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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1767 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Abkhazia, Alaska, Albania, Antarctica, Australia, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cuba and non, Egypt, Eritrea non, Ethiopia, Europe, France, Germany and non, Greece, Japan and non, Kurdistan non, Kuwait, Madagascar, Nigeria and non, Oklahoma, Rwanda, Somaliland, South Africa, Spain, Sudan and non, Sweden, Thailand, USA, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Vatican non SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1767, April 2-8, 2015 Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [1766 replayed] Thu 1230 WRMI 9955 [1766 replayed] Thu 2100 WRMI 7570 [new time yet unconfirmed] Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 & 7570 [confirmed; to be 7570 only] Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2130 Global 24 9525 via BULGARIA [last week, gone this week] Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM [confirmed at 0337.5] Sun 2100 WRMI 15770 [new time but not aired] Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 [confirmed] Mon 0200 WBCA 7490v Area 51 [confirmed, instead of:] Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 [off air, confirmed on webcast] Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1768 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/rmrc-service/podcast/glenn-hauser-wor Note: Other podcasts have been down due to w4uvh.net being down! OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser DXLD YAHOOGROUP: Why wait for DXLD? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our yg without delay. When applying, please identify yourself with your real name and location, and say something about why you want to join. Those who do not, unless I recognize them, will be prompted once to do so and no action will be taken otherwise. Here`s where to sign up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/ ** ABKHAZIA. Surprisingly transmission of Abkhazian Radio or Avtoradio on March 27: 0900-0930 on 9535 SUK 005 kW / non-dir to CeAs Russian Mon/Wed/Fri/Sun, videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/surprisingly-transmission-of-abhazian.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) March 27: Radio Abkhazia or Avtoradio in Russian to CeAs 0903 on 9535 Sukhumi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v77VdwIvPxI&feature=youtu.be Radio Abkhazia or Avtoradio in Russian to CeAs 0906 on 9535 Sukhumi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q52zw6MBolg&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. 12075, Radio Azadi (Radio Free Afganistan), (Biblis), 1427-1430, escuchada el 25 de marzo de 2015 en dari a locutor y locutora con noticias, referencias a Sudan y Palestina, segmento musical con Sitar y fin de emisión, SINPO 34443 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA. KNLS be silent at the beginning of the new broadcast season. According to Constantine Chernushenko, repair antennas only in the initial stage (Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", RusDX March 29 via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) ** ALBANIA. A-15 has just begun, but not every station switches to new schedule immediately. March 29 at 0128 I am looking for R. Tirana on 9850, where it`s to be in English to North America at shifted time of 0130-0200 --- but no signal here past 0133, nor on other possibilities 9855, 7465 or 7425. 9855, March 29 at 0226, R. Tirana IS is on here! This is the winter timing to be abandoned, and the frequency registered for the summer Albanian broadcast at 2300-2400 (unchecked yet). But no English starts at 0230, just keeps playing IS on fair signal past 0233 when I quit. Maybe this will all be straightened out by UT Tuesday at 0130, since there is no English broadcast on UT Monday anyway. 9855, Sunday March 29 at 2302, something here with music and talk, presumed R. Tirana on new frequency for Albanian hour to N America, but only poor vs local noise level. 9850 should be the new frequency for English at 0130 from UT Tuesday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Just arrived in our 2015 summer season DST time reception, and to report powerful signal of Radio Tirana channel-3 Albanian service via Shijak transmission outlet on March 30, recording in excellent .ogg format about 0757 till 0803 UT time slot. 7389.978 kHz correct exact footprint frequency, before 0750 UT heard more modern pop music singer, and followed by national hymn from approx. 0756. At 0802 featured a review on spectacular football match of Albania vv Armenia national soccer teams of last night, which Albania team was lucky to win at the end, and some tall player from Cologne, Germany Bundesliga team set the ultimate football goal. RT Shijak signal strength here in southern Germany, at central European nations area, at S=9+30dB means -43dBm signal strength today. BUT a little BUZZ audio covered the whole transmission, some four (4) x 50 Hertz distance main power buzz peaks were visible on the browser screen, each sideband. [selected SDR software defined Radio PERSEUS - Made in Italy - options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] Kind regards de Wolfy df5sx (Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, March 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9855, March 31 at 2356, R. Tirana Albanian hour to N America in closing music, 2357 national anthem, 2358 IS and off. Fair signal, no interference co- or adjacent. Nearest signal is Chinese on 9865, no problem. *2359 pops on 9850 instead with carrier and then IS until 2400*, i.e. setting up for the next broadcast, English at 0130 on 5 kHz lower. There is a slight QRM overlap, but not a big problem. By 2357 or so I am hearing something underneath 9855, clear but poor at 2359, which turns out to be VOA Tibetan via Kuwait, with a VOA jingle at 0001. 9850, April 1 at 0127, R. Tirana IS, fair with flutter. On the PL-880 with short random wire, dbu ranges 31-51, average about 46. There are storms not far away to the south in Oklahoma, and the noise floor level on unoccupied 9840 ranges 19-23 dbu. No adjacent or co-channel interference plus 5 or 10. In fact, the only significants are bookends Turkey in Spanish back on same frequencies as last A, 9770 and 9870. 0130 sign-on with correct times and frequencies for the two English broadcasts starting March 29, into news. Recheck at 0155 during closing music, still no QRM problem, dbu ranges 37-49; 0157 theme, 0158 IS to 0158.5*. So both frequencies are working well in the new season. However, modulation is not sufficient; as Wolfy suggests, should add an OPTIMOD to boost it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9850 - R. Tirana , Shijak(?), Albania - English service at 0130 with OM reading news and into press review. Light music interlude, OM vocals. YL with IDs followed by mailbag program reading letter from Sweden asking about beekeeping in Albania; a future feature on the subject was promised. Good signal, slight fades and low hum (Stephen C Wood, Harwich, Mass., Perseus SDR, 25 x 50 NE Terminated Superloop antenna, UT April 1, dxldyg via DXLD) 9849.972 kHz, Radio Tirana English at 0130-0157 UT April 1. Transmitter at Shijak switched on at 0126:50. S=9+5 dB or -65dBm signal strength at 01.33 UTC (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. 13710, CRI English via Cerrik Albania relay side with extreme 50 kHz broadband signal, 13685 to 13735 kHz broadband signal. News via RTC European SW relay in Cerrik Chinese, S=9+50dB -28dBm this morning at 0735 UT on March 30 (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RTC CRI Cërrik, 150 kW on March 31, at 0715 UT noted in Germany and Switzerland remote software defined radios. Perseus is a direct- sampling software-defined radio (SDR) receiver, http://www.ab4oj.com/sdr/perseus/main.html Selected SDR receiver options, AM mode span 12.5 kHz, resolution bandwidth (RBW) 15.3 Hertz. 11855 kHz Chinese, 2 x 18 kHz sidebands either side = 36 kHz wide, 13710 kHz English, 2 x 21 kHz sidebands either side = 42 kHz wide. compared to usual 9 - 12 kHz bandwidth of other broadcasters like MBR, TDF, BBC Babcock etc. (March 31) (Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALGERIA [non]. FRANCIA, 7495, Radio Algerienne Holy Qur´an (Issoudun), 2125-2128, escuchada el 29 de marzo de 2015 en árabe a locutor con comentarios presentando poema cantado, canto del Corán, comentarios, SINPO 55454. 7495, Radio Algerienne Chaine 1 (Issoudun), 2207-2210, escuchada el el 29 de marzo de 2015 en francés a locutor y locutora con boletín de noticias internacionales, SINPO 54554. 9375, Radio Algerienne Chaine 1 (Issoudun), 2033-2037, escuchada el 29 de marzo de 2015 en árabe a locutor con comentarios, SINPO 34433 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Spain, Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13820, March 31 at 1942, music on very poor signal, must be RTA via FRANCE as scheduled 18-20 UT, audible now that Cuba has moved all its jammers to 13605 following Martí (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGOLA. 4949.9, Radio Nacional de Angola, Mulenvos, Portuguese, 1935-1950, 01-04 comments. Very weak, best on LSB. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Grundig Satellit 500, Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Tecsun PL-880, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGUILLA. 6090, University Network with Dead Dr Gene pontificating about Calvary and bondage and ragging on the 'god of the fundamentalists' that you cannot really love, and understanding the importance of giving in God's eyes. (So give me money to buy horses?) I'm still waiting for a good 'asshole' snit in these reruns, but they never play that! 5554+4+ 0035-0045 25/March (Ken Zichi, Williamston MI and/or Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet March 27 via DXLD) ** ANGUILLA. 6090, March 27 at 0147 check, CBB is on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGUILLA [non]. 12025, March 30 at 0124, fair signal with Iran in Spanish has CCI underneath from a YL in English --- sure sounds like Pastor Melissa Scott --- new relay for her??? On second receiver I compare to 5935 and yes, there`s a match. But when first receiver, PL- 880 switches in attenuation, she vanishes, so it`s a receiver-overload mixing product, tho I am only using a few meters of random reel-out wire under the eaves on the porch. More astounding is the math of this mix: 5935 WWCR plus 6090 Anguilla = 12025, which are totally separate but both carrying the same program, PMS! What a coincidence. There could be numerous other overload mixes around 12 MHz from strong 6 MHz band signals which are not duplicative {and it so happens they are synchronized off the same satellite feed; otherwise there would have been a big echo} (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel now on air, 2038-2045, 26-03, comments by female in Spanish and Latin American songs. Best on LSB. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Lugo, Grundig Satellit 500, cable antenna, 10 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nothing to contribute here from different other sites on remote SDR unit net in Europe. I see only a weak tiny string on Sicily rx on exact 15475.973 kHz, at 2120 UT. wb (Wolfgang Büschel, March 26, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15476, LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, 2038-2110, 26-03, comments by female in Spanish and Latin American songs. Best in USB. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Tecsun PL-880 and Grundig Satellit 500, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15476, LRA 36 Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza, 2003-2050, 01-04, comments by male and female, Spanish, identification: "LRA 36", mentioned "Base Esperanza", nice program of Latin American songs, song "Amor de mis Amores" and others. Weak but improving at the end of my listening. 14321 to 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Grundig Satellit 500, Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Tecsun PL-880, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 15344.95, RAE, Mar 27 1353-1406, 35332, Spanish, Talk, ID and IS and short music from 1400. 15344.95, RAE, Mar 27 2348-0000*, 35332-25322, Spanish, Talk, IS at 2359, ID at 0000, 0000 sign off (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. ABC vs CBC, Australia compared. KATE TAYLOR: WHAT AUSTRALIA CAN TEACH US ABOUT CANADIAN TV by Kate Taylor The Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, Feb. 25 2015, 4:47 PM EST Last updated Wednesday, Feb. 25 2015, 4:47 PM EST http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/kate-taylor-what-australia-can-teach-us-about-canadian-tv/article23205242/ Today’s forecast for Sydney, where it is already tomorrow, calls for a high of 26. That’s 37 degrees warmer than it is in Ottawa right now. I hesitate to mention this, in case the Senate committee on transport and communications gets any bright ideas for fancy travel plans, but still, it should consider Australia. I was mocking the committee last week because its members, who are undertaking a lengthy study of challenges facing the CBC, travelled to London earlier this month to research the BBC. The only thing you need to know about the BBC in a Canadian context can be quickly ascertained from its website: The BBC receives almost eight times as much public funding as the CBC. The ABC, Australia’s public broadcaster, is actually a more useful comparison. With a population of about 23 million, Australia is a bit smaller than English Canada and spends about $47 for each citizen on its public broadcaster, compared with Canada’s $29. Australia doesn’t use any fancy TV licence system imported from Britain: Its government gives the ABC a direct parliamentary grant of about $1.1-billion, not far off the CBC’s $929-million, and it is currently cutting that grant – albeit much more gently than the Conservatives are cutting the CBC’s. Australia’s right-of-centre government says the cut is a necessary contribution to balancing the budget; the opposition says it is politically motivated. So, we are in familiar, if more temperate, political territory here. What is different about Australia, however, is the broadcasting eco- system: The ABC is just one player in an environment where commercial broadcasters produce a great deal of distinctive and popular Australian programming. There is no Canadian equivalent to Neighbours or Home and Away, the 31- and 28-season veterans of a robust market for popular Australian television drama. Lead by the networks Seven, Nine and Ten, the commercial TV sector also produces a great deal of local reality and lifestyle programming, often replacing the U.S. franchises that Canadians watch with Australian versions. Of course, Seven, Nine and Ten feature many U.S. and British shows, but where CTV’s and Global’s programming schedules look like American clones, the Australian ones have a distinctive local feel. In this context, the ABC can more effectively distinguish itself as a non-commercial alternative, offering more ambitious dramas, documentaries and public affairs programming while nurturing categories such as comedy and children’s. Meanwhile, the CBC, often criticized by public broadcasting stalwarts for “dumbing down,” has to be all things Canadian to all people. (At least in English Canada: Radio-Canada has a great deal more ability to distinguish itself as the public alternative to Quebec’s vibrant commercial culture.) Like the CBC, the ABC does a sideline in aboriginal language programming, but otherwise it has the distinct advantage of working in a unilingual country that is physically smaller than Canada and geographically isolated: It can focus its efforts on its public mandate, while the CBC is spread thin between the public alternative and the Canadian alternative. Canadians, and their parliamentarians, are great at holding the CBC’s feet to the fire, demanding to know what they get for their billion dollars. They don’t often consider the rest of the broadcasting system which, according the Broadcasting Act, exists “to safeguard, enrich and strengthen the cultural, political, social and economic fabric of Canada” and to “encourage the development of Canadian expression …” That’s the mandate of the whole system, not simply the CBC. Nor do most Canadians remember, if they ever knew, that the commercial side also receives significant amounts of public money, because of the tax credits and production subsidies that fund Canadian programming wherever it shows up. So, one lesson to be learned from Australia is that we should not consider the CBC in splendid isolation, but also should ask what Canada’s commercial networks have done for us lately. The other thing worth considering is what happens next. Australia has succeeded in creating more culturally distinctive television because of its distance from both the United States and Europe. Australians watch lots of foreign programming too – the commercial networks there are studded with Hollywood shows and the ABC carries foreign programming more prominently than the CBC does – but they can take this content on their own terms: Neither the American networks nor the BBC are beaming competing signals directly into Australian living rooms. Of course, Internet television changes that and Australia will increasingly look like Canada, a place where local content is often swamped by global content. Can Canada continue to ask its commercial networks to honour content regulations that are not being imposed on Internet services such as Netflix? Can new media be asked to contribute to Canadian production and distribution the way old media has? Maybe we should ask what they are thinking down under.(via Dan Say, alt.tv.networks.cbc via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. These are some radio program podcasts on eclectic subjects from various sources that I've found particularly interesting, edifying and diverting as I'm "plodding along" in my regular exercise regimen. In addition to the websites referenced, these podcasts generally also are made available through some other sources, such as iTunes and TuneIn. Enjoy! "Into the Light" --- FUTURE TENSE - ABC Radio National/Radio Australia Author Paul Bogard worries that we’re losing our sense of darkness, that our taste for banishing the night is turning Earth into the planet that never sleeps. In Europe and North America the amount of light in the night sky continues to increase by around six per cent a year. But new forms of lighting technology – LEDs in particular – promise a more sophisticated and controlled approach to urban illumination: street lights that sense our presence and automatically adjust the brightness around us; and responsive computer lighting systems that turn illumination into a distinctive architectural feature, not just an urban utility. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/into-the-light/6276690 (John Figliozzi, March 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 17840, March 29 at 0119, R. Australia is still here as A-15 starts, poor signal, rather than alternate 13630. 17840 has however been holding up well late into the night on occasion. Viz.: 17840, April 1 at 0535, R. Australia at VG level here after local ``midnite``, and the OSOB; with some hum which turns out to be just from the phoner clip at the moment, goes away showing how clear the signal is. Also good on // 15240, poor on 15415, in accordance with different azimuths. May 17840 keep up like this! It`s the one at 21-09 on 70 degree azimuth aimed right at us, like 9580 at 09-21; just needs agreeable propagation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. ABC Radio Australia vs China Radio International 0700-0900 UT: 0700-0800 on 17840 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English ABC Radio Australia // 15240, 15415 0800-0805 on 17840 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac French ABC Radio Australia // 15240, 15415 0805-0900 on 17840 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English ABC Radio Australia // 15240, 15415 0700-0900 NF 17840 KAS 100 kW / 174 deg to SoAs Chinese CRI, ex 17520 A-14: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/04/radio-australia-vs-china-radio.html IRAN vs AUSTRALIA, VOIRI/IRIB vs ABC Radio Australia in A-15: 1153-1450 on 11955 KAM 500 kW / 085 deg to WeAs Dari VOIRI/IRIB 1153-1450 on 12065 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English R Australia 1423-1520 on 12085 AHW 250 kW / 026 deg to CeAs Russian VOIRI/IRIB 1423-1520 on 12085 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English R Australia http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/04/voiriirib-vs-abc-radio-australia.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, April 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 11590, March 29 at 1423, S Asian song, good signal. HFCC shows this is the new English frequency from RBA, 1325-1530, 100 kW, 305 degrees from Kununurra; replaces 12115 which started at 1400. In B-14, 11590 was in S Asian languages only. 11590, March 30 at 1344, RBA is NOT in English as registered in HFCC for KNX HCA HCA, but S Asian song and talk; 1357 YL with a PO Box, namaskar; 1400 seems to switch language with OM announcer, but still not English; 1415 S Asian song, 1419 still language. Final check at 1458, now it`s in English! Seems that RBA totally jumbles scheduling from one season to the next, becoming ever more complex, but it`s all spelt out on their website, http://www.reachbeyond.org.au/site/DefaultSite/filesystem/documents/publications/Reach%20Beyond%20Australia%20A15%20Program%20Schedule.pdf or more conveniently reached beyond: http://www.reachbeyond.org.au/programming/broadcast-schedule 11590 is axually in English only at 1445-1530 daily while at 1330-1400 it`s Hindi, 1400-1445 variety of other languages. 11590 is designated for ``South Asia - South``. But there is another frequency, 15340 for ``South Asia - North``, which now ALSO has English at 1445-1530, some of it matching 11590, some of it not! This one starts at 1300 in various languages, 1415-1445 Urdu daily. I hear it at 1458 check, but very poor compared to 11590. There is only a 5-degree difference in azimuths, 305 on 11590, 310 on 15340, per HFCC A-15. I suppose the hymn medley runups will be heard from 1325 and 1255 respectively. 11590, April 2 at 1325, 1330, 1337, 1406, 1458 chex, no signal from RBA, where it`s supposed to be now with English after 1445 to S Asia. I tuned in at 1325 expecting to hear their hymn medley prélude. What happened to it? RA is still in well on 12085 altho admittedly from the opposite corner of the continent (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) {MOVED to 12075, still announcing 11590} ** AUSTRIA. 6155, April 1 at 0538, Ö1 is still playing some lite classical wake-up music which makes it onto the token 75-minute SW broadcast, now shifted one UT hour earlier, so a little more darkness on path and a little better reception, soon to be lost as we progress further into summer. Only poor signal not enough to enjoy, plus a LAH presumably from Fides, Bolivia, always off-frequency to hi side. Yet the Moosbrunn SW transmitters are run for many foreign clients, following in the footsteps of Uzbekistan, dissing its own broadcasts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA [and non]. 6070, S=9+25dB signal "DARC Radio" single hour, repeat of Sunday 6070 ORS Moosbrunn Austria 100 kW at 09-10 UT, on Mondays 15-16 UT in DST, via Channel 292, Ingolstadt Rohrbach, 1510 UT March 30 (Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX, 1515 UT March 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BAHRAIN. March 25: Radio Bahrain in Arabic to ME 2040 on 9745 Abu Hayan in CUSB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR2HFXKgvos&feature=youtu.be Radio Bahrain in Arabic to ME 2045 on 9745 Abu Hayan in CUSB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdIb4qNN78I&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) 9745, Carrier + USB, Radio Bahrain – Abu Hyan (Presumed), 0042, 3.28.15, in Arabic. Program of Mid East music with male announcer. Poor (Mark Taylor, Madison WI, NASWA Flashsheet March 29 via DXLD) March 28: Radio Bahrain in Arabic to ME 0327 on 9745 Abu Hayan in CUSB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2XqRwmdjmk&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** BANGLADESH. 23 03 2015: Bangladesh Betar in English to WeEu 1858 on 13580 Dhaka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xzRRsm09cE&feature=youtu.be 23 03 2015 Bangladesh Betar in Bangla to WeEu 1915 on 13580 Dhaka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUPbhEQSBoY&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) 13580, Radio Bangladesh Betar (Dhaka), 1856-1900, escuchada el 31 de marzo de 2015 en inglés con emisión de música pop melódica, locutor con comentarios anunciando dirección web y frecuencia, fin de emisión, SINPO 55444 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15505, March 31 at 1358 open carrier, 1359 BB IS, very poor with flutter; timesignal almost hits the mark today!!! 5+1 ending at 1359:59; probably a fluke. 15505, April 1 at 1359, BB open carrier, poor with flutter: time for less than one complete IS before mistimesignal intervenes ending at 1359:33.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. Minsk Kalodzicy 11730 kHz once again with some spurious outlets, maybe combined 15 x 5 kW former jamming units BELARUS - or is it 2 x 75 kW combined unit. At 1718 UT noted spurious signals again, nominal 11725 to 11735 kHz range looks good AM-wise, but noted also in like FM mode some scratching signals on 11678 - 11689 11700 - 11712 and upperside also 11747 - 11760 11773 - 11783 kHz Minsk Kalodzicy site, according to Google Earth historical satellite images in past 2011-2013 years, some older jamming 5 kW + antenna gear, and MW jammer masts near the transmitter building scrapped now, located mostly in south-eastern corner of the area, also on the border of the soil estate erected new buildings (Wolfgang Büschel, March 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 29/03/2015 from 0500 to 0555 UT accepted Belarusian radio Belarusian language at a frequency of 7255 kHz (Kolodishchi, Belarus 125 kW). Admission to the good during the entire time, SINPO: 45444. Strange, usually in the Belarusian Radio summer season uses the frequency 11930 kHz. Maybe tomorrow will go at this frequency? (Receiver: Degen 1103; Antenna: Telescopic; Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX Mar 29 via DXLD) Yes; See VATICAN Belarussian Radio 1 in Belarussian on winter frequency from March 29 0400-0700 on 7255 MNS 125 kW / 072 deg to EaEu, instead of 11930 A-14, videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/belarussian-radio-1-in-belarussian-on.html Radio Belarus Minsk from March 29 also on new frequency 1100-1400 on 11730 MNS 100 kW / 246 deg to WeEu Belarussian 1400-1600 on 11730 MNS 100 kW / 246 deg to WeEu Russian 1600-1800 on 11730 MNS 100 kW / 246 deg to WeEu Polish 1705-1800 NF 11930 MNS 125 kW / 252 deg to WeEu Polish, ex 7255 in A- 14 1800-1940 on 11730 MNS 100 kW / 246 deg to WeEu German 1800-1940 NF 11930 MNS 125 kW / 252 deg to WeEu German, ex 7255 in A- 14 1940-2000 on 11730 MNS 100 kW / 246 deg to WeEu German Tue/Wed/Fri 1940-2000 NF 11930 MNS 125 kW / 252 deg to WeEu German Tue/Wed/Fri, ex 7255 in A-14 1940-2000 on 11730 MNS 100 kW / 246 deg to WeEu French Sat-Mon/Thu 1940-2000 NF 11930 MNS 125 kW / 252 deg to WeEu French Sat-Mon/Thu, ex 7255 in A-14 2000-2020 on 11730 MNS 100 kW / 246 deg to WeEu Spanish Sat-Mon/Thu 2000-2020 NF 11930 MNS 125 kW / 252 deg to WeEu Spanish Sat-Mon/Thu, ex 7255 in A-14 2000-2020 on 11730 MNS 100 kW / 246 deg to WeEu English Tue/Wed/Fri 2000-2020 NF 11930 MNS 125 kW / 252 deg to WeEu English Tue/Wed/Fri, ex 7255 in A-14 2020-2200 on 11730 MNS 100 kW / 246 deg to WeEu English 2020-2200 NF 11930 MNS 125 kW / 252 deg to WeEu English, ex 7255 in A- 14 2200-2300 on 11730 MNS 100 kW / 246 deg to WeEu Russian 2200-2300 NF 11930 MNS 125 kW / 252 deg to WeEu Russian, ex 7255 in A- 14 (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1767 [English], DXLD) ** BELARUS. Minsk, warm-up carrier on air 1450 UT, start at 1500 UT instead ???? 6080 1600-2204 28E,29S,39N MNS 150 127 0 158 Belarus BLR BTC SDT. S=9+20dB -49dBm (Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX, 1515 UT March 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BIELORRUSIA, 11730, Radio Belarus (Minsk-Kalodicy), 2019-2022, escuchada el 30 de marzo de 2015 en inglés a locutor con comentarios e ID “Radio Belarus”, emisión de música pop local, SINPO 44433 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11730 at 16-18 UT slot, plus 2-3 spurious either side, reported in past weeks, also occurred today, see older TopNews files on wwdxc archive. Boring to report on this failure hardware (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. BELARUS/TURKEY/USA: Bad mixture on 11930 kHz channel at 1710-1715 UT, when heard - probably - ? Spanish from R Martí GB site? underneath, but ahead NOT Spanish service from TRT Emirler Turkey heard, latter is real Radio Belarus Polish service noted at 1720 UT segment instead!! Minsk is request registered one hour later from 1800 UT in HFCC table (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see UNIDENTIFIED 11930 ** BHUTAN [non]. 15235, Athmeeya Yatra Radio, (Nauen), 1434-1438, escuchada el 25 de marzo de 2015 en Dzongka o butanés (Lengua nacional de Bután), a locutor con comentarios, SINPO 45444 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) a.k.a. Gospel for Asia (gh) ** BOLIVIA [and non]. RÁDIO BINACIONAL --- Quando a gente imagina que já viu ou melhor já ouviu de tudo, é um ledo engano. Semana passada fui trabalhar no Município de Costa Marques, fronteira do Brasil com a Bolívia, a cerca de 300 km daqui de alta Floresta d'Oeste. Ao mexer no rádio da viatura, deparei-me com a Rádio Kairós, frequência de 106.30 MHz. Até ai tudo bem, só que a emissora está localizada em um pequeno vilarejo localizado do outro lado do rio Guaporé na Bolívia, denominado Bela Vista, constituído de várias palafitas, onde funcionam algumas lojas de importados. Sua programação evangélica era um misto de px e mx em português e espanhol e os comerciais eram todos em português de vários comércios de Costa Marques, São Francisco do Guaporé e região, por sinal bastante propagandas. Indaguei o gerente do hotel onde estávamos hospedados, que me falou que aquela rádio pertencia a um certo cidadão de Costa Marques, que já estava cansado de ter sua "emissora"; fechada várias vezes pela Polícia Federal e resolveu portanto migrar para a Bolívia e se instalar lá. Como os colegas de equipe que estavam comigo, sabiam que sou radioescuta, começaram a pegar no meu pé, dizendo que eu tive o privilégio de ouvir a primeira rádio binacional do Brasil kkkk. 73, (Joviniano Furtado Neto/PW8001SWL, Alta Floresta d’Oeste - RO, Brasil, 11 55’ 52.4’’S 61 59’ 13.5’’O, March 30, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6040, RB2, 0925, presumed with threshold talk by a man, mostly unreadable. 26 March, David Sharp NSW. 9565.05, SRDA, 0745, long winded sermon, // 9586.9. 26 March, David Sharp NSW. 9586.9, SRDA, 0735, sermon, fair signal but peaking to good level. 26 March, David Sharp NSW. 9645.38, Rádio Bandeirantes, 0730, lively conversation, into ads or similar, fair. 26 March, David Sharp NSW. 9819.68, Rádio 9 de Julho, 0720, Brasopops, talk by a man, very good. 26 March, David Sharp NSW. 11764.72, SRDA, 0753, noted in passing and // to 31m outlets. Poor. 26 March, David Sharp NSW. 11780.11, RNdA, 0800, strong with news by a man. 26 March, David Sharp NSW. 15190.15, R. Inconfidência, 0709, tentative with threshold bits of audio but never more than JBA. 26 March (David Sharp, NSW, April 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Duas emissoras brasileiras voltam a transmitir em ondas tropicais Após vários meses inativas, duas emissoras brasileiras regressaram às ondas tropicais. Tratam-se das Rádios Canção Nova, de Cachoeira Paulista (SP), em 4825 kHz, e Iguatemi, de Osasco (SP), em 4975 kHz. As informações são de Luis Valério Valladão, que reside em Três Corações (MG). De acordo com o Luis ambas chegam com sinal forte lá no Sul de Minas Gerais. Aqui, na zona rural de São José de Piranhas (PB), pude constatar o retorno da Canção Nova, hoje, por volta das 0200 pelo Tempo Universal, e eis que a recepção era muito boa. Vale lembrar que esse é um problema recorrente de muitas emissoras brasileiras que transmitem em ondas curtas e tropicais, ora estão no ar, ora estão inativas (Lenildo da Silva, São José de Piranhas, Paraiba, Brasil via Paraiba DX http://paraibadx.blogspot.com.br/ No Mundo do Dexismo ====================================================================== Aqui eu escutei ambas no dia 27/03 das 0900-1030 UT: 4975, Rádio Iguatemi, Osasco, São Paulo, Brasil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E50tpTrUujs 4825, Rádio Canção Nova, Cachoeira Paulista, São Paulo, Brasil http://youtu.be/bGEstJeePgM (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brasil, - See more at: http://www.dexismointernacional.com.br/ March 27, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) Nothing visible on these channels on March 28 in 0800 to 1010 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Who provides machine translation: Two Brazilian issuers return to transmit in tropical waves After several months inactive, two Brazilian issuers returned to tropical waves. They are the Radio Canção Nova, Cachoeira Paulista (SP) in 4825 kHz, and Radio Iguatemi, in Osasco (SP) in 4975 kHz. The information is of Luis Valerio Valladão, who resides in Três Corações (MG). According to Luis both come with strong signal there in southern Minas Gerais. Here, in the countryside of São José de Piranhas (PB), I could see the return of the Radio Canção Nova, today, around 02:00 at UTC, and behold, the reception was very good. Remember that this is a recurring problem in many Brazilian stations broadcasting on short and tropical waves, sometimes in the air, why are inactive (via Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) ISSUERS --- what a great new synonym for broadcasters! (gh, DXLC) Um 0630 auch wieder nur zwei dünne Trägerlein zu sehen. 4974.981 kHz -96 dBm Rádio Iguatemi? 4824.925 kHz -92 dBm Rádio Cancao Nova? +CODAR broadband Schrapp Schrapp (Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Subject: Re: [A-DX] zwei Brasilianer . . . auf 4974.955kHz Träger SNR -128/-140dBm um 2109UTC, evtl. Radio Iguatemi? auf 4824.912kHz SNR -116/-143dBm ebenfalls hübsch, evtl. Radio Canção Nova? -- (Frank - DD4WH, QTH - Dresden, Germany Rx/Ant remote - Perseus SDR & K9AY Rx/Ant local - Minima homebrew Rx & AAA-1 Bulgarian active Antenna with double loop, March 29 (via Wolfgang Büchel, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4885, Rádio Clube do Pará, Belém, 0540-0620, 02-04, Brazilian songs. Good signal here in the early morning today. 34433. (Méndez) 5970, Rádio Itatiaia, Belo Horizone, 0610-0623, 02-04, Portuguese, comments. 13221. (Méndez) 9725, Rádio RB2 Curitiba, 0503-0625, 02-04, Religious, program "Com a Mãe Aparecida, Santuário Nacional". // 6040 RB2, 6135, Rádio Aparecida, 9630 Rádio Aparecida, 9819.8 Rádio 9 de Julho, 11855, Rádio Aparecida and 11935 Radio RB2. 24322. (Méndez) 15190, Rádio Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte, 1947-2003, 31-03, Portuguese, comments, identification: "Rádio Inconfidência". 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Grundig Satellit 500, Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Tecsun PL-880, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4885, April 2 at 0540, music audible under CODAR and local storm noise, so R. Clube do Pará is active for a change (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4985/11815, R Brasil Central, Goiânia, GO, has been off since Sep 2014. I sent an e-mail to the station asking for information, if they have left the SW and here the reply in my translation: ”Hello, the 11815 and 4985 kHz transmitters are in maintenance. Thank you for your attention. Sincerely, Laid Ribeiro.” Hope that was true and R Brasil Central will return to the air soon (Manuel Méndez, Spain, DSWCI DX Window April 1 via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) If so, 11815 will be blasted by spur from Brasília! (gh) ** BRAZIL. 11815 & 11745 & 11710, March 27 at 0530, crackling spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB are still audible. 11710 trace, 11745 & 11815 poor, March 28 at 0546 check, crackling spurs still emanate from the defective 11780.15v 250 kW transmitter of RNA/RNB. 11745 & 11815, March 31 at 0531 check, crackling spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB are still audible, poor-fair level. 11745 & 11815, March 31 at 2355, crackling spurs from RNA 11780.1v are audible already, and a trace on 11710. 11710 & 11745 & 11815, April 2 at 0513, crackling spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB, the closer ones stronger (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. March 23: R. Aparecida in Portuguese to Brasil 0600 on R. RB 2 freq 11935 Curitiba // 11855 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMV-1e-sT-I&feature=youtu.be R. Aparecida in Portuguese to Brasil 0600 on R. RB 2 freq 11935 Curitiba // 9630, 11855 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSAPF9X_wr0&feature=youtu.be R. Aparecida in Portuguese to Brasil 0630 on R.RB 2 freq 11935 Curitiba // 9630, 11855 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5p_fyN3rOE&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. BRAZIL 15190.080 Rádio Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte, MG mit schönem zwei Männer Gleichklang und Guitarrenmusik, sehr schmeichelnd und angenehm meinem nicht so taufrischem Befinden heute Morgen. S=6 -91 dBm, aber immerhin schöne klare Audio. wb (Wolfgang Büschel, 0724 UT March 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL [non]. Recebi um contato da Voz da América no dia 13.03 informando do desejo de um bate-papo via telefone sobre rádio, e as atividades desenvolvidas na radioescuta. Logo em seguida, telefonaram- me e em conjunto foi produzido este material. A entrevistadora, Daniele Stescki brasileira (paranaense), que trabalha em Washington VoA soube conduzir bem esta conversa, que foi desenvolvida em poucos minutos. O resultado está disponibilizado no site da VoA no seguinte link: http://www.voaportugues.com/content/ouvinte-brasileiro-fala-sobre-a-sua-experiencia-com-a-onda-curta/2688145.html Postado por DXWays-br, Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP, DXways-br PESQUISA EXPERIMENTAL NA RADIOESCUTA (SWL / DX) - Rudolf Grimm (PY2- 81502), São Bernardo SP (GG66rg) / BRASIL - Membro: DX Clube do Brasil / LABRE SP / CWJF http://dxways-br.blogspot.com.br/ - See more at: http://www.dexismointernacional.com.br/index.php/radio-escuta/item/229-voz-da-america-servico-portugues-para-a-africa (via Daniel Wyllyans, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BULGARIA. Reports on the March 28 relay of Global 24 on 9525: 9525 faded out here around 2115 UT, but still audible via Twente Web SDR http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ for WOR broadcast from 2130 UT (Tony Molloy, Bolton, UK, CCW SDR4+ and CCW HF Active Antenna, @swlistener, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Faded out for me in Southport, UK too. A can see a carrier on my SDR and hear audio fading in sometimes but unlistenable. I could hear it on the Twente SDR with some interference, listening in USB mode made it better (Stephen Cooper, ibid.) Hello DXers, Listening to Glenn Hauser on 9525 kHz around 2150 UT with fair to good reception in Cairo, Egypt, SIO 333 with WOR with news from Romania and Global 24 off the air at 2200. Here's a link of the recording of WOR on 9525 kHz as received in Cairo, Egypt: http://youtu.be/ar6VqEJ05o8 (Tarek Zeidan, Cairo, Egypt, Sent from my iPad, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9525, March 28 at 2012, as expected, no signal audible here from Global 24 via Secretbrod, so at 2055 I tune in the Twente, Netherlands remote instead. No signal there either! Just wideband whine on the 31m band, something wrong with the receiver? But I leave it on 9525 and it pops on at *2057. As a second-hand reception, I can`t be sure whether that was what the transmitter did, or the receiver did. In time to hear Blues Radio International closing with Boca Ratón FL address; 2059 ``Global 24 on WRMI`` ID (NOT: still using old recordings). And into `Feature Story News` for 5 minutes starting with the NYC fire which makes me suspect it`s from yesterday. 2105 Global 24 Radio promo, like us on Facebook; and very familiar music fill interspersed with ads: ``RESPECT``, 2108 SDR from Universal et al., ``Mashed Potatoes``; 2111 ``Mrs. Robinson``; 2114 Ears to Our World; 2115 waltz theme and `News Review from European News Network`. Lead story refers to plane crash being ``yesterday``, so apparently recorded three days ago, usual Wednesday produxion. So far reception via Twente has been very good! But at 2121, some local noise starts cutting on and off irregularly, mostly on, like something shorting in the electrical lines around, bad transformer. 2123 lets up a little, then worsens again. 2126, ENN concludes with ``Out on a Song``, some retro artist. 2129 promo another ENN program (which isn`t on G24 or SW, AFAIK), `Anything Goes`, on Mondays and Fridays. 2130.5 Global 24 ID ``on 9395 kHz``, also outdated; 2131:09 (with webcast delay), start WORLD OF RADIO 1766 and played to completion at 2200. The noise bursts continue to QRM. At 2145 ACI also cuts on, i.e. 9530 with HCJB`s Radio Akhbar Mufriha, 250 kW, 27 degrees from ASCENSION. I`ve been listening with relatively wide (default?) bandwidth on the remote, but now narrow it to lessen this and off-tune to 9524, which helps. Still it gets worse at 2155. What about from next week in A-15? G24/BUL still isn`t registered. HFCC shows that HCJB/ASC will be gone from 9530, but 9525 will have CRI Russian from 19 to 21, aimed NW from Beijing site, so that will be no good for Bulgaria around Eurasia during that bihour (this Saturday start scheduled at 1800 with two hours of `The Rock Pile`). Will WOR stay at 2130 or shift to 2030? TBA (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) neither – 9525 not on the air SECRETLAND, Global 24 via Secretbrod on March 28: The Rock Pile 1800-2000 on 9525 SCB 100 kW / 030 deg to EaEu English Blues Radio International 2000-2100 on 9525 SCB 100 kW / 030 deg to EaEu English Global 24 News + World of Radio 2100-2200 on 9525 SCB 100 kW / 030 deg to EaEu English http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/global-24-via-secretbrod-on-sat-march-28.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via DXLD) ** BULGARIA. [and non]. Spaceshuttle imminent via Blgaria: Radio Spaceshuttle on 9600 kHz, 31mb Sunday 29nd of March 2015 1800-1900 UT. Radio Spaceshuttle International P.O.Box 2702 NL: 6049 ZG Herten The Netherlands A little fee (2 euros) for return postage (for full info printed QSLs) is needed! Quick response and communication is possible by e-mail: spaceshuttleradio@yahoo.com Best Regards!, Dick of Radio Spaceshuttle http:\\spaceshuttleradio.freeservers.com (Dick Spacewalker, 1608 UT March 29, HCDX via DXLD via gh, 1756 UT March 29, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) Hi Glenn, Unfortunately CRI are also on that channel in English, so they're fighting it out at the moment, and it's difficult to hear them clearly here in the UK!:-( CRI website is showing the following now for A-15: China Radio International 1800 - 1900 UT, 9600.0/13760.0 kHz (Alan Gale, UK, 1808 UT March 29, dxldyg via DXLD) CRI this hour only being 500 kW, 318 degrees NW from Beijing site. Rather poor planning there (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Totally blocked by CRI in English, bad frequency choice 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, 1817 UT, ibid.) Well, try the 2nd harmonic 19200 which Ivo was hearing last week, tho probably not propagating beyond the neighborhood (Glenn, ibid.) CRI English very strong 1800 onwards. Spaceshuttle in the background weak. No armchair listening :-) (Jari in southern Finland Savolainen, 1821 UT, ibid.) Radio Spaceshuttle in English via Secretbrod on Sunday, March 29: 1800-1900 on 9600 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg to WeEu, TOTALLY BLOCKED BY CRI ENGLISH http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/radio-spaceshuttle-in-english-vs-cri-in.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, 1933 UT, dxldyg via DXLD) Spaceshuttle's band and frequency plan from 5th of April! Hi, because of interference from CRI on 9600 kHz we shall move to: Radio Spaceshuttle, 13800 kHz, 22mb Sundays starting 5th of April 2015 1800-1900 UT. Radio Spaceshuttle International P.O.Box 2702 NL: 6049 ZG Herten The Netherlands A little fee (2 euros) for return postage (for full info printed QSLs) is needed! Quick response and communication is possible by e-mail: spaceshuttleradio@yahoo.com Best Regards! Dick of Radio Spaceshuttle http:\\spaceshuttleradio.freeservers.com HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) 13800 inaudible here (gh, OK) ** BULGARIA. SECRETLAND, Denge Kurdistan via very old transmitter in Secretbrod, March 29: 1400-1600 on 11510 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish plus 2nd harmonic 23010; plus spurs 11490/11470/11530/11550, co-ch NoKorea Reform Radio 1430-1530: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/denge-kurdistan-via-very-old-tx-in.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) ** BULGARIA. Oromo service brokered by WRN via Spaceline Ltd. in Kostinbrod, Bulgaria heard after 1700 UT, mentioned a lot of Yemen clashes and Iran presure negotiation in Switzerland. 1710 UT. 1700- 1730 UT, S=9+20 or -70dBm in Germany backlobe signal. "Dimtse Radio Arena" program mentioned in Aoki Nagoya Japan list (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WTFK? Must be 11855 (gh) ** CAMBODIA [non]. CLANDESTINE, New frequencies of clandestine broadcasts in A-15: Voice of Khmer M'Chas Srok: 1130-1200 on 17860 DB 200 kW / 125 deg to SEAs Khmer Thu/Sun, ex daily A-14 (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via DXLD) March 29: Voice of Khmer M'Chas Srok in Khmer 1149 on 17860 Dushanbe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05KC2EfAXVI&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** CANADA. 7230.0-LSB, March 28 at 0552, XL3A is making his contact #710 in the WPX DX Contest, but whence? QRZ.com shows: XL3A, Ron Vander Kraats, 9 Jopling Avenue South, Islington, ON M9B 3P4, Canada; QSL: VE3AT --- who, AAMOF, has exactly the same name and address. But XL3A is so much more exotic a prefix. Hambands have continued to be crammed this weekend tnx to the contest, but with the MARTINIQUE log, this is about the extent of my monitoring of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Radio Canada International to return to air Wednesday, APRIL 1, 2015 4:00 PM In a strange turnaround, the Stephen Harper liberal government in Canada has approved the return to air of Radio Canada International. Funding has been restored and a rebuild of the Sackville transmission site will commence immediately. We contacted Ian McFarland at his cosy retirement townhouse in Tofino, Canada where he commented, "If they expect me to come out of retirement to run this operation, well I am good and ready.... I still have some good years left in me..." CBC President and general operations manager Celine Dion was not available for comment... -- (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) The newbuilt Sackville site will be ready April 1st 2016 (Jari Savolainen, Finland, ibid.) Exactly - they will be broadcasting in 27 languages including Esperanto... and, this just in, Keith Perron will be the head of broadcasting (Colin, ibid.) ** CANADA. The Canadian Broadcast Corp. Is cutting 244 jobs in part of a strategy to eliminate up to 1,500 jobs across the country. The government-funded broadcaster facing budget constraints is trimming back local news services in the latest move that affects English and French-language stations. No stations would close and local radio programming is being maintained but evening newscasts would be shortened as well as on Radio One morning shows beginning in the fall, said Jenifer McGuire, editor-in-chief. The cutbacks would reduce operating costs by $15 milllion while still employing 1,100 people in 29 stations nationally and CBC's service in the North. (Via The Ledger - Sunday, March 29, 2015 www.theledger.com Lakeland Florida via Bruce McGibbon, FL, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) ** CANADA [and non]. KATE TAYLOR: WHAT AUSTRALIA CAN TEACH US ABOUT CANADIAN TV --- see AUSTRALIA [and non] ** CHINA. Re WOR 1766; do yu mean CRI has a program in Icelandic! Hard to believe! In all my years of shortwave, I have never known any station to broadcast in Icelandic on SW, except that station from Iceland itself, which I always considered sort of a utility station. I would really like to hear this, just for the novelty value. Can I hear it on line? Is there any site, in English, where I can get a full list of CRI languages, whether or not I can hear them? (Tim Hendel, AL, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Haven`t found it on site, but certainly not on SW. I did search out this undated article by Keith Perron mentioning Icelandic, et al. (gh) CHINA RADIO INTERNATIONAL --- A BOTTOMLESS PIT OF WASTE http://www.pcjmedia.com/home/1-latest-news/207-china-radio-international-vers-radio-moscow-ussr Radio Moscow changed its name years ago and became Voice Of Russia. But yet China Radio International, which has gone through name changes itself. First as XNCR, then Radio Peking, Radio Beijing, and today China Radio International. There are some simularities between the two. Now, while it's true CRI does not have near the languages Radio Moscow broadcast in, the amount of what I would like to call strange languages is almost the same. Meaning picking languages no matter if anyone is listening or not. Let us take two examples. A few years back CRI added Dutch and Icelandic. The Dutch service of CRI has a staff of 29 people, who produce 1 hour a day. Icelandic has a staff of 24, who produce 1 hour a day. How big is the audience? CRI will tell you they have an audience of 16 million. The Netherlands population is just over 16 million. What they mean is they have access to 16 million people. The real figure for the Dutch Service of CRI is less than 500 people a week. The Dutch website of CRI has less than 1000 visitors a month. Icelandic is even more funny. Since the language service started, they have received 2 emails. The website site has less than 100 visitors a month. As for listeners? Internally they suspect less than 20 a week. China Radio International broadcasts in 56 languages. Their lowest audience numbers are for: Albanian, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto (yes, Esperanto), Estonian, Tagalog, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, and Swedish. It's now the time of year the leadership of China Radio International needs to report to the central government on their performance. But the figures they pass to the central government are beefed up. Figures for listeners is population of the country`s language, not the actual audience size. Overinflated is an understatement. For a number of years now, China Radio International has said its global audience was over 200 million a week. This is the figure they give publically and to the central government. But the reality is, it's less than 15 million a week. A few years ago I remember when Li Dan, then president of CRI, came to the English service and said "your figures are too low. Just count every email and letter no matter if it's from a listener or not". Well, this exactly what they did. I remember bursting out laughing. CRI has so much waste, it's not funny. A motor pool of 87 Mercedes- Benz, BMWs, and 25 buses, which is fully staffed and with its own repair garage. Still on staff are over 50 people whose job is to bring tapes to master control from the various language services. CRI stopped using tape in 1997, but they are still employed. What do they spend their time doing? Mostly drinking tea, reading newspapers and if they really have nothing to do, taking naps. This is only the tip of the iceberg. For many years, people having been wondering what CRI's annual budget is. The reality is, CRI does not even know this. The budget comes from various departments. Some comes from the Central Committee, Ministry of Cultur, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Propaganda, Ministry of Information Technology, Office of Membership of the Communist Party Of China and the Ministry of Trade. How much is it? No one knows. The government has been trying to find out how much money they get. But even the leadership at CRI has no idea. But some members of government have suggested figures. As of 2012, CRI has a staff over 8000. Compared to the 2004 figure of 4000, it has doubled. My source at CRI told me this week the central leadership have been trying to figure out how much money they get every year. A figure of 200 million US dollars a year has been floating around, but the actual figure is closer to 500 million US dollars a year when you take into account money that has no record. For many years now, the Central Committee has been trying to get the finances of CRI under control. Since 2002 they have been talking about downsizing, but CRI has not been truthful to the government about its finances. In 2002 the Central Government wanted to reduce CRI's staff to less than 2000 and cut 36 languages. But it didn't happen. CRI may be big in size compared to other international broadcasters. But the size of the audience does not match (Keith Perron, like all the stuff on the PCJ website, undated, which would be helpful, via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) Thanks, Glenn. I enjoyed the article by Keith Perron. Wonder where they even find those 24 Icelandic speakers, to broadcast (Tim Hendel, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammers, morning of March 28: 17830, March 28 at 1418, CNR1 jammer, poor with heavy flutter. Had not noticed this inband one before, but I bet it`s against VOA Tibetan --- yes, Aoki shows via Tinang, Philippines, this hour only 17585, March 28 at 1418, CNR1 jammer, fair with heavy flutter. This one is vs VOA Tibetan via Lampertheim, Germany 16920, March 28 at 1418, CNR1 jammer, good with heavy flutter 15970, March 28 at 1419, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter 15745, March 28 at 1419, CNR1 jammer, good with heavy flutter 14980, March 28 at 1421, CNR1 jammer, fair-good with flutter 14920, March 28 at 1421, CNR1 jammer but dead air until 1422 modulation, good with flutter 12560, March 28 at 1424, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9455, Firedrake / Firedragon, 2127, 3.28.15. Chinese traditional music jammer with occasional breakthrough of talk from Radio Free Asia in Mandarin from Saipan, MRA. Fair (Mark Taylor, Madison WI, NASWA Flashsheet March 29 via DXLD) 13920, March 29 at 1324, Chinese drama, CNR1 jammer mixing with RTTY. No time for a full 12-18 MHz bandscan today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EAST TURKISTAN OMAN [and non], 15310, BBCWS London in English from Oman relay site, and covered by WHITE NOISE local China mainland jamming, covered nearly wide 12 kHz bandwidth at 1359 UT March 29 (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. /SAIPAN-Mariana Islands, 9745 China mainland heavy jamming by FIREDRAKE Chinese national music against US propaganda IBB RFA Mandarin program. At 1810 UT on March 29 at S=9+35dB -41dBm signal strength here in southern Germany [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, March 29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DXLD) Wolfy, how come you refer only to USG stations as propaganda? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** CHINA [and non]. JAMMING, 7435 CHINA, 2124, atorando el servicio de Radio Free Asia en 7435 de 2100 a 2200 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Spain, Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Atorar not in my dixionary, but Google Translate comes up with the #1 definition: jam (gh) Date probably 3/29 AIR Delhi Chinese registration in A-15 yet: 11840 1130-1315 43,44 DEL 250 65 0 216 Zho IND AIR 13605 1130-1315 43-45 BGL 500 58 20 216 Zho IND AIR 15795 1130-1315 43,44 BGL 500 35 -25 216 Zho IND AIR Noted at 1300 UT today March 30: 11840 CNR China mainland jamming S=9+40dB strong 13605-empty, replaced by 17705 kHz? 15795 DRM mode weak here in Germany. 17705 CNR China mainland jamming S=9+45dB powerhouse so assumed probably this usage now: 17705 1130-1315 43-45 BGL 500 58 20 216 Zho IND AIR 73 wb df5sx wwdxc germany (Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) ** CHINA. 13890, March 30 at 1358, CNR1 jammer, good 13830, March 30 at 1358, CNR1 jammer, fair 16530, March 30 at 1359, CNR1 jammer, poor 16100, March 30 at 1359, CNR1 jammer, very good with flutter Quick scan of 12-18 MHz did not find any others, but I really started too late before hourend* and even so was putting off breakfast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) A-15 V of Tibet ahead of jamming, at 1407 UT, 15492 kHz MDG S=9 +70dBm and CNR Mainland jamming 15490 kHz underneath, S=7 -85dBm (Wolfgang Büschel, March 30, DXLD) 17570 kHz, VoA Tibetan, CNR jamming 14 kHz wide jamming signal against Lampertheim registration?, 1427 UT (Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX, 1515 UT March 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15115, March 31 at 1315, CNR1 jammer, heavy CCCCCCI, at least two programs in Chinese. This in A-15 is vs IBB Chinese-Mandarin at 13-15: first hour via Thailand, second via Philippines. 17735, March 31 at 1316, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter // 15115. Victim here is BBC Uzbek via Thailand during this semihour only, China continuing to interfere in the internal affairs of Uzbekistan, and no doubt all the //s are jammed too: listed as: 15330 & 17510, both Oman. Signal on 17735 strongly resembles in strength and fading the CRI EAST TURKISTAN channels 17560 & 17650 in French, 17630 in English. 18990, March 31 at 1326, JBA signal with flutter. Probably a CNR1 jammer, as RFA Tibetan via Kuwait in A-15 is again on this almost-dead band! HFCC and consequently Aoki show 18990 at 13-14 only on days 4 and 7 = Wed & Sat, but this is Tue. Other jumparound frequencies depending on which day of the week and which hour between 11 and 14 are: 18930, 18980, 19000, 19010. 15540, March 31 at 1339, CNR1 jammer, fair with het, off at 1340*. Very poor signal, presumed V. of Tibet continues on 15542. Preliminary Aoki A-15 shows jammed *15543 at 1200-1208 & 1306-1337, via TAJIKISTAN http://www.geocities.jp/binewsjp/ic/userlist1.txt (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13860, Extended schedule? HFCC doesn't have this 16-17 UT slot - at 1622 UT - of CRI / CNR Chinese music service from SZG powerhouse. 13860 1500-1600 29-31 SZG 500 315 --- Looks like a jamming program against whom? Or jammer parked here outside 22 mb? (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. /MARIANAS {Saipan} 9355, FIREDRAKE drums Chinese music, jamming at 1736 UT against RFA Mandarin program. In music peaks 25 kHz wide signal coverage. Same Firedrake music jamming also noted on 9745 kHz channel. S=9+30dB or -48dBm (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 19000, April 2 at 1338, JBA signal here, matching the Thursday 13-14 HFCC and Aoki schedules for RFA Tibetan via KUWAIT, and thus surely jammed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. TAIWAN, 7530, Praise Music Ministries (Tamsui District), 2128-2130, escuchada el 29 de marzo de 2015 en idioma Hakka o Chino a locutora con comentarios, SINPO 24332. 7530 Praise Music Ministries (Tamsui District), 2105-2109, escuchada el 31 de marzo de 2015 en Hakka a locutor con comentarios, SINPO 34333 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. VUELVE LA RADIO NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA by gruporadioescuchaargentino La emisora pública recobrará, desde el 6 de abril, uno de sus nombres tradicionales Lily Montes, subgerente de radio de Señal Colombia, explica que en la celebración de los 75 años la estación cambia de imagen y renueva su parrilla. Margarita Vidal liderará la franja informativa y Deysa Rayo presentará el programa “El atardecer”. ¿Por qué cree que no funcionó el nombre Señal Radio Colombia como marca? Porque nuestros oyentes han identificado desde 1940 la radio pública como Radiodifusora Nacional de Colombia y más adelante, en 2004, como Radio Nacional de Colombia. Son nombres tradicionales, que guardan la memoria histórica del país. El reto de Radio Nacional de Colombia es descentralizar su programación, ¿cómo piensan lograrlo? Estamos trabajando para abrir en 2015 un estudio en Pasto, que se uniría a los que están en Bucaramanga y Manizales. Con la nueva parrilla de programación, ¿quiénes llegarán a la emisora? Margarita Vidal liderará la franja informativa y de opinión de la mañana, su programa se llama Al banquillo con Margarita Vidal, y Deysa Rayo y Luisa Piñeros conducirán al programa El atardecer. Con el desarrollo tecnológico y la posibilidad de tener emisoras web, ¿cuál cree que es el futuro de la radio tradicional? La radio nunca va a desaparecer en Colombia porque somos un pueblo de radio. En la era digital sabemos que tenemos que ofrecer más contenidos 2.0, y a eso le estamos apostando. ¿Cómo acercarse a la independencia desde lo institucional? La radio pública está fuera de las polémicas personales o de las críticas sin fundamento. Ofrecemos a los oyentes las políticas públicas que generan un bienestar común. Estamos financiándonos con dineros del Fontic, por lo cual tenemos la garantía de tener independencia. Somos Estado y cubrimos las ramas del poder público. Al tener experiencia en radio y televisión, ¿qué plataforma prefiere al momento de trabajar? La radio tiene su encanto y la televisión es mi pasión. La magia está en servirles a los colombianos, y hacer buen periodismo requiere de entrega y dedicación. Lo que más la apasiona de la reportería. Llegar a sitios recónditos e identificar a Colombia. Y, sin duda, destapar la corrupción, porque no hay derecho a que algunos se queden con el pan diario de los colombianos. ¿Qué ha sido lo más extremo que ha hecho por su profesión? Llegar con los Escuadrones Móviles de Carabineros de la Policía Nacional a los sitios donde estaba tradicionalmente la guerrilla. En helicópteros de la Fuerza Pública desembarcamos con 1.000 uniformados en medio de un gigantesco operativo en Caquetá, Mitú y Vaupés. ¿Cuál es el personaje más difícil que ha entrevistado? Entrevistar a los niños siempre es difícil porque son de pocas palabras cuando están frente a las cámaras de televisión y mucho más cuando es para radio. De no ser periodista, ¿qué otra cosa le habría gustado estudiar? Creo que hubiese hecho la carrera diplomática de la Cancillería. ¿Cuáles son sus “hobbies”? Me gusta leer y siempre tengo un libro de análisis político. Un sueño por cumplir. Mi sueño es dirigir un noticiero de televisión (Nota y reportaje extraidos integramente de El Espectador, Colombia via GRA blog via DXLD) ** CONGO. 6115, Radio Congo, Brazaville, 1817-1830*, 25-03, French, news "Le journal". Interference from Voice of Turkey on 6120. 23432 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Tecsun PL-880 and Grundig Satellit 500, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6115, Radio Congo, Brazaville, 1805-1818*, 01-04, French, comments about Congo, identification: "Radio Congo". 23322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Grundig Satellit 500, Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Tecsun PL-880, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6165, March 29 at 0120, open carrier/dead air, while English is nominal on 6000; 0134 now both are modulating with an Arnie Coro non-DX talk. 11880 // 5040, March 29 at 2309, RHC English starting `DXers Unlimited`, Arnie Coro degraded voice quality on the phone after the studio-produced standard opening. 11880 is stronger but 5040 is louder (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 13605, March 29 at 1322, Spanish and music, as R. Martí has jumped from 13820 to 13605 for A-15; no jamming here, but wall-of-noise still on 13820, faking out the DentroCuban Jamming Command which is too out of it just to consult HFCC. Here I excerpt RM for A-15: [amended further below] 5980 07-10 6030 00-12 7365 00-03 7405 03-07 & 12-14 9565 20-24 9805 10-13 11930 14-24 13605 13-20 Or in time order by the two Greenville transmitters: 00-12 6030, 12-14 7405, 14-24 11930 00-03 7365, 03-07 7405, 07-10 5980, 10-13 9805, 13-20 13605, 20-24 9565. 13605, March 29 at 1936, R. Martí is still loud & clear here, as the lethargic DentroCuban Jamming Command keeps its wall-of-noise on ex- 13820. Also: 6030 & 7405, March 30 at 0556, wall-of-noise jamming and can`t detect any R. Martí beneath, which is usually possible on 7405 at least, so this being Monday, suspect RM has resumed a Monday-morning silent period. Yes! HFCC now shows day-2 is skipped at 03-07 on 7405, 07-09 on 5980, and 03-09 on 6030. Amend the full RM schedule I recently promulgated. Now if the DCJC would only catch on and let us hear Calgary or something else, but DHYB. 11930, March 30 at 1425, wall-of-noise jamming, maybe R. Martí JBA underneath it; while 13605 remains very good in clear with no jamming until the DCJC catch on that its nemesis is lingering no longer on 13820. 13820, March 31 at 1308, the incompetent DentroCuban Jamming Command for the third day is still wall-of-noise on the B-14 frequency which R. Martí quit for 13605, still loud and clear there. 13605, March 31 at 1941, DentroCuban Jamming Command finally hits R. Martí`s A-frequency instead of B-frequency 13820 as they were still doing this morning. RM is still atop the wall-of-noise and easily readable. Arnie must have finally got around to reading my logs ridiculing their incompetence; Sorry, Martí, but this was no secret, as in HFCC for all to see (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ALGERIA [non] ** CUBA [and non]. Re 15-12, SWAN ISLANDS: And perhaps Arnie forgot, or simply omitted the fact that for so many years there was a 24/7 carrier jammer from Cuba on 1142 kc/s, targeting 1140 WQBA, creating a piercing 2 kHz het on the high side of 1140 (Terry L Krueger, FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, used to be audible out here too. Arnie really doesn`t like to talk about jamming! I did once provoke him to do so and he justified it as necessary to keep bomb-making instruxions away from counter- revolutionaries (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 17630, March 29 at 1418, CRI English, good signal, lite flutter, new for A-15. HFCC shows the ubiquitous 308 degree antenna, 500 kW from Urumqi for Europe at 12-15. But also registered is CRI English via Mali, 100 kW at 85 degrees, at 14-16. No sign of a second signal here! I bet some list-loggers will again assume this is Mali instead of East Turkistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 18 kHz wide broadband signal: 15410 1400-1500 27-29 KAS 500 308 0 288 Chn CHN CRI RTC 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, March 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17630, CRI Urumqi, English 13 kHz wide broadband 13-1457 UT, S=9+35 - 42dBm (Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX, 1515 UT March 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13710, Kashi / Kashgar powerhouse, 26 kHz wide broadband CRI English 14-1457 UT S=9+30dB -46dBm (Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX, 1515 UT March 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR [non]. [Re 15-12:] ``** LIBERIA. 6050, ELWA, 0835, tentative, JBA with only rare bits of audio, partial hymn at 0840 makes me think it might be this. 21/3 (David Sharp, NSW, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non] Too late for Liberia, but HCJB signs on circa 0830 (gh, DXLD)`` 6050 ELWA --- Hi Glenn, Previous log on this freq was not HCJB, which normally puts in a very good signal. This was someone else. 73s. Sent from (David Sharp's iPhone, NSW, April 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Then, two other possibilities in Aoki, tho a bit early for them: 6050 0600-1000 TIB PBS Xizang Chi Lhasa-Baidi 124-7 6050 0500-1500 MLA RTM Asyik FM Mal Kajang 1-7 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR [non]. REINO UNIDO, 7300, Radio Akhbar Mufriha (Woofferton), 2207-2215, escuchada el 29 de marzo de 2015 en Tashelhit a locutor con comentarios y referencia a “Cristo”, segmento musical, locutor con ID, anuncia dirección de Torremolinos (Málaga en España), SINPO 55555 7300, Radio Akhbar Mufriha (Woofferton), 2215-2218, escuchada el 29 de marzo de 2015 en árabe a locutora con presentación y anunciando dirección de Paris (Francia), locutor y locutora con cuña de la emisora, locutora con comentarios, segmento musical, SINPO 55555 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Spain, Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 12070, March 29 at 0110, new R. Cairo A-15 frequency, open carrier/dead air, with lite whine; nothing more on 12080 or 12035 9965++, March 29 at 0115, R. Cairo, Arabic, undermodulated, whine, very good level, with flutter. This one unchanged. Off to hi side 9315.0, March 29 at 0118, open carrier/dead air, poor-fair; by 0227 it`s only poor. This would be the 0200-0330 English frequency, ex-9860 where there is nothing. Another alternate registered is 9720 13850+, March 29 at 0228, Qur`an? suptorted, fair with flutter, R. Cairo ex-9905, Off to hi side, not as much as 9965. 9965, March 29 at 2305, open carrier with humwhine, then some just- barely-modulated music and talk seems like it is English, so R. Cairo unchanged for this so-called North American sesquihour (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. March 23: UNID, Arabic music, probably Radio Cairo 0835 on 9965 over modulated signal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugcgoufrjwA&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) UNIDentified with Arabic music, probably test of Radio Cairo: 0700-0710 on 9965 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg to NEAm Winter B-14 schedule of Radio Cairo on this frequency is 2300-0030 on 9965 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg to NEAm English 0030-0430 on 9965 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg to NEAm Arabic http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/unidentified-with-arabic-music-probably.html (Ivo Ivanov, 0935 March 26, dxldyg via DXLD) UNIDentified with Arabic music, probably test of Radio Cairo 0925-0943 on 9965 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg to NEAm on March 30: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/unidentified-with-arabic-music-probably.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via DXLD) UNIDentified Arabic music, probably test of Radio Cairo: 0700-0710 on 9965 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg to NEAm on March 26 0925-0943 on 9965 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg to NEAm on March 30 B-14 and A-15 schedule of Radio Cairo on this frequency is: 2300-0030 on 9965 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg to NEAm English 0030-0430 on 9965 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg to NEAm Arabic http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/unidentified-with-arabic-music-probably.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via DXLD) ** EGYPT. Already from 14 UT on air, distorted Cairo signal, probably ? 13580 1500-1600 28 ABS 250 315 0 216 Aae EGY ERU (Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX, 1515 UT March 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15345, Radio Cairo, 16-18 UT, registered English lang service, but TOTALLY DISTORTED AUDIO content, couldn't understand anything. S=9+20dB -53dBm here in southern Germany, at 1640 UT March 31. 9280 kHz 1650-1850 UT bad audio Radio Cairo noted, probably Turkish language family service, logged at 1734 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13850, April 2 at 0514, VG signal level, from R. Cairo to North America, but presumed Arabic is suptorted; and splatter up to 20 kHz above and below (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA. Heard with s/on at 0255: on 23 & 26 March on 7185 (!) and on 24, 27, 28 March 2015 on 7175, followed by known IS & ID and program in vernacular and not jammed (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) VOBME in Amharic 1500-1600 on 7185, 1600-1830 on 7175 on March 26 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/vobme-in-amharic-1500-1600-on-7185-khz.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via DXLD) March 26: VOBME in Amharic to EaAs 1506 on new 7185 Asmara Selea Daro, ex 7175 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHT15eXQ39U&feature=youtu.be VOBME in Amharic to EaAs 1534 on new 7185 Asmara Selea Daro, ex 7175 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj_RnnEBhTY&feature=youtu.be VOBME in Amharic to EaAs 1602 on 7175 Asmara Selea Daro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8T4L8r7GjU&feature=youtu.be VOBME in Amharic to EaAs 1650 on 7175 Asmara Selea Daro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ME3pQnv-kQ&feature=youtu.be VOBME in Amharic to EaAs 1749 on 7175 Asmara Selea Daro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceg_CCPdwoA&feature=youtu.be VOBME in Amharic to EaAs 1822 on 7175 Asmara Selea Daro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxeqU42NuEY&feature=youtu.be VOBME in Amharic to EaAs 1830 on 7175 Asmara Selea Daro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPx_EJB1FmQ&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) March 27: VOBME in Amharic to EaAs 1702 on 7175 Asmara Selea Daro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeHTTcdtsHE&feature=youtu.be March 28: VOBME in Amharic to EaAs 0325 on 7175 Asmara Selea Daro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQwWFczAT-w&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) [and non]. Asmara war heute Morgen um 0420z wieder unten auf 7174.988 kHz. Und Somalia even 7120 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, March 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. 11720, Voice of Forum of Eritreans (Issoudun FRANCIA), 1738-1845, escuchada el 26 de marzo de 2015 en idioma tigriña a varias personas conversando en lo que parece una tertulia, referencias a “Africa”, SINPO 43443 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. Re: [dxld] Radio Assena turns out the lights ``Clandestine Radio Assena (a.k.a. Voice of Assena) has apparently gone off air. I say "apparently" (needs checking) as the source of this info would probably be regarded as Ethiopia-hostile: http://tinyurl.com/mk8d56c (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, March 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` Was 17-18 Mon/Thu/Sat on 11720 in Tigrinya via FRANCE per WRTH 2015; presumably still correct as in the BRB schedule via Büschel (gh, DXLD) A reminder that it`s now time to check this 17-18 Thursday (Glenn Hauser, 1707 UT Thursday March 26, dxldyg via DXLD) All transmissions of Radio Assenna and Eritrean Forum are on air as scheduled: Radio Assenna: 1700-1800 on 11720 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Mon/Thu/Sat Eritrean Forum: 1700-1800 on 11720 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Tue/Fri/Sun 1700-1800 on 11720 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Arabic Wed 1800-1900 on 11720 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Arabic Sat 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, March 26, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CLANDESTINE, New frequencies of clandestines in A-15: Radio Assenna: 1700-1800 on 15245 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Mon/Thu/Sat Eritrean Forum: 1700-1800 on 15245 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Tue/Fri/Sun 1700-1800 on 15245 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Arabic Wed 1800-1900 on 15245 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Arabic Sat (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via DXLD) Clandestinas: 15245, Voice of Forum of Eritrea (Issoudun), 1743-1750, escuchada el 31 de marzo de 2015 en tigriña, locutor con invitados conversando en tertulia, SINPO 24232 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. 6030, Radio Oromiya, Adama, 1832-1855, 25-03, vernacular comments and songs. 24322. (Méndez) 6110, Radio Fana, Addis Ababa, 1805-1818, 25-03, vernacular, comments. Interference from Voice of Iran, with program in Russian on the same frequency. 22331 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Tecsun PL- 880 and Grundig Satellit 500, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [and non]. Amhara S. R. is already daily observed (23-28 March) with s/on at 0255 on 6090 with IS & ID in vernaculars. Till 0255 here is dominating the voice of pastor Melissa Scott from Anguilla (// 5935 by WWCR) and poor on odd frequency Bandeirantes, Brazil (// 9645). From 0430 all blocked by Nigeria (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. 7237.239, Odd frequency of Ethiopian Radio from Addis Ababa-Gedja, probably scheduled as in 2012 year at 0300-2100 UT in various languages and various programs, like formerly Radio Ethiopia, V of Peace & Democracy, and Voice Democratic ALLIANCE. Noted at 1750 UT, some whistle heterodyne QRM on 7235 and 7240 kHz even channels. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, March 31, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [and non]. 17630 S=9+10dB -62dBm signal here in southern Germany - Tue / Sat only transmission, covered by WHITE NOISE jamming, 26 kHz wide jamming FRANCE / ETHIOPIA from MBR Cologne A-15 schedule: 17630 1600-1630 47E,48 ISS 500kW 130degr ant type#217 ..3...7 OGM F MBR HR 4/4/0.8 antenna at 130degr, 290315-241015 ISS OGM OGM NGO [RHU Radio Huriyo Xoriyo Ogaden] 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, March 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) At 1617 check there's weak jammer (noise and type of bubble jammer) in the background. Hmmm... As soon as the ISS carrier went off, the bubbling sound disappeared and only white noise generator was left for a while. I guess the bubbling sound came from my receiver settings combined with ISS carrier (Jari in Finland Savolainen, ibid.) Video at 1602 UT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4LoEhghq0A&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. 17850, Oromo Voice, Mar 30 *1600-1610, 35443-35433, Oromo, 1600 sign on with opening music, ID, Opening announce, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. CLANDESTINE, New frequencies of clandestine broadcasts in A-15: Voice of Oromo Liberation: 1700-1730 17630 ISS 250 kW / 125 deg EaAf Oromo Wed, ex 13830 A-14 1730-1800 17630 ISS 100 kW / 125 deg EaAf Amharic Wed, ex 13830 A-14 1700-1800 17630 ISS 100 kW / 125 deg EaAf Amharic Sun, ex 13830 A-14 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/several-clandestine-broadcasts.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via DXLD) ** EUROPE. FRS on air April 5 / website updates --- Dear FRS Friends, Next week Easter Sunday April 5th the Free Radio service Holland will take to the airwaves with a regular broadcast on 7700 // 9335 and 6070 kHz. We will commence broadcasting at 1000 UT / 11:00 BST / 12:00 CEST. For detailed information about the broadcast and a number of fresh 'Latest News' items, please visit our website: http://www.frsholland.nl Have a good weekend! 73s from all at FRS-Holland a Balance between Music & Information joined to one Format.... FRS-Holland P O Box 2702 6049 ZG Herten The Netherlands website: http://www.frsholland.nl e-mail: frs@frsholland.nl (FRSH March 28 via ARDXC via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) 7700 and 9335 would be real pirate transmitters, I think, and 6070 the legal low-power in Germany (gh, ibid.) ** FINLAND. 25000, Time signal station Mikes, 1640-1655, 31-03, time signals, pulse with each second and silent at second 59. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Grundig Satellit 500, Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Tecsun PL-880, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. [Re 15-12]: [dxld] FRANCE strike, English changes From France24website on Friday 27 March: Radio France, the country’s main public radio broadcaster, has been paralysed by a strike since March 19 in what is now the longest such action to affect the company in a decade. Several of the stations regrouped under Radio France, including national news networks France Inter and France Info, have been severely disrupted by the strike, which comes amid a heavy week in the news and ahead of key local elections in France this weekend. As the strike continued on Friday, Prime Minister Manuel Valls called for it to end, urging both sides of the dispute to relaunch negotiations. “This strike must end. Talks between unions and management need to restart on the right foot,” Valls said in an interview with the country’s Radio Classique and iTele television. The strike began March 19 and comes amid fears that hundreds of jobs will be cut at Radio France. The company, which is 90 percent state funded through license fees, is in deep financial trouble after it was forced to adopt a projected 2015 budget deficit of 21.3 million euros in January. To make matters worse, French investigative weekly Le Canard Enchainé published an article on March 18 revealing that Radio France’s CEO Mathieu Gallet had spent 100,000 euros renovating his office as part of broader, long-term project to revamp the company’s office building in Paris. Gallet quickly apologised to Radio France’s employees, saying that he should have delayed the renovation, which was approved in 2013 before his arrival at the company. He also said he would fight to ensure that there were no layoffs. His comments, however, did little to reassure unions organising the strike. “We don’t trust him anymore,” the SUD labour union said in a statement on Tuesday. “It will take strong actions, a project worth the employees’ and public’s expectations. Anything short of that and the conflict will continue.” Officially, the strike is in protest against the outsourcing of jobs, and reforms to production and cleaning services, as well as Radio France’s decision to fire one of its two orchestras as a cost-saving measure, according to a statement published by France Info’s editorial team on the station’s website. Unions organising the work stoppage have also warned against the possibility of mass job cuts, a fear that was exacerbated earlier this week after the company floated the idea of a voluntary redundancy plan for between 200 and 300 positions. So far, negotiations between Radio France’s management and unions have achieved little, other than an agreement to abandon reforms affecting the company’s cleaning services. Meanwhile, labour unions have announced that they plan to extend the strike until Monday. 73s (via Marty Delfín (Madrid, Spain), March 28, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) Listening to RFI's English internet stream, I heard the new "Paris Live PM" program at 1400 UT. Announcer said there would also be one at 1600 UT. No mention of shortwave frequencies was made. Meanwhile, the strike affecting domestic Radio France stations has been extended through tomorrow (Tuesday). (Mike Cooper, Mar 30, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) MUSIC RULES AIRWAVES AS FRENCH RADIO JOURNALISTS' STRIKE STRETCHES ON The Guardian, By Kim Willsher in Paris, 30 March 2015 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/30/music-rules-the-airwaves-as-french-radio-journalists-strike-stretches-on Listeners of France Inter radio – the equivalent of Radio 4 – woke up on Sunday to Juliette Gréco warbling Douce France. On Monday, it was Nat King Cole, Brigitte Fontaine, Bobby Womack and, to cap it all, Sparks’ This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us (and not for the first time either). Listeners hoping for the results of France’s departmental elections, or the dulcet tones of Patrick Cohen, France’s answer to John Humphrys, heard ... music. It was the same last week. As the Germanwings Airbus tragedy emerged and developed with day after day of shocking revelations, radio audiences heard ... music. Tuning in elsewhere made no difference; on France Info, the other main news station, there were occasional news reports and the same music as on France Inter – on a loop. Every now and again came an announcement: “Because of a strike by several union organisations for reasons of budget difficulties and in defence of jobs at Radio France, we are not in a position to broadcast all of our usual programmes. Please accept our apologies.” Staff at France’s national broadcaster have been on strike since 19 March, the longest radio news silence for a decade. The previous record was in 2004 when Radio France journalists downed microphones and abandoned the airwaves for 18 days. On Monday afternoon, unions and management held emergency talks while the music continued. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Radio France chief Mathieu Gallet raised the ire of unions with revelations that his office has undergone a €100,000 revamp and he employs a communications consultant on €90,000 a year. Photograph: Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images Radio France, an umbrella group for several stations, including France Inter, France Info and France Culture, is 90% state funded through licence fees. After announcing a projected budget deficit of €21.3m (£15.6m) for this year, there are fears of widespread redundancies amid threats of outsourcing production and cleaning contracts. There was also anger as one of France Radio’s two orchestras was fired as a cost-cutting measure. Relations between management and staff were further soured when it emerged that the office of Mathieu Gallet, the head of Radio France, had undergone a €100,000 revamp. Gallet apologised and insisted the work had been approved before he took up the job and that it involved the preservation of some “historic woodwork”. However, his comments failed to reassure the strikers, especially when it emerged that Gallet is employing a “communications consultant” on a €90,000-a-year salary. “We don’t trust him any more. It will take strong actions, a project worth the employees’ and public’s expectations. Anything short of that and the conflict will continue,” said the SUD union at France Radio. Manuel Valls, the French prime minister, has said: “This strike must end. Talks between the unions and management need to restart on the right foot.” But if anything the two sides have become even more entrenched. The presenters of France Musique, France Inter and France Culture last week published an open letter to listeners, entitled This Strike is For You. “We are the voices that talk to your ears every day, thorugh our interviews, chronicles, reportages, documentaries, we try our best to fulfil the missions of public radio: to inform, to educate, to entertain,” it said. “Public service has no vocation or possibility of being profitable … Radio France is a heritage to be defended just as much as the wood in the president’s office.” Valeria Emanuele, national secretary of journalists union the SNJ at Radio France, accused the French ministry of culture and Radio France directors of “playing with our radio, our future”. In an article in Le Monde, she wrote: “This enterprise is our identity, our DNA, our present and our future. We are so proud to work for it and consequently so angry to see that we are just the puppets in a pathetic game of role playing.” (via Mike Terry, UK, April 2, dxldyg via DXLD) Article published the Thursday 02 April 2015 - Latest update: Thursday 02 April 2015 French press review 2 April 2015 --- By Michael Fitzpatrick Trouble and strife at Radio France, the spreading scourge of spray- painting and other forms of vandalism, the limits to gender equality in French politics and unblocking the current political system . . . some of the stories making this morning's front pages. There's trouble at Radio France, with the strike that has paralysed the public broadcaster now entering its third week. Le Monde and La Croix both give pride of place to the dispute. Le Monde says the trade unions are striking to protect jobs, the variety of Radio France output and the various orchestras maintained by the service. In what might have been a poor April Fool's Day joke, if the stakes were not so high, the boss of Radio France, Mathieu Gallet, yesterday presented his strategic plan for the public broadcaster to the Culture and Communications Minister, Fleur Pellerin. A strategic plan is a fine thing; radio programmes now might be better. Mathieu Gallet is caught between a rock and a hard place. He's been told to save public money. The government-spending watchdog, the Court of Accounts, suggested that he should amalgamate the editorial teams currently producing news programmes for stations like France Info, France Inter et France Culture. But the trade unions don't like that one little bit and Gallet himself says the unification of news production would damage the public broadcaster's capacities for pluralism and complementarity. The minister has called Mathieu in for a chat this very morning. It may not all be the fault of Mathieu Gallet. According to the right-wing UMP party, it's just another example of socialist incompetence, with the poor president of Radio France being used as a scapegoat by a spendthrift national administration. Catholic daily La Croix says the Radio France strike comes at a time of deep crisis for the whole French broadcasting sector, with the public television service also looking for a new director and all actors in the sector being told to reduce their spending and start paying off existing debts, without any loss of quality or diversity (RFI April 2 via Mike Cooper, DXLD) RFI not heard this morning via Meyerton. Frequencies from South Africa are usually well heard in France. Did RFI stopp this relay at the end of B14? Regards (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, March 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) see full SENTECH sked under SOUTH AFRICA (gh) Hi Wolfy, BBC french to Africa on 17640 was received with a good signal at 0700 this morning So, I can't be a propagation problem. Wait until 1200 with RFI on 17660. RFI heard on 17660 at 1200, but according to HFCC data, could be from Madagascar (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SÜDAFRIKA: in den drei Tagen A-15 konnte ich keine Relaysendung von RFI aus Sentec Meyerton m e h r hören. Ist der Vertrag ausgelaufen und nicht verlängert worden? Mit dem Streik des franz. nationalen Rundfunks kann das ja nichts zu tuen haben, schreibt mir Michel Aubier aus Paris (Wolfgang Büschel, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) All transmissions of RFI in French via Meyerton in A-15 are cancelled. Transmissions in other languages are moved to Issoudun and Madagascar + videos: 0430-0500 on 11790 ISS 500 kW / 135 deg to ECAf Swahili, ex MEY 0530-0600 on 15560 ISS 500 kW / 135 deg to ECAf Swahili, ex MEY 0600-0700 on 11605 MEY 100 kW / 345 deg to WeAf French, cancelled 0700-0900 on 15170 MEY 100 kW / 345 deg to WeAf French, cancelled 1200-1300 on 17660 MDC 250 kW / 305 deg to CeAf French, ex MEY 1500-1600 on 21690 ISS 500 kW / 135 deg to ECAf Swahili, ex MEY 1700-1730 on 21690 ISS 500 kW / 160 deg to SoAf Portuguese, ex MEY 1700-2000 on 9800 MEY 100 kW / 350 deg to WCAf French, cancelled 1900-1930 on 17660 ISS 500 kW / 155 deg to SoAf Portuguese, ex MEY http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/all-transmissions-of-rfi-in-french-via.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, March 31, dxldyg via DXLD) A-15 of Radio France International in various languages 0430-0500 on 11790 ISS 500 kW / 135 deg to ECAf Swahili, ex MEY 0530-0600 on 15560 ISS 500 kW / 135 deg to ECAf Swahili, ex MEY 0600-0630 on 13750 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg to WCAf Hausa 0600-0630 on 15340 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg to WCAf Hausa 1500-1600 on 21690 ISS 500 kW / 135 deg to ECAf Swahili, ex MEY 1600-1700 on 15360 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg to WCAf Hausa from Aug 31 1600-1700 on 17615 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg to WCAf Hausa till Aug 30 1700-1730 on 21690 ISS 500 kW / 160 deg to SoAf Portuguese, ex MEY 1900-1930 on 17660 ISS 500 kW / 155 deg to SoAf Portuguese, ex MEY 2000-2030 on 13695 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg to WCAf Hausa, till Aug 29 2000-2030 on 11700 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg to WCAf Hausa, from Aug 30 (Bulgarian DX Blog March 26 via DXLD) not complete? ** FRANCE [and non]. 21580, March 31 at 1320, open carrier/dead air on good signal, better than anything else on 13m: cuts on French modulation at 1321:50, cuts off the air at 1322:40*. 21580 is a major frequency of RFI, in A-15 registered in French at 07-09, 12-13, 17-20 daily via Issoudun --- and a new relay for them: IBB SAO TOME also/alternatively at 12-13! 21580 also for Persian at 1430-1500 from Issoudun. So this test could have been Issoudun or São Tomé, but considering the signal level, I`d lean toward the latter. Only other 13m signals are 21505 Saudi, at usual poor level, and 21780 DW UAE very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO FRANCE INTERNATIONALE REVAMPS ENGLISH FOR AFRICA SERVICES | Text of report by Radio France Internationale (RFI) website on 31 March Regular visitors to RFI's website in English may have noticed exciting changes starting last weekend. They coincide with changes to our broadcasts, with new ones added in the afternoon, and mean more articles on sport, Africa and the world. There have been big changes in RFI's English-language service since 29 March when our morning radio broadcasts changed format and times. They are now at 4.00-4.30, 5.00-5.30, 6.00-7.00 and 7.00-8.00 universal time, with a new afternoon broadcast at 14.00-15.00 and 16.00-17.00, all of which you can listen to by clicking on "Listen to RFI" on the website if you are not in a region where you can hear them on your radio. Our journalists are now contributing more to the website as well. That means that there are now daily sport reports, which have their own slot on the homepage, as well as our reporting from the world's biggest sporting events, like the Africa Cup of Nations, the Tour de France, the Roland Garros tennis French Open and the Olympics. And there are more articles on the news around the world, especially Africa, both reports from our journalists in the field and analysis by experts and participants we have interviewed for our radio programmes. We will also endeavour to keep you fully informed on French political and cultural news, as we have before and keep in touch with our followers on Facebook and Twitter. So keep visiting the site, tweeting and liking the articles (in both the Facebook and aesthetic senses) and, of course, tuning in to the broadcasts to keep abreast with the news from France, Africa and around the world. Source: Radio France Internationale website, Paris, in English 31 Mar 15 (via BBCM via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) ** FRANCE [non]. Atlantic 2000 will be on the air this Sunday 29th of March, with a new broadcast from 0900 to 1000 UT (11:00 to 12:00 CEST) on 9485 kHz. The programme will be streaming at the same time on our website. Reports to: atlantic2000international@gmail.com Visit our website: http://radioatlantic2000.free.fr (via Manuel Méndez, noticiasdx yg via DXLD) That would be via GERMANY ** GERMANY. German Weather Service, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) will start transmitting weather information for Baltic & North Sea three times a day from their site in Pinneberg, near Hamburg from April 1, 2015 as follows: 0600-0630 on 6040 PIN 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German 1200-1230 on 6040 PIN 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German 2000-2030 on 5905 PIN 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via DXLD) DP07 Seefunk REVISED SCHEDULE FROM APRIL 1st 2015: 0730-0800 & 1200-1230 UT on 7310 and 9560 kHz. On Sundays NO transmissions on 9560 kHz at 1200 (via Christian Ghibaudo, France, March 28 via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) new schedule: daily on 7310 kHz and 9560 kHz 0730-0800 and 1200-1230 UT. Exception: Sundays at 1200 UTC not on 9560 kHz http://www.dp07.com/unser-service/kurzwellen-funkbetrieb.html (Harald Kuhl, March 30, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) http://www.classicbroadcast.de/frequencyplan.html 9560 kc amplitude modulation DPØ7 daily 0730-0800 and 1200-1230 UT, Saturday/Sunday Radio Mi Amigo 0800-1200 UT (from April 11th) - 1 kW at Telefunken broadband dipole A189, beaming NE-SW / tx: R&S SK1 http://www.dp07.com/ http://www.dp07.com/unser-service/kurzwellen-funkbetrieb.html http://www.shortwaveservice.com/empfangen/programmplan/ http://www.rhci-online.net/files/2015-04-01_9560_kHz_0800z_DP07-qrt.gif 2015-04-01_9560_kHz_0800z_DP07-cut.m4a (600kb) https://app.box.com/s/68askdljugbmpxwe2vvhhyte00nwgtf4 Marine Radio from the Eifel, that is NOT a joke. I think - good frequency for the target area. My distance ~ 400 km. Next on air - 9560 kHz ===> 1200-1230z (Roger Thayer, April 1, dxldyg via DXLD) Schedule of DPØ7 Seefunk mit dem Seewetterdienst eff. from April 1 0730-0800 9560 KLL 020 kW / non-dir CeEu German Mon-Fri DPØ7 Seefunk 1200-1230 9560 KLL 020 kW / non-dir CeEu German Mon-Fri DPØ7 Seefunk An addition eff. from April 11 Radio MiAmigo: 0800-1200 9560 KLL 020 kW / non-dir CeEu German Sat/Sun Radio MiAmigo http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/04/dp7-seefunk-mit-dem-seewetterdienst-on.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) What is this symbol Ø in the callsign? It is not an ordinary zero, crossed, but appears to be the Scandinavian letter crossed-oh, not used in German (gh WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) ** GERMANY. Mighty KBC Radio, final broadcast on Saturdays, today, March 28: 0900-1600 6095 NAU 100 kW / 240 deg WeEu English Sat/Sun. 0800-1500 6095 NAU 100 kW / 240 deg WeEu English Sun only from Mar 29 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/mighty-kbc-radio-final-broadcast-on.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via DXLD) ** GERMANY. March 23 Monday: Channel 292 in English to CeEu was back on air 1447 on 6070 Rohrbach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJPsL-20kpk&feature=youtu.be Channel 292 relay Amateur Radio News in English to CeEu 1501 on 6070 Rohrbach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6mXVBMyg0c&feature=youtu.be Channel 292 relay Amateur Radio News in English to CeEu 1520 on 6070 Rohrbach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH89DXR997E&feature=youtu.be Channel 292 relay Amateur Radio News in English to CeEu 1550 on 6070 Rohrbach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPX0Ot2FCSs&feature=youtu.be Channel 292 relay DARC Radio in German to CeEu 1600 on 6070 Rohrbach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXgI_18MMC8&feature=youtu.be Channel 292 relay DARC Radio in German to CeEu 1618 on 6070 Rohrbach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uvlvDkxfDo&feature=youtu.be Channel 292 relay DARC Radio in German to CeEu 1648 on 6070 Rohrbach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrSRpATyNag&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GERMANY [and non]. Test broadcasts via Moosbrunn and Kall on Sunday, March 29 0730-0800 9560 KLL 020 kW / non-dir to CeEu German Radio 700 Mon-Fri* 1200-1230 9560 KLL 020 kW / non-dir to CeEu German Radio 700 Mon-Fri* 0730-1230 9560 KLL 020 kW / non-dir to CeEu German Radio 700 Sat/Sun* 0900-1000 6070 MOS 100 kW / non-dir to CeEu German DARC Radio, videos *from April 1 will be DPØ7 Seewetterbericht 0730-0800 and 1200-1230 Daily and from April 11 & 12 will be 0800-1200 Radio MiAmigo in German Sat/Sun. http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/test-broadcasts-via-moosbrunn-and-kall.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via DXLD) ** GERMANY. “RADIO DARC” PROGRAM DEBUTS ON HAM-OPERATED GERMAN SHORTWAVE OUTLET The inaugural transmission of the “Radio DARC” Amateur Radio program aired over the March 21-22 weekend via Channel 292 at 6070 kHz. The German-language program was produced in cooperation with Germany’s national Amateur Radio society — the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club (DARC). A group of amateurs in Germany obtained a license to broadcast on the 49 meter shortwave broadcast channel after German national broadcaster the Deutsche Welle closed down a 500 kW shortwave broadcast transmitter near Munich. Using parts scavenged from the Deutsche Welle site, the ham group built up a 10 kW transmitter. More at http://www.arrl.org/news/view/radio-darc-program-debuts-on-ham-operated-german-shortwave-outlet Best 73 de (via Horacio Nigro, Montevideo, Uruguay, March 27, dxldyg via DXLD) There's a news item about this on the Radio DARC website, English translation: As Ed Durrant, DD5LP / G8GLM told, also an English-speaking DX magazine has gone on shortwave to the start on 23 March. The emission of the English bulletins was performed 16-17 clock local time immediately before "RADIO DARC" - also on the frequency 6070 kHz on the 10 kW transmitter in Ingolstadt and is intended for amateur radio and shortwave listeners across Europe. Ed Durrant is born in England but lives in Southern Germany and produced several informative web podcasts amateur radio topics for years. The contents consist of the News of the British Amateur Radio Association RSGB, ARRL American and Australian WIA and some nice music. Ed asks to check also this new DX-Magazine on HF and may be contacted at the following e-mail address: eddd5lp (at) gmail.com Even now plans were known from the Netherlands to do it RADIO DARC same and send out a Dutch Amateur Radio magazine. The Baltic broadcast no. 37/2014 has been reported. John Piek, PAØETE, (x (at) xdv.me) contacted even during the first mission the DARC editorial team and is currently conducting already negotiating a possible cooperation and to broadcast slots - possible on the 6070-kHz channels in Ingolstadt or ORS in Vienna. It will be interesting how it goes. The new radio- activity of the DARC eV have apparently awakened throughout Europe and 6070 kHz seem to develop as a new hub for information transmissions of amateur radio clubs. In reports Rainer Englert, DF2NU (via Mike Barraclough, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) The 10-kW-transmitter "in" Ingolstadt is not owned by DARC; 6070 kHz is not a former frequency of Deutsche Welle (it was 6075 kHz) 73 (Harald Kuhl, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Hi Glenn, Just heard your piece about DARC Radio and EARN in the latest World of Radio. In Monday's EARN, the presenter 'Ed', said that there would very likely be another station/language joining them soon. No indications as to who it will be, but a French or Dutch language station would probably make a lot of sense. It was also noticeable that 6070 kHz stayed clear of QRM from the big boys after the two broadcasts went off air, and Channel 292 Radio, which came on after them, was a good signal here until the station went QRT at 1900 UT. The signal improves greatly after 1700, so it would be good to see more stations on at that time if CRI doesn't decide to claim use of it again (Alan Gale, UK, March 31, dxldyg via DXLD) Good morning DXers, Peter John today starts his long announced 5 minutes shortwave program at 1700 UT on 6005 kHz and 7310 kHz (via Kall-Krekel, 1 kW AM) in Dutch and English. http://www.emergency-radio.net/ Another program aiming at the amateur radio community. I remember an announcement of last December, when Peter mentioned 6045 kHz (100 kW; possibly Nauen) as a possible frequency for his project (Harald Kuhl, Germany, April 1, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Weenermoor, Kall schedules in A-15 summer. HCJB Deutschland. Postfach 8025, 32736 Detmold, Germany hat im Sommer 2015 folgenden Sendeplan auf den Kurzwelle Weenermoor 3995 und 7365 kHz: 03.00 Russisch (Golos And) 03.30-16.00 Deutsch Mo-Fr 03.30 Bibellese. 04.00/13.00 Idea-Nachrichten. 04.05/13.05 Lieblingslieder. 04.30/06.30/9.30/15.00 Radio HCJB Quito. 05.00/15.30 Missionswerk Werner Heukelbach. 05.30/13.30 Durch die Bibel. 06.00 Info-G. 06.25 Lutherische Stunde. 07.00/14.00 Fuer Sie gelesen. 08.00 Familienalltag mit Gott. 08.30/10.00 SW-Radio. 11.00 Ichtys Radio. Sa So 03.30 Bibellese. 04.00/13.00 Idea: Die Woche. 04.30/06.30/9.30/15.00 Radio HCJB Quito. 05.00/15.30 Missionswerk Werner Heukelbach. 05.30/13.30 Durch die Bibel. 06.00 Neues Leben Impuls. 06.25 Lutherische Stunde. 07.00/14.00 Sa Missionswerk Voice of Hope/So Wunschbox. 08.00 Familienalltag mit Gott. 08.30/10.00 SW-Radio. 11.00 Ichtys Radio 16.00 Plautdietsch 16.30-19.00 Deutsch Mo-Fr 16.30 Geschichten fuer jung und alt, Mo Missionswerk Voice of Hope. 17.00 Licht des Evangeliums, Mo Missionswerk Voice of Hope, Do Stimme des Trostes. 17.30 Info-G, SaSo NL-Impuls. 17.55 Lutherische Stunde, 18.00 Radio HCJB Quito. 18.30 Idea-Nachrichten. 18.35 Lieblingslieder 19.00 Plautdietsch 19.30 Deutsch 19.30 Bibellese. 20.00 Radio HCJB Quito. 20.30 Durch die Bibel. 21.00 Ichthys Live 22.00-03.00 internationales Nachtprogramm Uhr UTC (+2hrs=MESZ/CEST) Frequenz (Sender) Programm Geplant ist auch die Satellitenausstrahlung bei Astra 19.2 East 12.633,25 MHz hor, Symbolrate 22000, Fec 5/6. (HCJB via Prof. Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 28) GERMANY Das Sendezentrum Kall, Funkhaus Euskirchen e.V., Kuchenheimer Str. 155, 53881 Euskirchen, Germany hat mit dem 29. Maerz 2015 zahlreiche Neuerungen und im Fruehling erst einmal folgenden Programmplan 00.00-24.00 3985 (1 kW) Radio 700 - Schlager & Oldies, darin: 06.00-08.00 So Radio Belarus in Deutsch 18.00-19.00 Radio Slowakei International in Deutsch und 18.30 Franzoesisch 19.00-19.30 Mo-Fr Voice of Mongolia in Englisch 19.00-20.00 Sa Radio Wanderbuehne 20.00-00.00 Radio Belarus (Deutsch) 06.00-20.00 6005 (1 kW), Radio 700, darin: 06.00-08.00 Mo-Sa Radio Belarus in Deutsch 06.00-10.00 So Radio Mi Amigo (Avda. de Europa 85, Urb. La Marina, 03177 San Fulgencio, Alicante, Spanien, 08.00-12.00 ab 11.4. Sa Radio Mi Amigo 12.00-13.30 3. Sa Welle 370 13.00-14.00 4. So Radio Gloria International 15.00-16.00 Radio Slowakei International in Deutsch und 15.30 Franzoesisch 16.00-16.30 Voice of Mongolia in Englisch 17.00-17.05 ab 1.4. DX-News in Englisch/Niederlaendisch 06.00-18.00 7310 (1 kW), Radio 700, darin: 07.30-08.00 ab 1.4. DPØ7 Seewetterbericht (DPØ7 Seefunk, Estedeich 84, 21129 Hamburg-Cranz, 08.00-08.05 ab 1.4. DX-News in Englisch/Niederlaendisch 09.00-10.00 4. So Radio Gloria International 12.00-12.30 ab 1.4. Mo-Sa DPØ7 Seewetterbericht 10.00-14.00 Radio Mi Amigo 14.00-15.00 Radio Slowakei International in Deutsch und 15.30 Franzoesisch 15.00-15.30 Voice of Mongolia in Englisch various test times 9560 (1 kW) (Testsendungen am 19., 21., 22. March) 07.30-08.00 ab 01.4. DPØ7 Seewetterbericht 08.00-12.00 ab 11.4. Sa So Radio Mi Amigo 12.00-12.30 ab 01.4. DPØ7 Seewetterbericht Uhr UTC (+2hrs=MESZ/CEST) Frequenz (Sender) Programm Ausserplanmaessige Programmeinschuebe oder weitere Aenderungen sind jederzeit moeglich (Radio 700, March 27, 2015 via Prof. Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 28, dxldyg via DXLD) I would normally strip out all the unnecessary clutter of dots in every Utime listed, but that would also remove them where needed in dates, etc. (gh, DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. ITALY/ROMANIA, Neue Sendungen von Radio Rasant. Liebe Kurzwellenhoerer, am kommenden Wochenende gibt es die ersten Sendungen von Radio Rasant in diesem Jahr. Zu hoeren sein wird ein einstuendiges Programm in deutscher Sprache. Vier Maedchen berichten in ihrer ersten Sendung. Hier die Details: Samstag, 28.03.2015, via IRRS-Shortwave 1000-1100 CET 9510 kHz via Radiocom. facility at Saftica; 2000-2100 CET 7290 kHz via Radiocom. facility at Saftica; 2000-2100 CET 1368 kHz via northern Italy. Um Kommentare und Empfangsberichte wird gebeten. Bitte geben Sie diese Informationen an andere Kurzwellenhoerer weiter. Vielen Dank. Liebe Gruesse aus dem Sauerland, Reinhard Marx-D, email: (Reinhard Marx, Germany, March 23, kwfr via wwdxc, BC-DX TopNews March 27 via DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. March 25: Deutsche Welle in English to WeAf 0731 on 17800 Kigali https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re4k71J5Hp4&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) Early A-15 observations of DW: 0400 March 29: 9800 Madagascar good signal, but some slop from Cuba CRI relay 10 kHz down. Audio processing much different from past DW sites. 15275 Dhabayya very poor. 0500: 7425 Meyerton fair; 15275 Madagascar fair. listening at 0700 March 29: 15275 Issoudun barely there; 15560 Ascension very good (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, March 29, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DW for A-15: 0400 9800 from MDG was noisy with lots of splatter from 9790 ChiCuba killing it most of the time, and 0500 7425 from MEY was SIO 3+3+3 with lots of local QRM -- on a quieter day it might be listenable. I didn't check any others. SO how are we to break the 100 country barrier if stations keep closing down? :o .... 73 //Ken -- (Kenneth V Zichi, MI, Radioguy73@gmail.com D<== I'm not with stupid ==> R, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Today (29th) I could hear at 1300 UTC the DW on the 17800 kHz frequency with a report about the elections in Nigeria; listed as Kigali, but I thought Kigali went QRT yesterday (28th). Any other relay station overtaken this transmission? Nothing on 15275 and nothing 1500z on 9800/11800 kHz. 73, (Tom Rösner, Germany, dxldyg via DXLD) 17800 at 1300 comes from Issoudun, France. 17800 1300 1400 46,47W ex 15275 ISS 500 170 Hau F DWL Regards (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, ibid.) See RWANDA for reports about last broadcasts from Kigali (gh, DXLD) 21780, March 31 at 1324, very poor signal with talk, flutter. HFCC shows DW in Hausa via UAE at 13-14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [and non]. GERMANY [ARMENIA/AUSTRIA/BULGARIA/FRANCE/MADAGASCAR/USA] MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH (formerly T-SYSTEMS - DTK) A-15 period (29 March - 24 Oct, 2015) A-15 operational MBR schedule, planned of March 26, 2015. Times are in UTC. FREQ STARTSTOP CIRAF LOC POW AZI TYPE DAY BRC ADM FMO 5975 0400-0430 28SE NAU 100 140 146 1234567 AWR D AWR 9530 0300-0330 48 NAU 250 140 216 1234567 AWR D AWR 9610 1930-2000 37,38W NAU 100 210 216 1234567 AWR D AWR 9610 2000-2030 37,38W NAU 100 210 216 1234567 AWR D AWR 9790 0900-1000 28W NAU 100 180 216 1...... AWR D AWR 9830 1600-1630 28SE NAU 100 130 216 1234567 AWR D AWR 11790 1900-1930 46W NAU 250 210 216 1234567 AWR D AWR 11790 2030-2100 46SE NAU 250 185 216 1234567 AWR D AWR 11840 1900-2000 37,38W NAU 100 215 216 1234567 AWR D AWR 11880 0700-0730 46S ISS 250 203 196 1234567 AWR F AWR 12035 0600-0630 46S ISS 250 194 196 1234567 AWR F AWR 15130 1630-1700 48 NAU 250 142 218 1234567 AWR D AWR 15140 0800-0830 37,38W NAU 100 205 218 1234567 AWR D AWR 15155 1730-1800 48 ISS 250 125 216 1234567 AWR F AWR 15170 1730-1800 37,38W NAU 100 210 218 1234567 AWR D AWR 15205 1930-2000 46SE,47W NAU 250 180 218 1234567 AWR D AWR 15225 0700-0800 37,38W NAU 100 210 216 1234567 AWR D AWR 15225 0800-0830 37,38W NAU 250 210 218 1234567 AWR D AWR 15225 0830-0900 37,38W NAU 100 205 218 1234567 AWR D AWR 15265 1500-1530 41N NAU 250 90 218 1234567 AWR D AWR 15265 1530-1600 41N NAU 250 90 218 1234567 AWR D AWR 15480 1900-2000 38,39,47,48 MDC 250 350 157 1234567 AWR MDG AWR 15640 0500-0600 38,39,47,48 NAU 250 128 218 1234567 AWR D AWR 15640 0600-0630 46S NAU 250 188 218 1234567 AWR D AWR 15670 1530-1600 41N NAU 250 75 218 1234..7 AWR D AWR 15670 1530-1600 41N NAU 250 75 218 ....56. AWR D AWR 17570 1630-1700 48 NAU 250 140 218 1234567 AWR D AWR 17570 1700-1730 48 NAU 250 142 218 1234567 AWR D AWR 17570 2000-2030 46E,47W ISS 250 165 217 1234567 AWR F AWR 17570 1700-1728 48SW,53NW MDC 250 310 158 1234567 AWR MDG AWR 17810 1300-1330 42,43W NAU 250 70 218 1.....7 AWR D AWR 17810 1300-1330 42,43W NAU 250 70 218 .23456. AWR D AWR 17810 1330-1500 42,43W NAU 250 70 218 1234567 AWR D AWR 5930 2000-2015 39N NAU 250 120 216 1234567 BVB D MBR 5945 0700-0730 27,28N NAU 100 270 156 1...... BVB D MBR 5945 0700-0745 27,28N NAU 100 270 156 ......7 BVB D MBR 6130 1730-1900 28,29 NAU 100 90 156 1...... BVB D MBR 6130 1800-1815 28,29 NAU 100 90 156 ....56. BVB D MBR 6130 1800-1830 28,29 NAU 100 90 156 ..3.... BVB D MBR 6130 1830-1845 28,29 NAU 100 90 156 ......7 BVB D MBR 7310 0300-0315 39S NAU 250 128 216 1234567 BVB D MBR 9435 1815-1830 39,40 MOS 300 ND 926 1...... BVB AUT MBR 9515 2030-2045 46,47,38,37 NAU 250 180 216 1234567 BVB D MBR 9550 0430-0445 39N NAU 125 120 216 1.....7 BVB D MBR 9550 0430-0450 39N NAU 125 120 216 .23456. BVB D MBR 9635 1830-1915 39 SOF 100 126 616 1...... BVB BUL MBR 9735 0500-0515 39,40 NAU 250 120 216 .....6. BVB D MBR 11655 0600-0615 46,47,38,37 NAU 125 180 146 1234567 BVB D MBR 11660 0530-0600 38,39 NAU 125 150 146 .23456. BVB D MBR 11855 1800-1830 39,40 NAU 100 105 216 .....6. BVB D MBR 11855 1800-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 216 ....5.. BVB D MBR 11855 1815-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 216 1...... BVB D MBR 11855 1830-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 216 ..3.... BVB D MBR 11945 0200-0300 41 MDC 125 50 156 1...... BVB MDG MBR 11945 0200-0215 41 MDC 125 50 156 ..3.... BVB MDG MBR 11945 0200-0230 41 MDC 125 50 156 ....5.7 BVB MDG MBR 13580 1700-1715 39,40 NAU 250 130 218 .....6. BVB D MBR 13580 1700-1745 39,40 NAU 250 130 218 ......7 BVB D MBR 13810 1700-1715 38E,39,40W SOF 150 141 616 1234567 BVB BUL MBR 13810 1715-1800 38E,39,40W SOF 100 141 616 .2.4.6. BVB BUL MBR 13810 1715-1745 38E,39,40W SOF 100 141 616 ..3.... BVB BUL MBR 15160 1630-1730 47,48 NAU 100 150 216 1234567 BVB D MBR 15215 1700-1900 39 MOS 100 115 218 1.....7 BVB AUT MBR 15215 1700-1715 39 MOS 100 115 218 .....6. BVB AUT MBR 15215 1700-1730 39 MOS 100 115 218 ....5.. BVB AUT MBR 15640 1515-1545 40,41 SOF 100 90 616 ......7 BVB BUL MBR 15640 1515-1600 40,41 SOF 100 90 616 .....6. BVB BUL MBR 15640 1515-1530 40,41 SOF 100 90 616 1...... BVB BUL MBR 17515 1600-1800 38,39,47,48 ISS 100 135 216 1...... BVB F MBR 17515 1600-1830 38,39,47,48 ISS 100 135 216 ..3.... BVB F MBR 17515 1600-1730 38,39,47,48 ISS 100 135 216 .2..... BVB F MBR 17515 1600-1800 38,39,47,48 ISS 100 135 216 .2.frApr6 BVB F MBR 17515 1630-1700 38,39,47,48 ISS 100 135 216 .....6. BVB F MBR 17515 1630-1800 38,39,47,48 ISS 100 135 216 ...4... BVB F MBR 17515 1630-1800 38,39,47,48 ISS 100 135 216 ....5.. BVB F MBR 17515 1600-1730 38,39,47,48 ISS 100 135 216 ......7 BVB F MBR 17515 1730-1800 38,39,47,48 ISS 250 135 216 ......7 BVB F MBR 17535 0830-1000 38,39 NAU 125 145 218 .....6. BVB D MBR 17535 0900-0915 38,39 NAU 125 145 218 ......7 BVB D MBR 17650 1400-1430 41 ISS 250 83 216 ......7 BVB F MBR 17650 1430-1500 41 ISS 250 83 216 ......7 BVB F MBR 21480 1100-1200 43S,44S MDC 125 45 157 ......7 BVB MDG MBR 21480 1115-1145 43S,44S MDC 125 45 157 1...... BVB MDG MBR 11960 0300-0400 48,52,53 ERV 500 192 238 1234567 DWL ARM DWL 13610 0630-0700 46,47W ISS 500 170 216 1234567 DWL F DWL 15275 0630-0700 46,47W ISS 500 165 217 1234567 DWL F DWL 15275 0700-0800 37-57 ISS 500 172 157 1234567 DWL F DWL 15275 1700-1800 37,38,46-53 ISS 500 165 217 1234567 DWL F DWL 15560 1700-1800 37,38,46-53 ISS 500 194 196 1234567 DWL F DWL 17800 1300-1400 46,47W ISS 500 170 207 1234567 DWL F DWL 17800 1800-1900 46,47W ISS 500 170 207 1234567 DWL F DWL 6055 1030-1100 27,28 NAU 125 222 146 1.....7 EMG D MBR 9450 0030-0130 40E,41NW NAU 250 100 216 1234567 GFA D MBR 9510 2330-0030 41,43,49 NAU 250 85 216 1234567 GFA D MBR 15350 1230-1500 41 NAU 250 89 218 1234567 GFA D MBR 15390 1330-1530 41,43,49 NAU 250 85 218 1234567 GFA D MBR 15395 1530-1630 40E,41NW NAU 250 99 218 1234567 GFA D MBR 13800 1530-1630 29S MOS 100 95 218 ......7 HCJ AUT MBR 9645 1800-1830 47,48 ISS 250 160 217 1234567 IBB F IBB 9780 1700-1800 40E,41NW NAU 250 99 226 1234567 IBB D IBB 11750 0500-0530 46,47 NAU 250 185 216 1234567 IBB D IBB 11845 1630-1700 47,48 ISS 250 135 217 .23456. IBB F IBB 11860 2030-2100 46,47 NAU 250 190 216 .23456. IBB D IBB 12080 1800-1900 48 ISS 250 130 217 1234567 IBB F IBB 13700 1600-1700 29SE NAU 250 90 216 1234567 IBB D IBB 13870 1630-1700 47,48 NAU 250 155 218 .23456. IBB D IBB 13870 1800-1900 48 NAU 250 140 216 1234567 IBB D IBB 13870 1900-1930 48 NAU 250 140 216 .23456. IBB D IBB 15255 1400-1600 30S ISS 250 90 217 1234567 IBB F IBB 15360 0400-0900 40E,41NW NAU 250 90 218 1234567 IBB D IBB 15460 1500-1600 30S NAU 250 75 216 1234567 IBB D IBB 15630 1730-1800 48 NAU 250 140 218 .23456. IBB D IBB 15630 1800-1900 48 NAU 250 140 218 1234567 IBB D IBB 15630 1900-1930 48 NAU 250 140 218 .23456. IBB D IBB 7330 1000-1100 27,28 MOS 100 283 805 1...... JOY AUT MBR 6095 0800-1500 18,27,28,37 NAU 100 240 156 1...... KBC D MBR 7375 0000-0200 2-10 NAU 125 300 216 1...... KBC D MBR 7375 0000-0200 2-10 NAU 125 300 216 1...... KBC D MBR 9925 0000-0200 2-10 NAU 125 300 216 1...... KBC D MBR 15315 1830-1900 46S,47SE ISS 500 180 216 1234567 LWF F MBR 6140 0800-0900 27,28E MOS 100 270 805 1...... MVB AUT MBR 13750 1600-1630 29,30 NAU 250 60 218 ......7 MWF D MBR 15320 1200-1230 19-26 NAU 250 60 218 ......7 MWF D MBR 5985 0400-0430 11,12 YFR 100 222 805 1234567 NHK USA NHK 11680 0300-0500 38-40 NAU 250 140 218 1234567 NHK D NHK 15445 1700-1900 38-40 NAU 250 140 218 1234567 NHK D NHK 17630 1600-1630 47E,48 ISS 500 130 217 ..3...7 OGM F MBR 9515 1930-2000 37,38 NAU 250 155 146 1...... PAB D MBR 15205 1400-1430 41 ISS 100 90 216 1...... PAB F MBR 15205 1415-1430 41 ISS 100 90 216 .234567 PAB F MBR 15205 1430-1445 41 ISS 250 90 216 1...... PAB F MBR 21480 1600-1700 48SW,58NW ISS 100 144 207 ......7 RIY F MBR 11740 0530-0600 46SE NAU 125 185 216 1234567 RMI D MBR/ 17630 1700-1800 38E,39S,48 NAU 100 145 218 1..4... SBO D MBR 6095 0800-1000 18,27,28,37 NAU 100 230 156 .2..56. TRS D MBR 7215 0830-0900 28 NAU 100 135 146 1234567 TWR D TWR 7300 1400-1428 28,29,30 NAU 100 65 146 1234567 TWR D TWR 17580 1700-1730 48E ISS 250 120 216 ..345.. VOK F MBR Day 1 = Sunday ... Day 7 = Saturday. List of Broadcasters which are using MEDIA BROADCAST technical equipment: AWR Adventist World Radio BVB High Adventure Gospel - Bible Voice Broadcasting DWL Deutsche Welle Bonn / Berlin, Germany EMG Evangelische Missionsgemeinden in Deutschland GFA Gospel for Asia HCJ Voice of the Andes, Sats only, 1530 UT Russian, 1600 UT Chechen IBB International Broadcasting Bureau, USA JOY Joystick, 1st Sun KBC Mighty KBC Radio, Sat/Sun. Sun to Americas. LWF Lutheran World Federation MWF Missionswerk Friedensstimme, Gummersbach - Germany NHK Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Radio Japan World, Tokyo, Japan. OGM NGO [RHU Radio Huriyo Xoriyo Ogaden] PAB Pan Am Broadcasting RIY RPRK Radio Inyabutatu, in Kinyarwanda to Ce/EaAfrica. ex 17500, ex17870 kHz. RMI Radio Miami International, FMO brokery. / Hamada Radio International in Hausa. SBO Sagalee Bilisummaa Oromoo, Voice of Oromo Liberation. TRS Transport Radio on Mon/Thu/Fri. TWR Trans World Radio VOK Target Region Khaatumo in central Somaliland. &) For reception reports please mail to: or write to: The Mighty KBC Argonstraat 6 6718 WT Ede The Netherlands, Europe Website: ---------------------------------------------------------- MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH Order Management & Backoffice Erna-Scheffler-Strasse 1 D-51103 Cologne, Germany Please send your inquiries and reception reports to: E-Mail: E-Mail: Internet: ************************************* WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Postfach 1214 D-61282 Bad Homburg GERMANY E-Mail: Internet: http://www.wwdxc.de ************************************* (MBR Cologne Germany, March 26, 2015, .PDF format, via Michael Bethge- D wwdxc - Germany; extracted & reformatted by wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 27, 2015, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GERMANY [and non]. D-AIPX is the unique call of the plane crashed into the Alps, as I have NEVER heard mentioned on any of the news about it. I had to look it up on flightradar24.com. Referring to it as ``Flight U9525`` is totally ambiguous as the same route and flight number has been and will be carried out daily by a variety of other aircraft which, let us hope will not crash (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Airlines, as a rule, "retire" a flight number after it has been involved in a fatal accident. Germanwings cancelled 9525 the day following the accident (their flight crews were refusing to fly several of their flights) and hasn't used it since. Aircraft reg numbers are mostly of interest to insurers (for hull losses) and people who read the accident investigation reports a year or so later (Chuck Albertson, Seattle, DX LISTENING DIGEST) We have had the same interchange following previous air disasters. Yes, I realize no one wants to use the callsigns in reports about the planes crashed, and I will continue to point out that they should, since the callsigns are unique to the craft, and the flight numbers are not. Even if a flight number is retired following a crash, there are still historically, countless previous flights with exactly the same number, by a variety of craft including the lost one (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. ERTOpen only on two frequencies on March 31: from 1830 on 9420*AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek from 1830 on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek is off from 1830 on 15650 AVL 100 kW / 105 deg to SoAs Greek *co-ch VIRI in Arabic http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/04/ertopen-only-on-two-frequencies-on.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) 15650, March 31 at 1939, dbu range 25-44, poor signal in music, sounds ME or Greek, 1943 Greekish W&M talk; 1957 Greek music, plays past 2000, but their clock is slow since a timesignal ends at 2000:49! Then surprise ID for ``Radiophonikos Stathmos Makedonias``, theme, a bit of open carrier, and cut off at 2001:41*. Maybe moved to 9420 but would not propagate now, and I`ve not heard that for at least a week at night when it would (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. ERT-open 9420 at 1700 UT on air, BUT FIGHT HEFTY AGAINST co-channel Iran Arabic schedule the whole day / night till 0030 UT, and also third station of CNR Uighur service til 1805 UT. \\ 15650 kHz S=9+40dB -37dBm at 1740 UT. 9935 kHz was not on air tonight. Due of absence of Greek engineer on February HFCC conference, they lost all registration request entries in the frequency table. So, some move of 10-15 kHz down-/upwards on their channels may be expected in future soon, during summer schedule (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, March 31, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. BBC WS via KTWR --- BBC WS special service for Vanuatu. At 0900-1000 UT on 11695 on Mon to Fri via KTWR Guam. Good signal in Japan (S. Hasegawa, Japan, March 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) New relay site; Don`t recall KTWR ever relaying anyone else (gh, DXLD) ** HAWAII [and non]. 15000, April 1 at 1308, WWVH is very good such that the YL voice announcements are slightly overmodulated/distorted, while only a trace of WWV underneath. But there is a third station with second tix of a different pitch, and they are not a semi-second out of synch. BPM China would be most likely if they are now on time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 11985, March 29 at 0111, S Asian music, fair with flutter, gone at 0132 recheck. HFCC A-15 shows it`s AIR Sinhala service only until 0115, 250 kW, 174 degrees from Delhi site. 11620, March 31 at 1344, AIR GOS in English, poor-fair but better than usual, sports talk but outro merely as Comment`ry, then program previews for rest of sesquihour. // 13710 is slightly better; // 9690 is much better, fair signal into music break. Unchecked, but I see in HFCC A-15 that CRI English via Kashgar is still ruining 13710 after 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [and non]. 13640: se observa a las 1745 fuerte colisión entre CRI en su servicio en Ruso de 1700 a 1757 con All India Radio en árabe de 1730-1945 [presumably March 30] (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Spain, Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. The latest and updated A-15 schedules of All India Radio is now available as follows: External Services: Time Wise: http://qsl.net/vu2jos/es/time.htm External Services: Language Wise: http://qsl.net/vu2jos/es/Language.htm Complete SW schedule: Frequency Wise: http://qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm SW Schedule: Station Wise: http://qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/loc.htm Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, April 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET & VACUUM. As I mentioned before, we have been relying on the Smithsonian Channel (Suddenlink cable 328 in Enid), for CBS Sunday Morning, once we discovered it was being repeated there Sunday afternoons, Monday mornings, and at least one more time during the week; since there is too much else going on at 1300-1430 UT original airtime. We would never have known about this except checking out the S.C. schedule, as it was never mentioned on CBS itself. Osgood would do a different opening (?) and closing, and the final Nature Segment would always play much longer on S.C. than CBS itself – close to 2 minutes instead of maybe a semiminute, as disposable filler to round out the time. So on March 29 we skipped the CBS airing, and were all set for it on S.C. at 1800 UT --- but NOT --- something else was on, and searching its schedule, all the CBSSM airings are gone, without notice. On CBS website it does appear most or all of the SM segments may be viewed individually, but it`s a pain to have to mess with it. At least the ``extended`` nature segment, at least this week, ran about another minute even longer than on TV. CBS is part owner of S.C., so obvious how this came about, but why quit? Most of the CBS commercials had been replaced by Smithsonian promos. The bottom line rules (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. ? 17550 kHz, UNID Arabic, S=9+10dB -59dBm here in southern Germany. Mentioned Iran, Somalia, Kenya at 1627 UT. Only scheduled 0530-1430 17550kam, but worked overtime? Need more observation (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11890, March 30 at 0123, VIRI IS, very good with flutter, 55-63 dbu on the PL-880, brief mumbled opening by YL, NA in standard opening procedure. HFCC shows it`s the Kazakh hour at 0120-0220, 500 kW, 5 degrees from Sirjan, yet serving Oklahoma well! 21750, March 31 at 1320, IRIB IS very poor, gone at 1323 recheck, so this was the tail rather than the head of a broadcast, i.e. per HFCC A-15, Indonesian at 1220-1320, 500 kW, 107 degrees from Sirjan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. MOLDAVIA, 7480, Radio Payem e-Doost (Kishinev- Grigoriopol), 1810-1815, escuchada el 31 de marzo en persa a locutoras con comentarios, segmento musical, se aprecia fuerte interferencia de señal digital, SINPO 43443 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. Cuts to Radio Farda --- Hi I've noticed at the start of the A15 season some of Radio Farda's frequencies seem to have been removed, e.g. 7520 and 7585 used to put a good signal into the UK until 2230 GMT. As of today Radio Farda is on neither frequency, only 5865 remains. Looking at http://www.rferl.org/howtolisten/FRD/ondemand.html (click on Waves) it seems that it is the case that the two frequencies mentioned above have been cut. This seems to be the case with Russian and Belarussian at least as well, other language services of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. On a plus note, I can now hear Global 24 on 5850 instead of Radio Farda as in B14 season (Stephen Cooper, UK, March 29, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ITALY. ITALIA, 10000 Italcable. 2008-2011, escuchada el 30 de marzo de 2015 en italiano anunciando la hora y con emisión musical, SINPO 23232 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [non]. Radio Rasant, instead of Radio City via IRRS SW on March 28: ROMANIA, Radio Rasant, instead of Radio City via IRRS SW on March 28, 0900-1000 on 9510 TIG 150 kW / 290 deg to WeEu German / English Sat (Bulgarian DX blog via DXLD) videos http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/radio-rasant-instead-of-radio-city-via.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via DXLD) ** JAPAN. 6020, March 30 at 1332, very poor signal in Japanese(?) with piano, believed to be Shiokaze having made another periodic frequency jump, as no longer traced on 5985. 6020 is among the ``JIC`` Yamata 290-degree alternative frequencies registered, at 1330-1430. Whatever, 6 MHz band is no use this far east during the summer daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Shiokaze Sea Breeze effective from March 29: 1330-1400 on 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Mon 1330-1400 on 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Chinese Tue 1330-1400 on 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Wed 1330-1400 on 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs English Thu 1330-1400 on 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Fri 1330-1400 on 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Sat 1330-1400 on 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Sun 1400-1430 on 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Mon 1400-1430 on 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Tue 1400-1430 on 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Wed 1400-1430 on 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs English Thu 1400-1430 on 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Fri 1400-1430 on 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Sat 1400-1430 on 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Sun 1600-1630 on 5985*YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Mon 1600-1630 on 5985*YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Chinese Tue 1600-1630 on 5985*YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Wed 1600-1630 on 5985*YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs English Thu 1600-1630 on 5985*YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Fri 1600-1630 on 5985*YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Sat 1600-1630 on 5985*YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Sun 1630-1700 on 5985*YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Mon 1630-1700 on 5985*YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Tue 1630-1700 on 5985*YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Wed 1630-1700 on 5985*YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs English Thu 1630-1700 on 5985*YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Fri 1630-1700 on 5985*YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Sat 1630-1700 on 5985*YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Sun * co-ch China Radio International in Swahili http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/04/shiokaze-sea-breeze-effective-from.html (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, April 1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) ** JAPAN [and non]. NHK World - Radio Japan Tokyo - March 29, 2015 - October 25, 2015. A-15 summer season file, according NHK World Radio Japan leaflet. Arabic 0600-0630 ME/NoAF 11975iss 2000-2030 ME Ramallah 87.8 MHz in Ramallah Palestine, +3 cities on 107.8, 107.9, and 108 MHz. Bengali 1300-1345 SoWeAS 11685sng 1500-1545 SoWeAS FM Dhaka 104.0 MHz + 6 cities Burmese 1030-1100 SoEaAS 11740sng 1430-1500 SoEaAS 11740sng 2340-2400 SoEaAS 13650 Chinese 0900-0930 AS 6090 1200-1230 AS 6090 1300-1330 AS 6190 1400-1430 AS 6190 1530-1600 AS 9540 2230-2250 AS 9560 English 0500-0530 EUR 5975wof 0500-0530 AF/EaAF/SoAF 11970iss 1000-1030 OCE/Hawaii 9625 1100-1130 EUR 9760wof, Fris only DRM mode 1200-1230 SoEaAS 11740sng 1400-1430 SoEaAS 11705pal 1400-1430 SoWeAS 15735tac 1800-1830 CeAF 9755mey WORLD OF RADIO 1767, French 0530-0600 WeAF 11730iss 0530-0600 CeAF 13840mdg 2030-2100 WeAF 11950mdg Hindi 0100-0130 SoWeAS 11590tac 1430-1515 SoWeAS 15745mdg Indonesian 1115-1200 SoEaAS 9625pal 1315-1400 SoEaAS 11705pal 1406-1451 SoEaAS FM Jakarta 89.2 MHz + 37 INS cities 2130-2200 SoEaAS 9560 Japanese 0200-0500 AS 15195 0200-0500 SoWeAS 15325 0200-0500 SoEaAS 17810 0300-0500 CeAM 5910iss 0300-0500 SoEaEUR/NE/ME/NoEaAF 11680nau 0700-0800 EaAS 11710 0800-0900 SoEaAS 13650 0800-1000 So/CeAM 12015asc 0800-1000 SoWeEUR/WeAF 15290iss 0800-1700 AS 9750 0900-1500 SoEaAS 11815 1500-1700 AF/SoWeAS/SoAS 12045 1700-1900 SoEU/ceAF/soAF 11945iss 1700-1900 SoEaEUR/NE/ME/NoEaAF 15445nau 1900-2100 CeAS/ME/NE/NoAF 11965 1900-2100 CeAF 15130iss 2000-2100 OCE/Hawaii 9625 2100-2300 SoEaAS 13680 2100-2400 AS 11910 Korean 0915-0945 AS 5950 1130-1200 AS 6090 1230-1300 AS 6190 1330-1400 AS 6190 1430-1500 AS 6190 2209-2230 AS 9560 Persian 0400-0430 ME 15140tac 1430-1500 ME 13680iss FM Kabul/Herat 88.0 MHz 1630-1700 ME MW927tjk Portuguese 0900-0930 SoAM 6195hri 2130-2200 SoAM MW1370spa MW1520 Mogi das Cruzes MW1370 Campinas FM 96.5 MHz, Brasília FM 94.1 MHz 2130-2200 SoAM 17540hri Russian 0330-0400 EU MW738msk MW1386sit 0430-0500 EU 6165sit 0530-0600 EaAS 11710 1100-1130 EaAS 6090 1130-1200 EU 9760wof, Fris only DRM mode 1600-1630 EU MW738msk MW927tjk 1730-1800 EU MW1386sit Spanish 0400-0430 CeAM 5985rmi 0400-0430 CeSoAM 12015hri 0930-1000 CeSoAM 6195hri Swahili 0315-0400 EaAF 7395mdg 1729-1800 EaAF 13730mdg 1730-1800 TZA FM Mwanza 98.2 MHz + 22 cities of TBC FM. COD FM Kisangani 97.7, Kivu 88.6, Goma 88.7 BDI FM Bujumbura 88.6, 107.5 MHz. Thai 1130-1200 SoEaAS 11740sng 1230-1300 SoEaAs 11740sng 2259-2320 SoEaAS 13650 Urdu 1515-1600 SoWeAS 13870uae 1700-1745 SoWeAS MW927tjk Vietnamese 1100-1130 SoEaAS 11740sng 1300-1330 SoEaAS 11740sng 2320-2340 SoEaAS 13650 Relays: asc Ascension Isl hri HRI Furman-SC, South Carolina, USA iss Issoudun, France mdg Madagascar mey Meyerton, South Africa msk Moscow, Russia nau Nauen, Germany pal KHBN Palau rmi WRMI Okeechobee-FL, Florida USA sit Sitkunai, Lithuania sng Kranji, Singapore spa São Paulo, Brazil tac Tashkent, Uzbekistan tjk Dushanbe, Tajikistan uae Al Dhabayya, UAE wof Woofferton UK-GBR, only DRM mode special on Fridays. FM relays in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Burundi, Congo DR, Indonesia, Palestine West Bank, and Tanzania (NHK Radio Japan, March 24, PDF.format leaflet transformed by wb March 25 at wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 26 via DXLD) [non]. 11705, March 30 at 1419, NHK World Radio Japan in English with Japanese lesson, fair, but ACI from stronger 11710 VOK in French. Nevertheless, 11705 should be one of our better chances for NHK English, 1400-1430 despite due west via PALAU; // 15735 via UZBEKISTAN southwards unchecked but surely inferior if at all. Some days, VOK is likely to be absent (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. TAC / UZB, Korean program, S=9 signal backlobe into Germany, -76dBm, ITU antenna #902 means log-periodic, not! dipole curtain antenna? at 1435 UT, 11570 1300-1500 44NE TAC 100 76 0 902 Kor UZB WRN (Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX, 1515 UT March 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. CLANDESTINE, New frequencies of clandestine broadcasts in A-15: North Korea Reform Radio: 1430-1530 NF 11550 PUG 125 kW / 010 deg to NEAs Korean, ex 9300 A-14 (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. Issue with KBS World Radio 3955 at 2115 (28 Mar 2015) ---- Instead of KBS World Radio on 3955 from Woofferton I have been hearing a tone since 2110 and now at 2116 I heard some other mode then the tone again. At 2117 the French broadcast came on. Tone shown on SDR : http://imgur.com/u8b0Pmc Strange mode shown on SDR : http://imgur.com/pDFp1lZ Audio of tone : https://clyp.it/fe2riahc (Stephen Cooper, UK, March 28, dxldyg via DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11510, Grigoriopol` Maiac Kurdish strong spurious both 11490 and 11530 kHz, 1445 UT Mar 29 MOLDOVA (Pridnestrovie), 11510 regular, and two 11490 / 11530 kHz exact +/-20.0 kHz away, two spurious signals each sideband. 11510 S=9+40dB 11490 S=9+5dB 11530 S=9+10dB Minor spurious signals also hit on 11470.0 and 11550.0 kHz too. 11510 0300-1900 39,40 KCH 300 116 218 Kurdish MDA BRB Station ID heard at 1450 UT March 29. (Wolfgang Buschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Or at that hour it must be BULGARIA --- (gh) SECRETLAND, Denge Kurdistan via very old tx in Secretbrod, March 29: 1400-1600 11510 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish plus 2nd harmonic 23010 [sic: must be 23020 --- gh], plus spurs 11490/11470/11530/11550, co-ch NoKorea Reform Radio 1430-1530: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/denge-kurdistan-via-very-old-tx-in.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) Nothing visible near 23020 kHz here in central Europe in this afternoon, maybe only a local SW groundwave outlet close to Kostinbrod BUL? (Wolfgang Büschel, 1615 UT March 29, dxldyg via DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. March 29, Denge Kurdistan 1408 on 11510 Secretbrod + 2nd harmonic 23020 + spurs 11490, 11470, 11530, 11550 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgnLZTnlQxg&feature=youtu.be Denge Kurdistan 1436 on 11510 Secretbrod + 2nd harmonic 23020 + spurs 11490, 11470, 11530, 11550: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAzVhB58Q5M&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) 11510, March 30 at 1345, very poor signal, presumed Denge Kurdistane, back on summer frequency ex-9400. 11510 is HFCC-registered all the way from 03 to 19 via KCH = PRIDNESTROVYE, but one can never be sure what other sites will really be switched around for it. Last A-season, 11510 was often sufficiently good during this enjoyable mostly-music hour, still so anticipated. But remains very poor at 1418 recheck with talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Clandestina, MOLDAVIA, 11510 Radyoya Dengue Kurdistane (Kishinev), 1720-1730, escuchada el 30 de marzo de 2015 en kurdo a locutor recitando un poema acompañado con música de flauta de fondo, SINPO 45433 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Spain, Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11510, April 2 at 0511, poor signal with heavy flutter, presumed Denge Kurdistane with Kurdish music on A-15 channel ex-9400. Registered as PRIDNESTROVYE site 03-19, but at least part of it later is Bulgaria. Same type of heavy flutter on 9700, ROMANIA in French, tho K index at 03 was only 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 17550, March 28 at 2004, R. Kuwait ID in passing, Arabic, fair, registering 27-38 dbu on the PL-880 with short random wire; by 2023 it`s down to 20-35 dbu, and keeps weakening. Believe it`s the first time this year I have heard this strange service to Central & Western North America at 20-24 UT. Riding the MUF, reception will continue to vary widely from day to day. And still NO signal on 15540 for the 18-21 English service, transmitter defunct? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17550, Radio Kuwait (Sulaibiyah), 2155-2157, escuchada el 29 de marzo de 2015 en árabe a locutora con invitado, comentarios con referencias a “Arabia”, SINPO 44343 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Spain, Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17550, March 31 at 2002, no signal from R. Kuwait, tho previous frequency 13650 was audible poorly before 2000 and off now. By 2003 with BFO I can detect a JBA carrier on 17550, so apparently it`s on but not a good day to propagate. As always, nothing on 15540, the former English frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CHINA/KUWAIT, 11630, co-channel mixture or R Kuwait HQ afternoon prayer in Arabic, and CNR Kazakh service played violin and flute music from LIN site. At 1503 UT March 29. S=9+50dB or -59dBm here in southern Germany. 2355-1805 42NW LIN 100 286 1015-1600 52,47-48 KBD 200 230 (Wolfgang Büschal, dxldyg via DXLD) ** LAOS [and non]. 6130, PBS Xizang, Tibetan at 15 UT, and co-channel underneath Lao National Radio Vientiane odd 6129.983 at S=7 or -83dBm level (Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX, 1515 UT March 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADEIRA. 1530, Posto Emissor do Funchal, Poiso, 0527-0603, 02-04, Portuguese songs, identification: "Posto Emissor do Funchal", at 0600 news. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Grundig Satellit 500, Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Tecsun PL-880, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MARTINIQUE. 7279.5-LSB, March 28 at 0549, ham TO4C making quick contest QSOs, having reached #923 sequentially. Fortunately always utters call fonetikaly, but where in the world is that? Must find himself in Region 2 to reside in this bandpart. QRZ.com shows: TO4C, Richard Brokenshaw M5RIC, QSL Via M0OXO, OQRS Preferred, Martinique. Active from Martinique NA-107 from: 26 March - 01 April 2014 including an entry in CQWW WPX SSB. 22 March - 29 March 2015 including an entry in CQWW WPX SSB. No doubt he got that odd call to diversify the prefixes available rather than plain old FM- something (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 970, March 27 at 0129, weak Spanish station from SW, fortunately close to the null against local adjacent 960 KGWA. ID as Radio Madera, automated timecheck for 6:29 by YL voice, mentions FM 96.1, back to music; 0132 next break another full ID mentions Chihuahua, 6:31 TC, more music; some CCI from an ABC station in English, NW/SE but mostly nullable; 0135 yet another break with ID, ads, gobierno del estado PSA; promo a show lunes a viernes 6 a 7 de la mañana; 0137 auto YL TC for 6:37; 0140 gone. No sign of XEJ Juárez which we have not heard for months and believed to be off the air. Instead it is the other Chihuahuan on 970, as in Cantú: XESW, Radio Madera, La Mera Mera, +FM 96.5 [sic], Cd. Madera, 5000 watt daytimer. IRCA agrees, yet schedule as 14-05 UT. Cantú also linx to station website http://www.radiomadera.com/ which acknowledges that it is on 96.1, not 96.5; and the 5-letter call for FM, XHESW is more like what I heard announced. Where is Ciudad Madera (Wood City), anyway? It`s not in my Rand McNally; a larger atlas shows it in the remote west-central Chihuahua mountains, not far from the Sonora state line. And Cantú has this as the only radio station in the town, altho the website shows sibling outlets with corporate HQ in Chihuahua capital. A strange thing on the schedule, auto-displaying for Friday already: among the programs with titles are four other blox labeled SIN PROG., apparently meaning ``without programming`` --- so do they axually take breaks off the air? Those are at 07:00-07:30, 09:00-13:30, 15:00- 16:00, 16:30-21:00 local, which per the TCs heard is still MST = UT - 7, to become MDT = UT -6 the first Sunday in April, like the rest of Mexico beyond the Border starting a quadriweek later than in El Norte. No, a full-week program grid shows no such breaks: http://www.radiomadera.com/portada.php?p=prog&a=programacion Also linx to the cheesecake-prone state journal Vozenred.com I`m wondering if Quintana Roo, since it alone last year switched to EST = UT -5 to be in step with tourists from eastern USA, will also switch to EDT = UT -4, better late than never, on April 5? Here`s a handy Mexico timezone map along with adjacent USA, showing current but not future situation, and linx to others: http://www.worldtimezone.com/time-mexico12.php Anyhow XHESW does have live streaming. And per Cantú, there is only one TV channel in Madera, relay Televisa-2 Canal de las Estrellas, XHMAC on channel 7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. UNIDENTIFIED. 1040, March 26 at 1319, very poor signal, YL in Spanish with temps and predicted highs for several cities including Hidalgo del Parral, then listing today`s (Catholic) saints. No 1040 in Parral, but one in Chihuahua city, XEHES, Estéreo Sensación which I have IDed recently, maybe this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1100, March 30 at 0515, I sit on this frequency for a while, as there is Mexican music without too much WTAM even tho I`m not nulling it, but instead some local noise source. There are SHVA (super-hype voice actor) exclamations between each tune, but difficult to copy. Try speaking in a normal tone of voice? No way! Finally at 0530 a peak allows me to make out a ``Radio Cañón, 90.1 FM`` ID, then a political for Partido Humanista; so it`s XETGO, Tlaltenango, Zacatecas, 30000/400 watts, really? It sounds like less than 30 kW, but more than 400 watts. I already heard it recently and also has been reported much further into El Norte. Seems to be the dominant XE on 1100 now among five or seven others listed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1560, XEMAS, Salamanca, Mexico I've a rather welcome addition to my logbook thanks to a Mexican DXer who frequents the WTFDA Forums bulletin board. On Feb 26, with 1560 WQEW NYC off, I snagged a few seconds of talk before music. It seemed Spanish, but I wasn't able to make out more than something sounding to me like AM (AM'eh). The DXer listened to the clip and pointed me to XEMAS in Salamanca, Guanajuato. "At 00:06 there is a female voice saying '107.9 FM' in Spanish. That's because both stations (107.9 FM in Irapuato, Guanajuato) are WE! Radio (not as pronoun "we", instead it's like "doh-ble oo, eh" from XEWE-AM, now XHWE-FM), and at 00:08 you can hear a spot from a political party called 'Movimiento Ciudadano'. He pointed me to an extended version of that spot, saying the verse I had on my clip starts at 00:36 of the clip on You Tube. I listened to the You Tube clip and the music on that and on my audio clip is indeed a match. The You Tube clip is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui66RwcCj5o I then went to XEMAS' web site and live stream. It indeed IDs as We radio, phonetically as above, and a few minutes after logging into the stream the same political party spot played, with the same sampling of music I heard Feb 26. I can make out enough of the 'We' that I'm satisfied. I can also make out the .9 FM" of the "107.9" that precedes it. I'd call this one of my most "barely made it" loggings. This station used to go by Ke Buena, at least per my 2014 WRTH (my 2015 WRTH is at Burnt River, I'm in Toronto). I've quite a few hours more of 1560 recordings to go through, so maybe more goodies will pop up. At 1 kW day/250 W night, I suspect this is as much of XEMAS as I'm ever likely to hear. I am curious if any of you have logged it, either in North America or in Europe. You can hear my audio clip and the various comments posted at: http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?9584 (Saul Chernos, Burnt River ON, March 31, IRCA via DXLD) Great catch, Saul! Here in IL the only Mexicans I have on 1560 are Mexico City and Cd. Juárez. Every time I IDed the SS on 1560 during this recent auroral it was KTXZ from Texas, although I have more recordings to listen to. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, ibid.) Here`s the WTFDA thread about the above: I heard nothing, but there are three AMs on 1560 in Mexico: XEJPV Cd. Juárez Chih. [1/D] "Radio Viva" XEMAS Salamanca Gto. [1/0.25] // XEWE 107.9 FM (Ke Buena national format) XEINFO Mexico City, Regional Mexican [50/10] XEINFO is definitely the most powerful (and it'd be the only Mexican I'd suspect at night) but it also runs very few IDs, has no on air talent or branding, etc. The reason why dates to a dispute that Grupo Radio Centro had with a company called InfoRed, run by José Gutiérrez Vivó. The guy was a journalist and he produced the "Monitor" newscasts that ran on Radio Red. In 1998, the guy and Radio Centro, which needed to pare down its station portfolio for regulatory purposes (it had bought Radio Red in 1996 and took on more stations than it could really have), agreed to a deal in which the newscasts would continue, and in 2000, InfoRed took control of 1320 AM (then XEJP; the calls were changed to XENET in 2004) and 1560 AM (then XEFAJ, calls for Francisco Aguirre Jiménez, founder of GRC; calls changed to XEINFO in 2004). In 2004, InfoRed and Radio Centro had a bitter dispute and parted their separate ways (they're still in the courts; the original victory went to InfoRed but Radio Centro has been fighting it ever since). Monitor moved off of Radio Red and onto 1560 (sometimes simulcasting with 1320). However, Gutiérrez Vivó ran into labor disputes, and InfoRed ceased to function in 2008. XENET has been off the air ever since. XEINFO has been running an automated Regional Mexican format sent by Radio Centro for years now. This is their ID. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khc9_OmBhDg I speak Spanish so you don't have to (Raymie Humbert, AZ, March 16, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Thanks, Raymie. I think this one is gonna be a goner. One DXer isn't even positive it's Spanish. Not sure what to make of it, with NYC back on the air I was hoping. Still have more 1560 audio to go through, so never know what'll turn up (Saul Chernos, Burnt River ON, March 24, ibid.) I'm flummoxed as well. I agree that it is probably not Spanish. It sounds more like Portuguese than Spanish (but, in Brazil, 1560 is a Class C channel, i.e., 1560 in Brazil is like 1490 here). The music seems to have an African or Afro-Brazilian feel, but you can scratch Africa, unless you were actually hearing it on 1557 or 1566. Around :08, I thought I may have heard Bayamo, but there is no 1560 in that (Cuban) city, or, for that matter, any string station on 1560 in Cuba (highly ironic, as, if I recall correctly, 1560 was the only channel assigned as Cuban clear at the 1940 Habana NARBA conference.) Engineer, Fingerboard Corners & Warmley R.R. (Robert Grant, March 24, ibid.) Flummoxed - that about sums it up, Robert. Have quite a few more MP3 recordings to review from the 1560 NYC outage, so maybe will get more of whatever this was. Thanks for listening! (Saul Chernos, Burnt River ON, March 27, ibid.) Maybe my answer is too late for all of you, but indeed is a Mexican station. Exactly XEMAS-AM from Salamanca, Guanajuato. At 00:06 there is a female voice saying "107.9 FM" in Spanish. That's because both stations (107.9 FM in Irapuato, Guanajuato) are WE! Radio (not as pronoun "we", instead it's like "doh-ble oo, eh" from XEWE-AM, now XHWE-FM), and at 00:08 you can hear a spot from a political party called "Movimiento Ciudadano". This is the extended version of that spot, exactly at 00:36 starts the verse you recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui66RwcCj5o (Gargadon is offline New Member, Ciudad del Carmen, Mexico, March 30, ibid.) Wow, it was Salamanca. I certainly would not have heard any of that in there (I am bad at identifying Spanish through AM, really bad at it) but I do vaguely hear the Movimiento Ciudadano ad. I think Gargadon is the second Mexican DXer I've brought over to this forum in the last month (Raymie, March 30, ibid.) ** MEXICO. Well then, a distance reception from Cd. del Carmen (69 mi) confirms Televisa is on a tear in Campeche! The first digital station known in Escárcega is on air. It is XHEFT- TDT 21 (5.x) in the CE net. This allocation is a real surprise as the allotments would have suggested this station to sign on channel 30. Within the last week Televisa has signed on all its transmitters in the state of Campeche. We caught XHCDC testing, XHGE and XHCPA showed up yesterday, and now this. That is pretty darn impressive. It also means that all stations in Campeche (that were built in analog) have a digital station on the air or authorized (the last missing stations are XHCCA-TDT 30 and Azteca Escárcega). (Raymie Humbert, AZ, March 26, Raymie`s Mexico Blog, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Cadena Tres received its superconcession today. But Radio Centro... they're a little off the mark right now. Let's go to CNN Expansión http://www.cnnexpansion.com/negocios/2015/03/24/grupo-radio-centro-con-menos-tiempo-y-mas-presiones for the story, which notes that: -Legislators are doubting Radio Centro's solvency. Keep in mind their winning bid was 40% higher than that of Cadena Tres. -Apparently some financial backers have dropped out; experts say Radio Centro must find new ones to finance its television project. -Radio Centro will also need to invest in creating content and infrastructure, to the point where "without a doubt they will have additional stress and pressure on top of what Grupo Imagen [Cadena Tres] has". If they don't pay by April 10, they lose the network and their security deposit of MXN415 million (Raymie March 27, ibid.) It should be noted... As this is often a rollup of the content from the Mexican TV forum, I am limited in what I can cover and find out for sure about new digital stations. Some areas of the country I have no regular information on. A few states in particular give me fits: BCS (I don't believe a single digital television station has signed on in this state), Chiapas (which is unsurprisingly in the slow lane and also has Mexico's lowest rate of digital penetration), Guerrero (Televisa has an authorization for one of two Chilpancingo stations but I really don't know what's up here), Sonora and pretty much any rural area. I was lucky to get word that XHZAP, XHEFT and XHSCC/XHSNC all started. Each of those was reported via distance reception. In each of those cases, the people receiving them had no clue what they were at first. A DXer reporting VCs 11 and 13 with Televisa in Villahermosa did not have me thinking "San Cristóbal de las Casas" immediately, but that had to be it as the VCs matched (Televisa is great about getting VCs and calls on its digital stations) and the authorizations had recently appeared. In the first two cases someone had the callsign so it was easy. ——— Uh-oh, the diver is back! And this time he's popped up in Chihuahua, Chih., where it looks like another digital television station is about to come on air. We have two choices for what it could be: XHABC-28, a station I believe is endangered by transition costs, or XHCHI-20 in the Canal Once network. Given what we saw in Saltillo last week, and what I'm reading in the Mexican transparency portal about the various contracts Canal Once has given to R&S (including one from late 2014 for the installation of six unspecified UHF television transmitters — conveniently only six of the IPN's stations in the February 2015 list are listed as not on in digital, and already Saltillo and Culiacán have been built) it's going to be XHCHI. Physical channel is unknown though 25 and 34 are the available frequencies to build the station. This leaves Cuauhtémoc Chih., Delicias Chih. and Los Mochis as the last analog-only stations left in the IPN transmitter network. Speaking of public transmitter networks, I think we might see an SPR station in Mexicali soon. Why? Because the first OPMA reports I've read stated that they wanted a Mexicali station. (Indeed there is no national public TV service there. In the entire Imperial Valley there's just XHRCS-50, which is in Sonora's Telemax network, and puny K19CX Yuma, an analog-only KAET translator.) The reason they haven't gotten a permit for it is likely because there was simply no room to build a new station without the analog shutoff occurring. With four of the six Mexicali stations to shut off being on UHF, there's certainly room now. —— I went to try and find an analog coverage map of XHLRT from TV Fool (yeah, as if that's a good idea) but instead I learned that the FCC had channel 2 from Matamoros in its database as "XHCR" for years. That was the correct callsign for the station in the 60s but the calls were changed to XHRIO in the 70s. Last edited by Raymie; 03-28-2015 at 02:48 AM. (Raymie, March 28, ibid.) FWIW, listings of Mexican (and Canadian) stations in the FCC database are provided by the government in question -- and exist only to ensure we don't authorize anything that's inconsistent with treaties. Of course, call letters have no effect on the ability of a station to cause or receive interference - so they tend to be VERY wrong. There's really no need to keep them updated (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, http://www.w9wi.com March 28, ibid.) Mike and Raymie, my first reception of XHBC-3 was June, 28, 2009, the day my local KTBS-3 went off. I pulled in a number of stations through KTBS over the years (like XHBQ and XHVIZ), but not XHBC. XHBC will be missed (Danny Oglethorpe, Shreveport, LA Mexico/Latin America TV DX ID Tips http://www.tvdxtips.com Submit and read DTV Stats http://www.tvdxexpo.com/dtvdxrecords.html TV and DTV DX Photographs http://www.tvdxexpo.com My Photographs of 100 Mexico TV DX Local IDs http://www.tvdxexpo.com/100mexicotvids.html More than 1,100 TV logs since 1994; March 28, ibid.) Another new digital television station in southeast Mexico, this time in the state of Yucatán where XHVTT-TDT 41 (8.x) Valladolid/Tizimin showed up today. This was the expected allocation for that station as it was the last one without authorization (all it has is one Televisa and two Aztecas). (Raymie, AZ, March 28, ibid.) While XHVTT might have moved to channel 32 (which is odd, that's not an assigned frequency for the area, they really should be on 41)... A quick historical interlude. While researching the history of XHCH, I came across Matt Sittel's account of receiving an ID of the station in 1986 in a VUD. "Had a neat ID. They started with XHCH-2 Chihuahua, then it faded to where all I could see were the #s: 13, then 8, then 7. Wish I had seen all of it!" Don't you just love YouTube? Here's the actual ID, which is from the Imevisión era. I've seen this before and immediately recognized what Matt was talking about! Quality isn't the greatest, but it's harder to get Mexico old videos from the 80s than it is for the US. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=B5xURs_7pbE This multi-station ID did throw multiple DXers off. In the very same VUD, William Eckberg said he logged XHCH on channel 5. In the next, Keith Pugh said he saw IDs on channel 4 for "XHEN-2, XOF-13 and XHMT- 7" [of course, XHCH, XHDF and XHIMT — I'd think this was Monterrey], while Larry Van Horn thought he saw "XHOF-7" as an ID on channel 2 (I bet he saw XHDF, then it went to the XHIMT part). (Raymie, March 29, ibid.) Another Notimex article, more clues as to what's next in the digitalization process. http://www.24-horas.mx/sct-alista-fecha-para-apagon-analogico-en-guanajuato-y-san-luis-potosi/ In the next two weeks, the SCT will prepare and deliver its report on digital penetration in Guanajuato and San Luis Potosí, but don't expect any shutoffs until July, at least a month after the elections. León, if its penetration numbers are correct, should be ready to shut off as it has a parity score of 100 and was among the first cities in Mexico to claim this. Less certain are Celaya and San Luis Potosí: -In Celaya, XHCEP-11, a very small local station that might be on the endangered list thanks to the transition, could hold up the entire city. It's actually been very ready and most stations have been here for a while. Even the state network prioritized building its Celaya digital transmitter. Likely RF channel for XHCEP is 46, the last allocation remaining there. -In SLP, SLP, two stations are not on air. XHSLS-9 (TDT 35) is working toward a sign-on in May (it may be the most talked-about single station in this thread). The other is XHDE-13 (TDT 16) which has held an authorization since November and is actually upgrading its facilities right now to prepare for the transition. -SLP also has other markets that are far less ready in terms of stations on air. In Tamazunchale, shadow XHVSL, one Televisa and Azteca are all missing. In Matehuala, Azteca has two stations and there is one Televisa. Ciudad Valles is probably the furthest along as its Televisa stations appeared a couple of months ago, XHVSL is authorized, and XHKD (Azteca) of course has its authorization but has not built out. We also learned why some other BC cities were not part of the Mexicali shutoff even though they hit 90%. It's predictable. In Tecate, there is apparently an international coordination issue with the FCC. In Ensenada none of the stations have been built (we have two Televisa digitals, one co-channel, out of three stations, Azteca x2 not on air and then a local station that could be in danger). In San Felipe there are no digital television stations (Azteca has one repeater and then the local Patronato owns three different translators, and I suspect they are going to be in danger of disappearing too). (Raymie, March 30, ibid.) ** MONGOLIA [and non]. Reception of Voice of Mongolia due to absence of Voice of Korea: 1400-1430 12014.9 U-B 250 kW / 178 deg SEAs Mongolian 1430-1500 12014.9 U-B 250 kW / 116 deg EaAs Chinese 1400-1457 12015.0 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg EaEu Russian, at 1451 was back http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/04/reception-of-voice-of-mongolia-due-to.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, April 1, dxldyg via DXLD) Reception of Voice of Mongolia due to absence of Voice of Korea, Pt 2: 1500-1530 12014.9 U-B 250 kW / 116 deg EaAs Japanese 1500-1557 12015.0 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg EaEu Russian, at 1530 was back http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/04/reception-of-voice-of-mongolia-due-to_2.html (Ivo Ivanov, April 2, ibid.) ** MOROCCO. 9575. 0803-0860 April 1. Medi-1 in Arabic fast paced news, with music pips, and promos. Fair signal. 73s (Marty Delfín (Madrid, Spain), DX-440, telescopic antenna; Sony ICF-SW77, telescopic, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO [and non?]. Wednesday, April 1, 2015 5:08 AM [note date...] H. Heinrich forwarded this info in the A-DX mailinglist from yet another mailinglist, EuroRadio. An Algerian station named Radio Amazigh performs test transmissions from 31 March until 4 April from international waters. 1230-1300 UTC on (9805 plusminus 5) kHz. Languages: Kabyl and French. Amazigh means Berber in Kabyl. The first three broadcasts are in NBFM, the remaining two in AM. RR (in French please) to amazigh@netcourrier.com 73, Eike Bierwirth Laut einer Nachricht über die Englischsprachige mailing-list EuroRadio, wird von 31 März bis 4 April aus hoher See getested. Ein Algerischer Sender, der sich Radio Amazigh nennt, will an diesen Tagen von 1230 bis 1300 auf 9805 kHz (+/- 5 kHz) testen. Sprachen: Kabyl (Berber) und Französisch. Übrigens Amazigh bedeutet Berber in deren Sprache. Komisch dabei is das die drei ersten Sendungen in NBFM abgewickelt werden, die zwei letzten werden in AM ablaufen. Empfangsberichte an amazigh@netcourrier.com Wenn möglich sollten die Berichte auf Französich geschrieben sein (Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) INTERNATIONAL WATERS Tests on 9805 kHz. EuroRadio announced tests on 9805 kHz. Hello, a group of Algerian radio enthusiasts is planning five days of tests from March 31st to April 4th, 2015. Programmes will go out daily on a frequency of 9805 (+/- 5 kHz) from 1230 to 1300 UT. They will be broadcast from a troller [trawler?] in the Mediterranean. There will be music and speech in Kabyl (Berber) and in French. The station calls itself Radio Amazigh (meaning Berber in the Kabyl language). The power is 5 kW and the antenna is a dipole. The first three days transmissions will be in NBFM mode. On day four and five conventional AM mode will be used. Reception reports are welcome to and will be confirmed with a QSL-card. Reports should be written preferably in French (Claude Guerrero-Marseille-France, EuroRadio mail reflector to: March 29 via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. GERMANY(non) Mighty KBC Radio, final broadcast on Saturdays, today, March 28 0900-1600 6095 NAU 100 kW / 240 deg WeEu English Sat/Sun, plus videos: 0800-1500 6095 NAU 100 kW / 240 deg WeEu English Sun only from Mar 29 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/mighty-kbc-radio-final-broadcast-on.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via DXLD) Following info from Eric van Willegen of the Mighty KBC. "The Mighty KBC frequency change for the USA!! We will switch to 9925 kHz on May 3, 2015 and then switch back to 7375 kHz on September 6, 2015." 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, March 26, dxldyg via DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. 6170, March 30 at 1328, here is RNZI on its reactivated A-season/winter frequency, ex-9700. Wrapping up `Dateline Pacific`. Good signal now, starting at 1259, but it will get worse and worse as our sun rises earlier and earlier. 9700 is now scheduled until 1258 but it`s back on the NW antenna, rather than the NE, so not so good for us. 11725, April 2 at 0513, no signal from RNZI, so must be another Thursday maintenance period; propagation OK, as Australia is in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. Till 9 March not mentioned in the morning but on March 23rd re-activated on 6090 covering all other stations here (see ETHIOPIA). Heard with Sony ICF2001D & rod antenna on MW 594 // 6090 (observed on VEF201): s/on at 0425 with carrier; drums tam-tam as IS from 0431, at 0433 choir singing song “My Country”, followed with muslim talk “Salom Aleikum…la bereketu” in Arabic and sermon; at 0440 ID in English “Radio Kaduna Nigeria”. Poor signal on 594 but strong on 6090 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Kaduna Nigeria um 0550 UT auf 6089.859 kHz und die liebe Pastorin Melissa Scott aus Anguilla auf 6090 kHz war sehr sanftmütig in ihrem Säuseln und störte nicht weiter, verglichen mit dem BS Brüller TOM Aussendungen (Wolfgang Büschel, March 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 15120, V. of Nigeria, Mar 22 0658-0704, 35333, French, 0658 from IS, 0700 Opening announce, Theme music, Talk, Modulation is shallow (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) VoN heard this Sunday at 1145 tune in to 1200 on 15120 in French. This (spécial ?) programme was about the elections in the country (Jean- Michel Aubier, France, March 29, dxldyg via DXLD) NIGERIA (tent.): 7254.9, 1801+ UT, news in English, female, fair signal, clear and good modulation. About Nigeria and ECOWAS mainly, style of newsreading sounded very much like Voice of Nigeria, but certainly not the old Ikorodu transmitter. Must have been signed off just before 1830 already. No DRM on 15120 so far today. No 15120.0 morning programme noted the past few days. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Münster, http://www.muenster.org/uwz/ms-alt/africalist (to be updated soon), March 30, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thorsten, heute Morgen aus Afrika erstmals wieder gehört 6089.859; Auch 7254.9v Ikorodu habe ich kurz 'gesehen', als ich die Parameter und die Options optimieren wollte, war Nigeria aber um 0559 UTC wieder verschwunden, danach kam Belarus Radio aus Minsk Kalodzicy auf die 7255.0 Schwingung. 15120, V of Nigeria und der Chinese in Mandarin zugleich um 06 UT auf der Schwingung. Nicht nur Gleichkanal, auch brachte Nigeria ein Audio Weinen-Geräusch mit, im Browser mit einigen 10 Spurs von 398(!) Hertz aufzulösen! Auf jedem Seitenband 10 x 398 Hertz Spurious Strings schön zu sehen (Wolfgang Büschel, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Thorsten, noted the same station (7254.9) at the same time also here in Finland. Couldn't pull out ID due to local QRM noise. 73, (Jari Savolainen, Finland, dxldyg via DXLD) Hi Jari, I didn't hear it yesterday (neither DRM), and didn't check today. But Wolfgang heard Voice of Nigeria on 7254.9 yesterday morning until 0559. Today, after 1900, I heard 15120 DRM again after 1900, and now 9689.9 which I missed for a while, with good audio. 15120.0 AM had very low audio again yesterday as well as today. hmmm... 73 (thorsten, April 1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15120, Voice of Nigeria (Ikorodu), 1752-1758, escuchada el 31 de marzo de 2015 en árabe a locutor con comentarios, segmento música étnica, a pesar de la fuerte señal de portadora la modulación es baja, locutora con comentarios, la emisión se corta bruscamente, SINPO 34443 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15120, 0734-0759 April 1. Poor signal from VON in French for Africa with talk and dialogue and news report from woman, IS drum beats. Signal faded out but carrier was still on. 73s (Marty Delfín (Madrid, Spain), DX-440, telescopic antenna; Sony ICF-SW77, telescopic, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. March 25: Dandal Kura in Kanuri to WeAf 0557 on 9440 Ascension https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdE985t4hZo&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ASCENSION, 12065, Dandal Kura Radio (Ascension), 1815-1820, escuchada el 26 de marzo de 2015 en kanuri a locutor y locutora con comentarios, locutora con cuña, SINPO 24232 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. March 29: Dandal Kura in Kanuri to WeAf 1800 on 12050 Ascension https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eKN0oIhtcI&feature=youtu.be Dandal Kura in Kanuri to WeAf 1815 on 12050 Ascension https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKuNVObgJII&feature=youtu.be Dandal Kura in Kanuri to WeAf 1844 on 12050 Ascension https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFNwbZ8mqdI&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) CLANDESTINE: Dandal Kura: 1800-1900 on 12050 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf Kanuri http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/several-clandestine-broadcasts.html Added videos of morning transmissions of Hamada Radio International and Dandal Kura http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/several-clandestine-broadcasts.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, Mar 29, dxldyg via DXLD) CLANDESTINE, 12050, Dandal Kura, Mar 29 *1759-1811, 35443, Kanuri?, 1759 sign on with announce by man, Opening music, Opening announce, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Clandestinas, ASCENSION, 12050, Dandal Kura Radio (Ascension), 1845- 1855, escuchada el 31 de marzo de 2015 en kanuri a locutor y locutora con comentarios, entrevista a invitado, SINPO 34433 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) CLANDESTINE, New frequencies of clandestine broadcasts in A-15: Dandal Kura, new in A-15: 0500-0600 on 7415 ASC 250 kW / 055 deg to WeAf Kanuri 1800-1900 on 12050 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf Kanuri (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via DXLD) 7415, March 30 at 0554, good signal with chanting & percussion, not // 11650 Dabanga, so what`s this? 0559 mentions Obama, bit of music and off 0559.5*. HFCC shows it`s ASCENSION, 250 kW, 55 degrees at 0500- 0600 in ``Kau`` which means Kanuri language. Therefore it`s the new A- 15 frequency for Dandal Kura to the Boko Haram area of Nigeria (and the other broadcast at 18-19 is still listed on 12050) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. March 25: Radio APC, Radio Chanji in Hausa to Nigeria 0600 on 11720 Nauen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqwrg2qmG60&feature=youtu.be Radio APC, Radio Chanji in Hausa to Nigeria 0603 on 11720 Nauen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Vaspm8ozM&feature=youtu.be Radio APC, Radio Chanji in Hausa to Nigeria 0627 on 11720 Nauen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFz7AqmsHf0&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) 11720, Radio APC/Radio Chanji (Nauen), 0604-0606, escuchada el 26 de marzo de 2015 con emisión de música pop africana. Chequeando esta frecuencia los días 24 y 25 de marzo, no capté señal alguna; la propagación esos días fue muy mala, pero me sorprendió captar en 11725 a Radio New Zealand Int, SINPO 24232 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: New transmission to Nigeria - Radio APC/Radio Chanji. Has anyone got any idea which site this is using? Thanks, (Chris Greenway, March 27, dxldyg via DXLD) Ivo concluded it is Nauen, but a guess? http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/new-transmission-to-nigeria-radio.html (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) I was wondering earlier also which site this is. Listed is Radio Japan in French to same area until 0600 on 11730 via ISS 500 kW. Switch to 11720 would be easy as the transmiter already is ready and antenna is ready. Who knows? (Jari Savolainen, Finland, ibid.) Thanks - though not listed from either ISS or NAU in the A-15 schedule just circulated by Wolfgang (Chris Greenway, March 28, ibid.) March 28: Radio APC, Radio Chanji in Hausa to Nigeria 0619 on 11720 Nauen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COjovCQmhT8&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) No signal of Radio APC, Radio Chanji from Sunday, March 29: 0600-0630 on 11720 NAU 125 kW / 185 deg to WeAf Hausa, cancelled or change time and frequency. My last videos of Radio APC, Radio Chanji on March 25: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/no-signal-of-radio-apc-radio-chanji.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) This is indeed a difficult question, since the new frequency coordination season started on the very day of the event that probably brought the end of this service (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) APC was the party winning the elexion, so mission accomplished, but why would Nigerians freely elect a former military dictator? (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) NIGERIA`S BIG ELECTION GETS BIG VOA COVERAGE http://www.insidevoa.com/content/nigerias-big-election-gets-big-voa-coverage/2697276.html Posted by: (Glenn Hauser, March 27, dxldyg via DXLD) ** NIGERIA [non]. CLANDESTINE [sic]: Hamada Radio International: 0530-0600 NF 11740 NAU 125 kW / 185 deg to WeAf Hausa, ex 9610 A-14 Added videos of morning transmissions of Hamada Radio International and Dandal Kura http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/several-clandestine-broadcasts.html (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, Mar 29, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. PIRATE-NA. TCS-The Crystal Ship, 6876 AM, 0024- 0104*, 03-23-15, SIO: 444. Classic rock including "Roundabout" by Yes and "Time" by Pink Floyd. [Lobdell-MA] PIRATE-NA, TCS-The Crystal Ship, 6876 AM, 2343-0130, 03-26/27-15, SIO: 444. Classic tunes from the 60s and 70s by Sam The Sham, Nancy Sinatra, Zombies, Boxtops, CCR, Johnny Cash, Tom Jones, etc. Frequent IDs. [Lobdell-MA] (Chris Lobdell, Box 80146, Stoneham, MA 02180 USA, Receivers: Eton E1, NRD-545, Aerials: G5RV, 40 Meter Dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6876-AM, March 27 at 0055, as I tune in, music stops and synthetic YL with ``thecrystalshipshortwave@gmail.com`` address twice; fair signal, back to music, still at 0103, but off at 0135 check. Tnx to notification from John Poet a sesquihour earlier that the relay had just started. It was heard better by Stephen C. Wood in Massachusetts as late as 0110 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Applications to extend existing STAs were received from WKY-930 Oklahoma City OK (U1 1000/1000) (AM Switch, NRC DX News April 6 via DXLD) Sounds like a hefty 5 kW to me (gh, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. KCFO 970 and KGTO 1050 [Tulsas] were off the air for a few hours following the Wednesday 3/25 tornadoes but both were back on the air Thursday 3/26. 73, (Bruce Winkelman, Tulsa, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. I asked Bruce Winkelman, Tulsa whether he could hear any carrier at all from 1120 KETU ex-KEOR (gh, DXLD) Checked 1120 this morning on the way to work (1320-1340 UT). No sign of any KEOR, no open carrier or programming, not even KMOX. 73, (Bruce Winkelman, Tulsa, OK, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1340, KJMU, Sand Springs – Silent 3/17 to search for replacement staff and new programming (AM Switch, NRC DX News April 6 via DXLD) Anybody looking for a job? – DY (David Yocis, ibid.) ** OKLAHOMA. I always check 1490 for any sign of KBIX but the last 3 trips to the 'quah produced only graveyard jumble both morning and evening drives, even within 5-6 air miles of the KBIX transmitter site [Muskogee] 73, (Bruce Winkelman, Tulsa OK, April 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. I summarized the KOKC situation briefly on WORLD OF RADIO 1767 (gh, DXLD) 1520, March 27 at 0055 UT, I`m surprised to find a VG signal from KOKC, already back on the air within 24 hours of its towers being destroyed by tornado. Item from CBS News about a procedure the FDA has approved to turn brown eyes blue by messing with melanin levels. Then PSA from Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotix, 0056 ``News-Talk 1520, K-OKC``. How did they do it? Somehow load the single tower which was not downed but merely broken in two? Or swift change to some other site? Sounds like full power, in fact better than it had been before the disaster! There is less CCI from Rochester, but at 0112 UT, a tell-tale het on the hi side, no doubt Saudi Arabia, 1521, which I had not heard since sometime last fall. Presumably KEBC gets to resume its normal programming on 1560, but just after sunset it`s already lost in the QRM. Paul B Walker forwards the answer: ``From KOMA Engineer Mike Fields via the I Take pictures of transmitter sites facebook group: "we are on the air at 1520 kHz with new folded vertical radiator and a slightly modified simple L network. Makes 10 kW with 1.07 VSWR" They are using a portion of the only remaining tower from 1520, the only one that didn`t collapse because of the tornado`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4 photos of the broken towers: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ABDX/photos/albums/586375642/lightbox/1969042534?prop=eupdate#zax/1969042534 (via NM7X, ABDX via DXLD) Call letters KOMA, not KOKC are still on the transmitter building. Tower doesn`t look Blaw-Knox, to me, i.e. with the wider middle sexion (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I was not aware that the KOKC/KOMA 1520 tower site has been using the same antennas for over 50 years when I started listening to the station in 1965. I started listening to the station from San Antonio in 1965 when I was nine up until the early 70s suing the nighttime hours. Now, kids had two LOCAL top 40 options in San Antonio back then but I sent a lot of time listing to KOMA. Here is an article on this: “MOORE RADIO TOWERS DESTROYED IN TORNADO...” NewsOK.com Damage to KOMA and KOKC radio transmission antennas from Wednesday's tornado is shown Thursday in Moore. STEVE SISNEY - THE OKLAHOMAN. The tornado tore apart roofs on several homes, snapped power ... http://newsok.com/moore-radio-towers-destroyed-in-tornado-had-been-standing-for-decades/article/5404912 (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) MOORE RADIO TOWERS DESTROYED IN TORNADO HAD BEEN STANDING FOR DECADES The three radio towers in south Moore that were destroyed in Wednesday’s tornado had a rich history of sending radio programs and American rock music across the globe. by Graham Lee Brewer Modified: March 26, 2015 at 10:11 pm • MOORE — The radio towers on SW 4 had been standing for nearly 70 years when a tornado struck Wednesday evening, knocking two towers down and bending the third one in half. (ACCOMPANIED by 109 PHOTOS --- but mostly not about ``KOMA``) http://newsok.com/moore-radio-towers-destroyed-in-tornado-had-been-standing-for-decades/article/5404912 (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) The tornado tore apart roofs on several homes, snapped power lines and trees in half, and scattered debris across neighborhoods. The three large towers, owned and operated by KOMA, were built in 1946 and began transmitting AM waves the following year, according to the Federal Communications Commission. Its signal could be heard across great distances thanks to its designation as a “clear channel” — which allowed it to broadcast exclusively on the 1520 AM frequency during night hours — and its 50,000-watt power, the highest allowed in the U.S. “Often, teens in New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska and other western states would eagerly await sunset when the mighty 1520 would come booming through with the newest hits of the day,” according to the KOMA website. “They would sit in their cars on hilltops, turn it up at parties, or fall asleep with the radio next to their beds as they listened to Chuck Berry, the Supremes, Paul Revere and the Raiders, and the Beatles.” The clear channel designation, high power, and the ability of AM frequencies to bounce through the atmosphere during the cooler temperatures at night allowed the signal to travel around the world, said Kent Jones, program director for KOMA. Some soldiers serving in Vietnam reported hearing the station. The three radio towers in south Moore that were destroyed in Wednesday’s tornado had a rich history of sending radio programs and American rock music across the globe. by Graham Lee Brewer Modified: March 26, 2015 at 10:11 pm • Published: March 26, 2015 Photo - Damage to KOMA and KOKC radio transmission antennas from Wednesday’s tornado is shown Thursday in Moore. Photo by Steve Sisney, The Oklahoman STEVE SISNEY - THE OKLAHOMAN Damage to KOMA and KOKC radio transmission antennas from Wednesday’s tornado is shown Thursday in Moore. Photo by Steve Sisney, The Oklahoman STEVE SISNEY - THE OKLAHOMAN “The other factor is the three-tower array actually directed the signal more toward the north and west. So, it would go all across the Pacific and around to Vietnam,” he said. “Sometimes, people in Finland during the winter time would string these long antennas and listen to North American radio stations. Well, the signal they got was actually going over the North Pole and down to Finland.” KOMA does not transmit its FM signal through the three towers that were destroyed Wednesday, but it was being used by KOKC, an AM talk radio station. KOKC has switched its signal to 1560 AM and 103.1 FM since the tornado, said Buddy Wiley, the station’s operations manager. He said they plan to rebuild and hope to move back to their 1520 AM signal as soon as possible. “I don’t know if we’re talking days, weeks or months, but we’ll get back up,” Wiley said. In a Thursday news release, Tyler Media, which owns KOKC, said it plans to repair the one tower left partially intact, and have it secured by Saturday and operational within the first two weeks of April. The station’s signal will be weakened as the company will “assess the opportunities to rebuild to full power.” (via Bigley, DXLD) Glenn -- Regarding your story about the stations in Oklahoma after the storm: The message below, from the Topband reflector, is reportedly about KOKC. So they're back on the air, but only sort of (Regards, Art Delibert, MD, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Begin forwarded message: Subject: Topband: BCB Inv L --- The radio station engineer in Moore, OK tuned a broken tower to get the station back on the air. It reminds me of an inverted L. Perhaps he is a ham. http://tinyurl.com/qh8rxmz Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband (Art Snapper, Nk8X, March 27, via Art Delibert, March 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: http://www.koco.com/news/engineers-rig-tornadodamaged-radio-tower-to-send-out-signal/32059270?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=FBPAGE&utm_campaign=KOCO+5+News+-+koco5&Content+Type=Story&linkId=13187451 ENGINEERS RIG TORNADO-DAMAGED RADIO TOWER TO SEND OUT SIGNAL Published 8:02 PM CDT Mar 27, 2015 / Local News By Kim Passoth MOORE, Okla. — They are Moore landmarks standing since the 1940s. Two of the three old KOMA radio towers were taken down by Wednesday’s tornado, and a third was bent in half. Video: Two KOMA towers lost after severe storms The radio station building has been closed for years, but the towers were still being used to send out a signal. They transmitted radio station KOKC on AM 1520. The tornado knocked the station off air, but Thursday night engineers figured out a way to get the only standing tower to transmit despite the significant damage. During his 27 years as chief engineer at Tyler Media, Randy Mullinax had never lost a tower to a twister. The KOMA towers even withstood the May 20, 2013 EF 5. “We’ve had close calls; never taken a direct hit,” Mullinax said. On Wednesday, that changed. “I was expecting to see a tower down for some reason and sure enough ... it made you sick when you saw it,” Mullinax said. Even in its battered state, Mullinax and the other engineers saw potential in the one remaining tower. “We thought 'maybe we can do this' and so we gave it a shot,” Mullinax said. After three hours of rewiring Thursday night, they got the massive tower transmitting again. “The engineers did just an unbelievable job,” said Buddy Wiley with Tyler Media. The signal is much weaker. It is only about a fourth of what it was, but the only remaining namesake of the Plaza Towers neighborhood stands as proof, Moore will always weather the storm. [``one fourth`` was already the STA they were using, not 50 kW --- gh] “Some folks from the city of Moore came by and said 'I sure hope you put that up cause this is Moore, Oklahoma,'” Mullinax said. Next week, a new temporary tower will go up at the same location on SW 4th Street. Then the damaged transmitting tower will be brought down (via DXLD) In relatively recent times Moore, OK has been decimated by F5 (or EF5 modern rating) tornadoes. They need to change the name to "Less". (Powell NNNN E. Way III, SC, W4OPW, ibid.) As I remember, the big tornado that hit there last year (or was it the year before?) only missed the KOMA/KOKC towers by a short distance, maybe less than a mile. It's a good thing it didn't bring down any of the tall TV towers in that market, most of which I think are in the 1500 ft. range (Kit, ibid.) The tall tower OKC antenna farm is on the north side, while Moore & KOKC are on the south side (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) This is pretty emotional for me. I served as a DJ and also as Chief Engineer for KOMA in the 1970s. I spent spent many, many days and nights in the presence of those awesome Blaw Knox towers. I feel like I've lost an old friend. My first night on the air, I received a phone call from a listener in Alaska. Great DX! RIP, Half - Wave Butt - Kicking Friends! You did well. Thank You. Mike Gorniak (Photos Posted) NM7X, ibid.) KOKC 1520 DX Alert heard in Palm Coast, FL Thursday Night! NEW! 1520 KOKC Oklahoma City, OK. 11:15-11:50 PM Eastern Time March 26. Herman Cain Show with Telephone Talk. // to Tune In Radio App. Signal fair, fairly consistent. Usually under dominant WWKB 1520 Buffalo, NY (ESPN PBP College Hoops Tourney). "NewsTalk 1520 KOKC" heard. KOKC was dominant during WWKB fade outs. 2008 Ford Focus Stock AM/FM/CD/Aux Stereo, mobile in Palm Coast, FL, parked at home driveway last 13 minutes, lost KOKC and noted 1520 WXYB Indian Rocks, FL playing Greek music that was // to 1500 WPSO New Port Richey, FL. It was an honor to log KOKC after its casualty, running 10 kW into their remaining bent-over antenna tower there in Norman, OK. Great work in loading that baby up, enabling me to log the station here in Palm Coast, FL for the very first time. I made some recordings of it through my iPhone recorder to be downloaded later for analysis. Time to turn it, a long workday 15 hours at WNZF AM 1550 (Ron Gitschier, Palm Coast, FL, ibid.) KOKC Good here in AZ right now --- "15-20, K - OKC ", news and now talk show at 1936 MST / 0236 Z, here in Central Arizona. nice steady signal from their rigged-up antenna. Receiver here, Hammarlund HQ-180A and Terk Advantage Loop oriented for Oklahoma. 73 and Good Listening .....! (Rick Barton, El Mirage AZ, 0242 UT March 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1560, March 27 at 1834 UT, CBS News Update, ``1520 KOKC`` ID and back to talk show. This is really KEBC Del City, which was switched to KOKC programming when 1520 went down by tornado; but once KOKC was back already 18 hours before now, I expected 1560 would resume its own sports talk programming. Not. Compared on a portable radio to 1520, they are slightly apart by a reverb. As yet unchecked 1520 at ToH, whether that also dually ID with KEBC 1560 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1560, afternoon of March 28, KEBC OKC is still duplicating 1520 KOKC --- did they break contract with NBC Sports and can`t go back? There is certainly no need for // 1560 as long as 1520 is funxioning. Ben Dawson provides more: ``1520 back on the air! With our new folded vertical radiator and a slightly modified simple L network. Makes 10 kW with 1.07 VSWR. Jack calls it a "Slant-loaded Network". The Jack he refers to is Jack Sellmeyer, distinguished Texas consulting engineer who cobbled together the temporary lash up.`` I assume a ``folded vertical`` is a bit of a joke, considering that`s what the tornado left them with (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. From the FCC: Exhibit 15 - Description: RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION CALCULATION THE ANTENNA SYSTEM OF KOKC WAS VIRTUALLY DESTROYED BY THE MOORE, OK TORNADO OF MARCH 25, 2015. THE ORIGINAL SYSTEM WAS DESIGNED FOR A 50 KW RADIO STATION. THE CURRENT STA REQUESTS 10 KW OPERATION. THE LICENSEE WILL KEEP PERSONS A MINIMUM OF 2 METERS FROM THE TOWER BASE BY USING FENCES. THE PROPOSED RADIATOR IS 57.9 METERS OR 105.7 ELECTRICAL DEGREES AT 1520 KHZ. THIS RELATES MOST CLOSELY TO A 90 DEGREE TOWER WHICH REQUIRES PERSONS TO BE LIMITED TO A DISTANCE OF 2 METERS FROM THE TOWER BASE FOR 10 KW STATIONS. Attachment 15 --- Exhibit 16 Description: EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES ON MARCH 25, 2015 A TORNADO HIT MOORE, OK THE LOCATION OF THE KOKC TRANSMITTER. KOKC WAS IN THE PROCESS OF REBUILDING THE DIRECTIONAL SYSTEM WHEN THIS LATEST DISASTER STRUCK. OF THE THREE TOWERS, ONLY ONE WAS LEFT PARTIALLY STANDING WITH THE TOP SECTION PRECARIOUSLY DANGLING. THIS DANGLING SECTION COULD FALL AT ANY MOMENT. THEREFORE THE LICENSEE IS PROPOSING TO CONSTRUCT A NEW 57.9 METER (190 FOOT) TOWER AND REMOVE THE PRECARIOUS STRUCTURE. DURING THE REBUILDING OF THE DIRECTIONAL ARRAY, KOKC WAS AUTHORIZED TO OPERATE NON-DIRECTIONALLY WITH 12.5 KW. THIS REQUEST SEEKS TO FURTHER REDUCE THE TEMPORARY POWER TO 10 KW. NO INTERFERENCE COMPLAINTS WERE RECEIVED FROM THE 12.5 KW OPERATION. NO SITE CHANGE IS BEING PROPOSED. THE TRADITIONAL TOWER #1 PEDESTAL WILL SUPPORT THE NEW RADIATOR (via Artie Bigley, OH, April 1, DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. 90.1, March 28 just before 1500 UT, KUCO remarx during a pledge drive, after announcer and GM Brad Ferguson stumbles over triple-station ID, that the heritage KCSC call, originally on 90.1, will be applied to the 95.9 Woodward relay effective Monday = March 30, ex-KZCU. UCO acquired it from KCCU Lawton, which was unwilling / unable to run it properly, get rid of persistent IADs (intermittent audio dropouts) marring the 95.9 transmission which was 100% relay of KCCU. (Or rather one time when I was in range --- can`t get it in Enid ---, the dropouts were extremely regular, like clockwork.) It`s seemed odd that for the past few months since KUCO took it over, IDs have continued to be as KZCU, obviously based on the ex-owner`s home calls. Thought they might go for ``KUCW`` which seemed to be available. Then later in the afternoon during Met Opera intermission, local host Lane Whitesell (who`s awfully hard to find on the website, spell-checking), says KCSC calls are effective Wednesday = April 1, which seems more likely (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non] 90.1, KUCO Edmond, Sunday March 29 at 2100 UT, I am expecting to hear another episode of `Mad About Music` from WNYC/WQXR via WFMT syndication, but instead it`s `New Music from Bowling Green`, a show I have also been following at 03-04 UT Mondays. Yet, the current KUCO program grid, http://www.kucofm.com/programs/program-schedule-grid/ claims the 4 pm CDT Sunday show is now `Relevant Tones`, yet another one I would like, and at 10 pm Sunday, a new one, `Song: Mirror of the World` --- but tonight at 0300 UT March 30, `Bowling Green` is repeated! All mixed up; and maybe the sked is really not effective until April? Anyhow, `Mad` appears to be gone from KUCO, but I catch this week`s episode with Pierre Boulez, instead on Yellowstone Public Radio, Monday at 17-18 UT. Only one more subject for that linked at YPR, April 6: ``Financier FELIX ROHATYN on his love for the cello and Yo-Yo Ma`, so maybe it`s about to expire there too? Listening direct to 90.1 at 1800 UT March 30, wrapping up final hours of pledge drive, Kimberly forgot to give any legal ID, neither KZCU nor KCSC for 95.9 Woodward satellite. She does get in the legal IDs at 1811 UT, still KZCU, I guess till April 1. 90.1, April 2 at 2036 UT, KUCO Edmond with tristation ID including 95.9 Woodward now as ``KCSC`` which was the original call on 90.1, now preserved for posterity on ex-KZCU; presumably started April 1 when not checked (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. So much for KWTV`s putting CBS Evening News on KSBI when pre-empted on KWTV itself: March 26 at 2230 UT, KWTV RF 39 is running local news mainly about tornado aftermath, both on 9.1 and 9.2, while KSBI RF 23, 52.1 (tho there is no 52.2), is in normal programming of some old sitcom rerun. At least tonight we do have NBC News on KFOR RF 27, and ABC on KOCO RF 7. KFOR website announced that the missed NBC primetime shows last night would be played overnight on coming Saturday and Sunday. One other anomaly noted: RF 29 KTUZ, which has Telemundo on 30.1, Univisión KUOK on 36.1, and Estrella TV KUOK-CD 48.1, instead is black and silent but fully powered on 48.1 around 2230 UT, but back in business as ``KOCY`` by 0220 UT March 27. I was suspecting the low- power RF 48 transmitter, if it exist, may have sustained antenna damage as well. There was tornado wreckage in other parts of OKC than just Moore, tho we hear little about it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Why do you not allow your countless viewers outside storm areas to continue watching CBS? You`ve been interrupting Letterman. Yet on 9.2 you are still showing hours-old news/weather!!!!!! Useless. And what about KSBI? You were supposedly going to put CBS on there, but it isn`t. In tornado season, at least, any evening likely to be stormy, just put CBS on one of the extra channels and be done with it --- without weather interruptions. If we need the wx, we`re smart enough to watch the main channel (online form complaint to News9.com at 0350 UT April 1 from gh, via DXLD) Glenn, CBS programming is now available on KSBI, Cox Channel 7 or 707 or 52.1 over the air. Thank you, (Jen Billings, Executive Producer, KWTV News9, 0426 UT, e-mail reply to gh, via DXLD) Yes, but not until 11:00, after missing the first half of Letterman. You have all these extra channels (and could create more, like 9.3 or 52.2) so please just put CBS on one of them when there is any weather which will disrupt 9.1) (Glenn, reply, ibid.) I understand; I asked for the programming to be flipped over earlier. I apologize my engineers were slow to react. I promise we'll work to be better. Thanks for watching... (Jen Billings, 0502 UT April 1, ibid.) See also INTERNATIONAL INTERNET & VACUUM: Smithsonian/CBS ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. We habitually watch NHK TV News at the only time available, via OETA OKLA 13.2 subchannel, M-F 1600-1630 UT. Previous time references indicated it was one or two hours delayed, but April 2 at 1600 the anchor opens saying it`s 7 pm Thursday in Tokyo! That was 1000 UT, entirely too long to delay a world news program. Is no later one available, as 5 am CDT would not have much of an audience here? By now it`s 1 am in Tokyo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 50, KOPX OKC, Ion on its 62.2 subchannel, qubo, kidvid mostly animated, I am again checking the SAP sound channel in Spanish, which can be accessed by the remote of the Zenith STB DTV converter. As before, it`s mostly silent, but leaving it on one set for a few hours, a pattern emerges: it cuts on for a few seconds around the hour and half-hour, sometimes quarter-hour, why???? Timed thusly in approx. UT on March 31: 1444:26-1444:40 1458:42-1459:21 1529:16-1529:45 1544 – not 1559:31-1600:01 1614 & 1629 – not checked 1644 - not 1659:51-1700:05 1729:31-1729:44 1743:41-1744:08 1758:15-1758:44 The Spanish matches the programming during the bits we can hear it, so obviously it is running fulltime originally. Ion DTV stations are all over the country, so could others check whether this happen elsewhere on their qubo subchannels? This bit of Spanish is the only ``reliable`` second-language on OKC DTV channels tho as in my previous report a few of them have it enabled if not funxioning all or any of the time. BTW, when I tune away from 62.2 and back to it, defaults to English again unless I repress the SAP button. Again, this is not due to local signal level issues, as the video is in solid, and the SS spots are obviously on some kind of timer schedule. Guess what? As I am wrapping this report, Spanish cuts back on as a new program has just started, at 1800:18, and stays on! Until 1804:14 when the first ad break comes. Resumes after ads for promo at 1808:15, off again during some ad, back on when program resumes without breaks. BTW2 if I turn on the TV set`s closed captioning during Spanish audio, the captions are in English. Then I start trying the captioning button on the remote, i.e. direct from the DTV signal. Of all the options, the only one displaying anything is Service 1, which is in English while the audio is Spanish, but not during the breaks (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN [and non]. 11650, March 29 at 0113, R. Sultanate of Oman is still here, in Qur`an, with CCI in Chinese which is CRI, Urumqi, East Turkistan on A-15 schedule; 11650 is not registered for Oman in A-15; instead at 00-02, 9500 or 9650 or 12015 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Papua Neuguinea (Bougainville): Die Autonome Provinz Bougainville hat die Zeitzone gewechselt und damit ein wichtiges politisches Signal gesetzt. Statt der Zeit von Papua Neuguinea (UTC+10) ist die Bougainville Standard Time (UTC+11) jetzt identisch mit der Zeit des wichtigsten Handelspartners Solomon Islands. 6 km von den Solomon Islands, aber 1000 km von Papua- Neuguinea entfernt ist Bougainville ohnehin Teil dieser Inselgruppe und nur durch geschichtliche Umstände nicht deren politischer Bestandteil. In Bougainville herrschte ab 1988 Bürgerkrieg sowohl zwischen örtlichen Bewegungen und der Armee PNG als auch später zwischen Rebellengruppen. Erst 1998 gab es ein vorläund 2001 ein „ültiges“Friedensabkommen, das Bougainville 2005 zur autonomen Provinz innerhalb Papua-Neuguineas machte und für „spätestens“ 2015 ein Unabhängigkeitsreferendum vorsah. Die Kupfer-Mine, deren Ausbeutung Anlass zum Aufstand war, ist seit 1989 stillgelegt. Aktuell sind auf Bougainville nur zwei Stationen aktiv: NBC Buka auf 100 MHz und das freie Nachbarschaftsradio New Dawn FM auf 95,3 MHz. Die Kurzwelle 3325 kHz des Regierungssenders ist bis 2013 immer wieder einmal international gehört worden, nicht aber die Frequenzalternative 5985 kHz. 2014 gab es einen lokalen Medienbericht, nach dem die Autonomiebehörde einige Mio. Kina für die Wiederherstellung der Flächendeckung auf Kurzwelle vorgesehen habe (Dr. Hansjörg Biener, April ntt-aktuell via DXLD) ** PERU. Hi Gents, Regarding my OA logs - I made a comment the stations all suffered from polar flutter. I don't think these stations take a polar path to my QTH so maybe better put: polar-type flutter. All stations from South America seemed disturbed but were also (with one or two exceptions) stronger than normal. Sent from (David Sharp's iPhone, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [and non]. 5980, March 27 at 0057, JBA carrier; my streetlite fires up at 0058; just before 0100, 5980 carrier is joined by a second one slightly offset causing a double-het with BFO, i.e. R. Chaski first, and BBC/UAE the second. Chaski cuts off about 0106:27* which is 15.5 seconds later than three nights ago, averaging 5+ seconds per. 5980, March 29 at 0105, JBA carrier, only one, it seems, i.e. R. Chaski. Sharp cutoff at 0106:38.5* leaving nothing, as BBC is now gone from 5980 UAE for A-15. Furthermore, no ACI from 5985 WRMI --- tho registered as available, not yet in use. This is 11.5 seconds later than a binite ago when last checked, i.e. slipping average 5.75 later per uniday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. LA INFORMALIDAD AFECTA LOS SERVICIOS DE RADIODIFUSIÓN EN PERÚ by gruporadioescuchaargentino “Los principales problemas que afectan el servicio de radiodifusión, son la informalidad, a través de la operación de estaciones de radiodifusión no autorizadas, o con características técnicas no aprobadas”, así informó Patricia Chirinos Noves, directora general de Autorizaciones en Telecomunicaciones del ministerio de Transportes y Comunicaciones (MTC). Asimismo, explicó que otros de los problemas que afronta son “el incumplimiento de las obligaciones por parte de los radiodifusores, el desconocimiento de los alcances de las normas aplicables y los problemas en la atención de los procedimientos administrativos”. Estas declaraciones las dio en Iquitos, donde se llevó a cabo la primera Audiencia Pública descentralizada del año sobre los servicios de radiodifusión, informó el MTC. Un equipo de profesionales del ministerio, encabezado por Chirinos Noves, estuvo en esa ciudad difundiendo e informando a los radiodifusores y ciudadanía sobre las normas y procedimientos que se aplican en los servicios de radiodifusión y las acciones que se ejecutan para fomentar el desarrollo de los mismos en beneficio de la ciudadanía. En la Audiencia, la Directora de la DGAT, Patricia Chirinos Noves, informó que en Loreto existen 96 radios autorizadas, 88 en Frecuencia Modulada, 3 en Onda Media y 5 en Onda Corta. Respecto a televisión, dijo que están autorizadas 29 en VHF y 14 en UHF. Del total de estaciones de radio y televisión, 97 son comerciales y 42 educativas. En la audiencia del MTC también participaron como expositores los funcionarios de la coordinación del área de Radiodifusión, Renato Tito Ramírez y Luis Flores Espinoza. Del área de Control y Supervisión de los Servicios de Radiodifusión, expuso Blanca Arias Julca y respecto a la responsabilidad social de los medios y el código de ética, la secretaria técnica de CONCORTV, Miriam Larco Sicheri (tomada de http://www.inforegion.pe/ via GRA blog via DXLD) INFORMALITY --- that`s a great euphemism for radio piracy (gh, DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. 12120, R Filipinas from Tinang site, noted with 1000 Hz test tone before 1730 UT, then started with rather funny national hymn sung by chorus ? S=9+5dB signal. 1730-1930 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 9800, March 28 at 1427, VOA Korean usual good signal but somewhat distorted and carrier wobble, soul music. Is Tinang site, and has had such problem before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 11650, R. Teos via Philippines, Mar 28 1522-1532, 45444, Russian, Talk and music, ID at 1530 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 15355, March 29 at 2307, hunting around for Oman on one of its possible frequencies, hear Tagalog instead of Arabic: yes, HFCC shows at 2300-2330 only, it`s RVA in Filipino, 250 kW non- direxional, but CIRAF targets are 42-45 which = Chinas, Koreas and Japan; poor signal with W&M chat. So there are plenty of Filipin@s in those countries? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PORTUGAL. Former DW relay Sines: see RWANDA ** ROMANIA. 9730, March 28 at 0051, RRI with ``Autumn Leaves`` instrumental then lyrix in presumed Romanian, but cut off for Spanish announcement, introducing final piece in musical segment ``Lemon Tree``, also in Romanian. VG here but rolling fades, while // 9525 is much weaker. This is contrary to expectations as 9730 is listed as 247 degrees from Tiganeshti, while 9525 is 280 degrees from Galbeni, much closer to USward for this 0000-0057 emission; B-14 sked about to be passé (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RRI, 15170. I checked out the new SW frequency to North America on 3/29/15. I heard several carrier attempts and power cuts at 2030 UT. They finally were audible at 2037 with the `Romanian Without Tears` program followed by the `Cooking Show`. Reception was slightly fair with lots of fading. Another power cut occurred at 2045, and they returned at 2047. I tried the other new frequency, 13650, and it did not fare as well, at least on this day. I had better results with the same frequencies on the next day, 3/30/15 (Larry Zamora, Garland, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 7430 a las 2200 horas, se observa fuerte colisión entre Radio Rumania (Galbeni) en inglés con China Radio Internacional en chino con el mismo horario (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Spain, Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) probably March 29 per adjacent logs 13740, Wednesday April 1 at 1344 as I tune across this AM frequency, startled to hear a ``CQ`` in Morse code amid music and announcement in Russian, poor. Aoki shows this is RRI from Tiganeshti during this semihour only, so was this a DX program? Or like in English merely a mailbag. BTW, in Russian, there is no C or Q as we know them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 7290am / 7300drm Bad frequency selection of Romania's FMO Rad.Com at same time, especially on weekends, both frequencies are too close to same audience target. 7290 AM mode IRRS Milano in English, on Sundays religious singer at 1816 UT March 29. Relayed via Rad.Com's 2nd row older broadcast 100 kW site Saftica, using the revolving horizontal log-periodic antenna #ITU#812 type, with 13 elements. Little BUZZY audio signal of two peaks of 120 Hertz visible, either sideband. And Splash over signal of: 7300, DRM mode, RRI in German at 18-19 UT via Rad.Com RRO RRI main site Tiganeshti, 300 kW and totally dipole curtain antennas, tremendous signal tonight S=9+60dB or -18dBm in southern Germany, central area of Europe [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, March 29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [non]. ALEMANIA, 15195, RFE/Radio Liberty, (Lampertheim), 1521-1523, escuchada el 30 de marzo de 2015 en ruso a locutora con comentarios, invitado grabado con comentarios; se aprecia pitido de censura varias veces en su intervención con comentarios sobre Ucrania, SINPO 33433 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Spain, Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Pitido = blast on a whistle. Do you mean external interference? (gh) ** RWANDA. March 28: Final 4 minutes Radio Rwanda on shortwave via Kigali 2056 on 6055 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEOSJvrILK0&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** RWANDA. RUANDA, 15275, AWR (Kigali), 2050-2059, escuchada el 26 de marzo de 2015 en Yoruba a locutor con comentarios, segmento música étnica africana, locutora con comentarios en lo que parece dar dirección y Email, segmento musical, SINPO 34343 17800, AWR (Kigali), 1940-1950, escuchada el 26 de marzo de 2015 en Fulfulde a locutor con comentarios, segmento musical, SINPO 24332 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) At 1700 March 28 DW French from Kigali into Houston with a fair signal on 17800. At 1800 DW Hausa from Kigali with a good signal on 17800, fair on 15275. Unable to stick around to hear final transmitter cutoff. Earlier the same day very poor signals for DW English at 0400 from Kigali on both 9600 and 9800, pretty much unlistenable. Prior to B-14 this transmission (and 0500) included West Africa beams favorable for NA, but only good Kigali frequency for me in English for B-14 was 15275 for the 0700 transmission beamed to WAf; unfortunately that is 0200 here in Houston...way too late most nights. The Kigali West Africa beams always did very well here in Texas, even back in the 1960's when the facility had only one 250 kW transmitter. Will be checking DW English later tonight to see how the new A-15 schedule is received in NA. I would think the Madagascar relays should provide a decent signal. Goodbye to DW Kigali, and good luck to the staff in the future (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, March 28, dxldyg via DXLD) Hi Glenn, Heard the last DW transmissions from Kigali today March 28th from 1700 to 1800 in French, 1800-1900 in Hausa on 17800 kHz. Nice and strong. Nothing special for ending announcement, just African tune to fade 1859:55 then pulled the plug. Now on with AWR Fulfulde at 1900 UT. Very strong also on 17800 kHz. Goodbye old friend. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, AB, Collins HF2050, Log Periodic March 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I make a point of monitoring the final semihour in existence of the Kigali relay station, which is AWR French on 17800: tune-in at 2000 March 28 to very good signal, opening as Radio Mondiale Adventiste. First segment is ``emission de santé`` (which means health, an Adventist preoccupation, not saintliness), advice about STDs. 2007 break for address in Côte d`Ivoire, music box; 2009.5 AWR theme, another talk. I haven`t been logging the dbmu readings displayed by the PL-880 which is now hooked up to a random wire under the eaves on the porch, but this time I do and compare it to the few other signals on 16m; larger ranges indicate more fading: 17800 AWR Kigali registers 34-46 dbu 17790 WRMI is a bit weaker at 38-45 dbu, and softer modulation 17730 RHC is stronger at 43-51 dbu, but sounds weaker, undermodulated 17550 Kuwait is 27-38 dbu and weakening (see separate log) Noise floor on unoccupied 17 MHz channel is 15-17 dbu At 2024 I start recording the last six minutes to be heard from Kigali, ever: http://www.w4uvh.net/kigaliend.rm 2025, e-mail Abidjan address, again. I am trying to copy it: La Radio Mondiale Adventiste, La Voix de l`Espérance, 08 Boite Postale 1551(?), Abidjan 08, Côte d`Ivoire? but not sure, so try to look it up. Nowhere in the WRTH entries for AWR. Nor that I can find on website, with podcasts of this and many previous French broadcasts, http://af.awr.org/ci/fra/7 where you are expected to use e-mail only but not the `local` address announced: lavoixdelesperance@yahoo.com -- - They say to be sure to make the e-mail in minuscule (lower case) only --- no, e-mail addresses are NOT case-sensitive. Google search on voix esperance cote divoire leads to a station of the same name on FM 101.6, but it`s Methodist!! 2026, AWR theme and other music, mentioning Jesus, hymn, address yet again. Says back tomorrow at same time, nothing about new frequency or new site! (But HFCC A-15 shows the 2000 French broadcast will be on 9610 via Nauen, and 17570 via Issoudun.) ``He leadeth me`` tune is cut off at 2029 and carrier stays on another minute+ until 2030:03****. Goodbye forever. (Ironically, DW`s own usage of Kigali ended a few hours earlier when I couldn`t monitor.) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not quite ??? See further below (gh) Went off for ever at 2100 UT, AWR Yoruba 2030-2100 UT 15275 kHz program relay, and local R RRW Kigali 6055 kHz 100kW non-dir Quadrant antenna too. Annual cost on the station was 3 mill EURos / 3.3 US$, 4 German engineers, 60 local staff people to run that area, and additionally 20 security staff. PS: there is still a swan song on the radio amateur station under the DW Kigali call 9X5? wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Saturday March 28, last day of operation of Radio Rwanda, Deutsche Welle and Adventist World Radio via Kigali relay station: 0300-2100 6055 100 kW / non-dir CeAf K'rwanda/French Radio Rwanda 0300-0400 6040 250 kW / non-dir EaAf Swahili Deutsche Welle 0300-0400 7425 250 kW / non-dir EaAf Swahili Deutsche Welle 0400-0500 9600 250 kW / 180 deg EaAf English Deutsche Welle 0400-0500 9800 250 kW / non-dir EaAf English Deutsche Welle 0500-0600 9600 250 kW / 180 deg SoAf English Deutsche Welle 0500-0600 9800 250 kW / non-dir SoAf English Deutsche Welle 0600-0630 15700 250 kW / 295 deg WeAf French Adventist World Radio 0600-0630 17800 250 kW / 295 deg WeAf French Adventist World Radio 0630-0700 15275 250 kW / 295 deg WeAf Hausa Deutsche Welle 0700-0800 9800 250 kW / non-dir WeAf English Deutsche Welle 0700-0800 15275 250 kW / 295 deg WeAf English Deutsche Welle 0730-0800 17800 250 kW / 295 deg WeAf English Deutsche Welle 1000-1100 9800 250 kW / non-dir EaAf Swahili Deutsche Welle 1000-1100 11800 250 kW / non-dir EaAf Swahili Deutsche Welle 1300-1400 15275 250 kW / 310 deg WeAf Hausa Deutsche Welle 1300-1400 17800 250 kW / 295 deg WeAf Hausa Deutsche Welle 1500-1600 9800 250 kW / non-dir CeAf Swahili Deutsche Welle 1500-1600 11800 250 kW / non-dir CeAf Swahili Deutsche Welle 1600-1700 9610 250 kW / 030 deg EaAf Amharic Deutsche Welle 1600-1700 9800 250 kW / non-dir EaAf Amharic Deutsche Welle 1700-1730 9490 250 kW / 030 deg EaAf Amharic Adventist World Radio 1700-1800 9800 250 kW / 295 deg WeAf French Deutsche Welle 1700-1800 12005 250 kW / 295 deg WeAf French Deutsche Welle 1700-1800 17800 250 kW / 295 deg WeAf French Deutsche Welle 1800-1900 15275 250 kW / 310 deg WeAf Hausa Deutsche Welle 1800-1900 17800 250 kW / 295 deg WeAf Hausa Deutsche Welle 1930-2000 17800 250 kW / 295 deg WeAf FulfuldeAdventist World Radio 2000-2030 17800 250 kW / 295 deg WeAf French Adventist World Radio http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/march-28-last-day-of-operation-of.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via DXLD) Wavescan did not mention any 2030 Yoruba, canceled earlier? No 2030- 2100 here, so French 2000-2030 was the final final as I thought, and recorded (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) March 28: Deutsche Welle, final 3 minutes of English progam to WeAf via Kigali 0757 on 17800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TKQObKBxc8&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) [and non]. Goodbye, Kigali - Abschied von der letzten DW-Relaisstation fwd - FYI The DW switched their latest self-powered shortwave relay station in Kigali Rwanda tonight. For 50 years the radio programs from the hills of Kigali sent via shortwave to Africa and Europe - with an eventful history. There are financial reasons for Deutsche Welle's departure. The annual cost of running the station totals three million euros ($3.3 million). {nothing, - compared to 385 billion debts by Greece, wb.} http://www.dw.de/deutsche-welle-closes-kigali-outpost/a-18340960 http://www.dw.de/image/0,,16641823_303,00.jpg DW French - Afrique - L'adieu à Kigali. Depuis 1965, la station-relais DW de Kigali relayait les émissions en ondes courtes de notre radio en plusieurs langues sur le continent africain. Le samedi 28 mars, une page de l'histoire de notre radio se tourne : c'est la date à laquelle la station-relais de la Deutsche Welle à Kigali ferme ses portes. Elle existait depuis 1965. Souvenirs, souvenirs... http://www.dw.de/actualités/s-10261 http://www.dw.de/ladieu-%C3%A0-kigali/a-18343095 http://www.dw.de/image/0,,15631753_302,00.jpg http://player.dw.de/scripts/jwplayer/player.swf?autostart=true&skin=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.dw.de%2Fscripts%2Fjwplayer%2Fskins%2Fdw%2Fdw.zip&stretching=fill&file=http%3A%2F%2Fradio-download.dw.de%2FEvents%2Fdwelle%2Fdira%2Fmp3%2Ffra%2FB5BDC425_2.mp3I=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dw.de%2Fimage%2F0%2C%2C15631753_4%2C00.jpg http://www.dw.de/popups/mediaplayer/contentId_18343095_mediaId_18346256 http://www.dw.de/goodbye-kigali-abschied-von-der-letzten-dw-relaisstation/a-18343911 some foto images of DWL Kigali site 1965 - 2015 http://www.dw.de/ende-der-relaisstation-kigali-bilder-einer-bewegten-geschichte/g-18342899 http://www.dw.de/image/0,,18343673_303,00.jpg first general director of DWL in Kigali in 1965 http://www.dw.de/image/0,,18345465_303,00.jpg http://www.dw.de/image/0,,18344376_303,00.jpg built up Kigali relay masts in 1965 http://www.dw.de/image/0,,18344038_303,00.jpg http://www.dw.de/image/0,,18343643_303,00.jpg DWL Kigali antenna matrix switch http://www.dw.de/image/0,,15665447_303,00.jpg Germany's Foreign Minister Genscher on DWL relay site Kigali http://www.dw.de/image/0,,18345449_303,00.jpg Young DWL engineering staff http://www.dw.de/image/0,,18343631_303,00.jpg http://www.dw.de/image/0,,18343671_303,00.jpg German President Koehler visit http://www.dw.de/image/0,,18345444_303,00.jpg DWL Kigali transmitter hall http://www.dw.de/image/0,,18344368_303,00.jpg http://www.dw.de/image/0,,18343636_303,00.jpg 1965 year built-up at Kigali site http://www.dw.de/image/0,,18344009_401,00.jpg http://www.dw.de/image/0,,18343681_401,00.jpg DWL staff 4 Germans, 60 local technical people, some 60 Secret Service http://www.dw.de/kigali-im-land-der-tausend-hügel/a-15671029 DW Kigali seven engineering staff members and 4 families rescued by Belgium Air Forces on 13 April 1994, some 60 local relay site people killed in the Hutu vv Tutsi genocide clashes: http://www.dw.de/vor-15-jahren-dw-mitarbeiter-aus-ruanda-gerettet/a-4159997 Around 80 of the 100 Rwandan staff at Deutsche Welle's Kigali relay station were killed in the genocide. Walter Berger and his colleagues returned to the station in August 1994 and it was a ghastly sight that awaited them. They found body parts of their dead Rwandan colleagues in the rooms. They were able to identify them by their clothing. http://www.dw.de/popups/mediaplayer/contentId_4159997_mediaId_4160112 Rwanda Genocide from April 1994 http://www.dw.de/ruanda-gedenkt-seiner-genozidopfer/a-17549307 http://www.dw.de/image/0,,1241780_4,00.jpg DW Portuguese - Mais África http://www.dw.de/adeus-kigali-deutsche-welle-fecha-retransmissor-na-capital-ruandesa/a-18345108 O centro retransmissor de onda curta da DW em Kigali fecha este sábado (28.03). Dois ex-funcionários falam sobre os 50 anos de história da estação, incluindo os momentos terríveis que viveram durante o genocídio de 1994. Adeus Kigali! Deutsche Welle fecha retransmissor na capital ruandesa O centro retransmissor de onda curta da DW em Kigali fecha este sábado (28.03). Dois ex-funcionários falam sobre os 50 anos de história da estação, incluindo os momentos terríveis que viveram durante o genocídio de 1994. http://www.dw.de/popups/mediaplayer/contentId_18345108_mediaId_18345114 http://www.dw.de/image/0,,16641823_302,00.jpg http://www.dw.de/image/0,,3084672_4,00.jpg http://www.dw.de/image/0,,16702911_302,00.jpg http://www.dw.de/image/0,,15664728_302,00.jpg [and non] And close Sines Portugal too: A DW construiu a estação no ano de 1970. Teve muita importância estratégica durante décadas, mas vai deixar de transmitir a partir do dia 30 de outubro de 2011. Saiba mais sobre a história de Sines. http://www.dw.de/adeus-sines-o-centro-emissor-da-dw-em-portugal-encerra/a-6636099 História dos programas em português da DW. Quem somos - Português para África - DW - Voz da Alemanha 03.10.2014 http://www.dw.de/hist%C3%B3ria-dos-programas-em-portugu%C3%AAs-da-dw/a-2269973 As emissões da Deutsche Welle em português têm uma longa história, desde o início do primeiro programa em 1954. Confira algumas das datas mais marcantes das mais de 60 anos de história da Voz da Alemanha. http://www.dw.de/image/0,,16716994_302,00.jpg http://www.dw.de/image/0,,16716989_302,00.jpg http://www.dw.de/image/0,,2360228_4,00.jpg http://www.dw.de/image/0,,1887847_4,00.jpg http://www.dw.de/image/0,,2260081_4,00.jpg http://www.dw.de/image/0,,4694587_4,00.jpg http://www.dw.de/image/0,,15663303_302,00.jpg http://www.dw.de/image/0,,17792795_302,00.jpg and 15 more photo images on slideshow http://www.dw.de/60-anos-da-dw/g-16714151 http://www.dw.de/image/0,,16632842_303,00.jpg Adeus Sines! O centro emissor da DW em Portugal encerra. DW.DE 25.10.2011 http://www.dw.de/image/0,,482195_4,00.jpg http://www.dw.de/image/0,,482198_4,00.jpg http://www.dw.de/image/0,,482197_4,00.jpg http://www.dw.de/image/0,,1980435_4,00.jpg http://www.dw.de/image/0,,482196_4,00.jpg http://www.dw.de/image/0,,3848919_4,00.jpg 50 years DWL Amharic sce http://www.dw.de/happy-birthday-50-jahre-dw-amharisch/g-18308482 11 photo images seen at slideshow http://www.dw.de/%E1%8B%AD%E1%8B%98%E1%89%B5/s-11646 http://www.dw.de/image/0,,18291344_302,00.jpg http://www.dw.de/dw-amharisch-gibt-uns-kiemen-zum-atmen/a-18310299 (ALL via Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via dXLD) Goodbye, Kigali - Abschied von der letzten DW-Relaisstation Die DW schaltet ihre letzte selbst betriebene Relaisstation in Ruanda ab. 50 Jahre lang wurden die Radioprogramme von den Hügeln Kigalis per Kurzwelle nach Afrika und Europa gesendet - mit wechselvoller Geschichte. Mehr unter http://www.dw.de/goodbye-kigali-abschied-von-der-letzten-dw-relaisstation/a-18343911 Danke an die ADDX-Redaktion / radio Kurier für den Hinweis bei Facebook! 73 (Tom DF5JL - A-DX Mailing-List via Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) Wolfgang submitted this excellent collection of links, pics and information about the DW Kigali SW site. Recommended reading & viewing of these links - includes some horrible info of the Rwanda Massacre & the tragic events that occurred within the DW Kigali compound (Ian, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) I first heard and QSLed the Kigali relay on 12/26/1965. It was one of the first relays used by major SW broadcasters. The VOA had been doing it for years. Another radio country bites the dust (Don Hosmer, W8SWL, Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 1521, March 27 at 0112, tell-tale het against 1520 as I am surprisingly hearing KOKC already back on air after tornadic destruxion [see OKLAHOMA]. Should I call it UNIDENTIFIED, when it has to be the 2-megawatt pilot of trans-Atlantic DX? Quickly stepped thru the rest of the band at 9 kHz intervals, but the only other TA carrier was on 1503 at 0117. Identity of that is not obvious at all: biggest ones are 25 kW in Egypt and 200 kW in Iran. Soon is gone the 1521 het. Some other guys were hearing this last night with KOKC gone (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ARABIA SAUDÍ, 9555, Radio Riyadh (Riyad), 2044-2047, escuchada el 29 de marzo en árabe a locutora en conversación con invitado, referencias a “Arabía”, segmento musical y locutor con comentarios, emisión en paralelo por 9870, 11820 y 11915, sin emisión en 11930, SINPO 34443 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Spain, Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ARABIA SAUDÍ, 13710 Radio Riyadh (Riyadh), 1758-1800, escuchada el 30 de marzo de 2015 en árabe con canto del Corán, SINPO 55444 15380, Radio Riyadh (Riyadh), 1210-1215, escuchada el 30 de marzo de 2015 en árabe con cato del Corán, se observa emisora sin identificar en francés de fondo, SINPO 33443 17705, Radio Riyadh (Riyad), 1222-1225, escuchada el 30 de marzo de 2015 en árabe a locutor con comentarios y emisión de música pop, la emisión no es en paralelo con 15380, SINPO 34433 21505, Radio Riyadh), 1227-1230, escuchada el 30 de marzo de 2015 en árabe a locutor con comentarios, emisión en paralelo con 17705, SINPO 44444 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Spain, Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA [non]. SERBIA/BOSNIA "Window" for reception of International Radio Serbia 1730-2000: 1730-1800 on 6100 BIJ 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Italian Mon-Fri 1800-1830 on 6100 BIJ 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Russian 1830-1900 on 6100 BIJ 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English 1900-1930 on 6100 BIJ 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Spanish 1930-2000 on 6100 BIJ 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Serbian Sun-Fri http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/04/blog-post.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, APRIL 1, dxldyg via DXLD) Window, meaning there is co-channel QRM at other times? (gh, DXLD) ** SOMALIA [non]. CLANDESTINES: 15165, R. Risala, Mar 27 *1830-1835, 25332-23332 Somali, 1830 sign on with opening music, ID, Opening announce, Talk. 17580, V. of Kaatumo, Mar 24 *1700-1710, 35333, Somali, 1700 sign on with opening music, ID, Opening announce, Koran, Talk. 17580, V. of Kaatumo, Mar 26 *1700-1710, 35333, Somali, 1700 sign on with opening music, ID, Opening announce, Koran, Talk. 17580, V. of Khaatumo, Mar 31 *1700-1709, 35332, Somali, 1700 sign on with opening music, Opening announce, Koran, Talk. 17845, R. Ergo, Mar 28 *1159-1225, 25332, Somali, 1159 sign on with announce by woman, Talk and Somali pop, ID at 1223. 17845, R. Ergo, Mar 29 *1159-1210, 35333-35322, Somali, 1159 sign on with opening music, ID, Opening announce, Talk and Somali pop (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CLANDESTINE, New frequencies of clandestine broadcasts in A-15: Radio ERGO: 1200-1300 on 17845 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Somali, ex 0830-0930 on 13685 A-14 (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via DXLD) ** SOMALILAND. SOMALIA, R. Hargeisa on 7120 kHz, Times of sign off: Mar 01 no check Mar 02 1900* Mar 03 1900* Mar 04 1900* Mar 05 1900* Mar 06 1900* Mar 07 1901* Mar 08 1902* Mar 09 no check Mar 10 1900* Mar 11 no check Mar 12 1900* Mar 13 1900* Mar 14 1900* Mar 15 1901* Mar 16 1859* Mar 17 no check Mar 18 1900* Mar 19 1900* Mar 20 1900* Mar 21 1900* Mar 22 1902* Mar 23 1900* Mar 24 1900* Mar 25 1901* Mar 26 1901* Mar 27 no check Mar 28 1900* Mar 29 no check Mar 30 1900* Mar 31 1900* (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reported on 23 March 2015 with Muslim sermon at 0255-0305 on 7130 (!), later switched to 7120 and on 26 and 27 March with s/on at 0222 and 0228 respectively on 7120 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, March 31, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. 17660 is also much weaker than normal, at present: 17660 0800 0900 53,48 MEY 250 19 12 411 1 Eng AFS SRL SNT [A-15 MEYERTON FROM HFCC] 3230 1630 1730 53SW,57N 100 0 0 804 2 Eng AFS SRL SNT 3255 0500 0600 52SE,53SW 100 0 0 804 1234567 Eng AFS BBC BAB 3255 1600 2000 52SE,53SW 100 0 0 804 1234567 Eng AFS BBC BAB 3320 1700 0500 57NW 100 275 0 803 1234567 Afr AFS SAB SNT 3345 0300 0500 52SE,53W, 100 5 0 803 23456 Eng AFS CAF SNT 5950 1900 1933 52 100 330 -15 216 1234567 Por AFS RFI TDF 5980 0300 0400 52E,53W,4 250 19 12 411 23456 Eng AFS CAF SNT 6080 1700 1730 46-48,52, 100 330 2 216 1234567 Eng AFS IBB IBB 6095 1800 1830 53S 250 76 0 140 1234567 Fra AFS BBC BAB 6125 0300 0400 48SW,52E, 250 19 12 211 1234567 Swa AFS DWL DWL 6145 0500 0700 52SE,53W, 100 5 0 803 23456 Eng AFS CAF SNT 6190 0500 0600 52SE,53SW 100 15 0 803 1234567 Eng AFS BBC BAB 6190 0600 0800 52SE,53SW 100 0 0 804 1234567 Eng AFS BBC BAB 6190 1600 2000 52SE,53SW 100 15 0 803 1234567 Eng AFS BBC BAB 7205 0800 0900 53SW,57N 100 5 0 804 1 Eng AFS SRL SNT 7265 1800 1830 48 100 30 15 216 1234567 Som AFS BBC BAB 7285 0500 0700 57NW 100 275 0 803 1234567 Afr AFS SAB SNT 7340 0430 0500 47SE,48S, 250 19 12 216 1234567 Swa AFS RFI TDF 7340 1900 1933 52 100 330 -15 216 1234567 Por AFS RFI TDF 7360 0400 0500 48SW,53NW 100 20 15 216 1234567 Eng AFS BBC BAB 7390 0400 0500 38S,47E,4 100 20 15 216 1234567 -290815 Fra AFS RFI TDF 7425 0500 0600 48SW,52NE 250 19 12 211 1234567 Eng AFS DWL DWL 9410 0600 0800 52SE,53SW 100 15 0 803 1234567 Eng AFS BBC BAB 9600 1700 1730 48SW,53NW 250 19 12 411 1234567 Swa AFS AWR AWR 9600 1730 1800 48SW,53NW 250 19 12 411 1234567 Mas AFS AWR AWR 9625 0700 1200 52SE,53W, 100 5 0 803 23456 Eng AFS CAF SNT 9625 1200 1300 52SE,53W, 100 5 0 803 23456 Nya AFS CAF SNT 9625 1300 1400 52SE,53W, 100 5 0 803 23456 Loz AFS CAF SNT 9625 1400 1500 52SE,53W, 100 5 0 803 23456 Por AFS CAF SNT 9625 1500 1600 52SE,53W, 100 5 0 803 23456 Eng AFS CAF SNT 9650 0700 1700 57NW 100 275 0 803 1234567 Afr AFS SAB SNT 9720 1630 1700 48SW,53NW 100 5 0 216 23456 Kin AFS BBC BAB 9720 1800 1830 48 250 32 25 411 1234567 Som AFS BBC BAB 9720 1830 1900 48SW,53NW 250 7 0 411 23456 Kin AFS BBC BAB 9755 1700 1733 52 100 330 -15 216 1234567 Por AFS RFI TDF 9755 1800 1830 46E,47W,5 250 328 -12 411 1234567 Eng AFS NHK BAB 9755 1800 1830 47,52 250 328 -12 411 1234567 Eng AFS NHK NHK 9790 0400 0500 38S,47E,4 100 20 15 216 1234567 300815- Fra AFS RFI TDF 9800 1700 1800 38SW,46SE 100 350 -15 216 1234567 Fra AFS RFI TDF 9800 1800 1900 38SW,46SE 100 350 -15 216 1234567 Fra AFS RFI TDF 9800 1900 2000 38SW,46SE 100 350 -15 216 1234567 Fra AFS RFI TDF 9835 0530 0600 47SE,48S, 100 5 0 216 1234567 Swa AFS RFI TDF 9910 1700 1733 52 100 330 -15 216 1234567 Por AFS RFI TDF 11605 0500 0600 46SE,47,5 100 345 -30 216 1234567 Fra AFS RFI TDF 11605 0600 0700 46SE,47,5 100 342 -25 411 1234567 Fra AFS RFI TDF 11610 1700 1730 48W 100 15 0 216 1234567 Tir AFS IBR BAB 11660 1630 1700 48SW,53NW 250 7 0 411 23456 Kin AFS BBC BAB 11790 0530 0600 47SE,48S, 100 5 0 216 1234567 Swa AFS RFI TDF 11790 1930 2000 46S 250 317 12 421 1234567 Ful AFS AWR AWR 11840 1830 1900 48SW,52E, 250 19 12 411 1234567 Eng AFS AWR AWR 11865 1600 1630 52,53 100 15 10 216 7 Kin AFS IBB IBB 11945 0500 0600 48SW,53NW 250 19 12 411 1234567 Eng AFS BBC BAB 12095 0500 0600 48SW,53NW 250 5 25 416 7 Kin AFS BBC BAB 12095 0529 0600 48SW,53NW 250 5 25 416 1 Kin AFS BBC BAB 12095 0600 0700 47SW,52 100 335 -30 216 1234567 Eng AFS BBC BAB 15170 0700 0800 46SE,47SW 250 342 -25 411 1234567 Fra AFS RFI TDF 15170 0800 0900 46SE,47SW 250 342 -25 411 1234567 Fra AFS RFI TDF 15235 1600 1700 46,47,52 250 328 0 416 23456 Fra AFS CAF SNT 15235 1700 1800 46,47,52 250 328 0 416 23456 Eng AFS CAF SNT 15255 0600 0700 46,47,52 250 328 -12 416 23456 Eng AFS CAF SNT 15360 1500 1600 47SE,48S, 250 7 0 411 1234567 Swa AFS RFI TDF 15420 1300 1400 48 250 32 25 411 7 Som AFS BBC BAB 15420 1400 1500 48 250 32 25 411 1234567 Som AFS BBC BAB 15420 1500 1700 48SW,53NW 100 20 30 216 1234567 Eng AFS BBC BAB 15490 0500 0600 48SW,53NW 250 7 0 411 7 Kin AFS BBC BAB 15490 0529 0600 48SW,53NW 250 7 0 411 1 Kin AFS BBC BAB 15560 0630 0700 46,47W 250 330 25 421 1234567 Hau AFS DWL DWL 15660 1500 1600 48,47,52, 250 5 25 416 23456 Swa AFS CAF SNT 17640 0700 0729 47S,52N,5 250 342 -25 411 1234567 Fra AFS BBC BAB 17640 1400 1430 46SE 250 328 -12 418 1234567 Hau AFS BBC BAB 17660 0800 0900 53,48 250 19 12 411 1 Eng AFS SRL SNT 17660 1200 1259 46SE,47,5 250 342 -25 411 1234567 Fra AFS RFI TDF 17710 1000 1100 48SW,52E, 250 19 12 411 1234567 Swa AFS DWL DWL 17745 1300 1400 48 250 32 25 411 7 Som AFS BBC BAB 17745 1300 1400 48 250 32 25 411 7 Som AFS BBC BAB 17745 1400 1600 48 250 32 25 411 7 Som AFS BBC BAB 17830 0700 0800 47SW,52 250 328 -12 418 1234567 Eng AFS BBC BAB 17830 1300 1400 48 250 32 25 411 7 Som AFS BBC BAB (via Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. TOM 11600 this afternoon SOF tiny signal, in AM mode, not DRM, seemingly at 90 degrees towards Asia, and nearby 11598 kHz channel some UTE RTTY wobbling signal hit QRM spill over to 11600. wb (Wolfgang Büschel, 1615 UT March 29, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SPAIN. Why 9620? I see real read: 9690 1600-2400 4,6-11 NOB 200 290 17 290315 241015 Spa E REE REE registration #16001 9690 1900-2400 4,6-11 NOB 200 290 23456 290315 241015 Spa E REE REE registration #16002 Need monitoring observation from tomorrow; a lot of wooden HFCC registration channels again by REE. Wb (Wolfgang Büschel, March 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. Esquema A-15 de Radio Exterior de España Publicado el 27 marzo 2015 12:38 por EA4-0003 marzo 27, 2015 Según informa REE, han tenido algunos problemas con el registro de las frecuencias así como con las pruebas de emisión, pero parece que todo está preparado para empezar a emitir este domingo 29.03.2015 con el horario de verano: De lunes a viernes, de 2000 a 2400 HOE (1800-2200 UT): a.. África occidental y Atlántico sur 15450 kHz 03-402-161º b.. América del sur 17715 kHz 13-101-230º c.. América del norte 17855 kHz 07-307-290º d.. Índico, Oriente Medio, Gran Sol 15490 kHz 02-303-110º Fines de semana, de 1600 a 2400 HOE (1400-2200 UTC): a.. África Occidental y Atlántico sur a.. 21620 08-401-161º de 1600 a 2000 HOE (1400-1800 UTC) y b.. 15450 kHz 03-402-161º de 2000 a 2400 HOE (1800-2200 UTC) b.. América del sur 17715 kHz 13-101-230º c.. América del norte 17855 kHz 07-307-290º d.. Índico, Oriente Medio, Gran Sol 15490 kHz 02-303-110º Como sabéis, las emisiones son en español y HOE es la hora oficial de la España continental, que ahora es UTC+1h, pero el día que comienza el horario de verano, 29.03.2015, para . . . Un saludo cordial (Pedro Sedano, Madrid, España, COORDINADOR GENERAL, ASOCIACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE RADIOESCUCHA (AER), March 27, noticias dx yg via DXLD) Cambio de hora, cambio de frecuencias Desde el domingo 29 de marzo http://www.rtve.es/radio/20150327/cambio-hora-cambio-frecuencias/1123573.shtml Saludos (JB (José Bueno, Spain, March 28, dxldyg via DXLD) 27.03.2015 Radio Exterior de España emite su programación desde las 18 hasta las 22 horas, Tiempo Universal Coordinado, de lunes a viernes. Las frecuencias de emisión y las zonas de cobertura son las siguientes: - África y Atlántico sur, 15450 Khz, banda de 19 metros. - América del sur, 17715 Khz, banda de 16 metros. - América del norte, 17855 Khz, banda de 16 metros. - Oriente Medio e Índico, 15490 Khz, banda de 19 metros. Y los sábados y domingos: - África y Atlántico sur, 21620 Khz, banda de 13 metros (de 14 a 18 horas), y 15450 Khz, banda de 19 metros (de 18 a 22 horas). - América del sur, 17715 Khz, banda de 16 metros (de 14 a 18 horas). - América del norte, 17855 Khz, banda de 16 metros (de 14 a 18 horas). - Oriente Medio e Índico, 15490 Khz, banda de 19 metros (de 14 a 18 horas (via DXLD) This official info on website must be incorrect, as on Sat & Sun the emissions surely extend from 18 to 22 UT, on the same frequencies to the three other target areas! (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Radio Exterior de Espana on new summer frequency 21620, March 28: from 1500 NF 21620 NOB 200 kW / 161 deg WCAf Spanish, instead of 17755 from 1500 on 9620 NOB 200 kW / 290 deg NoAm Spanish from 1500 on 11940 NOB 200 kW / 230 deg SoAm Spanish from 1500 on 15490 NOB 200 kW / 110 deg N/ME Spanish -- 73 (Ivo Ivanov, Blgria, dxldyg via DXLD) 17755, March 28 at 2010, no signal, nor 21620, which REE was reportedly using already from A-15 schedule this Saturday starting at 1500 per Ivo Ivanov; 15490 is good with flutter; at 2021 that signal ranges 36-47 dbu without flutter, but at 2022 the flutter resumes during silly ballgame; suspect this flutter is from two transmitters beating rather than propagation. 2032 check, now I can detect a JBA carrier on 17755, and 9620 is also audible along with 15490. 17855, March 29 at 1416, VG signal in Castilian about Armenia, of all things. Obviously REE on unexpected frequency, and starting an hour earlier with DST in Europe, *1400 on weekends. Surely this is on a NAm antenna, a great improvement over 9620 which was completely non- funxional for a midday path. Finally they have studied a bit of Propagation 101! Confirmed source by // much weaker 15490. 17855 is in fact registered in HFCC A-15, but not at this hour: 16-24 Sat/Sun, 20- 24 M-F, 200 kW(?? odd power), 290 degrees to CIRAFs 4, and 6-11 = all of contiguous USA, Canada east of Manitoba, all of Mexico, Central America, Caribbean. We had suspected the times in these Noblejas registrations were erroneous, CEST = UT +2, instead of UT, and this appears to confirm it. Transmissions should now end circa 2200 UT, not 2400 (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) REE has a knot in their feeder line. REE Spanish on air on 21620 kHz heard since 1345 UT only carrier. But remaining Spanish service occurred with an Armenia country and culture, composer, music feature report. Noted on 15490, 17715, 17855, (and carrier on 21620) kHz. Carrier on 21620 kHz channel was disappeared, when checked at 1422 UT again. Seemingly antenna matrix program error occurred or feed doesn't match? 9690 1600 2400 4,6-11 NOB 200 290 0 212 17 Spa REE 9690 1900 2400 4,6-11 NOB 200 290 0 212 23456 Spa REE 11685 1500 2400 46,47,52,57 NOB 200 161 0 212 17 Spa REE 11685 1900 2400 46,47,52,57 NOB 200 161 0 212 23456 Spa REE 11940 1500 2400 12-16 NOB 200 230 0 218 17 Spa REE 11940 1900 2400 12-16 NOB 200 230 0 218 23456 Spa REE 12030 1500 2400 38,39,47,48 NOB 200 110 0 218 17 Spa REE 12030 1900 2400 38,39,47,48 NOB 200 110 0 218 23456 Spa REE 15110 2000 2400 4,7-11 NOB 200 302 12 218 1234567 Spa REE 15490 1600 2400 38,39,47,48 NOB 200 110 0 212 17 Spa REE 15490 1900 2400 38,39,47,48 NOB 200 110 0 212 23456 Spa REE 17715 1600 2400 12-16 NOB 200 230 0 218 17 Spa REE 17715 2000 2400 12-16 NOB 200 230 0 218 23456 Spa REE 17755 2000 2400 46,47,52,57 NOB 200 161 0 212 1234567 Spa REE 17855 1600 2400 4,6-11 NOB 200 290 0 218 17 Spa REE 17855 2000 2400 4,6-11 NOB 200 290 0 218 23456 Spa REE 21620 1600 2000 46,47,52,57 NOB 200 161 0 212 17 Spa REE 21620 2000 2400 46,47,52,57 NOB 200 161 0 212 23456 Spa REE (Wolfgang Büschel, March 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Exterior de Espana relay Radio Nacional on new 21620, March 28 from 1500 NF 21620 NOB 200 kW / 161 deg to WCAf Spanish, instead of 17755 from 1500 on 9620 NOB 200 kW / 290 deg to NoAm Spanish from 1500 on 11940 NOB 200 kW / 230 deg to SoAm Spanish from 1500 on 15490 NOB 200 kW / 110 deg to N/ME Spanish http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/radio-exterior-de-espana-on-new-summer.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via DXLD) Summer A-15 shortwave schedule of Radio Exterior de Espana: 1400-1800 on 15490 NOB 200 kW / 110 deg to N/ME Spanish Sat/Sun 1400-1800 on 17715 NOB 200 kW / 230 deg to SoAm Spanish Sat/Sun 1400-1800 on 17855 NOB 200 kW / 290 deg to NoAm Spanish Sat/Sun 1400-1800 on 21620 NOB 200 kW / 161 deg to WCAf Spanish Sat/Sun 1800-2200 on 15450 NOB 200 kW / 161 deg to WCAf Spanish Daily 1800-2200 on 15490 NOB 200 kW / 110 deg to N/ME Spanish Daily 1800-2200 on 17715 NOB 200 kW / 230 deg to SoAm Spanish Daily 1800-2200 on 17855 NOB 200 kW / 290 deg to NoAm Spanish Daily (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) [and non]. 17850, March 29 at 1934, French here, poor with ACI from much stronger Spain 17855, with silly ballgame. HFCC shows RFI in French is scheduled on 17850 now at 17-20 (also Persian 1430-1500). This is ABSURD! Scads of open frequencies on 16m and these two wind up adjacent, just as they are on the map! It`s Spain`s fault as 17855 is a new frequency for them, while FRANCE has used 17850 for a longtime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RTVE AUMENTA LAS FRECUENCIAS DE ONDA CORTA Y LA FLOTA VALORA EL NIVEL "ÓPTIMO" EN EL ATLÁNTICO Desde hoy, Radio Exterior se escuchará en África occidental las ocho horas prometidas durante el fin de semana -Un transmisor, ahora en EE UU, finalizará la mejora una vez regrese a Toledo http://www.farodevigo.es/mar/2015/03/30/rtve-aumenta-frecuencias-onda-corta/1211264.html La Corporación Radio Televisión Española (RTVE) mejoró finalmente las frecuencias para la onda corta de Radio Exterior de España (REE) los fines de semana, como había prometido a plataforma que defiende la emisión el pasado día 3 de febrero. El ente público ya recibió uno de los dos transmisores enviados a Estados Unidos para su actualización, lo que permite hacer uno de los desdoblamientos para que la flota pueda escuchar la radio durante las ocho horas prometidas. Una flota que, por otra parte, ya celebra la mejora de la calidad de recepción de REE en el Atlántico, que califican de "óptima". Tras la polémica que generó el silencio de REE en onda corta por parte de la Corporación el pasado año, adelantado en su día por FARO, la flota parece ver la luz al final del túnel. Tras las quejas lanzadas desde alta mar, que llevaron a la vuelta de la emisión - aunque con un recorte en las horas, que quedaron cuatro de lunes a viernes y ocho los fines de semana -, la flota ya valora positivamente el servicio como afirma, por ejemplo, el buque Balueiro, que atravesó el océano desde África del sur hasta Argentina y que afirmó que en todo momento "se escuchó con claridad y potencia". Una opinión compartida también desde el barco Xuxo o el Alemar, que avisaron que ya se escucha mejor la radio desde el fin de semana anterior. Esto se debe a que RTVE ya fue mejorando a lo largo de las últimas semanas las frecuencias. "Tardamos un poco debido a la adquisición de frecuencias, de reserva, que tuvimos que pedir a Ginebra", explicó el director de REE, Antonio Szigriszt, en referencia a la HFCC (High Frequency Co-ordination Conference), encargada de gestionar todas las frecuencias que se utilizan en el mundo. Szigriszt, que cree que "la programación se ha consolidado", explicó que por el momento el desdoblamiento para el fin de semana solo será para la zona de África occidental, en la que asegura que faenan unos 900 barcos. "Implica una mejor calidad durante toda la escucha pero obliga a cambiar de dial", indicó. Respecto a futuros desdoblamientos, RTVE tendrá que esperar a que regrese el otro transmisor de EE UU. "Si llega bien los técnicos tardan 1 día o 2 en hacerlo funcionar", concretó Szigriszt. Por su parte, la Plataforma en Defensa de la Onda Corta concretó que hará un seguimiento de la calidad de emisión "tanto desde tierra como desde alta mar". También matizan que "los informes llegados del Atlántico son favorables pero no sucede lo mismo con el Índico y el Pacífico". Sobre esto, desde el Balueiro avisan que allí "se junta el hambre con las ganas de comer" porque "los horarios no son los mejores al no tener en cuenta la diferencia horaria". Posted by: (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO, dxldyg via DXLD) SPANIEN, REE Noblejas, mal mit drei oder zwei Sendern on air, niemals mit allen 4x Kanälen zu hören. Die verkürzte Montag-Freitag REE Sendung gestern Abend konnte ich nur auf 15490 und 17715 hören. Nix auf 9690, 17855 oder 21620 kHz. Die 15450 habe ich nicht beobachtet. Die Ingenieure in Noblejas haben wohl einige ihrer Sender nach den USA zur dringend notwendigen Reparatur geschickt. In Dario's Liste scheinen nur die Sender #02, 03, 07, 08, und 13 auf. Am Sonntag brachte man das #08 Signal auf 21620 kHz nicht dazu, die REE Audio aufzumodulieren. Von Dario aus Italien geliefert: Listado de Frecuencias: De lunes a viernes, de 20 a 24 HOE, 18-22 UT Mo-Fr Africa occidental y Atlantico sur 15450 kHz 03-402-161deg America del sur 17715 kHz 13-101-230deg America del norte 17855 kHz 07-307-290deg Indico, Oriente Medio, Gran Sol 15490 kHz 02-303-110deg Fines de semana, de 16 a 24 HOE, 14-22 UT Sat/Sun Africa Occidental y Atlantico sur 21620 kHz 08-401-161deg (14-18 UT) 15450 kHz 03-402-161deg (18-22 UT) America del sur 17715 kHz 13-101-230deg America del norte 17855 kHz 07-307-290deg Indico, Oriente Medio, Gran Sol 15490 kHz 02-303-110deg (via PlayDX #1643, Dario Monferini-ITA, March 29) VIA WB MARCH 31 DXLD REE broadcasts need more monitoring these days. REE Noblejas, only with three or two transmitters in \\ on air these days. Mon-Fri transmission, yesterday Monday 30, 20-22 UT slot heard only 15490 and 17715 kHz. But didn't check 15450 kHz unfortunately. The engineers at REE Noblejas sent some of their 15 shortwave transmitters FOR REPAIR TO USA firm at Estados Unidos now! At Dario's list only transmitters number #02, 03, 07, 08, and 13 mentioned. On Sunday 29th REE transmitter #08 carrier signal on 21620 kHz couldn't be modulated by REE Audio program, unfortunately antenna matrix failure? Or modulation failure? From Dario in Italy came in: Listado de Frecuencias: De lunes a viernes, de 20 a 24 HOE, 18-22 UT Mo-Fr Africa occidental y Atlantico sur 15450 kHz 03-402-161deg America del sur 17715 kHz 13-101-230deg America del norte 17855 kHz 07-307-290deg Indico, Oriente Medio, Gran Sol 15490 kHz 02-303-110deg Fines de semana, de 16 a 24 HOE, 14-22 UT Sat/Sun Africa Occidental y Atlantico sur 21620 kHz 08-401-161deg (14-18 UT) 15450 kHz 03-402-161deg (18-22 UT) America del sur 17715 kHz 13-101-230deg America del norte 17855 kHz 07-307-290deg Indico, Oriente Medio, Gran Sol 15490 kHz 02-303-110deg (via PlayDX #1643, Dario Monferini-ITA, March 29) from 1800 on 15450, 15490, 17715, but 17855 is off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avj7Os5oTYY&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, March 31, dxldyg via DXLD) Radio Exterior de España/RNE on three frequencies, March 31: 1800-2200 on 15450 NOB 200 kW / 161 deg to WCAf Spanish Daily 1800-2200 on 15490 NOB 200 kW / 110 deg to N/ME Spanish Daily 1800-2200 on 17715 NOB 200 kW / 230 deg to SoAm Spanish Daily 1800-2200 on 17855 NOB 200 kW / 290 deg to NoAm Spanish Daily is off http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/04/radio-exterior-de-espana-rne-on-three.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, April 1, dxldyg via DXLD) 17855, March 31 at 1935, no signal from REE, the new frequency it started March 29 and 30 --- leaving 17850 FRANCE without QRM. Did they see and act on my remark about absurdity of such adjacency on an almost empty band? Tuning around, I find REE instead on 17715, poor signal in Castilian, so is it still the North American beam? // fair 15490. Tuning further, at 1940 I find the third frequency is another new one, 15450! Where will they be tomorrow? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Summer A-15 shortwave schedule of Radio Exterior de Espana: 1400-1800 on 15490 NOB 200 kW / 110 deg to N/ME Spanish Sat/Sun 1400-1800 on 17715 NOB 200 kW / 230 deg to SoAm Spanish Sat/Sun 1400-1800 on 17855 NOB 200 kW / 290 deg to NoAm Spanish Sat/Sun 1400-1800 on 21620 NOB 200 kW / 161 deg to WCAf Spanish Sat/Sun 1800-2200 on 15450 NOB 200 kW / 161 deg to WCAf Spanish Daily 1800-2200 on 15490 NOB 200 kW / 110 deg to N/ME Spanish Daily 1800-2200 on 17715 NOB 200 kW / 230 deg to SoAm Spanish Daily 1800-2200 on 17855 NOB 200 kW / 290 deg to NoAm Spanish Daily (Ivo Ivanov, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) ** SPAIN. 17855, April 2 at 2033, REE is still missing from what had been its strongest frequency, on 290-degree N American beam, but audible on 17715 poor, 15490 fair, 15450 poor. Maybe it`ll be back if they get a fourth transmitter operational again. Supposedly some of the several units are back in Spain after a visit to America for repairs --- still find it hard to believe they shipped the entire transmitters back and forth rather than components such as exciters (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, March 27 at *0113:10, SLBC carrier cuts on for about 10 seconds; this seems to be SOP as I have heard it before. Then back to stay from *0114:11; add prélude music at 0114:47; 2+1 timesignal ends at 0115:11.5, sign-on announcement. Only fair signal with flutter. 11905, March 29 at *0114:12, carrier on, 0114:46 musical prélude starts (not exactly an IS?), 2+1 timesignal ends at 0115:12.5, SLBC sign-on; fair with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN. 9505.000, Omdurman logged with nice lady singer program like HOA Amharic. Voice of Africa at 0640 UT April 1, Aoki Nagoya list show 0600-0900 UT, in Tigre, Amharic, Swahili, and English. S=8 -72dBm just above threshold, echo-audio ID by female announcer at 0651 UT. Nice catch in our East AF to Europe fade-out morning propagation, IS at 0652 UT. Seemingly a pause music audio heard til 0700 UT; strange appearance now and then. They started Swahili? program at strange time 0657:50 with ID and lot of local EaAFrican music, male and female announcer. Fair signal just above threshold here in southern Germany. (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. March 28: Radio Miraya in English to EaAf 0306 on 9940 secret tx site https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg_hKj91mg4&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SUDAN [non]. Morning broadcasts of R. Tamazuj/Dabanga again 15555: Radio Tamazuj 0400-0430 NF 15555 MDC 250 kW / 335 deg EaAf Sudanese Arabic, ex 15550 // frequency 7315 SMG 250 kW / 146 deg EaAf Sudanese Arabic // frequency 11940 MDC 250 kW / 320 deg EaAf Sudanese Arabic R Dabanga 0430-0600 NF 15555 MDC 250 kW / 335 deg EaAf Sudanese Arabic, ex 15550 // frequency 7315 SMG 200 kW / 146 deg EaAf Sudanese Arabic No frequency changes for the evening broadcasts on March 26 [B-14]: Radio Tamazuj 1500-1530 on 13800 MDC 250 kW / 340 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 1500-1530 on 15400 SMG 200 kW / 139 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 1500-1530 on 15550 SMG 200 kW / 150 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic Radio Dabanga 1530-1600 on 13800 MDC 250 kW / 340 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 1530-1600 on 15550 SMG 200 kW / 150 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 1600-1630 on 13800 SMG 200 kW / 146 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 1600-1630 on 15555 SMG 200 kW / 150 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-morning-broadcasts-of-rtamazu-and.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via DXLD) ** SUDAN [and non]. 15550, March 27 at 0542, tone jamming against nothing, while weaker signal on 15555 with talk modulation is presumably R. Dabanga via MADAGASCAR starting at 0430. Ivo Ivanov had noted the shift from 15550 to 15555 on March 26. Jammer foiled again! This might also apply to the 1530 UT broadcast. R. Tamazuj, preceding at 0400 & 1500, isn`t always jammed, why? 11650, March 30 at 0547, really wild shouts and echoes, what`s this? 0548 R. Dabanga spoken ID, good signal with no jamming on new frequency for A-15. HFCC shows it`s via VATICAN at 0430-0600, so we know it must be preceded by companion R. Tamazuj at 0400-0430. 13800, March 31 at 0535, talk in Arabish with heavy tone jamming; in fact, one loud hi-pitched tone, and another weaker low-pitched. So the Dentro-Sudanese Jamming Command has found the new A-15 frequency for R. Dabanga. However, HFCC shows PNW via MADAGASCAR on 13800 at 0400- 0530 only, strange. (In B-14, R. Farda was on 13800 during this period.) Meanwhile // Dabanga 11650 via VATICAN is not jammed at all. 11650, April 1 at 0538, R. Dabanga, poor via VATICAN with tone jammer; // 13800 via MADAGASCAR is JBA, can`t tell if there is a tone jammer too. 11650, April 2 at 0512, R. Dabanga poor with tone jammer atop it; 13800, April 2 at 0515, R. Dabanga fair signal but with double-tone jamming, the hi whiner and the low audible heterodyne (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CLANDESTINE, Radio Tamazuj [as heard]: from 1500 on 15150 MDC 250 kW / 340 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 1500-1530 on 15550 SMG 250 kW / 150 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 1500-1530 NF 17600 ISS 250 kW / 138 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic, ex 13800 SMG. 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, Mar 29, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) ** SUDAN [non]. ALEMANIA, 9815, Afia Darfur Radio (Nauen), 1901-1905, escuchada el 26 de marzo de 2015 en árabe a locutor con noticias y con corresponsales, referencias a Darfur, emisión en paralelo por 9780 vía Vaticano, sin señal por 11615 vía Sri Lanka, SINPO 44343. SRI LANKA, 11615, Afia Darfur/Hello Darfur (Iranawila), 1802-1806, escuchada el 26 de marzo de 2015 en árabe o sudanés a locutor con noticias y referencias a “Darfur”, conexión con corresponsal con comentarios y despedida, referencias a Sudán, emisión en paralelo por 11840 y sin señal en 9645, SINPO 44554. FRANCIA, Afia Darfur (Issoudun), 1815-1818, escuchada el 31 de marzo de 2015 en árabe o sudanés a locutor con comentarios con referencias a Darfur, grabación de testimonios, sin señal en 11610, en paralelo por 11845, SINPO 33333. VATICANO, 9775, Afia Darfur (Santa Maria di Galeria), 1907-1910, escuchada el 31 de marzo de 2015 en árabe o sudanés a locutores con comentarios, referencias a “Darfur y Sudan”, sin señal en 9815, SINPO 55444. 11845, Afia Darfur (Santa Maria di Galeria), 1818-1822, escuchada el 31 de marzo de 2015 a locutor con comentarios con referencias a “ Darfur”, saludo “Salam”, testimonio con referencias a “Sudan y Tunecía”, SINPO 55454 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. CLANDESTINE, New frequencies of clandestine broadcasts in A-15: Radio Tamazuj: 1500-1530 on 15150 MDC 250 kW / 340 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 1500-1530 on 15550 SMG 250 kW / 150 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 1500-1530 NF 17600 ISS 250 kW / 138 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic, ex 13800 SMG (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) ** SWEDEN. Transmissions from Sala on Saturday, March 28: Radio Nord Revival 1100-1200 on 6065 SAL 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu Swedish LSB 1100-1200 on 9865 SAL 005 kW / non-dir to CeEu Swedish AM SDXF Sveriges DX-Förbund 1200-1300 on 6065 SAL 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu Swedish LSB 1200-1300 on 9865 SAL 005 kW / non-dir to CeEu Swedish AM Radio Merkurs 1300-1500 on 6065 SAL 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German LSB 1300-1500 on 9865 SAL 005 kW / non-dir to CeEu German AM The Ronny B Goode Show 1500-1600 on 6065 SAL 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu Swedish Am 1500-1600 on 9865 SAL 005 kW / non-dir to CeEu Swedish LSB Global 24 News + Blues Radio International 1600-1700 on 6065 SAL 005 kW / non-dir to CeEu English AM 1600-1700 on 9865 SAL 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu English LSB Global 24 Jazz from the Left 1700-2000 on 6065 SAL 005 kW / non-dir to CeEu English AM 1700-2000 on 9865 SAL 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu English LSB (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1767 [Global 24], DXLD) Hit! with DJ PeeWee 2000-2100 on 6065 SAL 005 kW / non-dir to CeEu Swedish AM 2000-2100 on 9865 SAL 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu Swedish LSB (Bulgarian DX blog March 26 via DXLD) March 28: Radio Nord Revival in Swedish to Eu 1055 on 9865 Sala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEyKRxK7SaA&feature=youtu.be Radio Nord Revival in Swedish to Eu 1100 on 9865 Sala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J_oJqZii1k&feature=youtu.be SDXF Sveriges DX Förbund in Swedish to Eu 1200 on 9865 Sala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP1M6w7oqcM&feature=youtu.be Radio Merkurs in Swedish to Eu 1300 on 9865 Sala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ3slW-9zTo&feature=youtu.be Radio Merkurs in Swedish to Eu 1445 on 6065 LSB and 9865 AM via Sala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwI-jLwvvoE&feature=youtu.be The Ronny B Goode Show in Swedish to Eu 1550 on 9865 LSB Sala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWCb1NI9Ghw&feature=youtu.be Global 24, News in English to Eu 1602 on 9865 LSB Sala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLOrV2v78RA&feature=youtu.be Global 24, Blues Radio International in English to Eu 1647 on 9865 LSB Sala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY5H9mfGeVk&feature=youtu.be Global 24, Jazz from the Left in English to Eu 1925 on 9865 LSB Sala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMtUkNlPXk8&feature=youtu.be Global 24, The Rock Pile in English to EaEu 1927 on 9525 Secretbrod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MowmJTYrNlk&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) Global 24 28th March --- 9865 khz audible here in NW England since about 1630 UT, reasonable signal at peaks but with considerable fading and high background noise levels, but improving slowly. Signal appears only to have modulation on lower sideband (Tony Molloy, Bolton, UK, CCW SDR4+ and CCW HF Active Antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good signal from Sala, Sweden this afternoon since about 1600 utc tune-in on 9865 lsb, also poor to fair on 6065. Currently (at 1730) carry Global 24 with Jazz as scheduled. 73s (Dave Kenny, Caversham, Berks, England, UK, AOR7030 + 25m long wire, March 28, BDXC_UK yg via DXLD) Global 24 audible with good signal on 9865 and parallel, tho weaker, on 6065 from 1730 tune-in on Sat 28 March. Global 24 website frequency schedule at http://about.global24radio.com/about-us/program-schedule/ or the program schedule at http://about.global24radio.com/ does not list the transmitter sites - but the use of 9865 and 6065 kHz suggests Sala in Sweden (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via DXLD) 1800 UT, 9865, Jazz from the Left still providing good signal, much less fading and noise, Reasonable reception just on Eton G6 Aviator with standard whip antenna. Parallel on 6065 now audible here, but at low level, again with considerable fading. 1800 UT program on 9525 [BULGARIA] also just audible with The Rock Pile (Tony Molloy, Bolton, UK, CCW SDR4+ and CCW HF Active Antenna, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SYRIA. SW center Damascus Adra scrapped between 2013 and 2014 according to G.E. images. Von den einst 11 SW Antennen der KW-Sendestelle Adra sind nur noch 4 Antennen vorhanden, aber auch diese liegen auf dem Boden. Ei, das sieht ja professionell abgerissen aus. Ich sehe uebrigens Truemmer von noch fuenf Tuermen. Waren zum Zeitpunkt der Aufnahme wohl gerade dabei, den Schrott abzufahren ... Die Bezeichnung "Adra" wuerde ich uebrigens als historisch gewachsen bzw. mangels besserem Wissen gepraegt ansehen. Man dachte wohl, die Kurzwellenanlage stehe mit bei den Mittelwellensendern {distance 7 kms}. Was halt nicht der Fall war (Kai Ludwig-D, March 22) 7 km Distanz ist in einer Grossstadt nicht die Welt, im Febr 2013 stand laut G.E. noch alles, auch der Steilstrahler an der Nordwestecke des Gelaendes. Ich kann mich gar nicht mehr an eine 60 oder 49 mb lokales steilgestrahltes Near East Radio erinnern. Und jetzt hat >er< das Metall der Masten zu neuen Boembchen verbaut ? Mir kommt das grosse Speiben, wenn ich an diese sehr willkommenen Revolutionen von Tunesien bis Afghanistan denke. Hat nicht auch mal GDR Funkwerk Koepenick einen Mittelwellensender in Syrien verbaut? SYR Damascus Sabboura 666 kHz 600/100 kW, 2 mast, also former 873 kHz 10kW, 33 30 26.00 N, 36 06 54.93 E und ein Einzelmast bei 33 30 36.37 N, 36 06 56.02 E ist auch zwischen Okt 2005 und Mai 2011 "bisambergisiert" worden ... Tartus 2x und Aleppo sind noch hardware maessig sichtbar die 2-mast Anlage fuer den Geheimsender "Palestine Radio" steht auch noch bei Hims/Homs nominal 594 kHz (wandered to 617!) kHz 300 kW 34 47 30.00 N 36 42 53.50 E Dayr az Zawr / Deir-el-Zor 827 kHz 200 kW und die 4 Mastanlage sieht auch sehr imposant aus, wie einst in Wachenbrunn-GDR auch ... 35 23 56.56 N, 40 05 00.35 E (wb, March 23, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 27 March via DXLD) Google Translate of German to English: SYRIA SW center Damascus Adra scrapped between 2013 and 2014 according to GE images. Of the once 11 SW antennas of the HF transmitter site Adra are only 4 antennas available, but these are on the ground. Oh, that looks professionally demolished. I see the way, debris has of even five towers. At the time of recording probably just thereby, the scrap abzufahren ... The term "Adra" I would by the way grown as historically or See minted lack of better knowledge. You probably thought the Shortwave plant stand with in the medium wave transmitters {distance} 7 km. What stop was not the case (Kai Ludwig D, March 22) 7 km distance is in a big city not the world, was in February 2013 According to G. E. everything, even the steep spotlight on the northwest corner of the Grounds. I can not even me of a 60 or 49 mb local steep blasted Near East Radio remember. And now has 'he' the metal of the masts installed new bomblets? To me, the big Speiben when I very welcome at this Revolutions of Tunisia to Afghanistan guess. Did not sometimes GDR Funkwerk Köpenick a medium wave transmitter in Syria installed? SYR Damascus Sabboura 666 kHz 600 / 100kW 2mast, ie former 873 kHz 10 kW 33 30 26.00 36 06 54.93 N E and a single mast with 33 30 36.37 36 06 56.02 N E has also been "bisambergisiert" between October 2005 and May 2011 ... 2x Tartus and Aleppo are still visible hardware the 2-mast system for the secret transmitter "Palestine Radio" is also in Hims / Homs nominal 594 kHz (wandered to 617!) kHz to 300 kW 34 47 30.00 36 42 53.50 N E Dayr az Zawr / Deir-el-Zor 827 kHz to 200 kW and the 4 mast system also looks very impressive, as once in Wachenbrunn- GDR also ... 35 23 56.56 N 40 05 E 00:35 (Wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 23) (all via swsites yg via DXLD) Another SW Country extinct --- So does anyone know when the last SW transmission occurred from Adra? Confirmed: Latest imagery of the site found dated June 2014 still shows 4 towers, but as no shadows these are on the ground. More information would be welcome (Ian, swsites yg via DXLD) Well, in the first place: Not "from Adra" at all. This is the location of a mediumwave facility, about 8 km north of the shortwave plant. Probably both facilities were one and the same organizational unit, it would explain the wrong site designator without assuming plain disinformation. Last transmission: At some point in late 2012 or early 2013. Others may try to find the last reported observation of the 9330 kHz signal. What the new satellite image shows is clearly a regular dismantling. Topple the towers, cut them into pieces and take away the scrap metal to sell it. Quite remarkable that this kind of routine business still takes place in the suburbs of Damascus. Gone, with the grounds already being reused for unrelated new buildings, is also the As'Saboura / Sabboura facility west of Damascus, see https://goo.gl/maps/wabgT This was the first shortwave site of Radio Damascus, used from 1968 until the transmissions disappeared again in the seventies and reappeared only in 1984 from the new 500 kW facility. As recently as in 2013, As'Saboura / Sabboura was still supposed to be the origin of mediumwave signals on 666 and 702 kHz, the first one for the second own program, the latter one relaying Al Quds Radio from Gaza. I have not seen any further reports about mediumwave transmissions from Syria since 2013; all previous sources remain silent since. So it is for now an open question if again more than one domestic program is being produced at Damascus (they went to Gleichschaltung in 2013) and whether or not 666 and 702 kHz signals are still on air (if so necessarily from elsewhere now). The foreign service has meanwhile a stable online distribution via http://syriaonline.sy/?f=Radio-Damascus The frequency announcements currently mention a long list of satellites. However, most of them are supposed to relay the satellite TV channel only. I think the only satellite that carries SRT radio, too, is Express- AM22 where SRT runs an own multiplex, replacing the former Hotbird service that was shut down by Jordan Media City, the uplink provider, in October 2012. And in the opening procedure of the German broadcasts (in which the majority of the one hour of airtime is simply filled with music) even 9330 kHz is still being announced. Yet another case of left hand not knowing what the right one is doing (Kai Ludwig, March 31, swsites yg via DXLD) In May 2011 is my last archive SYRIA SW entry: 9329.980, R Damaskus - Wackeln auch die KW Sendungen aus Syrien ? Jean-Michel berichtete heute Abend, dass Franzoesisch nur 30 Min ueber Kurzwelle lief. Ich habe ihm dann mit der Beobachtung des English Programms auf 9329.980 kHz um 2135 UT May 5 geantwortet. Radio Damascus on air in English at 2135 UT today May 5 with S=9+20dB, frequency 9329.980 kHz according remote Perseus (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 5, 2011) Hi Kai, Thanks very much for an excellent review of those Syrian transmissions/sites. Re SW and last on air, your approximation seams good to me. I've had a quick look online. Can see video online of SW recording taken in Jan 2012. Reports in Oct 2012 and maybe just carrier signal in Dec 2012. I haven't found any reports in early 2013 other than Glenn Hauser reporting in Aug 2013 that he hasn't heard Radio Damascus on SW for many months. The latest one could approximate would be the end of B12 transmission period; March 2013 but it seams unlikely it lasted that long. I might drop Radio Damascus a line, see if they reply? Re Adra name. True, 8 km away. Perhaps the onsite SW engineers referred to site under a name of one of the nearby villages or some other designation? With several closer equidistant villages nearby, I wouldn't know which to appoint as a more specific site name, unless some other official site designator is found online in Arabic in reference to the SW HF transmission center. Wolfy, thanks for your notes (Ian, ibid.) ** TAIWAN [and non]. [re 15-12:] No substitute for French to Africa as well. The frequencies page of the French section shows only the existing Babcock transmission anymore, now 1900-2000 on 7325. They underline "to Europe", so any further penetration of this Woofferton signal into Africa will apparently be entirely unintended overspill, unless something got lost in their internal communications. No substitute for the 3965 kHz transmissions of German and Spanish either. German will retain its existing Woofferton slot, Spanish will no longer be transmit to Europe. No any comment about this on their website. Only the South America slot 0200-0300, so far transmit via Issoudun, still shows up, now on 11920. Nothing in HFCC, unlike the existing WRMI relay, so perhaps from Taiwan itself? And they will go ahead with replacing Issoudun by Tanshui for Russian to Siberia / Central Asia and Europe, as already tested. Announced frequencies for that are 9590 1400-1500 and 11955 1700-1800. But of course the most significant cut concerns English, now to be transmitted only to Asia anymore after no substitute had been arranged already in 2013 when the airtime exchange with Family Radio ceased. What should also be pointed out is that there will be no shortwave or mediumwave service from Radio France Internationale outside Africa anymore. This is the very reason for which the cooperation with Taiwan now comes to an end (Kai Ludwig, March 28, dxldyg via DXLD) The cooperation between RTI and RFI was schedule to end when it did. This was an exchange of air time; no money changed hands. Also just to note: Tanshui or sometimes Tamshui is the incorrect spelling. The correct spelling is Danshui. Tanshui or Tamshui is the Wade-Giles translation, which is no longer used in Taiwan. I suspect the person at RTI who is still spelling it as Tanshui is over 50 and does not know how to correctly spell it. in 2009 the government passed a decree to remove all Wade-Giles translations. You will never see Taiwan listed on HFCC. Taiwan is not allowed to join HFCC. China has prevented them from doing so for a long time now (Keith Perron, Taiwan, March 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Saturday March 28, last day of operation of RTI via Issoudun: 0200-0300 9730 ISS 500 kW / 232 deg to SoAm Spanish + 03-04 7730 YFR 1400-1500 15180 ISS 500 kW / 060 deg to CeAs Russian 1600-1700 13810 ISS 500 kW / 085 deg to SEAs English 1700-1800 9540 ISS 500 kW / 055 deg to EaEu Russian [but see below] 1700-1800 11975 ISS 500 kW / 160 deg to CeAf English 1800-1900 3965 ISS 250 kW / 345 deg to U.K. English 1900-2000 11875 ISS 500 kW / 190 deg to NoAf French 2000-2100 3965 ISS 250 kW / 215 deg to SoEu Spanish 2100-2200 3965 ISS 250 kW / 050 deg to WeEu German http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/march-28-last-day-of-operation-of.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via DXLD) R. Taiwan Inter in Russian on March 29: 1400-1500 on 9590 TSH 300 kW / ??? deg to CeAs 1700-1800 on 11955 TSH 300 kW / ??? deg to EaEu http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/radio-taiwan-international-in-russian_29.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via DXLD) That should be DSH! (gh) ---In dxld@yahoogroups.com, wrote : 1700-1800 on 11955 ISS 500 kW / 055 deg to EaEu Russian, not TSH Radio Taiwan International via Issoudun (Re: DX RE MIX NEWS # 903) Yes, also tonight 11955 comes definitely from a transmitter in Europe, and the existing TDF registration should leave little doubt that it indeed is still Issoudun. So they apparently considered the result of the attempts to use the Tanshui (or whatever the de-facto regime in Taipei wants to have it called) facility as insufficient. And in effect they also kept in Europe Russian on shortwave while sacrificing English and Spanish (Kai Ludwig, March 31, dxldyg via DXLD) [and non] A-15 of R. Taiwan Int. in Spanish, Russian, German, French: 0200-0300 on 11920 YFR 500 kW / 140 deg to SoAm Spanish 0300-0400 on 7730 YFR 100 kW / 222 deg to MEXI Spanish 1100-1200 on 11985 TSH 300 kW / 002 deg to NEAs Russian 1400-1500 on 9590 TSH 300 kW / ??? deg to CeAs Russian 1700-1800 on 11955 ISS 500 kW / 055 deg to EaEu Russian, not TSH 1900-2000 on 6185 WOF 250 kW / 078 deg to WeEu German 1900-2000 on 7325 WOF 250 kW / 140 deg to WeEu French R. Taiwan Inter in Russian on March 29: 1400-1500 on 9590 TSH 300 kW / ??? deg to CeAs 1700-1800 on 11955 ISS 500 kW / 055 deg to EaEu, not TSH http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/radio-taiwan-international-in-russian_29.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via DXLD) ** TAIWAN [non]. Beginning April 18th, 2015 PCJ Radio International will have a week of programs broadcast to Europe. The one hour transmissions will be our service to the Pacific. Time: 2000-2100 UT Schedule: April 18 - The Happy Station Show April 19 - The Stuph File Program April 20 - Focus Asia Pacific/Switzerland In Sound April 21 - Jazz For The Asking April 22 - Nash Holos April 23 - Focus Asia Pacific/Vintage Media Network April 24 - Media Network Plus/Special Program Special QSLs will be issued for the transmissions. Frequency: TBA in the next few days (Keith Perron, April 1, dxldyg v ia DXLD) ** THAILAND. HSK9, R. Thailand from the PRD of the NBT, A-15 English: 0000-0100 & 0200-0230 15590; 0530-0600 17640; 1230-1300 & 1400-1430 & 1900-2000 & 2030-2045 9390 (extracted by gh from HFCC-15 for WORLD OF RADIO 1767, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [and non]. 4820, April 1 at 1246, poor signal with het on hi side, 1248 could be in Chinese. 4920, April 1 at 1248, poor broadcast signal. Both these could be Lhasa, the latter in Tibetan; or both could be AIR INDIA, Kolkata and Chennai respectively, all scheduled on air at this time, as the two giant neighbors cannot or will not agree to use non-conflicting 60mb frequencies. The 4820+ het could be India, which typically wanders off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. 15525, April 1 at 1406, presumed V. of Tibet via MADAGASCAR, poor-fair, and as expected, jumps to 15530 at 1407:04 to avoid Chicom jamming; but none heard here before or after on either frequency. So no change in this from B-14 to A-15. No OOB CNR1 jammers found propagating before 1400 in a 12-18 MHz scan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY [and non]. 11980, March 30 at 0549, Turkish music, fair- good, as TRT has made its usual switch to summer frequency until 0557, ex-9700, which is now reoccupied by Romania in English for A-15. 11980 now scheduled 04-06 at 310 degrees to W Europe, and consequently N America beyond, a good source for late-night musical accompaniment, with reception expected to improve (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13635. 1023-1200. March 29. New A15 frequency for TRT, as per HFCC; in Turkish, with play, soft and pop Turkish music, news, promo ad for Istanbul, full music ID at 1200. SIO 343. April 1. Strong this time, with soft and pop music, IDs. 73s (Marty Delfín (Madrid, Spain), DX- 440, telescopic antenna; Sony ICF-SW77, telescopic, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UGANDA. 4976, Radio Uganda, Kampala, 1945-2010, 25-03, English, comments. 24322. 4976, Radio Uganda, Kampala, 1940-2040, 01-04, English, news and comments. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Grundig Satellit 500, Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Tecsun PL-880, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [and non]. BBCWS now has the A-15 frequency schedule online: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2x9tqt6mc05vB2S37j8MWMJ/global-short-wave-frequencies Looks like there are a few transmitter hours cut for SE and E Asia (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, March 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The B14 version is available here for comparison. http://www.bclnews.it/?p=12824 At a quick glance the amount of time on air seems the same but sometimes with 1 less frequency at the same time (Stephen Cooper, ibid.) A-15 BBC, cancelled 2 morning broadcasts in Urdu, now only one 1500- 1600 on 9510, 11730, 12075, 11910, 17790 (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) The Urdu programme seems to be the entire programme cut and not just SW. It`s not longer listed here https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=ur&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Furdu%2Findepth%2Fradio&edit-text=&act=url= Seems to have been cut around the 10th March (Stephen Cooper, ibid.) BBC Urdu still heard at 1530 on 9920 11910 and 12065 March 28. Regards (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, ibid.) Sorry, I should have said just the morning programme cut (Stephen, ibid.) ** U K [and mostly non]. Early A-15 observations of BBCWS: 2300 March 28: Nothing heard on any of the listed frequencies. 0000 March 29: 9410 Thailand fair, listenable but becomes weaker towards 0030; 12095 Singapore poor. 0345 check: Just faint flutter on 9440 and 12095, both Oman. 0400: 7360 Meyerton fair with some slop from Marti jammer 5kHz up; 12095 Oman fair to good; 13660 Oman poor; 15420 Dhabayya very poor. 0500: 5875 Ascension fair; 6005 Ascension good; 6190 Meyerton barely there; 7445 Ascension very good but some splatter from WRMI 10 kHz up; 11945 Meyerton poor and fluttery; 15420 Dhabayya barely there. 0600: 7445 Ascension good, 9410 Meyerton nothing heard; 12095 Meyerton very poor; 13580 Madagascar NOT heard, something else on frequency or MGLOB with wrong feed?, 15105 Woofferton very poor. And a few more, listening at 0700 March 29: BBCWS: 11770 Ascension fair but choppy; 12095 Ascension good; 13580 Madagascar NOT heard, still sounds like something else on frequency; 13660 Ascension poor; 17830 Meyerton poor (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, March 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re 13580 Madagascar NOT heard: New A-15 is NOT in effect totally y e t, due of US IBB winter B-14 outlets reach far into our UT Sunday morning. Still heard B-14 IBB Mashaal Radio on 13580 kHz via Nauen site in 5-9 UT slot, S=9+50 powerhouse or -25dBm Pashto language signal. 15560 is CRI 500 kW powerhouse Xian in Mandarin from 0800 UT now. (Wolfgang Büschel, March 29, ibid.) 7445, March 30 at 0553, BBCWS in English is VG, awaiting Nigerian elexion results. Was already here in B-14 but continues in A-15, 05-07 via ASCENSION, but with beam switch at 06 from 102 to 65 degrees, which lessens signal here off the back (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13660 a terrible nice mixture here on co-channel CRI English and BBCWS Ascension 07-08 UT ASC at 55 degrees towards West Africa target, CRI Xian at 500 kW 200 degrees towards SoEaAS and Ceylon southern subcontinent target. same equal signal level both, 0725 UT March 30 (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) OMAN/SINGAPORE, 11675, punchy signal of BBCWS from A'Seela Oman relay site, 11675 1500-1600 30S,39NE,40 SLA 250kW 320degr English OMA BBC BAB, some live sports transmission, Kricket ball game transmission in front of 93.000 people audience in downunder Australia. And now at 1525 UT also 11890 kHz BBCWS from Singapore Kranji site 1400-1700 41,42SW SNG 250kW 315 degrees [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, March 29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DXLD) The BBC's extra broadcasts to West Africa during the Ebola crisis have now ended. 12095 and 9915 now close at 2200 instead of 0000 GMT since yesterday (Monday). Service launched on 22nd September according to http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2014/ebola-radio-network and was M-F only (Stephen Cooper, UK, March 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11945, BBCWS news at 1903 UT April 1, from which transmission site, extended Singapore Kranji schedule? I see no request registration at the ITU/HFCC yet, after NHK Issoudun left the channel at their 17-19 UT usage. Any information idea? (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) BBC World Service for Vanuatu on new frequency from today April 1: 1900-2000 NF 11945 SNG 250 kW / 135 deg to VUT English, ex 9855 from Apr 1 – 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, ibid.] See also VANUATU [non] BBC WS via KTWR --- BBC WS special service for Vanuatu. At 0900-1000 UT on 11695 on Mon to Fri via KTWR Guam. Good signal in Japan (S. Hasegawa, Japan, March 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) New relay site; Don`t recall KTWR ever relaying anyone else; presumably short-term availability (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** U S A. Any FCC plans for LW? - I have been reading for some time the LW non-directional beacons are being phased out, and wondered if anyone here has heard what might get that spectrum. I can hear 5-7 LW broadcasters from Europe most nights. Just wondering what might take over LW in the USA (FARMERIK, 31 Mar, ABDX via DXLD) I heard a wild rumor that the FAA was ordering all NDBs on the LW band to go silent by the end of next year. Not sure who I heard that from, but after talking to several DXers here in the Midwest a few weeks ago, I've been told that is not going to be an "all at once" thing and it's not going to happen by the end of next year. As far as what will eventually go in there, it's hard to say. Being in the landlocked middle of the US, I'm too far away to hear any TAs or TPs on longwave. 73, (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, EN21af http://www.dxworld.com/bcblog.html http://www.dxworld.com/ndblog.html ibid.) ** U S A. 7280.0, March 27 at 0545, huge AM signal with VG modulation too, from W0VMC, Robert, closing QSO with motto ``may the fleas from a thousand camels fly up your armpits``, some deep fades and selective distortion which SSB would avoid. Was in contact with KZ9TJE, Tim, weaker but also AM. W0VMC is stronger than Algeria via France on 7295- AM. QRZ.com lookups: W0VMC, Robert M Smith, 661 Polk St Croix Rd, New Richmond, WI 54017. But there is no KZ9TJE; maybe it was KC9TJE? No fonetix. But she`s a Jennifer, not a Tim. O well (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. VOA Radiogram, Mar 28-29: faster and faster text - -- For this weekend’s VOA Radiogram, 28-29 March 2015, please download Fldigi 3.22.06 from http://w1hkj.com/download.html We will try two of the new 8PSK modes with forward error correction (FEC). These are available in 3.22.06. The FEC built into 8PSK125F and 8PSK250F might help these modes survive the rigors of shortwave, despite their fast speed. This weekend’s program (program 104) will transmit the same 724-word news story about social media in Africa in five different modes, each increasing in speed, until MFSK32 resumes to close the show … 2:53 MFSK32 (120 wpm)* 12:18 MFSK64 (250 wpm)* 18:05 8PSK125F (317 wpm) 20:55 MFSK128 (480 wpm)* 25:17 8PSK250F (635 wpm) 26:51 MFSK32: Closing announcements 27:33 MFSK32: Bonus image of solar eclipse * with image It is likely that decoding errors will be seen as the modes increase in speed. Nevertheless, please stay tuned until the closing announcements and image in MFSK32. VOA Radiogram transmission schedule (all days and times UT): Sat 0930-1000 5910 kHz* Sat 1600-1630 17860 kHz Sun 0230-0300 5745 kHz Sun 1930-2000 15670 kHz All via the Edward R. Murrow transmitting station in North Carolina. * This will change to 5745 kHz beginning 4 April 2015. The Mighty KBC will transmit a minute of MFSK64 Saturday at about 1230 UTC on 6095 kHz and Sunday at about 0130 UTC on 7375 kHz. Both frequencies are via Germany. The last KBC Saturday broadcast on 6095 kHz will be 28 March. KBC will continue Sundays at 0900-1600 UTC on 6095 kHz. AndFlmsg. If you have an Android device, please try the free beta Android app AndFlmsg from http://www.w1hkj.com/vk2eta/ Although AndFlmsg is designed for Flmsg forms, it also decodes plain text (non-Flmsg) content. Swipe AndFlmsg until you reach the modem screen, the one with the W.Fall On/Off button bottom right. Acoustic coupling — radio speaker near the Android device’s built-in mic — usually works well. http://voaradiogram.net/post/114721127912/voa-radiogram-28-29-march-2015-will-try-the-new (Kim Elliott, dxldyg via DXLD) 2:53 MFSK32 (120 wpm)* no errors, not a problem 12:18 MFSK64 (250 wpm)* no errors, not a problem 18:05 8PSK125F (317 wpm) slower than MFSK128 and yet significant problems, unusable for intercontinental shortwave 20:55 MFSK128 (480 wpm)* no errors, not a problem, very robust faster mode 25:17 8PSK250F (635 wpm) error rate high, mode not worth discussing http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2015-03-28.htm + WRMI-datacast 9955 kHz (Roger, March 31, ibid.) ** U S A. VOA, 17895, 3/27/15, 1540 UT, good reception listening to Border Crossings, a music request program with shout-outs to listeners and a T-shirt giveaway contest. At 1558 the broadcast abruptly ended and a short time thereafter programming resumed (possibly a different transmitter site) but with an echo-like quality; 1600 with news headlines (Larry Zamora, Garland, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) From São Tomé to Vatican per final Aoki B-14 sked. Now in A-15 HFCC it`s 15-16 only, via Botswana. Greenville B is now on 17895 at 1730- 1830 in English, presumably the Zimbabwe service, not all English (gh, DXLD) 11990, March 29 at 1421, VOA Korean on new frequency, into music, good signal here, better than another new //, 11935 but which is not synchronized. HFCC A-15 shows: 11990 is 250 kW at 21 degrees from Tinang, PHILIPPINES at 12-15 11935 is 250 kW at 333 degrees from TINIAN at 13-15 7460, March 30 at 1336, VOA Korean with song not in English, very good but with SSB ACI, probably a MARS net; // and synchronized with 11990, then talks about civil rights, also // weaker 11935 not synch. 7460 is 21 degrees from Tinang, PHILIPPINES at 12-15, just as I suspected, since its 21-degree beam also shoves good signals into North America far beyond Korea (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. IBB SOLICITATION FOR RELAY SITES Wednesday, April 1, 2015 2:05 PM == Glenn, FYI https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=529b1264666ae00942ad13d894265d50&tab=core&_cview=0 73/ben (Ben Dawson, WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This is extremely tough reading, full of legalese governmental requirements. You need to link to the second document at the bottom for more specifix, Shortwave Addendum, which contains times, frequencies and targets to be fulfilled. This is to start June 1, 2015. https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=7dca9c6e69239ef9d37de9ca360a0f96 One can`t help but wonder whether this solicitation is routine, or presages closure of more and more of IBB`s own relay sites! (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Just refer to pages 24 to 27 of the Shortwave_Addendum_Final_03302015.docx file. Routinely renewal of the existing transmission contracts with Media Broadcast, Babcock and Sentech. Just the specific providers may change. Or, perhaps, one of them no longer wants to provide this service. I.e.: What's up with Sentech, why came the use of their transmitters by RFI to an end now? And if you ever wondered why additional BBG transmissions, started at short notice, always go out via own IBB facilities: This is the answer as well. They're simply unable to book airtime from third parties so quickly. Their strategy is not to replace own facilities by leased ones, rather the other way round: It is planned to further expand the Kuwait site to up to ten transmitters to replace more of these external leases (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO ADDED TO DISHNUTS WEBCAST We're set to start you from 0130 UT Saturday Apr. 11 with a repeat at 1330 UT Tuesdays. Webpage with listen links is http://www.dishnuts.net Should listeners want to interact, we use IRC at irc.dishnuts.net#skyscanner and the main audio feed for winamp and similar players is http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2.m3u The webcast of which WOR will be a part begins at 2300 UT Fridays. Archival audio is here http://gamebird.ehhh.us/archive/ray.php (Ray T. Mahorney, WA4WGA, March 28, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tnx, Ray! (gh) WORLD OF RADIO 1766 monitoring: confirmed Friday March 27 at 2130.6 via WRMI 15770 and now much noisier 7570. Next: Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1000 WRMI 5850 Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2130 Global 24 9525 via BULGARIA [last week confirmed in Europe, Japan; note time change; NEW] Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 [last week at 0344 was error] Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [time shift for DST] Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [time shift for DST] Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1767 if ready in time] ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1766 monitoring: confirmed on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, UT Sunday March 29 from 0315. Also confirmed Saturday March 28 at 2130 on Global 24 via 9525 BULGARIA: see previous report: Next: Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [time shift for DST] Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [time shift for DST] Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1767 if ready in time] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Atsuhisa Kageyama" Date: Mar 28, 2015 11:10 PM Subject: Reception Reports & QSLs Message Body: Your Name/Tu Nombre : Atsuhisa Kageyama Your Mailing Address/Tu Dirección Postal : 1-5-5-505 Tenno, Ibaraki- city, Osaka, 567-0876, JAPAN Date of Reception/Fecha de Recepción (UTC): March 28th, 2015 Time of Reception/Hora de Recepción (UTC): 2115-2200 Frequency/Frecuencia (kHz): 9525 kHz Program name and/or details/Nombre del programa y/o detalles: Global 24 News from 2115 to 2130 UT. World of Radio from 2131 to 2200 UT Reception quality/Calidad de recepción: From 2115 to 2145 SINPO=35333 From 2145 to 2200, SINPO=34333 Comments about our programming/Comentarios sobre nuestra programación: Your News and DX News programs were so nice for me. They were very useful information for me. Especially, World of Radio by Glenn Hauser was very good. Additional Comments/Comentarios Adicionales: I mailed by International Airmail today. I sent $3 by the airmail. Please wait the arrival of the mail. Thank you very much for reading this comments. -- This e-mail was sent from a contact form on about.global24radio http://about.global24radio.com (via Jeff Demers, Global 24, DXLD) March 28: Global 24, World of Radio 1766 in English to EaEu 2132 on 9525 Secretbrod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AKYoRlfZBc&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) WORLD OF RADIO 1766 monitoring: confirmed Sunday March 29 at 2300 still on 11580, only fair here with deep fades. Transmitter #9 here remains on 44 degree azimuth, so should be good in Europe, but almost off the side toward here. (Meanwhile other WRMI frequencies on more favorable beams are much stronger at same time: 5850, 315 degrees, good with Global 24 oldtime radio; 11825, 355 degrees, very good with `Jazz from the Left` --- these are weekends only. 9955 has wall-of-noise jamming, 7570 with the Brother Scare moanin` & groanin` hour). At 0130 March 30 I noticed that there was no signal on 5110, boding ill for next airing of WOR on WBCQ. Yes, no signal at 0306 either, but WOR confirmed starting at 0300 on Area 51 webcast. I ask Larry Will, and he explains ``The transmitter was down last night; it appears the exciter is having issues.`` Next: Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [time shift for DST] Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [time shift for DST] Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1767 if ready in time] WORLD OF RADIO 1766 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday April 1 at 1315 on WRMI 9955, sufficient, no jamming, but usual RTTY on hi side to avoid. Also confirmed Wednesday April 1 at 2100 on webcast of WBCQ; a few minutes later can detect a JBA carrier on 7490v. Also confirmed UT Thursday April 2 at 0350 on WRMI 9955, good signal, as 1767 is not yet ready. Also presumed one more repeat on 9955, April 2 at 1230 as 1767 is still not ready. WORLD OF RADIO 1767 monitoring: finished and uploaded by 2118 UT April 2, so first SW airing will be Friday 2130: Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 & 7570 Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [time shift for DST] Sat 1000 WRMI 5850 Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [time shift for DST] Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2130 Global 24 9525 via BULGARIA [last week; but unconfirmed for this week; time/frequency may change] Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 [SW not on air last week but webcast] Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1768 if ready in time] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. Global 24 programming thru March 30 Note that WORLD OF RADIO via Bulgaria 9525 will be at 2130 UT Saturday instead of 2100 last week. Also new relays via SWEDEN, q.v. Glenn Programming Schedule for 3/25 – 3/30 By admin In Uncategorized Posted March 24, 2015 No Comments * Please check this schedule regularly for updates March 24, 2015 2300 UTC on 5850 kHz (North America) – Democracy Now! March 25, 2015 2300 UTC on 5850 kHz (North America) – Democracy Now! March 26, 2015 2300 UTC on 5850 kHz (North America) – Democracy Now! March 27, 2015 2300 UTC on 5850 kHz (North America) – Democracy Now! March 28, 2015 1600-1630 UTC on 6065, 9865 kHz (Europe) – Global 24 News 1630-1700 UTC on 6065, 9865 kHz (Europe) – Blues Radio International 1700-1800 UTC on 6065, 9865 kHz (Europe) – Jazz from the Left (Hour 1) 1800-1900 UTC on 6065, 9865 kHz (Europe) – Jazz from the Left (Hour 2) 1900-2000 UTC on 6065, 9865 kHz (Europe) – Jazz from the Left (Hour 3) 1800-1900 UTC on 9525 kHz (Europe, Middle East, Asia) – The Rock Pile (Hour 1) 1900-2000 UTC on 9525 kHz (Europe, Middle East, Asia) – The Rock Pile (Hour 2) 2000-2100 UTC on 9525 kHz (Europe, Middle East, Asia) – Blues Radio International 2100-2130 UTC on 9525 kHz (Europe, Middle East, Asia) – Global 24 News 2130-2200 UTC on 9525 kHz (Europe, Middle East, Asia) – World of Radio 2200-2203 UTC on 11825 kHz (North America, Europe) – News Headlines 2203- 2300 UTC on 11825 kHz (North America, Europe) – The Rock Pile (Hour 1) 2300- 2303 UTC on 11825 kHz (North America, Europe) – The Rock Pile (Hour 1) 2303-0000 UTC on 11825 kHz (North America, Europe) -The Rock Pile (Hour 2) 2300-0000 UTC on 5850 kHz (North America) – Old Time Radio March 29, 2015 0000-0003 UTC on 11825 kHz (North America, Europe) – News Headlines 0003-0013 UTC on 11825 kHz (North America, Europe) – EU News Network 0013-0030 UTC on 11825 kHz (North America, Europe) – Global 24 News 0030-0100 UTC on 11825 kHz(North America, Europe) – Blues Radio International 0100-0103 on 11825 kHz (North America, Europe) – News Headlines 0103-0200 on 11825 kHz (North America, Europe) – The Travel with Rick Steves Show 2200-2300 on 11825 kHz (North America, Europe) – Jazz from the Left (Hour 1) 2300-0000 on 11825 kHz (North America, Europe) – Jazz from the Left (Hour 2) 2300-2303 on 5850 kHz (North America) – News Headlines 2303-0000 on 5850 kHz (North America) – Explorations with Dr. Michio Kaku March 30, 2015 0000-0100 on 11825 kHz (North America, Europe) – Jazz from the Left (Hour 3) 0100-0200 on 11825 kHz (North America, Europe) – Classics and Beyond 2300-0000 on 5850 kHz (North America) – Democracy Now! See more at: http://about.global24radio.com/#sthash.YPi1Xw1E.dpuf Posted by: (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via DXLD) 5850, March 31 at 2355, Global 24 via WRMI continues during the 23-24 hour only on weekdays, but it`s a good one: `Democracy Now`, which now has coverage filling in numerous radio gaps, including Oklahoma. WRMI 11825 now off the air at this hour except weekends with Global 24 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17790, March 27 at 1425, no signal from RAN via WRMI. Should have been audible, like 17730 Cuba, 17775 California, 17840 Romania. 11920, March 29 at 0111, Family Radio in Spanish, fair; new A-15 WRMI sked shows this at 01-02, plus RTI Spanish at 02-03 (and another Taiwan Spanish at 03-04 on 7730). At 0225, 11920 is fair-good airing Chinese lesson for Spanish speakers. 11825, UT Sun March 29 at 0112, `Travel with Rick Steves`, which is Global 24 via WRMI, VG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 5850, March 29 at 0553, very surprised to encounter ``radiogram`` beeping on this WRMI frequency, instead of TruNews, which continues on 7455 and 9395. 0554 followed by more melodic intoning, and synthetic voice announcement of address QSL@STFradio.com and postal address for Capibara Games Inc., in Toronto. More tones follow, 0559:30 cut to classic WRMI ID, 0600 into ME fill music (a CD Jeff picked up in Oman??) rather than back to TruNews. Signal VG as usual on this frequency. Meanwhile, adjacent 5855 Cuban numbers transmitter was open carrier/dead air at 0553, by 0600 YL started voice numbers. It too would include `radiogram` digital modes. What companionship. We had seen absolutely no advance publicity about another STF special broadcast, maybe started at 0500? Was it on WRMI`s Facebook where station news sometimes appears exclusively? NO. [a mistake, or test?] Meanwhile, WRMI has made a number of schedule changes, and the new A- 15 transmitter/frequency grid in UT is up at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nEVwCMB9RSKowLzLXamyayVpCzjmPAw_SB1r3YOdzQc/edit?pli=1#gid=0 Among other things, note that 11580 and 15770 are no longer 24 hours, but still on partly with TOM and as previously with other programming, including WORLD OF RADIO Sunday at 2300 on 11580, Friday at 2130 on 15770 (also 7570). Revised program schedule for 9955 presented in EDT = UT -4: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AivhtkIEGb3_dENObnZrMkt1YmtUWGxkbkd3TGNzOXc&hl=en#gid=0 9955 is off the air again at 1429 check March 29. The program sked shows TOM is still supposed to be on 9955 at 14-21! No mention of webcast only during the daytime; but the frequency sked does show a 9955 gap at 14-21 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. LOG: 9955 kHz 10.14z WRMI O=2 MFSK-32 Pic <<2015-03-28T10:14Z MFSK-32 @ 9955000+2000>> Sending Pic:95x65C; http://www.rhci-online.net/files/pic_2015-03-28_101429z.png ==== animation ====> http://www.rhci-online.net/files/pic_2015-03-28_101429z-animation-.gif =============================================================== - very weak signal - decoding only with SAM-LSB in STUDIO1, bandpass 700 Hz - IC-R75 hybrid + dipol 7 MHz =============================================================== roger http://www.rhci-online.de/files/show_pattern.htm#wrmi Posted by: (Roger March 28, dxldyg via DXLD) This is the first we had heard about WRMI radiogram ID tests (gh) Viz: WRMI, Radio Miami International, 9955 kHz, will transmit IDs in digital modes this weekend 2015-03-28+29+30 UTC Day UT Time Center audio frequency Mode Saturday 1014:30 2000 Hz MFSK32 image Saturday 2129:30 2000 Hz MFSK16 Sunday 0129:30 2000 Hz MFSK32 Sunday 0329:30 1500 Hz Olivia 32-2000 Sunday 1039:30 2000 Hz MFSK32 image Sunday 2259:30 2000 Hz MFSK16 Monday 0059:00 2000 Hz MFSK32 Monday 0329:00 1500 Hz Olivia 32-2000 Reports to Jeff at info@wrmi.net (via Roger, dxldyg via DXLD) LOG: 9955 kHz 22.59z WRMI MFSK-16 32332 RSID: <<2015-03-29T22:59Z MFSK-16 @ 9955000-2000>> [Audio O=1-2, LSB, jammed by CUBA] WRMI Radio Miami International info@wrmi.net http://www.wrmi.net http://www.rhci-online.net/files/2015-03-29_2259z_WRMI_MFSK-16_jammed.gif (roger, Germany, March 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See it: Jamming pattern inspired by Cuban flag? (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. (5110), WBCQ not on air, but 0259 UT March 30 I bring up the webcast to check on WORLD OF RADIO (which is back on at proper time this week). I just hear the outro not by John Lightning, but ``Dave`` ending a ``tribute to Big Steve`` --- oh, oh. That would be Big Steve Cole, from whom we have not heard for several years. I ask Larry Will: ``What was that? Not on the worldmicroscope schedule as such. I also see there was a John H Carver BBQ last night. Wonder what that was, something he produced? 73, Glenn`` Larry replies: ``John Lightning's show was hosted by Dave the Boogie Man last night. Big Steve Cole passed away Sunday afternoon after a long illness. John has a nice tribute on his web site http://www.johnlightning.com John Carver didn't produce a show for us, but he did inspire the Saturday 0300 Grateful Dead-themed show. Regards, Lw`` (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: « TONIGHT’S BROADCAST? BIG STEVE COLE 12/17/47 to 03/29/15 My longtime broadcasting comrade, and one of the best friends a man can have, Big Steve Cole, ‘THE BIG GUY’ (AKA: Stephen Coletti) passed away earlier this day. Stephen had been ill for quite some time, and frankly, I was glad to see his suffering end, and I was there to see him out. The ‘Big Guy’ as we affectionately knew him, was a part of the original Radio NewYork International staff during our initial legal broadcasting phase on WWCR, where he did his DX’er show. He first came to my attention as a listener to my pirate station WJPL FM, and other pirates such as WHOT, and WFUN, the big guns of the day. As a caller, he expressed interest in meeting me, as he was another radio wanna be, just as I was, when I first began calling WHOT, and made friends with the fine folks who ran it, and now run the Hank & Jim Radio Network. Upon meeting him, I came to the suspect conclusion that ‘Hey this guy seems to be okay’. I then invited him down to our pirated den in Brooklyn, and Steve, a radio techie, began his journey into pirate radio history, and a contributor to 11L Network programming. Steve became a valued member of the 11L/RNI staff, who I happily beat over the head, made fun of, and generally harassed for the better part of damn near 25 years. I had fun, and often at his expense. Steve also spent many years displaying his truly encyclopedic knowledge of 50’s music, Doo Wop in particular, on The Doo Wop Cafe, where his Saturday night ‘A Different Kind Of Oldies Show’ was the Internet station’s mainstay show, until his illness made doing the show he loved, a burden. Irascible curmudgeon that he was, I loved him in spite of himself, and cliche though it may seem, I do miss him already. The Big Guy had a kind heart he kept hidden from most. Truly, he was a decent guy, who left behind a broadcasting legacy we shall keep alive, by setting up a 24/7 stream in his honor. Steve warded off the reaper for quite some time. Indeed, I had expected to be writing this brief obit a week or two ago. But that indomitable human spirit to live, thwarted his expressed desire to just bring the curtain down on the agony that most of his final months were. For all the time I spent laying into him, which is what I do, I loved my Big Guy, and the repartee between us, that made so many of our broadcast so oddly entertaining. I hope the work we did together brought him the happiness the man deserved.`` with portrait of BSC: http://i965.photobucket.com/albums/ae131/Johnplightning/SDC12849_zpsfwi1uxfh.jpg (via DXLD) I didn`t hear it but someone did: Saturday evening March 28 on WBCQ, TimTron's show had an interview with the late Ed Bolton, telling about the woman in the beauty salon who was trimming his toenails and showing her breasts, which apparently got him in trouble with the law (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. UZBEKISTAN vs USA CVC The Voice Asia vs KVOH Voice of Hope on March 28: 0100-0400 9975 TAC 100 kW / 186 deg SoAs Hindi CVC The Voice Asia 0100-0400 9975 VOH 050 kW / 100 deg CeAm English KVOH Voice of Hope http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/cvc-voice-asia-vs-kvoh-voice-of-hope-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via DXLD) And the confrontation, or should I say, share, is to continue in HFCC A-15 registrations. KVOH can generally override CVC in North America, and perhaps the same is true of Tashkent into India. 17775, March 26 at 1353, very weak music, presumably KVOH doing a prélude as not officially opening until 1400; by 1410 it`s the usual bigsig (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) KVOH, 17775, 3/27/15, 1525 UT, good reception listening to a Spanish program, Frecuencia al Dia. Sounded like a DX program. They played a few short wave audio clips; ID at 1530 (Larry Zamora, Garland, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17775, March 30 at 1355, KVOH is already on early with praise music, and what`s more, already propagating well as SSOB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7505+, March 27 at 0146, no signal from WRNO when it is nominally on during prime-time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) {on March 31 on 7505.372 kHz} wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. 9840, March 29 at 1428, YL gospel huxter in English, poor signal made worse by het from perpetually off-frequency VIETNAM, as WHRI has never figured out this could be a problem; it registers 9840 available for very long hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNIDENTIFIED 6360 ** U S A. WHRI 1 at new time and WHRI 2 with wrong winter frequency announcement: WHRI Angel 1 0900-1000 on 11565 HRI 250 kW / 245 deg to AUS English Mon-Fri,x 0800-0900 WHRI Angel 2 0445-0500 on 11635 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg to WeEu English Sat Eternal Good News 0500-0600 on 11635 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg to WeEu English Sat-Thu 0500-0515 on 11635 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg to WeEu French Fri 0515-0600 on 11635 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg to WeEu English Fri http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/whri-1-at-new-time-whri-2-with-wrong.html (Ivo Ivanov, March 31, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. March 28: WTWW 1, Scriptures For America in English to ENAm 0304 on 9475 Lebanon, instead of 5830 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUPsuaqyza8&feature=youtu.be WTWW 1, Scriptures For America in English to ENAm 0310 on 5830 Lebanon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so6SFap3rvM&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) 5830, March 30 at 0557 as I tune across here, WTWW-1 is missing, but within seconds pops back on during a manly song; it seems any female voices are banned from SFAW, even as psychophants. Slight carrier wobble with BFO. No telling how long it had been off. 12105, March 31 at 1941, WTWW-3, Bible story in English with dramatic music, VG signal, contrary to nominal schedule of Spanish this hour. Recheck 2006 now it`s in Brazuguese, scheduled as Portuguese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: no female voices on WTWW's Scriptures for America programming, PPP would probably cite: 1 Timothy 2: 9-15 (NASB) which says: "Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments, but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness. A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness. But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve. And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman (Eve) being deceived, fell into transgression. But women will be preserved through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with self- restraint." While others may look at these verses a bit differently (see for example, 1 Timothy 2:12 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Timothy_2:12 PPP would have seen women's place in the church as that of teaching OTHER WOMEN how they are supposed to behave in a Godly manner as opposed to challenging the authority of their male folk or the authority of God Himself. He was far more of a 'traditionalist' than, say, Dr. Gene Scott (University Network, on Caribbean Beacon and a WWCR frequency) on this issue. While Gene 'authorized' Melissa to continue his ministry shortly before he died, PPP (whose second wife, Nancy, whom he married in 2002 after his first wife, Cheri died of cancer in 1998) would not have allowed Nancy to take over the ministry. For more on this, see Nancy's own comments in http://www.sfaw.org/newsletters/2011/Volume%207%202011%20for%20web.pdf (Shawn Fahrer, NY, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. March 31 at 1943, I notice that WTWW 9475 is audibly much weaker than neighbor in TN, WWCR 9980, which continues to blast in despite some daytime absorption affecting other USA 30-31 mb signals (and suspected mostly running underpowered, too, and/or unfavorable antennas). So just for comparison, on the PL-880 with a few meters of random wire, I take dbu readings for them all within a few minutes at 1949-1956 UT, rearranged from weakest to strongest: 9515, 18-20, no signal measuring noise floor 9395, 20-26, WRMI 9265, 23-30, WINB 9840, 28-36, WHRI 9370, 27-47, WWRB 9475, 30-49, WTWW 10000, 50-53, WWV --- note steadiest and second strongest, only 10 kW 9980, 58-65, WWCR 9955, 20-24, no signal from WRMI or jamming, noise floor here (Greenville/Martí doesn`t start until 2000; WBCQ still silent on 9330) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Hello everyone, While tuning the 19 meter band around 1700 UT, I noticed that WWCR 15825 splatters around 15650 and also 16000 kHz. I used my Tecsun PL 600 to see what broadcast did this on my Icom ICR 8500 and it does match WWCR on 15825. The 15650 goes to S8 and 16000 goes to S5. I checked back about 90 minutes later and found that they were not there anymore. Maybe the signal of WWCR was weaker. It's the first time that I come across this splatter. 73's (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada http://www.youtube.com/officialswlchannel March 26, dxldyg via DXLD) I have also reported these a few times, heard only when the 15825 signal is extremely strong (which it has not been lately). Also look for second order ones at double the displacement (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Frequency change or wrong frequency of WWCR-1 from March 30 0900-1000 NF 15825 100 kW / 046 deg to WeEu English, ex 15795 1000-1100 NF 15825 100 kW / 046 deg to WeEu Russian Sat, ex 15795 1000-1100 NF 15825 100 kW / 046 deg to WeEu English Sun-Fri, ex 15795 1100-1115 NF 15825 100 kW / 046 deg to WeEu English, ex 15795 1115-1130 NF 15825 100 kW / 046 deg to WeEu Arabic Mon-Fri, ex 15795 1115-1145 NF 15825 100 kW / 046 deg to WeEu English Sat/Sun, ex 15795 1130-1145 NF 15825 100 kW / 046 deg to WeEu Russian Mon-Fri, ex 15795 1145-1200 NF 15825 100 kW / 046 deg to WeEu English, ex 15795, videos http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/frequency-change-or-wrong-frequency-of.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via DXLD) ** U S A. New summer A-15 of EWTN Global Catholic Radio: WEWN-1 plus videos: 0000-0900 11520 250 kW / 085 deg to WeAf English 0900-1300 11520 250 kW / 355 deg to SEAs English, ex 0900-1200 A-14 1300-1500 15610 250 kW / 355 deg to SEAs English, ex to N/ME in A-14 1500-1900 15610 250 kW / 040 deg to N/ME English, ex 1200-1800 A-14 1900-2400 15610 250 kW / 085 deg to WeAf English, ex to N/ME in A-14 WEWN-2: 0000-1000 11870 250 kW / 155 deg to SoAm Spanish 1000-1700 12050 250 kW / 155 deg to SoAm Spanish 1700-2400 13830 250 kW / 155 deg to SoAm Spanish WEWN-3: 0000-0500 5810 250 kW / 220 deg to MEX Spanish 0500-1300 7555 250 kW / 220 deg to MEX Spanish, ex 0500-1200 A-14 1300-1800 11550 250 kW / 220 deg to MEX Spanish, ex 1200-1800 A-14 1800-2400 12050 250 kW / 220 deg to MEX Spanish http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/04/summer-15-of-ewtn-global-catholic-radio.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 650, March 28 at 1855 UT on caradio, finding that IBOC from 640 KWPN Moore OK is off, is anything making it on 650? Yes, JBA country music! Can it be WSM Nashville, a megameter away, just a few minutes after our local mean noon? What else could it be? I stop and get out the PL-880 which fortunately I have along to check out something on SW. With BFO and rotating it, I can barely DF this 650 signal to east-west, which chex for WSM. But there is also a second even weaker carrier. That would most likely be talker KGAB in SE Wyoming, which has been known barely to make it here on groundwave (if KLTT 670 Denver can, why not?). But is WSM by skywave or groundwave? D-layer absorption should be taking it out, but ground conductivity between there and here is nothing special, and I don`t even get Memphis on 560 or 600 in daytime. BTW, NRC AM Log shows there are only 7 stations on 650 in the entire conterminous US, which is about as close as we can get to a `clear` channel any more. Mandatory check of 720 as well: at 1906 UT March 28, I do have a SAH, presumably KSAH TX and WGN IL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Stations informing the FCC that they are silent: 920 KARN AR Little Rock – Silent 3/13, transmission line cut in attempted copper theft (AM Switch, NRC DX News April 6 via DXLD) +1090 ** U S A. 970, March 27 at 0134 UT, as I am concentrating on XESW, see MEXICO, some NW/SE CCI IDs in passing like KXYL. Must really have been KSYL in Alexandria LA, 1/1 kW U2. Probably the same one as at 0130 UT with ABC News, per affiliation info in NRC AM Log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Stations informing the FCC that they are silent: 1090 KAAY AR Little Rock – Silent 3/13, transmission line cut in attempted copper theft (AM Switch, NRC DX News April 6 via DXLD) + 920 ** U S A. 1150, March 28 at 0031 UT, VG signal with Yahoo Sports Radio --- surely it`s the typical night coverage of KSAL Salina KS, but not primarily a sports station. Yes, their schedule for 7-10 pm CDT weekdays just says ``Yahoo Radio Sports`` --- close. YSR is not among the numerous affiliations listed for KSAL in the 2014-2015 NRC AM Log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re: ``1240+ UNID -- 3/20 0010 [as converted to EST?] – I am still detecting a low audio het from some off-frequency graveyarder, looping WNW/ESE, a prime suspect being KCRT Trinidad CO. First noticed this in early January, and no one has replied to my inquiries. At this time 1240 caught my attention since some station had momentarily peaked covering some silly ballgame in English, maybe only Wichita. (GH-OK)`` KCRT has been reported off-frequency by John Wilkins, CO for years, most recently on 1240.19 kHz in Vol. 81 Issue 30 – DY (David Yocis, NRC DX News April 6 via DXLD) ** U S A. 1370, March 28 at 0043 UT, good signal with talk show in English, mentions Houston, loops N/S, gone by 0047 UT. Fits for KJCE Rollingwood (Austin) TX, official sunset 0045 UT in March (0100 in April), and power decimated from 5000 to 500 watts while pattern reduced from broadly northward to a bit to the northwest. (Still no sign of my nearest 1370, KGNO Dodge City KS) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1500, March 28 at 0035 UT, Spanish sermon from N/S, poor signal, attenuated KSTP no problem, but other QRM until KSTP fades up at 0041. Monolog sermon from TX points to KMXO in Merkel as in my March 24 morning log. But where is the nostalgic 1 kW and closer daytimer KJIM Sherman TX? Its March sunset was 0030 UT (April: 0100 UT). KMXO, 250 watt daytimer March sunset: 0045 UT (April: 0115 UT) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1510, KWJB, TX, Canton – Slogan to “The Bee, One Honey of a Radio Station” (Wayne Heinen, AM Switch, NRC DX News April 6 via DXLD) ** U S A. 1520, March 28 at 0027 UT, the quickly-revived KOKC OKC has heavy SAH and CCI in English from an inseparable station, presumed KYND Cypress (Houston) TX with CRI relay, 25 kW daytimer. By 0034 UT when I am still getting CRI via KGBC on 1540, the 1520 is gone leaving KOKC in the clear, so must have signed off at proper time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1520, middle eastern music --- I have been listening on 1520 and most of the night there has been Middle Eastern / Greek music on all night. It varies from very strong to faded out but at times its quite listenable. Was unable to get an ID with a terrible electrical storm with storm front passing just barely north and west of here. No English ID. Looking for ideas of who this could be other than BSKSA from Saudi (Kevin Redding, Crump, TN, 0915 UT March 26, ABDX via DXLD) I think KYND was stuck on daytime power last night. About 9 it was still saturating my CCrane EP - something it never does at night. 25 kW monster - even critical hours is 18 kW (Bruce Carter, TX, 1215 UT March 26, ibid.) Re: 1520 middle eastern music --- WXYB, 1520, Indian Rocks Beach, FL, north of St. Pete/Clearwater on the Gulf Coast has a CP for 1 kW days and 13 watts night. Licensed currently for 600 daytime watts, nothing at night. "Greek Voice Radio" I've logged them here in Palm Coast fairly well at night, matching their stream. (Just north of Daytona Beach) Sent from my iPhone (Ron Charles/Gitschier, 1225 UT March 26, ibid.) Kevin, It is most likely WXYB Indian Rocks Beach (Tampa) running 13 watts night power ND. And if you believe that. I have heard Greek at night from them (Juan Gualda, 1245 UT, ibid.) The Saudi is on 1521 and even with KOKC off, you'd have had a ripping 1 kHz het with KRHW and what ever else on 1520. Saudi is mostly talk now. Saudi would DF to your NE. Most likely WXYB. They'd DF to your SE. Sister station WPSO 1500 is easy here in IL on south antenna, esp. in AUish conditions. I had them in the mix on 1500 when driving around in the truck the other night! WPSO plays Greek music and has some talk in Greek but is mostly music at night. I've never had WXYB. I'll check my 9 pm recording. Cx were not good here in IL last night. It was semi-AU which wasn't the problem, but even normal southern stations were at least 10 dB less than they'd been a few days ago when cconditions were superb. SW winds had my power line noise up high as well. 73 KAZ Barrington IL, 1551 UT, ibid.) ** U S A. 1530, KKHI, CO, Colorado Springs – Silent 3/23 while new owners relocate main studio (AM Switch, NRC DX News April 6 via DXLD) ** U S A. 1540, March 28 at 0034 UT, discussion in English about university studies abroad for Chinese, and with that familiar Chinese accent we hear from many CRI speakers; so it`s obviously KGBC Galveston TX, likely still on 2.5 kW day power despite official sunset of 0030 UT (April: 0045 UT). It`s mostly separable from Tejano KEDA San Antonio which still dominates 1540 here at night contrary to its legal DA pattern. By 0047 UT I am ready to check for // 9570 via ALBANIA, but no more 1540 CRI, I guess finally on 250 watt night power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1590, March 28 at 0024 UT, ranchera music from NNW/SSE, or rather gospel since 0027 UT lyric includes `salvación`. Good signal overcomes birdie around here impeding daytime reception of KVGB. This points to KMIC Houston, which as in DXLD 15-04 had converted from Disney to Radio Aleluya. The hymn is cut off at 0030* UT sharp, which must have been official FCC sunset; no sign-off, not even a semi-sign- off! Yes, 0030 UT is the March SS; April: 0045 UT. At least, here`s one station which takes its responsibilities seriously, from ND day to totally direxional SE into the Gulf at night, both 5 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1590, March 29 at 0128 UT, general newscast, 0130 ``ESPN Radio`` and ``KGAS Carthage`` ID inserted, thank you very much, and into sports talk. Can we depend on all ESPN affils to ID like this on the semihour? Initially dominating from SE/NW, soon fades down as if power cut. But its official March sunset was an hour earlier at 0030 UT (April: 0045 UT). KGAS is 2500/128 watts U1. Carthage is in E Texas, just SW of Shreveport LA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1660 KXOL, Brigham City UT, weak at 1:01 am (0801 UT), 1000 W, call (new; loop), 469 miles. This had been silent, but has been reported over the last several days and I caught it without too much difficulty. The FCC site has a letter dated March 23rd stating that if they can't prove that they were on the air between November 20th, 2013 and November 21st, 2014, their license is kaput. – (Brian Rachford - Prescott, AZ, http://azswdxing.wordpress.com/ March 30, IRCA via DXLD) ** U S A. TIS Get FCC Lift --- In the same ruling the FCC specifically stated that a TIS may not relay NOAA weather radio except in times of urgent need. I know of many that relay it full time. http://www.radioworld.com/article/tis-get-fcc-lift/275274 Sent from my iPhone (Dennis Gibson, April 1, ABDX via DXLD) FCC TIS Rulings: In 2013, the FCC revised the rules governing Travelers’ Information Stations (TIS). Among the new rules were a clarification that TIS stations can only broadcast content “with a nexus to travel, an emergency, or an imminent threat of danger,” and therefore the routine rebroadcast of weather information by TIS stations is NOT permitted. Several entities requested that the FCC reconsider this rule. The FCC announced on March 26 that it will not reconsider the 2013 rule, but noted that “the TIS rules allow TIS licensees to integrate weather broadcasts into their TIS feeds during times of hazardous or potentially hazardous conditions and that the Commission affords TIS licensees substantial discretion to determine what information is relevant to such conditions.” That sounds like a lot of wiggle room, so perhaps we can still expect to hear NOAA weather rebroadcasts on TIS stations. The FCC also loosened the rules on the filtering of audio frequencies from the current minimum of 3 kHz to a new minimum of 5 kHz. The FCC believes this rule “could improve TIS audio quality to match that of AM broadcast stations, while still retaining a sufficient filtering requirement to minimize adjacent channel interference.” So maybe IDing those TIS stations will get easier (at least when they’re not relaying NOAA weather). (AM Switch, NRC DX News April 6 via DXLD) Full-time relaying of 162 MHz NWS NOAA Radio by MW TIS stations should be totally allowed and encouraged, since where`s the caradio with a 162 MHz Weather Band receiver? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. BROADCASTERS FEAR FCC SLACKING OFF PIRATE ENFORCEMENT Several broadcast engineers who contacted RW are worried about the effect that closing some field offices would have on the agency's effort to track down pirates; agents have special movable, direction-finding equipment for that. Such gear "is probably going to be missing from some markets. I don't know what their plan is to tamp [pirate activity] down if that equipment is taken away," said one broadcast source in a market slated for field office closure. Representatives of some of the affected industries are discussing their next step, such as potentially lobbying Congress to keep the field offices open, Radio World has heard. Full article at http://goo.gl/B4WM5s (From Radio World, via BernieS via FRW March 28 via DXLD) Hi Everyone, I do not know if anyone is aware that the FCC is closing more field offices and downsizing even more. The field offices in both Portland & Seattle are being done away with, stating the FCC feels they no longer needed. As one CE stated, since the cats will be away, the mice will play. Expect more stations to stay on full power and so on. On one hand, it may give the DXer a chance to log more DX (Patrick Martin, OR, NRC-AM via DXLD) NAB TO FCC: REVERSE PLAN TO CLOSE ENFORCEMENT FIELD OFFICES I'm really glad to see Bob Weller involved in this. He is a very long time ham radio friend. He is always very through and will do an excellent job of telling the FCC why NAB opposes this extremely short sighted proposal. How much good it will do remains to be seen. http://www.radioworld.com/article/nab-to-fcc-reverse-plan-to-close-enforcement-field-offices/275282 Sent from my iPhone (Dennis Gibson, March 30, ABDX via DXLD) ** URUGUAY. 6125: Current power output from the 813 tube used in their transmitter is around only 150 W approximately, per station's engineer. It's at half power from nominal output as it gets exhausted. (Horacio Nigro, Montevideo, Uruguay, March 31, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UZBEKISTAN vs USA. CVC The Voice Asia vs KVOH Voice of Hope Mar 28: 0100-0400 9975 TAC 100 kW / 186 deg to SoAs Hindi CVC The Voice Asia 0100-0400 9975 VOH 050 kW / 100 deg to CeAm English KVOH Voice of Hope http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/cvc-voice-asia-vs-kvoh-voice-of-hope-on.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via DXLD) ** VANUATU. Am 14. Mä[rz] 2015 traf der Zyklon Pam, der als womöglich stärkster jemals gemessener Tropensturm gilt, auf Vanuatu und zerstöden Inselstaat. Wie Francis Herman vom Pacific Media Assistance Scheme berichtete, sind auch die Sendeanlagen des Rundfunks weitgehend zerstört. Die Mittelwellenantennen in Port Vila und Santo sind zerstört, ebenso viele UKW-Standorte. Immerhin konnte noch am 15. März ein UKW-Sender in der Hauptstadt Port Vila wieder auf Sendung gehen. Die Kurzwellenanlage wurde so lange betrieben, wie es möglich war, und hatte auch bei der Wiederherstellung Priorität. Tatsächlich konnte die Kurzwelle 3945 kHz wieder ab dem 20. März international gehört werden. Zehn Tage nach der Katastrophe waren mit technischer Hilfe aus Australien und Neuseeland die Mittel- und Kurzwelle (1125, 1179, 3945 kHz) wiederhergestellt. Traurigerweise musste festgestellt werden, dass die Rundfunkversorgung der Inselgruppe nun besser war als seit November. Aus Neuseeland sollte bis Ende März ein weiterer neuer Sender angeliefert werden. http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/program/pacific-beat/vanuatus-radio-station-signals-including-shortwave-restored/1429177 25.3.2015 (Dr. Hansjörg Biener, ntt aktuell April via DXLD) ** VANUATU. ITU DEPLOYS EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT IN VANUATU 03/28/2015 In an effort to coordinate relief efforts in Vanuatu in the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Pam, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has deployed emergency telecommunication equipment to the Pacific Ocean island nation. The category 5 storm devastated parts of Vanuatu on March 13. The ITU has dispatched 40 satellite phones, 10 broadband global area network terminals, and 35 solar panels. “The frequency and intensity of disasters is increasing worldwide with a disproportionate impact on developing countries,” said ITU Secretary General Houlin Zhao. “ITU is encouraging governments, especially those in developing countries, to invest in telecommunication infrastructure that is resilient to disasters.” Brahima Sanou, the director of ITU’s Telecommunication Development Bureau, said the tropical storm had “paralyzed telecommunications and affected rescue and rehabilitation efforts.” He said the ITU was committed to assisting member states restore telecommunication links in the aftermath of natural disasters “to facilitate humanitarian response to support the affected populations.” Vanuatu’s Prime Minister Joe Natuman thanked the ITU for the support. He said that all 83 islands in the Vanuatu archipelago suffered substantial devastation as a result of Tropical Cyclone Pam. “As communications are down, the ITU emergency equipment, which we have received and distributed throughout the country, will help us coordinate the relief efforts as well as report the situation in outer islands,” he said. Vanuatu’s population of 267,000 is spread over 65 islands. Some 47,000 people live in the capital, Port Vila on Éfaté Island. Winds from the cyclone were estimated to have reached 155 MPH with gusts peaking at nearly 200 MPH. The storm destroyed homes, damaged infrastructure, knocked out electrical power, and left a tangle of debris in its wake. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), has estimated that 90 percent of structures on Éfaté were damaged or destroyed. More than 2000 people have taken shelter in evacuation centers. The handful of Vanuatu’s radio amateurs includes Rod Newell, YJ8RN, a native of Australia. He reported this week that while his home survived the storm with only minor damage, he still had no electrical power. He’s been getting by with a bank of solar panels and a small gasoline generator and estimated it could be several more days before electrical power is restored. Humanitarian efforts are well under way, with planes and helicopters and relief ships arriving, but Newell said it will be a long time before housing, schools, and water supplies are back to normal on Tanna, the worst-hit island. One radio amateur has put his Twin Otter aircraft to use as part of the relief efforts. Newell has set up HF radios for the local airline, the Red Cross, and the police on Tanna and on Santo to the north. The YJ0XG operation by Haru Uchida, JA1XGI, is still on schedule for April 13-19. The resort he booked suffered only minimal damage from the cyclone, although ac power is still being worked out. The ZL3X group that operated from Vanuatu last October as YJ0X has donated $1000 to the Red Cross appeal. — Thanks to the ITU, The Daily DX (via ARRL via Horacio Nigro, dxldyg via DXLD) ** VANUATU [non]. BBC WS via KTWR --- BBC WS special service for Vanuatu. 0900-1000 UT on 11695 Mon-Fri via KTWR Guam. Good signal in Japan (S. Hasegawa, Japan, March 31, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) New relay site; Don`t recall KTWR ever relaying anyone else (gh, ibid.) Special service of BBC-WS for Vanuatu 0900-1000 UT 11695 via TWR Guam-KTWR Mo-Fr 1900-2000 9855 SNG (S. Hasegawa, April 1, dxldyg via DXLD) Special frequencies of BBC World Service in English for Vanuatu 0900-1000 on 11695 TWR 100 kW / 165 deg Mo-Fr, not heard in Bulgaria 1900-2000 NF 11945 SNG 250 kW / 135 deg ex 9855 from Apr. 1, videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/04/special-frequencies-of-bbc-world.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, April 1 , dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) ** VATICAN. Strange test transmissions of Vatican Radio 9560 March 27: 0900-0915 Slovenian, 0915-0930 Armenian, 0930-0945 Portuguese, videos http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/strange-test-transmissions-of-vatican.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via DXLD) ** VATICAN [non]. 11890, March 29 at 1317, surprised to hear good signal with YL in Luso-Portuguese summarizing Pope`s Palm Sunday homily, interspersed with clips of the original in Italian. HFCC A-15 shows two Vatican Radio relays on 11890: 1228-1300 (Sat -1315) Chinese via Tinang, Philippines, and 1315-1400 daily in Vietnamese, due west from TINIAN, both USG facilities, violating Separation of Church and State; standard remarx. It should be hard to confuse Portuguese with Vietnamese! What possible target, really? Nothing but former colonies Timor, Macau, and Goa etc., in India?? Maybe a feed mixup. From now thru `Holy Week` there are bound to be special VR broadcasts, but the Hitlist link and also found on the Listen menu at http://www.radiovaticana.va/en1/palin_ing.asp namely: http://en.radiovaticana.va/trasm_spec.asp is blank tho it loads. Other pages are 404 as apparently VR has revamped their website (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 6070, March 30 at 0555, choir is atop CFRX and making fast SAH with it, as Vatican Radio doggedly stix to this frequency for another season, altho shifting this morning mass one UT hour earlier; and also conflicting with the low-power German on 6070. Just after I dispatched previous report about VR website no longer working, updated linx arrived in new edition of Alan Roe`s Hitlist, http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm Vatican specials now accessible here, notably ``holy week`` in UT +2: http://en.radiovaticana.va/special-broadcast but what I heard, Portuguese on Vietnamese frequency, not among them. 12050, March 30 at 1341, ``R. Vaticana, la Radio del Papa`` ID as I tune in WEWN, noting the usual squeal accompanying this transmitter, and now also with hum, like on 11870 at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [non]. / BELARUS, 29.03.2015, 0555-0600 UT taken with Vatican Radio news in Belarusian language through radio at a frequency of 7255 kHz. SINPO: 45444 (Receiver: Degen 1103; Antenna: Telescopic; Dmitry Kuutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX March 29 via DXLD) See also SUDAN [non] ** VIETNAM [and non]. AUSTRIA, 9625, In 17-19 UT slot noted V of Vietnam via ORS Moosbrunn site, at 17 UT English, 1830 UT French, and 1730-1830 UT Vietnamese to Central and Western Europe. Tonight tremendous powerhouse signal S=9+45dB -28dBm! VIETNAM, 9730, Spanish at 1818 UT March 29, of V of Vietnam Hanoi from Son Tay site, scheduled 1600-2130 UT. S=9+30dB -45dBm. 7280 V of Vietnam' German also via Son Tay site heard at 1824 UT March 29 slot, a Vietnamese Hymn like played at this time. Well propagate into Germany at S=9+40dB -32dBm signal strength level. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, March 29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DXLD) 12005, March 29 at 0110, VOV English to N America is back here for A- 15, via Woofferton UT, ex-6175 where there is nothing now. Good with flutter, but there is CCI underneath: probably VOA Deewa Radio via Sri Lanka, still on B-14 frequency tho it should not be, and presumably will be gone by tomorrow (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** YEMEN. 6135, Radio San'a, San'a, 1803-1815, 22-03, English, news and comments about Yemen, music. 23222 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Tecsun PL-880 and Grundig Satellit 500, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Always sporadic, but rather amazing they keep this going as fighting rages around who runs which part and how much of the country; would that we could listen to it in clear detail (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZANZIBAR. TANZANIA, 11735, Zanzibar B.C., Mar 28 1516-1526, 35333, Swahili, Afro pop and talk, ID at 1524 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 860, March 27 at 0125 UT, Spanish talk from the SSW, and Spanish music from the SSE (or opposites, unlikely), during KKOW fade which is back up at 0126 UT. Plenty of Mexicans on 860, guess one is Monterrey, and there are three in Yucatán and Quintana Roo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1120, March 27 at 1834 UT on caradio at local mean noon, I`m getting a very weak SAH, indicating two carriers interfering. I count it at 30 per 5 seconds = 360/minute = 6 Hz apart. No DFing possible, but there are really only two possibilities anywhere near: KMOX St Louis and KTXW Manor/Austin TX. (Remember I was definitely getting WOAI 1200 in the daytime recently.) Unless KETU Tulsa carrier is still running, but much attenuated from 10 kW. KLIM Limón CO, 250 W daytimer is still listed but ``silent since 10/2002``! A bit further out there is also a 10 kW daytimer in Clinton MS, WTWZ, which would be a fantastic daytime catch (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1460, March 29 at 0125 UT tune-by, ID as ``The Outlaw, non-stop country music``, loops about SSE/NNW. Can`t find that slogan for any 1460 in the NRC AM Log. The only country station around here is KCWM in Hondo TX, but I also can`t find any `Outlaw` branding on http://www.kcwm.net website. So I bring up their stream at 0415 UT. At 0423 they do utter ``The World`s Best Country Music`` as on website. So where is The Outlaw?? Outlaw County is a SiriusXM channel (60), any relation? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6360, 20-MARCH at 0134+ non-stop heavy metal guitar and drum type religious with some male English vocal chanting “Yahweh Yahweh Yahweh” at the very end and 0158Z a very normal English male voice full ID as WHRI, P. O. Box 12, South Bend, IN USA etc., and then to dead air at 0211Z in mid-WHRI program which was SINPO 55444, but I can’t find any information anyplace of WHRI on or near 6360 (I must be missing something here, any ideas?). R75 + 160’ indoor wire (Tom Root, Flushing MI, MARE Tipsheet March 27 via DXLD) Harold and I have noodled over this one, and it must be some sort of image or spurious signal from Cypress Creek -- but we can't come up with a logical explanation either. Perhaps it is just someone at the transmitter site punching the wrong numbers in? Most odd -kvz (Kenneth Vito Zichi, ed., MARE Tipsheet March 27 via DXLD) Nor I (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. March 23: UNIDentified station, playing Arabic music 1030 on 9600 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBxc2WJEpVM&feature=youtu.be UNIDentified station, playing Arabic music 1032 on 9600 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNkLx1ot2hE&feature=youtu.be UNIDentified station, playing Arabic music 1034 on 9600 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK0ptA2ggQk&feature=youtu.be UNIDentified station, playing Arabic music 1036 on 9600 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDKg9QA5ul4&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) UNIDentified. Station with Egyptian music on March 24: 0855-0900 on 9550, 1000 Hz test tone 0900-0924 on 9550, Arabic folk song: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/03/unidentified-station-with-egyptian-music.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #903 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 31, 2015 via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. March 24: 24 03 2015 UNIDentified station, playing Arabic music 1100 on 9600 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzIXbrjvgfw&feature=youtu.be 24 03 2015 UNIDentified station, playing Arabic music 1107 on 9600 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M00zfoxVujE&feature=youtu.be 24 03 2015 UNIDentified station, playing Arabic music 1111 on 9600 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI_6wBkfuT8&feature=youtu.be 24 03 2015 UNIDentified station, playing Arabic music 1119 on 9600 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSt_Uy0CDNA&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) March 25: UNIDentified station, playing Arabic music 0902 on 9550 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctCMOERZCNc&feature=youtu.be UNIDentified station, playing Arabic music 0914 on 9550 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA3CVtGGhfg&feature=youtu.be UNIDentified station, playing Arabic music 0919 on 9550 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC9w9pcAEmM&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 11425-SSB, April 1 at 1350, intermittent music, singing and 2-way contacts, very poor here, again at 1358, and meanwhile several similar signals below this frequency. Presumably Indonesian QSO pirates, as also heard here last Oct 22 & 23 as in DXLD 14-44, originally reported by Dan Sheedy in DXLD 14-43 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Spaceline LTD Kostinbrod Sofia brokery ?? "Probably BVB" - sure in Persian language noted on 11600 kHz at 1616 UT March 31, S=9+30db or - 50dBm. 16-18 UT? (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11600.2, PIRATE? 2225–2229, 3.28.15, in English. Suddenly on at 2225 with weak music, man with unintelligible talk with few English words audible, country music, same man, start of a country gospel tune, then suddenly off mid song. From what I can tell the whole broadcast was in English. Poor. There was a Radio Free Asia broadcast via the Taiwan Sound of Hope transmitter scheduled for 2230 (unheard) on 11600.2, but I don’t think this had anything to do with that. I presume this was a pirate (Mark Taylor, Madison WI, NASWA Flashsheet March 29 via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 11843-USB, March 27 at 1352, colloquial Spanish 2 way intruders, poor signals, but in the clear past 1400 with nothing AM on 11840 or 11845 --- until R Liberty Russian via PHILIPPINES comes on 11840 late at *1401 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 11930, NO ID, escuchada el 29 de marzo de 2015, en idioma sin identificar y escuchada a diferentes horas entres las 2000 y 2200, locutor en programa musical, desde piezas pop a rock y temas melódicos, no siendo Radio Martí. Escucho a Radio Riyadh de fondo con emisión en paralelo por 9870, 11820 y 11915; a partir de las 22:00 horas locutora con música clásica, SINPO 34443 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Spain, Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo de 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Minsk, see BELARUS, is also now on 11930 (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 13562-CW, approx., April 2 at 0517, vs heavy CODAR I detect a CW beacon at the verge of inaudibility. Slow ID but copying each character is difficult as I listen over and over for almost ten minutes. Stops or fades out by 0526. Closest I can make out is V1RGM/B [sic], but at least one of those is likely to be wrong, as I find no similar call in the HIFER references, nor is it a valid ham call. Amazing number of unrelated hits on the web, however, for V1RGM. Ideas? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Make it V1RGO/B where?? UNIDENTIFIED. STANAG. Strange - seemingly NATO army digital signal inside 19 mb on 15377 to 15380 digital mode radio at 1407 UT at S=9+10dB level in Germany. (Wolfgang Büschel, March 29, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 17895 at 1643 UT unID carrier on air, some IBB station? S=9 -68dBm strength. 17895 1700-1730 52,53,57 IRA 250 255 17895 1730-1830 46-48,52,53,57 GB 250 94 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, March 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1767: This donation is in memory of the late Mal Fuller, who passed away on Monday 9 March 2015 (William T Hassig, Mt Prospect IL, with a check to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702) Allan Weiner`s co-host on AW Worldwide Thanks for the show, Glenn! Look forward to it every week (Max Heidel, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ Great frequency reference: http://www.dxinfocentre.com/ I’ve used it a lot for NDB’s, good for BCB too. Haven’t checked out much else, looks good though (Richard Radioman in the Great Open West, DX LISTENING DIGEST) MW linx to other good resources (gh) A15 Aoki List PERSEUS-userlist http://www.geocities.jp/binewsjp/ic/userlist1.txt EXCEL zip http://www1.s2.starcat.ne.jp/ndxc/news.htm (S. Hasegawa-NDXC, March 30, dxldyg via DXLD) The userlist version lacks all the data in the complete files but is a good headstart while it`s all put together, for non-Perseids (gh, DXLD) THE EXCELLENT HANS KNOT INTERNATIONAL RADIO REPORT for April 2015 has just been published http://www.mediapages.nl/imagespdf/reportapril2015b.pdf (Mike Terry, March 31, dxldyg via DXLD) 34 pages pdf, illustrated, mostly about pirate radio, much of it historical (gh, DXLD) The April 1 2015 BLANDX is up at BLANDX - Home Page BLANDX - Home Page BREAKING DX NEWS!!! BLANDX HAS REACTIVATED!!! (That's Us!) Can your bladder handle the excitement? If so, check out our new April 1, 2015 issue of BLANDX. View on http://www.blandx.com (Don Moore --- Humpty Dumpty was pushed. Radio & Latin American website: http://www.pateplumaradio.com/ Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ RAGING vs RAGGING Re: ``U S A. 9475, WTWW Lebanon TN (presumed); 2206-2230+, 8-Mar; Long rap into program rag[g]ing on psychotropic drugs. Host sed he would put a bullet into the head of the person who invented Prozac. Put only a minor religious spin into it; sed that psychiatrists say that man has no soul; "He's just meat that crawled out of the mud." That's kinda what Genesis 1.2.7 sez. S25 with mimor QRM -- maybe studio bleed (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)` [gh inserted the [g]] I do make a distinction between "raging" & "ragging" based on demeanor (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BRIAN IST EIN DURCHBLICKER [as in 15-12 under NIGERIA, Kaduna, Clark] Wolfie, How would you say this in English? Google translate is not too clear on that word (Glenn to wb, via DXLD) Hi Glenn, Durchblicker is a commonly used word in German language, much POSITIVE professional intelligent person, which has the exact view into mathematic formulas too. And in our hobby, is very keen in radio monitoring. My translator show more accurate as 'insight', the capacity to gain an accurate and deep intuitive understanding of a thing / matter. "this paper is alive with sympathetic insight into Shakespeare". Synonyms: intuition, discernment, perception, awareness, understanding, comprehension, appreciation, penetration, acumen, perspicacity, judgment, acuity, vision, wisdom, prescience, savvy wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC See U S A 650 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See MEXICO; OKLAHOMA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See also CHINA; JAPAN; NIGERIA; ROMANIA; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SOUTH CAROLINA DRM TESTS FROM HIGH ALTITUDE Hi, TDF, the French Army and Radio Andernach (the German military station) are to carry out DRM tests from high altitude. The transmissions will emanate from a plane flying at about 10000 ft. The initial tests will be less than 1 kW and will use a single frequency of 26005 kHz. There will be speech and music at various bitrates. If the tests are successful, TDF may in the future offer stations who are interested a cheap way of reaching audiences over wide areas with relatively little power. The French military are interested in using that technology for army communications, and Radio Andernach may use it to carry their regular programmes. Radio Andernach is known to have broadcast its service via the TDF station at Issoudun in the past in scrambled DRM. The tests will start on Monday April 6, 2015. Transmissions will start at various times and will each last between 30 and 50 minutes. A special QSL card will be issued for reports in by April 30th, which must be sent to : tdf.drmtest@adynaton.info Herman. B---------- Maarch 31 (PS: I have this info from a colonel in the French army, whose name I am not allowed to disclose.) (Herman Binnendijk, ODXA yg via DXLD) Should this have been dated APRIL 1? (gh, DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ DESPITE PRIVACY POLICY, RADIOSHACK CUSTOMER DATA UP FOR SALE IN AUCTION --- Data includes names, phone numbers, mailing and e-mail addresses, and purchases. ArsTechnica Law & Disorder / Civilization & Discontents by David Kravets - Mar 24, 2015 8:37 pm UTC RadioShack is trying to auction off its customer data on some 117 million customers as part of its court-supervised bankruptcy. The data in question, according to a legal challenge (PDF) launched by Texas regulators on Friday and joined by the state of Tennessee on Monday, includes "consumer names, phone numbers, mailing addresses, e-mail addresses, and, where allowed, activity data." The states say the sale breaches the 94-year-old chain's promises to its in-store and online customers that it would not sell their personal identifying information (PII) data. "The Debtors have affirmatively stated in multiple privacy policies currently in effect that consumer PII will never be sold. Yet the Debtors come before this Court with a Motion which seeks to do precisely that," according to the challenge. The states claim that RadioShack told its online customers (PDF) that "We will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone at any time." Signs at RadioShack's brick-and-mortar stores had similar language, according to the suit. "The information you give us is treated with discretion and respect. We pride ourselves on not selling our private mailing list. From time to time, we may send you information from our company or from select, responsible companies that may join with RadioShack to bring you special offers," said a sign at a Florida store, according to an exhibit (PDF). It's not just the states that are objecting. AT&T claims that part of the data isn't even RadioShack's to sell and instead is AT&T's through a mobile-phone selling arrangement. RadioShack, meanwhile, claims the number of affected consumers is being exaggerated by Texas and Tennessee. The data has vast marketing power. But its financial value is unclear. No price tag was included. But the states, not meaning to stall any sale, want the judge to require that "any buyer be required to allocate a separate price for PII so that in the event the Court should sustain the State of Texas's objection, such ruling would not undermine the sale of the Debtors' other assets." The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February. It listed more than $1.3 billion in liabilities and $1.2 billion in assets. Standard General is said to have been the highest bidder for RadioShack's assets in a plan that provides $535 million in financing, Bloomberg News said, citing anonymous sources Tuesday. A Standard General affiliate wants to convert 4,000 RadioShack stores to Sprint stores. The bankruptcy court in Delaware has not ruled on the bid or the objections from Texas and Tennessee. Reader comments 135 David Kravets / The senior editor for Ars Technica. Founder of TYDN fake news site. Technologist. Political scientist. Humorist. Dad of two boys. Been doing journalism for so long I remember manual typewriters with real paper. @dmkravets on Twitter (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) RADIOSHACK TO DEBUT STORES UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP By Dow Jones Business News, April 01, 2015, 07:15:00 PM EDT Meet the new RadioShack. After a brush with liquidation last week, a reincarnated version of the chain will debut later in April under the ownership of hedge fund Standard General LP with an assist from Sprint Corp. According to plans filed with the bankruptcy court, the stores will look a lot like the streamlined outlets RadioShack Corp. had hoped to build before running short on cash earlier this year. The stores' top management will also have a new face after Chief Executive Joe Magnacca, hired two years ago to remake the company into a flashy specialty retailer, resigned this week. Sales of cellphones, a crucial traffic driver that nevertheless had long since stopped being very profitable for the chain, will be outsourced to Sprint. To reduce clutter, products like laptops, tablets and digital cameras will be cut back, as will name brands that don't have much of a following. That will leave RadioShack to focus on higher margin house-brand chargers, batteries and speakers. The culling will leave a lot fewer items in the stores--around 1,000, down from more than 4,000--and there will be far fewer stores, too. Standard General plans to take over only about 1,700 locations out of the more than 4,000 the chain ran last year. All this was approved Tuesday by a bankruptcy judge who signed off on the hedge fund's plans. One thing still up in the air: the name. Standard General will operate the stores, but Salus Capital Partners, which is owed $150 million, has first claim on RadioShack's trademarks, patents and customer data. Unless Standard General can persuade Salus to sell it the intellectual property that defines the brand, the new RadioShack may not be called RadioShack for long. Once the go-to destination for gadget fans and do-it-yourself electronics buffs, RadioShack sank into bankruptcy court in February after a long, failed effort to get more shoppers into its stores. The chain experimented with snazzy new formats, but never built enough of them. It also struggled to reduce its reliance on sales of cellphones. In the end, it ran low on cash when lenders prevented it from closing the large number of stores it needed to shut in order to stay afloat. Whether any amount of tinkering can make the chain relevant again for shoppers who have long since moved on to the Web is an open question. The chain will ratchet down its presence in markets saturated with Web-savvy consumers. Manhattan, which once fit more than 30 RadioShack stores, will have fewer than half a dozen. Sprint's presence in the deal gives the chain some support. The wireless carrier will share more than 1,400 locations, taking up about a third of the space and staffing it with its own employees. Sprint will pay fees to help cover overhead, distribute commissions on each item it sells and help with advertising. Sprint's logo will dominate most locations, with the RadioShack logo more of a footnote. RadioShack's intellectual property will be the focus of new deal activity in the continuing bankruptcy case, according to intellectual- property valuation expert David Peress of Hilco Streambank. That includes a database of customer information collected over the chain's decades of business. "Sliced and diced" by RadioShack's homegrown systems, Mr. Peress said, the data include names, addresses and transactions for some 65 million customers, and email addresses of 8.5 million customers. Standard General initially wanted to take RadioShack's customer data as part of the buyout. Salus protested, arguing that splitting the customer list from the trademarks damaged the value of the intellectual-property package as a whole. Standard General may try to buy it later. There are limits on who can buy RadioShack's customer list due to the company's original privacy agreements. That new owner could be Standard General, or it could be another buyer interested in using the brand and the customer list to sell products online. Standard General has a six-month royalty-free license to use the RadioShack name and necessary patents. The idea is to give RadioShack a couple of months to market the intellectual property and make the most of the assets. If someone else outbids Standard General for rights to the brand, the hedge fund will have a couple of months to take down the RadioShack name and replace it with something else (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) RUSSIAN GIRL SCALES WOOD PECKER ANTENNA https://youtu.be/0l_4fzJv_i0 Very, very interesting. Gal actually climbs around this legendary SW infrastructure. -- (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) This young lady explores the exclusion zone near the Chernobyl plant in Russia and the surrounding communities - her HD Videos and shots from these antenna structures are breathtaking -- and likely the first time any of us have had close up views of these noise makers. https://youtu.be/0l_4fzJv_i0 (Colin, ibid.) TiPP - gpsvisualizer, damit lassen sich auch Kreise ziehen http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/map_input?form=png Wie geht das mit der Dateneingabe: http://www.rhci-online.net/files/2015-03-31_gpsvisualizer.gif Hier gehen die Distanzen aller gelisteten Sender durch mein QTH: http://www.rhci-online.net/files/D-06193_Petersberg_distance_mapping.png Und hier einfach Kreise mit einem Radius von fest 100 Miles um die Sender: http://www.rhci-online.net/files/D-06193_Petersberg_100mi_mapping.png (nur die Frequenzen hatte ich nachträglich eingearbeitet) Nette Spielerei, finde ich. ;-) latitude;longitude;name;color;circle_radius 52.6478;12.9086;Nauen;green;100 mi 53.5356;11.61111;Göhren;purple;100 mi ....etc. Posted by: (Roger, March 30, dxldyg via DXLD PROPAGATION +++++++++++ :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2015 Mar 30 0340 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 23 - 29 March 2015 Solar activity was low throughout the period. Region 2305 (S08, L=009 class/area Eki/410 on 27 Mar) produced the largest event of the period, a C8/1n at 25/0446 UTC as well as several low-level C-class flares during the week. Regions 2303 (N19, L=067 class/area Hsx/120 on 21 Mar), 2309 (N15, L=072 class/area Dao/080 on 28 Mar), 2310 (N05, L=358 class/area Cao/020 on 23 Mar) and 2312 (N08, L=348 class/area Cao/030 on 25 Mar) also produced C-class events during the period. A large eruptive prominence on the northeastern limb was observed in SDO/AIA 304 imagery lifting off from approximately 27/1039 UTC to 27/1539 UTC but was determined not to be geoeffective. An approximately five degree long filament, centered near S23E50, was observed in Gong H-alpha imagery lifting off the solar disk from 28/1543 UTC to 28/1610 UTC but the CME was directed well off the Sun- Earth line. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at high levels from 23 Mar to 28 Mar. Normal to moderate levels were observed on 29 Mar. Geomagnetic field activity was at unsettled to minor storm levels on 23 Mar due to elevated solar wind velocities and a slightly extended period of negative Bz. Quiet to active levels were observed on 24-25 Mar due to influence from a positive polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). Quiet to unsettled conditions were dominant from 26- 28 Mar. Quiet to active levels returned on 29 Mar due to a prolonged period of negative Bz. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 30 MARCH - 25 APRIL 2015 Solar activity is expected to be at low levels from 30-31 Mar. Moderate levels are likely from 01-14 Apr with the return of Regions 2302 (N12, L=189) and 2297 (S17, L=196). Predominately low levels are expected from 15 April through the end of the period. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal to moderate levels with the exception of 31 Mar - 01 Apr, 03-06 Apr, and 14-18 Apr due to effects from recurrent coronal hole high speed streams (CH HSS). Geomagnetic field activity is expected to reach minor storm levels on 30-31 Mar due to effects from a southern polar CH HSS. Unsettled to active conditions are expected on 01 Apr as HSS effects subside. Mostly unsettled conditions are expected from 02-04 Apr with active conditions likely on 03 Apr. Quiet to unsettled conditions are expected from 05-11 Apr. Unsettled to active conditions are expected to return from 12-20 Apr due to effects from a negative CH HSS followed by a positive CH HSS with minor storms likely on 13-16 Apr and 18-19 Apr. Mostly quiet levels are expected from 21-24 Apr. Unsettled to active conditions are expected with minor storms possible on 25 Apr due to CH HSS effects. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2015 Mar 30 0341 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 2015-03-30 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2015 Mar 30 140 29 5 2015 Mar 31 140 29 5 2015 Apr 01 150 15 4 2015 Apr 02 145 12 3 2015 Apr 03 145 18 4 2015 Apr 04 140 12 3 2015 Apr 05 135 8 3 2015 Apr 06 135 5 2 2015 Apr 07 140 8 3 2015 Apr 08 140 8 3 2015 Apr 09 140 5 2 2015 Apr 10 145 5 2 2015 Apr 11 145 5 2 2015 Apr 12 145 15 4 2015 Apr 13 145 30 5 2015 Apr 14 140 20 5 2015 Apr 15 135 20 5 2015 Apr 16 135 20 5 2015 Apr 17 135 15 4 2015 Apr 18 135 20 5 2015 Apr 19 130 20 5 2015 Apr 20 125 12 3 2015 Apr 21 125 5 2 2015 Apr 22 125 5 2 2015 Apr 23 120 8 3 2015 Apr 24 120 8 3 2015 Apr 25 120 25 5 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DXLD) GLENN`S PROPAGATION OUTLOOK FOR MEDIA NETWORK PLUS AS OF APRIL 2, 2015 Keith, IPS in Australia predicts normal to fair HF propagation thru April 4. Spaceweather South Africa predicts unsettled to active magnetic conditions April 4; shortwave fadeouts unlikely, MUF stable. Met Office UK says there is a chance of minor G1 storms on April 3. Quiet to unsettled on the 4th and 5th. The outlook from Peter Kolman in Prague: Geomagnetic field will be: quiet to active on April 3, 18 - 19 quiet to unsettled on April, 4 - 5, 11 - 12, 17 quiet on April 6 mostly quiet on April 7 - 10, 20 - 22 active to disturbed on April 13 - 16. SWPC in Boulder agrees that active conditions would be most likely April 3rd, then quiet to unsettled until the 11th. Unsettled to active April 12 to 20, with minor storms likely April 13-16, 18 and 19 with A and K indices peaking at 30 and 5 on the thirteenth. Mostly quiet April 21 to 24. The lowest A`s and K`s of 5 and 2 on these dates: April 6, 9, 10, 11, 21 and 22. And another peak April 25, of 25 and 5. Solar flux reaching 145 on April 3 and 10 to 13. Bill Hepburn`s VHF-UHF DX maps show tropospheric ducting reaching a very intense level along the Texas and Mexican Gulf coasts this week, mainly in the mornings (via DXLD) ###