it can be looked up (gh, DXLD) There's something odd here! The HF section doesn't indicate the SW broadcasting bands. To give just one example, all that's shown in the range 9.4 to 9.9 MHz are "Active Medical Implants, Inductive Applications, Railway Applications, Ship Radio and Maritime Radio (Suppliers and Demonstration)"! The LF and MF sections do list "Transmission of National and Local Radio Broadcasting Services" in the correct ranges, and the Amateur bands are listed on SW. Cock-up or conspiracy? (Chris Greenway, BDXC- UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DXLD) ** U S A. 7345-USB, April 24 at 1331, Navy MARS net in (extremely) informal segment, discussing snakes, rattlers, and birds in Arkansas, etc. Heard one call starting with NNN0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 21430-AM, April 25 at 2126, WB6QKO calling CQ, soon makes contact, unheard, says his name is Larry. This seems to be a favorite spot on ``15`` meters for hAMs. ARRL FCC lookup leads to: COX, LAWRENCE A, WB6QKO 1204 PINE ST SANTA MONICA, CA 90405 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 25000, WWV Ft. Collins, 2000 23 Apr, TS "tac tac tac ... time and BIP!", 33333. 25000, WWV Ft. Collins, 1615 27 Apr, TS "tac tac tac ... time and BIP!", 222 (Mauro Giroletti, Italy, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** U S A. MOST EXTENSIVE REORGANIZATION OF U.S. INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING SINCE THE 1990'S PLAYING OUT NOW. See the link below. Key portions include the following descriptions, which combine aspects of VOA Charter but get more specific and bring VOA closer to the Executive Branch and State Department. See the following: http://bbgwatch.com/bbgwatch/major-reform-of-u-s-international-broadcasting-and-public-diplomacy-to-be-proposed-in-congress/ "Producing accurate, objective, and comprehensive news and related programming and content of a non-military nature that promotes or accords with the domestic and international interests of the United States." "Producing or otherwise allowing editorials, commentary, and programming that present the official views of the United States Government and its officials, especially the Secretary of State." "Reaching identified foreign audiences in languages that best convey the intent of United States foreign policy." Though full text of legislation as of 5:30 PM EDT was not yet on House Foreign Affairs site, BBG Watch account shows that the bill heavily emphasizes the public diplomacy mission of VOA, and coordination between a to-be-created Advisory Board of a new U.S. International Communications Agency with "periodic, unclassified consultations with the Department of State, USAID, DOD, and Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Legislation also appears to lay the groundwork for RIF (Reduction in Force) targeting GS14 and GS15 positions in the Agency (via Dan Robinson, April 28, WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DXLD) Amendments to H.R. 4490 specifying SHORTWAVE, passed unanimously http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA00/20140430/102170/HMKP-113-FA00-20140430-SD002.pdf ``AMENDMENT TO H.R. 4490 OFFERED BY MR. LOWENTHAL OF CALIFORNIA In section 2, redesignate paragraph (19) as paragraph (20). In section 2, insert after paragraph (18), the following: (19) Shortwave broadcasting has been an important method of communication that should be utilized in regions as a component of United States international broadcasting where a critical need for the platform exists`` (via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. SHORTWAVE RADIO - GETTING MESSAGE ACROSS BORDERS WITHOUT CENSORSHIP April 23, 2014 - BBGWatcher - Featured News, Hot Tub Blog BBG Watch Commentary and Guest Open Letter Keith Perron Keith Perron visiting Voice of America in Washington, DC [caption] http://bbgwatch.com/bbgwatch/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/BBG-Open-letterApril-23-audio.mp3 International radio broadcaster Keith Perron has written an open letter to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman Jeff Shell with an appeal for continuing and improving Voice of America (VOA) radio broadcasts. Perron focuses to those parts of the world, particularly China, which experience political repression and Internet censorship or where most of the population does not have adequate access to digital communications technology or may be too poor to afford it. Perron's letter includes several specific suggestion for improving VOA radio program content and shortwave radio signal delivery. "Shortwave is still the only true effective way to get your message across borders without censorship," Perron wrote. "While I do feel it's vital for stations like the VOA to have a presence on social media. All your eggs should not be put in the Internet basket," Perron observed. He described to BBG Chairman how he learned that people in rural China were listeners to Voice of America on shortwave radio: "While I was based in China a number of times I was contacted by various international broadcasters who came to the country to meet listeners and to find out how people listened. Where did they go? Beijing and Shanghai. Not once did they go to any part of China where people listen to shortwave on a regular basis. When I was in China and reporting on the country, many times I would ask people if they listened to shortwave. One experience I remember happened in Sichuan Province in 2008 on May 13th. This was only hours after they were hit by a 8.0 earthquake. I remember walking around Wenchun Country where over 20,000 people were killed and one evening I was outside listening to the BBC World Service. People were coming up to me, because they were curious about the radio I was using. I asked them if they listened to shortwave radio. Every person said yes. The next day I was doing a story on this and talking to people. Then all of a sudden some local officials came over to find what I was doing, as I was talking to a group of 12 people. In a flash their stories changed from yes I listen to the Voice of America and other stations on shortwave to no I never listen to foreign shortwave stations, because we have enough good media here in China. The next day just before I left some of them came to find my and explained to me why they said what they did." Keith Perron has been working in international broadcasting since 1989, including work at Radio Canada International, China Radio International, Radio Deutsche Welle. He has freelanced for Radio Netherlands, Monitor Radio, ABC Radio (Australia) and others. He is currently the director of PCJ Radio International where he is also an announcer and producer. Jeff Shell [caption] The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is both the name of the independent federal agency that oversees all U.S. civilian international media and the name of the board that governs those broadcasts. Broadcasters within the BBG network include the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks (Alhurra TV and Radio Sawa), Radio Free Asia, and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (Radio and TV Marti). Jeff Shell is the chair of the Broadcasting Board of Governors and chairs the BBG's Advisory Committee and Special Committee on the Creation of a Chief Executive Officer. He also chairs the boards of directors for the BBG's grantee networks. Jeff Shell is is chairman of Universal Filmed Entertainment. He previously served as chairman of NBC Universal International from 2011-2013 and as president of Comcast Programming Group from 2005 to 2011. He was confirmed as Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors on August 1, 2013. Decisions regarding Voice of America radio broadcasts described in Mr. Perron's letter were made at the recommendation of the BBG's International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) executives and approved by previous BBG boards before Mr. Shell became BBG Chairman. IBB, which has grown into a large bureaucracy which controls 34 percent of BBG's budget, determined that Voice of America cannot afford to do both radio and online media outreach. Most critics disagree with this conclusion, pointing out that digital media can be developed inexpensively to incorporate radio and other multimedia content. IBB executives and strategists have successfully framed the debate as "all or nothing" in terms of choices between Internet and shortwave radio or radio in general, when in fact proponents of shortwave, including Mr. Perron, do not question at all the value of digital media where it can work without censorship. They see radio as part of a successful multi-media program delivery strategy. Critics also point out that local media placement, which is another IBB preferred strategy, is often censored, and in many cases also subject to self-censorship by VOA executives in charge of programming policy to achieve placement in countries which restrict foreign media news content. The combination of these strategies has led to a significant deterioration of not only VOA radio broadcasts but also VOA news reporting, critics charge. They point to dozens of VOA reports in recent years on the British royal family, multiple reports about Canadian pop star Justin Bieber, and a recent VOA video for Pakistan showing a blood-thirsty zombie character dressed as Uncle Sam attacking a Pakistani. This type of VOA program content is designed to attract website visits and assure local program placement where uncensored news is not welcome. Keith Perron's letter does not focus at length on these content and strategy issues, but it suggests a way of getting both news and feature programs across borders without censorship or self-censorship. ### Keith Perron's Open Letter to Mr. Jeff Shell, Chairman of the BBG, PDF, pcj-logo April 23, 2014 Dear Mr. Shell, I am writing you this letter for the grave concern I have for US international broadcasting. Specifically over decisions concerning the Voice of America, as well as Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. We have seen since the early nineties many international broadcasters cut back on shortwave transmissions or vanish into broadcast history. Swiss Radio International, Radio Canada International, Radio Nederland Wereldomroep, Radio Sweden and others. We have witnessed cuts to schedules at the BBC World Service, VOA and others. Language sections have been axed. Any respect that stations like the Voice of America had. Has waned to the point that if it was not so sad it would be laughable. Since the early nineties the Voice of America and other international broadcasters have jumped on the bandwagon of the Internet. While I do feel it's vital for stations like the VOA to have a presence on social media. All your eggs should not be put in the Internet basket. Back in 2012 while I was visiting a friend at the VOA I had the pleasure of meeting someone from the IT department who told me "we need to end all shortwave". This is obviously someone who didn't have any travel experience. While we cannot dispute the advantages of broadcasting over the Internet. Those who have access to un-censored and stable connections is very small when you look at the world population. I've spent over 10 years in Asia and so many times I have seen decisions to cut back services by individuals who really have no clue. [and the passage quoted above, inset] In Cambodia where I spend lots of time listening to shortwave. I have tried using the Internet. Well it's just to slow. The same for Burma, many parts of Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, India, Bangladesh and others. Yes it is true that these countries are improving there Internet services, but it will in many cases take many years. May I remind you of something that happened after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was not until 1991 when the VOA realized how big an audience they had in the Soviet Union. Then in 2008 you dropped shortwave in favor of local FM and AM transmissions and look what happened. Another point I would like to mention is when I hear "no one listens to shortwave". Well if you cut back on frequencies and no one can find you of course you will lose listeners. And then the officials turn around and say "no one is listening". Well if no one can find you.... This month we saw Voice of Russia drop all shortwave. This had nothing to do with listeners, but more to do with VOR being a political target of the Putin Government. Six years ago Voice of Russia had many reports that were highly critical of Putin. We have seen this before. What do they do? Remove them. Voice of Russia as a company is does not even exist anymore. Very often cutting back on shortwave has more to do with Western arrogance. "Well I don't listen to shortwave so no one else in the world does". This is just untrue. Then there is the budget cuts. First there is no need for shortwave to be expensive. The international broadcasters have made it expensive. The VOA could broadcast to Russia for half the cost by using a relay like Radio Miami International in Okeechobee or from the site that we use in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. The business has changed and has become more competitive in the last 15 years. Now let me give you an example. Here at PCJ Radio International we are tiny. Unlike the VOA or others we don't have the budget to run 5 or 6 frequencies at a time. We do it with one at a time depending on region. The sites we use are Nauen, Germany; Madagascar; Okeechobee, USA; and Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. Listeners who tune via shortwave out number those who listen online 20 to 1. Content is key. The BBC World Service has lost many shortwave listeners over the years, because they cut back in music and drama programming. And now its more or less just news. One of the best programs the VOA has is Border Crossings with Larry London that is broadcast 5 nights a week live. I would bet you this program has way more listeners compared to any of your news programming. Then on weekends you have Jazz America with Russ Davis. There are things that could be done to have a bigger audience. Let's take your schedule that I listen to daily in Asia. In the mornings you have Daybreak Asia followed by International Edition all in one hour. Two current affair shows with more or less the same content? How about keeping Daybreak Asia and have that followed by a program produced by VOA Music Mix? I would guarantee you would have way more listeners. Something that people have forgotten is that soft diplomacy works better with music than with news. Don't get me wrong news is vitally important. But you have one hour that is nothing more than duplication. On the weekends you have one excellent show called American Cafe. Even that would be an excellent edition daily with some music tossed in. I remember in 2011/12 when the VOA wanted to move all there Mandarin programming to the Internet. Or when they wanted to cut Cantonese, because someone said Mandarin and Cantonese are the same. I speak Mandarin fluently and a bit of Cantonese and I can tell you they are not the same. In the last year or so we have see the Chinese start jamming English broadcasts from the VOA. The reason is simple. For years only Chinese was jammed, but with the millions in China who now speak English as a second language they started jamming that. Not just the VOA, but also the English services of the BBC, All India Radio, Radio Australia from time to time. Even we at PCJ have been the victim of jamming from China. Shortwave is still the only true effective way to get your message across borders without censorship. If you really want to save money don't take it out of shortwave. I would suggest you take it out of television. VOA TV really has no point. It's amateurish and is a total waste of US tax payer money. Shortwave is excellent money for value. But it's also important to produce programs people will want to listen to. Don't shout to your audience, talk to them. If you did this you will find the audience will tune in. How about having a weekly 25 minute show just answering listeners questions and talking to them on air? If you did this you will see the Voice of America starting to make a difference. You would be in touch with listeners not out of touch with them. If you want I would be more than willing to produce for you a pilot of a program that could be broadcast on weekends. It would not cost you one dollar. I would take it out of our own budget. Sincerely yours, Keith Perron PCJ Radio International (BBGWatch via Mike Cooper, May 1, DXLD) ** U S A [non]. 15780, April 25 at 1255, VOA Korean via Tinang, PHILIPPINES, 21 degrees also USward, remains one of the strongest and most reliable signals on 19m in the mornings, exceeded only by RHC on 15340, 15370 after 1300; and by HCJB-Australia (as still IDing, no ``Reaching Beyond`` heard yet) on 15400 until 1300*. VOA is in English lesson, about the expression ``dropping like flies``. I don`t understand their explanation, of course, but makes me wonder if it refer to fly *balls*, which would make more sense than insects! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. VOA and Radio Free Asia to TIBET: q.v. [non] ** U S A. VOA Radiogram for April 26-27, 2014, will be mostly MFSK32, plus one VOA News story in the faster MFSK64L mode. Details at... http://voaradiogram.net/post/83821872512/voa-radiogram-26-17-april-2014-mfsk32-plus-some (Kim Elliott, April 25, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1718 monitoring: 5050, UT Friday April 25 at 0330, WWRB is off the air! And no webcast funxioning either; lost microwave internet connexion again? But *two* transmitters are still running with Brother Scare, on 3185 and 9370. Next: Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB Saturday 2330 on WTWW-2, 9930 UT Sunday 0030 on WRMI-14, 9495 (or maybe previous 1717) UT Sunday 0401 on WTWW-1, 5830 UT Monday 0300 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Tuesday 1100, Wednesday 1315 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB WORLD OF RADIO 1718 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-2, 9930, Saturday April 26 starting at 2330:14, usual excellent signal. Also #1718 an hour later on WRMI-14, 9495, sufficient from 0030 UT Sunday April 27. The 0401 UT Sunday airing on WTWW-1, 5830: bigsig dumped off the air for a sesquiminute just as I was saying ``This is ---``. Why does this keep happening? Fingers crossed to keep on for the rest of the semihour. Nope: off again at 0409 for another sesquiminute. And *again* at 0418-0421; back for a few seconds, and off again later in 0421. 0422+ on again to conclusion; Webcast still funxions via: http://wtww.us/pages/listen-live/transmitter-1-player.php Next: UT Monday 0300 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Tuesday 1100 & Wednesday 1315 on WRMI, 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ciao a tutti gli amici del gruppo! Ecco una selezione di ascolti in onde corte fatti il 27 aprile – 5830, 27/04 0415, WTWW 1, Lebanon TN Info ID, Px "WOR 1718", E, 45434, QTH Treviso, Italia, RX: SONY ICF SW7600G, Ant.: esterna VHF azimuth 230 (Nino Marabello, http://acquamarina.blogspot.com bclnews.it yg via DXLD) Dear Glenn, Here is the following reception report of your program: WTWW 5830 kHz - Lebanon TN, 0415-0430 UT, 27 April 2014, SINPO 45344. I listened at 0415 UT full info about WOR 1718, at 0419-0421 UT TX power off and then some DX news of Ivo Ivanov Bulgaria in English, etc. I have attached an audio clip WMA of 200 KB. 73 from (Nino Marabello, QTH - Treviso (Italy), RX: SONY ICF SW7600G ANT: VHF outdoor antenna azimuth 230 , http://acquamarina.blogspot.com DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1718 monitoring: webcast of Area 51, UT Monday April 28 at 0300 starts WORLD OF RADIO on time, but --- goes silent after a few words, altho the player keeps running. At 0309 checking 5110v-CUSB, that is playing fill music instead, also at 0328, so we lost that airing completely. Ahhh, the unreliability, but redundancy of shortwave! Next: Tuesday 1100 on WRMI-10, 9955 Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB Wednesday 1315 [new shifted time] on WRMI-11, 9955 See also CYPRUS [non] WORLD OF RADIO 1718 monitoring: confirmed final repeat on WRMI, Wednesday April 30 at 1315 on 9955. WORLD OF RADIO 1719 monitoring: ready for first broadcast UT Thursday May 1 at 0330 on WRMI, 9955. Then: Thursday 1230 on WRMI, 9955 Thursday 2101 on WTWW, 9475 UT Friday 0326v on WWRB, 5050 (we hope; off the air last week) Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB Saturday 2330 on WTWW, 9930 UT Sunday 0030 on WRMI, 9495 UT Monday 0300 on Area 51 via WBCQ, 5110v-CUSB (we hope; not last week) Tuesday 1100 on WRMI, 9955 Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB Wednesday 1315 on WRMI, 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. QSL: 9955, “Wavescan” Program via WRMI, Okeechobee, Florida Transmitter. Full data (with site) Dr. Adrian Peterson, as a speaker. At the 2012 NASB Meeting in Washington QSL card, with Radio Monitors QSL (for future use) and Seventh Day Church Card in Irvington, Indiana. This for an e-mail report with a reply in 20 days. V/S: Dr. Adrian Peterson (Edward Kusalik-Alberta, Canada, April 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. QSL: 17790, Radio Africa Network via Pan American Broadcasting via WRMI, Okeechobee, Flordia Transmitter. Full data (with site, power, aizmuth, and site) Globe with crosses QSL Card with schedule and accompanying cover letter for E-mail report and MP3 audio files attachments to info@panambc.com. Reply in 25 days. V/s Jeff Berrand [sic] (Edward Kusalik-Alberta, Canada, April 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9370, April 26 at 0540, WWRB is off again, after having run the day Overcomer frequency also several overnights. 9370 also off April 27 at 0120, while 3185 is on with BS and 5050 is back on with other programming, subject to dead air. 9370, April 30 at 0546, WWRB is once again running day frequency at night with Brother Scare, VG signal too, while at 0550 check, night frequency 3185 is off. 3185, May 1 at 0113, WWRB BS is back on here, but not on 9370; while the second transmitter is programming else on 5050 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9475, April 25 at 2121, I notice that WTWW-1 is off (good thing it was on 24 hours earlier); 12105 is also off and has not been noticed for a few days now; 9930 however with BS is on and blasting in. 5085, April 26 at 0544, WTWW-2 is off, so we`ll have to make do with only half a dozen other Brother Scare frequencies. 12105, UT Monday April 28 at 0130, WTWW-3 is on for a change, bigsig not with Bibling in Spanish, but instead: country music show and Ted Randall announcing! This is normally Sunday evenings on 5085, WTWW-2. 5085 and WTWW-1 5830 are both off. By 0310 recheck April 28, 12105 is now only an open carrier with poor signal, and by 0328 it`s gone. A test, mixup, or deliberate substitution? None of the other WTWW frequencies are on now either. 5830, however is back on with SFAW at 0546 check April 28; 5085 still off. 12105, at 1337 April 28 is off again when it used to be in Russian. 9475 is on and 9930 is off. 5085, 5830, April 29 at 0056, WTWWs are off, and so is WTWW-3, 12105, at 0113 check. 9475, April 29 at 1346, WTWW-1 is on but the other two are off, no 9930 or 12105, apparently with continuing transmitter problems. 5085, April 30 at 0548, WTWW-2 is on with BS, and so is 5830, WTWW-1 with PPP. 9475, April 30 at 1320, 9475, WTWW-1 is on with PPP but neither -2 nor -3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I have noticed recently that the 5830 signal of WTWW (05-06 UT time and probably at other times as well) will suddenly drop off to zero (often in the middle of one of the late PPP's fiery sermons) for a few minutes for no apparent reason. Perhaps they're using parts from one transmitter to keep the others going and then putting them back ever so often to put that one back on the air. Your guess is as good as mine (Shawn From Flushing NY (who actually listens to Scriptures for America when not DXing HM01), Apr 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. April 26 at 0107, WBCQ is close to 7490.0 during `Allan Weiner Worldwide`, with a belching guest; who could that be?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7490.480, WBCQ hopping up and down +/- 20 Hertz, S=8 or -74dBm signal here in southern Germany during dark propagation hours at 0340 UT April 28. Rather smooth sermon prayer in English (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 28, dxldyg via DXLD) should be BS 5110v-CUSB, UT Tue April 29 at 0057 and still at 0104, WBCQ is off, after consistently appearing weeknights at this time for weeks despite absence from online schedule, usually with Allan Weiner Worldwide playbacks (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7505.26 approx., April 26 at 0107, VG signal with gospel/soul/rock, obviously WRNO reactivated, and almost back on frequency! Had been off since last report March 17 as in DXLD 14-12, so in the past 5+ weeks they must have been working on adjusting the frequency down from 7506.6, but still not quite there. Did they ever get an FCC citation for being so far out of legal tolerance? Unlikely. 7505.2, April 27 at 0121, very poor carrier, unlike WRNO`s bigsig reactivation last night, independently estimated then at 7505.26. Since no other broadcaster at all is currently scheduled on 7505 anywhere near this hour, per HFCC, Aoki and EiBi, I conclude that this is probably WRNO on exciter only of a few watts. EiBi dated April 17 does not even list WRNO on 7505 or any nearby frequency, apparently removed during its 5-week inactive period (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7505.209, Heavily performing sermon cryer at 0345 UT April 28, but not Brother Stair TOM program? from WRNO New Orleans. S=9+20dB or -55dBm here in southern Germany. Still carrier was on air warming up on 7505.212 at 10 UT yesterday April 27 though (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 28, dxldyg via DXLD) 7505.22, approx., April 29 at 0105, WRNO is back on with VG signal preaching (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11880, April 27 at 1216 VG signal opening preacher in English, Pastor David Robinson. Can it be a new frequency for WRMI? Not // 9955. WRMI did use 11880 briefly on Sundays in Dec-Jan for PCJ Radio. No, 1229 outro for Victory Baptist Church and World Harvest Radio ID, into gospel music, but another gospel huxter after 1245. HFCC, as of April 24 shows no WRMI on 11880, but this: 11880 1200 1300 2,3 HRI 250 315 0 146 1234567 300314 261014 D 8500 Spa USA NHK FCC 16113 NHK??? Spanish??? to western Canada??? Obviously not!!! This may be on Sundays only; certainly not noticed before now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11880, April 30 at 1230, gospel huxter in English with very strong signal, as first heard April 27. Ivo Ivanov says WHRI has replaced 7385 with this daily except Saturdays during this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. World Harvest Radio changes: Angel 1 1300-1400 17760 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg WeEu English Sun ?, additional T8WH Angel 4 0100-0300 NF 17640 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs English Sun, ex 15660 0300-0400 NF 17640 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs English Sun-Fri, ex 15660 Angel 6 1200-1300 NF 11880 HRI 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Sun-Fri, ex 7385 (DX RE MIX NEWS #850 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 30, 2014, via DXLD) ** U S A. 3215, April 28 at 0555, open carrier/dead air from WWCR; 0613 recheck it`s back with `Inspirations Across America`, soul music a bit too hyper for the nightmiddle (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 570, April 25 at 0553 UT, ``southern New Mexico`s only source for legends, Classic Country 5-70``, i.e. revived call KGRT Las Cruces (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1060, KRUZ, AR, Van Buren – Granted STA with D1 25 from a temporary longwire antenna. Formerly silent stations informing the FCC that they are no longer silent: 1060, KRUZ, AR, Van Buren – Silent since 3/16/2013, came back on 3/12/[2014] to preserve license using STA (as above). (AM Switch, NRC DX News March 31 via DXLD) Stations informing the FCC that they are silent: 1060, KRUZ, AR, Van Buren – Silent (again) 3/15; has lost permanent tower site (AM Switch, NRC DX News April 21 via DXLD) ** U S A. Formerly silent stations informing the FCC that they are no longer silent: 1160, KRDY, TX, San Antonio – Silent since 9/28/2013; returned to the air 4/9 (AM Switch, NRC DX News April 21 via DXLD) ** U S A. 1330, KCKM Monahans TX DX test UT March 22: I posted a general summary of the log at the time, but now with QSLs going out (tho none received here yet), here`s a more detailed summary, and my recording of the complete test, 35 minutes: http://www.w4uvh.net/KCKMDXtest.mp3 0500, ``You`re listening to the west Texas powerhouse, KCKM``, sung ID and a song, no DX yet. 0503, KNSS Wichita ID can be heard; fast SAH thruout, but KCKM generally atop on the DX-398 aimed at Monahans. 0504, sweep tones, 0504.5 phone-off-the-hook signal (POTH), more sweeps 0504:40, Morse code ID (after picking out call KCKM, I haven`t taken the time to copy every letter now or later, but during the test itself, these were the *only* IDs, never any by voice.) 0506, POTH, siren & bells - fire alarm sound effects 0507, code briefly, music 0510.5, sweeps, code KCKM, ``On the Radio`` jingle, POTH 0511.5, fire alarm & siren 0513.5, code KCKM 0514, sweeps, 0514.5 POTH, more sweeps --- these are always from low pitch to high repeating every few seconds --- really stand out and a favorite technique for DX tests to cut thru the QRM 0515, code, sweeps 0517, POTH, fire alarm, code 0518, music, TV theme? [later identified as `Price is Right`, not something I watch] 0520, fade down during music 0520.5, back up with sweeps, code KCKM DX 0524, code, sweeps, POTH, sweeps 0525, code, sweeps, POTH, fire alarm, code 0528, music, same theme? Fading down past 0530, more sweeps 0531, singing ID? Code, ``On the Radio`` jingle, POTH, fire alarm 0532, code for last time 0533, test is over, voice ID as 30 minutes ago, fade but now due to resuming night power from 12 kW during test; song ``West Virginia``. Then at 1531 UT April 25 I get a reply to my follow-up: ``QSL is Coming --- Glenn, I have no idea how you fell through the cracks but the mp3 file definitely confirms reception of KCKM 1330 during our DX test. Watch your mail box! Bob Souza, Managing Partner, KCKM1330 – 12,000 Watts, P.O. Box 990 – 1200 S. Stockton, Monahans, TX 79756`` I had also asked him about the status of former sibling station KCKN 1020 in Roswell NM, Are they still on STA of very reduced power; is there any prospect of getting back to full 50 kW? And he says, ``Roswell is supposed to be rebuilding their old tube transmitter, a continental 317. They are modulating at a low level so that makes it worse`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, April 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1330, KCKM Monahans TX: QSL received in the p-mail today April 28 for the March 22 DX test after follow-up. Same one others have reported with the oil rig gizmos. V/s Bob Souza also enclosed bumper sticker, and business card. Since my name does not appear on the QSL, we`ve also scanned the envelope with my name and address: http://www.w4uvh.net/KCKMenv.jpg http://www.w4uvh.net/KCKMQSL.jpg http://www.w4uvh.net/KCKMBS.jpg http://www.w4uvh.net/KCKMbizcd.jpg and to be added to my QSL Gallery: http://www.worldofradio.com/QSL.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, April 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1370, NORTH CAROLINA, WTAB, Tabor City. 0835 April 27, 2014. Classic C&W vocals over/under WOCA, Ocala, FL. Promo for always listening to radio end-tagged with, "... We're WTAB (dramatic pause) RADIO!" and into "I'll Be Home" by Larry Chance. This one has often been putting in a good night signal, so once must wonder: is it really 110 watts night power or leaving the 5,000 watts day up (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, NRD-535, IC-R75, roof dipole, active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1440, April 25 at 1247 UT, open carrier/dead air from N/S bearing, no doubt 50 kW KTNO University Park (The Metroplex) TX, supposed to be Spanish religion as Radio Luz. Recheck at 1319 UT, still no modulation from KTNO, fading out around 1329 UT. 1440, April 25 at 1247 UT, KMAJ Topeka KS can be heard easily thru the KTNO OC, with concert promos, 1440kmaj.com The two make a 2.4 Hz SAH = 144/minute, but it seems to be varying slightly at 1319 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1440, April 30 at 0602 UT, amid heavy CCI, Spanish ID as ``La Pantera, 14-40``. It`s no Mexican, but KTUV, Little Rock AR, which I previously heard but without this slogan, December 31 during the same hour as in DXLD 14-01; 240 watts night power, E-W (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, Saturday April 26 at 1245 UT, ``El Paso`` by Marty Robbins from N/S, during `Cowboy Corner` syndicated show, so is it Wichita or Dallas? 1252 UT ad for Texas Rangers, so there`s our answer, KBXD Dallas, not 100% politico-religious despite carrying Rick Wiles and Brother Scare (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Music changes at 1660 KQWB. --- This item from DX- midAMerica: 1660, KQWB, ND, West Fargo. NOW OLD C&W "Willie at 1660 AM" adds NBC news at :00, dropping "True Oldies" as service closing [Rieger-MI] Best wishes and 73's (via Barry :-) Davies, Carlisle UK, April 24, MWCircle yg via DXLD) Cumulus Media Networks has revealed they will stop distributing Scott Shannon’s True Oldies Channel at the end of June. The new Westwood One Good Time Oldies promo sheet states the format will target Men 45-64 with a music mix featuring 60% 1960s, 25% 1970s, and 15% 1950s and 1980s described as “the golden era of pop, rock, and soul: hit music of the ’60s and ’70s with a healthy portion of “oh-wow” songs from other decades. To contrast, Westwood One’s Classic Hits network is 60% 1970s, 25% 1980s, and 15% 1960s (Bill Hale, May WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) “One day after revealing a new “Good Time Oldies” network to debut on April 28, Cumulus Media Networks has revealed they will stop distributing Scott Shannon’s True Oldies Channel at the end of June. The new Westwood One Good Time Oldies promo sheet states the format will target Men 45-64 with a music mix featuring 60% 1960s, 25% 1970s, and 15% 1950s and 1980s described as “the golden era of pop, rock, and soul: hit music of the ’60s and ’70s with a healthy portion of “oh- wow” songs from other decades. The music is up tempo and the presentation is full of energy, including features about rock and roll history and the timeless artists of the era.” To contrast, Westwood One’s Classic Hits network is 60% 1970s, 25% 1980s, and 15% 1960s. Shannon’s True Oldies Channel currently airs on over 100 stations nationwide including Cumulus’ “Oldies 98.9” Atlanta. The network’s future had been up in the air since Shannon departed Cumulus’ 95.5 WPLJ New York for WCBS-FM. Shannon intends to seek a new distributor to keep the network running. Interestingly, Cumulus registered TrueOldiesHouston.com for its 104.1 KRBE-HD2 on March 14. Likely the local station management had no idea of the plans coming from the network side of the company” (Radio Insight via NRC DX News April 21 via DXLD) ** U S A. 1660, April 27 at 1227 UT, outro for a feature from the ``K- State Radio Network``, which means it must be KWOD Kansas City. I`ve yet to catch the new legal ID for the former KUDL, which has been in effect since April 7; presumably still biz/Bloomberg format as an alternate program from ``KMBZ`` [980]. FCC AM Query callsign history: KWOD 04/07/2014 KUDL 03/31/2011 KXTR 02/12/2007 [the KXTR eras were classical, ex-FM, both lamented] WDAF 01/19/2007 [?! For less than a month parked here] KXTR 06/06/2001 KWSJ 08/17/2000 KBJC 08/10/1998 As for the K-State Radio Network, that`s the remnant of 580 KKSU and before that KSAC, Manhattan, which sold out the frequency to WIBW, but remains a presumably free public service program source picked up by many Kansas commercial stations. See http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/ ``History --- The K-State Radio Network is a service which originated with public radio station KKSU-AM, which left the air November 27, 2002, after nearly 78 years of broadcasting. Links Listen to the live stream (M-F, 10a-11a CT) Flash Streaming Archives Agriculture Today Kansas Profile Milk Lines Outbound Kansas Perspective Sound Living Tree Tales Weather Wonders Wheat Scoop Affiliates Weekly Features`` From Affiliates, http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/News/p.aspx?tabid=61 there`s a grid showing stations carrying three of the programs and ``features`` in general, but precious few actual times, and WTFK?? KUDL is still on the list (not KWOD) for `Sound Living`, Sundays at 6:30-7:30 am CDT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1700, April 24 at 1044 UT, classic rock, but apparently merely a music break during `Fox Sports Daybreak` from ``Your new home for Fox Sports in The Valley``, i.e. KVNS Brownsville TX. Then plug Fox Sports One – a TV channel? But where is the Tejano music from KKLF The Metropolex at half the distance? Off again? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Fox Sports One is kind of like the national ESPN cable outfit. It is on Verizon FIOS cable, at least (David Block, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 88.7, April 28 at 1430 UT, KRZA Alamosa CO announces that they are still off the air; has been off since last week. Remote site on San Antonio mountain across the NM border lost power, and when it came back on, the transmitter would not fire up. Working on getting it back. Of course I am listening as usual only to webcast http://www.live365.com/play/343732?sid=74.194.197.52-13307022132022896047641&lid=650-usa&from=pls which plays better on Winamp than on Live365 itself with frequent buffering. Monday at 1430 is `The Lore of the Land`, excellent narrative about native cultures of the Southwest. Undated info atop the homepage http://krza.org as of April 28 at 1520: Off-air update The power was restored by Kit Carson Electric sometime yesterday afternoon. The KRZA transmitter on the tower site failed to start up. KRZA is in the process of getting an engineer to travel to San Antonio Mountain to troubleshoot or fix the transmitter. We will keep you updated as more information becomes available. Thank you for your patience. You can still hear the broadcast online by clicking the "Listen Now" link to the right of this post. [earlier:] Kit Carson Electric Power Outage Kit Carson Electric is experiencing a power outage that affects San Antonio Mountain in New Mexico. The KRZA tower is located on this mountain and our tower, transmitter and other equipment have no power and are therefore not working. Because of this we are off-air. But you can still hear us online at http://www.krza.org We are unsure as to when this will be fixed. Please stay tuned and thank you for listening`` 88.7, Tuesday April 29 at 1430, KRZA Alamosa CO announces on webcast that they hope to have their FM radio transmitter back on the air by Thursday; on San Antonio mountain in northern NM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Arkansas Tornado TV coverage --- All the Big 4 network affiliates in Little Rock AR (KARK 32/4-1, KATV 22/7-1, KTHV 12/11-1, and KLRT 30/16-1) were preempting Sunday night programming as the storms entered Central AR. Even this morning, all four stations were preempting their respective network morning shows. However, KARK, and KLRT which are operated by Nexstar (KLRT owned by Nexstar shell company Mission Broadcasting) are broadcasting in // with each other using only clear on-screen bugs to differentiate each station. KARK/Fox 16 (KLRT) using "Arkansas Storm Team" branding for this morning, and normal "Fox 16" morning newscast is preempted (two screenshot images in jpeg are attached). -- (Fritze H. Prentice, Jr, KC5KBV, Star City AR EM43aw twitter.com/fritzehp (@fritzehp) facebook.com/fritze.prentice April 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Fritze, So you must be OK, good! And none of the stations were putting network programming on -2 or other subchannel? At least KWTV 39/9 usually does that, e.g. this Sunday Morning, instead of News9 replays (Glenn to Fritze, via DXLD) Glenn, Only KATV (ABC) and KTHV (CBS) operate -2 subchannels. KARK (NBC) never has and KLRT (FOX) dropped their -2 after the Mission (Nexstar) ownership and operations merger with Nexstar-owned KARK. KTHV operates WeatherNation (national coverage with pre-recorded cut ins for local weather, often somewhat stale). Neither KATV nor KTHV used their -2 subchannels to broadcast network programming, mostly due to Dish Network and DirecTV's policy of (normally) non-carriage of subchannels. Our severe weather in SE Arkansas was early on Monday morning, awaken to a Severe Thunderstorm in area, but no tornadoes. F. – (Fritze H. Prentice, Jr., AR, KC5KBV, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Broadcasters victorious as radio bill gains 219 sponsors | The Hill --- By Kate Tummarello - 04/29/14 05:37 PM EDT A broadcaster-backed effort to keep local radio stations from paying musicians for songs has gained the support of more than half of the House of Representatives. As some members push measures that would require AM/FM radio stations to pay for the songs they play, 219 members of the House have signed onto the Local Radio Freedom Act. That resolution — introduced by Reps. Michael Conway (R-Texas) and Gene Green (D-Texas) early last year — prohibits "any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge” on local AM/FM radio stations. The Senate companion resolution was introduced last year by Sens. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) has 12 other senators backing it. Though AM/FM radio stations do not currently have to pay artists for songs the stations broadcast, some members of Congress are pushing bills that would require radio stations to pay these “royalty fees.” Advocates for radio royalty fees say the current system creates an uneven playing field between AM/FM radio stations and other radio stations, such as satellite and Internet radio services. Opponents say a law requiring radio stations to pay royalty fees would overlook the fact that artists gain exposure through the free advertising that AM/FM radio stations provide. . . [more] http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/204736-broadcasters-victorious-as-radio-bill-gains-219-sponsors (via Kevin Redding, April 29, ABDX via DXLD) ** U S A. RADIO ON THE RESERVATION: NATIVE AMERICANS TUNE IN TO AN OLD-FASHIONED TECHNOLOGY THAT KEEPS LANGUAGES AND COMMUNITIES ALIVE By Tristan Ahtone for Al Jazeera America (via Ron Schiller) Dust and diesel smells hung in the air as an 18-wheeler blasted through the tiny village of Kykotsmovi on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. Just off the road, a dog whined before lying down in the sun. A light breeze blew sand off a nearby mesa, sending it to ping and shuffle against the khaki sagebrush. Then through the settling silence, the sounds of radio static — and suddenly, the voice of an announcer from the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Arvin Fredricks put down his carving tools and turned up the volume. “That’s my constant companion, the radio,” he said. “It’s all coming to me by way of this little box that’s playing it out to me, and I’m doing something else that I love to do.” Fredricks owns a tire repair shop, but when nobody swings by for a quick fix or to air up, he carves wooden katsinas, little dolls of religious deities to the Hopi and artistic curiosities to tourists. “This is what I do,” said Fredricks. “Especially when it’s a nice day, you’re out here in just your T-shirt, just waiting for a customer, and there’s my radio.” About 7,000 people call the Hopi Reservation home, living in 12 villages spread across three mesas, nestled within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation in the northeast corner of Arizona. It’s isolated and sparse and boasts dramatic landscapes as well as limited access to Internet and even phone services. As access to instant digital media and news spreads across the United States, tribal radio stations are a rich example of just how the digital divide continues to separate Native America from the United States and how tribes use technology often seen as outdated to bridge that gap. “There aren’t the basic emergency response services. There’s no fire department on Hopi,” said Richard Davis, manager for radio station KUYI, 88.1 on the dial, serving the Hopi reservation. “When there’s a wildfire, we’re going to be the only people that let folks know where it’s burning. When there are icy road conditions, we’re going to be the only folks letting people know where to drive a little more safely.” When floods hit the reservation in 2009, KUYI became the lifeline many communities needed to survive. For nearly three weeks, plumbing was wiped out on one mesa, and the station broadcast where people could use bathrooms and get water. A year later, a blizzard left five-foot snowdrifts across the reservation, and KUYI became the only way tribal members knew where to pick up food air-dropped by the National Guard. “Outside in the mainstream culture, a lot of folks think radio is dead, but tribal radio is very strong,” said Davis. “We really are the lifeblood of what’s going on.” According to a 2012 Federal Communications Commission report, “Community-oriented and truly effective deployment of communications technologies within Indian Country has the potential to level the negative social, cultural and economic impacts that history has caused Tribal Nations and Native communities to endure.” Anecdotal evidence suggests that only 10 percent of Indian Country has access to broadband Internet service. For example, on the Navajo Nation — an area about the size of Ireland — only about 20 percent of the population has access to broadband or 4G cellphone services, making technology like radio vital to tribal members. “Native radio is growing, and until the broadband landscape changes in Indian Country, terrestrial radio stations are still very necessary to our communications needs,” said Loris Taylor, CEO of Native Public Media (NPM). “There’s a lot of darkness across Indian Country that we are trying to overcome.” “Tribal stations are unique voices in the diversity and localism landscape of the radio dial,” said Geoffrey Blackwell of the FCC’s Native Affairs and Policy. “New radio licensing provides Tribal Nations the ability to preserve and advance their languages and cultural values through a communications medium, to increase economic development opportunities through advertising and promotion, to provide job training and employment and to promote the further adoption of new technologies, such as broadband.” In places like Alaska, geographic isolation makes radio stations essential to linking communities while providing an outlet to the public’s needs. “We are the only radio station in about 94,000 square miles,” said Jeff Seifert, station manager for KBRW in Barrow, Alaska. “So we have a lot of folks listening to us for all sorts of reasons — for news, weather, sports, you name it.” Barrow is the northernmost city in North America and lies about 1,300 miles south of the North Pole. The town is the hub for seven villages — Anaktuvuk Pass, Atqasuk, Kaktovic, Nuiqsut, Point Hope, Point Lay and Wainwright — and is home to the Iñupiat people. “Compared to other radio stations I’ve worked at, this is a very spiritual area — a lot of religious programming that you wouldn’t find on other public radio stations,” said Seifert. “We have a lot of programming in the religious vein that’s in both the English and Iñupiat language, a lot of song singing and translation of anything English into Iñupiat.” “If you look at the history of Native Americans, there were huge efforts — not just by the federal government but by other parties — in trying to do away with tribal identities through the prohibition of having native youth speak their own tribal languages,” said Taylor. “So what I see radio stations really symbolize is freedom to reclaim our identity, to speak our language on the airwaves and the power of having our voices be heard in our ancestral language.” Currently 53 Native stations are broadcasting across the country, and it’s estimated that 92 percent of tribal radio stations create local programing, 75 percent produce hyperlocal news and 70 percent air tribal programming. According to NPM, 57 percent of stations are broadcasting in their local tribal language. “We’re trying to work harder to get more language in, but it’s been a challenge because there are so few speakers,” said Margaret Rousu, general manager for Niijii Radio on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. “Language is incorporated in a few different ways in the station, and we’re actually working to incorporate it more because we feel, as a native station, we don’t have enough right now.” Currently, Niijii Radio broadcasts programs like Dibaajimowin — which is an Ojibwe word that means “telling stories” or “to tell something” and which explores the history of the community, plays stories in Ojibwe and facilitates translation from English to Ojibwe. The station is looking to create more programming in Ojibwe and is working with the local Head Start program to bolster language proficiency in the community. “I want to say we have maybe four speakers on our reservation who are fluent, and the other speakers that we have, they are still learning,” said Rousu. “We know we haven’t gotten to the point where we need to be on that yet.” Despite the role tribal stations play when it comes to being a first responder for isolated communities or strengthening tribal languages and cultural values, keeping the lights on is always a struggle. Over half of tribal stations operate on annual budgets of about $200,000, and NPM estimates that about 20 percent of those stations work with closer to $100,000 a year to run. Of 53 tribal radio stations currently broadcasting, 35 rely on funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In 2014 that translated to about $4.5 million among 35 stations. “And this was after a 5 percent decrease in funding during the federal sequestration,” said NPM’s Taylor, who added that it would probably be the same amount of funding in 2016, though it was hard to tell because of ongoing debates over the federal budget. “We’re not just looking at sequestration. We’re looking at a budget deficit,” she said. “We know that there are continuing talks about how to address the budget in its entirety, so we’re quite frankly hoping that the funding will remain constant for these stations.” With previous and possible future cutbacks, tribal stations continue to find other ways to pay the bills, like underwriting and pledge drives. However, the next few years are crucial for stations like KUYI on the Hopi Reservation, where the digital divide continues to divorce tribal members from relevant information in their own communities as well as the mainstream culture. From KUYI’s 20-year-old faux-wood-paneled double-wide trailer, DJ AG — otherwise known as Aldric George — adjusted a microphone and cued a CD. Off air, George works as the Hotevilla youth and elderly coordinator. He also participates during the Hopi cultural and ceremonial calendar. George took a breath, adjusted his audio levels and opened his microphone to broadcast the community calendar in both Hopi and English: The Hopi veterinary service has reopened. A country-western dance is just around the corner. There’s been a small change to the community health transportation program’s schedule. Then George hit “play” on his CD and a Native American Church song went out — the shaking of a rattle, the gentle pounding of a drum. “The community would survive without us, but it would be put in danger,” said Richard Davis. “We’re doing revolutionary work here. Every day that the tower is lit and the language is going on air is another day where the extirpation of a culture isn’t occurring.” Full text: http://projects.aljazeera.com/2014/reservation-radio/ (via NRC DX News March 17 via DXLD) ** UZBEKISTAN. 24320, TWR India, Tashkent, 1527 UT, 2 x 12160 heard 23rd & 24th April 2014 – (Tim Bucknall, Congleton, UK, Social Media Co-ordinator #KresySiberia, harmonics yg via DXLD) ** UZBEKISTAN. UZBEK BROADCASTERS SET TO SELF-DESTRUCT Friday, April 25, 2014, Qishloq Ovozi Uzbek authorities have been taking steps to ensure they keep a tight hold over all TV broadcasts. (file photo) http://www.rferl.org/content/qishloq-ovozi-uzbekistan-broadcasters-self-destruct/25361053.html April 24, 2014 --- The headline says it all. Uzbekistan's cabinet of ministers met on April 14 and sent out the word -- all the country's television and radio stations have to rig their facilities to be blown up. Not the whole complex, however. According to RFE/RL's Uzbek Service, Ozodlik, broadcast media has until May 14 to place "self-destructing devices" on transmitter apparatus so that, in the event of the station falling into hostile hands, all broadcasting can be cut immediately. The Uzbek ministers know about the recent captures of broadcasting stations in eastern Ukraine by pro-Russian forces and this is perhaps the ministers' way of pre-empting similar events in Uzbekistan. Only a small group of people would have access to the detonation device for an individual station, hopefully no one who easily gets disgusted with the quality of television or radio programming. The National Security Service (SNB) is tasked with overseeing every step of this last resort in censorship. As of when this article went to print, the SNB is also checking ventilation ducts in broadcast buildings and I think everyone sees where this is going... Indeed, ventilation chutes, ducts and shafts leading toward studios are not permitted to be big enough for anyone to crawl through. Studios cannot be connected to other rooms either, such as a bathroom. So it seems no studios can be seized in Uzbekistan. No more live programming either, even news programs. At least two policemen from the Interior Ministry must be part of every station's security force. And before we wrap this up, other recent rules require journalists to submit all questions they intend to ask at a press conference, in advance for approval. Also, no travel abroad without prior approval and in this, journalists join a growing number of professionals who are essentially trapped in Uzbekistan (Qishloq Ovozi will look at that list soon). Additionally, Ozodlik colleagues said it has been standard practice for years now that everyone entering a broadcast station is checked, their documents checked, sometimes more than once. There is a also list of topics and people, some of them historical, that are not to be mentioned and guests on programs are reminded of this list of taboo subjects continually from the time they enter the station grounds until the program they are on starts. So, Central Asia's "Ukraine Fall Out" scorecard now includes; Uzbekistan putting explosives on station transmission equipment, Kazakhstan's new regulation on media during a state of emergency that essentially delays dissemination of news by up to 24 hours; and authorities in the Tajik capital Dushanbe ordering all old and spare tires taken to a dump 40 kilometers outside the city. It will be interesting to see what's next. -- Bruce Pannier with contributions from Shukrat Babajanov, Farruh Yusufiy, and Oktambek Karimov of RFE/RL's Uzbek Service (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DXLD) ** VATICAN. QSLs: 15535, Radio Tamazuj, Arabic & Sudanese to East Africa via Santa Maria di Galeria Transmitter. Full data (but no site) QSL card for a postal CD MP3 report to the Netherlands address. Reply in 5 months. V/s: nil. 15535, Radio Dabanga Arabic & Sudanese to East Africa via Santa Maria di Galeria Transmitter. Full data (But no site) QSL card for a Postal CD MP3 report to the Netherlands address. Reply in 4 ½ months. V/s: nil (Edward Kusalik-Alberta, Canada, April 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM. Heard this afternoon at 1513 UT: 28880, V of Vietnam, Son Tay, 4 x 7220. Vietnam must be the current leading producer of Harmonics. 23440 (2 x 11720) heard at the same time; 29140 (4 x 7285) heard most days at Midday recently – (Tim Bucknall, Congleton, UK, Social Media Co-ordinator #KresySiberia, April 26, harmonics yg via DXLD) ** VIETNAM [non]. 9930, Que Me via T8WH Palau, 1211-1230*, Friday, April 25. In Vietnamese with monologues and playing some music; fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM [non]. 13825, April 28 at 1418, RFA fair in Vietnamese; no CCI, nor any ACI now during this hour via SAIPAN. RFA`s current QSL for all transmissions is on a Vietnamese theme. I`m hunting around their website http://www.rfa.org for info and illustration of that, but no obvious link, not even on contact page. Not among press release archive; not found by searching on QSL. Instead one has to go here for QSL gallery including the current one thru June 30, #58, Ðàn Tranh, a traditional stringed musical instrument: http://techweb.rfa.org/qsl/qsl_gallery.html This page with a full(?) schedule, no sites http://www.rfa.org/about/info/frequencies.html at the bottom says ``*frequency not promoted`` but no referents! Also fails to include the numerous out-of-band former Sound-of-Hope frequencies from Taiwan now relaying RFA in Chinese. Also thinx UTC stands for ``Universal Time Code`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE. ZIMBABWE BC: NO SHORTWAVE TRANSMISSION SINCE OCT 2013 from Radio Voice of the People (VOP) website: ZBC Board Shocked By SW Station Dilapidation Gweru, April 23, 2014 - The ZBC board has expressed dismay over the failure by the national broadcaster and Transmedia to solve transmission challenges that have bedevilled Voice of Zimbabwe (VOZ) in Gweru since October last year. The Gweru-based VOZ shortwave radio station has not been transmitting any signal since October last year, following the breakdown of transmitters. ZBC board members, who toured the facilities in Gweru, expressed concern over the state of affairs at the VOZ, saying the breakdown in transmission is as bad as shutting down a whole station without following due process. VOZ was established to counter alternative Short Wave radio stations like Radio VOP, VOA's Studio 7 and SWRadio Africa which sprung up in order to counter the ZBC monopoly and its Zanu (PF) propaganda. ZBC/Own http://www.radiovop.com/index.php/national-news/10791-zbc-board-shocked-by-sw-station-dilapidation.html (via Alan Pennington, April 24, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ZIMBABWE GOVERNMENT'S SHORTWAVE RADIO "FACES CLOSURE" | Text of report by website of London-based Zimbabwean SW Radio Africa on 25 April The Gweru-based Voice of Zimbabwe (VOZ) radio station is facing closure, due to a combination of obsolete equipment and undercapitalization. VOZ whose mission is described as "to tell the Zimbabwean story from Zimbabwe, by Zimbabweans" was set up by government essentially to counter foreign-based independent radio stations like SW Radio Africa and Voice of America. But according to a ZBC report the shortwave radio station has not been transmitting any signal since October 2013 due to the breakdown of transmitters. The report said the ZBC board, which toured the station this week, expressed dismay at the national broadcaster's failure to rectify the problem. Reporters told SW Radio Africa that the station was on the verge of total closure due to poor funding. They said so serious is the problem of undercapitalization that their monthly salaries were recently cut from 600 dollars to 300 dollars. Since October, they have continued to produce programmes but most of them remain unaired while some of them have been used by other ZBC radio stations. Last year ZBC workers went for seven months without getting their salaries. In March this year Information Minister Jonathan Moyo said ZBC should have closed a long time ago because it was insolvent. The MDC-T MP for Mabvuku, James Maridadi, said the development at VOZ was inevitable because "there has not been any investment into the transmission equipment for ages." He added: "Before we even start talking of the issue of improving transmission we need to put the ZBC into the black. From the red of 47m dollars we need to invest as much so that they come on to zero and that is when we can start talking about improving the problem of poor transmission." Maridadi said there was also a danger that Zimbabwe may fail to meet the June 2015 international deadline for digitalization. Two years ago Zimbabwe failed to meet the SADC deadline. The SADC countries had set their own deadline of 31st December 2013 but only Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa and Tanzania were able to comply. ZBC's technological problems date back to many years ago. In 2009 former information minister Webster Shamu told parliament that ZBC needed approximately 70m dollars to replace its obsolete equipment. He said all the transmitters in the country had outlived their lifespan by more than 25 years. Source: SW Radio Africa website, London, in English 25 Apr 14 (via BBCM via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DXLD) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. SW R Africa reduces shortwave hours on 4880 from Short Wave Radio Africa website: SWRA reducing shortwave broadcasts --- We have an important announcement for our listeners on shortwave. Starting Tuesday 1st April we will be reducing our shortwave broadcasts to one hour a day. There will also be no shortwave broadcasts at the weekend. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Our full two hours of programming will still be available via our website http://www.swradioafrica.com and also on Channel Zim, available through free to air TV decoders. Our broadcasts via Channel Zim are 5 - 7am and 7 - 9pm. Our live 2 hours of programming via our website remains 7 - 9pm and podcasts of all our programs are available 24 hours a day. Our shortwave broadcasts, starting Tuesday 1st April, will be one hour 7 - 8pm, available Monday - Friday. All times quoted are Zim times and....thanks for listening. http://www.swradioafrica.com/swra-reducing-shortwave-broadcasts/ [so on 4880 kHz 1700-1800 UTC (Mon-Fri)] (Alan Pennington, April 24, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 1401.135, 0805 April 27, 2014. This one has been around for ages, never any audio. Measured approximate on the IC-R75. Anyone else? (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, NRD-535, IC-R75, roof dipole, active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1639.89, 1004 April 27, 2014. No audio making it, with WTNI, Biloxi right on frequency. Errant TIS somewhere? Anyone else? (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, NRD-535, IC-R75, roof dipole, active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5200-5300, April 28 at 0543-0544, takes exactly 60 seconds for a dirty carrier to move slowly up 100 kHz, but it stops at 5300. 5400-5500, April 28 at 0545-0546, another 60-second span for this 100 kHz upward, accelerating at 100 kHz/minute. Altho it keeps going a bit past 5500, it`s soon off too. Ionosonde? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15010, European Pirate?, 0055 Apr 27, easy listening style of music, 0100 male speaker, fading in and out, too weak to ID language, gone at 0132 check. Very poor (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening in my car, by Kalamalka Lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENIING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. OTHR broadband and strong 15067 to 15095 kHz S=9+15dB at 0430 UT April 28 (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 17341/USB, 2011-2021:21*, 29-Apr; SWBC relay? W in oddly accented Spanish with long commentary -- definitely not a marine weather broadcast. Off abruptly without ID. Not // REE Spain in Spanish on 17755 // 17850 with Spanish game call. Logged by Steve Handler in IL at 2008 on 3/19. Tuned in at 1930, 1-May hoping to catch a s/on, but nothing thru 2010; only woodpecker bursts around 1943 & 1953. -- Chasing YHWH has led me to some oddities; still have not been enlightened by Yahweh (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTMONIALS +++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1719: Fritz Anderson, for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: Martin H Gallas, Springfield IL, for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com Hi Glenn, here`s ``a little something`` (channeling Pooh Bear) to help you keep DXLD/WOR rolling along in 2014. Thanks, as always for the high qualty/relilale DX information you and the rest of the contributors provide. Cheers from the beach, my friend (Dan Sheedy, WB6FJD, with a check to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ NOTE: it appears that some lists are failing to forward my logs to subscribers, perhaps because of treating all yahoomail as spam! My posts are still going to HCDX and still appear in the archives there. Likewise to swl at qth.net, neither of which are yahoogroups. Altho I myself have not been receiving these back either. Complain to your e- mail service. And/or try subscribing to other yahoogroups carrying my posts (Glenn Hauser, April 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) HCDX AND SWL SINCE CHANGES ---- There's big storm going on with Yahoo's new DMARC policy. It has caused many emails to bounce and automatically unsubscribing those that has ISP that uses DMARC and honors Yahoo's policy. Please read more: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2141120/yahoo-email-antispoofing-policy-breaks-mailing-lists.html http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9247512/Yahoo_email_anti_spoofing_policy_breaks_mailing_lists?pageNumber=1 http://thehackernews.com/2014/04/yahoos-new-dmarc-policy-destroys-every.html# http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/08/yahoo_breaks_every_mailing_list_in_the_world_says_email_guru/ http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/04/09/2047205/yahoo-dmarc-implementation-breaks-most-mailing-lists?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot%2Fto+%28%28Title%29Slashdot+%28rdf%29%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher Mailman has some new enhancements that I'm planning to install this week (Risto Kotalampi, CA, HCDX owner, April 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST UPDATED http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm 1) ALBANIA: R Tirana - updated radio360.eu-hosted podcast link 2) ARGENTINA: RAE - Updated all links 3) ARGENTINA: RAE - updated radio360.eu-hosted podcast link 4) CUBA: RHC - added radio360.eu-hosted podcast link 5) CZECH REP.: R Prague - added radio360.eu-hosted podcast link 6) GREECE: NERIT - Added link to new public broadcaster home page 7) MONGOLIA: VOM - added radio360.eu-hosted podcast link 8) MOROCCO: Removed stray reference to Mongolia for Medi 1 9) MYANMAR: Myanmar R. - added MRTV to list including radio360.eu hosted podcast link 10) SLOVAKIA: RSI - added radio360.eu-hosted podcast link 11) SLOVENIA: R Slovenia Int - added RSI to list including radio360.eu-hosted podcast link 12) SWITZERLAND: Switzerland in Sound - added SIS to list including radio360.eu-hosted podcast link 13) TAIWAN: R Taiwan Int - Update to link to home page 14) TAIWAN: RTI - added radio360.eu-hosted podcast link 15) USA: VOA - Update to frequency link (altho old link for the moment does redirect to the new link) Unless there's a major change anywhere, the next update will be in June. Best wishes and 73 (Alan Roe, England, April 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CQ MAGAZINE ERRATIC Shock & Awe --- I just received, the March/April issue, of CQ magazine (Print not digital). I can't believe it ! The Printed, decided it was to late, to print the Feb. issue. It only exists in digital form (Gary Hickerson, OK, April 24, WTFDA via DXLD) Mine showed up a couple of days ago. Which is interesting, because I cancelled my "subscription" (or whatever was left of it) and even got a refund on my credit card a month earlier. I don't know how they survive at this point. What advertiser will keep paying them for ads if they have no idea when, or if, those ads will ever see print? What subscriber will renew if they have no idea what magazine they'll get, or when? And what printer will print and mail their magazine if there's no cash from advertisers and subscribers to pay them? It's sad to watch a magazine I once loved go away. It's sadder still to watch it go away like THIS (Scott Fybush, NY, April 24, ibid.) BULGARIAN DX-PEDITION At your attention are 200 videos from March 30 to April 2 of DXPedition in our remote DX-camp in Patreshko village, near the town of Troyan, Bulgaria. 150 videos from March 28/29 can be found on youtube.com/user/SWLDXBulgaria. Keep your eyes open for results from the next DXPedition: April 30 - May 6. March 30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIVOtldFkFI&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bogNe7AA_nQ&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-h21xS9L_8&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1IgKfVJ9K4&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmbrDy_-w9Y&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJNt8Kb-NFk&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LiCu-T8jiU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJRLo100_O0&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yImMZaZAJiI&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpB24XVHiyw&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNE4zdUrprs&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHZc_eUJfH0&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9HFZOvQObw&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9UuZfevil4&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoyh33I2RFI&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rMt2tclIYI&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIT1_WIqUFY&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDWR1aYS80s&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o-8Euw4jkY&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q0LeHdLJ6M&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smdKtjXXTrc&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AqIGiF_irE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wAsbaHUs9A&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoWUBN-Brg0&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzwgLnhK0r0&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZb-GeRASg4&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCoYQS5oADE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjqgKyBsOmg&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOChhiYW2Qc&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otl1bhW1GbQ&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnRi5HWQo9c&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob-T1WxSCmM&feature=youtu.be 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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W071Jliucc&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SlrUy4ZQkU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsAp4WGnR5s&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbSR7kUu61c&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MohiyNi9iKI&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVL2yQjusWA&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW_MVlM6pKQ&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag021MFiNA4&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qeh6CotJ83Q&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oPVVITWpE4&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjCEye67Vyo&feature=youtu.be March 31 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDSGDVh3-Ss&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SoCElkjzmA&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF5e0ZO8PXo&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhMwI7qR0Hk&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaZY0Ax4Zaw&feature=youtu.be 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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2TlZscK79Y&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17mvTzqdOio&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wptDg5UsGoQ&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKrU3can2vU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBFhyJWzVZM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iu9Fw1WB4E&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-r0V_u9ugM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfrN45Tok_U&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf3zwFwQqZw&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsKgwwiDjBw&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfQfKdDToiQ&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcqb-0MUfSk&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1SMDWFLRRQ&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8kEqmbwdFk&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwCLvGu7NLo&feature=youtu.be April 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArHa-943RN0&feature=youtu.be 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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1CArKE6e60&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfBX00ofVUE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmtmgZxn_jw&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bipyY25p_g&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4buMtfLL-8&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1aVyNfEli0&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf-DU8hULho&feature=youtu.be http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/dx-re-mix-news-850.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #850 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 30, 2014, via DXLD) Indexing them would be helpful (gh) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ BILL BERGADANO Sadly, in a somewhat Winterfest related matter, we are very sorry to hear of the recent passing of Bill Bergadano of Freehold, New Jersey. Bill was a very active radio hobbyist as well as a ham radio operator. Bill played a major role in past Winterfests. He was the liaison between the Winterfest and the international broadcasters for many years, contacting the stations and acquiring station schedules, stickers, pennants, etc. to pass along to attendees at the event. For the last number of years, Bill was also running an on-line radio station, Radio Scooter International. We extend our condolences to Bill’s family and friends (BOD Report, April CIDX Messenger via DXLD) Bill was also with DXLD yg, and still received DXLD every week, altho we had not heard from him in a few years. Here`s more about him including linx to some DXLD appearances: (gh, DXLD) https://www.google.com/#q=Fred+Waterer+William+J.+Bergadano (via Clara Listensprechen, DXLD) William J. Bergadano (1958 - 2014) AGE: 55 • Freehold http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/app/obituary-print.aspx?n=william-j-bergadano&pid=170495191 William J. Bergadano, 55, of Freehold, passed away on April 3, 2014 at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold. Born and raised in Staten Island he lived there until moving to Freehold in 1988. A graduate of St. John Villa Academy and St. Francis High School, he then graduated from College of Staten Island. He was a communicant of St. Gabriel's Catholic Church, Marlboro. Bill was a self-employed radio broadcaster and ham radio operator. He was an avid Jets and Phillies fan and loved his pets, Scooter and Sunshine. He was predeceased by his father, William Bergadano. He is survived by his mother, Gloria Bergadano of Freehold. Friends and family are invited to visit on Sunday, April 6th, from 2:00 to 6:00 PM, at Freeman Funeral Home, 47 East Main Street, Freehold. A Funeral Liturgy will be celebrated at 10:00 AM on Monday at St. Gabriel's Historic Church, Marlboro. Interment will follow at Holy Name Cemetery, Jersey City. To offer a condolence, share a story or find directions, please visit http://www.freemanfuneralhomes.com Published in Asbury Park Press on Apr. 5, 2014 (via Clara, DXLD) obit DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ APRIL 9-11 "ROCKWORK 4" OCEAN CLIFF DXPEDITION REPORT Hello All, For those interested, a 10-page report describing the recent "Cliffhanger" DXpedition to the Rockwork 4 ocean cliff site (south of Cannon Beach, Oregon) has been posted at http://www.mediafire.com/view/3dlnzjxk0980ecf/April_2014.doc and will shortly be uploaded to the Ultralightdx file site. Included in the article is a full report on winter FSL antenna experimentation, with design photos of three all-new dual coil models tested recently (two 12" and one 15" diameter FSL's). Also included is a description of the challenge of tracking down multiple South Pacific stations when facing a freezing wind chill on a highly exposed ocean cliff, and links to 26 transoceanic DX recordings made at the sheer cliff location (19 Asiatic TP, and 7 South Pacific DU). 73 and Good DX, (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA), IRCA via DXLD) BAY HOUSE DXPEDITION - APRIL 18-21, 2014 Despite lightning noise and some 'Murphy' incidents I enjoyed another session at Bay House, near Reedville, VA, on the Chesapeake Bay from April 18-21, 2014. With a remotely terminated, 160' DKAZ @ 150 deg. I was looking for LatAm stuff. For whatever reason I never was able to get really 'deep' into South America other than Radio Globo 'sounders' heard on 1220 and 1100 kHz. There was lots of Cuban and Caribbean DX though along with 'vibrant' signals from several Florida stations. You can see/hear what I heard here: (Bill Whitacre, IRCA via DXLD) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ Bibling is a verb! I love it - (Chris, Columbus, Ohio, Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO PHILATELY +++++++++++++++ EKKO STAMPS RECALL “THE MIRACLE” http://www.radioworld.com/article/ekko-stamps-recall-“the-miracle”-/270136 Sent from my iPhone (Dennis Gibson, WB6TNB, April 30, ABDX via DXLD) INTERNATIONAL REPLY COUPONS Does anyone know a source for International Reply Coupons (IRCs) these days? Thanks for any suggestions since USPS no longer carries them. (Jim Pogue, Memphis, TN USA, April 27, IRCA mailing list via DXLD) Jim, From a DXers reference page, here is a list: http://www.dxzone.com/dx23258/countries-that-sell-irc.html It appears that you will have to purchase them from a foreign country, Canada being the closest (Mike Hawkins, ibid.) Jim, It looks like whoever told you that the USPS no longer sells IRCs is wrong. http://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2012/pb22329/html/info_003.htm You may have to ask the post office you deal with to order some for you (Bill Harms, ibid.) cost: $2.20 (gh, DXLD) Bill, You should have kept searching... http://pe.usps.com/text/imm/immc3_020.htm They stopped selling them one year later. The internet made them (for the most part) obsolete (Mike Hawkins, IRCA via DXLD) MUSEA +++++ OLD TIME RADIO SOURCES Needed good listening and a working imagination to be properly heard. Mediumwave Stations: CFZM 740 kHz -- Toronto, ON (AM740). Our first two MW stations are from Ontario. AM740 offers "Theatre of the Mind" with Brian Peroff, 10 - 11 pm ET from Monday to Thursday evenings. The program begins with a half-hour of drama followed by a half-hour of comedy. Shows include The Shadow, Nick Carter, Duffy's Tavern, George Burns, and much, much more. CHML 900 kHz -- Hamilton, ON Our other Ontario entry hosts "Old Radio Shows" for three hours a night, seven nights a week, from 10 pm - 1 am ET. Everything from Have Gun, Will Travel to I Was a Communist for the FBI, programs from Philip Marlowe to the Lux Radio Theatre can be had every evening. CHQR 770 kHz -- Calgary, AB and CHED 630 kHz -- Edmonton, AB (NewsTalk Radio) --- These two radio stations host "Those Old Radio Shows". The segment airs 11 pm - 1 am MT in Calgary, 1 - 3 am MT in Edmonton, both seven nights a week. Programs aired include the Lone Ranger, Inner Sanctum, Jack Benny and Our Miss Brooks, just to name a few. WHA 970 kHz -- Madison, WI (Wisconsin Public Radio) From their own website, "'Old Time Radio Drama' brings the best of 1930s, '40s, and '50s entertainment to Wisconsin. Host Norman Gilliland explores some of the best comedy, drama, adventure, mystery, and science fiction of the 20th Century. 'Old Time Radio Drama' can be heard Saturday and Sundays nights from 8 to 11 p.m." (CT) AM 1710 kHz -- Antioch, IL (Micro-power station) AM 1710 is a micro-power station in Northern Illinois that has the nickname "Old-time Radio Shows Station". Antioch is located a mile from the Wisconsin border and 20 miles inland from Lake Michigan. The station boasts 18 000 shows that they can air from old time radio offerings... and they even include the commercials. FM Stations CJNU 97.3 MHz -- Winnipeg, MB (Nostalgia Broadcasting Co-operative) Directly from the CJNU website: "Enjoy once again the classic radio programs of yesteryear with a different theme each evening of the week. Monday is Theatre and Drama Night - Tuesdays offer the best in radio Westerns - Wednesday brings you lots of laughs on Comedy Night - Thursdays you'll hear Mystery and Suspense Night - Friday's are Variety Theatre Night - while on Sundays you'll hear an episode from the Jack Benny Show, followed at 9:30 by a different musical variety program each week". Note that the Sunday-Friday shows are listed in CT. CFEP 105.9 MHz -- Eastern Passage, NS Russell Sketchly hosts "Classic Old Time Radio" every Sunday night from 10 - 11 pm AT. There are different programs each week, and Sketchly also hosts a program called "Barbershop at the Seaside" which is a favourite amongst their Nova Scotia audience. WMKV 89.3 MHz -- Cincinnati, OH "Mystery Playhouse", hosted by Mike Martini (one of the station's producers), airs Monday through Friday from 7 - 8 pm ET. WMKV also has "The Big Broadcast", which is on Saturday evenings from 7 - 11 pm. Hosted by Mark Magistrelli and Mike Martini, this program has everything from the Bing Crosby show to You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx. "Sorta Radio", SiriusXM Channel 82. Radio Classics Directly from the website: "From his native Illinois to a number of Rocky Mountain years in Colorado and Idaho, Greg Bell has done it all in radio - program director, news director, sports director, anchor and reporter. Bell's goal with 'Radio Classics' is to take you back to the time when the family gathered around the radio." Although strictly not MW or FM, SiriusXM can be had in many a road vehicle, which is why I placed it alongside the other stations. I am sure that this list is nowhere near complete, but it is a good start for those who would like to hear old radio programming... on radio. Remember that there is also a plethora of radio shows from the 1920s right up through the 1960s to be found in a number of places on the Internet. That's all for May. Whatever type of programming you like to listen to on your receiver, whether it be news, sports, talk, music, cultural, radio shows, remember to keep listening! 73, keep smiling and keep listening, (J O E Robinson, Beginners Classroom, May ODXA via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ OFCOM CONSIDERS DAB+ FOR THE UK ABU Weekly News Digest, 24 April 2014 The UK communications regulator, OFCOM, is considering changes in the Digital Radio Technical Code, which could precipitate the introduction of the DAB+ standard. The proposed new Digital 2 multiplex could therefore contain a mix of original DAB and DAB+ services. A516digital.com is also reporting that OFCOM has confirmed that it does not intend to impose minimum bit rates on radio stations in order to ensure a ‘certain level’ of sound quality. According to OFCOM: "There is no evidence to suggest dissatisfaction from consumers with the technical quality of content from platforms that are not subject to explicit technical quality standards requirements.” http://www.abu.org.my/Latest_News-@-OFCOM_considers_DAB_for_the_UK.aspx (In January 2013 Ofcom tested DAB+ in central Brighton, not much progress since then). (via Mike Terry, April 26, dxldyg via DXLD) Also on the subject of DAB this is an extract from an excellent article in yesterday's Guardian newspaper: "The "digital switchover" is all pain with very little gain. The government can't make a profit by flogging off the old radio spectrum, and the current plan is to keep using FM for local radio broadcasting, including community and hospital stations that can't fit on DAB. People are not crying out for more radio stations: they don't listen to most of the ones they already have. And whereas digital TV brought things like HD TV and 3D, DAB doesn't even get you HD radio. The sound quality of the UK's current DAB, with its low bit-rates and obsolete MP2 codec, is worse than FM. Sadly, the UK broadcast radio industry more or less has abandoned the idea of high-fidelity sound, which the BBC did so much to foster. Even your old hi-fi may be too good for stations targeted at small kitchen radios that are either mono or offer very little in the way of stereo separation... " http://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2014/apr/25/what-are-the-options-for-radio-in-a-digital-age (via Mike, dxldyg via DXLD) I recall I stated on here several years ago that DAB+ would come to the UK despite official denials and that anyone considering DAB should make sure it was + capable. I also said that L band capability should be considered. We still await on that one. Regards, (Gareth [Foster?], Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See CANADA; INDIA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See also MEXICO! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [continued from 14-17:] AEREO’S SUPREME COURT CASE BALANCES INNOVATION AND COPYRIGHT By Washington Post Editorial Board, Published: April 25 At the Supreme Court on Tuesday, some observers have noted, the justices seemed flummoxed by the case of Aereo, a company that pulls network TV broadcasts off the airwaves and streams it to online users for a monthly fee. That is not because the court’s jurists are hopelessly incapable of considering its business model. It is because taking decades-old law and applying it to new technological reality is hard. The principles at stake, however, are much simpler. Aereo’s critics want to shore up the exclusive right of the people who own copyrights on programming to control — and profit from — the distribution of their work. Aereo benefits from the notion that the networks are allowed to send such programming over the public airwaves on the condition that anyone can view it for free. On principle, the balance should obviously favor consumers. There is no difference between getting network television for free with an antenna or doing so with an Internet connection that warrants different treatment of the two — beyond accounting for the costs of the different sorts of infrastructure that makes each possible. The court has underscored that individuals have the right to put up antennas, record programs and use that material privately. The essence of Aereo’s case is that the firm provides the infrastructure — antennas, recording space and streaming setup — so that people do not have to bother with all of that on their own. Which makes sense. There is a chance, however, that the court will determine that the law does not leave enough room for that principle to survive. In the past, the justices typically and rightly sided with those defending new technologies that promote consumer access. Congress, though, established different rules. Under the Copyright Act of 1976, copyright holders have broad control over the transmission — and retransmission — of their content. Given those rules, Aereo’s critics might well succeed in shutting down the service. If that happens, Congress may have to step in — not simply for Aereo’s sake but also to limit the damage such a ruling might do to other services that are reshaping for the better the way Americans consume programs. The justices were rightly concerned, for example, about how they could repudiate Aereo without harming various online “cloud- based” storage and transmission services. Increasingly, Americans are piping material over high-bandwidth wires or wireless connections to their television sets, tablets and phones. This promises to reshape programmers’ business models in ways that make their products and delivery more responsive to and more convenient for consumers. The law should ensure that people who create content can obtain fair rewards from copyright protections. But it must also allow innovators to innovate (May WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) Aereo Supreme Court Transcript: IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANIES, INC., ET AL., Petitioners v. AEREO, INC., FKA BAMBOOM LABS, INC. Washington, D.C. Tuesday, April 22, 2014 The above entitled matter came on for oral argument before the Supreme Court of the United States at 11:26 a.m. Transcript: http://tinyurl.com/msar4fo (via Neal McLain, April 23, WTFDA via DXLD) Dave Pomeroy wrote: ``...Cable systems began by having big antennas and sending those signals to subscribers.`` Indeed they did. And the copyright owners sued them too. Cable lost in the district court and the Court of Appeals, but it won at the Supreme Court in 1968. But the Supreme Court didn't decide on the merits of the case. It decided on a technicality: the then-current copyright law -- the Copyright Act of 1909 -- clearly did not provide much guidance for the courts. Congress revised the Copyright Act in 1976, and that's the law that the Supreme Court will have to apply to the Aereo case. For the full story, see my comment at the end of this article: http://tinyurl.com/onx42qh (Neal McLain, Brazoria, Texas, ibid.) AEREO IN THE SUPREMES: A POST MORTEM POST By FHH Law, CommLawBlog, April 23 | So the storm that had been brewing for some months -- the | long-impending Aereo argument in the Supreme Court -- has now come | and gone, and we are left to sift through what remains to try to | figure out what's next. | | We are pleased to report that, as planned, our intrepid reporters | on the Aereo beat, Kevin Goldberg and Harry Cole, attended the | argument (nearly front-row seats, thank you very much) and were | able to provide an overview of the festivities on CommLawBlog Live! | less than three hours after the gavel came down in the courtroom. | (That's just a metaphor -- Chief Justice Roberts did not appear to | wield an actual gavel.) For those of you who missed it, you can | catch a recording of the audio portion here, although you'll miss | the video of Kevin and Harry -- which is, of course, the price you | pay for not signing up for the live presentation. Continued: http://tinyurl.com/ltstr3p I watched the webinar that Kevin and Harry steamed yesterday, and took numerous scribbled notes. From my notes: - Cole stated that Aereo's attorney (David Frederick) was "unbelievably good." - Attorney Frederick repeatedly claimed that a decision against Aereo would negatively affect "cloud" storage for all other uses. But the DoJ's amicus brief specifically countered this claim. [1] - Justices Sotomayor, Breyer, Kagan, and Roberts all asked variations of the same question: "How does Aereo differ from a cable system?" - The issue of "static" antennas came up a few times: does Aereo assign a specific ("static") antenna to each customer, or the does the customer get whatever antenna is available when he/she logs in? - The Court was narrowly focused on the Second Circuit's 2-1 decision favoring Aereo. There was no mention of the Tenth Circuit's decision (favoring plaintiffs) or the FilmOn X case (enjoined by the DC District Court). - The questions asked by the members of the court did not indicate any definite positions. In Cole's opinion, "the case is too difficult to call." [1] The DoJ specifically addressed this claim in its amicus brief: | [The DOJ's position] should not call into question the | legitimacy of businesses that use the Internet to provide | new ways for consumers to store, hear, and view their own | lawfully acquired copies of copyrighted works. Cite: http://www-deadline-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Aereo-13-461tsacUnitedStates-WM__140303221932.pdf (Neal McLain, April 24, WTFDA via DXLD) The decision of course, like most from the SCOTUS will not be announced until June, I believe (gh, DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ AM BROADCASTERS AND RADIO HAMS HAVE COMMON INTEREST Southgate April 29, 2014 The ARRL report radio amateurs and AM broadcasters have some common ground in cleaning up 'a worsening RF noise environment in the AM broadcast band,' according to recent comments filed with the FCC by the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) on the issue of revitalizing AM broadcasting. ARRL General Counsel Chris Imlay, W3KD, who is also general counsel for the SBE, drafted the remarks. “There are numerous complaints from Amateur Radio operators of severe interference from power line noise annually,” said the SBE comments, filed earlier this year. “Power line radiation in the HF and MF Amateur allocations will in most cases directly translate to preclusive noise in the AM broadcast band. The Commission has relied completely on the good faith efforts of electric utilities to resolve these.” Read the full ARRL story at http://www.arrl.org/news/am-broadcasters-hams-have-common-interest-in-cleaning-up-noise-sources Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) comments http://www.sbe.org/sections/documents/CommentsFINALAMImprovementDocket13-249.pdf http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2014/april/am_broadcasters_and_radio_hams_have_common_interest.htm (via Mike Terry, April 30, dxldyg via DXLD) DESERT RESCUE BEACONS WTFK? VHF/UHF I suppose. http://www.azfamily.com/news/Border-Patrol-to-show-off-desert-rescue-beacons--257357301.html [spare yourself the rude comments appended] Still no frequency, but a photo and more background. http://organpipehistory.com/orpi-a-z/rescue-beacons-panic-poles/ (Terry Krueger, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SEFFNER MAN ACCUSED OF BLOCKING CELL PHONES ON I-4 http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/25387678/seffner-man-accused-of-blocking-cell-phones-on-i-4 (via Terry Krueger, FL, DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2014 Apr 28 0301 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 21 - 27 April 2014 Solar activity was predominately at low levels throughout the period but reached high levels on 25 April due to an R3 (Strong) radio blackout. On 25 April at 0027 UTC Region 2035 (S13, L=224, class/area=Ekc/390 on 23 Apr), two days behind the solar west limb, produced an impulsive X1/Sf flare at 25/0027 UTC with an associated Type-II radio sweep (estimated speed 753 km/s), a radio burst of 43,000 sfu on 245 MHz, and a 1,100 sfu Tenflare. A subsequent coronal mass ejection (CME) was observed in SOHO/LASCO C2 coronagraph imagery beginning at 25/0048 UTC but was directed well west of the Sun-Earth line and did not contain an Earth-directed component. The remainder of the period was dominated by low-level C-class flare activity from a number of active regions: Region 2034 (N04, L=244, class/area=Ekc/480 on 18 Apr) produced eight C-flares, Region 2035 produced 44 C-flares and one M-flare (16 Apr), and Region 2036 (S15, L=246, class/area=Dhc/510 on 17 Apr) produced 28 C-flares and one M-flare (18 Apr). The other active regions on the visible disk this period were relatively unproductive and unremarkable. The greater than 10 MeV proton flux was slightly elevated early in the period due to the S1 (Minor) solar radiation storm last week (18 Apr), but remained well-below the S1 alert threshold. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reached high levels/exceeded the 1,000 pfu alert threshold on 25-27 April, reaching a maximum flux value of 2,920 pfu at 27/1630 UTC, likely in response to a solar wind enhancement associated with a weak negative polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). Geomagnetic field activity began the period at unsettled to active levels on 21 April due to the lingering effects of a pair of CMEs (from 16 and 18 Apr) that arrived at Earth on 19 and 20 April. The geomagnetic field was at quiet to unsettled levels on 24-25 April due a weak negative polarity CH HSS. The geomagnetic field was predominately quiet for the remainder of the period. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 28 APRIL - 24 MAY 2014 Solar activity is expected to be at low levels with a slight chance for M-class (R1-R2 (Minor-Moderate)) flare activity for 28 April-04 May and 20-24 May. Solar activity is expected to be at low levels with a chance for M-class flare activity for 05-19 May due to the return of old Regions 2035 (S13, L=224) and 2036 (S15, L=246). No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at moderate to high levels for 28 April-05 May due to a solar wind enhancement associated with the negative polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) from 24-25 April and a positive polarity CH HSS on 29-30 April. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux is expected to be at normal to moderate levels for the remainder of the period. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be quiet to unsettled for 29-30 April (positive CH HSS), 14-15 May (positive CH HSS-like feature), and 21-22 May (negative CH HSS). Predominately quiet geomagnetic field activity is expected for the remainder of the period, barring any unforeseeable transient features. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2014 Apr 28 0301 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 2014-04-28 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2014 Apr 28 115 5 2 2014 Apr 29 120 8 3 2014 Apr 30 120 8 3 2014 May 01 125 5 2 2014 May 02 130 5 2 2014 May 03 135 5 2 2014 May 04 140 5 2 2014 May 05 145 5 2 2014 May 06 150 5 2 2014 May 07 150 5 2 2014 May 08 150 5 2 2014 May 09 150 5 2 2014 May 10 150 5 2 2014 May 11 150 5 2 2014 May 12 150 5 2 2014 May 13 150 5 2 2014 May 14 150 10 3 2014 May 15 145 8 3 2014 May 16 140 5 2 2014 May 17 140 5 2 2014 May 18 135 5 2 2014 May 19 130 5 2 2014 May 20 130 5 2 2014 May 21 125 10 3 2014 May 22 120 8 3 2014 May 23 120 5 2 2014 May 24 115 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1719, DXLD) ###