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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1777 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Alaska, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, Eritrea, France, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Korea North non, Korea South, Kurdistan non, Malaysia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Perú, Philippines, Puntland, Solomon Islands, Sudan, Tibet non, Turkey, USA and non SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1777, June 11-17, 2015 Thu 1130 WRMI 9955 [1776 should have replayed] Thu 2100 WRMI 7570 [confirmed] Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 [confirmed] Fri 2130 WRMI 7570 [confirmed] Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sun 2100 WRMI 15770 [confirmed] Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 [confirmed] Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 [not on SW, confirmed on webcast] Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] 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 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 ALTERNATIVE PODCASTS, tnx Stephen Cooper: http://shortwave.am/wor.xml AND ANOTHER PODCAST ALTERNATIVE, tnx to Keith Weston: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GlennHausersWorldOfRadio Also via [but still not back in service]: http://tunein.com/radio/World-of-Radio-p198/ OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser DXLD YAHOOGROUP: Why wait for DXLD? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our yg without delay. When applying, please identify yourself with your real name and location, and say something about why you want to join. Those who do not, unless I recognize them, will be prompted once to do so and no action will be taken otherwise. Here`s where to sign up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/ ** ALASKA. Re 15-22, KNLS return to air June 3: Excerpt from a letter from the manager of the Russian service: ``It was just the first day of the trial. Frequency changed today, while dual broadcasting schedule, but in Alaska working on repairing and second antenna. Probably end up in the next couple of weeks`` (Vasily Gulyaev, Astrakhan, Russia, RusDX June 7 via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DXLD) So what was the *date* of that letter? (gh, DXLD) 9920, June 4 at 1459 JBA carrier, signal builds up slightly, 1500 can barely recognize the KNLS IS/theme music at very poor level opening an English hour. So they are back after 3 months off, as first reported yesterday by Sei-ichi Hasegawa and the Nagoya DX Circle. Other English hours are at 1200 on 7355, not likely propagating any better to here; and at 1000 on 9655, which might (not 0900 as mentioned last week) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7355, June 8 at 1215 check, only a JBA carrier from presumed KNLS during English hour; not the best date to try it, as K-index was 4 with G2 level geomagnetic storms (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) KNLS The New Life Station return to on air, June 3: 0800-0900 on 9655 NLS 100 kW / 285 deg to EaAs Russian tx#1 0900-1000 on 9655 NLS 100 kW / 285 deg to EaAs Chinese tx#1 1000-1100 on 9655 NLS 100 kW / 285 deg to EaAs English tx#1 1100-1200 on 9610 NLS 100 kW / 285 deg to EaAs Chinese tx#1 1200-1300 on 7355 NLS 100 kW / 285 deg to EaAs English tx#1 1300-1400 on 9920 NLS 100 kW / 285 deg to EaAs Chinese tx#1 1400-1500 on 7355 NLS 100 kW / 285 deg to EaAs Chinese tx#1 1500-1600 on 9920 NLS 100 kW / 285 deg to EaAs English tx#1 1600-1700 on 9920 NLS 100 kW / 285 deg to EaAs Russian tx#1 1700-1800 on 9920 NLS 100 kW / 285 deg to EaAs Russian tx#1 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/knls-new-life-station-return-to-on-air.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #913 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, June 8, 2015, via DXLD) June 4: KNLS in Russian to NEAs 0801 on 9655 Anchor Point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlTI3uHWvjA&feature=youtu.be KNLS in Russian to NEAs 0815 on 9655 Anchor Point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t9cjR5H0x0&feature=youtu.be KNLS in Chinese to NEAs 0900 on 9655 Anchor Point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUVN6VC4wek&feature=youtu.be KNLS in Chinese to NEAs 0905 on 9655 Anchor Point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VruliJ2StBU&feature=youtu.be KNLS in English to NEAs 1000 on 9655 Anchor Point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DlBZh7dzCg&feature=youtu.be KNLS in Chinese to NEAs 1100 on 9610 Anchor Point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeUZ-xxxcRc&feature=youtu.be KNLS in English to NEAs 1200 on 7355 Anchor Point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Eb32WrBUDk&feature=youtu.be KNLS in Chinese to NEAs 1306 on 9920 Anchor Point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRQK4zWGOdU&feature=youtu.be KNLS in Chinese to NEAs 1400 on 7355 Anchor Point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StOmSC1jUM8&feature=youtu.be KNLS in English to NEAs 1500 on 9920 Anchor Point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpZjV6mrFE4&feature=youtu.be KNLS in Russian to NEAs 1600 on 9920 Anchor Point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjsnvTAX52Q&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. A QSL from the English language broadcast from Radio Tirana in Albania from their Albanian transmitter site on May 21, 2015 on 7465 kHz at 6:45pm Pacific/0145 UT. (The card doesn`t have the time on it, as I forgot to include it in my report, but was in the file name of the mp3 I sent them) See the QSL card here: front http://www.onairdj.com/rt1.jpg back: http://www.onairdj.com/rt2.jpg Here's my reception of Radio Tirana, and looking at my report, I heard them on 9850, not the 7465 frequency written on the card! http://www.onairdj.com/RT_9850_05212015_0145UTC_645pmpacific.mp3 (Paul Walker, Redding, California, USA, Sangean ATS909X and H-800 Skymatch Active Antenna, June 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Later:] now 3:42 clip is reached and plays, VP reception with music, 2:09 unreadble announcement, but sounds like Klara. And the QSL is in German, obviously intended for their German language service on 7465, where there is a dedicated listener group with their own QSLs. Did you send your report to the German service or club address? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Tirana has one email address listed on their website; I submitted it there and via their Facebook page. There is no specific info for submitting it to the "English service" that I could find. I am happy with the QSL as is, except they got the frequency wrong lol :) The audio file is properly uplaoded and should be there now (Paul, ibid.) Speaking of which --- (gh) QSL Initiative of Radio Tirana and the Austrian DX Board (ADXB) Thanks to the co-operation between the German language branch of the Radio Tirana Listeners' Club and the Austrian DX Board (ADXB), a special QSL will be issued from September until November 2015. Conditions are as follows: Irrespective of the language monitored, only one QSL will be issued per frequency. - Any language other than Albanian shall count. - Only AM (SW/MW) transmissions originating in Albania shall count. - Contest Reports are invited to the following address: ADXB - Austrian DX Board, Harald Suess P.O. Box 1000, A-1081 Vienna, Austria-Europe - Cost per reception report: 2 IRCs or 2 EUR or 2 USD. - Timeframe: 1 September to 30 November 2015 (UTC). Souvenirs from Albania will be drawn for the participants. Winners will be published on the ADXB website http://www.adxb-oe.org in December 2015. The German language department of Radio Tirana also has a listeners' club, which is headed by Werner Schubert in Germany. Therefore, reception reports in German should be sent to the following address: Radio Tirana Hörerklub, Werner Schubert, Poststraße 8/1, D-85567 Grafing bei München, Deutschland. or e-mail tirana-hk@finkhaus.de The ADXB - Austrian DX Board - is an Austrian DX-Club for residents of Austria, with currently 150 members and a club station in Vienna. For further information please contact ADXB, Harald Suess P. O.B. 1000, A-1081 Vienna, Austria-Europe or e-mail adxbsuess@aon.at In A15, the transmission schedule until mid-October 2015 is as follows: GERMAN: Monday through Saturday 1930-2000 UTC 7465 kHz ENGLISH: Monday through Saturday 2000-2030 UTC 7465 kHz ENGLISH: Tuesday through Sunday 0130-0200 UTC 9850 kHz FRENCH: Monday through Saturday 1730-1800 UTC 7465 kHz ITALIAN: Monday through Saturday 1700-1730 UTC 7465 kHz SERBIAN: Monday through Saturday 2015-2030 UTC 1458 kHz TURKISH: Monday through Saturday 1830-1900 UTC 1458 kHz GREEK: Monday through Saturday 1545-1600 UTC 1458 kHz MW - Transmitter Fllaka - 500 kW; SW - Transmitter Shijak - 100 kW QSLs will be sent by Radio Tirana directly from Albania. We are looking forward to your reception reports. Yours, Radio Tirana Listeners' Club and the ADXB (via Roberto Scaglione, Sicily, June 7, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) I didn't even have to offer any $$ for my QSL, but would`ve had I been asked. I`m racking up a lot of NEW station logs because I`m fairly new to shortwave (Paul B Walker, Jr., CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGOLA. 4949.8, Rádio Nacional de Angola, Mulenvos, 1957-2030, 06- 06, comments, Portuguese, African songs. Very weak, best on LSB. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo and Friol, Tecsun PL-880, Sony ICF SW7600G, K-PO WR2100, Cable antenna, 8 meters, Degen 31MS active loop antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 1120. SANTIAGO Y COPLA. 4/6 0356 UT. Chámame y avisos de comidas bailables en la localidad de Rafael Castillo de Buenos Aires, por parte de Félix Acosta, aviso de naturismo, sellos discográficos y artistas de Chámame y salones de eventos en Banfield, Lomas de Zamora o cerca de la estación de Laferrere (a cuadras de la emisora). SINFO: 35433 (Claudio Galaz Toledo, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, RX: Realistic DX-160, ANT: Hilo de 20 metros de largo, condiglista yg via DXLD) Felicitaciones por la escucha de 1120 kHz, Claudio! Se trata de una emisora "no autorizada" del Gran Buenos Aires (algo así como la Región Metropilitana de Santiago) y que entiendo no debe emitir con demasiada potencia. 73's (Arnaldo Slaen, Buenos Aires, ibid.) But it`s in WRTH 2015 as: BA198) 1120 1 kW Em. Santiago y Copla, Ciudad Evita, http://santiagoycopla.ar.com Lacks an L- callsign like so many other MW entries --- all pirates? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Gracias, Mr Slaen: Estuve a la escucha de la emisora durante 30 minutos; el fading entraba muy largo y no permitía identificarla hasta que se dio la ocasión de escuchar los avisos y que junto a la frecuencia, mas la búsqueda en internet y llegué a la conclusión. Saludos y 73! (Galaz, op. cit.) ** ARGENTINA. 1390 kHz, LA ROCA AZUL, AM 1390, con estudios y planta transmisora ubicados en calle Aconquija Nº 1053, de la localidad de Libertad, Partido de Merlo, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Reportada el día 03/06/2015 con el programa “Musica y Bosques de nuestro país y Latinoamérica”. Avisos comerciales locales y avance de programas, SIO: 444 desde Morón. Más info sobre la estación en https://gruporadioescuchaargentino.wordpress.com/2015/01/25/nueva-emisora-am-en-el-gran-buenos-aires/ (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, condiglista yg via DXLD) This one not in WRTH, only two others elsewhere in Argentina, one legal (gh, DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. 11710.75, RAE, 0302-0304, June 3. A daily feature at this time is the playing of choral National Anthem before going into their English segment (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 &CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Now this Radio Bollywood has gone quiet, 1386 kHz. The tone tests went quiet around May 22nd. 1476 kHz cannot be heard at my location so presume off air (John Wright, NSW, June Australian DX News via DXLD) Referents obvious to Oz readers? 1386 was reported in DXLD as a new frequency testing. Station X was also here before (gh) ** AUSTRALIA. Gold Coast based Narrowcaster Station X appears to have taken over the private shortwave facility in Sydney from Craig Allen, who had most recently used the 3210 kHz transmitter to relay Vintage FM. Sure enough, ACMA records now show a new licensee for 3210, as does the entry for 5045. Interestingly, there is also a license for 2368.5 kHz shown as Peter Tate, 1 kW from the Vodafone MTX Telford Place site at Labrador, Latitude -27 56 13, Longitude 153 22 45. Our understanding is that this license actually predates that of Radio Symban, and that ACMA doesn’t feel there will be an interference problem as the services are supposed to be NVIS (Near Vertical Incidence Skywave). According to its website, “Station X is a follow on project from an idea that came about in the early 90's. The Australian Commercial radio landscape was very rock oriented at the time and change needed to be done in a very subtle way. Early efforts in this area were conducted under the name 95.7 Hot FM (with the efforts of a few mates) in 1994. These efforts led to a few years of Temporary Community Radio broadcasts. Station X came along in 1998 after rising from the ashes of a take-over in the control of Hott FM Ltd. Station X enjoyed a short life as an aspirant Community Broadcaster on the Gold Coast using 102.9 FM prior to 2001. This was discontinued due to not being given a fulltime community license by the ABA. Today the frequency is used by Hot Tomato. The radio landscape has changed quite a lot in Australia since the early 90's. Changes in what people accept as mainstream music along with the technology they use to listen on have all driven change. Smart phones, internet streaming & blue tooth connectivity in cars have all tested the traditional model for broadcasting. To the point where it is now a fair question to ask. Is a traditional "terrestrial broadcast license" worth the money? Improvements in areas such as equipment availability, suppliers & pricing have all made setting up a small station easier to do! Today Station X functions as a small privately owned operation & is not intended to take on the majors head on! Rather the intention is to offer something that the majors can't (or will not due to their financial commitments). Station X is not operated with the intention of obtaining full time community license as in its past. Today it's operated purely because I like doing it and I hope you guys like it too! While remaining respectful to the path that got Station X to where it is, time is upon us to move on with a purpose and a format that is more suitable in the year 2014 etc.” In an e-mail from Peter Tate (“Party Pete”), the plan is to run them (the HF transmitters) more like traditional SW services that are block programmed with the likes of Station X or one of the other offerings under the XRN banner filling the gaps (Direct and John Wright, June Australian DX News via DXLD) 2368.47, Radio Symban (presumed), 1245-1258, June 6 with the normal format of Greek music/singing cutting through the QRN; one of their better days and not bad for such a low powered station. 4835, VL8A Alice Springs NT, 1259, June 5. "Grandstand" with post game interviews of the match between Dockers vs Tigers; fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 15200, Sat June 6 at 1140, special English talk about sneezing, best into the elbow, etc., fair-good signal; 1143 outro as `Spotlight` see http://www.radioenglish.net for ``Why Do I Sneeze`` episode. It`s RBA as scheduled this quarter hour in English only on Saturdays, but no ID, 1145 into another Burmesish language which is really Rawang, daily. As a language-lesson approach to evangelization, `Spotlight` is typically mixed in with other language broadcasts rather than all-English, and per Aoki, English on this 320-degree service from Kununurra is also appearing Sun/Mon/Tue/Thu at 1115-1130; other days one Chin dialect or another, or Burmese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BAHRAIN. 9745, R. Bahrein. Arabic at 0336 on 9/5 with disco version of ‘Walk Away Renee‘ and disco songs in Arabic & English, ID in Arabic at 0400 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi ant 16 meters long own made, June Australian DX News via DXLD) ** BELIZE. 6/6 Es FM DX summary [presumably EDT = UT -4; statute miles at end] 1239, SCRS 103.1 BZ Orange Walk - - EE/SS - ID - Radio Sugura, 1172 1240, * Fiesta FM 106.7 BZ Orange Walk - - EE - ID, 1172 1315, * Love FM 88.9 BZ Ladyville - - EE-Love FM - ID, 1194 *= new loggings. FM total = 2691. Plus a ton of Spanish unIDs from Cuba/Mexico/etc countries to review for IDable material and post in the WTFDA forum when time permits (Fred Nordquist, Moncks Corner, SC, 33.21756N 79.95798W, KJ4BUG, Grid FM03AF, June 7, WTFDA gg via DXLD) See also CAYMAN ISLANDS; JAMAICA ** BOLIVIA. 3310, Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba, 1013 lively CP music melodic, 1015 om chat then yl talking over flauta andina, 1015 to 1025 long talk by yl - 1 June (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, various wire antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4409.77, R. Eco, 2358 nice Andean folk music over ToH. M DJ came on and seemingly took phone call from a M that was barely audible. DJ chatter after 0108 with clear mention of Bolivia at 0109, then someone`s name. Mentioned “programa” at 0111, tarde and noche and ID at 0112:05, then back to lively LA music. 0115 into another song with yipping like a Terrier Dog at the beginning (not a Huayno). 0118 different M barely audible again. Still going at 0225 with several songs in a row. Ranchera song at 0231, then M came on at 0233. If not for the thunderstorm static crashes, it would’ve been a decent signal. Here's a link to a Youtube video that you should enjoy. It includes not only this reception but also good receptions from 1991 and 2005. Please check it out at https://youtu.be/iE8I3qnF2_4 (10 June) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 5952[.4v], R. PIO XII, 8/6 2315 UT. Información sobre educación rural de Potosí en idioma quechua y algunas palabras en español. SINPO: 55444 (Claudio Galaz Toledo, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, RX: Realistic DX-160, ANT: Hilo de 30 metros de largo + antena de tierra de 20 metros, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 6025, RED PATRIA NUEVA. 6/6 2224 UT. Reflexiones sobre la corrupción del fútbol sudamericano y cómo afecta al desarrollo de la copa América. SINPO: 45434. 6025, R. PATRIA NUEVA, 8/6 2215 UT. Noticias sobre la demanda marítima de Bolivia a Chile e informaciones sobre la cancillería. SINPO: 45444 (Claudio Galaz Toledo, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, RX: Realistic DX-160, ANT: Hilo de 30 metros de largo + antena de tierra de 20 metros, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 6155. R. FIDES, 6/6 2245 UT. Avisos de empresas de seguros, supermercados y bancos. Luego, comentarios preparativos del encuentro Argentina vs Bolivia. SINPO: 55444 (Claudio Galaz Toledo, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, RX: Realistic DX-160, ANT: Hilo de 20 metros de largo, condiglista yg via DXLD) I.e. in a SBG (gh) Reception report: Radio Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 6135, 5 June 2015, 0000 UT, Signal S9, male ID, female ID, music. Yaesu and G5RV up at 40‘. Thanks, Doc W2MFT (Mark F Tattenbaum, MFA, Tonawanda NY, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 6135, R. STA. CRUZ, 7/6 2315 UT. Sonido de choque de señales entre R. Sta Cruz versus R. Aparecida en la misma frecuencia (Claudio Galaz Toledo, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, RX: Realistic DX-160, ANT: Hilo de 20 metros de largo, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Bye bye Rádio Eldorado --- Alguem estava sentindo falta duma rádio evangélica em São Paulo? http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mercado/2015/05/1631144-missionario-rr-soares-assume-programacao-da-radio-estadao-am.shtml (Rocco Controneo, 6 June, radioescutas yg via DXLD) 700 kHz ** BRAZIL. 4785, Brasil, Rádio Caiari, Porto Velho, RO, 1005 music then om comments 1003 om & yl on 1 June; 0957 “Jingle” 0958 chorale 1003 Brasil pops 3 June (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, various wire antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4965, R. Alvorada, Parintins. Fair with Portuguese talks, appeared to be news 1004. Parintins is another of the more westerly towns in Brazil, allowing for later fade/out here. I think this frequency relays the FM service, 30/5 (Craig Seager, VK2HBT, Bathurst NSW (Icom IC-746, Perseus SDR, Horizontal Loop, LZ2AQ Loop, G5RV Jnr, June Australian DX News via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. CONFIRMAÇÃO RECEBIDA --- Rádio Itatiaia - Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil - Captada em Morrinhos - CE - Brasil, pelo Dexista José Maranhão, em 11/01/2015, entre 2020 - 2100 UT, na frequência de 5970 kHz, com um SINPO: 34333 - Recebido cartão QSL full data, tabela com 12 mini-adesivos e carta, em 140 dias, após o envio do RR e carta por via postal - V/S: Fabiana Souza (Coordenadora de comunicação) - QTH: Rua Itatiaia, 117, Bonfim, Belo horizonte - MG - BRASIL, CEP 31210 - 170. *José Maranhão* Photos http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com.br/2015/06/qsl-radio-itatiaia-5970-khz-belo.html http://www.dexismointernacional.com.br/qsl-card/item/291-qsl-radio-itatiaia-5970-khz-belo-horizonte-mg-brazil.html (via Daniel Wyllyans, MT, June 5, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Boa tarde, Cassiano, fiz um video mostrando como chega o sinal em 6135 kHz da Rádio Aparecida aqui pelo bairro do Butantã em São Paulo. Estou sem antena para HF; improvisei um pedaço de fio e pus na entrada do cabo coaxial, mesmo assim o sinal está muito bom por aqui. Radio Aparecida - 6135 - Aparecida SP (Fran Jr., radioeoscutas yg via DXLD) As três ondas curtas da Rádio Aparecida (5035 - 6135 - 9630 kHz) são bem sintonizadas nesta região. A frequência de 25m, está sem propagação por aqui. Talvez seja sintonizada a grandes distâncias de Aparecida. A qualidade de áudio é também muito boa. 73 (Luiz Chaine Neto, Limeira SP, Brasil, 5-6-2015 - sexta-feira, ibid.) ** BRAZIL. 6159.94, Jun 4 -2200* I have noted a carrier here several times with sign off around 2200 UT. On June 5 a check on 9550.03 revealed that a presumed R Boa Vontade signed off there at about the same time, so most likely the station here on 6159.94 is Boa Vontade. But both R Boa Vontade and R Rio Mar seem to be active on 6160. R Rio Mar has been noted previously just above 6160. Disturbed by CKZN on 6159,96. TN 9550.034, June 5 -2200* Tentative, Boa Vontade with sign off at this time just as on 6159.95. The signal on 9550.034 was just in or above threshold level and 6159.95 was merely a carrier as usual. On June 6 a strong Voice of Vietnam was occupying the frequency until their sign off at 2129*. At next check 2150 there was no signal left on the frequency. Obviously needs more checking here and on 6159.94 (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin June 7 via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 10000, Time Signal Station Observatório Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 2032-2043, 06-06, time signals, female announcements "Observatório Nacional, 17 horas, 31 minutes, 30 segundos". 22322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo and Friol, Tecsun PL-880, Sony ICF SW7600G, K-PO WR2100, Cable antenna, 8 meters, Degen 31MS active loop antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Rádio Marumby volta com testes e barulhos em 11725 kHz 11725 kHz Radio Marumby (strongly presumed) REACTIVATED 9 de jun de 2015 --- June 09, 2015, 1035-1100 UT, 1:47 SJ [singing jingle?] ”Marumby“? Delta FLAG (Null: SW) 2 divided ---HOME--- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EdbewSqLJo Heard here in Uruguay yesterday at 1631 UT for some moments. Noted in parallel with 9515. Many hours after, a DXer friend of Chile can heard an ID as "Radio Novas de Paz" with announcement of 11725, 9515 and 6080 kHz. Nice catch, 73! Rodolfo Tizzi 2010DFS / You tube Channel Conforme foi anunciado ontem, em primeira mão, pelo colega uruguaio Rodolfo Tizzi, a Rádio Marumby, de Curitiba (PR), voltou a transmitir em 11725 kHz. Hoje já a ouvi por volta de 1130 UT. Porém, no momento não se ouve sinal da emissora, mas apenas uma barulho. Creio que estão efetuando ajustes antes da volta definitiva (Lenildo da Silva / No Mundo do Dexismo. WEB Site http://www.radioevangelismo.com/ - See more at: http://www.dexismointernacional.com.br/radio-escuta/item/296-radio-marumby-volta-com-testes-e-barulhos-em-11725-khz.html (all via Daniel Wyllyans, June 10, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DXLD) [and non] Let`s hope it`s not on at the same time as RNZI on 11725, which perhaps coincidentally, just moved off 11725 to 9700 at 1746- 1850, as of June 5, per Ivo Ivanov, but is very good here after 0500 on 11725 (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** BULGARIA. SECRETLAND: Anomalies from Secretbrod on Sat, June 6 End Time Coming, new from June 6 1800-1830 on 5900 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg to WeEu BABCOCK Music, instead of FG Radio, Famagusta Gazette 1845-1900 on 5900 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg to WeEu http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/anomalies-from-secretbrod-on-sat-june-6.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) June 6: BABCOCK Music, instead of Famagusta Gazette 1845 on 5900 Secretbrod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS_ZJ9jKFE4&feature=youtu.be BABCOCK Music, instead of Famagusta Gazette 1850 on 5900 Secretbrod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjEb62kA7Do&feature=youtu.be BABCOCK Music, instead of Famagusta Gazette 1857 on 5900 Secretbrod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEoTtEPJ_1A&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. SECRETLAND From the second attempt, Radio Spaceshuttle on June 7 till 1900 13600 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg SoAf Brother Stair/TOM/ 1900-2000 13600 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg SoAf Radio Spaceshuttle Previous Sunday was KBS World Radio in German, instead of Radio Spaceshuttle till 1900 13600 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg SoAf English Brother Stair /TOM/, 1900-2000 13600 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg SoAf German with 1 min delay from parallel: 5900 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg WeEu German as scheduled, videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/from-second-attempt-radio-spaceshuttle.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #913 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, June 8, 2015, via DXLD) ** CANADA. 15034-USB, June 4 at 1319, Trenton Military, attempting to provide flight weather but there is ``no report`` from several Canadian airports (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CAYMAN ISLANDS. 6/6 Es FM DX summary [presumably EDT = UT -4; statute miles at end] 1214 ZFZZ 99.9 KY Cayman Brac PI} 1FD7 - 'KFZZ' PS}Z99 EE-Z99 Top 40 967 1218 ZFKH 104.1 KY Georgetown PI} 23FB - 'KHOT' EE- HOT-FM 965 1237 ZFKP 87.9 KY Georgetown - - EE- RELIG 965 1246 *ZKKS 96.5 KY Georgetown PI}3E5A - 'KROK' PS} EE-Rock 965 [ZFKS?] 1257 *XFKZ 105.3 KY Georgetown PI}AD19 - PS}Breeze 105.3 FM EE-Breeze - soft rock 965 [should that be ZFKZ?] 1258 ZFKX 107.1 KY George Town PI:4F29 – 'KXXX' PS: artist/song, X107.1 Top 40 965 1300 *ZFKG 89.9 KY Georgetown PI}-- - 'WMU' EE-Radio Cayman-talk 965 *= new loggings. FM total = 2691. Plus a ton of Spanish UNIDs from Cuba/Mexico/etc countries to review for IDable material and post in the WTFDA forum when time permits (Fred Nordquist, Moncks Corner, SC, 33.21756N 79.95798W, KJ4BUG, Grid FM03AF, June 7, WTFDA gg via DXLD) See also BELIZE; JAMAICA ** CHILE. Buenos días Claudio! Sabes algo de la emisora pirata chilena Radio RCW? No ha tenido transmisiones en los últimos meses hasta donde yo sé. 73's (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, 9 June, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DXLD) Hola Mr Slaen: Supe que están arreglando cuestiones referidas a su antena. En su página de facebook dice lo siguiente: "RCW Radio Compañía Worldwide 26 de mayo a las 11:48 Desde San Francisco en Chile... Ésta es RCW Radio Compañía Worldwide. Agradecemos los "Me Gusta" para esta pequeña emisora Chilena de Onda Corta. Comunicamos que continúan los trabajos de mantenimiento en nuestra Torre para después instalar la antena que nos permita volver al aire. Buenas escuchas y saludos cordiales" (Claudio Galaz, ibid. via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DXLD) ** CHINA [and non]. 17595, CNR1, 1405+ 22 May. Jammer (v. VOA 14-15 in TB, unheard today). Thanks to Ivo's info in PlayDX 1650, this is ex- 17570, although CNR1 jammer is down there as well, just in case (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA, G5/PL606 & the ever-faithful 6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 16100, CNR 1, 6/4, 1033. W in Chinese. VG. // on 16100 (Good).(Rick Barton, Logs from El Mirage, AZ, Grundig Satellit 750, Outdoor Slinky, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 19000, June 4 at 1306, CNR1 jammer, fair with CCI and Wadley het from FRG-7, i.e. the Thursday-only 13-14 spot for RFA Tibetan via KUWAIT 17570, June 4 at 1400, CJKT ID, i.e. CNR1, a few seconds after same on 17490. There is nothing in current Aoki, EiBi or HFCC to account for jamming either frequency at this hour, but presumably some horrible opposition broadcast(s) must be blocked. Happy anniversary! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EAST TURKISTAN 11560, Firedragon/Firedrake, 1826, June 4. Strong signal of music jamming; assume against RFA, but per Aoki they are not scheduled for this time period (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 21690, June 5 at 0512, fair signals both in Chinese, about equal CCI from CNR1 jammer and RFA Chinese this hour only via TINIAN. Ahhh, summer propagation! This is getting to be a regular, as we creep into Solstice. Per Aoki, there is an additional 21690 hour which Must Be Jammed, 06-07 when it`s RFA Tibetan via UAE. 17860, June 5 at 1320, CNR1 jammer, fair with CCI, // 15115. Aoki shows 17860 is BBC Uzbek via OMAN, here at 1300-1330 on Wed/Thu/Fri only, and this is Friday. 18980, June 5 at 1320, CNR1 jammer, fair, vs unheard RFA Tibetan via Kuwait, scheduled this hour, this frequency, Tue & Fri only 13980, June 5 at 1328, CNR1 jammer, very good, but none OOB in the 19s, 17s, 16, 15s, 14s, 12s --- just the usual in-band spots on 17, 15, 13 and 11 MHz bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 16775, CNR 1, 6/6, 1040. M and W in dialogue in Chinese. VG. Good // on 16100, and Fair on 21695. The latter, not usually heard in the middle of the night here, is apparently being used to jam the Voice of America in Chinese (via Tinang, The Philippines). (Rick Barton, Logs from El Mirage, AZ, Grundig Satellit 750, Outdoor Slinky, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13920, June 6 at 1149, CNR1 jammer, poor, none in the 12s, 14s, 15s or 16s. 13920 is again heard at 1340 with good signal, none in the 12s, 14s or OOB 15s. 18990, June 6 at 1337, CNR1 jammer, poor, as required for this RFA Tibetan hour on Sats & Weds via Kuwait; none in the 16s or 17s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 21695, 7/06, 1004, Voice Of America, PHL-Tinang, QRM Jammer Px Chi, 42522. 73 da (Nino Marabello, QTH Treviso, Italia, RX: SONY ICF SW7600G, Ant.: esterna VHF azimuth 090, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) 11470, June 8 at 1232, very poor signal in Chinese, i.e. CNR1 jammer against one of countless 0.1 kW Sound of Hope nuisance transmitters as in Aoki, which could be active from Taiwan any time between 2100 and 1710. This and possible // inband frequencies too poor to make an audio match; after having found no CNR1 jammers propagating 12-18 MHz during degraded propagation conditions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7435, June 9 at 0922, unfortunately awake, I am rewarded by some Firedragon jamming, which is getting to be a rarity rather than CNR1 jamming; but nothing on 7435 scheduled to account for it here (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11100, CNR1, 6/9, 1040. W in Chinese; Poor. Noted with // 16600 (Fair). Did not hear any OOB CNR1 stations or Firedragons during the previous 0900-1000 hour. 11100, CNR1 (Hi-power National radio used as jamming station) 0945, 6/10. Female in Chinese. 12980 // Fair (Rick Barton, Logs from El Mirage, AZ, Grundig Satellit 750, Outdoor Slinky, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 4990, PBS Hunan, as of June 6 (1235), have been hearing this since Jan 12 on a daily basis with decent reception. Before Jan 12, 2015, I had not heard PBS Hunan on 4990 at all, but from that date forward, have daily heard them for the past six months with decent reception, through to June 6 at 1235. Whatever they did to improve their signal is holding up very well (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9820, Beibu Bay Radio (BBR), 1320, May 31, // 5050. "Are you ready? Hi everyone. This is Beibu Bay Radio, the Voice of Guangxi, China"; segment in Chinese and English: "The joint campaign involves five parks, including Beijing Botanical Garden, the Temple of Heaven and Taoranting, as well as the famous Fragrant Hill, Beijing's most renowned forest park, combining natural landscape with imperial architecture. These are already famous sites among tourists, but in this year's campaign, the use of new media is a new focus. We hope there will be many more people who will access our tourism service, especially online and on mobile phones. Appreciating flowers blossoming is another annual tradition in Beijing tourism. The famous business hub Beijing International Flower Port joins the campaign this year, which coincides with the opening of Beijing Rose Festival, an event that highlights China rose, a species cultivated in China and that blooms in May." Today's show was scripted in English from http://www.china.org.cn/video/2015-05/25/content_35655411.htm (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 17660, June 4 at 1401, something in Korean with good signal; also in the 12 and 13 UT hours. Aoki shows the CNR8 service in Korean just started here on June 1 at 0858-1500; site, power and azimuth unknown and not in HFCC as of June 2. No QRM noted, but this would collide with France via Madagascar at 12-13, and Saudi Arabia in French from 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Additional new frequencies of China National Radio All these frequencies are not registered in HFCC Database: 0300-0900 on 15420*unknown transmitter to China Kazakh CNR-17 0900-1500 on 17660^unknown transmitter to China Korean CNR-8 + videos 1700-1800 on 13720 unknown transmitter to China Chinese CNR-10 2100-0300 on 13730#unknown transmitter to China Mongolian CNR-8 * co-ch 0400-0800 BBC World Service in English ^ co-ch 1200-1300 RFI in French; 1400-1600 Radio Saudi Inter in French # co-ch 0030-0230 VOA Radio Ashna in Pashto/Dari/Pashto/Dari More videos tomorrow http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/additional-new-frequencies-of-china.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 5, dxldyg via DXLD) ** CHINA. June 5: CNR 8 in Korean to EaAs, additional frequency 1310 on 17660 unknown transmitter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XYMeI4qYDo&feature=youtu.be CNR 8 in Korean to EaAs, additional frequency 1330 on 17660 unknown transmitter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NgULQ0-ahc&feature=youtu.be CNR 8 in Korean to EaAs, additional frequency 1355 on 17660 unknown transmitter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RXyce83780&feature=youtu.be CNR-8 in Korean to EaAs, additional frequency 1357 on 17660 unknown, co-ch R.Saudi Int Fr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQg6zKoQ5ck&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) June 6: CNR 8 in Korean to EaAs, additional frequency 1145 on 17660 unknown transmitter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-YYHZckxiI&feature=youtu.be CNR 8 in Korean to EaAs, additional frequency, 1158 on 17660 unknown transmitter, co-channel RFI Fremch from 1200 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiMeTjskARI&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO. 6115, Radio Congo, Brazzaville, 1801-1821*, 06-06, French, news and comments about Congo, "Le Président de La République", "les congolaises". 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo and Friol, Tecsun PL-880, Sony ICF SW7600G, K-PO WR2100, Cable antenna, 8 meters, Degen 31MS active loop antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5025, June 9 at 0538, R. Rebelde music is rather distorted. This transmitter/frequency usually manages to modulate OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGST) ** CUBA. 19100, Radio Havana Cuba, (Presumed), at 1213, 0n 4 Jun. A female announcer is talking in Spanish about Venezuela with a news clip of the President of that country talking. A male announcer came on and spoke stating Cuba several times. At 1215 there was a station ID that stated La Habana Voice, Habana Cuba, by a female announcer. I could not find a recent listing on this frequency for RHC, nor was it on their website. Good (John Cooper, PA, NASWA Flashsheet via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DXLD) Not listed because it`s the second harmonic of 9550; something that RHC is adept at producing (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) 13740, June 5 at 1408, open carrier, dead air, as the sloppyrators at RadioCuba have failed to turn RHC off at scheduled 1400*. 6165, June 6 at 0543, RHC English is only fair strength and undermodulated, much worse than // 6100, 6000, and even 6060. What`s wrong? 12060, June 9 at 0532, 2-tone pulse jamming with some fading on this second harmonic of 6030 vs R. Martí there, but none of that here. Weaker than somewhat different sounding pulse jamming on 11930 vs R. Martí fundamental, which of course is never on the air at night. Next check at 0925 June 9, 12060 and 11930 pulse jamming still audible, and also weaker jamming on 11960 which would be 2 x 5980 Martí (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 17630, Thursday June 4 at 1240, CRI English via Urumqi catches my attention since one of their best programs, `Voices from Other Lands` is interviewing David Finckel of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, who is apparently in Beijing for a New Music festival (and he`s married to Wu Han). His name is often misspelt Finkel in reviews, etc., but we`ll take this as correct: http://www.chambermusicsociety.org/artists/artist/david_finckel Closes with one of his favorites as a `cellist, Dvorak`s Concerto for a minute or two until cut off at 1255 for mandatory Chinese lesson buffer. No mention of Tiananmen massacre anniversary! Quite sufficient signal as usual from this site intended for Europe. 17560, June 4 at 1255 I switch to the simultaneous French service of RCI, via Kashgar, where they are playing some wild percussion music before continuing another hour without formal re-opening at 1300. 17630, June 5 at 1410, CRI English discussing F- and other naughty word use, usual fair signal. I still see some list-logs of this from EurAmerica as MALI site, as shown in Aoki at 14-16, but which ALSO shows Urumqi site at 12-15. This is OBVIOUSLY from E.T. as signals are comparable to the other CRI E.T. services before 14 on 17560, 17630 and 17650. I don`t even hear an echo on 17630, which would confirm Bamako is really on during this hour, but if one did hear CRI English at 15-16 on 17630, then it would have to be Mali, barring any further changes. The Mali signal is aimed eastward allegedly 100 kW, while Urumqi is 500 kW, 308 degrees northwestward toward Europe and America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9685, R. Cairo, Abis. Russian service noted here at 1935 with the usual distorted and hummy audio, fair signal strength on 17/5, and same again at 1910 on 19/5 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FT DX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Double Bazooka antennas for 80 and 40 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU, June Australian DX News via DXLD) 11935, R. Cairo (Abis), 0112-0135 26 May. Great carrier, but modulation completely useless thanks to FM-y distortion. This is Cairo's 0045-0150 Spanish broadcast and would be a pleasant log, if not for the "usual" Abis-mal modulation (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA, G5/PL606 & the ever-faithful 6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12070, June 5 at 0103, R. Cairo in Spanish, good signal, and distorted yet still readable! 11935, June 5 at 0103, R. Cairo, Spanish, just barely audible, strange 9315, June 5 at 0103, R. Cairo, Spanish, poor signal just barely modulated 9965, June 5 at 0104, R. Cairo, Arabic, good signal but very undermodulated, yet not distorted, plus usual whine. 9315, June 6 at 0226, R. Cairo with suptorted music in English service 9965, June 6 at 0230, R. Cairo, VG signal with whine but Arabic is just barely modulated 13850, June 6 at 0232, R. Cairo, very good signal with Arabic drama, somewhat distorted but still readable, not // 9965 other Arabic service. 13850, June 8 at 0333, R. Cairo, ME music, good modulation for a change! Signal also good, with flutter 9965, June 8 at 0333, R. Cairo, other Arabic service is now undermodulated, plus whine but good signal level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Unscheduled transmission of Radio Cairo in Arabic from 0703 on 9964.6 kHz, June 9. Strong signal. 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** EL SALVADOR. COMUNICAR LA PAZ Y LA GUERRA: LA HISTORIA DE RADIO VENCEREMOS DE EL SALVADOR “Fui un guerrillero un poco atípico, porque vengo de una familia donde casi todos son de derecha, además estudié en un colegio muy conservador en Costa Rica”, así se define Marvin Galeas exguerrillero del Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) de El Salvador. A los 17 años ingresó a este grupo insurgente; duró 12 años en la guerra siendo miembro de Radio Venceremos, la emisora oficial de esta guerrilla durante la guerra civil... http://confidencialcolombia.com/es/1/dialogos_de_paz/16745/Comunicar-la-paz-y-guerra-la-historia-de-Radio-Venceremos-de-El-Salvador-fmln-el-salvador-marvin-galeas-giuerra-civil-farc-guerrilla-gobierno-colombia.htm (via José Miguel Romero2, Spain, June 6, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ERITREA. 7165, 6/6 0325, V.O.B.M.E. - Asmara, Amarico música, buono (Roberto Pavanello, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DXLD) Mostly on 7175, but can jump around even further into the hamband (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** ERITREA [non]. 7237, Voice of Eritrea, Gedja. From Ethiopia to Eritrea at 1800 on 4 May with ID in VE[rnacular] “Yeh dimtsi Ertrai“ and at 1803 “Idi erdatre Ertrai“. This station rather is called Voice of Eritrea than V of Peace & Democracy. Observed also at 0400 on 11/5 on 7234.0 and on 20/5 on 7235 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi ant 16 meters long own made, June Australian DX News via DXLD) So if you want real, rather than faux-Eritrean, it`s gotta ID with the ``Broad Masses`` (gh) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. There is still no signal from these three clandestine stations [including]: Sagalee Radio Risala-ti, Radio Risala International, no signal from May 22 1830-1900 on 21620 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Fri Oromo http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/there-is-still-no-signal-from-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, June 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FINLAND. 11690, Scandinavian Weekend Radio, Virrat, 0448-0503, 06- 06, program "SWR Music Box", pop music, identification at 0500: "This is Scandinavian Weekend Radio". 14321. Also 1630-1655, 06-06, Finnish and English comments, music, identification: "This is Scandinavian Weekend Radio". 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo and Friol, Tecsun PL-880, Sony ICF SW7600G, K-PO WR2100, Cable antenna, 8 meters, Degen 31MS active loop antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Scandinavian Weekend Radio SWR on June 5 and 6: Monthly broadcast 1st Sat 0000-2400 Finland, 2100-2100 UT all VIR 0.1 kW / non-dir to Europe in Finnish: 2100-2200 6170 2100-2200 11720 2200-2400 6170 2200-2400 11690 0000-0500 6170 0000-0500 11690 0500-0700 5980 0500-0700 11690 0700-0800 5980 0700-0800 11720 0800-1300 6170 0800-1300 11720 1300-1400 6170 1300-1400 11690 June 6 11720 1400-1600 5980 1400-1600 11690 June 6 11720 till 1500 1600-1800 5980 1600-1800 11720 June 6 11690 1800-2100 6170 1800-2100 11690 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/scandinavian-weekend-radio-swr-on-june.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #913 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, June 8, 2015, via DXLD) June 5: Scandinavian Weekend Radio in Finnish to Eu 2127 on 11720 Virrat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAYU1fxwL_0&feature=youtu.be Scandinavian Weekend Radio in Finnish to Eu 2202 on 11690 Virrat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpMnTK1Hu6w&feature=youtu.be June 6: Scandinavian Weekend Radio in Finnish to Eu 0503 on 11690 Virrat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmfAGtbGkX4&feature=youtu.be Scandinavian Weekend Radio in Finnish to Eu 0900 on 11720 Virrat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ4SLsGjMHY&feature=youtu.be Scandinavian Weekend Radio in Finnish to Eu 1000 on 11720 Virrat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZCrHqeu724&feature=youtu.be Scandinavian Weekend Radio in Finnish to Eu 1155 on 11720 Virrat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhUuPQWQky8&feature=youtu.be Scandinavian Weekend Radio in Finnish to Eu 1304 on 11720 Virrat, instead of 11690 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWpLK5akjQU&feature=youtu.be Scandinavian Weekend Radio in Finnish to Eu 1315 on 11720 Virrat, instead of 11690 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhmcfnErffA&feature=youtu.be Scandinavian Weekend Radio in Finnish to Eu 1355 on 11720 Virrat, instead of 11690 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjd5lBR-DL8&feature=youtu.be Scandinavian Weekend Radio in Finnish to Eu 1359 on 11720 Virrat, instead of 11690 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xbMPwncoKk&feature=youtu.be Scandinavian Weekend Radio in Finnish to Eu 1415 on 11720 Virrat, instead of 11690 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg-_Aw2ZdYI&feature=youtu.be Scandinavian Weekend Radio in Finnish to Eu 1518 on 11690 Virrat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEWPzG2aVxo&feature=youtu.be Scandinavian Weekend Radio in Finnish to Eu 1545 on 11690 Virrat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehPbDIXxK4M&feature=youtu.be Scandinavian Weekend Radio in Finnish to Eu 1601 on 11690 Virrat, instead of 11720 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMrHM7P3U1Y&feature=youtu.be Scandinavian Weekend Radio in Finnish to Eu 1619 on 11690 Virrat, instead of 11720 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y-AkOgfOGU&feature=youtu.be Scandinavian Weekend Radio in Finnish to Eu 1734 on 11690 Virrat, instead of 11720 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy2CcdENh0M&feature=youtu.be Scandinavian Weekend Radio in Finnish to Eu 1737 on 11690 Virrat, instead of 11720 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zATR6p0jP_s&feature=youtu.be Scandinavian Weekend Radio in Finnish to Eu 1800 on 11690 Virrat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhLw0flwbbE&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 7450, Helliniki Radiophonia, Avlis. Light music program at 2035, nice signal and easy listening on 17/5 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC. 9420, Helliniki Radiophonia, Avlis. Running a different program from the 7450 kHz outlet at this time, with a classical music program at 2040. Heavy QRM from VOIRI-Zahedan's Arabic service on the same frequency, 17/5 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FT DX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Double Bazooka antennas for 80 and 40 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU, June Australian DX News via DXLD) 7450 reactivated? Had been off for many months including all B-14 season, and we still never hear it or 7475 in our evenings. Maybe only on air in Greek evenings? Also unusual not to be // 9420. Maybe one with Thessaloniki program and the other with Athens. Or could it be something else? Only other thing scheduled at that hour is PBS Xizang, Lhasa, Chinese service (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I've the strong feeling, the new ERT Avlis Greece under new left wing government reduced also power consumption at the transmitter broadcast center now; even 9420 kHz comes in on lower signal strength now. ONLY a single unit is working perfect at present; second unit is seldom on air on 11645 or 15630 or 15650 kHz and wanders some 30 Hertz upwards, and 3rd unit 9935/11645 kHz is out and defunct at present (Wolfgang Büschel, June 3 wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 5 via DXLD) 9420, June 6 at 0228, Greek music is VG from ERT [unseems reduced power], back on sporadically still; nothing on any of the other 7, 9, 11 or 15 MHz frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Zach Liangas just wrote on the CUMBRE DX Facebook page: Breaking news --- EPT / ET starts back from tomorrow 11/6, two years after the so called ‘black‘, i.e. the suspension of ET’s programming and transmissions. A special happening will be held outside the operations building tomorrow night. Posted by: (Mike Terry, June 10, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DXLD) ** GUAM. 9975, June 8 at 1241, Asian music fair vs ACI from 9980 where the BS from WWCR has not yet built up to full daytime blast level; 1242 Chinese mentioning TWR, and 1243 ID as KTWR Agana (not Agaña) and then off circa 1245. Per Aoki, 1215-1245 is in Chinese M-F with 200 kW, Japanese on Sundays with only 100 kW but on same 315-azimuth antenna. And 9975 will be back at 1330-1445 mostly in 200 kW Chinese (Mandarin), but again halved to only 100 kW for less important Hui and Cantonese segments at 1400-1430; does this reflect jamming priorities too? I was not hearing any (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. AWR, Kachin language broadcast via KSDA, Agat, Guam. Received in 17 days a reply from Indianapolis, with a nice AWR verification card with radio stamp for Guam, from V/S Dr Adrian Peterson (Edward Kusalik, Alberta, Canada, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, Radio Verdad, TGAV, Chiquimula. After numerous attempts, heard a decent signal on the 3rd of June from 0412 to past 0450. Program consisted of spiritual hymn selections, with religious text in Spanish. Noted a nice ID in English at 0438, with promotion for material, followed with similar programming afterwards. Signal best heard of the 19/60 meter Inverted "V", cut for 1/4 and 3/4 wave length. QSL: 4055 Radio Verdad. After posting my report in English with a MP3 audio attachment, received back within 24 hours, from Dr Edgar Madrid. He thanked my for letter and confirmed it was their station, and he would be sending me my verification confirmation. He even sent a MS File attachment (How to tune into Radio Verdad better) stating that if I used a 40 meter antenna, I would get better reception? (Edward Kusalik, Alberta, Canada, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HONDURAS. 630, Radio América, multiple sites, 1022, anuncios with Tegucigalpa phone numbers, very strong and in the clear June 3 (XM, Cedar Key, Florida, NRD525D, R8A, E5 via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 4970, AIR Shillong, 1238-1302, May 31. Sunday program of C&W songs; "Rocky Mountain High" John Denver, "Jolene" Dolly Parton, etc.; DJ in English; local IDs - "The North Eastern Service of All India Radio" (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [and non]. 13710, AIR 6/1, 1400. W announcer with ID, going to music with flutes and drums. VG, over top of one and possibly two co-channels. China is here at this hour also (Rick Barton, Logs from El Mirage, AZ, Grundig Satellit 750, Outdoor Slinky, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AIR GOS 2045-2230 GMT --- Reception of this broadcast at my QTH has deteriorated considerably since the equinox. There always has been some variation seasonally, but the difference between “winter” and “summer” reception this year is considerable. The broadcast is barely audible at sign on, doesn’t improve much until 2200 or so; and, on some days it’s not even listenable. These broadcasts, in the past, have boomed in here during the winter and remained at marginally armchair listening levels throughout the summer. Has AIR reoriented, reduced the power used or otherwise altered the transmitters it uses? (John Figliozzi, Halfmoon, NY (USA), Eton E1-XM, Alpha-Delta DX Sloper, June 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WTFK? (gh, ibid.) ** INDONESIA [and non]. Hi Glenn, Just to let you know, I have started checking for the return of RRI Ternate (3344.85), as Ramadan is coming up on June 18. Actually Muslims will celebrate Ramadan on the sunset of Wednesday, the 17th of June. Will of course be looking for other RRI stations that might return (especially RRI Merauke on 3905), plus checking Bangladesh Betar, etc. for any changes in format or scheduling for Ramadan (Ron Howard, June 7, WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. VOI Cimanggis photos https://plus.google.com/photos/+LenfantLee/albums/5926011646760669297?authkey=CN6j9puNwNud1gE and story about the visit: http://daerduopro.blogspot.com/2013/09/blog-post.html http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A//daerduopro.blogspot.com/2013/09/blog-post.html&hl=fi&langpair=auto|en&tbb=1&ie= UTF-8 Does anyone know where to get spare tubes for their Marconi B6131 to get them back on the air? 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, June 5, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) Hi Mauno, I guess the tubes will be those from Thalès in France, so advise them to contact France directly; failing that I could try and see if Babcock in the UK could get some for them, let me know. Regards, (Dave Porter, UK, ibid.) Or their support/sales office in China. Contacts are given at https://www.thalesgroup.com/sites/default/files/asset/document/am_radio_1.pdf ``failing that I could try and see if Babcock in the UK could get some for them`` --- Which probably would be an option if their problem is the 4CW25,000A tube, a smaller one that appears to be used somewhere in the circuitry of the Marconi PWM transmitters. The big tubes are standard tetrodes, a TH537 for PWM switching and a TH555 as final. They just need to purchase some (Kai Ludwig, ibid.) Hi Mauno, If you need tubes of the type TH555A I suppose you can contact Media Broadcast and see if they have used tubes of that type left from the former Wertachtal Transmitter site. At the moment they only have 1 S4001 running which uses that TH555A. I you like I can contact them after the weekend. And put you in contact with them. Regards/Met vriendelijke groet, (J. Oosterveen, ibid.) ** IRAN. Special broadcasts of Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran for Ramazan: 2153-0050 5950 KAM 500 kW / 073 deg to CeAs Tajik June 18-July 17 2223-0020 9610 KAM 500 kW / 195 deg to N/ME Arabic June 18-July 17 2253-0220 6065 SIR 500 kW / 329 deg to WeAs Azeri June 18-July 17 2253-0220 7230 SIR 500 kW / 336 deg to WeAs Azeri June 18-July 17 2323-0020 7430 SIR 500 kW / 320 deg to N/ME Kurdish June 18-July 17 0023-0120 9845 SIR 500 kW / 310 deg to N/ME Turkish June 18-July 17 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/special-broadcasts-of-voice-of-islamic.html (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, June 9, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I.e., additional early-morning broadcasts for those inconvenienced by having to be awake and gorge themselves before sunrise (gh, ibid.) ** ITALY. Radio Latino will be on air on June 5 and/or June 6 Friday and/or Saturday evening/night on 7530 or 7590 or 7595 1730-1800 on 7590 and 1800-1900 on 7585 Fri, June 6, videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/radio-lationo-will-be-on-air-on-june-5.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #913 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, June 8, 2015, via DXLD) June 5: Radio Latino Blues Special relay Cool AM 1740 on 7590 plus open carrier on 7590.8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvq9DJt7P8s&feature=youtu.be Radio Latino Blues Special relay Cool AM 1745 on 7590 plus open carrier on 7590.8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P09o0Sshe1M&feature=youtu.be Radio Latino Blues Special relay Cool AM 1755 on 7590 plus open carrier on 7590.8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FidT6zABvgM&feature=youtu.be Radio Latino Blues Special relay Cool AM 1802 on new 7585, ex 7590 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRZosA234Cw&feature=youtu.be Radio Latino Blues Special relay Cool AM 1815 on new 7585, ex 7590 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etZogqJ1beY&feature=youtu.be Radio Latino Blues Special relay Cool AM 1823 on new 7585, ex 7590 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgmP_ljJxGA&feature=youtu.be Radio Latino Blues Special relay Cool AM 1830 on new 7585, ex 7590 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g55esID4THE&feature=youtu.be Radio Latino Blues Special relay Cool AM 1844 on new 7585, ex 7590 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CznDIrKoB2E&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7585, Radio Latino, 2010-2030, 05-06, blues music, identification: "Radio Latino". 14321. Also testing on 7620, 1853-1905, 06-06, songs, ID. "Radio Latino". Fair signal here. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo and Friol, Tecsun PL-880, Sony ICF SW7600G, K-PO WR2100, Cable antenna, 8 meters, Degen 31MS active loop antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAMAICA. 6/6 Es FM DX summary [presumably EDT = UT -4; statute miles at end] 1112, KLAS-FM 89.1 JM Mandeville EE-KLAS-FM Sports Talk 1026 1112, KLAS-FM 89.5 JM Montego Bay EE-KLAS-FM Sports Talk 1026 1118, HITZ92 92.7 JM Port Maria EE-HITZ92 1069 1118, HITZ92 92.3 JM Port Antonio - - EE-HITZ 92 FM 1026 1118, HITZ-92 92.1 JM Montego Bay - - EE- HITZ-92 1069 1136, KOOL-FM 97.3 JM Falmouth - - EE- KOOL-FM 1026 1218, IRIE FM 107.9 JM Kingston - - EE-IRIE FM 1026 FM total = 2691. Plus a ton of Spanish UNIDs from Cuba/Mexico/etc countries to review for IDable material and post in the WTFDA forum when time permits (Fred Nordquist, Moncks Corner, SC, 33.21756N 79.95798W, KJ4BUG, Grid FM03AF, June 7, WTFDA gg via DXLD) See also BELIZE; CAYMAN ** JAPAN [non]. Unscheduled broadcast of Radio Japan NHK World from 1000 UT June 9 1000-1016 on 15290 ISS 500 kW / 190 deg to WCAf IS/announcement Jap/Eng, after 0800-1000 on 15290 ISS 500 kW / 190 deg to WCAf Japanese, as scheduled in A-15 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/unscheduled-broadcast-of-radio-japan.html (Ivo Ivanov SW news June 9, Blgaria, June 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) NHK World, 11740, 6/5, 1215 UT, good listening reception of their Focus program about activities that can be done near the Tokyo airport such as taking a ride on the monorail to a nearby town where seaweed is processed and packed; a tour of a Buddhist pagoda and gardens (Larry Zamora, Garland, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) via SINGAPORE ** KOREA NORTH. 2850, KCBS (Pyongyang) 5/29, 1140. Symphonic music to soprano vocalist, just above static level. Poor; Fair on peaks (Rick Barton, Logs from El Mirage, AZ, Grundig Satellit 750, Outdoor Slinky, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 3985, SOUTH KOREA, Echo of Hope, 6/1, 1055. Monologue with W in Korean and well over top of roaring DPRK jammer. VG (Rick Barton, Logs from El Mirage, AZ, Grundig Satellit 750, Outdoor Slinky, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 5985, pulsating noise jamming at 1335, June 7, even though Shiokaze, the intended victim, is now up on 6020. Jamming is blocking Myanmar on 5985.0 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. PHILIPPINES, Voice of Wilderness made test of a new frequency on June 5-8 1300-1400 NF 11865 PUG 125 kW / 010 deg to NEAs Korean, Sun till 1430, ex 11860 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/voice-of-wilderness-made-test-of-new.html (Ivo Ivanov SW news June 9, Blgaria, June 10, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Was colliding with CUBA 11860 (gh) ** KOREA SOUTH. 6015, KBS Hanminjok Bangsong 1, at 1216, June 7. Recently the N. Korea white noise jamming has been intermittent; heard with no jamming; daily news in Korean with each item ending with "KBS News"; strong signal/good reception when no white noise present. 6135, Voice of Freedom (clandestine), 1326-1354, June 6. Heard without any white noise jamming, but QRM from utility; program in Korean with EZL songs. On June 5 at 1250, heard their often played instrumental theme music - "We Shall Overcome." BTW - June 6 was Memorial Day in Korea (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. I found some interesting things about V24 Korean numbers station. Echo of Hope was very weakly heard on the unmoduated signal of V24 station on 4900 kHz. Please see the videos I uploaded on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYsNpVjUnHw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuiMQiLfz9Q This is not IMD products or ghost signal. It is strongly suggested that V24 transmitting antenna is within the transmitting facilities of Echo of Hope (Sungchul Cho, location? June 9, WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. Dengue Kurdistane, programa especial elecciones en Turquía, 2000 UT prolongación === 11510 Dengue Kurdistane, 1955-2000, escuchada el 7 de junio de 2015 en kurdo a locutora con comentarios, parece emisión en directo, se escucha júbilo de gente en la calle, probablemente por las elecciones turcas, el partido de Erdogan pierde la mayoría absoluta en Turquía y los kurdos entran en el parlamento, locutora con entrevista, referencia a “Erdogan”, SINPO 34343 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, Grundig Yacht Boy 80, Antena hilo 10m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) June 3: Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs on 11510 kHz 0301 Issoudun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEtbfRohTSY&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Updated summer A15 schedule of Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish including change of transmitters: Issoudun/Grigoriopol/Secretbrod/Issoudun 0300-0500 11510 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs, hidden info by TDF / ISS 0500-1300 11510 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs, confirmed by Grigoriopol 1300-1700 11510 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg to WeAs+ 11490/11530/2nd hx 23020 1700-1900 11510 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs, hidden info by TDF / ISS http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/denge-kurdistan-in-kurdish-including.html (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DXLD) ** KUWAIT. Updated summer A-15 shortwave schedule of Radio Kuwait: 0200-0750 on 5960 KBD 200 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic General Sce 0500-0900 on 15515 KBD 150 kW / 059 deg to EaAs Arabic General Sce 0800-1000 on 7250 KBD 200 kW / non-dir to WeAs Persian 0930-1600 on 11630 KBD 200 kW / 230 deg to CeAf Arabic Holy Qur'an 1700-2000 on 13650 KBD 200 kW / 350 deg to NoAm Arabic General Sce 2010-2400 on 17550 KBD 200 kW / 350 deg to NoAm Arabic General Sce Inactive transmissions: 1000-1200 on 21580 KBD 150 kW / 084 deg to SEAs Filipino 1010-1600 on 9750 KBD 250 kW / 286 deg to NEAf Arabic General Sce 1210-1550 on 21540 KBD 150 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic General Sce 1600-1800 on 15540 KBD 150 kW / 100 deg to SoAs Urdu 1610-2100 on 6050 KBD 250 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic General Sce 1800-2100 on 15540 KBD 150 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, June 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBYA. ZAWIA RADIO STATION ATTACKED AND CLOSED BY DIALOGUE OPPONENTS --- By Ajnadin Mustafa. Tripoli, 6 June 2015: http://www.libyaherald.com/2015/06/06/zawia-radio-station-attacked-and-closed-by-dialogue-opponents/ Zawia local radio station is reported to have been stormed early this afternoon and closed by a local armed group who accused it of not supporting Libya Dawn and instead of backing the UN-brokered peace process. A station presenter, who did not want to be named, said that the attackers had ordered out staff, said they were sacking the station director and padlocked the premises. No equipment was damaged, however. In fact, the station is seen as having been a loyal, if not militant supporter of Dawn, so much so that it is claimed that political activists unsympathetic to Dawn drew up a file on it to present to UNSMIL. However, Zawia, like other Libya Dawn towns, is now split between those who want a settlement and militants who regard such views as treachery. The station has moved into the former camp. It has resulted in a number of threats but this is the first time it has been attacked. Posted by: (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO, June 6, dxldyg via DXLD) WTFK? ** MALAYSIA. 9835, Sarawak FM via Kajang, 1312-1417, June 10. Preempted regular programming to provide live coverage from the "57th International Al Quran Recital and Memorisation Assembly 1436H," held in Kuala Lumpur; fair-good with about 10 minute segments of reciting from the Qur'an, including some by YL (fairly rare to hear); interviews. http://itc.gov.my/event/57th-international-al-quran-recital-and-memorisation-assembly/ "For more than a half century, Malaysia has been the host of world’s oldest Al Quran recital assembly, with the 2015 welcoming the 57th edition of the mega event, that have every year gathered internationally renown reciters to Kuala Lumpur. Officially named the 57th International Al Quran Recital and Memorisation Assembly 1436H, the event is slated to return to Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC) from 9 – 14 June 2015. An estimated total of 120 participants that include “hafiz”, “hafizah”, “qari”, “qariah”, judges and accompanying officers from all over the world will congregate and partake in a six-day festival of Al Quran recitation and memorisation. The day will be dedicated to memorisation contest of 30 juz and comes night time, the air in PWTC will be filled with beautiful recitations of selected versus [sic] of Al Quran by participants from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iran and Iraq, just to name a few. From neighboring countries, reciters from Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore and Thailand are also expected to make their appearance this year." Look for the live coverage to continue all week long. John Wilkins in fact noted them yesterday, during their first day of coverage. Not carried on Asyik FM (6050) nor Wai FM (11665). Radio Klasik (5965) remains silent, as is the very long absent Traxx FM (7295). http://www.alquran.gov.my/index.php/en/ is the official website (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. 5995, RTV du Mali, Bamako. The usual problem of a strong carrier but weak audio at 2125. Long talk past 2130 in the Bambara language (or similar) with plenty of French words sprinkled throughout. Finally heard a groovy Malian song with backed by flutes and drums at 2132. Gets flattened at 2155 by the CNR 1 Jammer intended for VOA's Mandarin s/on at 2200. 17/5 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FT DX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Double Bazooka antennas for 80 and 40 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU, June Australian DX News via DXLD) ** MEXICO. 600, June 6 at 1100 UT, music other than NA, so probably not in UT -5 zone, fades at 1102 during full ID mentioning Mazatlán, Sinaloa, so XEHW 5/1 kW, ``La Mejor`` as listed by Cantú, IRCA and WRTH but the latter puts it in Rosario. Altho Sinaloa is a hotspot for sunrise skip to here, seems I have only logged this one a couple times before in March and April of 2013, as in DXLDs 13-13 and 13-15. When I started at 1055 UT today, by the dawn`s earliest light, there were Mexicans on just about every channel at the low end of dial, as Enid SR is 1114 UT, to edge slightly earlier to 1113 UT during the next week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 700, June 6 at 1105 UT, timecheck for 6:05 on 88.1 FM, just as it`s hit by low rumbling het from another station cutting on the air, presumably XEGD Chihuahua. No 700s are listed with an FM 88.1, but must be XEDKR in Guadalajara, relaying Radio Red out of México DF which *is* also on 88.1 there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 710, Saturday June 6 at 1115, that preacher in some variant of Low German, who we know comes to us via XEDP, Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, fading a few minutes later. Mentions Hermosillo, and sounds like a few English words mixed in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1060+, June 7 at 0505, end Mexican NA and immediate full ID for XERDO by SHVA, also XHRDO (?), so apparently this new AM station in Matamoros, Tamaulipas also has an FM dupe; not mentioned in the last Cantú list I preserved from February. Usual low audible het since it`s off-frequency to hi side, and copying in USB helps a lot; simultaneously hearing non-hyped on-frequency announcements from XEEP México DF. Evidently RCC`s KRCN in CO is not cheating with 50 kW day power at the moment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1090, June 7 at 0513, pausa en Milenio noticias, dominating channel rather than KAAY or anything else, but bothered by KRLD IBOC, lessened by off-tuning to 1088; so it`s XEAU, 5/0.5 kW in Monterrey NL with TV soundtrack (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Sporadic E opening the morning of June 5: I turned on the analog ch 2 snow around 1415 UT. Finally: 1520 on 2, fade-in algo with Gala bug in LR, presumably XHY Mérida 1526 on 2, bug in LR of MTY tv and below it 26 degrees and 10:-- clock, edges partly off-screen. So this is XHCNL, Saltillo, Coahuila, which relays ch 34 from Monterrey; talk show with YLs. Logo info: http://tvdxtips.com/mexlogosch2.html 1529 on 2, something else stronger with wild studio show including guy in costume reciting poetry; news crawler abottom including Tariq Aziz falleció. 1534 to full-screen news titled MATUTINO EXPRESS with YL anchorette, circular bug in LR can`t make out; 1538 fades. Search finds this program is M-F starting at 8:30 am [HCMV = 1330 UT], on Televisa`s foroTV network (so not XHY which is Gala with Calle 60) Here is how Televisa describes the show: http://www.televisa.com/programas/entretenimiento/076617/matutino-express/ ``ENTRETENIMIENTO --- Matutino Express --- Es un concepto informativo con una visión diferente de ver la noticia, serio pero con un toque que arranca la sonrisa. Lunes a Viernes 8:30 de la mañana por FOROtv Inicia tu día con un buen Matutino Express, con un concepto informativo, divertido y una visión diferente de enfrentar la noticia. Los conductores Esteban Arce, Adriana Riveramelo, José Ramón San Cristóbal, Lalo Salazar y un gran equipo de colaboradores están dispuestos [para] informarte y entretenerte con todo lo que necesitas para despertar de buen humor. Matutino Express está cargado de Noticias, Deportes, Espectáculos, Clima, Historias de Ciudad, Lo más Insólito de la información y mucha diversión. Matutino Express, se saborea muy temprano de lunes a viernes 8:30 de la mañana. Elenco: El "Rudo" Rivera (Deportes), Helena Guerrero, David Ramos "El Reporñero" [sic, made-up word?], Quique Muñoz, Érika Holstein (Clima), Armando Ramírez y San Martín`` ¿Hasta cuándo? The online program schedule only displays the future for the day in progress, and assumes México is on UT like my computer! Their accentuation is sporadic, so I have inserted them where correct. At this time 6m Es map shows heavy opening centered over Kentucky but one sole XE involved, XE2OR, who is in Nava, Coahuila, and often the only 6m activity in the whole country 1541 on 2, weak video, looks like TELEACTIVA bug UR = XEFB Monterrey 1546 on 2, MTY tv fade-in again, talk show, with LR bug as before, again at 1556 1607 on 2, fade-in infomercial for Rocket Hose! Yes, still in Spanish. 3-for-one-offer, etc., phone 1-800-120-6214. Still same going past 1612. Maybe it`s still with MTY bug, not sure. Please move it further in from corner! (in USA toll-free numbers, can the one after 800 be a 1 now? Looks odd.) 1612 on 4, algo video with MUF spike, nothing further 1616 on 2, PLAN B on backdrop of talk or commercial show; soon fades and nothing further in next sesquihour. BTW, Raymie reports that the next analog cutoff will be July 14, when lowband DXers must say goodbye to Ciudad Juárez` XEPM, Tu Canal 2, and XEJ-TV on 5. However, after the imminent elexion, things may move along quicker. Also see this NY Times story via Mike Cooper: Free TVs in Mexico Are Seen as Having Political Strings Attached --- The government is vowing to give away 10 million digital televisions. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/world/americas/mexico-elections-president-pena-nieto.html Not much sporadic E VHF DX showing lately, just in UT: June 6: 2053 on 2, brief bit of video shows 2057 on 2, fútbol, Net 7 bug in UR; XHTAU Tampico? (Glenn Hauser, OK, June 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BLOG this week Wow, the NYT did an article. Thanks for posting, Glenn. This is one of the key political problems with the way the government has gone about this transition. The TVs were distributed with the Mover a México logo of EPN's government (here's an unboxing of one of them) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjF8Cqg04MU and the INE even asked the SCT to take the logo off. http://www.ecosistemapolitico.com/ine-pide-quitar-logo-de-mover-mexico-televisores/ The mention of the PVEM (the Green Party) is also fascinating because that's been a frequent news item in what I read from Mexico. Their blatant disregard for election law is something, to say the least. But they are always in coalition with the PRI (including the past two presidential campaigns) and so they are an important resource for the PRI. Also, while I'm on the subject of news from Mexico, this past week a new site was launched that offers journalism about Mexico in English, and it may interest some of you. It's called El Daily Post and seems to have pretty good content (Raymie Humbert, AZ, June 5, Raymie`s Mexico blog, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Some multi-programming authorizations were awarded by the IFT today to 5 IPN transmitters (for the Once.2 secondary network), XHCDM (which had requested subchannels in the past for legislative coverage) and XHOPMA (which is for Canal del Congreso — but what about XHHCU!?). The IPN xmtrs covered are Tijuana, Valle de Bravo, SLP, Cuernavaca and Culiacán. On the XHOPMA approval, SPR looks like it's going to put Canal del Congreso on its xmtrs. If Ciudad Obregón is any indication these may require MPEG-4 equipment for most of the subchannels soon. Canal del Congreso has had ambitions of putting up transmitters nationwide for years. ————— Staying with the theme of public television, here's a status report on Mexico's 25 state networks and how they are doing in the digital era. Aguascalientes: Aguascalientes TV Stations: 1 Authorizations: 1 On air: 1 XHCGA-TDT 26 came on air in April to give this city digital parity. Baja California Sur: XHBZC Canal 8 Stations: 1 Authorizations: 1 XHBZC has channel 30 authorized for its transmissions but no information has yet been seen about digitalization. Campeche: TRC Stations: 1 Authorizations: 1 XHCCA has channel 30 authorized for its transmissions but no information has yet been seen about digitalization. The never-built permits for extensions of the network to Cd. del Carmen and Escárcega were removed in April. Chiapas: Canal Diez Chiapas Stations: 10 Authorizations: 6 Benemérito de las Américas, Comitán, Pichucalco and Marques de Comillas are the only missing digital authorizations. Comitán is on UHF, the only UHF analog in all of southeastern Mexico, and may end up being a flash-cut or intermittent operation case. None are on. Colima: Once TV Conexión Stations: 1 Authorizations: 1 XHAMO received its authorization for intermittent operation in the April list, and it will remain on VHF. It is the only digital VHF television station licensed in interior Mexico. Not on air. Distrito Federal: Capital 21 All-digital network, never in analog. To start multicasting legislative coverage soon. Guanajuato: TVCUATRO Stations: 27 Authorizations: 7 On air: 2 León and Celaya are on the air. The other five digitals are new. The remaining 20 transmitters have no authorization. Guerrero: RTG Stations: 2 Authorizations: 0 This small state network recently redesigned its logo, to represent the state's eight regions, but its two transmitters are going nowhere. A government report mentions that the TV and radio equipment is aging rapidly and that its replacement is "urgent". http://i.guerrero.gob.mx/uploads/2015/05/Informe-de-la-Direcci%C3%B3n-RTG-2015.pdf A US$3.8 million renovation and expansion project of RTG, to include digitalization of the television service and its Acapulco and Chilpancingo transmitters, is planned. Hidalgo: Radio y Televisión de Hidalgo Stations: 6 Authorizations: 0 The 2014 RTH report http://transparencia.hidalgo.gob.mx/descargables/ENTIDADES/RadioTVH/informe2014.pdf says that "the budgetary ceiling as authorized is insufficient to accomplish the HD and digital transition" and noted that more money was needed from the government in Pachuca. Jalisco: C7 Stations: 3 Authorizations: 1 On air: 1 XHGJG-TDT 25 (25.x) Guadalajara came on air last year and then began multicasting 4 SD subchannels, including a larger news operation, cultural content, and coverage of the state legislature and judiciary. The Ciudad Guzmán and Puerto Vallarta transmitters do not have authorizations. Estado de México: Radio y Televisión Mexiquense Stations: 2 Authorizations: 2 On air: 2 The first state network to go digital in Mexico is also one of its best. After shedding the Tejupilco de Hidalgo transmitter, it is now fully digital. Michoacán: SMRTV Stations: 12 Authorizations: 0 There does seem to be some progress. In October 2014, during various celebrations of this state network's 30th anniversary, the director said that Morelia, Zamora and Uruapan would go on air by February 1, 2015. http://lajornadamichoacan.com.mx/2014/10/trabaja-smrtv-en-proceso-de-digitalizacion/ But it's still a big fat zero. It was also mentioned that SMRTV had run out of space at its studios, and in another item from April, a presentation for an SMRTV meeting publicly available on Prezi, the need for a new transmitter facility at Las Flores [Morelia] was mentioned, as was the urgency of obtaining the 7 remaining TDT frequency assignments for the network. SMRTV is also seeking to build a new digital transmitter at Huétamo. The location and technical parameters are not certain yet. Morelos: Canal 49 (XHCMO) Stations: 1 Authorizations: 1 On air: 1 This was a flash cut that took place in September 2014 and coincided with the launch of new facilities for the IMRyT. Nayarit: La Señal de la Gente Stations: 2 Authorizations: 0 It is worth noting that XHTPG has two or three shadows that serve other areas of the state, but only two separately licensed stations alongside XHNSJ-6 San Juan de Abajo. Nuevo León: TVNL Stations: 24 Authorizations: 3 On air: 1 (XHMNL intermittent operation) The work is beginning, and they have the capability in Monterrey, but authorizations are still needed for most of this network. Oaxaca: CORTV Stations: 22 Authorizations: 0 This network has slimmed down considerably and moved into new, digital-ready facilities, but it still has no digital transmitters or authorizations. Puebla: Puebla TV Stations: 1 Authorizations: 1 The flash-cut took place in March, followed by the removal of the Zacatlán repeater from the list. This means Puebla TV is an all- digital network. Querétaro: RTQ New-in-digital network. Quintana Roo: SQCS Stations: 4 Authorizations: 0 Did the permits expire on SQCS? This state network, fueled for 15 years by a lot of Canal Once programs, is kind of an uncertainty. There are new digital allotments being given for "dependencies of the executive branch" at Cancún and Chetumal, and yes, the IPN is one of those dependencies. Hmmm... San Luis Potosí: Canal Nueve Stations: 2 Authorizations: 1 XHSLS-TDT 35 is likely to come on air this month. But is the Tamazunchale transmitter even operating? Sonora: Telemax Stations: 59 Authorizations: 3 In addition, XEWH has begun promoting "Canal 40" coming soon, as mentioned. This network recently relaunched and completed a lot of internal digitalization processes. It is now very different from the other state networks. Tabasco: Televisión Tabasqueña Stations: 3 Authorizations: 0 In 2012 it was stated that digitalization of TVT would require changing out 80% of its equipment. http://www.vespertinoolmeca.com/Portal/archives/13798 But since then this concession-based state network, unique in its type, has done spectacularly nothing. Tlaxcala: TDT Stations: 5 Authorizations: 3 TDT is finally going TDT, with a power boost from .5 kW for their Tlaxcala station to 7.26 kW on UHF in digital. Calpulalpan and San Pedro del Monte, however, do not have authorizations. Veracruz: TVMÁS Stations: 8 Authorizations: 4 Stations on air: 2 An authorization quirk is present with the Veracruz state network. In reality this is more like 8/3/2. The problem is XHGV-TDT 50, which was built as RF 26 instead, but XHGVS-TDT 26 is not on. This is one of the best state networks and it shows. Yucatán: Trecevisión Stations: 1 Authorizations: 0 I can't find anything. [Zacatecas???? --- gh] Last edited by Raymie; 06-06-2015 at 01:30 AM (Raymie, June 5+, ibid.) Could the tornado that caused 15 deaths in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, have also put television services off the air? It's been two weeks since that storm, but my tip here comes from Twitter. @rn_azteca is the account for Azteca's Red Nacional engineering department—it's the customer support line for poor signals, audio and video out of sync, stations off the air, etc. Televisa has nothing like it and tweets to this account are how I found out that Azteca has HD in Acapulco and Chilpancingo. But someone tweeted in the other day https://twitter.com/rn_azteca/status/607038337740701697 noting that Azteca has been off the air for two weeks since the storm. It's not just one person's antenna trouble, it's people at his work complaining they can't watch Azteca's coverage of boxing. Azteca has just one station in this border city, XHHE-7 in the Azteca 13 network. Televisa has three stations there, one of which is a retransmitter of XHRCG from Saltillo (Raymie, June 7, ibid.) - Has XHHE gone digital? - Do this viewer's co-workers live in the same neighborhood? We've seen storms cause "blocks" of outages in specific neighborhoods. The transmission is unchanged. (and we continue to have good reception in other neighborhoods considerably further from the tower) I'm thinking damage to a utility line causing interference. Or, severe damage to a large building (or other large object) resulting in multipath ("ghosting"). Or knocking down an object that used to provide reflected signals. Damage to outdoor receiving antennas is also possible (I wonder if these might be unusually common in Ciudad Acuña in attempts to receive San Antonio?) (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com June 7, ibid.) Raymie, thanks for the good work. In addition to the updates on Mexico TV, I enjoy reading about the history of Mexico broadcasting. Information like that about the founders of XEPM-2 and XEJ-5 is interesting to me. I have a large collection of books about the history of broadcasting, the movie business, etc, but those books say little about Mexico or Canada (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; June 7, ibid.) It makes me happy to hear that. Mexican broadcasting history is not as well documented, and I've been doing just as much historical research as I have current research. There's not a lot going on. I kind of think everyone is in a post-election stupor, to be honest (Raymie, June 10, ibid.) Quote Originally Posted by XNA DXer. ``I wasn't sure whether or not XEPM was still on analog channel 2`` XEPM and Ciudad Juárez leave analog on July 14. That date was just announced on Wednesday (Raymie, June 5, ibid.) Raymie, I will not celebrate that day. XEPM is one of my most-common Mexicans. I've seen them go from XEW to XHGC to "tucanal." They will be missed, as will all Mexican analogs (Danny Oglethorpe, ibid.) It's certainly sad. And XEJ was among Mexico's pioneer TV stations — so much so that the founder of XEJ, Pedro Meneses Hoyos, was honored by his brother in law with the calls of his own new station—XEPM. The Meneses and Molinar Fernández families went on to be busy in Chihuahua television. I'm fairly sure XHMH-TV in Hidalgo del Parral is named for the family as well (Meneses Hoyos). (Raymie Humbert, I speak Spanish so you don't have to. Read my Mexico Beat blog | Next analog shutoff: Ciudad Juárez + Tecate, July 14, ibid.) ** MONGOLIA. Weak reception of VOMongolia, due to absence of V of Korea, June 4 1510-1530 12014.9 U-B 250 kW / 116 deg EaAs Japanese 1530-1553 12014.9 U-B 250 kW / 116 deg EaAs English and then from 1553 12015.0 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg EaEu Russian VOKorea was back http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/weak-reception-of-voice-of-mongolia-due.html (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DXLD) June 4: Voice of Mongolia in Japanese to SoAs 1510 on 12014.9 Ulaan Batar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf29OtcEIxA&feature=youtu.be Voice of Mongolia in Japanese to SoAs 1520 on 12014.9 Ulaan Batar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XczOgnLC-Dw&feature=youtu.be Voice of Mongolia in Japanese to SoAs 1525 on 12014.9 Ulaan Batar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJFeQGaf6A4&feature=youtu.be Voice of Mongolia in English to SoAs 1530 on 12014.9 Ulaan Batar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vd2EFQsd2Q&feature=youtu.be Voice of Mongolia in English to SoAs 1535 on 12014.9 Ulaan Batar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPaypbIUg00&feature=youtu.be Voice of Mongolia in English to SoAs 1540 on 12014.9 Ulaan Batar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur8n4vJbbCA&feature=youtu.be Voice of Mongolia in English to SoAs 1545 on 12014.9 Ulaan Batar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euh5bzesWPE&feature=youtu.be Voice of Mongolia in English to SoAs 1550 on 12014.9 Ulaan Batar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC5b62uOd_s&feature=youtu.be [non] Voice of Korea in Russian to WeEu 1554 on 12015 Kujang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTHc82U2cO4&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. I've been enjoying downloading and listening to Radio Netherlands Media Network programs from the 1980s to early this century. It's been like reliving my young adulthood! Unfortunately, when I checked Keith Perron's PCJ website, I only see a single program. Where are all of the others??? http://www.pcjmedia.com/classic-media-network (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Walt, do you mean something like this?: http://www.radio4all.net/files/kperron@gmail.com/ or this?: http://jonathanmarks.libsyn.com/rss (roger, dxldyg via DXLD) Yes, that's quite the collection. I enjoyed the links from PCJ as they were very easy to follow for my steadily aging brain! 73, (Walt, ibid.) ** NEW ZEALAND. Frequency changes of RNZI in English effective from June 5 0651-0758 7330 RAN 025 kW / 035 deg to Tonga in DRM Mon-Fri,ex 9890 1551-1745 5975 RAN 050 kW / 035 deg to Cooks/Samoa/Niue AM, ex 9700 1746-1835 9700 RAN 050 kW / 035 deg to Cooks/Samoa/Niue AM, ex 11725 1836-1850 9700 RAN 050 kW / 035 deg to Cooks/Samoa/Niue AM, ex 11725 1836-1850 9760 RAN 025 kW / 035 deg to Cooks/Samoa/Niue DRM,ex 11690 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/frequency-changes-of-rnzi-in-english.html (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Some changes from 5th June http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/listen Sent from my iPad Posted by: (John Hoad, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Viz.: NB: Every month on the first and third Wednesday it is Maintenance day at our transmitter site from 2230 - 0600 UT (Thursdays 1030-1800 NZST) During this period there may be interruptions to our programmes. 29 Mar 2015 [sic] - 24 Oct 2015 UTC kHz Target Days 0200-0255 15720 AM Pacific Daily 0255-0400 15720 AM 17675 DRM Pacific Daily 0400-0458 15720 AM Pacific Daily 0459-0650 11725 AM Pacific Daily 0651-0758 11725 AM 7330 DRM from 5 June Tonga AM Daily DRM Mon-Fri 0759-1058 9700 AM Pacific Daily 1059-1258 9700 AM NW Pacific, PNG Daily 1300-1550 6170 AM Pacific Daily 1551-1745 5975 AM from 5 June 7330 DRM Cook Is, Samoa, Niue, Tonga Daily 1746-1835 9700 AM from 5 June 7330 DRM Cook Islands, Samoa, Niue, Tonga Daily 1836-1850 9700 AM 9760 DRM from 5 June Cook Islands, Samoa, Niue, Tonga Daily 1851-1950 11725 AM 11690 DRM Cook Islands, Samoa, Niue, Tonga Daily 1951-2050 11725 AM 15720 DRM Pacific Daily 2051-2150 11725 AM 15720 DRM Solomon Islands AM Daily DRM Sun-Fri 2151-2355 15720 AM Pacific Daily 2355-0200 15720 AM 17675 DRM Pacific AM Daily DRM Sun-Fri Bougainville/Papua New Guinea and Timor Transmission 1100 -1300 UTC (via gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DXLD) ** NIGERIA. Strange schedule of Voice of Nigeria IKO on 15120 kHz 1520-1603 UT June 1 1520-1603 15120 250 kW / 007 deg NoAf Yoruba/Igbo/Arabic ex English 1600-1630 9690 250 kW / 248 deg ECAf Swahili, not on air 1630-1700 9690 250 kW / 248 deg WCAf Yoruba, not on air 1700-1730 9690 250 kW / 248 deg WCAf Igbo, not on air 1730-1800 15120 250 kW / 007 deg NoAf Arabic, not on air http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/strange-schedule-of-voice-of-nigeria-on.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #913 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, June 8, 2015, via DXLD) ** NIGERIA. Hi again, today, as usual 0600-0658 Hausa on 7255 // 9689.9, then 31m went off, 7255 continued with lengthy IS, some dead air and then into news in French, sounding very familiar with the Chopin valse. Fair signal via Florida remote receiver. Don't know whether this is produced in Lagos or Abuja (used to be Lagos in French at that time) and if the transmitter was changed at 0700. Usual 15120 broadcast of this programme was off. Livestream is also off. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, June 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. JIBWIS ESTABLISHES RADIO, TELEVISION STATIONS IN ABUJA http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/06/jibwis-establishes-radio-television-stations-in-abuja/ An Islamic group, the Izalatul Bid’ah Wa’ikamatul Sunnah (JIBWIS), has established international Radio and Television stations in Abuja to propagate Islam. Sheikh Bala Lau, the National Chairman of the group, announced this on Sunday in Katsina. He said that the stations were located in Abuja and had commenced transmission last week. Lau, who was speaking at a seminar organised by the group for Islamic preachers, said the stations were innovation of the group to propagate Islam. According to him, the two stations were set up through contributions by wealthy individuals and were named “Manara stations.”. Lau explained that the Sultan of Sokoto, Saad Abubakar III, would commission the stations on Wednesday. The chairman said the group was working to provide more assistance to orphans in Adamawa, Yobe, Kano and Borno states. He said the group would take care of the feeding, clothing and sponsor them to acquire western and Islamic Education. Lau lamented over the increasing number of Almajirai roaming the streets in northern states pointing out that about 12 million Almajirai needed food and clothing. He emphasised on the need for wealthy individuals to rise in assisting the needy and orphans in our society. Posted by: (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO, dxldyg via DXLD) WTFK? ** NORTH AMERICA. Pirate Radio Casablanca on 6940 at 0100 UT June 5, 30 db over s9 here. Music of the 1940s and WWII. Gave radiocasablanca1@gmail.com for reports. 73 Doc W2MFT Saturday nite pirates --- Hello Glenn, 7 june 2015 0140 UT. Radio Free Whatever with DJ Dickweed on 6950 USB, 10 dB over 9 but QRN present music and talk. 7 June 2015 0147 UT, Wolverine Radio on 6935 USB, solid 40 dB over S9, music slow scan or fax sent at 0234 UT, second one sent 15 seconds later. 7 June 2015 0159 UT, Liquid Radio on 6925 AM, S9 signal with QRN Song Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum, Suzie Q by CCR Now 6925, Nordic Wind Radio at 02:40 Male ID followed by Jackson Browne load out/stay song/ Good S9 signal; no sign off but gone by 0255 UT. Had some earlier interference heterodynes between Liquid Radio and this one. And that`s it for tonight. 73 Doc W2MFT. Thanks (Mark F. Tattenbaum M.F.A., Tonawanda NY, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 930, June 7 at 1222 UT, yes, WKY, `La Indomable`, OKC, is still defaulting to unaccented English for a pubaffs talk show on Sunday mornings for less than a semihour circa 1200 UT --- discussion of some Medieval Times event (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 960, June 5 at 0500-0505 UT, NO Fox-Hole of dead air from local KGWA Enid, nor on several other recent nights. Hope they haven`t fixed it permanently. I would have to check every night for at least a week to be sure, and that`s inconvenient. 960, June 6 at 0215 UT, I`m marveling at how, even without a Fox-hole during the `Clark Howard Show`, I can null local KGWA down to nothing by extremely precise rotation of the DX-398 on the easel in my second- floor radio room. The slightest nudge will bring it back in. But as it`s sitting in the null, KGWA starts cutting in all by itself. Is something happening intermittently with their power/pattern, or is the DX-398 responsible? Have not noticed such behavior before (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1000, June 6 at 0604-0606 UT, dead air from KTOK OKC, during which I can make out some Spanish and some English from understations, the former WSW likely Juárez. 0606 UT KTOK comes to life with music presumably prélude to another C2CAM talkhour (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1500, KPGM Pawhuska OK, daytimer suspected of nighttiming as monitored from Enid in several previous logs vs KSTP: on June 10 for the OK Mozart festival I happen to be in Bartlesville OK, joint city for this station, and am hearing the same kind of conflict. First on caradio around 0305 UT, Cards baseball on both 1500 and jointly owned Bartian station 1400 KWON. Cards promo break at 0359 UT has different content, but at 0400 UT rejoining // game coverage without any local IDs. Unlike in the daytime with large local signal, at night even this close to site (apparently the single nondescript stick right next to US 60 about halfway between the cities), at a hotel on east side of B`ville, one can null KSTP or KPGM with the tell-tale SAH between them. Other observations: 102.7, K274AJ, is Bartlesville translator of KRPS 89.9 Pittsburg KS (apparently its only one, or the only one in IDs), and thus the only local quality signal with classical music and NPR. You might think that 88.7 KWTU Tulsa, the all-classical offshoot of KWGS 89.5, would be just fine in Bartlesville, but suffers ACI from 88.5, apparently 20 kW KBQC Independence KS while KWTU is only 5 kW. 93.3, K227CQ, is local Bartlesville translator of 1400 KWON, a.k.a. KCD Enterprises. 93.7, K229CQ, another Bartian translator, IDs as ``Bott Radio Network 91.5``, i.e. relaying KARF Independence KS. But licensee of the translator is different, Community Broadcasting, Inc. 94.9, K235CG, new translator in Ponca City of KOSU 91.7 is confirmed active, heard coming and going, considerable range east and west on US 60. By the time it`s lost on the way to Bartlesville (along with 91.7 too), the full-power KOSN 107.5 Ketchum relay of KOSU is taking over from NE of Tulsa. And we are finally hearing KOSU ID and promo the 94.9 ``powerful signal in Ponca``, i.e. 250 watts! 90.7, KAYE, Tonkawa OK at Northern Oklahoma College is confirmed as active even in the summer June 9-10, rock music, but you need to be fairly close to Tonkawa for its 1.2 kW to capture the frequency from Wichita`s KYWA but which is surprisingly listed as only 3 kW. 104.5, KZZW, Mooreland OK, ``In Balance Music Radio``, west of Enid, which I have trouble getting in Enid, was coming in well enough before sunset on US 60 north of Enid, but decided to broadcast dead air from 0031 to 0041 UT June 11 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1650, June 4 at 0509 UT, `Info Wars` with Alex Jones is on KYHN Sallisaw, instead of `Red Eye Radio` so not // 1640 KZLS. Own sked http://kyhnradio.com/schedule continues to show Info Wars ending at local midnight CDT weekdays, and RER after midnight --- I can only conclude that KYHN sometimes fails to make the proper program source switch during CBS news on the hour. One far-right wacko is as bad as two others (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Could running Jones later be in compensation for earlier preemption by a stupid ballgame on certain nights? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 21829-USB, June 6 at 0236, after finding no signals on the 21 MHz broadcast band (and didn`t notice any on ham band either), here`s intermittent SSB, first just saying ``Charlie Alfa Hotel``, then at 0237 shifts up one to 21830-USB, with same; 0238 blowing in mike, feedback or tone, and full call fonetikally as KG7CAH, except I`m not sure of the second character, which sounds more like ``frog`` than ``golf``; 0240 more knocking mike around, blowing; 0241 blowing, feedback, full call again with same question mark. Evidently an ham in the Northwest testing. Maybe he`s lysdexic, thinx he`s on 21380 inside the hamband? QRZ.com lookup shows: KG7CAH Michael G Nelson 1121 Harrison Ave PMB 128 Lacey, WA 98503 USA However, in case it`s KF7CAH, I also look that up and find that he`s not far away right here in Enid! Capitalization sic: KF7CAH Michael D Anderson 423 w elm enid, OK 73701 USA So it could be an overload or spur, unknown frequency whence. I think he must be saying ``fox`` instead of ``foxtrot``, demonstrating that there`s a very good reason for the ``-trot`` to be part of that F fonetik! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. CHURCH’S RADIO STATION TOUTS TRADITIONAL TUNES http://www.enidnews.com/news/church-s-radio-station-touts-traditional-tunes/article_e324b9ba-0d76-11e5-ba98-87b65c5215e5.html Victory Bible Church is home to 99.9 FM. (Photo provided) Posted: Sunday, June 7, 2015 9:00 pm Posted on Jun 7, 2015 by Amber Friend Staff Writer Tucked behind the back corner of the Victory Bible Church’s sanctuary is an element not normally expected at traditional churches: a 24/7 radio broadcasting studio. Starting up in October 2014, the church has been hosting its own local radio station at 99.9 FM. It broadcasts nonstop conservative, traditional Christian music to the Enid area. The founder of the church’s station, Paul Regier, said he had wanted to start the station for years so he could play the kind of praise music he sees as “very satisfying.” Listeners will not find current Christian rock ‘n’ roll or rap on 99.9, Regier said, but a mix of traditional hymns, acapella [sic], gospel country, instrumental and children’s tracks that harken back to a different age of worship. “I think it’s the real thing,” Regier said of the more conservative music. “There’s a lot of messages in songs and that’s what we try to do. We pick songs where something in the song touches a person’s heart, lifts them up … We just keep it the old way.” The station’s programming is not limited to music — the 24-hour station also broadcasts many prerecorded shows, including devotionals by Elizabeth George, Nancy DeMoss and Joni Eareckosn Tada; Christian news pieces by Mission Network News and Israel in the News; and dramas by Lamplighter Theater and Pacific Garden Mission, among many other shows playing at all hours. The station also works to incorporate those in the community. Many members of the congregation have brought in their personal music libraries to add to the station’s playlist. Even the church’s pastor, Dennis Elder, who helps run the station, can be heard through his daily recorded devotionals and steel guitar praise songs, Regier said. “In my way, it’s just getting the word out — God’s word. It’s all gospel, you know, and that’s the purpose of it,” Elder said of his work on the station. The broadcast already has made a local impact. Though Regier and Elder do not know exactly how many listeners they have, the station has drawn attention from those in their congregation as well as from those outside of it. For some member of the community, the music “brings back memories,” Regier said. Elder said they had received many calls from residents who had not heard the station’s songs for years. For some listeners, the music was special on a personal level (Enid Eagle June 7 via DXLD) So some 8 months after this new LPFM stations goes on the air, as we reported at the time, the Enid Eagle finally takes notice of it. It has no dedicated coverage, let alone a columnist, dealing with local media other than itself. Notice that Amber never bothers to mention its callsgn, KVBN-LP, nor any technical details such as sharing a tower and site with KLGB-LP 94.3 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Re FCC TV NEWS, ENID [in WTFDA VHF UHF Digest] Doug, I`m somewhat bemused by all the FCC activity concerning LPTVs or translators in Enid ---- I can assure you that not a one of these is on the air, nor ever has been AFAIK (except K45EJ once in analog but off for many years). I`m apprehensive that some of those may eventually appear. The only TV signal in Enid for the past year or so is RF 32, WQOS306 (with ``TV-OK`` infomercials on 31.1, color bars on 31.2 and 31.3 altho labeled M - FOX and Azteca), WITHOUT RF31 KXOK-LD. 73, (Glenn to Doug Smith, FCC TV News ed., via DXLD) Yes, the whole situation gets a bit confusing. I list a station as "new" (status "NW") when it applies for a license-to-cover the construction permit. To apply for this license, the station must have operated (because it must certify that it's tested the facilities & found they operate according to the terms of the permit). Once that license is issued, the status in the FCC database is changed from "CP" (or "CP MOD") to "LIC". - It is possible these stations operated just long enough to prove the facilities work, then shut back down. They may remain off for up to a year. That said, they're supposed to notify the FCC within ten days of their suspension. I see no such notification in the database. - It is not totally unheard of for a station to lie -- to tell the FCC they constructed when in fact, they didn't. An FM station (in Texas, I think) recently lost its license. They actually did build (and had photos to prove it) but not at the authorized site. The FCC doesn't regard unauthorized operation as operation. I list seven LPTV stations authorized in Enid: - K17JN-D 500w 36-32-09N/98-03-34W LIC E0330 Rd. between N2770 and N2780, between Hillsdale & Goltry 15kw 36-24-28N/97-59-54W CP Boomer & E0420 roads, same tower as 89.1 FM - K19IR-D (same as above) - K36MV-D 5kw 36-32-13N/98-00-39W CP same tower as KXLS FM 95.7 & KNID FM 107.1 E0330 Rd. between Hwy 132 and Boomer - K42LL-D 7kw 35-44-23N/97-29-02W LIC 15kw 35-35-52N/97-29-22W CP Licensed to Enid but both locations are in Oklahoma City. - K45EJ 27.6kw 36-28-17N/97-56-23W LIC (analog) 15kw (same site) CP (digital) Tower behind Chisholm High School, Garland & Carrier Roads - KUOC-LD 48 6kw 36-03-24N/97-25-26W LIC E0660 Rd. west of Mulhall 36-07-23N/96-55-28W CP Rose Road & E. 6th Ave., east of Stillwater - KXOK-LD 31 3.7kw 36-23-48N/97-52-38W LIC E. Broadway between 2nd & Grand (Doug Smith, TN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Well, that`s odd, some of them for ``Enid`` low power way off in OKC or beyond Stillwater (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 23, June 5 at 1432 UT, KSBI OKC has added a 52-2 `TEST` of black and silence. The word TEST shows on the DTV tuner, but not on the PSIP field. So now this sub-station of KWTV 39 ``9`` may be about to give us yet another rerun sub-sub-channel? The original KSBI did run a 52.2 duplicating an LPTV but not since KWTV bought it (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. 15730, RP, *0113-0202+ 25 May. Tnx to Dave Valko's tip, RP showed up with OC, hummy audio on the opening announcement, but improving as the Qur'an recitation began, possible commentary on the recitations/discussion and additional recitations at 0141-0148. Fanfare, 3 pips at TOH & more chat. Apparently a bit irregular as unheard during a check on 26 May at 0113-0135 (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA, G5/PL606 & the ever-faithful 6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15700, Radio Pakistan with typical Asian subcontinent music playing, noted at 1730 UT, maybe scheduled 17-18 UT. Distorted audio as always, but tonight very strong at S=9+35dB level, compared to signals received in past weeks. RP Islamabad signal is broooaaadband of 15.7 kHz EACH sideband. And disturbs also powerhouse CRI Kashgar service in French on 15680 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, June 6, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PALAU. 9760 [sic], WHRI via Palau. Mixed speeches from two studios at 1430 on 10/5 – Shiokaze in Japanese + program of Water of Life Ministries in English (heard also on 9930) (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi ant 16 meters long own made, June Australian DX News via DXLD) The Japanese on 9760 is Nikkei. Suspect 9760 is typo for 9960, where there is Furusato no kaze via Palau, not Shiokaze, but related (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7324.96, Wantok Radio Light, 1257-1258, June 7. Recently have found this daily one or two minute opening for WRL reception when CRI turns off the transmitter between programs; poor, with religious songs (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4774.9, Perú, Radio Tarma. Tarma 1000 to 1007 strong signal with Peruvian music under t-storm 1 June (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, various wire antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4810, Radio Logos on May 29 at 0405 presumed with weak singing among ute QRM (Sheryl Paszkiewicz, Manitowoc, WI, DX-400 with Eavesdropper via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4810, Perú, Radio Logos, Chazuta, Tarapoto 0930 with Peruvian Flute music, on early and dominating weaker CODAR to 0940. - 3 June. Often signs on later (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, various wire antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4824.49, Perú, La Voz de la Selva, Iquitos, 2340 to 2350 marginal signal in Spanish, seem irregular but strong on 4 June (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, various wire antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, June 5 at 0100 I am finally tuning in earlier to detect the reset autocutoff time of R. Chaski, still hearing a JBA carrier. It cuts off at 0102:27.5* so we may now expect that to precess ~6 seconds later per day for the next few months. The reset a few days ago must have been to approximately 0102 instead of 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, R. Chaski. 7/6 2245 UT. Pastor analiza el Padre Nuestro. SINPO: 35343. 5980, R. CHASKI, 8/6 0030 UT. Inicio del programa: "Los grandes temas" acerca del enemigo. SINPO: 45333 (Claudio Galaz Toledo, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, RX: Realistic DX-160, ANT: Hilo de 20 metros de largo, condiglista yg via DXLD) ¿Cuál enemigo?? (gh, DXLD) 5980, R. CHASKI, 8/6 2315 UT. Programa: “El camino de la vida”. A las 2323, ID como: “Red Radio Integridad, la voz que glorifica a Dios, por 5980, Radio Chaski, para la región Cuzco”. Luego anuncios de ofrecimiento de literatura y de ponencias en iglesias bautistas independientes de Lima. SINPO: 45444 (Claudio Galaz Toledo, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, RX: Realistic DX-160, ANT: Hilo de 30 metros de largo + antena de tierra de 20 metros, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. 9925 // 15190, R. Pilipinas, 1739-1930*, June 4. Their long standing schedule is *1730-1930*; in Filipino with news and economic news; chatting about Bruce Jenner; frequent IDs; poor to almost fair. 15640 // 17820, R. Pilipinas, *0200, June 5. Anthem; long "PBS" song; usual opening message with salute to overseas Filipino workers and to listeners of R. Pilipinas; into “From the presidential palace Manila, Dateline Malacañang”; 0238 - "This is the PBS News"; President Aquino visiting Japan and addresses some 1,000 Japanese businessmen at the Philippine Investment Forum; almost fair; scheduled 0330*, which in the past I have observed; did not hear scheduled 12010 frequency (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see USA ** PUNTLAND. 13800, June 5 at 1305, not even a carrier detectable from Puntland Radio --- has anyone heard it in June? No reports I can find. On May 31, S. Hasegawa told the DXLD yg, ``Puntland Radio on 13800 kHz has confirmed several Japanese DXer that the carrying the audio of Puntranndo TV at 1400 UT on May 29 and 30. including English advertising. Live streaming http://www.puntlandtvradio.com/ S. Hasegawa``. Also possibly bearing on this is a story via José Miguel Romero2, June 1, but which does not mention name of station concerned: ``PUNTLAND AUTHORITIES DETAIN EDITOR OF LOCAL RADIO http://allafrica.com/stories/201505250381.html The authorities of Somali regional state of Puntland have detained Radio Journalist and editor of Daljir Jamal Farah and director Abdirahman Gardi. The two are said to be detained in Garowe in connection to a discussion program aired on Friday night criticizing the performance of regional state administration President Abdiweli Ali Gas. The regional authorities suspended National Television SNTV last week for allegedly misrepresenting administration efforts on fleeing Somali refugees from Yemen. Detention and closure of media stations is very common in Somalia. Earlier this year Somali security agencies have shutdown Shabelle radio station for allegedly broadcasting security threat and public incitement. The horn of African country is described by committee protect journalists as the dangerous environment for journalists to operate after Syria and Iraq. More than 50 journalists lost their lives since the breakout of the civil war 1992.`` (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 17760, June 4 at 0531, RRI in English news, poor signal, // 21500 with fair signal, and third analog frequency, 9700 is no better than 17760. We know Summer Solstice is nigh when 21 & 17 MHz are doing better than 9 in the nightmiddle from Europe! The two higher frequencies are aimed eastward from Galbeni and Tziganeshti, respectively, while the fourth unit is in DRM on 11795-11805 from Tziganeshti, per EiBi, unchecked (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15170, RRI, 6/7, 2030. Opening in English with M s/on announcements and M with Radio Newsreel. Good (Rick Barton, Logs from El Mirage, AZ, Grundig Satellit 750, Outdoor Slinky, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. A CRY FROM THE HEART - RUSSIAN BAND "208 TALKS OF ANGELS" Good day, dear Glenn! We are very happy to reach you through the infinite web and we dare to bother you with a request. We are a musical band from hostile Russia. But we strongly believe that our people are not the enemies, but all brothers and sisters. We sing our songs about difficulties we face, we sing about better things, that are achieved problematically, we try to stop provocations, trying to open the eyes and hearts and tell others to do the same. We believe in truth. But the songs we sing seem needless. It will be a great honour for our musical group to offer you to listen to our works and that will be incredible if you can find some spare time for it. The main project is called “208 Talks of angels” and it involves the diversity of all our thoughts and fantasies, styles and musical torrents. We hope with all our hearts, that you will like at least some of “208 Talks of angels”`s songs! http://soundcloud.com/208talksofangels Our dream is to stop making our music unneeded and useless, we have spent (and spending) all our time for it, because that is our life. Please, if you are able to help us somehow – no matter how – or you maybe know someone who is able to do that, pleas, don’t pass this letter by. Either way, we are happy, that you read our words, the words of hope and gratitude. Please, take our warmest regards and greatest respect, let the sun always shine over your head, 208 Talks of angels, Russia (Vladimir Romanchenko, June 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. I couldn't help but immediately think of Shiokaze when I watched Brian Whitmore's commentary. Perhaps there'll be a similar program targeting Russia in the future? Here's the link: http://bit.ly/1HW9uiK 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, dxldyg via DXLD) Viz.: JUST CALL IT A ROGUE http://www.rferl.org/content/daily-vertical-just-call-it-a-rogue/27059299.html The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. Viewers can suggest topics via Twitter; 2:08 (via DXLD) Vertical = those who`ve not been rendered horizontal? (gh) ** RWANDA [non]. There is still no signal from these three clandestine stations [including]: Radio Imara, Radio Impala, no signal from May 18 1800-1900 17540 MDC 250 kW / 310 deg SoAf Mon/Wed/Fri K'rwanda/Eng/Fre http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/there-is-still-no-signal-from-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, June 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)[ ** SAINT HELENA [non]. I just watched a new Globe Trekker episode on St Helena (and the 5-day voyage to get there, pre-airport). Excellent hour, but nothing about radio except a brief glimpse of a tower. It`s an MMXV production of WETA Washington on PBS. I have no idea how it`s scheduled on other PBS stations, but in Oklahoma it was on OETA at 22- 23 UT Saturday June 6, repeats at 00-01 UT and 18-19 UT Sunday on OETA OKLA. And once more Thursday at 10-11 UT on OETA (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) May be accessible via show website? ** SLOVAKIA [non]. USA, Additional transmissions of Radio Slovakia International via WRMI Okeechobee: 2100-2130 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Sat/Sun, instead of 2100-2115 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English S/S End Times Coming 2115-2130 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English S/S Echo of EU/EUNN http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/additional-transmissions-of-radio.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #913 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, June 8, 2015, via DXLD) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020, June 4 at 1209, SIBC carrier is still on, rather than off circa 1200 as usual. At first I could detect some modulation, but in heavy storm noise from KS & MO, I thought it quit circa 1201; however, Ron Howard says they then started simulcasting Wantok FM 96.3 with EZL pop songs heard past 1328 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 5020.0, SIBC with anomaly on June 4; after the usual 1200-1201 National Anthem, went to the audio feed of "Wantok FM 96.3"; extended schedule still going at last check at 1328; playing EZL pop songs in English ("I'll Still be Loving You," etc.); frequent brief IDs - "Wantok FM 96.3. Good Times. Great music"; almost fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Update - Thanks to feedback from Mauno Ritola and Sei-ichi Hasegawa, who were hearing the SIBC extended schedule today, both noted it past 1600 (Ron Howard, June 4, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) June 7 - Again SIBC with Wantok FM 96.3 programming, on 5020.0, with extended schedule; noted 1212-1340. Reception considerably poorer than heard on the 4th; sounded like mostly religious songs, as it's Sunday; fewer IDs than normally given, which were always very brief ("Wantok FM with the hottest DJs"). (Ron Howard, ibid.) June 8 - SIBC (5020.0) ending the NA at 1204. Transmitter still on at last check of 1325, but 1204-1325 with no audio, just an open carrier. So yesterday they did not carry Wantok FM 96.3 programming, as they did on the 7th. By 1325 the OC was strong, so was a shame they did not carry any audio (Ron Howard, June 9, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DXLD) Man, I've never been able to hear 5020 SIBC here; it`s just splatter from Cuba on that frequency (Paul Walker, Redding, CA, ibid.) The splatter from 5025 Cuba should have faded down if not out by 1200 UT, while in CA you still have all-darkness path to SI (gh, DXLD) Hi Paul, Only 318 miles due north of me here at Monterey/Asilomar State Beach to your location at Redding, but a world of difference in our SW reception. Am fortunate to be able to listen right by the edge of the ocean, which seems to enhance my reception. SIBC (5020.0) continues with their recent erratic activity. June 9, noted transmitter suddenly off after the NA at 1203*, unlike yesterday`s open carrier (no audio), going past 1325. June 10, tuned in at 1125 to nice Pacific Island pop songs; in Solomon Pijin; song in English ("Two Less Lonely People in the World"); Christian religious song ("What A Beautiful Day For The Lord To Come Again") before the "evening devotional"; usual ID and NA; almost fair. 1202 end of audio programming; leaving just a good strength open carrier through to last check at 1420. Sad they do not just run the audio feed from Wantok FM, instead of just dead air! Audio from today’s reception, with summertime QRN (static): https://app.box.com/s/m37spvbaxaku2nf316frfnn15eleo6n2 (Ron Howard, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. 7120, June 8 at 0328, no signal from R. Hargeisa, but at 0331 a very poor AM carrier vs CW QRhaM. Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, who`s such a fan that hargeisa is in his e-mail address, continues to monitor its closedown almost every night in May within two minutes of 1900* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. USA, WRMI, 11825, June 5, 1550 UT, fair reception of Brother Stair's ministry program. Ranting about the mysterious Planet X which he claims is for real and that we should be prepared for the event when Planet X comes between earth and sun. He expects meteorites will shower the earth and cause damage. Take note that it will be Aug 17 (Larry Zamora, Garland, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15770, June 7 at 1250, open carrier from WRMI. We can hardly wait till 1300 for Brother Scare to start, since the other two frequencies, 11580 and 11825, both have Asian QRM, while 15770 never does (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 15490, REE, Noblejas. Good strong signal of speaker in usual rapid Spanish. Pleasant level of reception on morning when conditions are unrewarding. This program is directed to North America whilst the // 15450 to Central America is much weaker. The reverse should have been the case. 1912 8/5 (Charles Jones, Castle Hill NSW (JRC 535D with 7m vertical, June Australian DX News via DXLD) 15490 is not to N America, but 110 degrees, away from us. But it is usually second best to 17855, which is to N America, when it is occasionally on too (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Tonight at 1845 UT the 2015 Champions League football final live transmission will be broadcast from Berlin's Olympic Stadium of 1936. FC Barcelona vv Torino, Italy team performers. Over 200 countries worldwide will transmit this final game tonight on television. REE Madrid is still on air, heard at 1720 UT June 6 on 15490 kHz S=9+10 17715 kHz S=9+10 17855 kHz S=9+5dB and 21620 kHz varies at S=7 up to S=9+10dB signal level, latter depending of kilometer distance between Noblejas Spain and remote SDR receiving post in Europe. REE not heard at present on 15450 kHz channel. wb (Wolfgang Büschel, June 6, dxldyg via DXLD) REE Madrid Noblejas is again on air, heard with live sports coverage of Gijon, Lugo, Mallorca, Santander and other sports teams. At 1530 UT June 7th on 15490 kHz S=9+25 17715 kHz S=9+15 17855 kHz S=9+20dB level and 21620 kHz varies at S=7 in Germany / Central Europe, up to S=9+25dB / -50dBm in Moscow signal level, latter strength vary depending of kilometer distance between Noblejas Spain and remote SDR receiving post in Europe. REE not heard at present on 15450 kHz channel. At 1540 UT noted also in MI-USA on W8GTX remote SDR installation 17855 S=9, 15490 S=7-8, threshold on remaining channels there (Büschel, June 7, ibid.) ** SUDAN. 7205, R Omdurman, 0238-0305, excellent signal made this one a pleasure to hear, program of area music, lots of drums, M vocal solos May 29 (XM, Cedar Key, Florida, NRD525D, R8A, E5 via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 7205 A DOGPILE !! Three stations going "hell-for-leather" on this frequency at 2045. Choose from Sudan Radio - Al-Aitahab in Arabic to EAf, or R. France Int'l - Issoudun in French to WAf, or V of Turkey - Emirler in English to Asia. All three stations were about equal strength here. A quick check on the Twente receiver indicated that all three are also easily heard in Europe. A pity when there are so many vacant frequencies available these days! 17/5 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FT DX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Double Bazooka antennas for 80 and 40 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU, June Australian DX News via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DXLD) ** SUDAN [and non]. 13800, June 4 at 0526, as I tune in, fast SAH and heavy CCI between unsynchronized MADAGASCAR and VATICAN sites overlapping, R. Dabanga vs R. Dabanga! MAD goes off about 0527.4* leaving VAT in clear, except for heavier than usual carrier jamming from the hi side causing big het. 13800, June 5 at 0514, R. Dabanga via MADAGASCAR, good signal with NO +carrier jamming for a change; 11645 at 0518, R. Dabanga via VATICAN is poor (no sign of CCI from Greece), and tone jammer is still stuck on 11650; is no one paying attention at the Sudanese Jamming Command??? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Cat and mouse play, 11650 / 11645 kHz check on June 8th: UNID {? Babcock Al Dhabbya-UAE broadcast?} 11650 Heard a TWR interval signal at end of broadcast UNID Arabic like HOA program, noted S=9+30dB or stronger here in Germany. Seemingly this broadcast is now veiled in HFCC public database file? Or something went wrong on Babcock/TWR Africa edit on HFCC database. Until May 22nd noted 11710 kHz entry of Babcock DHA TWR Africa program, but missed on June 2nd database now. Previously I read always 0330-0345 UT entry on 11710 kHz, disturbed by RAE odd 11710.8v frequency whistle whine audio ... Was formerly Babcock brokered TWR Africa service program to Ethiopia / Eritrea HOA target, in Sun-Mon-Fri Amharic/ Tue Oromo / Wed-Thur Sidamo languages. When checked PNW/FPU services R Tamazuj / R Dabanga on 11645 /11650 kHz, noted an engineering test tone procedure on 11650 kHz at 0434 UT, with two tones +/- 1002 Hertz each sideband, S=9+20dB in Germany. Could be rather Sudan jammer 5 kHz up. Now I see HFCC entry moved from 11645 to 11650 kHz, but PNW/FPU services ARE STILL on 11645 on June 8th. Cat and mouse play so far. FRANCE/MADAGASCAR/VATICAN STATE R Tamazuj monitored June 8 at 0400- 0429 UT on 7315 from Talata-Volonondry MDG relay site, S=8 signal in MA and KY-USA remote sites. 11645 from SMG Vatican Radio relay site, S=8-9 in USA remotes. 13800 from TDF Issoudun site, S=8 poor in MA / KY-USA SDR units. S=9+15dB in Germany. 13800.013, odd frequency service from Talata-Volonondry Madagascar, many breaks of Radio Dabanga on air, when TDF ISS 13800.0 signal left at 0429 UT, before Madagascar took over late around 0431:40 UT. Noted 11 kHz wide MDG signal, no jamming when start. When checked again at 0446 UT noted whine whistle jamming tone hit Dabanga on a like garden fence frequencies row on 7 peaks on upper side band 13801.220 13802.620 13804.020 13805.420 13806.820 13808.220 13809.620 kHz and only 3 whistle peaks on lower sideband 13799.820 13798.420 13797.020 and a weak dimly wobbling {strange ute signal?} on 13796.990 kHz. 11645 from SMG VR relay site, 10 kHz wideband signal, S=9+30dB here in central Europe. And at 0510 UT still the carrier on next channel 11650.002 kHz, plus two whistles +/- 1002 Hertz apart distance, S=9+30dB signal. From 0530-0558 UT replaced by SMG Vatican Radio facility outlet on even 13800.0 kHz instead, and same jamming signals from Sudan, as mentioned above. The Talata-Volonondry MDG 13 Hertz odd transmitter moves to 13765.013 kHz and is used for Vatican radio program in Portuguese language then from 0530 UT on June 8th. All a bit unusual procedures this morning. wb (Wolfgang Büschel, June 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWITZERLAND. THE RADIO STATION THAT GAVE SWITZERLAND A GLOBAL VOICE Posted yesterday by swissinfo.ch --- In our latest podcast we find out how researchers are uncovering the audio files, listener letters and internal documents of the Swiss Shortwave Service and later Swiss Radio International (SRI). From interviews with celebrities to a wide range of Swiss music, the files show how 'Swissness' was broadcast to fans across the globe, during times of incredible change. . . http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/podcast_the-radio-station-that-gave-switzerland-a-global-voice/41473920 (via Mike Barraclough, UK, June 7, dxldyg via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. 9725-AM, StarStar Broadcasting Station - V13, *1200, May 29 (Friday). Signed on with normal one minute of flute music; assume intro consisted of station name, program number, the recipient number, date of the message and number of characters; assume ID was for the fourth program - "XingXing guangbo diantai 4"; fair; believed to be operated by Taiwanese Intelligence agency. Also at *1300. Wonder what their daily schedule is? June 2 (Tue.), 3 (Wed.) and 7 (Sun.) off the air, so clearly not on every day. On the air June 5 (Fri.) & 6 (Sat.). Needs more monitoring to determine daily schedule. Thanks very much to John Wilkins for the alert that XingXing is not broadcasting daily (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND [and non]. 5830, BBC, 1206, May 29 (Friday), with a schedule of being on Tue., Thurs. & Fri. from 1200 to 1400; blocking reception of WTWW which on other days is in the clear (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. Updated schedule of Voice of Tibet 1200-1215 on 15543 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1215-1230 on 15538 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1230-1245 on 15557 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1245-1300 on 15563 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1300-1315 on 15537 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1300-1315 on 15568 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1315-1330 on 15543 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1315-1330 on 15568 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1330-1345 on 15543 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1330-1345 on 15568 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1345-1400 on 15542 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1345-1400 on 15562 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1400-1415 on 15492 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1400-1415 on 15525 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan Tue/Thu/Sat 1400-1415 on 15565 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan Mo/We/Fr/Su 1415-1430 on 15497 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1415-1430 on 15530 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan Tue/Thu/Sat 1415-1430 on 15560 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan Mo/We/Fr/Su 2300-2315 on 7592 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 2315-2330 on 7594 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan All frequencies are jammed by China on xxxx0 / xxxx5 Changes between frequencies vary from 5 to 7 minutes http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/updated-schedule-of-voice-of-tibet.html (Ivo Ivanov SW news June 9, Blgaria, June 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) MADAGASCAR portion: WORLD OF RADIO 1777 ** TURKEY. NOVEDADES DE TRT LA VOZ DE TURQUIA La TRT quiere ser pionera de la emisión radial digital. El “Taller de Trabajo de Radiodifusión Digital” organizado en Estambul trató los objetivos del sector. El taller contó con la presencia de muchos representantes nacionales y extranjeros que trabajan en el sector de la radio. La Corporación de Radio y Televisión de Turquía (TRT), que planea pasar a la emisión radial digital por medio de dos transmisores a finales del verano de 2015, quiere llegar a una masa más amplia. La TRT inició su emisión de prueba en la radiodifusión entre 2002 y 2008. Siguiendo con la emisora nacional turca de onda corta, les contamos que fue galardonado con un importante premio el director general de la TRT, Shenol Göka. En la ceremonia de premio organizada antes de la inauguración de la cumbre, el director general de la TRT, Shenol Göka mereció premio por sus servicios que hizo a la prensa del mundo turco La Cumbre de los Periodistas del Mundo turco edición 2 comenzó en la capital tártara de Kazan. La Cadena de la TRT Avaz tomó el Premio de Prensa del Mundo turco por sus emisiones exitosas que hizo orientadas al desarrollo de la cultura común del mundo turco. En la Cumbre de los periodistas edición 2 fueron organizados paneles que se abordarán el desarrollo de las actividades que aumentan la colaboración entre las fundaciones de prensa del mundo turco en la Cumbre de los Periodistas edición 2, la extensión de la cultura común, el alfabeto común y el establecimiento de la Agencia turca que unirá bajo único techo la red de comunicación de los periodistas del mundo turco. La primera edición de la cumbre se había organizado en la capital de cultura del mundo turco, Eskishehir. (source? via GRA blog June 6, via DXLD) ** TURKEY. V of Turkey. 6 June at 2200 UT there is no trace of V of Turkey in English on scheduled 9830 kHz, and not found on any alternate frequency following a quick (non-exhaustive) search. However, instead found V of Turkey in Turkish (with a radio-drama programme) on 9460 (with a strong signal here) and 5960 (with a much weaker signal). These frequencies were scheduled to end 2100 UT (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, June 6, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Perhaps these changes are due to the election that is happening today? Posted by: (Roger Tidy, UK, June 7, ibid.) Voice of Turkey, 2200 --- 9830 has an open carrier with either no or very badly demodulates audio. Frequency came on the air about a minute after the official 2200 start time of this transmission to the U.S. (and Europe). Still no discernible Audi at 2208. Is the government suffering from the election blues?? [later:] Isn't spellcheck grand? :( Audio came up at 2217 (John Figliozzi, Halfmoon, NY, June 9, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I had t[he]m with a fair to good signal from 2230 but they cut off the programming at 2254 without any announcement. There was an item about forming a coalition government so the prime mover Erdogan in Turkey has to deal with partners. This should be an interesting change in that country. 86% of the folks voted in the election! 73, (Rich Cuff, NASWA yg via DXLD) 9515, June 8 at 0331, VOT with music, good but fluttery, ID, 0332 into `Eco-Friendly Turkey`. I had started listening to webcast at 0300 for news about the elexion, disturbances; attainable via http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm 15450, June 8 at 1230, VOT opening English is strangely one of very few signals audible on 19m during degraded K=4, G2 propagation, yet insufficient (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. British Pirates in Euro-Newsweek --- Some of the SWL Fester’s will certainly recall forums on this subject: http://europe.newsweek.com/britains-pirate-radio-stations-are-not-going-down-without-fight-328169 -- (Rob de Santos, K8RKD, Horizons (Trends in Technology) Columnist, Contributing Editor, CQ Magazine, June 9, swprograms via DXLD) ** U K [non]. 11660, BBC via Yerevan. Good signal of speakers in listed Kinyarwanda. Energetic discourse easily followed in program directed to Burundi/Rwanda. Surprising choice of transmitter site -- Meyerton or Madagascar would seem more suitable. 1845 15/5 (Charles Jones, Castle Hill NSW (JRC 535D with 7m vertical, June Australian DX News via DXLD) ** U K [and non]. BBC relay changes --- The Ascension relay seems to be taking a break on Sundays since 7 June 2015. The following transmissions have been moved from Ascension to other sites on Sundays ONLY; still transmitted from Ascension on other week days. Starting 7 June 2015, according to the HFCC file dated 9 June 2015. 12015 0800-1000 R Japan in Japanese: USA-GREENVILLE on Sundays 17640 1200-1230 BBC French: UAE-DHABAYYA on Sundays 17640 1600-1700 BBC English: G-WOOFFERTON on Sundays 17780 1400-1430 BBC Hausa: UAE-DHABAYYA on Sundays 17830 1600-1700 BBC English: G-WOOFFERTON on Sundays 21630 1200-1230 BBC French: UAE-DHABAYYA on Sundays 21630 1400-1430 BBC Hausa: UAE-DHABAYYA on Sundays Similarly: 15790 0500-0700 BBC in Arabic now UAE-DHABAYYA Tuesdays-Wednesdays, OMA-A'Seela on other days, ex-daily, eff. 9 June. In an unrelated (?) move, the BBC transmission in Pushto 0300-0330 on 15310 kHz has been moved from Yerevan to Nakhon Sawan, effective 8 June 2015. Site moves are frequently registered by Babcock and may be reverted to the original schedule at any time, which is often published in HFCC a few days later. So maybe these site changes even have affected only last Sunday (7 June). Time will tell. 73 (Eike Bierwirth, Germany, June 9, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7457-USB, June 5 at 1301, AFA4RX, NCS of Air Force MARS net designated SEM2 (all given fonetikaly), calling stations for traffic, but no replies audible and none received at first. Then she (?) goes on to call VI and PR stations specifically. It seems I have 9 previous logs of AF MARS on this frequency going back to 2008y, and a year ago the net designator was logged as SIM2, covering the SE quadrant of USA. Searching now on AFA4RX call leads firstly to some URL concerning Viagra. And to this more relevant 124-page pdf from 2008/2009: http://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/usafe/publication/afi10-206_usafesup_i/afi10-206_usafesup_i.pdf which finally on page 112 mentions AFA4RX once with an e-mail address at the Pentagon (not Pentagun, ha ha, as the Brits like to missay it). (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. VOA CHIEF THREATENS TO `KILL' OTHER U.S. BROADCAST STATIONS IF . . . By Al Kamen June 4 at 12:00 PM Follow @KamenInTheLoop http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2015/06/04/voa-chief-threatens-to-kill-other-u-s-broadcast-stations-if/ The infighting among the U.S. broadcasting units overseen by the chronically troubled (some say dysfunctional) Broadcasting Board of Governors seems to have gotten worse as Congress debates a bill that could alter the units' mandates. The broadcasters include the venerable Voice of America and the various "Frees," such as Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting. At a farewell editorial meeting last week, VOA director David Ensor, a longtime CNN national security reporter who's leaving in a few weeks after four years running the agency, accused unidentified folks at the "Frees" of teaming up with members of Congress against the VOA. There are apparently some at the "Frees" trying to get Congress to make them stand alone under their own umbrella and change the VOA's mandate from reporting news worldwide to a much narrower mandate of only reporting events in this country. That's a move Ensor said would be a "death sentence" for the VOA. Outside of Africa, VOA shares coverage with one of the Radio Frees. The bill would mean the VOA would cover only international and U.S. news (but not news within each country in the local language.) " . . . don't attack us and try to put us in this little narrow lane, to kill us off," Ensor said, according to a tape recording of the meeting that's floating on the Hill, "because if you do I am going to point out how much rent you're paying on M Street, or on Connecticut Avenue." Yikes! (We're told the rent on M Street for Radio Free Asia is about $3 million.) Radio Free Europe's offices are in Prague with only a small support staff on Connecticut Avenue Northwest. "Instead, let's just all be reasonable and honest about what it is we do," he said, urging the other units to "stop telling politicians to try to put us in a little lane that will kill us off, because I am going to come kill you if you do that. You know, we're all going to make the arguments. You haven't got clean hands." Sounds like a dysfunctional family indeed. Kinda like Congress. Al Kamen, an award-winning columnist on the national staff of The Washington Post, created the "In the Loop" column in 1993 (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** U S A. Incredible VOA lameness --- Glenn: Am listening to the VOA English stream at 2300 UT today to hear "International Edition." And it's a two-week old program! Lead stories are declassification of documents seized in Bin Laden raid, big fines against big banks and the upcoming end of the David Letterman show (Mike Cooper, GA, Jun 3, WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. GOOD NEWS! KELU CHAO TAKES OVER AS ACTING DIRECTOR OF VOICE OF AMERICA,' CUSIB director #BBG Watch >> Feed BBG Watch >> Comments Feed BBG Watch >> BBGWatcher June 4, 2015 Briefs, Featured News, Hot Tub Blog http://bbgwatch.com/bbgwatch/good-news-kelu-chao-takes-over-as-acting-director-of-voice-of-america-cusib-director-tweets/ Ann Noonan, executive director of the independent NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB - cusib.org) has welcomed the appointment of longtime Voice of America (VOA) journalist and manager Kelu Chao as acting VOA director after the reported departure last week of David Ensor who served as VOA director since June 2011. For several years CUSIB has been critical of management practices at the Voice of America and at the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) which manages on behalf of VOA's parent agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), but the appointment of a highly respected China expert as VOA acting director has been met with approval among CUSIB members and other observers of the U.S. international media outreach agency. Good news! Kelu Chao Takes Over As Acting Director Of Voice Of America http://t.co/K2dYIMv8IT -- Ann Noonan (@annnoonan) June 5, 2015 Kelu Chao's previous position at Voice of America was Associate Director for Language Programming. She "directed the programming activities at VOA, providing oversight and guidance for the production and distribution of its television, radio, Internet, and mobile content in nearly 50 languages worldwide," according to a short bio on the VOA public relations website. This Voice of America public relations page has not been updated and still shows David Ensor as VOA director and Steve Redisch as VOA executive editor even though Mr. Ensor has apparently already left VOA and Mr. Redisch reportedly moved earlier to another position at VOA. It appears that "VOA Key Executives" website page has not been changed since last year, and IBB has not issued a press release on Kelu Chao's interim appointment. BBG's "Senior Management" web page also has not been updated and still shows David Ensor as VOA director. IBB has not posted an announcement about Ms. Chao's interim appointment. "From 2008 to April of 2014, she was the Director of Performance Review, the quality control arm of the U. S. International Broadcasting Bureau, responsible for program review, management efficiency study and research functions. During her twenty plus years career at the VOA, Ms. Chao has worked in nearly every capacity: from announcer, field reporter, editor, Hong Kong Bureau chief, Mandarin Service Chief to East Asia Division Director, and VOA's first Language Programming Director from 2001 to 2007." (via Mike Cooper, June 8, WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. 15630, VoA via Issoudun. Good reception of conversation in listed Amharic. Once again VoA is attempting to break down the gender barrier in target areas. Program continued in listed Tigrinyah at 1900. 1835 22/5 (Charles Jones, Castle Hill NSW (JRC 535D with 7m vertical, June Australian DX News via DXLD) 17530, VoA (via Greenville), 6/7, 2010. M presenter in French with excellent program of traditional American blues. Off after short announcement at BoH. VG (Rick Barton, Logs from El Mirage, AZ, Grundig Satellit 750, Outdoor Slinky, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7350, June 5 at 0525, VOA English news about Africa, going to silly ballgame segment, fair signal. Had not noticed this before, but Aoki shows this frequency started May 11, 0505-0530 English added on to the beefed-up Kirundi service at 0400-0505, both M-F only and this is Friday; 100 kW, 350 degrees via BOTSWANA. Once things settle down in Burundi (not yet?) these may go away (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. VOA Radiogram this weekend includes slow scan television (SSTV), Scottie DX mode, in addition to the usual MFSK32 text and images. The SSTV is easy to decode using the receive-only RXSSTV software. Details and transmission schedule: VOA Radiogram, 6-7 June 2015: More SSTV, this time Scottie DX http://voaradiogram.net/post/120770224517/voa-radiogram-6-7-june-2015-more-sstv-this-time (Kim Elliott, June 5, dxldyg via DXLD) During former VOA radiograms there was now and then noise-QRM from above - 17870 kHz. Here a constellation in November 2013: http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2013-11-09.htm#VOA Probably always against Oromo Voice Radio - but sometimes they do not keep the frequency of the jammer under control (roger, Germany, ibid.) ** U S A [non]. Frequency change of Radio Liberty in Avari, Chechen and Chercassian 1600-1000 NF 11815 NAU 250 kW / 090 deg to CeAs, ex 13700 // 11780 BIB, video: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/frequency-change-of-radio-liberty-in.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, June 6, dxldyg via DXLD) Monday, June 8, 2015: All transmissions of IBB via Media Broadcast are cancelled from June 1 and have been moved via BABCOCK transmitters, except Deewa Radio: Voice of America 0500-0530 NF 11750 WOF 250 kW / 158 WCAf Hausa, ex 11875 NAU 1630-1700 on 11845 MEY 100 kW / 007 SDN English SoSDN Mon-Fri, ex NAU 1630-1700 on 13865 WOF 300 kW / 135 SDN English SoSDN Mon-Fri, ex ISS 1730-1800 on 15630 WOF 300 kW / 126 EaAf Afan Oromo Mon-Fri, ex ISS 1800-1830 on 9645 WOF 250 kW / 140 SDN Arabic Afia Darfur, ex ISS 1800-1900 on 12080 WOF 300 kW / 128 EaAf Amharic, ex ISS 1800-1900 on 13865 WOF 300 kW / 128 EaAf Amharic, ex NAU 1800-1900 on 15630 WOF 300 kW / 126 EaAf Amharic, ex ISS 1900-1930 on 13865 DHA 250 kW / 225 EaAf Tigrigna Mon-Fri, ex NAU 1900-1930 on 15630 WOF 300 kW / 126 EaAf Tigrigna Mon-Fri, ex ISS 2030-2100 on 11860 WOF 300 kW / 170 WCAf Hausa Mon-Fri, ex NAU VOA Deewa Radio 1700-1800 on 9780 LAM 100 kW / 108 WeAs Pashto, ex NAU VOA Radio Mashaal 0400-0500 on 15360 ERV 100 kW / 100 WeAs Pashto, ex NAU 0500-0900 on 15360 DHA 250 kW / 045 WeAs Pashto, ex NAU Radio Liberty 1400-1600 on 15255 WOF 300 kW / 074 CeAs Turkmen, ex ISS 1500-1600 on 15460 WOF 300 kW / 075 CeAs Tajik, ex NAU 1600-1700 NF 11815 WOF 300 kW / 078 CeAs Avari/Chechen/Chercass, ex 13700 NAU Other IBB changes: Voice of America 1400-1500 on 15580 SAO 100 kW / 114 CeAf English, ex BOT 1600-1630 on 11865 MEY 100 kW / 015 SoAf Kirundi Sat, no change 1600-1630 on 13630 BOT 100 kW / 350 SoAf Kirundi Daily, ex Mon-Fri 1600-1630 on 15180 SAO 100 kW / 114 SoAf Kirundi Sat/Sun, addit 1600-1630 on 15460 SAO 100 kW / 100 SoAf Kirundi Daily, ex Mon-Sat 1600-1630 on 17530 SAO 100 kW / 100 SoAf Kirundi Daily, ex Mon-Sat 1830-1900 on 13785 UDO 250 kW / 280 SoAf Kirundi Mon-Fri, ex SAO VOA Afia Darfur 1800-1830 on 11615 UDO 250 kW / 280 SDN Arabic, ex SAO VOA Studio 7 1800-1900 on 15460 SAO 100 kW / 138 ZWE Eng/Shona/Ndebele M-F, ex UDO (??????????? ?? Observer ? 5:54 PM, Bulgarian DX blog, June 8 via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DXLD) ** U S A. A reminder that the next airings of WORLD OF RADIO 1775 are separately on 7570 and 15770 from WRMI, Friday at 2130 (Glenn Hauser, June 5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1776 monitoring: confirmed Friday June 5 good at 2130 on WRMI 15770; and very poor at 2130.6 on WRMI 7570 in noise level, but presumably much better further east and in the skip zone of 15 MHz. Next: 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0315vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [last week: from about 0325-] 2100 UT Sunday WRMI 15770 [irregular] 2300 UT Sunday WRMI 11580 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5110v Area 51 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 1100 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 0630 UT Wednesday HLR 7265-CUSB 1315 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 1430 UT Wednesday HLR 7265-CUSB 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v For all our broadcasts on all media see http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Access to podcasts, latest and previous shows: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html WORLD OF RADIO 1776 monitoring: confirmed in progress UT Sunday June 7 at 0330 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM. JBA vs noise level, and could not determine when it may have started, but after 0315. WOR 1776 also confirmed on WRMI: Sunday June 7 at 2100 on 15770; 2300 on 11580; and UT Monday June 8 at 0330 on 9955, the latter with lite pulse jamming; tnx a lot, Arnie! Also confirmed on Area 51 webcast, UT Monday June 8 at 0300, and on 5110-, CUSB, checked at 0329, fair signal vs storm noise, (and over to Hobart at 0330). Next: 1100 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 0630 UT Wednesday HLR 7265-CUSB 1315 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 1430 UT Wednesday HLR 7265-CUSB 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1777 monitoring: confirmed first broadcast Thursday June 11 at 2100 on WRMI 7570. Next: 2130 UT Friday WRMI 15770 2130 UT Friday WRMI 7570 0630 UT Saturday HLR 7265-CUSB 1430 UT Saturday HLR 7265-CUSB 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0315vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2100 UT Sunday WRMI 15770 [irregular] 2300 UT Sunday WRMI 11580 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5110v Area 51 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 1100 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 0630 UT Wednesday HLR 7265-CUSB 1315 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 1430 UT Wednesday HLR 7265-CUSB 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11580, UNITED STATES, WRMI, 6/7 [Sunday], 2300. Hauser's World Of Radio, VG, but with undulating signal; long deep fades (Rick Barton, Logs from El Mirage, AZ, Grundig Satellit 750, Outdoor Slinky, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7455, WRMI, Okeechobee FL. Religious programming, possibly WYFR, at 0415. Horrendous RTTY QRM centred right on the frequency made listening almost impossible on 19/5 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FT DX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Double Bazooka antennas for 80 and 40 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU, June Australian DX News via DXLD) Even worse than it is in N America? Standard remark. No, it`s not possibly ``WYFR``, but TruNews via WRMI (gh, DXLD) 9395, WYFR (presumed), Okeechobee FL. English preaching at 0210, very weak on 27/5 (Rob Wagner, DXpedition in the Buckland Valley, NE VIC using Kenwood TS2000 and 45 m longwire, June Australian DX News via DXLD) Rob, WYFR no longer exists! This too is TruNews via WRMI (gh, DXLD) 15190, R. Africa Network via WRMI, 0149 & 0253-0300*, June 5. Brother Stair with fair-good reception; IDs for the "Radio Africa Network." From 0300 to 0500 have only heard faint open carrier which assume might be Brazil. Have never heard R, Pilipinas here from 3-5 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) see PHILIPPINES ** U S A. Odd frequencies from all three transmitters of WBCQ The Planet from 0253 on 5109.8 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to ENAm English CUSB from 0257 on 7489.9 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to ENAm English AM from 0445 on 9330.3 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to ENAm English CUSB http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/odd-frequencies-from-all-three.html (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9330-CUSB, June 5 at 0103, WBCQ is on again, apparently now regular evening schedule on this frequency, but span as yet undetermined for politico-religious client(s). I see that on June 5 Ivo Ivanov has copied my language about this, including being ``surprised`` which for me was back on May 29 when I first heard it. At 0105 check, 5110v is JBA, // much stronger 7490v with Brother Scare (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Very good signal of WBCQ The Planet on June 5 here in Sofia Bulgaria 0302-0502 9330 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to ENAm English CUSB, five videos: Probably a test of this frequency which has been silent for several months. The current program schedule of WBCQ shows zero entries for 9330 and 15420 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/surprised-to-find-very-good-signal-here.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #913 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, June 8, 2015, via DXLD) Copying my original report down to the wording. Ivo is loath to credit anyone else for the numerous tips he follows up (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 7505+, June 5 at 0105, WRNO is still missing. They come and go unpredictably with no explanation, a great way to lose whatever minuscule audience they may have acquired (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7555, June 9 at 0535, WEWN is missing, nor the other two frequencies, 11520 and 11870, which might have propped out but not 7555; by 0923 recheck, now it`s on with VG signal, and at 0927 check so are 11870 and 11520 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Very good reception of WWCR weekly 1 hour program in Russian June 6: 1000-1100 on 15795 WCR 100 kW / 046 deg to WeEu Russian Saturday only, videos http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/very-good-reception-of-wwcr-weekly-1.html So what`s it about? Anything besides gospel-huxtering? If not, why should we care? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** U S A [non]. GERMANY, Frequency change of Adventist World Radio via Media Broadcast: 1730-1800 NF 17720 NAU 250 kW / 145 deg to EaAf Oromo, ex 15155 ISS from June 1 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/frequency-change-of-adventist-world.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #913 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, June 8, 2015, via DXLD) June 2: Adventist World Radio AWR in Oromo to EaAf 1730 on new 17720 Nauen, ex 15155 Issoudun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlkbWYSl0Ps&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17720, June 8 at 1735, while dining at a restaurant beside an east- facing window, I again find good reception on the G8 with whip only: strongest signal on band (SSOB) is this with Horn of Africa talk, 1740 HOA music, 1744, bit of `Rock of Ages`, revelation as religious- Christian. Uplooked later, it`s AWR, 145 degrees via Nauen, GERMANY at 1730-1800 daily since June 1 in Oromo, so close to off the back hereward. (However, at 1700-1728 in Kiswahili on 17720, AWR site is MADAGASCAR, aimed almost directly hereward, 310 degrees.) Was stronger than 17775 KVOH, 17790 WRMI, and even 17895 VOA-GB; but at 1758 recheck, much weaker and overcome by REE IS about to open 17715 // 17855 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. My Shortwave Radio Show --- Coming up on Friday June 19th catch me on Channel 292 Shortwave, 6070 with 10,000 watts from Germany. Listen in from 8 pm to 11 pm UK Time/12 noon to 3 pm Pacific time/2000 to 2300 UTC. [?? See below] I'll be hosting a show called "The Classics Experience", playing music from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s --- mainly oldies/rock and roll with a few country tunes sprinkled in. The station`s 10 kW signal will hit the UK, Scotland, Ireland, along with Belgium and The Netherlands. Unfortunately, its signal won`t be heard too well in the Eastern US because of CFRX 6070 Toronto, Ontario, Canada (which I've heard here in Redding, California). Channel 292 Shortwave, 6070 kHz does not stream, but you can try the web receiver in The Netherlands found here: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ Also, if you have a globaltuners.com account, there are a few receivers from Germany and the UK that are online from time to time that you should be able to listen to the show on. I will also be on Euro Radio, 6205 kHz from [sic] pm to 11 pm UK Time/12 noon to 3 pm Pacific time/2000 to 2300 UTC. on Friday August 28th. They operate with about 2000 Watts from near Waterford, Ireland. [so that`s where it is: solicitation sent us would not say --- gh] The show is doing purely to share my love of music and radio, there is no commercial or fundraising element to this show. I coughed up the money for the airtime out of my own pocket just because I love radio. If you have any questions or comments about the show, feel free to reply publicly to this thread or email me privately, walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com and I'll be glad to answer them. (Paul Walker, Redding, California, USA, June 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ``UK time`` is NOT the same as UT in the summer, so what time is it, really? If noon PDT start is correct, that would be 1900 UT. Even without CFRX it would not be heard in eastern North America, at such an early hour in the summer (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) It's 8 pm to 11 pm UK time; sooooooo sorry I got the conversion wrong, again. The intended audience is the UK, Scotland and Ireland so that's the local time I used (Paul Walker, ibid.) = 19-22 UT then (gh) ** U S A. 720, June 4 at 0541 UT, I`m getting something in English with WGN easily nulled --- it`s Roy Masters, plug for Foundation for Human Understanding, address in Grants Pass OR. I`ll bet it`s 50/50 kW U2 KDWN Las Vegas NV, which is normally inaudible here on night pattern, cardioid with deep null toward Chicago crossing Colorado and Nebraska, so we are quite a ways out of it. Yes, per https://www.fhu.com/radiostations.html RM/FHU, is on one 720 station, KDWN, M-F at 9-11 pm PDT = 04-06 UT Tue-Sat. [At 0835 UT June 4, Les Rayburn in AL asked ``Who carries Roy Masters on 1530 kHz here now overnight? Cincinnati?`` Yes, same sked above shows WCKY as his sole 1530, but only at ``new time`` of 3:30-4:30 am ET = 0730-0830 UT] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) KDWN 720 was heard here SW of Chicago with WGN on the air back in the late 1980's. At that time I was using my 2-1/2 ft spiral wound loop. Was able to get a very narrow null on WGN roughly 40 miles south of their transmitter. I would give it a try tonight if they are still ND (Tom Jasinski, Joliet, IL, June 4, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** U S A. 850, June 6 at 0218 UT, no KOA yet, but instrumental hymns looping NE/SW, presumably KFUO Clayton MO still on even after 9 pm local now at midsummer, as KOA`s sunset is not until 0230 UT in June & July. Our sunset was 0146 UT and its latest a month from now will be 0153 UT, per Gaisma.com (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1060, June 6 at 0602 UT, EWTN is very good dominating channel, with ``repeat of Sunday Night Prime``. I.e. KRCN, Longmont, Colorado, 50000/111 watts, obviously stuck on day power to the delight of Mother Angélica and The Vatican. Hardly any het from off-frequency XE, nor KIJN TX/NM. At 1119 UT circa sunrise here, nothing much; could KIJN be back in whack? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1190, June 6 at 0213 UT, `Open Line Friday with Colin Donovan` from EWTN, ergo KDMR Kansas City MO, 5/0.5 kW (not KPHN as in NRC AM Log: remember they then swapped calls with El Dorado 1360). FCC sunset in June & July is 0145 UT, to cut from 5 to 0.5 kW; it soon faded, maybe really powering down circa 0215 UT? I shortly also have EWTN on 1060, q.v., no doubt KRCN CO, but not enough signal on two receivers to check if matching (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1200, June 6 at 0212 UT, heavy C&W music atop talk show, WOAI really getting QRMed! Not exactly --- I can`t get a null on either and it`s soon clear that WOAI is QRMing itself with double audio modulation; and the music cuts off a minute later uncovering the `Michael Berry Show`, who was apparently unaware what was happening to him. So much for the flagship of Clear Channel, or whatever (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. COMEDY RETURNS TO AUSTIN | Lance Venta | May 10, 2015 | Austin Radio Network has flipped Gospel “1260 The Word” KLGO Elgin/Austin, TX to Comedy: “Comedy 1260“. Utilizing programming from George Gimarc’s Today’s Comedy Network, the move returns the format to the market where it once gained its highest ratings. Emmis had operated “Comedy 102.7” K274AX prior to flipping it to Spanish CHR “Latino 102.7” in May 2013. K274AX peaked at a 4.3 share in January 2012 making it at the time the highest rated translator in a PPM market. KLGO rimshots Austin from suburban Elgin with 1 kW daytime and 140 watts nights. http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/92920/comedyreturns-to-austin/ (Via Radio Insight via June DSWCI SW News via dXLD ** U S A. 1530, June 4 at 1220 UT, ``FM 92 and 1530 AM, 19 past the hour of 7`` and then immediate fadeout losing to Tulsa Spanish before I could even evaluate its format. But only match in the NRC AM Log is 500-watt C&W daytimer KMAM Butler MO, which is // KMOE 92.1. Butler is on I-49 south of Kansas City, midway N/S in MO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WCKY: See 720 log above ** U S A. LINDEN-BASED 'PIRATE' RADIO STATION FORCED OFF THE AIR, POLICE SAY [New Jersey] Dan Prochilo Apr 15, 2015, 10:05 pm Apr 15, 2015, 10:12 pm Signal broadcast from giant antenna looming over home's roof was interfering with transmissions of NJ 101.5, officials say The antenna perched on the roof of 406 East Baltimore Ave. [caption] Photo: Courtesy of the Linden Police Department . . . http://www.fios1news.com/newjersey/linden-cops-shut-down-pirate-radio-station#.VXj6_1InOiC (via Terry L Krueger, FL, June 9, DXLD) ! It`s not ``giant`` at all – a single vertical element like LPFM stations typically use, and it isn`t that high. Tho I have no doubt it could cause ACI in the area (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. RADIO WORKS THE HILL IN ANTI-PIRATE EFFORT --- on 06.09.2015 Broadcasters in and around the nation’s largest radio market are getting some congressional support in their push for more FCC action against illegal pirate stations. More than 30 legislators signed a letter to Chairman Wheeler expressing concern. Read it here (PDF). http://www.radioworld.com/Portals/0/Delegation%20Pirate%20Letter.pdf The New York State Broadcasters spearheaded the effort, led by President/Executive Director David Donovan; the New Jersey Broadcasters Association expressed its support. The letter says that there appear to be 34 illicit operations just in Brooklyn and the Bronx. It argues that pirate stations interfere with services of legitimate licensed stations; often focus on “vulnerable populations” without regard to basic consumer protection laws and FCC regulations; and undermine investment in minority broadcasters. It also raised concerns about possible interference with EAS alerts, and stated that at least one station had asked to change its EAS monitoring assignment because of interference from unauthorized operators to WNYC. They asked the FCC to increase the number of people assigned to the New York field office. - See more at: http://www.radioworld.com/article/radio-works-the-hill-in-anti-pirate-effort/276246 (via Rob de Santos, swprograms via DXLD) NYSBA & NJBA PRESIDENTS TALK ABOUT THEIR PIRATE PROBLEMS Radio Ink June 10, 2015 On Tuesday, 33 New York and New Jersey members of Congress signed off on a letter to FCC Chairman Thomas Wheeler, urging the Commission to increase its efforts to stop radio piracy, especially in the New York and New Jersey area where it appears the problem is among the worst in the country. The New York State Broadcasters Association and the New Jersey Broadcasters Association each applauded this effort by the politicians. The presidents of each of these broadcasting associations spoke with Radio Ink about their local piracy problems... When asked about how pirates are hurting the NJ radio community and the public at large, NJBA President/CEO Paul Rotella told Radio Ink: "Well, the obvious problem is that an illegitimate signal that obscures a licensee's signal can do immeasurable harm especially when legitimate stations are issuing severe weather warnings, AMBER Alerts, or other EAS activations. That's because pirates have no such capability and are merely cluttering up the airwaves with selfish, meaningless content. That's why New Jersey made such illegal activity a felony and we always push for prosecution to the fullest extent of our law." With the possible exception of south Florida, the NY/NJ area seems to have the worst pirate trouble. Asked why he thinks that is the case, Rotella said: "It's because of our dense population, I believe, and the valuable resources found in our vast and diverse audiences." So what should be done to combat the problem? Rotella says: "Stricter enforcement and task forces working in cooperation with the FCC and the NJBA (and other SBAs), along with more severe penalties and monitoring. I just had a conversation with a woman who was upset because her favorite station -- in this case, Star 99.1 -- was being obscured by a pirate signal. It's important for us to educate the public that when they experience interference that they can contact us and we will in turn contact the FCC. But the public is our greatest ally in this fight to keep the airways legal. It's incumbent on all of our member and listeners to help us police this potentially dangerous situation." NYSBA President David Donovan detailed out why he has become frustrated with the pirates and the FCC's inability to stop the issue. Said Donovan to Radio Ink: "The letter makes clear that members of Congress from all of New York and northern New Jersey want to see more action against illegal pirate radio operators. There is no question that these operations harm the public. Illegal operators do not follow any FCC regulations and are not bound by any New York consumer protection laws. More importantly, their interfering signals are affecting the emergency alert system, which poses a risk for people throughout the New York Metropolitan Area. "Unfortunately, the FCC's enforcement strategy has not worked. For years it has sporadically issued 'Notices of Unlicensed Operation' to illegal radio stations. This is simply a letter that says 'please stop.' Rarely has the FCC followed up these notices with any fines or equipment seizures. In short, it has never used all the tools in its enforcement tool chest. As a result the problem continues to get worse. "The Commission has long claimed that it lacked the resources to go after these pirates. Interestingly, the Commission's recent justification for scaling back its field offices is that it has too many resources in the field and needs to cut back. We hope that a letter from 33 members of Congress will send a signal to the FCC that it needs to take this matter seriously, and devote the resources necessary to address this problem." http://www.radioink.com/Article.asp?id=2937448&spid=24698 Posted by: Mike Terry, June 10, dxldyg via DXLD) ** UZBEKISTAN. Frequency change of TWR Africa via BABCOCK from June 1: 0330-0345 11650#TAC 200 kW / 215 deg EAf Amharic Su/Mo/Fr ex 11710 DHA 0330-0345 11650#TAC 200 kW / 215 deg EAf Oromo Tue, ex 11710 DHA 0330-0345 11650#TAC 200 kW / 215 deg EAf Sidamo Wed/Thu, ex 11710 DHA # unregistered frequency. In HFCC database from June 1 is registered 11925 TAC http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/frequency-change-of-twr-africa-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [non]. 15470, Philippines (Tinang), Vatican R, 6/9, 1530. VR IS to W in English programming at time I have listed for Malaysian. VG (Rick Barton, Logs from El Mirage, AZ, Grundig Satellit 750, Outdoor Slinky, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM. Voice of Vietnam-1. My recently reported spurs of 5975 on both 5967.0 & 5983.0, were completely gone on May 25, but prominently heard again June 2 & 3; while June 5, 6 & 7 found them completely silent. When heard, these spurs are clearly heard with audio // to other VOV1 frequencies. Their being on and off again seems rather strange to me! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZANZIBAR. 6015, June 8 at 0329, poor signal, talk in presumed Swahili, from ZBC. Also reported by Ron Howard in California, at 0338- 0407 June 8 in ``above average reception`` with this 2+ minute sample: https://app.box.com/s/dzp6jblnc2njyz2e3zkd54pf1pl8fg9j Note the 5+1 timesignal at the very end is at 2-second intervals. We haven`t heard 11735 circa 2000 in a long time; still on? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6015, ZBC Radio, 0338-0407, June 8. Above average reception; long monologue; 0350 brief chant and into ME/Islamic type music/singing till 0359 with usual drums till pips (5+1); news. Audio at https://app.box.com/s/dzp6jblnc2njyz2e3zkd54pf1pl8fg9j (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Friends, I couldn't receive ZBC at 1600, 1700, 1800 UT on 11735 on June 7 via Twente remote receiver in the Netherlands. Also I was not able to receive Radio Dialogue on 12115 khz on June 7 (Tibor Gaal, Budapest, Hungary, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. R. Dialogue: see immediately above There is still no signal from these three clandestine stations [including]: Radio Dialogue, no signal from May 21 1600-1700 on 12115 MDC 250 kW / 265 deg to SoAf English/Shona/Ndebele http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/06/there-is-still-no-signal-from-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, June 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4805, Unid carrier 2335 to 2350 weak audio while looking for: Brasil, Rádio Difusora do Amazonas, Manaus which may be inactive or irregular, 2 June (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, various wire antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5980, June 6 at 0223 UT, very poor signal with talk. Unseems WWCR mix, which is capable of producing leapfrog of 5890 over 5935 another 45 kHz higher, so what? Later it occurs to me that this very date is when Scandinavian Weekend Radio is on the air for the 24 hours of the first Finnish Saturday of the month --- but according to http://www.swradio.net/schedule.htm they are on 6170 until 0500 UT switching to 5980. Maybe it`s a receiver overload image of unknown origin on the PL-880 with a bit too much antenna clipped on. I could hardly believe 100 watt SWR would be making it here, least of all in the summer. (Yes, this date, I`m monitoring an hour+ later than the Chaski check.) SWR don`t always adhere to their frequency schedule, so when I`m on again at 0546 I check all four when 5980 and 11690 are supposed to be vigent, but absolutely no carrier on those nor 6170, 11720. Ivo Ivanov confirmed they were in fact active as heard in Blgaria (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6180, unID ute "Bonker / Rasper", 6/9, 1110. W in Chinese dialect, covered by "bonker" transmission. Fair. Was surprised to hear the ute in the 49 meter international broadcast band (Rick Barton, Logs from El Mirage, AZ, Grundig Satellit 750, Outdoor Slinky, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not me; also habitually around 6133 (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. 9676.7, Mentioned as Edaletin Sesi Radiosu / Voice of Justice, or as Ictimal Radio and Azeri FM jamming. On 19/5 with s/on at 1300 with IS, march, ID in Azeri and news – very distorted sound; better received speech was on 9675 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi ant 16 meters long own made, June Australian DX News via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 11430 & 11435-USB, June 4 at 1212, intermittent weak melodious 2-ways in presumed Indonesian (or Javanese?), the QSO pirate band there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1777: Ron Howard, California, with a check to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 [This is not why I quote him so much: rather, because his info is top- notch, first rate --- gh] To be acknowledged futurely: Chuck Ermatinger, St Louis via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ PRIME TIME SHORTWAVE WEBSITE It is disappointing to have to do this but it looks like I may be discontinuing the Prime Time Shortwave website June 24. Where I have the Prime Time Shortwave hosted, Front Page extensions will no longer be supported, and the costs for using their website builder is too high added to the server space. I expected this day would eventually come since the Front Page product was discontinued in 2006. I have been doing the Prime Time Shortwave website for 17 years and it is getting difficult to find the time to work on it. Regards, (Daniel Sampson, June 7, PTSW yg via DXLD) THE QSL CARD --- AT WHAT COST? June 2015 - Australian DX News - By Rob Wagner, VK3BVW For many years, the Mexican station XEPPM, Radio Educación on 6185 kHz has not regularly verified reception reports sent by listeners. However, recently there was a sudden spate of QSL cards and letters received by a handful of lucky listeners. These DXers had the persistence to keep writing reception reports including many follow-up reports, along with cash in US dollars, International Reply Coupons, stamps, postcards, covering letters, and all manner of inducements in an effort to elicit and cajole a response from this well-known non- verifying broadcaster. Indeed, I was delighted to hear that one of my U.S. friends had received his envelope of goodies from the station after nearly four years of numerous letters following-up on his original reception report. I congratulated him on his success, his luck and his persistence in this venture. In the same week, I saw reports of three other DXers also receiving responses from Radio Educación. At this stage, it is too early to say if the station has changed its policy on verifying reception reports or if this was simply a XEPPM staff member taking a few moments and a personal interest in responding to a few listener letters. Whatever the motivation of the station management, the gesture certainly made a small number of DXers extremely happy. In the same week as this exciting news broke, I happened to also read an excellent online blog post by Hans, the station manager of the coastal maritime radio service Vardø Radio (LGV). This station has the responsibility for maritime communications along the coast of the North Sea and Barents Sea between Tromsø and the Norway-Russian border. Hans received a reception report from an Italian DXer claiming to have heard a NAVTEX transmission from Berlevaag Radio on 518 kHz. Our station manager, Hans, points out that “Berlevaag Radio” hasn’t operated for decades! And, although the transmitter and antennas are still there, the facility is operated remotely from Vardø Radio. Secondly, there has never been a NAVTEX transmission from that site! Thirdly, the claimed time of reception and “proof” of reception indicated it was obviously a fake report. Hans generously took the time to send back an email to the DXer, advising that he could not confirm the report and included a transmission schedule detailing all modes broadcast by his station. The listener fired back a rather rude response which included the following sentence: “I demmand (sic) you confirme (sic) reception report!” [possibly mitigating? In French and perhaps Italian, the cognate for ``demand`` is much less strident, on the level of ``request`` --- gh] Unfortunately, the exchange between the kindly station manager and the “DXer” escalated to the point where further responses from the Italian listener cannot be reproduced here! However, you can read all about it in Hans’ BARENTSDX blog post at https://barentsdx.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/i-demmandyou-confirme-reception-report/ The history of the QSL card and verification letter is almost as old as radio itself. The exchange of cards after a contact (QSO) is still an important part of the amateur radio hobby for many Hams worldwide. And listeners find this part of the hobby especially fascinating, proudly amassing vast collections of cards and letters from stations across the globe. But things have changed somewhat for shortwave listeners in the last 15 years. With the disappearance from the bands of many international and domestic shortwave broadcasters, it’s much harder now to gather together a large QSL collection. Furthermore, those broadcasters still in operation are often no longer responsible for passing on listeners reports to their “technical department”…because the technical department no longer exists! Many stations now outsource (sub- contract) the distribution of their broadcasts to other companies that are specifically set up to handle the technical management and implementation of their transmissions. As an example, for years now Radio Australia has been outsourcing its broadcasts to a large multi-layered, independent broadcasting transmission provider called Broadcast Australia. This company owns and operates the existing Shepparton transmitter site and determines the frequencies and schedules for Radio Australia broadcasts. The programming division of Radio Australia has virtually nothing to do with Broadcast Australia. So, if an overseas listener writes to Radio Australia commenting on reception conditions at their location, none of that feedback gets back to Broadcast Australia. This situation is the same for quite a number of international broadcasters these days. A 1971 QSL confirming Radio Australia’s Darwin transmissions (From the author’s collection) [caption] A few broadcasters are still relying on regular communication with their nominated monitors - DXers with specific technical skills who report back every week or so with detailed notes on how reception has been in the targeted region. Other stations have abandoned the monitors and are using global remote receivers to assess their signal quality. So over the years, in the view of many shortwave broadcasters, the importance and relevance of reception reports has diminished significantly. Detailed technical information about signal strength, interference, and propagation characteristics are of no interest to a station’s programming staff. They just want to know your thoughts on their program content. Their reply with a QSL card is merely a glorified acknowledgement of your report and a “thank you” for taking the time to write and provide feedback, in the hope that you will continue listening in the future. Call it a marketing exercise! And, of course, many smaller domestic shortwave stations are largely focused on their own local and national audiences. They are not especially interested in receiving reception reports from international listeners. If they do, indeed, reply to a DX report, they are often responding only as an act of courtesy and generosity. Europe and North America have flourishing pirate radio communities. The vast majority of these stations are active verifiers with brightly coloured cards and e-QSLs. Of course, many of these operators were once SWLs themselves and understand the significance of the reception report. They are keen to build their audiences, and genuinely interested to know how far their signals are travelling. After all, they have both the programming and technical departments of their illegal operations all wrapped up in one! Here in Australia, we haven’t had pirate activity on a significant scale for many years now, mainly due to a very proactive and successful approach to law enforcement. And the signals from European and American pirates don’t reach our shores due to their much lower power. So where does this leave the shortwave listener’s much-loved QSL card collection? Amateur radio operators still exchange cards and e-QSLs. SWL’s who monitor ham transmissions are often acknowledged by many operators happy to exchange cards with them. But for the SWBC DXer, it’s certainly much harder to build a collection these days. Which brings us around to the title of this week's post. As we have seen here, it is clear that in at least a few cases, persistence can sometimes pay off when a listener sends follow-ups to their original reception reports. But at what point does sending multiple follow-ups constitute harassment of stations that don’t really care about receiving your reports? Not to mention the high costs of postage, stationery, dollar bills, postcards, stamps, and other inducements incurred by the listener. And, as we have also seen here, abusing broadcasters because they don’t deliver on your requests for a QSL certainly doesn’t work! SWLs need to be mindful that when a station acknowledges a reception report, responding to your request requires time, energy, money and motivation to divert their limited staff and resources. If reports are no longer useful for many stations, then there have to be other reasons why a station would bother replying to you. Some listeners include superficial comments relating to the broadcasts heard. Token comments can usually be seen by station staff for what they are worth - not very much! Listeners who take the time to include meaningful observations and feedback about programs will have a much better chance of gaining the attention and interest of station producers. During the last days of the Vietnam War, the South Vietnamese government station VTVN was broadcasting news of the war around the world. (From the author's collection). [caption] 73s, (Rob Wagner VK3BVW, June Australian DX News via DXLD) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ HFCC B-15, 24-26 AUGUST, BRISBANE GREAT NEWS --- The HFCC conference is being held this year in Brisbane from the 24th to the 26th August. This has attracted Jeff White from WRMI fame. Jeff as you know runs transmitters from Florida for years, and has also taken over WYFR transmitters. This I think makes Jeff the biggest private owner on shortwave, (non-government). Well, a recent flurry of emails, has Jeff and his wife in Australia. Which leads me to the next big news. Brisbane meeting. John and Colleen Smith will host a meeting on Saturday the 22nd August starting noon. 9 Sylvateere Cresent [sic], Wakerley. This will be a BBQ to show Jeff and his wife the delights of a real Aussie BBQ. (Yes, put a shrimp on the BBQ, remember the Paul Hogan ads of the 80’s), Well, it’s a prawn on the BBQ! So all you folks in Queensland, here is your mini AGM. Of course the tour of the what`s new in the Smith household of radios, and WRMI presence, will go down well. So if you haven’t ever been to a meeting in QLD, do not miss this event. Station X 1692 Peter Tate may also put in an appearance from the Gold coast. Also more news, Peter has done a deal with our Craig Allen and has bought 3210 and 5045 kHz. So the 22nd August is the date and Wakerley the place to be. Call 0429 176 131. Last meeting 23rd May at John and Colleen’s were Lubos Rendeck with a brand new Tecsun PL-680 out of Hong Kong, John Nicholson with a Hallicrafters S-38C he restored. Kevin Steel and Ron Everingham and Ron & Hazel Everingham, hosts John & Collen Smith. AGM more great news. WRMI Jeff white has indicated his presence with his wife on Sunday 30th August at Peakhurst Inn 705 forest Rd, Peakhurst luncheon, and they will be our guests. This month we have the activity sheet for the week! You can pre book and pre pay your activities, so we can organise the activities properly (June Australian DX News via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See NEW ZEALAND; ROMANIA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV see also MEXICO; OKLAHOMA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DOS SEMANAS PARA PASAR DE LA RADIODIFUSIÓN ANALÓGICA A LA DIGITAL EN GRAN PARTE DEL MUNDO El plazo para la transición de la radiodifusión analógica a la digital, que finaliza el 17 de junio, se aplica a todos los países pertenecientes a la Región 1 de la Unión Internacional de Telecomunicaciones (Europa, África, Oriente Medio y Asia Central) y la República Islámica de Irán. La UIT celebrará este hito fundamental con un simposio de reflexión que tendrá lugar en su sede de Ginebra, a fin de poner de relieve las ventajas inherentes de la radiodifusión terrenal digital para el presente y el futuro, informa en un comunicado. El citado plazo para el apagón de la TV analógica en la banda de ondas decimétricas lo fijaron los Estados Miembros de la UIT en la Conferencia regional de Radiocomunicaciones de 2006, también conocida como el Acuerdo Regional GE06. El simposio reunirá a expertos de todo el mundo para examinar los objetivos de la transición de la radiodifusión analógica a la digital y considerar los avances en el campo de la televisión, tales como la TV de ultra alta definición (TVUAD), los sistemas de radiodifusión y banda ancha integradas (IBB), y las plataformas de TV inteligente, así como para reflexionar sobre la construcción de un ecosistema sostenible para la TV digital del futuro y sus requisitos en términos de espectro. Los principales fabricantes y expertos de la BBC, la UER, Dolby, Fraunhofer y otros presentarán las nuevas tecnologías relacionadas con la radiodifusión digital, incluida la TVUAD, la HbbTV híbrida, el rango dinámico de imagen ampliada, las velocidades de trama más rápidas y el audio de inmersión. La radiodifusión de TV digital ofrece muchas ventajas respecto de los sistemas analógicos, tanto para los usuarios finales como para los operadores y los organismos reguladores. Además de incrementar el número de canales, los sistemas digitales pueden ofrecer nuevos servicios innovadores tales como la TV interactiva, las guías de programas electrónicas y la TV móvil, y permiten la transmisión de imágenes y sonidos en alta definición (TVAD) y ultra alta definición (TVUAD). La TV digital requiere menos energía que la analógica para ofrecer la misma cobertura, al tiempo que reduce los costes globales de transmisión. El uso más eficiente del espectro radioeléctrico que permite la TV digital también hace posible el llamado dividendo digital, resultante de la liberación de espectro para su uso por otros servicios tales como la banda ancha móvil. Los países de todo el mundo están trabajando activamente para dar el paso a la TV digital. Varios países que son parte en el Acuerdo GE06, así como otros muchos que no lo son, ya han efectuado la transición, y otros ya han iniciado el proceso para efectuarla. "Como organismo especializado de las Naciones Unidas que se ocupa de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación, incluidas las cuestiones de espectro y de recursos orbitales, la UIT seguirá apoyando el desarrollo de las nuevas tecnologías", afirma Houlin Zhao, secretario general de la UIT. "Felicito a las administraciones de todo el mundo que han efectuado con éxito el paso a la radiodifusión de televisión digital, y también deseo éxito a todas aquellas que han iniciado el proceso para efectuarlo." (tomada de tendencias21.net via GRA blog June 5 via DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ THE RUSSIAN WOODPECKER Last week during the Seattle International Film Festival I attended a screening of "The Russian Woodpecker", a documentary about the Soviet cold war era Duga 3 OTH HF RADAR that plagued HF radio users all over the world during the 1970s and 1980s. Like many of the festival films, the film maker attended the first showing and answered audience questions afterward. The film was factual, but of course part of the story were the conspiracy theories which naturally arise in a society in which information is tightly controlled. The director told us he used a small helicopter drone to capture the wonderful high resolution close-up footage of the massive antenna system, which sits within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine. Among the impressive hardware seen in this film, some of my favorites were the large black rotary dial telephones left behind in the facility. I would love to have one, and still have a landline to hook it to. See: http://www.sundance.org/projects/the-russian-woodpecker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rd4ARsbg_0 (QST de W1AW, Propagation Forecast Bulletin 23 ARLP023, From Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, WA June 5, 2015, To all radio amateurs via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2015 Jun 08 0221 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 01 - 07 June 2015 Solar activity was low this period. Low to mid-level C-class flare activity dominated the period and Region 2361 (N16, L=105, class/area=Dai/110 on 06 Jun) was responsible for the bulk of the activity. Region 2361 produced a total of nine C-class flares throughout the week, the largest of which was C8/Sf flare at 0947 UTC on 04 Jun. Region 2360 (N15, L=132, class/area=Eac/140 on 07 Jun) grew in total sunspot count, area, and magnetic complexity late in the week but was only responsible for three low-level C-class flares this period. In addition to the low-level solar activity, multiple disappearing solar filaments and eruptive prominence liftoffs were observed throughout the week, but none resulted in Earth-directed coronal mass ejections. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal levels throughout the period. Geomagnetic field activity was at quiet levels throughout the period under an ambient solar wind environment with unsettled levels observed early on 01 Jun and late on 07 Jun which were attributed to minor perturbations in the solar wind. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 08 JUNE - 04 JULY 2015 Solar activity is expected to be at low levels with a slight chance for M-class (R1-Minor) flare activity for 08-16 Jun due to the flare potential from Regions 2360 (N15, L=132), 2361 (N16, L=105), and 2362 (N07, L=100). As Regions 2360, 2361, and 2362 rotate off the visible disk, very low levels of solar activity are expected with a chance for C-class flare activity for 17 Jun-04 Jul. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is anticipated to reach high levels on 10-14 Jun with moderate levels likely on 15-19 Jun in response to an enhanced solar wind environment caused by the influence of coronal hole high speed streams (CH HSSs). Normal levels are expected for the remainder of the period. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to reach active levels on 08, 10 Jun with G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm conditions anticipated on 09 Jun in response to a recurrent negative polarity CH HSS. Unsettled geomagnetic field conditions are expected on 11-12 Jun as CH HSS effects subside. A recurrent positive polarity CH HSS is expected to bring about isolated periods of unsettled conditions on 15 Jun. Generally quiet field conditions are expected for 16 Jun-03 Jul with unsettled levels likely again on 04 Jul due to a solar sector boundary crossing ahead of a negative polarity CH HSS. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2015 Jun 08 0222 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 2015-06-08 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2015 Jun 08 145 20 4 2015 Jun 09 145 28 5 2015 Jun 10 145 20 4 2015 Jun 11 140 10 3 2015 Jun 12 135 8 3 2015 Jun 13 130 6 2 2015 Jun 14 130 5 2 2015 Jun 15 125 8 3 2015 Jun 16 120 5 2 2015 Jun 17 120 5 2 2015 Jun 18 120 5 2 2015 Jun 19 120 5 2 2015 Jun 20 120 5 2 2015 Jun 21 120 5 2 2015 Jun 22 120 5 2 2015 Jun 23 120 5 2 2015 Jun 24 120 5 2 2015 Jun 25 120 5 2 2015 Jun 26 120 5 2 2015 Jun 27 115 5 2 2015 Jun 28 120 5 2 2015 Jun 29 120 5 2 2015 Jun 30 125 5 2 2015 Jul 01 130 5 2 2015 Jul 02 130 5 2 2015 Jul 03 135 5 2 2015 Jul 04 140 8 3 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1777, DXLD) LONG RANGE FORECAST OF SMOOTHED SUNSPOT NUMBERS Look here for a long range forecast of smoothed sunspot numbers: http://1.usa.gov/1HOVlDP These are International Sunspot numbers, on a different scale from the ones we present in this bulletin. Note it shows the current cycle peaking in March and April 2014, just like our 3-month moving averages of daily sunspot numbers. Four years in the future we see the next cycle minimum in summer 2019. We keep track of a 3-month moving average of sunspot numbers to spot trends and figure our cycle peaks and minima. At the end of May we now know the most recent 3-month average. The average centered on December 2014 through April 2015 is 107.8, 98.2, 78.1, 68.2 and 72.4, so we saw a small uptick in the latest numbers. Now to make us all feel better, I will cherry pick data. The monthly sunspot averages for March, April and May 2015 were 61.7, 72.6 and 83. No foolin'. Check out "Best NASA Footage of Giant Sunspots" here: http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/best-nasa-footage-giant-sunspots/ Be sure to click each image to get a better look, and take the video sequence up to full HD resolution by clicking the gear in the lower right corner and selecting Quality: 1080 or 720 (QST de W1AW, Propagation Forecast Bulletin 23 ARLP023, From Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, WA June 5, 2015, To all radio amateurs, via DXLD) GLENN`S PROPAGTION OUTLOOK FOR MEDIA NETWORK PLUS AS OF JUNE 11, 2015 From IPS in Australia, the Global HF propagation forecast thru June 13: normal. From Spaceweather South Africa: magnetic conditions unsettled to active thru June 14; shortwave fadeouts unlikely; MUF unstable. Met office UK: Coronal Mass Ejection which left the Sun on June 9 may give the Earth a glancing blow. Therefore a low risk of Minor Geomagnetic Storms on June 12. From F K Janda, OK1HH, the Geomagnetic field will be: mostly quiet on June 12, July 1 quiet on June 13, 17 - 21, 28 - 30 mostly quiet on June 12, July 1 quiet to active on June 15 - 16, 26 quiet to unsettled on June 22 - 25 From SWPC in Boulder, Geomagnetic field activity: isolated periods of unsettled conditions on June 15. Generally quiet from June 16 to July 3 with A and K indices of only 5 and 2 and solar flux dipping to 115 on June 27; unsettled levels likely again on July 4 with solar flux up to 140. Bill Hepburn`s VHF-UHF maps predict extreme tropospheric ducting all week around the Arabian peninsula; also over the central Mediterranean June 13 to 16; merely intense around Florida, June 13 to 16 (via DXLD) ###