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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1757 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Australia and non, Bahrein, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Egypt non, France, Hawaii, India, Iran, Korea South, Madagascar, México, Micronesia, Myanmar, Netherlands non, New Zealand, Nigeria non, Oklahoma, Papua New Guinea, Perú, Rwanda non, Sweden, Taiwan non, UK non, USA SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1757, January 22-28, 2015 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [replayed 1756] Thu 1330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 [confirmed] Fri 0001 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 [confirmed] Fri 2130 WRMI 7570 & 15770 [confirmed] Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1000 WRMI 5850 Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sun 0200 WH2XDE-1 1750 Victor NY Sun 0231 KVOH 9975 [confirmed] Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 [confirmed] Mon 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 Wed 0401 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 Wed 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1415 WRMI 9955 Wed 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [or 1758 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: 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 or directly via: http://bit.ly/1xD5yyn Also via [but still not back in service]: http://tunein.com/radio/World-of-Radio-p198/ AND ALTERNATIVE, tnx Stephen Cooper, because RMRC was down: http://shortwave.am/wor.xml OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser DXLD YAHOOGROUP: Why wait for DXLD? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our yg without delay. When applying, please identify yourself with your real name and location, and say something about why you want to join. Those who do not, unless I recognize them, will be prompted once to do so and no action will be taken otherwise. Here`s where to sign up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/ ** ALBANIA. No signal of China Radio International via Fllake on Jan 10-14, plus videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/no-signal-of-china-radio-international.html (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via DXLD) Let's follow up on this: Still no CRI from Fllaka but TWR and own Radio Tirana programming go out as scheduled? If so, one could still speculate about stuff like a C-band dish being blown away. But the most likely explanation would of course be another one, considering the recent frenzy (reception reports urgently wanted, repair attempts being made, finally correcting the frequency offsets that had been ignored so long). This in particular while BCE [LUXEMBOURG relaying CRI] states that 1440 kHz will "very likely" be shut down at yearend 2015. http://radioforum.foren.mysnip.de/file.php?8773,file=4362,filename=21_Tageblatt_0109.pdf (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Jan 17, dxldyg via DXLD) Observations from tonight: 1215 kHz: Up to 1900, when CRI via Fllaka was scheduled, no trace of another carrier besides the UK synchro network. 1395 kHz: On at 1917 into TWR program feed, with interval signal ringing for eight minutes until Hungarian programming followed at 1925, with announcement cut immediately behind the IS (what kind of playout/feed is this?). Good signal level and modulation, frequency not too much off. 1458 kHz: Only Brookmans Park with Constantsa underneath until 1858, when the much off-frequency Fllaka carrier came on. The Radio Tirana IS could me made out once through the awful howl. When rechecking at 1906 the Fllaka carrier was gone again, presumably just testing to transmit Radio Tirana Turkish at 1930 for which the carrier was back on at 1922. On next check after 2000 off again. Carrier returned at 2112 for Radio Tirana in Serbian. Conclusion: It appears that the Chinese have indeed pulled out of Fllaka, effective yearend 2014. Both remaining transmitters are working, one again with the notorious frequency deviation, the other one pretty well. And I just don't believe in things like broken satellite downlink equipment here. Btw, on 1395 kHz somewhat weird sounding other audio could be heard in the background. Wolfy checked for a possible source of Luxembourg effect but found no match. Could be worth further monitoring (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Jan 17, ibid.) Yes this item from Kai is fully correct. Both Fllake TX units are on well signal level on air tonight. All CRI mediumwave relay outlets at Fllake seemingly have gone so far, after 10 years in function since March 2004 year. Some details of Jan 17 log: ALBANIA/ITALY, 1394.910 From 1917 UT interval signal of TWR Fllake relay on air, S=9+25dB strong signal. TWR interval signal 1917 - 1925 UT. TWR Hungarian px start at 1925 UT on Jan 17. TWR at 2035 UT had moved down 14 Hertz to 1394.896 kHz. Also, second 500 kW TX Fllake is ready tonight on 1457.836 kHz. Radio Tirana in Turkish Mon-Sat only broadcast at 1830-1900 UT. English station on co-channel 1458 kHz disturbs the signal in central and southern Europe too. 1458v kHz relay at 1901-1959 UT of CRI Hungarian NOT on air anymore. [non] At 2158 UT checked 1395 kHz channel again, now electro machine like music again on air: 1395.011 kHz exact footprint, ``Radio Activity – Broadcasting from the Ferrara province, with mostly dance and electro music, IDs in Italian/English/German, generally on the air during weekends. First heard on October 11th, good signal, very strong in Bologna (Stefano Valianti-ITALY, in Jan 2015 "BDXC-UK Communication" magazine)`` (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Log Sunday Jan 18: Heard Electro machine dance music of private Italian Ferrara transmitter, very strong in Venice, Bologna, Rimini, Toscana area, noted on Fabrizio's SDR software defined radio server. Footprint odd frequency 1395.011 kHz on Jan 17, but this morgen 2 Hertz lower on odd frequency 1395.009 heard from 0700 UT tune in til 0856 UT when Fllake Albanian Anthem played til 0858 UT. Drita, is this Anthem play new program detail these days? 1395.011 kHz exact footprint odd frequency on Jan 17 nighttime, 1395.009 kHz exact odd frequency in our Sunday morning. Odd 1395.009 kHz from Ferrara Italy electro music transmitter on air at 0752 UT. No CRI English service 1215 kHz at 0700-0857 UT on Jan 18 anymore. ALBANIAN Daily 0800-1000 7390 SHI 100 kW TX2 S-10 antenna at 310 deg to EUR 0901-1000 1395 FLA 500 kW TX2 F-01 antenna at 033 deg to Ce-East-EUR National Hymn at approx. 0856-0858 UT on Jan 18, afterwards Radio Tirana's interval signal to 0900 UT, on odd frequency 1394.911 kHz S=9+15dB daytime in Forli -, in \\ 08-10 UT on odd frequency 7389.977 kHz to Kosovo/exYUG target at S=9+20dB signal strength (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thus the schedule for mediumwave from Fllaka, which as well known nowadays means from Albania in general, is now: 0900-1000, 1395 kHz: Radio Tirana in Albanian, or maybe even from 0800 now? This used to be a quick switch-over from CRI on 1215 until 0857, with an official start time of 0901, but today Wolfy found 1395 already on at 0856, playing the national anthem, then from 0858 interval signal until the second program hour started at 0900. Is this a new practice to wrap up the first hour of this block in such a pronounced way? 1500-1630, 1458 kHz: Radio Tirana in Albanian. Mon-Sat only 1645-1700, 1458 kHz: Radio Tirana in Greek. 1925-2130, 1395 kHz: Trans World Radio program block. Switch-on time officially specified as 1922, immediately with audio feed of interval signal. Yesterday they turned it on already at 1917. Mon-Sat only 1930-2000, 1458 kHz: Radio Tirana in Turkish. Mon-Sat only 2115-2130, 1458 kHz: Radio Tirana in Serbian. Nothing on 1215 kHz anymore. Presumably all remaining 1458 kHz transmissions through a single ND mast now. All they achieve in Central Europe anymore is an awful howl from the carrier, again running away almost 300 Hz, hetting against the Brookmans Park signal. 1395 kHz is still excellent, should still use one of the directional systems. I would advice to put all remaining services on this clear frequency and put aside 1458 kHz, too, unless Radio Tirana is fettered here by an agreement between authorities of Albania and the Netherlands. If this is not the case (and even if so I would consider simply ignoring it) and the limitation to the 1900-2200 slot was back then merely agreed with whatever other Dutch stakeholder: It should by now all be void. No one has a licence for 1395 kHz there anymore, no one a transmission facility for this frequency either (Kai Ludwig, January 18, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Tirana ALBANIAN Daily program on MW Fllake site on non- directional antenna, Jan 18th 1500-1630 UT 1458 kHz FLA 500 kW TX2 F-05 antenna non-dir to EUR Checked at 1520 UT on Jan 18: Fllake heard on 1457.846 kHz footprint, powerful signal on remote SDR receiver server in Italy and Switzerland, but also heavy QRM by co-channel U.K. stn on even 1458 kHz with Asian taste program. btw. Channel 1395 kHz would be the MUCH BETTER SOLUTION to spread their Radio Tirana program europeanwide at these days (wolfy, ibid.) Has Mrs. Çiço confirmed that this is a permanent cancellation and not any belated contract matter? 73, (Mauno Ritola, dxldyg via DXLD) CHINA [non]. All transmissions of CRI via Fllake cancelled from Jan 1: 0700-0900 on 1215vFKE 500 kW / non-dir to SEEu English 1600-1700 on 1215vFKE 500 kW / non-dir to SEEu Albanian 1700-1800 on 1215vFKE 500 kW / non-dir to SEEu Esperanto 1700-1800 on 1458vFKE 500 kW / non-dir to SEEu Bulgarian 1800-1900 on 1215vFKE 500 kW / non-dir to SEEu Romanian 1800-1900 on 1458vFKE 500 kW / non-dir to SEEu Italian 2000-2100 on 1458vFKE 500 kW / non-dir to SEEu Hungarian 2130-2230 on 1458vFKE 500 kW / 004 deg to CeEu Polish 2200-2300 on 1215vFKE 500 kW / non-dir to SEEu Serbian 2230-2330 on 1458vFKE 500 kW / 338 deg to CeEu Czech 1215v=1215.10 1458v=1457.85 My last recordings of China Radio Int. on this frequencies on December 26, 2014. R. Tirana on 1458v and TWR Europe on 1395v continue on schedule. Videos on Jan 14 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/no-signal-of-china-radio-international.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #891 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Jan 20, 2015, via DXLD) Der Technische Direktor in Tirana und Drita verlangten schon sehr hektisch vor 2-3 Wochen Empfangsberichte und Logs ueber die Empfangbarkeit der Mittelwellen in Europa ... Genau das fiel mir jetzt naemlich auch auf. Und dann auch diese sehr hektischen Bemuehungen, auf einmal die Sender zu reparieren, zumindest auf die richtigen Frequenzen einzustellen, nachdem das dort jahrelang niemanden interessiert hatte. Und die Zeiten, wo China mal so einfach 2 x 500 kW Sender lieferte sind eh' vorbaaiii. Vor ein paar Jahren war doch erst die Rede von neuen Sendern aus China, bis es dann hiess, das habe sich zerschlagen. Auch deshalb waere es nicht erstaunlich, falls jetzt tatsaechlich Schluss ist. - - - History mail of November 2004: Nach einer Pause von 26 Jahren werden Programme des Pekinger Rundfunks fuer Europa ab dem 01.03.2004 wieder ueber Sender in Albanien ausgestrahlt. Bislang sind aus drei unabhaengigen Quellen Sendungen in Englisch 08.00-10.00 Uhr auf 1395 kHz sowie in Bulgarisch 18.00-19.00 Uhr und in Tschechisch 23.30-00.30 Uhr jeweils auf 1458 kHz bekannt; die Ausstrahlung noch weiterer Programme in anderen Sprachen duerfte zu erwarten sein. Genutzt werden die aus China gelieferten Mittelwellensender in Fllake nahe Durres, wo 1966 der erste und 1968 dann zwei weitere, jeweils 500 kW starke Sender in Betrieb gingen. Arbeitsfrequenzen sind 1215, 1395 und 1458 kHz, wobei auf 1395 kHz zwei Sender zu einer Gesamtleistung von 1000 kW kombiniert werden koennen. Albanien unterhielt seit 1961 enge Beziehungen zu China. Mit deren Abbruch wurden im Sommer 1978 auch die Ausstrahlungen von Radio Peking aus Albanien von einem Tag zum anderen eingestellt. (Kai Ludwig-D, dxld Jan 17) (via BCDX 21 Jan 2015 via DXLD) Maybe this 10 years lasting MW relay contract with China came to an end now? Albanian relay stations SW Cerrik and MW Fllake refurbished in 2004; and re-opened MW in March 2004, SW inaugurated on Nov 28, 2004 (Wolfgang Büschel, Jan 16, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 21 via DXLD) 9570 - but instead widerange 9554.8 to 9583.7 kHz signal from CRI relay site Cerrik in Albania. Chinese service heard here in Germany on S=9+30dB level, of combined 2 x 150 kW = 300 kW units. Scheduled 0200- 0357 UT. At 0301 UT news in Mandarin language (Wolfgang Büschel, Jan 20, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 21 via DXLD) [and non]. 7465, Jan 21 at 0026 check, R. Tirana, Albanian to N America is poor-fair and suffering from splash de 7455 WRMI. Seems we need to give wider berth to such QRMers; but when the B-14 season began, 7455 was not starting until 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALGERIA [non]. Additional broadcasts of RTV Algerienne in French: 0400-0458 on 5865 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf Arabic Holy Quran px 0500-0558 on 5865 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Holy Quran px 0500-0511 on 7295 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf French news bulletin 0511-0548 on 7295 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf Arabic Nat. Chaine 1 0548-0552 on 7295 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf French news bulletin <<<<<< 0552-0558 on 7295 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf Arabic Nat. Chaine 1 0600-0611 on 5865 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf French news bulletin 0611-0648 on 5865 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Holy Quran px 0648-0652 on 5865 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf French news bulletin <<<<<< 0652-0658 on 5865 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Holy Quran px 1800-1900 on 11985 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf Arabic Holy Quran px 1900-2000 on 11775 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Holy Quran px 1900-1911 on 11985 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf French news bulletin 1911-1948 on 11985 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf Arabic Nat. Chaine 1 1948-1952 on 11985 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf French news bulletin <<<<<< 1952-1958 on 11985 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf Arabic Nat. Chaine 1 2000-2100 on 9380 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf Arabic Holy Quran px 2000-2011 on 11775 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf French news bulletin 2011-2048 on 11775 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Nat. Chaine 1 2048-2052 on 11775 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf French news bulletin <<<<<< 2052-2058 on 11775 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Nat. Chaine 1 2100-2200 on 6145 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Holy Quran px 2100-2111 on 9380 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf French news bulletin 2111-2148 on 9380 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf Arabic Nat. Chaine 1 2148-2152 on 9380 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf French news bulletin <<<<<< 2152-2158 on 9380 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf Arabic Nat. Chaine 1 2200-2211 on 6145 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf French news bulletin 2211-2248 on 6145 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Holy Quran px 2248-2252 on 6145 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf French news bulletin <<<<<< 2252-2258 on 6145 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Holy Quran px Videos on Jan 12 and 19: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/additional-broadcasts-of-rtv-algerienne.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ANGOLA. 945, RNA-serviço internacional, Mulenvos, 2215-2240, 18/1, pormenores no Anexo LF-MF 15-19 JAN. 4949.75, RNA-Canal "A", Mulenvos, 1919-2006, 15/1, notícias, rubrica "Desportivo", seguida de "Agenda Nacional", começando logo pela necrologia; 45343. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Noted Symban carrier on, just barely this morning, but not even close to audio. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, BC, Jan 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2368.5v ** AUSTRÁLIA. 4835, VL8A, Alice Springs, Territ.º do Norte, 1043- desvan. total 1100, 16/1, inglês, texto; 15331 [quite unusual long- path log at that hour till total fadeout at 1100 --- gh] 4835 idem, 1944-2012, 16/1, inglês, entrevistas, canções; 35332, sinal em ascensão. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. Quick review of ABC Radio Australia frequencies via Shepparton, which are to be cancelled on Jan 31, according to the announced major cuts 0600-1000 11945 SHP 100 kW / 100 deg SPac English + French 0600-0605 0700-0900 9475 SHP 100 kW / 353 deg EaAs English 1100-1730 12085 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg SEAs English 1100-1900 9475 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg SEAs English 1300-1700 5940 SHP 100 kW / 334 deg SEAs English 1700-2030 9820 SHP 100 kW / 353 deg EaAs English In addition my last video of Radio Australia via T8WH Angel 3 Palau on Jan 11: 1300-1430 on 9965 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg to EaAs English, no signal on Jan 13: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/quick-review-of-abc-radio-australia.html Part 2-review of ABC Radio Australia frequencies via Shepparton, to be cancelled on Jan 31, according to the announced major cuts: 0500-0630 21725 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg SEAs English 0630-0700 21725 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg SEAs Tok Pisin Mon-Fri 0630-0700 21725 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg SEAs English Sat/Sun 0700-1100 9710 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg EaAs English 0800-1100 9580 SHP 100 kW / 080 deg EPac English 1500-1700 9850 SHP 100 kW / 040 deg NPac English 2030-0630 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg EaAs English 0630-0700 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg EaAs Tok Pisin Mon-Fri 0630-0700 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg EaAs English Sat/Sun 2330-0630 17750 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg SEAs English 0630-0700 17750 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg SEAs Tok Pisin Mon-Fri 0630-0700 17750 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg SEAs English Sat/Sun http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/review-of-abc-radio-australia.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #891 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Jan 20, 2015, via DXLD) 9475, Jan 16 at 0712, R. Australia talking about a Jamaican DJ, Yellow Man, and playing some reggae; fair signal // 9710, 11945, and maybe 9660, all to be ditched in a biweek. Scheduled show at 07-08 this Friday is: `Island Music - A History of Reggae`. RA program schedule website fails to link to further program info (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Island Music was a series produced by Rick Howe that was first broadcast on RA. It's now repeated on on Radio National. Rick Howe is a DJ at ABC Melbourne (Keith Perron, Taiwan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I'm certainly going to miss RA if they cut into the fqq I listen to. It is good to have heard that 9580 will stay. I hope the (=my) mid-day frequency of 9850 won't disappear. Right now, at local mid-day (1530 UT) I'm listening to a signally clear, steady and enjoyable ABC pop- music show on that frequency. The very convenient site short-wave.info tells me that is a run of very close to 18,000 km to my house in Newfoundland. Not bad for my mid-day. (Mind you, it is still Short Days, only a few weeks after the solstice.) (Philip Hiscock, Jan 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 19000, Jan 18 at 0009, R. Australia with good signal, better than // 17840. We`ll sure miss this only 19 MHz broadcast after January with RA cutbacks; has been on at 23-01 UT. Show is interview with English authoress Laurie Penny, first about how well-informed young women are now tnx to Internet; at 0017 interviewer issues a language advisory before uncensoredly mentioning a chapter title, ``--ck-- up Girls and Lost Boys``. Seems book is ``Unspeakable Things, Sex, Lies and Revolution``, on this show, `The List`. Penny says she gets threats. Those who approve of salty language must resort to shortwave, as I fear domestic AM & FM stations are too timid to risk it. Portrait and audio: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/thelist/unspeakable-things/5658464 Seems this is a live relay off ABC RN, scheduled in for 11 am Sunday local time when everyone ought to be worshipping; but it`s a repeat from last August (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, I'm located in the northern suburbs of Dallas, a little less than 300 miles south of you. In winter broadcast seasons past, 19000 kHz was always extremely strong here. Unfortunately, this winter season's reception has been very poor. I can hear it but the signal is very much weaker than it used to be, frequently barely able to get over the noise, and I usually give up trying to listen to it. Out of curiosity, do you know if 19000 is using the same antenna as in the past? If not, that's probably why I can't hear them as well. Not that it will matter in a couple of weeks. Thanks. 73, (Jim K5JG, ptsw yg via DXLD) Jim, both A-14 and B-14 HFCC show 19000 as 65 degrees at 23-01 UT. Also 70 degrees at 01-03 but not used, I think. Probably propagation has more to do with this than azimuths. I just checked the azimuth on my globe. 65 degrees goes thru Denver and Omaha. Enid is about 5 degrees further south, and The Metroplex 9 degrees, so to the north of you we have a slight advantage but should not amount to much at this distance as the signal spreads out. 70 degrees used on various other frequencies is closer to right at us, incidentally, beyond the Pacific. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Glenn, I guess it is the propagation, though I'm surprised it's as bad as it is here considering how good it used to be. Thanks. 73, (Jim K5JG, ibid.) Glenn : Jim ; Others::-) Does the Solar activity, or lack there-of recently, or events like this weeks Coronal Mass Ejection (C.M.E.) that Should have arrived over the week-end have much bearing?? Since Austal-summer is still here for 2 months, they will be sunlit for 14 +/- a day, and may be more suseptable to Flux fluctuations ?? !! ???? (Rick Wald, BoomeRang Dude, Seymour Arm, British Columbia, Canada, ibid.) Yes. They have a great deal to do with the propagation of radio waves and that's no doubt what's been causing my poor reception of 19000. But, it won't matter after the 31st since RA is retiring that frequency (and several others). 73, (Jim K5JG, ibid.) Guy: What about 17840, 11880 etc and 49 meter freq's, (The Great White North's winter Hits: 15 MHz seem summer only !!??) (RW , ibid.) As your all aware Radio Australia is making some changes January 31, 2015. Attached is the new schedule. In case you wondering how much the ABC was paying at Shepparton. In 2013 RA had 52,560 hours a year; The ABC was paying 57$ Australian per-hour. So almost 3 million a year (Keith Perron, Taiwan, Jan 20, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tnx, Keith. So small jpg it`s hard to read, but blown up I transcribe to text: Effective 1300 UT Sat Jan 31: [NOTE: this differs from a previous projected schedule!] 355 degree antenna: 21-09 on 15415, 09-21 on 12065 030 degree antenna: 21-09 on 15240, 09-21 on 12085 070 degree antenna: 21-09 on 17840, 09-21 on 9580 70 is right across North America. All English except: 0630-0700 & 0900-0930 M-F Tok Pisin 0800-0805 M-F French And that is ALL! (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DX LISTENING DIGEST) A great shame, cobbers! The end of RA as we know it. But I suppose there is nothing to prevent the possibility of the 355-degree beam being heard in parts of Asia and Europe so I will keep an eye on that one (Dave Harries, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Or the same info in a much less compact form, plus collisions: B-14 shortwave schedule of ABC Radio Australia from Jan 31: 0000-0630 on 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 0000-0630 on 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English 0000-0630 on 17840 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 0630-0700 on 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac Tok Pisin Mon-Fri 0630-0700 on 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English Sat/Sun 0630-0700 on 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs Tok Pisin Mon-Fri 0630-0700 on 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English Sat/Sun 0630-0700 on 17840 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac Tok Pisin Mon-Fri 0630-0700 on 17840 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English Sat/Sun 0700-0800 on 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 0700-0800 on 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English 0700-0800 on 17840 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 0800-0805 on 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac French Mon-Fri 0800-0805 on 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English Sat/Sun 0800-0805 on 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs French Mon-Fri 0800-0805 on 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English Sat/Sun 0800-0805 on 17840 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac French Mon-Fri 0800-0805 on 17840 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English Sat/Sun 0805-0857 on 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 0805-0857 on 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English 0805-0857 on 17840 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 0900-0930 on 9580 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac Tok Pisin Mon-Fri 0900-0930 on 9580 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English Sat/Sun 0900-0930 on 12065 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs Tok Pisin Mon-Fri 0900-0930 on 12065 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English Sat/Sun 0900-0930 on 12085*SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac Tok Pisin Mon-Fri 0900-0930 on 12085*SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English Sat/Sun 0930-2057 on 9580#SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 0930-2057 on 12065^SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English 0930-2057 on 12085*SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 2100-2400 on 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 2100-2400 on 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English 2100-2400 on 17840 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English # co-ch 1423-1520 VIRI IRIB in Russian ^ co-ch 1330-1430 BBC in Bengali/Hindi, 1500-1630 BBC in Urdu/Hindi * co-ch 0900-1100 Voice of Mongolia in English/Mongolian/Chinese/Japanese (Bulgarian DX blog via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. Hi Ian and the Group, Considering the current MISERLY attitude of the Federal Government, I think Shepparton has been lucky to escape closure as well. It would be interesting to find out if they HAVE to keep Shepparton going because of contractual obligations with Broadcast Australia - I suspect this may be the case. I have watched with utter dismay while governments around the world have destroyed first class and VALUABLE assets like Sackville and Wertachtal. (I notice that the Dutch had the good sense to re-purpose Flevo and NOT demolish it.) I think it will only be a couple of years and we will be watching the same fate befall Shepparton - unfortunately :-( (Calvin Melen, Jan 21, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) I'm really not sure about contractual obligations with BA. That's something I've no knowledge of. I doubt the tenure of contracts for individual SW transmitter sites would be that long. I said to an engineer at Shepparton a few years ago that I'd be very surprised if RA via SHP was still on SW in 5 years time and that the last area to be served would be the Pacific via SW. The techs know that it's the Pacific audience that keeps RA on air on SW. Even if the ABC & the current Federal Government wanted to close SHP - I'm sure there would be governmental objections from the political leaders of the Pacific Island nations directed to the Australian federal Gov. RA coverage on FM in several Pacific nations is only in the major centers & host island nations have limited news & reporting services of their own, not to mention limited coverage of own radio services & expensive (in many Pacific countries) internet access. The loss of RNZI & RA on SW to the Pacific would be a major setback to the people of the pacific, but realistically perhaps it's only a matter of time. Yes, the last 5-6 years have been woeful. Following the demise of SW TX infrastructure in our specialist SW group has pre-occupied many of us, but has provided some of us with opportunities to capture many memories with video & camera shots via site visits or research. I'm not aware of any plans to save SHP should SW cease from there. SHP has two purposes 1. SW broadcast of RA signals & 2. Another purpose which I won`t disclose. But if SW ends I'm sure the plant & acreage would be sold off. Can't see it heritage listed; not enough people locally care. Probably only a short matter of time before the RHOmbic & some of the curtain array antennas now disappear, unless other regular significant SW customers can be found - but I think that's very unlikely. Transmissions of RA from SHP on SW could continue to linger a little. One could still downsize transmission hours & number of txers from 3 to 2 to 1 in future whilst still maintaining a pacific service. I fear you're right. On a side note, some interesting recent reports of the ABC TV losing significant audience with older viewers. Some have blamed an increasing leftest propaganda by the ABC over recent years & being increasingly disconnected from its audience & its charter (Ian, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 15489.984, at 0746 UT Jan 15 (0730-0830 UT segment) heard "Reach Beyond Australia" from Kununurra in English, religious sermon prayer of follow man, Genesis 49 ... S=9 -74dBm signal into Germany, long path reception via S America? (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BAHRAIN. 9745, Jan 3, 1815, Radio Bahrain with a relay of the Shabab FM channel. Identification in English for Shabab noted. 3-4 (Christer Brunström, Halmstad, Sweden, SW Bulletin Jan 18 via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DXLD) ** BANGLADESH. 15105, Bangladesh Betar, JAN 18, 1251-1259. YL in English and western pop music (Huey Lewis, Michael Jackson, and Jénnifer López). Off slightly before the hour. Unusually good signal and audio quality this morning (Ross Comeau, Andover MA, NASWA Flashsheet Jan 18 via DXLD) 4750, Jan 18 at 1335, very poor signal with S Asian vocal/instrumental music, implying it`s Bangladesh Betar; as RRI is still silent since May 15, per http://rri.jpn.org/dat/html/2014-05.html The only other possibility on 4750 is China (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. Radio Belarus on Jan 19 at 1400 & 1500 UT on 11730 without terrible audio. Strong signal in Bulgaria, but low modulation. Full B- 14 schedule is here [linked] -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) 11730 kHz co-channel: 1730-1826 UT Voice of Turkey Emirler in full power ahead, S=9+35dB in Germany at 1735 UT on Jan 19. Nothing heard from Minsk at this time slot, at our location. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, Jan 19, ibid.) Radio Belarus was noted on 11730 without terrible audio, Jan 19: 1100-2300 on 11730 MNS 100 kW / 246 deg to WeEu Bel/Ru/Pol/Ge/Fr/En/Sp/Ru. Strong signal in BUL, but low modulation. Videos of Balarussian & Russian: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/radio-belarus-on-11730-khz-jan19.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Jan 20, ibid.) Radio Belarus broadcasts in Belarusian, Russian, English, German, French, Polish, Spanish and Chinese. Log in onto our web-site to find news and programs in these languages http://www.radiobelarus.tvr.by/en RADIO BELARUS --- Programs in English and Spanish: [these must be LOCAL TIME of UT +3, not UT; sic with items run together, originally in spread by days of week --- gh] 23.00-23.20 Belarus in the World Community (Spanish). News News Belarus from A to Z (Spanish) News Belarus from A to Z (Spanish) Belarus Today (Spanish) 23.20-23.40 News. Events of the Week Made in Belarus News Agricultural Policy. News 23.40-00.00 International Review Unlimited Nature Belarus: Economic Opportunities Belarus in the World Community Cultural Palette of Belarus Intellectual Factor Belarus and International Security/Military Panorama 00.00-00.20 News News News News News News News 00.20-00.40 Business Life From Slavic roots Popular Diplomacy Postcard from Belarus Unlimited Nature Letters to Editor In the Depth of the Country 00.40-01.00 Heritage Best Songs of Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk Music Store Voices of the Century Golden Fund of the Belarusian Radio In the Galaxy of Muses Believe it (via José Maranhão, Boletín número 166 de la Asociación Diexman Uruguay, Editor: Rubén Wálter Suárez, Montevideo, 08 January 2015, via Moscow Information DX Bulletin, Weekly electronic publication # 927, January 14, 2015, Editor of the current issue: Fedor Brajnikov [Fyodor Brazhnikof], via RusDX 18 Jan via DXLD) And no one fixed the times ** BOLIVIA. La Paz, Bolivia.- La primera radio de mujeres indígenas bolivianas, perteneciente a una organización sindical, comenzó a emitir este miércoles en La Paz con una consigna antiimperialista y anticolonialista. La radio, que cubre la ciudad de La Paz y su vecina El Alto, fue creada “para fortalecer política, ideológica, culturalmente” a las mujeres indígenas, dijo la ejecutiva de la Federación Sindical Bartolina Sisa, Felipa Huanca, candidata oficialista a la gobernación de La Paz en las elecciones del 29 de marzo. En su primer día de emisión, “Radio Bartolina Sisa” – que debe su nombre a una heroína indígena, esposa del caudillo aymara Túpac Katari, que luchó contra España por la independencia de Bolivia en el siglo XVIII – transmitió únicamente música folclórica boliviana. La población indígena, campesina u originaria representa un 62% de los aproximadamente 10 millones de habitantes de Bolivia, según estimaciones de la Cepal (via Luis Paz, Zulia, Venezuela, DXLD) WTFK? ** BOLIVIA. BOLÍVIA, 3310, R. Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba, 2341-2349, 15/1, quíchua, texto, canções índias; 34342, QRM de sinal de ponto a ponto. 4409, R. Eco, Reyes, 2347-2354, 15/1, castelhano, canções ligeiras; 25331. 4699.9, R. San Miguel, Riberalta, 2243-2252, 16/1, castelhano, texto; 25331. 4716.7, R. Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura, 2339-2349, 15/1, canções; 25332, QRM de tráfego em BLÚ. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. CHASQUI DX PFA – ENERO 2015 --- CQ, CQ, CQ; Aquí Pedro F. Arrunátegui para compartir algo con los que disfrutan y aman el DX latinoamericano; todas las horas son UT. Desde la tierra de los incas, les informo mediante este Quipus lo siguiente: 3310.00, BOLIVIA, R. Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba; 6/1 2340-0003, 33333, news y mxf en quechua, luego px religioso, ID “Radio Mosoj Chaski” 6025.00, BOLIVIA, R. Patria Nueva, La Paz; 15/01 2315-2340, 33333, news px Bolivia Informa, ID “Es el informe a través de Radio Patria Nueva” news ID “Patria Nueva” 6105.35, BOLIVIA, R. Panamericana, La Paz, 9/01 1140-1204, 33333, news px Integración, ID “Por Radio Panamericana…” Nota: a partir de la 1203 la cubre una señal en chino. 6155.10, BOLIVIA, R. Fides, La Paz; 8/01 2310-2335, 33333, news, ID “La historia de Bolivia. Son 75 años de Radio Fides“ px el hombre La recepción la he efectuado del 1/0-17/01 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, MFJ-1025 con antena auxiliar, una antena de hilo largo de 12 metros y una antena loop. NOTA: Para un mejor escucha de las grabaciones que adjunto, sugiero escuchar con los audífonos. Muchos 128´s PFA (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, DX LISTENING DIGEST via DXLD yg where audio clips are attached) See also BRAZIL, COLOMBIA, ECUADOR, GUATEMALA, PERU ** BOLIVIA. 3310, Radio Mosoj Chaski 0000 to 0010 YL and music good signal, at 0012 18 January (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4451.1, Radio Santa Ana, Santa Ana de Yacuma, 2320 to 2335 weak signal om in Spanish. Seems to sign off before 0000 daily. 15 Jan. Never logged this during 0900 to 1130 (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4699.9, Radio San Miguel, Riberalta, 0955 to 1012, OM “nueve en la … entonces .. horas …. “. Same OM with no music. 15 January. Noted daily 0930+ and 2300+ with difficult signal (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4716.65, Radio Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura, 0210 still on with weak signal 11 January; 1000 to 1045 om and music, fair signal 15 January (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5580.26, Jan 4, 2256, R San José, San José de Chiquitos is a very irregular guest. Got a good ID at 2300 (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Jan 18 via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.40, Pio XII, Siglo Veinte, 0210 con música - narrow filter in lsb to avoid buzz saw interference 11 January. 1015 om and yl slow conversational Spanish, 1017 music bridge “entonces en el dia“ 15 January (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6105.48, Radio Panamericana, La Paz, 1102 to 1120 in Spanish, weak signal heard on 15 January and other days same time (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6134.8, Radio Santa Cruz, 2230 to 2335 noted with vocalist with 1.2 filter in lsb to escape 6135 Brasil? 15 January (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Santa Cruz, 6135, 1/19/15, heard at 0151 UT with a poor to fair signal using headphones. Heard music and ID by male announcer at 0201 (Larry Zamora, Garland, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. [and non]. 6155v, Jan 19 at 0328, Channel Africa on 6155.0 has a low audible heterodyne, likely from R. Fides still on the air; recheck at 0621, Austria has no het, but now there is pulse jamming spur no doubt from Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 3364.87, Brasil, Rádio Cultura, Araraquara, SP, 0000 to 0014 OM in Portuguese, decent signal on 17 Jan (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4805, Brasil, Rádio Difusora do Amazonas, Manaus, 0017 to 0025 noted in Portuguese with OM, albeit weak signal, as usual. A regular signal 1000 and 2300+ but difficult 17 Jan (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4863.12, Jan 11, 2235, R Alvorada de Londrina with religious music just in the middle of Codar signals. According to their website, "24 hours of evangelisation" (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Jan 18 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4875, Brasil, Rdif Roraima, Boa Vista RR, 0200 to 0212 Brasil pop vocals, strong signal, 11 January (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Já estão no ar as ondas curtas de 49m da RB2 (antiga Rádio Clube paranaense) em 6040 kHz. Agora a RB2 está com três frequências de ondas curtas no ar em: 49m, 31m, e 25m. Depois que mudou de nome, a rádio transmite programas religiosos católicos. Os sinais são de boa potência e perfeita qualidade de áudio. 73 (Luiz, Limeira SP, 20-1- 2015 Chaine Neto, radioescutas yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DXLD) Ouvindo às 1230 UT, 6040 kHz RB2, Curitiba, com 35553. Pelo que se percebe, a RB2 completou o trio de suas frequências em ondas curtas: 6040, 9725 e 11935 kHz. 73, (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP, 20 Jan, radioescutas yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DXLD) 9724.959, Rádio RB2, Curitiba PR, ID at 0850 UT. Irregularly on air during Christmas and New Years eve, but today heard tiny signal of S=4 or -100dBm, sure 100% BrazPortuguese program, noted at 0840 UT Jan 15. At 0846 UT report about Franciscus Pope's visit to Sri Lanka. [selected span 12.5 kHz / RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9725, RB2, 20/01 2029 UT. Aviso del servicio de ayuda franciscana, horarios de noticieros y espacio de música gaúcha con ID de la emisora. A las 2040 un espacio de avisos: https://soundcloud.com/claudio-radioham-dx/9725-rb2-20-01-2015-2044-ut SINPO: 44444 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Golon RX-221 UAR, Ant: Telescópica, QTH: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6135, Jan 17 at 0218 poor signal with music, no het, so Bolivia must be off already, and this is // 9630v, 11855, so no doubt it`s Rádio Aparecida (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11746-11747 & 11813-11814 approx., Jan 19 at 0317, crackling distorted spurs from 11780.1 RNA/RNB are back! Weak but detectable and // modulation peaks on fundamental. Little else but Brasil audible on 25m now, 11765v and 11855. Recheck at 0629, now the spurs are much stronger --- can`t miss them, tho hardly anyone else bothers to log this crud which should be eliminated once and for all [and non] 11780.1 approx., Jan 21 at 0036, RNA/RNB is still off- frequency, usually not a problem, but now there is a het from something weak on 11780.0 --- I bet it`s China, which is all over the place: yes, Aoki shows only CRI this hour in Chinese, 500 kW, 59 degrees from Jinhua 831 site. At least no spurs from RNA are audible now while 11780.1 is very good with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. CHASQUI DX PFA – ENERO 2015 --- CQ, CQ, CQ; Aquí Pedro F. Arrunátegui para compartir algo con los que disfrutan y aman el DX latinoamericano; todas las horas son UT. Desde la tierra de los incas, les informo mediante este Quipus lo siguiente: 4765.00, BRASIL, R. Integração, Cruzeiro du Sul, 17/01 1115-1140, 33333, ID “En Cruzeiro do Sul por Rádio Integração” px religioso mx 4785.00, BRASIL, R. Caiari, Porto Velho, RO; 17/01 1010-1040, 33333, mx, px Agricultura al día, ID “Radio Caiari” 4845.00, BRASIL, Cultural Onda Tropicais, Manaus; 1/01 2310-0005, 33333, Comentan sobre los sucesos del año 2014, mx himno nacional del Brasil; primera misa del año. No dan ID. 4865.00, BRASIL, R. Verde[s] Florestas, Acre; 6/01 0020-0105, 44444, news px Progreso en el Amazonas, px La Voz de Brasil [sic], ID “Rádio Verde[s] Florestas. Escuchar grabación adjunta) 4875.07, BRASIL, R. Difusora Roraima, Boa Vista, RR; 9/01 2340-0002, 33333, news, ID “Difusora”, mx 4885.00, BRASIL, R. Clube do Pará, Belém, PA; 7/01 0310-0335, 33333, news y ads varios, ID “Radio Clube do Pará y las estaciones del grupo…” [sic] La recepción la he efectuado del 1/0-17/01 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, MFJ-1025 con antena auxiliar, una antena de hilo largo de 12 metros y una antena loop. NOTA: Para un mejor escucha de las grabaciones que adjunto, sugiero escuchar con los audífonos. Muchos 128´s PFA (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, DX LISTENING DIGEST via DXLD yg where audio clips are attached) See also BOLIVIA, COLOMBIA, ECUADOR, GUATEMALA, PERU ** BRAZIL. [altho complete reports are in the DXLD yg we don`t always publish his full list of Brazilian logs here; but this time we do, as they almost amount to a full listing of activity. We forego expanding his far too numerous abbrs. He starts by saying that some stations are only active on weekends, power rationing?- gh] BRASIL, Continua a ausência de determinadas emissoras, durante a semana, para surgirem ao fim de semana, o que sugere "racionamento" de energia para os txs. 3364.9, R. Cultura, Araraquara SP, 2343-2352, 15/1, canções; 25331. 4765, R. Rural (p), Santarém PA, 2325-2335, 18/1, canções; 22431, QRM de sinal de ponto a ponto. 4775, R. Congonhas, Congonhas MG, 2335-2345, 15/1, noticiário; 35432. 4785, R. Caiari, Pt.º Velho RO, 2230-2247, 16/1, canções; 45433. 4815, R.Dif.ª, Londrina PR, 2331-2342, 15/1, canções; 24321, QRM adj. de sinal de ponto a ponto. 4845, R. Cultura [do Amazonas], Manaus AM, 2302-2316, 15/1, canções e... sùbitamente, áudio da Voz do Brasil, às 2304; 45444. 4863.2, R. Alvorada (p), Londrina PR, 2336-2245, 16/1, progr. de propag. relig. católica, anúncios informativos, música; 33431, QRM de CODAR. 4865, R. Verdes Florestas, Cruz.º do Sul AC, 2309-2325, 17/1, discussão acerca do papel do petróleo, na região; 44343, QRM de CODAR + R. Alvorada, B. 4875.1, R. Dif.ª de Roraima, Boa Vista RR, 2305-21320, 15/1, A Voz do Brasil; 35433. 4885, R. Club do Pará, Belém PA, 2007-2020, 16/1, noticiário; 33431, QRM adj. de sinal de ponto a ponto. SINPO de 44433, às 2200. 4905, Nova R Relógio, Rio de Jan.º RJ, 2307-2315, 15/1, progr. de propag. relig.; 23421. 4915, R. Daqui, Goiânia GO, 2310-2321, 15/1, canções, 45433. 4925.2, R. Educação Rural, Tefé AM, 2312-2323, 15/1, progr. de propag. relig.; 24432, QRM da CHN, em 4920. 4965, R. Alvorada, Parintis AM, 2322-2333, 15/1, mensagens de ouvintes; 35332. SINPO de 45433 em 18/1, 2315; durante a ID e anúncio de fqs., indicaram a potência de 5 kW, nos 60 m. 5035, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 2329-2340, 15/1, progr. Com a Mãe Aparecida, incluindo anúncios comerc. de alojamento e restauração, no santuário; 35332. 5035.06, R. Educação Rural, Coari AM, 2240-2255, 16/1, noticiário regional; 33432, QRM da R. Aparecida, B. 5939.7, R. Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, 2235-2245, 15/1, canções; 45433. 5970, R. Itatiaia, Belo Horizonte MG, 2237-2246, 15/1, rubrica de futebol; 34432. SINPO de 45433 em 16/1, 2200. 6000, R. Guaíba, Pt.º Alegre RS, 2205-2216, 16/1, rúbrica de futebol; 23431. 6010, R. Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte MG, 2239-2253, 15/1, rubrica Desporto pelo Ar. anúncios vários, incl. info. de trânsito; 34432. SINPO de 54433 em 16/1, 2210. 6080, R. Marumby, Curitiba PR, 2209-2224, 16/1, noticiário; 44443, QRM da CHN. // 9515 fora do ar ou, então, inaudível por qq. outra razão. 6135.1, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 2221-2230, 17/1, progr. Com a Mãe Aparecida; 44433. 9515, R. Marumby, Curitiba PR, 2326-2336, 18/1, canções; 35422. // 6080. 9565.04, SRDA, Curitiba PR, 2215-2225, 17/1, D.Miranda c/ a habitual propag.; 33431, QRM da R.Martí e, sobretudo, do sinal de empastelamento cubano. 9586.75, SRDA, São Paulo SP, 2231-2243, 15/1, propag. relig.; 34443, QRM adj. de não identif., em 9590, c/ emissão num dialecto africano. 9630, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 1910-1929, 16/1, rubrica "Cantinho Sertanejo"; 35433. 9645.4, R. Bandeirantes, São Paulo SP, 2222-2236, 16/1, rubrica "Desporto em Debate", anúncios comerciais; 43432, QRM adj. da R.China Int., em castelhano, em 9640. 9664.7, R.Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, 1921-1936, 16/1, canções, chamadas de ouvintes; 35433. 9694.9, R. Rio Mar, Manaus AM, 1913-2026, 17/1, retransm. da Bandeirantes, p/ relato de jogo de futebol Palmeira x (?), 23441, mas já era 45433, às 2015. O fecho terá ocorrido pelas 2100, ou antes. 9819.9, R. 9 de Julho, São Paulo SP, 2015-2029, 15/1, entrevista acerca do restauro de uma igreja; 33442, QRM da CHN, 100 Hz mais acima. 11764.7, SRDA, Curitiba PR, 1840-1855,16/1, pregador vociferando a habitual propag. relig., c/ pausas p/ a tradução das frases p/ castelhano; 35443, modulação terrível, c/ ruído. 11855, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 1912-1928, 16/1, rubrica "Cantinho Sertanejo"; 35433. 11894.9, R. Boa Vontade, Pt.º Alegre RS, 1915-1930, 16/1, entrevista, no decorrer de progr. de propag. relig.; 24432, QRM adjacente. 15190.1, R. Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte MG, 2011-2036, 15/1, progr. A Hora do Fazendeiro, c/ canções e informação relacionada c/ a actividade rural; 25432. 15190.1, idem, 1245-1520, 16/1, música pop', anúncios de carácter informativo, ID, às 1302,..., anúncios comerciais; 15431. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. Again wrong satellite connection via Secretbrod Jan 17: 1845-1900 5925 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg WeEu Farsi UNID BVB?, instead of 1845-1900 5925 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg WeEu English Sat EU News Network http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/again-wrong-satellite-connection-via.html Same situation as of Saturday, Jan 10: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/wrong-satellite-connection-of.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Jan 18, dxldyg via DXLD) I think it is in both cases (Bible Voice Broadcasting and EU News Network) safe to assume that it are local playouts, with files transferred in advance through FTP. It looks like this: https://plus.google.com/photos/+AndrewDarylGungadoo/albums/6018443097405185633/6018444581228832434?pid=6018444581228832434&oid=107081180290954580509 In other words: They play the wrong recordings. Not that this would require the current technology, also in the old days playing a wrong tape was a pretty possible mistake (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) ** BULGARIA. Unscheduled broadcasts of Bible Voice Broadcasting: 1703-1718 11700 SOF 100 kW / 126 deg to N/ME Arabic Dardasha 7 Daily 1718-1803 11700 SOF 100 kW / 126 deg to N/ME Arabic Mon/Wed/Fri 1718-1748 11700 SOF 100 kW / 126 deg to N/ME Arabic Tue/Thu/Sat/Sun Three videos of transmissions on Sat/Tue/Thu, Jan 10/13/15 after 1748: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/unscheduled-broadcasts-of-bible-voice.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #891 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Jan 20, 2015, via DXLD) ** CANADA. Dan Sys reports that the official launch of CHRF-980 Montréal QC, which many have heard testing, is scheduled for February 2. No other AM-related news from Canada (AM Switch, NRC DX News Jan 26 via DXLD) ** CANADA. 1280, CP, ON Toronto – Format to VAR (ex-nothing, new station CP), slogan “The Scope” (AM Switch, NRC DX News Jan 26 via DXLD) ** CANADA. 6030, CFVP, Calgary (Presumed), 1253, 1/17/15, in English. Bits of a comedy routine. Radio Martí and jammer were missing. Poor (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin, Perseus, WinRadio g313e, Eton e1, Grunding Satellit 800, Sangean 909X, Tecsun PL 660; 40 meters dipole, RF Systems Mk 2, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet Jan 18 via DXLD) They should be missing, after 1200* (gh, DXLD) ** CANADA. 6070, CFRX Toronto, 1145 “Warning… Ice on the roads - 10 degrees” 13 January; 1017 “Minus 7 tomorrow with some cloudy conditions” enjoyable signal from Canada, a favorite in the local morning, 15 January (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [and non]. OUR ‘IMPARTIAL’ BROADCASTERS HAVE BECOME MOUTHPIECES OF THE ELITE Good read - but then I seem to lilke Monbiot in general http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/20/broadcasters-mouthpieces-of-elite-balanced-news-journalists Good to hear someone mentioning the CBC - Amanda Lang issue --- ef Vancouver. Posted by: (Eric Floden, dxldyg via DX LISTENNG DIGEST) MAJOR SCANDAL! About the CBC, and also, BBC (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) I agree, Eric. Perhaps an adage that applies is "Don't bite the hand that feeds you"...if you go challenging institutions that, even indirectly, influence your budgets, bad things happen; so these issues don't get a public airing. And some would also point to the fact that this opinion piece appeared in a for-profit venue; thus suggesting we don't need nonprofit, public broadcasters (Rich Cuff, swprograms via DXLD) ** CHILE. 7550, RCW, 18/01 02 UT. Comienzo de la emisión a aquella hora. No obstante, fue escuchada desde las 0253, debido a problemas de ruido y propagación en la banda de 41 metros, lo que tiende a declinar a las 0333 cuando se emite a Luis Eduardo Aute-Slowly y música romántica y del recuerdo en español hasta las 0353, aprox. Luego ID: https://soundcloud.com/claudio-radioham-dx/7550-rcw-18-01-2015-0354-utc Y desde las 04 hasta las 0425, música del recuerdo en inglés. SINPO: 45343 a 45444 como promedio. (Rx: Golon RX-221 UAR; Ant: Telescopica; QTH: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile). De hecho, la de anoche fue avisada con un par de horas. Más bien se definió la hora de partida; ya que, la misma suele ser irregular. Aunque, mayormente se pueden oir en los sábados. Y a veces, durante la semana. 73 y genial lugar para pasar el tiempo (Claudio Galaz, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** CHINA. CNR-1 jammers, morning of Jan 18: 6280, Jan 18 at 1345, good signal with Chinese opera, no QRM but really here to jam a 0.1 kW Sound of Hope, per Aoki. Then //s on: 6180, CNR1 jammer vs RTI, Jan 18 at 1345 6175, CNR1, not a jammer! Jan 18 at 1345 6165, poor with CCI, seemed same but CNR6 listed, Jan 18 at 1345 7255, CNR1 // programming, but both CRI Russian and PBS Xizang in Tibetan listed, Jan 18 at 1347 7365, CNR1, not a jammer, Shijiazhuang 723 site, Jan 18 at 1347 7385, CNR1 jammer, under WHRI, vs RTI, Jan 18 at 1348 7445, CNR1 jammer vs RTI, Jan 18 at 1348 7470, CNR1 jammer vs RFA Tibetan via Mongolia, Jan 18 at 1349 7545, CNR1 jammer vs VOA Cantonese via Philippines, Jan 18 at 1350 9530, CNR1 jammer vs VOA Mandarin via Philippines, Jan 18 at 1357 9810, CNR1, not a jammer via Nanning site, Jan 18 at 1357 At 1357 all go from Chinese opera to Gershwin`s `Rhapsody in Blue` but merely to be talked over as hour closes. CNR1 jammers, early UT January 21: 9200, Jan 21 at 0028, CNR1 jammer presumed, very poor with hash 13890, Jan 21 at 0042, CNR1 jammer, very good with flutter. Of all the others logged next few minutes, only 15385 is synchro with 13890 13920, Jan 21 at 0042, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter, about 2 seconds ahead of 13890. Except for 15385, all the rest are synch with 13920 14500, Jan 21 at 0044, CNR1 jammer, very good 14870, Jan 21 at 0044, CNR1 jammer, fair 15385, Jan 21 at 0045, CNR1 jammer, very good with flutter, // 13890 15800, Jan 21 at 0047, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter, almost // 13920 16160, Jan 21 at 0047, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter, echo from 13920 16920, Jan 21 at 0048, CNR1 jammer, very poor 16980, Jan 21 at 0048, CNR1 jammer, fair 17200, Jan 21 at 0049, CNR1 jammer, good Risking wearing out the 5-kHz step-up button the old DX-398, I`ve scanned completely from 13550 to 19000, and also checked 19900-20000, but nothing further (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CHINA vs USA(non). CNR jamming vs Voice of America 1400-1500 on 15745 UDO 250 kW / 316 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1400-1500 on 17585 LAM 100 kW / 077 deg to CeAs Tibetan http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/cnr-1-jamming-vs-voice-of-america.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #891 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Jan 20, 2015, via DXLD) ** CHINA. 4939.95, Jan 10, 1540, Haixia zhi Sheng, (Voice of the Strait) a little low in frequency. Expected a stronger signal just like the rest of the Chinese stations audible in the 60 mb this day (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Jan 18 via DXLD) ** CHINA. 4990, Hunan PBS (Xiangtan) 13-16 Jan. 1429-1531+ Poor signal until close to 1500, mostly Chinese chat, occasional music breaks + ad strings after TOH. 5+1 Time pips are consistently 2 minutes fast (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA PL606 'barefoot'/6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 15710, Enjoyed often light Chinese music on this Hakka service channel of national radio CNR6; Nagoya Aoki list shows TAI entry, so seemingly Taiwan target, 0100-0900 UT V of Shenzhou from Beijing. 0755 UT. \\ 11905 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Probably Jan 15 ** CHINA. 17890, Jan 18 at 0009, Chinese poor with flutter. Aoki shows CNR1 as a non-jammer here at 0130-1100, 100 kW, 222 degrees from Beijing 572 site but latest HFCC runs it 0000-1100; and nothing in either at any other time on this frequency. Hardly anything else now on 16m except Australia 17840, but another non // Chinese on 17490, quite similar signal, which is CRI Cantonese, 500 kW, 193 degrees from unspecified Beijing site. 12035, Jan 18 at 0038, Chinese good with heavy flutter and SAH rumble; Aoki has CRI Chinese, 500 kW, 200 degrees from Xi`an during this hour. Maybe the QRM was from Egypt, also scheduled here, but see 12080. 6100, Jan 21 at 0018, soft romantic music, fair with flutter, sounds Portuguese. Aoki indicates most likely it`s the CRI Portuguese service, 500 kW, 318 degrees direct from Beijing 572 site, way off target here, but along the grayline. Note that to hit Brasil from Beijing across the darkside they have to aim toward the northwest. Only thing else at this hour is North Korea. [and non]. 7315, Jan 21 at 0021, WHRI has VG signal despite beaming south from SC, but something else is audible under it. Aoki shows nothing but CNR2, 150 kW ND from Xi`an 594 site until 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also BRAZIL 11780 ** CHINA [non]. All MW transmissions of CRI via Fllake are cancelled from Jan 1: see ALBANIA ** COLOMBIA. CHASQUI DX PFA – ENERO 2015 --- CQ, CQ, CQ; Aquí Pedro F. Arrunátegui para compartir algo con los que disfrutan y aman el DX latinoamericano; todas las horas son UT. Desde la tierra de los incas, les informo mediante este Quipus lo siguiente: 5910.06, R. Alcaraván Radio [sic], Puerto Lleras, 8/01 1040-1105, 33333, px religioso, mx, ID “En la Voz de Tu Conciencia, escuchas música mexicana, español; Pero sobro todo nuestra buena música colombiana…” mx, ID “En Alcaraván radio y la Voz de tu Conciencia” Nota: Están dando los dos ID en esta frecuencia, escuchar grabación adjunta. La recepción la he efectuado del 1/0-17/01 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, MFJ-1025 con antena auxiliar, una antena de hilo largo de 12 metros y una antena loop. NOTA: Para un mejor escucha de las grabaciones que adjunto, sugiero escuchar con los audífonos. Muchos 128´s PFA (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, DX LISTENING DIGEST via DXLD yg where audio clips are attached) See also BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, ECUADOR, GUATEMALA, PERU ** CONGO. -Brazzaville. 6115, R. Congo, Brazzaville, 1732-1812, 16/1, francês, texto, música pop' africana, "Le Journal", às 1800; 34433, QRM adjacente. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO DR. -Kinshasa, 5066.3, R. Télé Candip, Bunia, 1928-2012, 15/1, dialecto local, texto, chamadas de ouvintes, canções, música pop' internacional; 35343. Pelas 2019, já ocorrera o fecho. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 530, Jan 16 at 0440-0455, enjoying the music from R. Enciclopedia, approaching Enid from OKC on caradio, and no sign of ``K530AM`` Vance AFB TIS on 530, even in downtown Enid. The thing has been getting weaker and weaker with its endless useless loops of irrelevant PSAs such as what to do in a hurricane. Had been hard to hear even in the daytime; solar powered? Cuban is playing knockoff instrumentals of ``I`ll Only Love You``, ``Whiter Shade of Pale``, etc., with soft-spoken YL DJ leading up to midnight. So comforting (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See OKLAHOMA ** CUBA. 900, Jan 19 at 0632, YL jazz singer in English dominates, loops toward Cuba, and soon confirmed as such by // 890 with WLS nulled. So both are R. Progreso, but 900 is much stronger. So how do we explain this? 890 is WRTH-listed as 200 kW in Ciego de Ávila, while 900 is only 50 kW in further Holguín. It would be nice to know about Cuban MW direxional patterns, if any. Is there any source for such info? Don`t bother asking Arnie (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 4765, Jan 16 at 0431, I can tell that R. Progreso is still on, by a signal from something audible inside the car on the G8 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Cuban Spy Number HM01, new start/end of transmissions, e.g.: xx59-xx21 broadcasts 22 minutes; xx21-xx29 open carrier/dead air xx29-xx51 broadcasts 22 minutes; xx51-xx59 change of frequencies 0459-0551 on 5855 UNID secret site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri 0459-0551 on 12120 UNID secret site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri 0459-0551 on 11462 UNID secret site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat 0459-0551 on 14375 UNID secret site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat 0559-0651 on 10345 UNID secret site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri 0559-0651 on 9330 UNID secret site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat 0659-0751 on 9330 UNID secret site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri 0659-0751 on 10345 UNID secret site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat 0759-0851 on 9065 UNID secret site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri 0759-0851 on 11435 UNID secret site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat 0859-0951 on 9240 UNID secret site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri 0859-0951 on 11462 UNID secret site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat 0859-0951 on 12120 UNID secret site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat 0959-1051 on 5855 UNID secret site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri 0959-1051 on 9155 UNID secret site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri 0959-1051 on 11635 UNID secret site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat 0959-1051 on 12180 UNID secret site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat 1559-1651 on 11435 UNID secret site Spanish Daily 1659-1751 on 11530 UNID secret site Spanish Daily 1759-1851 on 11635 UNID secret site Spanish Daily 2059-2151 on 11635 UNID secret site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri 2059-2151 on 16180 UNID secret site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat 2159-2251 on 10715 UNID secret site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri 2159-2251 on 17480 UNID secret site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat 2259-2351 on 11530 UNID secret site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri 2259-2351 on 17540 UNID secret site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat (Bulgarian DX Blog Jan 17 via DXLD) 10345-AM, Jan 18 at 0632, HM-01 spy numbers, 5-digit Spanish YL, interspersed with digibursts, VG signal, no doubt same 100 or 250 kW broadcast transmitter as used by RHC; making this the only broadcast on the 10 MHz band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 13740, Jan 14 at 1550. RHC in English with Academy Award news. Deep QSB on female commentator followed by station ID and then a Chinese lesson. There was probably a switch to CRI somewhere in that process but I didn’t detect it (Vince Henley, 4306 Shelby Court, Anacortes, WA, Equipment currently in use: Tecsun PL-380, JRC NRD-525, Drake R8B; Antennas are half-meter whip on PL-380 and Alpha-Delta DX- Ultra installed broadside east-west, NASWA Flashsheet Jan 18 via DXLD) Anything is possible with the incompetent Cubans, but this would require double errors --- a time when there is normally no English from RHC anywhere, and putting it on a China relay frequency to boot. Probably CRI all along (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 15370, 1/15 0018, RHC, Habana, in French (Aoki, EiBi and RHC schedules say Quechua languange at this time); Cuban music; ID: Vous écoutez RHC, Addr, end at 0030, 45433. Note: 0000-0030 utc: French instead of Quechua. JRX (J Ronaldo X, Brasil, HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DXLD) 17730, Jan 17 at 2200, RHC opening `Revista Nuestra América`, with frequency list 17730, 13740, 11760, 11840, 9535, 9710, 5040 in typical Soviet-style disorder, and they all check out! Plus English on 11880. Seems the 22-24 Spanish bihour used to be called something else. Their so-called program schedule at http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/estaticas/programacion only covers the summer morning hours of 11-15 UT. 15370, Jan 18 at 0015, RHC French is somewhat overmodulated and splattering 15360-15380. According to RHC`s own website, et al., this semihour is supposed to be the only Quechua broadcast of RHC ``to Buenos Aires`` --- so has that language expired, like Guarani did several years ago tho prolonged on some imaginary skeds? (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9550, 9640, 9820, Jan 19 at 1501, all three RHC 31m channels are still on; best on 9640, 9550 with Vietnamese QRM, 9820 weak as usual; about béisbol, then ``que sigue la música``. Stray pulse jammers presumed from Cuba proliferate: Jan 21 at 0024 on 7430 and 7440, but not synchronized. The 7430 one has been there for a long time. Jan 21 at 0034, another pair around 10030 and 10040, the latter one running faster (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 762.74 into Michigan - new country. Some snippets of audio tonight but last night was much better. This one really stands out on 762.74. Many thanks to Kaz for pointing me to Bill Whitacre's Water's Edge logs http://realmonitor.com/am_logs_we.php where I noticed Bill's logging of Global 760 on the odd frequency. I gave it a shot here last night and was surprised at the decent audio at times under WJR's splatter. It made for an easy parallel to their internet audio feed for the confirmation. 830, HIJB, Santo Domingo was also heard here on the 14th, again thanks to Bill's site for nailing the ID in one of his posted recordings (same ID as I heard, but tougher to comprehend here). 73, (Tim Tromp, West Michigan, Perseus SDR + North/South reversible D-KAZ, Jan 20, IRCA via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DXLD) So I try for this Jan 23 at 0340, but can`t even detect a carrier on 762+. Other North Americans aren`t having much luck now either. Temporary frequency variation? I wonder if it`s on 24 hours? Instead I track the LA on 760.0 and then do some research on Global 760: Its website is http://global760am.com which is labeled HICO 760 AM Global Te Escucha. But it`s NOT listed in the WRTH 2015, in fact nothing on 760 in the DR. And WRTH 2015 shows no 4-letter calls for DR MW stations --- instead it`s either HIB or HIC plus two numbers. The numbers are mostly consecutive from lower to higher frequencies but do not match the frequencies. Obviously some bureaucrat`s idea of how to re-assign calls in a neatly orderly manner. But such HI### format calls are of course useless for branding, thus made-up ``calls`` like ``HICO``, which using the real DR prefix HI- could be taken as legit. The other well-known station recently reported on 830, is legally HIB54, but its *name* is Radio HIJB. A couple other stations preserve legacy/legendary calls only in their names, HIBI and HIN. The last WRTH which carried the old jumble of non-numeric calls was the 2013y, when there was an HICO on 760 --- then known as Radio COrdillera, Santo Domingo, 5 kW but double-daggered as inactive. So that`s its derivation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. CHINA, 13669.973, Odd frequency footprint, noted here in southern Germany some nice folkloric violin music from domestic China national radio Xinjiang PBS from Urumqi in Uighur language at 0807 UT Jan 15, scheduled 0300-1230 UT. S=8 -80dBm signal strength (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. CHASQUI DX PFA – ENERO 2015 --- CQ, CQ, CQ; Aquí Pedro F. Arrunátegui para compartir algo con los que disfrutan y aman el DX latinoamericano; todas las horas son UT. Desde la tierra de los incas, les informo mediante este Quipus lo siguiente: 6050.00, ECUADOR, R. HCJB, Quito; 9/01 1110-1135, 44444, px A través de la Biblia, ads, ID “HCJB, gracias por tu aporte, HCJB transmitiendo desde Quito; patrimonio de la humanidad.” La recepción la he efectuado del 1/0-17/01 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, MFJ-1025 con antena auxiliar, una antena de hilo largo de 12 metros y una antena loop. NOTA: Para un mejor escucha de las grabaciones que adjunto, sugiero escuchar con los audífonos. Muchos 128´s PFA (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, DX LISTENING DIGEST via DXLD yg where audio clips are attached) See also BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, COLOMBIA, GUATEMALA, PERU ** EGYPT. 9965+, Jan 17 at 0223, R. Cairo, good signal but heavy flutter, ME music, no whine audible for a change 9905+, Jan 17 at 0223, R. Cairo, open carrier, or maybe JBM, the other Arabic service, equal signal to 9965+ 9860.0, Jan 17 at 0224, R. Cairo, just barely modulated in presumed English, not off-frequency. 12080.1, Jan 18 at 0039, open carrier/dead air, presumably R. Cairo, could be just warmup before 0045 Spanish, but more likely will continue to be non- or badly-modulated. 9860.0, Jan 19 at 0320, R. Cairo supposedly English, fair signal with open carrier/dead air. Not off-frequency, anyway 9905+, Jan 19 at 0320, R. Cairo, good signal with flutter in Qur`an, but extremely distorted, suppressed modulation; off frequency high 9965, Jan 19 at 0321, R. Cairo, good with flutter, ME music not very distorted; RTTY QRM on lo side. As for missing relay via Global 24: see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9965.308, Surprisingly clear audio came from Radio Cairo transmission in Arabic at 0130 UT on Jan 20. Phone in by female presenter and male voice politician interview part, S=9+15dB signal here in southern Germany. Slightly 6 x 300 Hertz apart peak whistle tones heard and seen both sidebands, but not annoying. Much different bad signal noted an hour later around 0240 UT as distorted audio heard in wideband range during spoken transmission parts in range 9941 to 9988 kHz! (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9965+, Jan 21 at 0033, R. Cairo, open carrier/dead air except for whine, on very good signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT [non]. 9395, Global 24 via WRMI schedule at http://tinyurl.com/G24sked still shows R. Cairo relays Sundays at 1300-1420 and Mondays at 1100- 1220, but replaced by something else on Sun Jan 18; see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. Observations Sat Jan 17: Radio Assenna: 1700-1800 on 11720 SOF 100 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Mon/Thu/Sat Eritrean Forum: 1700-1800 on 11720 SOF 100 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Tue/Fri/Sun 1700-1800 on 11720 SOF 100 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Arabic Wed 1800-1900 on 11720 SOF 100 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Arabic Sat (Ivo Ivanov, Jan 18, dxdlyg via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA. Anoche me quede hasta las 06 UTC escuchando radio con algunas cosas interesantes en 41 y 49 metros. Especialmente en esta banda hubo buena apertura para Africa, con Tanzania, Zambia, Rwanda y otras cosas. Me sorprendio (gratamente) la recepcion de Ethiopia en 9705 khz (variable). No estoy ni con la mejor artilleria (solamente portatiles) ni las mejores antenas solo hilo largo) pero me favorece estar justo frente al mar. De Boquita ni hablemos. Por suerte Chaca esta solo de pretemporada y no realizo amistosos a la fecha (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, Jan 21, condiglista yg via DXLD) No further details; Ethiopia has not been reported on 9705v for a long time; not in Aoki nor anything else at that hour. Perhaps on the portable he was really getting Turkey on 9700? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Strong DRM broadband white noise jamming vs two clandestine stations: Radio Xoriyo 1600-1630 on 17630 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Somali Tue/Sat Oromo Voice Radio 1600-1630 on 17850 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Oromo Mon/Wed/Sat Radio Impala, probably cancelled Ivo Jan 18 ** FRANCE. Temporary French station soon testing on MW 1161 kHz The old French frequency of 1161 kHz (used until 1996 by France Inter) will be used for motorsport arrangements in the French region of Alsace (eastern France) between October 1st and 4th, 2015. The transmitter is located at Sélestat with a power of 200 kW. The transmitter will be tested already in February/March. It is also said that France Bleu will end its transmissions on 1278 kHz in May 2015. Information from Jean-Paul Meyer and Rémy Friess via A-DX via Bengt Ericson, ARC (You are subscribed to email updates from Arctic Radio Club, Jan 20 via Barry Davies, MWCircle yg via DXLD) ** FRANCE. 24940-USB, Jan 19 at 1454, F5POJ in northern France calling CQ 12 in English after QSO as Phil with a W4. Just about the OSOB in voice, besides several CW on the low end. 10m not open. QRZ.com: PHILIPPE BALEUX 2 BIS RUE EDOUARD MAMBOUR 02260 LA CAPELLE France (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Dear friends, the AFN GERMANY is not on air in the medium- wave band. I have visited some different MW-sites. Tx Bamberg off air since December 2013/ Stuttgart off air since 7.03.2014 at 14.45 DST/ Kaiserslautern off air since 31 August 2014/ Heidelberg off air since 28 April 2014. I think AFN has left AM completely. On the website of AFN only frequencies for FM and digital transmissions. http://bavaria.afneurope.net/ 73s (Uwe Sennewald, Germany, Jan 16, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) TIME TO UP TO DATE THE INFOs http://www.hermanboel.eu/en-emwg-mw2.htm (probably Dario comment, ibid.) ** GERMANY. Radio Space Shuttle was observed from 1400 UT 17 Jan 2014 on 6070 kHz from the 10 kW Channel 292 transmitter in Germany. Started with what a presume was their interval signal, an air-raid siren, then signed-on in English and gave [Netherlands] contact details as per their website at http://spaceshuttleradio.freeservers.com A few minutes later there was an announcement in Finnish followed by an English version stating they were "transmitting from Finland and from Rohrback [sic], Germany...", and a canned ID stated they were "coming from a secret location in Scandinavia". Reception was good via a Global Tuners remote rx in Rimini, Italy. There's a 5-minute edited clip on the Finland page of Interval Signals Online (intervalsignals.net)' (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, UK, Jan 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Rohrbach-Waal (Waal is a part of the village Rohrbach) Rohr-bach --- Bach = very small river = brook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohrbach,_Bavaria http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohrbach_%28Ilm%29 on 6070 kHz via: http://www.channel292.de/ http://www.channel292.de/deutsch/impressum/ http://www.channel292.de/s/cc_images/cache_2415917845.jpg (roger, Germany, ibid.) Spaceshuttle Radio International via Channel 292 on Sat, Jan 17: 1400-1500 6070 ROB 010 kW / non-dir CeEu, bad propagation in Bulgaria 1500-1600 6070 ROB 010 kW / non-dir CeEu, co-ch VIRI Uzbek till 1550: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/space-shuttle-radio-international-via.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #891 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Jan 20, 2015, via DXLD) January 17: Spaceshuttle Radio International via Channel 292 at 1510 on 6070 Rohrbach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZOw4GB6Fgo&feature=youtu.be Spaceshuttle Radio International via Channel 292 at 1525 on 6070 Rohrbach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOS6S48IwlM&feature=youtu.be Spaceshuttle Radio International via Channel 292 at 1535 on 6070 Rohrbach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxxu8REOS-U&feature=youtu.be Spaceshuttle Radio International via Channel 292 at 1545 on 6070 Rohrbach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeu9-GFLyPU&feature=youtu.be Spaceshuttle Radio International via Channel 292 at 1551 on 6070 Rohrbach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpySM9h3kgA&feature=youtu.be Spaceshuttle Radio International via Channel 292 at 1555 on 6070 Rohrbach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acFqRa5jsZQ&feature=youtu.be 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hier aus 4 Moderationsteilen ein Clip der 6070 kHz von 8radio Ireland via Rohrbach im Süden Sachsen-Anhalts (330 km): https://app.box.com/s/b013iaq9vm5brxind0vflw4gi2qhm54s (ca. 6 MB *.m4a/aac) (roger, Germany, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GERMANY? 6150, Jan 3, 1545, Europa 24 with professional programming incl. news headlines every 15 minutes. 3 (Christer Brunström, Halmstad, Sweden, SW Bulletin Jan 18 via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Wertachtal-Sender Finale Hallo Leute, kennt ihr das Video unten...?? Zur freien Verwendung und Verteilung diese traurige Geschichte. 73 (PETER DJ8XW, derzeit Singapur, Jan 21 via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) Video: Der letzte Sendermast ist gefallen. Ehemalige Mitarbeiter erinnern sich an die ueber 40jaehrige Geschichte des einst groessten europaeischen Kurzwellensenders Schoene Gruesse vom Equator ... PETER DJ8XW 9M8XXW Video, 7 mins 32sec [log of video content] Der letzte Sendermast ist gefallen. Ehemalige Mitarbeiter erinnern sich an die 45jaehrige Geschichte des einst groessten europaeischen Kurzwellensenders Wertachtal. The last transmitter mast fell. Former employees remember on last 45 years of history of the once largest European Shortwave transmitter at Wertachtal. 00.20 m/s, Wertachtal broadcast center, once "the navel of the world of communication". Planned from 1969, Bundespost/Telekom erected first 6 x 500 kW tx in 1971/1972. 30 language broadcasts of many broadcaster, like state information broadcaster Deutsche Welle went to internet distribution now at present. 00.45, "Federal broadcaster Deutsche Welle whose job it was, populist connecting communication and a contribution to peace" the motto of former DW Intendant chief 1967-1980 Mr. Walter Steigner. 01.00, presenter engineer Mr. Albert Richter spoke, "Wertachtal was built over several years, very tedious. Dipole array masts blown up in 2014 year. 01.15, Memories of engineering staff who were there at Wertachtal since 1969. Mr. Heinrich Epple, about the happiness of the interesting work for the staff team. 01.36, picture of first transmission of 25 Febr 1972, real 500 kW at tranmitter #801 on 5960 kHz, on antenna #124, 02.10, 180 Million Deutsch Marks were the Deutsche Bundespost Wertachtal budget these days 1969-1973, were the construction costs of this system. 02.20, Wertachtal azimuth angle map. 02.32, Postmaster General, Federal Post Minister Mr. Georg Leber 02.40, and likewise phantasy thrill so far: 02.49, In August 1972, punctual to the Munich Olympics, the tx center went into regular service. 02.55, Among the curiosities, from today's perspective, the sea is one of these cooling water pond. The pool was part of the cooling water circuit, and served the operation relatives and families as always comfortably heated pool. 03.15, Mr. Volker Buchholz: "The boss had ordered staff to swim, before the start of daily operations, employees should still sporty swim by 10 minutes." 03.30, Wertachtal 1972 engineering staff bungalows on seaside. 03.55, Wertachtal staff bungalow example. Overlooking the countryside, and seaside. 04.45, Mr. Werner Thiele: "Condition for the construction at this location was that the environment was flat and totally undeveloped. ... Very rare to find such a transmitter site location, in the most densely populated Federal Republic of Germany." 05.22, Full broadcast service of Deutsche Telekom / Media Broadcast staff in the 90ties and 00ies. 05.36, 1990year Operation panel. Transmitter operation at full capacity in the late 90s, and digital mode investing, in digitization up to 2008. 05.54, big tx / antenna connection matrix 06.14, In 2008, the State Transmission System Wertachtal has been privatized. 06.21, last mast blown-up example. 07.27, After 45 years of shortwave transmitter Wertachtal is almost disappeared, and only history now. WER SK (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The end of Wertachtal. It`s in German but some great footage. Goes for 7 minutes. http://goo.gl/NSZsu4 73 (Dave Onley, Netherlands, via Wayne Bastow, Narara, NSW, Australia, ARDXC via DXLD) ** GERMANY vs CHINA. Strange sound test, part 2 - MBR vs CRI on January 21: 1500-1700 5990 NAU 125 kW / 235 deg to WeEu, instead of 5905 on Jan.6 1500-1600 5990 HUH 100 kW / 345 deg to CeAs Russian China Radio Inter http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/strange-sound-test-part-2-mbr-vs-cri-on.html Strange sound test, part 1 on Jan 6, videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/strange-sound-tests-mbr-vs-cri-in.html (Ivo Ivanov, Jan 21, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Kahlschlag bei der Deutschen Welle Bonn. Die Deutsche Welle wird abgewickelt. Da gibt es noch andere Meldungen in de letzten Woche, die Mitarbeiter ab 55 Jahre 'koennen' mit 70% ihrer jetzigen Brutto-Bezuege in Pension gehen, wenn sie dort 10 Jahre geschafft haben. Eine sehr, sehr, grosszuegige Loesung, ein kurzer Artikel stand auch in der Stuttgarter Zeitung auf der Radio/TV Seite (Wolfgang Büschel, Jan 19, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 21 via DXLD) Fast alle deutschsprachigen Magazine im Programm der Deutschen Welle sollen wegfallen. Vermutlich will sich die Deutsche Welle als global konkurrenzfaehig positionieren. (Tom DF5JL, A-DX Jan 19, ibid.) re: was mich wundert ... noch ein kleiner Nachschlag, weil man ja gar nicht so viel fressen kann, wie man kotzen moechte: Gestern {Fri Jan 16} brachte die SZ die huebsche "Nachricht aus der Anstalt", dass, wer 55 Jahre und aelter sowie schon zehn Jahre fleissiger Angestellter der Deutschen Welle sei, sich ab sofort fruehpensionieren lassen koenne: zu schoenen 70% seines ebenso feinen Oeffentlichen R-Gehaltes. Diese Stilllegung nun nach den Sendern auch der humanen Ressourcen kaeme billiger als die Weiterbeschaeftigung in einem Land, das um aeltere Arbeitnehmer ja - so ist es ueberall zu hoeren - einen wilden "Kampf um die Talente" fuehre (SZ on Jan 16, ibid.) Da tut sich ein weiterer Budget Topf fuer die DWL Bonn auf; Vielleicht noch ein Hinweis auf der erahnen laesst, wohin die Reise geht. (Tom DF5JL, A-DX Jan 20, ibid.) Mit was die sich bei der DWL in Bonn alles beschaeftigen: Deutsche Welle, Stellenangebote von Deutsche Welle. Positionsbeschreibung Akquisition neuer Partner aus dem Distributionsbereich Nah-/Mittelost. Art der Anstellung Vollzeit. Kontakt Die Deutsche Welle (DW) ist der Auslandssender Deutschlands. Sie verbreitet weltweit journalistische Angebote - multimedial und in 30 Sprachen. Darueber hinaus bildet die DW Akademie Medienfachkraefte in Entwicklungs- und Transformationslaendern fort. Standorte sind Bonn und Berlin. Wir suchen fuer unseren Distributionsbereich Nah- /Mittelost am Standort Bonn zum naechstmoeglichen Zeitpunkt eine Vertriebsmitarbeiterin oder einen Vertriebsmitarbeiter in Freier Mitarbeit. Ihre Aufgaben Akquisition neuer Partner auf Basis der Vertriebsstrategie, inklusive der Verhandlungsfuehrung und Vertragsgestaltung. Durchfuehrung ausfuehrlicher Marktanalysen. Angebotspraesentation und Verhandlung mit arabischen Partnern. Kontaktpflege mit deutschen sowie arabischen Medien und Institutionen. Mitarbeit bei der Planung von Marketingaktivitaeten. Steuerung und Betreuung der Vertriebsagenturen. Teilnahme an Messen und Konferenzen. Ihr Profil - abgeschlossenes Hochschulstudium, vorzugsweise im Bereich der Medienwirtschaft oder -wissenschaft. Einschlaegige Auslandserfahrungen im Vertriebsgebiet. Erste Vertriebserfahrungen sind von Vorteil. Erfahrungen bei nationalen oder internationalen Medienunternehmen sind wuenschenswert. Sehr gute Deutsch-, Arabisch- und Englischkenntnisse in Wort und Schrift, Franzoesischkenntnisse von Vorteil. ... dann freuen wir uns auf die Zusendung Ihrer Bewerbungsunterlagen (bei E-Mail: maximal 5 MB) bis 16. Januar 2015 an Deutsche Welle Personalabteilung Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 3 53110 Bonn (DWL Dec 18, via BC-DX Jan 21 via DXLD) ** GERMANY. German Weather Service (DWD) will start transmitting weather information for Baltic sea and North Sea three times a day from their site in Pinneberg, near Hamburg effective from Apr 1, 2015 as follows: 0600-0630 on 6040 kHz, 1200-1230 on 6040 kHz and 2000-2030 on 5905 kHz (DX RE MIX NEWS #891 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Jan 20, 2015, via DXLD) Re: Seewetterbericht auf KW. Zu diesem Thema hatte ich schon vor einer Woche versucht, eine Mail ueber diese Liste zu versenden. Leider wurde diese scheinbar nicht weitergeleitet, also hier nochmals. Ich hatte vor einiger Zeit den DWD angeschrieben und als Antwort erhalten: Sehr geehrter Herr Roesner, vielen Dank fuer Ihre Mail! Es ist leider noch zu frueh, um eine definitive Aussage zu treffen. Zur Zeit werden technische Moeglichkeiten geprueft. Entscheidungen sind noch nicht gefallen. Mit freundlichen Gruessen, Wilfried Behncke Nationaler NAVTEX-Koordinator Deutscher Wetterdienst Hamburg Seeschifffahrtsberatung Kundenbetreuung und Vertrieb Tel.: 0049 69 8062 6187 (Thomas M. Roesner, Germany, DL8AAM, A-DX Jan 20 via BCDX Jan 21 via DXLD) Says it`s too early to confirm anything definitely (gh) ** GHANA [non]. AUSTRIA, 11980, AWR, 21/01 2101 UT. Inicio servicio en inglés, avisos de “AWR Ghana” como id cantada de forma coral e himnos interpretados de manera Acapella, hasta las 2110. Desde esa hora, un hombre predica acerca de las profecías de Daniel, en el antiguo testamento, y el reino de Babilonia. SINPO: 55444. Rx: Golon RX-221 UAR. Ant: Telescópica. QTH: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile (Claudio Galaz, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** GREECE. Re robbery of metals from 1260 MW transmitter equipment: Former IBB Rhodes-A before base "Courier" ship MW 1259 kHz, 150kW, + SW 35 kW 2xCollins at 7 Sept 1952 to 13 Aug 1964. Then landbased IBB Rhodes-A 1259 kHz 150 kW 1965-1985 installation, til Dec 2012 ERA MW 1494 kHz, 50 kW; in Jan 2013 then ERT-open 1260v kHz, mostly variable in 3-2014 1259.844 to 1259.989 kHz. Last heard at remote Zakyntos Greece site, here on tune-in Dec 5, 2014: Rhodes powerhouse S=9+40dB, nice history Greek music theme from 20ties, 30ties in past century. 36 24 49.46 N, 28 13 41.57 E Former IBB Rhodes-A; 1953-1964year, seaborne relay base Courier ship MW 1259 kHz 150 kW + SW 2x35 kW Collins txs 36 25 02.14 N 28 13 53.58 E (Wolfgang Büschel, BCDX 21 Jan via DXLD) ** GREECE. At 0650 to 0715 UT on Jan 15 came across of Avlis measuring signal outlet, like warm-up procedure. 9420.005 footprint frequency, S=9+25dB -50dBm [selected span 12.5 kHz / RBW 15.3 Hertz] 10 peaks visible of test tone each sideband. at 100, 300, 500 .... up to 5100 Hertz visible. 11645.007 only empty carrier on air. 15630.015 only empty carrier on air (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) 9420.006, ERT-open Avlis footprint frequency, S=9+25dB or -47dBm signal strength of both, also co-channel VoIRIB Albanian service. At 1835 UT on Jan 17 heard political commentary in Greek of Burkina Faso Africa item. IRIB tx was only 2 Hertz lower side on 9420.004 kHz, could it separate for measuring during deep fading phase. 9935.006 kHz S=9+10dB signal in southern Germany. 15630.016 fair S=6 signal into southern Germany. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz / RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 17, dxldyg via DXLD) 9420 fair-good // 9935 poor, ERT Open in Greek is on today at 2136 Jan 17 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Three broadcast outlets of ERT-open Greek folk music observed in Germany, and on Sydney remote SDR site downunder. S=9+5dB signal in Germany at 0145 UT Jan 20, 9420.005 and 9935.005 kHz equal signal level. And in Australia also visible on S=4-5 tiny signal in 19mb on 15650.016 kHz and some tiny pieces of folk music too. No propeller motorboat signal heard so far this morning (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREENLAND. Radio Greenland vintage recording --- Re DXLD 15-02 Regarding Sam Ward's comments about the 1961 Radio Greenland clip on Interval Signals Online, and RG airing foreign-language programmes: My WRTHs for 1960/61/62 don't mention English but list summer-only broadcasts in Norwegian (an hour a week) and Faroese (40 minutes daily). I've put a screenshot of the WRTH 1961 Greenland entry on the WRTH Facebook group (which you'll need to join in order to see). By the way, Sam, thanks for your kind comments about the site (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, Jan 19, dxldyg via DXLD ** GUATEMALA. CHASQUI DX PFA – ENERO 2015 --- CQ, CQ, CQ; Aquí Pedro F. Arrunátegui para compartir algo con los que disfrutan y aman el DX latinoamericano; todas las horas son UT. Desde la tierra de los incas, les informo mediante este Quipus lo siguiente: 4054.98, GUATEMALA, R. Verdad, Chiquimula; 7/01 0210-0305, 33333, px religioso en español NOTA: primera vez que la escucho en este horario; frecuencia siempre la he captado a las 0900 UT, verificada en LSB la escucho mejor. ID “Radio Verdad”, todo en español, dan casilla postal y hoja electrónica, escuchar grabación adjunta. La recepción la he efectuado del 1/0-17/01 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, MFJ-1025 con antena auxiliar, una antena de hilo largo de 12 metros y una antena loop. NOTA: Para un mejor escucha de las grabaciones que adjunto, sugiero escuchar con los audífonos. Muchos 128´s PFA (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, DX LISTENING DIGEST via DXLD yg where audio clips are attached) See also BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, COLOMBIA, ECUADOR, PERU 4055, Radio Verdad, 1041 to 1045 distorted over modulated signal with children signing in Spanish 15 Jan (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HAWAII. NEW STATION WATCH: CP built, nearing final licensing: 1240 KEWE HI Kahului – Applies for license to cover CP for new station (U1 5000/5000); station has been heard on the air (AM Switch, NRC DX News Jan 26 via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DXLD) Unlike on the mainland, graveyard stations limited to U1 1000/1000, but will be tough to hear with all the QRM. But has already been heard by Bryan Clark in NZ (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** INDIA [and non]. 4760.0, Jan 11, 1620, AIR Port Blair + AIR Leh (tentative), two carriers separated 3-4 Hz still visible, indicating both Leh and Port Blair. But as the audio is more or less too weak at this time for any audio, it is impossible to tell which is which. In the past AIR Port Blair was noted on 4760.01 and used to sign off at 1700*. The station on the low side signs off at few seconds after 1630*, so most likely that one is AIR Leh. On Jan 12 at 1400, only the station on 4760.0 was audible with weak audio and at 1500 both signals were equally strong. ELWA seems to be off air for the moment, so when I checked my recordings at 2356 on Jan 4, 9 & 11 I noticed that the frequency was free. On Jan 4 the station on 4760.0 was audible with music at 2356 but a bit weak to get a definitive ID. One reason for the weak signal was that my antenna pointed in the opposite direction at that time. When searching the web I found a good recording of AIR Port Blair which coincidentally also started at 2356. After 60 seconds or so into this recording there is an ID sounding as "Ye Akashvani ka Port Blair Kendra Hai" + mention of the frequencies. When comparing the recordings it turns out that they come from the same station and the ID also can be heard on my recording. Most likely sign on at 2355 as said in WRTH as there was no signal when checked at 2334. See more info at http://cgewcc.and.nic.in/Departments/AIR.htm?div=divAbout AIR Leh uses "R Kashmir" as ID in Ladakhi and in Hindi "Akashvani Leh" (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, illustrated, SW Bulletin Jan 18 via DXLD) ** INDIA. 5050, AIR Aizawl, 1601-1630*, Jan 15. Third consecutive day on the air; in the clear after Beibu Bay Radio (China) signed off at 1601*; EZL pop songs; local ID; weak (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. Special broadcasts by AIR for Republic Day 2015 All India Radio will broadcast following special programs inconnection with the Republic Day celebrations on 26th January, 2015 25 January 2015 (Sunday): Eve of Republic Day 1330 UT (1900 IST) onwards President's address to the nation in Hindi & English. This will be broadcast by all stations of AIR on MW, SW, FM. Shortly after this broadcast, the local stations will broadcast their translations in local languages. SW frequencies: kHz kW Station 4760 7 Leh 4760 8.5 Port Blair 4800 50 Hyderabad 4810 50 Bhopal 4820 50 Kolkata 4835 10 Gangtok 4850 50 KOHIMA 4860 50 Shimla 4880 50 Lucknow 4895 50 Kurseong 4910 50 Jaipur 4920 50 Chennai 4950 50 Srinagar? 4970 50 Shillong 4990 50 Itanagar 5010 50 Thiruvananthapuram 5040 50 Jeypore 5050 10 Aizawl 6030 250 Delhi 9380 250 Aligarh 9425 250 Delhi 9870 500 Bengaluru MW Frequencies http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/mw/freq.htm FM Frequencies http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/fm/airfreq.htm 26 January 2015 (Monday): Republic Day: Running Commentary of Republic Day parade from 0350 UT (0920 IST) onwards: Hindi: 6155 (Aligarh 250 kW); 9595 (Delhi), 11620 (Bengaluru 500 kW) (Cancelling External Service in Urdu normally broadcast at this time on these frequencies) English: 6030 (Delhi 250 kW); 15050 (Bengaluru 500 kW) Also MW/FM frequencies as per above mentioned links. The following regional stations will change from their Morning frequencies on 60 Meters (4 & 5 MHz frequencies) to their day time frequencies between 0335-0350 UT (i.e. much earlier than usual) as follows: 6000 Leh 6040 Jeypore ? (Off air lately) 6065 KOHIMA 6085 Gangtok 6150 Itanagar 7230 Kurseong 7295 Aizawl 7315 Shillong 7325 Jaipur 7440 Lucknow The following stations are already scheduled to be on air daily at this time and will also relay the running commentary. 6020 Shimla 6110 Srinagar ? (off air lately) 7210 Kolkata 7290 Thiruvanthapuram 7380 Chennai 7390 Port Blair 7420 Hyderabad 7430 Bhopal Please send your reception reports to : spectrum-manager@air.org More details about India’s Republic Day is in: http://www.knowindia.gov.in/republicday/ Happy Republic Day to all DX India members! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dx_india/ Join dx_indiafacebook group at: http://www.facebook.com/groups/dxindia/ 73 (Jose Jacob & Alokesh Gupta, dx_india yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 4869.93, Jan 7, 2038, RRI Wamena, Irian Jaya, Indonesien, SIO 333. RRI Wamena aus Irian Jaya ist ein gutes Beispiel dass sich Ausdauer auf der Kurzwelle immer noch lohnt! Am 25. November konnte ich erstmals ein ganz schwaches Signal hören, und habe seither fast täglich die Frequenz beobachtet, oft ohne Signal, oft ein Signal ohne Modulation, oft sehr schwach. Und dann heute ein S5 Signal, somit trotz des CODAR Radars zu hören (Christoph Ratzer, Austria, via A-DX via SW Bulletin Jan 18 via DXLD) [and non] 4870, Jan 5, 1504, Sedaye Kashmir strong on 4870,0 with spurious carriers on both sides, +/- 100 Hz. RRI Wamena also there on 4869.93 with a weak signal. Wamena ended their program at about 1500 but switched off the transmitter first at 1524 (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Jan 18 via DXLD) 4870, Jan 17, 1145, RRI Wamena, Papua. Has been the most common Papua station here, heard quite often. Good signal this day (Arne Nilsson, Gransel, Sweden, SW Bulletin Jan 18 via DXLD) 4869.93, Jan 16, 2038, RRI Wamena, Irian Jaya, Indonesien, SIO 333, heute mit für Irian Jaya guter Hörbarkeit, natürlich begleitet von CODAR Radar (Christoph Ratzer via A-DX, ibid.) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. LISTEN-IN TO 2380 MHZ RADAR OBSERVATIONS OF ASTEROID --- Southgate January 20, 2015 On January 26, 2015 the near-Earth asteroid 2004 BL86 will pass within 0.008 AU of Earth (3.1 times as far away as the Moon). This will be the closest approach to Earth by this asteroid for at least the next 240 years. As part of an extensive campaign of radar observations to learn about BL86's shape, spin state, and surface; and to refine knowledge of its trajectory; the Arecibo Observatory's S-band planetary radar plans to illuminate the asteroid with a continuous-wave signal over January 27, 2015, 0345-0400 UT. Over that time, BL86's radar echo will be received by elements of the Very Long Baseline Array and the Very Large Array in New Mexico. Anyone with an antenna and receiver capable of detecting the echo is welcome to listen in. BL86 will be above the horizon for most observers in North and South America, and for some parts of western Europe and western Africa. To readily detect its radar echo, observers should have an antenna with an effective collecting area of at least 10 square meters. BL86 will be moving rapidly across the sky. Over Jan 27 0345-0400, it will move by ~0.5º. The asteroid's exact position on the sky will depend on where it is observed from as well as the time, but will be near (RA,Dec) = (130º,+17º). A current ephemeris can be obtained from JPL's Horizons system: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?horizons The Arecibo transmission will be tuned to give a nominal echo center frequency of exactly 2380 MHz at geocenter. Without correction for Earth's rotation, BL86's radar echo will appear as slowly-drifting and within 15 kHz of 2380 MHz. Predicted echo frequency as a function of time for a given location can be obtained on-request by emailing Michael Busch (mbusch@seti.org). We expect an echo bandwidth of 6 Hz or less. Details of the BL86 radar observing campaign at the Arecibo Observatory, NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar facility, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory are available at http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroids/2004BL86/2004BL86_planning.html http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2015/january/listen_in_to_2380_mhz_radar_observations_of_asteroid.htm#.VMDZhY1ybDc (via Mike Terry Jan 22, dxldyg via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. SIR RICHARD BRANSON'S VIRGIN ENTERS SPACE RACE FOR GLOBAL WEB ACCESS http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/engineering/11347867/Sir-Richard-Bransons-Virgin-enters-space-race-for-global-web-access.html (The words "radio" and "broadcasting" are not mentioned in this article but I wonder what world-wide internet access would mean for their future - Mike) Daily Telegraph, By Alan Tovey, Industry Editor, 15 January 2015 Sir Richard Branson is taking on Google and Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the race to offer worldwide high-speed internet access and telephone services from space. The entrepreneur’s Virgin Galactic group has been selected by US group OneWeb to launch a “constellationof 648 micro satellites providing internet connections from space. The deal was announced as the billionaire’s Virgin Group was unveiled as an initial investor in OneWeb, along with Qualcomm, a US telecoms company. Sir Richard said: “OneWeb will build, launch and operate the world’s largest-ever satellite network. Virgin Galactic’s LauncherOne programme will help make it possible with frequent satellite launches at a much lower cost and with greater reliability. “Virgin Galactic has always planned to build a commercial spaceline that can create positive change back on earth. Well, both human spaceflight and the satellite constellation have the potential to transform lives in ways that almost no other companies have done before.`` The announcement is a welcome boost for Virgin Galactic, which was rocked by the death of one pilot and serious injuries to another in October when SpaceShipOne, its plane intended to offer the first commercial passenger flights into space broke up during a test flight and crashed. Virgin Galactic is currently developing its LauncherOne system, a two- stage rocket planned to be able to deliver small satellites weighing up to 225kg into low earth orbit. OneWeb which is now seeking other investors said its fleet of micro- satellites will provide high-speed web access to small user terminals located around the world. These ground-based terminals act as small cells, providing web and telephone access to the surrounding area. The company said it plans to work with mobile operators, allowing them to use its system to extend coverage to remote or rural areas that are currently uneconomic to provide service in. OneWeb’s network would also be able to provide global emergency and first responder access for disaster situations or other areas in need. “We are excited by OneWeb’s bold vision to launch this major satellite constellation and be one of its key early investors,said Sir Richard, who will take a seat on OneWorld’s board as part of Virgin's investment. “Imagine the possibilities for the three billion people in hard-to- reach areas who are currently not connected. The billionaire entrepreneur will find himself facing off against Google and SpaceX in the attempt to provide web and mobile access. The web search giant’s Project Loon aims to create a network of balloons floating in stratosphere, while tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has hinted that he hopes to offer global internet access from a constellation of small satellites. Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** IRAN. 7325 is the center frequency of IRIB English service, as "Voice of Justice" announced, on air at 0346 UT on Jan 20th, scheduled 0320-0420 UT. S=9+55dB powerful signal into Europe/Germany. Also 10 x 50 Hertz apart distance buzzy signal peaks visible each sideband. But noted also four broadband spurious distorted 12 kHz wide scratch signals symmetrically in ranges 7252-7264 and 7386-7398 kHz range. Also heard this on 7458-7477 and 7527-7545 kHz ranges. S=9+25dB signal of solid power. Announced satellite frequency and web / e-mail address, snail mail address at 0418 UT before signing-off (Wolfgang Büschel, Jan 20, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 21 via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DXLD) ** IRAN [non]. USA(non), Frequency change of Radio Farda in Farsi: 1800-1900 on 9885 BIB 100 kW / 105 deg WeAs till Jan 15, very strong! 1800-1900 NF 9465 BIB 100 kW / 105 deg WeAs poor on Jan 16, 2 videos: (DX RE MIX NEWS #891 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Jan 20, 2015, via DXLD) ** ITALY. 1395 kHz station now uncovered by ALBANIA: q.v. ** JAPAN. I notice they are not listing anything for Radio Japan on short-wave.info any longer. When I went to the NHK Radio Japan website, I couldn't find any listings for broadcasting to America anymore? If I am correct, they used to be able to be heard around 1-2 PM in the Afternoons (EST) and then again sometime around Midnight-1 AM. Have they stopped any attempts to target the USA? Thanks for your help! B Posted by: ("B-T-M" Jan 16, dxldyg via DXLD) Yes, they stopped targeting N America a few years ago. This was of course covered thoroly at the time in DXLD and WOR. Some broadcasts can nevertheless be overheard, but does shortwave.info show that NHK is now relayed, thru no fault of their own, by Global 24? If not, another deficiency of this over-rated reference. I just heard NHK this morning at 14-1430 UT on 9395 WRMI. But not on every day. Check the entire Global 24 program grid at http://tinyurl.com/G24sked (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) It`s not listed under the drop down menu of R. Japan. They're listed as NHK WORLD RADIO JAPAN. Pick a frequency they're on, e.g. 11740 and you'll see them. Click on NHK WORLD RADIO JAPAN and you'll get a listing of all of their times & frequencies. I can hear them fine on the Univ of Twente's WebSDR, think I listened to NHK last week. Have heard them on occasion here in the upper midwest of the U.S. (Greg N0QDS ibid.) [non]. ASCENSION ISLAND, 12015, Seemingly live coverage of some sports match (football? Asian Cup at Australia?), 2 reporters performing, heard at 0813 UT on Jan 15 in Japanese (not English) language via Ascension relay site in Atlantic Ocean, scheduled 0800-1000 UT Radio Japan NHK. S=8 -80dBm (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17540, Jan 17 at 2140, Rádio Japão with J-pop introduced in Brazuguese, VG signal, good for my nap. WHRI 2130 relay toward Brasil, but surely the best sig within North America now for NHK World. Who needs English? Off at 2200* after timesignal, no announcement from NHK or WHRI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KASHMIR. Radio Kashmir Leh 43 years old Shotopa/Leh/25-06-14: Radio Kashmir Leh Ladakh situated at an altitude of approx. 11000 ft (3500 m) above the sea level is one of the highest altitude radio station and completes 43 years of its service to the region and nation on June 25, 2014. The station was inaugurated in 1971 in extreme conditions and served as a healthy source of information, entertainment and education to the people of Ladakh. Sh. KP Shunglu was the first Station Director and Sh. MS Talwar was the first Station Engineer of AIR Leh. AIR Leh has been a vibrant radio station and has witnessed numerous moments of glory in these years. The station and employees work dedicatedly in severe conditions. The transmitter of All India Radio Leh and residential homes were extensively damaged by the flash floods in Aug. 2010. But the show goes on. AIR Leh has one SW, one 20 KW MW Transmitter with studios for local programming and one FM Transmitter which relays FM Rainbow to connect the population with mainstream. Prasar Bharati Parivar is proud of hundreds of administrative, engineering, programme and news persons who have worked tirelessly to bring the station to this stage and those who are still working at the station and contributing their pie. It’s time to congratulate all of them who have been directly or indirectly associated with the station. We invite all our friends to post their comments to appreciate their efforts (From facebook/Ladakh-News-Service/June 25 2014) If you want to know more about Ladakh, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladakh (via Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin Jan 18 via DXLD) ** KASHMIR. 4870, Jan 5, 1504, Sedaye Kashmir strong on 4870.0 with spurious carriers on both sides, +/- 100 Hz. RRI Wamena also there on 4869.93 with a weak signal. Wamena ended their program at about 1500 but switched off the transmitter first at 1524 (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Jan 18 via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6110, Shiokaze/Seabreeze (Yamata) 1603+ 8 Jan. In Chinese today (Thursday) instead of scheduled English. Chinese normally Tuesday-only 1600-1630 (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA PL606 'barefoot'/6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5910, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze via Yamata, 1425, Jan 15, Thursday. Now back to their normal schedule; for the past two Thursdays was in Chinese/Korean with different holiday schedule, but today back to English with "Message from the Japanese government"; jamming ended at 1428, so in the clear for JSR ID and 1430* (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) January 15: Shiokaze Sea Breeze in English to NoKorea 1600 on 5910 Yamata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fLTAur_zro&feature=youtu.be Shiokaze Sea Breeze in English to NoKorea 1630 on 5910 Yamata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsbNJeI-GWM&feature=youtu.be 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5910, Jan 15 at 1410, Shiokaze is still audible but poorly, YL seems to be in English again, no piano music now. Ron Howard confirms that Sea Breeze is back in English this Thursday after a two-week break (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) JAPAN, Shiokaze Sea Breeze was back with English after a two-week break, new frequency: 1600-1630 6110 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE Thu and repeated same program 1630-1700 6110 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE Thu. Two videos from Jan.15: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/shiokaze-sea-breeze-was-back-with.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #891 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Jan 20, 2015, via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9975, Sat Jan 17 at 1515, fair signal with apparent Korean talk, cleanly separable from bigsig 9980 WWCR since it`s unmodulated until 1519. Aoki shows: ``9975 Wind from Japan "il bon ue baram" 1500-1530 1234567 Korean 100 345 Palau Medorn PLW 0721N 13431E _JCI T8WH Angel5 b14 BAB`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9985, Sat Jan 17 at 1513, good signal in Korean, and NO ACI for a change from bigsig WWCR 9980 which is unmodulated, until 1519 resuming. This Korean is assertive, but not to the level attained by the DPRK. Aoki shows it`s Radio Free Asia, 250 kW, 321 degrees from TINIAN at 15-17. Somewhat stronger than 9975 from Palau on the other side. The FRG-7 ``normal`` bandwidth is a bit less than 5 kHz, such that there is no 5-kHz het audible tuning between 9980 and 9985 at their relative levels, but there is a trace of one between 9980 and weaker 9975 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 1566 off this morning --- Just in case you were looking for HLAZ 1566, they were actually absent before 1700 today. First time I ever missed them. Back on when rechecked an hour later. 73, (Walt (Masset) BC, Salmaniw, Jan 19, IRCA via DXLD) They were heard down here just before 1600 UT, Walt; faded out a short while later, so can't say what happened after that. This morning was probably the best so far in 2015 (not saying much), at least on the upper band. How was it in Masset? (Nick Hall-Patch, BC, Jan 19, ibid.) IF you're quick, and on the west coastish, might get some upper band DX right now. 1593 and 1566 strong at 1548 UT (Nick, ibid.) The improved TP signals didn't survive the trip over the mountains, I'm afraid. This morning was actually the worst of the past few days, with nothing really approaching audio. 1566 was the strongest of the carriers, but that wasn't saying much. 73, (Nigel Pimblett, Dunmore, Alberta, ibid.) Tuesday, January 20, 2015 5:59:50 AM Subject: [IRCA] Oklahoma TP DX, 1/20/15 For the first time since 11/18/14, an audible TP signal was heard here this morning. 1566, HLAZ, Signal was heard from 1330 until 1343 GMT. Barely audible at signal peaks increasing to poor strength at 1333. Faded away after local sunrise at 1339. No signals heard on 594, 774, 972 or 1593. Receiver: Tecsun PL-310 modified with 7.5" ferrite loop, plus 8" FSL. Maybe the TP DX drought here is ending. Good DX (Richard Allen, near Perry OK USA, IRCA via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DXLD) Amazing reception for Oklahoma, Richard! HLAZ was also fairly good here at 1540 UT this morning, but about a thousand miles closer than it is in Oklahoma. 73, (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA), ibid.) 1566 HLAZ into AZ pretty decent this morning (6-foot tuned loop, 23- foot tuned vertical, Quantum Phaser, RTL-SDR). Although there has been a fair bit of fading, have been getting pretty decent audio at times from presumed HLAZ this morning from 1320-1335 UT. Nothing from the Japanese powerhouses at 594, 693, 747, or 774. I've posted two short recordings from HLAZ this morning: https://azswdxing.wordpress.com/2015/01/20/log-am-bcb-january-20th-1566-hlaz-from-korea/ I was hoping to get a good TOH recording, but I had almost completely lost the audio by 1400 UT, a half-hour before sunrise (Brian Rachford - Prescott, AZ, azswdxing@gmail.com http://azswdxing.wordpress.com/ Jan 20, IRCA via DXLD) Hello All, Thanks to Brian and Richard for their advance notices of 1566-HLAZ reception in Arizona and Oklahoma this morning, and to Dennis for his TP report from Kalama. 1566-HLAZ was also received here with temporary good?signals during its Chinese Christian service around 1540, but it didn't stick around for long. 1134, 1575 and 1593 all managed moderate carriers at the same time but never reached audio level. There was some brief low-band action around 1535 with a presumed 603-HLSA reaching poor audio, but it fizzled very quickly. All considered it was a pretty modest morning, but during this lackluster season it's probably best to be thankful for any Asian audio that shows up in late January. 1566, HLAZ, Jeju, S. Korea, Temporarily good Chinese Christian music at 1539; best Asian signal of the morning http://www.mediafire.com/listen/d27p0drf2k5frly/1566-HLAZ-1539z012015CCSW.MP3 73 and Good DX, (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA), 7.5" loopstick C. Crane Skywave Ultralight http://www.mediafire.com/view/c3s3dx4t0z0z8ph/CCraneSkywaveDisassembly-08%20(Large).jpg + 15" FSL antenna, ibid.) ** KOREA SOUTH. 6135, Voice of Freedom (clandestine). As of Jan 14 have noted the recent absence of the usual "Hao Hao English” language lesson in English and Chinese; not heard 1300-1310 weekdays, nor 1350- 1400 weekends. Change of schedule or program dropped? A number of days recently heard without the normal white noise jamming (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. Radio Kuwait on wrong frequency on Jan 13: 1600-1800 15515 KBD 250 kW / 100 deg to SoAs Urdu, instead of 15540 1800-2100 15515 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English, instead of 15540 English - no signal here, but confirmed by SDR Twente. Videos in Urdu http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/radio-kuwait-on-wrong-frequency-15515.html Observations of Radio Kuwait on January 14: till 1547 21540 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg WeEu Arabic General Sce // 9750 1552-1600 15540 KBD 250 kW / 100 deg SoAs Bengali, unscheduled on SW 1600-1800 15540 KBD 250 kW / 100 deg SoAs Urdu, as scheduled in B-14 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/observations-of-radio-kuwait-on-january.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #891 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Jan 20, 2015, via DXLD) [and non]. 15515, Radio Kuwait in Arabic, violin string instrument music, (not on 15540 kHz due of strong 0100-1100 UT CHINA China Business R Xianyan Mandarin program), at 0752 UT S=9+10 -73dBm (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Probably Jan 15 FRANCE vs KUWAIT Radio France International over Radio Kuwait on Mon, Jan 19: till 1200 21580 KBD 250 kW / 084 deg SEAs Filipino from 1159 co-ch RFI Fr 1200-1210 21580 KBD 250 kW / 084 deg SEAs Arabic, instead of 21540+RFI Fr from 1217 21540 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg WeEu Arabic General Sce as scheduled http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/radio-france-international-over-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** LIBERIA. LIBÉRIA (?), 6050, ELWA (presumed), Monróvia, 1845-..., 17/1, inglês, propag. relig., com pregador ao estilo do brasileiro David Miranda/SRDA; 32441, QRM de não identif., em árabe. Se era a ELWA, estava fora do ar em // 4760, nesse dia, em 15, 16 e 17/1, pelo menos, à noite. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MACEDONIA. Schedule of R. Macedonia in different languages 1830- 2100 Mon-Sat on 810: 1830 langs sked, 1835 French, 1900 Bulgarian, 1930 Greek, 2000 Albanian, 2030-2100 Serbian http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/radio-macedonia-in-different-languages.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #891 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Jan 20, 2015, via DXLD) ** MACEDONIA. January 13: Radio Macedonia, language schedule 1830-2100 in French, Bulgarian, Greek, Albanian, Serbian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUQXrBbishw&feature=youtu.be Radio Macedonia in French 1835 on 810 Ovche Pole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SteHGfnaCCE&feature=youtu.be Radio Macedonia in Bulgarian 1900 on 810 Ovche Pole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qISZKNjmXY&feature=youtu.be Radio Macedonia in Greek 1940 on 810 Ovche Pole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6QKPZgpRts&feature=youtu.be Radio Macedonia in Albanian 2000 on 810 Ovche Pole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T504QZK4ESs&feature=youtu.be Radio Macedonia in Serbian 2030 on 810 Ovche Pole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO3Ca6Yoh88&feature=youtu.be 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. MADAGÁSCAR, 5009.7, R. Madagasikara, Ambohidrano, 1909- 1928, 18/1, relato desportivo (presumed); 15341. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. QSL: RADIO DABANGA: 15150 CLANDESTINE station to SUDAN via relay transmitter in Talata-Volonondry, MADAGASCAR, full data QSL card from the MGLOB SA transmitter site in Madagascar. Sent an EMAIL reception report to MGLOB. QSL Received in 2 Months. Nice Madagascar Stamps on the Envelope! ROSS, ON QSL: RADIO IMPALA: 17540, CLANDESTINE station to RWANDA in Kinyar[wanda] language via relay transmitter in Talata-Volonondry, MADAGASCAR, full data QSL card from the MGLOB SA transmitter site in Madagascar. Sent an EMAIL reception report to MGLOB; QSL Received in 2 Months. Nice Madagascar stamps on the envelope! ROSS, ON (Rob Ross, London, MARE TIPSHEET Jan 16 via DXLD) ** MALAYSIA. 6050, Salam FM via RTM, 1503-1506*, Jan 15. In vernacular; reciting from the Qur'an; several IDs; poor-fair with Tibet QRM (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. 9835, RTM Sarawak via Kajang K-L site, children`s song at 2111 UT on Jan 17, S=9+10dB in Queensland AUS. Broadband 9830 to 9840 kHz bandwidth, but surprisingly ID at 2113 UT, and followed immediately by Holy Quran prayer, but like FEMALE voice type ??? 11665, also heard RTM Wai FM service in rather vernacular, different than Malay language, 2315 UT of UTC-Jan 17 - Jan 18 local, heard in Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo. S=8, signal increased in past 15 minutes. I guess -- despite Aoki Nagoya list entry --, RTM starts an hour later at 2300 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. 15125, CRI (Bamako), 1651-1657* 15 Jan. Another day of decent modulation! "Let's Learn Chinese" (for Arabic speakers), Arabic closing announcements (sked, etc.) Listed *1700 for Swahili apparently not on (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA PL606 'barefoot'/6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Here is important news about the migration of AM stations to FM in Mexico, maybe explaining the abrupt disappearance of some MW stations (like XEJ 970?). Summarizing: AM stations of under 1 kW must continue on FM only; AM stations of more than 5 kW have the option of moving only to FM or continuing on both (This does not make sense. And what about stations at exactly 1 or 5 kW???) The previous cutoff was 10 kW. Stations in Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua which do not meet the power requirements will have to close down AM on January 15. 25 kW mentioned is the typical power (ERP?) of new FM replacement transmitters. This story mixes in with the television digital transition which ought to be an entirely separate matter (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DX LISTENING DIGEST) APAGÓN ANALÓGICO AFECTA LA AM DE PARTE DE MÉXICO Todas las estaciones de radio que utilizan el sistema combo para trasmitir se vieron afectadas por el apagón analógico del pasado jueves 15 de enero pudiendo transmitir únicamente en Frecuencia Modulada (FM). Todas las estaciones de radio que utilizan el sistema combo para trasmitir se vieron afectadas por el apagón analógico del pasado jueves 15 de enero pudiendo transmitir únicamente en Frecuencia Modulada (FM). Lo anterior fue informado por el profesor José Guadalupe García Alvídrez, Secretario General del Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Industria de la Radio y la Televisión, (STIRT), quien explicó que actualmente la mayoría de las estaciones de radio transmiten en las frecuencias Amplitud Modulada y Frecuencia Modulada. Añadió que ahora con el apagón analógico la transmisión en Amplitud Modulada o AM como se le conoce también se verá afectada por lo que los concesionarios de la radio deberán hacerlo únicamente por FM, recordando el caso de la estación XEAT pionera de la radio en Parral la cual a partir del primer día de este año únicamente trasmite en FM. De igual forma señaló también el apagón se dará la televisión analógica e iniciara la transición en la Televisión Digital Terrestre TDT, de manera simultánea en Parral y prácticamente todo el territorio Chihuahuense. De esta manera aclaró que el apagón no solo afectara la trasmisión de televisión sino también las estaciones de radio que tengan cobertura menor a los mil watts, toda vez que las que tiene más de 5 mil watts podrán continuar, aunque es opcional para el concesionario, puntualizo. “Piso parejo para todos, antes había más de 10 mil watts, ahora 25 mil parejo para todos y con ello traer mejor calidad de radio sobre todo para una competencia en general”. Insistió que en el caso de Parral, la radio que no pueda continuar sus trasmisiones en amplitud modula tendrá que salir del aire apagando su transmisor a partir de este jueves 15 de enero. Cabe destacar que para el 31 de diciembre de 2015, el resto del país deberá de culminar la transición de la señal analógica a la Televisión Digital Terrestre, luego de que el ex presidente Felipe Calderón propusiera el cambio, pues la fecha para la finalización de la señal análoga estaba contemplada para el año 2021. El apagón analógico refiere a la finalización de las emisiones analógicas de señal de televisión y su sustitución por una emisión digital. Esto implica que al concluir el proceso, los televisores deberán disponer de un sintonizador digital o en su defecto de un sintonizador, que procesará la señal digital y la enviará al televisor mediante un cable para poder ver los canales de televisión. Este cambio es provocado por la creación de nuevos televisores por parte de las nuevas tecnologías, televisores que funcionan a través de la Televisión Digital Terrestre (TDT), que ofrece mayor calidad, nitidez e interacción para disfrutar de la televisión y también de la radio. Lo anterior fue informado por el profesor José Guadalupe García Alvídrez, Secretario General del Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Industria de la Radio y la Televisión, (STIRT), quien explicó que actualmente la mayoría de las estaciones de radio transmiten en las frecuencias Amplitud Modulada y Frecuencia Modulada. Añadió que ahora con el apagón analógico la transmisión en Amplitud Modulada o AM como se le conoce también se verá afectada por lo que los concesionarios de la radio deberán hacerlo únicamente por FM, recordando el caso de la estación XEAT pionera de la radio en Parral la cual a partir del primer día de este año únicamente trasmite en FM. De igual forma señaló también el apagón se dará la televisión analógica e iniciara la transición en la Televisión Digital Terrestre TDT, de manera simultánea en Parral y prácticamente todo el territorio Chihuahuense. De esta manera aclaró que el apagón no solo afectara la trasmisión de televisión sino también las estaciones de radio que tengan cobertura menor a los mil watts, toda vez que las que tiene más de 5 mil watts podrán continuar, aunque es opcional para el concesionario, puntualizo. “Piso parejo para todos, antes había más de 10 mil watts, ahora 25 mil parejo para todos y con ello traer mejor calidad de radio sobre todo para una competencia en general”. Insistió que en el caso de Parral, la radio que no pueda continuar sus trasmisiones en amplitud modula tendrá que salir del aire apagando su transmisor a partir de este jueves 15 de enero. Cabe destacar que para el 31 de diciembre de 2015, el resto del país deberá de culminar la transición de la señal analógica a la Televisión Digital Terrestre, luego de que el ex presidente Felipe Calderón propusiera el cambio, pues la fecha para la finalización de la señal análoga estaba contemplada para el año 2021. El apagón analógico refiere a la finalización de las emisiones analógicas de señal de televisión y su sustitución por una emisión digital. Esto implica que al concluir el proceso, los televisores deberán disponer de un sintonizador digital o en su defecto de un sintonizador, que procesará la señal digital y la enviará al televisor mediante un cable para poder ver los canales de televisión. Este cambio es provocado por la creación de nuevos televisores por parte de las nuevas tecnologías, televisores que funcionan a través de la Televisión Digital Terrestre (TDT), que ofrece mayor calidad, nitidez e interacción para disfrutar de la televisión y también de la radio (Source not given! Via GRA blog, Argentina, via DXLD) I later locate the source by searching on the headline: http://elmundodelaradio.com.ar/apagon-analogico-afecta-la-am-de-parte-de-mexico/ (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 640, Jan 17 at 0241, best signal from E/W in full null of Okie SSE, rapid national Mexican news in Spanish referring to Iguala, CNDH, whales, with stingers; 0243 music bit, swishes, 0245 interview about violence toward women. No doubt it`s XEJUA in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, listed by IRCA as with Milenio TV audio simulcast, 5 kW daytimer. Cantú agrees on daytime, nombre as BM Radio, which is a major group in the state. So when do they sign off? WRTH shows power as 5 without a d, implying it is really full-time. During this, hardly any KFI to be heard underneath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 660, Jan 17 at 0247, live Spanish coverage of a SBG, looping NE/SW, crowd roars, announcer has to compete with loud PA from the venue; 0247 mentions ``Dorados de Chihuahua`` which is enough for me to conclude it`s XEACB in Ciudad Delicias, 3/1 kW per IRCA, breaking from otherwise ROMantic music format; Cantú agrees on power but WRTH 2015 shows 5 kW fulltime. However, somewhat stale Wikipedia entries indicate Dorados de Chihuahua were both a baseball and a basketball team, but both were going to move elsewhere out of state. However2, further searching to latinbasket.com indicates this name is still active as BKB in Chih and I suppose even in Mexico, baloncesto is more likely than béisbol in January (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 970, XESW, Cd. Madera, Chih. JAN 7, 1300 - National anthem in progress; 1301:45 female announcer with call letter ID and other chat; music ensued at 1303. Rough copy, mixing with others. Heard the next morning, too. Don't know what has happened to XEJ - they used to put a good signal into Colorado on a regular basis but have not heard them for months (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge CO; Drake R8, 4-foot box loop, NRC IDXD via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DXLD) ** MEXICO. 970, Jan 19 around 0600, 0630 and 1345 chex, nothing detectable from XEJ Ciudad Juárez which used to be regular; just US stations in English. Now like John Wilkins, CO, I also wonder what`s become of XEJ. Is it completely off, or QRP? Supposedly 10/5 kW, 24h NSP per IRCA. A DXer in El Paso could tell us (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1550, Jan 17 at 0237, bouncy Mexican music from NE/SW, 0238 ``La Rancherita, 15-50 AM``, ad, then losing to something in English. IRCA Log shows it`s our closest, XENU in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, 5000/250 watts --- and WRTH 2015, Cantú both agree on all this! Quite a coincidence. But is it really on night power? Both ND (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Radio Education, 6185, 1/19/15, heard with good signal at 0206 UT with various musical songs including an a cappella selection and a jazz song, "Cry Me A River" at 0220 UT (Larry Zamora, Garland, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Re 15-02: In regard to the IFE/INE thing, yep, they changed names. It's basically like the CFT/IFT thing: Peña Nieto signed a law, the name was changed and they got a lot more power (Raymie Humbert, AZ, Jan 15, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) ** MEXICO. 1/10 Es MX 1645-1830 EST MUF: 101.9 1646 XHPMO-89.1 QRO Puerto Morelas – RDS PI:0008-‘KWQ’ PS: Magica (953) 1755 XHUM-92.7 YUC Valladolid – ID/Cadena Rasa (1002) 1801 XHUP-96.3 YUC Tizimin – ID/Cadena Rasa (972) 1806 XHETO-98.5 TA Tampico – RDS PI: ‘WXB’ PS: XHETO 98.5 (1351) 1830 *XHBY-96.7 VER Tuxpan – ID/Town/State mentioned (1363) * new logging. [presumably miles in ()] Above loggings not displaying RDS were extracted from data recordings using SDR Console V2.3b (build 1973) software with SDRplay receiver. (Fred Nordquist, Moncks Corner, SC, 33.21756N, 79.95798W, KJ4BUG, Grid FM03AF, WTFDA gg via DXLD) ** MEXICO. DTV TRANSITION NEWS from Raymie`s Mexico Beat: The only cases of Mexican flash cuts I know are: -XHCMO Cuernavaca, which was contemporaneous with the inauguration of new facilities -XHILA Mexicali which simply decided to go digital-only before the rest -XHUNAM, in 2005, but they were so low-power anyway (and high up on the dial, analog 60 but digital 20) that it's almost irrelevant -XHMNL and XHPUE which are licensed only for one RF channel with separate analog and digital technical parameters (XHMNL goes digital overnights for testing) Mexico's transition is like the US: digital channels were made available to almost all stations for simultaneous operation. I believe spectrum scarcity accounts for the Monterrey and Puebla cases. Next analog shutoff: Nuevo Laredo/Matamoros-Reynosa, January 14 (Raymie Humbert, AZ, Jan 15, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Get ready: Wave II of digital switchover could crash down this spring and be more comprehensive than I think a lot of us thought. El Informador reports that the SCT is set to report the latest TV distribution figures for 18 different states to the IFT next month. http://www.informador.com.mx/economia/2015/570710/6/el-ift-prepara-la-segunda-fase-de-apagon-analogico.htm According to an SCT advisor, "Any of the states where we're delivering TVs should be ready for shutoff in April." Markets affected could be in various areas: -Baja California (Ensenada is low readiness) -Baja California Sur (low readiness) -Jalisco (Guadalajara for sure, other areas probably unready) and border with Nayarit -Guanajuato (Celaya could go!) -Michoacán (Zamora perhaps?) -Querétaro (this is among the most ready markets) -Hidalgo -San Luis Potosí (two more stations and they will have a full complement) -Nuevo León (read: Monterrey) -Central Tamaulipas -Zacatecas -Comarca Lagunera (Torreón-Gómez Palacio) -Saltillo -Northern Sonora (Nogales: low readiness) -Part of Veracruz (the Xalapa-Veracruz area is in great shape) -Northern Chihuahua (Cd. Juárez) -Estado de México (near Michoacán border) (Raymie, Jan 15, ibid.) Why are almost all ATSC channels on UHF when VHF travels further; are they doing this in Mexico? Some people would need a new antenna also. I see quite a few of the places are near the us border, is that on purpose? (JVL DXer, Janesville, WI - Kaito KA1103 & iPod Nano, ibid.) Raymie can better answer than I but my recollection is that there are VERY few VHF digitals in Mexico. Most USA DTV stations were initially UHF because there was available spectrum. Most VHF channels were already occupied by analog signals. (the station I work for was on RF-10 before the analog shutdown -- channel 10 is unusually open around here and the FCC almost allotted it for *analog* use in the 1970s.) After analog shutdown, nearly all of the low-VHF channels were available. But by then it had become obvious that low-VHF wasn't working very well for digital - and nearly all of the stations that were on low-VHF analog decided to stick with UHF for digital. VHF does travel further but most antennas on the market are not suitable for all channels (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, http://www.w9wi.com ibid.) In fact, I did a post on how high-VHF was being nearly abandoned and low-VHF totally so. It's post #67 if you are interested. There are four allotments for VHF digital television in Mexico, all on channel 10 or higher. Three of them seem to be inherited from analog allotments on the US border (Ojinaga Chih., Cd. Acuña Coah., XHMTA-TDT 12). The fourth is on a very isolated Mexican island where the lone television station is on channel 10 and the digital allotment is channel 11. I didn't mention this in the original post but another reason you are seeing almost all-UHF is that stations are universally keeping their pre-transition digital facilities. In Mexico, as I have already mentioned, television allotments were shuffled routinely in order to fit more and more television services on VHF, from Mexico City to Coatzacoalcos and from Cancún to Monterrey. Many Mexican cities thus have a 2-4-5-7-9-11-13 analog frequency allocation. On the flipside 10 states never had UHF analog television on main transmitters and several others didn't get it until the 94 Televisa concession or only ever wound up with one station. Mexican UHF development was so slow that Phoenix had a UHF station 15 years before massive Mexico City did (1967; 1982). The highest channel number ever used in Mexico was 66 (XHILA, now dark, and shadow XHLGG Irapuato, Gto. which is in a very dense and spectrum-starved region). It turns out that such a slow and cautious use of UHF has made using the superior digital band a lot easier (Raymie, Jan 16, ibid.) ¡Al aire! This time it's Televisa Cd. Obregón to further help Sonora's flagging cause. I need a bit of clarification from the poster but I know that one of the stations now on is Canal 5, XHCDO-TDT (36.x). The other is either shadow XHBS-TDT 25 (4.x) or XHBF-TDT 27? (8.x) with the Canal de las Estrellas network. We do not have any digital facilities information for XHCDO or for XHBF (besides the latter's digital RF allotment). In the FCC database (which must be used sparingly) there are potential hints at Hermosillo being soon to finally get Televisa in digital, which would mark the first new digital stations there in about five years (XHOPHA). The hints? Allocations for XHAK-TDT 33 (12.x) and XHHMS-TDT 25 (29.x) — no XHHES or Gala TV-local XHHMA. There is also an XHSDD-TDT 43 listed which would be new as well. Powers in the list seemed to be maximum per allotment: there's no way a 1.9 kW analog station will be allowed 125 kW in digital now, will there? Sonora is amazing. Prior to January 1 only three stations in digital were on: XHNSS Nogales, XHOPHA Hermosillo and XHI Cd. Obregón. That number has now jumped from three to eight — in two and a half weeks! UPDATE: The RF channel for shadow XHBS-TDT is 30 (!!) and it is using 4.x. This is highly unusual as XHBS-TDT in Los Mochis is on 25 and so should XHBS-TDT in Ciudad Obregón, and shadow channels in digital normally cannot vary from their parent station's RF channels except for special circumstances (for instance, shadow XHAW-TDT Saltillo should be on 25 but was licensed for 51, as there is XHSTC-25 analog there). However, it turns out that 25 is reserved at Obregón for the new national networks. http://www.ift.org.mx/iftweb/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Version_informativa_y_de_caracter_no_vinculante_integral_con_modificaciones_destacadas_310114.pdf Still no word on XHCDO's RF but the allocation table has 43 and 45. (This will leave XHCOJ-13, which is Telemax — need I say more about its digitalization prospects?) Last edited by Raymie; 01-16-2015 at 11:20 PM. (Raymie, ibid.) Raymie, you once posted a link to the Mexican DX forum that you follow, that I found interesting. Couldn't understand most of it, but interesting nontheless. Can you repost that link please? Thanks (Mike, South Louisiana, TVDXing since 7/27/09, ibid.) I follow two forums for my information now. One is the DX forum. http://www.network54.com/Forum/741612 It is less active. It features people from the Monterrey and Saltillo areas, as well as Huesby, who makes high-gain antennas for UHF (one model, the M90, looks like this) http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k502/huesby/Nueva%20antena%20M90/CAM01208_zps03924e16.jpg and ships them nationwide. I once saw him on another forum (which I don't check as it doesn't bring in new information) advertising his antennas to someone in Veracruz who was having trouble getting the SPR multiplex from Las Lajas. The other is a much larger forum focusing more generally on the television business (especially cable) outside of programming. It generates most of my "new station" reports in threads that tend to be market based (there's a Colima thread, an Oaxaca thread, a Cd. Obregón thread) and has more people from outside northern Mexico. It also discusses ISPs, cable providers, etc. As this generates most of the information here I'd prefer to keep it a bit of a trade secret (Raymie, ibid.) Late update: The SCT delegate for Coahuila is saying that Saltillo and Torreón will likely go in May. http://www.zocalo.com.mx/seccion/articulo/en-mayo-el-apagon-analogico-en-saltillo-1421303195 This will include the state's southern tier and also will require the digitalization of stations in Parras de la Fuente. When this bunch goes it will take away channels 2, 4 and 5 from Saltillo and channel 4 (and 6) from Torreón which are popular E-skip targets. XHRCG and XHSCE better hurry up out there — I know they're doing work but no word of even an authorization! And Televisa still has shadows to build in Saltillo — one of which hasn't relayed its actual parent station in a decade! And Parras de la Fuente, "ni sus luces"! (Raymie, Jan 17, ibid.) This blog tends to talk about stations going ON the air, but one station went OFF the air yesterday, and its method of death is very interesting. Shadow XHCK-13, Tixtla de Guerrero, Gro. is off the air because its transmitter has been DESTROYED by demonstrators. http://www.proceso.com.mx/?p=393248 On Friday evening at about 7pm, some 30 demonstrators showed up at the Televisa transmitter plant armed with clubs and machetes. They smashed the locks on the building and broke down the doors, destroying the equipment inside and leaving Tixtla without television service.* The town is very close to Chilpancingo, but even at six miles, mountains shield it from Chilpancingo's transmitters. The shadow channel here was built about 10 years ago, according to Novedades Acapulco. http://www.novedadesacapulco.mx/guerrero/esbozados-destrozan-antena-de-televisora-en-tixtla *Tixtla also has Azteca shadows, but there is also some disagreement among the outlets as to whether they, too, were dragged off air. Some are saying they were (Raymie, Jan 17, ibid.) Wow! Does this sort of thing happen a lot in Mexico? Here's a link through Google Translate: Hooded destroy antenna Televisa in Guerrero https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.proceso.com.mx%2F%3Fp%3D393248&edit-text= (Ryan Grabow, FL :: egrabow.com/dx :: facebook.com/egrabow440 :: youtube.com/user/egrabow440 ibid.) Here is another video showing a band scan of the analog shutdown in Reynosa Mexico. over halfway thru the video you start to see some analog stations showing a program and BAM! static snow, signal gone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VAexhk4zbw (Mike, South Louisiana, Jan 17, ibid.) Well, no, this is highly unusual behavior. To understand it, we have to go back to the Ayotzinapa case (this summary should be helpful). http://www.latintimes.com/10-things-understand-ayotzinapa-students-conflict-mexico-274486 Quite a few people believe this was a state crime, and it appears to have been a case where drug cartels and the government of the city of Iguala, where this happened, got kinda close. Of course, the big media outlets have kinda covered this up, particularly Televisa, which has a long and well-earned reputation of being a PRI mouthpiece. (Emilio Azcárraga once declared, "I am a soldier of the PRI and the president" — that should tell you everything.) The protesters cited Televisa's management of this story on its newscasts as their reason for carrying out this destruction. This is all in the same state which has been politically rocked (their governor resigned!). The information on stations in Tixtla is taken from the IFE/INE page, as I wanted to see what Televisa station was actually here. Tixtla is only a few miles from Chilpancingo which is the capital of the state of Guerrero. XHCK is in the Canal de las Estrellas network. And thanks for finding that other video. Yeah, XHREY took a while to get off the air. CIRT, the Mexican version of the National Association of Broadcasters, wants to meet with the IFT about increased security for broadcasters in Guerrero (Raymie, ibid.) Analog television's still going in southern Tamaulipas, and in the state capital of Ciudad Victoria digital testing is underway for Televisa. XHCVI-26 is going to be another "flash-cut" situation and is currently running in digital from midnight-6am — it is the third station with this sort of authorization and the first commercial station to do so. The other stations are XHTK-TDT 31 (CE, 11.x) and XHUT-TDT 36 (C5, 13.x). The XHTK authorization appeared in the November IFT table. The XHUT and XHCVI information is new (Raymie, Jan 18, ibid.) Azteca is now on in Culiacán but seems to not be at full power yet. RF 32 (9.x) and 35 (11.x). That market is inching closer to digital parity and would actually be one station away (XHSIN) from being a 100, among the first 100s in western Mexico (Raymie, Jan 19, ibid.) Tepic continues its meteoric rise with Azteca on today. XHLBN-TDT 31 (8.x) and XHAF-TDT 30 (4.x). The remaining stations in Nayarit's capital are Televisa local XHKG-2 and state network XHTPG-10 (Raymie, Jan 20, ibid.) Sinaloa is among the most ready states in all México! Azteca turned on its transmitters in both Los Mochis and Mazatlán, coming on the heels of Culiacán a couple days ago. Sinaloa becomes the first state where all commercial television stations are broadcasting in digital — and the lone bugaboo is now the IPN, which has one station (XHSIN Culiacán) that has a digital authorization and another (XHSIM Los Mochis) that may have been too new to receive a digital authorization.* Mazatlán is the first 100 in western Mexico, with the other two cities at 83s because of their IPN stations. *I also suspect this of the IPN Chihuahua stations, all on ch. 20. Meanwhile, Azteca is working its digital magic in the state of Puebla, where testing has begun for its Tehuacán stations XHTHN-TDT 28 (11.x) and XHTHP-TDT 40 (7.x). A scan in Tehuacán showed 28-1 and 40-1 today, apparently. Last edited by Raymie; 01-21-2015 at 04:30 PM. (Raymie, ibid.) ** MICRONESIA. 4755.56, PMA-The Cross Radio on Jan 21 with anomaly; Dave Valko noted them going off the air at 1222, which was later than normal. I observed them from tune in at 1535 till tuned out at 1603; playing the usual contemporary Christian music ("You Rock my Soul", etc.); 1600 - "It is three o'clock and this is the Cross Radio, 88.5 FM"; in the past always gave ID a minute or two before TOH; never remember them giving it exactly at TOH. Audio https://app.box.com/s/fbttwl02sp68wbtpn92riybppdgx8gb6 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ron, in Masset, I noticed the same. Not sure when they eventually left the air, as there were lots to hear elsewhere. PMA was already coming in around 0600 last night. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, BC, Jan 21, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONGOLIA. 7459.876 kHz at 2125 UT Jan 17 noted very odd frequency of RFA Korean service 21-22 UT, S=8 signal in Brisbane, S=9+20dB in Nagoya Japan. Bandwidth 7454.0 - 7465.7 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 5985.00, Myanmar Radio, 1549-1556 Jan 15, Thursday. Already in progress with "Friends Around the World," NHK's program in English; read listener's letters; fair. A permanent schedule now for Thursdays, not Fridays? Jan 16 (Friday) - Now I can answer my own question. Today was a repeat of yesterday`s "Friends Around the World," NHK program. At 1550 the very same show as aired on the 15th, so definitely a Thursday AND Friday schedule. 6165, Thazin Radio via Pyin Oo Lwin, 1435, Jan 15. News in English; playing pop songs ("Take me home Country Roads," etc.); usual indigenous theme music at sign off; 1459*; normal heavy CNR6 QRM, but bits and pieces could be heard (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR/BURMA. 7185.77, Myanmar Radio, 1439-1500*, Jan 17. New frequency; in the past there was a primary frequency around here, as well as a spur of 7200.1 near here. Today believe this was a primary frequency (not a spur), as the signal strength was fairly good, with slightly distorted audio. 7200.1 had strong noise, so unable to say for sure what was going on there, but believe if Myanmar had been there I would have heard them, as recently 7200.1 had very decent reception; tentatively therefor 7185.77 is ex: 7200.1, but this needs stronger confirmation than I had today (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Well done Ron Howard, confirm this 100 %, on January 18 at 1405 UT check, exact footprint Rangoon Yegu on 7185.761 kHz now. 7200 kHz reaction. In order to avoid Sudan Radio Omdurman 1400?-1530 UT exact 7200.0 kHz, and 7200v kHz of IRIB in Kazakh language in 1518- 1620 UT time slot, the Burmese technicians decided? to leave 7200 kHz channel this winter season now, back instead to old 7185 kHz channel of British Empire radio era, which used during many, many decades there. I guess, due of antenna wavelength MATCHING limitation at Yegu site, they can't move further AWAY of frequencies of 7185 to 7200 kHz channels. S=9+10 or -65dBm signal strength noted on remote server site at Queensland Brisbane. Heard this for the 1st time now this Jan 18 afternoon. \\ Noted at 5985.000 kHz at 1420 UT too. 5915 is a always a bad MIXTURE to check everywhere (only at Uwe Volk's post in eastern Thailand/Cambodia border location would be easy to trace and separate exact Myanmar service here). Better to separate 6164.992 kHz today footprint before 14 UT, Myanmar radio service from northern new big TX center at Phin Oo Lwin (ex- Maymyo). But latter channel also disturbed now 1430 UT from Khampur AIR Urdu service co-channel, and later powerhouse Urumqi China, in their Persian, Pashto, Turkish language services too (Wolfy, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DXLD) I'll check these channels in coming days. re Burma primary frequency 7185v in past decades: in Yegu's 4725 / 5040 kHz 60 meterband era. Usually center main frequency was always +7200v kHz, and two accompanied spurs of 14.8 kHz distance apart, upper- and lowerside. on variable 7185.276 kHz and 7214.908 kHz in November 2014, see history item: I guess main freq 7185v kHz item in DXpress, this was a misinterpretation so far in past years since 7100-7200 kHz band portion is now as ham radio related registered area; these friends did not much research and didn't properly monitor in 7185 to 7215 kHz range. I guess it would be a very easy task, whether we could have access regularly to monitor on both SDR's at Victor-Sri Lanka and Uwe- Thailand hardware rx location. 73 wolfy (BC-DX Jan 21 via DXLD) 7200.092 kHz at S=9+5dB or -72dBm level, and also accompanied spurious notable during excellent propagation condition, today away distance of 14.816 kHz on 7185.276 kHz, BUT the symmetrically 7214.908 kHz signal couldn't be traced so far, during 500kW POWERHOUSE of CRI Russian from Xian site, - and at 13 UT slot Jinhua #831 site in Japanese sce, - which covered the whole frequency channel. [later] a very, very tiny signal string visible also on 7214.908 kHz, after CRI Japanese sign-off on 7215 kHz, Myanmar signal tuned in at 1405 UT (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 20, 2014 via BC-DX Jan 21 via DXLD) Re Myanmar Radio on 7185.761 kHz. I confirm Ron's message here in Phuket/Thailand Myanmar Radio is on 7185.7 kHz. 16.01.15, 1445-1500 UT (sign off), signal lightly distorted, signal strength 5/9+30dB. 18.01.15, 1425-1600 UT same, 1603 UT no modulation anymore, only carrier. My radio: TS 50S, ant.: 9m wire horizontal, 10m above ground (Ralph Meissner, HS0ZFL in Phuket Isl, ham radio IARU Region-1 intruder.alert ng Jan 19, ibid.) ** NAVASSA. K1N NAVASSA DXPEDITION NEWS. If you missed the recent special bulletin OPDX.1197.2 sent out on January 17th, or were unable to see the propagation prediction diagram for North America, Japan, India and Poland, go to the OPDX Web page at: http://papays.com/opdx1197.2.html (Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 1198, January 19, 2015, Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio), via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 6095, KBC (Nauen), 1453-1502 10 Jan. Playing oldies (Chuck Berry, Fats Domino), a KBC Imports ad + KBC jingle. Very poor signal today with huge ACI from KCBS-6100 (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA PL606 'barefoot'/6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. I tried for the R. Nederland broadcast on January 18, 2015 01 UT 11790 kHz from Madagascar. Nothing heard. Also tried 13700. Same results. Did the broadcast even occur? 73, (Kraig Krist, VA, dxldyg via dXLD) It was January 18 at 0100-0200 UT on 7570. Yes, it did go out (Jeff White, WRMI, WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So the 11790/13700 airing was 24 hours earlier than the one on 7570. This was not at all clear from the original publicity. I thought they were all at the same time, as misleading on WOR 1756 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Kraig, 13700 was on the previous night. Well heard in Masset. 7570 was on the next night. I never heard the third frequency. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, BC, Jan 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Gentlemen, Yes, 13700 well heard here on Jan 17, at 0139 UT station identification, followed by a song of Connie Francis, "Everybody's Somebody's Fool". Regards, (Tony Ashar, West Java, Indonesia, Jan 21, ibid.) On Jan 17th 0100 UT, I heard their big signal on 13700 kHz through a remote Perseus server in Japan. On Jan 18th 0100 UT, I heard another good signal on 7570 kHz here in NJ, USA. They were not on the other two [?] frequencies. Apparently 7570 is from Okeechobee. Still curious about location of the 13700 kHz transmission on the previous day. 73's, (Sakae (NJ, USA), ibid.) 13700, RNW (Talata-Volonondry), *0100-0130+ 17 Jan. Special RNW broadcast with station history & chat. Poor signal overall, but worth the effort. Sked also on 11790 (Talata-Volonondry) but apparently not on & also 7570 (WRMI) which ran LDPOG instead (perhaps a sked mix- up?). (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA PL606 'barefoot'/6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) MADAGASCAR site denied for 13700; Sri Lanka? Radio Nederlands [sic] Special Broadcast???? 13700 last night Hi Guys: I tried for the special RNW nroadcast last [night?] as it was announced in various radio media lists. And I believe I heard it, although I couldn't copy a definite ID from them. Here's what I heard; perhaps others can fill in the blanks and determine if this was indeed them??? Does anyone know where the broadcast originated from??? Also any info on QSL possibilities or know where to send reception reports?? Any further info appreciated…… RADIO USED DRAKE R8B ANTENNA USED 180 Foot Longwire 13700, RNW Special Broadcast (presumed) Jan/17/15, 0120-0157 UT, English, PR-FR, Heard with BAD QSB throughout. Sometimes the signal would rise up out of the ashes, only to fade just as quickly!! I could always hear the audio, but the severe fading made it heard to discern what was being said, but definitely in ENGLISH! Male Announcer spoke at 0120-0123 UT with musical interlude. Partial ID heard at 0123 UT by male announcer as "broadcasting direct from ????" couldn't copy the rest. More talk and music selections from 0123 to 0140. Vocal music at 0140-0143. Male announcer spoke at 0143 and gave similar ID I believe, but again hard to copy. New Orleans style instrumental music at 0144- 0148. Male announcer spoke at 0148. Waltz music at 0148-0151 UT. Male spoke at 0151-0152. More music at 0152-0155. Male spoke at 0155. Talk and musical interludes 0155-0157. Female?? with announcement at 0157. Anthem type music at 0157. Heard 5 + 1 time pips at 0200 which apparently was China Radio International signing on the frequency. Nothing heard from RNW after 0158 UT. 7570, RNW, Radio Nederlands [sic] special broadcast via WRMI - Okeechobee, FLORIDA, Jan/18/15, 0100 UT English excellent. Re- Broadcast of the same program I heard the night before on 11700 [sic] kHz!! That may have been relayed by the Talata-Volonondry transmitter in Madagascar; this broadcast was via the WRMI TX in Florida. Radio Nederland chimes at 0100-0101 UT. Instrumental music at 0101 IDs and talk. "Radio Nederlands [sic], we tell you why". Into song called "Why" at 0101-0102. Talk by several male announcers with history clips for Radio Nederlands. Interspersed with musical interludes. "Reliving the memory of Radio Nederland`s last broadast from the Old Studios." Song called "Hands Across the Sea" 0107-0108. Talked about the old newsroom and past employees from Radio Nederlands. Song "Thanks for the Memories" at 0112. Song "This Old House" at 0121. ID as "Not National, but International - Broadcasting direct from North West Europe". Talked about program "Follow The Music". Program continued till 0200 sign off. But I left the Frequency!! (Rob ROSS, London Ont, ODXA yg via DXLD) Shortwave Radio Recordings: Special Radio Netherlands broadcast via WRMI --- Posted on January 18, 2015 by Thomas [WORLD OF RADIO 1757] http://swling.com/blog/2015/01/shortwave-radio-recordings-special-radio-netherlands-broadcast-via-wrmi/ Radio Nederland --- Last week, I received a message from Peter De Groot, who announced a special broadcast of Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW). RNW has been off the air for more than 2.5 years, so we can assume this was not sponsored by RNW. Though scheduling (and the fact I forgot to start a spectrum recording–!) interfered with my ability to listen to the first broadcast on January 17, I was able to catch the January 18 broadcast at 0100 UT on 7570 kHz. The show was relayed by WRMI. The broadcast came in so strong, when I heard the interval signal, it instantly transported me back to the days when Hilversum targeted eastern North America. Gave me chill bumps. I was able to record the entire program but did not include the WRMI station ID before and after the special. For your listening pleasure, one full hour of Radio Netherlands Worldwide via WRMI in Florida USA– click here to download the recording as an MP3, or simply listen via the embedded player below. Enjoy: Audio Player 00:00 Use Left/Right Arrow keys to advance one second, Up/Down arrows to advance ten seconds. 00:00 Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. This recording was made with my Elad FDM-S2 hooked up to a large horizontal delta loop antenna. Note: I will reach out to WRMI to see if the person or group behind the broadcast plans to issue QSL cards (Thomas Witherspoon, ibid.) Comments: Jonathan Marks says: January 18, 2015 at 10:01 am It is all still a bit of a mystery to me. Let’s see: 1980’s interval signal, a Media Network jingle, an archive recording a transmission from 1961 just before the station moves to new studios and sign-off with the Dutch national anthem. This is all pre-Bonaire days. It all seems to be material in the public domain – I just don’t understand why it makes sense to put it back on shortwave out of context like this. I think BBC Radio 4’s archive hour is much better project. Ich bin aufgewacht und habe um 01-02 UT RNW Special auf 13700 kHz zugehört, RNW Wunschkonzert Wiederholung, viel Big Orchestra Dixieland mx, Wiener Walzer für {damals} Hörer in RSA, die Dutch Nationalhymne, das Glockengeläut von Amsterdam (Wolfgang Büschel, UT Jan 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good Morning Victor, re special RNW broadcasts. From which transmitter site coming 13700 kHz outlet of tonight ? - Trincomalee? Nobody in Europe knows any details about this broadcasts ... so far! Everything Keith Perron told with 'Special RNW "and PCJ Radio, on Trincomalee, Madagascar, Taiwan, or RMI Okeechobee relay station actions accompanied with a very poor information dissemination. Since it is heavy time consuming means of Google, DXLD, DXplorer, and 'SWLing.com Post' play absolutely detective to come to the information. Rocus de Joode denied using "MGLOB S.A. in Talata Volonondry" tx relay site. Please explain about these efforts, matter, with some more details (copied from dxplorer by wb, ibid.) Re: Special Radio Netherlands broadcasts starting January 17 and 18, 2015 Posted on Jan 10, 2015 by Thomas Peter De Groot writes: A series of special Radio Netherlands broadcasts will begin on January 17th and 18th, 2015. Presenters will be John van den Steen, Jerry Cowan and Tim Thomasson. See frequencies and times below: a.. 0100 to 0200 UTC on 7570 kHz, {see under USA} b.. 0100 to 0200 UTC on 11790 and perhaps 13700 kHz. Peter sent no more information than this, so I'm not sure where the transmissions will originate. Since RNW is no longer on the air, I'm certain these broadcasts aren't coming from Hilversum. Hopefully, someone will attempt to record these broadcasts in case I'm not in the broadcast footprint. Would like to add this to the SW Radio Audio Archive. Keith Perron says: January 10, 2015 at 6:53 pm John your right about 7570 kHz {Okeechobee FL-USA wb}. In the e-mail sent to me about this the other two are coming from the EX-RNW site at Madagascar. Rocus de Joode says: ``Hello all, I just want to make clear that this broadcast is not an initiative of Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW) and that the former Madagascar RNW station, now operated by MGLOB S.A. in Talata Volonondry, will not broadcast this program, as maybe suggested. Best 73, Rocus de Joode, Consultant for MGLOB and the Talata Volonondry shortwave station, Lot Bonnet 88, Ivandry, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar`` (Wolfgang Büschel, Jan 17, DXplorer via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 21 via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DXLD) ``Victor, I have something here in English on 13700 kHz from 0120-0140 UT. Still In. Male Announcer with Talk and Musical Interludes. At 0123 UT ID given as "Broadcasting direct from ???" Couldn't copy it all. Signal is FAIR here with BAD QSB. Do You know where this is being transmitted from?`` (BC-DX Jan 21 via DXLD) No answer from Victor?? ** NEW ZEALAND. 9630, Jan 15 at 1403, good signal, something new with news in English, mentions `Canterbury South` which are keywords for NZ, not England! Yes, it`s RNZI, 1404 a bit of music, 1405 weather, ID as RNZ National, 1406 short story reading for nightowls. Still on 9630 at 1458 check with music. Fortunately nothing to collide with on this unscheduled frequency --- or rather no QRM heard, but HFCC has CNR LIN site from China at 1200-1706. It also shows RNZI DRM on 9630 starting at 1550 but no doubt another wooden one, as RNZI sked itself shows DRM from 1551 on 9775-9780-9785. Yet another anomaly from RNZI, showing up on 9630, a frequency used years ago, but not on the current schedule. http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/listen At 1300-1550 is supposed to be, and usually audible, on 5950, but nothing there now next to Australia still on 5940. Next day, Jan 16 at 1345 check, RNZI AM is back on 5950, not 9630. So was it another programming mistake? Experiment? Maybe at midsummer some Pacific station relayers expected better nightmiddle propagation on >9 than <6 MHz. 11725, Jan 16 at 0715, RNZI absent from AM frequency supposed to be on until 0759, but DRM noise remains on 11685-11690-11695. No, not on 9630 now either, but AM may well have been on some other unchecked wrong frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NICARAGUA. 8989-USB, El Buen Pescador, 2319-2325. Male preacher with talk in Spanish. Appeared conversational at times. Broadcasting to / talking with fishermen. Very weak signal with minimal fading. 1/8/2015 (Jim Evans, Germantown, TN, Perseus, Random Wire, Wellbrook Loop. All logs this week from PL-880 and external antennas, NASWA Flashsheet Jan 18 via DXLD) ** NIGERIA. 15119.997, V Of Nigeria in French language and accompanied some wobbling like whistle tone, 7 peaks visible on each sideband, from 15115.4 to 15124.6 kHz range. 0830 UT. 9689.893, VON, Ikorodu, English service? scheduled 09-15 UT, heard tiny here in Germany around 0900 UT Jan 15. But break, transmitter off at 0906 UT. Irregularly on air (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Nigeria received 1510 UT on 15120. In the clear, but severely under modulated. Have been receiving these in the mornings, from 0800 onwards again on 15120, where modulation is a bit of a mixed bag, i.e. you hear it or you don't. Kind Regards (Chris Lewis, England, Jan 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7255, Voice of Nigeria (presumed); 2145-2157:50*, 15-Jan; Long Afro vocal to W in unknown language at 2156:30. Off abruptly at beginning of anthem. SIO=533 with on-off tones & AM ham QRM. I thought sure the carrier strength was due to the ham, but the S-meter dropped right down after s/off (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, --- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! ----- DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Nigeria on wrong frequency and low modulation Jan 16 1600-1630 9690 IKO 250 kW / 248 deg to ECAf Swahili, instead of 11770 1630-1700 9690 IKO 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf Yoruba, at 1658 co-ch RRI 1743-1800 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf Arabic, as scheduled http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/voice-of-nigeria-on-wrong-frequency-in.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #891 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Jan 20, 2015, via DXLD) Voice of Nigeria again on wrong or new frequency on Jan.19: 1500-1600 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf English, as scheduled 1600-1630 9690 IKO 250 kW / 248 deg to ECAf Swahili, instead of 11770 1630-1700 9690 IKO 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf Yoruba, as scheduled http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/nigeria-voice-of-nigeria-again-on-wrong.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via DXLD) ** NIGERIA [non]. USA(non), New relay via WRMI Okeechobee - Hamada Radio International was noted 0530-0600 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeAf Hausa on Jan 19, instead of TOM from 0600 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English Brother Stair as usually Previous schedules of Hamada Radio International via Media Broadcast were Mon-Fri 0630-0700 on 7350 NAU 100 kW / 180 deg to WeAf Hausa B-13 0530-0600 on 9610 NAU 100 kW / 180 deg to WeAf Hausa A-14, cancelled from June 1 My last recordings on May 1 and May 19, 2014 and then no signal on June 16, 2014: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/hamada-radio-international-via-wrmi-on.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #891 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Jan 20, 2015, via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DXLD) Still nothing about this on the WRMI schedule as of Jan 20, and 11580 was JBA here that date after 0530 (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. Pirates --- Channel Z: 11428 sending code "CZ"; 1711, 11-Jan.; 11428.36/AM, 2203-2215+, 11-Jan; Rock tunes; classics like Radar Love; 2214 ID as special DX test transmission. SIO=343 with warble QRM (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow- tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, --- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! ----- DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11428/CW, "CZ" Channel Z pirate beacon with code repeated 12 times per minute in fair sometimes fading to nil but always recovering nicely, 34433, 2036-2041 11/Jan. 11428/AM, Channel Z Radio "Special Test Transmission". CW ID at 2158, into The Doors Touch Me amd at 2202 ID as 'broadcasting from North America, Channel Zee Radio. More rock including White Lion Radar Love at 2208. 2214 ID mentioning frequency & 'special test transmission' & wattage of the transmitter & who designed it. Starting to fade into the noise at 2218 but another voice & CW ID at 2221 then really diving into the mud. 4443+3 2152-2222 11/Jan (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD) 11428, Jan/11, 2307, English, FAIR, male DJ spoke at 2307 tunein. Rock music Edgar Winter - Frankenstein 2307-2311. Into song by Golden Earring Radar Love 2311-2317. ID by Male DJ at 2317 "This is a special test transmission from Channel Z Radio on 11420 [sic] kHz" Also mentioned the transmitter and antenna they were using for this transmission. Into song Whoo Hoo 2318-2321. Off Air at 2321. Low powered homebrew transmitter used for this transmission! (Rob Ross, Ont., MARE Tipsheet via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. Old Radio Program Station: 6770.03/AM, 2251-2302+, 10-Jan; Unknown adventure program to ToH into Wild Bill Hickock episode intro'd by Jingles (Andy Divine). SIO=2+52+ Adventure program audio was muddy, but Wild Bill's audio was much better. (Frodge-MI) 6770.04/AM, 0517-0531+, 11-Jan; Tune-in to mystery program "Murder at Midnight; 0526 big band version of Perfidia with vocal; 0530 new mystery pgm "Escape" starring Vincent Price. SIO=353, usually not this good at this time, usually peaking in the 2100-2400 time slot. Frequency has been consistently in the 6770.0-0.05 range lately. 6770.04/AM, 0105, 12-Jan; Amos & Andy. SIO==353 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, --- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! ----- DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3275.2, PIRATE (No. Am.), Old Time Radio, 0106, 1/18/15. Golden age of radio drama program with music. Poor (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin, Perseus, WinRadio g313e, Eton e1, Grunding Satellit 800, Sangean 909X, Tecsun PL 660; 40 meters dipole, RF Systems Mk 2, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet Jan 18 via DXLD) 3275, UNID, Old Radio Show??? Pirate USA [sic], Jan/18/15, 0122 UT, English, POOR-FAIR. Bad QSB but signal did peak nicely on occasion! Playing an OLD radio drama show, possibly Sherlock Holmes?? at 0123 tunein. Signal and audio improving at 0130 UT. Still going at 0138 and 0150 re-checks, but not getting much usable audio! (Rob Ross, Ont, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. Pirate activity has been sparse with poor conditions after dark. PIRATE-NA, Wolverine Radio, 6950 USB, 0114-0203*, 01-11-15, SIO: 232, Songs with the word "bad" in them such as "Bad Whiskey" by Amos Milburn, "Bad Luck" by B.B. King. Poor signal but still there at sign off [Lobdell-MA] PIRATE-NA. WHYP-The James Brownyard Memorial Station, 3440 AM, 0059- 0233*, 01-12-15, SIO: 343/222. "Whip It", By Devo. Old audio from the original James Brownyard. Songs by Len, Digital Underground. The Jay Smilkstein final interview aired from 0130-0200 but by that time the audio was unusable. [Lobdell-MA] PIRATE-NA. TCS-The Crystal Ship, 6925.5 AM, 0034-0110+, 01-15-15, SIO: 444, "Heartbreak Hotel" show with tunes by Meat Loaf, Abba, etc. Nice audio (Chris Lobdell, Box 80146, Stoneham, MA 02180, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6975-AM, Jan 17 at 0216, scan of pirate band finds poor signal with music, logged by many others on hfunderground as X- FM; also something weaker at 0217 on 6925-AM, which during previous hour at least was logged by several as Liquid Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WBCQ for WAZU ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, Jan 18 at 0023, pirate music, fair at 0035 when announcer is ``killing time with a shoutout to Portland, Maine`` and someone in Virginia on hfunderground, but I don`t have to look it up there as then comes an ID ``Radio Free What-eever``, into song (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6974.1-AM, Jan 18 at 0024, pirate music, could not copy ID completely, ``Radio --- --- --- [3 syllables], Free Radio From --- [2 syllables]``. 0026 polka, off at 0034 next check. The answer to this one is Radio Doctor Tim relay per a few logs at http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,20336.0.html which agree it went off at 0027/0028. However, later on 6940-USB including (what else?) topless SSTV image http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=20346.0;attach=2990;image (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 530, various daytime chex Jan 16, `K530AM`, Vance AFB TIS is indeed off, no longer even a weak signal audible. Just as well, as the thing never met 1% of its potential (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 530, Jan 21 at 1940 UT I have driven down to the Visitors Center (with a number of mounted aircraft exhibits outside) at the north side of Vance AFB, and even here there is no `K530AM` to be heard. I am not pursuing this with the powers that be at Vance, since they may not have noticed it`s off, and I`d rather have it gone so R. Enciclopedia et al. are unimpeded. Indeed the electronic sign beside Southgate on the way to Vance gate, still flashes ``TUNE INTO / 530 AM`` along with hours of various gates. On the way earlier at 1930 UT Jan 21, I make a point of driving along the next E-W street to the north, Rupe, where there are hi-voltage lines/de facto Beverage antennas? Which re-radiate MW signals along with the noise and used to mix with K530AM, but never identified. I park at one peak point and monitor 530 for a while. It doesn`t take long to recognize the main audio is just local KGWA // 960, with an ag report. Weaker audio I realize must be from our other local, KCRC 1390, since, guess what, 1390 minus 430 = 960 and 960 minus 430 = 530. In other words, a leapfrog between these two which are not at the same site, with the assistance of OG&E [local electric company, no gas except maybe partly to generate the juice]. (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 580-720, Jan 15 at 2158 UT in NE OKC on caradio, KWPN Moore, 5/1 kW transmitter site on south side of OKC, is splattering out to this range, much worse the closer to fundamental 640. So it bothers or blox groundwave from WIBW 580, KMKI 620, KSKY 660, KGGF 690, KGNC 710, to name a few. IBOC is also on, but the splatter includes extremely distorted analog audio. I suspect out of whack IBOC is causing this. Fortunately have never heard it this bad in Enid. No other OKC market AM signal is such a mess. 640-700, Jan 20 at 2036 UT, KWPN Moore splatter is audible up to 60 kHz above fundamental, even in Enid, like I was hearing in OKC last week, altho not as strong here of course. It`s enough to QRM 690 KGGF Coffeyville KS; and 700 KHSE Wylie (Dallas) TX which runs only one sesquikW. Also extends below 640, but harder to detect there with several strong stations. KWPN IBOC is also on, but the splatter is more analogic. While at the Vance AFB VC [see 530], since it`s a quiet location without overhead powerlines, I perform a quick MW bandscan, including: 590-640, splatter from KWPN Moore can now be detected also on the low side, QRMing Omaha 590, Kansas City 610, and probably on 580 too but WIBW is strong enough to block it (and audibilize the usual weak groundwave signal under, which must be remnant of 500-watt KRFE Lubbock TX). Other non-Oklahoma logs are filed under USA (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1120, Jan 19 at 1329-1332+ UT, open carrier looping toward Tulsa, while KMOX and presumed KTXW are mixing when it`s nulled. Tired of waiting for KEOR to start modulating, but 1330 UT is the official Catoosa sunrise in January (Feb: 1315 UT). KEOR is now a regular reliable groundwave daytime signal. I think it`s still religious, but I see in FCC that it`s now owned by La Zeta 95.7 of Springdale AR, not to be confused with OKC-based KTUZ 1270. Why is Zeta such a popular radio handle in Spanish? Likes to be associated with narcotrafficking? 1120, Jan 19 at 2039 UT, KEOR Catoosa is again, or more likely *still* open carrier dead air, as noted earlier today after sunrise time of 1330 UT. Still so at 2210 UT on caradio now that KMOX is propagating, making a SAH of 320/minute = 5 and a third Hz. So my earlier remark ``KEOR is now a regular reliable groundwave daytime signal`` may have jinxed it. Not to be confused with another Tulsa suburb, Jenks [sic, no X]. Jan 20 at 1512 UT, I am still getting an 1120 open carrier from the direxion of Tulsa, but it`s very weak, not the full licensed 10 kW, and the SAH with remnant KMOX is now 280/minute = 4 and two thirds Hz. Such a disparity ought to make us suspect a third station is involved, but why shouldn`t KEOR add frequency instability to all its other defects? 1120, Jan 21 at 1856 UT on caradio, KEOR is still open carrier/dead air (no BFO, but one can tell a carrier is there lowering the noise level compared to relatively vacant 1110, 1100, etc.) At 1946 UT recheck, trace of talk under, which is most likely KMOX already (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thx again for your tales of KEOR. I can get KTXW thru KMOX at sunset, but still need KEOR. Perhaps I'll have chances if and when they get everything straightened out (KAZ Barrington IL, ABDX via DXLD) DHYB ** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Jan 15-UT Jan 16, chex of KZLS Enid while in OKC, and on the way back to Enid finds heavy QRM and SAH, mostly from WTNI Biloxi MS, so KZLS is unable to get a usable signal into its primary (?) market at night. Still suspect WTNI is running 10 instead of 1 kW (as KZLS sometimes does when obvious from local range). It would help if the two would zero-beat; no chance of that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. The afternoon of Jan 15 we had to go to OKC in order to view the movie `The Imitation Game` about Alan Turing and the ENIGMA machine, a great film which of course has never made it to Enid`s sole cinema. So also worked in some local FM spectrum monitoring on caradio and G8, far from exhaustive in the time available: 107.7, while shopping at the Homeland grocery in The Village, a pair from KRXO 107.7 were doing a live remote with what else, sports talk. I never listen to it voluntarily, but the van outside had 107.7 THE FRANCHISE emblazoned on it. It looks like they have managed to come up with a unique sports-related slogan, as the WTFDA FM database finds no other Franchise anywhere in North America! (but doesn`t cover AM). 92.9, Jan 15 at 2115 UT here is rap non-music, only IDs saying ``Now 96.5 and 92.9``. Well, yes, same thing on 96.5. These both have to be nothing but translators, blocking full power Tulsans from getting into OKC. WTFDA DB shows: 92.9, K225BN // KRXO HD-3, CHR Format 96.5, K243BJ // KRXO HD-3, CHR Format But transmitter site coordinates are different. Presumably this pair, 200 and 250 watts respectively, reach more listeners than the HD-3 channel of 107.7 starting out with total 92 kW from yet another site! 95.7, and 102.3 are another matching pair with `Focus on the Family` gospel-huxter show at 2145 UT Jan 15. Local level signal on 95.7 despite KXLS Enid/Lahoma. WTFDA shows neither licensed to OKC but: 95.7, K239BT, The Village, 250 watts H/V, // KQCV 95.1, 100 kW from Shawnee, Bott religion, presumably also // KQCV 800, not checked 102.3, K272FD, Del City [NOT Dell as in WTFDA], 215 watts H/V, // KQCV 800. So, 800 and 95.1 not being enough, Bott has low-power relays on the NW and SE sides of OKC. 104.5, at 2153 UT Jan 15, the original classic rock format of KRXO 107.7 remains here via a translator only, having been banished from main channel for yet more stupid sports talk (see above). However, DJ is heard asserting ``God talks to you if you open your eyes [sic] and listen`` --- Huhhhh? Then at least two Fleetwood Mac tunes. 2157 ID as ``Oklahoma`s Classic Rock FM`` 104.5 is K283BW, with the HD2 of KRXO 107.7, and 250 watts horizontal only. All these translator relays of `HD` channels only prove that the HD channels themselves are worthless. 92.1, at 2157 UT Jan 15, `Urban`` DJ talk here confirmed still // 1140 KRMP, i.e. K221FQ, 99 watts H&V 103.1, at 2158 UT Jan 15, talk here confirmed still // 1520 KOKC, i.e. K276EX, also 99 watts H&V. {This blox any remnants of KOFM 103.1 Enid from getting into OKC, but does limit KOKC`s FM coverage on the north side} (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 11650, Jan 21 at 0035, Arabic conversation with piano music background, undermodulated but good signal, presumed R. Sultanate of Oman (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PANAMA [non]. ANTENA DX DE LA CHISPA ESTEREO Programas del 17 de Enero 2015 "ANTENA DX" es un espacio radial dedicado a explorar el apasionante mundo de la radio, temas de Internet, las telecomunicaciones y las nuevas tecnologías. "ANTENA DX" es el primer y único programa en su género que se produce en Panamá, Centroamérica, y es realizado y conducido por Víctor Gutiérrez desde los estudios de la radio LA CHISPA ESTEREO, EN Torti, Panamá y cuenta también con la colaboración de corresponsales especializados desde distintos países del mundo. CONCURSO ANTENA DX --- Antena Dx cumple 6 años y te invita a participar en el concurso para ganar lindos premios, solo tienes que entrar a bases del concurso y responder las preguntas. Tienes hasta el 14 de marzo para participar y ganar lindos premios. http://www.lachispaestereo.com/concurso/ El programa lo podrán sintonizar a través de las siguientes emisoras. La Chispa Estéreo en Panamá. Los sábados a las 8:30 PM 0130 UT [presumably meaning UT Sundays] http://www.lachispaestereo.com Radio Verdad en Guatemala, 4055 SW. Los sábados a las 8:00 PM 0100 UT [presumably meaning UT Sundays] http://www.radioverdad.org Hola Stereo en Venezuela, 105.5 FM. Los domingos a las 7:00 PM 0000 UT [presumably meaning UT Mondays] http://www.holastereofm.com Radio Cultural, Pérez Zeledón en Costa Rica, 88.1 FM y 1580 AM, a las 11:00 PM 0400 UT: [what day??] http://www.radiopz.com/ WRMI Radio Miami Internacional, Miami, Estados Unidos 9955 kHz los miércoles a las 07:00 PM 11:00 UTC [sic!!] http://www.wrmi.net/ Nos pueden escribir a lachispaestereo@hotmail.com quedan todos invitados a sintonizarnos por las emisoras y sitios web antes mencionados. Víctor Gutiérrez, Productor y presentador de Antena Dx También pueden escucharnos cualquier día y a cualquier hora en la página de Programas DX http://programasdx.com/antenadx.htm Para escuchar otros programas diexistas: http://programasdx.com/ Programas DX en facebook: https://www.facebook.com/programasdx Programas DX en twitter: https://twitter.com/programasdx Cordiales 73 (via José Bueno, Spain, noticiasdx yg via DXLD) Las horas correctas de Antena DX en WRMI son (horas y dias TU): lunes 1330 en 9955 miercoles 1200 en 9955 jueves 0430 en 5985 viernes 0200 en 9955 73, (Guillermo Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Muchas gracias Glenn: El realizador del programa Víctor Gutiérrez aún no me comunicó el cambio, le traspaso la información para que actualice el resto de emisoras. Saludos (José Bueno, ibid.) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3385, NBC East New Britain, 1221-1252*, Jan 20. Decent reception; DJ in Tok Pisin/Pidgin with "dedications" show with pop songs ("Run to You," etc.); very nice musical montage promo for NBC ENB "98 FM," "It's official, we are number one. NBC East New Britain"; sports promo - " Come out to support your rugby team"; IDs with FM & SW frequencies; off in mid song. Another entertaining PNG reception! Audio - https://app.box.com/s/6y04vpcpxbe07ylbkvbnjg7xek52jnaq (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3905, Jan 11, 1856, NBC Radio New Ireland noted in the first half of January in the 19-20 timespan with decent signals but mostly weak audio (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Jan 18 via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DXLD) 3905, NBC New Ireland. Jan 18, an outstanding day due to fair reception and extended schedule; from 1227 and subsequent random listening till 1416*. Highlights: 1227-1238: schedule of local events, with many dates and times in Tok Pisin/Pidgin. 1238: Into program of religious songs, as it is Sunday. 1357: Beatles song; children singing anthem as usual; normally goes off the air after the singing, but today continued on. After 1401 with the audio feed of NBC National Radio; played the “PNG National Radio Song” (“In our land of a thousand tongues, brothers and sisters old and young, unite our spirit so we feel as one . . . Unite to be one people, one nation, one country: P-N-G”); pop songs ("If I Were a Carpenter," etc,); PSA "This message brought to you be the government of Papua New Guinea"; several IDs "the Voice of the Nation, NBC National Radio." https://app.box.com/s/c54bum2a16zxaslqhqy364j30n6r5k0y contains fairly clear audio. Today was great fun listening to this with decent reception and extended NBC National Radio programming! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4747.6, R. Huanta 2000, Huanta, 2337-2346, 15/1, castelhano, informações várias, anúncios; 35333. Melhor sinal em 18/1, 2315. 4774.9, R. Tarma, Tarma, 2303-2320, 17/1, castelhano, canções; 45433. 4955, R. Cultural Amauta, Huanta, 2317-2327, 15/1, castelhano, tema da política nacional, música índia, progr. em quíchua; 35332. SINPO 45433 em 18/1, 2315. 4985.3, R. Voz Cristiana, Chilca, 2245-2254, 16/1, castelhano, texto, canções índias; 35331. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. CHASQUI DX PFA – ENERO 2015 --- CQ, CQ, CQ; Aquí Pedro F. Arrunátegui para compartir algo con los que disfrutan y aman el DX latinoamericano; todas las horas son UT. Desde la tierra de los incas, les informo mediante este Quipus lo siguiente: 4747.60, PERÚ, R. Huanta 2000, Huari; 6/01 0005-0020, 44444, ads Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito, px Radio Periódico 2000, news, ID “Por Radio Huanta 2000” 4774.90, PERÚ, R. Tarma, Tarma, Junín; 1/01 2240-2305, 44444, mx tropical andina, px mxf de producciones paisanito desde Tarma. Ads, ID “Feliz Año nuevo les desea Radio Tarma Internacional”; luego pasan el Ángelus. 4955.00, PERÚ, R. Cultural Amauta, Huanta, Ayacucho; 17/01 1045-1105, 44444, px religioso en quechua, ID. Escuchar grabación en quechua, px Firmes y delante mx con mensaje religioso 4985.50, PERÚ, R. Voz Cristiana, Chilca, Huancayo; 11/01 1115-1150, 44444, px religioso y mxf con mensajes religiosos, ID “Radio Voz Cristiana”, mx La recepción la he efectuado del 1/0-17/01 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, MFJ-1025 con antena auxiliar, una antena de hilo largo de 12 metros y una antena loop. NOTA: Para un mejor escucha de las grabaciones que adjunto, sugiero escuchar con los audífonos. Muchos 128´s PFA (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, DX LISTENING DIGEST via DXLD yg where audio clips are attached) See also BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, COLOMBIA, ECUADOR, GUATEMALA ** PERU. 4747.5, Perú, Radio Huanta 2000, Huanta, Ayacucho, 1037 OM mentioning several departamentos in Peru, YL at 1039 and back to OM 1040. 15 January (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4810, Perú, Radio Logos, Chazuta, Tarapoto, 0955 to 1030 beautiful flauta andina at 1000 and OM preacher at 1030, very strong signal 15 January (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4824.47, Jan 9, *2301- UNID LA, most likely La Voz de la Selva switching on their transmitter at this time. A short, quite strong IS, like ring of bells at sign on, then it took some time before the very weak audiostream could be heard (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Jan 18 via DXLD) 4824.47, Jan 9, 2315, La Voz de la Selva. Long time since I had this one! Played music but lots of QRM (Arne Nilsson, Gransel, Sweden, SW Bulletin Jan 18 via DXLD) ** PERU. 4939.95, Jan 17, 2255, Radio San Antonio, OAW5A, Villa Atalaya, Peru, SIO 252. Ein seltener Peruaner, noch schwach, das könnte aber in der nächsten halben Stunde was werden! - 2325, das Signal nun wie erwartet besser, wenn auch nicht laut, aber S3 stabil nimmt man ja gerne (Christoph Ratzer, Austria, via A-DX via SW Bulletin Jan 18 via DXLD) 4939.97, Jan 9, 2301, R San Antonio with a very good signal. Managed to record a nice ID. Normally quite weak. Irregular (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Jan 18 via DXLD) 4939.9, Perú, Radio San Antonio de Atalaya, Ucayali, 2335 OM “en las palabras….Santa Cruz…cinch”. Vocalist from 2339 to 2348 new song 2359.0000, OM “atención“, more music to 0010. 17/18 January (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, and XM, Cedar Key, Florida, NRD525D, R8A, E5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4955, Perú, Radio Cultural Amauta, Huanta, 1043 to 1110 instrumental music through the hour with no ID, 15 January; 0015 to 0020, good signal in Spanish, OM “en cinco anos [sic; años?]“, then into music 17 Jan (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4955. RADIO CULTURAL AMAUTA, 19/01 2351 UT. Avisos, en quechua, acerca de las necesidades de maestros rurales, con especialidades en inglés y computación hasta las 2356, cuando se emite un discurso del presidente Humala acerca del servicio de inteligencia del Perú. SINPO: 35343 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Akita R-462 AR (Analógico), Ant telescópica, QTH: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** PERU. 4985.5, Perú, Radio Voz Cristiana, Huancayo, 2330 to 2345 OM en español, signal be murdered by RTTY on 4985. Using 1.1 filter in usb on the 746Pro 15 Jan (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, RADIO CHASKI. 17/01 2303 UT. ID Red Radio Integridad en 700 Amplitud modulada: ``La voz que glorifica a Dios``, devocional sobre el testimonio cristiano hasta 2307. Luego himnos y coros instrumentales. SINPO: 45433 (Rx: Akita R-462 AR; Ant: Telescopica; QTH: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile). Atte.- (Claudio Galaz, condiglista yg via DXLD) 5980, RADIO CHASKI. 19/01 2325 UT. Avisos de Red Radio Integridad de Lima, especialmente sobre la adquisición de material de Radio Transmundial. Desde las 2330, se emiten himnos corales. SINPO: 35333 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Akita R-462 AR (Analógico), Ant: Telescópica, QTH: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) [and non]. 5980+, Jan 21 at 0019, two JBA carriers, one of which is very slightly on the hi side, and beating against each other. One of them does convey some traces of modulation. I`m DXing this hour with the intention of QRTing after the anticipated Chaski cutoff post-0100. So from 0104 I keep both the DX-398 and the PL-880 on 5980 to hear the beat stop as one of the carriers does go off at 0107:23*. So that`s R. Chaski, Urubamba, while the stay-onner is BBC via UAE. Last log of cutoff here was January 9 at 0106:09.5 [correcting typo which said 0105:09.5!], so here it is 12 days later, and 73.5 seconds later, averaging 6.125 seconds per, within the margin of error circa 6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 6173.9, Perú, Radio Tawantinsuyo, Cusco, 1100 to 1110 in lsb narrow filter with om long talk in Spanish, weak signal troubled by co-channel signals 15 Jan (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. Even before program start around 0155-0200 UT heard a 1004 Hertz engineering measurement pause tone from IBB Tinang-PHL site on three outlets, weak S=5-6 signal so far on wrong sidelobe signal direction in Sydney, Australia, on 15640, 17700 and poor 17820 kHz. At 0201-0203 UT woman chorus like National hymn(?) could be traced, followed by male voice station ID at 0204 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 6040, RRI (Tiganeshti) *1500-1527* 8 Jan. IS through CRI (Xi`an) closing announcement, Italian programme with chat & occasional music breaks, closing with 2 minutes of IS. Weak & disturbed by AACI from 6030 CNR1 (I swear I can hear CNR1 without turning on the radio some mornings...)(Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA PL606 'barefoot'/6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Interesting article in Russian about the former Soviet jamming: http://www.agentura.ru/equipment/radiocenzura/ (Boletín número 166 de la Asociación Diexman Uruguay, Editor: Rubén Wálter Suárez, Montevideo, 08 January 2015, via Moscow Information DX Bulletin, Weekly electronic publication # 927, January 14, 2015, Editor of the current issue: Fedor Brajnikov [Fyodor Brazhnikof], via RusDX 18 Jan via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 6989.9, Jan 9, 1440, Radio Komintern. Etwas Hintergrund zu Radio Comintern, Danke an Achim rueckner für den Link via Facebook: http://rossosh-kprf.narod.ru/music.html Die Station war Freitag von ca. 1330 UT bis 1500 UT gut auf 6989.9 zu hören (Christoph Ratzer, Salzburg, Austria, A-DX via SW Bulletin Jan 18 via DXLD) Please tell me how to contact the hobbyist, broadcasts in 6990 kHz. Listen to the 6, 7 and 8 January. SIO - 353. Thanks in advance (Michael Bykhanov. Apsheronsk, Russia, "Deneb-radio-dx" via Rusdx Jan 18, via DXLD) kprf-rossosh@mail.ru or this. 050353@mail.ru (Andre) - Sergey 050,353 [at] mail.ru (Andrew Chub, Faschevka, Lugansk People's Republic, "Deneb-radio-dx" via Rusdx Jan 18, via DXLD) Is that unclear? ** RUSSIA. January 12: Adygeyan Radio in Adygeyan, Turkish, Arabic to ME 1808 on 6000 Armavir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uV_BEYY_18&feature=youtu.be 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) QSL: RUSSIA, GTRK Krasnodar/Radio Adygea, 7325, QSL by registered mail, info, in 5 months for e-report to Krasnodar@rtrn.ru, ru6ax@land.ru and krtpc@krtpc.ru (Artur Fernández Llorella, Catalonia, Spain. You can see some images in http://maresmedx.blogspot.com.es/ Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Haven't seen Radio Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics (Radio MTUCI for short, a.k.a. Radio Green Eyes - page 350 in current WRTH) reported on shortwave so far this year, but throughout 2014 it was reported on Fridays only at 1200-1500 UT on 25900 kHz. Found a web page for it at http://tinyurl.com/radiomtuci mostly pics, but some of those look informative (for Russian speakers), including one giving the URL for their VK.Com social networking page. The station has previously been logged on 1584 kHz in the Moscow area, the VK.Com page cites 1485 kHz as a future frequency. (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, Jan 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thruout 2014, really? The last reports we had of it in DXLD were in May. It really peaked in March (Glenn, ibid.) ** RWANDA. 6055, Radio Rwanda, 0354-0446, Jan 15. Now with many ads and PSAs; 0400 & 0444 PSA in English; something like - Every 15 seconds a baby is born in Africa with HIV. . . we call on the government and our people to provide leadership. We must be wise and teach our young people about health care. Together we can keep children safe from HIV. It begins with us. It begins with you (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Rwanda, Kigali, received today Jan 19th at 2023 UT on 6055. Very good propagation this season. http://youtu.be/WO_UqoDcbgw My receiver : Icom R75, My location : Picardy (JN19bk) (Patrice Privat, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** RWANDA [non]. Radio Impala, probably cancelled 1700-1800 on 17540 MDC 250 kW / 310 deg to SoAf open carrier/dead air [QSLs: see MADAGASCAR] Observations of other three clandestine broadcasts on Sat, Jan 17: Radio Inyabutatu: 1600-1700 on 17605 ISS 100 kW / 144 deg to SoAf Kinyarawanda Sat (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, Jan 18, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 17705, Jan 19 at 1451, BSKSA poor in Arabic, not // better 17615 Qur`an. Ivo Ivanov says 17705 is ``permanently off`` for a one-hour break at 13-14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020, Jan 7, 1900, SIBC today also very good, here a link that also SWB readers can listen to this beautiful signal: https://soundcloud.com/christophdx/5020-sibc-070115-1900-ratzer (Christoph Ratzer, Salzburg, Austria, A-DX via SW Bulletin Jan 18 via DXLD) 5020, Jan 11, 2000, SIBC, Honiara, Solomon Islands, SIO 353. Heute nur ein S3 Signal zum Sendestart in Honiara, das Band sehr unruhig heute. Man hört fast den Sturm... Wer weitere Informationen zu den neuen SIBC Sendern lesen möchte: http://medxr.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/changes-for-solomon-islands-broadcasting.html (Christoph Ratzer via A-DX, ibid.) 5020, Jan 11, *1900-, SIBC also heard here several days. Extended schedule after New Years Eve. Noted at about 1500 from Jan 2 - Jan 4. Quite good strength but far from the clarity in reception as the recording above from Christoph Ratzer. His very quiet location up in the Alps is outstanding compared to my location near the city of Ängelholm. It doesn't help that the distance is 10 km from here! (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Jan 18 via DXLD) 5020, Jan 17, 1145, SIBC, SLM, very strong, probably all time high! Pop music (Arne Nilsson, Gransel, Sweden, SW Bulletin Jan 18 via DXLD) 9545.000, SIBC, Honiara poor signal into southern Sydney Australia remote SDR unit at 0220 UT, scheduled here 22-05 UT. Tiny signal in otherwise empty 31 mb, only stronger RA/ABC SHP 9660 and an unidentified ute Stanag digital signal in 9911 to 9913.8 kHz range heard so far (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, Jan 20, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The latter is often a bother to BBC on 9915, or RL on 9910 (gh, DXLD) ** SOMALIA [non]. GERMANY (non), Observations of Voice of Khaatumo, Codka Khaatumo on Jan 13/15 1700-1730 17580 ISS 250 kW / 120 deg EaAf Somali Tue/Thu, very strong! 1700-1730 17580 ISS 250 kW / 120 deg EaAf Somali Wed, very poor always http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/very-strong-reception-of-voice-of.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #891 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Jan 20, 2015, via DXLD) 17580, V of Khaatumo (Issoudun) (Presumed) 1702-1729* 15 Jan. Mostly long Somali discussion, occasional correspondents' reports, a few music breaks; what sounds like qira'ut starting at 1727-1729* (off mid-recitation). Doing better today v. ACI from 17575 (AWR (Talata- Volonondry) in Swahili 1700-1728. I was mistuned to 17850 at 1700, so didn't catch VoK opening -- another "senior moment" (RFI-17850 (Issoudun) *1700 in French heard rather well, tho). (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA PL606 'barefoot'/6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) COLLISIONS Adventist World Radio and Voice of Khaatumo on adjacent channels 1700-1730 on 17575 MDC 250 kW / 310 deg to EaAf Swahili Adventist World Radio 1700-1730 on 17580 ISS 250 kW / 120 deg to EaAf Somali Tue-Thu Voice of Khaatumo http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/adventist-world-radio-and-voice-of.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Jan 21, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. 17770, Channel Africa, 1540-1602* 8 Jan. Closing Swahili programme at 1554, followed by bird-call IS & English/French ID loop, brief French chat at TOH & off. Sked is 1456-1555, so rolling a bit longer today (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA PL606 'barefoot'/6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. 3320, Radio Sonder Grense, 0013 to 0020, strong signal om in Afrikaans, 17 Jan (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA [and non]. 6155.0, Jan 19 at 0328, Channel Africa, poor signal in English with low audible heterodyne (LAH) which is of more interest, likely from R. Fides, BOLIVIA, q.v., still on air and typically off-frequency. 3345, Monday Jan 19 at 0333, poor AM signal with open carrier/dead air, whence? Recheck at 0338, now M&W talk in English, and of course it`s // 6155, so Channel Africa too. Both are registered with HFCC as 0300-0400 M-F only: 3345, 100 kW, 5 degrees from Meyerton 6155, 250 kW, 19 degrees from Meyerton (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Channel Africa making it up here to Europe on 15235 at 1700 UT, average SINPO 45444, always worth a listen, news, commentaries etc. Kind Regards (Chris Lewis, England, Jan 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 7570, Jan 15 at 0633, Overcomer Ministry via WRMI allowing someone other than Brother Scare to speak, accusing Jesuits (isn`t the current pope one? Hmmm) of being ``ministers of Satan`` who take an extreme oath and are responsible for terrorism. Catholix really take a beating from TOM, et al. Same on other WRMI frequencies such as weaker 9955. 7570, Jan 16 at 0709, WRMI with BS on usual very strong signal, but I notice as I tune across on both sides, I can hear a weak het of about 4 kHz, during modulation pauses, but disrupted when there is talk. It seems that the TOM audio out of Walterboro is putting out a weak tone of about 4 kHz, which when tuned just right on SW transmitters hired, beats against center carrier. I hear the same thing on WRMI 5850, and WWCR 5890, so it`s not just a WRMI problem. But not audible surrounding 3185 WWRB, maybe just because the signal is not strong enough, or differently fed/filtered. Maybe a trace of it at 0714 vs jamming on 9955 WRMI. Not audible on cleaner and weaker 11580 WRMI. BS sends out a variety of modulation crud to go along with his wacko prophecies. At the moment it`s a guest anti-evolution huxter. 3185, Jan 19 at 0619, WWRB with big humbuzz, while BS is saying as of January 15 a secret Russian weapon will be able to destroy any part of the planet, oh my!! Humbuzz is not quite as bad on 7570 WRMI. So much modulation crud comes out of the Walterboro feed that affiliates need to filter it severely before putting it on their transmitters --- not because BS can ever sound rational or even fluent, but to avoid QRMing adjacent frequencies and out of self-respect (??) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15770, Overcomer Ministry via WRMI Radio Miami International (presumed); 1520, 9-Jan; Bro. HyStairical singing! Gave shoutouts to WTMR (800 Camden NJ) & WACE (730 Chicopee MA). SIO=4+54. It's been quite a while since I heard B.S. belt one out & even longer since I've heard him lapse into glossolalia (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, --- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! ----- DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. Hola, El próximo día 3 de febrero habrá una reunión entre la dirección de Radio Exterior de España / Radio Nacional de España con la Plataforma en Defensa de la Onda Corta en Radio Exterior de España, de la que la AER es miembro fundador. Pues bien, parece que los pescadores españoles están reportando que ha empeorado sensiblemente la recepción en las zonas en las que faenan, por lo que os ruego me informéis de cómo se recibe en tierra. Para ello, podéis contestar a este correo o bien mandar uno privado a general@aer-dx.es Obviamente, es importante controlar la calidad de la recepción en las zonas para las que emite. Os recuerdo el esquema de REE: 1900 a 2300 Lunes a Viernes: a.. 11685 África occidental y Atlántico sur b.. 11940 América del sur c.. 9620 América del norte d.. 12030 Oriente medio e Índico 1500 a 2300 Sábados y domingos: a.. 11685 África occidental y Atlántico sur b.. 11940 América del sur c.. 9620 América del norte d.. 12030 Oriente medio e Índico Un saludo y muchas gracias por vuestra colaboración ------------------------------ (Pedro Sedano, Madrid, España, COORDINADOR GENERAL, ASOCIACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE RADIOESCUCHA (AER), condiglista yg via DXLD) ** SUDAN. January 14: Voice of Africa, Sudan Radio in English to CeAf 1748 on 9505 Al Aitahab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eonrHKzFJzQ&feature=youtu.be 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear Glenn, Greetings, I hope you are well. Thought I would try and hear "Voice of Africa" from Omdurman, Sudan this afternoon. Tuned in at 1630 UT, and heard the French Service. English Service followed at 1730 all on 9505, 31 meters. Co-channel with BBC Via Oman until 1800, and then interference from TWR Swaziland on 9500. Sounded interesting, what I could hear of it, regional music and talks. This would be the first transmission I have received from Sudan, so nice to add to my list of Radio Countries. Not sure if they QSL but worth a try. Kind Regards (Chris Lewis, England, Jan 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7200, Jan 19 at 0327, VG signal with dead air --- no, it`s just long pauses during Qur`an, from Omdurman, with the lower half of this AM channel intruding into the worldwide exclusive (ha, ha) hamband (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7200, Sudan Radio, from Omdurman site, nice solid signal at 0340 UT Jan 20 into German SDR unit. Omdurman news in Arabic, but otherwise sounded as most modern western and to African audience adapted program (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Shortwave transmissions from Sudan on 7200 and 9505 kHz: 1430-1530 7200 ALF 100 kW / 210 deg to CeAf Arabic Radio Omdurman 1730-1830 9505 ALF 100 kW / 210 deg to CeAf English Voice of Africa http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/sudan-on-7200-and-9505-khz.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Jan 21, dxldyg via DXLD) On Jan 20? ** SUDAN [non]. 15550 & 15400, Jan 19 at 1503-1504+, both R. Tamazuj frequencies via VATICAN are open carrier/dead air; 15550 thus provides a carrier for WJHR USB, but not quite enough to make the screaming gospel huxter sound like AM, as the WJHR signal itself has built up much stronger than an hour ago when fighting 2-way Spanish ACI; see USA [and non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SURINAME (?). 4990, R. Apintie (presumed), Paramaribo, 2248-..., 16/1, texto; 15331. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also UNIDENTIFIED ** SWAZILAND. Trans World Radio Swaziland received here, as mentioned in Sudan item above, 1800 UT, 9500 via Manzini 100 kW. English programming commenced at 1802 after announcements. Kind Regards (Chris Lewis, England, Jan 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN. Test Transmissions from Radio Revival Sweden Dear Listeners, Radio Revival Sweden will be testing on Thursday, January 22 as follows: 6035 kHz AM 5 kW 1200 - 1500 UT 9815 kHz A3H 10 kW 1200 - 1300 UT 9865 kHz A3H 10 kW 1300 - 1400 UT 9875 kHz A3H 10 kW 1400 - 1500 UT Please listen in and tell us how you are receiving our signal. Regular transmissions will follow this weekend and you are of course welcome to book airtime. Good listening & 73s Ronny Forslund, Radio Revival Sweden (via Tom Taylor, Jan 19, WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Test transmissions will be carried out by Radio Revival Sweden from the Sala transmitter site as follows: [as above] Reception reports are most welcome to radiorevivalsweden (at) hotmail.com , preferably comparing the signal on various frequencies. We have no printed QSL card at the moment but will respond by email. Regular transmissions will be made on January 24 - 25 and on Saturday, January 31. Time slots are available so please get in touch as soon as possible if you want to book airtime for these dates. Good listening! http://radiorevivalsweden.blogspot.se/2015/01/tests-from-radio-revival-sweden-on.html 19 Jan Radio Revival Sweden, the transmitter facility in Sala, Sweden now have a public Facebook Group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1542093242712933/?ref=ts&fref=ts 73, (Alan Pennington, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) As well as tests scheduled tomorrow (Thursday 22 Jan) from Radio Revival Sweden, the station's schedule page has been updated and shows these relays this and next weekend in January: Saturday, January 24 2015 1500-1600 UT Radio City 6035 kHz only 10 kW 1800-1900 UT Radio Wave Europe 6035 kHz only 10 kW Sunday, January 25 2015 1300-1500 UT Radio Spaceshuttle 6035 kHz plus 31 mb frequency Saturday, January 31 2015 1200-1300 UT SDXF Sveriges DX-Förbund 1300-1500 UT Radio Merkurs Full upcoming schedule at: http://www.radiorevivalsweden.blogspot.co.uk/p/schedules.html Note, the SDXF broadcast is now scheduled 31st January (not 24th as listed in January edition of 'Communication') This from the SDXF website (translated from Swedish): Upcoming special program from SDXF [Sveriges DX-Förbund - Swedish DX Federation] Listen to our special programs over shortwave transmitter Sala last Saturday in January, February and March. That is 31 January, 28 February and 28 March. Time 1200 to 1300 UTC. Frequencies: 49 m 6065 kHz with 10 kW / 75 m 3950 kHz with 5 kW. Reports to our e-mail qsl@sdxf.se or via regular mail to SDXF, PO Box 1097, 405 23 Göteborg. (via http://www.sdxf.se/WP/ ) 73, (Alan Pennington, Jan 21, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DXLD) Special transmissions from Sala, Sweden Sat, January 24: 1200-1300 6065 SAL 010 kW / non dir to Eu in LSB Swedish DX Federation 1300-1500 6065 SAL 010 kW / non dir to Eu in LSB Radio Merkurs 1500-1600 6065 SAL 010 kW / non dir to Eu in LSB Radio City 1600-1700 6065 SAL 010 kW / non dir to Eu in LSB Radio Revival parallel freq 3950 SAL 005 kW / non dir to Eu in AM maybe for whole period (DX RE MIX NEWS #891 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Jan 20, 2015, via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. 6145, Jan 15 at 1621. Soft, calm music and talk in Chinese from female commentator. Excellent signal. Same program content is on 6120, 6180, 7300, and 7385. Listened through 1630. [+] Jan 17 at 1509. Chinese male and female alternating announcers. Very strong and clear signal. Same program on 6175. 6145, Jan 14 at 1539. Radio Taiwan International, Mainland Network. Female announcer with harangue in Chinese with music followed by more announcements. She was joined later by a male announcer. Decent signal with some QRN but no overt QRM detected (Vince Henley, 4306 Shelby Court, Anacortes, WA, Equipment currently in use: Tecsun PL-380, JRC NRD-525, Drake R8B; Antennas are half-meter whip on PL-380 and Alpha- Delta DX-Ultra installed broadside east-west, NASWA Flashsheet Jan 18 via DXLD) So how can you be sure you were not hearing instead nothing but CNR1 jamming which is always trying to block these? Do you understand Chinese well enough to distinguish something from Taiwan vs something from the mainland? Not I. Can you tell if it`s really a ``harangue``?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9680, Taiwan, Jan 14 at 1540. Radio Taiwan International. Male and female announcers with excited harangue. Considerable QRN but no overt QRM on a decent signal (Vince Henley, 4306 Shelby Court, Anacortes, WA, Equipment currently in use: Tecsun PL-380, JRC NRD-525, Drake R8B; Antennas are half-meter whip on PL-380 and Alpha-Delta DX-Ultra installed broadside east-west, NASWA Flashsheet Jan 18 via DXLD) Western DXers constantly mistaking their jamming for the victims must be a source of great amusement to the ChiCom (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** TAIWAN? 6870 // 6970, RFA, JAN 18, 1225-1248, Chinese talk with OM and YL, along with traditional music. A single time pip was heard at the half-hour. Fair at best and high noise level on both frequencies, with noise almost completely taking over by 1248 (Ross Comeau, Andover MA, NASWA Flashsheet Jan 18 via DXLD) So why not CNR1 jamming??? (gh) ** TAIWAN [and non]. Due to a cancellation from March 29 of all RTI relays via Issoudun, Russian service of RTI announced test broadcasts from Jan.22 till Jan 31 via transmitter site Tamsui as follows: 1400-1500 on 11885 and 1700-1800 on 7385 These tests broadcasts will be transmitted in parallel with Issoudun relays: 1400-1500 on 15180 ISS 500 kW / 060 deg to CeAs Russian 1700-1800 on 9540 ISS 500 kW / 055 deg to EaEu Russian, video announcement: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/test-broadcasts-of-radio-taiwan.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Jan 17, dxldyg via DXLD) RTI test broadcasts Jan 22-Jan 31 via Tamsui, bad frequency selection: 1400-1500 on 11885 TSH 300 kW / ??? deg to CeAs Russian, QRM IRIB Ru 1423- 11880 // frequency 15180 ISS 500 kW / 060 deg to CeAs Russian, as usual good reception 1700-1800 on 7385*TSH 300 kW / ??? deg to EaEu Russian, no signal on January 22 // frequency 9540 ISS 500 kW / 055 deg to EaEu Russian, as usual good reception * PBS Xizang in Tibetan on same frequency and QRM CRI in German on adjacent 7380 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/rti-test-broadcasts-jan22-jan31-via.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) Aquí te reboto este correo de Andrea [RADIO TAIWÁN INTERNACIONAL], como siempre he dicho allá en donde han querido escuchcarme, la ONDA CORTA se nutre de correo FÍSICO, así que si la gente no escribe, los directivos de la emisora (total son políticos a los que no les afecta el destino, por lo tanto les da igual) valoran ese correo y si no llega, rápidamente le dan el carpetazo. A ver si podemos hacer algo, porque de una u otra manera, me dejan entender que en realidad no es un FIN DEL ACUERDO, sino que no lo consideran útil si nadie escribe... ¡Tú mismo! ********************************* Hola Juan Franco! Recibido, muchas gracias!!! Todavía estamos viendo si los directivos deciden establecer otros convenios. Mi sugerencia es que hay que hacerles ver que hay mucha gente que sigue oyéndonos a través de la onda corta. Ellos suponen que puede ser reemplazado por el internet. Así que les dejo a ustedes. Para nosotros no hay cambio de trabajo, es la misma programación diaria, lo que sí es una pena que se cierren dos frecuencias tan importantes. Un abrazo, Andrea`` *********************************** CORDIALES SALUDOS / GOOD LUCK / (via JUAN FRANCO CRESPO * STAMP JOURNALIST (AIPET), noticiasdx yg via DXLD) ** TAIWAN [non]. 7730, Jan 19 at 0322, RTI Spanish relay via WRMI during this hour, 222 degrees toward México, CentroAmérica, very good here, mixing Chinese with consecutive translation into Spanish. It`s been widely reported that RTI will be cancelling its Spanish service at the end of March (B-14), as the relay exchange deal with France expires and will not be renewed. But no one says anything about the relay via WRMI! So I asked Jeff White about it, who replies Jan 18: ``Glenn: The RTI Spanish relay to Central America from WRMI is scheduled to continue, which means that the Spanish service of RTI will continue to exist. Jeff`` Así es que, atención, aunque se terminan las emisiones via Francia, RTI seguirá con un servicio en español via WRMI en la próxima temporada (Guillermo Glenn Hauser, Oclajoma, WORLD OF RADIO 1757, COMPENDIO DE ESCUCHAS DX) ** TAIWAN [non]. RTI in Spanish and German via Issoudun still seen in 29 March to 25 Oct time slot on 3965 kHz 250 kW / 5915 kHz 500 kW (Wolfgang Büschel, Jan 13, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 21 via DXLD) ** TAIWAN [non]. Special live transmission of Furusato no Kaze Jan 24: 0430-0700 on 15740 TSH 100 kW / 002 deg to NEAs Japanese (DX RE MIX NEWS #891 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Jan 20, 2015, via DXLD) ** THAILAND. 13745, Jan 21 at 0040, R. Thailand in English, good with flutter, classical music background to YL talk; signal characteristix resemble those on 13700 of unlisted BBCWS, also suspected the other SW site in Thailand. Yes! See UK [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET. 6050, Jan 21 at 0018, JBA carrier, so surely HCJB must be off (and ELWA would be off after 0000). What else in Aoki? Nothing but CNR1 via Lhasa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. Frequency change of Voice of Tibet in Tibetan 1330-1400 NF 15568 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs, ex 15562: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/frequency-change-of-voice-of-tibet-in.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Jan 17, dxldyg via DXLD) Frequency changes of Voice of Tibet: 1215-1230 NF 15537 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15548 1245-1300 NF 15562 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15563 1400-1430 NF 11518 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 11517 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/frequency-changes-of-voice-of-tibet.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, Jan 20, ibid.) Frequency change of Voice of Tibet in Tibetan 1330-1345 NF 15568 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs, ex 15562 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/frequency-change-of-voice-of-tibet-in.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #891 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Jan 20, 2015, via DXLD) ** U A E. 15420.124, footprint of BBCWS in English at 0840 UT on Jan 15, S=8 -79dBm here in southern Germany sidelobe signal. One of the odd frequency transmitters at Al Dhabbaya relay site. Test procedure educational aspects in China (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. Here`s what`s becoming of the former SWBC site Rampisham: GRASSLAND AT RISK FROM SOLAR PANELS --- 17 Jan 2015 Daily Mail CONTROVERSIAL plans to build 120,000 solar panels on a protected area of grassland have been approved – against the advice of the council’s own planning officers. The huge solar farm on Rampisham Down in Dorset will be big enough to power 10,000 homes, and will include 119,280 photovoltaic panels mounted on steel frames on what should have legal protection as a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Conservationists from Natural England said they were ‘shocked’ at the decision, which will destroy a special acidic grassland that allows millions of flowers such as lousewort and eyebright to thrive. But the firm, British Solar Renewables, said it would create a ‘fabulous, stable habitat’. Councillor Ian Gardner said they had to ‘balance the economic and environmental benefits’ with the impact of the scheme (via DXLD) ** U K [non]. Frequency change of BBC in Uzbek, day by day on new frequency: 1300-1330 NF 17550 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg to CeAs Sun, ex 17780 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/frequency-change-of-bbc-in-uzbek.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) more: Frequency changes of BBC in Uzbek from Jan 14: 1300-1330 on 13865 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg to CeAs Mon, ex Daily 1300-1330 NF 15595 NAK 250 kW / 325 deg to CeAs Mon, ex 15510 1300-1330 NF 17550 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg to CeAs Mon, ex 17780 1300-1330 NF 13700 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg to CeAs Tue, ex 13865 1300-1330 NF 15730 NAK 250 kW / 325 deg to CeAs Tue, ex 15510 1300-1330 NF 17550 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg to CeAs Tue, ex 17780 1300-1330 on 13865 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg to CeAs Wed, ex Daily 1300-1330 NF 15730 NAK 250 kW / 325 deg to CeAs Wed, ex 15510 1300-1330 NF 17850 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg to CeAs Wed, ex 17780 1300-1330 NF 13760 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg to CeAs Thu, ex 13865 1300-1330 on 15510 NAK 250 kW / 325 deg to CeAs Thu, ex Daily 1300-1330 NF 17850 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg to CeAs Thu, ex 17780 1300-1330 NF 13700 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg to CeAs Fri, ex 13865 1300-1330 NF 15595 NAK 250 kW / 325 deg to CeAs Fri, ex 15510 1300-1330 NF 17850 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg to CeAs Fri, ex 17780 1300-1330 NF 13760 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg to CeAs Sat, ex 13865 1300-1330 NF 15730 NAK 250 kW / 325 deg to CeAs Sat, ex 15510 1300-1330 on 17780 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg to CeAs Sun, ex Daily 1300-1330 NF 13760 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg to CeAs Sun, ex 13865 1300-1330 NF 15595 NAK 250 kW / 325 deg to CeAs Sun, ex 15510 1300-1330 NF 17550 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg to CeAs Sun, ex 17780 Videos on Jan.18/19/20: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/frequency-changes-of-bbc-in-uzbek-from.html (Ivo Ivanov, Jan 20, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DXLD) Why such a complicated schedule? Because of ChiCom jamming, interfering in the internal affairs of Uzbekistan, since Uzbek is also understood by minorities in China, notably the Uighurs. A handy reference here for them, and you will likely already hear CNR1 on all the current frequencies during this semihour (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15200, BBC (site?) 0030-0058* 17 Jan. BBCWS English with "The World This Week" // 13700 (site?). Neither frequency listed for BBC in Aoki/EiBi (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA PL606 'barefoot'/6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) THAILAND; new sked (gh) 15200, Jan 18 at 0018, good signal in English, soon clearly from BBCWS, re hotels in the DRC; 0030 news headlines and now fading down some. Brand new, unlisted in latest shortwave.am, HFCC, Aoki and EiBi. Propagationally, likely from Thailand or Singapore. Dan Sheedy, California was also hearing this 24 hours earlier until 0058* // another unlisted, 13700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Currently (2215) hearing BBC World Service in English on 6195 with The Newsroom programme. I don't know what time this broadcast signed on at but it normally doesn't start until 2300 from Kranji. SINPO 33222 in the UK on my Elad FDM-S2 and a mini-whip active antenna (Stephen Cooper, dxldyg, Jan 21 via DXLD) See Bulgarian sked below (gh) Sorry should have checked HFCC I see it's been updated to include this broadcast as of 21st Jan (today) - http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=B14&broadc=BBC (Stephen Cooper, ibid.) But wait, there is much more jumping around now: note the 23-24 segment, 7490 reduced from daily to only on Fridays to collide with WBCQ. BUT, on no, 7490 is now added at 22-23, presumably daily, so now that will QRM WORLD OF RADIO on Wednesdays, et al. (gh, DXLD) 13700, Jan 21 at 0040, BBCWS very good with flutter, some news feature interview; nothing on 15200 tonight, both of which are/were new unlisted frequencies, and still not in http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=B14&broadc=BBC I do suspect THAILAND site, q.v. 15640, Jan 21 at 0046, BBCWS English // and synch with 13700, good with flutter. Aoki shows 15640 at 00-01 is 250 kW, 25 degrees from Nakhon Sawan, as of Jan 15, but only on Wed & Fri (and this is UT Wed), so another of those jumparounds depending on day of week, supposed to confuse Chicom jammers, but really confusing would-be listeners. 15200 is now in Aoki too as same parameters from THAILAND, but only on Sun/Tue/Sat. That leaves Mon & Thu to round out the week, so hunt for that in the 15s: There it is, 15755. Now Aoki also has the days of week as of Jan 15 for the 13 MHz jumparounds, same parameters as the three on 15: 13700 on Mon/Wed/Sat; 13725 on Tue; 13635 on Sun/Thu/Fri (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency changes of BBC World Service in English: 0000-0100 NF 13700 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Mon, ex 13725 0000-0100 on 15755 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Mon, ex Daily 0000-0100 on 13725 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Tue, ex Daily 0000-0100 NF 15200 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Tue, ex 15755 0000-0100 NF 13700 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Wed, ex 13725 0000-0100 NF 15640 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Wed, ex 15755 0000-0100 NF 13635 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Thu, ex 13725 0000-0100 NF 15640 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Thu, ex 15755 0000-0100 NF 13635 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Fri, ex 13725 0000-0100 on 15755 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Fri, ex Daily 0000-0100 NF 13700 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Sat, ex 13725 0000-0100 NF 15200 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Sat, ex 15755 0000-0100 NF 13635 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Sun, ex 13725 0000-0100 NF 15200 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Sun, ex 15755 0100-0200 on 5925 SLA 250 kW / 063 deg to SoAs , addit. freq. 0100-0200 on 15310 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg to SoAs Mon, ex Daily 0100-0200 NF 15490 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg to SoAs Tue, ex 15310 0100-0200 NF 15490 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg to SoAs Wed, ex 15310 0100-0200 on 15310 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg to SoAs Thu, ex Daily 0100-0200 NF 15780 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg to SoAs Fri, ex 15310 0100-0200 NF 15780 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg to SoAs Sat, ex 15310 0100-0200 NF 15490 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg to SoAs Sun, ex 15310 0200-0300 on 9920 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg to SoAs , addit. freq. 0200-0300 on 15310 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg to SoAs Mon, ex Daily 0200-0300 NF 15490 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg to SoAs Tue, ex 15310 0200-0300 NF 15490 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg to SoAs Wed, ex 15310 0200-0300 on 15310 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg to SoAs Thu, ex Daily 0200-0300 NF 15780 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg to SoAs Fri, ex 15310 0200-0300 NF 15780 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg to SoAs Sat, ex 15310 0200-0200 NF 15490 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg to SoAs Sun, ex 15310 1000-1100 NF 11565 NAK 250 kW / 045 deg to EaAs Mon, ex 11895 1000-1100 NF 11935 NAK 250 kW / 045 deg to EaAs Tue, ex 11895 1000-1100 NF 11565 NAK 250 kW / 045 deg to EaAs Wed, ex 11895 1000-1100 NF 11935 NAK 250 kW / 045 deg to EaAs Thu, ex 11895 1000-1100 NF 11935 NAK 250 kW / 045 deg to EaAs Fri, ex 11895 1000-1100 on 11895 NAK 250 kW / 045 deg to EaAs Sat, ex Daily 1000-1100 NF 11565 NAK 250 kW / 045 deg to EaAs Sun, ex 11895 1100-1200 NF 11805 NAK 250 kW / 045 deg to EaAs Mon, ex 11895 1100-1200 NF 12030 NAK 250 kW / 045 deg to EaAs Tue, ex 11895 1100-1200 NF 11805 NAK 250 kW / 045 deg to EaAs Wed, ex 11895 1100-1200 NF 12030 NAK 250 kW / 045 deg to EaAs Thu, ex 11895 1100-1200 NF 12030 NAK 250 kW / 045 deg to EaAs Fri, ex 11895 1100-1200 on 11895 NAK 250 kW / 045 deg to EaAs Sat, ex Daily 1100-1200 NF 11805 NAK 250 kW / 045 deg to EaAs Sun, ex 11895 1200-1300 NF 11805 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Mon, ex 11895 1200-1300 NF 12030 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Tue, ex 11895 1200-1300 NF 11805 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Wed, ex 11895 1200-1300 NF 12030 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Thu, ex 11895 1200-1300 NF 12030 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Fri, ex 11895 1200-1300 on 11895 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Sat, ex Daily 1200-1300 NF 11805 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Sun, ex 11895 2200-2300 on 3915 SNG 100 kW / 160 deg to SEAs, addit. freq. 2200-2300 on 5890 NAK 250 kW / 045 deg to EaAs, addit. freq. 2200-2300 on 5890 NAK 250 kW / 150 deg to SEAs, addit. freq. 2200-2300 on 6195 SNG 125 kW / 000 deg to SEAs, addit. freq. 2200-2300 on 6195 SNG 125 kW / 090 deg to AUS , addit. freq. 2200-2300 on 6195 SNG 250 kW / 013 deg to EaAs, addit. freq. 2200-2300 on 7490 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English, addit. freq. 2300-2400 NF 5895 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English Mon, ex 5875 2300-2400 NF 7600 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English Mon, ex 7490 2300-2400 NF 5895 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English Tue, ex 5875 2300-2400 NF 7520 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English Tue, ex 7490 2300-2400 on 5875 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English Wed, ex Daily 2300-2400 NF 7520 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English Wed, ex 7490 2300-2400 NF 5830 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English Thu, ex 5875 2300-2400 NF 7520 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English Thu, ex 7490 2300-2400 NF 5895 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English Fri, ex 5875 2300-2400 on 7490 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English Fri, ex Daily 2300-2400 NF 5830 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English Sat, ex 5875 2300-2400 NF 7600 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English Sat, ex 7490 2300-2400 NF 5830 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English Sun, ex 5875 2300-2400 NF 7600 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English Sun, ex 7490 (Bulgarian DX blog Jan 21 via DXLD) Or put yet another way, partially: (gh) BBC World Service from Jan 15: 2300-2400 ex. 5875, 7490 7490 .....6. 7520 ..345.. 7600 12....7 5830 1...5.7 5875 ...4... 5895 .23..6. 0000-0100 ex. 13725, 15755 13635 1...56. 13700 .2.4..7 13725 ..3.... 15200 1.3...7 15640 ...45.. 15755 .2...6. [WORLD OF RADIO 1757] 0100-0300 ex 15310 15490 1.34... 15310 .2..5.. 15780 .....67 1000-1100 ex 11895 11565 12.4... 11895 ......7 11935 ..3.56. 1100-1300 ex 11895 11805 12.4... 11895 ......7 12030 ..3.56. de Hiroshi (S. Hasegawa, NDXC, dxldyg via DXLD) OMAN/THAILAND. Another play --- A new cat and mouse game - BBC vv China mainland jamming organization. After action of the US IBB organization in the shortwave broadcast seasons B13 and A14 with different frequency hopping action at 16mb and 13 mb, in order to escape the jamming of the Mandarin, Tibetan and Uighur programs by China mainland; now we are experiencing another such action. Disorder. - This will lead only to confuse the listener amongst the Uzbek people, on both sides of the Chinese border (Wolfgang Büschel, BCDX 21 Jan via DXLD) ** U K [non]. MOLDOVA [PRIDNESTROVYE] 7445, BBC Persian news heard around 0402 UT Jan 20, via Grigoriopol Maiac relay site, solid signal level and very clear audio quality 0330-0430 UT program slot, S=9+30dB backlobe proper transmission of 116 degree outlet lobe to Persia. News at 0400 UT about Pope Francisco's visit to the Philippines. George Clooney feature at 0406-0408 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Updated schedule of BBC in Dari and Pashto: 0830-0900 on 15310 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg to WeAs Dari, new 0830-0900 on 17720 NAK 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Dari, new 0900-0930 on 15310 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg to WeAs Pashto, ex 0830-0930 0900-0930 on 17720 NAK 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Pashto, ex 0830-0930 0930-1030 on 15310 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg to WeAs Dari, ex 0930-1030 0930-1030 on 17720 NAK 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Dari, ex 0930-1030 1000-1030 on 15310 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg to WeAs Pashto, new 1000-1030 on 17720 NAK 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Pashto, new 1030-1100 on 15310 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg to WeAs Dari, new 1030-1100 on 17720 NAK 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Dari, new 1100-1130 on 15310 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg to WeAs Pashto, ex 1030-1130 1100-1130 on 17720 NAK 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Pashto, ex 1030-1130 1800-1830 on 5875 NAK 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Dari, ex 1800-1900 1800-1830 on 5910 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg to WeAs Dari, ex 1800-1900 1800-1830 on 7505 NAK 250 kW / 305 deg to WeAs Dari, ex 1800-1900 1830-1900 on 5875 NAK 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Pashto, new 1830-1900 on 5910 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg to WeAs Pashto, new 1830-1900 on 7505 NAK 250 kW / 305 deg to WeAs Pashto, new Morning transmissions remain unchanged: 0030-0100 on 5940 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg to WeAs Dari 0030-0100 on 7435 WOF 250 kW / 082 deg to WeAs Dari 0100-0130 on 5940 MOS 300 kW / 095 deg to WeAs Pashto 0100-0130 on 6195 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg to WeAs Pashto 0100-0130 on 7445 WOF 250 kW / 082 deg to WeAs Pashto 0130-0200 on 5940 MOS 300 kW / 095 deg to WeAs Dari 0130-0200 on 6195 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg to WeAs Dari 0130-0200 on 7445 WOF 250 kW / 082 deg to WeAs Dari 0200-0230 on 6195 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg to WeAs Pashto 0200-0230 on 7445 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg to WeAs Pashto 0200-0230 on 15755 NAK 250 kW / 305 deg to WeAs Pashto 0230-0300 on 6195 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg to WeAs Dari 0230-0300 on 7445 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg to WeAs Dari 0230-0300 on 15755 NAK 250 kW / 305 deg to WeAs Dari 0300-0330 on 7445 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to WeAs Pashto 0300-0330 on 9880 ERV 100 kW / 125 deg to WeAs Pashto 0300-0330 on 11970 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg to WeAs Pashto (Bulgarian DX blog Jan 21 via DXLD) ** U K. BBC’S CONTENT FOR AFRICA GETS MAJOR BOOST WITH NEW DEDICATED DIGITAL SPACE http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/bbccom-africa-edition We've had consistent and impressive growth of the traffic to bbc.com from Africa over the past two years - especially among audiences using mobile devices. Dmitry Shishkin, Group Digital Development Editor, BBC World Service Date: 16.01.2015 Last updated: 16.01.2015 at 15.01 Category: World Service; Online and interactive BBC World Service has announced new digital investment aimed at reaching new audiences in Africa – the launch of the Africa edition of the bbc.com website. The new edition ensures that English-speaking internet users on the continent will see far more African news stories, features and video on the bbc.com front page, while the bbc.com/Africa section, dedicated to African news, will also see significant enhancements. With its newsgathering presence in 48 countries of the continent, the BBC has more reporters in Africa than any other broadcaster. The launch of the Africa edition of bbc.com will bring more of the stories produced by the BBC journalists, and their unique understanding of the subjects they are covering, to digital platforms. Now users coming to bbc.com from any African country will see a homepage more relevant to the continent, with more live developments on moving news and sports stories as well as enhanced coverage of health, technology and business - in text, pictures, audio and video. The Africa edition will provide more expert analysis from the BBC reporters to explain the issues behind the headlines and in-depth features on a broad range of topics, to give a balanced portrayal of the vibrant African continent. The BBC will also continue to give a voice to Africa’s massive online audience via dedicated space on social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, SoundCloud and YouTube. The BBC’s digital audiences are growing rapidly, and this investment is designed to ensure this continues as increasing numbers of people in Africa get their news via mobile phones, says BBC World Service Group Digital Development Editor, Dmitry Shishkin: “We have had consistent and impressive growth of the traffic to bbc.com from Africa over the past two years. This growth is especially significant among audiences using mobile devices to access our content – 40 percent year on year. Over half of African browsers coming to bbc.com are using mobile devices. The new Africa edition, available on mobile, tablet and desktop versions, takes advantage of this strong presence and growth, and is editorially tailored for these audiences, making sure we serve them best with our multiplatform content.” BBC Africa Editor Solomon Mugera adds: “BBC covers Africa like no other international broadcaster. This new digital proposition serves as an excellent framework for our significant presence and deep understanding of the continent, making our offer even more exciting, fresh and dynamic. The timing of this launch couldn’t be better as BBC Africa teams are geared to deliver a comprehensive coverage of Africa Cup of Nations to the continent, which always brings new audiences to the BBC. Now they will see this content in an even more relevant way.” With its content in Arabic, English, French, Hausa, Kinyarwanda / Kirundi, Kiswahili and Somali, BBC World Service connects with its African audiences through a variety of delivery methods including TV, radio on FM, shortwave and satellite, online and mobile devices and social networking channels. The language websites – bbcafrique.com (French for Africa), bbcarabic.com, bbcgahuza.com (Kinyarwanda/Kirundi), bbchausa.com, bbcsomali.com and bbcswahili.com - provide audiences with news, information and analysis in text, audio and video. The flagship TV content for Africa includes BBC World News’ shows, Focus on Africa presented by Sophie Ikenye and Peter Okwoche and Africa Business Report presentedby Lerato Mbele, and BBC Swahili’s Dira ya Dunia with Salim Kikeke. Together, the BBC’s global news services reach 93 million people across the continent each week*. (BBC - BBC’s content for Africa gets major boost with new dedicated digital space - Media centre 16.01.2015 via Dr. Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD) ** U K [and non]. US Time Shifted Streams 20 January 2015 From Radio Caroline: Hello there, We have great news if you listen in the United States! We are streaming Radio Caroline in both US Eastern and Pacific Standard times, so that from now on, across America, you can wake up to our breakfast show in the morning, and relax to our night time shows at the end of the day, just as they are intended to be heard! In North America, you can access the streams by going to Radio Player via the 'Listen' button on our home page, where you will see the option to listen to Radio Caroline in local US time. And so that you can listen to these new US streams from coast to coast while you are on the move, we have also launched a new iOS app in the Apple App Store, and a new Android App in the Google Play Store. Just visit the appropriate store from your mobile device in the USA and search "Radio Caroline". Please note that these new streams are only available in North America. If you experience problems with any of our streams please contact webmaster@radiocaroline.co.uk If you do not live in North America, but have friends or relatives there who may be interested in listening to Radio Caroline, please feel free to forward this email to them. Radio Caroline http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/ http://www.facebook.com/radiocarolineofficial Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) At 1840 UT Jan 21, I try that but don`t see any choice on the player. It does show Gary Ziepe currently on-air at 10-14, in some timezone, which could be either EST or PST. Why bother? It`s mostly music. I assume there is no news to be concerned about delaying. But EST/PST are not good enough. What about the rest of us in the Great Center of America, in the CST and MST zones? We`re sick & tired of having to adapt to EST scheduling for everything. Or is it ``automatically`` detecting CST and MST as well, and if so, why don`t they say so? Nothing matters but the Coasts? And what about those like me who prefer to run their computer clox on UT? Does it still detect local time by IP address? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Caroline has got a US audience; as a listener supported station some of them will be paying either by monthly donations or by buying from their webshop. So they get the breakfast show at breakfast or near to breakfast if they are in CST and MST etc. Their UK programming in our graveyard hours 0100-0700, apart from Friday into Saturday, is continuous music so most US listeners miss out on presenter-led output. The 1000-1400 you saw would be GMT, I listened the last 10 minutes as I always tune in for the presenter following Gary, There's a choice of EST or PST on this page. http://carolinestreams.weebly.com/usa.html USA --- These streams are only receivable in the USA. The content is the same as our main streams but is time delayed to either USA East or West time. Our other streams will continue to be receivable world... View on http://carolinestreams.weebly.com Someone on another board mentioned that another UK station has a variation of this, Amazing Radio. AMAZING RADIO INTRODUCE LIVE REWIND http://www.recordoftheday.com/news-and-press/amazing-radio-introduce-live-rewind 21 March 2012 --- It's a problem as old as radio itself. You fall in love with a song but don’t catch the name of the band. View on http://www.recordoftheday.com Click their live rewind to go back in 5 minute segments back and there is a MST button. Amazing Radio http://amazingradio.com/ Amazing Radio Video: Trust Fund – Essay to Write January 21st, 2015 Ahead of their debut album release, Trust Fund have dropped a video for their next… New To Amazing R... But I think their programme schedule may be all pre-records; much of Caroline's programming is live. So maybe this was easier to do on Amazing. Station manager Peter Moore has just posted that the whole project was done free by volunteers, apps designed in house at no cost. He's also said that the Radio Caroline documentary directed by Los Angeles based Hans Fjellstad will be released this year and premiered in the US and they want to take advantage of that (Mike Barraclough, England, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5778.5-USB, ``Region 6 Shares Net`` with various MARS and other calls, first hearing AFA6EA /spelt/, later NCN035 /not spelt/, and 035 for short, who seems to be the NCS. He calls on various stations to in turn call for check-ins from their regions. At 0027, NF81DN /spelt/. There are really long pauses and I don`t think it`s just lack of propagation. Each station gets to say a few informal words about the weather, anticipating State of the Union, or whatever. One wanted to know what ``the other frequency`` is, and was given a phone number in the clear for someone to call to find out. Ha, top Google hits on AFA6EA go to hex color combinations! Adding MARS to the search terms gets an xls roster including AFA6EA as the State MARS Director for Arkansas. Searching NCN035 gets nothing, but UDXF posts indicate some calls are NCS---. NF81DN nowhere either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 8933 kHz USB, 2133z: New York LDOC working "United 1625" for phone patch to Medlink regarding a medical issue with a 55-yrs old passenger; short of breath, passed out; history of four previous heart attacks; blood pressure is 160/90, pulse is 120; physician aboard the plane says they should land the plane immediately; Medlink suggests they give her an aspirin or nitroglycerin pill; if she does not improve, Medlink says they should divert; pilot is considering divert to Orlando or Daytona Beach; otherwise will continue to Newark; will make decision in 15 minutes. (15/Jan/2014) (Al Stern, Florida), ODXA yg via DXLD) Most of Al`s numerous aero logs are extremely routine, but once in a while catches something like this; any follow-up? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 8933 kHz USB, 2159z: New York LDOC working "United 1625"; female passenger has improved remarkably; doctor now thinks her condition was the result of interaction between the two beers she drank and her medications; flight will continue on to Newark. (15/Jan/2014) (Al Stern, Florida), ODXA yg via DXLD) ** U S A. AROs [not really]. 13557, MTI, Stone Mountain GA; 1733, 15- Jan; slow beacon; centers about 13557.0; QRM from 120 pips/min. + widely spaced pip/pip2 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, --- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! ----- DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 25910, KLDE, Eldorado, TX, 1405 Jan16, music relay FM tentative fading, 12222. 73! (Mauro Giroletti, IK2GFT-SWL1510 -JRC 525 NRD-LOWE HF 150-Elad FDM S2 -Antenna LOOP ALA100M-FLAG Antenna West direction -Filter PAR Electronics LPF - HPF -Locator grid. Jn 45 Nk- playdx yg via DXLD) ** U S A. 25950/FM, KB99696, KTCL-FM Wheat Ridge CO studio relay; 1918-1931+, 13-Jan; Variety pop with "Channel 93-3" non-IDs. Brief good peaks with fades to zilch. OK, here's the weird part. I've often heard 2 sigs here, one music & one talk. At tune-in there was weak talk under the music in FM. I tuned in USB & heard only the music. I tuned in LSB and heard only the talk; M mentioned "93" then it went to the music; LSB // USB // FM, all with about the same sig quality (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, --- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! ----- DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 25990/FM, WQGY434, KLDE Eldorado TX, 104.9 FM studio relay (presumed); 1714-1732+, 11-Jan; Sunday Sounds country gospel music; spot for "David Jeremiah on Route 66 driving the word home". VGood with a few scratchy QSBs; much better, as usual, than poor // 25990. 1902 ranchera music "on Tejano Gold". Gone at 2039 check (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, --- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! ----- DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 26110/FM, KMK282, KOVR-TV Sacramento CA studio relay; 1701- 1710+, 11-Jan; "Live from across the valley, this is Good Day" with usual chit-chatty M&W with Sacramento & Bay Area items; Lorrie with news at 1702+. VGood; Gone at 1900 & 2039 checks. Last heard in October (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, --- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! ----- DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. NEW CEO ANDY LACK SWORN IN TO LEAD BBG JANUARY 20, 2015 http://www.bbg.gov/blog/2015/01/20/new-ceo-andy-lack-sworn-in-to-lead-bbg/ Jeff Shell (left), Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, congratulates Andy Lack after swearing him in as the first-ever CEO of U.S. international media [caption] WASHINGTON - Respected journalist and media executive Andrew Lack was sworn-in today as the Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the federal agency that oversees the five networks and broadcasting operations of U.S. international media. Those networks include the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio and TV Martí, Radio Free Asia, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks. Lack is the first-ever CEO of U.S. international media. Creating the position of a CEO has been a key objective of the agency's governing board and the Administration. "We are at a unique time in the extraordinary history of this agency. The 21st Century's global war on information is increasingly threatening to our country and our values," said Lack. "I am lucky to join a great group of journalists and news professionals spread across the globe who care so deeply about our critical role in that battle." Lack's selection follows an almost year-long search process that began in October 2013. "To say we are fortunate that Andy has agreed to accept this challenge is a huge understatement," said Jeff Shell, Chairman of the BBG. "He is an experienced media executive, a respected journalist, and an energetic and inspirational leader. We are grateful that Andy has decided to serve his country and lead the BBG at this critical juncture." Prior to being selected by the BBG, Lack served as the Chairman of the Bloomberg Media Group. He joined Bloomberg in October 2008 as CEO of its Global Media Group and was responsible for expanding television, radio, magazine, conference and digital businesses. Previous to joining Bloomberg, Lack was Chairman and CEO of Sony Music Entertainment, where he led the company's roster of prominent international artists and vast catalog of recorded music from around the world. Before joining Sony Music Entertainment, he was president and chief operating officer of NBC, where he oversaw entertainment, news (including MSNBC and CNBC), NBC stations, sales and broadcast and network operations. He was responsible for expanding the Today show to three hours and creating the show's street-side studio in New York's Rockefeller Center. From 1993 to 2001, Lack was president of NBC News, which he transformed into America's most-watched news organization through NBC Nightly News, Meet the Press, Today and Dateline NBC. Before going to NBC, Lack spent much of his television career at CBS News. After joining in 1976, within a year, he became a prominent producer for 60 Minutes and subsequently, senior executive producer of CBS Reports. Lack's broadcasts at CBS earned numerous honors, including 16 Emmy Awards and 4 Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Journalism Awards. Lack received a bachelor's degree from the College of Fine Arts at Boston University, where he is currently a trustee (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, Germany, WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DXLD) ** U S A. VOICE OF AMERICA INFORMATION WAR LOST: ANDREW LACK AND MISSION IMPOSSIBLE? http://bbgwatch.com/bbgwatch/voice-america-information-war-lost-andrew-lack-mission-impossible/ BBGWatcher January 21, 2015 0 Comments Featured News, Hot Tub Blog, The Federalist BBG Watch Commentary Bureaucracy Warning Sign By The Federalist On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 Andrew Lack was sworn in as the Director, Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). He will be most commonly referred to as the agency's Chief Executive Officer (CEO). In announcing Lack's official assumption of duties, Jeffrey Shell, the BBG chairman, issued a formal statement. This statement already appears on BBG Watch. What caught our attention immediately was the following: "As you all know well, the challenges we face are immense. I am confident Andy is the best person for this challenge and I am incredibly excited about the future." Immense, indeed. Some would suggest a better word would be overwhelming. We are perhaps eternally skeptical that the situation can be remedied. We know the cast of characters inside the Cohen Building very well. Shortly, Mr. Lack may start to develop his own appreciation for what he will be dealing with. For now, we lay out our position, based on Mr. Shell's remarks. The most important thing to note is that these "challenges" and their immensity are largely self-created by senior officials within the agency. That is inescapable - as is the fact that these same individuals are still encumbering senior positions within the agency and have never taken ownership of or responsibility for the problems they have created. Along with these same officials comes the management culture they have created. It has established the agency as one of if not the worst agency in the Federal government, by way of longevity in holding bottom positions in the Federal workplace satisfaction survey. As bad as this is, the other machinations of this group of senior officials of both the Voice of America (VOA) and the administrative International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) are worse. The agency has been relegated to the position of an also-ran among international broadcasters. Indeed, in impact and effect, the agency is hardly deserving of consideration as an international broadcaster, particularly with regards to VOA, which has been deliberately hammered by the IBB's relentless obsession with a severely flawed "strategic plan" which even some BBG members have declared publicly is neither "strategic" nor a "plan." But the promoters of this oxymoron are still in place. They continue to promote their agenda often through a series of media "briefings" of their latest surveys which promote placement of fluff journalism non-news programs, certain media platforms and demographics but do not reflect whether or not any global publics recognize VOA news program content or if it registers as existing at all. With a global population in excess of 7 BILLION, the result is that agency news audiences have been effectively obliterated. Rather than be an international broadcaster and multimedia provider of uncensored news and opinions, the agency has become a surrogate of others, including Reuters and the Associated Press. This is not a negative reflection on these organizations but rather an acknowledgement that the agency is becoming increasingly devoid of original content on its websites which it considers integral to its audience outreach. In other instances, the agency has abdicated its role as an international broadcasting by relying on local "placement" of its radio/television program material, much of it apparently containing soft programming as opposed to hard news. Worse, the American taxpayer is being fleeced by the agency which has to buy the placement on foreign stations. In addition, these stations often have the right to exercise editorial control over VOA content they may find objectionable. The situation has deteriorated to such an extent that the Congress has crafted legislation intended to reform the agency. The House version of the legislation is known as HR 4490. It is worth a read-through on the part of Mr. Lack to see what Members of Congress have identified as the agency's failings. The legislation has yet to be enacted into law. How the Congress intends to proceed with the legislation is yet to be known. However, there is no question that the failings of this agency are deep and substantial. A legislative mandate to correct these problems is an absolute necessity. And it is so because of the culture inside the agency, VOA in particular. Senior agency officials and a coterie of allies have openly and defiantly opposed the legislation. We call it the "Back Off Congress" insurgency. These individuals offer no substantive plan for rehabilitating the agency. They expect - and demand - that the status quo prevail. We lay a substantial amount of responsibility for this aspect of internal VOA culture at the doorstep of David Ensor, the VOA director, who insists on labeling the agency as a "news company." This characterization is patently untrue. As we have remarked previously, the agency has never been, is not now and never will be a "news company." It is an information agency of the United States Government and the American public. It has a charter describing in detail how it is expected to perform. Ignoring key provisions of the Charter has largely put the agency in the predicament that it is in today: one in which the agency is largely seen as substantially unreliable in representing the United States to global publics. In addition, the prevailing sentiment in the Congress is that it will not fund such an enterprise as described by Mr. Ensor. Insisting that the agency be so puts it in Congress on the fast track for extinction. Mr. Lack also needs to pay very close attention to editorial content in VOA broadcasts and on its websites. We believe - as does the Wall Street Journal - that the Voice of America has become in many parts a "Voice of Anti-Americanism." Close scrutiny should be paid to commentaries and blogs posted on the websites of this US Government agency. Are these commentaries appropriately labeled? Is there counterpoint offered to these commentaries by so-called VOA "columnists?" Are VOA news items rewritten to change the tone of a piece? How are incidents and participants described? How has the agency gone about abandoning core principles of the VOA Charter? Finally, Mr. Lack should drain the emotional content from the task at hand and determine what - if anything - can be salvaged from the instruments of the agency's self-destruction: its senior managers. In order to succeed, Mr. Lack needs to be assisted by a trusted, professional and reliable staff. That staff does not currently exist in the Cohen Building. Senior officials are compromised and react viciously toward anyone who breaks ranks. Employees have been conditioned to fear retaliation for speaking out. Instead, Mr. Lack would be well served to welcome an invitation to meet with employee representatives such as AFGE Local 1812 which has a wealth of experience in dealing with agency officials and its "strategic plan." At the end of the day, the question that will be answered by Mr. Lack's appointment is whether or not the agency has already gone well past the threshold known as "the point of no return." In our view, it has. It is up to Mr. Lack to prove to us, the Congress and other interested stakeholders to the contrary. The Federalist, January 2015 (BBG Watch via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** U S A. SOME SENIOR VOICE OF AMERICA CORRESPONDENTS HAVE LESS THAN 100 TWITTER FOLLOWERS, ONE VOA REPORTER HAS 10 http://bbgwatch.com/bbgwatch/senior-voice-america-correspondents-less-100-twitter-followers-one-voa-reporter-10/ VOA Twitter Screen Shot 2015-01-16 at 8.44PM BBGWatcher January 17, 2015 0 Comments Featured News, Hot Tub Blog BBG Watch Commentary Most reporters who regularly tweet news on the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) main English-language homepage have a few hundred Twitter Followers each, and one has only 10, an analysis by BBG Watch has revealed. Some of the most senior and most highly paid VOA English news correspondents with annual salaries of well over $100,000 have less than a hundred Twitter Followers. Most VOA foreign language reporters also have a minuscule following on Twitter. VOA Director David Ensor has 13 Twitter Followers; his deputy less than 800. Among VOA reporters whose news tweets appeared January 16, 2015 on the VOA English homepage Twitter stream, only one -- VOA Asia correspondent Steve Herman -- has a significant number of Twitter Followers (over 35,800). Out of 10 VOA English News correspondents who tweeted Friday, January 16 on the VOA English news homepage, five have fewer than 500 Twitter Followers, and only three have more than a thousand each. Several individual senior BBC journalists (English) have well over 200,000 Twitter Followers each, more than the entire VOA English News Twitter page. Economics Editor for the BBC, Robert Peston, alone has 455,000 Twitter Followers. Paula Slier, Middle East bureau chief for RT (Russia Today) who reports with a strong anti-U.S., anti-Israel and anti-Ukraine bias from the Middle East and Ukraine, has over 17,000 Twitter Followers. Liz Wahl, who in March 2014 resigned her job while denouncing RT for its distorted coverage of Russia's intervention in the Crimea, has over 10,000 Twitter Followers. One senior VOA correspondent based in Europe who sometimes reports about Ukraine has only 35 Twitter Followers while a senior VOA correspondent based in Washington, DC has only 75 Twitter Followers. His Twitter page has not been updated since November 2014. Another Washington-based senior VOA English correspondent does not seem to have a Twitter page. These senior VOA correspondents, with base annual salaries between $130,000 and $150,000 each, can be compared in terms of employment stature within VOA to some of the most popular BBC or RT reporters. Their reports are often highlighted and promoted on the VOA English news homepage but show very little audience engagement through social media. Even much less senior VOA journalists, some of whom specialize almost exclusively in reporting on new media technology issues, have astoundingly small numbers of followers on social media and practically no audience engagement in terms of readers' comments for their online reports. One of VOA's new media and technology reporters has 500 Twitter Followers worldwide. Another VOA new media and technology reporter, who often writes on Internet censorship circumvention and web privacy issues, has slightly over 600 Twitter Followers worldwide. Their recent reports have shown between zero and six comments from online readers and few retweets and Facebook "Likes." By contrast, the BBC's Technology Correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones, has over 121,000 Twitter Followers. Dave Lee, another technology reporter for the BBC, has 13,000 Twitter Followers. Most Voice of America foreign language reporters also have small numbers of Twitter Followers. One notable exception is the Twitter page of Myroslava Gongadze, a journalist and popular TV news anchor at the Voice of America Ukrainian Service. She has 46,000 Twitter Followers. The best known Voice of America Russian Service reporter has less than 1,800 Twitter Followers. Another well known VOA Russian reporter has less than 225 Twitter Followers. VOA Ukrainian Service has 53,000 Twitter Followers. Ukrainian Service of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has 248,000 Twitter Followers. The entire VOA Russian Service Twitter page has 188,000 Twitter Followers, BBC Russian Service has 359,000 Twitter Followers, Russian Service of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, which is also overseen by the BBG, has 101,000 Twitter Followers. VOA Russian Service Facebook has 39,219 "Likes." BBC Russian Service Facebook has 313,875 Facebook "Likes." RFE/RL Radio Liberty Russian Service Facebook has 285,123 Facebook "Likes." Despite internal media censorship, especially TV and radio, the Russian government does not block VOA, RFE/RL, and BBC news websites and social media pages, at least not yet. Alhurra TV Twitter page has over 764,000 Twitter Followers. Alhurra TV is also funded by U.S. taxpayers through the BBG. BBC Arabic has 1.22 million Twitter Followers. RT Arabic has only 6,900 Twitter Followers. VOA no longer has its own Arabic news service. VOA Cantonese Service has only 796 Twitter Followers despite recent major unrest in Hong Kong. Radio Free Asia (RFA) Cantonese Service has 3,400 Twitter Followers. RFA and VOA Mandarin services have about the same number of Twitter Followers (33,000 - 35,000). The Chinese government blocks VOA and RFA news and social media sites, but some users manage to overcome Internet censorship and access these sites. The entire Voice of America's main English news website Twitter page has 129,000 Twitter Followers, which is less than the UN Peacekeeping Force Twitter page with 174,000 Twitter Followers. Bloomberg Business News Twitter page has 1.95 million Followers. We found six Bloomberg - Businessweek reporters with more than 10,000 Twitter Followers each. Bloomberg Businessweek senior writer Brad Stone has over 65,000 Twitter followers. Twitter page of VOA Director David Ensor [caption] Distinguished journalist and until recently Bloomberg executive Andy Lack is expected to be sworn in next week as the new director of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). Several sources told BBG Watch that one of his first tasks will be to try to reform and reorganize Voice of America. David Ensor, director of U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America multi-media outlet for foreign audiences, which is overseen by the BBG, has only 13 Followers on his Twitter page with no tweets and no recent activity. David Ensor, former CNN's National Security Correspondent, has been VOA director since June 2011. Rick Stengel, Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, who represents Secretary of State John Kerry at BBG meetings, has over 16,000 Twitter Followers. Compared to VOA English website's 129,000 Twitter Followers, the U.S. State Department's English- language Twitter page has 1.18 million Twitter Followers. BBC Director General Tony Hall has 2,495 Twitter Followers. He has a small number of tweets and does not post regularly. Recently retired Peter Horrocks, former Director of the BBC World Service, who was posting more regularly, has over 10,000 Twitter Followers. David Ensor's Facebook page shows 82 "Likes" and has not been updated since February 2013. An executive in charge of VOA worldwide programs who posts more regularly has less than 800 Twitter Followers. BBG member Matt Armstrong, who has been highly critical of news handling at the Voice of America, has over 3,400 Twitter Followers. Russia's RT Twitter Screen Shot 2015-01-16 at 10.03PM [caption] Russia's RT (English) Twitter page has 851,000 Twitter Followers, BBC News World (English) has 8.54 million, Radio France Internationale (RFI French) 386,000 Twitter Followers. VOA French Service has slightly over 2,000 Twitter Followers. BBC French Service has over 81,000 Twitter Followers. Voice of America Persian Service, including TV has 175,000 Twitter Followers. BBC Persian Service, including TV has 281,000 Twitter Followers. RFE/RL Radio Farda to Iran has 113,000 Twitter Followers. Deutsche Welle (DW) Persian Service has 123,000 Twitter Followers. Numbers of Twitter Followers for Voice of America Correspondents (Correspondents with tweets on VOA English News Homepage Twitter stream, Jan. 16, 2015) VOA English Correspondent 1 - 10 Twitter Followers VOA English Correspondent 2 - 455 Twitter Followers VOA English Correspondent 3 - 185 Twitter Followers VOA English Correspondent 4 - 2,148 Twitter Followers VOA English Correspondent 5 - 893 Twitter Followers VOA English Correspondent 6 - 819 Twitter Followers VOA English Correspondent 7 - 1,982 Twitter Followers VOA English Correspondent 8 - 105 Twitter Followers VOA English Correspondent 9 - 302 Twitter Followers VOA Correspondent 10 - Asia Correspondent Steve Herman - 35,800 Twitter Followers (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** U S A [non]. 6080, Jan 19 at 0329, Hyper Heather promoting `Music Time in Africa`, 0330 VOA news. Fair signal but pulse jamming which seems always on this frequency now, presumably another stray which CUBA is in no hurry to eliminate. Also LAH, probably from off- frequency BRAZIL. Per HFCC, this VOA is 165 degrees via VATICAN at 03-04, violating Separation of Church and State; other 6080 usage, all in English: 04- 07 São Tomé with a beam change at 05 from 138 to 20; 14-17 Botswana with a beam change at 15 from 10 to 350; 17-22 São Tomé with beam change at 20 from 335 to 138 and at 21 to 0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Am 16.01.2015 um 19:01 schrieb VOA Radiogram: Hello friends, Last week’s news item in Olivia 32-2000 provided successful text decodes in some difficult reception conditions. This weekend, we will try a VOA News item in Olivia 16-2000. It’s faster, about 76 wpm, but with only 16 tones, it might not be as robust. The Olivia 16-2000 mode requires a custom setting in Fldigi. At voaradiogram.net, check out this very nice homebrew tube (valve) receiver used by Klaus in Germany to receive VOA Radiogram. http://www.rhci-online.de/VoA_Radiogram_2015-01-17.htm [KBC+VoA-radiogram + received EasyPal-pictures from the Ukraine, with older views] (roger, Germany, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. Re: IBB Greenville testing new audio processor ``The IBB transmitting station near Greenville, North Carolina, has installed and is evaluating a new Orban model 9300 http://www.orban.com/products/radio/am/9300/ Digital Optimod-AM audio processor ("delivers louder, cleaner, brighter, FM-like audio with an open, fatigue-free quality that attracts listeners and holds them"). Greenville "would be very interested in any listener comments regarding fidelity and the ability to overcome less than ideal propagation while using the new audio processor." Of course, co-channel noise from Cuba is another consideration. The new audio processor is on transmitter GB-5, with this schedule: UTC kHz Content 0400-0700 7405 Radio Martí 1230-1300 9610 Vatican Radio 1400-2000 13820 Radio Martí You can send reports to the VOA Radiogram email address: radiogram (at) voanews.com, and I will forward them to Greenville. Kim voaradiogram.net http://voaradiogram.net`` [Above item may be a couple months old; unfortunately, yg stopped displaying dates of quoted material! --- gh] No real remarks on the original topic here, other than the observation that other IBB sites appear to have already thrown out the old brown boxes (Optimod 9105) and installed this new model instead. I think this could be seen on footage from Kuwait. I do not really like how their transmissions now sound, and the same goes for IBB Germany as well. Too strained, too much of a weapon of mass density. But something else: Is this transmitter schedule still valid and so the transmitter indeed run at half power on 13820? Because it is shown as reduced to 125 kW now, effective Nov 4. The same goes for 7365 0000-0400, 5980 0700-1300 and 11930 1300-2200 (Kai Ludwig, Jan 20, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) !! Running any jammed service at reduced power is absolutely irrational!! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. Additional broadcast of Voice of America from Jan 12: 1530-1600 on 9765 SAO 100 kW / 000 deg to WCAf Hausa 1530-1600 on 12075 SAO 100 kW / 020 deg to WCAf Hausa 1530-1600 on 17700 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to WCAf Hausa, video on Jan.13 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/additional-broadcast-of-voice-of.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #891 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Jan 20, 2015, via DXLD) Frequency change of Voice of America in Bambara Mon-Fri from Jan 16 2130-2200 NF 9490 SAO 100 kW / 020 deg to WeAf, ex 9620 to aviod REE Spanish: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/frequency-changes-of-radio-farda-and.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #891 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Jan 20, 2015, via DXLD) ** U S A [non]. Frequency change of Radio Farda in Farsi: 1800-1900 on 9885 BIB 100 kW / 105 deg to WeAs till Jan.15 1800-1900 NF 9465 BIB 100 kW / 105 deg to WeAs from Jan.16 -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. 3185, Jan 16 at 0430 check, WWRB with Brother Scare already. I had avoided checking since withdrawing WORLD OF RADIO from this time and station due to its inability to play back the file reliably. And unable to get a response from Dave Frantz. I nevertheless feel indebted to him for carrying WOR for several years, and before that on his previous station WGTG (when cassette tapes had to be delivered and that was not very reliable either) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1756 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday January 18 at 0231 on KVOH 9975, fair. Next: Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580 Mon 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Wed 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 WORLD OF RADIO 1756 monitoring: confirmed Sunday Jan 18 at 2300 on WRMI 11580, sufficient. Also confirmed on Area 51 webcast UT Monday Jan 19 at 0401; and also audible on WBCQ 5110-CUSB before 0430. Next: Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Wed 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 WORLD OF RADIO 1756 monitoring: missed checking Mon Jan 19 at 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395, but confident was on. If anyone heard it not, please notify. Confirmed subsequent before 1230 UT Tue Jan 20 on WRMI 9955, good signal. Next: Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 [remember G24 has a DX Block with several other shows Wed 01-05 UT] Wed 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 WORLD OF RADIO 1756 monitoring: confirmed UT Wed Jan 21 after 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI: at first webcast seemed silent, but audible turning volume way up. BTW, it seems via G24, the editing glitches in WOR are less noticeable, despite 112 kbps/44 kHz stream. 9395 has a JBA voice sounding like mine. Followed at 0430 by `Blues Radio International`, which I thought was just a one-time replacement last week for `Media Network Plus`. Next WORs: Wed 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 WORLD OF RADIO 1757 monitoring: confirmed first airing at 1330 UT Thursday Jan 22 on WRMI 9955, good with no jamming. Next: Thu 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Fri 0001 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Fri 2130 on WRMI 7570 & 15770 Sat 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Sat 1000 on WRMI 5850 Sun 0231 on KVOH 9975 Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580 Mon 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Wed 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also INTERNATIONAL INTERNET ** U S A. Updating my previous remark, as of Jan 16, Keith Perron and Phil Workman confirm that PCJ Radio International programming has resumed on Global 24 via WRMI 9395. See http://tinyurl.com/G24sked (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9955, Sat Jan 17 at 2207, WRMI playing jazz/blues music, having turned back on after all-day 15-22 UT break on original frequency, good signal, no jamming yet, and better than 9395 G24. What`s this? Program grid shows Sat 2200-2230 is `Impact Radio`; wonder what that`s about if not just another gospel huxter and this may be fill music. Impact Radio is one among many programs which have no explicatory entry on the WRMI website. Jeff White explains: ``I think there was a problem with the audio file today, but Impact Radio is from Galcom about their various mission projects.`` 7455, UT Sun Jan 18 at 0028, WRMI atop RTTY, sounds like Vasily Strelnikov conversing with a YL about what a bad year it`s been for him, but at least he didn`t have to leave the country; says recorded just before New Year`s Eve, doesn`t know what will happen with this show. I think it must be the NY special `From Moscow with Love` whose several airings I have so far missed, but not scheduled now; instead Sun & Mon at 0015 on 7455 is `Viva Miami` but these weren`t Jeff & Thaïs. Furthermore, Vasily is cut off abruptly at 0029+ for classic WRUL/WRMI ID, and 0030 into Ukrainian Radio IS and ID (NOT calling itself any more Radio Ukraine International). Meanwhile, 5850 WRMI has started R. Slovakia International relay in English as these two Slavic stations have to compete with each other into eastern North American prime time. 9395, Sunday Jan 18 at 1357 checking Global 24 for scheduled weekly relay of R. Cairo, Egypt at 1300-1420: NO, instead hear this: 1357, British accent with song number 4 on the charts in 1971, unknown what substitute/replacement programme; 1400 Global 24 ID, and ``from the Global 24 newsroom in Miami, Florida with Jeff (Demers?)``. First time I`ve heard G24 doing own news, and first time heard to be located in Miami. But after some Bach at 1402, at 1403 into news from elsewhere, 1406 outro as FSN, and right into European News Network. Usual poor signal at this time of day, in fact weaker than Thailand in English on 9390 and Kurdistan [non] on 9400, both of which ACI G24 without narrow filtering. 9395, Monday Jan 19 at 1350, MLK speech from London, 1964y, recording recently unearthed, on `Democracy Now` as outroed before 1400 by Amy, via Global 24, sufficient on WRMI, but squeezed as usual by 9390 and 9400. We made the mistake of attending an MLK celebration Sunday afternoon at the Central Assembly of God church in Enid, which turned into just another excuse for a local preacher to scream into microphone, nothing much about MLK. With their AV system, they should have been playing this and other MLK speeches. Phil Workman replies to my Jan 18 note that R. Cairo relay was missing Sunday at 1300-1420: ``Radio Cairo has not been sending their programs lately - we're not sure what`s up. We hope to have it back soon. Yes, we will be doing some of our own news going forward. We have four different people on staff that will be doing breaking news, including myself, Jeff Demers, Jeff Bowman and maybe even some WRMI folks soon. We're hoping to fill in some of the breaks in our weekend news. Best, Phil`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9955, Jan 19 at 1459 tune-in to WRMI, surprised to hear Vasily Strelnikov again, recorded just before New Year`s Eve, with his YL co- host saying she doesn`t know what to expect, and right then, cuts to WRMI ID by Jeff with ``Okeechobee Ocean`` tune; and then he too is cut off before he can give the phonecast number as the transmitter is turned off for 7 hours at 1500:10*. Wonderful automation. Anyhow, Vasily was no doubt another unexpected replay of the `From Russia with Love` New-Year special from R. Sputnik, which I have yet to catch from the beginning. BTW, the RMI 15-22 UT period is now on webcast only with ``world music``, which I finally check Jan 19 at 1711 when there is something African ---- o, at 1712, 1721, 1731, 1741, IDs as ``RFI Musique``; source for part or all of septahour? Includes plenty tunes in English, e.g. ``All of Me`` at 1732 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9975, Jan 20 at 0125, KVOH is open carrier/dead air, so I leave a receiver on it with volume up: finally joins modulation in progress at 0156, the usual sermonizing in English with consecutive translation to Spanish across the gender line. Next check 23+ hours later, Jan 21 at 0033, modulating already, presumably from *0000 tonite. 17775, Jan 20 at 1422, KVOH must be the JBA carrier. I do leave a receiver tuned with BFO while breakfasting in the next room. Buildup seems gradual rather than abrupt, by 1445 a good signal in Spanish, organ music and preaching (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17775, KVOH, 20/01 1948 UT. Locutor, con acento mexicano, da avisos de las frecuencias de la emisora e invita a oír la programación nocturna en inglés. SINPO: 45434 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Golon RX-221 UAR, Ant: Telescópica, QTH: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** U S A. 5110v-CUSB, UT Friday Jan 16 at 0432, I can barely pull enough signal into the car on I-35 by holding the G8 antenna next to the window, to detect that the DJ mentions WBCQ and is offering a QSL. Not appearing on the WBCQ 5110 schedule, http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=5110 this is the timeslot for a new non/ex-pirate client which I only found out about here: (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ``VORW --- My variety program will be on WBCQ every Tuesday and Thursday evening from 11:00 PM eastern time until 12:00 Midnight on 5110 kHz. [UT Wed & Fri 0400-0500] It's a program consisting of talk for the first 15 minutes (Misc. Discussion, News Headlines, Current Events) followed by music of various genres and time periods for the remaining 45 minutes. E-mails can be sent to vorwinfo@gmail.com I've had one show air already and I'll try to keep this going for as long as possible. I'm interested in seeing where this broadcast makes it to and how it comes in. All the best, RW Observer (Jan 12, Broadcast Announcements, hfunderground forum via WORLD OF RADIO 1756, DXLD)`` 5109+v-CUSB, UT Sat Jan 17 at 0215, WBCQ, piratical show with foul language referring to the S.F.O.A., must be current, also mentioning now pending SCOTUS ruling on same-sex marriage, in exaggerated faux- announcer voice. 0221 decrying bureaucratic M-F`s, then mostly music. 0228 plug for hfunderground.com 0229 YL voice with seemingly serious ecological report, but it`s a parody, calling for legislation of an anti-tornado act, mentioning Oklahoma, limiting speeds and locations; and more parodies. Still going at 0253 check. Amended sked at http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=5110 shows during this hour only, Sat 0200-0300 UT the program is `WAZU`, perhaps drawn from a pirate faux-call, and no further info about it linked. Does that mean AWWW now always ends at 0200? Maybe on this frequency; and 7490 now recommitted to BS from 0200. See 9330v below. Yes, searching hfunderground.com gets some `direct` WAZU logs in 2011, 2012, latest October 13, 2013 at 2040 on 13605.65 AM; otherwise on 6925, 6929, 6950, 6955. BTW, there is a real (licensed) WAZU on 90.7 with 500 watts in Peoria IL; any relation and if not, won`t they object? If a pirate gets busted, shouldn`t it get additional penalty for using the call of a licensed outlet? [WORLD OF RADIO 1757] Same WBCQ 5110 sked has now added VORW, Wed & Fri 0400-0500, with linked info being a quotation of my recent DXLD/log report about it! I had checked 9330 earlier for possible // from WBCQ, but none. However, a 31m bandscan at 0227 hit Allan Weiner`s voice saying ``U, S, A`, i.e. must have been end of sign-off as nothing further heard. Perhaps only this transmitter had carried AWWW past 0200 to variable conclusion. However, this was heard when I had 5-kHz stepped to 9325! Must have been way off-frequency, but no time to measure it, maybe somewhere between 9325 and 9330, closer to 9325 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5109.722 usb mode und Träger, WAZU? Calling program, aber 0259 Jan 17 ID WBCQ sehr hörbares pop und rock program S=8 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re WAZU heard many times this morning. 5109.722 USA usb mode and carrier mode, WAZU Calling program re-transmit, but noted at 0259 UT ID of WBCQ station. Much flippy hip pop and rock program, S=8 signal strength in Germany, Jan 17 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews via DXLD) Nothing heard at present (1900 UT) in 9328 - 9330 kHz range so far (Wolfy, dxldyg via DXLD) 7489.96 approx., UT Monday Jan 19 at 0324, WBCQ is on with John Lightning, // but a quick echo behind 5110v-CUSB. Don`t you believe that 7490 is in a 3-hour break at 01-04 on UT Mondays. He gets an extra channel when he wants it; but 9330 not on. 15420-, CUSB, Jan 19 at 1418, slightly off-frequency to lo side, typical of WBCQ, at unscheduled time, not BS, and not // 11580, but soulish music; 1427 YL voiceover ID mentions 7.415 megacycles, WBCQ; then something about ``hope it doesn`t crap out``; 1429 stops and shortly live announcement by the TimTron: ``WBCQ, Monticello, Maine, is now concluding equipment testicling [sic, ha ha], on our 19-meter service`` and off 1430*. No BBC clash any more, as in B14 HFCC, BBC via SOUTH AFRICA is at 15- 17 only; while `BCQ could use 15420 from 12 to 23, its own schedule shows 18-22 only, daily with `Global Spirit Proclamation`, plus 22-23 Sundays to duplicate 7490 and better audiblize `Marion`s Attic`. 7490-, Jan 20 at 0615, surprise VG signal playing continuous music; reminds me of the style of STF, Super Time Force, the video game specials from Toronto, which WBCQ and other stations had aired twice as specials. Cuts off abruptly at 0622* with no announcement by TimTron or anyone. Since frequency is off, it must be WBCQ rather than WHRI or WWCR which also use or have used 7490. 15420-, Jan 20 at 1452, poor open carrier here, off frequency, so WBCQ again. No modulation past 1501, 1515+. WBCQ is allegedly installing some new (or rather used, but new to them) transmitters, which may account for more and more testing anomalies from Monticello. However, as long as the frequencies heard are typical of the old offsets, likely to be same old transmitters (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7505.27 (steady), WRNO on Jan 15, from tune in at 0147, through subsequent random checking till tuned out at 0502; usual IDs "WRNO on 75-05."; 0200-0246 preaching by Robert Mawire of Good News World Outreach. Does Mawire still own WRNO? (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7505+, Jan 17 at 0213, WRNO is on with VG signal, Mawire preaching, only slight modulation distortion, but splattering out to 7480-7530, bothering e.g. Brother Scare who is back on much weaker 7490v WBCQ. Frequency remains obviously on hi side compared with BFO to competent 7 MHz signals, but not measured, somewhere in the 7505.2 to 7505.3 range. 7505+, Jan 19 at 0323, only fair signal with music, fading, at first assumed to be something else, but typically off-frequency, so WRNO is active but not propagating well instead of blasting in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7505.296, Surprisingly solid signal observed around 0424 UT on Jan 20 here in Germany, WRNO in English heard with easy listening music, nice female - light music singer, accompanied and followed by Hollywood film piano player, WRNO on S=9+10dB level in southern Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11550, Jan 17 at 1509, no signal from WEWN, but R. Católica Mundial is inbooming on 12050. 11550 is supposed to last from 13 to 18 UT. 11550, Jan 18 at 1427 check, WEWN is again/still missing from this channel, but remains in Spanish on 12050. 11550, Jan 20 at 1400, WEWN Spanish is back on here after missing a few days, // 12050, the latter with the usual squeal, but no squeal on 11550 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WEWN 3, Radio Catolica Mundial is back on air after missing a few days 1800-2400 on 12050 EWN 250 kW / 220 deg to MEX Spanish 0000-0500 on 5810 EWN 250 kW / 220 deg to MEX Spanish 0500-1300 on 7555 EWN 250 kW / 220 deg to MEX Spanish 1300-1800 on 11550 EWN 250 kW / 220 deg to MEX Spanish, video on January 20 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/wewn-3-radio-catolica-mundial-is-back.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. 15825, WWCR Nashville TN (presumed); 1540-1550+, 10-Jan; The Talking Machine Show with tunes from 1900s-20s (a refreshing respite from the usual shouting doomsday huxterage). S30 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, --- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! ----- DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9980, Jan 17 at 1513, open carrier/dead air except for some humbuzz from WWCR, allowing DX on 9975 and 9985 to be heard with no ACI! See KOREA NORTH [nons]. Until 1519, when ``WWCR resumes normal programming on 9980, transmitter 4``, and 1520 joining Brother Scare who is always in progress (regress). Sat/Sun program schedule has 9980 ``signed off`` at 12-15 UT, so a bit late coming back. 5890 & 5935, Jan 19 at 0617 I notice that the two WWCRs are much weaker than 5830 WTWW which is still inbooming. WTWW is only about 30 miles further east than WWCR site, so why such a disparity, which is not unusual? Of course, antennas and azimuths differ, but I suspect the main cause is WWCR running lowered power. 7520, Jan 20 at 0127 I notice that WWCR-4 is airing the gospel huxter who sounds like he`s got Tourette Syndrome --- talks normally for a few words, then screams incomprehensibly several times a minute. It is of course, as in the WWCR program schedule, Terry Blalock on the `Full Gospel [semi] Hour` at 0100-0130 Tue-Sat. TG it`s not really a full hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12105, Jan 18 at 0040, carrier with extreme FM distortion, unreadable, but then clears up to hear Yoruba, yet very poor with heavy fading. So was it previously QRM, or self-imposed as I first expected, it being WTWW-3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WTWW From the Air --- This may be of interest to a few people. WTWW from one of those quadcopters. The location appears to be a bit buried in the hills on one side, so it's amazing it gets out so well. WTWW from the SKY http://youtu.be/yckBR9i6V_w In this video you can see the antenna systems for WTWW! Cheers all, (via Rob Wagner VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn DX Report http://www.medxr.blogspot.com Jan 20, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) Hi Rob, Wonderful! Thank you. I was chatting about this recently to the group and/or members here or via FB that it would be terrific to see a SW BCB TX site antenna field filmed via a drone. To the best of my knowledge this is the first instance of it occurring. Feeders & support masts are easy to see, but the Rhombic wires weren't unfortunately. I was able to track 3 of the 4 feeders previously (from satellite imagery), now know the 4th :-) There's also another two new short WTWW videos from the YouTube user (below). BroadcastTechReview Actually, looking at video & satellite imagery again, I'm sticking with my initial discovery of only three feeders/three Rhombic antennas on site. The other lines entering the tx building are power cables. (Ian, NSW, ibid.) Ian, One of the engineers at WTWW has confirmed that, yes, there are just the three rhombic antennas on the property. He also noted that he had to turn the transmitters off before he could fly his quadcopter due to the extremely high RF in the air! Otherwise he would lose control of the copter once it got to a certain height, and send it tumbling to the ground, hahaha! Cheers, (Rob Wagner VK3BVW, ibid.) Hi Rob, Thanks for confirming the number of Rhombic antennas. Lol - yes I thought the SW TXers might have needed to be switched off given that the high level of RF would swamp the rxer/txer drone controls. Hope we get to see more drone/camera videos of tx sites in future. Just out of interest; an Australian company is employed taking pics via drones of electricity power pole/mast insulators & support bits to ensure they are in good order. Guess it can be quicker & cheaper than employing riggers to inspect? I wonder if antenna engineers will/might do the same in future to inspect curtain arrays & the like? (Ian, ibid.) ** U S A. 15550/USB, WJHR Milton FL (presumed); 1720-1730+, 15-Jan; English huxter with small but enthusiastic audience; ""Baptists are like roaches when there's food on the ground"; also took a swipe at Catholics. SIO=3+54 with usual tinny audio (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, - -- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! ----- DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 15552-SSB, approx., Jan 19 at 1415, WJHR 15550-USB has QRM from 2-way in Spanish which couldn`t find any better spot to intrude; see also SUDAN [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 530, Jan 20 at 1940 UT, no Vance any more, but trace of a weak talker, probably Kansas Turnpike Authority HAR (Glenn Hauser, from a full MW bandscan on caradio at the parking lot of the Visitors Center, Vance AFB, south of Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see OKLAHOMA ** U S A. Salem Christian Preaching, 570 WMCA New York is promoting it will be “No More” on Monday, January 19. The on-air promos state that “Beginning Monday January 19th, New York’s Christian Talk will be no more. Find out what we will become Monday January 19th.” While speculation already points towards a move of Conservative Talk “970 The Answer” to 570, it appears Salem has another mission in mind for WMCA and its other Christian Preaching stations across the country. Salem registered AM570TheMission.com on December 1 for WMCA along with AM980TheMission.com and TheMissionTwinCities.com for fellow Christian Preaching 980 KKMS Minneapolis. Just as Salem has been consolidating its Conservative Talk stations under the “Answer” brand and Christian AC stations as “The Fish” it now looks as though the Christian Preaching stations in Salem’s portfolio will become “The Mission” (Items from Radio Insight NRC DX News Jan 26 via DXLD) ** U S A. 620, Jan 16 at 0722 UT, Fox Sports Network mentioned. At first I figured KTAR Phoenix, but that`s ESPN. NRC AM Log indicates only two possibilities: KMNS Sioux City IA, and KPOJ Portland OR, and FSN website confirms them both. I`ll have to go with KMNS far more likely here, also more likely DF. Strangely, no sign of XEBU Chihuahua which is usually dominant; off after midnight? Only other signal is KMKI, still Disney, Metroplex, judging from the music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 650, Jan 17 at 0246 UT, Herman Cain call-in show, easily recognizable voice, in null of WSM which is no problem for it now. Must be KGAB in Cheyenne WY. Yes, sked now at 02-05 UT per http://kgab.com/shows/friday/ which admits this fine station also propagates other anti-American wackos Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck. COL is Orchard Valley implying WY is not a desert; licensed for 8500/500 watts, but doing very well if only on nite pattern and power --- no, it can`t be, as night pattern aims northwest! Official January sunset is 0000 UT (Feb: 0030 UT). And there is nothing about a PSSA in FCC Correspondence File; however they do have a PSRA of 24 to 330 watts depending on the month. Nothing heard now from XETNT Los Mochis, which is a more frequent occupant of WSM`s null from here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 700, KHSE Wylie TX; 2300, 12-Jan; Peaked up = WLW at ToH with "Kay [sic] Achey Asay Ay Wylie"! Sounded like SS religious program under WLW prior. Radio Libertad promo into Spanish commentary. TX #19 & 700 #6. Presume this is my unID from about same time on 1/10. The KHSE web site, http://streema.com/radios/KHSE dated 2015 shows them as Asian, so maybe a very recent format change (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, --- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! ----- DX LISTENING DIGEST) Streema.com does not belong to KHSE and would not consider it to be up to date. It`s an aggregator of webcasts (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 700, UNID, 2316-2345, 10-Jan; 2 or 3 different M in Spanish, each starting slowly but quickly building to rapid-fire huxterage with many hallelujahs; one mentioned Radio Gloria & Puerto Rico in passing, not as an ID. I assume this is domestic as it was easily topping WLW till 2343 then suddenly disappeared at 2345 -- possibly power drop. KHSE Wylie TX is a possibility (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, --- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! ----- DX LISTENING DIGEST) KHSE has been Spanish for quite a while. I logged them April 27, 2013 as Spanish, ex-Asian, on a midday bandscan. And earlier in 2013y: ``700, April 2 at 1240 UT, weak but clear signal from N/S in Spanish, with ad for oil-changer, mentioning phone 469-725-0943 several times. 469 means one of the Dallas overlays, so must be KHSE Wylie TX, which as of the NRC AM Log 2012-2013 was 24 hours Asian. Not any more, or not at all? I`m sure I heard this in `Asian` not long ago in the daytime as barely makes it here on groundwave in low-noise areas. Wikipedia still has it as ``FunAsia 700`` and ultimately linked to Facebook, or http://www.funasia.net/index.php which seems to be current, showing 104.9 FM and 1110 AM, i.e. KVTT. If that`s the inhabitant on 50 kW 1110 now, they might as well do something else with sesqui-kW 700; inconsequential that 700 reaches OK better than 1110 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` 700, Jan 21 at 0101 UT, weak station in Spanish with WLW nulled while reporting on the bridge collapse and traffic snarls. SS I think mentions ``40 Principales`` which would lead to a Mexican top-40 group, but maybe misheard as then phone with 214- AC, so it`s merely The Metroplex, KHSE Wylie (Dallas) TX, 920 watts at night. No big deal to hear it day or night here, but it`s being reported back east getting past WLW. It must be (or have been) on day pattern with major lobe NE, rather than nite pattern westward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. SILENT STATIONS: Stations informing the FCC that they are silent: 850 WKVL TN Knoxville – Silent Dec. 15, lost lease on transmitter site (AM Switch, NRC DX News Jan 26 via DXLD) ** U S A. Anyone need NM or KHAC? From MW logbook : (originally meant to post this last night) 880, KHAC, NM, Tse Bonito, 1/20 (local), 1945 M / 0245 Z. Local HS hoops, live p-b-play. The signal is dominant, pounding KRVN, leaving me to wonder if HSFB season cheating extends to basketball season too. Or, this could be a nightly event at KHAC. 73 and good listening! (Rick Barton, El Mirage, AZ, Hammarlund HQ-140X, outdoor random wire barefoot, Radio Shack SW 2000629, dxldyg via DXLD) Rick, Yes, it has been nightly, or rather all the time any time I check. Fortunately here they are at right angle to KRVN, so take your choice. 73, (Glenn, Enid, ibid.) ** U S A. 910, Jan 20 at 0656 UT, ``EWTN Global Catholic Radio`` non- ID in English, peaking N/S, ergo KATH, Frisco (Dallas) TX, 1/0.5 kW, the only such station listed in NRC AM Log. What an ideal callsign: the other half of it, OLIC, would have to be in Czechia. NRC Pattern Book shows in daytime it`s NW/SE, and nighttime SW, neither much good for us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTIENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 920, Jan 15 at 0642 UT check, `Coast to Coast AM` is still audible here from the NW, presumably KVEL Utah, and still nothing from KYFR IA Family Radio to the northeast, off the air? But by 24 hours later it`s back as usual. 920, Jan 17 at 0250 UT about a talent search during halftime at the Utah Jazz, ads, presumably KVEL Vernal UT again, which really gets out for its 1 kW at night allegedly aimed northeast, at 690 statute miles from Enid to the southeast, further than Chicago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1060, KIJN TX Farwell – Slogan to “Radio Jesus” (AM Switch, NRC DX News Jan 26 via DXLD) ** U S A. From NRC AM Log editor Wayne Heinen: 1060, KRCN, CO, Longmont – Format to REL (ex-BIZ); slogan to “Denver Catholic Radio,” networks to EWTN. (LW) (AM Switch, NRC DX News Jan 26 via DXLD) ** U S A. 1060: Jan 20 at 1945 UT, English, promo for EWTN.com 24 hours per day; makes a SAH of 72/minute = 1.2 Hz with something weaker. Altho I couldn`t find a station list directly from the EWTN homepage last time, by Googling I do now get https://www.ewtn.com/radio/radioaffiliatemap/ but the link to a printable list is ``temporarily unavailable``. Anyhow, there are NO 1060 listings in OK (of course), nor adjacent states, nor second-adjacent states, each of which I click on: TX, NM, CO, KS, MO, AR, LA, AZ, UT, WY, NE, IA, IL, KY, TN, MS!! Can`t be KIJN Farwell TX since it`s Protestant, tho it may never utter that word. NRC AM Log 2014-2015 has two EWTNs on 1060 but are far too far: MA and OH. So it must be a recent flip from something much closer. 1060 in Longmont CO could barely make it, and by golly that`s it: http://www.krcnradio.com/ 24h Catholic Radio Network since January 1, replacing business format. Of course, the RCC is one of the world`s largest and most profitable businesses. And the same old callsign almost fits. 1360, BTW, also EWTN has an audible heterodyne, which if not something local would mean one of our two neighboring EWTNs there is off- channel: KPHN El Dorado KS, and KDJW Amarillo TX (Glenn Hauser, from a full MW bandscan on caradio at the parking lot of the Visitors Center, Vance AFB, south of Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Note that on 1220, KZEE from TX has been leaving day power on somewhat late and their Indian music and accented annoucers should be very easy to spot 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, IL, Jan 21, IRCA via DXLD) ** U S A. 1230, FLORIDA, WMAF, Madison. 0110 UT January 8, 2015. Finally IDed the one I've been hearing pre- and just post-sunrise with mostly nonstop Classic Country. This evening, George Strait "Murder On Music Row" popped up briefly between WSBB, New Smyrna Beach (oldies) and someone talk. I called the website number, not expecting anyone to answer after hours but "Stephanie" picked up. I told her I was calling from Clearwater and have been hearing what I thought was WMAF; does she know if that George Strait title played 10 minutes ago? "Hold on, let me check the playlist... Yes sir that song played at that exact time." She confirmed they are often automated, but do have a weekday live morning drive female host and live programming much of the weekends (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, NRD-535, IC-R75, roof dipole, active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. This from DX-midAMerica: - 1300 WFFG Marathon FL Format to SS (ex-NWS/TLK) ; slogan to "Radio Marti" delete nets. Best wishes (Barry :-) Davies, Carlisle UK, mwcircle yg via DXLD) Are you implying that WFFG is 24/7 nothing but R. Martí? What nonsense, from the same town as the hi power, hi gain USG R. Martí on 1180. Various other south FL MW stations have carried RM only for a couple hours per night to pick up some government cash. OTOH, this is not news --- already as 24/7 R. Martí in the NRC AM Log compiled last August; it`s 2.5/2.5 kW U3. Has pattern been modified? Pattern Book shows day and night tightly to the east/west with a very minor lobe to the south (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello Glenn, Please don't shoot the messenger hi! The item came from DX-midAMerica. I too have the latest NRC Log which shows 24 hour SS (Radio Martí) I also have a side note, alas not referenced, saying they switched to English news talk. Hence the latest "news" from the DX-midAMerica people did not seem strange to me. However, given the current conditions, WFFG will probably change again by the time I hear it hi! Best wishes (Barry :-) Carlisle UK Davies, MWCircle yg via DXLD) ** U S A. 1370, KAWL, NE, York – 1/1 0903 [EST = 1403 UT] – Local weather and then “You’re hooked up to the best classical rock and roll on AM 1370, KAWL.” Semi-local KGNO [Dodge City KS] either off the air or almost off as I cannot hear them at all. KAWL is listed as 500 watts and a long way from my QTH, first time ever heard (Frosty Osborn, Hooker OK, NRC DX News Jan 26 via DXLD) ** U S A. 1480, Jan 20 at 0637 UT check, no sign of KBXD Dallas; however there is a LAH against other stations, looping WNW/ESE, which requires further investigation. [If this het is on the low side of 1480 it is likely coming from WERM Mobile. They are Black Gospel and clearly below 1480 and I doubt they are running proper night pattern. 73 KAZ Barrington IL] Come to think of it, KBXD not noted for a month or so, and here`s why, per the latest AM Switch in NRC DX News: ``SILENT STATIONS --- Stations informing the FCC that they are silent: 1480, KBXD, TX, Dallas – Silent Dec. 17, station owners are bankrupt and tower owners have locked them out``. Then searched radioinsight.com but zero hits on KBXD! So it lasted a bit more than two years. FCC shows from 1989 to 2006 there were six different calls on 1480. The 1480 facility in Dallas, originally KBOX, had been silent for some years, but was being refurbished in 2012: see DXLD issues from that year for numerous progress reports. Finally it was first heard testing Nov 6, 2012 at 2354 UT as in http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1245.txt A DX test publicized for the following March was a no-show. KBXD could manage a bigsig here in Enid, once skywave set in, bad news for KQAM Wichita, and the two always made a severe SAH; tho I can`t be positive which one was further off, I have not noted such a SAH between KQAM and other 1480s. Altho there was talk of running 12.5 kW daytime, current FCC info shows licensed at only 5/1.9 kW, but a CP for 50/1.9 kW, which would have required 6 towers rather than 2. Nothing recent in the correspondence file, and at AM Query you would assume it is still on the air. It`s not on the Silent Stations list either, since that requires two months before eligibility: http://transition.fcc.gov/mb/audio/newsite/docs/silentAM.html KBXD turned out to be a brokered-religion outlet, featuring the likes of Rick Wiles and Brother Scare, so no surprise it failed. Not that those two don`t pay their bills, but who would want to listen to them? Here`s what really went down: KBXD had other big problems, including a notice of apparently liability charging them $7,200. Dated Dec 10, see http://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?682411-More-on-James-Crystal-s-financial-issues ``More on James Crystal's financial issues --- From Tom Taylor: Bankruptcy helps - at least it helps trim the FCC fine owed by James Crystal Enterprises at its Christian teaching/gospel KBXD in Dallas (1480). The February 20 NOW carried the story about the $9,000 fine assessed due to non-working EAS (Emergency Alert System) equipment. But JCE pleaded that when the FCC agent visited, KBXD was at the construction permit stage of operation – and also that its parent company was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings and that “payment would impose a dire economic burden that it may not be able to recover from.” The FCC does reduce the fine from $9,000 to $7,200 – but that’s as far as it’s willing to go. The February 20 story also told you that JCE at that time owed the FCC $89,940 for various regulatory filings. Yesterday’s reduction in fine is http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014/db1208/DA-14-1780A1.pdf Where is that company going to come up with nearly $90K?`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1510, Jan 21 at 0055 UT, same ad as heard underneath 1520 KOKC, then 1510 with CBS Sports Minute, loops NW/SE. Good signal on 1510, and http://radio.cbssports.com/stations/ list displays on 1510 only KBED in Nederland (Beaumont) TX, and KGA Spokane WA, surely the former, altho KBED is supposedly a 5 kW direxional daytimer despite official January sunset at 2345 UT (Feb: 0000 UT); conveniently its pattern is USward, NNW/SSE. As for 1520, CBS Sports displays two stations there too, KOLM in Rochester MN, and WHOW in Clinton IL. KOLM is the well-known cheater on 10 kW day power, causing heavy QRM to ailing KOKC now at 0056 UT January 21 and elsewhen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1540, Jan 16 at 0403 UT on caradio between OKC and Enid on I-35, Tejano music interrupted for ID in English from KEDA San Antonio, which contrary to authorized patterns and power, 5/1 kW U4, continues to dominate the frequency at night, including on this non- direxional vertical receiving antenna (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. NEW TIS ON 1710 --- I am hearing a station saying "You're listening to a test broadcast of a travellers information radio station" and mentioning 1710, the FCC, Flight 93 National Memorial, and Bedford PA. It's dominant on the channel most of the time for me, even on the west wire, though conditions were good overall to that area. I noticed it for the first time at 1845 [EST] Sunday (yesterday). The FCC search does not seem to include 1710: http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/travelers-information-stations-search Odd; thought I have previously looked up stations on 1710 (Saul Chernos, Burnt River, Ont., Jan 19, NRC-AM via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DXLD) Saul, you can search 1710 kHz at this site: http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/General_Menu_Reports/engineering_search.cfm?accessible=NO However, this station will never show up in the FCC database because it is a federal gov't station -- all federal gov't records are classified. The NTIA looks after federal assignments rather than the FCC (which just looks after all non-federal records). Even Noaa Weather Radio licence info is classified! lol. P.S. - In Canada, which records are hidden are a little more logical. All law enforcement (whether federal, provincial or municipal) and all military licences are classified. Harmless federal licences like Weatheradio Canada, control towers, Parks Canada, etc. are published online. Wrh (W. Hepburn, mwdx yg via DXLD) On again tonight, obviously here to stay. Calls given on air are KID 761 (Saul Chernos, Burnt River ON, 0209 UT Jan 20, NRC-AM via DXLD) Saul, I checked last night and again this morning, and finally heard the station briefly a few minutes ago (6:50 ELT) ID'ing as KID 761 as you said. It's about 60 miles south of me, and was about equal levels with the Hudson NY TIS and Spanish pirate. I checked a few minutes later it was gone. There were two male announcers alternating in the loop. The first was saying "You are listening to travellers information station for the Flight 93 national memorial operating at 1710 AM, KID 761 Bedford, Pennsylvania" and the second sounded like a more generic announcement starting with "You are listening to a test broadcast... (something) ...by the Federal Communications Commission." Bedford is about 20 miles east of the Flight 93 site (Brett Saylor, State College, PA, 1212 UT Jan 20, NRC-AM via DXLD) Now what was the tail/callsign of the `Flight 93` aircraft? (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. With the Wall Street Journal shutting down radio operations at the end of 2014, distributor Compass Media Networks is launching their own replacement programming. Gordon Deal, who hosted “Wall Street Journal This Morning” from 5-9am Eastern will segué to “This Morning with Gordon Deal” retaining many of the show’s previous affiliates. 60 second long “Your Money Now” reports updated at :20 and :50 after the hour from 6am to 7am Eastern will target stations losing WSJ and Marketwatch business reports. Former Wall Street Journal network morning anchor Jennifer Kushinka will report from 6am-12pm, Ray Hoffman from 12-3pm, and Bruce Vale 3-7 pm (Items from Radio Insight via NRC DX News Jan 26 via DXLD) ** U S A. RF 31, Jan 16 at 1515 UT checking for local KXOK-LD Enid (See OKLAHOMA), instead am getting Univisión, PSIP ID as Univisi [limit 7 letters, after all!] as 31-1. But it`s not a new client for KXOK which is gone again, but instead as IDed at 1555 UT on screen, KDCU-DT, Univisión Kansas, which I was already expecting after some local Wichita ads. Antenna is still aimed oppositely toward south, so tropo enhancement. This super-power signal could also prevent KXOK from decoding here in Enid. W9WI.com shows KDCU is a megawatt from suburb Derby KS, supposedly virtually 46.1 Univision, and 46.2 UniMAS --- but as I said, it displays nothing about a virtual 46 now, nor a second channel (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. CBS Sunday Morning is one of the best shows on TV, capped always by a nature segment at the very end. But there`s a lot more of this gem at the end of the replays on The Smithsonian Channel, if you can get it. On January 18, cardinals in snowy cedars east of Norman OK occupied almost two whole minutes on TSC. That much is unseen of on CBS itself, altho I did not compare it this week. It seems like on CBS the nature segment is just a filler to round out the time, and if anything else runs a bit long, it gets cut back and back, often less than 30 seconds. For one thing, on TSC, CBSSM runs a full 90 minutes, rather than 88-89 as on CBS. Charles Osgood also does a different closing. There could be other variations in the length of commercial breaks if not in the program content, which on TSC carry a lot of Smithsonian promotion. CBS SM originally airs at 1400-1529 UT, and the first repeat on TSC is Sundays at 1900-2030 UT, next at 0700-0830 UT Mondays plus one or two more later in the week. Why here? I understand that CBS is part owner of TSC. That`s an improvement over Fox being (part?) owner of the National Geographic Channel, both of which have a lot of drek elsewhen to fill out 24/7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. Special transmissions of Vatican Radio on Jan 16 and 19: Fri, Jan 16: From the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila, Meeting with Families from 0930 on 21560 SMG 250 kW / 165 deg to SoAf Portuguese from 0930 on 21570 SMG 250 kW / 210 deg to NWAf French from 0930 on 21710 probably via PHT/TIN to SEAs English http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/special-transmissions-of-vatican-radio.html Mon, Jan 19: From the Chapel of the Annunciation of Palazzo Pio, Oriental Liturgy in Byzantine-Ukrainian rite for the celebration of the Epiphany from 0715 on 9850 SMG 125 kW / 055 deg to EaEu Ukrainian from 0715 on 11740 SMG 250 kW / 058 deg to EaEu Ukrainian http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/special-transmission-of-vatican-radio.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #891 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Jan 20, 2015, via DXLD) ** VATICAN [and non]. 15550, Jan 20 at 1454, SMG open carrier already on prior to R. Tamazuj, thus modulating WJHR USB madman gospel huxter, but not enough to make him sound like AM, and slightly mismatched frequencies. Today SMG manages to start modulating R. Tamazuj on time at 1500, making a horrible mess on 15550, but // 15400 is loud and clear. 15100 is also VG with R. Veritas Asia relay in Filipino. These three SMG signals on 19m are second only to blasting RHC on 15370, far exceeding anything from USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM. VIETNAME, 9635.8, R. Voz do Vietname, Son Tay, 1124-1155, 16/1, vietnamita, texto; 25432. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** YEMEN. Radio Sana'a in Arabic was back on shortwave on January 13: 1438-1500 on 6135 ALH 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME+unscheduled program 1500-1545 on 6135 ALH 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME with 9 video clips: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/radio-sanaa-in-arabic-was-back-on.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #891 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Jan 20, 2015, via DXLD) Radio Sana'a in Arabic again was observed on shortwave on Jan 13: till 1500 on 6135 ALH 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME plus North Korean Jamming http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/radio-sanaa-in-arabic-again-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, Jan 21! dxldydg via DXLD) January 13: Radio Sana'a in Arabic to ME 1438 on 6135 Al Hiswah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUmsWwwk6XQ&feature=youtu.be Radio Sana'a in Arabic to ME 1444 on 6135 Al Hiswah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYJ8xbEm20s&feature=youtu.be Radio Sana'a in Arabic to ME 1450 on 6135 Al Hiswah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O03cEFJQU58&feature=youtu.be Radio Sana'a in Arabic to ME 1456 on 6135 Al Hiswah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMP9OoVKnrY&feature=youtu.be Radio Sana'a in Arabic to ME 1503 on 6135 Al Hiswah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsAIUNvaTQY&feature=youtu.be Radio Sana'a in Arabic to ME 1506 on 6135 Al Hiswah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYmIhVSuzhM&feature=youtu.be Radio Sana'a in Arabic to ME 1510 on 6135 Al Hiswah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doQDIR75PEE&feature=youtu.be Radio Sana'a in Arabic to ME 1515 on 6135 Al Hiswah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8hAQkEZmf0&feature=youtu.be Radio Sana'a in Arabic to ME 1535 on 6135 Al Hiswah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNK2nXpRbas&feature=youtu.be 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 530, Jan 19 at 2035 UT on caradio at a quiet location in Enid, very weak fast SAH meaning two stations here. One is likely Kansas Turnpike Authority, perhaps the closest at South Haven, which I think relays NOAA/NWS all or part of the time, but the other? Could be another KTA transmitter. Or? AFAIK, `K530AM` at Vance AFB south of Enid is off, altho it could be microwatts. Need to drive right up to the Vance gate and find if I can hear any trace of it there. Time to consult the FCC lookup at: http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/travelers-information-stations-search By state, it shows only one 530 in OK: WNWU499, of the Oklahoma Dept of Transportation in OKC, allegedly active, but does not give location, only address of the control point, which is ODOT HQ at 200 NE 21 St.! I should have sought it during latest visit to OKC, as K530AM used to reach almost to the NW edge of OKC. But then, FCC never listed `K530AM`, as it was a USAF pirate, outside its jurisdixion (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also OKLALHOMA; USA UNIDENTIFIED. 870, Jan 20 at 1943 UT, SAH of 480/minute = 8 Hz between two very weak stations. One must be nearest groundwave, KFJZ Fort Worth, probably in Vietnamese, but the other? There are three other possibilities, so which one is 8 Hz from KFJZ? No place to look that up easily. I have noted this situation previously. {this otherwise useful listing http://www.myradiobase.de/mediumwave/mwoffset.txt shows WWL was 4 Hz low 4 years ago, but none of the other US stations listed are 8 Hz above or below that and not any of our candidates:} WWL New Orleans would be the obvious first choice, some 600 miles by groundwave over middlin` ground conductivity. 50 kW with a pattern pushing more of it north avoiding the Gulf waters. Somewhere in east TX someone could confirm whether WWL is the one 8 Hz from KFJZ. KPRM Park Rapids MN, 40 kW ND in daytime (CP for 50, yet?) is a bit further, but has the northerly advantage in case winter skywave is involved a month after Solstice. KAAN Bethany MO is only 930 watts but closest, over 300 miles, beyond Kansas City. (Glenn Hauser, from a full MW bandscan on caradio at the parking lot of the Visitors Center, Vance AFB, south of Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1240+, Jan 16 at 0407 UT on caradio between OKC and Enid, I can still hear the weak het from some off-frequency station originally estimated at 1240.13, and DFed to WNW/ESE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Creole French on 1349.988 kHz [1 Attachment]. Heard this station a few minutes during very good conditions towards southern US/Caribbean the 16th Jan. It sounds to be Creole French. Some US station on the QRG with ethnic programs or could it be the listed Haitian? My location is Sala, in the southern part of Sweden and I used the beverage pointed towards east coast/Caribbean (Bernt-Ivan Holmberg, Sala, Sweden, RealDX Jan 18 via Saul Chernos, IRCA via DXLD) A Swedish DXer, with conditions good to the Caribbean and southern US, heard Creole French on 1349.988. I listened to the clip and hear mentions of Haiti in the clip, but nothing IDable per se. He thinks it may be a US station with ethnic programming or the listed Haitian. I kind of doubt the New England Creole pirates, because it seems to me an improbable frequency, but wanted to rule that out for him. I'm also wondering if any DXers on these lists have logged anything on the channel with Creole, either on 1350 or a little bit blow or high of the channel. This originates from the RealDX list and he's posted the clip on the web. I've shortened the address to: http://tinyurl.com/lhnzto2 I'm curious. Maybe this is something we should be chasing here (Saul Chernos, Burnt River ON, IRCA via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 4990, which may some day prove to be Suriname, Radio Apintie, Paramaribo?, 0930 to 0950 carrier with weak frustrating audio 15 January (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See SURINAME UNIDENTIFIED. 6030, 2330 weak signal in English killed by Cuban carrier sign on at 2350. Continue look for Canada, Calgary, 15 January (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7565, Jan 18 at 1352, open carrier/dead air, atop weak CCI with flutter. Aoki shows 1330-1359 is BBC Bengali via THAILAND, followed at 1400-1430 by BBC Hindi via UZBEKISTAN, so presumably Tashkent was blocking Nakhon Sawan already. What poor coördination (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9598, 0333, 1/13/15. Man and woman with many brief musical bridges. Poor in either Spanish or Portuguese. Not able to // with anything or find a reference to anything on at this time (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin, Perseus, WinRadio g313e, Eton e1, Grunding Satellit 800, Sangean 909X, Tecsun PL 660; 40 meters dipole, RF Systems Mk 2, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet Jan 18 via DXLD) Could that have been 9588? SRDA varied up past 9587 now (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 25910, Jan 17 at 2334. Music program with commentary but signal too poor for positive identification. Music was either Cajun or Spanish but signal too poor to tell for certain. Perhaps it was both (Vince Henley, 4306 Shelby Court, Anacortes, WA, Equipment currently in use: Tecsun PL-380, JRC NRD-525, Drake R8B; Antennas are half-meter whip on PL-380 and Alpha-Delta DX-Ultra installed broadside east-west, NASWA Flashsheet Jan 18 via DXLD) Probably KLDE TX (gh, DXLD) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED on WORLD OF RADIO 1757: Thanks to Donna K. Ring, Baltimore MD, for a check in the mail to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: Happy New Year! Enclosed plese find a postal money order. Thank you for your continued work producing DX Listening Digest and World of Radio! (Robert W. Gruska, Glendale NY, to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702) Mike Massa: I hope this helps, Glenn! (Sent using the PayPal Mobile application) to woradio at yahoo.com PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ I'M BLOCKED ON THE WIKIS! Last summer I attempted to correct some erroneous DX related information that is posted on Wikipedia. Today I learned I am the recipient of a *soft block* across ALL wiki pages on the internet. According to the explanation, I attempted to post FALSE information and they posted my ISP to ALL wiki's on the internet to put a *soft block* on my ISP address. So I've been blocked for two years for posting anything on any wiki pages. Lock me up and throw away the key. I didn't realize I was such a bad boy. IF I want to protest it, I have to email the material posted and my copy of the corrections for the adm's to review. It can take up to 60 days for them to render a decision. Don't trust the DX related information you read on the wiki pages. (Jim Thomas, Springfield, Missouri, Jan 17, WTFDA gg via DXLD) I used to be a gung-ho wikipedia updater (doing things like historical populations for Canadian places), but abruptly abandoned updating after getting too much flak from "power-hungry" admins. To make you feel better, read this article: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/an-open-letter-to-wikipedia An author wasn't deemed to be a "credible source" for the wikipedia entry about his own book. LOL! Wikipedia was supposed to contain articles written by subject experts --- but has devolved due to interference from "wiki-admins", many of whom probably live in their parent's basements and have never had a paying job (Bill Hepburn, Ont., ibid.) FAKE RECEPTION REPORTS and COLLECTIVE QSLs? These interesting topix are discussed on pdf pages 15-18, partly in English, in the latest SW Bulletin at http://www.hard-core-dx.com/swb/1815.pdf (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) NEW DXER'S HANDBOOK (Second Edition - Available For FREE!!!) Yes that is right -- For FREE!!! Bryce, K7UA, informs OPDX: Four years ago I wrote a series of short articles for our local DX club that came together as the "New DXer's Handbook." Much to my surprise it has turned into a fairly big thing with thousands of copies of it out in the world. It was translated into other languages too. The original has become outdated and wasn't written for a broad audience in the first place. I am retired now and I had some time to improve it. It is now available for download in the revised second edition. It is still free of charge as my gift to the world's new DXers. I will now be hosting it on my own Web site (which just came online January 11th): http://www.k7ua.com I have four overseas hams that have asked to translate it into their own languages and those versions will also be on my site when they are completed (Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 1198, January 19, 2015, Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio), via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) I assume this is only about ham radio; if anything in it about one-way broadcast DXing, let us know (gh, DXLD) BOISE My book will be out 2/9, has a KDSH card in it http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/9781467132565/Boise (Frank Aden, N7SOK, IRCA via DXLD) Viz.: Author Bio: Boise native Frank E. Aden Jr. is a graduate of Borah High School and the University of Oregon. He is an amateur Boise historian as well as a licensed amateur radio operator. Aden is a member of the Idaho Historical Society and is the vice president of the History of Idaho Broadcasting Foundation. He has been collecting postcards, photographs, booklets, and maps of the Boise area since his high school days in the 1970s (Arcadia website via DXLD) Evidently the book will deal partly/prominently with radio in Boise? (gh, DXLD) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE 28th ANNUAL NASWA Winter SWL Festival, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania - February 27 & 28, 2015 The largest annual gathering of radio enthusiasts in north-eastern North America, bringing together shortwave listeners, DXers, AM/FM/TV DXers, scanner enthusiasts, radio broadcasters, Internet broadcasters, amateur radio operators, and others. Exhibits, workshops and lectures on all aspects of radio. 2 days of nothing but radio. If you love radio, you should be here! February 27 and 28, 2015. See http://www.swlfest.com for full details Follow the event on Facebook at Winter SWL Festival (Sheldon Harvey, Greenfield Park, Quebec, shortwavelistening yg via DXLD) PRELIMINARY DRAFT, FORUMS SCHEDULE FOR THE 2015 WINTER SWL FEST Here is the Preliminary Draft Forums Schedule for the 2015 Winter SWL Fest, to be held at the Doubletree Suites Hotel in Plymouth Meeting, PA (USA) on February 27-28. Further information from http://www.swlfest.com Fest Forums 2015 (Tentative, subject to change) Friday, 27 February 2015 Fri. 0830, Radio on the Road 3, Janice Laws Janice recently returned from Haiti and will have some updated material, and some old classic recordings, along with pictures of her travels and radio listening while there and elsewhere around the world in this third installment of her very popular “Radio on the Road” series. Fri. 0945, The Year in Pirate Radio, George Zeller Your host informs that, among the events during this sitting, will be the announcement of the 2015 inductees into the Pirate Radio Hall of Fame and a robust discussion about recent trends in “the only growth area of SW broadcasting”. He also vows not to go across the street to the Mexican restaurant before the session as he did last year. Fri. 1100, Time Travel, Teleportation & Spectrum Hoarding for the Contemporary DXer, Thomas Witherspoon & Mark Fahey Software-defined radios (SDR) have revolutionized radio monitoring providing DXers with receiving options that were only theoretically possible a few years ago. Mark has travelled to exotic Pacific and Indian Ocean locations with SDRs to capture the local medium and shortwave spectrum and enable others to experience a listening session in a location to which they may never physically travel. Thomas and Mark will demonstrate and present the recording techniques used and the plans to record spectrum further afield in the coming year. [N.B.: A library of spectrum files will be available for attendees to copy! Bring your own NTFS formatted USB drive (typically each file is 50GB or greater) and you will experience how the bands sound in China, New Zealand, Tasmania and both very remote and city locations in Australia. They will play on a Windows PC with commercial (but free- of-charge) software.] Fri. 1330, Coast to Coast - Geographically Enhanced Mediumwave Reception, Bill Whitaker Things learned from experiencing DXpeditions to Grayland, WA and Lubec, ME over the past 5 years. An overview, not initially technical in nature, but could become so if such questions come up. Sound sample included! Fri. 1445, Ultralight Mediumwave DXing, Gary Donnelly It sure helps to have a great antenna farm and an expensive radio that dims the lights in the neighborhood when turned on. But there is a group of SWLs [sic] who, with small inexpensive radios, are using just the built-in ferrite or telescoping antenna and are getting impressive performance. This talk with introduce the attendee to the DXing niche knows as Ultralight Radio (ULR) and discuss some amazing reception records obtained with these pocket-sized receivers. [should that be Gary DeBock, the ULR guru? And the receivers may be UL, but the outboard ferrite antennas may be monstruous --- gh] Fri. 1600, Crisis Radio, Michael a/k/a The Radio Professor This forum will focus on radio as it sounds locally during crises-- including recordings and airchecks captured during natural disasters, terrorist attacks. civil unrest, and the like. They are intriguing as they offer a snapshot of immediate human emotions and opinion, fresh and occasionally naïve, regarding some really serious stuff that the reporters and presenters have really had no time on which to reflect. Fri. 1900*, (tentative – still awaiting confirmation), Remote Receiver DXing, Bruce Churchill Fri. 2015, Kicking It Old School - A Return to Regenerative Receivers, Skip Arey A radio design at the very roots of RF Technology is experiencing a resurgence. Learn about this classic circuit and how to use it to bring new excitement to your SW listening. Fri. 2130 - ? The Annual Spectacular Shortwave Shindig with David Goren! Saturday, 28 February 2015 Sat. 0830, The View from Europe, Risto Vahakainu Reporting on the state of the hobby in Europe and in Finland. The impact of SDRs will be noted as will the “Irish church listening” that is now popular in Finland, the decreasing number of European MW stations, the statistics of stations heard in Finland from NA, Asia, Pacific and other continents, along with a look at the fantastic remote DX sites and “shacks” of northern Finland. Sat. 0945, Scanner Session, Tom Swisher (Further information forthcoming….maybe.) Sat. 1100, Monitoring Dusty War Zones and Tropical Paradises - Being a Broadcast Anthropologist, Mark Fahey Mark presents a tour of his monitoring station, where 100's of thousands of digital audio and video channels arrive into his home. He can listen to domestic radio or watch the domestic television from most parts of the world. Want to watch breakfast television from Tibet, or maybe the nightly news from Wallis and Futuna - then it’s available in perfect studio quality. The presentation also includes visits to remote broadcasters and examples of rare and unedited video sent by journalists that capture the tragedies and joy served up by our planet. Sat. 1330, The Keeping of Time, Mark Phillips With the ever-constant transfer of our hobby to digital modes, the keeping of accurate time becomes crucial to preserve both audio quality and network connectivity. Topics covered will include an explanation of the difference between all the usual time sources and why they are different, why you need an accurate time base in the studio and why broadcasters need accurate time within their broadcast networks. Sat. 1445, Digital sounds of HF - Recognizing Digital HF Signals: Eyes and Ears, Mike Ortiz There are hundreds of different digital signals that you can encounter during any scan through the HF bands. While you can spend thousands of dollars on software that might identify a particular mode you are hearing, there’s still an awful lot you can do with just your eyes and ears. We’ll take an interactive audio-visual tour around shortwave and get acquainted with many different modem signals, Over The Horizon RADARs, ionospheric sounders, ocean sensing systems and various other digital oddities that can be heard today (John Figliozzi, co-chair, FEST, Jan 18, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ WORLD RADIO DAY WILL BE CELEBRATED ON FEBRUARY 13, 2015 It’s a global celebration of radio as a medium, andas this year’s theme is “Youth and Radio”, it’s a great opportunity to plan a youth- focused event or activity. Here are some ideas to get you started, both on the day and in the months leading up to it. http://www.diamundialradio.org/docs/WRD_15_Ideas_EN_VF.pdf Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) TIME KEEPS ON TICKING AWAY http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/time-keeps-on-ticking-away/2015/01/16/041cfcfe-9b5d-11e4-86a3-1b56f64925f6_print.html The Jan. 12 Health & Science article "Wait a second -- you mean July has been delayed?" said, "Earth's rotation has been slowing down by about two thousandths of a second every day." If this were true, then over geological time the planet's rotation would have stopped completely, and this is obviously not the case. The Earth's rotation is slowing at a rate of about 2 milliseconds per day per century; the time it takes the Earth to turn once on its axis relative to the stars now takes about 2 milliseconds longer to do than it did back in 1915. When this is compared with the second as now defined by atomic clocks, there is a cumulative error between the actual time it takes the Earth to complete one rotation and 86,400 seconds as kept by these accurate clocks. Thus, after roughly 500 days (and this can vary widely depending on exactly how the Earth's rotation varies over time), there is a one-second difference between the two time-scales that needs to be "coordinated." At the current rate that the planet's spin is slowing down, you'll have to wait about 3 million years for the day to be a full minute longer than it is right now. The article also said, "The leap-year rule (adding an extra day to February every four years) keeps the Gregorian calendar pretty close to astronomical reality." The Gregorian calendar has leap years every four years except for years that end in "00," unless those "00" years are evenly divisible by 400. Thus there are 97 leap days in a 400-year cycle, which exceeds the time it takes the Earth to go once around the sun by only some 11 seconds. Geoff Chester, Washington The writer is a public affairs officer for the U.S. Naval Observatory. (c) The Washington Post Company (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ BY ANY OTHER NAME Fire Drake vs Fire Dragon vs Fire Anything: Rather than imply any hint of legitimacy by using Fire (anything), I will continue to use Crash & Bang Music Jammer from Jammerstan. -- HF For New Crimea, I prefer Putinstan. – HF (Harold Frodge, MI, DX LISTENING DIGESET) MUSEA +++++ JAN 2015 BLOG POST ON APEX STATION W9XJL: Duluth-Superior Shortwave Broadcast Station... W9XJL 1938 QSL card, All Wave Radio, Feb. 1938. A color image of the card can be found at this link, View on onetuberadio.com http://onetuberadio.com/2015/01/16/w9xjl-duluth-superior-shortwave-broadcast-station/ (Mike Barraclough, Jan 18, dxldyg via DXLD) INTERNATIONAL RADIO STATION MEMORABILIA FROM THE 80S AND 90S From Ian Chard in Gloucestershire, not just QSL cards but programme schedules and booklets. If you want to know why this stuff is here, there's some background in these two blog posts. Radio Tirana, Albania Radio Yerevan, Armenia Radio Australia Radio --- View on http://rainbow.chard.org http://rainbow.chard.org/radio/ (via Mike Barraclough, dxldyg via DXLD) DON HARRON, A.K.A. "CHARLIE FARQUHARSON", 1924-2015 Not sure how closely this relates to radio, but since his character worked for a faux "KORN", I think it's close enough to count. Canadian TV actor, producer, and comedian Don Harron, best known in America for portraying bespectacled newsman Charlie Farquharson (a character he first developed for the CBC in 1952) on "Hee Haw", died over the weekend of prostate cancer at the age of 90. On the show, Harron, as Farquharson, sported an overly well-worn wool sweater, newsboy cap, granny glasses, and a 2-day growth of beard and read the local rural news about some very unusual happenings. Here's a clip of "Charlie" in action, running until the 1:23 mark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKEyNGWwU2Q 73, (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, Jan 20, NRC-AM via DXLD) I had the pleasure of meeting Don Herron in the early 1980s. I was on- air for the 10-2 shift at CFNB Fredericton and did production of commercials from 2-5 in the afternoons. Don was performing in a play in town one summer and had commitments for programming, so he would visit the station and we would roll tape as he laid down his tracks. Then, we'd ship the audio out to his customers. He was kind enough to make a custom recording in his "Charlie Farquharson" voice for my parents, which I gave to them the following Christmas. He was an immensely talented man, and a darned nice fellow too. We will miss him (Brent Taylor, VY2HF, Stratford, PEI, Canada, ibid.) Sad to hear about that. Hee Haw still runs on the RFD-TV network. Harron was great in the Charlie Farquharson role (Dick W., ABDX via DXLD) In the later years of Hee Haw, the call letters changed to KORV. I always wondered if KORN-1490 complained! As a broadcasting business venture, Hee Haw was a fascinating case study. They were one of the first shows ever to succeed as a first-run show in syndication (not airing on the big 3 networks). They wrote all the shows for the year, then got everyone together to film everything in ONE MONTH. They did all the cornfield sketches one day, the barbershop skits the next day, "Gloom Despair Agony on Me" the next, "Pfft You Was Gone" the next, etc. They stuck to business, stayed on schedule, and made money. Methinks those country folk were quite smart! 73 (Tim Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile Hall, ibid.) I always wondered if the REAL KORN ever tried to get Harron to come to Mitchell, South Dakota to read the news on the air as Charlie! "Hee Haw" actually was on CBS during its first year on the air, 1969-70. It went strictly syndicated starting in its second season in the fall of 1970, probably as a result of the "rural purge" that happened when CBS axed shows like "Mayberry R.F.D.", "The Wild Wild West", "Hee Haw" and others in 1970 to make way for edgier fare like "All In The Family" in 1971. 73 (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, ibid.) POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ RE: HEAYV RFI ``I have uploaded a recording on youtube of it. What can it be? I also wonder if a MFJ-1026 noise canceler will be able to cancel it? Anyone knows? The noise is very strong! Using a portable radio receiver it indicates that it comes from a close neighbor.`` I can't view youtube, but, by the description, I would say a service similar to BPL, broadband over powerlines, since they notch out the Ham bands and cover LF to VHF (Kurt KD7JYK DM09, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) OFCOM CONSULTATION ON POWERLINE RADIO INTERFERENCE INCLUDING PROPOSALS FOR PROSECUTION --- RSGB INTERFERENCE CONSULTATION RESPONSE http://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/headlines/2015/01/19/rsgb-response-interference-consultation/ (Mike Barraclough, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See ETHIOPIA; NEW ZEALAND ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See MEXICO; OKLAHOMA; USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ REMOTE MW DX RECEIVING STATION I have built my own remote station outside the city of Salzburg in Austria. Far away from from QRM with place for a Beverage. It was three years ago the best decision of my DX career, then I also started with real MW-DXing after more than 30 years of SW-DXing. More details about my station in my Blog: http://remotedx.wordpress.com 73 from Salzburg (Christoph Ratzer, -- http://ratzer.at MWCircle yg via DXLD) Thanks for the info, Christoph. Do you own the land? You are a lucky guy. Best wishes (Barry :-) Davies, Carlisle UK. Lat. 54.9808N Lon. 02.8755W, ibid.) I pay rent to the farmer. If it were my own country I would no longer work but only DXing. ;-) 73 (Christoph Ratzer, ibid.) RADIO SHACK TO FILE FOR BANKRUPTCY http://www.wsj.com/articles/radioshack-prepares-bankruptcy-filing-1421279360 We have depended on them for years of easy access to DIY parts, kits and, yes, a bit of technical expertise. I still have my DX150B sitting on a lab bench running 24/7 -- as it has since the day I bought it on November the 3rd, 1973! RS slowly drifted away from their die hard DIY electronics experimenter types over the years to cater to the latest fad -- and now they are adrift in irrelevance. I will be sad to see them go -- but times have changed. (Colin Newell is the Editor and creator of Coffeecrew.com - Coffee.bc.ca and DXer.ca -| Amateur Radio VA7WWV | Twitter.Com/CoffeeCrew | Victoria B.C. Canada* Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) I bought a Realistic DX-66 in the mid-1980s. It's been my mom's kitchen radio since the early '90s and is still going strong. No scratchy pots. No slop in the tuning mechanism (Tim Kridel, Jan 15, IRCA via DXLD) Like a lot of folks, I have a lot of 25 year old and even older Radio Shack products that are still working fine (Rick W4DST, ibid.) I doubt that their old paradigm is workable today. Just as the number of radio hobbyists - hams, DX'ers, SWL's - is shrinking, so is the pool of electronics DIY'ers. A lot of the DIY market implosion results from advanced circuitry moving beyond more and more people who lack the type of technical knowledge to continue. I'd more expect the inventory to be liquidated, period. On that basis, I'll plan to soon be stocking up on spares of almost anything that I might need that I can't reasonably find anywhere else and consider it a worthwhile investment (Russ Edmunds, PA, ibid.) That's not surprising. Radio Shack is a text book case of poor management from the top down dating from the early 1980s. They could have been the premier personal computer manufacturer circa 1981 or so but decided the route to go was with all proprietary hardware which was a fiasco. IBM did the same thing with the PS2 line and never again had much of a market share in the desktop PC realm. Enter Dell. Like a lot of folks, I have a lot of 25 year old and even older Radio Shack products that are still working fine. My 25 year old Radio Shack DVM has hit the concrete floor of my shack more times than I can count and still works. The LCD in my much more expensive Fluke broke the first time it dropped. It's sad to see how badly Radio Shack has slipped due to their own mismanagement. I hope someone can keep them operating (Rick W4DST, ibid.) I believe the number of amateur radio operators who are licensed has actually increased. Ironically Radio Shack stopped selling ham equipment a while back. I don't think they ever resumed with it but I haven't been in there for a while. A lot of their Realistic branded items were of pretty good quality. What I wouldn't give if they still sold the TRF am/fm portable. Who remembers the free battery cards? (Mike Sanburn, ibid.) My 40+ years experience with them hasn't indicated that their quality is that great and honestly my overall experience has been that quality is somewhat below average for what I've paid for it in comparison to similar priced products from other vendors. OK, the TRF 12-665 was great for its time, but all three of mine crapped out and two rather quickly. I went thru 4 of their cassette recorders for DXpeds, etc., before promising to NEVER buy another. I've had several each of their RG58 and RG59 cables crap out, almost always due to connector issues. At least their resistors work to terminate my DKAZ antennas. Yes, I also view their management as being poor and badly focused over the past couple of decades as they could have done a better job with changes in the industry and public desires and needs. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, ibid.) The Radio Shack today is not the Radio Shack of the past. I used to buy a lot of parts there, but the quality of parts is poor today, if they even have it. Locally we have 2 Radio Shacks. We used to have three, but the one in Astoria went out of business a few years ago. That leaves Warrenton & Seaside. Both are owned by different people and unless I call, I never know if they carry an item or not. Add to that, their prices are no longer competitive like they once were. For example, I used to buy their ground rods for $2.99 each. I know they are not much, copper clad that the copper would wear off, but still useable. The last time I checked, the rods were $10 or $12 each. I have no idea what they are today. I can buy better stuff at Home Depot for less. I am sorry to hear this, but not surprised. Yes, the Radio Shack item of the past lasted. The old TRF's are still around. But the products today are not nearly as good and are over priced, at least here. I bought a lot of their 5K pots for termination too. I should probably pick up a few more to keep them in reserve. Since the RS stores are locally owned, I guess they do have the option to get their product from other vendors don't they? I wonder if all will close? (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, ibid.) LOOK BACK AT RADIOSHACK DURING THE 1980S AND '90S http://abcnews.go.com/Business/radioshack-nostalgia-back-glory-days-1980s-90s/story?id=28248169 (Sent from my iPhone, but by whom, lost) Here is my favorite Radio Shack story. Probably 15 years ago, I wanted to buy a DX-398. We actually had two Radio Shacks in our small town. During this era, they were pushing the extended warranties on everything --- and I mean hard. I had my daughter with me at the time. I said, "Watch this." I went into the store and went right to the sales guy. I said, "I am here to buy a DX-398 shortwave radio. But I am going to buy it under one condition. If at any point in this transaction, you so much as mention anything about an extended warranty, I am out of here and will get the radio across town. Understood?" He indicated he did. I went to the shelf. Pulled the radio down and took it to the register. As he is ringing it up, he says, "Are you sure you are not interested in the extended warranty?" "Oh, that's too bad," I said. Off we went across town. For me they outlived their usefulness about 10 years ago when they decided to be a cell phone store. "Radio Shack. You got questions --- we have confused looks on our faces" Russ Johnson, ibid.) I walked into RS in downtown Washington DC shortly after this post an casually asked about bankruptcy. I'd say I got coached response but it had two parts: (1) this is old news from a year ago (2) if it's so dire, why is RS opening up 500 new stores? She seemed to be indicating more boutique operations in the future (Jim Renfrew, Clarendon NY, Jan 15, ibid.) I've seen nothing anywhere on the web about opening new stores. But I have seen a lot about both 2014 and 2015 closings. What I see is many fewer customers than 'back in the day', and most of those are absolutely helpless cell phone customers. This RS thread is a good opportunity to mention this extensive trip down memory lane: http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/index.html 73, (Guy Atkins, Puyallup, WA, ibid.) I stopped by one of our local RS stores last week to see about replacing a screen on an iPhone6. They said give them a month or two. So they are (or were) keeping up with repairs on the new phones. Not many customers and I didn't really spend much time in there. RS obviously needs a new business model. Cell phone plans are too competitive but there is a need for cell phone repair. Lots of little shops around but RS could draw in more customers with their name and if they were able to do repairs while the customer waited. They should have jumped into all the game machines for TV and the games. Actually anything that you can attach to your TV. Here in Orange County we have a couple electronics stores for components but we've lost a couple over the years. Fry's has some components and then we have MARVAC. There is also a Ham Radio Outlet in the area (Martin Foltz, Mission Viejo CA, ibid.) I have heard "You've got questions? We give you blank stares." Many of the people they hire have no clue. I know more about what they sell, than the sales people do. That is sad. Rarely will a business going down like to admit how bad things are, even if they know. Thanks for the link. My father and I built a Knight Star Roamer from Allied Electronics back in the 60s. I bought quite a bit from them when we lived in Seward AK. They were in Chicago I believe and we mailed for things often (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, ibid.) Anyone with at least half a grasp of what their situation has been like in recent years (i.e., dire) could see this was coming, so it's not too surprising at all. Fortunately, there are still places like Universal Radio in Ohio and Ken's Electronics in Kalamazoo, Mich. that sell the receivers and parts that we in the DXing hobby need and seek out the most. 73, (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, EN21af, Kenwood R- 5000, Quantum QX Pro loop, Sangean ATS-909X, Select-A-Tenna, Quantum Stick+, and Midland WR-300 http://www.dxworld.com/bcblog.html ibid.) An OT philosophical discussion --- I'd be curious about the figures for electronic DIYers, Russ. Does one exclude those who fiddle with microcontrollers (see magazines like Circuit Cellar or Elektor), monkey with Linux, hack the Pentagon? It's not particularly DX or even hardware oriented, of course, but DIY I think it is. It may be a smaller percentage of the population than 50 years ago, but I wonder. I've run into younger people who work as game developers, and I don't think they started by taking professional training as game developers, they DIYed; it's just that they didn't need a drill and a soldering iron to do it. Of course, our work world relies far less on hand oriented tech skills than it once did also. Yet, there are these "maker spaces" that allow the DIYer access to tools that a small home workshop might not have, something I might have appreciated in own younger days (who knows what goes on in China? The fact that Tecsun put out a kit that is essentially one of their DSP ultralights on a board makes me wonder, as the market in America can't have been great). Even in the good ol' days, far more DIYers modified their cars than played with radios from what I can recall, so we've always been a minority. But the day I heard somebody's phone cheep out "SMS" in Morse code was the day I realized that maybe at least the ham techies had taken over the world in a small way, hi (how often do we see the schematic symbol for an antenna in a public environment, speaking of phones? That was pretty arcane stuff, something you'd see on the cover of the ARRL Handbook, when I was first making smoke with electronic components). Having spouted all that, I suspect there are fewer hot iron types; but the spirit that drove those types now drives different forms of technical creativity. best wishes, (Nick Hall-Patch, BC, ibid.) Where I was going was more or less the same place. But if you're a gamer or a hacker or whatever, sure, you learn yourself, but there isn't a whole lot you need to buy that RS has. There isn't a lot to buy period. What we were mostly into involved a lot of hardware of various kinds. What most of the younger folks today are doing is still loosely electronics in that it's with computers, but they aren't going to RS. Technical creativity, as you put it, is appropriate. It's just a whole different ballgame now (Russ Edmunds, ibid.) The Shack provided some of my best portable DX machines from 1961 right into the Eighties. Most were in the popular "TRF" series. In August 1966, at a summer cottage rental at West Dennis Beach, MA, I had one of my first big hauls of transatlantic MW stations. This was with a 12R614K Realistic TRF model, a predecessor to the more famous 12-655 of the Seventies. Some TRF's I was able to modify with regeneration to boost selectivity and sensitivity. My TRF tribute page, with links to the Radio Shack catalogues site: http://chowdanet.com/markc/doc/trf.htm Radio Shack catalogue site: http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com With Radio Shack stores likely to close, experimenters and hobbyists will be looking for "fire sale" clearance offers. When the stores are gone, we will be mostly shopping in an online world with C. Crane, Universal Radio, Fry's, HRO, AES, and Amazon covering much of the equipment end. Parts can be bought from the likes of Mouser, Digi-Key, Newark/Farnell, Jameco, and Allied. Here in MA we still have the "You Do It" electronics store in Needham. Much of the rest or Radio Shack's stuff (e.g. cables, small hand tools) may be found at Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe's, auto parts stores, etc. More than once, the Radio Shack store here in South Yarmouth bailed out beach DXpeditions and antenna raising sessions with emergency parts and gear - even if just a humble bag of clip leads. The value of that store goes back to 1974 when my parents had moved to the town from Arlington, MA. This quick access to needed items won't be as easy in the future, I suppose. Short story is that this chain lost its focus and could not compete with big box stores in electronic commodity items (phones, TV's, PC's, stereo, etc.) or with the hard-core parts stores such as Mouser for hams, makers, d-i-y folks, computer / robotics geeks, and other hobbyists. They retained way too many brick-and-mortar outlets 20 or more years after online shopping had become a regular activity for most potential customers. No matter how you look at this, it's THE END OF AN ERA (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, ibid.) Um, I defer to the likes of Nick Hall-Patch and Colin Newell as to the hobby usefulness of Radio Shack in Canada of years gone by; but RS went belly up in the True North ages ago. It re-appeared as 'The Source at Circuit City' (I think I have the correct preposition), then later re-organised simply as 'The Source'. I dunno how the stock/availability from The Source in Canada compares to current American RS outlets, but given the changes in 'our' technical needs, and our individual knowledge bases, the chain seems to be doing pretty well. There are two outlets for example in my local mega-mall, Metrotown, in Burnaby, BC. Does that suggest RS in the US needs to consolidate or re-invent its focus to satisfy present-day demand, and that our DX requirements are simply too minimal to support a retailer? (Sent a day after the fiasco of Target in Canada imploded; now there's a story of retail incompetence in a foreign market.) (Theo Donnelly, BC, IRCA via DXLD) RadioShack Prepares Bankruptcy Filing http://www.wsj.com/articles/radioshack-prepares-bankruptcy-filing-1421279360 Struggling Electronics Chain, in Talks with Lenders, Could File as Soon as Next Month RadioShack has reached out to potential lenders that could provide a loan to fund the company's operations during a bankruptcy case. Bloomberg News By Matt Jarzemsky, Mike Spector and Drew FitzGerald Updated Jan. 14, 2015 7:42 p.m. ET 50 COMMENTS RadioShack Corp. is preparing to file for bankruptcy protection as early as next month, people familiar with the matter said, following a sputtering turnaround effort that left the electronics chain short on cash. A filing could come in the first week of February, one of the people said. The Fort Worth, Texas, company has reached out to potential lenders who could help fund its operations during the process, another person said. Meanwhile, RadioShack is in talks with a private-equity firm that could buy its assets out of bankruptcy, the people said. They cautioned that the talks with the private-equity firm may not produce a deal and that the company may try instead for a more typical reduction of debt and restructuring of its operations in bankruptcy court. Situations when companies are close to a bankruptcy filing can be fluid and even contentious, and plans can change at the last minute. The retailer, which employed 24,000 people late last year, has made clear it is running dangerously low on cash after posting losses in each of the last 11 quarters. Its stock-market value has shriveled to less than $50 million. On Wednesday, its shares fell 13% to 41 cents apiece. In December, RadioShack warned in a securities filing that it could be forced into bankruptcy court if it couldn't raise new funds or get relief from lenders that have blocked its efforts to close hundreds of stores. The company said in the filing that it had $62.6 million on hand as of Nov. 1 -- $43.3 million in cash and $19.3 million in borrowing availability--a thin cushion for a sprawling chain with about 4,300 company-operated stores in North America. The 94-year-old chain that started in the 1920s with a store in Boston traced the rise of electronics in the life of Americans -- from transistor radios and typewriters to Bluetooth headphones and smartphones. It grew into a nationwide icon but began spiraling toward irrelevance as electronics moved to the Web and technology moved on. Chief Executive Joe Magnacca tried to revamp the company's store fleet and reposition it in part as a smartphone repair shop. But it wasn't enough to hold off creditors or bring back shoppers. Related * RadioShack's Problem: So Many Stores, So Few Shoppers (Dec. 25) * RadioShack Replaces Its Finance Chief Again (Dec. 16) * RadioShack Reiterates Bankruptcy Risk (Dec. 12) * RadioShack to Cut More Costs as Losses Mount (Dec. 11) * RadioShack, Lenders At Odds Again (Dec. 2) Nearly three years of losses and sales at their lowest levels in decades had forced the electronics chain to turn to debt investors for financial lifelines to stay in business. Objections from some of those same lenders prevented the company from closing hundreds of stores it felt it needed to shut down to stay afloat. What looked to be a tough holiday season--visits to stores revealed little traffic on key shopping days--may have been the last straw. The struggles of RadioShack started well before its latest cash crunch. Current and former executives said the chain began to lose its cachet in the 1990s as it shifted its attention away from die-hard electronics enthusiasts and gave its staff incentives to sell items like mobile phones. By 2011, the smartphone business had grown to account for more than half of RadioShack's sales. The big-ticket gadgets helped lift the chain's overall revenue, but they did little to improve earnings as shoppers went elsewhere to buy more lucrative add-ons like cases and chargers. RadioShack is facing a dwindling market share and the possibility of bankruptcy. But the story of the company over the last 50 years shows how Americans fell in love with personal electronics. (originally published 9/16/14) Many RadioShack staples, such as cables and TV adapters, became just as easy to find online. A survey from investment bank William Blair before the holidays found Amazon.com Inc. offered nearly two-thirds of RadioShack's inventory, mostly at lower prices. Sales were already sliding when the company hired Mr. Magnacca, a former Walgreen executive. RadioShack tried to generate buzz with a 30-second Super Bowl ad last year that poked fun at the chain's outdated image. The spot featured a series of throwback characters from the 1980s, including Hulk Hogan, Erik Estrada and Alf, tearing out the store's aging shelves and dragging obsolete products back to their decade. But the new products and fresher store design the commercial highlighted hadn't yet come to most stores when the ad ran, and the marketing push had no obvious impact on nationwide sales. RadioShack then ran into more trouble with its lenders. In March the company announced plans to close up to 1,100 stores as it sought to reduce costs to stay in business. But creditors including Salus Capital Partners balked at the plan. The terms of its loan agreement prevented the retailer from closing more than 200 stores. A rescue plan arranged in October with hedge fund Standard General gave the company some breathing room. But without its creditors' stamp of approval, the company continued to bleed cash (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) 50 comments [some of, selected; no doubt many more by now] GORDON JACKSON: The last two companies I worked for interacted with their corporate buying staff. Personal experience from 1998 through 2010 revealed a culture of indifference and disrespect for their vendor base. Radio Shack Corp. headquarters repeatedly made poor choices that were inexplicable. In that environment, who would ever offer Radio Shack their newest and best products? Actions have consequences. Their spiraling decline is in part due to how they treated their vendor base and strategic decisions they made on sourcing products. Their vendors live on with relevant new products while Radio Shack dies a slow death, cut off from new, innovative gadgets that are the lifeblood of a retail chain. To get out of chapter 11 they will need to "clean house" and rethink their sourcing strategy from top to bottom. Lucas Policastro: Why doesn't a dying company ever lay down and liquidate gracefully? Always dragging it out into convulsions and delirium. Gardner Morris: Their business model was basically flawed and they could not compete with Best Buy and Amazon. Their lack of sufficient qualified sales staff was a major problem. People with the technical knowledge they required could easily find better paying jobs elsewhere. Thomas Ingram: My Tandy 1000 was my first computer! Sad. Joseph Monroe: SparkFun and Mouser Electronics sell parts for today's hobbyists. Drones, robots, and other DIY projects. RadioShack was asleep at the wheel too long and missed the opportunity to be a pioneer in the Maker Movement. Even if they began selling those parts, their prices are too high for anything but an urgent, must-have-now purchase. Otherwise people will not pay $15 for a cable at Radio Shack if they are willing to wait two-days and get it from Amazon for $5. In California, we have Fry's Electronics which are superstores the size of a large Walmart. They carry everything from resistors, soldering sets, to computer cases and CPU chips. They are what Radio Shack aspired to create years ago with The Incredible Universe, but executed it poorly. RadioShack is now just a small convenience store that people walk past in the malls. John Franz: Yes, definitely very sad. I literally spent a good portion of my childhood in RadioShack looking at/buying parts. I ended up being an electrical engineer and doing a lot of good with my knowledge. I bought so many parts as a kid that for a few minutes, the FBI thought I might be the Unabomber, but that's another story. What do they need to do to fix it? 1) get back to their roots (remember when Radio Shack was COOL?) 2) Start selling TV's, Computers, HI-FI, parts, and compete with Amazon when it comes to basic cables - these are loss leaders to get people in. 3) Merge with or have an agreement to supply anything from BestBuy and or Allied within 24 Hours - keep limited stock of best items in store. 4) Bring back knowledgeable sales people. Get rid of the people who are just phone plan salesmen. 5) For that matter, maybe they could buy Sears ailing appliance business? Michael Lebron: I need some tuner control cleaner and lubricant, the 4.5 oz can. They still carry it for $9.95. I need to run over and get one tomorrow, but maybe I should get 3, lol. Mike Van Horn: This is sad, like seeing that a close friend is dying. Actually, a close former friend. Somebody I used to connect with a lot, but then we drifted apart. Maybe 10 years ago, when we were getting new cell phones, and the ATT store was such an impossible pain to deal with (this was before iPhone and Apple Store), the Radio Shack guy said, "We can handle that here, and we can get you exactly what you want. No hassle." And he did. And I was grateful. May they regain their health in a new guise, or may they rest in peace. James F. Graham: They should raffle off all those customer telephone numbers. BRANDON JAMES: Radio Shack is still in business? Howard Shubs: C'mon, Chapter 7! Don't even bother with Chapter 11. Save some time. Robert Frame: Somewhere a few years ago, I read that Radio Shack's latest turnaround plan at that time was like another Ralph Kramden get-rich scheme. How apt! Jerome Abernathy: Sad. I'm surprised they didn't embrace the maker movement. When I was a kid, I went there for components - integrated circuits, transistors, resistors, capacitors, inductors, circuit boards, etc. They had components, kits, ham radios, etc. I was a kid in a candy store. Then, it slowly turned into a consumer electronics store, indistinguishable from all the other retail stores. The world has passed them by. Steve W. Bell: Sad to see this. I worked at Radio Shack while in College. When I visit one, I often ask the clerk "do you know what the main source of foot traffic through the store was, when I was in College?". They never know. The answer is, it was the VACUUM TUBE TESTER that was placed in the back of each store. People would come in and use it, to fix their TV's. I have yet to meet a Radio Shack employee who knows what a tube tester is (was)... :) Christopher Holland: Embarrassing to see a decline like that - like realising that the squeegee guy cleaning your windscreen at the traffic light is a guy you knew at college. That happened to me once, it gave me no satisfaction. Sad and undignified, I had to look away, I couldn't look him in the eye. He walked away without taking any money, it looked like he was even more unhappy about it than I was. Steve Paul It is over -- due to retail obsolescence. And what was being sold got cheapened every year to the point of junk status; the same way General Motors took 1 inch off the tailpipe every year and called that savings. Don't like to see retail franchisees and their employees lose their investment and/or their jobs. PS When you are buying ads to poke fun at your image, you know the end is near. JEFFREY DUGAS: The downfall started when they began peddling cell phones and hard-selling wireless plans on customers who were in the store for other reasons. And those stup1d purchase protection plans. The people who ran Radio Shack decades ago would be embarrassed. Allied Electronics, ironically once bought and controlled by Radio Shack, remains for consumers who need traditional electronic components and supplies. And they will not try to hawk a cell phone on you. When you stray from your core competency, the end is near. So be it. CHARLES PLUSHNICK: It seems like the days of the garage tinkerer is coming to an end. Where would Apple Computer or numerous other start ups be without the parts and tools found at Radio Shack. It is a sad day for them and the American tinkerer and innovator. By the way where are you going to get stuff for the school science project. Lemon battery lights? Douglas Levene: Chapter 7 liquidation means the equity is wiped out and the managers lose their jobs. Chapter 11 reorganization means the equity gets a small piece because it has the power to hold up the deal and the managers get to keep their jobs at least for a while longer. ALEXANDER MCMAHON You hit the nail on the head, Gardner. For decades I loved Radio Shack as the place to go to find anything from capacitors and resistors for breadboards to interesting gadgets. I even got my first cell phones at a Radio Shack Store. About 10 years ago I noticed a distinct change in the store. As you mention, the staff were poor and unhelpful. Store managers were indifferent and even in the case of the store closest to me at the time, rude. That caused me to "fire" Radio Shack and seek other options. Yes, the Internet has been a serious competitor, but when Radio Shack was good they were faster because they could help you find things when you weren't quite sure what you needed - the Internet, without hours of searching - isn't very good at that. If they had been able to maintain the culture that built the chain, they might have survived. Leonard Rothbart It was a great place for electronics hobbyists - the sort of customer who needs to go to a physical store & browse through parts to build a project or repair a home appliance - the sort of thing you *can't* do online. They should have enhanced that niche rather than abandoned it - big mistake. They could have gone into build-it-yourself robot kits, encouraging people to design & build their own computers, & similar hi-tech home projects, & training/tech support for all the above. How about supplies/support for science fair projects? They could have become the Home Depot of electronics. Probably not remotely as big as the market they entered, but *sustainable*, unique, & again, *not* feasible online. Michael Lebron: I still listen to vinyl on tube equipment. A tube tester is vital. I'm actually shopping around for one. Jim Kennedy: Great comment. It is scary to me of how little the young kids know these days. Jerome Abernathy: Ha! I helped my daughter make lemon battery lights for her 3rd grade science project. I had zinc coated nails, and we went to radio shack to buy bare copper wire, alligator clip leads, and an LED. And that was less than 10 years ago. Jerome Abernathy: Yes. Just look at Game Stop. Physical stores with knowledgeable people can build a sense of community that is enormously powerful. John Franz: Ever heard of an electromagnetic (EM)bomb? It is a bomb that creates a huge pulse of energy that destroys anything with semiconductors in it, unless that device has been designed to withstand an EM pulse. For that reason, I still keep and maintain vacuum tube radios. Vacuum tubes are not susceptible to EM pulses. The Russians know this too, and still use and produce tubes for their military. Oh, and your Iphone won't live through an EM pulse, just saying. Jerome Abernathy: I remember there was a basic design that most vacuum tube radios used. As I vaguely recall, detector phase, pre-amp, then amplifier. I once tapped into the input to the amplifier section of a radio to create an amp for a guitar. Ancient hacking, I suppose. BRANDON JAMES: Yes all my nut job prepper friends won't shut up about EMPs. When al qaeda develops a space program and manages to detonate a nuke in low earth orbit you'll be able to listen to white noise on your tube radio. That'll show me! :-) Vacuum tubes and germanium diodes can't sustain a company of 24,000 people. And we have kiosks at the mall that can sell cell phones more conveniently and with lower overhead than Radio Shack. I remember the days of the Trash 80 computers. They had their moment, as did RS - and tube radios. Jerome Abernathy: My very first electronic project - I was 9 - was given to my by my mother's second cousin. It consisted of a germanium crystal on a substrate, wire, and plans for a crystal radio. I wound the coil on a toilet paper roll, and used the finger stop on the dial phone as a ground. It was amazing. I was forever hooked. Pablo Sameole: The electronic kits were awesome! 100 in 1, 150 in 1, solar power kit and all of their crystal radio kits were cool too (WSJ comments via Mike Cooper, DXLD) Good morning all, I have nothing but great memories of Radio Shack. My father bought my first communications receiver, a Hallicrafters S-120 at one of their original stores in SW Houston back in 1964 (wow, 50 years ago!!) Also who hasn't bought a DX-150 or DX-160? Next, who didn't get their first CB walkie-talkies to enter the new world of personal communications. I bought my first CB, a Realistic Navaho a couple of years before the CB craze of the mid 70's. I still have it. It was converted to 10-Meters in the 80's. How about the early VHF/UHF Scanners (Patrolman) you bought. Also, most of my/your SWL, CB, TV-FM and VHF/UHF antennas, plus masts and 1000's of feet of wire. Anyone in the IT business ever start their career tinkering, playing and programming a TRS-80. I remember flying a Cessna or Piper Club on Flight Simulator on a TRS-80 when it was written by SubLogic (I think) before Microsoft bought the rights and pushed it in the early IBM PC's. Has anyone ever rushed to your local Radio Shack to buy something on clearance because that article that cost too much initially, finally was affordable? My last purchase in Ham Radio was a HTX-10 compact / mobile 25W 10-Meter transceiver that I have worked the world with and use it for propagation studies. Did anyone ever visit their clearance warehouse in north Fort Worth? I have bought speakers, audio amplifiers and odds and ends when that place was open. Did you ever shop at the Tandy Center in downtown Fort Worth. It was a unique Metro/Urban shopping center in its day and copied worldwide. I am sad that Radio Shack troubles continue. I think they have always tried to give to the consumer products that were special and sometimes ahead of their time. Sadly, today's lack of loyalty and attitude of "what have you done for me lately?" has sent this institution to its demise. Bad pun, but Charles Tandy would turn in his grave. From an old, sentimental, loyalist and Rat Shack lover (Art Jackson KA5DWI/7, Jan 16, ABDX via DXLD) I will be a little sorry to see Radio Shack disappear after all these years. Like others here I remember browsing their store for small parts, a needed resistor or connector to finish a project or a good outdoor FM antenna. I think when they really started going downhill is when they stopped handing out free catalogs at their stores. That was something I had looked forward to, when their new catalog came out. It was always fun to see what new radios or gadgets they had, even new CB radios or walkie talkies. It was a nice wishbook to see what was new and a great incentive to visit. Then they stopped giving their catalogs out. I never knew what to expect at their store anymore and gradually lost interest. I don't think people at the top realized what great advertising their catalogs were. 73 - (Todd WD4NGG Roberts, ibid.) http://abcnews.go.com/Business/radioshack-nostalgia-back-glory-days-1980s-90s/story?id=28248169 I used to love to go there in the 60's, 70's. 80s and even the 90's. Then they lost their way and went down hill for me. It once was a great place to buy radios and buy parts. Now you can get a cell phone. (Kevin Redding, Crump, TN, ibid.) Radio Shack was - for me - an exciting place to visit full of great electronics. As I got older, though, the excitement of new Radio Shack DX radio models began to wane, as I realized there was substantial cost cutting going on. I still have my stable of Radio Shack radios, but I noticed that after the 12-675 (which had a short ferrite bar by the way), they also started eliminating IF transformers. A ceramic filter and two IF coils is not the same as four IF cans - as GE knew in the Superadios. But the 12-655 can easily be overloaded, as can the 12-650. The 12-603 still only had two IF cans, small ferrite bar, and they totally got the AVC wrong. It was in no way a clone of the GE Superadio 3 - although Radio Shack did manage to get the tuning pot right - something that plagued GE and RCA for years and sank the product. As I lined up my Radio Shack fleet next to my GE Superadio fleet, plus CCrane - I noticed something. Even with every modification I could muster on the Radio Shack models, they all were not as good as un- modified GE Superadios. But the 12-675 is quite good, almost equal to the GE - and all I had to do was add a larger ferrite bar. So the RF design in that model was good. At some point, they gave up on uncompromised RF design. I have two little table radios from Radio Shack that my father bought. All they had to do on AM was copy the All Japanese 6 circuit. No more was required! But - they economized. Two IF cans instead of three. AM performance is poor - there are birdies and images because of that. Really? They couldn't just do what worked, no questions asked? If your brand is called "RADIO Shack", shouldn' t you have the best darn radios on the market, anywhere, period?! Their reverse engineering team could have poured all over those GE Superadios and other models and found out - "what mistakes did GE make that we could correct?" or "how can we beat GE sensitivity and / or selectivity/ " I can tell some areas for improvement, after tearing into these things! - The interstage coupling of the IF stages has some really small capacitance values - presumably to limit gain or get rid of undertones. I would have put some ceramic filters in there! - Radio Shack could look at the output capacitor and say - this will limit low frequency response. We can do better. - Radio Shack could have looked at the lackluster FM performance and added narrow ceramic filters, boosted the sensitivity in the front end. They went part of the way, but didn't follow through. FM is probably the only area where GE skimped. - GE put that 6 1/2 inch speaker and later a tweeter in. Radio Shack downsized the speaker. There are no excuses here! Every time Radio Shack had a choice - the choice was cheaper, smaller, less stages, less performance. So trips to Radio Shack became less and less exciting, and I grew more and more suspicious of new models. I never bought a 12-903. Based on my experience with the 12-603, I didn't want another so-so radio compared to GE. They came out with another DX portable after that, I forget the model number - and it was promptly panned by experts on the web, which was coming into its own. When I needed a new portable - I went off to eBay to find another Superadio - re-conditioning and fixing the pot if it was a "3" . The one Radio Shack I bought off eBay was to replace a 12-675. Oh and another 12-650 because a handle broke. Not really to use as primary radios. CCrane proves there is a small, but dedicated group of Radio fans out there. I am not saying that the CCrane business model would have saved Radio Shack. A small web based retail output cannot compare to a nation chain of brick and mortar stores. But CCrane doesn't deviate from attempting to make radios as good as - or better than GE or other really highly prized models. They fall short occasionally but it is not for lack of trying. Of course there is the decline of radio in general due to bland corporate formats, and increasing interference levels. And then portable music players coming on the market. Radio Shack should have jumped on the iPod trend, inviting Apple into their stores instead of Verizon cell phones. They missed the opportunity, if it even existing. That, I think, would be a business blunder similar to Blockbuster failing to buy Netflicks. If radio was declining, Radio Shack needed to re-invent itself and align with portable music players, home theater, video gaming, etc. They definitely could have done home theater out of their storefronts, but they did not even produce a home theater receiver. They could have been the go-to place for video adapters, cable, format converters, etc. They could have started installing a line of car DVD players from store fronts - DVD while you wait. By failing to change with consumers, they doomed themselves to irrelevance (Bruce Carter, ibid.) Sad to say, it's the "way of the world". As a kid growing up in the 70s and 80s I too LOVED going to Radio Shack. But back then, people BOUGHT radios and stereos. Back then you DID work on your own stuff. I always thought of Radio Shack when it came to PARTS. If you needed a soldering iron or soldering gun or solder, that's where you went. Resistors, capacitors, etc. All there. And that was before the internet so you didn't have access to places like Mouser and Digi-Key. EVERY radio station in the country I'm sure has little drawers with resistors or RCA connectors, headphone jacks; stuff like that all with the Archer brand name on them. Again, that's where ya went. In my town here in Wyoming, we had a Radio Shack "dealer". I was excited as hell when we got a true Radio Shack corporate store, sometime in the mid 90s. It closed about 5 or 6 years ago I want to say. For so many years, they were THE place when it came to electronics and electronic supplies. Competition often kills off things like this and I really think that's what has been Radio Shack's biggest problem. Cell phone stores are on every corner and every few feet there's a kiosk in every mall. Radios, TVs, computers, phones. Wal-mart has taken a LOT of that away from any smaller retailers (such as Radio Shack). What's left? Electronic supplies? I truly think not as many people these days actually "work" on things. People don't fix things anymore; they just throw them away. And with the internet being what it is today, you can find anything and usually cheaper, such as any and all electronic components. Yes, it would be VERY convenient to have somewhere (like Radio Shack) to go pick up stereo connectors or headphone jacks or resistors, but the demand for that kind of stuff is not nearly what it was and a store can't make it on just that. I just think their place in this world has kinda come and gone. It's sad; I will miss them. If they can come up with some things that make them exclusive. Bring back the free catalogs; make it a priority that ANYTHING you want can be shipped to your local store NEXT DAY. That way if I need something, I know it's only a day away if they don't have it in stock. And for those who don't have a local store, they can order online and have it NEXT DAY. You'd think they could work some kind of deal with UPS or FedEx. Ya gotta give people a REASON to want to go there or get things from them versus somebody else. Do something no one else is doing. If they could come up with some huge deal, something people want and Radio Shack would be the EXCLUSIVE dealer for it, the ONLY place you can get it. It would seem there are things out there that consumers want that Radio Shack could be an exclusive dealer for. One thing I've found out over the years is that people like somewhere they can go to talk to someone. I know lots of people that bought cell phones or TVs or even computers from Radio Shack because it was somewhere they could go and go back to if they needed to talk to someone instead of having to call and talk to someone on the phone. And yes, customer CARE would be paramount. Radio Shack really dropped the ball on that one; most of you probably read the other article that was posted several weeks ago by a former Radio Shack employee. Honestly, you hire people that know what they are talking about and train them and teach them and pay them decent so they truly care; don't take advantage of them expecting them to work long hours with no overtime. I think it would have made a big different in the company's image and the image in general of "Radio Shack employees". I know I'd rather go somewhere that I always feel welcome and the staff is always so helpful and I feel like they really care. Sadly that is getting rare in today's society; just go to any Wal-mart. Best of luck, Rat-Shack. We know you'll probably never be what you once were, but maybe you can find that niche to stay afloat (Michael n wyo Richard, ibid.) Bruce has hit the nail on the head here. Almost every subsequent model after the 12-655 got worse due to cost cutting. They also lost their way when they tried to become a cell phone store. I recall sometime around the turn of the century when I got a modified high end receover for FM and needed speakers and went to RS. The manager basically ran over to me as I was coming thru the door. I explained to him that I was looking for something decent, but that I wasn't an audiophile and that I'd prefer something on sale. He did a decent job helping me, but tried to sell me an extended warranty and then tried again when I said no. Of course he asked me to buy a cell phone and when this now annoying guy asked me the third time as I was checking out, I pulled my cell phone out and showed him that I didn't need one, and he asked if I was sure that I didn't need a second phone!! What I think helped sink RS was myopic bean counting management focused on counting today's beans and not seeing the future. Of course, many people can tell that cost cutting has reduced the quality of what once were fine portable rx's. Of course, most people don't want to pay two or three times what an extended warranty is worth and especially for a product that doesn't break the bank to purchase anyhow. Of course people don't want to be pressured by an annoying manager and asked two or three times after they'd said no thanks. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, ibid.) I heard some states filed complaints against them for bait and switch on cell phone sales (lost credit, ibid.) One of my fondest memories was going to a Radio Shack in San José for a quadraphonic FM demonstration done by two stations in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was quite interesting despite the mediocre quality of the Realistic receivers and speakers that were used. Sent from my iPhone (Dennis Gibson, ibid.) Fond memories: I can remember in the late 60s into the 70s when they catered to rock 'n rollers building their component home stereo systems. If you lived in podunk like I did, they were about the only place to buy decent amps, speakers, turntables, cassette decks and car stereos. Just looking around here, I still have a DX-440 from 1989, an Onkyo receiver (recently un-mothballed to play records again) from about 1975, a Sharp solar calculator from the early 1970s and some speakers, all from Radio Shack and all still working fine (Jay in Montana, ibid.) First let me say I'm 65 years of age. Been around Radio Shack (Allied Radio) for awhile. I lived, and still do, in the immediate Chicago area. I was one of the fortunate ones to have access to the original Allied store at 100 S. Western. I really don't know how many times I and my buddy Chuck coerced my dad to drive us down there to salivate in the ham radio section. Yes, they had an entire section of the store set aside showcasing amateur radio gear. I was a new Novice in '64 and was constantly looking for cheap "stuff". In fact. That was where I purchased my Eico-720 and an SX-110, my first station. Chuck and I also would, of course, cross Western Ave. to wander the aisles of Olsen Electronics which was like a huge flea market! More junk than you could ever imagine for the geeks! Yep. I remember Radio Shack (Allied) fondly; even up to just a few years ago. Somewhere along the line they lost their way. Or, maybe things have just changed so much that they can't keep up. I wonder what's going to happen after bankruptcy? What will they become, if anything? I will miss them. Thanks for letting me reminisce. 73, (Joe-WA9LAE, ABDX via DXLD) On January 15 before we knew the bankruptcy story had broken, we were visiting OKC and not intending to shop at RS, but happened to pass one (east of Penn Square Mall) with banners outside, CLEARANCE 25-50% OFF. Turned out it was 25% off everything in store, so still no multimeters discounted from $75 to $7. They did however, have a lot more drawers of components (at least twice as many as the only RS in Enid), so we stocked up on possibly needed stuff. The manager let us know that he was in from Corporate to get rid of this store, but didn`t know how long it would take to clear it out (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) THE FUTURE OF THE RADIO HOBBY I seemed to knock it out of the park with the Radio Shack discussion - - or hit a great big nerve. Sp let's try a follow-up with this link that was sent to me: PSDR - Pocket HF SDR Transceiver with VNA and GPS by Michael Colton https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1703258614/psdr-pocket-hf-sdr-transceiver-with-vna-and-gps For the record, I am not a fan of kickstarter campaigns nor am I a supporter. We see these things constantly -- from hair brain inventions to restaurant / café start-ups. Truth be told (and I never thought I would hear myself say this...) but back when I was young, we would actually raise our own money when it came to developing an idea. That said, this particularly project (that I am not supporting financially) shows us how far technology has come with putting the radio hobby into all hands of everyone and raising the excitement level. Kind of like Gary Debock and Guy Atkins with the ULR movement. Fact is: The SW spectrum may be bereft of hope - but medium wave is alive and well and likely will be into the future (Colin Newell is the Editor and creator of Coffeecrew.com , IRCA via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ AGRADECIMENTO PELA IDENTIFICAÇÃO EMISSORAS CARIBENHAS Caros amigos, Quero informar que eu tive uma grande ajuda de um dexista da Irlanda que provavelmente visitou meu blog. Ele identificou 5 gravações minha que eu publiquei pedindo ajuda tanto aqui como do meu blog. 3 emissoras foram ineditas aqui pelo menos pra mim fazendo que o numeros de emissoras identificadas pularam para 63.Abaixo esta a mensagem que recebi dele e em seguida a lista de paises identificadas Some nice receptions, I have managed to ID a few of them: 89.5, Power Hour with Michael stuart, wonder if this CRFM 89.5 from Grenada? 90.1, WACK Radio, Trinidad, at one point there are mentions of former National Security Minister Martin Joseph 93.1, Kairi Fm, St. Lucia, 14:17 reference to the St Lucia Fire Service, 17:50 Advert for RJB Hotel Supplies (On St Lucia) 95.5, Religion, 2:26 mentions of Montserrat = Radio Montserrat ZJB, there is a video on Youtube of this station also with religious output. 100.1, Sweet 100.1 FM Trinidad - clear ID at 29 seconds. Paul Logan, Lisnaskea, Irlanda 63 identificadas 11- Martinica 8- Dominica 6- Guadeloupe 6- Jamaica 6- Anguilla 5- Antigua Barbudas 3- Barbados 3- St Vincent 3- Santa Lúcia 2- Porto Rico 2- Rep. Dominicana 1- Ilhas Cayman 1- Montserrat 1- Ilha Virgens Americanas 2- Trinidad Tobago 2- Grenada -- Minhas gravações de emissoras escutadas aqui em Garopaba http://andersontorquato.wordpress.com/ Meu outro site de gravações http://www.ipernity.com/doc/124523/home?with=14364471 (Anderson José Torquato, Garopaba-SC Jan 20, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Maybe tnx to my further posting of his request (gh, DXLD) SOLAR CYCLE 24 REASSESSED NASA has a new assessment of sunspot Cycle 24, updated from November 14. You can read it here: http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml The changes are, on November 14, 2014 they said the smoothed sunspot number was 70 in late 2013, and now on January 14, 2015 that has been revised upward to 72. The new report says the smoothed sunspot number peaked at 81.9 in April 2014. This was the second peak for Cycle 24, the first being 66.9 in February 2012. They noted that double-peaked sunspot cycles are common, but the current cycle is the first in which the second peak was higher than the first. This is the smallest sunspot cycle since Cycle 14, which peaked at 64.2 in February 1906 (QST de W1AW, Propagation Forecast Bulletin 3 ARLP003, From Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, WA January 16, 2015, To all radio amateurs, via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) HAMS INHABIT GREEN BANK QUIET ZONE The National Radio Quiet Zone in West Virginia is the setting for an interesting story involving radio astronomy and people who believe they are sensitive to low levels of RF energy. A few hams are mentioned in this piece (KD8KSG, KC0KTW and N8DBN), although not identified by call sign. http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/the-town-without-wi-fi/ Green Bank seems to have an unusually large population of amateur radio operators (over 20% of the town's residents, according to the FCC license database), especially for a place in which the FCC allows no radio transmitters. Of course, perhaps not all of the hams with mailing addresses in Green Bank live in town, but there are 30 amateur radio operators listed in Green Bank (plus one amateur radio club with a club call), and the article says the town's population is only 143. Most interesting to me is that Diane Schou, one of the first people in the article who moved to Green Bank just to get away from all forms of RF energy is also a licensed ham, KC0KTW. Her call sign from the zero call area suggests she was a ham (General Class) before she moved to Green Bank, which is in the W8 area. Perhaps she does a lot more listening than transmitting (QST de W1AW, Propagation Forecast Bulletin 3 ARLP003, From Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, WA January 16, 2015, To all radio amateurs, via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2015 Jan 19 0438 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 12 - 18 January 2015 Solar activity ranged from very low levels to high levels during the period. The period began at low levels with Regions 2255 (S16, L=321, class/area Dai/160 on 04 January) and 2260 (N10, L=286, class/area Cao/070 on 14 January) producing the majority of the C-class activity. High levels were observed on 13 January with moderate levels on 14 January as Region 2257 (N07, L=322, class/area Dki/480 on 09 January) produced the largest flares of the period; an M5/2b flare at 13/0424 UTC with an associated 290 sfu Tenflare, an M4 at 13/0458 UTC, and an M2 at 14/1258 UTC. Region 2257 was in decay from the beginning of the period until it rotated around the NW limb on 14 January. Solar activity returned to very low to low levels for the rest of the period. No Earth-directed coronal mass ejections were observed during the period. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reached moderate levels from 12-15 January before decreasing to normal levels for the rest of the period. Geomagnetic field activity was at mostly quiet to unsettled levels through the period. Solar wind was in a slow decline through the period from initial values near 510 km/s to around 320 km/s by the end of the period. Total field ranged from 5 nT to 10 nT, with a variable Bz component, and mostly positive phi angle. As a result, quiet to unsettled levels were observed from 12-17 January with quiet levels on 18 January. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 19 JAN - 14 FEB 2015 Solar activity is expected to be at very low to low levels. A chance for M-class (R1-R2, Minor-Moderate) is expected with the re-emergence of old Regions 2253 (S07, L=003) and 2257 from 23 January through 09 February. A new spot group that emerged on the visible disk on 17 January, which was numbered as Region 2266 (S07, L=167, class/area Cri/030 on 18 January), has grown moderately during its relatively brief existence, however has not been very active. This new region may cause probabilities to increase in the next few days should it begin to be more productive. 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 on 21-28 January, 31 January-03 February, and again on 08-10 February due to recurrent coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) influence. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to reach unsettled levels with active periods possible on 19-27 January, 29 January-04 February, and again from 06-09 February due to recurrent CH HSS activity. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2015 Jan 19 0439 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 2015-01-19 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2015 Jan 19 125 12 4 2015 Jan 20 125 10 3 2015 Jan 21 120 10 3 2015 Jan 22 115 10 3 2015 Jan 23 120 8 3 2015 Jan 24 125 8 3 2015 Jan 25 125 15 4 2015 Jan 26 120 10 3 2015 Jan 27 120 8 3 2015 Jan 28 125 5 2 2015 Jan 29 130 10 3 2015 Jan 30 135 12 3 2015 Jan 31 135 15 4 2015 Feb 01 135 15 4 2015 Feb 02 130 12 3 2015 Feb 03 130 15 4 2015 Feb 04 125 12 3 2015 Feb 05 125 5 2 2015 Feb 06 125 10 3 2015 Feb 07 130 10 3 2015 Feb 08 130 8 3 2015 Feb 09 130 8 3 2015 Feb 10 125 5 2 2015 Feb 11 125 5 2 2015 Feb 12 120 5 2 2015 Feb 13 120 5 2 2015 Feb 14 125 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DXLD) PROPAGATION OUTLOOK FROM GLENN FOR MEDIA NETWORK PLUS AS OF JANUARY 22 NASA says This is the smallest sunspot cycle since 1906. IPS in Australia says global HF propagation thru January 24 will be normal to weakly depressed. Space Weather South Africa says thru January 24 magnetic conditions will be quiet to unsettled; shortwave fadeouts unlikely; MUF unstable. Met office UK`s Four-Day Forecast to January 25: Solar activity low with a 20% channce of moderate class flares. Geomagnetic activity quiet to unsettled with active intervals of K indices of 4 likely and a slight 15% chance of a G1 minor geomagnetic storm. F K Janda in Prague says: Geomagnetic field will be: mostly quiet on January 23, 27, February 4 active to disturbed on January 24, 29 - 31, February 1 quiet to active on January 25, February 2 - 3 disturbed on January 26 quiet on January 28, February 5 SWPC in Boulder says the Geomagnetic field is expected to reach unsettled levels with active periods possible until January 27, also 29 to February 4. A and K indices peaking at 15 and 4 on January 25, 31, February 1 and 3; 5 and 2: only on January 28 and February 5. Solar flux rising from 115 January 22 to a peak of 135 January 30 to February 1, down to 120 by February 12. Bill Hepburn`s VHF UHF TV and FM maps show extreme tropospheric ducting off the central coast of Chile, northwestern Australia, western South Africa and Namibia (via DXLD) ###